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WeCAN meeting hosts Denver leaders

By Wanda M. Padilla A large group turned out for the Jan. 14 general membership meeting of the West Colfax Association of Neighbors held at Confluence Ministries.

After those gathered enjoyed a potluck dinner Denver City Councilwoman Susan Shepherd spoke first.

Shepherd explained that plans for the re-development of the old St. Anthony Central site are moving forward.

“Denver’s Developer Review Committee has now signed the General Development Plan,” she said.

This plan includes basic infrastructure like roads, curbs and gutters, sidewalks, open spaces and utilities.

Although much controversy has been circulating about the zoning of the site, Shepherd

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock explains how the City of Denver is strong and growing on many different levels, including the economy.

said the actual zoning application for vertical structures has not yet been filed with the

City Councilwoman Susan Shepard speaks to WeCAN group during general membership meeting, Jan. 14.

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city. The highest new building allowed at this site under current zoning is five stories.

“I am pleased we can now focus on the upcoming vertical developments that are key to spark the revitalization of this corridor. We anticipate the creation of many construction jobs and later the permanent retail and hospitality jobs at this site,” she said.

After a few questions, Shepherd introduced Mayor Michael Hancock.

After introducing members of his cabinet who were present, the mayor said, “We are there listening and doing what we can to carry forward the vision and hopes of this neighborhood.

“The state of the City of Denver is strong; not only is it strong coming out of the recession, but our economy is growing. Unemployment has Continued on page 2

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Continued from Page 1 dropped to pre-recessions levels at only of 6.2 percent of our population. People are going back to work. In addition, there were 1,000 new companies created in the city of Denver last year. We are moving in the right direction and that is extremely important.

This city is now considered one of the top five cities in the country for job seekers. We are also one of the top five cities for innovation, high tech and technology opportunities.

“Fiscally, the city is sound; this is the first year we have proposed a budget where we were not cutting programs. We hired our first new

class of police officers last year; we are adding 80 new police officers on the streets. We also hired new fire fighters. Our library hours are back to full strength.

“Last summer the city initiated the new ‘My Denver Card’ to allow school-aged children free access to city swimming pools and rec centers. Out of 90,000 eligible children, 37,000 signed up for this program, so it was a great success.”

After the mayor spoke, he entertained questions. Ernest Gurule, an area resident, who said the marijuana issue has branded Denver on a national basis, asked if there has been anything positive

about this issue.

“I am proud of how our city employees, especially those from Excise and Licensing, have handled the situation. They and our City Council members all worked together to make the transition smooth,” said Mayor Hancock.

“The marijuana industry is here to stay, it’s legal and it will grow.

It is contributing to our tax base.”

After the mayor’s presentation, Board Members of WeCAN made several announcements: Low-cost trees will be available for West Colfax residents. Denver Digs Trees is once again offering yard trees for Denver residents.

Trees are only $10 for resident, ($100 savings). Applications are available at www.theparkpeople. org and the deadline to apply is Feb. 15.

Denver’s best PJ Party gathers local advocates to put homelessness to bed Residence Inn Denver City Center, located at 1725 Champa St., will hold the Ninth Annual PJ Party from 5:30 -10 p.m. on Feb. 6, to benefit Denver’s Road Home, the city’s program to help end homelessness.

Mayor Michael B. Hancock, Walter Isenberg, president and CEO of Sage Hospitality, and Evan Makovsky, co-founder of NAI Shames Realty, will host the PJ Party wearing their most stylish pajamas – Isenberg and Makovsky founded the PJ Party.

“Sage Hospitality believes in supporting the communities where we live, work and play.

It’s an honor to help sponsor PJ Day and Denver’s Road Home as we fight to end homelessness in the city of Denver,” said Isenberg.

“The event not only raises money and awareness, but also highlights the Denver business community’s

commitment to this important cause.”

The PJ Party will feature a martini luge sponsored by Jim Beam.

Food will be provided by Snooze, an A.M. Eatery, the Rialto Café, Second Home Kitchen + Bar

and The Corner Office. While mingling in pajamas, guests will enjoy music by jazz musician Nelson Rangell and band, plus make memories at a photo booth. Guests will have a chance to enter a prize drawing to win prize packages including Southwest Airline tickets.

“The city cannot do this important work alone,” said Hancock. “It is vital individuals and businesses join the fight to end homelessness. The more we stand together, the more powerful of an impact we can make on our community. I encourage anyone who cares about homelessness to get involved in making a change on PJ Day and throughout the year.”

Sponsorships and hotel suites are available.

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Mayor Michael B. Hancock is among 10 new members to be appointed by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and Administrator Michael Huerta to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Management Advisory Council.

Hancock is the first-ever mayor to be appointed to the MAC, which advises the FAA on management, policy, spending and regulatory matters. He will serve a three-year term on the Council.

“I am truly honored to be joining these venerated aviation

leaders to help guide a safe, more sustainable future for the FAA. I look forward to bringing Denver’s ingenuity to the table as we work to advance major issues on behalf of DIA, other airports and the aviation industry. I thank Secretary Foxx and Administrator Huerta for incorporating the voice of our cities and airports as this industry moves into a new era.”

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ing out its aviation safety and air travel efficiency mission. Panel members serve three-year terms in a volunteer capacity and retain their private sector positions.

“These established aviation leaders will help guide the FAA in its many critical air-transportation policy decisions, supporting our commitment to a first class aviation system,” said Secretary Foxx. “These proven aviation experts will be lending their knowledge to help advance the nation’s air travel system as the safest and most efficient in the world.”

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‘Evita’ revival hits all the right notes Tony-winner plays Buell Theater through Jan. 26

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By Peter Jones s rumor has it, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber were mulling a new musical version of Peter Pan before they finally settled on the life of the beloved Argentinean first lady Eva Peron.

If that is true, it is little wonder that the fabled Peron nearly flies across the stage in Evita.

Like so many revived musicals, Evita has gradually become more of a sensory experience of memorable tunes than an involving narrative told in song. The pop opera’s emotion lies in its singing and production values.

