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F-bomb’s the word for Aurora No Kings protesters’ exasperation with Trump
Among the similarities of the 1,800 or so people taking part in the third No Kings protest in Aurora on Saturday, one quality really stood out: so much potty mouth.
“Donald Trump doesn’t give one s*** about people struggling to get by these days,” one woman with perfectly coiffed silvery white hair said as her friendly smile turned into a terse quiver while she talked about the president, his team and supporters.
She offered no apology for the profanity.
One very demure and clearly patient woman, walking slowly up Havana Street in the hot sun, did quip, “pardon my French” after she said that “for all I care, Trump can just f*** himself” before both Republicans and Democrats “impeach his fat ass” for the final time after the November election.
“He’s a stupid and sadistic asshole,” the woman’s pal chimed in, sporting a cheerful spring outfit and a demeanor right out of a Hallmark movie.
Almost everyone I talked to Saturday made it very, very clear, they’re “done” with asking people nicely to reconsider supporting a president who erupts vast quantities of obvious and contradicting lies. Every. Single. Day. Normally, several times a day.
There were plenty of folks who made clear this was not their first No Kings rodeo, having attended the two previous rallies at the intersection of South Havana Street and Parker Road.
But of the dozens of people I talked to Saturday, most of them were there for the first time, and many said they’d never attended a political rally or protest in their lives.
“Even (President Richard) Nixon wasn’t as corrupt and addled as Trump,” said a man who was waving a sign that said, “No Faux King Way.” Many at the rally were older folks, beyond their 50s and 60s, and many were even far beyond that. There was no shortage of walkers, canes and portable chairs dotting the crowds of
people chanting or waving all manner of signs as a seemingly endless river of honking horns and cheers from passing cars accompanied the near-festival-like event.
The crowd was thick with furrowed brows and shaking heads as protesters discussed among themselves the latest developments in the Iran War, the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, quackery instead of medical science, and, above all, the incessant lying.
While their prime complaints and worries about Trump varied from the loss of free speech to creating a nation framed once again by white supremacy, almost everyone carrying a sign or taking a moment to talk was focused on Trump’s threat to American democracy and the rule of law.
But the thing that struck me most of all among the folks I stopped to talk to in the several-blocks-long line of protesters chanting, waving and hoisting signs from Parker Road as it wrapped around to South Havana Street, was the disgust.
Sure, everyone there made it clear how repugnant they believe Trump is, but their disgust was for the people who saw the same thing and either looked away, or worse, said they didn’t care, or even liked it.
“What is it” that makes them behave like that? a very exasperated Karin Bentley asked, holding one side of an American flag with a pal, whose protest sign read, “This is not a left or right moment. It’s a right or wrong moment.”
Bently hails from Heidelberg, Germany. She married a U.S. serviceman when she was 28 and moved here in 1979.
Expecting that some day she would want to go back, she instead became a U.S. citizen, a nurse and has loved the U.S., and Aurora, with a passion.
She said that Americans are losing the ability to think for themselves. They don’t question things that are painfully questionable. By turning away from traditional, trusted news sources, people are becoming insulated from reality and truth.
Her family made it clear to her as a young
woman that’s exactly what happened in Germany as Hitler and the Nazis gained power.
“People just didn’t know what was happening” until it was too late, she said.
Aurora resident Kathy Groth said some people know all too well what’s going on, and they like it.
She said she thinks many Americans are regularly looking for a fall guy, someone to blame for just about everything they don’t like. She said Trump plays to many Americans who point the finger at “others” and “them” as quick and easy targets. They’re Americans who are driven by fear.
While most Americans, even when they’re stressed, roll out some sense of compassion and sympathy to underdogs when times are tough, there’s a small but vocal minority of Americans, running the country right now, who are charged with cruelty and indifference.
Her father was a prisoner of war during World War II, and he was tortured by his captors. He told her the government at the time silenced victims and the media from making clear how ghastly American servicemen had been treated.
She sees the same thing now, only worse. Millions of immigrants and Americans are being abused on all kinds of levels, and the government wants to divert and even suppress the news.
“There is no difference between that and the Nazis,” Groth said.
Her disgust was punctuated with a well-chosen assortment of four-letter words.
Only Connie Block offered no profanity with a shy smile and a solid grip on her sign pole for the sign that said, “It’s so bad that even the INTROVERTS are here.”
She’d never protested before.
“But I can’t stay home anymore,” she said. “I can’t let Trump turn this country into something it was never meant to be.”
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No Kings protesters at the corner of Havana Street and Parker Road March 28, 2026. SENTINEL
Aurora’s 1,800-strong ‘No Kings’ protest joins national anti-Trump wave — photos and videos
“THERE’S
NO DIFFERENCE WHAT TRUMP AND HIS REGIME ARE DOING THAN WHAT THE NAZIS DID IN GERMANY AND EUROPE WHEN THEY CAME TO POWER.”
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What turned out to be clearly the largest of the three No Kings protests in Aurora drew about 1,800 people out to endless cheers and honking horns of passers by in southwest Aurora.
The protest was one of about 70 planned across the state as part of a national protest expected to draw millions to register a catalog of criticisms about President Donald Trump, his administration and the so-called MAGA movement.
“There’s no difference what Trump and his regime are doing than what the Nazis did in Germany and Europe when they came to power,” said Aurora resident Katy Groth. “We can’t just look away from all this.”
Aurora has been a consistently active site for No Kings and other anti-Trump and anti-MAGA protests since even before Trump was re-elected in 2024.
The corner of South Havana Street and Parker Road was packed with protesters Saturday with passers by honking and loudly cheering the boisterous group of mostly senior protesters.
Among the chanting and gray-hair protesters was 91-year-old Jane Outing of Aurora. This has been her second No Kings protest in Aurora. She joing the smaller crowd of about 1,000 protesters in October.
“She’s just like everyone else here,” her daughter Anastasia Harris said. “We have to do something to get the rest of the country to see how we’ve put so much at risk with Trump in the White House. It’s never been this dangerous.”
Protests expanded this year to southeast Aurora at the intersection of East Quincy Avenue and Copperleaf Boulevard.
Some of the dozens of people that trickled into the protest lines after noon had been at that and a protest in Centennial earlier and said the groups there were just as energized and boisterous.
Tens of thousands of people turned out for a protest at the State Capitol, local media reported. Communities across the state and even in Republican strongholds like Highlands Ranch in Douglas County reported sizeable protests.
Political watchers say the movement shows an evolution of politics in suburbs like Aurora.
A growing faction of concerned citizens living in suburban communities across the United States — places once known for political moderation or even conservatism — are increasingly positioned on the front lines of the anti-Trump resistance. More than a year into the Republican president’s second term, the so-called “soccer moms” are becoming
bona fide activists taking to their well-manicured streets to fight Trump and his allies.
The leftward lurch could cost Republicans control of Congress for the president’s final two years in office. It could also reshape the Democratic Party by elevating a fresh crop of fiery progressive candidates emboldened to push back against the Trump administration more aggressively than the establishment may prefer.
U.S. organizers have estimated that the first two rounds of No Kings rallies drew more than 5 million people in June and 7 million in October. They expected 9 million participants Saturday, though it was not clear whether those expectations were met.
Organizers said more than 3,100 events — 500 more than in October — were registered, in all 50 states.
Protests were mostly peaceful, but some arrests were reported.
In Los Angeles, authorities deployed tear gas near a federal detention center downtown. One man had a leaf blower, attempting to clear the air. The Los Angeles Police Department later arrested people for failing to disperse. Earlier in the day, a band was playing and people were dancing to Spanish-language music.
The Denver Police Department said on the social platform X that it declared an un-
lawful assembly and deployed smoke canisters after a small group of protesters blocked a road and did not leave as asked. Some threw the canisters back at officers, police said. At least eight people were arrested, as was a ninth person later on who police said was throwing objects.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson called them the product of “leftist funding networks” with little real public support.
The “only people who care about these Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them,” Jackson said in a statement.
The National Republican Congressional Committee was also sharply critical.
“These Hate America Rallies are where the far-left’s most violent, deranged fantasies get a microphone,” spokesperson Maureen O’Toole said.
Trump’s immigration enforcement push, particularly in Minnesota, was just one item on a long list of grievances that also included the war in Iran and the rollback of transgen-
AROUND AURORA
Colorado bill aims to shrink RTD board in an
The board governing the Regional Transportation District would shrink from 15 elected members to five elected and four appointed members under a bill introduced in the Colorado Legislature on Monday.
It follows a January report from the RTD Accountability Committee, which concluded that the organization’s governance structure is one of the factors holding it back from high performance. That report notes that RTD lags behind comparable agencies in its post-pandemic ridership recovery and is facing a decline in public trust.
RTD spans eight counties in the Denver metro area and its service includes bus, rail, shuttles and paratransit options. There are over 65 million boardings in the system every year.
“The board must create a vision,” Maria Garcia-Berry, the chair of the accountability committee, said at a press conference Monday. “The board must demonstrate leadership. It sets priorities. It approves budgets and guides long-term strategy. When that structure isn’t working as effectively as it should, it affects everything from service levels to financial positions to accountability.”
That accountability committee was created through legislation last year.
Those who support the proposed RTD reform say concerns over ridership, reliability and workforce retention would be better addressed with a smaller, more nimble board of directors composed of both elected members and appointed experts.
Senate Bill 26-150 would reduce the board size to five elected members — from five newly drawn districts — and four appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. Those appointed members would need to have collective expertise in areas like finance, land use and transportation planning, and experience working with disproportionately-impacted communities. One appointed seat would be reserved for a union representative. That new composition would take effect during the 2028 election cycle.
It would also raise the number of petition signatures required for a candidate to make the ballot from 250 to 1,000 and triple the salary for board members to $36,000.
The bill would also mandate a third-party system-wide analysis on RTD’s paratransit system, which serves riders with disabilities.
“Taxpayers continue to invest in RTD and they should be able to expect a system that delivers consistent, high-quality service,” said bill sponsor Sen. Matt Ball, a Denver Democrat. “RTD’s current board structure is large and fragmented, which slows decision making and makes it harder to implement full strategies.”
“It’s really hard to react to something in real time when you have to find consensus across 15 members who represent really, really different areas in the metro region,” he said.
Ball is sponsoring the bill alongside Sen. Iman Jodeh of Aurora, Rep. Meg Froelich of Englewood and Rep. Jamie Jackson of Aurora, all Democrats.
“We’ve also seen challenges with low turnout and limited competition in board elections, which raises real questions about whether the current structure is producing the level of ac-
countability and expertise that we need,” Ball said.
In 2024, three of the eight seats up for election were uncontested. Another had a write-in candidate garner a few hundred votes against the candidate on the ballot.
Strengthening public transit has been a core goal of the Legislature over the past few years as it also tries to increase the state’s housing stock, particularly boosting density near bus and train lines.
“(SB-150) is the next step in making sure that we are continuing Colorado’s commitment to sustainable growth and to transit-oriented communities, and that we are putting the focus on people who depend on public transit,” Jodeh said.
Chris Nicholson, the RTD Director for District A, said he thinks any major adjustments to the board’s makeup should be approved by voters. That is what happened in 1980 to create the current structure. The changes considered in the bill would mean that each elected board member represents over 645,000 people, versus about 220,000 today. Denver’s urban core, with the highest concentration of transit riders, could be left with one representative.
“If there’s going to be a significant change in the system that we are looking at, then there’s every reason to say that this needs to go to the voters,” he told Colorado Newsline. “It’s a question of ‘Does this fundamentally shift the dynamic in terms of who is running this agency and who has a say in this agency?’”
He also worries about how an appointed member would be responsive to the constituents within RTD and the amount of power a governor — and the Denver Regional Council of Governments, which would provide nominating lists for two seats — would have in those appointment decisions.
“The question is not the size of the board,” he said. “The question is how much power are you giving to unelected officials who are not necessarily representative of the interests of just the voters in this district.”
A 2024 bill originally included a smaller RTD board, but that was amended out early in the legislative process after opposition from transit advocates and members of Denver City Council. The bill ultimately failed in the Senate.
The bill was assigned to the Senate Transportation and Energy Committee. It will need to pass both chambers before the end of session on May 13.
— Sara Wilson, Colorado Newsline
Marketing pro Claire Lardizabal Moser joins Sentinel Colorado team
Veteran marketing pro and journalist Claire Lardizabal Moser has joined Sentinel Colorado as its new advertising and marketing executive.
“We’re excited and proud to bring Claire onto the Sentinel team,” Editor and Publisher Dave Perry said. “Claire understands both how dynamic and rich the culture, food and business scenes are in Aurora, and she brings a wealth of marketing experience in how to help them succeed by partnering with the Sentinel.”
Moser is a first-generation Filipino American storyteller and received her bachelor of science degree in journalism from the Missouri School of Jour-
der rights. Speakers at the Minnesota rally decried billionaires’ economic power.
In Washington, hundreds marched past the Lincoln Memorial and into the National Mall, holding signs that read “Put down the crown, clown” and “Regime change begins at home.” ”
Bill Jarcho was there from Seattle, joined by six people dressed as insects wearing tactical vests that said, “LICE” — spoofing ICE — as part of what he called a “mock and awe” tour.
“What we provide is mockery to
the king,” Jarcho said. “It’s about taking authoritarianism and making fun of it, which they hate.”
About 40,000 people marched in San Diego, police there said.
In New York, Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said during a news conference that Trump and his supporters want people to be afraid to protest.
“They want us to be afraid that there’s nothing we can do to stop them,” she said. “But you know what? They are wrong — dead wrong.”
In Topeka, Kansas, a protesters
dressed up in an inflatable frog costume and a baby version of Trump. Wendy Wyatt showed up with a “Cats Against Trump” sign. Many things upset her about the administration, she said, but the rallies are “very hopeful to me.”
Organizers said two-thirds of RSVPs for the rallies came from outside of major urban centers. That included communities in conservative-leaning states like Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, South Dakota and Louisiana, as well as suburbs in electorally competitive Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY
nalism. She then moved to the metro area to start her career.
As a journalist and food writer, her work has appeared in 5280 Magazine, Boulder Weekly, and History Colorado.
Moser said she excited to return to the media and journalism, especially at time when local news has never been more needed and valuable to the entire community.
Moser was most recently membership events and marketing manager at Clayton Hotel and Members Club in Cherry Creek. She directed more than 2,000 events focused on community building, arts and culture, many for nonprofit organizations such as La Napoule Art Foundation, the International Bipolar Foundation, the Rose Andom Center.
An Aurora resident for more than five years, Moser said she is excited to bring her love of the city and marketing expertise to the city businesses and agencies — and the Sentinel.
“Aurora is one of Colorado’s best kept secrets.,” Moser said. “The restaurants, people, and culture is unlike anywhere else in the Front Range. I look forward to connecting with and giving back to our vibrant community.”
When she’s not out in the community, Moser said she enjoys dining On Havana Street, watching reality TV, and spending time with her husband, rescue dog, and daughter.
