Restitution required; amount will be determined at July hearing
BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLOROADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMA Lakewood man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing a Je erson County Sheri K-9 and pointing a gun at a Golden police ofcer, along with three other charges.
Eduardo Romero, 30, will serve his 12-year sentence after his current three-year prison sentence for a separate case in Denver County.
He was arrested Feb. 13, 2023, for reportedly eeing police near the Colorado School of Mines campus and killing K-9 Gra t, who was trying to apprehend him.
On Feb. 22, Romero pleaded guilty to four of the eight charges originally
led against him, including aggravated cruelty to animals, identity theft and menacing — all felonies.
He also pleaded guilty to driving under the in uence, a misdemeanor, and an added count of aggravated motor vehicle theft.
On April 12, Romero appeared in custody at the Je erson County Courthouse where Judge Jason Carrithers sentenced him to the maximum time for each of the ve charges, with the longest being 12 years for identity theft. Based on his plea agreement, Romero will serve these sentences concurrently.
Carrithers also ruled that Romero will have to pay restitution, but the amount has yet to be determined. e defense asked to determine the nal amount at a separate hearing, which was scheduled for July.
‘This will never happen again’
e prosecution and K-9 Graft’s handler Deputy Zachary Oliver
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In March 2018, Je erson County Sheri ’s K-9 Gra t serves with his former handler Deputy Kerry DiLorenzo, center, and other members of the Sheri ’s K-9 unit. Deputy Zachary
asked Carrithers for the maximum allowable sentence.
Oliver described how, growing up, he thought “having a four-legged partner would be the best thing in the world.” But, he continued, “ at dream of mine was shattered … when K-9 Gra t was shot and killed in front of me.”
Oliver described how Gra t had been his partner for several years, and was a key part of his family, the Sheri ’s O ce and the community. Along with serving on drugrelated and suspect-apprehension calls, Gra t also did numerous K-9 demonstrations at Je erson County schools and events, Oliver said.
He acknowledged that, by his sacri ce, Gra t likely saved lives that night, including Romero’s. But, Oliver still felt that loss even months later, as he didn’t start training with a new K-9 partner until summer 2023.
“Our bond was like nothing I could ever explain to you,” Oliver told Carrithers about his connection with Gra t. “We (K-9 o cers) spend more time with our fourlegged partners than we do with our children or spouses.”
Golden Police O cer Christian
Whyte, the o cer whom Romero reportedly pointed a gun at, wasn’t able to attend the hearing but did submit a written statement Carrithers didn’t read it aloud. Carrithers said he was “humbled” by Whyte’s and Oliver’s words.
Additionally, Deputy District Attorney Amanda Becker described Romero’s criminal history, including other cases of identity theft, drunken driving and eluding police. When he was arrested last February, he was out on bond for a motor vehicle theft case, she stated.
She also pointed out how Romero continually escalated the February 2023 incident through his lack of judgment, such as intentionally arming himself and choosing to shoot K-9 Gra t when he was trying to apprehend him.
Becker also noted the impact on Mines community members, many of whom received shelter-in-place alerts at 2-3 a.m. that night. Students in the nearby fraternity and sorority houses had to be moved to safer locations during the incident, and several were interviewed before their Monday morning classes.
The number of sellers opting to sell without a listing agent was surprisingly low even before the NAR settlement, which will have the effect of cutting in half the commission charged by listing agents thanks to the removal of a co-op commission for buyers’ agents, .
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has reported that only 7% of homes sold during 2023 were sold without the services of a listing agent. Another 4% of sellers began without an agent but ultimately changed their minds and decided to hire a listing agent.
mission cannot include the offer of compensation to a buyer’s agent, so listing commissions will henceforth be 2.5% to 2.8%, seriously reducing the appeal of trying to sell one’s house without professional assistance.
The main argument for going FSBO (for-sale-by-owner) has been to avoid paying the typical 5 to 6 percent listing commission. But that commission included the 2.5 to 3 percent commission shared with the agent representing the buyer. Under the NAR settlement (if approved by the courts), the listing com-
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In my real estate classes as a new agent at Coldwell Banker back in 2002, it was drummed into us that “listors last,” so we should focus on working with sellers instead of buyers. The NAR settlement has struck a serious blow to anyone who specializes in working with buyers.
In light of this, NAR is offering its Realtor members a free “Accredited Buyer’s Representative” (ABR) course, and, even though Golden Real Estate specializes in working with sellers, all of us have signed up for this course so we can receive the advice which it will offer when representing buyers in the changed landscape of real estate transactions.
Of course, I will share with you what I learn from that course, which I’m taking on June 17th. Hopefully, the court will have confirmed or rejected the NAR settlement by then, so we’ll know for sure what lies ahead.
As I wrote last week, the inevitable
I can’t take credit for this idea. Last year Pro Builder magazine had an article in its May/June issue about new ideas in kitchen design, and one in particular caught my attention: adding a “back/ messy” kitchen.
Nowadays, especially with open floor plans, the kitchen has become a center of entertaining. Guests gather around the host or hostess as they prepare and deliver various courses of food.
A back kitchen allows for dirty dishes to be out of sight immediately. This keeps the kitchen area clean and attractive — and quiet — throughout the evening. There could even be a second dishwasher in the back kitchen.
The back kitchen could also be where prepared courses are staged for bringing out during the party. Think of it as a “butler’s pantry” that is off the kitchen instead of between the kitchen and the dining room.
Most people nowadays have both a walk-in pantry and what’s being called a “Costco closet” for those bulk purchases so many of us are making these days. A larger pantry big enough to satisfy both needs could be attached to the back kitchen instead of the main kitchen, cleaning and simplifying the main kitchen design. Another feature which makes a lot of sense is to have seating on two sides
(adjoining, not opposite) of the kitchen island instead of just one. This facilitates guests talking to each other, while still including whoever is at work on the business side of the island.
Open floor plans typically show the kitchen open to the family room, but not the formal dining room. How about an Lshaped open floor plan in which the dining room is open to the kitchen on the side, with the family room open to it at a 90degree angle?
Here’s a floor plan from Pro Builder showing this concept, in which ‘A’ is the island with 2-sided seating, ‘B’ is the pantry/Costco closet, ‘C’ is the back kitchen, and ‘D’ is a barn door for closing off the back kitchen/pantry.
effect of the NAR settlement will be that many or even most buyers will call listing agents directly instead of hiring an agent to represent them as a buyer. Only time will tell how that process will shake out.
If I worked solely as a buyer’s agent, I would be very nervous about what the future holds for me.
Buyer agents will still be able to earn a commission by selling new homes. Because the new home market is so competitive, builders are unlikely to reduce the commissions they currently offer to agents. Most builders, I have found, offer a 3% commission to agents who bring them a buyer, although that commission is applied to the base price,
not to the price after adding upgrades of flooring, appliances, counters, etc.
The challenge for real estate agents has always been getting buyers to call them before registering at a builder’s sales office, because most builders will not pay agents who did not register along with their buyer. We tell buyers to visit as many new home communities as they wish but not give their names until they are serious and want us to represent them. Then we can go with them on a return visit where they and we register together. That way, the buyer has the advantage of professional representation, and we are compensated for being their agent.
This column and the ’Back Kitchen’ article appeared in last Thursday’s Denver Post.
For most of 2023, the number of closed transactions fell while the number of active listings surged until some of them either expired or were taken off the market for the holidays. Starting in January there was a marked increase in sales, combined with more sellers putting their homes on the market.
The charts at right are from Denver’s MLS and cover the 15-month period from January 2023 through March 2024 for REcolorado listings only, limited to a 20mile radius of downtown Denver.
The second chart shows how sharply the median days a listing was active on the MLS rose through most of last year, peaking at over 30 days in January but plummeting, just like last year, in February and March. Meanwhile, the median sold price, which had been slumping slightly during the last half of 2023, turned sharply upward in January, February and March.
From studying current MLS data, this trend is continuing in April.
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Clear skies and friendly breezes bring thousands of kites soaring above Arvada
BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMIn one moment, the sky over Stenger Sports Complex was blocked out by a menagerie of ying fabrics — in the next, it was clear again. Such is life when you’re at the mercy of the wind, as about 10,000 folks were at the 19th Annual Arvada Kite Festival.
e festival’s sizable attendance marks a return to prepandemic norms, according to Arvada’s Special Events Coordinator Adelle Burton.
“It’s going amazingly,” Burton said of the April 14 event. “I couldn’t ask for better weather, amount of wind — had it been the weekend prior, that would have been a nightmare — it’s the busiest I’ve seen since COVID happened and we had that hiatus. It feels good to have it back at its peak.”
Overall, there were 107 vendor booths at the free festival, which is organized by the Arvada Festival Commission. irteen food trucks served up a variety of eats — everything from turkey legs and sushi was to be had.
e Rocky Mountain Kite Association hosted live demonstrations of especially large and unique kites, some of which had to be own by teams of experienced kite- yers.
“It’s so nice to see so, so many people and I just think it’s a favorite event of the community,” Burton said. “It’s nice to see everyone coming out and supporting it.”
Je erson County Public Health believes its partners are true champions. So, for the past 20 years, it has held an annual luncheon to celebrate and award them.
e Je erson County Public Health Champion Awards recognizes the health department’s partners and their projects that bene t public health in the county through the past year.
“Our 2023 Public Health Champions inspire us with their passion, com-
mitment and innovative approaches to improving health outcomes for all,” said Dr. Sarah Story, executive director at JCPH. “We extend our appreciation to all those who contribute to a better Je co, whether through their profession or volunteer e orts. Without their help, we couldn’t have a healthier tomorrow.”
e awards theme this year is “Protecting, Connecting and riving: We Are All Public Health.”
Four agencies and people were awarded for their work. ey are:
• Allison Rodasta of Lutheran Medical Center for spearheading the Family Connects program partnership with JCPH.
• e Je erson County Sheri ’s Ofce’s jail team for its disease mitigation programs, which included the Congenital Syphilis Elimination Program.
• e WeeCycle program team for its partnership with JCPH to donate baby supplies to the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) Program, hospitals and families throughout the county.
• Sprout City Farms for partnering with JCPH to combat food insecurity in the county with programs such as WIC and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.
e awardees took home a small glass commemoration of the awards for their e orts.
Rodasta gave an acceptance speech describing the work that won her the JCPH Champions Award.
“My role is making sure that every baby born at Lutheran goes home with parents who are empowered with all of the resources and the tools and the support they need to be suc-
cessful,” Rodasta said. “It’s hard for me knowing that my time with the families ends when they walk out the doors of this building. So, to be able to hand them o to the capable hands of the Family Connects nurses – that not only gives to the families, but it’s been a peace of mind for me.”
Keynote speaker, Je erson County Manager Joe Kirby, said the groups assembled are ultimately ghting to protect the vulnerable people in Jefferson County.
“Many of the folks that we work with, they’re one paycheck away from being vulnerable, one poor decision away from being vulnerable,” Kirby said. He thanked the public o cials and partners present for all of their efforts.
For more information on the JCPH Champion Awards, go to Je erson County Public Health on YouTube.
Friday, May 17, 2024, 11:30 am, Denver Marriott West hotel, 1717 Denver West Marriott Blvd, Golden
The Rotary Club of Golden has conducted the Ethics in Business Awards program since 2006. The Club solicits nominations from the public of local organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, and students in the Ethics class at the Colorado School of Mines select the winners.
Award winners and nominees will be announced and honored at the luncheon, which is normally attended by over 200 local business and community leaders.
The keynote speaker at the luncheon will be Paul C. Johnson, President, Colorado School of Mines. The emcee is the always-popular Ed Greene.
To register for the luncheon, go to ethics.goldenrotary.org/2024-eib-award-luncheon/
Carrithers also felt the impact on Mines students shouldn’t be overlooked, commenting, “How incredibly scary for … students who’ve grown up in the post-Columbine era. … e level of fear most of those students had to have felt, I cannot imagine.”
As the plea agreement stipulated a range of eight to 12 years in prison, Romero’s defense attorney asked for 10 years. While his client had an extensive criminal history before last February’s incident, he noted Romero didn’t have a history of violence.
“He made terrible decisions,” he said of his client. “He admitted to it. When he sobered up, he confessed. at has to (speak) to character.”
In his statement, Romero o ered his sincerest apologies and condolences to Oliver, Whyte, the Mines and Je erson County communities, and everyone who was impacted by his decisions. He said he was “terribly disgusted and embarrassed” by his actions that night, adding it wasn’t the person he was raised to be.
“ is will never happen again,” Romero said, adding that he never wanted it to happen at all.
‘Terrible decisions’
As Becker summarized at Romero’s April 12 sentencing, around 12:15 a.m. Feb. 13, 2023, Whyte helped a Mines o cer contact a white Jeep blocking a street near the campus. Romero, the vehicle’s only occu-
pant, was slumped over the steering wheel with his foot on the brake. He later told o cers he’d been drinking and smoking marijuana during a Super Bowl party in Denver.
Romero woke up enough to start driving the Jeep less than 10 mph westbound on 19th Street across the U.S. Highway 6 overpass. e two o cers followed and “pinched” the Jeep in to prevent it from moving again. Romero then reportedly started ramming the Jeep into the patrol cars.
Whyte broke the driver’s side window to grab hold of Romero, but he slipped free and ran eastbound on 19th Street. Whyte chased him until Romero reportedly pointed a gun at Whyte, who dove out of the way.
Meanwhile, Romero ran into heavy shrubbery on the northeast side of U.S. 6. Local agencies set up a perimeter, and Oliver released K-9 Gra t into the brush to apprehend Romero.
Romero later told detectives that he recognized a “cop dog” was coming toward him. He said the dog didn’t bite him, and he denied pointing his handgun at the dog but “heard the gun re a round.” He assumed he shot the ground.
A necropsy later con rmed K-9 Gra t died from bullets matching Romero’s gun.
After hiding from police, Romero turned himself in around 5 a.m. Feb. 13. Once he was in custody, investigators reportedly found he’d used a stolen passport to get a hotel room. e Jeep he’d been driving was also listed as stolen.
What’s
Gov. Polis has words for Xcel Energy, Wheat Ridge is buying art and moreBY JO DAVIS JDAVIS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
is week in Je erson County, Gov. Jared Polis addresses Xcel Energy’s handling of recent power outages. Polis directs public utilities commission to explore issues stemming from Xcel Energy’s handling of power outages. Plus, the county’s tax collection dropo box is closed due to tampering and there’s still room for kids to sign up for a popular environmental discovery camp.
Much of Je erson County and the state experienced power issues during high wind weather events last week, which prompted Gov. Jared Polis to write a letter to Xcel Energy to express his concerns and those of Xcel customers about the handling of those outages. e governor also directed the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to look into changes that would prevent future issues.
“During the days following the high winds event, I heard from many frustrated Coloradans who lost power for multiple days without a clear indication from Xcel when it would be restored –from businesses that could not operate and lost perishable inventories and income, from hospitals that struggled to respond to vulnerable community members, and from schools that had to close all day Monday,” Polis wrote in the letter. “Once again, the company failed to minimize outages and e ectively communicate with customers about an upcoming change that would impact people’s regular lives.”
The Eagle’s Nest, Owl’s Roost camp is open to kids from the Denver Metro area who are entering the 4th grade through the 8th grade. There are spaces and scholarships still available.
For more information on where and how to pay property taxes, call the County Treasurer’s O ce at 303-2718330 or visit Je co.US/Treasurer.
Wheat Ridge City Council selects 18-foot, $16Kpublic art piece
e Wheat Ridge City Council approved the purchase of an art piece during a recent city council meeting. e piece, “Mechan and Celestial Vines” by artist Tyler Fuqua, was acquired through Wheat Ridge Ward Transit Oriented Development project funds.
e purchase price of $160,000 includes construction, design, installation and documentation, according to council minutes. It will be installed at Wheat Ridge Ward Station, 12000 Ridge Rd, Wheat Ridge by 2026.
According to project art consultant Kendall Peterson of ere Squared Denver, the selection process began in July 2023 with an orientation meeting followed by a national search for artists in August 2023. Fuqua’s piece was selected after a rigorous process that Peterson described during the council meeting.
According to Peterson, Fuqua’s piece was selected for its whimsy and innate safety features.
For more information on the art piece, visit WheatRidgeSpeaks.org.
Polis tasked the Colorado Public Utilities Commission with exploring reforms that would “protect customers in the e ect of future Public Safety Power Shuto s.” is e ort will include an investigation into the reasons why Xcel failed to inform customers about the outages during the April 6storms. To read the full letter from Polis to Xcel Energy, visit Colorado.gov.
Property tax collection box closed due to tampering
Je co property owners will now have to drop o their tax payments inside the Je erson County Administration and Courts building in Golden after the property tax payment drop box, located just outside of the courthouse, was tampered with.
According to County Treasurer Jerry DiTullio, the contents of the drop box were not accessed, but the incident did cause great concern. “ e perpetrators tried to drill out the lock twice in one night,” DiTullio said “I have decided that the risk to taxpayers associated with any potential theft of tax payments and fraud against taxpayers is too signi cant to ignore.”
DiTullio closed the box out of “an abundance of caution,” he said. “My department has closed and locked the external drop box to prevent any further public access. Plans are underway to have the drop box permanently removed by our facilities team.”
Je co taxpayers can still drop o their taxes inside the building. A drop box is located inside the front lobby of the courthouse. e box is accessible from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through ursday..
The Je erson County Pioneer Environmental Discovery Camp has spaces (and scholarship money)
e Eagle’s Nest Owl’s Roost Environmental Discovery Camp run by CSU Extension Je co has spaces and scholarship money for campers.
e camp is celebrating 50 years of serving the kids of Je erson County. According to the ENOR announcement, the camp began in 1970s and has pioneered education in outdoor skills and stewardship of local open spaces and trails for over 20,000 children “We have spots remaining and thousands of dollars in scholarships,” said Jeni Carter, county extension director e camp hosts four sessions from June 10 through July 12 and is open to any kid in the Denver Metro area entering the fourth through eighth grades. Cost is $350, but scholarships are available. For more information, to register and to apply for scholarships, visit Je co. Extension.Colostate.edu.
Andrew Buen will be judged by a jury of 13 Clear Creek County women and two men
BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMSimon and Sally Glass clutched each other in tears and placed their hands over their ears as a 911 emergency call was played in a Clear Creek County courtroom. ey are the parents of Christian Glass, the 22-year-old man who had dialed 911 to say he was trapped in his car near Silver Plume. Also in the courtroom was the former county Sheri ’s O ce deputy, Andrew Buen, who faces several charges, including second-degree murder. Buen’s lead defense attorney, Carrie Slinkard, played the audio recording as part of her opening statement on Friday afternoon. e trial is expected to last up to three weeks.
Fifth Circuit Judge Catherine Cheroutes outlined the rules of the trial and expectations to the diverse jury of 15 local residents who seemed focused on her instructions.
