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Volume 5, Number 2 | February 21, 2013

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Time to fillCMS libraryBy Mollie HonanSpecial to The Sopris Sun

he Carbondale Middle School library isa unique place. The styles of its manylibrarians over the last 10 years blendinto an eclectic setup that is both invit-

ing and a little chaotic. Of course, this is a kindview compared to one student’s assessment: “Ap-parently, the library is falling apart” (Amy Fuentes,a sixth-grade student library aide).

At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Carballeira,the fifth grade science teacher, recalls a new studentasking,“What is going on in the library? Where areall the books?”This observation is not uncommonamong first-time visitors to the school library.Denise Reynolds, the seventh-grade social studiesteacher, comments, “It is certainly a welcomingspace. It just doesn’t seem to be “full.”

What does a “full” library look like though?The Colorado Department of Education’s State

Library sponsors Power Libraries: Colorado’sHighly Effective School Library Programs.The pro-gram provides a 22-point rubric for schools to ratethemselves on a scale from“highly effective” to“in-effective.” The Carbondale Middle School Library

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an insult to ducksEditor’s note: This letter was addressed tothe Carbondale Board of Trustees, exceptfor John Hoffmann.

Dear Editor:I would call you all big ducklings in a

small pond, but that would be an insult toducks everywhere.

The proposal by the Garfield Countycommissioners, CDOT and residents of Sa-tank to connect Dolores Way with the trafficlight at Village Road is sane and practical,(maybe that’s why you won’t approve it?) es-pecially compared to the idea of a right-turnonly at Dolores and Highway 133.

That intersection is a ticking time bombas far as safety’s concerned. With the busi-ness traffic for Ajax Bike & Sport,AmericanNational Bank, NAPA, The Paint Store, etc.and all the soccer moms coming and goingtwice a day, someone’s gonna lose more thanan eye.Yet it’s not a priority for Carbondale,even though all those businesses are insidethe town limits.Are you sure you’re not cut-ting off your nose to spite your Satank?

We Satankians get the message loud andclear (even those of us who “only came totown about twice a year.”– Steve Earle). Butthis plan is sound; the land is already for saleand the light is already there. And therewould be no need for traffic to cross the pre-cious Rio Grande Trail except at the lightwhere all the traffic on Highway 133 cur-rently crosses it. Plus, I don’t imagine RFTAwill be too happy when their brand-newpark ’n ride is in constant use as a U-turn foreveryone trying to get to Dolores from thesouth, but we could ask the Carbondale rep-resentative/RFTA board member about that.She just so happens to be mother duck, i.e.,the most outspoken opponent of the pro-posal. What a small pond it is.

Jeannie PerrySatank

Concerning those trainsDear Editor:

The history of the Crystal River and Roar-ing Fork Valley is extremely interesting. Thestories of the early day builders of these rail-roads and why they built them add to our un-derstanding and enjoyment of this area.Unfortunately, there just isn’t enough space togo into all the details in some other areas likethe mining operations in Coal Basin, whichwas one of the major reasons for the railroad.

Not everyone realizes that this wasn’t or-dinary coal; it was the best medium-volatilecoking coal in the western United States. Itwas also one of the gassiest, steepest, highestelevations, deepest and most difficult minesto operate in the country, if not the world,and right in our backyard.

For anyone interested in the technical de-tails of this mine, and the stories of the min-ers, I highly recommend“The Mines of Coal

Basin – The Untold Story – 1956-1991: Itwas never easy”by John A. Reeves. It’s avail-able at the Book Train in Glenwood Springs.

Thanks (to The Sopris Sun) for the“Looking Back” snap shots of local history.

Bill GrantCarbondale

attention gettingDear Editor:

If the recent spell of bitter sub-zero tem-peratures didn’t get your attention, the heat-ing bills inextricably linked to it probablywill. The additional expense leaves manypeople wondering how to stay comfortableand keep within a household budget. Ifyou’re someone who believes you can’t af-ford the efficiency upgrades that would keepyour heat indoors and save you money, hereis some good news.

There is a new option for homeownersthroughout our region that makes it easy andaffordable to reduce the cost of heating yourhome. Established last autumn, it’s called theEnergy Smart Loan. It can be used to fundair sealing, additional insulation, heating,water heating, more efficient windows andeven solar energy.

Funding Partners, a financing non-profitorganization in Fort Collins, administers the

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Four years and countingFour score and . . . well, it really wasn’t that long ago. It was actually

in February of 2009 that The Sopris Sun published its first issue as yourcommunity-supported weekly newspaper.We’re happy and proud to stillbe doing it four years later.

Late last year, we thanked the 85-or-so community volunteers who, inone way or another, helped put this paper together. On the front cover ofthis issue, we are thanking the many people who donated to The SoprisSun last year. Next week, we will be thanking all the advertisers who sup-ported us in 2012.

Without all of your support, this community paper could not exist.We would like to add your name, or the name of your business or or-ganization, to at least one of those lists this year because it takes a lot ofmoney to get the paper on the street and into your hands each week.

And while we’re at it, come join us at the Pour House in celebratingThe Sopris Sun’s fourth birthday next Thursday, Feb. 28, from 5 to 7p.m. We’ll have music, food and some special door prizes (including anautographed copy of the very first edition of The Sopris Sun).

This year’s party will be especially important as we honor three indi-viduals who helped get The Sopris Sun going: Peggy DeVilbiss (who alsohelped to found the Valley Journal); Liz Phillips (a founding board mem-ber); and Trina Ortega (the founding editor).

So come join us and bring your friends and families because Carbon-dale just wouldn’t be Carbondale without its community-supportednewspaper.

P.S. – We like gifts (donations).

Carbondale CommentaryThe views and opinions expressed on the Commentary page do not necessarily reflect those of The Sopris Sun. The Sopris Sun invites all members of the community to submit letters to theeditor or guest columns. For more information, e-mail editor Lynn Burton at [email protected], or call 510-3003.

V O LU N T E E R D O N AT E A D V E R T I S E

LETTERS page 5

By Debbie BruellSopris Sun Correspondent

With fresh leadership at the top – DianaSirko as superintendent for the next 2 1/2years and Rob Stein to start as assistant su-perintendent and chief academic officer inJuly – Sirko and the school board have de-cided it's time to engage staff, students, par-ents and other community members in aDistrict Visioning Process.

Sirko told the Sun that the goal of thisvisioning process is for stakeholders in eachcommunity – anyone who is “invested inthe future and well-being of our childrenand the future of the valley” – to work col-laboratively to define what they believewould make an outstanding school district.

In preparation for this visioning process,The Sopris Sun is running a series of articleson the district schools in Carbondale, withthe goal of creating a jumping-off place forthese upcoming community conversations.

For these articles the principal of eachschool was asked a series of questions: Howwould you describe your school’s approachto learning? What are the key elements thatmake your school a great place for kids tolearn? What is a dream you have for yourschool? What are some of the challengesfacing your school?

This week’s article focuses on RoaringFork High School.

