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INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 12 | LIFE: PAGE 14 | CALENDAR: PAGE 11 | SPORTS: PAGE 23

LPS eyes return to classrooms in January Elementary to come back first; schools are safe, superintendent says

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

full cost of each meal, which is $5.

Though the group saw a bump in clientele early in the pandemic, McClymonds said their numbers have settled back about where they

Littleton Public Schools is planning to bring elementary school students back to classrooms for full-week in-person classes in early January, with an eye toward bringing all students back in phases, district officials said at the Dec. 10 school board meeting.

Citing new guidance from state and national health officials calling for children to return to schools where safe, Ewert Superintendent Brian Ewert rolled out a plan that would see elementary students back in classrooms five days a week beginning Jan. 5.

LPS schools have been fully remote since November, after spending much of the fall semester under a “hybrid” learning model that saw most students in classrooms just two days a week. The district has not held regular in-person class schedules since March, part of efforts to control the spread of COVID-19.

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Nourish Meals on Wheels director Diane McClymonds, right, hands off bags of meals to volunteer drivers outside the group’s PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT headquarters in south Littleton on Dec. 10.

‘A healthy meal and a friendly face’ Meals on Wheels happy to add to the ranks of seniors receiving food delivery

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Seniors in need of a helping hand shouldn’t hesitate to reach out to Nourish Meals on Wheels, the nonprofit’s director said.

Nourish Meals on Wheels, headquartered in south Littleton, delivers hot, healthy meals to homebound seniors and people with disabilities five days a week,

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and occasionally delivers other items like bags of groceries.

“We are here with the capacity to do more,” said Diane McClymonds, the group’s executive director. “A lot of people think there are others worse off than them, so they’re saving the program for those with more need, but we have the capacity to serve them too. If you have a neighbor, friend, or relative you think could benefit from our services, we would love to hear from them.”

Nourish provides meals regardless of clients’ ability to pay, with many paying nothing toward their meals, though Nourish invites those with means to pay up to the

GET IN TOUCH Nourish Meals on Wheels delivers meals across much of the south Denver metro area from its headquarters at Broadway and Arapahoe Road. The nonprofit gladly accepts donations of money and non-perishable food. New volunteer orientations are currently on hiatus. Visit NourishMealsOnWheels.org or call 303798-7642 for more information.

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ID-19 dial, a level that bans private gatherings, indoor dining at restaurants and tightens capacity limits at some types of businesses.

It took effect Nov. 20 in Denver metro counties and other areas of the state. Now, just over half the

BY ELLIS ARNOLD state’s 64 counties operate in level EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM red.

State public health officials On April 22, 40 people in Colowouldn’t say how likely new stayrado died with coronavirus, markat-home orders are for metro Dening the state’s one-day record for ver and other regions. Officials are deaths among people with CO“pleased to see a plateau in cases, VID-19 in the spring. but our numbers still are signifiAfter months of the daily death cantly higher than they were in count falling and then staying the spring,” said a statement from steady, it jumped back up in the the Colorado State Joint Informafall. Colorado matched its record tion Center, which takes questions on Nov. 11. A week later, the state for the state public-health departposted a one-day total of 42 deaths. ment.

On both Nov. 27 and Dec. 1, the “It appears that the level red mitstate saw 60 igation tactics deaths each day are working. among those That said, we with coronavidon’t yet know rus, Colorado’s if increases worst days on from Thanksrecord as of giving will creDec. 11. ate a spike or The rate of what cases will deaths — and look like after new COVID-19 the December cases — now holidays,” appear to be the statement leveling off, said. “We need but Colorado’s Coloradans John Douglas, to continue to new cases per executive director of Tri-County avoid gatherday still dwarf the reported Health Department ings with other numbers from households, the spring wear masks and summer, when interactmaking Coloing with people rado’s previous “peaks” look like outside of their household and tiny blips. If the death rate only maintain at least 6 feet of distance plateaus, Colorado could still see from others.” dozens dead each day.

And if public health officials Getting to ‘level purple’ decide that the Denver metro Continuing its county-by-county area — and other regions — need approach to coronavirus restricmore coronavirus-related restrictions, the state’s new revision of tions, they have few places left to the COVID-19 dial — the colorgo other than to impose the kind coded set of restrictions counties of stay-at-home orders that drastimust follow based on local virus cally recast life and business in the spread — added a “level purple” in spring.

November. That’s the new term for It’s too early to say for sure, a stay-at-home order. but at least as of Dec. 10, fears of While a county qualifying for Thanksgiving gatherings unleashlower dial levels depends on the ing more severe virus spread in local rates of new cases, how many Colorado appear not to have come COVID-19 tests come back positive true. The rate of new cases apand the trend in hospitalizations, peared to have plateaued, or even a move into level purple depends slightly declined, according to the more squarely on whether hospistate’s COVID-19 website data. tal capacity risks being breached.

The head of Tri-County Health That scenario could be defined a Department said it’s “too early to few different ways, according to tell” whether Denver metro counthe public health order behind ties will need new stay-at-home Colorado’s dial, but the simplest is orders. when hospitals approach 90% of “I am pleasantly surprised their reported “surge capacity.” that we haven’t seen more of a Surge capacity means a hospipost-Thanksgiving bounce,” said tal’s ability to transition medical John Douglas, executive director and surgical beds to intensive care of the health agency for Adams, unit (ICU) beds, create plans for Arapahoe and Douglas counties. “I additional staffing, and manage or suspect this is due to the red-level delay elective surgeries, accordcapacity limits and the publicity ing to the State Joint Information about the gravity of the pandemic Center. “Elective” means a surgery that got many of us practicing can be delayed without undue risk safer behaviors.” to health.

Douglas referred to the “red” restrictions on Colorado’s COVSEE ORDER, P5

‘I am pleasantly surprised that we haven’t seen more of a post-Thanksgiving bounce.’

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Worship, ceremonies now classified as essential Weddings, funerals may also exceed capacity caps in light of court action

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In light of federal court input on capacity limits at houses of worship, the state public-health department has reclassified worship and related ceremonies such as weddings to be “critical services” — meaning they now can exceed capacity limits meant to combat the coronavirus.

Those activities are now classified as critical in the same way other exempt industries and activities — such as health care, food banks, child care and a long list of others — are given exceptions in the public health order behind Colorado’s COVID-19 dial. That’s the colorcoded system of restrictions counties must follow based on their local virus spread.

The revised guidelines apply to worship and associated ceremonies such as weddings, funerals and baptisms, whether religious or secular. But after-parties for these activities are considered indoor or outdoor events, according to the State Joint Information Center, which takes questions for the state public-health department. Indoor and outdoor events have their own specific limits in Colorado’s dial.

Ceremonies and worship services must do their best to follow public health recommendations, the department said in a news release.

“But (they) may exceed recommended capacity caps if they cannot conduct their essential activity within those restrictions,” the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said in the news release. The changes took effect Dec. 7.

Ceremonies and worship services still must require masks indoors, other prevention measures such as 6-foot spacing between members

of different households, and appropriate sanitation, according to the release. Outdoor activities are still strongly preferred, it added.

Input from the U.S. Supreme Court recently indicated that limits on religious activities could not be more restrictive than requirements implemented for other sectors, the statement from the State Joint Information Center said.

“As such, Colorado aligned our public health order with these rulings and have simply categorized worship activities and associated ceremonies as critical services or activities without further sectorspecific restrictions,” the statement said.

John Douglas, head of Tri-County Health Department, expressed some concern about expanded attendance at worship gatherings.

“This is complicated due to the recent Supreme Court decision and First Amendment rights,” Douglas said. “Church services and gatherings have been sources of ‘superspreader’ events and have been identified as important areas of (virus) transmission in published studies.”

If religious services and life-rite events are handled carefully — with masks, social distancing, adequate ventilation and people staying home when sick — they can be relatively safer, Douglas said.

“Faith leaders will have to be particularly attentive to these parameters during the end-of-year holiday season to avoid circumstances of COVID spread during their gatherings,” Douglas said.

The state also expanded the ability of educational indoor settings such as museums to operate.

Indoor events in general are closed in level-red counties — which includes the entire Denver metro area and much of the rest of Colorado — but now, educational institutions such as museums, aquariums and zoos may operate at 25% capacity or, generally, 25 people per room, whichever is fewer. That’s another change that took effect Dec. 7.

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MY NAME IS

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in Taiwan for a year. No place ever really felt like home until I settled on East Colfax in Denver, where I lived for 10 years.

Mom who came to love Littleton helps bridge gaps between poverty and health

Delightfully uncontrolled

Poverty and health

I’m a program officer for the Colorado Health Foundation, which provides grant funding for health programs with a focus on low-income communities and communities of color.

I’m assigned to southwestern Colorado, and my job is to know as much as possible about the region — we want to know the locals, the officials, everyone.

Historically, the foundation funded grants strictly in terms of health, but now we’re working on social factors. How do we increase access to housing? All of that affects health. If you don’t have a house to live in, you’re probably not able to worry about whether you’re eating enough fruits and vegetables.

We blame people for their poverty, or we expect their families to help, but so many families don’t have that safety net. It’s easy to look at someone in poverty and not understand the systemic

Sara Overby, with her son Samuel, said she used to be the biggest fan of life on Colfax Avenue in Denver, COURTESY PHOTO but now she’s the biggest fan of downtown Littleton.

influences that put them where they are today.

‘The personality of a jet engine’

My daughter is 3, and she has personality of jet engine. I’ve never been a patient person, but she has

forced me to learn patience.

My son is 1 year old, and from him I learned it doesn’t matter what your genetics are, everyone is their own person.

I’d like to apologize right now to every parent I ever

judged in a restaurant. Until you have your own, you just have no idea what it’s like.

Having kids has humbled me.

I grew up in Oklahoma, moved to Washington, D.C. after college, and even lived

East Colfax is uncontrolled in a way that’s delightful. My husband and I had so much fun. There were so many cool places to check out and so many great people to meet.

As much as I loved it, there’s crime. I grew up in Oklahoma, riding my bike around. I couldn’t send my daughter to play among the needles and condoms in the alleys.

Having kids means life is no longer about what you want, but what’s best for them. I became the classic American case of moving to the suburbs when you have kids.

I said I would never do it, but we drove through Littleton, and I said I think I like this place. Next thing I knew we were buying a house here.

I was the number one fan of East Colfax, but now I’m the number one fan of downtown Littleton.

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Estimates based on data from before Thanksgiving say that if Colorado kept up its levels of mask-wearing, physical distancing and moving activities outside, then hospital and ICU demand may stay within Colorado’s estimated surge capacity, according to a Dec. 4 report by the Colorado School of Public Health.

But if Coloradans let their guard down enough over the holidays, demand on hospitals could break those estimates, the report says.

If that happens, the state could reach ICU surge capacity in early January or even late December depending on how closed-off Coloradans keep themselves from contacts.

