Despite some minority groups making gains in education, housing and income, equity with white Coloradans evades Black and Latino residents
Grandview HIgh School seniors Taylor Held (10) and Avery Harr (3) celebrate after the Wolves’ 3-1 win over Broomfield in the Class 5A state championship girls soccer game on May 25 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Held and Harr were on the Grandview varsity team back in 2019 when it won a state title, then lost their sophomores seasons to COVID-19 and missed out on the playoffs last season when the field was shrunk due to the pandemic. For the full story on Grandview’s win, see story on page 11.
Best of Aurora listings last week had errors for these winners. The details below about the winner Best Of nominees is correct.
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The percentage points that Latino Colorado residents fall below whites for having college degrees, 10 percent under Black residents. See this week’s cover story to see how Black and Latino residents have progressed in achieving equity over the last 10 years.
I’m cooked from a week of soul-ripping horror and other assorted mayhem that I and just about every journalist in the nation traipsed through this week, but I refuse to fold yet and let absurdity win the day, again.
You only need to know one horrible thing from the Uvalde, Texas massacre to understand how wrong Republican political obstinacy has become.
A little girl in a classroom in Uvalde covered herself in her just-murdered friend’s fresh blood and laid still in hopes that the gunman in her school would pass her over as already dead. She surreptitiously called 911 and begged police to come rescue her and other terrified students. Meanwhile, just on the other side of the classroom door, 19 “good guys with guns” waited for almost an hour for the school custodian to let them into the room to take out the mass murderer. It was after he killed 21 people, mostly children, and injured others.
And the nearly unanimous Republican response to this new nightmare, after decades of nightmares almost exactly like it, including right here in Aurora?
“The existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens,” former President Donald Trump told an accepting audience at an annual National Rifle Association convention, held in Houston on the heels of nearly back-toback grisly mass murderers.
Evil? Like, the Devil made this week’s mass murderer run out and buy military assault rifles and systematically execute a room full of children and teachers?
It’s not surprising that the same people who offer only thoughts and prayers to parents — who stand outside schools or grocery stores, waiting to find out if the most important person in their lives was shot to death as the price we must pay to ensure Texans can hunt varmints with assault rifles — are the same people who think Beezlebub tells people to take their semi-automatic assault weapons to school and kill everyone.
It’s increasingly difficult to discern who is more mentally unstable these days, the mass shooters or those who defend their rights to “legally bear arms,” until they become mass murderers or just shoot a few people they don’t like.
Trump and GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbot and GOP Colorado Congressperson Lauren Boebert and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre and GOP South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — and are you seeing a pattern here — insist that the only solution to more gun violence is more guns with fewer restrictions.
If you don’t see the lunacy in this, you might not only have a problem, you are the problem.
These people insist that we cannot control rampant gun violence that terrorizes every student and parent in the country, so we must arm ourselves and our children and cower in fear, waiting for a fellow student, a teacher or a stranger to open fire in yet another classroom.
Noem told a cavern full of NRA members that “calls to further restrict gun access are ‘all about control, and it is garbage. I’m not buying it for a second and
you shouldn’t, either,’” the AP reported. Seriously?
Hell, yes, it’s about control. It’s about controlling the distribution of one of the most deadly devices ever invented and profited on: guns. It’s about controlling them in the same way we control deadly drugs, deadly explosives, deadly toxins and even deadly cars.
It’s about keeping terrified children, awash in their friends’ blood, from having to plead with police to come save them before they’re murdered themselves.
The answer from Cruz and thousands of elected Republican leaders is to “harden” schools to make it more difficult to get inside and execute dozens of little boys and girls.
So, these determined gunmen can then, what, drive to the nearest grocery store and massacre people there?
“At least it wasn’t all children this time,” is the best we can hope for in the United States?
In every modern democracy in the world, the rights of parents are given huge deference in how they treat, and mistreat, their own children. But nowhere in decent parts of the world are adults permitted to abuse other people’s children.
That’s exactly what these misfit Republicans are doing. By obstinately resisting even the most innocuous gun control measures, people like Boebert, Abbot and Cruz have shown repeatedly they are incapable of being trusted to be responsible for all of our children and ourselves.
The lives of your children, your loved ones, your friends, your own life and those of people you’ve never met are less important to these GOP extremists than their unshakable gun worship.
Cruz, speaking at the NRA convention, blamed the nation’s endless shooting massacres on poor character and bad parenting, ironically excluding himself and others like him.
I frequently take this test when assess-
ing people’s character. Would you entrust the person to take care of your own child? How about your dog? A neighbor’s hamster?
Exactly.
How do you feel about Congressperson Lauren Boebert as a parenting figure after she infamously last Christmas posed her own young children armed with assault rifles as they mugged for the camera in front of the Christmas tree to create a lurid holiday card?
To claim that sating some sordid ammophila outweighs the lives of innocent children, innocent grocery shoppers or movie goers is so bent that even listening to the gun lobby’s sadistic defense of its principles is offensive and abusive to normal people.
“Classroom doors should be hardened to make them lockable from the inside and closed to intruders from the outside,” Trump said.
That’s exactly what school officials in Uvalde did, just like almost every school in Texas. It’s how the gunman was able to lock out police while he murdered children and teachers inside the classrooms.
It’s all yet another distraction, waiting for your horror to fade.
Take it from the surviving victims of the Aurora theater shooting and the hundreds of friends and families of those who didn’t make it out of that cinema alive almost 10 years ago. The horror and the terror never ends. The losses never fade. And each time another gunman terrorizes and massacres another venue, it inches closer to our turn. Your turn. Your children. Your life.
Don’t let these warped Republicans tell you we’re the only nation on the planet that must suffer like this, or that we’re just one mental-health center or one armed cop at school away from fixing it.
It’s the guns.
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Compromise is rarely a good solution to any crisis, and the state’s newly minted law focusing on the raging opioid and fentanyl overdose crisis is a perfect example.
What’s indisputable in Colorado, and across the nation, is that the opioid and fentanyl addiction and overdose crisis continues to worsen, debilitating and killing more people all the time.
The opioid death rate in the United States has exploded since 1990, trebling to an astonishing rate of more than 100 people a day, almost 70,000 people in 2020, according to federal sources.
Just in Colorado, about 1,500 people a year die from these overdoses.
It’s long been a staggering problem inflicted in part by the nation’s own medical and pharmaceutical industries, which overprescribed and under-regulated deadly and viciously addicting painkillers such as OxyContin and Vicodin for decades.
Opioid addiction, destruction and death have been a national crisis long before the even more potent and addictive fentanyl complicated the calamity.
These drugs are uniquely destructive because of their intensely addictive properties in humans and because of the relentless physical and psychological damage they inflict on the addicts that use them.
Opioid addiction is not a matter of willpower or character. Those who equate this problem to people facing eating disorders or even alcoholism have no credible concept of the problem, or the solution.
While almost all substance abuse is linked with lapsing judgment and no appreciation for risk, nothing compares to the sheer force of opioid addiction that obliterates all logical and sensible behavior. Opioid addicts will do virtually anything to satisfy the relentless craving.
For years, lawmakers have seen this and other addictions as nothing more than criminal justice dilemmas, simply because possessing and using most of these substances was illegal.
Years of consistent research has shown that jails and prisons are vastly unable to treat these addiction problems. For a variety of reasons, many addicts even continue to feed their addictions while incarcerated. And even those who don’t often return to drug addiction and substance abuse after incarceration.
Rather than solve the problem, we have for years spent oceans of tax dollars to run drug addicts through the courts system and then spend upward of $30,000 a year to jail or imprison them, only to release them back to their addiction, and eventual re-incarceration.
Meanwhile, as the addiction worsens, some of these people become real criminals to finance their addiction. Many become small-time drug distributors, so they can simply ensure a steady supply of opioids for themselves.
These addicts risk their lives every single day, knowing that each time they shoot-up, snort or ingest whatever they can get their hands on, they risk overdose and death.
It doesn’t stop them. It doesn’t even give them pause.
These addicts lose their friends, their families, their homes and their lives as slaves to their addictions.
The consequence of being charged with a felony rather than a misdemeanor — if they’re caught possessing or using the only thing they care about — does not and will not prevent opioid abuse and deaths.
Despite that, a compromise was struck in the Legislature last month as a measure addressing the crisis was reformed from previous attempts.
The legislative compromise boosts possession of virtually any amount of opioids containing fentanyl, which could be any and all street drugs soon, according to experts, to a felony.
The new law, like the old one, essentially makes suggestions but no guarantees that people caught possessing opioids and fentanyl receive effective treatment.
When it comes to opioid and fentanyl addiction, addicts either stop using and survive or continue using and die of an overdose or some malady or circumstance linked to their addiction.
Creating a sometimes-felony does nothing but complicate the problem and add to the public cost of this crisis.
What House Bill 1326 did right is provide upward of $40 million that can do what fentanyl possession felonious cannot to mitigate the crisis.
About $6 million for “harm-reduction” programs can go a long way in preventing overdose deaths, but it’s not enough to prevent new addictions and end addiction for those already trapped.
Only about $13 million was set aside specifically for treatment centers and programs to treat addicts into sobriety. That amount will be spread across numerous centers statewide and across dozens of jails.
Given that there are an estimated 43,000 people in Colorado misusing opioids, the need for affordable and accessible treatment will far surpass what lawmakers designated for it.
While putting more resources into preventing truckloads of opioids and especially fentanyl-laced opioids from being delivered to Colorado drug users will help prevent deaths, it won’t stop them.
The so-called War on Drugs was a dismal failure. There’s virtually no nation on the planet that human desire and criminal resources haven’t won out.
Buyers don’t have to take to chat rooms or the streets. Opioids are easily available by mail order through the dark web, police officials report.
Only a massive education and prevention campaign linked to a practical addiction-treatment project will dial back the death count and the lives virtually lost to addiction.
State lawmakers got part of the solution right last month. Officials from Gov. Jared Polis’ office need to ensure data is collected for next year to move another bill toward the right solution, not another compromise.
Editor: This has been an emotionally draining week. As a former teacher, school counselor and a saddened citizen of our country, I was devastated to hear the news about another school shooting. Unfortunately, I believe these abominations will not stop until we recognize the reality of what they create.
To fully acknowledge the devastation of these all too often occurrences, we don’t need to see pictures of crying families, police cars or perpetrators’ Instagram posts. What we need to see are the actual crime scene photos. Pictures of mutilated children’s bodies that will penetrate deep inside with immense pain to where the shards of our broken hearts are already tearing at us. We need to send 535 copies of these photos to Congress along with our adamant statements that we will no longer tolerate the inaction of a few ignorant politicians whose behaviors indicate the only representation they exist for are those who provide them dollars. Until these senators and representatives have to experience what these families are having to cope with, they will deflect these horrific actions back into the shadows, relegating them to some tangent cause.
There are those who will protest that such provocative actions would violate the privacy of the families affected by these mass murders. This is merely a deflection because these grieving families have already become part of our public narrative without their permission the moment these tragedies take place. The surviving loved ones are the recipients of our “thoughts and prayers” but not of our honest exposure to the gruesome reality each of them knows when identifying the lifeless body of their brutalized child.
Eliminating the manufacture and purchase of automatic weapons is in no way even remotely a limitation on the second amendment, as these weapons of mass destruction did not even exist when the United States Constitution was written. Massive magazines filled with bullets to be used in these high-capacity high power weapons did not exist when the United States Constitution was written. These are military weapons intended to kill enemies, not our fellow citizen.
Thanks to the NRA, it’s lobbyists and it’s money-grubbing sycophants in Congress the choices of a few are continuing to allow these massacres of children to occur in our own country over and over again. It’s time they see the reality their self-center decisions are creating in crystal clear fashion by having to see what the guardians of these victims must view when they came to pick up their child from school. We need to be done with these exclusively self-serving actions and we need to be done with anyone in government who will not act to affect change.
— Carol Gianfrancisco via letters@sentinelcolorado.com
Editor: After viewing twenty years of bs from politicians after countless mass shootings in this country, I offer this nitty gritty comment:
IF the fifty Republican senators who refuse to bring up a vote on the House gun reform bill found themselves barricaded in an enclosed space with an armed perpetrator, faced with their own mortality, would it change their thinking about an archaic second amendment? or their hearts and minds? Is that power?
— Maggie Kuchta, via letters@sentinelcolora-
Dan Oates is once again wearing an Aurora Police Department badge as he settles into his new, albeit temporary, job at the helm of the agency that he left in 2014.
“My intent is to do everything I can to sort of stabilize this place, get it moving in the right direction, do something about crime and then help recruit a top talent,” the interim chief said in an interview with The Sentinel on Tuesday.
Tuesday was Oates’ third day back on the job. Since returning to the department, he said he’d met with and spoken to many officers, joining them at roll calls and even participating in a weekend street operation.
The push to meet officers isn’t just about reacquainting himself with the daily operations of the department. Oates said he hopes to rebuild morale in part by presenting himself as accessible to the rank and file.
“It was very clear that they appreciated the fact that I was out there,” he said. “Some of the feedback I’ve gotten is something that’s been missing around here is the accessibility of the chief.”
Oates will serve in his new role until the city
finds a permanent replacement for former police Chief Vanessa Wilson, whom City Manager Jim Twombly fired in April. The city has said it expects to hire a new permanent chief by the end of the year.
Wilson was fired amid multiple national controversies swirling around the department, including the killing of Elijah McClain, a drunken cop passed out behind the wheel of his squad car, a group of young Black girls being forced faced down on hot pavement during a mistaken arrest and, most recently, an Aurora officer filmed pistol whipping a young Black man.
Last year the department entered into a court-monitored consent decree with the Colorado attorney general’s office to address “patterns and practices” of racism and misuse of force during contact with members of the public.
