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50 Centstrinidad Colorado
Proudly Serving Southeastern Colorado and Northeastern New Mexico • www.thechronicle-news.com
~Vol. 138, No. 162
thursdayaugust 14, 2014
AUGUST 14~Economic DevelopmentTHURSDAY (3 p.m.) Trinidad and
Las Animas County Board of Directors will meet at 134 West Main Street, Suite 23 (Bell Block). Information: 719-846-9412.
~Water Association THURSDAY (3 p.m.) Greetville-
Carbondale Board of Directors will meet at the Century Financial Group, 109 W. Main St. Information: Jeni Skalko, 719-846-2080, ext. 116.
~Mt. San Rafael HospitalTHURSDAY (5-6:30 p.m.) The pub-
lic is invited to a Provider Open House to meet the newest members of the hos-pital’s health care staff to be held in the hospital lobby, 410 Benedicta Ave.
Today’s Quote“Everything is funny, as
long as it’s happening to somebody else.”
~Will Rogers
TRINIDAD LAKE WEEKENDPark Office, 719-846-3818*FRIDAY (8 p.m.) “Ranger Campfire
with Harmonica” at the park amphithe-ater.
*SATURDAY (9 a.m.) Kids Saturday Morning Walk-About. Meet at the Visitor Center.
*SATURDAY (7 p.m.) “The Dutch Oven and the Horno,” join Park Ranger Pat Patrick for a fun evening in the amphi-theater exploring cooking methods along the Santa Fe Trail.
*SUNDAY (6 p.m.) NEW THIS YEAR: A Ranger Hike every Sunday night thru Labor Day. Meet at the Visitor’s Center to begin the adventure.
AUGUST 15-17~Search Team ExerciseFRIDAY (7 a.m. – 5 p.m.) The Trini-
dad Correctional Facility Search Team will be conducting a training exercise throughout Trinidad. During this time resi-dents will see increased law enforcement presence, both in vehicle and on foot. This is just an exercise; there will be no cause for alarm.
~Farmers’ Market SATURDAY (8 a.m.-Noon) The Trini-
dad Farmer’s Market is open every Sat-urday in Cimino Park until mid-October. Information: 719-846-7386.
~Ave Maria ShrineSATURDAY: The Rosary will be re-
cited (10:30 a.m.) and Mass will be cel-ebrated (11 a.m.) in the historic Ave Marie Shrine located behind the Mount San Rafael Hospital on Benedicta Ave. Follow the signage. Visitors are always welcome.
PUBLIC SERVICE~ArtoCade Call for Artists*Hubcapalooza at Galerie Vivante
(214 E. Main St.) Carvelously embellished hubcaps—paint, sculpt, collage, glue or whatever. All pieces will be for sale for under $100. Hubcaps are available at the gallery for $4. Entries due Sept. 5-6 — show opens Sept. 12. Information: 719-334-0087.
*AutoMotivation at Gallery Main (130 E. Main St.) Earthly bound vehicle-inspired art in any media. Stop by the gal-lery for a prospectus. Completed pieces to be delivered to gallery on Sept. 2-3 (10 a.m.-4 p.m.) Opening reception is Sept. 5 (5-7 p.m.). Information: 719-846-1441.
~Call for Kids Car ArtNeed auto-themed kids’ artwork by
Sept. 1 for Kids Spark Exhibit at the Ar-toCade festivities in September. Informa-tion: Rich Colombo, 719-846-6435.
~Trinidad RoundUp AssociationAUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 1: Mark
your calendar for the annual Labor Day Weekend rodeo, parade, dance and festivities. Information: 719-680-0424 or go to www.trinidadroundup.homestead.com.
~Low-Cost Spay/NeuterThe Fisher’s Peak Veterinary Clinic
(719-846-3211) and the Trinidad Animal Clinic (719-846-3212) offer grant-funded, low-cost spay/neuter surgeries for all Las Animas County resident’s animals. Call for information and appointments.
