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Leaving big shoes to fill

VOLUME 157 | ISSUE 10

Golden planning on Fourth of July fireworks

City Council wants to explore alternatives for future years

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Depending on re safety conditions, Golden’s annual Fourth of July reworks display could return this year.

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Senior guard Brendan Sullivan chose his moment well.

Fighting back from a 21-14 rsthalf de cit against Chadron State, the fth-year Colorado School of Mines player squared up in the paint and let it y. As the net swished, the surrounding Senior Night crowd cheered.

Over the next few plays, Sullivan scored two more baskets and had one block, helping Colorado School of Mines take a 27-26 lead over Chadron State. e Orediggers went

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into halftime with a six-point lead, and despite several ties and lead changes in the second half, ultimately edged out the Eagles 78-74 on Feb. 18.

Sullivan scored 24 points on 9-13 shooting, including three treys out of ve. He also racked up two rebounds, three assists and three blocks on Senior Night.

“It means so much to be able to show out (for Senior Night),” Sullivan said. “ … Sometimes you get in a rhythm and whenever you get an open shot, you got to let it y. It’s just one of those nights where I felt like I had that rhythm.”

Mines, now 22-4 overall and 16-4 in conference play, celebrated three fth-year seniors — Sullivan, Ben Boone and Trent Dykema — and transfer Adam istlewood on Feb. 18. All four started the game and helped lead the Orediggers to vic-

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tory. istlewood, who tallied 19 points the night before against Colorado Christian, had eight points on 4-5 shooting and three assists versus Chadron. Dykema collected four rebounds and had two assists. Boone had good looks early, scoring backto-back jumpers in the paint, and made critical free throws at the end.

Boone believed Senior Night always has weird energy because of the pregame celebrations, saying, “You either play really, really well, or you play awful at the beginning.”

For the Orediggers, it was the latter. e Eagles took and held onto their lead through most of the rst half. e Orediggers only managed to close the gap and take a lead of their own in the last six minutes. roughout the whole game,

e city plans to sign a $40,000 contract, which was already included in the 2023 budget. O cials clari ed that, if Golden can’t do its reworks display on Independence Day, it can opt for another time later in the year.

However, City Council members said they wanted to get community feedback on whether to discontinue the reworks display in 2024 and beyond. Councilors were concerned about continually investing money in displays that get canceled or postponed because of summertime re dangers.

e city didn’t sign a contract last year, citing drought conditions and the Marshall Fire as concerns.

During the Feb. 14 City Council meeting, City Manager Scott Vargo asked for councilors’ input on whether to go ahead with a contract this year. If not, he said the city could use the budgeted money toward other aspects of the holiday instead.

He’d hoped to have more time

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The four seniors on the Colorado School of Mines men’s basketball team celebrate Senior Night Feb. 18. The seniors are, from left, Brendan Sullivan, Ben Boone, Trent Dykema and Adam Thistlewood.

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Golden pursuing common consumption area for Miners Alley

City plans to continue parking lane program with changes

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Those looking to eat and drink outdoors in downtown Golden might have a new spot in a few months.

The city is looking to host a common consumption area in the 1100 block of Miners Alley. The area previously hosted nearby businesses’ outdoor seating, but the city discontinued that one-year pilot program last August in favor of a longer-term activation strategy.

Based on discussion at the Feb. 14 City Council work session, that looks like a city-hosted common consumption area.

Before, the local businesses had their own tables and chairs in the alleyway and had employees serve them as if they were an extension of the restaurant. However, the councilors preferred a more publicly available area where anyone could bring their food and/or drinks to enjoy. Nearby businesses could sell to-go food and drinks for their customers to enjoy in the alleyway, but they wouldn’t serve people sitting out there.

The decision hasn’t been finalized yet, as city staff’s looking into logistics and legal requirements to allow alcoholic consumption in the designated area. Golden’s proposed timeline would be mid-April through early November.

The councilors instructed city staff to talk to neighboring businesses, especially those under construction, and figure out a plan that’d work best for everyone.

Miners Alley vs. Washington Avenue

During the Feb. 14 work session, councilors had mixed opinions on whether the Miners Alley pilot program should continue. They wanted to ensure a 5-foot-wide path through the alley at all times, and said participating businesses seemed to struggle with that during the pilot program.

Thus, most of the councilors supported a common consumption

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area, saying they preferred having the city maintain the space “as opposed to individual merchants using them as business-expanders,” as Councilor Bill Fisher described.

Councilor Paul Haseman felt that should apply to all downtown businesses using public space for their own operations, namely those using parking spaces along Washington Avenue, which is a separate program from Miners Alley.

Amid COVID-19 restrictions, the city started allowing Washington Avenue businesses to expand seasonal operations in the nearby parking spaces. The so-called parking lane program runs April through October.

While the councilors decided to continue the so-called parking lane program this year with some changes, Haseman felt that if the Washington Avenue businesses get to keep their outdoor dining areas, the Miners Alley businesses should too.

“I want it to be the same on both sides — Washington and Miners

Alley,” he said.

Mayor Laura Weinberg advocated for continuing outdoor seating for the restaurants, saying if the seating is all public, it’ll lead to immense food waste and trash that the city would be responsible for cleaning up.

But continuing the program as is for Washington Avenue restaurants means they’re still responsible for keeping their areas clean. She added that each meal would be “a plate that gets washed” versus a takeout container.

Most of the other councilors agreed, but wanted to raise the city’s fee to cover the cost of the lost parking space and city expenses. One of those expenses will be ADA-accessible platforms, which the city will provide this spring.

These platforms will keep the outdoor dining level with the sidewalk, rather than having seating at street level without a ramp. City staff explained how ramps wouldn’t work given the parking spaces’ width and recommended

raised platforms instead. Another change the councilors decided on was nixing retail use in the parking spaces. Only a few retailers participate, and because they have different hours than the restaurants, the councilors said the spaces can look empty in the evenings after retailers bring in their merchandise.

They said retailers would be welcome to participate in the city’s sidewalk display program instead. Some councilors also advocated for having a few or all the participating spaces turned into common consumption areas, like the one proposed in Miners Alley. Staff members said they’d investigate hosting a few common consumption areas in spare parking spaces. Councilor JJ Trout, who was leading the work session, told staff members to reach out to participating retail businesses, the Golden Chamber of Commerce and other stakeholders, “so everyone knows we’re making changes beforehand.”

City o cials are looking to turn Miners Alley between 11th and 12th streets, seen here in summer 2022, into a common consumption area this summer. The area previously hosted outdoor seating for nearby businesses as part of a pilot program.

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to discuss either option with City Council rst, but sta realized Golden needed to sign a contract by mid-February or lose its place in line, Vargo stated.

Most of the councilors favored keeping the reworks for 2023, but almost all of them were open to doing something else in 2024 and beyond.

Mayor Laura Weinberg and Councilor Bill Fisher were against signing a contract this year, with Fisher commenting how worsening drought conditions make reworks displays an uncertainty, even in December.

Councilors Paul Haseman and Robert Reed favored signing a contract for 2023, saying the city didn’t have time to do public outreach on whether to cancel the reworks again this year.

Councilor JJ Trout was initially ambivalent but ultimately decided to give her thumbs up to signing a contract. She said she grew up watching Fourth of July displays and generally enjoys reworks.

“I don’t want to be the person that says ‘no reworks,’” she continued.

Reed recalled seeing the 1976 Bicentennial reworks on the National Mall, saying that displays like that mean a lot to him and others.

e city has explored something like drone shows instead, but Councilor Don Cameron said it’d cost $90,000 for a 10-minute display, which didn’t seem worthwhile.

Both Cameron and Councilor Casey Brown mentioned how their dogs fear reworks, but both also wanted to go forward with this year’s display. ey were also open to doing other family-friendly activities in future years, such as a children’s bicycle parade or supporting the Lions Club’s event.

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Boxabl, the Las Vegas Manufacturer Whose ADUs Unfold, Ramps Up Production

Manufactured housing started before most of us were born, if you include mobile homes. Modular housing, in which components of a building are put together in a factory and then assembled onsite, is also a part of early housing history. I remember attending Expo ’67 in Montreal, where one of the exhibits (but not an attraction to be toured) was “Habitat ’67,” a funny looking apartment complex adjacent to the 1967 World’s Fair site in which apartment modules were stacked one upon the other.

Then, in 1997, I purchased a home in Golden’s Mesa Meadows subdivision which I learned from a neighbor was built in a Ft. Morgan factory and assembled in one day on the foundation in Golden. Knowing that, I noticed the telltale wide beam in the ceiling which was where the two halves of the one-story home were attached to each other.

It was explained to me that manufactured homes are often of higher quality and better insulated, because they are

done on a factory floor where there is better supervision, resulting, for example, in better insulation. The exterior walls were all made from 2x6 lumber instead of 2x4 lumber to better withstand the stresses of being loaded, unloaded and moved on the building site. Indeed, my Mesa Meadows house was a good one, although I expect the current owners (the third since I sold it) don’t even know that it was not stick-built on site over several months, like its neighboring homes.

Next came the “tiny home” movement in which complete homes were often built on a factory floor, wheeled on a trailer to someone’s lot, and then put onto a foundation. Some tiny homes were put into service as temporary homes for our unhoused population, formerly referred to as “homeless,” on vacant land or in church parking lots — a good idea, but without a conventional connection to a sewer line.

About that time the ADU movement

That’s the title of an article in a February 14th post from MIT — https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1068582/

I have written about and provided my own explanations regarding how heat pumps differ from forced air furnaces and traditional A/C systems, but the article cited above goes the extra mile.

If you’ve spent the night in a hotel or motel, you have probably slept in a room that was heated or cooled by a heat pump, because invariably that’s what those units are which you saw and controlled under each window.

In the above article, heat pumps provide the heating and cooling for every Boxabl home. They are also what heats and cools many electric vehicles, since they require less battery power than conventional electric car heaters.

I was surprised to hear that heat pumps were invented in the 1850s but only started being used to heat and cool homes in the 1960s. It took the global climate crisis and the need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels to make them the hottest appliances in new homes.

Speaking of new homes, however, I lamented as recently as last fall that I haven’t found a single new home builder

which has abandoned gas-based home heating or even offers an upgrade to heat pumps. If you know of one, please tell me, because I’d be happy to promote that home builder in a future column.

The MIT article provides some useful information, including about the rebates being offered for heat pump installations. It also debunks the myth promoted by fossil fuel interests that heat pumps don’t work in colder climates. They are actually in use from Alaska to Maine, where, for example, my sister in Kingfield, Maine, installed a heat pump in her home to save on her fuel oil bill. Her fuel oil vendor verified that the adoption of heat pumps has noticeably reduced his sale of fuel oil in that rural community near the Canadian border.

According to the article, 60% of the homes in Norway are heated by heat pumps, as are 40% of the homes in Finland and Sweden (where another of my sisters lives).

“Wherever you look,” the MIT article concludes, “the era of the heat pump has officially begun.” Amen to that!

took off, with many if not most cities and counties changing their singlefamily zoning laws to allow the creation of “accessory dwelling units.” These could be walk-out basements converted to an apartment, but often they were apartments created above detached garages or stand-alone buildings in backyards. The typical ADU ordinance requires three things: 1) the ADU cannot exceed a certain size, 2) it has to have its own off-street parking space, and 3) the property owner has to live in either the main house or the ADU and not rent out both units. Some jurisdictions are considering loosening these rules.

Several locals businesses were created to cater to this new construction opportunity, including Verdant Living, 303717-1962, owned by John Phillips. His ADUs are manufactured in Nebraska and meet local code requirements. You can visit www.VerdantLiving.us for more information.

A company called Villa started building ADUs in a factory southeast of Los Angeles, after California legalized ADUs in 2020. This company delivers and installs its units across the state, with prices starting at $105,000 plus as much as $200,000 for delivery, infrastructure

costs, foundation, and installation.

There’s a Las Vegas startup called Boxabl, whose “secret sauce” is that its ADUs fold up to fit on a standard flatbed trailer and then unfold into the simple unit shown at left or to larger homes, such as the 3-bedroom, 2½-bath, 2-story home (assembled from three units) shown at the bottom of this column.

It’s a father-son company which has not yet gone public. It was clearly inspired by the factory concept of Tesla, not surprising since the son drives a Tesla. Notice the Tesla wall charger and the Tesla battery unit above it on the exterior of the 2-story building. That picture is from the International Builders Show last month in Las Vegas. It drew a lot of attention, and the company now has a waiting list over 100,000, even though it can’t deliver more units until regulators approve its construction.

The company did deliver 156 of its 400-square-foot “casitas” to the Federal government for use in Guantanamo Bay, which helped it build its factory and develop its technology. The company received that multi-million-dollar contract based on its proposal, even though the government knew they hadn’t built anything yet.

After completing that contract, Boxabl got a contract from an Arizona company to build workforce housing. Currently the firm is only building and, presumably, stockpiling its 400-square-foot casitas as it perfects its current factory and equips a second factory next door.

Learn more at www.Boxabl.com

‘Everything you need to know about the wild world of heat pumps’

Golden hosts Fourth of July fireworks over Lions Park in 2016. After canceling it in 2022, the city is planning to bring its annual display back in 2023. FILE PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN

Golden High School’s annual food drive collects 2,500 items for BGOLDN

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

BGOLDN’s shelves will look a little fuller this month, thanks to Golden High School’s annual food drive.

e boys basketball team and the larger school community collected almost 2,500 items, totaling 860 pounds of food worth $1,420, organizers announced Feb. 17.

e annual food drive honors Jamie Wiggins, a Je erson County teacher and GHS basketball parent who died in 2018.

All items will be donated to BGOLDN, formerly known as the Golden backpack program, which supports local children and families experiencing food insecurity. e items include school-day snacks for Golden students and meals for their families.

e Demons had hoped to collect 3,000 items for the 2023 Jamie Wiggins Food Drive, but Mother Nature paused their momentum.

e nal day of the food drive was scheduled for Jan. 18, at the home basketball game versus rival Wheat Ridge High School. However, the Jan. 17-18 snowstorm forced the Demons to reschedule to Feb. 6, and game-day donations were less than organizers had hoped.

Still, attendees donated 50 items and $100 cash, which helped the organizers purchase more snack items for BGOLDN.

Terre Deegan-Young and other organizers thanked everyone who helped make this year’s food drive a success. ey believed the annual food drive is a powerful way to honor Wiggins’ memory, and look to continue the tradition next year.

The Golden High School boys basketball team hopes to collect 3,000 items for its 2023 Jamie Wiggins Food Drive. Community members are invited to donated shelf-stable food and/or individually wrapped snacks at GHS through Jan. 18.

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Flavors of Casa Bonita fill Next Gallery in annual art show

Catch the Casa Bonita-themed works of art until March 6

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

What could be better than dripping sopapillas from Casa Bonita? A statue of dripping sopapillas from Casa Bonita.

This statue and many more Casa Bonita-themed works of art can be found at Next Gallery in Lakewood, in the same plaza as the famous pink-towered restaurant, as it hosts a Casa Bonita Art Show. Artists from down Colfax Avenue all the way to Georgia have submitted entries for the show, which runs until March 6.

“It’s always had sort of a quirky reputation,” said Betsy “Dolla B” Rudolph, a resident artist and organizer of the show since its start.

She explained that since Next Gallery was priced out of its previous space in 2017 and moved to Lakewood, it’s been hosting the Casa Bonita Art Show.

“We needed to sort of get

our name out, let the neighborhood know we were there,” Rudolph said. “And, also let the neighborhood know we were approachable and not like a fancypants art gallery.”

So, creating a whole show on the “quirky” restaurant next door was her idea to do that.

“It was a great way to attract people who had never been part of an art show,” she said, attracting new and working artists as well. “Every since the people still want it. And I see people through the summer already thinking about their Casa Bonita piece.”

Nowadays, the show is mostly known by word of mouth and tradition, but when Casa Bonita closed during the pandemic, Rudolph said the gallery was worried the show might die as well.

The gallery pushed through, and now, with a renewed buzz due to South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone renovating the restaurant to open again, the art show has a renewed “energy” as well.

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Next Gallery’s Casa Bonita Art show runs until March 6.

Man accused of killing Sheri ’s K-9 has active warrants, history of theft and DUI

Romero was scheduled to appear in court Feb. 21

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The 29-year-old man who reportedly killed a Jefferson County Sheriff K-9 and pointed a gun at a Golden police officer was scheduled to appear in court Feb. 21.

Eduardo Armando Romero, of Lakewood, was arrested Feb. 13 for reportedly fleeing police near the Colorado School of Mines campus and shooting K-9 Graffit, who was trying to apprehend him.

Romero surrendered himself a few hours later and was held on suspicion of aggravated animal cruelty, felony menacing, motor vehicle theft and driving under the influence, among other possible charges. He was scheduled to appear in court 10 a.m. Feb. 21 at the Jefferson County Courthouse.

According to the arrest affidavit, police initially contacted Romero as a suspected DUI case. He fled police custody and hid near the campus, admitting later that he knew he had multiple warrants for his arrest.

The affidavit states Romero’s recent criminal history includes

forgery, theft and DUI cases. He also has a revoked driver’s license as a habitual traffic offender.

Mines officials have stated Romero is not associated with the university.

