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Lakewood developing strategic housing plan for a ordable housing

Je co teachers union bargains for higher pay and more planning time

The JCEA presented bargaining points to the Je co Board of Education

Feb. 1.

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Compensation was one of the top bargaining priorities that the Jefferson County Education Association, the county’s teacher’s union, presented to the Board of Education, along with the need for more paid planning time.

“We need to respect educators as experts, and ensure their voices are centered when making decisions regarding learning and working conditions,” Brooke Williams, the JCEA president, said at the start of the Feb. 1 meeting.

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lakewood is following the steps of its neighboring cities and developing a strategic housing plan to assist in increasing a ordable housing in the city.

e Lakewood City Council had a study session Feb. 6. discussing the

outsourced reporting on Lakewood’s current housing situation and the next steps for the plan.

Highlights of the research by Gruen Gruen + Associates, an analyst company specializing in land use, were both single-family home prices and monthly apartment rents increasing substantially since 2015 — homes by 96 percent averaging

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$733,000, and apartments by 33 percent at $1,891 since 2017.

Over half of these renters were also found to be cost-burdened, or spending more than 30% of their wages on housing, with almost 90 percent of new residential permits issued from 2002 to 2022 being for

Eleven members of the JCEA were in attendance, with Williams’ statement setting the tone for most of their points to the Board including that the need for more planning time was not just a matter of convenience for teachers, but the only way to better the District’s education.

“Even if teachers are receiving all their plan time (225 minutes per week) it is not enough,” part of the

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Lamar Station Crossing Phase II in Lakewood is an example of a ordable housing in the city.

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Wheat Ridge City Council discusses reducing parking requirements in city code

— housing where its cost is restricted by the deed to stay a ordable.

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Parking is always a sensitive issue in a city mostly reliant on driving. With that, Wheat Ridge City Council extensively discussed options for reducing parking requirements for mixed-use zoning, focusing on suggestions made by their A ordable Housing Plan on how to cut costs as well.

One focus from the Feb. 6 study session that came directly from the plan was on reducing the required parking for deed-restricted a ordable housing

e city highlighted in the meeting that not only does the current code not discern between housing types for parking, but a study referenced by Foothills Regional Housing shows that the needed parking at this kind of a ordable housing is much lower than Wheat Ridge’s current mandate of one to one and a half spaces per unit.

Not only are there potentially more parking spaces than needed, but the plan also highlights the extensive cost of creating parking due to high land prices, suggesting one way of bringing a ordability to developments is through less required parking.

“What we’ve found is the mixed-use districts in the city, and some other higher density residential zones, are already in close proximity to public transit corridors,” Senior Planner for the city Scott Cutler said in the

study session. He added that these mixed-use areas, the only areas being considered for lowering the parking requirements, also have retail areas like grocery stores close by.

Another a ordable housing related code change suggested was eliminating the requirement of creating parkland or paying a fee instead for deed-restricted a ordable housing. is fee was used to fund the city’s parks and trails, but say in the sta report the waiver would not impact the park system. It also points out that “in a project consisting of a mix of a ordable housing and market-rate units, the fee reduction would only apply to the deed-restricted a ordable units.”

As Cutler explained, it’s a small fee, but any money o adds to creating more a ordability.

Beyond parking, the council also discussed replacing public hearings for subdivisions. According to the sta

report, a subdivision “entails the creation or recon guration of lots, tracts, or parcels for the purpose of sale or development, and in some cases to clean up title or ownership issues.” e city’s concern is the public misinterprets the hearing as meaning the subdivision is up for debate, when it is not — the Planning Commission and City Council are “compelled” to approve these subdivisions as long as they meet all requirements.

“It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for us to have public hearings where the public doesn’t have a whole lot to say on what is going to happen,” Councilmember Scott Ohm said. “We can vote no, but the end result is going to be, I assume, us getting sued because they met all the requirements.” e council agreed to pursue a di erent direction of informing the public about these subdivisions rather than hearings.

Pet Wants opens brick-and-mortar shop in Olde Town Arvada

ment store — earlier this month.

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In the beginning, Sharon Hodge just wanted to find healthy food for her pups; Olive and Petey. Both the pups are cancer survivors, and Hodge didn’t want to give them anything she hadn’t properly vetted.

Hodge became involved with Pet Wants — a national pet food franchise — while she was living in Nashville. She fell in love with the company’s mission; fresh, organic pet food made mostly domestically.

Hodge’s Pet Wants location opened up shop at the corner of Grandview Avenue and Yukon Street — the former location of New To You, a defunct consign-

When Hodge moved from Tennessee to Colorado, she was inspired to open her own franchise location. She says she was drawn to Arvada because of the community feel she experienced while participating in local events like the farmer’s market, Second Saturdays and the Olde Town Square Holiday Markets.

“The people were nice, and there’s a nice community of small businesses,” Hodge said of Arvada. “There’s great foot traffic; it’s close to Denver while still being a suburb. As much as this area is growing, this is the most established of the suburbs.”

Pet Wants’ food is manufactured in New York state every six weeks, which keeps the store’s stock fresh.

“My whole thing is, ‘Everything should be natural,’” Hodge said. “I don’t want to give my pets anything that I don’t 100% trust. Pet health is so important because they’re my family. I won’t carry

Arvada Pet Wants Owner Sharon Hodge and her pup, Olive.

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Owner Sharon Hodge got into the business to care for her two pups, both cancer survivors

Various code suggestions from city’s a ordable housing plans were also discussed

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CIRT investigating a death at Detention Services Division facility

The Critical Incident Response Team investigates all in-custody deaths

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

James Jarvis was found unresponsive in his county jail cell at the Detention Services Division facility suddenly on Feb. 4 late in the evening by his cellmate. Deputies attempted “life-saving measures,” as well as calling for medical sta and the Golden Fire Department, according to the Je erson County Sheri ’s O ce. He was pronounced dead in his cell. e sheri ’s o ce announced Jarvis’ death in a statement Feb. 5.,

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marking the rst in-custody death this year. Since 2020, there have been four.

“Beginning less than two years ago, it was the consensus of the CEOs of law enforcement agencies in the First Judicial District that (the Critical Incident Response Team) shall be utilized to investigate any death of a person while under the care and control of a law enforcement o cer acting under the color of o cial law enforcement duties,” Director of Public A airs for the Colorado First Judicial District Attorney’s O ce Brionna Boatright told Colorado Community Media.

“So, for us, even in situations involving a death where there is no reasonable belief that a law enforcement o cer engaged with or contributed to the decedent’s death, CIRT will respond and conduct an independent

Environment

Golden Real Estate has proudly cosponsored this unique film festival for at least a decade. For the first time since 2020, the festival is back live at the American Mountaineering Center (AMC) in downtown Golden Feb. 23-26, but most of the films can also be viewed with an online pass starting the following week.

During the pandemic, the festival (“CEFF”) was only virtual, and I loved it because I was able to see far more films than I could have seen in person.

Meanwhile, if you go online to http:// ceff2023.eventive.org/films, you get to read descriptions and view trailers for all 97 films in the festival. At right is a screenshot from that website, showing just three of those films’ thumbnails. I was particularly drawn to “The Power

and thorough investigation, just as they would in a use of force situation,” she added.

CIRT is currently investigating Jarvis’ death, according to Boatright. e most recent in-custody death before Jarvis was in June of 2022, when Sierra Sandoval, 22, died while in transport to the Je co Detention Facility. e DA’s O ce ruled there was “no evidence that law enforcement was criminally responsible” and found her death to be related to fentanyl intoxication.

Before that was the death of Richard Leroy Stichter, 37, on Oct. 15, 2021. Booked for a felony domestic violence o ense, the DA’s O ce determined there was no one criminally responsible for his death. It was ruled a suicide.

About a month before that, Damion

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White, 26, was ruled dead also by fentanyl intoxication while in a work release program. CIRT’s investigation found no evidence that law enforcement engaged with White at the time of his death.

e fourth in-custody death was of Lasoro Aguilar on Aug. 10, 2020. Unlike the others, this situation began with Arvada Police Department o cers responding to a 911 call, according to CIRT’s report. e autopsy stated “the main, and possibly only, factor in the death of Mr. Aguilar” was methamphetamines.

CIRT reports, which mainly investigate situations where o cers used, or attempted to use, deadly force against someone, can be found on the DA O ce’s website going back to 2016. Within those reports, there are no other cases of in-custody deaths.

Film Festival Is Back Live Next Week, Featuring 90+ Films

of Activism,” and look forward to seeing the full 53-minute Australian film about six young women activists out to save the planet. “Purple Haze” is about the purple martin, described as “America’s favorite backyard bird.”

An in-person “all access” pass costs $90 and can be purchased at the same website. The virtual pass is $75.

As before, the films are combined into 28 “collections” such as the “Activism Collection” (my favorite), which can be purchased for $12 each if you don’t want to buy the all-access or virtual pass. All the information is on that website. Click on the “Menu” link at the top left of the website to see the various pages with all the information you need to attend the festival.

Bill in Legislature Would Enlarge Board of Commissioners

Back in 2013-2014, I was part of a group called “Jeffco5” which ran an unsuccessful petition drive to put on the 2014 ballot an initiative that would increase the number of Jeffco Commissioners from three to five and to require that they be elected by district instead of at large.

At the time, the Jeffco Board of Commissioners consisted to two Republicans and one Democrat, and they voted 2-1 against enlarging the board to five members, hence the petition drive. Like our 5-member school board, all three commissioners must run countywide, even though they are assigned one-third of the county as their “district.”

I mistakenly assumed that once at least two of the commissioners were Democrats, that they would put the measure on the ballot. Currently, all three commissioners are Democrats, and it’s still not happening.

Last week I ran into one of the commissioners, Andy Kerr, at an event honoring Brittany Petterson, our new member of Congress who succeeded Ed Perlmutter, and asked him about the idea.

He said he favored it, but informed me about a bill (HB23-1180 ) being put forward in the General Assembly by Rep. Bob Marshall and State Sen. Kevin Priola which would require all counties with a population over 70,000 to have five county commissioners, at least three of whom are elected by district. Andy told me that if that measure fails, he

would consider convincing his fellow commissioners to put such a measure on the Jeffco ballot this fall.

Colorado’s Open Meetings Law (OML), which originated in a citizen initiative known as the Colorado Sunshine Act of 1972, defines a meeting as “any kind of gathering, convened to discuss public business, in person, by telephone, electronically, or by other means of communication.” It prohibits any members constituting a quorum of a “local public body” from even talking with each other about a public policy without that meeting being given “full and timely notice” and being opened to the public.

The implications are that any Jeffco commissioner who converses with or emails a fellow commissioner about a county policy or issue is violating state law, because together they would constitute a quorum of the 3-member Board of County Commissioners. To me, this is the compelling reason why the board must be enlarged to five members.

The argument for electing the commissioners (and school board members) by district instead of at large is equally compelling. If each commissioner must win the votes of a plurality of voters countywide, he or she is not going to give his assigned portion of the county the attention it deserves.

I will testify in favor or HB23-1180 and urged our commissioner to do so as well.

As in past festivals, there is a free (but ticket required) “Community Opening Night” on the 23rd which includes announcement of the winning films in various categories. It starts at 6 pm in the AMC auditorium and is followed at 7:15 by the screening of seven of the awardwinning films, ranging from a one-

ue for the festival at the American Mountaineering Center, but a second theater is created in the AMC’s event center to accommodate all the screenings, which begin at 10 a.m. from Friday through Sunday. The virtual access ticket (which I’m going to get) allows you seven days to watch any or all of the films on demand.

The festival features young filmmakers from around the nation including

minute PSA to a couple 23-minute films. I never miss this event, which is held in the AMC’s Foss auditorium.

Although CEFF is an international film festival, several of the “collections” feature films made by Colorado filmmakers. There are also 16 “accessible collections” which are either captioned, subtitled or have no dialog. One collection is of the “Top 10 Best Kids’ Short Films.”

Other collections which caught my attention include: Art in Nature; Climate Chaos; Feathered Friends & More; Innovation & Inspiration; Off the Beaten Path; People to Know; Special Places; Unique Solutions; and two Wildlife Collections

If you are reading this column in time, there’s a free Festival Preview at the University of Denver’s Sturm Hall on Thursday, Feb. 16th, 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

The Foss auditorium is the main ven-

Hawaiian youth-made films like “Sunscreen Standoff,” and local Colorado young filmmakers like Taylor Saulsbury who gives voice to her generation's climate anxieties, creating portraits of resistance and resilience in “Right Here. Right Now.”

Join in the free virtual “Green Bag Lunch & Learn Series” to hear from local experts as they dig deeper into current event environmental issues, including a closer look at the impact of Climate Chaos on young people’s mental health (Wednesday, March 1st at noon).

By attending the festival in person, you get to join the conversation with Filmmaker Q&A Sessions after many of the films to chat live with the filmmakers in attendance or watch one of the many recorded sessions to hear the secrets and intriguing behind-the-scenes stories of the films featured in this year’s festival. Don’t miss this great festival! Jim

JCEA’s presentation said. Addressing learning gaps “are not going to happen on the y,” they added.

Board Vice President Susan Miller questioned how to analytically show that extra planning time was actually e ective.

“I would like to know, you said at the very beginning in bargaining, we’d improve student learning outcomes, and I’d like to understand how that happens,” Miller said. “Because I’d like to understand if we give more PLC time, if we provide more planning at the di erent levels, etc., what is the bene t for our children that we should be able to measure?”

Williams told Colorado Community Media that she “doesn’t think it’s any secret that teachers need time to make phone calls to parents, they need time to grade and they need time to prepare their lessons.”

She added that having enough

time to also observe other teachers would be bene cial.

“We’re not asking for less time with our kids, we’re just asking that our planning time be protected,” she said.

Compensation was the other

making by the council that could lead to those types of changes.

major topic of discussion. e JCEA said they feel good about the previous salary increases for this school year, but that, due to rising costs of living, “people are seeing whatever raise they got going away.”

“Most of the time it feels like we

are ghting just to stay even with where we were,” they added.