Aside form the cinematic visuals atop the stage, casting is almost everything in a presentation such as this.

Fortunately, Caroline Bowman has the pipes. It is hard to imagine a more intimidating feat for a stage singer-actress than to stand on a ledge in full costume and iconic blond hair bun while belting, “Don’t cry for me, Argentina …” That’s a far cry from Bowman’s role as ‘50s gumchewing Rizzo in a touring revival of Grease.

The only Madonna here are the occasional references to the Virgin Mary.

Josh Young is equally formidable as the fictional Che, Evita’s sardonic narrator who cheers and eggs Peron on as she rises – too quickly for my tastes – from a 15-year-old peasant waif who sleeps her way into show business to the formally titled “Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina.”

Along the way, Mrs. Peron gets reviled by the elite, the military and the powers of international diplomacy, but is adored by her legions of “shirtless” fans – even as her husband, President Juan Peron, is derided as a fascist.

Meanwhile, Che keeps the nicknamed Evita in her place, flailing – sometimes in a sort of surreal dream state – his Greek

chorus of accusations, much as Judas Iscariot stuck it to Jesus in Rice-Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar (a role for which Young, not coincidently, won a Tony in his Broadway debut).

Some may quibble with Evita’s historical conjecture. But at least the revival tour now playing the Buell Theater has returned Che to his original everyman position as

Evita plays the Buell Theater at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts through Jan. 26.

Tickets start at $25. Call 303-893-4100 or visit www.denvercenter.org. Tickets can also be purchased at the ticket office located in the Helen Bonfils Theater Complex lobby, Speer Boulevard and Arapahoe Street. first written, dropping the conceit of a fictionalized Che Guevara, the true-life revolutionary who never met this production’s chief protagonist.

Others may debate the sin-

cerity of Mrs. Peron’s charitable fundraising and the nature of Jesus’s relationship with Mary Magdalene – but if either is sung well and staged creatively, everything’s alright with me.

Caroline Bowman sings the title role in Evita. A revival of the Tony-winning musical plays through this weekend at the Buell Theater.

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Valentine postmark puts Loveland on map for lovers worldwide Continuing a 68-year old tradition, the U.S. Postal Service and Loveland Chamber of Commerce are teaming up to send cards and letters around the world with a coveted “Loveland” special postmark.

A unique design created by a local artist and selected via a competitive contest is stamped on the outside of all Valentine envelopes and re-mailed from the Sweetheart City.

More than 200,000 cards and letters were handled last year, from more than 100 countries and every state in the Union. Since the start of the program in 1947, more than 12 million Valentines have been re-mailed by Loveland. It’s the largest program of its kind in the world.

To have cards and letters remailed with the Loveland postmark, properly stamp and address

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each individual Valentine and put them all in a larger, stamped envelope and mail them to: Postmaster, Valentine Re-mailing, 446 E. 29th St., Loveland, CO 80538. Deadlines for re-mailing and delivery

by Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14: • Valentine cards/envelopes destined for re-mailing outside of the U.S. to other countries and international destinations should be in Loveland by Feb. 4.

• Valentine cards/envelopes destined for re-mailing within the U.S. and outside of Colorado

should be in Loveland by Feb. 10.

• Valentine cards/envelopes destined for re-mailing within the state of Colorado should be in Loveland by Feb. 11.

Colorado residents can also drop off pre-stamped valentine envelopes at King Soopers and City Market stores, which have Loveland Valentine re-mailing boxes, at area Loveland locations with valentine boxes, and in the Red Valentine Mail Boxes located in the lobby at both Loveland Post Offices.

Volunteers help Postmark a few of the more than 200,000 Valentine’s sent to Loveland for re-mailing last year.

CDOT education campaign seeks to change driving habits of mountain visitors For those who dream of a day when Interstate 70 traffic coming out of the mountains isn’t bumper-to-bumper, the Colorado Department of Transportation is launching a campaign in conjunction with the Martin Luther King holiday weekend to encourage mountain visitors to minimize delay by playing longer in the mountains.

The driving force behind the campaign, dubbed “Change Your Peak Time,” is that most high country enthusiasts opt to return to the Denver area at the same time on weekends and holidays. The tagline, “Press Play, Avoid Delay” encourages travelers to spend an extra hour having fun in the mountains instead of spending an extra hour in peak traffic.

“Once people better understand that they have the choice of how to spend their time, we think they will avoid the downhill gridlock and choose to play in the mountains for longer,” said Amy Ford, CDOT Director of Communications.

CDOT has partnered with the I-70 Coalition, a consortium representing the mountain communities and resorts, to give travel tips and travel forecasts, and to offer discounts, deals and

incentives for travelers interested in avoiding traffic by staying in the mountains for an extra hour or two.

Peak Time Deals at www. goi70.com are updated regularly, and list locations of restaurants, entertainment options and retailers along the I-70 corridor offering weekend discounts. In addition to deals offered near resorts, Idaho Springs and Georgetown also offer incentives for travelers who want to leave early to beat the peak traffic, or who have already hit the road but would like to take a break from traffic on their way home.

The campaign also encourages safe driving on winter roads. Tips like giving snowplow drivers extra room, and checking your windshield washer fluid levels and tire levels before you hit the highway, can be found at http://www. coloradodot.info/travel/winterdriving, along with real-time road conditions and travel advisories.

For more information on the “Change Your Peak Time” campaign, visit www.goi70. com. Real time travel information is available at www.cotrip.org and by downloading the CDOT Mobile app on your smartphone.

Design, construction of Central Denver Recreation Center moves forward Construction slated to begin in 2015

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ayor Michael B. Hancock, joined

by Denver City Councilwoman Jeanne Robb and Councilman Albus Brooks, announced the design and construction of the highly anticipated Central Denver Recreation Center will move forward. The estimated 60,000 sq. ft. center will be located at Colfax Avenue and Josephine Street in Council District 8.