K-9 Graffit, who’d been with JCSO since 2015, died at the scene Feb. 13. The Sheriff’s Office has set up various memorials in Graffit’s honor. For more information, visit jeffcosheriff.co/GraffitFund.

The Feb. 13 incident

Around 12:15 a.m. Feb. 13, a Golden police officer and a Mines campus officer found a white Jeep Wrangler blocking the roadway near 19th and Elm streets, with the driver — Romero — slumped over the steering wheel.

Police later found the Jeep had been reported stolen from Englewood in December, and the license plates were stolen out of Denver, according to the arrest affidavit.

The two officers attempted to wake Romero, who appeared passed out in the driver’s seat with the car running. He was the only occupant in the vehicle.

As one officer tried opening the door, Romero started driving the Jeep less than 10 mph westbound on 19th Street, across the U.S. Highway 6 overpass.

The two officers followed the

Jeep, which reportedly swerved all over the roadway before coming to a stop near 19th Street and Tangent Way. They then “pinched” the Jeep in to prevent it from moving again, according to the affidavit.

Romero then started ramming the Jeep into the patrol cars. The Golden police officer broke the driver’s side window and grabbed ahold of Romero’s wrist. However, Romero slipped free and exited out the front passenger door, running eastbound on 19th Street.

The GPD officer chased him and was almost in reaching distance when Romero reportedly turned around and pointed a gun toward the officer’s abdomen. The officer dove out of the way, and Romero kept running eastbound across the U.S. 6 overpass, toward the northeast corner of the bridge.

The officers lost sight of him and called local agencies to set up a perimeter. A JCSO K-9 deputy arrived with Graffit, who began tracking Romero on the east side of U.S. 6 near 19th Street. Another JCSO deputy and the GPD officer accompanied them.

The affidavit reads: “A later review of body camera from (the accompanying deputy) shows K-9 Graffit was released into the brush Eduardo was seen entering. One gunshot is heard followed by another two shots from (the accompanying deputy). A few seconds after those shots, a dog yelp is heard.”

Romero turned himself into perimeter units around 5 a.m. Feb. 13. He hadn’t been hit by the gunfire, but was scared and confused by the incident. He was later

cleared by medical personnel and taken to the Jeffco jail.

According to the affidavit, Romero told police he didn’t recall officers contacting him near 19th and Elm streets, but did remember officers banging on his window and waking him up along Tangent Way. He knew he was in contact with police the entire time, but was “dazed and confused” while inside his car.

He reportedly said he’d smoked some marijuana before going to a bar in downtown Denver to watch the Super Bowl on Feb. 12. At the bar, he had three margaritas and ate so much that he described it as a “food coma” in the affidavit.

After he ran and attempted to hide, he recognized a “cop dog” was coming toward him. He said the dog didn’t bite him, and denied pointing his handgun at the dog but “heard the gun fire a round.” He assumed he shot the ground, saying it got very quiet. He ran from the brush toward Elm Street and hid under an SUV for about 10-15 minutes before turning himself in.

He reportedly told officers the gun was his, saying he keeps it loaded but without a round in the chamber.

Regarding the Jeep, he said he’d bought it two weeks ago but hadn’t registered it yet. He told investigators the bill of sale should still be in the Jeep, but the affidavit claimed they didn’t find any such item.

Editor’s note: Visit goldentranscript.net for coverage of the Feb. 21 court appearance.

From left, Deputy Dillon Scully, Kerry DiLorenzo and his partner Gra t, Carlos Enriquez and Zach Oliver stand for a photo, March 7, 2018. Photo by Sara Hertwig SARA HERTWIG

75 couples say “I do” at Loveland Ski Area

BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In true Colorado fashion, couples skied down the mountain at Loveland to get to their marriage ceremony, only accessible by ski or board.

On Feb. 14, 12 couples got married and 63 renewed their vows at the 32nd annual Mountaintop Matrimony mass wedding ceremony at Loveland Ski Area, hosted in the Forest Meadow run area.

Couples attending the ceremony came dressed to the nines, in top hats, veils, wedding dresses and kilts, with bouquets in hand.

Barbie and Ken Leach spend winters in Dillion and are celebrating their 50-year wedding anniversary in July. e couple came to renew their vows for what they said was the fourth or fth time at Loveland.

Barbie and Ken have been skiing together for 55 years and show no signs of slowing down. ey are season pass holders at Loveland.

“We think it’s a really wonderful event,” Barbie said. “Everybody is so happy.”

Lena and John Benisch came to the ceremony to renew their vows as well. e couple has been married for 20 years, but this is their rst time at the Loveland wedding.

“It’s epic,” Lena said.

e couple met years ago in an exercise class, where they both immediately noticed each other and John asked Lena on a date. Skiing

has always been a hallmark of their relationship.

“John taught me to telemark ski on our rst date,” Lena said. (Telemark skiing is a technique that uses toe-only bindings and combines elements of Alpine and Nordic ski-

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After sta at Loveland facilitated a dance party with all the couples in Forest Meadow, the short and sweet ceremony was carried out. Some couples brought rings, others brought candy rings, and some just exchanged promises and kisses with their partner.

After the 75 couples said “I do” and sealed their love with a kiss, they donned their skis and boards and took to the mountain. An aprés ski party was waiting at the base of the mountain for the newlyweds and re-newlyweds.

At the party, sta at Loveland made individual wedding cakes for all the couples and had treats and sparkling cider to snack on.

Daisy Warner works at the deli and bakery at Loveland. is is her rst season working at Loveland, and her rst time taking part in putting together the wedding.

Warner worked with a team to prepare the wedding cakes and treats for the special day.

CAG Food Pantry and Thrift Store had a great year. Thanks to our community members, local clubs, organizations, churches and businesses we were able to provide and serve our community with healthy and nutritious food. We would like to thank those who make our mission possible year after year.

• Golden Civic Foundation

• Golden Lions Club

• Golden Optimist

• Golden Elks Club

• Boy Scouts

• Faith Lutheran Church

• St. Joseph’s Catholic Church

• First United Methodist Church

• Coors Tek

• 100% Chiropractic

• Safeway

• Miners Saloon

• Windy Saddle

• Golden Mill

• Golden City Brewery

• Golden Goods

And many many Golden Community members and businesses who donated their time, talent, treasures. You all are greatly appreciated. With gratitude Kelly Ivan, CAG Executive Director.

You never know what treasure you will find in our thrift shop!!

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“Each piece is like its own work of art, she has spent hours getting everything ready for today and a lot of love goes into it,” Warner said of her coworker who did the baking.

After enjoying some treats and music, the couples lined up and showed o their wedding day out ts, with applause deciding who was best dressed.

e best-dressed couple was Barbie and Ken Leach, a popular couple all day. Barbie had donned her original wedding dress from 50 years ago, made for her by her mother. Ken had on a blazer, and the duo had matching red ower lapels.

e Leach couple won a honeymoon getaway in Georgetown, with a stay at Rose Street Bed and Breakfast and dinner at Coopers on the Creek, and their surprise and elation at the win was enough to warm the chilliest air on the mountain.

Barbie and Ken Leach have been married for 50 years in July.

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Couples said “I do” and shared a special moment together on the mountain.

During the best-dressed contest, couples showed o their best moves.

The crowd was excited for the ceremony to begin on the mountain.

Many couples donned their finest wedding attire for the event.

Elkstraction: Evergreen firefighters perform an ice-water rescue for a cow elk

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Ice rescues in Evergreen are not common, but they do happen, even to help an elk that has fallen through the ice.

On Feb. 17, Evergreen

Fire/Rescue received a call about a cow elk who fell through the ice in a pond in Timbervale behind Hiwan Homestead Museum, and members of the department’s dive team successfully pulled her out unscathed.

The pond has an aeration system, and firefighters surmise that the elk wanted to drink some water. She walked out onto some thin ice and fell through.

“We’re skilled at this,” said EFR spokeswoman Stacee Martin. “This is not our first wild-animal rescue. We have rescued deer and elk before.”

Firefighters Doug Matheny and Chris Pace donned water rescue suits and cut a channel through the ice so the elk could move as close to the shore as possible. But the elk was tired and cold,

Dear Davis Schilken,

so she needed help getting out.

Matheny and Pace grabbed her front legs and dragged her onto the ice. After a few minutes, she got up and turned to look at the firefighters, seemingly thanking them before wandering off.

“This is one of those situations where everyone is happy that we rescued the elk, but with a wild animal, you never know what will happen,” Martin said.

Martin called Matheny the department’s animal-rescue hero since he rescued a deer who fell into Evergreen Lake and helped rescue a sleeping bear from under a deck in downtown Evergreen.

She said anyone who sees an animal, whether wild or domestic, fall through the ice should call 911 and leave the rescue to the professionals, who are trained and skilled in ice-water rescues.

“We are on that edge where the ice is going to get thinner and thinner,” she said. “Please don’t try to rescue the animal yourself. Call us. We are glad to come out.”

I just recently proposed to my girlfriend (now fiancée) and now her parents insist the two of us sign a prenup before we get married. How can I appease my in-laws while still protecting my rights?

Sincerely, Perplexed by a Prenup

Dear Perplexed by a Prenup,

First off, let us congratulate your fiancée and you on your pending marriage. We hope your wedding day is as amazing as your life together will be!! Now, let’s get down to the business of nuptial agreements, which can either be done prior to or after marriage.

Marital agreements, both prenuptial and postnuptial, are a written contract executed between a couple to specify what will happen to the couple’s assets in the event of divorce or death.

Even if you build a happy, healthy marriage, one spouse will likely outlive the other. Marital agreements can give partners peace of mind about the financial future.

When you’re about to get married, divorce is the last thing on your mind. However, the reality is that between 40 and 50 percent of first marriages end in divorce. If you bring significant assets to your marriage or if your fiancée has significant debts, a pre-nuptial agreement is an important way to protect yourself financially. The attorneys at Davis Schilken, PC can draft a prenuptial agreement that details the assets and debts of both parties to be married and explain how property will be divided and support handled in the event of death or divorce. The agreement can encompass children’s and grandparents’ rights, if desired.

There are a few requirements that a nuptial agreement must meet before it becomes valid. These include the following conditions -

• The nuptial agreement must be written, signed, and notarized.

• The agreement must include valid disclosure of assets and financial obligations between both parties.

• Threats, force, or emotional duress must not have influenced the creation of the agreement.

• Terms of the agreement must not appear unethical or lacking fairness.

If nuptial agreements aren’t drafted correctly, they may do nothing but complicate things further. Unfortunately, just because you have created an agreement in writing doesn’t mean that it is presumed to be valid or enforceable. Therefore, it’s crucial that you have a nuptial agreement reviewed by a qualified lawyer to ensure everything is executed properly.

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Evergreen Fire/Rescue firefighters Chris Pace, left, and Doug Matheny work to get a cow elk out of a pond in Timbervale on Feb. 17. PHOTOS COURTESY OF EVERGREEN FIRE/RESCUE

The elk seemed fine after being rescued from the water.

Firefighter Doug Matheny uses a chainsaw to cut a channel in the ice to help the elk get out on her own. When that didn’t work, the firefighters pulled her onto the ice before she walked o .

United Power plans meetings with director candidates

United Power will host four Meet the Candidate forums throughout its Colorado service territory so members can learn more about the candidates vying to serve on the board of directors.

United Power will host events in Brighton, Golden, Longmont and Fort Lupton in March to introduce the candidates.

Nine candidates are running for election to the United Power Board of Directors in 2023 with four positions on the board up for election.

The director candidates are Tamra “Tami” Waltemath in the Mountain District; Jamie Klein, Ken Kreutzer, Katherine “Kathy” Mills, and James Vigesaa in the South District; Virginia A. “Ginny” Buczek and Thomas “Tom” Hogan in the West District; and Steven “Steve” Douglas and Robert “Rob” Masden in the East District.

Balloting opens on March 13. Members may vote electronically through their online account, or via mail ballots, sent to all members in mid-March.

Directors represent all members and are therefore elected on an “at-large” basis. This means members may vote for a director in each district and not just their own. United Power encourages all members to vote online or return

their mail ballots prior to the April 11 deadline.

6:30 p.m. March 13 at the Waymire Dome at the Adams County Riverdale Regional Park at 9755 Henderson Rd. in Brighton. This event will also be live-streamed at www. unitedpower.com.

ing a morning meeting, at 7:30 a.m. March 14 at Coal Creek Canyon Community Center, 3158 Highway 72 in Golden.

A third forum is scheduled for

ter, the United Newsline delivered in March, and on its website at www.unitedpower.com/annual-

website. Registration opens at 4:30

tend and engage with cooperative leadership and connect with fellow members.

How much money is being spent by chair candidates?

We will never know

BY SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

How much money are the candidates to lead the Colorado GOP and Colorado Democratic Party raising and spending? We don’t know and we won’t nd out.

at’s because there’s no state law or party bylaw that requires candidates for state party chair to report their fundraising and spending, though there are campaign nance disclosure rules for people who run for city council, legislature and Congress.

e candidates are spending money, however, and some are asking others to donate. Several of the contenders have websites, are traveling across the state to visit with local party leaders and activists, and are trying to persuade party central committee members to support their campaigns through texts, robocalls and emails.

Democratic Chairwoman Morgan Carroll and Republican Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown are both stepping aside in the coming weeks, and there are multiple candidates to replace both of them. Whoever wins the contests — Democrats will select their new state chair April 1 while the GOP will select its new leader March 11 — will have a big in uence over the future direction of their respective parties. ey may also

be paid tens of thousands a year for their work.

Carroll estimated she spent $5,000 on a website and travel costs in her rst campaign to be party chair in 2015. She was paid about $73,000 in 2022. Burton Brown said she spent about $2,000 of her own money when she ran for the job two years ago, while her opponent, former Secretary of State Scott Gessler, told e Sun he spent less than $25,000 with “a substantial number of supporters who contributed.” Burton Brown was paid about $72,000 in 2022.

is year, Tim Kubik, a party volunteer and education consultant who lives in Larimer County, aims to raise $25,000 to fund his campaign for Democratic Party chair, according to an email obtained by e Sun. A robocall delivered a similar message to prospective donors.

Kubik said he’s spending on campaign consultants and media, raising donations that are averaging $100.

“Since all of my donors are family, friends, or volunteer supporters, I’d prefer not to disclose their names, as many have donated expecting anonymity under current state law,” he said in an email.

Current First Vice Chairman Howard Chou is also raising money on his website, but said “It’s not a lot.” He hopes to print yers and send mailers to central committee members.

Casper Stockham, one of the GOP chair candidates, tweeted Monday that the contest “is between We e People and big money.” He’s seeking donations on his website. So is Erik Aadland, who is running for state party chair after losing his 7th Congressional District bid in November. Aaron Wood, a Highland Ranch activist, isn’t asking for donations on his website as part of his chair bid. Steven Varela, of Pueblo, doesn’t have a website for his GOP chair campaign.

2023 Boards and Commissions Applications

If you’re looking for a way to bring about positive change in these turmoiled times, get local and apply to join a Golden board or commission. Board and commission members help shape the future of Golden. They bring their expertise and ideas to the forefront, interact and represent all of the segments of our City, and provide input so that Golden can make informed and inclusive decisions. Be part of building a Golden where everyone can thrive by applying today.

The City of Golden is recruiting residents who wish to participate by volunteering on the City’s Boards and Commissions. To find out more about the board and commission application process, visit www.cityofgolden.net/government/boards-commissions/. The deadline to submit applications is March 3, 2023 at 5 pm. Interviews are scheduled with City Council the evening of Tuesday, April 4.

Golden City Council is recruiting applicants to fill the following appointments to:

Downtown Development Authority – Meets the 3rd Monday of each month at 6:30 pm (2 vacancies) Applicants must reside, be a business owner, lessee or own real property in the downtown development district

Economic Development Commission – Meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm (2 vacancies)

Fire Pension Board - Meets quarterly (2 vacancies)

Golden Urban Renewal Authority – Meets the 2nd Monday of each month at 6:30 pm (1 vacancy)

Jefferson County Correction Board - Meets the 4th Monday at 7:30 am (1 alternate vacancy)

Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board – Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday (4 vacancies)

Planning Commission - Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 6:30 pm (4 vacancies)

Public Art Commission - Meets 1st Thursday 9-10:30 am (2 vacancies)

For additional information or questions contact the City Clerk's Office at 303-384-8014 or clerks@cityofgolden.net.

One state party chair candidate who said he isn’t raising money is Shad Murib, a Democrat who has worked for U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper and Gov. Jared Polis. He said he wasn’t comfortable asking people for money that would go into his bank account with no disclosure of how it’s used. He is, however, allowing a friend to create bandanas for his e ort.

“We’re de nitely putting miles on the truck like never before,” said Murib, whose wife is former state Sen. Kerry Donovan, a Vail Democrat.

Murib said he’d support an e ort to change state law to require reporting of donations and expenditures of candidates for state party chair.

Kubik said he wouldn’t oppose requiring such disclosure, while Chou said he didn’t think campaign nance reporting is needed for state party chair contests.

“It’s a private election,” Chou said. “It’s like running for union president or Elks Lodge president.”

Gessler and Burton Brown also said they wouldn’t support requiring candidates for state party chair to report how much money they raise and spend.