Wilson said her firing was politically motivated by critics inside the union and from some conservatives on City Council that opposed to her staunch support of police reform in light of the department’s numerous problems. Twombly said Wilson was fired because of a lack of management skills.
Oates led the department from 2005 to 2014, a time period that included the Century 16 movie theater shooting. The former chief’s return
comes as the department struggles to rebuild morale and community confidence.
“We are a good agency. We’ve been through some tough times, but fundamentally the people here are fantastic,” Oates said. “It’s everything I remember.”
Like many U.S. cities, Aurora is grappling with a rise in certain crimes. The rate of shootings in particular has prompted demands for immediate action from some community members and elected officials. In 2021, 33 people were shot fatally, including two juveniles, according to APD. That’s in addition to 157 non-fatal shootings that occurred the same year.
When asked during a press conference in late April what his strategy would be for addressing rising crime, Oates said he had “ideas, but no plan.” On Tuesday, he again said it would be “foolish” for him to try and flesh out a plan for tackling crime this early in his tenure. He did, however, float some specific ideas for crime reduction.
Oates said he would be interested in establishing a unit of officers who could be stationed flexibly in high-crime areas, citing Aurora’s defunct Direct Action Response Teams and a recent proposal by New York City mayor Eric Adams
Mayor Mike Coffman on Monday slammed two Aurora City Council members for taking a “European vacation” earlier this month on the taxpayers’ dime, after Juan Marcano and Crystal Murillo flew to France to attend an urban planning conference.
According to travel records released by the City of Aurora, Marcano and Murillo requested $3,050.24 and $5,535.15 in respective reimbursements for traveling to the International Making Cities Livable Conference in the Paris suburb of Le Plessis-Robinson.
Those amounts could be adjusted during the budget reconciliation process, city spokesman Michael Brannen later said, adding that Murillo’s expenses “could and likely will be” reduced, as she may pay for some or all of her lodging expenses herself.
The event held May 17-May 21 included presentations by planners, economic development experts, developers, activists and others, as well as tours, receptions and dinner events.
On the conference’s website, the focus of the 2022 event was described as “the role of architecture in supporting more active, more connective, more beautiful public spaces, promoting human and planetary health, well-being, and livability.”
Murillo said Monday that she and Marcano also had the opportunity to promote Aurora in front of the area’s chamber of commerce.
But the mayor took aim at Marcano and Murillo for the international excursion, which he called “an insult to the hardworking taxpayers of this city.”
“It’s time for Council Members Marcano and Murillo to understand that we work for the taxpayers of this city and that they don’t work for us,” Coffman wrote in a Twitter post on Monday. “Next time they want to take a European vacation, they can pay for it themselves.”
The mayor wrote in his Twitter post that he would be introducing an ordinance prohibiting council members from using city funds to pay for attending international conferences.
City spokesman Ryan Luby said in a statement that the reimbursements will come out of the $7,000 travel budget afforded to every council member, which may be rolled over into subsequent years.
Coffman’s progressive opponents on the council were quick to accuse him of hypocrisy. In a reply to his post, Councilmember Alison Coombs asked about a delegation Coffman led to El Salvador as part of the Aurora Sister Cities International program, which cost the city $2,350.
She also brought up conservative lawmakers’ trips to Washington, D.C. with representatives from Accelerate Colorado, a local business advocacy group. The travel records shared by the city indicate six council members plan to make a trip with Accelerate Colorado this year, which is expected to cost the
city $17,500 in registration fees.
Marcano called the D.C. trip a “wine-and-dine junket” in a Twitter thread responding to Coffman’s comments, accusing the mayor of stoking a controversy to distract from the projected cost of the city’s new unauthorized camping ban.
“It’s clear that Coffman’s problem isn’t the cost to taxpayers. His problem is either that he bears some grudge against France in particular, or that he bears some grudge against me,” Marcano wrote. “This is just another instance of Coffman throwing a tantrum and lying to the public.”
Marcano and Murillo also pushed back against Coffman’s criticisms at the end of Monday’s City Council meeting.
“Aurora is one of the few cities in the country that actually has an office of immigrant affairs, and has an immigrant integration plan, and so to be able to connect and build relationships with another community internationally I think is in our best interest as a city,” Murillo said. “I think it was a really successful trip.”
Marcano said there had been “a lot of hearsay and frankly just lies” spread regarding their trip, which he shared information about via Twitter as the conference unfolded. He later said he was referring to Coffman’s characterization of the conference as a “vacation,” which he said was misleading.
The council member also invited the public to a meeting June 1 at 6:30 p.m., where he said they would recap the trip. He said the meeting will be held either in the council chambers or in the Aurora Room, both at the Aurora Municipal Center.
Luby said in his statement that Marcano and Murillo had “submitted the attached travel records to the city in accordance with the Council travel policy” and that the council members had “previously attended the 2021 IMCL conference, which was held in the Indianapolis area.”
— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer
Aurorans can weigh in on the redrawing of City Council ward boundaries this summer at a series of meetings as well as online using the city’s Engage Aurora platform.
Aurora’s City Council includes a mayor and 10 council members — six of those 10 lawmakers are elected to represent a specific ward, while the remaining four are “atlarge,” meaning they represent the city as a whole.
The city’s charter tasks the nonpartisan Aurora Election Commission with evaluating the boundaries of the city’s six wards prior to municipal elections held in years ending in “3” or “9.”
According to the charter, the six wards are supposed to be “contiguous and compact,” having “approximately the same number of residents” in each.
Residents will be able to provide comments and ask questions
at six meetings as part of the commission’s review process, with one meeting held for each ward, starting in June:
Ward I, June 1, 6 p.m., Moorhead Recreation Center, 2390 Havana St.
Ward II, June 15, 6 p.m., Beck Recreation Center, 800 Telluride St.
Ward III, June 29, 6 p.m., Aurora Central Library, 14949 E. Alameda Parkway.
Ward IV, July 13, 6 p.m., Colorado Early Colleges, 1400 S. Abilene St.
Ward V, July 27, 6 p.m., Central Recreation Center, 18150 E. Vassar Place.
Ward VI, Aug. 3, 6 p.m., Tallyn’s
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Reach Library, 23911 E. Arapahoe Road.
A survey is being posted along with proposed ward maps at EngageAurora.org/Redistricting.
Details about streaming the meetings via WebEx will be posted at the same URL by the day of the meeting. The survey will be open from June 1 through Aug. 3.
The City Council must approve the new ward boundaries by ordinance at least 180 days before the next regular municipal election.
— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff WriterAurora’s six public outdoor pools will offer residents a place to beat the heat starting May 28.
All Aurora needs is some heat, which weather predictors say is coming, and maybe some more lifeguards.
Due to the ongoing nationwide shortage of qualified lifeguards, hours will be limited compared to previous years, according to a city press release. The same release notes that Parklane Pool has been renovated and will reopen with new features such as locker rooms, showers and a splash pad.
Outdoor pools and their hours of operation include:
Aqua Vista Pool — open Mondays and Wednesdays from noon to
6 p.m. for open swimming.
Del Mar Pool — open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon for swim lessons and from noon to 6 p.m. for open swimming; also open on weekends from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for open swimming.
Meadow Hills Pool — open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon for swim lessons and from noon to 6 p.m. for open swimming; also open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for open swimming.
Parklane Pool — open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from noon to 6 p.m. for open swimming; also open Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for open swimming.
Pheasant Run Pool — open Mondays from noon to 6 p.m. for open
swimming.
Village Green Pool — open Thursdays from noon to 6 p.m. for open swimming.
Indoor pools will also remain open:
Beck Recreation Center — open weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. for lap swimming, fitness classes and hot tub use.
Central Recreation Center — open weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. for lap swimming, river walk and hot tub use; also open on weekends from noon to 6 p.m. for open lap swimming, open swimming, river walk, slide, wave pool and hot tub use.
Moorhead Recreation Center — open weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. for lap swimming and river walk.
Utah Pool — open weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. for lap swimming.
City spraygrounds at Great Plains Park and Red-Tailed Hawk Park will also be open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Current pool schedules and other up-to-date information are available at AuroraGov.org/Pools.
— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer
Police have determined that a social media threat made against Cherry Creek High School last week was not substantiated, but an investigation is still underway.
Greenwood Village Police Department Officer Rodney Valenzuela said that there was no credible threat, but that the investigation unit is continuing to investigate the source to try to determine the person’s identity.
On Thursday, Cherry Creek High School and neighboring Campus Middle School and Bellview Elementary School were placed on secure perimeter for over an hour after police were notified of a social media threat against CCHS.
“The threat stemmed from an individual who resides out of state who received a social media message from an unknown subject, threatening to ‘shoot up the school,’” a Thursday news release from the police department said. A communication that was sent out to parents from the district about the incident was slightly inaccurate because police were not consulted, Valenzuela said.
District spokesperson Abbe Smith said it was a miscommunication with the department.
“When Greenwood Village police indicated it was safe to release students, we believed the situation was resolved,” she said in an email. “(So our communication to parents said the situation had been resolved). After further conversations, we learned that police were still investigating.”
— CARINA JULIG,
Staff Writer
Video games aren’t what people tend to first think of when discussing competitive sports, but after establishing a pilot program three years ago eSports will be a fully sanctioned activity under the Colorado High School Activities Association in 2023.
In April, the eSports teams at Cherry Creek High School and Grandview High School came away with championships in Super Smash Bros and League of Legends. Coaches say the sport gives kids who aren’t into traditional athletics another way to be part of a team, and that some students have been offered college scholarships for the activity.
“It’s something that I’m very passionate about because it gives kids who aren’t involved in other activities the opportunity to get involved and compete for their school,” said Alex Bak, Cherry Creek biology teacher and eSports coach, who also sits on CHSAA’s advisory committee for the activity.
League of Legends and Rocket League were the first two games sanctioned under the CHSAA pilot, and the Grandview team won back to back League of Legends championships in 2020 and 2021. This year, Super Smash Bros was added to the roster and the team won the inaugural state championship at the April competition.
“It was really cool for my kids to be the first ones to win,” Bak said. The Smash team consisted of all seniors, so it made for a fitting end to their high school careers.
Overall about 160 students are involved in the eSports club, Bak said, with 50 to 60 on the competitive teams. Others help to coach and coordinate strategy for competitions or run the team’s twitch stream and website.
“There’s tons of different ways to get involved,” she said.
Like Bak, Grandview High School social studies teacher Carlos Nevares is a gamer. He was a first year teacher when the eSports pilot began and asked to coach the team as a way to get to know the school better. This spring, he led the team to victory in League of Legends beating out Cherry Creek and 15 other schools for the top spot.
“I just got lucky, it was very much less me coaching and really that my kids were up to the task,” he said, praising the team for its commitment. “I was more of a manager, making sure kids were doing their practices and showing up to the games.”
Bak and Nevares said that initially some parents were skeptical about eSports and didn’t see it as a legitimate activity but overall have been very supportive, especially after they understood that their kids could win awards and even get scholarship money for playing the sport.
Some smaller colleges who don’t have high-profile sports teams are trying to make a name for them-
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selves in the eSports world, Bak said. She has had students accept scholarship offers from Miami University in Ohio and the University of Missouri.
“If your kids are already doing this, why not channel that into something that’s positive?” Nevares said. Video games may not look like a traditional sport, but students still get all the same benefits and life skills of being part of a team.
The sport was especially conducive to helping students maintain a sense of community during the pandemic. Because they didn’t need to be in the same place, they could keep practicing during remote learning while using the social media platform Discord to communicate.
“It definitely has been a way for kids to stay connected, even from home,” Bak said.
With eSports set to become a fully sanctioned CHSAA activity next year, it will only become more popular. The coaches encourage students of any skill level who love video games to come to tryouts this fall.
“If all these other activities aren’t meeting your needs, eSports could be that outlet for you,” Nevares said.
— CARINA JULIG, Sentinel Staff WriterAurora police are leading an investigation into a shooting Monday evening near the Aurora-Denver border that resulted in the death of an unidentified man.
Denver Police contacted Aurora police Monday night regarding a man suffering gunshot wounds who died while in the area of East 16th Avenue and Willow Street in Denver, just west of the Aurora-Denver border.
An initial investigation revealed the man was shot while in the area of East 16th Avenue and Alton Street in Aurora, police said in a statement on Tuesday.
Aurora police say APD Major Crimes will now complete an investigation into the shooting.
“At this early stage in the investigation, the facts and circumstances that led up to this death, to include suspect descriptions, are still being determined,” said Aurora Office Elizabeth McGregor in a statement.
Coroner officials will identify the shooting victim at a later date.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. Tipsters can remain anonymous and still be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000, police said.
— SENTINEL STAFFPolice said they could find no evidence of a shooting during a mall parking lot carnival Saturday night after dispatchers received multiple calls of shots fired in the area.
“The crowd was, naturally, terrified,” police said in a tweet, responding to public inquiries the following day. “No victims were located at the scene or at any hospital throughout the night.”
Police said there were no shell casings found in the area. The gunfire was reported at about 10 p.m.
“Again, no parties were shot,” police said.
Police said off-duty police officers would remain at the carnival throughout the holiday weekend.
The carnival is scheduled to remain at the mall through June 5 and is open until 11 p.m. and sometimes midnight each day.
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SENTINEL STAFFAn Aurora Police Department officer has been cleared of criminal charges after shooting and wounding a fugitive during a raid, according to a letter penned by the 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason.
Shannon Owens was shot in July 2021, after law enforcement tracked him to a room at Wolf’s Motor Inn, 15691 E Colfax Ave. Owens was wanted on multiple warrants,
including one warrant for failure to appear in court on an attempted murder charge and two warrants related to illegally possessing firearms.