Glass died on the night of June
10-11, 2022. He had called 911 for help, saying he was trapped in his car, and when o cers arrived, they asked Glass to get out. He refused in what turned into a long stando that ended when o cers broke Glass’ car window and used a Taser on him. Buen shot Glass ve times, killing him, according to an indictment.
In the 911 call, Glass can be heard repeatedly saying that he had a knife and a hammer in the vehicle, and that he was returning from a rock-hunting expedition.
Over and over, he said he would throw them out of the vehicle as soon as responding o cers arrived.
One of the rst questions Christian Glass asked responding ocers that night was, “Are you going to shoot me?” according to audio recordings and opening remarks from the prosecutors on Friday.
One of the rst witnesses in the trial, Colorado Bureau of Investigations Deputy Director Kirby Lewis, noted ve bullet holes in the front windshield and corresponding nine-millimeter shell casing on the ground at the scene.
Buen’s defense attorneys made several comments drawing attention to Glass’s blood-alcohol content and marijuana paraphernalia objects found in the vehicle.
Autopsy reports reviewed by the
Sally Glass (left) leaves Clear Creek County Court April 12 after the start of the murder trial against Andrew Buen for the shooting death of her son. PHOTO BY
Clear Creek Courant showed that Glass’ blood-alcohol content was negligible.
Referring to law enforcement body camera video, Slinkard said Glass’s eyes appeared dilated in a manner that is “consistent with drug use.” She also noted a halfsmoked marijuana joint “caked in blood” was found on the seat where
Glass was shot to death.
Clear Creek County District attorney Heidi McCollum said the prosecutor’s case will show actions by Buen that were “excessive and criminal.”
In addition to murder in the second degree, Buen is charged with o cial misconduct and reckless endangerment.
Final words
Becker said some have suggested that law enforcement overreacted that night, but she stressed how Romero was the initial aggressor and that his actions continually escalated the threat.
“ ere was nothing excessive or unreasonable that happened that night by law enforcement,” Becker continued. “Everything was by the book to get that person apprehended as quickly as possible and avoid any more casualties.”
Before handing down the sentence, Carrithers told Romero how — in some respects — he was “in-
credibly lucky to be here.” He said national news stories continually detail how law enforcement agencies don’t always act with the restraint or professionalism that the local agencies demonstrated in this case.
“In other communities, you would’ve been killed,” Carrithers said. “I’m not saying it’s right. at sort of reaction by law enforcement would not have been right.”
While Carrithers acknowledged Romero’s decision to surrender and confess, and hoped he would remain sober and make better decisions, he said Romero’s actions that night demonstrated “a complete disregard for community norms, laws and safety.” Because of that, he sentenced him to the 12-year maximum sentence outlined in the plea agreement.
e ‘I Voted” stickers for Je erson County will take on a di erent look heading into the 2024 election, thanks to the e orts of local artists who interpreted what it means to participate in democracy.
e Je erson County Clerk and Recorder’s O ce held a contest for the new sticker design last year and recently announced three winners.
e contest drew entries from all over the county for its theme, “I Voted/Yo Voté.” e winning entries reect a diverse community, according to Amanda Gonzalez, Je co clerk and recorder.
“Je co is increasingly diverse thanks to the culture, languages and experiences that make up our towns and neighborhoods,” Gonzalez said.
The winner of Adult category for the “I Voted” sticker competition was Alexis Nicole of Littleton. Nicole is an MSU student and artist.
“Yet, [we are] united in our dedication to celebrating and strengthening our democracy.
ere were three categories — adults over 18, 18 and under, and the
The youth category sticker design winner was Ethan Brill, 8th grader at Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen.
“future voter” category for artists under 13. e winners, in order, are:
• Alexis Nicole of Littleton, a Metropolitan State University of Denver student and artist who submitted an abstract colorful mountain design.
• Ethan Brill, an eighth grader at Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen who submitted a Columbine/ Red Rocks design.
• Lexi Diaz, a third grader at Dennison Elementary in Lakewood who submitted a red, white and blue stars design.
e winners were selected by a panel of experts who chose the best stickers from each category. en, the public voted to choose one winner per category.
“I’m so thrilled with the selections the Je co community made for our new voting stickers,” Gonzalez said. “ ey represent three totally di erent inspirations and viewpoints, but each speaks to the heart of our collective values and the pride we have to live
The “Future Voter” sticker design winner was Lexi Diaz, a 3rd grader from Dennison Elementary School in Lakewood.
where we do.”
COURTESY JEFFCO CLERK AND RECORDER
e “I Voted” sticker is on every mailed ballot. e sticker is also given out at voting centers for those who vote in person. e “future voter” sticker will be printed and handed out to kids at community events and voting centers.
e stickers from the youth and adult categories will be printed and placed in about 430,000 ballots mailed out for each election this year. is includes the state primary in June and the general election in November. Each voter will get one sticker per ballot.
“Election after election, our voters turn out at higher rates, so I expect our new I Voted stickers will get a lot of use,” Gonzalez said. “A big thank you and congratulations to our winning artists who gifted all of us these beautiful new symbols of civic pride.” For more information on the stickers and on the elections in Je erson County, visit Je Co.US.
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Most theaters take a similar approach to their seasons –it’s a blend of musicals and stage plays that usually run for about a month each. But at Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center, they wanted to try something di erent. Matthew Kepler, programming director, thought a wider audience could be reached by removing one of the six musical titles that make up their season and adding limited engagement productions that were more nuanced and intimate.
“I wanted the opportunity to produce titles that were powerful pieces of theatre, intrigued our current audience, appealed to audiences who didn’t view our typical o erings as interesting, and really spoke about the human condition, speci cally through the lens of the arts and how the arts a ect our
humanity,” wrote Kepler in an email interview. “ ese productions aim to provoke deeper emotions, prompt critical thinking from alternate perspectives, and foster engagement with diverse communities that audience members may not typically encounter or understand.”
e latest entry in this series is “Red,” written by John Logan and directed by Kepler. It runs at the theater, 2450 Main St. in Littleton, from ursday, April 25 through Sunday, May 5. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. ursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday and
Saturday, May 4. e show is about Latvian-American abstract painter Mark Rothko (Andrew Uhlenhopp) and his young, new assistant Ken (Josue Miranda). At the time of the show, Rothko is at the height of his powers but struggling with his latest commission – a series that will be showcased in New York’s brandnew Four Seasons restaurant.
“ roughout the narrative, Rothko and Ken engage in conversations about the essence of artistic creation and its connection to the human experience,” Kepler wrote. “Moreover, the play delves into generational tensions, exemplied by the decline of Rothko’s Abstract Expressionist movement in the face of the rising popularity of Ken’s generation’s Pop Art movement. Rothko and Ken deliberate
on themes such as the commercialization of visual art and its impact on the artist’s spiritual expression.”
“Red” is the perfect show for the Town Hall’s limited engagement approach, because it tells the story of a massively important creative person and highlights the importance of art in daily life. Plus, it’s just a very well-told story.
“In this modern day of technological distractions, there really is something so pure and precious about having actors bear their soul in front of you. If you open yourself up to it, it truly is a moving experience,” Kepler explained. “I hope they engage intellectually with what they see and allow it to open a dialogue. You don’t have to be an artist to dig into these questions.
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In the middle of a nothing-inparticular phone call, my dad in Indiana suddenly asked me: “Where is Columbine High School?”
“Four or ve miles southwest of here — why?” I said from our westfacing back porch in Denver’s south suburbs on a beautiful spring day in 1999.
My hyperactive dad, who had been watching a cable news channel while we talked, replied: “Somebody is shooting kids there.”
Within seconds, two air ambulance helicopters thundered low and fast directly over our house and streaked southwest.
I was a copy editor at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and as I watched the helicopters race toward Columbine, I knew that I should expect to be called in early for my night shift at the newspaper. I wanted to see our young sons before getting ready for work, so I got o the phone and trotted the block and a half to their elementary school.
In those pre-smartphone, lesswired days, the sta at our sons’ school didn’t yet know about the attack a few miles away. I walked past the open door of the teachers’ lounge, where a teacher I liked was
nishing his lunch break.
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“What brings you here?” he asked. When I told him the little I knew about what was happening at Columbine, he responded, “ at will de nitely be on Channel 9 tonight.”
Word of the attack reached the school administrators about that same moment, and a lockout began. I was a familiar volunteer at the school, and I was allowed to stop by our sons’ classrooms to see them for a few minutes before I returned home to prepare for work.
I wanted to listen to breaking news about Columbine while getting ready for work, so instead of showering, I lled the bathtub and placed a radio on the bathroom oor so I could hear updates. I was sitting in the tub when the Je erson County sheri con rmed that several kids had been murdered, and I broke into a series of uncontrollable sobs.
Work that rst night was frantic, with uid news stories changing as reporters and editors tried to distill
reliable information from the deluge of impressions, sights and interviews, plus the gut-punching images from our photographers. e ensuing nights at the newspaper were a slog through the bad nondream of Columbine, including a night when I worked the “makeup” editing shift in the composing room, making sure through multiple editions that yearbook photos of the children who had been killed were paired with the right captions: Cassie Bernall is the girl with the wide smile and hair parted on the side; Corey DePooter is the boy with the pronounced straight eyebrows; Rachel Scott is the girl who looks like my sister as a kid ... at was the night I ate a mayonnaise-heavy sandwich that had sat atop my warm computer terminal for hours before I was able to take a break, and the resulting case of brutal food poisoning felt bizarrely welcome because I needed so badly to puke my guts out.
All that was 25 years ago. Now, low- ying helicopters still ash me right back to the moment just after my dad told me about the attack in progress. ese days, I still can’t talk about the Columbine attack for more than a few seconds before my voice breaks. Our little
suburb has its markers of the tragedy — the trauma center where the most grievously wounded children were own, the pawnshop where a paralyzed girl’s mother asked to see a revolver and then hurriedly inserted a bullet that she used to kill herself at the counter — and I see those places many times each week and remember.
But I got o light. I got o easy. I’m an outgoing person who is always getting to know more people, and here in Denver’s south suburbs, that means I’ve gotten to know many people who were hit intimately by the Columbine attack, people who were there, people who helped save terribly wounded children, people who tried to save children who died, people who lost dear ones, people whose dear ones survived but were damaged in ways that can’t be undone. Every year I know more people with lifetime memberships in that undesired club.
People I trust tell me good things have been forged from the pain of that horrible day. I want to believe they’re right.
Scott Gilbert is an editor in our newsroom who worked for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver at the time of the Columbine attack.
WOMEN’S WELLNESS
Dr. Terry Dunn
Health. High stress levels can lead to depression, heart disease, high blood pressure, weight gain and more. Furthermore, according to a Yale study, stress reduces your lifespan. However, regulating your emotions through self-care can manage stress’ impact.
So, what exactly counts as selfcare? It is any act of looking out for your own physical, mental or emo-
tional well-being. Self-care requires checking in on how you are doing daily. It is more than expensive beauty treatments or vacations and anyone, even with limited time, can practice.
Self-care is having regular doctor visits, exercising and eating healthy foods. Here are some ideas from Foothills Urogynecology: Learn to say “no” to reduce your stress Take a hot bath Get a massage Spend time in nature Meditate Bake something healthy Take time to read or color Take a break from social media Get plenty of sleep Keep a gratitude journal Take a nap Relax
and watch a movie Attend therapy as needed
Achieving a healthy work-life balance is an act of self-care. Make sure to set boundaries to protect personal time and take breaks throughout the day. Vacation time is important, even staycations can make a di erence. Financial self-care is another important component of self-care. According to Bankrate, about 46% of women feel stressed when faced with expenses. is highlights the importance of budgeting and smart money management. A good rule of
Our interests and passions and hobbies are a part of our human expression and all play into the ideas that are confronted in the play.”
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Abigail Osborn Brings Intimate Performance to Northglenn
ere’s a reason music from the bedroom pop movement has become so popular in the last several years. ere’s an intimacy and relatability to the sounds these artists create, especially when paired with the fact that they are composing and writing everything themselves (often in, you guessed it, their rooms). One such artist is Abigail Osborn, who was born and raised in the Denver area and now lives in Los Angeles.
Osborn will be performing at the In the Studio, 1 E. Memorial Parkway in Northglenn, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 19. Get tickets at https://northglennarts.org/.
Walker Fine Art Strips the Creative Process Down
“Stripped,” the latest exhibition at the Walker Fine Art gallery, 300 W. 11th Ave., No. A, in Denver, explores the act of “reducing, distilling, tearing, removing and shredding,” as part of the creative process
and what can be made because of these actions.
e show features the works of eresa Clowes, Doug Haeussner, Lee Heekin, Sandra Klein, Morgan Robinson and Zelda Zinn, and will be on display through Saturday, May 11. e artists work in a variety of mediums, including photography, mixed media, collage and steel, and provide a stirring window into the power of transformation. More information can be found at www.walker neart.com/stripped.
Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Bluebird Music Festival at Macky Auditorium
I’d be hard-pressed to think of a better way to welcome the warm seasons of the year than with the beautiful folk music you’ll nd at the annual Bluebird Music Festival. is year’s festival features Gregory Alan Isakov, Je Tweedy (of Wilco), Joy Oladokun, Langhorne Slim, Andy Shauf and many more. is year’s Bluebird Music Festival runs on Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21, at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St. in Boulder. e festival bene ts the Future Arts Foundation, which aims to improve communities through arts, music and environmental programs.
Find all the details and tickets at www.bluebirdmusicfestival.org.
Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail.com.
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With the harmful e ects of stress,
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Twenty- ve years have passed since that April day that etched sorrow into the hearts of Columbine High School. Two armed students took the lives of 12 of their peers and a cherished teacher and then their own lives. e reverberations of that tragic day have rippled through the years, leaving a sad narrative of killers and victims often repeated in the mainstream media.
But what that narrative misses is Columbine’s story of recovery, resilience and triumph.
It is in the school’s very fabric, where the emphasis is that every individual, from the principal to the rst-day freshman, matters.
As Columbine sophomore Madison Price told us, “It’s just the kind of thing that you can feel.”
It’s kind of a soft nding for a newsroom that spent months parsing through stories of grief and perseverance in our interviews with survivors, past and present school o cials, teachers, security experts
and even media critics.
Our newsroom sought the answer to a simple question: How has the 1999 Columbine shooting changed the school over the years — and everything else?
On one hand, nothing has changed. Gun violence is rampant in the United States. Take, for instance, the stunning tally of deaths and injuries provided by the Atlas of American Gun Violence, tracking incidents across the country down to the neighborhood level. Such an atlas is only necessary because of the almost-daily barrage of headlines chronicling shootings. Yet some are so large and horri c that everyone knows them by name, like Sandy Hook, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.
e specter of violence is woven into the lives of children in schools at an early age.
And schools across the country have increased security measures in the years since the Columbine shooting, which took the lives of students Cassie Bernall, Steven Curnow, Corey DePooter, Kelly
Fleming, Matthew Kechter, Daniel Mauser, Daniel Rohrbough,Rachel Scott, Isaiah Shoels, John Tomlin, Lauren Townsend and Kyle Velasquez, and teacher William “Dave” Sanders.
e Je erson County School District, which oversees the high school, points to classroom doors that lock from the inside. ere are single-point entry systems at schools that ensure students, sta and visitors pass through controlled checkpoints. Add to that security cameras, once a rarity, metal detectors and scanners.
Much of the changes are meant to ferret out people carrying guns. Yet our reporting did not take us to the raging debates over guns, like whether background checks are enough or if teachers should be armed.
Instead, we explored how chaos among rescuers during the Columbine incident led to improved coordination today, working to bridge gaps to make all schools safer.
And we looked at the media’s role during and after the shooting. One harsh takeaway from University of
Our series will run this week and next week.
This week, we focus on the stories of those closest to Columbine High School — the survivors and students and teachers. Next week, our series will look at how security has changed and the lessons learned from how the media covered events.
To read our entire series, go to www.ColoradoCommunityMedia .com.
Colorado Boulder professor Elizabeth Skewes was that news coverage of shootings can desensitize Americans and even be harmful to survivors. Knowing that helps explain the goals of Je erson County schools at the district’s recent media day for press organizations looking to report on the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
Reporters who went to that event heard many of the same things we learned in our reporting, which often involved initially-reluctant sources opening up to trust our reporters and editors with their stories. ey wanted us, and our readers, to know that the shooting doesn’t de ne Columbine. Instead, what de nes it is a kind of indomitable spirit that emerged and evolved with intentionality since 1999. It plays out for many every April 20, the anniversary of the shooting, in the school’s Day of Service, now in its eighth year.
“We have turned that day into something so positive,” teacher Mandy Cooke told us. “And that is what I am most proud of — is making sure that our current students know how to be better humans in the world, instead of this awful, tragic thing that happened to us.”
And Cooke knows. She was a student at the school in 1999 and is among three survivors we interviewed who returned to the school to help it turn the page of the adversity to a brighter chapter.
In the days following the shooting at Columbine High School, its principal, Frank DeAngelis, started leaving his shoes untied. e loss of his students and a teacher, who was also a friend, left him feeling he had no control over his life.
“People would say, ‘Tie your shoe!’ and I said, ‘ at’s the only thing I have control over,’” he said. But piece by piece, and with the help of his community, DeAngelis started his journey toward healing. It was just like tying his shoes, one lace over the other.
He still thinks of the tragedy every day — reciting the names of the victims who were killed before he gets out of bed. But his journey to heal hasn’t been lonely. In the years following the tragedy, he has leaned on his community and channeled his energy to help others — and still does, even in retirement.
DeAngelis started working at Columbine in 1979, right after he graduated from college. Before he became the principal, DeAngelis had been a history teacher, football coach and baseball coach there.
He worked closely with students, and enjoyed that his role gave him the chance to get to know so many of them — in the cafeteria, on their sports teams and on the stage.
On the day of the shooting, like so many others, he said, his life changed forever.
After the tragedy, he led the school until every student in the area who was in class on April 20, 1999 — down to the preschoolers — graduated.
“Because they were impacted by it,” he said. “Even though they were not there, they saw everything.”
His leadership in those years is a common theme among students and sta connected to the school.
ey say DeAngelis helped the community to heal, and they call his leadership a model for how to live. ey consider him a bedrock for the community and say he brought people together in the wake of tragedy.
One Je erson County School District sta member said the community would not have recovered without DeAngelis — and that his impact goes far beyond Columbine.
We found a community guided by those who became united in shared pain with a erce determination to heal.
In that regard, no name came up more often than former Princi-
pal Frank DeAngelis, who led the school, its sta and generations of students out of the shadows of tragedy.
“People said that Columbine really needed me — I needed them,” he said.
For many, he is a beacon of hope, even in his retirement, as he aids others a ected by similar hardships.
Now, as it has been for decades,
Columbine is just another high school. People look forward to football games. ey’re studying for tests. Students are discovering who they are and who they might be when they become adults.
