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On the MEND

AMERICAN MEDICAL REsponse has paid the city of Colorado Springs more than $5 million in penalties since starting its five-year contract for emergency ambulance service in 2020 and has failed to comply with contract terms for over a year.

Despite that, the city continues to allow AMR to operate, giving the company repeated chances to meet contract requirements — and the latest notification of contract noncompliance is no different.

In a Feb. 7 letter, the city gives AMR until March 31 to “cure” the deficiencies or the city “will consider all available Contract provisions regarding AMR’s continued material default status up to and including Contract termination.”

It’s a warning that has been employed numerous times over the last two years in response to AMR’s breach of contract terms by being late to both emergency and nonemergency calls and relying on the Colorado Springs Fire Department for backup.

AMR has been late to nearly 6 percent of the 110,600 emergency calls from April 2020 through January of this year, according to Sixty35 news magazine’s analysis of monthly compliance reports. (The February report is not yet available.)

AMR has blamed the delays on staffing shortages due to the COVID pandemic, which was just taking root in spring 2020 when the contract began.

Despite measures designed to bolster staffing, however, AMR’s performance had gotten increasingly worse until recently.

But such staffing problems for emergency ambulance services aren’t unique to the Colorado Springs operation. Paramedics are in short supply across the country, leading at least one West Coast city to open the door to multiple contractors to work in the same market to improve response times.

“We’ve done everything possible to increase staffing and get our local operation on track,” AMR Vice President of Operations Scott Lenn said in a statement.

City’s ambulance contractor billed more than $5M for breaching contract

AMR HAS SERVED THE REGION

for nearly 30 years. When AMR’s previous five-year contract with the city was due to expire in 2018, the city sought competitive proposals. In two separate selection processes, the city chose a different provider, leading AMR to protest those contract awards while continuing as the city’s provider through contract extensions.

Ultimately, AMR won the contract.

The expectation is for AMR to arrive within 8 minutes 90 percent of the time to emergency calls using lights and sirens. Time limits are more relaxed for other types of calls.

Fines are based on late responses (at $50 per minute). AMR also can be fined for relying on Colorado Springs Fire Department’s medical squads, a type of medical vehicle, to transport patients ($3,000 per trip) when AMR is unable to transport.

During the first year, AMR fell short of the time standard during four months. In 2021, it fell short during eight months, and last year, it violated the time stan-

dards all 12 months, with its lowest percentage compliance of the 8-minute rule at 67.5 percent in January and is highest at 87.4 percent in November.

Another contract requirement states that AMR is in default if it accrues response time penalties of $20,000 or more per month for three or more months in a rolling 12-month period.

In 2020, AMR exceeded $20,000 in fines six out of nine months and was billed a total of $231,020 in fines that year.

In 2021, the provider fell below the $20,000 penalty limit only twice, in January and February. Total fines levied that year: $1,381,250.

AMR’s compliance last year cratered. Its fines exceeded $20,000 all 12 months for a total of $3,489,500.

In January 2023, AMR achieved response time targets but incurred fines above the limit, at $26,850.

Since the contract started, AMR has run up penalties totaling $5,128,620, the Sixty35 analysis shows.

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In the Feb. 7 letter, Fire Chief Randy Royal cited the penalties provision, noting AMR exceeded $20,000 limit every month since March 2021 through December 2022, placing the contractor in material default of the contract.

However, on an up note, in recent months, AMR’s reliance on CSFD squads has fallen dramatically; its associated fines decreased from $189,000 in June 2022 to $18,000 in November and December. In January this year, it paid no fines for relying on squads.

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officials announced in mid-February they would take over billing and staffing functions of its provider, Falck ambulance company, to enable increased ambulance coverage through hiring multiple companies, the Del Mar Times reported.

The action was triggered by Falck falling short of response times and staffing levels promised in 2021. (Falck was declared the preferred provider by the CSFD before AMR’s protests of the contract award led to AMR getting the contract.)

Asked about the possibility of CSFD turning to a multiple-provider model, CSFD Capt. Mike Smaldino says by phone the San Diego model wouldn’t work in Colorado Springs, because unlike San Diego, the city here doesn’t have authority to issue bills for transport.

One of CSFD’s responses to the AMR situation here was the deployment of four small firefighter-staffed medical units that handle more minor calls to which AMR is not dispatched “to relieve pressure on the system,” Smaldino says.

He says that while AMR met requirements in January for response times in all zones except suburban areas for emergent calls that don’t require lights and siren, “still, that isn’t meeting terms of the contract, though.”

In addition, its fines totaled $26,850 — above the level required by the contract.

So where does the city go from here?

“We are having high level leadership conversations between the City and AMR to discuss the next steps in the contract,” Smaldino said in a statement.

COVID HIT THE EMERGENCY

ambulance business hard, thinning the ranks of personnel due to illness and medics who quit rather than face the prospect of taking the vaccine. While the vaccine was never required by medics working for private companies in Colorado, there were fears that it would be.

Paramedics have been known to work for ambulance companies until they qualify to be hired by fire departments, many of which offer pension benefits or higher pay or both.

In response to dwindling personnel, AMR has paid job candidates to get certified, mandated overtime, raised pay, paid sign-on and retention bonuses and more.

“We made compliance in January,” Lenn said in his statement, “and although we don’t have official word back from CSFD yet, our internal data shows that we made compliance in February as well. The pandemic disrupted EMS companies across the country, but AMR’s commitment to Colorado Springs has never wavered ..., and we’re heartened that the most recent data shows the progress we’ve made.”

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Woodland Park School District imposes policy restricting employees’ speech

WOODLAND PARK SCHOOL

District may be violating the First Amendment rights of school staff, according to legal experts, after it fired an employee on March 2 who is accused of posting on social media and speaking with the press about a controversial district decision to relocate sixth graders from middle to elementary schools.

WPSD also recently hardened its administrative policy to bar employees from speaking to the media about school and student matters, and from posting on social media “regarding district or school decisions,” without permission from central administration officials. “Violation of this policy,” it states, “will be considered to be insubordination.”

Parents have called it a “gag order” on staff — the district’s response to negative attention for the sixth grade decision, which was made primarily to create more room for charter school Merit Academy in the middle school building. And attorneys who handle free speech and public employee rights cases suggest the district is violating the U.S. Constitution by cracking down on and chilling future speech that officials don’t like.

The employee who was fired, Mary Ward, was a support staff member in Woodland Park Middle School. She’s also an elementary school parent who’s been unhappy — along with dozens of other parents and community members in the district — about recent decisions made by a conservative-majority Board of Education that took over in November 2021, and by Interim Superintendent Ken Witt, who was chosen as the sole finalist for that role by the board.

One of those decisions was to adopt conservative American Birthright social studies standards, which were rejected by the Colorado State Board of Education. American Birthright opposes projectbased learning, teaching about current events, civic

engagement and global citizenship, and claims to strongly uphold the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The board’s purpose statement also says WPSD exists to cultivate “educated citizens who appreciate and contribute to this great American Republic as provided in the Declaration of Independence and The United States Constitution.”

“I find that really ironic and wrong,” Ward tells Sixty35. “For people who claim to love the Constitution so much, to see them so purposefully and intentionally trying to silence anyone who disagrees with them.”

THERE ARE MULTIPLE WAYS WPSD’S POLIcies fly in the face of staff members’ right to speak out about issues of “public concern,” argues Ian Kalmanowitz, an attorney with Cornish & Dell’Olio P.C., an employment law firm that practices in southern Colorado.

In Ward’s termination letter, for example, Witt references a staff conduct policy that states employees “must demonstrate and uphold high professional, ethical and moral standards” and “conduct themselves in a manner that is consistent” with WPSD’s “educational mission.”

The First Amendment rights of public school employees can’t be limited by such “professional” standards, says Daniel Ortner, an attorney for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a national legal advocacy group that has handled hundreds of campus- and school-related free speech cases.

“You don’t have an obligation to only say positive things as an employee on ‘matters of public concern,’” says Ortner, citing the current legal standard for government employee speech. “That is very suspect, constitutionally, when [district officials] go so broadly, to say ‘You can’t criticize policies; you can’t bring attention to things you disagree with.’

“That’s a big constitutional red flag.”

Ward was terminated in the days following a middle school staff “sick-out,” where more than two dozen staff called in sick, and a community member-led protest of the district’s decision to move sixth graders from Woodland Park Middle School to its three elementary schools. The decision was announced to staff on Feb. 28 and in a press release on March 1, and about 100 people lined the sidewalk outside the middle school on March 2 to voice their displeasure.

Ward was there, too, with her elementary school child. The protest was held outside her contracted shift hours at the middle school. She’s spoken to the media previously about the American Birthright standards, and posted about the sixth grade decision on social media after the news was already being circulated, she says.

Her termination letter states the district conducted “an investigation into your conduct involving dissemination of staff communications with deliberate intent to undermine an operational directive, thus encouraging participation in protests against District decisions.” But in a meeting with Witt, a human resources official, and Brad Miller, the district’s legal counsel, Ward says they didn’t provide further details about what exactly she did to be fired.

She believes she’s being blamed for “leaking” the Feb. 28 all-staff email that announced the sixth grade decision. Ward says she was not the first person to post about the decision and did not share the staff email.

“I’m pretty sure they’re scapegoating me for the gathering of people that was outside the middle school,” Ward says.

REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WARD DISTRIButed the email or not, that activity is likely protected by the First Amendment — and there are few exceptions that would make it not so, says Kalmanowitz, who

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Courtesy Jason Randolph Protesters outside Woodland Park Middle School on March 2

often represents government employees in lawsuits against school districts.

It was an email about a significant district decision (i.e., “matters of public concern”), distributed to all staff over a district email server. That’s very likely to be considered a public record, except in circumstances where the contents of the email are confidential and protected from public inspection, for example, information about a sexual assault investigation or school security details, Kalmanowitz says.

The all-staff email isn’t close to being confidential, according to Kalmanowitz — evidenced by the fact that the district put out the press release the following day that had identical language about the sixth grade decision as the all-staff email, he says (Sixty35 obtained copies of both). That indicates that its contents are of

“public concern,” meaning its distribution would pass at least one part of the legal test established for determining whether public employees’ speech is protected by the First Amendment, Kalmanowitz says.

“To me, it’s pretty ridiculous that we’re even talking about an issue like this,” he says. “I can’t see any way that there’s a justifiable reason to fire an employee for disclosing information that became public the next day, that was public anyway, because it was clearly a matter of public record and an issue of public concern.

“I just don’t see how anybody can, with a straight face, try to justify that.”

We asked Witt in an interview on March 6 about the termination and, generally, about how WPSD treats staff members who speak out about district decisions. He refused to answer the question and twice said, “we don’t discuss personnel matters.” When asked where the district stands on First Amendment rights of staff members, Witt at first was quiet and paused.

“We respect the First Amendment rights of staff members and every other citizen,” he then said. Later that afternoon, WPSD added new sections to its online policy, labeled “KDDA - Press Releases, Conferences and Interviews.” The updates include:

“No employee shall be interviewed by the media regarding school operations or student matters or offer quote [sic] without the prior written consent of the superintendent,” and “No social media posts regarding district or school decisions will be made by employees of the school district without prior written

consent of the district communications office.”

Kalmanowitz calls the policy “a plain violation of the First Amendment.”

“Whenever I see any sort of policy, directive or regulation that says an employee is not allowed to speak without prior consent of someone else, my antennae go up,” he says. “A prior restraint is essentially an unconstitutional order prohibiting somebody from speaking.

“Those are particularly chilling on issues of employee speech, because they have a wider impact than potentially punishing one individual for their speech — the prior restraint impacts not only an entire class of speakers, but it also impacts any future audiences of that speech.”

The district says it updated the policy on Feb. 28 (of note — that’s two days before Ward was fired) but that it wasn’t posted online until March 6. Witt and Lindsey Prahl, WPSD’s communications and marketing director, ignored our follow-up questions about the update. Miller did not respond to requests for comment.

By March 10, part of the online policy had been changed to:

“No social media posts regarding district or school decisions will be made by employees of the school district in their capacity as employees [emphasis added] without prior written consent of the district communications office.”

The policy says it was updated on March 7. But we checked the online policy on March 9 and it still included the March 6 language.

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PROTESTS OVER POSSIBLE BAN ON STAFF ASKING PRONOUNS IN D11

Colorado Springs School District 11 resident and LGBTQ activist Joseph Shelton (foreground, with microphone) and Goddess Tyescha Clark (right, with phone) of Inside Out Youth Services, lead protesters during a 70-plus person rally on March 8 against a Board of Education-proposed policy that would ban staff members from asking students’ pronouns (see p. 62).

The rally, held outside the D11 administration building ahead of a board meeting, attracted counter-protesters organized by the conservative education activist group Moms For Liberty – El Paso County, which supports the ban. Its leaders espouse anti-LGBTQ beliefs, and about a dozen people gathered with them and held signs that said, “Stop the pedophile agenda” and “Education, not indoctrination.”

At one point during the rally, the two sides clashed physically, and D11 security personnel had to separate them. Tensions were also high during the board meeting, where several people were removed and an individual allegedly approached the board dais and was nearly tackled by security, Superintendent Michael Gaal said at the end of the meeting. He called the display “embarrassing,” and compared it to a peaceful protest by D11 students against the ban a week prior.

“What we saw tonight was a blatant disregard by adults for … how we expect to operate professionally,” Gaal said. A D11 policy committee is still reviewing the pronoun policy, which was proposed by Board Vice President Jason Jorgensen in February and moved forward by the board’s conservative majority of members. It will soon return to the D11 board’s agenda for discussion and consideration.

Read the full story at sixty35media.org. — GAJ

INSIDE OUT YOUTH SERVICES CENTER TO REOPEN

After being closed for nearly four months, Inside Out Youth Services’ physical space will start a phased reopening in March. The organization that provides resources and support for LGBTQ young people closed its doors after the attack on Club Q on Nov. 19.

The LGBTQ community’s concerns about safety were heightened after the attack, where a gunman killed five people in the LGBTQ-friendly club in a suspected hate crime. Inside Out was also the subject of targeted threats and harassment online in the immediate aftermath, says Liss Smith, communications and advocacy director.

In response, Inside Out temporarily closed its physical center on North Wahsatch Avenue, completed a safety audit to address potential risks to the center and its visitors and worked with security experts to make improvements, according to information on the organization’s website.

“We’ve always had security plans and procedures in place to safeguard the center and the youth inside it,” the site says. “However, like our sibling LGBTQIA2+ organizations across the nation, we’re all faced with a new form of anti-LGBTQ extremism, specific targeting from organized white supremacist hate groups, and the reality of mass gun violence. Our practices and procedures must prevent these tragedies.”

During its closure, Inside Out held events in “undisclosed” spaces and offered support virtually, including on its Discord server (a social messaging platform) and through a virtual community center. It’s also held 14 community trainings on understanding LGBTQ identities and how to support the community, the site says. — GAJ

Matter of Record

Ent Credit Union is celebrating a major milestone— its 500,000th member — by giving back to the community with a book collection drive. Ent aims to collect 500 new children’s books at each of its 52 service centers through March 17 and will donate the books to nonprofit organizations. Members who donate books will be entered in a raffle to win one of five $500 Visa gift cards. Winners will be notified March 20.

Get an early taste of spring at Colorado Farm and Art Market’s spring markets, which will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays, March 26, April 9, April 23, May 14 and May 28 at Hillside Community Center, 925 S. Institute St. The outdoor spring markets will bring together Colorado vendors of fresh produce and food products, crafts and jewelry, along with guest food trucks.

Unpaid care provided by the 600,000 caregivers in Colorado is valued at $11.2 billion, according to AARP data in its “Valuing the Invaluable” report series. That’s a $3.4 billion increase in since the last report in 2019. AARP says it’s working on proposed state legislation to expand, protect and prioritize home care options to ensure home health care is available to those who need it.

The city is asking the public to help choose a name for the senior center at Golf Acres shopping center. The choices: Colorado Springs Senior Center, Center for Active Seniors, The Encore or The Hub at Hancock by going to tinyurl.com/3e5tnjpx. The center will be rebuilt with $8 million from the American Rescue Plan Act.

The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, in partnership with the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Foundation, announced March 7 that Yucca and Gary Rieschel have committed $10 million in support of Team USA’s mental health program. It’s the largest standalone gift in foundation history and will be used to expand mental health programs to ensure every Team USA athlete has access to care..

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VIP reception — an annual event the week preceding the actual Rising Stars ceremony — was held at the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum. It was a fitting venue. The room was packed with champions.

The Colorado Springs Business Journal began recognizing our region’s outstanding young professionals many, many Rising Stars classes ago. And you can find former Rising Stars continuing to make an impact at the foot of Pikes Peak today. You’ve likely read stories about their accomplishments here.

Like Usain Bolt, this tradition of recognizing excellence isn’t slowing down. As a nonprofit, Sixty35 news magazine continuing the Business Journal’s mission to deliver truth, build community and engage citizens. And it just so happens our reasons for being align with the values of many of the Rising Stars you’ll read about here.

These are champions for their communities — champions for culture, champions for entrepreneurship, for history, for the environment, for the marginalized and less fortunate.

The room in which the VIP event was held the evening of March 7 was split down the middle by a display of Olympic torches from various Games throughout history. This was also fitting. The 2023 Class of Rising Stars burns bright… and it’s inevitable they’ll pass that flame onto others.

Congratulations to this year’s Stars. We’re very proud of you and can’t wait to see where you take our city.

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Lipscomb would be fitting.

Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast two months after she graduated high school, right as she was getting ready to start college in Mississippi. She and her family had lived in Colorado Springs, so she moved back to Colorado to pursue her education at Pueblo Community College. After two semesters, Lipscomb headed back to Mississippi for a year, taking classes in administration.

Lipscomb, now 36, never forgot the people and agencies that helped her family after the hurricane, — and that feeling of gratitude left her wanting to pay it forward. She worked as a massage therapist in Mississippi to help clients become healthier and even thought about a career in nursing, but realized science wasn’t her strong suit.

By 2012 she was back in Colorado.

“There was a time I couldn’t offer anything to anyone,” she recalls. “I was in need of all the services that Colorado could offer so that my children and I could survive. I took advantage of every resource and opportunity that I could find and Colorado’s services helped put me back on my feet.”

Settling in Colorado Springs, Lipscomb enrolled at Pikes Peak State College, where she joined student government, became chair of the State Student Advisory Council and served on the board of Open Educational Resources and as Phi Theta Kappa vice president.

She traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and efforts to end food insecurity.

She also was named PPSC’s Community Member of the Year and became the first in her family to graduate from college.

Lipscomb graduated in 2019 with an associate degree in general studies in her hand and a passion for working with nonprofits in her heart.

She spent more than five years using her skills in leadership development as the administrative lead for Shine Nation, an after-school program that helps students pursue their interest in theatrical arts.

“Nonprofit work requires a lot of dedication and commitment, so it’s important to choose a cause that you care deeply about,” she says. “Reflect on your personal experiences, values and interests to identify issues that motivate and inspire you.

“Be patient and persistent: The nonprofit sector can be challenging, and it may take time to find the right job or make a meaningful impact. Stay committed to your goals, and be open to learning and growth opportunities along the way.”

Lipscomb has also worked for the El Pomar Foundation and Pikes Peak United Way, volunteers with food pantries and clothing drives, and advocates for sexual assault and domestic violence survivors. She volunteers to coach sports and after-school clubs, including the Gay-Straight Alliance. During the summer, she volunteers as a camp counselor and manages youth internship programs.

“I try to be a walking resource so that no one ever has to be in need as I was,” she says.

“Alana is one of the most passionate and hard-working young professionals I know,” Donna Nelson, chief development officer at PPSC, wrote in her nomination. “She pours her heart and soul into our community, and honestly, I cannot think of anyone more deserving of this recognition.”

Now, Lipscomb is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in leadership and management at CSU-Pueblo and is an independent contractor, helping to build youth and adult programming curricula for Leadership Pikes Peak, Kingdom Builders Family Life Center and Solid Rock Community Development Corporation.

At Solid Rock, Lipscomb directs the Civic Ambassadors Program, which works to reduce juvenile violence in Southeast neighborhoods. She supports young adults doing community service in that area, with a focus on helping older residents.

Somehow, she also has time to raise three children with her spouse, Victoria.

“I have always had a passion for building up the community that invested so much into me as a child and young adult,” Lipscomb says.

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— Rhonda Van Pelt
I try to be a walking resource so that no one ever has to be iN need as I was.”

IF ONE PHRASE COULD define Alexandra Ridgeway’s career, it would be “I worked my way up.” She admits she was not a straight-A student when younger and it took a while to find her passions.

“I was headed on the wrong path,” she says. “One day, I woke up and realized this isn’t the life I wanted to live. I knew that my past would not define me.”

Now 28, Ridgeway started working as a part-time cashier at a boutique in Southern California, where she grew up. She worked her way up to assistant manager. After three years, she moved to Missouri and got a job as a merchandise associate at a department store — and soon became the customer experience coordinator.

A Missouri bank recruited her as a part-time teller and, you guessed it, she advanced to a full-time banker position.

When Ridgeway and her husband moved to Texas, she found a banking job there. She worked her way up from teller to assistant branch manager within three years. She also was able to focus on training new team members.

“I grew strong relationships with my customers and my team,” Ridgeway says. “It gave me a strong sense of what I wanted to do in banking.”

When her husband, Blake, learned he’d be stationed at Fort Carson, Ridgeway started looking for banking jobs in Colorado Springs. She quickly decided that Adams Bank & Trust would be the best fit because it’s family-owned and shares her values.

Ridgeway started at Adams in January 2022 and is a retail services manager focusing on training and operations. She’s already developed a new training project, participated on a committee that focuses on culture, and joined support teams.

“This, I can honestly say, is a dream job because I get to give back to my teams every day and get involved in the community,” she says.

Nominator Stephanie Ford writes, “Alex has welcomed all the changes and challenges and has made the most of it for her family and the community.”

