Jeffco Transcript 051823

Lakewood City Council honors a graduating local teen with a day of his own

BY JO DAVIS JDAVIS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lakewood City Council recently engaged in governing that’s going to cause tra c trouble, home repair debates and more friction in future council meetings, but one local teen will remember the night as the biggest surprise of his life.

At the May 8 meeting, Mayor Adam Paul and the council passed a proclamation to declare May 8, 2023 Liam Hopkins Day. Hopkins, a graduating Lakewood High School senior, has been reeling since that night.

“It was just kind of hard for me to believe,” he said. “I never thought that I’d received that sort of recognition.”

e award recognizes Hopkins for his work in preserving Bear Creek Lake Park. e proclamation declares Hopkins as “instrumental in helping to organize the Save Bear Creek Lake Park Alliance and has demonstrated exceptional leadership in the community for his support of Bear Creek Lake Park.”

e teen said that his work was just an extension of his passion for reptiles, and it was part of a school project.

“I’ve always been really interested in wildlife,” Hopkins said. “So, I decided for my (Senior Capstone) project, I would do a reptile and amphibian survey at Bear Creek Lake Park.”

He explained that the project was meant to help the city and the park o cials get a better idea of the rattlesnake population in the park.

Projects get a push forward in Wheat Ridge City Council meeting

BY JO DAVIS JDAVIS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Wheat Ridge residents could see movement on long-awaited public projects soon.

Wheat Ridge City Council at a May 8 meeting presented resolutions to advance four projects that will improve and create bike paths, trails and public walkways in the community. is includes a new surface for the pool located at the Wheat Ridge Recreation Center.

e public lap pool needs a new surface — the expense for which was approved and placed in the budget for 2023.

During the meeting, after a lengthy process, the council awarded the project to a company that will resurface the community pool.

Mid-America Pool Renovation Inc. has locations throughout the Midwest and Colorado. According to its website, the company specializes in composite surface that is more durable than traditional surfaces.

e Wheat Ridge City Council accepted Mid-America Pool Renovation Inc.’s bid to resurface the lap pool.

Liam Hopkins says the honor of having his own day does not feel real just yet. He simply did his school project, which featured his favorite animal: snakes.

Council also accepted and awarded the company’s bid of $300,000 for the entire project. According to the bid document, the work is scheduled to last a week with six additional days set aside for travel, prep and

PHOTO COURTESY OF LIAM HOPKINS

He didn’t stop at gathering data, however.

rough his a liation with the park and the Save Bear Creek Park Alliance, Hopkins got a seat at the table with Lakewood city leaders.

“I was able to speak to the Lakewood City Council about my project and about my passion for wildlife in the Denver Metro area,” he said. “And that speech helped sway the opinion of the city council to vote unanimously in favor of a proclamation to support saving the parks. So that was really cool.”

Hopkins then worked with the city to get permits that helped with protecting the park and took to educating the community about the animals that he loved in the park — a passion that took over the rest of his work in the park.

“ e main thing for me was trying to reduce people’s fear of snakes,” he said.

He added that his goal was not to cure people of their fear of snakes, particularly the rattlesnakes that populate Bear Creek Lake Park and

Hopkins also works to encourage other Lakewood teens to turn their passions into community work. He urges students to rst nd someone in the community to support their

“Without Katie Gill, who’s the founder of Save Bear Creek Lake Park, I would have pretty much none of the opportunities that I’ve had,” he said.

Hopkins wants teens to get in touch with their passions and see how the community can bene t from whatever that passion may be.

“Find something that you’re passionate about that has a local issue that needs to be addressed,” he said. “ en base your capstone o that. e rest really will just fall into place. If you have the passion and the drive for it, it’ll all come together.”

Hopkins will be attending Oregon State to study Fisheries and Wildlife Biology in the fall.

You can view the entire meeting at Lakewood Speaks, and view the entire Liam Hopkins Day Proclamation.

e next Lakewood City Council meeting is at 7 p.m. May 22 at the Lakewood Civic Center, 480 S. Allison Parkway, and virtually on Lakewood Speaks.

This rattlesnake was snapped in Aug 2021 by volunteers working in Bear Creek Lake Park. These are the snakes that Liam and the Save Bear Creek Lake Park organization wanted to save. COURTESY BEAR CREEK LAKE PARK ON FACEBOOK

Liam Hopkins (left) and Lakewood Mayor Adam Paul show o the proclamation that makes May 8, 2023 “Liam Hopkins Day.” COURTESY OF LIAM HOPKINS

The Crown Jewel of concerts

Denver Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 75th anniversary

BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Oldies but goodies, indeed.

e Denver Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and it is planning a jubilant throwback concert.

“We’ve been operating continu-

ously for 75 years and putting on wonderful concerts for the community for all those years,” said Lawrence Golan, DPO’s conductor since 2013. “ is particular concert is the culmination of our 75th anniversary, basically a re-creation of May 18, 1948, which was our rst concert.”

e 75th anniversary Crown Jewel

program takes place on May 25 on the Antonia Brico Stage at Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 Sherman St., in Denver.

The renowned Antonia Brico

By the time she had settled in Denver, Antonia Brico had conducted professional orchestras in Europe and the U.S., including the Berlin Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic.

According to the DPO’s website, Brico saw a “need for a classical music venue to showcase the talents of local, classically trained musicians ‘with no place to play.’” She founded the DPO as the Denver Businessmen’s Orchestra in 1948.

Brico, who lived from 1902-1989, continued to conduct the DPO until her retirement in the 1980s. Today,

SEE JEWEL, P6

Liv-Connected: A Newer Player in the Rapidly Growing Modular Home Industry

As regular readers know, I’ve written several columns on technological developments in home construction and especially in the field of manufactured/modular home construction.

This week I was made aware of Liv-Connected, a 2018 startup which really got going during the pandemic when one of their partners, who was in the live event business building compact and readily deployed stage sets found himself with no work and turned his attention to compact and readily deployed modular housing. At first, the company worked to improve upon the typical FEMA trailer being deployed to disaster areas, but then to the housing industry itself, beset as it was with labor shortages, supply-chain problems, and a soaring demand for second or remote homes.

Manufacturing home components in a warehouse has inherent efficiencies, but the cost of delivery of the finished home and/or its components to the build site

needs to be factored in. For homes to be installed on a foundation, transportation costs for most manufacturers are inflated by the need to use wide-load trucks and pilot cars and to pay the associated permit fees. LivConnected’s concept eliminates that need by breaking down the segments of the house and roof into components (see diagram at right) that can be delivered on one standard semi trailer (below) and linked together in one day at the build site.

The bathroom and kitchen modules are fully equipped at the factory with fixtures and appliances

design allows the addition of more bedrooms at a later date, as illustrated at www.liv-connected.com

Part of Liv-Connected’s business is building tiny homes or Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) under the brand Via, for which delivery costs are less because the homes are on a trailer chassis. The buyer could take delivery of them at the company’s Pennsylvania factory.

I have posted the link to a June 2022 article on Forbes.com about the modular home industry, comparing and contrasting Liv-Connect’s business strategy with that of other off-site housing manufacturers. See www.GoldenREblog.com for that link. I also posted a link there for an informative 9-minute video by Kerry Tarnow, an independent YouTuber.

and can be mixed and matched to create the desired end result. Also, the modular

The ‘We Buy Ugly Houses’ Company, HomeVestors, Is Slammed in an Investigative Pro-Publica Article

HomeVestors of America is a franchisor of its “ugly homes” concept and now has over 1,100 franchisees, including here in the Denver area. The chief benefit of being a franchisee is the company’s national advertising which you have surely seen on billboards and in other media.

HomeVestors also trains its franchisees on lead generation, which was the subject of a May 11th article by ProPublica, co-published with the Dallas Morning News and Shelterforce.

To quote from the article:

HomeVestors, the self-proclaimed “largest homebuyer in the United States,” goes to great lengths to distinguish itself from the hedge funds and YouTube gurus that have taken over large swaths of the real estate investment market. The company says it helps homeowners out of jams — ugly houses and ugly situations — improving lives and communities by taking on properties no one else would buy. Part of that mission is a promise not to take advantage of anyone who doesn’t understand the true value of their home, even as franchisees pursue rock-bottom prices.

Pro-Publica’s investigation, which included “interviews with 48 former franchisees and dozens of homeowners who have sold to its franchises” found that franchisees “used deception and targeted the elderly, infirm and those so close to poverty that they feared homelessness” if they sold.

One former franchise owner said they were trained to lie.

We in the real estate industry are familiar with various tried-and-true prospects for listing a home, including couples that have recently divorced, or where an elderly husband or wife has just died, but HomeVestors apparently “goes the extra mile” in that regard.

A former employee of an ad agency hired by HomeVestors is cited as saying that the ad agency’s owner bragged about being able to target homeowners who had recently broken a hip, saying that the injury “is effectively a 60-day countdown to death — and, possibly, a deal.”

I have posted a link to the full ProPublica article on our company blog, www.GoldenREblog.com

Off-site construction has multiple advantages, including all-weather and yearround construction, much reduced waste, and much improved insulation. There’s also less loss due to vandalism or theft from the build site.

On-site work is limited to building the foundation with its entry points for water, sewer and other utilities, prematched to the underside of the LivConnect modules. Those connections, when done right, consume only about four hours of the one-day installation process. The driver of the truck is a LivConnect employee who is part of the installation crew.

Being in the tiny home business with

its Via product line provides the company with protection from the boom-andbust nature of the modular construction industry, since that line has a more consistent demand cycle. For starters, a good inventory of Via homes on wheels could be quickly sold and deployed to disaster areas and to cities looking for an affordable approach to housing the unhoused or migrants.

The prices for Via homes start under $100,000. The prices for the modular homes, under the brand Connexus, start at $150,000.

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So Many New Types of Scams! Here Are Some We’re Seeing

I’m so offended by the texts and emails I receive which are clearly from scammers. I don’t want you to be a victim, so let me describe some of them.

At least once or twice a day I get an email labeled “payment notification,” “deposit notification,” “ACH transfer completed,” or something similar with no message, only an attachment. But the attachment is not a PDF or document, it’s a file with the suffix “.htm” or “.html,” signifying that it’s a website. I could be pretty sure that by clicking on that link I would have my computer or

iPhone infected with some kind of coding which would open me up to identity theft or worse. Don’t click on any link that’s a website!

Text messages are an increasing source of dubious and unsavory contacts. Many of them simply try to start a conversation with a greeting, but the number is from a strange area code. Delete those! If it’s a real person, they will call you if you’ve ignored the text.

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Woman faces terminal illness with resolve

BY DANA KNOWLES AND JEREMY MOORE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

How do you show up for life and all it can potentially o er when you’re only 21 years old, knowing you may only have a few years left?

at’s a question Ellie White asks herself almost every day.

She was born with a rare neurodegenerative disease called Wolfram syndrome, which causes diabetes, blindness, hearing loss, and eventually it a ects the brain stem, resulting in respiratory failure at an early age. With no current cure, the life expectancy of someone with Wolfram syndrome is typically between 25 and 40 years.

“Eventually my body will forget how to breathe, and I won’t be able to breathe, which makes this disorder a terminal disorder,” White said, adding that dying at a young age is di cult to contemplate, even for her. “I want to get stu done. I want to live life.”

In fact, she is — getting stu done and living life — as best she can.

White nds joy by surrounding herself with family, friends and pets at her home in Centennial. She is also studying music therapy at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Over the last several years, she has performed with her dance group, e Silhouettes, on the television show “America’s Got Talent” and she traveled to Washington,

D.C. for the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

ese are things that are paramount for her, as much of her time is also spent traveling out of state to meet with various specialists for what can feel like constant medical testing.

“I just went to St. Louis and was there for ve days. I had doctors appointments from seven in the morning until three in the afternoon. I did cognitive exams like memory and speech, taste tests, smell tests and blood work,” she added.

Wolfram syndrome is considered an orphan disorder, which means it is extremely rare and there is not a lot of research for funding to help nd a cure, and there is no treatment for it yet.

Ellie’s mother, Beth White, a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the school of medicine’s infectious disease department, is trying to change that. And she feels her background in research can help.

“I feel like I see her dying in front of me,” she said. “We started the Ellie White Foundation for Rare Genetic Disorders because we realized we needed to raise money for research because Wolfram syndrome is so rare that when Ellie was diagnosed with it, not only was she the only person alive in Colorado at the time who had it, but there was no research being done to nd a cure.”

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Wolfram syndrome typically starts with a diagnosis of childhood diabetes, then vision problems, which is what happened with Ellie. When she was three, doctors diagnosed her with diabetes. Four years later, during a routine eye exam, Ellie was found to be colorblind. After more tests, Ellie was diagnosed with Wolfram syndrome.

“Unfortunately, it’s a terminal disorder. So, we’re working as quickly as we can to help nd a cure and save her life,” explained Beth White, adding that her goals are raising awareness and money.

“Ultimately nding a cure for Wolfram syndrome is the most important thing in my life right now.”

at’s when Beth started reaching out to as many researchers as possible, sending pictures of her daughter with pleas to do something.

“I wanted to reach out to these doctors and scientists and say, ‘ is cute little girl has this horrible terminal disorder that’s going to steal her entire life.’ I wanted to see if I could nd someone to work with her. And I discovered that Dr. Urano was doing similar research,” Beth recalled.

“People like Ellie keep me going and keep my enthusiasm high. Partnership and friendship is very important while working to nd a cure and treatments for this disease,” said Urano.

Beth White describes her daughter as someone who is so brave that other

people don’t realize that she’s su ering. “She has such a beautiful tendency to always look for the best in every moment of life, and the best in every person.”

Ellie describes herself as feeling empowered. “I’m hoping to make a di erence. I’m not doing this to save my life. I’m doing this to help save other people’s lives.”

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are in the resolution, available at in the City Council packet on Wheat Ridge speaks.

a post-work inspection.

According to Susan Anderson, recreation manager for the City Of Wheat Ridge, the work has not commenced, but the hope is to start and nish this summer.

“We are hoping to schedule in the month of August during our closure week; if all goes as planned, the project will likely take two weeks to complete,” Anderson said.

e public will not have access to the lap pool during that time. For more information, see the Wheat Ridge Speaks website. You can also peruse the project details there as well.

e other projects are still working through the bureaucratic process. However, during the meeting, they each got a push forward by council.

One of those is detailed in Resolution 24-2023, e Wadsworth Path Project, is a $7.5 million dollar bike path project that will run down Wadsworth between 32nd Ave and 35th Ave.

e path will run along the west side of Wadsworth. A CDOT project overlaps in the area, which ends up saving the city money. CDOT’s commitment to the project reduces the city’s contribution to $300,000. at’s a savings of $7,200,000 through interagency compromise and funding collaboration.

e breakdown and project details

Resolution 26-2023 is another project moved forward by interagency compromise and funding collaboration is the Wheat Ridge Ward Station Project. e lofty resolution calls for $9,650,000 to create public spaces in that area from the G-line tracks to I-70 Frontage Road North.

Also called the Ward Station Multimodal project, according to the resolution, the plans include “a pedestrian bridge over the G Line tracks, plazas at either of the bridge and a multi-use trail extending south to the I-70 Frontage Road North.”

Part of the funding comes from federal sources, with the city’s part reduced to $1,350,000. e breakdown and more details are available at Wheat Ridge Speaks.

Lastly, the 32nd Ave bike path will get an update and what the city is calling multimodal connections. According to Resolution 25-2023, the project includes the bike path “along 32nd Ave from Xenon Street, under I-70, west to Zinnia St.” With a one-milliondollar price tag, the project is also not as lofty as the other two. However, the city’s portion is $110,000. You can see project details and budget breakdown on Wheat Ridge Speaks.

e Wheat Ridge City Council meets again on May 22 at 6:30 p.m. in person at 7500 West 29th Avenue, Municipal Building, or online at Wheat Ridge Speaks.

Ellie White was born with a rare neurodegenerative disease called Wolfram Syndrome, which causes diabetes, blindness and hearing loss.

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Blame drought, California for higher utility bills

BY MARK JAFFE THE COLORADO SUN

One explanation for this past winter’s soaring utility bills was the disruption in global natural gas supplies caused by the war in Ukraine, but it turns out the source of many Colorado households’ woes was closer to home: California.

Drought cut California hydropower production to half of normal levels in 2022, and to fill the gap the state’s utilities went on a natural gas buying spree that drove up the cost of delivered gas to Colorado utilities by almost 100% over the course of the year.

“California bid up natural gas in December and January in basins Xcel buys gas in,” said John Harpole, president of Mercator Energy, a Littleton-based gas brokerage firm. “As a result of California, Colorado ratepayers paid more for natural gas.”

The California scramble pushed up prices across the West, with the cost of natural gas delivered to Colorado utilities, the so-called Citygate rate, rising to $9.83 for a thousand cubic feet in January 2023 from $4.97 in December 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The drought-related gas prices didn’t only affect home heating bills, but electricity costs as well, with the EIA estimating it could have added 5% to prices in Western electricity markets.

The California price shock is both a cautionary tale and one that is likely to be repeated as natural gas markets become more volatile and other forces from climate change to the need to backup growing renewable electricity generation play a role in the demand for gas.

“Consumers have to be aware that natural gas which used to be far more stable isn’t anymore,” said Albert Lin, executive director of Pearl Street Station Finance Lab, a clean energy think tank.

In Colorado, this falls most heavily on Minnesota-based Xcel Energy, the state’s largest natural gas and electricity provider. The company has 1.5 million natural gas customers and depends upon natural gas for 29% of its electricity.

“We are keenly aware of the financial challenges some of our customers experienced this winter,” Bob Frenzel, Xcel Energy’s CEO, told financial analysts in January. “We are always empathetic of customers who are feeling an increase at the grocery store, in rent.”

Still, when the price of natural gas soars so do customer bills, with some households seeing their utility bills double or triple

last December.

In the wake of the high winter utility bills, the legislature passed Senate Bill 291, in an effort to deal with the volatile natural gas market and the future use of natural gas in the state, as well as an effort to improve the way utility rates are set.

“The bill provides ratepayers some relief for volatile prices in the short term and in the long term it gets a handle on our investments in the gas system,” said Meera Fickling, a senior climate policy analyst with the environmental group Western Resources Advocates.

Natural gas is sold and bought by utilities in an unregulated market and the cost of the gas is directly passed on to customers — rising when prices are high and falling when they are low. The utilities neither make money nor lose money on the price of gas. Whether the utilities buy at low prices or high prices, whether they manage their gas supplies well or poorly, they face no risk or losses.

In February 2021 Winter Storm Uri simultaneously boosted demand for natural gas and shut down natural gas Texas production leading to skyrocketing prices. The PUC granted Xcel Energy permission to recover an extra $500 million in storm-related gas costs

Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, holds back the massive Lake Powell on March 25, 2022. Drought conditions in the West have led levels of water in the lake to drop near where the dam will no longer be able to generate electricity.

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‘We are keenly aware of the financial challenges some of our customers experienced this winter. We are always empathetic of customers who are feeling an increase at the grocery store, in rent.’

Bob Frenzel, Xcel Energy’s CEO

JEWEL

she is the namesake of the stage that the DPO performs on.

