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October 27, 2006
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Holocaust lawyer wants $4.76 million
By BEN HARRIS JTA

NEW YORK — The success of a landmark $1.25 billion settlement for Holocaust victims risks devolving into a bitter public spat over the fee an attorney is charging on the case.

A ruling is expected any day on whether Burt Neuborne, the New York University law professor who served as lead settlement counsel for survivors in the Swiss bank case, should be paid $4.76 million for his efforts.

Neuborne worked pro bono in winning the original settlement, but he’s seeking payment for seven subsequent years of work representing hundreds of thousands of claimants during the complex process of disbursing the funds.

Holocaust survivors involved in the case say Neuborne never disclosed his intention to seek remuneration and were shocked to learn he was asking for a multimillion dollar fee.

“It is, to me, an outrageous thing,” said Roman Kent, chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust survivors and a member of the committee that negotiated a similar settlement with German corporations and government in the 1990s.

“I can only tell you that as far as I’m concerned, he never told me that he’s going to get paid for the work. He told me on numerous occasions that he is working pro bono.”

Survivors were further outraged last week when the Anti-Defamation League gave Neuborne its American Heritage Award in recognition of his work promoting human rights and democratic ideals.

“There was a time when we all thought of the ADL as a paragon of justice and honor,” a group of survivors wrote to the ADL’s national director, Abraham Foxman. “Most of us and many other survivors have supported ADL financially and with our work in the community. Your disrespect for us and our martyred loved ones will tarnish this organization forever.”

Foxman responded by acknowledging the complaint “from the heart and as a Holocaust survivor” but stood his ground, saying the controversy “does not detract from our honoring Burt Neuborne.”

In a written statement provided to JTA, Neuborne says he always intended to seek compensation.
“I disclosed my post-settlement fee arrangement to the German Holocaust Foundation, the US Supreme Court and the parties in open court,” he wrote.

Several lawyers who worked on the case support that position, saying it was well understood that Neuborne’s post-settlement work was not free.

Michael Hausfeld, a lawyer who worked on behalf of survivors on the case, says there was no “technical disclosure” but that Neuborne’s intentions were well understood.

“Burt never said in any public filing, ‘From here on in, I’m going to be calculating a fee,’” Hausfeld said. “But everybody understood who remained involved in the case that Burt’s work would have to be compensated.”

Apparently not. Several survivors, lawyers and community professionals connected to the case told JTA that Neuborne had every opportunity to inform them he was seeking payment for post-settlement work, but did not do so.

In a number of court papers, Neuborne refers to the fact that he worked on the case without fees; Neuborne says those statements are being misconstrued.

Thane Rosenbaum, a Fordham University law professor and author of a book on the moral basis of restitution claims, says such ambiguity is precisely the problem.

“This isn’t some mom-and-pop local magistrate in upstate New York. This is federal court in Brooklyn,” Rosenbaum said. “This is a lawsuit with international implications, precedent-making. There’s going to be books and articles written about it. How can there not be technical disclosure?”

The question of attorney fees is not the first controversy to hit the case, in which Swiss banks were accused of hiding Holocaust-era bank accounts belonging to Jews.

A group of American survivors filed an appeal to block a plan to send a large percentage of the settlement funds, earmarked for needy survivors, to survivors in Europe and the former Soviet Union. The presiding judge, Edward Korman, rejected that appeal, a decision Neuborne supported.

“I feel he betrayed us,” said David Mermelstein, 77, a survivor from Miami who participated in the appeal.

“He was supposed to have been our representative and it turned out he betrayed us.”

Neuborne calls that charge “so incredibly unfair,” arguing that survivors in the former Soviet Union had as much claim on his services as those in the US.

He says he turned his life “upside down” working on the case, even persuading Congress to make the settlement money tax-free, which saved more than enough to cover his fee.

He notes that his fee, if spread across the several hundred thousand survivors who received compensation, amounts to only about $10 a head. And, he says, he successfully defended every legal challenge to the settlement.

“Everybody forgets that for 10 years I worked unremittingly,” Neuborne said. “There wouldn’t be any money if it weren’t for me.”

Kent says that’s nonsense.

“When the lawyers say, ‘We did everything,’ yes, they were helpful. But it was a moral and ethical issue that would have been settled with or without the lawyers,” he said.

For some, the disclosure issue only partly explains the reaction. The fact that Neuborne calculated his fee at $700 an hour — a rate that corporate attorneys might charge for work on behalf of major companies — after having already earned more than $4 million for work on the German claims case appeared to them to be the height of greed.

“Putting aside the legalities involved, Professor Neuborne wants to walk away from his involvement with Holocaust-related cases on behalf of survivors as a very rich man,” said Menachem Rosensaft, a lawyer and founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.

“He wants to have enriched himself to the tune of more than $9 million for his work. That, to me, is not just unseemly, it is obscene.”

The controversy over Neuborne’s compensation has built since he filed his fee application in US District Court in Brooklyn in December. In June, the New York Times editorial board slammed Neuborne, calling his bill “troubling” and “unseemly.”

Neuborne says he has no quarrel with those who question the size of his fee, but is stung by accusations that he’s profiteering from the suffering of Holocaust survivors, tarnishing what he calls “the proudest achievement of my career.”

“It’s painful to think that Holocaust survivors who I wanted to help, at the end of this process, have a negative view of me,” Neuborne says. “I just hate that idea.’’

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'Take a little more -- you need it'
By RABBI HILLEL GOLDBERG IJN Executive Editor

I confess, I was not entirely empty of gloating when Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling received their deserved convictions, public shame and disgrace.

Of course, I could not work up the same level of anger as former Enron employees. They lost fortunes or futures due to Lay’s and Skilling’s greed. But I did feel for the employees — felt terrible — and, as I say, also felt more than a legitimately allowed sense of seeing justice done. (Whether Lay cheated justice by dying before going to jail, and having his conviction posthumously overturned for lack of an appeal, is another question.)

But I wonder. Was my gloating justified? Although sheer greed and self-absorption animated the Enron thieves — they are caricatures — I wonder how many of us might cut a corner here or there, or at least be tempted to.

Extremes prove rules. Lay and Skilling were extremes. If a person is not caught, not convicted for massive fraud, does that mean he or she is wholly innocent of financial chicanery? For some the opportunities seem endless, and they resist most of the time. For others, they do nothing wrong — but think about it.

Our culture promotes this. A comfortable home is no longer sufficient. It must have extra thousands of square feet, regardless of whether one has enough family members to occupy them. Who will buy a car today without electric windows? Or a house without air conditioning (or at least a swamp cooler)?

Rabbi Yissachar Frand made a good point a few years ago. His wisdom was not in telling us something we don’t already know; it was in bringing a reality to expression and consciousness. He said that once a parent acquires what for him is a luxury, this becomes for his child a necessity. If one throws out the simple old refrigerator and buys one with an automatic ice maker, for you that is a nice, new bonus. For your child, it is a necessity. Perhaps you lived part of your life without air conditioning and part with; your child will never be satisfied without.

The quantity and quality of such necessities grow in America society by the day. Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine contained this juxtaposition. On one page was an advertisement for a new condominium apartment building in downtown Manhattan. Prices for each unit began at $8 million. On the next page was a picture of a ragtag, dirt poor resident of Afghanistan in a filthy alley. The caption read, “Why have the Taliban returned?”

They’re not fighting for $8 million condominiums; they’re fighting for ideas. But along the way they would like a roof over their heads with heating, cooling and indoor plumbing. Us? That won’t do. That’s sub-necessity. We need to hike up the size and value of our residence by hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars, and that becomes the necessity.

