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and U.S. military to attackthe coal camp.

The Ludlow Massacrehas had a long lastingimpact on U.S. labor rela-tions ever since the eventoccurred.

In the aftermath of thekillings, the United MinerWorkers of America workedto improve conditions incoal mines and the unionimmediately started talks toend the Colorado Coal Strikeof 1913-1917.

Following the massacre,Rockefeller engaged in labortalks with the union for thefirst time.

The miners union boughtthe site in Ludlow in 1916,and the Ludlow MemorialSite was designated aNational HistoricMonument and Landmarkon Jan. 16, 2009. The memo-rial was dedicated on June28, 2009.

Other speakers atSunday’s ceremony werewriter/poet Phil Woods, whoread two poems of his aboutthe massacre, “Philanthropyof the Ludlow Massacre,”which tells the story of LuisTikas, one of the massacre’svictims, and “Mother Jonesat the Capitol.”

Luis Tikas, a Greekowner of a coffee house inDenver who is buried inTrinidad, was one of themain union organizers forthe United Mine Workers of

America, and was acting asa strikebreaker.

Tikas had met with thecompany on the day of themassacre. He was laterkilled by Lt. Lark Linderfelt,a rival of Tikas’. Tikas wasfound shot in his back.

Mary Harris Jones, akaMother Jones, was a teacherand dressmaker whobecame a union organizer in1871. Mother Jones, who wasalso called the “MinersAngel,” organized a marchat the Colorado Capitol todemand justice for thosewho lost their lives atLudlow.

“We need to build twostatues, one of Mother Jonesand one of Luis Tikas, toremind elected officials howimportant Ludlow is as theytry to take away our work-ers’ rights like wages andbenefits today,” Woods said.

The highlight of theSunday event was JulietteMondot, a woman who isactive in the communityfighting for peoples right,including standing side-by-side with local ranchers andlandowners against theArmy’s plans to expand thePinon Canyon ManeuverSite.

She recited one ofMother Jones’ labor speech-es.

“This was not for enter-tainment. I researchedMother Jones’ life to preparefor today,” Mondot added. “Iam honored to give workersan idea of what she stoodfor.”

By Tim KellerThe Chronicle-News

RATON, N.M. – TheKaleidoscope Playersopened its 2011 summerrepertoire season at Raton’sShuler Theater last week-end with a seven-perform-ance run of the audiencefavorite “Little Shop ofHorrors” that will continuethrough July 10.

The science-fiction hor-ror musical comedy hasgreat fun parodying everyone of its own genres; in theend, most of the main char-acters are dead (if notentirely gone) but the audi-ence wins. In a summeralready long with heat,drought and fire, here’s ashow to bring smiles backto faces, even if only for twocool evening hours.

Trinidad’s own VinnieGumlich returns to theShuler in the starring roleof Seymour, a timid orphanwho has long worked in thenow-failing Mushnik SkidRow Florist shop. He secret-ly fancies shop girl Audrey,appropriately played over-the-top by Kyra Koelling,although she’s in an abu-sive relationship with asadistic Harley-riding den-tist, played by T.J. Mendez.(Some of the show’s fun isat the expense of dentists. Iflawyers enjoy lawyer jokes,then dentists should laughriotously here; certainlytheir patients will.)

The florist shop is aboutto close for good whenSeymour revives it with aplant he found at the whole-sale floral market during atotal eclipse of the sun. Theextraordinary plant lookslike a cross between aVenus fly trap, an avocadoand a bulldog. Placed in thefront window, customers

suddenly flock into the shopto do business.

Unfortunately, Seymourgradually figures out thatthe plant, whom he’s namedAudrey II, requires humanblood for food. This reversesthe fortunes of Mr.Mushnik, played byMichael Porter with greatflair and German accent.His shop continues to pros-per, but Mr. Mushnik is oneof many humans eaten byAudrey II.

Seymour, of course, feelsterrible about this, but he’sstuck. The comedy grazesthe Faust legend asSeymour gains the girl andsuccess through selling hissoul … to Audrey II, whowill have her payday. (Thevictims all return at play’send as faces on the petals ofnew cuttings. Audrey II is

going national.)Observing and com-

menting on all this throughsong is a 1960s girl groupcomposed of Beki Henson,Brenda Ferri and SueMartin as Crystal, Ronnetteand Chiffon, respectively.Flitting on and off the stagein seemingly countlessancillary parts is DavidTrudeau, who will havestarring roles in later pro-ductions this season.

Perhaps having the mostfun is director Gail Dixon-Willden, who also designedthe sets and the ever-grow-ing Audrey II puppets forthe “bucket list” play she’slonged to do for 20 years.Audrey II begins as a smallhand puppet but grows bigenough to swallow actorswhole; at that stage she’s“manned” by young actorsMallorie Salazar and ClaireWillden and voiced by AlvaT. Earley.

The Kaleidoscope

Players has loaded thissummer’s season withcomedies. It’s off to a greatstart with “Little Shop ofHorrors,” which continueswith performances June 30and July 1, 9 and 10.

“Red, White & Tuna”opens July 2 and runsthrough July 31. A newcomedy version ofShakespeare’s “Taming ofthe Shrew” runs July 14-22.“Love, Sex & the I.R.S.”opens July 23 and closesAug. 6. The season closesAug. 12-14 with the chil-dren’s production of“Seussical the Musical.”

Shows begin at 7:30 p.m.,with Sunday matinees at2:30 p.m. Tickets are $15general admission, $13 sen-iors, $5 children. A seasonpacket of 10 tickets good forany combination of showsis available for $100.Schedules and tickets areavailable at the ShulerTheater, (575) 445-4746.