The letter states the FBI and Denver-area law enforcement agencies tracked Owens with the help of location data obtained from his cell phone using a search warrant.
At about 5:30 p.m. on July 6, law enforcement identified him in the parking lot of Wolf’s Motor Inn, where he was seen arguing with a woman, before the two went into a room together.
“Without further information, the arrest team was concerned that the adult female might be a hostage,” the DA’s letter reads. “Given the dynamic and potentially dangerous situation, the arrest team called for additional resources, including the Aurora Police Department (APD) and Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) SWAT teams.”
Police called Owens inside the motel room, which he refused to exit. They surrounded the room and called members of his family to try to persuade him to surrender, but Owens remained barricaded inside.
Eventually, police developed a plan to remove the woman who was inside with Owens, and who police believed could be a hostage, according to a statement from Mason. They prepared to use explosives to open observation holes in one wall of the room, while members of the SWAT team would charge in through the front door.
Officers first set off a flashbang device at the door. Immediately afterward, they heard a gunshot inside of the room, which was also captured on body-worn camera recordings of the incident, according to the DA letter.
Police decided to force their way into the room. APD SWAT Officer Oscar Pena was inside of the motel room next to Owens’. Once an explosive charge knocked a hole through the wall, Pena looked into the room and saw Owens lying on the ground, pointing a handgun at him.
The DA letter says Pena believed Owens had just shot the woman, who he told investigators was “intertwined” with Owens, and would try to shoot police officers if they entered the room.
“Officer Pena concluded that he had no other options,” the letter states. “He decided to stop the threat of force by Mr. Owens by aiming his handgun and firing it at Mr. Owens’ lower body.”
Pena’s body-worn camera wasn’t aimed through the hole in the wall, but other officers’ camera footage shows Pena approaching the hole and ordering Owens twice to show his hands before shooting, the letter said.
Pena fired his weapon three times, hitting Owens once in the left knee and once in the back. At that point, Owens dropped his gun. Other officers approached Owens
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to re-establish plainclothes antistreet-crime units, called Neighborhood Safety Teams, as inspiration.
The department may not have the resources to staff DART groups in each district, but Oates said there may be enough officers to staff a single unit whose jurisdiction would be citywide. He said the officers would receive specialized training, possibly including de-escalation.
Oates also said he would be interested in forming an initiative to address vehicle thefts, which he described as a “huge problem.” He said cars are increasingly being stolen for use in other crimes.
“In order to get to any crime scene and commit a bad act, you need a car, and more and more, folks are stealing cars as part of an effort to get to wherever they’re going to go,” Oates said.
When asked whether he believed residents were safe in Aurora, Oates said that it was “accurate that the volume of crime is too high, as it is in most of America’s major cities, but I still think fundamentally it’s a safe city, that per capita our level of violence is not what it is elsewhere.”
He added that he recognizes “a lot of room for improvement.”
Oates also stressed that he was committed to upholding directives given by elected leaders, both in the context of Aurora’s new unauthorized camping ban and new police reform laws passed by Colorado’s state legislature.
Wilson previously expressed discomfort with the idea of com-
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and secured the woman. They also found a handgun near Owens with a bullet in the chamber and a loaded magazine.
A bullet hole was found inside the room, but the DA letter notes that “given the condition and use of the Room 224 at Wolf’s Motor Inn, it could not be determined if the bullet hole was caused by Mr. Owens or from some other event.”
The woman who had been in the room with Owens told police that she did not see him with a gun and had not been taken hostage.
The 17th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team, led by two Thornton detectives, investigated the shooting. Based on their investigation, Mason wrote that he would not be filing charges against Pena.
“Officer Pena’s decision to shoot Mr. Owens was made in an effort to eliminate the risk of injury to himself, the female, and the other arresting officers,” he wrote. “I find Officer Pena’s decision to be justified.”
The letter notes that charges against a civilian are pending in Adams County District Court as a result of the investigation.
It was not clear whether that individual was Owens, who was charged with menacing, possession
mitting police resources to sweeping homeless camps while the camping ban was in development earlier this year and last year.
Oates confirmed that, when the time comes to step up enforcement against homeless campers, his department will do its part.
“Whatever we’re asked as part of the (city) manager’s comprehensive strategy to enforce, we’re going to do,” he said. “I understand we’re working through the details of that.”
Regarding Senate Bill 20-217, which stripped Colorado police officers of qualified immunity and required them to intervene and make a report when other officers use excessive force, Oates said police officers “take an oath to the democratic process, and the Legislature has spoken, and we need to embrace that.”
He said an official from one of the department’s two police unions had approached him about the need for additional training so officers understand what is and is not an acceptable use of force in light of the bill.
Oates said he has heard similar questions from officers across the state and hopes to compile with the two unions’ help a list of five to 10 specific scenarios that officers want additional training on and then structure training around the list.
Also on the subject of police accountability and his relationship with the city’s police unions, Oates said he believed that “in modern American society these days, a good police chief will occasionally butt heads with union
leadership over how discipline is meted out.”
“And that’s just sort of the natural order, because when it comes to discipline, we are, naturally and legally, adversaries,” he said. “My job is to do what’s right for management and what I believe is best for the organization. The union’s job is to defend the police officer. That’s their legal obligation. … But there’s no surprises here as to who I am when it comes to discipline.”
In a Washington Post opinion piece published shortly after the death of George Floyd, Oates argued for police chiefs to be given greater control over officer discipline, blaming “obstructionist labor leaders” in part for the difficulty some cities have had dumping bad cops.
On Tuesday, he again said he believed giving chiefs greater authority would help them weed out officers with behavioral problems. He also said he had done his best in his 18 years as a chief in Colorado, Florida and Michigan to hold his officers accountable for their behavior.
When asked whether he had any interest in returning to lead the department on a more permanent basis, he said that he “absolutely and definitively” did not, adding that his contract with the city barred him from applying.
“If I were to be a candidate for this, I think other candidates would think, ‘How can I win that job if Oates is in that seat?’ And that’s not what we need,” he said.
“I’m hoping that I can help recruit some incredible talent for this job.”
of a weapon by a previous offender, failure to leave the premises with a weapon and possession of a controlled substance in connection with the July 6 incident.
Owens’ next court hearing is set for Aug. 1.
— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff WriterAttorneys for Sentinel Colorado have asked a district court judge to determine whether to make public the recording of a closed city council meeting where lawmakers discussed and ended the censure process of a fellow council person.
The Sentinel and attorneys from Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press contend the meeting violated state open meeting laws, and that the decision to end the process of censure against Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky occurred during an illegal, secret vote among lawmakers.
“The facts of the case speak for themselves as to the legality and
appropriateness of handling such a public matter in private,” Sentinel Editor and Publisher Dave Perry said previously. “The censure of an elected official demands the public’s attention, and the public was wrongly deprived of that opportunity by holding this meeting and making a crucial decision in secret.”
Neither the city nor courts have officially responded to the Sentinel’s request.
Aurora city attorneys have defended the closed meeting and said no formal action was taken by lawmakers when they decided to curtail the censure process against Jurinsky.
City council members approved a measure two weeks ago that essentially allows a judge to listen to a recording of the March 14 city council meeting and determine whether it should be made public.
Attorneys for The Sentinel said they’re confident that at least part, and likely all, of the recording will be released because the city did not meet criteria for holding the meeting in secret.
“Because the action taken behind closed-doors, and in secret, was in violation of the (Colorado Open Meetings Law), the record of the discussion, the recording, and all other meeting materials must be
made available for public inspection,” attorney Rachael Johnson said in previous demands to the city.
According to prior reporting from The Sentinel, a majority of Aurora’s City Council agreed in private in a closed session at the beginning of their March 14 meeting to dismiss a censure process pending against Jurinsky.
Sentinel attorneys argue that the agreement, taken during a roll call by the mayor during the closed meeting, constitutes an illegal vote.
The city council also gave direction to city staff to work with Jurinsky’s attorney to reach a settlement to pay her legal fees.
City legal officials have argued that the roll call was an effort to solicit opinions about the censure process but no actual vote occurred, despite the agreement halting the censure from going forward. According to Councilmembers Juan Marcano and Alison Coombs, Mayor Mike Coffman asked individual council members whether they supported the process continuing, and after a majority said they did not, the city attorney said the process would be formally halted.
Steve Zansberg, a Denver attorney who specializes in media law and is president of the Colorado
Freedom of Information Coalition, told The Sentinel that the vote needed to be public to be legitimate and was a “flagrant, black-and-white, open-and-shut violation of the Open Meetings Law.”
The censure was initiated by Marcano regarding Jurinsky’s comments on a regional conservative talk radio program in January, where she called former Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson “trash” and called for her and deputy chief Darin Parker to be removed from their posts.
Marcano accused Jurinsky of violating a council regulation that requires members to act “in a professional manner” toward city staffers as well as a section of the charter that bars council members from meddling in the appointment of employees who fall under the authority of the city manager.
Jurinsky described the censure attempt as an infringement on her First Amendment rights and retained attorney David Lane, who warned that she would consider suing Marcano and the city if the censure process wasn’t halted by March 4, later pushed back to March 14.
— SENTINEL STAFFDown at halftime for the first and only time all season — in the last game of the season — the Grandview girls soccer team decided to go out and have some fun in the second half of the May 25 Class 5A state championship game.
The last 40 minutes of the game at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park turned out to be the most fun the Wolves had all season in large part because of Naomi Clark, who stepped up in crunch time yet again.
at least two goals to win and they went out and got them.”
Clark’s heroic performance sent 11 seniors — including a few that were on the varsity back in 2019 — out with a state championship. The Wolves finished the season on a 15-0-1 streak dating back to its only loss, a 1-0 defeat to Valor Christian — a team it defeated in double overtime in the semifinals — on March 31.
The junior striker erased fourth-seeded Grandview’s one-goal deficit to No. 2 Broomfield with a goal less than five minutes into the second half, added another just over a minute later and a third in the closing minutes to seal a 3-1 victory that yielded the program’s first state championship since 2019 and sixth all-time.
BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports Editor“When you come back and win, especially, it’s a lot of fun,” said Brian Wood, who guided the team to a title in his first season taking over the program from his wife, Tari, who retired just prior to the end of the coronavirus pandemic-extended 2021 season.
“At halftime, one of our captains, Payton (Whitney) stood up and said ‘let’s just have fun,’ so that was the big thing,” he added. “I was actually pretty happy with how we played in the first half, we just needed to put some more balls on frame. We knew it would take
That regular season game with Valor Christian was the first time Grandview (17-1-2) trailed at any point in a game, as it yielded a second half goal that ultimately spelled defeat, and it happened again in the opening half against the Eagles, the 2021 state champions.
Senior Maddie Brady got behind the Wolves defensive line and ran onto a ball that Grandview senior keeper Jordan Nytes came out to cut off. Brady touched the ball around Nytes and rolled it into the open net to give Broomfield the lead in a half in which it didn’t really challenge much offensively.
That lead would last into halftime, but not long into the second half.
The Wolves came out loose and energized and the equalizer would come quick.
“We went into the lockerroom and put a whole new plan together,” Clark said. “We knew we had to score or we were going to go home with second place. ...I didn’t know what was going to happen until it happened.”
Gonzalez — who picked up an assist on Clark’s game-winning double-overtime goal against Valor Christian in the semifinals (story, here) — struck a perfect diagonal ball from
the left wing across the field to an onrushing Clark, who coolly redirected it past Broomfield keeper Dylan Drennan into the corner of the net.
Just over a minute later and with the doubt of the Eagles becoming palpable to her, Clark poked away a pass, created space and drilled a left-footed shot from just outside the goal box that rippled the net in the top corner to put the Wolves in front for the first time.
Nytes and Grandview’s veteran defense — which yielded just five goals all season and never more than one in a game — held Broomfield at bay the rest of the way, while Clark put any comeback thoughts to rest with under two minutes left when she beat an Eagles defender to a loose ball and poked a shot into the net.
Clark finished a next-level postseason in which she scored at least one goal in four of Grandview’s five playoff victories and tallied seven in those four games to push her season total to 20.
Right: Cherokee Trail’s Braeden Reichert (17), Brett Barber (7) and Tyler Wilcox (22) celebrate after the final out is recorded in the Cougars’ 10-6 win over Regis Jesuit in a Class 5A Baseball Championship Series elimination game May 28.
Middle: Cherokee Trail senior Nick Barber, top, leaps into the arms of teammate Kaelen Bing (2) to celebrate the Cougars making the final four teams left in the 5A Championship Series.
Below: Cherokee Trail’s Kaelen Bing reacts to his RBI triple that helped a key rally for the Cougars.
PHOTOS BY COURTNEY OAKES/SENTINEL COLORADO
If you give the Cherokee Trail baseball team an inch this season, it will take a mile, or at least an extra base or two.
The Cougars came into the season believing that speed and aggressiveness on the basepaths would lead to great things and those elements — combined with some gritty pitching, outstanding defense and the fruits of obvious chemistry — have added up to make them one of just four teams that can still win the Class 5A state championship.
in the Cougars’ opener, while Cherokee Trail followed that up with another strong performance against Chaparral in a game it dropped 5-3.
Junior Tommy Munch — who had pitched just five innings all season — went the whole way with six effective innings for the Cougars, who lost No. 2 starter Logan Reid to a shoulder injury.
Munch’s effort allowed DiGiorgio to give the ball to senior Andrew Godfrey for the elimination game against Regis Jesuit and the right-hander was up to the task. He went six innings and allowed just four runs to the potent Raiders and had to come out only because he had reached his allotted number of pitches thrown.
