Sixty35 news magazine - Jan. 26, 2023 Vol 1. No. 3

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BANKROLLING

Mayoral candidates report donors as campaigns kick off for the April 4 election

BY PAM ZUBECK | pzubeck@sixty35media.org

WHILE BUSINESSMAN YEMI

Mobolade has amassed the most campaign money in the mayor’s race, former El Paso County Commissioner Sallie Clark saw the biggest infusion of cash in the last reporting cycle, the first half of January, the latest campaign finance reports show.

the water rule, hasn’t doled out money in the mayor’s race yet.

THE MAYOR’S SEAT IS OPEN IN THE APRIL 4 city election because two-term Mayor John Suthers is prevented by term limits from seeking a third term.

Seven people say they’re running for mayor and have filed campaign finance reports. A self-proclaimed eighth candidate, John Tiegen, hadn’t filed a report as of midday Jan. 23. A ninth, Tim Leigh, delivered petitions Jan. 23 but hasn’t filed a report.

Mobolade had raised $273,054 as of the Jan. 16 campaign finance report, and spent $68,180. That leaves him with $204,874 cash on hand. His donors consist mostly of hundreds of people making donations of $100 or less.

Next highest is El Paso County Commissioner Longinos Gonzalez Jr., who’s taken in $182,255 and has spent $2,873. But $140,000 of that came from Gonzalez himself. The most recent report shows he received $5,000 from Gold Hill Neighborhood LLC, and $10,000 from The O’Neil Group LLC. O’Neil plans a large development east of the city that would be disqualified from annexation by the water rule.

Johnson, who reportedly holds a stake in property lying outside the city.

Local businessman Andrew Dalby, who’s new to politics, raised $27,199, according to his Jan. 16 report, and spent $4,251. Former County Commissioner Darryl Glenn reports raising $11,633, and spending $7,087. City Council President Tom Strand has raised $2,427 and spent $671, his Jan. 16 report shows.

ONE

OF THE BIGGEST PLAYERS IN CITY

elections historically, the Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs, won’t decide which candidate to back for mayor until its members conduct interviews with the contenders, Michael Suggs, chair of the HBA’s political action committee, tells Sixty35 news magazine via email.

Hence, he demurred when asked what role the water rule will play in that endorsement decision.

However, the HBA board of directors voiced concern about the rule in a Jan. 9 letter to City Council, saying the measure “modifies annexation and water policy and codes in the absence of a comprehensive policy process with thoughtful and broad stakeholder input.”

The board noted that Colorado Springs Utilities’ 2017 Integrated Water Resource Plan is to be updated every five to 10 years, or whenever “significant new information becomes available.”

The reports show a combined total raised by all candidates of more than $760,000.

A few hefty donations signal that the mayoral race could emerge as a battle of the developers, in light of City Council’s Jan. 10 decision to adopt a water rule that excludes developments from obtaining city water if they’re not at least 25 percent contiguous to the city’s existing boundaries.

Also, the rule — triggered by concerns over the dwindling Colorado River from which the city gets 70 percent of its water supply — requires the city have 130 percent of the water supply required to serve its customers before service is extended to new developments. Council was due to approve the rule on second reading on Jan. 24.

Chief among those proposed developments is the 3,200-acre Amara. That developer, La Plata Communities, hasn’t dumped cash into the race yet, but other developers who hope to annex property into the city have started making moves.

Conversely, Norwood Development Group, which owns most of the 20,000-acre Banning Lewis Ranch on the city’s east side that lies within the city and favors

City Councilor Wayne Williams has raised the third most money — $150,419 — and spent $43,728, leaving him with $106,691 on hand.

Williams, who voted in favor of the water rule, hasn’t received significant sums from develop ers so far, but he reported a $5,000 donation from Gary Loo with High Valley Investments last sum mer and a $2,500 donation from developer Danny Mientka earlier this month.

Norwood, which has been an active sup porter of candidates in the past, could choose to back Williams, considering that Norwood’s owners, David Jenkins and his son, Chris, both attended Williams’ Jan. 13 campaign kickoff event.

Next in line in fun draising is Clark, with $116,034. She’s spent $11,561, leaving her with $104,473 on hand. The O’Neil Group gave her $25,000. She received $50,000 from banker Ron

Acknowledging that evolving conditions of the Colorado River “were reason enough” to update the plan, the board warns, “The absence of a comprehensive analysis may lead to unintended consequences that do not reflect the City’s housing needs and could limit the ability of multiple builders and developers to provide housing through a competitive market.”

If you have an item of interest regarding the April 4 mayoral or City Council election, contact pzubeck@ sixty35media.org

The Springs mayor’s race could be a battle of the developers.

Clark (right) has $75,000 from The O’Neil Group and Ron Johnson.

Yemi Mobolade leads fundraising for the race, with grassroots support coming from hundreds of people making donations of $100 or less.

Adelaide Evans

Courtesy Sallie Clark

Rachel Strong rides the mechanical bull at Sixty35 Media’s 2022 Best Of party Jan. 19. The event had been rescheduled from Dec. 8 following the Club Q tragedy in November.

Hundreds gathered for the space cowboy-themed evening, celebrating readers’ picks for the best businesses, people and activities in the Springs. Attendees also helped recognize Colorado Publishing House’s transition to a nonprofit and the recent launch of Sixty35 news magazine.

Matter of Record

The Colorado Association of School Executives announced Jan. 23 that Dr. Wendy Birhanzel of Harrison School District 2 has been named 2023 Colorado Superintendent of the Year.

LARGE HOSPITAL SYSTEM PROFITS

RECOVER

The state released a report on statewide hospital profits on Jan. 18, which showed that Colorado hospitals — especially urban and nonprofit “megasystems” — have bounced back from pandemic losses and reached positive profit margins in 2021.

Statewide, hospitals saw a 10.2 percent — or $1.831 billion — increase in patient revenues between 2020 and 2021, according to the Hospital Expenditure Report from the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing. (These are the revenues a hospital makes from patients or their health insurance payments.) And that doesn’t include the $1.2 billion in federal stimulus dollars that hospitals received that year to make up for losses during the COVID pandemic.

By 2021, urban and system-based hospitals in the state had a median 245 days of cash on hand — 20 days more than the pre-pandemic median in 2019, the report says. The department used UCHealth as an example of how well these larger systems are doing: UCHealth had a 26.1 percent total profit margin and an 8.5 percent patient services margin in 2021.

Large systems like Centura Health and UCHealth, the report says, “could cut prices significantly and still thrive financially.”

ARTSPACE SET TO BUILD

Minneapolis-based nonprofit Artspace announced last week that they have closed on the property at 315 E. Costilla St., where they will develop a new fivestory, 51-unit affordable housing space intended for creatives and artists in Downtown Colorado Springs. As we reported in October, Artspace aims to build a home for creativity in Downtown’s Creative District. The new development was spearheaded by the Downtown Development Authority in partnership with Artspace. The project tackles the affordable housing shortage by attracting creatives who earn 60 percent or less of the median area income (amounting to $33,893 for individuals in the Springs, per the 2020 United States Census).

The building itself will be mixed-use, featuring storefronts, exterior displays for public art, 7,500 square feet for community and commercial space as well as galleries and a rooftop deck. Artspace says the 1- and 2-bedroom apartments will include 100 to 150 extra square feet for studio workspaces and common design elements such as higher ceilings, wider doorways and larger windows.

Construction of the new housing and arts facility is expected to begin this spring and be completed in 2024. Visit artspace.org/colorado-springs for more information. — NR

POST CERTIFICATION POLICY REVERSED

Newly installed El Paso County Sheriff Joe Roybal announced the start of Peace Officers Standards and Training certified academies, noting the Sheriff’s Office is accepting applications for POST-certified deputy positions. The announcement means a reversal of a policy adopted in 2018 by Roybal’s predecessor Sheriff Bill Elder, who reduced the training given to jail deputies to about half that required by POST to save money on salaries by paying those jail deputies less, and to save money on training costs. Elder’s policy was adopted in the face of a decline in personnel due to attrition, he said at the time.

Sheriff’s spokesperson Lt. Deborah Mynatt tells Sixty35 via email, “Jail assigned deputies will now be POST certified. We currently have 144 non-certified deputies in the jail who each have the opportunity to become POST certified through a fair, established process, based largely on seniority. The number of internal candidates we can send to the academy will be determined based on the needs of the Office as each academy approaches.”

Candidates can apply at tinyurl.com/POST-cert. The county’s Human Resources Department will respond to applicants with an email. — PZ

The online application for families to sign up for Colorado’s universal preschool program opened on Jan. 17. Children who turn 4 by Oct. 1 (and some aged 3 and younger, under certain conditions) are eligible for half-day preschool (10-15 hours a week) at no cost starting in the fall, with more hours available for children in need. To apply or learn more, go to upk.colorado.gov.

A federal lawsuit filed by Brandon Pope, a former staffer for Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs) against Lamborn was dismissed Jan. 19 due to a settlement agreement. Pope had accused Lamborn of endangering staff due to his “reckless” approach to the COVID pandemic and of breaching congressional ethics by using government resources to benefit his family. Lamborn’s office said in a statement the Congressional Accountability Act precluded him from disclosing terms of the settlement.

January is National Radon Action Month, and it’s never a bad time for residents to test their homes for radon — the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States, says El Paso County Public Health. Kits can be found at most hardware stores, and should be marked certified by the National Radon Proficiency Program. Low-cost tests can also be purchased at sosradon.org/ test-kits.

Compiled by Greta Anderson Johns, Nick Raven, Rhonda Van Pelt, Pam Zubeck

Bryan Oller

Beyond the CULTURE WAR

Neighbors For Education is trying to redefine itself and appeal to a broader spectrum of parents

BY GRETA ANDERSON JOHNS | gajohns@sixty35media.org

SINCE ITS CREATION AFTER area school board elections in November 2021, Neighbors For Education has been pinned into a political box, says founder and president Jennifer Williamson, a parent in Colorado Springs School District 11 and a member of its District Accountability Committee. Those elections — when school boards in the Springs’ three largest districts flipped to conservative majorities — were the primary spark for NFE, a nonpartisan, pro-public education and equity parent group that now has chapters in D11, School District 49 and (soon) Academy District 20. Those three have been fraught with political strife for nearly

lic image, because I do feel like it’s gotten lost,” Williamson says. NFE is trying to get out of that “liberal” box, and as vice president and D49 parent Lindsey Lee puts it, “be more proactive and less reactive.”

“We’ve been in reactionary mode since we started. We exist in opposition, as I’m sure that’s no surprise,” Lee said of the D49 chapter, during an NFE roundtable discussion with the district’s Chief Executive Officer Peter Hilts on Jan. 17. “At the end of the day, our message is we’re nonpartisan, and we are pro-public education — that’s it.

“What that means, though, is that we wade into supporting the LGBTQ+ community, and that’s a certain cultural tell,” Lee said. “It wades into separation of

cerned that the perception is on the right,

tent, stabilizing force in D49 amid recent tions, encouraged the parents to take an

trict’s troubles are of its own making — for instance, the loss of a very effective

Greta Anderson Johns

three-chief officer team due to board Director Ivy Liu and Treasurer Jamilynn D’Avola’s persistent inflammatory rhetoric and distrust of D49 staff. He talked extensively at the roundtable about the district’s damaged reputation, explaining how difficult it’s been for him as CEO to hire administrators.

“The critical factor right now is attracting and keeping good people, and I’m deeply worried that we’re on the front end of a multi-year pattern where District 49 has to overcome self-inflicted reputational damage,” he said. “I’m struggling right now, already, to hire high-performing executives, because high-performing executives do not want to spend all their time fighting culture wars, playing defense.

“If I were not as uniquely committed to this district as I have been, I wouldn’t choose to come here,” said Hilts, who’s been a D49 executive for more than a

SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS ’23

Details about school board elections in D11, D20 and D49 on the Nov. 7 ballot — for all three districts, the filing deadline for candidates is Sept. 1.

COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL

DISTRICT 11

• Four of seven seats up for election.

• Board President Parth Melpakam, Vice President Jason Jorgensen and Director Darleen Daniels are at the end of four-year terms.

• Director Al Loma is at the end of a two-year term.

SCHOOL DISTRICT 49

• Three of five seats up for election.

• D49 elects board directors for five districts within its boundaries — and those districts are currently being redrawn based on the 2020 census. All of the redrawn map options will shake up district boundaries and who can run where. A map must be approved soon to be filed in time for the election, D49 CEO Peter Hilts said during a Jan. 12 board meeting. (The board is already nearly a year late on the redistricting.)

• Board President John Graham and Vice President Rick Van Wieren are at the end of four-year terms. They serve board districts 3 and 2, respectively.

• Director Ivy Liu (District 4) is at the end of a two-year term.

ACADEMY DISTRICT 20

• Two of five seats up for election.

• Board Vice President Will Temby and Treasurer Heather Cloninger are both at the end of four-year terms, and may run for second consecutive terms this year.

decade, but applied for the superintendent’s job in neighboring D11 last year.

That hiring problem will only continue to deepen with “extreme forms of activism … in any direction,” Hilts said, and NFE in D49 has made clear their intent is to help resolve the district’s most pressing problems, not intensify them.

Hilts encouraged them to do things like: Appeal to the “exhausted middle,” political moderates who are sick of the culture war battles; be inclusive of charter school parents, as charters for grades kindergarten through 8 make up nearly 50 percent of elementary and middle schools in D49; and as another school board election approaches, hold nonpartisan candidate forums and support a campaign for a mill levy override, which Hilts said he’ll soon recommend the D49 board launch, with the goal of getting more funding for teacher pay.

WILLIAMSON SAYS THE PRIORity shift doesn’t mean NFE is going to back down from calling out board members who quote Hitler and rail against Social-Emotional Learning (Liu) or proselytize from the board dais (D’Avola and D11’s Al Loma).

“Public awareness has always been one of our goals,” she says. “We want people to be aware of when harmful things are said, and what the intentions sions. … and [the public and parents] can use that knowledge to advocate for their NFE’s role is especially important this year, as November brings another round of consequential elections in D11, D49 and D20. More than half of the school bined are up for grabs, and all have the possibility of either weakening or strengthening the boards’ conservative

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Out of the

box

How Cedric Martin embraced art to express himself — and get out of prison

By Greta Anderson Johns & Nick Raven /// gajohns@sixty35media.org, nraven@sixty35media.org

MEETING CEDRIC

MARTIN FOR

THE first time, you’d never guess he’s a man in the midst of his own redemption arc. Martin is a large, friendly presence, ready to greet you, shake your hand. He’s a nerd through and through: He’s a huge fan of math and science and his favorite Star Trek captain is Deep Space Nine’s Benjamin Sisko. When we saw him on First Friday in January at Yellow Couch Creative, the gallery on West Colorado Avenue owned by Martin’s mentor and internship sponsor Jana Bussanich, Martin had attracted a crowd.

Whether he and Bussanich are bantering about the objectivity of artistic beauty or he’s delivering a treatise on the wonder of geometry, Martin glows like a poet delivering his truth in a café to an attentive following — or a philosopher waxing lyrical about the nature of man. With depth, he explains to the group his own art on display, as if he’s done it a thousand times before.

But the reality is, this is all brand new. Not just the artist bit, everything — Martin spent more than two decades as a number in Colorado Department of Corrections for murdering a woman when he was 18. He was released in November 2022.

He’s still reorienting to the basics: getting from point A to point B in a Colorado Springs he barely recognizes from his teens, using a smartphone, sharing a workspace with other creatives at Yellow Couch and — simply —freedom. It’s a life he didn’t think possible, up until the day of his parole hearing, he says over the course of several interviews with Sixty35

Still incarcerated, and before parole became a possibility, Cedric Martin had become an artist.

Transformative powers

Over the years, Martin had come to accept his fate: to be perpetually shuffled around the Colorado prison system, stuck in an environment where anger and physical violence were the primary modes of communication.

Cedric Martin (center) with mentors Jana Bussanich (left) and Chris Alvarez

Although he didn’t have a life sentence, he couldn’t see a life for himself outside of prison — his guilt and the structures within the penitentiary wouldn’t allow him to.

Martin viewed his sentence as due punishment for “a thing that I can’t make right.” He’s cautious not to make excuses or try to justify why he killed Cynthia RaatzHayes, a 38-year-old wife and mother, on or around Jan. 11, 2001 (he can’t remember exactly when it happened, but this is the date her body was found, according to reporting by The Gazette).

He fears if he identifies a “why,” he’d be doing a “disservice” to Raatz-Hayes’ memory, her family and the broader community.

“It’s not a pretty, neat story to wrap up and put away,” Martin says. “And I think it has to stay jagged and ugly, or else run the risk of just being false.”

The remorse came early. He asked his sentencing judge for the maximum allowed under his second-degree murder guilty plea agreement — 32 years — “because he feels prison is better than the life he’s been leading,” according to The Gazette

Martin says he was on day 19 of a methamphetaminefueled psychosis when he killed Raatz-Hayes. He hadn’t slept. His life had a backdrop of childhood trauma: His father was murdered when he was 3, and later his mother, who also struggled with drug addiction, was shot and nearly died. Martin had witnessed multiple men physically abuse her.

