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As COVID cases rise, local hospital ICUs fill up ‘Vast majority’ of hospitalized virus patients are unvaccinated

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As COVID-19 cases continue to go up across the metro area due to the highly-transmissible delta variant, hospitals are admitting more patients to ICU beds, and UCHealth and Kaiser Permanente are postponing non-urgent medical procedures.

According to the Tri-County Health Department, as of Sept. 1, hospitals in Douglas County had reached 95% capacity for ICU beds.

Inpatient beds were exceeding 85%.

In neighboring Arapahoe County, ICU beds were at 83.4% capacity to start the month of September.

Adams County increased to 91.3% capacity.

As hospitals are dealing with the increase in cases, UCHealth made the call last week to postpone nonurgent surgeries as the system faces the highest number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients since January, when cases neared 500.

At the start of September, UCHealth reported more than 260 hospitalizations due to confirmed or suspected COVID patients.

UCHealth has 12 hospitals. In the Denver metro area, UCHealth has hospitals in Highlands Ranch, Au-

Carol Knight, a clinical nurse coordinator for Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree, FILE PHOTO receives a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital on Dec. 16, 2020.

rora and Broomfield.

A statement provided by media relations manager Paula Freund said, “Highlands Ranch Hospital and other UCHealth hospitals are experiencing very high census rates and caring for near-record numbers of patients. We are closely monitoring the capacity of our hospitals.

“To ensure we have available beds and the capabilities to care for any patients who may have an urgent or emergent health care need, we have been proactively postponing a small number of non-urgent and

non-emergent surgeries and procedures that would have led to an admission to one of our hospitals, including Highlands Ranch Hospital,” Freund said. “This is helping to open up beds as needed for patients with more urgent health care conditions.”

Kaiser Permanente also opted to postpone elective and non-urgent procedures in all Colorado locations.

According to the Colorado COVID information webpage, Kaiser Permanente said the decision is based on guidelines set by the Centers for

Disease Control.

Centura Health has several hospitals in the region, including Castle Rock Adventist Hospital and Parker Adventist Hospital in Douglas County.

On Sept. 1, Kevin Massey, the organization’s communications field adviser, said, “Centura Health hospitals, like other hospital systems in Colorado and elsewhere, have seen an increase in COVID-19 patients over the summer as the delta variant has spread in our communities.

However, the number of patients with COVID-19 is still far lower than we saw in the winter. Although our hospitals are busy, all of our facilities have the capacity to care for everyone in our communities who need us.”

Like other health officials in the region, Massey said unvaccinated cases are causing more concern.

“The vast majority of our COVID-19 inpatients are unvaccinated.

We continue to encourage all in our communities to get vaccinated against COVID-19,” he said. “The vaccines are safe and effective and are the best way to avoid becoming infected with COVID-19 and spreading it to others.”

In late August, Dr. Ben Usatch, emergency medicine physician and medical director of the UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital Emergency Department, said the Douglas County hospital is gaining more SEE COVID, P31

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September 9, 2021

Mismatch: Census shows City Councils lack diversity City council members of color say it’s more than just a number

BY LIAM ADAMS LADAMS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The 2020 Census showed that North Denver Metro cities have become more diverse in the past decade, but representation on local city councils has not kept up.

About 49% of residents in Brighton, Commerce City, Thornton, Northglenn and Westminster are non-White, according to an average of 2020 Census data. Meanwhile, about 18% of members of the various city councils are non-White.

But it’s not just about statistics, say current city council members of color. Residents from minority communities who serve on city councils bring a unique perspective that others might not have.

When Northglenn City Councilor Julie Mullica ran for the council in 2017, she said she wanted to represent all of my community.

“But as I continued to move around and talked to people, it definitely turned into a higher issue for me,” Mullica said. “I realized, `Wow, this is a really important perspective and voice that I am bringing to council that I think is important for the city of Northglenn.’”

On the campaign trail, Mullica,

who identifies as Chicana, said constituents of color shared with her stories about experiencing racism in the city, she said. Having someone on the council that looked like them might promote a greater spirit of inclusivity, the residents told her.

Ezeadi And when Mullica joined the council, she saw opportunities to address that. A major priority for her was establishing a diversity, inclusivity, and social equity (DISE) board, which the city established in 2020.

Mullica That was one new idea from the diverse perspective Mullica feels she has brought to the table. She also noted other initiatives that former Councilors Antonio Esquibel and Jordan Sauers suggested, such as making sure city events featured more Latin music bands or city movie nights included Spanish subtitles.

Though Sauers and Esquibel no longer serve on council, Shannon Lukeman-Hiromasa is another city councilor of color in Northglenn.

Mullica and Lukeman-Hiromasa are running to stay on the council this November election. With Mullica and Lukeman-Hiromasa, the Northglenn City Council is 25% non-white, though the city is 48% non-White, 2020 Census data shows.

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Thornton is 49% non-White, while the council is 22% non-White. Commerce City is 60% non-White and its city council is 33% non-White.

About half of Brighton is nonWhite, but only one city councilor is non-White. In Westminster, a city about 36% non-White, is represented by an entirely White city council.

Commerce City Councilman José Guardiola said he also thinks diverse representation on city councils is critical. Although he said it isn’t just about having non-White voices on council. There are other layers.

Guardiola is a first-generation U.S. citizen because his parents moved to Commerce City in 1983 from Mexico.

When he ran for council, that was at the forefront of his mind.

He said, “I wondered who was representing that first-generation or that recent immigrant, the undocumented in Commerce City … Third and fourth generations (Latino residents) are far removed from recent immigrants and there is a big difference.”

Since joining the council, Guardiola said residents have been glad to have a city councilor like himself who speaks Spanish and attends Spanish-speaking meetings. Guardiola is running for reelection this November.

Roberta Ayala, who is running for city council in Thornton this November, echoed Guardiola, saying diversity just shouldn’t be for diversity’s sake.

“A piece of the conversation that has been missing is about representation for working class people of color on our city council,” Ayala said.

Ayala, who has worked as a union organizer, is pushing for a progressive agenda on various socio-economic issues, a perspective she says she has from her own experience as a Hispanic resident of Thornton of 30 years.

As the city grows to the north, she

Randall Peterson resigns from Northglenn City Council

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wants to make sure that the south side of town, where more residents of color live, aren’t left behind. That means revitalizing parts of south Thornton that are blighted, addressing food desserts, and cleaning up contamination at the Thornton Shopping Center, which Ayala and others have called an example of environmental racism.

Obi Ezeadi, who is running for Westminster City Council in November, shares a similar line of thinking as Ayala about the perspective he can bring to the council.

“The council has been all white, all upper-middle class,” Ezeadi. “So, it’s not just race,” he said. “When I think about equity, I think about race, income class, sexuality, gender.”

Ezeadi acknowledges that current council members promote the idea of diversity, but said that’s not the same as a council member who has, “...experienced what they (workingclass residents of color) have gone through.”

Ezeadi listed a couple of examples of inequity he sees in the city that he feels has been absent among discussions on the council, including “tree equity” — in that there are more trees and green space in the northern, higher-income part of town — or the disproportionate negative financial impact of the pandemic on minority-owned businesses.

Ezeadi said he would like to see the council adopt criteria for development proposals that include questions aimed at issues of inequity in town, such as, “How would this proposal impact south Westminster or the Black population?”

It’s not just about a person’s appearance or the sound of their name, Ezeadi reiterated.

“Diversity impacts the decisionmaking of things,” he said. “It impacts the wealth gaps, the income gaps, and the climate change burdens.”

Quite suddenly, another spot opened on the Northglenn City Council after Ward 1 Councilman Randall Peterson resigned Aug. 27.

A city of Northglenn news release said Peterson’s resignation was effective immediately and that he didn’t provide a reason for his decision. Peterson did not immediately respond to a request for comPeterson ment.

Peterson’s term was set to expire this November.

He originally joined the council in January 2020 when the council appointed him after Meredith Leighty became mayor.

When a council seat becomes vacant, the charter saysx the council must appoint someone. That appointee serves until the next municipal election. However, the council will likely not be able to appoint someone before the Nov. 2 municipal election. So, the seat could remain vacant after November, the city’s news release said.

Peterson’s seat is the second on the council to become vacant this year. Antonio Esquibel resigned in May because he and his wife moved to Utah. Shannon Lukeman-Hiromasa was appointed in his place until November. Lukeman-Hiromasa is running unopposed for a two-year term in Ward 4 in the November election.

The council is expected to discuss the vacancy left by Peterson at its Sept. 13 meeting.

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Arapahoe, Douglas, Adams counties see school virus outbreaks Health chief: ‘What we feared could happen is beginning to happen’

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

School settings in Douglas, Arapahoe and Adams counties saw 15 confirmed coronavirus outbreaks starting in August, according to the local public health agency that serves those counties.

“What we feared could happen is beginning to happen,” said John Douglas, executive director of Tri-County Health Department, during an Aug. 26 telephone town hall event.

In August, Tri-County Health Department issued an order that requires masks for all children ages 2 through 11 — and all the individuals working or interacting with those children — in all indoor school and childcare settings in the three counties.

Tri-County’s board of health approved the mask order on Aug. 17, and it took effect Aug. 23. Some school districts had implemented mask requirements before the order was approved.

All of the listed outbreaks started in August.

Across the counties, officials have also seen 23 suspected outbreaks, said

WHERE SCHOOL OUTBREAKS OCCURRED The COVID-19 outbreaks in school settings as of Aug. 26, according to Tri-County Health, included: • Turnberry Elementary School in Commerce City • Westgate Community School in Thornton The health agency also listed an outbreak at a facility called “ESC 1.”

Becky O’Guin, spokesperson for TriCounty Health.

Of the total — confirmed and suspected — most are at K-12 settings, and one is from a childcare setting, O’Guin said.

Tri-County’s mask order met pushback from crowds at public meetings in August where local government bodies discussed mask policy. At press time, two of the counties in the health agency’s jurisdiction — Douglas and Adams — had already opted out of the order.

“While I am disappointed by that, I am pleased that many school districts, bolstered by our board of health” have acted to require masks, said Douglas, the health chief.

The policy is intended “to keep kids in class,” Douglas added. “If you get sick, you have to stay home. If your

Tri-County health chief acknowledges impatience over COVID

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

At the Aug. 26 telephone town hall event that heard callers’ questions about COVID-19, John Douglas, director of TriCounty Health, said: “Let me acknowledge that if you’re like me, you’re incredibly tired of having to continue dealing with the pandemic after now we’re getting close to 18 months.

“I hear this from folks in my community, I hear it from my staff, I hear it from my wife,” Douglas said. He added: “I think we’re all just deeply weary.”

The effects of the delta variant in the last two months have been a “head-snapping turnaround,” Douglas said.

But COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective against the delta variant in preventing severe illness — meaning those that lead to hospitalizations or death, Douglas said.

The vaccines are 75% effective at preventing all infections in

general, he added.

Hospitalizations across the state are rising, but “that’s almost all in unvaccinated people,” Douglas said.

Mellissa Sager, a Tri-County Health official, said that even though mask wearing isn’t being urged for outdoor events — such as at Denver Broncos games in Denver — it’s still a good idea to wear one in a crowded setting.

“Even out in the stadium, activities like shouting very loudly” can potentially spread COVID-19, Sager said during the virtual town hall event.

Despite the challenges in current COVID-19 data, “I think we’ve got the tools available” to reverse the trends, Douglas said.

Vaccines are the most important tool, but masks, good ventilation, spending time outdoors in the warm weather and getting tested when feeling sick also remain crucial, Douglas said.

“We are going to be able to get our lives more and more normal,” Douglas said. “I think our challenge now is using the tools and staying as positive as we can.”

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Free admission into the buildings from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., plus blacksmith demonstrations.

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September 9, 2021

Study: 1st-time homelessness doubled in area over past year

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Every year, the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative conducts a “Point in Time Count” to determine how many people are experiencing homelessness in the Denver area.

This year’s report found a “drastic increase” in the number of people in the Denver metro area experiencing homelessness for the first time, a surge that surveyors attributed to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

You can read a snapshot of the report online at tinyurl.com/MetroDenverHomelessness. The full MDHI Point in Time report for 2021, which will include individualized data for Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties, will be published this fall.

“In 2020 there were 1,273 people in shelters that were experiencing homelessness for the first time,” said Matt Meyer, MDHI’s executive director. “This year, that number doubled to 2,530 demonstrating the devastating effects of COVID-19 on the stability of our neighbors.”

This year’s survey was conducted on a single day in February. MDHI found that in the Denver metro area, 5,530 people were staying in shelters, about a 1,000-person increase from last year’s study, which was conducted before the pandemic started.

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A homeless encampment in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood on Aug. 26.

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Loud (DHOL) told Rocky Mountain PBS that the true number of people experiencing homelessness is probably even higher.

Dunning explained that the pandemic made counting the number of unhoused people difficult, and that because the results of the Point in Time survey are self-reported, many unhoused people do not respond to the survey and are therefore not counted.

This year, MDHI did not include the number of unsheltered people in their study because of COVID-19. In 2020, there were 1,561 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the Denver metro area. Advocates believe that number has increased over the past year.

“The number of folks ... that are out on the street probably tripled,” Dunning estimated.

Nearly three-quarters of the people experiencing sheltered homelessness were staying in emergency shelters. MDHI said individual sheltered homelessness increased by 27 percent over the last year.

“Unlike other parts of the country where shelter space was decreased during COVID-19, our community worked diligently to meet this challenge and stood up additional shelter spaces to help ensure the safety of those who needed it most,” Meyer added. “We are incredibly grateful for the hard work and dedication of our providers in responding to increased need while crafting creative

solutions to meet the demand for those experiencing homelessness.”

Recently, the City of Denver’s Department of Housing Stability released a five-year plan to address problems surrounding housing and homelessness in the city. One of HOST’s 14 main goals is to reduce unsheltered homelessness by half.

“While the 2021 (Point in Time Count) did not include a count of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, due to the circumstances related to the pandemic, job loss experienced during the public health emergency increased the number of people living in unstable conditions and losing their homes,” the HOST plan reads.

The HOST plan also shows that there were more unsheltered homeless people in Denver last year — nearly 1,000 people in Denver County — since at least 2014.

“We know that unsheltered homelessness has become a more visible presence in Denver even as we are sheltering more people nightly than ever before,” the authors of the plan wrote.

You can read the full five-year plan online at tinyurl.com/Denver5YearPlan.

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online.

Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org.

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Money, politics and the source of life in Colorado Understanding two years of conflict over water in the North Denver Metro area

BY LIAM ADAMS LADAMS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

There might be little evidence that the adage, “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting,” actually came from Mark Twain, but government officials don’t doubt its accuracy.

The saying has become a maxim for communities throughout the western U.S., but especially along Colorado’s Front Range. In the past two years, there have been recall elections for members of city councils in Westminster and Brighton due to citizens’ anger over water rates. Meanwhile, Thornton has been engaged in disputes with Larimer and Weld County commissioners over a 74-mile water pipeline that Thornton wants to build from a reservoir near Fort Collins.

Three neighboring cities, unified by the same water supply, were all shaken up by social-political conflict because of that water.

North Metro Denver cities aren’t the only ones with problems. Denver Water is currently fighting Boulder County in federal court over plans to expand a reservoir to acquire more water for Denverites. Englewood came under scrutiny for a violation it received a week before the city issued a boil order when it discovered E. coli in its water supply.

“That’s the nature of how this resource works,” said Pete Taylor, chair of Colorado State University’s sociology department, whose research focuses on environmental sociology and water governance. “I see water as potentially one of the most challenging and sometimes conflictual problems that we are facing here in the West.”