Coach Jon DiGiorgio’s seventh-seeded Cherokee Trail team completed a 2-1 opening weekend in the double-elimination 5A Championship Series with a 10-6 win over top-seeded Regis Jesuit May 28 at AllCity Stadium to put them in the mix with frontrunner Broomfield, Chaparral and Legacy in the title chase.
“I wanted to go out there and get the job done for my team,” Godfrey said. “I had the team in the back of my mind the whole time and wanted do the best I could so we could keep playing. …I think we are playing our best ball right now.
“Nobody in the state but us believed we could make it this far, but we’re still going,” senior outfielder Kaelen Bing said. “We’re happy, but we have a lot more to do.”
BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports EditorCherokee Trail didn’t not appear in the top 10 in the Colorado High School Activities Association’s preseason 5A coaches poll, but over the course of the season tied for the Centennial League championship and have found their stride.
The Cougars knocked off regional host Pueblo West to get into the Championship Series for the first time since 2018 and in the first weekend, downed each of the top-two teams in the last 5A state rankings (Legacy and Regis Jesuit), while they suffered a close loss to the team ranked third in Chaparral.
“We’re excited, we had fun and we’re just going to keep going at it until we can’t,” said DiGiorgio, whose team is scheduled to play Broomfield (which went 3-0 on the opening weekend) in a noon game June 3 at All-City Stadium. The tournament concludes June 4.
If Cherokee Trail picks up where it left off from the opening weekend, it will be a definite factor in the conclusion of the tournament.
Senior Tyler Wilcox set the tone with a complete game performance in a 6-2 win over Legacy Friday
“I think we’re in the best spot we’ve been all season.”
Cherokee Trail’s defense was on point all weekend and performed well again behind Godfrey, with two big plays coming from senior left fielder Coby Austin.
Meanwhile, the Cougars did what they had done so many times on the season offensively. They took advantage of hit batters, walks and errors and made the Raiders pay to the tune of 10 runs between the second and third innings.
“We’re scrappy, we have a lot of athletes and we love to take advantage of things,” Bing said. “We obviously can all steal bases at will and we stayed true to our offense today, 100 percent. In the second inning, the errors they were making, walks and hit by pitches gave us our chances and we had to keep going.”
Added senior outfielder Nick Barber, who had a key two-run single in the second inning, stole two bases and scored twice: “We just really want to punish them (opponents). We have a mindset of putting anything in play, letting them make the mistakes and then capitalize on their mistakes.
“We want to have fun and we’re having a great time right now.”
Senior Bowen Tabola came on in relief of junior Charlie Boyd to get the final two outs in the seventh inning after Regis Jesuit had closed to within four runs as Cherokee Trail earned itself another week of practice and at least one more game on the big stage.
A whopping eight of those goals served as game-winners, including three in the postseason against Legacy in the quarterfinals, Valor Christian in the semifinals and Broomfield in the title game.
“I actually said before the game ‘we’re going to win 3-1,’” said senior Molly Skurcenski, who admitted she had no idea the outcome would unfold the way that it did.
“I had faith in Nae (Clark) and she really pulled it off for us,” she added. “I can’t even describe what she did. She’s a year younger and has so many amazing things ahead. ...She’s like a Level 2000.”
When it was over, the Wolves emptied their water bottles in celebration on Wood, who guided the Grandview boys team to the 5A state title in the fall and got
another in the spring with a staff that included former Wolves star Nicole Lyubenko (who helped restore some old traditions like a pre-game meal at Jimmy John’s) along with Rachel Middleman.
This season’s title — which came on the heels of Grandview missing the 2021 playoffs because the coronavirus pandemic cut down size of the state tournament after the entire 2020 got wiped out — added to the ones won by the program in 2008, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019. Of the six crowns, three of them have come at the expense of the Eagles (2015, 2018 and 2022).
Dillehay doubles up
Considering she just got a state championship ring the previous day, Isa Dillehay knows her ring size, exactly.
On May 25, the Grandview High School junior multi-sport
standout slipped on the ring she got for helping the girls basketball team win the Class 5A state championship and just two months later, is in line for another.
Dillehay started and played significant minutes for coach Brian Wood’s Grandview girls soccer team, which rallied from a 1-0 deficit with three goals in the second half for a 3-1 win.
In the stands were several of her basketball teammates — Lauren and Sienna Betts and Marya Hudgins among them — who called out “That’s two!” and took pictures of Dillehay holding the soccer trophy.
“I would say they rate about the same,” Dillehay said afterwards. “I love these girls just as much as I love my basketball girls, but it is so much sweeter to win twice.”
Dillehay played a key role on the basketball team as a reserve,
where coach Josh Ulitzky considered her a “gamechanger” for her ability to play defense and keep plays alive, which were key to the championship run.
The soccer title was the frosting on top of a cake that already had plenty on top of it.
“It’s been an amazing year,” said Dillehay, who led the soccer team with eight assists to go with four goals, while her flip throw-ins were a weapon for the Wolves as well.
The girls state final victory wrapped up a phenomenal season on the soccer pitch at Grandview, which pulled off a rare double as Class 5A state champions in both boys and girls soccer.
Coincidentally, both teams won state championship games by a 3-1 score, with the boys top-
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ping Fossil Ridge by that score on Nov. 13, 2021, at Weider Field in Colorado Springs, and the girls topping Broomfield.
Both teams also ended on remarkable streaks, as the girls went 15-0-1 in their last 16 games since suffering their own loss, while the boys finished 110-1 after a 4-4 start.
Wood oversaw both championships and appreciated both.
“It is amazing and it says a lot for both teams,” Wood said. “Both teams had their adversity and things we had to work through. It was cool to watch both of their developments and it was neat to watch them support each other. After the Valor game, some of the boys texted me ‘great job, but you need to work on this.’ Some of them were great ideas and wed some of them, so they contributed as well.”
The Regis Jesuit baseball team won the Class 5A Championship Series the last time it made it in 2019, but this season’s stay lasted three games.
The top-seeded Raiders dropped their first and third games of the double-elimination tournament, with a 10-6 defeat in an all-Aurora matchup with seventh-seeded Cherokee Trail May 28 at All-City Stadium bringing their season to an end at 23-5.
“It’s hard to win a baseball game against good teams and sometimes you just can’t catch a break,” said senior outfielder Isaac Wachsmann, who hit a home run in the seventh inning to give him two homers and six RBI in three games.
“I’m still proud of our guys, we battled all year. I’m so thankful to be on a team that wants to compete so bad. We came to practice every day, worked hard and trusted each other to do the job. We’re sad, but there’s nothing we can complain about.”
Coach Matt Darr’s team bounced back from a 5-4 opening loss to eighth-seeded Douglas County May 27 — a game the Raiders led by a run after five innings after a three-run home run by Wachsmann — with a 4-1 win over fourth-seeded Valor Christian in its first elimination game May 28.
The Raiders scored twice in the top of the first inning as seniors Nate McHugh and Charlie Rogan drove in runs, while senior Tony Padilla upped the lead with a solo home run on the first pitch of the second inning.
That would be enough offense as senior pitchers Brooks Gerig and Ryan O’Donnell combined to limit the Eagles to a single run in seven innings. Gerig went four innings and struck out seven, working around five hits, while O’Donnell struck out five to preserve the victory.
Regis Jesuit’s offense again struck early in the second game against Cherokee Trail, as senior Dallas Macias (an Oregon State recruit) doubled, moved up on a wild pitch and scored on Wachsmann’s groundball to shortstop.
But by the time the Continental League runner-up Raiders scored again — on McHugh’s single to drive in Macias in the top of the third inning — they were in a good-sized hole after surrendering six runs in the bottom of the second inning.
Junior starter Hayden Moore exited and was followed by freshman Christian Lopez, who got out of the inning, but was touched for four more runs in the third as Regis Jesuit’s deficit grew to 10-2 with four innings remaining. McHugh finished up with three scoreless innings, which allowed the Raiders to chip away.
Senior Jack Hutchens doubled in sophomore Andrew Bell in the fourth and Bell drove in Wachsmann with a sacrifice fly in the fifth, while Wachsmann followed Macias reach-
ing on a hit-by-pitch with a two-run home run in the top of the seventh to make it a four-run game. The Raiders stranded two more runners as the game came to a close.
“I kindof had a feeling that it could be my last high school at-bat, so I just wanted to leave it all out there and finish my career that way,” said Wachsmann, a Xavier University signee who finished as Regis Jesuit’s leader in home runs (10) and RBI (44).
“That was pretty special for me, but more than that I wanted to get the team going so we could rally and see if we could put some more runs together and come back,” he added.
Regis Jesuit has a lot to replace next season, as eight of its nine starters in the final game — including Macias (who hit his 17th double of the season and had 25 extra-base hits) — depart. Two of their top three pitchers graduate in Brian Fischer and Gerig, who had six wins apiece with sub-3.00 ERAs.
On a day filled with fluctuating conditions on a challenging golf course, Aurora players had a variety of results May 31 during the opening day of the Class 5A girls state golf tournament.
Only one of the 84 qualifiers shot
even par or better (Valor Christian’s Elle Higgins, who shot an even-par 72) as the combination of tricky greens at The Olde Course at Loveland and weather that included sun, wind and eventually rain taxed the field.
Cherokee Trail, coming in off winning the first regional championship in program history, holds the top spot among three Aurora area programs with enough qualifiers for a team score with a fifth-place total of 260. Regis Jesuit (with four qualifiers) and Grandview (with three) sit in a tie for 10th at 280.
The tournament concluded after press time, so visit sentinelcolorado.com/preps for complete final results and a tournament recap.
In the opening round, coach Justin Jajczyk’s Cherokee Trail was led by its two returning state qualifiers in junior Bead Boonta and senior Devin Gilbreath, who shot 83 and 87, respectively.
Boonta — who finished a citybest sixth at last season’s state tournament held at Denver’s City Park — finished three-over after her first nine holes, but found tough going on
players celebrate a home run by
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Padilla (8) in a 4-1 Class 5A Championship Series win May 28. Far left: Regis Jesuit’s Isaac Wachsmann, right, gets a hug from a coach after the Raiders’ 10-6 Championship Series loss May 28. Left: Cherokee Trail’s Bead Boonta tracks her putt during the opening round of the Class 5A girls state golf tournament May 31. Right: Rangeview’s KK Stroter is one of a handful of Aurora senior athletes set for the CHSCA All-State Games. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado)
the back nine, though she made her lone birdie on Hole No. 17 to finish tied for 13th. Gilbreath, meanwhile, shot better on the back nine.
Both Boonta and Gilbreath played much better in the second round last season, as Boonta shot 14 strokes better and Gilbreath 10 as they both moved up the leaderboard.
Cherokee Trail’s talented freshmen — Kaleigh Babineaux and Haylee Clark — shot 90 and 94, respectively, in their first state tournament rounds. Clark had the lone birdie between the two, which she recorded on the par-4 Hole No. 9.
A score of 90 was a common theme among Aurora area players, as Babineaux was joined by Eaglecrest junior Savanna Becker (a returning state qualifier) and Regis Jesuit junior Ella Denslow (a first-time qualifier) with a score that put them in a tie for 33rd.
Grandview’s returning state qualifiers, junior Courtney Ladymon and sophomore Caroline Ryan, were within a stoke of each other as Ladymon carded a 91 and Ryan a 92. The Wolves’ third score came from first-time qualifier Allie Arritola, a junior who shot 97.
Following Denslow among Regis Jesuit scorers was junior Caitlin Neumann, who shot 93 in the first round of her second state tournament appearance and freshman Audrey Whitmore shot 97, while junior Georgia Meysman-Sharpe finished with a 100.
Senior Caroline Gardland, Smoky Hill’s only varsity player this season, shot 102 in her first state tournament round.
The 66th edition of the Colorado High School Coaches Association All-State Games — which honor top senior athletes from across the state in a eight sports — return to the campus of Colorado State-Pueblo for a week beginning June 6.
Athletes and coaches have the opportunity to stay on the campus and go through practices and competition to recognize their accomplishments in their final seasons of competition in high school.
Aurora has recently graduated athletes or coaches in several of the sports, including boys and girls basketball, boys and girls wrestling, football, softball and spirit.
The Blue Team in the four-team boys basketball competition includes a pair of Rangeview teammates in KK Stroter and Elijah Thomas, while Vista PEAK’s Breanna Jefferson is on the Red Team in the girls basketball. The South Team roster for the All-State football team includes Rangeview’s DeMario WIlliams, while Eaglecrest has selections in boys wrestling (Keegan Beckford, 120 pounds) and girls wrestling (Savannah Smith, 111 pounds), while Olivia Philson represents Cherokee Trail in spirit.
Maria Bocanegra Tejeda awakens as the rising sun lights her room. Her room. In the house her family owns. That fact is still capable of surprising her, so far removed it is from her cousins’ crowded trailer in the crowded mobile home park where she spent nearly half of her 22 years.
The night before, she draped her navy graduation robe over the chair near the bed. Her cap lay nearby, its mortarboard top emblazoned with the words: “Cultura es orgullo. Orgullo es exito.” Culture is pride. Pride is success. The rallying call of her University of Northern Colorado sorority.
She can hear her parents in the kitchen. Her dad would be running on a few hours of sleep after his shift at the beef processing plant and the hour-long midnight bus ride home from Fort Morgan to Greeley. What he feels about his daughter’s graduation, he later will say, is be-
yond his capacity to put into words. He walks around the house two hours before the ceremony wearing a black cowboy hat and white jeans that puddle over his boots. He tries to keep his tears at bay. Maria’s mother does not even try.
Years ago, when her dad was driving past UNC, Maria pointed to the campus and told him, “One day, I’m gonna come here.” He, with three years of formal education, a laborer his whole life, told her the university was for rich people. She reminded him of this recently. Not to shame him, she says, but to acknowledge how far they had come since settling in Greeley in 2010.
