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A heavy spring snow falls on the 1888 enlisted men’s barracks at Fort Logan, now part of the Colorado Mental Health Institute in southwest Denver a short distance from PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT Littleton on April 15. The storm brought more than six inches of snow to parts of Littleton.

Hundreds of homes in the works on South Santa Fe Drive Property is just south of concurrent development planned for vacant land south of Mineral and Santa Fe

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parcels of vacant land, which could see more than 700 housing units and more than 30,000 square feet of commercial space in coming years.

Pennsylvania-based Toll Brothers, the nation’s fifth-largest home builder, is pushing ahead with plans to develop a cumulative 77 acres along Santa Fe Drive south of Mineral Avenue, documents filed with the City of Littleton show.

The land is just south of a 33-acre site at Mineral and Santa Fe targeted for mixed-use retail and resi-

dential development by Evergreen Devco, a Denver-based developer.

Together, the two development sites represent the 110 acres often called the Ensor property, part of holdings once owned by well-known midcentury housing developer K.C. Ensor.

The family sold the north 33 acres to Evergreen for $6.5 million in 2017.

The remaining 77 acres to the south are mostly owned by Santa Fe Park LLC, a company formed in 2011 to market the land, listed online as valued at $19.7 million.

A small parcel in the middle of the property is still home to Wendy Cogdal, a scion of the Ensor clan.

Cogdal said the 77 acres, technically split into several smaller parcels, are under contract to Toll Brothers and declined to comment further.

According to documents filed with the city, Toll Brothers plans to build a project called Santa Fe Park South, featuring as many as 403 townhomes and “carriage homes,” as many as SEE HOMES, P18

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Project tries to deter mass shootings Rock Canyon grad works to understand, prevent tragedies

years is that mass shootings are very random.”

That does not mean her project was for nothing, Nallapati said she and more than 200 members working with #NeverAgainTech are still working to understand why mass shootings and violence

BY THELMA GRIMES in the U.S. have continued.

TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM “We have pedaled back a bit,” said 20-year-old Nallapati. “Now Wanting to stop her age group we are focused on the ideology asfrom being known as the generapect. We are shifting to a lot more tion of “mass shootings,” Shreya fruitful method to understand Nallapati said she has continued mass violence.” to listen, learn and work to find Looking at the U.S. Capitol riot, solutions and answers.

Nallapati said there is a lot to Nallapati, a graduate of Rock learn. With the #NeverAgainTech Canyon High School, has been team spread across the U.S., featured by Forbes and NPR for Nallapati said they have focused her work to use analytics and efforts on artificial what extremintelligence to ist groups are decrease gun saying and doviolence and ing, especially prevent future through social mass shootings. media.

In 2018, NalWith an lapati started abundance of the #NevermisinformaAgainTech tion and conproject. The spiracy theotipping point ries spreading came her freely through senior year of social media high school platforms such when 17 people as Facebook, were killed at Nallapati Marjory Stonesaid #Neverman Douglas Shreya Nallapati AgainTech High School in is looking at Parkland, Florwhen converida. She wanted sations turn to find answers, create change and rewrite the nar- from simple banter and venting to threats of violence and trigger rative that mass shootings were a behavior. new “normal.”

“On a temporal level, we are “We started the project to see if looking at what the tipping point mass shootings are predictable,” is,” she said. “We watch these she said. “We wanted to see if discussions where the language we can pinpoint the exact time changes from what appears to a shooting or violence will ocbe joking to a more serious tone cur. What we have found over the

‘We started the project to see if mass shootings are predictable. We wanted to see if we can pinpoint the exact time a shooting or violence will occur.’

Shreya Nallapati.

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where they are actively wishing and pushing for violence.”

With the recent shooting in Boulder where 10 people died and the killings of Asian Americans in the Atlanta area, Nallapati said it continues to be “painful” as many of her studies and research over the years have pointed to an increase in violence, especially toward Asians.

Besides watching the online discussions turn more violent, Nallapati said another aspect of #NeverAgainTech is to research gun sales and purchases state by state.

“At the start of the pandemic, people were buying guns like it

was toilet paper,” she said. “Pair that with the economic instability, job layoffs — you have a bad situation.”

As she moves forward, Nallapati said #NeverAgainTech will continue to evolve as it needs to. At the beginning, efforts were aimed at predicting future mass shootings. Now she will continue to research and pinpoint the causes and how to change society to prevent them.

“At the beginning of all of this, I was truly disillusioned with this country,” she said. “... How could we normalize this after Sandy Hook? I will always work to listen and work towards an answer.”

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Twain and Peabody elementaries to close Centennial schools to be folded into others nearby; consolidations reflect declining enrollment

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Twain and Peabody elementary schools in Centennial will close in coming years, marking another milestone in a series of consolidations in Littleton Public Schools in the face of declining enrollment.

The two schools sit just over a mile apart on opposite quadrants around the intersection of Arapahoe Road and University Boulevard. Each is anticipated to serve fewer than 250 students in the coming school year, district figures show.

Under a plan adopted unanimously by the school board at the April 8 meeting, the two student bodies will be absorbed by nearby schools starting in the fall of 2022.

Students from Peabody will consolidate with Lenski Elementary on Fairfax Way near Holly Street.

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Twain students will be absorbed into a new school in the works on the Franklin Elementary campus at Franklin Street and Euclid Avenue.

The move will be the latest in years of reshufflings of elementary school operations and boundaries in the district’s eastern portion, starting with the closure of Ames and Whitman elementaries in 2010. An increase in families near Ames prompted the district to build the new Justina Ford Elementary on the Ames campus, scheduled to open this fall and funded by a 2018 bond.

The new school at Franklin is also slated to absorb nearby Highland Elementary beginning in 2022.

Once all is said and done, the district anticipates Franklin will serve just over 500 students by the fall of 2022, with Lenski serving just over 550, and Ford serving nearly 650.

Small schools are inefficient and cause limited staffing and educational resources to be spread too thin, district officials say.

Still, the move has prompted months of pushback from Twain and Peabody families, including

Local governments responsible for regulations beginning April 16 The COVID-19 Dial issued by Governor Polis and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) expired on April 16, and counties across Colorado can issue their own guidance for their citizens.

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State limits indoor crowds as COVID dial expires Many counties choose to continue dial restrictions on their own

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Colorado allowed its “dial” of coronavirus restrictions to expire as expected in mid-April, clearing the path for local public health agencies to decide what limits to enforce on businesses and other public settings.

The stepping back of most state-required limits came even as Coloradans found themselves in a fourth wave of COVID-19, with new cases and hospitalizations on the rise after months of decline.

With increased vaccination rates, “the state’s role in continuing to mandate statewide restrictions is lessening, and the role of local communities to regulate and manage the virus is increasing,” the state public-health department said in an April 16 news release.

The state’s color-coded COVID-19 dial was the set of restrictions counties had to follow based on the local spread of the virus. The system affected capacity at restaurants, other businesses, indoor and outdoor events, and other settings. Colorado originally implemented the dial last Sept. 15.

With the statewide order behind

the dial now expired, Colorado issued a new public health order that maintains some limits on large indoor gatherings.

Meanwhile, most Denver metroarea counties announced plans to continue level-blue limits, which were the second-least restrictive stage of the dial system. Those counties include Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Jefferson, Boulder and Broomfield, according to the state’s news release.

The decision for Adams and Arapahoe came when the TriCounty Health Department extended a modified version of the state’s dial system for one month.

Tri-County Health covers those two counties and Douglas County, whose elected leaders voted to opt out of that extension during an April 13 meeting.

Douglas was expected to no longer operate under any restrictions other than the new statewide order on large indoor gatherings. The county also remains under the statewide mask mandate.

But if a county’s hospitalizations threaten to exceed 85% of hospital capacity, Colorado’s new public health order allows the state to require additional restrictions.

Here’s a look at how the new health order affects large indoor gatherings.

Mass events targeted Under the new statewide order,

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WHAT ARE COUNTIES DOING? According to the state public-health department, some counties that indicated that they would maintain level blue restrictions after mid-April include, among others, the following: • Adams • Arapahoe • Boulder • Broomfield • Denver • Jefferson • Larimer Clear Creek County will maintain a mask mandate and level blue restrictions until May 31.

Counties that indicated that they would maintain level green restrictions, among others, include: • Gilpin Counties that indicated that they would not have local orders, among others, include: • Douglas • El Paso • Elbert • Weld The above lists are not exhaustive.

Counties that have not yet communicated their plans to the state include Park and others. when more than 100 people gather in a room in a public indoor space, the setting may operate at 100% capacity or up to 500 people, with 6 feet required between parties of unvaccinated people or when vaccination status is unknown. The order took effect April 16.

“Public indoor space” means any enclosed indoor area that is publicly or privately owned, managed, or operated that is accessible to the public, serves as a place of employment, or provides services.

The term does not include a person’s residence, including a room in a hotel or a residential room for students at an educational facility.

Under the order, existing “variances” — or exceptions — remain in effect, including 5-Star approvals granted by a county. That’s a reference to Colorado’s 5-Star State Certification Program, which has allowed businesses to operate with expanded capacity if they follow stepped-up COVID-19 safety protocols.

Venues may apply to their local public health agency for a variance to exceed 500 people, which needs to be finally approved by the state public-health department.

Settings that aren’t affected The order’s requirements do not apply to the following settings: • Places of worship and associated ceremonies.

• Retail services.

• Restaurants that run sit-down dining and do not have unseated

areas where 100 or more people could gather, such as dance floors or common gathering areas.

School proms and graduations that wish to exceed the thresholds are subject to approval by local public health agencies in accordance with the state’s prom and graduation guidance.

Stricter previous rules may still apply If a county continues blue restrictions, then those morerestrictive standards still apply.

For a county staying in level blue, the standard wouldn’t change if an event exceeds 100 people — it would still be limited to 50% capacity, not to exceed 175 people, per room, according to the Colorado State Joint Information Center, which takes questions for the state public-health department.