None of these things were reasons for his crime, he says. Raatz-Hayes was an innocent, and “that’s why, 20 years later, I wasn’t fighting to get out of prison.”

“I remember desperately, desperately putting a lot more energy into finding a way for it not to have happened,” Martin says. “Like, is there a mulligan; is there a reset; is there a redo? And struggling with the fact that there wasn’t for a really long time.

“I just realized, it’s not possible,” he says. “I cannot undo this. So what then?”

The judge said during sentencing that “he hopes Martin will work toward rehabilitation in prison, since he most likely will be released someday.”

Soon after starting his sentence, Martin earned his GED and became a tutor for other inmates. He’d been a great student through middle school, but drugs had knocked him off course.

However, Martin was also combative in prison (and he’s still disagreeable, to an extent) — he fought other inmates and was a regular in solitary confinement. He was transferred to Colorado State Penitentiary, then to several different prisons in the state, when he got into trouble.

The fighting was driven by an environment where “the currency is violence” — in prison, you stand up for yourself, or else be exploited, he says. Martin never really believed in those unspoken “rules,” but they were his reality.

SOLITARY IS WHERE MARTIN STARTED DRAWing in 2010. It later became a way for him to break down social barriers and connect with other inmates, and even the DOC officers, who he says would often fan the flames of violence.

Martin describes the time he was put in a room with a white supremacist, expected to fight and possibly kill one another. Instead, they drew portraits of each other.

“Now I have a tool … that can initiate dialogue with somebody who is, in every other way, shape and form, my enemy,” he says. “And it worked not just with the officers; it worked with other prisoners who were, for whatever reason, forbidden from really interacting with me. Whether it was their own mental illness, their own stereotypes, past incidents.

I’ve been so grateful ... to come and breathe this space and get paint on my brand-new Walmart clothes and charcoal on my fingers.

— Cedric Martin

Martin and Bussanich at her studio, Yellow Couch Creative

“Art was the key to help unlock these doors.”

Martin began to use art as therapy to work through his trauma, when DOC psychologists told him his mental health needs were not severe enough for medication, were dismissive of him during sessions and instead assigned him written exercises to complete.

It was also through art that Martin met Karen Hamer, a Kiwi living in the Springs who ran the nonprofit prison theater arts organization, Tin Roof Productions, with Bussanich. As a volunteer at Fremont Correctional Facility, Hamer taught a Shakespeare program, and in 2016, Martin was one of her students. The class is where he went “to learn how to act like a human,” when he didn’t feel like one.

Six years later, Hamer would become the driving force on the outside behind Martin’s 2022 parole. She’d moved from Colorado to Texas, and back and forth to New Zealand, but had kept in touch with him.

“We were on the phone one day, and he just said to me, ‘I don’t know how to get out of the penitentiary,’” Hamer tells Sixty35. “He asked me if I would help him get out, and I just said, ‘Yes.’”

Without knowing much at all about the parole system, Hamer says she scraped together connections she had made through her arts programming and prison volunteering, ultimately linking Martin with Bussanich. Bussanich then drew up a formal internship for him at Yellow Couch, where he would work and learn with her and Chris Alvarez, a local artist and instructor at the gallery, won grant funding for it and created from scratch an employment and career opportunity in community art that was acceptable by DOC standards.

“There’s nothing about me that made me special to do that,” Hamer says. “It just requires focusing, commitment and time. I often think, ‘What would happen if lots more people had [an] advocate on the outside?’”

Finally and importantly, Hamer says Martin’s art piqued the interest of State Board of Parole member Michelle Geng, who conducted his first hearing. Geng

gave Martin “a really fair hearing,” and truly listened to him, says Hamer, who was able to sit in on the videoconference session.

Sixty35 reached Geng, who has been on the board since 2019 and said she was interested in an interview. But she was denied permission to speak with us by the board chair, she says.

Martin wasn’t paroled “just because of the plan,” for his internship, Hamer says. “It’s because [Geng] sat in front of Cedric Martin, heard him speak and saw who

reenter society with a stronger sense of community, she says.

“You can just see it in [Martin’s] journey — it’s the arts as the vehicle to the deeper work,” says Hamilton, who met Martin in 2018 at Sterling Correctional Facility. “That is often the missing link that people maybe don’t connect the dots on: It’s not art for art’s sake … it is art as a vehicle for transformation, for growth, for broadening our awareness, for connection, for community-building.”

he was. She was not constrained by his situation. He was in pretty deep, and people I think don’t usually get parole from there.

“But she saw something, the something that we now all see,” Hamer says.

MARTIN’S STORY, WHILE POWERFUL, IS actually not all that unusual in Colorado, says Dr. Ashley Hamilton, founder and director of the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative, which has arts programming in every state prison.

Since 2017, DU PAI has worked with thousands of incarcerated people — putting on theater productions, producing a DOC-wide newspaper and literary arts magazine and coordinating Chained Voices, an arts show featuring works from Colorado inmates, including Martin, Hamilton says. As a result of their programming, she’s seen incarcerated people leave their gangs, reconnect with estranged family members and

But a program like DU PAI is unique in the country, says Hamer, who went on to study criminology and is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas, researching the efficacy of prison theater programs. She says it’s not easy to persuade DOC powers — commissioners, wardens, state parole boards — that the arts can be a tool for rehabilitation and reentry.

The political environment has to be right, and the people in charge have to be interested, to get art programs into prisons, Hamer says. The prison system is “risk averse.”

“If you walk into a prison waving your art flags, and in thinking you’re going to create some amazing art mecca, most prison staff, most wardens, are not going to welcome you with open arms,” she says. “At its most heightened, theater looks an awful lot like a riot.”

That’s why Hamer wants to advance the data — what prison officials often seek for program approval — on the efficacy of prison arts programs for rehabilitation. And she wants to elevate Martin’s story, perhaps “in the hands of visionary people,” who could persuade those on the fence to let the programs in, she says. Although it’s not an exact science: Personal outcomes are the greatest measure of success, she says.

“That was absolutely part of why it felt worth it to me to help the doors open for him,” she says. “In the end, it’s because of him that the doors opened, and then we’re seeing what that looks like on the other side.

In the world of prison reform, “we haven’t really grappled [with] the value of a human being, and the importance of investing in really good spaces for people who society considers should be thrown away,” Hamer says.

“Those who have not walked in those spaces, I don’t believe are the best equipped to do it,” she says. “It’s people like Cedric, who are supremely equipped to do it. … The conversation actually needs to go in there, with the people who know how to walk in those really dark places.”

Drawing the way out

Cedric Martin’s brain holds an exciting mixture of art and science.

Long before he began teaching himself art, Martin dreamed of joining the Air Force or becoming a fire-

It’s not a pretty, neat story to wrap up and put away.

— Cedric Martin

Alvarez and his student Martin, broadening his artistry

fighter. But his stepfather, Tom, steered him toward the joys of hard sciences and math with stories of Nikola Tesla and the logic of numbers, measures and weights that correlate and cooperate. Tom made a living grinding down optical lenses for equipment like telescopes and they would study how they bent light in different ways.

Martin watched educational shows like Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beakman’s World, but he worked through the ’90s era of the Star Trek TV series as well. He was naturally talented: In the fifth grade, he was accepted into the Gifted and Talented program at Washington (now Buena Vista) Elementary School.

In prison, Martin had become a paraprofessional by 2004, teaching other inmates geometry and trigonometry, earning him his own computer workstation. He gravitated toward prison-provided courses on structural and mechanical engineering, as well as computer-aided drafting, which went hand-in-hand with his intellectual passions.

At one point, he pulled a copy of 3D Studio Max off the shelf — software that allows the user to create 3D imagery — and began to experiment with reflections. With one or two light bounces, the computer could still slowly draw an image to completion. But Martin wasn’t satisfied.

“I want everything to reflect off of everything,” he says. “I want this thing to be realistic.”

Martin cranked up the number of bounces and set the program to render over lunch.

Security quickly showed up at his door, asking what he had done. Because the software could recruit the entire prison’s computer network to draw the image, he had ground it to a halt with his incredibly complex work.

Martin was apologetic, pointing out he was only following the tutorial and tapping in numbers.

“I was told not to do that no more.”

ART CAME TO MARTIN NOT AS PART OF A course, but because he dared himself to become an artist. In a racially divided environment like prison, he would overhear people counting off stereotypes about Black people while he was confined in solitary. One of them was that Black people couldn’t draw.

“I have inside of me, for better or for worse, a gigantic continued on p. 14 ➔

Martin’s

‘FU,’ and I’m fairly certain that I can learn how to draw and that pretty soon you guys will be wanting my art. So screw you guys,” Martin tells Sixty35, explaining his thought process at the time.

He then used art to help others push back against the prison stereotypes — using art to defuse conflict, express himself and build social capital, even with the guards.

Though the prison had access to outside culture through the window of television — History Channel and Animal Planet shows and documentaries were very popular — that view was limited, as if peering through a kaleidoscope.

Hamer, along with being Martin’s advocate, became the guide for his art studies. She would email reference photos of subjects he couldn’t get inside prison, and ultimately validated his efforts when others inside were critical or unsupportive.

His tools were limited in solitary, so he worked almost exclusively with a flex pen — a symmetrical, rubberized pen with bulbous ends for gripping. Opposite the writing end was a small cavity where he could insert the wax or oilbased core of colored pencils he’d bitten open. He preferred this because the guards would sharpen his pencils too far down to be useful.

Martin was allowed three of these flex pens in solitary and in time, he would experiment with different brands and types of pencils to produce different textures and results. Bussanich later taught him to mix the colored pencil cores together with water and honey to create new shades, although Martin made do with water when honey wasn’t available. He even found creative uses for toe and fingernail brushes.

Martin’s extensive time in solitary, alone in a 7-by-13-foot box, granted him plenty of freedom to think, reflect and create. He doesn’t consider himself religious, but he read the Bible and sought answers from others about its multitude of stories — and used art to generate some of his own.

But while many people dream of solitude — that fabled lonely cabin in the woods and uninterrupted creative space — Martin calls his vast time in solitary insidious.

“We hear it a lot: ‘I don’t like people, I like to be by myself,’ right? That’s what people say. But the healthy thing is to go against that and to put yourself out there and to interact, to get criticized and seen and loved or hated,” he says. “The interactions are where the health is.”

Taking over from Hamer and operating in the same physical co-working space, Bussanich and Alvarez came together to teach Martin while he was in prison, despite their limited ability to communicate with him.

“Art gave us context to even start the conversation,” Bussanich says.

Martin shows us sketches of their virtual chats, where he dominates the space and his mentors are tiny and huddled together in a corner.

As they worked on getting Martin out of prison through the work release program, Bussanich and Alvarez found themselves in the peculiar position of having to synchronize their schedules around Martin, when they’d previously come and gone from their spaces as they pleased. Alvarez had worked with at-risk youths, but cobbling this program together wasn’t something he’d had any experience with.

“We’re building the car as we drive it,” Bussanich says, “and it’s been a little bumpy, but not in a bad way — maybe in an unexpected way.”

Martin’s relative inexperience with digital art or computers worked out in his instructors’ favor. They prefer drawing and painting in real spaces and on tangible surfaces, and introducing Martin to tools he didn’t have in prison.

“One of the things [that] I think Chris and I bring is that we’re pretty analog people,” Bussanich says. “We do social

We’re building the car as we drive it and it’s been a little bumpy, but not in a bad way — maybe in an unexpected way.

— Jana Bussanich

Martin with drawings of himself and his late mother, Kimberly La Quahn Martin.

media and we need to know our computer, but there were people early on who were suggesting [Martin] could do NFTs or whatever. We just felt the real value is getting embedded in the community, working with his hands, getting his hands on materials.”

Martin works on his art very intently and slowly, his eyes very close to the medium, in very small strokes. His sketches and quick works form tiny tableaus, taking up only small portions of whatever medium he’s working on, while his larger, completed works can take days to produce, ending up incredibly detailed and nearly photorealistic.

Martin points to a small table at Yellow Couch with a mirror finish, and talks about a sketch he did of it. In the round reflective base, he noticed the gridwork of lines reflected from a divider perched nearby. As he drew, he intended to replicate the detail so accurately that mathematicians could theoretically reverse the projection and reproduce the room as a physically correct 3D space.

With Hamer’s help, art became his meditation, his therapy and his method to process pain. Rather than suppress his emotions, he used art to express them. But Martin warns his particular style was probably a coping mechanism he developed being in solitary for so long, in a prison system he says never sought to “fix” him.

“[It’s] probably not indicative of a super healthy mind,” he says. “By focusing on this deliberately, to the exclusion of whatever is happening around me, it’s really possible to hone in on something and be stuck there to a ‘not OK’ degree.”

As Bussanich and Alvarez work to round out his skills and push him to take literally larger and broader strokes, they encourage him to be more immediate and fast with his work. But Martin holds space for his slower, deliberate approach.

“Hopefully that ends up serving me more than it does leading me in the wrong direction.”

Bussanich’s intent as an instructor isn’t to steer what

Martin draws but to open him up to the possibilities.

“I always encourage my students to paint what interests them … and that’s sort of their job to figure out,” she says. “If it doesn’t interest the artist, it won’t interest the viewer.”

In the studio, Alvarez reflects on Martin’s artistic strengths — his draftsmanship, values and compositions, but also his imagination.

“This came out of your head? Gosh, I wish I could draw stuff on my own like that. I have to look at something,” Alvarez tells him.

UPON MARTIN’S RELEASE, BUSSANICH AND Alvarez set up a First Friday exhibition of his works created in prison to help raise funds for him alongside a successful GoFundMe campaign. Martin was expecting a rocky reception, and was surprised when it turned out positive.

It was the first time the three had met in person, in that same co-working space where they taught him on video conferences. They also made sure to teach him the practical business skills that go alongside his forms and gestures, like how to get his work out in the world, copyright and handling gallery contracts.

“I’ve been so grateful that I’ve been able to come and breathe this space and get paint on my brandnew Walmart clothes and charcoal on my fingers, as opposed to any of the other things I would have done,” Martin says.

He keeps incredibly busy. On top of his instruction with Bussanich and Alvarez, he applied for and landed a job at Concrete Couch as an instructor, but he’s also learning a variety of new skills at the Manitou Art Center, including welding.

Gregory Cobble, owner of Manitou’s E-Bike Tours and Rentals, gave Martin an e-bike to serve as transportation and commissioned him to paint a mural along the side of a building Cobble is renting next to Jack’s

Liquor store. The work still needs to meet the rigors of Manitou’s standards, but Martin hopes the mural won’t take forever to produce due to his painstaking obsession with detail.

With Martin as the pilot of this program locally, the trio hope that more prisoners can find and use art as a common language to rehabilitate and get out of prison. Enlisting the help of wrap-around programs for substance abuse and mental health needs, the Colorado Springs art community could support more artists like Martin.

Adjusting to a world he left behind long ago has been a task. He equates chatting via video on his iPhone to Star Trek-level fantasy. Cobble remarked that at one of his weekly breakfasts with him, Martin was overwhelmed by the menu. “I don’t know how to order, I just got out of prison,” Cobble recalls him telling the waitress.

In the prison’s theater program, he would write poetry, even a play about his mother, broadening his ability to express himself.

“I have no choice but to act like my mama’s son,” Martin says of the values instilled in him by Kimberly La Quahn Martin, who left prison in 1989 and never went back, eventually opening a store and using him as “cheap, free labor.”

In the wake of her death in 2019, he chose not to be tempted by negativity or be consumed by dark, intrusive thoughts, but to be empowered by positivity. It’s a power he says helped guide him to his exit from prison less than a year after meeting Bussanich and Alvarez.

Asked about his goals now that he’s in the outside world, Martin says he wants to give back to the penitentiary — to make it a better place.

“I want to go to the parts that they don’t want me or anybody else [to be],” he says. “I want to go see and be seen, communicate, and just try to open the windows and doors a little bit and let the dang air out.”

Martin, Alvarez and Bussanich with other artists at Yellow Couch Creative

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CRIME THAT PAYS

Scammers

rake in billions of dollars a year from credit card

BY JEANNE DAVANT | jdavant@sixty35media.org

ANNA NELSON MAKES A HABIT OF reviewing her credit card statements every month.

In December, she discovered a charge that she didn’t recognize. It was a fairly small amount, but Nelson (not her real name) immediately changed her password and contacted the bank that issued the card. It turned out that someone had obtained her credit card number and used it to make a purchase at an online retailer.

Nelson disputed the charge, and the ensuing investigation determined that the purchase was fraudulent — the merchandise was shipped to an address that

Nelson got her money back, but what she didn’t realize was that the refund likely had to be covered by the retailer. Through a process called chargeback, creditcard providers will require merchants to make good their loss on fraudulent or disputed transactions.

Online banking and credit card fraud spiked during the past three years because of the steep rise in online sales, says Monica Eaton, founder of Chargebacks911, a provider of chargeback prevention, management and remediation technology.