•••Preparing students well for college, a ca-

reer and as community members is the pri-mary focus of Roaring Fork High School,according to Principal Drew Adams. Inorder to successfully prepare students fortheir future, Adams told the Sun, RFHS iscentered around three key principles: rigor,relevance and relationships.

RigorSince starting as principal this past fall,

Adams has been focused on ensuring thatevery student at RFHS receives a rigorouseducation. Staff are constantly analyzingwhether students at every level are beingsufficiently challenged and what can bedone to ensure that every student is workingup to his or her potential. All students were

surveyed at the beginning of the year, askingthem what they think it means to be chal-lenged and whether they feel challenged intheir various classes, and students will besurveyed again this spring.

RFHS currently offers Advanced Place-ment Calculus (AP courses are college-levelcourses for which students can receive col-lege credit depending ontheir score on the finalAP test) and additionalAP courses are plannedfor next year: World His-tory, Studio Art and Lit-erature. (AP Spanish willbe offered in 2014-15).Arigorous STEM class (in-tegrating science, tech-nology, engineering andmath) is being developedas well.

Adams also revisedthe school’s re-assessmentpolicy (students are now more restricted intheir opportunities to re-take a test or re-doan assignment) in order to hold studentsmore accountable for their work.

RelevanceAdams said that connecting the curricu-

lum to students’ needs and interests is es-sential. Offerings for next year’s electivecourses at RFHS include: Choir, Drama,Creative Writing, Journalism, Video Pro-duction, Financial Literacy, RestaurantManagement & Culinary Arts, Spanish forNative Speakers, World Religions, ModernAfrican History & Culture, and LatinAmerican Studies.

RFHS teachers also work to make learn-ing relevant to students by connecting thecurriculum with the wider community andto students’ lives outside the classroom. Forexample,Adam Carballeira’s Creative Writ-ing class wrote short stories that were readby local actors and critiqued by local direc-tors; Hadley Hentschel’s Agricultural Biol-ogy class grows crops that are used in theschool cafeteria lunches; LindsayHentschel’s Journalism class publishes TheRampage, which is distributed throughout

the community via The Sopris Sun.

RelationshipsAdams explained that strong student-

teacher relationships and a positive schoolculture are a critical part of the RFHS pro-gram. The student surveys mentioned aboveincluded questions about how supported

and respected students feltat school. Staff then metwith small groups of stu-dents to go over the resultsof the survey and holdfrank conversations aboutwhat changes could bemade to help students feeleven more valued at school.

Adams has also beenworking on developing aLink Crew student leader-ship program, in whichjuniors and seniors apply tobe mentors for freshman.

Adams has experienced tremendous successwith this program at his previous schools:more students applied to be mentors thancould be accepted and the mentors made astrong impact on the school as a whole. “Itcreates role models who then lead theschool and it encourages camaraderieamong all students,”Adams said.

Adams notes that the small size of RFHSis a huge benefit in terms of building rela-tionships and a sense of community at theschool. As he describes it, “We are a com-munity that comes together.” For example,they hold a Thanksgiving potluck each yearin which everyone in the school contributes;and as a show of support and a good lucksend-off for teams heading to state compe-titions, graduating seniors and others em-barking on a new challenge, these specialguests are invited to walk through a “Tun-nel of Love”consisting of the entire studentbody and staff lined up in pairs down thehalls and out the front of the school.

Other highlights• Strong student involvement: Fifty stu-

dents rouse themselves out of bed early for a7 a.m. Student Council meeting every Thurs-

day.“StuCo”elects officers, plans school ac-tivities and provides staff with a good“pulse” on the school from a student per-spective. In addition, about half of the stu-dent body participates in a school-sponsoredsports program; and a wide variety of non-sports teams and clubs are offered as well, in-cluding Speech/Debate Team,World ActivistClub, Energy Club and a Gay/Straight Stu-dent Alliance.

• an outstanding arts program: Studentartwork is displayed in an exceptional artshow each spring. The high caliber of theschool’s arts program is evidenced by the dis-proportionate number of RFHS award-win-ners in valley-wide art competitions.

• a focus on continuous improvement:According to Adams, RFHS staff is “con-stantly analyzing what’s been done, how suc-cessful it was and what we could do better.”

• Helping students in times of need:Adams notes that, “When a student is fac-ing social or emotional challenges we ‘wraparound’ that individual to ensure they’regetting what they need to work throughthose challenges.” RFHS recently partneredwith the Aspen Hope Center to bring a ther-apist into the school one day a week towork with students exhibiting at-risk be-haviors. Adams hopes to expand the pro-gram next year.

While Adams pointed to the small size ofthe school as a benefit in terms of buildinga strong sense of community, he also iden-tified their small size as one of their biggestchallenges in that it limits the number ofteachers they can hire and the variety ofcourses they can offer.

Another challenge Adams noted is thepublic perception that students aren’t beingchallenged and that there aren’t high aca-demic standards at RFHS. In fact, the 65graduating students last year were offered atotal of more than $1.5 million in scholar-ships and were accepted to many high cal-iber colleges, including Boston University,Colorado College, Middlebury College,Quest University and New York University.

Adams’ dream for his school is that everystudent will leave RFHS with the skills theyneed to successfully take their next step in the

At Roaring Fork High School: a new twist on the three R’s

By Barbara DillsSopris Sun Correspondent

Hip-hop meets poetry in Carbondale theweek of Feb. 25 through March 1 whenPhoenix-based poet and spoken-word artistMyrlin Hepworth visits the Roaring ForkValley. His visit is sponsored by the AspenWriters’ Foundation.

Hepworth will lead workshops at Roar-ing Fork High School and Colorado RockyMountain School throughout the week.He’llbe interviewed on the Feb. 27 Andy ZancaYouth Empowerment program on KDNK,and be the featured poet at a March 1 FirstFriday poetry slam at Steve’s Guitars, towhich the public is invited.

In addition to having competed on threeNational Poetry Slam teams himself, Hep-worth has inspired the words of many youngpeople across the nation, including inPhoenix, where he teaches Creative WritingatArizona State University’s Piper Center, and

at the Fishtrap Writers Gathering in Oregon.He co-founded and has coached the Phoenixyouth team to consecutive appearances at theBrave New Voices International Poetry Slamin California. He also performs regularly atuniversities, youth centers, group homes,mu-seums and theaters around the country.

Raised in Lewiston, Idaho, the son of anAnglo father and Latina mother, Hepworth’swork weaves the personal with the political.Poetry is his art, but teaching is equally hispassion, and he believes that poetry can opennew and surprising doors for young people.

“The act of personal, reflective writing iscathartic,”he said.“It gives young people ac-cess to discover more of who they are andwho they want to become. That process,coupled with performance, offers them notonly a chance for private exploration butalso for the communal experience of valida-tion from their peers.”