Under level blue restrictions, if the event was a seated event, it could run at 100% capacity with a minimum of 6 feet between groups of up to 10 individuals indoors per room, excluding staff.

That’s according to how the limits were written in the April 4 update to the state dial order.

Under the 5-Star program, certified businesses in level blue could operate indoor events at 50% capacity, not to exceed 500 people, according to the April 4 order.

Other state restrictions still in place Under the new health order, the state public-health department may require counties whose resident hospitalizations threaten to exceed 85% of hospital or hospital system capacity to implement additional restrictions.

The statewide mask order also remains in effect.

In counties with one-week incidence rates — rates of new cases — above 35 per 100,000 people, masks are required to be worn by individuals 11 and older in public indoor spaces where 10 or more unvaccinated individuals or “individuals of unknown vaccination status” are present. That’s according to the text of the April 3 extension of the mask order.

That range for new-case rates corresponded to counties in levels blue, yellow, orange, red and purple under the state’s dial framework.

The list of settings where masks are required in counties with new-case rates of 35 or fewer per 100,000 people — rates that corresponded to level green — now only includes preschool through grade 12 schools, child care centers, health care settings, prisons and jails, and some other facilities.

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Immigrant group’s cookbook seeks to bridge differences ‘Together at the Table’ celebrates global value of good meals with good friends

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The tastes of dozens of countries are collected in “Together at the Table,” a new cookbook from Littleton nonprofit Immigrant Pathways Colorado (IPC).

With recipes like hummus from Lebanon, mojitos from Peru, stew from Ethiopia and egg rolls from Vietnam, IPC board members say they hope the cookbook conveys the diverse backgrounds represented in America — but also commonalities.

“It reflects that common element we all share: sitting down to share a meal with family and friends,” said IPC board member Connie Shoemaker at an April 13 book launch event. “The table is a place of memory, where we become aware of who and what we are. That’s bound up in the food we eat — it’s a way of preserving past and heritage.”

Proceeds from the cookbook go to IPC’s One-Immigrant-At-A-Time program, which provides selfdevelopment grants to immigrants, refugees and asylees who are in the country legally and live below the poverty line. Grants can be used for activities like English classes, applying for citizenship, green card

“Together at the Table,” a new cookbook from Immigrant Pathways Colorado, features recipes from around the globe. Proceeds go to the group’s efforts to help immigrants on PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT their feet.

renewal and seeking professional training. Proceeds will also go toward scholarships to attend Arapahoe Community College.

The cookbook includes 171 recipes from 66 contributors from 43 countries on nearly every continent. Included in the book are eight dividers printed with the stories of immigrants and their descendants, who share how food is woven into their cultural heritage.

Among those is Nisren Hussein,

whose family’s experience inspired the creation of the IPC. Hussein and her husband Raad are Kurds, a long-persecuted ethnic minority in Iraq. Growing up, Hussein’s family of nine had little access to fruit, fresh vegetables and meat as a result of war and economic sanctions.

Hussein recalled her mother spending hours every day making flatbread to sell, often leaving her hands cracked and broken, aching

to the point that Hussein had to lift the oven cover for her mother.

Hussein later married Raad and had two children, but was forced to flee Iraq after anti-coalition forces discovered Raad was working as an interpreter for American troops.

Army Col. Joe Rice, a Littleton resident, arranged for the Husseins to come to his hometown, and tasked IPC founder Susan Thornton and friends with setting the family up with a place to stay, jobs, and money to get on their feet.

The experience inspired Thornton and others to create IPC after realizing that small grants could make a world of difference to immigrants in need as they sought to become Americans.

For Hussein, who contributed a recipe for Iraqi-style stuffed grape leaves to the cookbook, settling in Littleton was a blessing.

“The air smelled beautiful when we walked out the door our first morning in Colorado,” she recalled in her segment in the cookbook. “It was like breathing life.”

Shoemaker said she hopes the cookbook furthers IPC’s goals: “To bridge the gaps between cultures through education, sharing stories and learning about one another.”

“Together at the Table” is available at all Tattered Cover locations, including Aspen Grove. It can also be ordered through IPC’s website at ConnectingImmigrants. org/cookbook. IPC asks for a $20 donation.

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Summer youth camps planned at ACC More than 100 options are available for children, teens STAFF REPORT

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two protests outside the district administration building during school board meetings.

At the April 8 meeting, a Peabody parent said small schools better serve students, who might feel lost in the crowd at a bigger school.

“I beg of you to consider what is best for the community, not the pocketbook,” she said, saying that district figures show Peabody’s enrollment stayed steady for the better part of the last decade.

A second-grader from Peabody pleaded with the board to save her school.

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“If the reason you’re closing Peabody is because of money, I’ll give you all my money,” she said.

“I’m saving my money to buy a horse, but I’ll give it to you to keep my school open.”

Superintendent Brian Ewert said while Peabody’s enrollment numbers may stabilize at times, the overall trend over the past 20 years is down.

The bottom line is that the district has too many elementary schools clustered north of Arapahoe Road and “not enough kids to fill them,” he said.

District enrollment fell to 13,700 in the 2020-2021 school year, district figures show, down nearly 9% from the more than 15,000 students enrolled in 2012. The proportion of the drop is even greater at the elementary level, down 12.7%

since 2012.

The decline sped up in 2020, with more than 750 students leaving the district, driven in part by a statewide wave of students lost to homeschooling or to private schools that stayed fully open to in-person learning through the pandemic.

District officials say they expect about half of those 750 to return in the coming school year, though some have likely been lost for good as families have moved away or settled into other schooling arrangements.

The shrinking numbers are likely to continue or accelerate, said Kathleen Ambron, the district’s director of elementary education.

Incoming kindergarten classes continue to shrink, suggesting fewer students will matriculate

going forward.

District officials have said the decline is likely due to both an overall declining birthrate, but also high housing prices. The price of a single-family home in Centennial hit $584,000 in February, up nearly 20% from a year earlier.

School board members defended closing smaller schools, saying school culture is defined more by class size and the quality of educators and staff than total enrollment.

“What do we want schools to be efficient at?” said board member Robert Reichardt. “We want them to be efficient at providing a wellrounded education, and making sure children have access to PE, art and music. Big schools make sense.”

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Federal funds to help museum, library — for now Littleton expects $10.2 million; job one is to boost hours at Bemis and museum

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With an infusion of federal funds on the horizon, the City of Littleton is hoping to restore some of the capacity of two of the most beloved city institutions: Bemis Library and the Littleton Museum.

Littleton expects to receive more than $10.2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, or ARPA, a federal bill allocating money to local governments hit by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

That’s more than double the $4.2 million the city received from the CARES Act in 2020, which went to projects like Weekends on Main, business grants, and an overhaul of city council chambers.

This time around, the money will come in two halves, one this summer and one next summer. Unlike CARES funds, which had to be spent by the end of the year, the city has three years to spend ARPA funds.

U.S. Treasury guidelines say the funds can be spent on certain categories: assistance to households, businesses and nonprofits; providing premium pay to eligible essen-

Littleton will receive more than $10.2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, and the first order of business is to bring on temporary staff to recover some of the hours cut FILE PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT at the Littleton Museum and Bemis Library last year.

tial workers; for the provision of government services to the extent offset by revenue reductions due to the impacts of COVID; and investments in infrastructure like water, sewer and broadband access.

City officials haven’t yet outlined plans for the whole amount, but city staff recommended to city council on April 13 that some of the funds be used to hire temporary workers to increase operating hours and functionality at Bemis Library and the Littleton Museum.

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The cuts have drastically cut the hours for the two entities. The library, previously open 68 hours a week, is now open only 40. The museum, previously open 47 hours a week, is down to just 30.

The cuts have taken a toll on staff, according to a report to city council

by Kelli Narde, who heads the department that oversees the library and museum.

At the library, staff have been pressed into covering multiple job duties.

“Balancing required public service hours with collection responsibilities has led to increased stress and burnout,” Narde wrote. “Dealing with mask enforcement and conflict is an added stressor.”

The cuts also forced the library to close the Aging Well Resource Center, an outreach center for the

elderly, and cut three out of four staffers from the Littleton Immigrant Resources Center.

The pain is felt the most by the most marginalized members of the community, Narde said.

“The library is a crucial service for community members hit hardest by the pandemic to utilize free public computer access, wi-fi, and printing to file for benefits and jobs,” Narde wrote.

Narde proposed hiring three temporary positions to help take the pressure off remaining staff and boost operating hours: temporary part-time employees in adult services, youth services and circulation. The positions would run from May to the end of the year.

For a combined cost of $45,000, the positions could bring the library’s operating hours back up to 55 a week — 80% of pre-pandemic hours.

Meanwhile, at the museum, staff are being spread too thin, Narde said.

“This has led to increased stress and morale issues, reduced job satisfaction, backlogs, and concerns about the erosion of the Museum’s mission,” she wrote.

Staff capacity issues have led to the opening of a forthcoming major exhibit being pushed back twice, she said.

With summer — by far the museum’s busiest season — coming up, Narde wants to bring in four contract positions to run from May through the end of the year: two part-time historic site intrepreters, a business support assistant and an event coordinator, for a total cost of $78,425.

The additional staff would allow the museum to increase its operating hours from 30 hours a week to 40 — 85% of pre-pandemic hours.

The part-time staff aren’t a longterm answer, said City Manager Mark Relph, but they will help support two of the city’s most well-loved institutions through a rough patch.

“It’s a stopgap,” Relph said. “This is just to get us through this year.

(The library and museum) took a pretty serious hit, and we want to take this step.”

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April 22, 2021

Patients skipping care worries physicians

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It could take years to catch up on screenings, immunizations and fallout from pandemic delays.

