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Red flag warnings could save Alabama, corpses and even the Colorado GOP

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DAVE PERRY Editor

At some point in recent history, fire and weather officials had sense enough to identify and warn about extreme hazards by issuing Red Flag Warnings.

We should spread that good sense across the state, and the nation.

For years — and years — the state’s burial and funeral industry has had red flags popping up out of the ashes, from stolen body parts and between stacks of rotting remains.

For most of us, it’s unfathomable that the Penrose couple operating the Return to Nature Funeral Home were able to accumulate almost 200 rotting corpses that were supposed to have been cremated or disposed of in some way other than piling them up.

In most municipalities, city code inspectors regularly write up tickets for irregular trash disposal. Piles of dead people?

You can only have a few cats and dogs in most places, but there’s no limit on corpses.

If you park your car in front of your Denver home on street-sweeping day, it’s a $75 ticket. But a Denver mortician can park a hearse with a cadaver inside his garage for over a year and nobody cares.

Now, it seems equally unfathomable that the public and even leaders in the burial industry are suddenly clamoring for regulation.

“The current legislative and regulatory framework has failed individuals in Colorado,” Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies Executive Director Patty Salazar said during a recent legislative hearing, according to an Associated Press story.

State proposals would not only create regulations, such as regular inspections, but another proposal would require more qualifications and requirements for burial and funeral home operators.

Joe Walsh, president of the Colorado Funeral Directors Association, told state lawmakers the industry is broadly behind both proposals, the AP reported.

“Our industry, we are taking a beating. Going back to 2018 there have been four incidents, they have been grievous,” Walsh said. “We need to definitely react to this, and we need to make sure everything is being done to not make that happen again.”

No doubt.

The lesson learned? Red flag-warnings are best not ignored.

That’s a lesson not yet learned in Alabama.

This is a state that should refrain from lawmaking and appointing judges altogether.

More than a century ago, Alabama state legislators passed a

law making it illegal to shoot guns at mosquitoes.

Yeah, really. Apparently, there was an ammunition shortage, and the law was intended to help the public conserve bullets and shells.

No doubt you see the multiple red flags here. Ammunition shortage? What else were they shooting at?

Decades later the legislature there outlawed fishing with dynamite.

It’s true.

So it was less than surprising last week when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that human sperm and eggs in a fertility lab should be bestowed with all the rights of people. The state’s chief justice quoted scripture, not science, in his ruling.

At what point will the rest of the nation be ashamed for ignoring so many red flags in Alabama and just laughing it off?

I think we’re there.

Finally, we can all agree that the red flags around what’s left of the Colorado Republican Party are flapping hard. Not only that, but the dash lights have all gone on, and that squealing alarm you hear coming from Colorado Springs means the dumpster fire is out of control.

If you’re like most of us, you look the other way when you see news about the Colorado GOP. You might wince or laugh at stories about state Republican leadership, officially, supporting indicted election fraud suspect Tina Peters. Just a few weeks ago, heavy hitter Republicans like Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman told top GOP brass to knock it off with the Peters things.

You probably cringe over news about the state Party machine, endorsing criminally indicted and civilly convicted Donald Trump. Yes, the same Trump that this weekend said his cred with Black voters increased because of his arrests and mugshot.

And during the past few weeks, news about GOP Party top dog Dave Williams spending state party money on pushing his own campaign for congress to represent Colorado Springs — alongside challenger Douglas Bruce — has got those red flags sizzling hot and turning to ash.

No need to be coy. Alabama, the state’s corpse industry and the remnants of the Colorado Republican Party need hyper-vigilance and immediate intervention.

Catastrophes can and do happen by spurning red-flag warnings. If you need further proof, google “Lauren Boebert.”

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A hearse and van sit outside the Return to Nature Funeral Home, Oct. 6, 2023, in Penrose, Colo. Prosecutors were set to lay out their case Thursday,

8, 2024, against a former co-owner of the Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 bodies, some of them stacked and partially covered, were found last year in a building infested with flies and maggots. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Editorials Sentinel

Metro immigrant crisis warrants action not rhetoric

After more than a week of Aurora City Council conservatives making clear what they don’t want in the midst of an immigration crisis that has descended on Denver over the past year, it’s become increasingly difficult to determine what they do want.

Beginning last week, in a city council committee, council members Danielle Jurinksy and Steve Sundberg made it clear exactly what they did not want and spelled it out in a draft city council resolution.

“The City Council demands organizations cease the transportation of migrants and those experiencing homelessness into Aurora without an agreement to address the financial impact and coordination of services.”

The resolution referred back to a 2017 city council debacle over whether Aurora should be considered a “sanctuary city,” assuring the public that it is not.

While these two lawmakers were not on the city council at the time of the 2017 debate, many at city hall certainly were there for what became one of the city’s most embarrassing moments.

“Sanctuary city” legally means nothing. The term surfaced in the 1980s, essentially from church communities. It became a pejorative label in 2016, levied against cities that made clear that local police were not immigration agents and would not actively partner with ICE in immigrant round-ups.

The logic behind that philosophy wasn’t so much based on sympathy with the plight of undocumented immigrants, it was simple pragmatism. If local police began operating as immigration agents, it would immediately drive undocumented immigrants and their families, often documented, underground. Those immigrants would be strong targets for all kinds of crime, since they would not turn to police for fear of being deported. Likewise, undocumented immigrants involved in even minor traffic incidents would be compelled to flee for fear of contact with local police.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration threatened fiscal retribution against states and municipalities it would deem “sanctuaries” to undocumented immigrants.

Aurora unwisely fell for Trump’s scam and declared that Aurora is “not a sanctuary city” despite objections from local police and even school districts, which ethically and legally could have no part in identifying students who may not have citizenship documents.

The McCarthyism-like scheme created a wave of hurt and distrust among the Latino and Hispanic communities in Aurora and across the metro area as some Trump officials threatened to ferret out so-called DACA kids and others that Trump branded as “illegals.”

This week, Jurinsky and other proponents of this new anti-immigrant measure repeatedly called up this ugly 2017 document. They erroneously insisted that while Aurora is not an “sanctuary city,” Denver is.

Like Aurora, it is not. Former Mayor Michael Hancock famously said in 2017 during the height of the controversy over the scandal, that Denver is “not a sanctuary city.” But he added that if it means that Denver is a city that treats all people with dignity, equality and respect, he would accept the slight.

Intentional or not, as the proponents of the new Aurora resolution repeatedly say they like immigrants, waving Aurora’s hurtful 2017 admonishment of immigrants and demanding that churches, non-profit groups and others keep their “homeless” and “immigrants” out of Aurora, overshadows any other message these city lawmakers are trying to deliver.

Councilmember Ruben Medina was eloquent Monday night in telling proponents of this measure that the immigrant community is not hearing what these city council conservatives think they are saying.

They’re saying they don’t want more immigrants, and that they do want other, larger governments to step up to the crisis.

We agree. It is wholly unfair and untenable that the wholesale failure of both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to solve a decades-long immigration crisis be dumped onto cities like Denver and others.

Neither Denver nor Aurora should, or can, shoulder the burden. This is a crisis created by the federal government, and it, alone, should shoulder the financial burden it’s created.

But it won’t.

So Gov. Jared Polis and state lawmakers should immediately designate the Denver metro area a disaster area and treat it like one. Absent federal intervention, the state, alone, should shoulder the financial burden of warding off a looming humanitarian crisis.

That doesn’t seem to be what these Aurora city lawmakers want. Instead they offered a pared down version of their inflammatory demands, which just keep leveling charges and accusations at immigrants and those trying to help them.

Rather than inflict more damage on themselves and the city, Aurora council members should insist Mayor Mike Coffman join city and county officials from across the metroplex in demanding state and federal agencies provide meaningful resources to stave off an imminent crisis caused by making more than 30,000 people homeless.

MAISHA FIELDS

Confronting health disparities — A call to action for Black health equity in Colorado

February is Black History Month—a time to honor the contributions and struggles of Black Americans throughout history. While it’s crucial to celebrate achievements, it’s also imperative to shine a light on ongoing challenges faced by the Black community today. Black Coloradans continue to struggle to bridge the educational attainment gap and overcome the long-term impacts of policies like redlining, segregation, police profiling and other policies that have prevented the building of generational wealth. But one issue area that we are continuing to fight to shed light on, is the issue of Black health equity, particularly in states like Colorado where disparities persist but are seldom acknowledged.

As a Black nurse practitioner and a member of the Colorado Black Nurses, I know wholeheartedly the devastating impact of maternal and infant mortality related to diabetes, pre-eclampsia and more.

When we delve into the data, stark disparities in health outcomes among Black Coloradans become glaringly apparent. For example, the rising rates of maternal mortality for Black mothers in Colorado and the nation should be viewed as a crisis. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reports that Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. This startling disparity highlights systemic issues within the healthcare system, including biases in medical treatment, lack of culturally competent care, and unequal access to prenatal and postnatal services.

Another glaring health equity issue is the prevalence of diabetes. According to the Colorado Health Institute, Black Coloradans are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with diabetes compared to their white counterparts. This alarming statistic reflects systemic inequities such as limited access to quality healthcare, healthy food options and education, and opportunities for physical activity and recreation in predominantly Black neighborhoods.

The overall mortality rate among Black Coloradans is significantly higher than that of their white counterparts. The Colorado Health Access Survey reveals that Black residents have a mortality rate that is 30% higher than that of white residents. This staggering gap underscores the urgent need for targeted interventions to address the root causes of health inequities plaguing the Black community in Colorado. To truly honor the spirit of Black History Month, we must confront these disparities head-on and commit to tangible actions that promote Black health equity. At the state level, there are several steps that lawmakers can take to address

these inequities and create a more just and equitable healthcare system.

Colorado must invest in expanding access to affordable healthcare coverage for all residents, particularly those in underserved communities. This includes strengthening Medicaid expansion efforts, increasing funding for community health centers, and implementing policies that address the social determinants of health, such as housing insecurity and food insecurity. For example, Colorado is one of the few remaining states that doesn’t hasn’t provided comprehensive coverage for Continuous Glucose Monitors, the nationally recognized standard of care, for Medicaid patients with diabetes.

This life saving device is covered for patients on Medicare or with private insurance, creating stark inequities for low-income patients, BIPOC communities with higher rates of diabetes, and for mothers on Medicaid with gestational diabetes. Other states from Kentucky to California have expanded access to this base-level of management care for diabetes patients, and Colorado should do the same.

Healthcare providers must undergo anti-bias training to recognize and address implicit biases that contribute to disparities in care. Culturally competent care must become the standard across all healthcare settings to ensure that Black patients receive the quality treatment they deserve. We also should engage in investments in programs that specifically target the health needs of the Black community, such as diabetes prevention and management initiatives, maternal health support services, and mental health resources tailored to the unique experiences of Black Coloradans.

Lastly, policymakers must actively involve Black community leaders and organizations in the decision-making process to ensure that solutions are informed by the lived experiences and expertise of those most affected by health disparities. As we commemorate Black History Month, let us not only celebrate the achievements of Black Americans but also recommit ourselves to the ongoing fight for Black health equity. By taking decisive action at the state level, we can begin to dismantle the systemic barriers that perpetuate health disparities and create a brighter, healthier future for all Coloradans.

Maisha Fields is an award-winning nurse practitioner, political organizer, and change agent dedicated to changing the way society responds to some of the most serious, expensive, and widespread public health crises of our time.

AURORA LAWMAKERS GIVE 1ST OK TO EXPANDING MANDATORY JAIL FOR SHOPLIFTING, ‘DINE-AND-DASH’ CRIMES

BY MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

Aurora lawmakers cast the first

of two planned votes Feb. 26 on proposals to introduce mandatory minimum jail sentences for “dine-and-dash” crimes as well as tougher penalties for shoplifters.

The Aurora City Council’s conservative majority voted in favor of the changes, which come as the city reports an increase in retail theft, even as rates of other crimes have fallen.

“This is our opportunity to crack down on it, to make sure that we don’t lose businesses and that we don’t lose businesses potentially coming here,” Councilmember Dustin Zvonek. “That’s the cost that we can’t measure.”

Diners who skip out on their bill at Aurora restaurants and defraud an establishment for $15 or more would be jailed for at least three days under the proposal from council members Danielle Jurinsky and Steve Sundberg. Both city lawmakers own restaurant-bar establishments in Aurora.

Jurinsky is also sponsoring the shoplifting ordinance that would lower the threshold for convicted shoplifters to serve at least three days in jail from stealing more than $300 worth of merchandise to more than $100. Repeat offenders would serve at least three months in jail upon their second conviction for retail theft and at least six months for subsequent convictions.

Progressives pushed Pete Schulte of the Aurora City

Attorney’s Office for data illustrating the efficacy or ineffectiveness of mandatory minimum sentences. Schulte referred to a Department of Justice report that examined how jail sentences had lowered rates of property crimes and said he wasn’t aware of any contradictory reports but that he could look into it.

“I guess I would have assumed there was that as part of preparation for this conversation,” Councilmember Crystal Murillo said.

People who planned to speak on a resolution terminating the city’s request for bids from law firms to replace the Aurora Public Defender’s Office also took the opportunity to criticize the philosophy behind mandatory minimums, with deputy state public defender Travis Weiner saying research generally shows that getting caught has more of a deterrent effect than the length of incarceration.

“The average person arrested for a crime, in fact almost everybody arrested for a crime, has no idea what the sentencing range is. Ipso facto, it doesn’t deter,” he said.

Supporters were not swayed, describing mandatory minimums as a common-sense solution to the problem of theft.

“You know you shouldn’t steal. If you steal, there is a consequence. And when people throw off consequences, when they throw off restraint, then we have anarchy,” Councilmember Stephanie Hancock said. “One of the things that I’ve heard every day as I was walking and knocking on doors of people (was that) they’re tired of seeing theft.”

The council voted 7-3 to approve the sentencing changes, with Alison Coombs, Ruben Medina and Murillo voting “no.” Because the items are ordinances, a majority of the council must vote in favor again March 11 to pass them into law.

ABO VE: Aurora Municipal Jail.

BELOW: A variety of handcuffs and shackles are stored at the Aurora Municipal Jail. Aurora Sentinel File Photos

AROUND AURORA

Speakers chide Aurora council after ceasefire, public defender resolutions pushed off agenda

Members of the public spent more than an hour Feb. 26 hammering Aurora City Council members for their positions on international conflict and criminal justice, sticking around to speak even after the scheduled votes that brought them to city hall were called off.

The agenda was a grab bag of contentious policy proposals — from declaring the council’s support for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, to terminating an effort to privatize the Aurora Public Defender’s Officer, to taking a stand against the busing of migrants and homeless people into the city, to introducing new mandatory minimum jail sentences for crimes.

Objections offered by citizens who approached the dais Monday were similarly diverse. However, most attendees were hostile toward the positions taken by the council’s conservative majority, and many accused the council of trying to undermine their ability to speak.

“Some of you are almost proud of how undemocratic you are making this,” deputy state public defender Travis Weiner told the council. “You enjoy it, especially ending debate on matters that cut to the heart of Constitutional freedoms.”

The two resolutions brought by progressive Councilmember Alison Coombs included halting the process of asking law firms to bid on replacing the public defender and calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War.

The latter was pulled at Coombs’ request, after she said the Palestinian community members who asked her to sponsor the ceasefire resolution decided they wanted to work on it more.

This explanation didn’t stop some of the ceasefire proponents who spoke Monday from denouncing Coombs along with the rest of the council, which previously voted to endorse a statement condemning the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas while remaining silent on

the deaths of Palestinian civilians, drawing a similarly large and unhappy crowd.