To Cris Welsh, a student at the time of the shooting who is now a teacher at Columbine, it’s all very ordinary, except for one thing.
“We exist to extend the notion that
one can recover,” he said. “ at the awful things that happened to us are outside of our control, but how we respond to those awful things is totally within our control.”
Columbine is a symbol of hope, he said, not only to itself but well beyond.
“If you are determined to overcome the things that happen to you, you can do it,” he said.
On a mild Monday afternoon, Mandy Cooke was walking on a path near the high school where she teaches social studies. Nearby, a few students were warming up for track and eld practice. e team’s coach spotted his colleague and shouted, “ ere’s Mrs. Cooke!” and the students waved.
It was like any high school in America. e school’s colors — navy and white — accented the track as teens ran, stretched and laughed. Behind them, the word “Rebels” was painted on a shed near the eld. A coach blew a whistle and the kids came into a huddle, as others walked through the nearby parking lot with backpacks on.
But unlike other high schools in America, this scene happened close to a memorial with the names of 12 students and a teacher who were killed in a mass shooting on April 20, 1999.
Cooke sometimes gets concerned reactions when she tells people she works at Columbine High School.
“I still have teacher friends who are like, ‘I don’t know how you walk into that building,’” Cooke said.
She probably gets asked this question more than some other teachers, as Cooke is a survivor of the shooting. She was a sophomore at Columbine in 1999.
Twenty- ve years later, she works alongside several other survivors, hoping to support and care for students in the same way teachers and sta supported and cared for them in the wake of the tragedy.
Cooke works with friends she grew up with, including fellow teacher Cris Welsh and Noel Sudano, a school counselor.
Cooke and Welsh went to preschool together, and Cooke took piano lessons from Sudano’s
mom. ey all attended Dutch Creek Elementary School and then graduated together from Columbine in 2001. All three now live in the same neighborhood, where they are raising their own kids.
A similar call led them all back to their high school.
For Welsh, who teaches social studies, there was no other choice.
“I wanted to be there for my students in the same way that teachers had been there for me — I wanted to kind of pay that forward,” Welsh said.
In a time of “total, complete chaos,” he said, the teachers at Columbine represented stability. He drew a lot of strength from his relationships with his teachers in the months and years that followed the tragedy.
“ ey had gone through exactly what we had gone through,” he said. “ ey showed us kindness,
and consideration and compassion at a moment where so much of that seemed to be lacking in the world … I think, in each of us, there was a desire to extend that to another generation in what, regrettably, seems like an increasingly unstable world.”
Sudano said the adults at school were willing to show students their humanity, which was healing for her. One teacher, who was usually rather intimidating, gave her a hug a few days after the shooting.
“I just remember thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, this helps me understand the magnitude of what we went through,’” she said. “And, it also helped me feel that safety of like — even this authority gure, we’re all in the same situation, and we can all depend on each other.”
ese connections, the trio said, were a critical part of the healing journey for not just them, but
many of the Columbine survivors.
“Our generation grew up where we could only process through genuine communication with each other,” Welsh said. “And I think it made a big di erence.”
He said he wonders if social media — with its inherent social pressures and opportunities for criticism and damaging words — has prevented some victims of school shootings from processing their experiences e ectively.
“I would not want to have posted my opinions and ideas and emotions online for the world to see” after the shooting, he said. “I wanted friends, not the world.”
Because of the closeness and familiarity of being among people who understood what she had gone through, Cooke said she remembers never wanting to leave the Littleton area after she graduated.
“I was so comfortable because we bonded and came together, and I knew I was protected there,” she said. “And then, I knew going to school in Fort Collins, I wasn’t.”
Cooke started college at Colorado State University. She said the rst page of her psychology textbook was about the Columbine shooting.
“Going out of that bubble was very di cult for me,” she said.
Sudano had a similar experience as an undergraduate student at DePauw University in Indiana, where she learned “very quickly how just saying the word ‘Columbine’ triggered all sorts of reactions.”
Cooke, Welsh and Sudano said the students who attend Columbine are generally aware of the history, but mostly don’t think about it unless adults mention it. For them, Columbine is just their school. Going there is “not something that seems abnormal to
them until people around them tell them that it is abnormal,” Sudano said.
“I think their rst thought is not the shooting,” Welsh said. “ eir rst thought is, you know, the history test that I just made them take.”
So, for all three, working at Columbine is not strange. In the decades since the tragedy, they have come to know it as a tight-knit, service-oriented — and otherwise completely regular — high school.
“It was a high school, it always has been,” Welsh said. “If there is any special nature to Columbine, it has been the family or community atmosphere that we have created. It’s been the desire to aid and support and service others. If there is a di erence between us and other high schools, that’s it.”
Welsh said Columbine has been portrayed in many negative ways by the media. He, Cooke and Sudano said they want people to see Columbine as a wonderful place instead of the site of a national tragedy.
e Columbine community re-
members and honors the victims, but they do it in a way that is forward-thinking and hopeful, they said.
Sudano said she wants people to know that Columbine is “a school that’s thriving.” e employees say they don’t let the shooting de ne their experience there.
“It is such a hub in our community for everybody, kids and adults,” Cooke said. “( ey) go to basketball games, go to football games. It’s just such a rallying point for me, that I don’t think of the shooting every single day.”
“We have a job to do,” Welsh added. “I can’t be thinking about my students and getting ready for the AP test or whatever it is we’re focused on at the moment if I’m constantly obsessing about the past. I’m not saying it’s not there, to a certain extent, but you don’t walk in and immediately have ashbacks to April 20.”
Cooke said the employees are in a place where they are ready to never forget, but still move on with their lives. She is a mother and wants to spend her time and
energy focusing on her kids.
“I’m in a really good place in my life,” she said. “I don’t want to be sad.”
Her kids — who are in fth and seventh grade — look forward to going to Columbine someday.
It’s a place where students study for history tests and do chemistry experiments. ey laugh in the hallways and are late to class. Students change in the locker rooms for practice after school and look forward to things like football games and prom.
Columbine is like any high school in America, only it is stronger than it was before 1999. To Welsh, the school is a symbol of hope.
“We exist to extend the notion that one can recover,” he said. “ at the awful things that happened to us are outside of our control, but how we respond to those awful things is totally within our control … If you are determined to overcome the things that happen to you, you can do it. ere are people out there who have done it, and you need to look to them.”
In her home in Parker, Cindy Woodman gazed at trinkets that people sent to her daughter, Crystal Woodman Miller, following the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. On the walls and a large wooden bookshelf — surrounding the ornaments, small sculptures and decorative boxes — paintings showcase columbine owers.
When Cindy looks at the knick knacks in her “Columbine Room,” named for both her favorite ora and the high school, they sometimes remind her of the day that would change their lives forever.
“Just to walk through there every single day is just a quick reminder, but it’s not that it puts me in pain or agony — it’s a happy reminder that I still have Crystal,” Cindy said.
Although the interview with Columbine survivor Crystal was conducted through FaceTime, her emotion was felt as she nodded in agreement with her mother and delved into the intricacies of how her life was in uenced after she went to school on April 20, 1999.
“I am so much of who I am today because of what I went through,” Crystal said. “ ough I am not de ned by Columbine, I am more of the woman, the mom, the wife, the friend, the philanthropist, the speaker, the author that I am today because of what happened that day.”
After the tragedy, Crystal had a decision to make: Fall apart or forge ahead. She chose the latter, and embarked on a journey that has spanned decades, where she helps the “survivors community.”
At the beginning of her journey, following the shooting, Crystal started sharing her story and eventually found her voice.
source for others,” Crystal said. “My work has been toward that e ort for almost 25 years, and so I want to continue to walk with this community and link arms with them and let them know that they’re not alone.”
Over the last several years, she’s been a speaker at schools and communities impacted by shootings. In addition, she’s assisted in opening a therapy retreat for survivors of mass shootings.
Additionally, Crystal has written three books: “Marked for Life,” which is about her journey, and two children’s books: “A Kids Book About School Shootings” and “A Kids Book About School Shootings: For Survivors.” Her children’s books o er tools and advice for both students who survived a shooting or other trauma and parents and other adults to help them talk with children.
Crystal said among other things in her life, her experience at Columbine has impacted her perspective as a mother.
“Because of my perspective on life and how I view each day as a gift, I love being a mom and I love that I am given the opportunity in life to be able to raise and shape these young people to go far beyond anywhere I’ve been,” Crystal said.
As a mother, Crystal said she takes on the joy and responsibility to teach her children “what it looks like to live courageously in a crazy world.”
“I know what it’s like to have fear so rip your life that you can become paralyzed, and I want my kids to not have to walk through that,” Crystal said.
Crystal was thinking of her children and her perspective as a teenager in 1999 when writing her books. She wanted to re ect how she would address things with her children and how issues were addressed when she was younger.
“As school shootings and mass shootings became more commonplace, I saw myself really
starting to respond and just be there for others and to just be a re-
“We want to make sure kids are talking about the hard things and we’re giving them the language and the space to do so,” Crystal said. “We want to give them tools when they face their little fears and anxiety and we want to empower them to use their voice.”
Crystal said she has shared pieces of her story with her children and will continue to do so until they’re ready to hear it completely.
Cindy’s perspective
Cindy said the weeks and months following the shooting were hard for Crystal and their family, but over time, she saw Crystal overcome.
“I went through my tough times after that, but Crystal was always strong. She would amaze me,” Cindy said.
the screen, with tears in her eyes.
Like Crystal, Cindy said the Columbine shooting in uenced a lot of elements in her life.
“I am a di erent person today than I would’ve been had I not gone through that, and I think overall I am a better person because of that,” Cindy said. “I think one of the biggest things I mostly just learned is that I need to give myself grace.”
More to know
Crystal listened to Cindy’s words through Facetime during the interview happening at her home.
“I thank God that we still have her,” Cindy said while looking at her daughter, on the other side of
As a survivor of the Columbine shooting, Crystal said she has been “asked every question under the sun” about that day.
“I think the thing that I like to tell of (is) the hope and the goodness,” Crystal said. “I like to tell of the stories of resilience and the stories who’ve gone on to be impacted greatly, but have gone on to make an impact greatly.”
“He’s the reason today that schools all over this country are able to move forward after tragedy,” said John McDonald, who was the executive director of school safety for Je co Public Schools from 2008 to 2022.
DeAngelis recognizes that his community leaned on him for hope and survival, but said this relationship went two ways.
Crystal believes various elements have led to this point including families, culture, the media, guns and mental health.
“Just talking about one facet isn’t the end date of a much deeper, much greater conversation,” she said. “So, we really need to come to the table not screaming and yelling at each other because I think we’re closer on the issues than we are apart.”
For Crystal, it’s hard to visit communities and see that these tragedies keep happening.
“It’s so heartbreaking that this continues to be an epidemic that has swept the world,” Crystal said. “ at there’s countless … people who’ve had to now experience this — people who know the pain, who know the heartache.”
“People said that Columbine really needed me — I needed them,” he said. “If I would have gone somewhere else, I would always be concerned about them.”
Since retiring in 2014, DeAngelis has dedicated his life and career to helping others face tragedy in their own lives. He is a member of the Principal Recovery Network, a group of “current and former school leaders who have experi-
During her senior year, following the shooting, Crystal said she felt the community really come together.
Crystal now lives in Edmond, Oklahoma and she explained that the teachers, administrators and faculty of Columbine High School created a camaraderie and closeness that continues to reign in the hallways of the school today.
enced gun violence tragedies in their buildings” across the country.
“You can’t determine what happens to you, but you can determine your response,” DeAngelis said. “No one would ever wish that a Columbine (would) happen, but it did. And, so, how can I go out and help others?”
In the 25 years since the shooting at Columbine, mass shootings at schools have become tragically common.
DeAngelis has reached out to other school leaders in the wake of some of those tragedies, sharing advice on things that helped him — like going to counseling, nding a support system and taking care of one’s family and spouse.
umbine’ echoes in the halls of our school and in our hearts forever.”
Cindy said to this day, people will ask her how she and Crystal are doing and she’s grateful for the thoughtfulness of the community.
“ at just says how wonderful the community is,” Cindy said. “ at they still remember and they still have a heart for it all and still feel the pain and joy of it.”
“Our kids were on trajectory to go there,” Crystal said. “ ey were in the Columbine school district and there was a lot of pride even in my kids, sporting their Columbine sweatshirts and T-shirts, going to the football games and still showing up at Columbine because we love Columbine. ‘We are Col-
“I just talk about my journey and taking care of yourself,” he said. “(I talk) about where we were and lessons learned, but then also the recovery piece.”
Crystal said it’s important to remember that not all stories are “bright and cheery and happy.” “ ere’s a lot of pain and people are still hurting deeply so we can’t forget those who are still thinking about it every single day,” Crystal said.
Crystal encourages people, especially in the Columbine community, to continue to reach out and support each other.
“Don’t do it alone, and know there are still people ghting on their behalf, love them and are here for them,” Crystal said. “We don’t forget the 13 beautiful lives that were lost. We don’t forget their families. We don’t forget to remember them because we carry them with us every single day. We carry their stories. We carry their legacies.”
the school for so many years, and what still drives his work in supporting and educating others today.
DeAngelis lives by his own advice. He still goes to counseling to take care of his well-being. Getting help and leaning on others are the main pieces of advice he gives to people recovering after tragedies.
“You’re not in the journey alone,” he said.
He said his remembrance of the 13 victims each morning helps drive him forward.
“ ey give me a reason to do what I’m doing,” he said.
He is also part of the Je Co/ DeAngelis Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting school and community safety. DeAngelis travels around the country, sharing wisdom with rst responders, administrators and students.
Part of the foundation, the Frank DeAngelis Center for Community Safety, trains law enforcement and school safety o cials to respond to emergencies in a real school environment. e center conducts about 200 training sessions a year, he said.
DeAngelis said his Catholic faith is a large part of what drives his work. He said there is no clear reason why his life was spared, but he believes God has a plan for it. at’s what drove him to stay at
He laments the world’s obsession with returning to the topic of the shooting at the school. DeAngelis said Columbine and the community that surrounds it, including its alumni, are focused on helping others, moving forward and working to make the world better.
Although he is not the principal anymore, DeAngelis is still intimately involved with the school and its community.
“I can assure you, 25 years later, our community is stronger than what it was,” he said. “Because that’s what happens when families go through troubled times or tragedy — they come together.”
Stephanie Devries was more than a mom to her children Anthony and Lizzie and their dad, Chad.
In her memory, Anthony now plays for her. Since his mom — who died two years ago in June — was always the light of his life, the former Pomona football standout has tried to carry on her legacy, spreading her light through his football career.
“My mom was unlike any other,” Anthony, a redshirt junior o ensive lineman for McPherson College in Kansas, said. “Obviously, there are many mothers that are willing to do anything for their kids/family, but that’s what my mom’s entire life was. She made her life about my sister, Dad and I. ere was nothing that she did for herself almost ever, everything she did was for somebody else. e most sel ess person I will ever meet was my mother.”
e love Anthony and Lizzie had for the matriarch of their family could be seen and felt from as far away as South Dakota — where the famous American Moms’ faces are spiritually etched in stone with Mount Rushmore’s greats.
“She was present,” the 6-foot-2, 290-pounder said. “She was always doing something to put a smile on my face, she never let me or my sister feel like we were alone in anything. My dad does the same thing. Any day of the week, regardless of how she felt, she was always there to help make my day better. e bond my mom and I had was special and I still feel her around today.”
A son’s promise to his mom
“She had battled breast cancer for about two years, this being the second time she’d gone through it,” Anthony said. “She had never let anyone know how truly bad it was until she was on her deathbed. Some of her closest friends didn’t even know she had passed
six months after she did. She really tried to ght on her own, although we wouldn’t allow her to actually do it. It was a very hard time for my family as she was really the rock for all three of us.”
Anthony said his mom hadn’t been great for a few months when the family was in Oklahoma City for a weekend softball tournament.
“She just went downhill so quickly, you wouldn’t have been able to see it coming,” Anthony said. “As we were in the hospital with her for the week she was there, all I could tell her was how much I loved and appreciated her. ere’s nobody on
this earth that could replace what she meant to me, she truly was my best friend.
“I let her know that everything I do from there on out I’d do with her in my mind. Her wish to me was for me to nish all the way through school and to take care of the family that I was soon to build, and I promised her that I’d do so.”
Anthony spent as much time in the hospital with her as possible in those nal days of her life.
“Her last couple days she was unable to talk due to her illness, but I would just let her know I loved her,” he said. “I knew she could hear me
because every time I’d tell her she’d squeeze my hand.”
She died on June 15, 2022.
“I just remember being numb for so long, like I was oating and nothing felt real,” Anthony said.
His mom was just 52. Her death came one day before Anthony’s 19th birthday on June 16.
“After she died, I fell into a deep depression, I couldn’t do anything without the image of her on the bed in my head,” Anthony said. “I was also the rock for all of my family during this time so I didn’t allow myself to be soft around them, I was there for everybody. It was like my mom had taken over my body for a while because I was taking care of everybody emotionally.”
“I wasn’t truly myself again until recently, probably about ve or six months ago when I really started to seek God in my life.”
‘Honor my mom through football’
As football practice started up in August 2022, Anthony decided he was playing the game he so loved in
“ at following fall, I began to pray to her and God before games,” he said. “I also wrote her name on the backs of every new pair of cleats I bought. She is still a huge part of my life even though she can’t be here physically.”
Anthony elaborated.
“I pray to them right before kicko and let them both know how thankful I am that I have the ability to play the game I love with her still in my life,” he said. “After every prayer right before kicko , I stand up and blow a kiss to her up in Heaven. I wear a chain with her birthstone and locket that contains her ashes every day, it lets me know that she’s close. I also have a tattoo on my left pec with her initials on it so she’s always close to my heart.”
“He is de nitely a one-of-a-kind dude,” Bulldog redshirt freshman halfback/tight end Brayton Dewell said. “As I came into college playing fullback, Anthony and I had the same position coach because oline, tight ends and full backs were all together for meetings and that’s where we got to know each other.”
A friendship was quickly born. “It didn’t take very long before we had become very good friends,” Dewell noted. “When I rst learned about what had happened with his mom … I was shocked because it is very hard to go through that, especially as a college athlete and being away from home. But then knowing Anthony, I knew he could overcome it. He de nitely puts everything into the game of football and I know he is doing it for his mom and family and for the love of the game.”
Sophomore running back Brysen Kerby feels the same way.
“ e way I see Ant is: If you didn’t know about his story, you never would,” Kerby said. “He’s always a light and constantly making you laugh. e strength in his character de nitely shines through whether that be on the football eld or in everyday life. I’m positive that anyone who is and or was close to Anthony would be proud of the man he is today.”
So does redshirt junior halfback/ tight end Harley Blaske.
“ at’s amazing because I know what it’s like to lose a loved one,” Blaske said. “It’s tough but dedicating his game to his mom is unforgettable.”
