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Crystal River Elementary School physical education teacher Marty Madsen (right) adjusts the helmet of first grader Peter Ortiz Barcenas at a recent outing to the Fourth Streetice rink. For more CRES ice skating action, please turn to pages 10-11. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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Getting priorities straightDear Editor:

There is something so unbelievablywrong with this picture! At what point dowe respect our elders! At what point dowe preserve and protect the integrity ofour towns!

Carbondale is being subjected to theonset of change, which we all know is in-evitable. But in this case, it is happeningwith a lack of wisdom. We saw it all hap-pen in Aspen, where I grew up. Peoplefrom other places with money came in andthought they knew what Aspen needed.They built monstrous houses, condos toobig for the properties they sat on, andAspen lost it’s integrity.

Planning and zoning changed. A townthat once didn’t allow chain stores andprided itself on the uniqueness of quaintboutiques, a way of living and working fora ski pass, and an earthiness unprece-dented to anything else found in the coun-try, was lost, a beauty that exuded fromall the characters that made it what it was.

Ralph Jackson, skiing in his floor-length fur coat. Artists like Tom Benton,

sculptor Bill Jamison, Paul Soldner (pot-ter), Robin Mol (painter), Gaard Moses(graphic designer), Norm Clasen (photog-rapher) — only a few names but the list isso unbelievably lengthy.

Yes, with the change, many peoplewho were the foundation, left. And withthem leaving, so did something so incred-ible with Aspen. It happened so fast, andthose of us who had grown up, and beena part of Aspen in it’s glory were stunned.What we were subjected to were outra-geous rents that now only chain storescan afford. Many people left, that hadbeen the heart and soul and moved down-valley or elsewhere.

So now we have things changing inCarbondale. Is this really what we want?If we don’t start speaking up, we will lookaround and the beautiful attributes thatbrought us here will be gone!

Yes, I am talking about the now ap-proved building of a four-plex, that is farto large for the property it sits on! This ishow it starts. People come in with money,who think they know what a town needs.They haven’t had the mileage of being, just

BEING here! They think we are lacking.The reason most of us are here is becauseit is quaint. Yes, in old town Carbondale.We have houses like my mom’s that wasbuilt in 1883, beautifully renovated. Wehave history, something that many parts ofAmerica lack. We like our quaint homes,and even alleys that have character.

It starts with a four-plex. The planningand zoning departments become more le-nient. The domino effect starts, rents goup, unique shops, artists, musicians, restau-rant owners, people of character leave andwe are left with chain stores and a townlooking like most of America.

Isn’t Carbondale special enough to sayENOUGH! At what point do we have avoice and preserve the beauty that wehave, and take care of the people thatmake this valley so AMAZING?!

Please let the Carbondale Board ofTrustees hear your voice and let’s keep theintegrity of Carbondale!

Barbara Sophia UlrychCarbondale

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OPINIONCarbondale Creative District rolls forward with biker cowgirlBy Olivia Pevec

I am writing in regards to the emerging Carbondale CreativeDistrict and it’s bicycle mounted cowgirl guide image.

Some of you reading this are deeply involved in developingthe Creative District. Others of you havesome vague notion of it, maybe some ofyou have never heard the phrase. Myunderstanding of the Creative Dis-trict is that it’s an effort to developcreativity as an industrial re-source. To that idea I will givemy head, heart, and both hands.The truth is that the CarbondaleCreative District will be what wemake it.

I was honored when I was askedif an image I had developed for myown amusement could be put for-ward for consideration as a“way-finding” guide and po-tential logo for the district. Shecame seemingly unchallengedto the point of public com-ment and was mostly posi-tively received there. The maincriticism to come up regardingthe image was “how does she repre-sent ‘creativity’”? It is to that I would like to speak.

Creativity is most easily seen in the arts, but creativity can bebrought to any scenario and turn any problem into art. When Idrew the cowgirl riding a bicycle I was thinking not only of howbikes have been my imaginary horses all my life, but also thatthis might be a viable option for working cattle.

Have I tried it?No, but I did see bike-mounted cowboys in Nicaragua some-

time after I created the image.While I don’t know a single cowboy or girl who would give

up their horse in favor of a bike, should it become necessary, Ithink it would be possible. Bikes are certainly cheaper and theydon’t slip on pavement. What solutions might we find for ouraffordable housing shortage, our land use concerns, our icy

roads if we look outside the established norm and mine cre-ativity for answers?

The Carbondale Creative District will endeavor to bringadditional support and attention to the artists of our

community, and also to attract new creative businessesto town. What fires your creativity? What ideas

do you have to make us stronger, more vital,more accessible? Do you believe, like me, thatcreativity could be as valuable, as plentiful, asconsumable and exportable as gas, timber or

coal? Certainly it is more renewable as itgrows exponentially where it is culti-

vated. Creativity is a significantforce behind what made Carbon-dale what it is today. The folkswho contributed to seeing thistown through the collapse of it’scoal industry had to be creative to

thrive here. Now that it is a boom-ing, bustling, good-times town with

a full economic spectrum, creativitycontinues to be an essential part our survival.

If you want to join in the fun, call or visit with the lovely peo-ple at the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities. There isnews on their website (www.carbondalearts.com) and they havedetails about regular meetings where progress updates are madeand next steps are discussed. You can also stay tuned and con-tribute at vulume.com/CCAH/954-carbondale-creative-plan.

Let’s create Carbondale as a place we love and love to share.

John ColsonSopris Sun Correspondent

The idea of carrying guns into a public library may not beat the top of local readers’ list of things to do, but the possi-bilities underlying that idea will be on the agenda of theGarfield County Library board when it meets on Feb. 5 inCarbondale, according to the library district’s director,Amelia Shelley.

According to Library Board of Directors at-large mem-ber Bill Lamont of Carbondale, the issue was discussed at aboard meeting last week, and Shelley was directed to write upa proposed policy statement much like the one adopted bythe Boulder Public Library Commission in 2012.

Prior to that adoption, the Boulder library prohibited thepossession of guns in the library facilities except for library se-curity officers and police.

The library board in Boulder, according to an account inthe Boulder Daily Camera newspaper, adopted a new policythat simply states, “No person may bring or possess aweapon, except as expressly permitted by state law.”

State law, Shelley told The Sopris Sun, does allow holdersof concealed-carry permits to possess guns in many publicplaces, including libraries.

According to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, 2,619concealed-carry permits have been issued in Garfield Countysince carrying concealed weapons became legal in Coloradoin 2003. Of that number, 1,507 are active, 267 have expiredand 792 are open for renewal, the sheriff’s office reportedthis week.

The Boulder library policy, according to the Daily Cam-era, was effected partly in recognition of a Colorado SupremeCourt decision, also in 2012. The court ruled that the Uni-versity of Colorado in Boulder could not prohibit concealed-carry permit holders from carrying guns on campus.

The issue arose again last year when the Rocky MountainGun Owners organization threatened to sue the ClearviewLibrary District in the city of Windsor, Colorado, over thatdistrict’s policy of barring guns in the library district’s facili-ties except when worn by law enforcement officials.

The matter came up, according to published accounts,when an armed library patron, carrying what was supposedto be a concealed pistol, was spotted by another patron,who complained.

The gun-toting patron had a concealed-carry permit, butwhen asked to leave by the librarian, she did so.

The gun-rights group soon intervened, informing the li-brarian that state law allows people to carry concealedweapons in libraries, and demanding the policy be changedor the group would sue the district.

“Criminal safe zones are target-rich zones, leaving ourchildren and loved ones vulnerable to those with maliciousintent,” said RMGO Executive Director Dudley Brown. “Alibrary should be a place where all freedom is recognized andsupported, not just a place for freedom of speech.”