“Fraudulent purchases with stolen card information doesn’t just hurt the cardholder,” she says. “It hurts everyone involved in the purchasing process.”

The risk is substantial for both merchants and banks.

“For every $1 of fraud, it costs the merchant $3.60,” Eaton said, “and some banks are spending up to 12 percent of their net income” to deal with fraud.

“When you take a look at how much they’re spending to service chargebacks and disputes, it’s substantial, because chargebacks and disputes are generally less than half a percent of total transaction volume,” she said.

An e-commerce transaction is 50 times more likely to turn into a chargeback than a faceto-face transaction, she said.

While e-commerce has grown around 18 percent in the past two years, chargebacks have increased by 39 percent.

Overall, the annual cost to businesses, banks and consumers — who may end up paying higher prices — is in the bil-

It takes effort by merchants, financial institutions and consumers to identify and prevent fraudulent activ-

fraud

ity, stop scammers from making illegal purchases and avoid unnecessary chargeback fees.

SKIMMING SCAMS

Credit card information usually gets stolen because the cardholder has used a site that was compromised, fell for a phishing email or text, or was the victim of a skimming device on a card reading machine, says LaShea Woodard, vice president of financial crimes at Ent Credit Union.

“There’ll be cycles where maybe there’s a skimming device locally that may have an impact on our members,” she says.

According to FICO, the United States saw a 700 percent increase in credit card fraud via skimming devices installed on ATMs, point-of-sale terminals or gas pumps in the first half of 2022 compared with the same period of 2021.

Ent doesn’t issue its own card but works with Visa, which issues cards in Ent’s name.

When a member submits a dispute, “we send it for a chargeback with whatever information our member has,” she says. During the chargeback process, the merchant gets a chance to verify the purchase, and sometimes the member may realize the purchase was valid — they just didn’t recognize the merchant’s name. But other times, it’s determined that the item was purchased fraudulently.

“We could take a loss on a fraud claim if it’s brought through no fault of the member,” Woodard says. “If it’s a skimming device and they had enough information, Visa could determine that the merchant did their due diligence to try to mitigate it, and we could possibly take that loss.”

DETECTING FRAUD

Although credit card fraud continues to be a challenge, it represents fewer significant losses for Pikes Peak National Bank now than it used to, thanks to the introduction of monitoring technology, President and CEO Robin Roberts Goldberg says.

The technology analyzes purchase activity on a customer’s debit card and flags purchases that appear out of the norm.

“We send text messages to customers to verify that validity of account activity so that their purchase can be approved when they are authorized, or declined if fraudulent activity is suspected,” Goldberg says.

When a card has been compromised, the technology shuts down the card to prevent further fraudulent activity, and the customer can be issued a new card.

Zions Bancorporation, parent company of Vectra Bank Colorado, has seen a particular increase in online fraud — what’s termed card-not-present fraud in banking parlance, says Chuck Groat, Zions’ senior vice president of bank card operations and risk.

Total fraud cases were up 22 percent year over year from 2021 to 2022, he says. Card-not-present fraud represented 18 percent of the increase.

“I have a fraud detection team that’s monitoring accounts on a daily basis,” he says. “We have both

manual and automated processes; we use various rules, strategies and models to identify fraud or red flags.”

DEALING WITH CHARGEBACKS

Chargebacks happen daily, Groat says.

Customers typically are protected under Visa or MasterCard zero liability provisions, but merchants who have chosen not to accept chip cards may be liable for fraudulent transactions, he says. That’s because skimming doesn’t work on credit card terminals with chip readers or the newest contactless technology, where the user can simply tap or wave the card without inserting it. But terminals that only read cards when the user swipes the magnetic strip are subject to skimming fraud.

“If we’re successful in performing a chargeback, we would recover the loss and the merchant would take it,” Groat says. “But there are no chargeback rights for lost or stolen cards and the transaction done with a chip. Primarily, the chargeback rights for the issuer are in that card-not-present space.”

Merchants have the right to present evidence to refute a chargeback and can be successful if they can prove that the customer participated in the transaction but disputes the purchase — a form of fraud known as friendly fraud.

But if a merchant has chosen to accept a transaction that turns out to be fraudulent — sending merchandise to an address other than the cardholder’s, for example — or has chosen not to accept chip technology, issuers can recover money from the merchant.

“We work with small businesses that have our credit card and are victims of fraud,” Groat says. “I’ve also done some training for businesses in general on how they can protect themselves to combat fraud.”

STEPS BUSINESSES CAN TAKE

Financial experts suggest that businesses take these steps to protect themselves from fraudulent transactions:

• Compare shipping, billing and IP addresses for online purchases. Orders with different addresses for billing and shipping are at higher risk for fraud.

• Use address verification services — systems that compare the address given by the customer with the one on file at the issuing bank.

• Watch for patterns. Multiple failed attempts in quick succession, especially using various credit card numbers, can signal that an online criminal is attempting a fraudulent transaction.

• Create a black list. Scammers who succeed once are likely to try again. Blacklist phone numbers, email addresses, IP addresses and billing addresses.

• Modernize credit card terminals so customers can use chipped or contactless cards.

• Respond to a chargeback with an in-depth investigation into the cause and vigorously defend yourself if the claim is invalid. “Merchants who don’t respond to chargebacks can likely expect more chargebacks,” Eaton says.

STEPS CONSUMERS CAN TAKE

• Consumers should develop good defensive habits such as these to protect their credit card information and spot fraud:

• Frequently check your credit card transactions. Make sure you understand everything on your statements. If you see a charge you think is fraudulent, report it to your bank immediately.

• Don’t click on emails from senders you don’t recognize.

• Be ca reful when people call and ask you for information. No legitimate financial institution will ask you for your PIN.

• At ATMs and credit card terminals, cover the keypad when you’re typing in a PIN number. Criminals can’t use your card without the PIN.

• Look for things that appear strange about a particular terminal. Scammers may put a false front on an ATM or gas pump keypad. You might see a piece of tape holding the skimmer or a protruding card reader, or you might detect movement if you run your finger along the machine.

• If you’re going to shop online at an unfamiliar merchant, do some research before you use your card. Look at reviews and ratings, and read the merchant’s terms and conditions for your purchase.

• Don’t make purchases from insecure sites with addresses that don’t start with HTTPS, and don’t make purchases on public Wi-Fi.

• Keep your phone and credit cards in separate places. If your phone is stolen, the thief has access to your cards and can manipulate fraud alerts, Goldberg says.

5 QUESTIONS: SARA VAAS

BY AMELIA ALLEN | news@sixty35media.org

SARA VAAS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COUNcil of Neighbors and Organizations, is spearheading a new free 10-week course called Neighborhood University, seeking to “establish a foundation of civic knowledge for engaged citizens in Colorado Springs and El Paso County.”

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What is Neighborhood University?

We’re teaching neighbors how to be leaders in their own backyard. It’s a free 10-week class that helps citizens get engaged in neighborhood leadership. I think we hit a niche where we’re teaching a kind of community development that’s not being taught anywhere else in the Springs.

What’s the course like?

There’s three sections in our 10-week series. The first section teaches skills on relationship-building, consensus-building, advocacy. We hear from panels of neighbors and different community leaders. The second section of Neighborhood University is about planning. Development processes, government decisionmaking hierarchies, what the strong mayor format of our city even means, housing, economic development. And then the last section of Neighborhood University is about communication. So how to communicate your message when you have those three minutes at the podium at a planning commission meeting or a city council meeting. What do you say? How do you convey your message? So they actually get to practice what that 3-minute speech looks like and get feedback from a planning commissioner or a city [councilor]. And then we have some folks talk to them about tools on relationship-building. Getting to know your city councilperson. You can have their phone number, you can talk to them, it’s good to invite them in. We really want folks to graduate with a holistic approach of confidence in navigating local government and working with neighbors to solve problems.

How does this CONO leadership program differ from Colorado Springs Leadership Institute and Leadership Pikes Peak?

We identified a gap between professional development and neighborhood leadership development, mostly because of our history and working with neighborhoods. So CONO has been in the community over 45 years, hearing repeated questions and a community need for more information. There are over 750 neighborhood associations and [Home Owners Associations] in Colorado Springs, so we started getting repeat questions, seeing a need to build up neighborhood leaders so they’re helping each other — so we’re not reinventing the wheel. CONO doesn’t have the capacity to reach out to 750 neighborhood associations one by one on little issues. What we can do is provide programming that addresses themes that we’ve been hearing over the years.

What are some repeated questions that you get from community members at CONO?

Some of it is just, “Who do I go to for certain issues?” “Who’s my city councilperson?” “Who do I go to when there’s a development I didn’t know anything about?” Sometimes it’s just “Hey, there’s something I’m passionate about but nobody’s listening. So how do I organize a group of people to solve a problem?” It’s usually reactive kind of questions. What we’re trying to do with Neighborhood University is be proactive, organize beyond the specific issue — because there are more reasons to organize than an apartment building going up. What we try to do is teach people to look bigger, outside of a direct issue. Let’s build relationships. Let’s build partnerships. Let’s talk to the community because you’re hopefully going to be in a neighborhood for a long time and we want to make sure you know each other and know where to go for these issues in the future, and also do fun things together!

How did you get into community organizing?

I think some of it is innate. I grew up in a really small town in Ohio. I was involved in the community through social work and the public library, but I’ve always been someone who brings people together, that likes to cultivate experiences for people. I did a lot of research about what other cities were doing [about community organizing], and I’ve been taking my knowledge of my experience of nonprofit and community work over the past 20 years and have been able to apply it to this really unique nonprofit that works with people inside neighborhoods and tries to engage them in the public, local government process.

What we try to do is teach people to look bigger, OUTSIDE OF A DIRECT ISSUE.

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Little Rock Nine member speaks at PPLD event

WITNESS to history

BEFORE CARLOTTA WALLS LANIER

spoke at Pikes Peak Library District’s Library 21c on Jan. 17, much of the audience had a vague understanding of her story.

But by the time she finished her speech, they were giving her a standing ovation — and LaNier had given them a new perspective on desegregation and the Little Rock Nine.

More than 150 people had gathered to hear the Little Rock Nine member, now 80 years old, share memories of how she endured high school desegregation in the 1950s.

BY MARCUS HILL

Though integration began Sept. 4, 1957, in Little Rock, many still hadn’t accepted Black and white students sharing schools.

“Once we got there, the Arkansas National Guard, with their fixed bayonets, closed ranks and said we could not go up the sidewalk,” LaNier said during her speech. “The commanding officer comes to us and spoke to [the white minister who escorted us] and said, ‘Turn them around and take them back.’ That’s when we discovered we wouldn’t be allowed to go into the school.”

The nine students returned home but, on Sept.

The Little Rock Nine arrived late in the school day, hoping to avoid protesters. But that plan failed and the group had to leave by third period.

“A policeman came to my geometry class. My teacher called my name and said, ‘Get your books and follow this man,’” LaNier said. “It was the scariest day for me because the policeman escorted me and the others down into the bowels of the school and put us into two police cars. … There were 17 Little Rock policemen trying to stop 1,000 protesters.

“I heard one policeman say to the other who was driving the car, ‘Put your foot to the floor and don’t stop for anything.’”

As police and the Little Rock Nine left the school, LaNier said, one officer gave the students blankets to cover their faces in the car.

LaNier declined.

“Blanket over my head? No, I’m going to see what’s going on.”

She recalled glancing out the window and seeing a Black reporter among the “rioters and thugs.” LaNier said several people chased the reporter, L. Alex Wilson, but he “refused to run.”

LaNier explained that, during the Sept. 4 integration attempt, Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, never received the message about where to meet her fellow students.

“She walked alone and was harassed by the crowd,” LaNier said. “[Wilson] saw dignity in Eckford. He had seen a lynching in Florida as a reporter. Because of that lynching and the mob that was there, [in Florida] he ran. … He decided he was not going to run.” As Wilson stayed to make sure Eckford was safe, LaNier said, someone in the mob threw a brick, which hit Wilson’s head.

After police took the teens home, LaNier said that evening President Dwight Eisenhower announced that the Army’s 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, would escort the Little Rock Nine to school.

“We need to start the year out with getting the community into the idea of working together and listening to these stories,” Shirley Martinez, PPLD director of diversity, equity and inclusion, tells Sixty35.

The Little Rock Nine were a group of Black students who enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, a previously all-white school, in 1957. That was three years after the Brown v. Board of Education verdict made segregated schools unconstitutional.

20, 1957, Judge Ronald Davies ruled that thenArkansas Gov. Orval Faubus could not stop the desegregation process.

On Sept. 23, 1957, the Little Rock Nine returned to Central High.

During the original integration attempt, around 100 people gathered to stop the Little Rock Nine. By then, LaNier said, the crowd of “rioters” had grown to more than 1,000. She compared the scene to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

“One thousand, two hundred troopers rolled into Little Rock on Sept. 24 with one tank and a helicopter buzzing over the school,” LaNier said. “… We had to have the guards escort us in and line up in the hallways. They escorted the nine of us from one class to another. That went on for the year of 1957-58.”

In September 1958, Faubus closed all Little Rock high schools to stop desegregation attempts. Known as “The Lost Year,” it affected 3,655 Black and white students, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas LaNier took correspondence courses at the University of Arkansas to continue her education.

In June 1959, federal courts ruled the closure

Carlotta Walls LaNier signs copies of her book for audience members at Library 21c.

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unconstitutional. Students returned to school that September. By then, only two of the Little Rock Nine — LaNier and Jefferson Thomas — remained at Little Rock Central High School. They still faced racism.

LaNier was in her senior year in February 1960 when unknown assailants bombed the family home. “It took a lot out of me,” LaNier said, but she was back at school the next day. “I was not about to let them think they had won. I started there and I had planned to finish there. Especially with all the things I had gone through my 10th-grade year, I needed that diploma from Little Rock Central High School to validate all the things I had gone through in 1957-58.”

She graduated in May 1960 — the only woman from the Little Rock Nine to finish at the school. “The very next day,” LaNier recalled, “I took the first thing smoking out of Little Rock.”

Many waited for LaNier to sign their copies of her book, A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, and some reflected on how more people should know the whole story.

“We want her to speak to every young kid in the country,” Carrie DeValk told Sixty35 as she waited in line. “We’re from Woodland Park and there’s a recently voted-in conservative school board who have changed the social studies curriculum to not include this kind of education. I hope she can come to Woodland Park and speak to the kids there.”

Martinez says having someone of LaNier’s caliber “in our own backyard” is an opportunity.

“We have icons from the Civil Rights era who are still alive, who have books, and we need to share their stories,” she says. “... When you tell your story from a perspective where young people in the audience can ask questions, that’s critical.”

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WARNING Water

Some Manitou mineral springs carry advisory signs about manganese

BY RHONDA VAN PELT rvanpelt@sixty35media.org

VISITORS AND RESIDENTS

who love the mineral waters that gave Manitou Springs its name have been seeing something unexpected at their favorite fonts lately.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment regularly tests the spring water and requires the Manitou-based Mineral Springs Foundation to post advisory signs at the eight springs it manages. Those tell anyone wanting to drink the water that it has not been chlorinated.

However, five of the springs now have CDPHE signs warning that the water contains manganese levels that exceed Environmental Protection Agency recommendations. Those are: Cheyenne and Shoshone springs, both in the 900 block of Manitou Avenue; Iron Geyser Spring, 400 block of Ruxton Avenue; Stratton Spring, near the Ruxton/Manitou Avenue roundabout; and Wheeler Spring, on Park Avenue near the post office.

Acceptable levels of manganese have been detected at other springs: 7 Minute Spring, north of Memorial Park; Navajo Spring, in the 900 block of Manitou Avenue (near the Penny Arcade); and Twin Spring, in the 100 block of Ruxton.

But Terry Sharpton, Mineral Springs Foundation president, says the naturally occurring mineral is really nothing to worry about — as long as people don’t get carried away.

“Drink responsibly. The mineral springs are not meant to replace your daily intake of water due to their high mineral content, but are safe to drink,” says Sharpton, who’s been involved in the MSF since the early 1990s.

Of the notice from CDPHE, he says the mineral springs “are intended to be a novelty source of drinking water, not a primary source. If you have

specific health-related concerns or questions, consult your medical provider.”

Neither state nor federal entities regulate manganese, according to the CDPHE notice.

The worst-case side effects from excessive manganese consumption are listed on the signs. Infants are most vulnerable; they would be at risk if they continuously drank water with manganese in excess of 0.3 milligrams per liter. They could experience “behavioral issues,” the CDPHE states.

For adults, continuously drinking water with more than 1.0 milligrams per liter could cause neurological impacts that might not manifest for years — emphasis on “continuously drinking the water.”

The Mineral Springs Foundation’s website, manitoumineralsprings.org, lists complete mineral profiles for all the springs it manages. They include alkaline, calcium, chloride, copper, fluoride, iron, lithium, magnesium, potassium, silica, sodium, sulfate and zinc.