According to a survey by the JCEA, 61% of educators thought that higher compensation would help solve the issue of teacher shortages.

e union cited state-wide statistics from the Colorado Education Association that found almost 65% of teachers were thinking of leaving the profession, and that this shortage is negatively a ecting all teachers.

In connection with compensation, the JCEA also said teacher’s insurance had too high premiums and was so costly that their children were qualifying for medicaid.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous that I’ve lived in Je co for 13 years, and every year my two kids qualify for medicaid because I’ve never been able to add them to the District’s plan with my single income as a classroom teacher. It’s beyond ridiculous, it’s insulting,” said one comment the JCEA presented from their survey.

According to the JCEA’s presented schedule, they hope for bargaining to be nished by May.

multi-family and single-family development.

The City highlights that the report will not change zoning or municipal codes itself, rather it will act as a guide for decision-

Councilmember Sophia MayottGuerrero, for example, spoke briefly about the advantages of density — such as less water waste and more efficient land use — after a question by Councilmember Rich Olver on the upper limits of housing development in Lakewood in the study session.

“When we have more density, we actually have a smaller water impact per person and household,” she said. “Although, of course, we want to have reasonable sustainability practices, I hope that we are focused on creating an affordable, accessible, sustainable community and I actually think we can help with that.”

She also highlighted the need

for affordable housing for middleincome residents — not just subsidized housing, but simply cheaper housing.

The plan began in October with the company’s analysis of Lakewood, with a community survey being put out now. The city expects a draft strategic housing plan to be released in summer of 2023.

IRS to Coloradans:

Coloradans may owe federal taxes on last year’s TABOR refunds.

e IRS says the state’s residents should hold o on ling their tax returns until the agency gures out how it’s going to handle the issue. e IRS issued the directive to residents of several states that received refunds or special payments in 2022.

Coloradans shouldn’t have to pay any taxes on TABOR refunds, according to the state’s revenue department. TABOR, which stands for the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, goes back to 1992 in Colorado. e law requires the state to return excess state revenues to taxpayers.

“We have done so on various occasions and through various statutory methods,” Dan Carr, a spokesperson for Colorado’s revenue department, said in an emailed statement. “We have provided this information to the Inter-

questions they’ve raised to many states. process and be clear on our position that these refunds are not taxable.” Colorado’s excess tax revenues totaled about $3 billion last year. at resulted in sizable refund checks of $750 for individuals and $1,500 for joint lers. Normally those refunds would have been paid this spring, but Gov. Polis and the legislature moved up the timeline to last summer.

Last year, 19 states o ered special tax refunds and payments, according to the Associated Press. Many were meant to provide relief from in ation. Colorado’s TABOR refunds, though not prompted by in ation, were issued at the same time as the other states’ checks.

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.

Coloradans are being told to delay filing taxes due to issues with TABOR refunds. SHUTTERSTOCK

Commissioners one step closer to having ability to prohibit unsafe gun discharge

23-1165 passed the first level of the House on Feb. 8 after hearing pros and cons from both sides

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BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A bill introduced from Clear Creek County that would give commissioners the ability to ban the discharge of rearms in certain unincorporated areas with a certain population density passed 9-4 in the Local Government House Committee on Feb. 8.

Currently, county commissioners may not prohibit the discharge of rearms in unincorporated areas of counties in shooting galleries, on private grounds or in residences under circumstances that do not endanger people or property.

e current law says the area must have a population density of 100 people or more per square mile to prohibit shooting.

HB 23-1165 looks to repeal the exception in the current law for private property and repeal the minimum population density requirement from 100 people or more per square mile to 35 dwellings or

more per square mile. is number is an amendment to the bill decided upon with collaboration between local sheri ’s departments.

e bill was presented by Rep. Judy Amabile, D-Boulder, and backed by Sen. Dylan Roberts, D and Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, D.

e bill itself was born out of a small community in unincorporated Clear Creek County in the Idaho Springs neighborhood St. Mary’s Glacier, which has around 300 homes, according to residents.

In spring 2021, Clear Creek County Commissioners, law enforcement and other local agencies started to get calls out of the St. Mary’s Glacier area.

Frank Brown is a homeowner in the area. He testi ed at the rst hearing for the bill.

“As soon as the rearm discharging starts, it’s like an egregious end to all of the peace, the quiet, there’s automatic weapon re, there’s semi-automatic, and it’s so loud animals take o ,” he said.

Beth Ramsey is a part-time resident of St. Mary’s Glacier, and an experienced gun owner and user.

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anything I wouldn’t give to them.”

Hodge said she hopes the store can become a community hub that supports local vendors.

“I don’t want this to just be a pet store, I want it to be a community gathering space,” Hodge said. “I want it to be a place for people to make friends and connect with

She testi ed on Feb. 8 in support of the bill.

“We are gun owners, we are target shooters,” she said. “What we are seeing in St. Mary’s Glacier on a third-acre lot is wholly unsafe.”  Ramsey recalled shooters in the neighborhood using pine trees as backstops, ring large caliber weapons.

“ ey were spraying bullets,” she St. Mary’s Glacier community members reached out to Amabile to seek a bill when they saw no results from local government agencies in Clear Creek County.

Taylor Rhodes, executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, testi ed against the bill on Feb. 8, claiming it to be an attack on the Second Amendment.

“ is bill is a preemptive condemnation of all Colorado gun owners as irresponsible hooligans incapable of shooting responsibly on their property,” he said in his testimony.  is bill, while inciting claims of amendment violations from gun activists, would only provide counties the option to enforce the ban on rearm discharge in certain areas. e Board of County Commissioners would only be able to do so after holding a notice hearing for the public within their respective counties.

“It’s a little frustrating, because the safety, or lack thereof, has nothing to do with the type of local government that serves you and everything to do with the density of the neighborhood,” Clear Creek County Commissioner George Marlin said.

e bill will now advance to the oor of the House and must pass through the legislature by mid-May to have a chance at approval by the Governor.

“Peace and safety? Everyone deserves that,” Marlin said.

people in their community.”

To that end, Pet Want’s Arvada location will feature events, including pet massage therapy and rescue pup yoga. Information about events can be found on the Arvada store’s social media.

The Arvada Pet Wants location is currently closed on Mondays and open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.

A popular hike up St. Mary’s Glacier.

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Working to preserve history

South Platte Hotel placed on endangered places list

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A dilapidated historic building near Buffalo Creek may get new life now that it is on Colorado’s Most Endangered Places list.

The South Platte Hotel, which was built in 1913, is in the North Fork Historic District and the only building remaining of the South Platte community. The property has been owned by Denver Water since 1987, and the building was slated for demolition.

The Most Endangered Places list is created each year by Colorado Preservation Inc., and the organization announced on Feb. 9 additions to the list, which included the South Platte Hotel.

Last August, the Jefferson County Historic Commission received a letter from Denver Water stating that the building would be demolished, which made John Steinle, a local historian, spring into action.

“We have talked about that building for a long time, what might be done and how it could be saved,” Steinle said. “The letter put us into emergency mode. What (the letter) did was galvanize us, and we contacted a lot of local organizations to get them mobilized and aware of the situation.”

Among the organizations interested in preserving the building are the Evergreen Mountain Area Historical Society, the Conifer Historical Society, the Pine Elk Creek Improvement Association and Jefferson County Open Space.

Steinle hopes the organizations can meet with Denver Water officials and put their heads together to come up with a plan.

“Our next step is to contact the decisionmakers at Denver Water and have a discussion of what they are amenable to do,” Steinle said. “Hopeful we can work with them in the near future and keep them from tearing it down and figure out what to do with it.”

Colorado Preservation Inc. will facilitate and assist the local orga-

nizations with finding a solution to keep the building, said Endangered Places Director Katie Peterson, who noted that it takes local community initiative to preserve historic sites.

She said since the hotel was so close to the Colorado Trail and the South Platte River, options should be available to keep the building.

According to Jose Salas, a Denver Water spokesman, Denver Water bought the hotel building because it would be within the area underwater with the proposed Two Forks Reservoir, which ultimately was never built.

“With no waterworks purposes for Denver Water to warrant the expenditure of ratepayer funding for building repairs, the structure has progressively deteriorated over the last four decades and is currently extremely unsafe,” Salas wrote in an email. “Denver Water has installed fencing to deter the public from trying to enter the unsafe structure while we go through the process of determining its future.”

He said Denver Water understood the site’s historic significance and wanted to work with other groups  to determine potentially viable options, and no decisions have been made.

Hotel history

The community of South Platte was at the confluence of the North Fork of the South Platte River. According to Preservation Colorado, the hotel originally was constructed in 1887 by Charles Walbrecht and his wife Millie, an example of a working-class resort hotel. In its day, the hotel offered 14 rooms to stagecoach passengers and train passengers on the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railroad narrowgauge line.

Steinle said many communities sprang up in the late 1800s along the railroad, especially between Buffalo Creek and Pine Grove, a

reminder of how intense railroading was in Colorado and how important the railroads were to the state’s economy.

The hotel also operated a post office, and by 1900 the town, population 40, included the hotel, railroad-related businesses and a general merchandise store. Five years later the Walbrechts expanded the hotel to include a saloon.

According to legend, the hotel was set on fire and burned to the ground in 1912. It was replaced with the structure that is still standing today, according to Preservation Colorado.

Student involvement

It’s not just area historical societies who are interested in preserving the South Platte Hotel. In the 2012-13 school year, West Jefferson Middle School English teacher Frank Reetz and a team of students embarked on a project to restore the Billy Westall Monument near the South Platte community. This project was successfully completed in 2014 and recognized by the Jefferson County Historical Commission.

With that success, Reetz and his students began studying the South Platte Hotel, and students wrote essays on what should be done with the building, especially given its neglected state, that were published in 2018 in the periodical “Historically Colorado.”

While a few students said the building was too expensive to renovate and preserve, some suggested restoring it to a functioning hotel, preserving part of the building, or creating a park on the property as a way to preserve its history.

As one student put it: “We must protect this historic space from the forces of nature. We cannot let the destruction of this area. It is spiritual and special to the community.”

The South Platte Hotel as it appears today.

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The South Platte Hotel circa 1915.

Bike riders, advocates consider options for getting around

With

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Governor Jared Polis’ push to get legislators to approve $500 rebates for electric bikes is pushing bicyclists and transportation advocates to wonder if the infrastructure exists in the northern Front Range to support them.

For Carl Christensen, a 61-yearold resident of Northglenn, there is. But it hasn’t always been that way.

“I used to fear for my life to get from my house down to where I can pick up the South Platte trail at 104th and Riverdale,” Christensen said.

Back in 2009, he started to incorporate biking into his daily commute. He used to ride his bike to the bus station, rack his bike on the bus, take it down to Union Station and ride the last mile to his office

Since 2010, he has made the 18mile ride from his home in Northglenn to the TIAA building downtown and champions the added bike lanes and trails that make it possible to do so.

He doesn’t ride for environmental reasons or to save on gas. In fact, he owns four vehicles. He

rides because the trips make him feel good.

He says it’s healthy, too. Both mentally and physically.

“It was a great way to clear my head and it keeps me healthy so I can actually eat the way I like,” Christensen said.

Rachel Hultin, sustainable transportation director for Bicycle Colorado, sees it differently. She said the Front Range doesn’t have enough infrastructure to support biking and electric biking because development has been focused

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Near 92nd and Lowell in Westminster, a car passes through a bike lane to turn right.

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push for transportation options, is area ready for more e-bikes?

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ects has been ‘how do we make it easier for cars to travel quickly through communities and down corridors?’” she said.

on cars.

“Our present situation is really the result of 100 years of (car-centric) transportation planning and

How comfortable it is for drivers and easy for cars to travel through a corridor has long been the mea-

CAG Thrift Shop & Food Pantry

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Tax deductible monetary and gently used clothes/household items, NEW socks/underwear donations are appreciated.

Food Pantry in need of tomato products, coffee, canned meat/tuna, jelly, spam, water, shampoo, body wash, and tooth paste.

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

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“And the outcome of 100 years of that thinking and those investments is a transportation system that overwhelmingly serves cars because that’s what we’ve been measuring,” she said.

Communities, Hultin said, started to realize the current transportation system doesn’t work for everyone. It needs to be more bikeable and walkable, with more transit to serve everyone. Not just car owners.

Northern inventories

Transportation officials in the Metro North have taken some notice.

In 2018, Northglenn adopted the Connect Northglenn Bicycle and Pedestrian plan. According to Amanda Peterson, director of Parks, Recreation and Culture, the plan identifies needed trail connections and gaps in the existing network.

So far, 6.41 miles of on-street bike lanes have been installed, which adds to the 35 miles of off-street trails. The trail network also includes three bike repair stations.

Northglenn also provided 550 refurbished bikes at no cost. They come in as donations and volunteers fix them up, with funds from the city and donations.

Thornton hosts a combined 396.5 miles of trails, including local and regional off-street trails, on-street bike planes, paved shoulders designated for bike lands and 8- to 10-foot-wide sidewalks designated as trails.

Darrell Alston, a traffic engineer for Thornton, said for the past decade new resurfacing projects have included painting on-street bike lanes.

However, with a segment of the population feeling uncomfortable riding in the street, the city is actively trying to provide separated

vertical separation or a completely separate bicycle track.

The city is applying for grant money to complete studies to identify the roads where protected bike lanes make sense. Those studies are planned to start in the third quarter of this year, which will include public outreach.

“On a lower speed corridor, you can probably get away with some type of a simple vertical separation like pylons or maybe the periodic placement of decorative planters. When you get onto a higher speed roadway, you’re probably looking at some kind of a bigger physical separation, like curbs or a cycle track further away from the roadway,” Alston said.

Some of the corridors the city is considering include 88th Avenue from Pecos to Dahlia, 128th from I-25 to York, Pecos from Milkyway up to Thornton Parkway and Huron from 84th to 88th. Those streets are based on high bicycle traffic already there.

Alston said providing bike lanes on the long arterial roadways with connection to the trail system can serve both short commutes and long range.

