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WednesdayJune 3, 2015
n TRINIDAD LAKEAll activities are rain or shine, and are
free to the public. All vehicles are required to have a park pass. Info: 719-846-6951.
vSATURDAY (6 p.m.) To celebrate Colorado’s free fishing weekend, join Mark Hanson for a program at the am-phitheater on how to fish Trinidad Lake.
vSUNDAY (6 p.m.) Meet at the Visi-tor Center to join Park Rangers for the easy 90-minute Levsa Canyon Trail hike.
n JUNE 3CHICOSA WATER USERSWEDNESDAY (6 p.m.) Associa-
tion Board meeting will be held in the Hoehne Community Center. Info: Kar-en Floyd, 719-846-4600.
n JUNE 4CONTINIUUM OF CARE THURSDAY (8 a.m.) Group will
meet at Fisher’s Peak Soup Kitchen, 308 Church St. Info: Charlene Tor-torice, 719-846-9159.
NETWORK COUNCILTHURSDAY (8 a.m.) Regular
meeting will be held in the Bell Block Building’s Trinidad Community Foun-dation room. Information: Margaret Apodaca, 719-846-3943.
COMMUNITY SOCCERMONDAYS & THURSDAYS (5:30
p.m.) FREE pickup games for all ages at Los Niños Field behind the Post Of-fice. Bring a light- and dark-colored tee shirt. Info: [email protected]
SPPRCD MEETINGTHURSDAY (7 p.m.) Spanish
Peaks Purgatoire River Conservation District will meet at the District Office. Information: 719-846-3681 Ext. 117.
PRCWD WATER DISTRICTTHURSDAY (7:30 p.m.) The Pur-
gatoire River Conservancy meets in City Hall Council Chambers, 135 N. Animas. Information: Thelma Lujan, 719-846-7285.
n PUBLIC SERVICESUMMER READING PROGRAMSIGN UP THRU FRIDAY: Summer
Reading Program, “Every Hero Has a Story!” at the Carnegie Library, 202 N. Animas St. Info: 719-846-6841.
AMERICAN LEGIONFRIDAY (6 p.m.) The Trinidad Amer-
ican Legion meets at the Sayre Senior Center, 1222 San Pedro. Info: Com-mander David Walker, 719-846-5469.
2-DAY FLEA MARKETFRIDAY & SATURDAY (8 a.m.-2
p.m.) Holy Trinity Church annual ben-efit Flea Market will be held at the Se-bastiani Gym on Animas St. Proceeds fund the church restoration project.
AVE MARIA SHRINESATURDAY: Rosary (8:30 a.m.) fol-
lowed by Mass (9 a.m.) will be held in the historic Ave Marie Shrine located behind the Mount San Rafael Hospital on Benedicta Ave. Follow the signage. Visitors are always welcome.
STONEWALL FISHING TOURNEYSATURDAY (Tournament 9 a.m.-
3 p.m. & Awards 4 p.m.) 19th An-nual Stonewall Fire Auxiliary’s Fishing Tournament at Monument Lake. Reg-istration and info: Barb Holik, 719-868-2024 or Nancy Sinor, 719-868-2102.
ARTOCADE INSPIRATIONJUNE 8 (6-8 p.m.) Hey kids and
folks — learn how to make your own ArtCar entry or Kooky Conveyance at this free workshop at the Oasis Studio, 281 E. Main St. Info: Rodney Wood, 719-334-0087.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLJUNE 8-12 (9 a.m.-Noon) Annual
event for kids (ages K-6th grade) will be held at the Fisher’s Peak Commu-nity Church, 10377 S. Santa Fe Trail Dr. Info: 719-846-6018. Sign up now.
FORT CARSON AT PCMSTHRU JUNE 10: The 1st Stryker
Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division’s Operation Raider Focus at PCMS. Noise complaints: Fort Carson Public Affairs Office at (719) 526-9849.