But North Metro Denver is also unique. Much of its water infrastructure — 1,417 miles of water line and six water treatment plants for Westminster, Thornton, Northglenn and Brighton altogether — is getting old and needs replacing. Meanwhile, the population in those four cities jumped 943% or 304,140 people in the past 60 years.

The population of Adams County is projected to increase another 59% by 2050, according to the state demography office. In those same years, experts expect water supplies to fall to climate change and wildfires to damage watersheds.

North metro cities need to keep water infrastructure up to date with population growth while preparing for a changing climate. It’s a perfectly expensive storm and a perfect opportunity for local social-political conflict.

A lone voyage at sea The concentration of water issues in the north metro area didn’t spring out of nowhere.

Colorado water resources expert Walraven Ketellapper traces it back to the early 1950s when the Denver Water Board imposed the “Blue Line” to establish a boundary for Denver-provided water service. Before that, Denver Water served communities to its south and north, but the Blue Line cast out the north and kept in the south metro area.

“Instead of being able to rely on Denver to provide water, they had to start securing their own resources,” Ketallapper said.

What followed was a scramble to acquire more water and build the infrastructure to treat and transport the new water, all while the cities grew at a rapid pace.

The total population of Westminster, Thornton, Northglenn and Brighton was 32,258 in 1960, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That jumped to 68,932 in 1970, 133,174 in 1980, 171,054 in 1990 and 233,289 in 2000.

During that same time, Westminster and Thornton acquired water rights from ditch companies, including the Farmers Highline Canal and the Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company (FRICO), that sold shares of agricultural water rights that the cities then converted into municipal water rights, Ketallapper said. The shares FRICO sold were in Standley Lake.

Also, the two cities purchased farmland that they extracted water from.

Whether it was from the ditch companies or individual properties, the bulk of the water the cities acquired flowed from the South Platte River and the Clear Creek basin.

Northglenn would rely on water service from Thornton until the late 1970s when Thornton and Westminster encircled the land around Northglenn through a series of annexations.

Northglenn determined it, “needed to separate themselves from Thornton’s system so they could have control over their own destiny,” said Ketallapper, who worked for Thornton’s utilities department from the 1979 to 1985.

In 1978, Thornton, Northglenn and Westminster all increased their water supply through a deal with FRICO. It, “helped Northglenn stabilize its water supply,” wrote Colorado water resources expert Charles Fisk in his memoir, “The Metro Denver Water Story.”

About a decade later, Thornton purchased 58,000 acre-feet of water in a reservoir near Fort Collins from the Water Storage and Supply Company.

The bulk of Brighton’s water supply comes from alluvium wells fed by the South Platte River and the Beebe Draw, rights the city acquired in the 1970s and 80s. Needing additional supply, however, Brighton entered into an agreement with Thornton and Westminster in 2009 to receive water from Standley Lake.

Thornton began using its first water treatment plant in 1955 and its second one in 2005. Westminster’s first plant came online in 1969 and its second one was in 2001. Northglenn opened its plant in 1981 and Brighton in the 1993.

From smooth sailing to choppy seas After being forced out on their own, acquiring sufficient supplies of water and building the necessary infrastructure, the north metro cities began to have different issues at the turn of the century.

Jayla Poppleton, executive director of Water Education Colorado, said a variety of pressures collided in recent years that have driven up costs for local water suppliers.

“Aging infrastructure in their system is catching up with them. Or they are having to get out on the market where water rights are increasingly expensive to provide for a growing community and need to build their water rights SEE WATER, P7

Tom Scribner, the city’s water treatment superintendent, said the city’s Semper Water Treatment Facility is responsible for treating 70% of drinkable water in the city.

The treatment plant went online in 1970 and the city uses much of the equipment from then, though the city added additional equipment in subsequent years. The city plans to soon build phase one of the new water treatment plant at a different site and then mothball the oldest parts of Semper. The newer parts of Semper will continue to run until it completes construction phase two of the new treatment PHOTO BY LIAM ADAMS plant.

How Semper treats Westminster’s water City of Westminster staff advised the city council to raise water rates in 2022 to help pay for a new water treatment plant that will replace the Semper Water Treatment Facility. The city council didn’t come to a consensus on 2022 rates, so the rates will stay the same.

The decision about 2022 rates throws into question the timeline for the first phase of constructing the new treatment plant, which originally

was by 2025. The uncertainty is concerning to some utilities staff who are looking at the age and condition of Semper, which went online in 1970.

In light of the ongoing conversations about Semper, Colorado Community Media toured the plant with Tom Scribner, the city’s water treatment superintendent.

He gave a step-by-step outline of how the water goes from the city’s storage at Standley Lake to residents’ faucets.

Step One: Chemical mixers add three chemicals to the water that is passing underneath the mixer.

The three chemicals are calcium hydroxide (lime) to make the water less corrosive, chlorine bleach to disinfect the water, and ferric chlorides to capture dissolved and suspended particulate contaminates. PHOTOS BY LIAM ADAMS Step Two: Water is sent to sedimentation basins in which particulates are separated from the water by ferric chloride settles to the bottom of the basins.

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portfolio,” she said. Water Education Colorado helps community leaders and its citizens understand the intersecting challenges around water in the state.

Poppleton added, “There are increasingly stringent conditions around water quality and safe drinking water. So, in some cases, communities are having to upgrade or even rebuild water treatment plants.”

That was the case in Brighton, which was notified by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment in 2005 that the city’s reverse osmosis water treatment plant needed to meet new treatment standards, requiring the installation of expensive new equipment.

The city was able to receive a permit extending the deadline for when it needed to meet new standards.

Then, in 2014, the city drafted a new capital improvement plan that included a new treatment plant to replace the existing one that would include equipment to meet the CDPHE standards, and also increase the city’s water treatment capacity. A rate consultant that Brighton hired recommended an 8% increase in water rates to fund the treatment plant, which the city did in 2015.

The next year, in neighboring Thornton, the city council approved a 13% water rate increase to help fund a new water treatment plant and the Thornton Water Project, the proposed 74-mile pipeline to carry south the city’s water supply near Fort Collins.

Following the rate increase, Thornton filed its applications for construction permits to build the Thornton Water Project with Larimer and Weld counties in 2018. The Larimer County Board of Commissioners said no a year later, causing Thornton to respond by suing the Larimer County board in district court.

Also, in 2019, a 10% water rate increase in Westminster went into effect to help fund Water2025, a new water treatment plant that would replace its current Semper Water Treatment Facility.

Cascade Back in Brighton, the situation was escalating. Then-City Manager Philip Rodriguez called into question the money the city had saved up for the future water treatment plant — partly coming from water rates - for being excessive. Because the city hadn’t made certain progress on the proposed treatment plant, Rodriguez called the project “fictitious.” City Councilor Matt Johnston backed Rodriguez, saying the abundance of savings was evidence that the city “price gouged” ratepayers.

Soon after Rodriguez and Johnston made their case to the public about the seemingly suspicious pool of “$70 million,” the city council voted 5-4 to fire Rodriguez for conflict between the city manager and city staff. But many residents believed it was a cover-up, so they launched a recall campaign against the mayor, Ken Kreutzer, for previously supporting water rate increases and for leading the charge to fire Rodriguez. Johnston was a leader in the recall effort.

In the November 2019 municipal election, the residents successfully recalled Kreutzer.

Less than a year later, back in Westminster, a group of citizens angry over the cost of water launched a recall campaign against four members of the council, then-Mayor Herb Atchison, then-Mayor Pro Tem Anita Seitz, and Councilors Jon Voelz and Kathryn Skulley.

The effort to obtain enough signatures on petitions to trigger recall elections was initially unsuccessful, but after a court battle in Adams County District Court, the Westminster Water Warriors secured recall elections against Atchison and Voelz in April 2021. Atchison resigned soon after, while Voelz faced and survived a recall election in July.

Around the same time, neighboring Thornton finally received an answer from the Weld County Board of Commissioners regarding its application to construct the pipeline. It was a no, so Thornton sued.

However, Thornton also learned a state statute would allow the city to override the Weld denial, which the Thornton City Council voted to do.

Washed on the shore Despite the success with the Weld override, Thornton is still fighting a legal battle with Larimer County over its pipeline, now in the Colorado Court of Appeals.

As for Brighton, the city still needs to find a way to meet the CDPHE standards for water treatment as it juggles present concerns about meeting peak water demand in the summer. Yet, the city doesn’t have the funding for a new water treatment plant, in part due to a decrease in water rates in 2020 following a new rate study based on a different capital improvement plan that didn’t include the treatment plant.

Meanwhile, Westminster’s plan to replace its water treatment plant by 2025 hit a roadblock when the city council couldn’t reach a consensus on a rate increase for 2022, which the city saw as critical to funding Water2025.

After Atchison resigned and Seitz became mayor, the Westminster City Council was split 3-3 on water rates.

The council never appointed a seventh councilor to fill the vacant seat.

Disagreements persist; problems intensify Kevin Bommer, executive director of the Colorado Municipal League, said elements of the north metro water controversies are similar to that of other CML members. “Water rates have certainly come up in a couple of places.”

At the same time, he added, “I don’t know that they have been a central theme in as many other places.”

To Johnston, now mayor pro tem on the Brighton City Council, it makes sense that the issue of water rates was so politically powerful in Brighton.

“There is something to that being the cost that comes from the city,” he said. “The water bill is the face of how much you pay the city. It’s the thing that every citizen sees and goes, `is my city ripping me off or not?’ It’s definitely a motivating factor for any election.”

Johnston said water rates helped with the success of Brighton’s recall, but said he didn’t weaponize the issue for other political aspirations.

Westminster Mayor Pro Tem David DeMott, one of the most vocal opponents to the city’s SEE WATER, P28

Step Three: Water sent to filters to separate any remaining particulates in the water not previously removed from the water to get the water to drinking water standards.

Step Four: Backwash carrying the particulates filtered from the drinking water sent to storage area outside.

The backwash then goes through the treatment process, allowing the city to recover about 99% of the water to eventually be used for drinking water.

Step Five: Treated water sent to pump station, a new facility the city just completed construction of, that sends the water to the distribution system.

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Brighton volunteers win awards from the President Kathleen Pierz helped many displaced families with shelter

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Brighton volunteer Kathleen Pierz, Brighton Rotary Club president, received a couple of U.S. Presidential Administration and Humanitarian Organization ShelterBox USA Service Awards for providing emergency shelter and supplies to people that lost their homes in a natural disaster or fled civil conflict, according to a press release by ShelterBox. She did the work in 2019.

“It’s for working a certain number of volunteer hours in any given year. The award was started by President George W. Bush. It was the ‘Points of Light’ program. It’s been continued by every president since then. So last year, I got one signed by President Trump and this year, one signed by President Biden,” said Pierz. “I have a big passion for doing work with ShelterBox and doing work for the Rotary.”

David Addor also received a bronze medal for his contribution of hundreds of hours raising money.

He has been volunteering since 2007 and first learned about ShelterBox when an ambassador came out and talked to the Rotary Club.

ShelterBox Ambassadors Kathleen Pierz, Rotary president, and David Addor, Rotary member, both received awards for their work PHOTO BY BELEN WARD with ShelterBox USA.

“It’s such an impactful organization. Our mission is to help people stay in their community, if we can help people rebuild where they live, they can stay there. Everything is

there, their job, their families, and churches,” said Addor. “The idea is to keep those communities together and hopefully within three to six months, life is back to normal.”

The Rotarians started ShelterBox in Cornwall, England, as a millennial project. The groiup sent 10 boxes SEE VOLUNTEER, P18

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3 measures qualify for Colo.’s statewide ballot Voters will decide questions on taxes, legislative money control

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado voters will decide whether the legislature should have more control over how money from legal settlements and the federal government is spent after a third and final measure qualified to be on the statewide ballot in November.

The signatures turned in to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office by proponents of Initiative 19 were deemed sufficient Aug. 31.

To get their question on the Nov.

2 ballot, backers needed the signatures of 124,632 registered voters, including a minimum of 2% of registered voters from each of Colorado’s 35 state Senate districts.

The two other questions on the statewide ballot in November are: -- Initiative 27, which would lower the property tax assessment rate for multi-family residential homes to 6.5% from 6.8% and to 26.4% for lodging properties from 29% -- Initiative 25, which would impose a new 3% sales tax on recreational marijuana starting Jan. 1 and increasing to 5% by Jan. 1, 2024, at which point it is projected to generate about $138 million a year.

That’s in addition to the existing 15% state sales tax on recreational marijuana. The money generated by the increased taxes would go toward

union have expressed concern about the measure.

Colorado Education Association president Amie Baca-Oehlert said her organization has anxieties over the implementation of the out-ofschool learning program under the measure and whether students will truly be able to access aid in their communities.

There are no other groups seeking to place measures on the November ballot. bolstering out-of-school learning.

Initiatives 19 and 27 are being pushed by Colorado Rising Action, a conservative fiscal group.

Initiative 25 has bipartisan support, though the marijuana industry and the state’s largest teachers

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Can Colorado GOP’s base get past 2020 to win in 2022?

Unfounded claims of a stolen election test party’s game plan

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Kristi Burton Brown, chairwoman of the Colorado GOP, appeared at a gathering of Republicans in Jefferson County this summer where she talked about how the party can attract unaffiliated voters and finally win again in 2022.

Candidates need to look forward and talk about keeping taxes low and school choice, she said. “We have to become the party of ideas.”

But when Burton Brown opened the hotel-conference-room gathering up for questions, the crowd didn’t want to discuss her talking points.

They jerked the focus back to the past.

“The biggest issue for me is voter cheating and this whole national election, as we all know, was a set up,” a man said.

“Has there been any talk of a forensic audit anywhere in this state?” a woman asked next.

“If the Arizona audit shows the Dominion (Voting System) machines to be unreliable — and we use those machines — what’s our game plan?” another man wanted to know, referencing a Republican-led recount in the Phoenix area.

As Colorado Republicans look to 2022 with hopes of bouncing back from two election cycles of defeat, their game plan for how to move forward is clashing with an attachment among the party’s base to unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. It’s not clear if the two pursuits can successfully coexist.

“The election-fraud claim does pose a special challenge, because the base is especially riled up about it and swing voters are especially turned off by it,” said Daniel Cole, who leads the Republican campaign operations for state House and Senate Republicans.

Supporters of then-President Donald Trump gathered on all four corners at University Boulevard and Highlands Ranch Parkway on Election Night, Nov. 3, 2020, waving flags PHOTO BY JOHN LEYBA/SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN and playing music.

The same debate is playing out in other states, including Arizona, where a Republican audit of 2020 ballots in Maricopa County is dragging on. Trump, who continues to question his loss last year, fell short in the state by more than 10,000 votes. A previous recount of Maricopa County’s ballots found no problems.

A push from some in the Colorado GOP to cancel the 2022 primaries to cut unaffiliated voters out of the process and allow party insiders to select the GOP nominees is an extension of the baseless voter fraud anxiety. Unaffiliated voters have been able to vote in partisan primaries in Colorado since the 2016 passage of Proposition 108.

For instance, state Rep. Ron Hanks, a Fremont County Republican who has been one of the loudest voices in Colorado when it comes

to questioning the 2020 presidential election results, said opting out of the state-run primary is a step toward election integrity.

Randy Corporon, a Republican national committeeman and conservative talk radio host, has been advocating on his KNUS show for the primaries to be canceled for the same reason.

