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VOLUME 132 | ISSUE 46

‘I pleaded twice’ New details emerge in STEM shooting testimonies

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Margaret Clark, 92, has lived at Geneva Village since 1990. She said living with the constant uncertainty around the city-owned PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT complex’s future makes life difficult.

Residents worry as city mulls future of Geneva Village Anxieties abound as seniors await decision on aging housing complex

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Dolores Rothmeyer tries to stay focused on the present.

Rothmeyer, 88, has lived for 12 years at Geneva Village, an ageand rent-restricted housing complex owned by the City of Littleton, right next to city hall.

In the fall of 2019, notes appeared on residents’ doors announcing the city would stop filling vacancies in the aging 28-unit complex “pending further decisions.”

A year and a half later, those decisions have yet to materialize, leaving residents in limbo. Discussions among city officials in recent years have ranged from raising rents to selling the site.

Meanwhile, vacancies are increasing. City officials say there are four empty units, but residents say the number is seven.

Rothmeyer, a retired waitress who spent years on a waiting list for her unit, said living at Geneva Village feels like her best chance to

stay near her daughter and grandson, who help her with chores and shopping. Her only income is Social Security, out of which she pays $390 a month for her one-bedroom apartment.

Outside Geneva Village, the picture looks bleak around the area. Waiting lists for low-income housing stretch out for years, and market rate rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Littleton now tops $1,300 a month.

“I try not to think about what could happen,” Rothmeyer said. “I want to stay calm so I don’t have a breakdown.”

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Lucas Albertoni was crawling through classroom 107 in STEM School Highlands Ranch when he was confronted by Alec McKinney’s gun.

Albertoni looked up as he was attempting to flee and saw the barrel of the firearm, only an arm’s length away, pointed straight at him. He locked eyes with the student holding it.

“I pleaded twice, ‘you don’t have to do this,’” he told a courtroom on June 4. “I could tell he wasn’t really listening to anything I was saying.”

Albertoni ducked to the right as his shoulder was hit by a bullet. He also sustained shots in his leg and finger that day. Two of the bullets remained in his body as he testified.

Albertoni’s story closed off a week of testimony in the case against Devon Erickson, one of the two students charged in the deadly shooting on May 7, 2019. Erickson, now 20, faces 46 charges, including first-degree murder, attempted murder and arson for his part in the attack. McKinney pleaded guilty to similar charges in 2020 and is in prison.

Some initially perceived prank So far, prosecutors have called on nearly 20 people who were in the room that day to tell the jury what they remember.

For many who spoke, the event started with the assumption that Erickson, who some witnesses say SEE STEM TRIAL, P2

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STEM TRIAL

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they heard shout “nobody f-----move” before brandishing a handgun, was playing a twisted joke on them.

“I thought this was like a senior prank,” said Grace Holland, a student in the room that day. “I thought ‘that’s messed up.’”

Kendrick Castillo, however, knew the gun was real and acted immediately. Many witnesses told the jury how they saw Castillo leap from his seat to stop the gunman. Castillo was shot and killed during the attack.

Initial reports from the shooting included comments from both McKinney and Erickson that claimed McKinney had forced Erickson to participate in the attack. Prosecutors have worked to poke holes in that narrative and McKinney has since made contradictory statements.

Room 107’s teacher Lauren Harper was the teacher for the British Literature class taking place in room 107 that day. With only three days remaining for the class, which was mostly made up

Surveillance footage from inside STEM School Highlands Ranch shows Sgt. Joel White with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office carrying a wounded student out of the school on May 7, 2019. The footage was played during the trial for Devon Erickson, who is facing dozens of charges for his alleged role in the attacks.

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of seniors, she decided to put on a movie for students to analyze: “The Princess Bride.”

Erickson came to her a few minutes after class started to tell her he wasn’t feeling well.

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told the courtroom.

She sent him to the nurse with another student, and a few minutes later, after he returned, he got her attention again, saying he thought he needed to just go home. She agreed and told him to sign himself out. That’s when he walked to the front of the class, shouted and pulled out the weapon, she said.

Speaking to the jury, Harper’s voice cracked as she told the prosecutor’s that Erickson had never warned her about what was about to happen.

‘They’re getting louder’ Shampson Sundara, a school security guard who responded to the incident and apprehended McKinney, spoke to the courtroom on June 4 about what he saw that day two years ago.

Sundara told the court that when he came upon McKinney, the student was trying to get back into room 107. Sundara shouted commands at him to drop the weapon and saw McKinney attempt to turn the gun on himself before eventually complying with the guard’s commands.

“Alec said ‘we have more guns than you. We’re going to kill you, you need to kill me,’” Sundara said.

As he walked with McKinney through the halls, Sundara reported hearing the student talking about voices he was hearing in his head including “they’re getting louder” and “they want me to kill, they want you to kill me.”

Sundara, who said he wasn’t supposed to have a gun with him based on his contract with the school, fired two rounds at law enforcement entering the school, whom he had assumed were additional shooters. His shots instead wounded two students.

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Murder during vape robbery brings long sentence Kenneth Gallegos, 17 at time of crime, could be paroled after 40 years

BY MIKKEL KELLY MKELLY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Kenneth Gallegos, 19, was sentenced June 2 to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 40 years for the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Lloyd Chavez IV during a robbery involving vaping products that Chavez sold in Centennial.

In addition to the maximum sentence for first-degree felony Gallegos murder, Gallegos, who was 17 at the time of the crime, was sentenced to 16 years to be served concurrently for each of two other counts — aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.

Chavez He was convicted of the counts by a 12-member jury in Arapahoe County on April 9.

During the trial, the prosecution argued that Gallegos acted as the central player in a plot to organize a robbery outside of Chavez’s home in east Centennial the night of May 8, 2019. Another teen has yet to be tried in the incident, while two others accepted plea bargains.

Before 18th Judicial District Judge Ben Leutwyler pronounced the sentences on June 2, he said, ”I am truly struck by the senseless decisions by four people on that day.” Leutwyler said he reviewed all the evidence thoroughly. He concluded Gallegos led the other three in a plan to rob Chavez and encouraged another boy to bring a gun.

“You didn’t pull the trigger but your culpability is right there with everyone else,” Leutwyler said.

Defense Counsel Mike Root appealed for a 30-year sentence and referred to a bill that will change sentencing guidelines, expected to be in place in September. Judge Leutwyler said it would be an unlawful act to follow sentence laws that do not yet exist, adding “I cannot do that and I will not.”

Deputy District Attorney Gwenn Sandrock had anticipated Root’s request and stated sentencing should follow current law as well.

Before the sentencing, Ken Gallegos, the father of Kenneth Gallegos, addressed the Chavez family members in attendance. He expressed repeatedly his “sincere condolences” to the Chavez family and mentioned a few areas where he took issue with the legal process.

Lloyd Chavez III recounted how the death of his son deconstructed and consumed his family with grief. He noted his son, who attended Cherokee Trail High School, was an accomplished rugby player and involved in community activities.

Chavez said, “The train has left the station,” and while nothing can be done to bring back his son, he urged that Gallegos be sentenced to the full extent of the law.

Other Chavez family members spoke and submitted statements describing the daily sadness and isolation experienced since the loss; told about the sale of their home because they did not want to live there after the murder occurred; and presented a slide show chronicling a large lively family life before the murder, as well as somber memorial services that followed.

Kenneth Gallegos, who had not spoken during the trial due to legal advice, asked to come to the lectern and was accompanied by Root. Gallegos noted he would follow Root’s advice to refrain from saying anything about what had happened or the trial.

Gallegos said his “outward appearance does not match” what he feels inside and told the Chavez family, “I do want to express how terribly sorry I am for the loss.”

In his remarks before sentencing, Leutwyler noted the book “Everything I Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten” as a guiding reference throughout his life, noting lessons such as “play fair, don’t hurt people, say you are sorry, don’t take things that are not yours.” He said that if Gallegos had learned those lessons in kindergarten “we wouldn’t be here today.”

He said both families lost a son, but the Gallegos family can still see and talk to their son. He told Gallegos “but for your actions Lloyd would be alive today.”

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Colorado lifts capacity restrictions for large indoor crowds

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A month and a half after Colorado let its “dial” of coronavirus restrictions expire, the state has also lifted capacity restrictions on large indoor gatherings, a limit that remained after the state dial’s end.

An updated statewide public health order, effective June 1, also somewhat modifies Colorado’s mask requirements.

The governor’s mask executive order expired June 1, according to the governor’s office, but its requirements generally live on through the updated public health order.

Here’s a look at what changed with the public health order update.

State limits on mass events lifted Previously, under Colorado’s statewide order, when more than 100 people gathered in a room in a public indoor space, the setting could operate at 100% capacity or up to 500 people, with 6 feet required between parties of unvaccinated people or when vaccination status is unknown. That order took effect April 16.

“Public indoor space” meant any enclosed indoor area that is publicly or privately owned, managed, or operated that is accessible to the public, serves as a place of employment, or provides services.

The term did not include a person’s residence, including a room in a hotel or a residential room for students at an educational facility.

Under the previous rules, venues could apply to their local public health agency for a “variance” — or exemption — to exceed 500 people, which needed to be finally approved by the state public-health department.

Now, the updated public health order removes those restrictions.

Local limits generally lifted The state’s color-coded COVID-19 dial was the set of restrictions counties had to follow based on the local spread of the virus. The system affected capacity at restaurants, other businesses, indoor and outdoor events, and other settings. Colorado originally implemented the dial last Sept. 15.

Colorado allowed the dial to expire as expected in mid-April, but health agencies in the Denver metro area extended the dial system locally as a rise in virus cases and the continued spread of COVID-19 variants kept health officials worried.

As of May 16, several metro counties are now operating in what they call “level clear,” generally with no local restrictions — and that’s likely to continue unless things take a turn for the worse.

‘Snapback restrictions’ still possible A “snapback” to state-imposed coronavirus restrictions could occur if hospitalizations rise high enough, according to a news release from the state public-health department.

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Apart from the state’s mask order, local governments have enacted their own mask requirements during the pandemic.

Tri-County Health Department — which covers Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties — let its mask order expire on May 16, allowing its counties to follow only the state’s mask order.

Jefferson County Public Health rescinded its mask order effective May 15. of hospital or hospital system capacity, the state public-health department may require implementing additional restrictions, the public health order’s text says.

Mask requirements tweaked During a May 14 news conference, Gov. Jared Polis announced a relaxing of the statewide mask order, which after that point required masks unless people can prove they are vaccinated in settings such as prisons and jails, health care facilities, and schools.

Polis announced the changes following updated guidance by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of May 13 that says fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, except where required by law or regulations, or local business and workplace guidance.

At that point, individuals 10 years old and younger and those who “cannot medically tolerate” a face covering were exempt from Colorado’s mask order.

The state’s updated public health order tweaks the exceptions to include individuals 11 years of age or younger. Changing the requirements to start at age 12 was intended to reflect the state’s vaccine-eligible population, according to the news release.

Masks are now required for unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated Coloradans in the following settings and situations: • Preschool through grade 12 schools, including extracurricular activities; • Child care centers and services,

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including camps, except while participating in outdoor activities; • Staff of Colorado Department of Motor Vehicle offices; • Residents, staff and visitors to prisons; • Residents, staff and visitors to jails; • And emergency medical and other health care settings.

The update clarified that patients, staff and visitors in health care settings are included in the requirements, according to the news release.

It also removed a reference to “congregate care” settings, which are addressed in a separate order.

Public health order 20-20 includes requirements for nursing facilities, assisted living residences, group homes and other care facilities.

Requirements enforceable It was unclear if there was any difference in Colorado’s mask requirements being mandated by public health order only and not by executive order. A call and email to the governor’s office were not immediately returned.

The Colorado State Joint Information Center, which takes questions for the state public-health department, responded to questions by noting: “Public health orders carry the weight of law.”

But its statement did not address why Colorado is choosing to mandate mask-wearing by public health order only and not executive order, or whether the forms of order have legal differences in this case.

Colorado’s COVID-19 public health orders are generally the kind that rely on voluntary compliance. But failure to comply with the public health order could result in penalties, including jail time, and fines, according to the order’s text.

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‘This is our history’ Remembering the fallen on Memorial Day

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

James Hessel came home from school on Sept. 11, 2001, and told his mom he was joining the Marines.

“He felt it was his patriotic duty after that terrible day,” said Hessel’s mom, Kathie Newman. “I told him to look into some of the other military branches. The Marines are pretty hardcore.”

But Hessel was set on the Marines, and was sent to Iraq.

“Every day, my pride and my fear lived side by side,” Newman said.

Eventually, Hessel came home, but he wasn’t the same.

He struggled with the impacts of a head injury sustained in a bomb attack on his convoy. He earned a Purple Heart for surviving the attack, but it left him with nebulous mental issues.

“He struggled for a time, but he found a good job, and we thought he was doing great,” Newman said. “But those who served over there — they carry wounds in their hearts. He saw things that ate him up inside. Sometimes he was here, and sometimes he said he felt like he was back there. He wasn’t sure what was dream and what was reality.”

George Rodriguez kneels before the grave of his wife Katherine. “I was the one who went away to war, but she was a Navy wife,” George said. “She endured. Now she rests among those who died for this country. It’s a great honor, and one day I’ll join her here.”

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Retired Marine Col. Richard Swedberg recognizes fellow veterans at Littleton’s Memorial Day ceremony at Ketring Park.

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In March of 2012, just days before his 28th birthday, James Hessel became one of the more than 6,000 American veterans a year who die by suicide.