What’s more, local public health agencies, such as TriCounty Health in the metro area, could choose to issue their own stay-at-home orders whether the state’s dial requires it or not.

Back in March, three metroarea public health departments issued stay-at-home orders, covering Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson and Boulder counties, just before Gov. Jared Polis announced the statewide stay-at-home.

But Tri-County Health probably wouldn’t issue its own order at this point in the pandemic, said Douglas, the health chief.

“I think this is unlikely since we now have a state framework

(the dial) for all counties contributing to, or at risk from, a breach in hospital capacity to move together, which would be much more effective than movement of individual counties,” Douglas said.

What halted the spike?

Program could loosen limits

Meanwhile, businesses’ eyes are set on the state potentially going in the other direction: loosening rather than tightening restrictions, and possibly reopening indoor dining.

As of mid-December, the state public-health department was considering new rules that would let businesses operate at higher capacity than current restrictions normally allow — as long as the businesses stick to strict protocols designed to prevent the virus’ spread in their buildings.

Colorado calls it the “business best practice certification” program, modeled after a system Mesa County has “pioneered and has successfully run since the summer,” according to the state public-health department. That’s known as the “5-star rating program.”

If the state adopts a similar program, businesses could generally operate based on a level of the state’s COVID-19 dial that is one notch less severe than the level the business would otherwise have to follow. For example, a business in a “level orange” county could operate at “level yellow” capacity restrictions.

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If the return of elementary students goes well, Ewert said, the district will bring middle and high school students back for hybrid learning later in January.

If classroom learning models are successful, the district hopes to bring all students back for full-time inperson learning by April.

Though numerous students and staff tested positive for COVID-19 during the fall semester, Ewert said the decision to go fully remote had very little to do with in-school transmission rates, safety concerns or fear, but far more to do with the impossible logistics of continuing school with so many teachers and staff in quarantine at any given time.

“We believe schools are exponentially more safe than the rest of the community,” Ewert said. “We’re not fearful of opening schools … We have controlled systems. We can tell people where to go, where to stand, where to sit. We can make it work.”

Targeted quarantines caused massive, sporadic disruption to district schools in the fall, Ewert said, sometimes forcing the closure of entire schools because of a lack of teachers.

Other services, like cafeterias and

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were before COVID-19, with about 500 people a day receiving meals

bus routes, were similarly impacted.

Ewert said new guidance from the Tri-County Health Department and the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) will allow more targeted quarantines affecting smaller groups.

Still, he said, more quarantines will likely strain teacher capacity further, and he called on local parents who are eager to support in-person learning to volunteer to become substitute teachers.

“All you need is a high school diploma and to be able to pass a background check,” Ewert said.

Though the district will continue to track local virus transmission and infection data, Ewert said officials won’t rely as heavily on community data for decision-making as was laid out over the summer.

School board president Jack Reutzel said he was comfortable backing off using community data to decide whether schools should stay open.

“We have the ability to change our minds when better data becomes available,” Reutzel said, adding that tracking metrics were set up over the summer before anyone knew what a return to classrooms would do to transmission rates. “We didn’t have the ability to understand what was going to happen in our schools, because we hadn’t started our schools yet.”

Amanda Crosby, who heads the district’s teachers’ union, said a survey she conducted of teachers showed many supported a return to classrooms, though she said she hoped the plan to return in January could be reevaluated if virus transmission and hospitalization rates worsen.

“LPS can make plans, but they must be contingent on virus spread that makes it realistic,” she said.

“Students need predictability and a lack of disruptions in their learning.”

Crosby also urged the community to adhere to public health guidance to keep transmission rates low, like wearing face masks in public and avoiding gatherings.

Several parents who called into the meeting were adamant that they felt schools should reopen for full-time in-person learning immediately, especially in light of district data presented at the meeting showing that failing grade rates at the high school level are spiking.

“I’m very worried about our teenagers,” said a parent of two students.

“School is not that hard right now. If kids are failing, it’s because they’re doing nothing, because they’re depressed, lonely and isolated. They need to be in the building. Schools are safe.”

Another parent of a high school student said she was exasperated

with remote and hybrid learning.

“Are we purely at the mercy of TriCounty Health?” she said. “I can only wonder if the teachers’ union leads these decisions. The bottom line is, my son needs to be back in person.

The mental health of our young people is in jeopardy.”

Board member Robert Reichardt, who recently recovered from a case of COVID-19, pushed back against some of the criticism.

“There’s an insinuation that schools aren’t open because we’re not being leaders or we’re beholden to the teachers’ union,” Reichardt said. “But the reason is there’s a pandemic. A highly contagious pandemic that has infected one out of every 20 of our neighbors. It killed five people in our county last week. It’s killing friends, neighbors, parents and grandparents. That’s the problem.”

Board member Carrie WarrenGully, who will leave the board in January to take on a new role as an Arapahoe County Commissioner, said it’s up to the community to make sure schools and the economy can reopen safely.

“It’s a sacrifice we all have to make collectively,” Warren-Gully said. “That’s something we all have to think about in this time of year when our instinct is to do something different.”

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CARES Act funding allowed Nourish to add a once-a-week delivery of non-perishable groceries, but that funding is ending at the end of the year. McClymonds said she hopes to secure additional funding for grocery

delivery through recently-announced state grants for food bank programs.

The group’s meals have also climbed in quality thanks to a partnership with the Food Exchange Resource Network, a nonprofit providing Nourish with fresh produce and meat.

“It means a lot more cooking from scratch,” McClymonds said. “Our menu is pretty amazing these days.”

The pandemic means Nourish has had to scale back one of its volunteers’ favorite aspects of visiting clients: spending time chatting.

“For those clients who are still making an effort, it’s still working,” McClymonds said. “But I won’t lie, it’s not the same. Our drivers have to stand way back, in the driveway perhaps, while clients talk to them through a screen door or from the porch. But even if not, our drivers are still someone coming to check on you every day. If we come back the next day and your meal is still there, we’ll figure out why and get you the help you need.”

While McClymonds said Nourish has its COVID protocols pretty

well worked out by now, the group is stockpiling extra meals in its new king-size freezer in case an outbreak plays havoc with its food production. But she said missing meal days is not an option.

“We’ve got 500 people depending on us for their daily nutrition,” she said. “Shutting the doors for a couple weeks? We just can’t do it.”

Nourish is in the middle of its annual 12 Days of Giving program, which provides a dozen gifts to clients, one per service day leading up to Christmas. Gifts include greeting cards, home decorations and poinsettias.

For Lanny and Carla Arensen, a husband-and-wife volunteer driver team, delivering meals is about helping vulnerable seniors stay in the comfort of their own homes.

“It’s serving the common good,” said Carla, as the couple waited outside Nourish’s headquarters to receive their meals before heading out on their route. “It’s not about us.

It’s about helping seniors. A healthy meal and a friendly face can mean a lot.”

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Republican confirmed winner in DA race Democrat Padden concedes to Kellner after close contest

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Republican John Kellner was confirmed the victor over Democrat Amy Padden in a close contest for 18th Judicial District attorney after the state completed a mandatory recount in the race.

Kellner secured 50.12% of the vote, or 287,402 ballots, while Padden garnered 49.88%, or 285,977

votes. The district comprises Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties.

Kellner, who will succeed Republican George Brauchler, celebrated with a stateKellner ment on social media.

“It’s official! The recount is complete across all four counties and I’ll be taking the oath of office as the next DA of the 18th Judicial District on Jan. 12. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible,” Kellner wrote on Twitter.

Padden conceded on Dec. 5, still waiting on results from Lincoln

County but expecting a final margin of 1,425 votes, or less than 0.25% difference.

In a release, Padden’s campaign pointed to the number of registered voters in the district — 27.5% are Democrats and 30.3% Republicans — and that 21,000 more Republicans cast ballots in the race than Democrats.

“We ran a positive, policy-based campaign that resonated with hundreds of thousands of voters. I am eternally grateful to my family, my team, and our amazing group of supporters for all their support,” Padden said in a statement.

Padden said she has offered

Kellner her help in implementing reforms promised on the campaign trail.

The candidates had squared off touting their experience and ability to helm the state’s most populous judicial district amid nationwide calls for criminal justice reform.

Kellner has pledged to make more data available than what the district publishes today regarding criminal justice statistics and demographics of people in the system. He also promised community town halls and an external audit of prosecutorial data to check the system for implicit bias.

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It was still unclear as of Dec. 11 whether the state will allow businesses in level red counties to operate at level orange, though. That was to be determined depending on data from Mesa County on whether a 5-star program is compatible with the red level, according to the state public-health department.

Asked whether the program would allow indoor dining in level red counties, the State Joint Information Center seemed to indicate it would, saying: “In the draft proposal, if a county qualifies and chooses to develop the 5-star program, indoor dining could be allowed.”

It’s also unclear whether the state will roll out the program on schedule.

“While the program might launch on Dec. 18, counties will likely need additional time to implement it,” the information center’s statement said.

Vaccine not immediate fix

Even as word of vaccine rollouts spread across the nation, state officials are hoping Coloradans keep in mind that the general population won’t have access to a vaccine until the summer — and that’s if everything goes according to plan.

The highest-risk health care workers and individuals, and then moderate-risk health care workers and first responders, are expected to have access to the vaccine this winter, according to Colorado’s COVID-19 website.

Up next are other high-risk

individuals and essential workers in spring, and then comes the general public — anyone age 18-64 without high-risk health conditions — in the summer.

But a speedy timeline depends on “steady shipments of vaccines from the federal government and steady administration of the vaccine by providers around the state,” a governor’s office news release said.

An estimated 1 in 40 Coloradans are infectious with COVID-19 — the highest prevalence to date, the School of Public Health’s Dec. 4 report says.

And even accounting for the lack of testing early in the pandemic — a factor that makes Colorado’s spring tally of COVID-19 cases appear artificially low — Coloradans are now likely becoming infected at more than twice the true rate experienced during spring, according to the report.

The estimated peak in the spring of all asymptomatic and symptomatic infections — not just the cases that are actually reported, generally, through testing — is estimated to have occurred around late March, with nearly 6,000 new infections in one day.

In mid-November, the one-day estimate of new infections had reached around 13,000. The reported number of new cases for Nov. 12 was 6,600.

Even by a conservative estimate, Colorado could see nearly 5,600 deaths associated with COVID-19 by the end of the year, the report says.

As of Dec. 10, Colorado had seen 3,012 deaths due to COVID-19.

The total deaths among cases was 3,846 — the number who died with COVID-19 but not necessarily due to it.

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Summer is likely timetable for most to get vaccine

BY JESSE PAUL AND JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

The general public in Colorado likely won’t have access to a coronavirus vaccine until the summer of 2021, state officials said, though inoculations for health-care workers and nursing home residents could start as early as this week.