So we may not be criminals like Lay and Skilling. We may not be heartless, not schemers, not liars to others or to ourselves. We may, in fact, be generous, charitable, upstanding, productive, contributing members of society. But, I submit, rare is the person who can honestly say that he is free of the effects of the value system out there today.

The system that says: Take a little more. You deserve it. You need it.

Once I need a ton of gadgets and bigger items that I didn’t need 10 years ago, technology works a paradoxical effect. Each new necessity individually adds to my time and freedom; all of them together, however, deprive me of time and freedom. All of these necessities require upkeep, and that’s hardly the worst of it. Necessities demand that I do that which I never needed to do before. Example: Many feel the need to answer tens of emails each day. Each email individually may save time; all of them together gobble up my time.

Who is free of this value system? Lay and Skilling, fully responsible for their own bad choices, nonetheless reflected a society gone berserk over “necessities.”

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B'nai B'rith's Daniel Mariaschin
By ANDREA JACOBS IJN Staff Writer

Daniel Mariaschin, executive vice president of B’nai B’rith International and director of the organization’s Center for Human Rights and Public Policy, is an articulate gesticulator.

Where his hands go, his words follow — and vice versa.

He travels the world diplomatically pounding dignitaries’ tables with his unwavering commitment to Jewish rights and ensuring Israel’s strength and viability.

And people listen to Daniel Mariaschin.

He played an instrumental role at the European conferences on anti-Semitism in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), and Cordoba, Spain (2005), and works unceasingly with the UN, “a group we have mixed feelings about,”he deadpans.

B’nai B’rith, the 163-year-old organization he’s served since 1988, is close to his heart.

At B’nai B’rith International, Mariaschin supervises programs, activities and staff in over 50 countries with a B’nai B’rith presence. In his role at the Center for Human Rights and Public Policy, he interprets his organization’s policies to Congress, the media and a variety of audiences.

While B’nai B’rith has its own agenda, as do all Jewish institutions, Mariaschin is pleased that all Jewish organizations bond together “on the high stakes, sensitive and urgent issues challenging the Jewish community.”

Anti-Semitism and the UNare but two.

Mariaschin, who was born in a small town in New Hampshire, says there were only three Jewish families in the area. His parents were immigrants — his father from Russia, his mother from Lithuania.

“The table talk in our house was about Jewish life, the Jewish world,” he says, trying to explain why heritage bloomed rather than wilted in such an arid Jewish environment.

“We talked about the Holocaust at our table. The war ended only 10 years earlier; I was maybe five or six. We also had relatives in Israel since the 1930s.

“Not withstanding that Jews were a tiny, tiny minority in our town, growing up there gave me a perspective on the world outside the Jewish community. My friends were not Jewish. The customers at my parents’ store were not Jewish.”

Initially he wanted to obtain a law degree and enter politics.

“As we all know, New Hampshire is one of the great incubators of political life at the retail level,” a wry smile tickling his lips.

“But at a certain point Irealized I wanted to do something Jewish with my life. I just wasn’t exactly sure what that was.”

He graduated with a history degree from the University of New Hampshire. As he cast his mind in search of options, Mariaschin discovered the master’s program in Jewish communal service at Brandeis University.

Even now, he mentions the names of Brandeis professors with incredible fondness, touching upon their brilliance and idiosyncrasies via undimmed anecdotes.

For anyone preparing for a profession in the Jewish community, the Brandeis program had it all.

“It was like being a kid in a candy store,” he says nostalgically.

After receiving his MA in contemporary Jewish studies in 1973, Mariaschin landed a plum job with Jewish Community Relations Council in Boston that same year.

Two years later, he became director of the New England Office of the American Zionist Federation and the Zionist House in Boston.

Mariaschin moved over to the Middle East Affairs Department of ADL in 1977, and served as assistant to the late ADL national director Nathan Perlmutter, 1979-1986.

Perhaps fulfilling remnants of that political bug, Mariaschin served from 1987-1988 as communications director and principal spokesman for Sec. of State Alexender Haig during his presidential bid.

He’s been at B’nai B’rith ever since.

“I’ve worked in the Jewish community for the past 35 years, and I’ve never regretted a single moment. There isn’t a day in our community that hasn’t seen a challenge, a struggle, a statement, an act, a war.

“After the fall of Communism, the US Jewish community had the opportunity of going back to Eastern Europe, which committed some of the most horrific crimes against the Jews in WW II, and rewriting history as it really was.

“Now that’s rewarding.”

The following is an edited transcript of the IJN interview with Daniel Mariaschin.

Q: Do feel B’nai B’rith International’s efforts to change public policy are effective?

A: It’s always difficult to measure success because there are so many inputs into the process.

Our current agenda is Iran. We meet with diplomats and discuss issues with our representatives when we travel abroad. We make the case that Iran needs to be stopped; the UNhas to take immediate action. Too many deadlines have passed. The enrichment process at Iran’s nuclear facilities continues. The clock is ticking. You make the case and hope these arguments bear fruit.

We are extremely concerned about the issue of global anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe.

We have seen over the last five to seven years a tremendous burst of anti-Semitic activity. A lot of it has been exported from the Mideast and Arab and Islamic world. Nevertheless, it takes root in European soil. There have been incidents in France, Belgium, England and other places.

But this is an area where can see the fruits of our labor.

In recent years, working our with State Department and friendly governments, we have convinced the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to put anti-Semitism on their agenda. That produced the major conferences on anti-Semitism in Vienna, Berlin and Cordoba. Another conference is being planned in Romania in 2007.

Q: What is your opinion of the UN, especially regarding Israel? Is it possible to get the UNto modify its stance on Israel?

A:On the one hand, the UNis a place where Israel has been discriminated against, marginalized, and bashed repeatedly over the decades. Yet, not withstanding the recent scandals about oil for food and the revelations about UNpeacekeepers, the UNis here to stay.

Ironically, after the scandals erupted, we started to see the UNfocus on some of its misdeeds of the past. Belatedly — much too belatedly — the UNcommemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps. Why did it take 60 years to formally acknowledge the Holocaust?

After all, the UNcame into existence on the heels of the Holocaust. For the Holocaust to be neglected by the organization that to a large extent owes its founding to the Holocaust, is shocking. So much anti-Semitic rhetoric has been aired in the halls of the General Assembly.

B’nai B’rith recognizes there’s a long way to go and much to be done. We don’t want the (Holocaust commemorations by the UN) to take the place of changes within the political realm.

And there have been some successes. For example, we’re working with the New Human Rights Council, which took the place of the old Human Rights Commission in Geneva, to refuse membership to human rights-abusing countries. We also want the HRC to review their member countries on their own human rights records.

The first meeting of the HRC came right in the middle of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah this summer. Right out of the box, the council adopted a resolution whose language was identical to the language used in the past to bash Israel. So we are now in Geneva (trying to encourage the council to realize) it has gotten off the right track from the get-go.

Q: Talk about anti-Semitism and anti-Israel attitudes. Are they inseparable?

A: For many years, we were saying that the demonization of Israel equaled anti-Semitism. This is not an issue about political discussion — where do you draw the borders, what do you do with the settlements, how should the final peace agreement look. Those are discussions the Israelis themselves are having. That’s not what we’re talking about.

We’re talking about the demonization of Israel. This rhetoric does fall into the category of anti-Semitism. And much of the activity we see in Europe falls into this category. For too long, when we would say this, we would hear, “No, this is just a matter of talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or the Arab-Israeli issue.”

But when you compare Israelis to Nazis, when you compare what happened in Lebanon to the Warsaw Ghetto, when you invoke that kind of language, you cross the line. That’s not legitimate political criticism.

This language comes from those in the Arab and Islamic world and their supporters. But it also sometimes comes from the mainstream. It has to be called what it is — and that’s anti-Semitism.