Supporting children has always been important for Ridgeway. In June 2022, she joined Court Appointed Special Advocates of the Pikes Peak Region as an advocate for abused and neglected children in courts and the community. She also worked with Adams Bank & Trust and CASA to establish a business partnership.

“Every chance I get, I share about what amazing things CASA does and I have already inspired two others to join and become advocates,” Ridgeway says.

Last year, the Ridgeways’ daughter, Brayleigh, wanted to play soccer. Ridgeway started getting emails asking her to be the coach, so she said yes and enjoyed the chance to mentor children in the community.

During the 2022 holidays, Ridgeway volunteered with the Salvation Army and plans to do that again. She’s also inspired others to do the same.

Last July, she learned about the Women’s Community Leadership Initiative, a Leadership Pikes Peak program.

“After reading the description of empowering women and getting involved in the community, I just knew I wanted to be a part of this,” Ridgeway says.

She’s also a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success. Somehow, she finds time to work on her bachelor’s in accounting and finance from Southern New Hampshire University and expects to graduate in 2025.

Ridgeway feels she’s a better employee because her volunteer activities have inspired her to try to be part of the change she wants to see.

“It started to feel less like work and more like making a difference,” she says. “They say do something you love and it won’t feel like work, and it is true.

I get excited every time one of my team members calls me with questions and I can guide them to finding the answer.

“When you have knowledge and skills,” she says, “it is your responsibility to use that and share it with others.”

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I get to give back to my teams everY day.”

ASK AMELIA DALL WHAT ADVICE she’d give to younger people, and she boils it all down to one word.

“Perseverance is key,” she says. “I repeat this in every interview, in every conversation I have with someone when discussing my career and advice for the future generations: Keep the word ‘perseverance’ in your head, always.”

She ought to know. The 31-year-old is an archaeologist for the Bureau of Land Management — not an easy job to attain, since most positions in archaeology are temporary or contracted. And she happens to be deaf.

Dall has been working out of the Royal Gorge Field Office in Cañon City for about two years. While she was pursuing her bachelor’s degree at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., she had a lightbulb moment in a sophomore-year art history class.

“I thought, this is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life: working with archaeological/museum collections,” she says. “I did my research and got a year-long internship with the Smithsonian [National] Museum of American History, working on their collections/database.”

Dall went on to earn a master’s in anthropology and archaeology at Texas State University in San Marcos. She also has a Geographic Information System certificate from Front Range Community College in Westminster and attended a field school in Belize.

“I knew I could and would be working in the archaeology profession,” she says, “but to be working professionally as a federal archaeologist is not something I thought could be possible.”

She’s also proud of her activism as chair for the National Association of the Deaf’s Deaf Culture and History Section and her team’s work on Deaf History Month.

Dall started volunteering as a Girl Scout, and the list of her “labor of love” activities has grown to be very long. In the past 10 years, she’s been volunteering with and serving as a board member for nonprofits including the Museum of Deaf History, Arts and Culture; the Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums; the Disabled Archaeologists Network, which she cofounded; and the Colorado Association for the Deaf.

“I usually volunteer for two or three organizations at the same time and one is usually an archaeology organization, the other is usually a deaf organization,” she explains.

“Because of this, I am able to see the differences and similarities in the organizations as well as share ideas or materials that would ensure organizational growth, among other benefits. Volunteering also gives me a way to develop a network within the archaeology profession and the deaf community.”

When Dall started working as an archaeologist, she didn’t know if there were any other deaf people in the profession and she decided to establish a community.

One useful tool for that is her Amelia the Archaeologist social media persona.

“Those followers were the ones who tagged, shared and posted about my account to other deaf archaeologists they knew and, because of this, the few of us deaf archaeologists now have a connection to each other,” she says. “This is just one of the many examples of the importance of community involvement in my experience.”

Dall is working with Archaeology in the Community, a nonprofit that supports the public’s understanding of archaeological heritage, to co-host an archaeology workshop using American Sign Language for 7to 11-year-olds, which takes place in Washington, D.C.

All this prompted her partner, Griffin O’Hara, to nominate her for a Rising Star award.

“She has been exceptional in recognizing the need to ensure diversity and inclusion in all aspects of life, in both personal experiences and all of her former/ current workplaces,” Griffin wrote.

“Deaf people are especially underrepresented when nominating for awards, and since Amelia is a Colorado Springs resident as well as a person who is currently serving the deaf community for the state of Colorado (and nationwide, too, with her work with Amelia the Archaeologist), submitting a nomination for her is a no-brainer.”

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— Rhonda Van Pelt
keep the word ‘ perseverance’ in your head, always.”

AT JUST 28 YEARS OLD,

Bobby Gomez has traveled a long road and learned something valuable from every bump he encountered.

While in elementary school, he’d ride in a church van from his San Antonio barrio to volunteer in the community. He and his friends would pick up trash, paint murals and visit a senior center to sing in a choir and play games with the residents.

“Back then, it didn’t feel like volunteering,” he says, “because I was with all my friends.”

He’d see classmates standing alone during recess and invite them to join games; he’d see people needing help to carry their groceries and rush toward them. Even as a boy, finding ways to support others gave him joy and satisfaction.

Gomez has carried that love for serving people to his current role as Pikes Peak United Way’s community engagement specialist, which he started in January 2021.

He also loves the career path he’s followed because, while at United Way food distributions, he can meet a family in need that reminds him of his upbringing. At other events, he can talk with the CEO of a local organization that’s improving the city.

Even at the boxing gym, working out, he mentors young people to encourage them to contribute to the community.

“Connections are so valuable to me and what I do,” he says. “I’m in touch with everyone and everything in our community and I enjoy that very much.”

Along the way from that Texas barrio to Colorado Springs, Gomez earned an associate degree in mass communications/ media studies from Palo Alto College in San Antonio. He became the first in his family to earn a bachelor’s degree, which was in communications from Texas A&M University.

True to his nature, Gomez also spent one year as an AmeriCorps member and about two years as an AmeriCorps VISTA leader. Both governmental programs serve community organizations, but VISTA members volunteer their time with nonprofits working to alleviate poverty.

Gomez said he’s compelled to give his

time and expertise to the community, and to pass along what he’s learned throughout his life. He’s even grateful for the tough times and the lessons they taught him.

“All the information that I’ve received throughout my life isn’t just supposed to stay with me,” he says. “It’s my obligation to pass it onto others who may not have the opportunity to hear it from anyone else in their life.”

And Gomez walks the walk, says Eliza beth Quevedo, Pikes Peak United Way’s director of community impact.

“Bobby works tirelessly to bring resourc es to our nonprofit partners to ensure they can be as effective as possible,” she writes in her nomination letter.

“He brings a unique vision to our team on how to effectively serve traditionally underserved populations in our com munity. … He leads with heart and dedi cation to bettering the lives of others,” Quevedo says.

Gomez has advice for other young peo ple on their own journeys through chal lenging experiences.

“You are on the path that you need to be on in this very moment,” he says. “Everyone has their own timeline, whether that be in school, in your career or life in general. But one thing is for certain, and that’s that the choices you make along the way will always be yours, no matter the circumstances you were raised under.”

Gomez says that all those volunteer activities have made him a better per son. He also credits “grown folks” for taking the time to teach him the importance of helping others, the significance of his heritage and the value of being family for those who don’t have one.

“People, friends, families took me in when they didn’t need to,” he says, “and I will forever show them the gratitude that they deserve by offering the same feeling they gave me to every single person I encounter through my volunteer activities and beyond.”

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Connections are so valuablE to me and what I do.”

YES, ACADEMIC DEGREES are important. But Brittany Smith believes that it’s equally important to say yes to opportunities and have the confidence that doors will open, even if they don’t lead you to your original plan.

Smith, 36, spent her childhood in a small Wyoming town and her teenage years in a remote community on the Wind River Reservation. She did what she could to support others and didn’t even realize it was called “volunteering.”

“In both of these communities, helping out your neighbor was just what you did. No questions asked,” she says.

When Smith started college, she wanted to study music therapy and bring relief to people through music. But she changed her focus and earned her bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies in 2009. Smith started working as the program coordinator for Discover Goodwill of Southern & Western Colorado, where she earned a Colorado Innovation Award for developing new techniques to help clients search for jobs.

She spent more than four years at Goodwill before moving on to Early Connections Learning Centers, where she focused on recruiting, training and retaining volunteers and keeping them excited about what they were doing.

“Volunteering isn’t just giving your time for free,” Smith says. “Volunteering is the best way to make a difference in the areas that matter to you most. If you want to truly make a difference in this world, volunteer and vote.”

Early Connections President and CEO Liz Denson praised Smith’s “positive personality, drive and passion for doing the best job she can.”

In May 2021, after six months as the volunteer coordinator at Catholic Charities of Central Colorado, Smith joined Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado as the volunteer engagement manager.

By then, the COVID pandemic had depleted the ranks of volunteers, who are the backbone of so many nonprofits.

“With multiple shutdowns and distancing, I’m sure I’m not the only one who witnessed a loss of engagement, morale and sense of community,” Smith recalls. “We saw a huge turnover of volunteer

professionals within Colorado Springs and nationwide.”

As she pointed out, that caused a massive loss of institutional knowledge for nonprofits that struggled to rebuild their volunteer recruitment and engagement efforts, making it even more important for others to step up.

“The knowledge that each one of us holds should be shared in any way possible,” she says. “Your expertise, knowledge and energy are so valuable and treasured, even if you can only give a little or only give once.”

Chris Wallis, previously Smith’s supervisor at Care and Share, says volunteer hours increased by 25 percent while she was volunteer engagement manager.

“In all her interactions, she demonstrates grace, warmth, vision and executive leadership in pursuit of Care and Share’s mission,” Wallis wrote.

In February 2023, Smith was promoted to Care and Share’s volunteer engagement director. She provides direction and leadership for the volunteer program as the organization expands its services in southern Colorado. She also uses the expertise she’s picked up in previous roles to recruit and train volunteers and keep them coming back, and to develop relationships with community partners.

Although Smith prefers to say she’s been lucky, her proudest professional accomplishment is “developing friendships with a great group of professionals and volunteers to stand by me, help inform my decisions and help me continue to make this community a great place to live.”

To that end, Smith volunteers with political organizations, the U.S. Forest Service and Big Brothers Big Sisters. She has a family member with a disability and recently started volunteering with Special Olympics.

She praised her husband, Drew, for his support and understanding; he rearranges his schedule to meet their family’s needs while she’s working evening and weekends, pursuing her passions.

“I am fueled by human connectedness and innovation,” Smith says. “I truly believe that, with connections and the correct outlets, every person can leave this world a better place.”

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Volunteering is the best way to make a difference.”

WHEN CAT OUTTEN learned that one of Ent Credit Union’s team members had been injured in the Club Q shooting, she sprang into action.

Outten, philanthropy development coordinator at Ent, set up a survey to determine who was willing to donate and help the woman, who was in critical condition, and arranged to have funds collected.

“We would not have been able to get the information out as quickly as we did without Cat’s speed and efficiency,” her nominator, Annie Snead, says.

Due to her efforts, more than $10,000 was raised for the team member who, after multiple surgeries, is soon going to return to work.

“I really can’t take credit,” Outten says. “It was all hands on deck.”

Both the effort and the modesty are characteristic of Outten, says Snead, community advocacy partner at Ent.

“Helping others is not just in her job description, it’s in her DNA,” Snead says.

Outten was born in China and moved to the United States with her mother when she was 14. Those first years in this country, when they lived in Pueblo, were difficult.

“My mom didn’t speak English. I didn’t speak English,” she says. “We spent a little time at the YWCA domestic violence shelter. I was in eighth grade, a scary time. The volunteers there were just empowering. They made me feel so safe, like this is not the end of the world. From that point, I wanted to be that person to somebody else, to make them feel warm and safe.”

Other early role models led her toward a career in banking.

“We met a few really good banking representatives, and they made us feel like we weren’t out of place,” Outten says. “From that point on, I wanted to give them what I felt when I was talking to the banking representatives.”

After moving to Colorado Springs when she was 18, she earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from UCCS.

She worked as a personal banker at Academy Bank and member relationship specialist at Security Service Credit Union before joining Ent in December 2018 as a member service rep/lending consultant. She has worked as philanthropy development coordinator since October 2021, and it’s her dream job.

“My team helps focus on community advocacy,” she says. “I have the best job because we get to give away money to enrich the community.”

Outten helps manage Ent’s Community Advocacy Committee, which allocates $2 million annually to nonprofits.

“She has as developed relationships with countless nonprofits and can often be seen writing a personal check at events,” Snead says.

Outten also has created volunteer opportunities for Ent team members; her management of Ent’s Volunteer Time Off program and ability to put together pur poseful projects has led to a doubling in participation, Snead says.

“In 2022 she played a special role in our Gifts for Teachers Program, giving $65,000 to 10 deserving teachers for our 65th anniversary,” Snead says. “Cat made sure every teacher was surprised in a unique way.”

On her own time, Outten reg ularly lends her talent to non profits including Habitat for Humanity, Pikes Peak United Way, Home ward Pikes Peak, Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado, Chil dren’s Hospital Colorado, Springs Rescue Mission, Stand Down for Colorado’s Homeless Veterans, National Mill Dog Res cue and COSILoveYou.

“We see so many bad things happening on the news, so many strug gles,” she says. “I think half of young professionals are thinking, ‘Oh, that’s too big of a problem, there’s nothing I can do.’ But there’s so much you can do in your community, and it really inspires you to see how much one person can do and how much one person can serve.

“I truly think that there is good in people and there is kindness in everyone,” she says. “I think we just need to help each other find it.”

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I have the best job because we get to give away money to enrich the community.”

IF YOU HAVE VENTURED THROUGH

AdAmAn Alley in Downtown Colorado Springs, you’ve seen the results of Chelsea Gondeck’s bold vision and extreme attention to detail.

The $2.2 million project required coordination with scores of stakeholders, patience and negotiations, and continual problem-solving, says her nominator, Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs Executive Director Susan Edmondson, and Gondeck, director of planning and mobility at the Downtown Partnership, brought all of that, as well as a commitment to and love of Downtown.

“It’s the most exciting thing I’ve gotten to do,” Gondeck says. The project, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the AdAmAn Club’s first New Year’s Eve climb to set off fireworks from the summit of Pikes Peak, launched Dec. 28 and has already generated more than 18,000 place views on Google Maps, Edmondson says.

Gondeck joined the Downtown Partnership two years ago and manages a growing portfolio of projects, including large residential developments, that are improving and vitalizing Downtown. Some of those projects aim to make it easier to get around, enhancing walkability and bike and scooter friendliness.

She also stewards the Experience Downtown master plan, which lays out principles and action steps for economic development, placemaking, branding and Development of Downtown, and recently

became executive director of the Greater Downtown Business Improvement District, which maintains a clean, safe, engaging and welcoming environment.

It’s a many-faceted job that keeps her busy, but that’s the way Gondeck likes it.

“There’s something new and different every day,” she says. “It never gets boring.”

Gondeck, whose military family moved here in 2007, graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in psychology and political science from UCCS and earned a master’s in political science from the University of Colorado-Denver.

While working on her graduate degree, she worked full-time as an economic development specialist for the city of Fort Morgan.

“I initially had been interested in state or national politics, but I think my time at Fort Morgan made me realize the direct impacts and being able to see outcomes of things you’ve worked on at a local level,” she says.

She returned to Colorado Springs in 2018 to work with special districts and local entities as assistant public manager at CliftonLarsonAllen until she was offered a position at the Downtown Partnership in 2021.

“It seemed like a dream job where I could work adjacent to what city government does while also having a little bit more flexibility and getting to work on fun projects,” she says.

Gondeck loves volunteering and has opportuni-

ties to do so both in her professional role and on her personal time and is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion.

She serves as vice chair of the board of Inside Out Youth Services.

“I started volunteering with them, and just by being active and contributing your voice, people are interested in having you play a bigger part,” Gondeck says. “So I was asked to join the board after volunteering for about a year.

“I love creating a sense of community,” she says. “I think a lot of young people feel like there’s nothing to do or there’s nothing that interests them. But I think it’s pretty easy to find something that is meaningful to you and get involved and feel like you’re a part of the fabric of your community.”

Gondeck thinks younger people can bring a different and valuable point of view to organizations with which they become involved.

“I like to think I’m breaking groupthink sometimes, because people can get pretty set in their ways or what they think is an understanding of what’s really going on,” she says. “And I think when you can kind of come in as an outsider or somebody from a different generation, you can provide a different perspective that I think can help everybody develop better opportunities that are options moving forward.”

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Cto make Notes Live a household name and to put Colorado Springs on the map as a catalyst for great live entertainment.

As director of marketing and communications for Notes Live, the hospitality and entertainment company behind Boot Barn Hall and Bourbon Brothers Smokehouse & Tavern, Hoeft is in a great position to do that.

And her employer and mentor, JW Roth, believes she can.

“She is a rock star in all she does,” Roth says. “She is relentless in her love of our community and works daily to make it better for all of us.”

Hoeft grew up in Chanhassen, Minnesota, a small town southwest of the Twin Cities.

“We didn’t have a lot of money,” she says, “so we went to all the fun things around town that were free” — street dances, outdoor concerts, lakeside events, minor league and affordable sports events.

Hoeft loved doing those things with her family and friends.

“It’s kind of what brought me to the sports and entertainment field,” she says. “I loved seeing the joy of a kid who catches the fly ball that goes over the fence. I discovered the value of creating memorable experiences … and that turned into telling the story of those kinds of experiences. I’m a passionate storyteller.”

While she was in college at St. Cloud State University, she enjoyed internships in marketing and promotion with the St. Cloud Rox baseball team and special events with the St. Paul Saints.

After she graduated with a degree in marketing, Hoeft came to Colorado Springs for her first “big girl” job, she says — special events coordinator and later special events manager for the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association.

“I took a big leap,” she says. “It was super fun; I traveled around the United States and put on free youth baseball clinics for kids and underserved communities. They were coached by former major leaguers.”

When the pandemic hit, those inperson events came to a halt.

“We started a blog and did what we could to stay active with our membership,” Hoeft says. But when she heard

opening at Notes Live, she jumped at the chance and joined the company in April 2021.

“We went full speed ahead,” she says. “We had about three events on the calendar from April to January, and we ended the year with just over 200. We hosted everything from fund raisers to concerts to galas.”

Hoeft finds creative ways to pro mote events for nonprofits like Bryson’s Chase, Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center and Folds of Honor Foundation, such as having guitars signed by big name artists for silent auctions. She also works with promot ers to attract major league talent and helps regional artists to boost their brands when they book shows at Boot Barn Hall.

“In 2022, I helped raise over $140,000 for various nonprofits through the tal ent that was coming through the door in Colorado Springs,” she says.

She hopes to continue doing that — her job is likely to expand as Notes Live develops new venues, includ ing The Sunset amphitheater in north Colorado Springs and several projects in other states.

“This industry really allows me to share stories that bring people closer together and promote brands and missions and get the core of the orga nization to the main stage,” she says.

And while working full time, she is studying to complete a master of arts degree in communication manage ment at the University of Denver.

Hoeft has become integral to the growth of Notes Live, Roth says.

“She is an instigator, dependable resource and a trusted friend,” he says.

“She is a strong mentor and brainstorming partner who isn’t afraid to speak her mind” — as a professional woman, she advocated relent lessly for a seat at the table and made sure inclusive standards were written into the company’s bylaws, he says.

“Chloe has a passion for being someone the community can lean on,” Roth says, “both profession ally and personally.”

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I ’ m a passionate storyteller.”

GRANT WESTERFIELD “DOES NOT immediately present himself as the loudest or most extroverted of leaders,” says Sabrina Wienholtz, executive director of Leadership Pikes Peak. “It became clear quickly that his superpower is in calm consideration — an ability to take in information and perspectives, synthesize, and move to problem solving.”

Westerfield, a 2022 graduate of LPP’s Leadership Now!, CPA and a tax manager at Stockman Kast Ryan + Co., cares deeply about improving the culture at the firm and also spends countless off-work hours supporting the community, says Marjorie Noleen, SKR+Co.’s marketing + growth director.

While his career goal is to make partner at SKR+Co., “that’s the outcome,” Westerfield says. “But that’s not why I’m doing it. Career for me is just an avenue to accomplish my life goals of being a positive influence in people’s lives.”

Westerfield moved here with his military family when he was 12 years old. A graduate of Doherty High School, he earned a Bachelor of Innovation, Accounting and Business/Management from UCCS in 2017.

While in college, he worked summers at DICK’S Sporting Goods as a customer service specialist, a job where he enjoyed making connections with new people every day, building relationships with his coworkers and learning the value of a workplace culture that supports employees.

He views his efforts to build that kind of culture at SKR+Co. as one of his greatest professional accomplishments so far.

In 2020, he urged the firm’s partners to send a survey to all staff asking what the company could do better and how change could be accomplished.

It was a time when many employees were not happy in their workplace, he says.

“I’ve always had that personality of being willing to stand up and say, ‘Hey, I don’t think this is right’ … and to be the voice for someone that may not be willing to enter into conflict the same way I do,” he says.

The partners responded, and the result was that “it’s such a better company now,” he says.

Westerfield worked with the firm’s Social Committee to build connectivity, create a sense of place, promote inclusion and strengthen work-life balance, Noleen says.

“Grant also volunteered to help plan busy-season wellness and team building, all while carrying a demanding load of more than 200 clients,” she says.

Westerfield’s efforts to make a positive difference don’t stop when his work hours end.

He volunteers as a member of the alumni leadership team at the UCCS College of Business, helping the college with its annual alumni engagement plan and providing insight into its career development curriculum.

Perhaps his most significant contribution to the community has been his association with CONO, the

organization that works to protect the integrity of Colorado Springs neighborhoods.