In Westminster, the 63.5 miles of on-street bike lanes, 17.3 miles of shared-use bike routes and 150 miles of trails help get bikers around. According to Andy Le, a spokesperson for the city, all bike lanes and shared-use bike routes have paint and symbols, with some buffered lanes.

However, none are protected by pylons, curbs or anything other than striping, he said.

The process to decide which types of bike lanes to build follows street resurfacing projects. None were stand-alone and included funding for constructing barriers. That may change, Le wrote in an email.

The bike lane near 92nd and Lowell in Westminster.

PHOTO BY LUKE ZARZECKI

From Westminster, it is possible to commute to either Boulder or Denver. To Boulder, the US 36 Bikeway is a paved concrete trail from 88th and Sheridan north.

More money

More money for bicycle infrastructure could be coming, thanks to the Greenhouse Gas Planning Standard, a new rule adopted by the Transportation Commission of Colorado in December 2021.

It requires agencies to measure greenhouse gas emissions from projects, with limits on how high those emissions go.

Jacob Riger, multimodal transportation planning manager for the Denver Regional Council of Governments, said his group has already modified its 2050 Metro Vision Regional Transportation Plan based on the rule.

DRCOG will now send more money to 11 bus rapid transit corridors by 2050, and budget more for bike lanes and better multimodal mobility options and less for road improvement projects, such as DRCOG’s Interstate 25 project.

It’s a way to reduce emissions, and according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, transportation is the second highest contributor in the state.

Emily Lindsey, active and emerging mobility program manager for DRCOG, said people are ready. Of the 15 million daily people take in Metro Denver, 43% are less than three miles and 19% are less than one mile.

“So, super bikeable, even more so with e-bikes,” she said.

There just needs to be more dedicated active transportation infrastructure.

“There’s not perfect infrastructure throughout the region. There’s always room for upgrades to our safety, our comfort, and our connectivity,” Lindsey said.  Lindsey said area cyclists are ready to ride but are concerned about their safety. In fact, according to DRCOG’s survey Active Transportation Plan, about 59% of the region’s adult population are interested in biking, but are unlikely to ride without separate bike facilities.

Emily Kleinfelter, safety and regional Vision Zero planner for DRCOG, said paint isn’t protection. DRCOG advocates for the highest level of protection for bikers and that may be bollards, car

parks or a curb, as well as creating a network that connects bikers all over the region without gaps.

“It’s making it so that they’re being able to get home safe to their loved ones,” she said.

Colorado State Senator Faith Winter said another barrier to biking is the cost of a bike. She’s for the incentives Polis is proposing to make biking more affordable.

“Making sure people have access to what they need to bike, making sure they feel safe while biking, and making sure that it’s easy and easy to navigate.,” she said.

Safer outcomes

Another study co-authored by CU Denver researcher Wesley Marshall, found cities with more protected bike lanes lead to safer outcomes.

“Better safety outcomes are instead associated with a greater prevalence of bike facilities – particularly protected and separated bike facilities – at the block group level and, more strongly so, across the overall city,” the results read.

Westminster City Councilor Rich Seymour primarily rides on the weekends between March and October, throwing up dust on the Big and Little Cry Creek Trails towards Thornton and Northglenn. He’s ridden on US 36, but doesn’t like the highway noise, he said.

He stays clear of primary and secondary roads, even if they have marked bike lanes.

“Being anywhere near traffic is taking your life in your hands. Distracted and aggressive drivers are wreaking havoc with lawabiding drivers and killing bicyclists and motorcyclists,” Seymour wrote in an email.

Thornton’s Mayor Pro Tem Jessica Sandgren also thinks e-biking and biking are great for mobility but cited safety issues,

“I don’t think it’s safe on any street anywhere,” she said. “The way people are driving across the country, I don’t feel comfortable.”

Data backs up his concern for bikers, motorcyclists and pedestrians. CDOT reported fatalities in 2022: 146 motorcycles, 105 pedestrians and 12 bicycles.

Fewer car lanes, more traffic?

Seymour noted Westminster has a mobility plan adopted by a prior council. His concern is the removal of vehicle lanes for bike lanes.

“I’m not in favor of decreasing auto lanes,” he said.

Still, Seymour remains all in on the idea of bike lanes. He said more people riding bikes would

be great, but the addition of lanes needs to be a slow progression for road users to adjust. Those lanes need concrete, protective barriers for safety, he said.

But not at the expense of car lanes.

“I don’t see enough people using their bikes to commute and to take up road lane miles right now. I think it just adds to more congestion, which people are already frustrated about. We hear about it all the time,” Seymour said.

Seymour isn’t the only one concerned about decreasing lanes. The Weld County Commission, in a  letter responding to CDOT’s new rule, said that decreasing lanes may be counterproductive.

“Complete streets or road diets that increase congestion are a popular movement in American cities to encourage walking and cycling. Most cities with high rates of bicycle commuting, such as Boulder, are college towns with young populations. Therefore, demographics rather than street design may have the greatest influence on cycling and walking,” it reads.

It also says that complying with the new rules may present challenges for “rural areas and those with a lower population density” because of differences between urban and rural lifestyles.

Some of the aspirations are unlikely, it says.

“CDOT’s CBA claims of significant cost savings are unfounded because their estimated reduc -

tions in VMT are unlikely to be realized. The CBA is driven by aspirational assumptions about transport mode shifts that are unrealistic. History convincingly demonstrates that programs to reduce VMT have failed,” the letter reads.

Seymour pointed to the context of Colorado: it’s a western state that’s still highly dependent on cars.

“If we eliminate people’s ability to travel by car, it is going to have a detrimental effect on our economy,” he said.

The progression of adding bike lanes needs to be slow, he explained, and constructing bike lanes prior to a demand for them may be adding the cart before the horse.

“If we really had that much pent-up desire to ride bikes and commute on bikes, I think we’d already see more bike riders,” he said.

Hultin sees it differently, that more, safer infrastructure will bring out more bikers.

She challenges local governments to rethink transportation projects and to make biking and other modes of transportation safer. Not pitting modes of travel against each other, but making roads more accessible to a more diverse group of users.

“(Local governments should) take in projects that serve, walking, biking, transit, and make sure that those are a priority for funding ahead of the car expansion projects,” she said.

Mushroom legalization faces rough rollout

Regulators unprepared

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

The Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies recently warned state lawmakers that it is unprepared for its assigned job of implementing the state’s new, second-in-the-nation legal “magic mushroom” industry, which voters approved in November.

The department — which normally oversees sectors like insurance and banking — is tasked with quickly adopting a regulatory structure under which psychedelic mushrooms can be legally consumed by people 21 and older at licensed facilities. The facilities are set to open as soon as late 2024.

DORA will also be responsible for writing regulations governing the cultivation and manufacturing of psychedelic mushrooms, as well as protecting consumers, developing public education campaigns and making recommendations to the legislature about how to shape the industry.

There’s just one problem: DORA says it has no idea what it’s doing when it comes to psilocybin, the hallucination-inducing compound derived from psychedelic mushrooms.

“This is an area completely outside the scope of any existing expertise or regulatory history within the department,” DORA wrote in a budget document submitted to the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee. “This is unlike anything else the department regulates. The department has no resources or expertise to begin implementation of this expansive new program involving substances with agricultural, controlled substance, chemical/scientific and facility issues.” Proposition 122, which legalized magic mushrooms, passed by nearly 8 percentage points. The measure was unique in that it specifically charged DORA with rolling out the psilocybin industry, as opposed to letting the state figure out for itself which of its agencies should be responsible for regulating magic mushrooms. And it doesn’t appear Proposition 122’s proponents reached out to DORA

to see if they could handle the responsibility.

“Did they come sit down and say do you want to take this? I don’t think so,” said Katie O’Donnell, a spokeswoman for DORA. “It could have gone in a lot of places. It doesn’t fit perfectly in any of them.”

(Patty Salazar, who leads DORA, declined an interview request as her agency works to determine who will take on the psilocybin assignment.)

The Colorado Department of Revenue, for instance, regulates the cannabis industry. Hemp is handled by the Department of Agriculture.

DORA? It houses the Colorado Civil Rights Division and Broadband Deployment Office. To put it simply: DORA isn’t synonymous with psychedelics.

“It just doesn’t fit in the mold of what we regulate,” said O’Donnell, who explained that DORA is preliminarily planning to handle regulations for psilocybin and the other plants through its Division of Professions and Occupations.

Tasia Poinsatte, who leads the Healing Advocacy Fund, an offshoot of the group that funded the passage of Proposition 122, said supporters of the measure thought DORA was an appropriate place to regulate Colorado’s new psychedelic mushrooms endeavor because of its licensure work.

“Proposition 122 was designed to provide breakthrough therapies to Coloradans for mental health and wellness,” Poinsatte said. “At the heart of this new regulated program are the licensed facilitators who supervise the preparation sessions, the natural medicine administration session, and the integration sessions. We believe it’s appropriate for the agency that regulates other health professions, such as therapists, addiction specialists and nurses, to also regulate this new profession of licensed facilitators.”

Still, Poinsatte said she recognizes DORA may need help creating a “program that works for all Coloradoans and is a model for the rest of the country.” Oregon is the only other state where psychedelic mushrooms are legal, and that only happened Jan. 1.

Proposition 122 allows people 21 and older in Colorado to grow and share psychedelic mushrooms. Sales, however, are not allowed.

Where DORA comes in will be the state-regulated centers OK’d by Proposition 122, where people will

be able to make appointments to consume psilocybin.

Gov. Jared Polis last month appointed 15 people to serve on the state’s “Natural Medicine Advisory Board,” which is tasked with advising DORA on implementing the regulations. 5280 magazine reported there were more than 200 people who applied to be on the board.

But DORA says it still needs more help.

In its budget request to the legislature, DORA said it wants to spend $700,000 this year and next to “contract resources and expertise” to get its trip down the rabbit hole going. It says the speed at which it’s expected to implement rules is unprecedented, and it’s still figuring out the fee structure for legal-use facilities under which it will fund its work.

And once DORA gets its psychedelic mushroom regulations squared away, the work may be just beginning.

Proposition 122 gives the Natural Medicine Advisory Board the option to similarly legalize and regulate a number of other naturally derived psychedelics, including dimethyltryptamine (known as DMT), ibogaine and mescaline, which is found in the San Pedro cactus.

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Becoming and remaining part of a group is more than a choice. It is a demand of the human psyche. For all the blather about individualism, a tenet of secular American religiosity, belonging is the dominant human social gene. It is as instinctive to human behavior as walking, eating, and copulating. In fact, individualism is not part of the human social genome. It is a relatively modern idea, a philosophy, a choice birthed during the Age of Enlightenment.

More than we need to belong, we want to belong. Belonging to a group fosters good mental health and social cohesion, which is requisite for survival. Unbelonging induces loneliness, which leads to despair. One of the worst punishments that can be imposed on someone for not following a group’s rules is banishment or ostracization. Whether political exile, solitary con nement, or shunning, forced separation from a group or society can cause deep distress and potentially irreparable harm.

While some groups wither away, others last long after current members move away or die. Groups —

The grip of a group

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families, religions — are greater than the sum of their parts and thus hold an even more dominant grip on their members. If and when a member separates from the group, there can be hell to pay for it. at is especially true with cults.

Groups like school classes that are formed by happenstance and have a select, nite number of speci c members gradually wither away as nature takes her course. Others like the local Elks or Hotrod Club might or might not fade away when members move on. Friendship groups formed organically eventually die too.

Choosing to detach from a group can be excruciating because the group, whether social or religious, holds power over the individual, and it never likes when a member says, “Tata. Time to go.” Leaving a group is considered the worst form of heresy.  A good friend posed this question

to me: “Why do we often hang on to a group after we realize that remaining part of it no longer serves a good purpose and is, therefore, not good for our social or mental health?”

en he added, “It’s the moment when you really admit something no longer works for you. It evolves slowly and you feel it coming. en you nally admit it and know it. You continue anyway because whatever it is—group, activity, people—it brought you happiness in the past. You hang on despite the payo being minimal or even negative. But you continue. Why? No good alternatives? Force of habit? Don’t want to o end? And all the time, your inner core continues to melt because you are not being true to yourself and nding new things like you used to.”

Hmm, I thought. Yes, all of those, and possibly more.

One of my favorite lms is Brokeback Mountain, a story about two young cowboys — more accurately, sheepherders — who fall passionately in love. From the outset, you have a sense, and even know, that the story will not have a happy end-

ing given it is set in Wyoming in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. ey tear at each other in frustration, but they can’t seem to end — quit — the relationship. ey are full of angst about it, and that is relatable to almost everyone, whether in the context of a one-on-one relationship or a group. Ending a relationship is di cult.  I don’t have a good answer for my friend other than to say we should step back and note the power and attraction of both the groups you would like to separate from and the ones you want to stay in. en work to sort out why you want to separate from the ones you want to leave instead of focusing on the challenge of detaching. It’s like breaking an addiction. e rst step is to recognize the problem. e second step is to note the emotional attachment to it. If it doesn’t feel good, why keep doing it? at is when the power of choice come into play.

Time to move on.

Jerry Fabyanic is the author of “Sisyphus Wins” and “Food for ought: Essays on Mind and Spirit.” He lives in Georgetown.

The West is an exploiter’s paradise

High on a mesa where everyone can see it, a trophy house is going up in the northern Colorado valley where I live. Some of my neighbors hear that the house will be as big as 15,000 square feet. Others say it will take three years to complete. Whether that is valley gossip or truth, the house is now the center of everybody’s attention.

Until this happened, my valley seemed to o er much of the best of what Colorado has to o er, including views of a snow-capped mountain range, and spread out below, irrigated hay elds with black cows on tan rangeland. But now, right in the center of the valley, will be one person acting out a lack of consideration for others.

Gigantic trophy houses seem to signal, “I built here to see, but also to be seen.” It’s a jarring reminder that we in the New West are remaking the Old West in our own image, a job that apparently requires a drastic redoing of topography. ese big homes seem to follow a pattern of complicated roo ines, lots of windows that re ect the light and “ego gates” at the beginning of

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driveways.