AZpoet visits twoC’dale high schools

Drew Adams, RFHS principal

Doug Lyons, and his friend Jacob Pipe, did a little fishing for rainbows at Beaver Lakein Marble on Sunday.The ice was about 10-12 inches, which is plenty thick to supportanglers and any fish they might pull out. Not shown here is Lyons’s black Lab Gunner,who gave the two fishing holes a good sniffing a time or two. Photo by Lynn Burton

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By integrating hip-hop techniques into hisapproach to more traditional poetry forms,Hepworth makes language — both Englishand Spanish — come alive for his students.In 2009, theArizona Commission on theArtsselected him for its roster of Teaching Artists.In 2010, he became the first undergraduateteaching artist for theYoungWriters Programat Arizona State University. He received hisB.A. in English from ASU in 2011.

“TheAspenWriters’ Foundation is thrilledto introduce Myrlin Hepworth to our com-munity. His important and impassioned workwith youth gives them the gift of the possi-ble,” said Julie Comins Pickrell, interim man-aging director of the AWF.“We all want ourvoices to be heard,but for young people,whoare so often disenfranchised, the process ofgiving voice to an essential part of themselves,of standing up and speaking out,‘This is whoI am,’ can be nothing short of life changing.”

In addition to workshops in several Eng-lish classes at RFHS and CRMS, Hepworthis offering two workshops at RFHS on Feb-

ruary 25 (a parent-teacher conference daywhen regular classes will not be in session).Alimited number of spaces are still available;Roaring Fork and Bridges High School stu-dents should e-mail Debbie Bruell at [email protected] if they are interested in signingup for either the 10 a.m. to noon or the 1 to3 p.m. session. Extra credit may be available;students can check with their English teacherto find out what’s being offered.

The March 1 First Friday poetry slam willfeature several pieces by Hepworth as well aswork produced by local students during theweek. The remaining slots will be availableto poets of any age.The poetry slam starts at7 p.m. at Steve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Build-ing, with poet sign-up open at 6:30 p.m. Intrue poetry-slam style, slam judges will be se-lected from the audience. The event is free,with donations accepted at the door to helpcover costs.

For more information, call Jamie Kravitzat theAspenWriters’ Foundation at 963-5782or [email protected].


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world, and that their next steps will be sig-nificant ones:“I hope we can inspire studentsto become actively connected with the chal-lenges of the world into which they areemerging, and that one day they will con-tribute back to their community.”

Daily schedule:Each student has four 80-minute class peri-

ods each day plus 65 minutes of Reach (30minutesof sustained silent readingand35min-utes to meet individually with teachers, workon homework or meet with a book club).

Classes alternate each day between GoldDay classes and Blue Day classes. Most stu-dents take eight courses per semester, includingcore courses and electives. (Some upperclass-men take seven courses and a study period.)

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Total number of students grades 9-12:317 students (about 65 percent Latino,35 percent Anglo).

Percentage of students qualifying forfree or reduced-price lunch: 49 percent.

Average class size: 16-17.

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Poet Myrlin Hepworth comes to the RoaringFork Valley Feb. 25 through March 1 forworkshops at Roaring Fork High Schooland Colorado Rocky Mountain School,wrapping up the week with a poetry slam atSteve’s Guitars. Courtesy photo

SUNDay Feb. 3 at 8:33 a.m. police arrestedsuspect in the 800 block of Garfield Avenuefor criminal mischief and harassment.

TUESDay Feb. 5 at 10:03 a.m. a man calledto report a dog bit him at Carbondale NaturePark when he tried to intervene in a fight onFeb.3.Thecallerdidn’t givepolicehis lastname.

TUESDay Feb. 5 at 6:51 p.m. police re-sponded to a call concerning a motorist hit-ting a deer at the intersection of Highway 133and Weant Boulevard. When police arrivedthey determined the driver was not injuredand the deer had walked away.

TUESDay Feb. 5 at 11:25 p.m. a caller re-ported a vehicle going up and down CapitolAvenue with the driver honking its horn. Thishad been going on for about an hour, the callersaid.When police contacted the driver, she saidshe was trying to get a friend’s attention. Thedriver did not have a driver’s license, so policecited her for not having one.

MONDay Feb. 11 at 3:31 p.m. police weredispatched to a downtown location concerninga woman with blood on her head outside a barwho was leaving with two males. Police talkedto the bar manager, who said he asked her toleave because she could barely stand up. Policewere unable to locate the woman.

By Lynn BurtonSopris Sun Staff Writer

Carbondale folks were walking likeEgyptians when Nancy Barnett was in herfourth year with the town in 1986.

The walk was inspired by the Bangles’hit song“Walk Like an Egyptian,”which inturn was inspired by the human figuresoften found in ancient Egyptian reliefsshowing arms at 45-degree angles from thebody with one palm up and the other down.

Some local women, it could have beenthe Sister Sisters, had gone around town forthe KDNK Talent Show, videoing folkswalking like Egyptians. They even droppedin on a board of trustees meeting and gotthem to act out a skit that included an eld-erly Mary Ferguson fighting with anothertrustee, others smoking cigarettes and read-ing newspapers, then everyone walkingaround the room like Egyptians.

“It was hilarious,” Barnett told The So-pris Sun earlier in the month.

That particular trustees meeting is justone of many fond memories Barnett willtake with her when she retires from her postas finance director on March 1 after 30years with the town.

Muchofwhat’s inCarbondalenowwasnothere in 1982, including the “new” town hall,recreation center, Cowen Center, La FontanaPlaza,RiverValleyRanchandNorthFacepark.

“It’s been challenging. There was al-ways something new coming along, but it’sbeen fun.”

Barnett is originally from Dallas and hasmanaged to hang on to her accent. She andher husband, Jim, first moved to Aspenwith their sons Craig (12) and Kane (6) in1980. In 1984 she was named the town’s fi-nance director when the job of treas-urer/clerk was split into two positions.

Barnett has been going through a lot ofpapers of late (“I hang on to things”) and

found the minutes from an early 1980strustees meeting that said interest rates onCDs were 11.8 percent and constructionloans were at 23 percent.

“Now you’d be luck to get a half-per-cent (on a CD),” she said.

Carbondale’s population is now about6,000 but was around 1,700-1,800 in theearly 1980s. Actual coal miners, some witheyes still ringed with black after a shift atCoal Basin, walked or staggered in and outof the Black Nugget bar at Fourth andMain.The town didn’t have 24-hour policeprotection but one of the handful of policeofficers was on call around the clock.

Carbondale was not only growing inthe early 1980s but also reeling from fi-nancial irregularities and related problemsthat resulted in the town manager andother town staffers being fired. That’swhen then-planner Davis Farrar was pro-moted to town manager.

“He was an excellent city manager,”Barnett said. “He was the right person atthe right time.”

Soon after Farrar took over, the trusteeswere asked to certify what were known asindustrial revenue bonds to be used tobuild the shopping center where City Mar-ket is located. When asked whether there

was any opposition to the bonds’ issuance,Barnett replied “I’m sure there was.”

