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Kill O’ Calorie Conundrum — Or, how I ate my weigh to Hell during the holidays

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outh and the holidays go together like ice cream and cake. Advancing age and the holidays are more a blend of serrated-knife cuts and lemon juice.

It’s an important consideration for those who relent to getting older because both are so inevitable.

And on a scale of one to 10 pounds, the holidays will be weighing in heavy around Jan. 22. That will be the first time I dare to step on a scale after 10 solid weeks of unbridled hedonism. The dreaded day is Monday, Jan. 20 because only young fools start a diet on New Year’s Day. And anyone with any dieting experience or a warm frontal lobe can tell you that it takes a few weeks to clean the house of uneaten pfeffernüsse, cheese balls and chocolate-covered pistachio nut rings. By the time the eggnog-coconut tres leches cake and tiramisu ice cream is gone, it’ll be Jan. 18.

Diets started on Fridays are just recipes for Saturday’s biscuits-and-gravy extravaganzas. So Monday, Jan. 22, is when I will regain control of my pie hole and assess the damage in the privacy of my own bathroom.

It’s pretty much a needless ritual because I’ll know just how bad things will have gotten since days before Christmas.

It will be at a friend’s house for drinks that I will realize I can no longer comfortably sit in the big-boy cargos I’d moved into just after Thanksgiving. You know the ones. “Relaxed Fit” stamped where nobody else can see shouts to the rest of the world, “wide load and puffy thighs that rub together when you walk.”

These are pants that normally benefit greatly from you squatting in the closet so the stretchy waistband stretches to its outer limits and you can breathe a little and eat much, much more.

And it’s all about more from the time the bell rings on Thanksgiving Day. Promises that the more you eat, the more you’ll exercise to minimize — in your dreams, you actually entertain the fantasy that you can lose some weight — the increase in girth as you nosh your way to life in a bathrobe.

By New Year’s Eve, after finishing the 30-pound tin of Danish Butter Cookies (which taste nothing like butter and would insult any Dane), I stand on my front porch barking orders at strangers looking and sounding like Big Daddy from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

“What’s that smell? Is that the smell of mendacity about how long until that coffee cake is ready?”

Take a breath. Quit sighing. It doesn’t have to be this way.

I’m not talking about seeking out “substitute” holiday goodies for people who just can’t get enough good in their lives.

That’s all just so much crazy crap. Those would be monstrosities like “fat-free butter cookies” or “reduced calorie fudge” that are not only vile tasting, but require you to eat them all in hopes that quantity will improve your sense of satisfaction since the quality doesn’t stand a chance.

So rather than eat 300 calories worth of real fudge, and then curse the fates and your tight pants, you end up eating 900 calories worth of diet fudge, and then chase that down with several hundred calories worth of holiday-colored potato chips. Everybody knows that sweet and salty must be consumed as alternating foils, ending with salty before noon and sweet after 8 p.m. Between those hours, peanut-brittle followed by cream-cheese filled pretzel bites dipped in ranch dressing somersault across your taste buds until someone mercifully comes along and takes it all away from you.

So, no. Don’t think you can reduce-calorie your way to resembling your thinner self. This is a job for exercise.

Nope, not the lying kind of exercise where you tell yourself that walking a few blocks for ice cream defuses the caloric time-bomb such a treat sets off in your metabolism.

I’m talking about your worst nightmare: getting up early and moving really, really fast for at least an hour without hardly stopping at all.

Yeah, it makes me gasp a little, too. You pretty much have to do the early thing because not even Donald Trump lies like the fool who says to himself in a big, white bathrobe: “I’ll exercise when I get home from work.”

Oh, the mendacity.

Pigs will take flight long before your big butt will after work, pal.

So here’s the deal. Christmas and Hanukkah are over, along with all the damage those “fun size” Snickers bars left in your fireplace stocking by your skinny, heartless spouse have done to your wardrobe.

Eat whatever the hell you want between now and Doomsday on Jan. 22, 2024, but just honestly record what you inhale on any diet-dreamer mobile phone app that records your sloth and caloric chaos.

The bottom line is, unless you spend 14 hours a day in the 10-foot section of a swimming pool, you can’t possibly move enough to offset the load of toffee, hot-buttered rum and duck-liver pate you’ve been stuffing yourself with the past few — many — OK — several, encompassing decades.

Which brings me to where that lemon juice now does its magic on the freshly severed skin on your fingers: You’re going to have to cut back this year because you’re too old to eat like that and it will take you until this time next year to lose enough weight to start it all again.

Of course there’s a whole new line of comfort clothing that looks like blue jeans and dress pants but is actually stretchy comfort wear with a roll-proof comfy waistband that hides conveniently under a large sweater.

No one will know.

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Colorado lives are more valuable than guns C olorado and the nation have failed promises to hundreds of victims of past gun massacres, to make effective changes in an effort to prevent future gun violence victims.

Recent shootings in Perry, Iowa and information about the October bowling alley mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine make the failure of Congress obvious and excruciating.

Axios reported there were 656 mass shootings last year in the United States. There were 647 mass shootings in 2022, and 689 in 2021, according to the Gun Violence Archive. As many as Americans died from 42,987 gun violence in all of 2023.

Alarmingly, gun violence is the leading cause of death of America’s youth. That alarm, however, has not been enough to shake the state and the nation into meaningful action for decades.

Thirty years ago, Aurora was staggered when a young Nathan Dunlap shot five of his Chuck E. Cheese’s co-workers, killing four of them. He was angry he’d been fired weeks before the 1993 shooting. Only 19, it was easy for him to get a gun. It was easy to use it. After his trial, he revealed he’d been suffering from mental illness most of his life. His father had asked counselors at Overland High School for help. He was diagnosed with hypomania but never received treatment.

While this wasn’t the beginning of Colorado’s long and lurid history with mass shootings and gun violence, it was one of the first massacres that revealed problems here and across the country that have never been properly addressed.

Similarities have repeated themselves since during massacres at Columbine High School, the Aurora theater shooting, the STEM school shooting, the Arapahoe High School shooting, The Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting, the Thorn-

ton Walmart shooting, the Boulder massacre and just over a year ago, the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs.

These don’t even include “lesser” shootings such as the Hinkley High School parking lot shooting two years ago and the nearby Aurora Central park shooting just days before.

The mass shootings are just part of the more than 1,000 annual Colorado gunfire related deaths logged each year.

Decades after “active shooter” became part of the national vernacular, every TV news alert, every urgent text from a school is met with dread, especially by parents across the country.

Soon after a teacher and 12 students were killed during the Columbine High School massacre, Congress and the state rallied. We saw the catastrophic loss of life as an alarm about the lack of gun control, a near absence of mental health awareness and treatment, our vulnerable children, and our society.

It became obvious even to stalwart conservatives like then-Congressman Tom Tancredo, whose district included Littleton, that virtually unrestricted guns, media violence, mental illness, overtaxed schools and a desensitized society were all contributing to this growing public nightmare.

What was supposed to be the war on gun massacres to end all gun massacres, fizzled.

While Columbine became synonymous with school shootings, it was a mass shooting in 1989 at a school in Stockton, California and one in 1991 at a Luby’s cafeteria in Kileen, Texas, that prompted even Republicans like former President Ronald Reagan to back a 1994 assault weapons ban in hopes of reversing a ghastly rise in gun massacres.

The ban was hopelessly weakened before being signed by President Bill Clinton in 1994. It applied only to future manufacture of so-called assault weapons and virtually

did nothing to reduce their numbers or easy availability.

It was then the National Rifle Association, which had recently moved toward becoming a political organization, became a strident lobbying group. Once an organization espousing marksmanship and gun safety, the NRA evolved into a union led by zealots, obsessed with a warped interpretation of the Second Amendment.

Not only was the NRA and others able to thwart effective gun control, despite public sentiment in its favor, they were able to help marshal candidates who further weakened national and state gun laws.

It’s undeniable that rampant American gun slaughter is the result of prolific and easily attained guns, relatively absent treatment for mental illness and a lurid fascination with ubiquitous, graphic gun violence in every form of popular media.

After the Columbine massacre, the nation had a chance to tackle all of these problems.

Congress and state legislators, instead, chose to do almost nothing.

The killings continued. Then came the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. Tepid Colorado gun control enacted in 2013 was met with consummate NRA anger and a massive effort to elect pro-gun activists. Defying the NRA and other extremist, anti-gun-control groups made political candidates fearful.

Those who tout Colorado’s meek gun control laws fail to point out their failings. The high-capacity magazine law “grandfathered in” thousands of existing magazines and provided no way to prove new ones brought into Colorado are illegal. The higher-round magazines themselves are still sold as “parts” in gun stores, easily assembled. Mandatory background checks do nothing to prevent people from driving to Wyoming to get around them or buy guns on the black market.

Police say so-called “ghost guns” assembled from parts without serial numbers are becoming prolific, especially among teenagers.

Colorado lawmakers only a few years ago have been able to pass a much-needed redflag gun bill. The measure allows police — and now others — to remove guns from mentally ill people until they can prove they’re well enough to reclaim them.

Clearly, the law didn’t work for those killed in Colorado Springs.

While we cannot lose hope that gun-control advocates will succeed in persuading Colorado legislators and Congress to enact meaningful, effective measures, it would be foolish to believe elected officials alone will bring those changes to reality.

In the same way the public has brought real change to the issue of police reform through public outcry and backing candidates promising change, it will take nothing short of the same effort to thwart the gun lobby and its faithful elected and civilian followers.

The need to unravel generations of gun-industry propaganda and disinformation is just as critical as the need for assault weapon bans and removals. The need to persuade the public to recognize and act on intervening in the lives of mentally ill people who have or acquire guns is as vital as ensuring mental illness treatment receives parity with other medical maladies.

It will take Herculean effort to ban all assault-style weapons and remove them. It will be a monumental undertaking to require gun owners to show proficiency, safety and sound mental health, regularly. It will take a vast statewide crusade to rid Colorado of elected leaders who believe the lives of innocent people are the price we should all regularly pay for unfettered gun rights.

HASHIM COATES, SENTINEL GUEST COLUMNIST

This is the real legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

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onoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is a delicate task, one that requires a nuanced understanding of his multifaceted contributions to the struggle for justice and equality. As we approach ceremonies like the laying of a wreath, it is crucial to scrutinize the actions of the institutions involved, particularly the police and fire departments.

My experiences in the aftermath of the Elijah McClain tragedy, participation in Aurora activism, and service on civic committees have led me to question the appropriateness of such institutions being part of MLK ceremonies.

The events surrounding Elijah McClain’s death have cast a shadow over the Aurora Police Department, prompting the state to intervene with a consent agreement. The behavior that led to this agreement underscores the urgent need for reform within law enforcement. It raises the question: Should a police department under such scrutiny be entrusted with commemorating the legacy of a civil rights icon?

Moreover, the culpability of the Aurora Fire Department in the same incident adds another layer of complexity. If these institutions are still navigating issues of excessive force and questionable practices, can they genuinely represent the principles King stood for? The laying of a wreath is not merely a symbolic act but an endorsement of the values associated with the person being honored. In the case of Martin Luther King Jr., this entails a commitment to justice, equality, and nonviolence.

Attempting to honor King’s legacy without addressing the systemic issues within these institutions risks falling into a dangerous trap of revisionist history. It is essential to resist the temptation to sanitize or water down the more challenging aspects of King’s legacy. His vision extended beyond the famous “I Have a Dream” speech, encompassing a broader spectrum of issues like anti-war activism, housing equality, economic justice for Black communities, and the integration of the working class into the pursuit of a better America.

Drawing parallels between historical events, such as the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and contemporary challenges, like the Elijah McClain case, highlights the ongoing struggle for justice. Dr. King’s dream was not a static, one-dimensional vision; it was a dynamic call for societal transformation. To pay genuine tribute to him, we must confront the uncomfortable truths and complexities that defined his activism.

The notion that King was assassinated solely for his “I Have a Dream” speech oversimplifies the motives behind his tragic death. It was his unwavering commitment to challenging societal norms, advocating for anti-war sentiments, demanding fair housing, championing economic equity for Black communities, and his desire to unite all people to address the issue of classism, workers’ rights, and his support for unions that made him a target. The integration of the working class, including poor whites, into the broader movement for societal betterment was a cornerstone of King’s vision.

As we reflect on his legacy, it becomes evident that honoring him goes beyond ceremonial gestures. It requires a genuine commitment to the principles he fought for and a willingness to address the root causes of injustice. If police and fire departments are to participate in MLK ceremonies, it is imperative that they actively demonstrate progress in rectifying the issues that tarnish their reputation.

In the wake of Elijah McClain’s tragic death, our community faces the challenge of reconciling with a painful reality. To honor King authentically, we must demand accountability, transparency, and tangible change from the institutions that claim to represent justice. The laying of a wreath becomes meaningful not through mere symbolism but through a collective commitment to dismantling systemic injustices—a commitment that reflects the true spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. Hashim Coates is a local consultant, activist and Democratic candidate for the Arapahoe County Commission

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“I can’t seem to figure out what the qualifications would be to sit in a van all day. I just really can’t wrap my brain around that” Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky

Aurora Police Department has launched a photo speed enforcement pilot program increase safety on Aurora roadways for all travelers. The pilot program will last 13 months.

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AURORA COULD LOSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON PHOTO ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM

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urora city officials are considering a lessthan-graceful exit from a pilot program that uses vans equipped with radar and cameras to automatically ticket speeding drivers after police reported the program is more than $350,000 in the hole.

“This seems like an epic failure to me,” Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky said during the Jan. 11 meeting of the council’s public safety policy committee. “I’m not sure I’m interested in even continuing the pilot program after this initial period.”

Aurora’s City Council voted in July 2022 to launch the photo speed enforcement program through a partnership with technology vendor Conduent.

A year later, the city rolled out a trio of vans capable of photographing drivers, with the Aurora Police Department mailing tickets for driving less than 25 mph over the speed limit and sending officers to follow up with people who drove 25 mph or more over the limit.

State law allows police to set up the vans near schools, city parks and ongoing road work as well as in residential neighborhoods with speed limits of 35 mph or less and in areas where police have recorded a high number of accidents or complaints about speeding.

By the end of 2023, the program had resulted in about 1,128 tickets being mailed and 26 high-speed violations that would cause officers to contact drivers in-person, Lt. Chris Amsler told the council committee Jan. 11.

Another 2,358 violations were recorded but couldn’t

be followed up on due to poor picture quality, invalid license plates, user error and other problems.

According to Amsler, Conduent told the city that the number of violations that are being thrown out because of user error is decreasing.

City officials envisioned the program would pay for itself through fines collected from speeding drivers. with any surplus revenue being set aside for other traffic calming programs.

But Amsler said the program has been in the red since June 2023, losing a total of $352,861.06 through December. Interim deputy police chief Heather Morris said the city would need to receive the equivalent of 2,200 paid fines per month for the program to break even.

While police initially described the program as a “force multiplier” that would allow the department to crack down on speeding without burdening its dwindling officer force, Amsler also said the city is struggling to staff the vans.

“Currently, this is where we’re having the biggest issue with the program, is with staffing,” Amsler said.

He said the temporary nature of the pilot program has made it difficult to hire and hang onto a full staff of six technicians to operate the equipment in the vans every day.

The city’s contract with Conduent — under which Aurora owes $83,400 monthly for the three vans, which cost roughly $35,000 per month to fully staff — is scheduled to last through August 2024.

The program’s supervisor also plans to step down and accept another job with the city in the near future, Amsler said, in part because “there is no guarantee

that her position will be there in six months.” He said a sworn police officer is being trained to take over the supervisor’s job.

Amsler said the department’s recruiters have been told to promote the technician jobs and that APD is working with the city’s Human Resources Department to push cop candidates who were rejected for physical fitness reasons to apply to become a technician.

Jurinsky, who chairs the council’s public safety police committee, called the news delivered by Amsler “alarming” and asked city staffers how Aurora could avoid losing more money on the pilot program.