Anthony’s team continues to rally around him.
“Anthony is an amazing guy,” redshirt freshman linebacker Kennedy Batchelder said. “He puts his
all into everything he does. e man has nothing but love in his heart and spills it out on and o the eld.”
‘The best version of myself’
“I’d hope she’d be very proud of me and the man I am becoming,” Anthony said. “I try hard every day to become what she’s raised me to be. I’m not perfect as an individual and I make mistakes as all humans do, but I strive to be the best version of myself that I can be. I feel that she’d take pride in knowing that she played a huge part in what I’m trying to become.”
at includes continuing her legacy as a beacon of light to others, just like his mom was.
“Her legacy can only be carried by my sister and myself so it’s important to me because she was such an amazing woman, the most sel ess, loving, endearing person you’d ever meet,” Anthony said. “I can only hope to be half of who she was. ere wasn’t one person she said ‘no’ to helping and she did everything in her life with love in her heart. I can only try to replicate who she was.”
If he could see his mom one more time?
“I’d give her the tightest hug I could and tell her I loved her,” Anthony said. “ ere’s nothing in this world I’d want more than to be able to hug her one more time.”
Anthony’s Mom’s Day Story concludes with this message to his mom who’s now among the Mount Rushmore of Mom Greats in Heaven.
“My message to her is I love her and I’m trying my hardest to be great,” Anthony said. “It’s been hard the last few years without her, but I’m trying to learn and grow up to be the man I need to be. I know she knows that, and I know she’s still around because angels and souls from the past are absolutely real.”
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Mines football wraps up spring season with annual intrasquad game
BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLOROADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMe Colorado School of Mines football team is going to look di erent this fall.
e Orediggers lost about 30 seniors, including their star quarterback, several key linebackers and safeties, and veteran o ensive and defensive linemen.
With so many of those well-known Game Day names gone, the Orediggers will have to rebuild in some capacity. But, as the players and coaches posited, the process won’t take as
long as some fans might think.
“We’ve already done our rebuilding — that was this spring,” outside linebacker JJ Lee said. “ at’s what we’ve done for the last two, three months. … We’re going to be ready to hit the ground running (for fall camp) on Aug. 12.”
On March 5, the Orediggers kicked o their spring season and have been practicing about three times a week since then. ey’ll close out their spring practices with their annual intrasquad scrimmage at 1 p.m. April 13. e game is free and open to the public.
Because of a unique scoring system that awards points for major plays or stops, the defense won 53-24 last year thanks in part to four turnovers. e o ense receives points for touchdowns, plays that go 20-plus yards, fourth-down conversions
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and more. Meanwhile, the defense receives points for three-and-out sequences, fourth-down stops, turnovers, etc.
Both the o ense and defense start with their rst- and second-string players in the rst half, and thirdand fourth-string players typically take over in the second half.
Lee, who will be a redshirt junior in the fall, felt the scoring system was fairly even and motivated players on both sides to “play just as hard as we would in a game.”
Evan Foster, a redshirt senior who’s set to succeed John Matocha as starting quarterback, enjoyed how unique and fun the spring game is. It’s the perfect time for up-and-coming players to showcase what they’ll
do for the Orediggers in the fall, he said.
“It just shows how much of a complete team you are when both sides of the ball can get after it,” Foster continued.
e two players and Coach Pete Sterbick all thought the spring season’s been a crucial team to incorporate new players into the starting lineup, get them reps, and evaluate how the 2024 team will look by the Sept. 5 home opener versus West Texas A&M.
Lee described the process as “soulsearching,” but said the team’s made immense progress this spring, especially the last two weeks.
Ralston Valley junior Raleigh Greason hit the 20th goal mark on April 9 at the North Area Athletic Complex.
Greason — the leading goal scorer in Class 5A — had a hat trick in the rst half in Ralston Valley’s 5A Je co League girls soccer opener against Pomona. e trio of goals, along with an assist, helped the Mustangs to a 10-0 victory.
“Raleigh gets better every single game,” Ralston Valley Head Coach Kamee Morwood said. “She practices like she wants to be a better version of herself tomorrow than she was today. She is a complete competitor.”
Greason had 21 goals and 14 assists last year as a sophomore. She had six goals and ve assists in her freshman year.
“My goal each year is to beat my previous year’s goal mark,” Greason said.
She is already nearing both of those marks from her junior season with 20 goals and eight assists through Ralston Valley’s rst nine games.
Sterbick commented: “People are probably looking at a lot of question marks, (and) we feel like we’ve got the answers in our program. … I think we’re as talented as we’ve ever been, just younger.”
Foster felt similarly, describing how the Orediggers have a deep rotation with “a lot of guys who are going to make a big step and surprise some people.”
Big cleats to fill
e 2024 Orediggers are facing Rocky Mountain-high expectations. Mines has won ve consecutive RMAC titles, made three straight NCAA Division II semi nal appearances, and taken home the last two National Runner-Up trophies. e 2023 team also went 14-1 and became the winningest Orediggers in program history.
“She (Greason) is just an incredible player. She has everything,” Ralston Valley senior goalie Margot Mulhern said of Greason. “More importantly, she is a better person outside of the eld. She is an incredible leader and an incredible person to help lead our team.”
Greason did everything she could in the closing minutes to try to get Mulhern her rst goal of the season. e Mustangs’ normal starting goalie got the chance to play striker against Pomona.
After Greason already had her hat trick, she tried to set up Mulhern for her rst career high school goal.
“My biggest thing is I love scoring,” Greason said. “Setting up those girls who might not get the goal sometimes. Trying to help my teammates ful ll their goals is my goal as well.”
Mulhern did pick up a goal in the 43rd minute in the second half to give Ralston Valley a 9-0 lead. A goal by sophomore Ashlyn Callahan in the 50th minute ended the game due to the 10-goal mercy rule.
e Mustangs are on a threegame winning streak as they begin their conference schedule. e overall goal for Ralston Valley (6-21, 1-0 in league) is to make a deep
But, while Mines lost several key players after the 2023 national championship game, Sterbick said the returning Orediggers have substantial knowledge and experience, especially in big-time games.
Foster, for instance, redshirted in 2019 and then gained an extra year of eligibility due to COVID-19. So, he and other fth- and sixth-year seniors are ready to lead younger players like Lee, who are eager to showcase everything they’ve learned.
“We’ve had a lot of young guys who’ve been able to pay attention and take advice from those older guys that we lost last year,” Lee said. “ ey’ve been able to step forward this spring and really show that they have the ability to perform like (last year’s) defense did.”
e Orediggers’ goal is the same as ever: win the program’s rst national championship.
Foster and Lee believed Mines has built a winning culture and set high standards that will remain constant regardless of who’s on the eld.
playo run.
“We have a complete package this year,” Morwood said of the Mustangs that were top-10 in the 5A CHSAA Selection & Seeding Index before the win Tuesday. “We have a lot of strong leaders that these (younger) girls are looking up to and want to be like. It is a team that has it in them to go deeper into the playo s than we have in a little bit.”
“We would love to make a deep run,” Mulhern said. “I believe we have the talent and more than anything I think we have the group of girls that love to play with each other. We have a real good team chemistry and very good team bond. I think more than anything, that’s important to make a deep (playo ) run.”
e Mustangs have a fairly young squad with just three seniors. However, there is a chance this could be the last high school season for Greason. e junior has already verbally committed to Texas Tech University.
“I look forward to high school. I love it more than club,” Greason said when asked if she might graduate a semester early next school year and enroll in college before
“New faces, same standards, but better expectations,” Lee said, referring to winning a national title.
Sterbick believed the 2024 team can replicate the recent teams’ successes, but “it’s early … and we’ve got a lot of work to do.” He emphasized how the Orediggers need to focus on whichever game is next, as that’s part of the “blueprint” they’ve used to make vestraight NCAA playo appearances.
“We have to prove that we’re truly a program and not just a team that was good the last couple years, making it as far as we did,” he continued. “Our whole goal is to nd out how good we can be.”
Both Sterbick and Foster said they wanted people to underestimate this year’s team, because the new rstand second-string players are hungry to prove themselves.
“Tune in on Saturdays in the fall,” Foster said. “I’ve had an interesting career here so far, and … I’m superexcited to prove people wrong and lean on my teammates and have a ton of fun.”
the Spring 2025 high school season. “We’ll have to see where it takes me. It’s an option I’m looking at. We’ll see.”
Focusing on this season is clearly the main priority for Greason.
“You never know what is going to happen,” Greason said of the Mustangs’ postseason history that includes exits in the rst round her freshman year and second round last year. “ is year I’m hoping we make it really deep. I think with this team we can. One of my biggest dreams is winning state. at is what we are pushing for.”
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referred to as the Will-O-Wisp Ponds, which are located within the current District boundaries. The approximate locations of the Will-O-Wisp Ponds are shown on the attached Figures 1 and 2. By this application, the District seeks approval of a supplemental plan for augmentation to replace out of priority depletions associated with the Will-O-Wisp Ponds. The Will-O-Wisp Ponds are existing, undecreed structures and, on information and belief, have been in existence and operational since at least 1971. The Will-O-Wisp Ponds are located on Wisp Creek, a tributary of Roland Gulch and the North Fork of the South Platte River. Additional information concerning the Will-OWisp Ponds is set forth below. A. Location and Description. The Upper Pond is located in the SE1/4NE1/4 of Section 11, Township 7 South, Range 72 West of the 6th P.M. UTM coordinates for the Upper Pond are as follows: NAD 83 Zone 13N, E464638 N4367416. The Office Pond is located in the NE1/4SE1/4 of Section 11, Township 7 South, Range 72 West of the 6th P.M. UTM coordinates for the Office Pond are as follows: NAD 83 Zone 13N, E464605 N4366830. The Office Pond is located approximately 2,000 feet downstream from the Upper Pond. The water surface areas are approximately 0.52 acre for the Upper Pond and 1.50 acres for the Office Pond. The elevation of the ponds is approximately 8,120 feet msl. Both ponds are used by District homeowners for recreational purposes and are available for fire-fighting. These ponds do not have decreed water storage rights and are not expressly included as augmented structures in the District’s existing augmentation plan. The District estimates that the annual depletions related to out of priority evaporation from the Will-O-Wisp Ponds is less than 4 acre feet of water annually. 3. Water right(s) to be used for augmentation: The District has an existing Augmentation Plan Decree adjudicated in Case No. 81CW144. Under the terms of its existing Augmentation Plan, the District’s 425 shares of Mountain Mutual Reservoir Company (“MMRC”) stock represent an augmentation supply of 13.35 acre-feet annually. Based on changes to the District’s development plans and service area, the District has excess replacement water and seeks to utilize a portion of such excess augmentation supplies to replace out of priority evaporative losses from the Will-O-Wisp Ponds pursuant to the supplemental augmentation plan sought in this Application. The required replacements under this supplemental augmentation plan and the District’s existing augmentation decreed in Case No. 81CW144 will not exceed the augmentation supply represented by the 425 shares of MMRC stock. This plan is consistent with the Substitute Water Supply Plan currently in place to replace out of priority evaporative losses from the Will-O-Wisp Ponds. By this application, the District seeks approval of a supplemental plan for augmentation to fully replace any such out of priority evaporative losses from the Will-O-Wisp Ponds on an ongoing basis. A. Date of original and all relevant subsequent decrees: June 9, 1983, Case No. 81CW144, Water Court, Water Division No. 1. An addendum to the decree in Case No. 81CW144 was also issued on June 9, 1983, and an amendment to the decree was issued on June 8, 1995. B. Type of water right: The underlying decree in Case No. 81CW144 utilized surface and storage water rights derived on a pro rata basis from ownership interests in MMRC shares. By the terms of the amendment to the decree in Case No. 81CW144 issued on June 8, 1995, the overall maximum allowable amount of depletions associated with the District’s water use was reduced to 13.35 acre feet. In Case No. 19CW3154, the MMRC obtained a decree authorizing the use of additional water rights as supplemental replacement supplies for its shareholders, including the District. The District intends to utilize unused augmentation credits generated by its shares in MMRC identified in the decree in Case No. 81CW144, as amended, and as supplemented in Case No. 19CW3154, as replacement supplies to replace out of priority evaporative losses from the Will-O-Wisp Ponds. Additional information concerning the water rights that serve as the District’s replacement supplies are contained in the decree issued in Case No. 81CW144, as described in the addendum to said decree, and as amended and the decree issued in Case No. 19CW3154. Said information is incorporated herein by reference. The water rights that may be used for augmentation purposes under this Application are derived from the Applicant’s MMRC share ownership and include the following: Spinney Mountain Reservoir. Spinney Mountain Reservoir is located on the South Platte River, with the left abutment of the dam at a point whence the Southwest corner of Section 36, Township 12 South, Range 74 West, 6th P.M., Park County, Colorado, bears South 23°26’ West a distance of 8,314.3 feet. North Fork Associates/Mountain Mutual Reservoir Company have a deeded right from the City of Aurora for a firm annual delivery of 80 acre feet from the water decreed to the Spinney Mountain Reservoir including but not limited to the following: water from Case No. W-7395, with appropriation date of March 26, 1973, in the amount of 86,000 acre-feet. Such waters are decreed for domestic, irrigation, municipal and all other beneficial uses. As stated in a special warranty deed dated March 23, 1987, recorded in Park County on May 29, 1987, at Book 411, Page 876, from the City of Aurora, grantor, to Mountain Mutual Reservoir Company and North Fork Associates, LLC, grantees, the supply of water which is lawfully available to the grantees and subject to this agreement includes an undivided interest in the right of first use of a firm yield of 80 acre feet of water per annum from “any of the water rights owned by Aurora and decreed for storage in Spinney Mountain Reservoir.” Nothing in this Application is intended to amend, change, alter, or supersede any contract, agreement, deed, or other instrument or arrangement that exists between MMRC (or its predecessors in interest) and the City of Aurora, including but not limited to any contract, agreement, deed, or other instrument or agreement concerning Spinney Mountain Reservoir. Guiraud 3T Ditch. MMRC owns 3.481 cubic feet per second of the water rights decreed in the Guiraud 3T Ditch as follows: Adjudication Date: Oct. 18, 1889 (Original Adjudication Water District 23); Appropriation Date: July 1, 1867; Amount: 20 cfs. The Guiraud 3T Ditch headgate is located on the South bank of the Middle Fork of the South Platte River in the NE1/4, Section 8, Township 11 South, Range 76 West, 6th P.M., Park County, Colorado, at a point whence the Northeast Corner of the NE1/4 of said Section 8 bears North 63° 35” East, 1,305 feet. Originally decreed for irrigation uses, this water right has been subject to various change proceedings. Historic consumptive use for a portion of the Guiraud 3T Ditch owned by MMRC, that includes the portion associated with MMRC shares owned by Will-O-Wisp, was determined in 81CW144. (1) Slaght Ditch: In accordance with the Decree entered in Civil Action No.
diversion for the Slaght Ditch was originally established to be a point on the North bank of the North Fork of the South Platte River in the NE1/4 SE1/4, of Section 21, Township 7 South, Range 73 West, 6th P.M., approximately 2,060 feet North and 490 feet West of the SE Corner of Section 21. Pursuant to a Decree entered by the District Court for Water Division 1 in Case No. 82CW472, on October 3, 1983, the Maddox Reservoir Feeder Ditch was approved as an alternate point of diversion for the Slaght Ditch water right. The point of diversion of the Maddox Reservoir Feeder Ditch is located on the North bank of the North Fork of the South Platte River in the NW1/4 SW1/4, Section 22, Township 7 South, Range 73 West, 6th P.M., approximately 1,240 feet East and 1,740 feet North of the SW Corner of Section 22. In Case No. 79CW339, 0.12 of a cubic foot per second of the Slaght Ditch priority was changed to a new location, with the
The source of water is the North Fork of the South Platte River. The point of diversion of the Mack Ditch No. 2 was originally established to be on the South bank of the North Fork of the South Platte River at a point in the NE1/4 SE1/4, Section 21, Township 7 South, Range 73 West, 6th P.M., Park County, Colorado whence the E1/4 Corner of said Section 21 bears North 43° East, a distance of 984 feet more or less. By an Order of the Park County District Court entered on October 17, 1927, the point of diversion was moved approximately 789 feet upstream to a point on the South bank of the North Fork of the South Platte River in the NE1/4 SE1/4, Section 21, Township 7 South, Range 73 West, 6th P.M., whence the E1/4 Corner of said Section 21 bears North 79° 30’ East, a distance of 1,292 feet, more or less. In Case Nos. W-7503, W-7548, 80CW080, 80CW455, 81CW143, 81CW298, and 89CW081, a total of 0.1191 of a cubic foot per second of Mack Ditch No. 2 water right was transferred out of the ditch for uses other than irrigation. Of the remaining 0.8809 of a cubic foot per second, 0.44045 of a cubic foot per second was transferred by MMRC in Case No. 03CW238. (3) Nickerson No. 2 Ditch: The Nickerson No. 2 Ditch, with a South Platte Priority No. 262 and North Fork Drainage Priority No. 24 has an appropriation date of May 1, 1872, as adjudicated by the District Court for Park County on May 22, 1913, in the amount of 0.65 of a cubic-foot-per-second. The headgate is located on the North bank of Deer Creek at a point whence the E1/4 Corner, Section 9, Township 7 South, Range 72 West of the 6th P.M., bears North 58° 15’ East, 2,320 feet and has historically irrigated approximately 35 acres adjacent to Deer Creek in the SE1/4 Section 9, NW1/4 Section 15, and NE1/4 Section 16, Township 7 South, Range 72 West of the 6th P.M. all in Park County. (4) Parmalee No. 1 Ditch: The Parmalee No. 1 Ditch, with a South Platte Priority No. 251 and North Fork Drainage
Facility. The water may be used for domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, irrigation, fish and wildlife propagation, recreational and all other beneficial purposes, including exchange to compensate for depletions in the South Platte River and its tributaries. Other owners in the reservoir have transferred water rights to Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir No. 1 in which Applicants have no interest. Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir is claimed as an alternate replacement supply in this matter. 4. Complete statement of plan for augmentation and claim for exchange project right: Wisp Creek flows through both ponds, which normally remain full during the spring and summer. Evaporation losses from each pond were calculated utilizing paragraph 4 from the “Attachment to Policy 2003-2 General Guidelines for Substitute Water Supply Plans Submitted to the State Engineer Pursuant to Section 27-92-308, DRS(2003)” as a guideline. The estimated monthly net evaporation volumes follow:
*Ice Cover anticipated.