Same music, di erent eras

Golan plans to boost the nostalgia quotient of the Crown Jewel concert with performances from the organization’s inaugural program. It will include three selections from the 1948 show, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Coriolan Overture,” “En Saga” by Jean Sibelius and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Symphony No. 40.”

“ e original concert was much longer, two or three hours,” Golan said. “At that time, it was before television, and (it) was a time really used for live entertainment (and) live events, whether it was theater, opera, symphony.”

Today, there’s many forms of entertainment — including TV and the internet — and more things that families do together, Golan added.

“Everybody is so busy these days,” he said, “and concerts tend to be short.”

He expects the Crown Jewel program will last about an hourand-a-half to two hours, including intermission.

More Than Music

Attendees will also get to participate in the DPO’s More an Music.

ese events are themed for each concert and o er an additional experience to the concert. More an Music ranges from pre-concert chats, during which concert-goers learn insight into the program’s music, to post-concert receptions where concert-goers can enjoy refreshments and meet the musicians.

To get an idea of how the More an Music themes work, when DPO performed its Celtic Celebration around St. Patrick’s Day, the program included both Scottish and Irish music — Mendelssohn’s Scottish symphony, as well as an Irish piece of the Brendan Voyage, written by Shawn Davey, a living Irish com-

penings, such as serving Irish whiskey and Scotch, plus tastings and Irish step dancing,” Golan said. “For the kids, we had miniature golf.”

He added that the sport was born in Scotland.

Roger Haak joins the DPO

As DPO reaches back this year, the organization recently welcomed Roger Haak as its new executive director.

Haak replaces Valerie Clausen, who is transitioning from the position after 11 years. Clausen has been

a violinist in the orchestra for 17 years, and it is expected she will continue to serve the DPO.

Haak’s background includes work with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and the Artosphere Festival Orchestra in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He also is a classically trained vocalist and a new talent coordinator at Comedy Works in Denver, which occasionally requires a little standup on his part.

Haak comes to DPO from the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where he was VIP ticketing manager.

“I’m like a one-stop shop,” Haak said, adding his role with the DPO touches upon just about every detail involved in running such a unique organization. e DPO “enables me to incorporate everything I learned at DCPA and elsewhere.”

A local connection

Antonia Brico was a trailblazer, Haak said. She was told that she could not be a conductor of an orchestra based solely on her gender, he added.

But “she came to Denver, and now we get to perform this again in Denver,” Haak said of the Crown Jewel concert. “ ere’s a real local connection happening here.”

To learn more about the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, or to purchase tickets to its Crown Jewel concert, visit denverphilharmonic. org.

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DROUGHT

from its Colorado customers.

Four electric cooperatives that buy wholesale power from Xcel Energy filed a complaint with federal regulators contending that the utility mismanaged its supplies and asked for a partial refund. Xcel Energy denies the allegation.

The cooperatives are seeking $6.3 million, but Tom Walsh, CEO of Grand Valley Power, one of four co-ops, said in Senate testimony that the cost to Xcel Energy household and small business customers could be $90 million.

“You have a terrible situation where the motivations do not line up at all with the real-world risks,” Pearl Street’s Lin said.

For the past decade Colorado natural gas customers benefited from low and stable Citygate natural gas prices of between $2 and $5 per thousand cubic feet of gas, according to EIA figures.

Gas from Colorado, Wyoming and Utah has been a bargain, selling at a discount to national prices, because there has been limited pipeline capacity to move it to other regions.

Between 2013 and 2020, rates for the Colorado Interstate Gas Company, a major source for the state, averaged 16 cents lower for a million British thermal units than the gas on the New York Mercantile Exchange, according to Mercator Energy data.

That changed with Winter Storm Uri. Since then, the Colorado Citygate price has bounced up and down, but remained above pre-Storm Uri prices.

This past winter California utilities added to the price woes with the Southern California Gas Index hitting as high as $47 for a million

Btus in January. The market pressure pulled up Colorado Interstate prices as well, lifting them $3.60 higher than the NYMEX price.

Brief moments of financial pain may become more common

That was a short-term spur to higher prices, but industry analysts say that such spikes may be increasingly common as a result of the growth of renewable generation, if natural gas is the backup, as well as severe swings in the weather.

“Renewables can do a number on gas prices because there are periods where the weather is not cooperating,” said Clark Williams-Derry, an analyst with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, which is focused on the costs of transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy.

Gas markets could also be roiled by climate change which will bring polar freezes in the winter, summer heat waves and drought, creating demand peaks. “There are complicated feedback loops now in the gas market,” WilliamsDerry said.

Given the potential swings in demand, the availability of supply and whether there is adequate pipeline capacity to deliver gas will determine whether there are price spikes, Harpole said.

“It is going to happen in these high demand winter months more and more as more non-dispatchable generation is added,” Harpole said.

To deal with these swings, Senate Bill 291 requires utilities to come up with a gas management plan that includes a cap on the monthly charge to customers. When prices are above the cap utilities will be allowed to recover that money over five years.

The plans, the bill said, could include techniques to reduce volatility such as hedging supplies,

long-term contracts and storing more gas. Xcel Energy currently hedges about 20% of its needs.

The risk in these approaches is that consumers could be stuck with higher prices when the market prices fall. It is a trade-off between a potentially higher price and certainty on costs, said Robert Kenney, CEO of Xcel Energy’s Colorado subsidiary.

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission, which regulates for-profit utilities in the state, is directed to come up with a costsharing plan between customers and their utility when prices are high.

“This makes sure that they have some skin in the game on these fuel costs,” Senate President Steven Fenberg, D-Boulder, a cosponsor of the bill, said in hearing testimony.

Part of that cost-sharing plan would be an incentive, or bonus, for a utility if they manage to keep gas costs down.

“We have an inherent incentive to purchase least cost gas, because it’s in the best interest of our customers,” Kenney said. “One could argue that you don’t need an incentive. But if there is a belief that we do need an incentive, then we want to work constructively with the commission to design it.”

Kenney said the company is already set to propose a performance incentive mechanism for natural gas this spring as part of a gas cost adjustment case before the PUC.

Can Xcel meet its own goal of being zero emissions by 2050?

The bill also calls for a study to take a hard look at future natural gas infrastructure investments, does away with a subsidy for new natural gas home hookups and makes it easier to terminate gas service.

The state has a target of cutting greenhouse gas emission 90% from 2005 levels by 2050 and it is promoting the switch from home heating and appliances powered by natural gas to those run on electricity, ideally generated from zero-emission sources such as wind and solar.

The worry, Fickling said, is that as the customer base dwindles as the state moves to electrification as part of its effort to cut emis -

sion, gas infrastructure investments will no longer pay for themselves.

“What happens when investment outpaces sales?” she asked. “That’s what we’ve seen in the last few years.”

Colorado planned to lease state land to Utah power company for a natural gas plant. Then protests surfaced.

Senate Bill 291 calls for a study to “evaluate the risk that stranded or underutilized natural gas infrastructure investments pose.”

Xcel Energy is planning $2.5 billion in new natural gas investments in Colorado by 2027, according to an April investors’ presentation.

Xcel Energy sells electricity in eight states, but the bulk of its natural gas business is in Colorado, where 1.5 million, or 72%, of its natural gas customers live.

The company does not break out gas revenue or profits by state, but based on the percustomer revenue provided in its annual report, the Colorado gas business generated about $800 million in earnings in 2022.

Xcel Energy must file a “clean heat plan” with the PUC by August to show how it will reduce emissions in its natural gas business and it also must file a gas infrastructure plan with the commission laying out its investment plans.

The two plans will show how the utility can balance its gas business and emissions reductions, Kenney said, noting the company has its own 2050 zeroemission goal.

“Natural gas does remain part of that system and we believe in maintaining options for our customers on how they heat their homes and businesses,” Kenney said. “We think that it’s going to continue to be an important part of the energy mix into the future and we have an obligation and requirement to serve existing customers.”

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What’s Working: Back and forth recession fears continue

BY TAMARA CHUANG THE COLORADO SUN

Even as the number of Coloradans ling to start a new business hit a new high this year, a “light” recession may come sooner than later, said economists from the University of Colorado during the Secretary of State’s quarterly economic update this month.

It was a week, after all, where another bank failed and the Federal Reserve increased interest rates. And it followed a recent report that the nation’s economic growth saw a signi cant slowdown in the rst quarter.

“It’s already increasing lending standards and it’s requiring the banks to be more cautious about making loans,” said Richard Wobbekind, senior economist and faculty director at the Business Research Division at CU’s Leeds School of Business. “ at could really slow down small business in particular given the types of banks we’re talking about.”

e Leeds economists have been hinting at a recession for several quarters but were pinning it to the second half of 2023. “It was somewhat of a disappointing rst quarter,” Brian Lewandowski, executive director of CU’s Business Research Division, said during the news conference ursday.

A bright spot? Consumer spending. It grew at an annual rate of 3.7%, which was better than the fourth quarter growth of 1%.

“ at’s notable because there are all of these headwinds on the consumer that we continue to be worried about, ranging from negative real wage growth to consumers facing higher in ation, taking on more debt and paying higher interest rates,” Lewandowski said. “ ese are all things that should logically point to a slowdown in consumption. But, in fact, rst quarter consumption

came in pretty strong.”

Next up is jobs and whether the slowing job growth in Colorado will improve. e state’s lagging job growth rate of 1.2% last year ranked Colorado as the second slowest state nationwide, behind West Virginia.

But the state Department of Labor and Employment said the number was likely undercounted and revisions of 17,400 are expected. at would improve Colorado’s outlook but still put the state around a 2% job growth rate last year, ranking it around 39th or 40th in the nation, Lewandowski said.

“A lot of this rests on hiring nationally,” he said. “I think what keeps us between slow growth and light recession is the pace of job growth.”

e number of job openings in the

state translates to 2.4 job openings for every unemployed Coloradan.

View the Quarterly Business & Economic Indicators 1Q 2023 report April job growth better than expected. e U.S. added 253,000 jobs in April, which beat forecasts. It was lower than the average monthly gain of 290,000 for the past six months but was unexpected considering the recent economic turmoil of the banking and tech industries. e nation’s unemployment rate came in at 3.4% for the month, down from 3.5% in March. >> NY Times

UCCS outlook on recession: Yes, no, maybe?

Translating economic data seems like a Sisyphean task and one that is most accurate in retrospect. Economist Joe Craig addressed the topic earlier this week during a public meeting for the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Economic Forum, where he serves as interim director.

“People always ask, ‘Are we going

into recession?’” Craig said. “Maybe? Probably? I don’t know. If you guys have been paying attention to my dashboard, I swear I switch every month.”

e important thing, he said, is that people have jobs.

“Do you feel like you’re in a recession if you’re still employed and you can still meet all of your bills? Probably not,” he said. “A lot of what life is about is how do you feel about it? If you have a job, if you’re working, if you’re not worried about being evicted next month, even if you are in a recession, I’d argue that most people are OK with that situation. Maybe they’re not happy. ey’re not taking all the vacations they want to take, but they’re still employed.”

El Paso County had a 2.8% unemployment rate in March, which he called “crazy low.” Unemployment rates are pretty low all over the place, including Colorado’s 2.8% and the U.S. at 3.6%. at’s showing that even though wages are up, it’s still hard for employers to hire, he said. Hence, the back and forth with the recession since more jobs show growth.

For now, data from the Pikes Peak Workforce Center is showing that there are 43,000 job openings compared to 10,000 unemployed workers in Colorado Springs. at’s four jobs for every unemployed worker. It’s the skills mismatch that causes the disconnect, so that’s why job training is a priority at the workforce center.

In Colorado Springs, the top types of job openings were registered nurses, software developers and computer workers.

“ ere’s a skills mismatch, and that’s a problem,” he said. “ e upside is we do have people who want jobs.”

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‘Who Are We?’

BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Social studies teacher Kelly Cvancier was determined to create a comprehensive curriculum that paid tribute to the dozens of women enshrined in the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame.

Cvancier teaches AP government, politics and civics for ninth graders at Bear Creek High School in Lakewood. She is also a cultural partner of National History Day Colorado, something she’s been involved with since 1995. National History Day is a nonpro t education organization that exists to improve the teaching and learning of history.

“I think holistically, our students need to be challenged by something more than a sit-and-learn experience,” Cvancier said. “We need to make education personal as well as make it relevant.”

e result of her determination is a well-researched, highly informative curriculum that the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, in partnership with the University of Colorado-Denver and the Colorado Student Leaders Institute, unveiled in March.

Called “Who Are We?,” the curriculum serves to educate people about what makes Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame inductees worthy of entering the hall, and to explain who they are. It is meant to grab the attention of, and serve as a resource for, students, teachers and anyone with an interest in Colorado history.

“It is our hope that ‘Who Are We?’ will inspire future generations to recognize the important role of women in shaping history and encourage them to become leaders in their own right,” said Barb Beckner, chair of the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, in a news release.

e curriculum is available online as a free, downloadable PDF for everyone, including schools and educators in Colorado. It is aligned to the latest set of Colorado social studies standards and includes lessons, suggested readings and project-based learning assignments for grades K-12.

“I wrote it for K-12 teachers because the lessons in the curriculum are to teach about a Colorado woman at every grade level,” Cvancier said.

Celeste Archer, who serves as the executive director of National History Day Colorado, told Cvancier

that many high school students in Colorado needed to create a capstone social studies project, speci c to Colorado, in order to graduate from high school. e curriculum can assist with such graduation capstone experiences, and can o er students of any grade level the opportunity to study an exemplar from our own state, Cvancier said.

“History makes a personal connection to each of our kids,” Cvancier said. “ ey can say, ‘oh, that person lives down the road from me. I can be like her.’ Project-based learning that is close to home is the key to engage our students.”

Additionally, through the many partnerships that National History Day has, not-for-pro t groups can have students use the relevant history of an organization to complete projects.

Wings Over the Rockies is just one of those not-forpro t groups.

“So, kids who do projects on aviators or aircraft have somewhere to go to access primary source materials,” Cvancier said.

“Who Are We” not only enables students to examine the history of women through topics of personal interest, but also provides an opportunity for any Colorado resident who does not know as much about Colorado’s roster of high-achieving women than they would like to.

“ is inspired resource shines a light on a phenomenal group of female changemakers in the state of Colorado,” Archer said in a news release, “and it provides a wonderful opportunity for Colorado students to get to know these trailblazers in the classroom, in a more meaningful way than they have ever before.”

To learn more about the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame or the “Who Are We?” curriculum, visit cogreatwomen.org.

Barb Beckner, chair of Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, left, and Celeste Archer, executive director of National History Day in Colorado, stand with a life-size version of the ‘Who Are We?’ curriculum cover.

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Will nuclear energy arrive on time and at cost?

Oliver Stone has a new movie, “Nuclear Now,” that made its Colorado debut in Boulder on May 1. In it, Stone argues that the grave risks posed by climate change require we embrace nuclear energy.

A few hours before, at a hearing in Denver, state legislators heard an even more urgent equation. “Anybody who opposes nuclear I believe is a climate denier,” an individual testi ed before the Senate Transportation and Energy Committee.

And in Pueblo that evening, city council members heard about a committee formed by Xcel Energy to study options to replace tax base, jobs, and electrical generation once the last coal plant there closes. e group will hear about nuclear.

In the background is the federal government, o ering gambling money on all sorts of decarbonization solutions, including nuclear.

People on the left and right nd common ground in support of nuclear energy, but their motivations di er. Some, like Stone, the movie-maker, are driven by the existential danger posed by climate change. Even the pleasant days of spring are spoiled by news that the carbon dioxide detector atop Mauna Loa recently rolled past 425 parts per million, up from 315 ppm in the 1950s. We’re dancing ever farther on the snow cornice, ddling with our phones in busy tra c. We’re irting

with real danger here.

Some in Colorado see nuclear energy replacing coal plants. e last coal unit at Pueblo will close no later than 2031. Xcel has guaranteed property tax revenues through 2040, but not to 2070, the original retirement date. Craig also faces giant uncertainties. Increased tourism?

“We don’t want to become sheetchangers,” one Mo at County landowner told me.

Western Montrose County, where a uranium boom occurred during the 1950s — and which lost a small coal plant in 2019, is also interested in nuclear.

HB23-1247, titled “Assess Advanced Energy Solutions in Colorado,” now awaiting the governor’s signature, will direct study of nuclear energy but also other options. All have upsides but questions marks. Green hydrogen, made from renewables and water, can store energy for use when renewables are unavailable. However, the technology remains costly. Too, some scientists question whether accidental release of hydrogen into the atmosphere will create as many problems as it solves.

Nuclear can also backup intermit-

tent renewables. Nuclear does provide 20% of U.S. electricity. We have a eet of nuclear-powered submarines. ey seem to operate without problems. But some questions remain about nuclear safety. Would you want a large-scale reactor in your town or city? I have to also wonder about nuclear technology falling into the wrong hands.

Many have been closely following the progress in Wyoming of a nuclear plant planned next to a coal plant at Kemmerer. TerraPower,  the company founded by Bill Gates in 2008, says it will require less water and produce less nuclear fuel waste while plugging nicely into old coal plants. It projects cost of $4 billion for this plant that will use Natrium technology.

WyoFile reported that while in Kemmerer during early May, Gates called it a “pioneering move,” key to the global energy future. is project is projected to be ready in in 2030. Paci Corp, a major regional power provider,  has said it could add ve more such Natrium reactors at existing coal- red plants in Wyoming and Utah.

Another potential model is assembly-line-style production of small modular reactors, lowering costs. at sounds appealing, but by de nition that model will not replace the big coal plants at Pueblo and Craig. For that matter, it does not yet exist.

Here in Colorado, I hear people with degrees in nuclear engineering ex-

press doubts about nuclear. State Sen. Chris Hansen, at the recent legislative hearing, objected to how a witness had characterized his skepticism about nuclear. “It has nothing to do with science or technology,” said Hansen, who has a degree in nuclear engineering. “It’s the cost pro le.” He cited a recent Georgia reactor that came in at $33 billion, three times the projected cost. It’s not the only example.

Chuck Kutscher got his master’s degree in nuclear engineering and worked in the nuclear sector California before turning his attention to solar in 1978 and moving to Colorado.

“New  nuclear power plants, including new U.S. reactor technologies currently under development, will likely be too expensive and take too long to build to make a signi cant contribution to climate change mitigation,” he says.

In Boulder, Oliver Stone’s movie talked little of costs. But in Pueblo, a representative of Idaho National Laboratory, speaking to a municipal energy study group, openly conceded that cost remains the million dollar question. She misplaced a comma or two in that string of zeroes, though. It’s the billion dollar question. Many billions.

Allen Best publishes Big Pivots, which chronicles the energy and water transitions in Colorado and beyond. Subscriptions are free at bigpivots.com; donations are welcomed.

Find the power of family in ‘The Oldest Boy’

When does a performer become the character they’re playing? at’s not an easy question to answer and it gets even more challenging when that performer is a puppet. But the creative minds behind Miners Alley Playhouse’s new production, “ e Oldest Boy” are more than up to that challenge.

e show tells the story of an American mother and Tibetan father whose three-year-old son is believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. And that son is brought to life on stage by a puppet.