Scientists, doctors, and the world are starting to come to grips with the direct and indirect impacts the COVID-19 pandemic had on the healthcare system. That impact is not being measured by the number of COVID cases, but instead, the consequences of a large percentage of society skipping preventive screenings and general health care in 2020.

To assess the consequences of delayed care, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention commissioned a web-based survey last year. Of the adults surveyed, 40.9% admitted to delaying medical care for fear of being infected with COVID. An added 12% admitted they avoided urgent-care clinics and emergency rooms. An estimated 31.5% avoided general health care altogether.

Kristin Orlowski, a UCHealth behavioral health expert in Highlands Ranch, said the pandemic created a lot of fear in adults, especially regarding health care.

Messaging to stay home and avoid medical facilities went too far, causing fear, panic and anxiety, she said.

When it comes to general health care, family-care physicians said the pandemic was a tough year.

Because general care is sometimes considered non-emergent, many patients figured 2020 was a good time to take the year off from seeing the family doctor.

“When all of this started, the messaging was to delay medical care if it could be delayed,” said Dr. Alison Shmerling, who practices family medicine for UCHealth in Westminster.

Shmerling said she is seeing cases where screening orders for preventive testing, including mammograms and colonoscopies, that she recommended a year ago have expired. For older patients, the less active lifestyle caused by stay-at-home orders has created complications in managing weight, blood pressure and keeping diabetes in check.

2020 left backlog of issues With family medicine considered the first line of defense in many cases, Dr. Mihir Patel, a primary-care doctor in Castle Rock, said 2020 has caused a backlog of issues, including cancer diagnosis, depression, obesity and issues related to heart health such as cholesterol, blood pressure and exercise.

“In general, not everyone is compliant with screenings, but that was elevated in COVID,” he said. “Anything we can catch in the early stages and start treating means we can do the work to stop it.”

Dr. Amanda Babcock, family medicine provider at UCHealth Primary Care-Arvada West, said she has seen a trend of patients requesting prescription refills without coming in for annual exams.

Finding cancer care during COVID

PART 1: DELAYED MEDICAL This is the first in a two-part series exploring the impacts on residents when they delay medical appointments due to the barriers and inconveniences of the pandemic.

“We provide that general care where we are able to get the whole picture,” Babcock said. “You might think something that is happening is normal and is no big deal. However, when you see (your general-care doctor), we might see something and order tests to make sure it is nothing.”

Dr. Lisa Wynn, an OB/GYN at UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital, said she is seeing signs of distress from 2020 through blood work. Patients had depression and heightened stress, and test results are showing that. Liver function in blood work is worrisome, Wynn said, as it is clear more women turned to alcohol to cope with the stressors of the pandemic.

“In 2019 all these tests were normal,” she said. “Now, in 2021, there are a lot of red flags with alcohol, cholesterol, and markers for pre-diabetes. An annual exam can really serve as a reset button.

It is a reality check for getting diet and healthy habits back on track.”

Wynn joked that her entire family, including her dog, gained weight during the pandemic, noting that no one should feel ashamed or avoid a doctor just because everything is not perfect.

“We all handled our health-care decisions differently,” she said.

“When you think zombies are going to be at your door tomorrow, you take the attitude of eating or doing whatever you want today.

But the zombies are no longer at your door. It is time to get back on track.”

Doctors across the Denver metro area are encouraging residents to catch up on mediSHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE cal care.

Troubling trend in mental health Babcock and Patel said one of the most worrisome issues stemming from the pandemic concerns mental health.

“We definitely saw in uptick in mental-health cases,” Patel said.

“Like other issues, mental health is something we can treat better if caught in its early stages.”

Babcock said she saw an increased number of patients complaining of anxiety, depression and insomnia.

“Patients need to understand that we are here in person or through virtual access to help relieve some of that anxiety,” she said.

Another unexpected trend during the pandemic, Wynn said, is an increase in diagnosing STDs in young patients. With dating being unpredictable and more of her patients getting into new relationships, Wynn said cases of sexually

transmitted disease went up last year. However, Wynn said, in some cases patients waited too long to seek diagnosis and treatment.

“STDs are not an area that you want to continue to ignore,” Wynn said. “If an STD is left untreated in your 20s, you can experience infertility issues later in life.”

Besides preventive screenings having a backlog, vaccines and immunizations are also behind.

Family doctors said they are behind with immunizations for children, giving teenagers the HPV vaccine and in giving recommended vaccinations to older patients.

“Patients have to understand that COVID is not the only thing out there,” Wynn said. “Patients may be thinking they are healthy, but there is nothing wrong with seeing your doctor to make sure.

You might feel OK, but you need to know for sure.”

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VOICES

A century ago wasn’t just any old time

hings were different one hundred years ago. For example, no one wore flip-flops to the airport.

However, there were no flip-flops and few airports. That makes a difference.

They had a presi- QUIET dential inauguraDESPERATION tion in 1921 too, but not like ours, that’s for sure. The television ratings were terrible. In fact, not a single person watched it on TV. A nickel if you can tell me who was sworn in.

Craig Marshall Hint: He didn’t Smith make it through his term. His pump quit on August 2, 1923.

In 1921, no one on Earth had heard of the Beatles. Imagine that.

Or In-N-Out. But in September of that year, the first White Castle hamburger restaurant opened in Wichita, Kansas.

“The Kid,” starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, was the second highest-grossing film of the year.

Lana Turner was born on February 8 in Wallace, Idaho, a mining town that was known in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth for its “permissive approach” to vice. Wallace’s current population is less than 800.

The Spanish flu had just ended the year before. It infected about one-third of the world’s population.

Until the 1920s started to “roar,” live and recorded music options were limited. It would have been a bad time to be a teenager.

But help was on the way.

Fiszel Czyz was born on March 28, 1921, in Motal, Poland. His brother Lejzor was born in 1917.

The Czyz family moved to New York then to Chicago. Fiszel and Lejzor changed their names to Phil and Leonard Chess and co-founded Chess Records in 1938.

Chess specialized in rhythm and blues as well as jazz and early

rock ‘n’ roll.

Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Dale Hawkins, Howlin’ Wolf, the Flamingos, Bo Diddley, Sonny Boy Williamson and John Lee Hooker all recorded for Chess.

But “Suzie Q” (Dale Hawkins) was a long way off in 1921.

“The Kid,” like all films released in 1921, was silent.

The first feature-length “talkie” wasn’t released until October 6, 1927.

However, by 1931 extraordinary advances had been made in the film industry. That was the year “Frankenstein” was released; a 100% film on Rotten Tomatoes in 2021.

Major League Baseball was being played in 1921, just as it will be again soon.

The 1921 season ended when New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in Game 8 of the World Series.

That year, Babe Ruth led MLB with 59 home runs. Bob Meusel — remember him? — was second on the list with 24.

Ironically, the Baby Ruth candy bar was introduced in 1921. But it

was not named after the baseball player.

It was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter.

Famous people born in 1921: John Glenn, Rodney Dangerfield, Nancy Reagan, Sugar Ray Robinson and Steve Allen, the first host of “The Tonight Show.”

One hundred years seems like a mighty long time, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s not.

“The Maltese Falcon” (movie) is 80 years old. “Dark Side of the Moon” is 48. The final original “Peanuts” comic strip was published 21 years ago.

How is that possible?

Albert Einstein said, “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” That makes (almost) perfect sense to me.

The president’s name? Warren Gamaliel Harding. He was 57 when he died.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

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his past week I was reminded of something as I once again experienced the intimacy, joy and power found in a whisper.

Although it is just my wife and I who live in our home now, for some reason I paid parWINNING ticular attention to how we were WORDS saying goodnight to one another. I noticed that our voices were low as we whispered softly, “Goodnight, I love you.” This caused me to think about how we wake up together as well, Michael Norton another whisper and soft greeting of good morning.

No one else can hear us. Even if we raised our voices, there is no one in the house that could possibly hear what we say. Yet we whisper. It’s not because we are worried about anyone else hearing us, the whisper just seems to intimately connect us as we begin and end each day.

When it comes to effective communication skills, we know that

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there are several things that we can do to help people hear what we are saying. We can speak faster, which will have some people paying a little closer attention as they try and keep up. We can speak louder, and that sometimes helps bring others back to a conversation if they have drifted off for a moment. Or we can speak quietly, even whispering, which can help those we are trying to reach lean in more to hear what we are trying to say.

In addition to the shared intimacy that comes with whispering, there could also be incredible joy.

It’s like when we have a really good secret to share with someone and we know that when we whisper it in their ear, we will see the joy shine upon their face. Or when someone shares something very important, and they want to make sure that no one else can hear them, but they trust us with whatever important or sensitive information they need us to know, it brings us profound joy knowing how much we are trusted.

Becoming loud or shouting seems to be the go-to for some of us when we are trying to exert

power or make a point. There are some of us who do believe that the only way we can get anyone to listen is by amplifying our voice, both in volume and tonality. Those we are attempting to reach may have no other option as they listen to the shouts, however, that does not mean that they heard what was being said. When shouting and screaming cause others to shut down, become defensive, or simply walk away, the message goes unheard no matter how loud we become.

Some of the most respected leaders learned how to garner respect because of their ability to stay calm and focused when delivering a message or when they tried to influence, inspire and lead those around them. As a matter of fact, they learned the power that comes from whispering. And that power comes because the leader is trying to transfer a feeling by intimately whispering their most sincere words of hope and encouragement.

People who follow such leadership and whispered conversations tend to feel happiness and joy based on the flow and direction of the message.

When we start raising our voices, we are inviting people to turn us off. But when we lower our voices, talk to each other like human beings, even whispering just loud enough so others can hear our words and our intended message, we are inviting them to stay tuned.

If you are looking for a better way to communicate, build winning relationships, lead, or inspire others, try finding the whispers of success.