Pete Schulte of the City Attorney’s Office said the city would be on the hook for about $1 million if it decides to terminate its contract with Conduent early, which Jurinsky said was “uncalled for.”

Interim police chief Art Acevedo suggested Aurora guarantee technicians another job with the city after the expiration of the pilot program to help with recruiting if the city decided to manage its losses by fighting to fully staff the vans.

“I can’t seem to figure out what the qualifications would be to sit in a van all day. I just really can’t wrap my brain around that,” Jurinsky said, questioning why the city rejected six applicants for a lack of job experience.

Jurinsky said she would rather see the city invest in enforcement actions by traffic officers. Acevedo, too, said he thought the city should cut its losses and floated the idea of retirees staffing the vans on a volunteer basis.

City Manager Jason Batchelor told Jurinsky that staffers will evaluate what action the city could take to avoid losing more money on the program.

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Aurora interim police chief Art Acevedo stepping down: ‘Family has to come first’ After 13 months as interim chief of Aurora’s Police Department, Art Acevedo announced this week that he is stepping down to spend time with his family in Texas.

“I can’t be without my boy, and I can’t move him right now, so I have to get home to him, because I want to be judged as a father, and family has to come first,” Acevedo said, tearing up, during a Jan. 16 news conference. “I leave a piece of my heart with Aurora.”

Acevedo was named interim chief in December 2022, after the city came up empty-handed in a national search for candidates to replace fired former chief Vanessa Wilson.

Heather Morris — who Acevedo appointed as interim deputy chief last year, after the two previously worked alongside each other in the Houston and Miami police departments — will lead the chronically leaderless department on an interim basis starting Jan. 22.

Under Acevedo’s tenure, the department made strides toward complying with the consent decree reform agreement signed by the city and the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, which was created to address patterns of excessively violent, racist policing that were alleged in a state investigation prompted by the death of Elijah McClain.

During the Jan. 16 news conference, Acevedo insisted the city and the Aurora Police Department had not ducked accountability when faced with community outrage over McClain’s death, even though Acevedo said officers were suspicious of the goals of the consent decree when he arrived.

“I think in the last 13 months, our officers and our staff have realized it’s been a tremendous blessing for them, and it has been a tremendous opportunity, and they’ve really embraced it,” he said. “This city did not run away from responsibility. This department did not run away from it.

We embraced it.”

While Acevedo butted heads city’s police unions, remarking at a news conference last week that “if you listen to the union rep, no officer has ever done anything wrong,” he said Jan. 16 that his decision to leave was “100% my decision” and was not influenced by pressure from union representatives.

“They don’t speak for the whole force,” Acevedo said. “I thought I would be here (for) two to three years, but I miss my kid.”

City Manager Jason Batchelor said Morris was chosen to serve as interim chief in the department to preserve “continuity of leadership.”

He and Mayor Mike Coffman both lauded Acevedo’s efforts to fulfill the terms of the consent decree and fight crime.

“It’s a sad day for the City of Aurora,” Coffman said. “I understand family matters, family issues, and I respect that. It is a loss to the city, but nonetheless, we’re grateful for

his time here.”

When asked about the future of the chief’s position, Acevedo praised Morris and said the city would be “better off with going with who you have and what you know than who you don’t have and what you don’t know.”

Acevedo’s tenure as chief wasn’t without controversy — last year, the department failed to meet all of the deadlines included in the consent, and Acevedo came under fire from activists for his response to the June shooting of Jor’Dell Richardson, a 14-year-old Black boy, by a police officer.

Acevedo initially reported that Richardson had a firearm when he was shot by police in June 2022 and took more than a week to clarify publicly that the teen had a pellet gun resembling a firearm instead.

“The Richardson family has been calling for Chief Acevedo’s resignation ever since he misled them and the community,” Richardson family attorney Qusair Mohamedbhai said Jan. 16. “We hope that Aurora will learn from its many mistakes concerning who they hire for their police chief and find the community leader that Aurora deserves.”

Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky, who chairs the council’s public safety committee, later said she believed Acevedo’s departure was spurred by the desire to spend more time with his children as well as frustration among police officers over how Acevedo was choosing to allocate the police department’s resources.

Jurinsky said officers perceived Acevedo as lacking experience leading departments of Aurora’s size and mentioned the chief’s past experience leading larger departments in Austin, Houston and Miami.

She said Acevedo’s insistence on acquiring a helicopter for the department and sending police officers to staff the Democratic National Convention led officers to question why Acevedo was committing the department’s limited manpower and resources to priorities that were either out of Aurora’s reach financially or unrelated to day-to-day enforcement.

“I just think ultimately we’re probably not a big enough department for him, for what he wants to do,” Jurinsky said. “We don’t have the police budget he wants.”

Despite this, Jurinsky said the chief had not faced the same criticisms from the city’s police unions for his implementation of the consent decree that Wilson faced for her approach to police reform.

“Art’s approach to the consent decree was like, ‘Let’s look at this, and maybe we can do this better,’” Jurinsky said. “And in a lot of circumstances, we found some things that we could do better. Vanessa’s approach was just, ‘If you do anything, you’re fired.’”

Reflecting on Acevedo’s tenure, Jurinsky said the chief brought a “positive attitude” and “new ideas” to the department but that it was time for Acevedo to return to his family.

Batchelor said the city would decide how to proceed in terms of the future leadership of the police de-

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crisis from multiple angles, the county said in a press statement released Tuesday. The money came from a multi-state settlement with opioid manufacturers.

Most of the $2 million is going toward the school district, with $978,878 allocated for the district’s Youth Leadership Program. According to the press statement, the money will “support and expand on existing year-round leadership program, develop training to implement similar programming in other school districts and bring together a cohort of participants across other organizations.”

Here is the list of other organizations that will receive money from

withdrawing from drugs and alcohol and then entering a sober living home, with the ability to support 12 individuals through a variety of services • Aurora Research Institute will receive $74,325 to conduct a survey to identify gaps for coordination in regional co-responder teams This is just the first round of funding from the county, the press statement said. More than $9 million remains in the budget for future projects addressing opioid addiction.

Since 2017, opioid addiction has been considered a public health emergency. In 2022, the U.S. saw more than 81,000 overdose deaths.

In Arapahoe County, 180 overdose deaths were reported, according to the press statement.

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Aurora police chief Acevedo talks crime rate, legacy of Elijah McClain in 2023 appraisal Summing up the past year of policing in Aurora, interim Police Chief Art Acevedo said Jan. 11 that the city’s cops have embraced a “culture of accountability.”

“We want to hold ourselves accountable,” Acevedo said. On Jan. 16, city officials announced Acevedo was leaving the department to spend time with his family in Texas.

“Responsible organizations look for opportunities (for) how can we do things differently? How can we do things better? And that’s what we are. We are a learning organization.”

Accountability took many forms in 2023.

Looking outward, Acevedo boasted that the city’s elected leaders and cops turned Aurora into an “island of accountability” for criminals through proactive enforcement backed up with the threat of mandatory jail sentences for crimes such as vehicle and retail theft.

Aurora’s motor vehicle theft rate fell by about 23.5% between 2022 and 2023, part of a 11.6% reduction in property crime overall, while violent crime declined by about 14.5%, according to the department.

Rates of property crime and violent crime both statewide and in other large cities, such as Denver, were also trailing 2022 rates approaching the end of last year, according to state and federal analyses and reports.

Turning inward, accountability looked like the police department striving to meet the expectations of the reform agreement that was crafted to crack down on excessively violent, racist policing by Aurora officers.

The department made strides, including by rewriting policies on physical force and constitutional rights, retraining officers on those policies and changing how uses of force are reviewed after the fact. Other times, the department fell short, struggling most of the year to roll out a system that would allow police to track uses of force and breezing past a deadline for anti-bias training.

Colorado ex-police officer Randy Roedema speaks on his behalf during sentencing at the Adams County Court, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024, in Brighton, Colorado. Roedema was convicted of killing Elijah McClain, a young Black man walking home from a store, is expected to learn Friday whether a judge will sentence him to prison or he will receive probation.

(ABC News One/Pool via AP)

For the family of Elijah McClain, whose death gave rise to the city’s reform agreement, accountability meant watching three Aurora police officers and two firefighters go on trial for criminally-negligent homicide and assault.

The prosecution was a mixed bag, resulting in convictions for the two firefighters and officer Randy Roedema. Officers Jason Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard were acquitted.

Woodyard was reinstated as a police officer in November. Acevedo said Woodyard remains on personal leave and would not be returned to a public-facing role if he decides to continue working for the department.

Reflecting on the trials that followed the four-year anniversary of McClain’s death, Acevedo said he believed officers would not have escalated the situation involving McClain if it occurred today.

“I believe that lives will be saved because of the changes that his death brought to our department in terms of the way we do business,” Acevedo said, specifically mentioning changes to how and when officers are taught to use physical force.

“We failed Elijah McClain as a department. We failed Mrs. McClain as a department. We failed our community as a department. But we also failed the officers who encountered him that night. We needed to do better, and, thank God, as a result of that tragedy, our men and women are doing phenomenal work.”

Acevedo led police agencies in Austin, Houston and Miami before he was chosen to serve as the Aurora Police Department’s interim chief at the end of 2022.

The move capped off a year of tumult which saw the City of Aurora fire its police chief, Vanessa Wilson, and launch a national search for her replacement, only to come up empty-handed.

Acevedo started and ended 2023 as the city’s interim police chief — he declined to say Thursday whether he will seek permanent appointment.

Despite the lack of turnover at the top of the department, Aurora police grappled with the public over other controversies in 2023, including the rehiring of Matt Green, who threatened McClain with a police dog while McClain was restrained on the ground, and the prosecutions of now-former officers Douglas Harroun and Eduardo Landeros.

The first test of Acevedo’s leadership came in June 2023, when a Black teenager, Jor’Dell Richardson, was shot by an Aurora police officer who said Richardson fled from the scene of an armed robbery and then reached for a pellet gun resembling a firearm after he was tackled to the ground.

Acevedo initially described the pellet gun as a firearm and didn’t correct the misrepresentation for several days, leading activists to accuse him of lying to deflect criticism from the officers involved. Acevedo insists he wasn’t told about the discrepancy until the day before he acknowledged it publicly.

The officer who fired the fatal ›› See METRO, 23

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Turning up the winter cultural heat

BY SENTINEL STAFF AND AI

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t’s that time of year to come in out of the cold.

Not just the weather, but as the holidays recede in the rear-view mirror with all their familiar comfort, January offers a way to step out of your cultural been-theredone-that.

This week, the Vintage Theater is offering an edgy play based on a graphic novel that looks at a wide range of queer issues.

The Aurora Fox is gearing up for a profound and funny look at abstract arts in a very concrete comedy.

And a unique look by area artist SA Bennett at the African diaspora through offers gallery goers a look the cultural evolution of Africa over centuries.

Here’s what’s up and coming soon to warm your cultural winter.

Graphic revelation: Tony award-winning musical ‘Fun Home’ at the Vintage

Vintage Theatre last week opened the acclaimed musical “Fun Home,” based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel focusing on queer issues.

Performances are at the Bond-Trimble Theatre and directed by Emma Maxfield, “Fun Home” features book and lyrics by Lisa Kron and music by Jeanine Tesori.

The 2015 Tony Award winner for Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize finalist is praised as “a fresh, daring new musical” and “a heart-breaking human story.” It navigates through the life of Alison, exploring her childhood at her family’s funeral home, her journey of self-discovery, and the complex relationship with her father.

The Aurora cast includes Mac Vasquez and Adeleia Odekirk as Little Alison, River Hetzel as Medium Alison, and Maya Ferrario as Adult Alison, among others.

The local production is pro-

duced and performed by an entirely queer creative team and crew, paying homage to its source material with themes of family, memory and identity.

The show is an hour and 40 minutes with no intermission.

“Fun Home” addresses mature themes, including LGBTQIA+ trauma, domestic violence and discussions of suicide. The production team, led by Music Director Alec Powell and Assistant Director, Samwell Rose,have created a stage that reflects the essence of the popular graphic novel.

IF YOU GO — When: Friday, Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 18. Curtains at 7:30 p.m. and some matinees at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets: $20 - $38, with group rates available Info: www.vintagetheatre.org Where: Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St. — Sentinel AI

Laughing at the art of the ‘ART’

The Aurora Fox Arts Center launches 2024 with the internationally acclaimed comedy, “ART,” by Yasmina Reza.

The show is a sharp, witty exploration of art and friendship, performed at the Fox’s Studio Theatre.

The show opens Feb. 3 and runs through Feb. 24.

“ART,” translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Kate Gleason, has garnered international recognition, including the Tony Award for Best Play, the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and the NY Drama Critics Award for Best Play.

The play revolves around three friends and a controversial white painting, sparking intense debates and challenging the trio’s

long-standing bonds.

Matthew Schneck and Gareth Saxe help bring to life this engaging story where the purchase of an abstract painting leads to a comedic yet profound dissection of friendship and art. The play questions the value of art and examines how personal interpretations can strain relationships.

“ART” promises an 85-minute roller coaster of emotions. The play is billed as suitable for audiences 16 and older. The play contains adult language.

IF YOU GO — When: Feb. 3 through Feb. 24, curtains at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Tickets: $29 -$42 Info: AuroraFoxArtsCenter.org or 303-739-1970 Location: Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave. — Sentinel AI

Denver Art Society Celebrates Black History Month The Denver Art Society is set to honor Black History Month in early February.

This celebration is free and open to the public. Organizers say it promises to be an evening full of artistic inspiration and cultural expression.

Headlining the event are internationally acclaimed artist Thomas E. Lockhart III and distinguished photographer Travis Broxton.

Lockhart is known for his unique creative process, blending various genres and techniques on a black canvas using a white crayon or pencil, complemented by fabric, paper and metal textures. Broxton, inspired by the philosophy of Minor White, captures images that reveal deeper meanings beyond their initial appearance.

The event also showcases the diverse talents of Tiffany Lynn and Friends with soul-stirring music, Da’Janai Smith’s liturgical dance, and powerful spoken word performances of Bridgette Tolbert and Volleny Bryant.

Adding to the festivities, CJ’s Stick Fingers will be serving soul food.

The program includes pre-event and post-event performances by Ellie and the Alibis, Soneffs 8, Angela Perry, and PawnShop Motel.

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Additionally, Denver Art Society has scheduled a series of free events throughout February, including a drum circle, art critique groups, open mic nights, live art sessions and an artist talk with Grace Noel, a local artist of native Ute, Tewa and Spanish ancestry.

IF YOU GO — When: 7 pm. - 10 p.m. Feb. 3 Where: Denver Art Society, 734 Santa Fe Drive Tickets: Free, donations are welcome Info: 303-534-1132 or at www.denverartsociety.org — Sentinel AI

NKollectiv Gallery’s ‘ReMix’ expo warms winter art scene Denver’s NKollectiv Gallery is enlivening the city’s art scene with its new exhibition, “ReMix.” The gallery is known for a diverse array of styles and techniques.

“ReMix” showcases the work of guest artist SA Bennett alongside NKollectiv’s member artists, including Kelly Austin-Rolo, Rita Bhasin, Craig Demmon, Naomi Gagnon, Steve Girard, Nicole Korbe, Krista Lavonas, Michele Messenger, Carolyn Miller, Jerry Severns and Car-

ol Till.

The exhibition touts an intriguing mix of artistic expressions, ideal for dispelling the winter blues.

SA Bennett, a figurative painter, celebrates the African diaspora through her art. A biracial artist from Jamaica, Bennett’s work reflects the cultural evolution of Africa over centuries. While she primarily works with acrylics, her recent explorations in ink resist, cold-wax and oil techniques mark a new direction in her artistic journey. Bennett, an art educator and artist in the U.S. for over 40 years, brings a unique perspective to the Denver art community.

NKollectiv offers a curated space for local Colorado artists, featuring a wide range of media including ceramics, metal, glass, wood, jewelry and paintings.