“Why don’t you care about the quality of life, dignified housing and economic justice of Palestinians?,” one woman asked Coombs. “Palestinians are not disposable. Palestinians are human beings with lives and dreams.”

Coombs publicly broke the news that the ceasefire resolution wouldn’t be voted on Monday immediately before the open public comment period near the start of the meeting, when members of the public are allowed to address the council regarding topics that are not on the council’s agenda. Speakers are allowed three minutes per person and no more than one hour collectively.

Coombs’ other resolution was taken off the agenda after the city council heard about 40 minutes of pointed comments from speakers in favor of the city demanding Israel and Hamas lay down arms.

“I ask you, why it is acceptable in your eyes for this to continue with seemingly no end in sight,” said Bee Haddad, a Jewish Syrian-American living in Denver. “We are responsible for each other. We do not have a right to kill each other. We do not have a right to allow genocide to continue, and we do not have a right to sit by silently.”

Ceasefire advocates also yelled “shame” and “you support genocide” at conservative Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky when she tried to explain that her upcoming volunteer trip to Israel was not paid for by the city and would not include fighting alongside Israel Defense Force soldiers.

Shortly after, Councilmember Curtis Gardner made a motion to pull Coombs’ resolution that would end the council’s solicitation of bids for replacing the Public Defender’s Office. Gardner also moved to restrict the duration of public comment on the remaining agenda items to just 30 minutes per item. By default, the comment periods associated with agenda items are unlimited.

Since the open public comment period had ended, the motion effectively denied the swath of the crowd that showed up to speak in support of the Aurora Public Defender’s Office the opportunity to comment

at all.

Before the council could vote on Gardner’s motion, a large group of pro-ceasefire demonstrators stood up and began chanting “ceasefire now” at the council, until Mayor Mike Coffman recessed the meeting, at which point the demonstrators chanted “we’ll be back” at the council.

When the meeting started again about 13 minutes later, the motion to accept the agenda with Coombs’ resolution pulled and public comment restricted passed 7-4, with Coffman and progressives Coombs, Ruben Medina and Crystal Murillo opposed.

Gardner subsequently said the question of whether the council should stay the course with its RFP for replacing the office had been “debated to death.”

He also warned Coombs and the employees of the office who were promoting the resolution that they were “doing themselves a significant disservice.”

“To me, we’re just chipping away at the public’s ability to have input in our city government,” Councilmember Crystal Murillo said. “And I just keep seeing this trend. We’ve ‘called for the question.’ We’ve shut down debate. When does it stop?”

While many of the people who stood up at one point during the meeting to show their support for the office left after the removal of Coombs’ resolution from the agenda, some remained and used the public comment periods associated with proposals by Jurinsky to step up mandatory minimum jail sentences to challenge the council’s decision.

“Instead of celebrating the fact that Aurora hosts such an incredible team dedicated to making sure justice is administered fairly, you’ve chosen to sell your constituents’ futures, leaving them to just hope for the best,” said Adam Lior-Coll, a law student at the University of Colorado.

“Anyone can plainly see that you are unhappy with what is happening in the courtrooms, and you are retaliating by selling Coloradans’ Sixth Amendment rights to the lowest bidder.”

Public Defender’s Office are only appointed in cases where an indigent defendant could face jail time.

Cadiz also said “most believe” that the RFP process is revenge for the testimony of the previous chief public defender, Doug Wilson, who expressed skepticism about previous mandatory minimum sentencing legislation that was ultimately passed by the council.

The sponsor of the process, Councilmember Dustin Zvonek, did not reply to Cadiz’ comments, though he previously said in response to the same allegation from ex-city lawmaker Juan Marcano that he was not trying to retaliate against the office.

The ACLU of Colorado last week urged its followers on social media to “pack Aurora City Hall” in support of the resolution to terminate the RFP. Hundreds of people ultimately showed up to express their opposition to and support for legislation Monday night.

Coombs said the ceasefire resolution would come back at a future meeting, while no plans were made regarding the resolution related to the Public Defender’s Office.

— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Colorado Staff Writer

Aurora approves resolution pushing back against migrants coming from Denver

Amid sometimes stinging public criticism from community members and local organizations, the Feb. 26 Aurora City Council approved a resolution that symbolically prevents an influx of migrants from coming into the city from Denver.

The resolution approved by a 7-3 vote was scaled back from an earlier version made public last week, which drew a sharp rebuke from activists from homeless and immigrant communities.

children from immigrants attending schools.

Proponents of the Aurora resolution say they did not want Aurora to be forced to cut city services, such as recreational centers, because the city has to re-allocate money to support migrants.

“We owe it to the residents to make sure that we have adequate services,” Lawson said. “We’re already stressed as it is.”

Ryan Luby, spokesperson for the city, previously told The Sentinel that Aurora “is not structured or funded to provide health and human services to the community. Those services are provided by each of the counties in which Aurora is located.”

Luby also said that there are no “city-owned shelter spaces or related infrastructure for migrants in Aurora…The city is not aware of other shelters for migrants in Aurora, nor is it providing funding to them.” However, the city does financially support two homeless organizations: Comitis receives $482,000 and Aurora Day Resource Center receives $200,000.

The resolution elicited strong criticism from the public Monday.

Representatives from the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, Nadya Benitez, Dylan Mori and Q Phan, spoke against the resolution.

“[Aurora] is a city of immigrants. We love the cultures. We love the food. We love the multitude of languages that are spoken,” Mori said, mocking city lawmakers behind the measure. “If you have so much love for the culture, where is the love for the people?”

Julian Camera, community organizer with American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, said the resolution “is concerning both morally and legally.”

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Among the critics was Aurora’s Chief Public Defender, Elizabeth Cadiz, who questioned the lack of statistics supporting the imposition of a three-day minimum jail sentence for people convicted of “dining and dashing,” defrauding a restaurant of $15 or more.

“You’re going to pay to put people in the county jail (and) transport them to the county jail for three days, for $15 or more on a dineand-dash, which nobody has any statistics to establish even happens frequently in the city,” Cadiz said. “It continues to be fiscally irresponsible for you to add more offenses that will have mandatory minimums,” Cadiz said.

She said imposing the mandatory minimums would also impact the accuracy of the document used to solicit bids for replacing her office, which included estimates of the number of cases that the office’s replacement would be expected to handle. Lawyers from the Aurora

The approved measure states that while “Aurora is proud of its identity as the most diverse and global city in the state,” the city cannot finance an influx of migrants and homeless people that are being “systematically” transported into the city.

City Council members Francoise Bergan, Curtis Gardner, Stephanie Hancock, Danielle Jurinsky, Angela Lawson, Steve Sundberg and Dustin Zvonek voted for the resolution. Council members Alison Coombs, Ruben Medina and Crystal Murillo voted against it. Jurinsky, Lawson and Bergan all said that they were prompted to support the measure after news that Denver was having to scale back city services after spending millions on caring for a wave of immigrants over the past year. Some Denver estimates say upwards of 40,000 immigrants have come to Denver since last January. Many were bused here from Texas by officials there, Denver officials have said.

City officials have not reported how many of the recent immigrants are now living in Aurora. Local school districts, however, have reported at least a few thousand

Others accused the city council of having racial biases. Only two community members spoke in favor of the resolution, with one man stating that the city cannot financially feed everyone.

Critics on the dais and in the audience accused council proponents of tokenizing the immigrant community while making arguments for the resolution.

Coombs said that the language in the resolution was reminiscent of Trump-era anti-immigration language, and that people can “say all they want about this resolution not being harmful to immigrants, but immigrants are telling you that you’re wrong.”

Jurinsky refuted Coombs’ claims, saying that upset immigrants spoke with her about their frustrations of living in the U.S. and wanting the wave of primarily Venezuelan immigrants to return to their home countries.

Sundberg acknowledged that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants and spoke about his wife, who immigrated from Rwanda.

Medina said that nonprofit organizations asked him if they needed to move their operations out of the city.

Medina also reiterated that this is a federal issue.

“These things don’t always need to be pushed forward because we weren’t doing anything to begin with,” he said. “We should be…helping these communities so that we can get the resources we need so we’re not relying on city resources.

Council proponents and opponents stipulated that the resolution has no enforceable provisions.

— Kristin Oh, Sentinel Colorado

Former Aurora police officer appeals homicide conviction in Elijah McClain death

A former Colorado police officer is appealing his conviction by a jury for his role in the death of Eljiah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being stopped by police in a Denver suburb in 2019.

Lawyers for Randy Roedema filed a notice of appeal with the state appeals court Feb. 21.

A jury convicted Roedema last October of criminally negligent homicide, which is a felony, and misdemeanor third-degree assault. He was sentenced to 14 months in jail at a hearing last month in which McClain’s mother called him a “bully with a badge.”

McClain’s death received little attention in 2019 but gained renewed interest the following year as mass protests swept the nation over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. It became a rallying cry for critics of racial injustice in policing.

McClain was stopped by police in Aurora as he walked home from a store while listening to music. At the time, he was wearing a face mask and a 911 caller reported he looked suspicious. Within seconds, another officer put his hands on McClain, beginning a struggle that lasted about 20 minutes before McClain was restrained and paramedics injected him with the powerful sedative ketamine.

The coroner’s office initially could not determine how McClain died, leading the local prosecutor to decide against bringing any criminal charges. But it updated the autopsy report in 2021, finding that McClain died of an overdose of ketamine after being forcibly restrained by police.

Roedema, who was fired from the Aurora Police Department after his conviction, was the only one of three police officers indicted in McClain’s death to be found guilty. The two others were acquitted. Two paramedics were convicted in December in the third trial and final trial of first responders in McClain’s death.

Roedema was tried with another officer, Jason Rosenblatt, and Roedema’s lawyers said the decision to join their trials together was

among a list of issues they would be challenging. Another was whether his indictment should have been dismissed because of alleged errors in the instructions given to grand jurors. Other issues could still be raised when Roedema files an opening brief in the appeal, they said.

The state attorney general’s office, which prosecuted the case, had no comment on the appeal, spokesperson Lawrence Pacheco said.

— Colleen Slevin, Associated Press

Two brush fires encroach on northeast Aurora petroleum plant

Two brush fires in northeast Aurora in the evening of Feb. 25 near the Anadarko Petroleum plant burned through 10 acres in the dry wind but caused no injuries or damage to structures.

Both of the fires, near Powhatan Road and Interstate 70, were brought under control after about two hours, according to Aurora Fire and Rescue officials.

The two fires were west and east of the Anadarko plant.

“At times the fire exceeded six feet in height,” fire officials said in a statement. “Rail lines were stopped to prevent any interruption for during emergency operations.”

Fire officials across the region had called personnel in today in advance of the fire after weather officials issued a Red Flag Warning for the region.

“Access to water supplies were a challenge, and the dry climate and wind presented a threat,” officials said.

Fire officials did not say whether the blazes could have threatened the petroleum plant.

— Sentinel staff

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION

State currently can’t help schools in Aurora, across the state with influx of migrant students

Some of Colorado’s most diverse school districts, including Aurora and Greeley, are used to waves of immigration bringing in new students in the middle of the year.

Recently, families from Burma have moved into Greeley, and Aurora officials recall hundreds of new students from Afghanistan after U.S. troops pulled out.

But this year, the midyear wave is even bigger, with most students arriving from Venezuela and other South American countries. And it is overwhelming some district systems.

“We’re running at 300% our normal typical average for the school year,” said Brett Johnson, chief financial officer for Aurora Public Schools, referring to the number of midyear enrollments, which are up from the typical 500 to 800 in a year.

Schools need everything from new desks and more classroom space, to more teachers, bilingual

staff, and specialized teachers who can administer screening tests to determine students’ levels of English proficiency and help them learn English.

But many of the new students from South America arrived after the Oct. 1 cutoff that determines how much per-student state funding each district will get. And although government officials refer to this new group of immigrants as “migrants,” the students do not qualify for money from the federal Migrant Education Program.

The Migrant Education Program began in 1966 and was designed to support the children of farmworker families. To qualify for the program, students must have parents who

work in agriculture, or work in the field themselves, usually in temporary or seasonal positions, and must have moved between school districts within the last three years.

Some of the children might belong to families who travel around the country following the seasonal availability of farm work. They aren’t necessarily new to the country, and many already are fluent in English. Immigration status doesn’t matter, just as it doesn’t for the students who arrived this semester. By law, all children can access free public education.

In Colorado, there were about 4,500 agricultural migrant children aged 1 through 21 this year — fewer than the thousands of new students

from South America. The $7.5 million federal allocation for the state helps younger children succeed in school and focuses on keeping teens and young adults up to age 22 in school instead of dropping out to work full time.

Advocates from the program travel to farms or worksites to enroll children in the program and convince older students up to age 22 to stay in school. The program works with families, visiting their homes, supporting their mental health, and figuring out what other barriers might exist for the students to learn. The funding also pays for school supplies, tutoring, and summer pro-

gramming.

“A lot of our families have needs that are pretty basic, if we just try to push education on them they’re not ready a lot of times,” said Tomás Mejia, Colorado’s director for the Migrant Education Program. “If we help them be well enough, help the parents and adults be well enough to help the kids, that can really help a lot more.”

The new South American students also need the same types of support. For both groups of students, educators say there’s a need to build trust and provide help that goes beyond the classroom.

“There’s definitely unique needs,” Lemos said. “They’re new to the country. All of them have needs as far as language acquisition.”

“A lot of these students are coming to us with severe trauma,” said Theresa Myers, a spokesperson for the Greeley district. “Some of the families from Venezuela, they’ve been trying to travel for months. Our impact on our mental health services is real.”

Right now, the district has a mental health counselor at every school. But 35 counselor and social worker positions in the district were funded by ESSER dollars that won’t be available after September. Now the district is trying to figure out how to keep the much-needed positions.

Although Colorado gives school districts extra money to assist students who are learning English, most school districts say they have to use money from their general fund to cover the services they provide because that specific money isn’t enough.

And since so many of these

students arrived after October 1, the districts didn’t get the money for them this year. (If students are still enrolled next fall, the districts will get money then.) In the meantime, school districts are having to hire new staff including paraprofessionals to help teachers with larger-than-normal class sizes. In Aurora, “We have several instances in which elementary schools came back from Christmas break with almost 100 more kids than before,” Johnson said.

Legislators in Colorado are drafting a $24 million proposal to give districts some funding for these midyear enrollees. It won’t be the total funding that districts usually get per student, but it might help.

State lawmakers haven’t filed the proposal, but there are promising signs it’ll pass once they do. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has said he supports sending extra funding to districts enrolling new students, and the proposal is coming from lawmakers on the powerful Joint Budget Committee, which plays a major role in how the state spends its money.

Johnson said that Aurora isn’t waiting to see that money transferred before hiring needed positions or addressing needs. He hopes the state will reimburse some of the expenses if the money does come.

While leaders say they aren’t cutting budgets or making adjustments, they are starting to think ahead. Maybe that will mean having roaming teams that can go to the schools most impacted on a short term basis to deal with the work of helping students new to the country.

“The hard part is no one knows how long this phenomenon will last,” Johnson said. “We are trying to start putting in some thought in

the long-term, if there’s a better system.”

For now, schools are helping new students from South America adapt.

“When a new student enrolls who is new to the country it’s also a matter of the daily school routines — it’s also teaching them the routines of a typical school day,” Johnson said.

That can take up a lot of time for school staff. But not all schools are receiving high numbers of new students. Schools near shelters, apartments or housing where agencies have helped migrants get settled are enrolling more students.