On Memorial Day, Newman sat in front of her son’s headstone at Fort Logan National Cemetery, wearing her son’s shirt. Beside her sat Kirk Newman, her son’s stepdad.

“I’m surrounded by James always,” she said. “When I come here on Memorial Day, as I have for nearly a decade now, I appreciate seeing how many other people are here. I appreciate the people who

A 21-gun salute cracked through the chilly morning at Littleton’s Memorial Day ceremony at Ketring Park.

bring their little children, to carry on the tradition of remembering those we lost. For all the horrible political stuff in the last few years, hopefully we can all still remember that this is our history.”

Across town at Littleton’s World War II memorial in Ketring Park, the men and women of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #4666 and American Legion Post #103 held a somber remembrance ceremony.

In a steady drizzle, aging warriors stood at attention, recalling those who have gone before them.

“It’s essential to know where we came from to have a solid foundation to build for our future,” VFW member Bill Baldaccini told the attendees. “That’s how we keep America free.”

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June 10, 2021

Mark Rudnicki selected to fill city council vacancy

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Mark Rudnicki was appointed to Littleton City Council on June 1, filling the spot vacated on May 9 by Karina Elrod, and marking a high point for Rudnicki, a longtime fixture in Littleton civic affairs.

Eight residents applied to fill the at-large council seat after Elrod announced in May that she was moving to Germany.

Rudnicki was appointed by a unanimous vote of the other six councilmembers.

Rudnicki, 71, served on the Littleton Planning Commission for 19 years, from 1997-2007 and again from 2011-2021. He left the commission in March after hitting term limits.

An architect, Rudnicki has designed numerous commercial build-

ings around the Denver metro area, and custom homes around Colorado.

Rudnicki played a role in crafting Littleton’s new Comprehensive Plan, ratified in 2019, that will form the basis of the Unified Land Use Code, a total overhaul of Littleton’s land use and zoning codes, scheduled to be ratified in October.

“I’m excited and nervous, but proud to serve,” Rudnicki said after he was sworn in by Littleton Municipal Court Judge Ethan Feldman at the June 1 council meeting. “I felt bad about leaving Planning Commission so close to the end of the line with the ULUC, and this is a chance to see it through.”

Rudnicki said he’s taking a “wait and see” attitude toward the ULUC draft plan, which is scheduled to be released in June.

“There’s a lot of mystery,” he said.

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“It’s so large and complex. But it’s long overdue — the old one is what I call a buggy whip document.”

The other applicants were Iftin Abshir, Christopher Bischoff, Joe Greiner, Jason Henderson, Pete McClintock, Gretchen Rydin and Carolyn Wolvin. Council held interviews with all applicants on May 19 and 20, which are available in full on LittletonGov.org.

Rudnicki stood out because of his years of experience with the intricacies of city zoning and land use, Mayor Jerry Valdes said.

“We need someone up to speed and ready to tackle this ULUC process head-on,” Valdes said. “We want to get this done before November, so we don’t have a new council come in who have to start over on studying it.”

Rudnicki’s term only runs through November, when the seat

will be up for grabs. In his application, Rudnicki said he does not intend to run for reelection to a full term this fall.

“This will give those interested in running for the seat in November an even chance in the fall,” he wrote, “without anyone having a leg up of serving on an interim basis.”

After he was sworn in, however, Rudnicki said “things can change.”

“Never say never, right?” Rudnicki said about the possibility of running to keep the seat in November.

“But I’m very busy with my profession. My intention is still simply to fill out (Elrod’s) spot. In the meantime, this is a great group, and I’m looking forward to getting to work.”

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said. “Do we need to be in the business of direct ownership of affordable housing, or is there something else that can be done? Are the rents we’re charging reasonable? They’re not covering costs — the community is subsidizing this.”

However, part of the problem stems from years when the renters of Geneva Village subsidized the city.

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Looking into the future City officials say they’re eager to come to a decision, but it will take more time.

“We tried to identify opportunities to discuss it last year, but COVID hit, and our priorities changed,” said City Manager Mark Relph.

“I don’t want to get into possible scenarios. We have people who live there and deserve certainty, and I don’t want to speculate and cause concern. Right now, it’s status quo.”

City staff are working on a comprehensive analysis of the Geneva Village property, with plans to present it to city council early next year, said Public Works Director Keith Reester.

Reester’s department has hired a remediation contractor and a renovation contractor to compile research on what both day-to-day and long-term maintenance of the property would require.

“Most of the units haven’t been touched in decades, and based on their age will inherently have asbestos and lead paint,” Reester said.

“There are electrical and plumbing issues. Nothing has been done to keep up the pavement or parking lots.”

A gas leak several years ago meant that a central gas line had to be immediately replaced, leaving staff concerned about other hidden problems.

“All this needs to be taken into consideration as we look into the

Sherry Johnson, left, and Dolores Rothmeyer sit in Johnson’s living room at Geneva Village. Johnson, 79, said she tries to handle as many maintenance tasks as she can on her own, for fear that asking management for help will hasten a bad outcome for the senior PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT housing complex.

future,” Reester said.

Ownership background The City of Littleton sort of stumbled into running Geneva Village.

Built in 1964, the complex was designed by Midcentury Modern architect Eugene Sternberg, who also left his mark on Littleton with Bemis Library, Heritage High School and Arapahoe Community College’s main building. Geneva Village was originally an annex to Geneva Lodge, a convalescent home for hotel and restaurant workers.

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build a new city hall. The convalescent home was closed, and management of Geneva Village was handed over to the Littleton Housing Authority, now called South Metro Housing Options or SMHO. SMHO handled the property for many years as it grew its roster of affordable housing around the city, but pulled out of the Geneva Village arrangement in 2019.

Part of the problem was the unusual funding model: Though Geneva Village is restricted to those 55 or older and serves people with low incomes, the apartment complex technically has no income requirements, which puts it at odds with SMHO’s mandate.

Further, SMHO told city council the facility’s rents, which range from $300 a month for a studio to $450 for a two-bedroom, were so low the agency couldn’t guarantee it could afford to comply with their legal mandate to provide “safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations.” The city handed maintenance of the complex over to a contractor in 2019.

Efforts to raise rents at the complex stalled out in city council twice in recent years, in the face of opposition from residents and advocates.

“What’s our goal here?” Relph

Funding challenges Geneva Village is funded through an enterprise fund, a separate segment of the city budget. The vast majority of the fund’s revenues come from rent payments, city documents show.

The fund had more than $630,000 in cash at the beginning of 2009, according to city budgets, but city council made several transfers from Geneva Village into the general fund between 2009 and 2013 as the Great Recession wreaked havoc on city finances, eventually withdrawing a total of $630,220.

Some of the money made its way back. Council moved $75,000 into the fund in 2016, $50,000 in 2020, and plans for another $50,000 in 2021, for a total of $175,000 — still $455,220 shy of the total amount withdrawn over the years to backfill the general fund. The city maintains a reserve in the Geneva Village fund of roughly $98,000.

Transfers between city funds are not uncommon, Relph said, calling the Geneva Village fund transfers part of efforts “to stop far bigger problems at the time.”

Still, expenditures have exceeded revenues for several years. Rental income is beginning to dwindle as units go vacant and are left unfilled, and maintenance costs are adding up. The fund took in $109,090 in rent in 2020, while expenditures ran to more than $118,000.

Relph said city council will likely take the city’s entire financial picture into account. The city faces critical shortages in its capital projects fund, with a list of increasingly dire infrastructure needs far exceeding projected revenues. Fiveyear projections in the city’s general fund predict dwindling reserves.

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under the first major change of the city’s forthcoming Unified Land Use Code: an overhaul of the downtown neighborhood’s zoning, which placed the property within the Downtown Mixed Use zone, allowing for multifamily development with a maximum height of three stories.

The prior zoning also allowed multifamily development, though advocates told council last December they wished the new zoning offered greater protections for Geneva Village.

The neighborhood surrounding Geneva Village has seen a total upheaval in recent years, with bungalows replaced by towering condo and apartment complexes as land and housing prices skyrocket.

City council is poised to take up discussions about affordable housing policy in coming months, Relph said, and Geneva Village will likely factor in.

Al Kuncl, 77, said Geneva Village is “a blessing, a gem” that allows him to maintain his PHOTOS BY DAVID GILBERT independence.

Village residents should consider their options.

“If my folks lived there, I’d tell them to get their names on the Section 8 (housing voucher) waiting list,” he said. “That’s just being prudent. There’s no sense in saying you don’t know what your future is ‘An umbrella in case it rains’ going to be if you’re not going to do Littleton Mayor Jerry Valdes said anything about it. It’s like taking an while the decision on what to do with Geneva thVillage will eventually umbrella in case it rains.”

That’s not a bad idea, said Linda fall to city council, it’s too soon to Haley, who heads Arapahoe Counmake any predictions. ty’s affordable housing and senior “There are a multitude of options programs. there,” Valdes said. “Do nothing?

“Those lists are long and there Improve it? Something else? But we’re not necessarily supposed to be aren’t a lot of places to go,” Haley said. “We’re all human. If someone landlords.” is 85, Fire they may just hope they Valdes said while council waits In Partnership with Souththere Metro Rescue never have to deal with it, but the for reports from city staff, Geneva

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Haley said she has offered to partner with Littleton to plan for the residents’ futures, but has so far been told to wait while the city sorts things out. She hopes if the city makes a decision that displaces residents, they do so with a long enough lead time to ensure soft landings.

Presented SMHO representatives could not by immediately be reached for comment.

Around the complex, residents say they’re trying to live with the anxiety. Some said they have stopped making requests to maintenance, fearing that asking for help will hasten a bad outcome for the complex.

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“We’re just in suspense,” she said.

“We don’t know whether to start filling boxes.”

As Clark spoke on her front stoop, a neighbor came by with news: she had seen a city employee walking through the complex, taking notes on a clipboard.

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School district’s draft budget reflects recovery

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After a year of financial finagling to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Douglas County School District’s budgetary projections for the 2021-22 school year are looking better.

According to a draft 2021-22 budget, DCSD expects its enrollment to increase slightly from the previous year, and also expects state funding to jump substantially. In response, board directors are energized about program investments and educators’ compensation.

“We really need to take some bold steps now to really make sure that we’re serving the kids coming this fall,” said board President David Ray at a May 11 meeting.

Board Director Susan Meek added, “I don’t think we should be growing the fund balance (reserves)

over the next couple of years because we may have declining enrollment in future years. I feel like we need to be utilizing today’s resources to serve today’s students and also to fairly compensate our employees.”

According to the draft 2021-22 budget, the district expects to receive an additional $32.2 million in general fund revenue, much to the credit of increased state funding. That’s because of a decrease in the budget stabilization factor, a calculation the state makes every year to withhold money from school districts to put toward other expenses.

As a result, the state’s per-pupil funding for DCSD went up by $500 between 2020-21 and 2021-22. Also, between the two years, DCSD expects to enroll about 1,300 more students.

On the expenditure side, a high priority is educator compensation, an issue the district has short- and long-term goals to tackle. For the 2021-22 school year, the district will set aside a pool of money to adjust every educator’s salary to the current cost of living. There has been no cost-of-living adjustment for some positions for six years, despite cost of living increases, district CFO Kate Kotaska explained at the May 11 meeting.

However, the cost-of-living adjustment isn’t adding to base salaries, something the district plans to do in subsequent years.

“I think we will have more thoughts about this whole notion of reserves as we look at compensation, because I know we desperately need some work there,” Ray said at the May 11 meeting.

Also, the district will restore $3.5

million in cuts that were made last year at the school-building level in response to COVID-19.

Through second and third waves of federal relief funding, the district has $13.8 million in one-time revenues. The plan is to put those funds toward eLearning, summer programming, unfinished learning (i.e. tutoring and curriculum materials) and other expenses directly related to COVID-19.

Just comparing the 2021-22 and 2020-21 school years, the situation looks good. However, 2021-22 projections don’t rival figures for pre-pandemic years. Revenue, expenditures and enrollment for 2021-22 still aren’t what they were in 2019-20.

Also, the district expects enrollment to decline in future years.

The board will vote to formally adopt the budget at a June 22 meeting.

Douglas County School Board meeting structure draws scrutiny

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When and how the Douglas County School Board hears public comment at its meetings has drawn recent scrutiny from some community members, although the board president says changes to how agendas are structured have been

aimed at helping public commenters be better informed.

Approximately 20 people gave public comment during the board’s May 11 meeting, many of whom requested the board move public comment earlier on the agenda, and that they allow people to speak at meetings in-person.

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heard public comment before staff and superintendent reports, meaning it was typically scheduled to begin around 6:30 p.m.

That changed by February, with public comment starting after the superintendent and staff presented district updates to directors. Agendas since then have slated public comment to start anywhere from 8 p.m., 8:30 p.m., or later. Public comment started May 11 after 9 p.m.

For some concerned speakers, the timing is inconsiderate or inconvenient, they said, while others worried having to wait late into the evening will deter people from choosing to speak at all.

“My kids are waiting for me to put them to bed,” a woman said on May 11.

Former school board candidate Andy Jones said during his public comment he was standing outside district headquarters, knocking on the door, waiting to be let in. Since February, he has frequently called on board members to move public comment earlier on its agenda and

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Board meetings have remained closed to the general public during the COVID-19 pandemic and are available for people to view on YouTube, either through a livestream during meetings or through recordings posted to the district’s account.

Board President David Ray said the board moved public comment on its agendas so people could hear updates from the superintendent and staff about the district’s plans first.