~SUICIDE/CRISIS HOTLINES:*ADULT HOPE: 800-784-2433 *TEEN: 877-968-8454 *GLB-YOUTH: 866-488-7386*VET-2-VET: 877-838-2838“When the world says, ‘Give up!’
Hope says, ‘Not today!” ~Unknown~ ABUSE HOTLINES:*Domestic Abuse Hotline: In Trini-
dad call 719-846-6665 (24-hours a day). National Hotline call: 1-800-790-SAFE (7233).
*Animal Abuse: Do your part and help put a stop to animal cruelty. Report animal abuse and dog/cock fighting at Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line: 720-913-7867.
the Fine Print
Weather WatChThursday: A 30 percent chance of show-
ers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2 p.m. Partly sunny, with a high near 88. W-SW wind
5 to 10 mph. Night: A 30 percent chance of thunderstorms, mainly before 8 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 58. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Friday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. West wind 5 to 10 mph becom-ing E-NE in the afternoon. Night: A 20 per-cent chance of thunderstorms before 1 a.m. Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. Calm
west wind around 5 mph. Saturday: A 20 percent chance of thun-
derstorms after 7 a.m. Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. West wind around 5 mph becoming east in the afternoon. Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. SE wind around 5 mph.
Sunday: A 10 percent chance of thunder-storms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58.
river CallPurgatoire River Call as of: 08/13/14. Burns & Duncan ditch: Priority # 21 — Appropriation date: 01/01/1866.
Trinidad Reservoir Accounting:Release 179.49 AFInflow 171.28 AF -- 81.31 CFSEvaporation 9.79 AFContent 12,107 AFElevation 6,170.28Precipitation 0
Downstream River Call — Nine Mile Canal: 05/07/1877.
the ChroniCle neWs
By Steve BlockThe Chronicle-News
Local citizens volunteer to serve
on Trinidad’s various boards and commissions, which make recom-mendations to the City Council on
various issues. After Council voted to overturn a decision by the City Planning and Zoning Commission about denying approval of a mari-juana application recently, Council-member Anthony Mattie said those board and commission members
needed better training, so they could do their work more effectively.
Mattie said he’d asked that the issue be put on the agenda of Tues-day’s work session.
“I appreciate the volunteer spirit of the people who serve on those commissions and boards,” Mattie said. “I realize they don’t get paid and we appreciate their help in the process of governance. At the same time I think the people who serve on those commissions, particularly those with decision-making respon-sibilities like the planning and zon-ing commission, need to understand that they represent the City of Trini-dad. By their actions, they can put us in positions of liability and litiga-tion. Simply stated, I think we need to explain to those members who serve on those commissions clearly what their role is, what their bound-aries are and the role of Council and staff in guiding and directing them.”
Mattie said he’d watched the video of the planning and zoning commission that denied the appli-cation of Forever Green, LLC, and was frustrated to observe that City staff had advised the commission-ers about what they should do, but the commissioners had not accepted their advice and had acted against their recommendations. Mattie said he knew many people had strong opinions on the legalized pot issue, but said the commissioners had taken an oath to uphold the City’s rules and regulations and should be expected to do so.
Mattie spent many years as a state patrol officer and he said he re-ally didn’t like making favorable de-cisions about legalized pot, which he
personally opposes. County voters approved legalized pot, and the City passed regulations governing its cultivation, sale and use. As a Coun-cilmember he felt duty bound to sup-port the public’s decision and said he felt the commissioners should have done the same thing.
Council should provide infor-mation to the commissioners about what their responsibilities were, Mattie said. Once that was done, the commissioners should be expected to fulfill their responsibilities and if they didn’t want to do so, then they should resign from the commission.
Mayor Joe Reorda said Council needed to remember that it’s hard to get people to serve on boards and commissions and that the planning and zoning commission had a tough job, with meetings often lasting for two hours. Mattie’s point was well taken, Mayor Reorda said.
Councilmember Carol Bolton said she thought commission mem-bers went through a recent training session and asked City Attorney Les Downs if that was the case. Bolton said that even after receiving the training on what they could and could not do, the commissioners had apparently allowed their personal sentiments to influence their deci-sion-making process.
