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arfield County Libraries have kickedoff a Shop Locally, Support Librariescampaign at the Carbondale BranchLibrary for the month of March to

highlight the relationship between sales tax, localbusinesses, and libraries.

The libraries receive a quarter cent of GarfieldCounty’s one-cent sales tax, according to a pressrelease. In 2014, that equaled about $2.4 millionin sales tax revenues that support library opera-tions including staff, utilities and materials in-cluding books, e-books, magazines, movies andaudio books.

How does the Shop Locally, Support Librariescampaign work? Carbondale residents are beingencouraged to bring their receipts from Carbon-dale businesses to the Carbondale Branch Librarythrough April 3 to be entered into a drawing towin prizes donated by local businesses. Althoughthis campaign is limited to Carbondale, GarfieldCounty Libraries will be expanding the Shop Lo-cally, Support Libraries campaign to the rest of thecounty later this year.

Primarily, Shop Locally, Support Libraries is de-signed as a public information campaign to remindpeople that shopping locally does more than sup-port local business. Besides the six public libraries,the one-cent Garfield County sales tax also sup-ports the Garfield County Emergency (911) Com-munications Authority, Garfield County Healthand Human Services grants to area non-profits,and all six local municipalities. Shop Locally, Sup-port Libraries was developed in partnership withRoaring Fork Leadership and the CarbondaleChamber of Commerce, with numerous local busi-nesses joining in on the project.

Garfield County Library officials said they hopethat by heightening awareness of the connectionof sales tax to supporting essential services, ShopLocally, Support Libraries will reinforce for citizensthe need to spend their dollars close to home.

“I think it’s really eye-opening when you thinkabout the extended benefits of shopping in yourcommunity,” said Garfield County Libraries’ Ex-ecutive Director Amelia Shelley. “It’s more thanshopping local to ensure that your neighbor’s busi-nesses thrive. It’s also ensuring that the sales taxdollars that are raised stay local, too, and supportthe entities that help make our communities great.”

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The theme for First Friday at the Launchpad was “Mohawks, Tattoos & Street Art” and Kai Jackson, 7, got pretty much the fulltreatment. Folks who did the First Friday stroll also stopped in at the Carbondale Clay Center, Main Street Gallery & the Framer,the Third Street Center and other venues around town. For more First Friday photos, please turn to page 8. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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I was totally saturated this weekend reading and preparing for“figure setting” next week for the Department of Health Care Pol-icy and Financing, and the Department of Education. So rather thanget creative, I’m passing along excerpts from the Sen-ate and House Republican’s recent reports. We areoften accused of spending all of our time on partisanbickering and the press likes to play up our conflicts.Many of the bills we will pass are bipartisan and workto improve the lives and security of all Colorado citi-zens. I hope you enjoy some news from the capitol.

From the Denver PostStill pending for the second half of the session:• The state’s budget, aptly named the Long Bill,

which details Colorado’s spending for the next year.With divided chambers, negotiations between the twoparties are likely to be more intense than in prior yearswhen Democrats held complete control.

• A series of bills still awaiting debate address stu-dent testing. Lawmakers from both parties have ex-pressed concern that Colorado students spend too much time takingstandardized tests. Lawmakers will consider bills to limit testing tofederal minimums and to eliminate some tests for the latest gradesin high school.

From the Colorado Senate’s recent reportMore than two dozen legislators — Republicans and Democrats,

representatives and senators — stood in a crescent formation be-hind the bipartisan collection of Sens. Nancy Todd and LauraWoods, Rep. Mike Foote and House Majority Leader CrisantaDuran. The foursome joined arms at the lectern in the state Capitol,an impromptu symbol they’re united in helping Colorado’s middleclass do better by connecting training and education with better jobsand fatter paychecks.

Lawmakers’ to-do list in the last half of the legislative session istopped by making good on both parties’ pledge to help those laggingbehind in Colorado’s fast-growing economy. Thursday (March 5)they presented 10 jobs bills collectively called the Colorado Ready

to Work Package.Colorado seemed poised to strengthen protections for foster kids

on March 4, with unanimous bipartisan passage of House Bill 15-1078 by the Senate Health and Human Services Com-mittee. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Laura Woods(R-Arvada) and Cheri Jahn (D-Wheatridge) and Rep.Dan Nordberg (R-Colorado Springs) and Beth McCann(D-Denver), could significantly reduce human traffick-ing in Colorado by requiring that Colorado’s Depart-ment of Human Services file a missing persons reportwith law enforcement and the National Center for Miss-ing and Exploited Children within 24 hours of learningthat a child in its custody is unaccounted for.

From the Colorado House RepublicanMid term Report

• HB-1043 (Saine & McCann/Cooke & Johnston)gives district attorneys the option to prosecute a thirdDUI in seven years if certain aggravators are present ora fourth in a lifetime as a Class 4 felony. It passed the

House Judiciary Committee and was referred to Finance. • HB-1031 – (Windholz/Todd) ensures Colorado regulates and

taxes powdered alcohol like liquid alcohol once it receives federal ap-proval. It passed in the Senate and is awaiting re-passage in the House.

As of Monday, March 9, a total of 479 bills have been intro-duced, 190 of which are bipartisan, and 97 have been postponed in-definitely (killed). We still have a long way to go.

My own bills are doing well. The most important are my Pub-lic Lands Bill (HB-1225) and a bill to more equitably fund ruraland small school districts (HB-1201). I’m also carrying a numberof bills for departments and several very important Joint BudgetCommittee bills. I’ll include a list of all my bills and their statusnext month.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve.

Representative Bob Rankin, House District 57, lives in the Carbon-dale area and represents Garfield, Rio Blanco and Moffat counties.

e midterm report: Some bipartisan action

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Under theDomeBy Bob Rankin

OPINION

DD article was hurtfulDear Editor:

I am both a 2015 Dandelion Day PlanningCommittee intern and the Carbondale Envi-ronmental Board’s newest member. I wouldlike to clarify some inaccuracies in last week’sDandelion Day (DD) story.

I am a student in CMC’s sustainability pro-gram and as part of this program I am interningwith EverGreen Events. I am learning event or-ganizing by shadowing Alyssa, founder of EGEand DD planning committee member. Throughthis opportunity I attended an E-Board meetingalong with one of the DD planning ladies. Sherequested the E-Board’s participation and for aliaison between the groups. It was suggested thatI would be a good fit and I happily took on thatresponsibility of becoming an E-Board memberso I could liaison.

I was contacted by (Sopris Sun reporter)John (Colson) and spoke with him just twodays before the article was published. I rec-ommended he contact two long time E-Board members so they could tell their sideof the story of the split off of the DD Plan-ning Committee from the E-Board. I don’tbelieve those two members were given fair

time to respond as I gave their names onlytwo days before the newspaper came out. Iunderstand the focus was supposed to revealthe plight of three long-time planning ladiesand enter a plea for the public to help them,however I felt the article was too negativeand failed to mention the positive that is al-ready happening for 2015’s DD.

My efforts were not mentioned alongwith two other E-Board members who com-mitted to help: Matt Gwost and Scott Mills.Jason White and Jeff Lauckhart were men-tioned — thankfully. Scott and Matt will beco-managing the beer tent, and Jason andJeff will be co-managing the green team. Jeffwill also be assisting with the parade. Inci-dentally, the E-Board has some fairly newmembers that weren’t familiar with DD anddidn’t know that it was originally an E-Boardplanned event until recently. The statementthat “none of the E-Board members haveshown interest in taking part in the planningfor Dandelion Day” was hurtful and incor-rect. I am involved in both organizations andseveral of my fellow E-Boarders will be per-forming duties that require planning; that’snearly three-quarters of the E-Board.

My message to DD lovers is to volunteer!Your help is critical to not only sustaining DDbut making it fully bloom. Support theseladies who grew DD from it’s humble begin-nings to the amazing event that it is today. Tovolunteer for DD visit www.dandelion-day.org. Be someone these dedicated plannerscan pass their torch to or give a couple ofhours during the event. Robin VanNorman isthe new volunteer coordinator. Let her knowhow you’d like to help!

Julia FarwellE-Board MemberDandelion Day PlanningCommittee intern

Thanks to these folksDear Editor:

As I’m recovering from back surgery,Ihave many things to be grateful for: Dr.Miller and Valley View Hospital for the pro-fessional care I received; the wonderful careI received at Heritage Park.

I thank Sue for providing me with a pri-vate room, and for the P.T and O.T. depart-ments for their expertise in helping me heal. I

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Bob Flogaus recently celebrated his 100th birthday with friends and neighbors ata luncheon hosted by his son Jay and daughter-in-law Carol at Heritage Park As-sisted Living in Carbondale. Flogaus was born in Carbondale in 1915, raised inMarble, and lived for many years with his wife and two children in Lenado/WoodyCreek; he operated the family business — Flogaus Sawmill — in Lenado. Flogausretired in McCoy, later in Gypsum, and now resides at Heritage Park. He said hewants to offer a big “thank you” to all the “wonderful people” at Heritage Park.Courtesy photo

By Nicolette ToussaintSopris Sun Correspondent

Despite nursing a bad chest cold duringthe Ski Mountaineering World Champi-onships, Carbondale native Lindsay Plantturned in finishing times that would makeher hometown proud. She ranked 14th inthe vertical event, 20th in individual compe-tition and sixth in the women’s team event,where she was partnered with her friend andtraining partner Jessie Young of Aspen.

Recalling the February competition inVerbier, Switzerland, Plant told The SoprisSun, “It’s extremely thrilling and pretty sur-real. It was such a cool experience. It’s sucha big sport over there. It was an endorphinrush, just amazing.”

Ski mountaineering is a combination ofski touring, telemark and backcountry skiing,and mountaineering. “It’s a really challengingsport. It takes a lot of training and it’s hard,”Plant admits. And the road to the Moun-taineering World Championships is both longand competitive; the U.S. sends only about 16competitors. To qualify for the team, athletesmust rack up points and standing in a seriesof races held in this country.

Plant, 32, wanted to compete in theWorld Championships two years ago, butbecame pregnant with her daughter, who isnow 18 months old. The championships areheld every other year, so this year and last,Plant went to “as many races as possible”to qualify. After competing at Irwin andCrested Butte in Colorado, and JacksonHole, Wyoming this year, she achieved thetop ranking among women who qualified

to go to Switzerland. (Onewoman, who ranked abovePlant, couldn’t go).

Plant, who works as amedical assistant at Glen-wood Medical Associates,said that having a bad chestcold and cough “was abummer. But I still able toperform well and I washappy with my results.”Since the town of Verbier issituated at 4,921 feet abovesea level, “ it’s low com-pared to us.” She said, “I feltlike I had more oxygen thanI was used to.”