The Clearview Library District complied, sparking around of debate on various web sites, including guns.com,which quoted RMGO’s social media page as declaring, “Weencourage our members and supporters to continue to law-fully carry their firearms at libraries in the state, disregard-ing any unlawful policy prohibiting the right to carryconcealed. We firmly believe library patrons, exercising theirinalienable right to protect themselves, are not disruptive tothe library environment.”

The debate has affected library districts around Colorado,including Garfield County.

“It’s pretty much that we don’t want to be challenged,”Lamont explained, adding that the new Garfield County li-brary policy, being written by Shelley, will be much like theBoulder law, which allows concealed weapons in libraries but

not openly carried guns.“I think, in many ways, it’s ridiculous,” Lamont contin-

ued. “I understand people’s viewpoints, but I also understandwe’re not talking militia,” referring to the Second Amendmentof the U.S. Constitution, which states, “A well regulated Mili-tia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right ofthe people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

The rights ensured through the Second Amendment re-cently have been interpreted to include the right to carry gunsfor self-defense purposes in general, according to the websiteof the Legal Information Institute of the Cornell UniversityLaw School.

Shelley, confirming that she is working on the wording ofa new policy, noted, “It’s part of the culture of the West” butadded, “We just don’t think it’s a big issue for us.”

Having guns in libraries, she clarified, is “not the climatewe want to have for our patrons, [but] we want to be in com-pliance with state law,” explaining that the policy she is work-ing on would allow patrons to bring in either concealedweapons or openly-carried weapons.

Libraries look to Boulder for first-ever gun policy

Sopris Sun Staff Report

Heather Cremeans, principal of Crystal River Elementary School, announced her de-cision to resign at the end of the current school year. In a letter to sent to communitymembers last Friday, Superintendent Diana Sirko and Chief Academic Officer Rob Steinstated, “We are thankful for Heather’s hard work and dedication to our students duringher two years as principal and we wish her all the best in her transition to new opportu-nities. As Heather has expressed her intentions to finish the year strong, we still haveplenty of time to plan for celebrations and goodbyes.”

Cremeans began her tenure as principal of CRES in the fall of 2013. In an e-mail, shetold The Sopris Sun “I am excited about the RFSD Strategic plan and look forward toCRES bringing it to fruition. I appreciate the staff and parents who have supported myefforts to make CRES the best it can be.”

The letter from Sirko and Stein also provides a summary of the work being under-taken this year at CRES. As they explain, “teams of teachers and community membershave worked on plans to clarify the school’s vision and mission, improve systems of in-struction and support for students, and increase faculty leadership, collaboration andmorale.” This work will continue, the letter states, “although in times of leadership tran-sition it is often necessary to slow down.”

This fall CRES also entered into an exploration process with Expeditionary Learning(EL), a national network of schools, along with the district’s Glenwood Springs Elemen-tary School. Crystal River Elementary School staff planned to make a decision later thismonth as to whether they want to join in a formal partnership with EL. According to the

letter from Sirko and Stein, “Feedback from EL staff is that the there are many indicationsthat Crystal River can be an excellent partner with EL, but at this time the staff is notready to make a full commitment. EL has given us a recommendation that we support thestaff in addressing some immediate challenges it is facing, including increasing staff col-laboration and understanding of the EL design.”

The letter goes on to explain, “There is still time this year to decide on a formal part-nership with EL, but there is also the possibility of studying and adopting some EL corepractices without formally becoming an EL school, and the possibility for the staff to de-termine that EL is not the right match for the school’s current needs.”

The district will be hiring an outside consultant to facilitate conversations among CRESstaff as they move forward. A group of CRES staff members is meeting with a consultantthis week to determine whether they want to recommend this person to work with the en-tire staff. As Stein told The Sun, staff members will be integrally involved in determiningthe specific goals and the process for working with the consultant.

Crystal River Elementary School serves about 530 students from pre-school throughFourth grade. Information on Expeditionary Learning is available at elschool.org. Expe-ditionary Learning’s 10 design principals include:

• Learning happens best with emotion, challenge and the requisite support.• Teaching in Expeditionary Learning schools fosters curiosity about the world by cre-

ating learning situations that provide something important to think about, time to ex-periment and time to make sense of what is observed.

• Learning is both a personal process of discovery and a social activity.

CRES principal resigns; EL decision put on hold

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Do books and guns mix? In some cases they do, following a Colorado Supreme Court decision in 2012 that confirmedpermit holders’ right to carry concealed weapons in many public places, including libraries. Photo by Lynn Burton


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Town Briefs Youth hockey numbers are taking offSopris Sun Staff Report

Ice skating was a top order of business in a weekly memo fromTown Manager Jay Harrington to the board of trustees and townemployees, distributed on Jan. 9.

Harrington highlighted several recreational programs on tapat the town recreation center, next to town hall, including youthclimbing classes and a new series of youth hockey lessons. He re-ported that the interest in the hockey lessonsyielded a “record participation” of 25 kids inthe 6-9 year old classes and 11 kids at the 10-14 year old level. The lessons are conductedat the Gus Darien rink, about a mile east oftown along Catherine Store Road (CountyRoad 100).

Harrington also reported that pick-uphockey games, for players of any age, arescheduled at the Darien Rink on Sundays,Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m.each night.

Skate rental rates ($3 per day or $10 for three days), and con-ditions of the ice at the town’s two rinks (including the Family IceRink at Fourth and Main in the center of town) can be found atthe Carbondale Recreation Department Facebook page, or at therecreation department website (www.carbondalerec.com).

Harrington also noted that, due to the ongoing warm tem-peratures, town crews have adjusted their ice maintenance timeframe and are not prepping the ice in the evenings, but rather inthe early mornings, which “seems to be helping to maintain goodice conditions.”

Also underway is the town’s Adult Broomball League, Har-rington wrote. Results of the matches can be found atwww.quickscores.com/carbondalerec.

The rink at Fourth and Main, Harrington noted, is being usedby physical education classes at Crystal River Elementary School,as the rink is “the perfect size for the younger kids,” according tothe memo.

In addition, Carbondale Community School is renting the Darienrink on Friday afternoons (Jan. 23 and 30 from 1-2:30 p.m.), and Harrington wrote that the Darien rink is rented for private

parties on Jan. 16 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. andfrom 6-8 p.m.

The restRegarding the clearing of the streets of ice

and snow, Harrington reported receiving“some complaints from the community”about the town’s performance, and added,“we remind people that we can only clear onestreet at a time when scraping ice and packedsnow.” He reported that town crews also have

been working on ice buildup on the pedestrian trails about town.Starting on Jan. 14, Police Chief Gene Schilling and Lt. Chris

Wurtsmith were scheduled to attend a three-day training sessionon “Marijuana Impact on Public Health and Safety in Colorado,”Harrington wrote. The session is being given by the Colorado As-sociation of Chiefs of Police.

Regarding Carbondale’s efforts to reduce energy consumptionat its wastewater treatment plan, Harrington wrote in his memothat for December (12-12-2014 to 1-8-2015), Carbondale’s elec-tricity usage at the plan was 57,272 kilowatt hours (KWH), com-pared to plant consumption rates of 86,622 KWH for GlenwoodSprings, 89,481 KWH for New Castle and 53,555 KWH at Silt forthe same period. Harrington reported that Carbondale has “theoldest facility of the group.”

Cop ShopThe following events are drawn from in-cident reports of the C’dale Police Dept.

SaTURDay, Jan. 3: At the highly sig-nificant hour of 4:20 a.m. police tick-eted two local young men (aged 18years, both) with being minors in pos-session of an alcoholic beverage, at alocation on Vito’s Way.