“It’s not an election you can buy,” Burton Brown said in a text message. “It’s a very relationship- and issuebased race.”

Both parties are slated to nish electing county-level o cers on Wednesday, with congressional and multicounty legislative district ofcers elected in coming weeks.

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‘Trying to end the fallacy of being paid in powder:’ Loveland Ski Patrol take steps toward unionization

BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Ski patrollers and paramedics at Loveland Ski Area submitted a petition on Feb. 14 for a representative election to vote on unionizing as the Loveland Ski Patrol Professional Union under CWA 7781, the Professional Ski Patrols of America.

Ski patrollers at the ski area have said they face dangerous working conditions every day, but according to six-year veteran patroller Anthony Potter, less than 7% of the patrollers are year-round employees who are eligible for health insurance through work.

Most of the employees are like Michael Earles, a seasonal employee who earns an hourly wage. He works as a river ranger in the o -season to make ends meet.

Earles is currently in his second season at Loveland, but said he’s someone the rookies are looking to for answers simply because the team can’t retain many patrollers for longer than a few years.

“I’m a second year, I shouldn’t be the guy with all the answers,” Earles said. “I want to see us be able to retain our experienced patrollers.”

Potter grew up in Idaho Springs and now lives in Silver Plume. He said retaining patrollers will make for a safer mountain, and the highly trained team should be compensated fairly.

“Our job is pretty dangerous and stressful, and we’re just trying to end that fallacy of us being paid in powder,” Potter said.

Potter has been on Ski Patrol at Loveland for six years. He makes $24.75/hour, with Emergency Medical Training and Outdoor Emergency Care certi cations.

“My realm of specialization is in the avalanche side of things, and that honestly takes a lifetime to learn some of those skills,” Potter explained.

Potter leads avalanche mitigation e orts with explosives and ski guiding in Dry Gulch, and specializes

in avalanche forecasting. Still, he faces the stigma that all ski patrollers do, that they are “ski bums” doing unskilled labor.

“I would argue that we are highly skilled, as EMTs, that’s no light duty right there,” he explained. Not to mention the safe transport of patients o expert terrain in unfavorable weather conditions.

As a second-year member of the patrol, Earles makes $21.25/hour with EMT certi cation. He said he knows of some lift operators who come away with a higher hourly wage than he and other patrollers.

“ ey aren’t expected to put their physical and mental health on the line every day,” Earles said.

e patrollers stressed that their e orts towards organizing aren’t about greed, but earning a livable wage and being fairly compensated for a dangerous job.

“We’re not doing this out of malice, we have so much love for the mountain, Loveland, our team,” Potter said.

e petition was submitted with 70% support from members of the patrol and paramedics at Loveland. e next steps will include discussions with management at Loveland as to when an election could take place.

Loveland Ski Area received the noti cation of the petition late Feb. 14 and did not have a comment at the time of publication.

Michael Earles and a team member on patrol at Loveland Ski Area.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MICHAEL EARLES

Anthony Potter is a six year member of the patrol team. PROVIDED BY ANTHONY POTTER

Navigating the information superhighway

Every generation grows up hearing about how things were di erent back in their parent’s day. Or maybe even in their grandparent’s time. Nowadays you can hear younger people dismissively responding to comments from my generation by saying “OK, Boomer.” Back when I was young, we all had similar reactions to our parents who lived through WWII and our grandparents who were around before electricity was in every household, cars were everywhere and airplanes lled the sky. When my grandfather was a teenager, he had a job lighting the gas street lights in Chicago with a match on a stick. Luckily, he never looked at that as a lifetime career. Sure, when we are young, we all tend to think we know everything. en we grow up to nd out that a lot of the stu we tried to ignore was actually true and we should have paid more attention to our elders. Now I’m one of those older guys with plenty of words of wisdom. Unfortunately, in this day and age, there’s a big change in how and where people get a lot of the information they try to pass on. It’s not just from life experiences like it used to be. Now we have the information superhighway that tries to overload everyone with so much knowledge, your brain starts to get full.

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I said “unfortunately” for a reason. Usually getting information and knowledge is a good thing. But that information superhighway? It’s a little more complicated than just following it to enlightenment.

at’s because it branches out in a million di erent directions, so it’s up to you which road you choose to follow. Some of them take you to the truth, while others end up in a dark forest of lies and deceit. If that wasn’t bad enough, the real tricky roads are the ones that are kind of gray, with enough truth to sucker you into following them, but a lot of shady misinformation that can warp your thinking quite a bit. at’s the one your crazy uncle went down that spends the holidays ranting about ridiculous conspiracy theories. e scary part is that from his perspective, you’re the ones that are ignorant and crazy.

But, there is a way to navigate to the real truth about things. It’s by looking in several places for information and checking to make sure they have something credible to back up whatever they are claiming

or sharing. If you are an adult, you should know by now that you can’t just rely on what pops up on your social media pages or what some loudmouth at work swears is true, but de es any kind of actual logic.

Of course, this is not as easy as I just made it sound, and quite frankly one of the biggest reasons a lot of misinformation circulates is that most people are just too busy trying to live their lives to spend hours a day sorting through all of this nonsense. A lot of things are not important enough to worry about and other things seem out of our control anyway. We all tend to get a little apathetic and just hope everything works itself out.

at being said, there are some issues we are all facing that really deserve at least a little bit of our attention. Maybe just for a day or two. One of those is the state of our environment. What’s happening on the planet. It’s the one thing we all share and have in common. We live on this rock and as of now, don’t have another one to move to.

at’s why it might be worth your while to check out the 2023 Colorado Environmental Film Festival happening Feb. 23-26 at the American Mountaineering Center here in Golden. It’s a pretty inspiring and energizing event that always show-

cases some of the best full length and short lms created by foreign, local and talented young lmmakers.

It gives you a real global perspective on what’s going on with things like climate, pollution, green technology as well as just magni cent perspectives of the natural world around us. If you value our planet and share a passion for the power and beauty of lm, this is the place you want to be. Over 90 lms will be shown throughout the course of the weekend and you can get single tickets or entire weekend passes.  Prices range from $12 to $90. Visit www.cw .net for the whole list of lms and the schedule. e American Mountaineering Center is located at 710 10th St. here in Golden. e list of sponsors is also huge and quite impressive, so go check it out. Take a weekend to nd some real information from a di erent source. Maybe even drag your crazy uncle along.

John Akal is a well-known jazz artist/drummer and leader of the 20-piece Ultraphonic Jazz Orchestra. He also is president of John Akal Imaging, professional commercial photography and multimedia production. He can be reached at jaimaging@aol.com.

Antlers or horns: Need some pointers?

Soon, all of our elk and deer will start to look like females! Only a close inspection from a super-powered camera or a peek out of the living room window will reveal whether an animal is male by the presence of pedicles, the base of growth for the antlers. ese will initially have the appearance of round wounds on the animal’s head and will heal before the antler growth process begins again. While some animals await antler buds, the horned wildlife can

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We are being led to a collapse of water, energy and resources

Have you seen that green, wood, and cement monstrosity “growing” up against the sky on South Golden Road? It features up to 100 more apartments, which in turn will provide another 100 cars jamming Golden’s streets, intersections and main roads.

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continue to hold their heads high on muscled necks because their head gear will not be detaching.

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Although both antlers and horns consist of bone that grows from the skull, the structure of the horn has two layers. Covering the bony part of the

Golden’s City Council that they want to cram as many people and cars as possible into our limited little city? How much more toxic air do they want us to breathe? Do you realize that every breath you take 24/7 is poison/particulate-laden air? How much more water can they force us to use until we don’t have any water at our taps? How much more gridlock are they working to provide for us on our

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horn is a  keratin sheath. e sheath and bone stay in place and in some species continue to grow during the life of the animal. Females also have horns but of a smaller size. Local horned wildlife include bison, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats.

Members of the deer family such as elk, mule deer and moose grow antlers which are shed annually. A male-only club, bulls and bucks use antlers for protection from predators, to portray dominant status and to impress the ladies. As it turns out,

streets or on I-70 on weekends as to camping and skiing? Have you tried to go skiing on Saturday mornings? It’s a nightmare of gridlock on I-70 and a bumper-car asco on the slopes with too many people. Here’s what we face:

“Unlimited population growth cannot be sustained; you cannot sustain growth in the rates of consumption of resources. No species can overrun the carrying capacity of a nite land

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their antlers impress everyone! But males pay a price for their proud displays. Bull elk have half the lifespan of female elk  due to reduced overall health resulting from the demands of antler growth.

Age, genetics, nutrition and overall health in uence the size of antlers. Size matters, but there are more important considerations for breeding. Broken or misshapen antlers can be a sign of genetic weakness,

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mass. is Law cannot be repealed and is not negotiable,” according to Dr. Albert Bartlett at the University of Colorado.

Where is the mayor and council leading our city? Answer: to a collapse of water, energy and resources! We need a “Golden Stop Growth Policy… Golden Quality of Life Policy…Golden Stabilized Population Policy.”

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A whole new immersive Disney world

Anyone who has fallen in love with a Disney animated lm knows one of the great joys of the studio’s work is getting lost in the astounding worlds that have been created. Now, fans of Disney can wander through many of their favorite worlds in a much more literal sense, thanks to Disney Animation: Immersive Experience.

“ is year is Disney’s 100th anniversary, so we wanted to do something that really honored all the animators,” explained J. Miles Dale, an Oscar-winning producer and creative director of the experience. “What we created is a little bit educational, a little bit entertaining, and provides access to things most wouldn’t be able to see. It all combines to give that magical experience people have come to expect from Disney.”

Created in partnership with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Lighthouse Immersive Studios, the Disney Animation: Immersive Experience is on display at Lighthouse ArtSpace, 3900 Elati St. in Denver.

As Dale explains it, a trip to the famous Disney archives provided a wealth of inspiration for the creative team as they put the exhibit together. Seeing the early pencil sketches of seminal moments like Cinderella’s dress transformation was awe inspiring for the team.

“It was important for us to show how these characters and worlds were created. When you see how it was made and who made it, you appreciate the animation more,” he said. “I love hearing kids who are inspired to be animator after seeing the exhibit. ey feel the magic and see some of themselves in these characters.”

According to provided information, additional exhibit features

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fax, 2526 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver, at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25. She’ll be speaking with L. Alison Heller, a lawyer and author.

e event is free and no registration is required. Find the details at www.tatteredcover.com/event.

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include interactive features within the projection show that move with visitors, and custom bracelets that light up in sync with the projections and speci c movements. ere’s also the Gazillion Bubbles e ect, where 500,000 cubic feet of galleries are lled with bubbles.

e cumulative e ect is to give visitors an experience like visiting one of Disney’s famous parks — one lled with wonder and escape.

“In a way, watching a movie is a passive experience, but this is very active. You are in the movies, immersed by them,” Dale said. “ e totality of the experience makes it multigenerational. I can’t really think of anything my mother, me, my kids and their kids could all go to together like this.”

Visit lighthouseimmersive.com/ disney/Denver for details and tickets. disneyimmersive.com.

Sadeqa Johnson brings ‘The House of Eve’ to Tattered Cover

Sadeqa Johnson’s newest book, “ e House of Eve,” is a moving testament to an important truth — the more things change, the more they stay the same. An examination of racism and women’s rights in the pre-Roe era, Johnson blends both wit and powerful humanity to remind all of us how much work there still is to do.

In support of the book — which was selected as Hello Sunshine/ Reese Witherspoon’s February book club pick — Johnson will be stopping by at the Tattered Cover Col-

Backcountry adventurers know they’re taking chances

Six people have died in avalanches in the United States since the snow started to y this fall. Every year, an average of 27 people —skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, snowshoers — die this way.

For people who don’t venture into the backcountry in winter, the thought of potentially dying in an avalanche seems crazy. Why put your life on the line for a few minutes of fun? But most of us who ride fresh powder don’t look at it that way: We don’t consider backcountry skiing a death-defying activity.

A couple of years ago, my friend Jenna Malone, who is an avalanche educator and physician assistant in Salt Lake City, told me, “I don’t know anyone who’s stood on the top of a slope and thought, ‘Well, this is going to kill me, but it’s going to be epic powder skiing.’

“We believe that with training, planning, good decision-making, and a solid ski partner who calls us on our blind spots, we can make it

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safer,” she added.

e 19th annual Boulder International Film Festival is back for another season of brilliant lmmaking, a chef competition and much more.

Running from ursday, March 2 through Sunday, March 5, the festival will be screening 66 lms from 20 countries, with 45 lmmakers and subjects in attendance. According to provided information, the event will also feature the return of the popular Adventure Film Pavilion, the CineCHEF food competition and a live recording of e Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast with Scott Feinberg.

For those who can’t attend the screenings held at the Boulder eater, 2032 14th St., some of the lms will be able to watch as part of the BIFF at Home! virtual program, running from Monday, March 6 to

Sunday, March 19.

Find the full schedule, ticket options and more at bi 1.com.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — White Reaper at Summit Music Hall

My original pick here was going to be Bruce Springsteen and e E Street Band at Ball Arena, but since tickets sold out pretty much instantaneously (at exorbitant prices, no less), let’s instead turn our attention to another great rock band that’ll be in town - Kentucky’s White Reaper. e group specializes in the kind of indie guitar rock that has unfortunately gone out of style in the last decade or so. ankfully, their latest album, “Asking for a Ride,” keeps that sonic palette going strong.

In support of the album, White Reaper will be performing at Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St. in Denver, at 7:30 p.m. on ursday, March 2. ey’ll be joined by openers Militarie Gun and Mamalarky. Get tickets at www.livenation.com.

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

July 31, 1936 - February 8, 2023

George Dean Meyer, 86, of Golden, Co., passed away on Feb. 8, 2023. He was born in Greeley to George and Alice Meyer on July 31, 1936.

George married Ruby King on Sept 11, 1960, in Greeley.

George (his friends and family called him Dean) graduated from Greeley High School. George worked for Coors Brewery in Golden for 30 years. He loved the Denver Broncos and had a passion for shing in the mountains. He loved jogging and ran almost every day. He completed the San

Francisco Marathon and was a torchbearer for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics torch relay. Glenwood Springs and Las Vegas were his favorite vacation spots. He routinely took trips to Southern California to visit his grandchildren.

George is survived by his wife, Ruby; daughter, Kathy Hachlica (Dave) of Rensselaer, Indiana; Son, David (Stephanie) of Seal Beach, CA; three grandchildren (Cal, Duke & Jack); also survived by sisters, Pat Bruce of Brighton and Janet (Jim) Kiefer of Brighton.

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In 2009, Bruce Jamieson, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Calgary in Albert, Canada, took accident data collected in North America and Switzerland to come up with a risk-comparison chart. e data was presented in “millimorts,” or one death per million. One millimort is the chance an average 20-year-old male has of dying from any cause on any day.

Himalayan climbing turned out to be the riskiest activity Jamieson considered, with a one in 40 chance of dying on an 8,000-meter peak, or 12,000 millimorts. Riding a motorcycle eight hours a day earned 605 millimorts, while backcountry skiing in

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Speed dating events in metro Denver o er alternatives to swiping

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On a ursday night in late January, dozens of people walked past displays of tarot cards and crystals towards a dim room at the back of Full Moon Books in Lakewood. A man at the room’s entrance asked them each to remove their shoes. e smell of burnt sage lled the air.

For a while, people mingled. e event was not to start until 7 p.m., and stragglers arrived until moments before the doors closed. When it was time, a woman wearing a pink velvet robe asked everyone to sit in a circle.

“For all the new people, this is where we’re all going to get naked,” the woman joked. Everyone laughed, and she continued, “ ere will be none of that. is is just a really fun, safe event.”

Danny Neifert, a facilitator of an event called Tantra Speed Date, was playing with the stereotypical understanding of the word “tantra.” For many people, the term brings sex to mind. Although tantra is a spiritual practice that includes sexuality, Neifert said it has more to do with connection.

“Tonight, for the sake of simplicity, we’re just going to swap out the word ‘tantra’ with ‘connection,’” she said to the group. “It’s about connecting to yourself, connecting to the person that’s standing in front of you, connecting to the room, connecting to the building, the soil, the snow, the stars — you ll in the blank in a way that makes sense to you.”

For the next several hours, the attendees took turns rotating from person to person, doing mindful activities with a new partner at each station. At one, a partner mirrored the others’ physical actions. Next, strangers gave each other back massages. Some stations involved speaking — about gratitude, letting go or joy — and at others, people danced.

is event is one of several forms of speed dating in the metro Denver area, where singles are stepping out of their comfort zones to nd hope,

chemistry — and maybe even love — beyond the screens and swiping of modern dating.

Paying attention

Guy Shahar is a founder of e Tantra Institute, a New York-based company that aims to help people become “better lovers” through sacred sexuality. e company teaches courses about sexuality, tantra and relationship skills, in addition to hosting events like Tantra Speed Date.

Since 2017, Tantra Speed Date has hosted over 550 events in 40 cities for attendees of all ages.

“Most of the stations are really just about (giving) people instructions that show them how to put their attention on each other,” Shahar said about the speed dating event.

In his eyes, lack of attention is the number one challenge people face in modern dating, partly because of technology and partly because of the number of potential partners.