— Sentinel Staff
From Aurora to Biddeford, ‘Build America’ causes construction delays amid a housing crisis
It has a catchy name — Build America, Buy America — and the lauded goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
But the law has spurred a bottleneck for affordable housing from Aurora to Biddeford, Maine and across the nation.
Nearly everything from HVACs and lighting to sink hooks and ceiling fans in affordable housing projects that get federal dollars must carry the Made in the USA label. But, developers say, nu-
merous products do not, as they have long been imported from overseas markets with cheaper labor costs.
Although builders can apply for waivers, the process has been at a near standstill as the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has had its staff slashed by the Trump administration, has only greenlit a handful of projects.
The waiver process has caused construction delays and hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra costs as the country faces an affordable housing crisis.
“They need to be treating this like the fire that it is,” said Tyler Norod, president of Westbrook Development Corporation, which builds affordable housing in Maine.
“We’ve sort of resigned ourselves that we’re just gonna build less units across the entire country during a housing crisis.”
Diana Lene has been on affordable housing waitlists for the past five years.
The 76-year-old loves living close to her daughter and grandchildren in Fargo, North Dakota, but her apartment is too expensive on her Social Security income.
“It’s just maxing my budget down to pennies,” she said. To save money, she avoids driving often and buys food on sale.
“I’m just trying to keep a roof over my head, but it’s getting more and more difficult,” Lene said. “I don’t like to live in fear, and yet sometimes it jumps in there.”
Lene is on a waitlist for one of nonprofit developer Beyond Shelter’s apartments. CEO Dan Madler is building a 36-unit building for people like Lene, but he had to postpone lumber orders to verify they comply with the law and can’t find ceiling fans made in America. He doesn’t know when HUD will approve a waiver.
U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Build America, Buy America Act as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act in 2021, building on longstanding efforts to boost American manufacturing at a time when the U.S. economy was emerging from a pandemic-era recession. Known as BABA, it applies to infrastructure projects
funded by federal agencies, not just affordable housing.
Aurora developer Julie Hoebel says she has spent over $60,000 just on a consultant to comb through websites and call suppliers to try to find American-made materials, not to mention the additional labor costs involved.
But the waivers she submitted to HUD in November for around 125 materials in an 85-unit building haven’t been approved.
“If they take much longer then we’ll come to a standstill,” she said.
HUD is taking at least six months to approve many waivers.
Even BABA advocates agree HUD must grant waivers more quickly and give the industry clearer instructions on how to prepare them, which they note other federal agencies are doing.
HUD did not address questions from The Associated Press about waiver approval delays developers say increase costs, as well as concerns about making the process more transparent. In a statement it said it’s committed to “ensuring that federal spending supports America’s industrial base” while “closely monitoring how compliance with these policies impact costs for builders.”
Asked in January about whether the delays and cost increases mean affordable housing should be exempt from BABA rules, HUD Secretary Scott Turner said the agency was looking into the issue, but did not provide details. “We are looking at this … with BABA as it pertains to HUD to provide flexibility to certain projects in certain places around our country,” Turner said, adding that HUD is committed to assuring developers get “the flexibility they need as it pertains to building.”
The law itself isn’t the problem, supporters say.
Unions representing the steel and manufacturing industries say taxpayer dollars should fund American-made materials and suppliers will adjust to meet demand for products that aren’t available.
“You’ve got a system in place that leans heavily on using imported materials to make a better profit,” said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. “I don’t know
if that serves the public good.”
Jennifer Schwartz, director of tax and housing advocacy at the National Council of State Housing Agencies, said there’s no national data on how much BABA is increasing costs. But the waiver process is “failing,” she said, because requirements were put in place before assessment of domestic manufacturing capacity.
It won’t be as challenging for suppliers to produce more raw materials in the U.S., but it will take time for manufactured products — such as appliances and elevators — to become available, said Kaitlyn Snyder, managing director of the National Housing and Rehabilitation Association, an affordable housing industry group.
“I don’t know that it economically, financially makes sense for people to be producing door hinges,” Snyder said. “We are an advanced country and we’ve outsourced a lot of that stuff.”
The housing bill that passed the Senate in March did not require HUD to address problems with implementing BABA.
“The process isn’t working for affordable housing,” said Jessie Handforth Kome, who spent nearly 40 years working at HUD until 2024. “People want to comply, but it’s unclear how to.”
Vermont-based Developer Jessica Neubelt estimates she spent an additional $150,000 just to verify iron and steel she used in a project was American-made. She’s just as frustrated over the hundreds of hours that takes, which, she said, could be spent on another project.
“I would like every member of Congress to sit in on a construction meeting,” Neubelt said. “The amount of detail that goes into figuring out if a specific thing is compliant or not is enormous.”
U.S. Rep. Mike Flood, a Nebraska Republican, has advocated to exempt some HUD funding from BABA.
“Owning a home is the American dream, but it’s out of reach in a very big way and anything that adds cost to that isn’t allowing hardworking Americans to achieve the dream,” Flood told the AP.
Roy Houseman, legislative director at United Steelworkers, said complaints about cost increases are overblown.
“A lot of developers seem to have tried to throw things in and make statutory changes to policies that have been in place for basically five years now instead of making a good-faith effort to really push HUD,” Houseman said.
Union leaders note the law offers some leeway.
Developers can get exemptions for an American-made product if it increases the project’s overall cost by more than 25%. A very small percentage of a project’s total material cost is also exempt. But most developers say that percentage isn’t enough to cover all items not made in the U.S.
Some developers are looking for ways to avoid federal funds altogether. But that is challenging. Even though federal dollars often make up a small portion of funding for affordable housing projects, that sliver can make or break whether there’s enough money to build them.
Kentucky developer Scott McReynolds says that instead of applying for a federal grant to build 20 to 30 affordable homes, he plans to build two fourunit projects, small enough so that they aren’t subject to BABA. American-made materials are especially hard to find near the rural areas McReynolds serves.
“It’s a nightmare,” he said. — The Associated Press
23-foot sculpture
‘Ethereal Bliss’ joins Aurora Highlands public art display
A towering new sculpture was installed in northeast Aurora last week, adding to what has become one of the largest public art displays in the state.
The 23-foot stainless steel piece, titled “Ethereal Bliss,” was installed at The Aurora Highlands, east of Denver International Airport.
The work by nationally recognized sculptor Hunter Brown will anchor a roundabout in the growing housing development’s future retail district.
The installation is part of the community’s Art in the Park program, a growing collection of large-scale works that now includes more than 20 permanent pieces spread throughout Hogan Park at Highlands Creek.
The collection has evolved into one of the most ambitious, and largest, public art displays in the state.
“Ethereal Bliss” stands 23 feet tall and 16 feet wide, designed to resemble ribbons of energy rising and unfurling in motion, Highlands officials said in a statement
The sculpture was engineered using computational design and constructed from more than 250 laser-cut stainless steel components joined by nearly 2,000 feet of welded seams, according to artist information.
The piece is being transported roughly 1,300 miles from Little Rock, Arkansas, and was installed using two cranes.
The sculpture marks Brown’s third installation in the Aurora park, joining “Life Blood,” a 28-foot ribbon sculpture at a community entry roundabout, and “Asclepius,” a steel work inspired by the ancient Greek symbol of healing.
Once in place, “Ethereal Bliss” will join other notable works in the collection, including “Liberty,” installed in May 2025, and the widely shared “Umi” sculpture.
Developer Carla Ferreira says the goal is to integrate art into daily life, placing large-scale works along trails, parks and gathering spaces where residents and visitors encounter them organically.
The Aurora Highlands spans about 4,000 acres in northeast Aurora and is planned to include more than 11,000 homes, along with parks, trails and future schools. Hogan Park covers nearly 100 acres and is expected to incorporate additional recreational and cultural features as development continues, Aurora Highlands officials said.
— Sentinel Staff
COPS AND COURTS
Man sentenced to 80 years for fatal stabbings of two homeless men in Aurora
A 38-year-old man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison after pleading guilty to the fatal stabbings of two homeless men in northwest Aurora last year, prosecutors said Monday.
Ricky Roybal-Smith was sentenced in Adams County District Court to two, consecutive, 40-year terms after pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree murder in the June 29, 2025, killings of Jesse Shafer, 27, and
Scott Davenport, 61.
Aurora police said the attacks occurred within a short time of each other during the early morning along and near East Colfax Avenue.
Police were first called at about 1:45 a.m. to the 1500 block of Moline Street after a report of an unresponsive man.
Officers found Shafer suffering from multiple stab wounds and attempted lifesaving measures, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
While officers were still investigating, a second call came in reporting another unresponsive man near a bus stop on Peoria Street just north of East Colfax Avenue. Davenport was found dead at the scene with numerous stab wounds.
Investigators later determined both men were homeless and linked the killings based on similarities in the attacks and their close proximity in time and location.
According to prosecutors, Roybal-Smith went along East Colfax Avenue and carried out both attacks, fatally stabbing Shafer about 15 times before killing Davenport less than a mile away in a second attack involving about 90 stab wounds.
Detectives used surveillance footage, witness statements and physical evidence to track Roybal-Smith’s movements between the two scenes and establish a timeline of the killings.
Roybal-Smith was initially held in a Denver jail on unrelated charges before being transferred to Adams County to face murder charges.
Adams County District Attorney Brian Mason said the sentence ensures Roybal-Smith will spend the rest of his life in prison.
“These were horrific, senseless murders,” Mason said in a statement. “Today’s sentence holds the defendant accountable for the lives he took and for the fear and trauma he inflicted on our community.”
— Sentinel Staff
Tips and video lead to arrest of man,19, in nonfatal Aurora bus stop shooting
Police credited tips and video from East Colfax businesses in the arrest of a 19-year-old man accused in a nonfatal shooting earlier this month at an Aurora bus stop, police said.
Winston Ical-Xol was arrested Thursday at his home in Denver during the execution of a search warrant by Aurora police, with assistance from the Denver Police Department SWAT team. Investigators also recovered a firearm during the operation.
Ical-Xol faces charges of attempted first-degree murder.
The arrest stems from a March 15 shooting in the 9600 block of East Colfax Avenue. Officers responding around 5:30 a.m. found that a woman sitting at a bus stop had been shot in the leg after a vehicle pulled up and a front-seat passenger opened fire, police said in an earlier statement.
Police said Friday that the shooting appears to have been random.
The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment and has since been released, police said Friday.
Police spokesperson Katie Fisher said the woman reported that an “unknown vehicle” approached before the gunfire erupted.
Investigators credited tips from community members and surveillance video provided by nearby Colfax Ave-
nue businesses with helping identify the suspect.
“Thursday’s arrest reflects the strength of collaboration between our officers and the community,” APD Gun Violence Suppression Team Sgt. Michael Tilton said in a statement.
“With the assistance of Colfax Avenue businesses that provided critical video evidence, along with community members who came forward with tips, we were able to quickly identify and remove a dangerous suspect from our streets.”
— Sentinel Staff
BEYOND AURORA
Trump
administration’s Medicaid
reviews find minimal immigration issues — none in Colorado
Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with orders to determine whether they were ineligible based on immigration status.
But seven months later, findings from five states shared with KFF Health News show that the reviews have uncovered little evidence of a widespread problem.
Only U.S. citizens and some lawfully present immigrants are eligible for Medicaid, which covers health care costs for people with low incomes and disabilities, and the closely related Children’s Health Insurance Program. Both programs are administered by states.
Spokespeople from Pennsylvania’s and Colorado’s Medicaid agencies said, as of March, the states had found no one who needed to be terminated from Medicaid. That was after checking a combined 79,000 names.
Texas has reviewed records of more than 28,000 Medicaid enrollees at the Trump administration’s request and terminated coverage for 77 of them, according to Jennifer Ruffcorn, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Human Services.
Ohio has checked 65,000 Medicaid enrollees, of which 260 people were disenrolled from the program, said Stephanie O’Grady, a spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Medicaid.
In Utah, 42 of the 8,000 enrollees identified by the Trump administration had their Medicaid coverage terminated, said Becky Wickstrom, a spokesperson for the state’s Department of Workforce Services.
In announcing the reviews, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said: “We are tightening oversight of enrollment to safeguard taxpayer dollars and guarantee that these vital programs serve only those who are truly eligible under the law.”
Leonardo Cuello, a research professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, said the reviews ordered by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services were unneeded because states check immigration status when people sign up.
“It is entirely predictable that all of these burdensome reviews that the federal government is forcing upon states would yield no pay dirt,” Cuello said. “The states had already done the reviews once, and CMS was just making them reverify the same information they had already checked. Making states go through the same bureaucratic process twice is incredibly wasteful and inefficient.”
CMS spokesperson Chris Krepich said in a statement to KFF Health News that the ongoing checks are verifying eligibility “for certain enrollees whose status could not be confirmed through federal data sources.”
“CMS provides states with regular reports for follow-up review, and states are responsible for independently verifying eligibility and taking appropriate action consistent with federal requirements,” he said.
But the findings shared with KFF Health News also suggest that many of the enrollees whose eligibility the Trump administration said it could not confirm are indeed U.S. citizens.
O’Grady said Ohio found that, of the 65,000 names referred by the federal government, the state already had information on 53,000 confirming them as citizens and an additional 11,000 showing appropriate immigration status for Medicaid.
Caseworkers then worked on the remaining 1,000 names to review their information or reach out for more details, she said.
CMS did not answer questions about the findings from the states sampled by KFF Health News or provide information about responses it received from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, which were instructed to perform verification checks.
The agency also did not respond to a question about whether it’s forwarding the names of those whose Medicaid coverage was terminated to federal immigration officials.
In June, advisers to Kennedy ordered CMS to share information about Medicaid enrollees with the Department of Homeland Security, prompting a lawsuit by some states alarmed that the administration would use the information for its deportation campaign against residents living in the U.S. without authorization.
A federal judge ruled in December that Immigration and Customs Enforcement workers could access information only about people in the country unlawfully in the Medicaid databases of the states that sued.
CMS continues to send states lists of names at least every few months,
though state officials say the numbers have declined since the first batch last summer.
People without legal status are ineligible for federally funded health coverage, including Medicaid, Medicare, and plans through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. Medicaid does reimburse hospitals for providing emergency care to people without legal status if they meet income and other program requirements.
Seven states and the District of Columbia provide health coverage regardless of immigration status, funding the programs with their own money.
In March 2025, CMS began financial reviews of those programs. “CMS has identified over $1.8 billion in federal funds that are being recouped through voluntary returns and deferrals of future federal Medicaid payments,” Krepich said. He did not answer how much has been collected so far or from which states.
Medicaid’s overall spending topped $900 billion in fiscal year 2024.
— PHIL GALEWITZ Kaiser Health News
Colorado charter schools seek equal funding law for
construction projects
Charter school students account for more than 15% of Colorado’s public K-12 enrollment, but advocates say that many charters get far less from local voter initiatives meant to fund construction than the share of students they serve.
A new bill filed last week aims to revise state law to give those schools more consideration from districts in getting their construction needs included on local ballot measures.