“Denver is focused on connecting every resident and neighborhood to the resources they need to live vibrant lives,” Mayor Hancock said. “I am extremely proud that we can deliver on this regional recreation center that will better connect this community and pump positive activities into this corridor.

Thank you to all the stakeholders who have helped us make

this a reality as it will play a major role in providing a high quality of life for Denver families and children.”

In 2007, Denver voters overwhelmingly supported the Denver Better Bond Program that allowed the city to enhance and construct facilities that touch the lives of all residents. The acquisition of land for a recreation center in central Denver was among those projects.

In October 2009, Denver Parks and Recreation purchased 2.56 acres of land formerly occupied by the Church in the City for the new recreation center. The land, located at 1530 Josephine St., was acquired for $6 million.

To fund the design and construction of the recreation center, the city will apply proceeds from the sale of Market Street Station to finance the majority of the costs, supplemented by revenue from the city’s TABOR Special Revenue Fund.

“We can’t wait to dive into

the formal design phase of this project,” said Lauri Dannemiller, manager of Denver Parks and Recreation. “This cuttingedge recreation center will compliment other centers in our system. We look forward to working with Denver’s residents and future users of this facility to provide the amenities and programs they need.”

In 2012, a DPR survey asked potential users what types of amenities they would like to have in the new recreation center. As a result of that survey, DPR plans to include indoor leisure and lap pools that can host competitive events, a large fitness/training area, a multicourt gymnasium, multi-purpose classrooms, a child care/ toddler area and a large group exercise room in addition other amenities. Preliminary plans call for the facility to consist of more than 60,000 square feet of useable space spread across two floors.

A series of public input

meetings are planned in the coming months to further refine these ideas and develop a final building program and conceptual design.

“After 10 years, this is truly a dream come true,” said District 10 Councilwoman Jeanne Robb. “A recreation center at this site was first discussed in the East Colfax Plan in 2003. This facility will really meet a need in Central Denver and fulfills the voters’ expectations.”

Brooks also shared his enthusiasm for moving this project forward.

“This project is more than just a center for recreation – it is a hub of community vibrancy and a true neighborhood asset for generations to come,” Brooks said. “Many thanks to the community, Mayor’s office and Councilwoman Robb for making this dream a reality.”

The site of the new recreation center was developed into a temporary dog park and ur-

ban garden after the initial purchase of the property in 2009.

DPR will explore possibilities of incorporating these amenities into the site plan for the new recreation center. If that is not possible, the city will look for alternative locations for the dog park and garden in the surrounding area.

DPR will also partner with Denver Public Schools to ensure the best use of the recreation center to support the needs of Denver families and children and help them maintain active and healthy lifestyles.

“Denver is working tirelessly to improve opportunities for its families and children,” the mayor said. “This new recreation center in the heart of our city and right next door to East High School will be free to students through the MY Denver Card and will provide an opportunity for competitive swimming and sports programming for those who live in central Denver.”

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The sun beamed brightly on the Broncos KINDLING

By Robert Sweeney

And the sun shined brightly on the Broncos family of players and fans, Jan. 19. Now onward to the Super Bowl to battle the Seattle Seahawks. I think we’ll scatter bird feathers all over that East Rutherford, N.J., stadium.

It is an interesting match up with

“Cool Handed Luke” Quarterback Peyton Manning against Clint Eastwood Gunslinger Russell Wilson.

With Manning, who almost never leaves the pocket, and Wilson, who runs all over the field, the Broncos will be chasing Wilson and hopefully he will throw some interceptions – especially to Champ Bailey who still is one of the best Broncos players to ever wear orange and blue.

If the AFC Championship brought $30 million to Denver, Broncos fans are going to take that much back to New York or more for $25 BLT’s at the Waldorf and big buck hotel rooms and meals in New York.

This is really a New York party and how ironic that both of the teams are from the West. This must be upsetting to the Eastern conference teams who were all set to play

on the Jersey shores.

Money can’t buy Denver and Colorado the great publicity from Sunday’s victory in balmy January weather.

The event was historic with famous names of Elway, Manning, Brady, all together in one place.

Broncos owner Pat Bowlen and wife Annabel are great team owners and they live and participate in Denver events.

They have been huge supporters of many local area charity events and have provided leadership, players, cash and awards to the nonprofit organizations they support.

The fans were superb in Sunday’s victory, cheering so loudly that it hurt one’s eardrums even with a headset over the ears. Surprisingly, there were few Patriot fans. In retrospect that shows that the New England team has far

fewer fans that live in and around Colorado.

Brady’s bunch showed some talent toward the end of the game but it was too little, too late for the weary Patriots. They were good foes and the game appeared to be relatively clean of nonsense, unlike the later game where play was sloppy and full of turnovers and fumbles.

Manning is such a calm, dedicated leader; he keeps a lid on the team and calms their fears and joyful eruptions.

Plenty of time to celebrate after each victory and the great plum still to come Feb. 2 with the entire world watching our team.

The Orange Crush is back and here to stay for a few more years.

Hail to our great quarterbacks, both of them – John Elway and Peyton Manning!

My Birthday REMARKS

By Mort Marks

It’s January 2014 – That may mean nothing to you, but to me, January is a special month, which means that I am now officially one year older.

The newspapers on the day I was born didn’t report on my arrival because they were too busy noting that Knute Rockne had lifted Notre Dame from obscurity to football greatness by upsetting Stanford 27-10 in the Rose Bowl game of that year.

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in the nation to complete her hus- can’t get it going. that occasionally, I – yes, I, Mort band’s term as governor.

Your knees buckle but your belt Marks – might be mistaken.

And on that exact day of my won’t.

Make me thoughtful, but not birth, the first total eclipse of the Dialing the 1-800 numbers for moody – helpful, but not pushy sun in 300 years to be visible in the long distance wears you out.

– independent, yet able to accept northeast and Great Lakes region Your back goes out more than with graciousness favors that othtook place. you do. ers wish to bestow on me.