SUNDay, Jan. 4: at 2:05 a.m. officersresponded to a fight on Highway 133and arrested a man for disorderly con-duct. He was summoned into courtand released.

MONDay, Jan. 5: at 5:04 p.m. policeticketed a juvenile (age not given) forshoplifting at a store.

WEDNESDay, Jan. 7: at 3:50 p.m.police stopped a vehicle at Sopris Av-enue and Highway 133 and, after in-vestigating, arrested the driver forweaving on the roadway, driving whileunder the influence of alcohol or drugs,and failure to provide proof of insur-ance. The man was taken to theGarfield County Jail.

WEDNESDay, Jan. 7: at 7:35 p.m.police took a report of a suspicious in-cident near the Carbondale Branch Li-brary at Third Street and SoprisAvenue, but after investigating deter-mined the incident was not so suspi-cious after all.

“We remind peoplethat we can only clear

one street at a timewhen scraping ice and packed snow.”

Town nails CDOT for removing school zone signs


By John ColsonSopris Sun Correspondent

Booze and pot, and potential problemsposed by retail outlets for both, prolonged theagenda of the Carbondale Board of Trusteesuntil nearly 11 p.m. on Tuesday night.

The meeting had been scheduled to ad-journ at 9:10 p.m., but an early discussion ofa controversial liquor-license renewal for theMi Casita restaurant took far longer thanoutlined in the meeting agenda.

And a later debate about the concentra-tion of marijuana businesses in one corner oftown added to the effect of pushing backother agenda items and further prolongingthe meeting.

In the end, the trustees granted the Mi Ca-sita liquor license as desired by its owner,rather than extending a set of “stipulations”about the bar’s management that the ownerobjected to.

In addition, the trustees granted a newrecreational pot license for the Sweet Leafbusiness, which is opening a store on VillageRoad, despite objections from neighboringbusinesses that feel they are being forced toaccept an unhealthy concentration of pot-re-lated businesses in that part of town.

The trustees also decided to look at anemergency ordinance requiring that there bea 400-foot minimum distance between retailpots shops in the future, as a way of relievingpressure on the Village Road complex of pro-fessional and retail businesses from which the

objections arose.The Mi Casita debate opened with a state-

ment by owner Graciela Peña, who told thetrustees, “These stipulations, we shouldn’thave them for our restaurant.” The stipula-tions are a list of requirements imposed by thetown after the establishment nearly lost itsliquor license a year and a half ago for serv-ing booze to a 16-year-old girl at an event,and Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schillinghad suggested the stipulations be continuedwith the license renewal for the coming year.

Graciela Peña, as well as her husband,Kiko, the former owner of the business, stren-uously objected to the stipulations, sayingthey had complied with all the requirements,fines and other corrective actions of the stateand local governments concerning their busi-ness operations.

“We paid our dues,” said Kiko, “why arewe being punished another year?”

Trustee John Hoffmann agreed withKiko’s assessment, saying, “I think it’s a justiceissue” and moved to grant the license renewalwithout any stipulations attached.

After considerable debate, the trusteesagreed to scratch all the stipulations but one— all patrons in the establishment after 10p.m. must be at least 18 years old, a require-ment that Kiko agreed to in order to resumehaving late-night parties for his patrons, apractice that was suspended when stateliquor authorities cited him for serving mi-nors in 2013.

Schilling also went along with the elimi-nation of most of the stipulations.

Another restaurant/bar, Gandhi’s in theSopris Shopping Center, also got into troublelast year over its practice of holding after-hours parties for patrons, some of whomwere under 18, and that sometimes spilledinto the parking lot outside and degeneratedinto fights and other disturbances.

“We’re still having some issues there,” re-ported Schilling, referring to a fight thattook place in the Gandhi parking lot justlast month.

The trustees postponed voting on the re-newal to permit the staff to make somechanges to the stipulations, and to gathermore information about the current status ofcomplaints from neighbors and others.

Sweet LeafThe retail pot shop, Sweet Leaf, was the

subject of objections by two other tenantsin the building where the pot business is tobe located.

Norma Barr, who owns several retailspaces in the complex, complained that thereare several pot-related businesses in the com-plex, which also is home to professional serv-ices such as counselors to children and drugaddicts. Having the pot outlets in the com-plex is not appropriate, she said.

And Diana Quinn, owner of a business inthe complex, said she had spoken to severalother tenants who were “very concerned

about another retail marijuana place. Wesmell like a skunk factory there.”

But town attorney Mark Hamilton toldthe trustees that the neighbors’ complaintswere not sufficient grounds for denying theSweet Leaf application.

After the license had been granted, TrusteeAllyn Harvey moved to impose a morato-rium on recreational pot shop applicationsuntil the town government could examine theissues raised by the neighbors.

When other trustees objected to thatmove, Harvey agreed to amend his proposalto an emergency ordinance that extends a400-foot minimum separation requirementbetween recreational pot shops, a limitationthat currently is true only along Main Streetin the commercial core.

Pot related businesses already in existenceare not subject to the separation requirement.

In other action, the trustees:• Approved a special event liquor license

for a Feb. 28 fund-raising event at The Or-chard church facility on Snowmass Drive inCarbondale.

• Delayed purchase and installation of anew audio-visual setup for broadcasting trusteemeetings, while town staff goes back throughthe process of finding the best equipment pos-sible at the price level the town can afford.

• Renewed the retail marijuana businesslicense of the Doctor’s Garden shop onMain Street.

Booze and pot attract Carbondale trustees’ attention

Issue not settledBy John ColsonSopris Sun Correspondent

Carbondale officials, angered and dis-mayed over potential hazards to school kidswalking across Highway 133, on Tuesdayconvinced the Colorado Department ofTransportation (CDOT) to reinstall “schoolzones” signs and flashing beacons near theintersections of Highway 133 and two majorcross streets near schools, at least for now.

But the state agency will take anotherlook at the issue come spring, and may takethem down again unless it feels the signs andbeacons are warranted by potential for acci-dents involving children crossing the high-way, said Town Manager Jay Harrington.

The signs and flashing lights cautionedmotorists to slow down from 40 miles perhour, the speed limit just north of the zone, to25 MPH along the stretch of highway fromjust south of Hendrick Drive to the intersec-tion at Snowmass Drive, an area close to sev-eral schools and regularly crossed bynumerous school-aged children.

The issue arose last week, when the signsand flashers suddenly disappeared, afterhaving been up for only a matter of weeks,when CDOT officials concluded that thenew traffic signal at Snowmass Drive andHighway 133 would slow traffic sufficientlyto ensure safety for pedestrians, accordingto Harrington.

The disappearance of the signs promptedMayor Stacey Bernot to fire off an e-mail toCDOT's regional transportation director,

David Eller, accusing the agency of “either alack of understanding of the importance” ofsuch signs on a busy highway, or “an utterdisregard for the safety of my community'sfuture — our children. Either way I find thisrecent development unacceptable.”

Later in the message, Bernot declared, “A40 MPH area with distracted driversthrough a heavily used and school densestretch of highway is a recipe for disaster.”

The removal of the signs also led to aquickly-arranged meeting on Tuesday morn-ing between CDOT representatives, Har-

rington, town police officers and town Pub-lic Works Director Larry Ballenger.

That meeting was held at 7:45 a.m. asarea school children could be seen crossingthe highway on their way to the two nearbypublic schools — Carbondale Middle Schooland Crystal River Elementary School, bothof which are located along Snowmass Drive.