Educators say they aren’t currently thinking about transferring students to different schools to avoid overcrowded classrooms, but Greeley leaders say they have changed enrollment boundaries when schools were getting too full in previous situations. They might consider it if the enrollment boom continues.

School educators say, still, they want kids in school, they understand that children must learn and the faster they can connect them to educators, the better.

—YESENIA ROBLES

Chalkbeat Colorado

COPS AND COURTS

Police seek driver accused of killing pedestrian while fleeing Aurora officers

The Aurora Police Department is looking for a driver accused of killing a pedestrian after fleeing from a traffic stop early Feb, 23.

An APD officer stopped and pulled over a 2008 Hyundai sedan with no license plates at approximately 5 a.m. near the intersection of East Colfax Avenue and Ironton Street, police reported.

The driver initially yielded, and an officer approached the vehicle on foot. However, when the office reached the driver’s door, the driver sped away and traveled west on Colfax, police said..

The driver drove through a red light at Colfax and Havana Street, crashing into a person that was walking in the crosswalk. The driver then continued speeding west on Colfax, according to a press statement.

The identity of the pedestrian will be released later by coroner officials.

Witnesses contacted police about a dark sedan with front-end damage near Colfax and Boston Street. Officers found the unoccupied vehicle and contacted a man in the area, who confirmed that he was a passenger in the vehicle.

APD continues to search for the driver, according to the press statement. Anyone with information is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720.913.STOP (7867).

This is the city’s sixth traffic-related death this year, according to police officials.

— Kristin Oh, Sentinel Colorado

Suspected intoxicated driver runs red light, kills woman in central Aurora

A man suspected of DUI and running a red light crashed into an-

other car Feb. 18, ejecting and killing the other driver’s passenger, Aurora police say.

Police responded to the crash at the intersection of East Alameda Avenue and South Potomac Street at about 8:40 p.m., according to an Aurora Police Department news release.

Investigators determined that the Infiniti sedan driven by Damian Sanchez-Balderas, 19, of Denver ran a red light while traveling east on Alameda and collided with a Ford Focus that was making a protected left turn south onto Potomac.

The male driver of the Ford was uninjured, but his female passenger was thrown from the car and died at the scene. Sanchez-Balderas lost control of his vehicle after the crash and struck a signal pole at the southeast corner of the intersection.

Police said the victim will be identified by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office. The woman is the fifth person to die in a traffic collision in Aurora this year.

Sanchez-Balderas was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries and faces charges of vehicular homicide, DUI, reckless driving and driving with a revoked license as a habitual traffic offender.

Police reports “said that he refused a breath test,” according to Aurora police spokesman Matthew Longshore, but blood was drawn for a blood-alcohol level assessment.

“Those results won’t be known for some time,” Longshore said.

Members of the public who witnessed the crash or have relevant information and have yet to speak to investigators are encouraged to contact law enforcement at 720913-7867.

— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Colorado Staff Writer

‘They’re ready to step forward’

Aurora police report largest academy group

in years

BY MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

Backup is on the way for the cops of the Aurora Police Department, who for years have been stretched thin as the city’s sworn police force has dwindled.

As of Tuesday, 63 recruits were making their way through academy training as part of three classes — the largest group of students that APD instructors have gotten to work with at one time since at least 2020.

“It’s a big morale boost for the rest of the agency,” said Lt. Justin Shipley, who directs the police academy located at the City of Aurora Public Safety Training Center. “Every time I’m outside of this building, the first thing people ask me is, ‘How many people do we have in the academy?’”

The news comes about three and a half years after nationwide protests that coincided with a spike in public suspicion toward law enforcement as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, which upended the country’s job market.

Since then, the coronavirus has mostly faded into the background, and the wooden boards have been pulled down that protected the windows of the Aurora Municipal Center from being smashed by rioters long after the officer-involved killings of George Floyd and Elijah McClain.

Interim police chief Heather Morris said she thinks APD has built bridges between residents of color and officers since 2022, when the department began operating under its consent decree reform agreement with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office.

The company hired to monitor the implementation of the agreement commissioned a survey of residents in 2022 — at the time, just 34% of all survey-takers, including 26% of Black respondents, said the police department was doing a good or excellent job.

“I think that has changed, and a lot of that is going to be due to our training,” Morris said,

mentioning the various types of education mandated by the consent decree, which is meant to improve the outcomes of encounters between officers and residents of color.

“Overwhelmingly, the community supports our officers,” she said. “Sometimes that might not be the perception.”

As part of the reform agreement, Aurora has also overhauled its recruitment and hiring processes, which Morris said has made it easier to welcome qualified candidates into the department.

Aurora first reported a boom in new recruits in September, when more than 30 prospective officers entered the academy as Class 2023-3B, bringing the total number of recruits undergoing academy training to 46 compared to 12 the month prior.

The current roster of 63 includes two classes of new recruits as well as a class of recruits with prior law enforcement experience. The September class is scheduled to graduate in March.

Law enforcement agencies across the country have continued to lose officers faster than they can hire and train recruits, with the Police Executive Research Forum reporting last year that police forces surveyed by the organization shrank by about 5% since 2020. Aurora’s sworn force shrank by 7% during that time.

Even though regional and national police recruitment statistics since September are scarce, Morris said the department’s hard work to turn its staffing shortage around is bearing fruit in its academy.

“Our recruiters really do an amazing job,” she said. “But I really believe that recruiting is every officer’s job. A lot of the recruits that come through are actually from our own officers who are not in recruiting, who are out there encouraging people and talking to people about becoming police officers.”

In the thick of too-thin ranks

Officers who have stuck with the Aurora Police Department through recent years have had to pick up the work left by an exodus of fellow cops retiring and resigning.

The department began seeing an unchecked outflow of officers after the size of its sworn police force peaked in fall 2020, with 777 officers employed as of Sept. 15, including fully-trained officers as well as those undergoing field and academy training.

By August 2023, just 666 sworn officers were employed by APD, representing the city’s smallest police force since fall 2014, when Aurora was home to about 44,000 fewer people. Of those 666 officers, 591 were active and trained, meaning one in every five sworn positions was either vacant or filled by an officer in training or on leave.

As numbers dwindled last year, police and city officials said the shortage was forcing the remaining officers to rack up overtime and skip earned vacation days. The amount of overtime worked by officers climbed from 61,223 hours in 2019 to 83,323 hours in 2023, according to police and the city.

Officials warned last year that a combination of burnout and frustration over a flurry of scandals involving APD were dragging down morale within the department.

“The men and the women are so beat up, and they’re just so tired,” Marc Sears, the president of Aurora’s Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 49, said last

spring. “We don’t have the numbers right now, and it’s very, very obvious.”

Meanwhile, the department’s top cops said Aurora was going out of its way to entice as many qualified candidates as possible to apply for jobs, keep in regular touch with applicants and streamline APD’s monthslong hiring process in a manner consistent with the consent decree.

The responsibility for conducting background investigations has been transferred away from the Aurora Civil Service Commission, which Morris said has expedited the screening process, and the police department now plays a greater role in screening applicants alongside the commission and the city’s Human Resources Department.

The commission also voted to eliminate some of the caveats that previously required the city to reject applications for aspiring cops and firefighters. Those automatic disqualifiers included applicants forgetting to fill out any part of the application as well as past convictions for certain crimes and evidence of dishonesty that emerged during the vetting process.

Also in 2023, the department doubled down on its efforts to encourage women and people of color to consider careers in policing.

APD announced its participation in the 30x30 Initiative, a pledge to increase the proportion of women in recruit classes to 30% by 2030, which the department is striving to achieve through informational academies geared toward women, partnering with organizations serving women and highlighting Aurora’s female officers in

marketing and promotional materials.

The department also worked to expand its presence throughout the community by sending members to take part in town halls, community events, veteran outreach and military transition programs, and outreach work done by churches and nonprofits.

IntegrAssure, which the city hired in 2022 to monitor the implementation of the consent decree, identified these efforts and APD’s work to spark interest in law enforcement careers at local high schools and community colleges as ways in which the agency was trying to reach a more diverse cross-section of the community, in part to help with recruitment.

The decree itself envisions Aurora’s police becoming more representative of the community in terms of gender and race — in its 2021 investigative report preceding the decree, the AG’s office wrote that “communities are more likely to trust police departments with cultural awareness, language skills, and similar backgrounds to the members of the community that they serve.”

The recruits making their way through the academy today are more diverse in terms of race and gender than the police force as a whole, though new officers are still more likely to be white and male than the average Aurora resident.

About 48% of recruits in the three classes are white, while 35% are Hispanic, 11% are Black, 3% are Asian, 1% are Native American, and 0.1% are Native Hawaiian or other Pacif-

Heather Morris, interim chief of the Aurora Police Department, talks about the significance of police academy numbers starting to rebound after four years of staffing woes during an interview Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. “We’re recruiting from our neighborhoods,” Morris said. “We’re going to get to the point where the department looks like the community.”

Photo by MAX LEVY/Sentinel Colorado

ic Islanders. In terms of gender, 13% of those recruits are women.

By comparison, Aurora’s sworn officers are about 72% white, 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Native American and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders, while 5% identify as two or more races and the race of 9% of employees is unknown. About 11% of all officers are female.

As for Aurora as a whole, about 43% of residents are white, 30% are Hispanic, 16% are Black, 6% are Asian, 0.4% are Native American, 0.3% are Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders and 0.4% are some other race, with 5% identifying as two or more races. according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Morris said she is confident the department’s changes to hiring and recruitment will continue to push Aurora’s police force in the direction of being more representative of the residents it serves.

“We’re recruiting from our neighborhoods,” Morris said. “We’re going to get to the point where the department looks like the community. I think that’s really important.”

She also expressed excitement about the cadet program being developed in conjunction with the Community College of Aurora and lauded the seminars launched by the department that give interested candidates the chance to learn more about the agency as well as try their mettle at the department’s physical fitness and agility test.

APD still has a long way to go to rebuild its numbers — in mid-January, the department’s sworn force included 684 officers, just 583 of whom were active and fully trained. A total of 748 sworn police positions have been budgeted for by the city.

However, from Morris’ perspective, the department’s investment in recruiting is already paying off. While the size of the upcoming June academy cohort is still being determined, Morris said the department could welcome as many as 60 new recruits in the class.

“And we’ll do whatever we need to do in terms of staffing the academy so we can accommodate and get everybody trained, even if it means I have to go down there and do some training,” she said.

It’s hard to say how much of the boom in Aurora’s academy attendance is due to each of the changes made by the city versus public trust in APD and police in general beginning to rebound. The city and APD inherited the hiring process from the Civil Service Commission while candidates were being hired for the September 2023 academy class.

In its October report on APD’s implementation of the consent decree, IntegrAssure said the 31-member class represented a “monumental shift” in class size from June, when just nine people entered the academy.

“The monitor will be conducting a deep-dive assessment to fully understand the contributing factors to the success, and how to best ensure the success is replicated for each incoming class,” the report promised.

IntegrAssure also said it had found that “a majority of the applicants leave the hiring process due to lack of engagement and follow up from the city” — city spokesman Matthew Brown said the redesigned hiring process allows Aurora to extend preliminary job offers to candidates in a matter of weeks instead of several months, and Morris said the department has tried to combine steps in

the process to avoid inconveniencing applicants.

At the time that the Civil Service Commission voted to do away with the rules automatically disqualifying candidates for lying or being convicted of a recent DUI, reckless driving charge or other crimes, some community members questioned whether the change could lead to a greater number of unsuitable candidates making it through the hiring process.

Morris said that, in practice, the department will not extend a job offer to someone who lies on their application or has otherwise demonstrated untruthfulness. She said the elimination of the automatic disqualifiers was meant to give the city’s hiring panel the latitude to look past isolated incidents that happened in a candidate’s past.

“We look at the whole person,” she said. “It hurts everybody when you bring people in just to fill a seat. I’d rather have an empty classroom than put people in the seats that really shouldn’t be there.”

The chief said she was not aware of the department tracking the number of recruits who would have been disqualified under the old rules.

Lindsay Minter, a local reform activist who previously expressed concerns about opening the door for candidates with a history of integrity problems to become police officers, said she was still alarmed by some of the officers recently hired to work at APD, like the officer who previously threatened to sic a police dog on Elijah McClain and was reinstated last year.

However, she said the mere fact that Aurora is welcoming more recruits did not give her pause, even though she continues to worry about the city’s ability to weed out troubled candidates.

Qusair Mohamedbhai, an attorney for the family of Elijah McClain, said he was heartened by the progress Aurora has made toward welcoming people of color into the department.

“We should be promoting our youth from all cultures and national origins to be considering careers in law enforcement,” he said. “To the extent that these changes have increased the number of cadets in the academy, I think that’s something to be commended by the community.”

Regarding the removal of automatic disqualifiers, Mohamedbhai brought up how some Aurora police officers had no criminal history before becoming involved in criminal misconduct and said he supported the department’s ability to look past crimes in a candidate’s past to holistically evaluate their fitness for police work.

“One of the main things we should be considering as a community is, what does it actually take to be a successful police officer? Many of us have our ideas, and we have a certain look or a certain background that we jump to,” he said.

“I don’t spare the lash with Aurora, but you have to be an honest broker about things, and there is an absolute need to have more police officers as Aurora grows in size, and this seems like a step in the right direction.”

Help is on the way

Shipley said the influx of recruits has generated a buzz throughout the department and provided a welcome change for instructors, who feel like they’re able to leverage their experience to help more young police officers.

“The fun of this assignment is the recruits in the academy are just so happy

to be here, and they’re soaking up knowledge,” Shipley said.

“Whether I do an academy of two or I do an academy of 30, it’s the same effort. We have to do the same syllabus. We have to do the same scheduling. We have to reserve the spaces the same. And the staff enjoys it, because we get that many more people through the process.”

Learning the ropes of law enforcement as part of a larger class also teaches recruits how to work with different types of people and helps instructors instill the ethos that members of Aurora’s police force depend on one another for success, Shipley said.

“We try to really impress upon them that the police department is a family,” he said.

Training has evolved since Shipley’s graduation from the Aurora academy two decades ago, placing more of an emphasis on scenario-based training designed to bridge the gap between learning in a classroom and learning on the job.

Last week, recruits in Class 20233B ran through a series of simulated responses to calls that tested their decision-making and ability to prioritize different types of calls under pressure. Other cops, including field training officers, played the roles of bystanders, assailants and people in crisis.

During one scenario, recruits were expected to de-escalate a man aiming a firearm at his own head. In another scenario, which Shipley said was designed to incorporate much of the training up to that point, recruits were called out to simulated suspicious person calls and then received a call about an individual fighting an officer, which they were expected to leave to help with immediately.

After driving to the location of the fight, some of the recruits subdued the attacker, using a restraint device to immobilize his body, while other recruits kept an eye on officers posing as bystanders, who tried to inch closer as they shouted at and filmed the recruits.

The students then debriefed with one of the department’s field training sergeants, Mike Tilton, who encouraged students to use their judgment when responding to a low-priority call if they heard an urgent situation unfolding over their radio, such as an officer in distress.

He also stressed the importance of knowing what level of force was appropriate to use in a given situation so recruits wouldn’t feel the need to hesitate

or guess in a real-life encounter.

“If you don’t know where you stand in terms of what you can do, you’re going to dance around it,” Tilton told the recruits.

Besides putting more of an emphasis on scenario-based training, Shipley said the academy has also become the launch pad for training programs for current officers rolled out under the city’s consent decree with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, including education about uses of force and intervening if another officer is observed using excessive force.

