By Eric John MonsonNews EditorThe Chronicle-News

“What’s the first rule of gun safety? Every-body together now.”

“ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.”

“Second rule?”“ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger

until ready to shoot.”“And the third rule?” “ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded until it’s

ready to use.”It’s a common mantra taught and repeated

at every gun safety course. The only difference here might be the pitch of the voices repeating

it. Just moments ago those voices were whoop-ing it up with every clay pigeon they shattered at the Prator Gun Range trap station. Gun fire followed by glee.

“Way to go!”“Alright!”“Nice shooting, Bonnie!”You see, this shooting class is all women. “It’s really exciting to see all these women

out here and to see all these first-time shooters come out to the range. We’ve been working so hard over the last two years out here. This is awesome! I love it,” said Shelly King Saturday at the Women on Target event held at the Pra-tor Range and sponsored by Trinidad State Ju-nior College (TSJC) and the National Rifle As-sociation (NRA).

According to TSJC, over 20 women, most of them beginning shooters, signed up for the class. The NRA’s Women on Target Instruc-tional Shooting Clinics are designed to provide women with firearm safety training and the fundamentals of marksmanship in a hands-on learning environment that is both welcoming and supportive, says the NRA.

“Most people know the NRA through politi-

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AREA WEEKEND SPORTSFOOTBALLFRI: Trinidad @ La Junta 7 p.m.SAT: Hoehne @ Custer Co 1 p.m.SUN: Broncos vs. Chargers 6:25 p.m.VOLLEYBALLHoehne at Districts in La Junta game

times TBD

OCTOBER 23Trinidad Ambulance DistrictTHURSDAY (4:30 p.m.) Trinidad

Ambulance District Board of Directors regular meeting at the Trinidad Ambu-lance District Office, 939 Robinson Ave. Information: 719-846-6886.

Today’s Quote“Instruction does much,

but encouragement everything.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

OCTOBER 24-26Golden Harvest BazaarFRIDAY (8:30 a.m.) Come out to the

great annual bazaar and bake sale fund-raiser for the Sayre Senior Center, 1222 San Pedro. Complete with breakfast bur-ritos and plenty of Christmas decorations and other items for sale. Information: Anna Risley, 719-846-3336.

Haunted HouseFRIDAY & SUNDAY (6 p.m.) Friday’s

SPOOKTACULAR haunted house is for very scary thrills and chills and Sunday’s event is more for fraidy cats and little kids at the LA Co. Fairgrounds on N. Linden.

Autumn GatheringSATURDAY is RSVP DEADLINE:

Ladies and Gentlemen’s full English Tea to be held Nov. 1 (3 p.m.) at 212 E. Sec-ond St. Proceeds benefit the Trinidad Community Chorale. Information: 719-845-1625.

Community Men’s BreakfastSATURDAY (8 a.m.) Bring your sons

and join us for food, fellowship and fun every 4th Saturday at the First Christian Church, 402 E. First St. Information: Tom Berry, 719-846-0879 or 719-846-3843. Event is free—everyone is welcome.

Special Fundraiser BenefitSATURDAY (11 a.m.-2 p.m.) Enchi-

lada Dinner for Chris Samora, who is bat-tling cancer, will be held at the Elk’s Club, 120 S. Maple St. — includes door prizes, raffles, auction and music. Information: 719-680-1666 or 719-859-5784.

The Black & White BallSATURDAY (6-Midnight) The A.R.

Mitchell will host the annual Black & White Western Ball Dinner & Dance fundraiser with music by Whiskey Creek. Informa-tion: 719-846-4224.

PUBLIC SERVICETHE SAMARITAN CLINICHere to serve the under-insured and

non-insured community with free health care and low-cost lab work on the 1st and 3rd Tues. of each month from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at 413 E. Frost. Info: 719-846-3536.

Thrift Store BenefitDON’T MISS THIS: St. Vincent De

Paul’s annual Fall Benefit Sale with most items $1, including Levis, at its new loca-tion on Convent Street inside the Soup Kitchen Building, 308 W. Church Street. Info: Isabelle Gutierrez, 719-846-2009.

Kids Fun FestivalOCTOBER 31 (5-7 p.m.) Annual

“Trunk or Treat” event for the kids will be held at the Fisher’s Peak Community Church on Santa Fe Trail Drive. Come for popcorn, candy, music and a whole lot of fun! Information: Lana Roberts, 719-868-3375 or 719-251-1169.

SCRT Gala ReceptionNOVEMBER 1 (5:30 p.m.) A free

Grand Opening “Wine & Cheese” Recep-tion in celebration of the new mezzanine gallery at the Famous Theater will be held prior to the Jacquie Gipson / Wilson & McKee Concert. Info: 719-846-4765.

