Westminster Window November 9, 2023

VOLUME 79 | ISSUE 3

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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Adams County tours offer ballot-counting insight P6

WPS HIRES GOTTO School District picks new superintendent from within

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TALKING RETAIL CRIME Caraveo, Thornton Police discuss shoplifting P2

CARTEL BUST IN ADAMS Fentynal, other drugs seized in sting

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Caraveo, police highlight local retail crime worries Chamber president: ‘A lot of our businesses have said they can’t sustain this anymore’

BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With retail theft becoming a $120 billion problem nationally, U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo said Tuesday that the problem is one on the radars of police in Thornton.

“This is something we’ve been hearing a lot about, obviously, this crime of all sorts,” Caraveo said.

“But retail crime has really come to the forefront recently.”

The Democrat came home to her 8th District in Northern Colorado

the cost of doing business these days.”

Many are unprepared, she said.

“Some of our newer businesses are completely unprepared, so being able to find resources that can help them combat these issues has been huge,” she said.

Caraveo touted what she said is a solution to at least part of the problem: the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act. She is co-sponsoring the legislation with U.S. Rep. Ken Thornton Area Chamber of Commerce President Courtney Potter makes a point about retail thefts impact on small businesses Oct. 31 while Rep. Yadira Caraveo, left, Buck, a Republican for the 4th DisSCOTT TAYLOR trict, which covers the eastern third and Thornton Police Lt. Ernie Lucero and Det. Bryan Bennett listen. of Colorado. before the House resumed business detective and retail crime specialThe bill would expand federal in Washington D.C. on Nov. 1. She ist, said many stores struggle with enforcement of laws targeting orspent the morning at Thornton’s serial shoplifters who slip out with ganized retail crime and establish Fossil Ridge Public Safety Center easy-to-conceal items, before mov- an Organized Retail Crime Coorditalking with the president of the lo- ing on to nearby establishments nation Center to create a national cal chamber of commerce and po- and repeating the same crime. The strategy for safeguarding small lice. richest targets are located in the businesses from organized theft.

Bryan Bennett, a Thornton police Denver Premium Outlets mall on Careveo said the idea is to elevate 138th Avenue and Grant Street and the stakes for organized crimes, big box retailers like Home Depot. such as identity skimming at ATMs He noted that Home Depot re- and smash-and-grab thefts by large ports losses from theft of as much groups of thieves overwhelming a as $4 million in metro Denver over store and carrying away as much as the most recent two years and said possible. thieves sell items online.

“It’s really looking at how the De“When we are talking about or- partment of Homeland Security can ganized retail crime, we see a lot play a role, making sure we are setof skimmers placed on the devices ting up coordination for the indusand ATMs,” Bennett added. “We try at the federal level and making see a lot of organized thefts of re- the crime, when it’s an organized tail products like high-end purses crime, a federal offense,” Caraveo and bags and tools and things that said. everyone buys — things that cost Bennett said that level of crime is more money that we use every day, rarely seen at his level. like screwdrivers and drills and “We don’t see too many of those baby formula are targets. We’ve organized things,” he said. “The had thefts of tooth whitening strips bulk of ours is just organized shopand Rogaine. That’s why they’re all lifting, three people go into a store locked up in cases now.” and steal. And then a few days later, Bennett couldn’t provide local two more go in.” statistics but said retail theft nationThornton police Lt. Ernie Lucero ally has risen from roughly $90 bil- said the city is trying to help with lion to $120 billion since 2022. that problem, creating a new Busi“So it is a significant problem in- ness Watch program that would act crease nationwide,” he said. similarly to a Neighborhood Watch.

President Courtney Potter of the The program includes individual Thornton Area Chamber of Com- training sessions on how criminals merce said that kind of theft can be commit crimes, what opportunities the difference between survival and they look for and how retailers can closing for some retailers, especial- discourage them ly locally-run ones.

“Our main goal is to just give “A lot of our businesses have said those retailers the knowledge that they can’t sustain this anymore and they have support, and give them they close up shop and move their a better ability to plan,” he said. business online,” Potter said. “Or “Just like our citizens, it has to be a they will move to a different com- team approach, especially the Mom munity that does not have these is- and Pops. They may not have that sues. But for the most part, it’s just knowledge that they need.”

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Westminster hires new Public Works Director Paul Knippel joins the city from Frisco, Texas

BY JANE REUTER JREUTER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The City of Westminster welcomes a new public works director to the staff Nov. 6, hiring Frisco, Texas Public Works Director Paul Knippel.

His starting annual salary is $225,000.

Knippel steps in for previous Westminster public works director Max Kirschbaum, who resigned in March 2022. Sarah Borgers, formerly the city’s water resources

and quality manager, has served as interim director for the last 18 months. With Knippel stepping in, she will continue with the city as a division manager.

Knippel Knippel is a civil engineer with more than 23 years of experience working as a municipal department director. He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M University, a master’s degree in engineering from Lamar University, and a second master’s degree in public administration

from the University of Texas in Arlington. He joined the staff in Frisco, TX in 2009, and has been the city’s public works director since 2016.

Deputy City Manager Jody Andrews said the city underwent a “rigorous recruitment and stakeholder engagement process” in finding Knippel, during which he met with hundreds of department and city staff.

He also acknowledged Borgers for taking the reins while the city was between directors.

“Sarah steadied the ship during a critical juncture for the department and the city, and I couldn’t be more appreciative of her leadership, dedication, courage and

commitment to the department, the city, and the community we serve,” Andrews said.

Knippel is stepping into a big role. Westminster leaders have discussed for years how to deal with the city’s aging infrastructure. According to the city, a large portion of its water infrastructure is close to 50 years old, and studies show 25% of it is past the lifespan for which it was designed.

The City Council voted earlier this year to move ahead with plans for a new water treatment facility, with an estimated cost of $196 million.

Water rates have also been a hot issue for the city, rising and falling during the last year.

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WPS selects replacement superintendent Dr. Jeni Gotto scheduled to start July 2024

BY JANE REUTER JREUTER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Westminster Public Schools (WPS) Board of Education unanimously voted during its Oct. 24 meeting to promote Deputy Superintendent Dr. Jeni Gotto to the superintendent’s seat. She will succeed longtime Superintendent Pam Swanson, who is retiring.

They approved a four-year contract, with a starting annual salary of $252,000. Gotto will start her new job on July 1, 2024.

Swanson announced her retirement in August.

Gotto was selected in September as the sole finalist for superintendent.

According to a WPS press release, “the school board decided to hire an internal Gotto candidate who was well versed in competencybased education and committed to the shared vision, core values, and principles of Westminster Public Schools. The board concluded that a nationwide search was not a good use of taxpayer dollars.”

“We have heard from the community, we heard from the teachers, we have heard from district leadership and I am absolutely certain that

there is no one better to lead this team,” said Board of Education President Ken Ciancio. “This was a very easy decision for this board.”

Dr. Gotto joined Westminster Public Schools in 2008. She is an internationally recognized leader on competency-based learning.

She received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Chadron State College and her Master of Arts and Doctor of Education from the University of Colorado.

“I am deeply honored by this opportunity to lead Westminster Public Schools and its mission to help all children succeed,” Gotto said in the WPS press release. “My leadership philosophy emphasizes open communication and transparency. I am dedicated to cultivating a culture of continuous improvement and in-

novation, where every stakeholder has a voice in shaping the education journey.”

Gotto’s son attends a WPS school.

Under the terms of the contract, Gotto will serve as Deputy Superintendent until June 30, 2024, when she will then move into the superintendent position.

In the months before she begins work as superintendent, the district said Gotto will work closely with Swanson.

“I am thrilled for Jeni and so happy for the staff and students of Westminster Public Schools,” Swanson said.

“Since the day she arrived in WPS, she has worked tirelessly to innovate and improve the way we educate our children. Under her leadership, WPS will continue to be a district Where Education is Personal.”

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The business of ballots

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

never gets reinserted.”

The last week leading up to an election is usually busy for County Clerks, but Adams County workers know they have another job – hosting tours for people curious about how ballots are processed and votes tallied.

“I think voter education is the most important piece of this for many individuals who don’t know the process,” said Jamie Martinez, Adams County deputy director of elections. “I’m happy to do these tours. I do them every single election the week before Election Day.” Adams County typically opens the doors for public scrutiny for the week before the election, offering a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes to groups of 15, one tour per day. The last tour of 2023 was scheduled for Nov. 3, the Friday before Election night on Nov. 7.

“We do them in the afternoon so that you can see most of the process coming through because our ballots are returned at that point,” Martinez said. “The individuals that go on our tour, they are the advocates out there, or they might come to work our election and are still advocates.”

Teams of three, all members of different parties, make their way around the county, collecting the ballots from the collection boxes and voter information sites. Two people collect the ballots while the third stays on the lookout to make sure everyone is safe.

All the teams wear vests that identify them as county workers, storing the bags in military-grade containers.

They carry 300 ballots in each container, signing documents to show the chain of custody.

“They need to note when they don’t have custody anymore,” she said.

“When I unseal it, I notate the date and the time, as well as with signatures.”

The bags are brought into the election office and put in colored coded trays to identify where they came from and whether they came from the post office or the city ballot collection box.

Ballots are machine scanned oneby-one, to verify the voters’ signatures and to weed out anomalies, alerting election officials of potential red flags. That could include missing or non-matching signatures or a ballot envelope that is unusually thick or heavy – meaning they might contain something other than a ballot.

“We ensure the one ballot is in the envelope,” Martinez said. “The machine does not tally votes or remove any ballots from envelopes. It just does sorting work, taking that job out of the hands of elections workers,” Martinez said.

When the machines scan the signature, it compares it to previous signatures and those in county records.

Problem ballots are isolated and set aside while the ones without problems are processed.

Bipartisan teams of two – usually a Republican and a Democrat – sit next to each other to review questionable signatures, rejecting those that clearly don’t match.

Voters are sent cure letters if there’s a problem with the signatures while the envelopes are set aside.

“If they don’t return the cure letter to us, we then turn it over to the district attorney to investigate,” Zygielbaum said.

Picking up ballots

Jamie Martinez gives a tour for about 15 people. They are in the room where the ballot box bags are brought in from being picked up at the 24-hour ballot box, post BELEN WARD office, or polling center.

Look, but don’t touch

Martinez usually starts the tours outside the county’s server room, where the ballots are made and will eventually be counted.

People on the tours are welcome to look at it, but only from the outside.

Access is extremely limited to only a few members of staff. Even Clerk and Recorder Josh Zygielbaum isn’t allowed in, Martinez said.

“Nobody else has access to this room, not even the cleaning folks can go in there to clean- so it gets a little dusty between elections,” Martinez

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Martinez said the county only lets four individuals have access to the server room. While remote cameras monitor all of the election rooms, the server room works are constantly watched by two cameras.

The room itself is physically isolated, too, protected by bullet-proof glass and tall walls.

“The walls go all the way up into the ceiling of this building so if you tried to get through my ceilings and drop down, you couldn’t do it in this room,” Martinez said.

But physical distance is just one part of the equation. The server room is also isolated from the rest of the operation electronically, operating on its own computer network. Zygielbaum said all of that equipment is kept from the outside world.

“There is an internal network so that all the computers and machines can talk to each other,” he said. “But nothing is connected to the outside world.”

Zygielbaum said the system relies on a single laptop to communicate with the Colorado Secretary of State.

It’s oversized and doesn’t have access to any other computer programs or websites or anything like that. Its only job is to collect the election data. Staff must transfer that data on a singleuse thumb drive and walk it out of the room.

“It is the only place that can get to the outside world to communicate results from the internal system to the external system,” Zygielbaum said.

“We use a secured thumb drive that

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DA announced major drug bust in north metro area Nine indicted, drugs seized in a months-long operation

BY JANE REUTER JREUTER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As part of a months-long investigation with ties to a Mexican cartel, North Metro drug enforcement officers recently confiscated 84.3 pounds of fentanyl – an amount they said could save the lives of more than half the population of Adams County.

Three people have been arrested

and six more remain at large as part of the 47-point indictment.

The nine members of the drug trafficking organization were indicted for helping distribute fentanyl, methamphetamines, and cocaine into the Adams County area and other parts of Colorado.

They were allegedly part of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate once led by the notorious El Chapo.

Operation Dress for Less, so named because initial leads were discovered in a clothing store parking lot, began in May and ended with a late September grand jury

indictment. Investigators went public with their months of work during a Nov. 1 press conference at the Adams County DA’s office.

The operation involved the DA’s office as well as members of the North Metro Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division.

In addition to the fentanyl, authorities also seized 66 pounds of methamphetamine, 1.4 kilos of cocaine, 14 grams of heroin, an active meth lab, five guns and $93,000.

The nine cartel members alleg-

edly funneled the drugs into Adams County, and other parts of Colorado, as well as Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. Local distributors were found in Westminster and Federal Heights.

“These were big players bringing in enormous quantities of drugs, (including) the most dangerous drug — fentanyl — into Adams County,” Mason said, noting authorities confiscated about 382,000 fentanyl pills. “All of which could have been lethal to any member of this community who took them.”

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For Frederick business, goats are breaking new ground Hooved herd eating weeds and improving soil around Brighton’s Ken Mitchell Park

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The next time you see a herd of goats grazing along the shores of the lake at Ken Mitchell Park, you should know these broadleaf browsers are doing their job, helping to rejuvenate the land.

“Other cities have been using goats for years to help restore some of the soils in their open space areas,” said Bob Woods, Brighton open space manager.

Woods said his director found Goat Bros, which had just started their business, and forwarded the information to him and called them up.

Ken Mitchell Park is 600 acres of dedicated open space that the City of Brighton opened in 2020. It sits along the South Platte River and has three large lakes and three miles of Colorado Front Range trail along its open space.

The park is full of plenty of deer,

A herd of goats at work grazing to rejuvenate the land at Ken Mitchell Lake.

turkey, coyotes, raptors, and migrating waterfowl. It’s also home to the last remaining delisted Bald Eagle with an active nest.

The park was a former gravel mining operation that had depleted the soil of essential nutrients, making it difficult for native vegetation to grow, so populations of invasive weeds took over the soil.

Enter the goats.

The grazing goats spent five days working at Ken Mitchell open space,

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Woods said, and before the goats arrived, they spread native seed on the soil. The goats went to work, spreading the seeds into the soil with their hooves, into the soil. That part is essential, he said.