“The Republican Party can take … power away from Jena Griswold and the state by reclaiming their own primary,” he told listeners recently, referring to the Democratic secretary of state, who is Colorado’s top election official.

Priscilla Rahn, vice chair of the Colorado GOP, recently said she supports canceling the 2022 primary, calling into question Griswold’s ability to fairly oversee the contest.

“Ask yourself this: “Do you trust her to administer an honest election

and not interfere against Republicans?” Rahn wrote in an Aug. 21 letter.

But Dick Wadhams, a former chair of the Colorado Republican Party, sees major peril for his party if it continues to beat the drum on election fraud and opts out of next year’s primaries. “There is no way a Republican can win in 2022 for statewide office and, frankly, in a bunch of competitive districts around the state,” he said of the scenario.

Unaffiliated voters made up 43% of registered voters in Colorado at the end of July, compared to Republicans at 26% and Democrats at 29%.

“They keep talking about how these unaffiliated voters are going to defile our process because they are going to be nominating a bunch of moderates and liberals,” Wadhams said. “I read that kind of stuff, I listen to it, and I’m thinking: ‘Any Republican candidate for statewide office who doesn’t think about the unaffiliated voters during their primary isn’t serious.’”

Wadhams said it would be disastrous for Republicans if questioning the 2020 presidential election results becomes a litmus test for primary candidates.

Burton Brown, who hasn’t taken a public stance on the question of whether to cancel next year’s GOP primaries, appears to agree, urging Republicans to move on from last year.

“The more we talk about the past, the more we talk about what happened instead of what we are going to do in 2022, the more our candidates are put at a disadvantage,” she said at the Jefferson County Republican event, “because we are focusing on something we cannot control.”

Still, she said, questions about election integrity are posed “all around the state.”

The Colorado GOP is encouraging people who are concerned about the state’s voting processes to “get involved” and “get your eyes in the room” by becoming poll watchers and election judges. But she said SEE GOP, P10

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there has been no proof of mass fraud in Colorado and that the only sure way for Republicans to lose in 2022 is for the party’s voters not to show up on Election Day because they think their vote won’t count.

Election security was not explicitly on the list when Burton Brown and other top Republicans earlier this month rolled out a 10-point “Commitment to Colorado” aimed at attracting unaffiliated voters and serving as the party’s 2022 platform.

State Rep. Dave Williams, a Colorado Springs Republican, thinks the GOP shouldn’t shy away from election integrity issues and that it needs to push for policy reforms.

“It does no one any good to stay out of the fight or not engage,” said Williams, who favors canceling the 2022 primaries. “We need to be able to secure our elections but also prepare for 2022 with the fundamentals — find and recruit candidates, set them up. We can’t ignore one or the other.”

He thinks both can be addressed simultaneously — and he also thinks that unaffiliated voters care about election integrity.

Even if there are Republicans who want to move on, 2020 continues to dominate the spotlight.

Most recently, that’s because of Tina Peters, the GOP clerk and recorder in Mesa County who is under criminal investigation after election system passwords and a copy of a voting equipment hard drive were

Rally attendees listen to speakers from the lawn of the Colorado state Capitol during a pro-Trump rally on Jan. 6, the same day as the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol in PHOTO BY ERIC LUBBERS/THE COLORADO SUN Washington.

allegedly taken from her office and then leaked online.

Peters’ case has generated headlines in Colorado for weeks. She has cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election results, allying herself with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump supporter who has peddled conspiracy theories about last year’s contest.

Seth Masket, who leads the Center for American Politics at the University of Denver, suspects that election integrity questions will persist.

“If you make that (stolen election) argument, it’s pretty hard to pivot away from,” he said. “It’s kind of a difficult place that Republicans have

painted themselves into.”

Ryan Winger, a pollster with Louisville-based Magellan Strategies, thinks the divided focus among Republicans is “symptomatic of a larger problem.”

“Many in the GOP fail to understand unaffiliated voters and consequently fail to grasp why they lose elections,” he said. “Sure, making election integrity a major focus will likely scare off unaffiliated voters who didn’t vote for Trump and who the GOP needs to win over, but in a world where there is no dispute about the 2020 result, unaffiliated voters still aren’t flocking to Republican candidates.”

Others, like state Rep. Colin Larson, a Ken Caryl Republican who is eyeing a 2022 congressional bid, doesn’t see election integrity as being the main focus of GOP voters.

He’s bullish on his party’s chances next year.

“It’s not something I’m inundated with,” he said about election security questions. “The vast majority of people in my district are talking to me about school issues right now.

And then after that it’s crime.”

Cole, the strategist leading election efforts for Colorado’s legislative Republicans, thinks that even if there is an election integrity focus among the GOP base “it poses a … familiar challenge.”

“How to appeal first to the base in the primary election and then to swing voters in the general election?” he said. “This is an issue every cycle on both sides of the aisle. And there are always voices who think Republicans can’t hold the base and the middle together. In 2016, Jeb Bush said: ‘You have to lose the primary to win the general.’ But it turned out he was wrong.”

The Colorado GOP’s central committee will decide whether to cancel the party’s 2022 primaries on Sept.

18.

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Growth, water drive fears for Westminster’s future

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ecently, I was thinking about the future and wondering how things might play out with the November election.

One thing that popped up in my mind is Westminster’s water rates.

While a recent tie vote of the city council blocked a 3.9% water rate increase proposed by the City Manager and staff, I know rate increases are inevitable. The question is how much and how fast will rates go up.

Westminster already has one of the highest water rates in the metro area and if the current city manager, mayor and two city council people have their way, rates will continue to jump up. This is tied to the assumption that Westminster needs a new $250 million water treatment plant and would build it. That would lock us water customers into 20 or 30 years of new major debt AND huge rate increases.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Watchdog Following in the idealistic tradition of the press being the watchdog of government, I ask you to be the truth checker for the current city election campaign, both candidates and issues.

While there is no way to “truth check” subjective claims or lofty goals candidates make, there are concrete facts on the condition of the city that can be truth checked.

I offer the claims I have made about the true reason for the outrageous - blocktier water rates - to be your first truth check. I say the city’s claims of infrastructure needs and conservation are a fraud.

We have $173 million in cash and enough water to serve our 118,000 resident at the current consumption levels (between 5.7 and 6.8 billion gallons per year, about 21,000 acres feet), but not enough to serve 33,000 more residents. Using the number of 110 gallons per day per person, 33,000 more people will need 1.3 billion gallons of water per year (4,000 acre feet).

Does the city own 4,000 acre feet of water that is currently being leased to agriculture interests? Or are SEE LETTER, P13

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Higher water rates impact our quality of living The punch line in this thought process is that Westminster’s water rates will not be going down in the future if the status quo is maintained as a result of this Bill Christopher November’s election outcome.

In turn, higher water rates would have a ripple effect one that is already at play. More lawns in the summer will be brown and uninviting. Per the current city staff’s thinking, turf would be removed from yards and replaced with who knows what. As an aside, the Thornton City Council just allowed artificial turf in people’s yards. This is ridiculous.

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Weeds will become more prevalent which is saying a lot. This year’s lack of proactive weed enforcement is disappointing. There is way too much weed growth in the public rights-of-way and some private property. There are numerous city park sites that have yet to be developed. With water becoming scarcer and more expensive, will they ever get built? This is not fair to the homebuyers who paid park development fees in the price of their homes.

Instead, the city is spending over $5 million on a “nature play” park on less than one acre as part of the 40 acres south of the Westminster rail station. Go take a look. It is immediately east of Lowell Boulevard at roughly 70th Avenue.

Where has our beautiful city gone?

This image leads me to a comment a long-time realtor friend of

mine recently made. She said, “Bill, where has our beautiful city gone?”

She hit the nail on the head.

With all the high-density apartment development, the stark “New Downtown,” city streets in such disrepair, escalating traffic volumes and the above-mentioned impacts, I cannot agree more with her point.

I know many of you have a similar feeling.

However, it is more than simply the physical part of our community.

As another friend said the other day, “the people in this part of town (historic Westminster) want to return to the “good old days.” We both acknowledged that such a change is beyond accomplishing.

However, a return to a more attentive, listening city council that walks the talk could be realized.

More communications with SEE CHRISTOPHER, P13

A Colorado mom-and-pop business inches closer to red ink

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he new priorities of the United States Postal Service will be the end of our mom-and-pop business.

Last summer, packages that our business shipped GUEST via USPS began to go missing or took COLUMN months to reach their destination.

Over the last year, we have spent a massive amount of time and expense tracking down packages, sending out replacements, filing claims forms online or by phone, Alexa Metrick and communicating with frustrated customers. Boxes being shipped internationally are even worse, as they sometimes disappear into limbo for up to half a year, assuming they turn up at all.

My parents own and operate a small business called Sopris Unlimited. Calling it a small business is a misnomer; it is literally a mom-and-pop operation. In 1982, my dad designed one of the first frame pack saddles for llamas and, three years later, he and my mom launched the family business.

Our line of llama pack equipment is used by customers throughout the United States and across the world, from Norway to Australia, from Israel to Argentina. Although we started the business in Carbondale, we are now based in the little mountain town of La Veta.

We are not, nor have we ever been, a brick-and-mortar store; we started out with mail-order print catalogs, covers emblazoned with candid photos of my brother and me out on the trail with llamas. We now receive the majority of our orders through our website. But if you call our 800 number, my dad answers the phone, answers your questions, and takes down your order the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper.

As you might imagine, the customer base for llama pack saddles is not large, and we are one of only a halfdozen sources for this type of equipment. Eleven years ago, we expanded our line to include gear for all of the smaller pack animals (including alpacas, goats, sheep, reindeer, yaks, and donkeys), but that still puts our annual receipts at $41,450,000 less than that of the average firm in our mail-order industry as designated by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

And although the SBA doesn’t have a standard number of employees listed for the industry, I’d imagine we’re on the low end; over the decades, various members of one Old Order Amish family in Iowa have manufactured our product line by hand.

This business has been a daily presence in my parents’ lives for nearly 40 years. So it seems just a bit ironic that, of all the volatile market forces that have threatened it over those decades, our demise might come about because of poor management of the govern-

ment agency that has consistently been ranked as America’s favorite by Gallup.

The USPS is a vital service to rural America. Unlike our national postal service, private corporations such as United Parcel Service and FedEx are not federally mandated to deliver all mail to every address, no matter how remote, nor to do so for the same price as a delivery to an address in an urban distribution hub.

The accessibility and affordability of the USPS is especially relevant to our business, as our employees and our customers are overwhelmingly rural.

The future of the United States Postal Service has been under threats of privatization before Louis DeJoy was appointed Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, but the last year with him at the helm might be what finally does our family business in.

Longer delivery times, higher prices, reduced hours, and closed stations are bad enough, but the number of packages we’ve had go missing over the last year has been devastating to our bottom line.

DeJoy intends to make package delivery the main product of the USPS over the next 10 years, and yet it is that very service that has failed our business, over and over again, during the last year and a half. We are inching nearer and nearer to the red because

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a robust dose of transparency and timeliness would be another part of the recipe.

Oh, let’s not forget to drop the “know it all” attitude and that knee jerk reaction that if certain councilors take one side of an issue, then the other must take the other side.

When I was city manager, I was blessed with elected folks like Vi June, George Hovorka, Rod Sheffer, Chet McPherson, Ann Merkel and Nancy Heil who sincerely cared about Westminster and its future.

They weren’t part of Emerge or had their eye on higher office.

They didn’t play partisan politics.

They cared about the residents, the schools their children attended, having adequate parks, open space and recreation facilities. They saw to it that police, fire and medical response teams were adequately compensated and equipped.

When water resources were in decline, they had the wisdom to slow growth down until more water could be acquired. They responded to citizens’ complaints and concerns right in the city council meetings. They listened and they communicated

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of mistakes made by the USPS; mistakes that rarely, if ever happened before 2020.

When DeJoy’s new 10-year-plan, with its focus on cost-cutting at the expense of delivery performance, forces my parents to close down their business, I’m sure Wall Street won’t notice. No economic indicators will be affected and there won’t be a flood of unemployed workers looking for new jobs.

But anyone who ships their products directly to their custom-

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the block-tier water rates being used to make current users consume less

with each citizen, business person, developer, clergy, school officials and more.

You see, all of that was the “beautiful city” my friend was referring to.

Tri-County Health Board makes a smart call Last week, I criticized the three Adams County Commissioners who voted to undercut the public health experts and leave each school district to “fend for themselves” regarding Tri-County’s previous mask mandate for students. Thank Heavens members of the Tri-County Health Board subsequently had the political guts to do the right thing and rescind their previous “opt-out” opportunity about mask mandates by boards of county commissioners.

Effective September 1, ALL students attending schools in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas Counties were ordered to wear masks when in school. This includes kids who are 2-11 years old.

The policy will be in effect for the balance of 2021 but could be lifted if conditions warrant. Elected officials know very little about public health matters and should leave such decision-making and policy-setting to people and organizations that are trained and have the expertise.

New apartments just keep coming Westminster city government has an apartment fetish.

City leaders just keep approving more apartment complexes and consuming limited water supplies.

They can’t seem to get enough apartments, but yet City Manager Don Tripp tells us Westminster has a “growth management plan.”

What is it with Westminster officials? Recently, I have become aware of an estimated 927 more apartment units in one phase or another which have not been mentioned before.

There are 261 units under construction on the west side of Westminster Boulevard south of Circle Pointe office buildings known as Millennium at Circle Pointe.

Then there is the recently approved senior apartment development (85 units) at 108th Ave. and Wadsworth Parkway known as

Applewood Pointe Senior Living.

Thirdly, don’t forget the former Nolan’s RV site west of Federal Boulevard close to the Westminster Train Station (estimated 271 units).

City Council recently considered an incentive package for this development in executive session. So, we don’t have the particulars yet on any incentives.

Finally, and this one was a shocker to me, the former Rock Bottom Brewery and adjacent properties at The Promenade are being torn down, but guess what for?

You are right, more apartments (310 units) to be known as Avalon Bay. This apparently was approved in 2015 and is being processed administratively. That is why you didn’t see anything on a council agenda.

Like I said, Westminster leaders just can’t get enough apartments.

Maybe Westminster should change its name to Apartmentville or Apartment City.

What has happened to our beautiful city?

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ers, from artists to inventors to llama pack saddle manufacturers, are being adversely affected. It will be that much harder for those of us who exist in niches to make a living at them.

Alexa Metrick, of Golden, is a corporate librarian who does occasional contract work for the family business.

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I think the truth is important. Be the watchdog.

Bruce Baker, Westminster

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A firefighter’s mission to remember 9/11 comrades

Denver 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb pays tribute, raises funds

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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n Saturday, Sept. 11, Americans will pay tribute to those lost in the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history as they reflect on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Like country star Alan Jackson’s song, “Where Were you When the World Stopped Turning,” many Americans to this day can remember exactly what they were doing when they heard the news that the World Trade Center had been hit by an airliner hijacked by terrorists. Americans still remember the fear, anger and sadness.

In Castle Rock, local firefighter Oren Bersagel-Briese said he had the day off and his pager sounded.

He ignored it, and a few minutes later, his pager, home phone and cell phone began going off. All firefighters were called in to Castle Rock Fire to be on hand.

At the time, Bersagel-Briese said his father, who worked with the International Organization of Firefighters, was visiting. Doing what they could, Bersagel-Briese said all the firefighters came together to help his dad organize how to handle the tragedy on a national level.

Bersagel-Briese, a fourth-generation firefighter, said after 9/11, he always felt a sense of duty to pay tribute and support for the firefighters and police officers lost that day.