Manganese levels at the affected springs range from 0.42 mg/L at Stratton Spring to 2.39 mg/L at Shoshone Spring.

By contrast, 7 Minute Spring shows no manganese content.

All of Manitou’s springs flow from the same aquifer, but the water is filtered through various types of rock on its way to the surface. The aquifer under Manitou Springs is filled with subterranean passages and caverns the water has carved over millennia; the dormant part of the aquifer, above the water table, is what formed Cave of the Winds north of Manitou Springs.

Sharpton says documents show that Manitou’s mineral waters have been analyzed as far back as the early 1900s, but this is the first time the foun-

dation has received such warnings from the state health department since the MSF was founded in 1987.

CDPHE issued the Tier 1 Violation Notice on Dec. 12, 2022, Sharpton says.

The foundation is not required to take any action beyond posting the signs; there’s really nothing the MSF could do about the manganese, anyway.

“The springs are popular because they are mineral springs. There is no plan to rectify or alter the composition of the mineral waters,” says Sharpton, who doesn’t hesitate to drink from the springs.

MSF board member Ann Nichols, who worked for Colorado Springs Utilities from 1977 to 2002 and consults about water resources with local entities, draws on her decades of experience to keep a sharp eye on the springs.

“I would say that if you enjoy the mineral springs as countless visitors and locals do, then continue to enjoy them. The only difference you’ll find are a few additional signs,” Sharpton says.

“The state has agreed that this is a unique water source and, even with their compliance requirements, have been supportive of our efforts to preserve the mineral springs for all to enjoy.”

Cheyenne Spring is one of five that have CDPHE warning signs.

Warning sign at Shoshone Spring

Bryan Oller

Rhonda Van Pelt

This semester, our sixth- through eighth-graders are starting to work with clay. They created bowls that will be used for a future community event and are now starting a second clay project. They are working on ceramic hand-building skills and hope to have these projects glazed and ready to take home in time for Valentine’s Day. Clay can get messy, but the students are doing a great job of cleaning up and being responsible!

MSHS basketball game fundraiser

Thank you to our amazing MSHS Community for coming together at recent basketball games to help raise more than $2,000 to honor the late Erik Melgoza (Alamosa High School athletics director). The money will be combined with donations from other Tri-Peaks League schools — all of which will go towards a scholarship fund for Erik’s daughter.

MSES learning to life

To bring our learning to life, we invited a guest speaker to come visit our kindergarten classes and talk about some real Lakota Sioux artifacts and traditions. Mrs. Farrell’s husband, Mr. Don, came to share his wealth of knowledge about the Lakota Sioux tribe. Students had the opportunity to touch artifacts such as tools, beaded necklaces, moccasins and drums.

Señor Batson taught the kindergartners the colors in Spanish!

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HEALTHY-ISH New Year

AS JANUARY COMES TO A CLOSE, GOOD INTENTIONS SET FOR THE MONTH OR year are celebrated or mourned. It really does feel like the month of all or nothing. Then, thankfully, real life resumes and we can reconnect to that which is doable: both/and. Yes, you can eat healthily without judging foods. And you can enjoy all kinds of foods that both nourish the body and delight the pleasure palate. If you’re looking for a few plant-based dishes around town to do both, I’ve got you!

BREAKFAST

Munchies recently opened their brick-and-mortar location in the iconic Michelle Chocolatiers location and they’ve made a vegan breakfast staple available Downtown: tofu scramble. The plant-based OG of food that’s not at all like the animal-based version (scrambled eggs), it’s a hearty meal that has it all: protein, veggies and the all-important flavor. In this case, that distinctive taste is curry. They cook the South Asianinspired spicy tofu with red onion, tomatoes and spinach and serve it with avocado and two small, lightly

fried tortillas. I scooped that delightful mix of protein and veggies into the crispy folds for makeshift breakfast tacos. While I opted for fruit as my side, don’t you dare fear the double-carb option. Eat those fried potatoes if you want them! Oh, there’s a bar at Munchies. Have some OJ. Or spike that juice with Champagne.

MUNCHIES

122 N. Tejon St., 719-309-6912, munchies719.com

9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday; 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday

LUNCH

Javalato is an understated vegan favorite. Beginning as a mashup of a tea house, coffee bar and ice cream shop, they now have a full bar and offer breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bonus: There’s an entire, separate vegan menu. My midday favorite exemplifies my idea of both/and. The vegan Mediterranean sweet potato chips sound really wholesome, don’t they? Well, they are. And a little ornery, too. Chickpeas and tomatoes are simmered in a barbecue sauce and spooned over sweet potato fries and topped with house-made vegan cheese. This substantial plate filled with plant protein, veggies and nutrient-dense, starchy spuds does the deed. Turn your quick lunch stop into something a bit more special by ordering a pot of tea and ending the meal with a sweet bite of oat milk gelato.

JAVALATO

9697 Prominent Point, 719-4247929, javalato-coffee-gelato.com

6 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily

DINNER

Tickle your pleasure palate with plant-based meals in 2023

BY JL FIELDS | jlgoesvegan.com

The vegan tofu scramble has it all.

Adam’s Mountain Café has been feeding the vegan community for decades and they continue to innovate. The big news here is that their sought-after vegan pizza has finally landed on the permanent menu. They spread fragrant marinara generously over fresh dough baked up thin, crispy and light. Cashew cream sauce stands in for the cheese and that density is countered with very simple and fresh toppings: spinach and onions. The extra special touch is an herb-infused dipping oil to drizzle over each slice — as much or

ADAM’S MOUNTAIN CAFÉ

26 Manitou Ave., 719-6851430, Manitou Springs, adamsmountaincafe.com

8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5-8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday-Monday

as little as you like. It’s not often one can consume an entire pizza and not feel weighed down. Not so with this pie. You’ll even have room to start with the charred cauliflower — abundant with almonds, dates and sesame seeds — to create a delightfully nutritious and delectable meal.

Mediterranean sweet potato fries

Vegan pizza with dipping oil

JL Fields

JL Fields

JL Fields

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THE WAREHOUSE

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Curbside pickup with call ahead ordering. Silver for Best Chef 2016.

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Dinner Tuesday - Saturday, 4 P.m. To 10 P.m.

FUJIYAMA

AMERICAN ASIAN

22 S. TEJON ST. | 719-630-1167

Beautiful, award-winning downtown restaurant with a full-service bar. Enjoy authentic sushi & creative rolls, teriyaki, tempura, udon & more! See our ad or call for great lunch, Happy Hour, & Ladies night specials! Fri. & Sat. 11am-2:30pm lunch & 5-10pm dinner. Sun. 5-9pm dinner.

SAIGON CAFÉ

20 E. COLORADO AVE. | 719-633-2888 | COLORADOSAIGONCAFE.COM

Open for Lunch and Dinner Mon-Sat. Welcome to the Saigon Café the award winning Vietnamese restaurant in Colorado Springs. Our cuisine is cooked with fresh vegetables, herbs and meats in authentic Vietnamese style. Try our renowned noodle bowl, a lunchtime favorite. M-Th 11AM–3PM; 4PM–8:30PM F-Sat 11AM–3PM; 4PM-9:30PM

BIRD DOG BBQ

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Bird Dog now offers online ordering from the location of your choice! Order and pay online, then skip the line when you pick it up! Visit our website at www.BirdDogBBQ.com and click ORDER ONLINE to place your order. We also offer our award-winning catering services in individuallyboxed meals! Call 719-573-7671 for details.

FRONT RANGE BARBEQUE

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Voted best BBQ last 20 years by Indy readers! Scratch-made, Southernstyle BBQ w/ rotating craft beers on tap. Weekday Happy Hour 3pm-6pm. Outdoor patios

REVERB

BY BRYAN OSTROW

WINTER IS USUALLY when shows slow down. It’s colder, bands aren’t touring, and sometimes it just seems more comfortable to stay in the house where it’s warm. Though it’s been slower with live concerts, as we inch closer to the spring season we’re starting to see more live music pop up. There are some great shows coming to town this weekend, spanning genres from hip-hop to indie rock, country, math rock, metal and more. Thursday is often the pregame for the weekend. It’s not quite Friday, but we all need to get out. This Thursday, the 26th, is certainly no exception. Greeley’s Silver & Gold will be bringing their energetic alt-rock to Vultures along with indie rock from Dryerline and Tiny Tomboy. It’s sure to be a fun night out that’s relaxing at the same time.

As Friday night approaches, there’s more going on at Vultures, which will be hosting a killer math rock show with Catbamboo, Get The Axe and the return of SemiFiction. Catbamboo is a progressive, instrumental math rock band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with a sound that has lots of melody, guitar tapping, intricacy and precision. They’re embarking on a 3½-week tour and we are lucky to be one of their stops! Next door at The Black Sheep, catch

a local metal show with Ovira, Violence in Violet, Biting Bullets and Falter Never Fail. If you’re in the mood for something a little different, head down to Fritzy’s for a special Stranger Things night with DJ Tony Garcia. He incorporates music, video and lights, all resulting in a special, fun time.

On Saturday, Jan. 28, head to The Black Sheep for The LoFi Sessions, an evening of lo-fi hip-hop and beats from J.O., T-Swerk, Makeshft and more. There will be more hiphop upstairs at Lulu’s with Flood the Block, featuring rapper City Hollow and special guests. Or head downstairs at Lulu’s for Wake Up and Live, a special celebration of reggae legend Bob Marley. If you feel like getting up and dancing the night away, then Stargazers is the place to be. SOAPDISH will be playing their upbeat, high-energy dance music covering songs from the ’80s to the present.

Sunday night is here, but the weekend isn’t over yet! You can still check out an indie hiphop show at Vultures featuring Six O’Clock, Jus-1 & DJ Konz, Clydesdale Ent., Def One and Endy P. And if you’re still looking for ways to wind down your weekend, might I suggest going to Lulu’s, where they’ll be hosting an evening of Americana/country with touring artist John R. Miller

That’s what’s going on in Colorado Springs this week! We’ll see you next week for more live music, and if you would like us to write about anything you have coming up, contact

Louisiana math rock band Catbamboo are making a stop at Vultures Thursday night.

The title of Margo Price’s new Strays (Loma Vista), and its offseason delivery, might lead the wary to assume the album is composed of B-sides and leftovers. In reality, Price and her husband Jeremy Ivey crafted these songs carefully during lockdown, then fleshed them out with guests like Lucius and Sharon Van Etten. The result is the finest work by far from the alt-country queen.

The opening track, “Been to the Mountain,” hits the listener with the fervor of early Patti Smith. Even many that start slow, like “Light Me Up,” turn raucous by mid-track. One true slow, sad country song, “County Road,” entrances listeners with a perfect steel guitar. Price has offered a portfolio of fine albums over the past decade or so, but the new one belongs in that rare category of every track hovering close to perfect.

ALSO NEW & NOTEWORTHY

Belle and Sebastian, Late Developers (Matador) – It’s been only eight months since the Scottish ensemble’s last album, but bandleader Stuart Murdoch said the opportunity to co-write songs with producer Peter “Wuh Oh” Ferguson justified a rapid return with 11 new tunes. Almost every song represents a new milestone for the band, whether it’s Stevie Jackson’s vocals in “So In the Moment,” the Motownstyle horns of “Evening Star,” or the forthright nostalgia of “When We Were Very Young.” Some 1990s fans may rue a Belle and Sebastian that sponsors musical ocean cruises, but few could slander music this good.

Freja the Dragon, Midnight Feelings (Villa) – Swedish producer Freja Drakenberg was last heard from in 2020’s “Long Gone Girl,” so this second EP of four tracks should be considered something to whet the appetite, with lush arrangements and a guest appearance from Peter Bjorn and John. The tunes are memorable enough to gain a bigger audience, but are bound to have fans expecting an encore.

CRAFT PUB

ODYSSEY GASTROPUB

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Voted Best New Restaurant 2015 by Indy readers. Specializing in an eclectic mix of craft food, craft beer, and craft cocktails. Odyssey Gastropub is a downtown gem with a warm, intimate atmosphere and awesome staff. Start your adventure with us! Mon.- Fri. 11am - 10pm, Sat. & Sun. 10am - 10pm

GERMAN

EDELWEISS RESTAURANT

34 E. RAMONA AVE. | (SOUTH NEVADA & TEJON) | 719-633-2220

For 50 Years Edelweiss has brought Bavaria to Colorado Springs. Using fresh ingredients, the menu invites you to visit Germany. Support local business! We’re open and doing drive-thru and takeout with a limited menu that can be found on our website! www. edelweissrest.com.

ITALIAN

LOUIE’S PIZZA

4815 BARNES ROAD (BARNES & ORO BLANCO) | 719-591-5241 | LOUIES-PIZZA.COM

Serving The Colorado Springs Area Since 1985! Locally owned and operated. In the top 3 “Best Tasting Pizzas” for the last 15 years. The best value for your dollar & The freshest ingredients possible. Five locations! Dine in, carry out, and delivery with specials that save your budget!

SOUTHWESTERN/MEXICAN

JOSÉ MULDOON’S

222 N. TEJON ST. | 719-636-2311 | 5710 S. CAREFREE CR @ POWERS | 719-574-5673

Since 1974. Features authentic Tex-Mex & Mexican fare in contemporary Sante Fe-styled establishment. Across from Acacia Park, and west of Powers & Carefree. Josemuldoons.com. Support local restaurants! We are open for delivery, carry out, and dine-in at both locations! Please check our Facebook page for hours daily, as they are subject to change.

STEAKHOUSE

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Colorado Springs’ finest upscale steak house and lounge located in the center of downtown. Dine in an elegant and classic steak house environment. Award winning prime steaks, fresh seafood, premium wines, craft brews and piano bar provide a provocative mix of atmosphere and entertainment. Reservations suggested.

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MUSIC REVIEWS BY LORING WIRBEL

THE KEY OF LIFE

BY BILL FORMAN | billforman@sixty35media.org

AS A CHILD GROWING UP IN Fredericksburg, the colonial Virginia town that, according to one travel guide, is “as cute as a Civil War-era soda fountain,” Kanene Pipkin sang with a church group that met in the attic of a musical instrument shop. It was there that she first got the idea that music could play an important role in her life.

And it has. After relocating to Brooklyn, she cofounded The Lone Bellow with fellow Southern transplants Zach Williams and Brian Elmquist, a trio that offers up some of the most sublimely soulful harmonies out there. With stunning tracks like “Then Came the Morning” — which was released with an accompanying live video that’s downright devastating — they’ve gone on to rack up more than 100 million plays on streaming music platforms, earned a Best Duo/Group nomination from the Americana Music Awards, and performed everywhere from Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to the BBC’s Later With Jools Holland

But one show that the singer-songwriter-mandolinist will never forget was at the Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival, which was founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner, who also produced two of The Lone Bellow’s albums. There, the three bandmates gathered

onstage around a single microphone to harmonize with the legendary Blind Boys of Alabama.

In a subsequent interview with Blind Boys leader Jimmy Carter, journalist Amanda Wicks described it as a beautiful moment that she felt deep in her chest. “That’s what we like to see,” replied Carter. “We like to touch people’s lives. I’m glad you felt something.”

The Lone Bellow can also do that on their own. In the following interview, we talk to Pipkin about the spiritual side of three-part harmonies, the group’s recently released Love Songs for Losers album, and what it’s really like to be watched over by the ghost of Roy Orbison.

Sixty35: I understand you took on the role of vocal producer for this album. What did that entail? I’m guessing it could be anything from vocal coaching and arranging to mixing and mic placement.

Kanene Pipkin: For me, it was mostly about being given free rein to capture the kind of performances I was hoping to hear. It’s funny, because we’re a vocal band, and I think a lot of times, most producers will save vocals to the end. It can almost feel like, “Oh, you guys know how to sing, just go in there and do it.”

So yeah, instead of taking the kind of autopilot

approach, I really wanted to dig into all the nuances that I know our voices contain. Because I’ve sung with these guys almost every night for the last decade. So there are things that I had wanted to hear, the kind of nuances and textures and the types of vocal delivery that I know we’re all capable of.

I think all of us in the studio have different kinds of patience, you know, like things they could sit and do for hours. Like Brian could sit and chase guitar tones for hours or even days on end. And for me, my patience is really for vocals. So for me, it was just like a license to play. You know, like: I want to hear that take, but with a little more movement and a little more breath. Or maybe try that one a little bit more legato. Or do that one with a little bit more of your mixed voice, or a little bit more of your chest voice; or more talk-singing, you know? There are so many ways with recording equipment that you can capture infinite nuances.

As opposed to three people standing around a vintage microphone.

Sure, which we still do, and did on this record. Sometimes that’s just the ticket. But I think in recorded music, you never want to feel like you’re being sung at. And I think that’s really the goal, for the vocals to kind of seduce the listener into want-

The Lone Bellow’s Kanene Pipkin on vocal trios, gospel legends, and being haunted by Roy Orbison

Eric Ryan Anderson.

ing to hear more, rather than be like “God, turn down those people.”

So they can become part of the music, rather than running away from it.

