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VOLUME 58 | ISSUE 15
Building bridges at City Hall
SPECIAL REPORT
New and outgoing Westminster councilors call for cooperation BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Colorado Center for the Blind in Littleton.
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They came seeking confidence; they left traumatized Sexual abuses were kept quiet for decades at the world-renowned Colorado Center for the Blind, former students and employees allege BY DAVID GILBERT DAVID@COLORADOSUN.COM
More than a dozen previously unreported instances of sexual misconduct and abuse spanning at least two decades at the Colorado Center for the Blind in Littleton have surfaced during an internal
investigation of the school’s parent organization. Among the offenses were the alleged sexual assault of a 13-yearold girl by a summer youth camp counselor in 2001, of which police have no record; a teacher accused SEE BLIND, P6
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As the new group of Westminster City Councilors prepared to be sworn in Nov. 8, the theme among speakers became finding common ground on the City Council dais. Nov. 8 marked the last meeting for outgoing Westminster’s Mayor Anita Seitz and former city councilors Kathryn Skulley and Jon Voelz. Bryan Head from Westminster’s Chamber of Commerce thanked the council for their service and shared gratitude for the work he and the former mayor complimented each other. “We belong to different political parties and often see issues from widely different angles, and as a few of her colleagues on council can probably attest, it can be exasperating being Anita’s conservative friend. She doesn’t take her talking points from anybody; her positions are principled, carefully researched and well thought out, and respectfully articulated, even when she is wrong,” he said. “It’s been an absolute honor finding common ground.” Head also detailed how Seitz was one of the first supporters of the Chamber and the projects they completed together. One such SEE CITY HALL, P2
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New Faces On Westminster City Council BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
On Nov. 2nd 2021, Westminster citizens voted in three new city councillors, and a familiar face as mayor. New members talk about goals, past experience, and how they hope to change Westminster.
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think about registered voters who chose to not cast a ballot. They have lost faith in government,” he said.
project included forming a coalition with other city council members to raise awareness about sexual assault in the Westminster community. “I would like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of Mayor Seitz, Councilwoman Skulley, and Councilman Voelz. They have given the city much hard work,” said resident Don Fiddes, offering his support for Seitz and some advice for incoming councilors. “Politely ignore those who voted for you, especially those who have contributed to your campaign,” Fiddes said. “The former thinks you can do no wrong, and the latter may expect political compensation. If you buy into either, we’re all in trouble. Second, politely ignore those who didn’t vote for you. They do not hold you in high regard and they doubt your abilities. Three, every day and as often as possible,
Impact “Being elected to the Westminster City Council has been the greatest privilege of my life, and I am very grateful,” former Councilwoman Kathryn Skulley said. “I had a voice and I had the opportunity to change things, and make an impact, and I thank you for that.” “It’s been my great honor to be your city councillor,” former city Councillor Jon Voelz said. “I think we had a lot of great accomplishments.” Voelz noted that he was Westminster’s first openly gay city councillor, and although the city has been welcoming, there were some `bad things’ surrounding his identity that came through. Nonetheless, he wished the next council a successful term. “Your success is a success for the city and I want to wish you all the very best,” he said.
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“Our rule in our house was that you were going to try it for a year, if you don’t like it you don’t have to continue, but you’re going to try it for a year. Just trying to expose (her children) to a little bit of everything,” she said. Following that rule herself led her to getting involved in her children’s schools. The school offered free
music lessons, but the music teacher warned the parents that the program was facing budget cuts. McNally showed up for her first school board meeting at Lakewood High School, with those cuts on the agenda.
Former Mayor Anita Seitz gave thanks. “I don’t have a lot of patience for the pervasive cynicism of elected leaders. The elected leaders I’ve met, whether this council, previous council, or regionally elected, are talented individuals who are consistently putting themselves out there, putting themselves in the area, making themselves vulnerable to criticism, scorn and attack because they believe in working on something bigger than themselves,” she said. “I will forever be impressed and grateful for the world-class employees of the city of Westminster.” The meeting adjourned and the swearing-in of new members took place. Sarah Nurmela, Obi Ezeadi, Bruce Baker, and David DeMott were all sworn in as Westminster’s new city councilors. Nancy McNally was sworn in as mayor, and David DeMott as mayor pro tem.
“This election was a testament to citizens saying we no longer want division, we want unity.” Mayor McNally detailed how she wants to see the council come together and discuss the various different points of view that were elected. “We listen to you, we will hear you, but then we have to make the decision for the overall good of this community,” Mayor McNally told the community members. “If this council never has a disagreement, we’re not going to make good decisions.” As well, she voiced a call to action for the citizens to stay involved with their community and talk to their neighbors. “Do you know the neighbors five doors to the left, five doors to the right, and five doors on the other side of the street? Or if you’re in an apartment building, wherever you’re at, do you talk to those people? You are as much in charge of (the) community, seven people can’t do it, we need everyone,” Mayor McNally said.
Theme of unity “We need to hang out in our city again,” Councilman Ezeadi said.
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Northglenn Rededicates Veteran’s Memorial BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The newly remodeled Northglenn Veterans Memorial Plaza draws a sizable crowd for PHOTOS BY STEFAN BRODSKY the city’s formal Veterans Day observance on Nov. 11.
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Mayor Meredith Leighty is no stranger to the Veteran community. Her two grandfathers served in World War II, and both her father and brother are Marines. During the rededication ceremony at Northglenn’s Veterans Memorial, Leighty, who is also an elementary school principal, stressed the importance of educating young people on the importance of Veteran’s Day. “It’s very important that we educate our youth on the importance of Veteran’s Day,” she said. The original sculpture by artist Hai Ying Wu was dedicated in 2003, when it was first constructed. Since then, additions to the memorial have been added, and the area around the sculpture has changed as well. Despite the changes, protecting the memorial remained a high priority. “Every other element on the site from the buildings to the roadways to the underground utilities, all either moved during phase one or will move during the future phases of construction as we work to reimagine this specific campus. Throughout that construction, the memorial was protected right in its location,” said Northglenn Parks Recreation and culture director Amanda Peterson. The sculpture portrays veterans from each military conflict the United States has been in up until 2003. To honor conflicts since then, pedestals surround the memorial, each depicting the emblem of each branch of the military. The Space Force will be coming soon. The plaza also has personalized bricks that offer appreciation for veterans, and new bricks have been added honoring residents of Northglenn. The patina was also recently refreshed. With trees separating the plaza
Northglenn Mayor Meredith Leighty speaks during Veterans Day ceremonies at the Northglenn Veterans Memorial Plaza Nov. 11.
from the rest of the campus, the space is intended to be a quiet place for people to gather. The memorial is lit throughout the night, so residents are invited to visit at any time of the day. “This entire campus is intended to be a lively community gathering space, but we wanted to maintain the Veterans Memorial as a place for reflection,” Peterson said. Coming home Gabriel Lopez, the Post Commander for American Legion Post 22, gave gratitude for this space. “Having this here is an awesome feeling especially after coming back from multiple deployments,” he said. Lopez served eight years in the United States Army as a staff sergeant. He is a combat veteran of Iraq and a two-tour combat veteran of Afghanistan. “This is the proudest day of my life, to be facing towards you ladies and gentlemen,” he said. After the speakers finished, there was a gun salute to veterans while Taps was played on the trumpet.
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Uplands passes first test after two-days of testimony Planning Commission forwards the 233-acre plan to the City Council BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
After two long nights of dialogue between Westminster’s Planning Commission, Oread Capital, and public testimony, the Uplands housing development passed the planning commission unanimously, sending the project to the City Council for final approval. The vote is advisory, meaning the planning commission is simply recommending action by the City Council based on the city’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan and the project’s proposed development plans. Westminster City Council will have the final say at their meeting on Dec. 13. Residents had plenty to say about the project at the Nov. 9 and 10 meetings, voicing concerns about water usage, congestion, lack of open space and climate change. Others praised the project as part of the effort to solve issues such as affordable housing and to fuel the local economy. About 33 people testified in person, most arguing for the project. However, nearly half that number said they did not live in the Westminster area and many came from
affordable housing nonprofits in Denver. Some were University of Denver students. Another 25 people recorded voicemails against the proposal and 13 were for it. Another 148 pages of written testimony were also submitted, which were not read at the public hearing. Many pages included negative responses to the proposal. Public Comment Westminster historian Linda Graybeal said the proposed area, which currently stands as a local farm, has always been slated for development. “Most of this area has always been designated for development, since 1880,” she said. Zeke Williams, a young professional from Westminster speaking via a voicemail, said he was approached by the Uplands Community Outreach team, to which they discussed the project with him, and talked about positive themes such as equity, affordable housing and economic prosperity Susan Daggett, the Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute at the University of Denver, had good things to say about the project in her written testimony. “This semester, I am teaching a seminar on Sustainable Cities and am using the Uplands as a case study to consider the costs and tradeoffs associated with sustainability in the context of new development,” she said.
Daggett said she learned about the project after a reporter asked her to speak on the development. The reporter sent her documents and she began looking through the proposal. After she was quoted in the article, Oread principal Jeff Handlin contacted her and gave her more information about the development. Handlin also serves as an adjunct instructor at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. Five parcels Developers Oread Capital have been researching the project for five years, although it was made public in the spring of 2019 at their first public meeting. The planned housing development would sit on 233 acres of land that is currently a community farm. If approved, the project would be separated into five different parcels, according to the Uplands project description. Parcel A, at over 150 acres, would be enclosed by Federal Boulevard, Lowell Boulevard, West 88 Ave., and West 84 Ave. This area would contain 1,531 units, at least 30,000 square feet of office space, and 21 acres of land dedicated to the City of Westminster to partially contribute to the Public Land Dedication, required by the city in efforts to maintain open space. Parcel B would be 30 acres and is between Lowell Boulevard and West 84th Avenue. This area would have 82 paired homes and 26 de-
tached homes. 3.28 acres of land in this section would be dedicated to the City of Westminster. Parcel C, 30 acres, would be south of West 88th Avenue and east of Federal Boulevard. It would contain 617 multi-family dwelling units. 16 of the acres would be a mixture of both commercial and residential designation. 11,000 square feet of office space is proposed along Federal Boulevard, and the eastern 14 acres would be for multi-family units and a 3 acre park, dedicated to the City of Westminster. Parcel D stands south of West 84th Avenue and east of Federal Boulevard with 22 acres. 19.6 would contain 94 dwelling units in a mix between detached and attached homes. 3.07 acres would be dedicated to the City. 4.24 acres has been proposed to also be dedicated to the city. Parcel E would be a private park of 1.23 acres. The project would include 2,350 dwelling units aimed at middleincome renters and first-time buyers. Oread representatives said the project would add 3,200 permanent jobs, $70 million in fees to Westminster and $2.9 million in annual tax revenue, more efficient transportation options including new roads with bike lanes, and the units within the development would use 30 percent less water than the average Westminster home.
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of sexually harassing students in 2019 who was hired despite school leadership allegedly knowing he had faced accusations of unwanted sexual contact at another school; and a teacher who admitted he engaged in a sexual relationship with a 19-year-old student in violation of school policy. The allegations were made public in a report released in June by a special committee investigating misconduct claims in the National Federation of the Blind, the school’s parent organization. The investigative findings bolstered the accounts of eight people associated with the center who told Colorado Community Media that leadership at the world-renowned school covered up sexual offenses for years or simply ignored them. “I thought if the leaders knew, they would do something,” said Stacy Cervenka, a former counselor at a youth summer camp operated by the Colorado Center for the Blind who told her supervisor in 2001 that she had walked in on a fellow counselor sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. The counselor was fired, but Cervenka said no one at the school reported the assault to police, raising questions about whether the school complied with a Colorado law requiring teachers and school officials to report the abuse of children. School officials say they called police in Glendale, where the alleged assault occurred, and that an officer came to the apartment complex where students were staying to investigate. Glendale police, however, say they have no record they were contacted. Cervenka said she and others who were aware of the assault were not interviewed by police. The National Federation of the Blind, or NFB, an advocacy group for blind and low-vision people, launched the probe at the end of 2020, after former students and their supporters published an open letter calling for reform. The letter said misconduct within the organization and its training centers in Colorado, Louisiana and Minnesota had been hushed up by leaders and allowed to fester for decades. Former students and others as-
In a 2017 file photo, Colorado Center for the Blind director Julie Deden demonstrates PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT how blind people study models of nearby transit stations.
sociated with the Colorado center say the school’s leadership, including longtime director Julie Deden, pressured them to keep quiet about incidents of misconduct. Deden has declined to respond to any specific allegations. None of the accusations are being criminally investigated, according to Littleton police and the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Littleton police spokesman Trent Cooper said investigators are unaware of any sexual misconduct complaints at the school. At least two instances of sexual misconduct discussed in this story involve accusers who decided not to report them to police as crimes, citing the emotional toll of pursuing charges against the men they say were responsible. ‘Don’t call it rape’ Complaints about sexual misconduct — and failures to confront it head on — are startlingly common at NFB training centers and conventions, said Cervenka, who held leadership roles in the national organization before leaving in 2018. “As long as I was in NFB, I heard stories from friends about sexual misconduct they experienced,” Cervenka said. “I’ve had a few incidents myself that were mishandled. I thought if the leaders knew, they would do something. That if people knew who was molesting and raping members (of NFB), they would be gone.” Maria Salazar, 25, told Colorado Community Media she was drugged and raped one year ago by a roommate in an off-campus apartment — then counseled to keep quiet about it by a Colorado Center for the Blind administrative assistant. “Don’t call it rape,” Salazar says
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she was told by a center employee who had personal ties to the roommate, who wasn’t charged. “He didn’t rape you. Don’t say that or you’ll ruin his life.” Salazar said she went to a hospital where evidence was collected during a sexual assault forensic exam. But after talking with a crisis counselor, she decided not to pursue charges. She feared she wouldn’t be believed and it didn’t help that the school administration didn’t back her, she said. The woman she accused of trying to cover up the assault remains employed by the school. She did not return a request for comment. School leadership declined to directly address Salazar’s rape allegation. She said the assault took place in a school-owned apartment in Littleton where Salazar and her
roommate were permitted to stay after both had completed their training programs. Located in a former YMCA on a bluff above downtown Littleton, the Colorado Center for the Blind, or CCB, draws people from around the world who are blind or losing their sight. Students learn vocational and life skills including cooking, martial arts, woodworking and how to navigate big cities. Outings take students rock climbing and whitewater rafting. The nonprofit center is funded by foundation grants and donations, and from tuition paid by students, largely covered by federal vocational rehabilitation dollars. CCB opened in 1988 and serves roughly 60 students a year in a one-year adult independence training program, its primary offering. Other programs include summer sessions for middle and high school students and a program for the elderly. Salazar and other former CCB students who spoke to Colorado Community Media say they left the center traumatized by the abuse they suffered and by what they call dismissive and retaliatory responses by the center’s leaders when they made reports. “They said they were all about community,” Salazar said of CCB. “They said they were here to lift us up and support us, but they were ready to let me be homeless if I was going to make CCB look bad.” ‘People may figure out who you are’ NFB is important in the lives of blind people, Cervenka said, and that has left many accusers reluctant to go public with allegations of mistreatment. “The blind community is very small,” she explained. “People depend on NFB for services, advocacy and community. When people involved fear retaliation for speaking out, they may fear losing access to housing, to adaptive technology and more. Even if you try to speak anonymously, people may figure out who you are.” Allegations of sexual misconduct in NFB began to surface publicly in 2017, in the wake of the #MeToo movement that saw survivors publicize allegations of sexual abuse in many industries and organizations. In late 2020, Cervenka helped spearhead a movement that came to be known as #MarchingTogether. She collected dozens of stories from those who say they were abused in connection to NFB, including several at the Colorado Center for the Blind. The result was a letter sent to NFB’s board of directors and the National Blindness Professional Certification Board in December 2020 that was signed by roughly 500 current and former NFB members and their supporters, who called out the organization for tolerating sexual abuse and other misconduct. “We won’t tolerate sexual, physical or psychological abuse, or those who ignore, deny or perpetuate it,” the letter reads. The letter also called for an overhaul of the organization, including the removal of known abusers, mandatory anti-harassment training for all NFB staff, review and SEE BLIND, P7
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revision of internal policies, investigation of allegations of misconduct by a third-party investigator, and the creation of a survivor task force to issue further recommendations. On Dec. 16, Mark Riccobono, the NFB president, responded to the open letter with an apology, published on the organization’s website. “I am profoundly sorry that anyone has been harmed by experiences in our movement,” Riccobono’s letter reads. “I hurt for the survivors, and I deeply regret that I have made mistakes along the way.” Riccobono announced a series of steps NFB would take in response: a partnership with the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, or RAINN, to create anti-harassment training programs for NFB members and students; the creation of a survivor task force to issue recommendations on policies and oversight; a special committee of NFB leaders to oversee investigations; the hiring of Maryland law firm Kramon & Graham to conduct interviews with accusers; the hiring of attorney Tonya Baña as an external investigator to make recommendations regarding those accused of misconduct; and extending the reporting window for codeof-conduct complaints. On Christmas Eve, CCB published a letter endorsing Riccobono’s apology. “We will move heaven and Earth to see that the verifiable experiences we are reading and hearing about are used to build a safer and better program,” the letter reads. In an email to Colorado Community Media, Riccobono declined to address specific allegations, but wrote that he is committed to “transforming our movement in ways that allow all of us to heal from past trauma and move forward together.” “I have and always will continue to listen to and learn from the members of this movement, especially around these critical issues, and the courageous victims, survivors, and allies who have shared their stories publicly and with me personally in the past several months,” Riccobono wrote. Reports, arrests, reforms The interim report released in June details NFB’s initial findings, progress and recommendations as part of its ongoing review. NFB had nine complaints filed through its existing code of conduct complaint process before the scandal became public, the report found. Between December and June, though, an additional 60 complaints were filed, alleging 55 separate incidents across the country regarding the actions of 52 people, including eight accused of failing to respond adequately to sexual misconduct. Four of the complaints involve minors as victims. Many of the complaints involve the Louisiana Center for the Blind, which shares headquarters with NFB in Ruston, Louisiana. Michael Ausbun, a former employee of the Louisiana center, was charged in
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June with 18 counts of child molestation by an educator, according to reporting in the Gambit newspaper in New Orleans, where reporter Kaylee Pochee has documented the scandal for months. Of the 60 complaints received since Riccobono pledged reforms, three are from the Colorado Center for the Blind, involving three incidents. The Colorado reports include statements from six people who say they witnessed sexual misconduct or were victims. Outside of the code-of-conduct complaints, the report says, investigators conducted interviews with eight witnesses regarding 16 additional incidents at the school in Littleton. Though a final report is not expected until later this year, the interim report includes recommendations, such as mandatory information sharing between NFB training centers about abusers, and also extending the time limit to make complaints about codeof-conduct offenses to three years from one. The report also calls for mandatory anti-harassment training, and barring NFB members from holding leadership positions if they are found to have engaged in sexual misconduct. In response to the report, the American Council of the Blind, another advocacy group, in September passed a resolution urging the federal Rehabilitation Services Administration to stop sending students to NFB training centers that face allegations of sexual misconduct until the claims have been fully addressed. The resolution also urges the federal agency to establish codes of conduct for training centers and to ensure any misconduct claims are reported to the state rehabilitation councils that administer the federal funds. Schools that receive federal funding, such as for vocational training, are subject to Title IX, a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education, said Brett Sokolow, the President of the Association of Title IX Administrators. Sokolow said the allegations of sexual misconduct and improper responses from school officials against CCB could be grounds for a federal investigation into whether the school exhibited a pattern of neglect, a violation of Title IX.
If an investigation found coverups of sexual misconduct were part of a pattern, federal funding used by students to attend the school could be withheld, though Sokolow called such an outcome extremely unlikely. Investigations more often result in an effort by government officials to bring schools into compliance with the law, he said. Such an investigation would most likely be conducted by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. The agency is not currently investigating CCB, according to its database of pending investigations. Though the school has consistently declined to respond to specific allegations, often citing privacy concerns, CCB spokesman Dan Burke said sexual misconduct has been prohibited since the school was founded in 1988. “We absolutely do not discourage anyone from contacting the police, and in fact, we encourage students to do so,” he wrote. “Like the rest of society, the Colorado Center for the Blind is learning more about how to enhance our policies to be more trauma-informed and survivor-centered, as well as to create the safest and healthiest environment that promotes the prevention of sexual misconduct.” The center is working with the NFB and other entities on policy revisions and new response protocols, expected to be finished by the end of the year, he said. ‘A chilling effect’ The only person accused of sexual misconduct named in the interim report is Fred Schroeder, a longtime NFB member who held a variety of leadership roles over the years, mostly in Louisiana. Schroeder is accused of engaging in a 40-year pattern of abuse, including grooming and groping students, that was well known among NFB members, the report alleges. It is not clear whether Schroeder’s conduct was ever reported to police, but NFB leaders were made aware of Schroeder’s misconduct “by 2002 at the latest,” the report found, with former NFB president Marc Maurer accused of ignoring or covering up the allegations. Maurer did not respond to requests for comment.
In a 2017 file photo, Colorado Center for the Blind spokesman Dan Burke stands behind a model of the Englewood light PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT rail station.
When Riccobono took the helm of NFB in 2014, he asked Schroeder to step down as vice president of the NFB board in response to internal misconduct allegations, according to the report, though Riccobono made no public statement regarding why the change was made. Schroeder remained president of the board of the National Blindness Professional Certification Board, an arm of NFB, and later, with NFB’s backing, became president of the World Blind Union. Schroeder’s reputation as an abuser permeated NFB, according to the report. When he was announced at the last minute as a replacement for another speaker at the organization’s national convention in 2019, “dozens of people stood and left the room,” the report said, characterizing the episode as a galvanizing moment in the awakening around sexual misconduct in NFB. Schroeder did not respond to requests for comment from The Sun. Baña, the independent investigator hired by NFB, recommended Schroeder be suspended from membership in the organization for five years, and only be allowed to reapply if he “has complied with several conditions,” though the report does not specify the conditions. To some in the blind community, the punishment seemed small relative to the decades of allegations against Schroeder. “It is inconceivable to me why permanent expulsion would not be a more appropriate consequence,” Ryan Osentowski, a former CCB counselor, wrote in a blog post. “I can’t help but think that this will only have a chilling effect on the complaint process going forward.” Expulsions and suspensions One Colorado Center for the Blind counselor, Rex Schuttler, was permanently expelled from NFB membership in March, according to a report. Schuttler previously worked as an instructor at the Louisiana Center for the Blind, according to the SEE BLIND, P8
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report, where students reported he groped and sexually harassed them. Staff there notified CCB about the allegations when Schuttler applied for an apprenticeship in Colorado in 2019, the report says, but CCB hired him anyway. In December 2019, a CCB student reported to CCB director Deden that Schuttler was sending her sexually harassing text messages. “When the leadership at the Colorado Center confronted Mr. Schuttler, he confirmed that he had sent the inappropriate text messages and acknowledged he had similar trouble in the past, that this behavior was a compulsion, and that he needed help to deal with this problem,” the report said. The report does not say what if any action Deden or CCB leadership took in response. Schuttler did not respond to requests for comment from Colorado Community Media. Deden has declined to respond to specific inquiries regarding Schuttler’s hiring or conduct at CCB, although CCB spokesman Burke wrote in an email: “We do not hire or give other opportunities like internships to those who we know have committed sexual misconduct elsewhere.” In January, Cervenka, the former counselor, filed a code-of-conduct complaint about the assault she said she witnessed in 2001. In her complaint, she wrote that CCB leadership had been informed a 33-yearold counselor was developing an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old. Leadership warned him not to be alone with the girl, Cervenka wrote. Cervenka, who shared an apartment with the girl in Glendale, says she came home one afternoon and found the man sexually assaulting the girl on the floor. Cervenka says she and another counselor reported the incident to CCB leadership, including Deden, who has been the executive director of CCB since 1999, and Melissa Riccobono, wife of NFB president Mark Riccobono, who Cervenka said was co-director of the CCB summer program at the time, and now sits on the board of the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children. Riccobono did not respond to requests for comment. The counselor was fired, Cervenka wrote in her complaint, alleging that neither Deden nor anyone else at CCB reported the incident to police. Cervenka said the girl later told her that Deden had discouraged her parents from reporting the incident to police, saying doing so would be disruptive to other students and would mean the girl would have to leave the program. In an email, Burke denied the allegation, saying CCB staff called police, who spoke to the counselor and cleared him to leave the state. “Our internal records reflect that the Glendale City Police department was called and that a female officer, Officer Yanke, visited the apartments where the summer students were housed and spoke with the alleged perpetrator,” Burke wrote. “Officer Yanke then told CCB
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line of incidents where (Deden) has discouraged victims of sexual misconduct and parents of minors who have experienced sexual misconduct from going to the police,” Cervenka wrote in her complaint. NFB has not issued a response to Cervenka’s complaint.
