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A proposal to build a pavilion in Avon’s Nottingham Park hit a speed bump yesterday when five different construction bids came in signifi-cantly over budget.

The pavilion – or stage – would host a variety of events, such as a weekly concert series, films, family activities and theatrical performances, which would deliver greater vibrancy to the park and generate revenue for town businesses, advocates say.

At a budget of $300,000, the town had hoped the project would have minimal cost to taxpayers – about $30,000 in initial design expenses.

Two thirds of the funding was to come from the Holy Cross Com-

munity Enhancement Fund, with the remainder covered by possible contributions from local banks, indi-viduals and businesses that support the project. Naming rights could also be sold, along with multiple smaller name tiles or blocks on the stage it-self.

The proposal allocated about $200,000 of $359,028 available in the Holy Cross fund, with the difference set aside for Iron kids

Bids in on Avon pavilionSupporters say stage would add vibrancy, attract business

September 17, 2010FRIDAY

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Skateboarding competition at Freedom Park tomorrow1st-annual ‘Oktoberhesh’ features street, bowl jams

Skateboarders will descend on The Edwards Freedom Park skate park for the in-augural Oktoberhesh street/bowl jam tomorrow.

The competition is set for 11 a.m. and will feature three age divisions in the street course jam and two in the bowl jam. Both competitions will have a kids 12 and under division and an adults open division. The street jam will have one added division for teens ages 13-17.

A kids and teens will be al-lowed to compete in the open divisions, as well, so a kids 12 or younger could actually en-ter into four of the five Okto-berhesh categories, assuming he or she paid separate entry

fees for each.“Some of these kids are re-

ally good at bowl and street skating, so they’re welcome to enter the open as well as the kids category,” said Barry Parent, owner of Vail Skate Supply, a skate shop in Lion-shead, which is sponsoring the event. “Theoretically, a 9-year-old kid could win four events.”

Vail Skate Supply will pro-vide the winnings: A high-quality skate deck for first place in any category. Local skate legend Dave Pleshaw will be among the group of judges, which hadn’t been fi-nalized as of this week.

The events will be held in a

Local skateboarder Will Berk goes big in the Edwards Free-dom Park skate park earlier this month. The park will host a skate competition tomorrow. Photo by Connor Walberg of CNWphoto.com. [See SKATE, page 22]

LEFT: A rendering of the Notting-ham Park Pavilion, as designed by Vail Architecture Group, would host a weekly concert series in Avon. [See PAVILION, page 22]

By Geoff MintzMountaineer Staff Writer

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[See THE UPDATE, page 10]

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A wide-ranging group of experts and scholars yes-terday argued that some form of high-speed rail should play a large part in Colorado’s transportation future.

But they acknowledged that no new high-speed rail line could be built for at least 10 years, a significant project would be very expensive and most lawmakers currently don’t have the political will to support a sub-stantial high-speed rail project.

The variety of experts yesterday spoke at the “In-tercity Passenger Rail Opportunities and Challenges For Colorado” forum held at the University of Denver campus. The event went on for more than five hours and included speakers like Ira Schreiber, president of the Colorado Rail Passenger Association, and Rod Di-ridon, executive director at the Mineta Transportation Institute.

Presenters continually argued that faster high-speed rail lines would be economically viable and sustainable for Colorado. Rocky Mountain Rail Authority Chair-man Harry Dale discussed the feasibility study his group did on the economic viability of high-speed rail lines along the I-25 and I-70 corridors. The study found that rail lines could be profitable if they have average speeds of at least 80 miles per hour.

“Speed equals feasibility,” he said.But the faster the rail line the more it costs. The start-

ing cost for a rail line that would go fast enough to be economically viable starts around $20 billion for both the I-70 and I-25 corridors, according to Dale. The study also found that rail lines would need to be built on both corridors to attract enough riders to make the project worthwhile.

