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Remember Norm

from TV's 'Cheers'?

Poudre Canyon Pioneers

Remember Norm

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Poudre Canyon Pioneers

2 • August 2012 • The Senior Voice

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Our hearts and prayers are with the victims of this year’s wildfire disasters. Concern also should be focused on an equally devastating disaster occurring in northern Colorado. Extreme drought conditions are ravaging farmers and rural com-munities in the South Platte River basin. Some predict farm losses could exceed the losses from the High Park Fire and will have dev-astating economic impacts on lo-cal communities and statewide. Ironically, the South Platte drought coincides with record high groundwater levels in some parts of the basin. Basements are flood-ing, sewage systems are failing, and crops are being damaged due to extremely high groundwater. The common sense solution to both the drought and the impacts of high water tables would be to tap the groundwater, irrigate the parched crops, and lower the water table, right?

Regrettably, due to a combina-tion of court decrees and legisla-tion, thousands of high-capacity irrigation wells were shut down in 2006 and cannot pump today. For the first time in 70 years, some farmers face a drought without irrigation wells to augment the dried-up ditches and surface reser-voirs. South Platte farmers need the flexibility to tap the basin’s vast groundwater reservoir estimated at 10.5 million acre-feet. This year I sponsored House Bill 12-1278, which mandates a study of South Platte groundwater. Hopefully this study will pro-vide information needed to make wise decisions about tapping un-derground reservoirs and manag-ing groundwater and surface water conjunctively for the benefit of all.________________Contact State Rep. Randy Fischer in Ft. Collins at 970.215.7898 or [email protected]. ■

By Randy Fisher, Colorado State RepresentativeLegislative Issue

Q: What should children be aware of when they are

battling over how their parents should write their Wills?

A: Children should remember that no one, except for a

spouse, has a right to inherit unless there is no Will. Then the intestate law would be applicable and the inter-family fighting would not af-fect the division of assets anyway. The Court can determine that undue influence was exerted on the parents in order to force them to write their Wills in a way certain children insisted upon, es-pecially when the other children have the Will rewritten to reflect what those children want. Recently I have seen sev-eral different parents caught in the middle, seemingly unable to regain control of their own affairs. And it is hard to see what the Court could

do to neutralize the situation. But just as new Wills could be found to fail because of undue influence, the revocation of prior Wills could also be deemed invalid, thus after death forcing the Court to wade through the succes-sive Wills while potentially trying to find a prior valid Will which was improperly voided because of un-due influence. My suggestion would be for a neutral party to take the par-ents to an attorney with no ties to any of the children and put in place the distribution plans the parents want. Thereafter the subject of in-heritance should not to be brought up.________________Attorney Ron Rutz will answer questions sent to 2625 Redwing Road, Suite 180, Ft. Collins, CO 80526; phone 223.8388; email [email protected]. ■

Estate PlanningBy Ron Rutz, Attorney - Legal Correspondent


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By Bill Lambdin “How’s it going, Norm?” “It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and I’m wearing milk bone under-wear.” That was from George Wendt, who played Norm on “Cheers,” one of my favorite TV shows that ran from 1982 to 1993. He was famous for answering questions with quips like: “How’s the world treating you?” “Like a baby treats a diaper.” Wendt was born in 1948 in Chi-cago. His father was a navy officer and realtor. George flunked out of Notre Dame but later graduated from Rockhurst College in Kan-sas City with a BA in economics. He then spent time with the well known comedy group Sec-ond City where he met his wife Bernadette Birkett, who played in numerous movies. She also played the voice of Norm’s wife who was never seen on “Cheers.” And she gave him three children. On his first day at Second City, a woman handed him a broom and said, “Welcome to the the-ater, kid.” He swept floors for a brief time. But he later did Satur-day Night Live; Broadway plays; movies; and TV appearances. He said “Cheers” was by far his fa-vorite job. An interviewer once asked him, “What should people do when they see you around town?” Wendt answered, “If their im-pulse is to buy me a beer, then by all means follow that impulse.” On “Cheers,” Sam once asked him, “What are you up to, Norm?” He replied, “My ideal weight if I were eleven feet tall.” Other characters on the show also had witty lines. Barmaid

Carla and Sam’s snooty girlfriend Diane had a running feud. When Diane said, “Oh, no. The thing I feared most has happened,” Carla quipped, “What? Your Living Bra died of boredom?”