“A hundred years ago, who could you date? e people from your neighborhood, the people around you,” he said. “Now you can date anybody in the world… You open up any of those dating apps and you could be swiping on a di erent person in less than a second.”

His speed dating event, he said, is designed to put people in situations where they must focus on each other.

“Like a mirroring exercise, right?” he said. “I’m watching you, and I’m responding to what you’re doing… My attention is on you… Getting people to bring their attentions to each other is a really beautiful way to fool them into connection and intimacy.”

Once people surrender to paying full attention, Shahar said it’s easier to tell if there is chemistry between them.

After the initial connection, Shahar said other things become important as a relationship continues.

“ at connection isn’t necessarily compatibility,” he said. “You might have an amazing connection, or let’s say amazing chemistry… but their habits might be totally not compatible with yours. If you want a sustaining relationship, then you need to nd some points of compatibility or you need to be able to work with habits.”

at being said, Shahar thinks having the opportunity to initially sense a

connection is a powerful way to see if there’s any potential with a person.

“(To) just start your relationship o with that kind of intimacy and connection just seems like a really great, really beautiful way to get yourself o on the right foot,” he said.

Is a few minutes enough?

For speed dating skeptics, it may seem improbable that a person could have any sense of real connection after an encounter that lasts only a matter of minutes.

Dr. Randi Smith, a practicing psychologist and psychology professor at Metro State University Denver, said a few minutes might not be enough to tell a lot about a potential partner –but it can show some things.

“ ere’s some really recent research that suggests that we’re able to pick up on somebody’s relationship anxiety, their attachment anxiety, in a very brief interaction,” she said. “So can we predict whether this relationship will have legs, whether it will have a future? Probably not, but we might be able to weed out some people whose anxiety might prevent them from having a good relationship with us.”

In addition, Smith said quick interactions can give people a sense of physical attraction and even immediate emotional attraction based on how it feels to talk to a potential partner.

On a deeper psychological level, she said people at speed dating events are probably thinking about reciprocity of liking. is idea is that people tend to like those who like them.

“Speed dating is very strategic, right?” she said. “You have little time, you’ve got to gure out how to make these choices, and so our brains are going into high strategic, albeit unconscious, responses. And it doesn’t make a lot of sense for a person to

Rosenblum’s company co-hosted a speed dating event at Brewability Lab in Englewood on Feb. 2.

PHOTO BY HAN LOYD; HEPCAT PHOTOGRAPHY

SPEED DATING

invest energy and interest into somebody who’s not going to reciprocate that energy and interest.”

Alex Zaborenko, who attended the January Tantra Speed Date event, said reciprocity is important to him in terms of relationship goals as well, not only attraction. As someone who is looking for non-monogamous relationships, he said online dating pro les and open communication help him nd people who have the same goals in mind.

“I don’t want or need just one magic person to connect with me on every level that I might connect with a partner,” he said. “Once I reached the conclusion, then it just felt much better that I can communicate what I’m looking for honestly and they can choose what they want to do with that information.”

Are you worth my (client’s) time?

For Abby Rosenblum, investing time and energy in the right people is part of her business model.

Rosenblum is the founder and head matchmaker at e Social: Modern Matchmaking, a Colorado-based service that also hosts speed dating events.

Rosenblum’s services focus not only on helping her clients nd potential partners, but also on building their con dence and making dating enjoyable.

“ e sad part is I think we’re almost taught that dating should be di cult, should be frustrating and should be some kind of just negative thing in your life,” she said. “So a lot of the work I do is trying to teach people that dating can actually be fun, which is a crazy concept to almost everyone.”

When setting up dates, Rosenblum looks for people with values and physical appearances that t with what her clients are looking for.

“And then the other thing I look for too (is) like, is this person ready to date?” she said. “Are they in a good place? … Because you can meet the greatest person ever tomorrow, but if they’re like, ‘I just got red from my job and I hate everything,’ you might not connect with them in as good of a way.”

Rosenblum works mainly with singles in stable careers who are looking for serious, committed and monogamous relationships. As a matchmaker, she helps lter out potential partners who do not align with her clients’ stages of life so she can ensure they are investing their time and energy in relationships that could have a future.

Rosenblum, who works mainly with heterosexual clients, often collaborates with the head matchmaker at Denver’s Cupid, a matchmaking service that works with LGBTQ+ singles.

Like Smith, she doesn’t think speed dating events are a silver

bullet for knowing if a relationship will work, but she said they can still be bene cial. Her company hosts speed dating at its events, including a single mingle that happened the rst week of February in Englewood.

In Rosenblum’s speed dating games, participants receive conversation prompts to help people learn something about their partners, from travel dreams to relationship goals.

“It’s like, ‘OK, am I curious to get to know them more?’ she said. “ at’s really the only thing you need to know after that ve minutes, because it’s hard to know anything else… What’s the harm in meeting again?”

A new hope for dating

Andrea Cunningham has been dating on and o for the past 10 years. She decided to attend the January Tantra Speed Date event when her housemate invited her because she thought it would introduce her to spiritually open minded people.

“He actually said, ‘Do you want to go to a woo-woo speed dating event?’ and my thought was ‘Oh, yeah, that might be my kind of people,’ because I’m not nding a lot of woo-woo folks on OkCupid,” she said.

At 58 years old, Cunningham is looking for someone who is compassionate, exible and open to “more heart-centered ideas,” she said.

Going into the speed dating event, Cunningham was feeling skeptical, she said. Mainly, she thought speed dating would be intimidating, but it wasn’t.

“I think maybe my whole idea about speed dating was wrong,” she said. “Maybe you’re not just awkwardly trying to talk with people 10 times in a row for five minutes. Maybe there’s more to it than that… That was welldesigned.”

After her experience (and several dates that arose from the event), she said speed dating might be giving her new hope after taking a pause from dating for a while.

“I was trying to do a little online, I wasn’t getting anywhere, I stopped,” she said. “Then this came up — it may kick me into gear again.”

Renewing excitement about dating and personal connection is a goal of many speed dating events, especially in a world where fewer and fewer people feel connected to each other.

In Shahar’s speed dating events, re-connecting is the greatest benefit and goal.

“If you are tired of feeling disconnected from the world, and you want to have a moment of connection, this is a really great way to step into that,” he said. “Is it for everyone? No, I don’t think it’s for everyone. But it is for people that are like, ‘Hey, I want to create something magical within my relationship life and my dating life.’”

Danny Neifert and her demonstration partner show an activity where partners mirror each others’ actions at Tantra Speed Date.

PHOTO BY NINA JOSS

Attendees chat at the Single Mingle event, co-hosted by The Social: Modern Matchmaking at Brewability Lab in Englewood on Feb. 2.

PHOTO BY HAN LOYD; HEPCAT PHOTOGRAPHY

Full Moon Books is Lakewood is one of the Tantra Speed Date venues in Colorado.

PHOTO BY NINA JOSS

Radon: the leading cause of cancer in people who don’t smoke GUEST COLUMN

Being a lifelong health enthusiast, health educator and tness trainer — and married to a primary care physician — my family and I were blindsided by my Stage 3A lung cancer diagnosis in October of 2018. We were shocked as I had no respiratory symptoms and I have never smoked. My cancer was found incidentally while investigating what later turned out to be a benign ovarian cyst.

It wasn’t until my son, an environmental engineer, asked me if I had ever tested our home for radon when I learned that virtually anyone with lungs can get lung cancer and that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. It is the rst leading cause of lung cancer in people who don’t have a history of smoking.

Considering the risk for lung cancer is high, why aren’t people exposed to high radon levels eligible for lung cancer screening? e United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends people ages 50-80 with a 20-pack year history of smoking, or have quit in the

past 15 years, get a low dose CT scan, which is painless and takes only a few minutes.

Canada, using usual risk-reduction practices, came in at four.

Of course, not all skiers try to minimize risk. Recently, I saw a group of five riders swooping down a steep gully, hooting and hollering as they flew by. The avalanche hazard that day was moderate. Still, five people skiing a  slope like that at one time is outside normal risk-reduction practices and could have easily ended in tragedy.

Jamieson’s data is now more than a decade old, but the likelihood of being killed in an avalanche probably hasn’t changed much. It may have even lessened, considering the growing number of backcountry users in avalanche

Heidi Nafman Onda

Based on the conversation with our son, we tested our home using methods recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency and discovered that the radon levels in our home were elevated above the threshold of 4 pico curies (pCi/L). e EPA strongly advises that any radon level at or above 4 pCi/L should be reduced through a radon mitigation system. Radon mitigation needs to be done by professionally accredited operators and most health departments — including the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment — post lists of accredited mitigators.

Radon is an invisible and odorless radioactive gas that can be found in many homes. It comes from the

terrain that are sharing the risk.  When I started skiing in the backcountry decades ago, we would see only a handful of other people. Today, SnowSports Industries America estimates that there are more than six million backcountry riders in the United States, which puts the American avalanche death rate at less than 0.5 per 100,000. Your risk of dying in an automobile accident is one in 107.

These statistics may be why we don’t feel like we are gambling with our lives every time we head out to ski. And in general, backcountry users consider themselves responsible risk takers.  We take avalanche courses to learn how to identify dangerous snow conditions. Most of us carry safety equipment: avalanche transceivers, shovels, probes, and in some cases airbags to help

decomposition of uranium in soil, rock and water and gets into the air you breathe. When inhaled, radon can cause serious health problems including lung cancer. About half of all homes in Colorado have radon levels above the recommended limit of 4 pCi/L.

While there is no way for me to know with certainty if radon caused my lung cancer, I want people to know it is one risk factor that can be tested for and reduced to safe levels very easily. I also want people to know that smoking and exposure to radon are not the only risk factors for lung cancer and that many people develop lung cancer despite having no known risk factors. Exposure to secondhand smoke, family history of lung cancer and air pollution are risk factors for lung cancer. Report any persistent symptoms you have to your doctor. Being young and having no known history of tobacco use does not make you immune to lung cancer, even if the risk is low.

Despite the well-known risks of radon, it concerns me that there isn’t more public health messag-

improve our odds of survival in a slide. We consult the daily avalanche forecast for our area. We choose our partners carefully.

Still, people die. You can argue that statistically the odds are in our favor, but that doesn’t lessen the tragedy that occurs when a glorious day of powder skiing turns into a nightmare.

Two of this year’s fatalities involved fathers triggering slides that buried and killed their sons. It’s hard to imagine anything more painful for a family.

Avalanches have been called “wicked-learning environments,” a label popularized by psychologist Robin Hogarth in 2015. A wicked-learning environment is one where the rules are unclear and feedback is often inaccurate or nonexistent. That means you can’t learn, or may learn the wrong thing from your experienc-

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ing about radon, especially given its high prevalence in Colorado and many other states. e EPA estimates that radon kills approximately 21,000 people in the U.S. every year and about 2,900 of these deaths occur among people who have never smoked. ese numbers may be a low estimate, as I know my doctor never asked me if I knew the radon level of my home when I was diagnosed. In fact, only a small number of family physicians transmit radon information to their patients. Please consider testing your home for radon at least every two years as recommended by the EPA because levels can change due to movement of soil, or new cracks in the foundation. Even if you have a mitigation system, testing is still recommended. A mitigation system is like any other appliance, and it can malfunction or stop working. Learn more about radon and radon mitigation from the EPA and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

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es. Mistakes in a wicked-learning environment can be fatal.

Venturing into winter backcountry is a classic wicked-learning environment. You can arm yourself with all the appropriate safety gear, do lots of prep work on snow conditions and terrain, and keep your eyes open for clues. Ultimately, though, most of the information about snow stability is hidden.

Every time you ski a slope without it avalanching, you are likely to believe you made a smart decision, when in reality you may have just been lucky. Most of us have been lucky.

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Centura Health announces its breakup with others

AdventHealth, CommonSpirit to go alone

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

On Valentine’s Day, one of the largest hospital systems in Colorado announced that it is getting a divorce.

For more than a quarter-century, Centura Health has operated as a partnership between CommonSpirit Health and AdventHealth. Centura announced that CommonSpirit Health, which is Catholic-a liated, and AdventHealth, which is a liated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, will split, with each planning to manage their respective hospitals separately.

“CommonSpirit Health and AdventHealth have collaboratively agreed that they can best serve their communities and health care ministries without a partnership,” a news release announced.

Centura will continue to manage all 20 hospitals until the dissolution is nalized. e news release stated that there will not be any disruption to patient care, and the two divorcing systems said they are committed to their employees and patients during the transition.

“CommonSpirit Health and AdventHealth maintain a strong relationship and are united in their commitment to the caregivers and ensuring the communities they serve have access to the best health care during and well beyond this transition,” the news release stated. e release provided few details about the split, and contained no statements by executives explaining the decision. It did not provide a timeframe for how long it will take to unwind the partnership. A Centura spokeswoman would not even conrm if this announcement means that the Centura Health name will disappear.

“We will only be issuing the release at this time,” she wrote in a text message.

Combined, Centura manages 20 hospitals in Colorado and Kansas, and it ranks as the second-largest hospital system in Colorado in terms of revenue. In 2020, Centura Health hospitals statewide brought in more than $3 billion in net patient revenue, according to a report by independent health care consultant Allan Baumgarten. at ranked it behind only UCHealth in terms of statewide net patient revenue.

In the Centura Health marriage, CommonSpirit was the heavyweight, owning 15 of the 20 hospitals. Once the partnership is dissolved, CommonSpirit will independently manage: Longmont United Hospital; OrthoColorado Hospital in Lakewood; Mercy Hospital in Durango; Penrose Hospital and St. Francis Hospital, both in Colorado Springs; St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood; St. Anthony North Hospital in Westminster; St. Anthony Summit Hospital in Frisco; St. Elizabeth Hospital in Fort Morgan; St. Mary-Corwin Hos-

pital in Pueblo; and St. omas More Hospital in Cañon City. e chain will also manage three hospitals in Kansas — Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses; St. Catherine Hospital in Dodge City; and St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City — as well as a new hospital opening this summer in Colorado Springs.

AdventHealth owned the other ve hospitals currently part of Centura: Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville; Castle Rock Adventist Hospital; Littleton Adventist Hospital; Parker Adventist Hospital; and Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver.

Baumgarten, the health care consultant, said the news reminded him of a similar breakup that happened in Illinois in 2021, when AdventHealth and the Catholic-a liated Ascension broke up a partnership they had formed named Amita. In that divorce, Baumgarten said it was likely that the two sides disagreed about how to grow the joint company.

Centura has been around longer, though, Baumgarten said, and it was not immediately clear to him what

might be driving the split. He mentioned possible tensions over Catholic health directives, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

e Catholic hospitals in the Centura system do not perform abortions and will perform sterilization procedures only rarely — something that Centura had recently re-emphasized at Mercy Hospital in Durango.

“It’s also not unusual to have disputes about money,” he added. e news release contained no mention of what will happen with people employed directly by Centura Health, as opposed to an individual hospital. at includes CEO Peter Banko, who has led Centura since 2007.

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.

The entrance to the Parker Adventist Hospital.

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Bad news: Inflation continues in Denver metro area

Good news: It’s slowing

BY SARAH MULHOLLAND COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

ere is a little bit of good news for consumers who’ve watched prices for just about everything tick up dramatically — prices are now rising more slowly in Denver as federal regulators try to keep in ation in check.

An index that measures prices for everything from gasoline and groceries to airplane tickets and housing increased by 6.4 percent in January compared to 2022, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. at’s down from an annual increase of 6.9 percent in November, the last time the rate was calculated. At this time last year, prices were surging more than 9 percent in Denver.

e trajectory mirrors the national trend, with U.S. prices up 6.5 percent in January. at’s good news for consumers that have watched the bills for everyday items grow unabated for more than a year. But still, in ation is stuck far higher than the government’s target rate of between 2 percent and 3 percent.

In the Denver region — which includes Adams, Arapahoe, Broomeld, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Je erson and Park counties — prices for a lot of things remain stubbornly high, even if they’re not rising as fast as a year

ago. For instance, fruits and vegetables cost almost 13 percent more than they did at the same time last year. And household energy bills are up more than 13 percent. On the ip side, used car prices have fallen more than 10 percent. Since November, prices for food broadly speaking are up 2 percent and used car prices are down about 4 percent.

Newly released data on spending in the U.S. shows that retail sales jumped in January, meaning people remain largely undeterred by how expensive things are. While that’s good news for the overall economy, it’s not great news when it comes to putting the brakes on in ation.

e persistent price increases mean the Federal Reserve is likely

to keep raising interest rates, making it more expensive to borrow money and slowing demand for large purchases that many people take out loans to buy. e central bank’s e orts have already slowed demand in the housing market. Home prices in Denver, Colorado’s largest housing market, are down about 1 percent since last year, after a record-setting run of doubledigit gains during the pandemic. is story is from CPR News, a nonpro t news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support Colorado Public Radio, visit cpr.org.

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With a look at the ins and outs of inflations, the Colorado Sun’s Tamara Chuang breaks down Colorado’s Q3 growth. SHUTTERSTOCK

BY TAMARA CHUANG THE COLORADO SUN

“How much does the job pay?” is no longer much of a mystery for job seekers in Colorado, thanks

to a state law passed in 2019 and enacted two years later.