As a member of the CONO board for three years, he helped the organization’s executive director incorporate best accounting practices and implement financial oversight, which had been lacking before he joined the board, Noleen says.

Westerfield also helped to revamp CONO’s mission from direct help to neighborhoods to an educational organization. He was instrumental in creating Neighborhood-U, a 10-week course that schools citizens in the knowledge and skills they need to become effective community leaders.

“The idea is that if you have neighborhoods that know how to have a voice for themselves, then you’re going to have stronger neighborhoods and a healthier, stronger, more economically set population,” he says.

Westerfield has stepped back from his work with the CONO board for the duration of tax season and to devote more time to his family, but he thinks it’s critical to give back.

“If you think that you got where you are without someone else’s help, you’re wrong,” he says. “I don’t think it’s always through a nonprofit, sitting on the board or whatever. But I think as long as you’re looking for ways to give back, you’re being a good steward.”

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Career for me is just an avenue to accomplish my life goals.”

AT THE TOP OF JENNAYA

Colóns’ LinkedIn profile is a quote: “I am for equity because who I am matters.”

Colóns, a physical therapist assistant at Penrose Hospital, puts that motto into practice every day, says her nominator, Rodney Gullatte Jr.

Colóns created the Strategic Implementation of Inclusive Practices, a framework for evidence-based implementation of workplace equity, and is working to integrate that model into Centura Health’s Social Justice Framework.

“We are putting these steps into action,” she says. Through the Diversity and Inclusion Council at PenroseSt. Francis Health Services, which she chaired, “we’ve already started to make community collaboration … so we can figure out what does our community need and where can we fill the gaps.”

A part of the model “is to ensure we are developing our workforce to reflect our communities, especially since underserved populations are underrepresented in leadership and physician positions,” Colóns says.

Colóns, a native of Colorado Springs, was born at Fort Carson but graduated from high school in Arizona after her family moved there. She earned an associate of applied science degree from Pueblo Community College and, while working full time, is completing a bachelor of science in health sciences at Northern Arizona University, which she expects to receive in May.

Colóns was drawn to health care after suffering knee injuries while playing sports.

“I had some ACL tears, and I had three knee surgeries,” she says. “So I knew what it was like on this end of the rehab, and I wanted to make a positive impact in someone’s life and empower them to get back to a semblance of normalcy.”

Her work on the strategic DEI model started as an assignment for her college coursework to research how to solve a problem in health care.

“I chose how can we use the Diversity and Inclusion Council to advocate for implementing inclusive and equitable practices within the hospital system,” she says. “I wanted to ensure that what we were doing was going to be intentional and done in a research-based manner that was measurable.”

She came up with the model after an extensive review of the literature in the field.

She advocates passionately for diver sity, equity and inclusion, she says, because she wants people to know why these issues are so important in relation to health care.

“People need to know that there are social inequities that contribute to this expensive, fractured system,” she says. “And not only do our underserved pop ulations have worse outcomes, regard less of their socioeconomic status, but everyone in the United States has worse outcomes than any other developed country, and we also spend more than any other country.

“In order to optimize our outcomes and improve access and decrease spending on our economy, these are the type of actions that need to be taken. The more diverse groups you have, the better, and the research shows that when you have these practices, we improve innovation and patient care and population health and scientific discovery. So there are so many benefits in doing this work.”

It’s work that is making a difference at Penrose-St. Francis, Gullatte says.

The model she created “is already changing how this organization works in the area of DEI,” he says.

Colóns furthers her work in diver sity, equity and inclusion by serving as a volunteer for the African American Youth Leadership Conference and Edu cating Children of Color.

At Penrose Hospital, where she has worked as a physical therapist assistant for the past seven years, Colóns has also tracked statistics in her department to determine health care disparities, works to identify transportation and copay issues, and helps to onboard new employees.

In the future, Colóns envisions herself in a management or leadership position so she can further facilitate these initiatives.

“I want to be a leader that helps influence people to commit to what they are passionate about,” she says. “Whatever way God sees that fit for me is the way that I will live my purpose.”

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I want to be a leader that helps influence people.”
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JESSE PÉREZ GREW UP AT A TIME WHEN SPEAKING SPANish was still largely viewed as “less American” and a detriment to education and career in the U.S. So, his parents chose not to teach Pérez and his siblings the language.

But since then, being bilingual has become a “form of currency” on résumés and job applications, making candidates more attractiv, and Pérez says he’s now “taken the steps to reclaim that part of my heritage and culture.” He’s also helped language-diverse UCCS students do the same, over a 17-year career at UCCS — first as an undergraduate and graduate student, then as a student affairs professional and now as a lecturer and director of the Excel Languages Center.

“I love to help students realize that [bilingualism is] a really special and important part of who you are,” he says, “and it’s something that can get you ahead personally and in your career.”

Pérez’s career has been a journey of discovering his own identity as a Latino and gay man, then using that journey to help other young people experiencing similar questions, challenges and barriers to reach their full potential and acceptance. The LGBTQ community, in particular, has “always been a through line for me,” he says.

It started with his student activism as a part of Spectrum, UCCS’ LGBTQ+ Alliance, then in his work as program director for the LGBTQ+ Resource Center on campus, a role Pérez held for five years. This was uniquely challenging in Colorado Springs, he says.

Although college is the first time that many LGBTQ people come out — and it’s a generally welcoming place to do so — the Springs has limited off-campus queer-friendly spaces, like Club Q, which have recently been “violated,” he says.

Resource-focused LGBTQ organizations are also lacking in the city; UCCS’ resource center and Inside Out Youth Services are the only two that directly provide multiple services — legal, medical, mental health, housing and financial — Pérez says.

“When it comes to an actual resource center that focuses on the broad range

of barriers and issues, there’s not a whole lot” in the Springs, he says. “So in my role, what I would have to do was get creative.”

He recalls there were multiple times he rented a university van to drive students up to the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus for various one-stopshop resource events, like a name-change clinic with legal experts to help transgender students with the burdensome and costly government process.

Along with Pérez’s commitment to advancing support for the LGBTQ campus community (he now continues this work as chair of the Staff Association’s Staff Pride Committee), he shares a philosophy of “meeting people where they are” in their understanding of queer people, as a way to develop more allies.

This is how Pérez says he approached the expansion of the Resource Center’s Safe Zone Training, a program geared towards helping people be better LGBTQ allies and advocates on campus. He focused on shedding the “you can’t sit with us” attitude towards people who aren’t up to speed on the community’s issues, and instead trying to get them there.

This can be controversial in the community — seen as “giving people a pass” or “coddling” folks, he says — but Pérez was given a sign of affirmation that this approach was working when in 2019 he won the University of Colorado’s system-wide President’s Diversity Award, an honor for which about a dozen people nominated him, related to his leadership of the Resource Center. He later led workshops for staff in the U.S. Olympic Training Center.

“I viewed it more as a demonstration that my approach was effective,” he says. “Prior to me assuming that role, I had experienced trainings and workshops where people and myself in some situations were made to feel like, ‘If you’re not at this level that we expect you to be, then why are you here?’

“...I try to create spaces for everybody,” Pérez says. “The way that we truly move the needle is to work with those that we disagree with. I made my training opportunities and my work accessible to a broad range of people.”

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I try to create spaces for everybody.”

‘MY

WHOLE LIFE IS DOGS — AND I WOULDN’T HAVE IT

any other way,” says Kelley Likes in her office at the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region, where a pile of just-born puppies lie gently whimpering nearby.

Every two to three hours, Likes will bottle feed and clean the puppies, who were separated from their mother and in need of care. In addition to her job as vice presi dent of philanthropy at HSPPR, where Likes raises money to ensure the organization has top-notch facilities to care for animals, she and her husband also foster more than a dozen days- to weeks-old puppies at a time.

The foster care is on top of owning eight dogs of their own, including a pit bull puppy they fostered last year who turned out to have a rare autoimmune disorder that requires ongoing treatment and medication, Likes says. She didn’t want to risk the dog not getting the expensive care she needs, “so we said, ‘We’ll take that on.’”

“It’s dogs 24/7,” Likes says. “Sometimes it’s dogs in the middle of the night. But we feel lucky to have them.”

Likes truly embodies HSPPR’s animal welfare mission, writes Vickie Smith, an HSPPR board member and volunteer, in a nomination letter.

“Whatever she asks of a volunteer or employee, she is prepared to do exactly the same thing,” Smith writes.

Likes, 34, became the youngest vice president in the organization’s history when she was promoted in 2020, and has led HSPPR to historic fundraising levels, adds Director of Development Jessica James. The organization had its highest giving month ever in December at $3.4 million, topping off a record year of $7.6 million raised during 2022, James says.

And in February, HSPPR capped off a two-year, $7 million fundraising project to completely renovate and expand its veterinary clinic, which has increased the capac ity and quality of its reduced-cost community vet services, Likes says. The clinic has gone from 5,300 square feet to 8,000, allowing for a 35 percent increase in procedures, according to an HSPPR press release, and Likes adds that the next fundraising goal is to put money towards hiring more vets.

The new space and more clinicians are badly needed. Not only because the clinic was inadequate for the volume of surgeries HSPPR vets and technicians were per forming — including 30 to 40 spay and neuter procedures each day — but because of a nationwide veterinary shortage exacerbated by the COVID pandemic and surge in animal adoptions during that time.

“We’ve got a ramp-up plan in the works to be able to provide more public services, because we know about 60 percent of the community is not getting veterinary care, just because they can’t get access to it,” Likes says. “It’s harder to get into the vet.

“Our hope is to increase the overall health of the community animals,” she says. “We’ve seen some animals come in here and they’ve never had veterinary care.”

It’s all made possible by generous donors that Likes and her team work hard to connect with. A last-minute donation of $950,000 and one of $450,000 for the clinic renovation project left in the will of a late, longtime donor helped it reach the finish line, she says.

Likes herself goes the extra mile to spread stories about puppies and dogs in the care of HSPPR — literally. In October, she and her husband drove 30 hours from Colorado Springs to upstate New York with two puppies, Sven and Vivianne, to play in Puppy Bowl XIX. It was “a highlight of my career” to see the dogs on national television, she says, but it also provided a flurry of advertising nationally and locally for HSPPR.

“It helps us potentially get some more fosters and bring awareness that we’ve got 3,000 animals that go through that program every year,” Likes says. “It doesn’t get done without foster volunteers.”

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—Greta Anderson Johns
We’ ll take that on.”

FROM HIS BRIEF STINT AS AN INTERN FOR THE OLYMPIC Training Committee in 2013, Krystopher Fakir knew Colorado Springs was where he wanted to one day settle with a family and a community. “Colorado Springs just had this aura about it that resonated with my energy, and I was like, this is the place that I want to settle and start everything over start from scratch and just get rooted into the community itself,” Fakir says.

So, in 2020, he moved here from North Carolina to start his business — creative marketing and therapeutic art space, K.F.E LLC, in Old Colorado City. He brings a host of experience with a background as assistant marketing director for World Wrestling Entertainment and degrees in marketing and new media journalism. Fakir refers to himself as a “creativepreneur” and works to partner businesses with local artistry.

Of the niche company, Fakir says, “it’s an umbrella company with two brands: one that focuses on public relations and creative marketing construction, and the other one, which is in the process of growing, is a therapeutic art space that enables artists — which is a very ambiguous term — of all sorts to come and feel safe in an environment that works best for them.”

“K.F.E LLC is a means to serve the community through creative expression. His company provides traditional digital content creation blended with artistic representation. The unique thing about Krys is that his workplace is synonymous with the community,” says Chip Frazer, nominator of this award, and Rotary Club of Colorado Springs member.

Fakir, too, has been an active member of the Rotary Club since his arrival in the Springs. He currently serves as the co-chair of Rotary FLIGHT, director of public relations, and creative specialist.

Community leader and founder of The Men’s Xchange, James Proby, says in his nomination of Fakir, “He is someone who completely understands community vitality and supporting small local businesses for the greatest impact.”

Not only does Fakir say he works to mainly support local businesses through funding and personal shopping, he is actively working on partnering small businesses to host regular brunches for local artists and creatives in a free event to “come together in fellowship.”

“As a creative, I want the artist community to thrive and feel like they are able to set themselves apart from the traditional concept of what an artist is,” says Fakir. “I want to help companies feel connected to their community and tell their stories in a very specific and creatively detailed way.”

And he’s enthusiastic about our local artist community. “There’s a lot more open-mindedness here than where I’m coming from, which seems very confined,” Fakir says. “Being very honest, it was very oppressive towards the marginalized community. And here seems like they are looking to reach out and embrace diversity because they understand that change needs to happen.”

As a proponent of change himself, Fakir is now a Mayor’s Civic Leaders Fellow. The program introduces and educates future civic leaders in city government. He’s part of a cohort that will help make future decisions about the city.

He also is organizing two fundraising events for the upcoming year, partnering K.F.E with local Rotary Clubs. The first will run at the end of September, to include BIPOC artists in the community. Proceeds will benefit Colorado Springs School District 11 schools. And the second will run in the spring to benefit other districts in the area.

With his wife, Kiersten, Fakir is eagerly awaiting twin boys, fulfilling his dream of settling down and laying roots.

“He creates synergy daily by addressing needs of underserved communities and is simply a person of impeccable character,” says Frazer. “He is a go-getter who eschews negativity and promotes harmony, synergy, and love for each other. To know Krys is to love him for his strength and conviction.”

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I want the artist community to thrive.”

IT IS WITH DEEP GRATITUDE FOR HIS family, his faith and his community that Liam Aubrey has spent his life in service to our city — and he has no plans of stopping any time soon.

Since Aubrey was young, he has volunteered his time and been highly involved in a variety of ways — from work on councils at Pikes Peak United Way to various roles for the city of Colorado Springs to Habitat for Humanity to Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado to COSILoveYou to work with local nonprofits and political campaigns.

Aubrey currently works at AdPro, a marketing firm, where he is supported for his collegiality and his gifts to the community. “Liam is a significant part of his community and cares deeply,” says Camille Blakely, president of AdPro and one of Aubrey’s nominators for this award.

“He is the first to raise his hand when asked to volunteer. His community involvement in local nonprofits, giving his time and donating money for good causes, helping care for local parks and nature, providing resources for people in need, raising funds for children in need in the community for Christmas gifts, and sponsoring families for Christmas and Thanksgiving are just some of the examples of how

Liam works every day to make his community better.”

Aubrey attributes much of his inspiration to his parents Cindy and Peter Aubrey, who both have their own lifetimes of contributing to the community.

“Seeing what my folks did in their careers gave me a lot to learn from those experience. My mom worked as the new director at KOAA for most of my time growing up, and then she worked for the city, and then she went to PPUW,” Aubrey says.

“And my dad had a pretty long career in TV here in town too before he became a stay-at-home dad for me,” he says. Aubrey’s grandparents also spent their lives in Colorado Springs, with his grandfather working at Sinton’s Dairy for around 40 years.

His family’s history in the community has shaped his way of life. “Just seeing how deep those connections to my grandfather ran and just how important doing stuff for their neighbors was for them taught me a lot about the contributions that I wanted to make when I was able to when I was in their shoes,” Aubrey says.

Aubrey moved to Fort Collins to attend Colorado State University and earned his degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing and a minor in political science. He enjoyed his time

in Fort Collins, but knew he wanted to move back to the Springs.

“It was a no brainer for me to want to come back to the place where I grew up because it’s so beautiful and such a fun place to be,” Aubrey says, “and there’s so much cool stuff that’s happening as the town grows.”

He also moved back to be with his now wife, Tori, who he met in kindergarten at Taylor Elementary. “She’s one of the best things that’s ever happened in my life,” he says. “I’m very grateful, and I know that I’ve been able to do more for the community because of what she’s done for me.”

In between his busy schedule and the crazy weather, you might catch Aubrey at any of the local parks walking his dog or playing disc golf, maybe out on Patty Jewett on a sunny day. Otherwise, you’ll likely catch him at any community-building efforts in the near future.

“I’d like to express gratitude to God for giving us all this great community to share and for each other,” he says, “and the opportunity to be a part of a group of great young leaders who are doing awesome things in this community that we love.”

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There’s so much cool stuff that’s happening as the town grows.”

FOR MATT BUFFINGTON, THE WORLD of business can really be about the people. A pre-construction manager for GE Johnson Construction Company, Buffington works to give back to his company and his community in a number of ways.

“I recognize that there’s a business side of construction,” he says, “but my approach in pre-construction management, and any of my business dealings and personal dealings really center around honesty, integrity and transparency. I just try to instill some kindness to the world every day.”

A native of Fort Collins and graduate of Colorado State University with a degree in construction management, Buffington now lives in Peyton and leads a group of estimators who work on both small- and large-scale commercial construction projects along the front range.

“He is consistently looking for ways for us to get better as a team,” says Michelle Robinette, GE Johnson VP and a nominator for this award. “He will work with the entire team to find solutions that are win-win for everyone. He brings a positive attitude to work every day. He challenges his co-workers at all levels to make things better.”

One example: He’s taken part in eliminating the use of the term ‘man hours’ when referring to staffing hours, in favor of ‘staffing hours’ or simply ‘hours.’ “The previous term is exclusive and unrepresentative of who we are and our culture

at GE Johnson,” Buffington says. “This change has successfully improved our workplace culture and is just one way we are bringing people together in our company.”

Buffington is grateful to GE Johnson for motivating him to do more.

“I really started to see what they do for the community,” he says. “It’s not just building community minded projects — although it’s truly remarkable what they’ve done with the Pikes Peak Summit [Visitor Center] and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum — but it’s really seeing how they get involved in the community and the types of people that they have working for them.”

And Buffington is one of those communityminded people. “Matt has a strong connection to the City of Colorado Springs,” Robinette says. “He looks for ways to serve and continue to drive the city forward.”

Over the years, he has worked on hundreds of projects to include the Chinook Trail Middle School, the revitalization of the Springs Rescue Mission, and Peak Vista Health Center Downtown.

Currently, Buffington serves on the El Paso County Community Development Advisory Board, where he “assists and advises the Board of County Commissioners in the appropriate use of grant funds toward the revitalization of neighborhoods, improving access to transportation services and economic development within the community,” he says.

He is also awaiting appointment to serve on the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region Board of Directors.

His passion for animals is in part tied to his connection to the local western and agricultural community. With his wife Dayna and 15-month-old son Tatum, Buffington lives on a Peyton property with horses and often works with his father-in-law on his ranch in Ordway.

Buffington has also volunteered with various organizations to include the National Finals Rodeo, the ProRodeo Tour Finale at the Washington State Fair and the El Paso County Fair. He hopes to one day be involved with Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo.

In between ranching, pre-construction management, volunteering, and being a dad, Buffington is working toward a lifelong dream of becoming a volunteer firefighter.

“I have been very blessed personally, and I am most proud of a couple of personal accomplishments. Starting with family, my wife Dayna and I recently welcomed our son Tatum into the world — he is now one year old and is our pride and joy. Together, they are my motivation,” he says. “I was raised to love others, be kind and always have empathy. These are character traits that I work to promote in both my work and personal life.”

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I have been very blessed personallY.”

COLORADO SPRINGS PIONEERS

Museum Program Coordinator Meg Yevara delights in bringing local history to life. With a decade of experience with CSPM, Yevara has been integral in expanding programs and crafting a place for the community to come together in scholarship and wonder.

“Our museum is a way for us to locally connect, so that’s one of the joys of my role,” she says, “and I think what’s unique and special about local history is that we can look at the national narrative through a local lens, which creates that empathy and shows the power of our local history.”

Yevara works closely with museum curators and directors to create robust programming for anyone to enjoy. “Meg works to communicate the messages and themes of our many exhibits through gallery tours, school programs, walking-tours, trivia nights, a robust scholarly lecture series, a virtual lunch-time learning program, and opportunities for all ages to learn and connect at and through the CSPM; she brings our history and culture to life in a meaningful way,” says Leah Davis Witherow, curator of history at CSPM, and one of Yevara’s nominators for this award.

“Through her work helping to make history a

part of all of our lives, she inspires us all to create a great city,” Witherow says.

Yevara, a Springs native, studied at Colorado College to earn her first degree in cultural anthropology. This degree would take her to Washington, D.C., with Americorps, and that led to other opportunities to work for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.

But being far from home made her miss the mountains, and she had to come back. “I just craved the mountains,” Yevara says. “It felt like there was a big hole in my heart, and I just wanted to come back and be in my community. My family’s here. And we’ve been here for many generations. It’s just a really special place.” She plans to stay and raise a family here with her husband Joe Yevara.

Since she’s been back, she’s found many ways to engage with the community, including her current volunteer position on the Friends of El Paso County Nature Centers board.

“As a Museum Board member I have seen the result of Meg’s positive impact on the community through her highly professional impact at the Museum reflected in improved training opportunities for the museum volunteers, developing broad-based

community educational programs, new successful special events, cultivating opportunities for youth in museum camps and docent programs, and by creating new, standards-based educational programs that appeal to teachers and students,” writes Nancy Stone Bernard in her nomination of Yevara.

At the museum, she works in her team to build programs for all ages, with an emphasis on making a space for people to connect with each another and explore factual information and primary and secondary sources from our community.

“It’s been such a pleasure to see people engage with topics, ideas and information in a way that they probably haven’t since high school,” Yevara says. “After you’ve gone through school or college as an adult, it’s harder to find these places that challenge you and ask political questions and just present the facts. It’s a very social experience.

“I am brought to tears through some of these experiences,” she says. “CSPM is a type of community center. And I do this work as part of an incredible team that inspires me each and every day. I couldn’t do it without them.”

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I just wanted to come back and be in my community.”

NAT STEIN HAS DEDICATED their life to organizations that provide communitywide composting, local food production, and gardening education. Stein’s work and vision have impacted our community, literally from the ground up.

Back in 2018 Stein founded Soil Cycle, as a pilot project (housed under Colorado Springs Food Rescue) that turned household food scraps into compost. At first, the organization was really just Stein and a small crew who would ride bikes around town collecting food scraps door to door.