The goal was to help public commenters be informed on the latest updates to district issues before speaking, he told Colorado Community Media speaking by phone.

“What we were finding with public comment is that the comments were really based on operational decisions, decisions that the superintendent has the authority to make,” he said.

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Creative, spiritual young man finds joy in performing Finding myself in theater I’m a college student in Minnesota, and right now I’m living in Littleton with my mom while she attends Denver Seminary.

I’m majoring in English. Performing and creative expression are huge parts of my life. I tried sports in high school, but it just never clicked.

But theater? That’s where I really found myself. I tried out for a part in our school play. I don’t even remember what the play was called — it was something our teacher adapted.

I played this crazy ‘80s-style dancer. I wore this neon shirt, and part of my role was to go dancing off into the crowd.

Suddenly everyone was laughing and smiling and cheering — for me.

It felt amazing. I felt like Beyonce.

I think it’s the same sort of feeling a football player would get from scoring a touchdown. I knew I was finally where I was supposed to be.

Spiritual side My mom is very religious, and I’m definitely a Christian, but I would say my relationship with God is a more spiritual one than a church-based one. God has helped me through terrible times, but I

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have friends who aren’t quite so religious, so I know when to keep it to myself.

My identity as a person of color shapes how I see the world. I’m Black and I’m proud. Yes, there’s hate and negativity out there, but you’ve got to have confidence in yourself. That hate will fade away if you love yourself, and the world will see that.

Love yourself first I hope to channel my creativity

into screenwriting. I would love to work for Disney.

Being a creative person, I guess there is a message I’m trying to convey. Well, first would be “Hakuna Matata,” but I also want to say: You can’t expect anyone to love and appreciate you if you don’t love yourself first.

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Josiah Callahan said he found his true joy the first time he performed on stage.

directors could hear people’s input before votes, he said.

Ray also believes the switch encouraged more public comment, not less.

Before Jan. 19, Ray said meetings averaged a handful of signups for public comment. Since then, it’s been closer to 20 people, he said, with the highest turnout exceeding 60 people.

The district has also been also forming a plan to resume in-person public comment, Ray said. The district has been under public health orders that required six feet between people, he said, which did not leave enough capacity in the boardroom for directors, district staff scheduled to present and members of the public, he said.

Ray said after reviewing the new public health and executive orders issued May 14, the board will allow people to choose between making comment in-person or virtually at its May 25 meeting.

“Mass gathering” requirements in the orders are for gatherings of 100 or more people. The boardroom’s capacity is less than 100 people, he added via text message.

“Therefore, our upcoming meeting will return to the previous practice of allowing public to attend in person while maintaining appropriate allowance of audience,” he said, “based on capacity limitations and number of seats.”

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A numeral, a letter, and unsure what’s better

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hat’s 5G? What happened to 4G? Is 5G better than 4G? Is 6G next?

Will the commercials for 6G be better than the commercials for 5G? The commercials QUIET for 5G give me a DESPERATION headache. Especially the ones that feature “Lily,” who stands behind a podium now because of internet trolling.

By the end of the commercials I still don’t know what 5G is.

Craig Marshall Someone in marSmith keting assumes we all keep up with this stuff.

A year ago I wrote a column about new technologies that I don’t need. I don’t need any more of them.

My internet is fast enough.

My car doesn’t have a screen on the dash. My car doesn’t have cameras. It doesn’t drive itself, park itself, wash itself, or change

colors.

An Italian automaker is experimenting with cars that can change colors like chameleons. You drive a red one today and a blue one tomorrow. At midnight it’s purple.

The Japanese are a step ahead.

They’re working on “mood” cars.

Cars that will change colors according to the driver’s mood.

You’ll be able to tell how the woman in the car next to you is feeling because her car will tell you.

Does anyone draw with a pencil anymore? I draw with a 2B. It’s softer than a 2H. I never draw with a 4H. I know someone in 4H, but it has nothing to do with pencils.

Lily probably makes 5K every time one of her 5G commercials is shown.

It would take no time at all to find out what 5G is. But I’m stubborn.

But there are a few technologies that amaze me. I have self-published two novels and a compilation of short stories this year.

Which reminds me of something Nietzsche said: “Every time I climb I am followed by a dog named Ego.” Once these books are written, proofed, and formatted, the files are forwarded to a print-ondemand company. Books are then printed as they are ordered. Right now.

Self-publishing does have its drawbacks. Bookstores won’t carry the books and newspapers won’t review them.

Additionally, they’re the kids at the card table on Thanksgiving: looked down on.

It would be nice to have a publisher. Have someone else pick up the checks.

But that someone else would want me to make changes I wouldn’t want to make, design the cover, make me go on promotional tours, sign autographs and talk about Faulkner at cocktail parties.

Self-publishing accomplishes all I want. Sure, it would be nice to have big house behind one of my

books, but I don’t.

There’s a film, “Sideways,” about a couple of men who have a dirty weekend in California’s wine country before one of them, Jack, gets married.

His friend Miles is an author who spends the film sweating out his editor’s ability to have his book published.

Ultimately, the book is rejected.

Miles’s reaction is to drink from a spit bucket in a winery’s tasting room.

I will never drink from a spit bucket. Or jump off a roof or stick my head in an oven because my book was rejected.

There was a time when I thought I had it all. A bicycle, a baseball glove and a transistor radio.

Each one gave me limitless pleasures. Those were the days, Mary Hopkin.

What’s 5G? Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

Rehearsing success leads to success

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hen we anticipate the future, do we see ourselves winning or succeeding?

Or do we look into our future and see only losses or failure ahead?

WINNING Some could see this as a simple WORDS difference between optimism and pessimism. However, it is more than that too. When we dream, we don’t typically dream of the fish we almost caught, the deal we almost won, Michael Norton or the meal we almost prepared. No, typically in our dreams we catch the fish, and it is bigger than we expected; we close the deal and it’s worth more in commission than any previous deal we had sold; and the dinner that we cooked was nothing short of culinary perfection, worthy of qualifying for a spot on a famous cooking show.

Over the course of life, I have yet to find the person who shared a dream where they saw themselves shanking a drive on the

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golf course, had a big outdoor event like a wedding getting rained out or canceled, or the company they were about to start becoming an immediate and utter failure. When those do occur, those are nightmares, not dreams.

All visions of success are not limited to dreams. As a matter of fact, many people who have achieved their goals in life didn’t passively wait for success to happen to them, they went ahead and made success happen. And the way they contributed to their success was planning, preparing, and rehearsing ahead of time.

A friend of mine was always swinging a golf club. Well, not really a golf club, but an imaginary golf club. We would be in the conference room having a conversation and he would stand and make the motions of swinging the club. He would do this in the airport, standing around outside of a restaurant as we waited to get in, or anywhere he had enough space to swing his arms. Whenever he had a few minutes, he would go through the motions as if he were playing a round. And if he knew

the course that he was going to be playing, he would envision the actual hole and mentally play it out in his head. He would tee off, hit his approach shot, and make the putt.

He was rehearsing for success.

Now I play a little golf too, or rather I attempt to play golf. And I have also made some imaginary golf swings. However, I am doing it just to stretch, not with the full intention of seeing the club strike the ball, the trajectory, and the soft landing. No, I am not rehearsing for success the way that my friend does, and it shows each time we play.

Have you ever seen a pianist, guitarist, drummer, or other musician practicing without their instrument? Their eyes are usually closed as they play, but in their head, they see their hands moving across the keys or strings and hear the awesome and beautiful sounds that they are creating.

They too are rehearsing for success.

Will we always succeed or win by merely envisioning ourselves doing so? No, we will not. Will we increase our likelihood of suc-

ceeding and winning by seeing ourselves doing so? Yes, we will.

You see, something happens to us as we allow ourselves to internalize the motions, the real and rehearsed drills and practice swings of life, they become part of what we call the winner’s attitude.

If this pandemic has taught me anything, I have learned to keep dreaming, to keep seeing the next opportunity for success ahead of me, and to encourage others to do the same. The world will continue to change, that is fact. And the best thing we can do is to make sure we change our mindset to one of seeing ourselves succeeding and winning with each change that comes our way.

As always, I would love to hear your story of envisioning winning at mnorton@tramazing.com and when we rehearse for success, it really will be a better than good year.

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

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Maze” is all about the numbers and patterns that appear in nature.

“Tlakimilloli: Voices del Telar (Voices of the Loom)” is a documentary about indigenous woman weavers of Sierra de Zongolica in Veracruz, Mexico. 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver. dmns.org.

OX Arts Gallery at Aspen Grove Center, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, will resume its Second Friday events from 6:30-8 p.m. on June 11 with the auction SONYA’S of a collaborative painting made by SAMPLER a local troop of American Heritage Girls, instructed

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Meet many member artists. Or visit during the week.

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Sonya Ellingboe Concert “American Masters: Old and New” will be a concert by the Arapahoe Philharmonic Orchestra at the Denver First Church of the Nazarene, 3800 E. Hampden Ave., Cherry Hills Village. With Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. Tickets: $15, $5, children. arapahoe-phil.org.

Auditions Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W.

ROX Arts Gallery at Aspen Grove Center in Littleton will resume its Second Friday COURTESY PHOTO events on June 11.

Main St., Littleton. “The Fantasticks” Book and lyrics by Tom Jones. June 27, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Invited callbacks June 28 at 6 p.m.)

Casting 8 actors age 18+. Contact mkepler@townhallartscenter.org.

Prepare 16 bars of a song appropriate to the show and a 1-minute

monologue appropriate to the show. Provide current headshot and resume. Directed by Billie McBride, production stage manager Jane Stewart.

Museum of Nature & Science: “Numbers in Nature: A Mirror

Depot Art Gallery Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton, is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, with its 58th Anniversary Show. Admission free. depotartgallery.org.

Depot members also have a “Flights of Fantasy” exhibit at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton, open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Friday.

Buntport Theater “Space People in Space” will run at 7 p.m. Wednesdays to Sundays until June 13 at Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Takes place in the parking lot. Our information requests that the audience wear masks. Tickets: name your own SEE SAMPLER, P15

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Skin-care experts and doctors say the two biggest issues are preventing skin cancer and implementing anti-aging measures, especially since the sun’s ultraviolet light can be so damaging.

“A healthy dose of sunlight is really good for our bodies because our bodies make vitamin D,” said Brooke Sarmiento, founder and creator of Bee-Och skin-care products based in Fort Lupton. “(Sunlight) boosts mood, helps boost immunity and can ward off infections.”

However, too much sunlight is not a good thing, the experts said, noting that one in five Americans will develop skin cancer by the age of 70, and more people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in the United States than all other cancers combined.

In addition, sun can damage skin, causing it to age prematurely. Ultraviolet rays penetrate into the skin, damaging the elastic fibers that keep skin firm and accelerating production of the pigment melatonin, allowing wrinkles to develop and age spots to appear.

Neither is good for skin, which is the body’s largest organ, and both are mostly preventable.

Skin cancer The Skin Cancer Foundation and the Colorado Melanoma Foundation preach constantly about the benefits of sunscreen every day, not just when you are planning a day in the sun. Even better, wear a hat and clothing to keep skin from sun exposure or stay out of the sun as much as possible, especially during the hottest part of the day.

Not all sunscreens are created equal, the experts say, and it’s important for people to follow the directions.

The Skin Cancer Foundation offers a seal of recommendation on sunscreens and other skincare products that have an SPF — which stands for sun protection factor — of at least 15. SPF is a calculation of the difference between how quickly the skin will burn in the sun without the product and with the product. The higher the number, the longer the skin is protected.

There are two types of sunscreens: chemical and mineral.

Chemical sunscreens use ultra-

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HOW TO LOWER SKIN CANCER RISK Skin cancer statistics According to the Skin Cancer Foundation: • On average, a person’s risk for melanoma doubles if they have had more than five sunburns, but just one blistering sunburn in childhood or adolescence more than doubles a person’s chances of developing melanoma later in life.

• When detected early, the five-year survival rate for melanoma is 99%.

• In the United States, more than 9,500 people are diagnosed with skin cancer every day, and more than two people die of the disease every hour.

• Regular daily use of an SPF 15 or higher sunscreen reduces the risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma by about 40% and melanoma by 50%.

Jennifer Morris recommends face washing nightly as a habit that supports good skin COURTESY PHOTO care.

violet light-filtering chemicals while mineral sunscreens usually are powders that provide a physical barrier to the sun, Sarmiento explained.

Anti-aging It’s important to take care of your skin and to educate yourself about the products you use, said Jennifer Morris of the Littleton area, who sells Beautycounter products.

“Just because it’s on the shelf (in the store) doesn’t mean that it’s good for you,” Sarmiento added.

Skin-care advocates suggest learning about the products’ ingredients because not all lotions, soaps and sunscreens are created equal.

A skin-care routine that includes

Preventing skin cancer, aging • Clothing is the best defense against washing your face nightly and moisturizing daily is a must, they said, agreeing that moisturizers whose first ingredient is water is probably not the best.

“I’m huge on waterless products,” Sarmiento said, noting that the moisturizers she has created use essential oils that absorb into the skin. “Oil-based products provide longer hydration because it’s not just water and alcohols.”

Morris and Sarmiento suggested staying away from products with fragrances because most are chemically created rather than created from natural sources.

A healthy respect for the sun — both its positive and its negative attributes — is a must during the summer to make the most of the Colorado outdoors.

skin cancer and an easy way to protect yourself from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. The more skin you can cover, the better, with light-colored clothes.

• Wear a wide-brimmed hat and UVblocking sunglasses.