Area Essay ContestNOVEMBER 1 DEADLINE: The Trin-

idad VFW Post 984 will again be sponsor-ing the Voice of Democracy and Patriot Pen competitions for all local school stu-dents (grades 9-12). Information: Com-mander John Rios, 719-846-6094.

TIME CHANGENOVEMBER 2: Colorado Clocks

move backwards one hour.ELECTION DAYNOVEMBER 4: Ballots must be

turned in to the LA County Courthouse, 200 E. First St., by 7 p.m.

SUICIDE/CRISIS HOTLINES:*ADULT HOPE: 800-784-2433 *TEEN: 877-968-8454 *GLB-YOUTH: 866-488-7386*VET-2-VET: 877-838-2838“It is often in the darkest skies that we

see the brightest stars.” ABUSE HOTLINES:*Domestic Abuse Hotline: In Trini-

dad call 719-846-6665 (24-hours a day). In Walsenburg call: 719-738-0770. Na-tional Hotline: 1-800-790-SAFE (7233).

*Animal Abuse: Report animal abuse and dog/cock fighting at Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line: 720-913-7867.

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Weather WatChThursday: Sunny, with a high near

74. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light and variable in the after-

noon. Night: Clear, with a low around 45. East southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west southwest after mid-night.

Friday: Sunny, with a high near 80. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph be-coming light and variable. Night: Clear, with a low around 45. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west southwest

after midnight.Saturday: Sunny, with a high near

78. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. South southwest wind around 5 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 74. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. West southwest wind around 5 mph.

river CallPurgatoire River Call as of: 10/22/14. Hoehne ditch: Prior-ity # 9 --- Appropriation date: 01/01/1863.

Trinidad Reservoir Accounting:Release 0 AFInflow 68.94 AF -- 34.76 CFSEvaporation 6.94 AFContent 12,006 AFElevation 6,170.07Precipitation 0

Downstream River Call / High-land Canal: 04/01/1884.

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Ladies find their mark at Prator Gun Range

HEALTH & WELLNESSNew Nurse Practitioner Cappellucci delighted to make Trinidad homeBy Steve BlockThe Chronicle-News

Trinidad’s newest Nurse Prac-

titioner has a special reason to be happy that she’s now working at the rural health clinic that’s part of Mt. San Rafael Hospital. Lynne Cappellucci, NP-C, is married to Trinidad native Mike Cappellucci, so she feels right at home here.

She’ll be seeing mostly prima-ry care patients at the hospital’s clinic, working with patients who have an acute illness. Primary care nurses handle walk-in pa-tients who don’t feel well, but don’t have an appointment. She started her new job on Tuesday, coming off a five-year stint at a privately run prison in Olney Springs, while working part-time at clinics in La Junta and Rocky Ford. She’s also worked at medical facilities in the Phoenix, Arizona area and on the Navajo Indian Reservation.

Cappellucci’s a Michigan native

who earned her bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Michigan and her master’s degree, also with honors, from Graceland University in Missouri as a Fam-ily Nurse Practitioner. Face to face contact is her preferred method of helping patients.

“Just coming from a nursing perspective, you try to get down to their level and ask them what’s going on,” Cappellucci said. “You never want to talk down to anyone, so I try to get them to tell me what kind of problems they’re having.”

Trinidad and Las Animas County have many senior citizens, and she said there a few things that definitely help with senior pa-tients.

“I definitely think they should have a family member with them when they come in to the clinic, be-cause that really helps a lot,” she said. “It’s very important because

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Steve Block / Chronicle-NewsLynne Cappellucci, NP-C, is the new Nurse Practitioner working at the Mt. San Rafael Hospital Clinic.

Photos by Eric John Monson / Chronicle-NewsAbove (top), Sam Martin, center, takes some instruction, while Keith Gipson helps a women shooter on the Prator Gun Range located east of Trinidad.

New CD released by popular artists Willson & McKeeBy Scott MastroCorrespondentThe Chronicle-News

Ken Willson and Kim McKee are Willson & McKee. They live and play traditional, Irish and Scottish music, out of La Veta, and they’ve been doing music for 23 years.

Their new album— On this Days of Days— is traditional Brit-ish Isles, with the Americaniza-tion of acoustic guitar parts lean-ing the Irish and Scottish into bluegrass, traditional folk and

even the 1970s singer-songwriter style, harkening wisps and mists of Gordon Lightfoot, Don McLean and Cat Stevens.

Hinting Moody Blues vocally, Kishmul’s Galley opens the set, a song from the West Hebrides, an archipelago of islands off western Scotland.

Irish harp and accordion go strolling on the bogs, joyous-brooding in Fig Set, a guitar com-ing along, stealing the accordion from the harp and offering a fig for a kiss, a favorite piece from Will-son McKee’s Montana days.