There is a chance some of the seeds would grow if they’re just thrown on the soil, he said. By burying the seeds just enough, they have a much better chance of surviving the winter and then sprouting the spring.

“With a goat herd, we water thoroughly into the soil and they walk back and forth with their hooves and they plant those seeds into the ground. It’s almost like their hooves were designed for that,” Wood said.

And they improve the soil in other ways.

“The goat’s urine and manure add nutrients to the soil and, after a few years, improve the quality of that soil. We had them working in a test area, about an acre in size,” Woods said.

Woods said they plan to make it an annual thing to keep grazing in the same area.

Woods said using goats is an environmentally friendly alternative to using toxic-chemical pesticides, especially around lakes and streams.

The goats are a new culture to help the environment to heal, and it’s educational.

“When people see 300 goats hard at work, they inherently have a way of bringing people back to the land”

PHOTO BY BOB WOODS

Woods said. “Goats are designed to eat; it is their favorite thing to do, and they are really good at it. They are the perfect tool to implement into land management practices.”

“We’ll have them back out into the same spot for the next couple of years, hopeful our budget allows to expand upon that and depending on results,” he said. “The cost is less than $3.50 per goat per day or about $0.85 per hoof per day. The total cost for grazing was $4200.”

Getting back to the land

Owner Jordan Sarazen of Goat Bros started his goat grazing business after he watched the TV show Shark Tank. At the time, he was a financial advisor. His dream began at five years old.

“I always wanted to figure out a way to get back on the land but be able to continue to be a financial advisor, and having livestock as like a hobby,” Sarazen said. “As time went on, I thought of working with the goats and being out on the land.”

Sarazen said he and his wife began researching and learning about goats, how to take care of goats, and what it’s like to take care of them full-time.

They also researched ways to use the goats for land management purposes. He took on an apprenticeship with another company before branching out on his own.

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“So I’ve been doing it on our own for about a year now,” he said.

“So in total, five years in the working with goats and but three years boots on the ground.”

They started the grazing business last April with 150 goats, growing the herd to 300. It’s been a success, and their goats are booked with jobs until the end of December. Goat Bros uses male and female goats but separates them during breeding season.

“So you don’t want goats breeding year-round, which could double or triple the size of your herd

quickly. We have a unique herd but the primary goat breeds are Spanish goats and Boer goats,” Sarazen said.

Sarazen said what makes them unique is that about 75% of their diet is weeds. Goats are broadleaf browsers that tend to favor that type of vegetation over grasses.

“The goats are very hardy animals. They can eat even poisonous plants, such as poison ivy, water, Hemlock, and all kinds of things that most animals can’t with a herd of 300 working,” Sarazon said, Brighton was a restoration project, Sarazen said, because it was a gravel pit with heavy equipment disturbing the soil and being tough on the land.

“The goats, with their gentle touch giving organic matter and fertilizer back to that soil, really will help rejuvenate over the years to come. Especially with coupled the seeding out there that Bob Woods threw down some native seed giving those seeds the best chance of germination in the spring,” Sarazen said.

Future

Sarazen said they are looking at the big picture and what would like to see happen with their goat grazing business.

“We are the first to say that goats are not the end of all be all. We believe they help complement and enhance the land management practices,” Sarazon said.

Sarazen said we want to continue to grow the herd over the years and continue to be involved in the community and get the education out there of land management practices to get the community on the land to enjoy the open space.

“It’s a huge part of our work bringing our 300 goats to work with municipalities, private landowners, HOA organizations, and communities,” Sarazen said.

“We look towards the future as opportunities arise to share with people how to start one of these goat grazing businesses.”

For more information on hiring goat grazers, contact Jordan Sarazen at 303-913-6726 or email GoatBrosLLC@gmail.com. Visit: https://goatbrosllc.com

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Front Range kicks off creative business degree

A bachelor’s degree program at Front Range Community College will focus on creative industries, including graphic design, architecture, music and recording and theater.

The college has scheduled a kickoff ceremony at 1 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Westminster campus, 3645 W. 112th Ave. . The state’s new Colorado Creative Industries Director Josh Blanchard will be speaking at the kickoff event at our Westminster Campus. He’ll discuss the state’s plans for positioning Colorado as a hub of innovative thinking, practice and business to expand creative economies across the state and is schedule to answer questions about the program.

League of Women Voters discuss air quality monitoring

Adams County Commissioner Steve O’Dorisio will explain the county’s program to monitor air quality in neighborhoods to the League of Women Voters from 6-7 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Adams County Human Services Building, 11860 Pecos St., Westminster.

Adams County operates 20 air pollution monitoring stations across Adams and Arapahoe Counties. The monitors measure the amount of fine particulate matter. A new $400,000 EPA grant is letting the county to set up at least eight more stations in neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by air pollution.

The meeting is free and open to the public. To attend via zoom, request the link via email to Sutton_a@comcast.net.

After the commissioner’s presentation, League members will discuss concurrence on a position in support of local news from at 7 p.m.

Northern rail discussed

The future of passenger rail along Denver’s northern metro area will be the topic of two open houses Nov. 8 and 9 in Longmont and Broomfield.

Hosted by the Front Range Passenger Rail Service Development Plan team, the open houses will provide information about the development plan, describe the differences between Northwest Rail and FRPR, and speak to collaboration and partnership between the two projects.

The first open house is scheduled from 5-7 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Civic Center in Longmont, 350 Kimbark St. The second is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Lakeshore Room of Broomfield Community Center, 280 Spader Way. The team is developing technical memos that look at route, service, and capital

investment options for passenger rail The team is still analyzing fare strategies, diversity of ridership, and benefits and drawbacks for disadvantaged communities.

Workshops from Workforce & Business Center

The Adams County Workforce & Business Center is hosting multiple workshops throughout November.

Topics throughout the month include Elements of Networking, Marketing Yourself Successfully, Workplace Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Conflict Resolution, Critical Thinking, and more.

Visit the center’s website, https://adcogov.org/workforce-business-center, for a full class schedule, which includes contact information for each workshop.

The center has locations in Aurora, in Westminter’sPete Mirelez Human Services Center, 11860 N. Pecos St and at 36 South 18th Ave. in Brighton.

Adams County sets Operation Freebird for Nov. 18

The Adams County Sheriff ’s Office and Human Services Department are teaming up for the annual Operation Freebird event. This event provides Adams County families in need with everything to prepare a Thanksgiving meal.

Operation Freebird will be from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Nov. 18 at Mountain States Toyota, 201 W. 70th Ave. Community organizations are welcome to participate to provide resources or information for residents. If interested, reach out to Karla Ojeda.

Rocky Mountain Human Services wins Adams, Denver counties contract

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is redesigning its case management process, naming a Colorado firm to manage responses for Adams and Denver counties. The change began Nov. 1.

Colorado non-profit group Rocky Mountain Human Services will provide streamlined case management services to individuals with disabilities or other complex needs requiring long-term, home, and community-based support.

The new contract is part of Colorado’s redesigned case management system intended to make it easier for people needing services to navigate the system and get the care they need. It is designed to ensure that people have one place to go for questions and support and to improve the quality of care they receive.

“We are proud and honored to be selected as the Case Management Agency

for Denver and Adams Counties,” said RMHS executive director Shari Repinski. “It’s essential to reduce the burden of a complex and siloed system of care by creating a more inclusive and streamlined Long Term Care system in Colorado that recognizes and caters to the diverse needs of individuals, regardless of their disability. RMHS looks forward to making it easier for people to access care and to know that they have a trusted partner they can count on to treat them with the utmost respect and compassion.”

‘Taking No Chances’

The 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office and The Link, a community resource and assessment center in Thornton, offer free, 10-week programs to families of Adams County teenagers to help develop personal and interpersonal drug-resistance skills.

Sessions are from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Wednesdays. Call 720-292-2811.

The preparedness program focuses on older adults

The Adams County Health Department’s Emergency Preparedness & Response team celebrates National Preparedness Month each September.

This year, the 2023 campaign theme is “Helping Older Adults Prepare for Disaster.”

The program will focus on older adults from communities disproportionally impacted by an event that is a manmade emergency or a natural disaster.

We know older adults can face more significant risks regarding the extreme weather events and crises we now meet, especially if they live alone, are low-income, have a disability, or live in rural areas. This flyer, available in English and Spanish, is a powerful resource for viewers and readers.

Naloxone Training for Employees and Community Members

The Adams County Health Department’s Harm Reduction Team will supply all Automated External Defibrillator (AED) cabinets in government buildings with Naloxone this month. In addition to this resource, the team will offer Overdose Prevention Training for all staff interested in learning how to prevent, identify, and reverse an opioid overdose. Naloxone will be made available to take home after these trainings.

If you have any questions about the training or other resources, contact our Harm Reduction team at 303-363-3077 or at harmreduction@adcogov.org.

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BALLOTS FROM PAGE 6

Ballots with valid signatures are opened by a machine that slices the tops off of 3,600 envelopes per hour.

Bipartisan teams of two sit at a table, removing one ballot at a time and placing them face down in line for scanning.

In the final phase, the ballots are run through a counting system with

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While Mason said he is “incredibly proud” of the recent investigation, he said it is “just the beginning.”

“Fentanyl is literally killing our kids,” he said. “It is killing kids in middle school, high school, in college, in their 20s and 30s. Our work continues in this case and others as we try to rid our community of the drugs and poison.”

The individuals reportedly distributed the drugs to “various customers throughout the Brighton and Denver Metro area,” according to the indictment. “Each of the members of the criminal enterprise relied upon and utilized a complex system of cellular telephones and electronic communication devices” during the operation, often speaking in codes.

a high-speed digital scanner that can process 75 ballots per minute, taking a digital image of the fronts and backs.

Processing work begins well before the election night, with workers scanning as many ballots as they have, sending voters notifications that their ballots have been processed. But the votes are counted right away, not until the polls close.

“We wait to push the button to release results until election night,” Martinez said.

Martinez said they have had zero attempted fraud in Adams County.

“We only tally the vote if we can confirm that the individual is the one that sent it to us, “Martinez said.

Tisha Gorney brought her two children to the ballot tour on Oct. 31. She wants her kids to be familiar with the vote-counting process.

“When we go vote, they go with us. That way they can see the process and one day, hopefully, do the same thing,” Gorney said

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Mason said the operation hinged largely on a wiretap, which allowed them to eavesdrop on conversations among cartel members.

“We use that tool only when it’s appropriate and when the acts necessitate that,” he said. “In these cases … because we could listen to alleged drug traffickers making deals from across the United States to bring fentanyl to Adams County, we were able to make this case happen. And take huge amounts of fentanyl and other drugs off the streets.

“If we didn’t have the capability to do a wiretap… these drugs would be out on the street right now, and I am confident more people would be dead.”

Such investigations take money and coordination because the cartels are sophisticated and motivated by a lucrative business model, Mason said. Each fentanyl pill costs only a few pennies to make and can

be sold locally for about $1. In other states, the selling price can be $20 or more.

“It obviously creates enormous profit for the cartels,” Mason said.

“We have more and more people

addicted to fentanyl (which is) part of the drug cartel’s business model.

(People) are buying drugs to feed that addiction. It’s destroying people’s lives across this community and across this country.”

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VOICES

Trusted and reliable, local newspapers matter to their communities

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recent Gallup study showed that America’s confidence in the national mass media has reached a near-record low.

While that’s disGUEST turbing, it’s not unCOLUMN expected. The digital age has brought a barrage of national news sources that are focused on sound bites, opinions, partisan views and a race to push out breaking news, even if it hasn’t been properly factDean Ridings checked or vetted.

The problem has been exacerbated by social media channels that allow disinformation to be distributed virtually unchecked.

Americans trust local newspapers

However, Americans feel differ-

ently when it comes to their local newspaper. According to a 2023 national survey of 5,000 adults, local newspapers are the most relied on and trusted media source of original reporting: more than television and radio, and significantly more than social media. Trust in local newspapers extends across age groups and demographics, as adults of all segments recognize the value of reliable local reporting that newspapers deliver.

And, beyond just trusting the reporting local newspapers provide, Americans recognize how important it is to have a healthy local newspaper in their community. In fact, 74% of all Americans stated that having a newspaper in their community is important for providing them with much needed local news and information. It’s hard to get Americans to agree on anything, but they agree that local newspa-

pers are important.

Local newspapers shine a light on important issues

American’s trust in their local newspaper is not surprising. A local newspaper’s commitment to reporting the news is different than the national mass media. Local newspapers are just that, local, and are staffed with dedicated professional journalists who live and work in the communities they cover. The issues that are important to the community are also important to local reporters, and that creates a deep accountability to delivering trusted, unbiased news.

Readers and non-readers alike rely on their local newspaper to shine a spotlight on the issues that matter most to them. From holding local institutions accountable, to reporting on local schools, sports or entertainment for the weekend, lo-

Westminster schools legal but coy as they hire an insider

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o surprise as the Westminster Public Schools Board of Education marched right ahead and hired Dr. Jennifer Gotto as the new CROSS Superintendent of Schools last week.

CURRENTS This “slam dunk” action was done in a rush to beat the unpredictable results of the Nov. 7 school board election.

Again, I think highly of Dr. Gotto, Bill Christopher but the elusive and coy process used

by Superintendent Pam Swanson in orchestrating this “good ole boy” tactic with the five board members is a total sham.

Was it done legally? Yes, it probably met the test.

Was it done with the involvement

and participation of the WPS parents and taxpayers? Hell no, it was “behind the curtain” as much as possible so as not to tip their hand.

It gives the appearance of elitism. Shame on them for being so myopic and thoughtless of the district’s parents and taxpayers. Plus, the argument that only someone with the knowledge of their Competency Based System (CBS) approach to learning was so essential is a smokescreen. Why wouldn’t the school board want to hire the MOST QUALIFIED candidate for the job with fresh ideas and further enhance CBS? They argue that the district had a bad experience when doing a national search and hiring Roberta Selleck. So, would you stop going fishing if you didn’t catch anything the first time out? Hardly. What a con job!

The school board awarded Dr.

cal journalists often uncover stories that might otherwise go unnoticed.

That local connection instills confidence that the information being delivered is coming from a source that is invested in the health of the community and committed to high standards of journalistic integrity.

Local newspapers are a trusted advertising source

The trust in local newspapers goes beyond just traditional news. It applies to local advertising, as well.

The same national study of 5,000 adults found that 60% of Americans use newspaper advertising to help them decide what brands, products and local services to buy. That’s about the same as local television and much higher than radio, direct mail and social media ads.