A distribution plan unveiled Dec. 9 by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment prioritizes health-care workers, namely those who interact with COVID-19 patients, and nursing home residents and staff for the first doses of vaccine in what’s being referred to as “Phase 1A.” Since coronavirus reached Colorado early this year, nearly 1,400 residents of nursing homes and senior care centers have died from COVID-19. More than 5,700 nursing home staff have caught the disease and as many as 10 have been killed by it.

In “Phase 1B,” which is expected to continue through the winter, first responders — like firefighters and police officers — and people who work in home health, hospice care and dental settings will be prioritized to receive vaccines.

A vaccine developed by Pfizer, which requires two doses, could be approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration this week. Another vaccine being manufactured by Moderna, which also requires two doses, could be available as soon as a week after

the Pfizer vaccine gets the OK from federal regulators.

“We know that in the early weeks and months of vaccine distribution, supplies will be limited. This have been a historic effort to create this vaccine in a record period of time,” said Scott Bookman, Colorado’s coronavirus incident commander.

“And while we’re going to get there, it’s going to take many months to get this out to the general public.”

Colorado officials have been racing to prepare for the arrival of the vaccine, running tests and developing protocols to ensure the state doesn’t waste any doses. CDPHE and Gov. Jared Polis’ office are also working to ensure the vaccine is stored securely and can’t be stolen or tampered with.

“The vaccine is really a gateway to the end of the pandemic,” Polis said Dec. 10 “We can see the end in sight.”

“Phase 2” of Colorado’s vaccine plan is expected to begin in the spring and include essential workers — like teachers, grocery store staff and meatpacking employees — and people over 65 years old. Anyone with a preexisting condition, like diabetes, chronic lung disease, heart disease and cancer, or who is immunocompromised will also get a vaccine during this phase.

Anyone between the ages of 18 and 64 without high-risk conditions will be vaccinated in “Phase 3.” Bookman said it’s unclear how long the third phase will last and that it depends on how much supply

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Availability is crucial

Health officials cautioned that all of their timelines for vaccine distribution could change based on availability.

“We know that early doses will be limited,” Bookman said, “but they will expand.”

Bookman said the vaccine will be provided for free for anyone who wants it.

The new plan differs in significant ways from the initial version that the state submitted to the federal government in October.

People who live in nursing homes have been moved up in priority.

Health-care workers who are not directly treating patients with COVID-19 have been moved down slightly.

But the biggest change is that the state has removed people who live in congregate housing situations — namely prisoners — from the priority list entirely.

People in those living situations — such as college students living in dorms, seasonal workers at ski areas living in shared housing, people experiencing homelessness living in shelters, and people who are incarcerated — had been at a now-deleted “Phase 2A” of the initial plan. Public health experts had urged making them a priority because they are at high risk of catching and transmitting the virus, creating large outbreaks that can spread across entire communities.

As of last week, 14 of the state’s 15 largest COVID-19 outbreaks had been in correctional facilities or on college campuses. At least 14 Colorado prisoner deaths have been tied to COVID-19.

But, in his announcement on Dec. 9, Polis made clear that the main consideration for the new priority list was whether someone is at increased risk of death from COVID-19.

“If we want to save lives, we need to prioritize based on who is the most vulnerable from this virus,” Polis said. “… The moral path for society to take is to protect those who are far more likely to lose their lives to the virus.”

Bookman echoed that sentiment.

“It does not matter where you live, it matters what you’re susceptibility

to this illness is,” Bookman said.

The new plan still prioritizes people who are “workers serving people that live in high-density settings.” Those individuals are placed in Phase 2 of the vaccine rollout, meaning, for instance, that people who work in homeless shelters will likely be eligible for vaccination before many people experiencing homelessness are.

Groups crafted different plans

Public health and medical experts worked for months on creating the state’s initial vaccination priority plan. An advisory committee of medical experts — the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee — drafted one plan. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had its own teams also working on roll-out plans, and the two were ultimately merged to create the plan the state sent to the federal government earlier this year.

That initial plan largely followed the advice of a committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, which also singled out people living in congregate housing as being worthy of priority. Two Colorado experts — Dr. Ned Calonge, the president and CEO of The Colorado Trust, and Dr. Jonathan Samet, the dean of the Colorado School of Public Health who is leading Colorado’s pandemic modeling efforts — reviewed and provided feedback for the National Academies report before it was released.

The governor also promised Dec. 9 that vaccination information about Coloradans will not be shared with the federal government. That’s despite the fact that The New York Times reported Dec. 9 that the Trump administration is requiring states to submit the personal information of people who get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Polis asked Coloradans to be extra vigilant in protecting themselves and others against coronavirus in the next few months.

“It’s a marathon,” he said. “We’re getting there.”

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. Used by permission. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

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VOICES Music won’t stay silent, for better or worse

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hat’s science got to do with it?

What’s science but a secondhand emotion?

Music, eventually, finds its way into almost everything, including a pandemic. The same is true for all of the arts.

Visual artists, QUIET filmmakers, writDESPERATION ers, and others have been reacting to COVID-19 ever since it began to hit America and, in many ways, limit Americans.

Musicians have responded to dire conditions, authority, wars, prejudice, Craig Marshall Smith and innumerable hardships forever.

Some of us may have been initiated by Woody Guthrie’s politically charged anthems. He also wrote “This Land is Your Land.”

The decade of the 1960s was a ripe period for musicians, many of whom were tagged as “protest singers,” especially Bob Dylan, but also

The news right now is a bombardment.

Listening to music is one of the ways I (try to) overcome the frustrations and anxieties. I don’t invite “protest” music into that as I did during, for example, the Vietnam War. Music and movies are my antidote. After a day saturated with “Breaking News” I want comedy, romantic comedy, drama, but I don’t want violence, revenge, meanness or cruelty. There’s plenty of that in the paper.

After he left Them, Van Morrison recorded “Brown Eyed Girl,” which you can hear at least once a week on the radio.

“Skipping and a jumping / In the misty morning fog with you” is a long old way away from “No more celebrities.”

Often it’s the other way around.

Artists protest when we’re young, then soften (or resign) as we get older.

Of course, many go down fighting whatever it is.

Pete Seeger was still being Pete Seeger until the day he died (2014 at

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Phil Ochs, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Nina Simone, even Marvin Gaye.

A British band at the time, Them, was uninvolved, and recorded hits such as “Gloria,” “Baby, Please Don’t Go,” and “Here Comes the Night.”

The lead singer, who was born in 1945, went solo and still performs.

I was half-surprised to read about a song he’s written and recorded titled “No More Lockdown,” and anti-lockdown tune.

“No more celebrities / No more celebrities telling us / Telling us what we’re supposed to feel / No more lockdown.”

He takes a bigger swing at “experts.”

“No more Imperial College Scientists making up crooked facts.”

It’s not smooth and pretty, is it?

Neither was Dylan’s “Masters of War,” a song I have outgrown; not one I’m likely to listen to on a Sunday in 2020.

As an artist, I have always avoided current events, choosing instead to find solace in painting and drawing rather than a forum.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Time to scrutinize COVID approach

In response to the Dec. 3 letter “We must do our part”: Per the CDC, COVID-19 is estimated to have a survival rate of 99.98% for people younger than 50. (www.cdc.gov/ coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ planning-scenarios.html) An approach targeting the vulnerable is a much more effective strategy than demanding everyone abandon life as we know it. Canceling holidays is a selfrighteous distraction to addressing real health policy issues. I would urge everyone to read the three pamphlets written by Alex Berenson, “Unreported Truths About Covid-19 and Lockdowns.”

Mask wearing as a “sacrifice” should also be addressed. There is a published study from the University of New South Wales, 2015, that cautions against the use of cloth masks. I am wearing a mask at work 40 hours a week. Are you?

Is Jared Polis? I object to wearing a mask, pressed against my face all day, that is potentially collecting germs.

If masks are effective and compliance is extremely high, why do cases keep rising? Please don’t blame small gatherings, as COVID does not spontaneously

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It is a great disservice to compare giving up holidays to the sacrifices made by the Brits and Americans during WWII. They fought with their very lives for our rights, which are not defined by your perception of my responsibilities. As Benjamin Franklin so eloquently stated: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

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So many individuals, families and businesses are struggling financially, physically and emotionally. It would seem the money could have been used in a more universally beneficial manner.

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the age of 94).

I probably won’t add “No More Lockdown” to my playlists. However, I understand Morrison’s desire to produce such a song.

I’ll let you in on a secret: These columns give me an opportunity to achieve the very same thing, albeit without the edge or the angle.

Morrison is adhering to the unwritten “Artist’s Responsibility.”

Choosing to will cost him some of his audience.

A best friend and I have been exchanging daily messages, each swathed in humor, wordplay, and nonsense.

Another friend and I dwell on the pandemic and politicians.

Which do you think I look forward to the most?

One day, Mark and I exchanged, explained, and debated our favorite humorists. It was hotly contested, meaningless, without importance or merit.

And wonderful.

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

Who is on your Have Not Called list?

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special thanks to one of our community families, Mr., and Mrs. Arthur Emerson, for inspiring this week’s column, your encouragement is greatly appreciated.

Who is on your Do Not Call list?

I don’t mean the businesses you have WINNING asked to stop calling WORDS you, or the Do Not Call lists that you have registered your telephone number with to stop telemarketers from trying to reach you. No, I am referring to the people in your life who have made your Michael Norton Do Not Call list.

Well, maybe we don’t refer to it as a Do Not Call list, but for too many of us, somehow along the way we have intentionally or inadvertently created our own Have Not Called list. Life gets in the way, we grow apart, work is too demanding, our calendars are already jam packed, we have been on video calls and conference calls all day and just can’t make time for one more call. Our ears are sore, our voice is

crackling, and we just need to hit the pause button.

Let’s back up eight months to when this pandemic became more real than many people had predicted. As we were going through restrictions and quarantines, many families took advantage of the time to schedule family video conferences, bringing in aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws, and friends together as a way to stay in touch during a crisis. It was more than we had ever done before the pandemic came around. And it was awesome, tiring maybe, but awesome all the same.

It seems that the longer this virus hangs around, the more serious it has become; the more our calls and video conferences may have slowed down as well. For those of us who were all working remotely, and in some cases, going to an office or other place for that human touch, we had some of our needs met through interactions or engagement with others. Unfortunately, this is not the case for many other folks. And they are not “just other folks,” they are our folks, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, and

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Releasing 2020 with a fake tree and TV fireplace?

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ertainly, the year 2020 will go down in our history books, personal journals, and perhaps our recipe books. But what about our year-end celebrations? This year, we’ve experienced a world around GUEST us full of conflict socially, interperCOLUMN sonally, and even within ourselves.