Scholars at the Independence Institute, a Golden-based libertarian think tank, believe that the high price tag makes high-speed rail a bad idea for Colorado. The

Institute’s Randal O’Toole said this week that new transportation technologies are adopted when they’re cheaper, more convenient and faster than what is cur-rently around. He believes that the high-speed rail be-ing considered would not fulfill any of those require-ments, an that the state should focus on building more roads and increasing public transportation via busses.

But Dale and other high-speed rail advocates argue that the projected population growth for Denver and Colorado means that the state must think long term, and that a high speed rail line is a necessary avenue to take going forward. Dale maintains that a high-speed rail line could attract customers while helping the en-vironment.

“Nobody’s going to put a gun to your head and say, ‘You’re not driving today, you’re taking the train,” he said. “You need your free will to ride the train.”

Historically, American transportation builders build roads at about 8 percent over the original projected cost. Rail lines on average run about 40 percent over the original projected cost, according to O’Toole.

Additionally, the U.S. state with the one existing high-speed rail project in the works — California — has been marred by complaints that the passenger trains could be noisy and that ridership numbers would be significantly lower than originally predicted. One councilmember in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a proposal this month to state that the city has no confidence in the High Speed Rail Authority Board and to ask all government officials to stop funding the rail project. The councilmember said the taxpayers and community would have to pick up much of the cost for high-speed rail because the authority plans on building the train system “on the cheap.”

Dale expressed confidence at yesterday’s forum that the state could potentially reduce costs by 30 percent by building part of the rail tracks on site at a manu-

Talking high speed railIs it the way of the future or a costly idea?

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Fire district tackling 30 percent revenue shortfallHAZMAT services, administrative positions on the chopping block

With their proposed budget for 2011, the Board of Directors of the Eagle River Fire Protection District (ERFPD) hopes to curb the damage done by a struggling economy, but ultimately they expect funds to go dry if things continue on their pres-ent course.

The ERFPD is responsible for responding to emergencies in the Edwards, Avon, Minturn and Red Cliff areas.

“We’ve made some big cuts al-ready,” Fire Chief Charles Moore said, “but that ending fund balance will only sustain us for so long be-fore we’re just simply out of mon-ey.”

In late August, the ERFPD an-nounced that it was eliminating three senior administrative manage-ment positions, resulting in annual savings of $360,000. In a statement regarding the cuts, the ERFPD said that they were needed because of decreases in property tax revenue, which was also cited at the meeting

as the main reason for the ERFPD’s budget woes. The district said those cuts wouldn’t result in a decrease in services, as the positions mainly in-volve aspects of planning where the district worked with developers on matters of fire prevention.

“There are other areas of the county that may be able to provide the same service,” said department spokesperson John Hall.

The fire district presented the first draft of the budget to the board at their monthly meeting yesterday.

The budget was drafted with the expectation of a 30 percent decrease in revenue from 2010. In an attempt to retain a similar level of service, the district has cut positions, frozen

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Children’s advocates hosted a gubernatorial forum yesterday with Democratic candidate Mayor John Hickenlooper and Republican candidate Dan Maes during which the candidates touched upon direct issues related to children, as well as more general, controver-sial topics.

American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancre-do was invited to the event, but backed out to attend a fundraiser, according to KUSA-TV 9News reporter Adam Schrager who moderated the event, which was held at the Children’s Hospital in Aurora.

Schrager pushed the two candidates to go beyond topics just related to children, forcing the candidates to address such controversial issues as taxes, the state budget, federal funding, health care costs, safety net programs and teacher effectiveness, to name a few.

TaxesBoth candidates were asked how they feel about rais-

ing taxes, specifically for education, but also in gen-eral. Neither candidate said they were in favor of a tax increase.

Hickenlooper: “There is no appetite — and I’m not just talking about the rural areas and the eastern plains, I’m talking suburban metro Denver, suburban Fort Col-lins — there is no appetite to raise taxes right now.”

Maes: “If there are needs for tax increases, that de-mand is going to have to come from the community

that needs that increase, and I believe that anybody who can articulate a rational reason to increase taxes for whatever part of the educational process they see, it ultimately lands in the hands of Colorado voters,” said Maes, stating that he is a fan of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. “If the Colorado voters want more taxes put into K-12, then the voters will say, ‘yes,’ and if they don’t, they will say, ‘no,’ and I support that either way.”