In the decade that followed in this, one of the fastest-growing communities in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, the Bocanegra Tejedas worked their way from renters to homeowners, from a one-earner household on the poverty line to two earners with a monthly cushion big enough to ensure their mortgage did not devour them. Maria, the eldest of four, became the family’s first high school
graduate, its first to enroll in college.
“It’s going to take a while to settle in,” Maria says as she curls her hair on graduation morning. “So much changed. In 2010, I didn’t know if college was a possibility and the optimism wasn’t there. But now, it’s not just dreams. Now, we have a foundation we can build on.”
The Bocanegra Tejeda family symbolizes the most hopeful version of the story of Colorado’s Black and Latino residents from 2010 to 2020. In several key measures of socioeconomic progress, each group moved a little closer to white Coloradans, who also saw many gains.
A Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) analysis of U.S. Census and other data found that over the course of the last decade, poverty rates among the state’s Black and Latino residents fell to historic
or near-historic lows, high school graduation rates, particularly for Latinos, shot up, Black and Latino median household income climbed at rates that outpaced inflation, and Latino homeownership cracked the 50% mark for the first time since the Great Recession.
Nowhere else in the nation saw a greater narrowing of the gaps in poverty levels between Latinos and whites than Colorado. Our state was also among the top 10 that experienced narrowing gaps in median household income between Latino and white, and Black and white households.
Progress toward parity is progress toward equity, which, as Colorado Health Foundation President and CEO Karen McNeil-Miller puts it, “is essentially the American promise that people will have what they need in order to thrive economically, socially, spiritually, physically, emotionally.”
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do’s future. Population projections show growth will be led by younger Latinos and African Americans, and more Coloradans of color will enter the workforce as aging white workers retire.
But if the upward trends tell one story, the underlying gaps tell another.
Progress is tempered by the reality that in the last decade a Black or Latino Coloradan was still twice as likely to live in poverty as their white neighbors, and Black median household income was two-thirds that of white. Even with the slight upward tick, the rate of homeownership — the main path to generational wealth — among Latinos here remained lower than it was in 1970, while the rate among Blacks hasn’t cracked the 50% mark since at least 1960.
Four-year college graduation rates among Latino residents 25 years and older inched upward during the decade, but still remained in the teens, 10 percentage points lower than Black Coloradans, and 31 points lower than white. The state’s long and acknowledged history of importing college-educated whites while failing to homegrow the potential of its youth of color created the nation’s largest Latino-white higher education gap and the second-largest Black-white gap. Expand the definition of higher education to include two-year degrees and career-technical certifications, and Black and Latino Coloradans attainment rates still remained a fraction of their white peers.
When three of every four students who made up the growth in the state’s high school population over the last decade were Latino, the consequences of the failure to ensure more can achieve a higher education are obvious.
“If we don’t (close the gaps), we will continue, decades on, the way we have decades past where we have this blaring equity gap, and we have unfulfilled, unactivated potential,” says Colorado Department of Higher Education Executive Director Angie Paccione, who in 2020 launched the agency’s Office of Educational Equity. “And how sad is that? How bad — not just sad — how bad for this state?”
Education affects employment. It affects wages. It affects who gets hired first
and fired last, and in Colorado, as elsewhere, Black and Hispanic unemployment rates pegged higher than whites in the hard days of 2010 and the humming days of 2019.
Doctor PJ Parmar has served immigrant and refugee families in North Aurora since 2012 through his Mango House clinic, which is designed to cater to those receiving Medicaid benefits. Parmar said one event of the past decade that helped lift some of his clients out of poverty was the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under President Barack Obama.
“Medicaid used to be largely a womens and childrens program. We saw a lot of our adult males who didn’t have coverage, they suddenly had coverage, and they could get care,” he said. “I had people who put off stuff and who could come in and get care for medical issues. And they’re still here.
“From my perspective as a provider, there are a lot more people getting care than there used to be. And when you have that care, you can contribute more to society.”
Parmar said he continues to worry about housing affordability driving families of color to other states, though he said his immigrant patients that have been able to invest in real estate locally are prospering.
John Ronquillo, an associate professor of public affairs at CU Denver and former Aurora City Council candidate, said he viewed housing affordability as one of the greatest challenges facing communities of color in the metro area.
“Just 10 years ago, Denver was a lot more affordable than it is now, and certainly in Aurora. People came to Aurora to take advantage of the reasonable cost of living. Now, it’s just not as accessible as it could be,” he said.
Problems of affordability may impact other routes of socioeconomic mobility such as access to higher education, said Ronquillo. He said analysis of the success of Colorado’s communities of color should encompass not only high school graduation rates but also enrollment in universities, community colleges and vocational training programs.
At least anecdotally, Parmar and Ron-
quillo both said they had seen Aurora’s residents of color doing better and enjoying more prosperity since the early 2010s.
“Those who were able to buy real estate are seeing the benefits now. That may be reflected in some of the numbers you’ve seen,” Parmar said.
“I would look at small businesses. If you look at districts like the arts district on Colfax, I think we’re seeing communities of color thrive, and mixed in with that are immigrant communities,” Ronquillo said. “Or go to any one of those corners on Havana (Street), and you’ll find a great store to go to or a great place to eat.”
Progress was also tempered by the nature of the decade itself. The economy rose from the trough of the Great Recession and its lopsided decimation of Black and Latino income and wealth to settle into a historically long, slow expansion that brought low unemployment, gradual wage increases and huge gains in home equity. Then the pandemic struck.
COVID-19’s disportionately deadly path through Black and Latino communities and its hammerblow upon the lower-paying industries in which they are overrepresented reframe the view of narrowing equity gaps as something temporary, a side-effect of economic recovery.
In a matter of months, the pandemic revealed truths about the hard-wired nature of inequity that the years before may have blurred, says state Rep. Jennifer Bacon (D-Denver), who calls the Census data a representation of a “dream unrealized.”
”We have not been intentional in undoing the intentional harm of the past,” she says. “For centuries, we denied people access not just to homes and jobs, but to knowledge because of their skin color and place of birth. And unless we are intentional, a sustained intentionality, we are going to see these gaps persist.”
The most skeptical view, shared by Pastor Del Phillips, chairman of the Colorado Black Leadership Coalition, sees any uncritical celebration of the data as the most dangerous kind of placation, “a trademark of the oppressor to always make you think you are better off than you are.” Accepting a narrowing gap at
face value, he says, creates an escape hatch that allows the wielders of power to dodge responsibility for past harm and future repair.
“If the gap represents me on one side of the Grand Canyon and whites on the other side of the Grand Canyon, and they’re saying, ‘Just jump. The gap is not as large as it was before,‘ well, I’m still going to fall to the bottom,“ Phillips says. “And that’s the way I look at this. It doesn’t matter that (the gap) is less. The challenge is that it’s there.”
COLab and its partners, including SentinelColorado,TheColoradoSun, Chalkbeat,KaiserHealthNews,TheDenverPost,KGNU,theBoulderReporting Lab,andtheDenverVoice, are working together to examine the last decade’s trends, which are often imperceptible in real time. By analyzing a decade of data in hindsight and pairing that data with Coloradans’ experiences we can begin to take stock of what has changed, how, why, and what’s next.
In coming weeks, news outlets around the state will be reporting on homeownership, high school graduation rates and Black infant mortality. Future stories will cover higher education and poverty, among other issues.
Because our state’s Indigenous and Asian American and Pacific Islander populations are so small, the Census data is unreliable for similar analysis of those communities. But state data, particularly about educational attainment and health inequities, show our state’s Native population faces among the greatest barriers to well-being.
Numbers never tell the whole story. The Census Bureau’s data are no different. COLab started with the Census’ five-year American Community Survey (ACS), a daily rolling poll conducted over 60 months. The every-five-year statistical snapshots can be good for measuring changes over time, but are terrible for pinpointing the events of a single year. For that reason and the Census Bureau’s challenges surveying communities of color, particularly during the pandemic, this data cannot size up the socioeconomic impacts of 2020’s hardships.
But we can see from state data that the single last year of the decade upended previous years’ positive trends in, among other things, high school graduation, college enrollment and unemployment rates. Life expectancy reversed across all groups, with Black life expectancy plummeting from 78 years old to 74, what it was in 2000. White life expectancy, in comparison, fell by a little more than a year to just over 80 years old.
What numbers don’t reveal about the decade, day-to-day experiences do. Data shows a greater percentage of people have moved above what the federal government defines as poverty. This is not the same thing as being self-sufficient, stable, flourishing.
“Sure, families might be financially doing better on paper,” says Nita Gonzales, a longtime community leader in Denver. “But that may mean that you’ve got both parents working or one parent working two jobs, and they’re transporting all over the place because they have to look for housing out of the city farther away from the metro area, and that reduces time with their kids. “ ...I’m seeing that we made gains, I am not discounting that. But it’s not enough. And I don’t know how permanent it is. That’s my concern. It’s no time to sit back.”
Maria, along with her mother, Raquel, and her three siblings, moved to Greeley from Mexico in 2010, during the aftershocks of the Great Recession. Her father, Guadalupe, was already working a union job at the Cargill meatpacking plant, where he was bloodletting cow after cow suspended before him. He remembers the recession meant reduced working hours. Maria remembers him coming home smelling of blood.
The family of six and two nephews lived in the aging three-bedroom mobile home. The plumbing backed up. The kids took turns doing homework at the small kitchen table.
The family’s best hope for homeownership lay in the Greeley-Weld Habitat for Humanity with its $500 down payments, lower-than-conventional interest rates, and mission to serve families like theirs. The organization wants its homeowners to stay homeowners and build generational wealth, so it requires that no more than 30% of before-taxes monthly income go to the mortgage. For the Bocanegra Tejedas, the line between enough and not enough was too thin for comfort.
In late 2018, Raquel took a cleaning job at McDonald’s. The timing was good. Weld County was booming. The state was in the second year of an escalating minimum wage hike that would take it from $8.31 an hour in 2016 to $12 an hour in 2020.
Their $257,000 house was the last of 14 built on a block just off Highway 34 in south Greeley. As Habitat families do, the Bocanegra Tejedas helped build their neighbors’ homes. They helped build their own. The living room with a picture window looking out upon the front porch and the front lawn. The two bathrooms. A bedroom for mom and dad. A bedroom for Maria. A bedroom for Herminia. A bedroom for Rosalinda. A bedroom for Jose. And a kitchen big enough for a table where all the kids could sit together and do their homework.
They moved in February 2020, a month before the pandemic hit. Among the challenges of interpreting the decade’s narrowing gaps in Colorado is teasing out the complex interplay of larger economic or demographic forces with state or local policies and programs. How much was the tide? How much was the boat?
When it comes to poverty, income and homeownership, the overwhelming response to those questions was that the tide was everything.
Almost.
The Bocanegra Tejedas would not have become homeowners last decade without a targeted local affordable-housing program like Habitat. They, like hundreds of thousands of Coloradans, also benefited from the state’s push to expand access to health care before and after its 2013 Medicaid expansion. For the Bocanegra Tejedas, Medicaid offered secondary insurance to help cover the costs of treating Guadalupe’s diabetes and other chronic medical conditions. Health insurance doesn’t show up in Census household income or poverty data, which mostly counts wages, but being able to afford seeing a doctor has ripple effects in well-being that stretch into classrooms, workplaces and pocketbooks as well as into the economy. And the state’s 2016 voter-approved gradual increase of the minimum wage helped Black and Latino workers like Raquel who are dispro-
portionately concentrated in lower-wage jobs.
The decade was also bookended by two emergency booster shots: The Federal Reserve’s Great-Recession policies to goose the economy and the housing market with low long-term interest rates and Congress’ pandemic aid. The straight-tobank-account stimulus payments in addition to expanded unemployment assistance and child tax credits kept some of the gaps from worsening, says Christian Weller, a Center for American Progress senior fellow and public policy professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Thanks to the housing boom, wealth gaps actually shrunk marginally in the first two years of the pandemic because Black and Latino households hold more of their wealth in homes, says Weller, who studies the Black-white wealth gap nationally.
But the headwinds of this current decade are strong. Both inflation and the raising of interest rates to combat it exact a greater toll on Blacks and Latinos, he says, “and those are the groups less able to sustain an economic shock … because they have less wealth, less money in the bank.”
The Colorado Health Foundation’s recently released annual Pulse poll of nearly 3,000 state residents found the rising cost of living and housing a top concern across race and ethnicity. Among those surveyed, a greater percentage of people of color reported they had to work multiple jobs to afford housing in the last year and are worried they may lose their homes in the next.
Equity as a byproduct of the economy and equity as a goal are two very different things. The former can co-exist with a myth. The latter exposes it.
“The myth is that people are a product of their individual choices,” The Colorado Health Foundation’s McNeil-Miller says. “So, ‘people are poor because they make poor decisions. People are behind in education because they didn’t study hard enough. People don’t own houses because they didn’t work hard enough.’”
Yes, McNeill-Miller says, individual choices are important, but the fact is
“people can do all the right things and make all the right decisions and still, they can’t move forward because there are policies and practices and programs that disadvantage them.” Ask Rosemarie Allen, founder, president and CEO of the Aurora-based Center for Equity & Excellence, about her family’s home-buying experiences, about having 800-plus credit scores and good incomes and money in the bank for downpayments, only to be turned down by lenders or offered subprime or higher-interest loans. Ask Allen, who is Black, about the family’s decision to circumvent possible racial bias in appraisals during her son’s 2018 refinance. The pipes in his home burst. The house was freezing. The toilets weren’t working.
