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Our in-depth look at the housing crisis

High home prices, lack of supply sever metro residents from communities

summer, he felt like he’d won the lottery. After more than a decade of chasing the cheapest rent across the metro area, the Littleton bartender nally has a house to call his own.

middle-income people live where they work. But as cities and towns contend with historically high home costs and a lack of supply, residents like Laney have struggled to live in their communities.

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Golden could move summertime downtown events in future years

City Council labels 2023 dates ‘sacrosanct’

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Downtown Golden is being “loved to death” in the summertime, and city o cials are wondering whether some events would be better o changing their locations or dates in 2024.

Nothing is set in stone; this is only the rst step of a long discussion process, they emphasized.

After hundreds of public comments at its Jan. 24 meeting, City Council concluded that the 2023 dates for downtown events in July and August are “sacrosanct.” Discussion mainly focused on Bu alo Bill Days, the Golden Farmers Market, ARTSWEEK GOLDEN, the Fourth of July celebration and the Golden Fine Arts Festival.

Event organizers said they’ve been planning their 2023 events since the day their 2022 events ended, and January would be too late to change expectations for their vendors, artists, volunteers and attendees.

City sta con rmed Jan. 25 that Golden’s moving forward on event permit applications for the summer, working with organizers to keep the usual dates and locations for 2023.

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When Chris Laney moved into his new three-bedroom home last

“I almost feel guilty that I have it,” said Laney, 49.

Laney is one of a handful of residents who have secured housing through a subsidized program aimed at helping lower- and

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“I’ve always felt like I was just passing through instead of living somewhere, putting down roots,” said Laney. He has worked

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However, as downtown Golden sees more summertime tourist trafc, the councilors believed moving these events to other locations or dates in 2024 could bene t every-

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Low- and middle-income people struggle to live where they work

one. ey directed sta to begin a thorough public input process with event organizers, participants, residents and other stakeholders.

Mayor Laura Weinberg wondered whether the growing crowds at these events are manageable or sustainable, and wanted to see more data on how many attendees they draw so the city and organizers can nd solutions.

“I think the discussion is for 2023, but with possible changes in 2024,” Weinberg said. “ … We love the event, but we’re loving it to death. How do we make it sustainable for future years? … We won’t know until we go through the process.”

Passionate public comments

e Jan. 24 meeting was standing room only, as more than 70 Goldenites packed the room in support of downtown’s summertime events. On top of dozens of emails to councilors and sta , about 40 people submitted in-person public comments over an hour-and-a-half period.

Representatives from the Golden Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, Foothills Art Center and Bu alo Bill Days stressed how important their events are to their organizations and the community. Changing the dates or locations for 2023 would be catastrophic, as vendors might back out and out-of-town volunteers would have to change their travel schedules.

“Planning these events is a yearround endeavor,” said Nola Krajewski of the Golden Chamber of Commerce, which hosts the farmers market and ne arts festival. “Being asked to move on short notice is setting us up for failure. … is is a conversation for 2024, not 2023.”

e chamber’s Lora Knowlton described the equation needed to host a successful event, and changing any of those factors could damage “a community tradition with a wellestablished reputation.” She said, when relocating events, organizers need at least a year to plan with the vendors and reeducate the public.

Bob Bush, president of Bu alo Bill Days, said he’s met people who travel from other states and plan their entire summer vacations around the festival.

“Please, please don’t destroy it, which is what I see happening,” he

continued.

Business owners said they see a spike in revenues during these events, and wanted to see their dates and locations stay the same.

“If the events are moved, it’s possible they’ll go away entirely,” Bu alo Rose owner Chris Cone said. “ ey’ll be greatly diminished if they’re rescheduled or relocated.”

Overall, most who spoke perceived city o cials as giving tourists, particularly tubers, preference over Golden’s traditions and small-town

atmosphere. e city’s changed too much in recent years, they said, and these events help make Golden what it is.

“ e heart of Golden is our traditions and our festivals,” the Lions Club’s Sondra Welsh said. “ … We helped build this community, and we want to be a part of it. Please don’t move or kill our favorite events.”

A clear (creek) issue

During public comment, several

community members asked city o cials to do more in managing those visiting Clear Creek. Parking is nearly impossible; sidewalks are crowded; intersections are impassable; and trash is everywhere. ey o ered possible solutions, like restricting access to the creek during festivals or restricting tubing to just those who’ve rented tubes from licensed out tters.

While it might seem easy to just restrict tubing access during big events, city o cials explained how Clear Creek is state-regulated water. us, there are very few times when Golden can limit access to the creek. e pandemic was one of them, but even then, Golden had to navigate the legal mine eld very carefully.

Residents also believed that tubers and others visiting the creek have little to no economic bene t, while the events clearly generate sales tax revenues for the city, both directly and indirectly.

However, Adventure West owners Elizabeth and Mitchell Battilla said tubing has more economic bene ts than most realize.

Peak tubing season is from midJuly through August, and people visit Golden seven days a week to tube.

Elizabeth Battilla said city data has con rmed that 70-80% of tubers spend money eating, drinking, shopping and lodging in Golden.

She also spoke in favor of events, saying they “can be married nicely with tubing.” She emphasized how both events and tubing bring diversity to Golden, particularly socioeconomic and racial diversity — something the community seems to value.

(Editor’s note: the Transcript will have more coverage on the city’s ideas for summertime creek management in the Feb. 9 edition)

The bigger picture

After the lengthy public comment period, the councilors stressed how, despite rumors on social media, the city hadn’t made any decisions yet. ey wondered if people didn’t understand the materials in the Jan. 24 meeting packet or how the city’s process works.

e Jan. 24 meeting packet included a memo stating, “Sta is looking for informal Council direction and recommends working with event organizers … to nd alternative days and/or locations to hold their events for 2023 and not allow any new events for weekends in that

Cash’d Out plays for the Bu alo Bill Days crowd July 30 in Parfet Park. Bu alo Bill Days is one of the summertime downtown events that city o cials are considering moving dates or locations in 2024.

Circus Foundry aerialist Nicholas Orndo , 16, performs at the Golden Mill July 13 for ARTSWEEK GOLDEN. The weeklong arts festival is one of the summertime downtown events that city o cials are considering moving dates or locations in 2024.

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location.”

Councilor Rob Reed understood how the memo generated concern in the community, but added how sta ’s job is “coming up with ideas to present to us.”

He and Weinberg said Golden is being “loved to death” during summer weekends, and the city must keep downtown safe and accessible for everyone. So, moving events’ dates or locations should at least be considered, o cials stated.

“I don’t think necessarily the time and location of them should be sacrosanct,” Councilor Casey Brown said of events in 2024 and beyond. “I think those should always be on the table. … We have

to control and manage change.”

Having events in July and August is just layering more visitors on top of an already crowded downtown, councilors stated, and most of the events were in other locations previously.

Weinberg pointed out how many of them have reached carrying capacity. e crowds have grown over the years, but the venues are the same size. So, it might be best to nd alternative locations where they can continue growing — locations with more parking and accessibility.

Ultimately, Councilor JJ Trout emphasized how o cials aren’t trying to get rid of events “because we want more tubers.” Instead, they’re trying to improve things along the creek corridor and throughout downtown to improve everyone’s quality of life.

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Inspired by an article in The Washington Post, I’m able to provide you with a simplified guide to the improvements you can make to your home that might earn you a tax credit or other benefit under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

If you are wealthy, some of those IRA benefits may not be available to you, so check with your tax advisor. Even if you don’t qualify for the tax credits or rebates, almost all of these investments will produce savings down the road as well as being “the right thing to do.”

Heat pumps to replace your HVAC system and water heater are the first and greatest improvement you can make. Unlike gas and resistance-based electric devices, heat pumps move heat, they don’t generate heat. And a heat pump HVAC system uses far less electricity that a baseboard or other electric HVAC system does. The IRA provides for up to $2,000 tax credit for heat pump purchases, with extra benefits for low- and medium-income homeowners. Although I haven’t used them myself, you might contact Sensible Heating and Cooling, 720-876-7166, www.sensibleheat.net, one of those rare HVAC vendors which will try to talk you into a heat pump system instead of a traditional system.

Many heat pump systems, including water heaters, are “hybrid,” meaning they have backup gas or electric resistance functions that kick in or can be activated when the heat pump can’t produce the needed heat.

For example, a water heater in heat pump mode has a slower recovery than in conventional electric mode, so if you have a big family (or a teenager) you may find that you run out of hot water quickly and it takes longer than you want to reheat the water in the tank.

A heat pump HVAC system will probably work just fine without backup so long as you don’t turn down the thermostat too much overnight. Our office is heated solely by heat pump, and we leave it on 70 degrees 24/7, and it’s still way more affordable than the gas forced air furnace it replaced.

Xcel Energy charges commercial customers about $50 just to have a gas meter before you burn any gas, which contributes greatly to making gas forced air more expensive than heat pump heating. Note: you need to have the gas meter

removed, not just stop using gas, to save that $50 per month. Even in a residential application where the monthly meter fee is less, I suggest that you focus on completely replacing natural gas appliances (including your fireplace and grill) so you can have the gas meter removed and save that facility charge plus other gas-related fees that has exploded of late.

Induction stoves to replace gas ranges not only save you money (including an $840 rebate if you qualify) but can improve you family’s health. Despite right-wing raging about this topic, it has been proven statistically that gas cooking has increased asthma cases in children and some adults. (I have a link to that study at www.GoldenREblog.com.) The rebate is available on non-induction electric stoves, but induction cooking costs less and is faster. You can dip your toe in this technology by buying a single countertop induction burner for $50 to $70, as I did. You’ll be amazed. On our blog, I also have a link to an article about how chefs have come to prefer induction cooking. As they say, “try it, you’ll like it!”

As an aside, unless and until you get rid of your gas cooktop, make a habit of turning on the exhaust fan (if it exhausts to the outside) when you are cooking to exhaust the carbon monoxide and other pollutants which gas cooking generates.

Electric cars that cost under $55,000 and trucks or SUVs under $80,000 that are assembled in North America qualify for a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 and a Colorado tax credit of $2,000 (without those federal restrictions, which include an income cap of $150,000 single or $300,000 filing jointly). Even the Tesla Model Y (the country’s most popular new EV) now costs less than the above price limits.

What’s new with the IRA is that you can get a federal tax credit of $4,000 or 30% of the purchase price (whichever is less) of a used EV that is at least 2 years old, has a purchase price under $25,000, and is purchased from a dealer. I have always advised that a used EV is your best buy, because a used EV is as good as a new EV since it has none of those components of a gas-powered car (such as transmission or engine) which may be about to fail. Google “used electric cars” and you’ll see many for sale by dealers. The IRA increased the tax credit on

solar panels to 30% for the next 10 years, and, given the steady reduction in the cost of solar over the past two decades, this investment is a no-brainer, assuming you have a roof that’s not shaded by trees. (Ground mounted PV is an option if you have a large unshaded backyard area.) Xcel Energy allows you to install panels with the ability to provide up to twice your last 12 months’ usage, which is great, because that could provide all the electricity you will need for a not-yet-purchased EV or not-yet-electrified heating system.

My advice is to purchase your solar photovoltaic system outright, not lease it or sign up for a “power purchase agreement.” When it comes to selling your house, anything other than a system that is owned complicates the sale. I’m a repeat customer of Golden Solar (303955-6332), but also like Buglet Solar (303-903-9119). What these companies have in common, and which I think is important, is that they are local familyowned businesses, which I much prefer over a national firm such a Tesla or Sunrun Solar.

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Buy a new washer and dryer! The new top-loading high-efficiency washers are the best, speaking from personal experience. The washer automatically reduces water consumption based on the size of the load; and a heat-pump electric dryer saves on electricity.

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Angel Mendez works at the loom in his uncle’s booth during the Golden Fine Arts Festival Aug. 20 in downtown Golden. The fine arts festival is one of the summertime downtown events that city o cials are considering moving dates or locations in 2024. FILE PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

Je co Commissioners approve rezoning for 353-unit development in Golden

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Je erson County Commissioners have unanimously approved the rezoning of ve plots of land in Golden that was needed to allow construction of a 353-unit, mixeduse development o South Golden Road to begin.

e site is being developed by Chicago-based company REVA — which has developed other sites in the metro area such as Avere on the High Line — east of the King Soopers on the northern side of South Golden Road.

e 14-acre site is expected to be split into two parts, said Matthew Nix, a managing partner of REVA, at the commissioners meeting on Jan. 24.

e northern portion of the site, closest to the neighborhood of single-family homes, will have residential including more single-family homes, duplexes and townhomes, with a maximum height of 40 feet.

e southern portion is expected to have an apartment complex with a max of 300 residents, 60 feet in height, and commercial space on the ground oor facing South Golden Road.

“It’s attainable housing, and it’s really o ering a broader array, broader spectrum of housing options,” Nix said in response to a commissioner’s

question about a ordability. He continued that they were aiming for 80% to 120% of area median income, with the median household income in Golden being $83,976 in 2021.   Dozens of residents spoke against the development at public comment in the meeting, citing issues with the height of the buildings, city infrastructure’s capability to host the extra tra c, the development not tting the “character” of the community and issues with there being renters in the community at all.

Astrid Makowitz spoke against the development in public comment, believing, “instead, I think commercial zoning with single-family homes helps attract the type of people we want in our community.”

Makowitz was not alone. Deborah Myer believed renters would come and go with no investment in the community.

Matt Birdy was the only resident to speak in any form of support for the project, speaking speci cally in defense of renters, citing the community garden he started in 2009 and how its current leader is a renter in Je erson County.

“In 15 years of running a community garden, everyone there is a renter,” Birdy said. “ ey’re homeowners, and renters in the community, but everyone in the garden is just a renter. ey can come and go, they could be gone next year, and they’re phenomenal members of our community.”

Other resident complaints were with the shadow potentially caused by the apartment building, which Development Review Supervisor for Je co Planning and Zoning Nick Nelson explained in the meeting would mainly fall upon itself.

Nelson continued that local public schools informed the county they would have excess capacity even if the rezoning was approved for the development and that the development is not proposing any deviations from zoning resolutions about light pollution.

One resident stated there was no enforcement for what the developers promised to do — such as utilizing plantings typical of wetlands to o set the wetland area displaced by the development. Nelson said that was false.

“If (the developers) come in for a site development plan with 354 dwelling units, we’re going to come back here and see you again because we have to rezone that property to allow 354 dwelling units instead of 353,” he said. “Anything that’s not listed in that o cial development plan, the applicants can’t do. at’s what they are held to.”

In terms of tra c, Christina Lane, senior transportation planner for Je co transportation and engineering, rebutted resident complaints that intersections were failing — calling it an “inaccurate statement” — and that tra c would become worse.

She explained that ways to mitigate the tra c had already been found through a tra c study “to make sure that the tra c can operate at an acceptable service.” Part of that mitigation includes adding more lanes to roundabouts on Ulysses, Quaker and Moss, with a roundabout being designed for the front of the site on South Golden Road as well.

Nelson also made the point that the next phase — site development — will include further research and more detailed studies, such as on the infrastructure to make sure the architecture in the site meets expectations from the county. It will include the re department checking if their trucks can make all turns in the site and reach all buildings, creating plans for the water district, checking drainage grading, and doing a more complex tra c analysis.

The current concept site plan for the development o South Golden Road in Golden by development company REVA. IMAGE COURTESY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY

Miracle twins: Golden couple have procedure to save their babies

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Zoey and Kenna Conley are typical 5-year-old twins: full of life, always busy and best friends.

ey are athletic, smart, and at times, they drive their older brother Beckham crazy. ey are excited to start kindergarten in the fall.

According to dad Tyler Conley, they are perfect.

But the twins’ lives didn’t start quite as perfectly. Tyler and Kendal Conley of Golden learned when Kendal was 17 weeks pregnant that the twins had the sometimesdeadly Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. is rare condition is only seen in identical twins who share a placenta where one fetus donates a signi cant portion of its uid and blood to the other fetus.

With specialized medical care and a successful in-utero surgery performed through the Colorado Fetal Care Center at Children’s Hospital Colorado, the twins are now happy, healthy and a handful for their parents.

Finding medical care

e Conleys were not overly surprised they were having twins, since twins run in both of their families.

By the time Kendal had a 12-week ultrasound, doctors were seeing things they didn’t like.

e couple went to the Colorado Fetal Care Center and met Dr. Henry Galan, a fetal surgeon and maternal fetal medicine specialist. He is one of few doctors in the nation who performs the in-utero surgery to reverse the syndrome.

e couple quickly learned about the syndrome, how it was negatively a ecting the babies and what the treatment options were. With inutero surgery, they also learned the chances of having one healthy baby was 95% and two healthy babies was 85%.

“Normally, there is a nice, stable blood ow between twins,” Galan explained. “With (the syndrome), that blood ow becomes imbalanced, and one baby is giving more blood to the other.”

Galan performed laser abla-

tion surgery to burn the tiny blood vessels to block them from communicating between the twins. Tyler said it took several hours for Galan and his sta to map the placenta and create a plan to x the issues. e surgery itself took less than three minutes.

Complete bedrest

Although the surgery was successful, both babies shared an amniotic sac, so at 19 weeks, Kendal was at home on complete bedrest; at 26 weeks, she went to Children’s Hospital to wait to deliver her babies; and at 30-1/2 weeks, she delivered two healthy babies — Zoey weighed 3.5 pounds and Kenna 4 pounds — on Jan. 4, 2018.

For Kendal, the hardest part was the time she was at home on bedrest

because she would go to the doctor once a week to look for two heartbeats.

“We were praying for two heartbeats,” Tyler said. “We were hoping the two were alive.”

e babies spent nine weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital, and the family came home close to the babies’ original due date.

Kendal said being in Children’s Hospital waiting to give birth gave her time to learn to knit, read books and walk the hallways.

“I was spoiled,” she said. “I made some great friends with the nurses and doctors. It was pretty special.”

Galan, who still stays in touch with the family, called the Conleys a remarkable couple.

“Super positive,” he said. “Mindset has a lot to do with it. ose kids are in nitely loved. It always does our hearts the best to see these kids growing up.”

His advice is for women to have ultrasounds early in their pregnancies to determine the number of fetuses and if there are twins, whether they are identical.

The twins today

Even though they were born nearly nine weeks early, the twins have no health issues, no learning issues and are the same as other 5-year-olds.

“ ey are alike in so many ways,” Tyler said. “ ey have the same likes and dislikes with food and clothes.”

Yet, the Conleys believe Kenna is destined to be a doctor or scientist.

variety of colors and is now being offered to the local market. Your home can be a showplace in your vicinity. We will make it worth your while if we can use your home.

Zoey, left, and Kenna Conley soon after they were born.

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Golden’s UllrGrass festival delivers on wintry namesake

Hundreds brave cold weather for weekend of beer, music

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Naming an outdoor festival in January after the Norse god of winter is bound to make Mother Nature raise an eyebrow.

Over the Jan. 27-29 weekend, hundreds braved the windy and snowy conditions to savor the beer and music at Golden’s UllrGrass festival. Temperatures were so cold on Jan. 29 that the festival moved into a heated tent.

On Jan. 28, hundreds turned out to Golden’s Parfet Park, with many donning Viking helmets and bushy beards. As the beer kept owing and the music kept playing throughout the afternoon, many attendees remained undeterred by the incoming cold front. If anything, maybe this weekend’s wintry weather helped the festival feel even more authentic.

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From left, Aaron Foley, Tyler McDonald and Scott Foley wear matching beards and Viking hats at UllrGrass on Jan.28.

Bri Witherow with Barrels & Bottles Brewery shows o her Viking costume complete with a horn to hold her beer tasting glass.

The Bill and Jilian Nershi Bluegrass Band play an hour and a half set of covers of The String Cheese Incident during UllrGrass Jan.28.

People in Golden enjoyed UllrGrass, a three day festival with music, craft beer and artisan booths over the weekend. PHOTOS BY SARA HERTWIG

The City of Wheat Ridge is recruiting residents wanting to be involved and participate in their government, by volunteering on the City’s Boards and Commissions. Applicants should live in the district for which they are applying. Applications from interested residents must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. February 12, 2023 to the City Clerk’s office at 7500 W. 29th Ave, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 or emailed to wrbnc@ci.wheatridge.co.us.

Applications for any position will be kept on file for one year. Term endings and or Openings are currently available on the following:

Board of Adjustment – District II, District III, District IV, and At Large. Meets on the 4th Thursdays at 7 p.m.

Building Code Advisory Board – District I and One AtLarge. Meets as needed on the 2nd Wednesdays at 9 a.m.

Cultural Commission – District I, District II, District III, and District IV. Meets on the 2nd Wednesdays at 6 p.m.

Liquor Licensing Authority Board –District IV (term to expire 3/2/24). Meets as needed on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 9 a.m.

Parks & Recreation Commission – District II, District III, and District IV Meets on 3rd Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.

Planning Commission –District II, and District IV. Meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 7 p.m.

Renewal Wheat Ridge (Urban Renewal Authority) –Alternates from any District (At Large) Meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 6 p.m. as needed.

Go to https://bit.ly/WRboardscommissions for detailed descriptions of the Boards and Commissions and to submit an online application. Printed applications can be mailed to City Hall Attn: S. Pomponio at 7500 W. 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge CO., 80033

For more information please visit https://www. ci.wheatridge.co.us/1127/Boards-Commissions. Please contact Administrative Assistant to Mayor and Council, Stephanie Pomponio at 303-235-2977 or Deputy City Clerk Robin Eaton at 303-235-2816.