SEE RIDINGS, P22

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Unfortunately, Westminster’s downtown urban center development (former Westminster Mall site) has experienced a measurable hit with the announced closing of the Tattered Cover book store.

Due to bankruptcy of the parent company, the Westminster store is one of the affected retail stores which is closing.

Economic Development Manager Lindsey Kimball has stated that the city will immediately begin efforts to attract a new retailer to the building.

First and foremost, safeguarding the Dolores River is crucial for maintaining a healthy and biodiverse ecosystem.

The river and its adjacent canyons are home to a wealth of plant and animal species, some of which are rare or endangered.

Conserving this habitat is essential for the long-term survival of these species and the overall health of the region’s ecosystem.

From the threatened Gunnison Sage Grouse to the very rare Paradox breadroot, protection of this area is crucial to endangered species that call this piece of Southwest Colorado home.

Protecting wildlife is important because it is a huge part of why I moved out west. Clean water, clean air, spotting healthy wildlife on hikes and backpacking trips are of the utmost importance.

The ecosystems in the United States are being depleted. It is up to us to ensure wildlife has a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem in

SEE CHRISTOPHER, P13

SEE LETTER, P13

Gotto a four-year contract. I have twice requested to obtain her employment contract, but had to file a CORA request with the school district’s attorney to obtain this public document. I have yet to receive it. It is just more “flim-flam” as expected.

Westminster’s downtown takes a hit

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CHRISTOPHER FROM PAGE 12

I see this loss as both small and large. It is small in the overall retail sales and foot traffic which the bookstore generated, but large from the standpoint of reputation and presence at the Downtown Center. While the Westminster outlet did not alone cause the bankruptcy, it is indicative of a “softer” retailer presence of the various retailers at the Downtown site.

Of course, JCPenney is the anchor and major draw to the urban center. It has been at its current location since 1981 and seems to continue to do well. The Alamo movie theatre also is a steady performer and now the Korean chicken eatery is a popular place. However, other tenants produce little if any city sales tax due to the nature of their business i.e. dentist, nail saloon, juice bar etc.

It will be important for the city to achieve a strong retailer with visibility to occupy the Tattered Cover space to help strengthen city officials’ claim that the Downtown is a major business center.

New Westminster Public Works director announced

Westminster City Manager Mark Freitag has announced his selection for the new Public Works and Utilities Director position. Paul Knippel has been selected to assume this important position. He currently serves as Director of Public Works with the City

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order to survive in the long run.

Wildlife enthusiasts, hunters, fisherman, tourists, and our planet depends on it.

Furthermore, the Dolores River and its canyons serve as a vital watershed. They provide essential water resources for both wildlife and human communities downstream, contributing to the health and sustainability of the entire region.

Protecting this water source is essential to ensure a stable and clean water supply for the communities along the Dolores River and in the wider Colorado River Basin.

The Dolores River and its canyons are also invaluable for recreational

of Frisco, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, which has a population of 230,000.

He has served as a department director for over 23 years including his service to Frisco for the past 14 years.

Knippel has impressive academic credentials with two master’s degrees (Engineering and Public Administration) and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Texas A&M. The latter academic part is especially important as City Manager Mark Freitag recently reorganized city departments and moved engineering from Community Development to Public Works and Utilities.

The scope of his public works experience covers all the services which Westminster’s Public Works and Utilities Department provides and more. His experience includes water conservation and water reuse and its distribution which are both important components of Westminster’s water resources systems. It’s good to get this key position filled.

At the same time, kudos go to Sarah Bolger for her service as the interim department director.

Spoiler alert: Vehicle fee legislation in 2024

The Democrats just never seem to be satisfied when it comes to increasing taxes and fees. According to the publication “Colorado Politics”, legislators will be considering new legislation in January to address the increasing number of deaths involving pedestrians and cyclists.

SEE CHRISTOPHER, P22

and cultural reasons. The canyons offer unique opportunities for hiking, camping, and other outdoor activities, attracting tourists and providing economic benefits to local communities. These areas are also rich in archaeological and historical significance, with important Indigenous sites across the area.

Protecting the Dolores River and its adjacent canyon country is not just a local concern but an important step to show where our values lie as Coloradans.

From the endangered species to the recreation opportunities to the important cultural resources this area is deeply special to what makes Colorado, Colorado. It is a reminder that responsible stewardship of our natural resources is essential for our future.

Lyndsey Collin, Brighton

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A guide to audio tours

BY JO DAVIS JDAVIS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

T

he self-guided audio tour has been common in the art world since the 1950s, but like many other virtual tools, there has been a rise in the popularity of audio tours in other industries due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Audio tours can add extra elements that visitors do not get when walking the areas alone, according to Luna Hernandez, who works in the Dinosaur Ridge welcome center.

“The audio tour definitely gives you more information than if you were to just walk the trail on your own,” Hernandez said. “We do have those outdoor plaques and stuff like that on the trail. So you still get some information when you’re walking it. But with the audio tour, there is a resident geologist who guides you up the ridge and gives you a lot of information.”

Today, it’s not uncommon to plan a full-day trip complete with a tour of any place around the globe. This includes communities in the Denver metro region.

Self-guided tours in the region cover art, like the 40 West ArtLine; local landmarks, like Dinosaur Ridge; and whole natural regions, like the I-70 Audio Tour. The key to finding these tours is deciding what to see, the level of planned involvement and time allotment.

What to see

Art was the original self-guided audio tour and is a popular self-guided tour focus. In Lakewood, the 40 West ArtLine audio tours take participants through the growing arts district. There are three tour options, all narrated by “art advocate and tour guide” Corrine Anderson.

The Grit and Glitter tour is a primer on the importance and legacy of West Colfax. The tour takes listeners through the neighborhoods going toward Aviation Park in Lakewood. The tour gives history and a sort of mini art lecture on the outdoor art, murals and more along the busiest part of the 40 West Art District.

The Art and Leisure Tour begins at Lamar Street Light Rail Station and follows the track through some of Lakewood’s outdoor art, architecture and more. The Art and Leisure Tour also touches on Lakewood’s agricultural heritage before ending at Mountain Air Park.

The Transportation and Art Tour also begins at the Lamar Street Rail Station. It runs along Lamar Street to the 40 West Art District headquarters. The tour takes a historic slant and guides listeners through the history of the area in addition to highlighting the murals and outdoor art along the way.

However, art is not the only focus of guided tours in the area. Take an urban stroll through the history of the Five Points neighborhood with the Five Points Business District Walking Tour. It takes listeners on a reverent tour of Denver’s historic Black neighborhood.

The kids will love the blast to prehistoric Colorado in the Dinosaur Ridge Audio Tour. The tour is packed with dinosaur facts that will almost make the listener forget about the steepness of the 2.5-mile ridge climb.

The Wild I-70 Audio Tour is more of a natural Front Range focus that takes listeners from Golden to Glenwood. This tour is best done by car, bike or motorized vehicle. It’s 144 miles long and talks about wildlife, including historic animal migration facts, in addition to other natural history and environmental facts.

There are other tours like the State Capitol Audio Tours which concentrates on the Capitol building in Denver, The Story Line Audio Tour touches on 15 sites integral to the history of the city of Aurora and Arapahoe County and the Highlands Ranch Mansion self-guided tour.

What to consider

Choosing a tour can be a chore. There are a few things to consider before deciding, so a little research is required.

Pricing is one issue to consider. Some apps that offer a slew of guided tours also charge up to $50 per person. However, many of the self-guided tours are free to the public. The 40 West ArtsLine Tours are free, but the Dinosaurs Ridge Tours cost $7 per streaming device.

Also, consider the activity level and time commitment. It can take about 3 hours to complete the Dinosaur Ridge Audio Tour, but there are actual fossils and tracks along the hike. Parts of the ridge itself is a drag mark from beasts that roamed the area millions of years ago, according to the tour.

Only bikes and feet are allowed on the tour, so taking the Dinosaur Ridge tour is much more intense than the Highlands Ranch Mansion tour. There is also the weather and seasons to consider for any outdoor tour. The Wild I70 Tour is a brilliant idea for fall foliage. Also consider the drive in May or June, when the wildflowers are in bloom and the baby animals are about.

Some of the tours, like the ArtLine tours, have chapters so that listeners can schedule accordingly.

Be sure to factor in the time of day. Sitting in traffic after an intense hiking tour is tougher than it seems at the beginning of the trip.

Where to go

The research before you go is key. To find the tours, look at the sites for places you wish to visit. Chances are, there is an audio tour that you can preview before embarking.

Several apps exist that compile the audio tours in the area in one place.

However, sometimes the information on the apps is inaccurate and the price higher than the original site requires, so always go to direct websites.

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Highlands Ranch Mansion’s audio tour takes you through the history of the building. It’s self-guided, so visitors can follow along at their own pace.

COURTESY OF HIGHLANDS RANCH MANSION

Highlands Ranch Mansion has a self-guided audio tour option that is free to the public.

It’s available when the mansion is open.

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The Dinosaur Ridge tour begins with dinosaur statues PHOTO BY JO DAVIS located near the visitor’s center.

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Camp Hale monument celebrates one year Plan to honor Utes, 10th Mountain vets takes shape

BY JASON BLEVINS THE COLORADO SUN

Francis Lovett has a vision for Camp Hale, where in 1942 he trained for winter battle in Italy as a 10th Mountain Division soldier.

“It must include recognition, physical recognition, by signage, astute building and careful management so it does not become a scrappy trailer park. It must not become a tourist attraction,” the 101-year-old decorated World War II veteran and lifelong educator told a committee of politicians and tribal leaders last weekend in Vail following a visit to Camp Hale.

“It must be aimed to inform the public

who may stop by and see how we lived and what we lived, with good signage … that reflects the history of the 10th Mountain Division. All I hope for is true history. Shared history.”

A year after President Joe Biden traveled to Colorado to announce the Camp Hale – Continental Divide National Monument, a plan is taking shape for the historic location.

It won’t offer a lot of tourist amenities. There won’t be a sprawling visitor center. There will be a lot of signs helping to educate visitors about the 53,804-acre monument, Colorado’s ninth national monument and its first since Browns Canyon in 2015. The idea is to create a place to learn and remember. A monument that celebrates the Ute tribes that have gathered in the headwaters of the Eagle River atop Tennessee Pass for centuries as well as the 10th Mountain Division soldiers

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who trained there during World War II and returned to Colorado to seed the country’s vibrant outdoor recreation industry.

Ute Mountain Ute tribal chairman Manuel Heart offered a blessing and prayer in late October as Forest Service officials joined federal, state and local leaders in unveiling the new national monument sign.

Heart urged the politicians and Forest Service to “erect something to not forget the Ute people, some kind of monument.”

“We just ask respectfully, don’t forget us as the Ute people who come from these lands … that were taken from us at one time,” Heart said. “And educate people, educate people about who we are.”

Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse — a Democrat from Boulder who supported the national monument designation — said collaboration will be needed for “keeping the stories of Camp Hale alive and making the case that this incredible part of Colorado history, American history, needed to be preserved.”

“There’s a lot of work to be done and we know this next stage will be just as important as all the stages that preceded it,” Neguse said.

Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat and longtime champion of protecting Camp Hale, said “learning where we’ve been and heading into the future in a collaborative way … is the opportunity for a better future.”

The White River National Forest is launching a planning process that will take a couple years. There will be public meetings, site visits and formal comment periods so everyone can vet the plan for Camp Hale.

“This is just the beginning of a very involved process,” said Adam Bianchi, the district ranger for the White River National Forest’s Dillon Ranger District, the most trafficked district in the country inside the most visited national forest.

The forest is a decade into planning a long term restoration project in the headwaters of the Eagle River, which include Camp Hale. The river was straightened to accommodate a warfare training camp for 17,000 soldiers in the early 1940s. Restoring the river to a more natural state while honoring the legacy of the training ground will require a balancing of cultural, ecological and historical interests, Bianchi said.

And the White River also will soon begin a revision of its overarching forest plan, setting a framework to manage the 2.3 million-acre forest — and its 11 major ski areas, eight wilderness areas, four reservoirs and 12 million annual visitors — for the next 20 years.

And one last challenge: The designation of the new national monument did not come with any additional funds for the White River, which has a budget of around $18 million a year, down from more than $30 million in the late 2000s.

The proclamation that created Camp Hale recognizes “ongoing use of the area for recreation” — noting skiing, hiking, camping and snowmobiling — while urging a management plan that includes “education and interpretive resources” that reflect the area’s Indigenous history and 10th Mountain legacy “while maintaining space for the area’s growing recreation economy.”

The overlapping planning process for the monument and the entire forest will give forest managers the opportunity, Bianchi said, to “protect areas as best we can and not make it a tourist destination.”

Maybe that will include directing visitors to areas outside the heart of the monument, like on Summit County’s Continental Divide side of the monument in the Tenmile Range, where improved trailheads and access can accommodate more users, Bianchi said.

“Creating this giant mecca for more tourists to come here, that’s not necessarily something that we have in the books, because, financially, we just don’t have that,” he said after the tour earlier this month. “We want to take this plan and do it correctly with our partners — tribes as well as veterans.

At the end of the day, what that may look like is very similar to what they saw today.”

Lovett urged the politicians, tribal members and Forest Service to treat Camp Hale “wisely, kindly and selflessly.”

“When we are all gone, the very patient land will still be here,” said Lovett, who laughed when he asked that the pitons he hammered into the sheer rock faces around his former camp remain in place. “We are just temporary renters who better pay attention to history.”

This story via a news sharing agreement with The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver that covers the state.

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Colorado rule change would give more universal preschoolers full-day classes

BY ANN SCHIMKE CHALKBEAT COLORADO

About 3,000 more Colorado 4-year-olds will qualify for free full-day classes through the state’s universal preschool program next year under a draft rule that aims to better serve families in the lowest income bracket.

The proposed change would make 4-year-olds from families with incomes at or below the federal poverty level — about $30,000 a year for a family of four — eligible for full-day preschool at no cost to their families starting next August. This year, many children in this group lost out on tuitionfree full-day classes because of a state funding shortfall.

However, if voters approve

Children play on the first day of school at Denver’s King Baptist Child Development Center, which is PHOTO BY ANN SCHIMKE CHALKBEAT COLORADO part of the state’s universal preschool program.

Prop II on Election Day, the state would get more than $23 million, which could help cover the extra full-day preschool costs next year.

“This rule would provide crucial support to Colorado’s most vulnerable populations,” said Lisa Roy, executive director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood, in a press release that cited highquality preschool as a tool against poverty.