“We thought, ‘Oh, my goodness, the appraiser is coming, and it’s going to be too low’. So we had our white friend go. I didn’t ask him to lie. I just said ‘Can you be there? They’re going to assume you’re the owner. If they ask, you can say no.’ “ Allen says. “They gave us the most amazing appraisal ever. In that condition. I never would have believed it ever because we’ve had appraisals come in very low.”
Here, as elsewhere, the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 and the demands for justice that followed accelerated state government’s ongoing shift away from individual departments working in isolation to close gaps toward a collaborative approach. The state unleashed a blizzard of new or updated executive orders, strategic plans and equity toolkits.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), which created an office targeting disparities in the late 2000s, declared racism a public health crisis in July 2020. The department explicitly named systemic racism in explaining why people of color in Colorado get sick and/or die at disproportionate rates. Black, Latino and Indigenous Coloradans have higher rates of asthma, cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, among other conditions.
According to a Kaiser Health News data analysis, if Black and Hispanic infants had the same infant mortality rate as non-Hispanic white infants in the state, about 200 babies would have been spared from 2018 to 2020 alone.
One of CDPHE’s presentations on COVID-19’s higher toll in communities of color traces biased policies affecting where people could live, where they could send their children to school, where they
work, how much they earn, whose neighborhoods got trees and whose got highways and industry and pollution.
Ryan Ross, CEO of the Urban Leadership Foundation has been part of the state’s efforts to close gaps as co-chair of the Colorado Equity Champions Coalition. In December 2020, the coalition released what it touted as the state’s first equity report for higher education.
Still, Ross says he has trouble believing the efforts will endure.
“You’re seeing work being done, or at least conversations happening to move things forward. But you are also seeing more actions that speak against that work in a louder way,” he says, pointing to the firing earlier this year of Aurora’s Police Chief Vanessa Wilson, who had strong support from Black and Latino community members.
Still, Ross says, he is noticing “a greater sense of accountability and empathy and humanity around the treatment of Black and Brown folks, which I hope becomes the catalyst or catapult to real meaningful change.”
Maria understands her bachelor’s degree makes her an exception among Latinos. She gives credit to high school programs that support first-generation and lower-income students like the Greeley Dream Team and Gear Up, to counselors and advisers who helped broaden her vision, to the Pell grants and scholarships that ensured she would graduate debt-free. She says she found connection and guidance at UNC’s Center for Human Enrichment, which supports first-generation students. In her last year, she received additional support from the statewide College Opportunity Scholarship Initiative, whose students, most of them lower-income and students of color, outperform students with similar backgrounds with scholarships and mentoring.
Even with support, Maria says she was plagued by imposter syndrome. Did she belong? Maybe a business administration degree was a mistake.
But the big picture never left her. The Bocanegra Tejedas are immigrants and citizens. Even in their struggle, she says she never forgot she had choices her family in Guanajuato did not. You have to imagine your future, she remembers telling her siblings during shared homework sessions.
“I’m doing it for my siblings, and then eventually for generations to come,” she says. “This is a huge change, not only for my family, but I think for our community.”
To Maria, “equity is the American Dream.” It does not only open wider the doors of opportunity, It demands new doorways. New builders. Like her. Like her brother and sisters.
Two weeks after Maria graduated from college, Herminia graduated from Northridge High School. She was second in her class, and one of 50 students statewide to win the prestigious fullride Boettcher Scholarship, which aims to keep the brightest Colorado minds in Colorado. Herminia starts her engineering classes this fall at the Colorado School of Mines.
When Rosa Beltran was going through high school in the late ’90s in a small town in southern Colorado, she never expected to graduate.
“My parents were very concerned about just working and trying to put food on the table. I don’t think I ever had that support from the school either,” Beltran said about her high school in Center, a predominantly Hispanic farming community in the San Luis Valley.
Beltran dropped out and became a teen mom. But she determined her children would finish school.
“It was always instilled to me, I’m going to graduate, I’m going to go to college,” her oldest daughter Marisa, now 25, said. “There was no ifs, ands or buts about it.”
Before ninth grade she learned she could take college classes as a student in high school. The school bused her to and from the college campus.
“It was a very small, supportive school,” she said.
Marisa Beltran graduated from Pueblo in 2015, during a decade when Colorado’s Hispanic graduation rate rose nearly 20 percentage points, double the gain for all students, and faster than for any other demographic.
Hispanic graduation rates rose dramatically for multiple reasons, including new school strategies, improved economic conditions and the fierce determination of families. Still, Hispanic graduation and college completion rates lag behind those of white students. And with the pandemic exacting a high cost on Hispanic families’ welfare, many worry it will also chip away at recent gains in education.
Chalkbeat examined high school graduation rates as a part of Chasing Progress, a Colorado News Collaborative project on social, economic and health equity among Black and Latino Coloradans. High school graduation holds the key to advanced education, better jobs and higher salaries.
From 2010 to 2020, high school graduation rates for Hispanic students, who now make up more than a third of Colorado’s K-12 students, rose from 55.5% to 75.4%, a marked increase.
“Certainly they better have gone up, there was a lot of room to move up,” said Jim Chavez, executive director of the Latin American Educational Foundation.
At the same time, Hispanic dropout rates decreased by almost half to 2.8%, and the rate of Hispanic college students needing remedial classes dropped to 43.8%.
But Hispanic students are still less likely than white students to go to college, and nearly twice as likely as white students to require remedial classes.
So even when students graduate high school, they often face a difficult path, Chavez said.
And the pandemic threatens a decade of gains, as Hispanic families have been
hard hit by job losses, death and severe illness from COVID-19, and disrupted learning. Hispanic graduation rates dipped 1.2% last year even as the rate for white students rose. Declines could continue as younger students who were more impacted make their way through high school.
To understand the changes, Chalkbeat talked to more than a dozen educators, activists, parents and students and analyzed school district data to look for districts where Hispanic students now have a higher graduation rate than the state average for that group.
In pinpointing causes for recent gains, some credit policies set more than a decade ago in Colorado. When former Gov. Bill Ritter was elected in 2006, he set a goal to cut the dropout rate in half in 10 years. In 2009, Colorado began rating high schools in part on their graduation rates.
That pressured districts to boost achievement and graduation rates, and spawned a system of nonprofits and consultants to help.
Social factors also contributed. For example, in the decade ending in 2020, Colorado’s pregnancy rate for Hispanic girls ages 15 to 19 dropped dramatically from 66.9 per 100,000 to 24.4 per 100,000, helping more girls to stay in school.
Hispanic families made economic gains in the last decade that may have eased pressure on teens to work while in school. The median household income for Latinos, according to Census data, was $57,790 in 2020, a 26% gain when adjusted for inflation.
Additionally, a federal reprieve from the threat of deportation may have boosted the value of education for undocumented students. As of December, Colorado had 13,720 recipients of what’s known as the DACA program, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
In the Beltran family, mom Rosa has noticed her children’s schools are more supportive than what she had experi-
enced. She has seen her kids talking to college recruiters, and getting multiple opportunities to think about a future after high school.
Still, daughter Marisa said she and her brother needed more help.
“We had to find tutoring, help each other and ask for outside help,” Beltran said. “We did find it, but we had to figure it out ourselves.”
Steve Dobo, the founder and CEO of Zero Dropouts, credited the graduation gains to schools’ ability to dissect data — previously not a common practice.
He said nonprofits helped districts separate subgroups of struggling students — by race, gender, grade level or other factors — to devise targeted solutions.
“The districts that we worked with really started to understand you really needed to do better in ninth grade,” Dobo said.
Several districts targeted students entering high school. After Superintendent Rico Munn arrived at Aurora Public Schools in 2013, he found many freshmen weren’t receiving full schedules with required classes.
“If you start getting off track in ninth grade, that’s a problem,” Munn said.
The district examined data to identify problems and students who need help, and then worked to change systems and school culture, Munn said. Aurora also opened a college and career center at every high school. The newest ones opened last fall.
Aurora had a mere 34.2% Hispanic graduation rate in 2010, but that rate more than doubled, the greatest jump among Colorado’s larger districts, to 76.4% in 2020, before dipping slightly last year.
In Greeley, educators track ninth graders and create individual plans to ward off failure.
“Years ago most of our resources went to students who had three or four F’s already on their transcript,” said Deirdre Pilch, superintendent of Greeley District 6 schools.
Now, she said, “as soon as a grade starts to drop to a D, we’re intervening.”
Andy Tucker, director of postsecondary and workforce readiness at the state education department, said he’s seen districts be “far more intentional” about equity work — “about engaging those students that maybe fall into those gaps.”
Greeley, for instance, touts its summer program targeting Hispanic boys — the subgroup least likely to graduate.
Saul Sanchez, 18, was invited to join after failing some classes freshman year. He doubted he would finish high school.
“I didn’t like school at all,” said Sanchez, who just graduated from Greeley’s Northridge High School. “I hated the fact that I got homework.”
Counselors and others tried to ask him how things were going when he was getting off track, but Sanchez didn’t believe they cared.
But the Student Recovery Program got through to him. He got help to catch up on credits. Counselors tracked his progress.
“They were always on top of me,” he said. They would ask if he remembered to turn in his assignments, or study for tests. “Back then I thought it was a pain they kept insisting.”
Somewhere along the way, Sanchez realized it all was for his benefit. And he bonded with the other students, who helped each other. Sanchez became a goto resource for math help. The mutual aid paid off. Nearly all the seniors in the program graduated.
Another factor may be the increase in students taking courses offering both high school and college credit.
Alexandra Reyes Amaya, who graduated from Aurora’s Hinkley High School in 2020, said the program gave her confidence that she was prepared for college. But she only learned about the program from a friend’s older brother — barely in time for her senior year. She took night classes to fit more in her schedule.
But college is only one path to success, and districts eager to keep students interested in coming to school are also increasing opportunities for career and technical education.
Chavez of the scholarship foundation cautioned that the messages that college isn’t for everyone are holding Hispanic students back.
“It’s being targeted and heard very disproportionately at the Black and Latino youth,” Chavez said. “They may make a good salary, but it’s cutting them short from a career of greater earning potential. It’s really cutting them short from earning a decision-making position — a position of leadership.”
The rise in graduation rates also reflects a re-evaluation of how schools define success. Several districts have been reconsidering what it takes to pass a class.
Summer reading lists aren’t just for students — at least they shouldn’t be.
Perhaps you remember reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird or George Orwell’s Animal Farm on a hot summer day between school years, and maybe those stories have stuck with you long after for the things they taught you about the world. The books we were assigned in school weren’t always fun reads. They comprised dystopian societies, wars and hard lessons about justice. But they were necessary.
In a summer where climate change threatens another bad wildfire season in the West, the country readies for a decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade’s protection of abortion rights and accelerating inflation forces families to pinch pennies, a modern summer reading list wouldn’t be complete without these five new-ish titles from authors who help us understand a complex and, sometimes, tough world.
Climate, technology, immigration and family drama all merge in Fort Collins-based author Vauhini Vara’s novel The Immortal King Rao, a genre-bending debut that confronts the ethics of our globalized economy. The novel tracks the rise and fall of its eponymous hero, King Rao, who rises from humble beginnings in a family of Dalit coconut farmers in India to becoming a technology CEO, the first leader of a global corporate government known as the Shareholders and ultimately a reclusive exile. The book is narrated at some point in the near future by his daughter, Athena, who has become the keeper of her father’s memories — and is in prison accused of his murder. A former technology reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Vara brings her own experience of the ins and outs of global capitalism (and her roots as the daughter of Indian immigrants) to bear on this novel, which offers no easy answers about how our world ought to be structured but raises plenty of questions. Skipping around in time between 1950s India, tech-boom Seattle and beyond, The Immortal King Rao is both a dystopian mystery and a complex psychological portrait of a man who became a self-made legend.
Released last year, Invisible Child earned New York Times reporter Andrea Elliott her second Pulitzer Prize in May. Begun as a series of articles for the Times, the book follows the life of Dasani Coates, a homeless African-American girl living in New York City, and her seven siblings and parents as they navigate the shelter system, criminal justice system and Child Protection Services over the course of eight years. Invisible Child is an incredible work of narrative nonfiction in the vein of The Warmth of Other Suns and Behind the Beautiful Forevers, and puts a human face to the heavy toll that urban poverty places on children. Along with following Dasani from elementary through high school, Elliott also goes backward in time to detail the lives of her relatives, showing how the brutal legacies of slavery, redlining, the crack epidemic and other systems of poverty and racial discrimination entwined to lead the family to where they were. What’s most shocking about this book is how clearly it illustrates the ways in which being poor is considered a crime in this country — and how far out of reach the American dream is for some of its most disadvantaged citizens. From the description it doesn’t sound like an easy book to read, but Elliott’s writing style makes it almost impossible to put down once it’s been picked up. As Aurora continues to have its own contentious discussions about how to combat homelessness, it’s well worth the time.
In 1967, Colorado became the first state in the nation to expand access to abortion through a wide bipartisan vote in the state legislature. Today, the Colorado GOP’s leading senate candidate is someone who sponsored a bill to abolish abortion in the state with no exceptions for rape or life-threatening medical complications and both gubernatorial candidates are campaigning on repealing the 2022 law codifying a right to abortion. Published in 2020 by the University of California Press, Tiny You is a deeply researched history of pro-life activism in the Four Corners states that details the grassroots movement that caused that shift. The book explains why opposition to abortion has remained such a fundamental component of conservative politics while other causes, such as opposition to gay marriage, faded into the background. As the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling appears poised to be overturned, Holland’s book provides important local context for what led us to this moment.