Most of us in this valley delight in what we’ve been able to see from our front door: Uninterrupted ridgelines, cli s, and the rounded slopes that converge to make foothills, which then rise into mountains. Nature made these views, and we’ve been fortunate to have them in our lives every day.

But more and more, houses that resemble castles are sprouting on ridgelines and hilltops, here and all over the mountains. And sometimes it’s ordinary houses or trailers that get built on ridgelines, interrupting the natural ow of the land.

Where only a few years ago our eyes might nd comfort in tracing a ridge’s backbone — wondering how it got to be named White

Pine Mountain when no white pines grow there — now we look at manmade structures that irritate the eyes.

People who have lived in my valley

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for decades share a di erent style. Appreciating what a winter wind can do to steal warmth from inside a house, they looked for sheltered areas to build. ey saw it made sense to build low, tucking a home against the south side of a hill or cli .

Most yard lights were few and hard to see, as were their homes. But the new Western lifestyle broadcasts yard lights at night for all to see, just as the homes are conspicuously visible during the day.

In this newfangled West that has “ranched the view,” people apparently need to stand out to enjoy an amenity lifestyle. Will these new folk ever take time to appreciate the human and natural histories of the place they live in now, to show respect for the land and its natural beauty? Will they learn to be considerate of neighbors and not take away from the views that de ne where we live?

It’s shameful to think that just as we rst moved into the West to exploit its valuable resources, we now exploit the last resource our region has to o er — its heart-stopping beauty.

ere is some good news, because

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in many parts of the West we are learning how to sustainably log, graze, divert water and develop energy. I hope it’s not too late for us to also realize the value of tting into the land as residents, to keep intact our ridgelines, mesas, mountains and valley oors. Once a house caps a hilltop, however, that view is irretrievable, gone forever.

I hope we can learn how to value homes that blend with the land in shape, color and location. Maybe a new generation of home builders, architects, and developers will lead the way in paying due respect to our region’s natural beauty.

But I’m afraid that it’s too late for our valley. e great writer Wallace Stegner told us that the task of Westerners was to build a society to match the scenery. From what I see, we’re not doing the job.

Richard Knight is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonpro t that hopes to inspire lively conversation about the West. He works at the intersection of land use and land health in the American West.

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TO THE EDITOR

“To Kill A Mockingbird” at the DCPA was a troubling experience e acting was superb. e experience was out of this world. e sta was, as they always are, extra. Trouble No. 1 was the content.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is, really, one big exercise in self-congratulatory feel good for white people. It is a Bildungsroman. A country lawyer in Jim Crow Alabama during the Great Depression is arm-twisted into defending a wrongfully accused Black townsman. He delivers a compassionate and brilliant defense. He respects and exhibits

decency towards his client. He loses the case. e client dies.

e Black experience is absent. Tom Robinson and his family are a at le. ey serve as a prop to the white Bildung. He and his horri ed, traumatized family have no voice.

ing is, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is, like most of the legacy of the 20th century, one big individual nonsolution to a collective problem.

e collective problem is the free rein that the state of Alabama conferred on the KKK to in ict their terror on Black communities. It is the bigoted criminality that is the

criminal (non-) justice system of the Jim Crow South.

e individual solution: be kind to your fellow Black client. at was trouble No. 1.

Trouble number two? e masses.

e audience. e near-religious fervor. e parking garage was FULL. e auditorium was SOLD OUT. e house was AT CAPACITY. Compare that to the November show “Ain’t Too Proud: e Temptations.” at show was NOT sold out.

e demographics: older, white. People of color? I noticed three.

When Atticus Finch entered the

stage, the audience clapped and cheered. He had said no words and delivered no performance yet. Obviously, the applause went to the IDEA of Atticus. To be sure, the applause was not misplaced; Richard omas ended up delivering an extraordinary performance. But the applause held a tinge of cultish fervor. Creepy.

In 1960, when the novel was rst published, white men being decent to the Black underdog may have been progressive and novel. It is 2023, folks!

Floy Je ares, Lakewood

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

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 20pack 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.

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 — in-

cluding 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 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 messaging 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 recom-

mended 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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GOLDEN – Henry “Duke” Smith died peacefully on February 1, 2023 following a long illness. He was born March 30, 1937 in Lawrence, KS, the second of four children, to Henry Smith and Ruth (Watson) Smith. He was predeceased by his parents and three siblings.

He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1955 and attended the University of Kansas where he studied engineering and played varsity baseball. After playing a short time for the Oklahoma City Indians, his pursuit of a professional baseball career ended in injury.

Duke married the love of his life, eresa (Byers) in 1959 and the couple settled in Lawrence, KS, where, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, he became a police o cer with the Lawrence, KS Police Department. e couple welcomed a daughter, Sharon, in 1960 and a son, Duane, in 1962.

Duke held positions in both the Lawrence, KS and Kansas City, MO Police Departments between 1962 and 1966, but during a trip to Colorado in 1966 he and his wife fell in love with the state and decided to make Colorado their permanent home.

He was hired in 1966 as a patrolman for the City of Edgewater, launching a groundbreaking career of service and leadership that would span a quarter century.

He was appointed Chief in 1979, making history as the rst AfricanAmerican police chief in the state of Colorado. He retired in 1991 and was the longest tenured law enforcement o cer in Edgewater’s history.

In October ‘91 he was appointed by Governor Roy Romer and the Colorado Department of Transportation to spearhead “Operation Buckle Down” a nationallyfunded seat belt campaign whose purpose was to educate and save lives. He served until 2006, working with law enforcement agencies throughout the state.

Duke lived life to the fullest, pursuing his hobbies and life interests with the same zeal and commitment he was known for in his professional life. He was an avid tennis player, award-winning photographer, pilot, and world traveler, whose favorite city was Paris, France. He loved gardening and adored spending time with his three grandchildren.

Duke is survived by his wife of 63 years, eresa Smith, children Sharon SmithMauney (Leonard) and Duane Smith, and grandchildren Kyle Mauney, Mariah Smith and Bronson Smith.

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BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

While working out at a gym in Golden recently, someone approached Ty Scrable and asked if he was associated with Colorado School of Mines. Scrable had to explain that, no, he’s just a Golden resident.

Unfortunately, Scrable said, this isn’t the rst time it’s happened.

“I get that a lot,” he said. “People think I’m a student, professor or tourist because I’m Black.”

Systemic racism stubbornly remains in Golden. But, as Scrable said, it has morphed from Ku Klux Klan demonstrations in the 1920s and racist housing policies in the 1940s to something less overt but still widespread and endlessly frustrating.

Because White people make up the overwhelming majority in the city and, thus, are seen as the norm, Scrable said, “many people don’t view me as part of my own community.”

In the wake of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the summer of 2020, many cities and newspapers across the United States have started reckoning with their pasts, examining how they’ve contributed to systemic racism, learning what they can do to be more inclusive and fair. e Golden community has started the process, and now it’s the Golden Transcript’s turn.

e newspaper, which now is part of Colorado Community Media, isn’t immune to biased coverage. is report is the product of its journalists attempting to examine the paper’s coverage of the Black community since the Civil Rights era and own up to its mistakes.

Since 1866, the Golden Transcript — known as the Colorado Transcript for its rst 103 years — has been a record keeper for Je erson County. While its stories are extensive and valuable, the paper contains original and reprinted content that was harmful to the Black community and other marginalized groups.

Just one example is its coverage of the Black Panther Party, a group that gained national attention in the late 1960s for its response to policing in Black communities across the country.

Between 1969-1971, the newspaper published approximately 170 articles that referenced the Black Panther Party. Nearly all of these articles

BEYOND THE GOLDEN TRANSCRIPT: Our efforts to reconcile racial mistrust begins with this story

In our newspaper this week, you’ll see an article about the Golden Transcript. It’s one of two dozen newspapers owned by Colorado Community Media, which also owns this paper. The article tackles the issue of systemic racism in the Transcript’s pages.

The idea for the project started in 2020, when the Colorado News Collaborative, Colorado Media Project and Free Press convened the Black Voices Working Group, which was made up of Black leaders, community members and journalists. The group addressed media coverage and focused on how to improve trust in mainstream media among the Black community. Acknowledging past harm was the No. 1 recommendation made by the group.

A few months later, I attended a Denver Press Club event where Jameka Lewis, a senior librarian at the BlairCaldwell African American Research Library, illustrated biases in mainstream local media coverage of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and ’70s while exhibiting rare prints of the Black Panther Press. Many of Lewis’ examples came from the Transcript. Most articles were wire stories from

other cities, but editors still chose to run them, affecting perceptions of the party in Golden.

We pursued and were awarded a grant from the nonpartisan Colorado Media Project to explore, uncover and analyze this issue in the form of the special report that is in this edition of your newspaper.

Our newsroom, which is predominantly White, also participated in the Maynard Institute’s diversity, equity and inclusion Fault Lines training along the way. West metro editor Kristen Fiore was a speaker at the Advancing Equity in Local News convening with journalists from publications like the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post to talk about this project.

We believe this story is important beyond Golden — and we hope to spark conversations in our communities across the Denver area about race and inclusion and how our news coverage impacts those issues.

Linda Carpio Shapley is publisher of Colorado Community Media, which runs two dozen weekly and monthly publications in eight counties. She can be reached at lshapley@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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presented the group in a negative light, with words such as “fugitive,” “thugs” and “militants.” And, the Transcript appeared to rarely cover the Black community in the city and wider region. Because of this, their voices are missing in archives, now online as an important chronicling of Colorado’s history.

By not including these voices in an accurate light, and by publishing stories that reinforced harmful stereotypes and/or recorded Black people’s traumatic experiences in an apathetic or ippant way, the Golden Transcript’s coverage contributed to systemic racism, according to researchers and Black community leaders.

Jameka Lewis, senior librarian at the Denver Public Library’s Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library and a freelance researcher on this report, said Transcript readers may have had their beliefs about the Black Panther Party, and the Black community in general, shaped by the Transcript’s negative portrayals.

“ ere is harm when it comes to media and the Black community in Denver and Colorado,” Lewis said. “If we want to repair the harms, we have to acknowledge that (they are) factual.”

Alfonzo Porter, editor-in-chief at Denver Urban Spectrum and a journalism professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver, said mass media has been at the epicenter of “propagating negative images and re ections of the AfricanAmerican community.”

“It really stems out of our country’s background, and we’re still dealing with those biases,” he said.

While almost all of the Transcript’s stories about the Black Panther Party were from wire services like United Press International, Porter said the Transcript and other newspapers are accountable for reprinting those stories.

“It’s exactly like original reporting, because … the editorial sta sat in a room, looked at this piece, determined that it was appropriate and ran with it in the paper,” he said.

The Black Panther Party

e Black Panther Party for Self Defense started in 1966 in Oakland, California. Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale started the organization as a response to police brutality there and in other Black communities, according to Lewis’ research.

e party had a 10-point program that included demands for Black liberation and societal

THE COVERAGE

How national, Denver-area papers covered the party Sisters Ida Daniel, Pat Rogers and JoEllen Greenwood grew up in Denver and graduated from East High School in the ’60s and early ’70s. ey recalled reading e Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News and watching the nightly news on TV. ey also listened to the city’s Black radio station, KDKO, and read Black-oriented magazines like Ebony and Jet.

Overall, the three didn’t recall a lot of news stories about Black people in the mainstream press, unless it was negative. e news covered Black people who were arrested for murder, robbery, rioting and other crimes. Rogers summarized the coverage as: “Be afraid of Black people.” at kind of coverage played out with the Black Panthers. In 2016, e New York Times analyzed stories about the Panthers, noting “journalists were at once fascinated and frightened by them” and their activities in the 1960s and ‘70s.  Coverage about the Denver Panthers in Black newspapers in the area at the time was scant. Of those Lewis researched, the Black-owned publication e Denver Blade published the most articles on the group’s activities, both locally and nationally, in 1969.

Its coverage appears to be fairly balanced, Lewis said.

One Blade article discussed the Panthers’ orga-

improvement. Eventually, the Black Panthers led more than 35 community programs across the country, like the Free Breakfast for School Children Program — also known as e Free People’s Food Program, which helped feed Black children from economically disadvantaged families.

In Denver, a chapter gained recognition in 1967. Led by Lauren Watson, the chapter’s history was largely erased or ignored, Lewis said, adding that the Denver Panthers were instrumental in the ght for civil rights in Colorado.

It’s important to note that many Black community members both then and now have mixed feelings about the Panthers and their work, Lewis stressed.

Longtime Denver residents she interviewed formed their opinions largely based on what they read about the Black Panthers in newspapers and saw on TV. Yet that coverage contrasts with what many in the community saw the Denver Black Panthers doing. ey were involved in school board and City Council meetings, provided free meals for children, and worked to

nizing a meeting to discuss policing and police presence at Cole Jr. High School in Denver’s diverse Whittier neighborhood. It chronicled the Black community’s e orts to address a racial gap between teachers and Black students. One possible solution, and likely at the suggestion of the Denver Black Panthers, was to establish Cole as a Freedom School, a concept that focused on Black pride and Black liberation in academics.

In contrast, the Denver Post also covered the meeting but didn’t mention the Panthers’ involvement in organizing the event or the Freedom School proposal. In a review of Post archives, the story focused on arrests. e Denver Blade coverage did not mention any Black Panther arrests.

“Oftentimes, it was up to Black news media to cover this group in a more comprehensive way, which I believe e Denver Blade did,” Lewis said. “It covered all aspects of the local and national Panthers, and o ered readers a more balanced view of the members of this group.”

e Denver Blade stopped operating in 1970.

How Golden’s newspapers covered the Panthers

e Transcript published approximately 170 articles that used the terms “Black Panther” or “Black Panthers” between 1969-1971. Almost all of these were reprinted stories from wire services, which seldom described anything positive about the party or its members.

improve the welfare of their neighborhoods and its residents.