Exactly. It’s those quieter moments on the album, those moments of delicate singing, that are really what I’m mostly proud of. Because I know we can all project and, you know, melt faces and destroy decibel levels with our power and our volume. But it’s the careful stuff that usually gets lost in a crowded room that I really wanted to cel ebrate and bring out in this record.

You spent six weeks living and recording it in what used to be Roy Orbison’s house. How did that come about? Because it’s not on Airbnb.

No, it’s not. Basically, there was this builder that Zach became really enamored of named Braxton Dixon. He built a bunch of houses for classic coun try stars all around Nashville. Like Tammy Wyn ette had a house, Johnny Cash had a house. A lot of them ended up burning down.

The place where we recorded was actually Roy Orbison’s party house, which is right next to the orchard that they planted over where his old house burnt down, which is right next to Johnny Cash’s burnt-down house. Great builder, bad elec trician, I guess. It’s a weird house that has a pool in the basement that’s been covered over, and a bathroom with two toilets that kind of face each other, which I think used to be a vocal booth. It also may be haunted.

Well, Johnny Cash did claim that he was saved from the grave by the ghost of Roy Orbison. Is Roy still hanging out there?

I think so. One night, we were outside, it was really late. And there was like a kind of wire less Bluetooth sound system throughout the house, and all of a sudden Shania Twain just started blasting through the speakers at like ear-splitting volume. And no one turned it on. It was so eerie, like terrifying. So we had to go through the house, because no one knew what was causing this and find all the speakers and just turn them off.

That sounds kind of creepy. Anything else?

Brian had to stay there for a while by himself, and he swears he felt things touching his hand in the night. So, you know, if the record’s a little spooky, that’s why.

Tell me about singing with the Blind Boys of Alabama. How did you even summon up the confi dence to do that?

Well, they’re very sweet people. And, I don’t know, I think all three of us grew up singing in church. I grew up specifically in a church where we sang all gospel music.

spiritual, and very soul-connecting about music in general. And you feel that every night when you’re singing with a bunch of strangers who have somehow come across your music, and for some reason,

Eric Ryan Anderson.

BRICK

THE LINES WERE LONG, but the excitement among kids and adults alike was big for the grand opening of the new Bricks & Minifigs store, nestled in the Berkshire Centre at Vickers Drive and Academy Boulevard. An hour’s drive from the nearest official LEGO Store in South Denver, the franchised aftermarket shop invited the public in to quench their thirst for all things LEGO.

Bricks & Minifigs offers new and used, contemporary and retired sets as well as large pools of individual pieces and bricks to purchase in bulk quantities. The store also invited contestants from FOX’s LEGO Masters TV show — Corey from Season 1 and Jen from Season 2 — for pictures and autographs. Alongside the windows sat builder Julian Drake Evenfeather’s specialty display of Star Trek-themed ships, including a large Deep Space Nine model. Their used sets were on sale behind the counter, displaying many of the newest and largest LEGO has released. The Titanic (set 10294) was on display, but the Eiffel Tower (set 10307) was not. At least, not yet.

The store held drawings for door prizes, gave away exclusive minifigs to early arriving customers, and was filled to capacity the entire time Sixty35 was onsite. The line of excited LEGO fans still stretched halfway down the shopping center hours after the 10 a.m. opening. Check in again next week for more on Bricks & Minifigs.

The line at opening spanned the entire Berkshire Centre. The store maintained a busy, at-capacity crowd.

The Thunderbolt is among original, store-branded sets.

LEGO pieces were available for bulk purchase.

USAFA SURGE

Air Force Academy attempts to get in front of recruiting headwinds

BY AMANDA MILLER LUCIANO

AIR FORCE ACADEMY RECRUITers are strategizing to get ahead of challenges posed by nationally declining college enrollment and poor military recruitment performance in recent years. And it worked this year, with applications up 21 percent year over year.

“We’re back to historic norms,” says Col. Art Primas, director of admissions. “Last year we had some challenges and we saw a pretty significant decrease.”

Applications for new Air Force Academy cadets, which are tallied in January, fell from 11,599 in 2021 to 8,393 in 2022. This year, they popped back up to 10,058, which is more in line with application numbers from 2020 and 2019.

The Academy expects to enroll 1,135 students into the class of 2027.

The COVID pandemic can be blamed for much of the disruption in the Academy’s recruitment

attend in-person events or make the direct connects they rely on to reach prospective cadets because of COVID restrictions. Because recruitment efforts really begin with high school juniors, the effects of COVID especially showed up in the 2022 application figures.

While the tally is much improved, Primas notes that this year’s application numbers are still slightly lower than they were before the pandemic.

“There are a lot of recruitment headwinds we face,” Primas says. “We’re working to get ahead of the challenge.”

Nationally, college enrollment was falling before the pandemic, declining from a peak of 21.1 million in 2010 to 19 million in 2020 (a 9.6 percent drop), according to information from educationdata.com. Post-secondary enrollment fell another 14.6 percent from 2020 to 16.2 million in 2022.

Additionally, the military has fallen short of its

respectively, according to a September report from the Department of Defense to the Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee.

“The propensity to serve has changed,” Primas says.

The Academy hosted a summit last week, bringing together recruitment officers from all over the world to discuss this year’s success and strategize for continued growth.

Lt. Ellie Beaulieu, a 2022 Academy graduate, is an Admissions Advisor based in Los Angeles. In the fall, the history major will begin training to be a space intelligence officer. But for this year, her full-time job is recruitment for the Air Force Academy. She visited more than 60 schools in the L.A. area and attended multiple career fairs and college recruitment events.

“It was just me,” she says. “I tell students about my experience at the Air Force Academy and help them navigate the rigorous application process.”

sors like her on the ground in communities around the country this year than there were two years ago, which could have positively influenced the increase

“My job is to go to high-performing schools and reach out to qualified students who might not know about the education opportunity at the Air Force Academy,” Beaulieu says. “I didn’t find out about the service academies until late in my junior year myself.”

So, along with informing high school students about the Air Force Academy, she encourages them to apply even if they think they’re behind in the process.

“It’s not a regular college application,” Beaulieu says. “It’s five times more work.”

In addition to making the application, students have to pass physical fitness assessments, and have a nomination from their U.S. Senator or Representative.

Of course, once appointed to the Academy, students do not have to pay tuition or room and board.

“That’s something we obviously mention,” Beaulieu says. “College is really expensive. But we tell them about that after we know they have an inclination to serve.”

Lt. Col. Brian Zajick is a Regional Support Lead based at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. He has been an Admissions Liaison for the Air Force Academy for 20 years. He mentors prospective cadets and helps them navigate the application process. He also conducts admissions interviews for applicants he has not mentored.

Zajick has seen Air Force Academy applications fluctuate over the years.

“We are doing a much better job of getting the word out recently,” he says.

Since he’s based overseas, Zajick’s direct recruitment efforts are focused on the children of current service members stationed abroad.

“They’re like oysters,” he said. “They’re either all in or all out on the military.”

Zajick also approaches first-year enlisted airmen as the Academy reserves 85 spaces a year for airmen under the age of 23 who want to apply. It’s rare in recent years that all of those spaces are filled, he says. There are also spaces for 15 to 20 foreign students who are citizens of ally nations.

Recruitment has changed over the years since Zajick began. He was also an Admissions Advisor, like Beaulieu, in his first year after graduating from the Academy.

“We’re in a time in history when not many people have served in the military,” Zajick says. “My father was in Vietnam. Today, you don’t get as many people who have those family connections. There’s not the innate interest to serve.”

That, and a perception of danger, are hurdles to Air Force Academy recruitment, he says. Parents often worry about the threat of war. But the biggest resistance he sees from parents is a reluctance to have their son or daughter going to school so far away and to being stationed away from their hometown and family.

“Even my parents,” says Beaulieu, who is from upstate New York. “I remember sitting down and having those conversations with my parents and my [Admissions Liaison]. They didn’t want me to fly halfway across the country to college.”

Recruitment strategies now are focused on getting enough Admissions Liaisons, who can work in the position all over the country and even the world as reservists, and Admissions Advisors on the ground getting the word out, and working with students to get through the arduous and complicated application process.

“The biggest challenge,” Zajick says, “is raising awareness. A lot of people have never heard of the education opportunity of the Air Force Academy. There are qualified people out there who never knew this was an option.”

THE BRIEFING

OLYMPIAN AND PARALYMPIAN JOHN REGISTER TAKES SPIRIT OF THE SPRINGS AWARD

Mayor John Suthers presented the Spirit of the Springs Inspirational Leader Award to John Register, a U.S. Army veteran and twotime Paralympian, at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum on Jan. 12. As a member of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, Register learned to embrace a “new normal” after becoming an amputee following a misstep over a hurdle while training for the 1996 Olympic Games. He has since inspired millions of people around the world through his “Hurdling Adversity” speeches and podcasts.

“John Register has proven himself a champion both on and off the field of play,” said Suthers. “Our city is fortunate to have an inspirational leader like John who is positively impacting our local community and people worldwide with his very powerful story of service, sacrifice and resilience. We are honored to present John with a Spirit of the Springs Inspirational Leader Award and thank him for his service to our country and for bringing the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect, and the Paralympic values of determination, inspiration, courage and equality to life here in Olympic City USA.”

A four-time All-American in track and field and graduate of the University of Arkansas, Register served six years in the U.S. Army, including in operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. As a member of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, he won nine gold medals in the Armed Services Competition and two World Military Championship titles. He also won a silver medal in the long jump at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. Following his athletic career, Register worked with military athletes through the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s Military Sport Program, which he founded in the early 2000s.

A native of Oak Park, Illinois, Register lives in Colorado Springs. In addition to his dedication to the Olympic and Paralympic Movement, Register is acting president and CEO for Amputee Coalition, a Colorado High School Activities Association (CHASA) track and field announcer, and a community advocate for diversity, veterans, amputees, and those living with limb loss or limb difference.

For more on the Spirit of the Springs Awards, visit coloradosprings.gov/spiritofthesprings. — HL

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8378 Freestar Way – The Glen at Widefield • $420,000

2336 Conservatory Point – Springs Canyon • $575,000

Compiled by Helen Lewis, Mary Jo Meade and Pam Zubeck

City of Colorado Springs

DONORS GIVE A RECORD $51.7M TO SUPPORT USAFA MISSION

Last year set a record for philanthropic support of the Air Force Academy, with more than 7,500 graduates, parents, families, foundations and corporations contributing $51.7 million to the Air Force Academy Foundation.

Those contributions bring the Defining Our Future campaign to $248.26 million, the foundation said in a release.

Launched in 2021 by the foundation and the Association of Graduates, the campaign aims to build private philanthropic support for the Academy’s mission and boost engagement, pride and participation among graduates and families.

While the Academy receives funding from the federal government for core needs, private support is used to enhance educational and leadership opportunities for future Air Force and Space Force officers.

Examples of the impact philanthropy created in 2022:

• All mission elements received a boost through crowdfunding on Aug. 3, when more than 2,600 donors participated in the first 1Day1USAFA giving day. Donations totaled $1.3 million.

• John Martinson, Class of 1970, committed $10 million to the Academy Scholars Program to recruit top scholars and expand academic opportunities.

• The Madera Cyber Innovation Center, now under construction, will house USAFA’s cyber defense and warfare training programs; nearly $32 million was contributed.

• The Institute for Future Conflict received a $1 million gift from John Fox, Class of 1963, to bring a fellow to the Academy.

• Academy athletics benefited from a $1 million grant from the Mary K. Chapman Foundation and a $500,000 grant from El Pomar Foundation for the modernization of Falcon Stadium. A $2.5 million gift from the Erdle family in honor of Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Philip J. Erdle will support the transformation of the fan experience at Falcon Field, home of Air Force baseball.

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SPACE FOUNDATION

ANNOUNCES 2023 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

WINNER

Daniel S. Goldin is the 2023 recipient of the Space Foundation’s highest honor — the General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award. The announcement was made Jan. 18.

Goldin’s 60-year career includes technical, program and organizational leadership positions in the civil and commercial space sectors, intelligence and national security, and advanced computing and technology. He started work at NASA in 1962, focusing on propulsion systems and interplanetary travel, followed by 25 years developing Cold War-era national security space programs for TRW’s Space and Technology Group.

In 1992, Goldin was named Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, becoming NASA’s highest-ranking decision-maker and steering the agency as it re-imagined itself after the Cold War. According to the Space Foundation website, Goldin was the architect of “the ‘faster, bet-

ter, cheaper’ approach for satellite and program operations to revolutionize NASA’s Earth Science, Space Science, Human Exploration, and Aeronautics programs.”

Goldin’s tasks as administrator included oversight of Hubble Space Telescope repairs and use of NASA rovers on Mars, and he established the worldwide network of partnerships that supports the International Space Station. “His efforts also opened the door of opportunity for the emerging commercial space industry to compete and satisfy critical agency mission requirements in remote sensing, robotics, computing and more,” according to the site.

After leaving NASA in 2001, Goldin founded Cold Canyon, an advisory company, and provided his expertise to educational institutions and companies.

Space Foundation CEO Tom Zelibor said there are “truly few individuals that could transform the worlds of engineering, national security, science, diplomacy, commerce, computing and more like Dan Goldin. It is rare for any person to do that in one area, let alone several, but his career and leadership within our community have been transformative in every way.” —MJM

Jerry Bruni, Class of 1970, and Pam Bruni committed

million to support immersive exhibits in the Hosmer Visitor Center under construction. — PZ

U.S. Air Force

Intention good, EXECUTION BAD

MAYBE YOU’VE BEEN there: having to decide whether to pay the extra 50 cents or instead transfer your groceries into and out of your vehicle one item at a time because you refused to fork over your hard-earned dough for plastic bags.

When the majority of Colorado voters decided in 2021 to support a mandatory 10-cent charge for single-use plastic bags beginning this year (there are some caveats), it seemed like a small sacrifice to make on the way to a cleaner planet for our children and their children. But, as with so many efforts to do right by the environment, the devil’s in the unintended details. And with even stricter plastic bag

EDITORIAL BOARD:

Amy Gillentine, Bryan Grossman, Helen Lewis, Mary Jo Meade

restrictions expected to go into effect next year, we may see even more harm than good.

An NPR article from 2019 titled “Are Plastic Bag Bans Garbage?” took on this issue. Turns out, people reuse those bags for all sorts of things besides carrying groceries. And when they can’t get them for free, they’ll instead turn to less environmentally friendly alternatives — like purchasing (and relegating to landfills) larger trash bags than the grocery bags they once used to line small trash cans and pick up pet waste.

The plastic problem was particularly acute when it comes to “small, 4-gallon bags, which saw a 120 percent increase in sales after bans went into effect,” the story reported of states with similar laws. Thirty percent of the plastic saved due to bag bans four years ago come back in the form of thicker trash bags — and bans lead to an increase in the use of paper bags which, many argue, are far worse for the environment because of the demand for large amounts of lumber and water to produce them. In Colorado, plastic bags (along with polystyrene products) will be outlawed next year, in most cases, while recycled paper bags can still be obtained for 10 cents apiece.

As for those reusable cloth and plastic bags… They stay out of landfills — unlike single-use plastic bags — but the carbon footprint required to produce them is far larger than plastic grocery bags. They need to be used hundreds of times to offset their environmental impact. And if you wash your cloth bags, the impact is even greater.

NPR reported the Danish government conducted a study around the time its article was published stating, “[The government study estimated] you would have to use an organic cot-

ton bag 20,000 times more than a plastic grocery bag to make using it better for the environment.”

Because of the largely self-made rut we humans have found ourselves in, we’re likely to see many laws introduced and passed going forward that are meant to save the planet. From electrical vehicles to environmentally friendly commercial and residential development to reintroducing extinct species, there will be “solutions” everywhere. But how well thought out are they?

Yes, plastics are a problem. Our landfills and oceans are filled with the stuff. And we should react to climate change and environmental disasters, but we shouldn’t be reactionary. Passing worthless — or worse yet, damaging — policies because they make us feel good will never put us on the path to sustainability and a healthier planet. We should be quick to pull the plug on policies like the bag ban and change direction if “feeling good” is the only positive result. And this law should serve as a warning when it comes to future policies meant to protect the environment. What are the unintended consequences?

As for the best bag solution right now: The Danish study cited by NPR found reusable bags made from polyester or plastics like polypropylene best balance carbon footprint and reusability. And NPR found a bag fee to be better than an outright ban to encourage use of reusable bags because people can still pay the fee if they’re running low on trash bags for the car, rather than resort to larger, more harmful solutions.

We bipeds have made many mistakes when it comes to our planet. Let’s not add heedlessly passing feelgood but otherwise worthless environmental laws to the list.

By John Hazlehurst

Our mayoral HORSE RACE

IN TWO AND A HALF MONTHS, Colorado Springs residents will elect a new mayor, and say goodbye to the ferociously competent John Suthers. Sports analogies are in order; losing Suthers to retirement is akin to the Broncos losing John Elway or Peyton Manning. Just as Elway and Manning were among the best quarterbacks ever to play the game, Suthers was one of the best mayors in our city’s long history (if not the best!). Termed out, Suthers is off to a well-deserved retirement, and it’s up to us to choose a reasonably competent replacement.