Colorado DMV releases list of rejected personalized plates

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

SHIKAKA, VOTE and BULL are among some of the less “o ensive” personalized license plates that were rejected by the Colorado DMV last year.

“We love the creativity and personal pride Coloradoans take in picking their personalized plate,” DMV Senior Director Electra Bustle said in a statement. “While most personalized plates are approved, there are a small percentage that do not meet DMV standards and are rejected.”

Some of this percentage were warnings like “BACKTFU,” others profanity-laced skater sayings like “FIDLAR.” Multiple were political statements and others were highly sexual.

e rejections themselves are partly done automatically through the DMV’s internal systems, according to the statement. It compares the request to an “o ensive and omit list” built over time using American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators recommendations, “known o ensive words and

terms, as well as comparing what other states do not allow.”

According to DMV and Tax Communications Manager Derek Kuhn, the other part of the rejection process is through an internal committee.

A panel of three DMV sta members rotate reviewing plates agged as o ensive in what Kuhn described as a “blind, independent review.”

“Each committee member does their own research and votes blindly on the plates that they receive referrals for,” he said, with a twothirds majority required to approve or deny a plate. e sta ers look at similar resources as the automatic system, but also Urban Dictionary and Google Translate.

ere is an appeal process, but Kuhn said it is rarely used. It involves going to the Colorado Department of Revenue’s Hearings Division for them to make a determination. is past year though, only one person appealed, and Kuhn said the DMV worked to recon gure the plate before the hearing.

“In the end, the customer was happy and no hearing was held,” he said.

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exploratory,” Tyler said. “She’ll dump out a box of cereal just to see what happens.”

Zoey, on the other hand, is more Zen, her parents say. She is thoughtful, tenderhearted and empathetic.

e Halloween costumes the girls chose last year say it all about their personalities, Kendal said.

Kenna dressed as a devil, while Zoey dressed as an angel.

Miracle children

Looking at the twins now, the Conleys say they almost forget about

“Looking back, they are such miracles,” Tyler said. “It’s hard to believe

e Conleys are grateful they live in a city that has the specialized care that the Colorado Fetal Care Center could provide.

“We are blessed,” Tyler said. “We were able to get to the specialists without having to travel long distances. e care and the knowledge of the medical sta and their ability to perform the procedures were amazing.”

Kendal added: “We’re grateful we had such good care in our backyard.”

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The Conley family, parents Tyler and Kendal, brother Beckham and twins Zoey and Kenna.

Rent control could come to some Colorado cities

New bill being considered

BY ANDREW KENNEY COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers have signed onto a proposal that could bring rent control to some Colorado cities.

The legislation, titled HB-1115, was introduced in the state House recently.

“The rent is too high in Colorado, and that’s not just for essential service workers,” said state Rep. Javier Mabrey, a first-year Democrat lawmaker and a prime sponsor.

He’s cosponsoring the bill with state Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, also a first-year Democrat, and Democratic state Sen. Robert Rodriguez.

“This is not just a Denver problem, and so this is why I have cosponsors on this bill from the Western Slope and Colorado Springs and places Democrats haven’t won election in decades,” Mabrey said.

Currently, Colorado’s local governments are not allowed to pass laws that limit the cost of rent in privately owned housing. If the bill eventually passes, individual city councils would be allowed to pass rent control or rent stabilization laws.

In Colorado and 31 other states, rent control is banned

Rent control laws already exist in

some of the nation’s most populous — and expensive — cities, including New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Under those policies, the local government generally dictates that rents in certain

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buildings can increase by only a certain percentage per year.

Colorado is one of 32 states that currently prevent local governments from controlling rents, according to the National Multifamily Housing Coalition.

State lawmakers banned rent control in 1981, after an effort to implement rent control in Boulder, according to a University of Colorado Law Review article.

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Rent control is the subject of intense debate, with many economists arguing that the limits drive landlords out of the market and disrupt the housing supply, while supporters point to the direct benefits to renters who have faced astronomical cost increases, as well as the way that rising costs can destroy the social fabric of a neighborhood.

However, Polis is no fan of rent control, and some fear it can scare off developers

Even if it passes the legislature, the legislation would likely have to get support from Gov. Jared Polis, who has the power to veto bills.

Polis has not been supportive of rent control, previously forcing lawmakers to dump the idea of limiting rent at mobile home communities. Generally, Polis has pushed for a “supply-side” or market-based approach that focuses on building new housing.

In a statement, Polis’ office said he was “skeptical that rent control will create more housing stock, and locations with these policies often have the unintended consequences of higher rent.” The statement underlined that the “rent is too damned high” and added that the administration is “always open to seeing specific proposals and letting legislators know if they have any concern.”

The statement also pointed to the state’s recent “historic invest-

Drew Hamrick, a vice president for the Apartment Association of Metro Denver, similarly warned that rent control would scare off new construction and landlords. “Colorado’s prohibition against local governments enacting rent control ordinances for more than 50 years is both a recognition of the damage rent control can do to available housing and also an understanding that one local government’s housing policy negatively impacts neighboring communities,” Hamrick wrote.

Rent control has come up several times at the state legislature Mabrey, who helped found an organization to help tenants fight eviction, said he’d already heard from elected officials in large cities on the Front Range and beyond who want to implement rent control.

Rent control has come up several times at the legislature in recent years. In 2019, state Sen. Rodriguez was a co-sponsor of a similar measure to allow local rent control and stabilization. That bill did not make it out of the Senate, though Democrats already controlled both chambers.

This year, Democrats have larger majorities in both the Senate and House, and Mabrey argued that rising prices will put more pressure on politicians to act.

In 2021, lawmakers moved to give cities limited power over rent prices, although only in new construction. A law passed that year authorizes cities to require designated affordable units in new builds, as long as they offer other options to developers too.

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Let’s make some basketball magic in Golden

Basketball is, for lack of a better word, magical.

In February 2020, I wrote a column for the Clear Creek Courant, the Transcript’s sister paper, explaining why I believe basketball games are unlike any other sports experience.

e high school coaches and I outlined several ways basketball feels unique, with much of it examining the crowd’s impact on the game.

Whether it’s cheering so loudly that opposing players can’t hear their coaches or distracting them when they go to the free-throw line, there’s a reason the fans are sometimes called “the sixth man.”

Although I’ve seen all this rsthand across multiple teams at multiple venues, I admit most of my observations are based on my time at the University of Kansas. In Allen Fieldhouse, it seems like KU fans can conjure a W through sheer willpower. e 16,300-seat venue sells out every game, creating an environment so loud that opposing teams “feel the sound.”

I still remember where I stood on Feb. 25, 2012, when KU came back from a 19-point de cit to beat archrival Mizzou. ere was no sitting down and there was no holding back — we were going to yell, clap and stomp until our team won.

I guarantee that game would’ve turned out di erently in any other venue. Everyone in the crowd that day saw just how much the fans’ passion can impact the outcome.

I saw similar passion from the Jan. 27 home crowd at Colorado School of Mines, as the men’s team rallied a comeback against Fort Lewis. e crowd hollered and stomped when the Skyhawks were at the line, and the Oredigger faithful cheered for every home basket in that nal stretch.

And while Jan. 27’s 800-plus attendees is the team’s biggest crowd of the season, I’m hoping that statistic won’t last long.

February is a big month for the local basketball teams. Golden High School is hosting Senior Nights Feb. 6 and Feb. 10. en, the Mines teams celebrate their Senior Night Feb. 18.

If Jan. 27’s crowd was one of the best junior forward Riley Schroeder’s ever seen, imagine how much it’d mean to the Orediggers to see a sold-out Lockridge Arena, or for the Demons to play in a packed home

gym. So, I’m challenging my fellow Goldenites to pack the stands.

Bring family members, friends, classmates, church members, hiking buddies, neighbors and more. Let’s create amazing homecourt advantages for the local teams and send their seniors o in style.

I hope there are so many Demons at the Feb. 6 and Feb. 10 games, it’s standing-room only. I hope fans are so loud Feb. 18, the Orediggers feel like they’re headlining a rock concert. is month, I hope Goldenites create a basketball atmosphere so magical and momentous, it can only be captured by that classic Allen Fieldhouse phrase: “Pay heed.”

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Do you think there’s another sport where fans can have such a tangible impact? What’s your most memorable gameday experience? Should I write a follow-up column lobbying everyone to attend local baseball games? (I mean, you should. Just put all local Senior Day games on your calendars going forward.)

Join me for the next “Co ee with a Reporter” from 8-11 a.m. Feb. 9 at Bean Fosters. I’d love to get your general feedback on the Transcript, hear your story ideas, and/or shoot

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Monday, Feb. 6 – Senior Night for Golden High School boys team vs. archrival Wheat Ridge. Girls’ game starts at 5:30 p.m., and boys start at 7 p.m. The event’s the final day of the annual Jamie Wiggins Food Drive. Tickets are $5 for everyone, although students get in free with their activity passes.

Friday, Feb. 10 – Senior Night for the Golden High School girls basketball team vs. Conifer. Girls’ game starts at 5:30 p.m., and boys start at 7 p.m. The event is part of school’s annual Wish Week. Tickets are $5 for everyone, although students get in free with their activity passes.

Saturday, Feb. 18 – Colorado School of Mines’ Senior Night vs. Chadron State. Women’s game starts at 3:30 p.m. Men’s game starts at 6 p.m. Tickets for the evening are $10 for adults; $5 for seniors, children and military; and Mines students and sta are free with their Blaster cards.

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A Dyno-Mite bouldering competition ahead

As I was looking through some of the local upcoming events to write about, one caught my eye. It’s called Dyno-Mite. Now, that could be something about any number of things. A dyno is a thing you use to test car and motorcycle engine, there’s a BMX bicycle named a Dyno, it could be something to do with dinosaurs or even a Jimmy Walker impersonation contest. Remember the T.V. show Good Times? I had no idea what this was all about, so I checked it out.

Now, there are a lot of things I am pretty good at doing and a lot of activities I’ve participated in over the years, but one thing I know for sure that I have never done, and never been capable of doing, is climbing up a cli wall using just my hands and feet. Yes, I’ve done my share of mountaineering, but technical climbing was never on my agenda. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t admired and marveled at

the people who are able to do that. ere are loads of videos out there of people capable of hanging 1,000 feet o the ground by their ngertips and then swinging themselves up and over some kind of rock outcropping just to do it a dozen more times to get to the top of a mountain. It’s scarry and crazy and totally captivating all at the same time. People who can do that are totally amazing to me. I get nervous just walking around on my roof, OK?

When I was growing up, part of the mystery surrounding the whole thing was how someone can possibly learn to do that. I mean, learning to climb with ropes and gear is one thing, but how do you go from that to having the con dence to dangle from those

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heights and do the kind of maneuvers these people pull o ? As I got older, I learned that they started out on smaller rock formations and worked their way up to the big stu . ey also devote a great deal of time to strength exercises and tness workouts. Oh, and they tend to watch what they eat too. Weighing in at 250 lbs. is the kind of thing that drastically tips the scales in gravity’s favor, if you know what I mean. 50 years ago there weren’t that many people around who did that kind of thing, but the sport of rock climbing has gained a tremendous amount of popularity over the last 20 years. Part of that is due to the accessibility of training and the development of indoor climbing walls and gyms. Now, instead of a few fearless people attempting to gure it out by trial and error (it’s the error part that always stopped me dead in my tracks), it’s become an Olympic sport.

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So, what does all that have to do with Dyno-Mite? I have to confess, it took me a bit of research to gure that one out because here’s the description of the event:   “Warm up those legs and get ready to jump. Dyno-Mite features some of our most creative dynos of the year. ink paddle dynos, double dynos, pogos, the ol’ hippity skippity, and more. If you don’t know what any of that means, just come jump! is will be a modi ed redpoint competition featuring routes for all ages and abilities. Come try our showcase dyno problems to test your jumping, swinging, and coordination skills.” Yeah, that didn’t help me gure it out either. As it turns out, Dyno is short for Dynamic Movement, and that’s what they call all those skills it takes to get up various routes on a climbing wall or rock face. DynoMite is a competition happening

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Imbolc: the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox

Ilove February, primarily because it is my birthday month, though I chafe about how it got shortchanged in days. But given that it is often the coldest, most bone-chilling stretch of the year in the northern hemisphere, I do not mind cutting it short and rolling into March.  roughout the ancient world, the month of February was rich with tradition. Its name is derived from Februalia, which was the period set aside in ancient Rome for puri cation rituals. From that tradition, we have the celebration of the Puri cation of Mary, which came forty days after the Nativity in accordance with Mosaic Law, and the blessing of re — Candlemas — on Feb. 2.   ose sacred celebrations happily coincide with Imbolc, which marks the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox. For many in the pagan tradition, Imbolc marks the rst day of spring.

It is striking how two disparate ancient cultures, Greek and Celtic, both correlated the sun and poetry (a decidedly right-brain process) with the creative process. At Imbolc, the crone gives way to the maiden in anticipation of giving birth, and young Apollo, god of the lyre, poetry, and intellect, rides his chariot in increasingly higher arcs across the rmament.

In the Celtic tradition, the goddess Brighid, who morphed into

at one of Golden’s premier indoor climbing facilities called e Spot. Ah, now this is all starting to make sense, huh?

is all going to be happening Feb. 4 starting at 11:30 a.m. for the Youth Competition, followed by the Adult Competition beginning at 4 p.m. You can register as a competitor or just get a spectator’s admission ticket to hang out and watch the action. Tickets include access to the Climbing Competition, with a shot at $1,500 in prizes, one free meal from Wahoo’s, free beverages from Guayakí, Avery Brewing and Snowmelt, plus the rst 100 competitors get a free Cotopaxi

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Ireland’s Saint Brigid, is prominent at Imbolc, which is known as Saint Brigid’s Day. As with Apollo, she is the deity of poetry. She is also the goddess of smithcraft and healing, making her a goddess of creativity and energy restoration. And like Apollo, she is a solar deity.

On Mother Earth, little or nothing appears to be happening in terms of new life. But beneath her skin, roots are awakening, getting ready to grow and spread hair-like tentacles. Crocuses and tulips are awakening from hibernation. For those into gardening, this is the time for planting seeds in hothouses or solaria to incubate and then sprout as seedlings and mature su ciently in anticipation for their opportunity to bloom in the natural world.

Seeing that aspect of the natural cycle as a metaphor, February is the perfect time to re ect or meditate on what is happening underground in these northern climes and relate it to your ideas. Imbolc is an ideal time for imagining, a time to shake free of winter doldrums. Idea seeds lying dormant in your subconscious await to be brought into consciousness,

Mariveles du el bag and Members get three free ra e tickets for a chance at $3,000 in additional prizes. is gives you a great opportunity to check out the facility, see what they have to o er for classes and training while seeing the results in person. e Spot is located at 1391 Brickyard Road in Golden. For more information and to get tickets in advance, go to thespotgym. com. en go out and give it a try. Beats sitting around watching the snow melt.

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into the visible, vibrant world.  ose idea seeds might be oating as inclinations, urges and gut feelings or may be moving past what you have said or thought you always wanted to do but for one reason or another delayed or postponed acting on. Perhaps you might want to use this time to begin planning a trip, painting a canvas, or writing. Or planting a garden, literally or metaphorically. Imbolc is a perfect time to allow those nascent ideas to germinate so they can then grow and manifest themselves.

When one ventures past planning a trip to actually making the journey, occasional forays on side trips of some sort are requisite. ey provide an opportunity for individuals to take a time-out, separate themselves from their tribe and setting, and be alone with themselves.

I recall two friends who trekked in two di erent ways. One set out with a plan that did not unfold as intended. Instead, it became a grand adventure into self-learning. Consequently, he returned with a deeper understand-

ing and insight into himself and a clearer perspective about what to write about next. The other friend was quite sure about her reason for leaving. She simply felt the need to go. It took her out of her comfort zone, which is always a grand place to be, for that is where true learning and adventure takes place. The beauty is that both listened to and honored their inner selves. That is the spirit of Imbolc.

So do not dawdle until you see literal blossoms and green grass appearing. As the stock line goes, “Life is what happens when you’re planning.” Your task at Imbolc is to start on the underground, preparatory back work of future creations to ensure that when your project becomes truly visible to the world around you, it will appear with radiant and luscious beauty.

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Alden Simmons (1938-2023)

April 26, 1938 - January 2, 2023

Alden Simmons of Golden, Colo., an accomplished materials engineer, devoted hunter, eager angler, and avid country western swing dancer, died peacefully in his sleep at the Denver Lutheran Collier Hospice Center on Jan. 2, 2023. He was 84.

Simmons was born in York, Neb., to Chauncey and Lois Simmons, and was the fth generation of early Bradshaw pioneers Fred Schneringer, Alonzo C. Simmons, Nathaniel Simmons, Chauncey Palmer and Nathaniel Pope. After his parents honeymooned on Catalina Island in California in 1936, the family moved to Whittier in 1941.

Simmons was an accomplished Boy Scout, achieving his Eagle Scout certi cation in 1954. He attended the 1953 Boy Scout Jamboree in 1953, which drew 50,000 scouts from around the country to Newport, Calif. At the event, Simmons was the leader of his troop, and had the opportunity meet and serve breakfast to President Richard Nixon. He graduated from El Rancho High School in Pico-Rivera in 1956, and while there he focused on math and art, and played varsity basketball.

In 1961, Simmons graduated from the founding class of Harvey Mudd College with a degree in chemistry and a focus on uid mechanics. While at Harvey Mudd, Simmons played varsity football and basketball, and participated in student government and student court. After graduation, he served as an assistant director of development, working in fundraising and public relations from 1968-69.

In 1962, Simmons began a fouryear stint with North American Aviation, which supported multiple Apollo spacecraft missions. He was lead engineer with the non-metallics section, focusing on propellants and other uids.

In 1969, Simmons moved to Boulder, Colo., for a brief role with Ball Brothers Research, but he embraced the move as an opportunity to sh and hunt throughout the Rocky Mountains. In 1971, Simmons worked in Denver for Falcon Research and Development, a rm devoted to the creation of powered wheelchairs, controls and accessories for people with spinal cord injuries.

He joined the Coors Ceramics Company in November 1977, and worked there over two decades in a variety of marketing, sales and managerial roles. Over that span of time, he represented the company in sales in every region of the United States, as well as Europe, Japan and South Korea.

Simmons is survived by his life partner Kathy Hilfer (Golden, Colo.), his sisters Susie Jackson (Fullerton, Calif.) and Mary Crabb (Fountain Valley, Calif.); his daughter Jennifer Hobbs (Memphis, Tenn.); his son Drew Simmons (Waits eld, Vt.) and his wife Mary Simmons, and their grandchildren Grace (Bozeman, Mont.) and Sawyer (Ithaca, N.Y.).

Simmons will be buried at the Plain eld Cemetery in Bradshaw, Neb., near multiple generations of his family, and will be the fth generation of the pioneering family to be buried there. A date for a memorial service has not been set.

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The most vulnerable of the housing crisis The Long Way Home

BY MICHAEL DE YOANNA MICHAEL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Our monthlong series exploring the affordability and accessibility of housing in the Denver area takes a turn to one of the most perplexing issues facing our communities: the lives of those who have no homes. Point-in-time counts in Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties find 2,000 people living unsheltered and 3,000 in emergency shelters. Most of those people were found in Denver but many live in our communities and neighborhoods.

While panhandlers and tent cities are visible across the metro area, many of the unhoused are unseen and may not even be included in the numbers because they are sleeping on a friend’s couch or a family that’s living in a relative’s extra room. e federal government includes this status in its de nition of homelessness, along with those who are at imminent risk of losing a roof over their heads.

Homelessness has long

been a problem in the metro area and the soaring housing costs that we’ve tracked in our series certainly don’t help. Typically, a family shouldn’t spend more than 30% of their wages on rent and utilities.

Elsewhere in our series, we’ve found that many people across the metro area are living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to afford a place to live. Minimum wage earners might spend upward of 60% of their paychecks on rent.

Across the Front Range, rising housing costs are worsening the problem. In Littleton, south of Denver, the price of single-family homes has jumped roughly $300,000 since 2017. Lone Tree saw increases in excess of $473,000.

In Brighton, $225,000.

Apartment rents have followed in recent years, part of a trend spanning the last two decades where median prices rose faster than median household incomes “in every Colorado county and city with 50,000+ residents,” according to Denver-based Root Policy Research, which analyzes housing affordability issues.

at Jake’s Brew Bar in Littleton since 2012.

“ is is where I want to be,” Laney said. “My friends and family are Jake’s.”

In numerous counties, residents — spanning a range of employment from the service industry to teaching — have faced the brunt of what many o cials are calling a housing crisis.

e median price of a single-family home in the metro area has roughly tripled since 2010, according to an August 2022 report by the Colorado Association of Realtors. Back in 2010, the median price was about $200,000.

And wages have not kept up with home costs. Between 2000 and 2019, median rents rose at a faster rate than household incomes “in every Colorado county and city with 50,000+ residents,” according to a November 2021 report from Denver-based consulting rm Root Policy Research. e report also said that, as of June 2021, Colorado’s overall housing inventory was 13% of what is needed for a functioning sales market.