“I became a private investigator because of my face,” Erika Krouse tells us. Krouse is the kind of person that people want to talk to, to tell their secrets to. Because of this unintended skill, she gets hired by a local attorney to work as a private investigator. In the early 2000s the attorney launches a major Title IX lawsuit against the University of Colorado Boulder, alleging that a series of assaults perpetrated by CU football players and recruits created a hostile climate on campus for female victims. Krouse ends up in the thick of the case, cajoling victims, witnesses and suspects into telling her their sides of the story and hunting for the evidence that will prove their case. Initially, Krouse isn’t sure she should be involved in at all — unbeknownst to her boss or most of the people who know her, she is a survivor of child sexual abuse. As the case winds its way through the legal system, which takes years and many setbacks, Krouse reckons with the ways that not being believed about her own assaults shaped her. The university in question is never named, but CU is instantly recognizable on the pages for anyone who has spent time in Boulder, and her descriptions of the city are endearing in the midst of the institutional malfeasance she details. Tell Me Everything is a fascinating inside look at a scandal that was once national news, as well as a fearless memoir of one woman’s fight for justice and healing.
If Colorado isn’t rugged enough for you, spend some time in the wilds of Alaska with author Leigh Newman’s collection of short stories. Like the title suggests, Newman pulls absolutely no punches in this stellar debut. Oft given short shrift by those of us who reside in the lower 48, these stories bring daily life in Alaska into stark clarity, which read like a love letter to the harsh beauty of Newman’s home state. Though there are several male narrators the stories focus on women and girls, who struggle to survive not just the Alaskan wilderness but also the confines of a male-dominated society. They jump around in time, with the earliest set in a railroad camp in 1915 and the latest taking place amidst the contemporary backdrop of climate change and sprawling development. Some of the most arresting take place in between in the 1970s and 80s, particularly “Alcan: An Oral History,” which uses a first-person format to detail the shocking events that take place when two sets of travelers interact along the 1,300 mile Alaskan Highway. Just like the wilderness, Newman posits that people are a source of both joy and danger.
Open through June 19, exhibit included in the price of admission. 7711 E. Academy Blvd. Denver, CO 80230. Monday-Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Visit www.wingsmuseum.org for more information.
Open through June 19, exhibit included in the price of admission. 7711 E. Academy Blvd. Denver, CO 80230. Monday-Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Visit www.wingsmuseum.org for more information.
In the span of one lifetime, mankind went from having no instances of significant flight to landing on the moon. It’s the kind of innovation that makes anything feel possible, and it’s all on display at Wings Over the Rockies through June 19. “Skyward: Breakthrough in Flight” examines all of the major milestones that have gotten us to where we are today: simultaneously curious about commercial flights to the final frontier and also wondering how Frontier could possibly give us less leg room. From the very beginning through today and what’s next for flight, you won’t want to miss the stories and artifacts collected by curators at Wings. The exhibit is on through the beginning of the summer.
In the span of one lifetime, mankind went from having no instances of significant flight to landing on the moon. It’s the kind of innovation that makes anything feel possible, and it’s all on display at Wings Over the Rockies through June 19. “Skyward: Breakthrough in Flight” examines all of the major milestones that have gotten us to where we are today: simultaneously curious about commercial flights to the final frontier and also wondering how Frontier could possibly give us less leg room. From the very beginning through today and what’s next for flight, you won’t want to miss the stories and artifacts collected by curators at Wings. The exhibit is on through the beginning of the summer.
June 11, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Fletcher Plaza, 9800 E. Colfax Ave. Aurora, CO 80010. Free. For more information email aacoba@auroragov.org
June 11, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Fletcher Plaza, 9800 E. Colfax Ave. Aurora, CO 80010. Free. For more information email aacoba@auroragov.org
School is out and nothing puts one in the mood for summer like a carnival — the sights, the smells, the memories — so the City of Aurora is bringing out the face paints, balloon art, frozen treats and more for a seasonally appropriate celebration in north Aurora. The event is free to attend and starts at 11 a.m. in Fletcher Plaza. Grab yourself a popsicle and make sure you pick something colorful for your left cheek. Maybe a rainbow or a palm tree or a sun. Something reminiscent of all those summers so long ago.
School is out and nothing puts one in the mood for summer like a carnival — the sights, the smells, the memories — so the City of Aurora is bringing out the face paints, balloon art, frozen treats and more for a seasonally appropriate celebration in north Aurora. The event is free to attend and starts at 11 a.m. in Fletcher Plaza. Grab yourself a popsicle and make sure you pick something colorful for your left cheek. Maybe a rainbow or a palm tree or a sun. Something reminiscent of all those summers so long ago.
May 20 through June 19 - Fri/ Sat at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m. $20 - 34 Call 303-856-7830 for more information or visit vintagetheatre.org. The Vintage Theatre is located at 1468 Dayton St., Aurora 80010
May 20 through June 19 - Fri/ Sat at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:30 p.m. $20 - 34 Call 303-856-7830 for more information or visit vintagetheatre.org. The Vintage Theatre is located at 1468 Dayton St., Aurora 80010
In “Blackademics,” two Black female scholars arrive for a dinner reservation at a trendy cafe, but in this hilarious play written by Idris Goodwin their celebration takes a turn. First they debate and then battle “figuratively and literally… for a seat at the table.” Goodwin is an award-winning playwright and Colorado local, serving as the director of The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. He’s the first Black man to hold the position in the center’s 100 year history. Director Betty Hart at the Vintage has assembled a cast that includes: Chelsea Frye as Rachelle, Tobi Compton as Ann and Stephanie Saltis as Georgia. The one-hour play, no intermissions, begins May 20 with showings until June 19 every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
In “Blackademics,” two Black female scholars arrive for a dinner reservation at a trendy cafe, but in this hilarious play written by Idris Goodwin their celebration takes a turn. First they debate and then battle “figuratively and literally… for a seat at the table.” Goodwin is an award-winning playwright and Colorado local, serving as the director of The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. He’s the first Black man to hold the position in the center’s 100 year history. Director Betty Hart at the Vintage has assembled a cast that includes: Chelsea Frye as Rachelle, Tobi Compton as Ann and Stephanie Saltis as Georgia. The one-hour play, no intermissions, begins May 20 with showings until June 19 every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Malinalli on the Rocks at Museo De Las Americas
March 11 — Aug. 7 Clyfford Still Museum 1250 Bannock St., Denver Wednesday-Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tickets $10 adults and free for children 17 and under, purchase online at clyffordstillmuseum.org
March 11 — Aug. 7 Clyfford Still Museum 1250 Bannock St., Denver Wednesday-Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tickets $10 adults and free for children 17 and under, purchase online at clyffordstillmuseum.org
Have you ever wondered what an art exhibit designed by young children would look like? Through August, the Clyfford Still museum is bringing this unique idea to life in an exhibit that was “co-created” with
Have you ever wondered what an art exhibit designed by young children would look like? Through August, the Clyfford Still museum is bringing this unique idea to life in an exhibit that was “co-created” with
children across the Front Range. Clyfford Still was a leading figure in the abstract expressionist movement, and the Denver museum that houses a large collection of his work is carrying on his iconoclastic legacy with this exhibition, which is part of an initiative to welcome children into the museum. The first four galleries will feature Still’s work, with paintings hung at a low eye-level specifically for young viewers. The rest will display artwork that children from six months to eight years old from Fort Collins, Denver, Lafayette and Boulder helped curate. According to the museum website, these local children “selected and arranged their favorite artworks; shared their perspectives for the gallery and audio content; and helped design interactive activities.” Really puts a new spin on the jab that modern art is so abstract that “a child could do it.”
children across the Front Range. Clyfford Still was a leading figure in the abstract expressionist movement, and the Denver museum that houses a large collection of his work is carrying on his iconoclastic legacy with this exhibition, which is part of an initiative to welcome children into the museum. The first four galleries will feature Still’s work, with paintings hung at a low eye-level specifically for young viewers. The rest will display artwork that children from six months to eight years old from Fort Collins, Denver, Lafayette and Boulder helped curate. According to the museum website, these local children “selected and arranged their favorite artworks; shared their perspectives for the gallery and audio content; and helped design interactive activities.” Really puts a new spin on the jab that modern art is so abstract that “a child could do it.”
Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. The exhibit is expected to be up until April 2023 15051 E. Alameda Pkwy. Free. Visit auroragov. org or call 303-739-6660 for more information.
Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. The exhibit is expected to be up until April 2023 15051 E. Alameda Pkwy. Free. Visit auroragov. org or call 303-739-6660 for more information.
One doesn’t have to look far for Aurora’s vibrant roots. One in five people here are foregin born and according to the latest census, more than 20% of residents have family origins in Mexico. That brings the city great food, dance, art, and, especially, pride — all of which will be on display at the Aurora History Museum for the next year. For the exhibit, museum staff conducted outreach in both English and Spanish to gather input about Mexican culture in Aurora. “The people of Mexican descent who call Aurora home come from all walks of life and have their own individual stories of immigration or a long family history that predates Colorado statehood,” museum director T. Scott Williams says. Over the next year various Latino artists will display their work at the museum, and on June 9, the community can gather at the exhibit for an opening reception. This showcase attempts to capture the stories of people who make Colorado’s third largest city a mosaic of cultures. Entrance to the museum is always free.
One doesn’t have to look far for Aurora’s vibrant roots. One in five people here are foregin born and according to the latest census, more than 20% of residents have family origins in Mexico. That brings the city great food, dance, art, and, especially, pride — all of which will be on display at the Aurora History Museum for the next year. For the exhibit, museum staff conducted outreach in both English and Spanish to gather input about Mexican culture in Aurora. “The people of Mexican descent who call Aurora home come from all walks of life and have their own individual stories of immigration or a long family history that predates Colorado statehood,” museum director T. Scott Williams says. Over the next year various Latino artists will display their work at the museum, and on June 9, the community can gather at the exhibit for an opening reception. This showcase attempts to capture the stories of people who make Colorado’s third largest city a mosaic of cultures. Entrance to the museum is always free.
Now through July 23. Open noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday. Register for tickets as www.museo.org.
Now through July 23. Open noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday. Register for tickets as www.museo.org.
How should La Malinche be remembered? An enslaved Aztec girl, La Malinche was multilingual and therefore a crucial part of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés’ brutal takeover of Mesoamerica. There are few records, especially from her point of view, that provide insight into the mind of La Malinche, but her legacy has become somewhat of an artistic endeavor. A major installation of inspired work at the Denver Art Museum and also now Museo De Las Americas invites the community in to decide for themselves what kind of emotion the infamous name should evoke. “If we remove the patriarchal lens and Eurocentric vantage, what we confront is a powerful presence, a woman that survived and overcame adversity,” writes curators at Museo De Las Americas. “Malinalli on the Rocks” is on display until late July. Register for tickets on sale now.
How should La Malinche be remembered? An enslaved Aztec girl, La Malinche was multilingual and therefore a crucial part of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés’ brutal takeover of Mesoamerica. There are few records, especially from her point of view, that provide insight into the mind of La Malinche, but her legacy has become somewhat of an artistic endeavor. A major installation of inspired work at the Denver Art Museum and also now Museo De Las Americas invites the community in to decide for themselves what kind of emotion the infamous name should evoke. “If we remove the patriarchal lens and Eurocentric vantage, what we confront is a powerful presence, a woman that survived and overcame adversity,” writes curators at Museo De Las Americas. “Malinalli on the Rocks” is on display until late July. Register for tickets on sale now.
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0060-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On February 25, 2022, 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)
KALEY HUGHES
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MIDWEST EQUITY MORTGAGE, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE
AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust
June 06, 2019
County of Recording
Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust
June 06, 2019
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D9053676
Original Principal Amount
$160,047.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$159,850.21
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.
CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. 302, BUILDING NO. 16, SPINNAKER RUN CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 1, 1980, IN BOOK 3164 AT PAGE 592, AND CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 1, 1980, AT RECEPTION NO. 1937675 OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
APN #: 197336222142
Also known by street and number as: 12512 E CORNELL AVENUE #302, 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, 06/29/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/5/2022
Last Publication 6/2/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 02/25/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 20-023943
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 NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0062-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On March 1, 2022, 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) Wauneta Louise Vann
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Stearns Lending, LLC, its successors and assigns
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC
Date of Deed of Trust
November 20, 2015
of Recording
Date of Deed of Trust
November 25, 2015
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D5135571
Original Principal Amount $234,179.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$210,455.84 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE
A FIRST LIEN. LOT 30, BLOCK 6, STONE RIDGE PARK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 9, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 18805 E. Utah Cir, 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, 06/29/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/5/2022
Last Publication 6/2/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/01/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Amanda Ferguson #44893
Heather Deere #28597
Toni M. Owan #30580
Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228
(303) 274-0155
Attorney File # CO10384
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.
Revised 1/2015
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0070-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 4, 2022, 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)
Andrei Bindasov AND Vladimir Bindasov
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION
Date of Deed of Trust
May 20, 2019
County of Recording
Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust
May 23, 2019
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D9048346
Original Principal Amount
$309,294.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$305,572.85
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 EXHIBIT A UNIT 204, CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 3, WHITESTONE LOFTS & HOMES, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON OCTOBER 09, 2018, AT RECEPTION NO. D8099873 IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER ARAPAHOE COUNTY COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DECRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF WHITESTONE LOFTS & HOMES ASSOCIATION, INC. RECORDED ON JANUARY 16, 2018, AT RECEPTION NO. D8004902 IN SAID RECORDS TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE GARAGE SPACE NO. D2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 14916 East Hampden Avenue, # 204, 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, 07/06/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/12/2022
Last Publication 6/9/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/04/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-026419
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 NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0076-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 11, 2022, 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) Eva J. Oliver
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Cherry Creek Mortgage Co., Inc.