The verticalPlant said that the verti-

cal event, which combines skinning up andskiing down more than 4,500 vertical feet, isthe “most sought-out” event, and the expe-rience of the huge crowd cheering the com-petitors on was “amazing.”

Blogger Chad Brackelsberg, who lives inPark City, Utah, described Plant’s verticalrace this way: “For the women, LindsayPlant, Meredith Edwards, and Jari Kirklandwould be racing … All of the team lookedstrong as they passed through the streets ofVerbier. Many of us jumped on the gondolato get to the top to cheer on the team as theyfinished. The number of people lining thestreets and the finish line was amazing. Inthe US, we may have a handful of spectators,here there were thousands!”

Looking to 2017Plant is already planning for the next

World Championships, to be held in 2017.She trains with a large group of Roaring ForkValley ski mountaineers. “My training is justgetting out on my skis for a high intensityworkout,” she says. “I do long vertical climbs,and it has to be quality over quantity becauseI work and I have my daughter.”

Plant grew up in Carbondale and learnedto ski when she was about three years old.She didn’t ski through her entire childhood,but took a few years off and played sports.She returned to skiing in her 20’s, and wasintroduced to ski mountaineering by herboyfriend, Brian Edmiston, who has beenracing for more than a decade. “When I met

him I was into skinning, but he got me intoracing,” she said.

Ski mountaineering requires specializedequipment, much of which comes from hersponsorship through La Sportiva, as well asCripple Creek Backcountry in Carbondale.“My boots are 555 grams, extremely light.They are full-on downhill boots, but madefor this sport. They are stiff so they ski well,”she explained.

What’s next? “My goal is really just to push myself. To

find out how well I can do, how strong I canbecome. There are a of couple pretty bigraces in Europe I would like to compete in— a handful annually or every other year. Ijust love the challenge.”

Carbondale’s Lindsay Plant: A world-class competitor

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Lindsay Plant (above) crosses the finish line of an event atthe recent Ski Mountaineering World Championships inSwitzerland; (left to right) the U.S. Women’s Ski Moun-taineering team: Sarah Cookler, Meredith Edwards, JessieYoung and Plant. Young is from Aspen and trains withPlant. Courtesy photo

Returns from SMWC in Switzerland

By John ColsonSopris Sun Correspondent

Carbondale’s trustees on Tuesday unani-mously affirmed approvals for a residentialredevelopment project at 191 Sopris Ave.,originally approved by the planning and zon-ing commission, ending months of contro-versy over a proposal to replace an agingone-story house with a two-story four-plex ofrental apartments that had generated intenseopposition from some neighbors.

The project was approved by the P&Z lastDecember, but a band of neighbors, lead byBrigitte Heller, whose house at 226 S. 2nd St.sits across an alley from the project site, ap-pealed that approval to the board of trustees.

Over the course of three hearings beforethe trustees, and several hearings last year be-fore the P&Z, the neighbors argued that theproject was too tall and too massive to fit intothe neighborhood.

But the developer, River Valley Ranchresident Kim Kelley and her company, So-pris Properties LLC, countered that theplans conform to the town’s in-fill develop-ment guidelines, and that they had reducedthe height and mass of the house as well asmaking changes to the interior and exteriordesigns of the building in efforts to placatetheir neighbors.

At the meeting on Tuesday, numerous sup-porters of the project, some from the neigh-borhood but most from other parts of town,stood up and urged the trustees to approve

the project and let it be built.A smaller number of critics, mostly from

the immediate neighborhood, again voicedthe collective opinion that the building, asproposed, is still too high and too massive tofit in with its surroundings.

Following the vote to approve the proj-ect, Heller said, “I am not happy, but I willjust live my life like I did” before the con-troversy arose.

“I don’t think it was a good decision,” shesaid of the trustees’ vote, which she felt wasdriven by worries over what might be built atthe site if the project were denied.

Heller’s daughter, Barbara Sophia Ul-rych of Redstone, also was not happyabout the decision.

“It’s not how we would have hoped itwould go, but it’s better than it was at the be-ginning,” she said, referring to the changes tothe project plans.

And, she said, “a lot of good came out ofit, because they (the trustees) see that there’s areal problem with zoning,” problems thatshould be addressed as the town rewrites itsland-use review codes to match recent revi-sions to the Carbondale Comprehensive Plan.

The development team, made up of at-torneys Kelcey Nichols and Joslyn Wood,planner Mark Chain and architect Jess Ped-ersen, quietly slapped backs and shookhands in congratulations for finally gettingthe project approved.

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Town Briefs Town submits rodeo roof grantSopris Sun Staff Report

Town Manager Jay Harrington re-ported, in his weekly memo to the Boardof Trustees and town staff, that a grant ap-plication for $70,000 in funds has beensubmitted to the Garfield County FederalMineral Lease District (FMLD), to pay fora cantilevered roof over the grandstand($50,225) and rebuilding the arena an-nouncer’s booth ($19,775) at the GusDarien Riding Arena. If approved, accord-ing to Harrington’s memo, the town wouldprovide $10,268 in matching funds, andthe Carbondale Wild West Rodeo Boardwould provide $10,000 in matching funds,with the FMLD providing $49,900 for theproject. An announcement on approval ordenial of the grant is expected in mid-April.

The Parks and Recreation Commission,at its meeting this week, was scheduled todiscuss the needs of Carbondale’s BicyclePolo Club concerning the club’s need for aplaying field, as well as a proposal from thelocal chapter of the Audubon Society tocreate a “birding park” along the River-front Park Trail on the Crystal River as itpasses through town.

Commission members also will be dis-cussing possible projects that could be un-dertaken this year as a result of recentpassage of the Parks Recreation and TrailsMaster Plan.

The Adult Volleyball League at the Car-

bondale Recreation and Community Cen-ter finished its tournament last week withthe following results: Taking first placewas the Los Eagles squad, followed by GirlPower in second place and Blasters inthird. Adult volleyball at the CRCC hasnow gone back to Monday drop-in gamesfrom 7-9 p.m. for the rest of the winterand spring.

Also at the Recreation Center, Har-rington reported, a new beginner’s fitnessclass was started last week, building onthe success experienced in an initial classstarted earlier in the year. A collaborationbetween the town and the Valley Settle-ment Project of the Manaus Fund, theclasses are designed to provide “a non-in-timidating class that trains the participantto use our fitness equipment and providesthem with important exercise strategiesand fitness goals” catered to individualparticipants. The classes are covered by aCRCC membership fee, or there is a day-rate for drop-in participants.

Other drop-in programs at the CRCCcontinue to grow in popularity, particu-larly the Pickleball games on Saturdaymornings, Harrington reported. The timeslot for these games has been expanded tomeet the growing demand, and they willbe held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdaysthrough May.

Harrington reported that certain CRCC

programs will be shut down from March11-13, to accommodate the staging of the“Green is the new Black Fashion Show” onMarch 13-14 at the Recreation Center. Thedoors will be open at 7 p.m. for a dessertreception, and the shows start each nightat 8 p.m.

Work crews with the Colorado Depart-ment of Transportation will be returning totown this month to finish up work on theHighway 133 corridor, Harrington re-ported. The contractor will be working oncurb and gutter installation on the north-west side of the highway corridor nearGarcia’s restaurant and store, and on mod-ifications to the traffic light at the intersec-tion of Highway 133 with Village Road.Flaggers will be posted to control trafficwhile work on the signal is underway.

The Carbondale Historic PreservationCommission has received three submis-sions of qualifications to conduct an his-torical survey of buildings in Carbondale,Harrington reported. The last survey wasconducted in 2010. The CHPC will be re-viewing the submissions and interviewingthe interested consultants soon.

The town finance department has re-ported that sales tax receipts in February(reflecting January sales in town shops)were up 1.8 percent over the same time in2014, and that the lodging tax receiptswere up .8 percent.

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

FRIDAY, Feb. 28: At 12:33 p.m. twoyoungsters aged five and two years old,were brought into the police departmentby a citizen who had found them walk-ing near Sopris Park unaccompanied byan adult. The family was notified, and thefather came home after he was told therewas no one there watching the children.

FRIDAY, Feb. 28: At 7:01 p.m. policetook a report from a local woman thather car had been broken into, and thatsome items were stolen.

FRIDAY, Feb. 28: At 8:42 p.m. a local in-dividual was taken from an address onSopris Avenue to Valley View Hospitalfor treatment of a suspected drug over-dose. No other information was avail-able in a summary of police reportscompiled by the police department.

SATURDAY, March 1: Police took a re-port about a child left in a vehicle at anunknown location. The report statedthat the child was “fine” and that theparents were given a warning ticket forthe incident.

WEDNESDAY, March 4:Police assisted alocal man concerning a possible harass-ment incident. A second man involvedwas issued a warning by telephone, andthe summary indicated there would be nofurther action by police “at this time.”


If you feel like commenting on a proposedplan to encourage Carbondale residents tothink and act more about conserving waterin everyday activities, you have until St.Patrick’s Day to do it.

At some point after that, the plan is sched-uled to become law, pending approval by theCarbondale Board of Trustees.

The town has been in the process forabout a year of adopting a regional waterconservation plan, written in conjunctionwith the four other towns in the RoaringFork Valley [Glenwood Springs, Basalt,Snowmass Village and Aspen] aimed at giv-ing local communities a better toolbox fordealing with what climate-change forecast-ers say could be serious water shortages inthe coming decades.

Specifically, according to Carbondale Util-ity Director Mark O’Meara, the decision totake part in the planning effort grew out ofconcerns that arose after a drought in 2012.

That drought, caused by low snowfall inthe preceding winter coupled with a hot, dryand windy spring and summer, nearly maxedout the capabilities of the town’s water andwater treatment systems, O’Meara reportedin a memo to the town trustees.

“I think the 2012 drought really shookthings up,” O’Meara told The Sopris Sun onMarch 5, noting that while the town put itsthen-current water conservation rules into ef-fect, it was deemed that a greater effort was

needed for possible future water shortfalls.With the help of the Community Office

of Resource Efficiency (CORE) and two con-sulting firms out of Denver and Boulder, thefive towns started working on a plan thatstarted with three different “water demandforecasts” for the period from 2014-2050,during which time Carbondale is projectedto grow from its 2010 population of 6,427to possibly 16,100.

One forecast, which did not factor in anywater conservation measures whatsoever,predicted that local demand for water, in-cluding estimated uses of “raw water” for ir-rigation in the ditches that run through town,would more than double, from 1,208 acre-feet in 2014 to 2,939 acre-feet in 2050. Thatwould equate to a 143 percent increase inwater use over 36 years, compared to a pop-ulation increase of 151 percent.