“Quite honestly, we just don’t have enough housing, whether it’s a ordable or otherwise,” said Kelly Milliman, city council member for Littleton’s District 4 and a member of the city’s housing task force. “It’s really vitally important to the overall health of our community going forward.”

Some of the most needy in our communities find homes through federal funding, like vouchers. But the system, reporter Nina Joss finds, is based on lotteries, where people in need of housing may wait for years before winning. Others wind up roughing it on the streets, as reporters Andrew Fraieli and Olivia Love discovered in an interview of a man who lost his legs sleeping under a highway bridge during a horrific snowstorm. There are consequences to it all, like how the mentally ill are especially vulnerable to homelessness and highly likely to find themselves in the criminal-justice system — meaning a record of police contacts for crimes connected to their situation, such as trespassing, becomes a barrier that prevents them from turning their lives around. There are costs associated with this to taxpayers, like those associated with providing more policing and beds in jails. Trends like those will be on the radar of Colorado Community Media’s newsroom in the months ahead.

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e sentiment is similar for leaders in the neighboring cities of Englewood and Sheridan. ere, o cials said a ordable home options used to be more common.

“For the people that can a ord it, they have lots of choices in the metro area,” said Brad Power,

Englewood’s director of community development. “But we’re starting to see more gaps with people who are on the other side of the income spectrum.”

Orchard Crossing Apartments in Westminster is an a ordable housing community that also includes housing for people with vouchers.

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Homelessness is a series of trapdoors and obstacles

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AND OLIVIA LOVE COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Jonathan Townshend Garner spent nine sleepless nights in 2017 covered in snow staring up at the bottom of a frozen overpass in Aurora. Just a few short months before, the 35-year-old was planning to purchase a condo with his girlfriend.

He never expected that a breakup would send him down a series of increasingly di cult trapdoors — without housing or insurance, each door became harder to climb through. Because of those cold nights in 2017, Garner even lost his legs.

What led Garner to homelessness is not unique. As homeless rates continue to climb in this country for people in many di erent situations, the causes can range from one lost paycheck to addiction or mental health issues with no money to support treatment.

In Garner’s case, he was in a stable housing situation that was reliant on two incomes. e loss of a girlfriend meant the loss of a second, necessary paycheck.

“I’m all of a sudden in a situation where I’ve lost half my income in regards to what’s going towards payments,” Garner said.

Homelessness a ects many types of people. It also comes in all forms from living on the streets to couch sur ng or sleeping in a car. Common among all situations that have forced someone into homelessness is the world around them not being designed to help.

According to HUD fair market rent data, rent for a studio apartment in the metro area has increased by more than $300 per month since 2019, but minimum wages have only increased by about $2.50 an hour — increasing the percent of wages needed to be put towards housing from 54 to almost 60%.

e National Low Income Housing Coalition — a nonpro t that aims to end the a ordable housing crisis through policy and data research — deems housing costing more than 30% of wages spent on rent and utilities as una ordable, placing workers at risk for homelessness.

is lack of a ordable housing acts doubly as a factor for becoming homeless and a barrier from escaping it.

Unable to deal with the breakup and loss of income, Garner said it triggered a dormant alcohol addiction.

“As soon as she left, I started drinking again too, which was probably one of the worst decisions that I made,” he said. “And I’m a hell of a drinker. It took me no time before I was drinking before work every day.”

His addiction became another trapdoor. He was evicted from his home as his costly addiction grew, losing his job within a few months, and he continued falling until he landed on the streets.

In 2017, he found himself buried by snowdrifts, numbed to the elements by frostbite and an empty bottle.

Over the next three and a half months, he was in an ICU burn unit,

where his legs were amputated for frostbite. What happened to land him there remains a blur, with Garner saying he was just lost in a blizzard of snow and substance abuse.

Garner had not looked for a shelter because he felt he deserved what he was experiencing on the street, his addiction giving him too much bluster to ask for help.

“And so when things have gotten so bad for me, I was like, ‘I guess that’s where you go when you’re at this place,’” Garner said.

But from Aurora to Lakewood, many who look for shelter have a hard time nding it — especially in winter.

The stick and carrot of winter shelter

“Police show up to tell you to leave, but don’t have an answer as to where we can go,” said Marshall Moody, who experienced homelessness in Lakewood over the summer.

He wasn’t hunting for winter shelter, but acknowledging how there were no shelter options in Lakewood, and describing how he felt harassed by police telling him to move along.

In Aurora, one of the only overnight shelter spaces is the Comitis Crisis Center.

“Comitis has, what, 30 beds? I’m sure there’s easily 200 homeless people in Aurora. Easily,” said Jason, 40, who declined to give his last name, pointing out the lack of shelter options.

Jason has been homeless since 2019, falling on hard times after breaking his back and not having the ability to a ord medical care.

Anna Miller, director of business development and public relations at Mile High Behavioral Healthcare — which Comitis Crisis Center falls under — has said before that the center has an outreach team that goes out every day working with the city and police department to inform people on the streets about avail-

able resources. e organization was supportive of Aurora’s camping ban passed last summer.

But like the ban, these opinions are from the summer.

During the winter, many more people experiencing homelessness look for indoor shelter due to low temperatures, snow, rain and windchills causing regular, local shelters to ll up fast.

is is where short-term emergency weather shelters come in.

For much of the metro area, the “extreme weather” needed to open these emergency shelters — which vary from the Severe Weather Shelter Network across Je erson County that uses a network of churches, to opening some day-only centers for overnight stays — requires the temperature to be freezing or below with moisture, and 20 degrees or below without moisture.

In Denver, the required cuto is 10 degrees or six inches of snow — though, according to Sabrina Allie, the communications and engagement director for the Department of Housing Stability — or HOST — in Denver, the city council has asked the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, which created the cuto , to revisit these regulations.

e issue is that cold-weather injuries like frostbite and hypothermia can set in as high as 45 degrees depending on wind and moisture. is is according to doctors from Denver Health and the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, which sent a joint letter to HOST and DDPHE asking the city to raise their cuto .

“Hypothermia and frostbite may develop in minutes and often occur in the setting of risk factors for heat loss or decreased heat production including pre-existing medical conditions, exhaustion, dehydration, substance use and malnutrition, all of which are common among people experiencing homelessness,” doctors

said in the letter.

Some see winter shelter as a carrotand-stick situation though, requiring the cuto to not be too comfortable for those experiencing homelessness.

“We do not want to enable, we want to empower,” said Lynn Ann Huizingh, executive director of development at Je erson County’s Severe Weather Shelter Network. “We do the best we can to provide some good relational development, but we also want to encourage people to pursue answers that would lead them o the street, and if they get too comfortable, they just don’t have any reason to try and pursue anything else.”

However, at all times, the goal is to keep people from freezing to death, Huizingh added.

Aurora’s policy, according to Emma Knight, manager of homelessness for the city’s Division of Housing and Community Services, is to open emergency cold-weather shelters at 32 degrees during wet weather, and 20 degrees otherwise.

In Garner’s case, freezing to death almost became a reality. Instead, he left the hospital as a double amputee — disabled, homeless, and penniless.

“And I wish I could have said that that was my rock bottom as well. But it wasn’t,” Garner said.

Police interactions and laws against homelessness

Over the next nine months, Garner continued drinking and using drugs while trying to condition himself to his surroundings.

“ ere isn’t a rock bottom, there isn’t some stable ground that you hit. It is a series of trapdoors that gets progressively lower on to in nity,” Garner said.

Some of these trapdoors take the shape of police interactions and the possibility of jail time due to criminalization of homelessness. In the summer of 2022, Aurora passed a camping ban, following in the footsteps of Denver, which passed a similar measure a decade ago.

“Can’t camp, but you have only one shelter in the city of Aurora,” Jason said, referring to the Comitis Crisis Center. “ e camping ban doesn’t mean we can’t be outside — that’s really the main point — the camping ban means we can’t be safe outside.”

Terese Howard, homeless advocate and founder of Housekeys Action Network Denver, said these bans just push people around, possibly into more dangerous and secluded areas if they don’t just move a block away from where they were before.

Police harassment often comes out of these laws as well, Howard said. O cers will tell people experiencing homelessness to “move along” without o ering alternatives, according to Howard.

Denver’s camping ban speci es “shelter” to include “blankets, or any form of cover or protection from the elements other than clothing.”

“ ere’s this illusion that you need this stick to connect people to services,” Howard said. “ at’s a lie, it doesn’t work. You can just look back

Jonathan Townshend Garner, 35, lost his legs to frostbite after spending days covered in snow while homeless.

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The di culties of using housing choice vouchers

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About a year and a half ago, David Hernandez received a call from a number he did not recognize. When he called the number back, he heard news that would drastically change his housing situation.

“I was confused,” he said. “At rst I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ She’s like, ‘You got chose (from the) lottery, so we’d like to go forward with it.’”

At the time, Hernandez was living with his grandmother in Westminster. But then, after spending years unmoored, moving between states and staying with family members, Hernandez got approved for a voucher for government-subsidized housing.

“When I got it, it was a big relief,” he said. “It was so much stress that was taken o my conscience … It was kind of lifesaving, to be honest.” e news was a complete surprise to him. What Hernandez didn’t know is that it took ve years for that call to come. His aunt had signed him up for a housing choice voucher lottery at Maiker Housing Partners, the public housing authority in Adams County, without telling him. anks to her action, his unknowing patience, and, some would say, his luck, Hernandez became one of 2.3 million families and individuals in the United States to bene t from a housing choice voucher program, federally funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD.

Formerly, housing choice voucher programs were known as Section 8, but experts have widely replaced this language in an e ort to be more accurate about the type of rental assistance and to avoid the stigma the term carries with it.

Housing choice voucher programs, which are implemented by local authorities like Maiker, subsidize rent to help “very low-income families, the elderly and the disabled a ord decent, safe and sanitary housing,” according to HUD.

On one hand, vouchers make it possible for those without other options to have a roof over their heads. But, according to housing experts, the program is not a fast-track to housing for many people in need, as it faces a range of issues from lack of funding to scarcity of units.

Eligibility

Within housing choice voucher programs, vouchers may be earmarked by local authorities for different types of rental assistance.

For example, some public housing authorities o er vouchers speci cally for veterans or for families whose lack of adequate housing is the primary cause of the separation of a child from their family.

Another type is what HUD calls “project-based” vouchers. ese o er rental assistance that can only be used for speci c properties approved by the public housing authority. is is the type of voucher Hernandez received.

Hernandez said the voucher

helped him nancially, emotionally, physically and mentally, but being tied to one apartment complex has its downfalls. If he could choose, he said, he would rather live in a place with di erent management. In his complex, he feels like he and his neighbors are treated poorly, partially because they have low incomes.

But the most common type of housing choice voucher allows a recipient to choose where they want to live among properties in the private market. A HUD senior o cial told Colorado Community Media in a call that after 12 months, participants in the project-based voucher program can typically request to have this type of voucher, which is more openended.

Properties for a typical housing choice voucher must meet standards of health and safety before a tenant can move forward with a lease. In addition, public housing authorities review rents to ensure they are reasonable for the speci c housing market, according to HUD.

Families with vouchers generally pay 30%-40% of their monthly adjusted gross income for rent and utilities, according to HUD. e public housing authority covers the rest.

In Colorado, landlords are required to accept housing choice vouchers and are not allowed to discriminate against rental applicants based on source of income, per a 2021 law.

e voucher approval process begins with an application, said Brenda Mascarenas, director of housing services and programs at Maiker.

“ e couple of things we look at under formal eligibility (are) background, income, and citizenship,” she said.

Generally, a household’s income may not exceed 50% of the median income for the county or metropolitan area. But most vouchers go to applicants with incomes much lower than that. By law, a public housing authority must provide three quarters of its vouchers to applicants whose incomes do not exceed 30%

of the area median income, according to HUD.

In Adams and Arapahoe counties, a single person who earned no more than $41,050 was eligible for a housing choice voucher in 2022, according to Maiker and South Metro Housing Options, a public housing authority in Littleton.

Wait times and lotteries

Unfortunately, the likelihood of getting a voucher is not solely dependent on whether a person is eligible.

Because of lack of funding for the program, HUD acknowledges “long waiting periods are common.” e o cial with HUD, speaking generally about the department, told Colorado Community Media that for households that receive a voucher, the average wait time is 28 months.

e o cial noted that this number only includes people who actually receive a voucher, so the true average wait time is likely signi cantly longer.

Some public housing authorities use a lottery system to select voucher recipients. At Maiker, Mascarenas said the team aims to open their lottery pool every other year, meaning applicants could wait up to two years if they are selected from the lottery their rst time. If not, they might wait through several cycles.

At South Metro Housing Options, the voucher waitlist was last open in 2012, Executive Director Corey Reitz said. ey anticipate it opening again this year, more than 11 years later.

ese long wait times are not unique. Only two housing agencies among the 50 largest in the U.S. have average wait times of under one year for families that make it o of wait lists for vouchers, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research and policy institute based in Washington, D.C.

To Hernandez’s bene t, he wasn’t aware he was waiting for his voucher. He said it would have been challenging to be in “limbo” for so long.

“If I would have known I’d have to wait ve years for that, I probably personally wouldn’t have done it,” he said.

Peter LiFari, executive director at Maiker,  attributes long waitlists at public housing authorities to lack of federal funding and a massive demand for housing vouchers.

“It’s a program designed to exist in scarcity, which is really disappointing,” he said. “I get emails every day, basically from folks (saying) ‘How do I sign up?’ and ‘I’m homeless and I’ve never asked for help before and I’m ready now,’ and it’s like, unfortunately we don’t we don’t have the vouchers to be able to meet the need.”

Because of limited funding for HUD, designated by Congress each year, only 1 in 4 households eligible for a housing voucher receive any federal rental assistance, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

e HUD o cial interviewed by CCM agreed that a main shortcoming of the program is that there are not enough vouchers. e o cial said rental assistance programs are an outlier compared to other federal safety net programs in that many people qualify but do not receive the support.

e o cial attributed the lack of funding to the fact that the voucher program was created in the 1970s, after other programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program were already underway.

Congress increased funding into the voucher program throughout the pandemic, but the funding generally went to special populations as opposed to the entire program, LiFari said. e American Rescue Plan Act, for example, provided 70,000 emergency vouchers to assist individuals in violent, dangerous or homeless situations. Mascarenas said Maiker received 46 vouchers from the funding.

Next to his kitchen, David Hernandez has a DJ setup where he likes to mix music for fun.

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at the last 10 years of Denver to see the reality of that lie. It’s meant, rst and foremost, to push people out of sight, out of mind.”

According to one national study from 2013, criminalization can create a cycle of incarceration that perpetuates itself.

Noting a loop of jail time and homelessness, the report says: “Incarceration has been noted to increase the risk of homelessness” as it can weaken community ties, limit employment opportunities and make it more di cult to get public housing.

“ is bidirectional association between homelessness and incarceration may result in a certain amount of cycling between public psychiatric hospitals, jails and prisons, and homeless shelters or the street,” the report concludes.

A homeless count across the metro area

Nationwide, at the start of every year, a count is taken to try and estimate the unsheltered homeless population.

At the same time, a count is made of people who have stayed in a participating shelter at some point across the country. ese counts are run by HUD through volunteering shelters and local governments.

In the 2022 point-in-time count across Je erson, Broom eld, Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas and Denver counties, there were nearly 2,000 people living unsheltered, and just over 3,000 in emergency shelters.

According to the data, most of the homeless population is in Denver.

HUD’s de nition of homelessness includes those who are in imminent risk of losing their housing. However, the annual report does not include that data or consider people who are couch sur ng, or temporarily living at a friend or family member’s home.

Jason had been working, but with a broken back, he could no longer work or a ord needed medical care.

Like Garner, Jason requires a wheelchair to get around, which creates another level of di culties for those experiencing homelessness.

The cost of a disability

One day in the spring of 2018, Garner’s wheelchair got caught in some weeds in a eld. He spent hours there, yelling for help, until a couple

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Last year, the Biden administration awarded more than 19,000 housing choice vouchers to more than 2,000 public housing authorities. Twentynine of the authorities are in Colorado, including agencies in Adams County, Je erson County, Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Englewood and Arvada.

But even with the extra funding, housing authority employees say it is challenging to keep up with the demand.

“One of the challenges with any … new sources of funding to support housing, it’s still administering the money and the funds and the vouchers,” said Reitz from South Metro. “So

happened upon him.

e couple befriended Garner, brought him some basic necessities, and got him into a detox facility. After a few stints, Garner has now been sober for more than four years.

“But the patience that these strangers showed me was something that was unbelievable to me,” Garner said. “I will never forget before they took me in the third time telling them: ‘Well, what if I just do this again? You know, what if I, what if you take me to this detox, you come pick me up, and I just start drinking again?’”

Garner said the couple told him they would keep trying. Services like detox are di cult to use for people with addictions and mental health issues, as they often have no support system to encourage them to go, as well as there often being little state support.

In 2019, a study showed that about 20% of all Americans were a ected by mental illness in the past year.

According to e National Coalition for Homelessness the general e ects of various mental illnesses “disrupt people’s ability to carry out essential aspects of daily life,” as well as make social bonds.

“ is often results in pushing away

we still need sta to do so. And we’re no di erent than most other agencies or industries right now in terms of sta ng, so that’s a challenge.”

e demand for vouchers in Adams County is higher than Mascarenas has ever seen.

“I’ve been with Maiker for 30 years and I’ve never seen the market in such a bad condition,” she said. “I’ve never seen the need grow so great.”

Maiker has about 1,625 housing choice vouchers to distribute in Adams County. In July 2022, the last time their lottery was open for applications, over 3,500 people applied.

“Even two-parent households are still nding it very di cult to make ends meet with two incomes coming into the home,” Mascarenas said.

She attributed part of the higher

caregivers, family, and friends who may be the force keeping that person from becoming homeless,” the report elaborated.

But the couple that helped Garner in that eld became his support, hosting him until they fell on hard times and divorced.

Eventually, Garner’s friend helped him get a studio apartment in Evergreen, helping to pay rent for the rst three months.

“So I stayed those rst three months and realized I didn’t want to leave,” Garner said.

Garner said without his friend helping with rst and last month’s rent and more in those rst three months, he wouldn’t have been able to a ord it. After the rst three months, Garner continued to stay in the apartment, getting help from friends. He got what he needed, he said, but it wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t how he wanted to live.

“I come from the salt of the earth, blue collar, working folk, you know, and really, at the bottom line, I’m just trying to work in any way I can,” he said. “All I’m trying to do is provide for myself.”

The housing and wage gap

Part of this di culty, especially in

Evergreen, is the gap between wages and housing costs.  is lack of a ordable housing acts doubly as a factor for becoming homeless and a barrier from escaping it.

Adam Galbraith works as a bartender at Cactus Jack’s in Evergreen. He said the only reason he can save money at all is because his 1,100-square-foot apartment has four people in it.

“If you’ve got roommates, that’s the only way you’re going to save money,” he said. It’s also the only reason he can live in Evergreen, along with his landlord keeping rent lower than it could be at $1,500, “so locals would rent it.” Others he knows have seen their landlord sell the property and give them two months to get out — he’s had it happen to himself twice.

Evergreen isn’t really the place to perform hip hop on the corner, but Garner had a background in performance and music — participating in rap battles and the underground scene in his younger years under his stage name, LaKryth. After practicing, studying and preparing, he took to the streets with his guitar, not in his

Jonathan Townshend Garner hosts an open mic night at Cactus Jack’s Saloon in Evergreen where he also performs.

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David Hernandez pays government-subsidized rent for his one-bedroom apartment, where he lives with his dog, Dojah.

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Devin Granberry, city manager for Sheridan, said higher home costs have driven workers out of what he described as a historically blue-collar area.

“It leads to a very transient pipeline of citizenry and workforce,” he said. “ ere’s no sense of belonging, there’s no sense of ownership, and all of those are negative impacts on a community, the well-being of a community.”

Searching for a home

After leaving the house he owned near Houston, Texas, more than a decade ago, Laney knew buying a home in Denver would be a near-impossible feat.

He was making good money at a medical diagnostics company and had been able to purchase a brandnew home in a Houston suburb for less than $150,000. But his mental health was su ering and he knew he needed a change. With friends living in Colorado at the time, Laney decided to move more than 1,000 miles north to Denver.

With his fresh start came the opportunity to dive into a longtime passion: wine. He took classes to become a sommelier — a trained wine professional. He sold wine to businesses across the metro area, worked parttime at a cozy wine bar and restaurant in the heart of Littleton’s historic downtown, and eventually landed a full-time job at Jake’s.

Laney settled on wherever he could nd the most a ordable apartment — something hovering around $1,000 per month, in places around Denver. e ones he found in Littleton were too run-down. As rents around the region rose, Laney moved ve times in six years.

“During this whole process I knew I wanted a house,” Laney said. “I wanted something that was my own, and it’s hard to build a home in an apartment, especially when you keep moving.”

Laney’s experiences came as Littleton residents expressed less con dence that their city was a ordable. From 2012 to 2022, residents who cited a ordable cost of living as a reason for living in Littleton declined

from 30% to 14%, according to biennial city-issued surveys of hundreds of residents. Over those same years, residents who said a ordable housing and rental rates were a reason for living in the city went from 20% to 9%.