Downs replied that Bolton was correct. He had given Councilmem-bers copies of the code that governs the actions of the planning and zon-ing commission.
“It’s one thing when one person and I’m not trying to single anyone out, on a board or commission philo-
Photo courtesy of TSJCDenver Attorney and Trinidad native Franklin Azar is presented with a miniature bronze Trojan statue by Trinidad State President, Dr. Carmen Simone in appreciation for his pledge of $250,000, which will fund the new Franklin D. Azar Scholarship Fund. (L-R) Trinidad State Educational Foundation President, Miriam Zappanti, Trinidad State President Dr. Carmen Simone, Franklin Azar, Foundation Board Member, Ed Trommeter and Foundation Executive Director Toni DeAngelis.
Trinidad native starts TSJC college scholarship fund
Steve Block / The Chronicle-NewsCouncilmember Anthony Mattie said that the Planning and Zoning Commis-sion volunteer members needed better training to enable them to more effec-tively serve the community.
CITY GOVERNMENT
Council calls for better commissioner training
EDUCATION
Special to The Chronicle-News
The Trinidad State Junior Col-lege Educational Foundation has announced that Denver attorney Franklin Azar, has established the Franklin D. Azar Scholarship Fund at Trinidad State Junior College.
Azar pledged his support to aid TSJC students with their education-al expenses by committing $250,000 to the scholarship fund over the next five years. The initial scholarships will be awarded starting this fall. “His generous spirit to his home-town community will provide much in the way of aid,” said Foundation Board President, Miriam Zappanti.
Azar’s goal is to help students fi-nancially as they begin their educa-tional journey at TSJC. He recogniz-es the needs of those students whose grades may be “average” or whose resources may be in the median in-come range, yet those students may not quality for scholarships or other financial assistance. “While a stu-dent’s grades may be ‘average’ from a traditional academic perspective, many talented “ordinary” students often are looking for available schol-arships for students who don’t have
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COUNTY SHERIFF
Casias addresses budget issuesBy Steve BlockThe Chronicle-News
County Sheriff James Casias
said that the companies provid-ing services to the Sheriff’s Office and County Jail don’t care that the County is going broke. The cost of services often increases, and the County must pay those costs if it wants those services.
Sheriff Casias gave his report as part of a mid-year budget review that was presented at Tuesday’s County Board work session. All of the County department heads gave similar reports to the Board.
The County’s property tax rev-enue has been declining for the past few years, largely due to the decline in natural gas prices on which County property values are largely based. County workers had to ac-cept a monthly furlough day this year, due to the negative impact on the County budget with a decline in revenues. The Sheriff’s budget was also cut, but Casias said he was doing the best he could with what money he has.
Currently, the yearly budget for the Sheriff’s Office is $810,551, while
the jail has a budget of $1,034,346. The County Justice Center has
some serious maintenance issues that will have to be addressed in the near future, he said. The depart-ment’s two-way radios are also old and some are in need of replace-ment.
“The maintenance that was in our budget was taken out,” Casias said. “The deterioration of that building is getting worse. With some of the pods in the jail, the back walls are separating from the concrete. There’s a two-inch gap in there, and if water starts to get in there, mold could start to build up in there.”
Some of the department’s patrol cars are getting old and are in need of repair or replacement. A few of the cars can no longer be used, and several cars can only be used within city limits. Casias said he’d told his deputies not to drive those cars over 50 miles per hour. The sheriff’s de-partment has auctioned off its aging vehicles in the past and may have to do so again, he said. They don’t bring in much money, but it’s more than they would bring if they were scrapped.
Law enforcement vehicles often
have high-performance engines and some people will buy the cars just to remove the engine and put it in an-other vehicle, he said.
The county jail is changing its food service provider to Diamond Shamrock, in hopes of saving $3,200 per year, Casias said. Some of the jail’s inmates have special dietary needs, and the jail’s food service personnel have to meet their dietary requirements, which can increase costs.