Now, as part of a larger team — and with trucks — Stein has helped develop Colorado Springs Food Rescue (and Soil Cycle) into the larger, more encompassing Food to Power. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit works to build a sustainable, equitable food system in Colorado Springs. Using a “direct redistribution” model, Food to Power collects surplus healthy foods from supermarkets, backyard gardens and cafeterias and transports them to nonprofit and community-based grocery programs. It also built Hillside Hub, the city’s first neighborhood food center, which includes acres of gardens for urban farming.

At the gardens, Stein works as the director of food production, where they coordinate many processes, like formalizing and standardizing operations, organizing crop schedules and volunteer hours, and overseeing the community composting initiative.

They also help with other areas of Hillside Hub, which also provides a seed library and seed swaps, books and resources about gardens and farming, educational workshops, and fresh fruits and vegetables for the no-cost grocery program.

As a leader, Stein is lauded for their ability to foster safe spaces for anyone with any ability. “Nat’s collaborative leadership style serves as a way to promote inclusion in the workplace as it enables every member of the team to bring their unique perspective and experiences,” says Jessi Bustamante, director of communications at Food to Power and one of Stein’s nominators. “Each person is honored for where they’re at, and adjustments are made to

work to best reflect their strengths and to accommodate their situation.

“In addition, Nat reflects heavily on how composting and farming are inherently physical labors, which can create an exclusionary environment if not managed correctly,” Bustamante says. “They are proud of setting this work up in a way that accommodates the range of physical abilities on the team and creates a truly inclusive workplace for the variety of ability levels.”

Another of Stein’s ongoing efforts is to get more people to compost and to understand its particular benefits in our area. With the region’s climate and drought, composting can play a critical role.

“I think oftentimes, composting gets framed in a very general sense,” Stein says. “We know that it’s a sustainable practice, and it helps keep stuff out of the landfill, which is really important. But the actual application of compost, especially in an arid climate like this, acts as a sponge in soil. It can help retain moisture, which is critical when combating fires. We need to put down as much compost over as much area as possible as part of mitigating the drought in the warming and the erosion of our lands. It’s something that can help reverse those trends.”

Stein’s contributions to the gardens and the community continue to grow as they work to expand offerings at Food to Power, to encourage more people to get involved.

“It is clear Nat believes that real social change comes through one’s commitment to and in relationship with those with whom you are trying to affect change,” says Patience Kabwasa, executive director of Food to Power, and another of Stein’s nominators. “They lead with integrity, compassion and empathy and would never ask something beyond what a person found respectful. They are also practical enough to start right where they are coupled with the tools and skills to work one-on- one with individuals from different backgrounds.”

Editor’s note: Patience Kabwasa is a columnist for Sixty35 news magazine.

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We know that it’s a sustainable practice.”

DURING HER DAYS OF working with young people in Colorado Springs, Noelle Strait sometimes thinks of one kid specifically: her younger self.

As a Colorado Springs native, Strait attended a charter school that prepared her “greatly academically,” she says. Emotionally, though, her hometown didn’t always offer the same experience.

“The coming out process was very terrifying,” says Strait, who identifies as pansexual and uses she/they pronouns. “I didn’t feel like I had those safe spaces.”

That’s part of what lead Strait to her current role as School Advocate with Inside Out Youth Services, a local nonprofit serving teens and young adults in the LGBTQ+ community since 1990.

Since joining the nonprofit in January 2022, Strait has formed relationships with teachers, administrators and board members from Colorado Springs schools and provided resources on best practices to those who seek to better support queer young people. She also serves as the facilitator for the Pikes Peak Safe at School Coalition, which partners with El Paso County school districts, students, parents and caregivers, and community members to make schools safer for all students, regardless of sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity or gender expression.

Strait says making schools safer can come down to the “simple things,” such as asking someone’s pronouns.

“Something like that can carry so much weight,” she says. “If you focus on little, everyday things, they can cumulatively add up to our youth living longer.”

Under Strait’s leadership, the coalition created a one-page flier detailing how to ensure schools are following anti-bullying laws as well as a school climate survey for young people to identify areas of growth in their schools. She often conducts school-wide trainings on using pronouns and how to be a trusted adult for young people in the LGBTQ+ community.

“Her work changes lives on macro and micro levels in every school dis -

trict in the Pikes Peak region,” says Liss Smith, the communications and advocacy director with Inside Out.

After attending the University of Northern Colorado, Strait didn’t always plan on returning to Colorado Springs. The job with Inside Out has helped reframe her relationship with the place she grew up.

“It’s inspiring to me to be able to give back and create safer spaces in this community.” Strait says. “I’m always hoping fewer and fewer youth have to have experiences like I had.”

She gives back, too, by participating in organizations such as PHC District/ Community Wellness in Manitou Springs School District 14, Compre hensive Human Sexuality Educa tion Oversight Entity, the statewide school policy coalition led by One Colorado, and the Youth Sexual Health Program, which is led by the Trailhead Institute.

Strait says the goal is to empower young people. “That’s how we can see systemic change in our community.”

This type of work is perhaps even more important following the shooting at Club Q in Novem ber, as Smith pointed out.

“Especially after the horrible trag edy at Club Q, our city understands that education around LGBTQIA2+ identities is necessary to end stigma, hateful rhetoric and violence against us,” she says. “So often, the people most impacted by this hate are [youths], who already face so many obstacles. The young people need adults like Noelle in their corner.”

Strait knows that on a personal level. Growing up here, Strait says, “The big gest thing I was lacking was representa tion.” Now, she gets to be that representation for others.

“It’s important to share that we’re here and we’re proud and we’re liv ing beautifully,” she says. “My per spective is just one person, but I have seen this community grow leaps and bounds.”

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I have seen this community grow leaps and bounds.”

RACHEL LAUFER HAD A lot figured out as a kid. She met her husband in kindergarten. A year later, she decided on a career.

“I went home in first grade and told my dad I wanted to be a principal,” Laufer says. “And I stuck with that plan.”

As Harrison School District 2’s assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, Laufer eventually surpassed that plan. That would come later.

Laufer went to Whittier College, a small private liberal arts college in her native California, because of the school’s specialty in education.

When she and her husband moved here from California in the early 2000s, Laufer researched school districts and specifically chose Harrison.

For her first job, she taught sixth grade at Soaring Eagles Elementary School.

“I know the work we do every day could change the course of our students’ lives,” she says. “I wanted to work somewhere that I could make a bigger difference.”

Soon, Laufer found a bigger stage for her difference-making as the principal of Sand Creek International. During her eight years in that role, the elementary school transformed into an international baccalaureate school and expanded to include a new middle school. Sand Creek International earned the Governor’s Distinguished Improvement Award and was chosen as one of the nation’s most innovative schools.

She owes some of the success to creating a sense of collaborative spirit.

“Everyone felt like it was not just my school,” Laufer says. “It was our school.”

Laufer poured herself into the role, which she dreamed of having since childhood.

She started a routine every Friday evening, when she’d stay late at Sand Creek to catch up on work. She’d walk the halls and think about her school community.

“You feel responsible for every person,” she says. “You think, ‘There are 600 students and faculty and they’re counting on me.’ It can be a heavy

responsibility, but you know what you’re doing can have an impact.”

Laufer and her husband don’t have kids, and the principal would often get asked why.

“I’d say that I have 500 kids to care for every day, I don’t need my own,” she says.

As a result of her work with Sand Creek, Laufer was a finalist for the Colorado Springs Mayor’s Young Leaders Award and a finalist for Principal of the Year in Colorado.

Then D2 recruited Laufer to be the Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning, a role created for her. While she didn’t plan to leave her principal job, she was intrigued by the idea of helping more than 10,000 kids.

“That was my motivating factor,” says Laufer, who supervises 19 schools and departments. “I’ve always believed kids in the Southeast can do just as well, if not better, than any other kids in Colorado.”

Her impact can still be felt at Sand Creek, where she was known for a mantra: “Assume positive intent.”

“To me, I think it means we all have different experiences and good reasons for why we do what we do,” she said. “I say it so often that people associate it with me.”

That includes D2’s superintendent, Wendy Birhanzel.

“[Laufer] believes this allows her to see the perspective of others and to know we all have a shared experience when we may look different from one another or have varied backgrounds and experiences,” Birhanzel says. “She looks for the best in others and seeks to understand their perspective and situation. From this, she aims to improve things or assist others in their own needs or growth.”

Laufer hopes to continue this work in D2.

“It comes from loving this community and taking any opportunity to improve this,” she says. “Even if it’s countless hours of work, it’s totally worth it.”

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ROUGHLY A YEAR AGO, RAME HANNA

wrote a letter to the UCCS community.

“We have all started a new chapter in our lives, taken a leap of faith or tried something that may have been out of our comfort zone,” they wrote. “Just a few weeks ago, my partner and our goldendoodle packed our car and embarked on a 40 hour drive across the country to start a new life in Colorado Springs.”

Hanna’s new life here started with a new job. They serve as the university’s inaugural vice chancellor for diversity, equity and inclusion, a role “responsible for guiding and leading institution-wide efforts to advance a culture of belonging,” according to the college’s website.

As a social scientist and cultural change agent, Hanna has spent their career centering “critical diversity scholarship in pursuit of inclusive excellence,” they said.

A year later, Hanna put this work into practice at UCCS.

They’ve sought input from voices at all levels of the university through one-on-one conversations, surveys and community dialogues. Hanna helped create the Division of DEI, which included hiring two other inaugural positions — the director for DEI strategic initiatives and the director for DEI education and outreach.

The new team is launching the Inclusive Excellence

and Belonging action plan, which calls for the university’s colleges and divisions to come up with several diversity goals every two years. Hanna says the goal is to “integrate DEI into the full fabric of the institution.”

Hanna, who has held similar positions at other institutions and worked at places such as Harvard University and Dartmouth College, was drawn to UCCS because of the “potential for positive change.”

“I think there’s a strong need to be able to create intentional access and equity in higher education spaces,” Hanna says, “and to work on fostering a culture where everyone feels an authentic sense of belonging. Being able to be in a role where I can help center DEI as a critical lens and framework in everything we’re doing at the institution was a critical impetus to this.”

Hanna’s passion for this work began early on.

“My parents immigrated to this country when I was young seeking refuge during the gulf war,” they said. “Growing up in the States and watching them go through numerous legal processes really opened my eyes to pursue this as a field.”

As a first-generation Arab American and member of the LGBTQ community, they also relate personally to the DEI work.

“Higher education hasn’t always been a space that was made available for everyone,” Hanna

says. “It’s really critical in promoting social and upward mobility to have a space where you do feel a sense of belonging.”

Hanna, who is transgender, has big plans for the DEI team. Sometimes, that can translate to small moments, like when Hanna held a healing circle on campus following the shooting at Club Q in November. More than 100 people from the UCCS community participated.

“For me, representation matters,” they said. “Having a seat at the table where critical decisions are being made daily allows me the opportunity to uplift and empower diverse voices.”

Hanna has high hopes for where they could be sitting next, including maybe as a university president.

“My vision for the future is to really pave the way for greater access and equity for all in higher education,” Hanna says.

Meanwhile, they look forward to more years at UCCS and in Colorado Springs.

“It’s been an incredible first year of work,” Hanna says. “For me, helping educate future global leaders is an honor.”

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Helping educate future global leaders is an honor.”

IF YOU’RE A FAN OF LOCAL music, then you’ve probably heard Ryan Flores.

The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has been playing shows around town for a decade, becoming a familiar face and voice at spots like Wild Goose Meeting House and Axe and the Oak Whiskey House. Flores has made it to a level rare for his field: He’s a full-time musician.

It hasn’t always been that way.

Growing up in California, Flores found a first creative love in writing.

“I’ve always known I wanted to be a writer,” he says. “I never thought I wanted to be a musician.”

A friend in school played guitar and asked Flores to lend some lyrics. Soon, Flores had a new dream.

“I fell in love with music,” he says. “You get a high from being on stage. It captivated me in a way that I could connect with people.”

While studying Spanish literature at UCCS, Flores picked up some gigs around the state. The first time he visited Colorado Springs, his band played a little show at a little restaurant called Shuga’s.

Flores fell in love, again, with the scenery here and decided to make Colorado Springs home. For years, he worked at Mountain Mama Natural Foods to supplement his music, which grew into multiple projects.

He also got more involved in the community. Flores founded Noche de los Muertos, a Day of the Dead musical celebration that will return for its 11th year this November. In 2014, Flores started his own record label called Heart Shaped Records, which specializes in genres such as Latin, gypsy, tango, folk, electronic and classical.

It’s important for Flores, whose mother is Czech and father is Mexican, to share pieces of his culture with his second home of Colorado.

“Ryan is a staunch proponent of diversity and, not just tolerance, but

acceptance,” says nominator Joe Aldaz, CEO of the Colorado Springs Hispanic Business Council. “Being one of the few musicians writing and playing Latin music in Colorado, he is bringing awareness to his rich culture.”

Flores does this, too, through his music endeavors, including a Latininfused electronic project called Ryancito. He often blends English and Spanish in his writing. He will soon release a trilogy of instrumental albums, described as a triptych, about Latin American and Spanish conquistadors.

“We’re very passionate people and we have a lot to offer this community,” Flores says. “It’s really nice to have Latinos represented here.”

The musician also stays busy by writing poetry and continues to chisel away at a novel. His writings have been published in literary journals, magazine and text books. That kind of work helped during the thick of the COVID pandemic in 2020, when Flores played very few live shows. In 2019, he played more than 200 gigs. He’s returning to that pace.

“It’s a hustle doing this for a living,” he says. “It isn’t easy, but it’s getting bigger and better.”

Flores’ work ethic has been noticed by the community, says Aldaz.

“His inspiration is solely needed in our community to create pathways for other aspiring musicians and artists to have the courage to explore their passion,” Aldaz says. “His unique style of Latin gypsy music fills a void in the Colorado Springs community, where Latin music is often an enigma to our mainstream culture.”

After playing music and living here since 2010, Flores has seen the local music scene grow. He hopes that continues.

“It took me a while to get here, so I don’t take it for granted,” he says.“You just have to keep showing up.”

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—Amanda Hancock
I never thought I wanted to be a Musician.”

AS AN “ARMY BRAT,” SAMANTHA

Chapman moved around a lot as a kid.

When she was in sixth grade, her family landed in Colorado Springs. She’s called it “home” ever since.

Her love for this city grew while she was studying UCCS and making “lifelong friendships” by joining the Pi Beta Phi sorority.

After studying English and elementary education, Chapman taught kindergarten for four years. She then moved to California, where she didn’t have a teaching certificate, so she looked for a job in another field.

That came in the form of a job as a case manager with Sentinels of Freedom, a nonprofit with the mission of assisting “severely-wounded, post-9/11 veterans in their efforts to become productive and self-sufficient members of their communities as they transition back into civilian life,” according to its website.

It was somewhat familiar territory for Chapman, who has multiple family members who served in the military.

“I grew up being surrounded by the military community,” she says. “But I never imagined I’d be involved in that as a career.”

It has worked for her. Within a year, Chapman was promoted to program director for the national nonprofit.

In 2016, she decided to move back to Colorado Springs and has since worked remotely for Sentinels of Freedom. Along the way, another promotion came. Chapman now serves as vice president of programs and sits on the nonprofit’s board of directors.

Chapman has primarily worked with Sentinel’s Bridge for Education, which helps wounded veterans find paths to higher education or other careers. She has helped grow the organization.

From 2007 to 2014, Sentinels of Freedom helped 75 veterans through their Bridge for Education program.

Since 2014, when Chapman joined the team, they have counted 382 veterans as graduates.

“It’s so special to see that even after their military career has come to an end, which is often sudden for them, these veterans still have the vision for something more,” Chapman says. “To see the goals they accomplish for themselves, you know the work you’re doing is impacting the world.”

She also strives to make an impact by volunteering organizations such as UpaDowna, the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women and Colorado Springs Rising Professionals.

Chapman has also been an involved member of the Rotary Club of Colorado Springs since 2016. She earned the 2020 Spirit of Rotary Award and the 2021

Rotarian of the Year. In July, Chapman will take over as the club’s president. At 35, she will be the youngestmember ever to hold that title.

“[Samantha] strives to be a role model in each of these organizations and is a compassionate example of success in the community,” says Chip Frazer, fellow Rotarian. “She builds a better future every day with her community-minded disposition and attitude.”

Kathleen Saltmarsh-Voss, a former Rotary president, says Chapman’s integrity aligns with the club’s guidelines, a four-way test that goes as follows: “Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?”

“Samantha lives this in her professional and personal life,” Saltmarsh-Voss says. “She understands helping others and has a passion for doing good in the community.”

Chapman also has a passion for serving the community with her fellow rotarians, which she counts as family.

“We bond over something greater than ourselves,” she says. “I want to continue to give back however I can. If you have the ability to help, why wouldn’t you?”

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—Amanda Hancock
We bond over something greater than ourselves.”
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WHEN DR. SARA

Saporta-Keating joined Children’s Hospital Colorado in 2019, it marked a first.

She became the Colorado Springs area’s first pediatric epidemiologist. Despite the impressive feat, SaportaKeating would often get some version of this question about her title: “What does that mean?”

That started to change when conversations began about the COVID pandemic.

“All of the sudden everyone knew what infectious disease specialty was and what epidemiology was,” SaportaKeating says.

And suddenly, her work became front and center.

“At the time, we could not have known just how important she would become, not just to our hospital, but to our entire community, to keep our kids healthy and treat those who became ill,” says Greg Raymond, Children’s Hospital Colorado Southern Region president. “It is fair to say that Dr. Saporta-Keating’s efforts have literally saved children’s lives in the Colorado Springs community.”

Saporta-Keating knew from a young age that she wanted to be a doctor. When it came to pediatrics, “I was just like, this is what I wanted to do,” she says. “Kids are much better to treat and more fun than adults.”

She went to University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill for undergrad, then medical school at University of South Florida. She found an interest in studying infectious diseases because the work involved a mix of “every-day cases, head scratchers and the unusual.”

Under the “unusual” category, Saporta-Keating studied global pandemics.

“It’s something people talk about theoretically,” she says. “And then it happened.”

Saporta-Keating describes the early weeks of the pandemic as “surreal” and a “whirlwind,” as her team

navigated the first COVID cases in Colorado Springs.

“It was a huge learning experience for us as a newer hospital,” she says. “We came together at a really solid time.”

In addition to treating kids who got sick during the pandemic, SaportaKeating engaged in many media interviews and public appearances with the goal of educating people about COVID.

“I’m a mom, too,” she says. “So I thought it was important to talk as an infectious diseases specialist and a mom, to relate to people in that way.”

Saporta-Keating then led the hospital’s response to the recent “tridemic” of COVID, the flu and RSV, says Raymond. She also implemented treatment protocols for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, an illness known as MIS-C that has resulted from COVID and can cause inflammation of the heart, lung, blood vessels, kidneys, brain, skin or eyes.

Later this year, Saporta-Keating is scheduled to give a talk about congenital syphilis prevention to judges, child advocates and guardians ad litem as part of an event organized by the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center. The goal, according to Raymond, is to help providers who work with expectant mothers to offer crucial information about “this serious, life-changing disease in children and what they need to do to prevent it.”

“Dr. Saporta-Keating works tirelessly to provide health-enhancing and lifesaving information to all members of our community, including and especially communities of color, who face higher rates of conditions such as severe COVID-19 and congenital syphilis,” says Raymond. “As an advocate for everyone — in the case of congenital syphilis, even the unborn — Dr. Saporta-Keating is passionate about providing all members of our community with the care they need to get well and the information they need to stay healthy.”

In the past few years, Saporta-Keating has learned the importance of rest and spending time with family, including her 5-year-old child. She also learned just how much she enjoys her work.

She hopes, though, that COVID is the “biggest thing I see in my career.”

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We came together at a really solid time.”

SARAH WOODS HAS ALWAYS BEEN passionate about history and writing — fictional or not — so it’s easy to trace the trajectory that landed her the role of Curator of Historical Properties and Archives for the El Pomar Foundation.

“I’ve always enjoyed doing research and sharing the things that I’ve learned with others,” she says. Woods’ role at El Pomar is vast. Through her work, she maintains and displays the fine art collection of early Colorado Springs benefactors Spencer and Julie Penrose — as well as their personal items and ephemera — for the benefit of the community. She also oversees the foundation’s three iconic local properties: the Penrose Heritage Museum, the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun and the Penrose House Conference Center.

She doesn’t have a big staff, but she’s been busy improving and bolstering the foundation’s collections, bringing student groups into their museum and educating them on the Penroses’ philanthropic vision and impact on the city. But her job didn’t start so large — she grew into it thanks to her incredible passion for history.

An Indiana native, she sought her bachelor’s in creative writing at the College of Santa Fe, a school with an intense graduate-level approach to its undergraduate

program. College of Santa Fe faculty had written for television and won Emmy Awards.

Woods took on a research assistant role for a professor’s project on an underground, experimental artist and was told that she had a knack for the work.

“I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know how I’ll be a researcher because I’m not a subject matter expert in anything,’” she says. “I started looking into it and realized that if I became an archivist, I could support other scholars that were subject matter experts by making records available to them and helping them through their research process.”

Failing to find work out west, she moved back to Indiana to pursue her master’s in archives and records management from Indiana University. She took on several notable internships, including NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia.

“They had disbanded their history program in the ‘80s and I think they were the only [center] that didn’t have one,” Woods says. This shocked her because Langley was the epicenter of the United States’ efforts to put people on the moon in the ‘60s. “I was brought in to basically evaluate the status of their history program,” she says. “I got to spend my summer [there] unsupervised because I was a graduate student.”

Her final internship brought her to Colorado Springs and the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee in 2018 at the peak of the Larry Nassar sexual assault scandal. Her boyfriend joined her and they didn’t expect to stay long. But after a month, she interviewed for and got a job offer for the curator role at the El Pomar Foundation, based on her extensive experience.