In 2004, his efforts started on a small level with a handful of firefighters from Denver and Castle Rock getting together to stay fit and talk while climbing stairs.

As the tradition continued each month, in 2005 one of the firefighters brought up the idea of climbing specifically on Sept. 11. That year, five firefighters climbed 110 flights of stairs, representing the 110-story World Trade Center towers, where firefighters climbed on 9/11 to save

Firefighters in 2015 climb 110 flights of stairs, which is what firefighters faced on Sept. 11, 2001 to save lives in the World Trade CenPHOTOS BY TIMOTHY TONGE ter.

lives before the towers collapsed.

Besides a remembrance for lost comrades, Bersagel-Briese said, the annual event provides an opportunity to run a fitness exercise, raising the level of awareness for one of the highest firefighter priorities — physical fitness. More than half of the line-of-duty deaths among firefighters are heart-related incidents, he said.

Bersagel-Briese said in 2006, the group had 12 firefighters show up for what came to be known as the Denver 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.

That year, Bersagel-Briese said, the participants realized they were on to something that could become a bigger event.

In 2007, the Denver 9/11 Memorial Climb grew to 250 participants from all over the U.S. In 2008, the number or participants was capped at 343, which Bersagel-Briese said represents the number of firefighters who died on 9/11.

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In 2018, a total of 343 firefighters from Denver, Castle Rock and nationwide suited up to participate in the Denver 9/11 Stair Climb.

Say ‘I Do’ to the return of musical theater COMING ATTRACTIONS

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hroughout the bulk of the pandemic, many of us have really buried ourselves in nostalgia to find some escape. And for a lot of us, there are few things more comforting than a good love story. Add in some music, and there you go.

That’s exactly what the Arvada Center is bringing to audiences with the return of indoor musical theater on Friday, Sept. 10 with its production of “I Do! I Do!” The show is brimming with human feeling and the kind of connection many have been missing.

“Our audiences have been without theatre for almost two years and it was important to me to open the season with something

that was smaller and more intimate,” said director Rod A. Lansberry. “Something our audiences could relate to and connect with and yet not be overwhelmed with a big splashy musical. Something that is warm and comforting.”

The show runs at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., through Sunday, Oct. 10. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1 p.m. on Wednesday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 28, all patrons aged 12 and older must be fully vaccinated and show proof of vaccination before attending indoor seated performances. Those who are unable to receive the vaccination must in-

stead provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of your performance start time or a negative COVID-19 antigen test taken within six hours of the performance start time.

The two-character musical by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (the team behind “The Fantasticks”) follows the story of a wedding and marriage that lasts more than 50 years. During those decades the couples endure the peaks and valleys that are part of every long-term relationship.

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Memorials allow personal reflection, in-person ceremonies planned

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Whether attending a special remembrance ceremony, or taking a personal moment alone, there are several ways to pay respects on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

For example, Castle Rock Com-

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Each year, every firefighter scaling the stairs at a high-rise building in downtown Denver is given a tag with the name and information of a fallen firefighter from 9/11.

“We encourage the firefighters to then call the family of the firefighter they are running for,” Bersagel-Briese said. “They call and let them know they have not been forgotten.”

Now, in its 16th year, the annual stair climb has gained national attention as departments all over the U.S. have started hosting similar events. In a normal year, BersagelBriese said, there are more than 16,000 firefighters paying tribute to lost comrades on 9/11.

Bersagel-Briese said the Denver 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb is only

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couples with alternating weekly schedules: Twyla and Johnny Wilson, or locals Adriane Leigh and Marco Robinson.

“Casting the show needed two strong actors that could not only portray a married couple but actually take us into the reality of a real married couple learning from each other during the process,” Lansberry said. “It is the same basics of the piece, but each couple brings their own experience and interpretation that gives it a slight twist from the other couple.”

Perhaps surprisingly, despite the fact that it’s the first inside theater in a year and a half, Lansberry said the process for putting together the show remained largely unchanged.

He described it as getting back on a bicycle and seeing if everyone could still ride. But there never really was much doubt.

“I also hope they leave with the realization of how much they have missed theatre as a part of their lives,” he said. “It’s been a hard couple of years and we’re still faced with challenges every day but I feel it is important to give our audiences a chance to get out and enjoy a part of their lives that has been missing.”

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munity Relations Manager Melissa Hoelting said the Castle Rock Fire and Rescue Department has several options for residents to choose from.

To take part in personal reflection, Hoelting said residents can stop by two 9/11 memorials in town. The two memorials are located at Station 151, 300 Perry St., and the Public Safety Training Center, at 303 Malibu St. These are always open to the public, Hoelting said.

Thanks to the work of local firefighter Oren Bersagel-Briese, the memorial at the Public Safety for firefighters. For the general public to pay tribute, a public stair climb event is hosted at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre each year.

The Red Rocks Stair Climb, 911stairclimb.com, is limited to 1,200 participants this year.

From the start, Bersagel-Briese said, the annual climb has always been about paying respects to the fallen comrades of 9/11. It was not about money, he said.

However, as the event grew bigger and gained more national attention, the annual event started generating funds. Proceeds go to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, which provides funding to help firefighters who survived 9/11 but are now being diagnosed with cancer and other illnesses directly related to the attacks.

Over the years, Bersagel-Briese said, more than $7 million has been contributed to helping New York firefighters and their families. https://arvadacenter.org/events/ido-i-do.

Check out the talent at Regis College Art Faculty Exhibition Every four years Regis Fine and Performing Art Department’s professors host the Regis College Art Faculty Exhibition to show just what its teachers can do.

The free show is open to the public through Friday, Sept. 24 at the O’Sullivan Art Gallery, located east of the Main Hall at Regis, 3333 Regis Blvd. in Denver. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 2 to 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Attendees will get to peruse works in a variety of mediums, including 3D collages, sculptures, landscapes and more. Get more information at www.regis.edu/news/2021/regislife/08/art-faculty-exhibition.

Celebrate the shivers at Colorado Festival of Horror The inaugural Colorado Festival of Horror event celebrates all the thrills and chills (and laughs) of the genre at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Denver Central Park, 4444 N. Havana St in Denver. The event runs from Sept. 10 through 12 and features a cadre of notable guests, including 80’s horror star Brinke Stevens, Ed and Marsha Edmunds from the Travel Channel’s “Making Monsters,” Hollywood concept artist Xander Smith and more.

Training Center was officially put in place in 2021 after six years of work.

The steel-box column recovered from Ground Zero that is now on display weighs 350 pounds and took years to be built into a proper memorial. After the memorial was completed, Bersagel-Briese, a Castle Rock Fire and Rescue Department division chief at the training center, said, having a piece of Ground Zero in Castle Rock is an honor.

Bersagel-Briese said he chose the training center for the new memorial because it is a place

where both firefighters and Castle Rock police officers come to train, noting that on 9/11 both police and firefighters ran to the World Trade Center together to save lives.

Hoelting said the public is also welcome to attend an in-person remembrance ceremony in conjunction with the Veterans Memorial Run. The ceremony will begin as soon as all of the runners have completed the run, which is slated to be between 2 and 3 p.m. This ceremony will be held at Station 152, 485 Crystal Valley Parkway.

Every participant in the Denver 9-11 Stair Climb carries a tag in memory of a fallen firefighter from 9/11. After, the firefighter contacts the family to let them know they PHOTO BY JAMIE KRAUS are still not forgotten.

In addition to film screenings, there will be vendors, panels, workshops and even after-hours activities.

Passes and tickets are available for the spine-tingling event at https:// cofohorror.com/get-tickets/.

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A wall that heals the soul

The vietnam memorial wall replica came to Brighton

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Walls that Heals memorial replica arrived in Brighton to honor more than three million Americans who are serving in the U.S. Armed Force and with the engraved names of 58,279 servicemen and women that made sacrifices in Vietnam.

“It’s a complex process to set it up to make it as perfect and as exact as the wall in Washington DC, we send out two staffers from Washington, DC, to lead all these volunteers and how to set it up and make it as perfect as the wall in DC,” said Tim Tetz, Wall that Heals Site Manager.

The wall is 375 feet, its three quarters the scale of the one in Washington DC. The wall in Washington DC is 500 feet. At three-quarters scale, it’s seven in a half feet tall at the apex and it reaches out 187 feet on each side.

Two staffers from Walls That Heals and over 30 volunteers with veterans and United Airlines employees came on Wednesday, September 1st to Brighton’s City Hall Carmichael Park to help construct the wall.

“They are doing a great job with no skill. None of them had ever done this. They have skills coming in, obviously from their professions, but we’re guiding them in that role

in making this and setting this up this week,” said Tetz.

The wall is owned by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. It started the wall’s current tour in March 2021 with 28 stops from coast to coast every weekend. They move the wall to a different community every Wednesday of every week throughout the season, constructing the wall in a different park in a different community.

Tetz said, “It’s exciting to be able to do this time and time again every week in communities across the nation.”

It’s a bustling affair, with volunteers working to get the wall set up and ready for visitors. Tetz said the mood changes once the wall is completed.

“It is an incredible relief that we’ve done it again, it’s incredible when those first people start to come and see it and interact with the wall in the way that they do with its healing and reflective nature,” said Tetz.

United Airlines Sharon Hogg oversees the Military Cargo Division they heard about the wall coming to Brighton through the employee resource group called the United for Veterans.

“We have about 150 members in the Denver area that represent all different work aspects of United,” said Hogg. We get together and partner on activities that are near and dear to veterans’ hearts and veteran issues within the company,” said Hogg.

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Family affair Many of the United Airlines employees are veterans, she said, either currently or active duty. Many others have parents like Hogg’s dad who was a Vietnam veteran in the U.S. Army.

“We heard of the opportunity and my Dad has never been to the Washington Memorial. So he’s here today helping us build this wall and I’m already seeing the healing that’s happening,” said Hogg. “Just being around a few veterans is impactful.

We do what we can to honor those who are serving us and keeping our freedoms. It’s very important to us to give back and that’s beautiful.”

Hogg’s dad John Bauserman served from June of 1968 to 1969 working in Army intelligence in Saigon.

“I was not out in the jungles with the guys, but we were doing our part to keep everyone safe and protect 58,000 soldiers there and who did not make it, “ said Bauserman.

“Our mission is to make sure they stayed away from the enemies and didn’t get surprised. I’m helping build the wall to support my daughter, support the cause and the folks that did not make it back. We are doing this for all of them.”

Jan Sands with United Airlines Customer Service she’s volunteer-

ing to make a difference.

“It’s a nice thing to bring here and I have been to the wall in Washington. I just thought it would be fun to be a part of bringing this to Brighton,” said Sands. It’s a great way to honor the vets.

Maurice Mercens a Navy Vietnam veteran served two tours from 1965 to 1967. He volunteers his time to build the wall for his fellow vets.

“I owe it to my brothers and sisters,” said Mercens.

Kashinda Pullen, an advance planner in the airline’s flight training center, volunteered because it is an important project for the veterans.

“I am here because I think it’s always a cool opportunity to give back and do something of importance. I try to set a goal to complete so many volunteer service hours, so when I see something that’s cool and out of the ordinary, I try to take advantage of it,” said Pullen.

Chris Locky a United Airlines Manager for the Standard Operations Center is volunteering because his father-in-law was a Vietnam veteran that recently passed away.

“I support the effort for constructing this wall and contributing to the community. So, I heard about this one and I’m supporting the cause,” said Locky.

Anythink Huron, Wright Farms expand hours STAFF REPORT

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The Huron and Wright Farms branches of Anythink Libraries will open at 9 a.m. Mondays through Saturdays, starting Monday, Sept. 13.

A press statement said the new hours will provide increased access for older adults and improve scheduling for morning story times and family programs.

“Our core value of compassion for our customers and each other continues to drive our work atAnythink,” said Anythink Director Pam Sandlian Smith in the statement. “Our team looks forward to a fall season filled with whimsical programming, especially for children and families.

Our updated hours will provide greater flexibility and convenience for our morning visitors.”

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Arvada Harvest Festival cancelled after permit snafu Decision comes after carnival and midway portions of special events permit denied

BY RYAN DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In advance of the 96th anniversary of the Arvada Harvest Festival, the City of Arvada announced on Aug. 25 that the 2021 edition of the event has been canceled.

The city announced on Aug. 19 that it was denying the carnival and midway components of the special events permit application. The city still approved the festival’s application for the parade, but festival organizers determined that without the carnival and midway, the event was no longer feasible.

The Arvada Harvest Festival dates back to Oct. 1925 and has primarily been hosted by the Arvada Jaycees and the Arvada Junior Chamber Foundation with the support of the city. The festival

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This year’s Harvest Festival was scheduled for Sept. 11, but festival organizers were faced with a dilemma after the city’s permit denial because the carnival and midway game and food booths are typically key revenue streams for the festival, according to Rick Nelson, Harvest Festival executive committee member.

“There really are no words to describe the devastation and the disappointment, not just on behalf of the Festival Committee chairman, but also for the public,” said Nelson. “We’re at a complete loss for words.”

Harvest Festival executive committee Chairperson Renee Nelson said that she was notified by Arvada Community and Economic Development Director Ryan Stachelski of the denial of the midway and carnival and called an emergency meeting of the committee on the evening of Aug. 19 to determine if the event could be salvaged.

Renee said that by Aug. 24, the committee was facing drop deadlines with vendors and sponsors

concerting contracts that had been signed for the event’s infrastructure, including golf carts, tents and stages. At that point, the committee determined that without the revenue of the carnival and midway, there was no way to move forward.

According to a press release put out by the city on Aug. 25, the city and the planning committee are “now focused on supporting a successful 2022 event.”

“This is an important and historic event for our community,” said Community and Economic Development Director Ryan Stachelski. “Although current conditions in the Olde Town area make it challenging to hold the event in its traditional format, we are eager to work with the Harvest Festival Committee to find alternatives to support a safe and enjoyable festival in 2022.”

However, many on the organizing committee feel that the city is actively trying to stifle the Festival. While Renee said the committee is already working on planning the 2022 edition of the event, she raised concerns about the city’s conduct over the past few years.

“Over the last several years, we have been provided more restrictions, more things we’ve had to endure and overcome,” said Renee.

“And some of them we were absolutely unable to do. Their actions speak louder than their words.”

“We have heard rumors to that effect for many years now, including former (city) staff members,” said Rick. “We have many confirmations that it’s the case.”

Rick added that the city took ownership of the Arvada Harvest Festival trade name in 2012 after the committee was late to refile paperwork.

“Our treasurer was late in refiling our Arvada Harvest Festival trade name with the (Colo.) Secretary of State and Arvada swooped in and grabbed it and they have refused — and we have asked again and again — to give it back,” said Nelson. “And they won’t relinquish it.”

Williams said these claims are baseless.

“I don’t think that’s based in fact,” said Arvada Mayor Marc Williams regarding the accusations.

nial project. The groiup sent 10 boxes to a disaster area.

“They all realize that the gap in providing aid when there’s a disaster was shelter. So they came up with an idea and worked with an English tent manufacturer,”

said Pierz.

The Rotary Club came up with a basic kit for essentials for people to survive a natural disaster, manmade or natural. Over the years, ShelterBox added more contents, such as kitchen sets, lights, mosquito nets, water purifications, blankets and tools. As of this year, they added a washtub and soap.

“In March, ShelterBox hit a milestone, having helped 2 million people in a disaster. After we deploy in a situation, we go back and talked to the families who got aid from us, and we ask, ‘What worked for you and what didn’t work for you? Or, what do you wish we give you instead so that we can continue to improve and do what we do better?’” said Pierz. “Eightfive percent of the funding goes directly to ShelterBox.” Pierz said the Rotary Club is an important partner because local Rotarians know how to get things through customs and courts.