“Many Black people believed what the media said about the Panthers,” said Terry Nelson, a lifelong member of the Denver community. “ … It depended on the source. We recognized that the newspapers weren’t telling the truth about the members. … We knew that the Denver members were active in schools, speaking with teachers and parents. We never saw that in the major newspapers.”

Tracie Keesee, a former Denver police captain and co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity, described how during this tumultuous period, the press played into the hands of government o cials.

Newsrooms considered police as trustworthy and well-respected sources, so it was easy for them to hand reporters a story and have it taken at face value, Keesee said.

Keesee added: “We see it now, right? at divisiveness in the media, the stories that are being told — or not being told.”

e only article referencing the party’s free breakfast program was published April 30, 1970, about Baltimore police rounding up Black Panthers suspected of killing a patrolman. After searching party headquarters, police searched a school where it conducted its breakfast program, among other locations.

In contrast, the Colorado School of Mines student paper, e Oredigger, published at least two stories about the Black Panther Party. Both were straightforward accounts of Lauren Watson, the head of the Denver chapter, visiting Golden.

Ultimately, while coverage of the Black Panthers varied by publication, the Golden Transcript failed to cover the party’s community initiatives or involvement. It did, however, print dozens of wire stories about the party’s supposed criminal activity and police raids associated with the group.

e coverage used negative language to describe the Panthers, their neighborhoods and any activities they were involved in. Because of this, Golden-area residents absorbed and believed what they heard and saw in the news coverage, Lewis stated.

e role of the press in forwarding racial inequality really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, Keesee said, especially to communities of color.

“It’s not just that person that wrote the story,

Jameka Lewis is a senior librarian at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library and a researcher on this project. COURTESY PHOTO

that person had an editor, right?

ere wasn’t anything in that editor’s mind that said, ‘Yeah…this seems a little biased. Did you even go into the community, or did you just take that o the wire and repeat it?’”

ere’s no excuse for sloppy journalism, as it is harmful and contributes directly to a larger narrative, Keesee said.

“When you talk about media coverage, there were only three channels on the television, back then; there was no social media,” she said, adding, “the newspapers were cranking out those stories overnight and you were waiting for your morning paper. Nobody was up waiting for breaking news. So, the news that was coming out, it was more focused and easier to control.”

And when news was breaking, “it

THE COMMUNITY

Golden in the 1960s and ’70s

Built on lands traditionally inhabited by the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and other tribes, Golden City was founded in 1859. According to Allan Tellis, a doctoral student of political science at the University of Colorado-Boulder and freelance researcher on this report, Golden has never had a signi cant Black population.

Census data from 1960 shows that the Golden division of Je erson County had 28 Black residents. By 1970, that number had increased to 86. Overall, those numbers represent 0.15% and 0.27% of the total population, respectively, according to Tellis.

As of 2020, Golden had 388 Black residents, representing 1.9% of the city’s population.

Longtime Golden residents recalled how many of the city’s Black residents in the late 1960s and early ’70s were associated with Colorado School of Mines as students, professors or their family members. As far as discussions about the Black Panther Party speci cally or race relations in general, longtime White residents said the topic didn’t come up much because there wasn’t a large Black population in the area.

Rick Gardner, a resident who has studied Golden’s history extensively, said the community had “other preoccupations at the time,” such as labor clashes at the Coors brewery and the Vietnam War.

John Akal, a longtime Goldenite and current columnist for the Transcript, described how he spent his summers in Chicago, where it was “a whole di erent situation.” Because of the 1968 Chicago riots, which were sparked by the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Akal remembered a lot of racial tension in the city at the time.

But that was Chicago.

Golden was di erent, but not necessarily better.

The KKK in Golden Overt discrimination in Golden against Black people and other

was breaking only one way, and those narratives were pretty narrow,” she added.

The newsroom

During this timeframe, the Transcript was a daily paper with a small sta of six and a wire service that provided regional and national news.

Neil Paulson, who was managing editor from 1970-75, said the paper relied on United Press International reports to cover many issues, including the Black Panthers.

“It was a terrible service, especially for a small paper,” he said. “It cost us a little more, but eventually we went to e Associated Press.”

e only dictate from the paper’s owners, e Kansas City Star and the Great (Kansas) Tribune, was to run a local story on the front page, Paulson said. National and regional stories ran inside.

Paulson noted that Golden’s population at the time, as it is today, was

communities peaked with the Ku Klux Klan, which had a strong presence in the city and throughout Colorado, particularly in the 1920s.

e Klan began in Denver in 1921 and eventually “all but took possession of the state of Colorado,” according to a report in the Steamboat Pilot. Klan members throughout Denver gathered on Golden’s South Table Mountain for cross-burnings and other rituals. According to Golden History, the mountain could attract up to 10,000 members.

Overall, the Klan helped prevent or deter unknown numbers of Black people from carving out lives in the area. History Colorado recently released ledgers of KKK membership that show seven members of the terrorist organization resided in the Golden area, Tellis added.

Racist housing policies, practices

While the Klan’s activities are certainly one reason Golden has a small Black population, it’s not the only reason. Discriminatory housing practices also contributed.

Don Cameron, a former Jefferson County teacher and current Golden city councilor, has researched zoning history and discriminatory housing policies and practices, including some accounts recorded in the Transcript.

While many Black residents in Denver were constricted by redlining, their counterparts in Golden faced other challenges.

“Starting in the ’20s and into the ’40s, it was common for people to say that they would only sell their individual property to those of the Caucasian race, or non-Negro race individuals,” Cameron stated in a self-published article about Golden’s zoning history.

“ e courts backed up this right because they were protecting the homeowners’ use of their land and had no civic duty to prevent this discrimination,” the article continues. “Blacks were excluded from being shown properties in these restrictive neighborhoods, and if they tried to purchase them, (they) might have it taken away soon

predominantly White.

He knew two Black Goldenites during his years as editor. One was Monroe Jordan, an assistant chef at downtown Golden’s historic Holland House, who later worked at the nearby Ace-Hi Tavern.

When Jordan died, Paulson ran a story on the front page that brie y memorialized him but mostly discussed an attempt to nd his relatives, as no one had come forward to claim Jordan’s body nearly two weeks after his death.

Readers didn’t react positively to the front-page piece.

“I got a couple of nasty phone calls, but no one admitted to their bias,” Paulson said. “ ey refused to apologize, of course. ey said I shouldn’t have put that on the front page. In typical Golden fashion, there was nothing speci c, other than to say, ‘You shouldn’t have done that.’ e thought of another race didn’t exist.”

For the Transcript’s newsroom, Paulson said there was no “codi ed

policy on racism” during his time there.

“We condemned it, but we made little e ort to actively attack it,” he said. “( e) Black Panthers seem remote from Golden, where there were few Black families.”

One place where Paulson thought racism showed up was on the editorial page. e paper had four syndicated columnists every day who lived outside the community. ey were selected by the publisher because “they were cheap and not already being published by the two Denver dailies,” he stated.

Paulson said he had no doubt the paper could be accused of racism for its coverage in those days.

“But I’d like to think it was by omission rather than intent,” he said. “We rarely spoke of racism and did little to come out against its pernicious e ects. I don’t remember anyone on the sta making racist remarks, and I think I would have remembered that.”

after.”

Perhaps the most evident example of this was in 1942, when Logus Butler and Susie A. Allison paid $1,500 for 30 acres near present-day Boyd Street in north Golden. ey planned to build on it, but they were forced to sell a few months later after Golden residents drove them out.

“A large number of citizens appeared before the City Council

Wednesday evening,” the Transcript reported Oct. 22, 1942, “and stated that a group of colored people had taken possession of the land recently purchased by them east of the Clark’s Garden addition, within the city limits of Golden, and were apparently staking out some building sites.”

After Butler and Allison were

A photo circa late 1960s or early 1970s shows the Seymour family gathered for a portrait in their family home in Denver. In this photo, the siblings — Ida Daniel, Pat Rogers, JoEllen Greenwood and Winfred Semour Jr. — were teens. COURTESY PHOTO

FOR THE RECORD

forced to sell the land, plots on the same land were listed for sale two

THE IMPACT

In the community

While growing up in Denver in the ’60s and ’70s, Daniel and her sisters used their education and life experiences to help them decipher which news stories were biased and which were reputable. ey also relied on family and friends’ advice.

“I don’t think news at the time covered Blacks in the world that they lived in,” Daniel said. “To me, the general stories about how Blacks lived, what they did, what their concerns were and some of their needs, were not covered.”

The sisters felt this trend in coverage didn’t change until the ’80s, when news about Black people and Black communities became more prominent.

As an example, Daniel described how The Denver Post did a feature article on her late husband, Wiley Y. Daniel, who was a prominent attorney and

THE FUTURE

For Goldenites

In more recent years, especially in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter rallies in the summer of 2020, the Golden community has started examining the long reach of systemic racism in and around the city. e City of Golden started work on its Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, and groups like Golden United and Golden Anti-Racism Collective formed.

While these are good rst steps, real change has to start with people’s attitudes, GAC members Scrable and Michele Minihane said.

Although many Goldenites are open-minded and inclusive, Minihane personally believed there are still some residents who “do not value an integrated community and don’t feel like it’s important to make people of color feel welcome.”

She added: “I don’t get the sense that (attitudes) have changed a lot in 40 or 50 years.”

Scrable agreed that tangible changes, whether in attitudes or policies, have been slow. He said it’s going to take time and everyone working together to make Golden a more welcoming and inclusive place.

e two described how the Golden Anti-Racism Collective has become a place where people can share their experiences, examine systemic racism’s impact on the community, and nd ways to improve Golden for current and future generations.

As of last month, GAC has about

years later. Ownership was restricted to “members of the Caucasian race.” ese accounts are just glimpses of Golden’s treatment of people of color, but Tellis emphasized how they demonstrate “institutionalized

anti-Black behaviors and norms” in the area. So, he said, it’s no surprise that the Black Panther Party, an organization that “unapologetically called for Black liberation and the dismantling of White supremacist power structures, would catch the

the state’s first Black U.S. district court judge. She also recalled how e Post’s society section ran pictures of positive stories happening in the Black community.

“I do think it began to change in the ’80s,” Daniel continued. “ ere were positive stories (but) … the stereotypes were still going on.”

Diversity in the newsroom also seemed to improve during this timeframe, the sisters said. They recalled Reynelda Muse, the first Black person to anchor a newscast in Colorado, and Bertha Lynn, who started in Denver television in 1976.

While a lot has changed in how traditional outlets cover Black people and Black communities, the sisters believe there’s still plenty of bias. Rogers admitted that she avoids local news because there are still more negative stories about Black people than positive ones.

“I think there absolutely still is biased coverage,” she said. “I don’t want, every day, to hear

400 members on an email list and a few dozen who come to its regular meetings. ere are several subgroups within the Golden Anti-Racism Collective that tackle di erent topics such as policy and policing, education, and books and media.

While the bulk of the members are White, any Goldenites of color are welcome to join and participate as they’re able, the members said.

e group has established a unique partnership with the Golden Police Department, as some of its members sit on the department’s community engagement group, GAC member Sandra Knecht explained. GAC and other community members have given feedback on various department policies, particularly around use of force.

GAC members also try to comment on City Council discussions and participate in other local matters, including education, youth outreach and a ordable housing. In doing so, the group has developed partnerships with Shelton Elementary, the Golden Library, Colorado School of Mines student groups, Golden United and other groups that share GAC’s goals.

Similar to GAC, Golden United formed after the 2016 election as “there was a fair amount of division, nationally and locally,” Ronnie Rosenbaum said. e group sought to bring people together and encourage respect for those who have di erent ideas and opinions.

Rosenbaum, who’s vice president on Golden United’s board of directors, described the partnership between Golden United and

about, ‘there’s another Black person who got in trouble.’”

In the country

Going back through American history, the Urban Spectrum’s Porter described other incidents where media outlets didn’t give Black people the bene t of the doubt. He listed the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the Emmett Till lynching as examples of the media portraying those involved as “guilty until proven innocent,” adding how the trend has persisted into today’s coverage of police shootings and similar incidents.

“And it seems as though that mentality continues to manifest in those organizations in their treatment of our community,” he said. “And so, it’s always the bad news. ere’s really never any positive re ections.”

Regarding news coverage of the Black Panther Party, the journalism professor described it as a peaceful organization that was responding to violence “against

GAC, saying the two groups and others joined forces for a rally in summer 2020 and pushed City Council to approve the “Golden Stands with Black Lives” banner on Washington Avenue.

Minihane stressed how the GAC believes systemic racism impacts all Golden residents, regardless of race, and recommended locals read “ e Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee to learn more about that impact.

For the City of Golden

In summer 2020, the Golden City Council produced a series of resolutions meant to address its history of racial exclusion and racist domination of non-White groups, Tellis stated. ese resolutions included:

• Resolution 2736 – Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis

• Resolution 2747 - Declaring Support for Black Lives and Racial Equity rough a Public Display, and

• Resolution 2748 - Declaring A Commitment to AntiRacism Actions

• Resolution 2736 states, “the Golden City Council recognizes that racial inequities have become institutionalized in the policies and practices of many agencies, governmental and otherwise. Council recognizes the need to examine seemingly neutral policies and practices to determine whether they are contributing to inequity and, where needed, change or eliminate the policy or practice as cities have a long his-

ire of local reporting.”

Tellis added: “Golden has displayed a deep commitment to the marginalization of Black people.

To re ect on this legacy is pivotal if we desire to not replicate the racial strife and injustice of our past.”

African-American people in an attempt to say, ‘We will protect our community.’”

“ e idea was that Black folks with guns clearly scared the hell out of people,” Porter continued. “Because obviously, if you’ve got a gun, then you’re going to be violent. And it’s only that mentality because of our profession (as journalists). Our profession has continued to promote that re ection — still does, to this day.”

As for Golden and the Transcript’s coverage of the Black community, Porter believed it likely made Black residents feel unsafe and unwelcome, saying, “ ey know that any coverage of them will not be balanced and fair.” Fairness and racial equity are concepts Golden, Denver, the United States and journalism as a profession need to work on, he stated.