Harrington also sent an e-mail, to CDOTTraffic Operations Engineer Richard Sarchet,outlining the ways in which Harrington feltthe two zones meet the agency's require-ments for using such signs to control speed:

• The zone between Hendrick and Snow-mass drives serves four existing schools andone existing preschool, and ultimately willserve another school soon to be built, RossMontessori Charter School.

• A parallel bicycle and pedestrian trail is,in some spots, within three or four feet of thehighway lanes, most of it lacking curb andgutter separation, across which speeding carscould easily slip and swerve.

• The Carbondale Police Departmentwants the zones re-established, feeling that a40 miles-per-hour speed through this stretchof the highway is unsafe given the numbersof children who use the crosswalks and trail.

• The town was not consulted, nor did itconsent to removal of the signs and discon-tinuation of the lower-speed zones.

In an e-mail sent to Bernot, Harringtonand CDOT officials following the roadsidemeeting and another gathering at Town Hall,Zane Znamenacek, CDOT's Region 3 Traf-fic Program Manager, apologized for hisagency's failure to consult with the townprior to removing the signs and beacons, andpromised to restore the signs and the re-duced-speed zones by Thursday, and pledgedhis agency to consider “moving beyond thecurrent school zones to enhance school chil-dren safety even further.”

Looking toward the future, Znamenacekindicated that CDOT and the school districtwill work together on a “school zone study”to determine what, if any, other action is war-ranted for those stretches of Highway 133.

“All recommendations and results will bediscussed with school and town authorities,”he promised.

Town and CDOT officials met on Tuesday morning to discuss the situation after the stateagency removed new signs and blinking lights at two school crossings on Highway 133.Photo by John Colson

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The Town of Carbondale is currently offering

Christmas tree recycling in the parking lot at 4th and Colorado. Please remove all ornaments and tree stands.

Wreaths are not accepted.

Thank you.

Check it outThe 2015 Tom’s Door calendar is on the

street, showing seasonal scenes from aroundthe Roaring Fork Valley. The photographersare: Bob Boylan (cover), Carol Craven (Jan-uary), Mike Brinson (February), Mark Fuller(March), Jane Bachrach (April), DarrenBridges (May), Ken Krehbiel (June), Lee Enz(July), Jordan Curet (August), Kay Petterson(September), Laurel Dewey (October),Jonathan D. Birnkrant MD (November) andLynn Burton (December). The calendar wasprinted by Basalt Printing & Art Supply.Tom’s Door is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, pro-viding emergency assistance to those in needfrom Rifle to Aspen. For more information,go to tomsdoor.com.

Baby please, don’t goBanks, federal offices, the post office and

other operations are closed for MartinLuther King Day on Jan. 19. Some state and

local offices and agencies are open whileothers are closed, so call before you go.

Do this nowThe Sopris Sun is unaware of any group

calling itself the National Association of theDepartments of Motor Vehicles but if therewere such a group, it might be remindingfolks that January could be National CheckYour Drivers License month and encouragepeople not to let them expire. Or maybe not.Who really knows? The only thing for certainis if your driver’s license is expired, you’ve gotto take the written test again and the olderyou get, the harder the test becomes.

This just inThe Mount Sopris Nordic Council is ac-

cepting items for its upcoming Ski for Sisusilent auction. For details, call 618-6795 ore-mail [email protected].

Eighth graders winThe Carbondale All Stars eighth grade

boys basketball team went 2-0 in last week-end’s round robin tournament while theseventh graders dropped two. The eighthgraders were led by Joe Salinas and AidanSloan with 11 and 10 points respectively intheir 39-30 win over Montrose. MikelMayo contributed six assists and five steals.The boys later erupted for a season high 56points, holding New Castle to 36. Salinasled the way with 18 points and 12 re-bounds. Other team members are WillRose, Liam Laird, Oscar Miranda, JorgeSandoval, Dawson Kuhl, Ronald Clemente,AJ Adams and Lars Skoric. Their next ac-tion is Jan. 18 in Grand Junction.

The seventh graders lost to Montrose38-12 and Aspen 35-15 last weekend. LarsSkoric led the scoring in both games. Theirnext action is Jan. 25 when they host Glen-wood and Montrose.

Rankin picks LairdState Rep. Bob Rankin (R-Carbondale)

recently named his interns for the 2015 leg-islative session and they include RoaringFork High School student Fiona Laird. Theother interns are Vanessa Davia (Glen-wood), Tressa Leyba (Rifle), and TiffanyLingo, Calden Scranton, Pearl Wyman andTreann Quick (Moffat County). Intern du-ties vary, but they keep representatives ap-prised of happenings within theircommunity, attend meetings and more. Theonly requirement is the interns must visitthe state capitol in Denver at least onceduring the legislative session. Rankin rep-resents District 57, which covers Garfield,Rio Blanco and Moffat counties.

yum, yumKate Carei-Eakins is back on the recipe

beat and sends one of her new favorites: EasyMayan Hot Chocolate. If you’d like to try atruly traditional recipe, visit yucatanadven-ture.com. In the meantime, here goes.

INGREDIENTS• 2 cups unsweetened almond milk (or

milk of choice);• 1/2 cup of water;• 1/3 cup raw cacao powder;• 2 teaspoon cinnamon;• 1.5 teaspoon vanilla;• 1/2 teaspoon chili pepper (+/- to taste,

you would like a little heat);

• Sweetener of choice to taste.Puree everything in a blender and then

warm it on the stove.Kate Carei-Eakins practices as a holis-

tic health coach, therapeutic massage ther-apist and Quantum Emotional Clearingcoach. She also loves to cook and may bereached at [email protected].

They say it’s your birthdayFolks celebrating their birthday this

week include Lewis Cooper (Jan. 20).

Carbondale Middle School students and anelementary school age student won a $150prize for the Most Sculptural entry at lastweek’s KIDSCULPT 2015 during Aspen’sWinterskol. The theme was “Drop in andDream” and their snow sculpture depicted afour-poster bed. Back row, left to right: AlexaArrazate, Leah Lamont, Olivia Pedersen, Em-manuel Santana, Luka Sanic, Kylie Orf andLevi Roeser; front row, left to right: PatrickKeleher, Nepal Jacobson, Mountain Maes andColton Mesner. Photo by Ami Maes

Carbondale Chamber of Commerce mem-bers honored InterMountain Waste & Re-cycling (Karen and Scott Eden, top) as thechamber’s Business of the Year on Tuesday,and split the non-profit award betweenKDNK (station manager Steve Skinner, left)and Thunder River Theatre (director LonWinston, right). Karen told luncheon atten-dees when they opened in 2010 they wentdoor to door, and then thanked everyone fortheir friendship, business “and trash.” Pho-tos by Jane Bachrach

By John ColsonSopris Sun Correspondent

A proposed 10-year master plan for Car-bondale recreation and trails programs wasscheduled to get its first public hearingWednesday night (too late for The SoprisSun’s deadline for this edition), and will be thesubject of a joint meeting of the town’s boardof trustees and two citizen advisory boardson Jan. 20.

The 61-page draft Parks, Trails and Recre-ation Master Plan Update is a rewrite of thetown’s 2004 plan on the same subject, and ismeant to guide the town’s efforts to satisfycitizen demand for recreation amenities overthe next decade.

This will be done, the plan projects, in themidst of a continuing slide in town revenuesdedicated to recreation, trails and parks.

Among the concepts laid out in the draftplan is the possibility that citizens may befaced soon with a proposal to raise sales taxesto come up with the needed revenues to com-plete programs and policies first identified inthe 2004 plan, as well as additional wish-listitems contained in the proposed 2015 plan.