Colorado’s $322 million universal preschool program launched in August and offers free half-day preschool to 4-year-olds statewide, with some eligible for full-day classes. Some 3-year-olds also participate.

The proposed rule, SEE RULE CHANGE, P19

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announced by the early childhood department, represents the state’s effort to fix a key problem that surfaced last summer during the new preschool program’s tumultuous rollout.

State officials originally planned to give full-day preschool to a wide swath of 4-year-olds. That group included children with any of five risk factors, including those from lower-income families — defined as households with earnings up to 270% of the federal poverty level, or about $81,000 a year for a family of four. It also included English learners, children with special education plans, those in foster care, and those who are homeless.

But in July, just weeks before the first day of school, thousands of families were blindsided when

they learned the state wouldn’t pay for full-day preschool as they’d expected. More families had applied for the program than state officials expected, triggering stricter eligibility requirements for fullday classes.

The longer days were thus offered to a much smaller group: children from families who met the income threshold and had a second risk factor. A group of school districts cited this 11th-hour shift among several grievances in their subsequent lawsuit against the state over universal preschool.

The tighter eligibility rules meant many children with only a single risk factor, including many from very low-income families, were out of luck. In some cases, school districts decided to cover the cost of the extra hours. In others, parents scraped together the money to pay the difference, settled for the free half-day program, or dropped out altogether.

The proposed rule is designed to more carefully target children with the greatest needs, a population that research shows stands to benefit the most from quality preschool.

The rule creates a sixth risk factor — “living in poverty” — that includes any preschooler from a family living at or below the federal poverty level. These children will then automatically fall into the more expansive “low-income” risk factor group, which includes all low and some middle-income families. Together, the two risk factors will make children eligible for full-day classes.

About 3,600 or 10% of Colorado’s 37,000 universal preschoolers are getting tuition-free full-day classes this year. That number could jump to about 6,600 next year under the proposed rule, according to state estimates.

With funding for universal preschool partly dependent on how

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much money the state’s nicotine tax brings in and how many children opt in, there’s still a chance the state could face a funding pinch in future years and limit the number of children who get fullday preschool at no cost to their families. However, the proposed rule would give children from the lowest-income families higher priority for full-day funding than they get now.

In addition, state forecasts on preschool participation and funding for next year indicate there’s enough money to serve the additional 3,000 4-year-olds expected to qualify for full-day classes.

State officials are collecting public comment on the proposed rule at least through Nov. 22, and expect to finalize it by the end of January.

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

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Film shows toll of High Country mental health crisis, and a county’s successful response with any of these struggles cope.

Alterra Mountain Company is a sponsor of the film, and several of the places highlighted are resorts owned by the company. Winter Park/Mary Jane is one; that may be why Lynch, who was 32 when he died by suicide, is featured. But a major part of the movie — and what bookends it — is a story about Eagle County’s unbelievable success at tackling the mental health crisis that peaked with 17 suicides in 2017.

In a tale well-known by now, residents couldn’t accept one more child taking their life, so they created a task force to tackle the problem. They galvanized to pass ballot measure 1A, which taxed retail pot sales and directed all funds to mental health and substance abuse services. The money allowed the group to do a gap analysis, looking for failings in the county’s mental health care system, and devise a plan to fill them.

Then, in 2018, Vail Health committed $60 million over 10 years to push the effort forward. Not long after, Vail real estate developer Amanda Precourt — who struggled with mental health issues and is one of the film’s anchors — gave

BY TRACY ROSS THE COLORADO SUN

There’s a heartbreaking scene in a new documentary co-produced by Olympic gold medalist Bode Miller in which Grand County snowboarder Ben Lynch is driving down the highway sometime before taking his life while on a camping trip with his wife.

It looks cold up there in the mountains, a little gray. That’s the general vibe of the first half of “The Paradise Paradox.” By now, viewers understand the name.

A paradox exists in paradise: Too many people living in Colorado ski towns suffer with mental health problems, including a staggering number who’ve committed suicide in recent years, when it seemed like they should be having the time of their lives.

This happens due to a confluence of forces: wealth gaps in mountain towns that grew into chasms during the COVID pandemic; lack of affordable housing; communities that rely on shredding during the day and partying at night for their happiness; and lack of adequate mental health services to help those dealing

Vail Health a “generous gift” toward building an inpatient behavioral health facility in Edwards. When the 50,000-square-foot hospital opens in 2025, it will offer all of the mental health services the grassroots organizers wished for in 2017 and then some.

It’s a monumental success for a community that five years ago had no place locally to bring a child who was experiencing a mental health breakdown. But perhaps without intending to, the film overlooks some key factors in Colorado’s ongoing high country mental health crisis: Vail had help from Summit County in solving its problem and had the good fortune to get a windfall of money to improve its mental health services. The problem is tougher to solve in smaller counties, which are often less well-heeled or privy to government resources. “The Paradise Paradox” paints Eagle County as a town among ski resorts with the answers to solving ski country’s mental health issues, but there’s more to the story.

“It’s hard because there’s so much more wealth in Eagle County and because we’re in these zones with Mind Springs [Health] and what

have you in Grand Junction,” Megan Ledin, executive director of the Grand Foundation in Fraser, said. (For years Mind Springs has been wracked with controversy over things like dangerous prescription practices, the quality and safety of the care it gives teenagers and children, and failure to serve the most vulnerable Coloradans, although Ledin didn’t mention these when discussing the organization.)

The size and population of Grand County is another challenge, Ledin added, saying, “I wish we could have some sort of 72-hour facility, but with our demographics would a detox or holding facility in Grand County be sustainable?”

Chris Lindley, chief population health officer at Vail Health and executive director at Eagle Valley Behavioral Health, admits Eagle County benefitted from Vail Health “being a trailblazer” in the industry.

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getting the resources becomes a lot easier. Yes, it might be easier in a resort community like Vail or Aspen or Steamboat. But these resources exist, not only from individuals. There’s a great amount of state grants available. Health care in general needs to take a much bigger role in behavioral health.”

Ledin agrees with Lindley’s last statement, but adds, “Behavioral health services are contingent on your population and needs of a community.” And when you look at the wealth in a place like Eagle County versus Grand County, the amount of money available to Eagle will likely be higher than to Grand.

That leaves Grand County having to do without certain services or providing smaller-scale versions with fewer resources. Ledin said when distributing money, the Grand Foundation “tries to look at what nonprofits aren’t meeting needs, usually because of a financial barrier, and then asks, ‘How can we support them to make things better?’” That’s work for a small foundation that started in 1996 through the sale of ski and golf passes and has since distributed $23 million in grants through multiple funding sources including donor advised and designated funds, and – coming – an endowment.

Two of the Grand Foundation’s notable mental health successes of late are a transportation service that takes mental health or substance abuse patients from Middle Park Health hospital in Granby to services in Grand Junction, and a “one-stop-shop” website that connects people experiencing a mental health crisis with appropriate services, Ledin said.

Called Building Hope Grand County, the website helps people evaluate the severity of a mental health crisis, offers a list of 43 local providers specializing in dozens of different fields and relays information on grants for various services, screening for different ailments and a list of providers — all of whom accept vouchers from the Grand County Rural Health Network in place of money — accepting patients.

The foundation also funds a mental health voucher program and a scholarship program, which help both patients and providers. The

patients get help paying for appointments above and beyond the 12 granted in the voucher program and out-of-county providers are given office space at no cost to see patients in the county.

There’s a moment in “The Paradise Paradox” when Ledin is asked about her work and she breaks down crying. Later, in an interview with The Colorado Sun, she said it made her think of her daughter dealing with two years of serious depression while a college freshman during COVID. And of the 12 kids connected to Grand County who took their own lives between 2018 and present. Then there was the son of a good friend who dealt with substance abuse issues and overdosed on fentanyl, thinking it was sleeping pills. “But what can we do? We have a culture problem where it’s OK to drink and do drugs, and then the isolation comes in and depression, and it exacerbates the problem,” she said.

Lack of affordable housing contributes to mental health issues in Grand County as well, Ledin added. “Young kids come here thinking they’re going to ski, and then they have to work three to four jobs just to afford rent. So we also have housing assistance funds. We look at someone’s gross pay versus rent and if it exceeds 30% we’ll bridge it for a whole year.”

But some skiers and snowboarders still use drugs and alcohol to cope. “And when you get to extremes, or have an addictive personality, if the culture is that of drinking or drugs, someone with those tendencies may lean toward that,” she said. “We just want our people to know resources are out there. And if you don’t want to go down that path, there’s lots of other avenues.”

Ledin wishes Grand County could fund full-time behavioral health counselors in its schools like Eagle County has done. But there’s not enough money for that, at least not at the moment.

The “other avenues” are trying to do their part, however. Stephanie Pierce, founder of the nonprofit Tame Wellness in downtown Fraser, came to Grand County in search of a mountain lifestyle after years of heroin addiction. She found what she wanted, and decided to open Tame for others trying to kick their addictions.

Tame offers recovery planning, one-on-one consultations, medication-assisted substance abuse

treatment, and year-round sober events and gatherings. In late October, Pierce was hosting a Halloween eve mini-pumpkin painting event.

She says you don’t have to be sober to participate in Tame events, but that she created them to give people attempting sobriety an escape from the many other non-sober options in Grand County. And Ledin says if you want to know how the Grand Foundation was able to start the Building Hope Grand County Fund, through which it has paid out $1 million to mental health and substance abuse services since its founding a year ago, take a look at Summit County’s Building Hope program, which was also a blueprint for Eagle County.

Like Eagle County’s and Grand County’s mental health programs, Summit County’s grew out of a rash of suicides. One of them was Patti Casey, a prominent community member who was highly involved

in the Summit Foundation, a role model for the Grand Foundation.

She had struggled with medication-resistant depression, but no one outside of her immediate family knew about it, said Kellyn Ender, executive director of Building Hope Summit. When she became one of 13 people who died by suicide in 2016, the county knew it needed to do more to address its mental health problem.

“The Summit Foundation was fortunate in that following Casey’s death, her family created a memorial fund in her honor,” Ender said.

“One of the biggest focus areas was stigma reduction: They wanted to really promote talking about mental health, talking about how struggles are a part of our nature, they happen to everyone, and we should be able to talk about our mental health in the same way we talk about our physical health.”

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The proposal would affect heavier passenger cars, SUV’s and trucks which weigh more than 3,500 pounds. The theory being used implies that those vehicles are more likely to cause death or serious injury to cyclists and pedestrians along roadways. Fees would range from $3 to $30 per year based on weight of the vehicle. Commercial vehicles would be exempt from the measure.

Legislators are targeting raising $20 million annually to fund needed sidewalks, bike lanes, crosswalks and other road safety projects. The fee would apply to the 12 most populated counties in Colorado as this is where most deaths are occurring due to vehicular accidents with people. Of course, the fee will hit applicable vehicle owners along the Front Range from Fort Collins to Pueblo including our own Ad-

ams and Jefferson Counties.

Like other fees imposed by the Democrat-controlled state legislature, this potential fee sure smells like and sounds like a tax. Rather than continuing to pile on more taxes and fees on taxpayers/vehicle owners, how about considering ways to redirect EXISTING state revenues to address such problems? The cost of living in Colorado has gotten totally out of hand as it is.

Proposed apartments adjacent to Nline Eastlake station to be considered

The City of Northglenn Planning Commission gave the green light to a proposed apartment project close to the Eastlake commuter rail station on the N-line in October. The city council will soon be holding a public hearing and consider the fate of the proposed high density residential project.

Located south of Eastlake Avenue and west of Claude Court on 16.7 acres, the requested zoning would

allow 30-60 apartment units per acre. The location is within 1/3 of a mile radius of 124th Avenue at the subject train station and is considered a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) which contemplates the high density.

The land parcel is immediately north of the Karl’s Farm master planned community and currently is zoned Agriculture.

The proposed density seems somewhat extreme for the adjacent area in my opinion, but at the same time it is one of a few remaining vacant development sites in Northglenn.

Cooperation leads to 120th Ave. improvements

Thanks to a cooperative and coordinated effort of the Cities of Northglenn and Thornton, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the developer of Karl’s Farm, needed street improvements have been realized. The stretch of 120th Avenue between Sylvia Drive

(east of Washington Street) to RTD’s N-Line overpass has been widened.

The bottleneck has been eliminated as three lanes each way are now in place. The $17.8 million project was finished on time and under budget!

Also, a new traffic signal was installed at 120th Avenue and Race Street to help handle the traffic from the new development at Karl’s Farm area. Costs for the projected escalated from $13.5 million to $17.8 million during the COVID pandemic.

Federal funds of $9.5 million via CDOT were involved along with Thornton’s and the Karl’s Farm developer contribution of $2.8 million and the City of Northglenn’s participation of $5.5 million.

Enjoy the smooth sailing.

Bill Christopher is a former Westminster city manager and RTD board member. His opinions are not necessarily those of Colorado Community Media. You can contact him at bcjayhawk68@gmail.com.

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Buck won’t seek reelection in 2024 Conservative congressman cites election conspiracies in decision

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck announced Wednesday that he won’t run for reelection to a sixth term in 2024, citing the GOP’s embrace of election conspiracies and Congress’ inability to get work done.

The Windsor Republican’s decision first announced on MSNBC, is certain to set off a fierce race to replace him in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, a highly conservative part of the state that spans across the Eastern Plains from Weld County into Castle Rock.

“I have decided that it is time for me to do some other things,” Buck, 64, told reporter Andrea Mitchell on her show Wednesday. “I have always been disappointed with our inability in Congress to deal with major issues and I’m also disappointed that the Republican Party continues to rely on this lie that the 2020 election was stolen.”

He added: “If we’re going to solve some difficult problems we’ve got to deal with some very unpleasant lies.”

In a video posted to his YouTube page, Buck, who was first elected to the House in 2014, thanked his constituents for their support “as we have fought against the left’s policies that have had real-world consequences.”

“Our nation is on a collision course with reality,” Buck said. “A steadfast commitment to truth, even uncomfortable truths, is the only way forward. Too many Republican leaders are lying to America claiming that the 2020 election was stolen, de-

scribing Jan. 6 as an unguided tour of the Capitol, and asserting that the ensuing prosecutions are a weaponization of our justice system. These insidious narratives read widespread cynicism and erode Americans confidence in the rule of law.”