At first, the foundation was flexible on letting her finish the internship, but they quickly changed their minds and needed her to start right away. Her internship sponsor and advising professor quickly signed off and the couple briefly hopped back to Indiana so she could graduate. Her boyfriend proposed and they packed their life up for something new here on the Front Range.

Through her role, Woods has embedded deeply into the community, making countless connections and partnerships. “When I look at the museum and the foundation and my role is in it, I can identify [several] careers’ worth of work that can be done, which is really exciting,” she says, looking forward to the next five years of her career. “The hard part for me is that I have a tendency to want to do all of it at once and you can’t do that. You’ve got to put one foot in front of the other.”

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I can identify [several] careers’ worth of work that can be done, which is really exciting.”

‘ITHINK PEOPLE [DON’T] realize how truly beautiful they are,” says Tava Reese, owner and founder of ELKE beauty day spa where they believe in holistic, whole-body beauty.

Reese felt other spas funneled their clients toward a specific, uniform look, but ELKE wants clients to be free to be themselves, celebrated for their diversity, and convinced of their own beauty. Through their work, they’re also able to support other local and international nonprofits to help those in need.

Reese realized she was a serial entrepreneur, perpetually seeking to create, rather than manage. “I tend to get bored really fast,” she says. “About three years into any project I start, I tend to say, ‘OK, what can I build next?’”

She dreamt of being a writer — earning her Associate of Communication from Pikes Peak Community College while in high school — but when full-time college didn’t work out, she went to trade school to become a massage therapist, like her mother had been. “I genuinely didn’t go into it saying, ‘Oh, I want to care for people the way that I wasn’t cared for,’” she says. “I chose it because it was a quick school.”

In time, she fell in love with it.

As a freelance massage therapist, she built a loyal base of 300 clients and a network of partner locations where she operated. Embracing whole-body care dovetailed with her growing love for Colorado Springs, and fueled the urge for her to put her own pin in the map. Early in the pandemic, she coordinated a grassroots campaign of clever fundraising and client-supported microloans to make ELKE a reality when government loans were going to big businesses and not altruistic local startups like hers.

But for a long time, Reese wasn’t very attached to this city or really, other people.

Her family moved to Colorado Springs when she was young, members of a fundamentalist Christian group of which her father was a leader. She and her siblings were homeschooled, sheltered from the

influence of the outside world in a church and a home where she never felt like she belonged. Feeling abandoned and alone, she lacked much compassion for others or the social skills required to connect to people outside her upbringing.

Her way forward came from a seemingly unlikely place: working at a Dutch Bros. Coffee shop.

“[It’s] really close to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center, the methadone clinic, a bunch of nursing homes and also Downtown,” she says of the Platte Avenue and Union Boulevard location. “There’s this weird group of people that were really down and out [but] are really having the time of their lives and I got to hear their stories.” It was then, in her early 20s, that Reese says that she finally embraced Colorado Springs despite living here most of her life.

During the pandemic, she went on hiatus from her massage work and took a part-time job at Trader Joe’s just to get by with her boyfriend. Reese ideated different concepts, like a youth hostel and then what she calls a “trade gym” to teach trades informally through mentorship and community, an idea she may still put together some day. She landed on the full-body health spa concept and with the financial help of her clients and the community and the able bodies of her future husband and father-in-law, they demolished and rebuilt their current location by hand, opening at the end of 2020. She even enrolled at UCCS to earn that Bachelor of Communications she always wanted.

For Reese, receiving the Rising Stars recognition feels like a performance review from the city she loves. “[It’s] really neat as a founder because you don’t always get oneon-ones with your boss telling you how you can grow or if you’re going in the right direction,” she says, reflecting on something her husband told her. “People thought that I’m on the right track and it’s nice. I’ll keep going, I guess.”

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Pikes Peak Association of REALTORS 430 N.Tejon St., Colorado Springs80903 719-633-7718;ppar.com

Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado 25 N. Wahsatch Ave., #100, Colorado Springs80903 719-636-1155;bbb.org/us/co/colorado-springs

Colorado Springs Police Protective Association/ Southern Colorado Law Enforcement Foundation 516 N. Tejon St., Colorado Springs80903 719-634-0058;https://csppa.org

El Paso County Medical Society 1155 Kelly Johnson Blvd., Suite 111, Colorado Springs80920 719-591-2424;epcms.org

Apartment Association of Southern Colorado 1365 W. Garden of the Gods Road, #120, Colorado Springs80907 719-264-9195;aaschq.org

Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs 4585 Hilton Parkway, #100, Colorado Springs80907 719-592-1800;cshba.com

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Large well maintained stucco duplex close to Memorial Hospital & the Olympic Training Center. 2753 sq. ft. total. Main level has 3 beds & 1 bath. Lower level has 2 beds & 1 bath. Live in one & rent the other or just rent both. Has been rented for years at under market rents but both tenants are moving out. MLS# 3815436

8378 Freestar Way

The Glen at Widefield - $410,000

Beautiful updated 2100 sq. ft. 4 bed, 2 bath rancher in great neighborhood near military bases, shopping, & dining. Main level master & laundry. Stainless steel appliances. Huge family room/rec room with projector & screen. 2-car garage. New interior paint. All appliances stay including washer & dryer. Move-in ready. Large backyard with garden. Landscaped front yard. MLS# 4610432

2336 Conservatory Point

Springs Canyon - $575,000

Open concept 2673 sq. ft. 3 bed, 3 bath rancher townhome with total 1-level living. No neighbors behind or in front – only deer, pines, & scrub oak. Finished walkout basement. Spacious master suite. A/C. Gas log fireplace. Vaulted & 9’ ceilings. Attached 2-car garage. Stucco & stone exterior. Trex deck & covered patio. $300/mo HOA covers everything outside for you. Move-in ready. Seller will contribute $5000 towards buyers closing costs. MLS# 8308112

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Manitou Springs celebrates collaboration and volunteering through the Manni Awards

Mary Ellen Montgomery has spent years making Manitou more beautiful and sustainable. She helped install an organic, award-winning edible floral garden in Mansions Park, promoted a tree voucher program and helped the city gain Tree City USA status. She is a key member of the Climate Action work group and promotes permaculture methods for landscape stewardship and stormwater management.

Ben Engelhart could fit into multiple categories. He has been a volunteer firefighter for many years with extensive knowledge of Wildland Firefighting. He offers countless volunteer hours teaching/training the community on fire safety and suppression. In addition he volunteers time and his extensive Bee knowledge teaching students and residents about bee keeping. He has always say yes to helping the community, neighbors and friends.

Michelle Tomasik is all about food as a way to sustain and support our community. She started volunteering at the Manitou Springs Pantry after community tragedy inspired her to get more involved. Now the coordinator, she spends about 18 hours per week coordinating, fundraising, cooking for about 100 regulars and finding volunteers. She’s seen a lot of changes post-COVID and worries about food insecurity in our community.

Arlene and Jim Wood have been art advocates in Manitou Springs for more than 40 years. They have generously contributed to Commonwheel Artists Co-op, the Manitou Art Center and art in our town. Back in 1992, Arlene’s vision created Manitou’s Carnivale and parade. For decades, Jim and Arlene have supported Manitou schools and their events. They are role models as citizens who volunteer because they care about community well-being

Barak BenAmots and Ruthie Markwardt

have been cultivating land and community in Manitou Springs since 2015. As stewards of Flying Pig Farm, they served more than 1,200 students and community members in 2022, offering handson opportunities to connect with food, health and our ecological family. Although they have the opportunity to teach learners of all ages, they are forever students themselves of the plants, animals, fungi and living soil, which are our greatest teachers.

Honoring our community leaders and volunteers

2023 Manni Awards Potluck and Live-streamed Event

Join your friends and neighbors to see who wins and celebrate the giving spirit of Manitou Springs.

5:30-8 p.m. Thursday, March 23, at Manitou Springs City Hall, 606 Manitou Ave.

Hosted and produced by Ken Jaray and Shanti Toll

We are proud to announce the 2023 Manni Award finalists

Janie Anderson

Marc Benning

Mike Casey

Carrie Dunlap

Ben Engelhardt

Elanor Fugate

Chris Grow

Ric Hudson

Kat Kilner

Loft Espresso (Justin and Katie Snyder)

Steven Miller

Mary Ellen Montgomery

K8e Orr

Chief Bill Otto

Manuel Pulido

Lairden Rogge

Barak BenAmots and Ruthie Markwardt

Payten Smith

Karl Stang

Amanda Strider

SELECTION COMMITTEE

Mike Talbott

Theo’s Toys

(Amy and Tony Mogck)

Jared Thompson

Michelle Tomasik

Alex Trefry

Hannah Van Nimwegen-McGuire

Kinsey Watts

Meghan Weiss

Jim and Arlene Wood

Councilor Nancy Fortuin, Shanti Toll, Ken Jaray, Natalie Johnson, Denise Howell, Becca Sickbert, Leslie Lewis, Jenna Gallas, Kolleen Johnson, Ralph Routon and Rhonda Van Pelt

A special thank you to the Manitou Springs Women’s Club

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Live-streaming begins at 6:35 p.m. via the Manni Award YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlt7eIG_cdY

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REVIVAL Ruxton

MANITOU’S RUXTON AVENUE HAS seen better days. Aside from a few stalwarts like Ruxton’s Trading Post, the Hemp Store and Hell’s Kitchen Pizza, multiple commercial buildings are standing empty along the corridor. But two new businesses are brightening that picture.

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At first glance, Flowers … and the Moon, 10 Ruxton Ave., and Land of Ozz, 14 Ruxton Ave., don’t seem to have much in common. Jen Barrow’s shop, which opened in early February, has flowers, plants and gifts meticulously arranged in tableaux. Susan and Marc Scozzafava’s store, which opened in midDecember, overflows with colorful items including unique clothing, toys, memorabilia and records.

And yet, all three people are happy to share their

New merchants talk about goals, interests

passions with Manitou Springs’ residents and visitors. All three also enjoy the thrill of finding something special for customers.

Barrow is a California native, part of a family of florists and gardeners. She’d play in her grandfather’s florist shop and sink her fingers into the foam that secures flower stems in vases.

In her early 20s, Barrow was bartending but knew she had to make a change.

She talked her way into her first job in a florist shop, offering to work free for a week. One of the floral designers mentored her before Barrow moved to Durango and started working at a flower shop, where she found another mentor.

She was working as an event florist, which she described as creating “assembly-line florals.” She loved her co-workers and learned a lot from them, but it was physically difficult. So she took a job managing a radiation lab in hopes of having more time with her daughter.

“I’d spend like an hour just kind of futzing around taking care of all of my little plants in my sunroom,” Barrow says. “And all I could think was, ‘I don’t want to go to work. I want to stay here.’ I was miserable.”

So she pulled out the flower shop business plan she’d been tweaking for about 16 years.

Barrow’s husband, Collin, was born in Colorado Springs and raised in Durango, and started working at what is now known as Schriever Space Force Base. After a stint in Alabama, they returned to Colorado.

The Ruxton Avenue building, the former Brazen Bee location, popped up on the market and they found a Manitou house and settled in.

“I don’t ever want to leave. This is where I want to stay,” Barrow says.

She enjoys juxtaposing the natural and man-made, such as tiny succulents nestling in a vintage tool cabinet. She finds unique glass vases and ceramic pots for the flora she sources from a Denver wholesaler, an Arvada greenhouse and her own home. Barrow also belongs to a co-op that connects local florists and farmers.

The Manitou Springs Garden Club has invited her to meetings and she’s on the watch for functional and decorative work from local artists and artisans.

Barrow wants to guide people through selecting flowers for the joyous occasions, such as weddings, and the somber occasions, such as funerals.

“I just want to be there in those moments for the people of Manitou,” she says.

Flowers … and the Moon is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays. Information: 719-419-791, flowersandmoon.com.

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A quick walk southwest and a world away, the Land of Ozz awaits. Marc Scozzafava’s family name is Italian 10 Ruxton Ave. shop.
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for “keeper of the beans.” His Army buddies started calling him “Sergeant Ozz,” and the nickname stuck. He’s served 32 years throughout the world and will retire in about six months.

Marc was transferred to Fort Carson and, about three years ago, he and his wife launched the original Land of Ozz on Pueblo’s Union Avenue, home to unique shops, galleries and antiques stores.

Last October, they were eating at Hell’s Kitchen and Susan decided to take a closer look at the empty buildings on Ruxton.

“This one was available, so we made an appointment to look at it,” Marc says. After negotiating terms, they had the keys.

It took about three weeks to prepare the shop to open. Marc would carve out time after his military duties and often slept in a chair in the back room.

Maybe the most important thing to know about the Scozzafavas: Their first date was at a New Jersey flea market. There, Susan found an old Charlie Brown doll like one she had as a child, and Marc found an old Ouija board.

They were hooked. They began going to auctions and estate sales, and when they started living together, they set up a room dedicated to their collections.

They’d buy a box of items just to get the one they’d fallen in love with, then sell off the other stuff and make their money back. And they started making a profit.

But for them, it’s not about the money.

“It’s never about the sale. It’s always about the find,” Susan says.

They hate to see a favorite item go out the door, but “you’re glad somebody loves it as much as you enjoyed finding it,” Marc says.

The shop’s prices are generally 20 to 70 percent under retail values online, Marc says. And, if a customer pays cash, the Scozzafavas will pay the tax.

“We want people to come in and have a great experience,” Susan says. “I have never taken advantage of somebody. If

they come in here with an album that’s worth $100, we’re not going to give them $2.”

Marc estimates the Manitou shop has 5,000 record albums and 45s, but that fluctuates constantly.

“The record selection is outstanding, I think. We hand-pick everything,” he says.

Except for a little water damage on some poster mats, their offerings are pristine, and anything with an autograph is certified as authentic.

“I’ve got probably 5,000 posters in storage. If somebody tells me what they’re looking for, I can tell them if I have it,” Marc says.

Clint Hensley

2/6/60 – 1/28/23

They still love to drive to the “middle of nowhere” and find gems at estate sales. Susan has three sisters in New Jersey who snap up things she’ll like and ship them west. Twice a year, the Scozzafavas go to estate sales in Las Vegas. People can also drop off a box of stuff and Susan will evaluate it and make an offer.

They have no intention of leaving Ruxton Avenue anytime soon.

“We love the town. It has our vibe,” Susan says.

Land of Ozz is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays and closes an hour earlier on Sundays. Information: 719-388-6191.

Dear

Friends, Clint Hensley, longtime merchant of The Poppy Seed and The Trippin’ Troll shops, will be forever missed. This year marks 20 years that The Poppy Seed retail store has been in Manitou Springs, and operated by his

Family. Back in 2009, the then Business Improvement District BID President, Clint Hensley was captured in a Gazette photo; hanging out a tapestry, and quoted as saying, “When the tie-dye’s out, we’re open”. It is with heavy hearts that Laura his wife and Tom his son, are sharing the news of Clint’s peaceful passing, surrounded by the ones he laughed with, lived for, and loved. A final tie-dye tapestry will be available to sign at Clint Hensley’s 2/6/60 – 1/28/23 Celebration of Life on March 18th.

~ Peace and Love.

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care more affordable in Colorado; bolster

WHEN THIS NEW LEGISLATIVE session began back in early January, we lawmakers committed ourselves to doing several critical things: help make housing and health care more affordable in Colorado; bolster the state’s workforce; protect children; provide more resources for our students, teachers, and schools; and mitigate against our state’s frequent catastrophic wildfires.

I’m working with Rep. Regina English (D-HD17) to update our laws about youth offenders being held in adult jail, so our laws align with federal requirements.

to update our laws about youth offenders being eral requirements. working Vigil (D-HD16) on a bill allowing

The legislation

The legislation we’ve introduced and been working on helps achieve these goals, and more.

For example, Sen. Lisa Cutter (D-SD20) and I are working together to create a Wildfire Resiliency Code Board, a panel of experts to create statewide building codes and minimum safety standards for buildings in urban areas next to wildland areas, to help reduce wildfire destructiveness. If buildings are built properly, they’re less likely to burn in wildfires — and we want those safety standards enacted statewide.

Sen. Rhonda Fields (D-SD28) and I are running a bill to protect the identities of minor children who are the victims or witnesses of serious crimes, by redacting their names from criminal justice records which get released to the public. This commonsense bill will help protect Colorado’s children and ensure the victims and witnesses of crimes are protected from unnecessary exposure.

And the Legislature’s also working to help schools hire more mental health therapists for students, by letting schools and districts hire certain mental health professionals who are not licensed by the Department of Education but do hold a Colorado license for their profession, to work with licensed special service providers on mental health supports for students.

The legislation we’re working on — and where it is in the legislative process — can all be found on the Legislature’s website: leg.colorado.gov. Everything you could ever want to know about the work we do is on that website, and I encourage you to check it out.

This is my first term as a state senator, for Senate District 11, after serving four terms in the House as a representative for House District 17. I’m excited to now be in the Senate and to be working with the

I’m working with Rep. Stephanie Vigil (D-HD16) on a bill allowing prospective tenants to present a [reusable] screening report as part of their application to rent.

And being bipartisan, I’m also working with Sen. Rod Pelton (R-SD35) and Rep. Rose Pugliese (R-HD14) on a bill to give county public hospitals more freedom from (and more accountability to) the county governments which created them. This bill passed unanimously through the Senate and is working its way now through the House.

So, that’s what we’ve been working on so far. What are we working on next?

Now, as we approach the midway point of session, we’re about to begin working on the state budget — deciding how much money we can spend on education, on transportation, on health care, on public safety, and on all the areas of state government.

This year’s state budget is expected to be about $40.7 billion, coming from a variety of money sources to pay for everything our state government does in the year. Of that $40.7 billion, $14.7 billion will come from the state’s General Fund, which is distributed by the Colorado Legislature.

How do we decide how much to spend and where to spend it? The governor makes his recommendations to the Legislature, we discuss and debate it, and take public input as we do, and then vote on the spending bills which fund our government.

It’s an open and transparent process, accessible to anyone who wishes to participate, and I would encourage everyone to follow along when we begin that process shortly.

This session is going well — we’re working hard to pass good legislation for the people of Colorado. And we will continue working hard until session ends in mid-May.

Tony Exum (D) is a state senator representing District 11. He can be reached at tony.exum.senate@coleg.gov.

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2023 Manni Awards: Education and Learning Award finalists

These are the Manitou Springs School District 14 employees who are finalists for the 2023 Manni Awards, which will be awarded on Thursday, March 23. School district leadership has selected these people for their admirable commitment to, and hard work for, their schools, the students and their community.

Carrie Dunlap has been teaching art at Manitou Springs Elementary School for a decade. She’s been a resident for the past 17 years and both of her children have attended D14 schools since pre-school.

“The kids are the best part of teaching in Manitou. They are so kind, thoughtful and hard-working. The staff at Manitou Springs Elementary School radiates a love for children and an enthusiasm for their learning that is infectious,” Carrie said.

Janie Anderson is the director of safety and security at Manitou Springs School District 14. Since Janie started with the school district, she has developed protocols for all aspects of safety and security for students and staff. This includes daily operations, safety drills and protocols, managing the security at each building and after-school activities and events. Janie describes her co-workers as family members.

“People think I am crazy for working full-time after retiring. … I love my job and I care about keeping staff and students safe at school,” she said.

Mike Talbott has been teaching and coaching for nine years at Manitou Springs High School, where he is heavily involved. After a 30-year career in the Army, he sought to teach at MSHS because he believes it is the best way to serve his country and community at this stage of his life.

Mike is also the Key Club adviser. Club membership has increased from 11 to 32 members, has collectively served more than 3,000 volunteer hours and raised more than $5,000 to benefit children.

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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.

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NIGHTINGALE Bread

WHAT’S CONSISTENTLY ONE of the longest lines in town?

The Saturday morning bread line outside of nearly 6-year-old Nightingale Bread, filled with loyal devotees. We know the house artisan breads are fabulous, and so are Nightingale’s pastries, but there’s something new to be excited about: hoagies.

Owner/baker David McInnis has launched an initial lineup of three hoagies (to be followed soon by a few more), available during part of the regular hours — Wednesdays to Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. (They open at 8 a.m., and special pizza service remains relegated to Thursday and Friday nights from 5 to 8 p.m.) He says this initial rollout is the early form of Nightingale becoming a hoagie shop as much as a bakery.

I try each: one meat, one vegetarian and one vegan. I can say they’re all excellent in their own unique ways, and McInnis and crew are great curators of fine products to highlight the house breads. Each hoagie comes on a modified version of the house baguette, sized for sandwiches and topped with sesame seeds. Foot-long sandwiches are $11

(the vegan and vegetarian) and $13 (the meat). The vegan Fern Gully sports delicious, soft roasted carrots with snappy cucumber, peppery arugula, and tangy pickled red onion and cilantro-lime-jalapeño vegan mayo for a creamy/ faintly spicy finish. While the Billy Goat hosts roasted onion and red pepper with cucumber and arugula again, but an herbed goat cheese spread that’s just delightful and rich.

Lastly, there’s an Italian, with an option (at no added cost) for a Spicy Italian, which adds a potently piquant cherry pepper spread (I recommend) to a lovely, layered mix of capicola, prosciutto and soppressata with provolone and fixings that included onion, tomato, cabbage and both olive oil and golden balsamic vinaigrette plus oregano for a herbaceous finish to that acid pop. It’s an absolutely outstanding sandwich.

As I say in my full write-up at sixty35media. org, “If you’re reading this and Nightingale Bread’s entirely new to you, I wager if you get any one of the above hoagies, you’ll be pleased enough to understand what the long lines at the bakery are all about.”