No evaporation is assumed when the average monthly temperature at NOAA’s Bailey Climate station is below 32 degrees, indicating ice cover. Excluding the normally ice-covered months of November-March, the projected annual net evaporation will be 0.89 acre-feet for the Upper Pond, 2.55 acre-feet for the Office Pond, and 3.44 acre-feet combined. The District owns 425 shares of Mountain Mutual Reservoir Company stock representing an augmentation supply of 13.35 acre-feet annually. The District’s plan for augmentation was decreed in Case No. 81CW144. Based on changes to the District’s development plans and service area, the District has excess replacement water and can utilize up to the approximately 4.0 acre-feet of the replacement supply or 126 shares of MMRC stock in this supplemental augmentation plan. The source of replacement includes MMRC’s historical consumptive use credit associated with water rights all as described in the decree in Case No. 81CW144, as amended, and the subsequent decree in Case No. 19CW3154. Said information is incorporated herein by reference. MMRC will deliver the replacement supply directly to the North Fork of the South Platte River, to the Middle Fork South Platte River, or to the South Platte River. The exchange reach includes fromthe North Fork confluence with Roland Gulch, up Roland Gulch and up Wisp Creek to the point of depletion, or as necessary, from the confluence of the South Platte and North Fork, up the North Fork of the South Platte River to its confluence with Roland Gulch, up Roland Gulch to its confluence with Wisp Creek, and up Wisp Creek to Office and Upper Ponds to compensate for evaporative losses. The District asserts an exchange project right pursuant to Sections 37-92-103(9), 37- 92-302(1)(a), 37-92-302(5), 37-92-305(3), 37-92-305(5), and 37-92-305(8)(a), C.R.S., over the reach described above. The locations of these relevant points are as follow: Confluence Point -
No evaporation is assumed when the average monthly temperature at NOAA’s Bailey Climate station is below 32 degrees, indicating ice cover. Excluding the normally ice-covered months of November-March, the projected annual net evaporation will be 0.89 acre-feet for the Upper Pond, 2.55 acre-feet for the Office Pond, and 3.44 acre-feet combined. The District owns 425 shares of Mountain Mutual Reservoir Company stock representing an augmentation supply of 13.35 acre-feet annually. The District’s plan for augmentation was decreed in Case No. 81CW144. Based on changes to the District’s development plans and service area, the District has excess replacement water and can utilize up to the approximately 4.0 acre-feet of the replacement supply or 126 shares of MMRC stock in this supplemental augmentation plan. The source of replacement includes MMRC’s historical consumptive use credit associated with water rights all as described in the decree in Case No. 81CW144, as amended, and the subsequent decree in Case No. 19CW3154. Said information is incorporated herein by reference. MMRC will deliver the replacement supply directly to the North Fork of the South Platte River, to the Middle Fork South Platte River, or to the South Platte River. The exchange reach includes from the North Fork confluence with Roland Gulch, up Roland Gulch and up Wisp Creek to the point of depletion, or as necessary, from the confluence of the South Platte and North Fork, up the North Fork of the South Platte River to its confluence with Roland Gulch, up Roland Gulch to its confluence with Wisp Creek, and up Wisp Creek to Office and Upper Ponds to compensate for evaporative losses. The District asserts an exchange project right pursuant to Sections 37-92-103(9), 37- 92-302(1)(a), 3792-302(5), 37-92-305(3), 37-92-305(5), and 37-92-305(8)(a), C.R.S., over the reach described above. The locations of these relevant points are as follow: Confluence Point - North Fork & South Platte, UTM NAD 83 Zone 13N, E485250, N4362000; Confluence Point - North Fork and Roland Gulch, UTM NAD 83 Zone 13N, E467765, N4362264; Confluence Point - Roland Gulch and Wisp Creek, UTM NAD 83 Zone 13N, E464567, N4365840; Confluence Point - Office Pond, UTM NAD 83 Zone 13N, E464605, N4366830; Confluence Point - Upper Pond, UTM NAD 83 Zone 13N, E464638, N4367416. The water exchange project right will be operated and administered with a priority date of May 3, 2019, (the approval date of the initial SWSP), at a maximum flow rate of 0.9 cfs. The evaporation volumes are based on full ponds and corresponding water surface areas so tracking water surface levels in the ponds is not necessary. The District will limit its augmentation needs under its existing augmentation plan in Case No. 81CW144 to 9.4 acre feet, (a figure well above its current normal operational needs), so that the overall depletions associated with the District’s water usage within the District boundaries remains at or under the 13.35 acre feet authorized under Case No. 81CW144, as amended, to ensure that there are sufficient excess MMRC credits available to replace out of priority evaporative losses herein, or, alternatively, the District will seek the ability to utilize additional or alternative augmentation sources in the future under this plan for augmentation, as contemplated in C.R.S. § 37-92-305(8)(c) and consistent with any decree issued herein. 5. Name(s) and address(es) of owner(s) or reputed owner(s) of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool. N/A. The Will-O-Wisp Ponds are both existing structures located on lands owned by the District and located within the District boundaries. There is no need to modify said existing structures consistent with this application. 6. Other. Nothing herein is intended to modify or otherwise reopen the decree in Case No. 81CW144, as amended. The listing of MMRC augmentation sources in paragraph 3, above, is included for identification purposes and nothing herein is intended to modify or otherwise reopen any determination previously made in a MMRC decree related to the adjudication, change of use, or quantification of any MMRC augmentation source used in satisfying augmentation requirements. Nothing herein seeks a change of water right or adjudication of new junior water storage rights. The District merely seeks to utilize shares it owns in MMRC, that are excess to its current replacement needs under Case No. 81CW144, to replace out of priority evaporative depletions associated with the operation of the two existing Will-O-Wisp Ponds located within the District boundaries. WHEREFORE, Will-O-Wisp requests the Court to enter its decree and ruling approving a plan for augmentation in this matter, granting its exchange project rights, and such other relief as the Court deems appropriate.
THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any
a point whence the S1/4 Corner between Sections 31 and 32, Township 6 South, Range 72 West of the 6th P.M., bears North 85° 30’ East, 1,398 feet. Water Division No. 1 District Court Case No. W-7434 changed the location of the headgate for 0.28 of a cubic-foot-per-second to the Nickerson No. 2 Ditch, as shown above. This 0.28 of a cubic-foot-per-second is included in this contract. (6) Maddox Reservoir: The Maddox Reservoir is located in the NE1/4 SW1/4, Section 22, Township 7 South, Range 73 West of the 6th P.M. in Park County. It was adjudicated on November 11, 1971, with an appropriation date of May 31, 1905. It is decreed for multiple purposes including irrigation, domestic, fish culture and recreation with a capacity of 54.0 acre-feet. It is filled by the Maddox Reservoir Feeder Ditch, which diverts from the North Fork of the South Platte River in the NE1/4, SE1/4, SW1/4, Section 22, Township 7 South, Range 73 West of the 6th P.M. and decreed as an alternate point of diversion for the Slaght Ditch. Maddox Reservoir is an alternate replacement supply pursuant to 19CW3154. (7) Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir: The Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir Company, a Colorado corporation, owns and operates the Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir No. 1. The reservoir is located in the NE1/4 NW1/4, Section 32, and the SE1/4 SW1/4, Section 29, Township 9 South, Range 77 West, 6th P.M., Park County, Colorado. North Fork Associates owns 932 shares of a total of 3,700 shares in the Company (a 25.2% interest). The reservoir has been constructed and is entitled to store water under the following Decrees: Case No. W 7741 74, Appropriation Date: July 25, 1974, Amount: 40 a.f.; Case No. 84CW250, Use of Res. as Recharge Facility; Case No. 85CW465, Use of Res. as Recharge Facility. The water may be used for domestic, municipal, commercial, industrial, irrigation, fish and wildlife propagation, recreational and all other beneficial purposes, including exchange to compensate for depletions in the South Platte River and its tributaries. Other owners in the reservoir have transferred water rights to Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir No. 1 in which Applicants have no interest. Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir is claimed as an alternate replacement supply in this matter. 4. Complete statement of plan for augmentation and claim for exchange project right: Wisp Creek flows through both ponds, which normally remain full during the spring and summer. Evaporation losses from each pond were calculated utilizing paragraph 4 from the “Attachment to Policy 2003-2 General Guidelines for Substitute Water Supply Plans Submitted to the State Engineer Pursuant to Section 27-92-308, DRS(2003)” as a guideline. The estimated monthly net evaporation volumes follow:
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 15, 2024, 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.
First Publication: 4/18/2024
Last Publication: 5/16/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 02/15/2024
Jerry DiTullio, 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:
Carly
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/06/2024 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/
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IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 02/08/2024
Jerry DiTullio, 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:
Aricyn J. Dall #51467
Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710
Attorney File # 23CO00524-1
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.
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FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
CONDOMINIUM UNIT 7181, BUILDING A, COLUMBINE TOWNHOUSES FOUR, ACCORDING TO THE MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON JANUARY 26, 1973, AT RECEPTION NO. 73545266, IN THE RECORDS OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR COLUMBINE TOWNHOUSES FOUR, RECORDED ON DECEMBER 20, 1972, IN BOOK 2457 AT PAGE 606 IN SAID RECORDS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 7181 SOUTH WEBSTER STREET, LITTLETON, CO 80128.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/23/2024 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/
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DATE: 02/01/2024
Jerry DiTullio, 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:
Carly Imbrogno #59553
Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711
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Legal Notice NO. J2400030
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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 D. MCCALLISTER AND AMY C. MCCALLISTER
Original Beneficiary(ies) CANVAS CREDIT UNION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
CREDIT UNION
Shelly
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
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LOT 11, BLOCK 3, SKYLINE ESTATES FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO
Purported common address:
5398 OWENS ST, ARVADA, CO 80002.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/16/2024 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/
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Legal Description of Property
CONDOMINIUM UNIT 209, CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 5, THE REEF AT MARINA POINTE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON DECEMBER 10, 1986 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 86152734, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR THE REEF AT MARINA POINTE CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED APRIL 23, 1984 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 84036350 AND ANNEXATION RECORDED DECEMBER 10, 1986 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 86152733, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Street Address of Property
8341 South Upham Way #209, Littleton, CO 80128
NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS
I sold at public auction, at 2 p.m. on 12/21/23 via remote, web-based auction service, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and the funds must be claimed by the Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/ or Deed of Trust or other persons entitled thereto within six months from the date of sale. THE STATE OF COLORADO REQUIRES US TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR PROPERTY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE STATE TREASURER IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT US BEFORE 6/21/2024 as part of the “Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act”, pursuant to Colorado law.
together
other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof
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LOT 2, BLOCK 10, SECOND ADDITION TO GREEN MOUNTAIN PARK, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 414 S Nelson St, Lakewood, CO 80226.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/23/2024 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/
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Principal Balance $200,315.96
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 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 14, ARVADA PLAZA, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 9409 GRANDVIEW AVE, ARVADA, CO 80002-2953.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/16/2024 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/
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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: 01/18/2024
Jerry DiTullio, 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
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 18, 2024, 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) Brooke Christine Graczyk
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 1, 2024, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the
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
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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. J2400029 First Publication: 4/4/2024 Last Publication: 5/2/2024
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/23/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https:// liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/4/2024
Last Publication: 5/2/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 02/01/2024
Jerry DiTullio, 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:
Aricyn J. Dall #51467
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.
CONDOMINIUM UNIT 243, BUILDING 42, DAKOTA STATION CONDOMINIUMS, FILING NO. 1, PHASE NO. 8, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON MAY 9, 1983, AT RECEPTION NO. 83041310 AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF DAKOTA STATION CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 3, 1983, AT RECEPTION NO. 83010327, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 9612 West Chatfield Avenue, Unit A, Littleton, CO 80128.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
THE SOUTHEASTERLY 60 FEET OF LOT 17 AND THE NORTHWESTERLY 20 FEET OF LOT 18, GREEN MOUNTAIN FILING NO. 8, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO
Purported common address: 14091 W Exposition Drive, Denver, CO 80228.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 05/23/2024 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,
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 1, 2024, 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)
Jennifer C Kirby
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for Elevations Credit Union
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt ELEVATIONS CREDIT UNION
Date of Deed of Trust
December 13, 2021
County of Recording
Jefferson
Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 16, 2022
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2022018174
Original Principal Amount $261,250.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $253,662.93
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
CONDOMINIUM UNIT 1, NEWLAND PARK TOWNHOMES, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED APRIL 21, 1978 IN BOOK 9 AT PAGE 11 AND AT RECEPTION NO. 78035313 AND CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR NEWLAND PARK TOWNHOMES RECORDED APRIL 3, 1978 AT RECEPTION NO. 78028984, AND AMENDMENT TO CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED FEBRUARY 25, 1980 AT RECEPTION NO. 80014114, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 6550 W 14th Ave 1, Lakewood, CO 80214.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710
Attorney File # 23CO00584-1
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. J2400031
First Publication: 4/4/2024
Last Publication: 5/2/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2400019
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 25, 2024, 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)
Leticia Tolentino
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC
Date of Deed of Trust February 03, 2018 County of Recording Jefferson
$271,536.74
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: This is a Home Equity Conversion Deed of Trust or other Reverse Mortgage. Borrower has died
failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 19, BLOCK 4, KEN CARYL RANCH NORTH “PLAINS” PHASE 1, AS AMENDED BY KEN CARYL RANCH NORTH “PLAINS”
PHASE 1 EXEMPTION SURVEY, RECORDED NOVEMBER 28, 1979, AS RECEPTION NO. 79107172, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
PARCEL ID NUMBER: 59-294-03-021 Purported common address: 12104 WEST VAIL PASS, LITTLETON, CO 80127.
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: PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER’’S ERROR RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2014 AT RECEPTION NO. 2014080958 TO CORRECT LEGAL DESCRIPTION.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/06/2024 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/
§38-38-101(4)(i),
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOTS NUMBERED FIFTEEN (15) AND SIXTEEN (16) IN BLOCK NUMBERED TWELVE (12) BERKELEY IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 4338 Fenton St, Denver, CO 80212-7342.
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, 05/23/2024 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/
TH-49, Westdale Townhomes, according to the Condominium Map filed for record May 11, 1973 in Book 3 at Page 48 and according Declaration recorded May 09, 1973 in Book 2503 at Page 868, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.
A.P.N. : 29-361-01-309
Purported common address: 7951 Chase Circle #193, Arvada, CO 80003-2550.
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, 05/23/2024 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 Publication4/4/2024
Last Publication5/2/2024
Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 02/01/2024
Jerry DiTullio, 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 R. Doughty #40042
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (855) 263-9295
Attorney File # 23-031482
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. J2400024
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
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, 05/23/2024 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/
you
hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay the indebtedness when the same was due and owing, and the legal holder of the indebtedness has declared the same immediately fully due and payable. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
2, SIEBERT MINOR SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 5202 Reed Street, Arvada, CO 80002.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/06/2024 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/
Original Grantor(s)
Anthony O. Rodriguez AND Jo Anne Rodriguez
Original Beneficiary(ies)
GREAT WESTERN MORTGAGE CORPORATION
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION , AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE
LOAN TRUST 2007-HL1, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HL1
Date of Deed of Trust
June 27, 2006
County of Recording Jefferson
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 05, 2006
Recording Information
(Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2006081122
Original Principal Amount
$489,250.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$508,985.28
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.
THAT PART OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 71 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WEST LINE OF SAID NORTHWEST 1/4 208 FEET NORTH OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID NORTHWEST 1/4 THENCE NORTH ALONG THE WEST LINE 416 FEET; THENCE EAST 200 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 416 FEET; THENCE WEST 200 FEET TO A POINT OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO APN# 51-262-00-017 Purported common address: 6967 Highway 73, Evergreen, CO 80439-6543. 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
Legal Notice NO. J2400018
First Publication: 3/28/2024
Last Publication: 4/25/2024 Name of Publication: Golden Transcript
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2400032
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On February 8, 2024, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.
Original Grantor(s)
Heidi C Morgan and Ralph E Morgan
Original Beneficiary(ies)
PARTNER COLORADO CREDIT UNION
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
PARTNER COLORADO CREDIT UNION
Date of Deed of Trust
September 29, 2015
County of Recording
Jefferson
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
September 30, 2015
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
2015104468
Original Principal Amount $424,350.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $355,613.43
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.
PARCEL A: A TRACT OF LAND BEING A PART OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 71 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 24, FROM WHENCE THE CENTER OF SAID
SECTION 24 BEARS SOUTH 89 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 36 SECONDS WEST, 862.81 FEET; THENCE ALONG SAID NORTH LINE NORTH 89 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 36 SECONDS EAST, 400.00 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 24; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 59 SECONDS EAST, 832.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH
is
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 1, BLOCK 4, CHATFIELD COMMONS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON STATE OF COLORADO
Purported common address:
9199 W. Phillips Dr., Littleton, CO 80128.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/06/2024 via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. https:// liveauctions.govease.com/
First Publication: 4/18/2024
Last Publication: 5/16/2024
Name
DATE: 02/08/2024
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 17, BLOCK 4, WESTBOROUGH - FILING NO.2, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 3057 S GARLAND CT, LAKEWOOD, CO 80227.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 06/06/2024 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/
ing will be conducted as a virtual meeting and in person in City Council Chambers at 7500 W. 29th Avenue. Any person wishing to submit written documents for Commission’s consideration at the meeting must file them with Community Development staff. Written comments may be submitted on Wheat Ridge Speaks at www. wheatridgespeaks.org until noon on May 1. Alternatively, written documents or comments must be received no later than noon on the day of the meeting by emailing zoning@ci.wheatridge. co.us or mailing to City of Wheat Ridge, Attn: Planning Division, 7500 W. 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge CO 80033.
All interested citizens are invited to participate in the virtual meeting in any one of the following ways:
• Provide comments in advance on Wheat Ridge Speaks at www.wheatridgespeaks.org
• Join the live meeting through the Zoom web link provided on the calendar on the City’s website at www.ci.wheatridge.co.us/calendar.
• Join the live meeting by calling (669) 9006833 with code 837 8229 2839 and entering Passcode: 129740
• Watch the meeting live on Comcast Channel 8
• Watch the meeting live on YouTube at www. ci.wheatridge.co.us/view
• Watch the meeting live on Comcast Channel 8
• Watch the meeting live on YouTube at www. ci.wheatridge.co.us/view
Individuals who, due to technology limitations, are unable to participate in the meeting virtually (via the Zoom platform) or by calling in on the telephone may contact Rhiannon Curry, Executive Assistant, at 303-235-2819 by noon on April 22, 2024. Arrangements will be made for those individuals to access City Hall during the meeting to view the meeting and provide public comment if desired. These comments will be heard and seen in real time by members of Council and City staff.
Legal Notice No. GT3003
First Publication: April 18, 2024
Last Publication: April 18, 2024
Publisher: Jeffco Transcript
Metropolitan Districts
Public Notice
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that final settlement will be made on or about May 10, 2024, on the Genesee Reservoir No.1 Expansion Project between the Genesee Water and Sanitation District and Zak Dirt of Longmont, Colorado.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to C.R.S. Sec. 44-3-311, Jasper Keys, LLC. dba Gastown by Jasper Keys, located at 5790 W. 29th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, CO, 80214 requested the Liquor Licensing Authority of the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, to grant a new Tavern Liquor License for the sale of alcohol beverages in open containers for on premises consumption.