Maes said that even as a fiscal conservative he can-not support two of three anti-tax proposals facing vot-ers on the November ballot. Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101 have been dubbed by many as the “Bad 3.” The three proposals aim to drastically cut tax-es by reducing government taxing and spending. The ballot initiatives cover vehicles taxes, property tax mill levies and government debt. Critics say the proposals will cripple government’s ability to provide core public services.

Maes did say that he is a supporter of Amendment 60, which would reverse a measure that froze property tax mill levies in local school districts. The property tax freeze was pushed by Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter, challenged, and then upheld by the Colorado Supreme Court. Maes criticized Democrats for pushing the prop-erty tax freeze.

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Race to the TopBoth candidates were asked to comment on the state’s

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Comprised of Pete Haugh and Ben Koelker from Hustle as well as Jimmy Vonesh slappin’ the base, this power trio lays it down a little heavier than Haugh and Koelker’s other projects. They play some originals, as well as covers from The Black Keys, Gov’t Mule, Hendrix, Live and STP. They’re funky with a hard rock edge. The party starts at 10 p.m. and is free. They’re celebrating the halfway date to St. Patty’s at Paddy’s.

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Whitewater Ramble at Saltwater Cowboy, Avon

With an upright base, WhiteWater Ramble is a string band by instrumentation only. No one in the band plays into microphones; everyone is plugged in. They’ve got a drummer, and their fiddle player uses a wah pedal,

which is probably how Hendrix would have done it. Based out of Fort Collins, the Colorado-bred quintet started off playing open mics and pickin’ around town. Six years later, they tour across the county, delivering powerful live performances at venues like Belly Up, Mishawaka and the Fox.

“We’ve got a grass influence and grass instruments, but we’re a lot closer to the Dead,” mandolin player Patrick Sites told the Mountaineer yesterday. “We re-ally jam it out with long improv sections. But we still have the grass influence and sometimes play three-minute longs songs too. We don’t like to lose the fact that good songs are good songs, and then there’s a time and a place to expand on things.” The show is free and starts at 10 p.m.

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US: Korea warship attack was ‘an act of war’

U.S. officials yesterday said they still weren’t sure what motivated an attack on a South Korean warship that was blamed on North Korea or who might succeed leader Kim Jong Il, calling Pyongyang a “black box” that U.S. intelligence has failed to crack.

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Gunman kills himself, mother at Baltimore hospital

A man who became distraught as he was being briefed on his mother’s condition by a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital pulled a gun and shot the doctor yes-terday, then killed his mother and himself in her room at the world-famous medical center, police said.

The doctor, who was wounded in the abdomen, was expected to survive.

Working-age poor at highest level since 1960sThe ranks of the working-age poor climbed to the

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Pope Benedict XVI waded into the hostile atmo-sphere yesterday of highly secular Britain, admitting the Catholic Church did not act decisively or quickly enough to remove priests who molested children in his strongest comments yet on the worldwide sex abuse crisis shaking his church.

In a visit unprecedented for the bitter opposition to his papacy, Benedict warned against “aggressive forms” of secularism. The German pope recalled how Britain had stood against “Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society.”

Benedict’s historic four-day state visit has been over-shadowed by disgust over the abuse scandal and indif-ference in Britain, where Catholics are a minority of 10 percent and endured centuries of bloody persecution and discrimination until the early 19th century.

Police: Texas mayor shot daughter well before selfThe mayor of the affluent Dallas suburb of Coppell

found dead in July had shot her 19-year-old daughter in the back of the head, then waited as long as a day before killing herself, according to documents released by police yesterday.

Coppell police said they were unable to determine

why 55-year-old Jayne Peters killed herself and her daughter, Corinne. But they believe she was still mourn-ing her husband, who died of cancer in 2008, and was in serious financial trouble.