According to an analysis by the Colorado League of Charter Schools, a membership-based organization backing the bill, about $15.5 billion was raised from 2015 to 2024 through district ballot measures for construction. Charter schools only received about 3.6% of that money despite a growing share of enrollment.
A legislative analysis of the bill shows the changes won’t cost the state or districts money. And whether this bill increases the amount of taxpayer-approved construction funding for charter schools statewide would be at the discretion of school boards. Charter schools do also get state
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money and federal grants for construction and can seek private financiers.
But Dan Schaller, the league’s president, said too many charter schools experience differences in how they work with districts on ballot measures. The goal is to create a fairer process for charter school operators, he said.
“We are approaching things from the vantage point of all public school kids deserve to have their education funded equitably,” Schaller said. “So how do we strengthen the process and make it more clear so that there are adequate opportunities for involvement.”
Colorado school districts can ask voters to raise money for district or charter school construction projects primarily through two methods.
Districts can place a ballot question before local voters to request money to take on onetime bond debt for expenses such as construction or maintenance. Districts can also ask voters to approve a property tax raise for construction, maintenance, or technology upgrades.
Senate Bill 145 would update how districts consider charter school operators in those decisions, including requiring districts to solicit and give consideration to charter school construction proposals.
The bill would also require new timelines for districts working with charter schools on ballot initiatives. And superintendents would need to notify operators about the decision to include or exclude a charter school construction project within a measure.
Bill sponsor state Sen. Scott Bright,
a Platteville Republican, said he filed the bill to give charter schools more opportunities to take part in the capital needs discussions.
“Many charter schools have very healthy relationships with school districts,” Bright said. “But in other situations, it’s not always that rosy.”
Bright has held discussions with the Colorado Association of School Boards and the Colorado Association of School Executives about concerns and possible changes to the bill. CASB officials didn’t respond to a request for comment, but a CASE official said in an email that the organization is reviewing the legislation.
Bright also asked Sen. Cathy Kipp, a Fort Collins Democrat, to join as a sponsor. Kipp has served as a school board member and opposed many charter school laws.
She said she agreed to work on the bill because she wanted to ensure the proposal could work for students and districts.
“As much as I’m not a fan of the charter school governance model, I think we have to acknowledge that 15% of the students in the state are being served by one particular method,” Kipp said. “We can treat everybody in a fair manner, because we want all of our kids treated fairly, right?”
The Senate Education Committee is scheduled to hold a first hearing Monday on the bill. House bill sponsors include Democratic state Reps. Lindsay Gilchrist and Andy Boesenecker. — Jason Gonzales of Chalkbeat Colorado
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After hasty opening, homeless Navigation Campus
officials trying
”In the rearview mirror, yeah, we opened up way too early.”
to
clear up obstacles to success
Operators of Aurora’s troubled homeless Regional Aurora Navigation Campus say the city moved too quickly to open the $38 million facility last November, launching operations in a building that was not ready, contributing to ongoing problems that continue to frustrate residents and worry city officials.
City council members and the center’s operator said Tuesday that it was a misstep to open the center last November inside a hotel-turned-shelter before critical systems, repairs and infrastructure were fully in place.
“My answer is no, we should not have,” Jim Goebelbecker, CEO of Advance Pathways, the nonprofit group operating the facility, said during a March 31 City Council committee meeting. “We weren’t ready. The building wasn’t ready.”
The admission comes amid months of mounting complaints from residents, detailed in a February Sentinel Colorado story and the focus of numerous complaints from residents brought regularly to city council meetings.
Problems with the nascent homelessness project include everything from plumbing failures and mold concerns to inconsistent rules, lack of services and difficulty advancing through the shelter’s tiered system.
Some council members have registered their own concerns and, in some cases, regret.
“I think we moved too fast,” said Councilmember Angela Lawson.
The decision to open the facility in November was driven in part by urgency as winter approached and the city sought to expand shelter capacity during cold weather. But officials now say that urgency came at a cost.
“In the rearview mirror, yeah, opened up way too early,” Goebelbecker said.
Still, center leaders and some city lawmakers said it’s clear the building and other challenges should have been addressed before bringing in residents.
The Navigation Campus was designed as a multi-tiered system to move people from emergency shelter into more stable housing. But ongoing building issues, including plumbing failures, heating and cooling problems, and mold remediation, have significantly limited its functionality, program and city homeless officials say.
The city owns the building and contracts with Advance Pathways to operate the homelessness services. City officials said this week that portions of the upper floors remain under repair, with contractors working room by room to remove mold and replace affected materials. such as walls and flooring. Other issues, such as troublesome heating and air
conditioning units and aging plumbing systems, continue to complicate operations.
Those problems mirror earlier reports from residents, who told the Sentinel that flooding, sewage issues and poor building conditions made living at the campus difficult and, at times, in their opinion, unsafe.
Complaints of black mold in the building are founded, but limited to two top floors of the building where no guests or employees have access to, Stephanie Keiper, Manager of Homelessness and Behavioral Health, Housing and Community Services told city officials. The building’s operational challenges are most visible in its top level of housing.
The campus is structured into three tiers: a low-barrier emergency shelter, a transitional tier requiring case management, and a third tier offering private or semi-private rooms for residents who meet stricter requirements, including employment and sobriety.
Despite having roughly 220 rooms available in Tier 3, only three people are currently living in that level, Goebelbecker said.
The stark mismatch created by hundreds of empty rooms alongside a crowded lower-tier shelter reflects both physical limitations in the building and barriers within the program model itself.
Some Tier 3 rooms remain offline due to ongoing repairs or concerns about plumbing capacity, program officials said. Operators say they are intentionally moving slowly, adding only a small number of residents at a time to avoid overloading building systems.
“We want to test the systems and make sure that they’re working properly,” Goebelbecker said, noting plans to increase occupancy gradually, by about 15 residents per month, possibly reaching about 100 residents in Tier 3 by the end of the year.
But operational issues are only part of the problem.
Strict eligibility requirements — including full-time employment and sobriety — have also limited the number of residents able or willing to move up.
Officials said some residents in Tier 2 are working but not sober, making them ineligible for Tier 3, while others simply are not ready or interested in advancing.
Goebelbecker said that about 55 people are currently in the Tier 2 “pods” program.
That dynamic aligns with complaints from residents who spoke with the Sentinel, many of whom said they felt stuck in lower tiers despite meeting expectations, or confused by changing rules and unclear pathways to advancement.
Another emerging issue, according to operators, is a growing population the facili-
ty operators say was not designed to serve: elderly homeless residents with significant medical needs.
Goebelbecker described older individuals as among the most difficult cases for the Navigation Campus, which is structured primarily as a transitional shelter rather than a medical or assisted-living facility.
“This isn’t the right place for elderly people who have significant health issues,” he said. “This is just not what this is designed for.”
He recounted a recent interaction with a woman he estimated to be around 70 years old, struggling to manage opening a door and breathe, needing help accessing oxygen equipment.
Cases like hers, he said, highlight a mismatch between the facility’s design and the realities of homelessness in the region.
That challenge is part of a broader national trend, experts say, with increasing numbers of older adults experiencing homelessness due to rising housing costs, fixed incomes and medical expenses.
Navigation Campus staff attempt to prioritize vulnerable residents, allowing those with mobility issues to move to the head of lunch lines, for example, and refer them to outside providers.
A nonprofit health clinic operates on-site during the day, and case managers work to connect residents with services.
Complaints by some elderly residents and others who just couldn’t make enough money working to pay for rent and living expenses illustrate a problem the center faces because the purpose of the center is to allow residents to move through the tiers and then move out, permanently, to live on their own.
The Tier 3 program, offering private rooms, was never intended to be a destination, but a transition, officials say.
The facility, by design, lacks the infrastructure for higher-level care, such as medical respite beds or long-term assisted living, leaving staff to navigate complex needs of some residents with limited resources.
Council members also pressed operators on staffing levels, training and services, echoing concerns raised by residents about inexperienced staff and insufficient case management.
The campus currently employs four case managers, with plans to hire two more. Officials say their goal is a ratio of one case manager for every 30 residents, though current caseloads can reach as high as 50 people.
Case management remains a critical component of the campus model, intended to help residents secure employment, access services
and ultimately transition to permanent housing. But both officials and residents acknowledge it is an area needing improvement.
“This is one of the things that we’ve got to get better at,” Goebelbecker said.
Training for staff is also still being developed. While case managers typically have formal education and training, other frontline staff are receiving ongoing instruction in areas such as ethics, boundaries and recognizing mental health or trafficking concerns. Some council members questioned whether more formal, standardized training should be required before staff interact with residents.
Council members point to one instance where a shelter staff member took food stamps offered by a homeless guest.
Goebelbecker said the incident occurred last year, before the campus opened at the city’s day center, and that the staff member was fired.
Despite the challenges, city officials emphasized that the Navigation Campus is still in its early stages and undergoing what they described as “growing pains.”
The facility currently serves between 300 and 350 people on a typical night, a sharp increase from previous winter shelter operations. Officials say the campus has significantly expanded the city’s capacity to provide shelter and services, even if the rollout has been uneven.
Police and fire officials have also reported a high volume of calls to the site, including mental health crises and welfare checks, underscoring the complexity of the population being served.
Council members said they plan to continue closely monitoring the facility, requesting regular updates and pushing for greater transparency about operations, incidents and progress.
“I think we need to be more transparent with our residents and with the community about really what is going on,” one council member said.
For now, both city leaders and operators say the focus is on stabilizing the facility, completing building repairs, expanding staffing, and refining operations, all the while acknowledging that the early launch created challenges that will take time to resolve.
Immediate plans call for developing an outdoor area with picnic tables and shade for residents to spend time outside of the shelter. A permanent outdoor area is planned for construction later this year, as well as plans for improvements to outdoor lighting and other security.
“We’re here now,” Goebelbecker said. “And we’re working through it.”
The Aurora Regional Navigation Campus, 15500 E. 40th Ave., near Chambers Road and Interstate 70.
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Elk cow joins the bu alo crowd at Arsenal refuge
‘HER
PRESENCE WAS NOT PLANNED, NOT EXPLAINED, AND NOT EASILY ACCOUNTED FOR, YET THERE SHE WAS. NOT SYMBOLIC IN A GRAND WAY, JUST REAL’
BY LINDA KOTSAFTIS, Front Porch
No one knows how she got there, but visitors, volunteers, and staff at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge are happy a lone elk cow has made a home there.
The elk is often seen mingling with male bison, a surprising sight on the Wildlife Drive through the refuge.
“Even though this is a range that elk traditionally would have inhabited, she’s just kind of rare, and that rarity makes her special,” said Sara Metzer, visitor services manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which runs the refuge. “She’s now a little bit more visible because she’s hanging out with some bison buddies.”
The elk was first spotted in May 2022 by volunteer board member Montoya Whiteman. She had just entered the Wildlife Drive when she saw the animal. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I braked, pulled off the road, grabbed my camera, and zoomed in. Sure enough, it was a cow elk,” she said.
A cow elk has been living at Rocky Mountain Arsenal since 2022. Photo by Montoya Whiteman
As the animal disappeared into a treeline, Whiteman called Federal Wildlife Officer Mindi Patterson. “Hey Mindi,” she said, “there’s a cow elk out here.”
At first, Patterson told Whiteman that what she probably saw was a large deer. But then the two met on the drive, and Whiteman showed Patterson photos. “Yes,” Patterson said, “that’s a cow elk.” Patterson later confirmed with administrators and staff that the sighting was real.
“It became a mystery,” Whiteman said. “No one knew how a cow elk made it into the refuge, which is surrounded by fencing.”
The mystery continued as sightings of the elk became rare during the following months and years. “There were moments when I think many of us wondered if she was still there,” Whiteman said.
Whiteman finally saw the elk again last year, still wondering where she came from. “Over the years, I’ve often thought about her journey. It’s possible she came from the eastern prairie or even the mountains,” she added.
Metzer sees the elk story as a reminder about the history of elk inhabiting the High Plains, where the refuge is located. Development and growth have pushed herds west toward the mountains. “I think the thing that’s unique about this particular individual is that we’re a little bit further east in the metro area,” she said.
Whiteman named the elk TnT, short for
Tall and Tan. The animal has caught the eye of visitors, who often hold up their phones with photos at the refuge visitor center and ask, “What is that?”
Metzer said arsenal guests are often the eyes and ears of the refuge. “They really amplify our ability to see what’s going on out on the refuge, which is fun because they capture photographs. They’re often in the right place at the right time.”
If visitors are in the right place now, Metzer said, they might catch sight of the elk hanging out with the refuge’s bison, that travel in a larger group, making it easier to spot the elk than when she was “running solo” during the initial years.
But even now, the elk is not always visible. “It’s amazing how a 500-plus-pound animal can hide on the refuge,” Metzer said. “With 16,000 acres, she has the ability to slip in and out (of view). I think the sightings by either visitors or staff are sporadic here and there, depending on where she’s hanging out.”
Whiteman, who drives to the arsenal often, said she is grateful TnT is still there: “Her presence was not planned, not explained, and not easily accounted for, yet there she was. Not symbolic in a grand way, just real. In that sense, her story isn’t mystery alone but persistence. Life finding space where it wasn’t
designed to be”
And Metzer said the elk’s story is also “an example of resilience.”
“It can be rough in the wild for an animal, and it’s hard sometimes for visitors to appreciate that we’re not managing these animals as pets,” she said. “This isn’t a zoo facility, where they would have access to veterinary care. These are wild animals, and the fact that she’s here, the fact that she keeps cropping up, the fact that she looks to be in good body condition and healthy, shows her resilience,” she added.
Metzer said the elk has always been free to leave. “Animals do come and go from the refuge from time to time. Many of them end up staying. She has the ability, just as she found her way here, to leave any time if she would like. And she continues to make Rocky Mountain Arsenal her home.”
Visitors along the Wildlife Drive at Rocky Mountain Arsenal have been surprised to see a lone elk living among the bison. They often bring photos to the visitor center, asking about the unexpected animal sighting. Front Porch photo by Linda Kotsaftis
“Open
scene & herd
Mic Poetry Night” at The People’s Building
This open mic night offers a welcoming stage for poets and spoken-word artists of all experience levels to share their work in an intimate, community-centered setting. Performances range from deeply personal reflections to politically and socially conscious pieces, often sparking conversation and connection among audience members. The event fosters an inclusive creative environment where emerging voices are encouraged and celebrated, making it a cornerstone of Aurora’s growing literary and performance arts scene.
IF YOU GO:
Date: 7 p.m. April 8
Place: 9995 E Colfax Ave.
Tickets: Free–$10
Information: thepeoplesbuilding.com or call 720-819-6680
“Community Theater Showcase” at The People’s Building
A dynamic evening of short theatrical works, this showcase brings together local actors, directors and playwrights to present a variety of performances ranging from original scripts to excerpts of larger productions. The event highlights the creativity and diversity of Aurora’s grassroots theater community, offering audiences an opportunity to discover new voices and storytelling styles. With its mix of humor, drama and experimental pieces, the showcase provides an engaging and unpredictable night of live performance.
IF YOU GO:
Date: April 11 and April 12
Place: 9995 E Colfax Ave.