The sheriff’s department is also trying to go paperless as much as
possible, in an effort to cut office expenses.
County Administrator Leeann Fabec told Casias that he couldn’t expect the County to pay for any new vehicles until the 2018 budget year.
Casias said his department was doing all it could to cut its expens-es, but because it runs a 24-hour a day operation, it was limited in the amount of money it could save. He said budgetary expenses were on track to keep the department within its annual budget, as of June 30, 2014.
Steve Block / The Chronicle-NewsCounty Sheriff James Casias, left, addressed County Commissioners Mack Louden, center and Anthony Abeyta about his department’s budget issues at Tuesday’s County Board work session.
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an A average,” said Azar. The Franklin D. Azar Schol-arships are intended for “av-erage – ordinary” students who nevertheless have the desire and motivation to suc-ceed at TSJC in pursuit of
their goals. Trinidad State President,
Dr. Carmen Simone said, “The support provided to our students by Mr. Azar is deep-ly appreciated. His desire to assist those who would oth-erwise be without support
speaks to his personal mis-sion. Trinidad State is for-tunate to have such a strong advocate dedicated to TSJC, our students, and the com-munity.”
Twenty five recipients have already been chosen to
receive $1,000 each for this upcoming school year.
For more information on the Franklin D. Azar Schol-arship, contact the TSJC Educational Foundation Of-fice by calling 719-846-5649 for further details.
sophically opposes something that the majority of a board or commission is thinking about doing,” Downs said. “The problem comes when a majority of the board or com-mission opposes something that is legal in the communi-ty. The answer to your ques-tion, Councilwoman Bolton, is that we had a work session about this. What troubles me, as your attorney, is not be-
ing equal and not having the same concerns and the same criteria for everyone who comes before them.”
Downs said the most re-cent planning and zoning commission had lasted far too long, and it was his opinion that the commissioners were searching were searching for reasons to deny the applica-tion. Forever Green’s lead-ers had to hire an attorney to place their case before Coun-
cil, at considerable expense. He said that applicant was dreading going back before the commission for further pot application approvals.
City Planner Louis Fine-berg acts as an advisor to the planning and zoning commis-sion. His opinion is that those people who spoke at the meet-ing in opposition to Forever Green’s application unduly influenced the commission.
Trinidad’s status as a
Colorado Main Street com-munity provides for free training sessions for plan-ning and zoning commission members.
“They will come down here and walk the commis-sion members through a training session about how they’re supposed to properly function as a planning com-mission, if the commission-ers are willing” Fineberg said.
60 Obituaries
James Dow BrightsHas gone to join Whitey
James passed awayThursday, Aug 7
near Exit 11.
65 Comi Funeral Home
Carmen L. BeardCarmen L. Beard, age 66,
passed away at home inA l b u q u e r q u e , N . M . , o nAugust 6, 2014 after acourageous bat t le wi thcancer .
Funeral Services will beFriday, August 15, 2014 withFuneral Mass at 3pm at HolyTrinity Church.
Private inurnment at a laterdate.
Arrangements made underthe direction of the ComiFuneral Home.
Diana L. JonesDiana L. Jones, age 71,
passed away unexpectedlyon August 12, 2014 atParkview Medical Center inPueblo, Co.
Arrangements are pendingand will ne announced laterby the Comi Funeral Home.
Mary Lousie MincicMary Lousie Mincic, age
82, passed away at home onAugust 12, 2014.
Visitation will be Sundayfrom 2pm-7pm at the ComiChapel.
Funeral Services will beMonday, August 18, 2014with Rosary at 9am at ComiChapel fo l lowed by theFuneral Mass at 10am atHoly Trinity Church.
Interment will follow at theTrinidad Catholic Cemetery.
Comp le te ob i tua ry tofo l l ow .
Arrangements made underthe direction of the ComiFuneral Home.
Orlando FernandoMedina
Orlando Fernando (Fred)Medina, age 87, passedaway peacefully at his homeon Thursday, August 7,2014.