Per the consent decree, police recruits are also being trained alongside new firefighters to help them understand the dynamics of working with other first responders at incident scenes. Shipley said there were close to 90 aspiring cops and firefighters training simultaneously at the City of Aurora Public Safety Training Center as of last week.

Shipley said recruits have told instructors that they were drawn by the training opportunities and numerous special units operated by Aurora. And he said at least one student specifically credited her decision to become an Aurora cop to the department’s 30x30 Initiative.

When asked how police recruits understand the reform process that is ongoing in the police department, Shipley said they are eager to take an active role in improving the department.

“When we talk to these recruits that come here, a lot of them tell us, ‘I’m here because I’m excited for the change that’s happening in Aurora, and I want to be part of that,’” Shipley said.

“These recruits that we’re seeing, they’re motivated. They really believe in their heart of hearts that they’re going to make a difference in this society. And they’re ready to step forward and just make it a better place to be.”

Morris said that, while the process of developing policies and trainings to fulfill the consent decree has been a “heavy lift” for senior officers in the department, rank-and-file cops are adapting to the new expectations for police work.

“We’re working with less and less, and so I’ve got to give a shout-out to them,” Morris said, adding that she believes the three latest classes of recruits are already a good fit.

“The biggest, No. 1 thing that I’ve heard from recruits is that they want to help,” she said. “They want to help the community, and they want to help do the work that needs to be done.”

Recruits in the Aurora Police Department’s Class 2023-3B — from left, Alicia Pour, Enrique Miranda and Joseph Pemberton — practice safely subduing a combative suspect — played by APD officer David Maslin — while responding to a simulated call of an officer in distress during a training exercise held at the City of Aurora Public Safety Training Center on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. The class of roughly 30 recruits is scheduled to graduate in March.Photo by MAX LEVY/Sentinel Colorado

Straight to the Great 8

PATH TO THE QUARTERFINALS IS OLD TO SOME AND NEW TO OTHERS IN GROUP OF FIVE AURORA BOYS AND GIRLS TEAMS THAT EARNED TRIPS TO THE COLISEUM

The Denver Coliseum is aging and decaying in many ways, but right now, getting to play there is the goal of any prep hooper.

BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports Editor

Some teams take the trip to the venue — where the Great 8, Final Four and championship rounds of the large school boys and girls state tournaments take place — for granted, some have left unfinished business there, while others go there for the first time and see it with fresh eyes. No matter how it is viewed, playing there means teams still can hold dreams of winning a state championship.

That has happened often in the past for Aurora teams and the odds of the city coming away with one or more championships this time seems strong given the representation. Three boys teams — Vista PEAK Prep in Class 5A along with Eaglecrest and Smoky Hill in 6A — and two girls teams, Cherokee Trail and Regis Jesuit in 6A — earned their way to play there Feb. 29-March 1 in the quarterfinals. A win would get them back a week later for the semifinals (March 7-8) and yet another would put them in the March 9 championships.

Not among the group is the Grandview girls basketball team, winner of the 5A state championship in 2022 and the 2023 crown in the inaugural year of 6A, as the eighth-seeded Wolves were stopped by Centennial League rival and ninth-seeded Mullen in the Sweet 16 (see story, page 14).

Traylor-Statewright, Cougars girls arrive at Coliseum a year later than expected

The Cherokee Trail girls basketball team strongly believed that it would play at the Denver Coliseum last season for at least one game.

The Cougars were rolling and playing like a contender, but they suffered a three-point Sweet 16 loss on their home floor to another area program — Regis Jesuit — on their home floor to leave the goal unrealized for another year.

The motivation from that has spurred Cherokee Trail to new heights this season. The Cougars have won all 21 games they’ve played against Colorado teams (and went 2-2 against out-of-state teams in Phoenix at the Nike Tournament of Champions), earned the top seed in the 6A tournament and moved the program into the Great 8 for the first time with a decisive 54-30 win over No. 16 Highlands Ranch Feb. 23.

“(South Carolina coach) Dawn Staley says, ‘what is delayed is not denied,’ so we knew we were going to get there because this group is special,” head coach Tammi Traylor-Statewright said. “Our goal was to get there last year and even if we would have lost, we would have known what it felt like.

“Now that we’re there, we’ve got to keep it moving.”

Personally, Traylor-Statewright has been waiting for this for a long time. She never made it past the first round in her nine seasons at Gateway (ironically losing twice to Cherokee Trail in four postseason appearances) and had been stopped by the Sweet 16 round in 2020 and last season

in 12 previous playoff trips with the Cougars.

“Last year, I was so bitter, I didn’t even go (to the Coliseum) because I was done with basketball,” she admitted. “Now, for people to come and be able to watch me, is awesome.”

Traylor-Statewright keeps a micro focus on the game right in front of her team, and she can finally turn that towards a game at the Denver Coliseum in the wake of a wire-to-wire win over Highlands Ranch.

It was a cathartic win in another way, in that Cherokee Trail had get past a team coached by venerable Caryn Jarocki, who has earned more than 700 career victories (far and away the most among any girls coach in state history) and guided the Falcons to seven state championships.

Cherokee Trail’s win meant it will be the first time since 2014 that the Great 8 will not include Highlands Ranch. It will now include the Cougars, finally.

“It feels really amazing, but we still have to stay humble,” senior Damara Allen said. “I feel like it’s going to be very nervewracking since we’ve never been in position, but we have to play for each other and stay composed. That’s one thing that has helped us all season long.”

There will be one familiar thing about Cherokee Trail’s first appearance: the opponent. The Cougars will face Mullen (17-8) for a third time. Cherokee Trail has won both previous meetings, taking a 68-40 win in December in the Castle View/ThunderRidge Tip-Off tournament in addition to a 49-38 win in Centennial League play.

The third meeting will come at 4 p.m. Feb. 29.

One advantage Mullen has is a few players held over from a trip to the Denver Coliseum in the 2022 season, which ended in a Class 4A

How sweet it is: Junior Madeline Gibbs, left, and the Cherokee Trail girls basketball team celebrate its Class 6A Sweet 16 win over Highlands Ranch on Feb. 23 that earned the program its first berth in the Great 8. The top-seeded Cougars play No. 9 Mullen Feb. 29 at the Denver Coliseum. Photo by Courtney Oakes/ Aurora Sentinel

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state championship game victory over Windsor, though they have a new coach since then and several new players.

Cherokee Trail certainly knows the level of competition it is in for among the final seven teams. The Cougars own two wins apiece over No. 2 Cherry Creek and No. 9 Mullen and also defeated No. 3 Legend and No. 7 Regis Jesuit.

“It’s really exciting for us,” junior Madeline Gibbs said. “We’re still not done, but it feels good to see our hard work paying off.”

Smoky Hill boys seek to erase disappointment of last season at Coliseum

The Smoky Hill boys basketball team is ready to return to the scene of its greatest recent disappointment and determined to do something about it.

Coach Anthony Hardin’s Buffaloes were the greatest challenger to eventual 6A champion Denver East last season at the Denver Coliseum, as they had a late lead and lost by six points in a Great 8 matchup, while the Angels went on to beat Mountain Vista and Fossil Ridge by an average of 20 points.

While some pieces have changed — namely the graduation of leading scorer Rickey Mitchell and departure of big man Kai McGrew — the Buffaloes have plenty of holdovers who keep the memory of last season as motivation.

“Last year left a nasty taste in our mouth, so we’re going to go in and work twice as hard,” senior Ray Gasaway said after Smoky Hill’s 70-61 overtime win over Regis Jesuit Feb. 24.

“I feel like we’ve been preparing for this moment all year, and now that we’re back, we’re going to make something of it,” he added.

To get there, Smoky Hill had to overcome an Aurora team that had good memories of the Denver Coliseum last season in Regis Jesuit, which advanced to the Final Four and lost by just four points with the title game trip on the line.

In the Sweet 16 matchup betwen local programs in front of an absolutely packed house at Smoky Hill, the Buffaloes built a lead of 12 points with just seven minutes left, only to see the Raiders (boosted by senior Damarius Taylor and sophomore Eric Fiedler) roar all the way back and actually take a lead with 7.1 seconds left.

Junior Damian Dirden was fouled and made a free throw to tie (giving him a team-high 18 points) and once the game went to overtime, the Buffaloes outscored the Raiders 12-6 to win despite finishing the game with Gasaway and sophomore starter Carter Basquez on the bench with fouls.

Junior point guard Lorenzo Contreras fed senior Kevin Sylla with a behind-the-back pass for basket and then went through the legs and banked a pass off the backboard for a slam from Sylla (who finished with 15 points) in the closing minutes as Smoky Hill got to have some fun once the result seemed all but secure.

“A win by one is a win by 100 at this time of year,” Hardin said. “We needed more time to decide who was going to win the game, and we love those moments.”

Next up for Smoky Hill is a matchup with second-seeded Mountain Vista (21-4), which is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Feb. 29.

Vista PEAK Prep boys ride defense to first Great 8

Vista PEAK Prep boys basketball coach Keenon Clement admittedly loves practice way more

than the high stress of games. His Bison — seeded second in the Class 5A state tournament — earned a whole week of practice with their 57-34 Sweet 16 win over No. 15 Discovery Canyon.

That allowed for several days of work ahead of a March 1 meeting with No. 7 Ponderosa (17-9), which will be the first time Vista PEAK Prep (21-4) plays at the Denver Coliseum. Game time is scheduled for 8:30 p.m.

“We had a stretch from Jan. 24 to Feb. 7 where we got to

practice only one time,” Clement said. “We lost two games during that time, so it will be good to have a chance to work on some things. Our kids are pretty good about taking in information, so this means we can give it to them slowly. We’ll try not to overload them and just review.”

Once thing the Bison have taken in well is Clement and his coaching staff’s insistence on playing good defense. Vista PEAK Prep has been particularly tough on opponents in the postseason,

as it allowed 36 points to No. 31 Palisade in the first round and a season-low 34 to Discovery Canyon in the Sweet 16.

Clement has the luxury of depth in being able to bring players such as junior Larry Mosley off the bench for a shot of defensive energy to compliment shot-erasing 6-foot-7 senior Kyree Polk and a slew of guards and frontcourt players who swarm to the basketball.

“Our guys just flat-out guard,” Clement said. “They have really bought into the fact that if we play

defense, it allows us to win games where things don’t go our way offensively.”

The Bison will play in a Denver Coliseum environment that can be difficult to adjust to for teams that rely on outside shooting (due to the different backdrop), but that’s now how they are built. Playing in the paint and slashing to the basket should give Vista PEAK Prep a chance.

Regis Jesuit defeats team led by old coach to reach Great 8

The coach that helped the Regis Jesuit girls basketball program grow into one of the state’s elite coached a team that stood in the way of a trip to another Great 8.

The seventh-seeded Raiders played their way into at least the quarterfinals for the sixth time in the past seven seasons with a hard-fought 69-61 6A Sweet 16 win over No. 23 Denver East — coached by Carl Mattei — Feb. 23.

In her third season at the helm, Jordan Kasemodel believes her team’s composure — partly owing to the presence of four-year varsity players Hana Belibi and Coryn Watts — has gotten her team to the point where a state title is just three wins away.

“Something that has been working for us all season is calmness and composure, slowing down and keep-

ing it simple,” Kasemodel said. “We saw it at the Coliseum last year, their (Monarch) experience against our inexperience. We have that on our side this year. It feels good to have seniors’ leadership and juniors that have been there as well.”

The Raiders will need every bit of savvy they can muster with a daunting task ahead in the form of second-seeded Cherry Creek, which they will play in a 7 p.m. Feb. 29 Great 8 contest.

The Bruins visited Regis Jesuit in early January in non-league play and came away with a 60-56 win.

“Little details mean more against teams like Cherry Creek,” Kasemodel said. “Our screens are going to have to be better, and we’re going to have to play the right angles against a team that plays so physically. It’s a big challenge for sure.”

The Raiders have been often-deadly from 3-point range during the course of the season, but they have worked on earning higher percentage shots, which will be vital given the Coliseum backdrop can create difficulties for shooters.

Kasemodel is just relieved to have a normal tip-off time as opposed to last season, when they faced Monarch at 8:45 a.m.

Role players rise for Eaglecrest to earn Great 8 Eaglecrest boys basketball coach Jarris Krapcha knows almost exactly what he will get from his junior standouts — LaDavian King and Garrett Barger — every time out.

So he was pleased to see that when his two standouts were limited in the eighth-seeded Raptors’ 6A Great 8 home contest against No. 9 Ralston Valley Feb. 24.

Freshman Kris Coleman and senior SirDevin Roberts each had their moments in the clutch — and were the only players in double figures with 13 and 12 points, respectively, in a 53-49 victory.

“You have to have role guys make some plays this time of year,” said

Krapcha, who has guided Eaglecrest to its third berth in the quarterfinals in the past four seasons. “When LaDavian went out (via fouls with just over three minutes left), it would have been easy to hang our heads and things could have gone south. But our energy was great and we never felt like we were going to lose.”

The several day break before a 5:30 p.m. Feb. 29 game against top-seeded Fruita Monument (250) will give Eaglecrest a chance to work on some things in practice, such as working to get the ball to the 6-foot-6 Barger in the post more effectively than of late.

It will also give junior Lucas Kalimba — who was off to an impactful start to the season before getting injured — a chance to get in more work.

Like many, Krapcha doesn’t know a lot about Fruita Monument given it plays almost exclusively on the Western Slope, but he said the Wildcats definitely “got his attention” with its 17-point Sweet 16 win over No. 17 Broomfield, knocked off fellow Centennial League team Overland in the first round.

TOP: In a sequence in the closing seconds of overtime of a Class 6A boys basketball Sweet 16 playoff game on Feb. 24, Smoky Hill junior Lorenzo Contreras throws a lob off the backboard (left) for an alley-oop dunk from senior Kevin Sylla, center, before Sylla and teammates reacted in celebration as the Buffaloes topped Regis Jesuit 70-61 to earn a spot in the Great 8 at the Denver Coliseum. BELOW LEFT: Vista PEAK Prep senior Alante Monroe-Elazier (10) puts up a reverse layup around a bevy of Discovery Canyon defenders during the Bison’s 57-34 victory to move them into the 5A Great 8, BELOW CENTER: Regis Jesuit senior Coryn Watts (5) launches a 3-pointer during the first quarter of the Raiders’ 69-61 win over Denver East in a 6A girls basketball Sweet 16 contest Feb. 23. BELOW

RIGHT: Senior SirDevin Roberts (3) slices through the Ralston Valley defense on his way to the basket during the Eaglecrest boys basketball team’s 53-49 6A Sweet 16 win Feb. 24.

(Photos by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel) WINTER SPORTS PHOTO GALLERIES AT COURTNEYOAKES.SMUGMUG.COM

Preps

ICE HOCKEY

Cherry Creek, Regis Jesuit enter Class 5A playoffs in quarterfinals

The Cherry Creek co-op and Regis Jesuit ice hockey teams sat back and watched the first round of the Class 5A state tournament unfold before they entered the fray in the quarterfinal round Feb. 27-28.

The Raiders and Bruins were seeded Nos. 1 and 3, respectively, in the 12-team playoff field, and both received byes in the opening round.

Cherry Creek (11-4-4) is the first to skate in the quarterfinal round with a Feb. 27 contest at the South Suburban Sports Complex against No. 6 Mountain Vista (14-4-2). The Golden Eagles doubled up No. 11 Ralston Valley 4-2 in the opening round. Cherry Creek and Mountain Vista played to a 1-1 overtime tie in their lone meeting of the regular season back on Dec. 22, 2023.