The Jan. 14 meeting was of the Carbon-dale Parks and Recreation Commission,which has been studying the draft plan sincemid-December, 2014, on the heels of work byvolunteers and the town’s consultant, DesignWorkshop, starting last August.

The Jan. 20 meeting, a work session at

which no formal decisions can be made, is setfor the trustees as well as the parks and recre-ation commission and the town’s Bike, Pedes-trian and Trails Commission, after whichfurther meetings are projected to culminatein passage of the new plan in March.

Town Recreation Director Jeff Jackelstressed this week that the proposed plan isstill in draft form, and that changes alreadyare being made as it is analyzed by town staffand by the volunteer boards charged withmaking recommendations concerning theplan to the board of trustees.

Present state of recreationA “vision summary” statement in the draft

plan notes, “Carbondale is known widely forits premier outdoor environment and moun-tain[s] defined by its strong bicycle culture,access to mountain recreation opportunities,healthy lifestyles, ranching heritage, diversityand its celebration of arts, culture and com-munity events.”

In general, the draft plan maintains, Car-bondale is in good shape in terms of the num-ber, quality and condition of most of itsrecreational amenities, which serve a popula-tion of some 6,400 residents within Carbon-dale, as well as up to perhaps 17,000 who livein the 81623 ZIP code area, according to U.S.Census data from 2010.

But, the document continues, “this planacknowledges that additional funding is

needed to complete many of the improve-ments identified in past planning documentssuch as the Nature Park Master Plan, theGateway River Park Master Plan, and newconcepts described in this document.”

Currently, the town boasts a total of 25parks, a growing network of bicycle andpedestrian trails and new recreational facili-ties that include a $3.2 million Recreationand Community Center, opened in 2008, anda variety of improvements to the North FacePark at the south end of town, such as thenewly completed North Face Bike Park,among many other amenities.

Among the list of parks are two that aretermed “gateway parks” at the north andsouth end of town — the seven-acre GatewayRiver Park adjacent to the Highway 133bridge over the Roaring Fork River, and thenewly renamed Nuche Park at the town’ssouthern border along Highway 133.

The draft plan sets out a goal of improv-ing and maintaining the existing network ofparks and trails, as well as making improve-ments to the aging municipal swimming poolat Main and 7th streets. The conceptualizedpool improvements, according to the draftplan, currently are “well outside of the town’sfinancial reach,” as are new trail constructionand the purchase of new park lands.

The financingAt present, the town dedicated funding

source for recreation is a half-cent Retail Salesand Uses Tax (50 cents in tax revenues out of

every $100 spent in shops, restaurants andother businesses), or RSUT.

The RSUT generated nearly $950,000 forrecreation spending in 2014, more thanthree-quarters of which went to support theRecreation and Community Center in theform of salaries, money for programs andpayment of $2.2 million in bonds issued tobuild the center.

Spending on recreation has depleted thetown’s cash reserves set aside for recreationpurposes, the plan notes.

“At the current use rate, it is expected thatparks and recreation savings will be depletedby 2020, and remaining funds will be insuffi-cient in funding existing facilities and pro-grams,” the draft plan states; adding that thedepletion could mean the town will fail topay off the debt service on the recreation cen-ter by 2024, as anticipated.

Although one section of the plan is to con-tain recommendations from the volunteerboards to the trustees, those recommenda-tions were not included in the public versionof the draft plan.

Instead, according to Jackel, the recom-mendations are being examined and revisedby staff and by the volunteer commissions,and a final draft may not be available prior tothe Jan. 20 meeting of the trustees and thevolunteer commissions.

One way to make up the shortfall andmeet the town’s recreation spending needs,according to the draft plan, would be to boost


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THURSDAY Jan. 15LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the oldpart of the Dinkel Building presentssinger/songwriter Willy Porter at 8:30 p.m.The Milwaukee-based performer is alsoknown for his spectacular guitar skills andcomedy, and has toured with Jethro Tull,Tori Amos and others. This is a return en-gagement for Porter. Info: 963-3304.

LIVE MUSIC • Styx plays the Belly Up inAspen in a fund-raiser for the Buddy Pro-gram. It’s an all ages show and tickets are$85. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. and the showstarts at 9:30 p.m.

BLOOD DRIVE • Valley View Hospitalin Glenwood Springs holds its monthlyblood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. thethird Thursday of the month. Info: (970)298-2555.

MEET THE CHIEFS • The chiefs of theCarbondale Police Department and Car-bondale & Rural Fire Protection Districtmeet members of the public at the VillageSmithy from 8 to 9 a.m. on the third Thurs-day of the month. Step up, sit down andask them just about anything.

LIBRaRy • The Carbondale Branch Li-brary’s winter schedule is in full swing, withmore than 10 events and programs everymonth, including Infant and Toddler StoryTime at 10:30 a.m. on Thursdays, andTablab at 4 p.m. on Thursdays. Info:gcpld.org.

ROTaRy • The Mt. Sopris Rotary meetsat Mi Casita at noon every Thursday.

FRIDAY Jan. 16MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents“Wild” (R) at 7:30 p.m. nightly Jan. 16-22except Jan. 18 when showtime is 2 p.m.(captioned) and 5 p.m. only.

LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale BeerWorks on Main Street presentsRopegun from 9 p.m. to midnight.On a related note, CBW alsohosts an open mic night from 8to 11 p.m. on the second andfourth Tuesday of the month.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Gui-tars in the old part of theDinkel Buildingpresents livemusic everyFriday night.Info: 963-3304.

SAT.-SUN. Jan. 17-18LET’S GO FISHING • The 17th annual Mountain Air Mechnicalfishing tournament at Rifle Gap State Parktakes place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Satur-day and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday. Con-testants must register with the RifleChamber of Commerce at 625-2085.

SATURDAY Jan. 17TNHa • True Nature Healing Arts pres-ents “The Yoga of Loving Kindness” withJacoby Ballard from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30p.m., and “The Yoga of Compassion” with

Ballard from 3 to 6 p.m. Info: 963-9900.

FILM • 5Point Film hosts a fund-raiser atthe Wheeler Opera House featuring nine

short films plus special guests ChrisKalous, and Frank and Jeanne Moore.Doors open at 6 p.m. with Dos Grin-gos burritos and Sierra Nevadabrews available for purchase. The

program runs from 7 to 10p.m. with an after party nextdoor at Justice Snows. Info:aspenshowtix.com.

EaGLE CREST • The Sat-urday Winter Market re-

turns to Eagle CrestNursey in ElJebel on Satur-days from 11:30a.m. to 4:30

p.m. Check out thelocal produce, food,coffee, clothing, ac-

cessories and more.

SUNDAY Jan. 18TNHa • True Nature Healing Arts holdsgong meditation with Barry Chapmanfrom 5 to 5:45 p.m. Info: 963-9900.

MINDFULNESS MEDITaTION • Dis-cussions about mindfulness meditationand Buddhist philosophy take place from9 to 10:30 a.m. on Sundays at CarbondaleCommunity School. All are welcome andmats/cushions are available. Info: 970-618-1032.

LUTHERaNS MEET • Faith Lutheran

Church holds worship services at the Car-bondale Middle School auditorium: tradi-tional service (9 a.m.), educational hour (10a.m.), living praise worship (11:30 a.m.).Info. Faithcarbondale.com and 925-7725.

aSC • A Spiritual Center in the Third StreetCenter presents the Rev. Ault CD (“Self Ac-ceptance”) at 10 a.m. On Jan. 25 it’s ArdisHoffman (“Integrating Spirituality – Shift-ing from Our Head into Our Heart”). Info:963-5516.