The show was one of the most successful on television, winning 28 Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and many others for individual performers. TV Guide ranked it among the 50 greatest TV shows of all time. Most of the episodes were filmed before a live audience at a Paramount Hollywood stage. The bar was modeled after the actual Bull & Finch Pub in Bos-ton. When producer Glen Charles asked the pub’s owner for permis-

sion to film the inside and outside, the owner agreed and accepted one dollar in payment. Later he made millions licensing the pub’s image and selling “Cheers” mem-orabilia.

The show began with five characters: Sam, Diane, Carla, Norm, and Coach. It later added Cliff, Frasier, Lilith, Rebecca, and Woody. They don’t make ‘em like that any more—I’m referring to the show and the woman pictured above.________________Cover Picture: George Wendt and Senior Voice co-founder Peggy Lambdin. Taken by Bill Lambdin. ■

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"Cheers" actor George Wendt and Senior Voice co-founder Peggy Lambdin at an awards banquet years ago.

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By Peggy Hunt Several of the scenic places in the Poudre Canyon west of Fort Collins were named for pioneers and historic events. The Ansel Watrous camp-ground in the canyon was named for an early Fort Collins news-paper editor who arrived in 1877 and later wrote the “History of

Larimer County.” When he first arrived, Watrous thought Fort Collins was a dreary, barren place. But he grew to love the area, and his book is now considered one of the finest local histories written about the early West. Dutch George campground a few miles up the canyon west of

Watrous was named for George Neare, a Dutchman whom some settlers said was killed by a bear in 1878 where the campground now sits. Others said he was killed when his own gun went off accidental-ly while he was skinning a bear there. In either case, the place is named for one of the early settlers in Poudre Canyon. Eggers campground farther west was once a thriving little settlement with a school, post of-fice and other buildings. Fred and Alma Eggers homesteaded there and made it a pioneer community center. In 1944 when the canyon road was widened, all of the Eggers buildings were torn down except the old log school house. It was preserved and now sits several miles west, next to the Poudre Canyon Chapel. Chambers Lake was named for Robert Chambers, one of the first pioneers in the area. In 1858 he and his son set up a fur trapper’s camp next to the lake. One day while his son was gone, Indians killed and mutilated Robert. Some years later in 1867, his son brought tie cutters to the area when the transcontinental rail-road was being built across south-ern Wyoming. They established a camp and named the lake for Chambers.

Tunnel campground just north of Chambers Lake is on the Lara-mie River. It takes its name from a tunnel early settlers built to di-vert water from the Laramie to the Poudre River. During its construction, two horse-drawn wagons loaded with dynamite were on the mountain-side when lightning struck one of the wagons. The explosion was tremendous, blowing huge holes in the ground, destroying the wagons and blowing the teams and men to pieces. But the tunnel was built and is still used today. It took a U.S. Supreme Court decision to get it done because the state of Wyo-ming sued the builders, accusing them of stealing river water that ran to Wyoming. The court ruled that both Colorado and Wyoming had rights to the water. When the project was finally completed in 1911, a celebration was held at the tunnel site. Guests ate more than 300 fresh trout caught in one day from the Lara-mie and Poudre rivers. Joe Wright Reservoir west of Chambers Lake along Highway 14 was named for a trapper who collected beaver pelts on the creek above the reservoir. Joe Wright spent a winter there in the early 1800s, and other trappers named the creek after him. ■

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In 1868, Will Brush was the last white person to be killed by Indians in Weld County. He was 33 years old.

Various versions of the inci-dent can be found, like the one from early Greeley historian Grace Norcross Allen. She said:

“Jared Brush had a hay ranch on Crow Creek where his broth-er, Will, and a hired man were scalped and killed by Indians. The Indians ran off with the Brush horses, which were after-ward recaptured by a Greeley posse. This was the last Indian attack in Weld County.”

Another writer, Dean Kraken, said Will Brush and others were working cattle on the upper parts of Big Crow Creek in anticipa-tion of a fall roundup. Indians came to their camp and asked Brush to shoe a horse for them.

When he bent over to begin the shoeing, the Indians killed him, said Kraken.

Still another writer said:

“Will Brush, his cousin J.L. Conway and a friend were put-ting up hay on Geary’s ranch when they were surprised by Indians. The next day, John Pat-terson and some neighbors found their bodies lying out in the hot sun.”

This is typical of a historian’s

dilemma, trying to decide which writer had the best information and presented the facts.