Regis Jesuit (14-2-2 and winners of five straight games) was scheduled to be on the same ice on Feb. 28 for its quarterfinal contest, which will be against No. 8 Standley Lake (16-3-1). The Raiders skated past the Gators 6-0 in a Jan. 20 road contest.

Results were unavailable at press time, so visit sentinelcolorado.com/ preps for scores, recaps and more.

Quarterfinal winners return to South Suburban Sports Complex for semifinals on March 2, while the 5A state championship game is slated for 7:30 p.m. March 5 at Magness Arena on the campus of the University of Denver.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Two-time champ Wolves

fall in Class 6A Sweet 16

Not since the semifinals of the then-Class 5A girls basketball state playoffs in the 2020-21 season had the Grandview girls basketball team felt the sting of postseason defeat.

That changed Feb. 23 on the Wolves’ home floor, as the winner of the past two state championships in the larger classification — in 5A in 2022 and 6A in 2023 — and the No. 8 overall seed fell to ninth-seeded Mullen 49-45 in a Sweet 16 matchup of Centennial League rivals.

Grandview’s 11-game postseason winning streak that stretched back to a loss at Regis Jesuit in the 2021 Fi-

nal Four came to end at the hands of Mullen, which ended up with two wins in the three meetings of the teams during the season. The Mustangs won in regular season play, while coach Josh Ulitzky’s Wolves took the meeting a week ago in the third-place game of the Centennial League Challenge.

Junior Sienna Betts poured in a game-high 23 points and pulled down 12 rebounds, but her absence due to foul trouble in the third quarter coincided with a Mullen run that got its lead to as much as eight points. Sophomore Lexi Yi added 14 for Grandview, which hadn’t been kept from an appearance at the Denver Coliseum since a Sweet 16 loss to Lakewood in 2015. The Wolves — who opened the season with grueling out of state tournaments — finished 14-11.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Bison fall at Frederick in Class 5A Sweet 16

The Vista PEAK Prep girls basketball team had its season come to a close in the Sweet 16 round of the Class 5A state playoffs with a 51-32 road loss at Frederick Feb. 23.

The ninth-seeded Bison advanced to the Sweet 16 for the third time in the past four seasons, but coach Howard Payne’s team got stopped there again, this time by

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eighth-seeded Frederick, winners of six straight games. The Golden Eagles (19-6), meanwhile, advanced to a Great 8 matchup against undefeated and top-seeded Air Academy March 1 at the Denver Coliseum.

Vista PEAK Prep — which finished the season 18-7 — opened the postseason with a 53-35 home win over No. 24 Durango Feb. 20. Junior Eianna Jackson scored 11 points to pace the Bison, while sophomore Amaya Nance added 10.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Overland knocked out by Broomfield in first round

of 6A playoffs

The Overland boys basketball team earned the chance to play its Class 6A first round state playoff game on its home floor as the No. 16 overall seed, but it was No. 17 Broomfield that left happy Feb. 21.

The Eagles topped the Trailblazers by six points in a regular season non-league game and prevailed by five points this time with a 75-70 victory in a high-scoring contest.

Juniors Isreal Littleton (19 points), Siraaj Ali (17) and Dontae Graham (12) scored in double figures for Overland, which was back in the postseason after it missed out last season. The Trailblazers finished the season 14-10.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Rangeview edged by Chaparral in 1st round

An up-and-coming Rangeview boys basketball team fell just short of pulling off a big upset in the opening round of the Class 6A state playoffs.

The 30th-seeded Raiders — who feature a slew of young players and began to emerge late in the season — challenged third-seeded Chaparral before falling 48-45. A jumper from freshman Archie Weatherspoon V brought Rangeview within a point with just under two minutes left, but the Raiders turned it over before they got a chance to get off a go-ahead shot.

Weatherspoon V and senior Mareon Chapman scored 12 points apiece and junior Kenny Black-Knox had 10 for Rangeview, which finished 12-12.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Eaglecrest falls to Regis Jesuit in 6A opener

For the second time in the past four seasons, the Eaglecrest girls basketball team ended up playing at Regis Jesuit in the opening round of the state playoffs.

The Raptors dropped a thenClass 5A first rounder in 2021 and also fell in a 6A opener Feb. 23 as the 26th-seeded Raptors saw the sev-

enth-seeded Raiders prevail 53-34. Junior Jada Bobb and sophomore Adaure Ozor had eight points apiece to pace Eaglecrest, which finished the season 12-12.

SPRING SPORTS

Spring practices open

The Colorado High School Activities Association permitted the full slate of spring prep sports to begin practices for the upcoming season Feb. 26.

Girls golf, boys swimming and boys volleyball have been in action for a week and have clearance to open regular season competition later this week, along with girls tennis, which is one of the sports that began Feb. 26. Baseball, girls soccer, boys and girls track & field plus boys and girls lacrosse got underway with the start of the season scheduled for March 7.

In team sports, the area has a pair of defending state champions in boys swimming (Regis Jesuit, which won the Class 5A state meet last season for its 24th all-time title) and boys track & field, in which Cherokee Trail won its first title since 2013.

Individually, there are several athletes in track & field and boys swimming that are expected back to defend their titles.

TOP LEFT: Grandview junior Sienna Betts, left, passes out of a double team in the Wolves’ Class 6A girls basketball Sweet 16 loss to Mullen Feb. 23. ABOVE: Isreal Littleton puts his hands on his head after the buzzer sounded on the Overland boys basketball team’s 75-70 loss to Broomfield in a Class 6A 1st round playoff game Feb. 21

Eaglecrest’s Glorielle Mukeba (23) contests a shot in the paint from Regis Jesuit’s Hana Belibi during the Raptors’ 53-34 Class 6A girls basketball 1st round loss Feb. 20 BELOW RIGHT: Vista PEAK Prep’s Mackenzie Griffin (25)shoots a jumper in a Class 5A 1st round win over Durango Feb. 20. The Bison went on to lose in the Sweet 16. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel)

Postseason ice: Senior Ian Beck and the top-seeded Regis Jesuit ice hockey team has its first game of the Class 5A state playoffs on Feb. 28 with a quarterfinal against No. 8 Standley Lake. (Photo by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel)

The Magazine

Three reads for the beginning of spring

The days are getting longer. The nights are a little warmer. And spring break is just around the corner. Get ready to choose your should reads rather than must reads from school or work.

Here are three recommendations from heavy readers here and afar.

‘Almost Surely Dead’ is a smart supernatural thriller for a stormy night

Dunia Ahmed disappeared over a year ago. But before she vanished, weird things were happening, including multiple attempts on her life. So, obviously, two self-proclaimed journalists start a podcast to monetize her tragedy.

In her third novel, “Almost Surely Dead,” Amina Akhtar departs from trends and fashion to sink deep into a missing-person mystery with humorous cynicism and an increasingly creepy edge.

Two years ago, Dunia, a pharmacist, was in the middle of her regular commute when a fellow subway rider tried to throw her onto the tracks. And this New York nightmare scenario isn’t the first she’ll face.

Between her stalker ex-fiancé, David, and the unsettling notes showing up at her work and apartment, it seems like an open and shut case. But flashbacks to when Dunia was 5 suggest there may be something more sinister at play.

In these chapters, we see young Dunia’s beloved father telling her ghost stories on the sly, teaching her the pieces of her Desi culture that her mother would rather they sweep under the rug: jinns stealing princesses and grotesque churail. Dunia’s also a perceptive kid; she hears the whispers and knows her aunt was also deemed “pagal”

— mentally ill, locked up somewhere back in Pakistan.

On top of the childhood trauma and jinn stories, Dunia’s been sleepwalking again since her mother’s death. Disoriented and exhausted, she can’t trust her own eyes and ears.

As the story progresses and the world opens up more, truths that Dunia couldn’t see at 5 years old come sifting up to the surface, and suddenly the narrative is a lot more complicated. Who should we direct our anger and fear at?

In a stark commentary on victim-blaming, other characters seem to answer: Dunia.

Dunia is victimized over and over — by people who seem to see it as their right to treat her poorly or make her relive her neardeath experience, from virtual strangers wanting to hear about how she was almost killed to her sister demanding a level of communication not merited by their thin thread of a relationship.

Then there’s the podcast — at first fairly serious, but the transcripts soon devolve into “No spoilers!” and absurdly tasteless promotional ads. In one of many ruthless portrayals of society and the media, both hosts let David’s racism slide without comment when he calls Dunia exotic and talks about how he had a thing for Indian girls in his interview.

And beneath it all, growing until it can’t be ignored any longer, the supernatural stays at a steady hum.

“Almost Surely Dead” is the perfect psychological thriller for a dark and stormy night or a rainy day alone on the couch. Strap in, because there’s never a good stopping point with Akhtar, a master of pacing and suspense who keeps you guessing until the end.

— DONNA EDWARDS Associated Press

‘Clover Hendry’s Day Off’ is an infectious, Ferris Buellerinspired 24-hour adventure

What starts as a normal Thursday quickly transforms into, well, not a normal Thursday. Something’s in the air — and maybe also inside that pill Clover Hendry took — and today, she’s going to do all those things she never allowed herself to do. Starting with taking the day off.

“Clover Hendry’s Day Off” by Beth Morrey is a Ferris Bueller-inspired 24-hour adventure in which one 40-something pushover of a working mom says to heck with it and lives life for herself for a change.

Clover’s newfound superpower — being able to say “No” and disallowing others to bulldoze right over her — is infectiously freeing.

But, much as we might want, it can’t all be confrontation and giggles as this newly carefree woman jaunts around London. After all, if Clover becomes a self-centered tyrant, isn’t she just as bad as her boss who holds time-wasting meetings to hear his own voice, and the huffy businessmen who commandeer cabs that other people hailed, and ill-behaved children who run screaming through museums — the very people who would normally ruin her day?

Still, Clover is a fabulous character and I was absolutely hooked by Chapter 3.

Copiously clad with humor and astute observations, each turn is like a tiny gift you get to unwrap. Every triumph is an indulgence to savor and every unfavorable outcome a bitter but welcome vibe-check. Though part of me wanted this book to go on indefinitely, there’s an undeniable appeal and beauty to the story being only one day.

But before you settle in for 300 pages of fun and hijinks, be warned that Morrey has

slipped in pockets of seriousness, including a panic-attack-inducing, late-stage surprise that artfully avoids trauma porn while surfacing unresolved psychological wounds.

“Clover Hendry’s Day Off” is one of the most fun books I’ve read in a while — or ever, honestly. Morrey’s novel has everything: drugs, priceless art, mommy issues, yappy dogs, sweet revenge, imaginary alpacas, laughs, tears, post-lockdown malaise, and, of course, a bunny.

Are any of those things actually important to the plot? You’ll have to read to find out, and it will be worth it.

— DONNA EDWARDS Associated Press

Thomas Mullen’s

portrayal

of a divided nation in 1943 draws parallels to today

It’s 1943, a quarter century after the armistice that ended the so-called Great War, and Americans are once again fighting in foreign lands, battling the ascendant Empire of Japan in the Pacific and confronting Germany’s Afrika Corp along the southern rim of the Mediterranean Sea.

The country had been divided over whether to enter the war. Isolationists opposed sacrificing American lives to save the democracies of Western Europe. And thousands of Nazi sympathizers openly trumpeted support for Adolf Hitler. Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 unleashed a patriotic fervor that seemed to settle the question, but in some quarters, opposition to the war still ran deep.

In Boston, a city long torn by ethnic and religious hatreds, antisemitism, rac-

Black Music Matters 2024

SONIC Cars and Shakes

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ism and xenophobia ran rampant. Yankee Protestants despised the city’s teeming population of Irish immigrants. And the Irish saw no reason why their adopted country should come to the aid of England, which had long oppressed their ancestral land.

Such is the setting for Thomas Mullen’s “The Rumor Game,” a disturbing yarn about a divided, rumor-riddled nation that offers apt but unstated parallels to present-day America.

The plot is driven by Anne Lemire, a young reporter for the Boston Star, and Devon Mulvey, an FBI agent assigned to protect war production from infiltration and sabotage.

Lemire writes the Rumor Clinic, a column debunking the flood of Nazi propaganda and other destructive rumors flooding the city. Among them, a rumor that Jews had manipulated America into the war, spawns violent attacks in Jewish neighborhoods by Irish gangs.

Meanwhile, Mulvey struggles to unravel a mystery that includes a murder and the theft of military rifles from a Boston munitions plant.

Both are obstructed by the Irish-dominated Boston police, the pro-Nazi Christian League and federal officials who think left-wing agitators pose a greater threat. Eventually, Mulvey, an Irish Catholic, and Lemire, raised Catholic but born Jewish, join forces as their investigations merge. To their dismay, both discover evidence of venality and violence in their own families.

Mullen’s novel, his eighth, draws heavily on research, as evident by the historical sources cited in an author’s note. The tale begins as a slow burn and then races at a breakneck pace to a dramatic conclusion.

The Boston settings, from its docks and factories to its ethnic neighborhoods, are vivid. The writing is tight, and most characters are well-drawn. The lone misstep is a doomed romance between Lemire and Mulvey, which lacks credibility and adds little to the plot.

— BRUCE DESILVA

Associated Press

Vocal Coalition Youth Choirs (VOCO) is proud to announce Black Music Matters 2024, a spectacular collaboration between an extraordinary lineup of local musical legends and youth voices from across the Mile High City. BMM 2024 is more than a free musical concert event; it’s a triumphant celebration of the power of the human voice. Gospel sensations, Spirit of Grace, selected this year’s theme, Inside Out, with the aim of deepening appreciation for the ingenious ways Black people have brought their inner emotions and lived experiences out into the world through music. Through anthems, spirituals, gospel, jazz, blues, hip-hop, and more, we want everyone, especially youth, to leave with a belief in the world-changing power of their voice.

IF YOU GO:

Feb 29 at 7:30pm

The King Center, Auraria Campus, 855 Lawrence Way

This concert is free for the whole Denver community

More info: vocochoirs.org

Candlelight: Tribute to Nirvana

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Denver. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Nirvana at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum under the gentle glow of candlelight.

IF YOU GO:

Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum

March 7, 3:15 p.m. Event is 1 hour (doors open 75 mins prior to the start time and late entry is not permitted)

8 years old or older. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult 7711 E Academy Blvd eventvesta.com/ events/59943/t/tickets 303-360-5360

The Mirror Cracked

In conjunction with Mo’Print, DAVA presents a dynamic group exhibition curated by Paloma Jimenez and Genevieve Waller. Featured artists include Mary Lynn Baird, Maddie Christian, Miriam Dubinsky, Rick Griffith, Laura Grossett, Georgia Luckiw, Dianna Miguez, and Mami Yamamoto. The artists in this exhibition reconfigure symbols from their environments to construct inventive visual languages. From vastly layered monotypes to three-dimensional installations, their processes reflect an experimental approach within the abundant world of printmaking.

IF YOU GO:

Opening Reception: March 8 from 4 p.m.– 7 p.m. Exhibition is open weekdays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. through April 19.

DAVA - Downtown Aurora Visual Arts)

1405 Florence St davarts.org 303-367-5886

Detail those rides and bring em’! All makes and models welcome for this casual car meet with friends. Grab a shake or some food and talk cars. Free event. No revving engines or burning rubber. Respect the spot and clean up your trash.

IF YOU GO:

Cars and Shakes

Fridays 4 p.m. - 8 p.m

Sonic Drive In, 18501 E Hampden Ave Aurora

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812

Electropop tunes meet a scandalous slice of War and Peace in this musical extravaganza. Meet Natasha, a young woman who arrives in Moscow longing for her fiance; and Pierre, a man caught in an existential crisis who tries to save her shattered reputation.