Q: Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Yet anti-Semitism still exists. Do you think it will ever disappear?

A: In many cases, anti-Semitic themes are wrapped in new packages — but the themes remain the same: the Jewish people are less than equal; the Jewish people don’t deserve to have their own place in this world. The fact that the international community, through the UN, has been remiss in addressing the Holocaust for six decades is extremely troubling.

On one hand, there has been a proliferation of Holocaust education in the world. Excellent documentaries and films on the Holocaust have made a huge impact.

Even in Eastern Europe, where some of the greatest tragedies of the Jewish people have occurred, there is an historical reckoning.

Certainly, the US has made far more progress than any other country. And yet – and yet — Israel is being cast as the classic Jewish target. It continues to receive this constant criticism.

I want no misunderstanding here. There is no dividing line between being anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic. Irealize some people maintain this is not the case. But being anti-Zionist and denying the Jews their rightful place is . . . well, you’re starting down a path. For example, if you look at the wording of the Human Rights Council’s statement on Israel and Lebanon, it was very harsh and one-sided. Why is it when rockets are fired and Israelis are killed, or Israeli soldiers are kidnapped, no acknowledgement is made? That omission speaks volumes about the attitude of the international community.

Something pernicious is going on. People say, “Jews have always been the victims — but now that they’re victorious . . .” That’s just the key into the door. That’s what it is. And why is it people feel compelled to say that? They know Israel is living in a dangerous neighborhood. They know (Iranian president) Ahmadinejad has just called for Israel’s destruction.

When you question Israel’s right to exist, and by extension, if you deny Israel’s right to exist, you’re engaging in anti-Semitic activity. There’s a lot of sleight of hand going on here.

I don’t know the answer. The question you pose is not only an eternal question, it’s a vexing one.

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Rabbi Shmuely Boteach to speak at BMH-BJ, Nov. 10-12

Rabbi Shmuely Boteach, host of the national television show, “Shalom in the Home,” will speak at BMH-BJ throughout the weekend of Nov. 10-12.

The weekend kicks off with a “baby boomers Shabbat dinner,” Friday, Nov. 10, 6 p.m. Rabbi Boteach will speak on “Celebrity Culture and How It Affects our Lives.”

He will address the congregation during Shabbat services, Nov. 11 and will deliver a d’var Torah during seudat shlishit and Havdalah.

On Saturday night, Young Professionals of BMH-BJ is hosting an evening to “Shmoose with Shmuely.”

The weekend wraps up Sunday morning with a family brunch at 9:30 a.m. The rabbi will present the topic for which he is most noted: “Shalom in the Home — Bringing Passion and Peace to Family Life.”

Rabbi Boteach first came to prominence through his founding in 1988 of the Oxford University L’Chaim Society.

At Oxford, where he served the Jewish students for 11 years, he played host to and debated international figures including Mikhail Gorbachev, Prof. Stephen Hawking, Shimon Peres, Deepak Chopra, Benjamin Netanhyahu and Elie Wiesel.

He is the author of Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge; Kosher Sex; Face Your Fear and Judaism for Everyone.

His columns appear in the Jerusalem Post, New York Sun, WorldNet Daily, Insight Magazine and Beliefnet.

Rabbi Boteach and his wife Debbie are the parents of eight.

Information: (303) 717-3933.

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Sharon Roth, Leonard Waldbaum to receive AJC award

The American Jewish Committee, Colorado chapter will present the 2006 Community Service Award to Sharon R. Roth and Leonard N. Waldbaum.

Roth is an AJC board member and has participated in the Latino-Jewish dialogue and the Catholic-
Jewish action committee, “Engaging America.”

Waldbaum serves on the AJC board and the Amici-DU and the DU Humanities Institute.

The community service award is presented to leaders in the community whose countless contributions and extraordinary efforts help advance the mission of the AJC.

Stephen Weinstein, chapter president said, “We are fortunate to honor two prominent individuals in business who are so determined to see AJC’s visions become reality.”

The awards reception will be Thursday, Nov. 30 at The Pinnacle Club by Grand Hyatt, 6:15 p.m.

The featured speaker will be Shula Bahat, AJC’s associate executive director.

Bahat was praised by the Forward as one of those who are “. . . at the center of events, demonstrating leadership, offering new ideas and representing a distinct Jewish presence in American life.”

As associate executive director, Bahat oversees AJC’s organization and managment, leadership development and is critically involved in policy and program formulations.

Information: (303) 320-1742.

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Leading violist at BMH-BJ Nov. 9

Violist Yuval Gotlibovitch will be among the featured musicians and artists at “Fifty Artists Seek Consciousness: Kristallnacht Remembrance and Art,” on Thursday, Nov. 9, at BMH-BJ.

Gotlibovitch isa leading young viola player on the international music scene. Currently a professor at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music (and the youngest member of the faculty), Gotlibovitch’s performing career spans the globe.

His performances include such major venues as London’s Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the Jerusalem Symphony Theatre.

His musical accomplishments include taking top honors at the 2003 international Lionel Tertis viola competition” in Great Britain, the 2004 “Aviv” (Spring) competitions in Israel and also in 2004, the Fischoff chamber music competition here in the US.

His work has involved collaborations with world renowned artists such as Menachem Pressler, Janos Starker, Marc Andere Haemlin, Daniel Hope and others.

Gotlibovitch has a connection to the Denver community: his mother, pianist Rita Gotlibovitch, who recently moved here from Israel.

She will join him in his first Denver performance on Nov. 9.

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Linda Fenner Scholarship established at JCF

Linda Fenner’s husband Terry Fenner and sisters Blossom Liebowitz and Irma Braman, have created a scholarship fund in her honor to promote leadership development programs for young Jewish women.

The fund is housed at and administered by the Jewish Community Foundation.

Scholarship funds of up to $2,500 per awardee will enable Jewish women between the ages of 21 and 45 to attend educational conferences, missions to Israel and any other young adult program that will develop their leadership skills in order to better the Jewish community.

An applicant must be a Colorado resident and have been identified as a leader or as someone with leadership potential in the Jewish community.

Applications for the Linda Fenner Young Women’s Scholarship Fund are due at the JCF by Nov. 15.

Applications will be reviewed by the scholarship committee, which is comprised of the executive director of the JCF, as well as staff and volunteers of Allied Jewish Federation, all of whom will consult with Terry Fenner prior to an applicant’s final approval for a scholarship award.

“We are honored that Linda’s family has chosen to house this scholarship fund at the JCF,” said Bradley A. Friedman, executive director of the JCF.

“Linda understood the importance of creating a legacy and leaving the world a better place than when she found it.

“While her shoes will be hard to fill, I hope these scholarships will help create the ‘Linda Fenner’s’ of the next generation.”

Information and applications: (303) 316-6469.

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Christian-Jewish dialogue honors Martin Nussbaum of RJL, 'Dove of Peace'

Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons announces that L. Martin Nussbaum, a partner, has been honored for outstanding contributions to the Center for Christian-Jewish Dialogue (CCJD) with its “Dove of Peace” award.

Nussbaum, who has been involved in interfaith work for 11 years, is a founder of the CCJD.

He is co-chair of the RJL religious institutions group and serves as general counsel for more than 40 churches and denominations.

He is also the webmaster for the RJL religious library archive, the largest Internet library of original-source religious liberty materials.

A graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, Nussbuam is a Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he was named the outstanding theology student.

He has served as the CCJD dinner dialogue moderator for two years.

The CCJD affirms what Christians and Jews hold in common, engage in conversation, promote understanding and encourage mutual respect for each other’s faith, culture and history.

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Acoustics
 By TEHILLA R. GOLDBERG IJN Jerusalem Correspondent

I was on my way to the age-old walls of David’s Tower. There I met up with two friends with whom I was spending the evening at a magical exhibition set up in the courtyard of David’s Tower.