FAMILY FUN DAYSJUNE 11-14: FREE admission to
the 3rd annual event that will be held at the Las Animas County Fairgrounds on North Linden St. Info: Tom Davis, 719-680-4677.
PUBLIC MEETINGSJUNE 15 & JULY 27 (6 p.m.) City
of Trinidad Comprehensive Plan Update & Community Workshops will be held at the Sullivan Center Pioneer Room at TSJC. Refreshments will be provided. Info: Trinidad.mccooldevelopment.com and plantrinidad.mindmixer.com
SANTA FE TRAIL DAYSJUNE 19-20: Annual 2-day festival
will be held at Central Park on Stonewall Ave. Enter Trinidad’s soon-to-be World Famous Chili Cook Off Contest. Info: John Schecter, 719-846-7727 or Cham-ber of Commerce, 719-846-9285.
The Fine Print feature is NOT an adver-tisement — it is a courtesy notice used to inform the public of upcoming free public meetings and events. Placement is not guaranteed and is always subject to space available. For contributions please call 719-846-3311 or e-mail [email protected].
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Weather WatChWednesday: Sunny, with a high near 87.
West wind 5 to 10 mph. Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 53. South southeast wind
5 to 15 mph.Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high
near 83. Light and variable wind becoming south southeast 5 to 10 mph in the after-noon. Night: A 20 percent chance of show-ers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 53. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high
near 77. North northwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. South southeast wind around 5 mph.
Saturday: A 20 percent chance of show-ers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 79. South wind 5 to 10 mph. Night: A 10 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 54.
river CallPurgatoire River Call as of: 06/02/15. Model Ditch --- Ap-propriation date: 01/22/1908.
Trinidad Reservoir Accounting:Release 783.64 AFInflow 460.76 AF -- 232.30 CFSEvaporation 14.12 AFContent 29,364 AFElevation 6,195.49Precipitation 0.07
Downstream River Call / JMR Conservation Storage: 12/31/1948.
the ChroniCle neWsLAS ANIMAS COUNTY
County Board hears new Economic Development Incentives Plan presentationBy Steve BlockThe Chronicle-News
The economy of Trinidad and Las Animas
County has been struggling in some areas re-cently, and many people want to know what’s being done to turn that eco-nomic picture around. Walt Boulden, exec-utive director of Trinidad-Las Animas Coun-ty Economic Development (TLACED), pre-sented a recent report to the County Board of Commission-ers about what kind of incentives could be offered to retain ex-isting businesses and attract new employers to the area.
Using a power point presentation, Boulden presented information to the Board about pos-sible economic incentives that could be offered
to businesses, information that he said he’d al-ready shared with Trinidad’s City Council in an earlier presentation.
“What I wanted to do was go through a pre-sentation about incentive packages that the City has been putting together, so that both
County and City are aware of how the City is approaching incentives and timeframe and businesses so that everyone’s on the same page,” Boulden said. “This was to present the
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Steve Block / The Chronicle-NewsWalt Boulden, executive director of Trinidad-Las Animas County Economic Development (TLACED), spoke to County Commissioners about incentives that could be offered to retain existing businesses and attract new ones to the area.
“Basically what we’re looking at is business expansion, attraction and retention. What we wanted to develop was a framework for decision-making that was both equitable and flexible.”
Steve Block / The Chronicle-NewsIt was time to share few laughs Monday at the opening of Trinidad State’s new Southern Rockies Heritage School. Left to right are Donna Haddow, Coordinator, NRA Summer Gunsmithing Program, Kim McKee, Heritage School Director, Dr. Carmen Simone, Trinidad State President, Keith Gipson, Associate Dean of CTE / Professor of gunsmithing and Mike Taunt, Instructor, Welding for Gunsmiths.
By Steve BlockThe Chronicle-News
Monday’s sun-splashed morn-
ing brought the beginning of the first summer session at Trinidad State Junior College, and it also featured the opening of Trini-dad State’s new Southern Rock-ies Heritage School, which is designed to preserve traditional
knowledge, skills, crafts and art forms of the past and apply them to modern life.