At this writing, there are half a dozen serious candidates in the race; Sallie Clark, Darryl Glenn, Longinos Gonzales Jr., Yemi Mobolade, Tom Strand and Wayne Williams. Of the six, only Mobolade is a political novice — the other five have served as El Paso County commissioners, city councilors or both.

That said, it’ll be quite a horse race.

Mark Riesterer

Mobolade will do his best to get liberals, Democrats and progressives to support him, while trying to be perceived as an apolitical businessman and community leader. Strand and Gonzales may benefit from our community’s fondness for candidates who have served in the military. Six of nine current councilors are military retirees.

Electing a mayor isn’t like electing county commissioners, city councilors or state senators/representatives. We’re not building a team — we’re choosing the city’s CEO.

It’s a lofty, extraordinarily powerful position. It requires not just a glittering résumé, but long experience in our city, state and nation. It’s one thing to be a skilled politician, but it’s another to be a capable, collaborative and trustworthy leader. Here’s my list.

Longtime city resident. You need to know, experience and understand our city through boom and bust. Hop-skip -

ping around Colorado doesn’t count — live here, work here and commit absolutely to this city.

Previous experience as a local elected official. No one starts at the top — you have to pay your dues.

Business experience. Our business community creates and sustains the city’s prosperity and growth. Being business-friendly doesn’t mean catering to the needs of the big dogs, but working for everybody. For me, small business experience is a must.

The respect and affection of your peers. Bob Isaac, Mary Lou Makepeace and John Suthers were widely admired for being honest, direct and trustworthy by those who worked for or with them — and even by those who opposed them.

Age. Opinions differ, but CEOs of established billion-dollar companies tend to be in their 40s, 50s and early 60s. Over 70? Nope. Under 30? Nope, unless you’re my brilliant granddaughter.

Broad experience in state or national governance. To understand bureaucracies you need to experience them directly, whether by working for them or heading them.

Pre-political community activism. Did you volunteer for local nonprofits, stand up for your neighborhood and help others?

In other words, are you a decent, caring person?

And most important of all: Do you have a dog? No dog, no vote....

Losing Suthers to retirement is akin to the BRONCOS LOSING JOHN ELWAY OR PEYTON MANNING .

FAIR AND UNBALANCED

By Mike Littwin Courtesy The Colorado Sun

THE HOUSE CRAZIES

THERE WAS A POLITICO STORY THE OTHER DAY revealing that Joe Biden’s White House staff was positively “giddy” — not a word often applied to White House staffs — about the team that Speaker Kevin McCarthy has appointed to the House Oversight Committee.

You could start with Paul Gosar and Matt Gaetz, of course. They both can make me giddy at times. But there’s a better story.

That belongs, of course, to Lauren Boebert and her one-time close ally, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who have apparently become frenemies. The stunning part of this story is that Greene and Boebert were feuding because Greene was backing McCarthy while Boebert was busily attacking him. And yet, they both were cut basically the same McCarthy backdoor deal.

Crazy? That’s just the start of it.

Or you could go with House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry, the Pennsylvania representative who did all he could to promote

the Big Lie in his state. He was so involved, in fact, that the FBI actually seized his cell phone. By the way, Perry also refused to honor a subpoena from the January 6th committee, so we’ll see who deigns to honor subpoenas he supports.

Suddenly, these noisy but largely irrelevant back-benchers — surely you remember Boebert and Greene trolling Biden at his State of the Union speech — are now in positions of, yes, actual power. Which should also make Colorado Democrats giddy, because the more face time Boebert gets, the more votes in her 3rd Congressional District she risks losing.

Remember when Boebert, following her close victory, said she wanted to bring down the temperature? Yeah, me too. Still laughing about it.

There are also a few just-elected newbies named to the committee. Maybe not coincidentally, they were elected to Congress last November straight from the Big Lie, election-denying camp. I can only guess that Rudy Giuliani and the MyPillow guy are also giddy. And probably everyone from QAnon on down to the Proud Boys.

Greene wants an investigation into the treatment of those arrested and jailed after the Jan. 6 insurrection. She has also repeatedly called for impeachment hearings for Joe Biden. Of course, Boebert has also filed a bill for impeachment against Biden and against Kamala Harris.

The committee is a good bet to try to persuade the House to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who would be the first cabinet member impeached since 1876. Greene also has thrown in Merrick Garland because, well, she’s Marjorie Taylor Greene.

I know you can’t wait for the get-Fauci hearings. But be patient. It gets worse. Some on the committee are even talking about attempting to expunge Trump’s impeachments from the record. I don’t know if that’s legal, but it’s certainly crazy.

SO WHY ARE BIDEN AND FRIENDS SO giddy? The Oversight Committee is one that oversees, among other things, the White House, and will be involved in any and all investigations into, say, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, probably Jill Biden, and possibly anyone else from Delaware who has ever been near the Capitol.

The White House is giddy because the House Crazies would almost certainly embarrass themselves taking center stage at hearings. And any work product backed by Boebert, Gaetz et al would have all the integrity of, well, Boebert, Gaetz et al.

Also sure to produce giddiness, if not straight-out laughter, is the obvious notion that the anti-

swamp team put the crazies on the committee overseeing Biden in a backroom deal. In other deals, McCarthy also changed the House rules to allow any one representative — you know, like Boebert — at any time to call for a vote to oust the speaker.

So, you can guess that Democrats will uniformly call anything that happens in Oversight to be no more than the price McCarthy paid for his speakership and with a warning to give anything they will pursue just that much serious consideration.

I know some people thought Boebert would be punished for humiliating McCarthy. But, because McCarthy is so used to humiliation by now, he felt free to appoint Boebert to her seat to reward her for finally dropping her opposition to his bid to be speaker.

If you’ll remember, it took 15 painful — for both McCarthy and anyone who watched — rounds of voting to elect him speaker, with Boebert voting for someone else 13 times, including once for Donald Trump. In the last two rounds, she switched her vote to “present,” which would allow McCarthy to escape purgatory.

In the meantime, Marjorie Taylor Greene won her seat by supporting McCarthy in his yearslong ambition to become speaker and by loaning her wingnut bona fides to the battle. As you can see, it just didn’t matter which side they were on, except that they were both on Trump’s side and the MAGA side.

For Greene and Gosar, it’s a chance to be on a committee, any committee, again. Last year Nancy Pelosi and the Dems kicked both off their committees for internet posts that actually advocated violence. McCarthy, then the House minority leader, said he would reinstate them if he ever got the speaker’s gavel even though both had connections to Nick Fuentes, the anti-Semitic white nationalist who sometimes dines at Mar-aLago with Trump and his pal Ye.

SO, HERE WE ARE. IN MANY WAYS, THIS is nearly as funny as the George Santos story. At least none of these House crazies, as far as I know, have falsely claimed that any close relatives died during the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.

In many other ways, though, it’s simply terrifying — as many predicted if Republicans won the House — that Boebert and the gang have moved from Tom Tancredo-level back-benchers to essential and powerful faces of the Republican Party.

They’ll be there trading headlines with Jim Jordan, who is now chair of the powerful Judiciary Committee, if you can imagine, and also now chair of a Judiciary subcommittee to investigate “weaponization of government.” These weaponizations would presumably include investigations or indictments against, uh, Trump and his allies, including those in your friendly, if occasionally violent, far-right militias.

This would be another backroom deal. And

some Republicans have had the nerve to call the weaponization subcommittee the new “Church committee” — a reference to Sen. Frank Church’s committee in the mid-’70s formed to investigate actual abuses by government agencies.

As Gary Hart, who says he’s the last surviving member of that Senate committee, wrote in a New York Times op-ed: “Trying to disguise a highly partisan effort to legitimize undemocratic activities by cloaking it in the mantle of a successful bipartisan committee from decades ago is a mockery.”

It’s a mockery all right. But, let’s face it, mockery is a term with which Boebert and her friends must by now be all too familiar.

Mike Littwin’s column was produced for The Colorado Sun , a reader-supported news organization committed to covering the people, places and policies of Colorado. Learn more at coloradosun.com.

These noisy but largely irrelevant back-benchers ARE NOW IN POSITIONS OF ACTUAL POWER.

LOW DOWN

By Jim Hightower jimhightower.com

CORRUPT and clueless

QUESTION: HOW MANY legs does a dog have if you count the tail as a leg? Answer: Four — calling the tail a leg doesn’t make it one.

Likewise, calling a small group of partisan lawyers a “supreme” court doesn’t make it one. There’s nothing supreme about the six-pack of far-right-wing political activists who are presently soiling our people’s ideals of justice by proclaiming their own anti-democratic biases to be the law of the land. On issues of economic fairness, women’s rights, racial justice, corporate supremacy, environmental protection, theocratic rule and other fundamentals, these unelected, black-robed extremists are imposing an illegitimate elitist agenda on America that the people do not want and ultimately will not tolerate.

Indeed, the imperiousness of the six ruling judges has already caused the court’s public approval rating to plummet, to a mere 38 percent, a historic low that ranks down there with Trump, and threatens to go as low as Congress.

This has led to a flurry of officials attesting to the honesty and political impartiality of the reigning supremes. Unfortunately for the court, these ardent defenders were the six culprits themselves.

The “integrity of the judiciary is in my bones,” pontificated Neil Gorsuch, who now stands accused of having lied to senators to win his lifetime appointment.

“[We are not] a bunch of partisan hacks,” wailed Amy Coney Barrett, a partisan extremist jammed onto the court in a partisan ploy by Trump in the last few hours of his presidency.

“Judges are not politicians,” protested John Roberts, who became Chief Justice because he was a rabid political lawyer who pushed the Supreme Court in 2000 to reject the rights of voters and install George W. Bush as president.

AS MANY OF ITS OWN MEMBERS privately admit, Congress has become a pay-to-play lawmaking casino — closed to commoners, but offering full-service access to corporate powers. But the Supreme Court has also become a handmaiden to the corporate elites trying to increase their

dominance over us. This secretive powerhouse now routinely vetoes efforts by workers, environmentalists, students, local officials, voters, and all others who try to rein in corporate greed and abuses.

Appointed for lifetime terms, this autocratic tribune takes pride in being sealed off from democracy, even bragging that they make rulings without being influenced by special interests. But wait — in makeup and ideology, today’s court majority is a special interest, for it consists of corporate and right-wing lawyers who’ve obtained their wealth and position by loyally serving corporate power. And far from now being isolated from moneyed elites, the judges regularly socialize with them and attend their closed-door political meetings.

There’s even a special little club, called The Supreme Court Historical Society, that frequently reveals the cozy, symbiotic relationship that exists between today’s judicial and corporate cliques. Such giants as Chevron, Goldman Sachs, AT&T, and Home Depot pay millions of dollars to this clubby society, gaining notice by and the appreciation of the supremes. And, yes, these special interest gifts to the court are gratefully accepted, even when the corporations have active cases before the court, seeking favorable rulings from the very judges they’re gladhanding at Society soirees.

Of course, the judges insist there’s no conflict of interest, because this access to them is “open to all.” Sure — all who can pay $25,000 and up to get inside! Yet the clueless judges wonder why their credibility is in the ditch.

Remember, in America, The People are supreme! We don’t have to accept rule by an illegitimate court. For reform, go to fixthecourt.com.

Appointed for lifetime terms, this autocratic tribune TAKES PRIDE IN BEING SEALED OFF FROM DEMOCRACY.

All words to be constructed pertain to the topic to the right. To your advantage one word has already been traced. You must trace the three remaining words, using only the letters designated by the darkened circles. Words may begin and end from either column but each letter can only be used once.

Each puzzle has a difficulty rating (below). Four stars signify the highest degree of difficulty.

Given below are the point values for each word. Your words must correctly match these point values.

MINI SUDOKU X

SUDOKU X

Complete the grid so that every row, column, diagonal and 3x3 box contain the numbers 1 to 9.

next to tungsten on the periodic table

Widespread

E-tickets often come as these

Risk taker’s acronym

“You don’t really have to”

Field for Maria Callas 26 “Oh yeah?”

Protect, as freshness

Hindu fire god

Target for an exterminator

Food, potentially

Food

Nowhere to be found

“Do you mind?”

Antelope with chin hair

One side of a page

Patriarchs and matriarchs

Shove down the throat of

Sulky

Large swallow

Major bashes

“A League of ___ Own”

Like marshes or bagpipes

Exhaust physically

Like tears and some language

Bevy : quails :: parliament : ___

“Now wait just a second!”

Blue shade

“Yeah, sure”

“Euphoria” channel

Place for thieves

BY THE EDITORS AT ANDREWS MCMEEL

Don’t sneeze

On Jan. 9 in Kyiv, Ukraine, a surgeon removed an unexploded grenade from the chest cavity of a 28-year-old Ukrainian soldier, The Guardian reported. The weapon lay just below the man’s heart, and two “sappers” (military engineering soldiers) were on hand during the delicate operation to neutralize the device after it was removed. Doctors were unable to use electrocoagulation, a method that controls bleeding, because of fear that the grenade might detonate. “I think this case will go down in medical textbooks,” said Anton Gerashchenko, Ukraine’s internal affairs ministerial adviser. No word about how the grenade ended up in the soldier’s chest cavity to begin with. He will now undergo rehabilitation.

Eyewitness news

Riders on the MAX light rail system in Gresham, Oregon, witnessed a brutal assault around 2 a.m. on Jan. 3, KPTV reported. A 78-year-old man on the train platform was attacked by another man, who “chewed off the victim’s ear and part of his face,” police said. “The injury was so severe that responders could see the victim’s skull.” The suspect did not provide investigators with a real name, but through fingerprints he was identified as Koryn Kraemer, 25, who had recently moved to the area from Georgia. He was charged with assault in the second degree.

It’s baaaacckkk

The atmospheric river battering Cali fornia has another weird conse quence, SFGate

The storms are making the Golden Gate bridge eerily “sing.” Nearby residents first noticed the phe nomenon during summer storms in 2020, when they heard a “screeching that sounded like torture.” A Building and Oper ating Committee report from 2020 said the cause was the retrofit of 12,000 slats on the west side of the bridge.

The cost to add clips that would stop the noise is $450,000; officials said installation is due in the coming months.

Incompetent criminals

Two arsonists were in the hot seat — and they hadn’t even been caught — after they set fire to a Bakersfield, California, immigration services building on Jan. 2, Fox News reported. Footage from a Ring security camera captured the masked individuals as they spread gasoline around the building’s base. But when one bent to light the fire, the flames spread to both people’s clothes, causing them to run away screaming. The suspects are still at large.

IS catching cats and shaving a square into their fur, Metro News reported on Jan. 11. Not just a small patch, either: 6-year-old Tallulah had a large bald spot on her stomach that owner Bonnie Towe noticed when her daughter picked the cat up. “Did someone take her and bring her back? Or did they do it in a car?” Towe wondered. “We did notice she wasn’t going out quite as much. She mostly sits at home and looks out the window.” Other victims’ owners have discovered one another on Facebook, speculating that the cats are being marked as targets. But no other harm has come to any of them.