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staff that she had the information she needed and that the alleged perpetrator was free to leave the state of Colorado. His employment was terminated, he was sent to a hotel to stay overnight, and the next morning was escorted to the bus depot to go back to his home out of state. He was also told not to have any further contact with students or staff of CCB.” However, Glendale police do not have any record indicating police were called in the incident, according to Glendale police records clerk Grace Phelps. Further, Phelps said the department has no record of an officer named Yanke, though the department had an officer in 2001 whose name was spelled similarly. That officer, who is no longer at the department, said she does not remember such a call and had no further comment. Burke did not respond to a request for corroborating documentation that CCB called police in the incident. The alleged victim, who is now 34, declined to comment. The counselor, who went on to hold a leadership position at a California chapter of NFB, did not return multiple requests for comment. Deden said while she did not believe she is considered a mandatory reporter of sexual abuse of minors according to Colorado law, she has always considered herself one, as required by CCB’s bylaws. (Colorado’s mandatory reporter
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law, enacted in 1987, requires “any public or private school official or employee” to report neglect or abuse of children to law enforcement.) Many of the accusers’ claims could expose CCB and its leadership to civil liability, said Laura Wolf, the managing partner of Spark Justice Law, a Denver-based, civil rights law firm. She also is an adjunct professor at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. Some claims, including the accusation that CCB leadership failed to report the sexual assault of a 13-year-old, could constitute violations of Colorado’s mandatory reporter law, Wolf said, except that the statute of limitations to pursue charges has expired. Wolf said some more recent accusations may also constitute mandatory reporter law violations, which are misdemeanors under Colorado law. Cervenka said she also could have — and should have — reported the incident to police, but was unsure what was required of her. “In my 20-year-old mind, I thought I had done my part by reporting the incident to my superiors,” Cervenka said. “We got no training on mandatory reporting. I had no idea what my legal obligations were. It’s not an excuse, but I naively trusted the people I worked for would do the right thing. I’ve thought back on it a lot, and I regret it.” “I fear that this is part of a long
‘It’s not enough’ Some instances of sexual misconduct noted in the report fell short of being crimes, but were still based on what investigators described as an abuse of power. Wayne Pearcy, now 35, says he remains troubled by a sexual relationship with a popular staff member that began in a hotel room during a mandatory school trip. The son of two employees of the Louisiana Center for the Blind, Pearcy arrived at CCB in 2006 at age 19, and said he found himself an outcast in a cliquish atmosphere among students. But the young musician found a friend in Brent Batron, then a 35-year-old instructor who taught “cane travel” — how to navigate the world with a cane. When it came time to attend a NFB national conference — one of the requirements for students in the adult independence program — Pearcy was assigned to room with Batron at the Dallas convention. One evening, Batron instructed Pearcy to remove his clothes, Pearcy said. Pearcy said he was not sure what would happen if he declined, so he obliged. “I was just a kid,” Pearcy said. “I knew nothing about sex.” “I always knew you were gay,” Pearcy said Batron told him after they had a sexual encounter. “This is a secret. People like us are persecuted for feeling this way.” Pearcy said Batron was a role model at CCB, in part for his seemingly happy family life — he was married and a father, and his wife was pregnant at the time. “I was totally mixed-up and confused,” Pearcy said. “I told my mom I might be gay. I was so shell shocked I couldn’t tell her I was being manipulated by an older man.” In the months that followed, Pearcy said he and Batron had numerous sexual encounters that left him careening between the thrill SEE BLIND, P9
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of his first sexual relationship and feelings of guilt and shame. “I was so young and vulnerable. I thought if I don’t finish the program, I’ll be judged by people back home,” Pearcy said. “Because of that, I endured more manipulation.” Pearcy said Batron grew jealous of his friendships in Littleton’s music scene, at times telling him to stay away from fellow musicians. When Batron’s child was born, he cut off contact with Pearcy, leaving him hurt and confused. Later that year, Pearcy left for college in Boston and withdrew from NFB. At Cervenka’s urging, Pearcy filed a code-of-conduct complaint earlier this year. Records show that Batron, by then the center’s assistant director, admitted the relationship, which violated the center’s prohibition on intimate relationships between teachers and students. “Mr. Batron plainly abused his authority as an instructor by exploiting the unequal power dynamic of the student-teacher relationship for his own sexual gratification,” the investigator’s report reads. “It would have been easy for him to lie,” Pearcy said. “I respect him for admitting it. He realized he made a big mistake, and he owned up to it.” Batron no longer appears on CCB’s list of staff, though whether he was fired or retired is unclear. Batron is banned from membership in NFB for three years. After that, he is allowed to reapply for membership in NFB, so long as he proves he has undergone mental health counseling. He is not to be placed in supervision of minors. Pearcy is bothered that Batron’s punishment wasn’t more severe. “Why allow him back in at all?” Pearcy said. “It’s not enough. At this point, even if the directors of the centers resigned, why should anyone trust NFB to replace them with someone trustworthy?” Batron declined to comment for this article. ‘I didn’t know who was spreading rumors’ Another woman who shared her story with Cervenka, but has not filed an official code-of-conduct complaint, said her experience leaves her questioning the legitimacy of NFB’s survivor task force. Addie Hugen, 28, moved to Colorado from Iowa for college in 2015. She hoped to develop her navigational and technical skills at CCB. But before signing up for programs at the center, she looked for friends in a Bible study group hosted by CCB students at the center’s apartment complex in Littleton. After a few study sessions, another member of the group, a young man who had just started losing his sight, offered to help her navigate home in the dark. “It seemed nice of him to be concerned,” Hugen said. “I was naive.” The CCB student called an Uber for Hugen and himself, then told her he needed to stop at his apartment first to pick up a forgotten item. She went inside to use the
bathroom, where Hugen said he sexually assaulted her. Afterward, he asked for her address to send her home in an Uber. “I was in shock and wasn’t thinking straight,” Hugen said. “I gave him my address because I just wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible. He told me if I stopped talking to him, now he knew where to come find me.” Hugen had a rape kit conducted at a hospital, but decided against pursuing charges after a conversation with a crisis counselor left her concerned the process could be retraumatizing without achieving justice. Initially, Hugen told no one about the assault, and continued attending Bible studies. “I thought he shouldn’t be able to take away my connection to friends,” she said. But she wasn’t the same. Other students in the group noticed she seemed off. Hugen opened up to Sarah Meyer, a CCB student. Meyer was initially sympathetic, Hugen said, but shifted her tone when Hugen told her who the assailant was. “She said she couldn’t believe he would do that, because she had slept with him, too, and couldn’t imagine him doing such a thing,” Hugen said. Meyer told Hugen she would tell Deden about the incident, but Hugen never heard from Deden. Instead, Hugen got a call from Batron and Kimberley McCutcheon, then the director of student services. McCutcheon retired in 2017. Hugen said Batron and McCutcheon berated her. “They didn’t let me speak at all,” Hugen said. “The story the perpetrator gave them was that I was dating him and consented to sex, even though I had only met him once. They said I was trying to ruin his reputation. They told me I wasn’t allowed to talk about what happened except to a counselor or they would sue me for slander.” Meyer now sits on NFB’s survivor task force. “Experiencing sexual misconduct within the blindness community, and being familiar with the harm caused by not having had sound procedures to address this trauma, have compelled Sarah to participate in efforts to make NFB a safer environment that allows blind people to live the lives they want,” a biography of Meyer on the task force’s website reads. Neither Meyer nor McCutcheon responded to requests for comment. “It seems like their purpose is to work for NFB, not for survivors,” Hugen said. A different conduct complaint alleges that Marci Carpenter, who leads the NFB survivor task force, failed to act after a woman alleged she had been sexually assaulted by a youth program director at NFB’s Minneapolis training center, BLIND, Inc. The man involved previously worked in the summer program at CCB. The woman alleges that when she reported the assault, Carpenter, who at the time was the head of NFB’s Washington state chapter, said she felt stuck in the middle and didn’t want to talk about it. Carpenter declined to comment. Dan Wenzel, the youth program
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director, was barred from holding or running for any elected positions in NFB for five years, the report says, and “strongly advised to refrain from conduct that may cause a similar complaint in the future along with notification that additional complaints of this nature may lead to his expulsion from the organization.” Wenzel remains the director of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. He did not respond to requests for comment. ‘A person of integrity’ Burke, the CCB spokesman who is married to Deden, said the Colorado center has made big strides toward addressing the concerns raised by accusers. All CCB staff have completed the RAINN anti-harassment training sessions, he said, and the center has partnered with All Health Network to provide ongoing training on stress management, personal space and boundaries. “We’ve always said in NFB that we’re a cross section of society, and now society is making these adjustments in how we view sexual misconduct,” Burke said. “People are speaking out, and we’re just part of that, I guess. We’re committed to a change in society. It’s going to get better, but the process to get there is difficult.” Deden reiterated to Colorado Community Media that she would not comment on any specific allegations pending the outcome of NFB’s investigations, but said she felt she has always done the best she can for students. “I have always wanted to ensure that our students come first, no matter what,” Deden said. Deden said the center has long held internal anti-sexual harassment and abuse training, and cited the center’s self-defense classes as a boon to students wary of sexual misconduct. Several former students said they would like to see Deden step down. “I’m sorry they feel that way,” Deden said. “I don’t have a lot more to say than that. I don’t have plans to step down.” “It’s really sad” that some students say they have left the center traumatized, Burke said. “It makes us feel sad when someone leaves less confident. We’re not setting out to do that by any stretch. So many people experienced these things,
but people keep coming. We need to acknowledge if we’ve made mistakes, and address those.” Generally, even people angered by CCB’s handling of the sexual abuse complaints do not want to see it shut down. Several told Colorado Community Media they remain grateful for the skills they learned at the center. But they say it’s time that NFB cleans house. Hugen called their promises of support “platitudes.” “Every organization deals with sexual misconduct,” she said. “If perpetrators and those who protected them were truly being held accountable, they would be gone for good.” ‘Keep the wolves away from the chicken coop’ One high-profile Florida attorney said NFB’s response so far seems to be falling short of the magnitude of the allegations. Mark O’Mara said he plans to sue NFB on behalf of a half-dozen plaintiffs, mostly former students of the organization’s training centers. “What does it take to refer some of these cases to prosecution?” O’Mara said. “Why suspensions? My fear is this process is tamping down the true nature and extent of these problems.” O’Mara said he’s concerned the true purpose of NFB’s investigations is to keep the offenses quiet. But NFB spokesman Chris Danielsen said the organization is dedicated to making sure people are heard. “We are working hard on a trauma-informed, survivor-centered approach,” Danielsen told The Sun. At this summer’s national convention, NFB announced the creation of a $250,000 fund to cover the cost of counseling and therapy for survivors. “We’re committed as an organization to not tolerating this behavior,” he said. “We don’t want to just technically do the right thing, but to help survivors heal from past traumas.” Salazar, the woman who reported being raped by her roommate, still is wrestling with what happened to her. She came to the Colorado Center for the Blind from California in 2019 after learning of the training program from a friend who said it was a place where blind people thrived and flourished. At times she felt like one of them, finding joy and confidence in the new skills she acquired in the year of training. But her experience last fall, she said, left her racked with despair and she recently attempted suicide. The Colorado Center for the Blind changed her life for better and worse, but pushing for accountability could mean prodding the center to finally meet its promise to students. “Colorado did something for me,” Salazar said. She gained independence as she honed her skills at navigating new places, using public transit and shopping by herself. She was particularly impressed by Batron, the former school director who is married and has five children. “I’d never seen a blind person who had a life,” she said. “Someone who had kids and a job.”
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Health officials urge mask wearing amid COVID surge BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
With Colorado’s number of COVID-19 hospitalizations now higher than it was at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic’s first wave in the state in spring 2020, health officials are again urging residents to wear masks in public. The Nov. 5 announcement was called a statewide “public health advisory,” a term that state health officials appear not to have used before in news releases about the pandemic. The careful language reflected Colorado’s reluctance to again issue a mask mandate for the general public in most settings, a requirement that the state allowed to expire this spring. “As public health officials, we are issuing this statewide advisory due to steadily increasing cases and a concern for hospital bed capacity,” the metro Denver health officials wrote in a news release. Colorado and the Denver metro region continue to see steady increases in COVID-19 cases, according to the release. On Nov. 4, Colorado’s rate of daily new cases — 49 per 100,000 people — was the fifth highest in the country and one of the fastest growing, the release said. The state’s number of hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 was 1,296 as of Nov. 5 — outpacing the 1,277 confirmed and suspected COVID patients on April 9, 2020, the highest recorded number during
Colorado’s first wave, according to state data. Deaths among Coloradans with COVID-19 have routinely reached above 20 per day since late September this year, with 29 deaths occurring on Oct. 17 alone. That’s the highest total since Jan. 10, when the state’s death rate was trending downward after the winter surge. The advisory was issued by the Metro Denver Partnership for Health, which includes the public health agencies of Boulder, Broomfield, Jefferson and Denver counties as well as Tri-County Health Department, which serves Adams and Arapahoe counties and provides certain public-health services to Douglas County. Hospitals serving metro Denver are full or nearing capacity due to COVID-19, non-COVID-19 emergencies and other routine visits, with less than 10% of staffed beds available — a trend not seen at any other point in the pandemic, according to the news release. Nearly 40% of hospitals report current or anticipated staff shortages within the next week, the Nov. 5 release said. While Colorado’s current COVID hospitalizations are about twothirds of what they were during the state’s winter surge last year, more people are now hospitalized in Colorado for other reasons — car accidents, heart attacks and issues caused by delayed medical care, The Colorado Sun reported. The state’s hospitals have not been more
full during the pandemic, the Sun reported. Gov. Jared Polis has said that if the surge continues, Colorado will need to request medical surge teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, and halt elective surgeries, according to the release. “Elective” means a surgery or procedure can be delayed without undue risk to health. Hospitals may also need to resort to “crisis standards of care,” the release said. Crisis standards of care are guidelines for how the medical community should allocate scarce resources such as ventilators and intensive-care-unit beds in “the extreme case when patient needs exceed the resources available,” according to the state public-health department’s website. Polis recently issued executive orders that included action to give the state greater authority to direct transfers of patients between hospitals, the Sun reported. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Oct. 31 ordered hospitals to suspend cosmetic surgeries in order to free up staff and bed space; some hospitals have already gone further, delaying needed but non-emergency procedures, the Sun reported. As of Oct. 30, the metro region alone had 581 hospitalizations due to COVID-19 — a number that has been increasing over the past weeks, the release said. A majority of these COVID hospitalizations — about
80% — continue to be among the unvaccinated, the release said. The news release seemed to signal that more “advisories” — not orders — would be forthcoming if coronavirus trends continue to worsen. “As public health officials, we will continue to monitor trends in COVID-19, especially as the region moves into flu season and with holidays approaching, and issue advisories as needed,” the release said. Details of officials’ guidance The state public-health department and the Metro Denver Partnership for Health urged the following actions and underscored the following information in the health advisory: • Wear a mask when in crowded public indoor spaces whether vaccinated or not. • Move public and private gatherings and events outdoors whenever possible to increase ventilation (air circulation). • Persons at high COVID risk should consider staying out of public indoor spaces until the case rate has declined. • Flu season has begun, so Coloradans should get a flu shot, which can be given at the same time as a COVID-19 vaccine. • All eligible individuals should get vaccinated, including completing both doses of a vaccine and then get a booster dose after six months for extra protection if you are in a higher-risk group.
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Officials have high hopes for vaccines for children With cases climbing and holidays soon, vaccines and masks best bets BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
As cases of COVID-19 climb throughout Colorado, local officials hope a new push to vaccinate kids as young as 5 will help. Hospitals are urging community members to get vaccinated and to begin wearing masks indoors, especially for the unvaccinated. “With cooler weather arriving, we may wish to move indoors—but ask that you wear masks indoors and avoid large gatherings. We also ask that you be mindful to avoid unnecessary trauma to help alleviate pressure on the hospital systems with preventable injuries,” said Meredith Ritchie, a communications field advisor with Centura Health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the emergency use for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 through 11 years old Oct. 29. Especially with the Thanksgiving holiday coming up, Dr. Stephan Cobb, Centura’s chief medical officer for Denver’s metro area, suggested families begin to get vaccinated to protect others. “The best way to protect a grandmother who’s 80 years old is for all of her family members that she’s
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going to love on Thanksgiving and Christmas be vaccinated,” he said. COVID vaccination statistics make the likelihood of parent getting the shot seem promising, according to the Colorado’s Department of Public Health & Environment. Whether families will vaccinate their 5- to 11-year-old children seems promising. According to the Colorado’s Department of Public Health & Environment 80.6 percent of folks older than 18 have had at least one shot, and 79.4 percent for folks 12 years old and older. If trends continue, children aged 5 to 11 may also sign up. Despite Colorado’s high vaccination rates, which is 79.30 percent for all eligible people, health-care systems have been slammed with COVID patients. For the week of Nov. 8, the Centura hospital system had 339 COVID patients in their system. 29 percent of total beds were occupied by COVID patients, 56 percent of their ICU beds were COVID patients, and of the COVID patients, 74 percent were not vaccinated. Those who are vaccinated have a far less chance of spreading the disease, which is why vaccinated folks protect those who are at risk. What parents need to know For parents, injecting their children with a new vaccine that has been produced in record time can stir hesitancy and anxiety. Dr. Cobb says that that anxiety is a good thing because parents should care about
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what doctors are placing into their children. Cobb is a family doctor by training. When parents come to him asking about the vaccine, he fully recommends children receive the vaccine and reassures them they are safe and effective. However, Cobb notes how the misinformation circulating about the vaccines can make productive conversations difficult. “When somebody says something to you that’s truly unbelievable, it’s harder to engage in a conversation, because it’s so obvious that it’s not true,” he said. “Whereas if somebody comes to you with a reasonable concern, you’re gonna have a conversation.” He compares concerns about the COVID vaccine to the concerns about the association of autism with other vaccines. “The evidence is clear, there’s no
association with autism. But that’s a concern I could understand. There was a lot of talk about it. Autism is tough,” he said. Other myths are harder to dispatch, he said. “There was a myth that the COVID vaccine could affect fertility, there’s not even a shred of evidence that would imply that, and so how somebody came up in their mind with that thought, is sort of beyond me,” he said. “When somebody says something to you that’s truly unbelievable, it’s harder to engage in a conversation, because it’s so obvious that it’s not true. Whereas if somebody comes to you with a reasonable concern, you’re going to have a conversation.” Cobb said that about 700 children in the United States have died from COVID. About 7,000 to 8,000 children SEE VACCINE, P13
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Affordable housing City Planning Manager Rita McConnell said that although the development plans to build more affordable housing within Westminster, there is no guarantee. “The applicant has committed to provide a certain amount of units for affordable housing. We don’t have the fine terms,” McConnell said. “The city does not have a requirement for it, this is what the applicant is committing to.” However, Daggett, the University of Denver professor, wrote in her testimony that the project would help the situation. Daggett said it will bring about 300 units that are permanently affordable, and increase the supply of houses in the whole region. With many folks moving to the Denver area, housing is not currently matching the economic growth, which drives up wages for the existing apartments and homes, she noted. “I do think we need to (build more housing),” she said. “Saying ‘no, we’re not going to grow’ is not an answer to the problem unless we’re willing to say no new jobs, because as long as we’re creating economic opportunity here, we’re going to create a demand for housing,” Daggett wrote. She noted that the affordable housing within the development’s plans is one of the keys to solving the housing crisis.
“Affordable, subsidized and built-to-be -affordable and subsidized is really important because we have a serious deficit in that direction,” she wrote. Yet even with an effort to solve the region’s housing crisis, the proposal will bring elements of gentrification to Westminster specifically, and raise some of the current house prices. “In the immediate vicinity, those housing prices might go up for the existing homes,” she wrote. As for water, Handlin, the president of Oread Capital, said the development plans to use less water than the city has approved for them. “The city approved 778-acre-feet of water for this project, they approved it in 2007, reaffirmed the same budget in 2013, and we are using less than that amount,” he said. Many citizens voiced concern about the city’s lack of water for an emergency stash, but Sarah Borgers, the Water Resources and Quality Manager for Westminster said the reserves are in a good position. “While the desert West, including Colorado, is experiencing rather substantial droughts right now, Westminster is in a fairly good position,” she said. However, Karen Ray, a citizen of Westminster, points to the fact that the details of the proposal are insufficient and some businesses may use more water than accounted for. “A brewery uses more water
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than an insurance office,” she noted. Protestors gather Opponents gathered outside Westminster City Hall before the meeting, protesting the development. The folks belong to a group called “Save The Farm,” a grassroots activist group with a goal to keep the farm and the open space that comes along with it. That group began soon after the project was made public in 2019. “A huge turnout from the neighbors (at the meeting) mostly in the immediate area at that point and out of that, several of us said, ‘this is terrible,’” Ray said. Her group was well represented, calling out the need for more open space. “It’s a beautiful spot in Westminster, it’s iconic. (The development) is just not a good fit at all. It has views you just can’t meet,
it’s Westminster. It makes me sick to think about the development built there,” said Kristy Wulff, who has owned a house in Westminster for 38 years. “It’s my most favorite spot. It does something to your heart, it’s in my heart. It just makes me sick.” Instead of housing, she thinks the space can be used more productively. “We think the city should buy it,” Wulff said. “There’s a working farm there, it can be educational, it could be an events center, it could be a beautiful park. There’s so much better use for it.” “It’s my favorite spot,” said Jerrie Coyne, a 41-year Westminster “We’ve lived here for 41 years and one of the things that interested us was some wide-open spaces. Now when you go by all these apartments you feel like the world is closing in on you. I hate it.”
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developed the multi-system inflammatory disease from COVID, which can cause dysfunction of many organs. This is one reason why children should receive the vaccine, but the most important reason, he says, is that it is “incredibly effective and it’s incredibly safe.” Cobb confirmed vaccines can cut down on different, mutant strains advancing in the future. “The more the virus can circulate, the more likely (it will) develop mutations,” he said. Cobb declined to say whether a mandate for vaccines should be enacted by government or school boards. He noted that when the government tells people to do something, they often react stubbornly. He looks at the country’s effort at the beginning of the pandemic and how people stayed home, resulting in almost eliminating a respiratory season. “I think that (politicians) have to be really thoughtful about whether (a mandate) would create more resistance than if they didn’t issue mandates” he said. Schools At Westminster Public Schools, about 97 percent of the entire staff has been vaccinated after a letter went to staff detailing requirements to be vaccinated. The primary goal of WPS was health and safety, as well as in person
learning, which led to the decision of requiring the vaccine. For staff that chose to not receive the vaccine, they were placed on unpaid leave. That list included 16 licensed staff members, seven classroom teachers, 10 education support professionals and nine non-classroom staff. They were given a two-week window to reconsider; however, whether those staff can come back now will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Some accommodations to staff were given, such as custodians who refused the vaccine now work at night instead of during school. According to Stephen Saunders, chief communications officer for Westminster Public Schools, a mandate for students to receive the vaccine would not come from the schools, but the state. “If that were to even happen, that would come from the state. If the state were to mandate students to be vaccinated, we would follow suit, but we would not do that on our own,” he said. All students, whether vaccinated or not, are required to wear masks. With the rise in cases, COVID spreading within schools has become a concern. As of Nov. 12, fourth- and fifth-grade students at Josephine Hodgkins Leadership Academy were quarantining due to an outbreak. Westminster Public Schools are also providing vaccine clinics for students, and some prizes are being given to students.
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t was not the Democrats’ finest hour, struggling to get the popular infrastructure funding legislation passed and signed by President Biden. Members of their party (Progressives in the House and U.S. Senators Manchin and Sinema) caused havoc. Between tying the infrastructure bill with the passage of the “Build Back Better” (social programs) and the content and size of the socialprograms package, both bills were stalled until Nov. 5. The Democrats, with help from 13 moderate Republicans, approved the $1 trillion funding package on a 228-206 vote. Needless to say, it is a major victory for President Biden and the Democrats. U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper sized up the magnitude of the legislation by saying “It’s the largest investment in our future since the Great Depression.” It will raise federal infrastructure spending to its highest share of G.D.P. since the early 1980s according to The New York Times. What does it mean for Colorado? The package will be an “important
boost for Colorado,” according to Tony Milo, Executive Director for the Colorado Contractors’ Association, whose organization represents thousands of construction workers. It is a five-year program so all the dollar amounts need Bill Christopher to be interpreted accordingly. The most significant pot of money is $3.7 billion to improve highways and $225 million for bridge replacements/repairs. Then $916 million will be available for statewide transportation improvements followed by $688 million to improve water infrastructure and ensure clean, safe drinking water. Another program in this cornucopia of funding includes at least $100 million to help extend broadband coverage throughout Colorado, including at least 85,000 residents who currently cannot receive Internet services. Also, $57 million for electric vehicle charging networks and $16 million to protect against
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cyberattacks are included. While all of these categories of funding are important to Coloradoans, first and foremost we now have meaningful funding to begin catching up on the backlog of needed highway expansions and repairs to roads and bridges. Let’s just hope and pray there are enough construction workers, technicians and clerks-of-the-works to make it all happen! Northglenn progresses on Civic Center master plan Northglenn City Council gave the OK to extend the deadline with developer, Continuum, on finalizing the Civic Center Master Plan. The original plan was a good starting point, but over time and changing needs and situations generated a need to modify the plan. The new recreation center, senior center and Parsons Theatre along with the Memorial Parkway and all the necessary infrastructure are complete. Originally, the thinking was that phase two would be the development of the rest of the site. Due to COVID, progress was slowed down.
Phase Two will now be the new City Hall with Phase Three to be with a developer. Continuum, which is doing the master plan, requested an additional 13 weeks to complete the full plan. Its completion is necessary to negotiate a redevelopment agreement. According to staff, it is an ongoing negotiation.
Contrasting three cities’ election races Municipal elections were held in three of the western side cities of Adams County which includes Westminster and its Jefferson County component. Northglenn voters returned three incumbents and two new folks while Thornton favored incumbent Jessica Sandgren along with three new council members. Neither city had the mayor’s position up for grabs. Westminster was much different, with four council seats and the mayor’s seat being contested. The incumbent mayor and two of the three incumbent council members were defeated demonstrating the turmoil in this normally stable subSEE CHRISTOPHER, P15
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he resume came through first, and then an email, and finally a phone call. The person trying to connect with me is someone whom I have WINNING known for a long WORDS time. When they let me know that they were searching for a new opportunity and asked me if I would be willing to help, I enthusiastically agreed. This is a friend and colleague Michael Norton former whom I hold in very high regard. As I reviewed the resume and cover letter, I was a bit taken aback as neither document spoke about the person that I have known for years. The information and accomplishments were understated to say the least. The poor resume wasn’t what was really bothering me, it was more than that. This was someone whom I respected, loved, and appreciated. My next step was to call them and schedule a time for an
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immediate video call. I wanted to be able to see them, their eyes, face, and posture as I knew something wasn’t right. When we began our conversation and got past the pleasantries, they asked me what I thought about their resume. Instead of answering, I asked if I could ask a quick question first. I asked them this, “What happened to the person I have known for the past 10 years?” They were a bit confused and a little shaken. I said, “Look, as I read your resume and cover letter, I didn’t see anything exciting or noteworthy, there were no mentions of the three massive projects that reshaped the business trajectory of your company, nothing about the team’s achievements, and I was shocked that any reference to your thought leadership was also absent.” They had let me know that the past 20 months had finally gotten the better of them. Early on it was losing people because they had to make cuts. Then it was being burnt out and overworked, and then it was losing people because they had
better options or just didn’t want to come to an office any longer. My friend took all of this very personally. Finally, the executive team placed the blame squarely on their shoulders for the lack of people and lack of productivity. The pressure was just too much. As my good friend and coach Tom Ziglar says, this was a perfect, “Are you kidding me?” moment. That means after I ask, “Are you kidding me?” I follow that up with questions and comments about all their past accomplishment and successes. I reminded my friend that what they had achieved was nothing short of extraordinary. So, I asked one more question, “When you look in the mirror, what do you see?” The response included words such as tired, worried, afraid, mad, and a disappointment. I responded as if looking into the same mirror with others who knew them too. “Yes, we see someone who is like so many others out there in the world right now, we see tired, worried, and afraid. Do you know what else we see? We see someone who needs a different mirror. We see someone who needs to see what the rest of
us see, eyes with reignited passion, unparalleled wisdom and knowledge, someone who loves people, intentionality of purpose, courage, and we see the most hopeful person we know, the person who stood by each of us when we were down. We see the winner in you.” This week my friend was hired into a bigger role than they had ever had before. The moral of this story is that each one of us has someone in our life that may be struggling right now. And maybe what they need more than anything else is to be reminded to look at themselves the way that we see them, through the lens of accomplishment, and with the eyes of renewed hope. Do you know anyone like that? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ tramazing.com, and when we can help people to see in themselves what we all see, it really will be a better than good year. Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.
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urban community. Former Mayor Nancy McNally beat out incumbent Mayor Anita Seitz to form the nucleus of a more conservative and deliberate City Council majority. Voters wanted change and a more responsive city government. Now, the real work begins. At last Monday’s swearing-in ceremony, Mayor McNally set a tone of working collaboratively among council and staff while listening to the public. She astutely pointed out that there will be differences among council along the way, but hopes that civility will prevail. Ballot issue outcomes vary Neither Northglenn nor Thornton had ballot issues for voters to consider. Again, Westminster was the exception with three city charter amendments, three TABOR questions, a question on marijuana sales and one advisory question. Results were a mixed bag with two of the three TABOR questions being defeated (marijuana sales tax and increasing the Public Safety sales and use tax ).