“Rotarians often own a business, have trucks to lend us and those trucks get the aid delivered. So, it’s a wonderful partnership with Rotary and a wonderful organization in terms of the number of people they help,” said Pierz.

ShelterBox tents can hold a family of up to nine. It includes privacy partitions, so girls can have privacy to change clothes.

The tents are designed with lots of ventilation in warm climates.

They also have special liners to go into the tents for such destinations as Syria, where they have hard winters.

The most important item in the tent is a solar lightbox that gives people light to work and see at night.

“It keeps women safe at night to go to the bathroom, which cuts down sexual violence so they can see who it is,” said Pierz. “Also, we provide school packs for the children.”

ShelterBox also provided coats and hats for children in northern Syria where it gets very cold. ShelterBox also sends supplies to the Nigeria Borno Stat and the Lake Chad Basin where Boko Haram displaced 1,000 people.

“They’re not able to stay in their homes. They have to flee often with nothing,” said Pierz.

“So we operate those camps and we are the intake there people are coming in,” said Addor.

According to ShelterBox, thanks to Pierz’s achievement of raising awareness and funds, the organization provided shelter and lifesaving supplies to more than 200,000 people in 13 countries. among the efforts were four responses to the Philippines Typhoon Goni, Typhoon Vonfong, Taal Volcano, and COVID-19. There were responses in Honduras, for hurricanes Eta and Iota, Somaliland severe drought, Vanuatu Cyclone Harold, India Cyclone Amphan, Paraguay COVID-19, Tanzania flooding, Sudan flooding, Burkina Faso conflict, Syria conflict, Nigeria conflict, Cameroon conflict and the Ethiopian conflict.

“The lifesaving work of ShelterBox is only possible because of our inspiring volunteers like Kathleen Pierz, whose service in their communities is ensuring families made homeless by disaster and conflict situations to have access to essential shelter and supplies,” said Kerri Murray, president of ShelterBox USA. “This distinction truly sets her apart as someone committed to serving others and making the world a better place.

Never has this work been more important as we scaled up our efforts to both shelter families and to protect them from COVID-19.”

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Special Olympics Colorado hosts plane pull fundraiser Fundraiser benefits athletes with intellectual disabilities STAFF REPORT

Teams of 15 took turns pulling a 65,000-pound Gulfstream jet down the tarmac at Jefferson County’s Rocky Mountain Metro Airport on Aug. 28 as part of Special Olympics Colorado’s annual plane pull fundraiser.

More than 1,000 participants tried their hand at pulling the jet, vying for trophies in categories such as fastest time, most money raised and best team costume.

Teams were asked to fundraise a minimum of $1,000 for Special Olympics Colorado, an organization that serves nearly 18,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities across the state. The event also featured food, a beer garden, vendors and giveaways.

Special Olympics Colorado Chief Executive Officer Megan Scremin said the plane pull is one of the organization’s most popular events.

“The Plane Pull continues to be a favorite among our supporters and athletes alike,” said Scremin. “Our community showed an incredible level of support during the 2020 event, and we can’t wait to return for another outstanding day!”

Another plane pull will be held in Colorado Springs on Sept. 18.

More information can be found at specialolympicsco.org.

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A team of 15 works hard to pull the plane down the tarmac at Special Olympics Colorado’s Plane Pull fundraiser.

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A team poses in front of the plane after successfully pulling it 15 feet down the tarmac.

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Dick Lamm remembered for policy, passion and prescience Former 3-term Colo. governor honored at Denver service

BY DANIEL DUCASSI THE COLORADO SUN

The late former Gov. Dick Lamm was a man of vision and prescience, a complex character in the state’s political history who was never afraid to follow his convictions and take on controversial issues, his family and fellow Colorado politicians remembered Aug. 31.

Current Colorado Gov. Jared Polis praised Lamm’s life of Lamm service, not just to the state as both a lawmaker and governor, but also in the U.S. Army to his nation, as a lawyer to his clients and as a teacher to his students.

“Whether or not you agreed or disagreed with Dick, nobody can deny he lived a full life and one that was truly dedicated to serving others,” Polis said in opening remarks at a Denver memorial service that drew hundreds, including prominent Colorado politicians such as Democratic U.S. Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet.

Lamm, a Democrat, died July 29, less than a week short of what would have been his 86th birthday.

Speakers praised Lamm for his

passion for policy, particularly as an advocate for the environment and for opening the door to the liberalization of abortion laws.

Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, who served in Lamm’s cabinet, described his friend and former colleague as a “member of the greatest generation of political leadership in Colorado,” contemporaries with Democratic former U.S. Sens. Gary Hart and Tim Wirth, as well as Democratic U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder.

“Dick was truly Colorado,” Webb said. “Independent, tough, strong, complicated, unpredictable, kindhearted.”

Lamm was no stranger to controversy during his time in office, and afterward. Lamm was a state legislator in 1972 when he famously led a movement that spurred voters to reject funding for the 1976 Winter Olympics. That remains the only time a host city has rejected the Olympics after they were awarded.

He also generated controversy for remarks he made in 2006 that suggested Latinos and Blacks lacked the drive and ambition of Asians and Jews.

Speakers remembered Lamm for his ability to foresee problems like climate change and urban growth, with Polis calling him “prescient.”

Lamm was also described as a man ahead of his time on hot-button topics. Speakers noted he was on the vanguard on environmental issues and pushed the country’s first law liberalizing abortion regulations, six years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s

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Dottie Lamm speaks in remembrance of her husband, former Colorado Governor Richard “Dick” Lamm, on Aug. 31 at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum PHOTOS BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN in Denver.

landmark ruling on abortion rights in Roe v. Wade.

“Patients from across the country benefit from Dick Lamm’s belief in, and advocacy for, bodily autonomy and the right to make our own healthcare decisions,” said Vicki Cowart, CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.

Cowart said Lamm “took the position he believed was right no matter what.”

Lamm’s daughter, Heather Lamm, recounted her father’s love for reading and intellectual discussion, guessing that he “probably ascended to the pearly gates only to inquire of St. Peter what he had been reading over the summer.”

His wife, Dottie Lamm, told the story of their love for each other, starting from how they first met and their first date to the time they spent “cocooning during the lockdown,” giving them a chance to look back on their lives and express their love for each other.

The couple shared a deep affection for Colorado, which Lamm governed

“Our marriage was rooted in Colorado soil,” she said. “We fell in love with the state before we fell in love with each other.”

The memorial service, held at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, was punctuated with musical performances by local musicians Purnell Steen and the Five Points Ambassadors. The service concluded with a rendition of John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High.

In her final comments, Dottie Lamm bid her husband a final farewell: “Goodbye, love of my life. We had a really good run. Now pass your torch, release your spirit, raise your wings and fly over the Rockies.”

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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Three is a magic number Triple Bypass bike ride rolls again

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For a cyclist, few things in life are more enjoyable than an epic ride over great terrain.

But an epic ride over great terrain with ample support staff, feed stations and 4,999 riding buddies would probably qualify.

That was certainly the case according to Ken Reardon of Fort Collins, who said he’d done the Triple Bypass before, “but not in a long time.”

“I ride competitively, but with organized races being weird the last two years ... I just wanted a nice, fun ride.”

Though, he admitted that he would still be checking his road times.

The Triple Bypass —a classic “bucket list” item for many cyclists and a bragging point for its veterans — is named for the three passes along the course, which winds from Buchanan Park

in Evergreen over Juniper Pass (11,140 feet elevation), down through Idaho Springs and then up along the banks of Clear Creek and eventually over Loveland Pass (11,990 feet), wending past Keystone and Frisco before heading over Vail Pass (10,560 feet) and then down to the finish line in the town of Vail.

This year’s race featured a “double bypass” option, starting in Georgetown and just going over Loveland and Vail passes. Most of the course is either on closed roads or on multiuse pathways. The event is capped at 5,000 participants. This year, it sold out two months ahead of time.

“We commonly sell out but not that quickly,” said race Operations Director Natalie Raborn.

“I think everyone’s eager to get back to normal life, and this kind of outdoor ride is a relatively safe way to have fun doing it,” she said.

New this year was the Gran Fondo competition.

The 750 participants were given timing chips and were SEE BIKE RACE, P23

The annual Triple Bypass road bike ride hits the road Aug. 21, after being canceled last year. Riders doing the full ride departed from Evergreen’s Buchanan Park. Many headed out around 6 a.m., but all participating riders had to depart by 8 a.m. in order to have a chance of completing the 106-mile course in time.

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specifically timed on the climbing segments over all three of the passes, with prizes and glory awaiting the riders with the top times.

The charitable cycling organization Team Evergreen puts on the annual ride, which was canceled last year. Other community organizations help supply the roughly 500 volunteers needed to make the ride happen. In return, Team Evergreen donates part of the proceeds to the participating organizations.

“Blue Spruce Kiwanis volunteers spent the night on Juniper Pass, so they could open the aid stations at 6:30 a.m.,” Raborn said.

Dawn’s early glow illuminated an upbeat vibe at the Evergreen start line. A “wall of donuts” and coffee awaited riders as they picked up their registration packets and commemorative jerseys. A young man with a drum kit provided a rhythmic soundtrack to riders passing through the start gate. Higher up, a bagpiper performed at the first pass.

Riders really do come from across the country to participate A member of the event staff confirmed that retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre was participating.

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Another out-of-stater was Steve Olson from Tucson, Arizona.

‘I’m meeting my nephew and two brothers to do this,” he said.

The Fort Worth cycling team Health’s Angels, six riders strong, participated this year. The team usually participates in the Ride MS fundraising events and actually brags about being a top-fundraising team for its area.

“We were supposed to do (the Triple Bypass) last year for my 50th birthday party,” said team member Wayne McCrow But then the 2020 edition of the race was canceled.

“Longest 50th birthday party ever!” piped in teammate David Baker.

For other riders, the Triple Bypass is closer to home. Rider Kyle Griffith said he’s done the ride four times before. He said the ride is fun, just a good ride for some and competitive for others.

“I kind of love Loveland Pass because it’s pretty much halfway and not that tough.”

His least favorite part?

“On the Double Triple (the unsanctioned add-on to the Triple Bypass where riders do the whole course in reverse the following day), going back over Squaw (Juniper) Pass. ... I’m not doing that this year.

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ster’s treatment plant is almost identical. “I do have my concerns about whether or not that’s the right path,” he said.

rate recommendations, also acknowledged that water rates are a mobilizing force. But, DeMott said, “it’s more than a political chip, if you will. It’s a very important topic to us.”

Though the water rates debate in Westminster has effectively concluded, the issue will still be front-and-center in the November municipal election. DeMott, who is running for reelection, and at least four other candidates running for mayor or at-large council seats have taken strong anti-rates stances.

Also, it doesn’t seem like Brighton and Westminster’s dilemmas with the cost of providing water service will reach points of resolution soon. If anything, it’s just getting started.

Despite Brighton city staff brainstorming creative solutions to temporarily circumvent the need for a new water treatment plant, the staff also acknowledged the city will still need the new plant one day. Westminster staff said the same about its treatment plant.

Yet, Johnston and DeMott, who represent a broader sentiment in each of their communities, simply don’t agree with the staff on key issues.

“I’m not sure that we can or need to build a new water treatment plant. I know that’s not going to be a popular thing to say. But the reason is, is because we might not be able to,” Johnston said.

DeMott’s feeling about Westmin-

Pacing matters Johnston argues that Brighton’s issue isn’t necessarily the treatment plant, but development.

“What if we had to have the talk of pacing residential development in the city?” he said. “Because the reason that we need a water treatment plant isn’t as much for the citizens we have now, it’s for the citizens that we expect to have.”

But the CML’s Bommer doesn’t think it’s that simple.

“We are going to grow, no matter what,” he said.

Growth isn’t the only problem the future holds for Brighton, Westminster, Thornton, or almost anywhere else in Colorado, said Poppleton, the Water Education Colorado director.

“I think the increasing pressures that are being placed on our water resources from drought and climate change and Colorado’s continued growing population are going to continue to test our ability to come to the table together,” Poppleton said. “There is going to be a real shortage in systems across the state. It will produce real pain points.”

Climate change poses several threats to municipal water systems, with the first being a diminishment of supply. That’s why Thornton is eager to build the Thornton Water Project. Having access to the city’s supply in Larimer County will be crucial if Thornton’s supply in Standley Lake is experiencing drought. Since droughts are

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typically localized, both reservoirs likely wouldn’t experience the same shortages at the same time, city utilities staff explained.

There’s also concern that the growing frequency of wildfires will damage city watersheds in the mountains. The fires destabilize soils and create flash floods, resulting in a higher concentration of fine particles in the water supply.

Westminster says its proposed water treatment plant can treat that degraded water quality.

Cities once cast out on their own shouldn’t be perpetually Poppleton, Bommer and Taylor, the CSU professor, all admonish citizens and their local officials to listen to and trust the recommendations of utilities staff.

“Every water provider I have ever come across takes seriously their mission to provide a safe, reliable supply of water for their customers. And it’s no easy feat and the challenges they face are enormous,” Poppleton said.

However, the three experts don’t think cities are wholly individually responsible for the crises that await them.

“At the local level is where we see the tension, as well as the opportunities and needs for collaboration most clearly,” said Taylor, who has extensively studied collaborative efforts among different water users in the Colorado River Basin.

Taylor and several of his CSU colleagues outline six cases of collaboration in a 2019 Journal of Soil and Water Conservation article titled “Every ditch is different: Barriers and opportunities for collaboration

for agricultural water conservation and security in the Colorado River Basin.”

One case they looked at was the “Super Ditch,” a coalition of seven ditch companies in southern Colorado that fallows land — or conserving water usage on certain plots of land — and then leases the water it conserves to Colorado Springs, Fountain, Security and other cities.

“The Super Ditch’s main objective is to reverse a trend of municipality-led permanent `buy and dry’ of farms with related negative impacts on the region’s rural communities,” the 2019 report reads.

Meanwhile, Bommer is hopeful about future collaborative opportunities for funding, ideally to take pressure off residential water rates. For example, the proposed federal infrastructure bill currently tied up in the U.S. House of Representatives includes an allocation for Western water projects.

“I’ll never second guess the recommendations that have been put on the table for how infrastructure gets funded no matter where it’s at.

Rates are one way to do it,” Bommer said.

Taylor said that’s the ethos of collaborating on water issues, be it city-to-city efforts or between a city and its citizens. “Collaboration is not about giving up your interests and saying, `I’m going to care about what the other user wants above my own interests.’ It’s about trying to find common ground,” he said.

The question just is, Taylor said, “What control do we have as a society over which of those two that we choose: conflict or collaboration?”

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N OTICE - P U B LICATION CRS § 3 8 - 3 8 - 1 0 3 F ORECLOS U RE S ALE N O. A2 0 2 1 7 8 8 7 6 T o W hom It M ay Concern: T his Notice is given with regard to the f ollowing d escribed D eed of T rust: O n Ju ly 1 , 2 0 2 1 , the und ersigned Public T rustee caused the Notice of E lection and D emand relating to the D eed of T rust d escribed below to be record ed in the County of A d ams record s.