Laney said he worked, saved and kept his spending habits to a minimum during those years, staying laser-focused on his ultimate prize. Credit-card debt from college “really destroyed a lot of opportunities,” he said, but he kept “working, working, working.”

Even though Laney estimates he was making about $48,000 yearly, he says he was far short of what he needed for a down payment on even the least expensive of homes in Littleton.

He wasn’t alone. A 2020 analysis from Denver-based contractor Root Policy showed that individuals who earned $29,000 to $95,000 yearly in the metro area could not a ord the average price of a home, which was nearly $420,000 that year.

“It’s a pretty serious situation,” said Corey Reitz, executive director of Littleton’s housing authority, South Metro Housing Options. “ e list of folks who can’t continue to live here continues to grow.”

at list, according to Root’s analysis, includes workers in health care, education, construction, food service and more.

Essential workers risk being priced out Sta ers at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood say the housing problem also a ects them. ey blame the shortage of essential hospital

“Absolutely the rising cost of housing here in Colorado is a topic,” said Dena Schmaedecke, the hospital’s vice president of human resources. “Colleagues are often bringing up those stresses.”

at housing-cost factor has caused hospital leaders to o er a $10,000 housing stipend to incentivize new employees, Schmaedecke said.

In Brighton, northeast of Denver, Michael Clow, chief human resources o cer for 27J Schools, said the cost of housing has impacted the district’s ability to maintain and support sta .

“We hear from candidates and from our new hires that the cost of housing and their ability to nd housing is a real problem,” Clow said. “ We recently had two math teachers (husband and wife) join us. ey were excited to live their dream and move to Colorado. After just one year and realizing they could not a ord to raise a family here, they moved back to their home state.”

Clow said the crisis has restricted the district’s pool of applicants graduating with teaching degrees, creating intense competition for sta and teachers.

“ e cost of housing is becoming a serious obstacle for us to maintain service levels and serve our mission,” he said.

Farther north, in Fort Lupton, the Weld R-8 School District has faced similar pressures. Superintendent Alan Kaylor said the annual salary for a rst-year teacher in the district is about $41,000.

Kaylor bought his home in 1995 for $72,000. He said a home across the street from his was recently listed at $685,000. e price of that house across the street rose more than four times faster than the pace of in ation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ in ation calculator.

“How can any family a ord that?” he asked. “Something has to give. After a while, you have to wonder how long people will tolerate living on teachers’ wages.”

Even for some residents making a larger income, housing remains elusive.

West of Denver, in Evergreen, husband and wife Bill and Charm Connelly bring in a combined six- gure salary.

Bill Connelly is an insurance agent and blackjack dealer for a Black Hawk casino. Charm is the front-house general manager for Cactus Jack’s, a bar and restaurant in Evergreen. e two rent a three-bedroom home and are struggling to save for a house. Even

downsizing to something smaller, they said, would likely increase their spending by roughly $400 a month. e two currently pay $2,200 per month on rent.

“I feel like a failure. I nally get a good full-time job making great money, and eight years ago, 10 years ago, we could easily have gotten something,” Bill Connelly said.

“Between the two of us, I see what we make,” Charm said. “We are making decent money, but I want to be able to save money and not blow it all on rent.”

For Adam Galbraith, a Cactus Jack’s bartender, the only way to keep his rent a ordable is to live with others.

“ e only reason I’m able to save money is because it’s a 1,100-squarefoot place and we crammed four people in it,” Galbraith said, adding monthly rent is about $1,500. “If you’ve got roommates, that’s the only way you’re going to save money.”

A housing ‘limbo’

Near the end of 2019, Laney, the Littleton bartender, was beginning to feel more con dent about reaching his goal for a down payment. He’d paid o his car and credit-card debt and said he “worked hard to keep it that way.”

His savings account was beginning to bulk up. en came COVID-19.

Years of careful saving and unyielding restraint on spending evaporated in months. Laney was forced to drain his savings account during the beginning of the pandemic amid lockdowns. He received nothing from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program, though he would gain $3,200 from stimulus checks in the months to come. Still, he was hanging on.

It was “the community around Jake’s, our regulars, who kept us alive,” Laney said.

“I was there every single day, for damn near a year,” he said, with the bar able to do curbside orders even as its indoors remained shuttered.

Before the pandemic, Laney estimates he brought in about $4,000 each month before taxes. By the end of the month, after paying for rent, utilities, groceries and gas, he would be left with just $200 to $300, which usually went into his savings.

Living that way was “terrifying,” said Laney, who always felt he could be on the edge of losing his housing should he have a bad month. e pandemic only exacerbated the uncertainty.

As his savings depleted, Laney’s dream of owning a home never

The view of Lone Tree homes from Blu s Regional Park and Trail on Oct. 21, 2022.

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seemed further away.

But his resolve didn’t waver and he used what federal relief he had to rebuild his savings because, as he put it, “I had a goal: I wanted a house. When I came out of the tunnel I knew what I wanted.”

By 2021, he started looking again. A townhome might come up on the market — far from perfect, but within Laney’s means — and he would ready himself to put down an o er. It never was enough.

“Someone comes in and puts 20k cash on the o er, or 30k or 40k,” Laney said. “I went through about a year and a half of that and I knew in my head I was not going to be able to get a house.”

A real-estate agent who came into his bar told Laney to apply for a $300,000 bank loan. He had good credit, the agent told him, and would be a shoo-in for the money.

“ ree hundred thousand dollars does not get you a townhome,” Laney thought to himself.

He was frustrated. More than frustrated. He felt depressed.

“I’d done everything right, everything I was supposed to do and it still didn’t matter,” he said. “I’m just stuck, like the hundreds of thousands of other people, in limbo.”

Laney’s luck began to turn near the end of 2021 when he heard there were about to be dozens of single-family homes for sale in Littleton for less than $300,000. He thought it was too good to be true.

‘We can’t all win the lottery’ at year, South Metro Housing Options, which manages a ordable properties throughout Littleton, sold 59 of its single-family homes to Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, which pledged to renovate the units and sell them at a below-market price.

Laney’s hourly wage had slightly increased since the pandemic from $8 to $10, though 90% of his income still came from tips, he said. Still, Laney believed he met the nancial requirements for a Habitat home, which would only sell to people who earn no more than 80% of the area’s median income.

But when Laney applied to be on a waitlist at the beginning of 2022, he was quickly denied. He was told his income, roughly $56,000 when he applied, exceeded the cap by less than $1,000.

Laney said he was actually making less than that, about $54,000, but because Habitat counted his “unrealized interest gains,” such as money held in stocks, Laney was over the threshold.  Habitat was also only looking at the income of recent months, Laney said, rather than his income over the past year. is made it look like he made more than he did because his monthto-month income would uctuate dramatically based on tips.

He applied again and was denied again, this time for making just $300 more than the cut-o . But, a slow month at work turned out to be a good thing. His income dipped just enough that by the third time he applied he made it on the waitlist.

at did not come with the guarantee of a home. Laney was in a line of people just like him and demand far

outweighed supply. Number 10 was his position. Who knew how many more were behind him, he thought. en it happened. Laney was made an o er, a 1,275-square-foot detached home near Ketring Park in central Littleton valued at $285,000, roughly a third of what similar properties sold for.

“I can’t even express how happy I was,” Laney said. “I’ve been living and serving this community for 10 years and I want to live here.”

Still, the program has some drawbacks compared to traditional homeownership. Laney cannot build as much equity as many of his neighbors because he does not own the property the home sits on. Instead, it is owned by something called a land trust — a collection of entities.

“ e beauty of the land trust is it removes the cost of the land from the equation from the cost of the home,” said Kate Hilberg, director of real estate development for Habitat for Humanity. “It allows the homeowners to pay on that mortgage for that home and improvements to that home but not the land.”

Land trusts are crucial tools organizations like Habitat use to lock in the a ordability of homes even as property values rise elsewhere. e owners of these units will see some equity from their homes, Hilberg said, about 2% each year. But it won’t be enough to match the likes of homeowners who have used their growing property values to build decades of generational wealth.

“A lot of families use this as a starter home option and they do gain enough equity and stability to turn that into a down payment on a home in the open

market,” Hilberg said of homes under land trusts.

But fathoming a concept like equity is a luxury for those who still can’t buy a house on the market, Laney said. While he’s thankful for what Habitat did for him, he fears the few dozen homes it manages in Littleton can only go so far to meet the demand of hundreds, if not thousands, of residents who have struggled as he has.  “ ere isn’t enough income-based housing for people … the people who live and work in this community can’t a ord a house,” Laney said. “We can’t all win the lottery.”

Colorado Community Reporters Andrew Fraieli, Steve Smith, Tayler Shaw and Ellis Arnold contributed reporting to this story.

wheelchair, but instead standing on prosthetic legs.

“I’m a pretty damn good musician, you know, and I can sing pretty damn good too, but I’m not going to pretend like I’m oblivious to the fact that my disability and my prosthetics aren’t a contributing factor to the response that I’ve made in the community,” Garner said.

After getting attention on social media, he began to book more gigs, participate in rap battles, and through participating in Colorado Community Media’s housing series panel discussion, met the owner of Cactus Jack’s Saloon, where he is now host of the weekly open-mic night.

He said he can’t work a job “on paper,” and he still faces struggles with his health and well-being. Garner has a roof over his head and food to eat. He says that’s all he can ask for.

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demand to the pandemic, which impacted many workers and families.

Another theory comes from Reitz, who said higher demand could be because salaries and wages have not kept up with rising housing costs.

Unit scarcity

In addition to the lack of funding, LiFari said the lack of physical housing supply is a detriment to the function of housing voucher program.

“We just don’t have enough units,” he said. “We don’t even have enough housing to support folks that are above the poverty line … because we just abandoned building for one another.”

e lack of units creates scar-

city in the housing market, LiFari said. With high demand, competition and rents increase across the region.

As a result, “lower-income Coloradans are left on the outside looking in,” he said.

“ e program can’t run unless there’s houses and units where people live, right?” he said. “So, without that, we’re just creating this ‘Hunger Games’ construct.”

After being chosen for a voucher, the competition begins. People have about two months to nd a home to rent and sign the lease. But that’s not enough time for many folks to nd homes and Maracenas elds many requests for extensions for as many as four more months.

Even with these extensions, LiFari said the highly competitive market presents a challenging dynamic for people to nd vacant units within the time frame. Part of this is because renters must be approved for leases by landlords and there are many barriers that can work against voucher holders – from the potential for discrimination to criminal records

Is it a solution?

In LiFari’s eyes, the housing choice voucher program “only exists as medicine for a misdiagnosed illness.”

Although it certainly makes a di erence in combating homelessness, he said American society and government need to focus more on the root of the problem.

“ e program is a function of how we value people and how we value where they live,” he said. “We refuse to address the root cause of the illness because then we have to view how we view poverty.”

For Hernandez, viewing poverty realistically is important.

“Believe me — a lot of people don’t want to be depending on the government,” Hernandez said. “But at the same time, they need (vouchers) because it’s crazy out there.”

Although the housing choice voucher program is not perfect, LiFari said it still makes an impact.

“We have no other way that reaches the scale and has the complexity to be able to address individual housing markets, to drive housing stability and stave o extreme poverty and homelessness than this program,” he said.

And on top of that, Hernandez said it makes an important di erence in people’s spirits.

“It’s good for people to get (themselves) on the right track,” he said. “It’s a good thing to get your sense of, you know, you’re involved in society, you’re part of something.”

Jonathan Townshend Garner describes the housing crisis as a series of trapdoors.

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Juvenile violent crime is rising

Researchers look for answers

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Violent crimes that land kids and teens in Colorado’s youth corrections system are on the rise, accounting for 41% of admissions in 2022.

From homicides, to sexual assaults, to robberies at gunpoint, the violent crimes committed by young people have risen sharply during the past ve years, a climb that has sociologists studying the consequences of a virtually connected but physically isolated society and the long-term e ects of the coronavirus pandemic.

e percentage of young people sent to a Division of Youth Services facility for a violent crime was 35% in 2021, climbing to 41% in 2022, according to the agency’s recently released annual report.

at includes 54 young people held in detention for felony homicide, 47 for attempted homicide and 40 for sexual assault last year.

“All across the state, the level of violence that we’re seeing among young people is increasing,” said Anders Jacobson, youth services director. “ at’s been a stark reality for us.”

e youth corrections system, which includes 15 state-operated, locked facilities, holds young people ages 10 to 21 either in detention — before their cases go to court — and after they are “committed” by a judge. Of the 176 children and teens who were committed to serve out a sentence last year, 71 were for violent crimes, including six murders and nine attempted murders.

e result is that the population in the state’s youth corrections system has grown increasingly more violent and more likely than in prior years to have committed a crime against a person, rather than property. is year, 43% of young people committed to the system were sent for violent crimes, compared with 31% three years ago.

e division in the past several years has moved toward pods, or living spaces, with fewer kids, and has improved its youth-to-sta ratio so

young people have more attention, Jacobson said. It’s also ramped up behavioral health services, including for young people who are held in detention before their sentence has been determined.

“We’re pretty well versed in dealing with these types of young people, but there are certainly times when there’s a lot of emotionally charged issues that can take place,” Jacobson said.

It’s reached the point that, occasionally, the murder victim of one of the young inmates is a loved one of another young person held in the facility, he said. “It could have been a brother. It could have been a sister. It could have been a friend,” he said. “We’re seeing a lot more of those situations.”

Still, violent incidents within youth facilities in the state have not spiked.

“ at’s something that we’re happy we’re seeing right now, but it’s a daily grind,” Jacobson said.

Nearly 80% of kids and teens committed to a Division of Youth Services center last year needed substance abuse treatment, according to the agency’s data. More than two-thirds of young people in the system need mental health treatment. e division’s behavioral health program, which includes two sessions of talk therapy per week for young people serving sentences, garnered national attention last year, winning a “program of the year” award from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care.

Since 2017, when the state legislature passed sweeping reforms and changed the name from Youth Corrections to Youth Services, the division has steadily reduced the use of physical restraint and solitary con nement. Repeat o enses also have dropped, with the one-year recidivism rate falling to 22% in 2020 compared with 41% in 2018. e rise in youth detention for violent crimes comes as overall juvenile arrests are declining in Colorado.

Crime rates, including among juveniles, hit records in Colorado and nationwide in the 1980s, then began dropping. In Colorado, the all-time high for juvenile arrests was 70,710 in 1997. By comparison, there were 19,442 juvenile arrests in 2018, according to the Colorado Department of Public Safety.

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record, based on crime rates, was 2010-2014, said David Pyrooz, a sociology professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. In the last several years, however, violent crime among young people has been climbing, and it isn’t due to the decisions made by police or prosecutors, he said.

“ ere is something that is taking place,” he said. “ ere is little doubt about that.”

Why violent crime is rising is harder to determine, considering researchers are still trying to understand the 50% reduction in crime rates that occurred nationally in the 1990s, the “criminological miracle,” Pyrooz said.

Now, sociologists are looking at how teenage behaviors — including spending more time at home alone, yet connected via social media and video games — might a ect violent crime rates. In the past, violent crime was often linked to groups of young people hanging out unsupervised in parks or street corners, Pyrooz said.

Researchers are also just beginning to examine the pandemic’s e ect on youth crime, which could have repercussions for years to come, he said. Kids who stopped going to after-school activities and sports during the isolation of the

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Colorado may end age-discriminating work question

How old are you?

BY TAMARA CHUANG THE COLORADO SUN

Asking someone their age is considered impolite. But asking a job candidate? That’s perfectly legal.

A bill at the state legislature would change that, at least in Colorado, and prohibit companies from fishing around for an age by asking about high school or college graduation dates. Older job candidates never know if that little number got in the way of a callback so this proposal would eliminate that doubt.

“In order to combat that kind of age discrimination in the hiring process, we mean to eliminate any age-identifying items in the job application process,” said state Sen. Jessie Danielson, a Democrat from Wheat Ridge who is the prime sponsor of the bill. “That way, older Coloradans are being judged on their merit equal to their younger counterparts when they’re trying to get a new job.”

Senate Bill 58, also known as the Job Application Fairness Act, is straightforward: remove any part of a job application asking about age. There are exceptions, including occupations with age limits — commercial pilots, for example, must be under 65, per federal law. The bill joins others introduced in

recent years attempting to address workplace equity for Coloradans of all genders, backgrounds and abilities. It also comes at a time when the state really needs more workers and adults nearing retirement age or beyond it are seen as an underutilized workforce. In a job survey conducted by

AARP last year, 53% of respondents who were recent job seekers said they were asked by an employer to provide their birth date during the application or interview process, while 47% were asked for a graduation date.

“Of course you can guesstimate how old someone is if they graduated in 1987 from high school,” said Bill Rivera, senior vice president of AARP Foundation Litigation. “It’s unfortunate that age discrimination still seems so alive and well. And frankly, I think people don’t get that upset about it.”

He pointed to electronic hiring systems that ask for dates — and don’t let the applicant move forward if the question is not answered. “And think about the people who are dissuaded from applying in the first place,” he said.

Sometimes, the companies don’t even ask. Amazon, T-Mobile and other tech companies were accused in 2017 of using Facebook’s targeting tools to target 18 to 38 year olds for job openings and thereby excluded older Americans, according to the lawsuit by Communications Workers of America. The companies ended up settling and Facebook paid $5 million and agreed to block discriminatory ads.

“Ageism often is still one of the last acceptable bastions of isms,” Rivera said. “And so in the workplace, you will get a greater tolerance for jokes about aging, when you are going to retire or people having ‘senior’ moments or other things that you wouldn’t tolerate … if you were making racial, ethnic or misogynist jokes.”

Age discrimination enforcement is reactive

There is no telling how much age discrimination at work goes on in America. A lot is anecdotal. But there is a federal law protect-

ing workers 40 and older. It’s the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. ADEA doesn’t prohibit asking job seekers their age.

Some of the cases made public were eye-popping. An HR director at Swiss manufacturer Fischer Connectors in Atlanta witnessed the company “repeatedly turning down qualified older employees in favor of less qualified, younger employees.” She was fired when she questioned the actions and refused to participate and was replaced by two younger workers, according to the EEOC.

Last May, the EEOC sued iTutorGroup, an service providing online English-language tutoring to students in China, alleging that the company programmed its recruitment software to automatically reject female applicants 55 or older and male applicants 60 and over. More than 200 qualified applicants were rejected because of their age, according to the EEOC. The EEOC investigated after hearing from a female applicant over 55. She was rejected. But a day later, she submitted the same application with a “more recent date of birth” and was offered an interview, the lawsuit said.

Justin Plaskov, a Denver attorney at Colorado Employee Advocates who represents workers in discrimination cases, said the employment discrimination data is underreported because not everyone reports it.

“There’s a lot of discrimination happening but the burden to prove a discrimination case is incredibly high,” Plaskov said. “I see cases all the time where it seems like there’s discrimination happening. But because of a lack of economic damages, or a lack of corroborating evidence, it’s not a case we’d be able to take on. But yeah, I absolutely think it’s still incredibly prevalent in our workplaces.”

Plaskov, who helped the EEOC successfully win a $20.5 million award against Jackson National Life Insurance Company for discriminating against 21 workers in 2020, said he turns away more than 90% of the inquiries he receives. But he theorized that the EEOC numbers may be low and declining because states are more active. He said the Colorado Civil Rights Division is faster at investigating cases and much more robust.

According to the latest CCRD annual report, the agency, which is responsible for enforcing the state’s anti-discrimination laws for employment and housing, 11% of the 1,090 employment-related complaints filed in fiscal year 2021 were about age. Disability and discrimination based on sex were much higher, at 23% and 21% respectively.

But ultimately, it’s up to the person who faced discrimination to report it and that’s why it’s hard to know exactly how prevalent age discrimination actually is.

Weather and gas prices causing higher utility bills

BY JOSHUA PERRY AND MARK JAFFE THE COLORADO SUN

The spiking energy bills affecting many Coloradans are caused by colder weather and higher gas prices — factors over which neither regulators nor utilities have control, the Colorado Public Utility Commission reported Wednesday.

Xcel Energy utility bills were on average 52%, or $87, higher in December than they were a year earlier, although some consumers saw their bills double, PUC Chief Economist Erin O’Neill told commissioners in a briefing.

Commissioner John Gavan said he was struck by the magnitude of the costs and the financial pressure they are exerting on Coloradans.

“I can’t remember seeing this level of pain in the consumer community since the 1970s and the gas crisis, which I’m old enough to remember,” he said. “So I take this very seriously.”

The rising utility bills follow the approval by the commission of six electricity and gas rate hikes, several allowing for increases due to rising natural gas prices, that have spurred a near-record number of low-income consumers to seek financial aid to pay their bills.

The state-run Low-income Energy Assistance Plan has received nearly 90,000 requests for bill relief, as of Tuesday, compared with 80,000 for the same period last winter, and has issued $25 million in payments. Energy Outreach Colorado, a nonprofit that helps people with their bills, received 44,000 calls to its HEAT helpline in January.

“This is an unprecedented number,” said Denise Stepto, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit. “Is it sustainable from month to month? There is a lot of pressure to do something.”

The average temperature in December was about 10 degrees colder than it was in December 2021, O’Neill said, and that means more energy was being consumed to keep homes warm. Additionally, commodity prices for natural gas have increased substantially — 40% higher than last year — which is a cost that utility companies pass directly to consumers. Smart meters, recent investments in solar

and wind energy, and time-of-use rates for electricity customers are not significantly impacting bill hikes, O’Neill said.