Town hall back then was the faux-brick,metal framed building on Second Streetthat is now home to radio station KDNK.As the town staff grew, doors would be cutthrough walls to create small offices. “Itwas like a maze in there.”When town staffprepared to move to the new town hall inthe mid-1980s, Barnett and then-town-clerk Suzanne Cerise headed up to the atticand tossed years of water bills, utilities billsand related records into a waiting dump-ster below. A few years before the dump-ing, building inspector John Palmer rushedin one day after a snow storm and toldeveryone to evacuate because the roofmight collapse.“The trusses were (bending)the wrong way.”

Other changes since the early 1980sthat Barnett mentions: town residentsvoted to consolidate the independent Car-bondale Sanitation District, which pro-vided sewer service to the town but notwater, into the Carbondale town govern-ment; the town replaced the Interstate-70style street lights up and down Main Streetand on Weant Boulevard with the an-tiquish ones we now enjoy.

And did we mention the town almostdefaulted on the bonds it took out to pavethe streets in the early 1980s, and in ciga-rette-smoke-filled rooms Farrar, Barnett,other staffers and trustees went line itemby line item through budgets to keep thatfrom happening?

“There was no ban on smoking back then.”When asked what she’ll miss about

working for the town, Barnett said it wouldbe the day-to-day contact with the peopleshe works with. But, she knew it was timeto retire when she and Jim were on vacationfor two weeks in Florida over Christmas,and “I wasn’t quite ready to come back.”

The Barnetts have no plans to moveaway from their “envelope” style housethey built near Highway 82 in the 1980s.She doesn’t have any immediate plans,other than maybe getting back to paintingoils like she used to years ago.

March 1 is Barnett’s last official day onthe job and she’s working up until then tocomplete more than one project.

“It’s 30 years later (than when I firststarted). You wake up one day and realize30 years have gone by.”

C’dale finance director stepping down after 30 years


has an overall rating of “ineffective.” While there are many steps needed to make thisschool library highly effective, updating and expanding the library collection is a cru-cial first step.

“The CMS library needs more books because students love to read, and it is hardto read a bunch of different genres when you don’t have a lot of books,” says seventh-grader Kendall Bernot.

With Common Core Standards coming to the district, students will be required toread a greater variety of books including more non-fiction. With students looking formore independent reading books and teachers looking for print resources, the libraryis finding it difficult to keep up with demand.

One thing that makes CMS a great school is its focus on diversity. The schoolteaches grades five through eight and provides intervention and advanced classes. Lo-gistically though, this means the library may be asked to provide books for readinglevels three through 10.

The library receives requests for all kinds of books: funny, scary, love, soccer,pictures, war, drama, adventure, comics, history and more. Brenda Ramierez, afifth grader, writes that CMS needs “books that would interest us kids, for exam-ple: fiction.”

Alondra Payan, a fifth grader wishes that “ … CMS will have Selena Gomez booksand cat books.”

One of Alondra’s classmates, Abi Garcia writes, “I want puppy books. Also chap-ter books, or any dogs or puppy books but they have to be cute!”

Seventh-grader Hannah Hocking sums up the needs of the collection best: “CMSis in need of new books of every kind because we have MANY readers here.”

Carbondale Middle School is committed to finding new fund-raising opportunitiesto provide books for students, both to meet their interests and supply required textsfor research and state standards.

The goal for this year is to raise $10,000 to update and expand the non-fictionsection at the CMS library in order to meet the demands of Common Core and gen-erate excitement for reading.Toward this end, CMS Principal Rick Holt has procuredmatching funds for up to $3,000 in donations. The Carbondale Middle School is ask-ing for the public’s help. If you are interested in donating your time, books or money,please contact Carbondale Middle School.

As seventh-grader Jesse Campos writes, “Without books we would die from lackof entertainment and imagination.”

Mollie Honan is a library aide at Carbondale Middle School.

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Nancy Barnett’s office in town hall looks out on Colorado Avenue toward brick buildingsthat sit where the Bonanza Trailer Park once stood. She’s retiring on March 1 after 30years with the town. Other changes she’s seen since 1982 include commercial buildingswhere the former sewer lagoons were located on Highway 133. Photo by Lynn Burton

PUBLIC NOTICE

Community Meeting on Thompson DivideNatural Gas Leases

The public is urged to join Pitkin County Commissioners at a community meeting to voice concerns about the potential for

natural gas drilling in the Thompson Divide area on Wednesday, February 27th

at Carbondale Town Hall beginning at 6 p.m. Officials from the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Wilderness

Workshop, Thompson Divide Coalition, and Pitkin County Government have been invited to discuss the issue and take public comment.

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Oysters climb to the topThe CRMS Oysters are regional champs following last Saturday’s climbing meet in Grand

Junction. The competition was fierce, with 113 climbers from 11 Western Slope high schoolsvying for coveted invitations to the state championship. The strong showing was led by KarlaVlatkovic, who won the overall girl’s division. She was backed by Lea Linse and Libby Kas-mer, who tied for sixth. Cleo Ulatowski was eighth, Cheyenne Peterman ninth, Lexi Smith 10thand Mollie Podmore 12th.

The boys were led by Sammy Martin, who took second place. Nikken Daniels placedfourth, followed by Luc Browning in fifth place. The squad at the state finals will be roundedout by Jamison Orr, Jackson Carter and Vladimir Funes. Word has it that hopes are high forthe Oysters to bring some state championship hardware back to the Colorado Rocky Moun-tain School campus.

Kids, adults climb the wallThe Carbondale Recreation Department held its annual climbing competition at the recre-

ation center on Feb. 15 and the results are as follows: girls youth, Emma Jacobson (first); boyseight and under: Gabe Serson (first), Mylo Ornowski (second), Max Brooke (third) and BenJacobson (fourth); female division: Libby Kasmer, Elsie Osenga and Cheyenne Peterman;men’s recreational: Evan Sale, Porter Biggs, Nathan Flessner, Rick Pratt and Dan Feuerstein;men’s intermediate: Taylor Woodward, Karl Gunselman, Nate Osenga and Alex Curtiss;men’s advanced: Raleigh Gambino, Jameson Orr, Vladimir Funes and Alan Jameson.

Dos Gringos cuts it in Cup ChallengeBoden’s Butter of Aspen, and Dos Gringos of Carbondale, placed first and second respec-

tively in the recent CORE Cup Challenge. The challenge was getting restaurant and coffee shopcustomers to use reusable cups for coffee and other drinks instead of disposable paper and Sty-rofoam cups. The first and second place winners each exceeded 50 percent of drink sales inreusable cups.

“We’ve always been mindful of reusable products, but we still found the week to be veryimpactful,” said Nelson Oldham, owner of Dos Gringos in Carbondale. “Our staff did a greatjob of encouraging people to bring their mugs and use our mugs in house. We found thereusable cup program got people thinking about using other reusable to-go products as well.”

The Reusable Cup Challenge was co-sponsored by Waste Free Roaring Fork. Other Car-bondale participants included The Blend.

Students of the Month runs next weekDue to time management problems at The Sopris Sun, the Students of the Month photo

will run in next week’s edition.