O riginal G rantor( s) M ary L M aes and A ud rey V igil riginal eneficiary ies M ortgage E lectronic Registration Syst ems, Inc., as nominee f or L end A merica, Inc. Current H old er of E vid ence of D ebt U .S. B ank T rust National A ssociation as T rustee of the Cabana Series IV T rust D ate of D eed of T rust Ju ne 1 4, 2 0 0 6 County of Record ing A d ams Record ing D ate of D eed of T rust Ju ne 1 6 , 2 0 0 6 Record ing Inf ormation ( Recep tion No. and / or B ook/ Page No.) 2 0 0 6 0 6 1 6 0 0 0 6 1 5 2 7 0 O riginal Princip al A mount $ 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 .0 0 O utstand ing Princip al B alance $ 1 5 9 ,3 9 4.1 2 Pursuant to CRS § 3 8 - 3 8 - 1 0 1 ( 4) ( i) , y ou are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as f ollows: Failure to p ay p rincip al and interest when d ue together with all other p aym ents p rovid ed f or in the evid ence of d ebt secured by the d eed of trust and other violations thereof .

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LOT 1 4 , B LOCK 1 1 , F RON TERRA V ILLAGE F ILIN G N O. 1 , COU N TY OF AD AMS , S TATE OF COLORAD O. Als o k now n b y s treet and nu mb er as : 1 0 0 4 9 J as per S treet, Commerc e City , CO 8 0 0 2 2 .

THE P ROP ERTY D ES CRIB ED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE P ROP ERTY CU RREN TLY EN CU MB ERED B Y THE LIEN OF THE D EED OF TRU S T. N OTICE OF S ALE T he current hold er of the E vid ence of D ebt secured by the D eed of T rust, d escribed herein, has filed Notice of Election and emand for sale as p rovid ed by law and in said D eed of T rust.

T H E RE FO RE , Notice Is H ereby G iven that I will at p ublic auction, at 1 0 : 0 0 A M on W ed nesd ay , 1 1 / 0 3 / 2 0 2 1 , at 443 0 S. A d ams County Pkwy , Suite W 1 0 0 0 , B righton CO 8 0 6 0 1 - 8 2 1 9 , sell to the highest and best bid d er f or cash, the said real p rop erty and all interest of the said G rantor( s) , G rantor( s) ' heirs and assigns therein, f or the p urp ose of p ay ing the ind ebted ness p rovid ed in said E vid ence of D ebt secured by the D eed of T rust, p lus attorney s' f ees, the ex p enses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as p rovid ed by law.

First Publication: 9 / 9 / 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: 1 0 / 7 / 2 0 2 1 Name of Publication: M etro North IF THE S ALE D ATE IS CON TIN U ED TO A LATER D ATE, THE D EAD LIN E TO F ILE A N OTICE OF IN TEN T TO CU RE B Y THOS E P ARTIES EN TITLED TO CU RE MAY ALS O B E EX TEN D ED ; D A T E : 0 7 /0 1 /2 0 2 1 L isa L . Culp ep p er, Public T rustee in and f or the County of A d ams, State of Colorad o B y: L isa L . Culp ep p er, T reasurer and Public T rustee T he name, ad d ress, business telep hone number and bar registration number of the attorney ( s) rep resenting the legal hold er of the ind ebted ness is: Scott D . T oebben # 1 9 0 1 1 Rand all S. M iller & A ssociates, P.C. 2 1 6 1 6 th Street, Ste 1 2 1 0 , D E NV E R, CO 8 0 2 0 2 ( 7 2 0 ) 2 5 9 - 6 7 1 0 A ttorney File # 2 1 CO 0 0 0 8 0 - 1 T he A ttorney above is acting as a d ebt collector and is attemp ting to collect a d ebt. A ny inf ormation p rovid ed may be used f or that p urp ose.

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O riginal G rantor( s) M arj orie B . Jo hnson and Colleen L . Patterson

riginal eneficiary ies H arbor Plaza , L L C Current H old er of E vid ence of D ebt D U FL 9 3 , L L C D ate of D eed of T rust Sep tember 0 4, 2 0 0 9 County of Record ing A d ams Record ing D ate of D eed of T rust O ctober 1 4, 2 0 2 0 Record ing Inf ormation ( Recep tion No. and / or B ook/ Page No.) 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 443 2 O riginal Princip al A mount $ 3 3 ,8 2 2 .47 O utstand ing Princip al B alance $ 3 3 ,8 2 2 .47 Pursuant to CRS § 3 8 - 3 8 - 1 0 1 ( 4) ( i) , y ou are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as f ollows: Failure to p ay p rincip al and interest when d ue together with all other p aym ents p rovid ed f or in the evid ence of d ebt secured by the d eed of trust and other violations thereof .

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THE P ROP ERTY D ES CRIB ED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE P ROP ERTY CU RREN TLY EN CU MB ERED B Y THE LIEN OF THE D EED OF TRU S T. N OTICE OF S ALE T he current hold er of the E vid ence of D ebt secured by the D eed of T rust, d escribed herein, has filed Notice of Election and emand for sale as p rovid ed by law and in said D eed of T rust.

T H E RE FO RE , Notice Is H ereby G iven that I will at p ublic auction, at 1 0 : 0 0 A M on W ed nesd ay , 1 1 / 0 3 / 2 0 2 1 , at 443 0 S. A d ams County Pkwy , Suite W 1 0 0 0 , B righton CO 8 0 6 0 1 - 8 2 1 9 , sell to the highest and best bid d er f or cash, the said real p rop erty and all interest of the said G rantor( s) , G rantor( s) ' heirs and assigns therein, f or the p urp ose of p ay ing the ind ebted ness p rovid ed in said E vid ence of D ebt secured by the D eed of T rust, p lus attorney s' f ees, the ex p enses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as p rovid ed by law.

First Publication: 9 / 9 / 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: 1 0 / 7 / 2 0 2 1 Name of Publication: M etro North IF THE S ALE D ATE IS CON TIN U ED TO A LATER D ATE, THE D EAD LIN E TO F ILE A N OTICE OF IN TEN T TO CU RE B Y THOS E P ARTIES EN TITLED TO CU RE MAY ALS O B E EX TEN D ED ; D A T E : 0 7 /0 1 /2 0 2 1 L isa L . Culp ep p er, Public T rustee in and f or the County of A d ams, State of Colorad o B y: L isa L . Culp ep p er, T reasurer and Public T rustee T he name, ad d ress, business telep hone number and bar registration number of the attorney ( s) rep resenting the legal hold er of the ind ebted ness is: A aron J Conrard y # 40 0 3 0 W ad sworth G arber W arner Conrard y , P.C. 2 5 8 0 W M ain Stree, Suite 2 0 0 , L ittleton, CO 8 0 1 2 0 ( 3 0 3 ) 2 9 6 - 1 9 9 9 A ttorney File # 7 8 8 7 4 T he A ttorney above is acting as a d ebt collector and is attemp ting to collect a d ebt. A ny inf ormation p rovid ed may be used f or that p urp ose.

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N OTICE IS HEREB Y GIV EN by the City of Fed eral H eights of A d ams County , Colorad o, that at the close of business on the 6 3 rd d ay bef ore the election, there were not more cand id ates f or City Council than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in cand id ates; theref ore, the regular election to be held on November 2 2 0 2 1 , is hereby canceled p ursuant to Section 1 - 5 - 2 0 8 ( 1 .5 ) , C.R.S. T he f ollowing cand id ates are d eclared elected : S arah D aw n P earls tein Ward I Cou nc il Memb er F ou r ( 4 ) y ear term D oris P eters on Ward II Cou nc il Memb er F ou r ( 4 ) y ear term S onia J ens en Ward III Cou nc il Memb er F ou r ( 4 ) y ear term D ated this 7 th d ay of Sep tember, 2 0 2 1 CIT Y O F FE D E RA L H E IG H T S / s/ Patti K . L owell esignated Election fficial City of Fed eral H eights

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 9 8 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: W estminster W ind ow LEGAL N OTICE N OTICE OF P U B LIC HEARIN G THAT THE B OARD OF COU N TY COMMIS S ION ERS OF THE COU N TY OF AD AMS , S TATE OF COLORAD O, shall be consid ering the ad op tion of a Resolution regard ing amend ing the 2 0 2 1 A d op ted B ud get as ap p roved and ap p rop riated , and shall take action on said Resolution at a p ublic hearing to be held on Tu es day , S eptemb er 1 4 , 2 0 2 1 , at 9 : 3 0 a.m. in the first oor ublic earing oom, at the Adams County G overnment Center, 443 0 S. A d ams County Parkway , B righton, CO 8 0 6 0 1 - 8 2 0 4.

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by assignment, to the p urchaser of the Series 2 0 2 1 Note. D ue to the CO V ID - 1 9 p ublic health emergency , in p erson p articip ation at the hearing has been susp end ed . H owever, in comp liance with IRS Rev. Proc. 2 0 2 0 - 2 1 , interested p ersons are invited to attend the p ublic hearing by p ublicly available conf erence call and p resent comments regarding the plan of finance, the issuance of the eries 2021 Note and the financing of the ro ect. T o attend via conf erence call on T hursd ay , Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 at 1 1 : 0 0 a.m. M ountain T ime, d ial ( 8 5 5 ) 5 8 8 - 2 5 40 ( toll- f ree) and when p romp ted enter conf erence cod e 3 0 3 2 9 2 7 8 6 1 , p asscod e 5 7 0 0 . A ll those who are on the conf erence call will have the op p ortunity to of f er their comments.

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 8 9 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: W estminster W ind ow Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

RF P # 2 1 - 0 3 1 , P HON E & IN TERN ET COMMU N ICATION S ERV ICES M aiker H ousing Partners is soliciting submissions from qualified businesses for phone and internet service providers for aiker home office, and 14 low- income af f ord able housing ap artment communities all located within A d ams County , CO .

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M aiker H ousing Partners is a p ublic entity f ormed in 1 9 7 4 to p rovid e f ed erally subsid ize d housing and housing assistance to low- income f amilies, within A d ams County , Colorad o. T hough brought into ex istence by a Resolution of the A d ams County B oard of Commissioners, it is a sep arate entity f rom the A d ams County , Colorad o government. M aiker has ap p roxi mately 1 5 p rop erties of multi- f amily ap artment communities in A d ams County , throughout the cities of T hornton, Commerce City , W estminster, and D enver ( A d ams County) .

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N OTICE is hereby given that A d ams 1 2 Five Star Schools, in accord ance with the U nited States E nvironmental Protection A gency ' s A sbestos H aza rd E mergency Resp onse A ct, has A sbestos M anagement Plans available f or review at each school and the E d ucational Sup p ort Center, 1 5 0 0 E . 1 2 8 th A venue in T hornton, CO , 8 0 2 41 . Contact G eof f M ills, E nvironmental H ealth and Saf ety Program M anager, with any q uestions.

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 8 0 0 8 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

City of Wes tmins ter N otic e of P u b lic Hearing 2 0 2 2 P ropos ed B u dget

N OTICE OF P U B LIC HEARIN G CON CERN IN G THE IS S U AN CE OF TAX - EX EMP T MU LTIF AMILY HOU S IN G REV EN U E N OTE B Y THE HOU S IN G AU THORITY OF THE COU N TY OF AD AMS , S TATE OF COLORAD O, D /B /A MAIKER HOU S IN G P ARTN ERS P U RS U AN T TO A P LAN OF F IN AN CE F OR A MU LTIF AMILY P ROJ ECT F OR THE CROS S IN G P OIN TE S OU TH AP ARTMEN TS P ROJ ECT N OTICE IS HEREB Y GIV EN THAT the H ousing A uthority of the County of A d ams, State of Colorad o, d / b/ a M aiker H ousing Partners ( the “ A uthority ” ) , will cond uct a p ublic hearing on T hursd ay , Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 at 1 1 : 0 0 a.m., M ountain T ime, concerning the ap p roval of a p lan of finance that includes the issuance of its ultif amily H ousing Revenue Note ( Crossing Pointe South A p artments Proj ect) Series 2 0 2 1 in one or more series in an aggregate p rincip al amount not to exce ed $ 2 4,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 ( the “ Series 2 0 2 1 Note” ) and the loan of the p roceed s of the Series 2 0 2 1 Note to Crossing Pointe South L L L P, a Colorad o limited liability limited p artnership , or any other affiliate or successor the orrower , for the purpose of financing a portion of the acquisition, construction, eq uip p ing and p lacing in service of an ap p roxi mately 1 42 - unit multif amily resid ential p roj ect to be known as Crossing Pointe South ( or such other name as d esigned by the B orrower) , which is located at 42 2 0 E . 1 0 4th A venue, B uild ings 2 and 3 , T hornton, Colorad o 8 0 2 3 3 , within the bound aries of A d ams County , Colorad o ( the “ Facilities” ) , f und ing certain reserve f und s, if any , and p ay ing certain costs of issuing the Series 2 0 2 1 Note. T he Facilities will be owned , op erated and p rincip ally used by the B orrower and will consist of the real p rop erty , imp rovements and eq uip ment d escribed above which are all located within the County of A d ams, Colorad o.

T H E SE RIE S 2 0 2 1 NO T E A ND T H E INT E RE ST T H E RE O N SH A L L NE V E R CO NST IT U T E T H E D E B T O R IND E B T E D NE SS O F T H E A U T H O RIT Y , A D A M S CO U NT Y , CO L O RA D O ( T H E “ CO U NT Y ” ) , T H E ST A T E O F CO L O RA D O ( T H E “ ST A T E ” ) O R A NY PO L IT ICA L SU B D IV ISIO N T H E RE O F W IT H IN T H E M E A NING O F A NY PRO V ISIO N O R L IM IT A T IO N O F T H E CO NST IT U T IO N O R ST A T U T E S O F T H E ST A T E A ND SH A L L NO T CO NST IT U T E NO R G IV E RISE T O A PE CU NIA RY L IA B IL IT Y O F T H E A U T H O RIT Y , T H E CO U NT Y , T H E ST A T E O R A NY PO L IT ICA L SU B D IV ISIO N T H E RE O F O R A CH A RG E A G A INST T H E IR G E NE RA L CRE D IT O R T A X ING PO W E RS. T his notice is intend ed to comp ly with the p ublic notice req uirements of Section 1 47 ( f ) of the Internal Revenue Cod e of 1 9 8 6 , as amend ed .

T he Series 2 0 2 1 Note will constitute a sp ecial, limited obligation of the A uthority p aya ble solely f rom revenues d erived by the A uthority p ursuant to one or more loan agreements and certain related loan d ocuments und er which the B orrower has rep aym ent obligations to the A uthority , and ,

Notice is hereby given that the p rop osed 2 0 2 2 B ud get f or the City of W estminster will be submitted to the City Council and will be consid ered f or ad op tion on Oc tob er 2 5 , 2 0 2 1 at 7 : 0 0 p. m. in a City Council meeting. Prior to the ad op tion of the bud get, the City will cond uct p ublic hearings on the p rop osed 2 0 2 2 B ud get on S eptemb er 1 3 , 2 0 2 1 at 7 : 0 0 p. m. and S eptemb er 2 7 , 2 0 2 1 7 : 0 0 p. m. , at which time f eed back on the p rop osed bud get will be accep ted .

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cop y of the 2 0 2 2 Prop osed B ud get will be available f or review af ter Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 in the City Clerk s ffice at City all and on the City’ s website at http s: / / www.city of westminster.us/ bud get. T he community may continue to p rovid e f eed back on the proposed budget at any time prior to the final ad op tion of the bud get. T he City Council may meet in one or more Stud y Sessions to evaluate the p rop osed bud get p rior to the f ormal ad op tion on O ctober 2 5 , 2 0 2 1 .