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 was nominated for 12 Tony Awards when it premiered in 2012. Expect to find the Black Box Theatre transformed into a raucous Russian dinner club with cabaret tables, immersive seating, and an unforgettable theatrical and musical experience.

IF YOU GO:

Various show days through March 31 at 7:30pm

Arvada Center

6901 Wadsworth Blvd buff.ly/3HXCe37

Sonora Santanera and Grupo Sonador — Live at the Stampede

World famous Sonora Santanera offering two hours of tropical music from Mexico with over 60 years of history. Grupo Soñador is a pioneer of the keyboard and synth heavy cumbia poblana.

21 years and older only.

IF YOU GO:

March 8, 8 p.m.

Tickets: $40 Stampede 2430 S Havana St. www.stampedeclub.net

The Wizard of Oz in Concert

When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow that needs a brain, a Tin Man missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West to earn his help. Witness this American classic like never before with the full score performed live by your Colorado Symphony.

IF YOU GO:

March 2, 7:30 pm and March 3, 2:30 p.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall

1000 14th St

buff.ly/49D5jNc

Denver Jewish Film Festival

The 28th Annual Denver Jewish Film Festival at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center at the Jewish Community Center. The festival features 20 entertaining and educational films including documentaries, narratives and shorts, and highlights work by Jewish or Israeli filmmakers or actors and themes.

IF YOU GO:

Denver Jewish Film Festival March 9 - March 17 Show times vary.

Full passes $280. Individual movie tickets available Mizel Arts and Culture Center at the JCC

350 S. Dahlia St. Jccdenver.org

Message in a Bottle

Message In A Bottle is a spectacular new dance-theater show from triple-Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince, inspired by and set to the iconic hits of 17-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sting, including Every Breath You Take, Roxanne, Walking On The Moon and more. With a mix of exhilarating dance styles, high-energy footwork and breathtaking athleticism, Message In A Bottle tells a unifying and uplifting story of humanity and hope. The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive. Message In A Bottle is the latest masterpiece from the ground-breaking choreographer behind several West End hits including Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, and features the astonishing talents of dance storytelling powerhouse, ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company.

IF YOU GO:

Show times vary through March 31

Denver Center for the Performing Arts 1101 13th St denvercenter.org/ tickets-events/message-in-a-bottle 303-893-4000

The Colorado Choir Sings Songs of Faith

The Colorado Choir, one of Denver’s premier a cappella choral ensembles, will present two live concerts with a theme of faith. The musical selections will explore the various ways faith is expressed through song, including traditional, gospel, and contemporary works. Featured composers include René Clausen, Peter Lutkin, Knut Nystedt, and Z. Randall Stroope. The choir is conducted by Ms. Kelly Parmenter.

IF YOU GO:

March 1 and March 2 7:30pm

Bethany Lutheran Church 4500 E Hampden Ave Thecoloradochoir.org

Latin Sounds from Jobim, Mendez and More

The Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra invites music enthusiasts to an evening of enchanting Latin jazz and funk, celebrating the legendary artists like Antônio Carlos Jobim and Sérgio Mendes, among others.

This year’s performance will feature Brazilian jazz with an impressive lineup of musicians, including the internationally acclaimed Latin guitarist Gabriel Santiago, alongside celebrated pianist Victor Mestas, bassist Bijoux Barbosa, and percussionist Carl Dixon. Vocalist Marion Powers will also grace the stage, adding her unique sound to the mix. Santiago, a Brazilian native and now a Colorado resident, brings his diverse musical background to the concert, promising an unforgettable experience with his compositions that blend Brazilian music with jazz and classical influences.

Founded in 2012 by Art Bouton, the CJRO has committed to delivering exceptional performances by the region’s top professional musicians. Under the artistic direction of Drew Zaremba, the orchestra’s season is a vibrant mix of classic swing, soul, and beyond, striving to push the boundaries of traditional big band and ensemble music. For tickets and more information, visit the CJRO website or contact the Arvada Center box office.

IF YOU GO:

March 2 at 7:30 p.m.

Arvada Center

6901 Wadsworth Blvd

Tickets $24-$38, $15 Student www.coloradojazz.org/concerts or call the theater box office 720-898-7200.

Beethhoven’s 5th with Terence Tam

Experience the stirring power of classical music with the Arapahoe Philharmonic’s latest concert, featuring the celebrated violinist Terence Tam. The performance will include Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony, a journey from adversity to victory, and Tchaikovsky’s only Violin Concerto, a masterpiece of beauty and virtuosity conceived by the shores of Lake Geneva. Also on the program is Louise Farrenc’s Overture No. 1, showcasing the genius of a composer who stood at the heart of 19th-century Parisian music. Under the baton of conductor Devin Patrick Hughes, the orchestra continues its tradition of excellence and innovation. This concert is part of the Arapahoe Philharmonic’s mission to educate and inspire new generations of classical music enthusiasts, a commitment that has seen the organization grow and evolve since its founding in 1953. Join us for an evening of profound musicality and poetic depth, celebrating the legacy and future of classical music.

IF YOU GO: March 1, 7:30PM

Lone Tree Arts Center 10075 Commons Street, 720-509-1000

www.lonetreeartscenter.org/

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0515-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 28, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

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

Purported common address: 16438 E LAKE DR, AURORA, CO 80016.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0516-2023

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

On November 28, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Lorrie A Heller

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR JLB Corporation dba Golden Oak Lending, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Date of Deed of Trust

04, 2021

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

10, 2021

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1187266

Original

Outstanding

The

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 2/1/2024

Last Publication 2/29/2024

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/28/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Steven E. Abelman, Esq., #13980

Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck PC 675 Fifteenth Street, Suite 2900, Denver, CO 80202 (303) .22-3.1100

Attorney File # 3891 S. IDALIA ST.

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

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, 03/27/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/1/2024

Last Publication 2/29/2024

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY

THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/28/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Robert Graham #26809

Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher LLP 360 South Garfield Street, 6th Floor, Denver, CO 80209 (303) 333-9810

Attorney File # 27758.0001

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. TRACT 25, ARCADIAN ACRES SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Purported common address: 16817 E Davies Ave, Foxfield, 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, 03/27/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0517-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 28, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Jesus Miguel Loya, Jr Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR SOUTHWEST FUNDING, LP., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust January 13, 2023 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 18, 2023

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E3003380

Original Principal Amount $396,682.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $395,270.43 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 7, SUMMER VALLEY

SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 20, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Purported common address: 17443 East Temple Drive, Aurora, CO 80015. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/27/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/1/2024

Last Publication 2/29/2024

Name of Publication Sentinel Colo-

rado 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: 11/28/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name,

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.

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT “A”

EXHIBIT A

THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN

BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF BENNETT, IN THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

Parcel A:

All of Section 14, Township 4 South, Range 63 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

Except the west 40 feet of said section conveyed to Arapahoe County by Deeds recorded May 3, 1949 in Book 636 at Page 11 and August 15, 1949 in Book 645 at Page 25, And except any portion thereof lying within a City, County, State or Federal Roadway, And except any portion platted as Antelope Hills Filing No. 1 and Antelope Hills Filing No. 2, And except that portion described as follows: (West Golf Course Tract): A tract of land located in Section 14, Township 4 South, Range 63 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Town of Bennett, Arapahoe County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the northwest corner of said Section 14 and considering the West line of the Northwest ¼ to bear South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, with all bearings contained herein relative thereto;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West along said West line of the Northwest ¼ a distance of 2075.51 feet;

Thence North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of 40.00 feet to a point on the East right of way line of the Kiowa-Bennett Road;

Thence continuing North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of 973.38 feet to the point of beginning of the West Golf Course Tract;

Thence along the boundary of said West Golf Course Tract the following 43 courses:

Thence South 86 degrees 14 minutes 13 seconds East a distance of 175.00 feet;

Thence South 79 degrees 19 minutes 25 seconds

feet;

Thence North 51 degrees 22 minutes 24 seconds West a distance of 541.46 feet;

minutes 49 seconds West a distance of 169.06 feet;

Thence South 62 degrees 49 minutes 39 seconds West a distance of 438.52 feet;

Thence South 71 degrees 09 minutes 51 seconds West a distance of 337.25 feet; Thence South 66 degrees 07 minutes 26 seconds West a distance of 587.59 feet;

Thence South 24 degrees 57 minutes 04 seconds East a distance of 833.63 feet;

Thence South 48 degrees 56 minutes 43 seconds East a distance of 616.64 feet;

Thence South 23 degrees 29 minutes 55 seconds East a distance of 376.20 feet;

Thence South 43 degrees 46 minutes 52 seconds West a distance of 332.42 feet;

Thence North 62 degrees 06 minutes 10 seconds West a distance of 577.06 feet;

Thence North 52 degrees 47 minutes 31 seconds West a distance of 339.01 feet;

Thence North 68 degrees 44 minutes 58 seconds West a distance of 579.40 feet;

Thence North 82 degrees 20 minutes 48 seconds West a distance of 322.88 feet;

Thence South 18 degrees 56 minutes 05 seconds West a distance of 616.35 feet;

Thence South 54 degrees 30 minutes 12 seconds West a distance of 680.34 feet to a point of curve;

Thence Northwesterly along the arc of a curve to the left a distance of 103.02 feet, said curve has a radius of 235.00 feet and a central angle of 25 degrees 07 minutes 01 seconds to a point of reverse curve;

(Commercial part of the West Golf Course

Tract):

A tract of land located in Section 14, Township 4 South, Range 63 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Town of Bennett, Arapahoe County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the northwest corner of said Section 14 and considering the West line of the Northwest ¼ to bear South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, with all bearings contained herein relative thereto;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West along said West line of the Northwest ¼ a distance of 2075.51 feet;

Thence North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of 40.00 feet to a point on the East right of way line of the Kiowa-Bennett Road;

Thence continuing North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of 973.38 feet;

Thence South 86 degrees 14 minutes 13 seconds East a distance of 175.00 feet;

Thence South 79 degrees 19 minutes 25 seconds East a distance of 124.15 feet to the point of beginning;

Thence North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of 427.55 feet;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West a distance of 360.00 feet;

Thence South 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West a distance of 397.55 feet to a point on the West line of said West Golf Course Tract;

Thence North 04 degrees 45 minutes 49 seconds West a distance of 361.25 feet to the point of beginning.

Note: Said parcel is now known as Outlot H, Antelope Hills Filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

And except that portion described as the Well and Tank Site (1) and the Well Site (2) being more particularly described as follows:

Well and Tank Site (1): A tract of land located in Section 14, Township 4 South, Range 63 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Town of Bennett, Arapahoe County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the Northwest corner of said Section 14 and considering the West line of the Northwest ¼ to bear South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, with all bearings contained herein relative thereto;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West along said West line of the Northwest ¼ a distance of 2,642.65 feet to the West ¼ corner of said Section 14;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 40 seconds West along said West line of the Southwest ¼ a distance of 2,642.68 feet to the Southwest corner of said Section 14;

Thence North 88 degrees 47 minutes 00 seconds East along the South line of said Section 14 a distance of 176.03 feet;

Beginning at the

of said

Thence North 88 degrees 44 minutes 49 seconds East, along the North line of said Section 13, 659.69 feet;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East, 2641.54 feet to a point on the East - West centerline of said Section 13; Thence South 88 degrees 41 minutes 24 seconds West, along said East - West centerline, 660.45 feet to the West ¼ of said Section 13;

Thence North 00 degrees 00 minutes 58 seconds East, along the West line of said Section 13, 2642.21 feet to the point of beginning.

County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

EXCEPT that parcel described as follows:

A parcel of property located in the NE ¼ of Section 14 and the NW ¼ of Section 13, Township 4 South, Range 63 West of the 6th P.M., County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the Southwest corner of the NW ¼ of said Section 13 and considering the West line of the NW ¼ of said Section 13, to bear N00°02’26”E with all bearings contained herein relative thereto; thence N00°02’26”E along said West line, a distance of 397.13 feet to the Point of Beginning; thence N46°29’57”W, a distance of 140.50 feet; thence N19°32’59”W, a distance of 146.36 feet; thence N51°56’17”E, a distance of 105.71 feet; thence N10°10’03”E, a distance of 103.35 feet; thence S81°06’34”E, a distance of 428.90 feet; thence S06°33’10”W, a distance of 138.57 feet to a point of curve; thence along said curve to the left have a central angle of 10°53’42”, a radius of 930.00 feet, for an arc length of 176.84 feet to a point of tangent; thence S04°20’32”E. a distance of 16.22 feet; thence N82°28’40”W, a distance of 240.00 feet; thence S62°18’31”W, a distance of 65.73 feet; thence S84°32’54”W, a distance of 60.47 feet to a point on the West line of the SW ¼ of the NW ¼ of said Section 13 and the Point of Beginning, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. Purported common address: 600 ANTELOPE DRIVE W, REFERRED TO AS PHASE 2 ON THE DEED OF TRUST DOCUMENTS, BENNETT, CO 80102. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

Thence Northeasterly along the arc of a curve to the left a distance of 83.76 feet, said curve has a radius of 230.00 feet and a central angle of 20 degrees 51 minutes 53 seconds;

Thence North 00 degrees 01 minutes 14 seconds East a distance of 210.00 feet to the point of beginning.

(East Golf Course Tract):

A tract of land located in Section 14, Township 4 South, Range 63 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Town of Bennett, Arapahoe County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the Northwest corner of said Section 14 and considering the West line of the Northwest ¼ to bear South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, with all bearings contained herein relative thereto;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West along said West line of the Northwest ¼ a distance of 2075.51 feet;

Thence North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East a

Thence continuing North 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of 973.38 feet;

Thence South 86 degrees 14 minutes 13 seconds East a distance of 175.00 feet;

Thence South 79 degrees 19 minutes 25 seconds East a distance of 124.15

Thence along the arc of a curve to the right a distance of 306.98 feet, said curve has a radius of 485.00 feet and a central angle of 36 degrees 15 minutes 54 seconds;

Thence North 53 degrees 28 minutes 16 seconds East a distance of 490.32 feet;

Thence North 27 degrees 22 minutes 06 seconds East a distance of 478.57 feet;

Thence North 42 degrees 40 minutes 20 seconds East a distance of 435.23 feet;

Thence South 85 degrees 53 minutes 52 seconds East a distance of 489.25 feet;

Thence South 71 degrees 22 minutes 20 seconds East a distance of 281.76 feet;

Thence North 27 degrees 28 minutes 28 seconds West a distance of 281.78 feet;

Thence North 01 degrees 41 minutes 05 seconds East a distance of 680.29 feet;

Thence North 68 degrees 33 minutes 08 seconds West a distance of 89.68 feet to a point on a curve;

Thence Northerly along the arc of a curve to the left a distance of 359.06 feet, said curve has a radius of 360.00 feet, a central angle of 57 degrees 08 minutes 47 seconds and a chord that bears North 02 degrees 48 minutes 10 seconds West a distance of 344.36 feet;

Thence North 03 degrees 18 minutes 07 seconds East a distance of 265.70 feet;

Thence North 45 degrees 55 minutes 59 seconds West a distance of 651.33 feet;

Thence North 32 degrees 09 minutes 58 seconds West a distance of 604.84 feet;

Thence North 68 degrees 47 minutes 54 seconds West a distance of 108.73 feet to a point of curve;

Thence Northeasterly along the arc of a curve to the left a distance of 87.06 feet, said curve has a radius of 460.00 feet and a central angle of 10 degrees 50 minutes 37 seconds;

Thence South 79 degrees 38 minutes 31 seconds East a distance of 144.11 feet;

Thence South 65 degrees 53 minutes 19 seconds East a distance of 427.71 feet;

Thence South 45 degrees 45 minutes 02 seconds East a distance of 1092.52 feet;

Thence North 33 degrees 19 minutes 47 seconds East a distance of 573.29 feet;

Thence North 44 degrees 44 minutes 05 seconds West a distance of 610.95 feet;

Thence North 66 degrees 31 minutes 20 seconds West a distance of 410.00 feet;

Thence South 88 degrees 27 minutes 52 seconds West a distance of 162.00 feet;

Thence North 77 degrees 38 minutes 34 seconds West a distance of 572.44 feet to a point of curve;

Thence along the arc of a curve to the left a distance of 107.77 feet, said curve has a radius of 230.00 feet a point of tangent;

Thence South 75 degrees 30 minutes 37 seconds West a distance of 10.77 feet;

Thence North 14 degrees 29 minutes 23 seconds West a distance of 61.07 feet to the point of beginning.