Buck said “it is impossible for the Republican Party to confront our problems and offer a course correction for the future while being obsessively fixated on retribution and vengeance for contrived injustices of the past.”

The congressman’s announcement wasn’t exactly shocking news.

He has been raising eyebrows and drawing conservatives’ ire for months for making the rounds on TV news shows to criticize fellow Republicans, including over the House GOP’s pursuit of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

Buck, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, was among eight Republicanswho voted to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthyfrom his leadership post in October.

He said McCarthy hadn’t carried out his promises on federal spending.

Buck also voted against U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid to become speaker, citing the Ohio Republican’s participation in efforts to overturn the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. But Buck then backed current Speaker Mike Johnson’s bid to lead the House, despite the Louisiana Republican’s leading role in objecting to the 2020 results.

The difference between Jordan and Johnson, Buck told CNN, is that Jordan “did a number of things that were election denialism in their highest degree,” including texting White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows a legal theory on how Congress could block Biden’s win and talking to President Donald Trump during the Jan. 6 riot.

“Jim Jordan was involved in much of the post-election activity,” Buck said. “Mike Johnson was not. (Johnson) voted to decertify (the election results), absolutely. That wasn’t my vote, but we need to move forward.

We have some important business.”

Buck added that it wasn’t OK for Johnson to vote to decertify the 2020 presidential election results, but “we’re at a point now where we need to move forward and make sure the government stays open — that we fund Israel, we fund Ukraine, we fund the border efforts. And that’s going to take a human being in that speaker position. Not a perfect human being, but a Mike Johnson, who has done his very best to move issues forward and is a really good person.”

Buck has been a staple in Colorado’s Republican politics for decades.

Buck was elected Weld County’s district attorney in 2004. He went on to be the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in 2010, running unsuccessfully against Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who was appointed to the seat in 2009.

He lost by nearly 30,000 votes in a year when Republicans took over both the U.S. House and Senate. Some attributed Buck’s narrow lossto his handling of a rape caseas district attorney.

In 2013, Buck initiated another run for U.S. Senate but dropped out of the contest when Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner entered the contest, running instead for Gardner’s seat. Buck was then elected to the House in 2014 and served as Colorado Republican Party chairman in 2019 and 2020.

But Buck’s long tenure in the upper echelons of the state’s Republican ranks have not made him immune from criticism as of late. The Colorado GOP, now under the leadership of Dave Williams, a 2020 elec-

tion denier, has blasted Buck for his opposition to Jordan’s speakership bid and unwillingness to go along with he impeachment inquiry.

The congressmanalso saidhe received death threats and was being evicted from his office, owned by a major GOP donor, for refusing to back Jordan.

Buck is leaving Congress at a time when other Republicans, including U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, of Utah, are opting against reelection, too, because of election conspiracies.

Buck said his departure from the House, however, won’t be his departure from politics.

“I’m not going to be leaving the party and I’m not going to be leaving my role in trying to talk truth to the public,” Buck told Andrea Mitchell.

Among the Republicans rumored to be interested in running for Buck’s seat are State Rep. Richard Holtorf, R-Akron Heidi Ganahl, a former University of Colorado regent who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2022 Deb Flora, a conservative talk radio host and failed 2022 U.S. senate candidate Former Colorado GOP Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown Former 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler Former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, who is now a Logan County commissioner Former Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville of Castle Rock Buck beat Democrat Ike McCorkle by 24 percentage points in 2022.

Colorado Sun correspondent Sandra Fish contributed to this report.

This story runs via a news sharing agreement with The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver that covers the state.

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Warrant Date Amount

NORTH METRO TASK FORCE 10/24/23 97,993.19 ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESERVE INC 10/24/23 6,454.94 SECURITAS SECURITY SERVICES US 10/24/23 7,364.12 SENIOR HUB THE 10/24/23 240,514.63 DIRSEC 10/25/23 29,717.95 SOUTH PLATTE CROSSING CONDOMIN 10/25/23 21,864.68 TYGRETT DEBRA R 10/25/23 1,020.00 CARUSO JAMES LOUIS 10/26/23 5,375.00 EAST DENVER FOOD HUB 10/26/23 27,120.00 PUFFENBERGER IAN JAMES 10/26/23 5,125.00 SECURITAS SECURITY SERVICES US 10/26/23 9,747.39 SECURITAS SECURITY SERVICES US 10/26/23 9,787.38 SECURITAS SECURITY SERVICES US 10/26/23 9,822.91 CINA & CINA FORENSIC CONSULTIN 10/27/23 400.50 HEALING WORDS COUNSELING LLC 10/27/23 1,575.00 JAMS 10/27/23 10,171.00 MKC PRODUCTIONS LLC 10/20/23 2,000.00 ADAMS COUNTY TREASURER 10/26/23 6,368.39 ADAMS COUNTY TREASURER 10/26/23 4,846.46 ADAMS COUNTY TREASURER 10/26/23 1,152.97 ADAMSON POLICE PRODUCTS 10/26/23 945.50 ALSCO AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL 10/26/23 320.06 ANIXTER 10/26/23 6,699.18 APEX SYSTEMS GROUP LLC 10/26/23 16,236.00 BERNAL, NOEL 10/26/23 1,524.72 BURKHART KEVIN 10/26/23 40.00 CDW GOVERNMENT 10/26/23 16,720.00 CDW GOVERNMENT INC 10/26/23 12,480.00 COLORADO POVERTY LAW PROJECT 10/26/23 4,322.16 DEVER KEVIN 10/26/23 66.00 FALBO VINCENT 10/26/23 66.00 GENERATOR SOURCE LLC 10/26/23 8,618.11 GREEN THOMAS D 10/26/23 65.00 H FRAME CUSTOM FRAMING & ART L 10/26/23 1,608.51 HAGGERTY BRIAN 10/26/23 65.00 HIGHTOWER, ELIZABETH 10/26/23 125.00 JACHIMIAK PETERSON KUMMER LLC 10/26/23 140.00 KOPCZYNSKI NICOLE 10/26/23 50.00 LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 10/26/23 6,213.05 PURPLE COMMUNICATIONS INC 10/26/23 228.00 REPUBLIC SERVICES #535 10/26/23 40,711.71 REYES YESENIA 10/26/23 75.00 SUMMIT FOOD SERVICE LLC 10/26/23 9,223.10 TOPAIR SYSTEMS INC 10/26/23 10,846.00 AAA PEST PROS 10/26/23 4,085.00 ALBERTS WATER & WASTEWATER SER 10/26/23 4,410.19 ALTITUDE COMMUNITY LAW 10/26/23 19.00 APEX SYSTEMS GROUP LLC 10/26/23 1,334.10 ARBORFORCE LLC 10/26/23 9,185.10 ARMORED KNIGHTS INC 10/26/23 1,775.52 B VARGAS ART LLC 10/26/23 1,400.00 BENNETT TOWN OF 10/26/23 77.14 BRIGHTON CITY OF (WATER) 10/26/23 6,547.30 BRIGHTON CITY OF (WATER) 10/26/23 748.68 BRIGHTON CITY OF (WATER) 10/26/23 13,432.43 BRIGHTON CITY OF (WATER) 10/26/23 22,785.87 BRIGHTON CITY OF (WATER) 10/26/23 208.53 BUGARIN ASHLEY 10/26/23 19.00 BUSH MELVIN E 10/26/23 65.00 CENTURA HEALTH 10/26/23 600.00 CINTAS FIRST AID & SAFETY 10/26/23 222.13 CLEARWAY ENERGY GROUP LLC 10/26/23 1,559.54 COLO ASSESSORS ASSN 10/26/23 760.00 COLO ASSESSORS ASSN 10/26/23 400.00 COLO NATURAL GAS INC 10/26/23 131.84 COLORADO DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL 10/26/23 5,000.00 COMCAST BUSINESS 10/26/23 1,580.00 CORE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE 10/26/23 1,165.64 CORE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE 10/26/23 195.36 CORECIVIC INC 10/26/23 402,274.90 CREDIT SERVICE COMPANY 10/26/23 19.00 DEEP ROCK WATER 10/26/23 213.40 DELATORRE LAURA IVETTE 10/26/23 19.00 DENVER HEALTH & HOSPITAL AUTHO 10/26/23 6,375.00

DHM DESIGNS 10/26/23 2,009.50 DOLAN CHANDLER 10/26/23 1,450.00 DOWNTOWN AURORA VISUAL ARTS 10/26/23 2,000.00 DREAM FINDERS HOMES LLC 10/26/23 1,077.00 EAGLE ROCK DISTRIBUTING COMP O 10/26/23 275.00 FOOD FOR HOPE 10/26/23 60,158.33 GPS SERVERS LLC 10/26/23 380.00 GREEN THOMAS D 10/26/23 65.00 GRONQUIST, CHRISTOPHER L 10/26/23 65.00 HANCOCK FORREST HAYES 10/26/23 65.00 HARTFORD LIFE & ACCIDENT INS C 10/26/23 236,233.14 HELTON & WILLIAMSEN PC 10/26/23 2,077.45 HIGH COUNTRY BEVERAGE 10/26/23 1,476.05 HILL & ROBBINS PC 10/26/23 1,504.50 HILLYARD - DENVER 10/26/23 9,367.18 HOWARD ALICIA K 10/26/23 19.00 INTERVENTION COMMUNITY CORRECT 10/26/23 315,072.15 JZ PAINTING & CONSTRUCTION 10/26/23 4,320.00 KBNO RADIO 10/26/23 5,000.00 KELLY, SHANA M 10/26/23 1,078.00 LAW PATRIOT 10/26/23 19.00 MAPLETON PUBLIC SCHOOLS 10/26/23 225.00 MEXICAN CULTURAL CENTER 10/26/23 240.00 MIDWEST VETERINARY SUPPLY INC 10/26/23 23.53 MOORE LAW GROUP APC 10/26/23 38.00 MWI ANIMAL HEALTH 10/26/23 974.88 NIETO LINDSAY 10/26/23 19.00 NYHOLM STEWART E 10/26/23 65.00 OLIVER-HURST KYLA 10/26/23 19.00 PBC COMMERCIAL CLEANING SYSTEM 10/26/23 4,720.00 REPUBLIC SERVICES #535 10/26/23 1,993.05 RIVAS CARRANZA KEVIN 10/26/23 19.00 ROCKY MOUNTAIN SOUND LIGHT & V 10/26/23 6,449.29 SCHULTZ PUBLIC AFFAIRS LLC 10/26/23 5,833.33 SIRIPHANH SYDNEY 10/26/23 19.00 SOFI RAMI LLC 10/26/23 600.00 SPICY MEXICAN FOOD 10/26/23 650.00 STANFIELD THOMSON 10/26/23 65.00 SUNBELT RENTALS 10/26/23 6,429.96 SWIRE COCA-COLA USA 10/26/23 16,826.59 THERMAL & MOISTURE PROTECTION 10/26/23 1,475.00 THOMPSON SASITHORN 10/26/23 100.00 TRACTEL INC SWINGSTAGE WEST DI 10/26/23 6,420.70 TRINITY SERVICES GROUP INC 10/26/23 3,022.42 TRUSTILE DOORS LLC 10/26/23 94,927.62 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 129.91 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 23,934.69 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 34,646.00 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 2,538.00 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 208.98 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 1,765.73 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 749.72 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 157.18 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 106.42 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 162.58 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 5,238.70 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 5,132.59 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 6,516.87 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 11,987.13 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 58.17 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 601.51 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 8,124.59 UNITED POWER (UNION REA) 10/26/23 20,543.41 VALDEZ CYNTHIA LOUISE 10/26/23 66.00 VERIZON WIRELESS 10/26/23 331.12 VERIZON WIRELESS 10/26/23 2,431.62 VIVA COLORADO INC 10/26/23 23,000.00 VOLLAND MARC LAURENCE 10/26/23 65.00 WAKEFIELD AND ASSOCIATES 10/26/23 19.00 XCEL ENERGY 10/26/23 4,999.14 XCEL ENERGY 10/26/23 1,708.20 XCEL ENERGY 10/26/23 62.91 XCEL ENERGY 10/26/23 90.93 XCEL ENERGY 10/26/23 56.53 ZIESMER KAITLIN 10/26/23 1,450.00 GALLS LLC 10/26/23 383.28 Fund Total 2,074,550.86 Capital Facilities Fund FLOORZ LLC

10/26/23 24,492.33

DEAN ELECTRIC INC Fund Total

10/26/23

9,209.10 33,701.43

Golf Course Enterprise Fund PROFESSIONAL RECREATION MGMT I PROFESSIONAL RECREATION MGMT I AGFINITY INC ALSCO AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL DXP ENTERPRISES INC ERIKS NORTH AMERICAN INC HERITAGE PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS L L JOHNSON DIST POTESTIO BROTHER EQUIPMENT Fund Total

10/25/23 7,902.08 10/27/23 10,485.59 10/26/23 60.00 10/26/23 156.38 10/26/23 88.72 10/26/23 170.42 10/26/23 4,729.40 10/26/23 847.71 10/26/23 368.40 24,808.70

Equipment Service Fund NAPA AUTO PARTS 10/25/23 80,873.68 BAYAUD ENTERPRISES INC 10/26/23 50.00 BUCKEYE WELDING SUPPLY CO INC 10/26/23 63.04 CINTAS FIRST AID & SAFETY 10/26/23 283.09 FINELINE GRAPHICS 10/26/23 9,580.00 INSIGHT AUTO GLASS LLC 10/26/23 1,553.81 JOHN ELWAY CHEVROLET 10/26/23 122,122.00 MIKE MAROONE FORD LONGMONT 10/26/23 3,516.31 Fund Total 218,041.93 Road & Bridge Fund FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE COMPAN 10/24/23 28,519.00 ARBORFORCE LLC 10/26/23 4,220.00 CBRE INC 10/26/23 5,250.00 DENVER ROCK ISLAND RAILROAD 10/26/23 10,880.00 FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE 10/26/23 100.00 GMCO CORPORATION 10/26/23 109,572.85 GOMEZ ROSA 10/26/23 2,480.00 HC PECK & ASSOCIATES INC 10/26/23 710.07 METCALFE DEREK RICHARD 10/26/23 108.00 OLIVER MATHEW 10/26/23 3,730.00 STAY JOHN A 10/26/23 14,370.00 ALBERT FREI & SONS INC 10/26/23 56,956.45 ALLIED RECYCLED AGGREGATES 10/26/23 24,790.39 BFI TOWER ROAD LANDFILL 10/26/23 2,232.73 BRANNAN SAND & GRAVEL COMPANY 10/26/23 4,941.60 DAVID EVANS AND ASSOCIATES INC 10/26/23 1,192.00 EST INC 10/26/23 28,012.50 HCL ENGINEERING & SURVEYING LL 10/26/23 62,955.87 ICON ENGINEERING INC 10/26/23 6,206.75 IDAX 10/26/23 6,950.00 JK TRANSPORTS INC 10/26/23 102,662.19 JR ENGINEERING LTD 10/26/23 740.00 KUMAR & ASSOCIATES INC 10/26/23 5,263.00 MARTIN MARTIN CONSULTING ENGIN 10/26/23 44,938.75 Fund Total 527,782.15