Garfield Clean Energy exposedA project by Garfield Clean Energy and Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park received global

exposure recently when they were featured in a case study by Florida- and Netherlands-basedLighting Science Group Corporation. Lighting Science designs, develops, manufactures andmarkets LED lighting solutions that are environmentally friendlier and more energy efficientthan traditional lighting products, according to a press release.

Frozen members party at the Pour HouseLocal members of “The Frozen” cast and crew do some partying at the Pour House at

6:30 p.m. on Feb. 27 to celebrate the film’s release in DVD. Parts of the psychological thrillerwere filmed in the Pour House and Crystal River Valley locations last February. For details,call JoEllen Maynard at 945-0604.

They say it’s your birthdayFolks celebrating their birthday this week include: Brian Leasure (Feb. 22); Mark Cook,

Kris Kreft, Sue Drinker and David Lucas-Jones (Feb. 23); Steve Skinner, Jeff Dickinson andKyle Watts (Feb. 24); Dottie Daniels and Neill Taylor (Feb. 26); and Tim Whitsitt (Feb. 27).

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It’s a ride down memory lane when talk-ing to Marty Garfinkle, fine art photogra-pher and owner of the Roadside Gallery at320 Main Street.

Having lived in the Roaring Fork Valleyfor more than 35 years, he’s spent most ofthem on the road on one of his dozenHarley Davidson motorcycles, taking pic-tures and exploring the two-lane highwaytowns across America.

“I’ve shot at least 10,000 frames overthe years,” he said.

An attorney from Brooklyn turnedsmall-business owner (Mountain Lidshand-crafted knitwear in the 1970s)turned photographer in semi-retirement,Garfinkle’s photographs take a nostalgiclook at the colorful American road signsand funky folk art quickly disappearingalongside the mom-and-pop owned din-ers, cafes and coffee shops that used to dotthe countryside and welcome travelerslooking for a home-cooked meal and acomfortable bed.

Most of the images now on the wallsand in the many racks at the RoadsideGallery were taken by Garfinkle on histravels. In 1990, he published Sturgis(North Dakota) Motorcycle Mecca, a col-lection of black and white “people shots”from the early days when he followed themotorcycle rally circuit.

Other shots at the Roadside Gallery in-clude eclectic café and bar, and hotel andmotel signage from places like the Busy Bee

Café in Phoenix, Lum’s Chop Suey in Bak-ersville, Buck-A-Roo Bar in Seattle, Sand-man Motel in Reno and the LookoutMountain Tourist Lodge in Chattanooga.There are also scenic vistas, historic build-ings, and a special collection documentingdays spent riding the iconic Route 66.

Now using digital photography exclu-sively, Garfinkle, who is admittedly nottechnologically savvy, has kept up with the

latest equipment and contrivances to dis-play and sell his art.

“It used to be that you had to know filmto be a photographer, but it’s not like thatanymore,” he told The Sopris Sun.

PrintingThe Roadside Gallery has a complete in-

store, high-tech printing facility that createsan assortment of photo sizes from a mod-

est 8- inch x 10-inch picture to a mega 44-inch x 96-inch print that will cover largewall spaces on a variety of media fromsemi-gloss and matte paper to fine art pho-tographic rag paper and satin cloth. A dig-ital capture of an original watercolorpainting, for example, can be printed andstretched on canvas to create a photoreal-ism art piece.

“All the great photographers like AnselAdams and others manipulate their images.We’re artists not photojournalists,” saidGarfinkle. Besides his own images, Garfin-kle recently brought in a selection of printsfrom the Library of Congress’ public do-main catalogue including Dorothea Lange’sstriking Depression-era photos.

Shawn Tolle is a master printer who hasbeen at the Roadside Gallery for 13 years,helping photographers and artists with com-plete digital services from restoring a vintagefamily photo for a Valentine’s Day surprisegift to taking a photograph and manipulat-ing it to fit a different medium like coasters,greeting cards, plaque-mounted sculpturesand light boxes.

“We offer a complete printing processthat you won’t get from an instant photoprocessing booth. We take mediocre imagesand make them look great,” Tolle said.

Prices start at $8 for a coaster then gofrom there.

Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondaythrough Friday and by appointment onweekends by calling 963-9332 or visitingwww.roadsidegallery.com.

Marty Garfinkle opened Roadside Gallery on Main Street 13 years ago. Inside, the galleryoffers not only Garfinkle photos from across the U.S., but Library of Congress picturesfrom the 1930s as well. Photo by Lynn Burton


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THURSDAY Feb. 21KDNK DINNER • KDNK hosts a fund-raising dinner at the Pullman in GlenwoodSprings starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $88.10.Info: 963-0139 or kndk.org.

OPEN MIC • The Blend, at 1150 High-way 133, hosts an open mic night from 6to 9 p.m. The mic is open to just abouteveryone, including poets, performers andsigners. There’ll also be specials on wineand espresso.

LIVE MUSIC • PAC3 in the Third StreetCenter presents Greensky Bluegrass at 8p.m. Tickets: $15/$20. Info: pac3carbon-dale.com.

TWILIGHT SNOWSHOEING • Staffmembers at the Roaring Fork Conser-vancy, and Pitkin County Trails and OpenSpace, lead a snowshoe tour of the EmmaOpen Space from 5 to 7 p.m. Meet at theEmma School parking lot. The tour is freebut reservations are required at 927-1290 orroaringfork.org.

ROTaRy • Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at MiCasita every Thursday at noon.

THURS.-SAT. Feb. 21-23COMEDy • The 2013 Aspen Laff Festivaltakes place at the Wheeler Opera Housewith eight shows featuring Marion Grodin,Colin Quinn, Tammy Pescatelli and NickGriffin, Bobby Slayton and RobertHawkins, Jake Johanssen and Troy Walker,and Christopher Titus and Rachel Bradley.Info: aspenshowtix.com.

FRIDAY Feb. 22MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents“The Impossible” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Feb.22-28 (except Feb. 24 showtime is 5 p.m.only) and “Promised Land” (R) at 5:15 p.m.Feb. 23.

THEaTRE • Thunder RiverTheatre Company in down-town Carbondale opens Eu-gene O’Neill’s masterpiece “ALong Day’s Journey IntoNight” at 7:30 p.m. The playcontinues Feb. 23, March 1-3 and March 7-9, with 2 p.m.Sunday matinees. Tickets:$22 adults/$11 students atthunderrivertheatre.com.Info: 963-8200.

LIVE MUSIC • CarbondaleBeer Works on Main Streetpresents the CarbondaleMile Markers from 8 to 11p.m. No cover.

LIVE MUSIC • ColoradoMountain College presentsHoney Don’t at the Riflecampus at 7 p.m. on Feb.22. The campus is locatedat 3695 Airport Road.Info: 625-1871.

SATURDAYFeb. 23LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works onMain Street presents percussionist Lyn Byersfrom 6 to 9 p.m. No cover.

SyMPHONy SWING • Symphony in theValley hosts its “Don’t Get Around MuchAnymore” swing-era dance at the Orchardon Snowmass Drive at 6 p.m. Tickets are$75, which includes which includes a buffetdinner and cash bar. Info: SITV.org.