GOP tries to bring tea party enthusiasm into fold

Can this political marriage survive? More than a half dozen tea party-backed candidates have captured Re-publican Senate nominations, and now the GOP is try-ing to bring their rebel supporters’ enthusiasm into the fold for November.

Republicans have little choice but to at least put on a show of unity: Alienating the antiestablishment tea party could undercut GOP efforts to post big Senate gains, perhaps even win control outright.

Money’s no object for billionaire in CA gov’s race

For Meg Whitman, there is at least one problem in government worth throwing money at: getting elected.

The billionaire former eBay CEO is using her personal fortune in her cam-paign for California governor like no other candidate in U.S. political history: $119 million so far on months of wall-to-wall advertising, private jets, dozens

of six-figure consultants and other expenses to spread her message of government austerity. It has helped her outdistance a millionaire Republican in the primary and reach a virtual dead heat with Democratic Attor-ney General Jerry Brown in recent polls. But it has also given Democrats a countermessage: that Whitman is trying to buy the office after decades of showing little interest in political issues.

TV correspondent Edwin Newman dies

NBC News says its long-time correspondent and lan-guage cop Edwin Newman has died. He was 91.

Newman did political and foreign reporting on various NBC News programs during 34 years with the network, which ended with his retire-ment in 1984. He also had a side career as the author of the best sellers “Strictly Speak-ing” and “A Civil Tongue,” which dealt with the proper use of the language.

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Four years ago, California earned accolades for adopting a law that would slash its greenhouse gas emissions and serve as a model for national climate change legislation.

With the state mired in a crippling recession, the law that once looked like a landmark achievement is coming under assault. The regulatory effort Gov. Ar-nold Schwarzenegger set in motion is facing a politi-cal backlash and could come to an abrupt halt in the months ahead.

A coalition of businesses, financed largely by three Texas oil companies, is funding a ballot petition that would delay the law until California’s current unem-ployment rate is cut by more than half.

House Dems divided over Obama tax plan

Congressional Democrats are confronting deep divi-sions within their nervous ranks over whether to sup-

port President Barack Obama’s plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans — or just punt the entire mat-ter until after voters go to the polls Nov. 2.

Democratic leaders committed to Obama’s proposal were hearing Wednesday from endangered lawmakers who fear that raising taxes on anyone in a weak econo-my could be politically lethal.

“Don’t raise taxes in a recession,” said Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D.

Seats on Boeing spaceships could go

up for saleBoeing and a space tourism company announced a

deal on Wednesday to sell tickets on rocket rides to the International Space Station. Now Boeing just has to build a spaceship.

Space Adventures Ltd. has already been selling seats aboard the Russian-built Soyuz spaceship. Its last pas-senger was Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, who paid $35 million for a 10-day trip.

Now, Boeing says Space Adventures will sell seats on

its planned CT-100, which would carry seven people. NASA has been encouraging aerospace companies like Boeing to develop spaceships that can carry govern-ment-sponsored astronauts as well as paying tourists to the space station. The idea is to spread around the cost of NASA missions while also boosting privately funded space efforts.

Seattle cartoonist goes into hiding on FBI adviceA Seattle cartoonist who became the target of a death

threat with a satirical piece called “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” has gone into hiding on the advice of the FBI.

Seattle Weekly editor-in-chief Mark D. Fefer an-nounced in Wednesday’s issue that Molly Norris’ com-ic would no longer appear in the paper.

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Susan Boyle’s dream: To sing for

the popeSusan Boyle has dreamed a dream and

is singing for the pope.Boyle, the unlikely pop star who shot

to global Internet fame after she sang on the TV show “Britain’s Got Talent,” was to reprise her winning performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Misera-bles” during a Mass yesterday celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI.

Boyle was also joining an 800-strong choir in singing hymns at Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park.

Merle Haggard cancels shows due to illness

Country music icon Merle Haggard has canceled the rest of his September schedule of shows due to illness.