“I don’t see our profession doing enough work in that area,” Porter said. “I hear the talk. But I’m not seeing anything to back it up.”

tory of decision and policy making that have resulted in classist and racist outcomes.”

Building on that, the city hired a consultant in June 2021 to develop a Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan based on community input. After developing it for more than a year, the plan outlined four goals:

• Create a culture of inclusion and belonging throughout the community of Golden;

• Increase access to services and resources for diverse community members;

• Foster an organizational culture and environment within the City of Golden that’s committed to racial equity, diversity and inclusion; and

• Expand economic opportunities for diverse businesses.

Along with the REDI Action Plan, the consultants also recommended dozens of strategies toward these goals and an implementation plan.

For instance, public documents and other information should be available to those who don’t speak English or have di erent abilities. City boards and commissions should have a more inclusive recruiting process to ensure diversity among their members. e city also should host training about Golden’s history, structural racism and implicit bias.

e City Council adopted the REDI Action Plan in December

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 20 years and older.

Heart disease is a man’s disease

“ 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.

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Hickenlooper quietly convenes senators representing Colorado River Basin

Western water woes are topic

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

John Hickenlooper has been quietly convening fellow U.S. senators from six other Colorado River Basin states over the past year in an e ort to assist in the increasingly frantic conservation negotiations around the parched and overtaxed waterway that some 40 million people in the Southwest rely upon.

Hickenlooper, a Democrat, sees the informal, bipartisan caucus as a way to mediate interstate disagreements over how the river should be managed — and who should have to use less of its water — in the hope of preventing federal intervention. While states’ governors may not meet on a regular basis, senators from across the river basin are frequently together in Washington, D.C.

“ e idea here is that we’re looking at how to use more carrot and less stick,” he said. “ e key here is the federal government is not the best one to force a deal. e best solution is going to be a solution that all seven states sign o on.”

e group of senators has been meeting every few weeks to discuss Colorado River Basin issues. e gatherings have become more frequent amid Biden administration

deadlines for basin states to come to a water conservation agreement that prevents Lake Mead and Lake Powell levels from dropping too low.

e reservoirs are already at historically low levels, yet the negotiation deadlines have come and passed without a deal.

“I think the senators can provide additional information that maybe the states don’t all have,” Hickenlooper said, “and make sure that everyone is working together.”

Hickenlooper didn’t provide details on what the caucus has discussed, but he said the group has met with Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton, who warned that 4 million acre-feet in existing water use must be pared back.

“We’re all really hearing what priorities and speci c issues are with each state and with the water users in each state,” he said. “As long as we understand that and are work-

ing from the same set of facts, we’re probably going to come up with a much better solution than if things degenerate into lawsuits.”

Hickenlooper said the caucus is looking to formalize itself with a chair and subchairs from the upper and lower Colorado River Basin.

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.

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U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper speaks at an event regarding new federal funding slated for I-70 on Feb. 23. He has been working with other senators on Colorado River problems.

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FOR THE RECORD

2022 and called on the community to ensure Golden achieves the four goals in a timely, e ective way.

e plan was developed with race as the leading element because of how widespread and damaging racial inequalities are in the United States, according to city consultants. However, the REDI Action Plan is overall intersectional, examining how to make Golden a better place for people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, socioeconomic backgrounds, religions and other demographics.

O cials said the next step is to assemble an implementation team of community members and city sta ers to make recommendations to City Council on how to achieve goals. Golden expects to assemble the team this spring.

In a Feb. 10 email, Mayor Laura Weinberg highlighted city o cials and community members’ ongoing work to “live up to our value as a welcoming and inclusive city.”

“I applaud the Golden Transcript’s work to identify its role in racial inequities in the past and its role in systemic racism,” she stated.

“ e City of Golden has undertaken similar work … (and) I look forward to this year’s actions to take the information from our new REDI plan and put community-driven solutions into practice.”

For the Golden Transcript

While the Transcript’s ownership and newsroom has changed greatly since the late 1960s and early ‘70s, it’s not immune from the biases and attitudes that riddled its past coverage and contributed to systemic racism in and around Golden.

Scrable said reading the Transcript’s past coverage of the Black community can be “demoralizing,” but even recent stories have failed to represent Black voices.

He pointed to an Aug. 31, 2020 Transcript story about City Council’s decision to display a “Golden Stands With Black Lives” banner over Washington Avenue. e story said the banner would be displayed for 60 days, “an amount of time intended to symbolize how long it took for slave ships to cross the Atlantic.”

Scrable and his GAC co-chairs did advocate for 60 days, but they never assigned any symbolism or signicance to the number.

“It might’ve been said (in the meeting), but it wasn’t us,” Scrable said of GAC. “It was a misquote.”

After the Aug. 31, 2020 story, Scrable received about 20 phone calls from people upset about the supposed symbolism. He felt the Transcript hadn’t done enough research and ultimately misrepresented the facts, and that insensitivity created a very frustrating experience.

He wanted the Transcript to ensure there are positive stories about people from historically marginalized groups, and do better educating Goldenites about their neighbors’ achievements and experiences.

Scrable added: “I’m looking to the Transcript to paint a positive picture for all people of color … and representing ‘all’ versus ‘a few.’”

e Colorado Community Media newsroom acknowledges it has work to do, and this February 2023 report is only the rst step in what the

team hopes will open a wider conversation about systemic racism and media coverage for years to come. Working on this report brought CCM sta members face-to-face with outdated practices and implicit biases.

Going forward, CCM’s goal is to include more voices of color in the newsroom and on the pages of its two dozen publications, Publisher Linda Shapley said. CCM wants to ensure all local voices are heard and included, while also re ecting on racial equity, diversity and inclusion. CCM will strive to consider the lenses through which the sta decides to cover stories in the rst place. Appreciating di erences in CCM’s coverage areas, like history and culture, will guide the newsroom in its e orts.

Other newspapers such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, e Kansas City Star, Philadelphia Inquirer and more have done similar analyses of their past coverage, and the Transcript encourages other newspapers in the region and across the country to do so as well, Shapley

said, adding that it wouldn’t have been possible without a Colorado Media Project grant.

For all journalists, Porter stressed the importance of continuing to diversify newsrooms and ensuring fair, balanced and objective coverage and “stop convicting people without evidence.”

He called on more publications to review their past coverage and acknowledge its harmful impacts, saying it’s important to shine a light on the truth, to be honest and to be transparent.

“If we’re ever going to get past this, it’s going to take some truth-telling,” he said. “It will be hard. It will be di cult. But it really is one of the last vestiges to make this country what it said it was in the beginning — freedom and liberty for all. Which has not been the case for us.”

Jameka Lewis, Allan Tellis, Kristen Fiore, Rylee Dunn, Christy Steadman, Steve Smith and Deborah Grigsby contributed to this report. Greg Moore contributed as an editor.

A banner reading “Golden Stands with Black Lives” hangs from the iconic “Welcome to Golden” sign over Washington Avenue in September 2020. After declaring racism as a public health crisis in 2020, among other e orts, Golden recently adopted a Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. COURTESY OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN

Dakota Ridge boys wrap up league title in dramatic fashion

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

LITTLETON — Dakota Ridge senior Alex Rodriguez might never hit a bigger 3-pointer on the basketball court in his life.

With Dakota Ridge and D’Evelyn tied at 62-62, the senior guard drained a 3-pointer from the corner with 1.5 seconds left to give Dakota Ridge the dramatic 65-62 victory Feb. 8.

Dakota Ridge sophomore Ethan Berninger, who had a game-high 25 points, drove the lane as the nal seconds ticked down. When three Jaguars converged on Berninger he passed the ball to Rodriguez in the corner.

“ e plan was to get (Berninger) the ball and expect him to make the right basketball play. He did,” Dakota Ridge coach Sean Kovar said. “He hit the open shooter. Alex is a senior guy who has been starting for me since a sophomore. I didn’t expect anything less when he let that one go.”

It was the rst 3-pointer Rodriguez had made all game.

“ e play was drawn up for my guy Ethan to get downhill and get a bucket,” Rodriguez said. “Props to him to have trust in his teammate. It was great vision by him to get us an open shot.”

D’Evelyn (11-9, 7-3 in Class 5A/4A Je co League) had 1.5 seconds to try to muster up a game-tying 3-pointer, but couldn’t get a shot o having to go the length of the court. e victory for Dakota Ridge (17-4, 10-0) ofcially clinched the conference title for the Eagles.

“It means a ton,” Kovar said. “It validates their hard work, validates their unsel shness, validates all the hard work they have given to Dakota Ridge basketball. For them to see the fruits of their labor is so special as a coach. For them to receive that plaque right now gave me goosebumps. It’s the coolest thing.” is is the rst boys basketball conference title for the Eagles since the 2014-15 season when Dakota Ridge won the 5A Je co League title.

“It means a heck of a lot. It means so much to all of our guys,” Rodriguez said of the conference title. “We wanted this so bad, but we aren’t done yet. We have a lot more to do.”

e Eagles nished up their league schedule at Pomona on Feb. 10 with

a 92-40 win. Dakota Ridge plays two games during Je co’s end-of-season tournament. ose games will be played Feb. 15 and Feb. 17 before the start of the 5A state tournament that begins Wednesday, Feb. 22.

Dakota Ridge — No. 6 in the CHSAANow.com boys basketball rankings — was coming o backto-back losses to 6A powerhouses — No. 1 Mountain Vista and No. 4 Denver East — last week.

“I told our guys we aren’t worried about seeding,” Kovar said of heading into the postseason. “We are worried about being the best team we can be. We want to be battle tested and road tested. ose two games (Denver East and Mountain Vista) were great for us. Tonight was great too. We took some really good punches from D’Evelyn.”

D’Evelyn played extremely tough coming o a rough home loss to Golden last Saturday. Seniors Kellen Olson (18 points), Nick Vacanti (15 points), along with junior Taj Kumar (18 points) led a valiant e ort in an attempt from preventing Dakota Ridge from wrapping up the league title.

e Jaguars went on a 9-0 run in

the nal 2 minutes with Vacanti hitting a pair of 3-pointers and a 3-pointer from Olson with 45 seconds left tied things up at 62-62.

D’Evelyn couldn’t avoid a 3-game losing streak when it lost to Green Mountain (14-7, 9-1) on Feb. 10 before its two extra games next week.

e Jaguars were sitting at No. 24 in the 4A RPI standings after the loss to

Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Je co Public Schools. For more Je co coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.

D’Evelyn girls hoops win 5A/4A Je co League title

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

LITTLETON — D’Evelyn became the rst girls basketball team in the state to reach the 20-win mark this season on Feb. 8.

e Jaguars — No. 3 in the Class 4A CHSAANow.com rankings

— continued their perfect season with a 45-31 road victory against Dakota Ridge. Even more signi -

cant, D’Evelyn (21-0, 11-0 in league)

o cially clinched the 5A/4A Je co League title win the victory.

“ is means a lot,” D’Evelyn junior Peyton Marvel said after she dropped a game-high 25 points in the victory. “We talked about it at the beginning of the year that it was one of our big goals to win league. It’s only our fth league title in the program’s history. It’s awesome to be a part of it.”

e Jaguars were a little surprised that they could take home the league plaque. D’Evelyn still had a conference game left Feb. 10 against Green Mountain (14-7, 8-3), but the Jaguars had a 1-game lead over Littleton (156, 9-2) with one league game left and D’Evelyn held the tiebreaker over the Lions.

“We honestly didn’t expected it,” Marvel said of Patrick Simpson — Executive Director of Athletics and

Activities for Je co Public Schools

— presenting the league plaque to the Jaguars following the victory.

“We thought we might get it on Friday, but it was awesome.”

It’s the rst girls basketball conference title for the Jaguars since D’Evelyn won four straight 4A Je co champions from 2012-2015.

“When you win a couple, then you

Dakota Ridge senior Carson Evans (22) tries to get a shot over the hands of D’Evelyn senior Nick Vacanti during the first half Feb. 8 at Dakota Ridge High School. The Eagles got a last-second 3-pointer by senior Alex Rodriguez to take a 65-62 victory.

Dakota Ridge’s boys basketball team celebrated clinching the Class 5A/4A Je co League title with its student section after a dramatic victory over D’Evelyn on Feb. 8. The Eagles finished out conference play with a 10-0 league record.

PHOTOS BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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have to watch Valor, Evergreen and Green Mountain win them it’s a motivating factor,” D’Evelyn coach Chris Olson said. “You just want to get back on top.”

Valor won four straight 5A Jeffco League titles and are closing in claiming the 6A Je co title this season. Evergreen won back-toback 4A league titles in 2018 and 2019. Green Mountain had reeled o three 4A conference titles in a row 2020-2022. D’Evelyn ended the Rams’ string on Wednesday night.

With the addition of the 6A classi cation for the current 2-year cycle, D’Evelyn is actually playing in the mix 5A/4A Je co League and will play in the 4A tournament that starts up in less than two weeks.

“ ere is a little bit of pride being the smaller school against the bigger schools,” said Olson, who coached Green Mountain’s boys soccer team to a league title 27 years ago when the Rams had just moved up to the largest classi ca-

tion. “It is a little extra motivating factor and special for the kids.”

D’Evelyn grabbed win 21 with a 48-30 home win over Green Mountain. e Jaguars complete their regular-season schedule with games Feb. 15 and Feb. 17 as a part of the end-of-season tournament.

It’s likely D’Evelyn would grab a top-4 seed for the 32-team 4A state tournament that is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Feb. 21.

“I love it,” Olson said of facing tough competition in Green Mountain and a mix of the other top-4 teams in the conference next week before heading into playo s. “It will be fun and keep things competitive down the stretch. at is what you want.”

Dakota Ridge (10-11, 6-5) is right on the bubble to make the 32-team 5A state tournament. e Eagles were No. 31 in the RPI standings after a 20-point win Feb. 10 against Pomona before its two extra regular-season games Feb. 15 and 17.

Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Je co Public Schools. For more Je co coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.

D’Evelyn’s girls basketball team poses with the Class 5A/4A Je co League champion plaque after the Jaguars clinched the conference title Feb. 8 with a road victory against Dakota Ridge.