“We share the commission’s concerns and appreciate their efforts to provide greater insight into the causes of higher costs,” Xcel Energy said in a statement. The company said it is adding more low-cost renewable energy and securing competitively priced fuel contracts.

Natural gas continues to be the most reliable and affordable source to heat its customers’ homes each winter, Xcel also said. The company is the largest utility provider in Colorado with 1.5 million electric customers and 1.6 million gas customers.

The price of natural gas for delivery in February has dropped 26% between December and January, to 56 cents a therm, so February bills may be lower, Commissioner Megan Gilman said. But even if the bill crisis is resolved in the short term, there’s a systemic problem. The market for natural gas is unregulated, Gilman said, and fuel price spikes and severe weather events will continue to make prices

and rates volatile.

“What we thought were the extremes before February 2021 are not the extremes anymore,” she said.

Addressing the overarching problem is not simple. Price hikes could be spread over time — Xcel Energy is doing this over 30 months with $500 million in gas charges from 2021’s Winter Storm Uri. But that could lead to future price spikes “pancaking” on top of each other, Gilman said. The commission needs to think in the long term, she said.

While the base rates only accounted for 16% of the December increase, both Gilman and Commission Chairman Eric Blank said that the commission should focus on those rates — which they must approve. Blank said the doubling of gas base rates since 2011 didn’t significantly impact consumers when gas prices were low.

“Now the combination of higher commodity prices and the doubling of base rates really puts us in a different world and creates much more affordability pressure,” Blank said.

More attention should be paid to what investments utilities make before the companies come to the commission to add them to the rates customers pay.

Another concern that commissioners expressed is Xcel Energy’s lack of incentive. Blank said there ought to be an alignment of inter-

ests between the company and its customers.

“When customers lose, utilities should share some of the pain,” he said.

Gilman said that the mechanism that just passes the cost of natural gas, high or low, on to consumers is also a problem.

“Since it’s a direct pass-through, they do not have an incentive to get you more expensive gas,” Gilman said. “They also don’t have an obvious economic incentive to get the cheapest gas they can. So we need to ensure that they have some skin in the game.”

While 60% of the bill increase was driven by factors the commission can’t control — gas rates and weather — PUC can still have an impact, according to Cindy Schonhaut, director of the Colorado Office of the Utility Consumer Advocate.

“What they can focus on,” she said, “is the 40% of bills beyond the fuel charges,” such as base rates, fixed-use charges and add-ons for specific projects, like pipeline safety.

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“Both the state and federal government rely on individuals filing charges to alert them,” Plaskov said. “That’s the system we have set up.”

Colorado needs more workers

One of the highlights of Colorado’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is that people have returned to work or the job hunt at higher rates than other states. Colorado has ranked among the top states nationwide for highest rates of labor force participation. In other words, 69% of Coloradans over 16 work or are looking for work, as of December. Other states have larger adult populations that are retired or on disability and aren’t looking for a job.

But Colorado’s population is getting older. And if people in their 50s, 60s, 70s and older give up on finding work and retire, that will eat into the state’s productivity and cause a cascading economic effect, said Elizabeth Garner, the Colorado state demographer.

“We’ve just been such a young state. We’ve never had a lot of people over the age of 65. And (that age population) is just growing really fast,” Garner said. “The decade we’re in right now, the fastest growth is in the 75 to 84 year olds. And that has an even

lower labor force participation rate than the 65 to 74 year olds.”

Many people also plan to work longer anyway, partly because the toll of labor hasn’t been as harsh on their bodies as it was centuries ago. Some plan to work longer because they haven’t saved enough for retirement. The important point here is that Colorado needs all the workers it can get, she said.

“When a 50-something worker leaves the labor force, it’s much harder to get back in again. So trying to keep the 50-somethings in and then trying to keep the 60-somethings in is really important across the spectrum,” Garner said. “The more workers, the better.”

Danielson has worked to pass several laws promoting equity for women, people of color and a more diverse workforce. She was a prime sponsor for the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, to narrow the gender wage gap. It went into effect in 2021 and required job postings open to Coloradans to list actual wages. Colorado’s law inspired similar pay-transparency laws in other states. Removing any request for age, birth date or high school graduation date in a job application is just another step forward.

“People are reluctant to hire older workers even though they’re some of the most valuable members of the workforce, as they have the most experience,” Danielson added.

The Democrat hasn’t heard

any pushback for her Job Application Fairness bill, which has no Republican sponsors. Tony Gagliardi, state director of smallbusiness advocacy group NFIB Colorado, is still researching the bill but questioned whether it was necessary. “My members still are desperately looking for employees and they’re going to do everything they can to hire a worker,” he said.

While it’s legal to ask job applicants their age, Heather TinsleyFix, AARP’s senior advisor for employer engagement, called it risky “because it opens the employer up to the possibility of appearing to make decisions on the basis of age and to be vulnerable to age discrimination lawsuits.”

AARP Colorado supports the bill.

A similar bill in Connecticut had bipartisan support and passed unanimously in 2021 to block employers from asking prospective employees about birth dates and graduation dates. Four other states — California, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — also have laws that ban age questions during the hiring process, according to AARP.

The proposed Colorado law would just close a loophole, said Andrea Kuwik, senior policy analyst with Bell Policy Center, an organization that advocates to improve the economic conditions for Coloradans. Bell Policy worked with Danielson on the bill.

The other lead sponsors of the

legislation are Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, a Boulder County Democrat, and Democratic Reps. Jenny Willford of Northglenn and Mary Young of Greeley.

“This is not about creating a new protected category,” Kuwik said. “We’re just trying to close a loophole and I think that’s one of the things that helped make it bipartisan.”

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Peak winter brings top entertainment

Once every couple months, I get completely bowled over by how much there is to do in the metro area and have to dedicate a column to celebrating the wonderful variety we all have in our backyards. Don’t let the snow and cold weather fool you — there’s all kinds of options at this time of year.

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Clarke’s Concert of the Week — The Lone Bellow at the Ogden Theatre Brooklyn’s e Lone Bellow make the kind of folk rock you can really wrap yourself up in and use to get lost. Over the course of their ve albums, they’ve explored a sonic and lyrical landscape that is at times wry, but always deeply thought out and felt. e hilariously titled “Love Songs for Losers,” was released toward the end of 2022 and continued this trend, with songs like “Cost of Living” are among their strongest songs yet.

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pandemic, perhaps as fourth or fth graders, might not have returned to those sports, meaning they will miss out on those activities

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In support of their album, e Lone Bellow are playing the Ogden eatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver, at 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3. is will be a great pre-Valentine’s Day show, so get tickets at www.axs.com.

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Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with The Nathan Yip Foundation

It’s always great when you can have a fun time and learn something at the same time. at’s always been the case with e Nathan Yip Foundation’s lunar New Year Party, which will be hosted at the Grand Hyatt in Denver, 1750 Welton St., from 5 to 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 4. e celebration of the Year of the Rabbit will include a Chino-Latino theme. According to provided information, “the evening will feature world-class performers includ-

as middle and high school students, when they are more likely to get involved in criminal activity. e keys to keeping kids out of trouble are community support systems, including within families, schools and churches, Pyrooz said. “ ose are the things that really matter,” he said. “If those institu-

ing lion dancers, a palm reader, a Chinese calligrapher, the Colorado Mambo Orchestra and an authentic and interactive Chinese Night Market.”

Money raised at the party supports the foundation’s work supporting K-12 educational projects in rural Colorado communities. Tickets are available at https:// nathanyipfoundation.org/event/ chinese-new-year-party.

The Music of Nat King Cole comes to Northglenn

Nat King Cole has one of the best and most unmistakable voices in pop music history. And there’s a reason you always seem to hear a bit more from him right around Valentine’s Day - he’s one of the best purveyors of audio romance. So, it’s perfectly tting that the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra (CJRO) is bringing e Music of Nat King Cole to the Parsons eatre, 1 E. Memorial Parkway in Northglenn, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 10.

Find all the details and tickets at www.coloradojazz.org.

tions are failing, so too are our kids.”

On average, there are about 290 children and teens serving sentences in youth corrections on any given day, 89% of them boys. e average length of stay is about 18 months.

Juvenile criminal case lings increased by 15% last year in Colorado.

Secure Your Super Bowl Plans at Punch Bowl Social

ere’s something about the Super Bowl that just makes people want to gather. It’s always a fun time, especially when you don’t have skin in the game. For those who want to take part in some group fun without having to cleanup after, head to Punch Bowl Social Denver e event, which kicks o at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, allows attendees to play arcade games, get in a couple frames of bowling and get some drinks and bites. ere’s VIP options available, which include a projector viewing of the game, a beer-in-hand bu et and VIP lounge - with two complimentary drink tickets. According to provided information, activities will continue throughout the game up to last call. ere will also be live music from a local DJ at the after party. For all the details, visit https://punchbowlsocial.com/.

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail. com.

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Mines men’s basketball falls to Fort Lewis, 93-87

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Fort Lewis managed to turn Colorado School of Mines’ home court into the danger zone during this weekend’s top-25 matchup.

The Skyhawks’ zone defense kept the Orediggers off-kilter, preventing the Mines starters from hitting their usual numbers. The Orediggers stuck with the Skyhawks through most of the game, though, thanks to 44 bench points and some timely second-chance shots.

Fort Lewis pulled away in the end, winning 93-87 and handing Mines its second loss of the season on Jan. 27.

“They were just amazing. We couldn’t stop them,” Mines coach Pryor Orser said of the Skyhawks. “ … They answered every call. That’s the sign of a really good team.”

The Orediggers rebounded the next night against Adams State, mauling the Grizzlies 102-81.

As of Jan. 29, Mines is 19-2 overall, 13-2 in the conference, and No. 2 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference race. It’s just behind Black Hills State — its next opponent.

As they prepare for the Feb. 3 game at Black Hills State — the top-five team that beat Mines earlier this year — Orser said the Orediggers have to make shots against a zone defense.

Teams have figured out they can’t run man-to-man defense against Mines, so recent opponents have been running a zone. Although the Orediggers are moving and sharing the ball well, they’re just missing open shots, Orser described.

“And then it gets to our heads,” he continued. “ … You’ve got to make shots against a zone, and if you don’t, then it’s just deflating.”

Junior forward Riley Schroeder, who racked up 12 points in his 15 minutes against Fort Lewis, agreed that navigating a zone defense has “really messed up our flow.” The team needs to practice how to make those shots and minimize turnovers before heading to South Dakota, he explained.

“We’re kind of just chucking (the ball) around all over the place,” he said of the team’s zone offense. “That’s not conducive to win against elite talent like this.”

Amping up the atmosphere

With more than 800 people in the Lockridge Arena stands for Mines’ alumni weekend, the Skyhawks stayed just a possession or two ahead of the Orediggers throughout most of the first half.

With nine minutes left in the half, Mines finally closed the gap as an Adam Krasovec trey kicked off a 14-2 run for the home team.

But, junior guard Akuel Kot made back-to-back treys, helping Fort Lewis take back some of the momentum with five minutes left. The teams had four lead changes through the rest of the half, and the Orediggers went into the locker room up 44-43.

The Skyhawks opened the half with a 15-4 run, fueled by Oredigger turnovers and second-chance points. While Mines tried to generate some momentum, Fort Lewis managed to keep the home team at arm’s length through most of the second half.

With five minutes left, Mines cut the deficit to one point. But, once again, Fort Lewis answered with back-to-back treys, this time by Obi Agbim, along with a Kot jumper.

The teams battled in the final minutes until Mines was down by six with 1:44 left. So, the Orediggers resorted to playing the foul game to stop the clock, and looked for three-pointers at the other end.

The Skyhawks went 11-12 from the line, maintaining their lead to the bitter end. However, the Orediggers went down swinging, as Reagan Koch and Brendan Sullivan made three treys in the final 15 seconds.

Kot ended the game with 34 points — the most for either team. The Skyhawks also scored 13 points off turnovers, and shot 54% overall and 42% beyond the arc.

The Orediggers dominated inside, though, with 42 points in the paint and 17 second-chance points.

“Our starters didn’t play great,” Orser said. “Our bench actually played well, and we got a lead the first half. Once we subbed (our starters) back in, here comes Fort Lewis.”

Despite the loss, Schroeder said the Jan. 27 crowd was “one of the best crowds I’ve ever played for.” Along with Mines alumni, his friends from Denver Church of Christ also packed the stands, which he greatly appreciated.

“Even the opposing fans really just amped up the atmosphere,” he continued. “It was one of the most awesome games I’ve ever played in.”

The seven-game stretch

The Orediggers have seven games left in the regular season.

They start with two road games in South Dakota — Feb. 3 at Black Hills State and Feb. 4 at South Dakota Mines. Then, they’re home for three consecutive games, including the Feb. 18 Senior Night game.

After that, Mines closes out the regular season at Adams State Feb. 24 and at Fort Lewis Feb. 25.

Orser said Mines and Fort Lewis have built up a fun rivalry, with both teams winning big games at each other’s home venues.

So, if the Orediggers want to win in Durango, Orser said they’ll need to be “ready for a street fight” on

Mines junior forward Riley Schroeder (44) attempts a first-half layup over Fort Lewis defenders during the Jan. 27 game at Colorado School of Mines. Fort Lewis won 93-87.

Fort Lewis senior guard JaQuaylon Mays (10) drives toward the basket as his teammate sets a screen against Mines freshman guard Reagan Koch (23) during the Jan. 27 game at Colorado School of Mines.

PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

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Feb. 25. Mines must have the same laser-focused intensity that Fort Lewis did this weekend in Golden, he explained.

“(The Skyhawks) were ready for a street fight. We weren’t, and they won,” Orser said. “ … They had better focus than we did — there’s no question. We

have to do the same.”

Schroeder was confident he and his teammate would be ready for the Durango trip,

ing it would be a must-watch game.

“I hope they bring a crowd this big, so we can shut them up like they shut ours up,” Schroeder continued. “ … I would watch out for us. We’re not done yet. … We’re going to stick our nose to the ground and keep working hard.”

Mines freshman guard Reagan Koch (23) attempts a three-point shot over Fort Lewis defender JaQuaylon Mays (10) in the final seconds of the Jan. 27 game at Colorado School of Mines, which Fort Lewis won 93-87. Koch made all three of his three-point shots during the game, including two in the final 15 seconds.

Some Colorado School of Mines men’s basketball fans vocally disagree with foul call in the final minutes of the Jan. 27 home game against Fort Lewis. The alumni weekend game drew more than 800 attendees — its largest crowd of the season thus far.

Mines senior forward Adam Thistlewood, center, attempts a jumpshot over Fort Lewis defenders during the Jan. 27 game at Colorado School of Mines.

PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

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Help wanted: referees to get back in the game

Visiting any business involves walking by a “Help Wanted” sign. Sports o ciating is facing the same human capital shortage across the United States. While sports o cials don’t wear Help Wanted signs at games, maybe we should. Nonetheless, we need sports o cials to o ciate games and keep our young people involved in high school athletics.

Without sports o cials, Friday night high school football and varsity basketball or soccer games could be in danger of slipping away.

Many things in our world are changing too fast. We need to keep educational-based athletics one thing the students, families and communities can depend on happening. Because of o ciating shortages, we are seeing what was a community xture of high school football, Friday Night Lights, become ursday Night Lights and Saturday Afternoon Sunlight to get the games covered by referees. Moreover, myself and other referees work high school games in New Mexico, Colorado and Utah to ensure the students-athletes can play.

e fraternity of sports o cials travel to games not because we get paid big money – we don’t – but because we aspire to facilitate an elusive perfect game. As a football ofcial colleague states, sports o cials pursue perfection and excellence –life lessons that we can bring to our careers and our families.

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Sport o cials serve alongside a group of fellow o cials who read, study, watch and work out to be ready for the next challenging game assignment. We want to be ready for your son or daughter’s next big moment on the eld or the pitch, too.

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NOTE: is guest column was previously published in the e Journal and e Durango Herald on Dec. 14, 2022.

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BY ALEJANDRO A. ALONSO GALVA COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

e Secretary of State’s o ce has certi ed the “No Labels Party” as the state’s newest political party.

It gained minor party status by submitting more than 10,000 signatures from potential supporters, making No Labels Colorado’s sixth minor party.

e designation means Colorado voters can register with the party. It also means the No Labels-ers will be able to place nominees on Colorado’s general election ballots without candidates having to individually petition on each campaign cycle.

e national group behind the party says it’s attempting to gain access to general election ballots in all 50 states ahead of the 2024 presidential season.

Where the No Labels Party stands on the big issues

No Labels promotes itself as moderate with cross-partisan appeal. On its national website, a list of policy statements includes balancing the national budget, reducing regulation, shifting federal programs to the states and ensuring energy security, in part by increasing fuel e ciency standards.

On immigration they push for expanding guest worker programs and

creating a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants “who meet strict conditions such as learning English, paying back taxes and passing rigorous background checks.”

On health care they advocate for purchasing health insurance across state lines, allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies and expanding the use of nurse practitioners “and other mid-level health care workers providing a wider scope of medical services, such as writing prescriptions.”

No Labels has some history in Colorado e group has been active in previous Colorado elections, including supporting former Republican Sen. Cory Gardner in 2014.

No Labels also created a minor controversy during last year’s midterms when it sent out emails inviting supporters to a private event at Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper’s house featuring Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

No Labels also invited GOP U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea — who was running against Hickenlooper’s fellow Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet — to the event, according to the O’Dea campaign.

Hickenlooper’s o ce denied ever being involved with the No Labels event.

e political action committee associated with the party did not contribute to any Colorado candidates in the last election.

How No Labels got its minor party status, and what’s next Labels submitted 18,046 signatures, of which the Secretary of State’s office deemed 11,821 valid — meaning they came from registered Colorado voters.

The Secretary of State’s office approved No Labels’ petition Nov. 4, 2022, and the group submitted their signatures Jan. 4.

In order for No Labels or any minor party to maintain their status in Colorado at least one party nominee for statewide office must

the last two general elections or it must have at least 1,000 registered

parties: the American Constitution

the Green Party of Colorado, the Libertarian Party of Colorado, and the Unity Party of Colorado.

This story is from CPR News, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support Colorado Public Radio, visit cpr. org.

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Public Trustees

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200330

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

On November 17, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s)

Jeanette A. Duff and Robert F. Duff

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for Home Mortgage Experts, Inc., its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Freedom Mortgage Corporation

Date of Deed of Trust

July 03, 2019

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 09, 2019

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

2019057734

Original Principal Amount

$309,999.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$306,627.51

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.

CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO 390, BUILDING NO. 61, AS SHOWN ON THE FIRST AMENDED CONDOMINIUM MAP OF GREEN MOUNTAIN TOWNHOUSES (SECOND FILING) RECORDED NOVEMBER 20, 1967 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO, RECEPTION NO. 260230 AND ACCORDING TO AND SUBJECT TO THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED OCTOBER 14, 1966 IN BOOK 1902 AT PAGE 744, INCLUDING ALL PORTIONS OF A CONDOMINIUM UNIT AND INTEREST AS DEFINED IN SAID DECLARATION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 661 S Xenon Ct, Lakewood, CO 80228-2820.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/09/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER

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

DATE: 11/17/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Amanda Ferguson #44893

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C.

355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO21047

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.

of Colorado

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

On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s) Eugene A. Heslin Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Date of Deed of Trust November 23, 2020 County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 01, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2020158720

Original Principal Amount $862,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $233,832.03

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: This is a Home

Equity Conversion Deed of Trust or other Reverse Mortgage. Borrower has died and the property is not the principal residence of any surviving Borrower, resulting in the loan being due and payable.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 41, MARSHDALE PARK SECOND ADDITION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6594 Marshmerry Ln, Evergreen, CO 80439.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/01/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Lynn M Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295

Attorney File # 22-028607

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

below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records. Original Grantor(s)

MICHAEL J BULLOCK

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 make payments as required by the terms of the Promissory Note and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 32, Block 3, Briarwood Park, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

Also known by street and number as: 317 S. Queen Cir., Lakewood, CO 80226.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 3, BLOCK 6, SUN VALLEY ESTATES FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

PARCEL ID NUMBER: 300071238

Also known by street and number as: 864 S Hoyt St, Lakewood, CO 80226-4022.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 8, BLOCK 3, LEYDEN ROCK

SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 2026218008

Also known by street and number as: 8647 WINDY ST, ARVADA, CO 80007.

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

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/09/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Alison L. Berry #34531 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295 Attorney File # 17-015957

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. J2200321

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/09/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Jenniffer L Johnson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Joseph A. Murr #14427 Murr Siler & Accomazzo, P.C. 1999 Broadway, Suite 3100, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 534-2277

Attorney File # 7230.012

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200323

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200329

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

On November 17, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s)

Tinh Nguyen AND Trinh Thi Diem Nguyen Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION

SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN LOANS INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/09/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/17/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295

Attorney File # 22-028767

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200329

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200308

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s)

Leslie Dunstan

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. ("MERS") as nominee for Caliber Home Loans, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Caliber Home Loans, Inc.

Date of Deed of Trust

June 20, 2016 County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 27, 2016

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

2016061536

Original Principal Amount $186,700.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $174,369.73

To

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

9, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

July 16, 2019

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 22, 2019

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2019061934 Original Principal Amount

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.