Within this musical exhibition, in addition to the sound that is always there — the sounds the stones from the past whisper — is a whole new acoustic in this enchanting, dimmly lit exhibition. Various instruments were designed and created to integrate with the archealogical surrounding.

Filling the open spaces of the ancient high arches are huge violins that fit the contour of the arch perfectly. At the center of the exhibit are a cluster of blue glass bells whirling like dancers in the wind. A breathtaking golden harp sits high among the ruins. And the vertical- looking old pipes near the water cistern are now painted green, a modern, abstract kind of xylophone. Cymbals frame the courtyard overhead, like lamps wrapping the whole area.

It was early evening and there was a light breeze and a little shiver in the air. As I walked amongst the musical notes that were preprogrammed to play by computer I could almost imagine King David sitting and plucking at the harp.

The bells, a strong Jewish symbol, once part of the garment of the high priest, seem to harken to such a holy time and place, where they were worn just a few steps away from where I was standing. The percussion of the drums was raw and echoed a time past.

From the height of this spot and from the trails we were walking as we circled the courtyard I had a panoramic, bird’s eye view of the city. Yet this island of twilights conveyed a harmony felt far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. It was hard to imagine just below me, one minute away, a Jerusalem traffic jam could be taking place in the dark.

As we were walking, among this preprogrammed, multisensory musical exhibition of sound, sight and movement, suddenly another sound could be heard. The muezzin, the Muslim call to prayer, could be heard reverberating from a microphone from the minaret of a mosque.

The muezzin calls in all directions five times a day. At dawn, midday, mid-afternoon, sunset and nightfall. And it’s very loud. Starting with daybreak it awakens the still slumbering city.

Having grown up in Jerusalem, I know the Muslim call to prayer as a sound of my childhood. Somehow I am fond of this Middle Eastern sound. Despite the difficult religious and political differences here, there is some kind of nostalgia within the sounds that symbolize the differences among us:the clanging church bells, the Muslim call, the shofar.

However, since Rosh Hashanah, when a Jew was arrested by Israeli police because an Arab woman from the Muslim quarter called to report that the sound of the shofar he was blowing was disturbing her children, this muezzin call to prayer sounds different to me.

In fact, as I was leaving the Kotel (the Western Wall) on my way to the musical exhibition at David’s Tower, I was stopped by Israeli police security and needed to wait behind a barricaded area.

I watched as streams of Muslims came pouring out of what seemed like a slit in the wall, a secret opening from a most narrow alley way in the Jewish quarter. It was so narrow that the men, women and children passed through in single file.

After standing there for quite awhile the last of the Muslims passed by and the Israeli police removed the barricade and allowed us to continue up the steps into the Jewish quarter.

A sense of deja vu overcame me as I recalled experiencing this very same scenario a year ago on Yom Kippur night.

It’s now Ramadan and so the Muslims were returning from a day of fasting and prayer in their mosque, which is on our Har Habayit, the Temple Mount. Ramadan is a month long, requiring fasting during daytime and is a time of contemplation and intense prayer.

It is believed that the course of the whole world for the coming year is determined at the conclusion of this month. I guess it’s grafted from our tradition of Elul leading up to Yom Kippur. The concept, as well as some of the rituals, do sound strikingly similar.

The point is, we graciously allow freedom of prayer to the Muslims living here among us. We don’t demand they suppress their sounds. Quite the contrary, they are a dominating acoustic of this city. In some way, we are facilitating their powerful prayers.

But, I wonder, what are the Muslims praying for? And what are their thoughts as they passed me by on their way back home from the mosque?

Why do they object to the sound of the shofar?

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Process and priority at the JCRC

The Jewish Community Relations Council has elected to urge the passage of Referendum I, on behalf of domestic partnerships. The JCRC says that this is the consensus of its members, that to qualify for a consensus, two-thirds of the members is sufficient, and that in this case an overwhelming majority of its members favors passage.

This is puzzling, on six grounds.

First, for many years, the JCRC regarded consensus as 100% agreement among the members. Many issues in the Jewish and the general community were not commented on by the JCRC because consensus could not be reached. Now that the JCRC is taking stands based on a two-thirds vote, it should discontinue the use of “consensus” to characterize its decisions. “Consensus” tries to communicate more than an actual two-thirds vote does and in this sense is misleading, given the JCRC’s history.

We have no objection if the JCRC claims to speak for the community on the basis of a majority (or super majority) vote, provided that it characterizes a majority as such and that the report of a majority vote includes the size of the minority and the positions of both sides. To exclude these will undermine the JCRC’s claim to represent the community. A JCRC member who votes in favor Referendum I today may vote against another policy tomorrow. If minority status is not honored by inclusion in the JCRC report on every stand, the JCRC will weaken loyalty to it.

Second, now that the JCRC is taking public stands, holding itself out as representing the Jewish community on public policy issues, it should release the criteria which it uses to indicate which public policy issues it will comment on, and which ones it will not — and why.

Third, the priorities of the JCRC, by focusing on Referendum I, are untenable. It is a big ballot this year. There are 14 statewide referenda and amendments, not to mention local initiatives. The topics cover a significant range of public policy issues: the longevity of the judiciary, the priority of spending on education in general and on preschool in particular, and ethics in government, to name a few. We are informed at press time that the JCRC just voted to back Referendum E, on behalf of disabled veterans. By its stand on Referendum I and its silence on all but one of the others, the JCRC states, in effect, that domestic partnerships are more important than critical decisions about the judiciary, education, ethics (and much else) put together. We doubt the community believes that superseding all these are the two referenda that the JCRC endorses.

Fourth, why was Referendum I advocated by the JCRC without reference to Amendment 43, which affirms the axiological preference for marriage? By its simultaneous silence on Amendment 43 and advocacy of Referendum I, the JCRC asserts that there is more commitment in the Jewish community to domestic partnerships than to marriage. This hardly seems to represent Jewish community thinking; this is a cut at the strong Jewish drive toward marriage, continuity and nachas. If it felt compelled to back Referendum I, the JCRC at least should also have backed Amendment 43. How odd: A Jewish community body supposedly committed to Jewish continuity, yet unable to bring itself to take a stand in favor of marriage.

Fifth, Referendum I is predicated on behavior proscribed by the Torah. It is inappropriate for the JCRC to make, in effect, a theological statement questioning the validity of the Torah. This is not a strategy for binding the community together. Domestic partnership is a reflection of the contemporary zeitgeist, not of the eternal teachings of the Jewish midrashic, musar, philosophical and legal sacred literature.

Sixth, one basis for the JCRC position on Referendum I is the JCRC’s acceptance of a demographic finding about the number of Jews who would potentially benefit from Referendum I. Like the Federation’s last demographic study, the JCRC provided no objective definition of a Jew in its count. In the Federation’s case, the definition turned out to be self-definition: Anyone who defined himself as a Jew was counted as a Jew, and any household with one Jew was counted as a Jewish household even when it contained non-Jewish members, and no matter how many non-Jewish members.

This lowest common denominator methodology produces inflated numbers, which in turn has led to large expenditures to reach these people, and this has led to frustration over the failure to do so — all this, with no one going back to the first premise. That premise — self-definition of Jewishness — does not lead to accurate population counts, nor to viable bases for Jewish funding and public policy. Rather, it leads to inflated expectations. Advocacy for the supposedly large number of potential Jewish beneficiaries of Referendum I, absent a scientific, objective basis for how they are counted, will bring the same inflations and policy distortions.

The failings in the JCRC’s process and priorities project a certain social conformity: the overlooking of virtually all but one of the electoral policy questions this year in order to affirm behavior at odds with the Torah — but not to affirm marriage.