Knowing some of these are over, yet some still lingering, how do we ritualize a year’s end when not all of these are tied up nicely with a bow? Linda Newell Thinking about this, the word that keeps popping in my head is “grace.” Sitting next to my artificial Christmas tree and looking at the video of a fireplace on my television has been strangely calming to me lately, almost mesmerizing. OK, I know they’re fake,

but it takes me to a meditative state fairly quickly and allows me to just slow down, relax, and be in the moment. And for now, even a simulation of something calm is welcoming.

Usually, at the end of a year, we would look back at our challenges, successes, and failures and release them all into the universe; feeling the relief or accomplishment that this year is coming to an end. But with our current COVID-19 conditions, it seems as if we’re stuck in Groundhog Day with no end in sight. Yes, we have a glimmer of hope with vaccines in our future.

Yes, most of us have adjusted to physically distancing and wearing a mask in public. But like a kid in the back seat on a long road trip, we just want to know, “When are we gonna get there?” How long are we going to be stuck in this small container for hours on end with these same people and no elbow room? Realistically, with the pandemic, we know

it won’t be soon. So how can we give each other and ourselves a bit of grace? How can we move on to more of the same?

At least with the elections (with the exception of Georgia), we know they’re over. Whether we’re celebrating or mourning the outcomes, at least we know they’re over for another couple of years. When we know something is done, we can ritualize it with a rite-of-passage, funeral, or celebration, which most of us have probably done by now with the elections. But if we’re not happy about the election outcome, how can we be at peace with “what is?”

As we’re going into 2021, knowing we’re in for many more months of the same, stuck in an unending “COVID road trip” at home, how do we vision for a bright hopeful 2021 future?

Can my fake Christmas tree with my Star of David tree topper and TV fireplace actually help me tran-

scend? From the Buddhist perspective, perhaps. No matter what’s going on around me, whether it be suffering or joy, if I can become one with my simulated hearth and tree and be fully present, maybe I can be elevated to a higher consciousness of acceptance of “what is.” So, even if it’s fake, if it can help me in the moment to feel more peace, I’m in.

So, if your fake Christmas tree or televised fireplace helps you live moment to moment through the end of this year, I say go for it. Better to give yourself some grace than to live miserably into oblivion.

Former Colorado state senator, now with a master’s in Social Justice and Ethics from Iliff School of Theology, Linda Newell is a writer, speaker, facilitator, and conflict consultant. Senlindanewell@gmail. com, www.lindanewell.org, www. senlindanewell.com, @sennewell on Twitter, Senator Linda Newell or @ TheLastBill on Facebook.

Short-term rental plan got short shrift

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hort-term rentals are a hotbutton issue throughout the country as municipalities work to navigate the benefits of tourism and support for local businesses with the demands of neighborhood residents. After GUEST Littleton’s failed COLUMN passage of a short-term rental (STR) ordinance in January 2019, and a room full of 40 disgruntled citizens, a group of us took the novel initiative to sit down and try and work Angela Engel out a compromise.

To streamline our efforts, we appointed four STR owners and four citizens confronted with problem STRs. Although there were several points of dissent, the most controversial aspect of the original ordinance was the requirement that all STRs would be the primary residence of the STR owner. That provision would have eliminated several existing STRs, operating without any complaints for many years. There are currently fewer than 50 Littleton STR licenses, and approximately 30 unlicensed, among the city’s 7,700 rental properties.

Our goal as a community-driven coalition was to balance the legitimate concerns of citizens with the rights of property owners and responsibly operating licensed STRs. We made certain to include both council and city staff so they would be apprised throughout every step of our process. We debated and dialogued over several months on recommendations designed to inform the successful passage of a STR ordinance. As a

matter of process, we relied on evidence-based information including careful analysis of current data.

The coalition explored statewide and national models of STR existing policies and consulted with attorneys.

Rarely in today’s world of polarization do you see healthy examples where both sides of a controversial community issue come together to negotiate compromise. Our objectives for a balanced and effective STR ordinance were simple: 1. To ensure the health and safety of every community 2. To have an enforceable recourse for problematic STRs while respecting good practices of responsible STRs 3. To honor a neighborhood feel representative of our historic town by limiting the number of STRs and ensuring community investment.

After a lengthy and inclusive process, coordinated input from 40 citizens and with the guidance of the city manager, the coalition forwarded our suggestions to council on April 19, 2019. In February after a newly elected council had been sworn in, we met councilmembers to share our extensive process, discuss our recommendations and answer questions.

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Making do for the holidays Traditions change as celebrants face season unlike any other

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rom her family’s locally famous light display to their traditional Christmas party — which usually includes around 75 people and even a hired Santa — Jennifer Shelton loves to go big on Christmas.

But this year, COVID-19 has led the Arvada resident to rethink her approach to the cherished holiday. The lights at her home 19275 W. 84th Place are already as bright as ever but there will be no party this December.

Instead, Shelton and her family are focused on enjoying some new, more pandemic-friendly festivities. So far, their agenda has included multiple movie nights and plenty of baking and crafting, with the family making plans to learn how to make their own Advent wreath for their Christmas table.

She’s also planning on having her mother-in-law over for a day of baking with her daughter, who has never had time to learn the mother-in-law’s recipes.

“I’m just trying to keep the spirit alive even though we can’t do some of the stuff that we used to do,” Shelton said.

But while Shelton and her family are trying to make the most of this unusual holiday season, she said it’s still hard to not be able to enjoy more social activities like parties with friends and gift exchanges. That feels particularly true at the end of a difficult year that saw Shelton’s daughter spend 10 days in the hospital and her grandmother die of COVID-19.

Still, there also positives to a slower-paced holiday season, including more opportunities to spend more time with family and pause to be thankful for all she does have.

“Normally, I’m still shopping, but this year I already did all of my shopping online so I am able to spend time with my family and enjoy the season a little bit more by sitting down and watching movies and things like that,” she said. “I usually wouldn’t be able to do that because I would be running around like a crazy person.”

A cardboard tree

Given the risk posed by COVID-19, Aleya Jean and her partner will be staying home in Golden this Christmas. However, they plan on choosing another day in the future to “designate as Christmas” and will use it to go see family when it is safe to travel again.

In the meantime, however, Jean plans to enjoy the cardboard tree she constructed with her husband.

“That’s been a tradition for a few years, but now that we have so many

Aleya Jean and her partner created this cardboard tree.

Passersby have made of tradition of hanging ornaments on a tree along the Ralston Creek Trail in Arvada.

Amazon boxes it was really easy,” Jean said. “And we didn’t have to go out and interact with people to purchase a real Christmas tree.”

A harder holiday for some

For Katie Bartlett, this Christmas will mean will mean putting on a brave face for her kids. That’s because COVID-19 has impacted her family’s income tremendously and left them behind on rent and utilities.

Still, they did some decorating inside and are planning to do the tree next.

“It is hard because as a parent you feel like a failure,” Bartlett said.

“Don’t get me wrong, we have plenty to be thankful for such as our health.

But it is still hard.”

Casey Romero, meanwhile, doesn’t know where she will be spending Christmas this year.

She and her family were hoping to drive out to South Carolina to bring her son, who is serving on a military base, home to Littleton for his first Christmas since moving away.

But the pandemic had other ideas and her son recently received word that he would not be allowed to travel more than 1,200 miles from his base as a result of increasing COVID-19 cases around the country.

“Now we are hoping to get approved to drive out there and see him maybe in a VRBO (vacation rental) with maybe socially distancing,” said Romero. “But right now we don’t really know if that will get approved,

we are just hoping.”

If that doesn’t get approved, Romero said they will plan to lie low and find a way to “celebrate from afar.”

That will be a bummer, particularly since Romero has not been able to hug her son since he left for boot camp in May. Still, “it’s not great but there are worse things, and you have to take your wins where you have them,” she said.

“I do think people need to remember that our military personnel are very lonely right now,” Romero added. “We feel we have rights to do everything and see everybody but at the end of the day there are a lot of them who don’t get to see family. We have to be grateful for what we have.”

Communities changing course

Few Front Range cities are as synonymous with Christmas as Golden.

There, December weekends typically mean big crowds of shoppers during the day that become even bigger in the evening as people cram downtown to catch a glimpse of Santa Claus when the Olde Golden Christmas parades make their way through downtown.

This year, however, the city’s holiday planners are instead orienting the festivities around resident’s homes, while nodding to another canceled favorite, the Candlelight Walk. During that event, residents would gather to go caroling down Golden’s main street, Washington Avenue, with a candle in hand.

“This year we are handing out these battery-operated commemorative candles and we are asking everyone to place one in their window and light it every night at 7 to show that unity that we have in the community, and that even though we can’t come together we are all still together,” said Nola Krajewski, the executive director of the Golden Chamber of Commerce.

The cancellation of Golden’s parade also means that local kids did get the chance to march in it with Santa.

But they were still able to be sworn

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in as official “Golden Christmas elves” during the annual Golden Elf Academy. Organizer Stacy Fowler said she was happy to turn the event virtual this year.

“I think that there is so much that kids aren’t even able to do and such a shortage — you can’t even see Santa right now in a lot of places,” she said. “This is some way for them to be involved with Santa in a virtual way at least for an hour.”

Other communities are also planning their own shows of holiday togetherness amidst the separation required by the pandemic.

In Westminster, Arvada, Centennial and other communities, residents have been circulating a Facebook post asking “everyone to step out on their doorsteps to spread Christmas sprit and help Santa fly his sleigh” at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve. “After this awful year, it would be an amazing memory for the kids and the communities,” the post reads.

“End 2020 with a bit of magic, hope and togetherness.”

Cheryl Truax-Williams is among those planning to participate.

“This is how traditions start,” she said.

Old traditions get new life

But while COVID-19 is creating new traditions, it’s also providing fuel for existing ones to grow as they take on new meaning at a time when so many are spending the holidays apart.

Three years ago, Chris Hohenstein began adding his own ornament to a growing collection that he noticed on a couple of trees along the Ralston Creek Trail near his home. This year there seem to be more ornaments than ever on the trees, which are located along the trail a couple turns west of Eldridge Street.

“It’s a wonderful hometown-type tradition that someone started in the neighborhood and everyone seems to enjoy and keep going year after year,” said Hohenstein. “And it’s just a wonderful treat to see as you are out for a walk on the trail.”

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‘Own an Original’ goes online Museum’s yearly art show takes virtual approach as COVID closes facilities

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Forty-two Colorado artists submitted 158 artworks to be juried by Dr. Sarah Magnetta earlier in the fall for Littleton’s 2020 Own an Original exhibit-the 55th year for this event.

Usually, the opening of this exhibit is celebrated with a festive reception at the Littleton Museum. At times, there has even been live music ...

The theme, determined when the call for artists was announced, was “Liberating Humor,” which turned out to be a savvy choice by the Littleton Fine Art Board.

“To liberate is to provide freedom from the limitations of thought or behavior,” said the announcement.

Just as the exhibit opened on Nov. 20, a few people got to see it, then all city build-

ings were closed per Colorado health order. Closed down along with what seems like the remainder of the world ... Oh my!