IF YOU GO — Where: 960 Santa Fe Drive When: Jan. 19 through Feb. 11. An exhibition kickoff is slated for Jan. 19 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Regular gallery hours are Wednesday and Thursday from noon to 5 p.m.; Friday from noon to 7 p.m. (extended to 9 p.m. on event nights); and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Info: nkollectiv.com — Sentinel AI ›› See MAGAZINE, 16

Preps

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ABOVE: Eaglecrest senior Thayne Lundy raises his arms in triumph after his victory in the 175-pound championship match at the Armando Rodriguez Tournament of Champions boys wrestling tournament on Jan. 13 at Eaglecrest High School. MIDDLE: Eaglecrest seniors Adonias Cantu, right, and Ethan Diaz admire the trophy for winning the Armando Rodriguez Tournament of Champions. Cantu was the 113-pound champion and voted Most Outstanding Wrestler, while Diaz placed third at 120 pounds. BELOW: Eaglecrest senior Gabe Rangel has his arm raised after he recorded a late win by fall to win the 165-pound weight class at the Armando Rodriguez Tournament of Champions. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel)

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o greater badge of honor comes for a wrestler than having his arm raised in victory after a match.

But for members of the Eaglecrest boys wrestling team, the same gesture at the end of a certain tournament means the most.

To become a champion at the Armando Rodriguez Tournament of Champions — started by the Eaglecrest program to honor the memory of late assistant coach Armando Rodriguez — carries extra weight for the Raptors. Three of them — seniors Adonias Cantu, Gabe Rangel and Thayne Lundy — made that happen Jan. BOYS WRESTLING 13 at the fifth annual tournament.

On his way to winning the weight bracket for the second straight season, Cantu did not get to face 4A No. 1 Isaiah Harrison of Mountain View — who dropped out of the tournament — but he pinned Jefferson’s Enrique Soto (No. 1 in 3A) with two seconds remaining in the final.

Rangel made it to the tournament championship for the first time after he placed fourth in 2023 and third in 2022 and he made the most of it. After a first round bye, Rangel won all four of his matches by fall, including a championship victory against Discovery Canyon’s Bodie Sukle in which he rallied after falling behind late. He improved to 9-2 on the season.

Lundy earned a third place in 2023 after he was sixth in 2022 and went all the way to champion this time. He won his first four matches by fall before he faced Fort Lupton’s Christopher Galicia in the final. Lundy prevailed with a 5-3 win by decision to move to 29-6.

The other Eaglecrest finalist came from the Raptors’ B team in Cain Gutierrez, who lost in the 190 pound championship match. Additionally, Ethan Diaz finished third at 120 pounds, Blake Sadler and Dalton Leivian were fourth at 106 and 190, respectively, and Oscar Hinojos came in sixth at 138 pounds.

Greater than it all, over course, is the continued remembrance of Rodriguez, a former high school and college wrestler before he joined the Eaglecrest staff as an assistant, who died suddenly of a heart attack in November of 2017.

When the tournament concluded and before the awards ceremony, Quintana called together the coaches and wrestlers present to relay the story of his shock at the loss of Rodriguez and to cherish time with loved ones. Rodriguez’s widow, Nadine, and son Armando Jr. were in attendance.

Overland had two placers in Jarrius Ward (3rd at 190) and Eric Kelly (fourth at 150), while Vista PEAK Prep’s lone placer came at 120 pounds in Ian Bacon, who was sixth.

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Mat memory “It means a lot to win this,” Cantu said. “It felt good to have some of my teammates win alongside me as well.”

The three champions along with five others that placed in the top six of their respective weights helped coach Javier Quintana’s team win the tournament for a second consecutive season.

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BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports Editor points to finish well atop a field of 34 scoring teams that also included area programs in Overland, Vista PEAK Prep, Smoky Hill and Aurora Central.

It was a quality tournament that featured a large number of wrestlers from multiple classifications that appeared in On The Mat’s rankings.

Cantu finished as the Class 5A state runner-up at 106 pounds last season and he has followed that up with an outstanding senior campaign at 113 that has him ranked No. 3 in On The Mat’s Week 6 rankings. At the Rodriguez TOC, he won all five of his matches to improve to 39-2 on the season and was voted Most Outstanding Wrestler.

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PREPS

Preps

WEEK PAST

The week past in Aurora prep sports MONDAY, JAN. 15: Schools were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the only scheduled contest (a game against Monarch for the Regis Jesuit ice hockey team) got postponed due to weather, which also canceled nearly the entire slate of competition for Jan. 16. ...SATURDAY, JAN. 13: The Smoky Hill boys basketball team traveled for matchup with Pueblo South and came away with a 73-57 victory to stretch its win streak to four games. ...Damarius Taylor poured in 24 points, Eric Fiedler added 15 and Lucas Dickinson 14 for the Regis Jesuit boys basketball team in its 69-56 non-league road win at Arapahoe. ...The Overland boys basketball team dropped a 51-46 home contest to George Washington despite double-digit scoring efforts from Isreal Littleton (12 points), Dontae Graham (11) and Siraaj Ali (10). ...Braylen Thomas knocked down five 3-pointers on his way to 24 points for the Cherokee Trail boys basketball team, which dropped a 74-67 road game in Wyoming at Cheyenne Central. Naode Ghide joined Thomas in double figures with 13 points. ...The Regis Jesuit boys wrestling team visited the 5 Counties Invitational in California and finished 17th out of 82 scoring teams from multiple states. Garrett Reece won the championship of the 150-pound bracket. ...A split portion of the Cherokee Trail boys wrestling team took part in the Rockwell Rumble in Utah and accrued 87 points to finish 18th out of 66 teams from multiple states. Cooper Mathews (106 pounds) and Chance Mathews (138) earned fifth place in their respectively weight classes. ...The Grandview boys wrestling team finished as the runner-up behind Pomona at the strong Arvada West Invitational behind 10 top-six placers. Charlie Herting was the lone finalist as he took second at 165 pounds, while Jonathan Montes Gonzales (150), Dylan McMahon (175) and Oz Nowick (215) placed third, Braxton Widrikis (126) and David McCurdy (144) each took fourth, while JR Ortega (113), Graeson Streit (120) and Leland Day (285) finished fifth and Kyle Menuez (106) sixth. ...A split portion of the Grandview boys wrestling team finished in fourth place at the Alameda Invitational, which also saw Hinkley place 15th among 21 scoring teams.

The Wolves were led by a trio of runners-up in Forrester Warnovk (106 pounds), Pearce Christensen (113) and Mohammad Shekarchian (215), while the Thunder had a pair of fourthplace finishers in Rico Salazar (106) and Marco Duncan (120). ...The Rangeview boys wrestling team finished ninth and a split Cherokee Trail team took 11th at the Jaguar Invitational, which had 15 scoring teams. Caleb Maez (138 pounds) and Christian King (285) were runners-up to lead five top-six placers for the Raiders,

TOP: Vista PEAK Prep’s Alante Monroe-Elazier (10) drives past Rangeview defender Zachary Butler during the first half of the Bison’s 47-40 boys basketball win over the rival Raiders Jan. 12. ABOVE: Smoky Hill sophomore Cameryn Walkup wears a Buffalo hat to the starting blocks before she won the 500 yard freestyle at the Smoky Hill Invitational girls swim meet Jan. 13. RIGHT: Swimmer and coaches from Cherokee Trail pose with the runner-up trophy they won at the Smoky Hill Invitational girls swim meet Jan. 13. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel)

while Lev Bakhrakh’s third place at 175 pounds paced the Cougars. ...The Eaglecrest girls wrestling team finished as the runner-up behind Pomona at the Vista Ridge Alpha Tournament, which saw 36 teams earn points. Between the Gold and Silver divisions, the Raptors had 14 placers (eight Gold, six Silver). Gianna Falise (170 pounds) was the lone Gold Division finalist and finished as the runner-up, while Precious Asoluka (120) and Audrey Gimany (155) won championships in the Silver Division. Smoky Hill placed 26th as a team behind third-place finishes from Maddie Pat-

terson (145 Gold) and Stephanie Ngoc (120 Silver), while Marley Allen won the 110 Silver title for 29th-place Vista PEAK Prep. ...The Cherokee Trail girls swim team finished in second place among 14 scoring teams at the Smoky Hill Invitational, while host Smoky Hill placed fifth and Eaglecrest eighth. The Cougars had no event champions, but had runners-up in the 100 yard freestyle (Sarah Woren) and 500 freestyle (Aria Clouse) along with the 200 medley and 400 freestyle relays to put them behind only Heritage in the standings. Cameryn Walkup won the championships of the 200

and 500 freestyles for Smoky Hill, which also got second-place finishes from Mya Noffsinger (200 indiv. medley) and Eve Niemann (100 breaststroke), while Eaglecrest won the B final of the 200 medley relay and had its best individual finish from Mila Huseby, who was ninth in the 100 butterfly. ...FRIDAY, JAN. 12: In a front of a massive crowd, the Vista PEAK Prep boys basketball team defeated rival Rangeview 47-40 in a low scoring contest. Alante Monroe-Elazier was the lone Bison player in double figures with 14 points and James Brown III added nine, while Mareon Chapman

paced the Raiders with 10 and Kenny Black-Knox had nine. Vista PEAK Prep used an 11-0 run to end the second quarter to take a lead it held the rest of the way. ...The Hinkley boys basketball team continued its recent momentum with a 79-55 City League victory over Kennedy. ...The Regis Jesuit boys basketball team dropped its Continental League opener with a 61-53 road loss at Chaparral despite a trio of double-digit scorers in Eric Fiedler (18 points), Damarius Taylor (14) and Alec Roumph (13). ›› See PREPS, 10

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Camron Crisp’s 16-point effort, plus eight from Alejandro Flores weren’t enough for the Aurora Central boys basketball team in an 82-42 loss to George Washington. ...The Vista PEAK Prep girls basketball team outscored rival Rangeview 19-2 in the fourth quarter to rally to a 44-30 victory. The Bison got 11 points from Mackenzie Griffin and eight apiece from Eianna Jackson and Amaya Nance, while the Raiders were paced by Maddie Kilmer with 11. ...The Overland girls basketball team earned its fourth straight win and 11th victory of the season with an 84-25 defeat of Thornton. ...Alayna McClain’s eight points led the Aurora Central girls basketball team in a 60-15 loss to George Washington. ...Edison Barnes, Ian Beck, Vincent Cieslak, Jonathan Crowell, Avery Osgood and Reece Peterson scored a goal apiece, Parker Brinner had three assists and Marc Broussard saved 11 shots as the Regis Jesuit ice hockey team blanked Cheyenne Mountain 6-0. ...THURSDAY, JAN. 11: Alejandro Flores poured in 20 points, Camron Crisp added 14 and Rumbek Augustino and Bishop Dankyi chipped in nine points apiece as the Aurora Central boys basketball team topped Gateway 69-56. ...The Regis Jesuit girls basketball team opened Continental League play with an 81-35 road win at Chaparral. Hana Belibi had a double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds, while Coryn Watts had 17 points and Jane Rumpf 16. ...Eianna Jackson scored 20 points and Amirah Pena added 11 as the Vista PEAK Prep girls basketball team defeated Eaglecrest 53-41 in a local matchup. ...The Aurora Central girls basketball team picked up its sixth win of the season with a 48-20 Colorado League home win over Gateway. ...The Rangeview girls basketball team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 63-25 victory at Regis Groff. ...The Grandview boys wrestling team defeated Eaglecrest 41-22 in a Centennial League showdown on the Wolves’ home mat. Grandview won eight of 14 matches, including wins by fall from Donavon Delbridge (126 pounds), Braxton Widrikis (132), Jonathan Montes Gonzales (157), Charlie Herting (165) and Leland Day (285). Dalton Leivian (190) had the lone win by fall for Eaglecrest, which picked up six wins in all. ...The Rangeview boys wrestling team edged Denver South 42-41 and lost to Thomas Jefferson 51-24 in a tri-dual meet. Caleb Maez (138 pounds) won both of his matches by fall for the Raiders. ...Eric Kelly (150 pounds), Isavande Siyfiyev (165) and Christopher Hussein (175) won by fall for the Overland boys wrestling team, whicih picked up seven wins in all, but fell to Arapahoe 38-30 in a Centennial League dual. ...The Overland girls wrestling team earned a 42-39 road win over Arapahoe with help from wins by fall from Mihret Shimels (105 pounds), Violet Garcia (115), Natalee Alderete (135) and Dureti Abdulkadir (140) . ...The Cherokee Trail girls swim team captured firsts in eight of 12 events in a 124-59 Centennial League dual meet win against Mullen. Seunghee Oh, Grace Peterson, Lily Rosh, Sydney Tarr and Sage

TOP LEFT: Overland’s Isreal Littleton, center, rises over two Lewis-Palmer defenders for a short shot during the Trailblazers’ win Jan. 9 . TOP RIGHT: Grandview’s Sienna Betts (51) looks to pass out of a double team in the Wolves’ win over Valor Christian Jan. 10.

ABOVE: Hinkley’s Kateland Rodriguez takes a breath during the butterfly leg of the 200 yard medley relay in a tri-dual girls swim meet Jan. 10. RIGHT: Gateway’s Nyssa Bailey , left, greets a competitor after winning the 100 yard backstroke at a tri-dual girls swim meet Jan. 10 (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel)

Trusler all picked up individual event wins for the Cougars along with diver Izzy Becker. ....WEDNESDAY, JAN. 10: The Rangeview boys basketball team went on the road and picked up a big 51-48 non-league victory over Chaparral as Kenny Black-Knox scored 15 points and Royce Edwards added 10. ...Mason Marshall scored a season-high 14 points — including a late free throw to give his team the lead — Eric Fiedler had 13, Damarius Taylor 12 and Lucas Dickinson 10 as the Regis Jesuit boys basketball team topped Cherry Creek 50-46.

The Raiders held on after missing four free throws in the final two-plus minutes. ...Five players for the Cherokee Trail boys basketball team — Braylen Thomas (17), Nathan Baack (11) and Amari Chandler, Naode Ghide and Alonzo Rodgers 10 apiece — scored in double digits in a 77-55 win over Rampart. ...The Grandview girls basketball team pulled away from Valor Christian for a 65-52 under the new lights in its home gym. Sienna Betts racked up 25 points, while Deija Roberson had 14 and Ava Chang 13. ...The Regis Jesuit boys wrestling team secured a 36-31 win over Castle View and 42-27 victory over Chaparral in a tri-dual meet. Con-

nor Mohr (138 pounds) and Ryan Curran (157/165) wrestled two matches and won each. ...The Smoky Hill boys wrestling team lost to Arapahoe 54-28 in a Centennial League dual match despite wins by fall from Dashawn Jenkins (113 pounds), Devin Smith (132) and Zachary Majernik (144). ...Alexis Gonzalez (106 pounds), Fabrisio Nunez (175) and Andrew Pelenkahu (190) earned pins for the Aurora Central boys wrestling team in a 49-21 victory over Highlands Ranch. ...The Eaglecrest girls wrestling team defeated Legacy 51-28 with victories in six of the 11 contested matches. Chasey Karabell (100 pounds), Milar Little (105), Jordan Heibult (120), Alaysia Ornelas (140) and Lilyana Valdez (145) won by fall. ...Keira Vazquez (125 pounds) and Maddie Patterson (145) recorded pins in the Smoky Hill girls wrestling team’s 54-12 dual match loss to Arapahoe. ... The Rangeview girls swim team defeated Thomas Jefferson 115-66 in a home dual meet in which the Raiders won nine of 12 events. Hailey McDonald and Shemiah Turner earned two event wins apiece, while Kayla Allen, Kate Gomez and Bella Gonzalez also took events for Rangeview. ...The Gateway

girls swim team picked up 57 points to top Aurora Central (42) and Adams City (7) in a tri-dual girls swim meet. The Olys won two of three relays, while Fenix Z’Dorn and Sophie Curry won two events apiece, while Nyssa Bailey also had a victory. The Trojans took the 200 freestyle relay, as well as individual events from Bridgette De Jesus and Emely Alvarez. ...The Hinkley girls swim team claimed a tri-meet with Abraham Lincoln and Denver West with five wins in nine events contested. Kateland Rodriguez, Ana Campos and three relay teams took firsts for the Thunder. ...TUESDAY, JAN. 9: The Eaglecrest boys basketball team and Rock Canyon played into overtime before a medical emergency for a Raptors’ player caused the game to be ended. ...The Overland boys basketball team defeated visiting Lewis-Palmer 80-64 in non-league play with a balanced effort that saw Isreal Littleton score 17 points, while Siraaj Ali added 16, Mehki McNeal 13 and Dontae Graham 10. ... Camron Crisp’s 18-point performance helped the Aurora Central boys basketball team top Skyview 57-22. ...The Hinkley boys basketball team topped Regis Groff 63-53. ...The Overland girls

basketball team outscored Kennedy 24-6 in the fourth quarter to cement a 67-40 victory. Destiny Moore scored 20 points for the Trailblazers, who also got 16 from Seilani Relford and 14 from Ilaisaane Davis. ...The Regis Jesuit girls basketball team dropped a see-saw battle with visiting Cherry Creek, which dealt the Raiders a 60-56 loss despite Hana Belibi’s 20 points, 19 from Coryn Watts and 10 from Jane Rumpf. ...The Grandview girls swim team lost to Cherry Creek 108-80 in a Centennial League dual meet. The Wolves won seven events — two apiece from Amelia Brown and Kaitlyn Hafer and one apiece from Keira Vail and diver Tanvi Jitta along with the 200 medley relay. ...The Regis Jesuit girls swim team defeated Ponderosa 146-35 in a dual meet in which the Raiders won 11 of the 12 events. Charlotte Burnham won twice, while Emme Penry, Taylor Hoffman, Kate Deboer, Amelia Marsicek and Tierney Kohl had swim wins along with diver Maya Kriz. ...The Eaglecrest girls swim team won a Centennial League dual meet with Overland 138-6 with victories in 11 of 12 events. Shannon Beaulieu had two of the wins for the Raptors, while diver Maya Richman won for the ‘Blazers.

ALLEY SPATS

City intervenes after Murphy Creek residents, board, developer wrangle over alley access, speed bump and even grazing cattle

BY MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

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overnance has resumed in Murphy Creek after a sprawling squabble over property rights, land fees and the future of the east Aurora neighborhood spilled over its boundaries last month.

On Dec. 18, five new directors assumed control of the elected board of Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3, which is responsible for managing a $1 million landscaping and facilities budget funded by fees on the district’s 1,400-plus homes.

It was the latest episode in a yearslong drama centering on the board.

Murphy Creek residents didn’t get to vote on the change. Instead, in a rare and possibly unprecedented move, Aurora City Council members ousted the previous board and appointed a new one, citing a history of feuds within the district escalating into courtroom cage matches.

First, there’s the alley.

Murphy Creek spent $1,550 last year to extend a former board member’s lawn across the entrance of an alley to block through traffic past his house.

The detour was short-lived. The district spent another $8,105 to change the alley back months later after hundreds of residents signed a protest petition and the city dragged the board member, his wife and the district into court.

The board member, Matt West, died in September. Other former board members said West suffered from cancer but

that he was hounded into his grave by some Murphy Creek residents who didn’t care about risky conditions in the alley or West’s years of fruitless attempts to get traffic to slow down.

“Neighbors were actually setting up on that lawn,” ousted board member Doug Schriner said, describing how West’s detractors camped out next to West’s home to rally opposition.

“They were setting up tables to sign petitions and having a barbecue out there to torment him. I said, ‘Matt, either turn on the sprinklers or get in your car and go to a movie, because they’re doing it to get your goat, and they’re trying to make an event out of this to make you look bad.’”

Then, there’s the developer.

Two real estate development companies associated with Murphy Creek’s developer, Harvey Alpert, sued the district, its board, Schriner and a host of other district consultants and officials in June 2023.

Alpert’s companies brought the suit in response to the former board’s attempts to impose fees on land that remains undeveloped more than 20 years after construction in Murphy Creek began.

The district says the companies’ vacant land is costing Murphy Creek residents money.

Alpert’s companies say the district is using fees to skirt Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. They also allege that the fees singling out the developer’s land were just one example of “absurd, deceitful, tortious, penalizing and overall harassing misconduct” targeting Alpert.

“The issue here is that for five years

the former directors and consultants made a concerted effort to punish and harass the developer,” an attorney for Alpert’s companies wrote in an email.

“In doing so, they have violated all taxpayer rights under the Colorado Constitution and deprived the developer of federal constitutional rights.”

And then, most recently, there have been the questions about the conduct of the district’s 2022 and 2023 elections, which gave Aurora’s council a reason to turn the board upside-down.

In November, Alpert’s companies filed a motion in their latest lawsuit against the district, alleging that the board was “entirely vacant” due to the district’s failure to properly announce its 2022 election and properly file oaths of office and other paperwork with the state in 2022 and 2023.

The motion said the election law violations meant Schriner and fellow board members Richard Berge and Bob Gaiser were unable to serve. The developer asked Arapahoe County judge Elizabeth Volz to step in and block the three from acting on the district’s behalf.

“There is no telling what misconduct the three directors on the board will undertake next, but if history is any indication, they will continue to violate their oaths of office,” the developer’s attorneys warned Volz.

The same motion also claimed that state law would allow the City of Aurora to appoint members to the board if it was truly vacant, since it was the city that signed off on the district’s founding documents.

Following the motion to block Berge, Gaiser and Schriner from serving on the board, attorneys representing Murphy Creek acknowledged the failures to file paperwork after the 2022 and 2023 elections, blaming “oversights” by district administrators.

The district agreed to ask Aurora’s City Council to formally appoint Berge, Gaiser and Schriner on Dec. 18, after which a special election would be held to establish the will of Murphy Creek voters.

But on Dec. 18, Councilmember Steve Sundberg surprised the former board and some of his council colleagues when he moved to replace Berge, Gaiser and Schriner with a new slate of residents, including Margaret Booker, Dennis Lyon, Glen Muller, Alex Ortiz and Joshua Rodriguez.

For the new board and its supporters, the vote represents an opportunity for the district to turn over a new leaf and move past years of courtroom conflicts that they accuse the former board of instigating.

Booker slammed the previous board for what she described as a track record of irresponsibility, mentioning the showdown with the city over the alley connecting Coolidge Circle and Florida Avenue.

“This community board was to represent the community and not simply serve their own personal interests and what they wanted in the community,” she said on the 18th. “Unfortunately, that is not what we have witnessed over the years.”

Lyon, who was named board president Dec. 20 during the group’s first meeting, was reluctant to talk about the actions of

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the previous board. In an interview with the Sentinel, he described his role as stewarding the district at least through the upcoming special election, which will take place during the first half of 2024.

“I’m not going to refer to anything in the past,” Lyon said. “But my approach is, we work for the people who live out here.

We are open to their input and discussion. And we will try to make every decision that we can that’s in the best interest of this community.”

For the three former directors — and for Councilmember Alison Coombs, who cast the sole “no” vote against the Dec. 18 appointments — the council’s vote was an overreach that threw out the results of a fundamentally trustworthy election process.

“It didn’t change how we acted,” Schriner said of the irregularities that occurred in 2022 and 2023. “It didn’t change our commitment to the community.”

Berge, Gaiser and Schriner also described the appointment of the new board as the latest attempt by Alpert to manipulate politics in Murphy Creek since residents stood up to the developer by trying to collect fees on his yet-to-bedeveloped land.

“Harvey’s been trying to sue our community for years because he figured he didn’t have to pay metro fees,” Berge said.

“None of the city council members and mayor met the five people that Steve appointed. He just sandbagged us on it.”

While Sundberg brought up the brawls involving the city and the district’s developer on Dec. 18, he later pushed back on the suggestion that the new board was appointed to appease Alpert, saying the five new directors were chosen based on their involvement in the community, professional backgrounds and availability.

Lyon and Rodriguez were both emphatic that their loyalties lie with the residents of Murphy Creek first rather than the district’s developer.

“I’m going to pour my heart and soul into this,” Rodriguez said. “I obviously support the decision, but I can under-

stand and appreciate someone’s concern or criticism about it. And I hope that through action and through consistency that we can get the district members to feel good about the decision that was made.”

Regardless, even Sundberg acknowledged during the Dec. 18 meeting that the phenomenon of a city council choosing the composition of a separate elected government was “pretty unique.”

“It’s better left up to voters to decide board members and elected officials, but this is unique, and this is in our hands at this point,” Sundberg said.

Aurora suburb rode early wave of metro district development Dennis Lyon’s second life in local politics follows a career of close to four decades with the City of Aurora’s Golf Division, which he managed from 1978 until his retirement in 2010.

Lounging at one of the tables outside of the Murphy Creek Golf Course clubhouse, he described how the picturesque prairie suburb east of E-470 grew up around the golf course that he helped design and build.

The development’s centerpiece is the city-owned golf course, which is surrounded by single-family homes and offers sweeping views of the grasslands to the south. Lyon said Alpert first approached the Aurora City Council to

talk about his plans for Murphy Creek in 1995.

Around 1998, construction crews started moving earth to make way for the golf course, and the district’s service plan — outlining the purpose of Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3 and its relationship with Districts Nos. 1, 2 and 4 — was signed.

“It was really fun, watching the scrapers and everything, moving hundreds and thousands of yards of dirt,” Lyon said.

“Back then, there was nothing out here but two houses — one at the corner back there at Gun Club (Road), and then one down on Jewell (Avenue).”

Metropolitan districts are a type of local government in Colorado that are empowered to collect taxes and fees from property owners to fund infrastructure as well as services such as landscaping and maintaining community recreation centers within the district’s boundaries.

The entities are often set up by real estate developers to shift the cost of building sidewalks, streets, water lines and other public infrastructure onto homebuyers, with districts issuing tax-exempt bonds that residents are obligated to pay off over the following decades.

Murphy Creek issued $27.6 million in bonds in 2006. But the district has struggled to pay back the debt, for years failing to make a dent in the principal amount of the bonds.

An agreement to refinance Murphy Creek’s bonds, making repayment less punishing, was set up by the old board and finalized under the new board. Taking advantage of a lower interest rate of roughly 0.8%, property tax payments are expected to fall by $80 to $150 per month for homeowners, which Lyon called “a great win for the people that live out here.”

Especially since the 2000s, metro districts have become a ubiquitous tool for financing new development in Colorado, with 936 new districts formed between 2000 and 2009 compared to just 101 formed between 1990 and 1999, accord-

ing to a report by the Colorado Futures Center.

Developers have argued that, especially given rising construction costs, metro districts have become essential as a method for bankrolling new homes. But, as districts have come to play a more prominent role in the lives of Colorado property owners, their misuse by some developers has also come under scrutiny.

Metro districts are governed by a board of people who live or own property within the district. When a district is formed, typically, the only individuals qualified to vote on its founding documents are representatives of the developer who owns the land that the district sits on.

This allows developers to shape district governance without any input from future homeowners, including by binding districts into multi-district structures where a “service district” that remains under the control of the developer is allowed to budget and spend the property tax revenue collected from residents.

Homeowners live inside of “financing districts” where they are eligible to run for the board, but intergovernmental agreements require these districts to hand tax revenues over to the service district, meaning taxpayers in financing districts have little control over how their tax dollars are ultimately spent.

Critics of metro district abuses commonly refer to service districts as “master” districts, while financing districts are termed “slave” districts. Developers say these multi-district structures make it cheaper to offer the bonds that are used to fund public improvements — others describe the “master-slave” arrangement as an end-run around democracy that encourages developers to take financial risks while taxpayers remain on the hook for debt repayment.

Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3 was originally established as a financing district within a four-district structure that required it to hand tax revenues over to District No. 1. Today, the board of District No. 3 is governed by Murphy Creek residents, while the board of District No. 1 consists of Alpert and four of Alpert’s family members.

Lyon bought his home in Murphy Creek in 2004 as construction in the district was booming.

“I was on the district board and looking after the neighbors’ interests with the developers, but I had already been working with them on this whole project, so we were pretty much on the same page,” he said. “But it was good to have somebody who cared about the people who lived here first, as opposed to making money first.”

His first term on the board lasted until 2015, the same year he was appointed to the city’s Planning & Zoning Commission.

When the legitimacy of the board of Murphy Creek was called into question late last year, Lyon said he was contacted

by Sundberg, who invited him to return to the board.

Explaining his decision to come back, Lyon mentioned the urgency of refinancing the district’s bonds as well as his desire to give back to the community where three of his children also own homes.

“I’ve lived in the city since ’73. I’ve raised four kids here,” Lyon said. “I love this city, and I love this community. If you walk your dog here, everybody waves at you when you walk by. I mean, I built this golf course. I like it here. This place matters to me.”

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Murphy Creek board ‘went rogue’ to prevent speeding through contested alley While Lyon said he was mostly unfamiliar with the controversies that dogged the previous board, others said the district’s conflict with the city in particular fueled residents’ exasperation over where the former board members were choosing to commit Murphy Creek’s legal resources and money.

The controversy dates back to at least 2021, when the district acted on complaints by then-board member Matt West about cars speeding through the alley, located next to his home in the Parkways neighborhood of Murphy Creek.

Spanning roughly 300 feet between Coolidge and Florida, the alley is flanked by garage doors, and residents living next to the alley are limited in their ability to check for oncoming traffic before pulling out into the alley.

“In most garages, when you’re backing out, you’re backing out into your driveway,” Schriner said. “People were coming through there going 35 or 40 miles per hour.”

While the district has internally referred to the alley as a “private drive,” the city has argued in court filings that the alley was dedicated to the city for public use when it was platted and that it has been used for two-way traffic for more than 20 years.

Aurora holds an easement crossing the alley that guarantees public access as well as utility workers’ access to underground water and sewer lines. Ownership of the alley itself is divided among the district and neighboring property owners.

In May 2021, board members granted a request by West to install one or more speed bumps in the mouth of the alley at West’s own expense. At the time, neighbors told the board that they were communicating with the city about the installation.

The minutes of subsequent board meetings indicate that, once the speed bumps were installed, residents began approaching the board to complain, while efforts to get the city’s blessing seemed to drag on without resolution.

“We put in speed bumps that were pretty aggressive. They made you slow down to 5 miles per hour. That’s the point,” Schriner said. “A bunch of people said, ‘It’s ruining my car!’ Well, it’s private property, get the hell out of there! You know? If you don’t live here, you don’t have a say. … They were pissed off because we were making them drive on the road instead of through somebody else’s driveway.”

Center in east Aurora to vote on a proposed refinancing of the district’s bonds. From the left side of the table, the individuals pictured are district lawyer Paul Rufien; district manager Shannon Torgerson; external financial advisor Tim Zarlengo; board members Alex Ortiz, Margaret Booker, Dennis Lyon and Joshua Rodriguez; and investment banker Kyle Thomas of D.A. Davidson & Co. Photo by Max Levy, Aurora Sentinel

Schriner said the backlash led to rumblings about an attempt to recall himself and other board members. The situation was ultimately resolved by the intervention of the city, which dispatched workers to dismantle the speed bumps in December 2021.

Schriner said police officers were present during the removal, apparently to discourage interference by neighbors.

Emails published in court filings by the district appear to show senior city planner Kim Kreimeyer giving West the go-ahead to install three speed bumps in June 2021 after months of correspondence between West and Aurora Planning and Development Services, despite the city’s insistence in its own filings that West took action “without consulting with the city.”

It is unclear, however, whether the speed bumps that were installed conformed to the original specifications that West provided to city planners.

Stacy Dixon — who lives across the street from the alley and in 2023 circulated a petition opposing Schriner and other board members’ decision to seal it off — said the bumps were “much higher and more aggressive” than what had been proposed, which was the primary reason why residents complained to the board.

A later email from senior city attorney Michelle Gardner to the district’s attorney, Paul Rufien, stated that the speed bumps installed by West had not been licensed by Aurora’s Public Works Department and damaged the vehicles of citizens who later complained to the city.

Gardner also said the speed bumps did not have gaps on the sides to allow for proper drainage and that the city cut West a check for $2,981.50 after they were removed and returned to him.

Throughout the summer of 2022, Rufien provided periodic updates to the board about the district’s attempts to compromise with the city on traffic-calming measures.

In September 2022, Rufien told the board that the city’s response to the district was “not acceptable,” according to

meeting minutes. Rufien said that he would “continue to work on this with Mr. West.”

One month later, the board — which by this time included Berge, Gaiser and Schriner — unanimously signed off on a plan to remove the concrete at the end of the alley and replace it with landscaping, blocking traffic from entering and exiting onto Coolidge. West abstained from this vote, as he did in 2021.

They voted for a second time on the plan in April 2023, and West told his fellow directors that he would seek proposals for the work and submit it to be reviewed at an upcoming board meeting.

Subsequent meeting minutes do not describe any such review, and when reached by the Sentinel, district manager Shannon Torgerson said she didn’t know if the proposal was voted on by the board and that she didn’t receive a copy of it until it was time to pay for the work, which was completed in June.

Murphy Creek paid $1,550 to cover part of the cost of excavating the Coolidge side of the alleyway and replacing it with landscaping that adjoined West’s front lawn.

Once again, the district had followed through on its promise to restrict traffic through the alley.

Once again, the City of Aurora stepped in, this time filing a lawsuit against the district, West and West’s wife, which demanded the alley be reopened and requested an order from judge Elizabeth Volz that would prohibit similar work.

Large vehicles such as fire trucks risked sinking into the sod if they tried to drive over it and through the collapsible bollards that had been planted in the grass, the city said, adding that the weight of a vehicle could compress the water lines underneath and cause them to break.

By July 2023, the closure of the alley was apparently disrupting public services — the city said in one of its motions that a fire truck and ambulance had been delayed while figuring out how to reach the

location of a stroke victim, and that trash trucks were also having difficulty navigating through the area.

“If other property owners exercise the same ‘rights’ and obliterate the easement, the subdivision access becomes impossible and dangerous,” the city’s motion reads.

At the same time, residents of Murphy Creek were growing increasingly frustrated by what they viewed as the board’s heavy-handed approach to regulating traffic in the alley.

Dixon said she had been aware of West’s objections for years because of her proximity to West’s home, mentioning how the former director at first used flags and signs to try to discourage people from driving through the alley before he joined the board in 2020.

“It’s an important artery, because Coolidge Circle can get really backed up with a lot of cars,” Dixon said. “Sometimes, it’s actually safer to go through the alley, especially if there’s an Amazon truck or cars blocking the way. So it’s like any of the alleyways in our system: they don’t always need to be used, but people need to have access to them.”

Dixon was alarmed by the board’s decision, and she and other homeowners began showing up to board meetings to try to persuade members to reverse the closure of the alley. On July 10, the former board agreed to abide by the results of a petition asking it to restore the alley — if Dixon and others were able to gather 300 signatures from registered electors.

Meanwhile, the district was countering the city’s courtroom claims with claims of its own — that the district and the Wests were allowed to install traffic-calming measures on their own property, that emergency vehicles and utility trucks could safely drive over the grass, and that “public access” had been preserved because a sidewalk allowed people to enter and exit the alley at Coolidge on foot.

“The (city’s) easement is not a street, road, alley or other city-owned traffic lane. The easement crosses private-

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Five-year spat over vacant land brought down former Murphy Creek board

Murphy Creek, which runs through the Murphy Creek neighborhood, is the subject of controversy, given it’s proximity to the Lowry Superfund site and current and future developments.

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ly-owned driveways,” Rufien wrote. “The city does not like the use defendants have made of the property that they undisputedly own. With that as its sole reason for filing this lawsuit, the city attempts to manufacture causes of action that simply do not exist.”

Dixon and the other petitioners eventually delivered more than 300 signatures to the board, and in August, under fire from both the city and residents, the board acquiesced to removing the landscaping and repouring concrete, again allowing cars to enter the alley via Coolidge.

The project cost $8,105, bringing Murphy Creek’s total bill for the landscaping and restoration of the alley to $9,655.

The city informed Volz after the board’s decision to restore the alley that settlement negotiations were underway.

However, Aurora’s lawsuit against the district remains ongoing, even in light of West’s death.

Writing on behalf of the City Attorney’s Office, city spokesperson Ryan Luby declined to comment on the progress of the case, instead referring the Sentinel to public court filings.

While Dixon said she wasn’t comfortable sharing the petition sections themselves, she said all five of the new directors had signed either the petition itself or a separate signature list for those sharing a home with other people who signed.

Lyon later insisted that he never signed the petition and said that, while he was aware of a dispute over the right-ofway, he never picked a side in the conflict.

Joshua Rodriguez said he started taking an interest in district politics as the conflict over the alley was spilling out into the community.

“I would say it was the talk of the town for quite a while,” Rodriguez said. “I gathered overwhelmingly that the entire neighborhood didn’t believe that project was fair. And just really from a fiscal standpoint, I had a problem with the fact that we paid for it. Like, the community paid for it.”

Rodriguez, a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer and human resources profession-

al, bought his home in Murphy Creek in 2020. He said that he didn’t want to dwell on the actions of the previous board but that when he sensed that at least some of his neighbors were ready for a change, he began attending meetings regularly and made plans to run in the district’s next election.

The opportunity to serve came earlier than anticipated when Alpert, Murphy Creek’s developer, challenged the legitimacy of Berge, Gaiser and Schriner.

Rodriguez, like new board members Glen Muller and Alex Ortiz, submitted an application expressing his interest in serving on the board to the district’s management company, which shared the application with Sundberg.

“Once I started attending the meetings, I did see overwhelmingly that there was this level of mistrust between the community and the board members,” he said. “I would like the perception to be that we’re not over the community, we’re a part of the community, and we represent the community’s interests.”

Explaining his decision to replace Berge, Gaiser and Schriner with a slate of new directors, Sundberg said in an email to the Sentinel that the former board “went rogue” when it voted to interfere with the city’s easement in the alley next to West’s home.

“This type of bravado has likely led to other poor decision-making in the financial interests of the neighborhood,” Sundberg wrote, adding that residents would have the opportunity to elect new board members within six months.

When asked whether he communicated with the district’s developer about the appointees prior to the council’s Dec. 18 vote, Sundberg said that he “did not communicate anything about candidates or appointees with the developer before the council vote.”

An attorney representing Alpert’s companies in Murphy Creek said Alpert and an attorney communicated with Sundberg shortly before the council meeting “regarding misinformation that was provided by the prior board,” but that the ap-

pointments “likely had a lot more to do with the harm the prior board was causing the community, and the dispute with the developer is just one of many examples of that.”

Sundberg subsequently forwarded a Dec. 18 email exchange with the attorney in which the attorney pushes back on various statements by Schriner. The Sentinel also filed a Colorado Open Records Act request and independently obtained the emails, which did not mention the new board. Sundberg said he did not mention any of the five director candidates in his interaction with the developer.

The council member said that, prior to settling on the five, he conducted interviews, heard from supportive residents and reviewed the forms that some of the group submitted in response to emails as well as announcements soliciting applications from interested residents that Torgerson said were sent through an online portal for homeowners.

Sundberg said he interviewed Muller, Ortiz and Rodriguez after they submitted forms and were recommended by a Murphy Creek resident who regularly attends board meetings. He described knowing Lyon from Lyon’s former work with the city and said he interviewed Booker after she reached out and expressed concerns about the possible reappointment of the previous board.

Candidates’ involvement in the community, attendance of board meetings, awareness of neighborhood issues, work and volunteer experience, understanding of transparency and availability were all things that Sundberg said he weighed while making his final selection.

Dixon said she was “optimistic” about the new board and said many of her neighbors who participated in the petition drive had also reached out to the council to urge them to consider new faces.

“I’m hoping that this new temporary board can at least get our district back on track, and then that we can have an appropriate election within six months to elect board members that the whole community can be involved in,” she said.

The two real estate companies controlled by Alpert also responded positively to the appointments, writing in a motion following up on the one that led to the former board’s dismissal that the “risk of mismanagement and continued abuse of the district’s powers by Douglas Schriner, Richard Berge and Bob Gaiser is no longer a threat.”

The same attorney said the appointments were “not surprising” given what he described as mismanagement and illegal conduct by the previous board — including the attempts to impose certain fees on the developer’s vacant land, the alleyway dispute and the mishandling of the 2022 and 2023 elections.

But members of the former board insist that Alpert was not only in the wrong, but also exploited a technicality to overthrow the political system within the district and improve his chances of prevailing in court.

The legal battle over how Alpert’s companies have used their yet-to-be-developed land can be traced back to the collapse of the housing market and economic recession around 2008.

As residential construction struggled, the companies leased the land to a rancher who used it to graze cattle and grow crops. Since the market recovered, the agricultural use of the land has continued.

Although the land is slated for eventual development, the companies say they are not required to develop it within a set timeframe. Development would mean more residential buildings in Murphy Creek and more property tax dollars that could be used to pay back the bonds that Murphy Creek for years struggled to make interest payments on.

The developer says Murphy Creek is required by its service plan to pay for the infrastructure that would allow the land to be developed. So far, Murphy Creek has refused to pay.

Schriner said that, around the time he was appointed in 2016, he began to have concerns about the “master-slave” structure of the Murphy Creek districts, in which Murphy Creek Metropolitan District No. 3 handed over property taxes raised from residents to District No. 1 to be budgeted.

After he began voicing his opinions about the arrangement, Schriner said District No. 3 began the process of distancing itself from District No. 1. Friction between Schriner and other district officials led to him stepping down in 2017.

Schriner said that he and other residents subsequently spoke out against a proposal to refinance the district’s 2006 bonds, which he said would have benefitted the developer while providing no benefit in the form of lower taxes to district homeowners.

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opers, also spoke against the refinance in 2017. The district’s board ultimately declined to move forward with the deal.

In 2018, Schriner was again elected, along with other board members who he said were more receptive to his concerns about the developer’s influence over District No. 3. Shortly after the 2018 election, the board named Matise as its attorney.

It was around this time that the developer alleges Schriner enacted a conspiracy with the rest of the board, Matise and district communications contractor Margaret Sobey to illegally punish the developer for the lack of construction on the vacant land.

The lack of development on Alperts’ companies’ vacant land galled the former board, including Schriner. In 2018, 2019 and 2021, Murphy Creek tried to collect special fees on unplatted land and land used for agriculture in the district.

“Our hope was that one of two things would happen,” Schriner said of the decision to impose the fees. “Either (Alpert) would come to us and say, ‘Look, that doesn’t make sense. Let’s talk about what makes sense.’ Or, even better, he would start selling off the properties, and that would be developed, and it would all be incorporated, (and) then we could afford the debt that we’d been saddled with. But neither happened.”

In district documents and court filings, the district also describes “nuisances” spawned by the vacant land that cost the district money. Grazing cattle, weeds, prairie dogs and youths setting bonfires all imposed downstream costs on Murphy Creek that land fees would offset, the documents and filings said.

Alpert’s companies brought their first lawsuit challenging the fees on their 75 or so acres of undeveloped land in 2019, describing them as a penalty against agriculture and arguing that they were disconnected from the actual cost to the district of providing services.

The developer also scrutinized the board’s timing of the fees in relation to the end of the tax collected to fund the operations of the district.

The tax was approved in 1998 and scheduled to sunset in 2019. Murphy Creek attempted to rally resident support for continuing to collect the tax in 2016 and 2018 — both times, voters rejected ballot items that would have preserved it.

With the evaporation of its budget looming, the district opted in November 2018 to instead impose fees, including the special fees that applied to the developer’s vacant land.

Under Colorado law, fees are distinct from taxes in that they pay for specific services rather than fund general government operations. Importantly, unlike taxes, fees do not require voter approval.

The developer argued that these fees actually constituted an unlawful tax, since they were being used to fund general government operations and were never approved by the public. Murphy Creek insists it calculated the costs to property owners for paying for the various services offered.

In September 2020, Volz found that the district failed to adequately explain the rationale behind the fees applying to the agricultural land and said the costs for security, snow removal and landscaping appeared to be close to half of what the district initially claimed.

The judge ruled that the 2018 and 2019 fees were invalid, but declined to say whether they constituted an illegal tax.

“This ruling does not mean that plaintiffs cannot be assessed service fees at all,” Volz wrote in her ruling. “Rather, the

fees must relate to the services provided.”

In 2021, the board again signed off on a resolution that included special fees which would apply to the developer’s land. Alpert’s companies paid the 2021 fees under a letter of protest after the developer said Matise promised the district would pay for some of the infrastructure needed to build on the vacant land and restore landscaping near the land to irrigated turf.

The district never followed through on this alleged promise.

In June 2023, Alpert’s companies filed its latest lawsuit naming the district, its board, Schriner, Matise, Sobey and “several ‘John Does’ reserved for other Board directors and / or District consultants,” among other district officials, as defendants.

The developer once again asked Volz to invalidate the fees and order the district to refund the money that the developer paid under protest plus the interest that could have been earned on the money. Alpert’s companies asked for damages in light of what they say amounts to civil conspiracy, fraud and Constitutional rights violations committed by the defendants.

Alpert’s companies’ original and amended complaint allege years of various illegal activities, mostly revolving around the approval of the fees as well as Matise’s professional conduct before, during and after the developer’s previous lawsuit against the district.

Matise is accused of providing legal advice that “no reasonable attorney would provide,” namely that the developer was illegally using its land for the purposes of agriculture and that the district should put off refinancing its bonds, decline to pay for infrastructure on the developer’s land and implement fees to put pressure on the developer and avoid voter approval for a tax.

The lawsuit also characterizes Matise’s pursuit of an appeal of Volz’s 2019 ruling — despite the fact that the district had backed off of its fee schedules — as improper.

Matise declined to comment for this story, citing the advice of his own attorney, but in Matise’s motion to dismiss, his attorney characterized the developer’s lawsuit as an attempt to punish Matise for advocating on behalf of the district in court. and legitimately exercising his freedom of speech in public statements regarding developer abuses of metro districts.

Matise’s attorney asked that the case against Matise be thrown out as a strategic lawsuit against participation, or a SLAPP case, which is a type of lawsuit dismissable under Colorado law where the plaintiff intends to intimidate a critic into silence by imposing the burdens of mounting a legal defense.

“Stripped down of the dramatic descriptors used by plaintiffs in the complaint, the conduct they allege to be part of the conspiracy actually consists of advocating for his client and expressing his opinion on public issues,” Matise’s motion reads.

Volz sided with Matise, saying the developer’s case “(implicated) Matise’s right to engage in public speech as well as speech and conduct involved in judicial proceedings.”

She also opined that the developer was unlikely to succeed in its allegations of fraud, civil conspiracy and Constitutional rights violations against the attorney.

Volz dismissed Matise as a defendant in October. The developer again named him in an amended complaint filed in De-

cember, and Volz again ordered in January that Matise be excluded as a defendant.

As for Murphy Creek and the board members named in the lawsuit, the developer’s case revolves around the fees approved in 2021. Alpert’s companies are seeking damages from the defendants to be determined at trial as well as an order that the district account for all revenue spent since 2019.

Attorneys for Murphy Creek have argued that the developer’s lawsuit was filed outside of the two-year statute of limitations. And even if it had been filed in a timely way, the district argues it is protected by Colorado’s Governmental Immunity Act. The district largely waved off the accusations of the developer as lacking specificity and evidence which would support findings of conspiracy, fraud or rights violations.

Schriner and Sobey’s motion to dismiss — joined by Sobey’s consultancy, and another board member, Margaret Rash, who was not named in the amended complaint — argued that the fees were enacted by the district rather than the individual defendants.

The motion also characterized the developer’s allegations as baseless and accuses Alpert’s companies of rehashing the same grievances raised in 2019.

On Nov. 15, Alpert’s companies filed their motion asserting that the Murphy Creek board was vacant due to the district’s failure to file necessary election paperwork with the state in 2022 and 2023.

On Dec. 18, the motion dragged years of conflict in Murphy Creek into the public eye when Sundberg sponsored a proposal to appoint directors to the district board.

Rufien, the attorney for the district, wrote in a letter to the council prior to its vote that organizational changes within the district’s management company — Cherry Creek HOA Professionals was bought by Goodwin & Company in October 2021 and started to transition to the computer systems of its new parent company in 2023 — as well as Rufien’s own failure to oversee the election process caused the irregularities.

He asked the council on behalf of the district to appoint Berge, Gaiser and Schriner.

On Dec. 18, with Rufien present, the council voted to oust the three instead.

Special election will let residents decide the future of Murphy Creek Today, the district, its board, Schriner and Margaret Sobey remain among the defendants in the developer’s most recent lawsuit.

District manager Shannon Torgerson said Murphy Creek’s insurance has so far paid for the costs of defending the district against the city’s lawsuit and the most recent lawsuit by the developer.

The district paid its own attorney fees

in the developer’s first lawsuit. Torgerson said the total costs of that representation had not been tabulated. She said the district’s insurance rates have not been affected by recent litigation.

Lyon said the board planned to hold a closed-door meeting on Jan. 17 to discuss the pending lawsuits involving the district. The attorney for Alpert’s companies said the developer has tried to settle with the district in the past and that they are “still open to a settlement with fair, equitable terms.”

When the Sentinel asked the three former board members whether they would consider running in the district’s upcoming special election, they brought up Alpert’s alleged willingness to take legal action against district officials who have publicly opposed and criticized him.

“That’s one of the reasons why I would hesitate to run for a seat again,” Berge said. “Supposedly you’re sheltered from that. But if they decide to go after you personally, why would I want to expose myself to that?”

The three also expressed skepticism about the new board, which Schriner characterized as having been thrown into their roles at the behest of Alpert without preparation or resident input.

While Schriner told Sundberg in an email Dec. 17 that if the councilor was able to find “committed individuals,” the current board would step aside, Schriner questioned whether the five new members would be able to find their way without the ousted members’ help.

“Now they’re thrown into the fire,” Schriner said. “We just hope they don’t burn the place down.”

Berge, Gaiser and Schriner’s seats were available along with a vacant seat during the district’s May 2023 election.

Per state law, because the number of candidates who filed to run for office was less than the number of available seats, ballots were never mailed, and Berge, Gaiser and Schriner were seated automatically.

While the three may not have been voted into office in 2023, Berge argued that this did not reflect poorly on him, Gaiser or Schriner, instead blaming apathy among district residents for the lack of competition. Schriner also accused the five new board members of wanting to hold elected office without going through the work of campaigning.

“There’s a value in campaigning for the position, and not one of them has done that,” Schriner said. “Who do they represent if they haven’t campaigned?”

The ousted board members haven’t made up their minds about running to reclaim their seats in 2024. Lyon and Rodriguez said they too haven’t decided whether they want to run.

“But once I’m in something, I’m in it,” Rodriguez said. “We are going to do things the right way.”

Lyon wrote in an email responding to the allegation that the new board was installed in an act of deference to Alpert that his political decision-making will revolve around the well-being of district residents.

“The developers in Murphy Creek are not my concern,” Lyon wrote. “How I vote in any situation will be driven by my commitment and dedication to the residents of Murphy Creek.”

As to whether Murphy Creek’s developer would actively support or oppose candidates in the upcoming special election, the attorney for Alpert’s companies didn’t rule out the possibility.

“This hasn’t been considered yet, but the developer would like to see leadership that complies with the law,” he said.

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Pirate Contemporary Art in Lakewood’s 40West Art District is hosting “Counterpart,” a collaborative exhibition by member artist Brett Matarazzo through Feb. 4.

“Counterpart” is a celebration of Matarazzo’s relationships in the art community, showcasing a variety of mixed-media works. These pieces, created between December 2020 and January 2024, demonstrate the synergy of collaboration, with artists contributing to each other’s work.

Matarazzo’s distinct style, featuring found wood sculpture, laser cut forms, and graphic image transfer, is a highlight of the show. The exhibition includes collaborations with artists Eric Anderson, Michael Dowling, Anthony Garcia Sr. and others.

Running concurrently at Pirate is “The Source of my Disillusion”

by Denise Pfau Demby, featuring guest artist Phyllis Ryder. Matarazzo, a Denver native and University of Denver BFA graduate, has been a visible figure in Denver’s contemporary art scene. He co-directs BRDG Project, a nonprofit aimed at reviving artist-driven arts in Denver.

He has been instrumental in creating urban pop-up galleries and emphasizes an enviro-social message in his work.

visual artists and offers an immersive experience into Mexican culture. Visitors will explore a variety of media and styles that capture the essence of Mexico’s people, music, dance, cuisine, landscapes and spirituality. The exhibition artfully connects Mexico’s historical and contemporary narratives, showcasing its vibrant cultural tapestry.

The family-friendly opening reception promises live music, baile folklorico, refreshments, and more, making it an event for all ages.

IF YOU GO — When: Jan. 19 - Feb. 4.

The public is invited to an free reception 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Jan. 26.

Where: Pirate Gallery, 7130 West 16th Ave. Info: pirateartonline.org — Sentinel AI

IF YOU GO — When: 6 - 8 p.m. Jan. 19 Where: Parsons Theater, 1 E. Memorial Parkway in Northglenn Info: 303-450-8888 — Sentinel AI

¡Viva México! Exhibition Opens at Northglenn Arts

Grownup galactic gaiety at the Wings Air and Space Museum

The Chicano Humanities and Arts Council in collaboration with Northglenn Arts invites the community to the opening reception of the ¡Viva México! exhibition Jan. 19 at the Parsons Theater.

The exhibit which runs through March, celebrates the rich cultural heritage of Mexico. ¡Viva México! features CHAC

Mark your calendars for Thursday, Jan. 18 because the Wings over the Rockies Air and Space Museum is transforming into an interstellar playground for grownups.

Not your typical museum soirée, it’s an evening where wine meets the cosmos, crafts, science and fun.

Peek through telescopes and guess which lunar crater you’re looking at, all while experts share fascinating (and possibly over your head) facts about Artemis and satellites. Ever wonder what you’d look like as a weightless astronaut? Find out with a virtual moon walk.

Then, channel your inner-outer space origami master and cut and fold some stellar creations. And for the thrill-seekers, there’s a gravity table where you can try to orbit the moon – it’s harder than NASA makes it look.

But wait, there’s more! Launch your own rocket, which is sure to be a “blast,” and watch science demonstrations that explain what

happens to the human body in space.

As for the earthly delights, enjoy a selection of wine and beer along with snacks that could be out of this world.

Regular tickets are $40, including two drink tickets to help you enjoy the stars.

Designated drivers get a cosmic deal at $30. Museum members get $10 off. And for those who bring a friend, there’s a “Buy One Ticket, Get One $5 Off” deal, because space is all about buddies.

IF YOU GO — Date: 7 - 9 p.m. Jan 18 Location: Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, 7711 E. Academy Blvd.

Tickets: $30-$40 Info: wingsmuseum.org — Sentinel AI

Seize the night, or a matinee

The Lakewood Cultural Center will be delivering editions of the high-energy musical “Newsies” Friday and Saturday nights through Jan. 21.

Extra editions are slated for weekend matinees.

“Newsies,” with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein, is an adaptation of the 1992 musical film. It tells the story of the Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York.

Audiences go from their theater seats in Lakewood to the streets of New York, where Jack Kelly and his fellow newsboys face off against rising newspaper prices and corporate greed. With the help of Katherine Plummer, a young and spirited reporter, they ignite a historic strike.

The show features movie classics like “Carrying the Banner,” “Seize the Day” and “Santa Fe” in a show for all ages.

The Performance Now Theatre Company cast includes Levi Randolph as Jack Kelly, Sarah Atkinson as Katherine Plumber, and David Kincannon as Joseph Pulitzer, supported by Fletcher Kim as Race and an ensemble of 21 other actors and dancers.

Performance Now, established in 2001, has produced more than 75 regional shows.

IF YOU GO — Dates: Jan. 5 through Jan. 21 Times: 7:30 p.m. curtains on Fridays and Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. matinees Saturdays and Sundays Tickets: Start at $22 Info: performancenow.org or call 303-987-7845 — Sentinel AI

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Because the people must know COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0467-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 20, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) ROBIN L. QUICK Original Beneficiary(ies) ELEVATIONS CREDIT UNION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt ELEVATIONS CREDIT UNION Date of Deed of Trust October 01, 2016 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 07, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D6128342 Original Principal Amount $45,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $45,103.86 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 2, BLOCK 3, HIGHPOINT SUBDIVISION FILING NO 12, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Purported common address: 19811 E. PRINCETON PL, AURORA, CO 80013.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/21/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 12/28/2023 Last Publication 1/25/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/20/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Iman Tehrani #44076 Holst & Tehrani LLP P.O. Box 298, 514 Kimbark Street, Longmont, CO 805020298 (303) 772-6666 Attorney File # 19811 E PRINCETON PL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0469-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 20, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Rufus Jones AND Troylene Jones Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FREMONT INVESTMENT & LOAN, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt HSBC BANK USA, N.A. AS TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF ACE SECURITIES CORP. HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST AND FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF ACE SECURITIES CORP. HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2006-SD2, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES Date of Deed of Trust March 04, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 09, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) B5033300 Original Principal Amount $181,600.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $147,043.38 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 2, SMOKY HILL 400, FILING NO. 11, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL ID NUMBER: 207316122002 Purported common address: 18073 E Belleview Pl, Centennial, CO 80015.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/21/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 12/28/2023 Last Publication 1/25/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/20/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031024 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0475-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 27, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) OLIVER T DARVILLE AND IRENE DARVILLE Original Beneficiary(ies) DAVID G. GOLDBERG Current Holder of Evidence of Debt DAVID G. GOLDBERG Date of Deed of Trust October 11, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 25, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D9115307 Original Principal Amount $12,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $60,318.83 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 9, BLOCK 7, COPPERLEAF FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Purported common address: 21110 E. SARATOGA AVENUE, AURORA, CO 80015.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/28/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/4/2024 Last Publication 2/1/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/27/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Robert J. Murillo #29828 Pivotal Legal Ltd. 5029 Rockcress Dr NW, Albuquerque, NM 87120 (303) .25-7.0617 Attorney File # 21110 E SARATOGA AVENUE The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0108-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 3, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Mitchell Paul Myers and Jodie Cathryn Myers Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for Nations Direct Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Nations Direct Mortgage, LLC Date of Deed of Trust March 07, 2022 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 14, 2022 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E2028731 Original Principal Amount $585,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $582,680.24 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured there.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 1, BLOCK 7, COUNTRY LANE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 7, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Purported common address: 2380 South Waco Court, Aurora, CO 80013.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/28/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/4/2024 Last Publication 2/1/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/03/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DEANNE R. STODDEN #33214 MESSNER REEVES LLP 1550 WEWATTA STREET, SUITE 710, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 623-1800 Attorney File # 8014.0151 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0457-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 13, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Olivia Omega Wallace and Shawn Daniel Wallace Original Beneficiary(ies) USAlliance Federal Credit Union Current Holder of Evidence of Debt USAlliance Federal Credit Union Date of Deed of Trust February 18, 2022 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 03, 2022 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E2024949 Original Principal Amount $244,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $243,999.57 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Unit 2, building 6, Charleston place condominiums, according to the map thereof recorded in the office of the clerk and recorder of Arapahoe County in book 34 at page 47 and according to the declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions for Charleston place recorded in such records in book 2773 at page 196, county of Arapahoe, state of Colorado.

Purported common address: 14039 East Jewell Avenue, Aurora, CO 80012-5614.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/14/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 12/21/2023 Last Publication 1/18/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/13/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Heather Deere #28597 Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO22219 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0459-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 13, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) SANDRA D. BRADY Original Beneficiary(ies) WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FA, A FEDERAL ASSOCIATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Date of Deed of Trust August 01, 2003 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 07, 2003 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) B3173274 Original Principal Amount $105,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $73,815.15 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 52, BLOCK 4, SUMMER VALLEY SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 21, COUNTY OF ARAPHAOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Purported common address: 16988 EAST STANFORD PLACE, AURORA, CO 80015.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/14/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 12/21/2023 Last Publication 1/18/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/13/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978 Randall M. Chin #31149 David W. Drake #43315 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009910001 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0461-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 17, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Terry L. Mason Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Nationstar Mortgage LLC Date of Deed of Trust December 13, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 21, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1191491 Original Principal Amount

$178,335.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $138,955.88 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 54, BLOCK 1, THE CHATEAUX AT AURORA PARK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Purported common address: 2485 S Revere Way, Aurora, CO 80014.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/14/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 12/21/2023 Last Publication 1/18/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/17/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-966676-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0470-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 20, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Sharon Jordan Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as beneficiary, as nominee for Universal Lending Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt SERVIS ONE, INC DBA BSI FINANCIAL SERVICES Date of Deed of Trust November 13, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 17, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E0158892 Book: n/a Page: Original Principal Amount $308,800.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $292,827.82 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 9, Block 10, Sterling Hills Subdivision Filing No. 10, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Purported common address: 19090 E Baker Pl, Aurora, CO 80013.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given

that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/21/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 12/28/2023 Last Publication 1/25/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/20/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722 Scott D. Toebben #19011 Aricyn J. Dall #51467 David W Drake #43315 Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 23CO00394-1 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0471-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 20, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) SANDRA D. BRADY Original Beneficiary(ies) U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ND Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust March 13, 2007 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 22, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) B7036214 Original Principal Amount $36,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $27,446.84 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 52, BLOCK 4, SUMMER VALLEY FILING NO. 21, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Purported common address: 16988 E STANFORD PL, AURORA, CO 80015.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/21/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 12/28/2023 Last Publication 1/25/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/20/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Anna Johnston #51978 Randall M. Chin #31149 David W. Drake #43315 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009886557 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0472-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 20, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Kyra N Selvidge Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR NEST HOME LENDING, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust January 22, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 24, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D9006652 Original Principal Amount $434,528.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $401,523.63 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 12, BLOCK 4, ADONEA SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL ID NUMBER: 1977-08-4-36-012 Purported common address: 135 S New Castle Way, Aurora, CO 80018-1733.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/21/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 12/28/2023 Last Publication 1/25/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/20/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031051 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0473-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 27, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) DAVID J SAIGHMAN Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust December 22, 2016 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 27, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D6149948 Original Principal Amount $287,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $276,399.63 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 2, BLOCK 4, MEADOWOOD SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Purported common address: 3270 SOUTH GRANBY ST, AURORA, CO 80014.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/28/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/4/2024 Last Publication 2/1/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/27/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978 Randall M. Chin #31149 David W. Drake #43315 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009924812 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0476-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 27, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Crystal Hazelwood Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust April 29, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 10, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1092978 Original Principal Amount $343,660.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $329,384.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE NORTHERLY 21.795 FEET OF LOT 116 AND THE SOUTHERLY 2.205 FEET OF LOT 115, EXCEPT THE EASTERLY 16 FEET THEREOF, LITTLE TURTLE, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 1973-27-1-04-242 Purported common address: 10295 E Evans Ave Unit 116, Aurora, CO 80247.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/28/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/4/2024 Last Publication 2/1/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/27/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031070 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0478-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 27, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Christopher Bridgewater Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR ELEVATIONS CREDIT UNION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust August 10, 2022 County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 12, 2022 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E2084906 Original Principal Amount $198,850.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $197,312.81 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION LEGAL DESCRIPTION UNIT 203, AMERICANA II, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF RECORDED ON APRIL 2, 1998, AT RECEPTION NO. A8046778, AND THE DECLARATION RECORDED ON APRIL 2, 1998, AT RECEPTION NO. A8046777, IN THE RECORDS OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 1975-17-1-15-010 Purported common address: 444 S Kittredge Street 203, Aurora, CO 80017.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/28/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/4/2024 Last Publication 2/1/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/27/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031090 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0485-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 31, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Lucas Allen Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust November 13, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 15, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D8112717 Original Principal Amount $204,232.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $189,833.44 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE

A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION LEGAL DESCRIPTION UNIT 301, CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 7, BALTERRA CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP FOR BALTERRA VILLAGE CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON DECEMBER 23, 2005, AT RECEPTION NO. B5192566, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF BALTERRA CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2005, AT RECEPTION NO. B5146725 IN SAID RECORDS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN: 1975-27-3-71-017 Purported common address: 2672 S Cathay Way, #301, Aurora, CO 80013.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/28/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/4/2024 Last Publication 2/1/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/31/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031140 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0489-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 3, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) David Dragul Original Beneficiary(ies) BELLCO CREDIT UNION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt BELLCO CREDIT UNION Date of Deed of Trust February 29, 2016 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 11, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D6035970 Original Principal Amount $100,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $98,579.22 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 30, BLOCK 2, PINEY CREEK FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 2073-17-4-09-011 Purported common address: 5536 South Lewiston Street, Aurora, CO 80015.

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

said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/06/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/11/2024 Last Publication 2/8/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/03/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030138 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0491-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 7, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) JOHN L. MONAGHAN AND HELEN E. PETERSEN Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS BENEFICIARY, AS NOMINEE FOR KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt BARCLAYS MORTGAGE TRUST 2021NPL1, MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES, SERIES 2021-NPL1, BY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE Date of Deed of Trust February 11, 2009 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 25, 2009 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) B9018715 Original Principal Amount $80,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $62,356.98 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED INST# A9031446, ID# 1973-36-1-40-017, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS PARCEL A; LOT 1, BLOCK 1, HEATHER GARDENS FILING NO. 3, PARCEL 1; AN UNDIVIDED 1/144TH INTEREST IN AND TO SAID LOT. Purported common address: 13635 E. BATES AVE, UNIT 205, AURORA,, CO 80014-3633.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/06/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/11/2024 Last Publication 2/8/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/07/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DEANNE R. STODDEN #33214 MESSNER REEVES LLP 1550 WEWATTA STREET, SUITE 710, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 623-1800 Attorney File # 9629.055/23-000121-01 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0494-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 7, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Kristal N. Wright and Roderick Wright Original Beneficiary(ies) Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Specialized Loan Servicing LLC Date of Deed of Trust July 24, 2015 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 03, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D5086066 Original Principal Amount $304,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $281,948.13 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Roderick Wright and Kristal N. Wright, as joint tenants failed to make the monthly mortgage payments are required by the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust. Such failure constitutes a breach under the Note and Deed of Trust triggering the power of sale by the Public Trustee THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 21, Block 3, Cross Creek Subdivison Filing No. 2, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado Purported common address: 242 N Eaton Park St., Auroa, CO 80018.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/06/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/11/2024 Last Publication 2/8/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/07/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Jessica J. Groen #40660 Sandra J. Nettleton #42411 Marcello G. Rojas #46396 Susan Hendrick #33196 Nigel G Tibbles #43177 THE SAYER LAW GROUP, P.C. 3600 South Beeler Street, Suite 330, Denver, CO 80237 (303) 353-2965 Attorney File # CO220164 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0495-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 7, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) John Wayne Christoffersen Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for 360 Mortgage Group, LLC, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Date of Deed of Trust September 15, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 25, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D7108527 Original Principal Amount $398,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $354,581.09 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 4, BLOCK 1, HOLIDAY CREEK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO JOHN WAYNE CHRISTOFFERSEN BY DEED FROM SAMUEL OWUSU-AKYEAW AND EVA YAA OWUSU RECORDED 03/04/2015 IN DEED INSTRUMENT NUMBER D5021054, IN THE RECORDER’S OFFICE OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO. Purported common address: 18531 E Bates Dr, Aurora, CO 80013.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/06/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/11/2024 Last Publication 2/8/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/07/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-967712-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0497-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 7, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Alexis Jensen Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MEGASTAR FINANCIAL CORP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust June 11, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 18, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1098090 Original Principal Amount $233,689.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $225,805.64 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 5, BLOCK 12, COPPER RIDGE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. A.P.N. : 1975-16-3-19-005 MODIFICATION OF PROMISSORY NOTE AND/ OR DEED OF TRUST RECORDED ON 7/29/2021 AT RECEPTION NO. E1119036 TO CORRECT THE PUD RIDER AND TO CORRECT THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION. PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER’S ERROR RECORDED ON 8/3/2021 AT RECEPTION NO. E1121636 TO CORRECT LEGAL DESCRIPTION. Purported common address: 17113 East Ford Drive, Aurora, CO 80017.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER’S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 8/3/2021 AT RECEPTION NO. E1121636 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/06/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/11/2024 Last Publication 2/8/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/07/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031166 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0499-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 7, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Kathryn Kindle Original Beneficiary(ies) Westerra Credit Union Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Westerra Credit Union Date of Deed of Trust December 01, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 06, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1185008 Original Principal Amount $150,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $90,999.11 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay installments of principal and interest, together with 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. LOT 2, BLOCK 1, WILLOW PARK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Purported common address: 14916 East Mexico Drive, Aurora, CO 80012.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/06/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/11/2024 Last Publication 2/8/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/07/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David C. Walker #36551 Neal K. Dunning #10181 Douglas W. Brown #10429 Drew P. Fein #48950 Brown Dunning Walker Fein Drusch PC E. Prentice Ave., Suite 101-E, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3006-272 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0500-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 14, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Anthony Settles Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust June 19, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 21, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D9060234 Original Principal Amount $242,526.00 Outstanding Principal Balance

$238,866.23 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION. LEGAL DESCRIPTION UNIT 102, BUILDING 1, AURORA AT CROSS CREEK CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON OCTOBER 7, 2005 AT RECEPTION NO. B5151842, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF AURORA AT CROSS CREEK CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED ON JUNE 17, 2005 AT RECEPTION NO. B5089614, IN SAID RECORDS. TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE LIMITED COMMON ELEMENT GARAGE BAY 2. COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN: 1977-07-2-21-002 Purported common address: 23306 E 5Th Place Unit #102, Aurora, CO 80018.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/13/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/18/2024 Last Publication 2/15/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/14/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031213 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0502-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 14, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Shayana D Cooley Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust September 28, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 28, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E0129766 Original Principal Amount $218,960.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $208,892.35 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 2, BLOCK 1, SAN FRANCISCO SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO APN #: 032318210 Purported common address: 14202 E Hawaii Cir Unit B, Aurora, CO 80012.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/13/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/18/2024 Last Publication 2/15/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/14/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031187 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0503-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 14, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) James Reuben Booker AND Timolin Chantel Booker Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR HOMEAMERICAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Date of Deed of Trust December 23, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 31, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E0184888 Original Principal Amount $359,097.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $340,953.27 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 12, CROSS CREEK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED NOVEMBER 7, 2018 UNDER RECEPTION NO. D8109934.

Purported common address: 23581 East 5th Drive, Aurora, CO 80018.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/13/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the high-

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com est and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 1/18/2024 Last Publication 2/15/2024 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/14/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031120 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5) PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. 0148-2023 To: Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other person entitled. You are advised that there are overbid funds due you. This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: Name of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust CHERI M CRAWFORD Address of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust 293 S NOME ST,, AURORA, CO 80012 Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 23, 2016 Recording Information D6149891 Legal Description of Property LOT 22, BLOCK 3, OLDETOWN SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Street Address of Property 293 S NOME ST,, AURORA, CO 800121212 NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS I sold at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on 9/20/23, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and the funds must be claimed by the Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other persons entitled thereto within six months from the date of sale.

THE STATE OF COLORADO REQUIRES US TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR PROPERTY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE STATE TREASURER IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT US BEFORE 3/20/2024 as part of the “Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act”, pursuant to Colorado law.

First Publication 12/21/23 Last Publication 1/18/24 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado Date: 11/29/23 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14QaK0JG6 G35gvqwq5pp5t1psF0fDil0M/view APPLICATION LANDS Township 1 South, Range 66 West, 6th P.M. Section 18: E1/2; E1/2W½1/2 Section 19: E1/2; E1/2W1/2 DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF HEARING (Subject to change) The assigned Hearing Officer will hold a hearing only on the above-referenced docket number at the following date, time, and location: Date: March 20, 2024 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Place: Energy and Carbon Management Commission The Chancery Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203 PETITIONS DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECTED PERSONS: February 16, 2024 Any interested party who wishes to participate formally must file a written petition with the Commission no later than the deadline provided above. Please see Commission Rule 507 at https://ecmc. state.co.us/#/home, under “Regulation,” then select “Rules.” Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above.

Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online at https://oitco.hylandcloud.com/ DNRCOGExternalAccess/Account/Login. aspx and select “Request Access to Site.”

Please refer to the ECMC “eFiling Users Guidebook” at https://ecmc.state.co.us/ documents/reg/Hearings/External_EfilingSystemGuidebook_2023_FINAL.pdf for more information. Under Commission Rule 508, if no petition is filed, the Application may be approved administratively without a formal hearing.

Any Affected Person who files a petition must be able to participate in a prehearing conference during the week of February 20, 2024, if a prehearing conference is requested by the Applicant or by any person who has filed a petition. Monday, February 19, 2024, is a holiday.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information, you may review the Application, which was sent to you with this Notice. You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Margaret Humecki at DNR_ECMC_Hearings_Unit@ state.co.us, prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made.

ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO By /s/ Elias J. Thomas, Commission Secretary Dated: January 2, 2024 Applicant: PDC Energy, Inc. c/o Jamie L. Jost Kelsey H. Wasylenky Jost Energy Law, P.C. 3511 Ringsby Court, Unit 103 Denver, Colorado 80216 (720) 446-5620 Jjost@jostenergylaw.com Kwasylenky@jostenergylaw.com Publication: January 18, 2024 Sentinel

BEFORE THE ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO CAUSE NO. 407 DOCKET NO. 231200373 TYPE: POOLING NOTICE OF HEARING

BEFORE THE ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO CAUSE NO. 535 DOCKET NO. 231000314 TYPE: POOLING NOTICE OF HEARING

IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS FOR THE NIOBRARA, FORT HAYS, CODELL, AND CARLILE FORMATIONS, WATTENBERG FIELD, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS FOR THE NIOBRARA FORMATION, DJ HORIZONTAL NIOBRARA FIELD, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO

PDC Energy, Inc. (Operator No. 69175) (“Applicant”) filed an Application with the Commission for an order to pool all oil and gas (“mineral”) interests in lands identified below. This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may own mineral interests that will be pooled if the Commission approves the Application.

Pooling is the consolidation and combining of mineral interests so that all mineral interest owners receive payment for their just and equitable share of produced oil and gas. For more information about the Commission’s pooling process, please see a brochure on the Commission’s website here:

Crestone Peak Resources Operating LLC (Operator No. 10633) (“Applicant”) filed an Application with the Commission for an order to pool all oil and gas (“mineral”) interests in lands identified below.

This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may own mineral interests that will be pooled if the Commission approves the Application. Pooling is the consolidation and combining of mineral interests so that all mineral interest owners receive payment for their just and equitable share of produced oil and gas. For more information about the Commission’s pooling process, please see a brochure on the Commission’s website here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14QaK0JG6

G35gvqwq5pp5t1psF0fDil0M/view APPLICATION LANDS Township 4 South, Range 65 West, 6th P.M. Section 34: All Section 35: All DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF HEARING (Subject to change) The assigned Hearing Officer will hold a hearing only on the above referenced docket number at the following date, time, and location: Date: March 13, 2024 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Place: Energy and Carbon Management Commission The Chancery Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203 PETITIONS DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECTED PERSONS: February 12, 2024

Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

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

This is an action by Plaintiffs to quiet title to the following real property: See Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.

DATED: January 11, 2024 Exhibit A Legal Description of the Property A tract of land located in the NW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 8. T16S, R65W of the 6th P.M. County of El Paso. State of Colorado. being more particularly described follows:

Any interested party who wishes to participate formally must file a written petition with the Commission no later than the deadline provided above. Please see Commission Rule 507 at https://ecmc.state.co.us/#/ home, under “Regulation,” then select “Rules.” Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above. Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online at https://oitco.hylandcloud.com/DNRCOGExternalAccess/ Account/Login.aspx and select “Request Access to Site.” Please refer to our “eFiling Users Guidebook” at https://ecmc.state. co.us/documents/reg/Hearings/External_ EfilingSystemGuidebook_2023_FINAL.pdf for more information. Under Commission Rule 508, if no petition is filed, the Application may be approved administratively without a formal hearing.

Commencing at the Northwest Corner of the NW1/4 of the SE1/4 said Section 8 from which the Southwest Corner of the NW1/4 of the SE1/4 of said Section 8 bears S00°35’10’’E, 1316.50 feet, thence S00°35’10’’E, 50.00 FEET along the West line of the NW1/4 of the SE1/4 of said Section 8, Thence N89°12’20’’E, 797.16 Feet to THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING.

Any Affected Person who files a petition must be able to participate in a prehearing conference during the week of February 12, 2024, if a prehearing conference is requested by the Applicant or by any person who has filed a petition.

First Publication: January 18, 2024 Final Publication: February 15, 2024 Sentinel

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information, you may review the Application, which was sent to you with this Notice. You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Margaret Humecki at Cogcc.Hearings_Unit@state. co.us, prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made.

ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO By /s/ Elias Thomas, Commission Secretary Dated: January 10, 2024 Crestone Peak c/o Jamie L. Jost Kelsey H. Wasylenky Jost Energy Law, P.C. Attorneys for Applicant 3511 Ringsby Court, Unit 103 Denver, Colorado 80216 (720) 446-5620 Jjost@jostenergylaw.com Kwasylenky@jostenergylaw.com Publication: January 18, 2024 Sentinel DISTRICT COURT, EL PASO COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO SUMMONS Case No: 23CV31277 Div. No. 15 Plaintiffs: RIVERS VENTANA, LLC, v.

Defendants: THE ESTATE OF CHRISTINE ROTHE NOTH; CHUCK BROERMAN, PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO; AND, ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ESTATE OF CHRISTINE ROTHE NOTH; CHUCK BROERMAN, PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO; AND, ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN: 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 to the Complaint. 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 last publication. A copy of the

Thence N89°12’20’’E, 10.00 Feet; Thence S00°00’20’’W, 10.00 Feet; Thence S89°12’20’’W, 10.00 Feet; Thence N00°00’20’’E, 10.00 Feet to the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. TIMOTHY F. BREWER, P.C. *In accordance with C.R.C.P. 121 Section 1-26, a printed copy of this document with original signatures is being maintained by the filing party and will be made available for inspection by other parties or the court upon request. /s/ Timothy F. Brewer Timothy F. Brewer, #32946 Timothy F. Brewer, P.C. Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the AEROTROPOLIS AREA COORDINATING METROPOLITAN DISTRICT of Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment on or after January 29, 2024, to: JHL Constructors, Inc. 9100 E Panorama Dr, Ste 300 Englewood, CO 80112 for all work done by said Contractor for the Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, THE AURORA HIGHLANDS FILING 9 UTILITY INSTALL CHANGE ORDER #08 TO WORK ORDER #25, all of said work being within or near the boundaries of Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, in the City of Aurora, State of Colorado.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, team hire, sustenance provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a written verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, Attention: Denise Denslow, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300,Greenwood Village, CO 80111 with a copy to McGeady Becher P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80203-1254 at or before the time and date hereinabove shown.

Failure on the part of any claimant to file such written verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release AEROTROPOLIS AREA COORDINATING METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, its Board, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District First Publication: January 11, 2024 Final Publication: January 18, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the AEROTROPOLIS AREA COORDINATING METROPOLITAN DISTRICT of Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment on or after January 29, 2024, to: JHL Constructors, Inc. 9100 E Panorama Dr, Ste 300 Englewood, CO 80112 for all work done by said Contractor for the Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, THE AURORA HIGHLANDS FILINGS 3, 10 and 11 ROADWAYS CHANGE ORDER #15 TO WORK ORDER #15, all of said work being within or near the boundaries of Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, in the City of Aurora, State of Colorado.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, team hire, sustenance provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a written verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, Attention: Denise Denslow, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300,Greenwood Village, CO 80111 with a copy to McGeady Becher P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80203-1254 at or before the time and date hereinabove shown.

Failure on the part of any claimant to file such written verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release AEROTROPOLIS AREA COORDINATING METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, its Board, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District First Publication: January 11, 2024 Final Publication: January 18, 2024 Sentinel

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION INTERESTED PERSONS AND OWNERS

BY DESCENT OR SUCCESSION PURSUANT TO § 15-12-1303, C.R.S. Case Number: 22PR31150 In the Matter of the Estate of: RANDY N. ELLIS; Deceased.

To all interested persons and owners by descent or succession: Carla Wilens Fischer, Mark Stratton, Robert Stratton, John Stratton, Carol Snyder, Richard Snyder, Amy Meador, Michael Snyder, Lisa Morris, Kenneth Snyder, Elaine Morgan, Stuart Frankel, Sue Boxer, Nancy Keifer, Evelyn Medow, Michael Snyder, Bobbie Zelinger, Cintia Kanefsky, David Loew, Cathy Weiner, Linda Loew, Nori Patrick, Julie Block, Karen Platt, Brad Snyder, Adam Loew, Stephen Loew, and Rebecca Swett.

A Petition has been filed alleging that the above Decedent died leaving the following property: Titled Ownership Estate of Randy N. Ellis Description of Property 100% of Decedent Estate of Randy N. Ellis Location of Property Arapahoe County District Court probate case 2022PR31150 The hearing on the petition will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: February 29, 2024 Time: 8:00 a.m.

Address: 7325 S. Potomac St., Centennial, CO 80112 Courtroom or Division: 12 This is a hearing without appearance; attendance is not required or expected.

Note: You must answer the petition on or before the hearing date and time specified above.

Within the time required for answering the petition, all objections to the petition must be in writing, filed with the court and served on the petitioner and any required filing fee must be paid.

The hearing shall be limited to the petition, the objections timely filed and the parties answering the petition in a timely manner. If the petition is not answered and no objections are filed, the court may enter a decree without a hearing.

Personal Representative: Marco D. Chayet, #29815, 18th Judicial District Public Administrator Jennifer R. Oviatt, 18th Judicial District Deputy Public Administrator Chayet & Danzo, LLC 650 S. Cherry St., Ste. 710, Denver, CO 80246 P.O. Box 460749, Denver, CO 80246 Phone Number: (303) 355-8520 Fax Number: (303) 355-8501 E-mail: PublicAdministrator@ColoradoElderLaw.com First Publication: January 11, 2024 Final Publication: January 25, 2024 Sentinel NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S. Case No. 2022PR143 In the Matter of the Estate of: Leslie Lewis Thomas To: Alan D Carlson Fort Collins, Colorado A hearing on the estate of Leslie Lewis Thomas for selection of the personal representative. Alan D Carlson is requested to notify the court if he will serve as personal representative for the estate of Les- lie Lewis Thomas at or prior to the hearing.

The hearing will be held at the fol- lowing time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: February 22, 2024 Time: 8:00AM Courtroom or Division: 12 Address: 7325 S. Potomac St., Cen- tennial, CO The hearing will take approximately 30 minutes.

Dana Hartshorn 3650 S. Dawson Street Aurora, Colorado 80014 First Publication: January 18, 2024 Final Publication: February 1, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE OF HEARING CONCERNING EXCLUSION OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there has been filed with the Board of Directors of The Aurora Highlands Metropolitan District No. 6 (“District”), located in Adams County, Colorado, on or about January 9, 2024, a petition requesting the Board adopt a resolution approving the exclusion of certain property from the boundaries of such District (“Petition”).

1. The name and address of the Petitioner and a general description of the Property that is the subject of such Petition are as follows: Petitioner: Richmond American Homes of Colorado, Inc., a Delaware corporation Address of Petitioner: 4350 S. Monaco Street Denver, Colorado 80237 Description: Approximately 90.44 acres of land generally located: east of E-470, south of E. 48th Avenue, west of Monaghan Road and north of E. 42nd Avenue, Aurora, Colorado 2. Accordingly, pursuant to Section 32-1501(2), C.R.S., notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of the District shall hold a public meeting to hear the Petition on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 11:00 a.m., virtually, via Microsoft Teams.

Interested persons may attend the meeting in any of the following ways: 1. To attend via Teams Videoconference, e-mail kathy.suazo@claconnect.com to obtain a link to the videoconference.

2. To attend via telephone, dial 1-720-5475281 and enter the following additional information: (a) Phone Conference ID: 481 935 942# 3. All interested persons shall appear at such meeting and show cause in writing why such Petition should not be granted. All protests and objections shall be deemed to be waived unless submitted in writing to the District at or prior to the meeting or any continuance or postponement thereof in order to be considered.

THE AURORA HIGHLANDS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 6 By: /s/ Denise Denslow District Manager Publication: January 18, 2024 Sentinel NOTICE OF OPEN MEETING FOR HEARING ON PETITION FOR INCLUSION OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE AURORA HIGHLANDS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested persons that a Petition for Inclusion of Property (the “Petition”) has been filed with the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of The Aurora Highlands Metropolitan District No. 3 (the “District”). The Board has fixed Wednesday, the 24th day of January, 2024 at the hour of 11:00 a.m., as the date, time and place of an open meeting at which such Petition shall be heard. This meeting will be held via Microsoft Teams: 1. To attend via Microsoft Teams Videoconference, contact Kathy Suazo at 1-303779-5710 to obtain the link, or access the link directly using the information below: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_NjFiOTRkNmQtYW M2NC00Nzk5LWI4MWMtNGYwYzdmY 2Q4MTk2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7 b%22Tid%22%3a%224aaa468e-93ba4ee3-ab9f-6a247aa3ade0%22%2c%22Oi d%22%3a%2278e91a46-bdcc-4fe5-980c8ff3dcc70755%22%7d 2. To attend via telephone, dial 1-720-5475281 and enter the phone conference ID: 481 935 942# The name and address of the Petitioner is: Aurora Highlands, LLC 250 Pilot Road, Suite 150 Las Vegas, NV 89119 The property to be included into the District is generally described as follows: Approximately 90.44 acres of land generally located: east of E-470, south of E. 48th Avenue, west of Monaghan Road and north of E. 42nd Avenue, Aurora, Colorado All interested parties may appear at such hearing to show cause in writing why such Petition should not be granted.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AURORA HIGHLANDS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3.

THE AURORA HIGHLANDS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3 By: /s/ Matthew P. Ruhland Attorney for the District Publication: January 18, 2024 Sentinel

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NOTICE OF VACANCY PURSUANT to Section 32-1-808(2)(a)(I), C.R.S., notice is hereby given that a vacancy exists on the Board of Directors of Rangeview Metropolitan District (the “District”), in Arapahoe County, Colorado. Any eligible elector of the District who is interested in appointment to the Board of Directors of the District may contact the District’s Manager, Lisa Johnson of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, via e-mail at Lisa.Johnson@claconnect.com. The Board of Directors of the District may fill said vacancy ten (10) days after the date hereof.

RANGEVIEW METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Russell W. Dykstra, Counsel for the District Publication: January 18, 2024 Sentinel SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT Re: Public Works Construction/Improvement Contract 48th Avenue General Improvements Project Alpine Civil Construction, Inc. CONTRACT DATED: January 1, 2022 Notice is hereby given that the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment on or after February 4, 2024 to Alpine Civil Construction, Inc. (the “Contractor”), for all work done by said Contractor for the abovereferenced project concerning construction work performed.

Any individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other legal entity that has furnished labor, materials, sustenance, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied laborers, rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the Contractor or its subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, c/o Schedio Group, LLC, 809 14th Street, Suite A, Golden, Colorado, 80401 Attn: Austin Murray, with a copy to: Icenogle Seaver Pogue, P.C., 4725 South Monaco Street, Suite 360, Denver, Colorado 80237, on or before the date and time hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release the District, its Board of Directors, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT First Publication: January 18, 2024 Final Publication: January 25, 2024 Sentinel SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT Re: Public Works Construction/Improvement Contract PA-13 Park Grading Project Beauregard Excavating LLC CONTRACT DATED: June 22, 2023 Notice is hereby given that the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment on or after February 4, 2024 to Beauregard Excavating LLC. (the “Contractor”), for all work done by said Contractor for the abovereferenced project concerning construction work performed.

Any individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other legal entity that has furnished labor, materials, sustenance, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied laborers, rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the Contractor or its subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, c/o Schedio Group, LLC, 809 14th Street, Suite A, Golden, Colorado, 80401 Attn: Austin Murray, with a copy to: Icenogle Seaver Pogue, P.C., 4725 South Monaco Street, Suite 360, Denver, Colorado 80237, on or before the date and time hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release the District, its Board of Directors, officers, agents, and employees of and

from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT First Publication: January 18, 2024 Final Publication: January 25, 2024 Sentinel SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT Re: Public Works Construction/Improvement Contract Green Valley Ranch Active Adult Community Clubhouse and Area Public Improvement Project Clayton Properties Group, Inc. CONTRACT DATED: May 2, 2022 Notice is hereby given that the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment on or after the February 4, 2024, to Clayton Properties Group, Inc. (the “Contractor”), for all work done by said Contractor for the above-referenced project concerning construction work performed.

Any individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other legal entity that has furnished labor, materials, sustenance, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied laborers, rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the Contractor or its subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, c/o Schedio Group, LLC, 809 14th Street, Suite A, Golden, Colorado, 80401 Attn: Austin Murray, with a copy to: Icenogle Seaver Pogue, P.C., 4725 South Monaco Street, Suite 360, Denver, Colorado 80237, on or before the date and time hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release the District, its Board of Directors, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT First Publication: January 18, 2024 Final Publication: January 25, 2024 Sentinel STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA FORSYTH COUNTY IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK 23SP1040 IN RE ADOPTION OF DOE a minor child TO: JAMES ALLEN HOLMES AND THE UNKNOWN FATHER OF THE MINOR CHILD, J.A.C., A MALE CHILD, BORN AUGUST 16, 2011 IN ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO TO LATOYA COOPER Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the aboveentitled special proceeding. The nature of the relief being sought is as follows: Adoption of a minor child. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than February 14, 2024 and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for the relief sought. Any parental rights you may have will be terminated upon entry of the order of adoption.

This the 4th day of January, 2024.

Christopher M. Watford Attorney for the Petitioner Robinson & Lawing, LLP 110 Oakwood Drive, Suite 200 Winston-Salem, NC 27103 (336) 631-8500

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA COUNTY OF BURLEIGH IN DISTRICT COURT SOUTH CENTRAL JUDICIAL DISTRICT SUMMONS Zaida Patricio Laredo, Plaintiff, v.

Jose Manuel Lluvias Navarro, Defendant.

THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA TO JOSE MANUEL LLUVIAS NAVARRO, THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the complaint in this action, which is herewith served upon you, by serving upon the undersigned an answer or other proper response within twenty-one (21) days after the service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

Under Rule 8.4 of the North Dakota Rules of Court, upon service of this , both parties are bound by the following restraints: (1) Except for temporary periods, neither party shall remove any of their minor children from North Dakota without the written consent of the other party or order of the court.

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BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR287 Estate of Gala Covington, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado, on or before May 4, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

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BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR30680 Estate of Cheryl Lynne Bossio, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado, on or before May 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dara Lynne Bossio Personal Representative 433 Oxford Hill Rd. Hewitt, TX 76643 Attorney for Personal Representative Ron Salas, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 41364 Salas Law Firm, LLC 323 W Drake Road, Suite 116 Fort Collins, CO 80526 Phone: 970-797-2519 First Publication: January 4, 2024 Final Publication: January 18, 2024 Sentinel

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shot was later cleared by internal investigators and the office of district attorney John Kellner for his decision to use lethal force.

On Jan. 11, Acevedo again referred to the incident as a “tragedy” but said the department will base its actions in response to officer-involved killings on “the facts, the evidence and the law, and not on which way the wind is blowing.”

“We have to call balls and strikes. Leaders don’t come to work to keep their jobs, they come to work to do their jobs,” Acevedo said. “And that is a two way street. I don’t care what the union rep thinks.

Let’s face it: if you listen to the union rep, no officer has ever done anything wrong.”

Acevedo said he selected the department’s current senior leadership based on their commitment to police work and willingness to cooperate in reforms. He added that McClain’s death reflected a failure of leadership in the department and that some of the controversy surrounding Wilson’s tenure as chief was due to “people that were undermining her.”

While the department continues to struggle with staffing, he said he takes pride in a boom in officers progressing through academy training, 30 people as of December, and insisted the department is moving “in the right direction.”

Describing Aurora’s consent decree reform

agreement as an opportunity for the department to embrace learning and professional development, Acevedo voiced optimism about the department being able to exit the first phase of the agreement in the near future.

The second phase of the agreement will focus on monitoring the department’s ongoing compliance with the reforms enacted during the first phase.

Acevedo said an online portal that will allow the public to access aggregate data about the department’s enforcement activities would also become active in a matter of weeks, reflecting the consent decree’s emphasis on transparency.

Before leaving Thursday’s news conference, Acevedo expressed frustration over journalists’ scrutiny of the department, saying that “no department in Colorado has been scrutinized and maligned over and over again.” He also took a parting shot at the department’s union representatives.

“Please take time to thank the men and women that wear this badge,” Acevedo said. “They deserve support. And when they screw up as an individual, we’re going to hold them accountable. And I don’t care what the union thinks. … We’re not here to work for the union. We’re not here to work for anybody but the public and our men and women.”

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BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR481 Estate of Cornelius Harris, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before July 30, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

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NOTICE TO claims CREDITORS All persons having against the above-namedBY estate are required to presPUBLICATION ent them to the personal representative PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.or to the District Court Arapahoe County, Case No.of 2023PR481 Colorado or beforeHarris, May 11, 2024 or the Estate ofonCornelius Deceased. claims may be forever All persons having barred. claims against the A. Evans above-named estate are Andra required to presPersonalRepresentative Representativeor ent them to the Personal 2430 Monaco Pkwy. to the Denver Probate Court of the City and Denver, 80207 CountyColorado of Denver, Colorado, on or before Attorney for Personal Representative July 30, 2024, or the claims may be forever Gordon J. Williams barred.

Atty. Reg. #24902 Michael Harris Gordon J. Williams,Personal P.C. Representative 320 E. Costilla 110 Island Ave. Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Little Falls, NJ 07424 First FirstPublication: Publication:January January11, 4,2024 2024 Final FinalPublication: Publication:January January25, 18,2024 2024 Sentinel Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2024PR30011 Estate of Richard H. Roberts aka Richard Hale Roberts aka Richard Roberts, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before May 18, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Diane L. Moore Personal Representative 3558 S. Depew St., Apt. 205 Lakewood, CO 80235 Attorney for Personal Representative Abigail L. Schwarz, Esq. Atty Reg #: 59295 Kirch Rounds Bowman & Deffenbaugh, P.C. Marketplace Tower II 3025 S. Parker Road, Ste. 820 Aurora, CO 80014 Phone: 303-671-7726 First Publication: January 18, 2024 Final Publication: February 1, 2024 Sentinel

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