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BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

LITTLETON —  e race for the Class 6A Je co League boys basketball title turned into a three-team race.

Valor Christian (14-7, 9-1 in league), Ralston Valley (15-6, 7-3) and Arvada West (15-7, 7-4) had distanced themselves from the rest of the eld with less than two weeks remaining in the regular season. However, things did get a little clearer last week.

Valor — No. 9 in the 6A CHSAANow.com rankings — took a big 82-63 home win Feb. 7 over Ralston Valley to take a 2-game advantage over the Mustangs.

A-West stayed right in the mix with a tight 61-58 road victory against Chat eld on Feb. 7. e Wildcats hung on to the win after Chat eld junior Liam McGuire’s 3-pointer at the buzzer that would have forced overtime was just short.

“It’s good to get out of here with a win playing like we did,” A-West coach Je Parriott said. “I don’t think we were looking ahead to ursday, but they are kids. at might have been in the case. We walked out with a win and focus on ursday.”

A-West had its huge rematch against Valor on Feb. 9 back on the Wildcats’ home court. A-West handed Valor its lone conference lost Jan. 23. A sweep of Valor would give A-West the all important tiebreaker over the Eagles if both nish with the same conference record.

“We’ve got something to play for when it comes to a league championship and something to play for when it comes to seeding when we get to the postseason,” Parriott said. “We will turn it around.”

Valor was the one turning things around Feb. 9. e Eagles dominated A-West to take a 75-46 victory. e Wildcats’ last conference title was back in the 2017-18 season when A-West o cially shared the league title with Columbine. Valor won the 5A league title back in 2020-21 and Ralston Valley captured the conference championship last year going undefeated

in 5A Je co League play.

A-Wests then su ered a 61-34 loss to Bear Creek on Feb. 11 that ended any hopes for a conference title.

Before the 2-game losing streak, Nichols led A-West with 21 points, including going 4-for-4 from the free-throw line in the nal minute against Chat eld. Senior Zion omas scored just 4 points, but was also money in the nal minutes going 4-for-4 from the charity stripe.

Senior Jasper Padia had a quiet rst three quarter that included some early foul trouble, but the Wildcats’ leading scored poured in 7 points in the fourth quarter to nish with 13 points.

Sophomore Jordan Stremel had a big game o the bench with 13 points, including three 3-pointers for A-West.

“ ankfully Jordan gave us that boost o ensively,” Parriott said. “We really needed that after Jasper picked up his second foul and had to set a little bit in that rst half.”

Junior James Hadzic had 8 points, but his biggest contribution in the fourth quarter was taking two defensive charges.

“If those kind of small things don’t happen we don’t win the game,” Nichols said of Stremel’s pair of 3-pointers and Hadzic’s two defensive plays in fourth quarter. “ ose were big by those guys.”

Chat eld (5-15, 1-8) has lost 10-of-11 games, but de ntely had a strong showing against the lWildcats. Senior Shay Rumsey had 21 points for the Chargers. Senior Donovan Doyle came o the bench with 11 points, including two 3-pointers in the nal 22 seconds that cut the Wildcats’ lead to 1-point on both occasions.

“I thought Chat eld outplayed us. I thought they played harder and played smarter than we did,” Parriott said.

Chat eld has the chance to play spoiler in its nal two games. e Chargers are at Valor (Wednesday, Feb. 15) and home against Ralston Valley (Friday, Feb. 17). It isn’t likely that Chat eld will make the 32-

team eld for the 6A state tournament. e Chargers were No. 44 in the RPI standings before Tuesday’s games.

A-West closes out the regular season at home versus Columbine (Friday, Feb. 17). e Wildcats were No. 17 in the RPI standings. e top-16 seeds get a home game for the rst round of the 32-team 6A state tournament that begins next week.

Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Je co Public Schools. For more Je co coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.

Arvada West junior James Hadzic (15) looks for room to operate while being covered by Chatfield senior Cutter Painter (24) during the Class 6A Je co League game Feb. 7 at Chatfield High School. A-West took a 61-58 victory before losing back-to-back games later in the week to Valor and Bear Creek.

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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.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

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

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

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/09/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER

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

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

By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

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

Balance

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 6, BLOCK 12, LEAWOOD FILING NUMBER 2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6244 W Leawood Dr, Littleton, CO 80123.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/30/2023 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: 12/06/2022

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: Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-22-947773-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. J2200348

- PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

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

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

Original Grantor(s)

JAMES HARLEY WADSWORTH, JR Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Holder of Evidence of Debt

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.

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.

1/4 of Section 32, Township 3 South, Range

Part of the NE 1/4

West of the 6th P.M., described as follows: Beginning at the

said NE 1/4 NW 1/4 of said Section 32; thence North along the West line of said NE 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section 32, 110.00 feet; thence East parallel with the South line of the NE 1/4 NW 1/4 of said Section 32, a distance of 150 feet; thence South parallel with the West line of said NE 1/4 NW 1/4 a distance of 110.00 feet to the South line of said NE 1/4 NW 1/4; thence West along the South line of said NE 1/4 NW 1/4 a distance of 150 feet to the point of beginning, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado

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

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/09/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/17/2022

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

By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

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

Attorney File # 22-028741

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200333

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200331

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

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

Original Grantor(s)

BENJAMIN J MARTINEZ Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR MARKETPLACE HOME MORTGAGE, LLC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

LOT 63, WILLIAMSBURG FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7917 S FLOWER CT, LITTLETON, CO 80128.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/09/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

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

By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

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

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200331

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

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

to CRS

hereby

trust

the deed

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/

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 # 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. J2200342

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 January 30, 2020

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

February 05, 2020

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

2020014453

Original Principal Amount

$309,430.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$297,166.35

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

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.

TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 12/06/2022

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:

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.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2200330

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

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

Original Grantor(s)

Jeanette A. Duff and Robert F. Duff

Original Beneficiary(ies)

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

Holder of Evidence of Debt

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

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.

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) 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:

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

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

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

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 03/09/2023 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https://liveauctions.govease.com/

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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

DATE: 11/17/2022

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

By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO21047

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

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.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200338

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. J2200344

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) George Edward Robertson

Original Beneficiary(ies)

TCF National Bank

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

The Huntington National Bank

Date of Deed of Trust

October 24, 2012

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

November 01, 2012

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

2012117461 Original Principal Amount $89,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $54,744.53

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/

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.

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to

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

14, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH, RANGE 70 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH, RANGE 70 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., WHICH LIES SOUTH 89°14'10" WEST, 1,204 FEET FROM THE NORTH 1/4 CORNER OF SAID SECTION 14; THENCE RUNNING SOUTH 08°32'10" EAST, 487.56 FEET; THENCE NORTH 26°48' WEST, 201.27 FEET; THENCE NORTH 22°44'50" WEST, 326.25 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO SAID NORTH LINE OF SECTION 14; THENCE NORTH 89°14'10"EAST, 145.17 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, ALSO KNOWN AS TRACT E, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 17611 N 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: 12/06/2022

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: Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-22-948203-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. J2200344

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. J2200335

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

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' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2200335

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. J2200349

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)

Norman L. Dunn and Holly P. Dunn

Original Beneficiary(ies)

U.S. Bank N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

U.S. Bank National Association

Date of Deed of Trust

August 18, 2015

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 31, 2015

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

2015092635**

Original Principal Amount

$862,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$820,446.05

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 22, WILLOW SPRINGS FILING NO. 4, CHIMNEY ROCK, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

**This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement recorded 5/13/2019 at Reception No. 2019037818 in the records of the Jefferson county clerk and recorder, Colorado. Also known by street and number as: 6291 Chimney Rock Trail, Morrison, CO 80465.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED

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: 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.

©Public 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 Metropolitan Districts Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR NORTHWEST LAKEWOOD SANITATION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Northwest Lakewood Sanitation District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve a three-year term.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms are available and can be obtained from Steve Beck, the Designated Election Official for the Northwest Lake Sanitation District and the, c/o Steve Beck at Special District Management Services, Inc., 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado 80028, (303) 987-0835 and on the District website at: https://nwlsd.us/. The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form or letter is to be submitted to the Designated Election Official no later than the close of business on February 24, 2023, sixty-seven (67) days prior to the regular election. Affidavits of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate must be submitted to the Designated Election Official by the close of business on February 27, 2023, sixty-four (64) days prior to the regular election.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, pursuant to Section 1-13.5-1002, C.R.S., that applications for and return of absentee voters’ ballots may be obtained from / filed with Steve Beck, the Designated Election Official of the District, c/o Steve Beck at Special District Management Services, Inc., 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado 80028, (303) 987-0835, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023).

NORTHWEST LAKEWOOD SANITATION DISTRICT

By:/s/ Steve Beck

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415723

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Hometown Metropolitan District No. 2 of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 1-13.5-501, C.R.S., that an election will be held

to the Designated Election Official by the close of business (5:00 p.m. MST) on February 27, 2023, sixty-four (64) days prior to the regular election.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, pursuant to Section 1-13.5-1002, C.R.S., that applications for and return of absentee voters’ ballots may be obtained from / filed with Lisa A. Jacoby, the Designated Election Official of the District (at the address/ phone/email address noted above), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023).

HOMETOWN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NO. 2

By: /s/Lisa A. Jacoby

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415706

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript and the Arvada Press Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

WHEAT RIDGE WATER DISTRICT §§ 1-13.5-501; 1-13.5-303, C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the eligible electors of the Wheat Ridge Water District, in Jefferson County, Colorado (the “District”).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time three (3) directors will be elected to serve a four-year term. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form from the Designated Election Official (“DEO”) at:

aj@publicalliancellc.com

(720) 213-6621

Or in person at the District’s office during business hours: 6827 W. 38th Avenue, Wheat Ridge Colorado 80033

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Friday, February 24, 2023. If the DEO determines a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is not sufficient, the form may be amended prior to 5:00 p.m. on February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing of an insufficient form after this date and time. An Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate must be submitted to the office of the DEO by the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that information on obtaining an absentee ballot may be obtained from the DEO, and applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than the close of business on April 25, 2023. You may contact the DEO’s office at (720) 213-6621.

WHEAT RIDGE WATER DISTRICT

By: /s/ AJ Beckman

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415710

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Fruitdale Sanitation District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time two directors will be elected to serve four-year terms, and one director will be elected to serve the remaining unexpired two-years of a term Eligible electors of the Fruitdale Sanitation District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form from the District’s Designated Election Official, Robert Cox at 4990 Miller Street, Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033, telephone number (303) 4245476, Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:30 PM.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form is close of business (4:30 PM) on Friday, February 24, 2023 (not less than 67 days before the election). If the DEO determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form is not sufficient, the eligible elector who submitted the form may amend the form once, at any time, prior to 3:00 PM on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, an application for an absentee ballot shall be filed with the Designated Election Official no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

FRUITDALE

and 7:00 p.m. At that time three (3) Directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms to May 4, 2027.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms are available and can be obtained from Peggy Ripko, the Designated Election Official for the Indy Oak TOD Metropolitan District, c/o Special District Management Services, Inc., 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado 80028, (303) 987-0835 and on the District’s website at https:// indyoaktodmd.colorado.gov/. The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form or letter is to be submitted to the Designated Election Official no later than the close of business on February 24, 2023, sixty-seven (67) days prior to the regular election. Affidavits of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate must be submitted to the Designated Election Official by the close of business on February 27, 2023, sixty-four (64) days prior to the regular election.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, pursuant to Section 1-13.5-1002, C.R.S., that applications for and return of absentee voters’ ballots may be obtained from / filed with Peggy Ripko, the Designated Election Official of the District, c/o Special District Management Services, Inc., 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado 80028, (303) 987-0835, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023).

INDY OAK TOD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By:/s/ Peggy Ripko Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 415705

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Bids and Settlements

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:

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

Summons and Sheriff Sale

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

Accordingly, I have levied upon the following real property owned by Judgment-Debtor, to wit: THAT PART OF THE SOUTHEAST ¼ OF THE SOUTHEAST ¼ OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 69 WEST, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT 25 FEET NORTH AND 50 FEET WEST OF THE CENTER OF SAID SECTION 26; THENCE WEST AND PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 26, 133 FEET; THENCE NORTH AND PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 26, 145 FEET; THENCE EAST AND PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 26, 133 FEET; THENCE SOUTH AND PARALLEL WITH THE EAST LINE OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SAID SECTION 26, 145 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, EXCEPT A TRIANGULAR TRACT IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER THEREOF PREVIOUSLY CONVEYED TO THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE FOR ROAD PURPOSES ONLY, IN DEED RECORDED DECEMBER 11, 1970 IN BOOK 2226 AT PAGE 221 AND EXCEPT THAT PORTION CONVEYED TO PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO RECORDED FEBRUARY 17, 1958 IN BOOK 1105 AT PAGE 258, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has a street address of 3201 Wadsworth Blvd., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033. THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

NOTICE OF SALE

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 A.M., on March 30, 2023, at 100 Jefferson County Parkway Suite 1520, Golden, CO 80419, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said JudgmentDebtor, Kishore K. Ramjiani, his heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the Judgment, as evidenced by the Transcript of Judgment, plus post-judgment interest, continuing costs of collection and attorneys’ fees, and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

NOTICE OF RIGHTS

YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES.

•A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. § 38-38-104 FROM A GRANTOR, LIENOR, LESSEE OR OTHER ENTITY DEFINED BY STATUTE SHALL BE FILED WITH THE SHERIFF AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED.

IF 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 Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Published in: Golden Transcript Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

CIVIL ACTION NO. 2022CV030318, Division/Courtroom 15

email: DEO@specialdistrictlaw.com.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form or

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.

