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Beyond Casa Bonita

The future of the 40 West District after the Pink Palace opens

BY JO DAVIS JDAVIS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Much of the state awaits the opening of Casa Bonita, but some of the businesses around the Pink Palace are looking forward to much more than the sopapillas.

at’s because Casa Bonita was an economic draw in the 1970s and not because of the food. So, will it bring crowds again, and what does that mean for the future of the 40 West Arts District in Lakewood?

Lakewood Mayor Adam Paul is optimistic.

“I think that it’s an incredible part of the 40 West Arts District and has always been,” he said. “And now that we’re going to be able to draw more people to that area, they’re going to get to really see a lot of the groundwork that the community has done for the arts in that area.”

CEO of the West Metro Chamber of Commerce Jansen Tidmore explained the mayor’s optimism.

He said that there’s a concept to understand when discussing Casa Bonita and Lakewood — quality of place. Tidmore says that quality of life used to be the measure city o cials used to talk about

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County considers consolidation of Moore Middle School and Pomona High School

BY JANE REUTER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Westminster’s Moore Middle School and Arvada’s Pomona High School could be consolidated into a 6-12th-grade facility under a plan proposed by both schools’ principals.

e Je erson County School Board heard a presentation on the idea during its June 7 study session. e board will vote on the recommendation June 22 during its regular meeting.

If it’s approved, Moore Middle School would close at the end of this school year, and its students would attend Pomona High School starting with the 2024-2025 school year. e two schools are about a 5-minute drive apart. e proposal is among several school closures and consolidations planned districtwide due to declining enrollment. Je co Public Schools voted to close 16 elementary schools in November 2022.

But the Pomona/Moore consolidation is unique; the idea came from the Pomona/ Moore school communities and was not initiated by the district. District leaders have made no recommendations about the consolidation or closing of any middle or high schools at this point.

Pomona Principal Pat Rock and Moore Principal Brenda Fletcher rst approached district leadership with the consolidation proposal in January, describing it as a vision for “a thriving 6-12 secondary experience.”

Both institutions have seen enrollment steadily decline. Pomona’s enrollment has decreased by about 15% over ve school years, and about 50% at Moore.

“Enrollment declines have been particularly acute at Moore Middle School,” said Claire

Casa Bonita’s opening date is still unknown but highly anticipated for businesses in the 40 West District.

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CASA BONITA

their assets, but now the quality of place is more relevant. Instead of looking at crime, wages and similar factors, cities like Lakewood now pay attention to experiences.

“When we look at developments like Casa Bonita, I mean, that’s a differentiator,” he said.

The restaurant is helping Lakewood establish a quality of place in its unique, one-of-a-kind experience.

Tidmore said that it’s hard for locals to see the draw in such a local institution that is essentially a Mexican restaurant.

“Sometimes that feels odd to say when you’re talking about a restaurant. But let’s face it, when we travel, and we go places, what’s the thing that most people talk about? Where they’re going to eat,” he said. “So this is another one of those drivers of quality and place. Another one is drivers to get people to want to come to Jefferson, want to come to Lakewood for the experience you literally can’t get anywhere else.”

Lakewood locals all remember the draw of the restaurant when it was new in the ‘70s. Tidmore believes that the draw will happen again. He said that the social media following surrounding the

reopening is one major sign of interest. This has brought media attention from all over the state, which, Tidmore said is also a good sign.

He added that all the attention is drawing interest from businesses and developers who want to be a part of the “place” with Casa Bonita at the center.

That attention will only grow after the opening.

“Watch as people come, because let’s face it, in our culture, retail and restaurants, they follow expendable incomes,” he said.

“After Casa Bonita opens and as the people come, there’s gonna be a tremendous amount of other consumer-driven companies that want to follow and be a part of the district.”

He went on to explain that this is, “how arts and culture types of experiences build and draw others.”

So, what does Tidmore expect beyond the opening of Casa Bonita?

“I think you’re going to see more restaurants, arts and culture driven companies and businesses and galleries that want to be a part of the area,” he said. “Now, I do think it will be district driven. You know, what’s good for Lakewood, and what’s good for Colfax is also good for all Jefferson County. I don’t want to downplay that, because there’s going to be a rever-

beration.”

In the meantime, Tidmore and the West Metro Chamber will continue their work to improve the quality of place in the West Colfax corridor, the 40 West Arts District and Lakewood.

“When you look at where people choose to live, and where people choose to spend their dollars. it’s where they try to find experiences, places that they want to be in,” he

said. “In a world that’s more remote work than ever, there’s more flexibility on how and where you get to live. It’s critical for communities like ours to make sure that we’re finding ways to enhance that quality of place that people choose to be in.”

For more information on the West Metro Chamber and its projects, check out the chamber’s website.

This little plaza is the center of the arts in Lakewood. O cials hope Casa Bonita’s opening will bring growth and positive changes to the area. PHOTO COURTESY 40 WEST ARTS DISTRICT

Help Je co Clerk and Recorder “map the county”

BY JO DAVIS JDAVIS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It’s redistricting time, and you can help “map the county.”

Je erson County Clerk and Recorder Amanda Gonzalez gave an information session June 6 on redistricting.

Every 10 years, the county redraws the lines that determine a lot of political, economic and demographic

information about Je co. is time around, Gonzalez is seeking the community’s help in redrawing the lines.

According to the Clerk and Recorder’s o ce, redistricting is a chance to redraw the lines from which county commissioners are selected. ose lines are also used to capture changes in the county, in community demographics, diversity, interests and more. It’s a way to ex-

pand lines for growing communities and rede ne communities that have become more or less diverse.

At the information session, Gonzalez demonstrated a new tool that Je co residents can use to redraw district lines. e District Mapping Tool was developed in partnership with the County MGGG Redistricting Lab, a Tisch College of Tufts University research group. e software o ers two options for residents. e

option is to use a blank map to draw lines basically from scratch and the second option provides a current district map with lines that residents can alter.

According to the Clerk and Recorder’s o ce, there are a few things to remember when thinking about the new lines. First, the district

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Don’t Let Capital Gains Tax Deter You From Cashing Out on an Investment Property

According to the Census Bureau, our country has nearly 116M housing units for a population of 330M men, women, and children. Sixty percent of the housing units are single-family detached homes.

The National Association of Home Builders states that roughly 7M of the housing units (about 6%) are second homes or vacation homes not available to rent.

The Census Bureau calculates there are 20M rental properties in the U.S., owned by 14.3M individual investors. According to AirDNA.co, there are 1.1M short-term rental properties.

So, to sum up, there are over 28M properties out of 116M that are either vacation homes, second homes or investment prop-

Meet Our Broker Associates and Me at the Farmers Market in Golden

Every summer, Golden Real Estate gets a “showcase” booth at one of the farmers markets held in downtown Golden, and this Saturday, June 17th, is this year’s date.

Bring your questions about real estate, or simply come to say “hello.” We’ll have our laptops online so we can even help you look at homes and set up an MLS email alert matching your search criteria.

You’ll be entered in a drawing for a $100 gift certificate to a Golden restaurant. Bring your reusable bags, too — this is one of Denver’s top rated farmers markets!

We’ll be there from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The market is next to the Public Library on 10th Street in downtown Golden.

erties of some type.

The Colorado Association of Realtors reports that the number of second home sales has jumped 44% since the beginning of Covid in March 2020. So, whether you own a vacation home, second home, rental home, or short-term rental condo, you own real estate that is subject to capital gains tax when you sell it.

Many sellers of such investment properties take advantage of the Sec. 1031 tax deferred exchange option, which allows the property owner to roll the taxable gain into another piece of real estate and put your full pre-tax proceeds to work.

Doing a 1031 exchange of real estate requires what’s called a “qualified intermediary” (or QI) and not the title company conducting the closing to hold your proceeds until you reinvest them, and the IRS allows 45 days to identify and 180 days to close on the replacement property. As the seller, you cannot “touch” the proceeds from the sale of your relinquished property. The QI must work with the title company to facilitate transfer of the proceeds to the new closing. If a qualifying replacement property cannot be closed within 180 days, that opportunity is lost and the gain will be taxable.

Unless the investment property is inherited at your death, there will be a capital gains tax liability. For some, the gain has been so significant that perhaps it’s time to pay the tax and laugh all the way to the bank with the remainder. Note: You cannot use the 1031 tax deferral strategy to sell or

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purchase a primary residence.

There are several capital gains tax calculators online, and I’ll post a link for one at www.GoldenREblog.com along with links about the 1031 process.

To determine your tax exposure, start with the original purchase price. What did you pay for the property when you bought it? Second, add up all the money you put into capital improvements of the property. Then subtract depreciation which you took on your tax returns. The IRS considers investment real estate’s “useful life” to be 27.5 years. The cost basis of the property is the amount you paid, plus the cost of selling it – commissions, settlement fees, and closing costs, minus the depreciation taken.

An agent in our office calculated the following numbers for a deal he is doing and roughly calculated the net gain. His seller’s unit was purchased in 2016 for $275,000, netted the owner $10,000 per year in passive income, enjoying a 61% profit in just six years, after tax. The lucky owner paid the tax man and was left with roughly $377,000 in cash after everything

We join many other Golden citizens in mourning the death of our former broker associate and all-around great person, Carol Milan, was passed away last month. Our condolences to her family.

was deducted. Discuss your particular situation with your CPA if you have one, and, if not, I can recommend a local firm. These figures are round numbers and for the purposes of this article.

I believe in paying taxes. It is pothole season and street crews are at work. Fireman are on call and the police are vigilant. Our national defense is strong, and we live in the most prosperous nation in the world where wealth can be created simply from smart investing. Be proud, as I am, to pay your taxes, for you made a lot of money in a beautiful place called Colorado.

Austin Pottorff, who deals more than I do with investors, helped with the research for this article.

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One of the two value statements on our yard signs (see logo below) is “Promoting and Modeling Environmental Responsibility.” If you’re a buyer wanting to assess the sustainability of the homes you are considering, you owe it to yourself to hire one of our agents, because we know this topic better than most real estate agents.

In addition to pointing out the good and bad points of the houses we show you, our inspectors “speak green” too, and, as a summer special, we are offering buyers we serve a Free Energy Audit after closing.

We Welcome Broker Associate Kathy Jonke to Our Team

Kathy, who lives in downtown Golden, joined our brokerage this week. We’re no longer an all-male brokerage.

This home at 1004 4th Street is truly oneof-a-kind. There are magnificent views of North and South Table Mountain from the floor-to-ceiling windows on the main level. You are within walking distance to downtown Golden with its famous shops and restaurants. This is a 4-BR, 4-bath home on a corner lot. The wide-open main level floor plan is great for entertaining, or just appreciating the fabulous views and staying cozy near the gas fireplace. The state-of-the-art kitchen is a chef's delight. It has a 6-burner stove with an additional griddle and double oven. The refrigerator is oversized, and there is a walk-in pantry. The primary suite has a spa-like feel with a walk-in steam shower with 3 shower heads. There are 2 sinks with quartz counter, a soaking tub an extra-large walk-in closet. The upper level has two bedrooms, and a tiled 3/4 bath. Outside the bedrooms, there is a wide-open bonus area with desks, bookshelves and fantastic views. Above the 2nd floor a rooftop office/reading room that opens to a private roof-top deck. The lower level could be used as a mother-in-law living space with its extra-large bedroom with a walk-in closet, large living area with a wet bar, and its own private patio. Included is a one-year builder warranty. Take a narrated video tour at www.NorthGoldenHome.com, then come to David Dlugasch’s open house on Saturday, June 17th, 11am to 2pm. Or call him at 303-908-4835 to see it.

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She was born and raised in Wheat Ridge. With her degree in Geology and Earth Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her career with the U.S. Forest Service in geophysics, she relocated often, which gave her the opportunity to renovate houses and historic commercial buildings, and also to design and build new homes. Her passion for real estate led Kathy to become a real estate broker, and she loves helping people navigate the buying and selling process in the local Golden market.

Kathy settled in Golden five years ago and had a home built in the 9th Street historic district. She is active in the community, where she volunteers with her friend Judy Denison (who I featured recently) at the International Rescue Committee. She also serves on the City of Golden’s Historic Preservation Board.

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Forge Christian High School hopes to create new culture despite lingering controversy

bers will remain at Forge.

While some things will certainly be di erent at Forge this fall, other hallmarks of Faith — also known as FCA (Faith Christian Academy) — will remain. For one, 95% of Faith’s student body has reenrolled in Forge, according to Long.

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Leaders at Grace Church of Arvada have begun detailing their plans for Forge Christian High School. Plans for the school, purchased for $12 million, come a few months after the announcement that Faith Christian Academy would close its doors due to mounting nancial woes.

Grace Church Pastor Rick Long promises a new vision for Forge, despite lingering nancial issues and a history of controversy over racial discrimination allegations at Faith Christian Academy, as well as the fact that most of Faith’s sta mem-

populations must be equal or close within a 5% margin between the “most populous” and the least. en, Gonzalez and her team do not want to divide communities “with the same interest.” So, there is a focus on keeping towns together, for example.

In addition to redrawing lines, Je co residents can identify communities by interest and diversity. Once the new map is created, it can be submitted to Clerk’s O ce for consideration.

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Gonzalez also o ers residents an alternative to the mapping tool. Submit comments on redistricting through an online form found on the Redistricting webpage.  She is holding another information session from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on June 21 at the Golden Library, 1019 10th St, Golden.

Bring your maps (you can print them out), questions, comments and feedback to the session. Don’t miss this moment to rede ne Je erson County.

For more information, the mapping tool and an FAQ on redistricting, check out the Je co Redistricting webpage.

Most of the Faith faculty will also return — including former Superintendent Andrew Hasz, whose father Martin founded FCA in Denver in 1971. Hasz will serve as Forge’s head of school, according to Long, who coached football with Hasz at FCA and whose children are graduates from the now-defunct school.