COVENTRY, ENGLAND, SOMEONE

IN

DUBBED THE CAT SHAVER

Free Will ASTROLOGY

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) was nominated nine times for the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature, but never won. He almost broke through in the last year of his life, but French author Albert Camus beat him by one vote. Camus said Kazantzakis was “a hundred times more” deserving of the award than

himself. I will make a wild prediction about you in the coming months, Aquarius. If there has been anything about your destiny that resembles Kazantzakis’, chances are good that it will finally shift. Are you ready to embrace the gratification and responsibility of prime appreciation?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean educator Parker Palmer has a crucial message for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. Read it tenderly, please. Make it your homing signal. He said, “Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one’s self. It is not about the absence of other people — it is about being fully present to ourselves, whether or not we are with others. Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Noah Webster (1758–1843) worked for years to create the first definitive American dictionary. It became a cornucopia of revelation for poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). She said that for many years it was her “only companion.” One biographer wrote, “The dictionary was no mere reference book to her; she read it as a priest his breviary — over and over, page by page, with utter absorption.” Now would be a favorable time for you to get intimate with a comparable mother lode, Aries. I would love to see you find or identify a resource that will continually inspire you for the rest of 2023.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.” So declared Taurus philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his book Philosophical Investigations. Luckily for you Tauruses, you have a natural knack for making sure that important things don’t get buried or neglected, no matter how simple and familiar they are. And you’ll be exceptionally skilled at this superpower during the next four weeks. I hope you will be gracious as you wield it to enhance the lives of everyone you care about. All of us non-Bulls will benefit from the nudges you offer as we make our course corrections.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet Carolyn Kizer said the main subject of her work was this: “You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing.” I agree with her. The people we encounter and the influences they exert make it hard to stay fixed in our attitudes and behavior. And the people we know well have even more profound transformative effects. I encourage you to celebrate this truth in the coming weeks. Thrive on it. Be extra hungry for and appreciative of all the prods you get to transcend who you used to be and become who you need to be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you have any interest in temporarily impersonating a Scorpio, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to play around. Encounters with good, spooky magic will be available. More easily than usual, you could enjoy altered states that tickle your soul with provocative insights. Are you curious about the mysteries of intense, almost obsessive passion? Have you wondered if there might be ways to deal creatively and constructively with your personal darkness? All these perks could be yours — and more. Here’s another exotic pleasure you may want to explore: that half-forbidden zone where dazzling heights overlap with the churning depths. You are hereby invited to tap into the erotic pleasures of spiritual experiments and the spiritual pleasures of erotic experiments.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The circle can and will be complete — if you’re willing to let it find its own way of completing itself. But I’m a bit worried that an outdated part of you may cling to the hope of a perfection that’s neither desirable nor possible. To that outdated part of you, I say this: Trust that the Future You will thrive on the seeming imperfections that arise. Trust that the imperfections will be like the lead that the Future You will alchemically transmute into gold. The completed circle can’t be and shouldn’t be immaculate and flawless.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shakespeare’s work has been translated from his native English into many languages. But the books of Virgo detective novelist Agatha Christie have been translated far more than the Bard’s. (More info: tinyurl.com/Agatha-books.) Let’s make Christie your inspirational role model for the next four weeks. In my astrological estimation, you will have an extraordinary capacity to communicate with a wide variety of people. Your ability to serve as a mediator and go-between and translator will be at a peak. Use your superpower wisely and with glee!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran musician Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was a prolific and influential genius who created and played music with deep feeling. He was also physically attractive and charismatic. When he performed, some people in the audience swooned and sighed loudly as they threw their clothes and jewelry on stage. But there was another side of Liszt. He was a generous and attentive teacher for hundreds of piano students, and always offered his lessons free of charge. He

also served as a mentor and benefactor for many renowned composers, including Wagner, Chopin, and Berlioz. I propose we make Liszt your inspirational role model for the next 11 months. May he rouse you to express yourself with flair and excellence, even as you shower your blessings on worthy recipients.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This may risk being controversial, but in the coming weeks, I’m giving you cosmic authorization to engage in what might appear to be cultural appropriation. Blame it on the planets! They are telling me that to expand your mind and heart in just the right ways, you should seek inspiration and teaching from an array of cultures and traditions. So I encourage you to listen to West African music and read Chinese poetry in translation and gaze at the art of Indigenous Australians. Sing Kabbalistic songs and say Lakota prayers and intone Buddhist chants. These are just suggestions. I will leave it to your imagination as you absorb a host of fascinating influences that amaze and delight and educate you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare wrote, “and all the men and women merely players.” That’s always true, but it will be even more intensely accurate for you in the coming weeks. High-level pretending and performing will be happening. The plot twists may revolve around clandestine machinations and secret agendas. It will be vital for you to listen for what people are NOT saying as well as the hidden and symbolic meanings behind what they are saying. But beyond all those cautionary reminders, I predict the stories you witness and are part of will often be interesting and fun.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In this horoscope, I offer you wisdom from Capricorn storyteller Michael Meade. It’s a rousing meditation for you in the coming months. Here’s Meade: “The genius inside a person wants activity. It’s connected to the stars; it wants to burn and it wants to create and it has gifts to give. That is the nature of inner genius.” For your homework, Capricorn, write a page of ideas about what your genius consists of. Throughout 2023, I believe you will express your unique talents and blessings and gifts more than you ever have before.

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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the Manitou Springs Metropolitan District of El Paso County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, 3 directors will be elected to serve 4-year terms. Eligible electors of the Metropolitan District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District Designated Election Official (DEO):

Elena Krebs

606 Manitou Avenue Manitou Springs, CO 80829 719-685-2603 | cityclerk@ manitouspringsco.gov

The Office of the DEO is open on the following days: Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The deadline to submit a SelfNomination and Acceptance is close of business on Friday, February 24, 2023 (not less than 67 days before the election).

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CRS §38-38-109(2)(c)(II)

FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200503

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 16, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Karli Maurine Van Tassel & Keith A. Van Tassel

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Mortgage Solutions of Colorado, LLC, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Mortgage Solutions of Colorado, LLC, D.B.A Mortgage Solutions

Financial

Date of Deed of Trust: November 29, 2016

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: November 29, 2016

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 216138268

Original Principal Amount: $181,827.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $166,866.49

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 8, Augustus C. Hahn’s Parklawn Addition to the City of Colorado Springs, County of El Paso, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 1521 N Franklin St, Colorado Springs, CO 80907.

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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, 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.

Single Publication : 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC 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: 1/10/2023

Chuck Broerman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Chuck Broerman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Heather Deere #28597

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO11904

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200631

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 25, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Allen L. Gragg

Original Beneficiary(ies): Credit Union of Colorado Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PUBLIC NOTICES

Credit Union of Colorado

Date of Deed of Trust: February 10, 2022

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: February 15, 2022

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 222022465

Original Principal Amount: $40,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $39,729.03

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 22, BLOCK 7, PARK HILL SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 123 S. Brentwood Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80910.

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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/29/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Pikes Peak Bulletin

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/25/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Iman Tehrani #44076 Holst & Tehrani, LLP 514 Kimbark Street P.O. Box 298 Longmont, CO 80502-0298 (303) 772-6666

Attorney File # Gragg

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200632

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

On October 25, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Michael Thomas

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC Date of Deed of Trust: December 31, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: January 14, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220005742

Original Principal Amount: $331,885.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $331,374.00

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 69, CARRIAGE MEADOWS

NORTH FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6365 Carriage Meadows Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80925.

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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/29/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Pikes Peak Bulletin

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/25/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Scott D. Toebben #19011

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

Attorney File # 22CO00037-1

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200633

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 25, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): JOSE ESTRADA

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for THE CENTRAL TRUST BANK, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust: December 04, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 04, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220197878

Original Principal Amount: $351,515.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $341,667.49

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 100, BARNSTORMER’S LANDING FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 6501206008

Also known by street and number as: 3679 SPITFIRE DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80911.

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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said

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

First Publication: 12/30/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/25/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028627

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200634

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 25, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): LORENA ROMERO YDAVOY

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: December 28, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 29, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220212737

Original Principal Amount: $311,258.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $302,728.12

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 167, CIMARRONEASTRIDGE FILING NO. 2,

COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 54053-07-010

Also known by street and number as: 7211 N SIOUX CIRCLE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80915.

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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/30/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/25/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028625

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200635

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 25, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

ELDON FARREL THOMAS III and JESSICA HELEN THOMAS

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as trustee of Stanwich

Mortgage Loan Trust F Date of Deed of Trust: April 25, 2014

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: April 28, 2014

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 214034850

Original Principal Amount: $215,536.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $187,567.90

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 13, WILSONS WIDEFIELD - ADDITION NO. 5, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 519 HARVARD STREET, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80911.

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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/30/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/25/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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 Rogers #34682

IDEA Law Group, LLC 4100 E. Mississippi Avenue Suite 420 Denver, CO 80246 (877) 353-2146

Attorney File # 48043890

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200636

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

On October 25, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): WILSON G. KENNEDY and BETTIE M. KENNEDY

Original Beneficiary(ies): SECURITY SERVICE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: June 25, 2003

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: July 11, 2003

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 203158920

Original Principal Amount: $128,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $71,000.68

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 10, IN BLOCK 2, IN FOUNTAIN COUNTRY CLUB HEIGHTS EAST, FILING NO. 1, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK A-3 AT PAGE 1.

Also known by street and number as: 7030 MEDICINE BOW AVENUE, FOUNTAIN, CO 80817.

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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/29/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Pikes Peak Bulletin

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/25/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso,

State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

David R. Doughty #40042

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028588

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200638

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

On October 25, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): RYAN SHERMAN Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for PARAMOUNT RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE GROUP, INC., its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: September 13, 2021 County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 14, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 221172518

Original Principal Amount: $217,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $215,254.68

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 11, STETSON RIDGE HIGHLANDS NO. 2, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5797 Caithness Place, Colorado Springs, CO 80923.

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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said

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

First Publication: 12/30/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/25/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO12086

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200639

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 25, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): SEAN PATRICK SULLIVAN AND CATHERINE MARIE SULLIVAN

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR NEST HOME LENDING, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust: December 22, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 29, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220212465

Original Principal Amount: $337,515.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $328,265.53

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 8, BANNING LEWIS RANCH FILING NO. 25, COUNTY OF EL

PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL ID NUMBER: 5315201-193

Also known by street and number as: 6314 SYRE POINT, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80927. 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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/30/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/25/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David R. Doughty #40042

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028626

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200640

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 25, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Mark A. White and Susan E. White

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Integrity Mortgage & Financial, Inc., its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Freedom Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust:

November 08, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: November 12, 2019

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 219141407

Original Principal Amount: $191,105.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $188,185.82

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 3, BLOCK 6, STRATMOOR VALLEY-FIFTH FILING ADDITION NO. 2 AND REPLAT OF LOTS 10 THROUGH 15, BLOCK 2, STRATMOOR VALLEY-SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1206 Idylwood Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80906.

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 on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/29/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Pikes Peak Bulletin

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/25/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO-20519

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200641

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): RICHARD LLOYD YOUNG JR.

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS OF CO., LLC, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust: February 17, 2012

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: February 23, 2012

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 212019426

Original Principal Amount: $168,547.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $150,517.02

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 29 IN VALEROSA VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF FILED IN PLAT BOOK T-2 AT PAGE 22 AND AS AMENDED BY ENGINEER’S STATEMENT RECORDED JUNE 8, 1972 IN BOOK 2495 AT PAGE 188, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 21140 Boca Chica Ht, Fountain, CO 80817.

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 on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/5/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Pikes Peak Bulletin

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY

PUBLIC NOTICES

THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/01/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO11919

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200642

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): LYNDA LOCKS

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for VILLAGE CAPITAL & INVESTMENT, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

VILLAGE CAPITAL & INVESTMENT LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: February 03, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: February 12, 2021

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 221029013

Original Principal Amount: $278,012.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $270,339.08

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 8 and the North 2.33 feet of Lot 9 in Block 19, as measured parallel with the North line of said Lot 9, in Highland Park No.3, according to the Plat thereof recorded in Plat Book Y at Page 52 and as amended by Resolution recorded in Book 1625 at Page 340, County of El Paso, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 2114 Afton Way, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80909.

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 on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/6/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/01/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Scott D. Toebben #19011

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

Attorney File # 22CO00284-1

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200643

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

On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Carlos Enrique Cabrera

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: October 22, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: October 26, 2021

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 221198390

Original Principal Amount: $434,775.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $430,270.37

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 28, SECURITY COMMONS,

AS AMENDED BY ENGINEER’S STATEMENT RECORDED NOVEMBER 7, 2012 AT RECEPTION NO. 212132382, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 4023 Creek Legend Vw, Colorado Springs, CO 80911.

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 on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/6/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/01/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO21024

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200644

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): YAMIL ALEJANDRO PINTO NIETO and KAREN JOSELYN CASTORENA-VAZQUEZ

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for AMERICAN FINANCIAL NETWORK, INC., its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PHH MORTGAGE

CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust: July 16, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: July 19, 2021

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 221136994

Original Principal Amount: $393,855.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $387,964.99

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 17 IN BLOCK 3 IN SUNRISE RIDGE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 9, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK D-4 AT PAGE 190, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 55291-07-017

Also known by street and number as: 7849 PENINSULA DR, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80911.

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 on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/6/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/01/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028574

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

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200646

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): NICHOLAS DANIEL ROY

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for INTEGRITY MORTGAGE & FINANCIAL, INC, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

THE MONEY SOURCE INC. Date of Deed of Trust: April 27, 2018

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: April 27, 2018

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 218047872

Original Principal Amount: $288,674.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $248,479.28

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 19, BLOCK 2, RANGE VIEW ESTATES COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

**This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement recorded 10/8/2020 at Reception No. 220159818 in the records of the El Paso county clerk and recorder, Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 12350 E Range View Dr, Calhan, CO 80808.

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 on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/5/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Pikes Peak Bulletin

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO

CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 11/01/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO11961

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

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CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200647

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): GILBERTO BRAVO

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, inc. as nominee for AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust: September 13, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 14, 2017

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 217110999

Original Principal Amount: $201,286.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $183,962.79

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 25, BLOCK 1, PIKES PEAK PARK SUBDIVISION NO. 6, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1242 RUSHMORE DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80910.

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

10:00 on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/5/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Pikes Peak Bulletin

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

DATE: 11/01/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

David R. Doughty #40042

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028684

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

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CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200648

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

On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): JEREMY LAINTZ

Original Beneficiary(ies): ENT CREDIT UNION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

ENT CREDIT UNION

Date of Deed of Trust: September 27, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: October 04, 2021

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 221184749

Original Principal Amount: $50,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $50,425.00

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 11 IN BLOCK 1 OF BLOCKS 1,2,3, 4 AND 11, SMARTT’S SUBDIVISION NO. 5, NOW A PART

OF THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 22 Lawrence Ave., Colorado Springs, CO 80909.

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 on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/6/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/01/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Peter M Susemihl #494 Susemihl, McDermott & Downie, P.C.

660 Southpointe Court, Suite 210 Colorado Springs, CO 80906 (719) 579-6500

Attorney File # Laintz/ENT

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

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CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200649

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

On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): CHRISTINA WOOLERY and LUKE WOOLERY

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for NORTHPOINTE BANK, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: July 10, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: July 10, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220099524

Original Principal Amount: $260,865.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $259,978.67

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.

TRACT 43, INDIAN VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 5815 Chaps View, Fountain, CO 80817.

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 on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/5/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Pikes Peak Bulletin

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/01/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO-20544

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

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200650

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Jennifer Watkins and Shawn Watkins

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for NBH Bank, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Freedom Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust: September 08, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 08, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220139042

Original Principal Amount: $361,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $353,193.72

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 37, FAIRFAX AT BRIARGATE FILING NO. 9A, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 7941 Ferncliff Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80920.

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 on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/6/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Colorado Springs Business Journal

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

NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/01/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO-20625

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

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CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200651

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): SHEILA A HUFFMAN

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE

FOR ADVANCE MORTGAGE & INVESTMENT COMPANY LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

AMERIHOME MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: May 18, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: June 11, 2019

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 219063942

Original Principal Amount: $186,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $180,632.04

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 2 IN BLOCK 3 IN SUNRISE RIDGE SUBDIVISION FILING NO.4, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 7535 SILVERDALE ST, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80911.

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 on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of

paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/08/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009647660

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

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200652

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Cross Creek 3, LLC

Original Beneficiary(ies): Indicate Capital Fund 1, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Indicate Capital Fund 1, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: December 15, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 16, 2021

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 221228991

Original Principal Amount: $760,350.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $760,350.00

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 56, CUCHARES RANCH FILING NO.6, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 3533 Saguaro Circle, Colorado Springs, CO 80925.

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

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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 on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/08/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Robert T. Cosgrove #12217

Burns, Wall and Mueller, P.C. 303 East 17th Avenue, Suite 800 Denver, CO 80203-1299

(303) 830-7000

Attorney File # Cross Creek

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

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CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200654

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

On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): WENDY A. OLANDER

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR HOMEBRIDGE FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: September 23, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 25, 2019

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 219117027

Original Principal Amount: $204,250.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $193,701.07

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

covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 4, BLOCK 3, EASTLAKE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 64212-07-009

Also known by street and number as: 613 MANITOBA DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80910.

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 on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/08/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028596

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

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CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200655

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

On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): PAULINE LENARD and CHRISTOPHER LENARD

Original Beneficiary(ies): FOOTHILLS LAND AND LOAN CO.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: FOOTHILLS LAND AND LOAN CO.

Date of Deed of Trust: August 25, 2000

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: November 16, 2000

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 200138759

Original Principal Amount: $44,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $43,455.64

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 9 INDIAN VILLAGE FILING #2

El Paso County Colorado Also known by street and number as: .

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 on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/08/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Douglas J Kwitek #23268

BUXMAN KWITEK & SHIRLEY, P.C.

601 N Main Street, Suite 200 Pueblo, CO 81003

(719) 544-5081

Attorney File # Lenard

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200657

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): ERIC ESCH and NATALIE M ESCH

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for CHOU TEAM REALTY, LLC DBA MONSTERLOANS, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: CMG Mortgage, Inc. Date of Deed of Trust: June 09, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: June 18, 2019

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 219066750

Original Principal Amount: $230,698.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $218,391.75

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 10, BLOCK 9, WIDEFIELD HOMES ADDITION NO. 4, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 139 Dartmouth St, Colorado Springs, CO 80911.

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 on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/08/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso,

State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230 Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-947505-LL

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200658

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): SCOTT A. WILLIAMS

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for QUICKEN LOANS INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS INC.

