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The best of the worst on VHS Lifelong friends Nick Prueher, left, and Joe Pickett curate the Found Footage Festival, which comes to Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Littleton on Saturday, Sept. 6. The two have been collecting oddball video clips since they were kids.

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Found Footage Festival comes to Littleton

By Peter Jones Not everyone can make a career out of their misspent youth, but

where there’s a will – and your parents’ basement – there’s a way.

Just ask lifelong friends Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, founders of the Found Footage Festival.

Their celebration of campy video

clips plays Littleton this weekend – more than 20 years after the two buddies began rummaging garage sales and thrift stores for sooty VHS tapes and orphaned home movies.

“Joe and I both grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. It was the kind of place where you had to make your own entertainment,” Prueher explained. “We used to take tapes out of old answering

machines and listen to them. Then in 1991, we found a Mr. T educational video. It was hilarious and it got us thinking – if there’s gold like this right under our noses, imagine Continued on page 2

Sheryl Crow packs Chatfield amphitheater Botanic Gardens summer concerts end this weekend

By Tom Barry Like many summer afternoons, there was the ever-present chance of showers with thunderstorms followed by a considerable shower Aug. 13. Concert fans continued to file into the Botanic Gardens Chatfield location, as lightning lit up the skies along the Front Range.

Singing sensation Sheryl Crow and her band then came onto the stage and the rain returned briefly, but did not dampen the spirits of over 4,700 loyal fans that braved the inclement weather.

“I’ve been to every nook and cranny in Colorado and love it all,” said the musician to the delight of her fans.

Crow, 52, maintains her trademark smile along with her magnificent eyes that dance with

her music. Her crisp voice projected smoothly to concertgoers throughout the expansive grassy Country rock sensation Sheryl Crow delighted her fans with her crisp voice and guitar strumming.

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amphitheater.

Many adoring fans lined up adjacent the stage for the show’s duration as others danced and swayed to the rhythms of her music. Crow’s fans spanned from young families with children to the mature set.

As the sun began to set behind the Rocky Mountains, Crow lit up the stage, performing a wide selection of her top hits including: “Every Day is a Winding Road,” “Her Favorite Mistake,” “Soak Up the Sun” and “If It Makes You Happy.” One of her last and most popular songs was “Steve McQueen,” as many concertgoers sang along with the lyrics.

Botanic Gardens Summer Concerts conclude at the York Street location with St. Vincent on Sept 6.

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Carole Maggio, host of the 1996 facial-workout video Facercize, shows viewers how it’s done. The clip is part of the Found Footage Festival

Curators spice their show with acerbic commentary

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Before long, the teenaged Prueher was sifting through the break room in the McDonald’s restaurant where he worked. There he laid claim to an instructional training video that was so bad, it was good.

He stuck it in his jacket.

“It was so ridiculous, I had to steal it,” Prueher said. “It was covered in dust, so nobody had watched it. Then I realized why. It was called Inside and Outside Custodial Duties.”

The toilet-scouring search for “McClean,” and Mr. T’s Be Somebody … or Be Somebody’s Fool! are among more than 6,000 tapes that comprise the Prueher-Pickett collection. The special 10th anniversary Found Footage Festival comes this Saturday, Sept. 6, to the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Littleton.

Like the axiom “Do what you love and the money will follow,” the two have taken what was once a hobby – goofing on kitschy videos with friends – into a vocation with a national tour and accompanying DVDs for sale.

True to form, the curators spice their show with acerbic commentary a la Mystery Science Theater 2000, much as they did in their basements as teenagers. Although the two have held real jobs of a sort – The Late Show with David Letterman and The Colbert Report in Prueher’s case and The Onion newspaper in Pickett’s – the touring festival and DVDs have become a living for these cheese-philes.

Their clips run the gamut, from absurd product commercials (the Clean Butt toilet attachment) to primers on everything from how to flirt to how to exact revenge (a particularly puzzling video hosted by actress Linda Blair).

“The tips they’re offering are too well thought out to be entirely a joke,” Prueher said of Blair’s video, noting that everything in the festival must meet an exacting standard: “Whatever it was trying to do, it has to fail at it in some entertaining way.”

Some of the strangest footage has come from amateurs who in the 1980s fumbled through the then-new worlds of home video and public-access television. Among the oddest discoveries is an eight-hour camcorder video – condensed to two and half minutes in the festival – of a man admiring a stick he finds

[The early home-video period] was like the Wild West.

They were throwing stuff at the wall to see what would stick.

- Nick Prueher, curator of the Found Footage Festival in the woods.

“He becomes convinced that he’s found a prehistoric weapon that belongs in a museum,” Prueher said.

“You see him taking it to the local bar and showing it to people and trying to get them on board and taking it to people at the local college.

It’s fascinating. You can’t look away.

You start to believe him by the end.”

Another unsolved mystery: a public-access show called Dancing With Frank.

“It’s this balding guy, a little chunky, extremely hairy, and he’s wearing nothing but an American flag speedo and a Lone Ranger mask. He’s dancing to John Philip Sousa marches. The audience he’s assembled is a group of extremely elderly people who do not want to be there. You can see it in their faces,” Prueher said.

The video’s “intent” was so cryptic that Prueher and Pickett hired a private investigator to track “Frank” down. Once located, the two flew to southern California to meet the “star” on a beach for a bizarre and rambling rendezvous that did little to shed light on the under-clothed dancer’s muse.

“We left with more questions than we arrived with,” Prueher said.

As if more material was needed for the Found Footage Festival, the partners have recently taken to producing their own content, disguising Prueher as a incompetent chef and sending him out as a guest on local morning news shows.

The premise: What is one to do with holiday leftovers? As it turned out, mashed-potato ice-cream cones and turkey-stuffing-vegetable purees – except when the bungling cook was knocking over the on-set food table.

“We thought if we could get ourselves booked, we could probably get a fake person booked just as easily,” Prueher said.