SUNDAY Feb. 24TRUU EVENT • Two Rivers Uni-tarian Universalist (TRUU) at theThird Street Center presents a pro-gram titled “A Long Day’s JourneyInto Night” with Amy Rowland,Lon Winston and Valerie Haugen at10 a.m. Info: tworiversuu.org.

aSC • A Spritual Center in the ThirdStreet Center presents Barry Chap-man at 10 a.m. Info: 963-5516.

JaMbOREE • There’ll be an old-time jamboree from 2:30 to 5:30p.m. at the Third Street Center fea-turing students from the RoaringFork High School choral class, guitarstudents from Glenwood SpringsHigh School, the Zingers, Slide Whis-tle; song-leader Sue Schnitzer, stu-dents from the RFHS Grapes ofWrath Book Club; and Jack Greenas Casey, the preacher from “TheGrapes of Wrath.” Topping off theafternoon there’ll be local squaredancers do-si-do-ing. The program

is free and sponsored by the Gordon CooperBranch Library, CCAH, The CarbondaleCommunity Bread Oven, and CRMS. Feelfree to wear your overalls. It’s part of the li-brary district’s community Big Read, which

features John Steinbeck’s Depression-eraclassic “The Grapes of Wrath.”

MEDITaTION WORKSHOP • True NatureHealing Arts on Third Street offers a medita-tion workshop with Branden Cohen from 4to 6 p.m. The cost is $25. Info: 963-9900.

TUESDAY Feb. 26aFRICaN DaNCE • The Aspen DanceConnection presents Bao Bao African Drumand Dance at 7 p.m. at Roaring Fork HighSchool. Tickets are $15/$18 for adults and$5 for students (kids under five are free).They are available at Dos Gringos andDancing Bear trading post in GlenwoodSprings. Food and African wares will be of-fered at 6:30 p.m. Info: 927-0641.

WEDNESDAY Feb. 27ROTaRy • The Rotary Club of Carbondalemeets at the firehouse at 7 a.m. everyWednesday. Info: Ken Neubecker at [email protected].

Community Calendar To list your event, email information to [email protected]. Deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday. Events takeplace in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event listings, check out the CommunityCalendar online at soprissun.com. View and submit events online at soprissun.com/calendar.

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Further OutTHURSDAY Feb. 28aRT TaLK • The Carbondale Council onArts and Humanities presents a panel dis-cussion titled “How to go from ‘StarvingArtist’ to ‘Artiste’ (that’s French for success-ful) from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Third StreetCenter. Panel members include Dick Dur-rance (photographer), Wewer Keohane

(mixed media), Nancy Lovendahl (sculptor)and Ashley Todey (arts management). Info:carbondalearts.com.

FRIDAY March 8aNDy TayLOR SHOW • Korologos Galleryin Basalt hosts an opening reception for “AndyTaylor: Current Works” from 5 to 7 p.m.

Hold the PressesPOETRy SLaM HITS STEVE’S • The Aspen Writers’ Foundation hosts a poetry slam and spo-ken word performance featuring Phoenix-based Myrlin Hepworth at 7 p.m. on March 1. Poetssign in at 6:30 p.m. Judges will be selected from the audience.aMERICaN LEGION SERVES UP SPaGHETTI • American Legion Post 100 (located at 97 ThirdSt.) hosts a spaghetti dinner from 5 to 8 p.m. on March 1. The cost is $8 for adults and $5 for kids.ROTaRy GRaNT aPPLICaTIONS aLMOST DUE • The Carbondale Rotary Club is takinggrant applications from local non-profits. Last year, the club granted more than $44,000 to 25organizations. For details, call Lynn Kirchner at 379-4766, Jim Noyes at 389-9997, or visit ro-tarycarbondale.org. The application deadline is March 8. Funds for the grants come from theCarbondale Rotary Club’s annual Happening dinner/dance and auction fundraiser, slated forSaturday, June 8.THEaTRE aSPEN’S aNNUaL GaLa • Theatre Aspen’s annual gala takes place at the HotelJerome on Feb. 23. For ticket information, go to theatreaspen.org.

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African dancers gather for performancesSopris Sun Staff Report

Bao Bao African Drum and Dance per-formers who come to Roaring Fork HighSchool on Feb. 26 live across the U.S. butcome together once ayear to perform, teachWest African drum-ming and dancing, andstorytelling in Col-orado and Wyoming.

All the dancersoriginally performed inthe Ghana NationalDance Ensemble be-fore moving to theUnited States, accord-ing to a press release.

The performance inCarbondale will fea-ture 12 dancers/drum-mers and 20 differentdrums, including the“talking drum.”

“At the end of the show, everyone is en-couraged to get up and dance to themusic,” said organizer Fran Page. TheAspen Dance Connection is bringing theBao Bao to the Roaring Fork Valley andperformances are scheduled at schoolsfrom Aspen to Rifle.

The Carbondale performance starts at7 p.m.; African food and wares are avail-able for sale starting at 6:30 p.m.

Aspen Dance Connection will presentmaster classes for all ages and abilities at

the Carbondale Community School onFeb. 25: drumming is 6 to 7 p.m. and danceis 8:30 p.m. The cost is $15 each or $25 forboth. Please bring your own drum.

The bao bao roster includes:

adjei abankwah(director of Bao Bao)who was a principaldancer and choreog-rapher with theGhana Dance Ensem-ble for 11 years and isan accomplished mu-sician and composer.

Mohammed alidu(the talking drummer)was born into theBizung lineage oftalking drum chiefs ofNorthern Ghana.

David akramah Cofie (story teller) stud-ied theater at the School of PerformingArts, University of Ghana, Legon.

Habib Iddrisu. Ph.D. (assistant directorof Bao Bao) is a traditionally trained dancerand musician, born into the Dagomba/Dag-bamba Bizung family of court historians andmusicians in Tamale in Northern Ghana.

Vida Tekpor lived and performed in Lon-don for several years and now resides inNew York City and in addition to her role asa singer and dancer, she designs and man-ages costumes.

OngoingSTRaNaHaN CONCLUDES • “GeorgeStranahan: Looking Back” continues at theWyly Community Art Center in Basalt throughFeb. 28. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. onMonday through Friday. Info: 927-4123.

CLay SHOW CONCLUDES • The Carbon-dale Clay Center show “Seeing Red” ends onFeb. 22. This exhibition features the work of

Steven Colby, Diane Kenney, Peg Malloy, Al-leghany Meadows, Lisa Pedolsky, ElizabethRobinson, and Alex Watson. Info: 963-2529.

VVaS CONTINUES • The 33rd annual Val-ley Visual Art show continues at the ThirdStreet Center and Bonfire Cofffee throughMarch 1. Info: the Carbondale Council onArts and Humanities at 963-1680.