Haggard publicist Tresa Redburn says Haggard has a chest infection and is do-ing well. The 73-year-old had surgery for lung cancer in 2008 but she says the illness is unrelated.

Haggard is touring in support of his latest album, “I Am What I Am,” his best selling record in decades.

He will receive Kennedy Center Hon-ors and will be inducted into the Califor-nia Hall of Fame in December.

Haggard has canceled 10 concert dates. It’s unclear when he’ll return to the road, but his website shows more dates sched-uled for November.

FedEx delivers int’l profits but cuts

US jobsFedEx Corp. indicated yesterday that

the global economic recovery remains uneven. While strength in international shipments is boosting net income, FedEx is cutting 1,700 jobs in its U.S. freight business to offset losses there.

The world’s second-largest package delivery company did raise its financial outlook after as it said first-quarter net income doubled. But projections for the second quarter and full year fell shy of Wall Street expectations. FedEx shares dropped almost 4 percent.

International air shipments have driv-en FedEx’s results for more than a year; international revenue rose 24 percent in the quarter ended Aug. 31. But while FedEx earned $380 million in the first quarter, the FedEx Freight segment lost $16 million and has been unprofitable for four straight quarters.

Yahoo to upgrade e-mail, search

results this fallYahoo Inc. wants to prove it has re-

gained its technological stride after years of meandering that have caused the Internet company to lose ground to its rivals.

The proof of Yahoo’s renewed vigor will come this fall when the company plans to unveil facelifts to its free e-mail service and search results, a top execu-tive told reporters yesterday.

Those upgrades will be major steps to-ward “bringing cool back to Yahoo,” said Blake Irving, who was hired as the com-pany’s chief products officer in April.

Congress wants tough stance with China over trade

Congress is pressuring the Obama ad-ministration to take a tougher stand with China over trade practices that they say have cost Americans millions of jobs.

Democrats and Republicans on com-mittees in the Senate and House told Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner yesterday that China is manipulating its currency. They said that and other prac-tices have led to a huge trade gap be-tween the two countries and job losses in the United States.

Geithner said the administration was ready to work with Congress on an ef-fective strategy. But he cautioned that the government should not take any ac-tion that would wind up hurting U.S. companies and businesses by triggering retaliation by China, an important trad-ing partner.

EU agrees to South Korea free

trade dealThe European Union agreed yesterday

to a free trade pact with South Korea that will slash billions of dollars in industrial and agricultural duties, despite some countries’ worries that the auto industry could be hurt by a flood of cheaper cars.

The deal - the first such pact between the EU and an Asian trading partner - will be signed at an EU-South Korea summit on Oct. 6 and come into force on July 1, 2011, said Belgian Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere, whose country holds the union’s rotating presidency.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. has of-ficially been handed down three more felony charges in domestic violence on Thursday in relation to an incident with ex-girlfriend Josie Harris.

Clark County District Attorney David Roger significantly raised the ante in the case alleging that Mayweather hit and threatened the life of his ex-girlfriend, Josie Har-ris, and threatened to beat two of their children during a pre-dawn argument at the woman’s home a week ago.

Mayweather, 33, is one of box-ing’s most recognizable figures, with a record of 41-0 and 25 knock-

outs. The welterweight goes by the nickname “Money” and earned more than $20 million in May in one fight in Las Vegas against “Sugar” Shane Mosley

Mayweather remained free on $3,000 bail pending arraignment Nov. 9 following his arrest last Friday on a felony grand larceny charge.

Authorities alleged he took mo-bile phones belonging to Harris and two of their children following the altercation. That felony charge carries a possible sentence of five years.

The new criminal complaint filed Thursday added two felony coer-

cion and one felony robbery charge along with one misdemeanor do-mestic battery and three misde-meanor harassment charges.

Convictions on all eight charges would increase the possible penalty Mayweather could face if convicted of all charges to 34 years.

Mayweather’s lawyer, Richard Wright, told The Associated Press he hadn’t seen the new complaint and declined immediate comment.

Wright has previously denied wrongdoing on Mayweather’s be-half.