HUMBLE Coffee

OVER A HANDFUL OF REVIEW

visits since Humble Coffee’s launch in 2014 as a drive-thru at 2103 Templeton Gap Road, I’ve tried every signature latte drink on the menu. It’s hard to pass up the Wildflower (a hemp milk chai latte) or Debonair (peanut butter mocha), but on my most recent jaunt to this new (3-month-old) Downtown location, I decide to revisit the Aloha, a coconut and lavender latte that I order half sweet (my routine for all syrup-infused lattes) with a coconut milk substitute to exaggerate the island vibe. The house white espresso they use in the drink adds a notable caffeine kick, and its stylistic peanut-buttery flavor plays well off the coconut syrup’s sweet, inherent nuttiness, with the floral backnote of the calming lavender.

I pair it with a double chocolate muffin for an immediate, concurrently sugary treat, with a moist

crumb and complementary richness that helps pull the coffee notes out from all the drink’s overlaying flavors. I also nab half a turkey wrap from a graband-go cooler stocked with house breakfast burritos and bowls, and a few sandwiches purveyed by Colonel Mustard’s Sandwich Emporium. The thick wrap does come with a choice of chips for $9.25 total, and presents a green spinach tortilla folded around juicy Boar’s Head OvenGold roasted turkey breast slices, Swiss cheese and bacon with avocado, tomato and lettuce garnishes, The Colonel’s Special Sauce (not super noticeable) and a couple side packets of mayo and mustard. It doesn’t reinvent anything, but is totally fresh and good for what it is.

Keep an eye out for Humble’s first franchise location sometime around this summer, to be located at 4797 Barnes Road. That will provide one more place locally to say Aloha (and receive a latte in return).

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If all goes according to plan, Folklore will open on St. Patrick’s Day, replacing what was Lucky Dumpling for the past four years at 26 S. Wahsatch Ave. The project — an Irish pub — retains chef/owner Brother Luck, who will be joined by Wobbly Olive/Allusion Speakeasy owner Sean Fitzgerald heading up the adjacent fine cocktail lounge, The Tipperary.

Fitzgerald will launch with 12 “forgotten classic cocktails that have a really fun story behind them,” alongside his team’s modern interpretations. “That’s the connection to Folklore’s concept of storytelling,” says Luck. For his part, he’ll make traditional Irish fare like lamb stew, fish n’ chips and shepherd’s pie, to be served next to expected Guinness beer and Jameson whiskey at a main bar.

The two have much more to say in my full blog at sixty35media.org, including why Luck closed Lucky Dumpling and the deets on The Studio upstairs that Luck has converted into an intimate, 24-seat space for five-course meals.

Folklore will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; midnight on weekends; with The Tipperary opening daily at 4 p.m.

“I don’t think you’ll find anyone around here who can do a spiedie as authentically as Chad and I can,” says Mark. “We’re bringing our upbringing into this product….”

Their story, told in more detail at sixty35media.org, highlights how the business is named for their mom, who was a “mess specialist — a.k.a. cook in the Navy.” Most of their spiedie recipes are hers or ones she and her sons refined together. (With the exception of a new vegan portobello mushroom sandwich.)

Go for items like the buffalo chicken spiedie and the Italian Beef (recently repopularized by the hit TV show The Bear) which does get dressed up a little with horseradish cream, pepperoncini and optional provolone cheese.

It’s counter service only now, open 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. daily (with late-night service for adjacent Allusion Speakeasy customers), and there’s a grab-and-go case for a quick lunch plus a market that sells house-marinated meats and side items.

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MARCH First Friday

10 galleries brought plenty of emotions this First Friday

STORY AND PHOTOS BY NICK RAVEN | nraven@sixty35media.org

MANITOU ART CENTER

Pikes Peak Watercolor Society exhibition

513 Manitou Ave.

Through April 1

Nearly 40 artists from the Pikes Peak Watercolor Society brought work to the MAC’s Hagnauer Gallery in celebration of their own longtime official and booster Reveille Kennedy. Her nature-themed paintings are filled with exquisite detail and observations of light. The Society’s sheer variety of paintings on display will stretch what you may think is possible with the medium. Highlights include Beth Gramith’s trippy “Psychedelic Moose,” Susan Marion’s haphazardly organized “White Chairs,” Carol Groesbeck’s cold mountain panorama in her “Off the Grid” and Laurel Bahe’s cynical owl in “Oh Really?”

LIGHTSPEED CURATIONS

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2023 First Friday art walk was a frenetic 10-gallery adventure that would challenge any art lover’s stamina. Here are the wonders we experienced on this month’s trip down the

Capturing Moments in Time by various artists

306 S. 25th St. Through March 31

Curator Jessica de la Luna called in six of her photographer friends for LightSpeed’s Capturing Moments show and they all brought the fire. Brian Tryon’s earnest snaps of American life in thick white mats worked alongside Mac Coplin’s kinetic jiujitsu scenes. Forrest Boutin’s local landscapes printed on metal served as great neighbors to Mathieu Burton’s hyper-saturated unicorn fantasies. Richard Lorenzen’s metal bicycle sculpture for the exhibit was reportedly very heavy while Aaron Graves’ high-contrast street noir pieces and Tony Graham’s quintet of BDSM portraits rounded out a captivating show.

THE BRIDGE GALLERY

Clay by various artists

218 W. Colorado Ave., #104

Through March

If you want to pack The Bridge Gallery full, invite a bunch of potters. Clay, their newest exhibition featuring venerable local legends like Mark Wong, Clyde Tullis and Rui Haagen among others — as well as the gallery’s own Michael Cellan — filled The Bridge’s space with ornate cups, vases and prints alongside standalone sculptures on pedestals. A highlight was a series of otherworldly gems in earthen bowls by Maxine and Don Green.

THE COMMONS GALLERY

Student Invitational by various artists

218 W. Colorado Ave.

Through March

smorgasbord of styles and medi-

abstracts and Marcia Sage’s

kitty cat formed from a blind

Next door in the Commons Gallery, Chris Alvarez of Alvarez Gallery & Art School, Yellow Couch Creative’s Jana Bussanich and Trevor Thomas have put on a show by their students and alumni. The paintings are a smorgasbord of styles and mediums brought to life by incredible talents, but favorites were Jessica Wheler’s pair of vibrant blue and pink water-stained abstracts and Marcia Sage’s kitty cat formed from a blind drawing exercise.

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UCCS DOWNTOWN

Board Member Show by Pikes Peak Arts Council

102 S. Tejon St., #105-A

Through March

The email invite was very specific that the Pikes Peak Arts Council’s new exhibit was not in UCCS’ GOCA space in Plaza of the Rockies, but across the street at their Downtown campus. Mistakes were still made. Venue weirdness aside, the works on display packed a punch. Jerry Rhodes’ intricately detailed vases with bonsai toppers required close inspection. Sam Ken’s “Pressure” paintings feature regular people pressed against what look like invisible panes of glass in what he calls “a physical manifestation of pressure in each of the subject’s lives.”

GALLERY113

Suzy McDowell and Jane Hammoud

125 N. Tejon St.

Through March

Gallery113’s window displays teased this month’s pair of highlighted artists — the gallery’s own painter Suzy McDowell and potter Jane Hammoud — but the magic was really inside with more of their work, a smattering of artists, First Friday tourists and wine. Display setter Irv Middlemist was afraid that base green fabric made for an easy St. Patrick’s Day reference, but it worked well to highlight the duo’s work. McDowell’s abstracts and landscapes paired well with Hammoud’s practical and vegetation-inspired pottery.

ART 1ELEVEN GALLERY Sparky LeBold

111 E. Bijou St.

Through March 31

Sparky LeBold’s paintings of shores and horizons from his time in Portugal feel rich — practically luxurious. His compositions glow through incredible use of color and his frames are black, gold, or some combination thereof. But the scenes he’s prepared here, some in small scale, others blown up to fill massive canvases, rely on his imagination to fill in the details as he doesn’t use photo references. LeBold’s strokes don’t need to firmly define his scenes — his art gives you the tools to do it on your own. To see his waves crash against rugged shores and sunsets torching ribbons of cloud is to almost feel like you’re there.

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G44 GALLERY Water Rites by Shannon Dunn

121 E. Boulder St.

Through March

Going from Sparky LeBold’s shorelinethemed exhibition to another, Shannon Dunn has plenty of ideas about the sea to experiment with. Her work thrives in defined spaces with incredible details, like flawless air bubbles in her underwater scenes. But for Water Rites, Dunn also experiments with foam and resin to craft threedimensional tableaux — as if she froze sections of an erupting shoreline and put a frame around them. In bigger foam displays, she even installed color-shifting LEDs to sell the emotion of a roaring sea while stalactite-esque sculptures hung from the ceiling.

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KREUSER GALLERY

Loom by Jess Ritter, Lathe by Jo Murto and I used to cover my mirrors by Sophia Hanna

125 E. Boulder St.

Through March

Like a three-course dinner at the end of a great journey, Kreuser Gallery offered a feast for the eyes. Jess Ritter’s tapestries are complex, slowly made works that evoke ideas of folklore and Southwestern mesas. Jo Murto’s similarly complex wooden sculptures and playful works are a joy, requiring incredible amounts of precision crafting. In the main hall, Sophia Hanna’s extremely vulnerable self-exhibition shows a journey in and out of her own body dysphoria. She composites herself against herself, paints herself melting into a rug of her own creation and shows the world what she learned about herself in ways that are as clear as the transparent frames used for her most vulnerable poses.

in ways that are as clear as the

THE GARFIELD GALLERY

Your Slip Is Showing by Jasmine Dillavou

322 E. Willamette Ave.

Through March

As the night wound down, our final stop was Jasmine Dillavou’s Your Slip Is Showing at The Garfield Gallery. Like visiting a friend of a friend’s house on the quiet residential fringe of Downtown, the gallery’s basement setting, soothing magenta lights and E J R M’s ethereal guitar augmented Dillavou’s tale of being a young woman. The exhibit felt like the inside of a dream, a stream of consciousness punctuated by poetry and teenage ephemera in fragile displays of tossed-about papers. Explorations like hers pack an emotional wallop, bringing about the end of great tours with a new-to-you story to reflect on.

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LIVE MUSIC IS SO SPECIAL BECAUSE IT brings a new dimension and energy to the music. You see how the musician delivers their art and it can make or break the overall experience. Maybe the band you love plays everything perfectly like it sounds on the record — but they’re not moving. Or maybe they change things up and inject a new energy into some familiar sounds. I prefer the latter of the two and believe that live interaction is an extremely important part of music.

Two of the most incredible live performers I have ever seen aren’t playing Red Rocks; they play small clubs, DIY spaces and even houses. I’m referring to New Haven, Connecticut’s Ceschi Ramos and Venezuela’s Zeta. Both acts are no strangers to Colorado Springs. They’ve performed here several times and, on Sunday the 19th, they will be combining forces at The Black Sheep. Zeta plays a vibrant blend of Latin psychedelic infused with modern posthardcore and punk — intense drumming with energy and positivity brimming throughout the entire set. Whether this is your style of music or not, the energy is contagious and you’ll have a giant smile on your face the whole time. Ceschi is coming out specifically to play with his friends in Zeta and to perform in Colorado Springs again after more than a year. He plays a furious blend of hip-hop and acoustic folk punk all wrapped in a thick layer of punk/ hardcore. He puts more energy into his shows than a fivepiece metal band.

before joining Ceschi on a two-week tour with his new punk/hip-hop band Codefendants. It’s a project consisting of Ceschi, Get Dead’s Sam King , and NOFX legend Fat Mike. They released a 10-inch on Fat Mike’s Fat Wreck Chords and will release a full-length album on March 24. Making this project even more epic, Zeta will lend their precision and energy as Codefendants’ touring band while also playing Zeta sets for most of the shows. Some of these will be NOFX’s final shows in their Punk in Drublic series. Joining Zeta and Ceschi this Sunday are post-rock greats Autumn Creatures and blackened crust from Upon a Field’s Whisper (disclaimer: UAFW is my band), which has a song with Ceschi that you might just hear live.

THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER SHOWS GOING ON this Saint Patrick’s Day Weekend! So get ready for people who found out on 23andMe that they are .002 percent Irish pounding green beer, watching The Departed, and blasting Flogging Molly! Yeah, that doesn’t sound fun to me either. But if you’re looking for something more engaging, there’s lots going on.

Zeta is stopping here in the middle of a big two-month tour celebrating 20 years as a band. Many of their tour dates included the mathcore/hardcore group The Fall of Troy, which has been able to show off their goods to people who’ve never seen them before. After this tour ends in early April, they have a couple weeks to regroup

On Friday, March 17, head to Vultures for some ripping metal from Denver’s Necropanther, Suicide Cages and Chamber Mage. Nothing screams St. Paddy’s day more than ABBA, so The Black Sheep will be hosting another Gimme Gimme Disco night. You can also head to Manitou for some local rock tunes from Antivirus at Lulu’s! Saturday is now upon us and there are two very cool shows to choose from. At The Triple Nickel, punk rockers Off With Their Heads will play as a two-piece (drum and guitar) with Spells and The Sleights’ Luke Blanton Off With Their Heads brings fast-driving punk rock mixed with melody and passion. If theatrics and riffs are more your thing, you can head down to Sunshine Studios Live for legendary British metal outfit Cradle of Filth, joined by DevilDriver. Cradle Of Filth has been playing theatrical black metal since the early ’90s and hasn’t slowed down yet. DevilDriver is fronted by Coal Chamber vocalist Dez Fafara, and takes a more furious approach to metal. The weekend isn’t over yet. There are some ways to wind down on Sunday — like head to Lulu’s for some indie college rock from Coral Grief and Tiny Tomboy

Melding goth and folk with an undercurrent of comical storytelling could be a recipe for missteps, but Brooklyn’s Charming Disaster duo makes it work. In their fifth album Super Natural History (sr/Bandcamp), Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris boiled the witch’s brew down to a perfect ghostly script paying homage to science. Earlier works sampled murder ballads on the side, but here they offer a scholastic treatise on “Manta Rays” that could serve as a young adult’s zoology crib sheet.

Bisker and Morris are clearly engaged in a labor of love, evident in the streaming shows they produced during lockdown. The album is skewed to science more than earlier ones, but songs like “Monsters” and “Hellebore” can work as Halloween soundtracks or goth creepy-tales as much as they serve a scientific agenda.

ALSO NEW & NOTEWORTHY

Shame, Food for Worms (Dead Oceans) – South London quintet Shame was pegged as “post-punk” for their first two albums, implying profound morosity and plodding guitars. In this third album, Shame displays the type of mania favored by new British groups such as Yard Act and Squid, in tracks like “Six-Pack” and “Yankees.” Yet they’re getting the most attention for the slowcore “Adderal” that recalls the band’s earlier days, even though The Hold Steady wrote a much better song for that prescription drug.

Iris DeMent, Workin’ On a World (Flariella Records) – Was it a desire for social commentary that pulled Iowa roots legend DeMent out of retirement, or the fact that her husband Greg Brown retired from performing in January? In any event, DeMent’s new one provides reason to rejoice, with upbeat arrangements featuring Memphis-style horns. DeMent’s usual focus on Appalachian traditionalism is steered back to politics with the aid of step-daughter Pieta Brown, yielding social justice subjects as strong as the tracks from DeMent’s 1996 album The Way I Should

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UNNATURAL selections

Are streaming music services gaming the system against new artists?

IT’S FASHIONABLE THESE days to beat up on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Meta’s newly introduced LLaMA, but lesser algorithms are beginning to get their fair share of criticism as well. Specifically, the algorithms that select what music pops up uninvited into your Spotify, Apple and Amazon Prime playlists. It’s not because we’re being exposed to shitty music — although there is that — so much as it is the increasing evidence that streaming media platforms are gaming the system against new and emerging artists.

Last week, at its second-ever “Stream On” event, Spotify touted various promotional tools that it’s making available to record companies, including a pay-toplay scheme in which they can inform the streaming service’s algorithm about priority releases in exchange for a 30 percent reduction in royalty rates.

Meanwhile, a new wave of streaming music service criticisms is coming from artists, labels, and even politicians. One of the prime movers is, in fact, the British Parliament, which commissioned a 122-page, 694-footnote report titled “The Economy of Music Streaming.” While far from conclusive, the study does raise a number of concerns that algorithms are, in fact, being used to create an uneven playing field, so much so that it advised the government to take immediate action.

“We have deep concerns about the position of the major music companies and call on the Government to support the independent sector,” the report concluded. “We recommend a broad yet comprehensive range of legislative reforms and regulatory interventions to deal with these issues.”

Back in the real world, the possibility of such interventions remains negligible. In the U.S., the U.K. and throughout Europe, the clear and present danger of choice is TikTok, as politicians and pundits issue dire warnings that our user data is being given to the Chinese government instead of the multinational corporations to whom it rightfully belongs.

Still, the criticism of current streaming music practices continues. Earlier this year, Universal Music Group chief Lucian Grainge called upon the industry to adopt a yet-to-be specified new model that “supports all artists — DIY, indie and major.” Sincere or not, it’s an interesting statement coming from the chairman and CEO of a company that controls more than 30 percent of the world’s music, including artists who occupied four of the five top positions on Spotify’s 2022 most-streamed music ranking.

Meanwhile, the U.K.’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation weighed in last month with its own report. Music algorithms, they warned, could reflect “biases that may subsequently reduce new music discovery, homogenize taste and disempower self-releasing artists.”

Granted, major labels have been doing all of those since they first came into existence. But streaming media didn’t get in on the act until two decades ago, when Pandora unveiled its “Music Genome Project.” Early adopters were allowed to choose a single track, which the streaming service’s AI would dutifully play for them before setting out on its own musical journey, with each subsequent selection determined by a mathematical analysis of some 450 musical “genes” that had been identified by the company’s “team of trained musicologists.”

Think of it as The Six Degrees of Ed Sheeran or, back in those days, Coldplay. If, for example, a subscriber wanted to hear Sleater-Kinney’s “The Ballad of a Ladyman,” it was only a matter of time before they were led to Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl.” Choose Public Enemy’s “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” and, within the hour, you would likely hear OutKast’s “Hey Ya!” Opt for Alice Coltrane’s “Turiya and Ramakrishna,” and the team of trained musicologists would be sent back to the drawing board.

WHEN IT COMES TO THE ART OF persuasion, music algorithms have since become much more sophisticated, subtle

and patient. The journey from Weyes Blood to Ed Sheeran begins with a single step, and continues with however many more are necessary.

and patient. The

Which is not to say the AIs are acting on their own volition. After all, they’re just following orders.

Last week’s Spotify event also saw the unveiling of the company’s latest technological marvel, a personalized artificial intelligence-powered DJ that will play you a “perfect selection of music, enriched with relevant context, in a stunningly realistic AI voice.”

Spotify calls it “an AI DJ in your pocket,” which is kind of creepy. Still, I tried it out and was immediately impressed by how much the voice does sound like an AI.

“I know what you listen to,” it told me, “I can see you playing Gerry Rafferty every day.”

Which was weird, since, as far as I

know, I haven’t heard a Gerry Rafferty song in ages. But like a schizophrenic wedding DJ attempting to clear the dance floor at all costs, my personalized AI DJ went on to play “Baker Street,” followed by Van Halen’s “Jump,” Arlo Parks’ “Impurities,” Captain Beefheart’s “Tropical Hot Dog Night,” Sandy Denny’s “Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” a live version of The Mamas & The Papas’ “Dedicated to the One I Love,” and I lost track after that.

How all this will lead to Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift, I have no idea. But I know it’s just a matter of time.

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THE BRIEFING

CORONER ISSUES UPDATE ON CADET’S DEATH

Park County Coroner David A. Kintz has issued a preliminary report on the March 6 death of Air Force Academy Cadet 1st Class Cole Kilty, 22. The cadet’s death was the result of a self-inflicted injury, Kintz said, according to the county’s official website. He will release a full report in eight to 10 weeks, per usual county procedures.

Kilty was from Elk Grove Village, Illinois. He was to be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force after graduating this spring. Kilty planned to enter an undergraduate pilot training later this year, according to an Air Force Academy release.

“Today, we mourn the loss of a cherished member of our cadet wing,” Lt. Gen. Richard M. Clark, AFA superintendent, said in the release. “Cole was known for being a friend to others, for his jokes and his unique ability to find humor in any situation — from everyday life to a tough training event. I extend my personal condolences to his family, his squadron and his friends.”

Agents from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations also worked

to determine Kilty’s cause of death.

This is the second death of an AFA cadet so far this school year. Sophomore cadet Hunter Brown died in January of a blood clot in his lungs, the result of clotting in his legs that developed after an injury during football practice.

LEADERS CALL ON BIDEN TO KEEP SPACE COMMAND HERE

Gov. Jared Polis and Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera sent a letter March 8 to President Biden to reaffirm Colorado’s position as the premier home for U.S. Space Command and urging him to restore integrity to the basing decision process.

Polis, Primavera and state legislators and leaders wrote, “USSPACECOM has continued to prove its ability

to ensure our national security in the space domain from Peterson Space Force Base. The threat landscape has changed considerably since January 2021, including Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, and China’s global saber-rattling.

“These realities make the achievement of [full operational capacity] as quickly as possible vital to our national security. We face an immediate and existential threat in the space domain. We cannot allow a flawed and costly political decision to threaten our national security and military readiness.”

In their letter, the leaders note that in December 2020, the Polis-Primavera administration and more than 600 Colorado leaders called on then-President Donald Trump to keep the U.S. Space Command in Colorado, rather than move it to Alabama.

“Colorado Springs provides the existing infrastructure and the secure and redundant communications platforms necessary to successfully host this vital mission without committing restrictive additional funds,” the letter reads. “The financial cost of attempting to rebuild what Colorado has spent continued on p. 60

U.S. Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, center, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. John Shaw, right, U.S. Space Command deputy commander, participated in a discussion on “Evolving Threats: Protecting the Homeland” at the 2023 Air & Space Forces Association’s Warfare Symposium in Aurora.

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decades developing will require significant taxpayer dollars. In addition to the pre-existing infrastructure, since January 2021, the Department of Defense has invested further funds in Colorado Springs to develop the mission capabilities necessary to successfully operate USSPACECOM.