A second forecast, which factored in “pas-sive efficiencies” such as improvements inplumbing standards and passage of statelaws mandating some conservation, indi-cated that water demand would rise to 2,395acre-feet in 2050, meaning demand wouldnot quite double.

A third forecast, with significant conser-vation efforts factored in, predicted thatwater demand would increase to just 1,988acre-feet by 2050 “if the elements of this planare fully realized.”

O’Meara, in his memo to the town board,noted that the town’s existing potable watertreatment capacity — from its Nettle Creek

surface water source on the flank of Mt. So-pris, and two well fields on the Crystal andRoaring Fork rivers — technically is aboutfour million gallons per day (MGD).

But, the memo continued, “the currentreliable production capacity ranges fromapproximately 2.5-3 MGD depending onthe season.”

“Based on this analysis,” O’Meara wrotein his memo, “additional wells may need tobe drilled if conservation does not take place.Fortunately, the town’s water rights are suf-ficient to meet all future forecasts.”

The draft water conservation plan isavailable on the opening page of the town’swebsite at (www.carbondalegov.org).

Water conservation plan comment deadline: March 17

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SoL Theatre Company presents “The Giving Tree” at Carbondale Middle Schoolon March 12-15. For details, see page 11. The cast includes, from left to right:Sydney Picard, India Butchart, Jessica Kollar, Anna Cole, Katie Huttenhower, JadeMeyer and Julia Gresset. Photo by Asha Ironwood

Scuttlebutt Send your scuttlebutt to [email protected].

Newsletter inks EverGreen EventsThe February issue of the newsletter “BioCycle” gave the

Carbondale-based EverGreen Events some pretty good ink.EverGreen Events provides Pitkin County and Aspen with 64-gallon wheeled containers and 16-gallon Slim Jim containersfor their SCRAPS program, which encourages restaurants,other businesses and individuals to separate food scraps andsoiled paper out of the waste stream. The newsletter pointsout that EverGreen Events is a residential and commercialfood-waste hauler started by husband and wife team Davidand Alyssa Reindel in 2010. “Beginning primarily with zero

waste events like the ESPN X-Games, Ironman triathlons andcommunity festivals, EverGreen Events started its curbsidecollection in spring 2011 in the Colorado communities ofCarbondale, Basalt, Aspen, Snowmass and Snowmass Vil-lage,” the newsletters says. Says David, “Everything that theCity of Aspen and Pitkin County is doing has increased ourcustomer base.” EverGreen Events charges $18 per month forweekly residential curbside service, the newsletter says, and$90 for commercial customers up to one cubic yard.

AAM names youth curatorsThe Aspen Art Museum has chosen Roaring Fork High

School students Adjoa Hursey, Luke Klotz, Emily Mata andNaomi Pulver to take part in its young curators show titled“Raw.” The show features work by 14 young area artists, in-cluding Jackson Porter Hardin, Abril Mendoza and JusticeWofford from RFHS. An opening reception is slated forMarch 15 at 3 p.m. The show runs through March 29. Nowin its ninth year, The AAM Young Curators of the RoaringFork program brings together high school students fromacross the Roaring Fork Valley who share an interest in con-temporary art. From October through January each year, thecurators work together with members of AAM staff to or-ganize an exhibition of artwork by their peers, developing adeeper understanding of contemporary art and strengtheningtheir visual literacy skills in the process.

Artists all tied upThe Valley Visual Art Show People’s Choice award came

down to a three-way tie between Dee Strack (“Now YouSee-dum”), Wallace Graham (“Time”) and Brian Colley(“Lepus Constellation”).

Save the dateWord has it the spring musical at Roaring Fork High

School will be a 1920s piece titled “Flapper.” Director Shanti

Gruber reports that she thinks this may be the first musical theschool has ever done. The play will run May 7-9 at 7 p.m.and May 10 at 2 p.m. For details on “Flapper” and otherRFHS news, check out the Rampage in this week’s Sun.

Johnson named to CAEE boardThe Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education re-

cently named Sarah Johnson, of the Roaring Fork Conser-vancy, to its board of directors. CAEE represents and supportsmore than 850 environmental education providers through-out Colorado.

Hoopsters close at 15-8The Roaring Fork boys basketball team finished the sea-

son with a 15-8 record following a 60-47 loss to DenverScience and Tech at last weekend’s regional tournament inColorado Springs. “It was a great year!” said coach LarryWilliams. “The boys finished higher than expected and wewere the only league team to beat Moffat County.” Williamscredited senior leadership, team effort and defense for theirsuccess. “I’m very proud of this group of young men.” Ona related note, first team All Conference honors went to BenCarpenter (senior), Raul Leyva (senior) and Aldo Pinela(sophomore). Chering Sherpa (senior) was named as an AllConference honorable mention.

A reminderThe Sopris Sun’s Poetry Corner, edited by Jose Alcan-

tara, is accepting 1-3 submissions each at [email protected]. All publishing rights remain with the author. Forthe Flash Fiction Corner, e-mail Jade Moss for guidelines [email protected].

They say it’s your birthdayFolks celebrating their birthday this week include: Denise

Barkhurst (March 13) and John Foulkrod (March 17).


The Carbondale Board of Trustees recognized its Studentsof the Month on Tuesday night and they are, (back row, leftto right): Lauren Curry, Julia Curry, Gabriela Santana andJackson Kruse; (front row, left to right): Dean McMichael,Sean Braudis and Ethan Wilson. Photo by Lynn Burton

3rd Thursdays – March 19 @ 7pm | Music by TJAAR

Third Thursdays @ Third Street is a new monthly

series highlighting community artists,

music, ideas & interests.

Formed in 2008, Tjaar is a band thatexplores boundaries, both musical andmetaphysical. Based on the theme of amythical island off the coast of Norwaywith the same name, Tjaar is about unbridled creativity. Playing mostlyoriginal songs running the gamut fromfunk to folk, country to jazz, and rock tosoul, Tjaar features beautiful music with a beautiful message. Tjaar is DanRosenthal, drums and vocals, Pam Rosenthal, bass and vocals, Marc Bruell,guitar and vocals and Kendal Spyker guitar and vocals.

Adults – $5 cover (all proceeds go to the band)

CASH ONLY, Children under 12 free

Beer from Roaring Fork BreweryWine and soft drinksTamales from Cocina del Valle

See the 3rd Thursday Schedule @ www.thirdstreetcenter.net/events/3rdthursdays/


By Debbie BruellSopris Sun Correspondent

While public schools continue to bejudged by their students’ scores on standard-ized tests, there’s a growing belief among pub-lic school teachers, administrators, parentsand even departments of education that aca-demic achievement should not be ourschools’ sole focus.

In fact, many argue that aspects of chil-dren’s school experience which have tradi-tionally been regarded as non-academicactually form the foundation for success inthe academic arena — as well as success inlife beyond school.

This message came through loud and clearduring the Roaring Fork School District’s vi-sioning meetings in Carbondale, Glenwoodand Basalt in the fall of 2013. Approximately1,000 community and staff members partic-ipated in these discussions. Some recurringthemes included the importance of educating“the whole child” and the value of skills andtraits (or “habits” in the district’s current lan-guage) such as self-motivation, resilience,strong social skills and a strong sense of civicresponsibility.

In order to ensure that every school wasaddressing these and other traditionally non-academic aspects of children’s school experi-ence, a team of administrators decided thatall school staff should be trained in and adoptExpeditionary Learning’s “crew” model ofadvisory class.

As explained in the district’s Februarynewsletter, crew is a designated time in theschool day for monitoring students’ academicand social well-being, helping students set ac-ademic goals, developing teacher-student andstudent-student relationships, enhancing stu-dents’ sense of belonging to the school andfocusing on character skills.

Many schools already have some form ofan advisory class during which they addresssome of these goals. Crew is a distinct form ofadvisory class in that the elements of crew aredesigned to be integrated into the entire struc-ture and culture of the school; crew focuseson developing staff and students’ under-standing of why these traditionally non-aca-demic aspects of learning are so critical; andcrew is not just something that teachers dowith a group of students — school staff them-selves form a “crew,” with staff meetings or-ganized around the same principles as the

classroom crew meetings. The term “crew” stems from the idea that

all school staff and students are “crew, notpassengers.” Second grade Glenwood SpringsElementary School teacher Jordan Schoellertold The Sopris Sun that she explains crew toher students by showing images such as peo-ple rowing a boat together and fire fightersworking together to put out a fire. She ex-plains to the students that “a crew is every-one working together, no one is sitting back.Your actions affect everyone else, and you candepend on everyone else … If you’re upsetwith the way things are going you can say it.Your crew is your safety net.”

As RFSD Superintendent Diana Sirko toldThe Sopris Sun, the goals of crew include:making sure students are feeling a strong,positive connection to teachers, classmates,their school and what they’re learning in theirclasses; helping students feel empowered toaddress issues and make decisions at theirschool; and creating a pervasive sense of car-ing throughout each school.

“We’ve always known that classroom cul-ture and relationships are critical to learning,”Sirko said. “Crew is about giving schools astructure for making those things happen asan ongoing, integrated part of the school.”

Character skillsOne essential element of crew is that each

school or district identifies about five charac-ter skills to which all students and staff mem-bers will aspire. The list of skills must includeboth “relational” character skills (those whichlead to healthy relationships with others, e.g.,kindness, honesty, integrity) as well as “per-formance” character skills (those which leadto excellence in academic or real-world en-deavors, e.g., organizational skills, persever-ance, craftsmanship).

According to the Expeditionary Learning(EL) handbook of Core Practices, “both typesof character are essential for success in schooland in life.”

Last year the school district identified fivekey character skills, or “Habits of a Scholar,”which every school has adopted and will be apart of every crew:

• Executive Skills: plans, organizes, andmanages behaviors and responsibilities;

• Perseverance: persists through challenges;• Enthusiasm: pursues passions and shows

love of learning;

• Compassion: considerate and respectfulof self, others and the world around us;

• Teamwork: works with others to achievea common goal.

This reporter spoke with one parent whowas not so happy with the idea of schools tak-ing time to focus specifically on character de-velopment. Sharon Samuelson has one child atCrystal River Elementary School and one atCarbondale Middle School. “There’s so muchto do in the school day,” Samuelson told TheSun, “is this really what we should be spendingour time on?” She also questions whether char-acter education shouldn’t be taught in thehome, rather than the classroom.

Sirko said that she has not received anypushback from parents. “Certainly characteris taught at home, but ... it needs to be in allaspects of children’s lives.”