Other states have followed suit in recent months, including California, Washington and soon, New York. But Colorado’s law wasn’t perfect. And now, the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act is poised for an update from some of the state lawmakers behind it.

“Though the Equal Pay Act is

working well, with these additions, it will better serve workers and employers across the state,” said Sen. Jessie Danielson, a Democrat from Wheat Ridge, who was one of the prime sponsors of the original wage transparency law.

Pushback came from out-ofstate companies that didn’t ignore Colorado’s new law — they just excluded candidates from Colorado. A Commerce City engineer created a site to track violators (it’s now archived). But there was also confusion among local employers about employee promotions and whether they had to advertise the new role to outsiders.

“The complexity of the law, the confusion amongst employers, the problem of not addressing remote work situations, because they were not contemplated in 2019 when the original bill passed, needs to be addressed for the future of the workforce,” said Loren Furman, president and CEO of the Colorado Chamber.

This bill aims to clear some of those things up. A draft shared with The Colorado Sun attempts to clarify the difference between “career progression” for existing workers versus a “job opportunity.” The latter means a current or anticipated vacancy that needs to be filled. The former is a promotion as part of that type of job. Remote jobs are not addressed in the draft bill.

Danielson said she and other advocates, which include The Women’s Foundation of Colorado, have met with interested parties since spring to suss out their differences. But their attempts to water down or remove protections for Coloradans who work remotely for out-of-state companies only threatens pay equity, especially for women.

“Excluding remote workers from the protections of the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act would negatively impact a valued and critical part of our workforce,” she

said.

Impact of the Equal Pay law

When introduced four years ago, Colorado’s Equal Pay law sought to equalize pay for substantially similar work. It stemmed from data showing that women and people of color often earn much less than their white or male colleagues even in the same roles. In Colorado, women earned 86 cents for every $1 earned by men, according to a 2018 analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

The impact of these new policies isn’t yet known because the laws are young. It’s too soon. Existing research was deemed “not conclusive” by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

In an analysis of recent wage transparency studies, the organization found pay transparency laws help narrow the gender wage gap by reducing wage growth among top earners, who tend to be men. But, the analysis found, these laws do not necessarily increase women’s earnings. Two studies conducted in university settings found the salaries of women faculty members increased following the pay-transparency intervention. “Pay-transparency policies tend to rely on individual workers advocating for pay increases based on newly available information,” the analysis said.

But another measure of Colorado’s Equal Pay law is the impact in the United States, said Louise Myrland, vice president of programs at The Women’s Foundation of Colorado. New York City’s wage transparency law went into effect in November. Several other states, including Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and South Carolina are considering legislation, according to the National Conference of State Legislators. Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada and Rhode Island have implemented

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Equal Pay measure made big changes

laws similar to Colorado but they don’t require salaries to be listed.

“Colorado was the first that made a big splash and got a lot of attention for requiring pay ranges and compensation information in job postings, we’re really leading the way,” Myrland said. “Today in 2023, because several other states have followed Colorado’s lead, about one in four workers nationwide now are covered by pay transparency laws.”

The Women’s Foundation worked on the original law and new bill with lawmakers and other organizations that included the Colorado Women’s Bar Association and 9to5 Colorado, an organization representing working women. Danielson is joined by two of the three prime sponsors of the original bill, including Sen. Janet Buckner, an Aurora Democrat and Rep. Serena GonzalesGutierrez, a Denver Democrat. The fourth, Brittany Pettersen, is now a U.S. representative. Rep. Jennifer Bacon, also a Denver Democrat, is also a prime sponsor.

Equal pay stats: 631 complaints; Twitter, Lockheed fined

Complaints about the existing wage transparency law are still coming in, though activity trailed off during the year, according to the state Department of Labor and Employment. The office that oversees it, the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics, received 631 complaints about violations, which included posts that shared no wages, didn’t include a description of benefits or offered too wide of a range (ranges must have a specific bottom and top amount).

“Compared to the first four months of 2022, the average number of monthly complaints in the last four months of 2022 decreased by almost 45%,” a labor department spokesperson said.

After giving the companies the chance to correct the issue, the vast majority did. The state wound up issuing citations for just four companies in 2022. Three were fined, including Lockheed Martin and Twitter. Those cases have not been publicly disclosed yet, but will be, according to the division.

The third, SpotOn Transact, a San Francisco-based payments company, paid a $16,000 fine in July based on violations related to 33 job postings that did not include compensation for jobs that could be performed in Colorado.

New labor-related proposals have popped up just weeks into the new legislative session.

An already contentious one is House Bill 1118, the Fair Workweek Employment Standards bill. It would require employers to post worker schedules ahead of time and not penalize employees who say “no” to last-minute calls for help. And workers who do respond to last-minute schedule changes would receive a “predictability pay” bonus.

“When businesses provide workers with schedules 14 days in advance and provide at least 12 hours of rest time between shifts, it’s a win-win for employers and employees alike,”

Nina DiSalvo, policy director at Towards Justice, said in an email.

“Employees who can schedule child care, a second job or other responsibilities — plus know their income to budget to cover their bills — are happier, healthier, more productive and generate more profit for the business.”

That puts a burden on employers, so there’s strong opposition to the bill already. What about weather disruptions, asked Furman, with the Colorado Chamber. Personal employee emergencies? The bill as proposed is too punitive, she said.

“An employer can be sued for changing the schedule (without) a two-week advance notice,” Furman said. “It doesn’t contemplate a snow bomb or act of God or even just an employee that has an emergency or unintended absence. … It’s just amazing to me that they haven’t contemplated the scenarios in a state like Colorado that has such weather variations.”

So… more work to be done on this bill. It’s been scheduled for a committee meeting on Feb. 16.

Do we need more laws?

As of Jan. 27, with 62 responses to the latest What’s Working reader poll on what new laws interest you most, 37.1% support no new laws because we have too many. Another 22.6% are interested in laws related to retirement while 19.4% would perk up if there was a law that would raise their salary. Take the poll yourself at https://cosun.co/ worklaws.

The clear winner in the latest What’s Working poll about what new laws we need was “None. We have too many laws.” But at 37.1% of the incoming votes, it’s not the majority. I’m going to let this poll go for at least another week because I got jammed up this week. But here’s one suggestion:

“I would love to see a bill that lets the public see how much big companies pay their shareholders while causing consumer prices to skyrocket and keeping workers’ pay low.”

We can find out tidbits like this from publicly traded companies, which must report their profits. There’s also the CEO pay ratio law, which reveals how wages of CEOs at public companies are often many times higher than their workers (here’s a searchable list).

Two of the top three in Colorado — Liberty Latin America and Qurate Retail, where CEO-toworker pay ratios are 1,055 to 1 and 686 to 1, respectively — are linked to retired cable TV mogul John Malone.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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Tra cking survivor shares her journey

BY DANA KNOWLES, JULIO SANDOVAL

Mel is a mother of three, a grandmother of four, and works part time with people who are intellectually and developmentally disabled. She wants people to know that she’s more than a survivor of human trafficking.

Even though those experiences were a huge part of her life, Mel is healing and moving forward.

“This healing becomes such a big responsibility on the victims of these crimes,” explained Mel, adding that resting is often part of the process. “Sometimes you get tired of this idea that because you’re a survivor and you’ve handled (human trafficking), that you can handle anything.”

Mel, who asked that Rocky Mountain PBS not use her last name, explained how she started running away from an abusive situation at home when she was 15. Two years later, she met an older man who started grooming her. The man made Mel feel loved and special.

“He started to treat me like a princess. This man was giving me all this attention, and all this stuff, and he put a big diamond ring on my finger,” she said. “He made me feel very secure.”

Mel said the man eventually convinced her to go with him to New York City, where she was immediately put on the street and forced to prostitute herself.

“It was scary and hard. I got arrested with a bunch of other girls one night and ended up in a Bronx, New York jail.”

It was in jail when Mel realized there was no way out of her situation.

“There were so many girls that were being picked up like me. We were handcuffed together, and held in a cell all weekend together, put in front of a judge, and sent back out on the street,” Mel recalled.

Marianna Kosharovsky, the

founder and executive director of Alight, an organization that helps connect human trafficking survivors with attorneys, said traffickers are extremely savvy when it comes to targeting their victims.

“Trafficking is not about movement, it’s about profiting from someone else’s vulnerability.

Traffickers know when someone has a vulnerable moment in their life and then they figure out how can they profit as much as they can from this person,” said Kosharovsky.

Alight has an app with the idea of making it easy for survivors to find attorneys. The organization has tasked itself with providing as many free legal services as possible for survivors.

Attorneys helped Mel expunge

an old arrest warrant from the early 90s. Since 2017, Kosharovsky said Alight has helped more than 200 survivors in 33 states, as well as Washignton, D.C.

According to the U.S. Department of State, there is an average of 24.9 million trafficking victims worldwide at any given time. Defined as a crime of exploitation, human trafficking affects people of all races, ages and genders. Victims are pressured into providing labor — including sex as a form of labor — through the use of force, fraud or coercion.

“The most important thing people need to know about human trafficking is that it is (as) simple as going out on a date with someone that you’re not all that familiar with,” Mel explained.

tries with high turnover rates.

“Domestic trafficking is the majority of the trafficking. It’s not taking place in other countries and it doesn’t necessarily require someone to be bound; we pass them on the streets every day,” explained Kosharovsky.

For Mel, taking care of herself and spending time with her family is top priority. She says healing can feel like a full-time job, so selfcare is paramount.

“Every day is a healing journey, and I don’t think it’s easy; there are days I don’t want to deal with it. I get tired of being called a survivor.”

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org.

Human tra cking survivor shares her story.

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Survivor is healing and moving forward

‘This healing becomes such a big responsibility on the victims of these crimes. Sometimes you get tired of this idea that because you’re a survivor and you’ve handled (human tra cking), that you can handle anything..’ Mel

Age is not a factor in heart disease risk

Heart issues can attack all ages

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It is a common myth that heart disease does not a ect the younger population. However, Dr. Je Park, a cardiologist with Aurora Denver Cardiology Associates at e Medical Center of Aurora says that is a common myth.

“High long standing blood pressure issues with long standing cholesterol issues, long standing diabetes, yeah, that puts you at higher risk for sure,” said Park. “But there’s de nitely a genetic component.”

Heart disease can present itself in many ways to di erent people and may not always be obvious.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes and unhealthy eating patterns are appearing among younger people and placing them at a higher risk for heart disease.

“ e patients are getting younger, we’ve had heart attacks in patients who are in their twenties,” said Park.

ere are certain genetic conditions where individuals are at increased risk of having a heart attack, Park said. Cholesterol issues is a primary indicator.

One example given by Park is a

condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH. is is a genetic disorder where people have high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels. People have a predisposition for heart disease at that point as the body cannot recycle bad lipids, Park said.

“You’re like ‘I’m too young to see a doctor’ and I’m guilty of that same concept, you know, but it’s a matter of if you get identi ed early on, it’s a matter of your treatment starts earlier and you’re protected early,” said Park.

Park says it’s never too soon to check one’s heart health. e American Heart Association has ways to help prevent heart disease throughout each stage of life, starting when

“ at’s a false, false, false statement,” said Park. “I think I’ve treated more women than I have treated men, or at least equally, and I guess it’s a matter of what’s the cause of the heart disease that you’re talking about.”

According to Park, heart disease and heart attacks in women present themselves di erently from men.

It might notbe the typical chest pain and it might not be the typical exertional component that people tend to think about, said Park. Women can feel some indigestion but end up having a heart attack.

A map presented by the CDC

shows heart disease death rates among women 35 and older across the U.S.

According to the CDC, between 2018 and 2020, the Colorado average estimated heart disease death rate for all races and ethnicities in women 35 and older was 195 per 100,000 people. e average estimated number for Douglas County was 154.

Symptoms do not always occur while the body is doing physical activity, Park said, symptoms can arise while the body is resting.

“Even if you’re feeling great, you never know,” said Park.

Dr. Je Park with a model heart in support of Heart Month.

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Pomona captures 5th straight team title in record-setting form

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

DENVER — Pomona’s wrestling machine steamrolled to its fth straight Class 5A boys state team championship Feb. 19 at Ball Arena.  e Panthers broke their teampoint record of 256.5 points set last season. It was Pomona’s 10th overall state wrestling team title and seventh over the past eight seasons.

“I thought we would,” Pomona coach Sam Federico said when asked if he thought the Panthers would have another record-breaking state tournament. “Our freshmen are really good and we have some great leadership with our seniors.”

Pomona racked up 278.5 points while sending a program record nine wrestlers — Zaidyn Quinonez (106), Derek Barrow (120), Mark Cardenas (126), Jakob Romero (138), Kalob Ybarra (144), Vincent Cabral (150), Dante Hutchings (165), Jose Rosales (215) and Adrian Arellano (285) — to the championship bouts.

Holly holds the record for most individual state champs in a single state tournament. e Wildcats had seven state champions back in 1972.

Pomona captured ve individual championships. Freshmen Quinonez, Barrow and Ybarra, along with seniors Cabral and Rosales all won individual state titles.

“It is a blessing to be apart of this team,” Cabral said. “When I came to Pomona I knew I had to work hard just to make the line-up, let alone win a state title. It is amazing to have an environment with everyone around you to have the same mindset.”

Cabral placed 6th as a freshman, could crack the varsity line-up and wrestled JV as a sophomore and placed third last year.

“It feels amazing. I’ve worked for it since I was a little kid,” Cabral said after winning the 150-pound title. “I would come watch the (state) tournament and I could just image myself getting my hand raised. Now it is nally here and it feels amazing.”

Pomona had a good mix of upperclassmen and youngsters in the nals. e Panthers had four seniors, three freshmen, along with one junior and one sophomore. Pomona placed all 13 wrestlers it quali ed for the state tournament with a pair of third places, along with a fourth and sixth place nisher during the consolation matches that nished up in the afternoon at Ball Arena.

“We knew our freshman class was a strong class coming in,” Barrows said of the seven freshmen who made varsity this year. “We knew if we would win our matches we would win the state title easy.”

ere is already a mindset that Quinonez, Barrow and Ybarra have a chance to join the exclusive 4-timer club three years from now.

“We talk about it for sure,” Barrows said of the opportunity to become

144-pound

a 4-time state champion and nish o as a senior in three years with Pomona having won 8 straight team titles. “It is de ntely good to just focus on next year. We are looking for three 4-timers our senior year.” Rosales, who had wrestled up to heavyweight his rst three years, captured the last individual title of the night for Pomona and the rst for his career.

“It feels great. I feel like a champion,” Rosales said. “I wanted to go out, wrestle as hard as I can and get the business done.”

Chatfield continues to dominate girls tournament

Chat eld’s girls wrestling squad won its fth straight team title — 2 pilot years and 3 CHSAA sanctioned seasons —  in a tight race with Discovery Canyon and Pomona.

e Chargers nished with 133 points. Discovery Canyon took second with 128 and Pomona third with 116. Chat eld seniors Janessa George (110) and Taylor Miess (135) both picked up their rst individual state titles of their prep careers.

George had the biggest win of the night upsetting perviously undefeated Loveland senior Morgan Johnson who was attempting to win her fourth individual state title. George pinned Johnson in the rst period.

Freshman Ryen Hickey (140) locked up

the team title for the Chargers with a second-period pin

Arvada West sophomore Auston Eudaly reacts after his second-period pin of Adams City senior Maximus Gutierrez in the Class 5A

third-place match Feb. 18 at Ball Arena.

PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Chatfield freshman Hannah Rocklin was all smiles after her consolation semifinal victory at 115 pounds Feb. 18 at Ball Arena. Rocklin placed fourth to help the Chargers to another girls wrestling team title. PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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Mines and Chadron forced ve ties and seven lead changes. e second half, especially, turned into a battle.

Mines had an eight-point lead with 2:26 left, but Chadron got three consecutive buckets and cut Mines’ lead to two with 1:10 left.

Mines ate up some clock, but senior guard Sam Beskind’s three-point attempt was o . Chadron recovered, but Bryce Latimer missed his jumper at the other end. Boone nabbed the rebound, forcing Chadron to play the foul game.

e Eagles had a low foul count, though, so it took several inbounds attempts before they made it into the bonus. It did eat some critical seconds o the clock, though, Mines coach Pryor Orser noted later, and the Orediggers’ eventual free throws helped seal the W.

“We knew it was going to be a really hard game,” Orser said. “ ey’ve got shooters, and they got guys who can beat you o the dribble.”

Orser described how incredibly proud he was of the four seniors for their academic and athletic accomplishments. ey’ve had amazing basketball careers and built up what the Orediggers call “a huge bank account,” he said, with more than 100 wins and multiple NCAA tournament appearances.

“What’s really going to hurt is when I’m sitting on the bench next year, and those guys aren’t on the oor,” Orser continued. “ … ey have an unbelievable legacy. For the younger players coming up, there’s big shoes to ll.”

On the horizon

e Orediggers are preparing to close out the regular season at Adams State Feb. 24 and at top-ranked Fort Lewis Feb. 25. After that, they’ll likely host a rst-round RMAC tournament game.

If they make waves in the conference tourney, Boone hoped Mines could host a rst-round NCAA tournament game. e Orediggers are in the NCAA tournament mix, Orser said, but it’s too early to tell what seed they’ll get or where they’ll play.