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Ceremonies” runs at Miners Alley, 1224 Washington Ave. in Golden, through Sunday, June 11. Performances at 7:30 p.m. ursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.

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“ is allows us to play with the idea of reincarnation in a really interesting way,” said Len Matheo, director of the show and Miners Alley’s producing artistic director. “It’s a really witty, lovely show about all the separations we experience through life. And the way the puppet comes to life is absolute magic.”

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Written by Sarah Ruhl and featuring performances from Peter Trinh, Lisa DeCaro, Rob Payo, Tess Fuqua and Tim Inthavong, the show follows the family as they grapple with what to do when a Tibetan lama and a monk arrive at their home. e travelers want to take their child away for a life of spiritual training in India and the parents must decide if they can allow that or not.

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To ensure the production properly portrayed and honored Tibetan culture, Miners Alley worked with Golden’s Sherpa House Restaurant and Cultural Center and were even given traditional clothing to use as costumes.

But the bulk of the work went into the development and characterization of the puppet character. Cory Gilstrap, design and production coordinator at Imagined Designs, collaborated with artist Kamala Presswalla to make a puppet that could fully come to life on

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Editor’s note: “Paperboy” is a selection from Jerry Fabyanic’s forthcoming memoir, “Uphill into the Wind: Seizing the Day and Finding Meaning in the Ordinary.” e work will be in essay and short story format, the topics of which drawn from Jerry’s life experiences.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” So goes the uno cial motto of the United States Postal Service. e line is taken from the Greek historian, Herodotus, who wrote those words in  e Persian Wars in reference to the Persians’ system of mail delivery. Regardless, kudos to mail deliverers from the ancient Persians and our Pony Express to today’s workers.

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But postal workers take a backseat to paperboys and papergirls, the gone-with-the-ages McJob that was the entryway into the workforce for a few boys and fewer girls long before the golden arches were conceived. It’s a relic of Americana’s days of yore.

Delivering newspapers seven days a week in rain, snow or sunshine was more than a way to earn a few coins for a boy to buy candy, pop and popsicles. It was an interactive, on-the-job primer for learning and developing practical life skills. Being a paperboy was not much di erent

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from apprenticeships boys like the young Benjamin Franklin underwent.

I was a paperboy twice, the rst time at the age of nine. By the fourth grade, I was learning aspects of quality service and adopting values I hold to this day. Responsibility and punctuality were among them. When in the classroom, I tried to instill those values into my students. I would tell them, “Your job is to be on time and do your work as best you can.” To this day, I stress whenever I might be late for an engagement. I’d rather show up thirty minutes early than be ve minutes late.

At rst, I was an assistant — apprentice — of sorts to my older brother, Rich. He delivered papers to about two-thirds, the more

spread out portion, of the route. My responsibility was to deliver the papers to neighbors closer to home. Still, it was quite a chore for a skinny boy. e o -white canvas paper sack with a ame-orange shoulder strap nearly scraped the ground when I hoisted it onto my shoulder. And it caused other problems. During the summer months, I wore shorts, and the sack would rub irritatingly against my shin. And in the winter, it presented a di erent challenge if it snowed. To problem solve, I’d pull the strap over my head to my left shoulder so it would hang on my right. But on days when the edition was bulkier, even the left-shoulder solution didn’t resolve the issue. en, I simply hoisted and toted the

stage. e result is a Japanese Bunraku puppet that allows both the rest of the cast and the audience to fully immerse themselves in the momentous decision the family must make.   “ ere have been moments where just working on the blocking has made us cry,” Gilstrap said. “Something happens with puppets when performers interact with them properly. You can hear the audience gasp or applaud spontaneously.”

Performing with a puppet in a way that is believable and a ecting to the audience goes beyond using it as some kind of prop. As Gilstrap explains, it’s all about the details.   “Every motion needs to have a complete intent and there can be nothing left to chance,” he said. “It’s not just a matter of interacting with the puppet — it’s choosing moments with a character.”

e magical realism element of the puppet performance enhances “ e Oldest Boy’s”ability to provide an opportunity to investigate the power of parenthood and celebrate a culture that many may not know much about.   “I hope audiences come away touched by the mother’s journey and the erceness of her response in making sure her child is safe and loved,” Matheo said. “I also want them to get a sense of this amazing multicultural community that is right here in Golden.”

Find information and tickets at https://minersalley.com/the-oldestboy/.

Meals on wheels at annual Food Truck Carnival

e sixth annual Food Truck Carnival at E.B. Rains Jr. Memorial Park, 11800 Community Center Drive in Northglenn, provides diners with the opportunity to see rsthand just how

e carnival will be from 4 to 9 p.m. on Friday, May 19, noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 20 and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 21. Attendees will select from more than 20 trucks and can also enjoy live music, amusement rides and more. Find all the details at www.foodtruckcarnival.com.

Visit the desert with Kenzie Sitterud at PlatteForum

PlatteForum’s resident artist, Kenzie Sitterud, is tapping into the rich cultural vein of the American West with their free exhibit, “To Dusk,” which runs through June 6 at the Annex Gallery, 3575 Ringsby Court, Unit 103, in Denver.

According to provided information, “To Dusk” replicates the landscape of the Utah desert by mixing interior and exterior spaces, “natural resources and waste from acts of consumption.” Visit https://platteforum.org/events/ sitterud for full details.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Fruit Bats at the Ogden Theatre

ere’s a subtle art to making music that works best when played on a backyard patio during the summer, and on his latest album as Fruit Bats, singer/songwriter Eric D. Johnson has it gured out. Like the best of Fruit Bats, “A River Running to Your Heart” blends warmth with a wry sentimentalism that immediately makes for the project’s most welcoming release to date.

In support of the album, Fruit Bats will be stopping by the Ogden eatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver, at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 19. ey’ll be joined by electronic nostalgia explorer Kolumbo. Buy tickets at www.axs. com.

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On most Tuesdays and ursdays and some Saturdays, a team of bikers meets to explore Colorado’s network of trails.

e group connects at a co ee shop in downtown Denver. When the weather isn’t too hot, it’s after work around 4 or 5 p.m. In the dead of summer, it’s usually in the morning.

ey sip on espresso and decide where they want to ride that day. It could be on the bike lanes of Denver, the 36 Bikeway to Boulder, the Platte River Trail to Brighton or other suburbs. Most of the time, it involves a stop along the way.

“We would go down the Platte River Trail to the C 470 trail and then Krispy Kremes along there. We call it the Krispy 50. It’s a 50-mile loop,” said Ted Schultz, one of the riders in the group.

e group started after Schultz and two colleagues in his o ce space decided to start riding together after work. Schultz rode with a few others and combined the two groups.

After the ride, they go to a brewery to catch up with one another and relax after the ride.

Colorado’s network of trails

Part of the reason the group exists is due to Colorado’s extensive bike trail infrastructure. Schultz said it’s only improved in the past two decades.

“When you add up the miles of really good trails, it’s just mind-boggling,” he said.

Schultz, who grew up in Colorado, said understanding for cyclists sharing the road and building more infrastructure has vastly grown. In the 70s

and 80s, he could almost count on angry driver backlash during his rides. Now, not so much.

Much of that may be due to more focus on improving trails and streets.

e Denver Regional Council of Governments built a map that shows all the trails and bike lanes across the region. ey stretch all the way from Boulder to Clear Creek to Castle Rock.

And more may be coming. e Greenhouse Gas Planning Standard, a new rule adopted by the Transportation Commission of Colorado in December 2021, requires agencies to measure greenhouse gas emissions from transit projects, with limits on how high those emissions go.

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With bike infrastructure providing the option for drivers to ditch their cars and bike, it can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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

Emily Lindsey, active and emerging mobility program manager for DRCOG, said people are ready.

Of the 15 million daily trips in the region, 43% are less than three miles and 19% are less than one mile.  “So, super bikeable, even more so with e-bikes,” she said.

Chris Chen, one of the riders in the group, noted that some improvements are needed. Chen, who lives in Littleton, said there aren’t many bike lanes.

He said either more need to be

added or there need to be wider shoulders. He also said more education about how to share the road with bikers needs to be implemented, citing the death of Gwen Inglis in 2021.

Inglis was a national champion who was struck and killed by a driver in Lakewood.

“It’s been so long since I took the driver’s test, but I don’t know if they have incorporated anything into that,” Chen said.

He explained that it’s scary when vehicles go by fast, especially semi-trucks. e trucks, going fast enough, will push air to the side, which pushes the cyclist, but then will suck the air back in, bringing the cyclist in with it.

“If it’s really close, it’s really scary, not only the sounds of it and in the nearness of that fastmoving object, but the air actually pulling you in,” Chen said.

Compared to other places, Anthony Harvey, another member of the group, said the bike infrastructure ranks higher than the places he’s seen, including Texas, Califor-

nia and Chicago.

Benefits of riding e group ranges in age. Chen is one of the younger ones in his 40s with some of the older riders in their 60s. Meaning, biking is an activity for all abilities and ages.

Chen said he used to be a swimmer. But he didn’t like the fact he had to drive to the pool before 5 a.m. to be at practice in time.  at was too early for him, so he stopped swimming and started cycling more. Not only did it satisfy as a workout, but also was more convenient.

“I can combine commuting and exercise all together,” Chen said.  en he joined the group and it became a lot more fun. It was a way for him to make new friends, destress and get a workout. It also reminds him of his childhood.

“It’s the feeling of when you’re a little kid and you’re going fast and you’re like ‘this is awesome.’” Chen said. “It still feels like that. at sense of freedom.”

Harvey said he got into biking

after he was injured from MMA competitions and decided to switch sports. He participates in various races.

“I was able to actually race with bikes and can also stay t,” he said.

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ts of friendship

While the biking brings the group together, the camaraderie keeps them pedaling. Schultz, Chen and Harvey all talked about the importance of keeping up with each other, not just on the trail.

Each friend rides on their own and sees the bene ts of being alone. But with the group, they push each other to go faster and further and gives a chance to connect over a topic each is passionate about.

After each ride, they stop at a brewpub or a bar, with Chen’s recommendation for one with a food truck.

“ at’s when we can catch up on trips and things happening with the family and what new gadgets people have,” Chen said. “ at kind of stu .”

Ted Schultz points to the numerous bikes he has accumulated over the years.

Ted Schultz’s ‘cargo’ bike that he often takes to work and to run errands.

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Rocky Mountain National Park entry fees to go cashless

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Make sure to pack your credit or debit card along with your hiking boots if you’re visiting Rocky Mountain National Park this summer. e park will stop accepting cash payments for entrance and permit fees starting June 1.

e change will allow one of the country’s busiest national parks to cut back on time rangers spend handling cash at crowded entry gates, according to a release from the National Park Service. It will also help streamline fee management behind the scenes.

You can still purchase a number of entry passes at one of the park’s main gates with cards or mobile payment options. But, if you want to speed up your entry, NPS o cials recommend buying one online before your visit along with a separate timed-entry permit, which is required from May 26 through Oct. 22.

Visitors can still buy park entrance passes with cash at a few locations outside of the park, according to NPS. ey include the Rocky Mountain Conservancy Nature Store at Beaver Meadows and the Fall River or Kawuneeche Visitor Centers.

Here’s what to know before heading to the park:

What type of passes are available?

e NPS o ers over a dozen di erent types of passes to get into Rocky.

One-day vehicle passes cost $30 and cover non-commercial vehicles with less than 16 passengers. You can also buy one-day passes for entry by bike or foot. Seven-day passes are also an option.

If you’re planning to visit multiple national parks this year, you can buy an annual pass that covers admission to all parks in the system for $80. You can buy those online or in-person. Seniors, veterans and students

can also get special passes for free or reduced rates.

What about camping?

e NPS says it’s also going completely cashless for payments and fees associated with campgrounds inside of Rocky starting June 1.

Overnight visitors must make reservations online ahead of time for most campsites. Timed-entry permits are included with all camping reservations.

Are stores inside the park also going cashless?

e cashless switch only applies to entry and permit fees, according to the NPS.

Rocky has a small, conveniencelike store and a co ee shop, which will both still accept cash.

How do I get a timed-entry permit?

Rocky is implementing another iteration of its timed-entry program this summer to help manage crowds, which means you’ll need to snag a free permit prior to your visit. A timed-entry permit is required for everyone entering the park between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. between late May and October.

ere are two di erent types of timed-entry permits.

A regular Park Access permit gets you access to most areas of the park outside of the popular Bear Lake Road Corridor.

A Park Access+ entry permit includes access to Bear Lake Road, as well as other areas of Rocky. Are other Colorado national parks going cashless?

Yes, Mesa Verde National Park and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument will go cashless this summer, according to the NPS. Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site in southeast Colorado will also go cashless.

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One of the rst things I intuitively learned was the importance of getting to know your clientele. As a nine-year-old, I did not have an understanding of such a lofty business practice. But I quickly discovered which were more lighthearted and friendly types and which were grumpy or fussy. at was critical because my total income, given that I earned only a penny and a half for each daily paper and ve cents for the Sunday paper, was heavily dependent on tips.

With coaching from Rich, I developed good business practices. Like being punctual, keeping the newspaper dry, and putting it in a safe location like inside a storm door or a milk box. (Remember those?) e former one — opening the storm door and tossing the newspaper inside — got me into scrapes with several furry, four-pawed creatures. e worst one was with Doh-Doh.

Doh-Doh was my friend Pete’s family pet. He, not Pete, was a rat terrier. And he was mean. He’s the only dog I was bitten by. It happened right after I pulled the storm door open as I had many times before. e little demon was lying in wait. He sprang. Four years later when I had the paper route to myself, the scenario repeated itself. Except that time, I got mild revenge. We both had aged, but he in dog years and I boy years. I had gotten bigger and stronger and he was declining. One afternoon, he was lying listlessly by the door when I pulled it open. He raised his head in halfhearted recognition, and the anger I had felt resurfaced. I stared at him for a second then tossed the paper nearly on top of him. I suppose I should feel guilty for or regret doing it. But I don’t.

I experienced a few tense situations with bigger dogs including a German shepherd, collie and Doberman pinscher. But while they got raucous, I never felt threatened by them. After a while, the German

shepherd and collie got used to me. ey’d grouse, but mainly to remind me who was in charge. Not so much with the Doberman pinscher. I would tread lightly when I entered his yard. He never was loose, so that wasn’t a problem. But he would sometimes be lying languidly inside the porch gate. When he saw me, he would rise up on all fours and, with his head overhanging the gate and slobber running from his jowls, let me know in no uncertain terms he wasn’t happy I intruded into his yard. When that happened, the newspaper didn’t get onto the porch.

Being a paperboy opened a new world for me in terms of not only getting to know people but also about people. For the most part, my customers were wonderful and kind. But that commonality ended when it came to their quirks and personalities. Some like Mrs. Frye, whose yard was fenced to keep her dogs contained, were engaging. She had a paperbox at the gate into which I would slide her newspaper. On collection day, I would stand at the gate and call, “Mrs. Frye!” She would soon tootle out, often in her slippers, and hand me the week’s payment along with a tip. I can still picture her in her bright owery-print house dresses and red hair pulled back in a bun. She was a chatterer. I loved it, and it taught me another skill: how to talk con dently with an adult.

Mr. Mori was one of my favorites. Each summer he grew enormous tomato plants in his backyard garden. When the tomatoes were ripening, I would stu a salt shaker in my pocket because he was routinely working in the garden when I showed up. And when he saw me coming, he’d pick a big juicy one just for me. After delivering to a dozen houses after Mr. Mori’s, I would stop at the neighborhood grocery store run by Mr. “Happy” Yeager and snag a bottle of Pepsi to wash down the salt. After dropping a nickel into the pop machine’s money slot, I would sh one out and pop the top o with the opener attached to the cooler. To this day, there’s still nothing like a salted juicy tomato chased by an ice-cold Pepsi, albeit zero sugar

Mrs. Hartsfeld was one of  my sweetest customers. One snowy Friday when I was collecting, she was surprised to see me with no boots and wearing ratty cotton gloves. I explained to her the boots I inherited from my older brothers had holes in the heels so were not very e ective for keeping snow out and it was pointless to buy another pair because I would outgrow them within a year. But the primary truth, which I didn’t tell her, was that we couldn’t a ord them. So I just tripled-layered my socks, which helped keep my feet fairly warm and dry until I got through my route. As for the gloves, they did okay. My hands had toughened from making and heaving snowballs with bare hands. But the next week when I showed up to collect, she had a pair of new gloves for me.

en there was Mr. Stankiewicz. I met him only once because his wife had always paid me. When he answered the door, he had a serious look on his face.

“What do you want?” he asked gru y as he towered over me.

His voice and demeanor were intimidating. “I’m collecting for the newspaper,” I shyly answered.

“Newspaper, huh. Which one?”

“ e Pittsburgh Press, sir.”

“Press, huh. How much is it?”

I felt my voice quivering. “Sixtyseven cents, sir.”

“ at seems like a lot. Why is it so much?”

“Well sir, it’s seven cents for the daily paper and twenty- ve cents for the Sunday.”

“Okay,” he said as he nodded his head. He stuck his hand inside his trouser pocket and shook it. I could hear change jingling in it. It drew my attention. My eyes focused on it. He smiled mischievously. “I’ll tell you what. I’ll pay you sixty-seven cents, or you can have all the coins in my pocket. If it is less than sixty-seven cents, you lose. If more, you win. Wadda ya say?”

I pursed my mouth as I stared at his pocket with the jingling coins. My eyes lit up in anticipation, and I drooled as I imagined hitting the jackpot. I regained my resolve, looked him squarely in his eye, and sti ened my jaw.

“Okay. I’ll take what you have in your pocket.”

He grinned widely and pulled out the change. It was a handful.

“Smart kid, Hold out your hand.”

I cupped both eagerly as he dropped a cache of nickels, dimes, and quarters, into them. “You’ll go far,” he laughed as he did. Later, I gured it was well over three dollars since I kept a running total in my head about the amount of tips I collected.

Tips were, like they are for many service workers today, the lifeblood of my income. at was compounded at Christmas. Almost everyone gave me a card with a buck or two in it. A few times I’d hit the jackpot with a ve-dollar bill. Most of it went

into my rst savings account my mother helped me open at the Pittsburgh National Bank branch in the Miracle Mile Shopping Center. I still remember handing my earnings to Mrs. Williams, the teller with white hair and big glasses. She always would tell me how proud she was of me as she entered the amount into my savings account booklet.

Not all of my customers were engaging. In fact, there were a few I never met. I just knew they got the newspaper and would faithfully leave what they owed me, most often with a tip, in an envelope inside their storm door or paperbox. At rst I thought it was creepy, but I came to understand that some people were very private or mysteriously reclusive, and that was okay.

I had one customer, though, who taught me what a deadbeat was. Mrs. “Bond” got the Sunday paper only. When I took over the route, she would leave me a dollar—no tip— for a month’s payment inside the door. One month the money wasn’t there. I gave it a couple of weeks, but still no money. e next Sunday, early in the morning, I knocked on her door. No answer. I left the paper but decided to give her one more chance. e following Sunday, I knocked again. Still no answer. at time I had written a note, which I left with the paper, saying she was two months behind and that I needed two dollars the following Sunday. at next Sunday, no money, so I left no paper. Nor did I deliver one for the next couple of weeks.