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Community Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Date of Deed of Trust
December 15, 2016
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
December 16, 2016
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D6145531
Original Principal Amount
$165,579.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$155,611.22
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
See Legal Description Attached Hereto and Incorporated by Reference Herein EXHIBIT A LOT 1, BLOCK 1, HEATHER GARDENS FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, TO WIT: PARCEL 1: AN UNDIVIDED 1/144TH INTEREST IN AND TO SAID LOT, SUBJECT TO EASEMENTS OF RECORD INCLUDING SUCH EASEMENTS AS MAY BE SET OUT IN THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM OF HEATHER GARDENS AS FILED OF RECORD EXCLUDING ANY INTEREST IN THE BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT SITUATE ON SAID LOT AND BLOCK ABOVE DESCRIBED IN WHICH APARTMENT AND TOWNHOUSE UNITS ARE SITUATE EXPECT THE INTEREST IN THE APARTMENT BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT HEREIN CONVEYED.
PARCEL 2: ALL OF THAT SPACE WHICH LIES BETWEEN THE CEILING AND THE FLOOR, AND THE WALLS OF THE APARTMENT AT 13635 EAST BATES AVENUE, APT. 112 (FOR CONVENIENT REFERENCE NUMBERED AS UNIT 25042 IN BUILDING NO. 201) NOW OR HEREAFTER CONSTRUCTED ON SAID LOT, SAID BUILDING BEING LOCATED SUBSTANTIALLY AS SHOWN ON THE AREA PLAT PLAN FILED FOR RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, RECORDED FEBRUARY 9, 1973 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 1339813. PARCEL 3: AN UNDIVIDED 1/48TH INTEREST IN AND TO THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT THEREIN INSTALLED AND APPURTENANT THERETO WITHIN THE ABOVE DESCRIBED SPACE OR AREA IS LOCATED, TOGETHER WITH:
(1) THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE PATIOS AND BALCONIES, AIR CONDITIONERS, OR OTHER APPLIANCES WHICH PROJECT THE SPACE OF AREA ABOVE DESCRIBED AND CONTIGUOUS THERETO.
(2) A RIGHT OF WAY IN COMMON WITH OTHERS, FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS TO AND FROM THE PROPERTY ABOVE DESCRIBED.
(3) THE RIGHT TO USE STAIRS, HALLS, PASSAGE WAYS AND OTHER COMMON AREAS IN THE BUILDING IN PARCEL 2 ABOVE IN COMMON WITH OWNERS OF SUCH BUILDING, INCLUDING THEIR AGENTS, SERVANTS, EMPLOYEES AND INVITEES.
(4) THE RIGHT TO USE COMMON AREAS IN SAID LOT IN COMMON WITH OTHER OWNERS OF SPACE OR AREAS IN BUILDINGS NOW OR HEREAFTER CONSTRUCTED IN SAID LOT, EXCEPT THE USE OF THE COMMON AREAS LOCATED IN BUILDINGS OTHER THAN THAT DESCRIBED IN parcel 2 ABOVE, INCLUDING THEIR AGENTS, SERVANTS, EMPLOYEES AND INVITEES.
(5) THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE AND OCCUPY PARKING STALL NO. 29 IN PARKING LOT NO. P-1 LOCATED SUBSTANTIALLY AS SHOWN ON THE RECORDED AREA PLAT PLAN FILE OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO
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, 07/13/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/19/2022
Last Publication 6/16/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 03/11/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Britney D. Beall-Eder #34935
Jonathan A. Goodman, Esq. #15015
Karen J. Radakovich, Esq. #11649
Frascona Joiner Goodman and Greenstein
PC 4750 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305-5500 (303) 494-3000
Attorney File # 7192-14730
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 NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0077-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 11, 2022, 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)
Scott Jenkins
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for First Mortgage Corporation, a California Corporation, D/B/A FMC Mortgage Company, its successors and assigns
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Freedom Mortgage Corporation
Date of Deed of Trust
November 20, 2012
County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
December 05, 2012
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D2140425
Original Principal Amount
$170,449.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$144,195.91
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 35, Block 3, Fox Hill, Filing One, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. Also known by street and number as: 20020 East Wagontrail Drive, 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, 07/13/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said
COMBINED NOTICE -
PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0065-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On March 1, 2022, 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)
KEVIN D SMITH AND SHENIQUA M SMITH
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST FRANKLIN A DIVISION OF NATIONAL CITY BANK
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee for the holders of the First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF17 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006FF17
Date of Deed of Trust
September 13, 2006
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
September 22, 2006
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
B6136445
Original Principal Amount
$290,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$338,264.35
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 4, BLOCK 1, WOODGATE SUBDIVISION FILING NO 11, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO
Also known by street and number as: 4853 SOUTH EAGLE CIRCLE, 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, 06/29/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/5/2022
Last Publication 6/2/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO
A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 03/01/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Anna Johnston #51978
Ryan Bourgeois #51088
Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557
Randall Chin #31149
Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391
Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711
Attorney File # 00000009369752
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.
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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0069-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 4, 2022, 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)
DALE F. NICHOLLS
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION , ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE
Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 20, 2017
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D7082180
Original Principal Amount
$324,022.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$316,263.21
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 8, BLOCK 1, MISSION VIEJO, FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO
PARCEL ID NUMBER: 2073-05-3-01-014
Also known by street and number as: 3969
S HANNIBAL ST, AURORA, CO 80013.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given
that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/06/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/12/2022
Last Publication 6/9/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 03/04/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 19-023683
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.
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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0071-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On March 4, 2022, 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)
Joseph Michael Glavan, Jr. and Virginia M. Glavan
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Freedom Mortgage Corporation, its successors and assigns
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Freedom Mortgage Corporation
Date of Deed of Trust
May 22, 2019
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
May 29, 2022
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D9050086
Original Principal Amount $278,540.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $274,981.87
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 24, Block 2, Village East, Unit 4-Second Filing, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. Also known by street and number as: 1929 S Moline Way, Aurora, CO 80014.
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, 07/06/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/12/2022
Last Publication 6/9/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE
MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 03/04/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Amanda Ferguson #44893
Heather Deere #28597
Toni M. Owan #30580
Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155
Attorney File # CO11366
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.
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Revised 1/2015
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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0074-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On March 8, 2022, 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)
Shae Maxwell Smith and Haley Lyn Snape
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Caliber Home Loans, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Caliber Home Loans, Inc.
Date of Deed of Trust
May 30, 2018
County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
June 13, 2018
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D8057147
Original Principal Amount
$234,671.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$225,580.19
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 232, RE-SUBDIVISION MISSION VIEJO, FILING NO. 1, TRACT G, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 3665 S Kittredge St Apt B, Aurora, CO 800132615.
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, 07/06/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public TrusteeThe name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Erin Croke #46557
Steven Bellanti #48306
Holly Shilliday #24423
Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755
McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122
Attorney File # CO-22-911200-LL
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.
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COMBINED NOTICE -
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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0075-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On March 8, 2022, 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)
Linda Bingham and Krystle Wetherbee
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for AmeriPro Funding, Inc., dba AmeriPro Home Loans, its successors and assigns
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Freedom Mortgage Corporation
Date of Deed of Trust
May 16, 2016
County of Recording
Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust
May 19, 2016
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D6052035
Original Principal Amount $274,928.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $252,870.22
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 2, BLOCK 1, SABLERIDGE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 13903 East Arkansas Drive, Aurora, CO 80012. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/06/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/12/2022
Last Publication 6/9/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 03/08/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Amanda Ferguson #44893
Heather Deere #28597
Toni M. Owan #30580
Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155
Attorney File # CO11373
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. 0078-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On March 11, 2022, the undersigned
Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.
Original Grantor(s)
James Mckay, Jr.
Original Beneficiary(ies)
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
Date of Deed of Trust
September 23, 2005
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
September 30, 2005
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
B5147740
Original Principal Amount
$48,020.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$32,417.20
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 EXHIBIT A
CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. 120, BUILDING NO. A, TORREY PINES, AT HEATHER RIDGE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION RECORDED ON MAY 23, 1979, IN BOOK 2997, AT PAGE 327, AND CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON MAY 23, 1979, IN BOOK 39, AT PAGE 5, OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE FOLLOWING LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS: STORAGE SPACE #120A AND PARKING SPACE #120A, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Also known by street and number as: 2281 S. Vaughn Way #120A, 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, 07/13/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 5/19/2022
Last Publication 6/16/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 03/11/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-026337
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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to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 6/2/2022
Last Publication 6/30/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/25/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Anna Johnston #51978
Ryan Bourgeois #51088
Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557
Randall Chin #31149
Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391
Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711
Attorney File # 00000009438268
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. 0121-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 25, 2022, 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)
LAURA GRIMES
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRA-
TION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR M&I BANK FSB
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
CSMC 2020-RPL2 Trust
Date of Deed of Trust
July 07, 2005
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 22, 2005
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
B5108551
Original Principal Amount
$203,703.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$176,833.96
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 28, BLOCK 5, AURORA HILLS 8TH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Also known by street and number as: 604 S QUENTIN STREET, 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, 07/27/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 6/2/2022
Last Publication 6/30/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 03/25/2022
Susan Sandstrom,
Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Anna Johnston #51978
Ryan Bourgeois #51088
Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557
Randall Chin #31149
Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711
Attorney File # 00000009136714
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. 0123-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On March 29, 2022, 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 D. WATERMAN
Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust
September 04, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 05, 2018
Principal Balance
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 5, BLOCK 9, TOLLGATE CROSSING SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Also known by street and number as: 23382 EAST CHENANGO PLACE, 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 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, 07/27/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 6/2/2022
Last Publication 6/30/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/29/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-026524
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. 0124-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 29, 2022, the undersigned
Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the
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 18, BLOCK 2, PHEASANT RUN FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO APN#: 2073-07-1-05-018
Also known by street and number as: 14844 E Radcliff Pl, Aurora, CO 80015.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/27/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First Publication 6/2/2022
Last Publication 6/30/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO
A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE
MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 03/29/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-027024
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. 0128-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 29, 2022, 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)
Adeola Olowojoba
Original Beneficiary(ies)
BOKF NA DBA COLORADO STATE BANK
AND TRUST
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE
AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust March 20, 2018
County of Recording
Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust
March 21, 2018
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D8027022
Original Principal Amount
$165,938.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$157,360.46
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.
EXHIBIT A CONDOMINIUM UNIT 12585-D, IN CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 7, CEDAR COVE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED AUGUST 26, 1986, UNDER RECEPTION NO. 2714144 IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR CEDAR COVE CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED FEBRUARY 24,1984 IN BOOK 4095 AT PAGE 479, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 12585 East Tennessee Circle Unit D, 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, 07/27/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
First
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/29/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-026533
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 NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0130-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 29, 2022, 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)
Michael Carrillo
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE
AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust
July 06, 2016 County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 07, 2016
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D6072660
Original Principal Amount $145,720.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$132,109.61
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 65, BLOCK 1, FRENCH CREEK
SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO
Also known by street and number as: 4200 S Mobile Cir Apt D, Aurora, CO 80013.
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/27/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-027108
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
OF WISCONSIN, CIRCUIT COURT, LINCOLN COUNTY SUMMONS
Case No. 22-FA-38
IN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF: Petitioner: AMANDA MICHELLE BOYD and Respondent: RICHARD MYRON BOYD, III THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, TO THE PERSON NAMED ABOVE AS RESPONDENT:
You are notified that the petitioner named above has filed a Petition for divorce or legal separation against you.
You must respond with a written demand for a copy of the Petition within 40 days from the day after the first date of publication.
The demand must be sent or delivered to the court at: Clerk of Court, Lincoln County Courthouse, 1110 E. Main St. Merrill, WI 54452 and to: Amanda M. Boyd c/o Attorney Gerald J. Hersil Hersil Law Offices, SC 200 N. Center Ave. Merrill, WI 54452
It is recommended, but not required, that you have an attorney help or represent you.
If you do not demand a copy of the Petition within 40 days, the court may grant judgment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the Petition, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the Petition.
A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of property.
You are further notified that if the parties to this action have minor children, violation §948.31, Wis. State., is punishable by fines and/or imprisonment.
If you and the petitioner have minor children, documents setting forth the percentage standard for child support established by the department under §49.22(9), Wis. Stats., and the factors that a court may consider for modification of the standard under §767.511(1m), Wis. Stats.,are available upon your request from the Clerk of Court.
You are notified of the availability of information from the Circuit Court Commissioner as set forth in §767.105, Wis. Stats. §767.185 Information from Circuit Court Commissioner.
(2) Upon the request of a party to an action affecting the family, including a revision of judgment or order under sec. 767.59 or 767.451:
(a) The Circuit Court Commissioner shall, with or without charge, provide the party with written information on the following, as appropriate to the action commenced.
1. The procedure for obtaining a judgment or order in the action.
2. The major issues usually addressed in such an action.
3. Community resources and family court counseling services available to assist the parties.
4. The procedure for setting, modifying, and enforcing child support awards, or modifying an enforcing legal custody or physical placement judgments or orders.
(b)The Circuit Court Commissioner shall provide a party, for inspection or purchase, with a copy of the statutory provisions in this chapter generally pertinent to the action.
/s/ Gerald J. Hersil Attorney Reg #: 1025051 Hersil Law Offices, SC 200 N. Center Ave., Merrill, WI 54452 Phone: 715-536-4511
First Publication: June 2, 2022
Final Publication: June 16, 2022
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Rosa Beltran said that she is proud of her three children, including two who have gone to college.
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“Now it’s just this proudness that you carry with you. My hopes for them are that they have a career so that they can provide for their families and not have to worry,” she said.
Those sacrifices and hopes drive what students refer to as ganas, — their will.
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