For now, the seniors were thankful to close out their nal season at Mines together. Boone’s loved all ve of his years at Mines, and Sullivan added how he, Boone and Dykema have grown close from living in the dorms and playing basketball together. en, this year, they welcomed istlewood, whom Sullivan had known since they were children.

“It’s a fun group,” Sullivan said of his fellow seniors, “and I’m excited to nish the season out with them. … I’ve had a great ve years here. Being able to close it out with a (Senior Night) win is just awesome.”

Senior forward Adam Thistlewood hugs his mom while the Feb. 18 Senior Night ceremony for the Colorado School of Mines men’s basketball team. Thistlewood, a Golden High School alumnus, transferred to Mines from Colorado State University for his final year of eligibility. PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

Senior guard Trent Dykema and his family celebrate Senior Night Feb. 18 at Colorado School of Mines.

Colorado School of Mines senior guard Brendan Sullivan makes a layup during the first half of the Feb. 18 home game against Chadron State.

Mines senior guard Ben Boone makes a free throw, giving Mines a four-point lead over Chadron State with eight seconds left in the Feb. 18 game. The Orediggers held out and won 78-74 at home.

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e antler growth cycle beings in the spring, triggered by increasing daylight and subsequent testosterone production. As they grow, antlers are covered by velvet which brings blood vessels and nerves to the underlying bone.

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Find a shed antler?  Be sure to check the calendar before taking it home. In 2018, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted to protect winter habitat for wildlife by forbidding antler or horn collection found west of I-25 between Jan. 1 and April 30 each year.

When you see velvet antlers this spring, you can understand the toll it takes on bulls and bucks. Even though their antlers look soft and touchable, keep in mind that hard bone is just under the surface, a fact which elk will be happy to show you if you get too close!

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of Mead sophomore Ashley Booth. Pomona grabbed a pair of individual titles with junior Persaeus Gomez nishing o a perfect 20-0 season with a victory at 120 pounds. Freshman Timberly Martinez capped o a 24-0 record with a major deci-

sion over Central of Grand Junction junior Mollie Dare. Pomona junior Desza Munson came up just short of winning an individual title. She lost to Discovery Canyon senior Jainda Garcia in the 145-pound championship.

Je erson picks up another individual title

Je erson sophomore Samuel Rosales won the Saints 10th individual state title in the program’s history Feb.

18 at Ball Arena.

After losing in his state championship bout last season, Rosales dominated Centauri junior Riley Valdez in the Class 3A 120-pound match. e sophomore took a 16-8 major decision.

“It felt great,” Rosales said. “I put a lot of hard work in. I went after it. I just wanted to make my family proud.”

Je erson nished 18th in the team

standings with 41.5 points, but Saints’ coach Oscar Fonseca is excited about how young his team is with plenty of returning wrestlers next season.  “We’ll have ve returning state quali er coming back next year with two state placers,” Fonseca said.

Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Je co Public Schools. For more Je co coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.

Pomona freshman Zaidyn Quinonez reacts after defeating Eaglecrest junior Adonias Cantu 7-5 in the Class 5A 106-pound championship bout Feb. 18 at Ball Arena. The Panthers had three freshmen — Quinonez, Derek Barrow (120) and Kalob Ybarra (144) — win individual state championship titles. PHOTOS BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Arvada West sophomore Auston Eudaly reacts after his second-period pin of Adams City senior Maximus Gutierrez in the Class 5A 144-pound third-place match Feb. 18 at Ball Arena.

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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200358

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

On December 21, 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)

Jacob D. Hanchey and Armida Sotelo

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Pivot Lending Group Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Pivot Lending Group Date of Deed of Trust

August 10, 2022

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 11, 2022

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

2022077475

Original Principal Amount

$675,414.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$675,414.00

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Breach of Affidavit of Occupancy.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 76, Block 1, Sabell Subdivision, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

Also known by street and number as:

5715 Van Gordon Way, Arvada, CO 80002.

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

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 04/13/2023 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

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DATE: 12/21/2022

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:

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

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On December 21, 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) Anne Weberg

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MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CROSSCOUNTRY MORTGAGE, LLC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

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

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

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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On December 6, 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.

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Norman L. Dunn and Holly P. Dunn

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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, 03/30/2023 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/

DATE: 12/06/2022

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: Heather L. Deere #28597 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO11654

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

Legal Notice NO. J2200349

First Publication: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200352

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

On December 15, 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)

Heidi L. Bickel

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION

SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

August 17, 2019

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 27, 2019

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

2019076924

Original Principal Amount

$195,753.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$168,864.54

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 91, BLOCK 1, A REPLAT OF SAN FRANCISCO WEST SUBDIVISION NO. 1, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

PARCEL ID NUMBER: 49-344-03-184

Also known by street and number as:

3299 South Estes Street, 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, 04/13/2023 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:2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/15/2022

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 # 22-028646

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. J2200352

First Publication: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200354

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

On December 15, 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.

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

THE SOUTH 75 FEET OF THE NORTH 181 FEET OF THE EAST 139.25 FEET OF THE WEST 496.65 FEET OF BLOCK 26, BENNET ACRES, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

110 SOUTH KENDALL STREET, Lakewood, CO 80226.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 04/13/2023 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/15/2022

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

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, or 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

File # 22-028861

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

Morrison, CO 80465.

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, 04/13/2023 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/21/2022

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:

N. April Winecki #34861 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295 Attorney File # 20-024119

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. J2200357

First Publication: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200359

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

On December 21, 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)

Anne Weberg

Original Beneficiary(ies)

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

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

October 10, 2019 County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 15, 2019

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

2019097051

Original Principal Amount

$263,145.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $250,676.58

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, 04/13/2023 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/21/2022

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:

N. April Winecki #34861 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295

Attorney File # 22-028962

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. J2200359

First Publication: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200350

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

On December 15, 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)

Kelly Renee Simmons

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for American Financing Corporation, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Citizens Bank NA f/k/a RBS Citizens NA

Date of Deed of Trust

April 30, 2020 County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 06, 2020

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

2020050955

Original Principal Amount $405,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $389,459.49

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The 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 # CO21086

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. J2200350

First Publication: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023 Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200337

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 30, 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) MATTHEW G. NIEMERG Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN LOANS, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

October 27, 2020 County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 28, 2021

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2021096564

Original Principal Amount $374,440.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $363,648.79

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 426, APPLE MEADOWS SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 5932 CULEBRA CT, GOLDEN, CO 80403-1010.

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, 03/30/2023 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/

Notice

the following described Deed of Trust:

given with regard

On December 21, 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)

ALLEE

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, West Chase, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 6862 Johnson St, Arvada, CO 80004-2941.

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

First Publication: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

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;

Pursuant

CONDOMINIUM UNIT 126, BUILDING 24, SILVERTREE CONDOMINIUMS PHASE I, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FOR SILVERTREE CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED APRIL 23, 1984 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 84036263 AND MAP OF DISCOVERY AT SILVERTREE PHASE I, RECORDED APRIL 23, 1984 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 84036264 AND AMENDED APRIL 23, 1984 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 8403266 AND AMENDED APRIL 23, 1984 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 84036268 AND AMENDED MAY 10, 1984 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 84043285 AND ANNEXATIONS RECORDED JULY 13, 1984 AT RECEPTION NUMBERS 84065858, 84065860, 84065862 AND AMENDED SEPTEMBER 17, 1984 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 84088225 AND AMENDED DECEMBER 11, 1984 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 84114663, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 49-221-04-150

Also known by street and number as: 1250 S Flower Cir Unit C, Lakewood, CO 80232.

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, 04/13/2023 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/

DATE: 11/30/2022

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 # 00000009661299

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. J2200337

First Publication: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200336

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 30, 2022, the undersigned Pub-

lic 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

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Universal Lending Corporation

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

PennyMac Loan Services, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

July 26, 2018

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 31, 2018

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

2018069533

Original Principal Amount

$316,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$326,124.24

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A

FIRST LIEN.

LOT 4, BLOCK 10, NORTH ARVADA PARK

SECOND ADDITION THIRD FILING, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

6537 Otis St, 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, 03/30/2023 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: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

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: 11/30/2022

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:

Scott D. Toebben #19011

Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (844) 322-6558

Attorney File # 19CO00344-3

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. J2200336

First Publication: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200338

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

On November 30, 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)

CATHERINE NOVAK

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR INTERBANK MORTGAGE COMPANY

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

January 16, 2014

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

January 30, 2014

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

2014007386

Original Principal Amount

$296,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance

$249,621.78

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.

THE NORTH 330 FEET OF THE SOUTH 1320 FEET OF THE EAST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH, RANGE 70 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LYING EAST OF STATE HIGHWAY 124, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 8946 S DEER CREEK CANYON RD, LITTLETON, CO 80127.

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, 03/30/2023 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: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

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: 11/30/2022

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 # 00000009657214

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.

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

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: 12/15/2022

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:

Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO11952

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. J2200355

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 6, 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)

Richard Mossberg

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust

30, 2020

N. April Winecki #34861 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295

Attorney File # 22-028837

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. J2200342

First Publication: 2/9/2023

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

On November 30, 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)

Fred Schlott and Barbara Schlott Original Beneficiary(ies)

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust

January 26, 2004 County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

March 12, 2004

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

F1982678

Original Principal Amount

$100,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$75,230.58

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

THE SOUTHERLY 660.00 FEET OF THE WESTERLY 165.00 FEET OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 69 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 5990 W Coal Mine Ave, Littleton, CO 80123-3906.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

On December 15, 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) David M. Langie Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for American Financing Corporation, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Nationstar Mortgage LLC

Date of Deed of Trust September 28, 2018

County of Recording Jefferson Recording Date of 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: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

UNIT 9, KIMBERLY SQUARE, A CONDOMINIUM, ACCORDING TO THE MAP FILED FOR RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 1 AT PAGE 14, AND THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED FEBRUARY 9, 1965 IN BOOK 1777 AT PAGE 129, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1268 Reed Street, Lakewood, CO 80214.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

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, 03/30/2023 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/

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, 03/30/2023 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: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

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: 11/30/2022

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:

Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-22-943711-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'

No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2007079782

Original Principal Amount $188,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $179,777.57

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 13, BLOCK 20, KIPLING VILLAS AMENDMENT NO. 1, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 5932 South Garland Way, 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, 04/13/2023 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/15/2022

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: Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-22-947775-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. J2200351

First Publication: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript City and County Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF LAKESIDE LIQUOR LICENSING AUTHORITY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the liquor laws of the State of Colorado, 7-Eleven Inc. d/b/a 7-Eleven Store 42210H has requested the Liquor Licensing Authority for the Town of Lakeside to grant a Fermented Malt Beverage and Wine Retailer license for

PUBLIC NOTICE

A public hearing will be held before the Arvada City Council scheduled for March 6, 2023 at 6:15 p.m., Arvada City Hall, 8101 Ralston Rd., Arvada, when and where you may speak on the matter to consider Kum & Go #2299, To construct a new fueling station and convenience store with a detached fuel pump canopy where the building does not adhere to the building orientation and configuration requirement of LDC 5-1-2-6(B)(1); To construct a new fueling station and convenience store with a detached fuel pump canopy where the fueling canopy does not adhere to the required 40-foot setback from all streets in LDC 3-1-3-8(A)(3)(i); and to construct a new fueling station and convenience store with a detached fuel pump canopy where the fueling canopy does not adhere to the required site design standard of LDC 4-3-3-4(F)(2) which requires a canopy to be located behind or to the side of a building. A 0.885 – acre parcel of land approximately located at 6401 Wadsworth Byp. Members of the public may attend.

CITY OF ARVADA City Council

/s/ Kristen Rush, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 415771

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

LEGAL NOTICE

RESOLUTION CC23-039

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY

COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, shall be considering the adoption of Resolution No. CC23-039 regarding the 2023 Budget – February Supplementary Budget and Appropriation and shall take action on said Resolution at a public hearing to be held on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at the hour of 8:00 a.m. through a hybrid meeting platform. Meetings are held in Hearing Room One in the Courts and Administration Building located at 100 Jefferson County Parkway in Golden or through a virtual WebEx platform, details for accessing the public hearing will be posted at the following website, https://www.jeffco.us/2079/Meetings-Agendas.

The proposed Resolution is available for inspection on the County’s Website at https://www.jeffco. us/779/Finance

Legal Notice No. 415774

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

A public hearing will be held before the Arvada City Council scheduled for March 6th, 2023 at 6:15 p.m., Arvada City Hall, 8101 Ralston Rd., Arvada, when and where you may speak on the matter to consider a Conditional Use and Major Modification for MARSHALL POINTE, a 4.36 –acre parcel of land approximately located at the southeast corner of Marshall St and W 52nd Ave. Members of the public may attend.

CITY OF ARVADA City Council

/s/ Kristen Rush, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 415770

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Bids and Settlements

Public Notice

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

GEOS NEIGHBORHOOD

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

GEOS NEIGHBORHOOD, CITY OF ARVADA

Notice is hereby given that the GEOS Neighborhood Metropolitan District (“District”) seeks proposals from qualified compost service providers in accordance with Sections 32-1-1004(2)(k) and 1006(6), C.R.S. Services in the GEOS Neighborhood, City of Arvada, County of Jefferson, Colorado are to generally consist of the following:

Provision of compost bins (68 gallon)

Weekly compost collection

Immediate service for a minimum of three compost bins with additional, individual bin pricing toward a full community build out of 200-plus residential units. The contract term will be a total of three-years.

Inquiries about the service to be provided should be directed as follows:

Karen Gerbatsch

Phone: 201-370-1356

Email: kmgcrs@gmail.com

Sealed proposals are due by March, 23, 2023, not later than 5:00 P.M. MT to the District c/o

Jennifer Ivey, Icenogle Seaver Pogue, P.C., 4725 S. Monaco Street, Suite 360, Denver, CO 80237 or jievy@isp-law.com. Proposals not received by 5:00 P.M. MT on March, 23, 2023 will not be considered. Proposals will not be publicly opened and read. The Board of Directors of the District will consider approval of a contract at a public meeting to be held on or after March 25, 2023.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

GEOS NEIGHBORHOOD METROPOLITAN

DISTRICT

Legal Notice No. 415778

First Publication: February 23, 2023 Last Publication: February 23, 2023

via electronic submission to Independent District Engineering Services (IDES); 1626 Cole Blvd, Suite 125, Lakewood, CO 80401 from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., March 10, 2023. Electronic copies of the bid documents are to be sent to bcollins@ idesllc.com and wback@idesllc.com.

A description of the Work to be performed includes but is not limited to: grading, erosion control, utility installation, concrete, asphalt paving, striping and signage, and any and all other work necessary to complete the project in accordance with Contract Documents including the plans and specifications.

Interested bidders may download the digital documents for $22.00 by inputting Quest project number 8393352 on the website’s projects search page.

An optional pre-bid conference will be held at the Offices of Independent District Engineering Services (IDES); 1626 Cole Blvd, Suite 125, Lakewood, CO 80401, at 2:00 P.M. on February 22, 2022.

Bids shall be made on the forms furnished by the Owner and shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and endorsed with the name of the Bidder. A Bid Bond in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total Bid amount will be required. The Bid Bond will be retained by Owner as liquidated damages should the Successful Bidder fail to enter into a Contract with the Owner in accordance with the Bid. Bidders must supply a list of Subcontractors providing Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) or more in labor and/or materials to the Project.

Attention is called to the fact that Bidders offer to assume the obligations and liabilities imposed by the Contract Documents. The Successful Bidder for the Project will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond in the full amount of the Contract Price, in conformity with the requirements of the Contract Documents.

Bidders are hereby advised that the Owner reserves the right to not award a Contract until ninety (90) days from the date of the opening of Bids, and Bidders expressly agree to keep their Bids open for the sixty (90) day time period. Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any informality, technicality or irregularity in any Bid, to disregard all non-conforming, non-responsive, conditional or alternate Bids, to negotiate contract terms with the Successful Bidder, to require statements or evidence of Bidders’ qualifications, including financial statements, and to accept the proposal that is in the opinion of the Owner in its best interest. Owner reserves the right to accept any combination of Bids which in Owner’s sole and absolute judgment will, under all circumstances, best serve the Owner’s interests. Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest to do so.

Legal Notice No. 415750

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE is hereby given that Jefferson Center Metropolitan District No. 1 of Jefferson County, Colorado, shall make retainage release payment at 141 Union Blvd, Suite 150, Lakewood, CO 80228 on or after March 28, 2023, at the hour of 9:30, a.m. to the following:

Timco Blasting and Coatings, Inc.

200 North Main St. Bristow, OK 74010

For all work done by said Contractors in construction or work on the Candelas Community Commercial Parcels and performed within and/or for the Jefferson Center Metropolitan District No. 1 in the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado. This includes the Contract for Highway 72 Water Main.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time for final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim to: Independent District Engineering Services, LLC, 1626 Cole Boulevard, Suite 125, Lakewood, CO 80401, on or before the date and time herein above shown for final payment. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Jefferson Center Metropolitan District No. 1, its directors, officers, agents, consultants and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

JEFFERSON CENTER METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

By: Independent District Engineering Services, LLC, Brandon Collins, PE

be publicly opened and read aloud.