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, 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 Con-

dominiums, according to the Map thereof filed for record with the Clerk and Recorder of Jefferson County, on July 5, 1983 as Reception No. 83061908 and Affidavit of Correction recorded July 14,1983 as Reception No. 83065240 and Jewell Ridge Condominium Phase II, recorded March 1, 1984 as Reception No. 84018947 as described in the Condominium Declaration filed on July 5, 1983 as Reception No. 83061905, and Jewell Ridge Condominium Map Phase III recorded October 10, 1984 as Reception No. 84095867 and Jewell Ridge Condominium Map Phase IV recorded October 10, 1984 as Reception No. 84095869, and First Supplement to the Condominium Declaration recorded March 1, 1984 as Reception No. 84010946, Second Supplement to the Condominium Declaration recorded October 10, 1984 as Reception No, 84095866 and Third Supplement to the Condominium Declaration recorded October 10, 1984 as Reception No. 84095868, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.;

And also known as: 10200 W. Jewell Avenue #C, Lakewood, CO 80232

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

The attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 802281011, 303.432.9999

Date: January 13, 2023 Regina Marinelli, Sheriff Jefferson County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 415535

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Published In: Golden Transcript Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, 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

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, Colorado 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401

Plaintiff: Assure LLC 1261 S. 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:

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, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, Colorado 80401

Plaintiff: JOHN ROSS, v. Defendants: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, a political subdivision of the State of Colorado; DENVER MOUNTAIN PARK HOME COMPANY, a dissolved Colorado corporation; W.A. RHOADS and LEE HISTED, as the last known acting members of the Board of Directors of Denver Mountain Park Home Company; and ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS ACTION.

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Max S. Stich, #36782 Philip A. Goiran, #32325 Tiemeier & Stich, P.C. 1000 E. 16th Avenue Denver, CO 80218 Phone Number: (303) 531-0022

Fax Number: (303) 531-0021

E-mail: mstich@tslawpc.com agoiran@tslawpc.com

Case No.: 2022CV31269

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE

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:

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

Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice Case # 2022-074 Cert # 180281

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED

To Every Person in Actual Possession of Occupancy of the hereinafter Described land, Lot or Premises and to the Person in whose name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed and to all Person having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and, To Whom it May Concern, and more especially LARRY M. HUSTON

11759 SE 91ST CIR

SUMMERFIELD, FL 34491

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 14TH day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2019, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to OUTREACH ASSETS LLC, Applicant, who has made demand for a Treasurer’s Deed for the following described real estate situated in the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado to wit; S ½ LOT 15, N ½ LOT 16, N ½ LOT 30, S ½ LOT 31, BLOCK 54, MOUNTAIN PARK HOME, ALSO KNOWN AS TRACT A LOT 15, TRACT A LOT 16, TRACT B LOT 30, TRACT B LOT 31, BLOCK 54, MOUNTAIN PARK HOME, AKA: VACANT LAND, That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2018 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2018 that said real estate was taxed in the name of LARRY M. HUSTON the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 14, A.D. 2022; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, OUTREACH ASSETS LLC, lawful holder of said certificate, on the 22ND day of MAY at 5:00 P.M., A.D. 2023, unless the same has been redeemed on or before 5:00 P.M. of said date.

WITNESS my hand and seal this 23RD Day of JANUARY, A.D. 2023.

Jerry DiTullio Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice No. 415607

First Publication: FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Final Publication: FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

Case # 2022-086 Cert # 2006-01293

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 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 Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice No. 415452

First Publication: FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Final Publication: FEBRUARY 23, 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

Public Notice

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for Unincorporated Areas of Jefferson County, Colorado, Case No. 22-08-0273P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community.

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

Legal Notice No. 415684

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Notice

2022-089 Cert # 180163

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

First Publication: FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Final Publication: MARCH 3, 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

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

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

Mark Wolff, DC, LLC doing business as Green Mountain Chiropractic and Massage in Lakewood, Colorado will be disposing of paper patient files dated 1/1/2016 and older. If you have been a patient of this practice and would like a copy of your record, please provide a written request to Green Mountain Chiropractic and Massage, 215 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Ste. 420 no later than February 20, 2023. All unclaimed records will be destroyed on March 1, 2023. Legal Notice No. 415566 First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

Case # 2022-083 Cert # 2009-01217

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 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 Telecommunications Public Notice:

VB BTS II, LLC proposes the construction of a 58-ft above ground level (AGL) (63-ft AGL overall) stealth-monopine telecommunications tower and an associated tower compound facility to be located at 1365 S. Sheridan Blvd., in the City of Lakewood, within Jefferson County, CO (Jefferson County Parcel No. 49-241-20-002). VB BTS II, LLC seeks comments from all interested persons on any potential significant impact the proposed action could have on the quality of the human environment pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 1.1307, including potential impacts to historic or cultural resources that are listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Please submit any written comments within 30 days of this notice’s first publication regarding the potential effects that the proposed tower may have on Historic Properties that are listed or eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places to: Tower Engineering Professionals, Inc. (Attn: George Swearingen) 326 Tryon Road, Raleigh, NC 27603 Telephone: (919) 661-6351 Fax: (919) 661-6350

JANUARY 2023 for each County affected.

2023CW3002 (16CW3102; 04CW251; 97CW207; 89CW169) TOWN OF CASTLE

ROCK, Attn: Mark Marlowe, Director of Castle Rock Water, 175 Kellogg Court, Castle Rock, CO 80109, (720) 733-6000, mmarlowe@crgov.com.. Serve all pleadings on: Madoline Wallace-Gross, Anthony J. Basile, Lyons Gaddis, P.C., P.O. Box 978, Longmont, CO 80502-0978, (303)776-9900, mwg@lyonsgaddis.com; abasile@lyonsgaddis.com.

APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE IN DOUGLAS AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES.

2. Name of structure: Chatfield Reservoir 3. Describe the conditional water right including the following from the previous decrees:

3.1. Date of original decree, case no. and court: Case No. 89CW169, District Court, Water Division No. 1, entered on July 25, 1991. 3.2. Subsequent decrees awarding findings of diligence: Case No. 97CW207, District Court, Water Division No. 1, entered on January 7, 1998; Case No. 04CW251, District Court, Water Division No. 1, entered on August 3, 2010, and Case No. 16CW3102, entered on January 20, 2017.

3.3. Legal description of point of diversion: The reservoir formed by the Chatfield Dam, an existing structure located in Sections 6 and 7, Township 6 South, Range 68 West, of the 6th P.M., and in Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M. The right abutment of Chatfield Dam is located in Sections 6 and 7, Township 6 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado. The left abutment of the dam is located in Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M. in Jefferson County, Colorado. The point of diversion is depicted on the map attached hereto as EXHIBIT A. 3.4. Source of water: South Platte River and its tributaries 3.5. Appropriation date: November 6, 1989 3.6. Amount: 2,000 acre-feet, conditional 3.7. Uses: All municipal purposes 4. Integrated Water Supply System: Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(B), the conditional storage water right is part of a single integrated water system owned and developed by Applicant. Applicant’s integrated water supply system consists of augmentation plans, appropriative rights of exchange, conditional and absolute water rights and non-tributary groundwater rights. 5. Provide a detailed outline of what has been done toward completion or for completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally decreed, including expenditures: During the relevant diligence period, from January 2017 to January 2023, Applicant has incurred more than $86 million to conduct the following work specific to these conditional water rights, which are portions of Applicant’s integrated system, as that term is used in C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(b): 5.1. Purchased additional storage capacity in Chatfield Reservoir and paid assessments to the Chatfield Reservoir Mitigation Company, Inc. at a cost of approximately $4,136,850. 5.1.1. Associated legal and administrative costs totaled approximately $5,965. 5.1.2. As of 2023, Applicant owns 719 acre-feet of capacity in Chatfield Reservoir, with plans to exercise the option to acquire additional capacity up to 2,000 acre-feet of conditional storage. 5.2. Completed the following work related to the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility: 5.2.1. Designed and constructed the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility with a treatment capacity of 4 MGD at a cost of approximately $17,600,000.

5.2.2. Purchased and installed an additional Pall membrane equipment rack with a treatment capacity of 2 MGD at a cost of approximately $1,006,000. 5.2.3. Conducted a Plum Creek Water Purification Facility Planning Study with Jar testing at a cost of approximately $20,000.

5.2.4. Created a Basis of Design Report for the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility advanced treatment project (including biologically active carbon (BAC) filtration system) at a cost of approximately $87,000. 5.2.5. Hired consultants for negotiating and implementing contracts related to the advanced treatment project at a cost of approximately $25,000. 5.2.6. Completed pilot testing related to the advanced treatment project, including BAC filtration, as required by Colorado Department of Health and the Environment at a cost of approximately $200,000.

5.2.7. Began design of the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility’s advanced treatment at a cost of approximately $1,300,000. 5.2.8. Began construction of the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility’s advanced treatment at a cost of approximately $30,000,000.

5.2.9. Relocated generator from PS Miller Water Treatment Plant to Plum Creek Water Purification Facility at a cost of approximately $120,000.

5.2.10. Conducted an aquifer storage and recovery pilot study associated with Plum Creek Water Purification Facility at a cost of approximately $500,000. 5.3. Conducted studies, designed and constructed the expansion to Plum Creek Water Reclamation Authority’s Wastewater Treatment Plant at a cost of approximately $31,000,000. 5.4. Conducted legal and engineering work to determine whether to acquire certain senior water rights for use in Applicant’s municipal water system. 5.5. Began and/or continued to oppose applications that could injure Applicant’s water rights, including these water rights, in Case Nos. 16CW3138, 17CW3122, 17CW3176, 18CW3038, 18CW3039, 18CW3056, 18CW3066, 18CW3206, 18CW3232, 19CW3211, 19CW3253, 20CW3005, 20CW3031, 20CW3214, 21CW3022, 21CW3091, 21CW3193, 22CW3032, 22CW3103, and 22CW3111.

5.6. Filed applications in Case Nos. 17CW3044, 17CW3128, 17CW3161, 17CW3211, 19CW3030, 19CW3039, 19CW3042, 19CW3078, 19CW3229, 19CW3231, 19CW3232, 20CW3175, 21CW3046, 21CW3047, 21CW3109, 21CW3142, 21CW3185, 22CW3064, 22CW3145, 22CW3150 and 22CW3155.

6. Owners of Land upon which Structures are Located: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 9307 South Wadsworth Blvd., Littleton, CO 80128. WHEREFORE, Applicant respectfully requests the Court enter a decree finding that Applicant has exercised reasonable diligence during the diligence period and extending the conditional water right for an additional six-year period. The application is 5 pages, excluding the exhibit.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of MARCH 2023 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No.415734

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles

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

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice of Sale of Lien Property Notice is hereby given that a public auction will be held on 2/22/2023 at 12:00 p.m. at 5965 Sheridan Blvd., Jefferson County, City of Arvada, Colorado.

The Attic Self Storage will sell to satisfy the lien on property stored at 5965 Sheridan Blvd., Arvada, Colorado 80003 by the following persons: No. 450David Jimenez 4344 Quivas St, Denver, CO 80211

No. 458Stephen Castaneda 4420 Perry St, Denver, CO 80212 No. 624Amber Ore P.O. Box 745574, Arvada, CO 80006

No. 719Brian Collins 7047 W 62nd Pl, Arvada, CO 80003

Misc. household and other

This notice is being published on 2/9/2023 and 2/16/2023 in the newspaper in accordance with C.R.S. Sect. 38-21.5-101 (Colorado Law.) This sale is subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between landlord and obligated party.

Contact: The Attic Self Storage -- 303-456-2882

Legal Notice No.: 415671

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Geraldine Ann Schiel, aka Geraldine A.Schiel, aka Gerri A. Schiel, aka Gerri Schiel, Deceased Case Number: 22PR514

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson, County, Colorado or on or before June 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

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 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 James Edwards Simmons, a/k/a James E Simmons, Deceased Case Number: 23 PR 30011

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or

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

In the Matter of the Estate of: DUANE STELTZ

Attorney: Charles J. Vanstrom, Esq., Charles J. Vanstrom, P.C. P.O. Box 40216, Denver, Colorado 80204-2016 Phone Number: 303-404-3504

E-mail: charles@charlesjvanstrompc.com

Case Number: 2022PR31488 Division 11

NOTICE OF HEARING WITHOUT APPEARANCE PURSUANT TO C.R.P.P. 24

****** 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 Lynn D. McKissack, deceased Case Number: 2023PR30075

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 02, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

J. Clifford McKissack

Personal Representative 8300 Garland Drive Arvada, Colorado 80005

Legal Notice No. 415616

First publication: February 02, 2023

Last publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of 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,

Legal Notice No. 415729

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Golden 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 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.

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 Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Alton W. Cowan, aka Alton Walter Cowan, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30034

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

David H. Cowan, Personal Representative

c/o Pearman Law Firm

4195 Wadsworth Blvd. Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

Legal Notice No. 415583

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robyn Joan Marie Hodson, a/k/a Robyn J. Hodson, a/k/a Robyn Hodson, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30077

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brady McFarland & Lord, LLC

Attorney to the Personal Representative 6870 W. 52nd Ave, Suite 103 Arvada, CO 80002

Legal Notice No. 415626

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of 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

Legal Notice No. 415726

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

Jeffco Transcript

Notice

TO CREDITORS

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 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

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 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 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 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 Norman James Van Esselstine, a/k/a, Norman J Van Esselstine, Deceased Case Number: 23 PR 30010

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Morgen Van Esselstine, Co-Personal Representative c/o Flatiron Legal Advisors, LLC 3393 Iris Ave., Suite 110 Boulder, CO 80301

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before May 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Timothy L Price, Personal Representative 11124 W Coco Place Littleton CO 80127

Legal Notice No. 415589

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of 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

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 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 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 ROBERT R. GOUGH, A/K/A ROBERT RAY GOUGH, A/K/A ROBERT GOUGH, A/K/A BOB RAY GOUGH A/K/A BOB R. GOUGH AND BOB GOUGH, Deceased Case Number 23 PR 30050

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 6, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Bryan Ray Gough, Personal Representative 720 Partridge Circle Golden, CO 80403

Legal Notice No. 415593

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of BETTY MAUS, Deceased Case Number 23 PR 30044

All persons having claims against

James Vincent Piro Jr a/k/a James V Piro Jr, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30132

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.

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

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