MONDAY Jan. 19HONORING DR. HERRINGTON •Everyone is invited to help Dr. Rick Her-rington mark his 40th year as a Carbon-dale physician from 5 to 7 p.m. atRoaring Fork Family Practice on High-way 133. There’ll be hors d’oeuvres anddesserts from the Village Smithy, and lotsof fond memories.

LIBRaRy • The Carbondale Branch Li-brary presents Story Time at 4 p.m. onMondays, and Get Your Ukulele On at6:30 p.m. on the first and third Monday ofthe month.

MLK DINNER • Garfield County Democ-rats hold their annual Dr. Martin LutherKing celebration at Glenwood VaudevilleRevue Dinner Theatre. Doors open at 6p.m. info: gvrshow.com.

JaZZ JaM • The Hotel Colorado in Glen-wood Springs continues Jazz Jam Mondaysfrom 7 to 9:30 p.m. All abilities are wel-come. For more info contact HunterDamm 319-7853.

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WEDNESDAY Jan. 21NaTURaLIST NIGHTS • WildernessWorkshop and others present “CapturingGlacial Change through 3D Time-LapsePhotography” at the Third Street Centerat 5:30 p.m. The film features the HelheimGlacier in Greenland, and was producedby Adam LeWinter, Ph.D. Upcoming pre-sentations at the Third Street Center in-clude “Adapting to Extremes: Life inAlaska’s Arctic” on Jan. 28. NaturalistNights are also presented at the AspenCenter for Environmental Studies onThursday nights at 7 p.m. and are free.Info: wildernessworkshop.org.

LIBRaRy • The Carbondale Branch Li-brary presents Bilingual Story Time at10:30 a.m. on Wednesdays, Legos at 2 p.m.and Middle School Makerspace at 2 p.m.

CULTURE CLUB • The Carbondale Cul-ture Club presents Lisa Dancing-Lightwith “Alive Inside: The story of music &memory” at noon at the Third Street Cen-

ter. Dancing-Light it a performance artist,piano coach, founder of Higher OctaveMusic Programs and producer for Earth-tree Records. Carbondale Culture Clubpresentations are free. The Jan. 28 pro-gram features Valle Musico, which is com-prised of Pat Winger (guitar), John Ramo(guitar), Bruce Imig (bass) and BrettGould (percussion). The group will per-form new interpretations of classical, jazzand world music.

TaLKING BayaRD • The Wyly AnnexGallery presents an evening of conversa-tion, music and art with local artist Ba-yard Hollins from 5 to 7 p.m. JournalistBrent Gardner-Smith will host the conver-sation. Hollins, accompanied by hisdaughter Samantha, will also perform afew of his original songs. Info: 927-4123.

ROTaRy • The Rotary Club of Carbon-dale meets at the Carbondale Fire Stationat 6:45 a.m. on Wednesdays. Info: [email protected] and [email protected].

Further OutTHURSDAY Jan. 22ECONOMIC FORECaST • The GlenwoodSprings Chamber Resort holds its annual eco-nomic forecast presentation from 7 to 9:30a.m. at the Hotel Denver. Topics include “Whatis Our Place Value” by the Sonoran Institute,and updates and reports from CDOT, the cityof Glenwood Springs, Garfield County, ValleyView Hospital and Colorado Mountain Col-lege. Tickets are $40 for chamber membersand $50 for non-members; breakfast is in-cluded. To register, call 945-0784.

LIBRaRy • The Carbondale Branch Librarypresents Wii gaming at 4 p.m. on the thirdThursday of the month. Info: gcld.org.

SATURDAY Jan. 24CaTTLE • The 59th annual Holy Cross Cat-tlemen’s Association meeting and banquettakes place at the Grand River ConferenceCenter in Rifle. The deadline to order ticketsis 3 p.m. on Jan. 20 at 970-318-0076 [email protected]. Tickets are

$30. A panel discussion at 2:20 p.m. includeswater, sage grouse and oil/gas issues, withJohn Swartout (Gov. Hickenlooper’s policyoffice), Tom Jankovsky (Garfield Countycommissioner), Kirby Wynn (Garfield Countyoil and gas liason) and Fred Jarman (directorof the Garfield County development depart-ment). Happy hour starts at 5:30 p.m., fol-lowed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and dancing tothe Yampa Valley Boys from 8:30 to 11 p.m.

THURSDAY Jan. 29MaSTER GaRDNERS • Colorado StateUniversity offers its Master Gardener courseat the CMC Lappala Center from 9 a.m. to 4p.m. Thursdays through April 9. Info: 970-328-8633 and ext.colostate.edu.

THURS.-Sat. Feb. 19-21LaFF FEST • The Wheeler Opera Househosts the fifth annual Aspen Laff Festival. Co-medians include Hippieman and his “Plan forAmerica,” Jim Breuer, Andrew Sleighter andothers. Info: aspenshowtix.com.

OngoingTOURS • Castle tours at the historic Red-stone Castle are offered on Saturdays andSundays at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are available onthe days of the tour. Info: 963-9656.

LUNCH • Crystal Meadows senior housinghosts a lunch followed by Bingo everyWednesday.

FIGURE DRaWING • CCAH offers live fig-ure drawing with Philip Hone Williams at theThird Street Center at 6:30 p.m. on Mondays.

The fee is $10. Info: 970-456-2865.

KOROLOGOS • Ann Korologos Gallery inBasalt continues “Color & Form” featuringPeggy Judy and Gayle Waterman throughFeb. 13.

THE WyLy • The Wyly Art Center in Basaltcontinues “Domestic Wild” featuring SusanStrauss Obermeyer through March 7.

MINDFULNESS GROUP • The Mindful LifeProgram hosts a weekly meditation and mindful-

ness group, Mondays, 7:30 p.m. at the Third StreetCenter. All are welcome. Info: 970-633-0163.

MayOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat withCarbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tues-days from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy.

TWO STEPPIN’ • Two Step Tuesdays takesplace at the Third Street Center every Tuesdaynight at 7:45 p.m. Admission is $7 singles/$12per couple. Partners are not necessary. Wearhard soled shoes and bring water. Info:

meetup.com/RFVDance.

BRIDGE • The Carbondale Bridge Clubmeets at the Senior Matters room in the ThirdStreet Center Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Youmust have a partner and the fee is $3 per per-son. Info: 963-0425.

CaNCER CONSULTaTIONS • ValleyView Hospital offers free lung cancer eval-uations on Thursdays from 9 to 11:30 a.m.Info: 384-7707.


Crystal River Elementary School physical education teacher MartyMadsen loaded his bus with students more than 30 times then

drove them to the downtown ice rink for hour-long skating lessonsbetween Jan. 6-12. Madsen reports that many parents volunteeredtheir time to help tie skates and put helmets on kids so they couldquickly get on the ice. “We have tremendous parents that go above

and beyond for the kids at CRES,” he said. Most of the studentshad never skated before the lessons. “We had some very nervouskids, but they conquered their slight fear and we had nothing but

smiles and laughing … once they were on the ice.”

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RE-1 talks super contracts Jan. 28The Roaring Fork School District Board of Education

will review drafts of Dr. Diana Sirko’s contract and Dr. RobStein’s contract at its Jan. 28 meeting, scheduled from 5:30to 8:30 pm at Basalt High School, according to a press re-lease. “The board is taking a thoughtful approach to thecontract negotiation process,” said Board President DanielBiggs. “We do not want to repeat the ambiguities of thepast. We thought we would be ready for the next meetingon Jan. 14 but we all agreed we need to take our time.” Theboard will be reviewing drafts of two contracts: Superin-tendent Sirko’s contract renewal request for two years, andStein’s five-year contract, with two years in his current roleas the assistant superintendent and three as superintendent.School board meeting agendas and packets are posted theFriday before each meeting at rfsd.org/board.