The nine-year extension on the Parks, Open Space & Trails sales and use tax and $15 million bond authorization passed. Two of the three rather generic charter amendments were approved with the dumb “gender-neutral pronouns” amendment being defeated. The latter was a poor priority to put on the ballot when there are so many other pressing needed charter changes. Someone who helped craft the two marijuana ballot questions anticipated what might happen if one passed and the other didn’t. Well, guess what? That is exactly what happened. The question about marijuana sales passed, while the additional sales tax was estimated to generate $2 million annually lost. However, according to the city, both needed to pass before either would be considered law. So before the throngs descend on Westminster to purchase weed products without all those extra taxes, they should know it’s not happening. Not yet, at least. Finally, the advisory question on pursuing possible geographic council representation (i.e. wards/ districts) failed — which was very disappointing. I wonder if it was in part due to the poor wording of the ballot proposition creating some confusion as well as a lack of
an explanation? Next steps The newly seated Westminster City Council knows it is under pressure to change not only what voters expect them to do, but how to do it as well. Campaign promises were made. Expectations are high. At the same time, all members need to have all the facts in front of them before making concrete action-oriented decisions. The worst thing they could do is to arbitrarily reduce the water rate structure. This would be blind policy-setting. Does it warrant modifying? Darn straight, but it is critical to know the consequences. The driver in the whole water rate debacle is water utility infrastructure with a staff recommended new water treatment plant being the “800-pound gorilla in the room.” The City council would be wise to hire a highly qualified civil engineering firm that does not stand to make a penny off of their assessment of whether a new treatment facility is needed. Also, the firm should evaluate how much the Northwest Water Treatment Plant could be expanded and how it could play into the overall picture. Their conclusions should then guide the council in its next steps.
Regardless of the engineers’ recommendations, the water rate tiers need to be re-worked and, as a minimum, an intervening fourthtier should be added to reduce the financial impact of keeping lawns and gardens green in the summer. Secondly, the council should pin down Westminster’s water resources first without any of the new water conservation assumptions included which staff has developed. How much additional new development will that accommodate? Then pin down what each water conservation measure could reasonably save in annual consumption along with the assumptions built into the measure. Then decide what changes are necessary to the proposed 2040 Comprehensive Land Use Plan so that they are synchronized and there is no water gap. Then prioritize other top issues, including bringing transparency and open communications back to our city government. Over time, trust can be re-established.
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Area residents talk about their gratitude for their families, friends, school — and simply being alive Clockwise from top left: seniors at STEM School Highlands Ranch, third graders at King-Murphy Elementary School in Clear Creek County, Scott Shields and Katherine Lawson at Family Tree nonprofit based in Wheat Ridge, students and principal Wendy Noel at Two Roads charter school in Arvada, workers and guests at the Golden Visitors Center and residents at Elk Run Assisted PHOTOS BY DEB HURLEY BROBST Living in Evergreen. BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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hether it’s simply giving thanks or the Thanksgiving holiday, gratitude has special meaning this time of year. No matter what their age, area residents are thankful for everything from family and friends to having a roof over their heads to enjoying life. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” Eckhart Tolle Gratitude is important for everyone, according to Heather Aberg of Evergreen, the founder of Resilience1220, an organization that provides counseling to teens.
“I would encourage people in our world today to make that a real cornerstone of their focus,” Aberg said. “Gratitude allows us to grow, adapt and change.” She noted that people, especially during the pandemic, focused on the negative, when there are things to be thankful for. It’s important to count blessings in life, she said. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more.” Melody Beattie No one knows more about gratitude than those living at Elk Run Assisted Living in Evergreen, where residents happily talk about the good things in their lives. They sat in the lobby to discuss what they were thankful for, and it had nothing to do with possession and every-
thing to do with family and friends — and still being alive. “I thank God every day that I’m on this side of dirt,” said Bettie Lynn Walden, who believes in making others laugh every day, “and I have a place to live on this side of dirt.” Her friends laughed and agreed with her sentiment. Resident Steve Kurland added that he was thankful for having a place like Elk Run to live and having family close by who visit. Several residents added that they were thankful for their families, especially their grandchildren. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” Oprah Winfrey At the West Metro Chamber of
Commerce based in Lakewood, Erin Acheson was optimistic that small businesses and nonprofits were recovering after closures during the pandemic, and personally, she was thankful for her new job as the chamber’s director of member engagement. She called the position a new opportunity both personally and professionally after months during the pandemic when she didn’t work. Volunteers and patrons at the Golden Visitors Center said they were grateful for their health, the beautiful fall weather and the opportunity to live in a wonderful place like Golden. “I love working here,” said Ron Bettinger, who is a Golden native. “I get to meet all kinds of people from all over the county and the world.” SEE THANKFUL, P17
Film Festival tells the story of a world in flux COMING ATTRACTIONS
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here’s nothing like sitting in a movie theater. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down, the future of in-person viewing has suddenly became a more pressing concern. There’s no arguing with the convenience of streaming from home, but there’s a shutting out of the rest of the world (and oneself) that only appears to happen in a theater. It makes movies more magical. More real. More powerful. Which made the 44th annual Denver Film Festival’s return to places like the SIE FilmCenter and Ellie Caulkins Opera House that much better. And with more than 200 films to select from, I spent more time in theaters
than I had in nearly two years. It is so good and so important that we’re here together, face-to-face to celebrate film” said James Mejía, CEO of Denver Film, during the opening night screening. “We’ve bene through so much and it’s more than appropriate that art brings us together. Through art we can morn and hope and with film, we can connect.” During this year’s festival, I saw 29 films over 12 days — and as usual the festival’s selections all have things to recommend them. They all connect with the viewer, and all reflect the passions of their makers. Of those movies, here are my favorites.
The best hope for the future ‘C’mon C’mon’ Release date: In theaters on Nov. 19 Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon” is the kind of movie that sticks with you. Joaquin Phoenix might be at his considerable finest in the role of Johnny, who decides to help out his sister Viv (a never better Gabby Hoffman) and watch his nephew, Jesse (Woody Norman). The film follows this family searching for some kind of grace while looking to the next generation for necessary hope for the future. And hope it finds: in the wisdom of children, the love of family and the stories we tell. SEE READER, P17
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“This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.” Maya Angelou
Charlene Pazar, a 55-year Golden resident, is thankful for dance, even when dance groups have met while wearing masks and practicing social distancing. At the Wheat Ridge headquarters of Family Tree, a nonprofit that helps combat homelessness, child abuse and domestic violence, both the executive director and chief development officer were thankful to serve the community and grateful for the support they have received to achieve Family Tree’s mission. “I’ve had the privilege to serve in this role and in the community,” Executive Director Scott Shields said, with Chief Development Officer Katherine Lawson adding that the volunteers, donors and the community have been phenomenal in helping the nonprofit’s clients.
Third graders at King-Murphy Elementary School in Clear Creek County agreed they were thankful for typical things such as family, friends and pets. Third grader Edith said she was thankful for her home, food and all the things her family has, while Alice added that she is grateful for everything her family does for her, plus her house and Halloween. Some of the students were thankful for something not-so-typical: being back in school with their friends. Drew and Paityn were happy they were no longer learning remotely. Likewise, middle schoolers at Two Roads Charter School in Arvada were especially thankful for their school, where they said the teachers took a special interest in them and where extracurricular
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Best catnip for movie nerds ‘Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched’ Release date: Available on VOD Folk horror is one of my absolute favorite sub-genres of film - for my money, Robert Eggers’ “The Witch” is the best horror film of this century thus far, and who doesn’t love “The Wicker Man”? Sweeping and comprehensive, director Kier-La Janisse traces the earliest literary roots of the genre to its modern iterations. An international storytelling style, Janisse delves into the way countries like Japan, Australia and Russia have taken this largely British-based genre and made it their own. For horror lovers, or those who are fascinated by the ways stories are told and changed over time, this is a can’t miss. Protecting what’s important ‘The Snow Leopard’ and `Storm Lake’ Release date: Dec. 22 and available on PBS A pair of films with different subjects but the same underlying philosophy. Marie Amiguet’s gorgeous documentary, “The Velvet Queen,” follows photographer Vincent Munier
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programs including sports were available. “This school really inspires me,” said seventh grader Devon Fallis. “There are a lot of nice people here.” Seventh grader Leila Evanetich said she felt she has help in both her education and mental health, making her feel like she’s not alone. In addition, high school students at STEM School Highlands Ranch were thankful for the community at the school, helping them navigate their education and prepare for college. Senior Isabelle McCall said she was grateful for the teachers who put so much effort into classes and extracurricular activities, working to make students feel safe so they can learn. Senior Sarah Braunschweig added that her amazing friends have supported her through school, college selection and her life.
“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.” Tecumseh
view of the campaigns of Dr. Lisa Calderón, Candi CdeBaca, Shayla Richard and Veronica Barela as they run to make a change in the city. The film is funny, laced with hope, and ultimately a reminder that progress can often be a glacial progress, but every forward step counts. It’ll make you laugh, choke you up and most importantly, inspire you to take action.
role in the creation of the country is still deciding its future. The film blends a 2018 Juneteenth lecture, on the ground storytelling and historical documentation to lay out exactly how the country arrived at the fractured place we are now. This is vital, passionate filmmaking of the highest order. It embraces the possibilities of a better future, but not if we keep refusing to look certain things in the eye. This film asks audiences to do just that. Look. And then do something about it.
Best call to action ‘Who We Are’ Release date: Jan. 14 In Emily and Sarah Kunstler’s documentary, “Who We Are,” civil rights attorney Jeffery Robinson compellingly points out that the institutional racism that played a
Twins Mischa and Zoe Dvoretsky, both STEM School juniors, said in unison that they were grateful for each other. They also are thankful for their family and friends who have been strong support groups. “If it wasn’t for my friends and family, I wouldn’t be the person I am today,” Zoe said. Mischa was more philosophical, noting that people should appreciate that they get up every day, and they have the ability to do what may seem like mundane activities. “Not everyone gets that opportunity,” she said. “People should realize what they have. They get to breathe fresh air and enjoy every day with the people they love.”
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She was the 144th person to speak during that meeting and the clock struck midnight, adjourning the session before a decision on the cuts had been reached. So, she went to the next meeting. And the next. And the next. In fact, she attended school board meetings for the next six years, only missing six. After that, a board member ending their term recommended she run. She ran for a seat on the board in 2001 and won. Then in 2004, she ran for mayor of Westminster, won, and won again for the next two terms. Last week was the fourth time she was elected as mayor. McNally comes to the middle chair with extensive leadership experience, but not only in local government. For 20 years, McNally worked with the Lutheran Church teaching women leadership skills. She held free classes to help propel women into roles they dreamed of, with many advancing into legislative roles. She worked with women from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming and noted that her husband, who worked for CenturyLink for 41 years, was paid $500 to take similar classes she was teaching. When he came home, they compared notes and it was the exact same material. The difference: Nancy was teaching it for free. “At the time, women weren’t all in the workforce. But whether you’re a soccer mom or a PTA president, there are certain skills you need to lead a group. So we went around and did that. I loved it.” Now, McNally will lead the City Council with three priorities for the term; Solving the water crisis and hiring a new city manager are her first two. The third is to bring unity among the new council. “We can learn to not agree and can all still work together because that’s part of life. If we all saw the world in the same way, it would be pretty dull,” she said. “Together we get to the best, not what anyone of us says, it’s together and moving forward with that.” Sarah Nurmela From Washington State to Boston to St. Louis, Sarah Nurmela, 42, has lived in cities all across the country. After landing in Colorado, she said Westminster ranks Nurmela the highest among all other places she has set up camp. “I really love Westminster, obviously, I’ve been here the longest of any other place I’ve lived,” Nurmela said. Nurmela has lived in Westminster for ten years with her husband of 18 years, and their three daughters aged seven, nine and 13. Before moving to Westminster, Nurmela earned a bachelor’s in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, and then graduated with a master’s in
urban planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. As a city planner, she has worked as a consultant for many different cities in California. After gaining much experience on the West Coast, she headed to Westminster and helped build the first phase of the city’s downtown. As well, she aided with the longterm planning of the city. Her main goals for the next term focus on the economy and communication between the city and its citizens. “The first (priority) is to create a more expansive communication pathway between the council, the city and the community. So enhancing our outreach and our community dialogue. The next piece is working towards economic resilience both for our residents, as well as the city. So making sure that we are bolstering our job opportunities, continuing to attract employers and making decisions that set us up for longterm fiscal gain,” she said. For her ambitious goals and inspiration comes from her family of activists. “My mother has always instilled the philosophy of challenging yourself, challenging others, and questioning and asking for what is the right thing to do?” she said. “My grandparents out in the bay area were activists and were willing to put their neck out for change and for what they thought was right.” As to her legacy on the council, she hopes to improve communication, bring in more voices, expand opportunities, and create long-term resilience economically, environmentally and socially for the community. Bruce Baker
In 1992, Bruce Baker, 73, and his wife, Charlene, bought a lot in Westminster. Three years later, construction on their home completed and they moved in. Baker graduated just Baker across the way from Lakewood High School and then from the University of ColoradoBoulder’s pharmacy school. While at Boulder, he joined the ROTC program and after graduation served in the military for nine years. Three years of active duty as an infantry officer and then five years in the reserves earned him the final rank of Captain. After his service, he spent most of his adult life as a retail pharmacis, raising his three children, and now six grandsons. A familiar face on the City Council, Baker was elected in 2013 and 2017 with a primary focus on development. Pivoting focus, now he is looking at water rates within the city. His stance is that rates should be no more than six dollars per a thousand gallons. He believes the past council misled the city of Westminster on the true costs and true challenges of the water system. “Governments should never lie to their people. Never. You don’t have to look into all the details to know something is wrong. With so many cities around us and on the
front range provide water at less than four bucks per a thousand,” he said. For this next term, Baker’s main priorities are lowering water rates, to stop subsidizing apartment buildings, and to thrift; meaning to spend very little government money. “If you look at the new downtown, every project there has been given taxpayer money. Over the last five years, we’ve had the hottest real estate market, one of the hottest real estate markets in the nation, and we subsidize people that understand if you have a hot property you get to sell it at an extra price,” he said. Obi Ezeadi
With over 10,000 doors knocked, earning the highest number of small-dollar donations in Westminster’s history, and being the first Nigerian ever elected to Westminster’s counEzeadi cil, Obi Ezeadi, 37, won the most votes in the city’s election last week. Ezeadi was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and raised in New Jersey. He has lived in Westminster for the past six years with his wife and his seven-year-old daughter, Gracie. He comes to local government with the idea that change comes from community involvement. “To bring transformative change that creates prosperity for everyone to survive, live and prosper takes jumping into the deep end and getting involved,” he said. Ezeadi noted that this lesson came from growing up in an impoverished city in New Jersey. Schools in the area were defunded, and he believes the institutions were designed to limit certain communities of people. That fuels his desire for equity. “It takes money (to run for) city council and being at the table,” he said. “Having a seat at the table to ensure that everyone can get a seat at the table, that’s why I did it.” Pulling himself up by his bootstraps sparked his passion for speaking for the little guy. “I didn’t grow up with a safety net,” he said. “My drive is a product from being brought up from nothing. As a result, I bear the weight of responsibility to care for and listen to our most vulnerable.” For his priorities this term, Ezeadi wants to focus on regaining the trust from the people of Westminster, transforming the way the city performs outreach, and making water more affordable, specifically by establishing a public bank. Ezeadi points to a public bank to keep money within Westminster’s economic cycle, instead of giving money away to Wall Street Banks. He noted that this can stimulate the local economy, and is socially and environmentally responsible. With these ideas in mind, leaving a legacy of delivery is his main goal. “Making sure that we eliminate partisan politics. That we collaborate together as one unit and lead. Each of us needs to lead the charge,” he said.
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Auraria’s displaced people to get free tuition Promise made when neighborhood was razed is fulfilled BY DAVID GILBERT THE COLORADO SUN
Speakers give remarks on Nov. 4 at the Auraria Higher Education Campus in Denver. The University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver and Community College of Denver are expanding a free tuition program for descendants of Aurarians who were displaced from their neighborhood through the 1970s. PHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN
Abenicio Rael’s mother, Irene, was one of hundreds of people forced to leave their homes in Denver’s oldest neighborhood before it was razed to make way for the Auraria campus in the 1970s. That made him eligible for the Displaced Aurarian Scholarship, though he soon found the limits of its promise of free tuition at the campus’ three colleges for the children of former residents. Rael was able to apply the scholarship toward his bachelor’s degree at the University of Colorado Denver on the 170-acre campus north of Colfax Avenue and just east of the South Platte River. But when he applied again to use the scholarship toward a master’s degree, he faced an uphill battle. “I wrote so many emails to so many higher-ups, they finally agreed,” Rael said. “But when I tried again for a doctorate, the financial aid office said, ‘Sorry, you used it all up.’” Rael said he never found documentation saying the scholarship could only apply to certain levels of education at the school. “It struck me as a continuation of systemic white supremacy,” he said.
“I kept pushing.” On Nov. 4, Rael was among the crowd in front of St. Cajetan’s Church, once the cornerstone of the community in the largely Latino neighborhood where his mother grew up, to celebrate the scholarship’s expansion to all degree levels and all descendants of displaced Aurarians. “It’s exciting,” said Rael, who plans to complete his doctorate in higher education leadership next spring. “My children will be able to use this scholarship, however far they want to go. It’s gratifying.” The Displaced Aurarian Scholarship will be expanded to cover full tuition for all direct descendants of those who lived in the neighborhood between 1955 and 1973, college leaders announced. Rael helped spearhead the change by taking his concerns about the program to CU Regent Nolbert Chavez last year. Chavez took up the cause of expanding the scholarship, and found eager buy-in from officials at CU Denver, and the two other schools that share the campus, Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Community College of Denver. The expanded scholarships will become available starting in spring semester 2022 and will apply to all levels of education on the campus, from associate degrees to doctorates. It’s unclear how many people are eligible to receive the expanded benefit. “I am filled with mixed emotion SEE AURARIA, P21
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today,” Chavez said. “Part of me can still see the hurt and pain of these good people who were forced to leave and had to endure unspeakable hardship.” Once part of the ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute peoples, Auraria was founded in the fall of 1858 by a party of goldseekers led by William Green Russell, preceding the founding of neighboring Denver City by a few weeks before the two merged in 1860, according to the Denver Public Library. As the decades passed, the neighborhood became home to a largely working-class and immigrant population. By the early 20th century, it was home to a burgeoning Latino population, with life revolving around St. Cajetan’s, built in 1926. Following a devastating flood on the South Platte River in June 1965, Denver voters approved a bond measure in 1969 to demolish the neighborhood to make way for the campus in spite of community resistance organized by Father Peter Garcia of St. Cajetan’s. Relocations were complete by 1972, and the Auraria campus opened in 1976. More than 300 households were forcibly displaced to make way for the campus. Property owners were paid for their homes and residents were promised free education at the future campus, but once the campus opened in 1976, Chavez said, financial aid proved spotty and many former residents were turned away.
“Students were subject to whatever policy was used at that point in time,” Chavez said. “Some were mistreated. Some were forced to jump through hoop after hoop in hopes they would give up.” Community activists strived for years to codify the scholarship. Santos Blan, who lived in Auraria until he was 16 and came back to teach accounting at CCD, remembered getting the brush-off when he and others approached the Colorado state legislature to solidify the scholarship in the early 1990s. “Today there are administrators and leaders who made this happen,” Blan said. “We didn’t have that 30 years ago.” Then-Colorado state Rep. Celina Benavidez introduced a bill in 1994 to create a financial aid fund to assist displaced Aurarians, but the bill died in committee. Shortly thereafter, the three colleges on the campus seeded their own funding for the former residents and their children. Since its inception, the scholarship has paid $3.4 million in financial aid to roughly 600 students at CU Denver; $1.4 million in aid for 305 students at MSU; and more than $627,000 to 136 students at CCD. Expanding and better codifying the scholarship is an important step toward fulfilling the mandates of all three colleges, all of which are federally designated Hispanic Serving Institutions, said Antonio Farias, CU Denver’s vice chancellor of diversity, equity and inclusion. “This scholarship is a way for us to confront our history,” Farias said. “It’s a way to build on the past without shame or anger.” Seeing the scholarship solidified is
Attendees listen as speakers give remarks on Nov. 4 at the Auraria Higher EducaPHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN tion Campus in Denver.
reflective of the times, Chavez told the crowd in front of St. Cajetan’s. “We are living in a time of seismic social change,” Chavez said. “We are helping transform colleges from places of elitism to engines of social mobility.” Standing in front of St. Cajetan’s with her son to celebrate the scholarship’s expansion was an emotional moment for Rael’s mother, Irene. The Auraria neighborhood lives in her memory, she said. “I still smell the tortillas and the chiles roasting,” she said. “I hear the rosary coming from the church. Paco
Sanchez on the radio. I remember dances, boys playing baseball in the street, staying outside with the other kids until after dark. I’m so proud of my son. With this scholarship, our people’s history lives on through him, and through my grandchildren.” This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.
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Adams 14 finds no substitute for substitutes Shortage of temporary teachers behind additional Friday off BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Adams 14 School District’s last-minute decision to take the day after Veterans Day off has less to do
with permanent staffing shortages and more to do with understanding the nature of Thursday holidays and giving staff and students a break, according to officials. “We are not feeling the pinch, that either classes or schools are going uncovered,” said Robert Lundin, executive director of communications and special projects for Adams County School District 14. The Commerce City-based district announced Nov. 8 that it would
extend the normal Veterans Day holiday by a day this year to include Thursday and Friday, giving staff and students a four-day weekend. The decision is based on the difficulty of finding substitutes for the teachers who might end up taking the day off. Lundin said the district usually sees attendance drop off on the day after Veterans Day, with more parents choosing to keep their kids home for the day. The district ex-
pected teachers to do the same this year, he said. “The question is going to be how likely are teacher or support staff to use their allocated days, to take that Friday off and make it an extended weekend?” Lundin said. “And second, will students return as well or will parents decide to take the day and visit family?” District 14 has more than 6,000 SEE SUBSTITUTES, P23
Arvada Army veteran gets home remodel from 75 volunteers Home Depot Foundation partners with Semper Fi & America’s Fund to improve home BY RYAN DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
When Tyler Wilson and his family moved to northwest Arvada earlier this year, the Army veteran — who was paralyzed in Afghanistan in 2005 — he thought it would take years to save up enough money to modify his home to be accessible for him. Fortunately for the Wilsons, the Home Depot Foundation and partners Semper Fi & America’s Fund
From Nov. 8 to Nov. 10, over 100 volunteers worked to replace the Wilson’s dilapidated fence and make the family’s backyard more accessible by installing concrete ramps and durable window well covers. As an added bonus, the Foundation also donated a playground for the Wilson’s kids, aged two and four. “It was pretty amazing to get that news that it wasn’t going to take years to play with my kids out here,” said Wilson. Mandy Fritchell, a local Home Depot Store Manager who works on the Foundation’s initiatives said that the Semper Fi Fund reached out and shared Wilson’s story. When Fritchell received the letter from Semper Fi, she shared it with the Home Depot community and was met with an outpouring of support. “We got a heartfelt letter from
Semper Fi so then we got our stores involved. We put it out to all our stores and all our third parties, anyone we have in our community can come volunteer,” said Fritchell. “We had a huge turnout. Word got out to people beyond our (Home Depot) community. “ Fritchell said the project was initially slated to just improve the fence, but after doing a walkthrough with Wilson, the Foundation decided to broaden the range of the renovations. “After we got a whole scope of it, we decided to go bigger, Fritchell said. “We had money left over from the grant we got, so we added the playground.” Wilson said the additional improvements will drastically improve his quality of life. “Big thing was wanting to get the
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students attending 11 schools - seven elementary schools, two middle schools and two high schools, Adams City and Lester Arnold. Lundin said the teaching positions at those schools are all fully staffed. “We have been able to recover (from COVID) in large part because teachers, administrators and support staff have been remarkably persistent and wanted to see their kids thrive in the aftermath of the pandemic,” Lundin said.
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connect (the Wilson’s) and partner with Home Depot to make the yard more accessible and enjoyable,” said Cartmill. “Tyler and (wife) Chrystal are part of the Semper Fi family. When we see situations like this, we step in and try to do something. Our goal is to be here and let them know that we’re here.”
But the district also relies on a group of 97 substitute teachers -- between paraprofessionals and certified teachers -- many of whom work in several metro Denver school districts throughout the year. “We have had a shortage of substitutes, not just at Adams 14, but across the state. This is a state-wide issue,” he said. Adams 12 Five Star School District and Boulder Valley also decided to cancel classes Nov. 12. “That’s why both Adams 12 and Boulder Valley came to the same conclusion, for the same reason,” Lundin said. “The conclusion we all came to is that it’s more disruptive
to return kids to school on Friday with the potential of some portion of teachers not being back, and then having to shuffle classes because you do not have as ready a pool of substitutes as you would like.” Representatives from Adams 12 could not be reached for comment. Lundin said it should not be a regular problem for the district because the Veterans Day holiday is tied to the Nov. 11 date, which can be on different days of the week depending on the year. “So it’s very rare to have a freestanding Thursday holiday with an expectation of returning on the following Friday,” he said. “We don’t
expect to see this situation duplicated.” Lundin said it’s a practical decision, but also one made because district leaders know how difficult life has been for the past 18 months. “It’s been done more out of an abundance of caution than anything else,” Lundin said. “And, an abundance of wanting to give a thank you to our staff, who have been working their tails off for the last 18 months to two years. It has been an intense, non-stop bouncing-back from the unexpected. So, if we can give something back to our staff and students, it’s a win-win situation all around.”
As the project wrapped up the day before Veterans Day Wilson said the work volunteers had done exceeded his wildest expectations. “It’s pretty amazing overall, just the generosity of everyone involved taking time out of their day,” said Wilson. “I’m not one who likes asking for help, and it’s just a very humbling and surreal experience to see everyone come out and do all this work so we can infinite amount of memories with these boys back here in our forever home.”