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 8, BLOCK 1, COUNTRYSIDE FILING NO. 9, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 10366 Owens Cir, Broomfield, CO 80021-3763.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY

ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/01/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Holly R.Shilliday #24423

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

Attorney File # CO-22-946615-LL

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200308

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200309

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

On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s)

TROY S. ANDERSON

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION

SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CTX MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS TRUSTEE OF QUERCUS MORTGAGE INVESTMENT TRUST

Date of Deed of Trust

August 14, 2008

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 25, 2008

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

2008080622

Original Principal Amount

$120,389.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$114,111.29

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.

UNIT 302. BUILDING 6385, THE GRACE

PLACE CONDOMINIUMS, AS SHOWN ON THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED APRIL 30, 1985 AT RECEPTION NO. 85039667 AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR GRACE PLACE CONDOMINIUMS. RECORDED AUGUST 16, 1984 AT RECEPTION NO. 84077730, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT PURSUANT TO § 38-35-109(5), C.R.S. RECORDED ON 10/3/2017 AT REC. NO. 2017101753

Also known by street and number as: 6385 OAK STREET #302, ARVADA, CO 80004. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT PURSUANT TO § 38-35-109(5), C.R.S. RECORDED ON 10/3/2017 AT REC. NO. 2017101753 NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023

via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

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: 11/01/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

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

Attorney File # 00000009538109

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. J2200309

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023 Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200328

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 17, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s) Barbara Buell Paige AND Joshua W. Brown

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CHERRY CREEK MORTGAGE CO., INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s) ANGEL LUIS CLAUDIO AND KATHLEEN G HOTCHKISS

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR PARAMOUNT RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE GROUP, INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

MSR Asset Vehicle LLC Date of Deed of Trust December 26, 2018 County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 31, 2018

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

2018116520

Original Principal Amount

$333,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $328,509.20

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 1, BLOCK 2, MEADOWGLEN FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 9193 W 81ST LN, ARVADA, CO 80005.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 11, BLOCK 5, SHERIDAN GREEN SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 11517 Marshall Street, Westminster, CO 80020.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/09/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/01/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978 Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009565045

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'

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 17, BLOCK 4, WESTBOROUGH - FILING NO.2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 3057 S Garland Ct, Lakewood, CO 80227.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/09/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO21062

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200327

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200331

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

On November 17, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s)

BENJAMIN J MARTINEZ

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION

SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR MARKETPLACE HOME MORTGAGE, LLC.

FIRST LIEN.

LOT 63, WILLIAMSBURG FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

7917 S FLOWER CT, LITTLETON, CO 80128.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/09/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/17/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978 Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009634858

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.

Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 9, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s) John Kelly

when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof

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 make monthly payments

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 4, Block 10, North Arvada Park Second Addition Third Filing, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

Also known by street and number as: 6537 Otis Street, Arvada, CO 80003.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/09/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Jenniffer L Johnson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Harry L. Simon, Esq. #7942

The Law Office of Harry L. Simon, P.C. 10200 East Girard Avenue, Building B, Suite 120, Denver, CO 80231 (303) 758-6601

Attorney File # CCU v. Kelly

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200318

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200315

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

On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s)

Jennifer L. Bresnahan

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Broker Solutions, Inc. dba New American Funding, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Broker Solutions Inc.

dba New American Funding

Date of Deed of Trust

October 17, 2017

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 17, 2017

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

2017107036**

Original Principal Amount

$351,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$329,335.30

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 19, BLOCK 20, MOUNTAIN VIEW ESTATES, 5TH FILING, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

**This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement effective October 1, 2019.

Also known by street and number as: 775 Urban Street, Lakewood, CO 80401.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/01/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO-20685

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 Re-

This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

November 9,

the undersigned Public

caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

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.

Part of the NE 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section 32, Township 3 South, Range 69 West of the 6th

P.M., described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of said NE 1/4 NW 1/4 of said Section 32; thence North along the West line of said NE 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section 32, 110.00 feet; thence East parallel with the South line of the NE 1/4 NW 1/4 of said Section 32, a distance of 150 feet; thence South parallel with the West line of said NE 1/4 NW 1/4 a distance of 110.00 feet to the South line of said NE 1/4 NW 1/4; thence West along the South line of said NE 1/4 NW 1/4 a distance of 150 feet to the point of beginning, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 17, FRANKLIN SQUARE SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO

**This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement recorded 02/03/2022 at Reception No. 2022014164 in the records of the Jefferson county clerk and recorder, Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 9267 Gray Ct, Westminster, CO 80031.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

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

DATE: 11/09/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO10423

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200326

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last

Also known by street and number as: 2300 YOUNGFIELD ST, LAKEWOOD, CO 80215.

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

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/09/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/17/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295 Attorney File # 22-028741

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.

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To

the debt has been accelerated and immediate payment in full of all sums are due because all or any part of the Property or any Interest in the Property has been sold or transferred without Lender’s prior written consent.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 61, VILLAGE ESTATES AT RIVA CHASE, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 22141 CHIPPEWA LN, GOLDEN, CO 80401.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

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

DATE: 11/01/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Jenniffer L Johnson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

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

Attorney File # 00000009586686

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.

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Legal Notice NO. J2200313

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200317

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

On November 9, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s)

Patricia A. Peterson and Kenneth M. Peterson

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Bank of the West

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Bank of the West

Date of Deed of Trust

September 28, 2007

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 16, 2007

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

2007117105

Original Principal Amount $20,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $15,980.50

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 330, ALLENDALE, FOURTH FILING, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6140 Quail St, Arvada, CO 80004.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

Paragraph 18, of the Deed of Trust,

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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s),

Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-22-946820-LL

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

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Legal Notice NO. J2200317

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200322

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

On November 9, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s) JEFFREY E STEPHENS AND AUDREY N STEPHENS

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE BANK, FSB, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust

March 12, 2009

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 23, 2009

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

2009035585

Original Principal Amount $251,675.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $185,052.27

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 84, GOVERNOR'S RANCH FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

PARCEL ID NUMBER: 5915314001

Also known by street and number as: 9685 WEST POWERS CIRCLE, LITTLETON, CO 80123.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/09/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) rep-

resenting the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Alison L. Berry #34531

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295

Attorney File # 22-028695

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.

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Legal Notice NO. J2200322

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200314

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

On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s) Patrick Valdez and Jennifer Valdez

Original Beneficiary(ies)

U.S. Bank National Association

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

U.S. Bank National Association

Date of Deed of Trust October 04, 2016 County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 28, 2016

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

2016112441

Original Principal Amount

$100,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$99,953.60

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 6, BLOCK 8, CARMAC HEIGHTS BLOCKS

6 TO 12, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1366 Chase St S, Lakewood, CO 80232-5933.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/02/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, 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. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/01/2022

Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

By: Jenniffer L Johnson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus, LLP

7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-943992-LL

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

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Legal Notice No. J2200314 First Publication: 1/12/2023

under that contract dated June 24, 2022 for the City of Arvada.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that furnished labor, material, drayage, sustenance, provisions or other supplies used or consumed by said contractor or his sub-contractors in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done by said A-1 Chipseal and its claim has not been paid, may at any time on or prior to the hour of the date above stated, file with the Finance Director of the City of Arvada at City Hall, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

Dated this January 20, 2023

CITY OF ARVADA

/s/ Kristen Rush, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 415630

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice City of Edgewater

Notice of Application for a PUD Amendment

Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held by the Edgewater Planning and Zoning Commission to consider an application for a PUD Amendment for an addition to the existing building, outdoor patio, and fence at 5302 W 25th Ave., Edgewater, CO 80214. The meeting will be held on February 15, 2023, at 6:00 PM, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, in both the City Council Chambers at 1800 Harlan St., Edgewater, CO 80214, and/or virtually at the link below when and where all interested parties may appear and be heard.

Notice is also hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held by the Edgewater City Council to consider an application for a PUD Amendment for an addition to the existing building, outdoor patio, and fence at 5302 W 25th Ave., Edgewater, CO 80214. The meeting will be held on March 7, 2023, at 6:30 PM, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, in both the City Council Chambers at 1800 Harlan St., Edgewater, CO 80214, and/or virtually at the link below when and where all interested parties may appear and be heard.

Planning and Zoning Login Information (February 15, 2023)

https://global.gotomeeting.com/ join/300174269

You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (571) 317-3112

Access Code: 300-174-269

City Council Login Information (March 7, 2023)

https://global.gotomeeting.com/ join/593941517

You can also dial in using your phone.

tel:+15713173112, 593941517#

Access Code: 593-941-517

Legal Notice No. 415623

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Substantial Amendments to the Jefferson County Community Development Block Grant and Home Investment Partnerships 2021 and 2022 Annual Action Plans Jefferson County’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) 2021 One-Year Action Plan was approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in November 2021 and the 2022 One-Year Action Plan was approved in November 2022. Communities applying for CDBG and HOME funding must submit an Annual Action Plan in order to receive these grant funds.

There are two purposes to these amendments:

1.To add the FY 2021 allocation of the HOME Investment Partnerships Program – American Rescue Plan (HOME-ARP) funding in the amount of $3,584,662 to the 2021 Action Plan. The American Rescue Plan appropriated $5 billion to help communities provide housing, shelter and services for people experiencing homelessness and other qualifying populations. These grant funds will be used for two separate projects: Approximately $1 million will be used for the purchase and/or rehabilitation of a motel to provide permanent supportive housing and temporary non-congregate shelter; and, the remaining funds will be used for the acquisition, rehabilitation and/ or construction of a non-congregate shelter. Both locations will serve all qualifying populations under the HOME-ARP regulations.

2.To increase the total 2022 CDBG allocation from the amount originally submitted in the 2022 Action Plan of $1,087,949 to include an additional $45,918 allocated through the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 reallocated metropolitan area entitlement funds under Section 106(c) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. The total amended allocation for the 2022 CDBG program year is $1,133,867. The additional grant funds will be allocated to assist with the acquisition of a site in the Evergreen area, for the development of for-sale affordable housing.

The Substantial amendments to the 2021 Action Plan and the 2022 Action Plan will be submitted to HUD on or after March 6, 2023, following a 30day public comment period and public meeting.

The county invites public review of the 2021 and 2022 Action Plan Amendments February 2 –March 5, 2023. The plan can be accessed on the County’s website a https://www.jeffco.us/2667/Planning or by contacting Emily Sander, Community Development Manager, at 303-248-6318 or esander@jeffco.us.

Jefferson County Community Development will hold a virtual public meeting on March 1, 2023, at 9:00AM, accessed at: https://jeffco.webex.com/meet/esander. The purpose of the meeting will be for the public to ask questions regarding the Substantial Amendments.

Interpretive services for persons with hearing impairments or persons of limited English proficiency will be provided upon request. Please contact Emily Sander at 303-248-6318 or esander@jeffco.us at least 72 hours in advance of the event if interpretive services or special accommodations are needed. The Action Plan Amendments may be made available in Spanish upon request.

Legal Notice No. 415622

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Metropolitan Districts

Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

NORTH TABLE MOUNTAIN WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the North Table Mountain Water and Sanitation District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, 3 directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms.

Eligible electors of the North Table Mountain Water and Sanitation District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from Bart Sperry the North Table Mountain Water and Sanitation District Designated Election Official (DEO) at 14806 West 52nd Ave, Golden, CO 80403. The Office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday thru Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance is close of business (4:30 p.m.) on February 24, 2023 (not less than 67 days before the election). If the DEO determines that a SelfNomination and Acceptance form is not sufficient, the eligible elector who submitted the form may amend the form once, at any time, prior to 3:00 p.m. on the day of the deadline.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the designated election official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023 (the sixty-fourth day before the election).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, an application for an absentee ballot shall be filed with the designated election official no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

Bart

/s/

By:

Sperry,

Designated Election Official Signature North Table Mountain Water and Sanitation District

Legal Notice No. 415581

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS GEOS NEIGHBORHOOD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the GEOS NEIGHBORHOOD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT ("District") of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com .

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

GEOS NEIGHBORHOOD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS DANCING WILLOWS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the DANCING WILLOWS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT ("District") of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado

7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com .

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

DANCING WILLOWS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415586

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Cimarron Metropolitan District of the City of Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado (the “District”):

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 1-13.5-501, C.R.S., that an election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time two (2) Directors will be elected to serve 2-year terms to May 6, 2025 and three (3) Directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms to May 4, 2027.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms are available and can be obtained from Craig Sorensen, the Designated Election Official for the District, c/o McGeady Becher P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado 80203, Phone: 303592-4380, email: csorensen@specialdistrictlaw.com.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form or letter is to be submitted to the Designated Election Official no later than the close of business (5:00 p.m. MST) on February 24, 2023, sixty-seven (67) days prior to the regular election. Affidavits of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate must be submitted to the Designated Election Official by the close of business (5:00 p.m. MST) on February 27, 2023, sixty-four (64) days prior to the regular election.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, pursuant to Section 1-13.5-1002, C.R.S., that applications for and return of absentee voters’ ballots may be obtained from / filed with Craig Sorensen, the Designated Election Official of the District (at the address/ phone/email address noted above), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023).

CIMARRON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ CRAIG SORENSEN

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415615

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Jeffco Transcript and the Arvada Press

Public Notice

A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF) §1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-1102(3), 32-1-905(2), C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the Daniels Sanitation District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, 2 directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms and 1 director will be elected to serve 2-year term.

Eligible electors of the Daniels Sanitation District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District Designated Election Official (DEO):

AJ Beckman: Designated Election Official 1002 Kipling Street Lakewood, CO 80215 303-233-2182

amanda@highviewwater.com

The Office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday - Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance is close of business on February 24, 2023.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the designated election official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, an application for an absentee ballot shall be filed with the designated election official no later than the close of business on Tuesday preceding the election, April 25, 2023.

AJ Beckman Designated Election Official Signature

Legal Notice No. 415620

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR CLEAR CREEK VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT 1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-1102(3), 32-1-905(2), C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Clear Creek Valley Sanitation District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve a four-year term.

The office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms are available from Nickie Holder, the Designated Election Official for the District, at 1202 Bergen Parkway, #110, Evergreen, CO 80439, or email: ccvalleywsd@gmail.com. Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official for the District at the above email address not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 24, 2023, by 5:00 p.m.). If the DEO determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form is not sufficient, the eligible elector who submitted the form may amend the form once, at any time, prior to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023 (by 5:00 p.m.) (the sixty-fourth day before the election).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, if an eligible elector of the Clear Creek Valley Sanitation District wishes to receive an Absentee Ballot by mail for this election, an application shall be filed with the Designated Election Official no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 (by 5:00 p.m.). If an eligible elector of the Clear Creek Valley Sanitation District wishes to be a permanent mail-in voter of the District on all future elections, an application for permanent absentee voter status shall be filed with the Designated Election Official no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 (by 5:00 p.m.).

CLEAR CREEK VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT

By:/s/ Nickie Holder Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415582

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS SOUTH SHERIDAN WATER DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the SOUTH SHERIDAN WATER DISTRICT ("District") of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com .

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Desig-

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nated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

SOUTH SHERIDAN WATER DISTRICT

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415619

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF)

§1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-1102(3), 32-1-905(2), C.R.S

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the High View Water District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

At that time, 2 directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms. Eligible electors of the High View Water District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District Designated Election Official (DEO):

AJ Beckman: Designated Election Official 1002 Kipling Street Lakewood, CO 80215 303-233-2182 amanda@highviewwater.com

The Office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday - Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance is close of business on February 24, 2023.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the designated election official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, an application for an absentee ballot shall be filed with the designated election official no later than the close of business on Tuesday preceding the election, April 25, 2023.

AJ Beckman Designated Election Official Signature

Legal Notice No. 415621

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN WATER DISTRICT

1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-1102(3), 32-1-905(2), C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Lookout Mountain Water District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, three (3) directors will be elected to serve a four-year term.

The office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms are available from Nickie Holder, the Designated Election Official for the District, at 1202 Bergen Parkway, #110, Evergreen, CO 80439, or email: nickie@ nmholderbiz.com. Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official for the District at the above email address not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 24, 2023, by 5:00 p.m.). If the DEO determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form is not sufficient, the eligible elector who submitted the form may amend the form once, at any time, prior to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023 (by 5:00 p.m.) (the sixty-fourth day before the election).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, if an eligible elector of the Lookout Mountain Water District wishes to receive an Absentee Ballot by mail for this election, an application shall be filed with the Designated Election Official no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 (by 5:00 p.m.). If an eligible elector of the Lookout Mountain Water District wishes to be a permanent mail-in voter of the District on all future elections, an application for permanent absentee voter status shall be filed with the Designated Election Official no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 (by 5:00 p.m.).

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN WATER DISTRICT

By: /s/ Nickie Holder

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415580

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Notice

("District") of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (3) three directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027, and (1) director will be elected for a 2-year term expiring in May 2025.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com.

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

MOUNT VERNON CANYON CLUB

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415612

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS §§ 1-13.5-501; 1-13.5-303, C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the eligible electors of the Ward TOD Metropolitan District Nos. 2 & 3, City of Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado (each a “District” and, collectively, the “Districts”).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, and for each District, two (2) directors will be elected to serve until May 2025 and three (3) directors will be elected to serve until May 2027.

Eligible electors of the Districts interested in serving on the boards of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form from the Designated Election Official (“DEO”) at 2154

E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122 or via telephone at 303-858-1800, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms are also available online at https://whitebearankele.com/.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Friday, February 24, 2023. If the DEO determines a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is not sufficient, the form may be amended prior to 5:00 p.m. on February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing of an insufficient form after this date and time. An Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate must be submitted to the office of the DEO by the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that information on obtaining an absentee ballot may be obtained from the DEO, and applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on April 25, 2023.

WARD TOD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS.

2 & 3 By: Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415604

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice CALL FOR NOMINATIONS INDIAN HILLS FIRE DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the INDIAN HILLS FIRE DISTRICT ("District") of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO): Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com .

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

INDIAN HILLS FIRE DISTRICT

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415610

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Richards Farm Metropolitan District of Jefferson County, Colorado (the District).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section

32-1-804.1 C.R.S., that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May 2023, between the hours of 7:00am and 7:00pm. At that time, two directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms can be downloaded from the District’s website at www. richardsfarmmetro.org or can be obtained from Charles Wolfersberger, the District Manager and Designated Election Official for the District, 8354 Northfield Blvd, Building G Suite 3700 Denver, CO 80238 (720) 541-7725.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form or letter is to be submitted to the Designated Election Official or his agent not later than 5:00pm on Friday February 24, 2023. A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time prior to 3:00pm on Friday February 24, 2023. Affidavits of Intent to be a Write-in Candidate must be submitted to the Designated Election Official or his agent by the close of business on Monday February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN pursuant to Section 1-8-104 C.R.S. that applications for mail-in ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official of the District, 8354 Northfield Blvd, Building G Suite 3700 Denver, CO 80238, between the hours of 8:00am and 5:00pm until the close of business on the Friday immediately preceding the regular election (Friday, April 28, 2023), except that if the applicant wishes to receive the mail-in ballot by mail, the application shall be filed no later than the close of business on the 7th day before the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023).

RICHARDS FARM METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Charles Wolfersberger Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. No. 415625

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOSSIL RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the FOSSIL RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 ("District") of the City of Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado

7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com .

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

FOSSIL RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415596

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER & SANITATION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER & SANITATION DISTRICT ("District") of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com .

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER & SANITATION DISTRICT Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415595

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

KEN-CARYL RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the KEN-CARYL RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT ("District") of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (3) three directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com.

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

KEN-CARYL RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415611

First Publication: February 2, 2023 Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on May 2, 2023 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two directors will be elected to serve a four-year term. Eligible electors of the Chimney Rock Metropolitan District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Natalie M. Fleming 3900 East Mexico Avenue, Suite 300 Denver, CO 80210 nfleming@erblawllc.com 303-626-7125

The Office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form to the DEO is the close of business on February 24, 2023 (no later than 67 days before the election). Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the DEO by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023 (no later than 64 days before the election).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot shall be filed with the DEO no later than the close of business on the Tuesday preceding the election, April 25, 2023.

CHIMNEY ROCK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Natalie M. Fleming

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415635

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

FOSSIL RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the FOSSIL RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2 ("District") of the City of Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices

Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com .

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

FOSSIL RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415597

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FAIRMOUNT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the FAIRMOUNT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT ("District"), in Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (3) three directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com.

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

FAIRMOUNT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415606

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

BANCROFT-CLOVER WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of Bancroft-Clover Water and Sanitation District ("District") of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (3) three directors will be elected for a 4-year term and (0) zero directors will be elected for a 2-year term.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Becky Johnson, DEO bjohnson@spencerfane.com

Spencer Fane LLP

1700 Lincoln Street, Ste. 2000 Denver, CO 80203

Phone: 303-839-3885

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to bjohnson@spencerfane. com. If the designated election official determines that a self-nomination and acceptance form is not sufficient, the eligible elector who submitted the form may amend the form at any time prior to the close of business on the day of the deadline.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

BANCROFT-CLOVER WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

Becky Johnson, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415637

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING ON PETITION FOR INCLUSION OF PROPERTY INTO FAIRMOUNT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that at 4:00 p.m. on February 8, 2023, the Board of Directors (“Board”) of the Fairmount Fire Protection District ("District") will hold a public meeting to consider a Petition by landowners Hunter and Callie Moore to include into the District's jurisdiction and boundaries the following real property, which does not lie within the jurisdiction of any other fire protection district or fire department:

Property located at: 21517 West 56th Avenue, Golden, CO 80403

A copy of the Petition for Inclusion may be obtained from the District at its Administrative Offices, located at 4755 Isabell St., Golden, Colorado. The public meeting will be held at the District's Administrative Offices, located at the address above. Questions prior to the public meeting should be directed Fire Chief Alan Fletcher, 303-279-2928.