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Rep. Schultheis' prejudice and insensitivity

The tragedy unfolded in the afternoon of Oct. 2, 2006 on a road north of Greeley. A 17-year-old woman made a fatal mistake. She ran a stop sign and was struck broadside by a pickup truck. The driver’s infant child and her two teenage brothers were killed. The driver, Tania Bustillos, was herself critically injured.

Here is how Dave Schultheis, a Republican state legislator from Colorado Springs, responded to this tragedy, via an e-mail he sent to the Greeley Tribune: “Was the driver properly licensed? Was the vehicle properly registered and insured? Was this person the child of parents in the US illegally? Or was she here illegally?”

Then Schultheis asked why the news media “do not point out the fact that these accidents and the resulting cost to taxpayers (hospitalization, etc.) are a direct result of our lax immigration policies and enforcement?”

Hundreds of accidents take place every day. What else but Tania Bustillos’ surname spurred Schultheis on? Without knowledge of the driver’s immigration status, but with knowledge of her surname, Schultheis launched his crusade.

Have we grown so coldly heartless, so devoid of basic human compassion, so insensitive to the suffering of others? Do the remarks of this legislator reflect the feelings of the people of Colorado? We certainly hope not.

When a tragedy of such proportion strikes a family — any family, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality or any other defining factor — there is only one proper, immediate response, and that is compassion. Few of us, thankfully, have to think twice about comforting the grief-stricken.

Sadly, however, there are those who see in a deadly automobile accident nothing more than an opportunity to further a political agenda.

That political agenda — in this case, illegal immigration — is a legitimate issue. An individual’s legal or illegal immigration status is a legitimate area to explore. For all its complexity, we have confidence that the American political and legal systems will arrive at a means of handling this very real problem in our country.

But that is not the issue crying out for comment in this case. To raise questions of immigration status, drivers licenses and insurance policies — to ask who might have to pay for the medical attention of a critically injured person — before the victims of that terrible accident are even in their graves, smacks of something far worse than bad taste. It reeks of utter inhumane insensitivity at best, of craven racism at worst.

Dave Schultheis, who has so far refused to apologize for his remarks, says that of the responses to his e-mail that he has seen, some 80% agree with the questions he asked in his original message, while only 20% disagree. This may be the only case we’ve ever seen where we actually hope a politician is lying through his teeth.

P.S. Final message to Schultheis and his alleged supporters: Tania Bustillos is legal.

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Legal notices for October 27, 2006

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Case No. 06 PR 926

in the matter of the estate of raymond h. leibbrandt Deceased

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before February 20, 2007, or the claims may be forever barred.

haddon w. leibbrandt

Personal Representative

13053 E. Exposition Avenue

Aurora, CO 80012

Beth R, Goldstein, #25301

3515 S. Tamarac Drive, Suite 200

Denver, CO 80237

Phone Number: 303-757-5000

Fax Number: 303-689-9627

E-mail: GoldsteinLegal@aol.com

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: October 27, 2006

Published: Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3376

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

Grantor (Borrower): juan reyes tremillo and margie l reyes

Original Beneficiary: argent mortgage company, llc

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: wells fargo bank, n.a., as Trustee Under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of November 1, 2004 Asset-Backed Pass-Through certificates Series 2004-WHQ2

Date of Deed of Trust: October 27, 2004

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:November 9, 2004

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $116,000.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $114,072.58

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2004232400

Legal Description of Real Property:

lot 34, block 4, mouats addition to swansea, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 4675 Columbine St., Denver, CO 80216.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

wells fargo bank, n.a., as Trustee Under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of November 1, 2004 Asset-Backed Pass-Through certificates Series 2004-WHQ2, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 19, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Reyes Tremillo/ 06-01909HS

CONV

First Publication: October 6, 2006

Last Publication: November 3, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3377

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

Grantor (Borrower): raymond b sanchez and teresa m sanchez

Original Beneficiary: new century mortgage corporation

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: deutsche bank national trust company as Trustee Under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of July 1, 2004 morgan stanley abs capital 1 inc. Trust 2004-HE5 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE5

Date of Deed of Trust: March 25, 2004

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:March 31, 2004

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $151,300.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $148,652.33

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2004080435

Legal Description of Real Property:

lot 19, block 24 burns brentwood subdivision, filing no. 5, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 2525 South Knox Court, Denver, CO 80219.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

deutsche bank national trust company as Trustee Under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of July 1, 2004 morgan stanley abs capital 1 inc. Trust 2004-HE5 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-HE5, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 19, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Sanchez/ 06-01890HS

CONV

First Publication: October 6, 2006

Last Publication: November 3, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE: REVIVAL OF JUDGMENT

DENVER COUNTY COURT, COLORADO

Case No. L09950

FIRST EAGLE FUNDING CORP. VS

tobias raven johns

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that you are required within ten days of your receipt of this Notice to show cause why the Judgment should not be revived by filing an Objection with the Court, which will then be set for Hearing.

DATED this 15th day of September, 2006.

CLERK OF THE COUNTY COURT

First Publication: September 29, 2006

Last Publication: October 27, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3285

WHEREAS, dilcia banuelos, Grantor(s), by deed of trust dated July 28, 2005, and recorded August 8, 2005 as Reception No. 2005131492 in the records of Denver County, Colorado, conveyed to the Public Trustee in Denver County, the following described real property in Denver County, to wit:

lots 15 and 16, block 2, ingersolls subdivision of a part of block 3, east montclair, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado.

Also known as street and number: 1163 Rosemary Street #A, Denver, Colorado 80220.

Said real property is all of the real property currently encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust, however, property other than the real property described above, including, but not limited to, personal property, also may be encumbered by the deed of trust. Said deed of trust secures a promissory note of even date therewith for the original principal amount of $180,000.00 payable to the order of acoustic home loans, llc on the terms set forth in said note and deed of trust; and

As Required By C.R.S. 24-70-109, We Hereby Notify You That The Above Described Deed of Trust Being Foreclosed “May Not Be A First Lien.”

WHEREAS, lasalle bank national association as Trustee for Certificate Holders of Bear Stearns Asset backed Securities I LLc, Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006-HE1, the legal holder of said note and deed of trust has filed written election and demand for sale as provided in said deed of trust. The outstanding principal balance due currently is $179,711.48.

THEREFORE, notice hereby is given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of November 7, 2006, in the office of the Public Trustee, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction the said real property and all interest of said Grantor, Grantor’s heirs and/or successors and assigns therein to the highest and best bidder for cash for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said note and deed of trust, attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and all other charges allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser(s) a certificate of purchase, all as provided by law.

BERENBAUM, WEINSHIENK & EASON, P.C.

CHARLES A. BEWLEY

370 17th Street, Suite 4800

Denver, Colorado 80202-5698

303-825-0800

Loan No. 0014050967

Dated: September 12, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

First Publication: September 29, 2006

Last Publication: October 27, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3290

WHEREAS, sylvia jones, Grantor(s), by deed of trust dated December 30, 2005, and recorded January 20, 2006 as Reception No. 2006013203 in the records of Denver County, Colorado, conveyed to the Public Trustee in Denver County, the following described real property in Denver County, to wit:

that part of lot 2, block 8, summner’s addition to denver, described as follows: commencing at the northwest corner of said lot 2, thence south along the west line of said lot 2 a distance of 1.76 feet to the true point of beginning, thence easterly parallel to the north line of said lot 2 a distance of 52.25 feet; thence southerly parallel to the west line of said lot 2 a distance of 8.00 feet; thence easterly parallel to the north line of lot 2 a distance of 72.75 feet to the east line of said lot 2; thence southerly along the east line of lot 2 a distance of 16.72 feet to a point 23.52 feet north of the southeast corner of said lot 2; thence westerly parallel to the south line of said lot 2 a distance of 125.00 feet to a point on the west line of said lot 2; thence north along the west line a distance of 24.72 feet to the true point of beginning, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado.