Additionally, all but three teachers from last year’s FCA faculty will teach at Forge next year, and eight outside educators have been brought in so far to round out the

Forge’s athletic teams will be called the Fury.

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Takhar, the district’s director of strategic initiatives. “Its capacity is 797, and enrollment next year is estimated at 300 students.

“Pomona has capacity of 1,979,” Takhar continued. “If every student in the Pomona and Moore boundary chooses to attend school there, we’d have more than enough space.”

e drop in enrollment is in part because fewer students live in the area today.

“As enrollment declines, schools have fewer resources to provide robust experiences and programs for students,” Takhar said. “ is can lead more parents to choice out to more well-sourced schools, and exacerbate enrolment declines.”

Combining the two allows the school to maximize resources, school o cials said, and enhance opportunities for all students. It will also save money.

“We anticipate ongoing annual savings up to $1.1 million,” Takhar said.

e conversion will also require some upgrades and one-time expenses. ose estimates will be shared with the district soon.

Pomona High School was built in 1975 and Moore in 1978.

More school studies coming While the district wasn’t involved in the Pomona/Moore consolidation proposal, it is taking a close look at all its facilities through a

two-phase program called Regional Opportunities for riving Schools.

e initiative aims to create a plan that ensures “thriving schools with enrollment to support extraordi-

nary student experiences across Phase I of ROFTS, which focused on under enrollment in Je co elementary schools, resulted in the school board’s decision to close 16 elementary schools.

In Phase II, the district will consider consolidation recommendations for K-8 and middle schools with declining enrollment, conduct a study of school boundaries to get a better understanding of where students live, analyze its alternative education campuses to ensure they’re meeting students’ needs, and coordinate its plans with impacted municipalities.

“A lot of it has to do with the changing demographics of Je erson County,” said Kimberly Eloe, Je co Public Schools executive director of communications. “ e school-aged population of Je erson County has been steadily declining for 20 years, and is expected to Public school enrollment has dropped nationwide since the pandemic. An Urban Institute report says increases in homeschooling and private schools accounted for some of that loss, while more than a third of the decline is unexplained. For more information on the proposed Pomona/Moore consolidation, visit the Sustaining the Pomona Pipeline page on the school’s website.

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Grace Church Pastor Rick Long said Grace is currently undertaking a series of renovations of the former Faith Christian High School campus on Carr Street to give the school a distinct identity apart from Faith. Long said the renovations are currently over budget, and that the Grace leadership team is seeking donations to cover the di erence.

“I think that what we specialize in at Grace is loving everybody,” Long said. “I mean, that’s our motto — ‘love no matter what;’ whether we agree or disagree …We love everybody.”

Changing the culture

In 2018, Gregg Tucker, a teacher at Faith Christian High School, was red by the school’s leadership after holding a chapel discussion pertaining to “a number of disturbing incidents of racism” at the school.

e discussion was spurred by former student Ramya Sinha, one of the only Black students at the school at the time, who came to Tucker to con de in him regarding the racism she’d experienced.

After Tucker was red, he sued FCA for discrimination. e case is still being litigated, with Faith arguing that by discussing race in the chapel, Tucker — a history teacher — had acted in the capacity of a minister,

thereby foregoing federal employment protections that are a orded to teachers.

In his defense, Tucker has claimed that he was a secular teacher and thus did not fall under what is called the “ministerial exemption.” On June 12, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the case, sending it

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back to district court for trial, which is slated to begin in the coming months.

Richard Katskee, the vice president and legal director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State — Tucker’s legal counsel — said the case underscores broader cultural issues at FCA.

“ e school had some really ugly problems with racism, there were students who showed up in KKK robes, students who did mock executions of students of color in the school,” Katskee said. “Gregg did what a really good teacher does, he tried to educate the students, teach them about racism and make them see what they had done in that way.” en some parents complained, Katskee said.

“What the school did was say, ‘We can’t risk losing one parent’s tuition over one unhappy parent,’ so they red Gregg,” Katskee continued. “And that meant that they red him for teaching that racism isn’t a good thing. at ts into the category of a discriminatory ring, particularly because Gregg had been subjected to this awful hateful stu as well. He didn’t respond by getting angry, he responded by trying to teach.”

Long said he was involved in discussions between Tucker and FCA and says that FCA’s demographic makeup — which was predominantly white — is simply due to the local population, not, as Sinha put it, a “culture of white supremacy.”

Nevertheless, Long said he’s committed to building a student body that mirrors that of Grace Church, which Long says is “very multicultural.”

To that end, Forge is working with the ACE Foundation — ACE President Jason DiFraia sits on Grace Church’s board of directors — to make 140 scholarships covering between 40% to 60% of tuition, which Long said will be around $11,000.

“I would much rather have a student in our school that wants to be there and need some assistance than a student who’s been forced to go who’s got all the money in the world,” Long said.

In addition, Long said his team is being intentional about bringing in educators who come from diverse backgrounds.

Many of Forge’s new hires are people of color, Long said.

Sinha said that since the leadership at Forge will mostly be the same as that of FCA — Forge will not have a principal, but Hasz will serve as head of school, while a six-person advisory team includes ve former FCA sta ers — these changes fall short of adequately changing the culture.

“ e leadership behind Forge will be the same as Faith which will ensure that the culture of abuse, oppression, violence, and silencing will continue to ourish without accountability,” Sinha said. “Changing the name of Faith Christian to Forge Christian will not change the inherent culture of abuse and will not hide the fact that the school is an oppressive institution that fosters white supremacy and promotes hatred all while excusing it under the guise of some loving (white) Jesus.”

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In addition to Hasz, many other members of FCA’s leadership team will stay on with Forge.

e advisory team is comprised of Academic Director April Everitt, a former FCA teacher; Director of Instruction and Curriculum Amy Horton, a former instructional coach at FCA; Athletic Director Abram Ziemer, who served in the same capacity at FCA; Dean of Students Micah Connor, a former FCA football coach; and Enrollment Director Dori Naas, who also held the same post at FCA.

Fine Arts Director Alexa Etchart — a former Grey’s Anatomy cast member who attends church at Grace,

The interior of Forge’s campus will see a thorough renovation before school starts this fall.

Preview of the facade of Forge Christian High School’s Carr Street campus.

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according to Long — is the only member of the advisory team who did not come from FCA.

Speaking about Hasz, Long said that the former FCA superintendent is undergoing a journey of personal transformation. Long also implied that in the Gregg Tucker case, Hasz was not the one making nal decisions.

“ e former superintendent, Andrew Hasz, is going to be the head of our school. But he has gone through a rigorous — and is still going through a rigorous — transformation. is is such a di erent approach to the school compared to what it used to be.”

“I watched (Hasz), throughout that situation,” Long continued, “I watched how hard it was in the early days on his heart… Some of what was happening — and he would never pin this on anybody, and I’m not blaming anyone — had to do with who the principal was and who was handling those situations at the time.”

Long said he has written a one-day seminar that all Forge teachers and sta will participate in to discuss the culture of the new school and how things will be operated di erently. He added that in his opinion, Long doesn’t feel Hasz has ever discrimi-

nated against a student and added that the head of school seems open to change.

“I have watched (Hasz) coach every student of every ethnicity,” Long said. “We go to some of the communities that are mostly Hispanic or are mostly African-American. Nothing but love and grace for people. Of course, we see di erences, but he’s never treated anybody di erent, nor does he feel that he’s better than anyone.”

Finances

Faith Christian notably closed due to mounting nancial woes.

In a video posted to YouTube in December 2022, FCA Pastor Jason King said that between 1991 and 2000, FCA took out a $6.8 million loan to purchase its Carr Street campus. In 2002, Faith took out an additional $14.2 million to nance the building of its worship center, King said.

By 2017, the ministry had only paid o about $1.4 million, leaving Faith with a debt of $19 million. At that point, the ministry began working to cut its overhead, with King stating that they were “led of the Lord.”

As of December 2022, Faith had paid o $4 million of the $19 million-dollar debt.

ese issues called for Faith to sell the Carr Street property to Grace, in what King called a “Kingdom Transaction.”

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However, Grace — which paid $12 million from the Carr Street campus — seems to be over budget, according to Long.

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Long said that Grace raised $4 million in cash from Grace’s congregation and raised an additional $2.4 million in three-year-pledges. He then added that renovations for the campus have exceeded the original $2 million budget by the same gure — creating a $2 million “shortfall,” according to Long. e pastor also added that Grace took out a $7 million loan from their bank as well, which will eventually need to be repaid.

“We’re raising the money to do this,” Long said. “We raised $5 cash and got a $7 million loan from our bank — we have a great Christian banking institution, they’re wonderful — then, we raised another $2.4 million in three-year pledges. What we’ll be working on over the next three years is continuing to add to that number in three-year commitments.”

Long said the debt relief will come from those three-year commitments.

He added that Grace has about $7 million worth of equity at their Arvada campus.

Among the renovations, Long said, are added security measures, including a $1 million fence around the parking lot to prevent auto thefts and other issues. Long said that other renovations include updating Faith’s signage with Forge’s logos, which he hopes will give the school its own unique identity.

Long said he does not expect the school to be for pro t.

“To operate both the church and the school, we have no desire to make money from the school, just break even,” Long said. “ e church is not in this for money. When I look at the challenges nancially ahead of us, the biggest thing is just getting the safety and security of the school covered.”

Long said renovations are on track to be completed by the beginning of the school year, which kicks o on Aug. 10 with back-to-school night, while the rst day of school will be on Aug. 16. Enrollment is open until Aug. 1.

Incoming students pose in Forge apparel.

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The incomparable Hazel Miller, in her own words

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Since she was in third grade, Hazel Miller — and more than likely, those around her — knew that she would be a singer. e legendary Colorado vocalist and resident of Arvada was inducted into the state’s Music Hall of Fame on June 10, capping an exceptional career that has taken Miller around the world and earned her a place in the hearts of thousands.

Miller, the fth of seven children, was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her mother and father were guarded-yet-exceptional singers in their own rights.

When Miller was in third grade, a priest at her school named Samuel Viani asked her to join the eighth graders for a Christmas song — a prospect that, to Miller’s knowledge, had never been done. Even at an early age, Miller’s talent was undeniable.

“After that, I knew,” Miller said. “When you’re the fth of seven children, you’re Joanne’s sister, you’re

Carol’s sister, you’re Eddie’s sister — all of a sudden, everyone knew my name. I told my mother I was going to be a singer. She said ‘OK, as long as you go to school.’” at she did. ings were lean in the Miller household, but the

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tight-knit bond of the family largely made up for that. Miller said that her mom raised seven children on $150 a week salary.

Miller said she wasn’t particularly aware of social class before she transitioned from a parochial Catholic school to a public school. ere, she faced bullying but was undeterred.

“I didn’t know I was broke until I got to public school, and these girls… they let me know in no uncertain terms that I’m from the project,” she said.

Early career

After high school, at age 21, Miller enrolled at the University of Louisville and sang in bars on weekends. Newly divorced and with a newborn baby boy in tow, she biked with her son to school, singing all the while.

“I used to wrap a towel around the crossbar — it was a boy’s bike — and we’d ride to school, the college was about four miles up the road,” Miller said. “And we’d sing all the way there and sing all the way home. My son, to this day, says, ‘I didn’t know we were broke. We were having so much fun!’”

Shortly thereafter, following the birth of her second son, Miller changed her focus to music, with the support of her family.

“I went to work at the best nightclub in Louisville, Joe’s Bomb Room,” Miller said. “I started making real money — $400 a week — and I worked from ursday to Sunday. And my mother treated me like I was Aretha Franklin. She said, ‘Go do this, we’ll watch the kids.’ I have never known a time where my family didn’t support me.”

Miller built a strong following in Kentucky but was beginning to outgrow her hometown.

In 1982, she recorded the Louis-

ville anthem “Louisville, Look What We Can Do,” which brought her further local acclaim. Earlier this year, she was invited back to her hometown in January to perform the song at Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg’s inauguration. Still, Miller’s sights began to drift elsewhere.

Dana Marsh, Miller’s longtime keyboardist, moved to Colorado in 1982 and stayed in touch will Miller, with the latter ying Marsh back to Louisville for shows periodically.

“I kept telling her about Colorado,” Marsh said. “I said, ‘ ere’s no one out here like you. I think you would really like Colorado, and they would love you.’”

In 1984, Miller packed up a UHaul with her belongings, her two sons, a friend’s son she was taking care of and a friend who was running from her husband. At this point, Miller’s oldest was 12 years old and her youngest was 6.

“I made the four of them a promise; ‘No one will ever live in our house,’” Miller said. “No one will ever come between us.’ And that was that. And I’ve been happily single for 43 years.”

From Kentucky to Colorado Miller’s sights were set on the bright lights of Los Angeles, but her van had other plans.

Just inside Colorado’s borders, her UHaul broke down. Miller took the speedbump as a sign and has lived in the Centennial State ever since.

“To be honest with you, if I’d gotten to L.A., I’d probably have had to go home,” Miller said. “But God put me in Colorado. And I have had nothing but success.”

Without many local connections besides Marsh, Miller struggled to gain a foothold in the Denver scene at rst. en, she began sitting in at the fabled El Chapultepec every Saturday night, and her fortunes began to change.

“People like (fellow Colorado Music Hall of Famer Chris Daniels) took me under his wing,” Miller said. “ ere were other guys who worked at the Pec, they would tell me about who was looking for a singer. It was a lot of sitting in for no money, it was a lot of hanging out, trying to let people know who I was.”

Luckily for Miller, her generational voice left a lasting impression. El Chapultepec’s owner hired Miller to sing with the house band every Sunday night, for $40. After a few years of dues-paying, Miller had formed her own band in 1988, and, in her words, “was rollin’ and never looked back.”

‘Beloved by the people of Colorado’ One of Miller’s rst bands, called Rich Relations, earned a reputation in the local scene and was hired to do a Department of Defense tour in

Hazel Miller photographed at a recent performance.