According to Sirko, the stuff of crew is es-sential to any learning experience. The Habitsof a Scholar are not just about each student’sindividual character development, but aboutcreating a “climate of learning” at the school.“You have to have a good environment forlearning before learning can occur,” Sirkosaid, “One precedes the other.”

Safe placesAs an Expeditionary Learning school,

Glenwood Springs Elementary School is in itssecond full year of crew. Schoeller noted thatcrew time impacts the way kids approach the

entire rest of the school day: “Because crewhelps kids feel really comfortable in class andfeel OK about making mistakes, they’re waymore willing to take risks during the aca-demic time and ... put in the hard work.”

Carbondale Middle School teacher AimeeBrockman told The Sun that providing mid-dle schoolers’ with a safe place to expressthemselves and strong connections to theirpeers and teachers is critical to healthy braindevelopment.

According to CRES counselor Linda Hay-dock, crew provides a time for teachers towork with kids on life skills that are also crit-ical to their academic success, such as how todeal with stress and frustration.

Even the Colorado Department of Educa-tion is recognizing the importance of the tra-ditionally non-academic aspects of school.State standards now include skills such asworking well with peers and the ability toplan ahead.

What crew actually looks like on a day-to-day basis varies for every school. “It’s nota cookie-cutter model in any way,” CRESfourth-grade teacher Betsy McMichael toldThe Sun.

At CRES, they initiated “communitymeetings” this year in every classroom, everyday. These meetings are a time for the class-room group to gather together in a circle andfor every child to share his/her thoughts and

School district using “crews” to build “whole child”Part of Expeditionary Learning

Ada Friedman’s second grade class had 15 minutes of crew time on Tuesday afternoondevoted to students recognizing “Habits of a Scholar” in one another, and also teambuilding (shown here). Photo by Lynn Burton

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First Fridayfantasiesand fun

CCAH sent lots of folks out fromthe Launchpad and into the nightlooking like something they didn’t looklike when they first arrived on March6. Other First Friday stops included theCarbondale Clay Center’s “Pairings”fund-raiser, art demonstrations, bars,restaurants, music venues and more.

Clockwise from upper left: MeghanGillespie, Ryan Young and LauraStover; Dana Ganssle Ellis andAben; Nancy Draina (center) withZac (left) and Sylvi (right); Saffron(left) and Ticah Burrows; John Cohorsta and Kendra Sparks; DJKarl Gunselman (of HolographicEra) and Mary Noone at MainStreet Gallery.

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“SERVICEABOVE SELF”

Non-profit highlight ROTARY CORNER

MeetManuCarbondaleRotarywelcomesour YouthExchangestudent forthe comingyear, Manuel “Manu” Cortina Téllez. Manucomes from Olavarria, Argentina, and is theson of César Alejandro Cortina and NildaEmilce Téllez. He is 17, and is attendingRoaring Fork High School during his stay inCarbondale. Manu’s home town is located400 kilometers from Buenos Aires. He de-scribes Olavarria as “small, and this is a verygood thing because you can know a lot morepeople and you can go walking to almosteverywhere in the city.” Sounds like heshould enjoy Carbondale! Welcome Manu!

For membership and other Rotary Club information, visit www.rotarycarbondale.org

ROTARY CLUB OF CARBONDALE

March with Carbondale Rotary2014-15 Rotary International Theme

“Light Up Rotary”RI President Gary C.K. Huang

Carbondale RotaryPracticing Service Above Self, at home and around the world …

The Carbondale Rotary Club meets at6:50 a.m. on Wednesdays at the CarbondaleFirehouse. Visitors are welcome to comeenjoy our weekly program and learn aboutthe wonderful work Rotary does in the com-munity and around the world.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

March 18 – John Quinn, Home Care/Hospice of the Valley

March 25 – Club Assembly

April 1 – Paul AndersonHuts for Vets

April 8 – Sarah Wood5 Point Film Festival

April 15 – Club Assembly

April 22 – Debbie WildeInsight to Impact

For program suggestions, contact RickCarlson, [email protected]

Releasing names in MayBy Nicolette ToussaintSopris Sun Correspondent

Say goodbye to Ernesto the buffalo. He will be leavingthe corner of Seventh and Main soon to make way for oneof the 14 new sculptures recently selected for year-long dis-play in Carbondale’s public spaces starting in June.

“We’re always sad to see a piece as wonderful as Ernestogo, but we look forward to the new pieces. The chorus ofsadness for the Pink Bunny’s departure a year ago quicklyyielded to glee when people saw Ernesto,” said Sue Edel-stein, long-time Carbondale Public Arts Commission(CPAC) member and advisor.

This year, CPAC selected two works from Carbondale,three from Denver, two from Iowa, two from New Mexicoand one each from Boulder, Wyoming, Texas, Marylandand Washington, D.C. The new sculptures will be an-nounced in May, and the sculptors will be publicly wel-comed to present their works on June 4 during the annualArt aRound Town walk.

“The range of art submitted for our annual show is as-tonishing, playful, thought-provoking, from minimalist toextremely intricate,” said CPAC Chair Ashley Todey. “Entriescome from across the country, which is a great testament toCarbondale, since we can pay only a small honorarium thatcannot begin to cover most artists’ costs. Opening the juryand seeing the new year’s submissions is always one of themost exciting moments of my year!”

The chosen sculptors receive a $500 honorarium to helpdefray shipping costs to and from Carbondale. That usu-ally falls far short of what it costs to move a sculpture thatcan be as large as a small car and weigh nearly as much.Artists compete in the juried event more for prestige and

exposure than for profit, but they do have a good chance ofselling some work.

All of the sculptures shown are offered for sale, and in the14 years since the program began, 16 have been sold to pri-vate collectors. Some of those buyers donated works to the

town. Two sculptors have also donated works, and CPAChas purchased about half a dozen for Carbondale’s perma-nent collection. CPAC receives small commissions on sales.

Since 2005, Carbondale has allocated funds from some

Carbondale Public Arts Commission members met recently in the Third Street Center to make final selections for the2015 Art aRound Town show. They chose sculptors from Carbondale, Denver, Boulder, Iowa, New Mexico, Wyoming,Texas, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Photo by Jane Bachrach

CPAC makes Art aRound Town selections

ART AROUND TOWN page 14


THURS.-SUN. March 12-15THEATRE • SoL Theatre Company presents“The Giving Tree” (based on a story by ShelSilverstein) at Carbondale Middle School.Curtain time is 7 p.m. on March 12-14 and 2p.m. on March 15. Tickets are $15 for adultsand $10 for kids at the door and at solthe-atrecompany.com.

THURSDAY March 12FOOD DOCUMENTARY • Davi Nikentpresents the plant-based diet documentary“Forks Over Knives” at the Third Street Cen-ter. A potluck dinner precedes the film at 6p.m. The suggested donation is $10.

CRYSTAL CAUCUS • The Crystal Caucusdiscusses Bull Mountain oil and gas develop-ment, and the ongoing master plan process(agriculture, recreation and transportation)from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Church at Redstone.Info: 963-2143.

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt RegionalLibrary offers a class in Windows 7 from 5:30to 6:45 p.m.

ROTARY • The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets atMi Casita at noon every Thursday.

THURS.-SAT. March 12-14THEATRE • Thunder River Theatre Com-pany concludes its production of “Hamlet”at 7:30 p.m. on March 12-14. The TRTCproduction runs for approximately twohours. The cast includes: David Pulliam asHamlet, plus Mike Monroney, Valerie Hau-gen, Corey Simpson, Richard Lyon, OwenO’Farrell, Nick Garay. Sophie Sakson, Kim

Nuzzo, Cassidy Willey, J.D. Miller and Bren-dan Cochran. Tickets are $14, $17 and $25 atthunderrivertheatre.com or 963-8200.

FRI.-SAT. March 13-14FASHION SHOW • CCAH’s Green is theNew Black Fashion Extravaganza takes overthe Carbondale Recreation Center for twonights. The theme is “Underground.” Ticketsare available at carbondalearts.com and theLaunchpad. Info: 963-1680.

FRIDAY March 13MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents“Still Alice” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Mar. 13-19except Mar. 15, which will show only at2 p.m. (captions not available) and “Awake:The Life of Yogananda” (PG) at 5:30 p.m.Mar. 14-15.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the old partof the Dinkel Building presents live musicevery Friday night. Info: 963-3304.

FOODIES MEET • Wellness practitonersand foodies meet at the Third Street CenterBoard Room at 4 p.m. to discuss their role inthe April First Friday. Info: 510-6390.

OPENING RECEPTION • The Ann Ko-rologos Gallery in Basalt opens the show“Angus Wilson: A Singular Vision” from 5 to7 p.m. The show continues through April 10.Info: 927-9668.

HASSIG AT THE WYLY • The Wyly ArtCenter in Basalt hosts a reception for Carbon-dale artist Chris Hassig and his show “Close Inand Far Away” from 5 to 7 p.m. The show con-tinues through April 25. At the Wyly Annex,

Sam Harvey and Alleghany Meadows opentheir show “The Language of Making from 5to 7 p.m. Info: 927-4123 and wylyarts.org.

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt RegionalLibrary offers a class in Internet basics from1 to 2:15 p.m.

SATURDAY March 14CELTIC DANCE • The Hell Roaring StringBand provides the music for a Celtic concertand dance at the Carbondale Branch Librarystarting at 3 p.m. The HRSB features TedFrisbie (vocals/mandolin), Shannon Meyer(vocals/fiddle), Mark Sumera (guitar) andKayo Ogilby (banjo). The event is free andrefreshments will be served. Info: 963-2889or gcpld.org.

SHAMATHA MEDITATION • The Way ofCompassion Dharma Center offers a day ofshamath (calm abiding) meditation in Suite28 of the Third Street Center. It’s for begin-ners as well as seasoned meditators. Thehours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: 510-0583 orwayofcompassion.org.

LIVE MUSIC • The Wheeler Opera Housepresents the Subdudes. Dancing will be al-lowed. Tickets are $39. Info: 920-5770 andaspenshowtix.com.

CAIC FUND-RAISER • The non-profitFriends of Colorado Avalanche InformationCenter hosts a fund-raiser for the ColoradoAvalanche Information Center from 3 to 7p.m. at the Aspen Highlands Ale House.There’ll be live music, beer, a raffle with prizesfrom Black Diamond Equipment and others.Everyone who attends receives a discount on

an Avalanche Level 1 course from Aspen Ex-peditions. The hours are 3 to 7 p.m. Ticketinfo: http://tinyurl.com/CAICaspen.

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt RegionalLibrary offers a class in social media from 1to 2:15 p.m.