How about you? Is there a message that you are hoping others will hear? Have you learned or experienced the intimacy, joy and power of whispering? I really would love to hear your story of effective communication and how you have used whispering to make your point at mnorton@tramazing.com. And when we can start engaging others and turning them on instead of turning them off through whispering, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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Colorado, and we came to the U.S. and got married. Marrying him enabled me to get my green card, and paved the way for my citizenship.

Globetrotting daughter of immigrants living the American dream Finding their footing My parents met in what was called Rhodesia, and is now called Zimbabwe, in southern Africa. My father was in the Portuguese Air Force.

They were displaced following decades of struggles over control of the country.

I was born in Portugal, but my parents didn’t find their footing there. We came to the United States when I was one year old and settled in Rochester, New York.

My parents overstayed their visas, and after that we were in the country illegally. They didn’t have money for a lawyer to help them with their case.

Seeing the world My mom was paranoid that people would discover our undocumented status, so she home-schooled me my entire childhood. She didn’t want me talking to a lot of people, and was wary of my friends. I got a good education, but I didn’t get a high school diploma.

When I turned 18, I had the option to stay, under the DREAM

Vanda Curry recently became an American citizen after years of roaming.

Act. Much of my family ended up moving away. My father passed away, and my mother lives in England now. Instead of staying, I decided to go see the world and experience other cultures. I lived in France, Singapore and the UK. I had a lot of experiences that made me more accommodating and compassionate toward people with

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different viewpoints.

I took classes in England, and met my future husband in France. I was ready to find a place to settle down and end my drifting. He was from

‘Congratulations, you’re a citizen’ Once we got here, I got my GED at Arapahoe Community College. Now I’m majoring in business administration with a concentration in accounting.

I just became an American citizen this month. I went in to take the citizenship test, and at the end the administrator walked in and told me to raise my right hand and take the oath. He handed me my papers and said, “Congratulations, you’re a citizen.”

I’ve managed to overcome my past and gain legal citizenship. I’m enjoying my classes, and my husband and I are planning to start a family. My life is going in a good direction.

I’ve lived a lot of places, but to me America is the best country in the world. I really appreciate how wonderful Colorado is.

I feel like I’m living the American dream.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Who would want to do that?

In “Littleton school board votes to close East Elementary,” published April 8 in the Independent, there is a statement made by the school board president that reveals a fundamental flaw in the economics of home ownership.

The statement; “there are empty nesters sitting on single-family homes … but don’t have a place to downsize to. Hopefully in coming years they can move into smaller apartments.”

What homeowner who, having owned a home that has been completely paid off, would ever want to move into an apartment, where the rent will forever go up?

Ken Valero Littleton

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“Greetings from Denver,” located at 1695 Platte St., was painted by Victor Ving, who travels the country full-time in his RV creating large postcard paintings on buildings.

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From wall-sized postcards to optical illusions, public art turns Denver into a giant gallery

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or New York-born artist Victor Ving, Colorado looks like craft beer, skiers and Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

“At each stop, I collaborate with local artists, businesses, and residents to create a piece of true public art that engages the local community,” said Ving.

The result of his effort is plain for all to see: His mural “Greetings from Denver” located at 1695 Platte St. is one of 40 murals Ving has created across the country, offering his take — a vintage postcard view painted on public buildings, as a salute to the cities he visits.

It’s one of the many street-facing artworks commissioned by the City

The “Mermaid,” at Ninth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, was painted by Josiah Lee Lopez and Ratha Sok, students of Access Gallery.

of Denver, picked by a local panel and free to see, just for the looking.

The city of Denver holds a collection of over 400 pieces of art in a variety of media — some combine sight and sound, others are light-based works or interactive new media, temporary fiber-based works or performance-based works. The collections are spread throughout the city.

Public art in cities boosts the economy, culturally and socially, according to the City of Denver’s Denver Arts and Venues Public Art program. Public art creates a history of the past, present, and future.

Within a neighborhood, public art creates uniqueness in the space as a community grows.

Established by Mayor Federico Pena in 1988 via an executive order, the Denver Public Art Program sets aside 1% of any capital improvement project over $1 million is set aside for public art. For more than 30 years, the city has developed a collection of artworks and accepted donations of art. According to the city’s rules, the collection must be a permanent structure to amplify the space. The artists represent a wide range of cultural diversity and are

selected in a transparent process by a panel of community members who live and work near the project site.

The panel writes the “call for entry,” reviews the application, and the project site. Then the panel selects the artists and interviews the semifinalist and finalist. Once the artists or groups are selected, the selection is forwarded to the Public Art Committee and the Commission on Cultural Affairs to make the final decision. Denver Arts & Venues plans the public art SEE ART, P15

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program and the Mayor’s Commission on Cultural Affairs administrators the activities and policies regarding public art.

Travels with Victor Ving, from New York City, started his nationwide “Greetings Tour” in 2015. He travels full-time in his RV, working to create the landmark murals in each city. The artwork resembles a postcard capturing the cities and communities.

Ving is a former New York City graffiti artist and the founder of Klughaus, a creative agency specializing in large-scale mural art.

“The ‘Greetings from Chinatown’ mural in New York City was painted in 2014, was the first piece I did where we noticed the potential of how much our artwork can positively affect the community,” said Ving.

“I went on a West Coast road trip later that summer and was inspired by others that I saw living on the road. I decided to take a chance to paint and travel full time. I hit the road in spring 2015 and have been loving the lifestyle since.”

Ving lets his travel schedule determine his next project.

“My travels are loosely based around our commissioned project schedule,” he said. “If there are cities along the way that I connect with, I’ll try to make those murals happen en route to the next destination.

“My current priority is creating murals in states where we have not painted in yet. The larger goal is to eventually paint in all 50 states and then take the project global. This is the way I make a living and it is my full-time job. However, from time to time I have donated my services to some good causes that align with my values and mission.”

The public art show continues.

Just down the street in an alley, a half-block north, is the “Denver 1859” mural. It’s painted by Delton Demarest and Harrison Nealey using an aerosol can with an array of colors to paint the history of Denver since 1859.

Demarest is a graffiti artist and a freelance illustrator working in the commercial and fine arts industries.

Nealey is a metal fabricator by trade and creates abstract art using a variety of mediums and found objects.

Louvered illusion At Larimer and 27th Street, the mural “Larimer Boy and Girl” was painted by artist Jeremy Burns on a building exterior that is a full vertical concrete louver. That means that depending on the viewer’s perspective you either see a boy with a bewildered expression on his face or a gloomy girl. Burns has been living and creating art in the RiNo district since 2004.

Santa Fe Arts District On the corner of 9th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive is the “Mermaid,” painted by Access Gallery students Josiah Lee Lopez and Ratha Sok. Access Gallery is a Santa Fe Drive program for people with disabilities to have artistic opportunities around Denver. The mermaid is painted on the corner of the build-

The mural of George Floyd is painted by artists Detour aka Thomas Evans and Hiero Veiga.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION To tour Denver street art go to www. denver.org/things-to-do/denver-artsculture/street-art ing with colorful flowing hair appearing as though she’s swimming in the ocean.

Lopez has been working for more than 29 years and started his passion for drawing and painting when in high school. He has been a graffiti writer and muralist since mid-1990.

He received his bachelor of fine arts from Metropolitan State University and a master of fine arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Both Lopez and Sok have been students with Access Gallery for about eight years.

“I work at Access Gallery as a mentor and teaching artist and worked at Access for about 11 years,” said Lopez.

Lopez said gallery managers simply wanted the pair to create something colorful.

“So we came up with the ‘Sirens’ of Ninth Avenue,” Lopez said. “The Ninth Avenues Sirens, awaking from slumber, observing from afar, and emerging from oceanic morning tide. Their colorful tresses are the protectors of the ever-changing West Side.”

Lopez paints a mural every five years at 10th and Santa Fe in the alleyway behind Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Arts and another mural under the Sixth Avenue bridge at Sixth and Lipan.

His website is www.josiahleelopez. com, said Lopez.

Farther down in the next block off Santa Fe Drive is the “Smiling Boy” in an alley between Santa Fe Drive and Inca Street. The artist goes by the street name B.L.V.D. Artist B.L.V.D painted a stunning large mural of a boy with his arms extended across the outside of the building.

On the east side of Denver at East Colfax Avenue and High Street, a mural of George Floyd was painted

“Larimer Boy and Girl” was painted by artist Jeremy Burns on a building exterior that is a “fit vertical concrete louver,” at Larimer and 27th streets.

“Denver 1859” was painted by Delton Demarest and Harrison Nealey using an aerosol can in an alley half a block north near 15th and Platte streets.

by artists Detour aka Thomas Evans and Hiero Veiga. The mural was painted after Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. Evans is an artist with a focus on the innovation of art. Veiga is a graffiti artist from the South

Shore of Massachusetts traveling the world creating murals.

For information to apply for Denver Public Art opportunities, visit www.callforentry.org or call the Public Art Program at 720-865-5563.

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Seniors ‘blessed to be a blessing’ in food drive With many residents vaccinated, a joyous gathering sent off large donation to local food bank

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

At a west Centennial senior-living location, food isn’t one of the worries on residents’ minds.

But a group of women at the Holly Creek Retirement Community, during a weekly Zoom discussion, began to talk about others’ need for food in the surrounding community.

“We don’t worry about feeding our children, having enough to eat,” said Vee Henderson, a Holly Creek resident. “We don’t worry about food stamps and what they’ll buy — we all just live our lives, go to the store and buy whatever we want, but not everyone can do that. And so many people have lost their jobs during the pandemic, and it’s tough out there.”

So Henderson and other women at Holly Creek put on a food drive to benefit South Fellowship Food Bank, which serves Englewood, Littleton, Highlands Ranch and Centennial.

The effort donated more than 1,000 items to the food bank, said Erin Young, director of the food bank, who was “overwhelmed by their generosity.”