• Wear SPF15 or higher sunscreen daily and SPF30 or higher sunscreen for extended outdoor activity.

• Apply sunscreen 30 minutes before going outside and reapply every two hours or immediately after swimming or sweating.

• Examine your skin from head to toe monthly and have it checked by a dermatologist yearly.

Resources For more information about skin cancer prevention, detection and treatment, visit SkinCancer.org or www. comelanoma.org.

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‘Pick a Number, Start a Story’ is write stuff Veteran writing teacher’s new book gives authors how-to guidance

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Sue Viders of Lone Tree has recently published “Pick A Number, Start a Story,” subtitled: “Your ticket to the wonders of storytelling.”

A workbook, with spaces for a prospective author’s notes, it is certain to be a real help to many aspiring writers who just can’t get moving on that first paragraph. She says she has been a writing teacher for more than 40 years and published a number of books, including her coauthored “Complete Writer’s Guide to Heroes and Heroines, Sixteen Master Archetypes,” which is used in university creative writing and screenwriting courses.

She also has written a series of “cozies,” under the name D.B. Humel, and is currently working on another with a co-author. The name describes a type of mystery with a more gentle scene than some violent titles comes across.

Viders begins the new book by listing nine components to any story: Genre, Main Character, Plot, Setting, Goal and Motivation, Secondary Characters, Conflict, Theme, and Ending, then offers a discussion of each component and a nudge to make some choices.

Accompanying each listing is a selection of related movies — and here, I knew some and not others, which did not make much difference in using the suggested structure for organizing a story. She said there are references to 576 movies and TV

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shows to illustrate her suggested process.

Possibilities for combinations are pretty much endless.

A character starts out with a problem, which may or may not be solvable, due perhaps to the setting ...

Or with a romance, “be sure to choose two main characters that either complement or are direct opposites of each other.” Think of: Bad Boy, Swashbuckler, Nurturer. A plot takes characters through a series of events in one or more locations/settings, where they encounter secondary characters, some of which could be animals ... or robots, young or old ... (I picture her saying: “just choose and move on...”).

A conflict or problem arises which may or may not be resolved. Viders writes: “To make your character more interesting, you need to give him or her an internal conflict.

Perhaps the character has a lifelong flaw or fault.

“Plot is the action, while Theme is underlying meaning or moral aspect of the story.” Revenge may be a theme — think about “Count of Monte Cristo,” or consider Love and Revenge: “The Other Woman.”

“Cinderella” provides an example for the Ending category. Viders writes: “Cindy has two conflicts: one with her stepmother for keeping her away from the prince and with her own emotional feelings knowing she will never get to the ball.

“Therefore the ending has to resolve both conflicts, one that the stepmother will get her comeuppance and two that Cindy will end up with the prince.” Hence the ending has to be where they live Happy Ever After (HEA).

“Nicely fits the guideline of the `romance’ genre in that the couple at the end of the story will have

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“Pick A Number, Start a Story” by Lone Tree author Sue Viders is a guidebook for writCOURTESY PHOTO ers that is subtitled “Your ticket to the wonders of storytelling.”

achieved a HEA.” I get the impression that there will be others in this “Pick a Number”

artists and instructors exhibit, “Spectrum,” will be online this year at the ACC Virtual Gallery of the Arts: arapahoe.edu/ campus-community/artgalleries. Contact Bobbi Shupe at eppuffin@mac. com or Trish Sangelo at trish.sangelo@arapahoe. edu.

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Pride concert online The Denver Gay Men’s Chorus will present “Fierce, Fabulous and Moving Forward” at 7:30 p.m. on June 12 online at dgmc.org.

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7 arrested in $5 million shoplifting scam Multiple agencies team up in two-year investigation

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County authorities say they have arrested the seven ringleaders involved in a shoplifting and money-laundering scam, capping off a two-year investigation.

During a June 1 press conference, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said the scheme is one of the “largest in Colorado history.” The seven suspects face a combined 78 charges, including money laundering and theft. They also face federal charges for allegedly using the U.S. Postal Service to ship stolen goods.

Spurlock said more than $5.2 million in goods were stolen from local retailers including Safeway, King Soopers, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Whole Foods, Sprouts, Ulta Beauty and Sephora.

An estimated $1.7 million in stolen good was recovered.

Spurlock said the department started investigating the suspected multimillion-dollar laundering scheme in 2019 after police chiefs and local authorities in Douglas County approached him about increases in retail theft.

Spurlock said with cooperating agencies and help from local retailers, the sheriff’s department formed the Financial Investigative Regional Strike Team (FIRST) to track stolen goods. Allegedly, suspects would steal items from Douglas County retailers and take the product to a facility in Aurora where the items were sold online at a cheaper price and shipped by mail.

Castle Rock Police Chief Jack Cauley said he was one of the first to come forward, seeing an increase in retail theft at the Outlets at Castle Rock along with other major retailers in town.

Cauley said retail theft is a major concern in Castle Rock

because the community relies heavily on sales tax dollars. When more than $5 million in goods are stolen, Cauley said residents of Castle Rock and Douglas County pay the price.

Common goods being stolen for the alleged resale included vitamins, cosmetics, birth control and tools from local hardware stores, Spurlock said.

In April, after executing a search warrant at the suspected headquarters in Aurora, Spurlock said authorities recovered more than 30,000 stolen items, 80 pounds in silver, $100,000 in gold, $108,000 in cash and numerous cell phones.

The suspects were later indicted by a grand jury. Spurlock said the seven suspects are from Eastern European countries and are in the U.S. legally. The seven arrested are Grigore Tataru, Dzianis Artyushkevich, Ivan Biazliudau, Ilona Nastas, Evgeny Shadrin, Diziana Altshuler and Dmitry Altshuler.

Spurlock said the success of the

investigation would not have been possible if it were not for the cooperation from some of the area’s largest retailers. The companies provided resources to track identification numbers of stolen goods, he said.

In a prepared, combined statement, retailers said, “The crime of retail theft impacts not only large and small businesses, but consumers looking for value when they shop. Retail crime can be devastating to businesses of all sizes.

The loss of merchandise and threats to staff all have a negative impact on our businesses and our customers.”

Law enforcement and other organizations participating in the investigation included Lone Tree police, Castle Rock police, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Postal Service, Aurora police, Denver police and U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Retailers taking part were Albertsons/ Safeway, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, Ulta, Sephora, King Soopers, Whole Foods and Sprouts.

Masks off, restrictions dropped in DCSD schools District returning to pre-COVID norms

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As vaccination rates go up, and COVID cases drop, the Douglas County School District is making plans to a normal return for the 2021-2022 school year.

Following a June 1 meeting with the Douglas County School Board, Superintendent Corey Wise announced plans to eliminate mask mandates along with other COVID restrictions next year.

“It is our desire to return out schools back to a pre-COVID normal,” Wise told parents in a June 2 letter. “That means no face covering requirements, no quarantines, and allowing parents and visitors back into our school buildings.”

The following standards are

planned for the new school year: • Face coverings are no longer required.

• COVID immunizations for staff and students are not mandatory.

• Physical distancing will no longer be implemented.

• Quarantines of non-symptomatic students and staff will be discontinued.

• Visitors will be permitted in schools and buildings.

• Field trips will resume.

• Foreign exchange programs will resume.

• Athletics and activities will go back to normal.

• Facilities rentals will resume.

Practices that will continue include: • Encouraging students and staff to practice good hygiene • Disinfection protocols will continue • District will continue to invest in a ventilation system • Encouraging families to keep students home when sick

Wise said even though restrictions are being lifted, students and staff who want to wear masks are free to do so. The school will accommodate the needs of each individual student and staff member, Wise said.

While vaccinations are not mandatory, Wise said the district will still work to educate and encourage students, staff, and the community to get the shots.

“While we are not mandating it, I recommend it,” Wise said. “We are working to provide a stable and quality education.”

“We are going to encourage students and staff to let us know they have been vaccinated. We want to do whatever we can to get us back on the path to normal.”

A major reason the district is getting back to normal is due to the increased rate of vaccinations, Wise said. According to TriCounty Health, in Douglas County more than 65% of the population 12 and up have received at least

one dose of the vaccine. Just over 56% of those eligible to get vaccinated have received both doses.

For staff, Wise said an incentive to get vaccinated will be in how sick days and paid time off can be utilized in the 2021-2022 school year. Guidelines for sick days will return to pre-COVID rules. Wise said if teachers and staff have COVID or COVID symptoms in the new school year, they will be required to use sick days.

After reviewing quarantine practices in the 2020-2021 school year, Wise said changes will be made to primarily have students and staff who are showing symptoms be quarantined rather than an entire class or school.

At times throughout the last school year, entire schools and hundreds of students were put in quarantine at any given time.

Wise said changing protocols for quarantining only those who are sick or symptomatic will further help the district return to normal.

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Hayes adjusts tennis to high elevation Hill sisters team for wins in doubles

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It took some time for Lauren Hayes to adjust to playing in Colorado’s higher elevation, but the Hill twins have been playing doubles together for so long they can adapt quickly.

Hayes, a sophomore No. 1 singles player at Mountain Vista, moved to Colorado from Salem, Oregon, and on June 2 captured the Region 5 state qualifying tournament with a tough three-set win over Arapahoe’s Julia Rydel.

Nicole and Eliza Hill, seniors at Cherry Creek, had it much easier in taking the No. 1 doubles title in the Region 1 tournament on June 1 and lost only one game in two straightset victories.

The Hills will carry a 12-0 record into the Class 5A state tournament which will be June 11-12 at the Gates Tennis Center.

Hayes kept a majority of her shots in play but it wasn’t an easy victory as her grit and determination helped her pull out a win in the match that has more momentum changes than winning volleys.

Hayes claimed the regional title with a 7-6, 6-7, 6-3 triumph.

“I came here in December, and it took me to February to get fully adjusted to the different altitude,” said Hayes. “My ground strokes seem to go a lot farther and with the spin I put on the ball, I need to put more spin on because it seems the shots are going long a lot. I definitely need to work on that.

“I’ve played really well and I’ve really connected with my team which I like a lot. I really like the atmosphere we’ve played in. So far this season, it’s been very good.”

Hayes was down 1-3 in the first set tiebreaker but rallied to win 7-5. She had a 5-1 advantage in the second set tiebreaker but Rydel pulled out an 8-6 win. Hayes prevailed in the deciding third set.

More of the same type of close matches probably will be ahead in the state tournament.

“I will try to go in with a certain level of confidence in my game, know that what I do I think works,” she said. “I just go for everything. I try to stay calm when I play,” Hayes displays a lot of emotion in her matches and often talks to herself but most of the comments from the Hills are with each other.

The Hills won the regional crown with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Columbine’s Liz Gentry and Liz Phillips.

Doubles in tennis requires partners to encourage and trust each other, and it is an advantage to know your partner.

Eliza won the No. 2 singles state title in 2018, and Nicole captured the 2018 championship at No. 3 singles.

Eliza suffered a concussion playing basketball and both sisters skipped the 2019 campaign so it has been two

Mountain Vista sophomore Lauren Hayes hits a forehand return during the Region 5 No. 1 singles final June 2 against Arapahoe’s PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON Julia Rydel. Hayes won the title with a hard-fought three-set victory.

Lauren Hayes, a sophomore at Mountain Vista, captured the No. 1 singles title at the Region 5 state qualifying tournament on June 2. She defeated Arapahoe’s Julia Rydel in a hard-fought 7-6, 6-7, 6-3 match.

seasons since the sisters played high school tennis.

“It is definitely easier playing with my sister,” said Nicole. “I absolutely love playing with her because we just have such a good relationship.

We know what to tell each other during a match. We know how to lift each other up or to test each other about strategy.”

Eliza agrees.

“We really understand each other

Eliza Hill delivers a serve while sister Nicole waits during the Region 1 qualifying tournament June 1. The Hills won the regional championships at No. 1 doubles and will take a 12-0 record into the June 11-12 state tournament.

well and it makes for a really good partnership,” she added. “Sometimes we’re not immune to arguing.

The good thing is we know how to get back to what is important. Our arguments don’t last very long.”

The state tournament this year has been trimmed from three days to two which means semifinal and championship matches will be played back-to-back on June 12.

“We’re not going to underestimate any of our opponents,” said Eliza.

“We’re going to play our hardest and our best. As the competition gets tougher we will get tougher too.”

Cherry Creek, which won the 2019 state title before COVID canceled last spring’s state tourney, qualified players in three singles and four doubles categories as the Bruins will be seeking their 37th girls state tennis championship.

The Bruins aren’t the only team that will have a full squad of players at the state meet.

Fairview, Legacy, Mountain Vista, Arapahoe, Fossil Ridge, Ralston Valley and Poudre also qualified 11 players for the state tournament, and Valor Christian will have 10 players competing at state.

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It is early June and in a normal season most spring sports would be concluded but not this year with COVID figuring into all the schedules.

Season D sports are wrapping up their seasons. The state girls tennis tournament is set for June 11-12, and the other sports will be finished by June 25.

Ponderosa, a Class 4A team playing in the Continental League, won the regular season league baseball championship prior to the June 14regional playoffs.

Baseball Ponderosa 8, Rock Canyon 4 – Kolton Miller went 3-for-4, scored twice and had two runs batted in during a win over Rock Canyon on May 31 which secured the Continental League title. Chase Jaworsky, Riley Goings, Zac Chapman and Adam Smith each had two hits for the Jaguars. Pondo, second ranked in the CHSAANow.com Class 4A poll, pounded Mountain Range, 13-1, on June 5 in a non-league encounter as Dom Lopez went 4-for-4 with three RBI. Cherry Creek 7, Overland 2 – The Bruins, ranked second in the 5A poll, scored five runs in the fifth in-

ning to secure a June 1 win. Senior Carter Dorighi went 2-for-2, scored twice and had an RBI to pace Creek.