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Pierre Bordry, the head of France’s anti-doping agen-cy, didn’t hesitate to say he will fully collaborate with a U.S. federal investigation into seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong.

Bordry said Thursday he will hand over Armstrong’s “B” samples from the 1999 Tour to Jeff Novitzky if the Food and Drug Administration agent makes an official request.

French sports daily L’Equipe reported in 2005 that Armstrong’s backup samples from 1999 contained EPO—a banned blood-boosting hormone. Armstrong was cleared by an independent panel.

Novitzky and a federal prosecutor have been han-dling an inquiry into allegations of organized doping in professional cycling, including whether Armstrong and members of his United States Postal Service team may have been involved. Six of Armstrong’s record seven Tour wins came with the team.

Speaking at a news conference about drug testing in France, Bordry said he is impressed by the work done by Novitzky and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in Arm-strong’s case.

“They can ask us anything, we will do it,” Bordry said. “We can either send them the samples or do the testing ourselves.”

After Armstrong announced his comeback to compe-tition two years ago, Bordry offered him the chance to retest his urine samples from the 1999 Tour in order to quash the doping allegations but the American rejected the offer.

Armstrong’s attorney, Mark Fabiani, said the issue of the 1999 samples is “more old news, in an inquiry that is already chock full of stale news.”

There was no reliable test for EPO in 1999, but urine

samples were preserved and analyzed later when the technology was available.

Bordry said he was not allowed to order a retest of the samples because of the eight-year statute of limita-tions in the World Anti-Doping Agency code.

Bordry, however, said U.S. federal prosecutors wouldn’t be subject to this rule as they are not working on a disciplinary case.

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The head of France’s anti-doping agency is ready to collaborate fully with a U.S. federal investiga-tion into seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong. AP Photo.

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Bush won’t admit guilt with Heisman forfeit

Reggie Bush said yesterday that his decision to relinquish his Heis-man Trophy should not be seen as an admission that he and his family improperly accepted cash and gifts from sports agents while he played for Southern Cal.

“It’s definitely not an admission of guilt. It’s me showing respect to the Heisman Trophy itself and to the people who came before me and the people coming after,” Bush said after practice with the New Orleans Saints.

“I just felt like it was the best thing to do, the most respectful thing to do because obviously I do respect the Heisman, I do respect all the things it stands for,” Bush said. “I felt just to kind of silence all the talk around

it, all the negativity around it. I felt like this would be the best decision to do right now so I could focus.”

Bush said he consulted family and close associates before making what he decision that some of those close to him opposed.

“My mom and dad didn’t want me to give it back,” Bush said. “That’s just the motherly and fatherly na-ture of parents. They understand it at the end of the day. They under-stand I’m a grown man and I’ve got to make my own decisions and this is a learning experience for me and anybody else coming after me. … All I can do is grow stronger from here.”

Allegations that Bush and his family had accepted improper ben-

efits while he was still an amateur athlete surfaced in 2006 and the NCAA began a years-long probe into the matter soon afterward.

The probe concluded this year and the NCAA in June cited USC for failing to monitor its athletes closely enough and punished the Trojans football program severely. The NCAA imposed a two-year postseason ban on USC, reduced scholarships and put the program on probation for four years.

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Cavendish wins Vuelta’s 18thMark Cavendish won

a hard-fought sprint fin-ish yesterday to take the 18th stage of the Spanish Vuelta, while Vincenzo Nibali retained the over-all lead.

The British rider fin-ished the 148.9-kilome-ter (92.5 mile) ride from Valladolid to Salamanca in 3 hours, 27 minutes, 11 seconds. Juan Jose Haedo of Argentina was second and Manuel Car-doso of Portugal was third, with both given the same time as Cavendish.

“It’s me that crosses the line first, but it’s the guys that put me there, a super bunch of eight guys that kept them all at bay,” Cavendish said, paying tribute to his Team HTC-Columbia teammates.