Wes tmins ter City Cou nc il B y : /s / D avid F rank el, City Attorney City of Wes tmins ter Attorney f or th e City L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 8 3 First Publication: Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: W estminster W ind ow P u b lic N otic e MOV IN G &

RF P # 2 1 - 0 3 4 , RELOCATION S ERV ICES

M aiker H ousing Partners of A d ams County is soliciting submissions from qualified business for M oving & Relocation Services. M aiker owns and op erates a senior housing community which will und ergo ex tensive renovation of p rop erty and housing units. Services are need ed f or moving resid ent belongings f rom one unit to another within the p rop erty . Some units may be moving only , while others may req uire p acking and moving.

M aiker H ousing Partners is a p ublic entity f ormed in 1 9 7 4 to p rovid e f ed erally subsid ize d housing and housing assistance to low- income f amilies, within A d ams County , Colorad o. T hough brought into ex istence by a Resolution of the A d ams County B oard of Commissioners, it is a sep arate entity f rom the A d ams County , Colorad o government.

M aiker has ap p roxi mately 1 5 p rop erties of multif amily ap artment communities in A d ams County , throughout the cities of T hornton, Commerce City , W estminster, and D enver ( A d ams County) .

T he comp lete RF P # 2 1 - 0 3 4 can be obtained at www.maikerhp .org L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 9 4 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1

P u b lic N otic e City of Wes tmins ter S u mmary of P roc eedings Summary of p roceed ings of the hyb rid W estminster Sp ecial City Council meeting of M ond ay , A ugust 3 0 , 2 0 2 1 . M ayo r Seitz, M ayo r Pro T em D eM ott, and Councillors Sey mour, Skulley , Smith, and V oelz were p resent at roll call.

Council ap p roved the f ollowing: Second Read ing of Councillor' s B ill No. 3 2 Prop osing Charter A mend ments.

Council ad op ted the f ollowing: Resolution No. 3 0 p lacing q uestions on the November 2 0 2 1 ballot establishing a tax on the sale of retail marij uana and allowing the op eration of retail marij uana businesses; Resolution No. 3 1 p lacing a q uestion on the November 2 0 2 1 ballot regard ing an increase in the Public Saf ety Sales and U se T ax; Resolution No. 3 2 p lacing a q uestion on the November 2 0 2 1 ballot regard ing the continuation of the Parks, O p en Sp ace and T rails ( PO ST ) T ax; and Resolution No. 3 3 p lacing a q uestion on the November 2 0 2 1 ballot regard ing the creation of a commission to f urther exp lore charter amend ments p rovid ing f or the election of City Councillors f rom geograp hic ward s.

T here was no f urther business to come bef ore the City Council, and the meeting ad j ourned at 7 : 1 5 p .m.

B y O rd er of the W estminster City Council A bby Fitch, Senior D ep uty City Clerk A ttached : * Councillors B ill No. 3 2 L egal Notice No. 7 0 8 0 0 6 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: W estminster W ind ow P u b lic N otic e Cas e N u mb er: RCU 2 0 2 0 - 0 0 0 3 3 P lanning Commis s ion Hearing D ate: 0 9 / 2 3 / 2 0 2 1 at 6 : 0 0 p .m.

B oard of Cou nty Commis s ioners Hearing D ate: 1 0 / 2 6 / 2 0 2 1 at 9 : 3 0 a.m.

Hearing Loc ation: 443 0 South A d ams County Parkway , B righton CO 8 0 6 0 1 Req u es t: Z oning map amend ment ( re- zo ning) to change the zo ning d esignation f rom Resid ential- 1 - C ( R- 1 - C) to Resid ential- 3 ( R- 3 ) .

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 9 6 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: W estminster W ind ow

Metro D is tric ts B u dget Hearings P u b lic N otic e N OTICE OF CAN CELLATION Colorad o state law at Colo. Rev. Stat. § 1-5208(1.5) p ermits the B oard of E d ucation ( B oard ) to authori e the esignated Election fficial E by resolution to cancel the election and d eclare the cand id ates elected if , at the close of business on A ugust 3 1 , 2 0 2 1 there are not more cand id ates than offices to be filled at the election, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in cand id ates. T he B oard ap p roved a resolution on A ugust 2 4, 2 0 2 1 p rovid ing the D E O with this authoriza tion.

O n A ugust 3 1 , 2 0 2 1 at 4: 3 0 p .m. there were no more candidates than offices to be filled at the election f or B oard of D irectors. T he d ead line f or filing an affidavit of intent to be a write-in candidate has passed with no individuals filing such an affidavit and no ballot issues or questions will be submitted to the voters by the D istrict.

I, M ike Crawf ord , the D E O f or A d ams County School D istrict No. 1 , M ap leton Public Schools, and p ursuant to the authority granted by the B oard of E d ucation, have d etermined that the p rereq uisites f or canceling the November 2 , 2 0 2 1 regular school biennial election have been met.

T he election is hereby canceled and I d eclare the f ollowing cand id ates are hereby elected , as of November 2 , 2 0 2 1 : Candidate Term T erry D onnell Four Y ears D aisy L echman T wo Y ears M allory B oyce Four Y ears T homas M oe Four Y ears

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Public Notices and will be posted on Election ay at the office of the D E O and sent to the A d ams County clerk and recorders offices. The named candidates shall be notified in writing of the cancellation of the election and of their resulting election by acclamation.

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B ids and S ettlements P u b lic N otic e N OTICE OF CON TRACTOR' S S ETTLEMEN T Pursuant to Section 3 8 - 2 6 - 1 0 7 , C.R.S., notice is hereby given that on Sep tember 2 8 , 2 0 2 1 , at W estminster, Colorad o, f inal settlement will be mad e by the City with RME Ltd. , LLC, hereinaf ter called the " Contractor," f or and on account of the contract f or the construction of a Proj ect d escribed as T hird A mend ment to the 2 0 2 0 P ark ing Lot P avement Reh ab ilitation P roj ec t # S P LP R- 2 0 - 1 0 .

1 . A ny p erson, co- p artnership , association of p ersons, comp any , or corp oration that has f urnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, p rovisions, p rovend er, or other sup p lies used or consumed by such Contractor or his subcontractor, or that sup p lies rental machinery , tools, or eq uip ment to the ext ent used in the p rosecution of the work, whose claim theref or has not been p aid by the Contractor or the subcontractor f or the work contracted to be done, may file with the City a verified statement of the amount due and unp aid on account of such claim.

2. All such claims shall be filed with the City Attorney s ffice, City of estminster, 4 00 .

9 2 nd A venue, W estminster, Colorad o, 8 0 0 3 1 by Sep tember 2 1 , 2 0 2 1 .

3 . A ll such claims must be notarize d and must otherwise comp ly with the req uirements of C.R.S. § 3 8 2 6 1 0 7 .

4. ailure on the part of a creditor to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve the City f rom any and all liability f or such claim.

D ated at W estminster, Colorad o on Sep tember 2 ,2 0 2 1 .

CITY OF WES TMIN S TER /s / D avid R. F rank el, City Attorney L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 7 3 First Publication: Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: W estminster W ind ow P u b lic N otic e N OTICE OF F IN AL S ETTLEMEN T HY LAN D HILLS P ARK AN D RECREATION D IS TRICT Notice is hereby given that H y land H ills Park and Recreation D istrict, on or af ter Sep tember 17th. 2021 will make final payment to P ros lide Tec h nology Inc . , on account of that certain W ater W orld Proj ect contract, 8 8 0 1 N. Pecos St, Fed eral H eights, Colorad o 8 0 2 6 0 , f or the sup p ly and installation of D ueling Rocket B last and Cannonbowl rid es. A ll p ersons having claims f or labor, services, eq uip ment rental or materials f urnished to the contractor should p resent their claims to the contractor and the surety p rior to said d ate f or p ay ment. Pursuant to C.R.S. 3 8 - 2 6 - 1 0 7 , claimants may also file a verified statement of the amount d ue and unp aid on claims with H y land H ills Park and Recreation D istrict, 8 8 0 1 N. Pecos St., Fed eral H eights, Co., 8 0 2 6 0 , attention, Steve eger, prior to the date for final payment.

Hy land Hills P ark and Rec reation D is tric t Y vonne F is c h b ac h , Ex ec u tive D irec tor L egal Notice No. 7 0 8 0 0 4 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P u b lic N otic e N OTICE P RE- Q U ALIF ICATION OF GEN ERAL CON TRACTORS TO B ID ON P U B LIC WORKS P ROJ ECT N OTICE IS HEREB Y GIV EN that the A d ams County Communications Center A uthority , a p olitical subd ivision of the State of Colorad o ( “ A uthority” ) , is soliciting general contractor ap p lications for pre-qualification to bid on the construction of the A uthority ’ s new A d ministration B uild ing. O nly general contractors who have been ap p roved through this p re- q ualif ication p rocess will be eligible to bid on the Proj ect.

B eginning 8 : 0 0 a.m. ( M ST ) on Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 , the pre-qualification application Application may be obtained f rom the A uthority ’ s current administrative office located at 7321 irch treet, Commerce City , Colorad o 8 0 0 2 2 or via their website at ad com9 1 1 .org.

Completed and s ealed Applic ations mu s t b e rec eived b y th e Au th ority at th e ab ove addres s on or b ef ore 4 : 0 0 p. m. ( MS T) on S eptemb er 2 3 , 2 0 2 1 ( “ Submission D ead line” ) . A p p lications received af ter the Submission D ead line will not be consid ered .

E ach A p p lication must conf orm and be resp onsive to the stand ard ap p lication f orm p rovid ed by the A uthority . A ny d eviation f rom the stand ard ap p lication f orm or f ailure to p rovid e the req uired inf ormation may be consid ered nonresp onsive and grounds for disqualification and re ection of the ap p lication in the A uthority’ s sole d iscretion.

T he A uthority has the right, in its sole d iscretion, to rej ect any or all A p p lications and to waive any irregularities in any A p p lication received . A p p licants are solely resp onsible f or all costs incurred in p rep aring and submitting the A p p lication.

N OTICE OF CON TRACTOR’ S F IN AL S ETTLEMEN T Notice is hereby given that on or af ter the 2 7 th d ay of Sep tember, 2 0 2 1 , Final Settlement will be mad e by the City of T hornton, CO , with: Concrete E xp ress, Inc., A ttn: D aniel O ’ D ea 2 0 2 7 W . Colf ax A venue D enver, CO 8 0 2 0 4 hereinaf ter called “ Contractor” , f or and on account of the Contract f or construction of Concrete Rep lacement Program, Proj ect No. 2 0 - 2 2 B .

1 . A ny p erson, co- p artnership , association, or corp oration who has an unp aid claim against the said Proj ect, f or or on account of the f urnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, p rovisions, p rovend er, or other sup p lies used or consumed by such Contractor, or any of his subcontractors, in or about the p erf ormance of said W ork, may at any time up to and includ ing said date of such inal ettlement, file a verified statement of the amount d ue and unp aid on account of such claims.

2. All such claims shall be filed with the City Clerk at 9 5 0 0 Civic Center D rive, T hornton, CO 8 0 2 2 9 .

3. ailure on the part of the creditor to file such a statement p rior to such Final Settlement will relieve the City of T hornton f rom any and all liability f or such claim.

CIT Y O F T H O RNT O N, CO L O RA D O D ate: 8 / 2 7 / 2 1 / s/ Ji m Je nsen, Contracts M anager L egal Notice No. 7 0 8 0 0 9 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P u b lic N otic e N OTICE OF F IN AL P AY MEN T N OTICE is hereby given that H eritage T od d Creek M etrop olitan D istrict of A d ams County , Colorad o, shall make final payment at 4 eritage rive, T hornton, CO 8 0 6 0 2 , on or af ter Sep tember 2 4, 2 0 2 1 , at the hour of 9 : 0 0 , a.m. to the f ollowing: AB C As ph alt Inc .

P . O. B ox 1 2 2 6 B righ ton, CO 8 0 6 0 1 For all work d one by said Contractors in construction or work on H eritage T od d Creek Community and p erf ormed within and / or f or the H eritage T od d Creek M etrop olitan D istrict County of A d ams, State of Colorad o. T his includ es the Contract f or 2 0 2 1 Paving and Concrete Rep airs.

A ny p erson, co- p artnership , association of p ersons, comp any or corp oration that has f urnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, p rovisions, p rovend er, or other sup p lies used or consumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the p erf ormance of the work contracted to be d one or that sup p lies rental machinery , tools or eq uip ment to the ext ent used in the p rosecution of the work, and whose claim theref ore has not been p aid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time for final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount d ue and unp aid , and an account of such claim to; Ind ep end ent D istrict E ngineering Services, L L C 1 6 2 6 Cole B lvd ., Suite 1 2 5 , L akewood , CO 8 0 40 1 on or bef ore the date and time herein above shown for final p aym ent. Failure on the p art of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release eritage Todd Creek etropolitan istrict, its directors, officers, agents, consultants and emp loye es, of and f rom any and all liability f or such claim.

B Y ORD ER OF THE B OARD OF D IRECTORS HERITAGE TOD D CREEK METROP OLITAN D IS TRICT B :y Ind ep end ent D istrict E ngineering Services, L L C, B rand on Collins, PE D istrict E ngineer by and f or the H eritage T od d Creek M etrop olitan D istrict L egal Notice No. 7 0 8 0 0 3 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P u b lic N otic e CITY OF F ED ERAL HEIGHTS N OTICE OF F IN AL S ETTLEMEN T CON TRACTOR: D iaz Cons tru c tion Grou p P ROJ ECT: 2 0 2 0 S W N orth b orou gh Water Line Replac ement.

N OTICE IS HEREB Y GIV EN that the final settlement between the City of Fed eral H eights and D iaz Construction G roup . regard ing above ref erenced p roj ect will be mad e Sep tember 1 0 , 2 0 2 0 .

• A ll p erson having any claims or liens against D iaz Construction G roup . f rom af orementioned pro ect must file verified statements of account with the City M anager, 2 3 8 0 W est 9 0 th A venue, Fed eral H eights, CO 8 0 2 6 0 , bef ore the settlement d ate.

L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 8 5 First Publication: Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: W estminster W ind ow

S u mmons and S h erif f S ale P u b lic N otic e

D is tric t Cou rt, Adams Cou nty , Colorado Cou rt Addres s : 1 1 0 0 J u dic ial Center D rive B righ ton, Colorado 8 0 6 0 1 In th e Interes t of : J orell Mak ai Harris

A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore D ecember 2 7 , 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

P etitioner: Kec ia Marie Harris v.

Res pondent: Toru s Was h ington

Rob ert J . D u nk el, P ers onal Repres entative P . O. B ox 9 6 2 Broomfield, CO 80038

A ttorney: G ilbert O . M ontoya , Jr .

8 7 5 3 Y ates D r., # 2 2 0 C, W estminster, CO 8 0 0 3 1 Phone Number: 3 0 3 - 3 0 1 - 2 6 5 6 E - mail: chineseboxe r1 @ j uno.com A tty . Reg. # : 8 0 7 9 Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 J V 2 0 2 0 D ivis ion D 2

L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 46 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

To th e Res pondent named ab ove th is S u mmons s erves as a notic e to appear in th is c as e. ou are hereby notified that a etition has been filed in this Court in which it is represented that Res pondent is the p arent of the child ( ren) named in the Petition. In this Petition, it is req uested that the Court enter j ud gment d etermining p aternity , req uiring the p arents to p ay f or the sup p ort of the child ( ren) , enter ord ers regard ing p arental resp onsibilities, and to grant such f urther relief as the Court d eems p rop er, includ ing the p ossibility of req uiring yo u to p ay costs of this action. ou may be required to pay a filing fee with your Resp onse. T he Resp onse f orm ( JD F 1 3 1 5 ) can be f ound at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “ Self H elp / Forms” tab.