The Bruins had an 8-1 lead after two innings on June 3 against Arapahoe and held on for a 12-11 victory. Jack Alley and Tommy Mardi had three hits each for Creek while Troon Eakin got three hits for the Warriors.

Mountain Vista 16, ThunderRidge 9 – The Golden Eagles, ranked fourth in the state, jumped to an 11-1 advantage after two innings in a triumph on June 3 as Sean Marlow’s three hits paced a 13-hit attack for Vista.

Cherokee Trail 10, Arapahoe 9 – The Warriors rallied to tie the game in the top of the seventh but allowed a run in the bottom of the inning in a June 1 setback. Easton Marks had three hits and three RBI for Arapahoe. The Warriors grabbed a 9-0 lead over Cherry Creek on June 5 and held on for a 9-5 win. Eakin and Cody Booth both went 3-for-4 for Arapahoe.

Valor Christian 19, Lakewood 2 – The fifth-ranked Eagles plated 13 runs in the top of the first inning in an easy, four-inning victory on June 1. Blake Wilson and Radek Birkholz each had two homers for Valor and Keenan Procter added one. Those three players combined to drive in 11 runs. Birkholz struck out 12 batters in six innings of work on June 3 in a 3-1 victory over top-ranked Chatfield.

Legend 8, Douglas County 7 – Aaron Kidd had five RBIs and Grant Dale pitched 1.1 innings of relief to get the win in a May 31 contest.

Lutheran 21, Peak to Peak 1 – The Lions, ranked ninth in the Class 3A poll, collected 15 hits in a mercyshortened win on June 2. Josh Greiving had three hits and combined with Teagan Rae and Aaron Morgan to have seven RBI. Unbeaten Lutheran raced to a 15-0 win on June 3 over Manual as Rae and Preston Robinson each had three runs batted in, Castle View 9, Highlands Ranch 8 – The Sabercats pushed home a run in the bottom of the eighth inning on June 3 to pull out a win. Caleb Cancino, Blake Windham, Daniel Whisman, Oliver Bolduc and Phillip Carter each had two hits for Castle View and those five players combined for 10 of the 12 Sabercats’ hits.

Heritage 12, Douglas County 0 – Alex Champagne got two hits, scored three times and collected three RBI in a June 1 victory for the Eagles who were ranked seventh in the state. The Eagles downed Mountain Vista 10-8 on June 4 as Luke Meyers had two hits and earned the save.

Chaparral 15, Arvada West 5 – Senior James Harbeson went 3-for-3 with a homer and three RBI in a win on June 5.

Littleton 11, Alameda 1 – Red Fritz and Christian Calonder each drove in three runs in the Lions win on June 3.

Girls soccer Cherry Creek 2, Cherokee Trail 0 – The Bruins second-ranked team in the Class 5A poll posted a shutout victory on June 1.

Mountain Vista 3, ThunderRidge 2 – Natalie Vatter assisted on all three goals in the overtime victory June 1 over the rival Grizzlies.

Chaparral 2, Ponderosa 1 – Lia Nguyen had the game-winning goal in a June 1 win.

Rock Canyon 5, Legend 1 – The Jaguars, No. 8 in the June 1 girls soccer rankings, got a pair of goals from Cate Sheahan and Addison Vali in a June 1 win.

Valor Christian 5, Arvada West 0 – Five players scored for the thirdranked Eagles in a win on June 2.

Lutheran 5, Peak to Peak 2 – Caley Swierenga notched two goals and

an assist in a victory on June 2. The Lions, ranked ninth in the 3A poll, edged Colorado Academy 4-3 on June 4 with Carli Haney collecting three goals.

Legend 1, Douglas County 1 – The Titans’ Taylor Preston, off an assist from Peyton Evans, got the goal for Legend in a June 4 tie.

ThunderRidge 2,Castle View 0 – The ninth ranked Grizzlies got two first half goals in a June 4 win.

Littleton 6, Bear Creek 0 – Six players scored foe the Lions’ in a win over the Bears on June 1.

Boys lacrosse Valor Christian 21, Chaparral 6 – The Eagles, the No. 1 team in the boys lacrosse rankings, rolled to win on June 3. Junior Gunnar Fellows had seven goals and three assists for 10 points in the game and senior Caleb Pallo added five goals and four assists.

Cherry Creek 14, Kent Denver 11The third-ranked Bruins got three goals and two assists from Dakota Johnson in a June 1 win.

Arapahoe 13, Grandview 12 – Reece Loucks scored three times in June 1 win and the No. 8 Warriors came back with another close win on June 4 with a 10-9 triumph over Kent Denver. Tommy Leonard had three goals in win over Kent.

Girls lacrosse Colorado Academy 18, Cherry Creek 7 – In a June 2 game between the top-ranked Mustangs and the No. 3 Bruins, Colorado Academy grabbed a 14-4 halftime lead in the win. Lily Assini had three goals and an assist for Creek.

Thunder Ridge 22, Pine Creek 6 – Madison Riley contributed five goals and two assists in a June 3 win for the Grizzlies who were sixth ranked.

Valor Christian 17, Chatfield 2 – The fourth ranked Eagles breezed to a victory on June 3. Reagan Digby scored five goals and Tess Osborn four for the Eagles.

Record performances Harrison Witt and Parker Wolfe established Colorado distance track records earlier this season.

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Wolfe, a Cherry Creek senior who set a record in winning the state Class 5A cross country meet last fall and was named the Gatorade national boys cross country Runner of the Year, set a new state record for 1600 meters of 4:06. But, that mark lasted only a week before Witt, a Mountain

Vista senior headed to Princeton, ran a 4:05.18 on May 15.

That was the same day that Wolfe, a North Carolina recruit, ran an alltime state best of 8:55.04 in the 3,200 event.

Player of the Year Cherry Creek’s Julian Hammond III was named Colorado’s Gatorade boys basketball Player of the Year.

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STEM TRIAL FROM PAGE 2

A first responder Within a few minutes of entering the school, Sgt. Joel White, a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy and one of the first responders that day, came across Castillo lying in room 107. He and other deputies desperately tried to get the senior out of the school, knowing that paramedics couldn’t enter an active shooter situation, he told jurors June 1.

He pulled and dragged the young man through the school by his torso and legs.

Tears rolled down White’s face as he explained that in spite of his efforts, Castillo was pronounced dead after being handed over to medical personnel.

White spoke of how he didn’t stop his response to the shooting there. Instead, he went back into the school, where he came across another student who had been shot in the back of the head.

Gerardo Montoya Ojeda, who survived being shot in the back of the head during the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting in 2019, testified June 3 during the trial against one of the students accused of COURTESY OF 18TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ONLINE COURTROOM planning and participating in the attack.

“His eyes were ... really, really big,” White said. “I asked him if he could move and he didn’t respond. So I picked him up and threw him over my shoulder (and) ran out of the school.”

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Defense questions During cross examinations, the defense focused on the timing of the shots

fired, asking witnesses when they heard the gunshots in relation to Castillo slamming Erickson in an effort to get the gun. In her opening statement, defense attorney Julia Stancil told the jury that Erickson had

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Another detail the defense has drawn attention to is exactly how and where Erickson pointed the gun he held in front of the class.

Some witnesses have said he pointed it straight at them and others have said it was directed over their heads.

The defense asked one witness from room 107, Barbra Elenniss, about a message she sent to another student in the days following the shooting when she said “(Erickson) shot accidentally after getting tackled.” Elenniss said she hadn’t actually seen that happen and was simply repeating what she’d heard other students say in the days following.

Former district attorney George Brauchler, who has remained with the DA’s office to finish this case, said he expected the prosecution to rest its case in the middle of the following week. Then, the defense will call their witnesses.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0014-2021 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 5, 2021, 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) The Plaza at Greenwood, LLC Original Beneficiary(ies) H&M Mortgage and Investments, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt GV Corner, LLC Date of Deed of Trust March 24, 2008 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 01, 2008 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B8037348 Original Principal Amount $800,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $800,000.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. See Exhibit A attached hereto plus all appurtenances thereto

HOE, STATE OF COLORADO, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS; BASIS OF BEARINGS: THE WEST LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN BEING MONUMENTED AT THE NORTH END, BEING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16, BY A 3-1/4"ALUMINUM CAP IN RANGE BOX STAMPED "LS 28666" AND AT THE SOUTH END, BEING THE WEST ONE-QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 16, BY A 3-1/2" ALUMINUM CAP IN RANGE BOX STAMPED "LS 7735," CONSIDERED TO BEAR S 00°14'24" E, WITH ALL BEARINGS HEREON RELATIVE THERETO. COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ONEQUARTER S 00°14'24" E, A DISTANCE OF 309.61 FEET; THENCE PERPENDICULAR TO SAID WEST LINE N 89°45'36" E, A DISTANCE OF 49.00 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF A RIGHTOF-WAY DOCUMENT RECORDED AT RECEPTION NO. B3103738, ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS, BEING MONUMENTED BY A NAIL AND BRASS TAG STAMPED “NOLTE-LS 29430,” SAID POINT BEING THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE PARALLEL TO SAID WEST LINE N 00°14'24" W, A DISTANCE OF 148.02 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF EAST BELLEVIEW AVENUE AS DESCRIBED IN A DOCUMENT RECORDED IN BOOK 1021 AT PAGE 217, ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS; THENCE ALONG SAID SOUTH RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE S 84°40'55" E, A DISTANCE OF 131.68 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND; THENCEA LONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND S 00°12'40" E, A DISTANCE OF 134.33 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND S 89°21’04" W, A DISTANCE OF 131.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.

Tax Schedule No. 2075-16-2-03-017 Assessor Parcel ID No. 2075-16-2-03-017

(AS DESCRIBED BY CHARLES BERESFORD, PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYOR COLORADO P.L.S. NO. 35583).

Also known by street and number as: 7300 E. Belleview Ave., Greenwood Village, CO 80111.

More commonly known by street name and number as 7300 East Belleview Avenue, Greenwood Village, Colorado.

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

Legal Notice NO. 0014-2021 First Publication: 5/13/2021 Last Publication: 6/10/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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, 07/07/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 5/13/2021 Last Publication: 6/10/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/05/2021 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Clifford L. Neuman #3698 Clifford L. Neuman, P.C. 6800 N. 79th Street, Suite 200, Niwot, CO 80503 (303) 449-2100 Attorney File # 7300 E BELLEVIEW AVE 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 0014-2021 LEGAL DESCRIPTION A PORTION OF LOT 1, BLOCK 1, A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 16, ALSO BEING A PORTION OF THAT PARCEL OF LAND OF RECORD IN BOOK 1687 AT PAGE 561, ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS, BEING A PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST ONE QUARTER OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, CITY OF GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COUNTY OF ARAPA-

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0016-2021 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 19, 2021, 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) Palazzo Verdi, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company Original Beneficiary(ies) Ladder Capital Finance LLC a Delaware limited liability company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of COMM 2015-CCRE24 Mortgage Trust Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Date of Deed of Trust June 25, 2015 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 25, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D5068516 Original Principal Amount $73,500,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $7,324,789,899.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. See Exhibit A, attached hereto.

Also known by street and number as: 6363 S. Fiddler's Green Circle, Greenwood Village, CO 80111.

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

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/21/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 5/27/2021 Last Publication: 6/24/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/19/2021 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Craig K Schuenemann #41068 Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP 1700 Lincoln, Suite 4100, Denver, CO 80203 (303) 866-0431678 Attorney File # USA\1067754.000206\602917542.1 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 0016-2021 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION PARCEL 1: UNITS T AND 1-A, PALAZZO VERDI, ACCORDING TO THE SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR PALAZZO VERDI RECORDED JUNE 25, 2015 UNDER RECEPTION NO. D5068514 AND THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED MAY 10, 2007 UNDER RECEPTION. NO. B7059683 AND THE FIRST SUPPLEMENT THERETO RECORDED SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B9106911, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL 2: A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT TO CONSTRUCT, RECONSTRUCT, OPERATE, USE, MAINTAIN, REPAIR, REPLACE AND/OR REMOVE CERTAIN STREET IMPROVEMENTS AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN EASEMENT DEEDS RECORDED JUNE 16, 2000 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B0072732 AND DECEMBER 22, 2000 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B0165931, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, EXCEPT THOSE PORTIONS LYING WITHIN LOT 1 OF GREENWOOD PLAZA SOUTH FILING NO. 10.

PARCEL 3: AN ACCESS, EMERGENCY AND UTILITY EASEMENT OVER, UNDER AND ACROSS THE PARCEL DESCRIBED AS THE "NEW EASEMENT AREA" IN PARTIAL RELEASE AND RELOCATION OF EASEMENTS RECORDED MAY 10, 2007 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B7059685 AND RE-RECORDED OCTOBER 15, 2007 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B7132921.

PARCEL 4: A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR VEHICULAR PARKING IN THE PARKING AREAS IN UNITS P-1 AND P-2, PALAZZO VERDI, ACCORDING TO THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED JUNE 1, 2007 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B7069317, AND THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED MAY 10, 2007 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B7059683 AND THE FIRST SUPPLEMENT THERETO RECORDED SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B9106911, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STALE OF COLORADO, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN PARKING EASEMENT AGREEMENT RECORDED JANUARY 18, 2011 UNDER RECEPTION NO. D1005972.