Kim McKee, the school’s direc-tor, said during the school’s open-ing event that Southern Colorado had a particularly rich heritage of people skills and historical events coming together at one place and time to help create the rich fabric of the Old West. McKee, also di-
rector of the Francisco Fort Mu-seum in La Veta, and one-half of the renowned Celtic singing duo of Wilson & McKee, said most of the estimated 30 classes would be held on the Trinidad State cam-pus, while others would feature instruction from experts in their fields at various other locations
TSJC opens Southern Rockies Heritage School on Monday
TRINIDAD STATE
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BEWARE AREA WILDLIFEGame and Fish officers kill puppy-eating cougar in RatonAssociated Press
RATON — New Mexico Depart-ment of Game and Fish officers have killed a cougar in a Raton neighborhood after it reportedly attacked a puppy on a woman’s front porch.
The woman called 911 on Thurs-day night, saying she saw a small cougar attack her puppy.
She later told officers that she had lost another puppy a few days before and also was missing sev-eral cats.
Officers found cougar tracks and blood near the woman’s porch and say the cougar climbed a tree near the home.
A subsequent necropsy con-firmed that the young female cou-gar recently had eaten a puppy.
Conservation Officer Clint Hen-son said the cougar might have been drawn to the woman’s house because a neighbor was feeding fe-ral cats.
Photo courtesy of New Mexico Department of Game and FishAccording to New Mexico Conservation Officer Clint Henson, uneaten pet food or other attractants left outside can draw predators into neighborhoods and closer to people and their pets.
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SUICIDE HOTLINESvADULT: 800-784-2433 vTEEN: 877-968-8454 vGLB-YOUTH: 866-488-7386vVET-2-VET: 877-838-2838
ABUSE HOTLINESvDomestic Abuse Ho-
tline: In Trinidad call 719-846-6665 (24-hours a day). In Walsenburg call: 719-738-0770. National Hotline: 1-800-790-SAFE (7233).
vChild Abuse Hotlines Call: 1-844-CO-4-KIDS or 719-846-2330 or 719-846-8596. For more informa-tion and to learn the signs of child abuse and neglect, visit CO4Kids.org.
vAnimal Abuse: Report animal abuse and dog/cock fighting at Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line: 720-913-7867.
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... Continued from Page 1County Board hears eco-development presentationframework that economic development and City staff had put together to have City Council vote on it and approve it, which they did. Basically, what we’re looking at is business expansion, at-traction and retention. What we wanted to de-velop was a framework for decision-making that was both equitable and flexible. There’s a special emphasis on job creation, salary improvement, targeted industry and taking care of underserved community needs.”
Job retention meant targeting employers who might leave the area unless some kinds of incentives were offered to retain them, Boulden said. All of the incentives involved sharing new revenue, which he de-scribed as “the critical piece” of the plan, and something that local peo-ple needed to understand.
“When you talk about sharing back, it would be the City’s portion of retail sales tax, the City’s portion of property tax, the sales tax levied by the City on construction materials for someone who’s building a new facility or if they’re rehabilitating an old one, purchases on business personal property, build-ing permits and utility tap fees. So any of those, when you look at how we put together the frame-work, the incentives can go from 10 percent to 100 percent,” he said. “That depends on whether they’re bringing in jobs, whether they’re build-ing or how much investment they’re making. The other key piece is providing a single point of contact for expedited review and technical assis-tance. That also makes sense when we start talk-ing about other resources for incentives, such as
tax credits at the state or federal level, and work-ing with the County if they want to build a part-nership around property tax incentives.”
The incentives to be offered would all depend on the financial investment of the company in-volved and the number of new jobs they would create, Boulden said. Business expansion would mean a currently successful business that want-ed to expand, including the total investment for their development and the total number of jobs to be created at attractive salary rates. He showed a chart describing job salaries as they related to the minimum wage by percentage.