One can still access the images on the city website and hopefully, the museum will be able to open before the exhibit’s Jan. 2, 2021 closing date — keep an eye out for announcements. In the meantime, your computer screen continues to be the avenue to the arts ... go to www.littletongov.org/cityservices/city-departments/ museum and click on “Liberating Humor” and then on “Digital Exhibit.”

Dr. Sara Magnetta is assistant professor of global contemporary art in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver. Her choice for “Best of Show” was “My Las Vegas Money,” a tempera painting by Olga and Aleksey Ivanov showing the back of a framed artwork, with a small roll of bills tucked in the corner of the frame — and what appears to be a receipt for the piece illustrated — and a green and white lollipop! Just in case.

Visual artists can be cre-

“My Las Vegas Money,” a tempera painting by Olga and Aleksey Ivanov, is part of Littleton Museum’s online “Own an Original” exhibit.

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ative with words too ... See also: Susie Drucker’s “Loo With a View”; Mary Clark’s “Down on the Ranch,” a small herd of curious cows; “Talk to the Moon” by Jesse Guess (a crow atop a globe, as though he owns the world); “Where Have You Been?” by Dawn Hendrix — a goofy peacock close-up portrait. One hears shrill sounds by just looking!

The Ivanovs also have a piece called “Collector’s Chair” which is worth a chuckle. In fact, the whole show is entertaining — give

yourself a break and linger on this website awhile ...

The color and clear reproduction are fine — one just doesn’t get a conception of size, although of course it’s stated for each piece. And texture shows clearly in the photographs.

Highlands Ranch sculptor Shohini Ghosh exhibits one of her cast bronze sculptures: “Infinity,” with a mini-storyline: “A lady dancing with such grace that her grace and balance creates the infinite balance of movement and grace.”

In the three-dimensional department, sculptor Jutta Golas entered a ceramic sculpture: “On Top of it All.” The Best of Show winners will get to mount a whole show next year, sharing space with the Best of Show winner in the “Eye of the Camera” photography exhibit. We enjoyed visiting their website and look forward to more exposure to their work ...

Other winners: first place: Anne Feller, “Embrace”; second place: “Chromaticism VI” by Matthew Bollinger, who says the museum is right in his neighborhood.

Third place went to Will Barker’s “Upheaval.”

Honorable mention awards: Jesse Guess for “Talk to the Moon”; Heidi Rounds for “The Sprinkler”; and Shara Oliman for “Carrot-ish.”

We’ll hope to announce a reopening of City of Littleton facilities soon, but for now, an online look may help with a hunger to see new artworks in the round ... (And of course it’s there at midnight if the reader feels antsy then!)

Theater offers holiday show in streaming style

“F

rom Vintage, With Love,” described as a “Holiday Cabaret,” featuring Randy Chalmers, SONYA’S Isabelle Duran, Eli- SAMPLER sha Horne, Traci Kern and Mary Louise Lee, will be available through streaming starting Dec. 11. The holiday show is conceived by Christopher Page-Sanders and J. Allen Roberts. Tickets cost Sonya Ellingboe $20, from Vintage Theatre. See VintageTheatre.org.

Y/OUR Denver 2020

Winners of the “Y/OUR Denver” 2020 photography competition will be on display through March 1 on the Denver Architecture Foundation and Colorado Photographic Arts websites — DenverArchitecture.org and cpacphoto.org/exhibitions.

Best in Show: “Crossed Paths”

by Scott Wilson; Best Exterior: “Reconstruction of the Denver Art Museum” by Faina Gurevich; Best Interior: “Belly of the Cathedral” by Edward Huang; Best Detail: “Denver Series # 72”

by Rodney Gene Mahaffey. The annual “Doors Open Denver” event consisted of three weeks of

virtual tours this year.

Benchmark Theatre

Benchmark will hold its annual “Feverdream Festival,” following a 48-hour playwriting festival.

Writers will take guidelines, genre, holiday prompts and create a 10-minute play. All plays will be on Benchmark’s website and a select few will be performed. For details, visit benchmarktheatre.com. No entry fee, no competition — get together with other creatives.

Town Hall Arts Center

Starting in mid-December, Town Hall will showcase new concerts from local artists: David Nehls,

Matt Dailey and more. Visit the website for more information soon. As of press time, during box office hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday to Friday, doors are open for a visit to “It’s A Small World” exhibit by Littleton Fine Arts Guild members, who will present rotating exhibits in the gallery in the future ...

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The History Colorado Center at 1200 Broadway, Denver, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday. Visit the website for program information.

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Tattered Cover bookstores change hands again Pair who purchased shops in 2017 faced challenges in pandemic year

BY HANNAH METZGER THE DENVER GAZETTE

Denver’s famous Tattered Cover bookstores are changing ownership for the second time since the retirement of longtime owner Joyce Meskis in 2017.

The independent bookstores were purchased by a team of Coloradobased investors in a private sale announced Dec. 9, ending 49 years of private ownership.

Previously, the stores were owned by husband-and-wife duo and book industry veterans Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan.

The pair assumed operational control in July 2017 after a two-year apprenticeship under Meskis and transition of power beginning in July 2015.

The new owners are Denver natives and longtime friends Kwame Spearman and David Back, founding partners of Bended Page, LLC. “We see Tattered Cover as more than a bookstore,” said Back, whose first job at age 15 was as a cashier at Tattered Cover’s Cherry Creek store. “It’s a place where memories are made and where everyone should feel at home.”

Back said, as owners, he and Spearman plan to increase com-

In this photo from 2015, Margaret Shaheen, general manager of the Tattered Cover formerly located at the Highlands Ranch Town FILE PHOTO Center, sets up a display of books prior to the store’s move to the Aspen Grove shopping center in Littleton later that year.

munity engagement and connection through the bookstores’ operations.

“As we approach Tattered Cover’s 50th anniversary we are honored and excited to invest in this important community treasure and ensure it remains a piece of the Colorado experience for generations to come,” Spearman said.

The 2015 sale of Tattered Cover came as a shock to the Denver community as Meskis had owned the bookstore since 1974 when it was just a single struggling shop in

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Under Meskis, Tattered Cover became the state’s largest bookstore chain, a staple of Denver’s independent literary culture and an international tourist destination, growing from one location to four throughout the decades.

In 2015, Vlahos told NPR that he and his wife were “humbled” by receiving ownership and would “try to continue the legacy.”

However, by May 2020, Vlahos told Westword that the COVID-19

pandemic was “knocking us on our butt,” having cut sales to only a fraction of what they were before.

Earlier this year, Vlahos and Gilligan made the decision to close Tattered Cover’s 1994 location at the corner of 16th and Wynkoop streets in favor of a move to McGregor Square near Coors Field in early 2021.

A fifth Tattered Cover location is still in the works, planning to open in Westminster.

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Miracle on Elati Street Epic displays of holiday lights in Englewood are beloved tradition

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Few places outside the North Pole have as much Christmas spirit as a pair of houses on South Elati Street in Englewood.

On any given night between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, the block of Elati just north of Belleview Avenue is thronged with giddy youngsters, beaming parents and grandparents, and on a recent night even a real-live troupe of old-fashioned carolers, all exploring a pair of elaborate holiday displays that for years have drawn visitors from around the area.

On the west side of the street, the Kloewer family (pronounced clayver) is back for the 26th time operating their legendary Christmas house, a continuation of a massive holiday-season display begun by Ron Kloewer’s parents in the early 1980s.

Across the street, Ron’s childhood friend Robert Jones and his wife Joanne are continuing their 8-year-old tradition of operating a Griswold-esque display of their own, with plans to keep it growing as the years go by.

But the whole shebang almost didn’t happen this year.

Lucas Ploschenski, 2, checks out a handmade Christmas display at the Kloewer house on Elati Street north of Belleview Avenue.

“We weren’t sure how people would react in the year of COVID,” Kloewer said. “We didn’t want to go to all the trouble just for no one to show up, or for everyone to just stay in their cars. If you’re just driving by, you’re not getting the whole experience.”

As it turns out, people have shown up by the score. Kloewer said the houses have proven as popular as ever, perhaps even more so as nearby holiday attractions like A Hudson Christmas at Littleton’s Hudson Gardens have been canceled.

“It’s something fun and traditional you can do with your kids without making reservations or paying an arm and a leg,” Kloewer said.

The Kloewers have been putting on their light show since the 1995 holiday season, though in the early years it was outshined by Kloewer’s

From left, Ron Kloewer, Melanie Kloewer and family friend Mike Rasmussen, in front of the Kloewer home on South Elati Street in Englewood. The family is known for their PHOTOS BY DAVID GILBERT elaborate and whimsical Christmas decorations.

parents Dick and Alice, who put on an epic display of their own at their home just half a block away.

Dick and Alice began decorating in 1983, Kloewer said, with Dick building dozens of custom displays: miniature wooden houses containing motorized themed scenes. Many of Dick’s miniature houses survive today, incorporated into their son’s annual display.

After Dick and Alice retired from Christmas decorating in 2011, Kloewer and his wife Melanie stepped up their game, enlisting their three kids for help.

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Coaches for Season B sports had been looking over their shoulders for about a month, waiting to find out if their teams would be able to play as originally scheduled.

Then, word came down Dec. 7 that due to rising COVID-19 cases in Colorado, the start of Season B would be delayed. Practices can begin Jan. 25, and competition can start Feb. 1. Season B sports include boys and girls basketball, boys and girls wrestling, girls swimming and diving, ice hockey and spirit.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment sent a communication to the Colorado High School Activities Association that the scheduled start of Season B on Jan. 4 will be pushed back and no variances will be given at this time to CHSAA. This could also mean the planned starts of Seasons C and D could also be affected.

“Obviously, it is tough news to hear that we may indeed be losing

even more games already cut down from 19 to 14 at the varsity level,” said Cherry Creek boys basketball coach Kent Dertinger. “I understand the need to push it back for safety reasons, and ultimately, I just hope the seniors will get to play a senior season, even if it is modified. We already have a sour taste in our mouths after the way last season ended for us, and we are chomping at the bit to get going again. We carry that chip on our shoulder daily and promise to leave it all out on the court this season.”

Jill Hunsaker Ryan, executive director of CDPHE, sent a letter to CHSAA Commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green and expressed concern about holiday festivities swelling the transmission of COVID-19.

“Hospital admissions are steadily increasing, and the past six weeks have produced a significant increase in the number of deaths statewide. With the Thanksgiving holiday just behind us and the impending December holiday festivities, we are very concerned that the rate of transmission will continue to increase,” Hunsaker Ryan wrote, according to a news release issued by CHSAA. Hunsaker Ryan said there was

not enough information to determine what the cases and hospitalizations would look like in January and that Season B sports would operate under restrictions in the level on the dial of the county of the school. For counties in level red — which includes Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson, Denver, Adams and many other counties — that means no indoor sports are authorized.