Tickets: $10–$20
Information: thepeoplesbuilding.com or call 720-819-6680
“Cultural Film Night” at Aurora Central Library
This thoughtfully curated film program features an internationally acclaimed movie that explores cultural identity, history or social issues. Following the screening, attendees are invited to participate in a guided discussion that delves into the film’s themes, artistic techniques and cultural context. The event encourages dialogue and reflection, offering both an entertaining and educational experience for film enthusiasts and curious viewers alike.
IF YOU GO:
Date: 6 p.m. April 13
Place: 14949 E Alameda Parkway
Tickets: Free
Information: auroragov.org or call 303-739-6600
“Fat Ham” at Aurora Fox Arts Center
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames re-imagines Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in this contemporary comedy-drama that unfolds during a family barbecue in the American South. The story follows Juicy, a thoughtful young man confronting family expectations and personal identity after the ghost of his father demands revenge. Instead of following the traditional tragic path, Juicy wrestles with whether breaking cycles of anger and violence might offer a different kind of resolution. The play mixes humor, music and emotional reflection while exploring themes of family, identity and self-determination.
IF YOU GO:
Date: through April 19
Place: Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave.
Tickets: $20–$42
Information: aurorafoxartscenter.org or 303-739-1970
“Prehistoric Aurora” exhibition at Aurora
History Museum
The Aurora History Museum explores the region’s ancient past in “Prehistoric Aurora,” an exhibit examining the landscapes and creatures that existed in the area millions of years before modern development. Visitors can learn how the land that is now Aurora once supported prehistoric animals including mammoths, giant ground sloths and dinosaurs such as Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus. The exhibition traces the region’s geologic history through fossils, scientific displays and educational materials developed in collaboration with organizations including the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and Dinosaur Ridge. Through artifacts and interpretive exhibits, the show offers a look at how scientists study ancient ecosystems and how discoveries made in Colorado help tell the story of Earth’s distant past.
IF YOU GO:
Date: Through April 5; Tuesdays through Thursdays 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a .m. – 4 p.m.
Place: Aurora History Museum, 15051 E. Alameda Parkway
Tickets: $1-$5
Information: AuroraMuseum.org or 303-739-6660
“Spring Student Art Showcase” at Town Center at Aurora
This annual showcase transforms the mall into a vibrant, walkable gallery featuring hundreds of works created by Aurora Public Schools students. Visitors can explore a wide range of artistic styles and media, from detailed pencil drawings and bold acrylic paintings to sculpture and digital art. The exhibit highlights the creativity, cultural diversity and personal perspectives of Aurora’s youth, offering a glimpse into the next generation of artists while fostering community pride and support for arts education.
IF YOU GO:
Date: Through April 10, 2026
Place: 14200 E Alameda Ave.
Tickets: Free
Information: towncenterataurora.com or call 303-344-9764
“The World in a City: Cultural Exhibitions” at Aurora History Museum
Through immersive exhibits, artifacts and multimedia storytelling, this citywide initiative explores the rich cultural fabric of Aurora—one of Colorado’s most diverse communities. Displays highlight immigration stories, global traditions and the everyday lives of residents whose roots span continents. Visitors can engage with photographs, oral histories and interactive elements that reveal how different cultures intersect and shape the city’s identity, making it both an educational and deeply personal experience.
IF YOU GO:
Date: Through April 10,
Place: 15051 E. Alameda Parkway
Tickets: Free Information: auroragov.org or call 303-739-6660
“Poetry Open Mic Night” at The People’s Building
Local poets and spoken-word artists take the stage to share original work in an inclusive and supportive creative environment.
IF YOU GO:
Date: April 1 at 7 p.m.
Place: 9995 E Colfax Ave.
Tickets: Free–$10
Information: thepeoplesbuilding.com or call 720-819-6680
“Family Art Day” at Plains Conservation Center
Families are invited to connect art with nature through hands-on activities inspired by Colorado’s plains landscape. Projects may include nature-based crafts, sketching and collaborative creations, all designed to encourage creativity while fostering an appreciation for the environment.
IF YOU GO:
Date: April 5, 2026
Place: 21901 E. Hampden Ave.
Tickets: Free–$8
Information: auroragov.org or call 303-326-8380
“Community Choir Performance” at Heather Gardens Clubhouse
A local choir presents a program of classical, folk and contemporary songs celebrating community and music.
IF YOU GO:
Date: April 3, 2026
Place: 2888 S Heather Gardens
Way
Tickets: Free–$10
Information: heathergardens.org or call 303-755-3550
“Cultural Dance Workshop Series” at Beck Recreation Center
Participants are introduced to traditional dance styles from around the world in instructor-led sessions that emphasize both technique and cultural context. From Latin rhythms to global folk traditions, the workshops encourage movement, learning and appreciation of diverse artistic expressions.
IF YOU GO:
Date: April 4
Place: 800 Telluride St.
Tickets: $5–$10
Information: auroragov.org or call 303-326-8650
“Photography Exhibition: Aurora Through the Lens” at Aurora History Museum
This exhibition presents a compelling visual portrait of Aurora through the eyes of local photographers. Featuring landscapes, portraits and candid street photography, the collection captures the everyday beauty and diversity of the city while offering insight into its evolving identity.
IF YOU GO:
Date: Through April 10, 2026
Place: 15051 E Alameda Parkway
Tickets: Free
Information: auroragov.org or call 303-739-6660
“Shen Yun Performing Arts” at Buell Theatre
A vibrant showcase of classical Chinese dance, music and storytelling, “Shen Yun” presents ancient legends, ethnic traditions and historical narratives through elaborate costumes and orchestral accompaniment. The production blends Eastern and Western instruments to create a visually stunning and culturally rich performance.
IF YOU GO:
Date: April 2–April 4
Place: Buell Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1350 Curtis St.
Tickets: $80–$150
Information: denvercenter.org or call 303-893-4100
“First Friday Art Walk” in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe
Galleries open their doors for an evening of visual art, live demonstrations and community engagement. Visitors can explore contemporary exhibitions, meet local artists and enjoy street performances throughout the district, making it one of the region’s most popular recurring arts events.
IF YOU GO:
Date: April 3, 5 p.m–9 p.m.
Place: Santa Fe Drive in Denver, from East 13th Avenue to East Alameda Avenue
Tickets: Free Information: artdistrictonsantafe.com or call 720-773-2373
Ecosystems: Opening Reception
at Downtown
Aurora Visual Arts
Celebrate the opening of “Ecosystems,” a printmaking exhibition at Downtown Aurora Visual Arts reflecting biodiversity and environmental dialogue through the medium of print. The show features work by local and guest artists, and the opening reception invites the public to engage with innovative techniques and thematic depth.
IF YOU GO:
Date: 10 a.m.– 5 p.m. weekdays through May 15
Place: Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, 1405 Florence St.
Tickets: Free
Info: www.davarts.org or call 303-367-5886
installation. Collins is known for transforming historical documents and cultural symbols into artworks that explore how stories about the nation are constructed and remembered. The exhibition includes pieces created from materials connected to historic monuments as well as works that reinterpret literature and music through erasure, repetition and sound. By reshaping familiar texts and symbols, the exhibition invites visitors to consider how narratives about race, justice and national identity continue to evolve over time.
IF YOU GO:
Date: Through July 5,
Place: Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St.
Tickets: $8–$14; free for members
Information: mcadenver.org or call 303-298-7554
“World’s Largest Dinosaurs” at Denver Museum of Nature and Science
This traveling exhibition explores how the largest land animals in Earth’s history lived and functioned. Rather than focusing solely on fossil bones, the exhibit examines the biology of giant sauropods, which are dinosaurs whose massive bodies required unique adaptations for breathing, circulation and movement. Through interactive displays, models and scientific research, visitors can learn how scientists study both fossils and modern animals to understand how these enormous creatures survived and thrived millions of years ago. The exhibition also explores the evolutionary advantages and challenges of extreme size, offering a deeper look at how the scale of these animals shaped their behavior and ecosystems.
IF YOU GO:
Date: Through Sept. 7 Place: Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd.
Tickets: $6-$9
Information: dmns.org or call 303-370-6000
“Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors” at Denver Center for the Performing Arts
This theatrical comedy reimagines Bram Stoker’s gothic horror classic with rapid costume changes, physical humor and a small cast portraying dozens of characters. The fast-paced production transforms the familiar story of Count Dracula’s journey from Transylvania to England into a playful theatrical farce. With quick-fire jokes, theatrical surprises and exaggerated performances, the show offers a comedic take on one of literature’s most famous monsters.
IF YOU GO:
Date: Through May 10
Place: Garner Galleria Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1050 13th St.
Tickets: $35–$65
Information: denvercenter.org or call 303-893-4100
“The Deluge” exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Artist Bethany Collins examines American history, language and identity in this multimedia exhibition that combines sculpture, sound, text and
Aurora, state are deserts, and water policy needs to reflect reality, not our green mirage
Colorado has always sold itself as a land of abundance, with sweeping green lawns, lush parks, tree-lined suburbs and emerald golf courses set against a backdrop of snowcapped peaks.
That image is, and always has been, a carefully engineered illusion.
Colorado is not a green state. It is a green desert.
Everything that appears verdant across Aurora, Denver and the Front Range exists because Colorado has spent more than a century bending water to its will by damming rivers, draining aquifers, diverting snowmelt and parceling out every drop through one of the most complex water-rights systems in the world. Without that manipulation, all of the natural landscape on the Front Range and Western Slope would look like Colorado does the moment you drive east of the city.
As the metroplex population pushes past 4 million people, and the state becomes home to more than 6 million people, that illusion is colliding with reality.
Aurora officials last week delivered a blunt assessment on the drought and the city’s water situation. “It’s bad,” Aurora’s water chief Marshall Brown told lawmakers.
Reservoirs sit at just 68% capacity. Snowpack, which is the lifeblood of the state’s water system, is hovering at roughly half of normal. The city may receive only a third of its typical water supply this year. And what’s left in storage amounts to about a year and a half of usable water.
That is not a cushion. That is a countdown.
The immediate crisis is drought, part of a prolonged dry period in Colorado’s river basins stretching back to 2000, one of the driest in at least 1,200 years, according to state hydrologists.
But the deeper problem is more uncomfortable. Even in good years, Colorado’s water reality is fundamentally unsustainable.
Do the math.
About 60% of the water that originates in Colorado doesn’t stay here. It flows downstream, as it must under interstate compacts, supplying 19 other states and Mexico. Right now, Colorado is in a tooth-and-nail fight with those 19 other states that want more Colorado water, not less.
Of the remaining 40%, agriculture consumes roughly 90% of that, according to the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Municipal use, which includes everything from drinking water to lawn irrigation, accounts for only 10% of the state’s available water.
Yet that small slice supports millions of residents who have long been conditioned to believe that a bright green lawn is not a luxury, but a given. It isn’t.
In fact, about 90% of residential water use in places like Aurora goes not to drinking, cooking or bathing, but to outdoor irrigation. We have for generations poured it onto our front yards, backyards and decorative landscaping.
That means the single largest discretionary use of water in urban Colorado is also the most visible. It’s the green grass you can see from an airplane while flying from any direction toward DIA. Kentucky bluegrass and fescue lawns, the default for decades, are particularly thirsty. They were never meant for this climate. They don’t die only because water has been made artificially cheap, accessible and seemingly limitless.
Until now.
Aurora has done more than most to confront that reality.
City leaders have spent years reshaping local expectations, investing in water rights, promot-
ing conservation and preparing for exactly this kind of scenario. Aurora’s water system depends heavily on the remarkable Prairie Waters project, which captures water downstream of the city in the South Platte River and pumps it back to the city for use.
Aurora is now moving earlier and more aggressively than ever, proposing restrictions in April instead of May, limiting watering days, banning new cool-season grass and cracking down on waste with real enforcement and real penalties.
That’s not overreach. That’s sound policy. But even Aurora’s pragmatism has limits in the face of a severe and worsening drought. When the snow doesn’t fall, reservoirs don’t refill. When temperatures rise, what little precipitation comes often arrives as rain and disappears quickly. Climate change is not an abstract future threat. It is actively reshaping how water moves through the West.
All this means that incremental change is no longer enough.
Aurora should go further, faster, especially when it comes to outdoor water use. The city already offers programs to encourage xeriscaping and low-water landscaping. Those efforts should be expanded dramatically, with meaningful financial incentives for residents to rip out water-intensive lawns and replace them with native, low-water or even now-water alternatives.
At a minimum, homeowners should be steered toward far more efficient grasses such as Tahoma 31 or blue grama, options that align somewhat closer with Colorado’s climate rather than fight it.
The message must be unmistakable. The era of the lush, green lawn as a default feature of suburban life is over and actually undesirable.
DICK POLMAN, CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST
t’s hard for me to describe how much I once loathed Richard Nixon.
Colorado aesthetics must align with reality.
The stakes extend well beyond Aurora. Colorado’s water system is interconnected, and the consequences of overuse or mismanagement ripple across the state. That makes it imperative for state leaders to confront another uncomfortable truth. Not every community has a sustainable water future and must face growth restrictions.
Places like Douglas County, where growth has surged despite limited long-term water supplies, cannot continue on their current trajectory without jeopardizing the broader system. Growth without water is not growth. It’s a bad gamble with consequences for everyone.
The state and cities like Aurora that have substantial water capabilities must consider heavy-water use industries, such as data centers, as anathema to sound and responsible planning.
These are not easy conversations. They challenge deeply held assumptions about property rights, development and the very idea of what life in Colorado should look like.
But the alternative is far worse.
A future defined by emergency restrictions, empty reservoirs and communities scrambling for dwindling supplies is no longer just a hypothetical. It is already beginning to take shape. Colorado has spent generations creating the illusion of abundance in a place defined by scarcity. The illusion is evaporating like scarce water on a hot driveway.
It’s time for state and community leaders to do what’s necessary to protect everyone in the state by making decisions that are supported by science and not home decorating magazines.
Well, Nixon doesn’t look so bad after all I
As a college student during the Watergate scandal, I celebrated when he quit on the cusp of impeachment. I firmly believed, along with millions of others, that Nixon was the lowest human being ever elevated to our highest office and his track record of anti-constitutional crimes would never be surpassed.
Jeez were we naive.
Despite his serial abuses and aberrant behavior – bugging his own office, ordering the Watergate coverup, ranting on tape about “the Jews” will stain him for eternity – when you compare Nixon to the current vile authoritarian, the former looks so good I’m tempted to wallow in nostalgia and give the guy his due.
Think about it: At least Nixon wasn’t stupider than a slab of cement. At least he wasn’t a useful idiot of the Russians. At least he didn’t send people to storm the Capitol after narrowly losing the 1960 presidential race. When the Supreme Court ruled against him in 1974, forcing him to release the Oval Office tapes, he quickly complied. When fellow Republicans told him there were sufficient House votes for impeachment and it was time to go, he went. He actually went.