Although YouTube is chockfull of such practical jokes and poorly crafted amateur productions, Prueher says there is a reason why the Found Footage Festival centers primarily on the 1980s golden age of VHS. “The format was so new,” he said.

“For the first time, you could have video that you could control in your own home without having to spool up a projector. It was like the Wild West. They were throwing stuff at the wall to see what would stick, like Rent a Friend – for an hour, the guy on the screen would say ‘Where are you from?’ and leave a pause so you could answer the question.”

Still, Prueher sees a glimmer of hope for the future.

“People on YouTube are selfaware. They know this could get out there, so you see people trying to be weird. But occasionally stuff slips through,” he said. “Technology changes, but bad ideas are here to stay. That’s good business for us.”

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‘Putting garbage in the state Constitution’ Arapahoe Park track gambling proposal under fire

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By Bob Sweeney he Arapahoe County Citizen Budget Committee held its monthly session at the County Courthouse in Littleton, Aug. 13, commencing at 6:30 p.m.

The group is appointed from all areas of the county by the commissioners to address citizen concerns about countywide expenditures and protecting citizens pocketbooks. They were concerned about the gambling industry relocating to Arapahoe County with few local county controls and votes, and that was the agenda item for the monthly session.

The meeting was highlighted by the attendance of County Commissioner Nancy Doty and her interest and concerns about Amendment 68 amending the state Constitution to permit casino gambling at horse racetracks in Arapahoe, Mesa and Pueblo counties, limited to one racetrack in each county, and to distribute new casino gaming revenue.

County budget officer Todd Weaver distributed information materials presenting both sides of the issue.

A county legal department representative was in attendance along with Greg Romberg, who represents Arapahoe County in legislative matters at the state legislature.

Katy Atkinson, president of her public relations firm, was present representing the casino industry that is a client of her firm. She addressed the negative impacts of the ballot proposal. There was no spokesman present for the racetrack proposal.

After several hours of

discussion, Committee Chairman Jamie Wollman described Amendment 68 as “Putting garbage in the state Constitution.”

She called for a straw poll of the 15 members present of any support for the amendment and nary a vote was cast in favor of the ballot measure.

While several Aurora delegates asked questions about job opportunities and business development they did not vote in favor of supporting the proposed amendment.

Primary budget economic concerns were voiced by members about roads, in particular the Quincy and Gun Club intersection, and other avenues into the proposed casino site at Arapahoe Park, the only remaining horse track still operating within the state. While two other counties are mentioned under the proposed amendment, it would take five years to qualify for gaming and the horseracing tracks would have to be reopened and operated for a five-year period.

Points were made that placing these additional counties on the ballot issue was a political attempt to draw more statewide support and favorable votes from Pueblo and Mesa counties for the November election.

Other stumbling blocks for the ballot is-

sue were complete state control over the casino industry and the fact that Arapahoe County would not receive any of the tax revenues and would be faced with huge costs in law enforcement, infrastructure, traffic and roads with these costs not spelled out prior to the passage of the amendment.

The ballot measure calls for the county to have to negotiate impact fees with the operators of the new gaming facility following the election if the issue passed. Ballot language also allows just one casino in each named county, preventing any future competition within the gaming industry. Such language would be very strange placed into the state Constitution, allowing just one of any type of business in any location by law.

There was considerable discussion on how the committee could oppose the measure and what was legal for them to do under state election laws.

Commissioner Doty advised the group that the county could not spend money either “for” or “against” this issue or other ballot issues.

Committee member Tom Tanner spoke about the road issues in Aurora and challenges with transportation and road expenditures. Jared Ingwalson voiced his opposition to the ballot issue and told to the group that they could all write letters and speak out individually on the ballot proposal.

The committee may issue more guidance after future meetings as a group within legal election guidelines.

Additional concerns centered around the county’s lack of control and that the state governs and controls all gambling activities.

Amendment 68 does not give local voters the option to decide if gambling should be authorized in their community or county, but is a statewide vote imposed upon a local entity.

Katy Atkinson, representing the casino industry, said, “Schools have never said that they wanted any funding like this, and no school e n dorsements have b e e n forthcoming.”

County lobbyist Greg Romberg spoke about the issues related to fees versus

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Atkinson spoke about the negative impact on the existing casino industry that provides an estimated 10,000 jobs and pays around $100 million in gaming taxes to the state currently. This income and tax revenue could be lost and there is only an estimate of what one new casino at the existing racetrack might generate in tax revenue while hurting the existing gaming industry located in Black Hawk, Central City and Cripple Creek. The present tax dollars go to nine impacted counties, junior colleges, historic preservation, and parks and recreation needs. Under the new ballot measure, all funding would go to K-12 schools with the other entities losing current revenue streams. Many jobs could be in jeopardy if the one casino replaced the numerous casinos in Black Hawk, Central City and Cripple Creek.

Atkinson indicated that the owners of the current Arapahoe Park, Twin-River World Wide, own and operate racetracks in some eastern states.

More than 130,000 signatures were gathered to place this initiative on the statewide ballot and, according to Atkinson, many signatures came from Aurora promoting this as an economic tool for jobs and funding for schools.

Ballot information for “pro” and “con” will be provided with election information mailed out with ballots in October. Atkinson stated that large amounts of money would be spent to attempt to pass this legislation.

Further discussion on Amendment 68 will be held at the next session in September – date to be announced.

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State’s largest school district says ‘No’ to Amendment 68 Denver School Board sees through measure’s ‘school funding’ gimmick Colorado’s largest school district, Denver Public Schools, is officially opposing Amendment 68, the proposal to allow Las Vegas-style gambling at an Arapahoe County horse track.

The Denver School Board took the action with a unanimous vote Thursday evening.

“The Denver School Board understands that Amendment 68 is a gimmick, promoted by a Rhode Island casino operator, which does not provide any long term, stable funding for education, Colorado voters

have seen through this guise before and we believe they will this time, as well,” said Michele Ames, spokesperson for Don’t Turn Race Tracks Into Casinos, the issue committee opposing Amendment 68.