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Holy Family running back Jacob Lawver eludes Pueblo South’s Brian Maes, right, during a CHSAA 3A playoff game at Holy Family High School in Broomfield Nov. 12. The Tigers beat the Colts 34-18. PHOTO BY STEFAN BRODSKY
Holy Family football tops Pueblo South Tigers advance to quarterfinals Nov. 20 against Roosevelt BY JONATHAN MANESS SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
WESTMINSTER – The Holy Family high school football team took care of business
Friday night in the opening round of the Class 3A football playoffs. Jacob Lawver scored three touchdowns and the No. 8 Tigers stifling defense kept No. 9 Pueblo South out of the end zone for the first 40 minutes of the contest as they rolled to a 34-18 victory. It was a rematch for the two squads as Holy Fam-
ily edged Pueblo South 34-27 in the season-opener, and the Tigers made a point not to let it get that close this time. “They were a completely different team than they were in Week 1 and so we had to be ready,” Lawver said. “They are a tough team, and it was going to be a battle. We needed to take care of business and
that’s what we did.” Holy Family now has the tough task of facing the top-seeded Roosevelt Rough Riders in the quarterfinals. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, in Johnstown. The Rough Riders topped 16th-seeded Thomas Jefferson 56-15 Saturday. They also defeated the Tigers 49-7 earlier this season,
taking advantage of Holy Family’s four turnovers. The Tigers didn’t struggle with turnovers Nov. 12, but coach Mike Gabriel was frustrated with the number of penalties his team had against Pueblo South. “We have to limit our SEE FOOTBALL, P25
SPORTS BRIEFS State volleyball COLORADO SPRINGS -- Holy Family split its four matches at this year’s class 4A state volleyball tournament at the Broadmoor Arena. The Tigers upset Erie 25-17, 20-25, 25-17, 25-21 in the first round Nov. 11. No stats were immediately available. The Tigers moved into the second round and a match with secondseeded Cheyenne Mountain High School. CMHS won that contest 2515, 25-21, 20-25, 25-9. The Red-Tailed Hawks’ Karlee Pinell had 11 kills. Anna Blamires added 10. Kloe May served three aces. No stats were available for the Tigers. Holy Family stayed alive with a 25-16, 25-16, 22-25, 25-21 over Palisade in a consolation round match Nov. 12. Ella Yanowich and Addie Ritterbush led the Bulldogs with 12 kills. Kyra Birch added 10. No stts were available for Holy Family. Mead eliminated the Tigers with a straight-set win late Nov. 12. No stats were available for either team.
HFHS finished the season with a record of 18-11. Softball Four members of the state 4A champion Holy Family High School softball team also; earned All-Northern Colorado Athletic Conference honors this season. The player of the year was Abby Edwards. First-team all-conference recognition went to Ava Kuszak and Annika Manzanares. The conference’s pitcher of the year was Izzy Arroyo, a freshman. State soccer DENVER -- Grandview’s JT Sus scored the only goal in the second half as the Wolves shut out Legacy 1-0 in the state 5A soccer semifinals at the University of Denver. No stats were available for the Lightning, which finished the season with a mark of 15-3-1. Girls basketball Tryouts for Legacy’s girls basketball team continue at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17. The school’s winter sports night is set for 6:30
p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18. College sports The first of two national letter-ofintent signing days was Nov. 10. Horizon’s Audra Vine signed on to play basketball at Fort Lewis College in Durango. Hawks’ baseball players Jake Olguin (Colorado State UniversityPueblo), Cole Toureau (Garden City,. Kansas, Community College) and Gabe Rodriguez (Northeastern Community Colllege in Sterling) also signed their collegiate letters. Legacy softball player Kendall Aragon signed with the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. Her teammate, Janessa Esquibel, signed her letter of intent to play at Florida National University. Kaylee Sheets put pen to paper and signed with Colby (Kan.) Communnity College. Holy Family softball player Ava Kuszak signed her letter with the University of Wisconsin. Postseason softball Horizon’s Allie Medrano was a
first-team, all-state choice in class 5A in voting through CHSAANow. com, ColoradoPreps.com and MaxPreps. Hadley Hudson, Alexis Mohr and Madison Vollmar were honorable-mention choices. Legacy’s Kendall Aragon was a second-team, all-state selection. Janessa Esquibel was an honorablemention honoree, Westminster’s Bre McCoy and Northglenn’s Anessa Galarza earned honorable-mention, allstate consideration in the voting. CHSAANow.com, MaxPreps and ColoradoPreps.com vored for allstate honors in class 4A as well. Holy Family’s Abby Edwards was the player of the year, and her coach, Moria Nguyen, was the class 4A coach of the year. Other Tigers to receive recognition were Izabella Arroyo, Ava Kuszak and Annika Manzanares, all of whom were first-team honorees. Riverdale Ridge’s Sydnee Fordham also made first-team, all-state in this voting effort. Aubree Davis was an honorable-mention choice, as was Sienna Mullin.
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November 18, 2021 Holy Family running back Jacob Lawver breaks through the Pueblo South defense to score the Tigers first touchdown early in the second quarter of a CHSAA 3A playoff game in Broomfield Nov. 12. The Tigers advanced in the tournament, by beating the Colts, 34-18.
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Pueblo South receiver Mateo Esquivel fumbles after a tackle by Holy Family’s Blake Neece during the second quarter of a CHSAA 3A playoff game at Holy Family High School in Broomfield Nov. 12. Esquivel was ruled down by contact on
Holy Family’s defense was so dominant in the second half that the Colts didn’t pass midfield until the fourth quarter, and the Tigers took advantage of the great field position. Lawver scored his third touchdown on the opening drive of the half ,and Chase McNaughton found paydirt to push the lead to 27-3 going into the final quarter. Pueblo South was able to score a pair of touchdowns in the fourth, but Cooney hooked up with Dillon Dahlgren on a 65-yard touchdown pass to seal the victory. Lawver finished the contest with 218 yards on the ground, while McNaughton added 81 and Cooney tossed for 147 yards through the air.
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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - RESTART PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-109(2)(b)(II) FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202178841 Republished to restart foreclosure stayed by bankruptcy and reset sale date. To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 2, 2021, 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 Adams records. Original Grantor(s) Anthony Graham and Nina Graham Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Global Equity Finance, Inc., its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. Bank National Association as Trustee for Angel Oak Mortgage Trust 2019-3, Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2019-3 Date of Deed of Trust February 12, 2019 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 20, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2019000012070 Original Principal Amount $185,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $184,417.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 82, Block 1, Weatherstone Subdivision, County of Adams, State of Colorado. Also known by street and number as: 11705 Zenobia Loop, Westminster, CO 80031. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 01/05/2022, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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. First Publication: 11/11/2021 Last Publication: 12/9/2021 Name of Publication: Metro North 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: 09/02/2021 Lisa L. Culpepper, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Lisa L. Culpepper, Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO10276 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202178895 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 9, 2021, 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 Adams records. Original Grantor(s) Diana M. Machtolf and Jeffrey E. Machtolf Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems. Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Lend America, Inc., its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, D/B/A Christiana Trust, as Trustee for the CSMC 2017-FHA1 Trust, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2017-FHA1 Date of Deed of Trust October 03, 2008 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 07, 2008 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2008000079791** Original Principal Amount $205,537.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $199,275.95 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 26, BLOCK 2, WOODBRIDGE STATION SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 9, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. **This loan has been modified by a Loan Modification Agreement dated September 8, 2015. Also known by street and number as: 12969 Forest Way, Thornton, CO 80241. 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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 01/12/2022, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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. First Publication: 11/18/2021 Last Publication: 12/16/2021 Name of Publication: Metro North 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: 09/09/2021 Lisa L. Culpepper, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Lisa L. Culpepper, Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO1040 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202178896 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 9, 2021, 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 Adams records. Original Grantor(s) Ethel J. Pitts Original Beneficiary(ies) Old Kent Mortgage Company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. as Trustee for Mortgage Assets Management Series I Trust Date of Deed of Trust October 27, 1999 County of Recording Adams
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Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 08, 1999 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) C0611260 Book: 5949 Page: 0012 Original Principal Amount $160,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $42,732.14 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 39 AND THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 38, BLOCK 37, AURORA, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1657 Chester Street, Aurora, CO 80010. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE
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Also known by street and number as: 15889 Josephine St, Thornton, CO 80602. 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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 01/05/2022, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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. First Publication: 11/11/2021 Last Publication: 12/9/2021 Name of Publication: Metro North
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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/29/2021, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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. First Publication: 11/4/2021 Last Publication: 12/2/2021 Name of Publication: Metro North 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: 08/26/2021 Lisa L. Culpepper, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee
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.
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;
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 01/12/2022, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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.
DATE: 09/02/2021 Lisa L. Culpepper, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Lisa L. Culpepper, Treasurer and Public Trustee
Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO10766
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
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.
First Publication: 11/18/2021 Last Publication: 12/16/2021 Name of Publication: Metro North 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: 09/09/2021 Lisa L. Culpepper, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Lisa L. Culpepper, Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-21-893100-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202178894 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 2, 2021, 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 Adams records. Original Grantor(s) Thu Loi Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for KBHS Home Loans, LLC, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Freedom Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust March 17, 2017 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 17, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2017000023893 Original Principal Amount $418,912.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $402,547.35 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 9, BLOCK 10, CUNDALL FARMS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, AMENDMENT NO. 1,
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202178890
Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO10093 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202178891 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 26, 2021, 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 Adams records. Original Grantor(s) Michael J. Henry Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Broker Solutions, Inc. dba New American Funding, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Broker Solutions Inc. dba New American Funding Date of Deed of Trust December 23, 2016 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 30, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2016000114483*** Original Principal Amount $295,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $308,448.64 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 1, BLOCK 5, POTOMAC FARMS FILING NO. 2 AMENDED, CITY OF COMMERCE CITY, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. **The Deed of Trust legal description was corrected by an Affidavit of Correction recorded on 08/19/2021 at Reception No. 2021000099139, records of Adams County, Colorado. ***This loan has been modified through a Modification Agreement recorded 07/29/2019 at Reception No. 2019000059849 in the records of the Adams county clerk and recorder, Colorado. Also known by street and number as: 13484 East 107th Avenue, Commerce City, CO 80022. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 26, 2021, 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 Adams records. Original Grantor(s) Joy Mecabe AND Richard Mecabe Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust November 17, 2018 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 27, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2018000094885 Original Principal Amount $50,875.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $50,330.35 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 30, BLOCK 2, HURON GREEN, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 9508 Jason Court, Thornton, CO 80260. 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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/29/2021, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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. First Publication: 11/4/2021 Last Publication: 12/2/2021
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Public Notices Name of Publication: Metro North 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: 08/26/2021 Lisa L. Culpepper, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Lisa L. Culpepper, Treasurer and 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 PC 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., #400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 20-024213 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202178889 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 26, 2021, 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 Adams records. Original Grantor(s) Robert J. Lewis and Michele Lewis Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for loanDepot.com, LLC, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt loanDepot.com, LLC Date of Deed of Trust October 25, 2018 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 02, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2018000089215 Original Principal Amount $223,850.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $220,828.89 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 4, BLOCK 12, NORTH GLENN -EIGHTEENTH FILING, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1722 E 115th Ave, Northglenn, CO 80233. 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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/29/2021, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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. First Publication: 11/4/2021 Last Publication: 12/2/2021 Name of Publication: Metro North 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: 08/26/2021 Lisa L. Culpepper, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Lisa L. Culpepper, Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-21-893594-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202178885 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 12, 2021, 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 Adams records.
Original Grantor(s) Robert A. Bonnell Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Low VA Rates, LLC, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Village Capital & Investment, LLC Date of Deed of Trust June 24, 2019 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 28, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2019000050697 Original Principal Amount $224,015.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $223,212.07 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 17, Block 19, City View Heights Second Filing, County of Adams, State of Colorado. Also known by street and number as: 8501 Clarkson St, Denver, CO 80229. 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 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/15/2021, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, 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. First Publication: 10/21/2021 Last Publication: 11/18/2021 Name of Publication: Metro North 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: 08/12/2021 Lisa L. Culpepper, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Lisa L. Culpepper, Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO10337 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.
City and County Public Notice City of Westminster Summary of Proceedings Summary of proceedings of the Westminster City Council meeting of Monday, November 8, 2021. Mayor Seitz, Mayor Pro Tem DeMott and Councillors DeMott, Seymour, Skulley, Smith and Voelz were present at roll call. The minutes of the meeting of October 25, 2021 were approved as presented. Council presented a Proclamation designating "Law Enforcement Records Personnel Week." Council approved the following: Contract to Replace Mechanical Equipment at Swim and Fitness Center and authorize Cumulative Purchase with Energy Services of Colorado, Inc.; Second Reading of Councillor's Bill No. 42 on Amending the 2021 Budget of the General Capital Improvement Fund and Authorizing a Supplemental Appropriation from the 2021 Estimated Revenues in the Fund; Resolution No. 45 Authorizing the Purchase of the 17.92 Acre Pearl Brauch Property Located at 9889 Alkire Street in Unincorporated Jefferson County for Open Space; Resolution No. 46 Conditionally Authorizing a Memorandum of Understanding, Settlement Participation Forms, and the Colorado Subdivision Escrow Agreement, Regarding the Distribution and Management of Opioid Settlement Funds At 8:03 p.m., the meeting of the seated City Council was adjourned. At 8:26 p.m., the Mayor-elect reconvened the meeting, and the Oath of Office was administered to newly elected Mayor Nancy McNally, Councillors Sarah Nurmela and Obi Ezeadi, and to newly re-elected Councillor David DeMott. David DeMott was elected to serve a two-year term as Mayor Pro Tem after receiving the majority of votes cast by written ballot. There was no further business to come before
the City Council, and the meeting adjourned at 9:07 p.m. By Order of the Westminster City Council Abby Fitch, Interim City Clerk *Attachment Councillors Bill No. 42 Legal Notice No. 708304 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the liquor laws of the State of Colorado and the ordinances of the City of Westminster, an application for a hotel/restaurant liquor license to sell malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors by the drink for on-premise consumption was filed with the Westminster Special Permit and License Board on December 1, 2021. The applicant is Scalzotto Inc., dba Scalzotto Italian Restaurant, 12015 Melody Drive Scalzotto Inc. owners/officers are: Giancarlo and Tonia Scalzotto 2416 E 139th Pl Thornton CO NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Special Permit & License Board will conduct a hearing on said application on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, at approximately 7:20 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 4800 W 92nd Avenue, Westminster, CO 80031, when and where all parties in interest will be heard. The neighborhood of interest has been established as: North: 124th Ave extended, the 12400 block north; South: 116th Ave extended, the 11600 block north; West: Pecos St; extended 1600 block west; East: Grant St extended, 300 block east extended. The City will have petitions circulated within this neighborhood. For additional information contact the City Clerk's Office 303-658-2162. SPECIAL PERMIT AND LICENSE BOARD CITY OF WESTMINSTER Mary Joy Barajas, Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. 708309 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to the liquor laws of the State of Colorado and the ordinances of the City of Westminster, an application for a beer and wine liquor license to sell malt and vinous, by the drink for on-premise consumption was filed with the Westminster Special Permit and License Board on December 1, 2021. The licensee applicants are GDLP Restaurant Group, LLC, dba Wingstop, 13644 Orchard Pkwy #100. GDLP Restaurant Group, LLC owner is: Far West Services LLC, 1675 Scenic Ave #150 Costa Mesa CA NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Special Permit & License Board will conduct a hearing on said application on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers City Hall, 4800 W. 92nd Avenue, Westminster, CO 80031, when and where all parties in interest will be heard. The neighborhood of interest has been established with the following boundaries: North: 141st Ct, the 14100 block west; South: 132nd Ave, 13200 block north extended; West: Lipan Street, the 1200 block west; East: Grant St, the 300 block east. The City will have petitions circulated within this neighborhood. For additional information contact City Clerk's Office 303-658-2162. SPECIAL PERMIT AND LICENSE BOARD CITY OF WESTMINSTER Mary Joy Barajas, Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No. 708300 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice CANCELLATION OF PUBLIC HEARING – CITY COUNCIL Notice is hereby given to all interested persons that the public hearing previously scheduled to be held by the City Council of the City of Westminster on Monday, November 22, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. has been cancelled. The purpose of the City Council’s legislative public hearing was to consider an ordinance to adopt the amended Downtown Westminster Specific Plan. The Plan establishes a vision for the Downtown along with goals, policies, development regulations that are used to ensure the execution of that vision. The Plan applies to all public improvements and private development within the 105-acre Plan area boundary which is roughly bounded by 92nd Avenue to the north, 88th Avenue to the south, Harlan Street to the east, and U.S. Highway 36 to the west. Once the hearing date has been rescheduled, notice will again be mailed in accordance with Section 11-5-13 of the Westminster Municipal Code. Note that public hearings for items unrelated to the ordinance to adopt the amended Downtown Westminster Specific Plan may be held at the scheduled City Council Hearing on November 22, 2021.
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PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at 7:00 p.m., or as soon as possible thereafter, on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, the City Council of the City of Thornton, Adams County, Colorado, will hold a public hearing to consider the use of eminent domain as a means to acquire all or a portion of the Thornton Shopping Center property. You may attend the public hearing in person in the Council Chambers at the Thornton City Hall, 9500 Civic Center Drive, Thornton, Colorado, 80229. To attend the public hearing remotely, register in advance at https://thorntonco.zoom.us/webinar/register/ WN_i0chD1wwSSyLFC68LdsnlA or call 669-900-6833 and enter meeting ID 864 4283 3227. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting and the process for providing testimony.
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The Thornton Shopping Center property is located within the South Thornton Urban Renewal Area (“Area”), and is generally located at the northeast corner of East 88th Avenue and Washington Street, and includes properties between Russell Boulevard on the north, Corona Street on the east, 88th Avenue on the south, and Washington Street on the west. The parcel numbers associated with the Thornton Shopping Center property, as provided by the Adams County Assessor’s Office, are Parcel # 0171923318037 and Parcel # 0171923318043. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that any protests or objections to a possible determination that eminent domain is an appropriate means to acquire all or a portion of the Thornton Shopping Center property must be submitted in writing to the City Council of the City of Thornton at or prior to the public hearing, or any continuance or postponement thereof, in order to be considered. All protests and objections shall be deemed waived unless presented in writing at the time and manner specified above. If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to attend or participate in the meeting, please notify the City’s ADA Coordinator at 303-538-7245 at least eight (8) hours in advance and arrangements will be made to provide reasonable accommodation. TDD access is available through Colorado Relay at 711 or you can also contact the City Development Department by email at CityDevelopment@ThorntonCO.gov. CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF THORNTON, COLORADO
NOTICE CONCERNING PROPOSED 2022 BUDGETS OF PARTERRE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 PARTERRE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2 NOTICE is hereby given that proposed budgets have been submitted to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of each of Parterre Metropolitan District No. 1 and Parterre Metropolitan District No. 2 (the “Districts”) for the ensuing year of 2022; that copies of such proposed budgets have been filed in the office of the Districts at CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 600, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection, by appointment only; and that such proposed budgets will be considered at a public hearing of the Board to be held on December 6, 2021 at 1:45 p.m. at 1144 15th Street, Suite 2600, Denver, Colorado. Due to concerns regarding COVID-19 and the benefits to the control of the spread of COVID-19 by limiting in-person contact, this public hearing will also be held virtually via Zoom, Meeting ID: 832 5070 2928, Passcode: 006238. Any elector within the Districts may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget, inspect the budget and file or register any objections thereto. PARTERRE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 AND PARTERRE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2 By:/s/ Chad Murphy, Chair Legal Notice No. 708314 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel _____________________________________ Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER AUTHORITY Notice is hereby given that proposed 2022 Budgets for the General Fund and the Capital Fund of the Adams County Communications Center Authority (Adcom) were submitted to the Adcom Board of Directors (Board) prior to October 15, 2021. A copy of each proposed budget is available to the public for inspection at Adcom’s office located at 7321 Birch Street, Commerce City, CO 80022. The proposed 2022 Budgets will be considered at a public hearing of the Adcom Board at 7321 Birch St., Commerce City, CO 80022 on November 18, 2021 at 8:30 a.m., where final action to approve the proposed 2022 Budgets may be taken.
By: Jan Kulmann, Mayor ATTEST: Kristen N. Rosenbaum, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: Tami Yellico, City Attorney Legal Notice No. 708306 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 9, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice BY AUTHORITY
Any interested elector within Adcom’s service area may inspect the proposed 2022 Budgets and file or register any objections thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2022 Budgets.
ORDINANCE NO. 4099 COUNCILLOR'S BILL NO. 42 SERIES OF 2021 INTRODUCED BY COUNCILLORS Voelz, Skulley
Dated: November 2, 2021
A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2021 BUDGET OF THE GENERAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND AND AUTHORIZING A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FROM THE 2021 ESTIMATED REVENUES IN THE FUND THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ORDAINS: Section 1. The 2021 appropriation for the General Capital Improvement Fund initially appropriated by Ordinance No. 4048 is hereby increased by $14,544,000. This appropriation is for the American Rescue Plan Act Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds federal award. Section 2. The $14,544,000 increase shall be allocated to City Revenue and Expense accounts as described in the City Council Agenda, dated October 25, 2021 (a copy of which may be obtained from the City Clerk) increasing City fund budgets as follows: General Capital Improvement Fund $14,544,000 Section 3 – Severability. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be considered as severable. If any section, paragraph, clause, word, or any other part of this Ordinance shall for any reason be held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such part shall be deemed as severed from this ordinance. The invalidity or unenforceability of such section, paragraph, clause, or provision shall not affect the construction or enforceability of any of the remaining provisions, unless it is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that a contrary result is necessary in order for this Ordinance to have any meaning whatsoever. Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage after the second reading.
ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER AUTHORITY /S/ Clinton Nichols Board President Legal Notice No. 708263 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the BRADBURN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2 (the “District”), will hold a meeting via teleconference on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 2:30 P.M., for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on the 2021 amended budget (the “Amended Budget”) and 2022 proposed budget (the “Proposed Budget”). This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information: Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88120320475?pw d=TmRGb1JzSi9RUnljWUJheUhqajVUdz09 Meeting ID: 881 2032 0475 Passcode: 948105 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Amended Budget and Proposed Budget have been submitted to the District. A copy of the Amended Budget and the Proposed Budget are on file in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 E Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection.
INTRODUCED, PASSED ON FIRST READING, AND TITLE AND PURPOSE ORDERED PUBLISHED this 25th day of October, 2021.
Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget by the Boards. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800.
PASSED, ENACTED ON SECOND READING, AND FULL TEXT ORDERED PUBLISHED this 8th day of November, 2021.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: BRADBURN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2
Rita McConnell, AICP Planning Manager
ATTEST: Mayor Interim City Clerk
/s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law
Legal Notice No. 708305 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021
Legal Notice No. 708303 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021
Legal Notice No. 708299 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021
For additional questions, contact Nathan Lawrence with the Westminster Planning Division at nlawrence@cityofwestminster.us or 303.658.2099.
Section 5. This ordinance shall be published in full within ten days after its enactment.
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Public Notices Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET AND 2021 BUDGET AMENDMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proposed budget for the ensuing year of 2022 has been submitted to the PLA Metropolitan District ("District"). Such proposed budget will be considered at a meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held 2:00 p.m. on December 6, 2021 via telephone and videoconference. To attend and participate by telephone, dial 1-650-479-3208 and enter meeting number 145 887 0048 and passcode DjYmJuyA353. Information regarding public participation by videoconference will be available at least 24 hours prior to the meeting and public hearing by contacting Becky Johnson by email at bjohnson@spencerfane.com or by telephone at 303-839-3885. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an amendment to the 2021 budget of the District may also be considered at the above-referenced meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District. A copy of the proposed 2022 budget and the amended 2021 budget, if required, are available for public inspection at the offices of Spencer Fane. Please contact Becky Johnson by email at bjohnson@spencerfane.com or by telephone at 303-839-3885 to make arrangements to inspect the budget(s) prior to visiting the foregoing office. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to final adoption of the 2022 budget and the amended 2021 budget, if required, file or register any objections thereto. PLA METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Bruce O’Donnell, District Manager Legal Notice No. 708294 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentine Public Notice NOTICE CONCERNING PROPOSED AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND 2022 BUDGET OF TIMBERLEAF METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE is hereby given to all interested parties a proposed 2021 Amended Budget and a proposed 2022 Budget have been submitted to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Timberleaf Metropolitan District (the “District”), respectively. Copies of the proposed 2021 Amended Budget and the proposed 2022 Budget have been filed in the office of the District Manager at 2619 Canton Court, Suite A, Fort Collins, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection; and that such proposed 2021 Amended Budget and proposed 2022 Budget will be considered at a public hearing of the Board to be held via videoconference, on November 29, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. This public hearing will be held virtually. To attend this public hearing by joining Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89689416263?pw d=WWV0ZTBld2lmNEc3SjNCelcyME0wZz09, 1 (312) 626-6799, Webinar ID: 896 8941 6263, Passcode: 030106.
This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85460952068?pwd=T kMrM3kzcFdJQ1dpdHkxc3Q5U2o1UT09 Meeting ID: 854 6095 2068 Passcode: 291194 One tap mobile: 1 (720) 707-2699 or 1 (253) 215-8782 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Amended Budget and Proposed Budget have been submitted to the District. A copy of the Amended Budget and the Proposed Budget are on file in the office of Simmons & Wheeler, P.C., 304 Inverness Way South, Suite 490, Englewood, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection. Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget by the Board. This meeting is open to the public and the agenda for any meeting may be obtained by calling (303) 858-1800. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: HOME PLACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law Legal Notice No. 708281 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF CONTRACTOR'S SETTLEMENT Pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., notice is hereby given that on December 7, 2021, at Westminster, Colorado, final settlement will be made by the City with Lillard & Clark Construction Company, Inc., hereinafter called the "Contractor," for and on account of the contract for the construction of a Project described as 2020 Semper and Northwest Treatment Facilities R&R. 1. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or his subcontractor, or that supplies rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, whose claim therefor has not been paid by the Contractor or the subcontractor for the work contracted to be done, may file with the City a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim. 2. All such claims shall be filed with the City Attorney's Office, City of Westminster, 4800 W. 92nd Avenue, Westminster, Colorado, 80031 by November 30, 2021. 3. All such claims must be notarized and must otherwise comply with the requirements of C.R.S. § 38 26 107.
Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the budgets, inspect the budgets and file or register any objections thereto.
4. Failure on the part of a creditor to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve the City from any and all liability for such claim.
TIMBERLEAF METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Nikolas Wagner, District Manager
Dated at Westminster, Colorado on November 11, 2021.
Legal Notice No. 708301 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PUBLIC HEARING RE AMENDED 2021 AND PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed 2022 budget has been submitted to the HERITAGE TODD CREEK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for the fiscal year 2022. A copy of such proposed 2022 budget has been filed in the accountant, Simmons & Wheeler P.C., 304 Inverness Drive South, Suite 490, Englewood, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed 2022 budget will be considered at a regular meeting of the Heritage Todd Creek Metropolitan District to be held at 1:00 P.M. on Monday, November 22, 2021. If necessary, an amended 2021 budget will be filed in the office of the accountant and open for public inspection for consideration at the regular meeting of the Board. The meeting will be held at 8455 Heritage Drive, Thornton, Colorado. Any interested elector within the Heritage Todd Creek Metropolitan District may inspect the amended 2021 budget, if necessary, and proposed 2022 budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the amended 2021 budget, if necessary, and proposed 2022 budget. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: HERITAGE TODD CREEK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ SETER & VANDER WALL, P.C. Attorneys for the District Legal Notice No. 708282 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2021 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the HOME PLACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), will hold a meeting via teleconference on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 2:00 P.M., for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on the 2021 amended budget (the “Amended Budget”) and 2022 proposed budget (the “Proposed Budget”).