But that’s just for starters. Check out these points of comparison:
– Unlike he who shall not be named, Nixon didn’t work to destroy the mandate of the Environmental Protection Agency. Quite the contrary. He created the EPA, signed the Clean Water Act, and signed the Endangered Species Act. In 1972 he praised America’s “environmental awakening,” and said “the federal government must provide leadership.”
– Unlike the current saboteur of NATO, Nixon worked to keep it strong. In 1969 he called NATO “one of the great successes of the postwar world.” He said “the American commitment to NATO will remain in force and it will remain strong” because it is “more than a military alliance,” it “represents a moral force.”
– Unlike the current enemy of affordable health care, Nixon repeatedly sought to enact sweeping health reforms – “to ensure,” he said in 1971, “that no American family will be prevented from obtaining basic medical care by inability to pay.” Indeed, Nixon’s provisions – employer-mandated insurance, increased federal subsidies – were actually more generous than today’s Obamacare. (They failed because Democrats, led by Senator Ted Kennedy, didn’t think they were liberal
enough.)
– Unlike the current guy’s quest to rig the judiciary for the rich and favored, Nixon created the Legal Services Corporation Act. Today, the LSC – a federal nonprofit entity – still provides legal aid to low-income people. When he signed it into law in 1974, he called it a “constructive way to help (the poor) help themselves,” to “protect and preserve a basic right for all Americans.”
– Unlike the current addled warlord, whose ignorant blunderings in Iran will likely accelerate a regional nuclear arms race, Nixon prioritized non-proliferation. He sat down with the Russians to negotiate nuclear arms treaties; for the first time, America and the Soviet Union placed limits on their nuclear weapons arsenals.
– Unlike the current entitled brat, Nixon didn’t have a racist rich daddy to grease his ascent. He grew up poor with no connections in a rural California dust town. His father had a lemon farm that failed. Notwithstanding Nixon’s abundant character flaws, it’s beyond dispute that he worked his rear off to get to Duke Law and beyond, to wind up in places like the Great Wall of China, forging an historic detente with a communist power.
I say all this without minimizing the traits so many of us despised –his lies, his paranoia, his willingness to enlist aides in criminal schemes that landed them in jail. He was ultimately destroyed by his own treachery and taught a generation of Americans to distrust their government. He also ended the draft, championed college loans for the poor, and create the OSHA workplace safety agency. The complexities never cease.
And as loathsome as he often was, he never inspired eight million Americans to flood the streets against him on a single day in all 50 states. That alone tells the tale.
Some 30 years ago, I covered an event at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. Walking the grounds with a colleague, I said, “Hey, isn’t he buried around here somewhere?” My companion said, “You’re standing on him.” I leapt as if my feet had been scorched. I looked down and, yes, there he was. Today, acknowledging his upside, I owe him a semi-salute.
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Right: Smoky Hill senior Mya Noffsinger earned a spot on the 2025-26 Aurora Sentinel All-Aurora Girls Swim Team in the 100 yard backstroke with her performance at the Class 5A state meet. Noffsinger’s fifth-place finish helped the Buffaloes scored their most points at the state meet in 15 years.
Below top: On a Regis Jesuit team filled with youth, senior Lexi Stramel provided stability and production and earned individual spots on the All-Aurora Girls Swim Team in the 200 and 500 yard freestyles.
Below bottom: Cherokee Trail junior Natalie Daum’s runner-up performance in the 100 yard breaststroke at the Class 5A girls state swim meet earned her a spot on the All-Aurora Girls Swim Team.
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Team hardware eluded Aurora area teams at this season’s Class 5A girls state swim meet, but plenty of medals found their way back to the city.
All four local programs who earned points over two days of competition at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in early February —Cherokee Trail, Grandview, Regis Jesuit and Smoky Hill — have at least one representative on the 2025-26 Aurora SentinelAll-Aurora Girls Swim Team, which is determined primarily by performance at the state meet.
Winter stars, Pt. 1
Regis Jesuit came into the season with a young team that had the potential talent to stay within range of powerhouse Cherry Creek, which had won championships in each of the past three seasons with the Raiders in second.
BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports Editor
Coach Nick Frasersmith’s Regis Jesuit team found itself bumped out of that runner-up spot this season, however, as Fairview put on an exceptional performance in prelims and finished it off with a 37-point edge over the Raiders for second place behind the dominant Bruins, who won a sixth consecutive state title.
Regis Jesuit had two other two-event All-Aurora winners in sophomore Elsa Osborne and freshman Aria Thomas. Osborne was the lone four-event All-Aurora performer as she contributed to the 200 yard medley and 400 yard freestyle relays, which both earned fourth-place finishes. Additionally, she led Aurora area performers in both the sprint freestyles with a fourth-place finish in the 50 and seventh-place result in the 100. In her state debut, Thomas made an exceptionally big splash in the 200 yard individual medley, as she came in as the No. 13 seed, yet clocked a time nearly six seconds faster in the championship final to take third. Thomas made a more modest gain in the 100 butterfly (moving from eighth to fourth), but had a big time drop.
Stramel, Osborne and Aria Thomas teamed with junior Ava Terella on the 400 freestyle relay team, while Terella was part of the All-Aurora 200 medley relay team for a third straight season as she joined fellow junior Mia Staubli, Osborne and freshman Natalie Worden for fourth.
Smoky Hill scored 147 points for its highest total in 15 years and two All-Aurora performers helped make that possible for coach Scott Cohen’s team.
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Senior Lexi Stramel provided the experience a young Regis Jesuit team needed and she contributed plenty of points as well. In a repeat of the previous season, Stramel earned the All-Aurora spots in the 200 and 500 yard freestyles. Stramel (who held off Smoky Hill’s Cameryn Walkup for both spots) made her biggest strides in the 200, in which she came into state as the No. 11 seed, but swam more than three seconds faster than her seed time and moved up to seventh in the championship final. She tied for sixth place in the 500, which was a bit of a drop from her pre-meet position.
Junior Lyla Bailey got the ball rolling for the Buffs in the diving competition, as she became the program’s first finalist since 2019 and went on to finish seventh with a season-best total of 430.05 points. Senior Mya Noffsinger grabbed the All-Aurora spot in the 100 backstroke as she dropped a season-best time of 57.37 seconds in the final to make the area’s top squad for the first time in her career.
Senior Emma Busta, junior Makenna Dyk, sophomore Paige Gust and freshman Talia Burleson of Grandview (which tied for ninth) came into state seeded 13th and surged all the way to third in the final, leapfrogging Regis Jesuit in the process. Cherokee Trail’s All-Aurora representative is junior Natalie Daum, the state runner-up in the 100 yard breaststroke, though she had the fastest time in the state of 1:02.16 set at the Rex Abelein Invitational.
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MAT MEDALISTS
2026 Aurora Sentinel All-Aurora boys and girls
BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports Editor
Asignificant number of medals came back from Ball Arena around the necks of Aurora area boys and girls from the Class 5A state wrestling tournaments.
By the time three days of competition ended in mid-February, the area had crowned five state champions, while three others were runners-up and a total of 24 wrestlers had earned podium places as top-six finishers in their respective weights.
Here’s a look at the area’s most outstanding boys and girls performers at the state tournament at each weight:
SECOND-TIME STATE CHAMPIONS ORTEGA, MATHEWS LEAD WAY ON ALL-AURORA BOYS WRESTLING TEAM
The Aurora area upped the ante in boys wrestling in the 202526 season, following up last season’s outstanding performance (11 top-six placers, two state champions) with an even better one.
Two juniors — Grandview’s JR Ortega and Cherokee Trail’s Cooper Mathews — won their second career state titles and set themselves to be three-timers as they lead a group of 17 placers.
Grandview set program history with a second-place finish, as it came in only behind powerhouse Pomona (which had eight state champions) with the help of a lineup that makes up half of the 14 members of the 2025-26 AuroraSentinelAll-Aurora Boys Wrestling Team. Cherokee Trail had three first-teamers, while Eaglecrest, Regis Jesuit, Smoky Hill and Vista PEAK Prep had one apiece.
Coach Ryan Budd’s Grandview team had four finalists (one more than last season) and it was Ortega who led the way. On the heels of last season’s 113-pound title, he was even better as a junior with a 50-1 record that was capped with a victory in the 126-pound final. A pin of Castle View’s Jacob Ness in the state title match capped a season in which nobody in Colorado defeated Ortega, whose lone loss came at the Doc B tournament to Darion Johnson of West Linn (the eventual 132-pound 6A state winner in Oregon).
Two of the Wolves’ other three finalists — senior Gunner Lopez and 165 pounds and junior heavyweight Leland Day — ended their respective outstanding seasons with heartbreaking finals defeats.
For Day (who won his second Top of the Rockies championship during the regular season), it was the second straight season in which the 285 pound title escaped him. A late lead against Legend’s Alexander Rose disappeared and once in overtime, Rose prevailed with a pin after a scramble. Day’s sparkling 44-3 record featured two losses to Rose plus one other at the Doc B tournament. Lopez capped a career in which he earned a top-six place in all four seasons with his first finals appearance, where he lost a 5-2 decision to Pomona’s Emmitt Munson. Lopez — who earned a fourth-place finish at the Reno Tournament of Champions among a multitude of highlights — finished 42-5 for the season. Junior Kyle Menuez made the 132-pound title match for the Wolves, but lost All-Aurora honors to Cherokee Trail’s Mathews.
Grandview’s All-Aurora contingent is rounded out by senior Jonathan Montes Gonzales — who came up short in his quest to make a state championship match for a third straight season, but placed third at 157 pounds for his fourth career podium finish — junior Braxston Widrikis (the All-Aurora 144-pounder for a second straight season), plus two first-time state qualifiers and state placers in junior Christian Skov (who took fourth at 175 pounds) and sophomore Marques Lawrence, who secured sixth at 215 pounds. Cherokee Trail had history made with the victory of Mathews in the 132 pound final — which came via a 13-4 win over Menuez — as he became the program’s first-ever two-time state champion. Mathews (the 106 pound state winner as a freshman and a runner-up last season at 120) went 50-4 on the season and all four losses came out of state. Mathews earned All-Aurora honors for a second time in his career for coach Jeff Buck’s Cougars, as did sophomore Elijah Van Horn, who got onto the medal podium for the second time in as many seasons. Van Horn finished sixth at 106 pounds as a freshman, but climbed three steps to third as a sophomore with a 5-1 state run that concluded a 44-5 season. Senior Renzo Lugubuin, a first-time state qualifier, placed sixth at 150 pounds and earned All-Aurora honors.
FAR LEFT TOP: Cherokee Trail’s Cooper Mathews earned the 132-pound spot on the 2025-26 Aurora Sentinel All-Aurora Boys Wrestling Team with his victory in the Class 5A state championship match. FAR LEFT MIDDLE: Regis Jesuit senior Richard Avila, second from right, placed third in 5A at 113 pounds to make the All-Aurora Boys Wrestling Team. FAR LEFT BELOW: Cherokee Trail’s Elijah Van Horn fills the 106-pound position on the All-Aurora Boys Wrestling Team. LEFT: Grandview junior JR Ortega became a repeat Class 5A state champion with his victory in the 126-pound final at Ball Arena . TOP RIGHT: Regis Jesuit’s Remington Zimmerer won the Class 5A girls 120 pound state championship for a second straight season and she again appears on the 2025-26 Aurora Sentinel All-Aurora Girls Wrestling Team. RIGHT: Vista PEAK Prep’s Amelia Bacon was the Aurora area’s only undefeated wrestler (boy or girl) in the 2025-26 season and she fills the 125 pound spot in the All-Aurora lineup. BELOW RIGHT TOP: Vista PEAK Prep junior Khloe Yizar claimed the 235-pound 5A state championship to repeat in that spot on the All-Aurora Girls Wrestling Team. BELOW RIGHT BOTTOM: Senior Parice Jones, second from right, placed third in 5A at 170 pounds and is one of 10 wrestlers from the Eaglecrest co-op team to make the All-Aurora Girls Wrestling Team. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel)
MEDALISTS
girls wrestling teams heavy on state standouts
Regis Jesuit’s lone All-Aurora performer is at 113 pounds in senior Richard Avila, who went 1-4 in state tournament appearances as a freshman and sophomore before he missed out junior year. In his final state tournament, Avila finished 4-1 (with his only loss to eventual state champion Tony Tufano of Brighton) and placed third. Smoky Hill also had a third-place finisher at 138 pounds in junior Jovani Galvan, who earned All-Aurora honors for the first time in his career and had a 42-6 mark for the season. Vista PEAK Prep again was represented by Ian Bacon, who fell an agonizing point shy of earning a chance to defend his 120 pound state championship. The Colorado Mesa-bound senior rebounded to win the third-place match to cap a 34-5 season.
Rounding out the All-Aurora team is Eaglecrest senior Nakhai Miller, who went 44-6 on the season, but fell shy of making it to the medal podium at 190 pounds.
VISTA PEAK PREP DUO OF BACON, YIZAR JOIN REPEAT CHAMPION REMINGTON ZIMMERER ON VANGUARD OF ALL-AURORA
GIRLS WRESTLING TEAM
Two Aurora area girls wrestlers won championships at the 2025 Class 5A state tournament and those same two — Regis Jesuit’s Remington Zimmerer and Vista PEAK Prep’s Amelia Bacon — won again, but were joined by another at the top of the medal podium.
Coach Ashley Jaramillo’s Bison had two state champions in a season for the first time in program history when junior Khloe Yizar captured the 235-pound crown to join Bacon the 2025-26 Aurora SentinelAll-Aurora Girls Wrestling Team, which also includes Zimmerer, an individual from Aurora Central’s first-year program and a whole host of representatives from the Eaglecrest co-op team. Bacon had the most outstanding season around, as she finished with a 47-0 final record (after a 7-3 win by decision over Colorado’s Bella Arellano-Gandy) and didn’t allow an offensive point all season. Only 16 points were scored against the Colorado Mesa University recruit and she allowed all of them after getting takedowns. While Bacon cemented herself in history as the program’s
first state winner and first two-time winner, Yizar started on path that could match her by the end of her prep career. Yizar became Vista PEAK Prep’s second all-time state champion with a win by fall over Central G.J.’s Polutu Savea in the 235-pound final to cap a 29-8 season. It was her second career state place in as many season and her second All-Aurora honor.
Zimmerer was charged with only two losses in a 47-2 season and only one took place on the mat, as she lost a two-point decision to Noelani Lutz of SLAM! Nevada (the runner-up in Nevada). The other was a medical forfeit loss to Widefield’s Amaya Hinojosa, who she defeated multiple times during the season, including a 7-0 decision in the 120 pound state title match, which was a rematch of the same match in 2025.
Eaglecrest — the area’s largest team, which also has athletes from Cherokee Trail and Grandview — secured a whopping 10 All-Aurora spots, led by placers in senior Parice Jones (third at 170 pounds) and sophomore Maxime Lantz (fifth at 140).