“If you’re bringing in a business that pays higher salaries, you could potentially get greater incentives in the incentive package.”
He provided a series of examples of what level of incentives a business could expect based on their level of investment and, in part, how much money they spent with local businesses in the process of getting their business up and running.
“The reason purchasing locally is important is that the City can’t get back a share of taxes charged except on what they charge taxes on. It’s also a little bit of an incentive for them to buy lo-
cally, because they can get their sales tax back if they buy locally, but they can’t if they go up to Denver to buy it.”
He presented a chart showing how the City and the new business would split the new money coming in to the local economy. He noted that the relative shares of the new money between the business and the City would change over time, with the City getting more revenue relative to the amount the business received over a period of several years.
“The idea behind this is that most businesses are going to need three to five years to become truly profitable. If they’re not showing break even numbers after four years, with the chance of becoming profitable after five years, then they’re in trouble anyway regardless of the in-centives.”
Another example would be targeted busi-nesses identified and recruited with the two primary factors again being the level of invest-ment and the number of jobs created, including the salary levels. Another category would be for new businesses that might not create any new jobs, but would invest in rehabilitating an aging downtown building. Those businesses could also qualify for some tax incentives, based on their level of investment.
Boulden went on to describe several other kinds of business investment opportunities and the level of incentives that could be offered to them, but his basic point remained the same.
“Again, the idea is to bring this kind of invest-ment and these kinds of jobs into Trinidad,” he said. “You have to look at sharing back some of those really high initial expenses.”
in Southern Colorado.“We’re very excited to
see this heritage school come into being,” McKee said. “We’ll have upwards of 30 classes, though some of those are still in the plan-ning process. We have a bigger number of classes than we first anticipated, so that’s pretty exciting. Part of the goal is to do outreach to the counties that Trini-dad State services, so we’ll be having some off-campus classes as well.”
The heritage school will teach both traditional and non-traditional skills, she said.
“We’ll also have some non-traditional classes on specialized things that peo-ple might not be able to find in other places. We’re going to try to stick to the heritage and historical skills and trades that might be lost if we don’t pass them on,” McKee said. “For instance, today they’re starting with leather holster-making, which would be a craft from the past, but we’ll also teach blacksmithing and adobe construction. We have tra-ditional dyeing with cactus bugs, making yarns and fi-bers and things like that. So any thing from across that gamut of skills that would be specific to our region.”
Some of the school’s instructors would be com-ing in from out of town for the summer, she said, but there’s also an emphasis
on finding local people in the Trinidad area who have specific traditional skills that they could share with the school’s students. The instructors represent a wide range of traditional skills.
An horno is a mud, adobe-built outdoor oven used by Native Americans and early settlers of North America. McKee said the heritage school has plans to teach the skills involved in building an horno.
“We have plan to make, hopefully two hornos,” she said. “We’re looking for a location right now. We’re looking for a place to build them. We’re getting an in-structor lined up and then, of course, you have to have a class on how to cook in them. So that’s the next step.”
Dr. Carmen Simone, Trinidad State’s president, said the Southern Rockies Heritage School represent-ed a big step forward in the range of classes available to the school’s students.
“It’s a fantastic addi-tion,” Dr. Simone said.
“Part of what the college is supposed to do is to pre-serve the heritage and cul-ture of this region, and this is our way of doing that. I’m really proud of Kim and her crew. This is our way of keeping our heritage alive.”
65 Comi Funeral Home
Mary Praxy BowmanMary Praxy Bowman, age
84, passed away peacefullyat home on May 28, 2015.
V i s i t a t i o n w i l l b eWednesday from 2 p.m.-6p.m. at the Comi Chapel.
Rosary wi l l be reci tedWednesday, June 3, 2015 at7 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church.
Funera l Mass wi l l beThursday, June 4, 2015 at10 a.m. at Holy Tr in i tyChurch.