Nibali leads overall by 38 seconds ahead of sec-ond-place Ezequiel Mos-quera with a total time of 74 hours, 47 minutes, 6 seconds before today’s 231.2-kilometer (143.7 mile) leg from Piedrahita to Toledo.

“It was a very danger-ous stage because of the high side winds which caused difficult con-ditions in the leading pack,” Nibali said.

The 21-stage Vuelta finishes on Sunday.

Spanish Vuelta 18th Stage1. Mark Cavendish, Britain, Team HTC-Columbia, 3 hours, 27 minutes, 11 seconds2. Juan Jose Haedo, Argentina, Saxo Bank, same time.3. Manuel Cardoso, Portugal, Footon-Servetto, same time.4. Tyler Farrar, United States, Garmin-Slipstream, same time.5. Samuel Dumoulin, France, Cofidis, same time.6. Robert Forster, Germany, Team Milram, same time.7. Enrique Mata, Spain, Footon-Servetto, same time.8. Greg van Avermaet, Belgium, Omega Pharma-Lotto, same time.9. Wouter Weylandt, Belgium, Quick Step, same time.10. Danilo Hondo, Germany, Lampre-Farnese Vini, same time.

Overall Standings1. Vincenzo Nibali, Italy, Liquigas-Doimo, 74 hours, 47 minutes, 6 seconds.2. Ezequiel Mosquera, Spain, Xacobeo Galicia, 38 seconds behind.3. Peter Velilts, Slovakia, HTC-Columbia, 1:59.4. Frank Schleck, Luxembourg, Team Saxo Bank, 3:43.5. Joaquin Rodriguez, Spain, Team Katusha, 3:48.6. Xavier Tondo, Spain, Cervelo, 3:48.7. Thomas Danielson, United States, Garmin-Slipstream, 3:58.8. Nicholas Roche, Ireland, AG2R La Mondiale, 4:02.9. Carlos Sastre, Spain, Cervelo, 4:16.10. Luis Leon Sanchez, Spain, Caisse d’Epargne, 5:42.

Mark Cavendish from Britain, of Team HTC-Columbia, holds up his arm after winning the 13th stage of Spanish Vuelta yesterday. The Vuelta ends in Madrid on Sunday. AP photo.

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Mayweather wanted to evict her from the house, which he owns, Harris said.

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Under Nevada law, coercion is when a person compels or forces someone to do something they have a legal right to do.

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Mayweather threatened Harris and the two children, and the battery charge al-leges Mayweather grabbed Harris by her hair, hit her and twisted her arm.

The couple had three children, now ages 7 to 10, during what Harris char-acterized for authorities as a 15-year relationship. She said she lived with

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($20,000), Avon Rec. Center light replacement ($40,000) and uniden-tified use ($20,000). There would be a remaining balance of $79,028 in the fund.

The proposed stage would be built along the soccer field, adjacent to north side of the Avon Municipal Building and would not cause any significant disturbances to the park.

“It would be huge for the town,” Councilman Dave Dantas said. “Everyone in Avon is going east, west and south of Beaver Creek for events. We could have at least one night per week with something going on in the park, which would bring vibrancy to the area and create extra business in the town core.”

The town council originally add-

ed the project to the budget last Au-gust, and Vail Architecture Group (VAG) was hired to design the stage within the allocated budget. Dantas and others were hoping to break ground this fall, but with yester-day’s news, it’s looking like it’ll be a spring start at best. The pavilion’s designer could not be reached for comment because she does not have a cell phone, the Mountaineer was told by a VAG receptionist.

The project would be a great way to attract people from within and outside the valley to Avon, local business owners say.

“I think it’s a fantastic idea,” Bob’s Place owner Chris Doyle said. “It’s just what Avon needs. We are tied to Beaver Creek in the win-

tertime, but outside of that, there’s not a lot of activity in that area. So I really hope they do it.”

Doyle added the pavilion is something that will last over time and likely benefit the town with increased tax revenue from busi-nesses.

“The Vail series (Hot Summer Nights) is obviously great; Beaver Creek has the Vilar, and Eagle’s got weekly shows. There’s something going on in all these communities, but Avon just hasn’t done anything yet,” he said.