Jones was a state placer with Vista PEAK Prep as a junior, but made the move over to Eaglecrest and earned third place with a 38-5 season. Three of her losses during the season came to undefeated Shylee Tuzon of Grand Junction Central and her only loss at state came to Mountain Vista’s Emma Bielak, who lost to Tuzon in the championship match. For the second straight season, Lantz dropped her first match of the state tournament and again she worked her way onto the medal podium. A 4-2 state tournament ended with her in fifth place (one spot lower than last season) and capped a 37-8 season in which she spent half the season at 140 and 145.
Eaglecrest’s other All-Aurora performers who did not place were senior Sofie Ghasabyan (100), freshman Sailor Matejovsky (105), sophomore Jayden Schwabauer (110), sophomores Tatum Debelak (130) and Paula Esmeral Ulles (135), sophomore Olivia Fabbricatore (145) plus juniors Audrey Braun (155) and Alyssa Apolinar (190).
Aurora Central was the Aurora area’s new girls program this season and two wrestlers qualified for the state tournament. Junior Tremoni Scaggs (17-11) earned All-Aurora honors at 115 pounds.
WEEK PAST
The week past in Aurora prep sports
MONDAY, MARCH 30: The Smoky Hill boys lacrosse team had its undefated start to the season come to an end with a 16-5 loss to unbeaten Lutheran. ...
SATURDAY, MARCH 28: Eli Shappee and Brady Wright drove in runs for the Regis Jesuit baseball team, which concluded the National High School Invitational in Cary, S.C., with a 3-1 win over Wakefield (N.C.). Wright earned the win on the mound as he scattered three hits over five innings. ...The Overland baseball team earned a 10-9 walk-off win over Northglenn thanks to a three-run rally in the seventh inning. Jerome Mestas and Ruben Luna knocked in two runs apiece for the Trailblazers. ...The Grandview boys track team earned a four-point win at the Grandview Invitational with help of event champions Brennan Hiland (3,200 meters), D’Aaron Fox (triple jump) and Daniel Buckeye (discus). Cameron Bell swept the hurdles and also took the long jump for Eaglecrest, which finished fifth. Cherokee Trail placed fourth as Corbin Cole (200 meters), Dylan Smith (400 meters) and the 4x800 relay team won events. ...The Eaglecrest girls track team rolled to a 69-point victory over the field at the Grandview Invitational with a slew of event winners in Evangeline Ansah (100 meters), Malanya Gaines (800 meters), Naia Williams (triple jump), Zenobia Witt (long jump) and Haley Brinkman (discus). Elizabeth Heim, Emerson Hensler, Alexis Fischer and Cariya Davis combined to win the 4x800 meter relay for runner-up Grandview, while Madison Lange (3,200 meters) plus the 4x100 and 4x400 meter relay teams won for fourth-place Cherokee Trail. ...The Regis Jesuit boys lacrosse team rolled to a 20-3 home victory over Grandview in a local matchup. ...Amina Pope tallied four goals, while Jasmine Lugo and Delaney Sitzmann had two goals and an assist apiece as the Regis Jesuit girls lacrosse team topped Cherry Creek 9-6. ...The Vista PEAK Prep boys volleyball team finished 3-1 at the Raider Classic. ...FRIDAY, FEB. 27: Ethan Wachsmann struck out 10 over four innings, while Kayden Bohmeyer and Lochlan McHale had three hits apiece in the Grandview baseball team’s 12-3 win at Fruita Monument. ...A massive game for Karter Robertson (4-for-4 with three home runs and seven RBI) helped the Vista PEAK Prep baseball team to a 13-3 win over Montbello. ...Mabel Ramon had a hat trick for the Lotus School For Excellence girls soccer team in a 7-1 win over Valley. ...The Smoky Hill girls soccer team put up a handful of goals on the road in a 5-2 win at Rangeview in a local matchup. ...Behind four goals from Bruce Pfeiffer and three apiece for Cooper Bernard and Ryder Southern in an 11-2 win for the Cherokee Trail boys lacrosse team over Monarch. ...The Smoky Hill boys lacrosse team claimed The Hammer traveling trophy for the first time since 2017 with a 5-4 victory over rival Eaglecrest at Legacy Stadium. Max McDougal scored three times in the opening half and Jason Jaster also had a goal for the Buffaloes, who watched the Raptors get two goals apiece in the second half from Trey Patton and Wynston Crampton The Cherokee Trail girls tennis team finished in a tie for first place with Lutheran at the Amy Howe Invitational hosted by Smoky Hill, but lost a tiebreak
to officially take second. Vista PEAK Prep had two champions in Francesca Johnson at No. 1 singles along with the No. 1 doubles team of Mady and Ava Eltzroth THURSDAY, MARCH 26: The Gateway baseball team racked up 15 hits, while starting pitcher Nolan Vazquez allowed just three in the Olys’ 17-1 win over DSST:Montview. Anthony Rubio and Christopher De La Torre had three hits apiece for Gateway, while Rubio joined Colt Wenzel with three RBI and Heber Almeida knocked in a pair of runs and scored four times. ...Despite a 4-for-4 day from Ryan Chidester, the host Cherokee Trail baseball team fell to Douglas County 10-8, despite outhitting the visitors 12-9. ...In a windblown contest at EchoPark Stadium, Reese Crance scored on a corner kick to open the scoring and the Regis Jesuit girls soccer team went on to a 4-0 Continental League win over Ponderosa. Harper Kelty, Meg Manion and Kennedy Ranson also notched goals for the Raiders. ...The Hinkley girls track team finished in 13th place at the Denver South Ravens Invitational, while the boys placed 16th. ...The Eaglecrest boys volleyball team extended its unbeaten start with a 25-19, 25-21, 25-20 Centennial League defeat of host Cherry Creek. ...Ellis Cook had 13 kills, five aces and nine digs to help the Vista PEAK Prep boys volleyball team to a 25-16, 25-17, 25-17 win at Gate-
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way WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25: A five-run first inning got the Grandview baseball team off to a fast start on its way to a 10-1 road win over Highlands Ranch. Logan Hurtado pitched 4 2/3 solid innings for the Wolves, as he allowed just hits and struck out six, while a 13-hit attack was led by three hits and three runs score from Kayden Bohmeyer Bryson Bellapianta also had three hits, while AJ Maroni drove in a pair of runs. ...The Regis Jesuit baseball team dropped a 3-0 decision to Orange Lutheran (California) in the opening game of the National High School Invitational in Cary, S.C. ...Destiny Martinez and Yosseline Silva Monsivais scored three goals apiece for the Aurora West College Prep Academy girls soccer team in a 10-0 victory over William Smith. ...The Aurora Central girls soccer team played Regis Groff to a 1-1 tie. ...The Cherokee Trail boys lacrosse team went back-and-forth with Castle View at Legacy Stadium before it prevailed 11-9. ...The Regis Jesuit boys lacrosse team paid a visit to Denver South and notched a 20-2 non-league victory. ...In an early season matchup of top 10 Class 5A programs, the Regis Jesuit girls lacrosse team fell to Fairview 16-12 at Lou Kellogg Stadium. ...The Grandview boys volleyball team got a 22-kill effort from Alex Garcia, plus 14 more from Connor Deickman in a 25-17, 16-25,
25-20, 25-20 win over previously unbeaten Legend. Devan Hall dished out 44 assists and Creed Kingsbury had 12 digs as the Wolves stayed unbeaten. ...In a Centennial League dual match that was particularly competitive in doubles, the Grandview girls tennis team downed Eaglecrest 5-2 as Sydney Zimmerman (No. 2) and Chloe Clary (No. 3) earned singles wins, while doubles victories came from Ella Vail and Bethany Savacool (No. 1), Linhvy Nguyen and Mikenzie Hall (No. 2) and Aishwarya Kamineni and Carolyn Moyer (No. 4). No. 1 singles player Natali Marshall and the No. 3 doubles duo of Quinn Chambers and Audrey Spencer-Vandesteeg prevailed for the Raptors. ...The City League played just its second girls golf tournament of the season and Vista PEAK Prep finished fourth as a team in play at Aurora’s Meadow Hills G.C. Sophia Capua shot a plus-11 82 for the Bison to earn a share of the individual medalist spot. ...TUESDAY, MARCH 24: The Rangeview baseball team broke open a game with visiting Aurora Central with a six-run sixth inning en route to an 11-2 victory behind six solid innings from Colten Burch. Sam Rashchuk had two RBI and scored three times, while Derek Catalan also had two hits and stole three bases for the Raiders. Toby Sanchez had half of the four hits for the Trojans. ...In a Continental League road contest, Annabelle Turner and Kennedy Ranson notched a pair of goals apiece for the Regis Jesuit girls soccer
ABOVE LEFT: Regis Jesuit sophomore Will Cornell scores a goal with a shot behind his back during the Raiders’ 20-2 win at Denver South on March 25 . ABOVE RIGHT: Smoky Hill senior Max McDougall (11) celebrates after he scored the first goal in the Buffaloes’ 5-4 boys lacrosse win over Eaglecrest on March 27 at Legacy Stadium. LEFT: Vista PEAK Prep senior Sophia Capua watches her tee shot fly on Hole No. 3 at Meadow Hills Golf Course during the City League girls golf tournament March 25. Capua earned a tie for first place individually. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel)
team in a 5-0 victory over Highlands Ranch. Izzy Meyer tallied two assists for the Raiders. ...The Gateway girls soccer team paid a visit to Hinkley for a contest at Aurora Public Schools Stadium, which saw only one goal scored. That came for the Olys, as Sa’Mya Shazier tallied in the opening half and Carla Silva made eight saves to preserve a 1-0 victory. ...In a game delayed at the start until officials arrived, the Grandview boys lacrosse team outlasted Denver East 10-9 for an overtime victory at Legacy Stadium. Jack Cole led the way for the Wolves with four goals, while Mason Kelly added two goals and three assists and Drew Place added 11 saves. ...A 25-15, 25-15, 25-13 victory for the Grandview boys volleyball team over Rock Canyon included a 13-kill performance from Connor Deickman, while Alex Garcia added eight service aces and Devan Hall 22 assists. ...The Overland boys volleyball team earned a 25-22, 25-16, 25-20 home win over Gateway in a match that saw Jan Khadyka tally 10 kills for the Trailblazers, while Prabesh Chamling also reached double figures (plus 12 digs) for the Olys. Gavin Aquino contributed five kills and 25 assist for Overland. ...The Regis Jesuit girls tennis team earned a 6-1 Continental League dual match victory over ThunderRidge that included a doubles sweep in addition to singles wins at No. 1 by Madeline Dickey and No. 3 by Helen Adams. ...The Vista PEAK Prep girls tennis team swept past Hinkley
Because the people must know
COMBINED NOTICE
PUBLICATION CRS §38 38 103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0759 2025
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice
is given with regard to the following de-
scribed Deed of Trust:
On December 30, 2025, the undersigned
Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.
Original Grantor(s)
Robert W. Collison and Betty J. Collison
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust April 29, 2021
County of Recording
Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust
April 30, 2021
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
E1071411
Original Principal Amount
$382,936.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$347,984.11
Pursuant to CRS §38 38 101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay 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 15, BLOCK 8, J E ROUPP SECOND ADDITION AMENDED, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
APN#: 031055351
Purported common address: 1355 Racine St, Aurora, CO 80011. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN
IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 04/29/2026, 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 3/5/2026
Last Publication 4/2/2026
Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 12/30/2025 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706 9990
Attorney File # 25 034254
COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38 38 103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0001 2026
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 2, 2026, 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) Abu bakr Muwwakkil and Jennifer Kloeppner 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 September 27, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 01, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D9103034
Original Principal Amount
$417,203.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$365,778.38
Pursuant to CRS §38 38 101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 17, BLOCK 2, KINGSBOROUGH SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 7, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Purported common address: 2563 S Ouray 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, 05/06/2026, 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 3/12/2026 Last Publication 4/9/2026 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE
A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/02/2026
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Heather Deere #28597
Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274 0155 Attorney File # CO25934
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. 0003 2026
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 2, 2026, 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) Cameron Philip Snellen AND James Dean Gaster
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR BROKER SOLUTIONS, INC., DBA NEW AMERICAN FUNDING, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE
AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust
February 11, 2022
County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
February 14, 2022
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
E2017813
Original Principal Amount
$467,378.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$437,758.45
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 6, BLOCK 3, HOFFMAN TOWN, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 1232 Quari Street, Aurora, CO 80011. 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, 05/06/2026, 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 3/12/2026
Last Publication 4/9/2026
Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/02/2026
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706 9990
Attorney File # 25 036459
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. 0005 2026
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 6, 2026, the undersigned
Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.
Original Grantor(s)
Christopher Cox
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE
AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust
August 04, 2020
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
August 07, 2020
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
E0101330
Original Principal Amount
$224,852.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$202,524.59
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 LEGAL DESCRIPTION
Condominium Unit 13702 C, in Condominium Building 25, Meadow Hills I Condominiums, according to the Condominium Map thereof, recorded on May 18, 1983 in Book 64 at Page 16 and the Condominium Map recorded February 23, 1984 in Book 72 at Page 33 in the records of the Office of the Clerk and Recorder of County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, and as defined and described in the Condominium Declaration for Meadow Hills I Condominiums, recorded May 17, 1983 in Book 3865 at Page 136, in said records, and any and all supplements and amendments thereto, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. APN#: 032529105
Purported common address: 13702 E Lehigh Avenue Apt C, 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, 05/06/2026, 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 3/12/2026
Last Publication 4/9/2026
Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/06/2026
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
N. April Winecki #34861
David R. Doughty #40042
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706 9990
Attorney File # 25 036457
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. 0006 2026
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On January 6, 2026, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original Grantor(s)
John Hansford and Casey Hansford Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Home Point Financial Corporation, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Freedom Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust December 04, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 08, 2020
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
E0170774
Original Principal Amount
$284,747.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$250,602.18
Pursuant to CRS §38 38 101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 3, BLOCK 9, KINGSBOROUGH, 2ND SUBDIVISION, FILING UNIT 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO
Purported common address: 2276 S Kittredge Way, 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, 05/06/2026, 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 3/12/2026
Last Publication 4/9/2026 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY
THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/06/2026 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557
Steven Bellanti #48306
Holly Shilliday #24423
Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755
McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369 6122
Attorney File # CO 25 1029397 JH
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. 0007 2026
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 6, 2026, 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) Ebony Lasha Gloria Strong Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC, its successors and assigns
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC
Date of Deed of Trust May 26, 2021
County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust
May 28, 2021
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
E1086103
Original Principal Amount
$284,747.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$260,497.48
Pursuant to CRS §38 38 101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 155, BLOCK 1, PEACHWOOD SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Purported common address: 11991 E Ford Dr, 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, 05/06/2026, 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 3/12/2026
Last Publication 4/9/2026
Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/06/2026
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Amanda Ferguson #44893
Heather Deere #28597
Toni M. Owan #30580
Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274 0155 Attorney File # CO25769
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. 0011 2026 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with
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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, 05/06/2026, 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 3/12/2026 Last Publication 4/9/2026 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/06/2026 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Jennifer C. Rogers #34682 Kate M. Leason #41025 IDEA Law Group, LLC 4530 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. 10, Las Vegas,
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
As required by the Colorado Liquor Code, as amended, notice is hereby given that an application for a Hotel & Restaurant Liquor License has been received by the Local Licensing Authority for the granting of a license to sell at retail, malt, and vinous liquor for consumption on premises only.