“Perhaps that explains why none of Colorado’s 178 schools districts have endorsed this alleged school funding measure,” Ames said. “Given the proponents’ best guess that Amendment 68 will generate only about $130 on top of the $7,200 base that schools currently receive per-student, the amount is so minimal and the ballot language is so vague on how the money can be spent, it’s more than likely that none of this money will ever actually make it into the classroom.”

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Mothers’ Milk Bank celebrates 30 years MMB announces new 30th donation site at the mama’hood

In honor of its 30th anniversary, Mothers’ Milk Bank (MMB), a Colorado-based program benefitting women and babies nationwide, announced the opening of its 30th donation center at the mama’hood, a one-stop-shop for new moms and new families that addresses all of their pre and postnatal needs.

The opening was commemorated during Milk Drive & More, a community event at the mama’hood that was attended by many Denver families. Milk Drive & More featured educational speakers for parents, a presentation by Dr. Marianne Neifert (Dr. Mom) and a free breastfeeding class. New and expectant moms also had the opportunity to begin the screening process to become a human milk donor and current donors were able to drop

off milk donations for MMB. In addition to celebrating the growing partnership between MMB and the mama’hood, Milk Drive & More also coincided with National Breastfeeding Awareness Month. MMB and the mama’hood are excited to continue working together to serve moms and babies in Denver and across the U.S. For more information on MMB visit www.milkbank colorado.org.

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The plan’s primary goal— Great Schools in Every Neighborhood—calls for 80 percent of all DPS students in every neighborhood to attend a high-performing school by 2020. Currently 61 percent of students attend a school rated “Green” or “Blue” on the district’s School Performance Framework, and the Denver Plan lays out specific highimpact strategies for DPS to increase the number of high-quality schools in every neighborhood.

“Since the launch of the original Denver Plan in 2005, we have made tremendous strides in bolstering student achievement for many students, thanks to the hard work of our educators and the partnership of our community,” said DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg. “But we still have much work to do to prepare all students for success after graduation, and the Denver Plan 2020 outlines the goals, strategies, beliefs and values it will take to get there.”

When the first Denver Plan was launched in 2005, only 33 percent of students were at grade level on state assessments; DPS had one of the lowest rates of

year-on-year academic growth among medium and large districts in the state; and 39 percent of students graduated on-time.

Today, 48 percent of students are proficient on state assessments; DPS has ranked at the top in yearon-year academic growth for three straight years among major districts; and the district-wide on-time graduation rate has increased by 23 percent. Persistent achievement gaps continue to exist, however, for students of color, students who are learning English as a second language and students who are in poverty.

“We’ve seen strong academic growth and progress in several areas, and the Denver Plan’s charge is to expand the programs and initiatives that drove those gains,” said DPS Board of Education President Happy Haynes. “At the same time, this is also a challenge for us to find new, effective strategies to close our persistent achievement gaps and to accelerate our progress.”

The Denver Plan outlines specific goals and strategies designed to close academic achievement gaps and prepare all students for success. In addition to the goal to create Great Schools in Every Neighborhood, there are four

additional goals that will guide DPS’ efforts.

A Foundation for Success in School: 80 percent of DPS third grade students will be at or above grade level in reading and writing and Lectura and Escritura, the Spanish language literacy and writing exams.

Ready for College and Career: the four year graduation rate for students who start with DPS in ninth grade will increase to 90 percent. DPS will double the number of students who graduate college and career-read from 1,100 to 2,200.

Support the Whole Child: ensuring that each school environment encourages students to pursue their passions and interests, supports physical and mental health, and ensures students continue to develop socially and emotionally.

Close the Opportunity Gap: the graduation rate for African American and Latino students will increase by 25 percentage points, to 89 percent. Third grade reading and writing proficiency will increase by 25 percentage points, to 75 percent.

For a full copy of the Denver Plan 2020, visit denverplan. dpsk12.org.

The Denver Plan 2020 was crafted with input from nearly 3,000 educators, parents, students, community partners and city leaders across Denver over the course of the 2013-14 school year. DPS will continue to work in close partnership with community organizations, city agencies and civic leaders over the course of the Denver Plan to accomplish each of its goals.

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By Robert Sweeney

Arapahoe County should vote ‘No’ on gambling It is my hope that the Arapahoe County commissioners will oppose Amendment 68 that would bring a large mega casino to Arapahoe Park horse racing track.

Putting it mildly, this is a betrayal of the compact to establish legal gambling in our three mountain towns 23 years ago. Millions of dollars have been invested in Cripple Creek, Black Hawk and Central City since legalized gambling arrived on the scene. The statewide vote created more than $100 million a year in tax dollars to the state, along with creating 10,000 new jobs.

Amendment 68 puts all of this at risk with the establishment of one casino in Arapahoe County al-

most immediately and two others in Pueblo and Mesa counties, if they re-established horse racing after a five-year period.

To our knowledge, the new casino is not being sponsored or promoted by any of the existing licensed casinos operating now in Colorado.

Amendment 68 is being pushed

by Eastern ownership of the existing Arapahoe Park racing establishment located in far southeastern Arapahoe County and probably supported by the hard-pressed horse-racing business to save the racing track and industry in Colorado.

To save horse racing, the concept is to turn the track into a casino with 2,500 slot machines and make it a huge, one-of-a-kind casino in the Denver metro area. The amendment excludes any other casinos from entering the market by a constitutional mandated vote.

What a bunch of garbage to promote an out-of-state casino, which is hiding behind a faltering racetrack industry. We don’t blame the folks for this attempted end run that has been rejected by the Legislature for a decade and voted down once before by an 80 percent margin.

Who wouldn’t like to own a single casino in the Denver metro market with any other competition ruled out by the state Constitution?

The well-funded effort this time could prove fatal for the existing

gaming towns that have moved forward in good faith making huge investments in these towns and Colorado.