She also said the priority is on a return to in-person learning for students and noted that Season B sports are conducted indoors, which reduces the ability to ensure social distancing.

“This in turn may further promote disease transmission at a time when we need to ensure that students and teachers are protected and that in-person learning is the highest priority,” Hunsaker Ryan wrote.

Coaches of Season B teams are left to keep looking over their shoulder and study reports to find out if there will eventually be a season.

“Having the season moved back again is hard for sure,” said Rock Canyon girls basketball coach Becky Mudd. “Basketball, and all sports, are absolutely needed right now, and we should be looking for ways to do them with safety

protocols in place. We are used to hearing over and over that sports are an integral part of the educational experience and that we are developing the whole child, and yet now the narrative is that we can’t have sports. We have to get back to school first.

“I would contend that the two are intertwined, that we need to find ways to do both. I also believe that participation in some way, even if modified, would have noticeable and measurable positive effect on student performance.”

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“It has been very difficult keeping the players motivated, but we have just needed to get creative with practices and include more fun games in practice,” he said.

“This has been a very difficult year for out teams, coaches and players. The players have continued to work hard and continued to develop even though they are not sure when or if they will be playing games.

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The display is so massive that Xcel Energy wired up a second transformer on the utility pole behind the house, Kloewer said, though he wouldn’t say how much the December electric bill typically runs.

“It goes up a bit,” he said with a grin.

Melanie said life has gotten easier since the advent of LED lights, which ended her annual job of painstakingly inspecting long strands of lights for burned-out bulbs.

Why go to all the trouble?

“The smiles and the compliments,” Kloewer said. “One year a guy who was almost blind told my dad, ‘I can barely see anything anymore, but I can see your lights.’

It meant a lot to him.”

Of the visitors who thronged the Kloewer house on Dec. 9, many were seeing it for the first time, but others had been coming for years.

“It’s been tradition in my family since I was a baby,” said Megan Ford, who drove down from Lakewood with her husband Robbie and their son Thatcher, 2. “Christmas wouldn’t be the same without it.”

Kloewer said whether his kids will take over the family tradition and keep the epic displays going is yet to be seen, though he said he’s hopeful.

“Mike’s got two kids of his own now, so that motivates him, and Randy always loves helping,”

Kloewer said of his two younger children. “We’ll keep doing it as long as we can.”

Across the street, the Jones family has been building up a staggering display of their own since they moved into the house in 2012.

“I grew up going to Ron’s mom and dad’s place every Christmas,” said Robert Jones as visitors made their way between glittering displays along his sidewalk.

“Everyone in Englewood knew Mr. Kloewer’s house. When we moved in here, we almost didn’t want to decorate — how could anyone measure up to Ron? But we started, and it’s just been so much fun that we just keep growing.”

Jones travels far and wide for his job as a medical equipment installer, giving him the chance to prowl far-flung antique stores for decorations. His prize addition this year is an authentic old wooden sleigh, bought at a curio store in rural Kansas — now adorned with a life-size Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus, both wearing COVID-era face masks.

Like the Kloewers, the Jones family has started collecting cash donations, which Jones said he mainly invests into more decorations.

The family loves chatting with their visitors, Jones said, and last year began handing out cups of hot chocolate, though Jones said they “chickened out” this year over COVID concerns.

For Jones, the display has a deeper personal meaning.

“My mom used to take us all over town to look at everyone’s Christmas lights,” he said. “She passed away in 1994. I think in part I’m doing it for her. Our reward is all the wonderful people we get to meet.”

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0192-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 18, 2020, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Alberta 8081 East Orchard, LLC Original Beneficiary(ies) The PrivateBank and Trust Company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt CIBC Bank USA, an Illinois state chartered bank, formerly known as The PrivateBank and Trust Company Date of Deed of Trust February 17, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 17, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7019916 Original Principal Amount $7,910,700.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $7,910,700.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. See Exhibit A Also known by street and number as: 8081 E Orchard Rd, Greenwood Village, CO 80111.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 01/13/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/19/2020 Last Publication: 12/17/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 09/18/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: J. Thomas Macdonald #11394 David A. Brewster #52481 Catherine M. Clendinning #40471 Otten, Johnson, Robinson, Neff, and Ragonetti PC 950 17th Street, Suite 1600, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 825-8400 Attorney File # 160395.0049 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 0192-2020 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PREMISES A PARCEL OF LAND BEING ALL OF LOT 9 AND A PART OF LOTS 10 AND 11, ALL IN BLOCK 7 OF A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 16 (AS RECORDED IN BOOK 2, PAGE 10), TOGETHER WITH A PART OF TRACT 5 OF A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 21 (AS RECORDED IN BOOK1, PAGE 12), TOGETHER WITH THOSE PORTIONS OF EAST ORCHARD ROAD AND SOUTH ULSTER STREET, AS DEDICATED BY SAID SUBDIVISION, ALL BEING IN TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL

MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 9, BLOCK 7; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 03 MINUTES 01 SECONDS EAST AND ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 9, A DISTANCE OF 20.00 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID WEST LINE, A DISTANCE OF 305.32 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 9; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 31 MINUTES 38 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 9, A DISTANCE OF 200.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 13 DEGREES 45 MINUTES 33 SECONDS WEST AND RADIALLY TO A CURVE ON THE SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF THE SUBDIVISION OF GREENWOOD PLAZA SECOND FILING AMENDED PLAT (AS RECORDED IN BOOK 25, PAGES 70 AND 71), A DISTANCE OF 276.00 FEET TO A POINT ON SAID CURVE; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY ON A CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 100 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 25 SECONDS AND A RADIUS OF 50.00 FEET, AN ARC DISTANCE OF 87.87 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 65 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 02 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY ON A LINE RADIAL FROM THE PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED CURVE, A DISTANCE OF 365.60 FEET TO THE POINT OF INTERSECTION WITH THE SOUTHWESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF COLORADO STATE HIGHWAY 1-25; THENCE SOUTH 24 DEGREES 26 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID RIGHT- OF-WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 306.79 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION WITH THE WESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF SOUTH ULSTER STREET, AS PLATTED BY SAID A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 16; THENCE SOUTH 16 DEGREES 08 MINUTES 50 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 214.42 FEET TO THE POINT OF INTERSECTION WITH THE EASTERLY RIGHT-OF- WAY LINE OF SAID SOUTH ULSTER STREET, SAID POINT ALSO BEING 60.00 FEET EAST OF AND OPPOSITE THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 9; THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 06 MINUTES 10 SECONDS WEST ALONG SAID EASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 324.77 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 8, BLOCK 6 OF SAID A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 16; THENCE SOUTH 22 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 23 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 99.54 FEET TO A POINT ON THE CENTERLINE OF SOUTH ULSTER STREET, AS PLATTED BY SAID A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 21, SAID POINT LAYING 62.00 FEET SOUTH OF THE NORTH QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 21; THENCE NORTH 80 DEGREES 40 MINUTES 40 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 658.48 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. EXCEPT THAT PORTION CONVEYED TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS IN DEED RECORDED OCTOBER 17, 1985 IN BOOK 4574 AT PAGE 269.

ALSO EXCEPTING THAT PORTION TAKEN BY RULE AND ORDER RECORDED SEPTEMBER 2, 2004 UNDER RECEPTTION NO. B4157204.

Legal Notice No. NO. 0192-2020 First Publication: 11/19/2020 Last Publication: 12/17/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0193-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 18, 2020, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) ARTHUR C WEBER III AND EVONA S BOWEN Original Beneficiary(ies) U.S BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ND Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Citizens Bank, N.A., formerly known as RBS Citizens, N.A. successor by merger to Charter One Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust February 23, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 08, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5033051 Original Principal Amount $38,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $24,680.32 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 01/20/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/26/2020 Last Publication: 12/24/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 09/18/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978 Randall Chin #31149 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000008964934 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. 0193-2020 First Publication: 11/26/2020 Last Publication: 12/24/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, December 14, 2020, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2020-O-09 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO TO TEMPORARILY CAP THIRD-PARTY RESTAURANT DELIVERY FEES CHARGED TO FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. by a vote of 9 in favor and 0 against.

(First published December 10, 2020 in the Denver Post) By: Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 524770-300798 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Independent PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL

ARAPAHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 1

By: Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 524771-300799 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Independent

By: Mary Cooper Legal Notice No. 524764 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Second Publication: December 17, 2020 Third Publication: December 24, 2020 Fourth Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Bids and Settlements Public Notice

Summons and Sheriff Sale

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to § 3826-107, C.R.S., that on December 30, 2020 final settlement with Diaz Construction Group LLC. will be made by Platte Canyon Water & Sanitation District for the “2020 Capital Improvement Water Main Replacements” project subject to satisfactory final inspection and acceptance of said facilities by the District. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or his or her subcontractor in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies, laborers, rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefore has not been paid by the contractor or subcontractor, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, may file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on such claim with Platte Canyon Water & Sanitation District, c/o, Mr. Timothy Flynn, Attorney, Collins Cockrel & Cole, 390 Union Boulevard, Suite 400, Lakewood, CO 80228-1556. Failure to file such verified statement or claim prior to final settlement will release the District and its employees and agents from any and all liability for such claim and for making final payment to said contractor. s/s Platte Canyon Water & Sanitation District Legal Notice No. 524782 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE INVERNESS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT SANITARY SEWER LINING PHASE II PROJECT CONTRACTOR’S SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that on January 15, 2021, at 188 Inverness Drive East, Suite 150, Englewood, Colorado, final settlement will be made by the INVERNESS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT with Granite Inliner, LLC. Hereinafter called the “Contractor” for and on account of the contract for the SANITARY SEWER LINING PHASE II PROJECT. Any person, co-partnership, association or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the said project, for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim. All such claims shall be filed with the INVERNESS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT c/o Mulhern MRE, 188 Inverness Drive East, Suite 150, Englewood, Colorado 80112. Failure on the part of a creditor to file such statement prior to such settlement will relieve the INVERNESS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT from any and all liability for such claim.

INVERNESS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 38-26-107, Colorado Revised Statutes, that on August 21, 2019 a final settlement will be made by the Arapahoe County School District No. 1 (Englewood Schools) on account of a contract between the Contractor and the District for the following project:

ORDINANCE NO. 2020-O-08 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, ADDING A NEW FIDUCIARY FUND AND AMENDING SECTION 4-8-20 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED “SPECIAL FUNDS”

Any person, co-partnership, entity, association, or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the Contractor for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of such work, may, at any time up to and including the time of such final settlement on said date, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with Englewood Schools (Attention: Mary Cooper) at 4101 S Bannock St, Englewood, CO 80110. Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve the District from any and all liability for such claimant’s claim.

Also known by street and number as: 2676 W DARTMOUTH AVE, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110.

(First published December 10, 2020)

by a vote of 9 in favor and 0 against.