GarCo democrats are organizingThe Central Committee of the Garfield County Demo-

cratic Party will hold its annual organization meeting atthe Glenwood Springs Branch Library at 10:30 a.m. onFeb. 7. An agenda will be released before the meeting.

Vols needed for tax programHigh Country RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Pro-

gram) is seeking volunteers to help seniors electronicallyfile their 2014 state and federal income taxes. RSVP willprovide the training, materials and technology. A train-ing session is slated for the CMC Glenwood Center from9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Jan. 15. For details, call 947-8461.

Theatre aspen holds auditionsTheatre Aspen holds auditions for its 2015 season at

the Red Brick Arts Center on Jan. 25. Call backs are slatedfor March 8. Additional auditions will be held in New

York later this month and in February. For details or toschedule an appointment, e-mail [email protected], or go to theatreaspen.org. The season opens with“Cabaret” on June 26 and concludes with “Other DesertCities” on Aug. 22.

Library programming continuesWeekly and monthly programming at the Carbondale

Branch Library continues with: Story Time, Story Timewith the Aspen Art Museum, Bilingual Story Time, Legosat the Library, Middle School Makerspace, Book Club,Infant and Toddler Story Time, Tablab, Sensory StoryTime, Get Your Ukulele On, Paws to Read, Writers’Group, Wii Gaming, Movie Day, Senior Matters BookClub, the Roaring Fork Sing Writers Group and LoteriaNight. For details, visit gcld.org.

Cattlemen meetThe Holy Cross Cattlemen’s Association annual meet-

ing and banquet takes place at the Grand River Confer-ence Center in Rifle on Jan. 24. The event starts at 12:55p.m. and concludes with a dance from 8:30 to 11 p.m.(must be 21 or older). Tickets are $30 at 970-318-0076 [email protected].

CMC offers financial adviceColorado Mountain College holds its second annual

College Goal Sunday at several college centers from 1 to3 p.m. on Feb. 8. The event gives prospective students andtheir parents free advice on applying for financial aid. At-tendees are asked to bring W-2 forms, bank statementsand identification. Spanish translators will be available.For details, call Janelle Cook at 625-6910 ([email protected]) or Eileen Rothermel at 947-8277 ([email protected]), or go to collegegoalcolorado.org).

Fire district actionHere are the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection Dis-

trict emergency 911 calls for the week of Jan. 1-10:• Medical emergencies (7);• Vehicle fire assignments (2);• Carbondale monoxide alarm responses (2);• Trauma emergency (1);• Wildland assignment (1);• Fire assignment/out on arrival (1).

The Carbondale Board of Trustees recognized Students ofthe Month on Tuesday night. They are Carbondale MiddleSchool students Kendall Bernot (left) and Marco Hernan-dez (right). Photo by Lynn Burton


BobsledphysicsPhotos by Trina Ortega

Eighth-grade students fromCarbondale Middle School

put physics to the test onJan. 8 with the annual

cardboard bobsled race atThe Meadows near Sun-

light Mountain Resort. Stu-dent teams took two days

to build their bobsleds thenspent race day assessing

Newton’s laws, the forcesacting on the bobsled, and

how to calculate speed andacceleration. No word

from the students onwhether Sir Isaac Newtonhad as much fun with his

experiments as they didwith theirs, but one would

have to think he’d approve.

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As we begin our annual snow removal efforts, the Town of Basalt asks forcooperation from residents of the Town in the following areas:

By Steve Jundt

Basalt’s first recreational marijuana shop, Roots Rx, has been providing cannabis tolocals and tourists for less than two months but has already carved a trail to its ratherobscure location. Like its neighboringtowns in opposite directions that restrictretail marijuana outlets from locatingwithin a certain number of feet fromschools, Basalt’s zoning allows Roots Rxwithin a half-mile of the closest school.

In this writer’s opinion, the choice oflocation is an interesting one consideringBasalt’s penchant for driving consumerstoward its “historic” downtown corridorand the mountain marijuana industry’smagnetic appeal to visiting tourists.Throw in the recent statistic of $60 mil-lion in tax and licensing revenues ac-crued by the state in just 10 months andyou begin to wonder if a dispensary in one of Basalt’s downtown vacant storefrontsmight be just what the cannabis doctor ordered.

Roots Rx is owned by local businessmen Pete Tramm of Basalt, and RobertHolmes of Aspen. Though it’s the first retail marijuana store in Basalt, Pete and Robert

own another shop in Eagle-Vail. Their approach to interior marketing is not the tie-dyed Marley-esque feel of a ‘70’s head shop. The store promotes a comfortable, un-rushed, experience featuring upscale appointments and well thought out displays.

Product is supplied by Front Range growoperations, two from Denver and The Farmin Boulder. Their own grow operation is beingestablished in Missouri Heights and will feedboth their locations once they are up and run-ning. In the meantime, there are plenty of pur-chasing options: dry herb, oils, wax, ediblesand all the appropriate paraphernalia toround out your recreational experience.

The Roots Rx staff is experienced and upto speed on industry trends and innovations.So, if you’re new to cannabis or are a con-noisseur, their trained associates can assistyou with the desired effect you are trying toattain or simply offer advice in selecting a

dinner party gift to help charm the host (think outside the wine shop).Feel comfortable to stop in to learn more. Roots Rx is located at 165 South

Side Drive, down the block from Big O Tires and catty corner from the BasaltThrift Store.

The choice of location is an interesting one considering Basalt’s penchant for driving

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By Denise Barkhurst

The inundation of insane politics, of warimages and ridiculous speeches and thecomplete lack of logic that saturates opin-ions in the 24/7 news cycle,has me avoiding the newschannels like the plague.

Sometimes, I think the droning of com-mentary is the plague. And then two mili-tary-trained gunmen in black garb wieldassault weapons at journalists. They anni-hilate cartoonists and editors in an execu-tion-style raid in Paris, France. The droningis suddenly blocked by the concept thatfreedom of speech is a worldwide target. It’sthe bull’s eye for every extremist; it’s theirultimate threat and, consequently, the idealmost in peril.

We can say that those threatened by freespeech are uneducated, or from ThirdWorld countries, or have let their religionoverride their humanity (there’s an oxy-moron). We can even say that killing in thename of God, no matter whose God it is,exhibits the greatest insanity. The fact thatthis has occurred throughout history is noform of acceptance; it is, in fact, a form ofstunted human growth. We can create acomputer nearly as thin as cardboard butcan’t grasp the idea of agreeing to disagreein a peaceful manner.

Think this isn’t going to affect us here, inthe land of the free and home of the brave?

Think again.Extremists don’t have to wear black

masks or speak a foreign language. Theysimply need a gun and a sense of moralright that may conflict with common senseyet still give them an identity. Or worse, they

only need a platform (and amicrophone to go with it) thatattracts an unwarranted re-

spect as they shut down voices not in syncwith their own. It’s all about the idea of falserighteousness, not the idea of live and letlive. To make it worse, they think if they sayit louder and louder, it somehow becomesthe truth.

The political right sees “Sesame Street”as a social threat; the laugh-ability of this isoutweighed only by the danger of thosewho believe it and subsequently keep work-ing to de-fund it.

Think “burning books” is outdated? Nottoo long ago, the Pitkin County Library hada display of books currently banned inschools somewhere in the U.S. These in-cluded “The Grapes of Wrath,” “Catcher inthe Rye” and “Harry Potter.” Free speechand absence of censorship, especially injournalistic terms, is teetering in the balance.