Photo by Lili May Wong


CARBONDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

Now Accepting ApplicationsFor the 2013-2014 school year

Application Deadline: April 5Progressive integrated curriculum

Small, multi-aged classes (K-8) • Outdoor educationEncouraging inquisitive, independent and self-motivated learners

Open HouseYou are invited to meet our teachers,

view student portfolios, and tour our facilities.

Thursday, February 21stfrom 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Ahora Aceptamos AplicacionesPara el ciclo escolar 2013-2014

Un Curiculo activo basado en las experiencias de la vidaClases pequenas que combinan ninos de diferentes edadesGrados Kinder - 8 • Educacion y actividades al aire libre

Desarrollar estudiantes independientes v motivadosExposicio

Noche de la escuela abierta.Estan invitados a conocer nuestros maestros.Jueves, 21 de Febrero de 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.Fecha limite para aplicationes: 5 de Abril

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Dandy Days needs dandy volsNo word on whether the first crocus has powered his way to the surface but they can’t

be far away. Neither is the next planning meeting for this year’s Dandelion Day. The meet-ing itself is Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. while the day itself is on May 11 in Sopris Park. For details,contact Candace Goodwin at [email protected] or visit dandelionday.org.

RFHS looking for mentorsRoaring Fork High School is looking for adults who will help mentor and tutor stu-

dents in math and English from 10 to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesdays through Fridays. The schoolis also looking for volunteers to help with book clubs. For details, contact Drew Adamsat [email protected].

Women’s auxiliary selling raffle ticketsThe American Legion Post 100 Women’s Auxiliary is selling raffle tickets to raise money

to buy a new tent for the legion. Tickets are $5 each and the winner receives two nightsfor six people at Electric Mountain Lodge. Tickets are available at the post, which is lo-cated on Colorado Avenue near town hall.

5Point’s Dream Project is under wayThe deadline to enter the 5Point Film student grant Dream Project program is March

1. The five area high school students who are chosen will received $1,500 to conduct their“dream” project. Past grant recipients have volunteered for an orphanage in Haiti, workedat a clinic in Kenya, created an outdoor program for their respective schools and volun-teered in remote parts of Chile. “All we require is that they are prepared to learn, lead andhave a positive impact,” said program organizer Crosby Nordblom. For details, go to5pointfilm.org/dream.

CCS accepting applications for the 2013-14 school yearCarbondale Community School is accepting applications for the 2013-14 school year.

The deadline is April 5. There’ll also be an open house for the K-8 school, located in Sa-tank, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Feb. 21. For details, call 963-9647.

CPaC still accepting public art entriesThe Carbondale Public Arts Commission is accepting applications for its Art aRound

Town sculpture exhibition. The deadline for entries is Feb. 28. For details, call Carbon-dale Town Hall at 963-2733.

KDNK’s winter membership drive continuesKDNK’s 30th Anniversary Winter Membership Drive continues through March 1. For

details, tune into 88.1, 88.3 or 88.5 FM or go to kdnk.org and click on “donate.”

Andy Lietz of Sunsense Solar (left) and Charley Hill, lead pastor at The Orchard(right), hold a couple of old incandescent stage lights in front of the church. The Orchardjoined the Garfield Clean Energy Challenge as part of the Carbondale Fall Efficiencyprogram and replaced 86 of its old inefficient lamps with LED lights, and had 273 Sun-Power solar panels installed on the church's four roofs. Photo by Cam Burns


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Thunder River Theatre Company, named Colorado The-atre Guild’s 2012 Outstanding Regional Theatre, presents Eu-gene O’Neill’s masterpiece “Long Day’s Journey into Night.”

O’Neill is the only American playwright to win the NobelPrize for Literature and four Pulitzer Prizes. The New YorkPost calls the play “ … a magnificent and shattering play —a stunning theatrical experience.”

O’Neill wrote the play as an autobiography and asked hiswife not to publish it until 25 years after his death. She pub-lished it almost immediately, and it won his fourth PulitzerPrize, albeit posthumously.

The play has become far more universal than O’Neill’s life.“It is a very honest, sometimes funny, grueling look at theplay’s dysfunctional family, and what has happened to themand how they struggle to come to terms with the life they havebeen handed,” said TRTC Artistic Director Lon Winston.

Thunder River’s creative team is focusing on themes rec-ognizable in all families. Alcoholism, drug addiction andabusive dialogue are all metaphors in the play. But so istenderness and deep devoted love.

“This is not to say that all families are dysfunctional, butthere are things in the play that we will all recognize,” Win-ston continued. “Though an American classic, it is also inter-estingly contemporary.”

The central theme of the play is — Can you ever escape thepast? Is that even possible?

At one point in the play, Mary Tyrone says to husbandJames, “I can forgive, but I can’t forget.”

The characters often use the word “remember.” The play’sfamily is constantly blaming each other for the life they are liv-ing and the predicaments in which they find themselves by dig-ging up the past. This tactic helps them to avoid the present.

Positive moments usually end with an accusation. Denialand evasion play a major role early on, but by the end of the

play, they actually talk. People say vitriolic things, followedby an apology and a profession of love.

“Devoted love is powerful in the play,” Winston said.The cast includes Owen O’Farrell and TRTC’s Valerie

Haugen as James and Mary Tyrone. Newcomers to the TRTCstage are David Pulliam and Nick Garay as the Tyrone sonsJames Jr. and Edmund. TRTC’s Jennica Deely is Cathleen, afamily servant.

“Long Day’s Journey into Night” info:The play opens Feb. 22 and continues Feb. 23, March1-3 and March 7-9. Preview is Feb. 21.

Tickets are $22 for adults, $11 for students and areavailable at www.thunderrivertheatre.com or 963-8200.

Thunder River Theatre is located in downtown Carbondale, west of the Dinkel Building.

Thunder River Theatre Company presents “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” through March 7. From left to right: NickGaray as Edmund Tyrone, Owen O’Farrell as James Tyrone, Valerie Haugen as Mary Tyrone and David Pulliam asJamie Tyrone. Courtesy photo

TRTC stages O’Neill masterpiece; opens Feb. 22

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VISIT BASALT & EL JEBEL At the confluence of Frying Pan and Roaring Fork Rivers

Bennett Bramson of Aspen SnowmassSotheby’s International Realty speaks atthe Basalt Chamber of Commerce’s “Learn& Lunch” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. onFeb. 27. RSVP at 927-4031 by Feb. 25.

In other basalt area action:• The Basalt Chamber of Commerce

hosts “Cookies & Coffee” at its cabooseon Midland Avenue/Two Rivers Roadfrom 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Friday.

• The Wyly Community Art Center onMidland Avenue presents “Looking Back”by photographer George Stranahan throughFeb. 28. For details, call 927-4123.

• Rock Bottom Ranch presents the par-

ent/child series “Nature & Me” from 10 to11 a.m. on Mondays through March 18. Fordetails, go to aspennature.org.

• Local author Paul Andersen gives ajournalizing workshop titled “Writing YourOwn Story” from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 20,Feb. 26 and March 6 at the Basalt Library.Space is limited. Sign up at the front desk.