Thence North 01 degrees 13 minutes 00 seconds West a distance of 60.00 feet to the point of beginning;

Thence North 00 degrees 00 minutes 40 seconds East a distance of 30.00 feet;

Thence South 88 degrees 47 minutes 00 seconds West a distance of 104.73 feet;

Thence North 00 degrees 00 minutes 40 seconds East a distance of 248.58 feet;

Thence North 88 degrees 47 minutes 00 seconds East a distance of 261.32 feet;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 40 seconds West a distance of 278.59 feet;

Thence South 88 degrees 47 minutes 00 seconds West a distance of 156.59 feet (156.58 feet as measured) to the point of beginning.

Well Site (2):

A tract of land located in Section 14, Township 4 South, Range 63 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Town of Bennett, Arapahoe County, Colorado, more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at the Northwest corner of said Section 14 and considering the West line of the Northwest ¼ to bear South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West, with all bearings contained herein relative thereto;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds West along said West line of the Northwest ¼ a distance of 2,642.65 feet to the West ¼ corner of said Section 14;

Thence South 00 degrees 00 minutes 40 seconds West along said West line of the

Thence

Thence

Thence

Thence

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, 04/03/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/8/2024

Last Publication 3/7/2024

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 12/01/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Conner G. Eversole #52560

Thomas P. Kearns #11347

Michael M. McKinstry #4701

Tamara A.Hoffbuhr #29391 Fairfield and Woods PC 1801 California Street, Suite 2600, Denver, CO

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0521-2023

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

On December 1, 2023, the undersigned

Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Samuel L. Romero

Original Beneficiary(ies)

WESTERRA CREDIT UNION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Westerra Credit Union

Date of Deed of Trust

September 06, 2016

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

September 13, 2016

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

D6102408

Original Principal Amount

$100,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$98,661.73

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 15, BLOCK 1, PARKVIEW COMMONS SUBDIVISION NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Purported common address: 5766 South Jericho Way, 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, 04/03/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/8/2024

Last Publication 3/7/2024

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 12/01/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David C. Walker #36551

Neal K. Dunning #10181

Douglas W. Brown #10429

Drew P. Fein #48950

Brown Dunning Walker Fein Drusch

PC 7995 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 101-E, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 3293363

Attorney File # 3006-273

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado

Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0522-2023

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

On December 1, 2023, the undersigned

Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Bernard Katz

Parcel

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as nominee for Cherry Creek Mortgage, LLC, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

PHH Mortgage Corporation

Date of Deed of Trust

November 20, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

November 25, 2020

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

E0165050

Original Principal Amount

$345,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$172,248.43

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are

hereby notified that

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LEGAL DESCRIPTION ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT A EXHIBIT A

LOT 60 A, RAINTREE EAST, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 23 AT PAGE 90, TOGETHER WITH THE RIGHTS SET FORTH IN THAT CERTAIN DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 2120 AT PAGE 169 TO 189 INCLUSIVE, AND TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR PARKING AND STORAGE OVER THAT PORTION OF LOT 60 D, SHOWN AS EASEMENT NO. 1 ON EASEMENT LOCATION PLAN RECORDED IN BOOK 2143 AT PAGE 618 WHICH EASEMENT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF AND APPURTENANT TO SAID LOT 60A, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Purported common address: 10001 E Evans Avenue Apt 60A, Aurora, CO 80247.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

The

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 04/03/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Little-

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, 04/03/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/8/2024

Last Publication 3/7/2024

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE

MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 12/01/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-031286

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0524-2023

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

On December 1, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Bruce A. Detlof

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Steven

Holly

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

McCarthy

Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-23-969508-LL

The

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0523-2023

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 18, COPPER RIDGE SUB-

DIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Purported common address: 17179 East Tennessee Drive, Aurora, CO 80017.

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY

PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE

MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 12/01/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112

(303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 23-031199

The Attorney above is acting as a debt

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Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0526-2023

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

On December 5, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Charles Randolph Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR

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

On December 8, 2023, the undersigned

Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

RICHARD A. BLADE BRIGITTE AGNES LANGLOIS AKA BRIGITTE AGNES BLADE

Original Beneficiary(ies)

ENT CREDIT UNION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

ENT CREDIT UNION

Date of Deed of Trust

April 23, 2021

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 29, 2021

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

E1070489

Original Principal Amount $60,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $55,377.44

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION LEGAL DESCRIPTION

That part of Lot 1, Block 1, Heather Gardens West Subdivision Filing No. 2, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, described as follows:

Parcel 1: An undivided 1/100th interest in and to said Lot, which interest does not include any interest in the buildings and equipment situate on said Lot in which apartment and townhouse units are situate other than the interest in the apartment building and equipment conveyed with that unit listed in Parcel 2 below.

Parcel 2: All of that space which lies between the ceiling and the floor, and the walls of the townhouse at 13743-A East Marina Drive for convenient reference numbered as Unit 349A Building No. 349 now or hereafter constructed on said Lot, said building being located substantially as shown on the Fourth Supplement Condominium Map filed for record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado under Reception No. 1765360 in Book 35 at Page 38.

2006

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 03, 2006

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) B6034801

Original Principal Amount $176,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $227,742.52

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

CANVAS CREDIT UNION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

CANVAS CREDIT UNION

Date of Deed of Trust

April 08, 2022

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 13, 2022

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

E2041997

Original Principal Amount $100,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $32,983.86

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 394, BLOCK 1, SUMMIT PARK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Purported common address: 4181 South Fraser Court Apt A, Aurora, CO 800146150.

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, 04/03/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/8/2024

Last Publication 3/7/2024

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THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 79, BLOCK 8, AURORA HIGHLANDS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

PARCEL ID NUMBER: 1975-21-3-03-079

Purported common address: 1639 South Richfield Street, 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, 04/03/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property

Parcel 3: An undivided one half interest in and to the building and equipment therein installed and appurtenant thereto within which the space of area described in Parcel 2 is located.

Parcel 4: The exclusive right to use the Patios and Balconies, Air conditioners, or other appliance which project beyond the space or area in the townhouse described in Parcel 2 and contiguous thereto, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. Purported common address: 13743 E. MARINA DRIVE, UNIT A,, AURORA, CO 80014. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER’S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 11/17/2023 AT RECEPTION NO. E3078199 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 04/10/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/15/2024

Last Publication 3/14/2024

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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: 12/08/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the

address: 2710 SOUTH RIFLE STREET, AURORA, CO 80013.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER’S

AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 07/09/2018 AT RECEPTION NO. D8066779 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 04/10/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/15/2024

Last Publication 3/14/2024

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David W.

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0534-2023

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

On December 8, 2023, the undersigned

Original Grantor(s)

Jordan A. Pagels and Wendy L. Pagels

Original Beneficiary(ies)

WESTERRA CREDIT UNION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

WESTERRA CREDIT UNION

Date of Deed of Trust

August 31, 2017

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

31, 2017

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

D7100104

Original Principal Amount

Outstanding

Pursuant

THE

MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 3, BLOCK 2, SADDLE ROCK GOLF CLUB SOUTH SUBDIVISION FILING NO.

15, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Purported common address: 7098 S. Tempe Ct., Aurora, 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 De-

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 04/10/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/15/2024

Last Publication 3/14/2024

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A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE

LOT 18, BLOCK 3,,,RESUBDIVISION OF PART OF HAVANA GARDENS (SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS “HAVANA VILLA SUBDIVISION”),,,COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Purported common address: 924 S. JAMAICA ST,, 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, 04/17/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/22/2024

Last Publication 3/21/2024

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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: 12/15/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722

Scott D. Toebben #19011

Aricyn J. Dall #51467

David W Drake #43315

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

Attorney File # 23CO00266-1

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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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0543-2023

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

On December 19, 2023, the undersigned

Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Aldo R. Castillo

Original Beneficiary(ies)

KeyBank National Association

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

KeyBank, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust November 21, 2018

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 05, 2018

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

D8119142

Original Principal Amount $120,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $89,102.36

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 6, BLOCK 1, ALTON PARK FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Purported common address: 1223 S Akron Way, Denver, CO 80247.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY

ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M.

on Wednesday,

real

all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/22/2024

Last Publication 3/21/2024

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 12/19/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Amanda Ferguson #44893

Heather Deere #28597

Toni M. Owan #30580

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO11820

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 COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0544-2023

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

On December 19, 2023, the undersigned

Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Luis Alfredo Jimenez

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR

Current

E2101438

Original Principal Amount $441,849.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $437,712.52

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby

THE

LOT 27, BLOCK 3, SEVEN HILLS SUBDIVISION, FILING NO 6, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

APN #: 1975-34-1-31-036

Purported common address: 19667 E Dartmouth Ave, Aurora,

Colorado

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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0545-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 19, 2023, the undersigned

Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

CHRISTOPHER HENRY DRAYTON, JR.

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRA-

TION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

M&T BANK Date of Deed of Trust May 25, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 04, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1089967

Original Principal Amount $332,661.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $317,794.56

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 12, BLOCK 2, MILL RUN SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Purported common address: 4040 SOUTH RIFLE WAY, AURORA, CO 80013-3240. 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, 04/17/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/22/2024

Last Publication 3/21/2024

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rado

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: 12/19/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number

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PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0547-2023

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

On December 22, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Ryan Aninipok

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR SYNERGY ONE LENDING, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

January 14, 2022

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

January 20, 2022

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

E2007836

Original Principal Amount $348,570.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$338,615.81

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 34, BLOCK 1, COUNTRY GREEN FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 031242762

Purported common address: 1940 S Oswego Way, Aurora, CO 80014.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY

ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 04/24/2024, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 2/29/2024

Last Publication 3/28/2024

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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: 12/22/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 23-031454

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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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 2/8/2024

Last Publication 3/7/2024

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO

A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY

THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE

MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 12/05/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Amanda Ferguson #44893

Heather Deere #28597

Toni M. Owan #30580

Halliday,

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NOTICE

PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. 0602-2022

To: Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other person entitled. You are advised that there are overbid funds due you. This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

Name of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust

COURTNEY Y. HUNTINGTON

Address of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust

10811 E JEWELL AVE, AURORA, CO

80012

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

September 10, 2020

Recording Information

E0119118

Legal Description of Property

LOT 2, BLOCK 1, JEWELL TERRACE

SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY

Street Address of Property 10811 E JEWELL AVE, AURORA, CO 80012

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS

I sold at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on 11/1/23, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and the funds must be claimed by the Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other persons entitled thereto within six months from the date of sale.

THE STATE OF COLORADO REQUIRES

US TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR PROPERTY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE STATE TREASURER IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT US BEFORE 5/1/2024 as part of the “Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act”, pursuant to Colorado law.

First Publication 2/29/24

Last Publication 3/28/24

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Date: 2/13/24

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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CITY OF AURORA, CO

NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 2024 COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FINANCING PROGRAM SPRING ROUND

The city of Aurora will open applications for the 2024 spring round of the Community Investment Financing Program at 8 a.m. MST, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2024. The purpose of the Community Investment Financing Program is to provide financial resources for developers interested in creating and/or preserving affordable housing opportunities in Aurora. Applications will be evaluated based on alignment with the policies and goals of the Aurora Housing Strategy found at AuroraGov.org/HousingStrategy. It is expected that applications for the Community Investment Financing Program spring 2024 round will be extremely competitive. Not all applications will receive awards.

The following funds are made available for developers to support the city’s housing goals included in the Housing Strategy for the spring 2024 round. If applying for multiple funds, developers must submit a separate application for each fund.

HOME Funds – $2,020,501

CDBG – $2,724,202

Private Activity Bonds - $24,617,884

For more information or to apply, please visit AuroraGov.org/AHR.

Application(s) will close at 10 p.m. MST, March 28, 2024.

Community Investment Program Virtual

Informational Meeting Staff will host an informational virtual meeting via Teams to provide an overview of the program and answer questions from developers.

Date: March 8, 2024

Time: 10:00 a.m. MST

Meeting Link:

Meeting ID: 271 024 936 904 , Passcode: a3eCat

Dial-in by phone +1 720-388-8447, 774401847# United States, Denver

Find a local number

Phone conference ID: 774 401 847#

Questions? Email comdev@auroragov. org.

Thank you for your commitment and interest in creating and preserving affordable housing in Aurora!

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 14, 2024

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CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2024-01

CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, FOR A ZONING MAP AMENDMENT TO REZONE APPROXIMATELY 0.87 ACRES OF LAND TO MEDIUM-DENSITY MULTIFAMILY DISTRICT (R-3), LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF EAST WESLEY PLACE AND SOUTH DILLON STREET

Ordinance 2024-01 was finally passed at the February 26, 2024, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on March 30, 2024. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: February 29, 2024 Sentinel

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2024-04

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTIONS OF THE CITY CODE PERTAINING TO MANDATORY MINUMUM SENTENCES FOR RETAIL THEFT IN THE AURORA MUNICIPAL CODE TO CONTINUE TO COMBAT THEFTS IN THE CITY

Ordinance 2024-04 which was introduced on February 26, 2024, will be presented for final passage at the March 11, 2024, regular meeting of the City Council. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at:

https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: February 29, 2024 Sentinel

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2024-05

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY

COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTIONS OF THE CITY CODE PERTAINING TO MANDATORY MINUMUM SENTENCES FOR THEFT OF SERVICES IN THE AURORA MUNICIPAL CODE TO COMBAT THE INCREASE IN “DINE AND DASH” THEFTS IN THE CITY Ordinance 2024-05 which was introduced on February 26, 2024, will be presented for final passage at the March 11, 2024, regular meeting of the City Council. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at:

https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: February 29, 2024 Sentinel

CIUDAD DE AURORA, CO AVISO DE OPORTUNIDAD DE FINANCIAMIENTO

PROGRAMA DE FINANCIAMIENTO DE INVERSIÓN COMUNITARIA 2024 RONDA DE PRIMAVERA

La ciudad de Aurora abrirá las solicitudes para la ronda de primavera de 2024 del Programa de Financiamiento de Inversiones Comunitarias a las 8 a.m. MST, el jueves 28 de febrero de 2024. El propósito del Programa de Financiamiento de Inversión Comunitaria es proporcionar recursos financieros para los desarrolladores interesados en crear y/o preservar oportunidades de vivienda asequible en Aurora. Las solicitudes se evaluarán en función de la alineación con las políticas y metas de la Estrategia de Vivienda de Aurora que se encuentran en AuroraGov.org/HousingStrategy. Se espera que las solicitudes para la ronda de primavera de 2024 del Programa de Financiamiento de Inversiones Comunitarias sean extremadamente competitivas. No todas las solicitudes recibirán premios.