At any rate, we know that Will Brush was the last person killed by Indians in Weld County in 1868. His wife had these words inscribed on his tombstone:

“By Indians slain in early life/Amid his toils and cares/He left a loving child and wife/To weep

and mourn in tears.”

Will’s brother, Jared, served as lieutenant governor of Colorado and was long associated with the building of the state. Jared first came as a prospector, then became a cattleman and banker, and finally a statesman.

The town of Brush east of Greeley was named for Jared Brush. ■

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average care or even substandard care and are wasted. RUMOR. The new health law will cost Medicare patients a lot more money. FALSE. Over the next ten years, the average patient will save money. Those with high pre-scription drug costs (Part B) will also save over that period. The Part B “doughnut hole” cover-age gap will be closed by 2020. The savings will come because of reduced payments to insurance companies and providers. RUMOR. Medicare will be broke in a couple of years. FALSE. The Medicare trustees say the program will remain sol-vent until at least 2029, 12 years longer than previously projected. If the reductions called for in the new health care law are effective, it will be solvent longer. The biggest change that could happen is switching Medicare to a “premium support” voucher pro-gram proposed by Congressman Paul Ryan. That would require Medicare patients to shop for policies from private insurance companies—determining what coverage they will have from year to year, finding a new company when one raises its costs, dealing with changes companies make each year, etc. That would change Medicare entirely. ■

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The years leading up to it were ones of murders, hangings, and mayhem between wealthy cattle barons, politicians and some cor-rupt lawmen against homestead-ers who they thought threatened their dominance.

Joe Elliot, an 80-year-old survi-vor of the war, was interviewed by B. W. Hope in 1940. Elliott was a “hired gun” employed by the Wyoming Stock Association in 1901. Previously he worked as a range foreman for the 101 out-fit, which branded 20,000 calves every year.

Joe had a crew of 300 cow-punchers. After several years he was replaced by a “green-horn” from the East. Elliot had made

his reputation as an enforcer and crack shot with the 101 and was hired by the Wyoming Stock As-sociation to work their round-up.

He was stationed at what is now Upton, the headquarters for the group, and at 80 he was still proud of his exploits as a “range detective.”

One of the most talked about lynchings of that time was the hanging of Tom Waggoner, but for many people in the area there was a mystery. Joe said in an interview, “They know I did it. He was one of the worst cattle thieves I ever knew.”

Joe was charged with the mur-der, and Nate Champion testified against him. Joe said he was re-manded into the custody of the sheriff. While in custody, a depu-

ty gave Joe a .45 caliber pistol to protect himself.

Joe was taken by the sheriff on the train to Cheyenne where he managed to join the hired guns that were brought up from Texas by the Stock Association for the Johnson County invasion. Be-cause of his reputation, Joe was given a pistol, which he bragged was “THE gun” for the show-down. It was a Sharps 40-90 with a Frewen patent breech.

Joe said he did not kill Nate Champion but that Nate’s broth-er, Dud, thought he did. Joe con-cluded his interview by saying about the invasion, “What we did had to be done but not in the way we did it.” He was eventually ac-quitted for his part in the raid and retired to California. ■

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By Peggy Hunt “Wyoming is the first place on God’s green earth that could con-sistently claim to be the land of the free.” Susan B. Anthony said that in 1871. She was a leader in wom-en’s rights, and in 1869 Wyoming was the first place to give women the right to vote—50 years before the U.S. Congress did it for other states. That heritage is exhibited at the Cowgirls of the West Museum in Cheyenne along with presenta-tions on many other women. It’s much more than cowgirls. “We are dedicated to preserv-ing the history, the legend, and the precious artifacts of America’s pioneer Western women,” say the museum directors. Exhibits feature women both

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Medicaid (not Medicare) is the government health program for low-income people, and many of them could find it more difficult to use that program, according to ana-lysts with Kaiser Health News and other groups. The U.S. Supreme Court re-cently ruled that the federal gov-ernment can no longer force states to pay for Medicaid services as

required in the past. States might be free to reduce their Medicaid expenses, and many could choose to do so in order to balance their budgets, say analysts. This would put many low-in-come people in “a black hole with nowhere to turn for coverage,” said Deborah Bachrach, former Medic-aid director for New York. But oth-ers say it gives states a freedom they have long needed. ■