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Lakewood mom on Here 4 the kids sit-in

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National organization Here 4 the Kids held a sit-in event at the state Capitol building on June 5 to protest gun violence in schools.

“I started at 4:30 a.m. and I just took a quick rest because I had been on camera for a while,” said Lakewood mom Wolf Terry. “But I’m just showing back

up and seeing more people gravitate to this space. is is why we’re here. is is what we’re here for. We’re here for the kids. We are here to ban guns and this movement is starting to grow.”

e crowds included several news stations, reporters and protesters holding signs urging Gov. Jared Polis to sign an executive order banning guns. For more information, check out the Here4theKids webpage.

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Lakewood mom Wolf Terry at the Here 4 the Kids sit-in at the state Capitol Building on the morning of June 5.

The number of protestors spilled o the steps and onto the sides lawn areas. This was in addition to people occupying the lawn in front of the capitol building.

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the Far East. Miller’s backing band at the time was entirely white, leading to their — perhaps infamous — name change.

“We walked out on stage one night in Korea, this little bitty base in South Korea,” Miller said. “And I said, ‘Hi we are Hazel Miller —’ and these Black soldiers yelled, ‘And the Caucasians!’”

As Miller tells it, the base broke out in raucous laughter, prompting her to change the name of her band, in earnest, to Hazel Miller and the Caucasians. Perhaps in accordance with changing social norms, or perhaps simply because her point had been proven, Miller changed her band’s name to Hazel Miller and e Collective in the 2000s.

While Miller was, as she puts it, “rollin’,’” she had yet to gain a larger audience outside of Colorado by the 1990s. at would change after a fortuitous meeting with one of Colorado’s top bands of the era; Big Head Todd and e Monsters.

“We had rst seen Hazel at JJ McCabe’s when we were students at Boulder in the ’80s,” Todd Park Mohr, Big Head Todd’s frontman, said. “We thought she was a soul diva and she knew about music we did not.  We invited her to sing on a track called ‘Wearing Only Flowers’

in 1995, but soon after she joined us a lot. “

Mohr might have been enticed by Miller’s music, but e Monster’s management wasn’t sold.

“ eir manager, Chuck Morris, said, ‘You can’t have her there, your fans won’t understand,’” Miller said.

“’Her voice is too ethnic.’”

Nevertheless, the rock out t continued their pursuit of the vocalist, sending a cab to her home with a demo CD of “Wearing Only Flowers.” Two days later, she was in the recording studio laying down vocal tracks.

“Wearing Only Flowers” was released on e Monster’s 1994 album “Stratagem,” and Miller accompanied the band on stage at their album release show. Soon after, Miller and Big Head Todd hit the road together.

“In 1996, my son graduated from high school at Mullen, and I went out on tour (with Big Head Todd and the Monsters) for a month,” Miller said. “ ey said, ‘Just come and see if you like it.’ I went back home, got (my son) into college, and went back out with them the next fall.”

At rst, Miller just sang backups on the one song but felt like her salary outweighed her contributions to the band. Little by little, Mohr began to incorporate Miller into more songs.

“Todd started saying ‘Can you do this part? Can you sing on this?’” Miller said. “And they did a second CD with me on it and I was sing-

ing on two songs. Little by little, I wormed my way in. It was like being on the bus with three of your little brothers. ey treated me like I was Aretha Franklin.”

When she was on the road, Miller would go shopping at TJ Maxx or Ross and send clothes home to her family in Kentucky. During a stop in her home state, the Miller family came to a show and provided the band with four fried chickens, mac and cheese, cornbread, greens and desert.

“ ese guys (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) thought they died and went to heaven,” Miller said. “Todd goes, ‘Are y’all taking this food with you when you go?’ (Miller’s sister) Carol goes, ‘No, it’s for the bus.’ ey love my family. My family shows up, they cook.”

e rst time Miller and e Monsters played Red Rocks; Carol came to see her sister play. e Miller family was aware of Hazel’s success in Colorado but couldn’t quite conceptualize the heights to which she had risen.

“ e rst time I played Red Rocks with Todd, Carol, my sister came out,” Miller said. “She had no idea how many people were there. We came through the back. We walk up, and I say, ‘Turn around.’ She saw all those people out there, she said ‘Oh my god!’ (When I started singing) I looked over and Carol was crying. She’s like, ‘I’ve never seen anything like that in my life.’”

Mohr said his favorite performances with Miller have been their stops at Red Rocks over the years.

“My favorite memories of Hazel personally are her performances with us at Red Rocks,” Mohr raid. “I say that plural because it usually goes down the same way.   ere is usually some over-the-top garments involved.  She just goes for it in every way and people lose their minds hearing and watching her energy and sincerity.”

Fittingly, Miller and Big Head Todd and e Monsters were inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame together on June 10 — at their

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Attention: Modern technology has gained control

May I please have your attention?

It’s yours to give, after all. To a point. Very often, it is taken from you — like I just have. As a writer, I face the challenge of keeping your attention before you decide to take it back and redirect it or before it is taken by another attention-seeking agent, human or otherwise.

I nd myself getting worn down and out by the incessant barrage of stimuli thrown at me. Some of it is benign, like the signal telling me the water I heat to brew a cup of tea is boiling. But a lot of attention grabbers are not so nice. Like spam calls, online ads and system failures interrupting my internet connection. Modern technological devices and systems have gained control, and while they facilitate communication, they also own us.

It began with the ringing telephone. Like Pavlov’s dogs, we learned to respond to the ding-a-ling and even salivate at its chiming. It became like church bells tolling the onset of services. Who might be calling? Someone was demanding our attention, and we needed to give it to them.

In those ancient times, it was almost always a personal call. But then Madison Avenue, expanding from print ads to telemarketing calls, went to work on invading that space. Today, unwanted calls are on steroids. We have coined terms for them: spam and robocalls. ey

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have become hideously unnerving, the occasional one even threatening, loaded with shrill screaming that the IRS is about to come after you.

Attention-grabbing has a deleterious e ect on our mental health. Wonder why you nd yourself grouchy at times? Perhaps you need to look no further than your cell phone with its alerts. Do you have a compulsion bordering on addiction to scroll through your phone or computer for the latest social media contacts and updates? at might also contribute to grouchiness.

ese attention grabbers clutter and pollute our minds with extraneous, demanding, trivial or useless energysucking information, and we don’t allow space for our brains to detach and rest. ink back to the many times you checked your cell phone for IMs, scrolled Facebook or watched a video in lieu of doing something unfettered and free.

Time spent unfettered and free was kid time when I was growing up. It included romping, frolicking and carefree abandonment of reality. Outdoor games. Climbing a tree. Swinging on a bull rope. Sledding down a hill. Rolling down a

hill. Wearing out trouser knees. Getting a cut or bruise and coping with it. Dealing with a bully. Breaking some rules. Raiding a neighbor’s garden or fruit trees and absconding with delicious, healthy bounty. Or just lazing, lying on the grass and dreamily imagining what shapes the cumulus clouds formed themselves into.

How often do you see kids playing outdoors without adult supervision?

Playtime has now become guided, organized and disciplined. It’s no longer about play. Instead, it’s become the complete opposite of Calvinball. at is true for both kids and adults.

e strictures we impose on ourselves directly short-circuit the creative aspect of the psyche. Not only does the brain need a time-out from the seriousness of life, so does the spirit. It needs time to imagine and create.

We bemoan the frightful intrusion of unwanted interruptions in our lives, but the truth is, we invite them in and create the environment in which they can thrive. e food we eat that overstimulates us, our poor sleep habits, and the lack of true playtime all aid and abet the decline of our spirit and attitude. No wonder so many people are pissed o at so many others.

In large part, we are to blame for our unhappiness. Just as Julius Caesar told Brutus that the fault lies in ourselves and not the stars, our unhappiness often lies in our willingness to allow other people

and nonhuman agents to control our lives by seizing our attention.

Every teacher has likely told their students to pay attention or pointedly asked them, “Are you paying attention?”

One great answer a distracted, bored, disinterested student could give is, “No, I wasn’t, but I am, at least for the moment, now that you’ve taken it.”

Rather than unload on the truthful student, a wise teacher could respond, “I hear you. I’m that way when I’m bored to tears at faculty meetings.”

In days of yore, there was no need to make “me time.” It was generally the rule, especially in rural areas. For rural folks, cabin fever could be a serious malady. One antidote or elixir for it was a trek into town to connect and socialize with others.

Today the opposite has become the case. Urban and suburban dwellers now seek the cabin to escape the barrage of attention grabbers that incessantly yank and tug at them. Unfortunately, many people self-sabotage their e orts by toting along the instruments that keep them wired to the chaos from which they ostensibly crave to separate. For those folks, it ironically explains the old maxim that there is no rest for the weary.

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

Rushing water closes a highway in Western Colorado

The small towns of Paonia and Hotchkiss in western Colorado are seeing fewer tourists this spring. Exceptionally high runo blew out a culvert on State Highway 133 about seven miles northeast of Paonia, which then allowed rushing water to carve a gully into the roadbed.

Back in August 2020, the Colorado Department of Transportation evaluated the culvert, found it vulnerable, and put it in a queue for repair, said CDOT spokesperson Elise atcher. But Region 3, encompassing northern Colorado, had 100 culverts needing work. e one near Paonia apparently landed too far down on the list.

In what might be termed an oversight, CDOT issued statements to the media labeling the washout a “sinkhole.” According to the United States Geological

Survey, however, sinkholes have no entry or exit. ey occur when subsurface material caves in, usually during a drought.

gouged an ever-deeper streambed through the road.

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e rusty culvert on Highway 133 crumpled on April 29, allowing the usually meek Bear Creek to start excavating the roadway. CDOT was alerted and began monitoring the situation. Meanwhile, drivers continued to use the road until the early morning of May 3, when high water pushed the culvert down the hillside. After that, a 10-foot-wide section of highway collapsed.

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Other road damage in the area was discovered May 24 when fast runo washed out the seasonal Kebler Pass Road. e Forest Service said that a paved section near the resort town of Crested Butte was gone.

According to Gunnison County Sheri Adam Murdie, “Kebler is a bigger washout than Bear Creek and took the whole road out.”

e good news is that Gunnison County Road and Bridge acted quickly to begin repairs, with June 9 as the expected date of completion, said Sheri Murdie.

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ick, Colorado, was awarded the contract May 16. at’s when the company began engineering work on what will be a temporary bridge, said CDOT’s atcher. Physical construction began Tuesday, May 30, almost a full month after the roadway collapsed. atcher said work should be completed well before the end of June.

Judging from comments on social media, many local residents think the state moved far too slowly to x and reopen the highway.

“ ey could have dropped in a new culvert and back lled the roadway with gravel,” said Somerset Water Superintendent John Mlakar. As the Colorado Transportation Department will tell you, however, they have to proceed in a

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Benchmark Theatre goes beyond Stonewall

The Stonewall uprising is a key ashpoint in 20th-century American history — one that changed the course of the struggle for LGBTQIA+ equality in the country. But a lot of what happened during the summer of 1968 is shrouded in memory and mystery.

And while there will always be questions that remain unanswered, the Benchmark eatre explores the events that lead to and followed the uprising in the world premiere of “Stonewall.”

“With how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go, it seemed like the right time to revisit Stonewall,” said Neil Truglio, director of the production and artistic director at Benchmark. “ e question for us was, how can we dramatize the events in a way that’s interesting and educational?

Developed by the creatives at Benchmark, 1560 Teller St. in Lakewood, “Stonewall” runs through Saturday, July 1. Performances are at 8 p.m. ursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays.

e aim of “Stonewall” was to tell as accurate a story of what happened as possible, so the show was culled from actual interviews and information about the uprising and was inspired by members of the largest cast the space has ever seen. Since the crowds at Stonewall would have been incredibly diverse, diversity needed to be re ected in the production.

“We went about the piece by opening the casting as wide as we could,” Truglio said. “From the community that turned out to the auditions, we were able to create and elevate the characters we wanted to tell the story.”

While the creatives were building the show, it was almost impossible not to compare the situation at the time to where society currently is, especially with the rollback of trans rights in many states and book bans on LGBTQIA+ books.

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deliberate way.

Townsfolks are saying no one has seen road damage like this since the massive East Muddy Slide of 1986. e mile-wide slide was three-pronged and closed Highway 133 between Paonia and the town of Carbondale for four months.

Repairs progressed slowly as the landslides — which attracted geologists from all over the world — owed downhill, initially at one foot per hour, then slowing before grinding to a stop 216 days later.

e highway’s temporary repair — as the slide area is still considered active — involved lifting the road up 40 feet and dumping the sliding material into Muddy Creek. at xed the problem but reduced the capacity of Paonia Reservoir, which sits downstream of the slide. It was meant to hold 20,950 acre-feet, but the reservoir today holds roughly 16,000 acre-feet.

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e resulting show serves as a dialogue between the past and present.

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“A member of the cast was there at the time and said there’s too much of then in now,” Truglio remembered. “People still feel like second-class citizens and live their lives based on court decisions.”

e hope that audiences who see “Stonewall” come away willing to have conversations and think critically about what occurred at the time and what is happening now, according to Truglio.

“Every group, community and individual has their own vision of what Stonewall was like, so we wanted to create a show where everyone who attends will learn something,” he said.

“I hope audiences walk away with newfound knowledge and an appreciation for where we are today. People should see Stonewall as the beginning, not the end.”

For tickets and information, visit www.benchmarktheatre.com.

Have a laugh at DMNS

ere are all kinds of approaches to learning and one of the best has to be by pairing education with laughs.

at’s just the method the Denver Museum of Nature & Scienceis embracing for the Science Riot: Standup Comedy for Science Fans event.

e 21-and-older show will be held at the Morgridge Family Atrium in the museum, 2001 Colorado Blvd. in Denver, at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 16. According to provided information, the event feature local STEM professionals trying their hand at standup.