Capri Coffee LLC dba Capri Coffee for a location at 10139 E Colfax Ave., Aurora, CO 80010 filed the application on January 27, 2026. The Limited Liability members reside in Colorado.
Written protests with reasons must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. on May 4, 2026, to Miranda Garcia, Licensing Officer 2, at 15151 East Alameda Parkway, 5th Floor, Aurora, CO 80012.
Provided either the applicant or protestant(s) desire to use petitions to prove the needs of the neighborhood, and the desires of the inhabitants, the petitions may not be circulated before April 2, 2025, and must be returned by 12:00 noon April 24th, 2026, for review and verification by the City of Aurora Liquor Licensing staff.
Information as to the application, procedures, or remonstrances, may be handled with the Liquor Licensing staff up to and including May 4, 2026.
Miranda Garcia Licensing Officer 2 303-739-7214
mgarcia@auroragov.org’
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
You are hereby notified that a public hearing regarding 2027 Proposed Budget balancing will be held on April 6, 2026, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Aurora, Colorado. The meeting will be held in the Council Chambers at the Aurora Municipal Center, located at 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora. This meeting also has a virtual attendance option, but anyone wishing to participate shall appear in person. Please visit the City website at AuroraGov.org for instructions on virtual attendance.
/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
You are hereby notified that a public hear-
ing will be held on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. The meeting will be held at the MLK Jr. Library, located at 9898 E Colfax Avenue, Aurora, Colorado 80010.
The hearing will consider a Local Landmark nomination for The Rose King Brown House.
Site Location: 1390 Dayton Street
Site Size: .1440 acres
At said meeting any person with an interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.
/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk
First Publication: April 2, 2026
Final Publication: April 9, 2026 Sentinel BEFORE THE ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO CAUSE NO. 535 DOCKET NO. 260100006 TYPE: SPACING NOTICE OF HEARING
IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS FOR THE NIOBRARA, FORT HAYES, CARLILE, AND SHARON SPRINGS FORMATIONS, WATTENBERG FIELD, ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES, COLORADO
Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Onshore LP (Operator No. 47120) (“Applicant”) filed an Application with the Commission for an order to expand existing drilling and spacing units to comprise the lands identified below. This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may own oil or gas (“mineral”) interests within the proposed units. Generally, spacing is the process whereby an applicant obtains approval to assign certain mineral interests to be developed by a specific number of wells. Importantly, spacing is not pooling, and it is not an application for a drilling permit.
The assigned Hearing Officer will hold a hearing on the above-referenced docket number at the following date, time, and location:
Date: May 27, 2026 Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Virtual Hearing with Remote Access via Zoom
To participate, navigate to https://ecmc.colorado.gov/hearings and locate the Zoom meeting link, listed in the “Commission Hearings” section Energy and Carbon Management Commission 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203
PETITIONS DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECTED PERSONS: April 27, 2026
Any interested party who wishes to participate formally must file a written petition with the Commission no later than the deadline provided above. Please see Commission Rule 507 at https://ecmc. colorado.gov/regulation (select “Rules”). Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above. Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online at https://oitco.hylandcloud. com/DNRCOGExternalAccess/Account/ Login.aspx and select “Request Access to Site.” Additional guidance regarding registration and use of the eFiling system is available online in the Commission’s “eFiling Guidebook” at https://ecmc.colorado.gov/hearings/efiling-system. Under Commission Rule 508, if no petition is filed, the Application may be approved administratively without a formal hearing.
Any Affected Person who files a petition must be able to participate in a prehearing conference during the week of April 27, 2026, if a prehearing conference is requested by the Applicant or by any person who has filed a petition.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For more information, you may review the Application, which was sent to you with this Notice. You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations for this hearing as a result of a disability, please contact Margaret Humecki before the hearing at DNR_ECMC_Hearings_Unit@state.co.us, and arrangements will be made.
ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
By Elias J. Thomas, Commission Secretary
Dated: March 23, 2026
Applicant: Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Onshore LP c/o Attorneys for Applicant Aaron B. Tucker Lainey Larsen Kristine Roach Holland & Hart LLP 555 17th Street, Suite 3200 Denver, CO 80202 303-295-8309 abtucker@hollandhart.com eclarsen@hollandhart.com karoach@hollandhart.com
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel BEFORE THE ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO CAUSE NO. 535 DOCKET NO. 260300052 TYPE: POOLING NOTICE OF HEARING
IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS FOR THE NIOBRARA FORMATION, DJ HORIZONTAL NIOBRARA FIELD, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO GMT Exploration Company LLC (Operator No. 10243) (“Applicant”) filed an Application with the Commission for an order to pool all oil and gas (“mineral”) interests in lands identified below. This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may own mineral interests that will be pooled if the Commission approves the Application. Pooling is the consolidation and combining of mineral interests so that all mineral interest owners receive payment for their just and equitable share of produced oil and gas. For more information about the Commission’s pooling process, please see a brochure on the Commission’s website here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14QaK0JG6G35gvqwq5pp5t1psF0fDil0M/view
APPLICATION LANDS
Township
South, Range 64 West, 6th
DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF HEARING
(Subject to change)
The assigned Hearing Officer will hold a hearing on the above-referenced docket number at the following date, time, and location:
Date: July 1, 2026
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Virtual Hearing with Remote Access via Zoom To participate, navigate to https://ecmc.colorado.gov/hearings and locate the Zoom meeting link, listed in the “Commission Hearings” section Energy and Carbon Management Commission The Chancery Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203
PETITIONS
DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECTED PERSONS: May 1, 2026
Any interested party who wishes to participate formally must file a written petition with the Commission no later than the deadline provided above. Please see Commission Rule 507 at https://ecmc. colorado.gov/regulation (select “Rules”). Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above. Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online at https://oitco.hylandcloud. com/DNRCOGExternalAccess/Account/ Login.aspx and select “Request Access to Site.” Additional guidance regarding registration and use of the eFiling system is available online in the Commission’s “eFiling Guidebook” at https://ecmc.colorado.gov/hearings/efiling-system. Under Commission Rule 508, if no petition is filed, the Application may be approved administratively without a formal hearing.
Any interested party who files a petition must be able to participate in a prehearing conference during the week of May 4, 2026, if a prehearing conference is requested by the Applicant or by any person who has filed a petition.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For more information, you may review the Application, which was sent to you with this Notice. You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Margaret Humecki before the hearing at DNR_ECMC_Hearings_Unit@state.co.us, and arrangements will be made.
ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO
By /s/ Elias J. Thomas, Commission Secretary
Dated: March 24, 2026
Applicant: GMT Exploration Company LLC
Attorneys for Applicant Jamie L. Jost Kelsey H. Wasylenky Jost Energy Law, P.C. 3511 Ringsby Court, Unit 103 Denver, Colorado 80216 720-446-5620
Jjost@jostenergylaw.com
Kwasylenky@jostenergylaw.com
Publication: April 2, 2026
Sentinel BEFORE THE ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO CAUSE NO. 535 DOCKET NO. 250300045 TYPE: OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT PLAN
NOTICE OF HEARING
IN THE MATTER OF THE PROMULGATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD RULES TO GOVERN OPERATIONS FOR THE NIOBRARA FORMATION, DJ HORIZONTAL NIOBRARA FIELD, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO
Crestone Peak Resources Operating LLC (Operator No. 10633) (“Applicant”) filed an Application with the Commission for an order to establish an Oil & Gas Development Plan (“OGDP”) on the lands identified below. Generally, an Oil and Gas Development Plan is the process whereby an applicant obtains approval to develop oil or gas resources at one or more locations by drilling a specific number of wells. An OGDP is not a pooling application.
This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may: (1) be an Owner of oil and/or gas (“mineral”) interests to be developed by the proposed OGDP; (2) own, reside, or operate a first responder agency on property within 2,000 feet of a working pad surface included in the OGDP; or (3) be otherwise entitled to notice pursuant to Commission Rule 303.e.(1).
APPLICATION LANDS Township 4 South, Range 64 West, 6th P.M. Section 27: All
Section 28: All
Section 29: SE1/4SE1/4
Section 32: E1/2, E1/2W1/2
Section 33: All Section 34: All
Nearby public crossroads: S Watkins Road and Yale Avenue
DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF HEAR-
ING
(Subject to change) A Commission hearing on the above-referenced docket number is currently scheduled for the following date, time, and location:
Date: June 10, 2026
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Virtual Hearing with Remote Access via Zoom
To participate, navigate to https://ecmc.colorado.gov/hearings and locate the Zoom meeting link, listed under “Commission Hearings” Energy and Carbon Management Commission The Chancery Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203
Parties to this hearing will be notified if this date, time, or place changes. For the most up-to-date information regarding the Commission’s hearing schedule, please visit the ECMC website https://ecmc.colorado.gov, click on “Hearings,” then click on “Commission Hearings.”
PUBLIC COMMENT
Any party may file a public comment for the review of Commission Staff related to the above-described OGDP. All public comments will be included in the administrative record for the OGDP proceeding. Parties wishing to file a public comment on the above-described OGDP may find the “eFiling Public Comment Portal” under “Hearings” on the ECMC website or use the eFiling system outlined below.
PETITIONS
DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECT-
ED PERSONS: May 11, 2026
Any interested party who wishes to participate formally in this matter must file a written petition with the Commission no later than the deadline provided above. Please see Commission Rule 507 at https://ecmc. colorado.gov/regulation (select “Rules”). Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above. Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online at https://oitco.hylandcloud. com/DNRCOGExternalAccess/Account/ Login.aspx and select “Request Access to Site.” Please refer to the ECMC “eFiling Guidebook” accessible at https://ecmc. colorado.gov/hearings/efiling-system for more information.
Any Affected Person who files a petition must be able to participate in a prehearing conference during the week of May 11, 2026 if a prehearing conference is requested by the Applicant or by any person who has filed a petition.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For more information, you may review the Application, which was sent to you with this Notice. You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Margaret Humecki at DNR_ECMC_Hearings_Unit@ state.co.us prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made.
ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO By Elias J. Thomas, Commission Secretary
Dated: March 24, 2026
Applicant: Crestone Peak Resources Operating LLC c/o Attorneys for Applicant Jamie L. Jost Kelsey H. Wasylenky Jost Energy Law, P.C. 3511 Ringsby Court, Unit 103 Denver, Colorado 80216 720-446-5620
Jjost@jostenergylaw.com
Kwasylenky@jostenergylaw.com
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO SUMMONS
Plaintiff: PLANET HOME LENDING LLC
v. Defendants: DUNG QUOC NGUYEN; KIM HONG VU; GOODLEAP, LLC; MTKT CAPITAL, INC.; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; and MICHAEL WESTERBERG, IN HIS CAPACITY AS THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO.
TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint. If service of the Summons and Complaint was made upon you within the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 21 days after such service upon you. If service of the Summons and Complaint was made upon you outside of the State of Colorado or by publication, you are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after such service upon you. If you were served by publication, service shall be complete on the last day of publication. Your answer or counterclaim must be accompanied with the applicable filing fee.
If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, the Court may enter judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice.
Dated: November 24, 2025
IDEA LAW GROUP, LLC
Original signature of Kate M. Leason is on file with the law offices of IDEA Law Group, LLC pursuant to C.R.C.P. 121 §1-26(7).
/s/ Kate M. Leason
Kate M. Leason, #41025
ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF PLANET HOME LENDING LLC
First Publication: March 26, 2026
Final Publication: April 23, 2026 Sentinel
DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION Case No. 2025CV30550
Plaintiff: Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC
Defendants: Jose Rivera Rodriguez; Nicolas Valenzuela; Scott Turner in his Official Capacity as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Board of County Commissioners ADCO; and Alex Villagran in his Official Capacity as the Public Trustee of Adams County, Colorado.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFEN-
DANT(S): You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.
If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be entered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the amended complaint without further notice.
This is a C.R.C.P. 105 action for judicial foreclosure in real property regarding the following real property:
LOTS 1 AND 2, WALNUT GROVE 2ND ADDITION, RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 30, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO. known and numbered as 406 South 5th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80601.
Dated: December 9, 2025
Attorney for Plaintiff: Marcello G. Rojas #46396 Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Blvd., #700 Denver, CO 80204 Phone: 303-350-3711 Email: marcellor@bdfgroup.com
First Publication: March 5, 2026
estimated amount of new hot Grade SX asphalt with 20% RAP and includes new layout striping and traffic control.
AND Full Depth Asphalt Repairs. Approximately 356 tons. Full depth removal of six inches estimated amount of asphalt includes removal of 6 inches of asphalt, hauling material off site and broom clean-up. Prep and grade subgrade to resolve any previously existing issues. Bill to also include one mobilization/phase, haul,, place and compact total estimated about of new hot Grade SX asphalt with 20% RAP.
The Issuing Office contact is: Marti Stocks, Director Property Management – Southeast DLC Management Corporation (770) 900-8382
Information and bidding for the Project will be available electronically on April 3, 2026. Send email request for bid documents to Marti Stocks (770) 900-8382, mstocks@ dlcmgmt.com. Include company name, contact name and contact information in the request.
No pre-bid conference will be held. For all further requirements regarding bid submittal, qualifications, procedures, and contract award, contact Marti Stocks.
Bidders are hereby advised the Owner reserves the right to not award a Contract until sixty (60) days from the date of the opening of Bids, and Bidders expressly agree to keep their Bids open for the sixty (60) day time period. Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any informality, technicality or irregularity in any Bid, to disregard all non-conforming, non-responsive, conditional or alternate Bids, to negotiate contract terms with the Successful Bidder, to require statements or evidence of Bidders’ qualifications, including financial statements, and to accept the proposal that is, in the opinion of the Owner, in its best interest. Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest to do so.
Any questions concerning this bid shall be submitted no later than 10:00 a.m. on April 20, 2026, and must be directed in writing to: Marti Stocks (770) 900-8382, mstocks@dlcmgmt.com.
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION Case No. 26CV000046-750 DONNA TORRENCE & MICHAEL TORRENCE, Plaintiffs, v. CASSANDRA JOHNSON & ABDERRAHMANE MESSAOUDI, Defendants.
To: Abderrahmane Messaoudi
TAKE NOTICE that a Complaint seeking Temporary & Permanent Custody and Motions for an Ex Parte Emergency Custody, A Status Quo Custody Order and Hair Follicle Drug Test was filed on January 6, 2026 in the Office of the Clerk of Court, Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina. You are required to make defense to such pleading no later than May 12, 2026 said date being forty (40) days from the first publication of this Notice, and upon your failure to do so plaintiffs will apply to the Court for the relief sought.
This the 2nd day of April, 2026.