Tinkerman’s Daughter opens like a women walking, toe to heel, head down along the river, reflect-ed in twilight water, her smitten suitor not able to sleep, going the next morning to ask for the hand,

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Photo courtesy of the artists

BEGINNING MARKSWOMEN

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cal things, but one of the NRA’s main things over the years has been education and there’s a whole group of women’s programs. So, this is a women’s only shooting clinic. We have some beginners; we have some with a little bit of experience, but mostly limited experience, or beginning shooters. And it was a shotgun event today. They also do handgun and rifle events and this is our first. And I believe it’s been very success-ful,” said Keith Gipson who was leading the day’s program. Gipson has taught at TSJC in their world famous gun-smithing pro-gram for over 26 years and is currently the Associate Dean for Career and Technical Education.

“It’s a safe way to get started,” continued Gipson, who’s wife Jacquie, a well-known lo-cal musician, was also a student in the class. “There’s a lot of women interested in shoot-ing, but they get in trouble if their husband, or boyfriend, or somebody like that tries to help them with shooting. There’s tension sometimes and this male ego that gets in the way. These Women on Target events are de-signed to be a safe place where women are surrounded by other beginners and there’s less tension and pressure. So, it makes for a safer environment for them to get started.”

King, an experienced shooter and also owner of C&S Outdoors on N. Commer-cial St. in Trinidad, echoed that sentiment; speaking for her gender. “Women tend to—for whatever reason—if there’s a man teaching them, they tend to clam up and be apprehensive. When it’s all women around them they tend to be more at ease. They tend to absorb more.”

It’s been well documented that even in grade school girls excel much more readily in subjects like math and science in gender-specific environments. “And women tend to do better learning in a group rather than through one-on-one instruction with a man. They’re more at ease in a herd,” said King with a laugh. “We have everybody from an 80-year-old women, a school teacher, a nurse, a couple of women from the college. There are all walks of life out here. They’re learning and they’re shooting and they’ll get themselves a shotgun soon and they’ll come out here and interact. It’s just great for someone like me to see this get started.”

Gipson, doing his best recruiting pitch, mentioned several times to the gathered la-dies that as this program goes on, they’d like to have more and more women instructors, until the program is completely run and at-

tended by women.There are already plans for some more

Women on Target events in the future. The classes, sponsored by Prator Range the TSJC are mini-seminars with three hours spent in a classroom and three hours spent on the range. Other shooting safety classes generally run about 16 hours and get more in depth, said Gipson. Currently, the college is working with the NRA to offer a full range of shooting and safety classes out at Prator Range. It’s expected that the next Women on Target shooting clinic will deal with hand-guns.

And that’s OK with Donna Haddow, who was a student Saturday, but is generally the TSJC President’s Assistant and the sum-mer NRA Program Coordinator. “I’m hop-ing they have one for hand guns. That’s my weak point. I’m still a little afraid of them. And I think if they do they’ll probably see a lot of these same women there.”

“We’re trying to add a lot more of these classes,” continued Haddow. “And I thought the more I learn the more I can help. I’m hoping this class gets some of the word out to women about how fun a class like this can be. Once you’ve been around firearms you

realize how much fun you can have with them and still be safe about it. At the college we’ve been trying to develop more teachers for these classes. Like Keith said, it would be nice to have a few women teachers. But these guys did a great job. They made every-one feel very comfortable.”

Oh, and by the way, Haddow—who ad-mits to having attended a couple of Satur-day’s trap shooting gatherings at Prator, but still describes herself as a beginning shoot-er—broke 8-of-10 clays during the class.

According to TSJC this first class filled up extremely fast—a big indicator of much more to come. “It filled up very fast,” said King. “It’s refreshing and exciting to finally get some women out here. This is what (the range) is for and this is a great hobby. It can be an expensive hobby, but it’s a good hob-by. It’s great therapy, cheap therapy. You get to blow stuff up.”

King works with many beginning shoot-ers through her store and through her con-nections at TSJC and Prator Gun Range.

“Most of the women that come into the store want self-defense. We try to steer them towards shotguns—if they’ve never handled a pistol before. We get them into a shotgun

that they’re comfortable with and we tend to bring them out here—especially first-time gun owners. We bring them out here and teach them and let them shoot. Then we try to get them out here Saturday afternoons from 1 p.m.- 4 p.m. and shoot trap with us. We have a big group and we have a really good time. It gets you more comfortable with a gun, gets you better at handling your gun and like I said its good therapy. It’s cheap therapy, too, at only $5 a round (25 clays).”

Student Sam Martin also had a great time Saturday. “I enjoyed everything about this class. It was just great being out here with all the girls. It was just a great experience and I’m so thankful to these guys who came out to teach us. You learned a little something from everyone. I’d really tell women not to be afraid to come out here and start shoot-ing. I’d recommend this to everybody.”