Secure access to the event at www. dmns.org/visit/events-and-activities/.

Meanwhile, Paonia, with a population of about 1,500, lacks bustle from visitors to wineries, restaurants, organic farms and shops. Julie Bennett, owner of Root and Vine Market and Qutori Wines on Highway 133, said visitors are down 50%.

A problem for nearby Somerset, population 100, has been sparse but fast-moving tra c. Mlakar said that vans transporting coal miners around the washout to the West Elk Mine were ignoring his town’s 25-mile-per-hour limit, tearing by at 50 mph.

Local law enforcement is problematic, due to the resignation of a Gunnison County deputy. Until a replacement arrives, Delta and Pitkin County sheri ’s departments are helping out.

With road damage blocking two roads in Gunnison County and personnel changes to boot, Sheri Murdie admitted, “It’s been a heckuva time.”

Dave Marston is the publisher of Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonpro t dedicated to spurring conversation about the West. He lives in Durango, Colorado.

Rock and roll with ‘Coco’ in Northglenn I’d never have thought of pairing the music of Led Zeppelin with the timeless power of Pixar’s “Coco,” but I reckon that’s why I’m a columnist and not in charge of a city like Northglenn, which is doing just that to kick o its free Summer Concert & Movie series at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21.

Ten Years Gone, a Led Zeppelin tribute act, will kick o the event and entertain attendees at the Festival Lawn, 1 E. Memorial Parkway, until the “Coco” begins at dusk. ose looking for a quick bite can purchase food from one of the food trucks that will be on hand for the event.

All the details can be found at https:// northglennarts.org/programs/summerconcert-movie-series/.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Neko Case at the Denver Botanic Gardens

You can’t go wrong with an outdoor concert almost anywhere in the metro area — there is no shortage of great spots for music under the starts. But the Denver Botanic Gardens is a gem among gems, which makes it the perfect place to host a performance by Neko Case, who is, herself, a true gem in the alt rock world.

rough her multi-decade career as a solo artist and a member of e New Pornographers, Case has rmly established herself as one of the best and most powerful vocalists working. And she’ll be stopping by the Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. in Denver, at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 20. She’ll be joined by opener Nora O’Connor.  Get tickets at www.ticketmaster.com.

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Search-and-rescue dogs embody the mail carrier motto: “Neither snow, nor rain nor gloom of night” will keep these trusty canines from their appointed rounds — searching for people or items with single-minded purpose.

For the dogs and their trainers who are part of the Colorado branch of SARDUS — Search and Rescue Dogs of the United States — training is a weekly, if not daily, endeavor to prepare dogs to certify in an area of search and rescue or to keep the dog’s skills sharp after certi cation.

“ e training continues for life,” said Cathy Bryarly, a retired Boulder sheri ’s deputy who trains search-and-rescue dogs. “ is has to be part of your life. It goes way beyond a hobby,

or it’s not going to work. It’s a calling.”

SARDUS members agree that it’s a labor a love based in their strong resolve to help others. Not only do the dogs and their handlers train multiple times a week, enlisting family and friends to hide, so the dogs have someone to search for, but handlers also attend seminars on a variety of topics and work together by laying trails for others to follow.

Trainers are always learning, so they can improve their canines’ ability to help in emergency situations.

Search-and-rescue dogs and their handlers are not paid; in fact, handlers spend a lot on the dogs, the equipment, the training and more. e goal is to be certi ed to go on missions, the term for helping law enforcement nd people, bodies or objects needed in an investigation.

Call the people trainers or handlers, but

more importantly, they’re dog lovers who want to work as a team with their pets to help others.

The humility of training

e trainers say it simply: Training their canines is humbling.

“Our dogs don’t make the mistakes,” Anjie Julseth-Crosby of Morrison said. “We do. ere’s so much to remember. e training is about me trying to understand what (the dogs) are saying. e human fails, not the dog.”

In fact, Julseth-Crosby, who started training her bloodhounds two years ago, has compiled a 19-page document called “ ings I wish I knew two years ago.”

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scent trail if needed and rewarding the dog when it nds the person or item it is directed to follow.

Training can be messy as canines follow the scent wherever it takes them over all sorts of terrain in all kinds of weather.

food or toys. Once you gure that out, then trainers must convince the dog to do what they want the pup to do for the reward. It begins with what is called a puppy run-away, where you get the pup to run after a person, and when the pup nds the person, the pup gets a reward.

at transitions to following a scent to nd a person.

“It’s just a matter of making it harder and harder to the point where a dog is searching 120 acres for one person or that trailing dog is following a 24-hour-old scent through a subdivision,” Bryarly said.

No matter what or who the dog is nding, it must go to it, stay there, lay down and point its nose, so the handler knows the dog is saying that the item or person is there.

Dogs cannot certify to be search-and-rescue dogs until they are at least 18 months old, but it usually takes two years or more for the rst certi cation, Bryarly said.

“Search-and-rescue dogs that are out in the public have to be just perfect,” Bryarly said. “ ey have to stay focused and not get distracted by other dogs, animals or people.”

Getting involved

irty years ago, Julseth-Crosby made a pledge that she would own a bloodhound and train it to be a search-and-rescue dog. at’s because Ali Berelez, 6, who had been kidnapped and murdered in 1993, was found four days after her abduction by bloodhound Yogi.

Julseth, at that time a single parent with a 6-yearold, felt kinship with Ali’s family. However, as a full-time teacher, Julseth-Crosby decided to wait to train when she retired in 2021. True to her word, she began training her bloodhounds Bruno and Miley.

Niamh Coleman of Nederland was looking for something to do with her dogs, thinking it was a casual pastime. Now search-and-rescue dog training is closer to an obsession.

a multiple-day-a-week job.

Jayne Zmijewski, who taught outdoor skills to rangers most of her life, said search-and-rescue dogs were a natural progression. She’s had four search-and-rescue dogs in the last 30 years, most recently her chocolate Labrador Kodi.

Teresa Verplanck of Bailey is training Lilo, a border collie mix, for wilderness searches. She called the SARDUS group she trains with wonderful, and trainers and dogs have become a big family.

Jake Udel, who lives near Rustic, Colorado, is a volunteer firefighter and medic, and he trains his dog, Java the Mutt, a Czech shepherd, “for the love of dogs, helping people and the activity.”

Julseth-Crosby said the number of hours can be whatever trainers can put in, but at a minimum eight hours a week, and some weeks, she trains or prepares for training as much as 40 hours a week.

The right breed

While just about any breed of dog can become a search-and-rescue dog, bloodhounds, shepherds and retrievers are the typical dogs people think of, but other breeds — if they have the nose for the work — can be certi ed.

“It works better to start with a breed that is bred to do this,” Bryarly said. “In fact, there are some breeders who breed speci cally search-and-rescue dogs. But sometimes you nd a dog that is good at this, and it’s a breed you never would have guessed could do this work.”

e most important thing, Bryarly said, is the bond that the dog and handler have with each other.

“People have told me over the years that they are amazed at something their dog does,” she said. “People think they are the smart ones, but the dog is the smart one. We are just trying to keep up with them.”

Starting early

Training starts early — when pups are a few weeks old.

“Start with a dog who has a high drive,” Bryarly said. “A high-drive dog is always busy and always wanting something to do. If that energy is not channeled right away, the pup will tear your house apart.”

Most canines prefer one of two types of rewards:

TYPES OF SARDUS CERTIFICATIONS

Melanie Weaver of Lafayette knew her dog, Lego,

Udel figures he’s been on 75 to 100 missions since he certified his first dog in 2005.

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SARDUS, one of several search-and-rescue dog organizations in the country, helps smaller organizations test and certify dogs. To get the trailing or air-scent certification, which is usually the first certification a dog earns, the canine must follow a 24-hour-old trail to find a person. SARDUS only works with law enforcement, so a person cannot request a search-andrescue dog.

Bryarly said about 30 dogs in Colorado are certified by SARDUS with most of them trailing dogs — the most of any organization in the country.

Membership in SARDUS is $25, and some people join who don’t own dogs, but they want to help in other ways such as creating tracking trails or hiding from dogs, Bryarly said.

Trainers must be physically fit since they follow their dogs through all sorts of terrain, plus they take classes such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s incident command courses, so they understand the structure of incidents and managing evidence.

For the SARDUS trainers, the work is definitely a passion.

a German shepherd, needed a job to have a ful lling life, and Weaver was looking for something practical. Little did she know that training Lego would be

• Trailing: Dogs who can find scents by putting their noses to the ground.

• Air scenting: Dogs who find scents by putting their noses into the air.

• Avalanche: Some dogs are good at smelling human scents through snow.

• Water: Some dogs are good at smelling human scents through water.

“If you think of it as work, you won’t do it for 20 years,” Udel explained. “You have to adopt the (search-and-rescue) lifestyle. It’s a life-anddeath commitment for some people — certainly the people we are looking for.”

• Disaster search: Dogs can smell through debris to find people.

• Human remains: Dogs can be certified to find human remains.

• Wilderness: A type of trailing in remote areas.

in cities.

• Urban and suburban: Looking for missing children or older adults

Jayne Zmijewski and her chocolate Labrador Kodi take a break from training.

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Anjie Julseth-Crosby with bloodhound Miley practice trailing at a park in Niwot.

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Doug Cummings and German shepherd Rogan trail a scent.

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Karen Radman, the Colorado Music Hall of Fame’s executive director, said that Miller is being honored for her solo work and collaborations with e Monsters, and added that she has been crucial to spreading Colorado music across the globe.

“(Miller) really is seen as one of our key female artists,” Radman said. “We just decided to put them together, for what they’ve done collaboratively but what they’ve done individually as well.

“When we looked towards her as an artist to honor and celebrate with Hall of Famer status, it was the work that she’s done here and the impact that she’s made in Colorado music, but also to bring that Colorado music and bring that Colorado artistry to other places in the world,” Radman continued.

Miller toured with e Monsters until the birth of her granddaughter in 2001, when she decided to spend more time with her family. Never-

theless, the pair’s collaboration has continued throughout the years.

“We have had the pleasure of her company on many tours, shows and trips since but still maintain our separate identities,” Mohr said. “We have a close relationship beyond music and have been through a lot together over the years.”

Since retiring from touring, Miller has become one of Colorado’s most celebrated — and proli c acts. She plays frequently in far- ung localities from Denver to Buena Vista to Parker and beyond, always retaining the same energy and charisma which has de ned her career.

At Winter Park Jazz one year, Miller sang with one of her heroes; Dianne Reeves. Miller said she considers Reeves to be the best jazz singer of their generation.

When Milller received word that she had been inducted into the Hall of Fame, she called her brother, who’s rst reaction was to make sure Reeves was already in.

“‘When I told my brother, he said, ‘Is Dianne (Reeves) in?’” Miller said. “I said, ‘Hell yeah!’ He said, ‘Cool.’”

Hazel Miller’s current band; The Collective. From left: Je Nathanson (sax), Dana Marsh (keys), Coco Brown (vocals), Rich Lamb (bass), Hazel Miller, Brian Mikulich (drums), Cody Carbone (guitar).

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Hazel Miller (left) and Ronnie Shellist (back middle) join Moses Walker for a few songs at the Oriental.

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When asked about Miller, Reeves raved about her now-fellow Hall of Famer, describing Miller as “our precious treasure.”

“Hazel Miller is a consummate artist beloved by the people of Colorado,” Reeves said. “Over the years she has consistently brought joy, healing and celebration to us all. Hazel has always been and still remains to be a genuinely loving and caring human being. She is our precious treasure.”

A mentor for young musicians

In recent years, Miller has helped a number of young Colorado artists get their start, including 20 Hands High, Julia Kirkwood and Blankslate — the latter of which happens to be the author of this article’s band.

Miller said she wanted to be the role model for others that she never had. As a young singer, Miller was sitting in with an older band, when the band purposely played the song in the wrong key to mess with her. She stormed out, grabbed her coat and walked home. Miller was 17 at the time.

“I don’t want anyone to ever tell me that they had to go through that,” Miller said.

In her mentorship, Miller channels another one of her inspirations; Bonnie Raitt.

“I want to be like Bonnie (Raitt),” Miller said. “She resurrected Ruth Brown when (Brown’s) record company dropper her. And Bonnie started bringing her on tour. at’s what I want to be to these young kids. ese kids call me, ‘Miss Miller, would you come mentor my band?’

“And I say, ‘Well, I’ve got to come see you rst, make sure you’re doing something cool,’” Miller continued.

One of Miller’s protégés, Chad Wooten — the frontman of country act 20 Hands High — said Miller discovered him in a karaoke bar

in Morrison. Miller told Wooten to form a band and before long, he had taken her advice.

“She said, “A voice like yours needs to be on stage,’” Wooten recalled.

“She’s a sel ess shining light who has been enough to mentor me, as

I had zero experience with a band, playing out live, booking … She loves to see others succeed... everyone in every music scene and genre could learn from her.”

Miller said that she especially hopes to mentor young female musicians, who she believes are often undervalued in the music community.

“We get the short end of the stick,” she said. “... ey play, they sing, they write. I didn’t know how to do any of that. Nobody ever said, ‘You can write your own song.’ Nobody ever said, ‘You can start your own band.’ I started my band because I was tired of getting ripped o .”

‘If I die on stage, I’ll die happy’

While she doesn’t have any regrets from her career, one area that brings Miller sadness is that she — one of Colorado’s foremost Black artist — has never played for a predominantly Black crowd.

“I love my audiences because they don’t see me as being Black, they just see me as the band they came out to see,” Miller said. “ e only thing that disappoints me — I have never had a Black audience. I can usually count Black people on one hand at my shows.

“And I can go see a Black band, and they’ll have all these people

there, and they’ll know me — but they don’t come to my shows,” Miller continued. “I don’t know why. But I had to let go. Because the people that come to see me want to be there, and we have a ball. I don’t worry about it anymore, but it does hurt. It’ll never stop hurting.”

Miller recently turned 70 but has no plans to slow down.

“I don’t know how to give it up. In all honesty, if I die on stage, I’ll die happy,” Miller said. “Everyone I love and respect were still working when they died. From Ella Fitzgerald to Aretha Franklin. ey were all working when they passed away. And you can’t beat that.”

All in all, Miller’s career has taken her around the globe, bringing the fth of seven children from Louisville, Kentucky to stages massive and modest. e most important accomplishment from her career, she says, is that she was able to give her children and grandchildren opportunities that she was never a orded.

“My job allowed me to give my boys things that I never had,” Miller said. “I have been to places that I dreamed of, and I got to see them because I was there singing. I woke up one morning and looked out the bathroom window at Mount Fuji. It

was unbelievable — there was snow on it!”

A family photo of the Miller’s at Hazel’s son’s First Communion, 1979. Front row, from left: Bobby Smith (Hazel’s nephew), Kim Baylor (Hazel’s niece), Bobby Young (Hazel’s son), Kenneth Miller (center-front; Hazel’s son), Eric Daniels (Hazel’s nephew), Kelli (Hazel’s niece). Second row, left to right: Carol Smith (Hazel’s sister), Cathy Baylor (Hazel’s siter-in-law), Lissie Miller (Hazel’s mom), Hazel Miller. Back row, left to right: Don Harold (Hazel’s ex), Willie Baylor (Hazel’s brother). COURTESY OF HAZEL MILLER

State does well in senior care

Ranking tied to income, choices made in health

BY ERIC GALATAS PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE

Colorado ranks third nationally when it comes to caring for its most vulnerable adults, according to a new UnitedHealthcare report.

e strong showing can largely be attributed to the state’s lower than average poverty rate for people aged 65 and older, and the choices people make every day.

Dr. Michael Stockman, market chief medical o cer for UnitedHealthcare, said Colorado seniors ranked rst in the U.S. for being physically active.

“And being physically active leads to lower risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and premature death,” Stockman outlined. “ e prevalence of obesity and chronic medical conditions for Colorado seniors is also some of the lowest in the nation.”

e biggest challenges facing Colorado seniors between 2019 and 2021 include the high cost of housing, a lack of investment in community support services, and a shortage of home health care workers.

e success is not shared evenly

across the state. Older Coloradans living in southeastern counties experienced the greatest rates of social isolation, based on risk factors including poverty, marriage status and di culties involved with living independently.

Dr. Rhonda Randall, chief medical o cer of Employer and Individual for United Healthcare, said there has been an alarming increase in drug deaths across the U.S., mostly due to opioid overdoses. Colorado saw a 70% rise between 2019 and 2021.

“So that same troubling trend that

we’re seeing across other populations in the United States is a ecting seniors too,” Randall explained. “A lot of people don’t think that seniors may be as a ected by substance use disorders and opioid use disorders, but they are.”

Randall added nutrition is very important as we age, and the report’s data showed seniors saw signi cant improvements in food security during the pandemic. More people who were eligible signed up for SNAP bene ts, the program formerly known as food stamps, and other services

designed to deliver food to homes.

“Food insecurity decreased 6%,” Randall reported, noting fewer seniors are worried about getting access to nutritious food, more seniors got home-delivered meals, and more seniors got assistance with meals.

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Polis signs bill prohibiting growth caps

Measure repeals limits in Lakewood, Golden, Boulder

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado cities and counties will soon be prohibited from imposing population and residential growth limits under a bill signed by Gov. Jared Polis this month.

House Bill 1255 will also repeal existing growth caps enacted in Lakewood, Boulder and Golden when it takes effect in August.

“We know we have more work to do to make sure that all our communities are part of the solution, but what this bill does is it says no community can be part of the problem any longer,” Polis said before signing the bill.

The bill was introduced as a companion measure to Senate Bill 213, which would have rewritten land-use rules across the state and was the governor’s signature effort at the Capitol this year to encourage more affordable housing. But Senate Bill 213 failed on the final day of the 2023 legislative session, leaving House Bill 1255 as one of the only major housing bills approved by the General Assembly and signed into law this year.

Rep. William Lindstedt, DBroomfield, one of the prime sponsors of House Bill 1255, said while the measure was aimed at assisting the various elements of Senate Bill 213, it still will have an impact.

“It really does point the finger at the worst kind of action that you can see from a local government to limit housing,” he said.

House Bill 1255 aims to address the availability of housing by stripping local governments’ ability to limit how much new housing can

be added to their communities.

“Anti-growth laws enacted by local governments severely undermine the ability to construct the additional housing units Coloradans need,” the legislative declaration in the bill said.

The bill will require that local governments at least have a hearing for new developments before deciding whether to reject them, Lindstedt said.

“The impact is big with (the) cities being preempted, but the larger impact is that other communities can’t get on that policy and make the problem worse,” he said.

Local governments across the state were strongly opposed to both House Bill 1155 and Senate Bill 213, calling them an overreach by the state and complaining that

they would prevent communities from deciding how to address their unique needs.

House Bill 1255, however, didn’t receive nearly as much attention — or blowback — as its counterpart.

“That one got overshadowed by the clearly more sweeping Senate Bill 213,” said Kevin Bommer, executive director of the Colorado Municipal League.

Still, the Colorado Municipal League, which represents cities and towns across the state, viewed House Bill 1255 as a similar attack on local control.

Elected officials in Pitkin, San Miguel, Routt, Summit and Huerfano counties signed a joint letter opposing the bill in May. Mayors and council members in Aspen and Fountain signed on as well.

“This bill responds to the policies of four Colorado municipalities, but strips away critical tools utilized by local governments across the state to actually achieve affordable housing, reduce sprawl and incentivize the prudent planning of water, natural resources and infrastructure development,” the letter said.

The letter argued the bill could

harm the state’s water supply, rural lands and agricultural areas, and that it failed to encourage any new affordable housing.

The bill offers temporary exemptions for local governments that need to develop their infrastructure, including water services, to accommodate growth. Also excluded from the ban are areas with inclusionary housing ordinances, which require a certain amount of affordable housing to be built each year, and local governments that have recently experienced a natural disaster and have been inundated with new construction requests, such as the town of Superior, which was hard hit by the 2021 Marshall fire.

Golden’s growth cap, which limits residential development to 1% each year, was approved by voters in 1995. This year, the cap permitted only 88 new units.

Lakewood’s cap, which was approved by voters in 2019, has the same 1% restriction per year. In 2022, about 700 units were permitted.

Boulder has the same cap, which allows about 400 new units each year. It was originally enacted in the city in 1975 with a 2% limit then was reduced further to 1% in 1995.

The bill’s other sponsors are Rep. Ruby Dickson, D-Greenwood Village and Sen. Julie Gonzales, D-Denver.

June 7 was the deadline for Polis to sign or veto any bills passed by the legislature during its 2023 lawmaking term, which ended May 8. House Bill 1255 was the final measure to receive a bill signing ceremony, which Polis said was intentional because he thinks the measure is so important.

Any bills the governor doesn’t veto or sign will automatically become law at midnight.

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Gov. Jared Polis signs House Bill 1255, which bans local growth caps in the state, on June 7.

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fire caused by reignited burn on residential property, Xcel power line, Boulder County authorities say

BY OLIVIA PRENTZEL THE COLORADO SUN

Embers buried for six days on a residential property reignited and together with sparks from an “unmoored” Xcel Energy power line started the 2021 Marshall re in Boulder County, the sheri said.

A residential re Dec. 24 to burn scrap wood and tree branches resurfaced because of the winds Dec. 30, Boulder County Sheri Curtis Johnson said. e sheri said the re was put out “responsibly” Dec. 24 when it was buried. But around 11 a.m. Dec. 30 high winds, pushing 100 mph, resurfaced embers and started a shed on re at 5325 Eldorado Springs Rd.

A second re was started that day by Xcel power lines and also quickly spread, and at some point the two res combined, Johnson said on June 8.

e sheri , who lost his house in the re, said the underground coal res also cannot be ruled out.

e district attorney’s o ce determined there was “insu cient or no evidence of a crime” and no reason to le charges, Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said.

“If we were to tell you today that we were ling charges it would be wrong and unethical,” Dougherty said. “We can only le charges if there’s evidence of a crime being committed.”

Dougherty said investigators found no evidence of negligence or recklessness by Xcel. Rather, high wind caused a power line to disconnect and contact other lines, leading to electrical arcing and hot particles showering onto dry grass.

ere were no known problems with the power line prior to the re, Dougherty said.

“ is is a di erent discussion and a di erent decision, if that wire was worn or shoddy or they had maintenance issues in the past. ere was no such record of that, no indication of that.”

Xcel denied its power lines sparked the second of two res that combined to become the Marshall re, disputing that part of authorities’ ndings.

“We strongly disagree with any suggestion that Xcel Energy’s powerlines caused the second ignition, which according to the report started 80 to 110 feet away from

Xcel Energy’s powerlines in an area with underground coal re activity,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. “Xcel Energy did not have the opportunity to review and comment on the analyses relied on by the Sheri ’s O ce and believes those analyses are awed and their conclusions are incorrect.”

New details on the investigation come nearly 18 months after the re exploded in late December 2021 and raced across 6,000 acres, as gale-force winds pushed embers across parched grassland into subdivisions bordering open space. Two people died in the re and more than 1,000 homes and businesses were destroyed in Louisville, Superior and unincorporated Boulder County.

In addressing the disastrous toll of the re, Curtis choked up and thanked the community for its patience as the investigation played out.

“I know personally the last 18 months have been hard and not having answers creates stress and challenges that we don’t need,” he said in a quavering voice. “And I hope that now we can focus on rebuilding our lives and getting back to our homes and our community.”

e Boulder County Sheri ’s Ofce said the re likely started near Marshall Road and Colorado 93, but federal agencies aided in its investigation to try to pinpoint the cause of the re.

Evidence included hundreds of body camera recordings and photos that were captured by rst responders during the initial response of the re, along with 49 physical items and 137 pieces of digital evidence, such as drone footage and video

recording by witnesses, the sheri ’s o ce said.

e re also raised questions about Boulder’s emergency notication system, which is designed to send re warnings and evacuation alerts to people who signed up to receive them. Records obtained by e Colorado Sun showed that the rst phone alert was sent 42 minutes after the re started and only to 215 people. By then, at least one structure had burned and the re was well on its way toward consuming more than 1,000 homes and businesses.

Since the re, the sheri ’s o ce said it has improved the countywide noti cation system and now uses Amber Alert-style warnings that can be sent directly to the cellphones of people who may be in danger based on their GPS coordinates. e county acquired the technology prior to the Marshall re but had not nished setting it up.

Updates have also been made to the county’s other phone alert program, Everbridge, which sends alerts via landlines, cellphones, emails and text messages to those who register, the sheri ’s o ce said last month.

Boulder County strengthened its ordinances last year to provide speci c guidelines on how to fully extinguish res, Johnson said.

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The Marshall fire burns in Boulder County on Dec. 30, 2021.

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Secret survey might explain lack of fire camera bill

Rep. Lynch says the Democrats’ survey process raises questions and could help explain why his push to buy wild re cameras suddenly died this year without a public vote.

BY SCOTT FRANZ KUNC

It’s a four-year-old mystery at the state Capitol.

Why does a bill that would deploy high-tech cameras to scan for potentially deadly wild res fail year-afteryear despite universal praise from lawmakers from both sides of the aisle?

Equipped with arti cial intelligence and heat sensors, the cameras are steadily replacing an older warning system used in wild re areas that relied on humans scanning the horizon from watch towers.

State Sen. Joann Ginal, D-Fort Collins, said the new technology can give re ghters a key advantage.

“It can detect just a wisp of smoke, and it’s that type of situation in remote areas that could save forests and homes and properties and lives,” she said at the bill’s rst hearing this year.

Colorado lawmakers have tried and failed three times in the last four years to pass a bill to purchase the cameras. ey’ve also struggled to explain why such a bill has not passed.

Democrats blamed Republican libuster attempts of other bills at the very end of last year’s session for its death, but that didn’t explain why Democrats didn’t schedule it for a key vote after it passed its rst test unanimously two months earlier.

is year’s revived version of the camera bill unanimously passed the Senate in April. But just like last year, the bill never got scheduled for that key vote in the House appropriations committee.

Republican Rep. Mike Lynch sponsored the bill and said he wasn’t told why it was being killed before a public vote.

“If there’s backroom stu that went on with it, I wasn’t privy to it,” he said last week.

KUNC discovered there was some “backroom stu ” that Lynch and the public weren’t aware of at the time. And it might help explain what happened.

In late March, Democrats who control the legislature privately ranked the legislation in a secret ballot process they call quadratic voting.

Democrats in the Senate, which passed the bill unanimously, ranked the bill as their no. 2 priority on a list of 25 bills requiring one time payments. On that same list, the House ranked the bill 15th of 25.

e results are anonymous though, so it isn’t clear which House members didn’t vote to prioritize the camera bill, and why.

Lynch said Republicans don’t participate in the survey and aren’t given the results. Only Democrats received links to this year’s survey.

e results of the survey weren’t released to the public until almost a month after it was taken in response to an open records request .

Lynch says if he had known earlier that the cameras ranked at the bottom half of the House Democrats list of priorities, he would have fought harder to pass it.

“I think that that’s a pretty scary way of legislating,” he said of the anonymous bill ranking process. “You know, when you start putting something into a calculation, you now have taken some of the human aspects…or the subjectivity out of there.”

Sen. Chris Hansen, D-Denver, introduced the secret bill ranking survey to the Capitol in 2019 as a way to help Democrats decide how to spend a limited budget. He told KUNC last year that bills that rank higher tend to get scheduled for votes earlier in the session.

“And the earlier something gets moved, the better chance it has of success,” he said. “If it gets held up or delayed, there’s always more risk.”

Some lawmakers have downplayed the in uence of the secret survey, saying it doesn’t determine what legislation lives or dies.

A KUNC analysis of the outcome of the bills included in the secret survey shows a pattern.

Bills with higher price tags that ranked at the bottom of the survey typically had funding removed, were voted down or left to die without a public vote more often than the bills that ranked at the top of the survey.

“Especially a bill that (passed) unanimous out of the Senate,” he said. “ at kind of raises an eyebrow going, ‘wait a minute, where was the pushback on this?’”

Lawmakers did pass several other wild re-related bills this year, including a new military-grade re ghting helicopter and investments in ameresistant building materials.

Rep. Junie Joseph, D-Boulder, cosponsored the failed camera bill with Lynch.

She said it was unique because it was one of the only policies focused on preventing res from getting out of control.

“We know, for instance, the Marshall Fire actually spread pretty quickly,” she said. “Imagine if we had more of (the cameras)...Could we have gotten gotten to it quick, much (more) quickly.”

Joseph says she’s committed to sponsoring the wild re camera bill again next year.

“I’m disappointed that community members do not have that extra tool or, you know, in their toolbox to help them when it comes to mitigating a wild re,” she said last week. e wild re detection camera program would have cost $2 million, while the new re ghting helicopter lawmakers ordered will cost $26 million.

Some wild- re prone places aren’t waiting for the legislature to pay for the cameras. O cials in San Miguel County in southwestern Colorado announced they are installing four of them this year to scan for res.

e state forester’s o ce estimated in 2019 that 2.9 million Coloradans, or more than half the state’s population, lived in areas that are prone to wild re.

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Elk graze in a forest burned by the East Troublesome Fire near Grand Lake.

PHOTO BY SCOTT FRANZ/KUNC

Colorado lawmakers have repeatedly failed to pass measure

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Flourishing through flower therapy

Brooks Floral & Co. workshops provide space to connect and process grief

BY ELICIA HESSELGRAVE SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

“We laugh, cry and share memories knowing it’s OK to not be OK.”

ese are the words of Kaitlin Christenson Austin, a Denverite who started her small oral design business to honor her older brother. Her story is one of healing through owers.

Austin started Brooks Floral & Co. in September 2021, roughly three months after her older brother, Brooks Christenson, died unexpectedly at age 36 when COVID-19 rapidly turned into pneumonia.

“I feel so connected to him through this and I know he is so proud,” Austin said.

Austin grew up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in a close-knit family of four children. Brooks was the oldest, followed by siblings Jon, Kaitlin and MarieClaire.

Brooks and Kaitlin were connected on a deep level, said their father, Bob Christenson of Sioux Falls.

“Of all the kids, they were the two most bonded by the spirituality of the human condition, and I think (Kaitlin) is expressing that in what she’s doing with owers,” Bob Christenson said.

He added that their bond continues to grow — even now that Brooks is gone.

“ ey had a good relationship,” Bob Christenson said. “ ey still do, because she’s doing these things that involve him.”

Austin expanded her business in April 2022 when she opened a studio on South Broadway in Denver’s Platt Park neighborhood. Brooks Floral & Co. specializes in weddings and pop-up events, but it’s the intimate oral design workshops that gives Austin great pride.  e workshops promote healing through “ ower therapy,” Austin said.

She begins each workshop session with her story and the inspiration for Brooks Floral & Co. en she opens the oor to attendees who would like to share a story. Austin believes designing oral arrangements is like meditation because one has to become intentional and re ective. is type of environment has been

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Kaitlin Christenson Austin hosts a private flower therapy workshop for friends and family in South Dakota. Today, Austin hosts these workshops in her studio space in Denver through her business, Brooks Floral & Co. The workshops are open to anyone in the community and aren’t specifically for individuals experiencing loss, but are intended to o er a safe space for healing.

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successful in allowing people to open up, she said. e workshops close with a gift — writing a mantra on a card to set an intention and a reminder for people to see the beauty in themselves.

“In the beginning, there are nerves, fear and self doubt,” Austin said, but “those shift to a place of abundance and pride.”

She added that it’s important to talk about grief, even though it is hard.

“Avoiding it doesn’t make it go away,” Austin said. “Life goes on and we are still stuck with this void.”

e workshops aren’t speci cally for individuals experiencing loss, but are intended to provide a safe space for healing.

ey are designed for any skill level and participants don’t need to consider themselves creative or have any background in designing oral arrangements. Attendees learn oral design tips, tricks and techniques, but Austin does not use a model bouquet.

“ at would take away the beauty of personalization,” she said. “Each design ends up uniquely di erent.”

Centennial’s Caroline Neale attended her rst oral design workshop with Austin earlier this year,

in part due to a New Year’s Resolution — to focus time on her passion of oral design. She said she was attracted to Austin’s workshop style and the workshop’s focus on the whole person.

“While I thought I would get instruction, I got so much more,” Neale said. “I found a safe space to explore and connect.”

Austin has only one rule for the workshops. It is to not judge yourself.

“We tend to be really harsh critics of ourselves, but owers don’t judge us,” Austin said. “ ey just ask that we take care of them and appreciate their beauty.”

Fond memories

Bob Christenson described his mother, Jean “Jeannie Bird” Christenson, as a “ ower nut,” and he believes Austin inherited her love of owers through her grandmother.

Austin has fond memories of playing with her siblings and cousins in their grandmother Jeannie Bird’s garden. It was like a maze, Austin said, and they would spend hours exploring it together.

Austin’s late brother, Brooks, loved nature, traveling and adventure, she said. After high school, he spent a year abroad on a Rotary Exchange Program in Romania. He earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of South Dakota in 2008, and a juris

doctor from the university’s School of Law in 2012. In 2015, he graduated from the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies with a master’s degree in organizational management, global health, and political theory.

Among other professional accomplishments, Brooks served as a grant writer and advisor for nonpro ts and led e orts to combat global poverty.

He was a craft brewer and was working on collecting wild owers from each county in South Dakota to create di erent oral-inspired avors in his beer. He used cooking as a creative outlet and taught Austin, who moved to Colorado in 2014, how to cook.

Austin’s core memories of her brother are tied directly to the inspiration for her oral company. His adventurous spirit is re ected in her asymmetrical and whimsy oral designs.

“Whenever I feel imposter syndrome or feel like I’m not enough, I feel his presence guiding me, saying thank you for doing this,” Austin said. “‘You’ve got this.’”

Flourishing through floral design

During the initial period following Brooks Christenson’s death, the family home was ooded with oral arrangements and plants, transforming it into an indoor garden.

ese owers brought comfort during a tragic time, and Austin realized

she didn’t want the owers to go to waste.

“Once the owers were gone, it was like a piece of my brother (was, too), in a sense,” she said. “It is therapeutic to still feel connected.”

So, Austin did everything she could to keep the owers alive. She rearranged fresh bouquets to give them a longer lifespan, then dried and pressed the owers and sent them to Brooks’ friends and family who could not be present to honor her brother’s memory.

Prior to her brother’s death, Austin was a wedding planner. But owers are her true passion, she said. Floral arranging as a creative outlet has helped her process grief and stay connected to her brother’s memory. She wanted to share this with others.

“By combining my creativity, passion and love for owers with education, I’m able to create a community that allows connectedness, kindness, compassion, acceptance and self-love to ourish through oral design,” Austin said.

She knows this mission is something her brother would be proud of.

“Flowers can teach us so much about ourselves,” Austin said. “Flowers are nite and there is something really special about caring for and designing orals. Experiencing their beauty allows us to really live and re ect in the moment while asking for nothing in return.”

Toyota Thunder Valley National strikes Lakewood

SuperMotocross World Championships called sport’s ‘ultimate test’

BY JOHN RENFROW JRENFROW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Pro Motocross Championship stopped in Lakewood on June 10 for the Toyota Thunder Valley National.

Dirt flew and mixed with the smell of exhaust in the air as riders battled it out at an altitude of 6,128 feet at Thunder Valley Motocross Park — the highest professional motocross track in the world. Opening ceremonies began at 12:30 p.m. on June 10 as part of a campaign in 10 U.S. cities to crown two American Motorcyclist Association national champions.

“The whole point of this championship is to challenge these athletes with the toughest, most grueling race tracks in the world,” said Brandon Short, media manager with Pro Motocross. “This championship has been around for a half century and it has been the ultimate test for any athlete that competes in this motocross discipline. It’s the ultimate showcase.”

The track is composed of many different levels of unique challenges, such as slope, length, and in this case: elevation. The motorcycles are “starving for oxygen” just like their riders, Short said. The terrain at Thunder Valley is constantly changing from lap to lap.

“[Thunder Valley] is the complete mix of the best of what makes motocross so special and what makes it a unique and captivating sport,” Short said. “A venue that challenges riders in every facet possible, and even challenges the motorcycles in every facet possible. It’s the magic mix of what you could ever ask for to watch a true spectacle and what is going to unfold on the racetrack.”

The Pro Motocross Championship is one of the centerpieces of the larger, new SuperMotocross World Championship, with over $5 million on the line in payouts to athletes.

Created in 2022, the comprehensive 31-race season combines the winter AMA Supercross Championship (which takes place on man-made racetracks in stadiums across the country from January to mid-May) and the summer Pro Motocross Championship, (the original outdoor sport that visits rural venues in off-road motorcycle racing from late-May through

August).

The ultimate champion of both will be crowned following the first SuperMotocross World Championship playoffs and finals this September.

“We have come together with AMA Supercross and Pro Motocross. They’ve always been separate, but they’ve always had the same athletes throughout. So we’ve got to a point where we’re better together than apart,” Short said.

“The organizers [of both] have come together to form the Supercross World Championship. We’ll have the champion for the winter. We’ll have our champion for the summer. But then we get to see who the ultimate champion is this fall.”

Motocross races have been held at Thunder Valley since 2005. The event marks the second of two recent SuperMotocross World Championship races in the area, following the Denver Supercross at Empower Field at Mile High in early May.

“The fan response has been tremendous,” Short added. “It seems like everybody is really embracing the atmosphere of what this combined championship has become.”

The 2023 Pro Motocross Championship makes its annual stop in Lakewood at Thunder Valley Motocross Park in Lakewood on June 10. PHOTOS COURTESY OF MX SPORTS PRO RACING / ALIGN MEDIA

Thunder Valley Motocross Park, which sits at 6,128 feet in Lakewood, is the highest professional motocross track in the world.

Mines Athletics receives $6.5 million donation for scholarships, facilities

Orediggers plan to build cross-country training course this summer

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A major donation to Colorado School of Mines Athletics will bene t Orediggers for the next 20 years, at least.

Mines Athletics recently received a $6.5 million donation — one of the largest in school history — from an anonymous donor. More than $5 million will go toward scholarships, while the remaining $1.2 million will help renovate the Stermole Track & Field Complex and build a new cross-country training course.

Not only will these funds help Mines recruit against NCAA Division I and Division II schools, but it’ll bene t generations of Orediggers even after graduation, Athletic Director David Hansburg said.

“Our student-athletes are truly students rst,” he continued. “ … It has a lifetime of impact, with what these kids do with their degrees once they’re done here.”

Hansburg said the $5 million for scholarships will be set up as a quasi-endowment, generating about $450,000 a year over the next 20 years.

Hansburg said donors, like this one, sometimes ask what the greatest needs are at Mines Athletics, wanting to fund the teams or projects that don’t have as much support. Across the 20 years’ quasiendowment, Mines will likely use the funding for 10-12 of its 18 sports, he stated.

However, teams that aren’t fully funded — meaning they haven’t met their NCAA scholarship funding limit yet — will bene t the most from this donation. ey include cross country, track & eld, swimming, wrestling and men’s golf, Hansburg explained.

Coach Matt Sparks, the head coach

of the indoor and outdoor track & eld teams, described how the cross country and track teams spread scholarship funding among their 90 combined athletes. e NCAA cap is 12.5 scholarships per gender, and the teams haven’t met that cap yet.

e total cost of attendance for in-state students is about $40,000, while it’s closer to $60,000 for out-ofstate students, Sparks and Hansburg said. Plus, because Mines is a NCAA Division II school, there aren’t fullride athletic scholarships.

us, many younger athletes start as walk-ons or receive a few thousand dollars in scholarships, Sparks explained. But, as they improve and

develop, the coaches allot them more scholarship funding.

e last few years have been especially tricky, as there are still Orediggers with the extra COVID-19 year of eligibility on the roster. So, Sparks said, the coaches are “spreading those dollars out among ve years’ (of student-athletes) rather than four years.”

While 2023-24 should be nal one with a ve-year roster, Sparks said this donation’s scholarship funding will provide a huge, immediate boost to his teams and others.

“It’s an early jumpstart and gives us some momentum for next year,” he continued. “ … It’s a big di er-

ence in recruiting. … We’re in a position where we can continue to build, instead of maintain.”

New running facilities

For the $1.2 million toward facilities, Mines Athletics will use the funds toward building its crosscountry training course this summer and updating Stermole Track & Field Complex next summer. How exactly the funds will be split between the projects is still being determined, sta members stated.

e cross-country training course’s design is also still in the works, but Hansburg said it will be near Mines Park on the southwest side of campus, and will likely have 1K and 2K loops. Hansburg hoped it’ll be built and nished by the time the 2023 cross country season starts.

e Orediggers currently train at Denver-area parks, but this will save them travel time that they could use to study, Hansburg described.

Sparks added how other Mines teams, like track and wrestling, could use it also, weather permit-

Meanwhile, Stermole needs “some TLC,” Sparks said, as it hasn’t been renovated since it was built. It also needs to be more NCAA compliant, so Mines can host bigger track & eld meets, which will help with recruiting and training.

e project, which is slated for next summer, will include redoing the jumps and throws areas, and updating the arti cial turf inside the track, Hansburg said.

Overall, Oredigger supporters are excited to see so many Mines teams excelling right now, and Hansburg said donations like this will help them build on that success to achieve new heights in the coming years.

“I’m proud of the work we’re doing at Mines, and I think this (donation) is a testament to what we’re doing here as an institution overall,” he continued. “ … You don’t see (donations of this size) often at other schools; but at Mines, it’s de nitely more common.”

Colorado School of Mines high-jumper Grant Redmond competes April 8 at Mines’ Stermole Track & Field Complex. The complex will be updated in summer 2024, including improvements to the jumps and throws areas.

FILE PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

Congratulations to the 2023 Je erson County Athletic Hall of Fame class

BY JOHN RENFROW JRENFROW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Congratulations to the 2023 Jefferson County Athletics Hall of Fame class! The class was enshrined in history on June 7 at the 37th Annual Hall of Fame Banquet and Induction Ceremony at The Vista at Applewood Golf Course in

Golden.

The latest inductees include Bill Coffey, Larry Franca, Jen Lazzeri, Jim Hynes, and Tim Walker. For more information on the 2023 Hall of Fame class, check out the introduction video honoring each of the inductees’ legacies and accomplishments above, as told by those close to them.

The newest Je erson County Athletic Hall of Fame class has been inducted. The members include Bill Co ey, Larry Franca, Jen Lazzeri, Jim Hynes and Tim Walker. COURTESY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300116

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

On April 5, 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)

Corey Terry

Original Beneficiary(ies)

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

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Mortgage Solutions of Colorado, LLC,

D.B.A Mortgage Solutions Financial

Date of Deed of Trust

December 11, 2020

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 15, 2020

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

2020166005

Original Principal Amount

$498,201.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$486,195.86

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 15, Block 2, Wood Run Filing No. 1, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 9295 W 82nd Ave, Arvada, CO 80005.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 07/27/2023 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: 6/8/2023

Last Publication: 7/6/2023

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: 04/05/2023

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 # CO21563

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.

Re-

To

It May

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

On March 28, 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.

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 installments of principal and interest, together with 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 66, LAMAR HEIGHTS, FILING NO. 7, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 7155 Newland 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, 07/20/2023 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: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

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: 03/28/2023

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:

Neal K Dunning #10181

Brown Dunning Walker Fein Drusch PC 7995 E. Prentice Avenue, Suite 101E, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3085-170

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

On April 5, 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)

Daniel Lee Chandler and Norman R Finnell

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Colorado Mortgage Alliance, LLC

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

Date of Deed of Trust

September 30, 2008

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 01, 2008

Recording Information

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

2008091813

Original Principal Amount

$250,593.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$132,475.59

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 2, BUFFALO PARK ESTATES, UNIT 1, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 7251 S Brook Forest Drive, Evergreen, CO 80439.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 07/27/2023 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: 6/8/2023

Last Publication: 7/6/2023

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: 04/05/2023

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

Attorney File # CO-23-954790-LL

NO. J2300115

On March 28, 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) Michelle Jones

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Figure Lending LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Alliant Credit Union

Date of Deed of Trust

November 08, 2021

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

November 17, 2021

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

2021161537

Original Principal Amount

$200,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$199,058.99

vised 1/2015 Legal Notice

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: Michelle Jones failed 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. 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.

Section 22, Township 03, Range 69, Quarter SW Block 013, Key 00A, Book 91055178, Happy Valley Gardens

Also known by street and number as: 4291 Garland St., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033.

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, 07/20/2023 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: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

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 EN-

TITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 03/28/2023

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 # CO220178

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. J2300109 First Publication: 6/1/2023 Last Publication: 6/29/2023

Name

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300110

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

On March 28, 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)

Lisa Jeffers

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. As Beneficiary, As Nominee for Sierra Pacific Mortgage Services, Inc., its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Barclays Mortgage Trust 2021-NPL1, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Series 2021-NPL1, By U. S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee

Date of Deed of Trust

January 09, 2008

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

January 22, 2008

Recording Information

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

2008006103

Original Principal Amount $91,750.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $72,405.50

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: The failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 20, BLOCK 4, BELLEVIEW RIDGE, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

12916 West Chenango Avenue, Morrison, CO 80465.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 07/20/2023 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: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

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: 03/28/2023

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:

Deanne R. Stodden #33214 Messner Reeves LLP

1550 Wewatta Street, Suite 710, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 623-1800 Attorney File # 9629.0056

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector

$274,194.39

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 PART OF LOT 4 AND LOT 5, YOUNGFIELD HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SW 1/4 SW 1/4 OF SECTION 32, T3S, R69W OF THE 6TH P.M.; THENCE S89 DEGREES 41''W ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SW 1/4 SW 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 32, A DISTANCE OF 252 FEET; THENCE N5 DEGREES 01''E, A DISTANCE OF 49.39 FEET; THENCE N84 DEGREES 59''W, A DISTANCE OF 20 FEET; THENCE N36 DEGREES 20.5''W, A DISTANCE OF 165.68 FEET; THENCE N53 DEGREES 16''E, A DISTANCE OF 105.94 FEET TO TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S25 DEGREES 11''E, A DISTANCE OF 71.73 FEET; THENCE S54 DEGREES 49''W, A DISTANCE OF 5 FEET; THENCE S26 DEGREES 46.5''E, A DISTANCE OF 90.76 FEET; THENCE N74 DEGREES 15.3''E, A DISTANCE OF 56.09 FEET; THENCE N2 DEGREES 00''E, A DISTANCE OF 100.89 FEET; THENCE N6 DEGREES 41''W, A DISTANCE OF 116.60 FEET; THENCE S53 DEGREES 16''W, A DISTANCE OF 138.83 FEET TO TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

**This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement recorded 10/17/2016 at Reception No. 2016106677 in the records of the Jefferson county clerk and recorder, Colorado. Also known by street and number as: 15601562 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, CO 80215.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 07/20/2023 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 6/1/2023

Last Publication 6/29/2023

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: 03/28/2023

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 # CO11839

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. J2300104

First Publication: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

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

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300120

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

On April 5, 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)

Gary W Funk and Anh Dao Thi Dao

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for United Wholesale

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 2 Block 1 Alpers Farm, County of Jefferson State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 6327 S Miller Ct, 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, 07/27/2023 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: 6/8/2023

Last Publication: 7/6/2023

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: 04/05/2023

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:

Aricyn J. Dall #51467

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

Attorney File # 23CO00108-1

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. J2300120

First Publication: 6/8/2023

Last Publication: 7/6/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300095

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 20, 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) Jay Williams Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Corporation

Holder of Evidence of Debt

Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee of LSF8

by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 5, BLOCK 1, GREEN MOUNTAIN FILING NO. 10, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 13794 West Kentucky Drive, Lakewood, CO 80228.

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, 07/20/2023 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: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

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: 03/20/2023

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-16-753160-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. J2300095

First Publication: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300090

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

On March 20, 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)

ROSAMOND MONTE GREINETZ

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

August 23, 2017

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 29, 2017

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

2017089091

Original Principal Amount

$577,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$255,415.30

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to pay property charges, including, but not limited to, real property taxes and Borrower's failure to perform obligations under the Deed of Trust including, but not limited to, the failure to maintain hazard insurance and/or to pay hazard insurance premiums and provide evidence of payment.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT EIGHT (8), BLOCK SIXTEEN (16), COUNTRYSIDE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

WESTMINSTER, CO 80021. 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, 07/20/2023 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: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

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: 03/20/2023

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:

Alison L. Berry #34531

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

Attorney File # 23-029438

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. J2300090

First Publication: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300107

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

On March 28, 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) Michelle Catherine Winter Original Beneficiary(ies)

Zions Bancorporation, N.A.

dba Vectra Bank Colorado

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Zions Bancorporation, N.A.

dba Vectra Bank Colorado

Date of Deed of Trust

October 16, 2018

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

November 05, 2018

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

2018100790

Original Principal Amount $20,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $20,000.00

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: violation of the covenants of the Deed of Trust as follows: failure to pay installments of principal and interest, together with 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.

BUILDING 5, UNIT B-2, LAKEWOOD VISTA AT GREEN MOUNTAIN RANCH ASSOCIATION, INC., IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION FOR LAKEWOOD VISTA AT GREEN MOUNTAIN RANCH ASSOCIATION, INC., RECORDED ON DECEMBER 29, 1998 UNDER RECEPTION NO. F0767149, AMENDMENT RECORDED MARCH 12, 1999 UNDER RECEPTION NO. F0822193, AND THE MAP RECORDED ON APRIL 13, 2000 UNDER RECEPTION NO. F1041898, IN THE OFFICE OF CLERK AND RECORDER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1648 S. Cole St B2, Lakewood, CO 80228.

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, 07/20/2023 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: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

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: 03/28/2023

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: Douglas W Brown #10429 Brown Dunning Walker Fein Drusch PC 7995 E. Prentice Avenue, Suite 101E, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3230-149

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. J2300107

First Publication: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300092

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 20, 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)

KRISTINA KELPIS

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Date of Deed of Trust

September 19, 2019 County of Recording

Jefferson Recording Date of Deed of Trust

September 27, 2019

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

2019090216

Original Principal Amount

$329,917.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$318,618.68

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.

CONDOMINIUM UNIT B, BUILDING 1, LAKEVIEW CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED FEBRUARY 23, 2005 AT RECEPTION NO. F2175784 IN THE RECORDS OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION OF LAKEVIEW CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON DECEMBER 3, 2004 AT RECEPTION NO. F2137548 IN SAID RECORDS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 9940 WEST JEWELL AVENUE UNIT 1B, LAKEWOOD, CO 80232.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

Pursuant to

APN: 29-161-17-027

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.

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.

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

2021129047

Original Principal Amount

$645,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$137,468.48

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower’s failure to occupy and use the property as Borrower(s)’ principal residence as required under the Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 7, BLOCK 7, FRIENDLY HILLS FILING NO. 8, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

A.P.N.: 59-071-12-008

Also known by street and number as: 4592 S Devinney Street, Morrison, CO 80465.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 07/20/2023 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: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

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: 03/28/2023

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:

N. April Winecki #34861

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

Attorney File # 23-029555

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. J2300106

First Publication: 6/1/2023

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript City and County

Public Notice

JEFFERSON COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION LEGAL PUBLICATION

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that beginning on August 1, 2023, the Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado will sit as the Jefferson County Board of Equalization (the “JCBOE”) to review the assessment roll of all taxable real and personal property located in Jefferson County, Colorado, as prepared by the Jefferson County Assessor (the “Assessor”), and to hear appeals from the Assessor’s determination of value of real and personal property for tax year 2023.

Any property owner who timely protested to the Assessor, and who has been denied in whole or in part, may appeal to the JCBOE by filing the petition on the Notice of Determination form provided by the Assessor. A protest to the Assessor concerning real property would have been timely if it had been postmarked or filed online by June 8, 2023, or hand delivered to the Assessor by June 8, 2023. A protest to the Assessor concerning personal property will be timely if it is postmarked or filed online by June 30, 2023, or hand delivered to the Assessor by June 30, 2023.

FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all appeals to the JCBOE concerning the 2023 valuation of real and personal property must be postmarked or dropped off to the Board of Equalization Office of the County Commissioners of Jefferson County, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80419 on or before September 15, 2023. The JCBOE shall set hearing dates for all protests of real and personal property which have been denied in whole or in part by the Assessor and timely appealed to the JCBOE.

All such appeals will be heard and decided by November 1, 2023.

A DROP BOX IS LOCATED IN THE ATRIUM AT THE JEFFERSON COUNTY COURTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING, 100 JEFFERSON COUNTY PARKWAY, GOLDEN, CO 80419.

Filing Dates: If the date for filing your Notice of Determination falls upon a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, it shall be deemed to have been timely filed if filed on the next business day, 391-120(3), C.R.S..

Legal Notice No. 416409

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 15, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Jeffco Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE

Metro West Housing Solutions will open its Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) pre-application lottery on June 26, 9 a.m. and it will close on July 11, 4 p.m.

Pre-applications will only be accepted online at mwhs.org

MWHS will provide auxiliary aids and reasonable accommodation as required for effective communication and participation in its programs. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please call 303-987-7580.

Legal Notice No. 416455

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 15, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript and Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING CONCERN-

ING 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.

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

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;

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 FEET ALONG THE ARC OF A CURVE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING 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

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for the City of Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado, Case No. 23-08-0091P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp , or call the FEMA Mapping and

Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).

Legal Notice No. 416401

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 15, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Metropolitan Districts

Public Notice

RALSTON VALLEY WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT WILL CONSIDER RESIDENTIAL SEWER RATE INCREASE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Ralston Valley Water and Sanitation District to be held July 5th, 2023 at 6:30 p.m., the Board will consider residential sewer rate increases for the year 2023 / 24

Meeting to be held by Zoom video conference RALSTON VALLEY WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

By /s/ Phil Wathier, District Manager

Dated: June 3, 2023

Legal Notice No. 416447

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 15, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Metro Districts Budget Hearings

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

ON THE AMENDED 2022 BUDGET

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the MOUNTAIN SHADOWS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), will hold a meeting via teleconference on June 22, 2023 at 4:30 p.m., for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on an amendment to the 2022 budget (the “Amended Budget”). This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85244034637?pwd=T m1udFp1QUNnTnRXY2R0RmFiOTJIQT09

Meeting ID: 852 4403 4637; Passcode: 720585; Phone number: (720) 707-2699

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Amended Budget has been submitted to the District. A copy of the Amended Budget is on file in the office of Clifton Larson Allen, LLP, 8390 E. Crescent Pkwy #300, Englewood, CO 80111, where the same are open for public inspection.

Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Amended Budget at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budget by the Board. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: MOUNTAIN SHADOWS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, a quasi-municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Colorado /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON

Attorneys at Law

Legal Notice No. 416451

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 15, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript and the Arvada Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2022 BUDGET

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the LENA GULCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), will hold a meeting at 1546 Cole Boulevard, Suite 240, Lakewood, Colorado and via teleconference on June 21, 2023 at 1:30 p.m., for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on the amendment to the 2022 budget (the “Amended Budget”). This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5143164376?pwd=T0 lNUEpvejdjTFlubmJCTUhHYkIydz09

Meeting ID: 514 316 4376; Passcode 5yjjuK

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Amended Budget has been submitted to the District. A copy of the Amended Budget is on file in the office of Morain Bakarich, CPAs, 2801 Youngfield Street, Suite 370, Golden, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection.

Any interested elector of the District may file any objection to the Amended Budget at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budget by the Board. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: LENA GULCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, a quasi-municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Colorado

/s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON

Attorneys at Law

Legal Notice No. 416423

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 15, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Bids and Settlements

Public Notice

Notice of upcoming Dakota aquifer drilling project. Blue Mountain Water District is seeking bids on June 23, 2023 for the drilling and installation of a Dakota aquifer well. All interested parties, please reach out to Lytle Water Solutions, LLC to request a bid packet at dan@lytlewater.com.

Legal Notice No. 416391

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

In accordance with C.R.S. § 32-1-1001(1)(d), a notice to bid is published for the Ken-Caryl Ranch Metropolitan District. A construction contract for work and materials is needed for the exterior roof, seal and recoat services at the Community Center Tennis Center, 1 Club Drive, Littleton, CO 80127. A Request for Proposals (RFP) is available to all prospective bidders by emailing Facilities Director, Scott Babich, scottb@kcranch.org. Electronic bids must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 26, 2023 via email to scottb@kcranch.org.

Legal Notice No. 416452

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 15, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Jeffco Transcript

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO CASE NO. 2022CV030170 DIV. 14

Plaintiff: STANDLEY SHORES CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation vs.

Defendants: AMANDA K. DOCKTER; WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; and JERRY DITULLIO AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY

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

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to the Jefferson County District Court’s Order: Order for Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure dated November 2, 2022, and C.R.S. § 38-38-101 et seq., by Standley Shores Condominium Association, Inc. (“Association”), the current holder of a statutory and contractual lien. The judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Amended and Restated Condominium Declaration of Standley Shores Condominiums, recorded with the Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder on February 3, 2016, at reception number 2016010715 (“Declaration”). The Declaration, as recorded, establishes a lien for the benefit of Standley Shores Condominium Association, Inc., WHICH LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS legally described as follows:

Condominium Unit 9128 (In Building 7), Standley Shores Condominiums, in accordance with and subject to the Declarations recorded on December 12, 1983 at Reception No. 83117891 and Condominium Map recorded December 12, 1983 as Reception No. 83117892 of the Jefferson County, Colorado Records Together with the exclusive right to use the following Limited Common Elements: Driveway Parking Space Number 9128 and Garage Number 9128, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.

Also known by street number as: 9128 W. 88th Circle, Westminster, CO 80021 (“Property”).

The Property being foreclosed is all of the property encumbered by the Association’s lien. You are advised that the parties liable thereon, the owner of the Property described above, or those with an interest in the subject property, may take appropriate and timely action under Colorado statutes. In order to be entitled to take advantage of any rights provided for under Colorado law, you must strictly comply and adhere to the provisions of the law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 A.M., on the 20th day of July, 2023, at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, located at 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Suite 1520, Golden, CO 80419; telephone number 303-271-6580. At the sale, the Sheriff will sell the above-described real property and improvements thereon to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in or to said real property in connection with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID BY NOON THE DAY OF THE SALE.

The name, address, and telephone number of the attorney representing the Plaintiff is: Travis

B. Keenan, #41354, Winzenburg, Leff, Purvis & Payne, LLP, 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300, Littleton, CO 80127; telephone: 303-863-1870.

DATED at Jefferson County, Colorado, this 27th day of March, 2023

Regina Marinelli Sheriff of Jefferson County, Colorado

By: Sergeant Sean Joselyn Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 416345

First Publication: May 25, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO

100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401 Telephone: 720-772-2500

Plaintiff: MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC

formerly known as Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. vs.

Defendants:

GREGORY S. WHITLOCK; ATTORNEYS TITLE GUARANTEY FUND, INC.; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; DISCOVER BANK; and SECOND GREEN MOUNTAIN TOWNHOUSE CORPORATION

Attorneys for Plaintiff: Holly R. Shilliday, Attorney Reg. No. 24423 Ilene Dell'Acqua, Attorney Reg. No. 31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP

7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230

Centennial, CO 80112

Telephone: 303-952-6905

Facsimile: 866-894-7369

Case Number: 2022CV030355 Div.: 15

SHERIFF’S COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE AND RIGHT TO REDEEM TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

This is to advise you the above-captioned action is pending. An Amended Order Regarding Motion for Default, Default Judgment and Entry of Decree of Foreclosure (the “Decree”) has been entered in this action concerning a judgment in favor of Plaintiff.

The real property which is the subject matter of this litigation, which is the property subject to the Decree, is situated in Jefferson County, Colorado, and is described as follows, to-wit:

CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. 307, BUILDING NO. 49, FIRST AMENDED CONDOMINIUM MAP OF GREEN MOUNTAIN TOWNHOUSES (SECOND FILING), COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO and also known as 12926 W. Virginia Avenue 307, Lakewood, CO 80228.

The Plaintiff named above is the judgment creditor in this action. As of July 2, 2022, Plaintiff was owed the total amount of $219,668.71, plus attorneys’ fees and costs in the total amount of $3,744.82, plus additional accrued and unpaid interest from July 2, 2022 until the judgment has been paid in full or the foreclosure sale has been completed. Further, additional fees and costs (including legal fees) have also been incurred and are due and owing. The amounts owed are in rem only and are secured by the Property.

This sale relates to that Certain Deed of Trust described below:

Original Grantor(s) (Borrower):

Gregory S. Whitlock

Original BeneficiaryMortgage:

Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.

Current Holder of the Evidence of Debt:M ORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC formerly known as Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc.

Date of Deed of Trust:July 22, 2015

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:July 27, 2015

County of Recording: Jefferson

Reception No. of Deed of Trust: 2015078140

Original Principal Amount: $390,000.00

I shall offer for public sale to the highest bidder, for cash, as public auction, all the right, title and interest of the Defendants in said property on August 10, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Civil Unit, 100 Jefferson County Parkway Ste 1520, Golden, CO 80419.

A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED HERETO, HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. YOU MAY WISH TO SEEK THE ADVICE OF YOUR OWN ATTORNEY CONCERNING YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING.

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.

INTENT to cure and redeem, as provided by the aforementioned laws, must be directed to or conducted at the Office of the Sheriff of the County of Jefferson, Civil Unit, 100 Jefferson County Parkway Ste 1520, Golden, CO 80419.

A notice of intent to cure filed pursuant to section 38-38-104 shall be filed with the officer at least fifteen calendar days prior to the first scheduled sale date to which the sale is continued.

A notice of intent to redeem filed pursuant to section 38-38-302 shall be filed with the officer no later than eight business days after the sale.

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFBP), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS.

Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 8020 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov

Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

P.O. Box 4503 Denver, Colorado 80203 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372

www.consumerfinance.gov

DATED at Jefferson County, Colorado this 17th day of April 2023.

Regina Marinelli, Sheriff Jefferson County, State of Colorado

By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff Bidders are required to have cash or certified funds to cover their highest bid by noon the day of the sale. Certified funds are payable to: Jefferson County District Court Colorado Statutes attached: Colorado Revised Statutes §38-37-108, 38-38-103, 38-38-104, 38-38-301, 38-38-302, 38-38-304, 38-38-305 and 38-38-306

Legal Notice No. 416435

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: July 13, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice STATE OF COLORADO Civil Action No. 23CV79, Division 6 Jefferson County Combined Court, Civil Division

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

OM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC., Plaintiff, vs. JANE D. BANNING, and all other persons who claim as heirs, devisees, creditors or otherwise under said defendants, and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action, Defendants.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS:

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

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

This is an action to quiet title to the following described property situate in the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado, to-wit:

Lot 45, Green Valley Ranch, Unit 4, (the “Property”), free and clear of all liens and encumbrances.

DATED: May 24, 2023. Om

Austin, TX 78731

Telephone: (512) 522-9642

Legal Notice No. 416378

First Publication: June 1, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY STATE OF COLORADO

Jefferson County Combined Court 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401 Phone Number: (720) 772-2647

Plaintiffs: DALENE HAMILTON, an individual

v. Defendants: TARA RAITZ, an individual

Attorneys for Plaintiffs:

Attorney: Lyndsey O’Connell, No. 51255

Benjamin E. Tracy, No. 30114

Tueller & Gibbs, LLP

Address: 1601 Blake Street, Suite 300 Denver, Colorado 80202 Phone No. (303) 854-9121

Email: LOConnell@TuellerGibbs.com btracy@TuellerGibbs.com

Case No.: 2023CV030135 Division: 1

SUMMONS

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS

You are summoned and required to file with the clerk of this court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint within 21 days after this summons is served on you in the State of Colorado, or within 35 days after this summons is served on you outside the State of Colorado. If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within the applicable time period, judgment by default may be entered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint, without any further notice to you. The following documents are also served with this summons: AMENDED COMPLAINT, EXHIBITS, and DISTRICT COURT CIVIL CASE COVER SHEET 2023CV030135

Respectfully submitted this 24th day of May, 2023. TUELLER & GIBBS, LLP

Original signature on file at the law firm of Tueller & Gibbs, LLP

By: s/ Benjamin E. Tracy Benjamin E. Tracy, No. 30114

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

Legal Notice No. 416389

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice

Case # 2023-023 Cert # 2007-01108

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

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

WILLIAM B. CRAIG DAVID W. CRAIG

100 JEFFERSON COUNTY PKWY #2520 GOLDEN, CO 80419

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 23rd day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2008, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to, ROCKING HORSE WINNERS LLC, Applicant, who has made demand for a Treasurer’s Deed for the following described real estate situated in the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado to wit; THE NORTH 25 FEET OF LOT 1, BLOCK 4, CLOVER MEADOWS, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, ALSO KNOWN AS TRACT/KEY A, LOT 1, BLOCK 4, CLOVER MEADOWS, AKA: VACANT LAND

That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2006 AND 2007 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2007 that said real estate was taxed in the name of WILLIAM B. CRAIG AND DAVID W. CRAIG, that the statutory period of redemption will expire OCTOBER 23, A.D. 2011; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, ROCKING HORSE WINNERS LLC, lawful holder of said certificate, on the 18TH day of SEPTEMBER at 5:00 P.M., A.D. 2023, unless the same has been redeemed on or before 5:00 P.M. of said date.

WITNESS my hand and seal this 22ND Day of MAY, A.D. 2023 Jerry DiTullio Jefferson County Treasurer

FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT JEFFERSON COUNTY

Case Number: 23DR39, Cassandra Hodgson, Petitioner vs. Darryl (Scott) Hodgson, Respondent.

NOTICE OF PUBLICATION, STATE OF CO, JEFFERSON COUNTY to Scott Hodgson

Greetings: You are hereby notified that Cassandra Hodgson, Petitioner, has filed a civil action against you in the above entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof being: To dissolve the marriage between the Petitioner and yourself, Unless you enter your appearance in said cause on or before the day of July 12, 2023,a judgment by default will be entered against you. Cassandra Hodgson, Lakewood, CO, WITNESS the Honorable District Court, Jefferson County, State of Colorado, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80401

Legal Notice No. 416411

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

Case # 2023-022 Cert # 2011-01482

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE

AT TAX SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED

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

100 JEFFERSON COUNTY PKWY #2520 GOLDEN, CO 80419

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 25TH day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2012, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to, JEFFERSON COUNTY, Assignor of, BRADLEY J. KREIDLE, Applicant, who has made demand for a Treasurer’s Deed for the following described real estate situated in the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado to wit; A STRIP OF LAND LYING WEST OF LOT 60, SPRING RANCH AND LYING EAST OF LOTS 3 AND 4, SILVER ROCK SUBDIVISION, ALSO KNOWN AS KEY 65, SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 4, RANGE 71, AKA: VACANT LAND

That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2010 AND 2011 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2011 that said real estate was taxed in the name of LAZY E LLC, that the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 25, A.D. 2015; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, BRADLEY J. KREIDLE, lawful holder of said certificate, on the 25TH day of SEPTEMBER at 5:00 P.M., A.D.2023, unless the same has been redeemed on or before 5:00 P.M. of said date. WITNESS my hand and seal this 30TH Day of MAY, A.D. 2023

Jerry DiTullio

Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice No. GT1202

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

Case # 2023-021 Cert # 2011-01469

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

To Every Person in Actual Possession of Occupancy of the hereinafter Described land, Lot or Premises and to the Person in whose name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed and to all Person having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and, To Whom it May Concern, and more especially; LAZY E LLC 100 JEFFERSON COUNTY PKWY #2520 GOLDEN, CO 80419

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 25TH day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2012, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to, JEFFERSON COUNTY, Assignor of, BRADLEY J. KREIDLE, Applicant, who has made demand for a Treasurer’s Deed for the following described real estate situated in the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado to wit; A STRIP OF LAND LYING WEST OF DEED RECORDED 8-21-1995 AT RECEPTION NO. F0103195 AND LYING EAST OF LOT 3, SILVER ROCK SUBDIVISION, ALSO KNOWN AS KEY 32, SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 4, RANGE 71, AKA: VACANT LAND

That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2011 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2011 that said real estate was taxed in the name of LAZY E LLC, that the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 25, A.D. 2015; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, BRADLEY J. KREIDLE lawful holder of said certificate, on the 25TH day of SEPTEMBER at 5:00 P.M., A.D.2023, unless the same has been redeemed on or before 5:00 P.M. of said date.

WITNESS my hand and seal this 30TH Day of MAY, A.D. 2023

Jerry DiTullio Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice No. GT1203

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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