Alyssa Harris Attorney for Plaintiffs NCSB# 61770 Garrett, Walker, Aycoth, & Olson 317 S. Greene St. Greensboro, NC 27401 (336) 379-0539
First Publication: April 2, 2026 Final Publication: April 16, 2026 Sentinel
NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED AMENDED 2025 BUDGET AND HEARING SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed amended budget will be submitted to the SECOND
Final Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
INVITATION TO BID
Cornerstar Metropolitan District (the “District”), a quasi-municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Colorado (Owner) is requesting Bids for the construction of the following Project:
Asphalt Milling and Paving (the “Project”) Bids for the construction of the Project will be received by Marti Stocks (770) 9008382, mstocks@dlcmgmt.com, until April 23, 2026 at 10:00am local time. At that time the Bids received will be opened via a video conference link, to be provided upon request.
The Project includes the following Work: Asphalt Milling and Paving – 2”. Approximately 73,277 square feet or up to 910 tons. Milling of estimated amount of asphalt (approximately 2”) includes removal of 2” of asphalt, hauling materials off site and broom clean-up. Bid to include cost for one mobilization/phase. Asphalt overlay (2” depth) includes cleaning existing asphalt thoroughly and apply CSS-IH tack coat to ensure bonding. Bid to also includes haul, place and compact total
Any
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., that on the 21st day of April, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. Final Settlement with Integrated Site Services (Contractor) will be made by the Trails Park and Recreation District (Owner) for construction of the Fox Hill Park Improvements (Project) located in Arapahoe County, Colorado at 4825 South Himalaya St. Centennial, subject to prior satisfactory final inspection and acceptance of said facilities.
Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or his subcontractor in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefore has not been paid by the contractor or the subcontractor, may file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim on or before the date and time set forth above for Final Settlement.
All verified statements of claim shall be filed with the Owner to the attention of Delos Searle at the following address 16799 E. Lake Ave., Centennial, CO 80016. Failure on the part of any claimant to file a verified statement or claim prior to the date and time of Final Settlement will release said Owner, its officers, agents and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim and for making payment to the said claimant.
Trails Park and Recreation District
First Publication: April 2, 2026
Final Publication: April 9, 2026 Sentinel NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO DATE: April 2 and 9, 2026
PURCHASE ORDER NO. 25P0323K PROJECT NO: 6051A PROJECT TITLE: 2025 South Concrete Program CONTRACTOR: Silva Construction, Inc. 154 Cisne Cir. Brighton, CO 80601
Notice is hereby given that the City of Aurora intends to start processing the Final Payment to the above-named Contractor on April 20, 2026, provided no claims are received.
Any person or firm having debts against the Contractor must file a proper written notice with the Contract Coordinator, City of Aurora, Purchasing and Contract Services Division, 15151 East Alameda Parkway Suite 5700, Aurora, Colorado 80012, on or before the above date.
CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO BY: Cyndi Winner Senior Procurement Agent
First Publication: April 2, 2026
Final Publication: April 9, 2026 Sentinel NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION CITADEL ON COLFAX BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT MAY 5, 2026
1-13.5-1105(2)(d), 1-13.5-502 C.R.S.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the Citadel on Colfax Business Improvement District of the City of Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election is to be held on Tuesday, the 5th day of May, 2026, and that said election shall be conducted by mail ballot. Accordingly, ballots will be distributed by U.S. Mail not earlier than April 13, 2026, and not later than April 20, 2026, to eligible electors of the District entitled to vote in the election. The purpose of the election is to submit to the eligible electors of the District referenced above, certain ballot questions summarized below, as applied to the District.
At said election, the electors of the District shall vote for the following Ballot Question certified by the District:
BALLOT QUESTION A (Waiver of Property Tax Limit)
Eligible electors may apply for new or replacement mail ballots and return voted mail ballots to the office of the Designated Election Official which is also the ballot drop-off/walk-in voting location: at Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, Colorado 80203. The office of the Designated Election Official is open Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. from April 13, 2026 through May 4, 2026 and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on May 5, 2026 (Election Day). Please contact the office of the Designated Election Official at (303) 839-3800 to coordinate walk in voting or drop off of ballots. By: /s/ Becky Johnson Designated Election Official
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION CITADEL ON COLFAX BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
MAY 5, 2026
1-13.5-1105(2)(d), 1-13.5-502 C.R.S.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the Citadel on Colfax Business Improvement District of the City of Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election is to be held on Tuesday, the 5th day of May, 2026, and that said election shall be conducted by mail ballot. Accordingly, ballots will be distributed by U.S. Mail not earlier than April 13, 2026, and not later than April 20, 2026, to eligible electors of the District entitled to vote in the election. The purpose of the election is to submit to the eligible electors of the District referenced above, certain ballot questions summarized below, as applied to the District.
At said election, the electors of the District shall vote for the following Ballot Question certified by the District:
BALLOT QUESTION A (Waiver of Property Tax Limit)
Eligible electors may apply for new or replacement mail ballots and return voted mail ballots to the office of the Designated Election Official which is also the ballot drop-off/walk-in voting location: at Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, Colorado 80203. The office of the Designated Election Official is open Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. from April 13, 2026 through May 4, 2026 and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on May 5, 2026 (Election Day).
Please contact the office of the Designated Election Official at (303) 839-3800 to coordinate walk in voting or drop off of ballots.
By: /s/ Becky Johnson Designated Election Official Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION FRONT RANGE AIRPARK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1-5 MAY 5, 2026
1-13.5-1105(2)(d), 1-13.5-502 C.R.S.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the Front Range Airpark Metropolitan District Nos. 1-5 of the City of Aurora, Adams County, Colorado (collectively, the “District”).
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election is to be held on Tuesday, the 5th day of May, 2026, and that said election shall be conducted by mail ballot. Accordingly, ballots will be distributed by U.S. Mail not earlier than April 13, 2026, and not later than April 20, 2026, to eligible electors of the District entitled to vote in the election. The purpose of the election is to submit to the eligible electors of the District referenced above, certain ballot questions summarized below, as applied to the District.
At said election, the electors of the District shall vote for the following Ballot Question certified by the District: BALLOT QUESTION A (Waiver of Property Tax Limit)
Eligible electors may apply for new or replacement mail ballots and return voted mail ballots to the office of the Designated Election Official which is also the ballot drop-off/walk-in voting location: at Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, Colorado 80203. The office of the Designated Election Official is open Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. from April 13, 2026
through May 4, 2026 and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on May 5, 2026 (Election Day). Please contact the office of the Designated Election Official at (303) 839-3800 to coordinate walk in voting or drop off of ballots.
By: /s/ Courtney Linney, Designated Election Official
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION RANGEVIEW METROPOLITAN
DISTRICT MAY 5, 2026
1-13.5-1105(2)(d), 1-13.5-502 C.R.S.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the Rangeview Metropolitan District of Arapahoe County, Colorado.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election is to be held on Tuesday, the 5th day of May, 2026, and that said election shall be conducted by mail ballot. Accordingly, ballots will be distributed by U.S. Mail not earlier than April 13, 2026, and not later than April 20, 2026, to eligible electors of the District entitled to vote in the election. The purpose of the election is to submit to the eligible electors of the District referenced above, certain ballot questions summarized below, as applied to the District.
At said election, the electors of the District shall vote for the following Ballot Question certified by the District:
BALLOT QUESTION A (Waiver of Property Tax Limit)
Eligible electors may apply for new or replacement mail ballots and return voted mail ballots to the office of the Designated Election Official which is also the ballot drop-off/walk-in voting location: at Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, Colorado 80203. The office of the Designated Election Official is open Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. from April 13, 2026 through May 4, 2026 and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on May 5, 2026 (Election Day).
Please contact the office of the Designated Election Official at (303) 839-3800 to coordinate walk in voting or drop off of ballots.
By: /s/ Katie Miller Designated Election Official
Publication: April 2, 2026
Sentinel
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION
VALLEY CLUB POINTE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT MAY 5, 2026
1-13.5-1105(2)(d), 1-13.5-502 C.R.S.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the Valley Club Pointe Metropolitan District of the City of Centennial, Arapahoe County, Colorado.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special election is to be held on Tuesday, the 5th day of May, 2026, and that said election shall be conducted by mail ballot. Accordingly, ballots will be distributed by U.S. Mail not earlier than April 13, 2026, and not later than April 20, 2026, to eligible electors of the District entitled to vote in the election. The purpose of the election is to submit to the eligible electors of the District referenced above, certain ballot questions summarized below, as applied to the District.
At said election, the electors of the District shall vote for the following Ballot Question certified by the District: BALLOT QUESTION A (Waiver of Property Tax Limit)
Eligible electors may apply for new or replacement mail ballots and return voted mail ballots to the office of the Designated Election Official which is also the ballot drop-off/walk-in voting location: at Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, Colorado 80203. The office of the Designated Election Official is open Monday through Friday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. from April 13, 2026 through May 4, 2026 and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on May 5, 2026 (Election Day). Please contact the office of the Designated Election Official at (303) 839-3800 to coordinate walk in voting or drop off of ballots.
By: /s/ Katie Miller Designated Election Official
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
Honest Journalism
NOTICE OF VACANCY ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF FOREST TRACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT 2
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Forest Trace Metropolitan District NO. 2 ( “District”), City of Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-808, C.R.S., that one or more vacancies currently exist on the Board of Directors of the District. Any qualified, eligible elector of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors for the District should file a Letter of Interest with the Board by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 13, 2026.
Letters of Interest should be sent to Forest Trace Metropolitan District 2, c/o WBA, PC, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122.
FOREST TRACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT 2 By: /s/ WBA, PC Attorneys at Law
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
NOTICE OF VACANCY ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF POWHATON ROAD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT 1-4 & 7
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Powhaton Road Metropolitan District 1-4 & 7 ( “District”), of Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-808, C.R.S., that one or more vacancies currently exist on the Board of Directors of the District. Any qualified, eligible elector of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors for the District should file a Letter of Interest with the Board by 5:00 p.m., on Monday, April 13, 2026.
Letters of Interest should be sent to Powhaton Road Metropolitan District 1-4 & 7, c/o WBA, PC, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122. POWHATON ROAD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT 1-4 & 7 By: /s/ WBA, PC
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
Attorneys at Law
NOTICE OF VACANCY ON THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF EASTERN HILLS
METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1, 8, 12-14
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Eastern Hills Metropolitan District NOS. 1, 8, 12-14 (the “Districts”), City of Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-808, C.R.S., that one or more vacancies currently exist on the Boards of Directors of the Districts. Any qualified, eligible elector of the Districts interested in serving on the Boards of Directors for the District should file a Letter of Interest with the Boards by 5:00 p.m., on April 13, 2026.
Letters of Interest should be sent to Eastern Hills Metropolitan District 1, 8, 12-14, c/o WBA, PC, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122.
EASTERN HILLS
METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1, 8, 12-14
Publication: April 2, 2026 Sentinel
By: /s/ WBA, PC Attorneys at Law
NOTICE OF VACANCY ON THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF EASTERN HILLS
METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 9-11, 21 & 22
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Eastern Hills Metropolitan Districts NOS. 9-11, 21 & 22 (the “Districts”), City of Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-808, C.R.S., that one or more vacancies currently exist on the Board of Directors of the Districts. Any qualified, eligible elector of the Districts interested in serving on the Board of Directors for the Districts should file a Letter of Interest with the Board by 5:00 p.m., on April 13, 2026. Letters of Interest should be sent to Eastern Hills Metropolitan District 9-11, 21 & 22, c/o WBA, PC, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122.
EASTERN HILLS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 9-11, 21 & 22 By: /s/ WBA, PC Attorneys at Law
Publication: April 2, 2026
Sentinel
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2026PR119
Estate of James Frederick Walker, Sr., aka Jim Walker, aka James Walker, Deceased. All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative, Alexis P. Jackson, Esq., or to the District Court of Arapahoe, Colorado, on or before August 2, 2026, or the claims may be forever barred.
Alexis P. Jackson, Esq., Personal Representative, PO Box 300123, Denver, CO 80203
First Publication: April 2, 2026
Final Publication: April 16, 2026
Sentinel
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2026PR030295
Estate of William D. Norsworthy, Deceased
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court on or before August 3, 2026, or the claims may be forever barred.
Marco D. Chayet
Jennifer R. Oviatt
Personal Representative 18th Judicial District Public Administrator’s Office P.O. Box 460749, Denver, CO 80246 (303) 355-8520
First Publication: April 2, 2026
Final Publication: April 16, 2026
Sentinel
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2026PR30098
Estate of Ricardo Bejarano aka Ricardo Berjarano aka Ricardo Berajano aka Ricardo Bejarano Saldana aka Ricardo Bejarano Saldaña aka Richard Bejarano, Deceased.
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado, on or before July 20, 2026, or the claims may be forever barred.
Anna Hatch
1500 N. Grant St., #7322
Denver, CO. 80203
First Publication: March 19, 2026
Final Publication: April 2, 2026
Sentinel
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2026PR30156
Estate of Shafiq Noorani, Deceased.
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before August 2, 2026, or the claims may be forever barred.
Husein Noorani
Personal Representative
3773 Cherry Creek N. Dr., Ste. 710-West Denver, CO 80209
First Publication: April 2, 2026
Final Publication: April 16, 2026
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case
Estate
Judith Ann Kearney
April 25, 1945 - March 24, 2026
Judith, a loving mother, partner, grandmother, aunt, sister and friend, passed away on Tuesday, March 24, 2026 surrounded by family and friends. Born April 25, 1945 to Hazel V. (Blackburn) Kearney and Ralph Kearney, she was the seventh child and only daughter in the family with six brothers: Bill (Virginia), Russ (Barbara), David (Penny), Ralph (Gerry), Don (Ann), and Fred. After serving as a volunteer firefighter and medic for five years in Medway, Ohio. Judy became a pioneer by being the first female Certified Paramedic/Firefighter on the Dayton Fire Department. She was assigned badge #1. After serving the City of Dayton for 15 years, she went on to serve another eight years after being asked to join FEMA in 2004. Following her deployment to upstate New York during Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Judy decided to officially retire. Retirement didn’t slow her down. She began volunteering in the church office, became the Resident Council Chairperson, started a BINGO meeting at her Senior Living Apartments and remained busy with many different crafts.
Judy is survived by her devoted life partner of 35 years, Raeanna Biddle; sons Rick (Richard) Flynn (Robert-Wayne Waldron), Doug Flynn (Jenny Hutchinson) from Ohio; and daughter Kristal Ann White (Howard White) of Houston, Texas; grandchildren Ruby Flynn (Brian Kelleher) and Natalie Flynn. She also leaves behind Raeanna’s children Dawn (David) Howard and granddaughters Chloe Grace Howard and Haley Anna Howard of Denver, CO; and son Markos (Heather Nicholas) Miller and grandson Oliver Miller of Maine. She will be greatly missed by all, including two special friends Lorna Ziller, and Amy Turner and special niece, Diana Anderson, who hosted her on visits back to Dayton.
A Celebration of Life will be held at First Plymouth Congregational Church, 3501 S. Colorado Blvd, Englewood, CO 80113, on Friday, April 24 at 10am followed by a reception. Memorial donations may be made in her name to The American Heart Association or First Plymouth Church.
Another memorial service in Dayton, Ohio will be held at a later date.