/s/ David R. Frankel City Attorney Legal Notice NO. 708267 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT WITH CONTRACTOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on or about December 17, 2021 the Finance Director for the City of Northglenn, Colorado shall make final settlement with Integrated Water Services, Inc., Longmont, CO on account of their performance on Bunker Hill Lift Station bid, IFB 2019-032. Up to the time of making final settlement, the Finance Director shall receive at their office, 11701 Community Center Drive, Northglenn, Colorado, verified statement of claims with respect to such work and as provided in Section 38-26-107, Colorado revised statutes, 1973. City of Northglenn /s/ Jason Loveland, Finance Director Legal Notice No.708307 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Second Publication: November 25, 2021 Published In: Northglenn / Thornton Sentinel
Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice COUNTY COURT, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, CO 80601 Phone Number: 303-659-1161x143 Plaintiff: POTOMAC FARMS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT v. Defendant(s): MICHAEL J HENRY Attorney: Jeffrey B. Smith, Esq. Firm Name: Altitude Community Law P.C. Address: 555 Zang Street, Suite 100 Lakewood, Colorado 80228-1011 Phone Number: 303.432.9999 email: jsmith@altitude.law Atty. Reg. #: 40490 Case Number: 2021C036839 Div.: 1 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO: JARED N LUNN You are hereby summoned and required to file with the Clerk of the Court an answer or other response to the complaint filed against you in this case. You are required to file your answer or other response on or before: January 5, 2022 at 8:00 A.M., in the Adams County Court, 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, CO 80601. The nature of this action is a proceeding in rem. The relief sought by the Plaintiff(s) is an Injunction which will affect the following property: 13484 E 107th Ave., Commerce City, CO, also known as SUB:POTOMAC FARMS FILING NO 2 AMENDED BLK:5 LOT:1, Adams County, Colorado the (“Property”). If you fail to file your answer or other response on or before the date and time shown above, the relief sought may be granted by default by the Court without further notice. Dated at Adams County, Colorado, this 9th day of_ November, 2021. CLERK OF THE COURT By: Deputy Clerk This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 304(e), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure. This form should not be used where personal service is desired. WARNING: ALL FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. IN SOME CASES, A REQUEST FOR A JURY TRIAL MAY BE DENIED PURSUANT TO LAW EVEN THOUGH A JURY FEE HAS BEEN PAID. Legal Notice No. 708308 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 16, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
Water Court Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 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 OCTOBER 2021 for each County affected. 21CW3197 (13CW3184 & 01CW284), UPPER CHERRY CREEK WATER ASSOCIATION, CONSISTING OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY WATER AND WASTEWATER AUTHORITY; CITY OF AURORA, ACTING BY AND THROUGH ITS UTILITY ENTERPRISE; STATE OF COLORADO, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, DIVISION OF PARKS AND WILDLIFE AND PARKS AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION; COTTONWOOD WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT; AND EAST CHERRY CREEK VALLEY WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT, c/o Attorneys John M. Dingess, Esq., and Teri L. Petitt, Esq., Hamre, Rodriguez, Ostrander & Dingess, P.C., 3600 S. Yosemite Street, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80237-1829, 303-779-0200. APPLICATION TO MAKE CONDITIONAL WATER RIGHTS ABSOLUTE, FOR A FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE, AND TO CONTINUE CONDITIONAL WATER RIGHTS in ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, DENVER, DOUGLAS, AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. Applicants Upper Cherry Creek Water Association and its member entities, by and through the undersigned counsel, hereby submit the following application to make a portion of its conditional water rights absolute, for a finding of reasonable diligence, and to continue its conditional water rights initially decreed in Water Division 1, Case No. 01CW284. 1. Name, address and telephone number of Applicant. The Upper Cherry Creek Water Association (“UCCWA” or “Applicant”) consists of the following Members: 1.1. Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority (“ACWWA”), 13031 East Caley Avenue, Englewood, Colorado 80111, Telephone: 303.790.4830. 1.2. City of Aurora, Colorado, a municipal corporation of the Counties of Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas, acting by and through its Utility Enterprise (“Aurora”), 15151 East Alameda Parkway, Suite 3600, Aurora, Colorado 80012, Telephone: 303.739.7030. 1.3. Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife (“CPW”), 6060 Broadway, D e n v e r, C o l o r a d o 8 0 2 1 6 , Te l e p h o n e : 303.291.7261. 1.4. Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District (“CWSD”), 188 Inverness Drive West, #150, Englewood, Colorado 80112, Telephone: 303.649.9857. 1.5. East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District (“ECCV”), 6201 South Gun Club Road, Aurora, Colorado 80015, Telephone: 303.693.3800. For the purposes of this case, ACWWA, Aurora, CPW, CWSD, and ECCV are acting together as Members of the Upper Cherry Creek Water Association established by the Establishing Contract dated December 17, 2001. ACWWA, Aurora, CPW, CWSD, and ECCV are collectively referred to as “UCCWA” or “Applicant” and individually referred to as “Members.” 2. Description of conditional water rights. The water rights which are the subject of this application involve one conditional water storage right and one conditional appropriative right of exchange with several exchange to and exchange from points. See Appendix 1, attached hereto. 2.1. Description of Conditional Water Storage Right, Cherry Creek Augmentation Pool. 2.1.1. Original Decree. The original decree was entered in Case No. 01CW284, District Court, Water Division No. 1, on December 4, 2007 (the “01CW284 Decree”). 2.1.2. Subsequent Decree. A subsequent decree was entered in Case No. 13CW3184, District Court, Water Division No. 1, on October 21, 2015 (the “13CW3184 Decree”) whereby 2,560 acre-feet of the conditional water
storage right was made absolute and diligence was found on the remainder. 2.1.3. Cherry Creek Reservoir Augmentation Pool. In Case No. 01CW284, Member CPW was granted a conditional water storage right within the existing storage capacity of Cherry Creek Reservoir. CPW was also granted the right to fully consume water stored under this right. The details of this right are as follows: 2.1.3.1. Location. This right will be stored within the existing storage capacity of Cherry Creek Reservoir, which is an on-channel reservoir located in Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, and 24, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M.; Sections 31 and 32, T4S, R66W, 6th P.M.; and Sections 7, 18 and 19, T5S, R66W, 6th P.M., all in Arapahoe County, Colorado. The initial point of survey of the high water line of the reservoir is located at a point whence the Southwest Corner of Section 34, T4S, R67W, 6th P.M. bears North 54°54’ West a distance of 5,856.8 feet. The outlet works are located in the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 2, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M., with an approximate latitude of 39°39'08" North and approximate longitude of 104°51'20" West. 2.1.3.2. Source of Water. Surface water in Cherry Creek, by direct flow in priority, by augmentation as described in Paragraphs 16-32 of Case No. 01CW284 or by exchange as described in Paragraphs 34-39 of Case No. 01CW284. 2.1.3.3. Date of Appropriation. July 27, 2001. 2.1.3.4. Amount of Appropriation. 2,560 acre-feet ABSOLUTE and 10,245 acre-feet, CONDITIONAL, with the right to fill and refill this right successively as many times as the management purposes of the 01CW284 Decree allow. 2.1.3.4.1. Note: In the 13CW3184 Decree, UCCWA was awarded an absolute water right in the amount of 2,560 acre-feet for the above-described water storage right. This application applies to the 10,245 acre-feet of this water storage right which remains conditional. 2.1.3.5. Uses. Recreation, piscatorial and wildlife, augmentation (including augmentation of evaporation from Cherry Creek Reservoir), and exchange. 2.2. Description of Conditional Appropriative Right of Exchange. 2.2.1. Original Decree. The 01CW284 Decree, described in paragraph 2.1.1. above. 2.2.2. Subsequent Decree. The 13CW3184 Decree, described in paragraph 2.1.2. above, found reasonable diligence by the Applicant in the development of the appropriative right of exchange which remains conditional. 2.2.3. Points of diversion or “exchange to” points. 2.2.3.1. ACWWA surface diversion structures. 2.2.3.1.1. Cottonwood Diversion Structure No. 1. 2.2.3.1.1.1. Location. In the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 23, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 50 feet from the East Section line and 1,450 feet from the North Section line of said Section 23. 2.2.3.1.1.2. Original Decree. Case No. 90CW201 for 2.67 cfs, conditional, with an appropriation date of April 23, 1990. 2.2.3.1.2. Lone Tree Surface Diversion. 2.2.3.1.2.1. Location. In the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 24, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 2,250 feet from the East Section line and 2,200 feet from the North Section line of said Section 24. 2.2.3.1.2.2. Original Decree. Case No. 90CW201 for 2.67 cfs, conditional, with an appropriation date of April 23, 1990. 2.2.3.1.3. Windmill Diversion Structure No. 1. 2.2.3.1.3.1. Location. In the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 30, T5S, R66W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 1,300 feet from the East Section line and 100 feet from the South Section line of said Section 30. 2.2.3.1.3.2. Original Decree. Case No. 90CW201 for 2.67 cfs, conditional, with an appropriation date of April 23, 1990. 2.2.3.1.4. Windmill Diversion Structure No. 2. 2.2.3.1.4.1. Location. In the SE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 30, T5S, R66W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 1,850 feet from the East Section line and 2,100 feet from the North Section line of said Section 30. 2.2.3.1.4.2. Original Decree. Case No. 90CW201 for 2.67 cfs, conditional, with an appropriation date of April 23, 1990. 2.2.3.2. Cherry Creek Reservoir, as more fully described in paragraph 2.1.3.1. above. 2.2.3.3. In addition to the specific upstream points of diversion (or “exchange to” points) described above, exchanges may be made directly to Members' wells (listed in Appendix 2 attached hereto) that are located within 100 feet of the stream or to the point on Cherry Creek where pumping depletes the stream, but no further upstream than the location of the U.S. Geological Survey stream gage below the Town of Parker, Colorado, which is located on Cherry Creek in the SE1/4 of the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 21, T6S, R66W, 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado, on the right bank 200 feet upstream from Main Street, 1,100 feet downstream from the mouth of Sulphur Gulch, and 0.8 miles West of the Town of Parker, Colorado. The approximate latitude of this point is 39°31’09” North and the approximate longitude is 104°46’45” West. 2.2.4. Points of substitute supply or “exchange from” points. 2.2.4.1. Confluence of Sand Creek and the South Platte River. The confluence is generally located in the SE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 1, T3S, R68W, of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. 2.2.4.2. Confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. This point is located on the South Platte River in the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 33, T3S, R68W, 6th P.M, Denver County, Colorado. 2.2.4.3. The Outfall of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District. The outfall is located on the South Platte River in the SE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 1, T3S, R68W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. 2.2.4.4. Gardeners’ Ditch Headgate on the South Platte River. The decreed location is a point on the West bank of the South Platte River approximately 2° South, 15’ West, 2,167 feet from the corner of Sections 1, 2, 11 and 12 of T3S, R68W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. The point of diversion has been relocated approximately onehalf mile further upstream on the South Platte River. 2.2.4.5. Cherry Creek Reservoir Outlet Works. The outlet works are located in the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 2, T5S, R67W, 6th P.M., with an approximate latitude of 39°39'08" North and approximate longitude of 104°51'20" West. 2.2.5. Sources of Substitute Supply. 2.2.5.1. Water Deliverable to the Confluence of Sand Creek and the South Platte River and the outfall of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Treatment Plant. 2.2.5.1.1. Water deliverable to the Aurora Sand Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall and water deliverable to the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Outfall from reusable sources owned by Aurora including transbasin and fully consumptive use waters, a portion of which is reusable nontributary groundwater derived from ECCV sources, as more specifically described in the 01CW284 Decree. 2.2.5.1.2. Future Replacement Sources. Upon approval of the Division Engineer for Water Division 1, other
transbasin sources, fully consumable in-basin water rights that are available for municipal use, and decreed nontributary sources that Aurora adjudicates, buys, leases or otherwise acquires in the future. 2.2.5.1.3. Contract Effluent or Reclaimed Wastewater. Contract effluent or reclaimed wastewater in excess of Aurora’s existing lease commitments for fully consumptive use water deliverable to the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District outfall available to Aurora pursuant to its sewage transmission agreement with ECCV dated May 15, 1976. 2.2.5.1.4. Additional Contract Effluent or Reclaimed Wastewater. Additional contract effluent or reclaimed wastewater not subordinate to Aurora’s use thereof for exchange and/or augmentation purposes as provided in Case Nos. 86CW340, 89CW214 and 89CW215, and 99CW158, and not subordinate to Aurora’s lease commitments for fully consumptive use water deliverable to the outfall of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District and/or Sand Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant existing on the date of entry of this Decree. 2.2.5.2. Water that will be delivered to the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. 2.2.5.2.1. Member CPW’s Deer Creek Rights, as decreed in Case No. Case No. 1678, District Court, Park County, and subsequently changed in Case No. 84CW566, Water Division 1, as more fully described in paragraph 28.2 of the 01CW284 Decree. 2.2.5.2.2. Aurora’s reusable water stored in Strontia Springs Reservoir. 2.2.5.3. Water that will be delivered to the Gardeners’ Ditch headgate. CPW’s Gardeners’ Ditch water right, as decreed in Case No. 37275, District Court, City and County of Denver, and changed in Case No. 98CW462, Water Division 1, and which is more fully described in paragraph 28.3 of the 01CW284 Decree. The appropriative right of exchange for the Gardeners’ Ditch water right is more fully described in Case No. 98CW462. 2.2.5.4. Water that will be released from the Cherry Creek Reservoir Augmentation Pool, as more fully described in paragraph 2.1.3. above and in the 01CW284 Decree. 2.2.6. Exchange Appropriation Information. 2.2.6.1. Date of Appropriation. June 25, 1996. 2.2.6.2. Amount. 70.3 cfs, CONDITIONAL; 29.7 cfs, ABSOLUTE. 2.2.6.2.1. Note: In the 01CW284 Decree, UCCWA was awarded an absolute water right in the amount of 29.7 cfs for the above-described exchange. This application for a finding of reasonable diligence applies only to the 70.3 cfs amount of this exchange which remains conditional. 2.2.6.3. Decreed Uses. All beneficial uses presently decreed or claimed for the structures described in Appendix 2 attached hereto, inclusive, and the conditional storage water right for the Cherry Creek Reservoir Augmentation Pool granted to CPW in the 01CW284 Decree, including aesthetic, augmentation, commercial, domestic, fire protection, fish and wildlife propagation, industrial, irrigation, municipal, recreational, and storage. 3. Integrated Water Supply System. The conditionally decreed water rights described above each constitute a feature of an integrated water system. “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 water rights for all features of the entire project or system.” C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(b). 4. 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: During this diligence period, Applicant and its members undertook the following work in furtherance of these conditional water rights, including the following: 4.1. UCCWA. 4.1.1. UCCWA has actively protected the subject conditional water rights from potential injury by performing monthly reviews of the Water Division 1 water court resume to determine whether the filing of statements of opposition was necessary to protect its water rights in Water Division 1, including these conditional water rights. UCCWA has filed statements of opposition in several cases to protect its water rights during this diligence period. Additionally, UCCWA’s counsel has continued to participate in pending legal actions to protect these conditional water rights during this diligence period. During the subject diligence period, UCCWA expended approximately $55,000 on the aforementioned protection of these conditional water rights. 4.1.2. UCCWA has engaged in engineering activities related to the use and development of the conditional rights. During the subject diligence period, UCCWA expended approximately $13,000 on the aforementioned engineering. 4.1.3. UCCWA has engaged in systemwide diligence activities in order to more efficiently manage its water resources, thus increasing the opportunity to store additional amounts of water under the subject conditional water storage right and to exchange additional amounts of water under the subject conditional appropriative right of exchange. This work includes engineering analyses and legal consultation regarding the operation of UCCWA’s water resources. UCCWA has also performed periodic updates to the “Gain Equation” as required by the decree in Case No. 01CW284. During this diligence period, UCCWA has expended approximately $60,000 on legal expenses and $60,000 on engineering expenses for these system-wide diligence activities. 4.1.4. UCCWA in cooperation with the Cherry Creek Basin Water Quality Authority is working to complete installation of an improved weather monitoring station, with telemetry, adjacent to the Cherry Creek Reservoir. This station will provide local weather information useful in the calculations required for the operation of the conditional rights. During this diligence period, UCCWA has expended approximately $900 on this activity. 4.2. Aurora. During this diligence period, Aurora performed work on other parts of its integrated water supply system that is either necessary for the successful operation of the subject water rights or in furtherance of those rights, including the following: 4.2.1. South Platte River Basin. 4.2.1.1. Prairie Waters Project. The Prairie Waters Project is a large comprehensive water supply, storage and treatment project in which return flows to the South Platte River from Aurora’s water sources, including the water that is the subject of the exchange herein, may be rediverted for subsequent reuse. To facilitate this project Aurora obtained various decrees in Case Nos. 06CW104, 03CW414 and 03CW415, Water Division 1. This project allows further reuse of much of the water decreed to Aurora. Before and during the diligence period, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 13CW3088, WD-1, finding reasonable diligence for the water rights decreed conditionally in 03CW414 (decreed April 22, 2014), Aurora ob-
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Public Notices tained a decree in Case No. 14CW3065, WD-1, finding reasonable diligence for the water rights decreed conditionally in 03CW415 (decreed March 2, 2015), and Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 15CW3064, finding reasonable diligence for the water rights decreed conditionally in Case No. 06CW104 (decreed December 1, 2017). Aurora has expended significant sums on several elements of the Prairie Waters Project during this diligence period. 4.2.1.2. Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Charges. Aurora has expended significant sums during this diligence period for fees for wastewater treatment of its water at the Metro Wastewater Reclamation facility. Such treatment is necessary for reuse of the water that is the subject of the exchanges herein within the South Platte River Basin and to comply with water reuse requirements. 4.2.1.3. Sand Creek Water Reuse Plant Improvements. Aurora operates the Sand Creek Water Reuse Plant, a 5-million-gallon per day facility, which provides treated water used for irrigation throughout the City and for discharge into Sand Creek for use as a replacement source for the exchanges herein. Aurora expended significant sums for improvements to this facility and for operating costs during this diligence period. This work is necessary for reuse within the South Platte River Basin of the water that is the subject of the exchange herein and also to comply with water reuse requirements. 4.2.1.4. Lawn Irrigation Return Flows (LIRFs) Credits. Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 02CW341, Water Division 1, on September 25, 2008, quantifying LIRFs from its municipal system (and subsequent requantifications as required by the Decree in 02CW341), generated as a result of use of transmountain water rights, fully consumable in-basin water rights, decreed and permitted non-tributary sources and any other fully consumable water available to Aurora. Aurora also installed seventeen new monitoring wells and expends manpower to monitor these wells every three months. Water that is transported under the exchanges herein and used in Aurora’s service area can be reused under the decree in Case No. 02CW341. During this diligence period, Aurora has expended significant sums for engineering and legal costs required to requantify the LIRFs adjudicated in Case No. 02CW341 available for reuse. 4.2.1.5. Reuse Water System Master Plan. In December 2008, Aurora completed its Reuse Water System Master Plan. The goal of this study was to explore options for optimization of Aurora’s reuse water system, and to develop a capital improvement program outlining expansion of the reuse water system in several phases. This reusable water includes several sources of substitute supply for the subject exchange. During the diligence period, Aurora spent approximately $349,000 on this plan. 4.2.1.6. Case No. 15CW3092. On July 5, 2016, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 15CW3092, Water Division 1, granting a finding of reasonable diligence and making absolute portions of its Strontia Springs Dam and Reservoir Diversion Facility water rights which rights are a source of substitute supply for the subject exchange. 4.2.1.7. Case No. 16CW3098. On November 27, 2017, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 16CW3098, Water Division 1, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on several conditional exchanges on Cherry Creek. These water rights may be used as a source of substitute supply for the subject exchange. 4.2.1.8. Case No. 17CW3127. On April 27, 2018, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 17CW3127, Water Division 1, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on conditional exchange rights. These water rights allow Aurora to exchange its reusable water from Sand Creek Waste Water Treatment Plant and Metro District Outfall to Strontia Springs Reservoir, and to exchange from Strontia Springs Reservoir and the confluence of Tarryall Creek and the South Platte River to Spinney Mountain Reservoir, where it can be released as a source of substitute supply for the subject exchange. 4.2.1.9. Griswold Water Treatment Plant Renovations. This facility treats a portion of the raw water exchanged under the Original Decree before it is delivered to Aurora’s customers. More than $29,085,000 was spent by Aurora for improvements to this facility necessary to accommodate the water that is the subject of the exchange herein. This includes expenditures directly by Aurora for renovation of the facility. 4.2.1.10. Wemlinger Water Treatment Plant Improvements. Aurora spent more than $63,303,000 for improvements to the Wemlinger Water Treatment Plant during the diligence period. This facility treats a portion of the raw water exchanged under the Original Decree before it is delivered to Aurora’s customers. 4.2.1.11. Binney Water Purification Facility. This state-of-the-art water purification and recycling plant owned and operated by Aurora treats water for use throughout the City. Over $17,458,000 was spent by Aurora during the diligence period for improvements to this facility. 4.2.1.12. Improvements to Extend and Improve Water Service in and to Aurora. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for extension and upgrade of its water transmission system necessary to deliver the water that is the subject of this application to Aurora’s customers. 4.2.1.13. Improvements to Sanitary Sewer System. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for extension and upgrade of its sanitary sewer system necessary for wastewater treatment and reuse within the South Platte River Basin of the water that is the subject of this application. 4.2.1.14. Automated Meter Reading System. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for updates to its automated utility reading system. This is needed for efficient operation of Aurora’s water supply and delivery system, including use of the water that is the subject of the exchange herein. 4.2.1.15. Aurora Know Your Flow Program. During the diligence period, Aurora Water Conservation developed its voluntary Know Your Flow Program designed to help customers understand how efficiently they are using water. Through the program, Aurora Water Conservation estimates what a customer’s water use could be for a given billing cycle if the customer were using water efficiently. The customer receives a monthly e-mail from Aurora Water Conservation showing the property’s actual water use versus the customized recommended indoor and outdoor water use. Customers also receive weekly watering recommendations and tips during the irrigation season. The Know Your Flow Program was designed by Aurora to encourage more efficient use of the water that is the subject of this application. 4.2.1.16. Study of Aurora’s Water Needs. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period toward engineering and planning studies to assist in determining the City’s future water needs and a plan to meet those needs, including treatment and distribution studies, various conservation