Y ou are hereby summoned to ap p ear f or a hearing in D ivision D - 2 of the D istrict Court or D enver Ju venile Court, at the above ad d ress, on N ovemb er 1 5 , 2 0 2 1 , at 8 : 3 0 a. m. , at which time an O rd er may be entered req uiring yo u to p ay sup p ort and other costs asked f or in the Petition, a cop y of which is attached .

N otic e: Colorad o Revised Statutes § 1 9 - 4- 1 0 5 .5 , p rovid es that up on p ersonal service of the Petition and Summons on the Resp ond ent, or up on waiver and accep tance of service by the Resp ond ent, an automatic temp orary inj unction shall be in ef f ect against b oth parties f or 1 2 0 d ay s af ter its ef f ective d ate, unless all p arties consent to a modification of the temporary in unction. Either p arty may ap p ly to the Court to mod if y the length of time the temp orary inj unction is in ef f ect.

Y ou are hereby ad vised that, p ursuant to state statute § 1 9 - 4- 1 0 5 .5 , C.R.S., this req uest f or genetic tests shall not p rej ud ice the req uesting p arty in matters concerning allocation of p arental resp onsibilities p ursuant to § 1 4- 1 0 - 1 2 4( 1 .5 ) , C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained p rior to a legal establishment of p aternity and submitted into evid ence p rior to the entry of the final order establishing paternity, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evid ence at a later d ate.

Au tomatic Temporary Inj u nc tion – B y Order of Colorado law , y ou and th e oth er party : 1 . A re enj oined f rom molesting or d isturbing the p eace of the other p arty; and 2 . A re restrained f rom removing the minor child ( ren) f rom the state without the consent of all p arties or an O rd er of the Court mod if yi ng the inj unction; and 3 . A re restrained , without at least 1 4 d ay s advance notification and the written consent of all other p arties or an O rd er of the Court, f rom cancelling, mod if yi ng, terminating, or allowing to lap se f or nonp aym ent of p remiums, any p olicy of health insurance or lif e insurance that p rovid es coverage to the minor child ren as a beneficiary of a p olicy .

If yo u f ail to ap p ear at the stated time and p lace, the Court may enter udgment finding you to be the p arent of the child , enter child sup p ort ord ers, and ad d ress the other issues raised in the Petition.

D ate: A ugust 1 0 , 2 0 2 0 Signature of the Clerk of Court/ D ep uty Signature of the A ttorney f or the Petitioner L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 47 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 2 3 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

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N otic e to Creditors P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of Harry William D u nk el, a/k /a Harry W. D u nk el, a/k /a Harry D u nk el, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R3 0 7 8 8

Th ornton, Colorado 8 0 2 6 0 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 8 2 First Publication: Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of Terry Allen B att, ak a Terry A. B att, ak a Terry B att, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R3 0 7 5 8 A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore Ja nuary 3 , 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of N ic h olas L. S c h eidt, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R3 0 8 0 9 A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore Ja nuary 3 1 , 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

Cy nth ia L. Rob erts , P ers onal Repres entative P . O. B ox 3 3 0 9 8 D enver, CO 8 0 2 3 3 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 7 1 First Publication: Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

Garry B att, P ers onal Repres entative c /o Tirey Law F irm LLC 1 2 0 2 1 P enns y lvania S t. , S u ite 1 0 3 Th ornton, CO 8 0 2 4 1 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 7 6 First Publication: Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P U B LIC N OTICE N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of Cang N gu y en, AKA Cang D u y N gu y en, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R 2 0 9

P u b lic N otic e

A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore D ecember 2 7 , 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of CHARLES ARN OLD P ATTERS ON , J R. ( a. k . a. CHARLES ARN OLD P ATTERS ON ) , D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R 3 0 7 5 3 A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative ( J U D IT H PA T T E RSO N) or to A D A M S CO U NT Y J U ST ICE CE NT E R, PRO B A T E D IV ISIO N on or bef ore D E CE M B E R 3 1 , 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred . /s / Kimb erly Ru ddell KIMB ERLY RU D D ELL, Es q .

Attorney f or P ers onal Repres entatives 1 8 0 1 Calif ornia S treet, S u ite 2 4 0 0 D enver, CO 8 0 2 0 2

B illy N gu y en, P ers onal Repres entative 1 3 9 6 4 F illmore S t.

Th ornton, Colorado 8 0 6 0 2 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 41 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 3 8 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of J oanne Mary Callanan, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er 2 1 P R 3 0 8 1 3 A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore Ja nuary 9 , 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

J oh n R. Goodf ellow P ers onal Repres entative c /o Wh ole F amily Legal, LLC 1 0 4 6 5 Melody D r. , S u ite 3 1 8 N orth glenn, CO 8 0 2 3 4

N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of J oh n Cec il Cas tillo, A/K/A J oh n C. Cas tillo, A/K/A J oh n Cas tillo, A/K/A J oh n Cec il Cos tillo, A/K/A J oh n C. Cos tillo, A/K/A J oh n Cos tillo, A/K/A J oh n Cec il Cos tello, A/K/A J oh n C. Cos tello, A/K/A J oh n Cos tello, A/K/A J oh n Cec il Cas tello, A/K/A J oh n C. Cas tello, A/K/A J oh n Cas tello, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R 2 3 7 A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore D ecember 9 th, 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

Leonardo W Cas tello P ers onal Repres entative 1 8 8 3 U ra Ln. N orth glenn, Co 8 0 2 3 4

L egal Notice No. 7 0 9 9 9 9 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 2 3 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 7 5 First Publication: Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of D avid L Reigel, ak a D avid Lee Reigel, ak a D ave L. Reigel, ak a D avey Lee Reigel, J r. , D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R 2 2 5

N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of Th omas Henry Ab erly , D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R0 3 0 7 1 9

A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore D ecember 2 7 , 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore D ecember 3 1 , 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

S u s an B ac a, P ers onal Repres entative 1 1 2 2 4 Alb ion S treet Th ornton, CO 8 0 2 3 3

S . B lak e Harris , Es q Attorney to th e P ers 1 6 6 0 1 7 th S treet, S u D enver, Colorado 8 0

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 3 6 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 48 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

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N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of TREV A J P earc y , dec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 1 P R0 2 0 1 A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore Ja n 0 2 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

Mic h ael L P earc y , P ers onal Repres entative 1 0 9 3 4 As h Circ le Th ornton, CO 8 0 2 3 3

N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of Ros emarie Ku ly an, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R 1 7 7 A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore Ja nuary 1 2 , 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

Kath leen L. P ay ne, P ers onal Repres entative 3 7 6 2 W. 9 9 th Avenu e Wes tmins ter, Colorado 8 0 0 3 1

L egal Notice No.7 0 7 9 7 4 First p ublication: Sep tember 0 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast p ublication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn T hornton Sentinel

L egal Notice No. 7 0 8 0 0 5 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 2 3 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

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N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of Anth ony William Ric h ard, als o k now n as Anth ony W. Ric h ard, als o k now n as Tony Ric h ard and A. W. Ric h ard, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R3 0 7 7 0

N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of Ric h ard N ew nh am, Ric h ard J oh n N ew nh am, Ric h ard J . N ew nh am, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 1 P R 2 1 8

A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore Ja nuary 3 , 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore Ja nuary 1 0 , 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

Iverta Lorraine Ric h ard, P ers onal Repres entative 2 4 6 P olaris P lac e

Heath er N ew nh am, P ers onal Repres entative 1 1 1 6 5 Gay lord S treet N orth glenn, Colorado 8 0 2 3 3

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class has an outbreak, it may need to be canceled.”

COVID-19 thus far has not made kids as sick as adults, but “we want to keep kids from transmitting COVID to their parents,” especially among high-risk family members, Douglas said.

For public and private schools, and childcare settings, Colorado’s updated definition of a confirmed outbreak is as follows: “Five or more cases of COVID-19, of which at least one

case has had a positive molecular amplification test or antigen test, among students/teachers/staff from separate households with onset within 14 days in a single classroom/activity or other close contact in the school setting (including transportation to- fromschool and affiliated events),” a state definitions sheet says.

The definitions sheet acknowledges the question of whether a case was exposed to COVID-19 elsewhere in the community rather than at the facility listed with an outbreak.

“It is possible that a person may have been exposed elsewhere (and we can rarely prove where any in-

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patients every day and the difference between an unvaccinated and vaccinated case is dramatic.

Usatch said unvaccinated patients are requir-

infection can get introduced into the school by students or staff — frequently. Full in-person classrooms, lots more physical interaction in classrooms (or) sports (or) extracurriculars can contribute to an infected student or staff then transmitting in (the) school setting,” O’Guin said.

“Given the length of time that students spend in school settings, often in close contact with others — many of whom are unvaccinated — schools remain a source of primary exposure concern. That’s why masking is important and why vaccination of 12-17 years old is important,” she added.

dividual was exposed with a person-to-person pathogen), but when a person worked/lived/spent time in a facility with a known outbreak, we attribute their illness to the outbreak even if there is no definitive determination that the case acquired the illness at the facility,” the sheet says.

Asked whether the public should interpret outbreaks in schools as indicative of COVID-19 spread in the broader community or as more indicative of spread occurring within the schools themselves, O’Guin said it should be viewed as both.

“With high levels of community infection, like there is now,

ing more care, ventilators and are in more serious condition.

In cases where a vaccinated patient gets a breakthrough case of COVID, Usatch said, the symptoms are routinely mild and need little care.

Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree, operated by the HealthOne hospital system, has also seen an increase in COVID patients due to the

delta variant. Chief Medical Officer Eric Lung said the medical center is not at capacity and they are confident they can handle the increase in cases.

Like other medical professionals, Lung said vaccinations are going to be the key to decreasing the severity of COVID cases and stopping the spreading pandemic.

Public Notices L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 8 8 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 2 3 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of MATTHEW J . MCCORMICK, ak a MATTHEW J AY MCCORMICK, ak a MATTHEW MCCORMICK, ak a MATT MCCORMICK, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R3 0 7 8 6 A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore D ecember 2 7 , 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

KIMB ERLY A. RU MMLER, P ers onal Repres entative c /o Ku rtz & P ec k h am, P C 4 7 0 4 Harlan S treet, S u ite 4 1 5 D enver, Colorado 8 0 2 1 2 - 7 4 3 6 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 5 1 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel and the W estminster W ind ow P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of : S ally Irene Tay lor, ak a S ally I. Tay lor, S ally Tay lor, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R3 0 7 3 2 A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore D ecember 2 7 th 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

Ros e Mary Z apor w ith Lak ew ood Legal Center P ers on Giving N otic e 7 4 7 5 W. 5 th Ave. , # 2 0 2 Lak ew ood, Colorado 8 0 2 2 6 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 49 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of LARRY S . D U RAN , A/K/A LARRY S TEV EN D U RAN , S R. , A/K/A LARRY S TEV EN D U RAN , AN D LARRY D U RAN , D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 1 P R 3 0 7 7 3 A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to the D IST RICT CO U RT O F A D A M S CO U NT Y , CO L O RA D O , on

or bef ore Ja nuary 6 , 2 0 2 2 or the claims may be f orever barred .

Edw ard I. D u ran, P ers onal Repres entative 4 4 5 5 W. 6 3 rd P lac e Arvada, CO 8 0 0 0 3 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 6 7 First Publication: Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P U B LIC N OTICE N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of J ames Kenneth Rook s , D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R 0 3 0 7 2 6 A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore D ecember 3 1 , 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

S . B lak e Harris , Es q Attorney to th e P ers 1 6 6 0 1 7 th S treet, S u D enver, Colorado 8 0

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 5 0 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel P U B LIC N OTICE N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of William M. B elew J r. , dec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R 2 6 5 A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to D istrict Court of undefined County, Colorado on or before anuary 0 9 , 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

J ames D avid Crine II P ers onal Repres entative 2 9 1 Rob ins Egg Lane, X 1 7 6 4 Eagle, Colorado 8 1 6 3 1 L egal Notice No.7 0 7 9 8 7 First p ublication: Sep tember 0 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast p ublication: Sep tember 2 3 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: W estminster W ind ow P U B LIC N OTICE N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of D ALJ EET KAU R S AN AN , D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R 5 0 A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore O ctober 2 9 , 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

P ARAG S . D AV E, P ers onal Repres entative 1 3 9 1 7 S T. P AU L S TREET,

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THORN TON , CO 8 0 6 0 2 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 7 2 First Publication: Sep tember 2 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 1 6 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore J anuary 1 0 , 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

P U B LIC N OTICE P u b lic N otic e of P etition f or Ch ange of N ame

A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the und ersigned or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o, on or bef ore Ja nuary 9 , 2 0 2 2 , or said claims may be f orever barred .

Law Office of ames Newell Attn: J ames B . N ew ell Attorney f or P ers onal Repres entative 4 8 4 5 P earl Eas t Circ le, S u ite 1 0 1 B ou lder, CO 8 0 3 0 1

A ll p ersons having claims against the abovenamed estate are req uired to p resent them to the Personal Rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore D ecember 2 7 , 2 0 2 1 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

J oh nney L. Romero P ers onal Repres entative 1 0 7 3 1 Ab ilene S treet Commerc e City , Colorado 8 0 0 2 2 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 45 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of Mary Ida Oliver, D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R0 3 0 8 2 2 A ll p ersons having claims against the above named estate are req uired to p resent them to the p ersonal rep resentative or to the D istrict Court of A d ams County , Colorad o on or bef ore Ja nuary 9 , 2 0 2 2 , or the claims may be f orever barred .

Y vonne M. Y etze r, P ers onal Repres entative 1 5 0 5 Linc oln S treet Longmont, CO 8 0 5 0 1

P u b lic N otic e of P etition f or Ch ange of N ame Public notice is given on A ugust 1 7 , 2 0 2 1 , that a Petition f or a Change of Name of an ad ult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 9 3 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 2 3 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: W estminster W ind ow

N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of F ranc es D . Gallegos , ak a F ranc es Gallegos , D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er: 2 0 2 1 P R 2 4 5

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L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 5 2 First Publication: A ugust 2 6 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of George L. B ooth , a/k /a George Leavitt B ooth and George B ooth ( D ec eas ed) Cas e N o. 2 0 2 1 P R3 0 8 2 6

Ru th Ann Moore, P ers onal Repres entative 1 4 6 3 Grah am Circ le Erie, Colorado 8 0 5 1 6 L egal Notice No. 7 0 7 9 9 7 First Publication: Sep tember 9 , 2 0 2 1 L ast Publication: Sep tember 2 3 , 2 0 2 1 Publisher: Northglenn- T hornton Sentinel

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P u b lic N otic e N OTICE TO CRED ITORS Es tate of D avid S amu el Mu rph y , a/k /a D avid S . Mu rph y , a/k /a D avid Mu rph y , D ec eas ed Cas e N u mb er 2 0 2 1 P R 3 0 8 4 0

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P u b lic N otic e of P etition f or Ch ange of N ame Public notice is given on A ugust 1 9 , 2 0 2 1 that a Petition f or a Change of Name of an ad ult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

Th e petition req u es ts th at th e name of Loan Q u y N gu y en b e c h anged to J ennie Q u y N gu y en Cas e N o. : 2 1 C 1 1 0 0

N ame Ch anges P U B LIC N OTICE P u b lic N otic e of P etition f or Ch ange of N ame Public notice is given on A ugust 1 7 , 2 0 2 1 that a Petition f or a Change of Name of an ad ult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

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