EAGLE CREST • The Saturday Winter Mar-ket continues at Eagle Crest Nursey in ElJebel on Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30p.m. Check out the local produce, food, cof-fee, clothing, accessories and more.

MONDAY March 16PESHLAKI SPEAKS • Navajo artist MaePeshlakai returns to the CRMS barn to talkabout Navajo lifestyles, beliefs, arts and cul-ture at 7 p.m. She started weaving at a youngage, helping her mother, carding wool, spin-ning wool into yarns and weaving. After mar-rying James Peshlakai, an accomplished silverand gold smith, she took up silversmithingand now makes jewelry every day. She is thedaughter of a medicine man and medicinewoman. Info: 963-2562.

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt RegionalLibrary holds family game night (loteria)from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

KDNK BOARD MEETS • The KDNKBoard of Directors meets at the radio station’soffices (76 S. 2nd St.) at 5:30 p.m. The meet-ing is open to the public and the agenda isposted at the station. Info: 963-0139.

TUESDAY March 17ST. PAT’S PARADE • American Legion Post

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

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Community Calendar continued from page 10

100 hosts the St. Patrick’s Day parade andpost-parade dinner. On the parading front, itstarts at 4 p.m. at the corner of Seventh andMain Street, heads east on Main Street, turnsleft at Third Street and concludes at Ameri-can Legion Post 100. There is no entry fee.On the food front, we’re talking traditionalcorned beef and cabbage starting at 5 p.m.The cost is $8 per person. The public is in-vited. Info: 963-2381.

WEDS.-THURS. March 18-19BIG EVENT • Carbondale CommunitySchool’s 17th annual Big Event – “WestwardHo! “ — will be performed at the school at6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5for kids 12 and under, and are available at theschool and Carbondale Recreation Center.Info: 963-9647.

WEDNESDAY March 18GOTTLIEB SPEAK • Larry Gottlieb talksabout his book “The Seer’s Explanation” atthe Third Street Center starting at 7 p.m. Got-tlieb is a physicist, musician and auther. Info:davinikent.org.

ROTARY • The Rotary Club of Carbondalepresents John Quinn (Home Care/Hospice ofthe Valley) at the Carbondale Fire Station at6:45 a.m. Info: rotarycarbondale.org.

TIGERTONES PERFORM • The Prince-ton Tigertones preform during a PitkinCounty Republicans chili-supper fund-raiserat the home of Peter and Frieda Wallison(1880 Lazy O Road in Old Snowmass). Thehours are 6 to 7:30 p.m.; tickets are $50 perperson, $80 per couple and $10 for those

under 25. RSVP at [email protected] go toward sending Aspen HighSchool Young Republicans to Washington,D.C. on April 29.

Save the DateTHURSDAY March 19MARGARITAVILLE ON MAIN STREET •From 6 to 9 p.m. at Mi Casita restaurant. Puton your Hawaiian prints and come party withthe Sun! A five-dollar entrance fee gets you dis-count margaritas and option for the $10 all-you-can-eat taco & pozole bar (kids eat for $5).Free admission for all SunScribers OR if yousign up to be a SunScriber at Margaritaville.

Further OutTHURSDAY March 19LIVE MUSIC • The Third Street Center kicksof its Third Thursdays music series in the oldgym with Tjaar from 7 to 9 p.m. Tjaar ex-plores boundaries both musical and meta-physical, playing mostly original songsranging from funk to folk, country to jazz androck to soul. The band is comprised of DanRosenthal (drums and vocals), Pam Rosenthal(bass and vocals), Marc Bruell (guitar and vo-cals) and Kendal Spyker (guitar and vocals).Admission is $5. Beer, wine, soft drinks andtamales from Cocina del Valle. Kids under 12are free.

MEET THE CHIEFS • Police Chief GeneSchilling and Fire Chief Ron Leach meet thepublic over coffee and chat about various is-sues at the Village Smithy from 8 to 9 a.m. onthe third Thursday of each month.

OngoingSOUL DANCE • Core Healing Arts presentsSoul Dance at the Launchpad on Sundays from4 to 5:30 p.m. Dance experience is not neces-sary and drop-ins are welcome. The cost $15per session. Info: 319-6854.

PLANT BASED MEALS • Meet ups for Dr.Greg Feinsinger’s 28-day plant based wholefoods meal program are held at the Third StreetCenter every Monday at 7 p.m. through March30. Info: 510-6390 or hippocratestable.com.

TWO-STEP TUESDAY • Foot stompin’ funcontinues at the Third Street Center RoundRoom from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The cost is $8 perperson/$14 per couple. Info: meetup.com/RFV-Dance/events/21996954.

MAYOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat with Car-bondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdays from7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy.

MINDFULNESS GROUP • The Mindful LifeProgram hosts a weekly meditation and mind-fulness group on Mondays from 7:30 to 8:15p.m. in Suite 28 at the Third Street Center. Allare welcome. Info: 970-633-0163 or mindful-lifeprogram.org.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION • Discus-sions about mindfulness meditation and Bud-dhist philosophy take place from 9 to 10:30a.m. on Sundays at Carbondale CommunitySchool. All are welcome and mats/cushions areavailable. Info: 970-618-1032.

MEDITATION • Silent meditation is held atthe Launchpad from 6:45 to 7:30 a.m. on Mon-days, Wednesdays and Fridays. Please bringyour own cushion or chair. Info: meditationcar-bondale.weebly.com.

LUTHERANS MEET • Faith LutheranChurch holds worship services at the Carbon-dale Middle School auditorium: traditionalservice (9 a.m.), educational hour (10 a.m.), liv-ing praise worship (11:30 a.m.). Info. Faithcar-bondale.com and 925-7725.

PHOTOGRAPHY • An exhibit of ColoradoMountain College photography students workcontinues at the CMC ArtShare Gallery (802Grand Ave. in Glenwood Springs) through April28. The photos range from award winners in theColorado Photographer of the Year competitionto photojournalism, commercial, fine art andportraits. The ArtShare gallery hours are 8 a.m.to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sat-urdays. Info: 947-8367 or cmcartsahare.com.

TOURS • Castle tours at the historic RedstoneCastle are offered on Saturdays and Sundays at1:30 p.m. Tickets are available on the days ofthe tour. Info: 963-9656.

JAZZ JAM • The Hotel Colorado in GlenwoodSprings continues Jazz Jam Mondays from 7 to9:30 p.m. All abilities are welcome. Info: HunterDamm at 319-7853.

LUNCH• Crystal Meadows senior housing hostsa lunch followed by Bingo every Wednesday.

BRIDGE • The Carbondale Bridge Club meetsat the Senior Matters room in the Third StreetCenter Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. You must havea partner and the fee is $3 per person. Info:963-0425.

DAVI NIKENT • Weekly meditation anddharma talks with John Chophel Bruna con-tinue Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. at the ThirdStreet Center. Info: wayofcompassion.org.

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Community Briefs Please submit your community briefs to [email protected] by noon on Monday.

Highway 133 construction returnsUnited Companies will return to town for

CDOT the week of March 16 to install acurb along the southbound lanes of Highway133 at Cowen Drive. “This work is beingdone to create a more controlled access al-lowing for a safer environment for pedestri-ans and motorists alike as well as enablingthe town of Carbondale with it’s SH133Landscaping Project,” said a CDOT press re-lease. The work is expected to begin at 8 a.m.on March 16 and continue through March20. Minor delays are expected. Work is alsoslated for the traffic signal at Village Roadand Highway 133 on March 17.

Cowboy Up seeks recipientsThe seventh annual Cowboy Up Carbon-

dale is looking for beneficiaries for this year’sevent. Applicants must be a 501(c)3 non-profit and provide volunteers to help staff theevent. The application deadline is March 31.For details, call Erin Bassett at 309-3319 or e-mail [email protected]. CowboyUp, slated for Aug. 28 at Fourth Street plaza,celebrates Carbondale’s western heritage withlive music, dancing, barbecue and auction.

CCAH accepting Gallery proposals

The Carbondale Council on Arts and Hu-manities is accepting R2 Gallery proposalsfor 2016 through May 1. Proposals can befor individual or group shows. Two and threedimensional works, as well as video installa-

tions, will be considered. A preliminary pro-posal for exhibition form is available at car-bondalearts.com and also at CCAH’s ThirdStreet Center office. Notices of acceptancewill be sent out by July 15.

Free tax preparation for seniorsRSVP provides IRS certified volunteers

to help seniors, those with disabilities orhouseholds with incomes less than $49,000

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The Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop organiza-tion, founded some 48 years ago, is heading in new directions,as indicated by Executive Director Sloan Shoemaker in a re-cent press release about a change in the organization’s rela-tively small staff and a conversation with The Sopris Sun.

The press release concerned the recent hiring of LindseyPalardy as the organization’s public information officer andlead fundraiser, replacing long-time employee Dave Reed,who left recently to become executive director at the WesternColorado Congress in Grand Junction.

Palardy, who holds a master’s degree in environmentalstudies, a degree in environmental law and most recently wasa fund-raiser for the Aspen Youth Center, will “help launch usinto the next phase or our evolution, wherever that may takeus,” Shoemaker predicted in the press release.

But exactly what that “next phase” will entail is not en-tirely clear, Shoemaker and other Wilderness Workshop offi-cials told The Sopris Sun in a recent interview.

“If we track the arc of Wilderness Workshop’s evolution,”said Shoemaker, “we’ve come a long way from an all-volun-teer organization that focused on local wilderness … to anorganization that isn’t solely focused on wilderness anymoreand has a professional staff.”

HistoryOriginally created in 1967 by a group of Aspen wilderness

advocates — Joy Caudill, Dottie Fox and Connie Harvey,nicknamed the “Maroon Belles” for their dedication — andnamed Aspen Wilderness Workshop, the organization wasdeeply involved in winning wilderness designation for theHunter-Fryingpan and Collegiate Peaks wilderness areas, ingetting the Maroon Bells Wilderness Area expanded, and inpassage of the Colorado Wilderness Act that brought desig-nation to other areas in the region.

In the years since, the Wilderness Workshop has dropped itsAspen moniker, moved downvalley to the Third Street Centerin Carbondale, and dived into a broad array of wilderness-related activities and some activities involving areas that maynot technically fit the wilderness criteria but are at least “road-less” and exhibit a variety of wilderness-type characteristics.

A key focus in recent years has been in preventing oiland gas drilling in the Thompson Divide area, which en-compasses 221,500 acres of remote terrain in five coun-ties. The Workshop and a sister organization, theThompson Divide Coalition, have concentrated on leasesissued to energy companies in a 105,000-acre area to thesouthwest of Carbondale.