Colorado’s aerospace economy has grown more than 30 percent in the past five years and remains 12 percent above the national average.

‘FURTHER ANALYSIS’ NEEDED ABOUT COMMAND MOVE

At the Air and Space Force Association’s Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said March 7 that further analysis is needed before a final decision about moving U.S. Space Command from Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.

Officials had said that an environmental study, completed in September 2022, was one of the last steps before the decision could be made. At the symposium, Kendall said that one concern relates to having two combatant commands in Colorado, with U.S. Northern Command being the other.

Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet spoke to Congress in February, saying that moving the command would cause delays at a time when tensions with China are increasing. Congressional Republicans, including Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, say the delayed decision and the criticism are politically motivated; former President Donald Trump has said the move was his decision.

Bennet has also spoken about the effect of state abortion bans on military readiness and national security and urged the Department of Defense to consider access to reproductive care when making major basing and personnel decisions — including the permanent home of U.S. Space Command.

Currently, the Pentagon does not consider access to reproductive care when making basing and personnel decisions.

Bennet’s full speech is available at twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1djxXlARMvOxZ.

FLUTIST IN FOCUS DURING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

Fort Carson is spotlighting Sgt. Emily Daley, a flutist with the 4th Infantry Division Band, during March, which is Women’s History Month. Daley grew up in a musical family and spent years teaching music, then realized that gave her few opportunities to perform. After seeing a military band, she decided to enlist.

She and the band appear at community events, military ceremonies, concerts and parades as part of Fort Carson’s effort to strengthen connections between the post and the Colorado Springs community.

“Being in the Army is about pursuing my passion as a musician as well as bettering myself as a person and as a leader through all of the opportunities the Army has to offer,” Daley said.

USAFA REPORTS RISE IN SEXUAL ASSAULTS

Unwanted sexual contact reports are way up at the Air Force Academy, according to the latest report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies for the 2021-22 academic year, released March 10 by the Department of Defense.

The annual report has its beginnings in the sexual assault scandal that erupted at the Air Force Academy in 2003 when several victims went public with complaints that the Academy didn’t prosecute cases of sexual assault or take action against the accused rapists.

The survey found that:

• 22.3 percent of USAFA women indicated experiencing unwanted sexual contact in the past year, a statistically significant increase from 15.4 percent in 2018.

• USAFA women experienced a statistically significant increase in rates of unwanted touching as well as attempted and completed penetration in 2022. For USAFA women, 6.4 percent indicated experiencing unwanted touching; 8.7 percent attempted penetration; and 7.2 percent indicated experiencing completed penetration (compared to 4.8 percent, 5.5 percent, and 5.0 percent in 2018).

• Moreover, there was a statistically significant increase in rates of unwanted sexual contact experienced by female fourth-year cadets (12.8 percent, up from 8.8 percent in 2018), female third-year cadets (30 percent, up from 18.5 percent in 2018), and female firstyear cadets (20.5 percent, up from 13.6 in 2018) compared to 2018. Also, 6.6 percent of female fourth-year cadets indicated experiencing attempted penetration, a statistically significant increase from 2.8 percent in 2018. Similarly, female third-year cadets also indicated experiencing statistically higher rates of unwanted touching (7.1 percent) and attempted penetration (12.9 percent) in 2022 compared to 2018 (3.4 percent versus 7.7 percent).

• Lastly, female first-year female cadets indicated experiencing statistically higher rates of unwanted touching (8.6 percent) and completed penetration (6.5 percent) compared to 2018 (4.9 percent versus 2.5 percent).

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The survey also found that 4.3 percent of USAFA men indicated experiencing unwanted sexual contact in the past year, a statistically significant increase from 1.8 percent in 2018. USAFA men also indicated experiencing statistically higher rates of unwanted touching in 2022 as compared to 2018 (2.1 percent versus 0.8 percent) and completed penetration in 2022 compared to 2018 (1 percent versus 0.3 percent).

WHEN YOU’RE SERIOUS ABOUT REAL ESTATE

Those results led USAFA Superintendent Lt. Gen. Richard Clark to issue a release saying, “Today’s report identifies an unacceptable increase in unwanted sexual contact of our cadets. There is nothing that erodes trust and tears down teams faster than sexual harassment and violence. As Warfighters this impacts the mission and our readiness. We need a culture reset. Those found to have per-

petrated sexual harassment and violence under my command will be held accountable. Every single complaint is taken seriously and will be handled in line with local laws and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

“Last fall, I directed a holistic Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Redesign. We brought together cadets, alumni, permanent party, our Sexual Assault Prevention and Response team and national subject matter experts as the culmination of our redesign efforts,” said Clark. “Our goal was to identify what works and what doesn’t in our training and our culture. I asked for bold thinking to find solutions that create an environment where everyone is safe from physical and emotional harm.”

Clark also noted he’s ordered a “holistic” Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Redesign. “Our goal was to identify what works and what doesn’t in our training and our culture,” the release quoted him saying.

He said the officer school has implemented a “comprehensive and integrated prevention approach, research and testing new programs.” It’s also adopted sexual assault reporting training that spans all four years.

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“Throughout the year, we will continuously evaluate and adjust to find solutions that work,” Clark said.

More broadly, the survey found an estimated 21.4 percent of academy women and an estimated 4.4 percent of academy men indicated experiencing unwanted sexual contact in the year prior to being surveyed (i.e., since June 2021). This is an increase compared to the 2018 rate. Rates of sexual harassment also increased.

The academies received a total of 206 reports of sexual assault, which is an increase of 45 reports over the 161 received in Academic Program Year 2020- 2021.

Of the 206 reports, 170 were from actively enrolled cadets and midshipmen who made an Unrestricted or Restricted Report of sexual assault. Unrestricted is when a report is made that’s not protected as confidential. A restricted report means the reporting party wanted their identity protected.

Survey and reporting data indicate that about 14 percent of cadets and midshipmen who indicated experiencing unwanted sexual contact reported their incident to a Department of Defense authority.

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GUEST EDITORIAL

A matter of RESPECT

‘PRONOUNS ARE IMPORTANT to me because they make me feel comfortable with myself,” says one of the hundreds of LGBTQIA2+ youth who attend our programs at Inside Out Youth Services each year.

Personal pronouns (how we refer to individuals, like “he,” “she” and “they”) are vital to affirming the identity of transgender and gender-nonconforming people. One young person, age 13, who attends our center, says his teacher once noticed that it made him uncomfortable when others referred to him as “she.” That teacher then asked a simple and invaluable question: What are your pronouns?

“And that kinda gave me the confidence to come out entirely to the school,” the youth says. “... But the thought of [teachers] not being able to ask makes me feel little, and weak.”

Some members of the Colorado Springs School District 11 Board of Education proposed a policy to ban teachers from asking students their pronouns, which would perpetuate the stigma of being LGBTQIA2+.

Due to that stigma, LGBTQIA2+ youth face higher rates of suicide ideation and attempts than their cisgender and heterosexual peers. But using a young person’s chosen name and correct pronouns (not “preferred” pronouns, which implies that gender identity is a choice) reduces their risk of suicide between 50 and 65 percent, according to studies from the Journal of Adolescent Health and The Trevor Project.

This boils down to respecting someone for who they say they are, instead of assuming anyone else knows them better than they know themself.

If changing how we refer to someone can save their life, why would we choose to ignore that? And why would we prevent someone from asking how best to respect their students?

When a teacher asks a student for their pronouns, they offer a symbol of safety. It shows LGBTQIA2+

students that they are safe to be their authentic selves at school, and that their teacher respects them.

D11’s own Diversity Resolution (signed unanimously by the Board) states: “the District 11 Board of Education encourages the Colorado Springs School District 11 to continue to reach out and make a conscious effort to build healthy and diverse teaching and learning environments where all people feel welcomed and are treated with dignity and respect.”

Less than 38 percent of nonbinary/genderqueer students in Colorado reported feeling like they belong at their school in 2021, according to the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey. If D11 wishes to live by their own words, the Board must empower their teachers to create safe spaces for students.

With 36 percent of LGBTQIA2+ young people identifying as nonbinary, bigender, genderfluid, or genderqueer and 9 percent unsure of how they identify, teachers asking students their pronouns and using their correct pronouns will save lives.

We ask the D11 Board of Education to support and respect LGBTQIA2+ students by allowing teachers to ask their students’ pronouns. A policy limiting that freedom would be detrimental, and dangerous for the students you are sworn to protect.

Inside Out Youth Services urges students, parents and community members to contact the D11 Board of Education leading up to the next meeting on March 22. Show your support for LGBTQIA2+ students, express the importance of asking for pronouns, and ensure the Board respects its own Diversity Resolution.

Keeley Griego (she/ella) is the digital and community educator at Inside Out Youth Services, whose mission is to build access, equity and power with LGBTQIA2+ young people. Noelle Strait (they/she, school advocate) and Liss Smith (they/she, communications & advocacy director) contributed to this piece.

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Why would we prevent someone from asking how best to respect their students?

PUZZLES

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.

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1 “In like a lion, out like a ___” (March adage) 5 Knee stabilizer, in brief

44 On a streak?

45 Things that might be raised in court … with or without the shaded letter 47 Bajillions 49 Brand for which Garfield was once a “spokescat”

11 “Gotcha”

12 Muppet that sings “Doin’ the Pigeon” 13 Disney princess who can conjure ice 18 Not worth discussing

62 They might eliminate teams … with or without the shaded

1 Streaming hiccups

2 Soothing ingredient

3 Water repellent?

4 Make a mistake while sitting down?

5 Comedian Wong

6 Member of a string quartet

7 Thor’s mischievous brother

8 “Seriously, though?!”

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

1 Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) without repeating. 2 The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. 3

9 ___ dash 10 Sandwich on a sesame seed bun

Complete the grid so that every row, column, diagonal and 3x3 box contain the numbers 1 to 9. Complete the grid so that every row, column, diagonal and 3x2 box contain the numbers 1 to 6. ● Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) without repeating. ● The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. ● Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner. KenKen is a registered trademark of KenKen Puzzle LLC. ©2023 KenKen Puzzle LLC. All rights reserved. Dist. by Andrews McMeel. www.kenken.com 3-12-23
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8 Quaff 14 Moises of baseball fame 15 One of the fire signs 16 “Marvelous” TV character 17 Alternative to 2% … with or without the shaded letter 19 Lawn trimmers 20 Scuffle 21 Simpson with an I.Q. of 159 23 Modern lead-in to “-verse” 24 Place to practice martial arts 26 One-named singer with the 2000 hit “Only Time” 28 Tex-Mex dish 31 It may be half of a blackjack … with or without the shaded letter 35 On the briny 36 N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Bill 38 “Doctor ___” 39 Small stream 40 Vision that’s subject to interpretation 41 Alien conveyances 42 The Golden Bears of the N.C.A.A., familiarly 43 Mediterranean country with 8,500 miles of coastline
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V.A. concern 56 Chardonnay, for one
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Wearisome
Dionysian party 50 Sits around 51 Guthrie who wrote “Alice’s Restaurant” 52 One of the Coen brothers 53 Slightly 55 Nimble 57 Do for Billy Preston, once 58 Ones ranking below cpls. 59 Canadian gas brand 61 Actress Vardalos 63 Not feel great
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TRY, TRY AGAIN

DEMOCRATS IN THE U.S. SENATE are planning another attempt at allowing cannabis businesses legal access to financial institutions, according to a March 7 post by Route Fifty, an organization that connects state and local governments.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked the SAFE Banking Act from inclusion in the omnibus spending bill in December, dashing hopes of many in the industry that they’d be able to use banks and credit cards, like other businesses. Other attempts to attach the bill to broader legislation have similarly failed.

The Democratic senators are looking to recruit bipartisan sponsors for a bill they intend to bring before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the report states. They’re hoping that bipartisan sponsorship will get the bill through the committee and increase its chances of passage by the full Senate. The bill could be publicly announced later this month.

The SAFE Banking Act, which would have allowed marijuana businesses to access banking services, has passed in the U.S. House seven times, but it’s been unable to clear the Senate.

Because marijuana remains illegal under federal law, banks can’t serve marijuana businesses, even those legal in states, without risking prosecution for aiding and abetting federal crimes or money laundering.

That’s forced dispensaries and recreational stores to deal largely in cash, which makes them targets for robberies and puts employees in jeopardy.

The Credit Union National Association has estimated that one out of every two dispensaries has been robbed or burglarized, the Route Fifty report states.

Organizations including the National Association of Counties and the U.S. Conference of Mayors have

Senators craft bill to allow canna businesses access to banking

expressed support for reform when it comes to marijuana banking.

PARDONING POT OFFENDERS

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an online application portal for people seeking a pardon for marijuana-related convictions.

President Joe Biden announced last October that his administration would issue pardons to eligible people with federal convictions for minor offenses such as possession.

“There are thousands of people who have prior federal convictions for marijuana possession, who may be denied employment, housing, or educational opportunities as a result,” Biden said at the time.

The pardons will not apply to violations of state and local laws, which constitute the vast majority of cannabis-related arrests. According to NORML, White House officials estimate that the directive will apply to about 20,000 people, out of nearly 29 million who have been arrested for marijuana violations over the past several decades.

But 24 states, including Colorado, have enacted laws providing for expungement or otherwise setting aside of low-level marijuana convictions.

According to data compiled by NORML and reported in a March 3 post, state and local officials have issued more than 100,000 pardons and more than 1.7 million expungements since 2018.

The new online portal can be accessed at justice. gov/pardon.

‘WET AND GREEN LAB’

In the first-ever training event of its kind in the nation, 18 volunteers took hits of pot and downed alcoholic drinks as 30 police officers and 18 drug recognition experts watched.

The event, held in February at the Guilford,

Maryland, Yacht Club, was designed to determine the effects of alcohol and marijuana consumption. Groups of six subjects consumed only marijuana, only alcohol or both alcohol and cannabis, and all were tested by the various means law enforcement officers use to determine impairment.

One of the results of the “wet and green lab,” according to a March 6 report at CTInsider, was that the six subjects who did both pot and booze performed poorly on simulated road tests, even though they were below the legal blood alcohol limit.

Connecticut allows both medical and recreational marijuana sales.

REC POT NOT OK IN OK

Voters in Oklahoma rejected a state ballot question March 7 to legalize recreational marijuana. Sixtytwo percent voted no on State Question 820 after a last-minute blitz by opponents including faith leaders, law enforcement, prosecutors, Oklahoma’s Gov. Kevin Stitt and most of the state’s GOP legislators, PBS says in a March 7 post.

Oklahoma has a robust medical marijuana program, and according to a March 7 report in The New York Times, nearly 10 percent of the folks in the state have medical marijuana cards.

Oklahoma legalized marijuana for medical use in 2018 and allowed large-scale cultivation operations, and as of 2021, more than 2,300 dispensaries had been licensed in the state — far more than the number in Colorado (825) or California (774), both more populous states.

“We have something like seven or eight thousand growers in Oklahoma,” Stitt tells The New York Times “It’s taken us a while to get our arms around that.”

Had the recreational marijuana measure passed, Oklahoma would have been the 22nd state to allow adult-use marijuana.

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200721

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 13, 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 Dean Hammer

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for LeaderOne Financial Corporation

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Date of Deed of Trust:

February 15, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

February 19, 2019

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

219017042

Original Principal Amount:

$248,417.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$273,302.42

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, Block 7, Northridge Filing No. 2, in the City of Colorado Springs, County of El Paso, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 4315 Sedate Ln, 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, 04/12/2023, 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: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

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: 12/13/2022

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

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 # 22CO00271-1

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. EPC202200723

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 13, 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):

Brian Aldendorf

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust:

June 07, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

June 08, 2017

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

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$160,675.75

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 7 IN BLOCK 1 IN SOUTHMOOR SUBDIVISION, ADDITION NO. 1, COUNTY EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 65242-03-007

Also known by street and number as: 1358 Luna 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, 04/12/2023, 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: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

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: 12/13/2022

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 # 22-028883

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. EPC202200724

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 13, 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):

April Bauer

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR LOANDEPOT. COM, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

MIDFIRST BANK

Date of Deed of Trust:

January 08, 2018

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

January 12, 2018

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

218005113

Original Principal Amount:

$136,853.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$125,433.06

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, BLOCK 4, STRATTON

MEADOWS SUBDIVISION NO. 2, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

A.P.N. : 6430110001

Also known by street and number as: 531 E Cheyenne Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80905.

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, 04/12/2023, 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: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

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: 12/13/2022

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

Date of Deed of Trust:

December 20, 2004

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

January 11, 2005

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

205005481

Original Principal Amount:

$199,010.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$112,435.88

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 thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 101, RIDGEVIEW AT STETSON HILLS FILING NO. 26, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 6704 Harvey Lane, Colorado Springs, CO 80922.

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

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200727

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 13, 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):

JOSEPH E. GAINES

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for FREMONT INVESTMENT & LOAN, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Indenture Trustee for FBR Securitization Trust 2005-3, Callable Mortgage-Backed Notes, 2005-3

Date of Deed of Trust:

July 06, 2005

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

July 12, 2005

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 205104144

Original Principal Amount:

$300,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$215,116.52

By: Mark

, 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 # 22-028941

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. EPC202200726

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 13, 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):

Gordon R. Harrell

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

AS NOMINEE FOR COMMUNITY MORTGAGE GROUP, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC

Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 on Wednesday, 04/12/2023, 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: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

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: 12/13/2022

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

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 # 22-028945

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

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

LOT 7, PEAK VIEW RIDGE AMENDMENT NO. 2, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 17440 Crestview Ct, Monument, CO 80132-7167.

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, 04/12/2023, 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: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

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: 12/13/2022

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217066718 Original Principal Amount: $176,739.00
PUBLIC NOTICES

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

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-22-948603-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. EPC202200729

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

On December 13, 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):

Rebecca Schlecht

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

AS NOMINEE FOR BAY EQUITY LLC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

April 29, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

April 30, 2019

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

219044986

Original Principal Amount: $299,475.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $294,660.84

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 11, PAINTED SKY AT WATERVIEW FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 55072-10-011

Also known by street and number as: 5988 Dancing Sun Way, 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, 04/12/2023, 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: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

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: 12/13/2022

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

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 # 22-028937

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. EPC202200730

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

On December 13, 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):

Kirby B. Lytle and Heide M. Lytle

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for First Funding Financial Services, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Nationstar Mortgage LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

February 07, 2007

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

February 08, 2007

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 207018718

Original Principal Amount:

$80,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$57,430.49

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 2, IN BLOCK 12, IN STRATTON MEADOWS SUBDIVISION NO. 5, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK X AT PAGE 6, AND AS AMENDED BY THAT ENGINEER’S STATEMENT RECORDED IN BOOK 1614 AT PAGE 47.

Also known by street and number as: 1126 Richards Avenue, 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, 04/12/2023, 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: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

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: 12/13/2022

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:

Holly R. Shilliday #24423

McCarthy & Holthus, LLP

7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230

Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-949097-LL

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

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. EPC202200734

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

On December 20, 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):

Susanne Fauson

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR ENVOY MORTGAGE, LTD, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust:

August 28, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

August 29, 2017

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 217103691

Original Principal Amount:

$166,920.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $153,005.76

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, IN BLOCK 4, SECURITY COLORADO, ADDITION NO. 7, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK X AT PAGE 69, COUNTY OF El PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 117 Larch 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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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 # 22-028760

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. EPC202200735

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

On December 20, 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):

BRET D BUCKRIDGE

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for AMERICAN SOUTHWEST MORTGAGE CORP.

Current Holder of Evidence of

Debt:

ORIGIN BANK

Date of Deed of Trust:

May 20, 2015

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

June 11, 2015

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

215060391

Original Principal Amount:

$231,684.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$204,800.12

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 15, TRAIL RIDGE AT NORTHGATE FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1370 Almagre Peak 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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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 # 22CO00093-1

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. EPC202200736

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

On December 20, 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):

ERIN FERRATTO RIVERA and JONAS RIVERA

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

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust:

July 14, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

July 20, 2020

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

220105115

Original Principal Amount:

$348,570.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$335,593.47

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 thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 419, MERIDIAN RANCH FILING NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THERE OF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 16, 2002 AT RECEPTION NO. 202156316, AS AMENDED BY SURVEYOR’S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED DECEMBER 13, 2002 AT RECEPTION NO. 202221962, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN#: 4230306011

Also known by street and number as: 12263 Anacostia Drive, 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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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

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 # 22-028897

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. EPC202200737

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 20, 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):

SUCHOMSKI HOLDINGS, LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company

Original Beneficiary(ies):

VERISTONE FUND I, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

VERISTONE FUND I, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

April 19, 2022

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

April 27, 2022

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

222058735

Original Principal Amount:

$1,030,175.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$910,625.00

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 5, BLOCK 7, KISSING CAMELS SUBDIVISION 2, TOGETHER WITH EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS DESCRIBED IN BOOK 3210 PAGE 488.

Also known by street and number as: 1690 Hill Circle, Colorado Springs, CO 80904.

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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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

Also known by street and number as: 2239 RIVERWALK PKWY, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80951-9741.

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

Backed Notes, Series 2020-NR1

Date of Deed of Trust:

April 19, 2004

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

April 26, 2004

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

204066199

Original Principal Amount:

$268,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$170,097.15

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200740

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 20, 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):

JHERMARIEN I TERRY

By: Mark

, 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-22-949105-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. EPC202200738

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

On December 20, 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):

TERRANCE M. ALBRECHT and TERESA F. ALBRECHT

Original Beneficiary(ies):

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Truman 2021 SC9 Title Trust

Date of Deed of Trust:

September 12, 2016

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

September 19, 2016

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

216106541

Original Principal Amount: $194,600.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$179,316.89

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 59, CLAREMONT RANCH

FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT RE: SCRIVENER’S ERROR

PURSUANT TO C.R.S. § 38-35109(5) RECORDED ON 09/02/2022 AT REC. NO. 222115930

Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 on Wednesday, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

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

Attorney File # 00000009563925

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. EPC202200739

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 20, 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):

HENRY A. HALL

Original Beneficiary(ies):

WILMINGTON FINANCE, a division of AIG Federal Savings Bank

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee for the CIM TRUST 2020- NR1 Mortgage-

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, WALDEN III IN EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 3695 Needles Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80908.