studies and developing its Non-Potable System Master Plan. This study will increase the overall efficiency of Aurora’s operations, including use of the water from the exchange herein. 4.2.1.17. Aurora Raw Water System Model. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for consultant fees to develop and support a computer model of Aurora’s raw water system. These costs are in addition to the modeling efforts included in the engineering and planning studies identified in paragraph 4.2.1.16., above. 4.2.2. Arkansas River Basin. 4.2.2.1. Case No. 15CW3029. During this diligence period, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 15CW3029, Water Division 2, granting a finding of reasonable diligence and making absolute portions of certain conditional exchanges of water in the Arkansas River Basin upstream to the Otero Pipeline for conveyance to Aurora’s storages and diversion facilities within the South Platte River Basin. Once in the South Platte River Basin, these Arkansas River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree in this case was granted on January 5, 2016. 4.2.2.2. Case Nos. 18CW3031 and 18CW3032. During this diligence period, Aurora obtained decrees in Case Nos. 18CW3031 and 18CW3032, Water Division 2, granting a finding of reasonable diligence and making absolute portions of certain conditional exchanges of water in the Arkansas River Basin for conveyance to Aurora’s storages and diversion facilities within the South Platte River Basin. Once in the South Platte River Basin, these Arkansas River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. Both decrees were granted on March 25, 2019. 4.2.2.3. Case No. 19CW3058. During the diligence period, Aurora obtained a decree in Case No. 19CW3058, Water Division 2, granting a finding of reasonable diligence and making absolute portions of conditional exchanges of water in the Arkansas River basin for conveyance to Aurora’s storage and diversion facilities within the South Platte River Basin. Once in the South Platte River Basin, these Arkansas River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree was granted on January 28, 2021. 4.2.2.4. Payment for purchase and lease of Rocky Ford Ditch shares. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for repayment of bonds and payments to note sellers, including principal and interest that were issued or refunded for the purchase of original Rocky Ford Ditch shares changed in Case No. 83CW18, that are a reusable source for the subject exchange. 4.2.2.5. Payments to Rocky Ford School District R-2. Aurora and the Rocky Ford School District R-2 entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement on February 7, 2005 under which Aurora agreed to make annual payments to the School District concerning the Rocky Ford Ditch shares that are a reusable source for the subject exchange. During this diligence period, Aurora made approximately $323,000 in annual payments. 4.2.2.6. Revegetation. During this diligence period, 100% completion of the revegetation of formerly irrigated lands required under the decree in Case No. 83CW18 and subsequent orders was achieved. This allows for the transfer and eventual use by Aurora of Rocky Ford Ditch water that is a reusable source for the subject exchange. Weed control of the revegetated lands is continuing. During this diligence period, Aurora has made expenditures for expert revegetation classifications and reports, actual revegetation and weed control costs, as well as farm equipment purchases, office overhead and personnel costs. 4.2.2.7. Payments to Otero County. Aurora and Otero County entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement on February 22, 1994, and amended that Agreement on October 29, 2001 under which Amendment Aurora agreed to make annual payments to Otero County concerning the Rocky Ford Ditch shares that are a reusable source for the subject exchange. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period to make these annual payments. 4.2.2.8. Pueblo Reservoir Storage. Funds were spent by Aurora during the diligence period for use of Pueblo Reservoir in the storage and exchange of Arkansas River Basin water upstream for transport and use by Aurora in the South Platte Basin. 4.2.2.9. Intergovernmental Agreement with SECWCD. On October 3, 2003, Aurora entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District (“SECWCD”), replacing an agreement between the parties dated December 7, 2001. Aurora’s use of Fryingpan-Arkansas facilities for certain water rights is discussed under this IGA. Aurora made payments to SECWCD during the diligence period under this IGA. 4.2.2.10. Agreements for Use of the Holbrook System Facilities. On March 1, 2005, Aurora entered into two agreements pertaining to the use of the diversion, conveyance and storage facilities of the Holbrook Mutual Irrigating Company (“Holbrook”). These agreements implement a program to recapture and store yield from foregone diversions of senior water rights. Aurora completed structural modifications to the Holbrook system facilities and has filed a Substitute Water Supply Plan necessary to implement the program. Further, Aurora initiated a study to examine enlargement of the Holbrook Reservoir to further facilitate operations. During this diligence period, Aurora made payments to Holbrook under this agreement. 4.2.2.11. Gravel Pit Storage. Aurora is pursuing gravel pit storage options on the Arkansas River downstream from Pueblo Reservoir to allow storage of its water rights for eventual exchange to Pueblo Reservoir. These stored rights will facilitate Aurora’s Arkansas River Basin operation, including delivery of the reusable water for the subject exchange. During this diligence period, Aurora spent approximately $67,000 toward this effort. 4.2.2.12. Homestake Diversion Channel. Work was done on the Homestake Diversion Channel to reduce erosion, including riprap and installation of a new roadway culvert. Once water is transported over the continental divide through the Otero Pump Station and Homestake Pipeline, it is then transported by the Homestake Diversion Channel to Spinney Mountain Reservoir in the South Platte Basin. During this diligence period, Aurora spent approximately $899,000 toward this effort. 4.2.3. Colorado River Basin. 4.2.3.1. Case No. 16CW3022. During this diligence period, Aurora and the City of Colorado Springs, acting as the Homestake Partners, obtained a decree in Case No. 16CW3022, Water Division 5, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on water rights and exchanges of water in the Colorado River Basin. After conveyance to the South Platte River Basin, these Colorado River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree was granted on September 17, 2017. 4.2.3.2. Case No. 16CW3131. During this diligence pe-
riod, Aurora and the City of Colorado Springs, acting as the Homestake Partners, Vail Associates, Inc., Upper Eagle Regional Water Authority, Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, and the Colorado River Water Conservation District obtained a decree in Case No. 16CW3131, Water Division 5, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on water rights and exchanges of water in the Colorado River Basin. After conveyance to the South Platte River Basin, these Colorado River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree was granted on June 18, 2017. 4.2.3.3. Case No. 17CW3064. During this diligence period, Aurora and the City of Colorado Springs, acting as the Homestake Partners, obtained a decree in Case No. 17CW3064, Water Division 5, granting a finding of reasonable diligence on water rights and exchanges of water in the Colorado River Basin. After conveyance to the South Platte River Basin, these Colorado River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. The decree was granted on June 10, 2018. 4.2.3.4. Case No. 19CW3159. During this diligence period, Aurora filed an application in Case No. 19CW3159, Water Division 5, seeking two exchanges by which water from Grizzly Reservoir, available to Aurora via its share ownership in the Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company, will be placed into the Roaring Fork River and its tributaries and exchanged from the confluence of the Roaring Fork and Fryingpan Rivers upstream to Ruedi Reservoir and from Ruedi Reservoir upstream to Ivanhoe Reservoir for subsequent movement into Water Division No. 2. After conveyance to the South Platte River Basin, these Colorado River water rights are reusable sources for the subject exchange. 4.2.3.5. Aurora continues to work toward the development of water as described in the 1998 Eagle River Memorandum of Understanding. 4.2.3.6. Aurora executed a Recovery Action Plan Participation Agreement with the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District and a Ruedi Insurance Water Cost Participation Agreement with the City and County of Denver on November 1, 2013. The purpose of these agreements is to mitigate the impacts of transmountain diversions to Colorado’s front range in order to support the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin. During this diligence period, Aurora has spent approximately $5,000 on this effort. 4.2.4. Protection Efforts. During this diligence period, Aurora made expenditures for legal services for participation in Water Divisions 1, 2 and 5 cases to protect the rights and interests of Aurora with regard to its water supply system, including the subject exchange. 4.3. CPW. CPW has the right to use Cherry Creek Reservoir by virtue of a lease with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which owns the land on which the Reservoir is located. 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 diligence period follows. This list is not intended to be exclusive and may be supplemented by additional evidence. 4.3.1. CPW received a decree adjudicating the change of the Gardeners’ Ditch water rights and an appropriative right of exchange in Case No. 98CW462 on April 2, 2015. On April 23, 2021, CPW filed an application in Case No. 21CW3051 to make absolute or in the alternative for finding of reasonable diligence for the appropriative right of exchange decreed in Case No. 98CW462. 4.3.2. CPW retains a consultant to manage the operation of and accounting for the Gardeners’ Ditch Exchange and other CPW exchanges into Cherry Creek Reservoir and storage in and releases from Cherry Creek Reservoir. CPW has paid the consultant approximately $1,000.00 $2,000.00 per year during the diligence period. 4.3.3. CPW has remained an active member in the Upper Cherry Creek Water Association (“UCCWA”) during the diligence period. CPW has paid a yearly membership fee to UCCWA for management of various Cherry Creek water resources and storage in Cherry Creek Reservoir, including operation of and accounting for the plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 01CW284, District Court, Water Division 1. The use of the Gardeners’ Ditch Exchange for augmentation purposes is pursuant to this plan for augmentation. The yearly membership dues paid by CPW to UCCWA are approximately $15,000.00. 4.3.4. A CPW staff member attends monthly UCCWA meetings about the coordination of the Cherry Creek water resources and Cherry Creek Reservoir. 4.3.5. CPW has performed monthly reviews of the Water Court resume to determine whether filing of statements of opposition is necessary to protect its water rights in Water Division 1, including the Gardeners’ Ditch Exchange and Cherry Creek Augmentation Pool. 4.4. ACWWA and CWSD. 4.4.1. Joint Water Purification Plant. During this diligence period, CWSD and ACWWA made improvements at the Joint Water Purification Plant (the “JWPP”), a water treatment facility which is co-owned by ACWWA, CWSD, and the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Public Improvement District. The improvements included the replacement of reverse osmosis membranes and the design, construction, and commissioning of a new biological treatment system (“BTS”). The BTS treats the reverse osmosis concentrate produced by the JWPP prior to discharge. The JWPP was constructed specifically to fully use and reuse the alluvial water rights of ACWWA and CWSD. Nine of CWSD’s alluvial wells and several of ACWWA’s alluvial wells are specifically listed as exchange to points under the decree in 01CW284. Water which is exchanged up to the alluvial wells of ACWWA and CWSD is typically treated at the JWPP before delivery to customers. Therefore, the improvements made at the JWPP increases and supports the ability of ACWWA and CWSD to use the subject exchange. CWSD expended approximately $9.0 million on the design and construction of the JWPP and related pipelines and facilities, within this diligence period. ACWWA expended approximately $8,200,000 for the design and construction of the JWPP concentrate biological treatment system. 4.4.2. CWSD wastewater is treated at the Lone Tree Creek Water Reuse Facility (“WRF”). Reusable return flows discharged at the WRF are a source of substitute supply for several of CWSD’s exchanges. In May 2017, CWSD renewed its sewer service agreement with ACWWA and secured 1 MGD a year of wastewater treatment capacity on a perpetual basis. Additionally, CWSD constructed an additional 4,400 linear feet of an 18inch effluent water line that will be used to discharge WRF effluent return flows at additional locations on Cherry Creek for reuse by CWSD. 4.4.3. Integrated Water and WW System. CWSD
operates an integrated municipal water supply and wastewater system within the meaning of C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(b), such that work on any feature of CWSD’s integrated system shall be considered in finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of any and all water rights for that entire system. Since November 2015, CWSD has made the following expenditures on its integrated water system. CWSD has incurred an average of $6.0 million per year in overall costs and expenses to maintain, operate, protect, and expand its municipal supply system. This figure includes approximately $479,648 in attorney fees and $362,717 in engineering costs for work in support of its municipal system. An average of $18,000/year for participation in the Upper Cherry Creek Water Authority. An additional $33,835 for contributions toward joint modeling of the Cherry Creek Basin (a total of $116,828 has been authorized by the CWSD Board, including the new C-CAMP 2.0 contract). CWSD is also a member of the Cherry Creek Project Water Authority (“CCPWA”). During the Diligence Period, the CCPWA began work constructing Walker Reservoir. The Walker Reservoir is a 650 AF storage reservoir. Cottonwood’s ownership in the reservoir is 75 AF During the Diligence Period, Cottonwood spent a total of $772,030 on the development and operation of the CCPWA’s wells and facilities, planning activities, and towards the development and construction of the CCPWA’s Walker Reservoir. During the Diligence Period, CWSD has continued to obtain, develop, and operate additional water sources, including water available through the Water Infrastructure and Supply Efficiency system (“WISE”) and the Baja Water. The WISE water and the Baja Water are sources of substitute supply for several of CWSD’s exchanges. Cottonwood spent approximately $2.6 million in capital costs associated with the WISE water during the Diligence Period and began receiving WISE water in 2017. CWSD obtained its ownership interest to the contractual right of delivery of the Baja Water during the Diligence Period. 4.4.4. Case No. 96CW1144. By the decree entered in Case No. 96CW1144 on May 19, 2016, the Court approved ACWWA’s plan for augmentation which resulted in additional augmentation supplies being available to support the use of the wells which are the subject of this case. The decree also adjudicated a conditional water storage right for Chambers Reservoir in Douglas County. The predominant use of Chambers Reservoir is expected to be as an element of ACWWA’s nonpotable water system and for management and release of augmentation water supplies. 4.4.5. Case No. 15CW3144. The decree entered on February 8, 2018 in Case No. 15CW3144 found that ACWWA had exercised reasonable diligence in the development of water rights and made absolute certain portions of those rights for the Race Well No. 1, Race Well No. 3, Ford Well No. 1, Ford Well No. 2, Murdock Well No. 2, Deem Well, Smith Well No. 1, Antonoff Well No. 1, Antonoff Well No. 2, Loyd Well No. 2, and the 1986 Exchange. 4.4.6. During the diligence period, ACWWA has been an active objector in numerous Water Court cases involving Cherry Creek, in which it seeks to protect its decreed and vested water rights. 4.4.7. Chambers Reservoir. During the subject diligence period, the Division of Water Resources Dam Safety Branch performed a final construction inspection of the synthetic liner installation project at Chambers Reservoir Dam and approved the synthetic liner. This reservoir operation will increase the demand for ACWWA to operate the subject exchange. Additionally, releases from Chambers Reservoir are a source of augmentation water and may be exchanged to the upstream point of ACWWA’s depletions pursuant to the subject exchange. The Chambers Reservoir storage right was decreed in Case No. 96CW1144. 4.4.8. ACWWA Flow Project. In 2009 ACWWA contracted with United Water and Sanitation District (“United”) and ECCV to develop the ACWWA Flow Project. This project when fully developed will acquire, treat and deliver 4,400 acre feet of annual average yield water rights from ditch systems in the South Platte Basin to ECCV Water Treatment Plant for treatment, then to ACWWA for use. This water will be used for ACWWA’s customers and its return flows will be used in ACWWA’s augmentation plan which will use ACWWA’s alluvial wells to supply ACWWA additional potable and non-potable water supplies. ACWWA has numerous wells that are listed as exchange points in this application. Water which is exchanged up to ACWWA’s alluvial wells can be stored Chambers for use. Therefore, the development of the ACWWA Flow Project increases and supports ACWWA’s ability to use the subject exchange. The total estimated cost of the Phase II infrastructure is $60 million for an additional 10 million gallons of pumping and treatment capacity. The Booster Pump Stations are approximately $25 million and the NWTP Expansion is approximately $35 million. ACWWA has purchased an additional 3 million gallons of capacity from these facilities, totaling about $18 million in capital expenditure for the following: Expansion of the Northern Water Treatment RO Plant (20182020); Expansion of the North and South Booster Pump Stations (2018-2019); and Construction of Deep Injection Well II (2018). 4.4.9. ACWWA’s 2015 Municipal Water Efficiency Plan. In 2015, ACWWA developed its Municipal Water Efficiency Plan update in accordance with the Water Conservation Act of 2004 and to meet the provisions of § 37-60-126, C.R.S. 4.4.10. 2019 Draft Integrated Master Plan. During this diligence period, ACWWA began updating its 2011 Master Plan. The updated integrated master planning effort involves assessing the condition and performance of the existing systems including improvements that have occurred since the 2011 master plan, analyzing existing and future water storage needs, examining existing and future supply and demand/ load analysis, analyzing and assessing treatment plant and lift station capacity, identifying capital improvement projects, and proposing an overall phased capital improvement program. The plan fully relies on ACWWA’s alluvial water rights (including numerous wells that are listed as exchange points in 01CW284) and the augmentation of the use of those wells when not in priority to ensure ACWWA has an efficient system. Therefore, the development of this planning document increases and supports ACWWA’s ability to use the subject exchange. 4.5. ECCV. 4.5.1. Case No. 14CW3009. By the decree entered in Case No. 14CW3009 on February 24, 2017 ECCV made 3.19 cfs out of 6.68 cfs of the conditional rights decreed to District Alluvial Wells CC-10, CC-12, and CC-15 absolute, and continued as conditional portions of District Alluvial Well CC-10, in the amount of 1000 gpm, District Alluvial Well
CC-12, in the amount of 1000 gpm, and District Alluvial Well CC-15, in the amount of 1000 gpm. 4.5.2. Reuse of Lawn Irrigation Return Flows. During this diligence period, ECCV continued to prosecute Case No.03CW200 and 12CW200, Water Division 1, under which return flows from lawn irrigation use of the water are quantified to facilitate future reuse of this water. ECCV has performed studies of LIRFs throughout ECCV that included various analyses conducted to determine the amount, timing, and location of LIRFs within several drainage basins within ECCV’s service area, including Toll Gate Creek and Sand Creek. 4.5.3. ECCV’s Northern Water Supply Project. The Water Supply Project is designed to provide ECCV with a long-term, sustainable municipal water supply for its service area located in Arapahoe County, Colorado. In order to implement the ECCV Water Supply Project, ECCV, United Water and Sanitation District, and the Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Company entered into a Water Supply Agreement on December 18, 2003, that was amended in May 2007. The Water Supply Project is a multi-phase renewable water supply project. Phase I secured approximately 6,000 acre-feet of water rights from the South Platte River and the construction of a 31-mile pipeline, storage tanks and two pump stations. This phase of the Project now delivers renewable water from the Beebe Draw, where water is stored from the South Platte River, and then is sent down through the pipeline to ECCV’s service area. On December 15, 2009, ACWWA, United, and ECCV entered into an Intergovernmental Agreement to provide for ACWWA’s participation with ECCV and United in the Water Supply Project. The return flows from the water delivered will be used in ECCV’s augmentation plan, Case No. 00CW217, which will use ECCV’s alluvial wells to supply ECCV with additional potable and non-potable water supplies. During the diligence period, United, on behalf of ECCV and ACWWA, has developed and acquired infrastructure for Phase II of the Water Supply Project (“Phase II”), including but not limited to mining United Reservoir No. 3; acquiring Milliken Reservoir in August 2015; completing construction of 70 Ranch Reservoir in July 2019; acquiring Holton Lake in September 2019 and completing construction of Holton Lake in June 2021; commenced construction of the Serfer Augmentation Station in 2021; in and securing easement deeds and agreements for structures necessary to deliver water to ECCV and ACWWA. During this diligence period ECCV and ACWWA have also been working on Phase II, which will allow ECCV to deliver up to 14.75 million gallons of renewable water to customers each day and ACWWA to deliver up to 5.25 million gallons of renewable water to customers each day, whereby reducing dependency on non-renewable wells. Phase II also included expansion of the Northern Water Treatment RO Plant (2018-2020) and the North and South Booster Pump Stations (2018-2019), and construction of Deep Injection Well II (2018). The total estimated cost of the Phase II infrastructure is $60 million for an additional 10 million gallons of pumping and treatment capacity. The Booster Pump Stations are approximately $25 million and the NWTP Expansion is approximately $35 million. ACWWA has purchased an additional 3 million gallons of capacity from these facilities, totaling about $18 million in capital expenditure. 4.5.4. During this diligence period, ECCV has performed maintenance work on its Cherry Creek wells, including, but not limited to, replacement and of the pump, PVC shroud, pup joint, and check valve in District Well CC-12 and recertification of well production meters. 4.5.5. ECCV has actively protected its water rights from potential injury by performing monthly reviews of the Water Division 1 water court resume to determine whether the filing of Statements of Opposition was necessary to protect its water rights in Water Division 1. ECCV’s counsel has continued to participate in pending legal actions to protect ECCV’s water rights during this diligence period. 4.6. Other. UCCWA and its Members reserve the right to identify additional relevant efforts that may be later discovered or to make upward adjustments to amounts expended on certain projects. UCCWA and its Members have extensive water rights portfolios, extensive and complex water supply, collection, treatment and reuse systems, and an extensive number of agreements, contracts, leases, etc. related to such facilities and the use, reuse and storage of their water rights. The management, protection, and operation of the water rights and the facilities system involve numerous public departments and staff members throughout the state. UCCWA and its Members made diligent efforts with regard to this application to determine and quantify all efforts made by UCCWA and its Members toward completion of the appropriations and application of the water rights decreed in Case No. 01CW284 to beneficial use. However, it is reasonably possible that relevant efforts or expenditures may have been overlooked or need further upward adjustment. 5. Claim to Make Absolute. Applicant has made absolute the following portions of the Cherry Creek Augmentation Pool (see Appendix 3 attached hereto): 5.1. Date Water Applied to Beneficial Use. March 18, 2018. 5.2. Amount. 10,245 AF (note 2,560 AF was made absolute in Case No. 13CW3184). 5.3. Uses. Recreation, piscatorial and wildlife, augmentation (including augmentation of evaporation from Cherry Creek Reservoir), and exchange. 6. Name and address of owner 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: 6.1. Omaha District, US Army Corps of Engineers, 1616 Capital Ave., Ste. 9000, Omaha, NE 68102. WHEREFORE, the Applicant respectfully requests this Court enter a decree (1) finding the Applicant has executed reasonable diligence in the development of the above-referenced conditional water rights, (2) awarding the above-described absolute water rights in the amounts described above, (3) continuing the remaining conditional water rights in full force as decreed, and for such other and further relief as this Court deems just and proper. (25 pages) WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY 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
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Public Notices 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 DECEMBER 2021 (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. 708291 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 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 OCTOBER 2021 for each County affected. 21CW3194 (2010CW304) SOUTH ADAMS COUNTY WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT 6595 E. 70th Avenue, P. O. Box 597, Commerce City, CO 80022 (c/o Richard J. Mehren, Joshua B. Boissevain, Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison and Woodruff, P.C., 2595 Canyon Blvd., Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302 (303) 443-8782) APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE IN ADAMS, WELD, JEFFERSON AND CLEAR CREEK COUNTIES 1. Name, address, and telephone number of Applicant: South Adams County Water and Sanitation District, c/o Kipp Scott, 6595 E. 70th Avenue, P. O. Box 597, Commerce City, CO 80022. 2. Description of Conditional Appropriative Rights of Exchange: 2.1 Original Decree: The subject conditional appropriative rights of exchange were originally decreed by this Court in Case No. 2010CW304 on October 12, 2015 (“SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges”). 2.2 Previous diligence decree: N/A. 2.3 Description of the SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges: The SACWSD 10W304 Exchanges authorize the District’s exchange of certain sources of fully consumable water to replace stream depletions occurring within the District’s well depletion reach defined in the decree entered in Case No. 01CW258, District Court, Water Division No. 1 on September 15, 2010 or for delivery of water to storage in Wattenberg Reservoir; by use of the Brighton Ditch; or in Howe-Haller, Hazeltine, Road Runner’s Rest II, Brinkman-Woodward, Tanabe and Dunes Reservoirs (collectively, the “Joint Denver Gravel Pit Lakes”) by use of the Fulton Ditch. The District’s well depletion reach begins at an upstream point which is at or below the confluence of Sand Creek near the south quarter corner of Section 1, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., and extend downstream to a point in the City of Brighton at the Colorado State Highway 7 bridge at the southerly section line of Section 1, Township 1 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. (“Depletion Reach”). The operation of exchanges is inherent in the operation of South Adams’ Augmentation Plan, as decreed and confirmed in Case No. W-8440-76, decretal paragraph 12, and Case No. 2001CW258, decretal paragraph 65. A map depicting the structures involved and the overall exchange reach is attached as Exhibit A. The exchange matrix attached as Exhibit B summarizes the SACWSD 10W304 Exchanges, which are more particularly described, as follows: 3. Names of structures involved and legal descriptions: 3.1 ExchangeFrom Points: 3.1.1 Meadow Island No. 1– End of Ditch Augmentation Station, in the E1/2 of the E1/2, Section 27, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., near the quarter section line between the NE1/4 and the SE1/4 to release water down Grafflin Slough which flows into the South Platte River in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 24, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 3.1.2 Lupton Bottom – East Lateral Augmentation Station, in the SE1/4 of the SE1/4, Section 12, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to release water down Little Dry Creek which flows into the South Platte River in the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 12, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 3.1.3 Lupton Bottom – West Lateral Augmentation Station, near the center of Section 36, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to release water down Little Dry Creek which flows into the South Platte River in the SE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 12, Township 2 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 3.1.4 Lupton Bottom – End of West Lateral Augmentation Station, in the W1/2 of the E1/2, Section 27, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., near the quarter section line between the NE1/4 and the SE1/4, to release water down Grafflin Slough which flows into the South Platte River in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 24, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. Before using the Lupton Bottom – End of West Lateral Augmentation Station, South Adams shall provide written notice to Magness Land Holdings, LLC, and Dearal Beddo. 3.1.5 Brighton Ditch – Wattenberg Augmentation Station, in the SW1/4, Section 25, or NW1/4 Section 36, Township 1 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to release water to the South Platte River in the NW1/4 of the SW1/4 or SW1/4 of the NW1/4, Section 30, Township 1 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M. 3.1.6 Fulton – County Line Augmentation Station, in the SW1/4 of the NE1/4, Section 5, Township 1 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., to release water to the South Platte River near the north section line of Section 6, Township 1 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M. 3.1.7 Fulton – Gravel Lakes Augmentation Station, in the SE1/4 of the NE1/4, Section 9, Township 2 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to release water to the South Platte River at any of three locations: NW1/4, Section 9; SW1/4, Section 4, above the headgate of the Brantner Ditch; or near the north quarter corner of Section 3, Township 2 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 3.1.8 Fulton – Headgate Augmentation Station, in the NW1/4, Section 16, Township 2 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., at or upditch from 104th Avenue, to release water to the South Platte River near the east section line of Section 17, Township 2 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M.