Interment will follow at theCarpio Cemetery.
Arrangements made underthe direction of the ComiFuneral Home.
Raymond C. RodriguezRaymond C. Rodriguez, of
Kim, Colo., passed away athome on May 30, 2015. Hewas 64.
Arrangements are pendingand will be announced laterby the Comi Funeral Home.
Rafael Diaz ZacariasRafael Diaz Zacarias, age
56, was called to be with ourLord, Wednesday, May 27,2015, in Pueblo, Colo. afterfighting a long battle withcancer. His family was at hisside until the end.
Visitation will be Tuesdayfrom 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. at theComi Chapel.
Rosary will be Tuesday,June 2, 2015 at 7 p.m. atHoly Trinity Church.
Funera l Mass wi l l becelebrated Wednesday, June3, 2015 at 10 a.m. at HolyTrinity Church.
Interment will follow at theTrinidad Catholic Cemetery.
Arrangements made underthe direction of the ComiFuneral Home.
A one woman play“For Tomorrow We May Die”
Performed by Tanya Kay PerkinsWritten by Barbara Yule • Directed by Brad Moore
Mt. Carmel Chapel � eatre911 Robinson Ave
Friday, June 5th at 7:00 p.m.Saturday, June 6 at 3:00 pm
Tickets are availabe at Roughneck Saloon in Aguilar or at Romero Liquors on
Linden St. in Trinidador by calling 719-680-0528, 719-941-4678
Tickets - $20.00 each
A moving story puctuated by period songs; the story of Mary Th omas, a Welsh singer who moved
to Delagua mining camp to be with her miner husband. aft er being invited to the White House, she
tells President Wilson the story of her experiences and survival at Ludlow during the miner’s strike of
1913-1914 and the annual UMWA Memorial event.
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Steve Block / The Chronicle-News Kim McKee is the director of Trinidad State’s new Southern Rockies Heritage, which provides classes in traditional skills to area students.
Associated Press
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — People at a camp-site near Durango fought off a bear that bit one man in the head and attacked another person. Another man stabbed the animal with a knife after it tried to enter his tent.
The bear, which attacked Sunday night and Monday morning, has been killed by wildlife officers, and it could be the same bear that also charged two other people last week.
The campers were bitten in an area that was strewn with trash and food, which authorities say likely drew the bear, The Durango Herald reported Tuesday.
The bear was shot and killed Monday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers. The bear was sent to Grand Junction for a necropsy and a DNA analysis to determine if it was the same animal that attacked two other people in the same area on May 26.
Campers say the bear was biting Joshua Barber, 21, in the head Sunday night when they arrived to help him. He was hospitalized but is
recovering.Matt O’Brien told
the newspaper that the bear stepped back as he ran from downhill from an-other camp shouting. He stepped between Barber and the bear, waving a big stick and shining a flash-light at it, and even-tually helped carry Barber away with another camper, O’Brien said.
Robin Derendy, 33, told officers the bear attacked him through his tent early Monday, but he was able to fight back with his knife. He believes he stabbed the bear on the left side of its head or neck before it ran off.
The bear may have gotten too comfortable
and become more brazen after finding easy ac-cess to food at the camp area near the Durango Tech Center, Joe Lewandowski, a spokesman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, said. The area, a couple of miles west of downtown, is known to be a spot for homeless campers.
state & CommunityBear killed after biting 2 at campsite near Durango
CAMPERS COME TO RESCUE
AP/Shaun Stanley/The Durango HeraldBear attack victim Joshua Barber speaks from his Mercy Regional Medical Center room about the injuries he sustained Sunday evening during a bear attack at his camp site Tuesday, June 2, 2015 in Durango, Colo. A bear that bit two people il-legally camping near Durango has been killed by wildlife officers, and it could be the same bear that also attacked two other people last week.
“Incentives to be offered would all depend on the financial investment of the company involved.”