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Making sense of a reverse mortgage

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Kempe Salt on the Rim a Mexican-themed delight

Peter Bell, president of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, was in Greenwood Village last week to talk about the changing face of a mortgage product.

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“Never shake a baby,” was the message from the Kempe Children’s Foundation, which had its Salt on the Rim Margarita gathering at the Wellshire Event Center.

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New paintings by Gottlieb at Elements 5280 Gallery

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Elements 5280 Gallery is proud to present the new works of Denver abstract impressionist, Fran Gottlieb, which opens July 25.

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Denny Laine, formerly of the Moody Blues and Wings, will appear as part of The British Invasion: 50 Years On in Centennial Center Park on July 30. Courtesy photo

Concert in Centennial to welcome ex-Moody Blue and others By Peter Jones enny Laine is more than happy to reminisce about the British Invasion, the mid-1960s influx of English bands to the shores and pop charts of North America. But the singer-guitarist from Birmingham, England, is quick to say the musical incursion would have never happened without the American invasion of Britain during the 1950s. “We listened to all your music as kids growing up after the war. We were so influenced by American music,” he said, emphasizing the effect of artists like Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly on the Beatles and the battalions of British acts that followed the band’s 1964 appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. “The whole John and Paul thing came from the Everly Brothers. Paul would be the first to say that.” Laine is well qualified to make such observations, having been a lieutenant in the mid-‘60s musical takeover. He was an original member of the Moody Blues before serving under Cream founder

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Ginger Baker and becoming an integral part of Wings with Paul McCartney. Valley of Dreams, Laine’s upcoming solo album, will be a firsthand remembrance of that transcontinental exchange of musical influence. “It’s an Englishman’s point of view as a songwriter being influenced by American music, because that’s where it all came from anyway,” he said. Laine will join Peter Asher of Peter and Gordon and Terry Sylvester of the Hollies for The British Invasion: 50 Years On, a tribute to the conquest’s golden anniversary on Wednesday, July 30, at Centennial Center Park, an increasingly popular venue for national and local concerts. The show will benefit the Colorado Freedom Memorial, a planned tribute to the 6,000 Coloradans killed or missing in action. Born Brian Hines in Birmingham, England, in 1944, Laine was essentially trapped for a lifetime by a stage name he assumed as the teenaged leader of Denny Laine and the Diplomats. When that band failed in its diplomacy with record labels, he joined the Moody Blues, a burgeoning band on the city’s rhythm and blues scene. Continued on page 2

County has money for some who lost to foreclosure Funds in excess of loan amount returned to former owners

By Peter Jones There may be a bright side to life after foreclosure – believe it or not – and the Arapahoe County Public Trustee’s Office is trying to shine a little light on it. About 30 onetime county residents who lost their homes during the recent U.S. foreclosure crisis could be getting a check of between $500 and $200,000 if their name is on a list of recipients who are owed money from their former home’s sale. Those several dozen former homeowners have been difficult to locate in an era of fewer landlines and changing

addresses, Public Trustee Cynthia Mares said. “We do everything we can to locate them,” she said. “We want them to get their money. We don’t want to have to go searching for them.” The money is waiting because the individuals’ foreclosed former homes sold for more than was owed on their defaulted loans. The recent rise in home prices followed a period when many of the same owners were unable to sell their homes at prices that allowed them to avoid foreclosure. “For some reason, we seem to be getting more activity on this than other counties. The market is turning up a little bit more,” Mares said. “Last year, we probably had a few overbids, but not much. Now, we’re seeing so much action on

this.” The trustee will hold such excess proceeds – currently totaling in the hundreds of thousands of dollars – until the former homeowners collect the money. But if the money is not claimed within five years, the assets are sent to the Colorado State Treasurer’s Great Colorado Payback, which makes further efforts to contact those who have legal claim to a wide variety of lost accounts and vacated funds. Mares says those who have had their homes foreclosed in the last five years should check her office’s website or contact the Public Trustee’s Office to find out if their name is on the list. Assistance from any outside agent to assist with the process is unnecessary and potentially expensive, she said. “We get these calls constantly

from agents wanting to find this money for individuals,” Mares said. “If the agent finds them before we do, not knowing that we’re not going to do anything with that money but look for the homeowner, they could be charged as much as 40 percent.” Mares recommends former homeowners contact the Colorado Supreme Court or the Attorney General’s Office if they believe they have been unfairly charged. The trustee’s office has posted the names of overbid recipients on its website and has sent legal notices on the matter to such newspapers as The Villager, but inevitably some former homeowners remain elusive. To contact the trustee’s office, call 303-730-0071 or visit www. arapahoegov.com.


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