Date of Deed of Trust: September 24, 2016

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 30, 2016

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 216112478

Original Principal Amount: $148,198.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $112,381.74

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

THE EASTERLY 6 FEET OF LOT 2 AS MEASURED ON THE NORTHERLY AND SOUTHERLY LINES THEREOF, AND LOT 3 EXCEPT THE EASTERLY 3 FEET AS MEASURED ON THE NORTHERLY AND SOUTHERLY LINES THEREOF, IN BLOCK 1 IN VALLEY VISTA ADDITION NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 2508 E LA SALLE ST, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80909-2308.

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 on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

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

DATE: 11/08/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009649328

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200659

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): DONNA M. WAGNER and JEFF S. WAGNER

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for CMG MORTGAGE, INC dba CMG FINANCIAL

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: April 07, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: April 10, 2017

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 217040382

Original Principal Amount: $255,151.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $261,329.09

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due

PUBLIC NOTICES

together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 2, EXCEPT THE SOUTHWEST 5.0 FEET THEREOF, AS MEASURED AT RIGHT ANGLES TO AND PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTHWESTERLY LOT LINE THEREOF IN BLOCK 2, REPLAT OF VILLAGE PARK FILING NUMBER 1, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 4315 Valencia Circle, Colorado Springs, CO 80917.

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 on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/08/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Scott D. Toebben #19011

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

Attorney File # 19CO00323-2

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200660

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

On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): JOSHUA ADAMS

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for CHOU TEAM REALTY, INC. DBA, MONSTER LOANS, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

THE MONEY SOURCE INC. Date of Deed of Trust: August 25, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 14, 2017

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 217110696

Original Principal Amount: $268,580.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $276,178.24

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 18, BLOCK 7 WIDEFIELD COUNTRY CLUB HEIGHTS EAST FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

**The legal description was corrected by an Affidavit of Scrivener’s Error recorded 1/10/2019 at Reception No. 219003116 in the records of the El Paso county clerk and recorder, State of Colorado.

***This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement recorded 8/13/2019 at Reception No. 219093998 in the records of the El Paso county clerk and recorder, Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 7355 Herbert Ct, Colorado Spgs, CO 80911.

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 on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/08/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO-20635

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200661

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

On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Tonya Mooningham

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for Adams Bank & Trust, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Nationstar Mortgage LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: December 18, 2014

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 19, 2014

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 214117070

Original Principal Amount: $93,750.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $80,617.01

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 9 IN BLOCK 1 IN REPLAT OF BLOCK 5, ANDERSON BROTHERS SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 7185 Alegre Cir, Fountain, CO 80817-1290.

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 on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of

paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/08/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO20728

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200662

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 15, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): PAUL EDWIN DISYLVESTER

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR ADVANTAGEFIRST LENDING INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust: July 07, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: August 03, 2021

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 221147556

Original Principal Amount: $281,338.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $214,835.77

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, CONSTITUTION HILLS FILING NO. 7, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. IN THE COUNTY OF EL PASO AND STATE OF COLORADO.

A.P.N. : 5406127001

Also known by street and number as: 2488 DUFFIELD DR, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80915.

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 on Wednesday, 03/15/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/15/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

July 17, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: July 22, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220106517

Original Principal Amount: $355,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $354,465.32

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 Exhibit ‘’A’’ Exhibit A EPC202200663

PUBLIC NOTICES

paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/15/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

PASO COUNTY, COLORADO, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK U-2 AT PAGE 42, AND AS AMENDED BY ENGINEER’S STATEMENT RECORDED APRIL 4, 1972 IN BOOK 2479 AT PAGE 273.

Also known by street and number as: 4945 WAGON MASTER DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80917.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

Mortgage Assets Management, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: March 17, 2011

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: March 25, 2011

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 211029866

Original Principal Amount: $198,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $116,835.33

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200666

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 15, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): ALYSSA MATTSON and ANTONIO M GONZALES

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.

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 occupy the property as mortgagor’s primary residence as required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for SECURITYNATIONAL MORTGAGE COMPANY, its successors and assigns

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

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO11966

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200664

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 on Wednesday, 03/15/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

LOT 6, BRANT HOLLOW TOWNHOMES SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust: June 04, 2018

Also known by street and number as: 623 Hailey Glenn View, Colorado Springs, CO 80916.

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.

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: June 06, 2018

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 218064602

Original Principal Amount: $242,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $229,756.50

By:

Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028749

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200663

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 15, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

BRANDI DAVIS

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS OF COLORADO, LLC, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS OF COLORADO, LLC, D.B.A MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS FINANCIAL

Date of Deed of Trust:

THAT PORTION OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 18, TOWNSHIP 14 SOUTH, RANGE 61 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: (BASIS OF BEARINGS IS THE EAST LINE OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER, MONUMENTED AT ITS NORTH END WITH A 3” ALUMINUM CAP MARKED WITH PLS NO. 15846 AND AT ITS SOUTH END WITH A 2” ALUMINUM CAP MARKED WITH PLS NO. 38019, SAID LINE BEARS SOUTH 02 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 32 SECONDS EAST, 2648.44 FEET) COMMENCING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 18; THENCE ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER SOUTH 02 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 32 SECONDS EAST, 1993.80 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG EAST LINE SOUTH 02 DEGREES 01 MINUTES 32 SECONDS EAST, 654.63 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER; THENCE ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER SOUTH 89 DEGREES 28 MINUTES 55 SECONDS WEST, 2630.95 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID NORTHEAST QUARTER; THENCE ALONG SAID WEST LINE NORTH 02 DEGREES 06 MINUTES 53 SECONDS WEST, 643.62 FEET; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 14 MINUTES 29 SECONDS EAST, 2631.68 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. Also known by street and number as: 70 S Calhan Highway, Yoder, CO 80864.

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 on Wednesday, 03/15/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, 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

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 15, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): GLENDA M HERRICK

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING, INC., its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee for RCF 2 Acquisition Trust c/o U.S. Bank Trust National Association Date of Deed of Trust: March 06, 2001

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: April 04, 2001

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 201040828

Original Principal Amount: $107,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $74,110.48

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 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 73, HOMESTEAD SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, EL

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/15/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027692

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

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200665

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

On November 15, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): VADEENA FOUST

Original Beneficiary(ies): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 on Wednesday, 03/15/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/15/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230 Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-947869-LL

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

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 5, BLOCK 4, PIKES PEAK PARK SUBDIVISION NO. 8, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 6427207009

Also known by street and number as: 1635 SHASTA DR, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80910.

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 on Wednesday, 03/15/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/15/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028780

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

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200667

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): SPENCER D. REAGAN

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for QUICK LOANS INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS INC.

Date of Deed of Trust: February 21, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: February 27, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220027979

Original Principal Amount: $242,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $236,133.12

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

ALL THE REAL PROPERTY TOGETHER WITH IMPROVEMENTS, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY EL PASO, AND STATE OF COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 27, BLOCK 4, PARK HILL SUBDIVISION NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 3311 E PIKES PEAK AVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80909-6534.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009644030

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200668

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): JOHN SCHAD and MEGAN SCHAD

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS OF COLORADO, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Servis One, Inc. d/b/a BSI Financial Services

Date of Deed of Trust: May 22, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: June 05, 2019

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 219061720

Original Principal Amount: $235,121.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $228,485.96

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

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 1, BLOCK 1, SIMMELINK I, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 3210 Simmelink Loop, Colorado Springs, CO 80916.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Jeremiah B. Hayes #34002 Taherzadeh, PLLC 15851 N. Dallas Parkway, Ste 410 Addison, TX 75001 (469) 729-6800

Attorney File # schad

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

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200670

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): WALTER DUNCAN and JENNIFER DUNCAN

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Regisration Systems, Inc. as nominee for MORTGAGE INVESTORS CORPORATION, its successors and asigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust: July 14, 2011

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: July 22, 2011

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 211070544

Original Principal Amount: $149,291.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $109,516.22

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 1, THE RESIDENCE AT STRATMOOR TOWNHOMES, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 6510205029

Also known by street and number as: 3103 CLIVEDEN HEIGHTS, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80906.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027991

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200671

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 29, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): ERIC S. KOERPERICH

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for CHERRY CREEK MORTGAGE CO., Inc Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: March 06, 2012

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: March 07, 2012

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 212025720

Original Principal Amount: $150,160.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $117,484.58

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 73 IN CIMARRONEASTRIDGE, FILING NO. 1, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1630 Yakima Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80915.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/29/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer

and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230 Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-946571-LL

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200672

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): ANDREW SPURLIN

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for MORTGAGE RESEARCH CENTER, LLC DBA VETERANS UNITED HOME LOANS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PennyMac Loan Services, LLC Date of Deed of Trust: November 19, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: November 20, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220189674

Original Principal Amount: $240,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $232,414.50

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 Exhibit A - legal description

EPC202200672

EXHIBIT “A”

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

That portion of Lot 1, Block 3, Security, Colorado Addition No.2, County of El Paso, State of Colorado, described as follows: Beginning at the most Southerly corner of said Lot 1, thence Northwesterly on the Southwesterly line of said Lot 1, a distance of 101.25 feet; thence on a curve to the right, having a radius of 26.31 feet, an arc distance of 52.04 feet, thence on tangent on the Northerly line of said Lot 1, a distance of 44.68 feet; thence Southeasterly 103.92 feet, more or less, to a point on the Southeasterly line of said Lot 1 which is 60 feet Northeasterly from the point of beginning; thence Southwesterly on said Southeasterly line, 60 feet to the point of beginning.

Also known by street and number

as: 123 Hayes Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80911.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Scott D. Toebben #19011

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

Attorney File # 22CO00312-1

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200673

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Coleen Van Ackeren AND Ron Van Ackeren

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION , not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee for RCF 2 Acquisition Trust c/o U.S. Bank Trust National Association

Date of Deed of Trust: September 21, 2004

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 23, 2004

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 204160468

Original Principal Amount: $300,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $216,795.83

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 2 IN THE ESTATES AT MIDDLE CREEK FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1322 Oakmont Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80921.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

David R. Doughty #40042

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027615

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

PUBLIC NOTICES

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200674

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

On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Kyle A. Ramsey

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS OF COLORADO, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: March 11, 2008

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: March 12, 2008

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 208029358

Original Principal Amount: $247,713.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $174,419.32

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 34, TUSCANY RIDGE AT MESA VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, IN THE CITY OF FOUNTAIN, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 55324-12-017

PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER’S ERROR RECORDED ON 11/8/2022 AT RECEPTION NO. 222139416 TO CORRECT LEGAL DESCRIPTION. Also known by street and number as: 7447 Willow Pines Place, Fountain, CO 80817.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Pikes Peak Bulletin

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028633

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200675

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

On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): REGINALD JONES

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, a California Corporation, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: October 31, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: November 01, 2017

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 217132800

Original Principal Amount: $262,014.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $264,831.74

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 2, BLOCK 8, COUNTRY CROSSING AT THE POINTE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, IN THE CITY OF FOUNTAIN, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6823 Kasson Drive, Fountain, CO 80817.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230 Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-947425-LL

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200676

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): SONNY HALL and DIAUNTHA BELL

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS OF COLORADO, LLC, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Mortgage Solutions of Colorado, LLC, D.B.A Mortgage Solutions

Financial Date of Deed of Trust: June 19, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: June 22, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220086879

Original Principal Amount: $391,759.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $295,371.01

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The Property is all of the property encumbered by said Deed of Trust and is described as:

LOT 147, LORSON RANCH EAST FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

**This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement dated 12/9/2021.

Also known by street and number as: 6128 Shavers Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80925.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO21038

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200677

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): LYLE R. SHEPHERD AND TAMMIE A. SHEPHERD

Original Beneficiary(ies): ARGENT MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee , for Park Place Securities, Inc. Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-WCW2

Date of Deed of Trust: August 19, 2004

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 09, 2004

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 204152928

Original Principal Amount: $96,300.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $65,114.88

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

SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

CONDOMINIUM UNIT 4, BUILDING C, FIREFLY CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF FILED FOR RECORDED IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO, ON OCTOBER 4, 1984 IN CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 4 AT PAGE 16, AND SUPPLEMENT RECORDED SEPTEMBER 13, 1985 IN PLAT BOOK 4 AT PAGE 78, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR FIREFLY CONDOMINIUM RECORDED ON OCTOBER 4, 1984 IN BOOK 3925 AT PAGE 298 IN SAID RECORDS, AND SUPPLEMENT THERETO. COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 1358 FIREFLY CIR, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80916.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and

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

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009553785

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200678

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): LEANNE E HENDRICKS

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR CHERRY CREEK MORTGAGE CO., INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: March 22, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: March 24, 2017

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 217033582

Original Principal Amount: $254,117.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $226,396.23

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY

PUBLIC NOTICES

NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 68, SCENIC VIEW AT PAINT BRUSH HILLS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 11310 SCENIC BRUSH DR, PEYTON, CO 80831.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009660028

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200679

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

On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

Candace Thackeray and Zachary Thackeray

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Nova Financial & Investment Corporation, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust: May 28, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: May 29, 2019

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 219057326

Original Principal Amount: $299,900.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $285,463.22

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 202, Cross Creek at Mesa Ridge Filing No. 2, County of El Paso, State of Colorado

Also known by street and number as: 7490 Bentwater Dr, Fountain, CO 80817.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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

Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228

(303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO-20440

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200681

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Alex C. Culbertson and Samantha L. Culbertson

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: November 18, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: November 24, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220191655

Original Principal Amount: $203,569.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $198,990.50

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.

Lots 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in Block 17 in Reed’s Addition to the Town of Fountain, County of El Paso, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 510 E Missouri Ave, Fountain, CO 80817.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

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

NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso,

State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO12052

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200682

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Clarence W. House and Gloria P. House

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust: January 11, 2007

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: January 29, 2007

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 207012524

Original Principal Amount: $67,300.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $62,655.64

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 81, VILLAGES AT SAND CREEK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO, SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS, RESERVATIONS, EASEMENTS, COVENANTS, OIL, GAS OR MINERAL RIGHTS OF RECORD, IF ANY.

Also known by street and number as: 5201 Mountain Air Cir, Colorado Springs, CO 80916.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and

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

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230 Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-946192-LL

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200683

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): Robin A. Bloom AND Troy A. Bloom

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FLEET NATIONAL BANK, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION , not in its individual capacity but solely as Delaware trustee and U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Co-Trustee for Government Loan Securitization Trust 2011-FV1

Date of Deed of Trust: May 24, 2001

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: June 07, 2001

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 201078217

Original Principal Amount: $119,353.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $83,435.37

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 21, BLOCK 9 IN HERITAGE SUBDIVISION UNIT NO. 2, IN THE COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

PARCEL ID NUMBER: 6426110-021

Also known by street and number as: 4458 Harwood Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80916.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: N. April Winecki #34861

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-028483

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200686

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): KENNETH E TAYLOR AND GLORIA J TAYLOR

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR UNITED WHOLESALE MORTGAGE, LLC

PUBLIC NOTICES

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: UNITED WHOLESALE MORTGAGE, LLC.

Date of Deed of Trust: November 27, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 21, 2021

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 221231127

Original Principal Amount: $375,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $372,247.47

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

LOT 3, BLOCK 10, WIDEFIELD COUNTRY CLUB HEIGHTS EAST FILING NO. 2 EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6775 CABALLERO AVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80911.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

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

DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009650755

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200687

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

On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s): HEATHER R. BUCKLEY

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for CORNERSTONE HOME LENDING, INC., its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Date of Deed of Trust: September 18, 2013

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 18, 2013

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 213118842

Original Principal Amount: $117,826.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $103,062.72

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 14, BLOCK 1, SOUTHBOROUGH SUBDIVISION NO.9, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO

**This loan has been modified through a Modification Agreement recorded 2/3/2022 at Reception No. 222016368 in the records of the El Paso county clerk and recorder, Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 4480 Joyce Place, Colorado Springs, CO 80916.

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 on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

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

NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

Mark Lowderman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Mark Lowderman, Treasurer and 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 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155

Attorney File # CO21048

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS

CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5)

PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. EPC202200423

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

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

SHERRIE LYNN SCHAEFER, VIRGINIA D RATLIFF AND ROBERT B. RATLIFF

Address of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust: 8002 FERNCLIFF DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80920

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: April 05, 2007 Recording Information: 207046192

Legal Description of Property: LOT 6 IN FAIRFAX AT BRIARGATE FILING NO. 9A, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO.

Street Address of Property: 8002 FERNCLIFF DRIVE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80920

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS

I sold at public auction, at 10:00 on 11/9/22, at via remote, web-based auction service, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and the funds must be claimed by the Obligor/ Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other persons entitled thereto within six months from the date of sale.

THE STATE OF COLORADO REQUIRES US TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR PROPERTY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE STATE TREASURER IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT US BEFORE 5/9/2023 as part of the “Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act”, pursuant to Colorado law.

First Publication: 1/26/23

Last Publication: 2/23/23

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC Date: 1/19/23

Chuck Broerman, Public Trustee in and for the County of El Paso, State of Colorado

By: Chuck Broerman, Treasurer and Public Trustee

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

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