Amendment 68 is being promoted as a way to add an estimated $100 million with the tax money going to K-12 education, although at the present time, no school district has asked for or supported this bill.

Schools are supported by property taxes that we all pay on real estate.

The Cherry Creek School District has not asked for gambling money to pay for classrooms – I hope.

The present gaming tax revenue flows to the state and then back to nine counties, state parks and recreation, historical preservation and the state community college funds.

If gambling was ever allowed in other venues, the present licensee should have the first opportunity to expand to the new marketplace.

Never should one business be granted a statewide franchise in our Constitution, as this flawed amendment seeks.

Currently, the casinos have met market demands, provided convenient bus service, employed an estimated 10,000 tax paying employees, many of whom would lose their jobs if the one mega-casino was voted into existence by Amendment 68, which is estimated to employ 200 jobs.

Arapahoe County should move forward in opposing this ballot

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amendment, but as a governmental unit will have to follow state laws on making official announcements against this amendment. County officials can of course speak their mind about the proposal, as well as the Arapahoe County Citizen Budget Committee that informally voted to not support the proposed amendment because of budgetary concerns.

It is just not fair, probably unconstitutional, and a real slap in the face for existing casinos that have done everything asked of them and more.

It drains the money away from Cripple Creek, Black Hawk and Central City, which would lose this solid tax base and probably put these cities on the edge of bankruptcy.

Lastly, Arapahoe County can only negotiate the immense expense, roads, intrastate and law enforcement with the proposed casino after the voting occurs. Further, the county does not receive any of the revenue from the gaming enterprise and has no control over it because that is done by the state.

This is a very serious threat to the industry, employees and gamblers. Those who like the industry must vote “No” on this proposal and do everything possible to defeat the tampering with the state Constitution allowing a single metro area casino franchise.

We need to beat this dead horse.

Politically correct ‘ain’t’ correct REMARKS

By Mort Marks

Americans are endowed with certain inalienable rights, but if we don’t stick up for them, somebody – some day – will come along and UN-endow them and I think, unfortunately, that day has come.

Today, many intellectuals, college professors and elitists who call themselves “politically correct” now look askance at any manifestations of love of our country. To many of them, patriotism has connected American imperialism, excessive spending on defense and mindless flag waving by citizens without university degrees.

It came as no surprise that the American Council of Trustees and Alumni reported that they had compiled a list of 117 “anti-

American” statements made on college campuses.

It is disturbing to read of the following incidents, which have occurred around our country.

School officials in one district in Oklahoma actually removed “God Bless America” signs from their schools in fear that someone might be offended.

The New York Post reported that the New York Public School System is permitting Muslim students to pray in school buildings during school hours in honor of the Muslim Holy Moth of Ramadan. Muslim students will be given private rooms within the school to practice their faith and teachers will be allowed to alter or adjust students’ schedules to accommodate their religious meetings.

A television news channel in Long Island ordered American flags removed from their newsroom and lapels of their reporters because management did not want to appear biased. They justified their action by maintaining that our nation’s flag might give the appearance that – “they lean one way or another.”

Incidentally, have you noticed that no person on our own ABC station wears an American flag on their lapel?

A new curriculum unit prepared by Brown University’s

Watson Institute of International Studies was designed to help high school teachers and students “analyze various foreign-policy options” and invites them to ponder such choices as, “If we are going to end the cycle of violence in which we are are caught, we must halt our military offensives and join with all civilized nations around the world to examine the deeper issues underlying terrorism.”

An example of politically correctness going against patriotism happened when Berkeley, Calif., banned U.S. flags from being displayed on their city’s fire trucks, and here in Colorado, the Boulder librarian banned the American flag from the libraries’ entrance because in both cases, the officials didn’t want to offend anyone in the community.

And speaking of offending anyone – remember when administrators at a California high school sent five students home after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts because school officials deemed that their American flag garments might have offended certain students on Cinco de Mayo.

Another example of these socalled acts of tolerance by the politically correct was the decision by the head of the public library at Florida Gulf Coast University

who ordered all “PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN” signs removed so as not to offend international students.

It’s time to take a stand and point out to those who are so concerned with being politically correct that we in America do still have our own language, our own lifestyles and our own culture. A culture that was developed over centuries of struggles, trials and victories by men and women who fought, bled and died at places such as Bunker Hill, Antietam, San Juan, Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and the Pacific Islands on our way to defeat Japan.

We are proud of our heritage as Americans, and we have the right to wave our flag, and sing our National Anthem, quote our national motto, “In God We Trust” and cite our Pledge whenever and wherever we choose.

Our First Amendment gives all citizens the right to express their opinions about our government and our culture, but once they are done complaining, whining and griping about our flag, our pledge, our motto, and “our way of life” and how it is better living somewhere else, perhaps they should then consider taking advantage of another great American freedom – the right to leave!

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QUOTE QUOTE of of the the WEEK WEEK Today you are you!

That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

– Dr. Seuss

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Isle and Lady Luck Black Hawk host Fan Club launch I

sle and Lady Luck Black Hawk have the newest rewards club in town.

Celebrate the start of something BIG during the Fan Club Launch Parties.

Saturday, Sept. 6, 3 – 6 p.m., enjoy cake, giveaways and live music at the Isle. And join your friends at Lady Luck on Sunday, Sept. 7. There will be lots of fun and excitement from 11 a.m.

– 2 p.m. Stop in for cake and a Fan Club Tshirt. And don’t forget to get a new Fan Club card. Guests can receive their new Fan Club cards at both the Isle and Lady Luck casinos everyday starting Wednesday, Sept. 3.

The new five-tier Fan Club has lots of perks for members. Get double, triple or quadruple points by reaching the gold, platinum or millionaire tiers. Whether your tier is club, select, gold, platinum or millionaire, the more you play, the more you earn. Plus more rewards, more coupons and more food.

As always, every tier guest will be able to earn entries into our great promotions.

On Fridays and Saturdays, Sept. 12 – 27, Lady Luck will be playing the $25,000 Fan Club Fortune Progressive. The progressive jackpot will start at $250. One winner will be selected each half hour from 2 – 10 p.m. If the winner doesn’t claim their prize it will roll over into the next drawing. That’s lots of cash and lots of chances to win.

Fridays, Sept. 12, 19 and 26 at the Isle will be just as exciting. You could win $1,500 in the $30,000 FANtastic Cash Giveaway. Tons of cash will be given away in random progressive drawings.

Fan Club can also take you places you’ve never been before. Isle and Lady Luck are teaming up with Carnival Cruise Lines and Tropicana Las Vegas to add to the excitement of being a Fan Club member. Fan Club members in the Gold, Platinum and Millionaire tiers, will now be able enjoy discounted or complimentary trips aboard Carnival Cruise Lines. Carnival destinations include beautiful ports throughout the Caribbean, Bahamas, Mexico and other destinations. Plus, Fan Club members can play their way to a casually elegant resort experience at the new Tropicana Las Vegas. Members of Fan Club will also be able to use their points and tier benefits at all 15 Isle and Lady Luck casinos located throughout the eastern United States.

Make sure to join Fan Club starting Wednesday, Sept. 3. Because when you’re a Fan, everything is easier, faster, and better.

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Children’s Museum of Denver provides nearly 16,000 free admissions Through its Sponsored Admissions and Memberships Program, the Children’s Museum of Denver provided 15,689 free admissions and offered free annual family memberships to children from low-income child care centers and elementary schools during the past school year.

Since its inception 19 years ago, the program has been an important part of the museum’s outreach efforts, removing financial barriers to museum access and ensuring that more than 227,000 children had the opportunity to benefit from the museum’s educational programming and interactive exhibits. Qualifying schools and childcare centers

receive free educational programs facilitated by museum educators, and roundtrip bus transportation when funding allows. In addition, each participating child is offered a free yearlong family membership that allows them to attend the museum repeatedly to share its expertly designed learning experiences with their entire families.

The program is open to child care centers and elementary schools with student populations in which 50 percent or more are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. On average, 84 percent of students in the 89 elementary schools served last year were eligible for free or reduced price school lunches. An addi-

tional 20 low-income preschools, childcare centers and other programs participated, such as Denver Inner City Parish, Tennyson Center for Children and area programs serving teen mothers and their children. According to the Colorado Children’s Campaign’s 2014 KIDS COUNT report, 18 percent of Colorado children live in poverty; only two states seeing more growth in childhood poverty since 2000. Children living in poverty are faced with a substantial educational achievement gap.

A study conducted by the Annie E. Casey Foundation indicates that Colorado has one of the largest income-related achievement gaps in the nation, with only 21

percent of low-income students demonstrating proficiency in reading, compared to 55 percent of their more affluent peers—a difference of 34 percent.

As the museum embarks on a major expansion, it remains committed to sustaining this program as a valuable resource serving metro-area communities. When the new Children’s Museum of Denver opens in late 2015, the Sponsored Admissions and Memberships Program will also expand, increasing current efforts by 47 percent.

The Sponsored Admissions and Memberships Program is made possible by donations from: BBVA Compass Foundation,

DanPaul Foundation, Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation, Denver Post Community Foundation, Helen M. McLoraine Children’s Museum of Denver Endowment Fund, J. K. Mullen Foundation, Nord Family Foundation, PeyBack Foundation, Jared Polis Foundation Gift Fund, Rose Community Foundation, Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, Singer Family Foundation, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo Corporate Giving and Xcel Energy Foundation. In addition, the program was supported through contributions made to the special appeal at the museum’s annual Birthday Bash gala.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT ‘Make it Rain: Paintings by Ian Fisher’

Scott O’Neil, this year’s celebration features performances by trumpeter/arranger Jeff Nevin, Mexican soprano Monica Abrego, Mariachi Sol de Mi Tierra, and dancers from the Fiesta Colorado Dance Company. Tickets available in Boettcher Concert Hall Box office, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., and Saturday, noon – 6 p.m. Tickets are complimentary. They are required for admission to the concert, though tickets do not guarantee admission. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Visit www.coloradosymphony.org.

Cancer League of Colorado Membership Luncheon

6651 S. Krameria Way, Centennial . Preregistration fee per dog is $7 or $8 beginning Sept. 5 and day of event. Additional dog in the same household is just $2. Preregister at www.sspr.org or call 303-347-5999.

1830s Rendezvous & Spanish Colonial Art Market

Through Nov. 9, Gates Garden Court Gallery, Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver. Denver-based Ian Fisher’s large-scale cloud paintings have a Western, big-sky quality. They are intended not only as sublime representations of what clouds actually are – formations as a result of amassed water droplets – but also as an expression of the creativity and timelessness these forms reveal. Visit www. botanicgardens.org.

‘Pippin’

Sept. 6 - 20, Buell Theater, Denver Performing Arts Center, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Cast includes Lucie Arnaz as Berthe, Sasha Allen (a finalist on the 4th season on NBC’s “The Voice”) as Leading Player. Visit www.denvercentertheater.org.

‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’

Sept. 12 – Oct. 26, Stage Theater, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Updated from the original 1960 version, musical tells the story of Margaret Tobin Brown, whose husband made a fortune in the Leadville mines.

The Denver matron became famous after the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Visit www. denvercenter.org.

‘Quest for Freedom’

Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., Mission Hills Church, 620 SouthPark Drive, Littleton.

Music by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), whose haunting Violin Concerto begins the program with guest soloist Andrew Sords. Director and Conductor Devin Patrick Hughes will lead a pre-concert talk on the program beginning at 6:30 p.m. Each Arapahoe Philharmonic concert also provides a Classic Children’s Corner at 7:10 p.m. in the lobby offering a casual introduction of classical music to the next generation of arts advocates. Tickets at www.arapahoe-phil.org, 303-781-1892 or at the door.

Sept. 18, 11 a.m. Social, shopping, learning; noon, luncheon; 12:30 p.m. president’s remarks. Tickets at blacktiecolorado.com/rsvp. Info: Lindsay Morgan, 303-817-4865.

Sept. 26, 8 a.m. shotgun start, Broken Tee Golf Course, 2010 W. Oxford, Englewood.

Denver Lions Club, 18 holes, four player scramble. For more information call Mike Flaherty, 303-762-2314.

Sept. 11, 7 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 14th and Curtis Streets, Denver.

General David H. Petraeus presents “Emerging Threats to U.S. National Security.”

Hosted by Gov. John Hickenlooper and Mayor Michael Hancock. Tickets at www. thecell.org.

EVENTS Denver Pagan Pride Day

Free historic walking tour of Fairmount Cemetery

Lion’s Roar Golf Tournament

Sept. 7, 11 a.m. - 4p.m., Civic Center Park, 101 W 14th Ave Denver. The event includes free workshops and lectures from local Denver witches, ceremonial magicians and Druids on Paganism, magick, and related topics, entertainment by the Decadancers dance troupe and Orpheus Pagan Chamber Choir. Stop by the info booth to ask questions about Paganism, meet real witches. The event is free and open to the public,

Festival Italiano

Sept. 6, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m., Sept. 7, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Belmar Center, 464 Teller St., Lakewood. Fine Italian food, vendors Balistreri Vineyard Children’s Grape Stomp, flag throwers from Florence and other live entertainment. Visit festivalitaliano.org.

CLUBS/ ORGANIZATIONS ‘El Latir De México Concert: A Greater Englewood Chamber South Suburban’s Puppy Unique Celebration Of Mexican Second Friday Coffee Sept. 12, 7:30 – 9:30 a.m., The Mod Paddle Offers Canines Chance Independence’ Sept. 15, 7 p.m., Boettcher Concert, Market, 3475 S. University Blvd. Suite A, to Swim 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Conducted by

Englewood.

Colorado Remembers 9-11

Sept. 6. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Holly Pool,

Sept. 14, 2 p.m., Fairmount Cemetery.

Meet at the Gate Lodge on the cemetery grounds.

‘Taste of Greenwood Village’

Sept. 18, Doubletree by Hilton, Denver Tech Hotel, 7801 E. Orchard Road, Greenwood Village. More than 30 South Denver restaurants. Dtcchamber.org.

Tom Papas at Comedy Works South

Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m.; Sept. 26, 7:15 and 9:45 p.m., Sept. 27, 7:15 and 9:45 p.m., Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa has found success in film, television and radio as well as on the live stage. Tom’s first hour special, Tom Papa Live in New York City, premiered on Comedy Central in January 2012. Advance tickets available. Visit www. comedyworks.com or call 720-274-6800

Sept. 27 - 28, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., The Fort Restaurant grounds, 19192 Colorado 8, Morrison. Features Spanish colonial art and jewelry and historical interpreters that enact colorful scenes of the west in the 1830s.

FUNDRAISERS ‘Katie Mahan & Music for a Bright Tomorrow’

Sept. 12, 8 p.m., Holiday Event Center, 2644 W. 32nd Ave., Denver. Benefit concert with Augustana Arts supporting Spinal Cord Research. For information and tickets visit www.katiemahanfoundation. org.

Charlotte Sass Benefit Concert for Project C.U.R.E.

Sept. 19, 7 p.m., 7401 E. 1st Ave., Denver.

Cocktails and meet & greet with Douglas Jackson, CEO, 8 p.m. concert. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit www.soileddove.com; www.projectcure .org/events.

Fall Plant and Bulb Sale

Sept. 19 - 20, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday; 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver. Thousands of bulb varieties and unusual plants perfect for cool weather available for purchase.’

Free admission north parking lot. Regular admission applies if shoppers wish to explore the Gardens. Hours. All sales support the Gardens. Visit botanicgardens.org.

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Your Weekly Horoscope – By Gren Chatworth VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sept 22) Financial matters, business, real estate, and everything connected with business associates is coming to a head. Make sure you keep yours! A slip could be most embarrassing.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) You may find yourself backed into a corner during the next week. This is not the best time to try and fight your way out. Bide your time!

Fighting, right now, won’ get you anywhere.

TAURUS (April 20 – May 20) Remember you cannot realize your goals by daydreaming. Consider a more professional transition. Put together an impressive resume with professional help if you are already employed – put your utmost into your position.

LIBRA (Sept 23 – Oct 22) You are about to enjoy a great relief from tensions and stress that you have been experiencing the past while. The small annoyances you may experience in the days ahead should not cause you worry. Learn to enjoy life.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) Most persons born under the sign of Aquarius will begin to perceive that what appeared to be a ‘total bust’ is working out surprisingly well.

Good luck, and keep plodding along!

GEMINI (May 21 – June 20) Sometimes a raised voice causes wounds not visible to the naked eye.

Watch your language with children and associates. Things could be under tension at work for a few days, but all will be well by the end of the week.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) This could be an incredible romantic interlude this week. Something you have had in mind, but never thought would happen. Take it in your stride and make the most of this. You will not be sorry.

PISCES (Feb 19 – March 20) Some great gain is coming if you can face the facts and not allow yourself to become bogged down with burdensome details. Try and relax more and enjoy your social life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) You are under a very favorable aspect now that should bring rewards to actions done in the past. Don’t allow yourself to become run-down. You’ll need some extra energy next month.

ARIES (March 21 – April 19) Try not to lose sleep over the ‘should have/could have’ routine. Learn to live the moment for the greatest personal peace. Perhaps a holiday is in store for you very shortly.

CANCER (June 21 – July 22) A slight change in your outlook on life in general is coming up. This will lead to a much broader vision of things around you. Opportunity is all around you.

LEO (July 23 – Aug 22) Conditions in your chart are very good this week. You have an opportunity to travel. Take this with a grain of salt, as you may be very disappointed of the outcome. Things are not as they may seem.

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Inclines and Funicular Railways in Colorado One way to get up the mountain

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n the first few years of the 1900s, small tourist railways sprouted up on Colorado’s Front Range, creeping up steep slopes to carry tourists to spectacular summit views. Five funiculars and incline railways operated in the foothills west of Denver, at the foot of Pikes Peak and in the Royal Gorge west of Cañon City. Streetcar lines brought city dwellers and tourists to the funiculars west Colorado Springs and Denver. In both Manitou Springs and Golden, the tiny tourist trains supplemented burro rides that also took visitors up the mountainside. Soon, these short, steep tourist railways competed with the broader range of mountain destinations accessible by motorcar automobile. Most closed by the 1920s leaving only a vertical scar on the mountainside.

What is a funicular?

A funicular is a cable railway that has a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails. The cable is driven by an electric motor and a series of pulleys located in the power house at the upper terminus. The two train cars are counter-balanced − as one car ascends, the other descends. The first funiculars were used for industry and commerce, serving mines, quarries and power stations.

Scenic cable railways were first constructed in steep European locales like the Swiss Alps and to the top of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy (volcano eruptions brought this line to a halt). One of the earliest funiculars in the U.S. was installed on Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1890; this line continues operating today as a visitor attraction.

By 1914, three different tourist railways operated west of Denver.

The Lookout Mountain Park Development Company, launched by flamboyant investor Rees C. Vidler, completed construction of the Lookout Mountain Funicular in 1912 to help market its mountain property. Passengers ascended and descended Lookout Mountain in the two 100-passenger cars. This funicular ran until 1919 and was dismantled in the 1930s.

Another incline railway opened on the east side of Golden up the face of South Table Mesa.

The Castle Rock Scenic Railway, built by Golden investor Charles F. Quaintance, climbed to the top of the mesa behind Coors Brewery near picturesque Castle Rock (the rock formation famously featured on Coors beer bottles and cans).

Smaller, steeper and shorter than the Lookout Mountain incline, its twenty-passenger cars carried riders to a dance pavilion and casino atop the Castle Rock formation.

This railway stopped operation around 1918. The dance hall was used in the 1920s for meetings of the Ku Klux Klan, before burning

At the bottom of the gorge, folks await the ride to the rim via the Royal Gorge Scenic Incline.

Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library – Western History Collection, GB-7602

down in 1927. (The Funiculars of Golden, Colorado, by Barb Warden further explores the town’s two funicular railways.)

Meanwhile, a few miles south of Golden, the Mount Morrison Cable Incline was developed by Denver’s eccentric entrepreneur and real estate magnate John Brisben Walker. It opened in 1909, enchanting people who rode by train out from the city to

Passengers on the Mount Manitou enjoyed this this spectacular view from the summit. At the base you can see the incline station and the depot for the Pikes Peak Cog Railway.

Photo by Louis McClure, courtesy of Denver Public Library – Western History Collection, MCC-1436

visit Walker’s Garden of the Titans (now Red Rocks Amphitheater and Park). The Mount Morrison Incline featured two 100-passenger cars, one ascending as the other car descended. The local newspaper called it “one of Colorado’s greatest achievements in railroad engineering” and enthusiastically reported construction progress: “Over 25 men are now employed on the Mt. Morrison Incline railroad and the work is being rapidly pushed toward completion…. About 1,000 feet of the road grade is complete, ready for the rails and ties, and a few feet of tracks has already been laid. The roadbed for the remainder of the distance is partially graded.” The Mount Morrison Incline operated for about five years. The City of Denver purchased the park acreage from John Brisben Walker in 1927 and soon dismantled the track.

Two funicular railways operated in Manitou Springs, as shorter scenic alternatives to the Pikes Peak Cog Railway trip. The Mount Manitou Incline was originally constructed in 1903-04 for industrial purposes: to haul pipeline supplying water for the Colorado Springs Hydroelectric Plant in uppermost Ruxton Canyon.

The incline re-opened as a tourist attraction in 1907, converted for passenger rides for flat-landers from Kansas and Nebraska and the eastern plains of Colorado.

By the time Spencer Penrose purchased the Incline in 1915, it had been expanded with a station, a network of trails and three observation spots. A pavilion contained an observation deck, kitchen, restaurant and gift shop. At the incline’s summit, a burro corral offered rides further up the mountain trail towards the top of Pikes Peak. The Mount Manitou Incline operated until 1989, becoming a favorite summer memory for generations of Colorado families, as well as out-of-town visitors.

In 1912, another incline railway opened at the foot of Pikes Peak. Accessed from lower Ruxton Canyon, the Red Mountain Incline took folks to the top of that ruddy red foothill. Along the way, passengers could view the

resting place of local literary legend Emma Crawford. At the top awaited refreshments (“drinking water gratis”) and a dancing pavilion. This incline operated only two years, until succumbing to bankruptcy. It re-opened in 1919, renamed the Red Peak Scenic Railway and advertisements boasted that its $1 tickets provided views that rivaled Mt. Washington in New Hampshire ($4), Mt. Lowe in California ($2.50) and half a dozen Switzerland inclines ($2 to $3.60). Damage by a rockslide, the Red Peak incline ceased operation in 1922 and the rail was sold as scrap metal five years later.

Colorado’s fifth funicular opened a decade later than the rest, west of Cañon City. The bridge spanning the Royal Gorge was completed in 1929, and two years later the world’s steepest incline was constructed from canyon bottom to the rim. Unlike the others, this funicular took folks DOWN rather than UP: down to the banks of the roaring Arkansas River. The Royal Gorge Incline Railway was badly damaged by the wildfire in June 2013, but is undergoing repairs including structural strengthening of funicular tramway supports.

Only visual remnants remain from three of these vintage tourist rides: the vertical scars on South Table Mountain, Mount Morrison and Red Mountain. Meanwhile, the Manitou Springs Incline operated until 1989. A vigorous “Save the Incline” campaign gathered 35,000 petition signatures, but destruction of 500 feet of track by a rockslide closed the ride permanently. The rail was removed and the upper and lower stations demolished. The incline’s rail ties remained in place, and the vintage tourist route became an extremely steep, enormously popular climbing/hiking challenge. The Incline trail closed in mid-August this fall for a four-month, $1.6 million Trail Enhancement Project.

The story of the Red Mountain Incline and Manitou Incline are told in an exhibit at the Manitou Springs Heritage Center at 517 Manitou Ave.

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Legal Notices What are legal/public notices? “(1) ‘Legal notice’ or ‘advertisement’ means any notice or other written matter required to be published in a newspaper by any laws of this state, or by the ordinances of any city or town, or by the order of any court of record of this state. “(2) ‘Privately supported legal notice or advertisement’ means any legal notice or advertisement which is required by federal, state, or local law or court order which is paid for by a person or entity other than a governmental entity either directly or by direct, specific reimbursement to the governmental entity. “(3) ‘Publicly supported legal notice or advertisement’ means any legal notice or advertisement which is required by federal, state, or local law or court order which is paid for by a governmental entity.”

-Legal Publication Laws of Colorado, Colorado Press Association

DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO 1437 Bannock Street Denver, Colorado 80202 (720) 865-7840

Carol Bennett leaves the dog shelter with two small dogs for a 15- to 20-minute walk.

Courtesy photo

Volunteer Carol Bennett finds MaxFund just right

By Phil McPeck MaxFund Animal Adoption Center just feels right to Carol Bennett, much the way a scratch behind the ears can comfort or win over a dog.

Denver’s premier no-kill animal shelter has engendered in her a loyalty matched only by that of a fine dog and explains why six mornings a week MaxFund can count on Bennett to be at 1005 Galapago St. to walk as many as 20 of its small dogs.

“I love getting them out of their kennels,” socializing them and “letting them know they’re loved and valued,” Bennett said.

The dogs’ pictures and stories can be seen at www.maxfund.org.

Large or small, dogs awaiting adoption to a permanent home are in the shelter through no fault of their own, Bennett said, and “I feel like I’m kind of a bridge between their former life and their new life.”

A new life is something she knows about. For 30 years Bennett, of Denver, was an employee of then-telephone company Qwest and essentially was forced into retirement by layoff in 2009.

As a volunteer, she had worked with the Denver Dumb Friends League but found the scheduling there unworkable. Bennett said that over the course of six years she also traveled occasionally to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, where she would care for cats in the mornings during her visits and walk dogs in the afternoons. But the travel was taxing.

In 2007, volunteering and working with shelter animals came together for her at MaxFund. Bennett also has a parttime dog-walking and pet-sitting business.

All but one morning a week, rain or shine, she starts a cacophony of eager barking when she

walks into the MaxFund kennel about 7:30 a.m. She talks to the dogs as she leashes them and two by two they go on a 15- to 20-minute walk around the block or through the neighborhood on the southwest edge of downtown.

“I give them all potty breaks,” Bennett said.

After as many as 10 such trips to accommodate 20 dogs, she takes some for “play time” in MaxFund’s fenced, park-like courtyard with its artificial turf, trees, kiddie swimming pool and toys.

Hopefully life in a kennel is a temporary experience for most of the dogs, Bennett said. “I look at my own pets and they have a house to roam.”

Bennett has two cats – her own and one she fosters for MaxFund.

The canine member of her family is Betty, an American Eskimocorgi mix she rescued in 2005.

Betty had been living on the streets of Denver with a homeless man who no longer could keep her, Bennett said.

The every morning walk is an opportunity to be an ambassador for MaxFund and encourage an adoption. A chance meeting and chat with a man on his way to the dog shelter led to one of Bennett’s favorite stories.

The man was arriving to see about a particular dog, an older mixed breed he wanted to give a second chance. If that dog didn’t work out, for whatever reason, Bennett said, she asked that he look at Delilah.

Delilah, a coonhound, had been in the shelter for three years.

“I could see she was getting depressed. She wouldn’t walk far,” Bennett said.

As it turned out, the retired gentleman met Delilah and the two have been together since.

And that just feels right, too.

Plaintiffs: ROBERT A. SAVAGE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Harry Harris; THE HARRY HARRIS CHARITABLE REMAINDER UNITRUST DATED DECEMBER 31, 1992; and THE HARRY HARRIS CHARITABLE REMAINDER UNITRUST #2 DATED DECEMBER 28, 1998 v.

Defendants: PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION, a Colorado non-profit corporation; and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action Attorneys for Plaintiffs: SWEETBAUMSANDS ANDERSON PC Alan D. Sweetbaum, Esq. (#13491) Reagan Larkin, Esq. (#42309)

1125 Seventeenth Street, Suite 2100 Denver, Colorado 80202 Phone No.: (303) 296-3377 Email: asweetbaum@sweetbaumsands. com rlarkin@sweetbaumsands.com Case No.: 14CV31035 Div: 414 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 this 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 for quiet title and adverse possession related to real property situated in Denver County, Colorado and legally described on Exhibit A attached hereto, and more commonly known and numbered as 2050 South Oneida Street, Denver, CO 80224 and portions of 2040 South Oneida Street, Denver, CO 80224 and 2015 South Pontiac Way, Denver, CO 80224.

Dated this 20th day of August, 2014.

SWEETBAUM SANDS ANDERSON PC /s/ Reagan Larkin Reagan Larkin, Esq. 42309

EXHIBIT A

Published in the Denver Herald-Dispatch First Publication: August 28, 2014.

Last Publication: September 25, 2014 Legal # DHD-39 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MARK DAVID SOLANO, Deceased Case Number 14 PR 30945 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 29, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Georgette V. Laws-Willis c/o Michael P. Bahr, Esq. 2596 W. Alamo Avenue Littleton CO 80120 Published in the Denver Herald Dispatch First Publication: August 28, 2014 Last Publication: September 11, 2014 Legal # DHD-38 _________________________________

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