“I feel like quite often, seniors can be invisible in our society, and I feel like that’s something our food bank clients also experience,” said Young, a 42-year-old Highlands Ranch resident.

Henderson’s concerns about food insecurity went beyond the economic strain of the pandemic. The expense of living in the Denver area in general weighed on her mind.

“We’re blessed to be a blessing, as they say,” Henderson said.

South Fellowship Church sits at 6560 S. Broadway, a short drive north of Arapahoe Road along the Littleton-Centennial border. The church’s food bank’s temporary service hours are 8-10:30 a.m. for new

Don Folsom, 80, left, helps pastor Dan Elliott load items from Holly Creek Retirement Community’s food drive into a van for South Fellowship Food Bank.

South Fellowship Church sits at 6560 S. Broadway near the Littleton-Centennial border.

Erin Young, director of the South Fellowship Food Bank, left, and Vee Henderson, a Holly Creek Retirement Community resident, stand together during an April 15 pickup PHOTOS BY ELLIS ARNOLD of donated food items at the retirement community in Centennial.

Don Folsom, an 80-year-old resident of Holly Creek Retirement Community, helps load boxes in the Holly Creek lobby at the end of a food drive put on by residents.

and returning clients, and a valid ID is required at each visit, according to the church’s website. It welcomes clients up to three Saturdays per month.

See more information at southfellowship.org/foodbank.

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336 multifamily housing units, and roughly 30,000 square feet of commercial space on the site in coming years.

Unlike Evergreen to the north, which is pursuing a rezoning for their site that mandates public hearings, Toll Brothers is planning to develop the site administratively, meaning the plans conform to the current zoning and no public hearings are required, said Jennifer Henninger, Littleton’s director of community development.

The Ensor property was annexed by the city in 1985, and the site’s current planned development zoning and land use codes are far looser than what would be pursued for such a site today, Henninger said.

“It’s left the city in a precarious position,” she said. “We’re having to honor a plan that isn’t going to pay for everything it needs.

If you look at any growing community today, when they annex areas in, there are all sorts of stipulations for what a developer is on the hook for. That’s really not the case here.”

A more modern plan for the site would likely include significant impact fees to offset the cost of providing city services to so many residences, she said.

“We’ve tried every which way to get an agreement” that better addresses potential costs, Henninger said.

“We will have one that addresses many things, but it can’t go against the annexation agreement from 1985.”

The city developed a process in recent years to analyze the economic impact of new developments, in hopes of crafting more beneficial regulations on new growth. An analysis on Evergreen’s proposal to the north resulted in a plan for the developer to pay $120 per month per occupied bed in a senior housing facility, for

Modern development looms over a century-old barn on the Ensor property in south Littleton. A developer plans to build hundreds of homes on the site, and historic preservationists would like to see the PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT barn saved.

instance.

But in the case of Toll Brothers, preparing a comprehensive economic analysis is proving tricky because of the developer’s piecemeal approach.

“Some parcels are mixeduse, and others they’re not entirely sure what they’re going to do with yet,” Henninger said. “It’s hard to run a model when some of this is still hypothetical.”

The plans are moving forward just as Littleton is on the verge of passing the United Land Use Code or ULUC, a total overhaul of city zoning regulations following a years-long “visioning process.” But because Toll Brothers began filing plans in 2018, the site will be judged against older versions of the code.

Littleton draws the majority of its general fund revenue from sales tax, and city council discussions often center on the goal of broadening the city’s tax base.

Still, Littleton needs housing, Henninger said. The city’s 2019 comprehensive plan calls for the city to help facilitate the building of more than 6,500 new housing units by 2040 to help stave off skyrocketing housing prices, though the city currently has no legal mechanism to mandate developers offer any housing

below market rate.

The goal of broadening the city’s sales tax base and increasing the housing stock are not at odds, Henninger said.

“They’re complementary.

We have to row both oars.

We have to be really careful that we don’t get too far ahead with residential development we can’t support, but at the same time, you can’t have too much commercial and not enough rooftops to support it.”

Also at issue is how the development will impact traffic at Santa Fe and Mineral, notoriously Littleton’s most congested intersection. Plans for the Evergreen property to the north call for the development to incorporate a “quad road,” a mini-beltway that will supersede the left turn from northbound Santa Fe onto westbound Mineral.

The measure is considered a stopgap ahead of longer-term plans to build a freeway-style interchange at the intersection.

Henninger said the traffic study that produced the call for the quad road incorporated the anticipated traffic from the Toll Brothers property as well.

Asked if the quad road will sufficiently offset the increased traffic, Henninger said, “It’s as close as we can

get, given the land constraints we face with how much land we have to work with and the constraints from (the Colorado Department of Transportation).”

There are other tricky aspects to developing the land.

The area is part of the South Platte River floodplain, and is crisscrossed by irrigation ditches that will need to be moved. Doing so requires lengthy negotiations and approvals from state and federal water management entities, Henninger said.

Historic preservation concerns are coming to bear on the project as well. What will be done with a centuryold barn at the south end of the property has drawn the attention of Historic Littleton Inc. (HLI), a notfor-profit group that seeks to protect historic structures in the city.

The barn, built in 1918 and clearly visible from Santa Fe, was once part of the Canary Farm, according to a letter sent by HLI to city council. The barn is an unusual style called a “bank barn,” meaning earth is banked up along one side of the structure to form a ramp to the upper level.

CDOT determined the structure was eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places during a 2004 survey, said Gail Keeley, who heads HLI, though no steps were ever taken to obtain historic designation.

Keeley said while earlier iterations of plans for the site suggested Toll Brothers intended to leave the barn in place, a recent community meeting left HLI with the impression that the developer may demolish the barn and build a replica elsewhere on the site for use as an event space.

Keeley called the barn an important link to Littleton’s agricultural past, and a unique piece of architecture.

“Evidence of our agricultural heritage is so hard to find now,” Keeley said.

“A replica would be a poor substitute.”

The barn is currently used for storage by Green Valley Turf Farm, a sod farming operation. Company president J.R. Wilkins did not respond to requests for comment about the barn.

A structural analysis of the barn conducted by a consultant at the behest of Toll Brothers found it’s in poor shape.

“In its current condition the building is neither safe for occupation nor moving to a new location without rebuilding the frame in its entirety,” the consultant wrote.

A project narrative filed with the city says “the existing barn at the south-eastern end of the property is planned to be reconstructed and repurposed at a more central location to function as a community amenity,” but does not clarify whether that means shoring up and moving the barn or demolishing it and building a replica.

Toll Brothers spokesperson Andrea Meck responded to requests for comment about the development as a whole and the barn in particular with the following statement: “We are still very early in the process. We look forward to working closely with the City of Littleton to finalize the design of the community, including plans for the historic barn on the property.”

Meck declined requests to provide the slides presented at the community meeting or to comment further.

Henninger said the development is largely a matter of private property rights.

“We hear from people who want it to stay open space, but the thing is, it’s not open space,” she said. “It’s someone’s property that they have legal rights to develop.

However you want to look at it, there was a plan in 1985 for what it was going to look like, and the world’s a different place now. To create a place that has value, we have to work together. There’s still room for compromises here.”

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Show is stuff of ‘Myths and Legends’ April 24 is final day of photo exhibit with 42 pictures on display

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Time is running out fast before the April 24 conclusion of “Myths and Legends,” the 2021 Eye of the Camera photography exhibit (by reservation) at the Littleton Museum, and we hope some will have already visited it. In the 55th year, the exhibit, presented by the Littleton Fine Arts Board, includes 42 works by 24 artists in both color and black and white. This year’s juror was John Barnabas Lake, from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

Lake is the photo area coordinator at the UNC School of Art and Design and College of Visual and Performing Arts at UNC. The 2021 exhibit, smaller than usual, but strong, offers especially nice statements about each piece — allow a bit of extra time to read these. Many are strongly poetical!

Lake chose as Best of Show “Outside Woman,” a collaboration by conceptual artist Sherry Wiggins and photographer Luis Felipe Branco, that made me think of La Llorona, a woman of Latin American legend, who searches for her drowned children. Dressed in white, she wanders and cries for

IF YOU GO The Littleton Museum is at 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton and is open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, by reservation. Call 303-795-3950. Visitors are encouraged to limit visit to an hour. them ... This large black and white print has a ghostly woman in a gauzy white dress peering in the window of a mountain home. “Is this a ghost or a goddess?” the text asks. “There is a sense of mystery and of the mythical ...”

First Place went to Mattie Cox’s “Gondola Ride,” one in a series of colored vertical prints depicting an abandoned Kentucky theme park that had shut down in the 1990s.

Cox wrote that her friends felt uncomfortable there — convinced it’s a “Wrinkle in Time” vortex or a portal to another dimension ...

As one enters the gallery to the right, Thomas Carr’s “Decay #2 and “Decay #3” also convey mystery from a long-ago era. Carr is an archaeologist, whose images of ancient stone walls reflect layers of “decay and rebirth all around ...”

Next, a visitor finds photographs made by well-known Denver painter Tony Ortega, depicting legends from his world: “Dia @ Santa Maria,” shows a happy parade with townspeople carrying a colorful, flower-laden statue of Mary through a town, and “Day of the Dead Danzante Muerta” with a figure with skull face ... in sepia with touches of red and yellow. One

“Hovering,” a digital painting by Littleton Fine Arts Guild member Jacqueline Schuler, is exhibited in a “Member Appreciation Show” at the Depot Art Gallery in Littleton.

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can almost hear music from behind these figures.

“A gentleman came from nowhere and stood at the cliff — in the right place at the right time,” says Danny Lam of his “Grand View,” which won an Honorable Mention.

Second Place went to Kathryn Charles, who grew up in Littleton.

Her “Between Me and the Sea” depicts “the rough sea of the lower Hebrides” captured in 2020.

“Crow,” by Nicholas Kremsky, is labeled “altered photo.” The large portrait shot carries the note that “The crow is known as the messen-

ger in myths. They also carry the souls of the dead ...”