Also known as street and number: 464 Inca Street, Denver, Colorado 80204.

Said real property is all of the real property currently encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust, however, property other than the real property described above, including, but not limited to, personal property, also may be encumbered by the deed of trust. Said deed of trust secures a promissory note of even date therewith for the original principal amount of $270,000.00 payable to the order of argent mortgage company, llc on the terms set forth in said note and deed of trust; and

As Required By C.R.S. 24-70-109, We Hereby Notify You That The Above Described Deed of Trust Being Foreclosed “May Not Be A First Lien.”

WHEREAS, deutsche bank national trust company, as Trustee of argent mortgage securities inc., Asset Backed Pass Through Certificates, Series 2006-W2 under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of February 1, 2006, the legal holder of said note and deed of trust has filed written election and demand for sale as provided in said deed of trust. The outstanding principal balance due currently is $269,792.00.

THEREFORE, notice hereby is given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of November 7, 2006, in the office of the Public Trustee, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction the said real property and all interest of said Grantor, Grantor’s heirs and/or successors and assigns therein to the highest and best bidder for cash for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said note and deed of trust, attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and all other charges allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser(s) a certificate of purchase, all as provided by law.

BERENBAUM, WEINSHIENK & EASON, P.C.

CHARLES A. BEWLEY

370 17th Street, Suite 4800

Denver, Colorado 80202-5698

303-825-0800

Loan No. 0092446590

Dated: September 12, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

First Publication: September 29, 2006

Last Publication: October 27, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3510

WHEREAS, eddy e miller, Grantor(s), by deed of trust dated July 18, 2003, and recorded July 28, 2003 as Reception No. 2003153551 in the records of Denver County, Colorado, conveyed to the Public Trustee in Denver County, the following described real property in Denver County, to wit:

lot 32, block 7, green valley ranch filing no. 28, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado.

Also known as street and number: 21070 E. 39th Ave., Denver, Colorado 80249.

Said real property is all of the real property currently encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust, however, property other than the real property described above, including, but not limited to, personal property, also may be encumbered by the deed of trust. Said deed of trust secures a promissory note of even date therewith for the original principal amount of $160,800.00 payable to the order of u.s. bank national association nd on the terms set forth in said note and deed of trust; and

As Required By C.R.S. 24-70-109, We Hereby Notify You That The Above Described Deed of Trust Being Foreclosed “May Not Be A First Lien.”

WHEREAS, lasalle bank national association, as Trustee for certificateholders of bear stearns asset backed securities, inc. Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2004-HE2, the legal holder of said note and deed of trust has filed written election and demand for sale as provided in said deed of trust. The outstanding principal balance due currently is $155,717.86.

THEREFORE, notice hereby is given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of November 21, 2006, in the office of the Public Trustee, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction the said real property and all interest of said Grantor, Grantor’s heirs and/or successors and assigns therein to the highest and best bidder for cash for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said note and deed of trust, attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and all other charges allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser(s) a certificate of purchase, all as provided by law.

BERENBAUM, WEINSHIENK & EASON, P.C.

CHARLES A. BEWLEY

370 17th Street, Suite 4800

Denver, Colorado 80202-5698

303-825-0800

Loan No. 0009482985

Dated: September 29, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: November 10, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3455

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

Grantor (Borrower): rosie madrigal

Original Beneficiary: mortgage electronic registration systems inc., as nominee for greenpoint mortgage funding, inc.

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: greenpoint mortgage funding

Date of Deed of Trust: July 15, 2005

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:July 19, 2005

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $127,200.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $127,200.00

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2005121294

Legal Description of Real Property:

Parcel A:

a portion of lots 1 and 2,

more particularly described as follows:

beginning at the southwest corner of said lot 2, thence N00ˇ00’00”e (all bearings contained herein are relative thereto) along the west line of said lot 2, a distance of 12.67 feet; thence s89ˇ55’26”e, a distance of 56.36 feet; thence n00ˇ36’09”w, a distance of 10.24 feet; thence s89ˇ57’45”e, a distance of 7.65 feet; thence n00ˇ36’09”w, a distance of 25.23 feet; thence n89ˇ57’43”e, a distance of 35.32 feet; thence s00ˇ06’46”w, a distance of 24.73 feet; thence n89ˇ51’44”e, a distance of 11.18 feet; thence n00ˇ06’47”e, a distance of 26.66 feet more or less to a point of the northline of said lot 1, said point being 14.86 feet west of the northeast corner of said lot 1, thence n89ˇ59’33”e and along the north line of said lot 1, a distance of 14.86 feet; thence s00ˇ00’14”e and along the east line of said lots 1 and 2, a distance of 50.02 more or less to the southeast corner of said lot 2; thence s89ˇ59’17”w and along the south line of said lot 2, a distance of 125.00 feet more or less to the true point of beginning, block 11, oakland, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

total area of subject property is 3,577 square feet or 0.082 acre.

also known as #3590 krameria street.

WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 3590 Krameria Street, Denver, CO 80207.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

greenpoint mortgage funding, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 AM o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 26, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Madrigal /06-01797HS

CONV

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: November 10, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE: REVIVAL OF JUDGMENT

DENVER COUNTY COURT, COLORADO

Case No. L12646

FIRST EAGLE FUNDING CORP. VS

SHAWN MATTHEW STENSON AND TAMI LYN STENSON

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that you are required within ten days of your receipt of this Notice to show cause why the Judgment should not be revived by filing an Objection with the Court, which will then be set for Hearing.

DATED this 21st day of September, 2006.

CLERK OF THE COUNTY COURT

First Publication: September 29, 2006

Last Publication: October 27, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3378

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

Grantor (Borrower): gilberto a sanchez

Original Beneficiary: mortgage electronic registration systems, inc., as nominee for fremont investment & loan

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: wells fargo bank, na as Trustee Under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of June 1, 2006 securitized Asset Backed Receivables llc Trust 2006-FR2 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series, 2006-FR2

Date of Deed of Trust: December 15, 2005

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:January 6, 2006

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $211,500.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $211,271.62

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2006003098

Legal Description of Real Property:

lot 24, block 1, gateway village filing no. 6, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 5172 Fontana Ct, Denver, CO 80239.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

wells fargo bank, na as Trustee Under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of June 1, 2006 securitized Asset Backed Receivables llc Trust 2006-FR2 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series, 2006-FR2, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 19, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Sanchez/ 06-01928HS

CONV

First Publication: October 6, 2006

Last Publication: November 3, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3401

WHEREAS, marcia predmore, Grantor(s), by deed of trust dated May 31, 2005, and recorded June 8, 2005 as Reception No. 2005093914 in the records of Denver County, Colorado, conveyed to the Public Trustee in Denver County, the following described real property in Denver County, to wit:

condominium unit 10E,

prado condominiums according to the condominium map recorded january 8, 2002 at reception no. 2002005310 and first amendment to condominium map recorded march 12, 2003 at reception no. 2003042486, and as defined and described in the declaration of the prado condominiums recorded january 8, 2002 at Reception no2002005308 and amendment to the declaration and supplemental condominium declaration recorded march 12, 2003, at reception no. 2003042487, together with the exclusive right to use parking space 130 and 132, and storage space 10E, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado.

Also known as street and number: 300 West 11th Street Unit 10-E, Denver, Colorado 80204.