Community Dev Block Grant Fund ALMOST HOME INC ALMOST HOME INC ALMOST HOME INC Fund Total Head Start Fund B C INTERIORS CENTURYLINK COLO DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES ELEMENT CONTRACT NULINX INTERNATIONAL RIVAL ELECTRIC LLC STERLING BUILDS INC SYSCO DENVER US FOODSERVICE US FOODSERVICE US FOODSERVICE US FOODSERVICE US FOODSERVICE ZTL JANITORIAL SERVICES LLC Fund Total

10/26/23 89.00 10/26/23 10,316.00 10,405.00

Colorado Air & Space Port CUSTOM FENCE CO 10/26/23 1,181,832.31 OVERHEAD DOOR CO DENVER 10/26/23 16,746.84 AMERICAN ASSOC OF AIRPORT EXEC 10/26/23 3,000.00 AURORA WATER 10/26/23 4,585.41 DBT TRANSPORTATION SERVICES LL 10/26/23 800.00 KIMLEY-HORN AND ASSOCIATES INC 10/26/23 2,000.00 TWS AVIATION FUEL SYSTEMS 10/26/23 172.59 VERIZON WIRELESS 10/26/23 575.47 Fund Total 1,209,712.62 Public Health Department Fund EAST DENVER FOOD HUB FEEDING THE MULTITUDES LLC INV TECH SERVICES LLC PFIZER INC CARDINAL HEALTH 110 LLC AAA PEST PROS MCKESSON MEDICAL-SURGICAL BPAZ HOLDINGS 9 LLC ICP FLYWHEEL PARK CENTRE LLC Fund Total

10/26/23 2,880.00 10/26/23 4,047.50 10/26/23 25,571.00 10/26/23 16.25 10/27/23 7,893.03 10/26/23 165.00 10/26/23 757.65 10/26/23 13,810.35 10/26/23 52,781.35 107,922.13

FLATROCK Facility Fund 10/26/23 62,664.64 10/26/23 337,382.81 10/26/23 6,053.22 10/26/23 7,160.00 10/26/23 53.01 413,313.68

Waste Management Fund EMERGE KNOWLEDGE DESIGN INC 10/24/23 Fund Total

9,740.00 9,740.00

Open Space Projects Fund DHM DESIGNS Fund Total

10/26/23 7,350.16 10/26/23 12.12 10/26/23 35.00 10/26/23 38,561.10 10/26/23 10,303.20 10/26/23 6,750.00 10/26/23 6,500.00 10/26/23 196.09 10/26/23 2,218.43 10/26/23 368.98 10/26/23 635.44 10/26/23 3,599.67 10/26/23 2,254.51 10/26/23 4,460.09 83,244.79

Workforce & Business Center DRIVESAFE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Fund Total

Insurance Fund DELTA DENTAL OF COLO UNITED HEALTH CARE INSURANCE C ARTHUR J GALLAGHER SGR VERIZON Fund Total

10/26/23 10,907.52 10/26/23 14,046.25 10/26/23 2,952.32 27,906.09

10/26/23 16,755.55 16,755.55

Open Space Sales Tax Fund BIRD CONSERVANCY OF THE ROCKIE 10/24/23 80,308.61 FEDERAL HEIGHTS CITY OF 10/25/23 29,221.18 Fund Total 109,529.79

ALBERTS WATER & WASTEWATER SER HILLYARD - DENVER UNITED POWER (UNION REA) UNITED POWER (UNION REA) UNITED POWER (UNION REA) UNITED POWER (UNION REA) Fund Total

10/26/23 10/26/23 10/26/23 10/26/23 10/26/23 10/26/23

626.26 982.30 309.39 101.32 93.31 1,831.17 3,943.75

10/26/23 10/26/23 10/26/23

1,650.00 1,655.00 165.00 3,470.00

Sheriff Payables CLERK OF THE COUNTY COURT COLO DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES COLO JUDICIAL DEPT Fund Total Grand Total

4,874,828.47

Legal Notice No.: NTS3115 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel

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November 9, 2023

Public Notices Legals Public Trustees

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 8, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Steve Henley Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for American Financing Corporation, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Freedom Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust February 22, 2021 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 11, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2021000029779 Original Principal Amount $210,145.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $203,925.04 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 3, Block 4, Range View Subdivision Amended, County of Adams, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 7710 Leyden Lane, Commerce City, CO 80022.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/08/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebted-

ness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO22155 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380042 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 29, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) JOHN K. LEWIS Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PULTE MORTGAGE, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust December 17, 2004 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 22, 2004 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 20041222001304670 Original Principal Amount $159,020.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $83,460.73 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. UNIT D, CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 27, FRONTERRA VILLAGE MULTIFAMILY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP FOR FRONTERRA VILLAGE MULTIFAMILY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION RECORDED ON OCTOBER 25, 2004, AT RECEPTION NO. 20041025001067720, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ADAMS, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATIONS OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, AND RESTRICTIONS OF FRONTERRA VILLAGE MULTIFAMILY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, RECORDED OF NOVEMBER 21, 2003, AT RECEPTION NO. C1242399 IN SAID RECORDS, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 9758 LAREDO STREET 27D, COMMERCE CITY, CO 80022.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/26/2023 Last Publication 11/23/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/29/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L. Berry #34531 Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-028500 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380045 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 29, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) LSREF Golden Property 26 (CO), LLC, a limited liability company Original Beneficiary(ies) CBRE Capital Markets, Inc., a corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (“Trustee”), as Trustee for the registered holders of Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Securities, Inc. Multifamily Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2016-KS06 Date of Deed of Trust December 12, 2014 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 16, 2014 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2014000088000 Original Principal Amount $29,120,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $27,676,054.35 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF LAND Parcel I: A portion of Lot 2, Block 3, Webster Lake Subdivision - Third Filing, being a part of the Southeast One-Quarter of Section 3, Township 2 South, Range 68 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Adams County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest corner of Berg Tract No. 2 a subdivision of a part of said Southeast One-Quarter; thence South 89°34’30” East on an assumed bearing along the North line of said Berg Tract No. 2 and the Easterly extension of said North line a distance of 559.32 feet to a point; thence North 00°41’45” West a distance of 215.66 feet to the true point of beginning; Thence North 00°41’45” West a distance of 407.83 feet to a point on the South line of Washington Park, a subdivision of a part of said Southeast One-Quarter; thence North 89°37’15” West along said South line of Washington Park a distance of 475.81 feet to

a point on the Easterly right of way line of the Farmers Highline Canal; thence along said Easterly right of way line as follows: South 23°43’00” East, 139.30 feet; South 05°39’00” East, 190.07 feet; South 26°13’55” West, 101.36 feet to a point 215.66 feet North of said North line of Berg Tract No. 2; thence south 89°34’30” East along a line parallel with said North line of Berg Tract No. 2, a distance of 450.83 feet to the True Point of Beginning, County of Adams, State of Colorado.

Parcel 2: Non-exclusive easement for ingress and egress and utilities over a portion of Lot 1, Block 3 Webster Lake Subdivision - Third Filing, recorded September 13, 1977 at Reception No. 92881 described as that certain 25 foot driveway and utility easement as shown on said plat, County of Adams, State of Colorado.

More particularly described as follows: A parcel of land being 12.50 feet on each side of the following described centerline: Beginning at a point on the easterly line of the above described parcel, thence the southeast corner of said parcel bears S 00°41’45” E a distance of 78.30 feet; thence N 89° 18’15” E a distance of 288.56 feet to the point of terminus.

Also known by street and number as: .

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/26/2023 Last Publication 11/23/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/29/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Craig M. J. Allely #17546 Perkins Coie LLP 1900 16th St., Ste 1400, DENVER, CO 80202-5255 (303) 291-2300 Attorney File # 154125035.1 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380031 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 15, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Bruce Winsett

Original Beneficiary(ies) Credit Union of Denver Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Credit Union of Denver Date of Deed of Trust May 28, 2015 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 05, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2015000042675 Original Principal Amount $110,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $81,561.65 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 11, BLOCK 1, HAWK RIDGE SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 14330 Emporia Street, Brighton, CO 80602.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/13/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/19/2023 Last Publication 11/16/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/15/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: INMAN TEHRANI #44076 HOLST & TEHRANI, LLP PO BOX 298, 514 KIMBARK STREET, LONGMONT, CO 80502-0298 (303) 772-6666 Attorney File # 80031 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE RESTART - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-109(2)(b)(II) FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202379804 Republished to restart foreclosure stayed by bankruptcy and reset sale date.

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 31, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described

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below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Paul G Hardy and Stephanie J Hardy Original Beneficiary(ies) Colorado Mortgage Alliance, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee For VRMTG Asset Trust Date of Deed of Trust June 28, 2007 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 10, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2007000066224 Original Principal Amount $190,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $228,359.46 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 1, BLOCK 4, COUNTRY HILLS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 4, AMENDMENT NO. 1, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 13102 Bellaire Drive, Thornton, CO 80241.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

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

Original Grantor(s) Christopher Andrew Ramos Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust June 09, 2020 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 16, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2020000054001 Original Principal Amount $375,571.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $355,765.23

On August 24, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 18, BLOCK 33, BRIGHTON EAST FARMS FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 1569-03-2-08-022 Also known by street and number as: 664 Hayloft Way, Brighton, CO 80601.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

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THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

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DATE: 08/31/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-22-899744-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380040 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 29, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and

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DATE: 08/29/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David R. Doughty #40042 Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-027882 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380038

Original Grantor(s) David James Davey Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for The Home Loan Arranger Current Holder of Evidence of Debt United Shore Financial Services, LLC d/b/a United Wholesale Mortgage Date of Deed of Trust September 25, 2019 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 01, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2019000083016 Original Principal Amount $341,499.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $339,129.81 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 14, Block 3, Wyndemere Park Subdivision, County of Adams, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 10602 Birch St, Thornton, CO 80233.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/26/2023 Last Publication 11/23/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/24/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Aricyn J. Dall #51467 Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 22CO00160-2 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. A202380030 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 15, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) RENEW ROOFING AND PAVING LLC, MICHAEL JOSEPH STEVENS JR., AND CHARLIE ANTHONY LOPEZ Original Beneficiary(ies) RAM AUTO REPAIR INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt RAM AUTO REPAIR INC. Date of Deed of Trust February 28, 2022 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 02, 2022 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2022000019377 Original Principal Amount $990,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $928,061.89 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 1, JERRY WALSH SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 210 Great Western Road, Brighton, CO 80601.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/13/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/19/2023 Last Publication 11/16/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/15/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: James G. Ridgeway #020959 Huntington C. Brown & Associates LLC 1512 Larimer St., Suite 600, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 830-0808 Attorney File # 80030 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

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CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380046 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 29, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Kevin J Sheehan Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC Date of Deed of Trust December 17, 2021 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 28, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2021000150228 Original Principal Amount $309,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $304,863.56 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 9, BLOCK 83, SHAW HEIGHTS, SEVENTH FILING, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 8391 Quigley St, Westminster, CO 80031.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/26/2023 Last Publication 11/23/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/29/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-964784-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

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COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380034 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 22, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Victor A. Ronquillo Barron and Leslie Gurrola Perez Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for KBHS Home Loans, LLC., Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NewRez LLC, F/K/A New Penn Financial, LLC, D/B/A Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Date of Deed of Trust February 24, 2021 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 26, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2021000023762 Original Principal Amount $493,828.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $479,207.31 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 20, BLOCK 17, PAINTED PRAIRIE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, RECORDED AUGUST 8, 2018 AS RECEPTION NO. 2018000064155, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5917 N Orleans Street, Aurora, CO 80019.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/26/2023 Last Publication 11/23/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/22/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial,

CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-959546-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380021 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 8, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Peggy L Calhoun Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR Advisors Mortgage Group, L.L.C., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC Date of Deed of Trust December 22, 2021 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 06, 2022 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2022000001720 Original Principal Amount $615,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $186,515.99 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: This is a Home Equity Conversion Deed of Trust or other Reverse Mortgage. Borrower has died and the property is not the principal residence of any surviving Borrower, resulting in the loan being due and payable.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 10, BLOCK 127, GIFFORDS RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 126-127, BOSTON HEIGHTS, SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. A.P.N.: 0182335213010 **PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER’S ERROR RECORDED ON AUGUST 2, 2023 AT RECEPTION NO. 2023000044126 TO CORRECT LEGAL DESCRIPTION.

Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee

Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L. Berry #34531 Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030550

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-963444-LL

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

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

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380020

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380035

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

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

On August 8, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

On August 22, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Daniel J. Covillo and Sylvia F. Covillo Original Beneficiary(ies) Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Bank of America, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust September 25, 2003 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 07, 2003 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) C1220730 Original Principal Amount $201,370.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $193,687.07 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 1, BLOCK 4, HOLLY CROSSING SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 2300 Kenton Street, Aurora, CO 80010.

Also known by street and number as: 12205 Monaco Drive, Brighton, CO 80602.