Elizabeth Kayl’s “When Midnight Calls” relates, she wrote, “to the story of seven birds who sing at night. It harks back over centuries and over multiple cultures. The song of these night birds forecasts calamity ... in ancient France they are the spirits of souls in torment ...”

At the rear of the gallery, one finds Justin Key’s large horizontal images of Great Sand Dunes National Park — a magical place where he says “every step produces a new alignment.”

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New Thornton Arts exhibit unites range of cultures

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The exhibit - presented by Thornton Clarke Reader Arts, the Denver American Indian Festival, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council (CHAC) and the Metropolitan State University of Denver Chicana/o Studies Department - features American Indian and Latinx works.

“This is our first live show in a long time, and we’re so excited about it,” said Brenda Garule, executive director of CHAC. “It’s been difficult deciding to terminate so many of our shows, especially with no income coming for many of our artists.

We’re so happy to have this chance to showcase our artists at Thornton.”

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The live-film production of “A Midnight Masquerade” by The Murder Mystery Company will be hosted from 8 to 10 p.m. on Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24. The drive-in and -family-friendly mystery will be a staged Zoom projection onto a 40-foot screen and audiences try to solve the crime. Guests will even receive clues through their phones, and by using all the information they will make a guess as to who the perpetrator is. Those who get it right will be entered to win an $150 gift card to Target.

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‘This is one of the most diverse exhibitions we’ve had, and it all started through a connection with the Denver American Indian Festival ... .’

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Clarke’s Concert of the Week - Raboys from Schuba’s Tavern Chicago’s Ratboys certainly aren’t going to win any awards for their name choice, but their blend of emo, alt-country and indie rock makes for a bewitching brew that is only getting stronger with each release. Their most recent album, 2020’s “Printer’s Devil,” had the misfortune of being released right as COVID-19 started shutting things down. So, you should look it up if you’re one of those who missed it it’s one of the year’s best.

In celebration of a decade as a group, Ratboys will be hosting a livestream performance and retrospective film from Schuba’s Tavern in Chicago. The event begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, and will feature the band performing songs from across their discography and telling stories about their time together.

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Sydnee Fullmer joins Andrews in the performance.

The radio play runs through Saturday, May 15. Once a ticket is purchased, it has unlimited listening until the end of the run. Visit https://arvadacenter.org/events/ the-great-gatsby-a-radio-play for the details.

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Castle View striker tunes into technique Training efforts elevate Pucciano to top level of soccer players

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Junior Jack Pucciano is a striker for the Castle View boys soccer team who works hard on the technical aspects of the sport.

And he gives a lot of credit to his two dogs who help him polish his technical skills at home.

“Every off day we have I always try to go to a field near by and take some shots, do some one vs. one even if it is against a stationary goalkeeper just to work on my ball placement and finish,” Pucciano said.

“I also have two dogs that love the tennis ball that I like kicking around in the house,” he continued.

“So they help me with keeping the ball close especially with a tennis ball.”

Castle View head coach Mark Burfeind knows he has a talented player in Pucciano.

“Jack is one of the hardest working player I have coached that has a phenomenal technical ability,” Burfeind said. “Those two aspects together make Jack a hard player to stop.”

Pucciano’s work ethic starts with his distaste for losing.

“I love running all over the place, and I play with a lot of passion and that’s one of the main reasons why

Castle View junior Jack Pucciano is a hardworking player.

he considers myself a hard worker because I hate losing,” said Pucciano. “I despise losing so much that I can’t stand it. I work hard everyday and try to win.”

After the first eight games of the season on April 13, Legend was unbeaten and Pucciano led all Continental League scorers with 20 points. He had a conference-leading seven goals and was tied for first with six assists.

Castle View junior Jack Pucciano is a player with good technical skills.

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Creek field hockey makes most of COVID delay Modified season means extra prep time, so girls fine-tune trust and teamwork

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Cherry Creek senior Ella Pratt.

PHOTO BY JIM BENTON

Senior captain Ella Pratt and her Cherry Creek field hockey teammates had extra time to prepare for this spring’s season.

Field hockey is usually a fall sport, but COVID altered a lot, and the sport is now playing in Season C, which started its modified season in March. The postseason semifinals will be April 26 and the state finals are set for April 27.

Pushing back the season allowed players extra time to prepare.

“A lot the girls on the team played for Denver Field Hockey Club or Club Lewy,” Pratt said. “Honestly, after it would be like Creek vs. everybody else. It was always like that every session. We did go to some tournaments.

“We all did club hockey, which was really helpful for us because we all did we a bunch of sessions

in February before we started in March. That helped us to start trusting more even earlier though we were already so close. I have not felt much different this season because we play together all the time.”

Pratt has signed to play next season for the University of New Hampshire, and so far her senior high school season has been good.

She has six goals in seven games thru April 14 plus five assists for 17 points. ”Ella is a phenomenal player,” Creek coach Clara Detrick-Yee said.

“She is a captain this year. She typically plays center back or center mid for us. She is just a powerhouse.

She has a really strong, consistent head for the game and is really selfless and cares about the team. She is a fantastic leader.”

Cherry Creek was 7-0 and ranked second in the state according to the April 12 CHSAANow.com poll.

“I feel real good about the season,” Pratt said. “I’ve been putting in a bunch of work outside of the season and obviously in the season. I’m excited about this last stretch of the season. It will be real fun and competitive.”

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Prep sports roundup Boys soccer, girls volleyball, field hockey, gymnastics STAFF REPORT

Snowy weather forced a post season adjustment for boys soccer.

The regular season was supposed to end on April 19 but was extended to April 21 and scheduling modifications were made for the playoffs.

State playoff brackets were released on April 20 and Class 3A-5A first round games were either played April 21 or April 22.

Quarterfinal games in classes 2A-

5A will be held on April 24 and semifinal matches will be played April 28. State championship games in all classes will be held May 1.

There were two automatic qualifiers from the Centennial, Continental and Jefferson County leagues which helped to make the 16-team playoff bracket which included four at-large teams.

The following are results of

some sports action that took place between April 12 and 17.

Boys Soccer Mullen 2, Cherry Creek 1 – Cyrus Gulati scored for the Bruins in a Centennial League semifinal tournament game on April 14. Grandview downed Arapahoe,1-0, in the other semifinal game.

Grandview 2, Mullen 0 –

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The Wolves won the Centennial League post-season tournament with an April 17 victory over the Mustangs.

Castle View 1, Legend 0 – Jack Pucciano tallied the overtime goal as the Sabercats remained unbeaten with an April 12 victory.

Rock Canyon 2, Highlands Ranch 1 – The Jaguars’ Brandon Halpin and Carter Pollock scored the goals in an overtime conquest over the Falcons on April 12. Rock Canyon handed Castle View its first loss of the season with a 1-0 victory in a match played on April 17.

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Castle View junior Jack Pucciano is among the top soccer players in the Continental League.

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“I play with a lot of skill,” said Pucciano. “I like to dribble a lot and sometimes that can be bad but a lot of times it pays off.

“That’s another thing the tennis ball helps with is the technical skills. Going to a field near by also helps with the technical skills. If you work on it, practice makes perfect.”

Pucciano has worked himself into one of the league’s top players this season.

“I try not to be selfish and if my teammates are open, I’ll feed them, and if I’m open they will feed me,” he said. “It’s just great. I would not be having a good season without my teammates. They trust in me and I appreciate that.”

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Valor Christian 6, Dakota Ridge 0 – Junior Sean Fields scored twice in the Eagles victory on April 15.

Girls volleyball Eaton 3, Lutheran 2 – The Lions dropped a 15-13 decision in the deciding fifth set and lost an April 12 match which pitted Eaton, ranked first in the CHSAANow.com poll, and second-ranked Lutheran. The Lions rebounded on April 15 with a 3-0 win over Colorado Academy as Brandy Schneider had 14 kills, Sabrina King 39 assists and Bella Vezzani 25 digs.

Legend 2, Chaparral 1 – Senior Rylie Kadel had a big game as the Titans, ranked ninth, toppled the third-ranked Wolverines on April 13. Kadel had 24 kills with a 1.000 hitting percentage, six blocks and seven digs. Peyton Dunn had 34 assists for Legend while Tiffany Little led Chap with 12 kills.

Castle View 2, Regis Jesuit 1 – Freshman Paityn Chapman was credited with 13 kills and sophomore Hannah Myhill added 33 assists in an April 14 win.

ThunderRidge 2, Highlands Ranch 0 – Lacy Beldon came up with 22 assists to help the Grizzlies

down the Falcons on April 13. Dani Cranford led Highlands Ranch with 15 kills.

Cherry Creek 3, Mullen 0 – Sophomore Anna Van Wyk had 24 assists as the Bruins, ranked second in the CHSAANow.poll, polished off the Mustangs on April 13. Creek won its 11th straight match after a seasonopening loss with a 3-0 win over Smoky Hill on April 14.

Field hockey Cherry Creek 5, Kent Denver 1 – Tallulah Fuhs and Emily Sands each had two goals as the second-ranked Bruins downed the third-ranked Sun Devils on April 14. Isabella Assini and Alexandra Michelotti each had two goals in a 6-0 romp over Grandview on April 17. Fuhs had a goal to give her the scoring lead with 11 goals and one assist for 23 points in the Colorado Field Hockey League.

Gymnastics Regional meets were held April 15-17.

Overland capture the regional title with 181.400 points at the Overland regional. Mountain Range garnered 179.025 points to win the Mountain Range regional. Elizabeth won the 4A title at the Arvada West regional with 179.550 points while Broomfield was crowned the 5A champion with 183.675 points.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals City and County PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, April 19, 2021 the Centennial City Council passed on first reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-06 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE, 2020 EDITION, AMENDING SECTION 18-11-10 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE, AND ADDING SECTION 18-11-40 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE SAME The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk.