Attorney for Plaintiff: Jerome. R Geraghty, #34092 Geraghty Law Office, LLC 2420 17th St, 3rd Floor Denver, CO 80202 Phone No. (303) 385-7622 Fax No. (303) 374-7873 E-mail: jerome@geraghtylawoffice.com Case No.: 2020-CV-31764 Division: 21 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: Akua Yeboah

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint [petition] filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication.

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

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

This is an action in Rem regarding adjudication of the rights of all parties in real property situated in Arapahoe County, Colorado.

Respectfully submitted this 19th day of November, 2020.

GERAGHTY LAW OFFICE, LLC Original signature on file at the office of Geraghty Law Office, LLC /s/ Jerome R. Geraghty Jerome R. Geraghty, Reg. No. 34092 Geraghty Law Office, LLC 2420 17th St, 3rd Floor Denver, CO 80202 Phone No. (303) 385-7622 Fax No. (303) 374-7873 E-mail: jerome@geraghtylawoffice.com Attorney for Plaintiff Ernest Damoah Legal Notice No. 524734 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

School: Englewood High School (TEC) Item Description: Contractor Construction: Taylor Kohrs

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

Plaintiff: ERNEST DAMOAH v.

Defendant: AKUA YEBOAH

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Case No.: 2019CV32305 Division: 202

Legal Notice No. 524780 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, December 14, 2020, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading:

THE EASTERLY 48.50 FEET OF THE WESTERLY 156.00 FEET OF LOTS 1 & 2, BLOCK 15, BOULEVARD GARDENS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO 7325 S Potomac St #100, Centennial, CO 80112

Plaintiff: HORIZONS AT TOWNE MEADOW HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: MELOCENT V. SCOTLAND; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; ROCKY MOUNTAIN MORTGAGE SPECIALISTS, INC.; M&T BANK; CENTRAL CREDIT CORPORATION; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; and SU RYDEN as the Arapahoe County Public Trustee 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 Default Judgment and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated March 13, 2020, and C.R.S. §§ 38-38-101 to 401, by the Horizons at Towne Meadow Homeowners Association, Inc., the current holder of a lien recorded with the County of Arapahoe Clerk and Recorder on September 2, 2016, at Reception No. D6099085. The judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions of Horizons at Towne Meadow recorded with the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder on November 23, 1993, in Reception No. 93165877 (“Declaration”). The Declaration and notices as recorded, establish a lien for the benefit of the Horizons at Towne Meadow Homeowners Association, Inc. - THE

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Public Notices LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS – against the property legally described as follows: Lot 17, Block 5, Horizons at Towne Meadow Subdivision Filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as 4374 S. Joplin Way, Aurora, Colorado 80015.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 a.m. on January 14, 2021, at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office at 13101 E. Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, telephone (720) 874-3845. 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 THEIR HIGHEST 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: David A. Parker, #35253, Moeller Graf, P.C., 385 Inverness Parkway, Englewood, CO 80112, telephone (720) 279-2568.

Dated: October 13, 2020 Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No.: 524185 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225, Englewood, Colorado 80110 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112 Plaintiff: PEACHWOOD HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation, Defendants: REDA KULBYTE; ALL WESTERN MORTGAGE, INC.; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; SUSAN RYDEN AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY; SUE SANDSTROM AS TREASURER FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY; UNKNOWN TENANT(S) IN POSSESSION. Attorneys for Plaintiff: WINZENBURG, LEFF, PURVIS & PAYNE, LLP Wendy E. Weigler #28419 Address: 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80127 Phone Number: (303) 863-1870 Case No: 2019CV0329831 SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE Under an Order Granting Plaintiff’s Motion for Default Judgment in rem in Favor of Plaintiff and Against Defendant Reda Kulbyte and For an Order and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure entered on August 27, 2020 in the above- captioned action, I am ordered to sell certain real property as follows: Original Lienee: Reda Kulbyte Original Lienor: Peachwood Homeowners Association, Inc. Current Holder of the evidence of debt: Peachwood Homeowners Association, Inc. Date of Lien being foreclosed: May 29, 2019 Date of Recording of Lien being foreclosed: May 30, 2019 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Information: D9050225 Original Principal Balance of the secured indebtedness: $1,801.96 Outstanding Principal Balance of the secured indebtedness as of the date hereof: $12,303.06 Amount of Judgment entered August 27, 2020: $11,154.98 Description of property to be foreclosed: Lot 196, Block 1, Peachwood Subdivision, Filing No. 2, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known as: 12044 E. Ford Circle, Aurora, CO 80012 THE PROPERTY TO BE FORECLOSED AND DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN. THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The covenants of Plaintiff have been violated as follows: failure to make payments on said indebtedness when the same were due and owing.

NOTICE OF SALE THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I will, at 10 o'clock A.M., on January 28th, 2021, in front of the flagpole of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, located at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3845, 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.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID AT TIME OF SALE. DATED at Centennial, Colorado this 27th day of October, 2020.

Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

The name, address and telephone number of each of the attorneys representing the holder of the evidence of the debt is as follows: Wendy E. Weigler, Esq. Winzenburg, Leff, Purvis & Payne, LLP 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80127 303-863-1870 Legal Notice No.: 524260 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent 750 W Hampden Ave, Suite 225 Englewood, CO 80110 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Case No.: 2020CV031008 Division/Ctrm.: 21 Plaintiff: Windmill Creek Association, a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: Hakim Amrouche; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.; Caliber Home Loans, Inc.; Colorado Housing and Finance Authority; and Su Ryden as the County of Arapahoe County Public Trustee 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 August 17, 2020, and C.R.S. §§ 38-38-101 to 401, by the Windmill Creek Association, the current holder of a lien recorded with the County of Arapahoe Clerk and Recorder on June 7, 2019, at Reception No. D9054034. The judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Condominium Declaration for Windmill Creek recorded with the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder on January 3, 2002, in Reception No. B2001524 (“Declaration”). The Declaration and notices as recorded, establish a lien for the benefit of the Windmill Creek Association - THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS – against the property legally described as follows: CONDOMINIUM UNIT R-11-202, WINDMILL CREEK AMENDMENT NO. 3, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2002 AT RECEPTION NO. B2177288, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUMS DECLARATION FOR WINDMILL CREEK RECORDED JANUARY 3, 2002 AT RECEPTION NO. B2001524, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, AND ANY AND ALL AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS JUNE THERETO, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as 7440 South Blackhawk Street Unit 11-202, Englewood, .

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 a.m. on January 14, 2021, at 13101 E. Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, telephone 720-874-3845. 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 THEIR HIGHEST 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, Englewood, CO 80112, telephone (720) 279-2568.

Date: October 13, 2020 Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No. 524182 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110 Public Notice SUMMONS 1)Name of Person Filing: Lucas Carrillo Mailing Address: 22401 N 102nd Ln City, State, Zip Code: Peoria, AZ 85383 Daytime/Evening Phone Number: 602-513-1316 2) Lucas Carrillo, Plaintiff 3) Case Number: CV-2020-07064 AND 4) Marian & Marquertte Drobniewski Defendant(s) AND Mohave County Treasurer SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA MOHAVE COUNTY FROM THE STATE OF ARIZONA TO: Marian & Marquertte Drobniewski AND Mohave County Treasurer 1. A lawsuit has been filed against you. A copy of the lawsuit and other court papers are served on you with this Summons.

2. If you do not want a judgment or order taken against you without your input, you must file an “Answer” or a “Response” in writing with the Court, and pay the filing fee. If you do not file an “Answer” or “Response” the other party may be given the relief requested in his or her Petition or Complaint. To file your “Answer” or Response” take, or send, the “Answer” or “Response” to the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court, 401

East Spring Street, Kingman, AZ 86401 (P.O. Box 7000, Kingman, AZ 86402-7000) or the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court, 2225 Trane Road, Bullhead City, AZ 86442, or Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court, 2001 College Drive, Lake Havasu City, AZ 86404. Mail a copy of your “Answer” or “Response” to the other party at the address listed on the top of this Summons.

3. If you were served within the State of Arizona, your “Response” or “Answer” must be filed within TWENTY (20) CALENDAR DAYS, starting the day after you were served. If you were served outside the State of Arizona, your “Response” must be filed within THIRTY (30) CALENDAR DAYS, starting the day after you were served. Service by Publication is complete (30) days after the date of the first publication.

4. Requests for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the office of the judge or commissioner assigned to the case, at least (3) three days before your scheduled court date.

SIGNED AND SEALED this date: August 27th, 2020 VIRLYNN TINNELL, Clerk of the Superior Court By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 524755 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Arapahoe County District Court 7325 S Potomac St Centennial, CO 80112 303-649-6355 Case No.: 2020CV032093 Division: 402 Plaintiff: DESIGN 45 HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: JESSE L. DAWSON; GARY KENNEDY; WESTERRA CREDIT UNION; THE OFFICE OF THE A R A PA H O E C O U N T Y P U B L I C T R U S TEE Attorneys for Plaintiff: Orten Cavanagh Holmes & Hunt, LLC Hal R. Kyles, #23891 1445 Market Street, Suite 350 Denver, CO 80202 Phone Number: (720) 221-9780 Matter ID #1701.0005 SUMMONS [BY PUBLICATION] THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response.

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

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

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

This is an action of foreclosure pursuant to Rule 105, C.R.C.P. to the real property situate in Aurora, Colorado more particularly described as Unit No. A, 15035 East Louisiana Drive, Aurora, Colorado Nevin Village Green Subdivision, Filing Number Five, Phase II, Part 1 according to the Condominium Map thereof filed in Book 41 at Page 12 and according to and subject to the Condominium Declaration recorded in Book 2268 at Page 700; Amendment thereto recorded in Book 2600 at Page 750 and Supplement thereto recorded September 7, 1979 in Book 3070 at Page 450, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Dated: December 1, 2020.

ORTEN CAVANAGH HOLMES & HUNT, LLC By: /s/Hal R. Kyles Hal R. Kyles, #23891 This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure.

Legal Notice No. 524757 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice Annual Notice Lyle and Connie Blessman Foundation The 2020 annual return (IRS Form 990-F) of the Lyle and Connie Blessman Foundation is available for inspection at the principal office during regular business hours by any citizen.