Anyway, birthdays really are And finally – You sink your Free me of the notion that simgreat. When you’re a youngster teeth into a steak and they stay ply because I have lived a long time you look forward to that day be- there.

I am wiser than those who have not cause it brings with it special presWhen you reach my age – I hope lived so long. ents from mom and dad and other you’ll dig out this prayer from your If I do not approve of some of close relatives. When you reach my files as I have done. I remembered the changes that have taken place in age, birthdays are even greater be- exactly where it was because I’ve recent years, give me the wisdom cause you know that the good Lord been saving it just for my birthday. to keep my mouth shut, because has seen fit to allow you to add anLord knows that I am growing when the end comes, I would like other notch on the tree of life. older so keep me from becoming to have a friend or two left.

By Kenneth W. James, CFA Also, when By you Glory reach myWeisberg age, too talkative and particularly keep And speaking of birthdays, my it’s easy to know you’re growing me from falling into the tiresome dad who came to this country when older because: habit of expressing an opinion on he was 6 years old, sent me these Everything hurts, and what every subject. words nearly 20 years ago – on his doesn’t hurt – doesn’t work.

Release me from the craving to 90th birthday.

“Next to God, the most scared Your little “Day-Timer” con- straighten out everybody’s affairs. tains only names ending in M.D. Keep my mind free from the word in the entire world to me is You get winded playing chess. recital of endless details. Give me America. When I hear that word, something begins singing in my You join a health club and don’t wings to get to the point. go.

Give me grace to listen to oth- heart and sometimes the tears come You’re still looking at beautiful ers describe their aches and pains. in my heart. I am not ashamed of women, but you can’t remember Help me endure that boredom with those tears. For in that one word, why. patience and to keep my lips sealed America, is enshrined all my You look forward to a dull eve- – for my own aches and pains are dreams, my hopes, my faith in a ning at home. increasing in number and intensity future when not only I, but also You turn out the light for eco- and the pleasure of discussing them all men shall be free. Who would nomic reasons rather than romantic is becoming sweeter as the years go not fight and if need be die for this blessed land of ours? Long live ones. by.

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On the trail of the filmmakers Mysterious Oswald screen test is the ‘reel’ thing, but will anyone take the credit?

By Peter Jones

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t’s the window that a Louisiana sniper with a Chicagobought Italian rifle killed a president of the United States – a man from Massachusetts.”

That may sound like some cheesy intro to a half-baked docudrama about the assassination of President Kennedy – and that is what it would have been if an Englewood oilman and a Colorado Springs filmmaker had gotten their way.

At least, that is one theory emerging from the labyrinth surrounding an odd screenplay titled Countdown in Dallas and a recently rediscovered 1965 screen test of Marina Oswald, the widow of the accused Kennedy assassin who had reportedly been slotted to play herself in the ill-fated movie.

The would-be film’s backstory could, itself, be the stuff of B-Hollywood fiction. The web of mystery and bad taste – replete with a cast of colorful real-life characters and bizarre unconfirmed factoids – raises more questions than answers and might even rival the JFK assassination in its enigmatic intrigue.

Too bad the movie was never made – though the strange story behind Countdown in Dallas would most likely be infinitely more watchable.

“I’m thinking this would be such a great comedy and it’s all true,” said Robert David, a sometime filmmaker whose Englewood-based CinemaLab has preserved what is believed to be the only copy of the forgotten Marina Oswald screen test.

The twisting – if not twisted – plot behind the movie project travels from Englewood to Colorado Springs to Dallas – and, oddly enough, back to Englewood again some 50 years later.

Retired 85-year-old soundman Horace Dyer of Woodland Park went to Dallas to work on the project in 1967 and was present for the Oswald screen test in Colorado Springs two years earlier.

In a photo purportedly taken by Marina, Lee Harvey Oswald holds the rifle that an Englewood oilman later tried to purchase.

The failed deal with Marina may have led to the ill-fated Countdown in Dallas movie.

Courtesy photo

“I didn’t think it was a crazy idea at all,” he said. “I thought it was going to happen.”

The Colorado connection

What a difference a half century makes.

Like a lot of deteriorated nitrate films, the only known footage associated with Countdown in Dallas could have been lost to history. Except for

brief moments when the mystery film can was passed around as a novelty among friends in Colorado, the footage sat dormant, literally gathering dust.

But in 2008 as the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination approached, Denver marketing maven Gail Harvey finally walked into CinemaLab. The full-service laboratory, a virtual museum on film preservation, is tucked away in an industrial area of north Englewood.

Harvey had gotten the can from the late restaurateur Leo Goto, who had received it from a friend as a souvenir some years earlier after the closing of the Alexander Film Company in Colorado Springs, where the screen test was made.

The can landed on the desk of Robert David, CinemaLab’s vice president. Over the years, the cinematic sleuth had preserved a wide range of movies and gotten to the bottom of mysteries about everything from lost silent treasures to a strange Nazi parade film inexplicably discovered in a Centennial man’s basement.

But even the well-versed David did not know what to make of an apparent screen test by a principal figure in the sordid lore of the Kennedy assassination.

“We hung onto it for a while. We didn’t know if it was real,” he said.

When Web searches proved fruitless, David sent his intern on the trail of the assassins … err, filmmakers.

The intern set up a fictitious screen Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade holds a press conference shortly after the JFK assassination in 1963.

Wade later inked a deal with a Colorado filmmaker to shoot a docudrama about the assassination.

Courtesy photo

name and began posting on blogs and assassination-oriented websites, asking questions about a rumored Oswald movie, never letting on that a screen test had been discovered.

“We sent email to the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Kennedy Presidential Library and the Sixth Floor Museum,” David recalled. “Surprisingly, the people we sent it to did the research and said they’d never heard of anything like that. So we set it aside. But then, I started to look at Marina’s historical images – and I thought, I think this woman in the film is her.”

Not that the screen test was anything America’s most infamous widow would have clamored to take credit for. (The remarried Marina Oswald Porter, who still lives in the Dallas area, did not return The Villager’s repeated requests for comment.)

David describes Oswald’s acting as, well, terrible, much like the clichéridden dialogue she utters while clumsily interacting with an unidentified leading man.

“It’s ‘Dah-ling, dah-ling, why don’t you marry me?’

‘Oh, dah-ling, you know why I can’t.’ It’s stuff like that. It’s generic,” David said. “It has nothing to do with Dallas.”

David was almost ready to close the case, but then he read a news report that said the Dallas District Attorney’s Office had recently opened a treasure trove of items related to the 1963 assassination. Among them were Lee Harvey Oswald’s clothing and a leather gun holster once used by Oswald’s assassin Jack Ruby.

Most curious, perhaps, was an apparent movie contract signed by thenDistrict Attorney Henry Wade, the late prosecutor who secured Ruby’s guilty verdict and coincidently went on to notoriety as the “Wade” in the historic Roe vs. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

Along the way, Wade had quietly inked a deal with Robert Larsen, a Colorado Springs-based filmmaker, whose claims to “fame”

Marina, holding daughter June Lee, and Lee Harvey Oswald in 1962 Courtesy photo

had included industrial films, a car commercial and 1958’s The Narcotic Story, a campy anti-drug vehicle starring real-life policemen playing drug dealers and long-in-the-tooth teenagers.

“This is where the story gets weird,” David said.

Contract on good taste

Details on the movie project are as muddled as a New Orleans branch of Fair Play for Cuba, but David believes the roots of Countdown in Dallas can be tied to John King, an Englewoodbased oilman and avid gun collector who in 1965 reportedly paid Marina Oswald $10,000 in hopes of eventually securing her husband’s rifle.

“It gets a little murky, but somehow that deal allowed Robert Larsen to connect with Marina,” David said.

Although the federal government got its hands on the rifle before King got a chance,

If I would have [talked to Marina Oswald], I would have said, ‘What did you see in Lee Harvey Oswald?’ She was a very attractive woman.

- Horace Dyer, soundman for Countdown in Dallas

Mrs. Oswald did come to Alexander Film Company in Colorado Springs in July 1965. At the time, not even the crew had any

idea why the widow of JFK’s alleged assassin was shooting a love scene in their midst. The best guess of soundman Horace Dyer was the simple fact that the 24-year-old Russian-born beauty was easy on the eyes.

“She was a very attractive woman,” he recalled. “I didn’t talk to her. I never did talk to cast. I didn’t feel it was my place. If I would have, I would have said, ‘What did you see in Lee Harvey Oswald?’ She was a very attractive woman.”

Although Marina was not destined for an Academy Award, her acting was evidently close enough for B movies.

In 1967, according to the recently discovered documents, Larsen offered District Attorney Wade $20,000 for use of his private files and for his “influence” in making Countdown in Dallas, a film that would star as many as 80 principals playing themselves – including Wade, himself, and the widows of Oswald and J.D. Tippit, the policeman Oswald allegedly shot in the hours after Kennedy’s murder.

Wade even partnered with former Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry and Bob Denson, chief investigator in the Ruby trial, on a new company to facilitate the project.

Although Larsen had pitched the $250,000 movie to Wade as a sure-fire way to rehabilitate Dallas’s image in the years after the assassination, the director was more quietly quoted to say the film would make money, even if it were bad.

In September 1967, Larsen and his crew traveled to Dallas to shoot footage in what was most likely an effort to

generate funding and advance press for the project. The crew stopped traffic in Dealey Plaza, purportedly shooting background footage that was to emulate the fall weather of Nov. 22, 1963.

But much to Larsen’s dismay, Wade’s “influence” did little to quell massive skepticism about what was increasingly viewed as an unseemly project.

The Dallas City Council nixed Larsen’s proposal to recreate Ruby’s murder of Oswald in the police station basement. Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was taken after the shooting, also nixed a proposal from the director. An executive at the Texas School Book Depository was quoted in the Dallas Times Herald as saying the movie had “left a bad taste in [his] mouth.”

Word was traveling quickly that Dallas’s image would be better left to chance than in the hands of a B-movie director from Colorado.

“The next morning, I got a call from Joan Carson, the script girl, who said we were going home, we’re not going to do the movie,” Dyer recalled.

“So we went home.”

Ruby and Oswald

Perhaps the most interesting footnote tangentially connected to Countdown in Dallas was a transcript of an alleged conversation between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. The page of mysterious dialogue was discovered amidst other items when Wade’s safe of JFK artifacts was unearthed in 2008 by the current Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins.

The discussion supposedly took place in Ruby’s Carousel Club on Oct. 4, 1963, less than two months before the assassination. In the dialogue, the two discuss plans to kill the president as Mafia retaliation against Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who had pointedly prosecuted organized-crime figures.

The transcript – found without notes or explanation – takes an odd place at the crossroads of fact and fiction. Because the text was discovered in Wade’s safe with a mix of real-life

Film preservationist Robert David sorts through the only known copy of a screen test by Marina Oswald. Nearly 50 years ago, an Englewood oilman may have helped spur the idea of filming a bizarre docudrama that would have starred Oswald as herself.

Photo by Peter Jones

assassination-related artifacts and documents related to Countdown in Dallas, no one is quite sure what to make of the alleged Ruby-Oswald conversation.

For years, Wade, who died in 2001, kept quiet about his involvement with the failed movie project and is not known to have mentioned the transcript to anyone. The dialogue does not appear in any known version of the screenplay.

“Some people think it’s part of the movie and others are saying this is proof that it’s a conspiracy,” David said. “If the scene is not in the script, then what is it?”

The origins of the dialogue are one of many mysteries still swirling around this generally unsolved movie mystery – one that may rival The Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis’s infamously tasteless, unfinished 1972 “dramedy” about a circus entertainer who led Jewish children into the Nazi gas chambers.

Many of the mysteries surrounding Countdown in Dallas may never be sol ved. Larsen, who now lives in northern California, has no interest in discussing the movie, according to his son, who is also a filmmaker.

For David’s part, he says the tackiness of Larsen’s unfinished opus is remarkable, especially when one con-

The ethics were wrong. The idea was bad. … The level of bad taste is astounding.

- Film preservationist Robert David on Countdown in Dallas For nearly a half century the film can containing the screen test was passed around among an assortment of friends and associates, including longtime Denver restaurateur Leo Goto.

Photo by Peter Jones

A mysterious 1965 screen test by Marina Oswald, widow of President Kennedy’s alleged assassin, has been restored by CinemaLab, an Englewood-based filmpreservation company.

Photo courtesy of CinemaLab

siders the ethics of a sitting district attorney profiting from an assassination docudrama. He likens the screenplay’s craftsmanship to that of Edward Wood, the infamous director of Plan 9 From Outer Space, a movie often touted as the worst film of all time.

“The ethics were wrong. The idea was bad,” David said of Countdown in Dallas. “Nobody wants to see Marina Oswald. Did they really think they were going to make her a movie star at the height of the Cold War? The level of bad taste is astounding.”

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AUTO REVIEW

Scion tC is sleek model for young at heart

By H. Throttle The name may be hard to pronounce Scion if one believes in phonics and how to pronounce such words. But, regardless of how it is spelled this little titan is a winner.

First drive, one sits down in a small front bucket seat in a sleek designed 2014 Scion tC. I already know that this is a “hot car” in the teenage circuits.

The Scion tC door lift back is powered by a 2.5L. four-cylinder engine that generates 179 hp. No turbo on this engine but plenty of power and a great Toyota sixspeed sequential transmission that quickly can move from drive to another lower gear, same gear shift as found in far more expensive Toyota brands.

The “absolutely red” paint covers the fine craftsmanship outside the sleek design. Driven dur-

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Top-flight safety ratings and 31 mpg make this a good choice for younger drivers.

The steering wheel is too large and one needs lumberjack hands to reach around the steering wheel circumference.

The ride was good with front wheel McPherson struts – the same as found in many racing cars. Strong braking system with ventilated disk brakes on front wheels and solid disk on rear, the car can stop on a dime.

This is a compact car that is peppy, stylish, good economy, sleek design and is priced around $20,965 with all the modern technology and Toyota service features.

The Toyota Scion tC is priced around $20,965 with all the modern technology and Toyota service features.

Calendar of Events

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CLASSES ‘History of Skiing’

Jan. 23, 7 – 8 p.m., Stapleton Master Community Association, 2823 Roslyn St, Denver. Active Minds free class reviews the origins and history of skiing and explores current issues facing the industry and the emergence of Colorado towns as ski resorts and how that impacted them. No RSVP required.

Cooking Class: Hearty Middle Eastern Cuisine

Jan. 23, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m., Whole Foods Tamarac, 7400 E. Colorado Blvd., Denver.

Join Chef Shellie from KitchenCUE and learn about the intensely flavored Middle Eastern cuisine. Reserve a spot at the Customer service Desk.

Learn to Ice Fish

Feb. 8, March 8, 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m., Wildlife Experience, 10035 S Peoria St, Parker, one mile east of I-25 on Lincoln Avenue. Begins with one-hour classroom skills session at the museum followed by an off-site, on-the-ice fishing experience at a local lake. Professional ice fishing guides will teach the class. Call 720- 488-3300.

CLUBS/ORGANIZATIONS Antique bottles tell Colorado ghost town stories

Jan. 31, 3 p.m., Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Pkwy, Englewood.

Antique bottles found in ghost towns tell fascinating stories about the early days in Colorado. Ida May Nicholl, a long time bottle digger and amateur historian, will tell the story. For more information 720-254-1897 or HistoricEnglewood.org

Englewood Chamber Women in Business Luncheon

Feb. 4, 7:30 – 9 a.m., Colore Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria, 2700 S. Broadway, Englewood. Featured speaker Joan Janis will present, You Deserve It All. Learn how to banish feelings of unworthiness and step into the life you know you secretly deserve. Reservations can be made by calling the chamber at 303-789-4473. For more information, contact Nancy Byers at nbconsulting@comcast.net or 303-6191309.

EVENTS National Western Stock Show and Rodeo

Through Jan. 26, National Western

Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver. 303297-1166, www.nationalwestern.com.

Orchid Greenhouse and Showcase

Through Feb. 24, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver. Visit the Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory, Marnie’s Pavilion and the Orangery to stroll through a breathtaking collection of tropical plants. Don’t miss the Orchid Showcase in Marnie’s Pavilion and the Orangery, featuring colorful orchid displays. Repotting demos and care tips are provided on weekends. Showcase included in general admission; members get free admission. Visit www.botanicgardens.org.

Who Killed the Lindbergh Baby?

‘Latinas Represent’

Feb. 6, 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m., History Colorado Museum, 1200 Broadway, Denver.

New initiative launched by Political Parity (a nonpartisan program that seeks to collectively increase the number of women in high-level office) together with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (a coalition of the nation’s 36 preeminent national Latino organizations). For more information, contact Stephen Eisele at stephen_eisele@huntalt.org or 617-9951913, Sarah Lenti at sarah.lenti@gmail.com or 202-557-5461, or Melody Gonzales at melody@nationalhispanicleadership.org or 202-508-6917.

FUNDRAISERS Goodwill’s Good Exchange Fashion Show & Clothing Swap

Jan. 27, 2 – 3 p.m., Bemis Public Library is located at 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Speaker and attorney Ted Borrillo will explore this historic case. The talk will focus on the questionable evidence and/or lack of evidence leading up to the conviction of Hauptmann. Borrillo is a graduate of Harvard Law School and served as Denver’s deputy city attorney.

Feb. 6, 5:30-8:30 p.m., EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th St., Denver. Emmy awardwinning fashion guru Tim Gunn and Denver’s own Mondo Guerra will co-host. Gunn is co-host and mentor of Lifetime’s “Project Runway’’ and host of the upcoming fashion competition television show Under the Gunn. Fashion and fundraising for Goodwill Industries of Denver. To purchase tickets, visit www.goodwilldenver.org/exchange.

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Noon Hour cancelled Jan. 29

Jan. 29, the weekly Noon Hour meeting with Centennial Mayor Cathy Noon is cancelled. The meeting will reconvene Wednesday, Feb. 5 when Noon will be at the Centennial Civic Center, 13311 E. Arapahoe Road, to speak with Centennial citizens about ideas, concerns and questions from noon until 1 p.m. For more information, contact Jody Alioto at 303-754-3341.

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Colorado’s deadly th 19 Century avalanches W

By Linda Jones hen Albert Morrison’s father died, he was determined to pay off the mortgage on the family farm and put enough aside to marry his girlfriend Charlotte. Like many other young men in the 19th century, he came west to seek his fortune. After landing steady work in the Leadville post office, he fell victim to “mining fever” and quit the post office to work in the rich vein discovered by a dying Cornish miner on Homestake Mountain.

On Christmas Eve, 1881, he and his three partners at the Homestake were enjoying a warm cabin. Albert was writing his mother and girlfriend a Christmas letter and had just penned, “So for tonight I will content myself with wishing you, dearest mother and Charlotte” when the avalanche struck.

He was dead before he could write “a Merry Christmas.”

That particular slide reached a speed of 100 mph and moved so quickly that the oxygen was pushed out of the cabin, creating a vacuum that sucked the air from the lungs of the four men, killing them instantly while the avalanche roared over the roof. Three months later, the Leadville postmaster noticed the men’s mail had not been picked up. When the rescuers dug through the deep packed snow they found the four men frozen eternally into their positions of that fateful moment on Christmas Eve. Two of the men were playing cards by the now-cold fire, one was sleeping in his bunk, and Albert was hunched over his loving letter with his pen remaining on the final “e” in his beloved’s name. The letter was mailed to his mother, along with a description of the rescue activities and the fine funeral.

Colorado’s first large mining disaster came four years later when 10 miners were killed by a slide at the Homestake Mine. Again it was the large collection of mail that alarmed friends.

The resulting search party found the gulch where the three cabins had been built totally filled with snow from the avalanche; there was no trace of buildings, mine tunnel or ore dump – all was snow. More than 100 volunteers quickly answered the call to report to the staging area on the Eagle River,

Alpine Pass on the Denver & South Park & Pacific Railroad.

Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection

17 miles from Leadville.

When the rescuers arrived, it was late April 1885, and they had to hack and pick through 40 feet of snow. They finally located the bunkhouse and discovered that only one man died from injuries from fallen debris. The rest had died from either suffocation or freezing. One miner had died kneeling in prayer. A half-written letter dated Feb. 21 and an alarm clock still set to ring at 6:30 a.m. was frozen at 3:30, proving the

slide happened at night. An estimated 10,000 people viewed the bodies in Leadville and the town nearly closed for two days in respect and sorrow.

The Homestake produced for many more years but no one ever dared to live at the mine again. The nearby town of Lake City has been obliterated through years by the frequent avalanches, although Lake City at one time boasted 40 cabins and several businesses. This Lake City, not to be confused with the one in the San Juan Range, was built at 11,550 feet west of Tennessee Pass, an area

that always receives abundant snowfall.

The single most deadly avalanche in Colorado history ran in the Saguache Range in eastern Gunnison County at Woodstock, a railroad town on the Denver, South Park and Pacific line.

The line originated in Denver and terminated near Crested Butte at a small coal-mining camp called Baldwin. The dream of John Evans, this railroad is one of the most legendary narrow gauge lines in the world partly because of its history of frequent avalanches and because of the famous Alpine Tunnel crossing under the Continental Divide. The Denver, South Park & Pacific unfortunately had three avalancheprone sections; one was at 11,482 feet on Boreas Pass between Breckenridge and Como and the second and third were the tunnel approaches near St. Elmo on the eastern slope and Pitkin on the western. The high costs of operating in winter and of lengthy closures after avalanches eventually bankrupt the railroad.

Woodstock began as a construction camp on the western side of the Alpine Tunnel in 1881. Soon it was a permanent camp with a depot, telegraph office, section house, saloon, hotel, cabins and other buildings. On March 10, 1884, a widow named Marcella Doyle was operating the boardinghouse in Woodstock, helped by six of her eight children. She had just moved there from the safety of Golden. Passengers on the outgoing train from Woodstock actually saw the unforgettable running of the huge avalanche without realizing it had totally buried the town behind them.

One lone Woodstock resident was able to dig out and turn in the alarm.

Volunteers quickly responded and eventually dug out five residents alive, but 13 perished, including Mrs. Doyle and her six children. The body of the saloonkeeper Joe Royegno wasn’t found until the snow began to melt in June. The town was never rebuilt, but the railroad rebuilt the bunkhouse, which was flattened again by a giant avalanche in 1909. The 1884 Woodstock avalanche holds the record for the single most deadly slide in our state’s history.

The most remarkable thread running throughout the Colorado avalanche fabric is the courage and fearlessness of the volunteer searchers.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Denver NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-1375 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/21/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Denver County.

Original Grantor: ALMA HERNANDEZ Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FINANCE AMERICA, LLC, DBA FINAM, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, F/K/A BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR REGISTERED HOLDERS OF CWABS, INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-IM3 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/8/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 8/12/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005135847 DOT Recorded in Denver County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $111,337.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $121,144.09 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the covenants of the debt, or the Deed of Trust, or both, that have been violated are: (a) failure to make the payments required under the Deed of Trust and the other documents evidencing the debt; and (b) violation of the covenants of sections 4.2, 4.9 and 4.13(a) of the Deed of Trust, which prohibit any other liens or encumbrances against the property, which require that the priority of the lien of the Deed of Trust be maintained and preserved as a first lien on the property, and which requires that all assessments, liens and other charges be paid prior to delinquency.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOTS 20 AND 21, BLOCK 1, IVANHOE, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 3818 Madison Street , Denver, CO 80205-3755 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued) at 10:00 a.m.

Thursday, February 20, 2014, at the Denver County Public Trustee’s Office, 201 West Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/26/2013 Last Publication: 1/23/2014

Publisher: Herald Dispatch Dated: 10/31/2013 Debra Johnson DENVER COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: THE CASTLE LAW GROUP, LLC CYNTHIA LOWERY-GRABER Colorado Registration #: 34145 999 18TH STREET, SUITE 2201 , DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: 1 (303) 865-1400 Fax #: 1 (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 13-06939 Published in the Herald Dispatch First Published December 26, 2013 Last Published January 23, 2014 Legal #: 2013-1375 ________________________________ PUBLIC NOTICE Denver NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-1391 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/24/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Denver County.

Original Grantor: JOSE VALLES H Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR SERVICE MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/26/2004 Recording Date of DOT: 2/25/2004 Reception No. of DOT: 2004054387 DOT Recorded in Denver County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $167,576.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $138,750.67 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: The covenants of said Deed of Trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make payments of principle 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 of the terms thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 22, BLOCK 3, MONTBELLO NO. 16, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 13083 Elmendorf Place , Denver, CO 80239 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued) at 10:00 a.m.

Thursday, February 20, 2014, at the Denver County Public Trustee’s Office, 201 West Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to

the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/26/2013 Last Publication: 1/23/2014 Publisher: Herald Dispatch Dated: 10/31/2013 Debra Johnson DENVER COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: THE CASTLE LAW GROUP, LLC JENNIFER M GRIEST Colorado Registration #: 34830 999 18TH STREET, SUITE 2201 , DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: 1 (303) 865-1400 Fax #: 1 (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 13-06287

and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $85,430.92

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued) at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, March 6, 2014, at the Denver County Public Trustee’s Office, 201 West Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT FOUR (4), BLOCK ELEVEN (11), MONTBELLO NO. 13, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: The covenants of said 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 of the terms thereof.

First Publication: 1/9/2014 Last Publication: 2/6/2014 Publisher: Herald Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE Denver NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-1403

Dated: 11/6/2013 Debra Johnson DENVER COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JAMES T. ANEST, P.C. WILLIAM R ARANT Colorado Registration #: 36864 11020 SOUTH PIKES PEAK DRIVE SUITE #210, PARKER, COLORADO 80138 Phone #: (303) 841-9525 Fax #: (303) 841-0881 Attorney File #: 4892

To Whom It May Concern: On 11/4/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Denver County.

Published in the Denver Herald First Published January 9, 2014 Last Published February 6, 2014 Legal #: 2013-1403 _________________________________

Original Grantor: BRIAN HANDLOS Original Beneficiary: LONG BEACH MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PARTNERS FOR PAYMENT RELIEF DE III, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/17/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 6/28/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005106983 DOT Recorded in Denver County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $27,600.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $27,163.39 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4)

PUBLIC NOTICE Denver NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-1413

Published in the Herald Dispatch First Published December 26, 2013 Last Published January 23, 2014 Legal #: 2013-1391 _________________________________

(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the covenants of said Deed of Trust have been violated as follows: Default under prior mortgages and deeds of trust; charges; liens; deed of trust or lien encumbering or affecting the property and other violations of the terms thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOTS 3 AND 4, AND THE NORTH 1/2 OF LOT 5, BLOCK 34, P.T. BARNUM’S SUBDIVISION TO THE CITY OF DENVER, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 10 South Irving Street , Denver, CO 80219 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election

To Whom It May Concern: On 11/7/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Denver County.

Original Grantor: MARK D DOWDELL AND LATONIA A SMITH Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR OWNIT MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR OWNIT MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-7 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/18/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 9/22/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006153039 DOT Recorded in Denver County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $174,200.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $129,257.87 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: The covenants of said 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 of the terms thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of

Which has the address of: 5303 Tucson Way , Denver, CO 80239 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued) at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, March 6, 2014, at the Denver County Public Trustee’s Office, 201 West Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/9/2014 Last Publication: 2/6/2014 Publisher: Herald Dispatch Dated: 11/8/2013 Debra Johnson DENVER COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: HELLERSTEIN AND SHORE, PC DAVID A SHORE Colorado Registration #: 19973 5347 S. VALENTIA WAY SUITE 100, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLORADO 80111 Phone #: (303) 573-1080 Fax #: (303) 571-1271 Attorney File #: 13-00483SH Published in the Denver Herald First Published January 9, 2014 Last Published February 6, 2014 Legal #: 2013-1413 ________________________________ PUBLIC NOTICE Denver NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-1447 To Whom It May Concern: On 11/19/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Denver County.

Original Grantor: MANUEL TORRES AND LISA TORRES Original Beneficiary: PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOAN, INC., A WYOMING CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: HSBC BANK USA, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF APRIL 1, 2004 PEOPLE’S CHOICE HOME LOANS SECURITIES TRUST SERIES 2004-1 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-1 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/26/2004 Recording Date of DOT: 3/23/2004 Reception No. of DOT: 2004075737 DOT Recorded in Denver County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $95,000.00

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOTS 17 AND 18, BLOCK 12, TOWN OF SWANSEA, EXCEPT THE WEST 33 FEET THEREOF, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 4507 Clayton Street , Denver, CO 80216 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued) at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, March 20, 2014, at the Denver County Public Trustee’s Office, 201 West Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/23/2014 Last Publication: 2/20/2014 Publisher: Herald Dispatch Dated: 11/21/2013 Debra Johnson DENVER COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: HELLERSTEIN AND SHORE, PC MARTIN H SHORE Colorado Registration #: 1800 5347 S. VALENTIA WAY SUITE 100, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLORADO 80111 Phone #: (303) 573-1080 Fax #: (303) 571-1271 Attorney File #: 13-00792SH Published in the Denver Herald First Published January 23, 2014 Last Published February 20, 2014 Legal #: 2013-1413

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