The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. The full text of the ordinance is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com.

By: Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 525127-60171 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado will conduct a public hearing on Monday, May 3, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. regarding Ordinance 2021-O-05 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, AMENDING THE GAS AND ELECTRIC FRANCHISE GRANTED BY THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL TO PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO AND AMENDING ARTICLE 5 OF CHAPTER 5 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED “GAS FRANCHISE”. The public hearing will be held virtually, via the City’s website at: www.centennialco.gov. Copies of Ordinance No. 2021-O-05 are available for inspection by the public on the City’s website: www.centennialco. gov. Interested parties may file written comments with the City Clerk, at: www.councilcomments@ centennialco.gov or by recording a voice message via 303-325-8087. Any written comments received will be provided to City Council prior to the Public Hearing and made part of the record. Citizens wishing to speak during the Public Hearing, may access the virtual meeting via instructions published on the May 3, 2021 Agenda at: https://www.centennialco.gov/Government/ Mayor-Council/City-Council-Meetings/AgendasMinutes.

By: Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 525126-60170 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, April 19, 2021 the Centennial City Council passed on first reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-05 ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-05 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, AMENDING THE GAS AND ELECTRIC FRANCHISE GRANTED

BY THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL TO PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO AND AMENDING ARTICLE 5 OF CHAPTER 5 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED “GAS FRANCHISE” The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk.

The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. The full text of the ordinance is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com.

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Legal Notice No. 525125-60169 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE From the Office of the Arapahoe County Assessor Colorado law requires the county assessor to hear objections to real property classifications and valuations beginning no later than May 3, 2021.

Due to ongoing concerns regarding COVID-19, and in order to protect the health and wellbeing

of all property owners and the Assessor’s Office staff, in-person appointments and walk-in appeals will not be available this year. As an alternative, we are offering phone appointments. You may request a phone appointment using our website by clicking on Schedule Appeal Appointment or by calling our office during business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.).

Written objections to the valuation or classification of real property for 2021 must be postmarked, faxed or dropped off to the Arapahoe County Assessor’s Office no later than June 1, 2021.

Colorado law requires the county assessor to begin hearing objections to personal property valuations no later than June 15, 2021.

For additional information, contact the Arapahoe County Assessor’s Office at (303) 795-4600.

PK Kaiser, County Assessor Legal Notice No. 525119-60168 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and Centennial Citizen

Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice THE STATE OF UTAH TO DEFENDANT TIDEWATER OIL AND GAS, LLC: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to filed an Answer in writing to the Complaint filed in the Third Judicial District Court for the State of Utah entitled Pinnacle Potash International, Ltd. v. Tidewater Oil & Gas, LLC, Civil No. 200903507, with the Clerk of the Court, 450 South State Street, P.O. Box 1860, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-1860, and to mail a copy to JOHN W. ANDREWS, SNELL & WILMER, LLP, 15 West South Temple, Suite 1200, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101, within thirty (30) days of [date of last publication]. IF YOU FAIL TO DO SO, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint, which is available by request from the above-named counsel, and which by order of the Court is deemed served upon you.

DATED THIS 17th day of March 2021.

Legal Notice No. 525059 First Publication: April 1, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112 Case No.: 2020CV32252 Division: 202 Plaintiff: APPLE VALLEY EAST CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation vs.

Defendants: AISHA N. PALMER; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; STEARNS LENDING, LLC; and PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE Counsel for Plaintiff: WINZENBURG, LEFF, PURVIS & PAYNE, LLP Travis B. Keenan, #41354 travis.keenan@vf-law.com 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80127 Phone Number: (303) 863-1872 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION The People of the State of Colorado To the Defendants named above: You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response.

You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication.

A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

Please take notice that the complaint requests foreclosure of a statutory and contractual lien against the property commonly known as 89 Nome Way #D, Aurora, CO 80012, as well as judgment for past-due assessments and late fees, together with attorney fees and costs, in the amount of $21,229.40 as of April 5, 2021, plus all amounts coming due after the filing of the complaint.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action originally filed November 19, 2020, and published in the Littleton Independent beginning April 15, 2021, and ending May 13, 2021.

Dated: April 5, 2021 WINZENBURG, LEFF, PURVIS & PAYNE, LLP Travis B. Keenan, #41354 Attorney for Plaintiff

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WARNING: A VALID SUMMONS MAY BE ISSUED

BY A LAWYER AND IT NEED NOT CONTAIN A COURT CASE NUMBER, THE SIGNATURE OF A COURT OFFICER, OR A COURT SEAL. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING THE COURT TO OBTAIN FURTHER INFORMATION. YOU MUST RESPOND AS EXPLAINED IN THIS SUMMONS. Legal Notice No. 525093 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: May 13, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street, #100 Centennial, CO 80112 Case Number: 2020CV031924 Div.: Crtm.: SHERIFF’S COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE Plaintiff: FIRST VILLAGE EAST APARTMENT HOMES ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation; Defendants: MARSHALL H. LYONS, JR.; SU RYDEN AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY; QUICKEN LOANS, INC.; MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC; PORTFOLIO RECOVERY ASSOCIATES, LLC; CAPITAL ONE BANK USA, N.A.; DISCOVER BANK; SUE SANDSTROM AS TREASURER FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY; UNKNOWN TENANT(S) IN POSSESSION. Under an Amended Order on Motion for Default Judgment of Foreclosure and Order and Decree of Foreclosure issued on February 2, 2021 in the above- captioned action, I am ordered to sell certain real property as follows: Original Lienee(s): Marshall H. Lyons, Jr. Original Lienor: First Village East Apartment Homes Association, Inc. Current Holder of the evidence of debt: First Village East Apartment Homes Association, Inc. Date of Lien being foreclosed: May 9, 2019 Date of Recording of Lien being foreclosed: May 14, 2019 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Information: D9044058 Original Principal Balance of the secured indebtedness: $4,484.06 Outstanding Principal Balance of the secured indebtedness as of the date hereof: $11,136.83 Amount of Default Judgment: $9,716.83 Description of property to be foreclosed: Lot 153, Block 1, Hallcraft’s Village East Apartment Homes Filing No. 1, according to the official plat thereof, filed for record with the Clerk and Recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado on June 26, 1972 in Plat Book 22 at Page 56 of the records of said Clerk and recorder; together with appurtenant easements designated as Easement No. 3 of Hallcraft’s Village East Apartment Homes Filing No. 1 Easement Location Map, filed for record with the Clerk and recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado on April 19, 1973 in Book 24 at Page 30 of the records of the said Clerk and recorder, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known as: 13171 East Louisiana Avenue, Aurora, CO 80012

Tyler S. Brown Arapahoe County Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No. 525026 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: May 13, 2021 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to an Order for Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure dated December 14, 2020, and C.R.S. §§ 38-38-101 to 401, by the Willow Trace Subdivision Filing No. 1 Homeowners Association, Inc., the current holder of a lien recorded with the County of Arapahoe Clerk and Recorder on January 2, 2019, at Reception No. D9000121. The judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Willow Trace Subdivision Filing No. 1 recorded with the County of Arapahoe Clerk and Recorder on July 27, 2000, in Reception No. B0091448 (“Declaration”). The Declaration and notices as recorded, establish a lien for the benefit of the Willow Trace Subdivision Filing No. 1 Homeowners Association, Inc - THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS – against the property legally described as follows: Regarding: LOT 26, BLOCK 13, WILLOW TRACE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORDO Also known by street and number as 4724 South Ireland Street, Aurora, CO 80015.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 a.m. on June 17, 2021, at 13101 E. Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, telephone 720874-3845. At the sale, the Sheriff will sell the real property described above, and the improvements thereon, to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 720-874-3845. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above-described lien is: Gail R. Gudder, #17820, Moeller Graf, P.C., 385 Inverness Parkway, Suite 200, Englewood, CO 80112, telephone (720) 279-2568.

Legal Notice No. 525039 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 20, 2021 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225, Englewood, Colorado, 80110

**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. ** The name, address and telephone number of each of the attorneys representing the holder of the evidence of the debt is as follows: Stephane R. Dupont The Dupont Law Firm, LLC PO Box 1073 Castle Rock, CO 80104 (720) 644-6115 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED MAY BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Public Notice

Plaintiff: Willow Trace Subdivision Filing No. 1 Homeowners Association, Inc., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: Tristan Hignight; Wells Fargo Bank, NA; and Public Trustee of the County of Arapahoe

THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I will, at 10 o'clock A.M., on June 10, 2021, on the front steps of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Unit, located at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, 720874-3845, to sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property described above, and all interest of said Grantor and the heirs and assigns of said Grantor, for the purpose of paying the judgment amount entered herein, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

Notice to Creditors

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Case No.: 2020CV031498 Division: 402

Date: March 9, 2021 Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff, Arapahoe County

NOTICE OF SALE

Legal Notice No. 525121 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

THE PROPERTY TO BE FORECLOSED AND DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN.

The covenants of Plaintiff have been violated as follows: failure to make payments on said indebtedness when the same were due and owing.