Legal Notice NO. 0016-2021 First Publication: 5/27/2021 Last Publication: 6/24/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County Public Notice GREENWOOD VILLAGE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 7th day of June, 2021, the City Council of the City of Greenwood Village, Colorado, adopted on second reading the following ordinance: A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 06 SERIES OF 2021 INTRODUCED BY:

MAYOR PRO TEM KERBER AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A FIRST AMENDED BUDGET AND PROVIDING FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION OF MONEY FOR THE VARIOUS FUNDS, DEPARTMENTS, OFFICES AND AGENCIES OF THE CITY OF GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLORADO, FOR THE 2021 FISCAL YEAR Copies of the aforesaid ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, 6060 South Quebec Street, City of Greenwood Village, Colorado or online at www.greenwoodvillage.com.

Legal Notice No. 525287 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, June 7, 2021 the Centennial City Council passed on first reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-09 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE ACCEPTANCE OR PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS OR APPROVALS OR LICENSES, INCLUDING ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMITS AND BUSINESS LICENSES, FOR SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES AND FOR BUSINESSES THAT SELL OR RENT ANY AMOUNT OF ADULT NOVELTY INSTRUMENTS, DEVICES, OR PARAPHERNALIA, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk.

The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. The full text of the ordinance is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com.

Legal Notice No. 525282-60184 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, June 7, 2021 the Centennial City Council passed on first reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-08

Legal Notice No. 525284-60186 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice GREENWOOD VILLAGE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 7th day of June, 2021, the City Council of the City of Greenwood Village, Colorado, adopted on second reading the following ordinance:

Copies of the aforesaid ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, 6060 South Quebec Street, City of Greenwood Village, Colorado or online at www.greenwoodvillage.com.

Legal Notice No. 525285 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTIONS OF ARTICLE III OF CHAPTER 6 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING CONTRACTOR LICENSES AND ADDING SECTION 6-3-40 TO PROVIDE A PROCESS FOR SUSPENSION AND REVOCATION OF CONTRACTOR LICENSES The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk.

The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. The full text of the ordinance is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com.

By: Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 525283-60185 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice GREENWOOD VILLAGE NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 7th day of June, 2021, the City Council of the City of Greenwood Village, Colorado, adopted on second reading the following ordinance: A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 08 SERIES OF 2021 INTRODUCED BY: COUNCILMEMBER BARNACLE AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 8 OF THE GREENWOOD VILLAGE MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING A NEW ARTICLE ADDRESSING FORFEITURE OF VEHICLES USED IN THE COMMISSION OF A CRIME Copies of the aforesaid ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, 6060 South Quebec Street, City of Greenwood Village, Colorado or online at www.greenwoodvillage.com.

Public Notice

/s/Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 16 OF THE GREENWOOD VILLAGE MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING SITE LIGHTING IN COMMERCIAL AREAS

CITY OF CENTENNIAL

CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The public hearing will be held virtually, via the City’s website at: www.centennialco.gov. Copies of Ordinance No. 2021-O-09 are available for inspection by the public on the City’s website: www.centennialco.gov. Interested parties may file written comments with the City Clerk, at: www.councilcomments@centennialco.gov or by recording a voice message via 303-325-8087.

Any written comments received will be provided to City Council prior to the Public Hearing and made part of the record. Citizens wishing to speak during the Public Hearing, may access the virtual meeting via instructions published on the June 14, 2021 Agenda at: https://www.centennialco. gov/Government/Mayor-Council/City-CouncilMeetings/Agendas-Minutes.

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 04 SERIES OF 2021 INTRODUCED BY: COUNCILMEMBER JOHNSTON

By: Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 525289 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado will conduct a public hearing on Monday, June 14, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. regarding Ordinance No. 2021-O-09 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE ACCEPTANCE OR PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS OR APPROVALS OR LICENSES, INCLUDING ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMITS AND BUSINESS LICENSES, FOR SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES AND FOR BUSINESSES THAT SELL OR RENT ANY AMOUNT OF ADULT NOVELTY INSTRUMENTS, DEVICES, OR PARAPHERNALIA, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.

Public Notice Public Notice A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. AN 10 ORDINANCE SERIES OF 2021 A BILL FOR INTRODUCED ORDINANCE NO. 11 SERIES OF 2021 BY: COUNCILMEMBER BULLOCK INTRODUCED BY: COUNCILMEMBER BULLOCK AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 16 OF THE GREENWOOD VILLAGE MUNICIPAL AN ORDINANCE IMPOSING A TEMPORARY CODE REGARDING GROUND-MOUNTED MORATORIUM ON GROUND OR OR POLE-MOUNTED ACCESSORY SOLAR POLE-MOUNTED SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ENERGY SYSTEMS WHEREAS, thethe Greenwood City WHEREAS, Greenwood VillageVillage City Council Councilto allow desires to allowsolarground or desires ground-mounted energy syspole-mounted solar energy systems as tems as an accessory use of residential propertyan to accessory usethey of do residential property impacts to the the extent that not cause adverse to surrounding properties. extent that theyresidential do not cause adverse impacts to surrounding residential properties; and NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GREENWOOD VILLAGE, WHEREAS, the Greenwood VillageCOLOCity RADO, Council ORDAINS: desires to study allowing solar energy systems and maintaining aesthetics within Section 1. neighborhoods Section 16-1-100 is hereby amendresidential and minimizing ed to addimpacts a definition of accessory solar energy negative on neighboring properties. system to read as follows: NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF Ground-mounted or pole-mounted accessory THE energy CITY system OF means GREENWOOD VILLAGE, solar a solar energy system COLORADO, ORDAINS:of electrical energy from used for the production energy collected by the sun including solar energy Section 1.power Thegeneration Greenwood Village collectors, facilities, facilitiesCity for Counciland hereby imposes a moratorium on storing transforming energy, and any other applications facilities, for ground or ispole-mounted appurtenant and which designed to accessory solar energy systems for aon period of supply power solely to principal use(s) the lot. three (3) months.

Section 2. Section 16-22-170 is hereby added to the Greenwood Municipal Code read Section 2. This Village moratorium will toexpire as follows: 13, 2021.

September Sec. 16-22-170.

– Ground-mounted or poleSection 3. Effective Date.

This ordinance mounted systems shall takeaccessory effect sixsolar (6) energy days after publication following final passage. (a) Ground-mounted or pole-mounted accessory solar energy systems are allowed as an accessory INTRODUCED AND APPROVED ONprovided FIRST structure in all residential zoning districts READING ON THE 7TH DAY OF JUNE, 2021, the following requirements are met: AND ORDERED PUBLISHED IN THE LITTLETON INDEPENDENT. 1.

Ground-mounted or pole-mounted accessory solar energy systems may be no larger in size /s/ George E. Lantz, Mayorthe electrical energy than necessary to produce ATTEST: /s/ principal Susan M. Ortiz, MMC, needs of the residential use City of theClerk lot.

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3. Ground-mounted or pole-mounted accessory solar energy systems are limited in total square footage (panel surface area) in each residential zone district as follows: (450 SF/acre in the R-0.05, R-0.1, R-0.25, R-0.5 and R-0.75 districts, and a maximum total amount of 450 SF in the R-1.0, R-1.5, R-2.0 and R-2.5 districts).

It’s your right to know what The square footage allowances for groundmounted or pole-mounted accessory the city andsolar energy systems are not counted against the total allowable lot coverage for accessory structures and buildings contained county in Section 16-5-30(e), Section 16-6-30(e), Section 16-7-30(d), Section 16-8-30(d), or Section 16-22-20. govern4. Ground-mounted or pole-mounted accessory solar energy systems ments may not be mounted are or affixed to any freestanding wall or fence.

5. Ground-mounted orchanging pole-mounted accessory solar energy systems shall not be located over a septic system, leach field areaand or identified reserve area unless approved by the county health department. No ground-mounted or pole-mounted proposing. accessory solar energy systems shall be located in a floodplain. ~~~ 6. Ground-mounted or pole-mounted accessory

solar energy systems erected after the passage of this ordinance must be reasonably screened from the view of neighboring properties.

See the ordinances (b) Ground-mounted or pole-mounted acces-

sory solar energy systems are considered to be abandoned or defective if not in operation for a period of 12 months. If abandoned, the solar energy system shall be repaired or removed. If the owner fails to remove or repair the defective or abandoned solar energy system, the city may pursue a legal action to have the system removed at the owner's expense.

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Section 3. shall take effect six (6) days after publication following final passage.

public INTRODUCED AND APPROVED ON FIRST READING ON THE notices 7TH DAY OF JUNE, and2021, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED IN THE LITTLETON INDEPENDENT.

be /s/ George E. Lantz, Mayor ATTEST: informed! /s/ Susan M. Ortiz, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 525288 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 09 SERIES OF 2021 INTRODUCED BY: COUNCILMEMBER DOUGHERTY AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 16 OF THE GREENWOOD VILLAGE MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF OUTDOOR EATING AREA RESTRICTIONS WHEREAS, the Greenwood Village City Council adopted Resolution 19-20 declaring a state of emergency in March 2020 due to COVID 19; and WHEREAS, the Greenwood Village City Council extended the state of emergency by Resolution 25-20 and waived license and permit fees and Municipal Code restrictions for outdoor eating areas opened during COVID-19 emergency; and WHEREAS, the most recently adopted extension of the COVID-19 state of emergency will end June 30, 2021; and WHEREAS, the Greenwood Village City Council desires to allow the continuation of outdoor eating areas in areas otherwise prohibited by the Code subsequent to the end of the COVID-19 state of emergency through October 31, 2021.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLORADO, ORDAINS: Section 1. Section 16-21-170 is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 16-21-170. - Outdoor eating areas. (a) No outdoor eating area shall be established in the City without a permit issued pursuant to Article 2 of this Chapter. (b) An outdoor eating area shall meet the following requirements: (1) The outdoor eating area shall be separated from any parking area, sidewalk or roadway by at least six (6) feet.

(2) Adequate parking shall exist for the additional seats, pursuant to Division 5 of this Article. (c) The above requirements set forth in section (b) are suspended until November 1, 2021 for outdoor eating areas established during the COVID-19 Greenwood Village State of Emergency.

Section 2. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect six (6) days after publication following final passage.

INTRODUCED AND APPROVED ON FIRST READING ON THE 7TH DAY OF JUNE, 2021, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED IN THE LITTLETON INDEPENDENT. /s/ George E. Lantz, Mayor ATTEST: /s/ Susan M. Ortiz, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 525286 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARINGS COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION

PURSUANT TO COLORADO REVISED STATUTES § 39-8-104, Notice is hereby given that the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, Colorado and/or its designated referees, will sit as the County Board of Equalization (“CBOE”) to review the assessment roll of all taxable property located in Arapahoe County, as prepared by the County Assessor, and to hear appeals from determinations of the Assessor.

Said hearings will be held in the Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado commencing on or after July 1, 2021 and concluded by the close of business on July 31, 2021. All decisions of the County Board of Equalization will be rendered by August 5, 2021.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board By: Karen Thompsen, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 525281 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Metropolitan Districts Public Notice NOTICE OF 2020 BUDGET AMENDMENT HEARING POLO RESERVE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT ARAPAHOE COUNTY, CITY OF LITTLETON, COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the District’s 2020 Budget; that a copy of the proposed Amended 2020 Budget is on file in the offices of Collins Cockrel & Cole, located at 390 Union Boulevard, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado 80228, where the same is available for inspection by the public Monday through Friday during normal business hours, (i.e., 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of Directors of the Polo Reserve Metropolitan District will consider the adoption of the proposed amendment of the 2020 Budget at a public hearing to be conducted during a special meeting of the Board of Directors to be conducted online electronically through Zoom (https://us02web. zoom.us/j/86997191010?pwd=bTZveEJydUVm MFgwSVQyYnYrWjNyUT09 or Meeting ID: 869 9719 1010 Passcode: 358640) on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m.

Any interested elector of the Polo Reserve Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed 2020 Budget Amendment and file or register any objections or comments thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the Budget.

Dated this 2nd day of June, 2021.

POLO RESERVE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Sandy Weiss, Secretary Legal Notice No. 525278 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Bids and Settlements Public Notice BID INFORMATION ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that the City of Greenwood Village, Colorado (the "City") will receive bids by electronic submission through BidNet® on the Rocky Mountain Bid System on the Greenwood Village website at www.greenwoodvillage.com/bids. Bids must be submitted by 4:00 p.m., June 17th, 2021 for: 2021 Trails Rehabilitation Project The plans and specifications for the 2021 Trails Rehabilitation Project are available electronically via the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System on the City of Greenwood Village website, www.greenwoodvillage.com/bids.

The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to make final determination in the event of duplications. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for opening thereof.

Preference is hereby given to materials, supplies, and provisions produced, manufactured, or grown in Colorado, quality being equal to articles offered by competitors outside of the State. Colorado labor shall be employed to perform the work for which bids are requested herein to the extent of not less than eighty percent (80%) of each type or class of labor in the several classifications of skilled and common labor employed on such work, pursuant to C.R.S. § 8-17-101.

The City requires a certified or cashier's check, or a corporate surety bond in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid amount before the City can accept or consider any bid for any bids greater than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00).