While sharing the overall goal of protecting Thompson Di-vide and other regions, one of the Workshop’s key roles is to dodetailed, highly legalistic “administrative” work that primarilyis the province of attorney Peter Hart, who splits his time be-tween the Carbondale office and one in Grand Junction.

“We’ve been working on these (administrative issues) allalong,” said conservation director Will Roush. And that work,mostly managed by Hart, has “put Wilderness Workshop onthe front lines” of detecting and moving to block efforts by en-ergy companies to get the Thompson Divide drilling under-way, Shoemaker added.

It was largely that kind of work that uncovered defi-ciencies in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s issuanceof 65 Thompson Divide leases in 1993, based on what acourt ruled were inadequate environmental studies, and ledto the BLM’s having to put the leases in a kind of bureau-cratic limbo while new studies are conducted.

“We have to keep holding the line, holding the line,” as en-ergy companies try new ways to get their drilling programsunderway, and conservation organizations move to blockthose efforts, Shoemaker pointed out.

Other tasks that the Workshop has taken on recently in-clude an effort to create a new, single-track backcountry trailbetween Basalt Mountain and Gypsum, open to user groupsfrom motorized dirt bikers to mountain bikers, hikers andequestrians, over U.S. Forest Service lands.

Roush, who is the Workshop’s point man in that effort,said he is working with forest service officials as well as the

Colorado Backcountry Trail Riders and other recreationgroups in “almost a facilitator’s role … bringing folks to-gether” to discuss the issues involved.

“The goal is to come up with a management plan” thatsatisfies the USFS interest in safeguarding wildlife and theenvironment, but still allowing motorized, pedal-powered,hikers and equestrian users.

Other projects, Shoemaker said, include the idea of usingfire as a management tool in wilderness areas.

“It’s a hot topic, so to speak,” he said half-jokingly, notingthat fire is “a more cost-effective way of doing forest man-agement, [better than logging or] other mechanical treat-ments,” particularly in an era when USFS budgets have beencut virtually in half.

He cited the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park as anexample of fire’s potential for beneficial management. Thosefires scorched about 1.2 million acres of the park and initiallyleft the world with the impression that the world’s first na-tional park, created in 1872, had been irretrievably ruined.

Today, it is acknowledged that the park benefitted fromthe scorching, as new growth started appearing almost assoon as the ground cooled.

“We don’t characterize the fire as causing damage to thepark,” conceded park superintendent Bob Barbee in a 2008interview with National Public Radio.

WW turfStill, Shoemaker said, despite Wilderness Workshop’s

evolving role, “Our turf, if you will, is that we are all aboutpublic lands,” working with such diverse groups as the Col-orado Bark Beetle Cooperative and the Grand Mesa/Uncom-

pahgre/Gunnison national forests (known as G-MUG forshort) on a variety of management initiatives.

One project, the hotly contested Hidden Gems proposalin 2010 to give wilderness designation to small areas the Den-ver Post called “the overlooked spots of Colorado,” is nolonger the subject of bitter controversy that spawned abumper-sticker war between proponents and critics.

Instead, the controversy proved to be a “catalyst … to getthe conversation started in Congress,” which has resulted inseveral wilderness proposals now on the table.

“And some of it rises above that,” added Palardy, “to[Washington] D.C.-level advocacy work,” such as sendingShoemaker to testify before committees of the U.S. Congresson wildlife and other wild-lands issues.

With an annual budget of about $550,000 and its staff ofsix paid personnel and numerous interns and volunteers, “Wesort of punch above our weight,” Shoemaker said, using aboxing metaphor.

The three Workshop staffers noted that the organizationsponsors or benefits from a number of activities and eventsevery year, including Wild Fest, a celebration of wildernessvalues; an upcoming Ragnar Trail running event in Snow-mass Village that has picked the Wilderness Workshop as itlocal beneficiary; the Artists In Wilderness program that putsartists to work in a back-country cabin and generates art-works that can either be included in national shows or soldby the Workshop at fundraising auctions; and periodic trailhikes into wilderness areas to acquaint participants with theland and generate supporters for future wilderness protec-tion and preservation.

“The things we work in are very long-term,” said Roush.

Wilderness Workshop has been going wild since 1967, advocating for wilderness and all things wild on public lands sur-rounding the Roaring Fork Valley. These days, the organization also gets involved in desk-bound “administrative” workthat has put it on the front lines of multiple environmental issues. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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capital improvement projects to a “1 percentfor the arts fund.” Those monies, plus privatedonations, have enabled CPAC to create apublic art program robust enough to promptother towns to call and ask, “How did youdo it?”

“When they ask that,” said longtimeCPAC member Jody Ensign, “I tell them thatthey need a good town! The program neverwould have started and never would havegrown without the support of the town staffand public works. They help us install every-thing. And the town trustees have been in-credibly generous with their support.”

The first Art aRound Town event washeld in 2002, and eight years ago, CPACstarted to judge the entries using an onlinesystem sponsored by the Western StatesArt Federation in Denver. “When we didthat, artists started coming from fartheraway,” recalled Ensign. “Our reputationstarted growing, and three years ago, wegot more than 90 applicants from as faraway as England.”

This year, CPAC received 45 online ap-plications. In the first two rounds of onlinejurying, CPAC members worked solo, see-ing only the sculpture, an artist’s statementand information about size and medium.

For the final selection, the jurors discussedthe works projected on a screen and thenvoted on their individual computers.

“We feel a real sense of responsibility tolook at each work carefully, evaluating it inand of itself, as well considering its contextwithin the show,” said Todey. “As we re-view each submission, we have an open di-alogue on all aspects of the work — fromthe artistry to pragmatic issues such aswhether or not the work is safe and appro-priate for public display. It is always illu-minating to hear other CPAC member’sperspectives, especially since we all comefrom such diverse backgrounds.”

The members of the Carbondale PublicArts Commission are chairperson AshleyTodey, Allison Berger, Carol Klein, CherylBumgarner, Heather Bryan, Jody Ensign,Nancy Kyner, Nicole Kinsler, MindyKaegebein, Sarah Moore, Jim Moser andSondie Reiff. Lisa Nieslanik, from the townstaff, serves as secretary. Alumni Sue Edel-stein, Mark Harris, Andi Korber and BradSherman are commission advisors and voteas part of the annual jury. Town trusteeAllyn Harvey and Laurie Lindberg, fromCarbondale Public Works, also assist withthe process.

What is CPAC? The Carbondale Public Arts Commission (CPAC) is a group of local citizens

who are charged with a mission on behalf of the town: To provide visual art for theenjoyment and enrichment of the citizens of Carbondale and all visitors.

As detailed by the town’s website, CPAC carries out this mission by:• Evaluating sites appropriate for public art;• Promoting local artist’s work;• Giving recommendations to the town trustees about the purchase or acquisi-

tion of works of public art;• Pursuing funding to purchase, promote and commission works of art;• Working in cooperation with other public agencies and individuals to pro-

mote art awareness.The Carbondale Public Arts Commission was founded in 1999 by Chris Cha-

cos, Frank Norwood and the town trustees. Other than the two town staff mem-bers and the trustee representative, all CPAC members are volunteers.

New members are nominated by current CPAC members, then reviewed anddiscussed. Nominees are then presented to the town trustees for appointmentto a three-year term. A member can be re-nominated for an additional three-year term.

The CPAC budget for 2015 is $14,300 and the 1% fund for the arts is at$13,920.

CPAC meetings are held at 4:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month andare open to the public. Agendas and minutes may be found on the town website.

Arts commissions are common in many municipalities and are used to opengovernment to citizen participation and input. San Francisco, for example, hascommissions on the arts, film, the environment and the status of women, amongmany others. The city of Denver has commissions on cultural affairs, sports,youth, aging, homelessness and people with disabilities, and others.

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Carbondale’s town government is wor-ried that a proposed “Access Control Plan”(ACP) for the Rio Grande Trail would spelltrouble for the town in terms of money,land-use control and staff time spent dealingwith trail crossings and other issues relatedto the publicly owned right of way that cutsthrough the northern part of the town.

The ACP was first created in 2000, threeyears after the then-controlling agency, theRoaring Fork Railroad Holding Authority(RFRHA), bought the 34-mile stretch ofthe old Denver and Rio Grande WesternRailroad (D&RGW) right of way, betweenWoody Creek and Glenwood Springs,which no longer was being used as a freightline following the closure of coal and iron-ore mines in the area.

The old rail line was “rail banked” in

1998, to preserve it for the possible resump-tion of rail service in the Roaring Fork Val-ley. The rails were pulled and sold off, andthe strip of land was converted to its currentuse as a bicycle and pedestrian trail stretch-ing from Aspen to Glenwood Springs.

The ACP is a required document underfederal rail-banking guidelines, as a way toensure the right of way would be preservedand protected from incursions by adjacentgovernmental entities and private landown-ers. It was updated in 2005 and is onceagain being reviewed to accommodatewhat RFTA, in a memo to the Carbondaletrustees at a Jan. 27 meeting, termed “anexpansion on the current ACP policies.”

The modifications to RFTA’s policies,according to the agency’s memo, are neededto avoid the potential “loss of the rail-banked status” of the right of way, whichcould result if the RFTA corridor is blocked

or somehow split by intervening develop-ments or ownership disputes.

That, the transit agency stated in itsmemo, might cause the federal governmentto revoke “land grants” governing aboutseven miles of the 40-mile right of way.

According to RFTA CEO Dan Blanken-ship, even if the federal land grants werenot revoked, the affected portions of thetrail might revert to ownership by thosewho own the adjacent land.

He added that “it isn’t clear what wouldhappen if we lost the land grant areas,” interms of the effect on the public use andownership of the entire RFTA corridor.

Carbondale’s issuesThe town and RFTA appear to have dif-

ferent priorities at play concerning theneed to protect the right-of-way’s rail-banked status.

The town, according to a Feb. 10 sum-mary by Public Works Director Larry Bal-

lenger and Town Manager Jay Harrington,“is fully supportive of retaining and main-taining the Rio Grande Trail, but the townalso needs to insure the ACP is written in amanner that is workable for the town’s in-frastructure needs.”

Carbondale, according to the memo, hasat least a half-dozen street crossings and awater-line “encroachment” into the RioGrande right of way that are “licensed” byRFTA, as well as a number of other utilitylines underneath the trail.

The cost of maintaining or upgradingthose crossings, particularly if rail serviceever is resumed, would fall to the town,under the current draft of the ACP, accord-ing to the memo.

“The ACP, as written, places the finan-cial burden (of) upgrading crossings tomeet rail standards on the license holders,”the memo states. That means that the costof changing existing at-grade crossings into

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For example, Ballenger told The SoprisSun, “If RFTA were to decide, hey, we justhave too much traffic at the 8th Street cross-ing (to ensure safe travel for trail users,) theycould force the town to spend $5 million tobuild a grade-separated crossing.”