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

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

NOTICE OF SALE

NOTICE OF SALE

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

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

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First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 08/08/2023

DATE: 08/08/2023

Original Grantor(s) HECTOR ESPARZA HERNANDEZ Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust September 01, 2017 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 05, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2017000077464 Original Principal Amount $362,840.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $295,441.44 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 37, REUNION FILING NO. 14, CITY OF COMMERCE CITY, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 10228 URAVAN STREET, COMMERCE CITY, CO 80022.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/22/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David R. Doughty #40042 Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-027253 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380036 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 22, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Jose Carlos Sandoval Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust April 20, 2018 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 24, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2018000032641 Original Principal Amount $289,656.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $239,673.41 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 15, BLOCK 26, OF BLOCKS 25, 25A AND 26 THORNTON, COLORADO, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1980 Cedar Court, Thornton, CO 80229.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

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THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

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IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/22/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L. Berry #34531 Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 19-022795 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380039 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 29, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) XIL DU Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR COLORADO FINANCING PLUS, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, as Trustee for the benefit of the Freddie Mac Seasoned Loans Structured Transaction Trust, Series 2019-3 Date of Deed of Trust July 09, 2008 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 30, 2008 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2008000061365 Original Principal Amount $197,600.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $195,328.50 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 2, BLOCK 1, VILLAGES NORTH SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 9270 HARRISON STREET, THORNTON, CO 80229.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of

Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/26/2023 Last Publication 11/23/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/29/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009832643 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380041 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 29, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Crispin Diyon Holefield Original Beneficiary(ies) Neuvoe Inc Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCF2 ACQUISITION TRUST Date of Deed of Trust November 02, 2007 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 13, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2007000105485 Original Principal Amount $215,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $205,323.93 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 4, BLOCK 2, FOXTON VILLAGE, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 14142 E 102nd Pl, Commerce City, CO 80022.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the

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purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/26/2023 Last Publication 11/23/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/29/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David R. Doughty #40042 Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030614 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380033 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 17, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Jose R Mier Ortiz Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt MIDFIRST BANK Date of Deed of Trust February 20, 2018 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 21, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2018000014497 Original Principal Amount $325,004.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $310,770.91 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOTS 3 AND 4, BLOCK 11, PETERSON SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 16060 E 35TH PL, AURORA, CO 80011.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to

the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 1, Township 1 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., lying South of Colorado State Highway No. 7; Except the West 209 feet thereof, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO

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

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/17/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861 Janeway Law Firm PC 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-028117 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202379882 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On May 16, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Bret A. Baker and Delores R. Baker Original Beneficiary(ies) Rio Grande Mortgage Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-8 Date of Deed of Trust April 14, 2004 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 20, 2004 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 20040420000254850 Original Principal Amount $229,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $248,493.03 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The East 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 12, Township 1 South, Range 67 West, of the 6th P.M., Except that part described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest corner of said East 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 12; thence South along the West line of the said East 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4, 194 feet; thence Southeasterly to a point which is 238 feet South and 209 feet East of the Northwest corner of said East 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4 of said Section 12; thence North 238 feet to the North line of said East 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4; thence West along the North line of said East 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northwest 1/4; 209 feet to the True Point of Beginning, Parcel B: That part of the East 1/2 of the Southwest

Also known by street and number as: 12420 E. 160th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80602.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/20/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 11/2/2023 Last Publication 11/30/2023 Name of PublicationNorthglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 05/16/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Heather Deere #28597 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO21741 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. A202380022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 8, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Adams records.

Original Grantor(s) Mark Buchkowski and Lisa Bryant Buchkowski Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Lendage, LLC, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Cobalt Funds LLC Date of Deed of Trust November 19, 2021 County of Recording Adams Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 30, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2021000138773 Original Principal Amount $96,200.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $95,998.92 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

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THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 39, BLOCK 2, CALAHAN SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7901 Pontiac St, Commerce City, CO 80022-1145.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at 4430 S. Adams County Pkwy, Suite W1000, Brighton CO 80601-8219, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of Publication Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/08/2023 Alexander L. Villagran, Public Trustee in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado By: Treasurer and Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO21965 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

City and County Public Notice City of Federal Heights Notice of Public Hearing on Budget Amendment For Fiscal Year 2023 Notice is hereby given to residents and taxpayers of the City of Federal Heights that the Federal Heights City Council will consider the proposed 2023 budget amendment for the City of Federal Heights at a regular meeting of the City Council on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 2380 W. 90th Avenue, Federal Heights, Colorado, for the purpose of considering and adopting the proposed budget amendment. The proposed budget amendment is on file in the City Clerk’s office at the City Hall building. Any interested citizen may inspect the proposed budget amendment during normal office hours of 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Any citizen may appear at the public meeting and will be given the opportunity to comment on said budget amendment if they so desire.

Any citizen may file any written objections to the proposed budget amendment at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget amendment.

By: Tim Weitzman Finance Director Legal Notice No. NTS3108 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS City of Thornton 9500 Civic Center Drive Thornton, CO 80229-4326 The City of Thornton is soliciting the following: 1. Citywide Bicycle/Pedestrian Trail Infrastructure Study and Preconstruction Activities, Project No. 23-112, CDOT Project No. ARPA M286 057 (25639) Request for Proposals, for Services.

Go to Thornton’s website at www.ThorntonCO. gov, click on “Business” and then “Contracts & Purchasing” for information on how to obtain the solicitation documents. Bidders/Proposers are required to acknowledge all addenda in their Bid/Proposal submittal, failure to do so may be considered non-responsive.

Posted on: www.ThorntonCO.gov and/or Contracts & Purchasing Bulletin Board.

Legal Notice No. NTS3099 First Advertisement: November 2, 2023 Second Advertisement: November 9, 2023 Third Advertisement: November 16, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice IFQ 23-052, COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT Maiker Housing Partners is soliciting submissions from qualified businesses to conduct community needs assessments at its 17 affordable housing communities.

Maiker Housing Partners is a public entity formed in 1974 to provide federally subsidized housing and housing assistance to low-income families, within Adams County, Colorado. Though brought into existence by a Resolution of the Adams County Board of Commissioners, it is a separate entity from the Adams County, Colorado government. Maiker has approximately 17 properties of multi-family apartment communities in Adams County, throughout the cities of Thornton, Commerce City, Westminster, and Denver (Adams County).

The complete IFQ 23-052 can be obtained at www.maikerhp.org or kkemp@hp.org Legal Notice No. NTS3111 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 16, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR A RETAIL ALCOHOL ESTABLISHMENT LICENSE Pursuant to the Liquor Code of Colorado, FEDERAL WINE & SPIRITS, INC. dba FEDERAL WINE & SPIRITS, 6990 FEDERAL BLVD., DENVER, CO 80221, has requested the Liquor and Marijuana Licensing Authority Board of Adams County grant a new Retail Liquor Store License.

Hearing on application received August 2, 2023, will be held in the Public Hearing Room of the Board of County Commissioners, Adams County Government Building, 4430 South Adams County Parkway, Brighton, Colorado, on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, at the hour of 6:00 p.m.

BY ORDER OF THE ADAMS COUNTY LIQUOR AND MARIJUANA LICENSING AUTHORITY BOARD Legal Notice No. NTS3104 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Westminster Window

Metropolitan Districts PUBLIC NOTICE Crestview Water & Sanitation District Board of Directors will be considering increasing fees, rates, penalties and/or charges (effective January 1, 2024) at a public meeting on December 13, 2023 at 5:30 PM at the District office, 7145 Mariposa Street, Denver, 80221. All Board meetings are open to the public.

Legal Notice No. NTS3101 First Publication: November 2, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Westminster Window

Metro Districts Budget Hearings Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2023 BUDGET The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the HOME PLACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), will hold a public hearing via teleconference on November 14, 2023, at 6:00 p.m., to consider adoption of the District’s proposed 2024 budget (the “Proposed Budget”), and, if necessary, adoption of an amendment to the 2023 budget (the “Amended Budget”). The public hearing may be joined using the following teleconference information: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89623279062?pwd= NBDxb8kgkdZwu3jUOr2laklZb15bxz.1 Meeting ID: 896 2327 9062 Passcode: 008707 Call In: 720-707-2699 The Proposed Budget and Amended Budget are available for inspection by the public at the offices of Simmons & Wheeler, 304 Inverness Way S #490, Englewood, CO 80112.

Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Proposed Budget and Amended Budget at any time prior to the final adoption of the Proposed Budget or the Amended Budget by the Board.

The agenda for any meeting may be obtained at https://www.homeplacemetrodistrict.org/home/ or by calling (303) 858-1800.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: HOME PLACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT , a quasi-municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Colorado /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law Legal Notice No. NTS3116 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND 2023 BUDGET AMENDMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proposed budget for the ensuing year of 2024 has been submitted to the Foster Farm Business Improvement District (the “District”). Such proposed budget will be considered at a meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held on December 5, 2023 at 2:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter, via telephone and videoconference.

To attend and participate by telephone, dial (669) 254 – 5252 and enter passcode 625406.

Information regarding public participation by videoconference will be available at least 24 hours prior to the meeting and public hearing online at www.fosterfarmbid.specialdistrict.org.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an amendment to the 2023 budget of the District may also be considered at the above-referenced meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District. A copy of the proposed 2024 budget and the amended 2023 budget, if required, are available for public inspection at the offices of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to final adoption of the 2024 budget and the amended 2023 budget, if required, file or register any objections thereto.

FOSTER FARM BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT By: /s/ Steven Everson, President Legal Notice No. NTS3103 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice

NOTICE CONCERNING PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AMENDMENT AND PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET OF ORCHARD PARK PLACE NORTH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE is hereby given (i) that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Orchard Park Place North Metropolitan District (the “District”) for the ensuing year of 2024; (ii) that the necessity has arisen to amend the District’s 2023 Budget; (iii) that copies of such proposed 2024 budget and 2023 amended budget have been filed in the office of the District’s accountant at Simmons & Wheeler, P.C., 304 Inverness Way South, Suite 490, Englewood, Colorado 80112, where the same are open for public inspection; and (iv) that approval of a Resolution to Adopt Budget, Appropriate Funds and Set Mill Levy for 2024 and approval of a Resolution to Amend the 2023 Budget will be considered at a public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held via telephone: 1-800-853-9595; Access Code: 591843 on November 28, 2023, at 10:00 a.m.

At such public hearing the Board of Directors of the District may certify a property tax levy of approximately 5.000 mills for operations, which may exceed the property tax limits set forth in Sections 29-1-306(2) and (3), C.R.S., and which property tax limitation would only be in effect if Proposition HH passes at the November 7, 2023 election. Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the approval of the Resolution to Adopt Budget for 2024 and approval of the Resolution to Amend the 2023 Budget, inspect the budgets and file or register any objections thereto.

ORCHARD PARK PLACE NORTH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Jeff Reed President Legal Notice No. NTS3118 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice HYLAND VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE CONCERNING 2023 BUDGET AMENDMENT AND PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the Hyland Village Metropolitan District 2023 Budget and that a proposed 2024 Budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Hyland Village Metropolitan District; and that copies of the proposed Amended 2023 Budget and 2024 Budget have been filed at the District’s offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection; and that adoption of Resolutions Amending the 2023 Budget and Adopting the 2024 Budget will be considered at a public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held on Friday, November 17, 2023, at 9:00 A.M. This District Board meeting will be held via Zoom without any individuals (neither Board Representatives nor the general public) attending in person. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86267550643?pwd= V3RnRGRtWkRyUlZZc1VMWTJFZjFHdz09 Dial In: 1-719-359-4580 Meeting ID: 862 6755 0643 Passcode: 987572 Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the Resolutions to Amend the 2023 Budget and adopt the 2024 Budget, inspect and file or register any objections thereto.

HYLAND VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By /s/ Peggy Ripko District Manager Legal Notice No. NTS3112 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PUBLIC HEARING RE PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND AMENDED 2023 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed 2024 budget has been submitted to the CUNDALL

FARMS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for the fiscal year 2024. A copy of such proposed budget and, if necessary, an amended 2023 budget have been filed in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed budget and, if necessary, amended budget, will be considered at a special meeting of the Cundall Farms Metropolitan District to be held at 6:00 P.M. on Tuesday, November 14, 2023. The meeting will be held by Zoom video/teleconference Meeting ID: 490 263 1365; Telephone: 1-719-359-4580.

Any interested elector within the Cundall Farms Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed budget and, if necessary, the amended budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the proposed 2024 budget and, if necessary, the 2023 amended budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: CUNDALL FARMS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ SETER & VANDER WALL, P.C. Attorneys for the District Legal Notice No. NTS3123 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND AMENDMENT OF 2023 BUDGET COUNTRY CLUB HIGHLANDS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sections 29-1-108 and 109, C.R.S., that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Country Club Highlands Metropolitan District (the “District”) for the ensuing year of 2024. The necessity may also arise for the amendment of the 2023 budget of the District.

Copies of the proposed 2024 budget and 2023 amended budget (if appropriate) are on file in the office of the District’s Accountant, Simmons and Wheeler, P.C., 304 Inverness Way South, Suite 490, Englewood, Colorado, where same are available for public inspection. Such proposed 2024 budget and 2023 amended budget will be considered at a regular meeting to be held on November 13, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. via video/ teleconference. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2024 budget or the 2023 amended budget, inspect the 2024 budget and the 2023 amended budget and file or register any objections thereto.

You can attend the meetings in any of the following ways: 1. To attend via video conference, email ljacoby@specialdistrictlaw.com to obtain a link to the video conference.

2. To attend via telephone, dial 1-346-248-7799 and enter the following information: Meeting ID: 896 3512 1515 Passcode: 761617 COUNTRY CLUB HIGHLANDS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT s/Elisabeth A. Cortese McGEADY BECHER P.C. Attorneys for the District Legal Notice No. NTS3122 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Westminster Window Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2023 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the POMPONIO TERRACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), will hold a meeting via teleconference and in person on Monday, November 27, 2023, at 6:00 P.M., or shortly thereafter, for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board including a public hearing on the 2023 amended budget (the “Amended Budget”) and 2024 proposed budget (the “Proposed Budget”).

This meeting can be joined using the following teleconference information or at the following location: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88448951702?pwd=

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By Telephone: 1 (720) 707-2699 Or Cardel Homes Sales Model 2718 W. 68th Avenue Denver, CO 80221 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Amended Budget and Proposed Budget have been submitted to the District. A copy of the Amended Budget and the Proposed Budget are on file in the office of Simmons and Wheeler, P.C., Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection.

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

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: POMPONIO TERRACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law Legal Notice No. NTS3109 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND AMENDMENT OF 2023 BUDGET BRAMMING FARM METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 CITY OF THORNTON, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 29-1-106, C.R.S., that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Bramming Farm Metropolitan District No. 1 (the “District”) for the ensuing year of 2024. The necessity may also arise for the amendment of the 2023 budget of the District. Copies of such proposed budget are on file in the office of the District Accountant, Simmons & Wheeler, P.C., 304 Inverness Way South, Suite 490, Englewood, CO 80112, where same is open for public inspection.

Such proposed 2024 budget and 2023 amended budget will be considered at a special meeting to be held at on Friday, November 17, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2024 budget and 2023 amended budget, inspect the budget and file or register his or her objections thereto.