Jasper Keys LLC consists of a sole member Finn Walsh, 4101 Winona Ct., Denver CO. The application date is April 5, 2024.
You are further notified that on Thursday the 23rd day of May, 2024, at the hour of 10 a.m. or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, a Public Hearing on the application will be held before
Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by the contractor identified above or any subcontractor thereof in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or other equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim thereof has not been paid by the contractor or subcontractor, may in accordance with section 38-26-107 (1) C.R.S., file with the District Manager, Genesee Water and Sanitation District, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, which statement must be filed on or before May 6, 2024. Claims must be submitted to: Genesee Water and Sanitation District, Attn: District Manager, 2310 Bitterroot Lane, Golden, CO 80401.
Legal Notice No. 418000
First Publication: April 18, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript
Public Notice
NOTICE
A public hearing will be held before the Arvada Planning Commission scheduled for May 7, 2024, at 6:15 p.m., Arvada City Hall, 8101 Ralston Rd., Arvada, when and where you may speak on the matter to consider the Major Modification, for Indian Tree Golf Course Cart Barn, a 0.7 acre parcel of land generally located 7555 Wadsworth Blvd. Members of the public may attend. To submit written public comment to be considered by the Commission, email comments to cedboardsandcommission@arvada.org by 5 p.m. on 5/6/2024.
Additional information can be obtained from https://www.arvadapermits.org/etrakit3/search/ project.aspx?activityno=DA2023-0043.
CITY OF ARVADA PLANNING COMMISSION /s/ Tim Knapp, Secretary
in these ways:
• Provide comments in advance on Wheat Ridge Speaks at www.wheatridgespeaks.org
• Join the live meeting through the Zoom web link provided on the calendar on the City’s website at You will need to pre-register before 6:00pm the night of the meeting to provide public comment.
sidewalk. A Request for Proposals (RFP) is available to all prospective bidders by emailing Parks Director, Richard Plack, richardp@kcranch.org.
A mandatory pre-bid is scheduled, on site at South Valley Rd and Valley Parkway Littleton Co 80127 Wednesday April 24 at 10:00am and electronic bids must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday May 8 via email to richardp@kcranch.org.
Legal Notice No. 418362
First Publication: April 18, 2024 Last Publication: April 18, 2024 Publisher: Golden Transcript Jeffco Transcript Public Notice
IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 18th day of April 2024 at 4:00 P.M., final settlement with Colorado Civil Infrastructure, Inc. will be made by Alameda Water and Sanitation District, 359 S Harlan St, Lakewood, CO 80226 for all services rendered, materials furnished, and labor performed for the Sanitary Improvements project. Work was within City of Lakewood, Colorado, and consisted of waterline mainline abandonment and replacement with all necessary appurtenances. Any association, individual, or corporation having a claim against the above for labor, materials, or supplies provided in the performance of said work may file its claim or claims with the Alameda Water and Sanitation District up to 4:00 P.M., April 18th, 2024. Failure to file said claim will relieve and forever discharge the Alameda Water and Sanitation District from all and any liability to the claimant.
For: Alameda Water and Sanitation District
By: Bill Willis, P.E., District Engineer Martin/Martin Inc.are hereby advised that the Owner reserves the right to not award a Contract until ninety (90) days from the date of the opening of Bids, and Bidders expressly agree to keep their Bids open for the sixty (90) day time period. Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any informality, technicality or irregularity in any Bid, to disregard all non-conforming, non-responsive, conditional or alternate Bids, to negotiate contract terms with the Successful Bidder, to require statements or evidence of Bidders’ qualifications, including financial statements, and to accept the proposal that is in the opinion of the Owner in its best interest. Owner reserves the right to accept any combination of Bids which in Owner’s sole and absolute judgment will, under all circumstances, best serve the Owner’s interests. Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest to do so.
Metropolitan District No. 1 (hereinafter called the “Owner”) will receive sealed Bids for State Highway 93 and State Highway 72 Roadway Widening (the “Project”) via electronic submission to Independent District Engineering Services (IDES); 1626 Cole Blvd, Suite 125, Lakewood, CO 80401 from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., May 22, 2024. Electronic copies of the bid documents are to be sent to bcollins@ idesllc.com and wback@idesllc.com.
A description of the Work to be performed generally includes but is not limited to: grading, erosion control, utility installation, concrete improvements, asphalt paving, striping and signage, traffic control and any and all other work necessary to complete the project in accordance with Contract Documents including the plans and specifications.
Interested bidders may download the digital documents for $22.00 by inputting Quest project number 8393352 on the website’s projects search page.
Notice is hereby given that on or after April 22, 2024, the City of Golden Public Works Department will make final settlement with Diamond Contracting Corporation,18300 W. Hwy.72 Arvada, CO 80007 in connection with payment for all services rendered, materials furnished, and for all labor performed in and for the 2023 Utility Replacement Program.
1. Any person, co-partnership, association or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the said project or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provision, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by subcontractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claims.
2.All such claims shall be filed with the City of Golden Public Works Department, c/o Shakira Hollis, Administrative Coordinator, 1445 10th Street, Golden, CO 80401, on or before the above-mentioned time and date of final settlement.
3.Failure on the part of a creditor to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve the City of Golden Public Works Department from any and all liability for such claim.
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 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.
If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.
This action affects title to the following described property: LOT 2, BLOCK 1, DUTROW’S DIRT SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON STATE OF COLORADO also known as 6754 Everett Street, Arvada, CO 80004
Dated: March 8, 2024.
Karsh Gabler Call PC /s/ Ivan M. Call Ivan M. Call, #30178 Legal Notice No. 418211
ANNA STRUCKOFF (OR THE ESTATE OF ANNA STRUCKOFF); MOSES WALTON; KATHRYN S. MAXWELL (OR THE ESTATE OF KATHRYN S. MAXWELL); and ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO CLAIM ANY
or other response. You
required
your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of 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 35 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.
This is an action: quiet title to real property located in Jefferson County, Colorado.
Dated:
CAMPBELL KILLIN BRITTAN & RAY, LLC
Original signature on file at office of counsel
By: Caleb E. Ray, #56636
Legal Notice No.418303
First Publication: April 4, 2024
Last Publication: May 2, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript
Public Notice
DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, Colorado 80401
In re: the Parental Responsibilities of: JEJ
Petitioner: BARRY CURRIE and Respondent: ELIZABETH ZERTUCHE and JOSEPH EDWARD JONES
Case No.: 23DR31180 Div.: P/1
Attorneys for Petitioner:
The Law Offices of Rodger C. Daley and Associates
Rodger C. Daley, Atty. No. 12226 Carrie Vonachen, Atty. No. 34844 724 East 19th Avenue Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone Number: 303-831-1100
AMENDED SUMMONS
1. Family Case
You (the Respondent) are now a part of a court case to resolve a family legal matter. Along with this summons, you will get a document called a Petition. The Petition will let you know more about the case and what the Petitioner wants the Court to do.
2. Your Next Steps
You must file a written response to that Petition.
1) You may use form JDF 1420 – Response to the Petition.
2) Forms and resources are found online at www. courts.state.co.us/Forms/family.
3) Your response is due within 21 days of receiving this summons. Note: That deadline extends to 35 days when served outside of Colorado or if notified of the case by publication.
3) File online at www.jbits.courts.state.co.us/efiling. Or, File by mail or in-person. (The Court’s address is in Box above.)
4) Include the filing fee ($116). Or, File the Response by mail or in-person with a fee waiver (forms JDF 205 & JDF 206).
3. Consequences
If you do not file a Response, the Court may decide the case without your input. You may not receive further notice about court filings and events. You are still required to obey any orders the Court issues.
4. Automatic Court Orders (Temporary Injunction)
As soon as you receive this Summons, you must obey these orders:
1) Do not disturb the peace of the other parent or parties in this case.
2) Do not take the children in this case out of the state without permission from the Court and/or the other parent (or party).
3) Do not stop paying, cancel, or make any changes to health, homeowner’s, renter’s, automobile, or life insurance policies that cover the children or a party in this case or that name a child or a party as a beneficiary.
Exception: You may make changes to insurance coverage if you have written permission from the other parent or party or a court order, and you give at least 14 days’ Notice to the other party.
C.R.S. §§ 14-10-107, 108.
You must obey these orders until this case is finalized, dismissed, or the Court changes these orders. To request a change, you may use form JDF 1314 – General Motion.
5. Note on Genetic Testing
You can request genetic testing. The Court will not hold this request against you when deciding the outcome of the case.
You must do testing and submit the results before the Court establishes who the parents are (parentage) and issues final orders. After that time, it may be too late to submit genetic testing evidence. The law that directs this process is C.R.S. § 14-10-124(1.5).
DATED this 8th day of January, 2024. Respectfully Submitted, The Law Offices of Rodger C. Daley and Associates S/ Carrie Vonachen Carrie Vonachen, Atty.
and TRINITY TITLE, LLC
Attorneys for Plaintiff:
Holly 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: 877-369-6122
Facsimile: 866-894-7369
Email: hshilliday@mccarthyholthus.com
Case Number: 2021CV031367
Division:12
SHERIFF’S COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE AND RIGHT TO REDEEM
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
This is to advise you that the above-captioned action is pending. An Order Regarding Motion for Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure 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:
LOT 17, BLOCK 6, KIPLING VILLAS, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO
and also known as 8985 W Arbor Drive, Littleton, Co 80123 (the “Property”).
Plaintiff Cascade Funding Mortgage Trust HB2 (“Plaintiff”) is the judgment creditor in this action.
As of October 31, 2023, Plaintiff was owed the total amount of $283,183.09, plus attorneys’ fees and costs in the total amount of $3,024.21, plus additional accrued and unpaid interest from October 31, 2023, 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): Marilyn A. Riffel
Original Beneficiary: Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc.
Current Holder of the Evidence of Debt: Cascade Funding Mortgage Trust HB2
Date of Deed of Trust: June 20, 2013
Recording Date of Deed of Trust: June 26, 2013 County of Recording: Jefferson Reception No. of Deed of Trust: 2013077771
Original Principal Amount: $322,500.00
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 May 16, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, 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 Division, 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 80203 (800) 222-4444
www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov
Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372
www.consumerfinance.gov
DATED at Jefferson County, Colorado this 24th Day of January 2024.
Regina Marinelli Sheriff, Jefferson County, Colorado
By: Sgt. Sean Joselyn, Deputy Sheriff
SALE DATE: May 16, 2024 at 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Ste. 1520, Golden, CO 80419
Bidders are required to have cash or certified funds to cover their highest bid at the time of sale.
Certified funds are payable to the registry of the 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. 418197 Published in: Golden Transcript
Publication: March 21, 2024
Notice DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO
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
BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES.
(C.R.S. §§ 38-38-103, 38-38-104, 38-38-301, 38-38-302, 38-38-304, 38-38-305, 38-38-306, and 38-37-108).
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 or any date to which the sale is continued.
If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.
A notice of intent to redeem filed pursuant to C.R.S. § 38-38-302 shall be filed with the officer no later than eight business days after the sale.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
The name, address and telephone number of the attorneys representing the holder of the judgment are:
Joseph A. Murr, Esq., Reg. No. 14427 Murr Siler & Accomazzo, P.C. 1999 Broadway, Suite 3100 Denver, Colorado 80202 (303)534-2277
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 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or both, but the filing of a complaint will not stop the foreclosure process. If the officer maintains a web site, the officer shall post this information on the web site for viewing by all borrowers. Contact information for the Attorney General and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are as follows:
Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway Denver, CO 80203 (720) 508-6000
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau PO Box 2900 Clinton, IA 52733-2900 (855) 411-2372; TTY/TDD: (855) 729-2372
NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that by virtue of a Writ of Execution issued by the District Court for the County of Jefferson in Case No. 2013CV31588, directing and commanding me to make the sum of Three Hundred Fourty Four Thousand, Fourty Two and 55/100ths Dollars ($344,042.55), plus additional interest, attorneys’ fees, and costs, the amount of a certain Judgment obtained against Judgment Debtor Kristin K. Meyer and in favor of Judgment Creditor, Coe D. Meyer, from any property of Judgment Debtor Kristin K. Meyer legally subject to levy.
full interest in property owned by Judgment Debtor Kristin K. MeyerSouth Platte Land and Investment Company, Inc. d/b/a Woody’s Chicago Style. The Sheriff of Jefferson County did levy upon and seize the full interest in the following described real property in the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado:
Lots 11, 12, 13, 14 and 39 of and in Red Wing Park, a Subdivision of the Northeast quarter of Northwest quarter (NE ¼ NW ¼) and a portion of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW ¼ NE ¼) of section 23, township six, range seventy-one West, according to Plat of Red Wing Park, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.
Also known as 26824 Rascal Lane, Conifer, Colorado 80433, also informally known as 10761 Kitty Drive and Vacant Land, Conifer, CO 80433, Jefferson County Parcel ID Nos 61-232-01-006 and 61-232-01-007
YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE 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 THE AMOUNTS DUE TO THE HOLDER OF THE JUDGMENT. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, ARE ATTACHED HERETO. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY
I have levied upon the full interest in the following real property to satisfy the Judgment in the aforementioned action:
Lots 11, 12, 13, 14 and 39 of and in Red Wing Park, a Subdivision of the Northeast quarter of Northwest quarter (NE ¼ NW ¼) and a portion of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (NW ¼ NE ¼) of section 23, township six, range seventy-one West, according to Plat of Red Wing Park, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado.
Also known as: 26824 Rascal Lane, Conifer, Colorado 80433, also informally known as 10761 Kitty Drive and Vacant Land, Conifer, CO 80433, Jefferson County Parcel ID Nos 61-232-01-006 and 61-232-01-007
The lien foreclosed may not be a first lien.
THEREFORE, according to said command, I shall expose said real property for sale, at Public
2024 at 10:00 a.m.,
Jo-Ann
formerly
Massachusetts; Albert
deceased, formerly of Winthrop, Massachusetts; Rosemarie Spatafora Arico, deceased, formerly of Winthrop Massachusetts; Ralph Arico, deceased, formerly of Marshfield, Massachusetts; Mary Zielinski Arico, deceased, formerly of Marshfield, Massachusetts; Robert Arico, deceased, formerly of Hull, Massachusetts; Carl W. Arico, deceased, formerly of Quincy, Massachusetts; Gladys Marie Arico, deceased, formerly of Scituate, Massachusetts; Carl J. Arico, deceased, formerly of Golden, Colorado; Barbara Arico LaRose, deceased, formerly of Somerville, Massachusetts; Robert LaRose, deceased, formerly of Somerville, Massachusetts; Charles LaRose, deceased, formerly of Somerville, Massachusetts; Anthony LaRose, deceased, formerly of Somerville, Massachusetts or their heirs, assigns, devisees or legal representatives and any unknown or unascertained persons with a legally cognizable interest in a parcel of land in Somerville, Middlesex County, in said Commonwealth being known as and numbered 45-47 Conwell Avenue.
You are hereby notified that a complaint has been filed by the above-named plaintiff in which you are named as an interested party. This complaint concerns a parcel of land in Somerville, Middlesex County, in said Commonwealth being known as and numbered 45-47 Conwell Avenue. Antonio Arico (“Antonio”) and Mary Alice Arico (“Mary Alice” or the “Decedent”) acquired title said property as tenants by the entirety via a deed from Katherine Errico, Grantor, dated May 3, 1963, recorded with the Middlesex County Registry of Deeds in Book 10262, Page 344. Antonio died in 1966. Plaintiff alleges that Antonio died intestate and his estate was not probated. As the surviving tenant, Mary Alice acquired sole title to the Property upon Antonio’s death. Mary Alice died in 1978. Plaintiff alleges that Mary Alice died intestate and her estate was not probated. Record title to said property is in the name of Mary Alice, the decedent. Plaintiff seeks adjudication by the court of the current state of title to the property, establishing its current ownership, and such other relief as the Court shall deem appropriate.
This complaint may be examined at the Land Court, Boston, Massachusetts, or online at www. masscourts.org. Information on how to search Land Court dockets is available on the Land Court website: www.mass.gov/how-to/find-a-land-courtcase-docket. A copy of said complaint may also be obtained from plaintiff’s attorney.
If you intend to make any defense, you are hereby required to serve upon the plaintiff’s attorney, Laurel E. Bretta, Esq., 127A Main Street, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, an answer to the complaint on or before the twentieth day of May, 2024, next, the return day, hereof, and a copy thereof must be filed in this court on or before said day.
If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for relief demanded in the complaint. Unless otherwise provided by Rule 13(a), your answer must state as a counterclaim any claim which you may have against the plaintiff which arise out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the plaintiffs’ claim, or you will thereafter be barred from making such claim in any other action.
It is ORDERED that notice be given by publishing a copy of this notice once in the following newspapers: (1) The Boston Herald, a newspaper published in Boston, Suffolk County, in said Commonwealth; (2) The Winthrop SunTranscript, a newspaper published in Winthrop, Suffolk County, in said Commonwealth; (3) The Coastal Mariner, a newspaper of general circulation in Marshfield and Scituate, Plymouth County, in said Commonwealth; (4) The Hull Times, a newspaper published in Hull, Plymouth County, in said Commonwealth; (5) The Patriot Ledger, a newspaper published in Quincy, Norfolk County, in said Commonwealth; (6) The Golden Transcript (Colorado), a newspaper published in Golden, Colorado at least thirty days before the twentieth day of May 2024.
Witness, Gordon H. Piper, Chief Justice of the Land Court, the ninth day of April, 2024.
Savio House in Denver, CO has applied for HRSA grant funding. The applicant proposes to use grant funds to construct the Savio family residential townhomes at 9820 W. 21st Ave, Lakewood, CO 80215. The applicant has submitted an Environmental Assessment (EA) that documents impact of the proposed action. This EA is incorporated by reference into this FONSI.
Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Assessment for this project, which is on file at the following address for public examination upon request between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Savio House
325 King Street
Denver, CO 80219
Attn: Mary Laidley
Phone: 303-225-4100
Email: info@saviohouse.org
No further environmental review of this project is proposed prior to final approval from HRSA.
Public Comments
Any individual, group, or agency disagreeing with this determination or wishing to comment on these projects may submit written comments to Savio House, Attn: Joshua Pruyn, Development Coordinator, at 325 King Street, Denver CO 80219.
HRSA will consider all comments received within 15 days of this “Notice” prior to final approval from HRSA.