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By Bill Lambdin The flood in the Big Thomp-son River canyon between Love-land and Estes Park in 1976 was the most serious natural disaster in the history of northern Colo-rado. It killed 144 people on July 31 when unusual weather con-ditions caused a massive rain-storm to stall above the canyon. Nearly 12 inches of rain fell in four hours. That night a dam broke and a wall of water 19 feet high roared down the canyon, filling the riv-er with huge crashing boulders, houses and debris. Jerry Shaffer remembered: “I was 23 years old the night of the flood. Ealy, another resi-dent, and I stood there and looked up the canyon...As I took

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A golfer was trying hard to beat his opponent and mumbled while putting on the last hole, “I’d give anything to make this.” A nearby stranger heard him and said, “Would you be willing to give up sex to make that putt?” The golfer thought is was some joker and said, “Sure.” He made the putt. While walking back to the club-house, the stranger said, “I’m Sa-tan, and I caused you to make that putt. You just gave up sex for the rest of your life.” “Really?” said the golfer. “I’m Father O’Malley.”

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One Sunday, a preacher no-ticed a local man, George, who had never attended church sitting among the congregation. After the service, the preacher asked him, “What prompted you to come to church today?” George said, “Well, I have to

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Lines from baseball player Yogi Berra: “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.” “You can observe a lot just by watching.” “A nickel ain’t worth a dime

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By Lois Hall If you travel east of Greeley on Highway 34 and I-76 to Fort Mor-gan, Sterling and Julesburg, you pass several historic sites along the way. Much of the route follows the Overland Trail pioneers used in the 1800s on their way to Colora-do, Wyoming and the West Coast. The town of Fort Morgan was established in 1865 as a military post to protect stagecoaches and travelers along the Overland Trail. When the soldiers left, Abner S. Baker developed an irrigation ditch at Fort Morgan to encourage agricultural development. He was an original member of the Union Colony pioneers who settled Greeley in 1870. Earlier in 1842, journalist Ru-fus B. Sage said he encountered a group of fur trappers camped along the Platte River near Fort Morgan. Their leader was Jean Charbonneau, son of the famous Sacajawea who traveled with Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Charbonneau, born in 1805, had been adopted by a white man and educated in a European school. In 1829 he returned to

the West and worked for years as a trapper for the American Fur Company and hunter for Bent’s Fort on the Santa Fe Trail. East of Fort Morgan, the town of Brush sits on the old Texas-Montana cattle trail where the big Western cattle drives were made from the 1860s to the 1880s. Cowboys herded thousands of cattle across the Platte River here.

The town was named for a local rancher, Jared Brush; and there is a cattle trail marker in town. Fort Wicked was south of Ster-ling (two and one-half miles south of Merino along the Platte River). It was the only stage station not burned by Indians during the 1864-65 war when tribes attacked

every white settlement along the Platte in northeastern Colorado. The Indians tried to burn Fort Wicked, but rancher Holon God-frey, his wife and two daughters held them off during two days of intense fighting. The Godfreys were such fierce fighters that the Indians dubbed the ranch Fort Wicked.

The Battle of Summit Springs, the last encounter of soldiers and Indians in eastern Colorado, was also a few miles south of Sterling near the Platte. In 1869 the cavalry found a large band of Cheyenne there who had been attacking settlers, led by Chief Tall Bull. After a fierce

battle, the chief was shot by Frank North, a close friend of Buffalo Bill Cody. Cody was working for the army at the time, but some histo-rians said he was not involved in this battle. A marker not far from I-76 locates the site of the Battle of Summit Springs. The Overland Trail Museum

in Sterling is well worth a stop. It contains excellent exhibits of stage coach days and pioneer life.

All of the plains surrounding Sterling were once the ranch of John Wesley Iliff. He had Colo-rado’s largest cattle empire in the 1800s, running up to 50,000 head of cattle on 3,000 square miles. His wife later established the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, and the town of Iliff north of Ster-ling was named for him.

Julesburg was burned to the ground in 1865 by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors but later re-built. It began as one of Colora-do’s first stage stops on the Over-land Trail and served as a Pony Express station 1860-61. Some said Buffalo Bill Cody joined the Pony Express there when he was 14 years old. Julesburg was named for a French trader, Jules Beni.

There is a lot of interesting his-tory in northeastern Colorado. ■

The Indians tried to burn Fort Wicked, but rancher Holon Godfrey, his wife and two daughters held them off.

These 35-million-year-old fossils were found northeast of Greeley years ago. They were re-constructed at the Denver Museum of Natural History. Hazel Johnson Collection.

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