You can attend the meeting in any of the following ways: 1. Via Video Conference: https://us02web.zoom. us/j/87403117453?pwd=cHJIeTFMT2lNVUpjei9u NEsvR2R3QT09 2. To join via Telephone Conference, dial 1-253215-8782 and enter the following information when prompted: a. Meeting ID: 874 0311 7453 b. Passcode: 961628 BRAMMING FARM METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 By: /s/ Paula J. Williams McGEADY BECHER P.C. Attorneys for District Legal Notice No. NTS2114 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND 2023 BUDGET AMENDMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proposed budget for the ensuing year of 2024 has been submitted to the Fallbrook Villas Metropolitan District (the “District”). Such proposed budget will be considered at a meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held on November 30, 2023 at 1:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter, via telephone and videoconference. To attend and participate by telephone, dial (669) 254 – 5252 and enter passcode 189107.

Information regarding public participation by vid-

eoconference will be available at least 24 hours prior to the meeting and public hearing online at www.fallbrookvillas.com.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an amendment to the 2023 budget of the District may also be considered at the above-referenced meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District. A copy of the proposed 2024 budget and the amended 2023 budget, if required, are available for public inspection at the offices of Simonson & Associates, Inc. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to final adoption of the 2024 budget and the amended 2023 budget, if required, file or register any objections thereto.

FALLBROOK VILLAS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ KimNichelle Rivera, President Legal Notice No. NTS3120 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CCP METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Directors of the CCP Metropolitan District No. 3 (“District”), of the County of Adams, State of Colorado, shall meet at 9:00 a.m. on December 11, 2023.

THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD BY VIDEO/TELEPHONIC MEANS WITHOUT ANY INDIVIDUALS (NEITHER DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES NOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC) ATTENDING IN PERSON. You can attend the meeting in any of the following ways: 1. To attend via Zoom videoconference, email ann@publicalliancellc.com to obtain a link to the videoconference.

2. To attend via telephone, dial +1-720707-2699 and enter the following additional information: a. Conference ID: 763 670 3470 #

3. Failure on the part of the creditor to file such a statement prior to such Final Settlement will relieve the City of Thornton from any and all liability for such claim.

CITY OF THORNTON, COLORADO Patrick Hinterberger Patrick Hinterberger Contracts Supervisor

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Legal Notice No. NTS3121 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 16, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT WITH CONTRACTOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on or about November 23, 2023 the Finance Director for the City of Northglenn, Colorado shall make final settlement with EDGE Contracting, Inc., Golden, CO on account of their performance on the Huron Street Waterline Replacement Project bid, IFB 2022-006. Up to the time of making final settlement, the Finance Director shall receive at their office, 11701 Community Center Drive, Northglenn, Colorado, verified statement of claims with respect to such work and as provided in Section 38-26-107, Colorado revised statutes, 1973.

City of Northglenn /s/ Jason Loveland Finance Director Legal Notice No. NTS3102 First Publication: November 2, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE OF CONTRACTOR’S FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that on or after the 20th day of November 2023, Final Settlement will be made by the City of Thornton, CO, with:

The District’s address is: CCP Metropolitan District No. 3, c/o Public Alliance, LLC, 405 Urban Street, Suite 310, Lakewood, CO 80228.

Sturgeon Electric Company, Inc. 12150 E 112th Ave Henderson, CO 80640

The County of Adams maintains a file regarding the District.

hereinafter called “Contractor”, for and on account of the Contract for construction of Traffic Signal Repairs, Project No. 22-189B, Traffic Signal Uninterrupted Power Supply, Project No. 22-243, and Traffic Cabinet Relocation, Project No. 22-102

CCP METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3 s/Ann Finn Manager for the District Legal Notice No. NTS3107 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel

Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF CONTRACTOR’S FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that on or after the 27th day of November, 2023, Final Settlement will be made by the City of Thornton, CO, with: Alpine Roofing 4780 York Street Denver, CO 80216 hereinafter called “Contractor”, for and on account of the Contract for construction of IMC Operations and Administration Roof Overlay and Roof Replacement Project, Project No. 23 45I. 1. Any person, co-partnership, association, or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the said Project, for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor, or any of his subcontractors, in or about the performance of said Work, may at any time up to and including said date of such Final Settlement, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claims.

2. All such claims shall be filed with the City Clerk at 9500 Civic Center Drive, Thornton, CO 80229.

1. Any person, co-partnership, association, or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the said Project, for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor, or any of his subcontractors, in or about the performance of said Work, may at any time up to and including said date of such Final Settlement, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claims.

2. All such claims shall be filed with the City Clerk at 9500 Civic Center Drive, Thornton, CO 80229.

3. Failure on the part of the creditor to file such a statement prior to such Final Settlement will relieve the City of Thornton from any and all liability for such claim.

CITY OF THORNTON, COLORADO Dennis Laurita Dennis Laurita Contracts Supervisor

10/19/23 Date

Legal Notice No. NTS3100 First Publication: November 2, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE OF CONTRACTOR’S FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that on or after the 27th day of November, 2023, Final Settlement will be made by the City of Thornton, CO, with: A. Colorado Mechanical Systems 7094 S. Revere Parkway

Centennial, CO 80112 hereinafter called “Contractor”, for and on account of the Contract for construction of Thornton East Gravel Lake Evaporative Cooler Replacement, Project No. 23-45D. B. Colorado Mechanical Systems 7094 S. Revere Parkway Centennial, CO 80112 hereinafter called “Contractor”, for and on account of the Contract for construction of Thornton the IMC RTU Replacement (x5), Project No. 23-45C. 1. Any person, co-partnership, association, or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the said Project, for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor, or any of his Subcontractors, in or about the performance of said Work, may at any time up to and including said date of such Final Settlement, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claims.

2. All such claims shall be filed with the City Clerk at 9500 Civic Center Drive, Thornton, CO 80229.

Title application will be made and the following vehicles will be sold: 2008 Ford F350 C82078 Legal Notice No. NTS3119 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jasper Bruce Smith Jr.; a/k/a Jasper B. Smith; a/k/a J. Bruce Smith; a/k/a Jasper Smith Jr.; a/k/a Bruce Smith, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30808 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before February 26, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

3. Failure on the part of the creditor to file such a statement prior to such Final Settlement will relieve the City of Thornton from any and all liability for such claim.

Myka M. Landry, Attorney for Personal Representative Kenneth Cardwell PO Box 2276 Elizabeth, Colorado 80107

CITY OF THORNTON, COLORADO

Legal Notice No. NTS3067 First Publication: October 26, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel

Patrick Hinterberger Patrick Hinterberger Contracts Supervisor

10-25-23 Date

Legal Notice No. NTS3117 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 16, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel Public Notice NOTICE OF SUBSTANTIAL SETTLEMENT HYLAND HILLS PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT Notice is hereby given that Hyland Hills Park and Recreation District, on November 20th, 2023, will make substantial payment to Fransen Pittman, Inc. on account of that certain Carroll Butts Athletic Center/Hyland Hills Sports Center contract, 4201 W. 94th Ave., Adams County, Colorado. All persons having claims for labor, services, equipment rental or materials furnished to the contractor should present their claims to the contractor and the surety prior to said date for payment. Pursuant to C.R.S. 38-26-107, claimants may also file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on claims with Hyland Hills Park and Recreation District, 8801 N. Pecos St., Federal Heights, Co., 80260, attention, Steve Heger, prior to the date for final payment.

Hyland Hills Park and Recreation District Yvonne Fischbach, Executive Director Legal Notice No. NTS3096 First Publication: November 2, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Westminster Window

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles Public Notice APT Service, Inc. is seeking title and selling the following abandoned vehicles.

2012 Dodge Journey vin# 283133 2020 Honda Civic vin# 752910 Contact them at: APT Service, Inc 4400 Delaware St., Denver, CO. 80216 303-455-1264 Legal Notice No. NTS3106 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE I-70 and Harlan Towing, Inc. 6260 W 56th Ave., Arvada, CO 80002 303-424-7214

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Howard Dale McElroy Jr, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 370 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 9, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kyle Durant Personal Representative 11051 Claude Ct Northglenn, CO 80233 Legal Notice No. NTS3110 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 23, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOYCE MAE KNOOP a/k/a JOYCE M. KNOOP a/k/a JOYCE W. KNOOP, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30820 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 26, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

David Stanley Knoop Personal Representative 3208 15th Avenue Evans, Colorado 80620 Legal Notice No. NTS3105 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 23, 2023 Publisher: Westminster Window PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Deserae A. Silz Hall, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30447 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before February 26, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Vince Hall Personal Representative c/o Franklin D. Azar Associates, P.C. 14426 E. Evans Avenue Aurora, CO 80017 Legal Notice No. NTS3075 First Publication: October 26, 2023

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Word about a new program called Building Hope Summit circulated in the community, and over 60 leaders came together to assess the county’s mental health needs. Among these were access to care, resource navigation and reducing financial barriers to therapy. In May 2019, the nonprofit was formed to fulfill these and increase the capacity of mental health care in the county. The foundation’s guiding principle: “We are our partners.” And their 2022 total income: $2,262,500, which Ender said “goes straight back into the community.”

Ledin says Building Hope Summit was instrumental in getting Building Hope Grand County off the ground.

And Lindley said Summit County and Pitkin County inspired Eagle County with “ideas and inspiration and models” of what their program could look like.

“Summit was our closest partner, because of what we’ve learned from

them, particularly their amazing scholarship program,” he added.

Eagle County also named its scholarship fund after a community member who died by suicide. They modeled their co-response model after Pitkin County’s “because it was incredible,” Lindley said. “So those two ideas, which are two of our mega successes, came from neighboring communities. We said they’re doing it, we can do it and we called them and asked how did you do it?”

But only Eagle County got the big prize: the 50,000-square-foot facility which will be named after Amanda Precourt and her father.

There’s a caveat to the facility, however.

Lindley said even though it’s coming, “it’s not where we want our patients to go. It’s not where we want any patients to go.”

Then he clarified that he and other providers hope the facility won’t be necessary.

“We’re building it, because right now, in our community, in our region, we have folks that need to be hospitalized who must go three

hours in either direction for services,” he continued. “And this building will be centrally located in the Rocky Mountains and available to the whole region. That will cut down a lot of the concern about transportation. So Grand County, Lake County, Summit County should not build a facility.”

Instead, he said, these counties and others “will need some of the other things that they’re all working on and that we’ve built. It’s like all the handouts, so when someone gets out of an inpatient facility, they need to have outpatient behavioral health services. They need clinicians available to see patients for therapy. They need med management, so some psychiatry or psychiatric nurse practitioners that are available. And they need therapists in school, and really strong antistigma programs.”

For now, Grand County at least will have to make do with the resources it has, to help as many people as it can, while continually brainstorming new ways to spread the wealth.

Meanwhile, The Paradise Para-

dox is touring mountain cities and towns across the U.S., and presenters are holding discussions, Q&As and panel talks to “enrich the audience’s experience and engagement with the film’s pivotal themes.” It’s been shown in Durango and Pagosa Springs with movie times in Denver and Beaver Creek upcoming. And another 15 Colorado screenings have been requested.

A spokesperson for Podium Pictures said participants in the talks have included community mental health organizations, civic leaders, key stakeholders and the general public, and that anyone wanting to host a DIY screening can do so by signing up at this link.

The ultimate goal, organizers add, “is to not only raise awareness but to inspire actionable change, driving both local and national stakeholders to conceive, collaborate, and implement creative and effective solutions to the mental health challenges unveiled in the film.”

This story via a news sharing agreement with The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver that covers the state.

Public Notices Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Leroy Karl Elliott, also known as Karl Leroy Elliott, and as Leroy Elliott, and as Lee Elliott, and as Karl Elliott, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30848 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 11, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jason Darrin Elliott Personal Representative ℅ Flanders, Elsberg, Herber & Dunn, LLC 401 Main St., Ste. 1 Longmont, CO 80501 Legal Notice No. NTS3113 First Publication: November 9, 2023 Last Publication: November 23, 2023 Publisher: Westminster Window PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jason John Spettel, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30766 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 2, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred. /s/ Diane Riley Personal Representative 647 Castlestone Ct. Hobart, WI 54155 Legal Notice No. NTS3087

First Publication: November 2, 2023 Last Publication: November 16, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rodney Lee Ashcraft, a/k/a Rodney L. Ashcraft, a/k/a Rodney Ashcraft, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30832 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 2, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kenneth L. Ashcraft Personal Representative Patrick R. Thiessen (40185) Frie, Arndt, Danborn & Thiessen P.C. 7400 Wadsworth Blvd., #201 Arvada, Colorado 80003 303/420-1234 Attorney for Personal Representative Legal Notice No. NTS3097 First Publication: November 2, 2023 Last Publication: November 16, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on Ocotber 16, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Johnathan Blake Parente be changed to Johnathan Blake Murphy

Case No.: 23 C 1628

Last Publication: November 16, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel

By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. NTS3098 First Publication: November 2, 2023 Last Publication: November 16, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on September 6, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The petition requests that the name of LARRY DAVID HALBE be changed to DAVID JORDAN HALBE Case No.: 23 C 41792

PUBLIC NOTICE Adams County Court 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, Colorado 80601 In the Matter of the Petition of: Parent/ Petitioner: Haley Kelly For Minor Child: Adalina Shantell Rivera To Change the Child’s Name to: Adalina Shantell Kelly-Rivera Case Number: 2023 C 1640 NOTICE TO NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT BY PUBLICATION Notice to: Jason Rivera, non custodial parent.

By: Deputy Clerk

Notice is given that a hearing is scheduled as follows:

Legal Notice No. NTS3062 First Publication: October 26, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel

Date: December 1, 2023 Time: 8:30 AM Location: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, Colorado 80601

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 16, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Savannah Destiny Lee Medina be changed to Savannah Destiny Lee Johnson Case No.: 23 C 1653 By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. NTS3085 First Publication: November 2, 2023

Legal Notice No. NTS3055 First Publication: October 26, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 3, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Lauren Taylor Mangan be changed to Taylor Mangan Soucy Case No.: 23 C 1555

By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. NTS3060 First Publication: October 26, 2023 Last Publication: November 9, 2023 Publisher: NWestminster Window PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 10, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Shana Louisa Cordova be changed to Shayna Louisa Cordova Case No.: 23 C 1607 By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. NTS3079 First Publication: November 2, 2023 Last Publication: November 16, 2023 Publisher: Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel ###

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