V i s i t a t i o n w i l l b eWednesday from 3pm-6pmat the Comi Chapel.
Rosary will be Wednesday,August 13, 2014 at 7pm atHoly Trinity Church.
Funera l Mass wi l l becelebrated Thursday, August14, 2014 at 10am at HolyTrinity Church.
Interment will follow at theTrinidad Catholic Cemeterywith graveside servicesconducted by the US NavalHonor Guard.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS,M E M O R I A L S C A N B EMADE IN FRED'S NAME TOT H E H A R R Y S A Y R ESENIOR CENTER, 1222SAN PEDRO, TRINIDAD,CO 81082.
Arrangements made underthe direction of the ComiFuneral Home
Slade M. MaesSlade M. Maes, age 36,
passed away August 4, 2014in Raton, N.M. as a result ofan auto accident.
Visitation will be Thursday,August 14, 2014 from 2-7pmat the Comi Chapel.
Funeral Services will beFriday, August 15, 2014 at10am at Faith Christ ianFellowship with Pastor AndyOhman officiating.
Interment will follow at theCarpio Cemetery.
Arrangements made underthe direction of the ComiFuneral Home.
62 Memorials
In Loving Memory ofVictor J. Gonzales
Happy Birthday Daddy!!Eight years in heaven
You are never forgotten,greatly missed andimmensely loved.Your daughters,
Valerie, Tessie, Pearland Annie
63 Card of Thanks
The family ofAlberta Duckworth
would like to thank everyonefor the cards, food, phone
calls and those who attendedher funeral.
A special thanks to ourMom's caregivers, MarleneMason and Kayla Gutierrezwho treated her with respectand dignity in her last days
on earth.Thanks to all the
pallbearears and ComiFuneral Home.
From the editor’s desk
By Eric John MonsonNews EditorThe Chronicle-News
I’m 15 and rushing reck-lessly toward the naive vi-sion of the man I wished to become. The picture of a suave hero that women want and men want to be. At this time, I believe, I’m playing the mischievous, All-Amer-ican, slack-jawed jock—but in this moment—my English teacher is trying to catch me cheating.
She was one of two Mrs. Gustafson’s then at Yellow Medicine East High School in the little river town of Granite Falls, Minnesota, and she would relate the story
to my co-workers 10 years later when I returned home a cripple to resign myself, I thought, to being the Sports Editor of the Granite Falls Advocate Tribune. A broken boy crawling back to mom and father and home. A place that the 15-year-old me want-ed nothing more than to leave in the rear-view mirror.
“Have I told you this sto-ry before? No? Well I’ll just share it with everyone then,” began Mrs. Gustafson (who had by then remarried to be-come Mrs. Velde) addressing the ink-stained wretches.
“So, I had assigned this paper at the beginning of the semester and when I get his back I think ‘there’s no way
this football player (and very middling student) could have written this. He’s up to some-thing.’ And so I think I’m gonna catch the little cheat and the next day I assign a pa-per to be written in class and watch him the whole time. I was almost mad when he’s the first one done halfway through class and asks if he can skip out and go to the bakery (locally famous Aus’s bakery down on our main street next to the river). The little punk even asks if he can get me anything.
“So the next day I have him sit down and ask what his parents do and he tells me his mother is an English teacher over at Wood Lake. Then it clicked. ‘So do you read a lot?’ I ask.
“ ‘Yeah’ he shrugs, ‘stuff like Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, Twain and the Lou-is L’Amour and Zane Grey stuff too’.
“ ‘And your dad?’ “ ‘Oh, he’s retired now. He
used to be a mechanic and parts man at the family car dealership. He’s a history buff.’
“ ‘And do they talk a lot about what they’re reading? You know, like at supper?’
“ ‘I guess, yeah.’“So I decided I’d send him
down to the newspaper so he’d quit screwing around in my class and wrecking the fine education the rest of his classmates were receiving.”