Finally, my route manager, John, asked me why I wasn’t delivering her a paper. Apparently, she called and complained. I explained why. He said I had to deliver her a paper. I said I wouldn’t until she paid up. I told him it wasn’t right or fair and that I had given her several chances. We were at a standstill, but I stood my ground. It was an early lesson in having the courage to stand up for my principles. Finally, he agreed to give me credit for the money she owed. I started delivering to her again on the condition that she paid me on time. For the rest of the time I had the route, the money was inside the door.

When I muse about those days, many images come to mind that at the time seemed eeting or incidental. A rich one is heading out shortly after dawn on a summer Sunday morning with fog slightly layered over the neighborhood, sloshing through dewy grass, and bushwacking between trees and shrubs as webs strung through the night brushed across my face. I can still smell the sweetness and hear the stillness. As a nascent teenager, I wasn’t conscious about morning energies, but I now realize that I was already intuiting something profound.

I picture that big-eared kid with stringy brown hair wearing cuto jeans for shorts, a T-shirt, and dirty

white canvas sneakers with tapedtogether eyeglasses sitting crookedly atop his nose trooping along with an o -white canvas sack hanging from his shoulder and a wire connecting his ear to a transistor radio tuned into KQV and grooving to the Four Seasons and Beach Boys. And when I do, I o er gratitude to the Universe for having been blessed by having that opportunity.

My life has been spent in peopleoriented jobs that began with delivering newspapers. Today, as an

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essayist and an author of literary ction, I focus on the human psyche: Why people do what they do. It was as a paperboy I began learning those dynamics. And the lessons I learned are a rmed today. Yes, there are deadbeats, losers, and mean, unpleasant people and dogs, but for each of them, there are countless others of friendly, well-intentioned, caring, and compassionate people and playful pooches.

In a wondrous way, my customers were more than neighbors. ey became my personal community, a virtual extended family. Growing up without one, I used to wonder about how cool it would be if I had a dad like Mr. Mori. And in hindsight, Mr.

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Stankiewicz, a crazy uncle, and Mrs. Hartsfeld, a caring aunt.

In that era, paperboys, as they had from the early days of mass circulation of newspapers, lled an essential role. People depended on and trusted them to get them the news. I’m proud to have been one and to be in the lineage of that rich tradition. It’s sad seeing that era having come to a close. It was an opportunity for a kiddo to begin learning about the world beyond his ken and transitioning from childhood dependency to an independent adult. But there was more, a necessary component for a boy: It was fun.

It was fun largely because I knew I was growing up and had responsi-

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bilities beyond my home. And it set the tenor for my approach to every job I would have thereon: take it seriously but have fun while doing it.

Of all the wondrous aspects of being a paperboy, it was getting to know people and dogs up close and personal that made it the most fun. Which makes me wonder: How many postal workers today can still make that claim?

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

Food justrice programs struggle to survive post pandemic

BY MONTE WHALEY THE COLORADO SUN

A handful of volunteers stooped over a gray patch of soil at FrontLine Farming in Arvada, grooming the stubborn dirt with rakes to prepare for spring planting. Potatoes, onions, greens and root vegetables will be put in the ground later this spring to feed low-income families in the metro area.

Nearby, a small group of chickens clucked against the harsh winds rattling their pen. Bees will soon populate vacant hives and start producing honey, adding to FrontLine Farming’s stockpile of fresh food the 2-acre organic farm provides to struggling households at the edge of the economic abyss.

Frontline Farming is more than just a name, executive director and co-founder Fatuma Emmad said. Many families see FrontLine as the first and last resort for sustaining their families.

“We are the stewards of the soil and part of that is to provide food for people who are struggling now with food security,” Emmad said. “Inflation is causing people to come to us and say, ‘Oh my God, it is just getting harder and harder.’

“And we will be there for them,” she said. FrontLine Farming produced 120

different crops in 2022, including varieties grown from organic, heirloom and climate-adjusted seeds. In all, the farm served 15,000 pounds of food to 195 families or 563 people, Kasey Neiss, the farm’s data activist and systems manager, said in an email.

The farm’s 16-week Community Supported Agriculture initiative offered vegetables and flowers from its three farm sites, as well as meats from Wild Boyd Farm in Matheson and mushrooms from Sugar Moon Mushrooms in Bennett.

At least 13 families last season paid for their CSA share with federal SNAP — Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — benefits and received discounted prices through the Double Up Food Bucks program, Neiss said. Sixty families received their CSA share at no cost through the federal Women, Infants and Children produce incentive program.

Neiss said 20% of the farm’s produce was given to food pantries, food shares and food-insecure communities. FrontLine Farming workers also helped file 298 SNAP applications in Denver, Jefferson, Adams and Arapahoe counties, she said.

Advocates say SNAP and the Double Up Food Bucks program, which allows SNAP participants to get up to $20 a day more to buy Colorado-grown fruits and vegetables, helped keep families afloat during the pandemic.

But in 2023, both programs that helped keep families fed while they

grappled with cutbacks caused by the pandemic are now diminished or in danger of being halted altogether due to shrinking funds.

In March, emergency SNAP benefits were cut to pre-pandemic levels meaning that an estimated 540,000 low-income families in Colorado collected on average $90 less per month than in the previous two years, advocates say. For a family of four, that amounts to about $360 a month less they can spend on food, according to a news release from U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo, a Thornton Democrat.

Citing statistics from the Colorado Department of Human Services, Caraveo’s office said roughly 77% of SNAP enrollees in the state are working families, people with disabilities or older people with fixed incomes. More than half of Colorado’s SNAP households include children.

Meanwhile, a $5 million, fiveyear federal grant used to offer incentives to farmers and retailers to continue the Double Up program through the summer is drying up.

Caraveo in April introduced a bill to extend the SNAP benefits passed in the early COVID-19 relief package. The “Keeping Families Fed Act” has no co-sponsors in Congress, but is earning support from food advocates, who say after the March cutoff more hungry fami-

SNAP monthly allotments decreased in March.

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‘We are the stewards of the soil and part of that is to provide food for people who are struggling now with food security. Inflation is causing people to come to us and say, ‘Oh my God, it is just getting harder and harder. And we will be there for them.’

Fatuma Emmad, Frontline Farming executive director and co-founder

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lies are looking to food banks and other resources for help.

The enhanced SNAP benefits allowed families to buy healthier foods and to feed their families in difficult times, Hunger Free Colorado CEO Marc Jacobson said in the Caraveo news release. “Our community members report they are now skipping meals, no longer able to purchase healthy foods and having to make tough choices between food and other necessities,” he said.

Wendy Peters Moschetti, executive director of Nourish Colorado, a group seeking to increase food access across the state, said the nonprofit is applying to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for another $5 million grant that may arrive in October.

Nourish is meanwhile asking

donors to raise $500,000 for the Double Up program to keep it running through the summer. “These grants are intended to be received several times — one after the other — so we feel good about our chances, but we just need to get through the summer,” Moschetti said via email.

In an email to prospective donors, Moschetti said the additional $500,000 will help keep Nourish from pausing the Double Up program. “These funds will cover incentives for 2023 to help us sustain Double Up without interruptions or cancellations — which we have unfortunately already seen happen in other states.”

High inflation is one of the factors driving up the cost of the program but the most pressing issue is the loss of the pandemicera emergency SNAP benefits, she said in another email. ”Double Up will not be halted — but if we cannot meet the demand, the program may need to be limited or paused

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for a certain amount of time at some partner locations.”

Michigan — where the Double Up program began nearly 15 years ago — has had to pause the program at some partner sites, Moschetti said, “as in limit how much could be spent at their sites and/or limit the months they could offer Double Up.”

Colorado’s Double Up Food Bucks program is modeled after the Fair Food Network in Michigan, which began at five farmers markets in Detroit in 2009 and has grown to more than 150 sites across Michigan.

Colorado boasts 76 sites where Food Bucks can be used; most are farmers markets and farm stands, although there are a few permanent stores, Daysi Sweaney, director of healthy food incentives for Nourish, said via email.

They include Zuma Natural Foods in Mancos, Wild Gal’s Market in Nucla, Save A Lot stores in Colorado Springs, Greeley and

Pueblo, City Park Farmers Market in Denver and the Boulder County Farmers Markets.

Nourish added a few new partners this year but not as many as hoped, Sweaney said.

“We had over 100 applications for this season but could not accept them all due to the uncertainty of funding,” she said. “We want to make sure we can keep all our current partners funded for the rest of the year.”

Expansion is definitely a priority, Sweaney said, and Nourish wants to bring the Food Bucks program to other areas of Colorado where there is a high need.

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Stories from a horrific era in history

BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Paul Galan has vivid memories. He remembers the numerous beatings he took in school because Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler were determined to wipe out Jews. He remembers Jewish stores being looted. He remembers Jewish families being kicked out of their homes, often put on trains bound to concentration camps.

Galan, 87, who came to the United States in 1951, was born in Czechoslovakia. He is a Holocaust survivor.

“I have vivid memories of the whole experience: The separation, the family, some really horrible experiences,” Galan said. “I just had to deal with it. I dealt with it as an adult, not as a child, and put it all into perspective.”

Today, Galan travels extensively to give pro bono presentations about antisemitism and what his family went through before somehow trickling back to their home, one by one, as World War II wound down.

Galan has been giving talks since 2006, when he retired from a career of making documentary films. He’s traveled across the U.S. — even as far as Alaska — to deliver his message.

“I’ve traveled with students to Poland and Israel six times,” Galan said.

One such talk took place on April 19 at Denver’s RedLine Contemporary Art Center. Galan spoke in

bers.

Galan’s talk was part of the 42nd annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance program. The Anti-Defamation League served as program convener, its 42nd year in that role.

Amer Randell, who teaches a Holocaust history class at RiseUp Community High School, helped arrange Galan’s talk in Denver.

“As a history teacher for more than two decades, there is nothing that can parallel learning from a primary source, especially from a person who lived this horrific era in our history,” Randall said.

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“I hope it gave (the students) a greater sense of empathy for something that happened to a fellow human being — feeling ‘othered,’ the feeling of extreme fear and cruelty — juxtaposed with his belief that all people can be good or bad, not to hate.”

Galan told about going to a forced labor camp, and waking up one morning to the news that the camp had been liberated. He described the long journey he and his family took, on foot, into the mountains in unstable weather in attempts to escape the Nazis.

There were times when Galan’s family, desperate for a good night’s sleep and a long way from home, wound up sleeping in the same room as German soldiers who

didn’t suspect that they were Jews. Somehow, they got through those times undetected.

He recalled that when his family received permission to change their last name so that they wouldn’t be suspected to be Jewish, his antisemitic teacher announced the name change in class, then turned around and stayed that way while several students beat up Galan.

“I spent my whole life recalling terrible things,” Galan said. “But I put it into perspective, with the rest of my life, that I wanted to do something useful. I decided I was going to teach young people.”

And the reactions he gets from young people, he said, “are just amazing.”

Paul Galan, 87, a Holocaust survivor, tells his story during an April 19 presentation at Denver’s RedLine Contemporary Art Center.

Paul Galan, a Holocaust survivor, addresses a crowd of about 170 community members and students during a presentation part of the 42nd annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance program.

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Local Republicans say trust in media has declined

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As Colorado Community Media reporters Nina Joss and McKenna Harford embarked on their investigation of issues facing the Republican party in Colorado, they were met with notable hesitancy and resistance from many potential sources.

One 2022 county race candidate, two county GOP leaders, four voters and Rep. Brandi Bradley of Douglas County all declined to interview for the story or did not respond to requests for comment.

Of these, three explicitly pointed to distrust in the media as their reason for declining.

A 2021 survey by the Pew Research Center shows that only 35% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they have “a lot” or “some” trust in the information that comes from national news organizations.

According to the Knight Foundation, trust in local news also declined in the party from 2019-2021. is distrust, in addition to causing potential sources to decline interviews, created hesitancy in others who did end up participating in the reporting process.

Suzanne Taheri, formerly Suzanne Staiert, served as the Arapahoe County GOP Chair from 2021 until 2023. When

Joss reached out to Taheri to request an interview, she initially declined, pointing to a disagreement with Colorado Community Media in the past.

After a meeting with CCM South Metro Editor elma Grimes, Taheri agreed to interview for the story because she started to believe the planned article was not a “hit piece” as she had originally suspected.

“(Grimes) said, ‘I mean, we’re actually … trying to do a legitimate story,’” Taheri said. “I think that, had it been a hit piece, you probably would have just moved on to nd your next target.”

In Taheri’s eyes, trust in the media among Republicans is weak. When Donald Trump entered the national scene, Taheri said the media became even more polarized and separation between “journalists and pundits,” which was already blurry, disappeared.

“Some (journalists) tried or successfully put aside any biases they had and just reported the facts,” she said. “Now, that just doesn’t sell. And so when you say ‘trust in the media,’ you’re saying ‘trust in a pundit,’ which is completely di erent than trusting journalism.”

Although local media tends to be seen as more trustworthy than national news outlets, local journalists can still help improve trust by “sticking together and kicking everyone else out of the pool,” she said.

Anne Rowland, Taheri’s successor,

was also uncertain about participating in the story until a colleague told her that Joss had quoted a source correctly in the past.

“I didn’t answer (your call) at rst on purpose because I wanted to nd out who you were and should I trust you and give you the time to speak to you,” she said to Joss. “My job’s already hard enough without somebody else making it hard.”

“I think there is a very big distrust of the media, particularly from Republicans,” she said. “And it’s not just the stories that get put out, but there are stories that are not put out.”

To move forward, Rowland thinks journalists need to build relationships.

“I think you need to sit down, have a cup of co ee, and build a relationship,” she said. “And then be fair in how you report it.”

Kevin Edling, who ran for Arapahoe County sheri against Democrat Tyler Brown in 2022, said all media, including local media, should get back to the “baseline of reporting facts and not reaching conclusions for the reader or for the viewer.”

“I know that the American public is smart enough to come up with their own conclusions,” he said.

As the Republican Party works on getting its message out to voters, Edling said being able to work with members of the media is important.

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“It doesn’t matter if I disagree with (a reporter) or I agree with (a reporter),” he said. “I should always have a relationship with the media. It’s important. is is what people read, this is what people view and this is what people listen to.”

Documentary lmmaker Don Colacino documented Joss and Harford’s reporting process for this story as part of his upcoming lm about trust in news. e trailer and more information on the lm, Trusted Sources, are available at https://www.trustdoc lm. com/.

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Golden captures 3rd straight 4A Je co League title

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

GOLDEN — Ace pitcher Laif Palmer — 6-foot-6 hard-throwing righty — lifted the Class 4A Je co League baseball championship plaque high above his celebrating teammates May 13 on Golden’s home diamond.

“I just feel great right now about winning that league championship,” Palmer said after his shutout performance on the hill against Green Mountain in an 11-0 victory in ve innings. “It feels good to be on top, sweeping everyone in Je co. It gives us a lot of momentum going into playo s for sure.”

Golden completed a 9-0 conference record in 4A Je co with a dominating 11-0 victory in 5 innings over Green Mountain (15-8, 7-2). It’s the third straight league title for the Demons that have a 31-2 conference record of the last three seasons.

“100 percent,” Golden coach Jackie McBroom said when asked if he liked the way his Demons (19-4, 9-0) nished o winning the league title in a winner-take-all situation. “Green Mountain is a good baseball team. Winning 11-0, we did a great job. It was an all around great game.”

After Palmer worked around a rst-inning leado walk to keep the Rams o the scoreboard, Palmer’s battery mate jumpstarted the Demons’ o ense in a big way in the

bottom of the rst inning.

Senior catcher Noah Wicks belted a solo home with two outs to start what would be a 4-run rally all with two outs o Green Mountain starting junior pitcher Jackson Prosser.

“I was just trying to get on base so we could let Jaydo (Jaydon Hord) and Braeden (McCarroll) do their job and score me in somehow,” Wick

said. “Turns out I hit a home run, which was really helpful. I think that changed the game for us.”

Wicks extended his school record of home runs in a single season with a dozen with the blast over the center eld fence.

“I was excepting to hit three or four,” Wicks said of his power numbers heading into the season. “Over

the o -season I worked hard and got my swing dialed in. It has helped me out tremendously.”

e bottom of the rst inning kept going with back-to-back walks to Hord and McCarroll. Sophomore Luca Casali looped an RBI double down the left- eld line to score Hord. Senior Daine Hart hit a deep y ball to left eld that looked to be caught, but was dropped to allow two more Demons runs to give Golden an early 4-0 lead.

“I didn’t want (Green Mountain) to feel they were in the baseball game,” McBroom said. “We wanted to put it on them as quick as we can and take the momentum of the game. We wanted to set the tone early.”

e Rams were coming o a pair of huge come-from-behind league victories against D’Evelyn and Evergreen to get in position to grab the conference title away from the Demons.

However, after a 1-2-3 inning by Palmer in the top of the second inning the Demons batted around in the bottom of the second. Junior Kohei Shimada started the inning with a single and would score on a wild pitch. Hord, Casali and Hart all knocked in runs to give Golden a 9-0 lead.

“Luca was huge for us,” Wicks said of Casali’s two RBI hits in the rst

Orediggers conclude baseball season at conference tournament

Mines falls to Regis, No. 1 Colorado Mesa in 2023’s

games

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

While the Orediggers would’ve preferred playing a few more games, at least they ended their 2023 season challenging the No. 1 team in the nation.

e Colorado School of Mines baseball team exited the RMAC tournament May 11, after losing its rst two games. Overall, the Orediggers nished their season with a 22-25 record.

Mines faced Regis the May 10 opener, where the Rangers came back from a six-run de cit to win 8-7 with a ninth-inning walk-o . After this rst loss, Mines was slated to play No. 1 Colorado Mesa on the Mavericks’ home eld.

On May 11, the Mavs were up

4-1 at the top of the fth, when the Orediggers got a second run in. However, both defenses prevented the other team from scoring again, and Colorado Mesa won 4-2, bringing the curtain down on Mines’ 2023 season.

Still, the RMAC tournament offered a few highlights for the Orediggers, especially the departing seniors.

Senior Kevin Zapanta, who was recently named RMAC Pitcher of the Year, had struck out 12 Regis batters with three walks in the rst seven innings. Overall, he ended his career with 193 strikeouts, which is the fth-most in program history.

After Zapanta left the mound, fellow senior Blake Ripp took over and closed out the game for the Orediggers.

Meanwhile, at the plate against the Rangers, senior Adam Houghtaling went 3-for-5 with one home run, three runs and three runs batted in. His homer was his eighth of the

Golden senior Laif Palmer holds the Class 4A Je co League baseball plaque after throwing a complete-game, shutout victory against Green Mountain on May 13 at Golden High School. Palmer had nine strikeouts in five innings of work in the 11-0 victory for the Demons.

PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Colorado School of Mines senior Adam Houghtaling (15) celebrates scoring against Regis during the May 10 conference tournament game at Colorado Mesa. Regis won the game 8-7 with a ninth-inning walk-o .