Legal Notice No.524777 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of HARRIET C. HOOPER, a/k/a HARRIET CARSON HOOPER,

a/k/a HARRIET HOOPER, a/k/a HARRIET H. CARSON, a/k/a HARRIET HOOPER CARSON, and a/k/a HARRIET CARSON, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31208 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 April 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Personal Representative: Thomas Hooper Carson c/o Bridget K. Sullivan Sherman & Howard L.L.C. 633 Seventeenth Street, Ste. 3000 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 524743 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of GERTRUDE M. WHITE, Deceased Case Number: 20PR31186 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 April 17, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Karl Viktor White Co-Personal Representative 9147 East 4th Place Denver, CO 80230 Julie Marie Godsey Co-Personal Representative 7382 S. Monroe Court Centennial, CO 80122 Legal Notice No. 524775 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Penny K. Morgan, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 031175 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 April 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Chris Morgan Personal Representative 11345 S. Lost Creek Circle Parker, Colorado 80138

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court off Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 5, t 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

James Lillard, Personal Representative 22965 E Layton Ave, Aurora, Colorado 80015

C i y r Public Notice w NOTICE TO CREDITORS c Estate of George Leonard Couch, m a/k/a George L. Couch, a/k/a George Couch, Deceased l Case Number: 2020PR31191 c All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to thew personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before Aprila 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. c a Susan Kristine Johnson Personal Representative c Legal Notice No. 524737 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Patrick R. Thiessen (40185) FRIE, ARNDT, DANBORN & THIESSEN P.C. 7400 Wadsworth Blvd, Ste. 201 Arvada, CO 80003 Phone Number: 303-420-1234 Attorney for Susan Kristine Johnson Personal Representative

b n a n Legal Notice No. 524766 e First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 e Publisher: Littleton Independent o Public Notice T NOTICE TO CREDITORS b Estate of Darth Daryle Hurlburt, A/K/A Darth D. Hurlburt, t A/K/A Darth Hurlburt, Deceased b Case Number: PR202031244 s All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to thec personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 19,r 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. a Ruth Hurlburt, Personal Representative t 7569 South Rosemary Circle t Centennial, Colorado 80012 Legal Notice No. 524720 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No: 524748 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

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Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOHN ELLIOTT METCALF, aka John E. Metcalf, aka John Metcalf, Deceased Case Number: 20PR30870

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John Simovich, Deceased Case Number 2020 PR 31176 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 April 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Angeline Crowder, Personal Representative 253 Huntley Court Castle Pines, CO 80108 Legal Notice No. 524752 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

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 April 17, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Charlene Metcalf, Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Legal Notice No. 524774 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITOR Estate of Donald C. Haberkorn, Deceased Case Number: 20PR31181 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 April 3, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert J. McKinnon, Personal Representative c/o 3801 E. Florida Ave., Ste. 906 Denver, CO 80210

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Allie Glee Dunville Nance, also known as Allie Glee Nance, also known as Allie Dunville, also known as Allie Nance, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31128

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 3, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Personal Representative: Janice Dale Husk 6171 S. Forest Court Centennial, CO 80121

Legal Notice No. 524742 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No. 524744 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Nathan Joseph Jones, Jr., Deceased Case Number: 2020PR332

Public Notice

All persons having claims against the abovenamed Estate are required to present them to the Special Co-Administrators or to the Arapahoe County District Court on or before April 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Aaron L. Evans, Esq. Alexander M. Urban, Esq. 1660 South Albion Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80222

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Milton Simmons, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030930

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 April 3, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Stephanie F. Dahl, Esq. Attorney for Estate 2000 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 2-430 Denver, CO 80222

Legal Notice No. 524776 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No. 524741 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

Public Notice

Estate of Darlene Mary Braeunert, aka Darlene M. Braeunert, aka Darlene Braeunert, aka Darlene Mary Patterson, aka Darlene Mary Lillard, aka Darlene Mary Roloff, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031134

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Maria Allen, a/k/a Maria Elizabeth Allen, a/k/a Mary Betty Allen, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31169

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friends who have been shuttered in place for a very long time.

Who is on your Have Not Called list? That question was in no way intended to make you feel guilty, if you have read this column before, you will know that is true. Instead, consider it encouragement to make calls, send texts, write letters or quick notes, send cards, drive by their home, wave through a window, or anything that will let anyone close to you know that they are loved, not forgotten, appreciated, and important to you.

There is that saying about being lonely, even when we are not alone. And when I think about that, I think about the nurses, doctors, first responders, military personnel, teachers, and others who have been on the front lines from day one.

They are usually never alone, but many have shared that they have never felt lonelier. I’ll bet that each one of us knows someone who serves our community who would love to receive a call, a text, a card or anything letting them know that they are not alone, and that they are in our thoughts.

The list of excuses we can use to convince ourselves that we don’t have the time will

only provide us with a temporary sense of absolution.

The day will come when we will think to ourselves that we could have tried harder, we should have called, written that letter, or drove by their home so they can see us through the window. We will wish that we would have let those on the front lines know how much we appreciate, respect, and love them.

One of my very favorite motivational speakers and influencers on my life was a man by the name of Jim Rohn.

His quote here may just sum up my encouragement to you this week, “Don’t say, If I could, I would. Instead say, If I can, I will.” You can make that call, you can reach out, and you can make the difference in the life of someone who really needs to not feel lonely or alone today.

So how about you? Is there someone on your Have Not Called list? I can’t wait to hear what happened when you contacted them or let them know how much you care when you email me at mnorton@ tramazing.com. And trust me, when you make that call, it really will be a better than good week.

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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These two requirements would have brought the proposed ordinance in alignment with our coalition’s general suggestions.

However, the councilmembers took a hard-line approach to the amendments requested to both council and staff. Instead, council allowed City Attorney Reid Betzing to exclude key provisions of the coalition’s recommendations, negating the important work of coalitions, such as ours, to solve community problems, authentically and collaboratively. To us, it appeared from the council meeting that staff

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Other escapes

Other Level Red options during the holidays include The Denver Zoo (Zoo Lights is magic), Denver Botanic Gardens, Blossoms of Light at the Gardens, and Trail of Lights at Chatfield Arboretum in Littleton. Timed entry is on the half hour and is

was driving decision making instead of our elected officials.

While the city plans to revisit the issue of STRs in the zoning revisions, the council’s passage of ordinance No. 41, series 2020, allows for out-of-state investors to own and operate unlimited numbers of STRs in the City of Littleton. Although it does allow the city to crack down on problem STRs, the ordinance works in opposition to the goals of our coalition to ensure timely and responsive management and to keep STRs locally owned and operated, ensuring community buy-in.

What we accomplished as a grassroots coalition is nothing short of extraor-

dinary. Two opposing sides of an issue coming together in earnest commitment to community to find consensus and negotiate shared solutions offers a way forward for our very divided country and a democracy which feels to be hanging by a thread.

Sadly, both council and staff responded with a missed opportunity to a bottom-up approach that would have served the Littleton community we all love, very well.

Angela Engel is an author, children’s advocate and facilitator. Joining her as a coalition board member were Carol Brzeczek, John Crowell, Ruth Graham, Michael Orf, Michael Price, Dan Radulovich and Elissa Tiprigan.

limited. denverbotanicgardens.org. (Another “Stay at Home” order could interfere — stay tuned.

The Christkindl Market is at the Denver Civic Center this year, with lots of gift ideas, hot drinks and goodies. Downtown Littleton: Check downtownlittleton.com for weekend programs on Littleton’s Main Street. (Saturday afternoon.) Or just appear to shop and perhaps enjoy a treat ...

Bemis Library

Bemis Library in Littleton is on a curbside service status. Call ahead.

303-795-3961.

Walk for the holidays

Remember that the High Line Canal paths and walking paths in our parks and along the South Platte River are available over the holidays to work off youthful steam and possible excess cookies for adults.

Public Notices named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before April 17, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Walter Allen, c/o Groves Law LLC Personal Representative 281 S. Pearl St. Denver, CO 80209 Legal Notice No. 524786 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 17, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Linda Stupke, Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Legal Notice No. 524779 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Vicki Tosher, Deceased Case Number 2020PR031160

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joseph Francis McClure, A/K/A Joseph F. McClure, A/K/A Joseph McClure, A/K/A Joe. F. McClure, A/K/A Joe McClure, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31218

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 April 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Perry Magee Keen, III Personal Representative 4170 S. Acoma St. Englewood, CO 80110-4625 Legal Notice No. 524783 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ROBERT JOSEPH CAMPBELL, a/k/a ROBERT J. CAMPBELL, Deceased Case Number: 2020-PR-31182 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 April 3, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael W. Reagor, Attorney for Personal Representative Dymond Reagor, PLLC 8400 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 1040 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 524745 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of BESSIE SEGOBIANO, aka Amparo Segobiano, Deceased Case Number 2020PR31146 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the

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 or on or before April 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Meghan O’Meara Personal Representative 8595 East Mineral Circle Centennial, Colorado 80112 Legal Notice No. 524754 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: 7325 South Potomac Street Centennial, CO 80112 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF COLE WESTON TOMSICK, aka COLE W. TOMSICK, aka COLE TOMSICK, DECEASED. Attorney for Creditor: Jordan J. Warner, #46192 On behalf of Sawaya, Rose, McClure & Wilhite, P.C., d/b/a The Sawaya Law Firm 1600 Ogden Street Denver, CO 80218 Phone Number: 303-836-1650 E-Mail: jwarner@sawayalaw.com Case Number: 2020PR31226 Division: 12 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-10-401, C.R.S. To: Rebecca Lynn Tomsick Last Known Address, if any: 18159 East Crestline Circle, C

entennial, CO 80015 A hearing without appearance on the Petition for Formal Appointment of Special Administrator will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: January 5, 2021 Time: 8:00 a.m.

Address: 7325 South Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112 Legal Notice No. 524753 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Catherine H. Paluczak, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31118 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 April 18, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Terry P. Krason, Personal Representative 902 S. Palisade Ct._ Louisville, CO 80027 Legal Notice No. 524749 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on November 16, 2020, 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 Paul Ricco Schacht be changed to Paul Ricco Schainz Case No.: 20 C 100523 By: Kathleen Jaushi Magistrate Legal Notice No. 524756 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on October 14,, 2020, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Khaliun Bayarmagnai be changed to Khaliuna Natalia Bay Case No.: 20 C 100457

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Public notice is given on December 7, 2020, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Legal Notice No. 524719 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on December 1, 2020, 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 Joanne Marie O'Callaghan be changed to Jody Cross Case No.: 20CV205

The petition requests that the name of Madeline Carole Arrowood be changed to Madeline Dahlia Arrowood Case No.: 20 C 100530 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 524781 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Legal Notice No. 524778 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public notice is given on November13, 2020, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on November13, 2020, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Josias Biniam Bekele be changed to Tesfa Bekele Biniam Case No.: 20 C 100506

The petition requests that the name of Fikir Biniam Bekele be changed to Fikir Bekele Biniam Case No.: 20 C 100502 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 524738 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

PUBLIC NOTICE

Legal Notice No. 524739 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on November13, 2020, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on November 24, 2020, 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 Shannon LeeAnn Atwater be changed to Shannon LeeAnn Sloane Case No.: 20 C 100508 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 524746 First Publication: December 3, 2020

The petition requests that the name of Eyubed Biniam Bekele be changed to Amen Bekele Biniam Case No.: 20 C 100504 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 524740 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Littleton Independent

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