“It sure seemed like they were having a ball,” said Gipson. “And that’s what it’s all about— some good, safe, fun.”

For more information you can contact TSJC and Keith Gipson at 719-846-5577, Prator Gun Range at 719-680-7236, or Shelly King at C&S Outdoors at shelly@candsoutdoors.com.

ELECTIONS

Photo by Eric John Monson / The Chronicle-News

By Scott MastroCorrespondentThe Chronicle-News

Dashing and debonair, Grant Doherty, came walking along the Trinidad Round-Up parade route espousing an idea that is appealing, as well as gritty and formidable as an entreaty. “I’m Grant Doherty, and I’m running for Congress as an Indepen-dent,” meaning un-afilliated with any party, namely the Demo-crats and/or Republicans.

Many complain the two-party system is broken. Politicians are either in the beltway or they never get to spin the wheel and play the game. Along comes Grant Doherty, trying to break that broken merry-go-round.

About how he decided to attempt such a noble, and perhaps naive endeavor, Grant said, “I am not really sure when the idea to run really came to me. I haven’t been satisfied with the way our government has been run for many years now, but have al-ways had an interest in US History and politics. I considered it in 2010 and decided not to run in 2012. With how volatile this current congress has become, and with as ineffective as it is, I finally got tired enough to stand up and try to make difference.”

Citing the difference between an Independent and Unaffiliat-ed candidate, Grant said, “Technically I am not an Independent. I am running as an Unaffiliated, so I am completely Unaffiliated with any and all parties. The reason I decided to run as an Unaf-filiated was to separate myself from all parties, to give myself the best ability to do the job of representing the people of the 4th Congressional District.”

About where he stands on the issues, Grant opined, “There are three major issues that come to mind. First, and by far the most pressing, is our ineffective Congress. It’s time to get Con-gress working for the greater good of the entire population, and actually doing their job representing their constituents. The second issue is our national debt. It was an issue long before our current administration, however this administration has just exacerbated the issue. Democrats and Republicans talk about needing to either raise taxes, or cutting programs, but there’s a ton of wasteful spending in our federal government either way, and either way they try to solve the debt issue with raising taxes or cutting programs, they do not address the root issue of wasting taxpayer money. It is our hard-earned money. The government should use it as effectively and efficiently as pos-sible. As your representative, I will look at ways to make gov-ernment utilize tax money better, and not just try to patch the issue by cutting programs or raising your taxes. The final issue is our infrastructure. As an engineer, I’m potentially bias, but our infrastructure has long been neglected. Millions of dollars are lost every year due to poor roads. Thousands of gallons of

water are lost every year due to our leaking water infrastruc-ture. And it’s only a matter of time before our electrical grid can no longer handle the load being demanded of it.” Grant added, “The Government shutdown negatively affected our economy, the citizens, governmental employees, and also our Veterans while Congress continued to get paid for sub-par performance.”

With money being a big factor in campaigns, Grant paid compliments where due. “I have to give credit to all the people that have helped me with this campaign not only financially, but emotionally, and through their hard work volunteering. As an Unaffiliated, I definitely have a disadvantage financially, but what we don’t have in money we make up in hard work.”

About what is wrong with the US today, Grant offered, “Our congress is completely ineffective. It fails to address the con-cerns of its constituents. The country needs to get back to its roots, a government of, for, and by the people, giving less con-sideration to what the political parties have at stake. The coun-try was founded by people that put in the hard work to come together through the hard decisions to find common ground

to form this country. The role of our representatives is not to push their party agenda or that of special interest groups, but do their best to work on solutions to issues that help a vast ma-jority of the population, not just their party affiliates.”

As for a political role model, Grant revealed, “Abraham Lin-coln, because just as I am today, he grew tired of the political parties and the political games of his time which lead him to break off. He also found success by surrounding himself with people of various viewpoints from across the political spec-trum.”

About campaigning, he said, “It’s been great, getting down to the wire now with ballots being mailed out. It’s been good to get the opportunity to meet many of the great people from this state, and I’ve been fortunate to visit some really great places here in Colorado I’ve not been to before. The largest characteristic that I have found is just that people are really tired of Washington and party politics. Many are excited to seen an Unaffiliated in the race, as well as someone that is of a younger generation. It really is past time that we stop voting in party representatives and actually vote for someone that will represent the people of the state and district as they are intended to. I didn’t choose to run and to run as an Unaffiliated because I thought it was the easy way. I’m doing it because I feel it is the right way.”

For more information about Grant Doherty’s running for the 4th Congressional District seat in the US House of Repre-sentatives, phone 307-575-1280, or email grant.doherty@doherty-forushouse.com. The website is dohertyforushouse.com.

Photo courtesy of Grant DohertyGrant Doherty is running for the US House of Representatives seat in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.

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