Legal Notice No. 418365
First Publication: April 18, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript
Public Notice
Summons
District Court, Colorado
prepared. The
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides discretionary grant and cooperative agreement awards to support health centers expand their capacity to provide primary and preventive health care services to medically underserved populations nationwide.
a) Do not sell, transfer, assign, borrow against, hide, or get rid of any marital property without permission of the other party or the court. You may use your income for your usual business expenses and life necessities.
b) Do not disturb the peace of the other parent or parties in this case.
c) Do not take the children out of the state without permission from the Court or the other party.
d) Do not stop paying, cancel, or make any changes to health, homeowner’s, renter’s, automobile, or life insurance policies that cover the children or a party in this case or that name a child or a party as a beneficiary.
Exception: You may change insurance coverage if you have written permission from the other parent or party or a court order and give at least 14 days’ Notice to the other party. C.R.S. §§ 14-10-107, 108. You must obey these orders until this case is finalized, dismissed, or the Court changes these orders. To request a change, you may use form JDF 1314 – General Motion
5. Note on Genetic Testing
You can request genetic testing. The Court will not hold this request against you when deciding the case’s outcome.
You must do testing and submit the results before the Court establishes who the parents are (parentage) and issues final orders. After that time, it may be too late to submit genetic testing evidence. The law that directs this process is C.R.S. § 14-10-124(1.5).
So Summoned By: AnnePierson, Attorney for Petitioner Dated: March15, 2024
Legal Notice No. 418344
1. Family Case
You (the Respondent) are now a part of a court case to resolve a family legal matter. Along with this summons, you will get a document called a Petition. The Petition will let you know more about the case and what the Petitioner wants the Court to do.
2. Your Next Steps
You must file a written response to that Petition.
a) You may use form JDF 1015 – Response to the Petition.
b) Forms and resources are found online at [www. courts.state.co.us/Forms/family]
c) Your response is due within 21 days of receiving this summons.
Note! That deadline extends to 35 days when served outside of Colorado or if notified of the case by publication.
d) File online at: [www.jbits.courts.state.co.us/efiling]
Or file by mail or at the courthouse. (The Court’s address is in Box A above.)
e) Include the filing fee ($116).
Or request a fee waiver. (Use forms JDF 205 and JDF 206) Jefferson
3. Consequences
If you do not file a Response, the Court may decide the case without your input. You may not receive further notice about court filings and events. You are still required to obey any orders the Court issues.
4. Automatic Court Orders (Temporary Injunction)
As soon as you receive this Summons, you must obey these orders:
date: July 28, 1994. 3.1.7 Uses: Augmentation, fire protection, and irrigation of 8.5 acres within the Conifer High School site. 3.1.8 Maximum height of dam: 16 feet. 3.1.9 Length of dam: 250 feet. 3.1.10 Total capacity: 8.73 acre-feet. 3.1.11 Active capacity: 8.73 acre-feet. 3.1.12
Dead storage: 0 acre-feet. 3.2 Warrior Ditch/ Lobo Creek Reservoir Exchange: 3.2.1 Original decree: 94CW118 Decree. 3.2.2 Subsequent decrees awarding diligence: 01CW40 Decree; 08CW236 Decree; 17CW3120 Decree. 3.2.3
Exchange reach: Lobo Creek from the outlet of Lobo Creek Reservoir in the NE1/4SW1/4, Section 14, T6S, R71W of the 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado, to the natural point of confluence of Bear and Turkey Creeks in the N1/2NE1/4NW1/4 of Section 5, T5S, R69W of the 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado, as shown on the map attached as Exhibit A. 3.2.4 Source of substitute supply: 80% of the Bear Creek and Turkey Creek priorities associated with 2.25 shares of the Warrior Ditch Company, as follows: Priority no. in former 80% of School Water District No. 9 District’s share attributable to combined 2.25
Warrior Ditch shares (cfs)
4 0.1387
8 0.0322
14 0.2866
16 0.1293 TOTAL 0.5868
6th
Jefferson County, Colorado, as shown on the map attached as Exhibit A. The centerline of the dam intersects an unnamed tributary to North Turkey Creek (hereinafter “Lobo Creek”) at a point whence the SW corner of said Section 14 bears S 41° W 2,395 feet. 3.1.4 Source: Lobo Creek, tributary to North Turkey Creek. 3.1.5 Amount: 6.44 acre-feet, ABSOLUTE; and 2.29 acre-feet, CONDITIONAL. 3.1.6 Appropriation
3.2.4.1 Appropriation date: July 28, 1994. 3.2.4.2 Period of operation: April 1 through October 31. 3.2.4.3 Uses: Augmentation, municipal, and irrigation of not more than 8.5 acres within the Conifer High School site. 3.2.4.4 Amount: 0.5868 cfs CONDITIONAL, not to exceed 24.04 acre-feet per year. 3.3 West Jefferson Reservoir/Lobo Creek Reservoir Exchange: 3.3.1 Original decree: 94CW118 Decree. 3.3.2 Subsequent decrees awarding diligence: 01CW40 Decree; 08CW236 Decree; 17CW3120 Decree. 3.3.3 Exchange reach: Between a point on an unnamed tributary to North Turkey Creek at its intersection with the dam of West Jefferson Reservoir, as described below, and the outlet of Lobo Creek Reservoir, as described in paragraph 3.3 above, as shown on the map attached as Exhibit A. The location of the spillway of West Jefferson Reservoir is located as follows: the west abutment of the spillway bears S 77°00’ W 718 feet from the north ¼ corner of Section 14, T6S, R71W of the 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado. 3.3.4 Sources of substitute supply: 3.3.4.1 West Jefferson Reservoir, as described in paragraph 8.E of the 94CW118 Decree; 3.3.4.2 Lobo Creek Reservoir, as described in paragraph 3.1 above; 3.3.4.3 Warrior Ditch/West Jefferson Reservoir Practice of Exchange, as described in paragraph 8.J of the 94CW118 Decree; 3.3.4.4 Enlargement of Warrior Ditch/ West Jefferson Reservoir Practice of Exchange, as described in paragraph 28.A of the 94CW118 Decree and paragraph 10.B of the 08CW236 Decree; and 3.3.4.5 Warrior Ditch/Lobo Creek Reservoir Exchange, as described in paragraph 3.2 above. 3.3.5 Amount: 0.50 cfs ABSOLUTE and 1.5 cfs CONDITIONAL, not to exceed 29.21 acre-feet per year. 3.3.6 Appropriation date: July 28, 1994. 3.3.7 Period of operation: January 1 through December 31. 3.3.8 Uses: Augmentation, municipal, and irrigation of not more than 15.5 acres, of which not more than 8.5 acres will be within the Conifer High School site, not more than 6.0 acres will be within the West Jefferson Middle School site, and not more than 1.0 acre will be within the West Jefferson Elementary School site. 3.4 Additional comments: Consistent with its stipulation with the South Evergreen Water District in Case No. 08CW236, the School District acknowledges that its interest in Priority No. 8 of the Warrior Ditch has not historically placed a call on Turkey Creek, and that no such call was administered or deemed necessary in the operation of the School District’s Warrior Ditch/West Jefferson exchange as described in paragraphs 3.3.4.3 and 3.3.4.4 above. 4. Detailed outline of what has been done toward completion of the appropriations and application of water to beneficial use as conditionally decreed, including expenditures: The conditional portions of the water rights described in para-
graph 3 above (“Conditional Water Rights”) are part of the School District’s integrated system for supplying water to Conifer High School, West Jefferson Middle School, West Jefferson Elementary School, Marshdale Elementary School, and the Marshdale Transportation Terminal (collectively, the “Mountain Schools”). “When a project or integrated system is comprised of several features, work on one feature of the project or system shall be considered in finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of the water rights for all features of the entire project or system.” C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4) (b). The diligence period for the Conditional Water Rights is March 2018 through March 2024 (“Diligence Period”). During the Diligence Period, the School District worked diligently to develop the Conditional Water Rights, complete the appropriations, and place water to beneficial use, as demonstrated by the following activities and expenditures: 4.1 In 2023, the School District replaced the West Jefferson Gallery No. 1, a/k/a the Shadow Mountain Gallery, at a cost of $189,285; and replaced the gallery’s failed pump at an additional cost of approximately $11,688. The gallery is an exchange-to structure within the Warrior Ditch/West Jefferson Reservoir Practice of Exchange and the Enlargement of Warrior Ditch/West Jefferson Reservoir Practice of exchange that are sources of substitute supply for the West Jefferson Reservoir/Lobo Creek Reservoir Exchange described in paragraph 3.3 above; and is the primary source of physical supply for the integrated system that serves the Mountain Schools. 4.2 In 2021 and 2022, the School District replaced Marshdale Elementary. The School District spent approximately $490,000 on water system, sanitary, and stormwater infrastructure improvements for the replacement school. Of that amount, approximately $326,000 was attributable to water system and sanitary system improvements. 4.3 In 2021 and 2022, the School District spent approximately $264,000 to install new Lobo Creek Reservoir measurement infrastructure, comprising a flume, a level, and flow transducers; and installed an ultrasonic algae control device in the reservoir, at a cost of approximately $4,600, to improve water quality. 4.4 In 2021, the School District replaced failing and obsolete equipment in the water tank pump house at West Jefferson Elementary School at a cost of approximately $10,414; and in 2023, the School District replaced the lift station pump at the elementary school at a cost of approximately $14,150. 4.5
Throughout the diligence period, the School District performed regulatory water sampling at the Conifer Water Treatment Plant, the Conifer Wastewater Treatment Plant, and Marshdale Elementary, at a cost of approximately $40,000. 4.6 In 2019, the School District replaced the water storage tank hatch at Marshdale Elementary School at a cost of approximately $9,685. 4.7 In 2023, the School District upgraded equipment at the Conifer Water Treatment Plant located at West Jefferson Reservoir, including replacing several pumps, at a cost of approximately $42,150. 4.8 From 2020 through 2023, the School District spent approximately $129,493 for supplies and licenses pertaining to water quality at the Conifer Water Treatment Plant located at West Jefferson Reservoir. 4.9 Throughout the diligence period, the School District operated the Conifer Wastewater Treatment plant and acquired necessary equipment, including operator safety equipment, for the plant at a cost of approximately $89,190. 4.10 The School District continued to operate the water supply system for the Mountain Schools under the augmentation plan approved in Case No. 94CW118. 4.11 The School District spent approximately $55,708 in legal fees for activities related to development and protection of its water rights and its integrated water supply system, including the Conditional Water Rights. Those activities included, without limitation, filing and prosecuting an application in this Court for findings of reasonable diligence for other water rights in the School District’s portfolio; monitoring the water court filings of other water users to protect the School District’s water rights; and participating in water court cases as an objector. 4.12 The School District spent approximately $110,187 in engineering consulting fees for activities related to development and protection of its water rights and its integrated water supply system, including the Conditional Water Rights. Those activities included, without limitation, work on the School District’s accounting under the 94CW118 decree; a comprehensive review and evaluation of the 94CW118 augmentation plan; a comprehensive review and evaluation of the School District’s accounting under the 94CW118 decree and comprehensive revisions to the accounting forms; and design and construction management for the School District’s Lobo Creek Reservoir measure-
ment infrastructure project described in paragraph 4.3 above. 5. Claims to make absolute: 5.1 Lobo Creek Reservoir: 5.1.1 Applicable statute: Section 37-92-301(4)(e), C.R.S., provides that “a decreed conditional water storage right shall be made absolute for all decreed purposes to the extent of the volume of the appropriation that has been captured, possessed, and controlled at the decreed storage structure.”
5.1.2 Dates water diverted and stored in priority: Water was stored in Lobo Creek Reservoir from in-priority diversions made on August 3, 2023, and from October 24, 2023 through October 31, 2023. 5.1.3 Amount diverted and stored in priority: 8.73 acre-feet. 5.1.4 Uses: All uses described in paragraph 3.1.7 above. 5.1.5 Evidence of in-priority diversion and beneficial use: A summary of the School District’s 2023 accounting for Lobo Creek Reservoir storage is given in Table 2 of the memorandum prepared by W. W. Wheeler & Associates, Inc., and attached as Exhibit B (“Wheeler Memo”). The Wheeler Memo documents in-priority storage by means of inpriority deliveries and a bookover in the School District’s accounting. 5.1.6 Amount claimed as absolute: 2.29 acre-feet over and above the 6.44 acre-feet previously confirmed as absolute, making the water right absolute in its entirety. 5.2
Warrior Ditch/Lobo Creek Reservoir Exchange: 5.2.1 Date water exchanged in priority and placed to beneficial use: June 3, 2022. 5.2.2 Rate exchanged in priority and placed to beneficial use: 0.3829 cfs. 5.2.3 Uses: Exchange to Lobo Creek Reservoir for the uses described in paragraph 3.2.4.3 above; and for use as a source of substitute supply in the West Jefferson Reservoir/Lobo Creek Reservoir Exchange described in paragraph 3.3.4 above, for storage in West Jefferson Reservoir. 5.2.4 Place of storage by exchange for subsequent beneficial use: Lobo Creek Reservoir and West Jefferson Reservoir. 5.2.5
Evidence of in-priority diversion and beneficial use: The Wheeler Memo attached as Exhibit B. 5.2.6 Rate claimed as absolute: 0.3829 cfs, with 0.2039 cfs remaining conditional. 6. Names and addresses of owners or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure, is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool: No new diversion or storage structure or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure will be constructed under this application. The School District owns the land upon which West Jefferson Reservoir and Lobo Creek Reservoir are located. Based on the foregoing, the School District requests that the Court enter a decree (i) granting this Application; (ii) finding that the School District has exercised reasonable diligence in developing and completing the appropriations of the Conditional Water Rights during the Diligence Period; (iii) confirming that Lobo Creek Reservoir has been made absolute in its entirety; (iv) confirming that the Warrior Ditch/Lobo Creek Reservoir Exchange has been made absolute in the amount given in paragraph 5.2.6 above; and (v) continuing in full force and effect for an additional diligence period any portion of the Conditional Water Rights not made absolute in this case.
THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of MAY 2024 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.
Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MARCH 2024 for each County affected. (This publication can be viewed in its entirety on the state court website at: www.courts.state. co.us)
2024CW3044 (17CW3137, 11CW44, 04CW243, 98CW234, 90CW32) DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION NO. 1, STATE OF COLORADO, Weld County Courthouse, 901 9th Avenue, P.O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, (970) 475-2507 CONCERNING THE APPLICATION FOR WATER RIGHTS OF: EDWARD G. HOGAN, WILLIAM J. HOGAN, AND JOANN SHARP IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO. APPLICATION TO MAKE ABSOLUTE AND FOR FINDINGS OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE. 1. Name, Address, and Telephone Number of Applicants: Edward G. Hogan, William J. Hogan, and JoAnn Sharp (collectively, the “Applicants”) c/o Chris Hogan, Authorized Representative 11919 State Highway 93, Boulder, Colorado 80303, (303) 472-8822 jhogansprint@earthlink.net; chogan@hoganaction.com The Applicants have trusts that hold a portion of the title to the subject water right, which include the Bill Hogan Living Trust, the JoAnn T. Sharp Living Trust, and the Christopher R. Bergquist Sr., Living Trust. Additionally, the ownership interest of Edward G. Hogan is now held by the Estate of Edward G. Hogan and John C. Hogan. The Hogan Family intends to execute additional deeds transferring ownership out of the Estate of Edward G. Hogan. Once such transfers are complete, the Applicants will file a Notice of Transfer of Conditional Water Rights, Direct All Pleadings to: Bushong & Holleman PC, Attn: Steve Bushong & Cassidy Woodard, 1525 Spruce Street, Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80302, sbushong@BH-lawyers.com; cwoodard@BHlawyers.com
2. Name of Structure: Hogan Reservoir. 3. Descriptions of Conditional Water Right: 3.1. Original Decree: The water right associated with Hogan Reservoir was originally decreed by the District Court in and for Water Division No. 1 (the “Water Court”) in Case No. 81CW74 on April 12, 1982, 3.2. Subsequent Decrees: Portions of the water right were made absolute or findings of reasonable diligence entered by the Water Court in Case Nos. 17CW3137, 11CW44, 04CW243, 98CW234, and 90CW32, 3.3. Decreed Location: Located in the NE1/4 of Section 5 and the NW1/4 of Section 4, Township 2 South, Range 70 West of the 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado. The outlet is a point South 35° 57’ 20” West 286.62 feet from the NE Corner of said Section 5, 3.4. Source: Natural runoff tributary to Coal Creek, 3.5. Appropriation Date: February 7, 1981, 3.6. Uses: irrigation, washing gravel, industrial, and augmentation, 3.7. Amount: 204 acre-feet total of which 150 acre-feet was made absolute for washing gravel and industrial purposes, leaving 54 acre-feet conditional for washing gravel and industrial purposes and 204 acre-feet conditional for irrigation and augmentation. 4. Request to Make Absolute: Hogan Reservoir has been made absolute for only some of the decreed uses. Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(e), “[a] decreed conditional water storage right shall be made absolute for all decreed purposes to the extent of the volume of the appropriation that has been captured, possessed, and controlled at the decreed storage structure.” Accordingly, Applicants request that the Hogan Reservoir water right be made absolute for the amount of 150 acre-feet for all decreed uses, including irrigation and augmentation. 5. Request for Finding of Reasonable Diligence: For all remaining amounts and uses of the conditional water right associated with Hogan Reservoir described in Paragraph 3 above that are not made absolute in this proceeding as requested in Paragraph 4 above, the Applicants request a finding that they have exercised reasonable diligence in the development of the remaining conditional water right decreed to Hogan Reservoir and that said conditional water right continues in full force and effect for its full decreed amount and for all decreed uses.
6. Diligence Activities: The Hogan Reservoir water right is part of an integrated system. As such, under C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4) (b), “[w]hen a project or integrated system is comprised of several features, work on one feature of the project or system shall be considered in finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of water rights
for all features of the entire project or system.”