The bid and the deposit shall be filed with the Public Works Department, securely sealed and endorsed on the outside with a brief statement as to the nature of the item or work for which the bid is provided. Upon a bid award, such bond shall be returned to the unsuccessful bidder(s). In the case of the successful bidder, the bid bond will be returned upon receipt of the required payment and performance bonds, each in the full amount of the contract price. Such bonds will be retained by the City until the two year (2) warranty period has expired. An electronic bid opening will occur at 4:01 p.m., June 17th, 2021.

Any questions regarding the project should be directed to Ed Haun at (303) 708-6141 or ehaun@ greenwoodvillage.com. /s/ Jeremy Hanak Director of Public Works Legal Notice No: 525261 FIRST PUBLICATION: June 3, 2021 SECOND PUBLICATION: June 10, 2021 PUBLISHED IN: Littleton Independent

Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT for Greenwood Village Notice is hereby given that the City of Greenwood Village, Colorado will make final payment at the City Hall, 6060 South Quebec Street, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111-4591 on the 17th day of June, 2021 to Designscapes of Colorado for all work done by said contractor for the project called High Line Canal Trailhead Improvements, said construction being within the boundaries of the City of Greenwood Village, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, subject to prior satisfactory final inspection and acceptance of said work by the City of Greenwood Village.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or subcontractors in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the contractor or subcontractors, at any time up to and including time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim to the City Manager, City of Greenwood Village, 6060 South Quebec Street, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111-4591, at or before the time and date hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement or claim at any time up to and including the time of final settlement will release said City of Greenwood Village, Colorado, its Council, officers, agents and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL ATTEST: CITY OF GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO /s/ Susan M. Ortiz /s/ George E. Lantz, City Clerk, Mayor Legal Notice No. 525262 FIRST PUBLICATION: June 3, 2021 SECOND PUBLICATION: June 10, 2021 PUBLISHED IN: Littleton Independent

Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No.: 2020CV032162 Division: 221 COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE Plaintiff: RIDGEVIEW EAGLE BEND OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: ROBERT LEVON RUSK; AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; THE OFFICE OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE Regarding: Lot 66, Block 5, Ridgeview Eagle Bend Subdivision Filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known and numbered as: 21999 E Jamison Pl, Aurora CO 80016 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice: You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Unit of Sheriff's Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 29th day of July 2021, at 13101 E. Broncos Pkwy, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number (720) 874-3845. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale. **BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. ** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. DATED in Colorado this 27th day of April, 2021.

Tyler S. Brown, Arapahoe County Sheriff By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF: ORTEN CAVANAGH & HOLMES, LLC 1445 Market Street, Suite 350 Denver, CO 80202 Legal Notice No. 525148 First Publication : June 3, 2021 Last Publication : July 1, 2021 Published In : Littleton Independent 750 W Hampden Ave, Suite 224 Englewood, CO 80110 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No.: 2020CV032093 Division: 402 COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY Plaintiff: DESIGN 45 HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: JESSE L. DAWSON; GARY KENNEDY; WESTERRA CREDIT UNION; THE OFFICE OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to an Order Granting

Motion for Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated March 30, 2021, and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq.,

by Design 45 Home Owners Association, Inc., the current holder of a lien recorded on June 8, 2020 at Rec. No. E0067186, in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Condominium Declaration of Nevin Village Green recorded on May 1, 1972 at Reception No. 4286816 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration and notices, as recorded, establish a lien for the benefit of Design 45 Home Owners Association, Inc., WHICH LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS. Regarding: Unit No. A, 15035 East Louisiana Drive, Aurora, Colorado Nevin Village Green Subdivision, Filing Number Five, Phase II, Part 1 according to the Condominium Map thereof filed in Book 41 at Page 12 and according to and subject to the Condominium Declaration recorded in Book 2268 at Page 700; Amendment thereto recorded in Book 2600 at Page 750 and Supplement thereto recorded September 7, 1979 in Book 3070 at Page 450, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known and numbered as: 15035 E Louisiana Dr A, Aurora CO 80012 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice: You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Unit of Sheriff's Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 29th day of July 2021, at 13101 E. Broncos Pkwy, Centennial, CO 80112; phone number 720-8743845. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale. **BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. ** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. DATED in Colorado this 27th day of April, 2021.

Tyler S. Brown Sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colorado

above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg. No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 80228-1011, 303.432.9999 Dated: April 27, 2021 Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No. 525151 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: July 1, 2021 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street, #100 Centennial, CO 80112 Plaintiff: AURORA HIGHLANDS SUBDIVISION HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation d/b/a AURORA HIGHLANDS VISTA HOA; Defendants: POLEENEE A. ELIJAH; CECILE ELIJAH; MIDFIRST BANK, INC.; ARAPAHOE COUNTY TREASURER; UNKNOWN TENANT(S) IN POSSESSION. Attorneys for Plaintiff: THE DUPONT LAW FIRM, LLC Stephane R. Dupont, #39425 Address: PO Box 1073, Castle Rock, CO 80104 Phone Number: (720) 644-6115 Case Number: 2021CV030477 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: Poleenee A. Elijah You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the Complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an Answer or other response.

You are required to file your Answer within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you.

Service of the Summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice.

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa Deputy Sheriff ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF: ORTEN CAVANAGH HOLMES & HUNT, LLC 1445 Market Street, Suite 350 Denver, CO 80202

This is an action for judicial foreclosure of an association assessment lien pursuant to C.R.S. 38-33.3-316, in and to real property situated in Arapahoe County, Colorado, more particularly described on Exhibit A, attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof.

Legal Notice No. 525150 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: July 1, 2021 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Dated: May 19, 2021 THE DUPONT LAW FIRM, LLC By: *s/ Stephane R. Dupont Stephane R. Dupont

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No.: 2020CV031628 Div: 402

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

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE PLAINTIFF: SOUTHPARK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION v.

DEFENDANTS: STEPHEN A. FLYNN, JR.; U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE C-BASS MORTGAGE LOAN ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-CB6; WINSTON FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLLP; STATE OF COLORADO, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; AURORA COLLECTION BUREAU; UNITED RESOURCE SYSTEMS INC.; and SUE SANDSTROM AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice: You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Unit of the Sheriff's Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10 O’clock A.M., on the 29th day of July, 2021, at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3845. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $12,333.97.

This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Court Order dated April 2, 2021 and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by Southpark Homeowners Association, the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on April 11, 2016 at Reception No. D6035960 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions recorded on 06/24/1981 at Reception Number 208028 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Southpark Homeowners Association against real property commonly known as 7703 S. Curtice Way #F, Littleton, CO 80120-8194 and legally described as: Regarding: Lot 7, Block 1, Southpark Subdivision, Filing No. 3, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.; The attorney representing the legal owner of the

Exhibit A Lot 19, Block 2, The Vista at Aurora Highlands Subdivision Filing No. 3, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known as: 17208 E. Florida Place, Aurora, CO 80017 Legal Notice No. 525240 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac St. Centennial, CO 80112 Plaintiff(s): THE VILLAS AT ASPEN RIDGE Defendant(s): SAMUEL MURRAY; AMERICAN PACIFIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS A NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN PACIFIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION; SUE SANDSTROM, ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE; AND OCCUPANT(S) Attorney for Plaintiff(s): Name: Richard W. Johnston, Esq. Address: Tobey & Johnston, P.C. 56 Inverness Drive East, Suite 103, Englewood, CO 80112 Phone Number: (303) 799-8600 Fax Number: (303) 799-6977 E-mail: rjohnston@tobeyjohnston.com Atty. Reg. #: 19823 Case Number: 21CV30630 SUMMONS THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO DEFENDANT(S) NAMED ABOVE: You are summoned and required to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint within twenty-one (21) days after this summons is served on you in the State of Colorado, or within thirty-five (35) days after this summons is served on you outside the State of Colorado, or within sixty-three (63) days after this summons is served upon the United States or one of its agencies.

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

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

The name, address, and business telephone number of each of the attorneys representing the holder of the evidence of debt are as follows:

DATE: April 5, 2021 TOBEY & JOHNSTON, P.C. By: /s/* Richard W. Johnston

Aaron J. Conrardy, #40030, Wadsworth Garber Warner Conrardy, P.C., 2580 West Main Street, Suite 200, Littleton, Colorado 80120, telephone: (303) 296-1999.

*Original signature on file at the office of Tobey & Johnston, P.C.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended.

A copy of the Complaint must be served with this Summons.

This form should not be used where service by publication is desired.

This Sheriff’s Notice of Sale is signed April 7, 2021.

WARNING: A VALID SUMMONS MAY BE ISSUED BY A LAWYER AND IT NEED NOT CONTAIN A COURT CASE NUMBER, THE SIGNATURE OF A COURT OFFICER, OR A COURT SEAL. THE PLAINTIFF HAS 14 DAYS FROM THE DATE THIS SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU TO FILE THE CASE WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING THE COURT TO FIND OUT WHETHER THE CASE HAS BEEN FILED AND OBTAIN THE CASE NUMBER. IF THE PLAINTIFF FILES THE CASE WITHIN THIS TIME, THEN YOU MUST RESPOND AS EXPLAINED IN THIS SUMMONS. IF THE PLAINTIFF FILES MORE THAN 14 DAYS AFTER THE DATE THE SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU, THE CASE MAY BE DISMISSED UPON MOTION AND YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO SEEK ATTORNEY’S FEES FROM THE PLAINITFF.

Legal Notice No. 525099 First Publication: May 13, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Amended and Adopted by the Court, En Banc, October 10, 2013, effective immediately Legal Notice No. 525209 First Publication: May 20, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 South Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 Petitioners: KEATON SKUDNESKI, PALMER SKUDNESKI, and LANDON SKUDNESKI, through STEPHEN T. WILSON, ESQ., as Special Conservator v.

Respondents: DAVID A. SKUDNESKI, TRUSTEE and DAVID A. SKUDNESKI, in his individual capacity Case Number: 2017PR30044 SHERIFF’S COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE Under a Judgment that entered July 10, 2019, nunc pro tunc January 17, 2019, and further awarded costs, attorney fees, and interest on and through September 13, 2019, I am selling certain real property, as follows: Original Judgment Creditor: KEATON SKUDNESKI, PALMER SKUDNESKI, and LANDON SKUDNESKI, through STEPHEN T. WILSON, ESQ., as Special Conservator, with rights to enforce granted to THE KEATON SKUDNESKI TRUST, THE PALMER SKUDNESKI TRUST, and THE LANDON SKUDNESKI TRUST Judgment Debtor: DAVID A. SKUDNESKI, TRUSTEE and DAVID A. SKUDNESKI, in his individual capacity Current Judgment Creditor: THE KEATON SKUDNESKI TRUST, THE PALMER SKUDNESKI TRUST, and THE LANDON SKUDNESKI TRUST Date of Judgment: July 10, 2019, nunc pro tunc January 17, 2019 Date of Recording of Judgment: October 3, 2019 County of Recording: Arapahoe County, Colorado Recording Information: Reception No. D9105299 Original Judgment Amount: $7,153,031.18 Ordered Judgment Amount: $8,749,898.52 Outstanding Principal Judgment Amount: $9,493,999.48 Legal description of property to be foreclosed: LOT 93, GLENMOOR OF CHERRY HILLS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Common description of property to be foreclosed: 93 Glenmoor Drive, Englewood, Colorado 80113 THE PROPERTY TO BE SOLD AND DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE JUDGMENT. THE INTEREST TO BE SOLD IS A LIFE ESTATE INTEREST OF DAVID A, SKUDNEKSI. THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The Judgment remains unsatisfied and judgment holder is enforcing its remedies under law including, without limitation, levy, execution, and sale of the property.

NOTICE OF SALE THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I will, at 10 o’clock A.M., on Thursday, July 8, 2021, in front of the flagpole at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Administration Building, located at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, Colorado 80112, phone number 720-874-3845, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash or certified funds sufficient to cover the bid, the said real property described above, and all interest of said Judgment Debtor and the heirs and assigns of said Judgment Debtor therein, for the purpose of paying the judgment amount entered herein, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. **BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. **

Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff, County of Arapahoe, Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, County of Arapahoe, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S Potomac St #100, Centennial, CO 80112 Plaintiff: COUNTRY HOMES ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: Masoud Moradi; Rok West, LLC; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.; WINPRO Diversified Income Fund, LLC; BDM Genetics, LLP n/k/a BDM Genetics, LLC; Kevin Good; CLPF KSA Grocery Portfolio Greenwood Village, LLC; Martin Dominic Karaba; Diva Lauren; Sue Sandstrom as the Arapahoe County Treasurer; and Sue Sandstrom as the Arapahoe County Public Trustee Attorneys for Plaintiff: MOELLER GRAF, P.C. K. Christian Webert, #43739 Bujar Ahmeti, #42373 David A. Parker, #35253 dparker@moellergraf.com 385 Inverness Parkway, Suite 200 Englewood, Colorado 80112 Office: (720) 279-2568 FAX: (720) 279-2569 Case No. 2020CV031818 Division/Ctrm.:21 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response.