Los siguientes fondos están disponibles para que los desarrolladores apoyen las metas de vivienda de la ciudad incluidas en la Estrategia de Vivienda para la ronda de primavera de 2024. Si solicita varios fondos, los desarrolladores deben presentar una solicitud separada para cada fondo.

HOME Funds – $2,020,501

CDBG – $2,724,202

Private Activity Bonds - $24,617,884

Para obtener más información o para presentar una solicitud, visite AuroraGov.org/ AHR.

La(s) solicitud(es) cerrará(n) a las 10 p.m. MST, el 28 de marzo de 2024.

Reunión informativa virtual del Programa de Inversión Comunitaria

El personal organizará una reunión virtual informativa a través de Teams para proporcionar una descripción general del programa y responder a las preguntas de los desarrolladores.

Date: March 8, 2024

Time: 10:00 a.m. MST

Meeting Link:

Meeting ID: 271 024 936 904 , Passcode: a3eCat

Dial-in by phone

+1 720-388-8447,,774401847# United States, Denver

Find a local number

Phone conference ID: 774 401 847#

¿Preguntas? Correo electrónico comdev@auroragov.org.

¡Gracias por su compromiso e interés en crear y preservar viviendas asequibles en Aurora!

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 14, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s): 1976-6028-08

Applicant: Max Hookah Lounge

Application Name: Max Hookah Lounge

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Planning Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. This meeting will be a virtual meeting, please go to the city website (auroragov.org) for instructions on participation. The hearing will consider a request for approval of a Conditional Use for a hookah lounge within 300 feet of residential in MU-C (Mixed Use-Corridor) zone district.

Site Location: Southeast Corner of E Iliff Avenue and S Xanadu Way (13690 E Iliff Ave)

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: February 29, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s): 2023-6050-00

Applicant:GMT Exploration Company LLC Application Name: Invicta 3-65-28

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Planning Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. This meeting will be a virtual meeting, please go to the city website (auroragov.org) for instructions on participation. The hearing will consider a request for approval of a Site Plan for an Oil and Gas Location for eight wells.

Site Location: Southwest of E 38th Parkway and Monaghan Road Site Size: 19.1 acres

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: February 29, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s):2001-6095-01

Applicant: T&R Liquors LLC Application Name: T&R Liquors at Stagecoach Shopping Center

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Planning Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. This meeting will be a virtual meeting, please go to the city website (auroragov.org) for instructions on participation. The hearing will consider a request for approval of a Conditional Use for the expansion of a liquor store in OAMS (Original Aurora-Main Street) zone district.

Site Location: Approximately 166 feet north of the Northwest Corner of E Montview Boulevard and Dayton Street (99697 E Montview Blvd)

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: February 29, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. This meeting will be held at the Aurora History Museum at 15051 E. Alameda Parkway. The hearing will consider a request for a Certificate of Appropriateness (CoA) for security fencing/gates at the Aurora Fox Arts Center.

Site Location: Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Avenue

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

First Publication: February 29, 2024 Final Publication: March 7, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. The meeting will be held at the Aurora History Museum, 15051 E. Alameda Pkwy. The Melvin School, known as Aurora Historic Landmark #1, public hearing will consider a Major Alterations Certificate of Appropriateness (CoA) for the construction of an ADA ramp on the rear of the building as well as complete removal of the shrubs that surround the building.

Site Location: 4950 S. Laredo Street; Southwest Corner of South Laredo Street and the Smoky Hill High School parking lot entrance.

Site Size: .4 acres

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 7, 2024

Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. This meeting will be held at the Aurora History Museum at 15051 E. Alameda Parkway. The hearing will consider a request for a Certificate of Appropriateness (CoA) for solar panels on the H.M. Milliken House.

Site Location: H.M. Milliken House, 1638 Galena Street, Aurora 80010

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 7, 2024

Sentinel DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO DISTRICT COURT CIVIL (CV) SUMMONS Case No. 2023CV031642 Div./Ctrm. 1

Plaintiff: PAUL RAFORD, individually; v. LONESTAR CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN LLC, a Colorado limited liability company; LONE HUSKY CUSTOMS, LLC d/b/a LONESTAR CONSTRUCTION + DESIGN, a Colorado limited liability company; David Welch, individually.

Defendants

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLO-

RADO TO THE FOLLOWING NAMED DEFENDANTS: DAVID WELCH; LONESTAR CONSTRUCTION & DESIGN, LLC; LONE HUSKY CUSTOMS, LLC d/b/a LONESTAR CONSTRUCTION + DESIGN

You are summoned and required to file with the clerk of this court an answer or other response to the complaint filed with the court. You are required to file your answer or other response within thirty-five (35) days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court. If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice. This is an action for Civil Theft and Breach of Contract.

THIS SUMMONS IS ISSUED

PURSUANT TO RULE 4(g)(2), C.R.C.P.

ROBINSON & HENRY, P.C.

By: Peter L. Towsky, #55556

Boyd A. Rolfson, #40035 1805 Shea Center Drive, #180 Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

P: 303-688-0944 F: 303-470-0620 peter@robinsonandhenry.com boyd@robinsonandhenry.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 28, 2024 Sentinel

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INVITATION FOR BIDS

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, a quasi-municipal corporation, and political subdivision of the State of Colorado, is soliciting bids from qualified contractors to be selected as the Filing 15 Landscaping Contractor at the Aurora Highlands Project in Aurora, CO.

Please be advised that the Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District is planning to publish this Invitation for Bids contemporaneously on BidNet. A full copy of this Invitation for Bids will be available at the following link: https://www.bidnetdirect. com/private/supplier/solicitations/search, use the BidNet search tool for open solicitation named “Filing 15 Landscaping” Reference No. 0000343686.

Bids must be electronically submitted via BidNet before 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Bids will not be accepted after the foregoing submission deadline, and hardcopies of the Bids will not be accepted.

A public opening will be held at 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time on Thursday, March 14, 2024, via Microsoft Teams. A link to this event can be found in the Invitation for Bids. For further information contact:

Aaron Flemming Construction Project Engineer III, AECOM Aaron.Flemming@aecom.com

Publication: February 29, 2024

Sentinel

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED

AMENDED 2023 BUDGET AND HEARING

SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed amended budget will be submitted to the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for the year of 2023. A copy of such proposed amended budget has been filed in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed amended budget will be considered at a hearing at the regular meeting of the Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District to be held at 1:00 P.M., on Monday March 18, 2024. The meeting will be held via video conference at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89996 292428?pwd=vnGkhbSDPU5Azzod3evH HBos5yjK7D.1 and via telephone conference at Dial-In: 1-719-359-4580, Meeting ID: 899 9629 2428, Passcode: 130733.

Any interested elector within Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed amended budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the amended 2023 budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ ICENOGLE | SEAVER | POGUE A Professional Corporation

Publication: February 29, 2024

Sentinel NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE IS

AREA COORDINATING

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, its Board, officers, agents, and employees of and from

any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 7, 2024

Sentinel

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the AEROTROPOLIS AREA COORDINATING METROPOLITAN DISTRICT of Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment on or after March 18, 2024, to:

BrightView Landscape Development, Inc. 8888 Motsenbocker Road Parker, CO 80134

for all work done by said Contractor for the Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, THE AURORA HIGHLANDS FILING 15 ENTRY MONUMENT SPASH BLOCK AND LANDSCAPE CHANGE ORDER 15 TO WORK ORDER 20, all of said work being within or near the boundaries of Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, in the City of Aurora, State of Colorado.

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

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 7, 2024

Sentinel

NOTICE OF INTENT TO DESTROY RECORDS

at North Aurora-King-Swenson Chiropractics, 2499 Peoria St., Aurora, CO 80010. Due to storage problems, we will be destroying medical records on 6/1/24 for the years through December 31, 2016. To request a copy of your records, please call 303-3415353 on or before June 1, 2024.

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 21, 2024

Sentinel

SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

Re: Public Works Construction/Improvement Contract Tibet Road Phase 1 General Improvements Project Alpine Civil Construction, Inc.

ORIGINAL CONTRACT DATED: January 1, 2022

Notice is hereby given that the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment on or after the March 10, 2024, to Alpine Civil Construction, Inc. (the “Contractor”), for all work done by said Contractor for the above-referenced project concerning construction work performed. Please be advised that the above-referenced project and the associated work were originally contracted by GREEN VALLEY RANCH EAST METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 6 before the associated legal rights and obligations were assigned to the District on April 23, 2023.

Any individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other legal entity that has furnished labor, materials, sustenance, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied laborers, rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the Contractor or its subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid,

the District, its Board of Directors, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

First Publication: February 22, 2024

Final Publication: February 29, 2024 Sentinel

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF A MINOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY COURT, COLORADO Case No. 2023C100682

PUBLIC NOTICE is given on February 6, 2024, that a Petition was filed for a Change of Name of a Minor has been filed with the Arapa- hoe County Court.

The Petition entered that the name of Esteban Adnan Ezzedine be changed to Esteban Adnan Ezzedine Gonzalez.

/s/ Clerk of Court/ Deputy Clerk

First Publication: February 22, 2024 Final Publication: March 7, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR156

Estate of Newton Baird Deavenport aka Newton B. Deavenport aka Newton Deavenport, 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 31, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brian Deavenport

Personal Representative 16386 E. Dorado Ave. Centennial, CO 80015

First Publication: February 22, 2024

Final Publication: March 7, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR30982

Estate of Aubrey Wesley, 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 June 30, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Bernard Wesley

Personal Representative c/o B. Debauche

Atty Reg #: 28593

The Law Office of Brian Debauche 401 Kalamath St. Denver, CO 80204

Phone: 303-571-5023

First Publication: February 22, 2024

Final Publication: March 7, 2024

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2022PR30969

Estate of D. Marline McCracken, 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 June 22, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Annette Louise Lorenzini

Personal Representative 21353 E. Prentice Pl.

Centennial, CO 80015

First Publication: February 22, 2024

Final Publication: March 7, 2024

Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE

BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2024PR30027

Estate of Robin Schaffer, 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 June 15, 2024, or

the claims may be forever barred.

Hannah Schaffer Svoboda

Personal Representative

c/o Steven M. Weiser, Esq.

Atty. Reg. #: 27535

Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP

360 S. Garfield St., 6th Floor Denver, Colorado 80209 (303) 333-9810 weiser@fostergraham.com

First Publication: February 15, 2024

Final Publication: February 29, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2024PR30078

Estate of Michael Eugene Hunter, 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 June 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

William F. Hunter and Kathleen A. Hunter Personal Representatives 15616 E. Atlantic Circle Aurora, CO 80013

Attorney for Personal Representative

Jennifer E. Jespersen, Esq.

Atty Reg #: 36295 8039 S. Oneida Court Centennial, CO 80112

Phone: 720-841-7771

First Publication: February 15, 2024

Final Publication: February 29, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2024PR30118

Estate of Lorraine Gonzales aka Portia Lorraine Gonzales, 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 July 1, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gary A. Cielinski Personal Representative

c/o Donald J. Banner

Atty Reg #: 3026

Banner & Bower, P.C.

115 E. Riverwalk, Ste. 400 Pueblo, CO 81003

Phone: 719-544-5086

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 14, 2024

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2024PR30128

Estate of Dennis S. Greene aka Dennis Greene, 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 July 7, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Personal Representative

Charles H. Jacobs

Atty Reg #: 1919

Lohf Shaiman Jacobs P.C. 950 S. Cherry St., Ste. 300 Denver, CO 80246

Phone: 303-753-9000

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 14, 2024 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2024PR30145

Estate of Harry Michael Sopko II, 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 June 26, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anna Burr, Esq.

Atty Reg #: 42205

Law Office of Anna L. Burr, LLC 2851 S. Parker Rd., Ste. 230

Aurora, CO 80014

Phone: 720-500-2076

First Publication: February 22, 2024

Final Publication: March 7, 2024

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2024PR30149

Estate of Matthew Roland Backus aka Matt Roland Backus, 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 June 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Personal Representative, Emily Donne Sorey-Backus

Law Office of Alexandra White, P.C.

Krista Beauchamp, Atty Reg. #: 47615 12625 E. Euclid Drive

Centennial, CO 80111

Phone: 303-500-1221

First Publication: February 15, 2024

Final Publication: February 29, 2024

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2024PR30207

Estate of Irene Kay Hartung aka Irene K. Hartung aka Irene Hartung, 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 June 29, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Richard S. Hartung

Personal Representative c/o Chayet & Danzo, LLC

Marco D. Chayet, #29815

Tamara E. Trujillo, #41193

Tracy L. Brooks, #58020

650 S. Cherry St., Ste. 710, Denver, CO 80246 Phone: 303-355-8500

First Publication: February 29, 2024

Final Publication: March 14, 2024

Sentinel

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ADULT ADAMS COUNTY COURT, COLORADO Case No. 2024C0115

PUBLIC NOTICE is given on Janu- ary 30, 2024, that a Petition was filed for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The Petition entered that the name of Bella Mali Nigro be changed to Bella Mali Lipsey.

/s/ Judge

First Publication: February 15, 2024

Final Publication: February 29, 2024

Sentinel

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ADULT ARAPAHOE COUNTY COURT, COLORADO Case No. 2024C100034

PUBLIC NOTICE is given on Janu- ary 24, 2024, that a Petition was filed for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The Petition entered that the name of Natalie Lauren Franks be changed to Natalie Lauren Love.

/s/Sarah Ingmenasen Clerk of Court/ Deputy Clerk

First Publication: February 15, 2024

Final Publication: February 29, 2024

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1) Mythical monster

25th February

2) First name in comedy?

3) _de plume

4) Adversaries

5) Soak up again

6) Like some humor

7) Pool exercises

8) Flight data,briefly

9) "_ boom bah!"

10)Drunkards

11)Slatted furniture item

12)Bathsheba's first husband

13)Legendary TV actress White

18)Birch or banyan

22)Butter unit

23)Ladybug's snack

24)"So _!"

25)Sauce ingredient,sometimes

26)Molecular bit

28)Ancient Peruvians

29)Twelve,half of the time

3 l)Agitated state

33)Related maternally

34)Golden Horde member

36) Innately gifted ones

37)Kitchen appliance

41)One way to be accused

43)Certain special effect,in movies

44)Short stride

45)Globetrotter's home

46)Some shirts

47)Chilled

48)Badminton or tennis

50)BBs,e.g.

51)Antares,for one

54)"At Seventeen" singer Janis

55)"Long_and far away "

56)Maple product

57)" _he drove out of sight"

Obituary

Michael John Shattuck

September 2, 1961 - February 2, 2024

Michael John Shattuck peacefully passed away on February 2nd at his home in Pensacola, Florida after a long and courageous battle against colon cancer. Mike was born on September 2, 1961, in San Jose, CA to Harriet Elvira Knudson and George Wendell Shattuck. Mike was predeceased by his mother. Mike served in the US Navy and later as a Captain for United Airlines. He is survived by his wife, Ann Bradley Shattuck, his sons, Christopher (Angela) and Stephen, his father, George, his brother, Andrew (Stephanie), his sister, Karen, and three grandchildren. Also surviving him are many nieces and nephews as well as loving cousins in Minnesota, the home state of his parents.

There will be a Celebration of Life in Aurora, Colorado on Saturday, March 9th at the Beacon Point Clubhouse from 2-4pm. Everyone is asked to bring a memory they shared with Mike.

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