PHOTO COURTESY OF MINES ATHLETICS

Late penalty-kick goal lifts Golden over No. 3 Green Mountain

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

LAKEWOOD — Golden junior Emi Beer buried a penalty kick with 1 minute, 46 seconds remaining to give the Demons the biggest upset in the second round of the Class 4A girls soccer state tournament.

No. 14-seeded Golden defeated rival and No. 3 Green Mountain 2-1 on May 13 at Lakewood Memorial Field. e Demons (11-6 record) advanced to the 4A quarter nals where they travel to North eld High School for a 6:30 p.m. game Tuesday, May 16, (after press deadline) against the No. 6 Nighthawks.

“I’m excited,” Beer said of the Demons heading into the quarter nals as the lone doubledigit seed remaining. “It will be interesting. I think we are good to go all the way.”

Golden senior Megan Logue was a huge reason why the rematch of the 4A Je co League game didn’t go overtime. Beer sent a long pass ahead to Logue who was able to run it down and then get tripped up in Green Mountain’s goalie box.

“Megan is going to run. She is going to work so hard. at (penalty kick) was well deserved because of the hard work she did,” Golden coach Luke Burgard said. “A lot of people wouldn’t be able to get to that

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two innings to help push the lead to 9-0. “He wasn’t a starter at the beginning of the season. e last three or four games he has been starting and has been huge for us.”

Green Mountain senior John Lord Jr. broke up Palmer’s no-hit bid in the third inning, but Palmer racked up his sixth strikeout to end the threat.

ball, but she did.”

e Demons were awarded a penalty kick that Beer tucked into the low right corner of the net.

“She (Beer) was the one and she stepped up and buried it,” Burgard said of Beer’s shot that got past Green Mountain junior goalie Taya Olguin in the 79th minute.

Green Mountain senior Sidney Weigel, who scored the Rams’ lone goal in the 33rd minute of the rst half, put some serious pressure minutes before the Demons’ go-ahead goal.

“It got really hectic toward the end. I think we started stressing out and just beating the ball, but we were able to settle it down,” Beer said.

Golden su ered a 3-0 loss against Green Mountain in conference play in snowy conditions at the North Area Athletic Complex on April 27. e Demons got up on the Rams early with a great run by junior Sophia Nickel for a Golden goal in the 4th minute.

“It gave us the upper-hand and I think it gave us the energy to keep going too,” Beer said of the goal in the 4th minute by Nickel.

Weigel tied things up 1-1 late in the rst half with a perfectly placed direct free kick from outside the Demons’ goalie box

that sailed just out of reach of Golden freshman goalie Zoe Schroder.

ere weren’t many great scoring chances in the second half until Logue drew the penalty kick in the nal minutes.

“Green Mountain is absolutely a fantastic team, but on our day I believe we can beat anybody in the state,” Burgard said. “ e girls showed up today and did the little things right because of that we walked away victorious.”

e Rams (13-4) had their 7-game win streak snapped and season come to an end with the loss. Green Mountain’s 13 wins was the most for the program since the 2014 season when the Rams advanced to the 4A state semi nals.

“It was awesome to get a second chance,” Beer said of the rematch in the postseason against Green Mountain. “Just to show them how we can play and not in bad weather. We are here to play against the top teams.”

If Golden can score another upset victory in the state quarter nals, it would face the allJe co quarter nal — Evergreen vs Dakota Ridge — in the state semi nals ursday, May 18 at Trailblazer Stadium in Lakewood.

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

winning streak heading into the playo s.

Palmer worked around singles by senior Jacob Barmore, sophomore Caden Kelly and Lord in the nal two innings to keep the shutout in tact. Palmer has pitched completegame victories in his last three starts against D’Evelyn, Evergreen and Green Mountain and has 92 strikeouts on the season in 52 innings pitched.

McCarroll gave the Demons a double-digit lead with a 2-run single with two outs o Lord who had come in relief on the mound in the second inning for the Rams.

“I think we are playing our best baseball right now,” McBroom said. “ e thing that I’m happy about is on the backend of our schedule we’ve had a pretty competitive schedule. Every game has meant something for a while, so I’m happy about that.”

Over the last two weeks, Golden swept 2-game sets against D’Evelyn and Evergreen before facing rival Wheat Ridge and then ending the regular season against Green Mountain. e Demons are on a 16-game

“As far as I’m concerned he is,” McBroom said of Palmer being the best pitcher in the state. “I know when he is on I don’t know if there is anybody else better in the state of Colorado.”

Golden — No. 4 in the CHSAA Selection & Seeding Index — can turn its attention to the regional tournament that the Demons will host this week starting on either Friday or Saturday, May 19 or 20.

“I would say regionals is a little bit more stressful,” Wicks said of comparing the single-elimination format for regionals to the doubleelimination format for state.

Two victories in regionals will advance Golden to the 8-team doubleelimination state tournament that begins Friday, May 26.

“We have been just doing our jobs,” Palmer said of the Demons’

feeling good to go. I feel electric.” Dennis Pleuss is the sports information director for Je co Public Schools. For more Je co coverage, go to CHSAANow.com.

Green Mountain senior Sofia Scaturro (5) and Golden senior Megan Logue (15) both go up for a header during the first half of the Class 4A second-round state playo game May 13 at Lakewood Memorial Field. Logue drew a penalty shot in the final minutes that junior Emi Beer scored with 1:46 left in regulation-time to give Golden a 2-1 victory and berth into the state quarterfinals.

PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

TOURNAMENT

season and 22nd of his career, which is tied for eighth in Mines history.

Graduate student Garret Nielsen also had a two-run homer in the fth inning, helping give the Orediggers a 6-0 lead. For the 2023

season, it was his 14th home run and his 61st runner batted in. Against the Mavericks, Houghtaling had another single in four at-bats, and graduate student Caden Bonds got a single with an RBI. Nielsen got the second runner home in the fth inning.

A few Orediggers are expected to receive end-of-season awards and honors. For the latest news, visit MinesAthletics.com.

FROM PAGE 26

Colorado School of Mines freshman Alex Honeyman pitches against Colorado Mesa during the May 11 conference tournament game at Mesa. The Mavericks won 4-2, ending the Orediggers’ 2023 season. COURTESY OF MINES ATHLETICS

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COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300075

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

On March 9, 2023, 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)

Christopher C Delude

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MEGASTAR FINANCIAL CORP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

October 02, 2019

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 03, 2019

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or

Book/Page No.)

2019092318

Original Principal Amount

$205,214.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$196,090.36

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 338, BLOCK 1, MADISON HILL SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

5771 W 92Nd Ave 338, Westminster, CO 80031.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/29/2023 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: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

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: 03/09/2023

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

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

N. April Winecki #34861

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

Attorney File # 23-029419

and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

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

Attorney File # CO11058

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. J2300059

First Publication: 4/27/2023

Last Publication: 5/25/2023

216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710

Attorney File # 23CO00038-1

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice No. J2300076

First Publication: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

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

Attorney File # CO-23-953506-LL

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

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Legal Notice NO. J2300062

First Publication: 4/27/2023

Last Publication: 5/25/2023

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

On February 23, 2023, 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) Domer S. Kilgore and Kim M. Kilgore

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Live Well Financial, Inc., its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC Date of Deed of Trust

October 26, 2015

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 30, 2015

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

2015116498

Original Principal Amount $505,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $162,553.80

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: You are notified as follows: the undersigned, on behalf of the Holder, gives notice and declares a violation of the covenants of said Deed of Trust including, but not limited to the failure to pay the debt in full following the death of the Borrowers. The Holder elects to foreclose and demands that the Public Trustee give notice, publish for sale and sell said property to pay the debt and expenses of sale, all as provided by law and the terms of said Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 7, Block 4, Sunland Hills, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as:

7490 Teller 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, 06/15/2023 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: 4/27/2023

Last Publication: 5/25/2023

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: 02/23/2023

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.

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300076

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

On March 9, 2023, 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)

Aberdeen Homes, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Capital Fund I, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Capital Fund REIT, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

July 08, 2022

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 11, 2022

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

2022065714

Original Principal Amount

$437,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$406,250.00

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 2, Block 41, Meadowbrook Heights, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado. Which has the address of: No purported address on Deed of Trust. Also known by street and number as:

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, 06/29/2023 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: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

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: 03/09/2023

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:

Scott D. Toebben #19011

Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C.

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300062

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

On February 23, 2023, 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)

Max Guajardo

Original Beneficiary(ies)

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

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

Date of Deed of Trust

March 19, 2020 County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

March 27, 2020

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

2020032749

Original Principal Amount

$388,786.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $370,298.11

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 24, INDEPENDENCE SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 9715 Ridge Rd, Arvada, CO 80002-3220.

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, 06/15/2023 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: 4/27/2023

Last Publication: 5/25/2023

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: 02/23/2023

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

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300080

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

On March 9, 2023, 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)

DALE D SPRAGUE

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR DUBUQUE BANK AND TRUST COMPANY

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

April 29, 2016

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 04, 2016

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

2016041833*

Original Principal Amount $431,048.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $365,647.29

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 3, BLOCK 3, THRAEMOOR SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

*Loan Modification dated June 29, 2022 and recorded on August 1, 2022 at Reception No. 2022073002 in the records of the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 2666 S EATON PLACE, LAKEWOOD, CO 80227.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/29/2023 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: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

IS CONTINUED

IF THE SALE DATE

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

By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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 12, BLOCK 3, WOOD CREEK FILING NO 6, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

5732 W 75th Place, 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, 06/08/2023 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: 4/20/2023

Last Publication: 5/18/2023

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: 02/06/2023

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

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

N. April Winecki #34861

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

Attorney File # 22-026247

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. J2300040

First Publication: 4/20/2023

Last Publication: 5/18/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300054

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

On February 14, 2023, 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 R Guice

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Bank of America, N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

January 05, 2007

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

January 17, 2007

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

2007006253

Original Principal Amount

$25,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$11,561.29

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Richard R Guice failed to make the monthly mortgage payments as required by the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust. Such failure constitutes a breach under the Note and Deed of Trust triggering the power of sale by the Public Trustee.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 17, Block 16, Columbine Hills, Second Filing, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 5873 West Alder Avenue, Littleton, CO 80128.

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, 06/08/2023 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: 4/20/2023

Last Publication: 5/18/2023

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: 02/14/2023

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:

Marcello G. Rojas #46396

The Sayer Law Group, P.C. 3600 South Beeler St., Suite 330, Denver, CO 80237 (303) 353-2965

Attorney File # CO220120

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. J2300054

First Publication: 4/20/2023

Last Publication: 5/18/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300041

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

On February 6, 2023, 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)

Christopher K. Gonzales

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for American Financing Corporation

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt PennyMac Loan Services, LLC Date of Deed of Trust

October 25, 2019 County of Recording Jefferson Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 07, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2019107103 Original Principal Amount

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 86, Lamar Heights Filing No. Three, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 6267 Fenton Street, Arvada, CO 80003.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/08/2023 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: 4/20/2023

Last Publication: 5/18/2023

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: 02/06/2023

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:

Scott D. Toebben #19011

Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 23CO00024-1

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2300041

First Publication: 4/20/2023

Last Publication: 5/18/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300068

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

On March 2, 2023, 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)

Eduardo Rodriguez Alvarez

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

March 29, 2019

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 04, 2019

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

2019025828*

Original Principal Amount $427,121.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $390,816.10

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 9, BLOCK 7, SOUTHERN GABLES, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

PIN: 300068272

*LOAN MODIFICATION DATED 02/14/2022 AND RECORDED ON 03/28/2022 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 2022029034 IN THE RECORDS OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 7780 W Woodard Circle, Lakewood, CO 80227.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/29/2023 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: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES EN-

TITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 03/02/2023

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

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

N. April Winecki #34861

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

Attorney File # 23-029328

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. J2300068

First Publication: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300074

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

On March 9, 2023, 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)

Stephen Anderson

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION

SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

October 09, 2018

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 12, 2018

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

2018093667

Original Principal Amount

$266,750.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $259,198.19

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 101, IN BUILDING 6, CAMBRIDGE IN THE FOOTHILLS CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR CAMBRIDGE IN THE FOOTHILLS CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON JANUARY 25, 2010 AT RECEPTION NO. 2010007423, AND BY THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED MAY 1, 2001 AT RECEPTION NO. F1226814 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, TOGETHER WITH PARKING UNIT 12-A, CAMBRIDGE IN THE FOOTHILLS CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR CAMBRIDGE IN THE FOOTHILLS CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON JANUARY 25, 2010 AT RECEPTION NO. 2010007423 AND ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 12293 W Cross Drive 101, 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, 06/29/2023 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: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

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: 03/09/2023

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

By: Christine Thompson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

N. April Winecki #34861

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295 Attorney File # 23-029434

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. J2300074

First Publication: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300057

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

On February 14, 2023, 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)

Champion Liquor Store LLC, a Colorado limited liability company

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MONTEGRA CAPITAL RESOURCES, LTD, a Colorado corporation

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt MONTEGRA CAPITAL RESOURCES, LTD, a Colorado corporation

Date of Deed of Trust

May 26, 2016

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 27, 2016

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

2016050669*

Original Principal Amount

$575,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$625,000.00

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments required under the Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby and to pay the Evidence of Debt when due upon maturity.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lots 25 through 34, inclusive, except that portion of Lot 34 conveyed in Warranty Deed recorded November 14, 1980 under Reception No. 80086615, Block 7, Edgewater, together with a nonexclusive revocable easement as described in Access Easement Agreement recorded March 7, 1989 at Reception No. 89019427, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado*

*Modified pursuant to seven loan modification agreements recorded at reception numbers 2018046495, 2019057617, 2020063918, 2020166020, 2021091846, 2022004257, 2022055785, in the records of Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 6111 W. Colfax Ave., 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.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/08/2023 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: 4/20/2023

Last Publication: 5/18/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

$539,275.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$534,359.24

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.

A TRACT OF LAND IN THE SOUTH ½ OF THE NE ¼ OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 72 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., BEING BOUNDED BY A LINE DESCRIBED MORE PARTICULARLY AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SE ¼ OF THE NE ¼ FROM WHENCE THE EAST ¼ CORNER BEARS NORTH 87 DEG. 18 MIN. 12 SEC. EAST A DISTANCE OF 1292.01; THENCE NORTH 13 DEG. 28 MIN. 48 SEC. WEST A DISTANCE OF 1340.55 FEET TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE SOUTH ½ OF THE NE 1/4 , THENCE NORTH 87 DEG. 31 MIN. 48 SEC. EAST A DISTANCE OF 1638.58 FEET ALONG SAID NORTH LINE TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST ¼ OF THE NORTHEAST ¼; THENCE SOUTH 01 DEG. 29 MIN. 05 SEC. WEST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID SECTION 12 A DISTANCE OF 695.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE DEPARTING SAID EAST LINE SOUTH 62 DEG. 31 MIN. 26 SEC. WEST A DISTANCE OF 1472.67 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SOUTHEAST ¼ OF THE NORTHEAST ¼ AND THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING, TOGETHER WITH THOSE RIGHTS FOR PUBLIC ACCESS TO AND FROM SAID LAND AS CREATED AND ESTABLISHED BY EASEMENT FOR PUBLIC AND OR PRIVATE UTILITY LINES AND PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY RECORDED SEPTEMBER 30, 1980 AS RECEPTION NO. 80073377, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6100 Bear Paw Rd, Golden, CO 80403-8118. 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, 06/29/2023 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: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

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: 03/09/2023

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 # CO12113

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. J2300085

First Publication: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300052

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

On February 14, 2023, 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)

Ethos Holdings, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Robert Morrison, an individual, Steven M. Grott, an individual, Barry Reid, an individual, Archie Not Bald, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, Michael Meyers, an individual, and Key Business

Strategies, a Colorado corporation

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Robert Morrison, an individual, Steven M. Grott, an individual, Barry Reid, an individual, Archie Not Bald, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, Michael Meyers, an individual, and Key Business Strategies, a Colorado corporation

Date of Deed of Trust

May 25, 2022

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 21, 2022

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2022059755 Original Principal Amount $1,715,000.00

Balance $1,715,000.00

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments required under the Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby. Therefore, the owner of the Evidence of Debt has declared the entire indebtedness due and payable in full.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 2, ESTATES AT RALSTON RIDGE 1ST AMENDMENT, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

LEGAL DESCRIPTION CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER’S ERROR AFFIDAVIT RECORDED

JULY 12, 2022 AT RECEPTION NO. 2022066041 IN THE RECORDS OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 7282 Ellis Street, Arvada, CO 80005.

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

If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: Legal description corrected by Scrivener’s Error Affidavit recorded July 12, 2022 at Reception No. 2022066041 in the records of the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder, State of Colorado.

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, 06/08/2023 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: 4/20/2023

Last Publication: 5/18/2023

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: 02/14/2023

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:

Emily J. Bennett #15431

Laff Bennett Logan, PC 3200 E. Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 200, Denver, CO 80209 (720) 484-3933

Attorney File # Key Business/Mo Howard 2

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. J2300052

First Publication: 4/20/2023 Last Publication: 5/18/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300079

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

On March 9, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records. Original Grantor(s)

David S. Claybrook and Regina L. Claybrook

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Accelerate Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC.

Date of Deed of Trust December 20, 2019 County of Recording

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

F2058853

Original Principal Amount

$60,800.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$42,995.80

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.

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.

Principal 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 73, Ralston Valley Filing No. 2, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as:

13540 W 69th Pl, Arvada, CO 80004.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/29/2023 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: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

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: 03/09/2023

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:

Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO21143

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. J2300079

First Publication: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300065

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

On March 2, 2023, 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)

Don Marion

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA'S WHOLESALE LENDER, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF THE CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES

2004-09

CONDOMINIUM UNIT 404, BUILDING 10, GOLDEN RIDGE CONDOMINIUMS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION ON NOVEMBER 13, 1979 UNDER RECEPTION NUMBER 79103020 AND CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 13, 1979 UNDER RECEPTION NUMBER 79103021 OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE FOLLOWING LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS: STORAGE SPACE 404 IN BUILDING 10, PARKING SPACE 73, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AND ANY AND ALL AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS, AND ANNEXATIONS THERETO, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1200 Golden Circle #10-404, Golden, CO 80401.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/29/2023 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: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

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: 03/02/2023

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

By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

Lynn M Janeway #15592

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

Attorney File # 23-029358

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. J2300065

First Publication: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300083

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

On March 9, 2023, 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)

Jesse M. Terhune

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.

("MERS") as nominee for Amerisave Mortgage Corporation, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

PNC Bank, National Association Date of Deed of Trust

July 01, 2020

THAT PART OF THE SW ¼ OF SECTION 12, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 69 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., BEGINNING AT A POINT 163 FEET SOUTH OF THE NE CORNER OF THE SW ¼ OF THE SW ¼ OF SECTION 12; THENCE WEST 178 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 75 FEET; THENCE EAST 178 FEET THENCE NORTH 75 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5755 N Lamar St, Arvada, CO 80002.