Thus, I became the first student intern at the Advo-cate Tribune and worked for the paper through high school and college; weasel-ing what I thought were some of the easiest credits of my spotted academic career. (Sometime later I got to work
with Mrs. Gustafson after she retired from teaching and began writing for the news-paper where she loved to tell that story and how horrible a student I was.)
That teacher set me on a path that I would try des-perately, at times, to detour myself from, but would al-ways scramble back to. I ran away to South Dakota to be a football player and then a cowboy. I failed and returned to ledes and box scores. I ran away to the Black Hills to be a music-playing playboy, lost a leg and crawled back to editorial copy and deadlines. Then a jealous man killed my beautiful cousin and I ran away to the shelter of moun-tains and family. Now, again, I’m scrambling back to what I believe I know and what I be-lieve I know how to do.
Apparently that teacher set me on a rutted path that would lead to Colorado, New Mexico and Trinidad. And again I’m comfortable— awash in the words and pictures of this community that comprise The Chronicle-News.
The only edge I feel is that the welcome I’ve received here seems too good to be true.
All I can do, I guess, is to work hard enough to be wor-thy of such a welcome. And I can’t wait.
Thank you Chronicle-News staff. Thank you Chron-icle-News readers. And thank you to the communities The Chronicle-News strives to serve. I’m gonna screw-up from time to time, believe me, but I promise to do my best by you. We’ll talk again, but a lot less about me and a lot more about you.
Adam Sperandio / The Chronicle-News
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~Helen Keller
By Abigail Van Buren
DRINKING BECOMES A PROBLEM FOR WIFE PRESSURED TO IMBIBE
DEAR ABBY: I’m not much of a drinker. I have nothing against drinking or those who do. I just do not like the taste of alcohol. Worse, I have a very low tolerance for it. After only half a glass of wine, I become so sleepy I can barely keep my eyes open. It makes me feel physically aw-ful.
My husband takes offense to the fact that I don’t want to drink. When we’re out with
friends, he’ll have three or four beers and pressure me to the point of embarrassment in front of them until I finally give in and order a glass of wine. Of course, I then spend the rest of the evening feeling terrible. When we get home, he’ll want to be intimate, but I just want to go to sleep, which aggravates him further.
I have tried for several years to discuss this with him, but he can’t explain why he does this. What can I do? -- JUST WATER, PLEASE
DEAR JUST WATER: Your husband is a drinker. He may be self-conscious about the amount he imbibes and feels less so if he has a drink-ing buddy (that’s you), will-ing or not. To say the least, his behavior is inconsiderate -- and I mean ALL of it.
When someone is involved with a problem drinker, and from your description of his behavior your husband is one, the place to start looking for answers is Al-Anon. To find a meeting close to you, go online to al-anon.org. Please
don’t wait.
DEAR ABBY: My best friend, “Cecily,” has just come out to me as being a les-bian. We are both 15. I have tried my best to make her feel accepted and comfortable. But whenever she wants something from me and I re-fuse, she says I’m “treating her bad-ly because she’s gay.”
I let it go the first couple of times, but now she does this every time she wants something. When I fi-nally confronted her about it, she went to her mother and said I was bullying her because of her being gay. Her mother yelled at me and told me to “get my act together or get out of her life.” Her moth-er is like a second mother to me.
Other than this, Cecily has been a great friend. This has gotten way out of hand. Abby,
I have tried everything. What do I do? -- WAY OUT OF HAND IN NEW YORK
DEAR WAY OUT OF HAND: Cecily may react this way because she’s newly out
and hypersensitive to being discriminat-ed against for being gay. (For too many gay teens, this is a sad reality.)
Consider asking your mother to talk to Cecily’s mother and explain that you’re not homo-phobic but feel her daughter is being manipulative. If the
woman hears it from another adult, she may talk to her daughter about it. However, if that doesn’t work, you may have to decide if it’s worth it to continue the relationship under these circumstances.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
dear abby
Associated Press
Air Force coaches asked to help curb assaults
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — Air Force Academy leaders are ask-ing coaches to take a bigger role in preventing sexual assaults by talking with ath-letes about the issue.