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Date: March 9, 2021.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Elizabeth Graski, a/k/a Mary E. Graski, a/k/a Mary Graski, Mary Elizabeth Kress, a/k/a Mary E. Kress, a/k/a Mary Kress, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30373 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before September 16, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Myka M. Landry, Attorney for Personal Representative Lynne Marlene Eschbach PO Box 2276 Elizabeth, Colorado 80107 Legal Notice No. 525097 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Aloma Ann Kirby, also known as Aloma A. Kirby, Deceased, Case Number: 2021PR30226 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 8, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

David S. Salsbury, Attorney for Estate 6855 S. Havana St., Suite 580 Centennial, CO 80112 Legal Notice No. 525081 First Publication: April 8, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sally Dodd Holden, also known as Sally D. Holden, also known as Sally Holden, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30324 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Katherine Frear, Personal Representative 8712 W. Progress Drive Littleton, CO 80123 Legal Notice No.525115 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Nelson William Vetanze, aka Nelson W. Vetanze, aka Nelson Vetanze, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30358

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All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 9, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for the City of Aurora and Unincorporated Areas of Arapahoe County, Colorado, Case No. 21-080025P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood

Deborah Vetanze, Personal Representative c/o Patrick A. Schilken, P.C 7936 E. Arapahoe Court, NO. 2800 Centennial, Colorado 80130 Legal Notice No. 525090 First Publication: April 8, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Margo C. Pope, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30419 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before 8/23/2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

John M. Walker, Personal Representative 3821 Stumpy Lake Lane Virginia Beach, VA 23456 Legal Notice No. 525110

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Public Notices PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marvin R. Smith, aka Marvin Robert Smith, and as Marvin Smith, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30339 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Christopher L. Smith Personal Representative c/o Packard and Dierking LLC 2595 Canyon Blvd., Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80302 Attorney: Kathryn D. Keiser, Reg. No. 40893 Legal Notice No. 525122 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Denise Winters Pentico, A/K/A Denise W. Pentico, A/K/A Denise Pentico, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30350 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 9, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Christopher D. Pentico Personal Representative 384 Kathleen Circle Grand Junction, CO 81501 Legal Notice No. 525082 First Publication: April 8, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Ruth Lego, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30365 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Loretta Kennedy, Personal Representative 4039 E. Caley Circle Centennial, Colorado 80121 Legal Notice No. 525092 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MICHAEL LUCKI, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30285

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sarah L. Golombek, Esq., #37671 The Law Office of Sarah L. Golombek, LLC 3900 East Mexico Ave., Suite 300 Denver, CO 80210 Phone Number: 720-305-9900 E-mail: Sarah@golombeklaw.com

Legal Notice No.525120 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of STEVEN C. DEAUTREMONT, a/k/a STEVEN CHARLES DEAUTREMONT, a/k/a STEVEN DEAUTREMONT, a/k/a STEVE C. DEAUTREMONT, a/k/a STEVE CHARLES DEAUTREMONT, and a/k/a STEVE DEAUTREMONT, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30375 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Co-Personal Representatives or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 16, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Co-Personal Representatives: Loralie G. Morris, a/k/a Loralie G. DeAutremont, and Kevin Stewart DeAutremont c/o Jessica L. Broderick, Esq. Sherman & Howard L.L.C. 633 Seventeenth Street, Ste. 3000 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 525095 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William McCutcheon Congdon, aka William M. Congdon, aka William Congdon, aka Bill McCutcheon Congdon, aka Bill M. Congdon, aka Bill Congdon, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30261 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 9, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Alexander T. Congdon Personal Representative P.O. Box 136 Crestone, CO 81131

named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 23, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 525083 First Publication: April 8, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Dated this 22nd day of April, 2021.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Linda Rae Anunti, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30357 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before Monday, August 16, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Respectfully submitted: YOUNG LAW FIRM, L.L.C.: /S/ James E. Young Original signature on file at the offices of Young Law Firm, L.L.C. per C.R.C.P. Rule 121 § 1-26 James E. Young Young Law Firm, LLC 7200 E. Dry Creek Road, Unit F-203 Centennial, CO 80112 303-996-4377 James.young@ylfllc.com Legal Notice No. 525096 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joseph James Jordan, a/k/a Joseph J. Jordan, a/k/a Joseph Jordan and Joe Jordan, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31365 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carolyn Moller Duncan, Atty. No. 33766 Attorney for Personal Representative Duncan Legal, PC 6436 S. Racine Circle, Suite 227 Centennial, Colorado 80111 Phone No: 303-394-2358 Legal Notice No. 525112 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Richard Duane Kilzer, aka Richard D. Kilzer, aka Richard Kilzer, aka Rick D. Kilzer, aka Rick Kilzer, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30363 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 16, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Deborah A. Kilzer, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln St., #1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No.525103 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sarah J. Baxa, aka Sarah Baxa, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30369 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 16, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Wendy S. Shaw, Personal Representative 1120 County Road 7 Craig, Colorado 81625 Legal Notice No. 525106 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Richard D. Vogel, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30374 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 16, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Daniel Vogel, Personal Representative c/o Jackson Kelly PLLC 1099 18th Street, Suite 2150 Denver, CO 80202 Legal Notice No. 525109 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of: ROBERT ARDEN MOSS, aka Robert A. Moss, aka Robert Moss, Deceased Case Number: 2021-PR-30401 All persons having claims against the above-

Charlene K. Allen-Moss Personal Representative to the Estate 3778 S. Hooker Street Englewood, CO 80110 Phone: (303) 781-0491 Legal Notice No. 525117 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of James Darwin Hulse, a/k/a James D. Hulse, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30258 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 9, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ryan B. Scott, Atty. Reg. #36741 The Law Office of Ryan B. Scott, LLC 8089 S. Lincoln Street, Suite 201 Littleton, CO 80122 Attorney for Kurt Rickard Hulse Personal Representative Legal Notice No. 525079 First Publication: April 8, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Christine M. Scardina Personal Representative 11400 Ruby Mountain Lane Nathrop, Colorado 81236

In the Matter of the Estate of: SARAH JO EVERETT, aka SARAH EVERETT, aka SARAH J. EVERETT, Deceased.

Pauline D. Everett; 8729 Forrest Drive Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 Phone Number: 860-302-4522 E-mail: pdeny05@gmail.com FAX Number: n/a Atty. Reg. #: n/a Case Number: 2020PR384 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S. To: Whom it may concern Last Known Address, if any: A hearing on Petition for Deeds of Distribution for this court to order that she, as Personal Representative, execute two deeds of distribution for Sarah Jo Everett’s (the “Decedent”) real property owned by her at the time of her death to the Decedent’s daughter and devisee, Pauline D. Everett. will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: April 27, 2021 Time: 8:00 A.M. Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112 The hearing will take approximately [x] day Legal Notice No. 525078 First Publication: April 8, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 8, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

David S. Salsbury, Attorney for Estate 6855 S. Havana St., Suite 580 Centennial, CO 80112 Legal Notice No. 525080 First Publication: April 8, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Franklin Thomas Scardina, also known as Franklin T. Scardina, also known as Franklin Scardina, also known as Frank Scardina, Deceased Case Number: 21PR 30385 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August

Legal Notice No. 525094 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 5, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

MidFirst Bank, Denver, Colorado (f/k/a Steele Street Bank & Trust), c/o Gina M. Trevey, First Assistant Vice President 101 Cook Street, Denver, CO 80206

The petition requests that the name of Delice Maombi Ndagijimana be changed to Delice Maombi Turikumwe Case No.: 21 C 100195

Legal Notice No. 525116 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

By: Kathleen Jaushi Magistrate Legal Notice No. 525102 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Name Changes

Adoption / Guardianship

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 15, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Jaclyn Ann Bauer be changed to Jaclyn Ann Eccesso Case No.: 21 C 100202 By: Magistrate Legal Notice No. 525131 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent ______________________________________ PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 30, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of JULDYZRAI SATTORINA be changed to ZHULDUZ NURLANKIZY RAIMOVA Case No.: 21 C 100160

Public Notice District Court Arapahoe County, Colorado Court Address: 7325 South Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 In the Matter of the Petition of: Frank Tallman, III (name of person seeking to adopt) For the Adoption of a Child Case Number: 2020 JA 61 Division 22: NOTICE OF HEARING To: Nicolas Tinajero Pursuant to §19-5-208, C.R.S., you are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner(s) has/ have filed in this Court a verified Petition seeking to adopt a child. [x] If applicable, an Affidavit of Abandonment has been filed alleging that you have abandoned the child for a period of one year or more and/or have failed without cause to provide reasonable support for the child for one year or more.

You are further notified that an Adoption hearing is set on June 17, 2021, at 1:30 p.m. in the court location identified above.

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

You are further notified that if you fail to appear for said hearing, the Court may terminate your parental rights and grant the adoption as sought by the Petitioner(s).

Legal Notice No. 525113 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No. 525098 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: May 13, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice PUBLIC NOTICE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of James Gordon Nussbaum, also known as James G. Nussbaum, Deceased, Case Number: 2021PR30278

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 23, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice is given on March 9, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County District Court.

Legal Notice No. 525107 First Publication: April 15, 2021 Last Publication: April 29, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Merelee Anne Syron-Whitcomb be changed to Merelee Anne Whitcomb Case No.: 21 C 100081

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DAVID ERWIN WEISBERG, a/k/a DAVID E. WEISBERG, a/k/a DAVID WEISBERG, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 30410

Public Notice

Terry Ehrlich, #13213 Attorney for Personal Representative 7691 Shaffer Parkway, Suite A Littleton, CO 80127

Public notice is given on February 3, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mark Thomas Troxler, a/k/a Mark Tom Troxler, a/k/a Mark T. Troxler, a/k/a Mark Troxler, a/k/a Tom Troxler, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR030098.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 16, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Legal Notice No. 525118 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice District Court, Arapahoe County, Colorado Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, CO 80112

PUBLIC NOTICE

23, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

The Petition requests that the name of: Mar’quasa Re’Naa Hopson be changed to: Mar’quasa Rennae Maes.

By: /s/ CTR Clerk of Court/Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 525130 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 30, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe - Littleton County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Megan Dahri Slater be changed to Megan Dahri Young Case No.: 21 C 100172 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 525087 First Publication: April 8, 2021 Last Publication: April 22, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 6, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Vyctoria Starr Lauren Shackelford be changed to Ellyllon Tsukimi Shackelford Case No.: 21C100187 By: Kathleen Jaushi Magistrate Legal Notice No. 525111 First Publication: April 22, 2021 Last Publication: May 6, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

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