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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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

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:

Holly R. Shilliday #24423

McCarthy & Holthus, LLP

7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230 Centennial, CO 80112

(877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-947594-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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Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for NBH BANK

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

January 07, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

January 14, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 220005805

Original Principal Amount:

$209,715.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$202,084.59

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

LOT 178, COUNTRYSIDE TOWNHOME SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, IN THE CITY OF FOUNTAIN, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO, AS AMENDED BY AFFIDAVIT OF CORRECTION RECORDED APRIL 29, 2004 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 204069347 AND AMENDED BY AFFIDAVIT OF CORRECTION RECORDED SEPTEMBER 22, 2004 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 204160164, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7318 COUNTRYSIDE GROVE, 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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

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IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 12/20/2022

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

Trustee

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

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

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

Attorney File # 00000009668872

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. EPC202200742

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

On December 20, 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 W. EDDY

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for AMERIFIRST FINANCIAL, INC.

, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust:

March 08, 2013

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

March 14, 2013

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

213033153

Original Principal Amount:

$166,822.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$132,352.53

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 12, IN BLOCK 11, IN GARDEN RANCH SUBDIVISION, MEADOWLAND ADDITION NO. 1, FILING #2, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 3614 Meadowland Boulevard, Colorado Springs, CO 80918.

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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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

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-22-949633-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. EPC202200743

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

On December 20, 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):

LADD E. HIATT

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for ACADEMY MORTGAGE CORPORATION, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

February 24, 2016

County of Recording: El Paso Recording Date of Deed of Trust: March 01, 2016

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

216020597

Original Principal Amount: $112,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $99,834.90

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 3 IN BLOCK 4 IN HUNTINGTON HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 3713 Manchester 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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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

AS NOMINEE FOR FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust:

September 28, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

October 08, 2021

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

221188179

Original Principal Amount: $346,217.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$340,118.44

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The Land referred to herein below is situated in the County of EL PASO, State of CO, and is described as follows:

The Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 32, Township 14 South, Range 62 West of the 6th principal meridian, County of El Paso, State of Colorado, except the Westerly 30 feet thereof as conveyed to the County of El Paso by Warranty Deed recorded March 30, 1989 in Book 5617 at Page 422.

TAX ID: 2400000177

Also known by street and number as: 2755 E Ellicott Rd S, 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

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 # 22-028969

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. EPC202200747

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

On December 20, 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):

Bonsai Village, LLC

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Dena R Bauer

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Dena R Bauer

Date of Deed of Trust:

September 29, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

October 01, 2021

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

221184170

Original Principal Amount:

$670,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $670,000.00

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 12/20/2022

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

, 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:

Edmund Robinson #57562 Robinson & Henry , P.C. 7555 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 600 Denver, CO 80231 (303) 688-0944

Attorney File # Bonsai Village, LLC

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. EPC202200748

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

On December 20, 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):

Anne Maine AND Ryan S. Scoville

Original Beneficiary(ies):

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 # CO21152

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. EPC202200746

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 20, 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):

Justin D. Parker-Medvigy

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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

and

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

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 CHIPITA HOMES SUB FIL NO 1 County of El Paso, State of Colorado

Also known by street and number as: 9620 Chipita Park Road, Cascade, CO 80809.

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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CB&T MORTGAGE PART OF FARMERS & STOCKMENS BANK, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust:

November 19, 2019

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PUBLIC NOTICES

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

November 21, 2019

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

219147061

Original Principal Amount:

$314,694.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$301,172.31

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, SUNDOWN SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 22, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, AND AS AMENDED BY SURVEYOR’S STATEMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 1996

IN BOOK 6813 AT PAGE 517, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 63131-21-010

Also known by street and number as: 6135 Fossil Dr, 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, 04/19/2023, 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: 2/23/2023

Last Publication: 3/23/2023

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: 12/20/2022

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

and

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 # 22-028911

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. EPC202200749

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 27, 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):

Jerry A Waters

Original Beneficiary(ies):

ENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

ENT CREDIT UNION

Date of Deed of Trust:

August 12, 2013

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

August 16, 2013

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 213105916

Original Principal Amount:

$179,894.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$147,354.85

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 12, AMENDED SAGECREEK SOUTH, FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6380 Murr Road, 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, 04/26/2023, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

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: 12/27/2022

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

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 # 22-028875

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. EPC202200750

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 27, 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):

Brandon Joseph R Pearson

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: May 26, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: May 26, 2017

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

217060830

Original Principal Amount: $226,773.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $175,984.31

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 13 in Block 2 in Jensen`s Addition to the Town of Fountain, in County of El Paso, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 117 Elm St, 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, 04/26/2023, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

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: 12/27/2022

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

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 # 22CO00349-1

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. EPC202200753

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 27, 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):

David E. Fleming

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for Primelending, a Plainscapital Company, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for MASTR Asset Backed Securities Trust 2006WMC3, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-WMC3

Date of Deed of Trust:

April 13, 2006

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

April 17, 2006

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 206055254**

Original Principal Amount: $224,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $224,924.07

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 5, BLOCK 2, WEST OAK RIDGE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

**This loan has been modified through a Home Affordable Modification Agreement effective

July 1, 2017

Also known by street and number as: 290 Candletree Circle, Monument, CO 80132-7104.

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, 04/26/2023, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

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: 12/27/2022

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:

Heather Deere #28597

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

Attorney File # CO10152

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. EPC202200754

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

On December 27, 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):

Joseph W Morford

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

AS NOMINEE FOR BAY EQUITY LLC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust:

October 02, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

October 07, 2020

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

220158723

Original Principal Amount: $289,656.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $280,605.62

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 31 AND 32, BLOCK 32, THE FIRST ADDITION TO KNOB HILL, TOGETHER WITH THE WESTERLY 1.5 FEET OF BONFOY AVENUE VACATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 84-156 RECORDED AUGUST 9, 1984 IN BOOK 3903 AT PAGE 1356, CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 6416206023

Also known by street and number as: 332 Bonfoy 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, 04/26/2023, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

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: 12/27/2022

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 # 22-028734

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200755

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 30, 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 E. SLAGLE

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for Guaranteed Rate, Inc.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PennyMac Loan Services, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

November 05, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

November 12, 2021

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

221209012

Original Principal Amount:

$303,831.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$301,098.09

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 together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 7, BLOCK 9, RUSTIC HILLS SUBDIVISION NO. 5, CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 1121 Doyle Pl, 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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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

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 # 22CO00292-1

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

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200756

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

On December 30, 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):

Charlotte Walton

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

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

Date of Deed of Trust:

January 29, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

January 30, 2019

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

219010596

Original Principal Amount:

$272,959.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$256,890.13

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 23, COURTYARDS AT WOODMEN HILLS WEST, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 53014-01-185

Also known by street and number as: 7655 Cruzer Heights, 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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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

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 # 22-028894

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. EPC202200757

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

On December 30, 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):

Clyde Scheffe and Trisha Scheffe

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Caliber Home Loans, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

NewRez LLC, F/K/A New Penn Financial, LLC, D/B/A Shellpoint

Mortgage Servicing

Date of Deed of Trust:

June 08, 2018

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

June 11, 2018

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

218066498

Original Principal Amount: $280,623.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $263,152.23

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 thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

See attached Exhibit A EPC202200757

LEGAL DESCRIPTION EXHIBIT A

A TRACT OF LAND IN THE WEST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 13 SOUTH, RANGE 61 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

BEGINNING AT A POINT IN BIG SPRINGS ROAD FROM WHENCE THE SOUTH ONE QUARTER CORNER BEARS NORTH 88°30’21” EAST, A DISTANCE OF 882.84 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 88°30’21” WEST ALONG BIG SPRINGS ROAD A DISTANCE OF 882.84 FEET; THENCE LEAVING SAID ROAD, NORTH 00°06’27” EAST, 1751.94 FEET;

THENCE NORTH 88°30’20” EAST, 882.17 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 00°05’09” WEST, 1751.93 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 34030 Big Springs Rd, Yoder, CO 80864-9579.

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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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: Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230 Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-948289-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. EPC202200758

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

On December 30, 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 LADUKE

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

M&T BANK Date of Deed of Trust:

November 08, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

November 09, 2017

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

217136649

Original Principal Amount:

$165,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$151,755.45

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

LOT 25, EASTRIDGE SUBDIVISION NO. 5, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1830 LANKA LANE, 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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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:

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

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

Attorney File # 00000009680984

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200759

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 30, 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):

STERLING L HARRIS AND KAYLA R KITE

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

July 27, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

July 27, 2017

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

217088866

Original Principal Amount:

$239,580.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$216,488.32

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 of the terms thereof

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 36, HEATHERCREST SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1925 BULA DR, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80915-1454.

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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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

Trustee

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

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

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

Attorney File # 00000009684176

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. EPC202200760

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

On December 30, 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):

MAURICE L GALE

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

September 17, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

September 26, 2019 Recording Information

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

First Publication: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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

Paso, State of Colorado.

**This loan has been modified through a Modification Agreement recorded 11/29/2017 at Reception No. 217144233 in the records of the El Paso county clerk and recorder, Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 2480 Allegheny, Colorado Springs, CO 80919.

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.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA

Date of Deed of Trust:

May 10, 2013

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

May 15, 2013

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

213062982

Original Principal Amount: $115,452.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $91,284.48

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200764

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 30, 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):

Taylor Smith Jr and Joyce A Smith

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 1, BLOCK 2, BANNING LEWIS RANCH, FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 7176 MOUNTAIN SPRUCE DR, COLORADO SPGS, 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, 05/03/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and

By: Mark

, 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:

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009661265

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. EPC202200762

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 30, 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 Vanackeren and Ronald A. Vanackeren

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for GMAC Mortgage Corporation, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

LoanCare, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

August 23, 2004

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

August 25, 2004

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

204143887**

Original Principal Amount: $198,450.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $150,027.93

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 55, The Valley, in the City of Colorado Springs, County of El

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 on Wednesday, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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

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 # CO21243

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. EPC202200763

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 30, 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):

Bradley R. Schmidt AND Lona M Schmidt

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CITYWIDE HOME LOANS A UTAH CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 7, BLOCK 2, AUSTIN ESTATES SUBDIVISION NO. 6, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

APN: 64113 01 003

Also known by street and number as: 915 Potter Place, 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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust:

February 21, 2007

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

February 28, 2007

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 207027601

Original Principal Amount:

$22,895.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$18,297.66

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 303, MERIDIAN RANCH FILING NO. 1, AS AMENDED BY SURVEYOR’’S AFFIDAV IT RECORDED DECEMBER 13, 2002 AS PRECEPTION NO. 202221962, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 9963 Antler Creek 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.

, 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 # 22-029026

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 on Wednesday, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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;

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No. and/or Book/Page No.): 219118441 Original Principal Amount: $363,716.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $352,415.47
(Reception
PUBLIC NOTICES

DATE: 12/30/2022

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

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-22-950073-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. EPC202200765

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

On December 30, 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):

Sharron K. Brown and William D. Brown Jr.

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Direct Lending, a Limited Liability Company, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

NewRez LLC, F/K/A New Penn Financial, LLC, D/B/A Shellpoint

Mortgage Servicing

Date of Deed of Trust:

March 26, 2018

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

April 03, 2018

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

218036864

Original Principal Amount:

$172,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$160,511.71

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 C & D SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 114 South 16th Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904.

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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 1230/2022

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

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-22-943359-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. EPC202200766

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

On December 30, 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):

Dotson M Nelson AND Kyu C Nelson

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation dba Goodmortgage.com, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

May 16, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

June 26, 2020

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

220090853

Original Principal Amount: $247,192.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $242,244.34

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 102, CANYON SPRINGS AT SOARING EAGLES, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 3134 Harpy Grove, 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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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

MSF Financial, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

March 19, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

March 24, 2021

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

221059014

Original Principal Amount:

$290,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $290,000.00

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 10, Except the East 33 Feet Thereof, and Lot 9 in Block 2 in the Cheyenne Addition to the City of Colorado Springs, County of El Paso, State of Colorado

Also known by street and number as: 734 & 736 Rio Grande Street East, Colorado Springs, CO 80903.

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

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202200768

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 30, 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):

Joseph J Wassenaar AND Ruth Wassenaar

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CORNERSTONE HOME LENDING, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

December 31, 2014

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

January 05, 2015

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 215000619

Original Principal Amount: $150,844.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $131,063.56

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 2, BLOCK 5, PIKES PEAK PARK SUBDIVISION NO. 28, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO.

PARCEL ID NUMBER: 6426413-003

By: Mark

, 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 # 22-028817

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. EPC202200767

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 30, 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):

Prentice Wilson

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MSF Financial, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 on Wednesday, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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:

Joseph A Murr #14427

MURR SILER & ACCOMAZZO, P.C.

410 Seventeenth Street, Suite 2400 Denver, CO 80202

(303) 534-2277

Attorney File # 7618.021

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

Also known by street and number as: 2515 BARKMAN DRIVE, 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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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

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

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 # 19-020871

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. EPC202200770

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

On December 30, 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 P. King

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc., its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Freedom Mortgage Corporation

Date of Deed of Trust:

October 07, 2020

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

October 08, 2020

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

220160510

Original Principal Amount:

$235,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$226,397.64

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 30, BLOCK 4, SECURITY COLORADO ADDITION NO. 12, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 2217 Bison 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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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: 12/30/2022

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

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 # CO11426

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. EPC202200771

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

On December 30, 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 K. Pearson

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:

Freedom Mortgage Corporation

Date of Deed of Trust:

June 26, 2015

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

June 29, 2015

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

215067827**

Original Principal Amount:

$223,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$154,584.26

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.

FILING NUMBER 1, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

**This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement effective 07/01/2022. Also known by street and number as: 4172 Hidden 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, 05/03/2023, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

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; DATE12/30/2022

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

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 # CO21256

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. EPC202300002

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

On January 10, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

MICHAEL E. HOGAN

Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN LOANS, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC

F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust:

March 22, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

March 26, 2021

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

221060844

Original Principal Amount:

$208,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$198,991.65

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 193 IN COMSTOCK VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 825 GREY EAGLE CIR N, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80919-1607.

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, 05/10/2023, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

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: 01/10/2023

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:

Randall M. Chin #31149

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

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

Attorney File # 00000009550328

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. EPC202300003

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 10, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

Danita Kelly

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

AS NOMINEE FOR MORTGAGE

SOLUTIONS OF COLORADO, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust:

February 08, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

February 08, 2019

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

219014266

Original Principal Amount:

$219,271.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $214,299.43

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION EPC202300003

PARCEL A

LOT 10, BLOCK 2, SILVER HAWK SUBDIVISION FILING NO 1, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 204154550 AS AMENDED BY ENGINEER’S STATEMENT RECORDED NOVEMBER 10, 2004 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 204186739.

PARCEL B NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT RIGHTS TO ACCESS AND USE WINDRIDER HEIGHTS AND A PORTION OF PAINTED SKY VIEW (PRIVATE STREETS) AS CREATED BY AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN RECIPROCAL ROADWAY EASEMENT (WINDRIDER HEIGHTS) AGREEMENT RECORDED AUGUST 19, 2004 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 204141217, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 4950 Rusty Nail Pt, 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, 05/10/2023, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

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: 01/10/2023

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:

David R. Doughty #40042

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

Attorney File # 19-023538

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. EPC202300004

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 10, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

BRIAN P SMITH

Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for GMAC MORTGAGE CORPORATION DBA DITECH. COM

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, as Trustee for the benefit of the Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2020-2

Date of Deed of Trust:

May 05, 2005

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

June 30, 2005

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 205098352

Original Principal Amount: $232,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance: $194,299.21

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

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THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. PUBLIC NOTICES

ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, EL PASO COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED INST # 2372312, ID# 7313110027, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 2, TAMARRON AT ROCKRIMMON #2.

Also known by street and number as: 6090 RED HILL CIRCLE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80919-2012.

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, 05/10/2023, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

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: 01/10/2023

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

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

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Barrett Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

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

Attorney File # 00000009668476

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. EPC202300005

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

On January 10, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

STACY L BRUKARDT

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for RENASANT BANK, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

RENASANT BANK

Date of Deed of Trust:

December 29, 2015

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

December 30, 2015

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

215139621

Original Principal Amount:

$233,923.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$260,226.70

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 12, BLOCK B, SKYLINE SUBDIVISION, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 602 S Tower Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80905.

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, 05/10/2023, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

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: 01/10/2023

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

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE

SALE NO. EPC202300006

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

On January 10, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

SHANNON M SWAYZE and MICHAEL S GARCIA

Original Beneficiary(ies):

ENT CREDIT UNION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

ENT CREDIT UNION

Date of Deed of Trust:

July 06, 2016

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

July 06, 2016

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.): 216074325

Original Principal Amount: $161,020.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$133,962.36

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to 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 IN BLOCK 1 IN SOUTHBOROUGH SUBDIVISION NO. 6, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 2730 WEST MONICA DRIVE, 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.

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 # Swayze/Garcia

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. EPC202300007

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 10, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

JEFF CHAPIN and THALIA PHILLIPS

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:

October 04, 2018

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

October 05, 2018

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

218116651

Original Principal Amount:

$220,924.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$207,522.87

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

First Publication: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

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: 01/10/2023

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:

David R. Doughty #40042

JANEWAY LAW FIRM, P.C.

9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400 Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 19-023519

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. EPC202300008

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 10, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

LOT 9, RIDGEVIEW AT STETSON HILLS FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

TAX ID: 53184-07-011

Also known by street and number as: 5886 Dolores St, 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, 05/10/2023, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

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: 01/10/2023

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:

David R. Doughty #40042

By: Chuck

, 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-22-950680-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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 on Wednesday, 05/10/2023, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

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: 01/10/2023

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

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, NORTHGLEN PARK SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 3, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 6402304005

Also known by street and number as: 1563 Keaton Lane, 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, 05/10/2023, at via remote, web-based auction service, sell to the highest and

Original Grantor(s):

MANUEL SANTA ANA GARCIA and CLAIRE SANTA ANA

Original Beneficiary(ies):

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

AS NOMINEE FOR FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust:

July 23, 2021

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

August 09, 2021

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

221150397

Original Principal Amount:

$396,545.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$390,264.92

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.

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

Attorney File # 22-027739

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. EPC202300009

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

On January 10, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

STEVEN L WHITE and RAMONA

L WHITE

Original Beneficiary(ies):

PROFESSIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATES, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as trustee of Stanwich

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NOTICES

Date of Deed of Trust:

July 31, 2019

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

August 05, 2019

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

219090625

Original Principal Amount:

$132,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$127,646.67

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.

LOT 21, IN BLOCK 9, IN PARK HILL SUBDIVISION NO. 3, IN THE CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS, EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT

BOOK D-2 AT PAGE 56.

Also known by street and number as: 14 N Chelton Rd, 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, 05/10/2023, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

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: 01/10/2023

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

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-22-950966-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 NOTICE – RESTART PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-109(2)(b)(II) FORECLOSURE SALE

NO. EPC202200147

Republished to restart foreclosure stayed by bankruptcy and reset sale date.

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

On January 6, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of El Paso records.

Original Grantor(s):

STEPHEN BRADLEY TIMMONS

Original Beneficiary(ies):

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for CERTAINTY HOME LOANS, LLC, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust:

December 05, 2017

County of Recording: El Paso

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

December 05, 2017

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

217147299

Original Principal Amount: $130,734.00

Outstanding Principal Balance:

$122,403.19

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 1, WESTRIDGE TOWNHOMES, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 1804 MYAKKA WAY, 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, 05/10/2023, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

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: 01/06/2023

PUBLIC NOTICES

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

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 # 22-026656

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. EPC202200370

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:

JUDITH ALCORTA

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

858 RED THISTLE VW, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80916—2069

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:

October 09, 2018

Recording Information: 218117703

Legal Description of Property: LOT 72, BRANT HOLLOW TOWNHOMES SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Street Address of Property 858 RED THISTLE VIEW, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80916

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS

I sold at public auction, at 10:00 on 11/30/22, 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 5/30/2023 as part of the “Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act”, pursuant to Colorado law.

First Publication: 3/2/23

Last Publication: 3/30/23

Name of Publication:

Sixty35 Media, LLC

Date: 2/24/23

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

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5)

PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. EPC202200497

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:

Latonia A. Booker

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

3667 Venice Grove, Colorado Springs, CO 80910

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: September 16, 2017

Recording Information: 217111917

Legal Description of Property:

Lot 4, Block 1, Sierra Mesa Filing No. 2, County of El Paso, State of Colorado.

Street Address of Property

3667 Venice Grove, Colorado Springs, CO 80910

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS

I sold at public auction, at 10:00 on 12/14/22, 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 6/14/2023 as part of the “Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act”, pursuant to Colorado law.

First Publication: 3/2/23

Last Publication: 3/30/23

Name of Publication: Sixty35 Media, LLC

Date: 2/24/23

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

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5)

PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. EPC202200504

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: JONATHAN J. MOIRE

Address of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust: 5664 Marabou Way, Colorado Springs, CO 80911

Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 01, 2016

Recording Information:

216139388

Legal Description of Property: LOT 4, WINDMILL MESA, FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF EL PASO, STATE OF COLORADO.

Street Address of Property 5664 Marabou Way, Colorado Springs, CO 80911

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS

I sold at public auction, at 10:00 on 12/14/22, 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 6/14/2023 as part of the “Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act”, pursuant to Colorado law.

First Publication: 3/2/23

Last Publication: 3/30/23

Name of Publication:

Sixty35 Media, LLC

Date: 2/24/23

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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