3.1.9 Fulton – Fort Lupton Augmentation Station, in the NW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 9, Township 1 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., to release water to the South Platte River near the NW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 31, Township 2 North, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M. 3.2 Exchange-To Points: 3.2.1 Depletion Reach 1, located along the South Platte River from the confluence with Sand Creek to just upstream of the Fulton Ditch headgate and is approximately 6.07 miles long. The upstream-most point of Depletion Reach 1 is on the South Platte River at the confluence with Sand Creek, near the south quarter corner of Section 1, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M. The downstream-most point of Depletion Reach 1 is on the South Platte River just above the headgate of the Fulton Ditch, located in the NE1/4 of the NE1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 17, Township 2 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. 3.2.2 Depletion Reach 2, located along the South Platte River from just below the Fulton Ditch headgate to just upstream of the Brantner Ditch headgate and is approximately 2.22 miles long. The upstream-most point of Depletion Reach 2 is on the South Platte River just below the headgate of the Fulton Ditch, located as described in paragraph 3.2.1 above. The downstream-most point of Depletion Reach 2 is on the South Platte River just above the headgate of the Brantner Ditch, located on the west bank of the South Platte River in the NE1/4 SW1/4, Section 4, Township 2 South, Range 67 West, 6th P.M. 3.2.3 Depletion Reach 3, located along the South Platte River from just below the Brantner Ditch headgate to just upstream of the Brighton Ditch headgate and is approximately 6.75 miles long. The upstreammost point of Depletion Reach 3 is on the South Platte River just below the headgate of the Brantner Ditch, located as described in paragraph 3.2.2 above. The downstream-most point of Depletion Reach 3 is on the South Platte River just above the headgate of the Brighton Ditch, located on the west bank of the South Platte River in the SE1/4 SE1/4, Section 11, Township 1 South, Range 67 West, 6th P.M. 3.2.4 Depletion Reach 4, located along the South Platte River from just below the Brighton Ditch headgate to the end of the Depletion Reach and is approximately 1.58 miles long. The upstream-most point of Depletion Reach 4 is on the South Platte River just below the headgate of the Brighton Ditch, located as described in paragraph 3.2.3 above. The downstream-most point of Depletion Reach 4 is on the South Platte River at the south section line of Section 1, Township 1 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M. The four sub-reaches of the Depletion Reach as described above are shown on Exhibit A. 3.2.5 Brighton Ditch headgate, located as described in paragraph 3.2.3 above. 3.2.6 Fulton Ditch headgate, located as described in paragraph 3.2.1 above. 4. Description of exchange reaches and maximum rates of exchange: The reaches of the SACWSD 10W304 Exchanges, as described in the Exchange Matrix attached as Exhibit B, extend from the downstream-most Exchange-From Point, which is the confluence of the Grafflin Slough and the South Platter River in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 24, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., to the upstream-most ExchangeTo Point, which is the upstream-most point within the Depletion Reach, at the confluence of Sand Creek and the South Platte River. The SACWSD 10W304 Exchanges include the right to exchange water from any of the Exchange-From Points identified in paragraph 3.1 above to any of the Exchange-To Points identified in paragraph 3.2 above, at the maximum individual rates of exchange included in the Exchange Matrix attached as Exhibit B, subject to the terms and conditions of the 10CW304 Decree. The maximum rates of exchange included in the Exchange Matrix attached as Exhibit B are in addition to the rates of the exchanges decreed in Case No. 2001CW258. 5. Sources of substitute supply: The water rights and sources of water described in paragraph 27 of the 10CW304 Decree. 6. Date of appropriation: December 29, 2010. 7. Use of exchanged water: The exchanged water is and/or will be used for augmentation and replacement purposes, including within the plan for augmentation decreed in W-8440 as expanded in Case No. 2001CW258 and Case No. 2007CW303 and in Case No. 2005CW115, and to all municipal purposes, including but not limited to domestic, industrial, commercial, irrigation out of South Adams’ municipal system, stock watering, recreation, fish and wildlife preservation and propagation, fire protection, aquifer recharge, sewage treatment, mechanical, manufacturing, street sprinkling, substitution, and exchange purposes, including, for all of the above-described purposes, both immediate application to such purposes and storage for subsequent application to such purposes. South Adams intends to fully consume the exchanged water, and subject to the terms and conditions decreed in Case No. 10CW304, the exchanged water may be used to extinction for the uses described above either directly or after diversion or re-diversion to storage. 8. Outline of work and expenditures during the diligence period towards completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use: The diligence period for the SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges is October 2015 through October 2021 (“Diligence Period”). The SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges are integral to the District’s overall water supply system, and the District has during the Diligence Period and will continue to pursue development and beneficial use of these water rights as growth continues and water demands increase within District. The District provides water and wastewater services to approximately 65,000 customers in Commerce City and Adams County. The District maintains a diverse portfolio of water rights – both conditional and absolute – in order to provide potable and non-potable water to its present and future customers. The SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges are part of the District’s integrated water supply system to supply water for municipal purposes. “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 on the development of the water rights for all features of the entire project or system.” C.R.S. §37-92 301(4)(b). Consequently, all work and expenditures by the District in connection with its municipal water system directly and indirectly constitute part of the District’s reasonable diligence in developing the SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges. The SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges, in conjunction with the operation of the District’s plan for augmentation, are and will be used by the District to augment stream depletions or to exchange the District’s fully consumable water associated with certain sources of substitute supply into storage for use within the District’s municipal system and/
or for subsequent release for augmentation purposes. During the Diligence Period, the District has engaged in the following activities and incurred the following costs in its efforts to develop, operate and maintain its municipal water supply system and develop the SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges, to complete the appropriation, and place the water to beneficial use: 8.1 The District has incurred an average of approximately $3,800,000 per year in general costs and expenses in support of its municipal water supply system and for maintaining, protecting and expanding its system. 8.2 Over the Diligence Period, the District has incurred an average of $76,000 per year in engineering fees for engineering work in support of its municipal supply system generally, and has incurred additional engineering fees each year associated with specific capital improvement projects. 8.3 On average during the Diligence Period, the District spent approximately $3,500,000 per year on capital improvement projects associated with its municipal supply system. Since 2015, the District’s improvements have been focused on increasing the availability of non-potable water for irrigation uses within the District, and beginning in 2017, the District undertook an expansion of its non-potable irrigation supply. The District estimates that it will ultimately spend more than $202 million for build-out of its municipal system by 2056. 8.4 The District incurred a total of $750,000 in engineering fees associated with maintenance of its existing water supplies, including but not limited to such activities as accounting for the District’s water use, operation of and accounting for the District’s plan for augmentation, protecting the District’s water rights from injury by opposing water court applications, and assisting the District with daily water operations. Of the total amount of engineering fees incurred during the Diligence Period, $10,000 was spent on operating, maintaining and accounting for the District’s plan for augmentation, under which the SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges are or will be operated. 8.5 The District has incurred a total of $1,5000,000 in legal fees to obtain decrees for water rights that are part of the District’s integrated water system and for participating as an opposer in various Water Court cases to protect the District’s water rights against injury from other water users. 8.6 Additionally, the District has and continues to work with the City of Commerce City on planning, growth projections and water supply demands, as the District’s service area is primarily within the City’s boundaries. In addition to inhouse staff time at the District, the District incurred $1,400,000 in consultants’ fees for planning-related work during the Diligence Period. 9. 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: 9.1 Meadow Island No. 1 – End of Ditch Augmentation Station: Joe R and Chris Miller, 13912 County Road 19, Platteville, CO 80651. 9.2 Lupton Bottom – East Lateral Augmentation Station: City of Broomfield, 1 Descombes Dr, Broomfield, CO 80020. 9.3 Lupton Bottom – West Lateral Augmentation Station: Richard Hein, 5290 E Yale Cir, Ste 103, Denver, CO 80222. 9.4 Lupton Bottom – End of West Lateral Augmentation Station: Joe R and Chris Miller, 13912 County Road 19, Platteville, CO 80651. 9.5 Brighton Ditch – Wattenburg Augmentation Station: City of Westminster, c/o Director of Public Works, 4800 West 92nd Avenue, Westminster, CO 80030. 9.6 Fulton – County Line Augmentation Station: City of Brighton, 22 South 4th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80601-2030. 9.7 Fulton – Gravel Lakes Augmentation Station: City and County of Denver Acting By and Through Its Board of Water Commissioners, 1600 W 12th Ave., Denver, CO 80204-3412. 9.8 Fulton – Fort Lupton Augmentation Station: John and Cynthia Fitzsimmons, 4447 Rio Grande PL, Broomfield, CO 80023. 9.9 Wattenberg Reservoir: City of Westminster, c/o Director of Public Works, 4800 West 92nd Avenue, Westminster, CO 80030. 9.10 Joint Denver Gravel Pit Lakes: City and County Of Denver Acting By and Through Its Board of Water Commissioners, 1600 W 12th Ave., Denver, CO 80204-3412. WHEREFORE, the District respectfully requests that the Court enter a decree finding that the District has proceeded with reasonable diligence toward the completion of the appropriation of the SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges, and continuing in full force and effect for an additional diligence period the SACWSD 10CW304 Exchanges. WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY 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 DECEMBER 2021 (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. 708290 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION
DENISE LEFOR, 32651 E 137th Way, Brighton, CO, 80603. James J. Petrock, Eric K. Trout, Hayes Poznanovic Korver LLC, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3200, Denver, CO, 80202. AMENDED APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WATER RIGHTS FROM NONTRIBUTARY AND NOT NONTRIBUTARY SOURCES AND APPROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION, IN THE NONTRIBUTARY UPPER ARAPAHOE, LOWER ARAPAHOE, AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS AQUIFERS AND THE NOT-NONTRIBUTARY DENVER AQUIFER IN ADAMS COUNTY. Subject Property: 62.12 acres generally located in the SE1/4 SE1/4, Section 30, Township 1 South, Range 64 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, State of Colorado, as shown on Exhibit A (“Subject Property”). Applicants are the sole owners of the Subject Property. Amended Application: This amendment revises the requested uses allowed under the decree and revises the proposed augmentation plan. There are currently no opposers to the application, therefore consultation is not required. Well Permits: There are currently no wells on the Subject Property. Well permits will be applied for prior to construction of wells. Source of Water Rights: The Denver Aquifer is not-nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.7), and the Upper Arapahoe, Lower Arapahoe, and LaramieFox Hills aquifers are nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.5). Estimated Amounts: Applicant estimates the following annual amounts may be available for withdrawal: Aquifer (acre-feet) Denver (NNT) Upper Arapahoe (NT) Lower Arapahoe (NT) Laramie-Fox Hills (NT)
Annual Amount 9.0 12.6 10.5 14.4
The Applicant does not need to leave any groundwater unappropriated. Proposed Uses: Use, reuse, and successive use, for domestic, including in-house use, commercial, irrigation, stockwatering, fire protection, and augmentation purposes, including storage, both on and off the Subject Property. Jurisdiction: The Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this application pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 37-90-137(6), 37-92-203(1), 37-92-302(2). Summary of Plan for Augmentation: Groundwater to be Augmented: 1.95 acre-feet per year for 300 years of notnontributary Denver Aquifer groundwater. The Denver Aquifer groundwater will be withdrawn in up to three (3) individual wells. Each individual well will withdraw up to 0.65 acre-feet per year, as follows: 0.3 acre-feet per year for in-house use, 0.3 acre-feet per year for up to 6,000 square-feet of irrigation, and 0.05 acre-feet per year for 4 large domestic animals. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation: Return flows from the use of not nontributary and nontributary groundwater and direct discharge of nontributary groundwater. Statement of Plan for Augmentation: The Denver Aquifer groundwater will be used for domestic purposes, including in-house use, irrigation, stockwatering, and fire protection, through one or more wells, both on and off the Subject Property. Applicant reserves the right to amend the amount and uses without amending the application or republishing the same. Sewage treatment for in-house use will be provided by non-evaporative septic systems. Return flows from in-house use will be approximately 90% of that use, and return flows from irrigation use will be approximately 15% of that use. During pumping Applicant will replace actual depletions pursuant to C.R.S. § 3790-137(9)(c.5). Depletions occur to the Box Elder Creek stream system and return flows accrue to that creek system and are sufficient to replace actual depletions while the subject groundwater is being pumped. Applicant will reserve an equal amount of nontributary groundwater underlying the Subject Property to meet post pumping augmentation requirements. Applicant requests the Court approve the above underground water rights and augmentation plan, find that Applicant has complied with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4) and water is legally available for withdrawal, find there will be no material injury to the owners of or persons entitled to use water under any vested water right or decreed conditional water right, and grant such other and further relief as is appropriate. 4 Pages. WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY 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 DECEMBER 2021 (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. 708292 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window
11280 Edinborough Way Parker, CO 80138 Legal Notice No. 708203 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sofia R. Young, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR247 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of ADAMS County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Sharon Nicholas, Personal Representative 4337 Liverpol St. Denver, CO 80249 Legal Notice No. 708279 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Geraldine Mae McKim, aka Geraldine M. McKim, aka Geraldine McKim, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 031024 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 11, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Alicia McKim Tweed CO-Personal Representative 3088 W. 36th Avenue Denver, Colorado 80211 Gregory J. McKim CO-Personal Representative 3061 W. 92nd Avenue No. 2E Westminster, Colorado 80031 Legal Notice No. 708257 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donald L. Schneider, aka Donald Lee Schneider aka Donald LeRoy Schneider, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 320 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Cynthia Megrenne Personal Representative 7034 Grand Prairie Drive Colorado Springs, Colorado 80923 Legal Notice No. 708310 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marvin Wilson Burke, also known as Marvin W. Burke, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30854 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Nancy Salts, Personal Representative 3420 Molly Lane Broomfield, CO, 80023 Legal Notice No. 708245 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Ronald K. Moore, aka Ronald Kent Moore, aka Ronald Moore, aka Ron Moore, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31021 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 11, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Tracy A. Tirey, Attorney for Personal Representative 12021 Pennsylvania St., Suite 103 Thornton, Colorado 80241 Legal Notice No. 708256 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
Notice to Creditors
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice
TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of RICHARD ARTHUR LITZSINGER, a/k/a RICHARD A. LITZSINGER, RICHARD LITZSINGER, and RICHIE LITZSINGER, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31001
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 OCTOBER 2021 for each County affected.
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.
***AMENDED****21CW3157 CHRISTOPHER &
Linda T. Litzsinger Personal Representative
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joseph Clifford Isley, AKA Joseph C. Isley, AKA Joseph Isley, AKA Joe Isley, deceased Case Number: 2021PR030931 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before Mar 11 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Angela Martinez Personal Representative c/o Howard O. Bernstein, P.C., 1111 Pearl Street, Suite 203
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Public Notices Boulder, Colorado 80302 Legal Notice No. NT11 First publication: November 11, 2021 Last publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Margaret Elise Ray, deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30667 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before Mar 04 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. James Arthur Furry, Sr. Personal Representative 4703 N. Wall Street Spokane, Washington 99205 Legal Notice No. NT1 First publication: November 04, 2021 Last publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John William Bruner Jr., Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 271 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before April 1, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.
named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Adams, County, Colorado on or before March 12, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Joe A. Schumacher, Personal Representative 1403 Carrousel Lane Sacramento, CA 95822 District Court Clerk, Adams County 1100 Judicial Center Dr. Brighton, CO 80601 /s/ Richard E. Samson Richard E. Samson, #15647 The Samson Law Firm, P.C. 717 5th Avenue PO Box 1079 Longmont, CO 80502-1079 ATTORNEY FOR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Legal Notice No. 708265 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ALBERT LEONARD YUDEZ, a/k/a ALBERT L. YUDEZ, a/k/a ALBERT YUDEZ, a/k/a AL YUDEZ, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31034 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of ADAMS County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.
Troy Weston Peterson Personal Representative 8294 Field Court Arvada, Colorado 80005
Charles E. Longtine Attorney to the Personal Representative Charles E. Longtine, P.C. 9035 Wadsworth Parkway, Suite 2500 Westminster, CO 80021
Legal Notice No. 708311 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
Legal Notice No. 708278 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Shane Fross, aka Shane A. Fross, aka Shane Alan Fross, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 254
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JAMES M. ROBERTS, AKA JAMES MARTIN ROBERTS, AND JIM ROBERTS, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31089
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.
Bridget Fross Personal Representative 14335 Kalamath Street Westminster, Colorado 80023
Gerald H. Jaggers, Attorney for Personal Representative Troy D. Cole DiGiacomo, Jaggers, & Perko, LLP 5400 Ward Rd., Bldg. III, Ste. 200 Arvada, CO 80002
Legal Notice No. 708295 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Paul Timothy Bock Jr., Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 030968 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 7, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. S. Blake Harris, Esq. #45942 Attorney to the Personal Representative 1660 17th Street, Suite 120 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 708234 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 11, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JEANNE E. MORRISSEY, a/k/a JEANNE ELIZABETH MORRISSEY, a/k/a JEANNE MORRISSEY, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30911 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before M a r c h 11, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Daniel J. Morrissey, Personal Representative 3079 South Leyden Street Denver, CO 80222 Legal Notice No. 708264 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dan Schumacher, a/k/a Dan Herbert Schumacher, a/ka Dan H. Schumacher, Deceased Case Number :2021PR30965 All persons having claims against the above
Legal Notice No. 708312 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Cozetta Hammock-West, aka Cozetta Hammock, aka Cozetta West, Deceased, Case Number: 2021PR30918 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Adams County, Colorado or on or before March 11, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Co-Personal Representatives: Forrest Bell 13033 East 47th Avenue Denver, CO 80239 Arzie Hammock 4324 Cathay Street Denver, CO 80249 Legal Notice No. 708270 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Irene Ann Hirschfeld, aka Irene A. Hirschfeld aka Irene Hirschfeld, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 031036 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. John Urban, Personal Representative 7201 Raritan Street Denver, Colorado 80221 Legal Notice No. 708248 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 11, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John Emhoolah Jr., deceased Case Number: 21PR30700 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Ric N Morgan, Counsel for the Personal Representative BOX 131 Elbert, CO, Colorado 80106 Legal Notice No. 708297 First publication: November 18, 2021 Last publication: December 02, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Margot Jaqueline Bramhall, A/K/A Margot J. Bramhall, A/K/A Margot Bramhall, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30975 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 5, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Robert Bramhall, Personal Representative 6447 S. Ingalls St. Littleton CO 80123 Legal Notice No. 708224 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of James Thomas McQuown, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 152 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before November 25, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. Shawn McQuown Personal Representative 7390 Krameria Street Commerce City, Colorado 80022 Legal Notice No. 708298 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JAMES ARTHUR KLINE, Deceased Case Number 2021 PR 31071 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Daniel J. Kline, Personal Representative 2470 West Edgewater Way #1061 Chandler, Arizona 85248 Legal Notice No. 708302 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donna Jeanne Off, deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 262 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of undefined County, Colorado on or before March 11 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Della M Seaton Personal Representative 4629 E 115 Court Thornton, CO 80233 Legal Notice No. NT12 First publication: November 11, 2021 Last publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sue Lee, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30985 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Crystal H. Lee, Personal Representative c/o Mark A. Weseman, Esq. 2 Garden Center, Suite 305 Broomfield, Colorado 80020 Legal Notice No. 708220 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window
Public notice is given on October 25, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.
Name Changes
The petition requests that the name of Gurujit Kaur Khalsa be changed to Gigi Gurujit Levsen Case No.: 21 C 1539
Public Notice Adams County Court 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, Colorado 80601
By: Deputy Clerk
In the Matter of the Petition of: Parent/ Petitioner: Amy Silverman For Minor Child: Kora Joy Brown To Change the Child’s Name to: Kora Joy Silverman Case Number: 21 C 1833
Legal Notice No. 708252 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE TO NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT BY PUBLICATION
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Notice to: Kevin Brown, non custodial parent.
Public notice is given on October 18, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.
Notice is given that a hearing is scheduled as follows: Date: December 17th 2021 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: ADCO Combined Court 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, Colorado
The petition requests that the name of Juanita Mafe Audelia Maes be changed to Martha Audelia Maes Case No.: 21 C1535 By: Deputy Clerk
For the purpose of requesting a change of name for Kora Joy Silverman At this hearing the Court may enter an order changing the name of the minor child. To support or voice objection to the proposed name change, you must appear at the hearing. Date: 11.4.21 Legal Notice No.: 708313 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: December 2, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
Legal Notice No. 708232 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 18, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court. The petition requests that the name of Geraldine Lopez be changed to Gigi Julia Geraldine Lopez Case No.: 21 C1534
PUBLIC NOTICE
By: Deputy Clerk
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on November 1, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.
Legal Notice No. 708231 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice
The petition requests that the name of Ashley Brianna Simpson be changed to Ashley Brianna Navarro Case No.: 21 C 1578
Adams County Court 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, Colorado 80601
By: Deputy Clerk
In the Matter of the Petition of: Parent/ Petitioner: Amy Elizabeth French For Minor Child: Hayleigh Olivia French To Change the Child’s Name to: Hayleigh Olivia French CASE NUMBER: 2021CV31107 Div. 1
Legal Notice No. 708273 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public Notice is given on October 08, 2021 that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Adams County Court. The Petition requests that the name of Jill Marie Balke be changed to Jill Marie Keith. Case No.:21C-1633 By: Alana Percy Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. WW12 First publication: November 11, 2021 Last publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window
NOTICE TO NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT BY PUBLICATION Notice to: Christopher Shane French, non custodial parent. Notice is given that a hearing is scheduled as follows: Date: December 10, 2021 Time: 8:00 a.m. Location: Adams County Court Colorado 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, Colorado 80601 Division ! For the purpose of requesting a change of name for Hayleigh Olivia French
PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 25, 2021 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court. The petition requests that the name of Colin Bradley Creason be changed to Colin Bradley Black Case No.: 21 C 1556
At this hearing the Court may enter an order changing the name of the minor child. To support or voice objection to the proposed name change, you must appear at the hearing. Legal Notice No.: 708259 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
Vehicle Titles
By: Judge Byron L. Howell Legal Notice No. 708276 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
Public Notice APT Service, Inc. is seeking title and selling the following abandoned vehicle.
PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 25, 2021 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court. The petition requests that the name of Trey Marvin Creason be changed to Trey Marvin Black Case No.: 21 C 1557
1) 2013 Mini Cooper vin# 565631 2) 2004 Honda Accord vin# 101334 3) 2007 Toyota Camry vin# 099405 Contact them at: APT Service, Inc 4400 Delaware St., Denver, CO. 80216 303-455-1264 Legal Notice No. 708296 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
By: Judge Byron L. Howell Legal Notice No. 708277 First Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
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Appropriation Date: October 29, 2021 5. Plan for Augmentation: 5.1. Name of Structures to be augmented: The Reach E Wells are identified in the following table. The augmentation plan proposed herein is also intended to augment any replacement well or alternate point of diversion wells authorized in connection with any of the listed wells. The augmentation plan proposed herein will not be limited to the below wells, but inclusion of additional wells to the augmentation plan will only be made in accordance with Colorado statutes, the Water Conservancy Act, Applicants’ internal rules and regulations, and the augmentation plan proposed herein. In addition, the water rights identified in paragraph 3 of this application shall be augmented under this plan. Applicant reserves the right to augment diversions from the exchange-to points described in paragraph 4 in this application instead of operating an exchange. Applicant will utilize the appropriation Public Notice date in paragraph 4.6 to determine when such diversions are out of priority. To the extent the Court reserves the determines right to augment diversions from or theamendments exchange-totopoints described in paragraph in this application instead of any new applications this plan are necessary to add 4structures to this plan, operating an exchange. Applicant will utilize the appropriation date in paragraph 4.6 to determine when such diversions are out applications or amendments willnew be filed with theorCourt. of priority. To such the extent the Court determines any applications amendments to this plan are necessary to add structures
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Public Notices DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 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 OCTOBER 2021 for each County affected. 21CW3193 GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT SUBDISTRICT OF THE CENTRAL COLORADO WATER CONSERVANCY DISTRICT (“GMS” OR “APPLICANT” OR “CENTRAL”), 3209 West 28th Street, Greeley, CO 80634. (970) 330-4540. Please send all future correspondence to Bradley C. Grasmick, Wesley S. Knoll, and Rebecca E. Spence, Lawrence Custer Grasmick Jones & Donovan, LLP, 5254 Ronald Reagan Drive, Ste. 1, Johnstown, CO 80534. APPLICATION FOR WATER RIGHTS, APPROPRIATIVE RIGHTS OF EXCHANGE AND APPROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION INCLUDING EXCHANGES, IN ADAMS, MORGAN, AND WELD COUNTIES. 2. General Overview of the Application. Applicant seeks to obtain a decree for a supplemental augmentation plan in order to utilize recharge credits from the Walker Recharge Project as decreed in Case No. 16CW3202 (the “Walker Decree”) and the recharge credits from the Orchard Recharge Project as decreed in Case No. 2005CW331 (the “Orchard Decree”). Applicant seeks to utilize the described recharge credits to allocate additional pumping and replace depletions from wells located in Central’s Administrative Reach E, as more particularly identified and defined in GMS’s augmentation plan decreed in Case No. 02CW335 (the “GMS Plan”). The wells located in Administrative Reach E are described in Paragraph 5.1 herein and are hereinafter referred to as the “Reach E Wells”. Applicant intends to utilize certain recharge credits from the Walker Decree and Orchard Decree, which are in excess of the amounts needed to replace depletions in the GMS Plan and the Augmentation Plan decreed to the Well Augmentation Subdistrict of the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (“WAS”) in Case No. 03CW99 (the “WAS Plan”), in this augmentation plan. The recharge credits described above are hereinafter referred to as the “Recharge Credits”. Depletions from the Reach E Wells impact the South Platte River below the Empire Inlet Canal headgate and above the headgates of the Jackson Lake Inlet Canal, the Bijou Canal, and the Weldon Valley Ditch. Recharge Credits from the Walker Decree and Orchard Decree accrue primarily below the Weldon Valley Ditch headgate. These Recharge Credits are permitted to stay in the South Platte River to replace depletions from the Reach E Wells authorized under the augmentation plan proposed in this application if the depletions from the Reach E Wells are owed to a senior water right below the Weldon Valley Ditch headgate. If the depletions are owed to water rights diverted at the Jackson Lake Inlet Canal or the Bijou Canal, then Applicants will deliver water directly to those canals from the structures identified in this application in an amount equal to the depletions from the Reach E Wells. If depletions are owed to the Weldon Valley Ditch, Applicants will directly tofrom the Weldon Valley Ditch or just upstream of the Weldon Ditchinheadgate. Water theeither GMSdeliver Plan. water All depletions diversions authorized under the augmentation planValley proposed this will be pumped from the North Side Wells, Side or diverted viatothe application, including fromAugmentation the new water rightsSouth applied forAugmentation herein, will beWells replaced pursuant thesurface terms diversions described of herein and delivered to the Jackson Lake Inlet, Weldon Valley Ditch, or Bijou Canal. The amount of water delivered the decree entered herein. 3. Application for New Water Rights. 3.1. North Side Augmentation Wells: directly to the Jackson Lake Inlet, Weldon Valley Ditch, or Bijou Canal from the aforementioned wells and surface diversions 3.1.1. the Theavailable North Side Augmentation deliver water to the and Jackson LakeDecree Inlet, and to the Plattein the South will not exceed Recharge CreditsWells from the Walker Decree Orchard which areSouth available River above those the Weldon Valley Ditch inthe thediversions NE 1/4 ofare themade. SW 1/4 of Section 13, Township Range of Reach Platte River to replace diversions at the time A figure generally illustrating4N, the location th E Wells and theoffacilities to be in used in the augmentation proposed in this application included Exhibit A which con61W the 6 P.M. Weld County and deliverplan directly into the Weldon Valleyare Ditch in the as N 1/2 of the sists of 3 pages. amounts water authorized to be diverted Reach E Wells underWater the augmentation plan proposed SE 1/4 The of Section 13,ofTownship 4N, Range 61W of theby6ththeP.M. in Weld County. from the North in this application will be in addition to any quota allocated to the Reach E Wells by GMS pursuant to the GMS Plan Side Augmentation Wells will be used for augmentation, replacement, and exchange pursuant to the up to the total amounts allotted by GMS to the Reach E Wells pursuant to the Class D contracts issued by GMS. Currently, the amount of plan decreed Orchard 63835-Ftotals 3.1.1.1.1. – 0108405 depletionsaugmentation allotted by GMS to the Reachherein. E Wells3.1.1.1. pursuant to their Well ClassNo. D Contracts 17,633WDID acre feet at a 100% pumping 3.1.1.1.2. Point of Diversion - NW depletions, 1/4 of the SE 1/4pumping of Section 13, the Township 4N,will Range 61W of under the 6ththe terms of quota. All depletions, including post-pumping from under GMS Plan be covered the GMS Plan. from1,502 diversions authorized underSection the augmentation planfeet proposed in this application, including from P.M.All in depletions Weld County, feet from the South line and 1,698 from the East Section line. the new water applied for herein, will be replaced pursuant to theRate terms of the c.f.s. decree entered herein. 3. Application for UTM:rights 571632m Easting and 4462439m Northing. Diversion - 11.14 (5,000 g.p.m.) 3.1.1.1.3. New Water Rights. 3.1. North Side Augmentation Wells: 3.1.1. The North Side Augmentation Wells deliver water to the Jackson Volumetric Limit – 7,239 ac-ft 3.1.1.2. Smith Well No. 1-10591the 3.1.1.2.1. Point of Diversion – NE 1/4 of Lake Inlet, and to the South Platte River above the Weldon Valley Ditch in NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 13, Township 4N, th theofSE Section 13, County Township Range 61Winto of the P.M. Valley in Weld County, from Range 61W the1/4 6thofP.M. in Weld and4N, deliver directly the 6Weldon Ditch in the1,890 N 1/2feet of the SE the 1/4 of Section South 1,200 from the Ease Section Line. UTM: 571843.6m Easting and 4462534.2m 13, Township 4N,Section RangeLine 61Wand of the 6thfeet P.M. in Weld County. Water from the North Side Augmentation Wells will be used for augmentation, replacement, exchange pursuant the augmentation plan decreed Orchard Well Northing. 3.1.1.2.2.and Diversion Rate – 2,500togpm 3.1.1.2.3. Volumetric Limitherein. – 4,0323.1.1.1. ac-ft 3.1.2. Wells inNo. 63835F 3.1.1.1.1. WDIDWellfield – 0108405 3.1.1.1.2. Point of Diversion - NW 1/41/2 of of thethe SESE 1/41/4 of Section 13, 13, Township 4N, 4N, Range 61W of Walker No. 1 3.1.2.1. Point of Diversion –N of Section Township the 6th P.M. in Weld County, 1,502 feet from the South Section line and 1,698 feet from the East Section line. UTM: 571632m Range 61W of the 6th P.M. in Weld County, and the N 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Section 18, Township 4N, Easting and 4462439m Northing. Diversion Rate - 11.14 c.f.s. (5,000 g.p.m.) 3.1.1.1.3. Volumetric Limit – 7,239 ac-ft 3.1.1.2. 61W of3.1.1.2.1. the 6th P.M. County. Table 1, below. 3.1.2.2.61W of the Smith WellRange No. 1-10591 PointinofMorgan Diversion – NE UTM 1/4 of locations the SE 1/4areof shown Sectionin13, Township 4N, Range Diversion Rate – 2,500 gpm (for constructed well)and 3.1.2.3. Limit – 4,032 ac-ft (forUTM: each571843.6m 6th P.M. in Weld County, 1,890 feet from theeach South Section Line 1,200Volumetric feet from the Ease Section Line. Easting and 4462534.2m Northing. 3.1.1.2.2. Diversion Rate – 2,500 gpm 3.1.1.2.3. Volumetric–Limit – 4,032 3.1.2. Wells in constructed well) 3.1.3. Wells in Walker Wellfield No. 4 3.1.3.1. Point of Diversion SE 1/4 of theac-ft NE 1/4 Walker Wellfield No. 118, 3.1.2.1. Point4N, of Diversion – Nof1/2 theP.M. SE 1/4 Section 13, Township Range of Section Township Range 60W theof6th in of Morgan County, and the4N, N 1/2 of the61W SE of 1/4the 6th P.M. in Weld County, and the N 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Section 18, thTownship 4N, Range 61W of the 6th P.M. in Morgan County. UTM of Section 18,Table Township 4N,3.1.2.2. Range 60W of theRate 6 P.M. in Morgan UTM locations are shown in locations are shown in 1, below. Diversion – 2,500 gpm (forCounty. each constructed well) 3.1.2.3. Volumetric Limit Table below. 3.1.3.2. Diversion Rate – 2,500 gpm Wellfield (for eachNo. constructed Volumetric Limit – 4,032 ac-ft (for1,each constructed well) 3.1.3. Wells in Walker 4 3.1.3.1.well) Point3.1.3.3. of Diversion – SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 4,032 ac-ft (for constructed well) delivery rate of thethe North Side Augmentation Wells 18, to Township of Section–18, Township 4N,each Range 60W of the 6th 3.1.4. P.M. inThe Morgan County, and N 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of Section 4N, Rangethe 60W of the 6th P.M. in Morgan County. locations Table 1, below. 3.1.3.2. Rate – 2,500 Jackson Lake Inlet Canal will be UTM limited to 10 are cfs shown and thein delivery rate from the Diversion North Side gpm (for each constructedWells well) 3.1.3.3. Volumetric Limit Ditch – 4,032will ac-ftbe(for each constructed delivery Augmentation to the Weldon Valley limited to 10 cfs. well) 3.1.5.3.1.4. The The North Side rate of the North Side Augmentation Wells to the Jackson Lake Inlet Canal will be limited to 10 cfs and the delivery rate from the North Side Augmentation Wells that Valley will beDitch constructed will not exceed a totalThe of four wells. Table 1 – Wells UTM that will be Augmentation Wells to the Weldon will be limited to 10 cfs. 3.1.5. North(4) Side Augmentation Locations for the North Augmentation Well constructed will not exceed a total Side of four (4) wells. Table 1 –Locations UTM Locations for the North Side Augmentation Well Locations
Wellfield 1 Well Name Well 1a Well 1b Well 1c Well 1d Well 1e Well 1f Well 1g Well 1h Well 1i Well 1j Well 1k Well 1l Well 1m Well 1n Well 1o Well 1p Well 1q Well 1r Well 1s Well 1t Well 1u Well 1v
Well Location UTM X
UTM Y
571657 571718 571779 571840 571901 571962 572023 572084 572145 572206 572267 572328 572389 572450 572511 572572 572633 572694 572755 572816 572877 572945
4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391 4462391
Wellfield 4 Well Name Well 4a Well 4b Well 4c Well 4d Well 4e Well 4f Well 4g Well 4h Well 4i Well 4j Well 4k Well 4l Well 4m Well 4n Well 4o Well 4p Well 4q Well 4r Well 4s Well 4t Well 4u Well 4v Well 4w Well 4x Well 4y Well 4z
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to this plan, such applications or amendments will be filed with the Court.