The Project will include work for a new 8-inch sanitary sewer main including approximately:

* 695 LF of 8-Inch Sanitary Sewer Main, 2 Manholes, and 2 Sanitary Sewer Service Reconnections

The work shall include all bypass pumping, erosion and traffic control and other related improvements and appurtenances. This Project is located within the Bear Creek Water and Sanitation District, located within the City of Lakewood, Colorado.

Copies of the Bidding Documents may be requested from the Bear Creek Water & Sanitation District at the email of the District Engineer, barney.fix@ merrick.com beginning February 23, 2023 at 10:00

A.M. No payment required. Reproductions are prohibited. No pre-bid conference is scheduled; however, interested Bidders are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the area where the work will be performed.

Bids may not be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) calendar days after the Bid date and time. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any errors or irregularities, and to require statements or evidence of Bidders’ qualifications including financial statements. The Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest to do so. For further information, please contact Barney Fix at Merrick & Company at 303-751-0741.

Legal Notice No. 415764

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Not consecutive

NOTICE is hereby given that Jefferson Center Metropolitan District No. 1 of Jefferson County, Colorado, shall make retainage release payment at 141 Union Blvd, Suite 150, Lakewood, CO 80228 on or after March 28, 2023, at the hour of 9:30, a.m. to the following:

GH Phipps Construction Companies

5995 Greenwood Plaza Blvd, Suite 100 Greenwood Village, CO 80111-4710

For all work done by said Contractors in construction or work on the Candelas Community Commercial Parcels and performed within and/or for the Jefferson Center Metropolitan District No. 1 in the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado. This includes the Contract for Candelas Medical Phase 2 Concrete and Paving.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time for final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim to: Independent District Engineering Services, LLC, 1626 Cole Boulevard, Suite 125, Lakewood, CO 80401, on or before the date and time herein above shown for final payment. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Jefferson Center Metropolitan District No. 1, its directors, officers, agents, consultants and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

JEFFERSON CENTER METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

By: Independent District Engineering Services, LLC, Brandon Collins, PE District Engineer by and for the Jefferson Center Metropolitan District No. 1

Legal Notice No. 415716

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publication Name: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

INVITATION TO BID

CANYON PINES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

CANYON PINES TRAIL PROJECT

Notice is hereby given that the Canyon Pines Metropolitan District (“District”) seeks bids from qualified contractors for the construction of a natural surface trail system within the District, Arvada, County of Jefferson, Colorado (“Project”) as outlined in the bid documents.

Complete digital project bidding documents will be available for download online after 11:00 A.M. on February 16, 2023 at www.questcdn. com. Interested bidders may download the digital documents for $22.00 by inputting Quest project number 8402049 on the website’s projects search page.

An optional Pre-Bid conference will be held at the Offices of Independent District Engineering Services (IDES), 1626 Cole Blvd, Suite 125, Lakewood CO 80401, at 11:00 A.M. on March 9, 2023. Bids are due by March 16, 2023 not later than 1:00 P.M. MT to the District Engineer, IDES. Electronic copies of the bid documents are to be submitted to brandoncollins@idesllc.com and mjones@ idesllc.com. Bids not received by 1:00 P.M. MT will not be considered. Bids will not be publicly opened and read.

Public Notice

AAA Discount Storage will exercise its right of disposition, disposal, or destruction on March

09, 2023 of property Abandoned by Victor Logan, Kristen Howell, Jonathan Hernandez, Sergio Garcia, Taylor Clark, Siara Hegwood.

Legal Notice No. 415713

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 23 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO

CASE NO. 2022CV030922 DIV. 5

Plaintiff: FIRST VILLA WEST TOWNHOUSE

ASSOCIATION, a Colorado non-profit corporation

vs. Defendants: TERI ANN GROVE; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., individually and solely as nominee for, COLDWELL BANKER HOME LOANS; 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 October 20, 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:

Lot 69, Villa West Townhouses Filing No. 1, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

Also known by street number as 8395 West Virginia Avenue, 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.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 A.M., on the 6th day of April 2023, at the Sheriff's Office Administration Building, located at 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Suite 1520, Golden, CO 80419; telephone number 303-2716580. 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.

DATED at Jefferson County, Colorado, this 8th day of December 2022.

Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado Regina Marinelli, Sheriff

By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 415601

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023 Published in: Golden Transcript Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

CIVIL ACTION NO. 2022CV030318, Division/Courtroom 15

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY (Publication Notice)

MOUNTAIN GATE AT KEN-CARYL II CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. BRETT MCKENZIE; BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.; and JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice:

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Department of Jefferson County, Colorado at 10:00 O’clock A.M., on the 6th day of April 2023, at 100 Jefferson County Pkwy.Suite 1520, Golden, CO 80419-2040, phone number 303-271-6580. At which sale, the above described real property and

improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR 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 $15,944.05.

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 November 1, 2022 and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by Mountain Gate at Ken-Caryl II Condominium Association, Inc., the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on June 29, 2020 at Reception No. 2020075364 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 Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Mountain Gate at Ken-Caryl II recorded on 03/11/1994 at 94047322 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 Mountain Gate at Ken-Caryl II Condominium Association, Inc., against real property legal described as follows:

CONDOMINIUM UNIT 306, IN CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 8, MOUNTAIN GATE AT KEN-CARYL II (A CONDOMINIUM COMMUNITY), ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON APRIL 26, 1994 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 94075829, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR MOUNTAIN GATE AT KEN-CARYL II (A CONDOMINIUM COMMUNITY), RECORDED ON APRIL 26, 1994 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 94075828, IN SAID RECORDS COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.;

And also known as: 7394 S. Alkire St. #306, Littleton, CO 80127

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

Regina Marinelli, Sheriff Jefferson County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No. 415603

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Published In: Golden Transcript Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO CASE NO. 2022CV30475 DIV. 12

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 DEFENDANTS, Please take notice:

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Department of Jefferson County, Colorado at 10:00 O’clock A.M., on the 9th day of March 2023, at 100 Jefferson County Pkwy. Ste 1520, Golden, CO 80419-2040, phone number 303-271-6580. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR 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

Marinelli, Sheriff Jefferson County, Colorado

Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff

Notice No. 415535

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Notice District Court, Jefferson County, Colorado 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401

Zuni St. Denver CO 80223

v. Defendant: Gerold B Kraft, and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject real property which is the subject of this action. Case # 23CV26

SUMMONS

To the people of the state of Colorado

To the above named defendant Gerold B Kraft.

You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the Court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this Court an answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained by the clerk of court. If you fail to respond, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the Court without further notice. This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to the real property situated in Jefferson County, Colorado, also described as:

TRACT A, VAN BIBBER BUSINESS PARK

And Schedule # 300436711

ASSURE LLC Dated 02/06/2023

Legal Notice No. 415719

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

CIVIL ACTION NO. 2022CV030295, Division/ Courtroom 2

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY (Publication Notice)

AXE ROOFING LLC, Plaintiff, v. FREDERICK W. HART; and THE CITY OF ARVADA, CITY MANAGER, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice:

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Department of Jefferson County, Colorado at 10:00

O’clock A.M., on the 6th day of April 2023, at 100 Jefferson County Pkwy., Golden, CO 80419-2040, phone number 303-271-6580. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR 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 $18,419.75.

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Court Order dated October 31, 2022, and C.R.S. §38-38-101 et seq. by AXE ROOFING LLC, A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, the holder and current owner of a mechanic’s lien recorded on September 30, 2020 at 2020125471 and transcript of judgment recorded on June 29, 2021 at Rec No. 2021098185 and a transcript of judgment recorded on July 19, 2021 at Rec. No. 2021107728 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado. The above referenced liens are for the benefit of Axe Roofing LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company against real property legally described as follows:

LOT 7, BLOCK 4, WOODLAND VALLEY FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.;

And also known as:7066 Wright Ct. Arvada, CO 80004

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 23, 2023

Regina Marinelli Sheriff, Jefferson County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff

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

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

To the above-named Defendant(s) who claim or may claim an interest in the Property described in this action but whose identities are unknown after diligent efforts have been made to identify such persons.

You are summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims filed with the Court in this action, by filing with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this Summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of Plaintiff’s Complaint may be obtained from the Clerk of the Court.

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

This is an action seeking a determination by the Court and for an entry of a quiet title decree pursuant to C.R.C.P. 105, that Plaintiff John Ross is the owner of the following described real property situate in Jefferson County, Colorado:

Parcel 1:

Lots 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, and 37, Block 41, a subdivision of the East Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section 11, Township 5 South, Range 71 West of the 6th P.M., County of Jefferson, State of Colorado; and more commonly known as vacant land.

Parcel 2:

Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, and 38, Block 75, Mountain Park Home, a subdivision of the East Half of the Southwest Quarter of Section 11, Township 5 South, Range 71 West of the 6th P.M., County of Jefferson, State of Colorado; and more commonly known as 26215 Wild Flower Trail, Evergreen, CO 80439.

This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g)

(2), C.R.C.P.

Dated: February 1, 2023.

Respectfully submitted, TIEMEIER & STICH, P.C.

/s/ Philip A. Goiran Philip A. Goiran, #32325

Legal Notice No. 415672

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 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

OF SAID SECTION 26, 133 FEET; THENCE

AND PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SAID SECTION

TION 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 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.

• 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) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process.

Dated: December 6, 2022

Jeff Shrader JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF

By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 415602

First

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 MARK ZIRINSKY 1870 S. NIAGARA WAY DENVER, CO 80224

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 21ST day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2010, 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 wit; LOTS 8 AND 9, BLOCK 12, WAH KEENEY PARK, AND THE SOUTH 1/3 OF LOTS 44 AND 45, BLOCK 5, WAH KEENEY PARK, ALSO KNOWN AS TRACT A LOT 44 AND TRACT A LOT 45, BLOCK 5, WAH KEENEY PARK, AKA: VACANT LAND, That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2009 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2009 that said real estate was taxed in the name of JOSHUA TREE LANE LLC the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 21, A.D. 2013; 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 30TH 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 30TH Day of JANUARY, A.D. 2023.

Jerry DiTullio

Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice: 415455

First Publication FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Final Publication FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

Case # 2022-089 Cert # 180163

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; BARNEY KATCHEN, BARNEY KATCHEN TRUST U/A/D OCTOBER 27, 1980, KBM COLORADO REVOCABLE TRUST, JAMES M. KATCHEN AND MARILYN BERNSTEIN, TRUSTEES, C/O JAMES M. KATCHEN 17992 E. PRINCETON PL AURORA, CO 80013

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, COLORADO LAKEFRONT LLC, Assignor of, MICHAEL CHRIS LEACH LIVING TRUST, 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; LOT 1, BLOCK 52, ASPEN PARK, UNIT 4, AKA: 26127 PRESSLER ST., 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 KBM COLORADO REVOCABLE TRUST AND BARNEY KATCHEN, that 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, MICHAEL CHRIS LEACH LIVING TRUST, lawful holder of said certificate, on the 5TH day of JUNE 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 6TH Day of FEBRUARY, A.D. 2023

Jerry DiTullio Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice NO. 415722

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 PATRIC GALVIN 36 BEAR DR EVERGREEN, CO 80439

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 wit; LOTS 289 TO 295 INCLUSIVE, LOTS 322 TO 327 INCLUSIVE, LOTS 329 TO 333 INCLUSIVE, BLOCK 4, STANLEY PARK 1ST ADDITION, 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 PATRIC GALVIN 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 30TH 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 30TH Day of JANUARY, A.D. 2023. Jerry DiTullio

First Publication: FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Final Publication: MARCH 3, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401

In re the Marriage of: Petitioner: HALEY EARLS and Respondent: ASHLEY FAYE AUTUMN HOUSTON

Attorney for Petitioner:

Alexandra M. Archilla Rodriguez, #51409 Johnson Law Group, LLC 2438 Research Parkway, Suite 205 Colorado Springs, CO 80929

Phone Number: 720.452.2540

Fax Number: 720.500.6087

Alexandra@johnsonlgroup.com

Case Number: 2022DR30991 Division: V VERIFIED MOTION FOR PARENTAGE DETERMINATION

Petitioner, Haley Earls (“Mother”), by and through her undersigned counsel, Alexandra M. Archilla Rodriguez of Johnson Law Group, hereby requests this Court to find that the Respondent is a legal parent to the child named in this Petition pursuant to C.R.S. § 19-4-101, et seq. In support thereof Mother states as follows:

1. Parties Information Information about Petitioner: Check if in Military Full Legal Name: Haley Earls. Residential Address:

Length of Residence in Colorado: 5 years.

Petitioner has the following relationship with the minor children: [x] Mother Father Information about Respondent:

Check if in Military Full Legal Name: Ashley Faye Autumn Houston.

Residential Address: Length of Residence in Colorado: 5 years. Respondent has the following relationship with the minor children: [x] Mother Father

2. Children’s Information Respondent is the parent of the following children:

Name: Present: Address: Date of Birth Taya Houston Golden, CO

3. Jurisdiction

1) The Court has jurisdiction over the Respondent.

2) The minor child lives in this County.

4. Other Adults Identify below the name and address of each person that the children have lived with over the past five years. Please identify the relationship to the children.

Name: Address (City/Sate/Zip Code):

Time Period (Month/Year):

Type of Relationship to Children

Haley Earls: 2292 Oak Vista Court Castle Rock, CO 80104: 3/2018 – 6/2022:

Mother Ashley Faye Autumn Houston: 3/2018 – 6/2022:

Psychological Parent

The following people are not parties in this matter but have:

• physical custody of the children; or • claim rights of parental responsibilities, legal custody, or parenting time.

Name of Person Address: (City/State & Zip Code)

Marshall Clark Houston, TX 77070

5. Related Court Cases

List the court cases you have participated in regarding the children: None.

List the court proceedings that could affect this case: (some examples)

• Divorce Proceedings,

• Enforcement of court orders,

• Domestic violence, domestic abuse, and protection/restraining orders,

• Termination of parental rights, and adoption cases.

Name of Court: Case Number:

State Type of Proceeding Jefferson County District Court

Pending: CO: Dissolution of Marriage

In the last two years, has any court issued a protection or restraining order against any party in this case? (Yes or no) No.

6. Requested Relief

The parties request the Court find that Ashley Faye Autumn Houston is Taya Houston’s legal parent and for such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper.

7. Temporary Court Orders

Once the Respondent formally receives the Petition and Summons, the following orders will be in effect for 120 days. See C.R.S. § 194-105.5.

1. All parties are enjoined from molesting or disturbing the peace of any other party; and

2. Both parties are restrained from removing the children from the state without the consent of all parties or an Order of the Court modifying the injunction; and

3. Both parties are restrained, without at least 14 days advance notification and the written consent of all other parties or an Order of the Court, from cancelling, modifying, terminating, or allowing to lapse for nonpayment of premiums, any policy of health insurance or life insurance that provides coverage to the children as a beneficiary of a policy.

Petitioner acknowledges that they have read and understand the terms of these orders.

8. Verified Signature

Petitioner Haley Earls

I declare under penalty of perjury under the law of Colorado that the foregoing is true and correct.

Executed on the 13 day of November, 2022, at Golden Colorado .

Haley Earls Haley Earls /s/ Haley Earls (Nov 13, 2022 10:17 MST)

Petitioner’s Name / Petitioner’s Signature /s/ Alexandra M. Archilla Rodriguez

Attorney for Petitioner CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that on November 14, 2022, I gave a copy of this document to the other parties by:

Hand Delivery [x] Colorado Courts E-Filing

Email to: Gavin@Halliganllc.com

Regular Mail, addressed to: (Name, full mailing address.)

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 JAMES F. TAYLOR 1330 AUDUBON RD MOUNT SHASTA, CA 96067

GARY MACK BRINEGAR C/O KATRINKA BRINEGAR PO BOX 5364 SALTON CITY, CA 92275-5364

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 wit; LOTS 26

AND 27, BLOCK 1, TWIN SPRUCE PARK, 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 JAMES F. TAYLOR AND GARY MACK BRINEGAR, 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 12TH day of JUNE 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 13TH Day of FEBRUARY, A.D. 2023.

Jerry DiTullio Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice No. 415754

First Publication FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Final Publication MARCH 9, 2023 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice Case # 2022-046 Cert # 170243 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 MERRION FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP 610 REILLY AVE FARMINGTON, NM 87401

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 17TH day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2018, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to DAVID MARSTON, 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; LOT 16, PEARSON ADDITION, AKA: VACANT LAND, That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2017 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2017 that said real estate was taxed in the name of MERRION FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 17, A.D. 2021; 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, DAVID MARSTON., lawful holder of said certificate, on the 5TH day of JUNE 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 6TH Day of FEBRUARY, A.D. 2023.