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, 06/29/2023 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: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

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: 03/09/2023

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-23-953271-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. J2300083

First Publication: 5/11/2023

Last Publication: 6/8/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300043

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 6, 2023, 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)

Phyllis A. Nay

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

February 15, 2018

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

February 22, 2018

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

2018016353

Original Principal Amount $442,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $156,054.93

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: This is a Home Equity Conversion Deed of Trust or other Reverse Mortgage. Borrower has died and the property is not the principal residence of any surviving Borrower, resulting in the loan being due and payable.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 2, BLOCK 3, WILLOW TERRACE, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON,

use tax is levied; and

WHEREAS, Chapter 3.05 of the Code requires a sales and use tax license for any person carrying on of any trade, profession, business, privilege, occupation or calling of any kind within the City; and

WHEREAS, City staff resources are currently being deployed to ensure that transient/temporary vendors, including food trucks, are properly licensed; and

WHEREAS, the City Council desires to adopt this ordinance to require sales tax licensees to ensure that all transient/temporary vendors operating on their premises are properly licensed.

THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO:

Section 1. Recitals Incorporated. The recitals set forth above are hereby incorporated by reference and are adopted as findings and determinations by the City Council.

Section 2. Section 3.05.010 Amended. Section

3.05.010 of the Golden Municipal Code, “License Required,” is hereby amended to read as follows, with additions shown in underline:

3.05.010 License required.

(a) No person, including charitable organizations and transient/temporary vendors, shall establish, engage or be engaged in the operation, conduct or carrying on of any trade, profession, business, privilege, occupation or calling of any kind within the city without having first obtained a sales and use tax license from the city in the manner provided in this chapter. If a person owns or operates more than one business or has more than one business location, a separate license for each business or location must be obtained. Each license shall be posted in a conspicuous place at the business location for which it is issued.

(b) All persons required to be licensed under this chapter that permit a transient/temporary vendor or a “Food Truck,” as defined in Chapter 10.04 of this Code, to operate on or at the location identified on its City-issued sales and use tax license shall require such transient/temporary vendor or Food Truck to provide proof that it possesses a valid current sales and use tax license issued by the City as a condition of permission to operate at that location.

(c) Any person required to be licensed under this chapter shall provide the finance director with information identifying any Food Truck or transient/temporary vendor authorized to operate on or at the location identified on its sales and use tax license before such Food Truck or transient/ temporary vendor commences operations at that location. The person may provide such information by any of the following means:

(1) Posting on the person’s website;

(2) Posting at the location identified on the person’s sales and use tax license in a manner that is conspicuous and visible to the public from the exterior of the premises; or

(3) Providing the information to the finance director upon request.

Section 3 If any article, section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each part or parts hereof irrespective of the fact that any one part or parts be declared unconstitutional or invalid.

Section 4. Repealer. All other ordinances or portions thereof inconsistent or conflicting with this ordinance or any portion hereof is hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.

Section 5. The repeal or modification of any provision of the Municipal Code of the City of Golden by this ordinance shall not release, extinguish, alter, modify or change in whole or in part any penalty, forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have been incurred under such provision. Each provision shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings and prosecutions for enforcement of the penalty, forfeiture or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment, decree or order which can or may be rendered, entered or made in such actions, suits, proceedings or prosecutions.

Section 6. Safety. This ordinance is deemed necessary for the protection of health, welfare, and safety of the community.

Section 7. Codification Amendments. The codifier of the City’s Municipal Code, Municode, is hereby authorized to make such numerical and formatting changes as may be necessary to incorporate the provisions of this ordinance within the Golden Municipal Code.

Section 8. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective five (5) days after publication following final passage in accordance with Section 5.9 of the Charter for the City of Golden, Colorado.

INTRODUCED, READ AND PASSED AS AN ORDINANCE, ON FIRST READING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, THE 25TH DAY OF APRIL, 2023.

READ, PASSED AND ADOPTED AS AN ORDI-

ON

OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, THE 9TH DAY OF MAY, 2023.

Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor

ATTEST:

Monica S. Mendoza, CMC, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Kathie B. Guckenberger, City Attorney

I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on first reading and read at a regular business meeting of the City Council of said city, held on the 25th day of April, 2023 and was published as a proposed ordinance on the city website as the law directs seven days or more prior to its passage. A public hearing was held on the 9th day of May, 2023, and the said proposed ordinance was read on second reading. The ordinance was passed by the City Council and ordered published on the City of Golden website, as the law directs on the 9th day of May, 2023.

Witness my hand and official seal of the City of Golden, Colorado, on the9th day of May, 2023.

ATTEST: MONICA S. MENDOZA

Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado

Legal Notice No. 416311

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING THE ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN PROPERTY FOR ANNEXATION KNOWN AS THE JUNCTION ANNEXATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to C.R.S.

§ 31-12-108(2), that the City Council of the City of Golden will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, June 20, at 6:30 P.M. (the “Eligibility Hearing”) to determine whether the property generally known as the Junction Annexation, which is more particularly described in Resolution No. 2953 attached below (the “Subject Property”), meets the applicable requirements of Section 30 of Article II of the Colorado Constitution and C.R.S. § 3112-104 and C.R.S. §31-12-105, and is eligible for annexation to the City of Golden. A copy of the Petition for Annexation concerning the Subject Property and the Annexation Map are on file at the City Clerk’s office, City of Golden City Hall, 911 10th Street, Golden, Colorado, 80401. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard at the Eligibility Hearing. Proceedings will be held in-person at City of Golden City Hall, 911 10th Street, Golden, Colorado 80401.

By:Monica Mendoza,

City Clerk

Published: The Golden Transcript

May 18, 2023

May 25, 2023

June 1, 2023

June 8, 2023

June 15, 2023

RESOLUTION NO. 2953

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, ACCEPTING AN ANNEXATION PETITION, MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS OF FACT, FINDING SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE FOR SUCH PETITION, AND SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR PROPERTY DESCRIBED AS THE JUNCTION ANNEXATION

WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Golden, Colorado (“City”) has received and examined a petition for annexation and related filings (the Petition ”) requesting the annexation of the real property described in Exhibit 1 attached hereto and incorporated herein (the “Subject Property”); and

WHEREAS, the Petition has been filed of record with the City Clerk of the City, and

WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the Petition contains the following:

(a) An allegation that it is desirable and necessary that the Subject Property be annexed to the City.

(b) An allegation that the requirements of C.R.S.

§§ 31-12-104 and 31-12-105 exist or are met.

(b) An allegation that the signers of the Petition comprise more than fifty percent (50%) of the landowners in the Subject Property and own more than fifty percent (50%) of the Subject Property, exclusive of public streets and alleys and any land owned by the City.

(c) A request that the City approve the annexation of the Subject Property.

(d) The signature of each landowner that executed the Petition.

(e) The mailing address of each landowner that executed the Petition.

(f) The legal description of the land owned by each landowner that executed the Petition.

(g) The date that each landowner executed the Petition.

therein is the signature of the person whose name it purports to be.

WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the Petition is accompanied by four (4) copies of an annexation map containing the following information:

(a) A written legal description of the boundaries of the Subject Property.

(b) A map showing the boundary of the Subject Property.

(c) Within the annexation boundary map, a showing of the location of each ownership tract in unplatted land and, if part or all of the Subject Property is platted, the boundaries and the plat numbers of plots or of lots and blocks.

(d) Next to the boundary of the Subject Property, a drawing of the contiguous boundary of the City and the contiguous boundary of any other municipality abutting the Subject Property.

WHEREAS, the City Council finds that no signature on the Petition is dated more than one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the date of filing of the Petition with the City Clerk of the City.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The foregoing recitals and findings are hereby incorporated into this Resolution.

Section 2. The Petition, which was officially filed of record with the City Clerk of the City on or about April 5, 2023, substantially complies with the requirements of C.R.S. § 31-12-107(1).

Section 3. No election is required under C.R.S. § 31-12-107(2).

Section 4. No additional terms and conditions are to be imposed except as provided in the Petition and in any annexation agreement which may be entered into by and between the City and the petitioner(s), which are not to be considered additional terms and conditions within the meaning of C.R.S. § 31-12-112.

Section 5. A public hearing before City Council shall be held on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. at the City of Golden City Hall, 911 10th Street, Golden, Colorado, 80401 for the purpose of determining and finding whether the proposed annexation complies with Section 30 of Article II of the Colorado Constitution and the applicable provisions of C.R.S. §§ 31-12-104 and 31-12-105. The City Clerk is directed to publish a copy of this resolution and notice of public hearing in accordance with the applicable provisions of C.R.S. § 31-12-108.

Section 6. Any person may appear at such hearing and present evidence pertaining to the eligibility of the proposed annexation of the Subject Property to the City.

Section 7. This Resolution shall take effect upon its approval by the City Council.

Adopted this 9th day of May, 2023.

Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor

ATTEST:

Monica S. Mendoza, CMC, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: Kathie Guckenberger, City Attorney

I, Monica Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a certain Resolution adopted by the City Council of the City of Golden, Colorado at a regular business meeting thereof held on the 9th day of May, 2023.

Exhibit 1

Legal Description

The Junction Annexation

CONSIDERING THE SOUTH LINE OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 70 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M. TO BEAR S89°38'17"W, BETWEEN A FOUND 2" ALUMINUM CAP MARKED "PLS 14112" AT THE SOUTH QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16 AND A FOUND 2" ALUMINUM CAP MARKED "PLS 27612" AT THE WEST ONE-SIXTEENTH CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16, WITH ALL BEARINGS CONTAINED HEREIN RELATIVE THERETO.

A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN SOUTHWEST, NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST QUARTERS OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 70 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

A RADIUS OF 4,350.00 FEET, AN INCLUDED ANGLE OF 29°56'43" AND SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N24°37'22"E, A DISTANCE OF 2,247.71 FEET; THENCE N39°35'44"E, A DISTANCE OF 198.02 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF STATE HIGHWAY 93, AS DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT RECORDED OCTOBER 31, 1980 AT RECEPTION NO. 80082809, AND A POINT OF NONTANGENT CURVATURE; THENCE ALONG SAID WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE THE FOLLOWING FIVE (5) COURSES:

1. 95.91 FEET ALONG THE ARC OF A NONTANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 1,712.00 FEET, AN INCLUDED ANGLE OF 03°12'36" AND SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING S10°41'11"W, A DISTANCE OF 95.90 FEET;

2. S06°11'53"W, A DISTANCE OF 255.66 FEET;

3. S04°42'58"W, A DISTANCE OF 2,378.89 FEET;

4.S08°59'24"W, A DISTANCE OF 200.61 FEET;

5.S04°50'57"W, A DISTANCE OF 402.20 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH LINE OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 16; THENCE ALONG SAID SOUTH LINE SOUTH 89°38'17" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 947.48 FEET, MORE OR LESS TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.

SAID PARCEL CONTAINING 2,233,666 SQ. FT. OR 51.28 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.

A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 21, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 70 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

PARCEL 2 COMMENCING AT THE WEST 1/16 CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16; THENCE N89°38'17"E

ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 16, A DISTANCE OF 1,134.50 FEET TO A POINT ON WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF STATE HIGHWAY 93, AS DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT RECORDED DECEMBER 9, 1999 AT RECEPTION NO. F0988463, AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SECTION 16 NORTH 89°38'17" EAST, A DISTANCE OF 90.35 FEET; THENCE DEPARTING SAID SOUTH LINE SOUTH 04°41'10" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 74.63 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVATURE; THENCE 458.67 FEET ALONG THE ARC OF A CURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A RADIUS OF 4,583.66 FEET, AN INCLUDED ANGLE OF 05°44'00" AND SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING SOUTH 01°49'28" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 458.48 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 01°02'32" EAST, A DISTANCE OF 289.25 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89°47'22" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 32.17 FEET; THENCE NORTH 0°34'06" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 0.06 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89°48'47" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 17.84 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WEST RIGHTOF-WAY LINE OF SAID STATE HIGHWAY 93; THENCE ALONG SAID WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES:

1. 1.NORTH 01°02'32" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 288.46 FEET;

2. 2.THENCE NORTH 02°06'45" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 533.32 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.

SAID PARCEL CONTAINING 49,224 SQ. FT. OR

1.13 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.

Total acreage (approximate): 52.41 acres, as more particularly shown in the annexation map(s) on file with the City Clerk.

Legal Notice No. 416309

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Second Publication: May 25, 2023

Third Publication: June 1, 2023

Fourth Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 15, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS

The Arvada Housing Authority (AHA) invites developers of property in Arvada, CO to submit applications for participation in the Housing Choice Voucher Project Based Voucher Program (PBV). The objectives of this allocation are to 1) Expand housing options for low-income individuals and families with special needs 2) To preserve affordable housing, for low-income individuals and families with special needs that are at risk of being eliminated due to lack of a funding source 3)

To increase the supply of affordable housing for individuals and families who are chronically homeless and 4) To increase the supply of affordable, accessible housing for person with disabilities.

Application can be obtained from the Arvada Housing Authority’s website: Website: https://arvada.org/residents/city-neighborhoods/ section-8-housing-choice-voucher-program

All applications should be submitted via email to dkothe@arvada.org. Only applications in response to this invitation will be accepted for consideration. Owners/Developers will be notified by letter of the acceptance or rejection of their applications. AHA will also publish its notice of selection of PBV applications on the Arvada Housing Authority website as well as the Arvada Press. All applications MUST be received no later than 5:00 P.M., Monday, July 3, 2023.

Questions can be directed to Dena Kothe at dkothe@arvada.org or 720-898-7476

Legal Notice No. 416319

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Last Publication: June 1, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

ORDINANCE NO. 2209

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, REPEALING AND REPLACING TITLE 17 OF THE GOLDEN MUNICIPAL CODE; AMENDING SECTION 18.04.020 – DEFINITION OF TERMS; ADDING CHAPTER 18.10, PUBLIC NOTICE; REPEALING AND REPLACING CHAPTER 18.12 – APPEALS AND VARIANCES UNDER TITLE 18; REPEALING AND REPLACING CHAPTER 18.20 – APPLICATION OF REGULATIONS; AMENDING SECTION 18.24.020 – APPLICABILITY; REPEALING, REPLACING, AND RENAMING CHAPTER 18.28 – USE AND DENSITY REGULATIONS; REPEALING AND REPLACING CHAPTER 18.29 – FORM ZONING; REPEALING AND REPLACING CHAPTER 18.36 – PARKING AND LOADING REQUIREMENTS; REPEALING AND REPLACING CHAPTER 18.38 – FENCE REGULATIONS; REPEALING AND REPLACING CHAPTER 18.40 - SITE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS; REPEALING AND REPLACING CHAPTER 18.48 – PROCEDURE FOR INITIAL ZONING AND REZONING; AND ADOPTING THE OFFICIAL “CITY OF GOLDEN FORM ZONES MAP.”

WHEREAS, in 1960, the City enacted Ordinance 454, zoning much of the developed core of the City with a combination of various zone districts; and

WHEREAS, in 1973, the City enacted Ordinance 676 whereby the City adopted subdivision regulations for the City of Golden, and Ordinance 682 whereby the City’s then-existing zoning regulations were in large part repealed and replaced with new zoning regulations (collectively, the “1973 Code”); and

WHEREAS, over the intervening years, the 1973 Code has been amended in a piecemeal fashion and in large and small ways to address changing conditions and new and evolving City policies related to subdivision, zoning, and land use, resulting in current subdivision and zoning regulations that are outdated, complex, and difficult to use; and

WHEREAS, Golden Vision 2030, the City of Golden Comprehensive Plan, and the City’s various neighborhood plans (collectively, the “City’s Plans”) establish several values, goals, strategies, and recommendations related to the desired feel and character of the City and articulate the City’s policy with respect to how development and redevelopment of land within the City should occur; and

WHEREAS, in 2020, the City initiated the process of rewriting and modernizing Title 17 of the City of Golden Municipal Code (the “Subdivision Code”) and Title 18 of the City of Golden Municipal Code (the “Zoning Code”) to, among other things, create new and revised development standards and guidelines in the Zoning Code to address the physical form of development within the City in a manner that is consistent with the City’s Plans, reorganize the Zoning Code, and simplify and clarify development review procedures and standards in both the Subdivision Code and Zoning Code; and

WHEREAS, the City anticipates that the rewriting and modernization of the Subdivision Code and Zoning Code (the “Rewrite Project”) will occur in phases; and

READING, AT A REGULAR

OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY

(h)The affidavit of each circulator of the Petition stating that the signature of each landowner

PARCEL 1 COMMENCING AT THE WEST 1/16 CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16; THENCE N89°38'17"E ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 16, A DISTANCE OF 187.02 FEET TO A POINT OF NON-TANGENT CURVATURE AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE 75.26 FEET ALONG THE ARC OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 4,550.00 FEET, AN INCLUDED ANGLE OF 00°56'52" AND SUBTENDED BY A CHORD BEARING N09°04'44"E, A DISTANCE OF 75.26 FEET; THENCE N09°39'01"E, A DISTANCE OF 1,069.03 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVATURE; THENCE 2,273.50

If applicable, all financing of project costs and operating expenses will be the responsibility of the owner. Rents that are established for the project will be commensurate with other comparable rents for similar rental units in the areas in which the project is located. In all cases, however, rents cannot exceed the maximum allowable HUD Fair market Rent published for Jefferson County.

The PBV units will be leased to eligible lowincome households referred by AHA or to eligible tenants in occupancy of the unit at the time of the submission of the application. Rental assistance is available for a total not to exceed 8 units. AHA reserves the right to award less than the maximum vouchers available or requested.

Note: Participation in the PBV Program requires compliance with Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Requirements, and Federal Labor Standards will apply to eligible projects.

WHEREAS, the first phase of the Rewrite Project was completed with City Council’s adoption of Ordinance 2181 on May 24, 2022, which Ordinance, among other things, established and mapped overlay form zones for the R1, R1A, R2, and R3 zone districts (the “Residential Use Zones”) on the form zone overlay map attached as Exhibit D to Ordinance 2181 (the “Phase 1 Residential Form Zones Map”); and

WHEREAS, this Ordinance addresses the second phase of the Rewrite Project, which includes, among other things, the establishment of form zones for the RC, C1, C2, and CMU use zone districts, and the mapping of said form zones as shown on the form zone map attached hereto as Exhibit LF (the “City of Golden Form Zones Map”), amendments to development review procedures and standards in the Subdivision Code and Zoning Code, and amendments to form and other standards in the Zoning Code applicable to the Residential Use Zones (collectively, the “Phase 2 Amendments”); and

WHEREAS, the Phase 1 Residential Form Zones Map has been incorporated into the City of Golden Form Zones Map as part of the Phase 2 Amendments, except that (i) a parcel generally located at 331 Allen Street (that is currently without a form

zone) has been mapped within the Peripheral form zone, (ii) a mistakenly mapped form zone has been removed from the PUD-zoned property generally located at the northeast corner of West 14th Avenue and Johnson Road (commonly known as Summit View Apartments), and (iii) parcels generally located at 17611 West 16th Avenue (commonly known as Fox Hill Apartments) and at the northeast corner of West 12th Avenue and Ulysses Street (commonly known as Skyline Townhomes) have been mapped within the Edge form zone; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2.44.070 of the Golden Municipal Code (the “Code”), the City of Golden Planning Commission serves in an advisory capacity to the City Council in matters related to regulations governing land subdivision, the height, area, and bulk of buildings and structures, and site development design standards and guidelines for certain types of projects; and

WHEREAS, the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on April 5, 2023, which was preceded by numerous study sessions, to discuss and consider the Phase 2 Amendments; and

WHEREAS, the Planning Commission found that City Council’s adoption of the Phase 2 Amendments will reflect the values established by Golden Vision 2030 and align with the goals, strategies, and recommendations of the City’s Plans, and recommended that the City Council adopt this Ordinance, which Ordinance includes changes requested by the Planning Commission and other minor changes and corrections from the text that was presented to the Planning Commission; and

WHEREAS, the City Council accepts the Planning Commission’s recommendation and finds that this Ordinance advances the City’s Plans and the Rewrite Project, and is otherwise in the public interest.

THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO:

Section 1. The recitals set forth above are hereby incorporated by reference and are adopted as findings and determinations by the City Council.

Section 2. Title 17 of the Code, entitled “Subdivision Code,” is REPEALED and replaced in its entirety as provided in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 3. Section 18.04.020 of the Zoning Code, entitled “Definition of terms,” is amended as provided in Exhibit B, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 4. Chapter 18.10, entitled, “Public Notice,” is added to the Zoning Code as provided in Exhibit C, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 5. Chapter 18.12 of the Zoning Code, entitled “Appeals and Variances Under Title 18,” is REPEALED and replaced in its entirety as provided in Exhibit D, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 6. Chapter 18.20 of the Zoning Code, entitled “Application of Regulations,” is REPEALED and replaced in its entirety as provided in Exhibit E, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 7. Section 18.24.020 of Chapter 18.24 of the Zoning Code, which chapter is entitled “Residential Sustainability Standards,” is amended as follows (strikethrough text is deleted text; underlined text is added text):

18.24.020 Applicability.

(1) No building permit shall be issued for construction of a house, cottage (as an individual form type, or within a cluster or compound form type), or duplex form type within a form zone, or new one- or two-household (structure strike-through) building within a legacy use zone (“new construction”), and no such construction shall be performed, unless such construction achieves the minimum points required by section 18.24.030 below.

(2) No building permit shall be issued for construction of an addition with new habitable space equal to or greater than 25 percent of the existing habitable (square footage strike through) floor area of a house, cottage (as an individual form type, or within a cluster or compound form type), or duplex form type within a form zone, or new one- or two-household (structure strike through) building within a legacy use zone ("addition"), and no such construction shall be performed unless such conditions on the property, which may include the addition, demonstrate achievement of the minimum points required by section 18.24.030 below. For purposes of this chapter, habitable space shall consist of heated (square footage strike through) floor area within a dwelling unit. Existing (square footage strike through) floor area that is either remodeled (e.g., updated kitchen (e.g. strike through) or finished (e.g., basement (e.g.strike through) is exempt.

Section 8. Chapter 18.28 of the Zoning Code, entitled “Use and Density Regulations,” is REPEALED and replaced in its entirety and retitled “Use Regulations,” as provided in Exhibit F attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 9 Chapter 18.29 of the Zoning Code, entitled “Form Zoning,” is REPEALED and replaced in its entirety as provided in Exhibit G attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 10. Chapter 18.36 of the Zoning Code,

entitled “Parking and Loading Requirements,” is REPEALED and replaced in its entirety as provided in Exhibit H, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 11. Chapter 18.38 of the Zoning Code, entitled “Fence Regulations,” is REPEALED and replaced in its entirety as provided in Exhibit I, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 12. Chapter 18.40 of the Zoning Code, entitled “Site Development Regulations,” is REPEALED and replaced in its entirety as provided in Exhibit J, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 13. Chapter 18.48 of the Zoning Code, entitled “Procedure for Initial Zoning and Rezoning,” is REPEALED and replaced in its entirety as provided in Exhibit K, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

Section 14. The City of Golden Form Zones Map attached hereto as Exhibit L is adopted as the official form zone map of the City.

Section 15. In preparing this Ordinance and Exhibits for codification and distribution, the City Clerk shall not alter its sense, meaning, effect, or substance, but, with such limitations, may, after consultation with the Director of the City of Golden Division of Community Development and the City Attorney, correct manifest clerical or typographical errors.

Section 16. This Ordinance shall not release, extinguish, alter, modify, or change in whole or in part any penalty, forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have been incurred for violation of any provision of the Golden Municipal Code. Each provision shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings and prosecutions for enforcement of the penalty, forfeiture, or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment, decree, or order which can or may be rendered, entered, or made in such actions, suits, proceedings, or prosecutions.

Section 17. Severability. If any provision of this Ordinance should be found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions or applications of this Ordinance that can be given effect without the invalid portion, provided that such remaining portions or applications of this Ordinance are not determined by the court to be inoperable. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, despite the fact that any one or more section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion be declared invalid.

Section 18. Safety. This Ordinance is deemed necessary for the protection of the health, welfare, and safety of the community.

Section 19. Codification Amendments. The codifier of the City’s Municipal Code, Municode, is hereby authorized to make such numerical and formatting changes as may be necessary to incorporate the provisions of this Ordinance within the Golden Municipal Code.

Section 20. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall become effective five (5) days after publication following final passage in accordance with Section 5.9 of the Charter for the City of Golden, Colorado.

INTRODUCED, READ, AND PASSED AS AN ORDINANCE, ON FIRST READING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, ON THE 9TH DAY OF MAY, 2023.

READ, PASSED, AND ADOPTED AS AN ORDINANCE ON SECOND READING, FOLLOWING A PUBLIC HEARING, AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, ON THE __ DAY OF ____, 2023.

Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor

ATTEST:Monica Mendoza, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Kathie B. Guckenberger, City Attorney

I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a certain proposed ordinance introduced and read before the City Council of the City of Golden at a regular meeting thereof held on the 9th day of May, 2023, and ordered by said City Council to be published as the law provides, and that a public hearing is declared for the 6th day of June, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 911 10th Street, Golden.

ATTEST: MONICA S. MENDOZA Monica S. Mendoza,City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado

Legal Notice No. 416313

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Notice

ORDINANCE CHANGING THE 2023 BUDGET FOR CARRYOVER AND ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION REQUESTS

Introduced, read, passed and ordered published the 25th day of April, 2023.

Passed and adopted upon second reading and ordered published the 9th day of May, 2023.

Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor

ATTEST: Monica Mendoza, CMC City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Kathie Guckenberger. City Attorney

I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on first reading and read at a regular business meeting of the City Council of said city, held on the 25th day of April, 2023 and was published as a proposed ordinance on the city website as the law directs seven days or more prior to its passage. A public hearing was held on the 9th day of May, 2023, and the said proposed ordinance was read on second reading. The ordinance was passed by the City Council and ordered published on the City of Golden website, as the law directs on the 9th day of May, 2023. Witness my hand and official seal of the City of Golden, Colorado, on the9th day of May, 2023.

ATTEST: MONICA S. MENDOZA

Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado

Legal Notice No. 416312

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT at the meeting of the Arvada City Council to be held on MONDAY, June 5, 2023, at 6:15 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada CO, City Council will hold a public hearing on the following proposed ordinances and thereafter will consider them for final passage and adoption. For the full text version in electronic form go to www.arvada.org/legal-notices, and click on Current and recent Legal Notices to access legal notices. The full text version is also available in printed form in the City Clerk’s office. Contact 720.898.7550 if you have questions. The full text version is also available in printed form in the City Clerk’s office. Contact 720.898.7550 if you have questions.

CB23-011 An Ordinance Repealing and Reenacting Section 62-43, Fireworks, of Article II, Miscellaneous Offenses, of Chapter 62, Offenses, of the Arvada City Code.

CB23-012 An Ordinance Authorizing an Intergovernmental Agreement by and Between The City of Arvada and The Jefferson County School District Related to Campbell Elementary School and Oak Park.

CB23-013 An Ordinance Rezoning Certain Land Within the City of Arvada, Candelas Point Infrastructure and Kiddie Academy, from City of Arvada PUD (Planned Unit Development) to City of Arvada CG (Commercial, General), and Amending the Official Zoning Maps of the City of Arvada, Colorado, 9265 Yucca Lane.

Legal Notice No. 416314

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

Housing Choice Voucher Public Notice for year 2023 Administrative Plan Revisions and Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Plan

Public Notice is hereby given that beginning May 19, 2023, through June 19, 2023, at 12:00 pm; Arvada Housing Authority (AHA) will display for public review and comments a copy of proposed policy changes and revisions to the AHA Administrative Plan as well as a draft of the AHA annual plan for fiscal year 2024. Location for review will be at AHA’s Office 8001 Ralston Rd., Arvada, CO, 80002, and the AHA website: https://arvada.org/residents/city-neighborhoods/ housing-programs/section-8-housing-choicevoucher-program

Comments on the agency’s policy changes and revisions may be submitted in writing to Arvada Housing Authority, 8001 Ralston Rd., Arvada, CO, 80002; Attention: Dena Kothe, Housing Choice Voucher Program Supervisor or emailed to housing@arvada.org Comments must be received by Monday, June 19, 2023, by 12:00 pm. All comments will be reviewed prior to AHA Board of Commissioners (BOC) meeting and public hearing on Monday, July 10, 2023, at 6:00 pm.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires Public Housing Agencies to establish policies for carrying out the Housing Choice Voucher programs in a manner consistent with the HUD requirements and regulations (Code of Federal Regulations). The enclosed changes/ revisions to the AHA Administrative Policy are in compliance with the current HUD regulations and requirements and are to be effective August 1, 2023. AHA’s annual Public Hearing will be held at 6:00 pm on Monday, July 10, 2023, at 8101 Ralston Rd., Arvada, CO, 80002.

Legal Notice No. 416318

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Bids and Settlements

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

Notice is hereby given that on or after June 1st, 2023 the City of Golden Public Works Department will make final settlement with Stanek Constructors, Inc. 651 Corporate Circle, Suite 108, Golden, CO 80401 in connection with payment for all services rendered, materials furnished, and for all labor performed in and for the 2021 Water Treatment Improvements Project.

1. Any person, co-partnership, association or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the said project or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provision, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by subcontractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claims.

2. All such claims shall be filed with the City of Golden Public Works Department, c/o Shakira Hollis, Administrative Coordinator, 1445 10th Street, Golden, CO 80401, on or before June 1st 2023.

3.Failure on the part of a creditor to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve the City of Golden Public Works Department from any and all liability for such claim.

CITY OF GOLDEN PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

Anne Beierle, Director of Public Works Legal

Notice No. 416299

First Publication: May 18th, 2023

Last Publication: May 25th , 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Pkwy, Golden, CO 80401

LANCE CASINO, v.

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, et. al

Case Number: 2017CV231

SHERIFF’S COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE AND RIGHTS TO CURE AND REDEEM

Under a Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure entered November 15, 2018, in the above entitled action, I am ordered to sell certain real property, as follows:

Original Grantor: Lance Casino

Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Community Mortgage Group, Inc.

Current Holder of the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association

Date of Deed of Trust: Se ptember 26,

2005

Date of Recording of Deed of Trust:

October 10, 2005 County of Recording: Jefferson County, Colorado

Recording Information:Reception No.

2005094330

Original Principal Balance of the secured indebtedness:$200,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance of the secured indebtedness as of the date hereof:

$185,465.53

Amount of Judgment entered November 15, 2018 $301,450.20

Description of property to be foreclosed:

The Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (NE1/4NW1/4) of Section 10, Township 7 South, Range 71 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Jefferson County, Colorado; and

The East half of the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (E1/2SE1/4NW1/4NW1/4) of Section 10, Township 7, Range 71 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Jefferson County, Colorado.

Also known as: 13883 South Wamblee Road, Conifer, Colorado 80433

THE PROPERTY TO BE SOLD AND DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The covenants of said Deed of Trust have been violated as follows: failure to make payments on said indebtedness when the same were due and owing, and the legal holder of the indebtedness has accelerated the same and declared the same

immediately fully due and payable.

IF YOU BELIEVE THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT PURSUANT TO § 38-38-103.1, C.R.S., OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING PURSUANT TO § 38-38- 103.2, C.R.S., YOU MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE CFPB, OR BOTH, BUT THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS.

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL: Colorado Department of Law, Ralph L. Carr Judicial Building, 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor, Denver, CO 80203, 720-508-6000

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE CFPB: Consumer Protection Finance Bureau, P.O. Box 2900, Clinton, IA, 52733-2900, 855-411-2372 http://www.consumerfinance.govicomplainti or both; but the filing of this complaint will not stop the foreclosure process.

NOTICE OF SALE

THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I will, at 10:00 o’clock A.M., on Thursday, June 15, 2023, in the Office of the Sheriff County Sheriff, Civil Division, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Ste 1520 Golden, Colorado 80419 sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property described above, and all interest of said Grantor and the heirs and assigns of said Grantor therein, for the purpose of paying the judgment amount entered herein, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 25, 2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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 THE STATUTES WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS ARE ATTACHED HERETO. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE PURSUANT TO § 38-38-104, C.R.S., 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.

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO § 38-38-302, C.R.S., SHALL BE FILED WITH THE SHERIFF NO LATER THAN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS AFTER THE SALE. 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, PER 38-38-103(4)(11.5), C.R.S.

The name, address, and business telephone number of each of the attorneys representing the holder of the evidence of debt are as follows: Marcello G. Rojas, Atty Reg. No. 46396, The Sayer Law Group, P.C., 3600 S. Beeler St., Suite 330, Denver, Colorado, 80231, 319-234-2530. Attached hereto are copies of certain Colorado statutes that may vitally affect your property rights in relation to this proceeding. Said proceeding may result in the loss of property in which you have an interest and may create a personal debt against you. You may wish to seek the advice of your own private attorney concerning your rights in relation to this foreclosure proceeding.

INTENT to cure or redeem, as provided by the aforementioned laws, must be directed to or conducted at the Sheriff Department for Jefferson County, Civil Division, Golden Colorado 80419.

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

Date: February 21, 2023

Regina Marinelli, Sheriff Jefferson County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff Statutes attached: C.R.S. §§ 38-37-108, 38-38103, 38-38-104, 38-38-301, 38-38-302, 38-38-304, 38-38-305, and 38-38-306, as amended.

Legal Notice No. 416186

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 25, 2023

Name of Publication: 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: Gertrude R Pearson, and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject real property which is the subject of this action. Case # 23CV73

Guthrie Reservoirs 1 and 2). See Exhibit C. 5.6.1

Location: Signal Reservoir 1 and 2, described above in Paragraphs 5.2.1 and 5.3.1 (per change in place of storage approved in Case No. 19CW3061). 5.6.2 Source: Surface flows in the South Platte River through the surface structures TCVS-01 and TCVS-02 described above in Paragraph 3, and ground water tributary to the South Platte River through wells TCQAL-1 through TCQAL-4 described above in Paragraph 4. The maximum rates of diversion through these structures to storage and for direct flow combined are described above at Paragraphs 3.5 and 4.7. 5.6.3

Date of appropriation: December 31, 2013. 5.6.4

Amount: Baseline East: 49 acre-feet; Baseline West: 55.23 acre-feet, both conditional, with a right to successively refill, subject to the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree. 5.6.5 Surface area: Approximately 10.05 acres each. 5.6.6 Dam height: Baseline East is approximately 11 feet and Baseline West is approximately 8 feet. 5.7 Name of structure: Enlargement of Baseline East and Baseline West Reservoirs 5.7.1 Location: Signal Reservoir 1 and 2, described above in Paragraphs 5.2.1 and 5.3.1 (per change in place of storage approved in Case No. 19CW3061). See Exhibit C. 5.7.2 Source: Surface flows in the South Platte River through the surface structures TCVS-01 and TCVS-02 described above in Paragraph 3, and ground water tributary to the South Platte River through wells TCQAL-1 through TCQAL-4 described above in Paragraph 4. The maximum rates of diversion through these structures to storage and for direct flow combined are described above at Paragraphs

3.5 and 4.7. 5.7.3 Date of appropriation: March

31, 2015. 5.7.4 Amount: 95.77 acre-feet, conditional, with a right to successively refill, for a total volume in the Baseline East and West Reservoirs of 200 acre-feet, conditional, with a right to successively refill, subject to the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree. 5.7.5

Surface area: 21 acres. 5.7.6 Dam height: Approximately 15 feet. 5.8 Date of original decree: April 5, 2017; Case No. 13CW3181; District Court, Water Division No. 1, Colorado. 5.9 Beneficial uses: All of the foregoing conditional storage rights are decreed for municipal, domestic, irrigation, industrial, commercial, recreational, augmentation, replacement and exchange purposes. Uses will occur on and for the benefit of lands and residents within Applicant’s service area as shown on Exhibit B, as it may be expanded or modified, and outside of that area through existing extraterritorial service contracts described in Paragraph 3.7.

6. Conditional Appropriative Rights of Exchange

6.1 Name of exchange: South Adams Lease Exchanges. 6.2 Exchange-from points: The approximate locations of the exchange-from points and related structures are shown on Exhibit D.