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573006 573067 573124 573172 573184 573193 573197 573223 573262 573276 573294 573361 573402 573448 573509 573547 573578 573578 573578 573578 573578 573578 573883 573913 573913 573943
4462103 4462124 4462149 4462189 4462254 4462315 4462376 4462444 4462505 4462566 4462627 4462688 4462719 4462749 4462780 4462810 4462871 4462932 4462993 4463054 4463115 4463176 4463389 4463450 4463511 4463572
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3.1. South3.1. SideSouth Augmentation Wells. 3.1.1. The 3.1.1. SouthThe SideSouth Augmentation Wells will deliver water into the Bijou Canal Side Augmentation Wells. Side Augmentation Wells will deliver water into the in the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 29, Township 4N, Range 60W of the 6th P.M. in Morgan County. Water from these wells will be used Bijou Canal in the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 29, Township 4N, Range 60W of the 6th P.M. in Morgan for augmentation replacement and exchange pursuant to the augmentation plan proposed herein. 3.1.2. Walker Wellfield No. 2 County.Well Water from these wells3.1.2.2.Point will be used of forDiversion augmentation to the4N, Range Well 2Q 3.1.2.1. Permit No. 84246-F – NE replacement 1/4 of the SEand 1/4 exchange of Sectionpursuant 18, Township plan proposed herein.573758m 3.1.2. Walker Wellfield No. 2 Well 2Q 3.1.2.1. WellDiversion Permit No. 8424660W of theaugmentation 6th P.M., Morgan County. UTM: Easting and 4462695m Northing 3.1.2.3. Rate – 3,200 g.p.m. 3.1.2.4. Volumetric Limit –of5,183 ac-ft 3.1.3. Wellfield Well 2R Well 4N, Permit No. 60W 84238-F 3.1.3.2. F 3.1.2.2.Point Diversion – NE Walker 1/4 of the SE 1/4No. of 2Section 18,3.1.3.1. Township Range of the 6th Point of Diversion P.M., – NW Morgan 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 17, Township 4N, Range 60W of the 6th P.M., Morgan County. UTM: County. UTM: 573758m Easting and 4462695m Northing 3.1.2.3. Diversion Rate – 3,200 573832.m Easting and 4462750m Northing 3.1.3.3. Diversion Rate – 3,200 g.p.m. 3.1.3.4. Volumetric Limit – 5,183 ac-ft 3.1.4. Walker g.p.m. 3.1.2.4. Volumetric Limit – 5,183 ac-ft 3.1.3. Walker Wellfield No. 2 Well 2R 3.1.3.1. Well Permit Wellfield No. 2 Well 2T 3.1.4.1. Well Permit No. 84185-F Point of Diversion –SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 17, Township 4N, No.of84238-F 3.1.3.2. Point County. of Diversion NW 1/4 ofEasting the SWand 1/4 4462832m of Section 17, Township 4N,Diversion Range 60W Range 60W the 6th P.M., Morgan UTM:– 573897m Northing 3.1.4.2. Rate – 3,200 of the 6th P.M., Morgan County. Easting and 4462750m 3.1.3.3. Diversionwells Rateto the Bijou g.p.m. 3.1.4.3.Volumetric Limit – 5,183 ac-ftUTM: 3.1.5.573832.m The combined delivery rate of theNorthing South Side Augmentation Canal will –be3,200 limited to 103.1.3.4. cfs 3.1.6. The cumulative for the North Side WellsWell and the South g.p.m. Volumetric Limit – total 5,183volumetric ac-ft 3.1.4.limit Walker Wellfield No.Augmentation 2 Well 2T 3.1.4.1. Side Augmentation Wells shall Point be 7,260 acre feet. –SW 4. Application Exchange. 4.1. Source of Substitute Supply:60W The Recharge Permit No. 84185-F of Diversion 1/4 of thefor NW 1/4 of Section 17, Township 4N, Range Credits resulting from diversions pursuant to the Walker Decree and the Orchard Decree. 4.2. Exchange from Points: 4.2.1. The of the 6thfor P.M., Morgan County. UTM: 573897m Easting and 13, 4462832m Northing 3.1.4.2. Diversion Rate point of accretion the Orchard East Recharge Pond: E 1/2 Section Township 4N, Range 61W of the 6th P.M., Morgan – 3,200 g.p.m.Easting, 3.1.4.3.Volumetric Limit – 4.2.2. 5,183 Confluence ac-ft 3.1.5. The combined delivery theSouth SouthPlatte Side River: SW County. UTM: 572511m 4462084 Northing. of the Unnamed Sloughrate andofthe Augmentation wells toTownship the Bijou 4N, Canal will be limited 10 P.M., cfs 3.1.6. The County. cumulative total volumetric limit 4462880m 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 17, Range 60W of theto6th Morgan UTM: 573918m Easting, Northing. 4.2.3. furthest downstream point of and accretions on Side the South Platte River fromshall the be Walker as defor theThe North Side Augmentation Wells the South Augmentation Wells 7,260Recharge acre feet. Ponds 4. creed in the Walker Decree: 576666.30 Easting, m Northing. 4.3. Exchange-to Points 4.3.1. Walker Diversion No. Application for Exchange. 4.1.mSource of 4463624.31 Substitute Supply: The Recharge Credits resulting from diversions 1– At the location of the Weldon Valley Ditch Company river diversion on the north bank of the South Platte River located in the to of theSection Walker13, Decree and 4the Orchard Decree. 4.2.ofExchange from 4.2.1. UTM: The point of Easting NW 1/4 ofpursuant the SE 1/4 Township North, Range 61 West the 6th P.M. in Points: Weld County. 571335m th accretion for the4.3.1.1. Orchard East diverted Rechargefrom Pond: 1/2 Section 13, Township 4N, Range of the 6Lake P.M., and 4462421m Northing. Water thisEExchange-to point will be delivered to 61W the Jackson Inlet or availMorganatCounty. UTM: 572511m Easting, 4462084 Northing. 4.2.2. Confluence of the Unnamed Slough able for diversion the Weldon Valley Ditch Headgate into the Weldon Valley Ditch for augmentation replacement and exchange th the South Platte pursuant to thethe plan decreed Walker 2 - A point to be located on the60W southofbank and South Platteherein. River: 4.3.2. SW 1/4 of theDiversion NW 1/4 ofNo. Section 17, Township 4N, Range the 6of P.M., River and Morgan an unnamed slough located in theEasting, SW 1/4 4462880m of the SE 1/4 of Section 18,The Township 4N, Range 60Wpoint of the County. UTM: 573918m Northing. 4.2.3. furthest downstream of 6th P.M. in Morgan County. 4.3.2.1. Water diverted at this Exchange-to Point will be delivered into the Bijou Canal for augmentation, replacethe South Platte River fromplan the Walker Recharge Ponds as decreed in the Walker Decree: ment, andaccretions exchange on pursuant to the augmentation proposed herein. 4.4. Proposed cumulative maximum exchange rate 576666.30 m cfs Easting, 4463624.31 mcumulative Northing. 4.3. Exchange-to WalkerisDiversion 1– At for all exchanges is 10 4.5. The Proposed maximum volumePoints of the4.3.1. exchanges limited toNo. 7,240 acre feet 4.6. Appropriation Date: October 2021 Valley 5. Plan Ditch for Augmentation: 5.1.diversion Name of on Structures to bank be augmented: The Reach E Wells the location of the 29, Weldon Company river the north of the South Platte are identified in the following Theof augmentation proposed herein is4also intended replacement well or River located in thetable. NW 1/4 the SE 1/4 ofplan Section 13, Township North, Rangeto61augment West ofany the 6th P.M. alternate point of diversion authorized in connection with any of theNorthing. listed wells. The augmentation planfrom proposed in Weld County.wells UTM: 571335m Easting and 4462421m 4.3.1.1. Water diverted this herein will not be limited to the below wells, but inclusion of additional wells to the augmentation plan will only be made in accordance with Exchange-to point Conservancy will be delivered to the Jackson Lakerules Inletand or regulations, available forand diversion at the Weldon Colorado statutes, the Water Act, Applicants’ internal the augmentation plan proposed Ditch intoidentified the Weldon Valley Ditch augmentation replacement and exchange herein. In Valley addition, the Headgate water rights in paragraph 3 offor this application shall be augmented under pursuant this plan. Applicant
to the plan decreed herein. 4.3.2. Walker Diversion No. 2 - A point to be located on the south bank of the South Platte River and an unnamed slough located in the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 18, Township
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5.2. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation, Replacement, or Exchange to the South Platte River and Continued to Next Page:Water its Tributaries: 5.2.1. As previously stated, Applicant intends to utilize the Recharge Credits which are708293 available but in excess of the amounts needed to replace depletions under the GMS Augmentation Plan which was decreed in Case No. 02CW235 and the WAS Augmentation Plan which was decreed in Case
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Public Notices Continued From Last Page: Water 78293: Page 2 of 3 5.2. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation, Replacement, or Exchange to the South Platte River and its Tributaries: 5.2.1. As previously stated, Applicant intends to utilize the Recharge Credits which are available but in excess of the amounts needed to replace depletions under the GMS Augmentation Plan which was decreed in Case No. 02CW235 and the WAS Augmentation Plan which was decreed in Case No. 03CW99. The Recharge Credits will either be left in the river, will be re-diverted directly or by exchange at the points of diversion described in paragraph 4.3, or the Recharge Credits will be used to augment diversions made pursuant to the North Side Augmentation Wells described in paragraph 3.1 or the South Side Augmentation Wells described in paragraph 3.2. 5.2.2. Applicants will utilize the water rights applied for herein as described in Paragraphs 3 and 4 for augmentation, replacement, and exchange in the augmentation plan proposed herein. 5.2.3. Applicant may also utilize any other supply included as an augmentation supply in the GMS Plan to the extent the supply is in excess of the amount needed to replace depletions from pumping augmented pursuant to the GMS Plan and the supply is made available in locations needed to augment depletions from the Reach E Wells in the South Platte River. A list of those sources are included in Exhibit B attached hereto. To the extent those sources are utilized in this Plan, they will be removed as source of aug-
mentation in the projection and accounting in the GMS Plan pursuant to the terms of that decree. 5.2.4. Applicant seeks approval to add additional sources of augmentation and replacement water to the augmentation plan proposed herein 5.3. Statement of Plan for Augmentation: 5.3.1. No replacement sources are being changed pursuant to this application. 5.3.2. Diversions from the structures listed herein cause depletions to the South Platte River. Depletions from the Reach E Wells will be calculated utilizing the Glover equation, methodology, and factors decreed in the GMS Plan. Applicants’ wells in Reach E deplete the South Platte River in the SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 29, Township 5 North, Range 65 West of the 6th P.M. in Weld County, Colorado. Depletions from the wells described in Paragraph 3 (the “Augmentation Wells”) will be calculated utilizing the response functions or the methodology decreed in the Walker Decree, except for the Smith Well described in paragraph 3.1.2, which will utilize the Glover equation, methodology, and factors decreed for that well in the GMS Plan. Diversions from the North Side Augmentation Wells deplete the South Platte River just downstream of the Weldon Valley Ditch Headgate in the N 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of Section 13, Township 4N, Range 61W of the 6th P.M. in Weld County. Diversions from the South Side Augmentation Wells deplete the South Platte River approximately 1.5 miles downstream of the Weldon Valley Ditch Headgate in the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 18,
Township 4N, Range 60W of the 6th P.M. in Weld County. UTM: 573623.00 m Easting, 4462577.00 m Northing. 5.3.3. Replacement of Out of Priority Depletions. Applicant will utilize the supplies listed herein to replace out of priority depletions to the South Platte River. The primary source of replacement will be the Recharge Credits. To the extent the calling water rights are located downstream of the Weldon Valley Ditch headgate, those Recharge Credits will be left undiverted in the South Platte River and used to replace depletions from diversions under the augmentation plan proposed herein. If the calling water right senior to the date of the Reach E Wells is at either the Bijou Canal, the Jackson Lake Inlet, or the Weldon Valley Ditch, then Applicant will divert water pursuant to the water rights described herein and will utilize the Recharge Credits to facilitate those diversions either directly, by augmentation, or exchange. Water will be delivered to the Jackson Inlet in the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 13, Township 4N, Range 61W of the 6th P.M. in Weld County. Water will be delivered to the Weldon Valley Canal in the N 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of Section 13, Township 4N, Range 61W of the 6th P.M. in Weld County. Water will be delivered to the Bijou Canal in the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 29, Township 4N, Range 60W of the 6th P.M. in Morgan County. If any others supplies listed in Exhibit B are utilized to replace depletions from the Reach E Wells, those supplies will be delivered upstream of the calling water right located downstream of the point of
depletion for the Reach E Wells. 5.3.4. Diversions from the Augmentation Wells and the Exchanges shall be fully replaced by the Recharge Credits or other firm supplies as available under the augmentation plan proposed herein. Applicant shall only divert water via the Augmentation Wells or the exchanges to the extent replacement water is available from the Recharge Credits or other firm supplies to replace those diversions. 5.3.5. Applicant will utilize a projection to determine the amounts of water which can be diverted for both the Augmentation Wells and the Reach E wells under the augmentation plan proposed herein. 5.3.6. Accounting and Reporting. Applicants will prepare accounting forms to account for its operations under the augmentation plan proposed herein. 6. Name and Address of Owners of Structures: The water rights and wells listed herein are owned by Applicant or Applicant’s members who have water allotment contracts with Applicant. The Jackson Inlet Canal is owned by the Jackson Lake Reservoir and Irrigation Company whose address is P.O Box 38 Fort Morgan, CO 80701. The Bijou Canal is owned by the Bijou Irrigation District and Company whose address is 15551 US-34, Fort Morgan, CO 80701. The Weldon Valley Ditch is owned by the Weldon Valley Ditch Company whose address is 911 North Ave. Weldon, CO 80653. This Application consists of 15 pages and 2 exhibits.
FORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY 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 DECEMBER 2021 (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. 708293 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Westminster Window
WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETO-
Adams County Warrants Public Notice
Adams County Warrants: November 8, 2021 through November 12, 2021 GENERAL FUND Supplier Name ECONOMIC BARBA, MORGAN BLAKE, ELIZABETH BOGAN, LUCCASSEY BRASHEAR, BRAIDYNNE CASSIDAY, KATHARINE EISENACH, JADEN EISENACH, WYATT FANKHAUSER, EMMA FANKHAUSER, TESS GOSS, CHEYANNE HIGHTOWER, ELIZABETH KIEFER, EMMY MARR, KRISTIN MASON, CARSON MAXWELL KIRKMEYER, GABRIELLE OSWALD, ELSIE PANKOSKI, KYLE PEACE, SADIE PEVLER, SYDNIE ROSELL, CALVIN SACK, JOSEPH SEELY, LOGAN SEELY, TAYLOR THOMPSON, DE’NEAY WENZEL, KELSEY ADAMSON POLICE PRODUCTS ALSCO AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL ANZIANO JAMIE ARMORED KNIGHTS INC AUTO MART USA B J PROPERTIES & INVESTMENTS BARNETT DIANE ELIZABETH BI INCORPORATED BRIGHTON CITY OF (WATER) CASA OF ADAMS & BROOMFIELD COU CENTURY LINK COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA COPYCO QUALITY PRINTING INC CORECIVIC INC CURTIS SCOTT ERIC DEEP ROCK WATER DIEGO ARTURO DOMINGUEZ NANCY DYNAMIC RESTORATION ELDORADO ARTESIAN SPRINGS INC FEDEX FIRST CALL OF COLO
Warrant Date
Amount
11/12/2021 125,000.00 11/10/2021 375.00 11/10/2021 10.00 11/10/2021 125.00 11/10/2021 125.00 11/10/2021 125.00 11/10/2021 25.00 11/10/2021 50.00 11/10/2021 250.00 11/10/2021 125.00 11/10/2021 40.00 11/10/2021 125.00 11/10/2021 250.00 11/10/2021 25.00 11/10/2021 20.00 11/10/2021 45.00 11/10/2021 30.00 11/10/2021 30.00 11/10/2021 10.00 11/10/2021 10.00 11/10/2021 70.00 11/10/2021 70.00 11/10/2021 75.00 11/10/2021 10.00 11/10/2021 15.00 11/10/2021 30.00 11/10/2021 188.85 11/10/2021 433.04 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 1,781.95 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 66.00 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 17,871.40 11/10/2021 208.60 11/10/2021 7,500.00 11/10/2021 85.00 11/10/2021 552.00 11/10/2021 750.00 11/10/2021 8,764.56 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 92.41 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 66.00 11/10/2021 14,766.00 11/10/2021 66.45 11/10/2021 38.55 11/10/2021 6,010.00
GALLS LLC GRONQUIST, CHRISTOPHER L HELTON & WILLIAMSEN PC HURTADO LEEROY J. BROWER PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVIC JACHIMIAK PETERSON LLC JCOR MECHANICAL INC JOSHUA B EPEL ESQ PLLC K&H INTEGRATED PRINT SOLUTIONS KOCH TRAVIS WILLIAM LANGUAGE LINE SERVICES LAW OFFICES OF NICHOLAS F ORTI LEWIS BRISBOIS BISGAARD AND SM MASTERS VALUATION SERVICES MCCREARY RAPHAEL MCNEILE PAPPAS PC MCNEILPAPPAS PC MECSTAT LABORATORIES MEI TOTAL ELEVATOR SOLUTIONS MEXICAN CULTURAL CENTER NATIONAL VALUATION CONSULTANTS NICOLETTI-FLATER ASSOCIATES NORTH PECOS WATER & SANITATION OKALOOSA COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT OPEX CORPORATION PACHECO DUANE PALEO DNA PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS POINT SPORTS/ERGOMED PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS RUNBECK ELECTION SERVICES INC SCHULTZ PUBLIC AFFAIRS LLC SEWALD HANFLING PUBLIC AFFAIRS SHERMAN & HOWARD LLC SOLIDAY AMANDA SONG CHIN UNG SOUTHWESTERN PAINTING SPRINGMAN, BRADEN, WILSON & PO STANLEY CONVERGENT SECURITY S STRASBURG FIRE PROTECTION DIST SUMMIT FOOD SERVICE LLC TARVER LUCY TONSAGER DENNIS TOP HAT FILE AND SERVE INC TRANE US INC TRELOAR TARA A TRILOGY MEDWASTE WEST LLC TYGRETT DEBRA R UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC VERIZON WIRELESS VICKERS RORY CHARLES VICTORY SUPPLY LLC WAGNER RENTS INC WESTERN PAPER DISTRIBUTORS WOLFE SANDRA KAY
11/10/2021 237.12 11/10/2021 65.00 11/10/2021 953.75 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 1,875.00 11/10/2021 3,828.00 11/10/2021 144,073.20 11/10/2021 10,440.00 11/10/2021 146,596.45 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 1,230.00 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 2,450.00 11/10/2021 65.00 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 195.00 11/10/2021 246.58 11/10/2021 750.00 11/10/2021 1,400.00 11/10/2021 548.00 11/10/2021 41.46 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 2,740.00 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 756.00 11/10/2021 150.00 11/10/2021 180.00 11/10/2021 6,675.00 11/10/2021 52,500.00 11/10/2021 5,416.67 11/10/2021 4,285.71 11/10/2021 2,550.00 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 66.00 11/10/2021 20,003.00 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 3,503.28 11/10/2021 214.00 11/10/2021 31,702.84 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 65.00 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 6,185.00 11/10/2021 65.00 11/10/2021 1,731.26 11/10/2021 440.00 11/10/2021 40.93 11/10/2021 3,122.18 11/10/2021 19.00 11/10/2021 2,828.80 11/10/2021 691.39 11/10/2021 10,995.00 11/10/2021 65.00
XCEL ENERGY Fund Total
11/10/2021
67.68 820,178.84
CAPITAL FACILITIES FUND ANNETTE LEA COLMAN BENJAMIN MOLLNER CHEVO STUDIOS INC COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS M DINA L FISHER FCI CONSTRUCTORS INC GREGORY MARK FIELDS OFFICESCAPES OF DENVER LLLP THERMAL & MOISTURE PROTECTION WALKER FINE ART AND DESIGN Fund Total
11/10/2021 750.00 11/10/2021 750.00 11/10/2021 42,500.00 11/10/2021 5,104.00 11/10/2021 750.00 11/10/2021 1,368,200.35 11/10/2021 750.00 11/10/2021 237.50 11/10/2021 2,075.00 11/10/2021 6,900.00 1,428,016.85
EQUIPMENT SERVICE FUND ASBURY CO CDJR LLC FACTORY MOTOR PARTS JOHN ELWAY CHEVROLET PRECISE MRM LLC SAM HILL OIL INC Fund Total
11/10/2021 102,281.00 11/10/2021 8,615.40 11/10/2021 116,268.75 11/10/2021 5,832.00 11/10/2021 803.08 233,800.23
STORMWATER UTILITY FUND MILE HIGH FLOOD DISTRICT MILE HIGH FLOOD DISTRICT MILE HIGH FLOOD DISTRICT UTILO LLC Fund Total
11/10/2021 1,500,000.00 11/10/2021 25,000.00 11/10/2021 50,000.00 11/10/2021 2,456.00 1,577,456.00
ROAD & BRIDGE FUND HC PECK & ASSOCIATES INC HC PECK & ASSOCIATES INC A-1 CHIPSEAL CO COLORADO PAVING INC KUMAR & ASSOCIATES INC SCOTT CONTRACTING Fund Total
11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021
39,338.00 161,891.00 237,300.42 248,697.23 1,285.50 136,242.63 824,754.78
INSURANCE FUND TRISTAR RISK MANAGEMENT TRISTAR RISK MANAGEMENT 4 IMPRINT INC CA SHORT COMPANY CAREHERE LLC FITNESS TECH Fund Total
11/12/2021 4,887.15 11/12/2021 112,338.48 11/10/2021 2,793.68 11/10/2021 19,423.50 11/10/2021 280,997.41 11/10/2021 550.00 420,990.22
COMMUNITY DEV BLOCK GRANT FUND
WGM LAND DESIGN LTD HOUSING AUTHORITY THE CITY OF Fund Total
11/10/2021 11/10/2021
31,815.49 59,437.80 91,253.29
HEAD START FUND ADAMS COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES B C INTERIORS CESCO LINGUISTIC SERVICE INC COLO DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES DFA DAIRY BRANDS CORPORATE LLC GENESIS FLOOR CARE OF COLORADO SYSCO DENVER US FOODSERVICE US FOODSERVICE US FOODSERVICE US FOODSERVICE Fund Total
11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021
16.32 15,692.40 194.00 492.00 963.20 3,175.00 100.35 1,788.49 71.13 1,785.43 47.42 24,325.74
COMM SERVICES BLK GRANT FUND GROWING HOME INC Fund Total
11/10/2021
5,189.57 5,189.57
WORKFORCE & BUSINESS CENTER BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSEL EXPRESS SERVICES INC Fund Total
11/10/2021 11/10/2021
195.93 3,573.96 3,769.89
COLORADO AIR & SPACE PORT CITY SERVICEVALCON LLC AT&T CORP CLEARWAY ENERGY GROUP LLC LOTTMAN OIL COMPANY STATE OF COLORADO STATE OF COLORADO XCEL ENERGY XCEL ENERGY XCEL ENERGY XCEL ENERGY Fund Total
11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021 11/10/2021
32,900.93 109.65 3,192.91 1,013.00 1,563.00 11.38 17.74 41.54 96.35 314.95 39,261.45
FLATROCK FACILITY FUND THERMAL & MOISTURE PROTECTION Fund Total
11/10/2021
GRAND TOTAL Legal Notice No.: 708319 First Publication: November 18, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel
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November 18, 2021
FREE ADMISSION!! Holiday Craft Show & Mini-Market Third Annual
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Saturday Dec. 11
Sunday Dec. 12
8am - 4pm
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8am - 2pm
Douglas County Fairgrounds 500 Fairgrounds Dv. Castle Rock, CO.
Come shop for unique gifts and special items during the annual Colorado Community Media Holiday Craft Show and Mini-Market; With more than 100 exhibitors filling the Douglas County Fairgrounds, this is the best place to find that special, personal gift for friends and family. The show will feature handmade crafts in all areas from metal and leather, to flowers, baskets, ceramics, and so much more.
Bright Little Brains Rozanne Steyn Brightlittlebrains.com
Carol’s Creative Cards Carol Smith Cjaysmith.com 303-886-6730
Discovery Toys
Julie Olivett - Team Leader 303-437-7067 YourToyLady.com
Nerdy Sheep Fiber Arts Nerdysheepfiberarts.com info@nerdysheepfiberarts.com
Suelyn’s Creations
Suelyn Gnormley 720-201-3930 facebook.com/SuelynsCreations
ADMISSION IS FREE TO THE PUBL
Vendor applications being accepted now. Apply Today Contact Event Producer Thelma Grimes at tgrimes@coloradocommunitymedia.com All applications must be approved to participate