Commanders also said Wednesday they expect an upcoming review of the ath-letic department to show whether it has a “negative culture,” a term the service
often uses to describe an at-mosphere conducive to sexu-al abuse.
The academy was re-sponding to recent allega-tions that athletes got special treatment. Officials deny the claims.
Officials say Lt. Gen. Mi-chelle Johnson, the academy superintendent, ordered the school’s inspector general in July to review the athletic department, including its culture.
Johnson said she met with coaches twice over the past year about her expec-tations. She said coaches hadn’t been fully involved in
what she called the “broader conversation” about the school’s standards.
Finishing touches for Colorado Capitol gold dome
DENVER (AP) — The state Capitol’s dome $17 mil-lion renovation is nearly complete.
On Wednesday morning, gilders rappelled down the dome to begin touching up gold leaf that was damaged
when the dome was sur-rounded by scaffolding ear-lier during the project. The work is expected to take a week.
It’s one of several remain-ing “punch list” items that need to be checked off before the dome and the observa-tion deck is scheduled to re-open to the public on Oct. 2.
The renovation was nec-essary because the exterior metal surfaces of the dome deteriorated and the cast iron that supported the dome rusted. The observation deck has been closed to the public since 2006, when a piece of iron fell.
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COMMUNITY
Tim Keller/The Chronicle-News
Shuler Theater to host annual free concert Music from Angel Fire presents its annual free concert at Raton’s Shuler Theater Tuesday, August 19, at 7 p.m. This year’s program features a pair of string quartets by Young Artist Composer-in-Residence Andrew Hsu, plus two concertos by Vivaldi and a saxophone performance by the Donald Sinta Quartet. Local foundations and businesses underwrite the event so that the public can enjoy the concert for free.
Photo courtesy of TSJC
2014 AYSO Soccer Camp finishes on a strong noteThe 2014 American Youth Soccer Organization Soccer Camp started Monday and finished up on Wednesday. This year’s camp was well attended and seemed to be as much fun for the coaches as it was for the young area players.
Photos courtesy of The Legacy
Elvis rocks the houseThe residents at The Legacy Assisted Living Facility in Trinidad recently enjoyed an afternoon on the patio with Elvis impersonator, Paul Hurtado and a cold refreshing snow cone. The King, in his blue suede shoes, serenaded the crowd with his renditions of Elvis songs. The crowd swooned and were thrilled as Elvis transported them back in time. Marcia Lackey, right and Veronica Mosher watched as Elvis brightened the summer afternoon.
Photo courtesy of TSJC
TSJC College for Kids program gives away backpacks College for Kids, a free six-week summer educational program sponsored by Trinidad State Junior College, gave each of the students in attendance a backpack loaded with school supplies at the end of the course. Items included were markers, crayons and notebooks — just in time for the start of the new school year.
ARCHERY
CPW offers intro to arrow building
LA JUNTA, Colo. - Colorado Parks and Wildlife is offering a one-day introduction to arrow building on Sat-urday, August 16, from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at the La Junta Senior Center. The La Junta Senior Center is located at 114 E. 2nd St. La Junta, CO 81050
The workshop, Arrow Building 101, will provide information for new and experienced archery en-thusiasts on how to build a complete arrow from start to finish. The pro-gram is free and open to the public.
“This workshop will give archers an opportunity to learn about the necessary
equipment and materials needed to build an arrow, in addition to techniques for custom decorative work and arrow tuning, “ said Mike Brown, District Wildlife Manager for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
Anyone interested in learning about all of the benefits of arrow building and how to repair or make their own arrows is encour-aged to attend.
For questions, further information, and to register for this workshop please contact
Colorado Parks and Wild-life District Wildlife Man-ager Mike Brown at (719)-980-0025.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages 42 state parks, more than 300 state wildlife areas, all of Colo-rado’s wildlife, and a vari-ety of outdoor recreation.
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