Said real property is all of the real property currently encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust, however, property other than the real property described above, including, but not limited to, personal property, also may be encumbered by the deed of trust. Said deed of trust secures a promissory note of even date therewith for the original principal amount of $352,000.00 payable to the order of greenpoint mortgage funding, inc. on the terms set forth in said note and deed of trust; and

As Required By C.R.S. 24-70-109, We Hereby Notify You That The Above Described Deed of Trust Being Foreclosed “May Not Be A First Lien.”

WHEREAS, wells fargo bank, n.a., as Trustee, the legal holder of said note and deed of trust has filed written election and demand for sale as provided in said deed of trust. The outstanding principal balance due currently is $357,080.41.

THEREFORE, notice hereby is given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of November 14, 2006, in the office of the Public Trustee, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction the said real property and all interest of said Grantor, Grantor’s heirs and/or successors and assigns therein to the highest and best bidder for cash for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said note and deed of trust, attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and all other charges allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser(s) a certificate of purchase, all as provided by law.

BERENBAUM, WEINSHIENK & EASON, P.C.

CHARLES A. BEWLEY

370 17th Street, Suite 4800

Denver, Colorado 80202-5698

303-825-0800

Loan No. 0011810322

Dated: September 19, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

First Publication: October 6, 2006

Last Publication: November 4, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3345

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

Grantor (Borrower): marco a pedroza centeno

Original Beneficiary: mortgage electronic registration systems inc., as nominee for decision one mortgage company, llc

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: deutsche bank national trust company as Trustee Under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of April 1, 2006 morgan stanley capital 1 inc. Trust 2006 HE2

Date of Deed of Trust: December 15,2005

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:January 9, 2006

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $169,600.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $169,141.09

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2006004422

Legal Description of Real Property:

the south 60 feet of the north 80 feet of plot 2, block 11, mountain view park, according to the map of the official city survey of mountain view park and 1st addition to mountain view park recorded july 10, 1976 in book 19 of maps at page 13, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 420 South Decatur Street, Denver, CO 80219.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

deutsche bank national trust company as Trustee Under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of April 1, 2006 morgan stanley capital 1 inc. Trust 2006 HE2, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 19, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Pedroza Centeno/ 06-01926HS

CONV

First Publication: October 6, 2006

Last Publication: November 3, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3293

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

Grantor (Borrower): oscar velasquez aguirre and teodora aguirre

Original Beneficiary: mortgage electronic registration systems inc., as nominee for RBC mortgage company

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: washington mutual bank

Date of Deed of Trust: September 26, 2003

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:October 24, 2003

Re-Recording date of Deed of Trust: August 17, 2006

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $139,000.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $133,973.19

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2003223104

Re-Recorded at Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2006131868

Legal Description of Real Property:

The north 17 feet of the west 125 feet of lot 4, block 10, and the south 33 feet of the west 125 feet of lot 3, block 10, Boulevard gardens, except portion conveyed in Deed recorded march 15, 1972 in book 466 at page 240, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 2930 South Decatur Street, Denver, CO 80236.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

washington mutual bank, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 15, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Aguirre/06-01691HS

CONV

First Publication: September 29, 2006

Last Publication: October 27, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Case No. 06 PR 946

in the matter of the estate of lila b. lamonica Deceased

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before February 20, 2007, or the claims may be forever barred.

anthony p. lamonica

Personal Representative

8138 E. Fairmont

Denver, CO 80230

720-857-9100

constance d. smith, esq., #28838

rothgerber johnson & lyons llp

1200 17th Street, Suite 3000

Denver, CO 80202

Phone Number: 303-623-9000

Fax Number: 303-623-9222

First Publication: October 20, 2006

Last Publication: November 3, 2006

Published: Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3499

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

Grantor (Borrower): darnell sykes

Original Beneficiary: argent mortgage company, llc

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: wells fargo bank, n.a. as Trustee under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of September 1, 2004 Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2004-WHQ1

Date of Deed of Trust: July 13, 2004

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:August 3, 2004

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $199,800.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $196,701.14

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2004159919

Legal Description of Real Property:

the south 50 feet of the north 530 feet of the southeast 1/4 of the northwest 1/4 of the northeast 1/4 of section 30, township 3 south, range 67 west, lying east of the west 30 feet thereof and west of the west line of franklin park addition filing #2, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 3520 Elm Street, Denver, CO 80207.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

wells fargo bank, n.a. as Trustee under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of September 1, 2004 Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2004-WHQ1, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of November 21, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 29, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Sykes/06-02083HS

CONV

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: November 10, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3456

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

Grantor (Borrower): joseph a ross and jill a ross

Original Beneficiary: mortgage electronic registration systems inc., as nominee for first home mortgage

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: american home mortgage servicing, inc.

Date of Deed of Trust: November 15, 2002

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:November 27, 2002

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $205,200.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $195,090.90

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2002225498

Legal Description of Real Property:

lot 6, block 5, green valley ranch, filing number 4, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 19413 East 42nd Ave., Denver, CO 80249.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

american home mortgage servicing inc., the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 AM o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 26, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Ross/06-01769HS

CONV

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: November 10, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE: REVIVAL OF JUDGMENT

DENVER COUNTY COURT, COLORADO

Case No. L12754

FIRST EAGLE FUNDING CORP VS

EFRAIN R. RAMOS-PAZ

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that you are required within ten days of your receipt of this Notice to show cause why the Judgment should not be revived by filing an Objection with the Court, which will then be set for Hearing.

DATED this 11th day of October, 2006.

CLERK OF THE COUNTY COURT

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: November 10, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3454

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

Grantor (Borrower): christopher p. venrick and chandra r venrick

Original Beneficiary: mortgage electronic registration systems inc., as nominee for residential mortgage assistance enterprise, llc

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: deutsche bank national trust company as Trustee Under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of August 1, 2004 soundview home loan trust 2004-I Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2004-1

Date of Deed of Trust: October 10, 2003

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:October 27, 2003

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $240,000.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $233,565.04

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2003225123

Legal Description of Real Property:

lot 1, except the west 45.00 feet thereof, block 5, hutchinson hills, filing no. 7, willow point, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 8892 East Mansfield Ave., Denver, CO 80237.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

deutsche bank national trust company as Trustee Under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of August 1, 2004 soundview home loan trust 2004-I Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2004-1, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 AM o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 26, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Venrick/ 06-01999HS

CONV

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: November 10, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3423

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

Grantor (Borrower): primitivo Robles

Original Beneficiary: new century mortgage corporation

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: deutsche bank national trust company as Trustee under Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of June 1, 2003 morgan stanley abs capital 1 inc, Trust 2003-NC6 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-NC6

Date of Deed of Trust: March 10, 2003

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:April 4, 2003

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $131,000.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $127,751.20

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2003062891

Legal Description of Real Property:

lots 19 and 20 and all of lot 18 except the south 12.5 feet of said lot, block 2, charlotte mckee’s addition to denver, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 3715 Saint Paul St. Denver, CO 80205.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

deutsche bank national trust company as Trustee under Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of June 1, 2003 morgan stanley abs capital 1 inc, Trust 2003-NC6 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2003-NC6, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 22, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Robles/ 06-02000HS

CONV

First Publication: October 6, 2006

Last Publication: November 3, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Case No. 06 PR 1460

in the matter of the estate of kenneth david stern Deceased

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before February 20, 2007, or the claims may be forever barred.

leonard and ruth stern

Personal Representative’s

16 Bent Tree Lane

Kinnelon, NJ 07405-3336

steven l. zimmerman, #469

rubin & zimmerman, p.c.