During the diligence period, the Applicants have undertaken the following activities that demonstrate they have exercised reasonable diligence in the development of the remaining conditional water right associated with Hogan Reservoir: 6.1. Applicants continue to lease the property where Hogan Reservoir is located for the mining and extraction of aggregate materials. Such mining activities are actively creating the water storage facility known as Hogan Reservoir. Water diverted and stored in Hogan Reservoir has been used either directly by Applicants or by the lessee of the property for the aggregate mining, which is currently Arcosa Lightweight. The active mining operations continue to rely upon the water right subject to this case and other water rights for washing gravel and industrial uses. The lease of the property for aggregate mining was extended through 2047. Additionally, the water storage right subject to this case will be used to augment the depletions from the Hogan Reservoir in the future, 6.2. During the diligence period, Applicants expended considerable time and investment to conduct routine repairs and upgrades to Hogan Reservoir and the water facilities used for supply water for the mining and extraction of aggregate materials. This work was undertaken at a total expenditure of approximately $110,000 and included activities such as the following work performed at the quarry site: (1) installation of new wiring, a new water pump, water meters, and check valves; (2) the laying of new piping for water lines that provide for the flow of water; (3) the replacement of two fifteen horsepower water pumps at the well house; (4) conversion of start/stop water systems to wireless Bluetooth systems; (5) installation of a new pump for the quarry; and (6) related expenses for contractor services for various work related to the above, 6.3. Applicants are pursuing the development of a small subdivision on their ranch to construct five homes on five new parcels. In support of this effort, the Applicants had surveys conducted and developed preliminary mapping of the proposed new parcels. Applicants are also evaluating the various infrastructure improvements and water system necessary to support the proposed subdivision. Water decreed to Hogan Reservoir is one potential source for irrigation uses and augmentation of a pond within the small subdivision, 6.4. During the diligence period, Applicants filed an application in Water Court Case No. 23CW3096, regarding the Hogan Reservoir No. 2 and the Hogan Ditch No. 2. Both structures are located on property adjacent to Hogan Reservoir. Applicants conduct regular maintenance work to clean and maintain the Hogan Ditch No. 2 and Hogan Reservoir No. 2 structures. During the diligence period, Applicants rebuilt the inlet structure on Hogan Reservoir No. 2 and cleaned out the outlet ditch from Hogan Reservoir No. 2. The above diligence activities are necessary prerequisites to applying the subject water rights to the remaining conditional uses. 7. Land Ownership: Applicants and their family members. WHEREFORE, the Applicants respectfully requests that the court enter an order (1) granting their request to make Hogan Reservoir absolute for irrigation and augmentation uses in the amount of 150 acre-feet as described in Paragraph 4 above; (2) granting their request for a finding of reasonable diligence for the remaining conditional amounts and uses of the water right associated with Hogan Reservoir that are not made absolute herein as described in Paragraph 5 above and continuing said conditional water right in full force and effect; and (3) granting such other and further relief as deemed appropriate.
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THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of MAY 2024 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.
Notice No. 418353
Publication: April 18,
Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MARCH 2024 for each County affected. (This publication can be viewed in its entirety on the state court website at: www.courts.state.co.us)
2024CW3037 TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK,
Attn: Mark Marlowe, Director of Castle Rock Water, 175 Kellogg Court, Castle Rock, CO 80109, (720) 733-6000. Serve all pleadings on: Madoline Wallace-Gross, Anthony J. Basile, Lyons Gaddis, P.C., P.O. Box 978, Longmont, CO 80502-0978, (303)776-9900, mwg@lyonsgaddis.com; abasile@lyonsgaddis.com. APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF WATER RIGHTS AND CONDITIONAL APPROPRIATIVE RIGHT OF EXCHANGE IN JEFFERSON AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES. 2. Background. Applicant seeks entry of a decree changing the entire 5.0 c.f.s. decreed to the Meadow Ditch. Applicant owns 75% or 3.75 c.f.s. (“Applicant’s Interest”) and Ranchview Investments, LLC (“Ranchview”) owns 25% or 1.25 c.f.s. (“Ranchview’s Interest”) of the Meadow Ditch water right. Applicant has a contract interest in the Ranchview Interest. Applicant seeks a change in type of use, place of use and place of storage for all 5.0 c.f.s. The historical consumptive use of the Meadow Ditch water right was quantified and changed in prior cases. A map showing the general location of the Meadow Ditch and associated structures is attached as Exhibit A-1. Additionally, Applicant claims a conditional appropriative right of exchange to effectuate the use, reuse and successive use until extinction of the changed Meadow Ditch water right. 3. Description of Water Rights to be Changed. A. Meadow Ditch. i. Original Decree: Decree of December 10, 1883, District Court, Douglas County, for Water District No. 8. ii. Legal Description: The decreed point of diversion of the Meadow Ditch headgate is in the W 1/2 NE 1/4, Section 21, Township 7 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., in Douglas County, Colorado at a point 2,055 feet from the North section line and 2,380 feet from the East Section line. iii. Source: Indian Creek, tributary to South Platte River. iv. Rate: 5.0 c.f.s. v. Uses: Irrigation. vi. Appropriation Date: May 31, 1866. B. Previous Changes of the Meadow Ditch. i. Case No. 00CW231: In Case No. 00CW231, by a decreed dated July 1, 2003, the Meadow Ditch water right was first changed for specific uses in Valley Development Group, LLC’s (“Valley Development”) proposed residential development. Although Valley Development only sought a change of 0.77 c.f.s. of the Meadow Ditch water right, the Water Court approved a ditch-wide historical consumptive use (“HCU”) analysis and quantified the HCU of the entire 5.0 c.f.s. ii. Case No. 05CW30: In Case No. 05CW30, by a decree dated March 23, 2007, Roxborough Water and Sanitation District (Applicant’s predecessor-ininterest) changed 3.75 c.f.s. of the Meadow Ditch water right for Roxborough’s municipal uses, relying on the decree in Case No. 00CW321. The Water Court adopted the quantified HCU from the decree in Case No. 00CW321. Thus, the HCU for the 75% interest averages 80.25 acre-feet per year, up to a maximum of 159 acre-feet per year.
iii. Case No. 06CW294: In Case No. 06CW294, by a decree dated February 29, 2012, Ranchview changed 1.25 c.f.s. of the Meadow Ditch water right for Ranchview’s purposes. The Water Court adopted the quantified HCU from the decree in Case No. 00CW321. Thus, the HCU for the 25% interest averages 26.75 acre-feet per year, up to a maximum of 52.98 acre-feet per year. 4. Claim for Change of the Meadow Ditch Water Right. Applicant seeks to change Applicant’s 3.75 c.f.s. interest in the Meadow Ditch water right (80.25 acre-feet (average) annually and 159 acre-feet (maximum annual)) as well as Ranchview’s 1.25 c.f.s. interest (26.75 acre-feet (average) annually and 52.98 acre-feet (maximum annual)).
Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-92-305(3)(e) the Water Court may not requantify the HCU. Applicant’s
claimed changes to the Meadow Ditch water right are as follows: A. Types of Use: All municipal uses, industrial use, exchange, augmentation and replacement use, with the right to fully consume and to use, reuse, and successively use to extinction the Meadow Ditch water right and associated return flows from the water right. Applicant may continue to use Applicant’s Interest in the Meadow Ditch water right for irrigation of the historically irrigated acreage. B. Place of use: Use, reuse, and successive use to extinction on and for the benefit of lands within Applicant’s water service area boundaries, as such boundaries currently exist or may exist in the future, and outside such boundaries by contracts existing as of the filing of the Application and at locations where the Town has return flow and augmentation obligations. A map showing Applicant’s water service area is attached as Exhibit B. C. Additional Alternate Locations of Storage: Applicant will store the Meadow Ditch water right for subsequent beneficial use and reuse at the following locations. A map showing these locations of storage is attached as Exhibit A-2. i. Chatfield Reservoir – Chatfield Reservoir is an on-channel reservoir located on the mainstem of the South Platte River, at the confluence with Plum Creek, Massey Draw, and Deer Creek. The right abutment of the Chatfield Reservoir dam is located in Douglas County, Colorado, in Secs. 6 and 7, T.6.S., R.68.W. of the 6th P.M.; the left abutment of the dam is located in Jefferson County, Colorado, in Sec. 1, T.6.S., R.69.W. of the 6th P.M. ii. Castle Rock Reservoir No. 1 – Castle Rock Reservoir No. 1 is an off-channel reservoir located in the NE1/4, Sec. 15, T.7.S., R.68.W. of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, at a point 1607 feet from the north section line and 2340 feet from the east section line. The reservoir is filled from Plum Creek through the Plum Creek Diversion, as described in ¶ 5.A.ii.1. iii. Castle Rock Reservoir No. 2 – Castle Rock Reservoir No. 2 is an offchannel reservoir located in the E1/2, Sec. 15, T.7.S., R.68.W. of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, at a point 1830 feet from the north section line and 790 feet from the east section line. The reservoir is filled from Plum Creek through the Plum Creek Diversion, as described in ¶ 5.A.ii.2. iv. Reuter-Hess Reservoir – Reuter-Hess Reservoir is an on-channel reservoir located on Newlin Gulch, tributary of Cherry Creek. The axis of the dam intersects the thread of Newlin Gulch at a point on the south line of Sec. 30, T.6.S., R.66.W. of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, which point is approximately 2,400 feet east of the southwest corner of said Sec. 30. v. Plum Creek Reservoir – Plum Creek Reservoir is an off-channel reservoir located in the N1/2, SW1/4, the SE1/4, SW1/4, and the W1/2, W1/2, SE1/4, Sec. 20, T.7.S., R.67.W., of the 6th P.M., Douglas County. The reservoir will be filled from East Plum Creek through the Castle Pines Diversion Point S-1, as described in ¶ 5.A.ii.2.; and the Castle Pines Diversion Point S-2, as described in ¶ 5.A.ii.3. vi. Lambert Reservoir No. 3 – Lambert Reservoir is located in the SW 1/4 NE 1/4 of Section 21, Township 7 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M., in Douglas County, at a point 2,300 feet from the North and 2,400 feet from the East Section lines. vii. Remark on Operation to Storage: Applicant will divert and measure the Meadow Ditch water right at the Meadow Ditch headgate described in ¶ 3.A.ii. Applicant may then: 1) measure and return the Meadow Ditch water right to Indian Creek for carriage downstream for rediversion and storage or exchange for rediversion and storage for changed purposes; or 2) convey the Meadow Ditch water right in the ditch (or piped ditch) to Castle Rock Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2 described in ¶¶ 4.C.ii. – iii for ¶ 4.A. for storage for changed purposes. D. Means of Delivering Historic Return Flow Obligations: The decrees in Case
point 1725 feet from the south section line and 751 feet from the east section line. The UTM coordinates are NAD 83, Zone 13, Easting 501483, Northing 4365550. 3. Confluence of Indian Creek and Plum Creek: Located in the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 4, Township 7 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado. 4. Outfall of Plum Creek Water Reclamation Authority (“PCWRA”): Located in the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 Section 21, Township 7 South, Range 67 West, 6th P.M., 984 feet from the south section line and 227 feet from the west section line. The UTM coordinates are NAD 83, Zone 13, Easting 508125, Northing 4363729. ii. Upstream Termini – Exchange-to Points. 1. Plum Creek Diversion: Located in the SE1/4, Sec. 15, T.7.S., R.68.W. of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, at a point 1660 feet from the south section line and 725 feet from the east section line. 2. Castle Pines Diversion Point S-1: Located in SE 1/4 SW 1/4 Sec. 21, T.7.S., R.67.W of the 6th P.M., at a point 20 feet from the south section line and 1,530 feet from the west section line. 3.
Castle Pines Diversion Point S-2: Located in the NE 1/4 SW 1/4 Sec. 20, T.7.S., R.67.W. of the 6th P.M., at a point 2,540 feet from the south section line and 2,590 feet from the west section line. 4. Castle Rock Surface Diversion No. 1: Located in the SE1/4 NW1/4, Sec. 2, T.8.S., R.67.W., of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, at a point 2,205 feet from the north section line and 1,550 feet from the west section line. 5. Castle Rock Surface Diversion No. 2: Located in the SW 1/4 SW 1/4 Sec. 21, T.7.S., R. 67.W. of the 6th P.M., at a point 791 feet from the south section line and 45 feet from the west section line. 6. Castle Rock Surface Diversion No. 3: Located in the NW 1/4 SE 1/4 Sec. 20, T.7.S., R.67.W. of the 6th P.M., at a point 1,602 feet from the south section line and 1,678 feet from the east section line. iii. Sources of Substitute Supply. HCU from the Meadow Ditch water right. iv. Rate of Exchange: 1. For exchanges from Chatfield Reservoir or the Outlet of Castle Rock Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2: 15 c.f.s., conditional. 2. For exchanges from the confluence of Indian Creek and Plum Creek: 2.46 c.f.s., conditional. 3. For exchanges from the outfall of PCWRA: 3.0 c.f.s., conditional. v. Date of Initiation of Appropriation: March 27, 2024. vi. How Appropriation was Initiated: Applicant initiated this appropriation by: acquiring the Applicant’s Interest in the Meadow Ditch water right; obtaining a contract interest in and the right to change the Ranchview Interest; conducting engineering studies to support the change of water right claimed herein and the appropriation of a new conditional exchange; passing a director’s resolution evidencing the appropriation; and approving and filing this Application. vii. Date Applied to Beneficial Use: Not applicable. viii. Proposed Uses: See ¶ 4.A. ix. Proposed Place of Use: See ¶ 4.B. 6. Owners of land upon which structures are or will be located. Name and address of owner of land upon which any new diversion structure or storage structure, or modification to an existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed, or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool. A. The Meadow Ditch headgate is located on land owned by Lambert Ranch Association, Inc. c/o Advance HOA Management Inc. PO Box 370390, Denver, CO 80237. B. Castle Rock Surface Diversion No. 1 and Plum Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall are located on land owned by Applicant. C. Plum Creek Reservoir is
CO 80237. WHEREFORE, Applicant respectfully requests the Court to enter a decree granting all claims in this Application, including approving the change of the Meadow Ditch water right, and confirming Applicant’s appropriation of the conditional appropriative right of exchange. Number of page in application: 10, excluding exhibits.
THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of MAY 2024 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.
Legal Notice No.418354
First Publication: April 18, 2024
Last Publication: April 18, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript
Public Notice
DISTRICT
Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MARCH 2024 for each County affected. (This publication can be viewed in its entirety on the state court website at: www.courts.state. co.us)
2024CW3031 (17CW3124)
ELK CREEK ESTATES, LLC, c/o Greg E. Podd, Manager, 4942 Snowberry Lane, Evergreen, Colorado 80439; Email: gregpodd@gmail.com; Telephone Number: (303) 330-0096.Please direct all correspondence concerning this Application to: Aaron Ladd, Esq. and Robyn L. Smith, Esq., Vranesh and Raisch, LLP, 5303 Spine Road, Suite 202, Boulder, CO 80301; Email: asl@vrlaw.com; rls@vrlaw.com; Telephone: (303) 443-6151. APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE OR TO MAKE ABSOLUTE A CONDITIONAL STORAGE RIGHT IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. 2. Name of Reservoir: Elk Creek Estates Pond. 3. Description of conditional water right: a. Original Decree: The conditional storage right for Elk Creek Estates Pond was decreed in Case No. 17CW3124 on March 8, 2018. Case No. 17CW3124 additionally decreed a plan for augmentation, the Elk Creek Estates Exchange, and the Elk Creek Estates Plan of Substitution to replace evaporative depletions from the Elk Creek Estates Pond. b. Legal Description of Reservoir and Point of Diversion: The center of the dam embankment is located in the NE1/4 SW1/4 of Section 5, Township 7 South, Range 71 West, 6th P.M., Jefferson County, at a point that is approximately 1,715 feet from the South section line and 1,650 feet from the West section line of said Section 5. Elk Creek Estates Pond is an on-stream reservoir. A map of the reservoir location is attached as Exhibit A. c. Source of Water: The source of water for the Elk Creek Estates Pond is an unnamed tributary of Elk Creek. d. Date of Appropriation: August 30, 2017. e. Amount Claimed: 1.0 acre foot. f. Uses: Water stored in the Elk Creek Estates Pond is decreed for augmentation, replacement, exchange, recreation, piscatorial, wildlife propagation and fire protection purposes. g. Surface area of High Water Line: Maximum surface
a detailed outline of what has been done toward completion or for completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally decreed, including expenditures, during the previous diligence period: a. During the diligence period, Applicant constructed the Elk Creek Estates Pond at a cost of more than $9,000 and operated it pursuant to its decreed uses. Applicant continued work on its subdivi-
sion development, including but not limited to installing fence around Elk Creek Estates Pond and constructing a storage unit to house a tractor and supplies. Applicant also expanded its water rights associated with the development served by Elk Creek Estates Pond, through the purchase of additional shares of Mountain Mutal Reservoir Company and adjudication of a supplemental augmentation plan in Case No. 20CW3144. The 20CW3144 augmentation plan includes the Elk Creek Estates Pond as an alternate replacement supply. Applicant can make direct releases from Elk Creek Estates Pond to meet its augmentation requirements. Applicant incurred costs exceeding $1,700 and attorneys’ fees of nearly $11,000 related to the adjudication of Case No. 20CW3144 and preparation of this Application. 5. If claim to make absolute in whole or in part: a. Date water applied to beneficial use: The construction of Elk Creek Estates Pond was completed on September 13, 2020. b. Amount: 1.0 acre-foot, absolute. c. Use: Storage for the beneficial uses set forth above. d. Supporting evidence that applicant diverted water in-priority and applied such water to the beneficial uses claimed in the amounts claimed: Construction of Elk Creek Estates Pond began on or before July 27, 2019, and was completed on or approximately September 13, 2020. The pond had the ability to store water prior to completion of construction. During the construction period, ten free river days on April 17, 2020, through April 26, 2020, were sufficient to fill the pond in priority. 6. Names and address of owners or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool: Applicant. 7. Remarks: Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4) (e), a decreed conditional storage right shall be made absolute for all decreed purposes to the extent of the volume of the appropriation that has been captured, possessed, and controlled at the decreed storage structure. Applicant reserves the right to provide additional detail and evidence as may be necessary to support its claims in this matter. WHEREFORE, the Applicant requests that this Application be granted as requested herein, and for such other and further relief as the court deems appropriate under the circumstances. To the extent not made absolute in full, Applicant requests any remaining amount be continued as conditional. (6 pgs., 1 Exhibit)
THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY
ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of MAY 2024 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.
2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Andrew Sheldon, Personal Representative 10411 West Frost Place Littleton, Colorado 80127
Legal Notice No. 418315
First Publication: April 4, 2024
Last Publication: April 18, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of Charlene
Michael D. Holt, Personal Representative 2201 Depew Street Edgewater, CO 80214
Legal Notice No. 418358 First Publication: April 18, 2024 Last Publication: May 2, 2024
or the claims may be forever barred.
Caroline Quinn, Personal Representative c/o Douglas A. Turner, P.C. 602 Park Point Drive, Suite 240 Golden, CO 80401
Legal Notice No. 418298
First Publication: April 4, 2024
Last Publication: April 18, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before August 19, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Rosemary Taylor Personal Representative 5742 High St Frederick, CO 80504
Legal Notice No. GT3000
First Publication: April 18, 2024
Last Publication: May 2, 2024
Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice
***** IMPORTANT NOTICE*****
Any interested person wishing to object to the requested action set forth in the motion/petition and proposed order must file a written objection with the court on or before the hearing and must furnish a copy of the objection to the person requesting the court order. JDF 722 (Objection form) is available on the Colorado Judicial Branch website (www.courts.state.co.us). If no objection is filed, the court may take action on the motion/ petition without further notice or hearing. If any objection is filed, the objecting party must, within 14 days after filing the objection, contact the court to set the objection for an appearance hearing. Failure to timely set the objection for an appearance hearing as required will result in further action as the court deems appropriate.
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