A lawyer friend told me he looks at vio-lations of free speech as this: Was anyone de-famed? Was there potential for libel? Wasthere a possible hate crime? Was any lawbroken? This is the purest, pared-down form

of a right we take for granted, but which isthe core strength of any governmental sys-tem. We think of our newspapers and radiostations and TV channels as matter-of-factvenues for opinion and “news.” Of course,weeding through these to find factual, unbi-ased truth is a constant and tiring challenge,favored only by those who can stomachideas that contradict their own and who arewilling to acknowledge logic, scientific proofand advanced cultural norms.

Which leads me to journalists and satir-ical cartoonists. Yes, they can support astance that makes your stomach churn withdisgust, or draw a political cartoon thatborders on the obscene. They can insultwhat you believe in. But do they have theright to do that? And why should they? Be-cause without that basic, core value of hav-ing a voice, of challenging that with whichyou disagree, especially in an art form, webecome nothing more than the droningvoices across the airwaves. We become ro-bots in step to a non-thinking society with-out the critical analysis so needed forhumanity to advance.

I had to search for quite some time to findthe images from Charlie Hebdo that incitedthe finely-tuned, terrorist slaughter. No one,not CNN or MSNBC or BBC, was willing toshow them on the air. I had to sign a YouTubedocument to say I was old enough to see theimages of a naked cartoon Mohammedprone in prayer. (Honestly, I really didn’t un-derstand the cartoon’s message). I suppose

fear got the best of all of them. Would theybe the next ones to be slaughtered or bombedor targeted? Is our level of fear how we de-termine our level of free speech?

america isn’t easySome years back, Michael Douglas

starred in a film, “American President.” Hemade a speech that the screenwriter shouldhave received an Oscar for. Maybe we needto be using Hollywood’s vision of Americaas our world’s political addendum: “Amer-ica isn’t easy. America is advanced citizen-ship. You’ve gotta want it bad, ‘cause it’sgonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say, ‘Youwant free speech? Let’s see you acknowl-edge a man whose words make your bloodboil, who’s standing center stage and advo-cating at the top of his lungs that which youwould spend a lifetime opposing at the topof yours. You want to claim this land as theland of the free? Then the symbol of yourcountry cannot just be a flag. The symbolalso has to be one of its citizens exercisinghis right to burn that flag in protest. Nowshow me that, defend that, celebrate that inyour classrooms.’”

Raise your pens. Je suis Charlie.

Denise Barkhurst is an English composi-tion professor at Colorado Mountain Col-lege, volunteer board member for TheSopris Sun and longtime Bonedalian. Heropinions here in no way represent those ofthe college or The Sopris Sun.

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should re�ect all of our unique qualities asshould each branch library cater to the re-quirements of its own community. Carbon-dale’s needs and interests are different thanthose of Ri�e or Silt. All well reviewed liter-ary �ction and topical non-�ction must be aparamount part of Carbondale’s collection.

I want to thank Molly and staff for the jobsthey are doing. I love walking into our libraryand seeing many young people there and I lovethe programs that are offered for both youngand old. The library should and can be a com-munity hub and still ful�ll its purpose.

Ro MeadCarbondale

Thanks to Heritage ParkDear Editor:

I recently lost a close friend who spent thelast 18 months of her life at Heritage ParkCare Center, �rst in assisted living and then,as her health further failed following severalstrokes, in the Skilled Nursing section. For thelast month of my friend’s life, I was there sev-eral times a day and able to observe the ex-

cellent care provided by the kind, caring anddedicated staff; I cannot speak more highly oftheir commitment to their clients’ well being.

It is so dif�cult to observe our loved onesin discomfort and we strive to do all we canto ease their pain. I felt that every request thatI made to Heritage on her behalf was hon-ored and every attempt was made to ful�llher needs. She was treated with the utmostdignity and respect and loving care. I am verygrateful to the wonderful folks at HeritagePark. How fortunate we are to have this fa-cility in our community.

Patti StranahanCarbondale

Thanks to the crewDear Editor:

No doubt most of you have noticed theaddition of new �ower boxes along the en-trance to Carbondale’s Main Street publicparking lot. How nice to see beautiful �ow-ers blooming in these newly covered sectionof previously ancient black railroad ties.

A special thanks to Smiley Wise, one of the

chiefs in the Public Works Departmentwho gave permission to the project, and toCarlos Loya, the one who transformed thatold look to the “new look.”

Also, thanks to our newest planting vol-unteers: D’uan Hajdu, O. D., Jeanie Hays withthe law of�ces of Whitsitt & Gross, and ZaneKessler with the Thompson Divide Coalition.

Thanks to the town’s new arborist, DaveCoon, who in addition to his many dutiesmanages to water every �ower pot in ourtown three times a week!

Other volunteers involved with plantingtheir own plants in those large pots are: MaryBeth Bos (new owner of Main Street Spirits),Aimee and Anthony Gullwick (Koru con-struction company), Amy Kimberly (CCAH),Peter Gilbert of the Dance Initiative (soon-to-be occupants of the old town library on FourthStreet), Stacy Evans & Friends, Susan’s Flow-ers plus 21 others who are repeat participantssince 2010. Thank you folks!

What attractive and pleas-ant gifts your efforts are tothis community. We appreci-

ate all of you. Thank you.Chris ChacosProject “Gunga Din!”Carbondale

Boogie’s thanksDear Editor:

This past Friday, over 1,000 people kickedoff their Fourth of July celebration with oneof Aspen’s most popular traditions: the an-nual Boogie’s Buddy Race to bene�t theBuddy Program! This 5K race and 1-milefamily and canine walk provides funding tosupport nearly 1,000 local youth and theirfamilies through many critical services andprograms including individual mentoring,group mentoring, leadership education,Lemonade Day, activities, scholarships, andtherapeutic counseling.

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Roaring Fork cheerleaders had something to cheer about, and came within three points of having a lot to cheerabout, in the Rams’ Jan. 9 basketball home-court games against Aspen. The boys came away with a 60-49 winagainst the Skiers, while the girls fell just short 26-24. The following day, Roaring Fork’s boys took care of Basalt43-38, while the girls held up their end with a 37-27 win. Next up: the Rams host Grand Valley on Jan. 16 (girlsat 5:30 p.m., boys at 7 p.m.), and travel to Olathe on Jan. 17 (girls 4 p.m., boys 6 p.m.). Photo by Sue Rollyson

Recreation plan om page 7the RSUT by a quarter-cent, to 75 cents per $100 spent inlocal shops, or even a half-cent increase, to $1 per $100 inspending, as the plan says was done in Crested Butte andBasalt to meet similar funding challenges in those towns.

In a survey conducted last year, according to the plandocument, 37 percent of respondents were OK with the ideaof “aggressively seeking additional funding sources” to meetthe town’s needs. A total of 75 percent of respondents of-fered varying levels of support for the idea of a tax increase,according to the draft plan.

Another aspect of the draft recreation plan calls for sup-port of an ongoing effort to have Carbondale designated bythe state of Colorado as a Creative District, an effort thatcurrently is being spearheaded by the Carbondale Councilon Arts and Humanities (CCAH), though there have beenindications that another group may ultimately take over theorganizational role.

Linking the recreation planning with the Creative Dis-trict effort is advisable, the draft plan states, because “artsand cultural services are fundamental to the civic purposesof Carbondale and to the community’s identity. In recogni-tion of this, the recreation master plan is intended to sup-port the Creative District plan.”

In general, the draft document continues, “Recommen-dations that are directly relevant to the Parks and RecreationPlan Update include the goal of promoting Carbondale as anarts, festival, performance and recreation destination; im-plementing targeted multi-modal improvements; and pro-tecting riparian corridors while promoting publicrecreation.”

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