You are required to file your answer or other response within thirty-five (35) days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action for judicial foreclosure under C.R.C.P. Rule 105 and damages seeking to foreclose a statutory lien on the following property: TRACT 20, PLAT OF RESUBDIVISION OF TRACTS 19 (PARTLY), 20, 21, 22, 23, COUNTRY HOMES, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. More commonly know as: 49 Sunset Drive, Englewood, CO 80113 Dated May 4, 2021 MOELLER GRAF, P.C. /s/ David A. Parker, #35253, Counsel Legal Notice No. 525184 First Publication: May 13, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Case No.: 2021CV30262 Division: COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Plaintiff: THE TIMBERS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION I, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation Defendant: JOHN SAFFER; AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION; COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY; SUE SANDSTROM, TREASURER, Arapahoe County Public Trustee TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: RE: Sheriff’s Sale of Real Property pursuant to ORDER ON VERIFIED MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT AND DECREE OF FORECLOSURE and §38-38-101 et seq., C.R.S. This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to the ORDER ON VERIFIED MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT AND DECREE OF FORECLOSURE issued by the Arapahoe County District Court case number 2021CV30262 captioned The Timbers Homeowners Association I, Inc. v. JOHN SAFFER; AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION; COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY; SUE SANDSTROM, TREASURER, Arapahoe County Public Trustee, dated March 25, 2021, and §38-38-101 et seq., C.R.S., by the Timbers Homeowners Association I, Inc., the current holder and owner of a statutory lien against the real property located in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Timbers recorded on April 15, 2015 at Reception #D5036758 which

establishes a lien for the benefit of The Timbers Homeowners Association I, Inc. (“Declaration”) WHICH LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS legally described as follows, to wit: Lot 108, Block 1, The Timbers Filing No. 1, TOGETHER WITH RIGHTS AND EASEMENTS APPURTENANT TO SUBJECT PROPERTY AS CREATED IN THOSE INSTRUMENTS RECORDED NOVEMBER 30, 1972 IN BOOK 2080 AT PAGE 276, DECEMBER 10, 1974 IN BOOK 2296 AT PAGE 169, APRIL 21, 1975 IN BOOK 2327 AT PAGE 174, AUGUST 19, 1975 IN BOOK 2364 AT PAGE 579 AND APRIL 27, 1977 IN BOOK 2579 AT PAGE 230, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado also known as 15195 E Jefferson Pl, Aurora CO 80014.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 a.m. on August 5, 2021 at 13101 E. Broncos Pkwy., Centennial, CO 80112. **BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. ** All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 720-874-3845. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above-described lien is: Tammy M. Alcock, Esq. Alcock Law Group, PC 19751 E Mainstreet, Suite 225 Parker, CO 80138 Dated: May 4, 2021 Tyler Brown, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No. 525180 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: July 8, 2021 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225, Englewood, Colorado 80110 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac St., Centennial, CO 80112 Case No.: 2021CV30521 Division: 21 Plaintiff: REDBUCK AT SORREL RANCH HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: JOANNA MADRID; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION; COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY; and the PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY Attorneys for Plaintiff MOELLER GRAF, P.C. Joshua S. Myers, #53309 jmyers@moellergraf.com Bujar Ahmeti, #42373 K. Christian Webert, #43739 385 Inverness Parkway, Suite 200 Englewood, Colorado 80112 Office: (720) 279-2568 FAX: (720) 279-2569 SUMMONS [BY PUBLICATION] TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: JOANNA MADRID. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of the court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within thirty-five (35) days after the completion of service of this summons upon you.

Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action for judicial foreclosure under C.R.C.P. Rule 105 and damages seeking to foreclose a statutory lien on the following property: CONDOMINIUM UNIT 15C, BUILDING 15, GARAGE 15C REDBUCK AT SORREL RANCH CONDOMINIUMS, SORREL RANCH SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED MARCH 23, 2004 AT RECEPTION NO. B4051428 AND AMENDED AND RESTATED NOVEMBER 23, 2004 AT RECEPTION NO. B4203688, AND AS DEFINED IN THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED FEBRUARY 22, 2005 AT RECEPTION NO. B5025090, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Dated May 17, 2021 MOELLER GRAF, P.C. /s/ Joshua S. Myers, #53309 Associate Attorney Legal Notice No. 525228 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Published in the Littleton Independent Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Case No.: 20CV031728 Division: 15 SALE NO. ACCIV2101875 Plaintiff: Spinnaker Run Condominium Association, Inc., a Colorado nonprofit corporation

v.

Defendants: Anthony Bailey; Stearns Bank National Association; Amerihome Mortgage Company LLC; and Public Trustee of the County of Arapahoe COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice: This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to an Order for Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure dated February 19, 2021 and §38-38-101 et seq., C.R.S.,

by Spinnaker Run Condominium Association, Inc., the current holder and owner of a statutory lien against the real property located in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, WHICH LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS legally described as follows, to wit: CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. 301, BUILDING 8, SPINNAKER RUN CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 1, 1980 IN BOOK 3164 AT PAGE 592 AND CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 1, 1980 IN BOOK 43 AT PAGE 56, OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as 12526 E. Cornell Ave. #301, Aurora, CO 80014-3337 The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10 o’clock a.m. on the 5th day of August, 2021, at the Sheriff’s Office Headquarters Building, 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, 720-874-3845. At the sale, the Sheriff will sell the real property described above, and the improvements thereon, to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 720-874-3845. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above-described lien is Gail R. Gudder. Attorney Registration Number 17820, Moeller Graf, P.C. 385 Inverness Parkway, Suite 200, Centennial, CO 80112 (720) 279-2568.

Date: April 27, 2021 Tyler S. Brown, Arapahoe County Sheriff County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

Legal Notice No. 525149 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: July 8, 2021 Published in: Littleton Independent 750 W Hampden Ave, Suite 225 Englewood, CO 80110

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Ellen Savage, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 30524 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before September 27, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ken L. Savage, Personal Representative Patrick A. Schilken, P.C. 7936 E. Arapahoe Court, No. 2800 Centennial, Colorado 80130 Legal Notice No. 525226 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Juan M. Casachagua, also known as Juan Manuel Casachagua, also known as Juan Casachagua, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30615 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 October 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kevin C. Huaman, Personal Representative 341 Wright St., #302 Lakewood, CO 80228 Legal Notice No. 525269 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jeanne Adelle Baty, aka Jeanne A. Baty, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30521 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before September 27, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 525229 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Chi Hung Chan, aka Hung Chi Chan, aka Hung Chan, Deceased Case Number: 21PR 154

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for the City of Centennial, Arapahoe County, Colorado, Case No. 20-08-0871P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community.

These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp , or call the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).

Legal Notice No. 525258-60182 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before September 27, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Helen Chan, Personal Representative 15535 W. Auburn Avenue Lakewood, Colorado 80228 Legal Notice No. 525230 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dorothy L. Harvey, aka Dorothy Lee Harvey aka Dorothy Harvey, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30540 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 October 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Teresa Gabaldon, Personal Representative c/o Walter M. Kelly II, Miller & Steiert, P.C. 1901 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, CO 80120 Legal Notice No. 525266 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joan Morava, aka Joan G. Morava, aka Joan B. Morava, aka Joan Gelsin Morave, aka Joan Belle Morava, aka Joan Shore, aka Joan B. Shore, Deceased Case Number: 21PR177

Notice to Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Garen H. Burkhardt, Deceased Case Number: 20PR31274 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Steven K. Noeth Co-Personal Representative 3725 W. Gailey Drive

Legal Notice No. 525254 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Cheryl L. Shane, Personal Representative 7936 E. Arapahoe Court, No. 2800 Centennial, Colorado 80130

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

Susan M. Galbaugh-Hallacy Co-Personal Representative 3300 W. Centennial Avenue Littleton, Colorado 80123

Tucson, AZ 85741

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gayle Nedra Lear, Personal Representative 2926 SW Fairmount Blvd.

Portland, OR 97239 Legal Notice No. 525279 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

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Public Notices NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Katie Caroline Zimmerman Maes, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR030482 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Bart C. Brown, Personal Representative Nicholas Klimas, Esq., #48658 Gendelman Klimas, Ltd. 1888 Sherman Street, Suite 200 Denver, CO 80203 720-213-0687 Nick@GendelmanKlimas.com Legal Notice No. 525253 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jacqueline Lynn Ward, aka Jacqueline L. Ward, aka Jacqueline Ward, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR15 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before September 27, 2021 or the claims may be forever barred. /s/ Maria Zalessky Maria Zalessky, #52405 Burnham Law Attorneys for Personal Representative 5990 Greenwood Plaza Blvd.

Bldg. 2 Suite 110 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 525243 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JUDITH ANNE LAMBERT, aka JUDITH A. LAMBERT, aka JUDITH LAMBERT, aka JUDY ANNE LAMBERT, aka JUDY A. LAMBERT, aka JUDY LAMBERT, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30457 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 27, 2021 or the claims may be forever barred.

Lester J. Lambert, Personal Representative c/o 3801 E. Florida Ave., Ste. 906 Denver, CO 80210 Legal Notice No. 525225 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Robert Cardenas, Deceased Case Number 2021 PR 30597 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Arapahoe County District Court on or before October 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Aida Kelley, Personal Representative c/o Chayet & Danzo LLC 650 South Cherry St., Suite 710 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No.525256 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sonja Shoemaker Tilliros, aka Sonja Shoemaker, aka Sonja L. Shoemaker Tilliros, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30549 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 October 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Connie L. Shoemaker c/o Walter M. Kelly II, Miller & Steiert, P.C. 1901 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, CO 80120 Legal Notice No. 525280 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Sarah Catherine Styles be changed to Serah Styles Koike Case No.: 21 C 100266 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 525241 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Jamie Aline Alberico be changed to Jamie Aline Indigo Case No.: 2021C100318

Public Notice

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of SUSAN A. QUINN, AKA SUSAN AMY QUINN, AND SUSAN QUINN, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30610

Public notice is given on May 14, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

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 October 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gerald H. Jaggers Attorney for Co-Personal Representative Roger C. Miller DiGiacomo, Jaggers, & Perko, LLP 5400 Ward Rd., Bldg. III, Ste. 200 Arvada, CO 80002 Legal Notice No. 525290 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

The petition requests that the name of Megan De La Rosa Blakeley be changed to Megan O’Connor De La Rosa Case No.: 21 C 100289 By: Magistrate, Kathleen Jaushi, Legal Notice No. 525249 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 18, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MARINUS C. LANDHUIS, a.k.a. MARINUS LANDHUIS, a.k.a. REM LANDHUIS, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30537, Division CLX All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court, Centennial, Colorado, on or before November 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

DALE LOREN LANDHUIS Personal Representative 7830 E. Cornell Avenue Denver, Colorado 80231 Telephone: 720-363-1116

The petition requests that the name of Donald Beckman be changed to Donald Gerard Beckman Case No.: 21 C 100274 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 525246 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 12, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Legal Notice No. 525274 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Stephanie Suzette Bentley be changed to Stephanie Suzette Salazar Case No.: 2021C100268

Name Changes

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Public Notice

Legal Notice No. 525265 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice is given on May 12, 2021, 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: Sandra Michelle Bucceri be changed to Sandy Michelle Bucceri Case Number: 2021C36442 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 2021, 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 Fertuna Girmay be changed to Fortuna Kalat Case No.: 21 C 100288

Legal Notice No.525245 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 28, 2021, 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 Dennis Wayne Graham-Kolb II be changed to Dennis Butterfield Kingsley Case No.: 2021 C 36802 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 525251 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 2021, 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 Michelle Marie Mina be changed to Michelle Marie Mina Munk Case No.: 2021 C 100314

Legal Notice No. 525271 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

By: Anne Marie Ollada County Court Judge

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 12, 2021, 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

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 24, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Legal Notice No. 525276 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Legal Notice No. 525270 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

By: ANNE MARIE OLLADA County Court Judge

Public notice is given on May 14, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Legal Notice No. 525264 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Zachary Robert Groseth- Harris be changed to Zachary Robert Harris Case No.: 21C100285

PUBLIC NOTICE

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Legal Notice No. 525233 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public notice is given on May 14, 2021, 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 Brandi Faye Farrell be changed to Brandi Faye Palmer Case No.: 21 CV 1113

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Public notice is given on May 18, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe Littleton County Court.

Legal Notice No. 525248 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Alexander Donald Pillischafske be changed to Dylan Alex Cook Case No.: 21 C 100222

PUBLIC NOTICE

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Legal Notice No. 525257 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public notice is given on May 28, 2021, 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 James Moses Kanady be changed to James Moses Case No.: 21C100328

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 12, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe-Littleton Court.

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 525272 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Christine Ivana Long be changed to Zef Odyssey Thorne Case No.: 21 C 100226

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Public notice is given on May 19, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Legal Notice No. 525232 First Publication: May 27, 2021 Last Publication: June 10, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Timothy Dennis Sheehan be changed to Denny Wayland Freestone Case No.: 21 C 100304

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 5, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 525277 First Publication: June 10, 2021 Last Publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Micah Marcel Scott be changed to Michah Marcel Zcott Case No.: 2021 C 100254

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Public Notice is given on April 22, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Legal Notice No. 525247 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The Petition requests that the name of Michael Finger be changed to Michael Corbisiero.

Case No.: 21C100219

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 20, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

By: Joan Lopez Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 525273 First publication: June 10, 2021 Last publication: June 24, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Thannya Dianna Quintero Dominguez be changed to Thannya Dianna Quintero Dominguez Case No.: 21 C 100293

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

By: Magistrate Kathleen Jaushi

Public notice is given on May 27, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Legal Notice No. 525263 First Publication: June 3, 2021 Last Publication: June 17, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Odeluga Dumebi Bella Duhu be changed to OD Duhu Case No.: 2021 C 100332

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By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

When government takes action, it uses local newspapers to notify you. Reading your public notices is the best way to find out what is happening in your community and how it affects you. If you don’t read public notices, you never know what you might miss.

Notices are meant to be noticed.

Read your public notices and get involved!

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