All interested persons, municipalities, or counties that may be able to provide service to the real property, shall appear at the public meeting and show cause in writing why the Board should not adopt a final resolution and order approving inclusion of the above-identified real property. The Board may continue the public meeting to a subsequent meeting. The failure of any person within the District to file a written objection shall be taken as an assent on his or her part to the inclusion of the property into the District's jurisdiction.

BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE FAIRMOUNT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

By: /s/ Alan Fletcher, Fire Chief

Legal Notice No. 415608

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Notice

of the City of Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado (the “District”):

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 1-13.5-501, C.R.S., that an election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time two (2) Directors will be elected to serve 2-year terms to May 6, 2025 and three (3) Directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms to May 4, 2027.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms are available and can be obtained from Craig Sorensen, the Designated Election Official for the District, c/o McGeady Becher P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado 80203, Phone: 303592-4380, email: csorensen@specialdistrictlaw.com.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form or letter is to be submitted to the Designated Election Official no later than the close of business (5:00 p.m. MST) on February 24, 2023, sixty-seven (67) days prior to the regular election. Affidavits of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate must be submitted to the Designated Election Official by the close of business (5:00 p.m. MST) on February 27, 2023, sixty-four (64) days prior to the regular election.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, pursuant to Section 1-13.5-1002, C.R.S., that applications for and return of absentee voters’ ballots may be obtained from / filed with Craig Sorensen, the Designated Election Official of the District (at the address/ phone/email address noted above), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023).

CIMARRON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ CRAIG SORENSEN

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415615

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Jeffco Transcript and the Arvada Press Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS BLUE MOUNTAIN WATER DISTRICT TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the BLUE MOUNTAIN WATER DISTRICT ("District"), Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027. In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices

Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com.

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

BLUE MOUNTAIN WATER DISTRICT

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415584

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOSSIL RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the eligible electors of the FOSSIL RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3 ("District") of the City of Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com Community Resource Services of Colorado

be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com .

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

FOSSIL RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415598

irst Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF) §1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-1102(3), 32-1-905(2), C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the Willowbrook Water and Sanitation District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, 3 directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms. Eligible electors of the Willowbrook Water and Sanitation District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District Designated Election Official (DEO):

Scott W. Wilkinson (Designated Election Official) 1600 Stout St., Suite 1710, Denver CO, 80202 (303) 534-9000

The Office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance is close of business on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the designated election official by the close of business on Tuesday, February 28, 2022.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, an application for an absentee ballot shall be filed with the designated election official no later than the close of business on Tuesday preceding the election, April 25, 2022.

/s/ Designated Election Official Signature

Legal Notice No. 415629

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF) §1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-1102(3), 32-1-905(2), C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the Meadowbrook Fairview District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, 3 directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms. Eligible electors of the Meadowbrook Fairview District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District Designated Election Official (DEO):

Scott W. Wilkinson (Designated Election Official) 1600 Stout St., Suite 1710, Denver CO, 80202 (303) 534-9000

The Office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance is close of business on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the designated election official by the close of business on Tuesday, February 28, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, an application for an absentee ballot shall be filed with the designated election official no later than the close of business on Tuesday preceding the election, April 25, 2023.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) Directors will be elected to serve four-year terms and two (2) Director will be elected to serve two-year terms on the five member Board.

Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Via Email: mandi@fritschelaw.com (preferred)

In Person: Fritsche Law LLC, 3900 E. Mexico Ave., Suite 300, Denver, CO 80210

The Office of the DEO is open Monday – Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is 4:00 p.m. on February 24, 2023 (not less than 67 days before the election). Submittal via email is preferred.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that an application for an absentee ballot shall be filed with the DEO (email preferred) no later than 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday preceding the election, April 25, 2023.

APPLEWOOD SANITATION DISTRICT

By: /s/ Mandi Kirk

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415614

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice NOTICE OF EXCLUSION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there has been filed with the Board of Directors of Mount Carbon Metropolitan District of Jefferson County, Colorado, a petition praying for the exclusion of certain land from such District.

1. The name and address of the petitioner mentioned in such petition and the general description of the property to be excluded are as follows:

Petitioner: Lennar Colorado, LLC

Address: 9193 S. Jamaica Street, 4th Floor Englewood, CO 80112

Due to social distancing, public bid openings have been eliminated in favor of the following process:

1. An on-line meeting with the District representative as the facilitator will post instructions as part of solicitation or addenda.

2. Contractor will email PDF or JPG to District representative before the time noted in the solicitation. A read receipt and responding email as to the time the bid was received, will be returned to each contractor.

3. District to log on to on-line meeting several minutes before bid closing to confirm set-up.

4. Emailed bids will remain unopened until 10 minutes after the time posted in the solicitation, allowing for slower than normal upload/download speeds.

5.Contractor shall print the email transmission to PDF. This will act as the time stamp.

6. District to read the bids as they are opened via the on-line meeting.

7. Apparent low bid would be announced via the on-line meeting with follow-up on material information needed to verify references etc.

The College Park Water & Sanitation District will receive sealed, electronic bids for the following project until 3:00 P.M., February 14, 2023. Immediately thereafter all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud as outlined above. All bids must be on a unit price basis. The unit price given will be used in case of a discrepancy with total price extensions.

Contractors desiring sets of the Contract Documents may obtain them on/or after January 26, 2023 at 1:00 P.M. from a request email addressed to both, Brian Techau (btechau@martinmartin.com) and Bill Willis (bwillis@martinmartin.com).

The principal work to be provided under this contract shall consist of approximately one (1) point repair, and three (3) full linings of 8-inch pipe. Work includes, but is not limited to, excavation, asphalt removal/ replacement, bypass pumping, and replacement of appurtenances thereto. The repairs are located within Jefferson County. Each bid must be accompanied by a bid security in the amount equal to five percent (5%) of the bid.

The College Park Water and Sanitation District reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any informalities in the bidding and to accept the proposal deemed most advantageous to the best interest of the District. The District reserves the right to award the contract in a period not to exceed 60 days from the date of the bid opening.

COLLEGE PARK WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

By: Bill Willis, P.E. Martin/Martin, Inc.

Legal Notice No. 415561

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

INVITATION FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

2.The prayer of the petition is that the above property be excluded from the boundaries of the District.

3. The area sought to be excluded from the District is located entirely within Jefferson County, and does not include property within any other county or within any other incorporated city, town, or city and county, and the District currently encompasses property in Jefferson County, and therefore no notice of the proposed exclusion under Section 32-1-207(2), C.R.S., as amended, is required.

Accordingly, notice is hereby given to all interested persons to appear at a meeting of the Board of Directors of Mount Carbon Metropolitan District at 10:00 a.m. on February 16, 2023, to be held virtually via Microsoft Teams, https://teams.microsoft.com/l/ meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_MTE2ODBkN2ItYzV hNy00MjM3LTg1NWItY2MxYjM1MTRlN2Q5%40 thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%224a aa468e-93ba-4ee3-ab9f-6a247aa3ade0%22%2c %22Oid%22%3a%229bf4c29b-a9c8-46b4-a6c0c1ed7cba4824%22%7d, or via teleconference:

1-720-547-5281, Access Code: 328186321#, and show cause in writing, if any they have, why such petition should not be granted. The failure of any person in the existing District to file a written objection shall be taken as an assent on his part to the exclusion of the property described in this notice.

MOUNT CARBON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Russell W. Dykstra, Counsel for the District

Legal Notice No. 415568

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

/s/ Designated Election Official Signature

Legal Notice No. 415627

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Cimarron Metropolitan District

CONSTRUCTION SERVICES

EDGE ICE ARENA ROOF REPAIR

Sealed proposals for the below described project will be received by the Foothills Park & Recreation District at the District Office, 6612 S. Ward St., Littleton, CO 80127, until February 10, 2023 at 1:00pm MST. At such time and place, proposals will be opened and recorded.

PROJECT TITLE:EDGE ICE ARENA EAST ROOF REPAIRS 6623 S. WARD STREET, LITTLETON, CO 80127

Project work includes: REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING WIND DAMAGED ROOF AREA AND INSTALATION OF NEW INSULATION, COVER BOARD AND ADEHERED EPDM ROOF SYSTEM as per scope of Work.

1. The entire project shall be completed no later than March 31, 2023, including the delivery of any or all guaranties and warranties, the final inspection, and the completion of the final punch list. Failure to complete the work as prescribed shall be considered a breach of contract.

2. Proposals will be analyzed on the basis of cost and other considerations. While cost is the primary consideration, it will not be the sole determining factor. Owner reserves the right to waive any informalities or irregularities, and to reject any and all proposals.

3.Roof Replacement Scope of Work

Install a new 60mil EPDM roofing system onto the East side of the Roof at Edge Ice Arena: Roofing system must meet all wind uplift requirements as defined by the Jefferson County Building Department.

All necessary permits to be obtained from the Jefferson Co. Building Department.

•Remove all existing roofing, from the affected area, down to the concrete twin tee deck and properly dispose of all refuse.

Reference attached roof plan for the affected area.

Existingroofingassembly:

2-ply felt vapor barrier hot mopped to the twin tee concrete deck.

3” poly-ISO insulation hot mopped over the felt vapor barrier.

½”woodfibercoverboardhotmoppedover the poly-ISO insulation. 60mil EPDM membrane adhered to the cover board with solvent based bonding adhesive.

• Prime the existing concrete deck in preparation for installation of the new roofing system.

Install a self-adhered vapor/air barrier onto all roof deck surfaces.

• Install 3” poly-ISO insulation onto all roof deck surfaces.

Install ½” per ft. tapered poly-ISO crickets to ensure proper drainage to the existing roof drains.

All insulation to be adhered with low rise foam adhesive. Install a ½” wood fiber cover board onto all roof deck surfaces.

• Wood fiber cover board to be adhered with low rise foam adhesive.

Install 60mil EPDM single-ply membrane onto all roof deck surfaces.

• Flash all walls, curbs and penetrations with 60mil EPDM membrane.

Perimeter parapetwallstobeflashed18” up the interior of the walls and terminated with manufacturer’s metal t-bar and 24-gauge metal counter flashing.

All EPDMfieldmembraneandflashingstobe adhered with solvent based bonding adhesive. Approved membrane manufacturer’s: Firestone/Elevate.

Carlisle.

Versico.

Johns Manville Contractors must be approved by the manufacturers to install and warranty their systems.

4. Direct any administrative questions, in writing, to Derek Eberhardt, Director of Recreation Facility Operations at Tel: 303-409-2514; Email: dereke@ fhprd.org; 6612 S. Ward Street, Littleton, CO 80127.

5. The bidder promises, in submitting his bid, that if issued a notice of award, he will, within the prescribed time, execute the required agreement and furnish the required insurance policies and certificates of insurance. A performance, payment and warranty bond including labor and materials will NOT be required for this project.

6. One (1) site inspection/pre-bid conference will be held on February 6, 2023 at 11A.M. MST at Edge Ice Arena, 6623 S. Ward Street, Littleton, CO 80127; 303.409.2222.

No bid may be withdrawn for at least thirty (30) days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bid. A bid may be withdrawn prior to closing time. Neither the OWNER nor the CONSULTANT assumes any responsibility for submission of any bid. Complete instructions for filing bids, bond requirements, liquidated damages, pre-bid conference and other requirements are included in the instructions to bidders available upon request. EOE/ADA Compliance.

For the OWNER:

Derek Eberhardt, Director of Recreation Facility

Operations

Foothills Park & Recreation District

Legal Notice No. 415636

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, Colorado 80401

Plaintiff: JOHN ROSS, an individual, v. Defendants: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, a political subdivision of the State of Colorado; DENVER MOUNTAIN PARK HOME COMPANY, a dissolved Colorado corporation; W.A. RHOADS and LEE HISTED, as the last known acting members of the Board of Directors of Denver Mountain Park Home Company; and ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS ACTION.

Attorneys for Plaintiff Max S. Stich, #36782 Philip A. Goiran, #32325 Tiemeier & Stich, P.C. 1000 E. 16th Avenue Denver, CO 80218

Phone Number: (303) 531-0022

Fax Number: (303) 531-0021

E-mail: mstich@tslawpc.com; agoiran@tslawpc.com

Case No.: 2022CV31269 Div: 9

SUMMONS

THE PEOPLE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint. If service of the Summons and Complaint was made upon you within the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 21 days after such service upon you. If service of the Summons and Complaint was made upon you outside of the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after such service upon you. Your answer or counterclaim must be accompanied with the applicable filing fee.

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

Dated: January 19, 2023.

Respectfully submitted, TIEMEIER & STICH, P.C.

Plaintiff: FIRST VILLA WEST TOWNHOUSE ASSOCIATION, a Colorado non-profit corporation vs. Defendants: WILLIAM W. WOLF; SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC; U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; UNITED RESOURCE SYSTEMS, INC.; and THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE AND NOTICE OF RIGHTS TO CURE AND RIGHTS TO REDEEM

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to the Jefferson County District Court’s Order for Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure dated November 21, 2022, and C.R.S. § 38-38-101 et seq., by First Villa West Townhouse Association (“Association”), the current holder of a statutory and contractual lien. The judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Villa West Townhouses Filing No. 1 recorded with the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder April 30, 1971 at Reception Number 417895 (“Declaration”). The Declaration, as recorded, establishes a lien for the benefit of First Villa West Townhouse Association, WHICH LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS legally described as follows:

Also known by street number as 416 South Carr Street, Lakewood, CO 80226 (“Property”).

The Property being foreclosed is all of the property encumbered by the Association’s lien. You are advised that the parties liable thereon, the owner of the Property described above, or those with an interest in the subject property, may take appropriate and timely action under Colorado statutes. In order to be entitled to take advantage of any rights provided for under Colorado law, you must strictly comply and adhere to the provisions of the law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

If the Borrower believes that a lender or servicer has violated the requirements for a single point of contact in section 38-38-103.1 or the prohibition on dual tracking in section 38-38-103.2, the borrower may file a complaint with the Colorado attorney general at (720) 508-6000, the CFPB at (855) 411-2372, or both, but the filing of a complaint will not stop the foreclosure process.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 A.M., on the 23rd day of March 2023, at the Sheriff's Office Administration Building, located at 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Suite 1520, Golden, CO 80419; telephone number 303-271-6580. At the sale, the Sheriff will sell the above described real property and improvements thereon to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in or to said real property in connection with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID BY NOON THE DAY OF THE SALE.

The name, address, and telephone number of the attorney representing the Plaintiff is: Kathryn Willard, #50236, Vial Fotheringham LLP, 12600 W. Colfax Ave. Ste. C200, Lakewood, CO 80215; telephone: 720-943-8811.

Published in: Golden Transcript

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

DATED December 14, 2022

Regina Marinelli Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 415587

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

CIVIL ACTION NO. 2022CV030797, Division/Courtroom 1 COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY (Publication Notice)

JEWELL RIDGE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v. ESTATE OF BETTYFAYE VESTA DELAROSA ZISCH; ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; and JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED

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 HIGHEST BID BY NOON THE DAY OF THE SALE.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $11,369.58.

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 October 7, 2022 and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by Jewell Ridge Condominium Association the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on October 24, 2019 at Reception No. 2019100985 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Condominium Declaration for Jewell Ridge Condominiums recorded on 07/05/1983 at Reception#83061905 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Jewell Ridge Condominium Association against real property legal described as follows:

Condominium Unit 10200C, Jewell Ridge Condominiums, according to the Map thereof filed for record with the Clerk and Recorder of Jefferson County, on July 5, 1983 as Reception No. 83061908 and Affidavit of Correction recorded July 14,1983 as Reception No. 83065240 and Jewell Ridge Condominium Phase II, recorded March 1, 1984 as Reception No. 84018947 as described in the Condominium Declaration filed on July 5, 1983 as Reception No. 83061905, and Jewell Ridge Condominium Map Phase III recorded October 10, 1984 as Reception No. 84095867 and Jewell Ridge Condominium Map Phase IV recorded October 10, 1984 as Reception No. 84095869, and First Supplement to the Condominium Declaration recorded March 1, 1984 as Reception No. 84010946, Second Supplement to the Condominium Declaration recorded October 10, 1984 as Reception No, 84095866 and Third Supplement to the Condominium Declaration recorded October 10, 1984 as Reception No. 84095868, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.;

And also known as: 10200 W. Jewell Avenue #C, Lakewood, CO 80232

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

The attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 802281011, 303.432.9999

Date: January 13, 2023

Regina Marinelli, Sheriff Jefferson County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 415535

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Published In: Golden Transcript Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80401

Plaintiff(s):GOLDEN RIDGE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation vs. Defendant(s): MATTHEW P. RILEY, BLACK NIGHT FINANCIAL SERVICES, a Florida corporation, JERRY DIPULLIO in his capacity as TREASURER and PUBLIC TRUSTEE of JEFFERSON COUNTY

SPRINGMAN, BRADEN, WILSON & PONTIUS, P.C. – Attorney for Plaintiff

Deborah L. Wilson, #27915

Paul Farrer #30996 Kristi Bunge, #34182 Karen Kelly-Braem, #36282 4175 Harlan St #200 Wheat Ridge CO 80033 Ph:(303) 685-4633 Fax:(303) 685-4627 E-mail: sbwp@sbwp-law.com Case No. 2022CV031293 Div. 8

SUMMONS

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S):

You are hereby summoned and required to file with the Clerk an answer or other response to the attached Complaint. If service of the summons and complaint was made upon you within the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 21 days after service upon you. If service of the summons and complaint was made upon you outside the State of Colorado, or by publication, you are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after such service upon you.

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 and without further notice.

Dated: November 9th, 2022

Springman, Braden, Wilson & Pontius, P.C.

By: /s/ Karen Kelly-Braem

parties or the Court upon request. 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.

TO THE CLERK: If the summons is issued by the clerk of the court, the signature block for the clerk, deputy, and the seal of the court should be provided by stamp, or typewriter, in the space to the left of the attorney’s name.

NOTE: PURSUANT TO THE FAIR DEBT COL-

LECTION PRACTICES ACT YOU ARE ADVISED

THAT THIS LAW FIRM IS DEEMED TO BE A DEBT COLLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COL-

LECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OB-

TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Legal Notice No. 415444

First Publication: January 5, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, DENVER COUNTY, COLORADO Denver City and County Building 1437 Bannock St. Denver, CO 80202 Case No. 2017CV31931 Div. 269

Plaintiff: ALLEN 2575 INVESTORS, LLC, as assignee of LUIS CARLOS GUTIERREZ

vs. Defendant: KISHORE K. RAMJIANI

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE AND RIGHTS TO CURE OR REDEEM

BY VIRTUE OF a Writ of Execution, to me directed, regarding a Judgment dated the 19th day of June, 2017, in favor of the Plaintiff, Allen 2575 Investors, LLC as assignee of Luis C. Gutierrez against Defendant, Kirshore K. Ramjiani (“Judgment-Debtor”), evidenced by a Transcript of Judgment recorded July 14, 2017, at Reception No. 2017072593 of the real estate records of Jefferson County, State of Colorado and, I am commanded to make, out of the lands, tenements, goods and chattels, owned by the JudgmentDebtor, the sum of Thirty Thousand and 00/100 Dollars, ($30,000.00) plus post-judgment interest, continuing costs of collection, and attorneys’ fees, resulting from Denver County Court Civil Action No. 2017CV31931.

Accordingly, I have levied upon the following real property owned by Judgment-Debtor, to wit:

THAT PART OF THE SOUTHEAST ¼ OF THE SOUTHEAST ¼ OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE

69 WEST, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT 25 FEET NORTH AND 50 FEET WEST OF THE CENTER OF SAID SECTION 26; THENCE WEST AND PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 26, 133 FEET; THENCE NORTH AND PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 26, 145 FEET; THENCE EAST AND PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 26, 133 FEET; THENCE SOUTH AND PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 26, 145 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, EXCEPT A TRIANGULAR TRACT IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER THEREOF PREVIOUSLY CONVEYED TO THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE FOR ROAD PURPOSES ONLY, IN DEED RECORDED DECEMBER 11, 1970 IN BOOK 2226 AT PAGE 221 AND EXCEPT THAT PORTION CONVEYED TO PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO RECORDED FEBRUARY 17, 1958 IN BOOK 1105 AT PAGE 258, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has a street address of 3201 Wadsworth Blvd., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033.

THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

NOTICE OF SALE

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 A.M., on March 30, 2023, at 100 Jefferson County Parkway Suite 1520, Golden, CO 80419, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said JudgmentDebtor, Kishore K. Ramjiani, his heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the Judgment, as evidenced by the Transcript of Judgment, plus post-judgment interest, continuing costs of collection and attorneys’ fees, and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

NOTICE OF RIGHTS

YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE.

YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED.