• The Basalt Library’s computer help classtakes place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 26.

• Penny from Colorado Workforce assistsindividuals in job searches and with unem-ployment problems at the Basalt Regional Li-brary from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Feb. 26.

• The Basalt Library presents the

Sybarite 5 String Quartet. For details, callthe library.

• The Basalt Lions Club bingo nighttakes place at the Eagle County Building inEl Jebel at 7 p.m. on Feb. 27. The cost is$10. For details, e-mail [email protected].

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ObituaryMarie T. Reidland1919-2013

Marie T. Reidland, 93, daughter of Sloven-ian immigrants Frank and Marie GaspareMcKenick, lived most of her life in the Chicagoarea. She worked in her parents’ west side gro-cery store and later in the business world. In1948 she married Russell Reidland, withwhom she had two daughters, Kristine Garcia

(Richard Garcia) of San Clemente, California,and Linda Romero Criswell (Russ Criswell) ofCarbondale. She is also survived by grandsonsAbraham Romero and his wife, Leora Rosen-baum, and Thomas Romero, all of whom livein Colorado.

Marie loved reading, singing, listening to talkradio, writing letters, doing crossword puzzlesand walking. She never had a drivers’ license.She will be remembered for: her prodigiousmemory (being known as “the one who reminds

the elephants”), her helpfulness to family andfriends, and the time she provided informationleading to the conviction of a gangland coun-terfeiter. She once appeared on Chicago radio,singing “Just a Gigolo.”

Marie was a devout Catholic. She moved toCarbondale several years ago after the death ofher husband and embraced her new life in theWest, filling her letters to friends back homewith stories of cowboys, offbeat local celebra-tions and bears that walk through town.

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Legal NoticesORDINANCE NO. 5Series 2013

AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEESOF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADOEXPANDING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM RE-GARDING MEDICAL OR RETAIL MARIJUANA FA-CILITIES TO MARIJUANA CLUBS

NOTICE: This Ordinance was introduced, read, andadopted at a regular meeting of the Board ofTrustees of the Town of Carbondale, Colorado, onFebruary 12, 2013.

This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days afterpublication of this notice. The full text of said Ordi-nance is available to the public at www.carbondale-gov.org or at the office of the Town Clerk, 511Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, Colorado, during nor-mal business hours.

THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE_________________________By: s/s Stacey Bernot, Mayor

ATTEST:__________________________s/s Cathy Derby, Town Clerk

Published in The Sopris Sun on February 21, 2013.

ORDINANCE NO. 4Series 2013

AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEESOF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADO,AMENDING CHAPTER 3.02 OF THE MUNICIPALCODE (DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS PROPERTY)






ORDINANCE NO. 6Series 2013

AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEESOF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADO,CORRECTING FINES AND FEES PURSUANT TOSECTION 11.04.060(I) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODEOF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADOREGARDING NONCRIMINAL MUNICIPAL TRAF-FIC OFFENSES - PROCEDURES






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Among my many responsibilities as the Fishtrap Eastern Ore-gon Wallowa County Writer In Residence, perhaps the biggestone, and the one I have the most trouble with, is taking care oftwo cats. That the number one word in most thesauri in regardsto trouble is “problem,” and that the history ofthe word “trouble” finds its roots from OldFrench in “troubler,” and was influenced by theLate Latin “turbidus,” as in confused and turbid,more than fits.

To simplify many complex stories from this pastyear, and shorten an overly long and ever lengthen-ing narrative full of fur-ball-hearted-quail-and-chipmunk-killing, new abodes, and ever expandinghorizons, cats (and more often than not their own-ers) have forced me to wander the steep sided andpoorly maintained path of cat acceptance.

It all started when I house sat at the same placeI am presently house-sitting (an abode on the edgeof Forest Service land, owned by two incrediblywarm-hearted potters, which includes various out-buildings, sheds, kilns, and a spacious pottery stu-dio). Other than feeling responsible for two cats I had no desire tofeel responsible for, I spent an enjoyable three weeks teaching, writ-ing and exploring the darkly wooded and canyoned drainage onthe north side of the Wallowa Mountains, otherwise known asHurricane Creek. When it was time, I happily up-rooted, said “solong” to my feline companions, and wandered on down the road.

But now, somewhat caught in a repeating wheel of cat sam-sara, here I am again, this time for almost four months. And while,like a George Harrison song, I keep telling myself “All things mustpass …” I find myself enjoying the company of the two cats.Humphrey, the more playful and social of the two, is a long-hairedwhite cat who waits for me to wake up or arrive home from work,and then sprints into the house when I open the door, b-lines forthe owner’s bathroom sink, and drinks from the tap in a head-tilted tongue-smacking manner. That his forays indoors are ac-

companied by endless attention and petting, and the sink sur-rounded by a three sided mirror — no coincidence.

Yin, on the other hand, an incredibly cautious short-hairedblack cat, has made me work hard for her affection. If cats were

ever ninja like in their behavior, she is the ninja-est.Nevertheless, after more than two months of get-ting used to me, and as long as I don’t have com-pany, she also greets me, and is even louder in herenjoyment of affection than Humphrey.

The problem I have suddenly found myself un-prepared for this time around is that bothHumphrey and Yin are “outdoor” cats. Meaningthey spend their time sleeping beneath the out-buildings and porches of the property, or inside theenclosed front porch of the house that has a smallhand rigged entrance made out of a piece of sidingand a partially cracked window where they have ac-cess to water and food. And the Wallowa Moun-tains are wild. So wild there are still wolverines thatlive here. Not to mention a smattering of residentbobcats, foxes, cougars, owls, and coyotes. Most

days I feel like I’m in an episode of Marty Stauffer’s “Wild Amer-ica” with deer for neighbors and so many animal tracks in thesnow I can’t keep track.

As the February days here lengthen and warm and the snowmelts (think March in the Roaring Fork Valley), the cats have spentless and less time in the enclosed porch area. Then over a weekago I had the distinct feeling that Humphrey had vacated the prem-ise. The ninja cat Yin was still around, but as the days passed it be-came obvious only one cat was eating from the food, and while Yinstill greeted me when I got home, Humphrey was nowhere to befound. Even a week later I remain hopeful that Humphrey is justout “cattin,’” a phenomena described to me by his owners andother cat owners as a cross between “Spring Fever” and “BieberFever,” an affliction that besets pop-crazed teenyboppers whentheir judgment is tossed to the veritable wind.

TailgateBy Cameron Scott

TabbyOf quail picking through grass

and all other gentle creatures,

where is the orange Tabby?

Gone back to the barn to nap;

at dusk his eyes reflect the

truck’s harsh lights.

In the dead of night, I have trod

on the wet guts of some small animal

walking to the bathroom or removed

the headless corpse of a sparrow

or chipmunk

in the harsh light of morning.

What concern am I to him,

besides a scratch beneath the chin?

Oh, how I love the Tabby—

eat of everything,

and in turn am also eaten—

– Cameron Scott

Dealing with cat-scratch fever in Fishtrap, Oregon

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