Jerry DiTullio

Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice No. 415711

First Publication: FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Final Publication: MARCH 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice TO: COLIN GUEST

You are notified that you have 10 days after publication for this notice of levy to file your claim of exemption with the District Court of Jefferson County, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80401 in Case 2021CV30802 entitled:

WELLS FARGO BANK N.A. v. COLIN GUEST

$2,399.57 garnished at FIRSTBANK OF COLORADO, N.A., 12345 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood, CO 80215

Legal Notice No. 415717

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Case Number 2023PR30088

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tracy Renner, Personal Representative 5922 S. Versailles Street Aurora, CO 80015

Legal Notice No. 415642

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Ann Weber, also known as Mary A. Weber, Deceased Case Number :2023PR30103

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anne Weber Wiemers, Personal Representative 7889 Owens Court Arvada, CO 80005

Mark Weber, Personal Representative 12574 Arlington Place Littleton, CO 80127

Legal Notice No. 415650

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of HOMER RALPH HUFFMAN, a.k.a. HOMER R. HUFFMAN, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30155

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Douglas S. Holden Attorney to the Personal Representative 3851 W. 136th Ave., Unit B4 Broomfield, CO 80023

Legal Notice No. 415741

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Evelyn M. Martinez, Deceased Case No. 23 PR 30039

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of the County of Jefferson, Colorado, on or before June 26, 2023, or the claims maybe forever barred.

Kris L. Martinez, Personal Representative 360 Nueces St., #2109 Austin, TX 78701

Legal Notice No. 415776

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Sherlyn Marie Bendel, a/k/a Sherlyn M. Bendel, a/k/a Sherri Bendel, a/k/a Sherlyn Marie Barton, a/k/a Sherlyn M. Barton, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31050

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Theresa M. Moore, Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives 333 W. Hampden Ave., Ste. 420-G Englewood, CO 80110-2334

Legal Notice No. 415660

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Charlotte May Boness, Deceased Case Number: 23PR073

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Wendy L Browne, Personal Representative 11536 W. 26th Place Lakewood, Colorado 80215

Legal Notice No. 415727

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Mary Sandra Mildenberger, aka Mary S. Mildenberger, aka Mary Mildenberger, aka M Mildenberger, aka MS Mildenberger, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR47

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.

John K. Mildenberger

Personal Representative 5133 Zinnia Street Arvada. Colorado 80002

Legal Notice No. 415709

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of PAMELA SIBLEY WHITEHILL, aka PAMELA S. WHITEHILL, aka PAMELA WHITEHILL, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030090

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 June 27, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

John M. Whitehill, Personal Representative 5700 S. Benton Circle Littleton, CO 80123

Legal Notice No. 415458

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of THERESA A. BUNNELL, also known as THERESA ANN BUNNELL, aka THERESA BUNNELL and TERRY BUNNELL, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30089

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

David L. Bunnell, Personal Representative 6734 S. Queen Court Littleton, CO 80127

Legal Notice No. 415666

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robert Martinez Jr., Deceased

Case Number: 23PR039

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 09, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kristen Jenkins & Robert Martinez III

Personal Representative 15685 Carob Cr. Parker, Colorado 80134

Legal Notice No.415643

First publication: February 09, 2023

Last publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Daniel Christopher Daly, Deceased Case Number: 23 PR 30087

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Melissa A. Lloyd, Personal Representative 11866 W. 85th Place, Arvada, CO 80005

Legal Notice No. 415751

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of William C. Behrens, a/k/a William Carl Behrens, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30131

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.

Rebecca R. Lawrence Personal Representative C/O Joyner & Fewson, P.C. 3100 Arapahoe Ave. Ste. 410 Boulder, CO 80303

Legal Notice No. 415720

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

****** Attendance at this hearing is not required or expected. *******

To all interested persons:

A hearing without appearance on Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative is set at the following date, time, and location:

Date: Friday, March 10, 2023

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Address: 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401

***** IMPORTANT NOTICE*****

Any interested person wishing to object to the requested action set forth in the attached motion/ petition and proposed order must file a written objection with the court on or before the hearing and must furnish a copy of the objection to the person requesting the court order. JDF 722 (Objection form) is available on the Colorado Judicial Branch website (www.courts.state.co.us). If no objection is filed, the court may take action on the motion/petition without further notice or hearing. If any objection is filed, the objecting party must, within 14 days after filing the objection, contact the court to set the objection for an appearance hearing. Failure to timely set the objection for an appearance hearing as required will result in further action as the court deems appropriate.

Legal Notice No. 415686

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Shirley Reid, a/k/a Shirley S Reid, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31515

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred. Virginia A. Frazer-Abel # 34892 Frazer-Abel Law, LLC. 4704 Harlan St., Suite 250 Denver, Colorado 80212

Legal Notice No. 415739

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of TERRENCE MICHAEL SULLIVAN, a.k.a. TERRENCE M. SULLIVAN, a.k.a. TERRY M. SULLIVAN, a.k.a. TERRY SULLIVAN, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30096

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the the Jefferson County District Court, Golden, Colorado, on or before June 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

EDWARD AMBROSE SULLIVAN, III

Personal Representative 782 25TH Avenue, Apartment 1 San Francisco, California 94121-3670

Telephone: 415-812-0940

Legal Notice No. 415763

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of BETTY MAUS, Deceased Case Number 23 PR 30044

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 14, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Carrie T. Jark, Personal Representative 14344 W. Dartmouth Avenue Lakewood, CO 80228

Legal Notice No. 415697

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of NORBERT JOSEPH MEVERDEN, A/K/A NORBERT JOSEPH JAMES MEVERDEN, A/K/A NORBERT MEVERDEN, A/K/A NORBERT J. MEVERDEN, Deceased Case Number 22PR31222

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Notice

Attorney: Charles J. Vanstrom, Esq., Charles J. Vanstrom, P.C.

Box 40216, Denver, Colorado 80204-2016 Phone Number: 303-404-3504

E-mail: charles@charlesjvanstrompc.com Case Number: 2022PR31488

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 6/9/20239, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ronald Meverden, Personal Representative 765 Penn Court, Lindenhurst, IL 60046

Legal Notice No. 415662

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Shirley Goddard, Deceased Case Number: 23PR30148

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 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Vanda J. Black, Personal Representative

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

Legal Notice No. 415718

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Jeffrey Hudson Beeman, aka Jeffrey H. Beeman, aka Jeffrey Beeman, aka Jeff Beeman, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30181

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Johanna Beeman, Personal Representative Eric D Wollard Attorney for Personal Representative 4251 Kipling St Ste 300 Wheat Ridge CO 80033

Legal Notice No. 415768

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Nikki A. Jones, aka Nikki Jones, aka Nichola A. Jones, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30053

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Personal Representative William E. Jones 11532 W. Hampden Place Lakewood, Colorado 80227

Legal Notice No. 415777

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robert W. Patten, also known as Robert Wendell Patten, Robert Patten, and Robert W. Patten. Sr., Deceased Case Number:2023PR30126

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado or on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Richard R. Patten, Personal Representative 4540 Sumac Lane Littleton, CO 80123

Legal Notice No. 415732

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Gary Lawrence Basher, a.k.a. Gary L. Basher, a.k.a. Gary Basher, Deceased Case Number: 22PR30158

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Broomfield County, Colorado on or before June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nancy E. Basher, Personal Representative

16350 Handies Way Broomfield, CO 80023

Legal Notice No. 415670

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Clara P. Burkhart, Deceased

Case Number: 23PR045

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ward R. Snyder

Personal Representative

6627 Ingalls Court

Arvada, Colorado 80003

Legal Notice No. 415645

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Brian Richard Disney, also known as Brian R. Disney, and/or Brian Disney, Deceased

Case Number: 2022PR031519

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 23, 2023, or the claims may be

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.

Benedict Ciaramitaro

Personal Representative 9380 Carr Street Westminster, Colorado 80021

Legal Notice No.415744

First publication: February 16, 2023

Last publication: March 02, 2023 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Arlene Mae Wunsch, Arlene Wunsch Deceased Case Number: 23PR044

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lynette Wunsch, Personal Representative 7756 Oak Street Arvada, CO 80005

Legal Notice No. 415708

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Louis Eberhart, AKA Louis A Eberhart, AKA Louis Anthony Eberhart, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31464

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

/s/ Kimberly Raemdonck Kimberly Raemdonck, Personal Representative for the co-Personal Representatives, Karen Marie Gray and Katherine Ann Blanton 2485 W Main Street, Suite 200 Littleton, CO 80120

Legal Notice No. 415453

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Tara Kathleen Carney, a/k/a Tara K. Carney, a/k/a Tara Carney, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30065

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 22, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marjorie A. DeRock,

Personal Representative 7984 Inspiration Drive Parker, Colorado 80138

Legal Notice No. 415745

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Elizabeth Clark, a/k/a Elizabeth A. Clark, a/k/a Betty Clark, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30168

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Timothy B. Cairns, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln St., #1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 415746

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Estate of Stephanie Marie Demott DeVries, aka Stephanie M. Demott DeVries, aka Stephanie Demott DeVries, aka Stephanie DeVries aka Stephanie Demott, Deceased

16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Chad P. DeVries, Personal Representative Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203

Legal Notice No. 415725

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Estate of Jo Ann Gilbert, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR056

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to:

District Court, Jefferson County 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401 on or before June 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

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

Legal Notice No. 415730

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of June Kampmann, Deceased Case Number 23 PR 035

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Baysore & Christian Fiduciary Services

By Stephanie Lambert Attorney for the Personal Representative 7000 E Belleview Ave., STE 150 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 415753

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of VALERIE LYNN VAUGHN, a/k/a VALERIE L VAUGHN, a/k/a VALERIE VAUGHN, a/k/a VALERIE CUMMINGS, a/k/A VALERIE VAUGHN CUMMINGS, a/k/a VALERIE CUMMINGS VAUGHN, Deceased Case Number : 2023PR030116

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Virginia Frazer-Abel Personal Representative 4707 Harlan Street, Ste 250 Denver, CO 80212

Legal Notice No. 415752

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Sandra Lee Geist, aka Sandra L. Geist, aka Sandra Geist, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30176

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Stephanie Anne Riggs Silver,

Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 415779

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of LAURA JOHNSON BURROW, aka LAURA J. BURROW, aka LAURA BURROW, aka LAURA ELLEN JOHNSON, aka LAURA E. JOHNSON, aka LAURA JOHNSON, aka LAURA ELLEN BURROW, aka LAURA E. BURROW, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030066

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 June 27, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Jarrel Burrow, Personal Representative 11090 Oehlmann Ave Conifer, CO 80433 Legal Notice

a/k/a Richard Louden, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30172

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Louden, Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, Esq. Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 415728

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Jerry Wunsch, Deceased Case Number: 23PR43

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Scott Wunsch, Personal Representative 7756 Oak Street Arvada, CO 80005

Legal Notice No. 415668

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of ROSE MARIE TRICARICO, a/k/a ROSE MARIE E. TRICARICO, a/k/a ROSEMARIE E. TRICARICO, Deceased Case Number 2022PR31443

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

/s/ signature on original in office

Signature of Attorney for Person Giving Notice

Joseph H. Lusk, #33948

c/o: BOATRIGHT, RIPP & LUSK, LLC 4315 Wadsworth Blvd. Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Ph: 303-423-7134

Legal Notice No. 415772

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Zetta Rae Scheel, aka Zetta R. Scheel, aka Zetta Scheel, Deceased Case Number 2023 PR 30102

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado or on or before June 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brandon B. Houtchens Attorney for Personal Representative, Jay Dee Ellerman 801 8th Street, Suite 220J Greeley, Colorado 80631

Legal Notice No. 415450

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Charles Wickland, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR529

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 09, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Terry Wickland Personal Representative 30696 Whiteface Ct, Evergreen, Colorado 80439

Legal Notice No. 415457

First publication: February 09, 2023

Last publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden

Estate of Ruth Joann Rowe, aka Ruth J. Rowe, aka Ruth Rowe, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30098

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Willis Rowe, Jr., Personal Representative c/o Sigler & Nelson LLC 390 Union Blvd., Ste. 580 Lakewood, CO 80228 303-444-3025

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Stanley B. Hornung, Personal Representative 13645 W. 67th Pl. Arvada, Colorado 80004

Legal Notice No. 415712

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of William Rory Matthews, a/k/a William R. Matthews, a/k/a W. Rory Matthews, a/k/a Rory Matthews, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31371

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Theresa M. Moore Attorney for the Personal Representative Mary Marta Matthews 333 W. Hampden Ave., Ste. 420-G Englewood, CO 80110

Legal Notice No. 415665

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Todd Stephen Halaburka, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30107

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Christine C. Halaburka, Personal Representative 8 Palm Avenue Los Gatos, California 95030

Legal Notice No. 415743

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Melvin W. Koeltzow, a/k/a Melvin Wilbur Koeltzow, a/k/a Melvin Koeltzow, a/k/a Mel Koeltzow, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30061

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred. Douglas M. Koeltzow Personal Representative 14915 Lyons Ridge Drive Morrison, CO 80465

Legal Notice No. 415640

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Charles Shelton Mandril, a/k/a Charles S. Mandril, a/k/a Charles Mandril, a/k/a Chuck Mandril, a/k/a Chaz Mandril, a/k/a Chuck Casman, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30127

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.

Chantel M. Benish Personal Representative c/o Kelly S. Hansen Hansen Law LLC 117 Main Ave., P.O. Box 400 Akron, CO 80720 (970) 345-2219

Legal Notice No. 415724

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of TODD GIANDINOTO, a/k/a TODD M. GIANDINOTO, a/k/a TODD MICHAEL GIANDINOTO, Deceased

Case Number: 2022PR31431

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred. Virginia A. Frazer-Abel Person Giving Notice 4704 Harlan St., Ste 250 Denver, CO 80212

Legal Notice No. 415766

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Beverly L. Rollag, a/k/a Beverly Lou Rollag, Deceased

Case Number 2023 PR 30118

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.

Linda Sue Goerke, Personal Representative

C/O Joyner & Fewson, P.C. 3100 Arapahoe Ave. Ste. 410 Boulder, CO 80303

Legal Notice No. 415721

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of BENJAMIN ZUCCA, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30071

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert S. Sutton 14143 Denver West Pkwy., Suite 100 Golden CO 80401

Legal Notice No. 415698

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Matter of the Estate of: VIRGINIA M. ROMERO, aka VIRGINIA MAE ROMERO, aka VIRGINIA ROMERO, aka GINNY ROMERO, Deceased Case Number: 2023-PR-30056

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dated this16th day of February, 2023.

RAYMOND ANTHONY ROMERO

Personal Representative to the Estate 1380 S. Reed Street Lakewood, CO 80232

Home Phone: 303-550-0710

Legal Notice No. 415729

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Billie Lee Beins, Deceased Case Number: 23PR074

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.

William Beins, Personal Representative 9612 W. 75th Avenue Arvada, Colorado 80005

Legal Notice No. 415742

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Frank Bantley Leitz, III, Personal Representative 5352 S. Urban Court Littleton, CO 80127

Legal Notice No. 415726

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Alan F. Ingram, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR300000

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 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

James L. French Attorney to the Personal Representative Semler & Associates, P.C. 1756 Gilpin Street Denver, CO 80218

Legal Notice No. 415696

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public

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 28, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Maudra Pacheco-Dickerson

Personal Representative 7390 W. 48th Circle Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

Legal Notice No. 415761

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DALLAS LEE YORK, a/k/a DALLAS L. YORK, a/k/a DALLAS YORK, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30099

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 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Raynita Stovall, Personal Representative c/o The Damon Law Firm, LLC 4465 Kipling Street #101 Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 dana@damonlawfirm.com

Legal Notice No. 415762

First Publication: February 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Christa Dorothea Katzenmeier, also known as Christa D. Katzenmeier, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30113

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Jefferson County, Colorado Probate Court on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Katzenmeier, Co-Personal Representative 7829 W. Fremont Ave. Littleton, CO 80128

Karin Ginther, Co-Personal Representative 8026 S. Langdale Ct. Aurora, CO 80016

of Robert Alan Connolly, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30104

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before July 1, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

George D. Connolly Personal Representative 799 W. 111th Ave. Westminster, CO 80021 Legal Notice No. 415759

February 23, 2023

March 9, 2023

of Emma Martinez, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30097

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

John Gregory Martinez

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 John Gregory Martinez

Personal Representative

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Meghan Piro Personal Representative c/o Zisman, Ingraham & Mong, P.C. 8480 East Orchard Rd., Ste. 2500, Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 415738 First Publication: February 16, 2023

TO CREDITORS Estate of Barbara Jane Tinucci, deceased Case Number: 2023PR34

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joseph D. Tinucci, Personal Representative 7365 Dover St Arvada, Colorado 80005

Legal Notice No.415748

First publication: February 16, 2023

Last publication: March 02, 2023 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Thelma H. Hamm, also known as Thelma Hancox Hamm, also known as Thelma A. Hamm, also known as Thelma Ardel Hamm, also known as Thelma Hamm, also known as Thelma H. Nellis, also known as Thelma Nellis Hamm, Deceased Case Number 23PR030111

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 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sharon K. Rubin. Personal Representative 8369 Webster St Arvada, CO 80003

Legal Notice No. 415454

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS (Trust)

Estate of John E. Downing, Deceased Case Number: N/A

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Linda D. McPartland Personal Representative 102 Clearview Drive Downingtown, PA 19335

Legal Notice No. 415715

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Todd Lester Gilbert, a/k/a Todd L. Gilbert, and Todd Gilbert, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30115

All persons having claims against the above

or the claims may be forever barred.