Ballenger said that estimated cost camefrom City Hall in Glenwood Springs, wheretown staff have done extensive researchinto the possible impacts of the ACP.

Harrington added that the town haslong sought to connect 8th Street to Indus-try Way, which currently is a dead-endstreet off Highway 133. But that wouldmean crossing the Rio Grande right of way,and “the ACP requirements could dramat-ically increase the costs of making that con-nection,” Harrington said.

Another potential trouble spot is the in-tersection of 2nd Street and the right ofway, where several parcels of land to thenorth of the trail are for sale and where ad-ditional development might occur, Har-rington said.

Besides the crossings, another area ofconcern, according to the memo, is that theACP seeks to consolidate existing crossings,whether by private driveways or publicroads, and to minimize if not completelyprevent any additional crossings frombeing created, as a way of ensuring thesafety of users of the trail and the crossingsin the case of resumption of trail service.

But, according to the memo from Bal-lenger and Harrington, that puts RFTA inthe driver’s seat regarding development ofland adjacent to the trail, as most develop-ments would need to arrange for crossingsin order to have access to Colorado High-way 82 and other public roads in the valley.

“The Draft Access Control Plan placesRFTA as a major decision maker in landuse planning in the Roaring Fork Valley,”the memo states. “We are not sure if thishas been fully discussed with the RFTAboard and the communities impacted bythe rail corridor,” meaning Basalt, Carbon-dale, Glenwood Springs and subdivisionsin unincorporated Garfield County.

And all that aside, Ballenger told TheSopris Sun, the present, 2005 ACP “is nightand day compared to what’s proposednow,” meaning the draft 2015 ACP.

He said the old plan comes to about 11pages of text, while the draft 2015 plan is

“hundreds of pages” that are “onerous anddifficult to get through.”

If RFTA were to drop its plans to adoptthe draft 2015 ACP, Ballenger said, “I couldeasily write a memo saying I support the2005 plan. It’s friendly. It’s workable. Youcan use it.”

RFTA’s sideOn the other side of the equation is

RFTA, where the governing board and thebureaucrats of the agency say they need topreserve the integrity of the trail itself, forthe possible resumption of rail service, asthe “primary” focus of the agency’s missionrelated to the right of way, according toagency documents and officials.

But RFTA also sees its mission as in-cluding more than just the right of way. Inlight of the corridor’s current use as a recre-ational amenity, the preservation of “con-servation values” inherent in the landssurrounding the right of way is viewed asintegral to the “secondary” use of the cor-ridor as a public trail.

According to the 2005 ACP, these valuesinclude access to the Roaring Fork River,wildlife habitat, connecting trails and otherrecreational attributes.

“The provisions to minimize new publicand private crossings, so as to protect thecorridor for its primary and secondary uses,and to place the burden on public projectsponsors to bear the costs associated withpublic crossings,” according to Blanken-ship, stem directly from historic intergov-ernmental agreement between RFRHA andlocal governments, funding agreementswith Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO),a Comprehensive Plan concerning trailmanagement written in 2000, and the 2005comprehensive plan and ACP updates.

Blankenship wrote in his e-mail that hedid not recall the sort of objections or con-cerns that are being raised now, over thedraft 2015 ACP, as being an issue duringthe 2005 ACP update process.

But he said the 2005 ACP was used as a“guide” during discussions, in 2008 and2010, about a proposed South Bridge con-necting Midland Avenue to Highway 82 ata point south of the Glenwood Springs Mu-nicipal Airport.

And, he continued, “I believe theSouth Bridge project sponsors (GarfieldCounty and the city of GlenwoodSprings) were aware of RFTA’s desire for

their project to protect the corridor forfuture freight rail reactivation.”

The current controversy over the draft2015 ACP, he wrote, may be due to thepossibility of “imminent public crossingbeing proposed” at different points alongthe corridor.

Blankenship wrote that the federalSurface Transportation Board (STB),which granted the rail corridor its origi-nal “rail banked” status, does not sendpersonnel out to check on the rail-bankedstatus of old freight lines. But, he contin-ued, the STB “does respond to petitionsthat are filed by adverse parties” whomay consider RFTA’s efforts to preservethe corridor to be “overreaching” and un-reasonable, Blankenship wrote.

So, if RFTA relaxed its protective pos-ture, or if neighboring property owners orsome “other adverse party (were to) makethe claim that the corridor had been effec-tively abandoned,” then “the STB couldconclude that there wasn’t any intentionor financial capability” to arrange re-sumption of rail service in the valley.

At that point the STB could officially“declare the corridor abandoned,” whichcould lead to the loss of the federal land-grant portions of the corridor, Blanken-ship wrote.

“RFTA understands that some people

may not believe that freight rail or passen-ger rail are ever going to be financially fea-sible and, therefore, they don’t believe theirpublic crossing projects should incur addi-tional costs to avoid adverse impacts to thecorridor,” Blankenship conceded.

“RFTA fully understands and is sympa-thetic to their concerns,” he continued,“but RFTA was made the steward of thecorridor (and) we need to adhere to the re-quirements of the railbanking (sic) mecha-nism (and other agreements) to protect andpreserve the corridor for its primary masstransit purpose and interim trail and recre-ational uses.”

Given all that, Blankenship wrote,“Whether or not there will ever be freightor commuter rail operating on the corridoris difficult to say, but what can be said isthat RFTA is charged with preserving thatoption and, in the interim, to maintaining avaluable public asset that serves as safe andscenic 34-mile continuous recreational trailthat is enjoyed by thousands of residentsand visitors each year.”

He also maintained that his agency will“continue to work cooperatively with pub-lic crossing sponsors to assist them with de-veloping their projects in ways that make itpossible for them to move forward, to theextent that RFTA is able to do so and alsoprotect the corridor asset.”

Worst-case scenario for Carbondale? Under terms of RFTA’s draft access control plan,the town might have to spend millions of dollars for an above grade (bridge) or belowgrade (underpass) where 8th Street crosses the Rio Grande Trail in the north part oftown. Photo by Lynn Burton

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Owner/operator Eric Berry said heowes at least some of his love for animalsto his two older sisters. “They were intohorses, but other pets came into play aswell” says Eric, “and being a few yearsolder than I was they assigned me the taskof animal caretaker. Grooming the horsesand being the facilitator of the family dogs,cats, and turtles was their way of lettingme play with the animals.”

The Berry’s have a long Rocky Moun-tain history. Eric’s grandparents immi-grated to Colorado in 1902. The firstJewish family in Fort Collins and the own-

ers of only the second car in the countythey opened a shoe store and taught school.Eric’s dad, Richard, received a scholarshipto Harvard after winning a Westinghouse

Science Talent Search. He went on to be-come a chemical physicist. While Richardtaught school in Chicago he would bringhis family to Aspen, which included youngEric, to wile away the summer months ofthe 1960s with his peers at the Aspen Cen-ter for Physics. “Dad was familiar withAspen from ski trips as a teenager,” saysEric. “the summer trips we spent there weregreat and we built a house in Aspen in ’67.”

Eric schooled in journalism and worked

in publishing for a time in Chicago. Whenhe returned to the Roaring Fork Valley inthe early 1990s he worked for both theAspen Times and the Daily News as well

as working the restaurant circuit. “The no-tion to open a pet supply store was one ofpracticality,” says Eric. “There were a lotof pet owners … in the mid-valley. I knewI did not want to be involved in a politi-cally charged business and I also did notwant to operate a business, which is gov-erned by the tourist cycles. Unfortunately,it turns out that all business here are gov-erned by the cycles to some degree.”

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“The industry has changed over theyears,” says Eric. “Traditionally pet foodwas by-products, now people want topgrade.” There’s even human-grade pet foodmarketed in beautiful packaging made fordogs to share with their owners.

“It can get a little extreme,” says Eric.“I spend a lot of time un-selling productsthat a pet owner really doesn’t need.Though I feel a mission to keep the low-end food out of a pet’s life, I also feel a re-sponsibility to give back to my communityand part of that is to teach what is andwhat is not important for your pet.”

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Traces of acetonitrile spurs concerns from Google grouperBy John ColsonSopris Sun Correspondent

A recent report from Garfield Countyhealth department specialists has alarmedsome local observers, concerning the appar-ent detection of a toxic substance in air-qual-ity monitors located in the Carbondale area.

The substance, which appears to match achemical called acetonitrile, showed up in re-ports about air-monitoring data for 2013collected at a Garfield County monitoringsite, on land owned by Colorado RockyMountain School, according to a recent pres-entation to the Carbondale Board of Trusteesby the county’s environmental health spe-cialists Morgan Hill and Anna Triebel.

The pair of specialists reported that,while nothing definitive is known about theappearance of acetonitrile in the local air, itcould be related to the use of the substancein preparing the filtration media used in themonitoring station, meaning it could simplybe a case of contamination of the sample.

In any event, Hill told the trustees, at thelevel of detection the substance should notbe a concern to local officials.

A story in The Sopris Sun on the presen-tation prompted local resident MalcolmMcMichael to write, on the “carbondalecit-izens” Google group site on Feb. 2, thatbased on his research acetonitrile “is alsofound in fracking fluid” and may be used asa corrosion-inhibitor in pipelines.

McMichael’s assertion, however, was de-nied by Hill in an e-mail exchange with TheSopris Sun.

“In my own research,” Hill wrote on Feb.23, “I was not able to find a source thatlisted acetonitrile as a constituent in frack-ing fluid.”

Fracking [short for hydraulic fracturing]fluid, made up of water, sand and a cocktailof chemicals, is injected in large quantitiesdown wells drilled for natural gas and oil, tobreak up dense rock formations thousandsof feet below the surface and allow the pe-troleum liquids contained in the formationsto rise to the surface.

The controversial process has beenwidely used in Garfield County over the pasttwo decades as part of the Piceance Basinboom in natural gas drilling activities, andpossible air pollution from that industrialactivity is a main reason the county hasstarted up air-quality monitoring programsin the region.

A significant part of the controversy isover the exact nature of the chemical cock-tail that goes into fracking fluid. Industrysources have argued that the list of chemi-cals is “proprietary,” and not subject topublic disclosure laws, although some com-panies have voluntarily publicized partiallists of the chemicals used in response topressure from the public and from the fed-eral government.

Hill and Triebel, in their report in Car-bondale, told the trustees that the county hasthe most extensive air quality monitoringprogram of all the rural counties in Colorado.

In a subsequent exchange of emails witha reporter, Hill reported that no further in-

formation about acetonitrile in the local at-mosphere is available at this time.