9725 E. Hampden Ave., Ste. 330

Denver, CO 80231

Phone Number: 303-306-6191

Fax Number: 303-306-7603

E-mail: steve@rzpc.com

First Publication: October 20, 2006

Last Publication: November 3, 2006

Published: Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3302

WHEREAS, glen g pfeifer, Grantor(s), by deed of trust dated December 16, 2005, and recorded January 3, 2006 as Reception No. 2006000410 in the records of Denver County, Colorado, conveyed to the Public Trustee in Denver County, the following described real property in Denver County, to wit:

condominium unit no. 211, el posado condominiums, in accordance with the declaration recorded on October 5, 1978 in book 1762 at page 386 and condominium map recorded on october 5, 1978 in book 8 at pages 12 and 13 of the city and county of denver records; together with the exclusive right to use the following limited common elements: parking space 10, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado.

Also known as street and number: 625 Pennsylvania Street #211, Denver, Colorado 80203.

Said real property is all of the real property currently encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust, however, property other than the real property described above, including, but not limited to, personal property, also may be encumbered by the deed of trust. Said deed of trust secures a promissory note of even date therewith for the original principal amount of $87,000.00 payable to the order of argent mortgage company, llc on the terms set forth in said note and deed of trust; and

As Required By C.R.S. 24-70-109, We Hereby Notify You That The Above Described Deed of Trust Being Foreclosed “May Not Be A First Lien.”

WHEREAS, deutsche bank national trust company, as Trustee of argent mortgage securities inc., Asset Backed Pass Through Certificates, Series 2006-W2 under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of February 1, 2006, the legal holder of said note and deed of trust has filed written election and demand for sale as provided in said deed of trust. The outstanding principal balance due currently is $86,805.08.

THEREFORE, notice hereby is given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of November 7, 2006, in the office of the Public Trustee, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, I will sell at public auction the said real property and all interest of said Grantor, Grantor’s heirs and/or successors and assigns therein to the highest and best bidder for cash for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said note and deed of trust, attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and all other charges allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser(s) a certificate of purchase, all as provided by law.

BERENBAUM, WEINSHIENK & EASON, P.C.

CHARLES A. BEWLEY

370 17th Street, Suite 4800

Denver, Colorado 80202-5698

303-825-0800

Loan No. 0092016278

Dated: September 15, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

First Publication: September 29, 2006

Last Publication: October 27, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3518

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

Grantor (Borrower): esteban valenciano and leticia hernandez

Original Beneficiary: mortgage electronic registration systems, inc., as nominee for Fremont Investment and loan

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: hsbc bank usa, n.a., as Trustee for the registered holders of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust, Series 2004-HE4, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates

Date of Deed of Trust: July 19, 2004

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:August 4, 2004

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $117,500.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $115,365.86

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2004160603

Legal Description of Real Property:

lots 1 and 2, block 10, villa park, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 1090 Hazel Court, Denver, CO 80204.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

hsbc bank usa, n.a., as Trustee for the registered holders of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust, Series 2004-HE4, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 29, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Valenciano/06-01824HS

CONV

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: November 10, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Case No. 06 PR 1516

in the matter of the estate of norma wehner evans Deceased

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before February 23, 2007, or the claims may be forever barred.

peter k. wehner

Personal Representative

28895 Cragmont Drive

Evergreen, Colorado 80439

peter k. wehner

28895 Cragmont Drive

Evergreen, Colorado 80439

Phone Number: 303-670-5351

Fax Number: 303-670-8306

E-mail: m3p@aol.com

First Publication: October 20, 2006

Last Publication: November 3, 2006

Published: Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3490

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

Grantor (Borrower): socorro arellano

Original Beneficiary: mortgage electronic registration systems inc., as nominee for fremont investment and loan

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: hsbc bank usa, n.a., as Trustee on behalf of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust and for the registered holders of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust, Series 2005-HE6, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates

Date of Deed of Trust: June 16, 2005

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:July 5, 2005

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $188,000.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $187,999.99

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2005109982

Legal Description of Real Property:

lot 10, block 3, mar-lee manor no. 2, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 1491 S. Quitman St., Denver, CO 80219.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

hsbc bank usa, n.a., as Trustee on behalf of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust and for the registered holders of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust, Series 2005-HE6, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of November 21, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 29, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Arellano/06-01847HS

CONV

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: November 10, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3552

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

Grantor (Borrower): lee singleton

Original Beneficiary: mortgage electronic registration systems inc., as nominee for finance america, llc, d/b/a FinAm, LLC

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: lasalle Bank national association, as Trustee for the registered holders of structured asset securities corporation, structured asset investment loan trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-8

Date of Deed of Trust: July 14, 2004

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:July 16, 2004

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $127,200.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $127,200.00

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2004149163

Legal Description of Real Property:

the west 60.3 feet of the north 50 feet of the south 100 feet of plot 2, block 3, wareington, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 3642 Grape Street, Denver, CO 80207.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

lasalle Bank, national association, as Trustee for the registered holders of structured asset securities corporation, structured asset investment loan trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2004-8, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of November 28, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: October 6, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Singleton/ 06-01752HS

CONV

First Publication: October 20, 2006

Last Publication: November 17, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICE OFSALE

The following individuals are hereby notified that their vehicles are to be sold at Wyatt’s Abandoned Vehicle Sale, 1905 S. Acoma, Denver, CO 80207, (303) 777-2448: E351 1993 Honda Civ vin#003235; E661 1990 Chry T&C vin#127385; E646 1991 Chev Lum vin#103125; E654 1996 Chev Cav vin#810416; E644 1988 Dodge Daytona vin#405413; E652 1991 Ford Probe vin#118187; E645 1989 GMC Van vin#514513; E285 2000 Ply Neon vin#754463; E640 1996 Sub Leg vin#206224; E659 1994 Sat 2Dr vin#166308; E660 1995 Sat 4Dr. vin#323639; E663 1989 VW Golf vin#010184.

Date of Publication: October 27, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3519

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

Grantor (Borrower): kerie morad and jeffrey morad

Original Beneficiary: ascent home loans, inc.

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: hsbc bank usa, n.a., as Trustee on behalf of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust and for the registered holders of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust, Series 2006-ASAP2, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates

Date of Deed of Trust: October 17, 2005

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:October 24, 2005

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $152,800.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $152,799.44

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2005179599

Legal Description of Real Property:

lot 7 and the south 2 1/2 feet of lot 6, block 8, provident park addition to denver, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 3838 Gilpin Street, Denver, CO 80205.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

hsbc bank usa, n.a., as Trustee on behalf of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust and for the registered holders of ace securities corp. home equity loan trust, Series 2006-ASAP2, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, the owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 201 West Colfax, 1st Floor Conference Room, Denver, Colorado, sell at public auction 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

HOPP & SHORE, LLC IS ACTING AS A DEBT COLLECTOR AND IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: September 29, 2006

Wayne E. vaden

Public Trustee-Denver County

State Of Colorado

By: JILLS.VOEGTLE

Chief Deputy Public Trustee

HOPP & SHORE, LLC

333 W Hampden Ave Ste 500

Englewood, CO 80110

303-788-9600

Morad/06-01747HS

CONV

First Publication: October 13, 2006

Last Publication: November 10, 2006

Published:Intermountain Jewish News

NOTICEOFPUBLICTRUSTEESALE

No. 3375

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

Grantor (Borrower): jose j ontiveros and sergio Ontiveros

Original Beneficiary: argent mortgage company, llc

Current Owner of the Evidence of Debt: wells fargo bank, n.a., as Trustee Under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of August 1, 2005 Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2005-WHQ4

Date of Deed of Trust: June 22, 2005

Recording Date of Deed of Trust:July 7, 2005

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $139,200.00

Outstanding Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt as of the date hereof: $137,885.67

County of Recording: Denver

Book and Page No. or Reception No. of Recorded Deed of Trust: at Reception No. 2005111512

Legal Description of Real Property:

the south 50 feet of tract 24, garden park, except the east 30 feet thereof, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF 1897 S. Alcott Street, Denver, CO 80219.