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Tajima beats own Pikes Peak climb recordCOLORADO SPRINGS— Nobuhiro Tajima lowered

his own record in the Pikes Peak International HillClimb on Sunday, becoming the first driver to break 10minutes in winning the race for a sixth straight time.

"This is what I wanted and what motivated me tocome back," said Tajima, who leaped out of the car andpumped his fists above his head. "I would have beenvery disappointed if I didn't win."

The 60-year-old Japanese covered the 12.42-milecourse in 9 minutes, 51.28 seconds in the UnlimitedDivision, surpassing the record of 10:01.41 he set onJuly 21, 2007.

Tajima overcame an overheated engine and windgusts of up to 40 mph, driving his 2011 Monster SportSX4 Hill Climb Special through 156 turns from the startat 9,390 feet to the 14,110-foot summit.

"I took my car to the limit," Tajima said. "And it heldup to everything I asked of it."

The car spewed water from the radiator over thefinal 500 yards of the race.

Before the race, Tajima predicted he would break thecourse record, finish in under 10 minutes and win thefinal time the course would include a section of gravel.

Tseng wins fourth LPGA championshipPITTSFORD, N.Y. — Yani Tseng wasn't satisfied with

merely winning the LPGA Championship and, at 22,becoming the youngest to win four LPGA majors.

Once she made the turn with a 10-stroke lead Sunday,the best female player in the world set her sights onmaking a little more history.

"I was like, what's a new goal for me?" Tseng said."And that's why I told myself I wanted to set a record, tomake 20 under."

She missed by one stroke in what was the only minorblemish in one of the most dominating performances todate from Tseng.

In closing with a 6-under 66 to finish at 19-under 269at Locust Hill Country Club, Tseng matched the LPGArecord low at a major, most recently by Cristie Kerr ayear ago when she shot the same score to win the tour-nament by 12 strokes. Dottie Pepper (1999 KraftNabisco) and Karen Stupples (2004 Women's BritishOpen) also finished at 19 under.

SPORTS BRIEFSYankees make late adjustments,pull out 6-4 win against RockiesBy Howie RumbergAssociated Press

NEW YORK — For thefirst four innings, theYankees looked late at theplate — and it wasn'tbecause they were tiredfrom Old Timers' Day festiv-ities.

Nope, they were behindon all those 96 mph fastballsRockies rookie JuanNicasio was zipping overthe corners, so New Yorkmade an adjustment thesecond time around.

"We started looking forthe fastball more," JorgePosada said.

The adjustment paid offin the fifth. Posada followedNick Swisher's two-runhomer with a drive of hisown, and Eduardo Nunezhit a tiebreaking single inthe seventh after shortstopTroy Tulowitzki made anerror, leading the Yankeesto a 6-4 win over Colorado.

Mark Teixeira alsohomered for New York andAlex Rodriguez drove in arun in his sixth straightgame.

Ty Wigginton connectedtwice for his second multi-homer game this week andChris Iannetta also home-red for Colorado.

It was New York's firstseries win against theRockies since sweeping athree-game set at the oldYankee Stadium in 2004.New York improved to 22-4in day games.

"It was a great day over-all," manager Joe Girardisaid.

With a handful of pitch-

ers who have thrown no-hit-ters, including Don Larsen,at Yankee Stadium for the65th Old Timers' Day,Nicasio did not allow abaserunner until RobinsonCano singled with one outin the fifth.

Nicasio had been fallingbehind batters all game yetfought back nicely with hiscrisp fastball, but he left a 3-

1 pitch over the middle ofthe plate to Swisher, thenext batter after Cano, andthe switch-hitter drilled itinto the right-field stands.

"In the first two inningshe was consistently 95, 96(mph). Then starting in thethird, fourth, fifth inning,the velocity started drop-ping down to 92, 93,"Swisher said. "I think that

has a little bit to do with it."Posada got the crowd of

47,894 really rocking withhis eighth homer of theyear to make it 3-all. It wasthe third time the Yankeeshave connected for two in arow this season.

"It might have distortedhis focus a bit," Rockiesmanager Jim Tracy said ofthe 24-year-old Nicasio."You have to remember thathe's had about six or sevencareer starts."

Posada walked with oneout in the seventh andadvanced to second whenRussell Martin's sharpgrounder hit offTulowitzki's glove. Nunezsingled off Matt Belisle (5-3)and pinch-runner ChrisDickerson crossed homeplate with a belly-flop slide.

Joba Chamberlain, outafter having Tommy Johnsurgery, immediately tweet-ed "Do it Nunez!!!" after theshortstop filling in forDerek Jeter, who turned 37on Sunday, gave New Yorkthe lead.

Larsen tossed the onlypostseason perfect game,for the Yankees in the 1956World Series.

Boone Logan (2-2) gotthree outs in the seventh,David Robertson was per-fect in the eighth andMariano Rivera struck outthe side in the ninth for his20th save

"It feels good. It feels likeI'm getting in a little bit of arhythm," said Logan, whohas allowed only two runsover his last 10 2-3 innings.

Associated PressColorado Rockies pitcher Juan Nicasio delivers the ball to theNew York Yankees during the first inning of an interleague base-ball game Sunday at Yankee Stadium in New York.

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Vinnie Gumlich and Kyra Koelling play the leads, Seymour and Audrey, in the Shuler Theater pro-duction of the musical comedy “Little Shop of Horrors” through July 10.

‘Little Shop’ kicks off Shuler’s summer seasonContinued from page 1Speakers