“It is categorized as a hazardous airpollutant (HAP) by the EPA,” Hill wrote,referring to the U.S. Environmental Pro-tection Agency.

But, she continued, it was detected only“as a tentatively identified compound” andin such low amounts that her department“cannot confirm the concentrations it waspresent in from our samples in 2014.”

In her e-mail, dated Feb. 13, Hill stated,“We are expanding our monitoring” of cer-tain compounds at the Carbondale site for2015, “which will include acetonitrile. Thiswill allow us to determine specifically what

concentrations it is in and potentially iden-tify sources.”

According to the EPA’s website, acetoni-trile is used as a solvent and “for spinningfibers,” for the casting and molding of plas-tics, and is found in lithium batteries.

In addition, according to the EPA web-site’s section on sources and potential forexposure, “sources of acetonitrile emissionsinto the air include manufacturing and in-dustrial facilities, automobile exhaust” andproximity to “aquatic environments.”

Individuals, the site continues, “may beexposed to acetonitrile through breathingcontaminated air, from smoking tobacco orproximity to someone who is smoking, orthrough skin contact in the workplace.”

Short-term exposure can cause irritationof mucous membranes, the EPA reports.

Chronic, or long-term exposure “resultsin central nervous system effects, such asheadaches, numbness and tremors,” or athigh levels chronic exposure can “produceweakness, nausea and convulsions,” ac-cording to the website.

The EPA site states that “no data areavailable on its carcinogenic effects in hu-mans,” which has led the agency to clas-sify it in a category called “Group D,”meaning it is “not classifiable as to humancarcinogenicity.”

A list of some 750 compounds reportedto be used in fracking fluids, submitted tothe U.S. Congress in 2011 as a “partial list,”does not contain acetonitrile, according tothe online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

“We are expanding our monitoring which

will include acetonitrile.This will allow us to

determine specificallywhat concentrations it

is in and potentially identify sources.”

Morgan HillEnvironmental health specialist

for Garfield County

Sopris Sun Staff ReportAccording to a press release, the Colorado Department

of Transportation has started three bridge projects betweenCarbondale and Redstone: At mile-marker 51.6 (CoalCreek), mile-marker 62.8 (Thompson Creek) and mile-marker 65.8 (the Crystal River).

Weather permitting, the next phase of work will be rockscaling scheduled to begin the week of March 23. The rockscaling will be taking place at the following locations: mile-marker 52.6 (between the north and south entrances toRedstone), mile-marker 55.6 (near Penny Hot Springs),

mile-marker 58.3 (about one mile north of AvalancheCreek), mile-marker 60.1 (about two miles south of theformer BRB now KOA campground).

A pilot car service will be implemented at times duringthese projects to minimize traffic delays. Near the end ofMay the resurfacing part of the project is scheduled to begin.

This $4.07 million dollar project was awarded to Old-castle SW Group of Grand Junction and is scheduled to becomplete by mid-September 2015.

Lane closures will occur for the duration of the projectand speeds will be reduced to 35 mph through the work

zone. Depending on how much material is scaled, delayscould be about 20 minutes. Vehicles wider than 12 feet willbe restricted through the project.

A community open house for this project is plannedfor mid-April. To be added to the project update list or re-quest an invitation to the open house, please email [email protected] or call the project hotline at704-5269.

Real time travel updates are available at www.cotrip.org,downloading the CDOT Mobile app or by calling 511 fromanywhere in the state.

Backed by Benton Jackson (left) on the “parmonica,” cheered on by a cheese-hungry crowd and fellow employees,and armed with four specific tools, Nate Brewick (in the hat) “cracked” a 100-pound wheel of ParmigianoReggiano in about 70 seconds at Whole Foods at 1 p.m. on March 7. The El Jebel event was one of more than 400simultaneous crackings at Whole Foods stores across the U.S. and beyond. Brewick, the store’s special team leader,said Whole Foods goes through a Parmesan wheel such as this one about every 10 days. Photos by Lynn Burton


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As approved, the plan calls for a four-plex containing5,081 square feet of habitable space, including two garages,on a lot of just over 8,200 square feet in size, at the intersec-tion of Sopris and South 2nd Street.

The proposed building, as most recently modified, is to be24 feet high at the roof’s mid-span (26.6 at the roof peak) ac-cording to Pedersen, although the in-fill guidelines and zon-ing regulations would have allowed a building up to 35 feethigh at the mid-span.

At an earlier hearing before the trustees, a vote to deny theproject failed by a 3-3 vote (Trustee Frosty Merriott was notpresent at the meeting).

At the meeting this week, some trustees voiced reserva-tions about aspects of the project, concerning how it wouldfit in with the neighborhood and whether it would yield trulyaffordable apartments as promised by Kelley and her team.

“I personally am not in favor of the project,” said TrusteeA.J. Hobbs, noting that he was one of the three negative votesat the previous meeting.

But, he added, he felt “obliged to approve it,” largely outof “fear that something worse could be built” on the site ifthis proposal were to be denied.

“While I’m not excited to approve this,” said Trustee PamZentmyer, who along with Trustee Katrina Byars votedagainst the project on Feb. 10. “I think we have a better proj-ect out of this process” than the project as it originally wasproposed and approved by P&Z, she explained.

She noted that, although much was said by project sup-porters about the need for rental units in town, this projectwould only provide four such units in the face of strong op-position from neighbors.

But Mayor Stacey Bernot, who voted in favor of approv-ing the project on Feb. 10, reiterated her view that the proj-ect is better than “the potential for what could be there,”which might be a 4,000 square-foot, single family house builtto a height of 35 feet, as allowed by zoning.

“My job is to see to it that we have things in place for thebetterment of the whole community,” she said, adding that shefeels this project is an example of that ideal, despite objections.

In other action, the trustees:• Approved the final master plan subdivision plat for the

Thompson Park project, located next to the Historic Thomp-son House museum and park along Highway 133 oppositethe Third Street Center. Further approvals are needed beforeconstruction can begin on the project, which calls for a mixof housing units next door to the planned new Ross Montes-sori School, the site for which was sold to the school by CerisePark developer Frieda Wallison.

• Approved special event liquor licenses for four events intown; the Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers annual kickoffparty at the Third Street Center on April 2; an April 10fundraiser for the Blue Lake Preschool, to be held at The Or-chard Gathering Place on Snowmass Drive; an April 11 CornHole Tournament to be held at the Carbondale Recreationand Community Center next to Town Hall; and the annualFive Points Film Festival, April 23-26, to be held at three lo-cations this year — Steve’s Guitars on Fourth Street, the Car-bondale Spruce Building at 201 Main St., and the Recreationand Community Center next to Town Hall.

• Approved a new retail cannabis shop at 259 Main St.,the former location of the Floyd’s of Mayberry barbershop.


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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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Thanks to the kitchen for good food andthank you to all the nurses, and CNA’s. Kimand the male nurses were especially kind andquick to answer my call light. I am also grate-ful to the Orchard church for their prayers,to pastor Daniel for his prayer before surgeryand visit afterwards.

Thank you to my co-workers and Sam,the owner, at Miser’s Mercantile, for provid-ing a meal, a plant and visits. Thanks also toall the employees and owners Nancy andJoseph, at A Great Find, for visits, treats andmany more things they have done for me.And many thanks to family and friends forall the flowers, visits and phone calls. I amvery grateful for all of you.

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ACES thanksDear Editor:

On behalf of the Aspen Center for Envi-ronmental Studies (ACES) and Crystal RiverElementary School (CRES) in Carbondale,we would like to extend a huge thanks to theAspen lululemon retail store for their gener-ous grant to help allow all Crystal River sec-ond grade students attend the ACES wintersnowshoe and snow science program on topof Aspen Mountain.

The ACES field science program on Ajax isone of our most educational and rewardingprograms. The program involves students tak-

ing the gondola to the top of Aspen Mountain,a guided snowshoe hike along RichmondRidge, in-depth study of winter adaptationsand survival strategies for local plants and an-imals, and exploring skier safety and ava-lanche studies with the Aspen Ski Patrol.

Up until this year, Crystal River studentshave not been able to attend this programdue to financial constraints. Crystal River isone of three primary partner schools in whichACES has full-time environmental scienceteachers working in the classroom, and pro-viding this field science program will help ex-tend and complete the students’ winterecology studies that begin in the ACES class-room at CRES.

This year, we anticipate over 100 secondgrade students from Carbondale will be ableto join the ACES snow science program. Formany of these students, this will be the firsttime they have been to the top of AspenMountain, and likely the first time most ofthese students will have hiked above 11,000in elevation in a winter environment.

Thanks so much to all at lululemon whomade this memorable and educational experi-ence available to our Carbondale second graders.

Arin TrookAspen Center for Environmental Studies

Let’s connect bike trailDear Editor:

We are a group of Roaring Fork HighSchool students trying to connect the missing

bike-path link on Snowmass Drive, in be-tween Sopris Avenue and Main Street, with abike lane. We see the dangers of not havingany safe way for bikers and pedestrians totravel along that section of Snowmass Driveand we are concerned. Crystal River Elemen-tary School lies right down the street, and forthe elementary kids who use that section ofSnowmass Drive to get to school their par-ents are also concerned. This showed in re-sults from a survey we gave out to the parentsof the elementary school students.

We are proposing to solve this by adding apainted bike lane along this small strip ofSnowmass Drive. A bike lane would not onlyservice bikers and pedestrians, but is moneyand time efficient. In order to achieve this weneed support not just from Carbondale’s

Board of Trustees, but Garfield County sincethat street is theirs not Carbondale’s. Supportfrom the public would also be very helpful. Ifanyone is willing and interested in supportingus and this proposal please visit our website:https://sites.google.com/site/snowmassdrive-bikepath/.

On our website anyone can comment withtheir opinion, take our survey, or just get moreinformed about the issue and our plan of ac-tion. We greatly appreciate any interaction orsupport on our website and hope that thissmall section of a missing bike link can be con-nected for the sake of this biker friendly town.

Valerie LoertscherFinn FeatherstoneSteele FeatherstoneCarbondale

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At Roaring Fork High School they’re stillin the process of customizing a crew thatwould work best for their school. As Englishteacher Adam Carballeira explained, highschool crew could include time for service

projects, planning all-school meetings, de-veloping portfolios and preparing for stu-dent-led conferences, or working on thecollege application process. Each crew couldinclude a mix of freshmen through seniors,or it could include one age group that staystogether as a crew for all four years.

A total of about 60 teachers, counselorsand administrators participated in a three-day Crew Institute in January provided byExpeditionary Learning. The school districtcontracted with EL for additional profes-sional development around crew this springand summer.

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