6.2.1 Meadow Island No. 1 – Little Dry, in the SE1/4, Section 13, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to release water down Little Dry Creek which flows into the South Platte River in the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 12, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 6.2.2 Meadow Island No. 1 – End of Ditch, in the E1/2 of the E1/2, Section 27, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., near the quarter section line between the NE1/4 and the SE1/4 to release water down Grafflin Slough which flows into the South Platte River in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 24, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 6.2.3 Lupton Bottom – East Lateral, in the SE1/4 of the SE1/4, Section 12, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to release water down Little Dry Creek which flows into the South Platte River in the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 12, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 6.2.4 Lupton Bottom – West Lateral, in the SE1/4 of the NW1/4, Section 24, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to release water down Little Dry Creek which flows into the South Platte River in the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 12, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 6.2.5 Lupton Bottom – End of West Lateral Augmentation Station, in the W1/2 of the E1/2, Section 27, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., near the quarter section line between the NE1/4 and the SE1/4, to release water down Grafflin Slough which flows into the South Platte River in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 24, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 6.2.6 Brighton Ditch – Big Dry, in an existing ditch turnout in the NW1/4 of the SW1/4, Section 12, Township 1 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to release water down Big Dry Creek to the confluence of the South Platte River in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4, Section 7, Township 1 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M. 6.2.7 Brighton Ditch – Wattenberg Augmentation Station, in the SW1/4, Section 25, or NW1/4 Section 36, Township 1 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to release water to the South Platte River in the NW1/4 of the SW1/4 or SW1/4 of the NW1/4, Section 30, Township 1 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M. 6.2.8 Fulton – County Line, in the SW1/4 of the NE1/4, Section 5, Township 1 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., to release water to the South Platte River near the north section line of Section 6, Township 1 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M. 6.3 Exchange-to points: 6.3.1 At the location at which depletions accrue to the South Platte River from the pumping of wells TCQAL-1 through TCQAL-4, as shown on Exhibit D and described as follows: (a) TCQAL-1:

In the NE1/4 SE1/4 Section 1, T.1S., R.67W., 6th

P.M., Adams County, Colorado, 2,037 feet from the South Section line and 111 feet from the East Section line of said Section 1. (b) TCQAL-2: In the NE1/4 SE1/4 Section 1, T.1S., R.67W., 6th

P.M., Adams County, Colorado, 1,645 feet from the South Section line and 370 feet from the East Section line of said Section 1. (c) TCQAL-3: In the NE1/4 SE1/4 Section 1, T.1S., R.67W., 6th

P.M., Adams County, Colorado, 1,829 feet from the South Section line and 328 feet from the East

Section line of said Section 1. (d) TCQAL-4: In the SW1/4 NW1/4 Section 6, T.1S., R.66W., 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, 1,895 feet from the North Section line and 475 feet from the West

Section line of said Section 6. 6.3.2 TCVS-01 and TCVS-02, described in Paragraph 3.2 above. See Exhibit D. 6.4 Date of appropriation: 6.4.1 For exchanges to well depletion locations: March 8, 2013. 6.4.2 For exchanges to surface points of diversion: December 31, 2013. 6.5 Amount: 6.5.1

For exchanges to well depletion locations: 2.23 c.f.s. to each depletion location, up to a total combined amount of 8.92 c.f.s., conditional, subject to the volumetric limit stated in Paragraph 17.1 of the 13CW3181 decree. 6.5.2 For exchanges to surface points of diversion: 9 c.f.s. total, to be diverted at TCVS-01 and TCVS-02, or any combination of these points of diversion, conditional, subject to the volumetric limit stated in Paragraph 17.1 of the 13CW3181 decree. 6.6 Date of original decree: April 5, 2017; Case No. 13CW3181; District Court, Water Division No. 1, Colorado. 6.7

Beneficial uses: Todd Creek will use water exchanged to the exchange-to points identified in Paragraph 6.3 for augmentation purposes to replace out-of-priority depletions from the pumping of wells TCQAL-1 through TCQAL-4 and/or outof-priority diversions at TCVS-01 and TCVS-02.

ervoir, and Beaver Creek Porosity Reservoir. Claims to Make Conditional Water Rights Absolute

8. Water was applied to beneficial use for each structure listed below in the place and manner described: 8.1 TCQAL-1: 8.1.1 Date water applied to beneficial use: June 13, 2017. See Exhibit E.

8.1.2 Amount: 362 gpm. 8.1.3 Beneficial uses: As described in Paragraph 3.7 above. 8.1.4 Place of uses: As described in Paragraph 3.7 above. 8.2 TCQAL-2: 8.2.1 Date water applied to beneficial use: October

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This notice is being published on 5/18/2023 and 5/25/2023 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.

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Legal Notice No.: 416301

First Publication: May 18, 2023

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Estate of Christopher B. Strickler, aka Chris B. Strickler, and Christopher Bert Strickler, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30475

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 September 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Penelope Strickler, Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

Legal Notice No. 416242

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Finding of Diligence

7. Detailed outline of activity during the relevant diligence period. Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(b), “[t]he measure of reasonable diligence is the steady application of effort to complete the appropriation in a reasonably expedient and efficient manner under all the facts circumstances. When a project or integrated system is comprised of several features, work on one feature of the project or system shall be considered finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of water rights for all features of the entire project or system.” The above-described conditional water rights decreed in Case No. 13CW3181 are a part of the Todd Creek water system that now provides, and in the future will provide, water for Todd Creek residents and customers. These rights comprise an integrated system of water rights and structures under C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(b) and, as such, Applicant’s work on any part of the Todd Creek water system constitutes reasonable diligence on the conditional water rights decreed in Case No. 13CW3181.

Since receiving the decree in Case No. 13CW3181 in April 2017, Applicant has diligently pursued its water rights by, including but not limited to, the activities and expenditures described below: 7.1

Amount:

678.93 acre-feet. 8.5.3 Beneficial uses: As described in Paragraph 5.9 above. 8.5.4 Place of uses: As described in Paragraph 5.9 above. 9. Land on which the subject structures are located, on which the water will be stored, or on which the water will be placed to beneficial use is owned by:

9.1 Aggregate Industries-WCR Inc. 1687 Cole Blvd Suite 300 Golden, CO 80401-3318 9.2 City of Brighton 500 S 4th Ave Brighton, CO 80601-3165

9.3 City of Aurora 15151 E Alameda Parkway 5th Floor Aurora, CO 80012. WHEREFORE, Applicant, requests that the Court enter a decree: 1. Making the following conditional rights absolute in part for all decreed uses: a) TCQAL-1: 362 gpm.

b) TCQAL-2: 518 gpm. c) TCQAL-4: 543 gpm.

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Estate of Theresa Martinez, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030314

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Estate of Susan L. Buhr, a/k/a Sue Buhr, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31483

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 September 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Applicant spent more than $9,338,766.03 in designing, constructing maintaining, and/or repairing water diversion, storage, and delivery structures and systems, including gravity line improvements, irrigation pump station upgrades, Mann Lakes Reservoir, River 1 pipeline, Signal Reservoir Nos. 1 and 2, and water treatment plant upgrades.

7.2

Applicant, West South Platte Water & Reservoir Company, LLLP, BennT Creek Regional Water Authority, and SP Regional Water Company, LLC negotiated and executed various agreements for the benefit of Applicant, including but not limited to those related to a regional water supply project, extraterritorial water service, and oil and gas water deliveries.

d) J.B. Smith Reservoir: 478.95 acre-feet. e) Signal Reservoir 2: 678.93 acre-feet. For any conditional right not made partially absolute as requested, Applicant requests that the right be continued in full force and effect. 2. Finding that Applicant has been reasonably diligent in the steady application of effort to complete the appropriation of the following conditional water rights for all decreed uses in a reasonably expedient and efficient manner under the facts and circumstances and continuing the following conditional water rights in full force and effect: a) TCVS-01: 40 c.f.s. b) TCVS-02: 40 c.f.s. c) TCQAL-1: 638 gpm. d) TCQAL-2: 482 gpm. e) TCQAL-3: 1,000 gpm. f) TCQAL-4: 457 gpm. g) J.B. Smith Reservoir: A total remaining conditional storage right of 2,431.05 acre-feet, based on the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree.

h) Signal Reservoir 1: 490 acre-feet, with a right to successively refill, subject to the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree.

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 September 11, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Steven M. Martinez

Personal Representative

c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

Legal Notice No. 416254

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Last Publication: May 25, 2023

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Jeff E. Buhr, Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, JD Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111

Legal Notice No.416259

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

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Estate of Marjory A. Cooke, a.k.a. Marjory Cooke, a.k.a Margie Cooke, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30463

7.3 Water Consulting Activities.

Applicant spent more than $1,103,114.00 in consulting work to defend and perfect the subject water rights as well as other rights in the system, and to appropriate new water rights for its integrated system of water rights. This work included, but was not limited to:

7.3.1 Developing and finalizing the accounting forms required under the 13CW3181 decree.

7.3.2 Managing the recording of surface and well diversions and staff gages, compiling surface and well diversion records, accounting for Applicants’ water rights operations and projections required under the 13CW3181 decree, reporting the same to state water officials, interacting with water commissioners, and conferring with counsel.

7.3.3 Providing analysis in support of the water rights applications in Case Nos. 16CW3019, 19CW3061, 19CW3247, and 20CW3215, as summarized below.

7.3.4 Providing analysis in opposition to the water rights applications summarized below.

7.4 Water Counsel Actions. Todd Creek spent more than $1,260,796.80 in legal fees to defend its decreed water rights and to appropriate new water rights for its integrated system of water rights. This work included, but was not limited to:

7.4.1 Protecting Applicant’s integrated system of water rights by filing statements of opposition and participating in various water rights cases in Case Nos. 22CW3208, 23CW3012, 19CW3016, 19CW3074 and 3075, 16CW3200, 19CW3084, 20CW3146 and 3147, 18CW3195, 20CW3199, 20CW3216, 20CW3125, 22CW3207, 20CW3200, 22CW3215, 22CW3209, 20CW3096, 19CW3246, 20CW3209, 22CW3130, 19CW3148, 21CW3061, 18CW3159, 19CW3062, 22CW3063, 18CW3158, 20CW3156, 19CW3073.

7.4.2 Negotiating and/or preparing various agreements related to the exercise of the subject water rights. 7.4.3 Filing an application for and obtaining a decree in Case No. 16CW3019 for conditional water storage rights in Mann Lakes Reservoir.

7.4.4 Filing, on behalf of Applicant as co-applicant, an application for and obtaining a decree in Case No. 19CW3061 for changes of conditional water storage rights decreed in Baseline East, Baseline West, and Marcus Reservoirs; conditional water storage rights in Signal Reservoir Nos. 1 and 2; conditional water storage rights in Mann Lakes Reservoir (third fill); and conditional direct flow surface water rights at points of diversion WSP-1 through -14. 7.4.5 Filing, on behalf of Applicant as co-applicant, an application for and obtaining a decree in Case No. 19CW3247 for conditional direct flow surface water rights at points of diversion TCVS-01 and TCV-02; conditional storage water rights at J.B. Smith Reservoir; and a plan for augmentation and appropriative rights of exchange at points of diversion WSP-6-11 and WSP-12-14. 7.4.6 Filing, on behalf of Applicant as a member of co-applicant BennT Creek Regional Water Authority, an application in pending Case No. 20CW3215 for conditional direct flow surface water rights at SP Diversions, and for conditional storage water rights at GB-1 Reservoir, Beaver Creek Surface Reservoir, Sand Arroyo Reservoir, Bennett Reservoir, Signal Reservoir

Reservoir No. 4, Mann Lakes Res-

i) Signal Reservoir 2: A total remaining conditional storage right of 2,231.07 acre-feet, based on the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree. j) Signal 2 Enlargement: 30 acre-feet, with a right to successively refill, subject to the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree. k) Marcus Reservoir: 18 acre-feet, with a right to successively refill, subject to the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree. l) Baseline East Reservoir: 49 acre-feet, with a right to successively refill, subject to the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree. m) Baseline West Reservoir: 55.23 acre-feet, with a right to successively refill, subject to the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree. n) Enlargement of Baseline East and Baseline West Reservoirs: 95.77 acre-feet, with a right to successively refill, subject to the volumetric limits in Paragraph 17 of the 13CW3181 decree. o) South Adams Lease Exchanges: 8.92 c.f.s. and 9 c.f.s. 3. Granting such other relief as the Court deems just and proper.

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.

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 JUNE 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. GT1121

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

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Estate of Phillip Anton Hothan, AKA Phillip A. Hothan, AKA Phillip Hothan, AKA Phil Anton Hothan, AKA Phil A. Hothan, AKA Phil Hothan Deceased Case Numbe: 2023PR030492

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 September 11, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Virginia A. Frazer-Abel

Person Giving Notice 4704 Harlan Street, Suite 250 Denver, CO 80212

Legal Notice No. 416277

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Last Publication: May 25, 2023

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Estate of Helen Irene Rhodes, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30471

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 October 3, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Alexander David Kampovitz

Personal Representative

4363 S. Quebec St. Apt 2212 Denver CO 80237

Legal Notice No. GT1116

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Last Publication: May 25, 2023

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Estate of Michal Jerzy Stotler, a/k/a Michal J. Stotler, a/k/a Michal Stotler, a/k/a Michael Jerzy Stotler, a/k/a Michael J. Stotler, a/k/a Michael Stotler, a/k/a Michal Jerzy Wac, a/k/a Michal J. Wac, a/k/a Michal Wac, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30571

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 September 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jaylin Stotler, Personal Representative 4453 Nambe Road Indian Hills, CO 80454

Legal Notice No. 416302

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Last Publication: June 1, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

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 September 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

William D. Cooke c/o Sandra M. Sigler, Esq. Sigler & Nelson LLC 390 Union Blvd., Ste. 580 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 444-3025

Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. 416261

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

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Estate of Betty Catherine Perkins a/k/a Betty C. Perkins a/k/a Betty Perkins, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30330

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 September 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Darlene F. Kuehn

Personal Representative 86 Martin Lane Bellevue, ID 83313

Legal Notice No. GT1120

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Last Publication: May 25, 2023

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Estate of NANCY H. MILLER, a/k/a NANCY HOUSE MILLER, a/k/a NANCY MILLER, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30545

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 September 11, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

William J. Miller

Personal Representative 9403 Cubs Den Drive Littleton, CO 80127

Legal Notice No. GT1118

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Last Publication: May 25, 2023

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Estate of Vivian Teresa Cook, a/k/a Vivian LaFore Cook, a/k/a Vivian L. Cook, a/k/a Vivian Cook, Deceased

Western Slope wolf plan gets state OK

Wildlife commissioners hand proposal to CPW managers after two years of work

BY JASON BLEVINS THE COLORADO SUN

e Colorado Parks and Wildlife board of commissioners have approved a nal plan to restore wolves in Colorado.

Concluding two years of work — and hundreds of hours of meetings across the state — the commissioners unanimously approved a 301-page plan to begin restoring wolves, as mandated by voters in November 2020.

Commissioner Dallas May said it was “morally imperative” for the commissioners to approve the plan and hand it o to CPW wildlife managers on schedule. e agency is on track to begin introducing wolves on the Western Slope by year’s end – per the voter mandate in November 2020 – even though there are many challenges ahead that threaten to derail that schedule.

“We now have the opportunity to place this in the hands of people who are absolutely the best team that can be assembled to enact it,” May said. “Is it a perfect plan? Probably not. It is an assemblage of give-andtake, of trying to nd the middle of the road. ere will be many things that we did not anticipate.

“ is is where the CPW team of dedicated professionals will begin their di cult and arduous task to ful ll their mission,” May said. “It is not our job to micromanage their work. Our job is to give them this plan and let them do what they do best.”

Gov. Jared Polis called the commission on May 3 to thank the agency’s sta and volunteer commissioners for what he called “a big lift.”

Outgoing commissioner Carrie Besnette Hauser, the commission chair, said the nal approval “was a bit emotional” after months of healthy debate.

“I’m really proud of Colorado and I’m proud of all of you,” she said.

e restoration plan was developed over two years of meetings with both a Technical Working Group and a Stakeholder Advisory Group. Colorado Parks and Wildlife also held 47 meetings that engaged with 3,400 residents. e plan calls for phased manage-

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WITHOUT APPEARANCE BY PUBLICATION

Pursuant to § 15-10-401(1)(c), C.R.S. and C.R.P.P. 24

To: John Leslie Stone III

Last Known Address, if any: 493 S Youngfield Ct. Apt 112, Lakewood, CO 80228

A hearing without appearance on the Special Conservator’s Petition for Breach of Fiduciary Duty and Surcharge (title of pleading) for (brief description of relief requested) a finding that John Leslie Stone III breached his fiduciary duty and a Judgment against John Leslie Stone III and in favor of E.H.S. (minor) is set at the following date, time, and location:

Date: June 5, 2023 Time: 8:00

Division: L Address: 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80401

Attendance at this hearing is not required or expected. Any interested person wishing to object to the requested action set forth in the petition and the 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

ment that can be adjusted as wolf populations grow in the state.

e restoration will begin with introducing 30 to 50 gray wolves in the next three to ve years. e state proposes wintertime releases of captured wolves in two areas on the Western Slope: along the Interstate 70 corridor between Glenwood Springs and Vail, and along the U.S. 50 corridor between Monarch Pass and Montrose. e rst releases are planned for state or private land around the I-70 corridor.

As the state has planned restoration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reviewing an exemption under the Endangered Species Act that would establish wolves in Colorado as an experimental population.

e so-called 10(j) rule allows exible management strategies, like allowing ranchers to kill wolves that are threatening livestock or people.

e plan will allow ranchers who lose livestock to wolves to be compensated as much as $15,000 per animal. e plan outlines many nonlethal interventions to discourage wolves from killing livestock and

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.

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Cimarron Metropolitan District (hereinafter called the “Owner”) will receive sealed Bids for the Candelas Slope Failure Storm Sewer and Drains (the Project”) via electronic submission to Independent District Engineering Services (IDES); 1626 Cole Blvd, Suite 125, Lakewood, CO 80401 from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., June 6, 2023. Electronic copies of the bid documents are to be sent to bcollins@idesllc.com and tboisvert@idesllc.com.

A description of the Work to be performed generally includes but is not limited to: storm sewer pipe, storm sewer inlets, underdrain, shallow trench drain, interceptor drain, deep fill drain, cutoff wall, copper irrigation service extension, permits, geotechnical coordination and any and all other work necessary to complete the project in accordance

it does allow the killing of wolves caught in the act of attacking livestock, saying both the stakeholder and technical groups viewed lethal management “as being critically important to a successful wolf management program.”

e federal wildlife service has expedited its review and expects to issue a nal Environmental Impact Statement by December. Legislation introduced in the Colorado Senate in March — Senate Bill 256 — prohibits introduction of gray wolves in Colorado until that 10(j) analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act is complete.

Mike Samson, a four-term Gar eld County commissioner, spoke during public comment before the agency’s commissioners began reviewing the nal plan, saying the wolf restoration was “Colorado voters attempting to be Mother Nature” and “ballot-box biology.” He urged the commissioners to allow lethal taking of wolves, pointing to Idaho, where lawmakers have approved legislation allowing for killing up to 90% of the state’s estimated 1,500 wolves. ( e Colorado plan does not allow hunting, but the adaptive management strategy leaves open most management options in future years as wolf populations grow.)

“Wolves need to be legally hunted and trapped to keep their numbers in check,” Samson said.

Representatives for cattlemen groups urged the commissioners to approve compensation for ranchers who spend money on wolf mitigation, not just those who lose livestock to the predators.

Many public speakers asked the commissioners where they plan to get wolves to relocate into Colorado. e state’s plan calls for capturing wild gray wolves in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. e draft plan says Colorado has “begun to explore an agreement” with the three states. A recent report by 9News quoted o cials in each state saying there were no discussions with Colorado about donating wolves.

e draft plan also says Colorado “has also begun to explore an agreement” with Washington and Oregon. e 9News report also quoted o cials in Oregon and Washington saying they were not working with Colorado on sourcing wolves for restoration in the state.  is story from e Colorado Sun, www.ColoradoSun.com. e Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, which owns Colorado Community Media.

with Contract Documents including the plans and specifications. Specifically, Work includes the installation of storm sewer pipe and all drains to be included as part of the Bid.

Interested bidders may download the digital documents for $22.00 by inputting Quest project number 8524612 on the website’s projects search page after 5/19/2023.

An optional pre-bid conference will be held online and in person at the Offices of Independent District Engineering Services (IDES); 1626 Cole Blvd, Suite 125, Lakewood, CO 80401, at 2:00 P.M. on June 2, 2023.

Bidders must supply a list of Subcontractors providing Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) or more in labor and/or materials to the Project.

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

Colorado Parks and Wildlife placed GPS collars on two wolves in North Park on Feb. 2, 2023. Male wolf 2101 has a gray coat and is in the foreground on the right. Male wolf 2301, believed to be the o spring of the gray colored wolf, has a black coat and is in the background on the left. COURTESY COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE