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Je co Animal Control wants you to leave the rescues to the experts

BY JO DAVIS JDAVIS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A recent call about baby ducks stuck in a storm drain located south of Highway 58 in Golden illustrated Je erson County Animal Control’s warnings against public interaction with wildlife.

e Je erson County Sheri ’s Ofce posted a video of the rescue on its Instagram page.

O cer Jennifer Dow explained that a man heard some ducks chirping loudly from the roadside. e baby ducks had fallen into a storm drain, “because they were too small, and the mom couldn’t get to them,” she said. “So then (the man) called us.”

Dow said he waited on the path until the o cers got there.

e o cer praised the man for doing nothing. She said that is exactly what he was supposed to do. “We didn’t want him to do anything dangerous,” she said. “And we have the tools that were needed.”

Dow explained that she used “snake tongs” to get some of the babies out of the grate above them. en, the team had to get the rest of the babies to oat downstream before being released to a nearby pond where they met up with their mother

Being able to guide the animals to safety is another “tool” that o cers like Dow used when rescuing animal babies. Sometimes this skill is put to the test by the mama animals as well.

Dow shared another duck rescue where those guidance skills and

Lakewood o cials address noise and speeding

BY JO DAVIS JDAVIS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e Lakewood City Council ecently met to discuss speeding, noise pollution and more. Here are some of the things that residents should know about the meeting, which took place June 12. Lakewood is cracking down on speeders. Last fall, Councilor Wendy Strom led the request to reduce speeding and speed-related tra c problems. Strom presented a request to have cameras placed in Lakewood. Strom speci cally mentioned her ward, Ward 5 and those areas “around school zones like Kendrick Lakes Elementary, or wide two-lane roads like Jewell or Kipling.”

Marie Venner of the Lakewood Advisory Committee came back with the report, which captured data from the areas Strom cited. In addition to installing cameras, Venner stated that narrower lanes are one way to reduce speeds. She also cited using roundabouts for intersections, and

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Financial-aid push doesn’t happen

Colorado advocates plan for future action

BY JASON GONZALES CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Colorado made no legislative progress toward getting students more support to complete the federal nancial aid application despite a recommendation last year that the state do so.

A Colorado report last year called for the state to make lling out the Federal Application for Federal Student Aid, or the FAFSA, a high school graduation requirement by 2025, with a goal to get 80% of students completing the form by 2026. Filling out the form increases the likelihood that students will attend college, studies show.

Despite the inaction this session, advocates of a Colorado requirement for high school students to complete the federal nancial aid application before graduation expect to make a push for future changes after taking a wait-and-see approach this year.

Many advocates believe requiring students to ll out the FAFSA would be an e ective strategy for Colorado to increase the number of students who go to college after high school.

Studies have shown that Louisiana, the rst to enact a FAFSA graduation requirement, increased college-going among students. E orts in other states are still new.

In Colorado, legislators have hesitated to place one more burden on high school educators.

Advocate Sarah Staron said lawmakers, along with school o cials, discussed how a graduation requirement might work but didn’t introduce legislation.

So advocates of mandating FAFSA completion focused on addressing the concerns they heard.

“I felt like we needed to step back,” said Staron, policy coordinator for Young Invincibles, which works toward giving students a voice in policy debates.

Less than 50% of Colorado high school graduates go to college. Advocates have said increasing Colorado’s ranking near the bottom of FAFSA completion would open up more opportunities for students. e form unlocks nancial aid and scholarships for college.

e National College Attainment Network has recognized Colorado for seeking more transparency around which school districts help students complete the form. Advocates also have applauded the state for setting the 80% completion goal. e state

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has reported that every year Colorado students leave about $30 million in federal nancial aid unclaimed.

Colorado has sought to boost FAFSA completion in other ways.

Last year, the state created grants for districts to increase FAFSA completion, but only a handful of districts applied, Staron said. Despite o ering more nancial literacy for students, training for teachers, and nancial aid planning for students, the state’s FAFSA completion rate remained at about 45%.

e state’s teacher union said there are reasons to be cautious about a push to mandate FAFSA completion.

e Colorado Education Association said it wants to discuss issues such as whetherthe requirement would burden teachers and students, raise privacy issues, and favor four-year colleges over other options, union President Amie Baca-Oehlert said.

In the upcoming FAFSA cycle, the federal government will launch an application that’s intended to be easier for students to ll out. e new form, however, will be released in December instead of the previous schedule of October, narrowing the window to complete the form.

Financial aid experts expect the form will have unintended consequences, especially for students

whose families own farms or small businesses, but eventually will lead to a better student experience and outcome.

“With the streamlined FAFSA form, our hope is that completion rates go up because it’s easier for students and families to navigate the process. But I certainly think Colorado needs to do more,” said Jen Walmer, whose organization Democrats for Education Reform contributed to the report.

Amelia Federico, a Young Invincibles policy fellow who attends Metropolitan State University of Denver, said the FAFSA process is overly confusing and students often have little support to ll out the support despite there being some resources at schools.

Federico said a FAFSA completion requirement for high schoolers would ensure that educators focus on giving students the support they need to ll out the complicated form. e state would also need to support schools to ensure every student gets what they need, they said.

Too many of their peers don’t know about their nancial options, Federico said.

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Councilor Able named having a “quanti able measure of sound” as a barrier to legislation. “We obviously have a need for some kind of checks and balances.”

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even a road diet — reducing the lanes in a road, for example, to force drivers to stay vigilant on the road.

She did admit that speed cameras can bring in income for the city as an obvious bene t. However, Venner also said that speed cameras are just known to get better results. She said, “Speed cameras can be installed quickly and reduce speeding by 70%.”

e city heard the results and decided to continue looking into placing speed cameras in Lakewood.

LAC gets permission to tackle noise pollution. Sara Gri n of the Lakewood Advisory Committee presented a proposal to explore solutions for noise pollution in the city. Her proposal is a little unique in that the city usually assigns projects to the LAC. When the LAC proposes its own, the council must approve.

Gri n cited research that noise pollution has e ects like hearing loss, sleep disturbance, chronic fatigue, tinnitus and other issues. Gri n gave examples of noise pollution, which include car alarms, and drug dealers who “advertise by cruising through neighborhoods with loud and bass booming car stereos.” Comparing it to the ice cream truck sounds in the “1950s neighborhood” she remembers.   Gri n called it a “growing health hazard.”

e council gave the LAC approval to explore what can be done about the noise pollution. Expect more concrete action in upcoming meetings. In other news from the meeting:

• e city attorney was granted a 7% performance raise.

• e City now has restrictions around William F. Hayden Park, 1000 S Rooney Rd, Lakewood, which was once a Colorado Army National Guard Gun range. Although the parks have been working since 2020 to free that area of old ammo (what the parks call munitions remediation), they are far from done. You can see more on the Environmental Use restrictions in the park, see Item 10 in Lakewood Speaks.

• Land for “open spaces and park purposes” was approved for purchase.

e city approved $850,000 for buying land at 2911 South Wadsworth Blvd, Lakewood, also known as “Bear Creek Parcels”. Find more information on Item 12 at Lakewood Speaks.

• Lakewood approved a universal pre-kindergarten agreement with the State of Colorado. Doing so will ensure that every Lakewood child can access free pre-k as needed. For more information, see Item 14 in Lakewood Speaks.

You can view the entire three-hour council meeting on Lakewood Speaks.

tools helped a whole duck family. On June 10, Dow and the team got a call.

“It was a similar thing, but the babies were stuck in a window well,” she said.

Getting the babies was easy, according to Dow. But the mother was hysterical and created a separate rescue situation.

“ e mom had decided to go into

the neighbor’s pool,” she said. “So we were able to catch the babies, but we couldn’t catch mom. We tried to catch her for several minutes. en, we decided, there was a pond like ve minutes walk down the road. So, we were like, ‘Let’s see if she will follow us.’ At rst, I just took the crate (with the babies inside), and put it in the front yard. And we waited.”

Dow said that the mama duck eventually ew out of the pool and around the yard, landing in the yard near the crate. e o cer moved the crate a little further up the road

and stepped away. e mom followed. Soon, Dow was able to walk to the pond with the mama following along.

“She literally followed us all the way to the pond,” Dow said.

Other o cers had to do tra c control while the rescue was taking place, Dow said.

is is important in light of a recent tra c death of a good Samaritan who stopped to help a mama duck and her ducklings.

Dow wants these stories to illustrate the need for Je co residents to call her and the authorities if they

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nd any animal in distress.

“If you come across something and it’s concerning, don’t take it upon yourself to do whatever,” she said. “Just call animal control.”

Both incidents illustrate the Je co Animal Control and Colorado Parks and Wildlife messages to the public: Leave the baby animals alone and call the professionals.

If you stumble upon any wild animals in distress in Je co, you can call Animal Control at 303-2715070. You can nd more information on the Je erson County Sheri s Animal Control webpage.

Real Estate Industry Is Abuzz With How to Incorporate ChatGPT for Greater Success

I’ve been reading lots of real estate newsletters and blog posts about how to put AI to work, specifically by using ChatGPT. I have also played with that app, asking it to generate articles and answer questions on a variety of real estate-related topics. Like others who have reviewed ChatGPT, I am super impressed — and also a little concerned. Why? This column, written entirely by me, a former professional journalist, has set Golden Real Estate and myself apart from my colleagues and has brought my brokerage and me 90% or more of our business because of the credibility it has succeeded in building for us.

It’s a sad truism about America that the vast majority of citizens, unless they are in a writing profession, can’t or are reluctant to compose a readable, grammatically correct and compelling paragraph about anything. Don’t be surprised if you start receiving newsletters, blog posts and other written materials demonstrating greatly improved skills by your local agents!

One blog post I read about ChatGPT suggested that I ask it to rewrite a property description to be more compelling, and so I fed it the description of the listing below (reprised here from last week’s ad), and within a few seconds got the rewrite shown in the box at right. I did not change a single word, although I did eliminate a few paragraph breaks. The quality of the writing is superb, and the content was completely faithful to what I had written. It is significantly more wordy, with 317 vs. 218 words, making it more conversational.

I asked ChatGPT to write some articles to see how wise and accurate they might be and was surprised to see how well it did.

One of the topics I was going to write about myself was based on a May 8th article on Inman News with the headline, “Why buyer love letters deserve a second chance.” At right is an article written on this topic in less than 10 seconds by ChatGPT. It does not include all that I would have written on this topic, but it is not bad or incorrect, and it is indeed well written.

If I had written the article, I would have provided more guidance on avoiding fair housing violations, which is what triggered Oregon’s 2022 law banning love letters. That law was found unconstitutional on May 6th. I would have advised to exclude any photograph of the buyers. Let’s say the picture was of a white couple, and their offer was accepted over an offer from at least one gay or mixed race couple. That losing buyer might well win a lawsuit claiming that the seller and listing agent committed a fair housing violation, if they were to discover the winning love letter.

Fair housing laws, both at the federal level and the stricter Colorado state level, include so many “protected classes,” that a seller is not allowed to consider even the familial status (married, single, with or without children), disability, or sexual orientation, including transgender status, along with the more familiar race, creed, national origin, etc. As you can imagine, it would be hard to construct a “love letter” without revealing any of those descriptors.

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The Pros and Cons of Submitting ‘Love Letters’ With Offers

The practice of including “love letters” or personal letters with home offers has been a common practice in real estate transactions. These letters are intended to convey the emotional connection and personal story of the buyer to the seller, potentially appealing to their sentiments and influencing their decision.

However, it's important to note that the acceptability and effectiveness of love letters can vary based on local regulations, cultural norms, and individual seller preferences. Additionally, there are legal considerations surrounding fair housing laws, which aim to prevent discrimination in the housing market.

In some regions, love letters are discouraged or even prohibited to avoid potential bias or discrimination in the selection process. These laws are in place to ensure fair treatment and equal opportunities for all potential buyers. If love letters are permitted in your area, here are some factors to consider:

Pros:

1. Emotional Appeal: A heartfelt letter can establish a personal connection and create empathy between the buyer and seller. It may help the seller relate to the buyer's story and motivate them to choose an offer.

2. Differentiation: In competitive mar-

kets, where multiple offers are common, a well-crafted love letter can make your offer stand out from the rest. It allows you to differentiate yourself by showing your genuine interest in the property and willingness to create a home.

Cons:

1. Fair Housing Concerns: Love letters have the potential to inadvertently disclose personal information that could trigger bias or discrimination. Sellers may unintentionally make decisions based on protected characteristics such as race, religion, or family status, which is a violation of fair housing laws.

2. Unintended Pressure: Sellers might feel pressured or uncomfortable when evaluating offers accompanied by emotional letters. They may prefer to base their decision solely on objective factors such as price, terms, and reliability of the buyer. Given the complexity of this topic and the varying legal and cultural considerations, it is advisable to consult with a local real estate professional or attorney who can provide guidance specific to your location. They will be familiar with the local regulations and can help you navigate the decision of whether or not to include a love letter with your offer.

—Written entirely by ChatGPT

How ChatGPT Rewrote My Description of the Listing Below Left

The property at 1004 4th Street sounds truly remarkable. With its unique features and convenient location, it offers an exceptional living experience in the heart of Golden. Here's a summary of the key highlights:

This one-of-a-kind home boasts stunning views of North and South Table Mountain, visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows on the main level. Being within walking distance to downtown Golden allows easy access to its renowned shops and restaurants, adding to the convenience and charm of the location. The house itself is a spacious 4-bedroom, 4bathroom residence situated on a corner lot. The wide-open floor plan on the main level creates a welcoming space, ideal for entertaining or simply enjoying the breathtaking views while staying cozy near the gas fireplace.

$1,995,000

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. (Listed by David Dlugasch)

The kitchen is a chef's delight, featuring state-of-the-art appliances including a 6-burner stove with an additional griddle and double oven. The oversized refrigerator and walk-in pantry provide ample storage space for culinary enthusiasts. The primary suite offers a spalike retreat with a walk-in steam shower featuring three shower heads, two sinks with quartz counters, a soaking tub, and an extra-large walk-in closet. On the upper level, you'll find two bedrooms, a tiled 3/4 bath, and a versatile bonus area with desks, bookshelves, and fantastic views. Additionally, there's a rooftop office/reading room that opens up to a private roof-top deck, offering a tranquil space to work or relax.

The lower level presents the opportunity for a mother-in-law living space, featuring an extra-large bedroom with a walk-in closet, a spacious living area with a wet bar, and its own private patio. Included with the property is a one-year builder warranty, providing peace of mind to the new homeowner. For a detailed visual experience of the home, you can take a narrated video tour at www.NorthGoldenHome.com

With its exceptional design, breathtaking views, and convenient location near downtown Golden, this property offers a truly unique and desirable living environment.

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Billionaire aids Colorado early education nonprofit

Philanthropist

MacKenzie Scott donates

$1 million to charity

BY SARA MARTIN CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott has awarded $1 million to a small, low-profile Colorado nonprofit, whose leaders remain a bit stunned.

“The whole thing was very surreal,” said Heather Tritten, executive director of Parent Possible, which provides support for early childhood services. “When I look at who else has been funded in Colorado — organizations that are far bigger than Parent Possible, it feels very unreal that we were funded by MacKenzie Scott and that she wanted to invest in us.”

Parent Possible, which was founded in Colorado in 1991, works to equip parents with tools and education to prepare their children to learn. The nonprofit believes that investing in early childhood systems helps increase literacy and encourages

students to graduate high school — which helps break the cycle of

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It serves some of Colorado’s most low-income residents. According to its 2022 annual report, 87% of its client households earn less than twice the federal poverty limit. That would be less than about $49,720 for a family of three this year.

Tritten said Parent Possible was contacted in December to discuss a possible donation with an anonymous organization. In March, Scott’s foundation, Yield Giving, called to say it would donate $1 million to Parent Possible.

In the 15-minute conversation, they told her, “good luck with your organization and the important work you’re doing,” she said.

Tritten said the foundation will let Parent Possible use the funds for whatever is most important.

Scott, who as of last year was the fifth richest woman in the United States, has given away more than $14 billion since 2019. She has a 4% stake in Amazon as part of her divorce settlement with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. She has made waves in the world of philanthropy by making large gifts, including to schools and education nonprofits, with no strings attached. Last year, Scott gave $2.5 million to a Colorado Springs charter school.

The Parent Possibledonation

was announced this week.

Parent Possible provides 4,000 families with in-home visiting services and an additional 20,000 families in Colorado with virtual programs, like early learning education software and an app with learning tools and parenting help.

The app, called Vroom, was created with funding from the Bezos Family Foundation. It messages parents with suggestions for activities to do with their children every day.

Parent Possible provides some of its programs through partnerships with schools, family resource centers, departments of human services, and nonprofits. Its services are free of charge to Colorado families.

The home-visiting programs teach child development, how to promote the social and emotional development of young children and how to prepare 2- to 5-year-old children for preschool and kindergarten.

Parent Possible is still mapping out how to best use Scott’s donation to help the families it serves.

Tritten hopes to advance the group’s work and accomplish more than they had previously thought possible.

Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.

A coach from Parent Possible, left, visits with a young mother in Centennial. The Denver-based nonprofit Parent Possible provides support and coaching for parents of young children. It has received a $1 million grant from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. COURTESY OF PARENT POSSIBLE

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Secret survey might explain lack of fire camera

Colorado lawmakers have repeatedly failed to pass measure

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 wildfires fail year-after-year despite universal praise from lawmakers from both sides of the aisle? Equipped with artificial intelligence and heat sensors, the cameras are steadily replacing an older warning system used in wildfire areas that relied on humans scanning the horizon from watch towers.

State Sen. Joann Ginal, D-Fort Collins, said the new technology can give firefighters 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 first hearing this year.

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

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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 first test unanimously two months earlier.

This 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 stuff that went on with it, I wasn’t privy to it,” he said last week.

KUNC discovered there was some “backroom stuff” 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.

The 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.

The 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 influence 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.

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

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

Lawmakers did pass several other wildfire-related bills this year, including a new military-grade firefighting helicopter and investments in flame-resistant building materials.

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

She said it was unique because it was one of the only policies

focused on preventing fires 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 wildfire 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 wildfire,” she said last week.

The wildfire detection camera program would have cost $2 million, while the new firefighting helicopter lawmakers ordered will cost $26 million.

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

The state forester’s office estimated in 2019 that 2.9 million Coloradans, or more than half the state’s population, lived in areas that are prone to wildfire.

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Mobile home parks water to be tested

State law comes in response to complaints

BY SAM TABACHNIK THE DENVER POST

Residents in Colorado’s mobile home parks have long sco ed when asked if they drink the community’s water.

It’s hardly even a question to think about. e answer: No, never. e liquid smells bad or looks like rust, they say. It stains dishes and sheets. State lawmakers listened to these concerns — and now Colorado will embark on a multiyear e ort to address them.

HB23-1257, signed into law by

Gov. Jared Polis in June, will launch a statewide e ort to test the water quality in mobile home parks that fall through the cracks of existing testing mechanisms. If testing reveals an issue, the park operator will need to complete a remediation plan and provide safe water for residents.

“It feels very empowering,” said Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, D-Glenwood Springs, and one of the bill’s cosponsors. “We’re nally listening to our communities and supporting working families.”

e legislation — co-sponsored by Rep. Andrew Boesenecker, D-Fort Collins, and Sens. Lisa Cutter, DJe erson County, and Kevin Priola, D-Henderson — also addresses concerns that go beyond federally

mandated testing for contaminants, including the water’s color, odor and taste.

It will be enforced by the Water Quality Control Division inside the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the state attorney general.

On top of the testing requirements, the legislation also creates a $3.6 million grant program to help park owners, nonpro t entities and local governments address water quality issues.

Water quality issues will be added to the database created by the Mobile Home Park Oversight Program, which tracks complaints against park owners.

Velasco, who grew up in mobile home parks in Colorado’s high

country, notes that this bill is just the beginning.

“We want to make sure there is clean water everywhere,” she said. e bill marks the fth year in a row that the state legislature approved a bill concerning mobile home parks and residents. Previous legislation sought to make it easier for residents to purchase the land on which their homes sit, allowed the attorney general to enforce provisions of the Mobile Home Park Act and limited the number of times park owners could increase rent per year.

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Polis signs bill allowing more speed cameras

BY NATHANIEL MINOR COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

Automated speed-enforcement cameras could become far more common across Colorado under a bill signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis this month.

e legislation was supported by transportation safety advocates and Democratic lawmakers who argued more speed and red light enforcement cameras would lead to lower speeds and safer roads. Tra c deaths across the state hit a 40-year high in 2022 of 745 fatalities.

e bill allows local governments to use such cameras in more places, including busy — and deadly — arterial roads like Federal Boulevard in the Denver area. It also lifts a limit that required police o cers to station speed cameras while they were in use. Denver o cials have said they support the bill.

“We need help,” city tra c engineer Emily Gloeckner said in May. “We don’t have the resources to be out there with a huge level of enforcement.”

e cameras are unpopular with some motorists. But research suggests they are indeed useful tools in improving road safety.

“Speeding vehicles are one of the most common concerns we hear in the cycling community, and it is a major factor contributing to crashes and fatalities on Colorado’s roads,” Bicycle Colorado Executive Director Peter Piccolo wrote in an email. “We are pleased that the Governor prioritized road safety and signed this bill.”

e sponsors said they crafted the bill to “thread the needle” of safety needs and civil liberties. For example: First-time, minor o enders of speed limits would only be issued a warning. e bill caps speeding nes at $40, though that can double for violations near schools. Signal violations would be limited to $75.

e bill also prevents a given government from “immobilizing” a vehicle if its owner doesn’t pay nes, and citations would not lead to points against a driver’s license.

Some Republicans worried the increased use of cameras would create a “surveillance state” and said local governments might use them to generate revenue.

“ ere’s a perverse incentive to do these,” state Rep. Ken DeGraaf, RColorado Springs, said during a oor

The bill allows local governments to use such cameras in more places, including busy — and deadly — arterial roads like Federal Boulevard in the Denver area.

debate in May.

e Senate sponsor, however, told CPR News in March that the low ne amounts were chosen to ght the perception that the cameras were merely money makers.

“ is isn’t about revenue, this is about safety,” said state Sen. Faith Winter, D-Westminster.

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Coloradan reflects on touring with Christopher Cross, tennis coaching and Uber driving

BY JULIO SANDOVAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Inventor, musician, tennis player, coach, and most recently Uber driver are the various professions that have sustained Gene Morris’ life over the last several decades, including what he considers a robust spiritual path.

“I just love God’s creation, and I love to get out in it and explore and experiment with life. A lot of things I don’t understand, but I don’t have to understand them to enjoy them.

So that’s kind of where I am in life,” he explained, while sitting outside next to his violin, which was leaning up against a park bench.

Morris says even though he is 71 years old, in his mind, he feels more like 17.

“I’ve been around for a while. I guess you could say I’m old enough to be a sage and that’s kind of dangerous because it means I have a trace of wisdom in there, and I know just enough to be dangerous, but the love of life keeps me like a teenager,” he explained with a laugh.

Morris told Rocky Mountain PBS that he plays the trumpet, piano,

harmonica, violin and viola, which, according to his Facebook page

made it easy for ve-time Grammy winning singer/songwriter Christopher Cross to ask Morris to be a performer in his band.

“I played with Christopher Cross, and I think that’s where I learned a lot about the industry,” he added, explaining how that was the highlight of his career. “It was more than just the music; we would socialize and eat out. I got to know him.”

Morris’ Facebook page also talks about his 30-to-40-year career as a tennis coach; he claims to have worked with a few of the greats like Andy Roddick and Martina Navratilova.

He said his transition to tennis was an easy decision after his wife decided that going on a rock and roll tour with Christopher Cross wasn’t going to happen since they had a young son at home.

“My son was one at the time — my rst-born, Nathan — and I was talking about going on the road for a year and my wife was like, ‘drugs, sex, and rock and roll? I don’t think so darling,’” he said with a laugh. “And she was right.”

“If I’d gone on tour, I’d probably not be alive today, so I picked up tennis as my income over the next 40 or so years and was able to raise my kids and a ord a family,” he said.

ese days Morris is an Uber driver which he says pays for patent attorney’s fees for his development of a contraption called the “wave,”

that helps violins sound better during studio recordings.

“One of the things I discovered while playing violin in the studio [is that] you have this wonderful hollow wood bodied instrument right next to your ear, and when I went into the studio and played, I wasn’t hearing that. It sounded like a rubber band; very thin, it didn’t have this rich wood sounds,” Morris explained.

Overall, Morris feels his life has been a lucky one. “I’m blessed because I get to hop in a car and meet people and I always carry my ddle on the dash,” he said. “You know, with the road rage, I can look at my ddle and just chill out and realize this too shall pass.”

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Gene Morris toured with Christopher Cross and was a tennis coach.

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‘I’ve been around for a while. I guess you could say I’m old enough to be a sage and that’s kind of dangerous because it means I have a trace of wisdom in there, and I know just enough to be dangerous, but the love of life keeps me like a teenager.’

Gene Morris

‘Women in Trades’

Emily Gri th Technical College celebrates women entering fields traditionally held by men

BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

A woman’s place is in the kitchen – xing the pipes, of course. Or maybe doing plumbing repairs in the bathroom, or perhaps, xing a client’s HVAC unit.

Emily Gri th Technical College in downtown Denver has been educating people for more than 100 years. Recently, it created a special focus to attract female students to study careers in the trades.

ese female students were in the spotlight on May 9, when the Emily Gri th Foundation hosted an inaugural event at ReelWorks Denver called A Celebration of Women in Trades. It was a sellout with 256 attendees, and proved that more women are entering the elds that men have historically dominated.

“It was incredible,” said Robin Chalecki, president of the Emily Gri th Foundation. “We have not done a fundraiser lunch for a couple of years, since COVID. I wanted to host an event that really highlighted our students in the best way.”

Chalecki credits Emily Gri th students for their initiative and willingness to invest in themselves and their futures.

“Our students are so incredible, so entrepreneurial in spirit, investing in themselves to make their lives better,” she said. “It’s students that know the path they are taking.”

Emily Gri th has an 82% completion rate for its students, an 85% placement rate and a 99% success rate when it comes to students earning their licenses. More than 400 employers have hired Emily

Gri th students.

Sarah Flores graduated from Emily Gri th last year with a certicate in HVAC while also working full-time as a service technician for Timberline Mechanical Systems in Boulder, where she’s worked for four years.

Flores served in the Marines and earned a bachelor’s degree but decided against going into teaching because of a lack of jobs.

Her father was a second-generation plumber.

“I thought I’d go back to what I knew, which is plumbing,” Flores said. “Trades will always be a highdemand, steady job. I could get

hired just about anywhere. ere’s a high demand for my skill set, particularly since I have both a plumbing and HVAC background.”

In the long view, Flores would like to get a managerial job or go into engineering.

Catrina Peralta is studying CADBIM, which stands for computer aided drafting and building information modeling, at Emily Gri th and will nish her studies in April next year.

As the fourth child in a family of nine kids, she’s been working since she was 12 and has honed good work habits.

“I had to work really young to

help out the family,” said Peralta, who is 36.

She describes computer programming as “all these di erent tools to build a building — anything from ground up, designing windows, doors, xtures, where electricity is run.”

Peralta has a job, and is taking courses 10 hours a week in person and the rest online.

“ at’s pretty much why I chose Emily Gri th. ey’re exible,” Peralta said.

She’s also looking into internships through Emily Gri th. Peralta

Students participate in a Welding class at Emily Gri th Technical College’s Branch Campus in Denver. COURTESY OF EMILY GRIFFITH TECHNICAL COLLEGE SEE TRADES, P

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hopes to be in a management position by age 40 “and to learn the eld the best I can.”

e May 9 event included a panel

of three women who work in trades — one from the automotive repair program, another from the welding program and the third is an apprenticeship instructor at Emily Gri th. ey discussed why they entered these mostly-male elds.

“Our panelists were just fabulous,” Chalecki said. “ ey spoke about their journeys, why they came into nontraditional trades, why women should come into these elds — and the audience reacted positively to this.”

e event also included demo stations where attendees could learn more about industries that Emily Gri th students are studying, and students showed o what they learned from their classes.

Demo stations included water quality management, welding, and health sciences programs. One woman demonstrated how HVAC works. Auto repair students had an auto body repair simulator, and also demonstrated how to paint cars.

“We (still) have a ways to go get more women” in these elds, Chalecki said, adding that getting the message out that they have support is important.

But “more people in general are understanding the value of a trades education,” Chalecki said. “ at will mean that more women will arrive as well.”

Sarah Flores is a 2022 graduate from Emily Gri th Technical College’s HVAC program. COURTESY PHOTO

Catrina Peralta is studying CAD-BIM at Emily Gri th Technical College. She will finish her studies next year, and hopes to be in a management position within the next four years. COURTESY OF CATRINA PERALTA

A student in the Automotive Service program at Emily Gri th Technical College reconstructs the inside of a car door during class.

Colorado natives: flowers and function in the home landscape

As a gardener in the urban Front Range, each season brings new challenges, or the same challenges just in a di erent order. Rabbits, salt, cold temperatures, hot temperatures, drought, foot tra c — sometimes the list seems never-ending. However, an almost foolproof way to ensure the success in the home garden is to look to our native plants for inspiration. I spoke with some of my colleagues at Denver Botanic Gardens and we came up with three of our favorites to tackle tough conditions while delivering on ower power. ese plants are all native to Colorado and provide signi cant ecological bene t to our pollinators. ey are all adaptable to our urban soils and should only require supplemental water during the rst year of establishment.

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Chocolate flower (Berlandiera lyrata) is extra coldhardy member of the daisy family is a garden powerhouse. e bright yellow owers oat atop gray-green mounding foliage, and last from early spring to frost. e golden pinwheels surround dark red centers that are full of nectar — attracting both butter ies and occasional hummingbirds. As an added bonus, the foliage is said to have the aroma of chocolate. As things wind down in the fall, leave the last crop of ower stalks to enjoy the intricate cup-shaped seed heads, which are both beautiful and a functional food source for birds.

Ten-petal blazing star (Mentzelia decapetala)

A native, night-blooming, fragrant,

drought-tolerant, pollinator magnet? Say no more! Ten-petal blazing star is a sta favorite around here — and for good reason. Although it is a biennial or short-lived perennial, once this plant is established in the garden, it will persist from seed for years to come. Sow seed directly into the garden and keep moist. It also germinates readily in pots, but transplant it into the garden early as it does develop a taproot. Mentzelia will quickly become a favorite as the striking white owers open each night, smelling sweetly of honey, only to close again before morning.

Kannah Creek Buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum var. aureum)

We love this little groundcover. Best suited for well-drained sites with little to no irrigation, sulphur ower buckwheat is incredibly durable,

long-lived and great for weed suppression. In early spring, the lush mat of green foliage is topped with chartreuse pom poms that mature to deep orange. Flower stalks can be sheared after flower for a tidier appearance, or left through winter and sheared in March. In fall, the foliage ages to a deep burgundy and persists through the winter season.

Not sure how to add these to the landscape? Try pairing them with some of our native grasses like blue gramma (Bouteloua gracilis) and little bluestem (Schizachryum scoparium). Using groundcovers and grasses reduces the need for maintenance like weeding and mulching each season.

Mountains in wilderness don’t need hardware

We humans want the most out of life, so why shouldn’t we push to get more of what we want?

at’s what some rock climbers must be thinking. ey want to enter designated Wilderness in order to drill permanent anchors into wilderness rock faces, turning these wild places into sport-climbing walls.

When the Wilderness Act became law in 1964, it put wildlife and wild lands rst, decreeing that these special places should be left alone as much as possible. is unusual approach codi ed humility, arguing that some wild places, rich in wildlife and natural beauty, needed as much protection as possible.

So far, the Act protects less than 3% of what Congress called “untrammeled” public land in the Lower 48. ese are unique places free of roads and vehicles and most manmade intrusions that a ict the rest of America.

e Wilderness Act also prohibits “installations,” but to get around this, a group called the Access Fund has

persuaded friends in Congress to introduce a bill that would, in e ect, amend the Wilderness Act.

Introduced by Rep. John Curtis, a Republican from the anti-environmental delegation of Utah, and co-sponsored by Democrat Joe Neguse from Colorado, the “Protect America’s Rock Climbing Act” (PARC Act) has been promoted as bi-partisan. Yet over 40 conservation groups, from small grassroots greens to large national organizations, have written Congress to oppose the bill. Wilderness is not about human convenience, they say, it’s about safeguarding the tiny pockets of wild landscape we’ve allowed to remain.

e PARC Act directs federal agencies to recognize the legal use of xed anchors in Wilderness, a backdoor

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approach to statutory amendment that even the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Interior oppose.

In a hearing on the bill, the Forest Service stated that “creating new denitions for allowable uses in wilderness areas, as (the PARC Act) would do, has the practical e ect of amending the Wilderness Act. (It) could have serious and harmful consequences for the management of wilderness areas across the nation.”

Beyond the permanent visual evidence of human development, xed anchors would attract more climbers looking for bolted routes and concentrate use in sensitive habitats. at impact is harmful enough, but the bill also sends a loud message: Recreation interests are more important than preserving the small bit of Wilderness we have left.

What’s coming next is clear. Some mountain bikers, led by the Sustainable Trails Coalition, have introduced legislation to exempt mountain bikes from the prohibition on mechanized travel in Wilderness.

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en there are the trail runners who want exemptions from the ban on commercial trail racing. Drone pilots and hang-gliders also want their forms of aircraft exempted.

What’s confounding is that climbing is already allowed in Wilderness. is bill is simply about using xed bolts to climb as opposed to using removable protection. at’s apparently confusing to some people.

An article in the Salt Lake Tribune went so far as to wrongly state that, “a ban on anchors would be tantamount to a ban on climbing in wilderness areas.”

But now, even some climbers are pushing back. e Montana writer George Ochenski, known for his decades of rst ascents in Wilderness, calls the Tribune’s position “Total bullsh*t.” In an e-mail, he said bolting routes “bring ‘sport climbing’ into the wilderness when it belongs in the gym or on non-wilderness rocks.”

For decades, many climbers have

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There’s a certain cliché about big things coming in small packages, but over the years that has become increasingly true with regards to tiny houses and the culture around them. e COVID-19 pandemic and a ordable housing crisis have both contributed to more people investigating the myriad uses of tiny homes, and all signs point to that number rising.

For those who are already fans of tiny homes or are eager to learn more, the Colorado Tiny House Festival is back for the sixth year to provide all the information and exploration anyone could want.

“We’ll have more than 30 structures available to check out this year and a bunch of new builders coming in,” said Art Laubach, organizer of the festival. “We have a lot of variety and new stu for people to see, especially with how much our industry has grown since COVID.”

e Colorado Tiny House Festival will be held at Riverdale Regional Park, 9755 Henderson Road in Brighton, on Saturday, June 24 and Sunday, June 25. e festival is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.

According to provided information, the festival is the largest tiny house and alternative living event in the region and allows attendees to explore some of the di erent tiny home options, chat with experts in the elds of homebuilding, sustainable living and long-time tiny home residents, and sample the wares of vendors and local eateries.

While tiny homes are designed to be used as more permanent residences, there are plenty of options on the recreational side of things for travelers to explore.

“Tiny homes are built more like foundation homes and are built as four-season structures with typical home materials,” Laubach said. “But there is the camper van side, which is something we’re seeing more people interested in, especially with the workfrom-home options that followed COVID-19.”

Young people are particularly getting interested in recreational vehicles

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advocated for a marriage of climbing and wilderness ethics. In Chouinard Equipment’s rst catalog, Patagonia founder and legendary climber Yvon Chouinard called for an ethic of “clean climbing” that comes from “the exercise of moral restraint and individual responsibility.”

We don’t like to think of recreation as consumptive, but it consumes the diminishing resource of space. And protected space is in short supply as stressors on the natural world increase. With every “user group”

Tiny homes, big potential

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like teardrop campers and camper vans, as well as converting old vans or school buses into something they can take out on the road.

“With camper vans, it’s much easier to be o the grid and there are so many opportunities for travel,” Laubach said. ese small structures are great because they allow people to do many of the same things they’d do at home without investing in another vehicle.”

Regardless of if you’re looking to invest in a tiny home or camper van or just want to see what kind of vehicles people have built for themselves, there’s plenty to enlighten at the festival.

“We want people to see how livable these structures are and see them as viable living solutions,” Laubach said. “People are also encouraged to think outside the box in terms of recreation — there are more options than huge RVs.”

Tickets and information can be found at https://coloradotinyhousefestival.com/.

Pop culture HQ arrives in Denver

Fan Expo Denver provides hardcore nerds, pop culture obsessives and casual fans the opportunity to immerse themselves in all things fandom. Over years, the event has grown in scope and reputation to the point where massive celebrities like Hayden Christensen, Danny Trejo and Neve Campbell will be on hand, as will artists, cosplayers and vendors of all kinds. It’s one of the most fun weekends of the entire year and it’s back at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St. in Denver, from Friday, June 30 through Sunday, July 2.

Find all the details at https://fanexpohq.com/fanexpodenver/.

Walker Fine Art reforges connection with nature

Humans have found creative ways

demand, the refuge for wild animals grows smaller. Meanwhile, a startling number of our animal counterparts have faded into extinction.

As someone who loves trail running, I understand the allure of wedding a love of wild places with the love of adventure and sport. But I’ve also come to see that the ip side of freedom is restraint, and Wilderness needs our restraint more than ever.

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to explore their connection to nature for as long as we’ve made art. Our relationship to the natural world is constantly evolving and as we’ve seen over the last few years, it’s a fragile relationship we need to do everything we can to protect.

In Coalescing Connections, the latest exhibition at Walker Fine Art, 300 W. 11th Ave., No. A, in Denver, seven artists —Julie Anderson, Mark Penner Howell, Sara Sanderson, Brian Comber, Cara Enteles, Sharon Strasburg and Norman Epp— have the opportunity to explore their connection with nature.

Get all the details about the show at www.walker neart.com/coalescingconnections.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Zach Bryan at Red Rocks ere are few things a musician

can do that is as powerful as taking the stage at Rocks and commanding the stage. As you can hear on last year’s excellent live recording, “All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster,”Zach Bryan is just that kind of musician. e Oklahoma-based country star has made a huge name for himself in short order and he’s truly one of the most exciting artists working in the genre.

Bryan and his band will be returning to Red Rocks, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway in, Morrison, for two nights — 8 p.m. on Monday, June 26 and Tuesday, June 27. He’ll be joined by opener Jonathan Peyton.   Find ticket at www.axs.com.

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

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Therapists

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

When people think of horses, they might associate them with ranch living, horse racing or recreational riding, but horses can be therapeutic, too.  erapy takes many forms, from physical to mental. Some people travel to a ranch to work with horses as part of the therapeutic process.

Equine-assisted therapy was something Arvada native Kelsey Petitt discovered while studying occupational therapy at Pima Medical Institute in Denver. Having grown up riding horses, it immediately caught her attention.

“I just, kind of, was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is the coolest thing ever. I can combine my true passion of horses and really being able to help and assist participants and patients with doing therapy and reaching their functional goals while also having fun with horses and having that relationship,’” Petitt said.

Although she knew immediately that equine-assisted therapy was something she wanted to pursue, she did not do so immediately. Following her schooling and clinical internships, she quickly began working and then had her daughter.

However, in 2021 Petitt, who now lives in Brighton, decided to establish the Brighton-based Prestige erapeutic Equestrian Center, o ering an occupational therapy program that brings the four-legged companions into the practice.

“Now, I’m going on 11 years of being a therapist and so it’s taken me a little bit of time to get back to, really, what I wanted to do,” said Petitt, who also works as an occupational therapy assistant for a company called erapeutic and Rehabilitative Associates.

Her purpose, like many other therapists incorporating horses into their practice, is clear: “Transforming lives through the therapeutic power of horses.”

Bringing horses into occupational therapy

Occupational therapists help people develop skills so that they can perform day-to-day tasks such as bathing, dressing and eating, as well as techniques to aid in memory and concentration, according to the American Occupational erapy Association.

For example, occupational therapists may work on a person’s ne motor skills, such as being able to button a jacket or holding a fork, Petitt said.

ey also work on sensory integration, which she said usually comes up when working with someone who is on the autism spectrum.

Another example of work they do is helping someone with their feeding skills, such as for patients with Parkinson’s disease who experience a lot of tremors. Improving core strength may also be a focus for patients, such as for someone who struggles to put their shirt on due to a lack of strength.

“ ere’s an array of di erent settings that you can get into in the occupational therapy eld, but I think for me, the equine-assisted movement is just something that I’ve always loved,” she said. “Horses are just so therapeutic in general, for anybody.”

e term “hippotherapy” refers to how occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech-language pathology professionals use equine movement as a therapy tool, according to the American Hippotherapy Association.

To use hippotherapy in treatment, a person must be a licensed therapist who has completed continuing education in the inclusion of horses and equine movement, per the association. Petitt has gotten her rst level of training with the association, and she plans to continue with her training this fall.

However, Petitt explained that she does not refer to herself as a hippotherapist because hippotherapy is not its own therapy.

“We’re not hippotherapists,” she said. “Hippotherapy is utilizing the horse. All of our treatments are either occupational therapy, speech therapy or physical therapy, and we’re just using the horse as a treatment tool, basically.”

With her clients, she said she is working on all of the same therapy interventions that she would be in a therapy gym or in an outpatient program, but instead she’s now doing it by having her clients get onto a horse and incorporating the horse’s movement into the treatment.

“We work o the horse’s pelvis, so their pelvis is very similar to ours,” she said.  ere are di erent planes for the horse in the way that their pelvis moves — the sagittal plane, frontal plane and transverse plane, she said.

“We’re working on that constantly, so when we have our riders on the horse, they’re also working on that. And it’s one of the most multi-dimensional movement(s) that’s rhythmic and repetitive,” she said.

For someone experiencing conditions such as limited mobility, limited core strength, cognitive delays, or sensory processing disorders, “it can really just kind of help bene t and improve all of those elements,” she said of equine-assisted therapy.

According to a study published in the international journal, Physiotherapy eory and Practice, there are “signicant positive e ects” of equine-assisted therapy on exercise tolerance, mobility, interpersonal interactions and quality of life of people with disabilities.

Another study focused on the ef-

fects of equine-assisted activities and therapies for individuals on the autism spectrum and concluded that these programs “substantially improve” the social and behavioral functions of people who are on the autism spectrum.

“Communication is pretty key, too … because horses mirror us, so a lot of our participants can learn a lot more speech and communication successfully with the horses, which is really great,” she said.

Petitt has three horses she works with. e horse a client is paired with is dependent on their individual needs, she explained.

“Part of what’s so cool is because we can kind of tailor it to that participant, that patient, and kind of really work on what we need to work on with them,” she said. “ eir postural control, sensory systems, motor planning.”

In a typical therapy gym for occupational therapy, Petitt said there are tools such as a swing, a ball and a mat to use for the session. However, these do not provide the same level of sensory input and rhythmic, consistent movement that equine-assisted therapy can, which she said is great at building overall strength, control and balance.

“We can work in the therapy gym all day but the bene ts and the outcomes that we’re seeing while doing therapy

A young girl works on her skills at the Prestige Therapeutic Equestrian Center.

describe how they incorporate horses into their practice

Sage is one of the horses at the Prestige Therapeutic Equestrian Center.

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on the horses are just so much more transformative and more meaningful than we can get in the gym,” she said.

Looking ahead, Petitt said she hopes to soon expand her team to include a physical therapist.

“And then I’m really hoping to hire a speech therapist as well, because riding the horses … there’s so much to do with our respiration rate when we’re riding them,” she said. “What that can do for speech language pathologists is really help with that physiological system of how we talk.”

At the Prestige erapeutic Equestrian Center, Petitt also o ers “therapeutic horseback riding,” which she explained is not a professional therapy service but is rather like a recreational sport where individuals learn riding skills. is experience can, in turn, lead to other bene ts such as helping deal with anxiety.

However, when it comes to getting professional therapy treatment for mental health conditions like coping with trauma, grief, abuse, or other challenging experiences, community members have an equinebased option — the therapists with Rocky Mountain Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, LLC.

Horses and psychotherapy

Carina Kellenberger and Dana Schultz, both licensed clinical social workers who grew up loving horses, established Rocky Mountain Equine Assisted Psychotherapy in 2013.

Schultz, who lives near Superior, and Kellenberger, who lives in Longmont, primarily practice at the Happy Dog Ranch in the Littleton area and at Medicine Horse in Boulder.

“We are licensed clinical social workers that have a trauma-specialty focus in … equine therapy,” Schultz said, explaining they do formal intakes and development clinical-based treatment plans.

ere is a di erence between equine-assisted therapy and equine-facilitated therapy, Kellenberger noted.

“When we rst started our business back in 2013, the word ‘equine-facilitated learning and psychotherapy’ did not exist, but that is the work we are doing,” Kellenberger said. “Equine-facilitated psychotherapy and learning means that the horse — the relationship with the horse is the vehicle for change.”

Under the practice of equine-facilitated psychotherapy, it is the client’s relationship and connection with the animal that is moving the sessions forward, she said.

“ e di erence between the learning and the psychotherapy are, like, a lot of the group work is mainly more learning because we’re not really diving into personal issues and we’re keeping it a little more surface level,” Kellenberger said. “But (in) the psychotherapy … we go as deep just like any o ce therapist would.”

Equine-assisted therapy is di erent because while horses are incorporated into the practice, the client’s relationship with them is not the driving force, she said. Rather, the horses are more of a tool component of the therapy.

“ ey might be being used more as a metaphor or as a way to help move through an activity, but they’re not — the relationship with the animal isn’t the central piece,” she added. “In the facilitated work that we do with our clients, it’s the relationship as the primary drive and the connection with the horse.”

Kellenberger and Schultz may use an equinefacilitated or an equine-assisted therapy approach when treating a client, as it depends on what the client is seeking, Schultz said. Kellenberger added that equine-assisted therapy is bene cial as an assessment tool.

Both Schultz and Kellenberger received certi cation in animal-assisted social work from the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work, as

well as completed training through the organization Natural Lifemanship in trauma-focused equineassisted psychotherapy.

“A lot of our clients, they’re coming to us because they’ve experienced trauma, and so we’re making sure that everything that we’re doing is through that lens as well,” Kellenberger said.

Schultz noted their approach is always using a clinical, evidence-based lens and horses are a part of the team. She works with clients to identify their primary goals and the horse becomes their partner in that journey.

“We know that therapy is hard and incredibly personal, and it’s a di cult journey for people to admit, like, ‘Hey, I need help.’ And so one of the things that we always do is provide our potential clients with a free meet-and-greet,” Schultz said, explaining the person can visit the ranch to meet her and hear the elevator pitch.

“Part of that elevator pitch is recognizing how difcult the therapeutic process and journey can be for some, and that the relationship that you have with the therapist is as important as the relationship that you are going to form with your horse,” she added.

Most of the work during therapy sessions is unmounted, Kellenberger said, explaining the clients may do things like grooming the horse, leading the horse or doing other things that help them feel connected to the horse.

Once sessions begin, Schultz said herself and Kellenberger are skilled at identifying patterns in people’s behaviors.

“We basically say, ‘I’m noticing this pattern. Is it helpful or not?’” Schultz said, explaining they use the identi cation of patterns to build rapport and trust with clients before then delving deeper into working through their trauma.

e trauma a lot of their clients experience is a ecting the way they show up in their human relationships, Kellenberger said.

“Working with the horses — who are prey animals and are highly sensitive and attuned to our intentions, our emotions — they make excellent partners in this work, because they are able to kind of mirror or … show the patterns that people have in the same way that a human would,” Kellenberger said.

Schultz noted that the work being done during these therapy sessions happens in the moment, providing an opportunity for real-time change.

“Our horses … they are not magical unicorn creatures. ey are going to ignore our clients. ey are going to resist,” Schultz said. “And the client is going to, you know, respond or react.

“And that’s kind of what we’re observing and saying, ‘Hey, is this pattern helpful for you? Because it’s happening right here, right now. So, right now, in this moment, you’re feeling frustrated, you’re feeling abandoned, you’re feeling unheard, (or) you’re feeling whatever. What can we do right now in this moment to help shift the way that you’re feeling to a more balanced thought?’” she continued.

ese therapy sessions provide a way for clients to, in a safe space, start

to make changes to those patterns and feel more comfortable not only in their relationship to the horse but in their relationships with people, explained Kellenberger.

“ e actual brain starts to change while they’re working with the animal,” Kellenberger said. “And horses are really great at this, also, because they are prey animals. ey are looking for vulnerability and congruence from us because that’s how they keep themselves safe in the wild.”

“If a client is really holding back an emotion, they’re being incongruent, you’ll see the reaction from the horse in that way,” she continued. “As soon as … our clients are able to start to be more congruent in their own bodies, that feels very safe for the horse and that’s where the connections really start to form.”

It is through this real-time therapy work with the horse that the clients can begin to learn how to transfer the shifts in their approach into their everyday lives, Schultz explained.

“Having done this for 10 years, I can tell you, we have seen so many clients who come in and they’re like, ‘I’ve tried everything else. Nothing else works,’” Schultz said. “We see clients, I think, for a shorter period of time, I think, on average, than maybe what a traditional talk therapist in an o ce setting would see because it isn’t so retroactive or future-oriented.”  Kellenberger added, “It’s kind of just eye-opening, and it can unlock patterns that people didn’t know that they had that they’ve been working on for years in the o ce. So I would say that the horses are amazing partners because they are so sensitive and they can show us a lot about ourselves pretty quickly.”

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All three therapists expressed a desire to raise awareness of the existence of their practices and how it can help people.  “It’s as good as … any other therapy,

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and you don’t need horse experience to do it,” Schultz said. “It’s not just for any speci c type of person.”

Schultz said when she and Kellenberger entered into the industry, it was small and many people did not really understand it.

“ ere were so many people, especially when we were rst getting started, that were just kind of doing backyard therapy that were not therapists,” Kellenberger said, explaining that she and Schultz wanted to put their mental health degrees at the forefront of their work and help the eld gain notoriety.

“Because we were seeing the really great work that can be done when you’re doing it correctly,” she added,

advising people to do their research and look for licensed therapists.

Schultz highlighted that this type of therapy is for everyone, saying they have clients ranging from the ages of 7 to 78.

“It’s inspiring. I’m inspired by my clients to, you know, for me to keep my training up, to be the best I can be because they’re showing up to do the hard work,” Schultz said.

In her work in occupational therapy, Petitt shared how powerful it is to see clients transform throughout equineassisted therapy sessions.

“It’s just so cool to see them being able to accomplish the things that they weren’t able to accomplish before,” she said. “Raising awareness of what we do is so important and amazing to help our riders grow.”

“It’s just amazing what horses do for us,” Petitt said. “ ey’re so inspiring.”

Carina Kellenberger, left, and Dana Schultz, right, established Rocky Mountain Equine Assisted Psychotherapy in 2013. COURTESY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN EQUINE ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY

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Hard winter for wild herds now limits hunting

BY TRACY ROSS THE COLORADO SUN

When the storms bearing more snow than people had seen in years came to northwestern Colorado last winter, they were full of promise.

Of creeks and rivers bursting at their seams. Of reservoirs nally full again. Of ground so saturated, res like the ones that had burned the previous summers might not be able to take hold.

But the slow-moving fronts that dropped snow in four-foot increments brought no help for the deer, elk, moose and pronghorn that forage near the towns of Maybell, Meeker, Rangely, Dinosaur and Craig. For them, the precipitation that fell, the winds that blew and the temperatures that hovered below zero for weeks on end meant death in numbers not seen in decades.

Rachael Gonzales, the northwest region public information o cer for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, wrote as much in a post on the agency’s website dated March 28:

“It has been a tough winter for wildlife. … Since the start of the season the National Weather Service’s Maybell weather station has recorded over 80 inches of snow for the area. Prolonged snow combined with strong gusty winds have made an already hard time of year for wildlife even more di cult. Food has been extremely di cult for big game to nd as much of it is covered by deep, hard-packed snow. is has forced thousands of animals to migrate farther west than they typically do, burning much-needed fat and calories they likely won’t replenish.”  She then relayed a story of a bull elk she saw while on a ride-along with District Wildlife Manager Jeffrey Goncalves in the region:

“…we noticed a mature bull elk that was unable to get up after several attempts. After watching and evaluating the elk for several minutes, the decision was made to euthanize the bull so it would no longer su er from starvation.”

And she said that in addition to mortality from malnutrition, wildlife o cials had seen an increase in animals injured or killed from vehicle collisions.

With normal migration routes di cult for wildlife to navigate, they had resorted to using roadways as they searched for food. Sometimes that food was located on a narrow shoulder along a windy section of road, Gonzales wrote. On Jan. 14, a semi traveling eastbound from Utah on U.S. 40 hit 35 pronghorn on the road, and on Jan. 19, another driver hit a group of 18 near Craig. Over the course of the winter, district wildlife managers in the northwest region responded to four incidents involving vehicle collisions with groups of

10 or more of the animals.

On April 5, the Rio Blanco Herald Times, a newspaper serving the northwest region, quoted nowretired CPW wildlife manager Bill deVergie as saying deer fawn survival was in the 30% range and heading toward 20%; elk calf survival was 35% to 40% of normal; and only 10% of pronghorn fawns, the hardest hit, were surviving.

CPW said it was one of the worst winters for wildlife it had ever seen, despite massive e orts to help the animals. Area managers had dropped tons of hay for them to eat, and local ranchers had left barn doors open, welcoming them in. But in the end a catastrophic number of Colorado’s healthiest ungulate herds

died.

As bad as the winter of 2023 was for wildlife in the corner of Colorado bounded by Wyoming and Utah, however, it could also be bad for thousands of people who live in the same region and rely on the biggame hunting seasons that start in mid August and run through November.

Emails from CPW started going out to hunters who put in for the draw the rst week of June. Once hunters know they’ve scored a tag, many start planning their trips. But Cody Nelson, who owns Moosehead Lodge in Rangely, 13 miles east of the Utah border, in the White River

State wildlife o cials stand by a decision to cut hunting licenses, saying it’s the only way to bring back decimated herds to healthy numbers. COURTESY OF R. GONZALES / COLORADO PARKS AND WILDLIFE

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Valley, said she can “already see a dramatic decrease in bookings from previous years.”

“To be honest, there was a little bit of worry even before the reductions were announced,” she said. “I totally understand why CPW is doing what they’re doing, but I don’t know what it’ll mean for the area as a whole.”

Even over-the-counter tags, which are set by the Colorado state legislature and available in August to any hunter for a certain price after the limited draw is over, were affected. While CPW didn’t reduce the number, it did shorten two seasons in which hunters could use over-thecounter tags for elk in the severewinter zone — downsizing one season to ve days from nine and another to ve days from seven.

Rooms at Nelson’s lodge range from $85 to $105 per night and she says she books up during hunting season. With nine lodge rooms and seven cabins booked seven days a week at an average of $95 per night, Nelson could lose more than $100,000 between the start of the deer, elk, and pronghorn hunting seasons, in mid-August, and the end, in December.

Hunters also need to eat, buy lastminute supplies and maybe treat themselves to a few shots of whiskey after their hunts, so that’s more money they spend and more tax revenue for the town of 2,200.

Dylan LeBleu, a dispatcher for the Rangely Police Department, says that while Rangely isn’t a “hunting town,” he’s part of a community of hunters who rely on game meat to ll their freezers. “We have a market here, but not anything big, and it’s a little expensive,” he says, “and the nearest Walmart is an hour away.”

A pound of “all natural” 97% lean ground beef at Walmart currently costs around $7. is multiplied by the estimated 160 pounds of meat a hunter can typically harvest from an average-size 500-pound elk equates to $1,120. Add the cost of gas to drive 100 miles round trip to the Walmart in Vernal, Utah, and back, and subtract the $63 cost of an over-thecounter license to hunt for an elk, and no matter how you look at it, it’s more a ordable for a local to hunt than it is to buy their meat from a grocery store.

Debbie Fitch and her family own several businesses associated with their Fitch Ranch in Parshall, so they likely won’t be as impacted as some due to the size and diversity of their enterprise. “But a lot of people’s livelihoods in this part of the country rely on hunting revenue and I think it’s going to be a tough year for a lot of them,” she said.

“For restaurants, out tters, processors, taxidermists. ey’ll be impacted in multiple ways. And then there’s just … the wildlife out here. It’s so sad,” she added. “It was hard to look at. We had one elk that just

laid down in our yard next to our hay bales and that was it. You’ve never seen so many dead animals on the side of the road, either.”

en there are the out tters who guide hunters who’ve either won a tag in the lottery, purchased one in person, or paid a landowner equipped with a specialized CPW “landowner preference program” voucher to hunt the landowner’s property.

Tyler Emrick, who owns and operates CJ Out tters outside of Craig with his wife, Michelle, o ers fully and semiguided deer, elk, moose, bear and mountain lion hunts for prices ranging from $3,500 to $10,000 per person. Like Fitch, he says the economic impacts he’ll endure this season will be limited compared with others because he has diversi ed his hunts geographically and now has permits to guide in Wyoming as well as Colorado.

But the Colorado towns of Craig, Meeker, Rangely, Maybell and “maybe, especially Dinosaur,” near the Utah border, “will be hurt because each of these places depend on the hunter harvest for their economy,” Emrick said. He knows an out tter participating in CPW’s landowner program who “normally gets 12 to 14 licenses, and this year he’s getting three to ve. It’s those small guys that depend on that $15,000 to $30,000 to pay for hay that are going to be hit hard. I do believe Meeker County will feel it hardest because even though it’s a rich county because of oil, there’s still all those restaurants. And a new brewery that just moved in. And I don’t know how many public hunters will come.”

Public lands hunters often purchase over-the-counter tags if they came up empty-handed in the lottery. But Emrick wonders if OTC hunters will avoid traveling to units in the severe-winter zone given the new shorter seasons.

“I don’t know if anyone will come out for ve days or hit some other places out of state that weren’t hit like we were,” he says.

e Colorado Wildlife Council says hunting is a $843 million industry in Colorado. And, combined with shing, hunters contribute $3.25 billion and 25,000 jobs to the state economy.

ose potentially 32,000 hunters who could have purchased the eliminated tags? eir absence and the revenue associated with it could impact CPW’s annual budget by as much as $8 million, the agency says.

CPW employs a “user pays” model of funding in which hunting and shing licenses, federal excise taxes on hunting and shing equipment and license applications contribute millions of dollars to the agency’s budget.

“But statistics do show that nonresident hunters are gone from home for eight to nine days on average including travel time and that they hunt ve days,” Emrick said. “So with those numbers, it could either be really good or really, really bad. Easier to say hindsight is 20/20, we

don’t know yet. I hope everyone can make it through, but I’m sure some out tters could go under this year.”

No matter what happens to the humans, the CPW commission stands by its reductions, saying they are the only way to bring the decimated herds back to healthy numbers.

But at its May 3 meeting to discuss license reductions, Emrick and a handful of other hunters, ranchers and out tters said they wished the agency would do more.

In a letter to the commission beforehand, the Colorado Wildlife Conservation Project, consisting of 11 members representing tens of thousands of hunters, anglers, conservationists and outdoor enthusiasts, said it was willing to take “further reductions to limited licenses and/or temporary suspensions or caps on over-the-counter licenses” to address the problem, while recognizing “fewer hunting opportunities would mean fewer trips and lost revenue for the state and rural communities on multiple fronts.”

Others who spoke during the public comment period asked the commission to add a mandatory hunter harvest survey to get a clearer picture of what’s happening with various species in the severe-winter zone, adding that a penalty that revokes hunters’ privileges to apply for a license the next year if the hunter doesn’t complete the survey would round out the deal.

Emrick asked CPW to make “an immediate emergency declaration

and end cow hunting in (units affected by the severe winter) along with the whole northwest, or o er a minimum of 10 tags.” He also asked the commission to limit either-sex elk hunting in certain months because “when a hunter harvests a cow they could be killing three elk with one bullet.”

But as managers had pointed out earlier in the meeting, the average success rate among elk hunters is just 20%, which means with a limit of 10 licenses there’s a good possibility only two elk in one of the severewinter zone units would be killed.  CPW manages its herds for the health of the population as well as for hunters. is means it keeps hunters in mind when making “sex ratio” decisions — how many antlerless deer to make available for hunting and how many antlered deer, for instance. And the agency expects the lowered number of licenses to help herd health start improving immediately. So maybe the decision to stick with the reductions rather than make further cuts will take some of the sting out of the deadliest winter for wildlife CPW can remember, at least for humans.

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Lawmakers’ pay influences debates and votes on bills

BY JESSE PAUL AND ELLIOTT WENZLER THE COLORADO SUN

e 100 state lawmakers in Colorado earn about $42,000 a year for their work at the Capitol, placing them in the middle of the pack compared to their counterparts across the U.S. when it comes to how much they’re paid to draft, debate and vote on bills.

at in uences who runs to be a state representative or senator, which in turn determines which legislation passes or fails.

A Colorado Sun analysis of state lawmaker salaries compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures places Colorado 19th on the salary list. Colorado legislators earn more than counterparts in any bordering state except Oklahoma.

State senators whose terms began before January earn a salary of $41,449. Senators whose terms began in January, as well as all House members, make $43,977.

e salaries are set at 25% of a county judge’s salary, which through 2026 is $175,908. Salaries for state lawmakers, as well as state-level statewide elected o cials, are recalculated every four years based on changes to judicial o cers’ salaries.

Colorado lawmakers who live within 50 miles of the Capitol — a

large portion, if not the majority, of the legislature — are also eligible to receive a per diem of $45 for each of the 120 days the General Assembly is in session each year, which adds up to $5,400. ose who live more than 50 miles from the Capitol are entitled to about $237 per legislative day, which totals $28,440.  at’s in addition to mileage. For reference, the median household income in Colorado is $80,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. e median gross annual rent in Colorado is $17,244.

State Sen. James Coleman, a Denver Democrat, said it’s di cult to nd a place to live in Colorado on a $42,000 salary. “Absolutely I think it picks and chooses who can participate,” he said.

Oklahoma lawmakers make $47,500, while lawmakers in Nebraska earn $12,000. Lawmakers in Utah earn $285 per legislative day and lawmakers in Kansas earn $88.66 per legislative day of service, in addition to about $7,000 to defray interim costs. In Wyoming, lawmakers earn $150 per day they work. (Lawmakers in all of those states are entitled to per diem, though in Utah the bene t can only be claimed by lawmakers who live more than 100 miles from Salt Lake City, the state capital.)

In New Mexico, lawmakers are paid no salary.

New York lawmakers make $142,000, the most of any state lawmakers in the U.S., though their outside income will be capped at $35,000 starting in 2025. California lawmakers are second, at $122,694, with higher amounts for legislative leadership. Pennsylvania is third at $102,844.

New Mexico lawmakers make the least — $0 — of any state lawmaker in the U.S. Close behind is New Hampshire, where the state’s 424 lawmakers are paid a $100 salary — a rate set more than 130 years ago — and get no per diem, meaning that technically they receive even less compensation than lawmakers in New Mexico, who get a per diem of roughly $200.

U.S. senators and representatives, for reference, make $174,000 each year. Congressional leaders earn even more.

e variations in state lawmaker pay across the U.S. are in uenced by many factors, including politics and cost of living di erences from state to state.

ey are also determined by whether a state’s legislature operates year-round — like in California, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania — or is part time, like in Colorado, where each lawmaking term is limited to 120 days.

Colorado’s General Assembly was intentionally formed as a “citizen” legislature, where representatives and senators aren’t full-time politicians. Lawmakers are expected to have jobs outside of the Capitol, though many say serving in the General Assembly is truly a full-time job.

Critics of Colorado lawmakers’ pay say it limits who can serve at the Capitol to wealthier people, who are often retired, white and without school-age kids.

“ e arrangement that we have de nitely takes some people out of the running,” said former state Sen. Mike Foote, a Boulder County Democrat who opted not to run for reelection after nding it di cult to balance his Capitol duties with a demanding work schedule as a private attorney raising a family.

However, Foote said lawmakers know the nancial consequences of serving at the Capitol when they run for a legislative seat. And he points out many Coloradans work full time and make $40,000 a year.

Sen. Faith Winter, D-Westminster, has advocated for the legislature to increase its salary. Outside of her job as a legislator, Winter works for

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State Rep. Rod Bockenfeld speaks at the GOP state assembly on Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Colorado Springs.

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VoteRunLead, a nonpro t that trains women to run for o ce, recruiting political candidates.

“ e rst or second question that gets asked is ‘How do I have a family and do this? How can I a ord to do this?’” she said. “When we want BIPOC folks to run and we want women to run and we want young people to run and LGBTQ folks, then we have to make sure that we’re making it possible for them.”

BIPOC means Black, Indigenous and people of color.

Coleman, who is Black, was the youngest member of the legislature when he was rst elected to the House in 2016. At the time, he had two 6-year-old kids. Coleman said his age, lack of intergenerational wealth and young family made it very di cult to serve as a state lawmaker.

“It was virtually impossible for me to run and a ord to serve,” he said, noting that candidates for o ce aren’t paid.

While some employers may be OK with someone taking o for 120 days to work in the legislature, Coleman said, they are few and far between. Besides, he said, being a state representative or state senator really requires year-round attention for those who want to be successful

and adequately represent their community.

But others argue the limited salary actually serves to ensure Colorado has a citizen legislature.

“I think Colorado is about where it needs to be,” Rep. Rod Bockenfeld, a Watkins Republican, said of state lawmakers’ salary level.

Bockenfeld, who sits on the Joint Budget Committee, said he knows the legislature’s low salary could stop some people from being able to run for o ce. He personally experienced that hurdle.

Before he could a ord to run for the legislature, he served as an Arapahoe County commissioner for 12 years and earned a much higher

salary. ( e current salary for a commissioner in Arapahoe County is $131,701.)

Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen, a Monument Republican, worries that raising lawmakers’ pay would prompt the legislature to become a full-time, year-round job. He opposes that shift because of how it would expand government in uence.

“It simply creates a silo that is populated in various levels, various strata of political operators, who have nothing but politics as the experience of their life,” he said. “ at’s contrary to what representation of the people is supposed to be about. e salary, is it out of alignment with

what professionals make? Of course. I make substantially less than my skills demand in the marketplace. But I choose as an act of service to do the work as an active service, not because I want it to be a profession or a career.”

Colorado’s next legislative session begins in January.

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CELEBRATING THE CHAMPIONS

Fans

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e Hatch family from Northglenn never misses a Denver Nuggets game, if they can help it. ey’ve been dedicated fans since moving to Colorado in 2011 and when the team won its rst NBA championship this week, they knew they’d be at the parade on ursday.

“We never really expected to actually win the championship, but we were hopeful for one,” Ariel Hatch said. “It’s amazing!”

e family of ve were among the estimated 700,000 to one million fans to descend on downtown on June 15 to bask in the glory of the a Nuggets NBA title that was more than 50 years in the making.

ere, they had the chance to see Finals MVP Nikola Jokic, who famously said he wanted to go home to Serbia following the title-clinching victory on June 12.

Instead, he was in a white Denver re truck with No. 15 in gold letters and his name, the missing Finals MVP trophy nearby. When he nally found his way through the crowd to a podium, the crowd erupted.

“You know that I told you I didn’t want to stay for parade,” Jokic addressed the crowd. “But I [expletive] want to stay for parade. is is the best. We love you, Denver. is is for you.”

He was one of many Nuggets players at the parade. Also there was Head Coach Mike Malone, sta ers, cheerleaders and Rocky the mascot – showered with love, beer, and cheers from the masses as they passed on a procession of re trucks.

David Zuckerman brought his two kids down from the Boulder area

to see the spectacle. He said he is thrilled Denver can o cially be called “Champion City” after seeing both the Avalanche hockey team and Nuggets win titles in back-to-back years.

He said the Nuggets are more than a Denver team. ey’re a Colorado team.

“It’s exciting for everyone to be moving in the same direction for something positive, especially considering the Avalanche won last year (also),” Zuckerman said.

Taylor Wright has lived in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood for eight years after moving from Kentucky.  ough he’s watched lots of great basketball from the Nuggets, and has become a self-proclaimed diehard fan, he wasn’t sure if they could really win a championship until recently.

“After the performance in the NBA bubble in 2020, it seemed more realistic,” he said. “It’s unreal to witness a franchise winning its rst championship, though.”

Ashley Guss of Adams County said her family has been strong Nuggets fans since the J.R. Smith days, and to see a championship come to fruition is surreal.

“I knew as soon as we went up in the nals series that we were coming out here for the parade to celebrate,” Guss said. “It’s been a long time coming for this team, and you can see that in the amount of people who came out

today.”

Stan Jacobsen from Evergreen agrees.

“Watching these guys this whole season really shows how much they deserve to win it. It’s great to see them get what they’ve worked so hard for. e fans here have really embraced the entire team,” Jacobsen said.  Festivities kicked o with a pre-rally at Civic Center Park at 9 a.m., followed by the parade at 10 a.m. that traveled from Union Station to Civic Center Park.

During the parade, players and coaches signed merchandise. ey even hopped o the oats to interact with the crowd. Several players and coaches addressed the massive congregation at Civic Center Park.

“Life’s about moments,” Coach Malone said. “We have people that have been supporting this team for 47 years … We’re some greedy [expletive], baby. We’re getting another one. It’s hitting me right now. For me, to share it with our fans, that means the world to me. is is an amazing experience. Something that I believed in. I had no doubt that we’d get to this point.”

Fans from all the corners of Colorado came. ey hailed from Fort Collins in the north to Pueblo in the south to Grand Junction in the west. ey might as well rename the team the Colorado Nuggets.

Nuggets player Bruce Brown shows some love to the crowd at the beginning of the parade.

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Suncor pollutes into nearby neighborhoods more often than similar facilities

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

e Colorado regional o ce of the EPA vowed tougher enforcement action against Suncor in Commerce City, issuing a report showing the re nery releases air pollutants into nearby neighborhoods more often than many similar facilities around the U.S.

Suncor logged more excess releases of sulfur dioxide-laden tail gas than any of 11 comparable re neries from 2016 to 2020, according to the Region 8 EPA study. Sulfur in tail gas is meant to be recovered to cycle back into the re ning process to

avoid potentially toxic emissions.  Suncor’s Commerce City re nery also had the second-highest number of excess hydrogen sul de releases, or acid gas, among the same group of re neries, according to the EPA analysis, which was conducted with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment using federal recovery act funds.

In another tracked category, hydrocarbon aring, Suncor was in the middle of incidents recorded from the 12 total re neries, the EPA said.  e analysis by a third-party engineer said Suncor’s Commerce City facility may be producing more air quality incidents because of faulty

electrical equipment, lack of preventative maintenance, and not testing or inspecting other control systems adequately.

“We will use this information and other targeting tools to focus our e orts for future inspections and enforcement,” said Region 8 EPA Administrator KC Becker, a former Democratic Speaker of the House at the Colorado legislature.

e state health department, which reached a large settlement with Suncor over past emissions incidents and failures, also said the new study would result in steppedup enforcement for the facility under increasing pressure from neighbors

and local elected o cials.

“We anticipate the ndings will result in direct actions for Suncor to make improvements,” said Trisha Oeth, the CDPHE’s director of environmental health and protection.

Suncor did not respond to messages seeking comment this week.

Clean air advocates said state and federal o cials have plenty of information, and now must toughen their responses to Suncor’s ongoing air pollution incidents and applications for permit renewals.

“We have known Suncor has been a bad actor for years,” said Ean

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State adding mental health bed options

e administration also doled out 29 other grants to address mental health spe cally for people in the criminal justice system.

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

e only stabilization unit in the state’s crisis services system that’s solely for adolescents used to help about 2,000 kids each year.

Now, because of a shortage of mental health workers, it can take only 1,000.

e other half of the children and teens in mental health crises are sent elsewhere, or more likely, left to wait in emergency rooms at hospitals across Colorado.

“It breaks my heart to talk about the kids we are having to turn away,” said Kiara Kuenzler, CEO of the Je erson

Center, a community mental health center that oversees the 24/7 crisis stabilization unit in Lakewood. “We track every single person that we are not able to serve. It’s almost always

due to not having the workforce capacity.”

e unit, called New Vistas, has 16 beds for kids ages 5 to 18, but much of the time, there are only enough doctors and therapists to keep eight or 10 of those beds in use, Kuenzler said.

at’s where new funding from Colorado’s portion of the federal pandemic relief package is supposed to help. Je erson Center is receiving $2 million to hire additional sta and o er incentives to keep current clinicians on the payroll in what has long been a high-burnout career. e grant is part of more than $400 million in American Recovery Act funds that Colorado lawmakers divided up for mental health care.

e state Behavioral Health Administration has awarded 80 grants to local governments, hospitals and community organizations to ll gaps in mental health care. ose include the Stride Sober Living, the Naloxone Project, Young People in Recovery and the Aspen E ect. Some grants are to create more psychiatric beds or residential beds that are one step down from a hospital, while others are to build up therapy and substance abuse programs.

Hospitals make investments

At the same time, a few hospital systems in the state are making new investments in mental health care, raising hope that Colorado will make progress on its severe lack of services.

e latest report from the Treatment Advocacy Center, which ranks states on behavioral health services, placed Colorado at 34th in the nation and counted 543 beds in this state.  at was about 10 beds per 100,000 people, far fewer than the 50 beds per 100,000 people that mental health experts say is needed. e Denver area alone needs about 1,000 more beds, said Dr. Je rey Woods, operations group president for Acadia Healthcare.

“ at is a level of near crisis,” he said.

Construction of a new 144-bed behavioral health hospital in Westminster began this month, a joint partnership between Acadia Healthcare and Intermountain Health, which was SCL Health.

West Pines Hospital will have inpatient psychiatric beds, as well as step-down programs for people who will live at home but spend several hours each day in treatment at the hospital. It’s expected to open in fall 2024.

“For too long there has been this dearth of behavioral health services available, because of stigma and lack of public will to lower that stigma,” Woods said.

It’s not a net gain of 144 beds for the north Denver area, however. As the new hospital opens, SCL Intermountain is expected to close its

West Pines Hospital, a 144-bed behavioral health hospital expected to open in fall 2024 in Westminster, will have in-patient psychiatric beds, as well as step-down day programs. COURTESY OF INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH

New hospital coming amid ‘near crisis’

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Tafoya, Colorado director of GreenLatinos. “It’s time to plan the just transition, including the retirement and remediation of Suncor. Our leaders have had the data. Now they have more. Will they act?”

e EPA has said it will change policies and permitting to pursue environmental justice for the neighbors of frequent polluters.

Commerce City and north Denver neighborhoods surrounding Suncor have lower income, larger minority populations and higher rates of asthma and other health problems related to pollution than other Denver communities.

Suncor is the only petroleum re nery in Colorado, producing gasoline for cars and aviation fuel for Denver International Airport. e re nery released potentially dangerous sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sul de into the surrounding neighborhood in late April, the second incident that month, and state health o cials warned the emissions could exceed permitted levels throughout that day.

In March 2020, Suncor agreed to pay $9 million to settle air quality violations at Commerce City dating to 2017, including one in 2019 that blanketed adjacent neighborhoods in an ashy substance. It was the larg-

est penalty Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had ever levied from a single facility to resolve air pollution violations.

Water quality advocates also monitor leaks of PFAS “forever chemicals” and benzene into waters around Suncor.

Discharges of toxic “forever chemical” PFAS into Sand Creek and the South Platte River by Suncor’s Commerce City re nery spiked to thousands of times the EPA’s revised drinking water guidelines for three months starting in November, according to lings with state regulators.

e elevated discharges came as state clean water o cials are struggling to complete revisions

to Suncor’s water out ow pollution permits that were rst opened to public comments more than 18 months ago. Colorado o cials noted then that they had included PFAS limits for the rst time in a draft of the revised permit. PFAS is an abbreviation for per uoroalkyl and poly uoroalkyl substances, a group of potentially harmful chemicals used as waterproo ng in thousands of goods from stain resistant carpet to rain gear to re ghting foam.  e state health department’s water quality divisions have acted quickly recently to address potential pollution in runo from Suncor’s operations, Tafoya said. e air pollution division should use the study and other information to in-

crease enforcement as well, he said. Various health divisions at the state should consider Suncor’s cumulative violations across all agencies.

“At the end of the day, we need CDPHE to take the lead,” Tafoya said.

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Je Conaway to Race Across America to raise money to fight human tra cking

Week-long transcontinental

race starts June 17

BY JOHN RENFROW JRENFROW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Je Conaway said he knows the aches and burns in his muscles after biking hundreds of miles pale in comparison to the su ering of those that fall victim to human tra cking. at is what will keep him going state after state in his rst transcontinental race.

“It’s that cause that really keeps us

going,” Conaway said. “And knowing that it’s not about us, it’s about the bigger picture. We kind of live by a motto that ‘our fuel is their freedom,’ and it really keeps us motivated.”

e Littleton cyclist on June 19 faced a new twist. He crashed on his bicycle near Trinidad in the southern part of the state and was transported to medical care with a suspected head injury, according to publicist Clem Boyd, who said Conaway was conscious. While that put a question mark over whether the 43-year-old rider would be able to continue, he is part of an eight-per-

son team certain to carry on for him and the cause. e team is expected to cycle more than 3,000 miles in six days in a nonstop race against six other teams from Oceanside, California to Annapolis, Maryland.

e lengthy ride will begin on June 17.

e team’s sponsor is ZOE International, a nonpro t founded in 2002 that works to ght human tra cking by raising awareness and collecting donations, as they compete in the 2023 Race Across America.

It is Conaway’s rst year participating, though he was an unused alternate cyclist for ZOE in 2021.

During the race, the team works in four-man shifts over 12 hours. Conaway will make the trek between noon and midnight each day.

He said he will go all out for 15 minutes for up to six miles for his part, then sit and ride for about 45 minutes in a vehicle while teammates take their turns.

Conaway is the only Coloradan on a team of Pennsylvanians, though he lived in Lititz, Pennsylvania — which is the home of ZOE International’s east coast location — until about a year ago.

Conaway currently lives with his family in Littleton and is the vice president of operations at Encompass Services in Denver.

Conaway has been what he would call an “avid cyclist” for about four years.

It started during the pandemic as an escape with friends, and quickly developed into a growing passion.

Now, he is trained to take on his

rst coast-to-coast race, and he knows it will not be a leisurely ride.

Since the start of 2023, training has involved up to six-mile weekly bike rides in the mountains, running a half marathon (although he said he prefers wheels), weightlifting, and switching to a plant-based diet.

“Truth be told, with the training I’ve done, I de nitely feel like I’m in the best shape of my life,” he said. “But I assure you I can’t wait to dig into a steak as soon as we’re done with this race.”

ZOE International’s team nished third in the 2019 Race Across America, raising more than $175,000 to ght human tra cking.

ZOE won in 2021, receiving more than $380,000.

is year, the team’s goal is $750,000.

ere are only two returners from the 2021 team. e other six are all new to the race.

Conaway said he is con dent they can win it again.

“We’re going to win,” he said. “I give 100 percent con dence we’re going to win. at’s the only motto we go by. Our stance is our cause is the greatest. And that’s not to say that no one else has a great cause that they’re ghting for, but we really want to persevere to bring awareness to child tra cking as a whole. But we’ve been training hard, and we always like our odds.”

For more information about ZOE International, the 2023 Race Across America, and how you can support the cause and its riders, visit GoZOE.org.

The ZOE RAAM Race Team 2023, from left to right: John Glick, Tom Jordan, Kevin Quinter, Merv Beiler, Nate Eakin, Craig Whiteford, Matt Lapp. Not pictured: Je Conaway. To learn more about the team, go to ZOERAAM.com. COURTESY OF ZOE INTERNATIONAL

Je Conaway lives in Littleton with his family, and is participating in the 2023 Race Across America bicycle race for human tra cking awareness with nonprofit ZOE International. COURTESY OF JEFF CONAWAY

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Golden Junior Baseball wraps up spring season, emphasizes sportsmanship

BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With storm clouds rolling in over the foothills, everyone at Ulysses Park hoped the rain and lightning would hold o just long enough for the youngsters to nish their June 14 baseball game.

e North Je erson Americans were enthusiastically cheering on their batting teammate, while their opponents — the Golden Taters — stayed focused on the next pitch and which direction the ball might go.

With a few lightning strikes visible on the horizon, the coaches ended the nal inning slightly early, and the teams lined up to tell each other, “Good game.”

As the Golden Taters came o the eld, and a few raindrops started falling, Coach Russ Bailess asked his players what they learned from the game.

at was far more important than the nal score.

is spring, 325 youngsters across 28 teams have been learning and applying the fundamentals of baseball and sportsmanship through the Golden Junior Baseball Association.

e league kicked o its spring season in March. Each team was scheduled to play 14 regular season games, but the recent rainy trend has made that tricky.

Depending on the age group, teams were wrapping up their regular seasons June 12-14, with playo s starting the week of June 19.

Twelve-year-old Owen Nelson was excited to kick o the playo s June 19, saying he felt good about his 12U team’s — nicknamed the Golden Demons — chances.

Owen Nelson has played in the GJBA for four years, mostly with the same teammates. He’s enjoyed seeing how everyone’s gotten better over the years, saying he’s made friends with other players and coaches.

“It feels like one big team,” he said of the league.

Baseball’s his favorite sport, he continued, describing how it helps with athleticism and hand-eye coordination.

Owen Seymour and Sam Bailess, 10 and 11 respectively, play on the 11U Golden Taters.

During their ve years playing baseball, the two said they and their teammates have learned all the sport’s physical fundamentals — hitting, throwing and pitching. But they’ve also learned key emotional lessons, like not getting down on themselves after a bad play.

Bailess, Sam’s dad and the Taters’ coach, commended GJBA for giving children an opportunity to learn those things. He said that’s part of his job as a volunteer coach — emphasizing having a good attitude and not letting the last

play distract from the next one.

Jason McCullough, an assistant for Coach Jason Jumonville’s 12U Golden Demons, and his family have been active in several baseball leagues over the years, and there’s something unique about GJBA’s culture that he appreciates.

“It’s not about the wins and losses, but experience and attitude,” McCullough said.

He believed that mentality was paying dividends for GJBA speci cally and the

Golden community’s baseball culture in general.

Russ Bailess added how the league creates a sense of community, even among the players who don’t live in Golden.

at was GJBA President Mike Griffeth’s hope too. He said it wouldn’t be possible without the support of several community partners and dozens of parents donating their time and resources to ensure the players learn the most

fundamental lesson of all: “Always try your best.”

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The Golden Junior Baseball Association also hosts a fall league, which starts in August. To sign up or for more information on the league in general, visit gjba.net.

As storm clouds roll in from the west June 14, Coach Jason Jumonville’s 12U team practices at Ulysses Park. The Golden Junior Baseball Association was wrapping up its regular season June 12-14, with playo s starting the week of June 19. PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

Gage Dean of Coach Russ Bailess’ 11U team, nicknamed the Golden Taters, suits up to play catcher June 14 at Ulysses Park.

School spirit, according to Arapahoe High School national award winner

For Alicia Peterson, it’s all about the kids

BY JOHN RENFROW JRENFROW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

School spirit for Alicia Peterson means providing a consistent environment of optimism and belonging for her students, much like what she was looking for when she was in high school. And the impact she’s making is getting noticed nationwide.

Peterson, the activities administrative assistant for Arapahoe High School, is the recipient of a national Varsity Brands school spirit award. Specifically, Peterson received the 2023 Staff Member Award. Awards weren’t even on her radar until Abby Kuhlmann, the activities director and assistant principal at Arapahoe, broke the news to her recently.

“She was like, ‘Do you want to hear something awesome?’” Peterson said. “‘I nominated you for the Varsity Brands award. Do you want to hear something really cool? You’re a finalist.’ And I’m like, I’ve never even heard of the spirit awards before.”

On June 8, during the Varsity Brands virtual awards ceremony, Peterson was announced as the winner.

Kuhlmann wrote an obviously persuasive essay on Peterson’s behalf, placing Peterson among roughly a dozen winners from all over the country. All are being celebrated for their exceptional, dedicated school spirit and making a real difference.

A total of $70,000 was awarded across 15 spirit categories, including a $25,000 grand prize for “America’s Most Spirited High School,” which was awarded to Vista Murrieta High School in Murrieta, California. Peterson, who has been with Araphoe for five years, said she’s not quite sure what her exact prize will be, but that’s not why she does what she does.

Before Peterson moved to Colorado, she got involved by helping out with her daughter’s first-grade class in activities, PTA work, and other responsibilities. Her daughter is now 28, but her passion in working with children continued, and she never left academics.

Now, in her role with the activities office, Peterson wears many hats: helping put on

school dances, working games for athletics, managing school clubs, student council meetings, assemblies and more. She has no doubt she’s in the right place.

“This is like, the biggest honor, other than being a mom and a grandma, than I’ve ever had in my whole life,” Peterson said.

High school wasn’t always easy for Peterson. She admitted to having a difficult home life, but finding refuge in the kindness of one teacher, Brenda Park, who ran the drama department at her high school in West Valley City, Utah.

Peterson had friends that encouraged her to join their drama class, but every time Peterson would get in front of the class, she would break down and cry out of stagefright. But Mrs. Park didn’t let her give up. Despite her nerves, she encouraged Peterson to look for other ways to contribute, making posters, selling tickets, and supporting the program.

For Peterson, she had finally found her place in school, and that was everything.

“I’ve been out of high school for 35 years actually, this year. And I still remember Mrs. Park, pulling me aside and making a place for me,” Peterson said. “It’s so important for me that kids have a place. It could be a club, it could be a team, it could be just a teacher that loves them. She’s the one I remember.”

Peterson said even today, she gets nervous talking in front of adults, but can talk to kids all day long. It’s important they have someone in their corner to keep them going, she said. The world is hard.

“I just want to have a connection with kids that make them feel like they have somebody. The more relationships that people have, it makes them able to succeed and to keep going every day. It’s hard to be a kid today, but if they have somebody who takes an interest in them and makes them feel like they belong, then they are gonna want to keep going,” Peterson said.

For a full list of the 2023 Varsity Brands School Spirit Award winners, visit the brand’s website.

“I’ll never be a professional speaker or anything like that. I also joke that I can’t sing, I can’t dance, but I can mom anybody. That’s just what I do,” Peterson said.

Alicia Peterson has been with Arapahoe High School for five years, serving as an administrative assistant in the activities department. She’s the national 2023 Varsity Brands Sta Member Award winner for school spirit. COURTESY PHOTO

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current 96-bed behavioral health unit at Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, which is constructing a new hospital building.

While state and federal laws have attempted to create insurance parity by requiring that insurance plans cover mental health care similar to other medical care, that’s not what’s driving the new construction, Woods said.

“I would not say that there is a rush to build hospitals because of pro tability, but rather because the need is there,” he said. “We care for the whole person — body, mind and spirit.”

Units planned for children

e new West Pines will have units for children as young as 5, teenagers, adults and seniors. One unit will specialize in treating older people dealing with dementia along with grief, depression and mood disorders. Future units, similar to Acadia’s hospitals in other states, might focus on mothers with postpartum depression or people with intellectual disabilities and co-occurring mental health issues.

e groundbreaking for the new hospital comes as UC Health University of Colorado Hospital prepares to open a new 40-bed psychiatric unit this summer.

Even with the $2 million grant, the adolescent crisis stabilization unit in Lakewood will struggle, Kuenzler said.

e unit lost $2.5 million last year, and when accounting for the grant and the costs of increasing capacity, the unit will lose between $1 million and $2 million, she said. Plus, the funding from the American Rescue Plan Act is one-time money.

“We are still struggling to gure out the sustainable funding model,” she said, noting that a 24/7 crisis center has to stay open whether it has two kids or all 16 beds are full on a given day.

“We’re hoping there will be more statelevel funding over time.

“It would pay o in so many lives saved and so much money saved in the long run.”

New Vistas is a not-for-pro t residential facility for children and teens that has operated under a subsidiary of the Je erson Center called Je erson Hills. e mental health center is now absorbing the subsidiary and trying to create a seamless system so kids could easily transition between the crisis stabilization unit and the therapy programs o ered at the mental health center.

e stabilization unit in 2015 became part of Colorado Crisis Services, a statewide network of walk-in crisis centers, mobile units and a hotline. e system was created in response to the 2012 mass shooting at an Aurora movie theater. People can access the services regardless of their ability to pay.

Expansion of services, particularly for young people, has never been needed more, Kuenzler said.

In 2021, 53 young people ages 15-18 and 19 people ages 10-14 died by suicide in Colorado, according to the Je erson Center.

e crisis stabilization unit is seeing younger patients, including a “dramatic increase” in the number of children ages 5-11. e proportion of kids ages 5-11 was once 10-20%. Now, it’s 40-60%.

And children and teens referred to the unit have more acute issues than in the past, including more dangerous suicide attempts, Kuenzler said.

“ ese are really young kiddos,” she said. “We need to do a lot more to invest early and often and with the right resources for behavioral health.

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

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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 # 23CO00008-2

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

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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.

Jones

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 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:

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.

Last Publication: 6/29/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300126

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

On April 13, 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)

William F Daly

Original Beneficiary(ies)

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust

February 19, 2010

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 19, 2010

Recording Information

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

2010071420

Original Principal Amount

$164,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$119,973.08

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.

ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DOCUMENT F0862358 AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 17, BLOCK

5, PHEASANT CREEK AT THE BEAR SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 4, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AND CORRECTION PLAT RECORDED JULY 3, 1997 IN BOOK 136

AT PAGE 21 UNDER RECEPTION NO. F0438406 AND ACCORDING TO THE MAJOR ERROR CORRECTION OF PHEASANT CREEK AT THE BEAR SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3 FINAL PLAT RECORDED AUGUST 6, 1997 UNDER RECEPTION NO. F0456119, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 3373 S Nelson Court, Lakewood, CO 80227.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 08/10/2023 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: 6/22/2023

Last Publication: 7/20/2023

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: 04/13/2023

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

By: Lyndsay Smith, Deputy, for Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861

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

Attorney File # 23-029614

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. J2300126

First Publication: 6/22/2023

Last Publication: 7/20/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300122

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)

JOSEPH A. GERDEN

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN LOANS INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LOANCARE, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

November 22, 2019

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 03, 2019

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

2019115800

Original Principal Amount

$200,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$195,695.90

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 12, BLOCK 7, PALOMINO PARK FILING 2, JEFFERSON COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 1265 S DOVER WAY, LAKEWOOD, CO 80232-5248.

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:

Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009756305

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. J2300122

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. J2300104

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)

Carolyn M. Volzke and Doran Volzke

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, as Trustee for the benefit of the Freddie Mac

Seasoned Loans Structured Transaction Trust, Series 2019-3

Date of Deed of Trust

March 21, 2008

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 06, 2008

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

2008043882**

Original Principal Amount

$297,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$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.

ments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 9, OWEN SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Legal description corrected by Scrivener`s Error Affidavit recorded April 3, 2023 at Instrument #2023018576

Also known by street and number as: 4470 Yarrow St., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033.

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

If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: Legal description corrected by Scrivener`s Error Affidavit recorded April 3, 2023 at Instrument #2023018576

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, 08/10/2023 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: 6/22/2023

Last Publication: 7/20/2023

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: 04/20/2023

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:

Aricyn J. Dall #51467

Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C.

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

Attorney File # 23CO00044-1

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. J2300136

First Publication: 6/22/2023

Last Publication: 7/20/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300100

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)

Virginia Marie McDaniel

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Universal Lending Corporation, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

PHH Mortgage Corporation

Date of Deed of Trust

March 22, 2017

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

March 28, 2017

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

2017032250

Original Principal Amount

$456,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$259,812.91

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: Death of all named mortgagors under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 24, BLOCK 14, CALAHAN HOMES UNIT 3, AMENDED, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 7385 W Oregon Drive, Lakewood, CO 80232.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 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:

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

Attorney File # CO-23-954271-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. J2300100

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. J2300123

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

On April 13, 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) JOHN MICHAEL BRITTNER

Original Beneficiary(ies)

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

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Truist Bank, successor by merger to SunTrust Bank

Date of Deed of Trust

June 29, 2004 County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 12, 2004

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

F2058778

Original Principal Amount $131,055.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $81,560.82

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 NO. 524, ADVANTAGE AT WOOD CREEK CONDOMINIUMS, AS SHOWN ON THE CONDOMINIUM MAP FOR ADVANTAGE AT WOOD CREEK CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED AS RECEPTION NO. 84104575, IN THE JEFFERSON COUNTY RECORDS, AND SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ESTABLISHING A PLAN FOR CONDOMINIUM OWNERSHIP OF WOOD CREEK CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED AS RECEPTION NO. 83104616, AND NOTICE OF ANNEXATION AND SUPPLEMENT TO DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED AS RECEPTION NO. 84104574, IN THE JEFFERSON COUNTY RECORDS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

5423 WEST 76TH AVENUE # 524, ARVADA, CO 80003.

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

NOTICE OFSALE

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, 08/10/2023 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: 6/22/2023

Last Publication: 7/20/2023

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: 04/13/2023

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:

David W. Drake #43315 Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009773680

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. J2300123

First Publication: 6/22/2023

Last Publication: 7/20/2023

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 Mortgage

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust July 23, 2020 County of Recording Jefferson Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 30, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)

2020092193

Original Principal Amount

$324,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$312,931.04

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 Re-

vised 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. J2300124

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

On April 13, 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)

BYRON JAMES KIRKLAND AND LEAH ELIZABETH KIRKLAND

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR ZENITH HOME LOANS, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

April 02, 2020

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 08, 2020

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

2020038341

Original Principal Amount $368,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $337,253.11

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 34, BLOCK 2, SOUTHERN GABLES FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 2173 S ESTES WAY, LAKEWOOD, CO 80227.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 08/10/2023 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/

TITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/13/2023

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:

Randall M.Chin #31149

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009747890

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. J2300124

First Publication: 6/22/2023

Last Publication: 7/20/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2300111

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)

Tanya E. Mandolini

Original Beneficiary(ies) Westerra Credit Union

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Westerra Credit Union

Date of Deed of Trust

August 02, 2019

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 12, 2019

Recording Information

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

2019070378

Original Principal Amount $154,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $136,852.96

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

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information

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.

APN: 29-161-17-027

Also known by street and number as:

10201 W 102ND AVENUE, 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. J2300108

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)

Shirlee J Mueller

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CORNERSTONE HOME LENDING, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

March 22, 2016

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

March 29, 2016

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

2016028054

Original Principal Amount

$60,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$52,822.00

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other pay-

ments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

CONDOMINIUM UNIT 102, CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 1, ACADEMY POINTE (A CONDOMINIUM COMMUNITY), ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF RECORDED FEBRUARY 18, 1986 IN BOOK 86 AT PAGE 34 IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUMS DECLARATION FOR ACADEMY POINTE (A CONDOMINIUM COMMUNITY), RECORDED MAY 28, 1985 AT RECEPTION NO. 85049206, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 3600 S Pierce St Unit 1-102, Lakewood, CO 80235.

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:

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

Attorney File # 23-029449

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. J2300108

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. J2300121

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) THEODORE N. STERRETT AND MICHELLE L. STERRETT

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN LOANS INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS INC.

Date of Deed of Trust

July 31, 2014

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 10, BLOCK 15, PARKWAY ESTATES FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6163 W 78TH AVE, 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, 07/27/2023 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:

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009756156

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. J2300121

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. J2300131

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

On April 13, 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) KEVIN C KVIDERA

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR BANK OF THE WEST

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST 2017-2, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE

Date of Deed of Trust

July 01, 2008

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 02, 2008

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2008064464*

Original Principal Amount

$99,931.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$75,186.32

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 13, BLOCK 9, ASPEN PARK, UNIT ONE, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

*LOAN MODIFICATION DATED DECEMBER 3, 2013 AND RECORDED ON JANUARY 13, 2014 AT RECEPTION NO. 2014002809 IN THE RECORDS OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 26699 WEST STREET, CONIFER, CO 80433.

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, 08/10/2023 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: 6/22/2023

Last Publication: 7/20/2023

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: 04/13/2023

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:

Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009467457

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. J2300131

First Publication: 6/22/2023

Last Publication: 7/20/2023

Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

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.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. J2300116

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. J2300093

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)

Andrew Everett

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Northpointe Bank

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Northpointe Bank

Date of Deed of Trust

July 28, 2022

County of Recording

Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 01, 2022

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2022073037

Original Principal Amount $613,679.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $612,975.09

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 monthly payments of principal and interest together with all other payments provided for in the Deed of Trust and Note THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 9, BLOCK 39, MEADOWBROOK HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 8880 S. Ammons Street, Littleton, CO 80128.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 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:

Jeremiah B. Hayes #34002

Taherzadeh, PLLC 15851 N. Dallas Parkway, Suite 410, Addison, TX 75001 (469) 729-6800

Attorney File # 616-00042

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. J2300093

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. 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)

MCA Mortgage Corporation

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

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

Master Participation Trust

Date of Deed of Trust

March 27, 1998

County of Recording Jefferson

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 20, 1998

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

F0595427

Original Principal Amount

$494,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$455,025.06

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 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 City and County

Public Notice

LEGAL NOTICE RESOLUTION CC23-169

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, shall be considering the adoption of Resolution No. CC23-169 regarding the 2023 Budget – June Supplementary Budget and Appropriation and shall take action on said Resolution at a public hearing to be held on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at the hour of 8:00 a.m. through a hybrid meeting platform. Meetings are held in Hearing Room One in the Courts and Administration Building located at 100 Jefferson County Parkway in Golden or through a virtual WebEx platform, details for accessing the public hearing will be posted at the following website, https://www.jeffco.us/2079/ Meetings-Agendas.

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

Legal Notice No. 416491

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Golden 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 TITLE AND SUMMARY OF SAID ORDINANCE NO. 2210 ORDINANCE NO. 2210

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTION 18.08.070 OF THE GOLDEN MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING FEES

Introduced, read, passed and ordered published the 23rd day of May, 2023.

Passed and adopted upon second reading and ordered published the 6th day of June, 2023.

Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor

ATTEST: Monica Mendoza, CMC City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Kathie Guckenberger, City Attorney

I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on first reading and read at a regular business meeting of the City Council of said city, held on the 23rd day of May, 2023 and was published as a proposed ordinance on the city website as the law directs seven days or more prior to its passage. A public hearing was held on the 6th day of June, 2023, and the said proposed ordinance was read on second reading. The ordinance was passed by the City Council and ordered published on the City of Golden website, as the law directs on the 6th day of June, 2023.

Witness my hand and official seal of the City of Golden, Colorado, on the 6th day of June, 2023.

ATTEST: MONICA S. MENDOZA

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

Legal Notice No. 416471

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: June 22,

be held on Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 6:00 P.M., in person at the Mount Vernon Country Club 24933 Clubhouse Circle, Golden CO 80401. A copy of the proposed Budget Amendment is on file at the offices of the District Mount Vernon Country Club located at 24933 Clubhouse Circle, Golden, CO 80401 and is available for public inspection. Any interested elector of Mount Vernon Country Club Metropolitan District may file any objections to the Resolution at any time prior to its adoption by the Board of Directors of the Mount Vernon Country Club Metropolitan District at the abovestated meeting.

This meeting is open to the public.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MOUNT VERNON COUNTRY CLUB

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By /s/ Secretary

Legal Notice No. 416479

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 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

Summons and Sheriff Sale

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 Capital Management, Inc., pro se

By /s/ Vik Vad, President 5501-A Balcones Dr. #207 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, 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.

NOTE: THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED.

A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED 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

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

Public Notices

Legal Notice No. 416345

First Publication: May 25, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 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 # 2023-021 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

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

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 # 2022-110 Cert # 180940

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; JAIMIE D. JONES PO BOX 794 PINE, CO 80470

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 14TH day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2019, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to, FIG CO19 LLC, Assignor of, BUFFALO PLAINS 22 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; LOT 31, CAMEL HEIGHTS, AKA: VACANT LAND

That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2018 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2018 that said real estate was taxed in the name of JAIMIE D. JONES, that the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 14, A.D. 2022; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, BUFFALO PLAINS 22 LLC, lawful holder of said certificate, on the 9TH day of OCTOBER 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 12TH Day of JUNE, A.D. 2023

Jerry DiTullio Jefferson County Treasurer

Legal Notice No. 416472

First Publication JUNE 22, 2023

Final Publication JULY 6, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

In compliance with the Colorado Regulations 6 CCR 1007-1 part 3.9.5.7, Colorado School of Mines submitted a financial assurance warranty annual report to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on June 09, 2023.

Legal Notice No. 416467

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

Case # 2022-109 Cert # 180349

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; THE LILA GEBAUER-ROSS TRUST LILA MAE GEBAUER-ROSS, TRUSTEE BARBARA PETRUCCELLI 3701 CACTUS CREEK CT 102 HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO 80126

You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 14TH day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2019, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to, FIG CO19 LLC, Assignor of, BUFFALO PLAINS 22 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; LOTS 48, 49, 50 AND 51, BLOCK Y, MAXWELL HOUSE SUBDIVISION NO. 1, AKA: VACANT LAND

That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2018 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2018 that said real estate was taxed in the name of LILA M. GEBAUER, that the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 14, A.D. 2022; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, BUFFALO PLAINS 22 LLC, lawful holder of said certificate, on the 9TH day of OCTOBER at 5:00 P.M., A.D.2023, unless the same has been redeemed on or before 5:00 P.M. of

Legal Notice No. 416473

First Publication: JUNE 22, 2023

Final 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 Telecommunications

Public Notice

AT&T Mobility, LLC is proposing to construct a 104-foot overall height monopole telecommunications structure at 5770 McIntyre Street, Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado (N39° 48’ 8.1”; W105° 10’ 20.6”). The tower is not anticipated to be lit. AT&T Mobility, LLC invites comments from any interested party on the impact the proposed undertaking may have on any districts, sites, buildings, structures, or objects significant in American history, archaeology, engineering, or culture that are listed or determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Comments may be sent to Environmental Corporation of America, ATTN: Annamarie Howell, 1375 Union Hill Industrial Court, Suite A, Alpharetta, GA 30004 or via email to publicnotice@eca-usa.com. Ms. Howell can be reached at (770) 667-2040 x 405 during normal business hours. Comments must be received within 30 days of the date of this notice. 23001871 MMT

Legal Notice No. 416486

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Notice to Creditors

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JOHN EDWARD HODGES, a/k/a JOHN E. HODGES, a/k/a JOHN HODGES, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30478

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jon Everhart, Personal Representative

c/o Werth Law LLC, P.O. Box 808 Brighton, CO 80601

Legal Notice No. 416408

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of ANTHONY VINCENT CAPRA,

named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Pamela R. Brenner, Personal Representative

c/o Brian C. Marsiglia Marsiglia Law LLC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Ste. 1100 Denver, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 416469

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Bonnie T. Reddick, aka Bonnie Reddick, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30598

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

Joell Reddick Dalton, aka Joell Dalton, and Jon David Reddick, Co-Personal Representatives

c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 416400

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robbie R. Krug, Deceased Case Number: 23PR281

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jaculin Krug-Owen, Personal Representative 14107 104th Street Ct. E. Puyallup, WA 98374

Legal Notice No. 416403

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of STANLEY J. DOBBS, a/k/a STANLEY JOSEPH DOBBS, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30591

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

Gary G. Dobbs, Personal Representative 10061 W. Victoria Place #303 Littleton, CO 80127

Legal Notice No. 416396

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Kelly Wayne Heifner, Deceased

Case Number: 23PR280

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Codi June Miller

Personal Representative 286 Turner Bend Road SW Rome, GA 30165

Legal Notice No. 416405

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Colin Campbell Couper, aka Colin C. Couper, Jr., aka Colin Couper, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030499

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before June 29, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Christopher L. Couper, Personal Representative c/o Schafer Thomas Maez PC, 4 Garden Center #200 Broomfield, Colorado 80020

Legal Notice No. 416424

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Shirley E. Walker, a/k/a Shirley Elizabeth Walker, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30048

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before Oct. 22, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Name of Person Giving Notice:

Catherine Baldwin

Address: 12992 W. 61st Circle, Arvada, Colorado 80004

Legal Notice No. 416463

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Michael Bruce McCall, aka Michael B. McCall, aka Michael McCall, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR031295

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before July 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Katy Coleman, aka Katherine McCall Coleman, Personal Representative c/o Georgine M. Kryda, Esq. Georgine M. Kryda, Ph.D., Esq., LLC 2801 Youngfield Street, Suite 300 Golden, CO 80401

Legal Notice No. 416453

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

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Estate of SUSAN H. SILBERMAN, a/k/a SUSAN SILBERMAN Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30398

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

Andrea E. Wilson, Personal Representative 3143 Spearwood Drive Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

Legal Notice No. 415433

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donald Bowling, aka Donald Ray Bowling, Deceased Case Number 2023P30522

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

Meghan Ashley Bowling

Personal Representative 8465 W. Hampden Avenue Apt 106 Lakewood, Colorado 80227

Legal Notice No. 416466

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

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Estate of PATRICK T. McGREEVY, a/k/a PATRICK McGREEVY, a/k/a PATRICK THOMAS McGREEVY, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030640

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

Samantha Jean Seider, Personal Representative c/o RBS Law LLC, 5610 Ward Road, Suite 300 Arvada, CO 80002

Legal Notice No. 416427

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

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Estate of Amer Plaisted, Jr., a/k/a Amer Plaisted , Deceased Case Number 2023PR30697

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

personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 23, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Sandra K. Lochner-Davis

Personal Representative

Patrick R. Thiessen

FRIE ARNDT DANBORN & THIESSEN

7400 Wadsworth Blvd., Suite 201

Arvada, Colorado 80003

Phone Number: (303) 420-1234

Attorney for Sandra K. Lochner-Davis

Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. 416474

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

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Estate of James Lazar, a/k/a James Lazar, Jr., Deceased

Case Number 2023PR30637

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the co-personal representatives or to the District Court of Jefferson County, CO on or before October 22, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Thomas Lazar, Co-Personal Representative 7214 E Montgomery Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85266; and

Leanna Denise Calanni, Co-Personal Representative 314 Perry Street, Denver, CO 80219

Legal Notice No. 416462

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

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Estate of PATRICIA M GRANNER, also known as PATRICIA MARIE GRANNER, Deceased

Case Number 2023 PR 30607

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

Ronald H. Granner, Personal Representative 2615 Oak Drive, Unit 16 Lakewood, CO 80215

Legal Notice No. 416425

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

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Estate of SCOTT D. HANCEY, A/K/A SCOTT DEE HANCEY AND SCOTT HANCEY, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30627

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

Stacey Lee Collodi

Personal Representative 2623 Briar Hill Drive Carrollton, TX 75007

Legal Notice No. GT1204

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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Estate of: Betty Virginia Bonds, aka Bette V. Bonds, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30061

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

Don E. Watson, Attorney at Law

Personal Representative

P.O. Box 6166 Denver, CO 80206

Legal Notice No. 416394

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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Estate of Michal Jerzy Stotler, a/k/a Michal J. Stotler, a/k/a Michal Stotler, a/k/a Michael Jerzy Stotler, a/k/a Michael J. Stotler, a/k/a Michael Stotler, a/k/a Michal Jerzy Wac, a/k/a Michal J. Wac, a/k/a Michal Wac, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30571

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

of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jaylin Stotler, Personal Representative P.O. Box 445 Indian Hills, CO 80454

Legal Notice No. 416414

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

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Estate of Bernice Emerich Daniels, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 288

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Benjamin Cudd Personal Representative 1340 Wyoming St Golden, CO 80403

Legal Notice No. GT1201

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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Estate of Frederick James Wilhoft Jr., a/k/a Fred Wilhoft Jr., a/k/a Fred Wilhoft, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30439

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jonathan A. Wilhoft, Personal Representative c/o Kimberly A. Barr, Esquire Lyons Gaddis, P.C. 515 Kimbark Street P.O. Box 978 Lonqmont, Colorado 80502

Legal Notice No. 416441

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

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Estate of Jena Marie Ballinger, a/k/a Jena Marie S. Ballinger, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR260

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Amy L Winsor, Personal Representative P.O. Box 541 Morrison, CO 80465

Legal Notice No. 416390

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

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Estate of Shirley Mae Lempka, aka Shirley M Lempka, or Shirley Lempka, Deceased

Case Number: 23PR278

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael D. Lempka, Personal Representative

7138 Kline Ct Arvada, CO 80004

Legal Notice No. 416404

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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Estate of Patsy Ann Crenshaw, aka Patsy A. Crenshaw, aka Patti Ann Crenshaw, aka Patti A. Crenshaw, Deceased Case Number: 23PR263

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado or on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Vicki Crawford , Co-Personal Representative

6409 Heartland Ct., Indianapolis IN 46278 and Terri Fabrizio,

Co-Personal Representative

6827 Newcombe Street, Arvada, CO 80004

Legal Notice No.416397

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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Estate of Kenneth Allen Horn, a/k/a Kenneth A. Horn, a/k/a Kenneth Horn, a/k/a Ken Horn, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 303633

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

Roseann T. Horn

Personal Representative

Patrick R. Thiessen (40185), FRIE ARNDT DANBORN & THIESSEN

7400 Wadsworth Blvd., Suite 201

Arvada, Colorado 80003

Attorney for Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. GT1200

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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Estate of GLENN WALTER GERLACH, aka GLENN GERLACH, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30621

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

Sandra M. Sigler, Esq.

Personal Representative 390 Union Blvd., Suite 580 Lakewood, Colorado 80228

Legal Notice No. 416446

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript

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Estate of Callae Kay Beaudrie, aka Callae K. Beaudrie, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30611

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

Deri R. Watroba, Personal Representative c/o Silversmith Legal PO Box 263 Vail, CO 81658

Legal Notice No. 416422

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

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Estate of RALPH W PAGE, JR., a/k/a RALPH PAGE, JR., a/k/a RALPH WINSTON PAGE, JR., a/k/a RALPH WINSTON PAGE, a/k/a RALPH W. PAGE, a/k/a RALPH PAGE, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30424

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Katz, Look & Onorato, PC Attorneys for the Personal Representative 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 416385

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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Estate of William Ernst Lucke, a/k/a William E. Lucke , a/k/a William Lucke, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30635

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

Daniel R. Mayo, Personal Representative 423 Washington Ave. Golden, CO 80403

Legal Notice No. 416428

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

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Estate of MICHEL BRIGGS HOPKINS, A/K/A MICHEL B. HOPKINS, A/K/A MICHEL HOPKINS, A/K/A M. B. HOPKINS, Deceased Case Number: 23PR30634

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the DISTRICT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO, on or before October 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sue C. Hopkins, Personal Representative 2470 Willow Lane Lakewood, CO 80215

Legal Notice No. 416440

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

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Estate of Victoria Kendrick, Deceased Case Number: 23PR308

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

Jennifer Schreck, Personal Representative of Estate 18875 West 93rd Ave. Arvada, CO 80007

Legal Notice No. 416456

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

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Estate of: LAURA JOY HACHMEISTER; AKA LAURA J. HACHMEISTER; AKA LAURA HACHMEISTER, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30705

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to JEFFERSON COUNTY COMBINED COURT on or before October 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nicole M. Peschel, Personal Representative c/o Chayet & Danzo, LLC 650 S. Cherry Street, Suite 710 Denver, CO 80246

Legal Notice No. 416478

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

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Estate of Virginia Gleason, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30586

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Estate of GEORGE DAVID ZINK, a/k/a GEORGE D. ZINK, a/k/a GEORGE ZINK, a/k/a DAVE ZINK, a/k/a D. ZINK AND DAVID ZINK, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30610

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

Dean M. Zink, Personal Representative c/o David P. Reiter, Esq, 1660 S. Albion St., Suite 343 Denver, CO 80222

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Legal Notice No. 416483

First Publication: June 22, 2023

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 25, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

First National Bank of Omaha By Fran Oliver, Trust Advisor 205 W. Oak Street Fort Collins, CO 80521

Legal Notice No. 416488

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

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All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gloria G. Lucke, Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, Esq. Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 416407

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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Estate of Royse Elliott Bishop, also known as Royse E. Bishop, also known as Royse Bishop, also known as Royce Benny Bishop, Deceased.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Berniece A. Fair, a/k/a Berniece Ann Fair, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30321

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before 10/23/2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Diana Ostmeyer, Personal Representative

Eric D Wollard

Attorney for Personal Representative 4251 Kipling St Ste 300 Wheat Ridge CO 80033

Legal Notice No.416482

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

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Last Publication: July 6, 2023

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Estate of Elaine June Fluegel, a/k/a Elaine J. Fluegel, a/k/a Elaine Fluegel, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30626

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

Patrick R. Thiessen #40185,

Attorney for Karen Jean Gunther, Personal Representative

FRIE ARNDT DANBORN & THIESSEN, PC 7400 Wadsworth Blvd., Suite 201 Arvada, Colorado 80003

Legal Notice No. 416465

Estate of MATTHEW WHITNEY MYERS, aka MATTHEW W. MYERS, aka MATTHEW MYERS, aka MATT MYERS Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30620

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Daniel Whitney Myers Personal Representative c/o 3i Law, LLC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd. Tower 1, Suite 10000 Denver, CO 80222

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Case Number: 23PR30613

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before October 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Cathy B. Vincent, Personal Representative 8486 W. 66th Place Arvada CO 80004

Legal Notice No. 416402

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: June 22, 2023

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Estate of Evelyn M. Mayo, a/k/a Evelyn Margaret Mayo,

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Estate of Annette Wilcox Waite Aumann, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30612

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

Sandra M. Sigler, Counsel for Personal Representative 390 W Union Blvd., Ste. 580 Lakewood, CO 80228

Legal Notice No. 416448

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Jeffco Transcript