A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES.

•A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. § 38-38-104 FROM A GRANTOR, LIENOR, LESSEE OR OTHER ENTITY DEFINED BY STATUTE SHALL BE FILED WITH THE SHERIFF AT LEAST FIFTEEN

(15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. IF

•A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. § 38-38-302 FROM A LIENOR, LESSEE OR OTHER ENTITY DEFINED BY STATUTE SHALL BE FILED WITH THE SHERIFF NO LATER THAN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE.

•If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (C.R.S. § 38-38-103.1) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (C.R.S. § 38-38-103.2), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855-4112372)

To Every Person in Actual Possession of Occupancy of the hereinafter Described land, Lot or Premises and to the Person in whose name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed and to all Person having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and, To Whom it May Concern, and more especially CRAIG L. VAN PELT GEORGE FLESSA, DECEASED 7416 PARK VISTA EL CERRITO, CA 94530

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 25TH day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2007, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to CERISE ENTERPRISES L.L.C., Applicant, who has made demand for a Treasurer’s Deed for the following described real estate situated in the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado to LOTS 26, 27, 28, BLOCK C, CRAGMONT, AKA: VACANT LAND, That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2006 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2006 that said real estate was taxed in the name of GEORGE FLESSA the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 25, A.D. 2010; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, CERISE ENTERPRISES L.L.C., lawful holder of said certificate, on the 8TH day of MAY at 5:00 P.M., A.D. 2023, unless the same has been redeemed on or before 5:00 P.M. of said date.

WITNESS my hand and seal this 9TH Day of JANUARY, A.D. 2023.

Jerry DiTullio

Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice No. 415491

First Publication JANUARY 19, 2023

Final Publication FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

Case # 2022-074 Cert # 180281

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED

To Every Person in Actual Possession of Occupancy of the hereinafter Described land, Lot or Premises and to the Person in whose name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed and to all Person having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and, To Whom it May Concern, and more especially LARRY M. HUSTON 11759 SE 91ST CIR SUMMERFIELD, FL 34491

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 14TH day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2019, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to OUTREACH ASSETS LLC, Applicant, who has made demand for a Treasurer’s Deed for the following described real estate situated in the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado to wit; S ½ LOT 15, N ½ LOT 16, N ½ LOT 30, S ½ LOT 31, BLOCK 54, MOUNTAIN PARK HOME, ALSO KNOWN AS TRACT A LOT 15, TRACT A LOT 16, TRACT B LOT 30, TRACT B LOT 31, BLOCK 54, MOUNTAIN PARK HOME, AKA: VACANT LAND, That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2018 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2018 that said real estate was taxed in the name of LARRY M. HUSTON the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 14, A.D. 2022; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, OUTREACH ASSETS LLC, lawful holder of said certificate, on the 22ND day of MAY at 5:00 P.M., A.D. 2023, unless the same has been redeemed on or before 5:00 P.M. of said date.

WITNESS my hand and seal this 23RD Day of JANUARY, A.D. 2023.

Jerry DiTullio Jefferson County Treasurer

Concern, and more especially

PHOEBE P. BARNARD EXEC EST OF RUTH P. SUMNERS 70 E. 96TH ST APT 7A NEW YORK, NY 10128-0749

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 14TH day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2019, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to MIGUEL PALMA, Applicant, who has made demand for a Treasurer’s Deed for the following described real estate situated in the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado to LOTS 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, BLOCK H, MOUNT VERNON CLUB PLACE, AND THAT PORTION OF LOT 362 LYING WEST OF ASPEN WAY, BLOCK H, MOUNT VERNON CLUB PLACE, ALSO KNOWN AS TRACT A LOT 362, BLOCK H, MOUNT VERNON CLUB PLACE, AKA: VACANT LAND,

That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2018 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2018 that said real estate was taxed in the name of RUTH P. SUMNERS the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 14, A.D. 2022; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, MIGUEL PALMA, lawful holder of said certificate, on the 15TH day of MAY at 5:00 P.M., A.D. 2023, unless the same has been redeemed on or before 5:00 P.M. of said date.

WITNESS my hand and seal this 17TH Day of JANUARY, A.D. 2023.

Jerry DiTullio Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice No. 415549

First Publication JANUARY 26, 2023

Final Publication FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

Dr. Scott Hahn, D.C. and Dr. Leah Hahn, D.C. of Body In Balance Chiropractic, 755 Heritage Road, Unit 110, Golden, CO 80401, will be destroying all records of patients who have not been seen since January of 2016, per Colorado State regulations. Patients can secure their records by calling 303-215-0390, before the final date of March 2nd, 2023.

Legal Notice No. 415486

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

Summons Re: Domestic Relations In the District Court Jefferson County, Golden Colorado

THE PEOPLE OF THE TATE OF COLORADO

To the Respondents named below:

You are hereby summoned and required to file with the Clerk of the Combined Court a response to the Petition within 35 days after publication of this notice.

A copy of the Petition and Summons in your action may be obtained from the Clerk of the Combined Court. Default judgment may be entered against you if you fail to appear or file a response within 35 days of this publication.

Action Number: Names of Parties:

Nature of Action

22DR842: Panetta, Heather Elaine VS Panetta, Joseph Antonio

DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

22DR1100: Sterzenbach, Madeline Mae VS Webb, Jason Aaron

DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

22DR30866 Garner, Ranisha Rena VS Garner III, Thomas

DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

22DR31013 Hansen, Cord Jon VS Torio, Tristan Khyle Quides

DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

JANUARY 20, 2023

LISA PAGANETTI

CLERK OF THE COMBINED COURT

Legal Notice No. 415588

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice:

Mark Wolff, DC, LLC doing business as Green Mountain Chiropractic and Massage in Lakewood, Colorado will be disposing of paper patient files dated 1/1/2016 and older. If you have been a patient of this practice and would like a copy of your record, please provide a written request to Green Mountain Chiropractic and Massage, 215 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Ste. 420 no later than February 20, 2023. All unclaimed records will be destroyed on March 1, 2023.

Legal Notice No. 415566

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

District Court Jefferson County, Colorado 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401

In the Interest of: Frank Ray Williamson

Attorney for Frances Leneal Williamson (Petitioner): Preston J. Branaugh, Esq., Branaugh Law Offices, PC 8700 Ralston Road, Arvada, CO 80002

Phone Number: 303.893.4122

Case Number: 2022PR031478

9235 W. 66th Avenue, Arvada, CO 80004

A hearing on Petition for Guardianship for Adult and Petition for Conservatorship of Adult for Appointment of Frances Leneal Williamson as Guardian and Conservator for above Frank Ray Williamson will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:

Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30018

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before 5/19/2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Julio Sandoval, Personal Representative 10859 W. Dartmouth Ave. Lakewood, CO 80227

Legal Notice No. 415499

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

CO 80002 will hold an online public sale to enforce a lien imposed on said property, as described below, pursuant to the Colorado Self-Service Storage Facility Act, Colorado Code 38-21.5 to 38-21.5-105. The auction will be held on website www.storageauctions.com (http://www.storageauctions.com) and will end at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, February 22, 2023.

reserves the right to withdraw any unit from sale. Registered or motor vehicles are sold "As

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rosalie McFarland aka Rosalie M. McFarland, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30001

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sharon Munson, Personal Representative 12557 Grizzly Littleton, CO 80127

Legal Notice No. 415548

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Lynn D. McKissack, deceased Case Number: 2023PR30075

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 02, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

J. Clifford McKissack Personal Representative 8300 Garland Drive Arvada, Colorado 80005

Legal Notice No. 415616

First publication: February 02, 2023

Last publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robert E Mumford Jr., Deceased Case Number: 22PR 572

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Monica G Mumford, Personal Representative 2044 S. Robb Way Lakewood, CO 80227

Legal Notice No. 415489

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Verlie Doreen Miller, also known as Verlie D. Miller, also known as Verlie Miller, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30079

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jack R. Miller, Personal Representative 10950 W. Union Hills Drive #2206 Sun City, Arizona 85373 Legal Notice No. 415562

Publication: January 26, 2023 Last Publication: February 9, 2023 Publisher: Golden Transcript

of ROBERT R. GOUGH,

ROBERT RAY GOUGH,

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan A. Westervelt Personal Representative P.O. Box 110 - 394 Anchorage, Alaska 99511

named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before

Estate of Robert Duane Fritzler, SR, Deceased Case Number: 22PR527

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kerry Allen Fritzler Personal Representative 618 Saint Michaels Drive Ft. Collins, Colorado 80525 Legal Notice No. 415553

Publication: January 26, 2023

Publication: February 9, 2023 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Estate of Josephine G. Yakich, aka Josephine Goodnough Yakich, aka Josephine Yakich, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31537

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

David Eli Yakich, Personal Representative

c/o Schafer Thomas Maez PC, 4 Garden Center #200 Broomfield, Colorado 80020

Legal Notice No. 415505

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Dieter W. Becker, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30070

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, on or before May 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Daniel M. Becker, Personal Representative

c/o Keith L. Davis, JD Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 415572

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JOSEPH SCOTT STRASSER, AKA JOSEPH S STRASSER, AKA JOE STRASSER, Deceased

Case Number: 2022 PR 31147

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of JEFFERSON County, Colorado or on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

LEIF A. NELSON, P.C. ATTORNEY TO THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATION 29029 UPPER BEAR CREEK ROAD, SUITE 202 EVERGREEN, COLORADO 80439

Legal Notice No. 415618

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Charles Dudley Brainard, aka Charles D. Brainard, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR12

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Christopher Brainard Personal Representative 11310 W. 79th Drive Arvada, Colorado 80005

Legal Notice No. 415522

aka

M. CARUSO WILSON, aka JOSEPHINE CARUSO WILSON, aka JOSEPHINE M. WILSON, aka JOSEPHINE MARIE C. WILSON, aka JOSEPHINE WILSON, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 31549

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Harla M. Rossi, Personal Representative 8404 Everett Way, Unit A Arvada, CO 80005

Legal Notice No. 415501

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Sandra Hoefer, AKA Sandra K Hoefer, AKA Sandra Kay Hoefer, AKA Sandy Hoefer, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30007

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ronald Robbins, Personal Representative 5460 Newland Street Arvada, CO 80002

Legal Notice No. 415551

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Edwin Minoru Kamisato, a/k/a Edwin M. Kamisato a/k/a Edwin Kamisato, a/k/a Ed Kamisato Deceased Case Number: 2022PR031460

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Eric J. Kelly, Person Giving Notice Frazer-Abel Law, LLC. 4704 Harlan Street, Suite 250 Denver, CO 80212

Legal Notice No. 415547

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Barbara Joan Grebe, a/k/a Barbara J. Grebe, a/k/a Barbara Grebe, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30027

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Karen Elaine Dorr

Personal Representative Patrick R. Thiessen (40185) FRIE, ARNDT, DANBORN & THIESSEN P.C. 7400 Wadsworth Blvd, Ste. 201 Arvada, CO 80003 Phone Number: 303-420-1234

Attorney for Karen Elaine Dorr

Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. 415528

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Lois Price, aka Lois A. Price, aka Lois R. Price, aka Lois Ashley Price, aka Lois Ruth Price, Deceased Case Number: 23PR031

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Timothy L Price, Personal Representative 11124 W Coco Place Littleton CO 80127

Legal Notice No. 415589

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Kenneth Karl Hoehner, aka Kenneth K Hoehner, aka Kenneth Hoehner,

aka Ken Hoehner, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30017

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 3, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mona L Hoehner, Personal Representative 10705 W 35th Avenue Wheat Ridge CO 80033

Legal Notice No. 415613

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Geraldine Ann Schiel, aka Geraldine A.Schiel, aka Gerri A. Schiel, aka Gerri Schiel, Deceased

Case Number: 22PR514

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson, County, Colorado or on or before June 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ann Marie Nelson, Personal Representative 12098 W. New Mexico Ave. Lakewood, CO 80228

Legal Notice No. 415605

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Donald L. Keehner, aka Donald Keehner, aka Donald Louis Keehner, aka Donald Kip Keehner, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30046

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeannine L. Keehner

Personal Representative

c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C.

1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO, 80203

Legal Notice No. 415539

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robyn Joan Marie Hodson, a/k/a Robyn J. Hodson, a/k/a Robyn Hodson, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30077

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brady McFarland & Lord, LLC

Attorney to the Personal Representative 6870 W. 52nd Ave, Suite 103 Arvada, CO 80002

Legal Notice No. 415626

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Kenton C. Ensor, Jr, a/k/a Ken C. Ensor, Jr., a/k/a K.C. Ensor, Jr., a/k/a Kenton C. Ensor, a/k/a Ken C. Ensor, a/k/a K.C. Ensor, and Ken Ensor, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030068

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Co-Personal Representatives or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kacee Cabanting, Co-Personal Representative 10349 Green Lake Court Colorado Springs, CO 80924

Kendra Ensor, Co-Personal Representative

6179 S. Sheridan Blvd Littleton, CO 80123

Kerri Greene, Co-Personal Representative 1681 County Road 5

Divide, CO 80814

Legal Notice No. 415624

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Natalie Wendel Loeb,

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave.,

be forever barred.

Brian Snell, Personal Representative 11722 West Lake Avenue Littleton, Colorado 80127

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson, County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred. Merry Eve Trengove

Representative

Eaton St. Denver, CO 80212

Legal Notice No. 415500

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Donald Wayne Konecne, aka Donald W. Konecne Deceased Case Number: 23PR032

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado or on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jennifer R. Westerman

Personal Representative c/o Douglas A. Turner, P.C. 602 Park Point Drive, Suite 240 Golden, CO 80401 Legal Notice No. 415585

Publication: February 2, 2023

Publication: February 16, 2023

Golden Transcript Public Notice

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred. Cassandra Porter, Personal Representative 10475 W. 46th Ave Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Bette Heller, Esq. Attorney to the Personal Representative 19671 E. Euclid Dr., Centennial, CO 80016 Phone Number: 303-690-7092 E-mail: bhelleresq@comcast.net

Reg. #: 10521

Legal Notice No. 415534

Publication: January 26, 2023 Last Publication: February 9, 2023

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 30, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lynn Traxler, Personal Representative 8205 Dudley Way Arvada, Colorado 80005

Legal Notice No. 415603

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

First Publication: January 19, 2023

2, 2023 Publisher: Golden Transcript

Estate of Norman James Van Esselstine, a/k/a, Norman J Van Esselstine, Deceased Case Number: 23 PR 30010

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Morgen Van Esselstine, Co-Personal Representative c/o Flatiron Legal Advisors, LLC 3393 Iris Ave., Suite 110 Boulder, CO 80301

Legal Notice No. 415599

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Stephen Coe Austin, Deceased Case Number 23 PR 020

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, on or before 5/26/2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Baysore & Christian Fiduciary Services, LLC Roby Scott Christian aka Scott Christian 7000 E. Belleview Ave. Suite 150 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 415573

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Morgen Van Esselstine, Co-Personal Representative c/o Flatiron Legal Advisors, LLC 3393 Iris Ave., Suite 110 Boulder, CO 80301

Legal Notice No. 415600

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Herbert William Starick, Jr., AKA Herbert William Starick, AKA Herbert W. Starick, AKA Herbert Starick, AKA H William Starick, AKA William Starick, AKA Bill Starick, Deceased Case No. 2023PR030064

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Denise L. O'Rourke Personal Representative 2901 East 9th Ave. Denver, CO 80206

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Jefferson County District Court on or before May 26, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Herbert William Starick III, Personal Representative c/o CHAYET & DANZO, LLC 650 S. Cherry St., #710 Denver, CO 80246 (303) 355-8500

Legal Notice No. 415567

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JAMES LYLE RUTERBORIES, also known as JAMES L. RUTERBORIES,

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DAVID BRYANT FALLS, a/k/a DAVID B. FALLS, a/k/a DAVID FALLS, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30083

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nick Falls, Personal Representative c/o Brian Hedberg, Esq., 7350 E Progress Place, #100 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111

Legal Notice No. 415634

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Richard M. Kreutzer, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30035

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anne K. Hebert

Personal Representative Patrick R. Thiessen (40185) FRIE, ARNDT, DANBORN & THIESSEN P.C. 7400 Wadsworth Blvd, Ste. 201 Arvada, CO 80003

Phone Number: 303-420-1234

Attorney for Anne K. Hebert

Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. 415529

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO

Notice is given that a hearing is scheduled as follows:

Date: February 15, 2023

Time: 9:00am Location: 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden CO 80401 (or Virtually) for the purpose of requesting a change of name for Carter-Paul SeyedJafari

At this hearing the Court may enter an order changing the name of the minor child.

To support or voice objection to the proposed name change, you must appear at the hearing.

Date: 12/28/2022

/s/ Allis Hammond

Signature of Parent/Petitioner Allis Hammond 165 S. Flower Circle Lakewood, CO 80232

Legal Notice No. 415484

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 26, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Jefferson County Court. The Petition requests that the name of Isabella Viola Brito be changed to Isabella Viola Mondragon Case No.: 22C1756

/s/ Mary Ramsey Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 415633

First Publication: February 2, 2023 Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript City of Wheat Ridge Public Notice

Net-zero federal lab set to open

Lakewood facility costs $79M

BY OLIVIA PRENTZEL THE COLORADO SUN

When construction is complete, the new all-electric facility in Lakewood aims to be net-zero, releasing no new emissions into the atmosphere.

But the new Food and Drug Administration lab has a secondary mission: To prove that cost-e ective and energy e cient buildings can house serious scienti c activities without risk of losing crucial research. Like hospitals, labs run 24/7, 365 days a year.

“You can’t shut the power o and shut the experiments down or the testing that they’re doing. But you can be more e cient in the way that you use the energy,” said Daniel Nikolich, project manager for the new FDA lab at the Denver Federal Center.

Funded through $79 million from a federal climate change and health care law, the new lab is part of the U.S. General Service Administration’s rst batch of projects that looks to boost clean energy innovation by using energy-saving technologies and materials that minimize carbon emissions in construction and renovation projects at federal facilities. e administration owns more than 411,000 buildings across the country, including research and judicial complexes in Boulder and Denver.

e GSA estimates that its rst round of clean energy projects, totaling more than $300 million from the In ation Reduction Act, will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 12,000 metric tons, which is equivalent to the emissions created by more than 25,000 cars in one year and reduce energy costs by $35 million over the next 20 years.

e project works toward President Joe Biden’s goal of reaching net-zero emissions from federal buildings by 2045.

“It’s great to see the federal government leading by example,” said Nissa Erickson, an associate at Boulder-based Southwest Energy E ciency Project. “Using IRA funds

to help pay for the state-of-the-art HVAC systems in this new lab makes a lot of sense. It’s important to demonstrate all-electric, net-zero energy buildings of many di erent types, commercial and residential. Moving to highly e cient, all-electric buildings will be essential to protect our climate — and it can save us money too.”

e new 70,000-square-foot Food and Drug Administration lab, which is set to open in 2026, will be decked with solar panels and other ways to o set power generated by coal or natural gas and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

e three-story building will replace a building that was built as a munitions factory during World War II. e FDA moved into the nearly windowless two-story building at the Denver Federal Center in 1987, after it was modi ed into a lab.

e new lab will be built with glass on the south and west sides of the building to bring in sunlight, Nikolich said. e north and east sides will have less glass to help provide for better thermal insulation, he said.

To o set the energy used in heating and cooling the building, the lab will recapture energy as it leaves the building and put it back, using runaround loops, ground-source heat

pumps and other technologies.

e building design and construction, a combination of steel and concrete, will help the lab use half the amount of energy a typical lab uses, Nikolich said. For perspective, a typical lab uses about 10 times as much energy as an o ce building of a similar size.

e FDA lab in Denver performs tests on a wide range of food for humans and animals, cosmetics and dietary-supplements and specializes in testing for food allergies and DNA sh barcoding, among other analyses.

e lab will still rely on a generator in the case of a power outage, but due to “fairly stable” power in Denver, Nikolich said he doesn’t expect it to be used often.

“We’re proud of the fact that it is going to be our rst net-zero lab in the country,” said G.W. Emge, director of design and construction for GSA’s Rocky Mountain region. e energy e ciency will save the FDA money that would otherwise be spent to heat, cool and light the building.

“Every dollar they have to spend on energy is a dollar they can’t spend on their research,” he said. “So it’s kind of a win-win in that respect.”

Construction on the lab is set to start within the next year. It will be

built on what is now a parking lot, south of the existing building. e project also falls in line with a lofty goal proposed by some Colorado lawmakers to remove all carbon emissions by 2050. Senate Bill 16, which would also set tough interim goals for greenhouse gas reduction and try again for a 30% tax credit for clean electric lawn and garden equipment, is on the table in the legislature this year.

Nonpro t clean energy analysis group RMI hopes the push to build an all-electric, net-zero lab serves as a model for other facilities to adopt.

“Facilities like the Denver Federal Center can be di cult to electrify and decarbonize due to their high process and ventilation loads,” said Lucas To oli, on the group’s CarbonFree Building program. “So, we hope the integrated e ciency, energy recovery, and renewable energy strategies they’re using will provide a helpful model for high-performance lab build-outs across the U.S.” is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. e Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

A rendering of the all-electric Food and Drug Administration lab, set to open in 2026, features large glass windows on the west side to bring in sunlight.

COURTESY OF THE U.S. GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION / ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION