Sentinel Colorado 1.6.2022

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Your eyes weren’t lying, America nearly fell to dictatorship Jan. 6

In trying to read the tea leaves swirling in the smoldering cesspool of American politics, one year after our own citizens attacked the U.S. Capitol, we keep overlooking the same problem: The Jan. 6 insurrection was the symptom of our malaise, not the cause.

Even before Donald Trump set aside his lurid personal life for a ride down an escalator in New York, the generations-long conservative vs liberal policy war had taken on a new and garrish direction. It was about the time the Republican Tea Party marched their soldiers into the Capitol about 2010.

It’s when rabid flag wavers began calling themselves “patriots” in earnest. Most were thinly veiled bigots of one flavor or another. Many were outright and outspoken racists.

The naked racist attacks on Obama and his family, especially the birtherism bandits, were the hallmark of a tribe that just became increasingly cruel and brazen, paving the way for Donald Trump.

These people were loud about “others,” which especially included people not born in the United States, or, worse in their eyes, born here to immigrants who were undocumented.

There never seemed to be any kind of hard and fast platform from the caucus. Anything that served the purpose of elevating stuff like gun rights, Christianity, prayer in schools, ending abortion, slicing taxes, boosting the military or packing up immigrants and shipping them anywhere but here, was good stuff.

At first laughed at for their cruel, vulgar propaganda, it eventually became their stock in trade.

Trump used it to leverage motivated Republican voters and snag the 2016 GOP nomination, much to the chagrin of millions of distracted conservatives.

The movement elevated a herd of stellar humans, besides Gingrich, such as Minnesota Congressperson Michele Bachmann, Colorado’s own Tom Tancredo, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.

Whether their flagrant populism and “‘murica-ism” ever did anyone any good was lost in their increasingly shrill racist taunts against former President Barack Obama, fueled by the explosion of social media.

Trump didn’t bring the Tea Party mentality to government. He galvanized it with his own brand of mental illness, corruption and deceit. Trump used the power, the prestige and the credibility of the office of U.S. president to normalize the very autocracy and fascism Americans abandoned Britain for and have since fought against around the world.

Drained by years of senseless and corrupt banter by people like Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson and Glenn Beck, most Americans just started tuning out of politics.

Most of us rarely, if ever, read anything of depth or consequence. Newspapers, just like this one, beg for people to pay attention and pay for the news. Even the last bastion of shallow insight, TV news, has become something fewer and fewer people pay any heed to.

We get our news from Facebook posts, Youtube video commercials and maybe a trickle of something from Yahoo.

For one day, however, that shifted. On Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump, foaming at the mouth with lies about being cheated out of a second term in the White House, drew his rabid mob to Washington.

Every radio and every TV station forced us to watch in revulsion as Trump worked up the mob with outlandish lies and notions, and then told them to march to the Capitol and take care of business. He publicly told Vice President Mike Pence to execute a coup against the U.S. government.

The entire world watched as Trump instructed his army of misfits to install him as America’s first dictator.

Had his MAGA freak show just wandered back home, it would have been an unnerving event, warranting a barrage of ways for Congress to prevent such a thing from ever happening again.

Instead, as every single one of us watched, while it unfolded, the crowd became a rioting mob and seized on the Capitol.

To this day, Trump and his corrupted and delusional followers try and tell hundreds of millions of Americans that what they saw for themselves, often filmed and photographed by the perpetrators, wasn’t a violent, murderous attack on the very seat of our democracy, intent on upending the valid votes of millions demanding Trump and his cronies vacate the premises.

Everyone witnessed the treasonous

violence and arrogance that nearly ended America’s gold-standard of democracy: the peaceful transfer of power.

The entire nation watched a majority of Congress and Vice President Pence fight and ultimately win the battle over insurrectionists determined to bring dictatorship to America.

You didn’t dream or misunderstand a damn thing. America was invaded by a tribe of its own citizens and won the war against them and their own failed leader, Donald Trump.

It was nothing less than what you saw.

Don’t let people like Colorado Congressman Ken Buck snidely persuade you that the insurrectionists were just “knuckleheads” who got a little carried away. Don’t let people like Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert persuade you that she doesn’t perpetuate Tea Party racism and hatred by fanning her flaming “patriot” fanhood of “we the people,” with endless diatribe about Muslim members of Congress being part of a “Jihad Squad,” or that the presidency was swiped from Trump by election fraud, which never happened.

Don’t let everything millions of Americans have worked for, suffered for and even died for fall away for something so preventable as the societal disease embodied by Donald Trump and his tribe.

We are so much more than this insurrection and the minority of people who tried to pull it off and are working to keep it going.

You saw what happened when you weren’t paying close enough attention. Rest assured Trump and his gang will try to finish the job if you turn away now.

DAVE PERRY Editor

Congressperson Jason Crow of Aurora, center, and mMembers of Congress shelter in the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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An unthinkable tsunami of fire that ripped through more than 1,000 homes and buildings Thursday in the relatively treeless, flat suburban plains just outside of Denver was indiscriminate of party affiliation or household income.

Everyone along the Front Range and across the Colorado plains needs to be clear what happened this week when the Marshall Fire forced tens of thousands of residents in the Superior and Louisville area out of their homes, many permanently.

Colorado, tragically, has become all too accustomed to wildfire, far outside of what has for eons been wildfire season. And winter grassland fires, though rare, aren’t unknown.

But the Marshall Fire was different.

There was no dense or sparse forest of trees that fueled flames as the fire worked from house to house. The fire started in grassy fields and then exploded with flame. Once it pushed into nearby housing developments, it moved from house to house, like mountain wildfires move from tree to tree.

Wood houses with asphalt roofing, like millions of others across the metro area, became perfect fuel.

Not just a few houses burned, but hundreds and hundreds of them. And not over days or weeks, but within just a few hours.

While the drought-stricken region and notorious front-range winds created ideal conditions for such a disaster, this can, and probably will, happen again — because of human-created climate change.

That’s according to an indisputable vast majority of all kinds of scientists, researchers and what we can all plainly see.

The worst part? Expect more catastrophes like this, more often.

It’s not just a Colorado problem, nor even an American one. This year, German towns were wiped out by astounding floods. The same in China. Just last month, entire communities across the South were wiped out by packs of tornadoes — in December.

Hurricanes now create confounding deluges far from landfall, flooding subways in cities and homes all across the nation.

Shuang-Ye Wu,PhD, an environmental scientist focusing on climate change, and a professor at University of Dayton, said the science and conclusions are unmistakable. So-called greenhouse gas increases from human activity have raised the atmospheric temperature. The changes caused by that have a clear effect in the United States, and other places,too, Wu and others say.

Dry climates are becoming drier, and wetter climates are becoming wetter.

It isn’t that the foothills along the Front Range from Boulder to Colorado Springs aren’t accustomed to occasional hurricane force winds. But on top of endless drought to create natural fuel, it becomes a perfect recipe for disaster, and it did. Scientists and common sense guarantee this will be repeated.

For decades, we have either ignored a clear and relentless call for immediate change that is not some esoteric threat to future generations, but a very real peril to all of us, right now.

As journalists captured images of piles of ashes where houses and apartments once stood, it was impossible to tell which ones were once homes to voters for Trump or Biden. The fires consumed the pricey gallery furniture of one home the same as it did worn hand-me-downs in another house.

Global warming and the growing menace it imposes on all of us is not a political problem, only solving it is.

And it’s not a problem just for the Greeks or people along the coasts or just the Southern states.

It’s a crisis for all of us, including the metro area. In Colorado and the United States, we need to press our leaders from across the political spectrum to treat global warming like the crisis it is, a crisis that can wipe out 1,000 homes in a matter of hours while we all stand by helplessly.

There is no room for debate, Democrats and Republicans must act as one to quickly and meaningfully reduce greenhouse gas emissions before the unimaginable environmental or weather anomalies become endless and unstoppable.

If your elected representatives in Congress, the Legislature, the state and even your county and town council don’t understand the threat and don’t provably act on it, fire them.

The non-political question is no longer whether we should quickly turn away from the fossil fuels that have caused this and will continue to make it worse. The question isn’t when. It’s a question of how we do this now.

Arguments that the cure for climate change, changing energy sources, is worse than the disease just went up in smoke last week in Boulder County.

The unraveling of journalism ethics

For years, it’s been black letter law in journalistic ethics: Never use your position, insight or knowledge to aid or advise public figures – particularly politicians – in return for something of value.

It was a bright line to be crossed at significant personal and professional peril.

Over the years the line had been blurred by some in the media who self-rationalize their actions, embracing a delusion their transgressions would escape discovery.

Today, the line is no longer blurry – it’s been erased altogether, expunged by self-aggrandizing journalists blinded to their ethical obligations by their exposure to power centers and taken in by the attention paid to them by those who occupy those centers.

CNN news anchor Chris Cuomo paid with his $6 million a year job for advising his New York Gov. brother, Andrew Cuomo, how to deal with the media over allegations of sexual harassment.

He was protected until revelations he used his position to gain knowledge from other reporters and sources to pass along to his brother – information valuable to the governor’s damage control efforts.

The backlash over the disclosures and the embarrassment it threatened proved more than CNN could tolerate. It was time to cut their losses. Cuomo was dismissed within days.

The recent disclosures of text messages sent by the hosts of two leading shows on Fox News Channel to the chief of staff to President Trump urging a speech to the nation at the height of the Jan. 6 assault on the U. S. Capitol has again raised ethical questions over personal involvement in presidential decision-making.

Both Sean Hannity and his colleague Laura Ingraham sent frantic messages to chief of staff Mark Meadows, imploring a presidential address urging the protestors to leave the Capitol.

Their messages warned the riot was inflicting major damage on Trump and would destroy his legacy.

Both justified their private messages as nothing different from what they’d already said repeatedly on the air. Why, then, did each feel it crucial to use private back channels to offer advice if not for a self-serving desire to play a significant role in a history-making –albeit disgraceful – event?

Granted, neither Hannity nor Ingraham went as far over the line as Cuomo, but their efforts to insert themselves into the center of the riveting events

swirling around them smacked of personal aggrandizement and self-promotion.

That both were long time supporters of Trump and used their platforms to advance his agenda while belittling his opponents does not excuse privately serving in an advisory capacity to him.

Cuomo, Hannity, Ingraham, along with their colleagues at competing networks, would refer to themselves as journalists but they are not reporters in the traditional sense.

Rather, they are editorialists and polemicists who are paid handsomely – not to mention book deals and lecture fees – to deliver ideologically-driven and frequently inflammatory dissertations to audiences receptive to their messages and who tune in faithfully as a form of validation for their rigidly held views.

There is no objectivity in their harangues, no recognition of valid contrary points of view, and no understanding that opinions different from theirs deserve attention.

In other words, none of the components traditionally present in news are found. It is opinion only, one individual’s interpretation, ideologically right or left, of national and international events.

The communications revolution upended the media landscape, overwhelming the print press and driving much of the traditional news outlets into financial oblivion while hastening the arrival and dominance of opinion-based programing.

It created an environment for points of view to masquerade as news free of the obligations and responsibilities which historically governed the industry.

The line that had always separated the news media from involvement in the political universe was disparaged as a quaint notion no longer relevant. It produced the kind of entanglements that brought down Chris Cuomo and legitimized the actions of Hannity, Ingraham and others who see nothing untoward in adopting roles as advisors and strategists for political figures.

Public confidence in the news media is at an all time low and critics scornfully refer to journalistic ethics as an oxymoron.

It is time for many in the media to engage in self-reflection and cease contributing to the scorn.

The peril from climate change crosses political lines, just like the Marshall Wildfire did

CARL GOLDEN, CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST

Carl Golden is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University.

‘It could happen again’

ONE YEAR AFTER THE INSURRECTION, AURORA-REGION ACTIVISTS, POLITICAL LEADERS SEE MORE WORK AHEAD

BY KARA MASON, Managing Editor

One year after Trump-incited rioters stormed the Capitol in an effort to change the outcome of the 2020 election, local activists, elected officials, and people in charge of elections worry the consequences of the insurrection may be far reaching and the first of more attacks on U.S. democracy.

“What we cannot ever forget is that Jan. 6 is not a one-off unique event. It was an effort to undermine the peaceful transition of power, which means it’s one of the darkest days in American history. That had never happened before. And it could happen again,” Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser warned during a virtual roundtable hosted by Congressman Jason Crow this week.

Weiser, who argued a case before the Supreme Court about faithless electors in 2020, was asked during arguments what would happen if a state legislature sought to overturn the will of voters after Election Day and reallocate electors to a different candidate.

“That wasn’t before the court in the case. But it was a relevant issue. Because the question before the court was what is the exact extent of the authority that state legislatures have over electors? And I said they can tell electors they need to do what they said they’re going to do,” Weiser said during the roundtable.

“They need to vote for the will of people. That’s what Colorado requires. That’s now something that the Supreme Court has given its imprimatur to. That case did not decide the scary issue that could come back before the court: Could a state undermine the will of the people and pick a different winner than the people picked? That is a threat we face,” he said.

Colorado is often lauded as a “gold standard” for elections for its mail-in paper ballot system

that automatically mails a ballot to every registered voter and allows residents to register and vote in-person up until polls close.

Still, the insurrection and rampant mis-and-disinformation about the election process have plagued election offices across the state. Arapahoe County Clerk Joan Lopez said during Crow’s roundtable that her staff have received violent threats, constant emails doubting the Dominion voting system the department uses to count ballots, and, in once instance in Littleton, people with guns attempted to intimidate voters at a ballot drop box.

“Jan. 6 has affected my office and my election workers tremendously,” she said. “But I think that as long as we keep people informed and we are transparent about everything that’s going on with elections, I think that we can make sure that nothing else happens like this.”

Insurrections stormed the Capitol claiming that the election was fraudulent and sought to keep former President Donald Trump in power.

Crow was in the House Chamber while insurrectionists banged on the doors. He told the Sentinel two days after the attack he was prepared to fight his way out of the chamber only armed with a pen. The former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan helped fellow members of Congress remove pins identifying them as elected officials.

“I haven’t felt that way in 15 years,” he said last year. “When I was doing that work (in the military) it was my job. I wasn’t mentally and emotionally ready to be put in that position as a member of Congress in the U.S. Capitol in 2021.”

In the days after the event, Crow called for Trump’s impeachment again. He asked for more mental health resources for those involved in the Capitol breach, that justice be served to the

rioters, and he led the call for an investigation into the attack.

“America and the world need to see hundreds if not thousands of photos of people being led away in handcuffs,” he said days after the insurrection.

Since, more than 700 people have been charged with crimes related to the riot. Activists, particularly those in communities of color, say it’s more important now more than ever to empower people to vote or get involved in the democratic process. Aurora NAACP President Omar Montgomery said the organization just received a social justice grant, which will be used exclusively for voter outreach efforts.

“Our goal, 100%, is to register as many people as possible between now and our primaries. And after the primaries for the general election,” he said. “That is our goal. We are committed. We have a team that we will be putting out at every single event to do voter-registration-slash -voter-education, so that people are not getting caught up in the social media conspiracies, and believing some of these things are taking place that can erode our faith and our voting process.”

Likewise Salvador Hernandez, state director Mi Familia Vota, said during the roundtable that instilling voter confidence is important in the Latino community, even for people who cannot yet vote due to their immigration status.

“I’m not a U.S. citizen yet. I will hopefully be able to vote in the next presidential election, once I am able to become a citizen, but I haven’t let that discourage me,” he said. “And I think that’s a great lesson to learn and something that I preach everywhere I go, particularly with young students when we go to schools. I say even if you cannot participate in the process, it is also our duty to defend the electoral process and right to vote.”

Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington.

Photo by John Minchillo/AP

City council studies disaster risk

Just days after a wind-driven grass fire devastated communities on the west side of the metroplex, Aurora lawmakers reviewed city plans for confronting similar catastrophes here.

The city’s Hazard Mitigation Plan includes analyses of natural disasters that have some likelihood of afflicting Aurora in the coming years, including fires, floods, drought, winter storms, tornadoes, earthquakes and more.

On Monday, council members said that after last week’s wildfire in north Boulder County, they’ve received questions from the public asking about such risks in Aurora.

“I think we all got some of those emails from constituents who are concerned about what happened in Boulder County,” Councilmember Francoise Bergan said.

Most of the council questions concerned city management of fire risk. According to the plan, between 2016 and 2020, Aurora Fire Rescue responded to 239 fires that could be characterized as wildland fires, out of 770 fire responses in total.

Wildfires were deemed “likely” to occur in the future, which in the context of the plan means there is a 10%-100% chance of the disaster occurring in the next year, or there is at least one chance for it to occur within the next 10 years.

At the same time, the wildfire threat was qualified as being “limited” in potential severity, meaning it is capable of causing “some injuries” and the “complete shutdown of critical facilities for more than one week” while more than 10% of property in the city would be severely damaged. The hazard was also ranked “low” in terms of overall significance.

The plan also identified as threats some of the conditions which fueled the explosive growth of the Marshall Fire in Boulder County, such as severe winds, which were ranked as “extremely likely.”

City officials said a separate presentation focusing on the wildland-urban interface and the city’s capability to fight wildfires is planned for Feb. 7.

While the creators of the plan opted not to assess human-caused hazards, they did account for climate change, noting that recent “warming in the southwest region is among the most rapid in the nation” and that “the period since 1950 has been hotter than any comparable long period in at least 600 years.”

The plan warns that trends such as rising global temperatures, less snow and more rain falling, and more precipitation in general falling during extreme weather events are specifically increasing the risk of heat waves, drought, flooding and fires.

Detailing the plan to the council, the city’s emergency manager, Matt Chapman, said the list of associated projects includes coordinating the city’s emergency messaging, evacuations and clearing vegetation.

Chapman said the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency had approved the plan.

When asked whether that presentation would include more information about the city’s system for notifying residents of a wildfire threat, Chapman told Bergan that the fire service had “yet to finalize it completely” but that the city has multiple, interlocking plans for alert and evacuation.

“From start, to finish, to recovery, we have plans,” Chapman said.

He also told Bergan that firefighters had “talked through scenarios” of how evacuations would be carried out in specific areas of the city, what roadways would primarily be used and that they would work with the Public Works Department if they needed to clear away debris.

Councilmember Alison Coombs praised the quick response of firefighters to a brush fire in Cherry Creek State Park in 2021, but she said it prompted a conversation about how landscaping and fencing could impact the risk of fire.

She asked whether there was any outreach being done to help residents in high-risk areas make their properties less vulnerable. Chapman said public education targeted at homeowner’s associations and citizen groups was part of the plan and that education “could always increase.”

— MAX LEVY, Staff Writer

National Guard activated to assist testing

Gov. Jared Polis has activated more than 200 members of the Colorado National Guard to assist at testing sites and with other COVID-19 responses across the state.

The activation is intended to help decrease long wait times at testing sites as demand has grown with the spread of the highly transmissible omicron variant.

“With high prevalence of omicron in Colorado, we need to ensure Coloradans can access testing without long waits, enabling them to isolate, notify contacts, and keep from spreading the virus to their loved ones,” Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement.

There are 150 free COVID-19 testing sites across Colorado. In Aurora, testing sites are located at:

-Aurora Center for Active Adults 30 West Del Mar Circle, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day

-APS administration building 15771 E. First Ave., Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

-Instructional Support Facility 5416 S. Riviera Way, Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and every other Saturday 7 a.m. to noon

A full list is available online at covid19.colorado.gov/testing.

— CARINA JULIG, Staff Writer Sentinel adds staff writer

Journalist Max Levy joined the newsroom staff of SentinelColoradothis week, focusing on Aurora government and investigations.

Levy comes to the Sentinel from the daily Loveland Reporter-Herald, where he covered city government issues there for about three years.

“We look forward to Levy bringing Sentinel readers the same thorough reporting and compelling writing that set his work apart in northern Colorado,” said Sentinel Editor Dave Perry. “Levy brings with him a deserved reputation for detail and insight in his reporting.”

Before his tenure at the Reporter-Herald, where he was an assistant editor and city reporter, Levy was a reporter for the Holyoke Enterprise, covering a variety of issues and beats.

Levy was raised in southern California and moved to Boulder to attend the University of Colorado Boulder, graduating with a bache-

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lor’s degree in journalism. He started his journalism career as an intern at the Boulder Daily Camera.

Enamored with Colorado, he’s made his home here.

“Aurora is a vibrant news town,” Levy said. “I look forward to telling the stories of our diverse community and putting all of the policy discussion from the Aurora council dais in context.”

Levy has been part of a news team detailing the controversy surrounding the Loveland police department’s abuse of an elderly woman suffering dementia. He helped cover the fallout of the violent arrest of 74-year-old Karen Garner, which has ignited international criticism of that city’s police department.

Levy can be reached at mlevy@ SentinelColorado.com. Follow him on Twitter @maxamillianlevy.

— SENTINEL STAFF

Ahead of a frigid New Year’s Day weekend, Aurora police said they’re part of a city unit activated this weekend to ensure people without homes can find shelter from the cold or at the very least ways to survive it when temperatures drop below freezing this winter.

“We’ll offer them a ride to one of the city’s shelters,” Aurora Police Lt. Chris Amslers said about the city’s ACOT unit, Aurora Cold Weather Outreach Team. The proj-

ect is a combined effort of Aurora Mental Health Center, Mile High Behavioral Health, Aurora Police and the Aurora Fire Department.

Amsler said the unit operates from vans or small buses, seeking out people without homes during dangerous weather, or responding to reports from residents or police.

People without homes can call 911 for help themselves, or others can call 911 to report someone they think is at risk of exposure, Amsler said.

At a temperature of 5 degrees with 30 mph winds, frostbite can set in in just 30 minutes. At minus-5 degrees with 30 mph winds, it takes just 10 minutes.

Those temperatures can be deadly for people living on the streets. According to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, 7% of the homeless people who died in the Denver metro area this year died of environmental exposure during the coldest months of the year.

“We are always concerned about people that aren’t able to get into shelters and therefore stay outside during snowstorms,” coalition spokesperson Cathy Alderman said in an email. “It can be very dangerous, especially when there are high winds and prolonged below freezing temperatures.

Last winter, local shelter’s saw about 600 people in search of a bed, according to Lana Dalton, Aurora’s Homelessness Programs Division Manager.

As of June there were an estimated 480 homeless Aurorans in a city with no permanent shelter, though some homelessness advocates say that estimate is a significant undercount. An annual point in time count is set to occur in January.

The city normally has 365 shelter beds available, spread across a handful of temporary shelter venues. When the weather drops below 20 degrees, 160 more beds are added to that tally.

The Aurora Day Resource Center is a part of those additional beds. They’ll be open on New Years Eve and New Years Day. If that facility fills up, motel vouchers will be available, according to Bob Dorshimer, CEO of Mile High Behavioral Health.

This year the city lacks the emergency shelter it opened last year thanks to federal pandemic funds. The north Aurora warehouse served as a short-term home for about 100 people.

Lawmakers approved the site, at 3293 Oakland St., in part because social-distancing restrictions during the early days of the pandemic pushed people out of local homeless shelters and into outdoor encampments.

With the more transmissible omicron variant tearing through communities, Dalton said city staffers have talked about options in case of an outbreak in one of the city facilities. Respite motels may be available to house infectious people seeking shelter, but those plans are largely still to be determined as an outbreak has yet to occur.

Different from last winter’s inventory of space for people experiencing homeless are about five dozen beds in pallet shelters at the Salvation Army site in north Aurora. A safe parking site is also in operation at Restoration Christian Fellowship Church, though people interested in parking there need to apply through the Colorado Safe Parking Initiative’s website. About 25 heated tents are available there, too.

ed need” for toddler, children and youth sized coats, hats and gloves. “We were wiped clean this year. It’s bizarre,” said Mile High Behavioral Health CEO Robert Dorshimer.

— SENTINEL

STAFF EDUCATION Districts brace for pandemic impacts

With COVID-19 cases spreading rapidly due to the omicron variant, local school districts are cautioning that while they are committed to keeping students in the classroom as much as possible, there may be temporary returns to remote learning due to staffing shortages or outbreaks.

“Families should be prepared for possible disruptions to school during the coming weeks, including temporary classroom or whole school closures resulting from staffing and substitute shortages and potential outbreaks of cases in a classroom, grade or school,” Cherry Creek schools Superintendent Chris Smith said in a Sunday message.

Smith cautions that bus transportation and meal services may be disrupted due to staff shortages in both areas. Bus routes may be cancelled or significantly delayed, and students might be served bagged lunches if not enough nutrition staff can prepare hot meals.

which says that people can return to school or work while wearing a mask five days after a positive COVID-19 test if they are asymptomatic or have significantly improved symptoms.

A letter to families from Aurora Public Schools Superintendent Rico Munn did not mention any changes to quarantine guidelines, but asked families to keep kids home if they are sick.

Much like Cherry Creek, Munn said APS will have to be flexible as cases rise.

“Due to increased community transmission, we need to be prepared to adjust quickly and face potential staffing shortages,” Munn said. “With the likelihood of more staff members testing positive for COVID-19 and needing to isolate at home, we may need to transition certain classrooms or schools to remote learning. In addition, we ask for your patience if bus routes are delayed or cancelled. Please know that we are committed to providing as much in-person learning as possible.”

The letter asks that students bring their laptops or other technology devices home from school with them every day in case schools need to suddenly transition to remote learning.

Along with schools across the nation, both districts have been struggling this school year with staffing shortages, particularly of bus drivers and substitute teachers, that will make it more difficult for them to operate if a significant number of employees are out with COVID-19.

Cases in the region have risen

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The Tri-County Health Department formally extended its mask mandate through January, so all students and staff are still required to wear masks inside school buildings. The message also said that the district will now be following the new CDC quarantine guidelines,

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As colder weather finally rolls into the Aurora region, the city is prepared to house 525 people experiencing homelessness.

significantly over the past several weeks. According to Tri-County, Arapahoe County currently has a 7-day incidence rate of 1,047 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents and 27% positivity rate for COVID-19 tests. In Adams County, the 7-day incidence rate is 818 and the positivity rate 28%. Both counties are considered to have high transmission of the virus according to CDC metrics.

— CARINA JULIG, Staff Writer

POLICE

Man shot, wounded on I-70

An unidentified man told police that as he was shot and injured early Jan. 3 while driving east on I-70 near Chambers Road by someone in a pickup truck, possibly after following him from the Denver Central Park neighborhood, according to Aurora Police.

That man said that he was driving in the area of Central Park, formerly Stapleton, near I-70 some time before 1:15 a.m. Monday when he began being followed by someone driving a black Ford 250 pickup, either 2004 or 2005.

Police gave no details on whether the man had some kind of encounter with the driver of the truck or whether he simply noticed the truck was following him.

At about 1:15 a.m., someone inside the truck shot at and wounded the man while both were on eastbound I-70 near the Chambers Road exit, police said in a tweet.

The man drove himself to a nearby hospital and called police, according to the tweet.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. Tipsters can remain anonymous and still be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000, police said.

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SENTINEL STAFF

Police seek tips in case of shot girl

Police are asking the public to help provide information about who shot a 15-year-old girl the night of Jan. 3 while she was somewhere in the 14400 block of East Colorado Drive in central Aurora.

Police said the girl was rushed to a nearby hospital and is expected to survive her injuries.

Investigators are asking the public for help identifying two males leaving the scene at about 8:30 p.m. in a large, silver, sports utility vehicle.

Police said the circumstances leading to the shooting are so far unknown. No other details about the shooting was released.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. Tipsters can remain anonymous and still be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000, police said. — SENTINEL STAFF

Jury trials suspended

Jury trials have been mostly suspended through the end of the month in two local courts, the Aurora Municipal Court and Arapahoe County’s 18th Judicial District, due to surging cases of COVID-19 infections.

Aurora officials said Monday afternoon all of its jury trials scheduled between Jan. 4 and 27 are postponed in order to prevent further viral spread. All Aurora Municipal Court trials to a judge remain unchanged, according to a city news release.

“Our chief judge has ordered all jury trials suspended in our jurisdiction and the court is again moving to remote operations as much as possible because of high COVID case counts,” judicial district spokesperson Vikki Migoya said in a statement Monday.

Chief Judge Michelle Amico said skyrocketing positivity rates released by the Tri-County health Department and the number of infections warrant all courts reverting to reduced in-person events.

“The decision to suspend jury trials is not one undertaken lightly,” Amico said in the order.

Health officials report positivity rates for Arapahoe County at 18.1% and 16.9% for Douglas County, according to Tri-County metrics.

“These statistics are higher than those seen even prior to the availability of vaccinations and are extremely concerning in light of the large numbers of people summoned to appear for jury trials on any given week,” Amico said in her order. Amico “was advised by the Tri-County Health Department that the oneweek cumulative incidence rate over the past week has increased at the highest rate compared to any previous COVID-19 surges for both Arapahoe and Douglas Counties.”

All jury trials are suspended at least until Jan. 28, according to the order.

The rescheduling process for slated trials was not immediately clear, nor was the number of trials affected immediately available.

One Aurora trial now suspended involved a lurid case against a man accused of more than a dozen felony charges in connection with the poisoning death and rape of a 16-year-old Lakewood girl in August of 2020.

A grand jury in the 18th Judicial District issued a 13-count indictment against Jorge Che-Quiab, including felony charges of first-degree murder, distribution of a controlled substance to a minor and sexual assault on a child, according to court documents.

The trial was scheduled to begin Jan. 7.

Investigators with Aurora police said Che-Quiab held a party with several teenage girls at his apartment in the city’s Heather Ridge neighborhood the evening of Aug. 6 and into the early morning hours of Aug. 7, according to the indictment.

After initially denying his direct

involvement in the death of one of the 16-year-old partygoers, he eventually admitted to police that he sold the teen multiple pills containing the powerful opiate fentanyl under the guise the capsules contained the far less potent narcotic Oxycodone. He also provided the group with additional alcohol and cocaine.

Che-Quiab told Aurora detectives that a 16-year-old girl began to lose consciousness and vomited after she ingested the crushed up fentanyl pills, though he did not address her deteriorating condition until the morning.

“He had said that he should have taken her to the ER ‘because she was limp’ but he didn’t and instead went to sleep,” according to the indictment. One 14-year-old who was at Che-Quiab’s apartment that night told a forensics investigator that she lost consciousness after drinking about half a bottle of hard liquor.

“She described waking up with her underwear off, her pants were on backward, and noticing that the money she had kept in her bra was not there,” the indictment reads.

The girl who died was also assaulted at some point during the gathering, police said.

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Governor shortens trucker’s sentence

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday shortened the prison sentence of a truck driver convicted in a deadly crash to 10 years, drastically reducing his original 110-year term that drew widespread outrage.

The decision on Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence was among several year-end commutations and pardons issued by Polis.

The move comes days after a judge scheduled a hearing for next month to reconsider the sentence at the request of the district attorney, who planned to ask that it be reduced to 20 to 30 years.

Around 5 million people signed an online petition seeking clemency for Aguilera-Mederos, who was convicted of vehicular homicide and other charges in an explosive pileup that killed four people in 2019.

Aguilera-Mederos testified that he was hauling lumber when the brakes on his semitrailer failed as he was descending a steep grade of Interstate 70 in the Rocky Mountain foothills.

His truck plowed into vehicles that had slowed because of another wreck, setting off a chain-reaction crash and a fireball that consumed vehicles and melted parts of the highway.

Judge Bruce Jones imposed the 110-year sentence on Dec. 13 after finding it was the mandatory minimum term set forth under state law, noting it would not have been his choice.

Prosecutors had argued that as Aguilera-Mederos’ truck barreled down from the mountains, he could have used a runaway ramp alongside the interstate that is designed

to safely stop vehicles that have lost their brakes.

The crash killed 24-year-old Miguel Angel Lamas Arellano, 67-yearold William Bailey, 61-year-old Doyle Harrison and 69-year-old Stanley Politano.

In a letter to Aguilera-Mederos explaining his decision, Polis said that while he was not blameless in the crash, the 110-year sentence was disproportionate when compared with inmates who committed intentional, premeditated or violent crimes.

The governor said the case would hopefully spur a discussion about sentencing laws, but he noted any future changes would not help Aguilera-Mederos.

“There is an urgency to remedy this unjust sentence and restore confidence in the uniformity and fairness of our criminal justice system, and consequently I have chosen to commute your sentence now,” Polis wrote.

— COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press

UNDEREXPOSURE

NEW MUSEUM EXHIBIT SHINES A LIGHT ON SOME OF AURORA’S MOST INVISIBLE RESIDENTS

BY CARINA JULIG, Staff Writer

For all the attention homelessness gets in the news, actual homeless people live life in the city’s margins, rarely seen in the same way as their housed neighbors.

People avoid eye contact with the panhandler on the street and sit far away from the person napping in the library. With no homes to retreat to, homeless residents are some of Aurora’s keenest observers. But they are rarely noticed the same way in return. A new exhibit at the Aurora History Museum seeks to change that, portraying people living without homes in Aurora as individuals worthy of attention and respect.

“Without a Home in Aurora” opened in December and will run through the end of May. The exhibit discusses housing insecurity in Aurora through the stories of individual Aurorans who are living on the streets, in shelters and in motels.

Housing insecurity has become a major problem in Aurora as housing and rental prices in the city and surrounding Denver metro area continue to sour. Not even the pandemic put a dent in the housing boom. According to the Colorado Association of Realtors the median sale price of a single family home in the state was $532,800 in November, an 18.5% increase from the same time last year. Apartment List reports that the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Aurora has reached a high of $1,556.

The skyrocketing prices make it harder and harder for the city’s working-class residents to afford a place to live, leaving some of them with nowhere to go.

“The number one reason people lose their housing and are living in their cars, they tell us, is the cost of housing,” Cheryl Baker-Hauck told the Sentinel in December. “They just can’t find something affordable.”

Baker-Hauck is co-founder of the Colorado Safe Parking Initiative, a nonprofit that works with community partners to give people a safe place to sleep in their cars. Contrary to popular misconception, “homelessness” means more than just people who are sleeping on the streets or in encampments — it also includes people who are living out of their cars, in shelters, in motels or hotels and people who are living temporarily with friends or family without a permanent address of their own.

The total number of homeless residents in Aurora is unknown. As of last summer there were 480 estimated Aurorans without a home, but that is likely to significantly undercount people who are living in their car or couchsurfing. Sleeping in a car or on someone’s couch is less harrowing than sleeping on the street, but any experience of homelessness is profoundly destabilizing.

The exhibit uses an oral history format to tell some of those stories, pairing portraits and other photographs with interviews of

If you go:

Aurora History Museum, 15051 E. Alameda Parkway

Exhibit open through May 29, 2022

Tuesday-Friday 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Free admission, must register in advance at auroragov.org/things_to_do/aurora_history_museum

Masks must be worn inside museum

over 20 homeless Aurorans.

One is the mother of a young woman who took her own life six years after surviving the Columbine High School shooting. Another is a man who got an apartment after being homeless for 20 years, and was recently discharged from the hospital after becoming seriously ill with COVID. One woman won the lottery in Arizona but lost the money after relapsing on drugs. One man who participated, Sunny, died shortly after being interviewed.

Without a Home in Aurora features portraits and vignettes into the lives of those experiencing homelessness in the metro area. The exhibit is on display through May 29 at the Aurora History Museum.

Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/ Sentinel Colorado

BY CARINA JULIG, Staff Writer

On Jan. 3, the wait at the Del Mar Park testing site in central Aurora was 2.5 hours long as cars spilled over into the nextdoor neighborhood, each inching along toward a 15-second nasal swab.

The scene, not uncommon since before New Year’s Day, is the latest of a troubling picture as Colorado and the nation enter year three of the pandemic, but this time with a vicious variant, making surging positivity rates hard to handle through the evolution of the virus.

School districts are already bracing for impact. Between the virus and staff shortages, Aurora Public Schools and the Cherry Creek School District are warning that school lunches, busing and even in-person learning could see changes.

Positivity rates in the Aurora region, like much of the state and nation, are considerably high. Tri-County Health Department data as of Wednesday shows the seven-day positivity rate for Adams County at 29.6%, 28.5% in Arapahoe County and 25.4% in Douglas County.

On Dec. 23 those positivity rates hovered around 10%. The state and Tri-County have for more than year insisted that a positivity rate over 5% is cause for alarm.

The stated public health goal, since the pandemic started in 2020, has been to protect the healthcare systems, in particularly hospitals, from becoming overwhelmed. That goal has been part of the discussion about mask mandates, vaccine requirements, closing schools, social distancing and more.

One way Colorado has sidestepped restarting widespread mask mandates and public closures, as explained by Gov. Jared Polis and state health experts, is by focusing on ways to keep people from becoming so sick. It’s included a massive and relentless push to vaccinate everyone from age 2 and up. And Polis has pressed for those sickened with COVID-19, and at risk for hospitalization, to seek out a proven regimen, even offered at mobile sites: monoclonal antibody treatment, similar to how former President Donald Trump was treated for the disease in 2020.

Serving the sick

For those that have contracted the COVID-19 omicron variant the symptoms can still be life-threatening, especially for the unvaccinated. Butting up against hospital capacities has been the biggest threat throughout the pandemic, but with surging cases another challenge threatens the health care system: The two standard drugs they’ve used to fight infections are unlikely to work against the new strain.

For more than a year monoclonal antibody drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly have been the go-to treatments for early COVID-19, thanks to their ability to head off severe disease and keep patients out of the hospital.

But both drug makers recently warned that laboratory testing suggests their therapies will be much less

potent against omicron, which contains dozens of mutations that make it harder for antibodies to attack the virus. And while the companies say they can quickly develop new omicron-targeting antibodies, those aren’t expected to launch for at least several months.

States across the nation are already running out of available treatments. Texas ran out of the drug late last month and wouldn’t receive the drugs from the federal government for at least a week, according to an Associated Press report. In Maryland, providers were directed to conserve the treatment for immunocompromised people and people over 65.

In Colorado, the state health department’s latest available data at the end of December showed 1,458 total doses have been given of the antibodies and had about 3,600 treatments in reserve.

Dr. Adit Ginde, a professor of emergency research and Anesthesiology at CU Anschutz, who has been researching monoclonal antibodies, said that the treatment is 70%80% effective at preventing death from COVID-19 when given early in treatment.

However, only one of the three brands of the drug — the least common brand — is proving to be that effective against the omicron variant, federal experts report. Because there are so many specific mutations on the new variant, Ginde explained, the drug no longer bonds to the spike protein in the virus that enables infection. That may change with future variants of the drug, but for now it makes the infused antibodies much less effective.

“Because an individual is unlikely to know which variant they are infected with at the time they receive treatment, if sotrovimab is not available (the drug that has proven effective against omicron) it would be reasonable for a patient to receive another monoclonal antibody at this time,” a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment spokesperson said. “As the situation changes, CDPHE will update health care providers with new recommendations as needed.”

Currently, the omicron variant is estimated to be the cause of more than 90% of the COVID-19 cases in Colorado, according to state metrics.

Because only one brand of the drug works well, and case rates are skyrocketing due to the omicron variant, some monoclonal antibodies may become increasingly short in supply. Only people who are severely immunocompromised or who are unvaccinated and have multiple conditions that put them at risk for the virus should expect to be able to receive the treatment, Ginde said.

“Those people that chose not to be vaccinated and rely on effective therapeutics like monoclonal antibodies will not be able to rely on their availability for the foreseeable future unless you’re in the high risk categories,” he said. “We’ve always provided the message for best individual and public health, the vaccine-first strategy was really important.”

Late last year, the Polis administration made a significant push to get people to use monoclonal antibodies for treatment as a way to reduce hos-

pital capacity, which was continuing to be strained. Ginde said that at the time, that was a good use of resources.

“At that time in mid-December expanding capacity was critically important and prevented many hospitalizations and saved many lives,” he said.

School of hopeful thoughts

With the surge in omicron cases, schools across the country and in Aurora are in a position they hoped they wouldn’t have to return to — considering potential returns to online learning.

This time, returns aren’t so much due to concerns about the life-threatening nature of the vaccine — all but the very youngest students are eligible to be vaccinated — but worries about what outbreaks will do to staffing capacity that has already been stretched to the breaking point for months.

Before the start of spring semester, both Aurora Public Schools and the Cherry Creek School District sent out messages notifying families that while they are committed to keeping students in the classroom as much as possible, there may be temporary returns to remote learning due to staffing shortages or outbreaks.

“Families should be prepared for possible disruptions to school during the coming weeks, including temporary classroom or whole school closures resulting from staffing and substitute shortages and potential outbreaks of cases in a classroom, grade or school,” Cherry Creek Schools Superintendent Chris Smith said in a Sunday message.

Smith cautions that bus transportation and meal services may be disrupted due to staff shortages in both areas. Bus routes may be cancelled or significantly delayed, and students might be served bagged lunches if not enough nutrition staff can prepare hot meals.

The Tri-County Health Department formally extended its mask mandate through January, so all students and staff are still required to wear masks inside school buildings. The message also said that the district will now be following the new CDC quarantine guidelines, which say that people can return to school or work while wearing a mask five days after a positive COVID-19 test if they are asymptomatic or have significantly improved symptoms.

A letter to families from Aurora Public Schools Superintendent Rico Munn asked families to keep kids home if they are sick. Much like Cherry Creek, Munn said APS will have to be flexible as cases rise.

APS is currently sticking with its past guidance regarding quarantines as it waits for more clarity over the next few days regarding if it should use the new CDC guidelines.

“Due to increased community transmission, we need to be prepared to adjust quickly and face potential staffing shortages,” Munn said. “With the likelihood of more staff members

testing positive for COVID-19 and needing to isolate at home, we may need to transition certain classrooms or schools to remote learning. In addition, we ask for your patience if bus routes are delayed or cancelled. Please know that we are committed to providing as much in-person learning as possible.”

The letter asks that students bring their laptops or other technology devices home from school with them every day in case schools need to suddenly transition to remote learning.

Along with schools across the nation, both districts have been struggling this school year with staffing shortages, particularly of bus drivers and substitute teachers, that will make it more difficult for them to operate if a significant number of employees are out with COVID-19.

The concern about employee shortages appeared to bear out on the first day of school for APS on Tuesday, when almost 400 staff members were absent.

At a special board meeting Tuesday evening, district superintendent Rico Munn said that 398 employees were absent, many because they have COVID-19 or are in quarantine. APS has over 5,000 employees in total.

The district was able to maintain in-person learning for all students, but there are several classrooms that will have to be remote on Wednesday, Munn said.

The district meets every afternoon to plan for the next school day. On Monday night there were 180 absences, and by the morning that number had more than doubled, Munn said.

“That’s going to be our reality I would say for at least a week and depending on what happens with this variant, it may stretch into longer,” he said. “The system is already fully stressed, this is another layer of stress upon that.”

Dr. John Douglas, director of the Tri-County Health Department, said that the department has not told schools that they should prepare to shut down or that they should shut down, but he thinks that given the situation the messaging districts are sending out is appropriate.

The districts have been in contact with schools to advise them on the new CDC guidelines surrounding quarantine.

The guidelines state that after testing positive or developing symptoms of COVID-19, individuals can leave quarantine and return to work after five days if they are asymptomatic or if their symptoms have significantly improved, and should wear a mask around other people for the next five days.

Douglas said he believes it is appropriate for the school districts to follow the new guidelines.

“Every tool we can bring to the plate is important,” Douglas said.

That includes vaccination, vaccine boosters, social distancing and adhering to the mask mandate, he said.

Wait times exceeded two and a half hours for COIVD testing, Jan 3 at the testing site at Del Mar Park. With the more easily transmissible omicron variant taking shape as the dominant strain, metro area residents flocked to testing sites after the holiday season.

Photos by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado

‘Terribly contagious’

Currently, one in four people in the region getting tested for COVID-19 are returning with positive tests, which is a record.

Omicron “might be as contagious as measles,” Douglas said, “which has sort of been our gold standard for a terribly contagious virus.”

Douglas said it’s too early to say exactly how severe the omicron variant is, but that it is likely that it is at least slightly less severe than earlier variants. The overwhelming majority of people who are hospitalized with COVID-19 — about 80% — continue to be unvaccinated.

Since July, no unvaccinated people in Colorado under the age of 40 have died of COVID-19.

“We’re dealing with a dramatically infectious virus that’s spreading like wildfire through the community that may not be making folks as sick as we experienced with the delta variant, particularly if they’ve been vaccinated,” he said.

The department is seeing a record number of breakthrough cases. At this point in the pandemic, being vaccinated is more likely to protect people from getting seriously ill than from getting infected in the first place, Douglas said.

He said that it is difficult to speculate on how many people could end up getting COVID-19 in 2022, but that with such a highly contagious virus spreading rapidly in the community it is likely that many people will be infected, particularly the unvaccinated.

“Whether or not that means literally everybody’s going to get it before it goes away, I think that’s hard to say,” he said.

One group that is particularly vulnerable due to the new variant is people who live in congregate settings. Making sure that people in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are fully vaccinated and have boosters is crucially important at this time, Douglas said. Statewide, only about 70% of residents and 30% of staff in residential facilities have received booster shots.

“We’ve been desperately reaching out to long-term care facilities asking whatever we can do to try to get their rates up, because we all know that’s the group that’s really been most vulnerable to having bad outcomes,” Douglas said.

Heavy wait problems

Testing lines have been at levels not seen since the early stages of the pandemic, with hour-long lines of cars at sites across the region, which is leading to slower turnaround times for results.

Douglas said the long lines are mostly due to the increase in people who want to get tested, but that staffing shortages could also play a part. Last week Polis authorized 200 members of the National Guard to assist at testing sites across the state to help boost capacity.

The turnaround time for testing is crucial, as Douglas said that if results are not received within 24 to 48 hours they lose value, particularly for contact tracing purposes.

Ultimately, Tri-County’s ability to slow the spread of the virus is “somewhat limited,” Douglas said. As has been the case for over a year, getting vaccinated continues to be the most effective way to slow the spread of the pandemic on both an individual and population level.

Currently, 75% of residents 12 and older in the Tri-County region have a complete initial vaccine dose. Roughly another 50% has received a booster.

“Our tools are not a whole lot different than they have been,” Douglas said. “They’re vaccine vaccine vaccine, masks, avoiding crowded settings, seeking well-ventilated settings: those are the things our messaging would lead to.”

The health department voted last fall to impose a universal mask mandate in schools, and in the winter reimposed a general indoor mask mandate along with almost all Denver metro counties. If hospital capacity becomes overwhelmed Douglas said he could see the state health department imposing more public health measures (since turning over almost all public health measures to local control last year hospital capacity is the main metric the state is measuring to determine if that needs to change) but he does not envision Tri-County passing more measures beyond the current mask mandates.

“The weariness and tolerance of the public for public health measures is, after almost two years of this, so thin that even if further measures were put into place we would all have to ask how effective they would be,” he said. “I get plenty of questions about ‘how effective is your stupid mask mandate anyway?’”

— Managing Editor Kara Mason and the Associated Press contributed tothisreport

ABOVE: Buses like this are providing monoclonal treatments serving the metro area. BELOW: Wait times exceeded two and a half hours for COIVD testing, Jan 3 at the testing site at Del Mar Park. With the more easily transmissible omicron variant taking shape as the dominant strain, metro area residents flocked to testing sites after the holiday season.

Photos by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado

scene & herd

Each peels back the anonymity that the unhoused are so often reduced to, and belies the idea that there are any simple answers for why people become homeless. Many included messages of what they wanted museum visitors to know about homelessness.

“The homeless can be reached,” a man named Mike said. “A few touches can make a big difference in the aspects of their lives.”

Local photographer Amy Forestieri provided the black and white portraits and photo collages that line the exhibit’s walls. Forestieri got into photography after a 20-year career in the military, and has been volunteering with the local homeless community for a number of years, where she would also take people’s portraits. She believes in forming a connection with every person she photographs, something that many street photographers don’t do.

“I feel like you have to earn people’s trust,” she said. “Earn the right to take their picture, to tell their story.”

She is careful with which pictures of homeless people she publishes, but has given out hundreds of prints to her subjects, which she said they cherish.

“I’ve never found one in the trash,” she said. “I’ll visit people months or years later and they still have them hanging in their motel rooms.”

Forestieri said some people have made “snarky comments” about why an exhibit about homelessness is necessary, or why she felt the need to portray people who are in such difficult conditions. She hopes that people who are skeptical will take time to see the exhibit for themselves.

“The messages are very inspiring,” she said. “And if people go, I think they’ll understand the value in why we did this.”

For a period of time as a teenager, Forestieri said that she herself was homeless, living in her car or with friends. She doesn’t see value, or kindness, in keeping eyes averted from the least fortunate members of our community.

“Too many people ignore people who are unsheltered, or they think that looking away is respectful,” she said. “But for me, that just pretends that they’re not valuable. And they are part of the fabric of our community and they have powerful statements and wisdom.”

Beauty of the Birdwing

Woody Crumbo Exhibit at the Aurora History Museum

Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. Jan. 7-31. Members get free admission, non-member tickets range from 9.50 to $14.50. 6252 West 104th Ave., Westminster, CO 80020. www.butterflies.org

Think about the biggest butterfly you’ve ever seen. Now think bigger. Bigger. There you go. That’s the kind of butterfly on display at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster. The Common Green Birdwing butterfly gets its name because its wingspan can be up to one foot in length — bigger than most birds you probably see on a daily basis. They’re often found in southeast Asia and Australia (of course), but you don’t have to get on a plane to find one. A short trek to the Pavillion’s conservatory will get you close enough. Staff say the butterflies, which are often poached in their native lands, have been in their chrysalis form for nearly a month at the pavilion, and now they are ready to spread their magnificent, brightly-colored wings. Check them out now until the end of the month.

Ice Skating at The Pond Ice Rink at Southlands Mall

Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. The exhibit will be up for at least the next five months. The museum at 15051 E. Alameda Pkwy. is free to the public, but reservations are recommended and can be made by calling 303-739-6660.

“Without a Home in Aurora” Photo Exhibit at the Aurora History Museum

Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. The exhibit is expected to be up until May 29. The Aurora History Museum 15051 E. Alameda Pkwy. Free. Visit auroragov.org or call 303739-6660 for more information.

Advocates estimate 480 Aurorans are without permanent housing, but that number may be extremely conservative. A new photo exhibit at the Aurora History Museum attempts to document this chapter in city history through photographs and stories of 20 people experiencing homelessness.

100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway Denver 10 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Christmas. Tickets $13 for Colorado residents, purchase in advance online at denverartmuseum.org

Now through Feb. 20, 2020 Ticket information can be found at www. shopsouthlands.com/eventprograms/thepond

Few things scream winter activity more than ice skating. The opening scene of A Charlie Brown Christmas taught us that. Luckily, Southlands Mall has again opened their ice skating rink The Pond for another year of lacing up the skates and moving throngs of others as one unit, counter-clockwise. And even with the unseasonably warm weather, the fine people of Southlands Mall have found a way to bring this tried and true tradition to life once again. Given the social distancing protocols resulting from the ongoing pandemic, reservations need to be made this year and tickets can be purchased well in advance through the website above. As well as taking social distancing into account, due to the Tri-County Health mandates, masks are required inside the skate rental building. But that small requirement shouldn’t hinder the fun times you are sure to have on the ice. So, after you return that ugly sweater you are sure to get this holiday season, make sure you take some laps around The Pond.

Prepare to eat your hearts out, art lovers of Aurora. The newest exhibit at the Aurora History Museum, entitled “Art by ‘Woody’ Crumbo,” features 17 enlarged prints of indigenous dancers originally produced by Potawatomi painter Woodrow “Woody” Wilson Crumbo, a longtime friend of the Henslers while they lived on Jamaica Court in Aurora. The exhibit that opened in the museum’s east hallway in late August marks the third time Crumbo’s art has been displayed at the facility since a pair of Aurora art collectors donated the prints, as well as works from a smattering of other indigenous artists, more than 30 years ago. The same Crumbo pieces hung alongside works from the likes of Harrison Begay and J.D. Roybal when the museum first moved to its current location on the city’s municipal campus in 1991, and again in 2010. Given that general timeline, don’t miss the chance to see these works before they are tucked away in the museum archives for another decade. The current showing is expected to be up through spring 2022.

Winterfest at Gaylord Rockies

“I really hope this exhibit brings a humane insight into the lives of some of our most vulnerable Aurorans. I hope through their interviews, our guests can see people for people and bring more awareness to a very complicated issue in our city,” Museum Director T. Scott Williams says of the exhibit. “Further, my desire is to connect people with the resources available, as there are a lot of city programs and organizations trying to assist our housing insecure.”

The exhibit will run until May 29.

Cinderella’ at The Vintage

The Denver Art Museum is back with several gorgeous displays of art and sculpture. Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France explores the impact that French painting styles had on American artists, and features over 100 paintings from the 19th and early 20th century by standouts such as John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassett. The exhibit only runs through March 13, so don’t miss out. If traditional art isn’t quite your thing, also on display are two collections about design, a collection about women’s fashion. The renovated Martin Building is host to an exhibition of Latin American art. Currently, masks are required inside the museum for all visitors regardless of vaccination status.

Open Jan. 8 through Feb. 27. Hours and dates vary. 6700 North Gaylord Rockies Boulevard, Aurora, CO 80019 www.gaylordhotels.com for reservations and rates

The holidays are over, but winter is just beginning and that’s something to celebrate. Do it with a much-needed staycation at Aurora’s own great hideaway on the plains. Gaylord Rockies Resort — far, far from the state’s greatest slopes — isn’t missing out on any winter sports. You’ll find snow tubing, ice skating and ice bumper cars. Other weekly events now through February include campfires and s’mores, scavenger hunts, games at the resort’s massive pool areas and more. For those of us who need a little R&R, the Relâche Spa is getting in on all the winter activities too. A seasonal Circadian Eucalyptus Facia promises to enhance the immune system. Of course, it’s no replacement for masking and vaccinations during this time, but a little added bonus couldn’t hurt.

7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays Nov. 26 through Jan. 9 at the Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St. Adult tickets are $38. Visit vintagetheatre.org for additional information.

They just don’t write gibberish like they used to. Seriously, “Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo” is an all-time great series of words to spew out of a mouthhole at any given time. Combined with “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” Disney was on a real tear back in the day. Luckily, the very namesake tale of that former incantation is hitting the stage at Aurora’s Vintage Theatre this season with a slightly retooled book, compliments of Douglas Carter Beane.

Director Christopher Page-Sanders is breathing life into Rodger and Hammerstein’s beloved telling of “Cinderella” starting next weekend, complete with travelling pumpkins, transparent footwear and, hopefully, some equally tasteful epaulets as those found on the shoulders of the leading gentleman in the cartoon telling. (Alright, we just wanted an excuse to use the word “epaulets,” but … worth it.)

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HOLIDAY HIATUS ENDS AS AURORA TEAMS RETURN TO COMPETITION WITH SOME BIG CONTESTS UPCOMING AS SEASONS PUSH QUICKLY TOWARD THEIR ENDINGS

The holiday hiatus is history for prep sports with three weeks’ worth of competition for coaches to dissect.

Here’s a look at the status and some storylines in each sport as things get back underway (visit sentinelcolorado.com/preps for expanded stories):

BOYS BASKETBALL

BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports Editor

Aurora teams challenged themselves tremendously in non-league play and with out-ofstate tournaments, which should make upcoming league competition exciting and lead towards an exciting ending to the season.

Rangeview is 6-4 after a very challenging nonleague slate, while Aurora Central is 6-3.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Grandview has yet to play a game in Colorado as the highly-touted Wolves — who remain ranked in the top 3 in 5A despite a 1-6 record — have opened the season at tournaments in Texas and Arizona. Grandview’s first week back is a big one, however, as it meets Mullen and Valor Christian in a four-day span Jan. 5 and Jan. 9.

in that short period of preparation. Aurora has two teams in On The Mat’s Class 5A rankings in Regis Jesuit at No. 8 and Cherokee Trail No. 10, while Grandview had been in the top 10 previously and could get back there again.

The rival Cougars and Wolves — who rescheduled their dual to the end of the season with the potential for the Centennial League title to be on the line — hope their experience at out-of-state tournaments pays off, as does Eaglecrest, which had a very successful opening portion.

Tall tasks ahead: Archer

VanSickle, left, and the Regis Jesuit boys basketball team hold the No. 6 spot in the Class 5A rankings as the season resumes and has a number of big challenges ahead in Continental League play.

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A trio of city teams hold spots in the Colorado High School Activities Association’s Class 5A top 10 in Regis Jesuit, Smoky Hill and Eaglecrest, which sit Nos. 6-8. All three finished off the opening portion of the season out of state as the Raiders and Buffaloes both played in the Visit Mesa Challenge in Arizona and the Raptors won three of four games in Las Vegas at the Tarkanian Classic.

Eaglecrest and Smoky Hill face each other Jan. 5 in a doozy of a Centennial League opener and just the tip off of what should be another wild league journey, especially with an extremely talented team like Overland sitting at 1-8 after an extremely challenging non-league schedule and Cherokee Trail much improved (the Cougars have five wins already after going 1-13 last season).

Regis Jesuit has plenty of challenges ahead in Continental League play (including defending state champion ThunderRidge Feb. 5) with Denver East sprinkled in Jan. 29.

Under first-year head coach Jordan Kelley, Regis Jesuit is off to a 4-2 start and is ranked No. 7 in 5A coming into the second portion of the season. Right away, the Raiders will try to slow Aurora’s leading scorer in the opening portion of the season in Vista PEAK’s Breanna Jefferson, who leads 5A with a scoring average of 12.8 points per game. The Bison — who hope to get Mikenzie Jones back from injury — reached the break 5-4.

Just outside the top 10 in the 5A rankings are both Eaglecrest and Rangeview, who are tied for the most wins among local teams with seven (after the Raiders’ win Jan. 4). The Raptors — one of just two teams to beat Rangeview thus far — finished 3-1 at the Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas prior to winter break.

Smoky Hill has been the surprise of the season as coach Rick Harris’ team earned its sixth win Jan. 4, which is as many victories as the Buffaloes had in the previous two seasons combined.

BOYS WRESTLING

Just six weeks remain before the state tournament and a lot of good competition is packed

Aurora’s highest-ranked wrestlers are Cherokee Trail’s Derek Glenn Jr., Rangeview’s Greg Brooks and Regis Jesuit’s Zavier Carroll, who are ranked No. 2 at 120, 182 and 195 pounds, respectively.

GIRLS WRESTLING

Eaglecrest’s Blythe Cayko made big news before the winter break with her championship-winning performance at the Reno Tournament of Champions girls tournament and she will be one of the locals to watch in the second half as well as Regis Jesuit’s Alexis Segura, who has been ranked No. 1 at 127 pounds.

ICE HOCKEY

Regis Jesuit skated into the winter break on a high as it not only remained undefeated (7-0), but delivered career win No. 300 to head coach Dan Woodley with its victory over Monarch. The Raiders have a big back-to-back Jan. 21-22 against the Cherry Creek co-op team followed by Denver East and clash with rival Valor Christian Feb. 1. Cherry Creek is 2-3-1 with two losses by single goals plus a tie with Denver East to end the first portion of the season. The Bruins get after it right away by taking on Valor Christian Jan. 8.

Preps

Gone too soon: T.C. Newland runs a Hinkley football practice in March of 2021. Newland, who coached the Thunderbirds in the spring and fall seasons in 2021, died Dec. 17 at the age of 56. Photo by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado

FOOTBALL Hinkley mourns death of coach T.C. Newland

Rodney Padilla believed T.C. (Thomas) Newland was making a difference as head coach of the Hinkley football team, which was overwhelmingly young in 2021.

Filled with freshman and sophomores, the Thunderbirds learned a lot of lessons during a winless campaign and Newland — who loved coaching and spent several decades leading teams in a variety of sports — appeared dedicated to helping them build for the future despite numerous challenges.

Newland didn’t get a chance to see that growth pay off, however, as he died Dec. 17 after several weeks in the hospital, a loss that sent shockwaves through a Hinkley community that has dealt with a significant amount of tragedy in recent weeks. Newland also taught science at the school after previously teaching at Clyde Miller Elementary.

“It’s devastating and shocking,” Padilla told the Sentinel. “He was 56 (years old) and in relatively good health. He was a good man and he will be tough to replace. He was definitely a quality individual.”

Services for Newland, who is survived by his wife, Catherine and a variety of other family members, took place Dec. 30 at the Brush Memorial Cemetery.

According to his obituary, Newland was born on May 26, 1965, in Englewood. He went to Brush High School and graduated from Colorado State University with a B.S. in Industrial Science Technology Education. He also earned a M.S. Sports Administration degree from the University of Northern Colorado.

At Brush, Newland played prep football under Larry Mills, who has been inducted into the Colorado High School Coaches Hall of Fame and also the National High School Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame and he was also a star in basketball and track & field. Newland went on to a collegiate football career at Colorado State and played halfback

ABOVE: Rangeview senior Ny’Era West (23) ducks inside a Fairview defender on her way to a layup during the Raiders’ 72-38 girls basketball win over Fairview Jan. 4. RIGHT: Smoky Hill senior Jasmine McNeal socres on a putback during the Buffaloes’ 66-36 girls basketball win over Denver North Jan. 4.

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through his senior year in 1986.

Newland had been a head football coach previously in Alamosa as well as in Nevada at schools of various sizes and spent two seasons coaching the offensive line at nearby Gateway before he applied for the Hinkley job vacated by Michael Farda following the 2019 season.

A month into the coronavirus pandemic, Padilla hired Newland via Zoom and watched him make progress with a program that had to restart with a lot of turnover after a strong run in the last two years under Farda, who returned to his native Texas. The Thunderbirds played in the spring and fall of 2021 due to the pandemic.

“T.C. did a good job and he was working hard with a lot of young kids, many of which had never played football before,” Padilla said. “It was coming. They made big strides from the spring to the fall, they started scoring some points and doing everything they could.”

Padilla said he and Newland spent a few hours together in the same office during the lockdown from a shooting outside the school a few weeks ago and talked about football, their experiences while attending Colorado State and other areas of life.

When he found out Newland was in the hospital, Padilla exchanged texts with him for several days, many just checking in and others to give Newland updates on how some of his football players were doing as part of Padilla’s wrestling team.

The texts stopped, however, and Padilla feared the worst.

“It’s pretty devastating; life is weird with its twists and turns,” Padilla said.

Newland was the sixth coach of the Hinkley football team in the past 11 seasons and became the second one to pass away in 2021. Bob Bozied, who coached the Thunderbirds last in 2011, died in August at the age of 74 of a heart attack.

The search for a new Hinkley football coach will resume some time in the new year.

WEEK PAST

The week past in Aurora prep sports

TUESDAY, JAN. 4: The Rangeview girls basketball team had its lowest output of the season (19 points) in its last game before winter break, but matched its season-high in points in its return with a 72-38 victory over visiting Fairview. Ny’Era West scored 20 points to pace the Raiders, while Genesis Sweetwine added 11 and Jennesse Byrd added 10. ...Yamoni Perez picked up where

lowed after winter break and the Raiders lost at Columbine 63-59. Elijah Thomas scored 18 points and Hanif Muhammad added 13 for Rangeview in the defeat.

WEEK AHEAD

The week ahead in Aurora prep sports

Schedules subject to change due to weather or coronavirus, but here’s a look at the week ahead in Aurora prep sports:

she left off before winter break for the Smoky Hill girls basketball team as she poured in 22 points to lead the Buffaloes to a 66-36 win over Denver North. Jazlyn Lindsey and Jasmine McNeal scored nine points apiece. ...The Rangeview boys basketball team played the second game of a back-to-back and came away with a 67-53 road win over Fairview, which saw Elijah Thomas lead the way with 21 points (plus a near triple-double with eight rebounds and eight assists) while KK Stroter added 20 points. ...The Vista PEAK boys basketball team dropped a 61-53 decision to visiting Doherty. ...The Cherokee Trail girls swim team resumed its season with a visit to Cherry Creek with the Bruins prevailing 183-113 in Centennial League action. Skylar Brgoch won the 200 yard freestyle and Ella Drakulich took the 200 individual medley for Cherokee Trail’s individual wins. ...MONDAY, JAN. 3: The Rangeview boys basketball team was the only Aurora team in action on the first day of competition al-

THURSDAY, JAN. 6: The Eaglecrest girls basketball team has a big non-league contest ahead with a 6 p.m. home game against Legend, while another highlight of the girls basketball schedule is Rangeview’s 7 p.m. home game against Horizon. ...In boys basketball, Aurora Central makes a 7 p.m. visit to Gateway. ...The Centennial League boys wrestling schedule opens with what could be a good one between Eaglecrest and Cherokee Trail on the Cougars’ home mat at 7 p.m., the same time Grandview plays host to Cherry Creek. ...In the swimming pool, the majority of Aurora girls swim temas are scheduled to compete with Aurora Central playing host to Gateway and Rangeview for a 4:30 p.m. tri-meet, while Hinkley (vs. Northglenn at 4:30 p.m.), Overland (vs. Arapahoe at Utah Park at 5 p.m.), Eaglecrest (vs. Mullen at 5 p.m.) and Grandview (vs. Smoky Hill at 5 p.m.) have home duals scheduled. ...A triangular girls wrestling meet is scheduled at Vista PEAK beginning at 4 p.m. ...FRIDAY, JAN. 7: Centennial League basketball resumes with a girls-boys doubleheader at Cherokee Trail that begins at 5:30 pm. with a visit from rival Grandview, while Overland visits Eaglecrest and Smoky Hill is at 7 p.m. in boys basketball matchups. ...In girls hoops, Regis Jesuit visits Vista PEAK at 7 p.m. in non-league play between two local teams. ...The Mustang Invitational at the Veterans’ Memorial Aquatic Center begins with diving at 3:30 p.m. ...An ice hockey doubleheader at Family Sports Center begins with a 3:30 p.m. puck drop between Mountain Vista and Cherry Creek, followed by a 5:40 p.m. contest between Regis Jesuit and Ralston Valley. ...SATURDAY, JAN. 8: A non-league girls basketball showdown is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Grandview, when the Wolves play host to defending state champion and topranked Valor Christian as the highlight of a five-game schedule. ...In boys basketball, Valor Christian also visits and plays at Regis Jesuit at 4 p.m., while Aurora Central also has a home game with Lincoln coming in at 7 p.m. ...The Smoky Hill Invitational boys wrestling tournament begins at 9 a.m. and will include wrestlers from Cherokee Trail, Eaglecrest, Gateway, Grandview, Hinkley, Overland and Vista PEAK. ...The Grandview girls swim team hosts its own invitational starting at 8:30 a.m. ...The Cherry Creek ice hockey team tangles with Valor Christian at 5:55 p.m. at South Suburban Ice Arena.

TUESDAY, JAN. 11: The Rangeview boys basketball team visits Chaparral at 7 p.m. on a slate that laso includes Regis Jesuit home to Columbine and Vista PEAK home to Rock Canyon.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12: The Regis Jesuit girls basketball team plays host to Valor Christian at 7 p.m. in a rematch of last season’s 5A state final.

Because the people must know

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0081-2021

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 19, 2021, 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)

Robert B Andersen

Original Beneficiary(ies) COLORADO STATE BANK AND TRUST, N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

BOKF, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust

November 24, 2010

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 01, 2010

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D0123443

Original Principal Amount

$99,801.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$75,910.82

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 7, BLOCK 4, TOLLGATE VILLAGE SUBDIVISION FILING NO 7, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 915 S VENTURA CT,, 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, 02/16/2022, 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 12/23/2021

Last Publication 1/20/2022

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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: 10/19/2021

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Jennifer C. Rogers #34682

IDEA Law Group 4100 E. Mississippi Ave., Ste. 420, Denver, CO 80246 (187) 73532146ext.

Attorney File # 48017924

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.

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0079-2021

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described

Deed of Trust:

On October 15, 2021, 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)

Kenneth L Broadhurst

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for American Brokers Conduit, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wilmington Trust, NA, successor trustee

to Citibank, N.A., as Trustee, f/b/o the registered holders of Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Trust 2007- AR7, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR7

Date of Deed of Trust

July 07, 2007

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 17, 2007

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D7106621

Original Principal Amount

$650,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$744,584.05

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, PINEY CREEK RANCHES, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6659 South Piney Creek Circle,, Centennial,, CO 80016. 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, 02/16/2022, 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.

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Last Publication 1/20/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel 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: 10/15/2021

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

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 # CO11102

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.

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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0080-2021

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described

Deed of Trust:

On October 15, 2021, 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)

Joshua E Bigelow and Dawn Marie Peter-

son Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems,

$456,577.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$455,372.25

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 3, BLOCK 8, CROSS CREEK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 520 N Flat Rock Cir, 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, 02/16/2022, 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 12/23/2021

Last Publication 1/20/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

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: 10/15/2021

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

David W Drake #43315

Scott D. Toebben #19011

Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710

Attorney File # 20CO00071-1

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.

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Revised 1/2015

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PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0083-2021

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 26, 2021, 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)

D’Alan Ramey Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for Waterstone Mortgage Corporation, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

ServiceMac, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

December 22, 2016

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 28, 2016

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D6151508

Original Principal Amount $177,741.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $164,329.78

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.

ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF CENTURY CITY CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED MARCH 28, 2007 AT RECEPTION NO. B7038766 AND THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED MARCH 28. 2007 AT RECEPTION NO. B7038765 AND RE-RECORDED APRIL 23, 2007 AT RECEPTION NO. B7051004 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 14321 E Tennessee Ave, Unit 302,, 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, 02/23/2022, 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 12/30/2021

Last Publication 1/27/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

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: 10/26/2021

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

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 # CO11161

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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PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0087-2021

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On November 2, 2021, 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)

Fred Runyan, III AND Linda S. Runyan

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE

FOR AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP

Date of Deed of Trust

June 13, 2017

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 20, 2017

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D7068604

Original Principal Amount

$442,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$146,030.94

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 14, BLOCK 6,

Also known by street and number as: 5645

S Odessa Street, 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, 03/02/2022, 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 1/6/2022

Last Publication 2/3/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

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: 11/02/2021

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Alison L Berry #34531

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

David R. Doughty #40042

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 21-025858

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.

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January 6, 2022

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO ORDER FOR PUBLICATION AND MAILING Case No. 2021JA173

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: Brandon Pham FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CHILD

The Court having considered the Motion and Affidavit of the Petitioner(s), is satisfied that the Petitioner(s) has/have used due diligence to obtain personal service on the Respndent(s) at any address available; and that such efforts have failed or efforts to obatin same would have been to no avail, that the Respondent(s) cannot be found for personal service, and that the address of the Respondent(s) remain(s) unknown.

Therefore, the Motion is granted.

The Court orders that the Petitioner(s) shall complete service by publication in a newspaper published in this county or as otherwise specified by the Court. Such publication shall be made as follows:

Date: 12/9/2021

Arapahoe County, Colorado

Matter of Jose Angel Mejia Fuentes

Petition for a Guardianship of a Minor Case 21PR31361

Notice of Hearing to Edwin Ediberto Playtes Gutierrez

A hearing has been scheduled on February 9, 2022 at 8:30am via Webex: Dial (720) 650-7664 and enter Meeting number 925265231 or visit https://judicial.webex.com/meet/ amanda.bradley

First Publication: December 23, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022

Sentinel INVITATION TO BID

The Aurora High Point at DIA Metro District (hereinafter called the “Owner”) will receive sealed Bids for the Gun Club Road Project (the “Project”) at 18591 E 64111 Ave, Denver CO, 80249 until 10:00 am. January 27, 2022. At such time, Bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud.

A description of the Work to be performed is: install underground utilities including storm, sanitary and water line, approximately 18,000 SY of roadway improvements, stormwater management ponds, gravel maintenance trails, and erosion control.

Bid packages will be available for pickup after 10:00 am. on January 6, 2022. Send request for bid documents to Adam Lacey at Adam@silverbluffcompanies.com. Include company name, contact name, and contact information.

Bids shall be made on the forms furnished by the Owner and shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and endorsed with the name of the Bidder. A Bid Bond in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total Bid amount will be required. The Bid Bond will be retained by Owner as liquidated damages should the Successful Bidder fail to enter into a Contract with the Owner in accordance with the Bid. Bidders must supply a list of Subcontractors providing $10,000 or more in labor and/or materials to the Project.

Attention is called to the fact that Bidders offer to assume the obligations and liabilities imposed by the Contract Documents. The Successful Bidder for the Project will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond in the full amount of the Contract Price, in conformity with the requirements of the Contract Documents.

Bidders are hereby advised that the Owner reserves the right to not award a Contract until sixty(60) days from the date of the opening of Bids, and Bidders expressly agree to keep their Bids open for the sixty (60) day time period. Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any informality, technicality or irregularity in any Bid, to disregard all non-conforming, non-responsive, conditional or alternate Bids, to negotiate contract terms with the Successful Bidder, to require statements or evidence of Bidders’ qualifications, including financial statements, and to accept the proposal that is in the opinion of the Owner in its best interest. Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest to do so.

Any questions concerning this bid shall be directed in writing to: Adam Lacey at Adam@silverbluffcompanies.com no later than January 24, 2022.

Publication: January 6, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2022 BUDGETs

SAGEBRUSH FARM METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOs. 1 AND 2

ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sections 29-1-108 and 109, C.R.S., that proposed budgets have been submitted to the Boards of Directors of the Sagebrush Farm Metropolitan District Nos. 1 and 2 (hereinafter referred to collectively as the “Districts”) for the ensuing year of 2022.

Copies of the proposed 2022 budgets are on file in the office of the Districts’ General Counsel, McGeady Becher P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado, where same are available for public inspection. Such proposed 2022 budgets will be considered at special meetings to be held on January 7, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. via telephone conference. Any interested elector within the District(s) may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2022 budgets, inspect the 2022 budgets and file or register any objections thereto.

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION

INTERESTED PERSONS AND OWNERS BY DESCENT OR SUCCESSION PURSUANT TO § 15-12-1303, C.R.S.

Case No. 2020PR31194

In the Matter of the Estate of: RICHARD LEE KIRKPATRICK, aka RICHARD L. KIRKPATRICK, Deceased.

To all interested persons and owners by descent or succession:

John O. Goatcher

A Petition has been filed alleging that the above Decedent died leaving the following property:

Titled Ownership Estate of Richard Lee Kirkpatrick

Description of Property (ONLY IF KNOWN, petitioner may include fractional or percentage ownership) 100% of Decedent Estate of Richard Lee Kirkpatrick

Location of Property Arapahoe County District Court probate case 2020PR31194

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 10, 2022

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.

/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: (303) 355-8520

First Publication: December 23, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Security Self Storage, in accordance with C.R.S. 38-21.5-103, hereby gives Notice Of Sale, to wit: On JANUARY 20, 2022 at 2 P.M. at 4480 S Buckley, Aurora, CO 80015 will conduct a sale on Lockerfox.com prior to the sale date for each storage space in its entirety to the highest bidder for cash, of the contents of the following units to satisfy a landlord’s lien, Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any property from sale, The public is invited to bid on said units.

Nicholas Anthony Dieterich: boxes, shelves, totes, TV, misc.

Connie Noetzelmann: car transmissions, engine jack, outboard motors, misc.

Jeremy Garcia: boxes, floor fan, folding tables, misc.

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Security Self Storage, in accordance with C.R.S. 38-21.5-103, hereby gives Notice of Sale, to wit: On JANUARY 20, 2022 at 2 P.M. at 9150 Pierce St., Westminster, CO 80021 will conduct a sale on Lockerfox. com prior to the sale date for each storage space in its entirety to the highest bidder for cash, of the contents of the following units to satisfy a landlord’s lien. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any property from sale. The public is invited to bid on said units.

Larry Bodie: totes, bags, luggage, vacuum, misc. Brandy Strauch: car topper, boxes, fishing poles, rifle, door.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Security Self Storage, in accordance with C.R.S. 38-21.5-103, hereby gives Notice

Of Sale, to wit: On JANUARY 20, 2022 at 2 P.M. at 2025 S Holly, Denver, CO 80222 will conduct a sale on Lockerfox.com prior to the sale date for each storage space in its entirety to the highest bidder for cash, of the contents of the following units to satisfy a landlord’s lien, Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any property from sale, The public is invited to bid on said units.

Services LLC, 247: tools, stereo equipment, bike, misc. Takoia Smith: washer, totes, floor machine, boxes, toys, furniture, misc. Gabriel Orozco: bean bag chair, rug. Brandon Byrd: totes, coolant line equipment. Ryan Swenson: duffy bags, boom bag, clock, misc. Jenny Yost: furniture, totes, hand dolly, stereo equipment.

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Security Self Storage, in accordance with C.R.S. 38-21.5-103, hereby gives Notice Of Sale, to wit: On JANUARY 20, 2022 at 2 P.M. at 2078 S Pontiac Way, Denver, CO 80224 will conduct a sale on Lockerfox. com prior to the sale date for each storage space in its entirety to the highest bidder for cash, of the contents of the following units to satisfy a landlord’s lien, Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any property from sale, The public is invited to bid on said units.

Scott AKA Celeste Weingartner: microwave, space heater, bike, totes, clothes, misc. Michael Hasty: mattresses, car topper, misc. Donovan Smith: mattress, vacuum. Easton Harris: luggage, clothes, guitar case, armoire, misc. Gregory Fesler: shelves, dresser, mini fridge, electronics, kids bike, misc. Gregory Alan Jones: furniture, boxes, vacuum, misc. Hesper Hall: dresser, totes, misc. Anthony Broadnax: safe, totes, bags, misc. Samantha Kohman: tires, car jacks, tote, misc. Seth Aaron Carlile: luggage, dresser, clothes, misc.

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Security Self Storage, in accordance with C.R.S. 38-21.5-103, hereby gives Notice Of Sale, to wit: On JANUARY 20, 2022 at 2 P.M. at 10601 E Iliff Ave, Aurora, CO 80014 will conduct a sale on Lockerfox.com prior to the sale date for each storage space in its entirety to the highest bidder for cash, of the contents of the following units to satisfy a landlord’s lien. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any property from sale. The public is invited to bid on said units.

Rafeael Victorino: power washer, cooler, totes, misc.

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

Security Self Storage, in accordance with C.R.S. 38-21.5-103, hereby gives Notice Of Sale, to wit: On JANUARY 20, 2022 at 2 P.M. at 9750 W. JEWELL AVE. LAKEWOOD, CO 80232 will conduct a sale on Lockerfox.com prior to the sale date for each storage space in its entirety to the highest bidder for cash, of the contents of the following units to satisfy a landlord’s lien, Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any property from sale, The public is invited to bid on said units.

Jorge Orozco: boxes, hand dolly, chairs, misc. Riley Jackowiak: furniture, TV’s, misc. Benny Torres: furniture, bikes, mannequins, shelves, misc. Lindsey Schriner: furniture, clothes, totes, tool box, misc. Kimberly Rymer: furniture, boxes, album, totes, wheel barrow, misc. Taylor Dallas: boxes, bags, totes, misc. Bruce Randall: furniture, boxes, lamp. Brianna Lockwood: cabinet, boxes, bags, mirror.

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2021PR31280

Estate of Nicolaas de Jonge, 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 February 28, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Linda Latare de Jonge Personal Representative 9002 E. Mansfield Ave. Denver, CO 80237

Attorney for Personal Representative

Melissa Drazen-Smith

Atty Reg #: 371315 MDS Legal Consultants, LLC 8700 E Jefferson Ave., Denver, CO 80237

First Publication: December 23, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2021PR31321

Estate of Elizabeth D. Yost, 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 Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 23, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Linda Y. Duke Personal Representative 7000 Canopy Creek Cove Niceville, FL 32578

Attorney for Personal Representative

Patricia L. Clowdus, Atty. Reg. #8744

Ashley L. Thompson, Att. Reg. #44059

Robinson, Diss and Clowdus, P.C. 3200 Cherry Creek South Drive, Suite 340 Denver, CO 80209

Phone:303-861-4154

First Publication: December 23, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022

Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2021PR31339

Estate of Betty Sue French, 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 Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 15, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marcus French

Personal Representative

James W. McQuade, LL.M, #36110

Courtney Baldwin, #51273

Heckenbach Malara, P.C. 7400 E. Orchard Rd., Ste. 270S Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Phone:303-858-8000

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 13, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2021PR31357

Estate of Annelle J. Clark aka Anne J. Clark aka Annelle Johnson Clark aka Anne Johnson Clark, 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 Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 2, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Stephen J. Clark

Personal Representative 13769 E. Weaver Pl. Centennial, CO 80111

Attorney for Personal Representative Patrick M. Plank

Atty Reg #: 24024 26 W. Dry Creek Circle, #420 Littleton, CO 80120

Phone: 303-794-5901

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 13, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2021PR31365

Estate of Jeffrey L. Jackson aka Jeffrey Louis Jackson aka Jeffrey Jackson aka Jeff Jackson, Deceased.

/s/ Judge

First Publication: December 23, 2021

Final Publication: January 27, 2022

Sentinel

You can attend the meetings in the following way: 1. Dial 1-720-931-2464 and enter the following additional information: a. Phone Conference ID: 2464

Tammy Hudak: tires, totes, bags.

Perry Lederbrand: boat motor, lawn mower, tools, totes, fishing poles, pressure washer, TV, computer, misc.

Nick Dilka: bikes, boxes, vacuum, tool chest, tool box, mirror, tools, misc.

Tonya Gonzales: totes.

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2021PR31247

Estate of Stephen Randall Harwood, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado, on or before June 30, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Donald Kanenwisher, Jr. Personal Representative 26009 Clark Ave. Conifer, CO 80433

Attorney for Personal Representative James H. Moss PO Box 16743 Golden, CO 80402 Phone: 720-334-8529

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 25, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Rebecca A. Jackson

Personal Representative 4970 S. Flat Rock Way Aurora, CO 80016

Attorney for Personal Representative

William A. Morris, Esq. Atty Reg #: 41131

Bond & Morris, P.C.

303 E. 17th Ave., Ste. 888 Denver, CO 80203

Phone: 303-837-9222

First Publication: December 23, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022

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District Court,

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2021PR31387

Estate of Pauline Nora Murphy, 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 Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 29, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Karen A. Murphy

Personal Representative 1535 S. Ironton St. Aurora, CO 80012

Attorney for Personal Representative

Jereme L. Baker

Atty Reg #: 41515

Brian R. Petz

Atty Reg #: 48662 8301 E. Prentice Ave., #405 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Phone: 303-862-4564

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 13, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2021PR31419

Estate of Margaret J. Bender aka Margaret June Bender aka Margaret Bender, 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 Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before May 2, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Harold J. Bender, Jr.

Personal Representative 2367 S. 118th St. West Allis, WI 53227

Attorney for Personal Representative

Emily L. Bowman, Esq.

Atty Reg #: 47166

Kirch Rounds Bowman & Deffenbaugh, P.C.

Marketplace Tower II 3025 S. Parker Road, Ste. 820 Aurora, CO 80014

Phone: 303-671-7726

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 13, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2021PR31451

Estate of Patricia Rose McGarvey aka Patricia R. McGarvey, 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 Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 6, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Coleen P.

McGarvey

Personal Representatives

c/o M. Carl Glatstein, Esq.

Atty Reg #: 13738

Glatstein & O’Brien, LLC

2696 S. Colorado Blvd., Ste. 350 Denver, CO 80222

Phone: 303-757-4342

First Publication: January 6, 2022

Final Publication: January 20, 2022 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2021PR31344

Estate of Floyd Eugene Stephens aka Floyd E. Stephens aka Floyd Stephens, 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 April 30, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tamara Rutz

Personal Representative

Attorney for Personal Representative

Chris Gordon

Atty Reg #: 42569

Stewart and Gordon

3650 S. Yosemite St., #214

Denver, CO 80237

Phone: 303-337-2400

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 13, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801,C.R.S.

Case No.2021PR31678

Estate of Juan Raul Galvan aka Juan Raul

Galvan Veloz, 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 April 29, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marcia Galvan

Personal Representative 3299 W. Dakota Ave. Denver, CO 80129

Attorney for Personal Representative

David A. Imbler, Esq Atty Reg #: 52038 Of Counsel, Spaeth & Doyle LLP 950 S. Cherry Street, Suite 1220 Denver, CO 80246

Phone: 303-619-4370

First Publication: December 23, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2021PR31366

Estate of Lavar Glen Best aka Lavar Best aka Lavar G Best,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 April 30, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michele Lynne Robinson

Personal Representative

Attorney for Personal Representative

Chris Gordon

Atty Reg #: 42569 Stewart and Gordon 3650 S. Yosemite St., #214 Denver, CO 80237

Phone: 303-337-2400

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 13, 2022 Sentinel

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 21C42855

Public Notice is given on December 13, 2021 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Nydia Tera Shultz be changed to Nydia Tera Cassel.

/s/ Clerk of Court, Deputy Clerk

First Publication: December 23, 2021

Final Publication: January 6, 2022 Sentinel

SUMMONS FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE Case No. 21DR1089

In re the Marriage of: Petitioner: MAN DUC TRINH and Respondent: AN THUY DOAN

To the Respondent named above, this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case.

If you were served in the State of Colorado, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 21 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

If you were served outside of the State of Colorado or you were served by publication, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this

Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

You may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1103) can be found at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/Forms” tab.

After 91 days from the date of service or publication, the Court may enter a Decree affecting your marital status, distribution of property and debts, issues involving children such as child support, allocation of parental responsibilities (decision-making and parenting time), maintenance (spousal support), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction.

If you fail to file a Response in this case, any or all of the matters above, or any related matters which come before this Court, may be decided without further notice to you.

This is an action to obtain a Decree of: Dissolution of Marriage or Legal Separation as more fully described in the attached Petition, and if you have children, for orders regarding the children of the marriage.

Notice: §14-10-107, C.R.S. provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage or Legal Separation by the Petitioner and Co-Petitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Decree is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply to the Court for further temporary orders, an expanded temporary injunction, or modification or revocation under §14-10-108, C.R.S.

A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities pursuant to §14-10-124(1.5), C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained prior to a legal establishment of paternity and submitted into evidence prior to the entry of the final decree of dissolution or legal separation, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.

Automatic Temporary Injunction – By Order of Colorado Law, You and Your Spouse are:

1. Restrained from transferring, encumbering, concealing or in any way disposing of, without the consent of the other party or an Order of the Court, any marital prop-

erty, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life. Each party is required to notify the other party of any proposed extraordinary expenditures and to account to the Court for all extraordinary expenditures made after the injunction is in effect;

2. Enjoined from molesting or disturbing the peace of the other party;

3. Restrained from removing the minor children of the parties, if any, from the State without the consent of the other party or an Order of the Court; and

4. Restrained without at least 14 days advance notification and the written consent of the other party or an Order of the Court, from canceling, modifying, terminating, or allowing to lapse for nonpayment of premiums, any policy of health insurance, homeowner’s or renter’s insurance, or automobile insurance that provides coverage to either of the parties or the minor children or any policy of life insurance that names either of the parties or the minor children as a beneficiary.

Date: September 14, 2021

/s/ Clerk of Court/ Deputy

First Publication: December 30, 2021

Final Publication: January 20, 2022 Sentinel VEHICLES FOR SALE

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Publication: January 6, 2022 Sentinel

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