The Avon Town Council will re-view the bids and discuss possibili-ties for moving forward at its next meeting on September 28.

standard “jam” format, which means each person will have a set amount of time to work the features on the street course. In the bowl jam, competitors will ride for a couple of minutes or until they come off their board.

Parent says while they’re hoping some of the best skaters from the Vail Valley and beyond will show up, the event will be a lot of fun for skateboarders of all abilities.

It will be spectator friendly, as well.“It should be a good time for anyone who enjoys the

sport,” said Parent. “We’re expecting it to be a great time and hoping for some more good weather.”

The event is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. and run all afternoon.

Register for the event at the WECMRD fieldhouse today or tomorrow starting at 10:30 a.m.

salaries, cut line items and delayed new capitol acquisitions, Moore said at the meeting. Those staff cuts have focused primarily on senior staff, allowing the district to pre-serve the most positions possible, said the district’s treasurer, Jennifer Cartmell-Hays, who ran the meet-ing in the absence of Chairman Ed O’Brien.

The ERFPD plans to ramp down their HAZMAT readiness, preparing firefighters for those scenarios that are common in the district – namely petroleum spills – and taking focus off unlikely or “exotic” scenarios like a terrorist attack.

Even with the cuts, the district will operate at a loss this year, and only has enough money in its coffers to operate for two or three more years with the current revenue

steam, Moore said.This prediction assumes that three

ballot initiatives, Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101, are not approved in November.

The initiatives would drastically reduce taxes and fees collected by the state and local governments and hamper governments’ ability to use debt to finance future projects. The passage of the initiatives would be disastrous for the district, Moore said.

Currently, the district includes five operational fire stations. The combined effect of the passage of the initiatives and the already re-duced revenue from low property tax collections could cause the ER-FPD to shut down operations in as many as four of the stations, board members said.

“If we have this double whammy our service is a tenth,” said ERFPD Director Clark Shivley.

In case the initiatives do pass, the 2011 budget includes a line item al-locating enough funds to craft a bal-lot item for the 2011 election asking voters to reconsider if they would want the initiatives to apply to the fire district.

“Let’s hope we don’t need it,” Cartmell-Hays said. “And how tragic if it gets that far.” If the three initiatives are passed, she said it would probably be because voters failed to fully understand the effects that they would have on their com-munities.

This was the first viewing of the budget by the board, which will not revisit the issue until their regular meeting in October.

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two rounds of the competition, losing in both rounds. In the first round, Colorado was competing for $377 million; the second round was for $175 million.

Hickenlooper expressed “disappointment” for losing the competition, but said the state must not stop trying to find additional resources for education: “We don’t stop,” he said. “We’ll go out and replace that money from, whether it’s foundations or from businesses, it is too important for us to sit back on our hands. We will replace that money and continue those efforts.”

Republicans generally opposed the competition, ar-guing that it played into the hands of unions and put the state at the mercy of the federal government. Maes echoed some of those thoughts yesterday: “We should not be chasing federal funds and Race to the Top funds — there’s too many strings attached, there’s too many requirements to achieve them. We should be finding our own revenue sources within the state, we should be retaining as much of our revenue in the state rather than sending it to Washington and then trying to get it back from Washington once we sent it to them, and that comes with standing up to Washington and saying, ‘You’re not going to bribe us with funds anymore so we can do things the way you want us to do it.’”

Both candidates, however, acknowledged that the competition likely inspired passage of Senate Bill 191 this year, which created one of the toughest teacher

effectiveness laws in the country, requiring teachers to prove their worth in proving that they deserve and should be allowed to retain tenure.

Health careBoth candidates were asked how they plan on reduc-

ing health care costs, how they feel about a lawsuit by the attorney general’s office seeking to exempt Colora-do from federal health reform, and how they feel about a ballot initiative asking voters to exempt Colorado from health care insurance mandates.

On reducing health care costs, Maes suggested that the state participate in a competitive multi-state insur-ance pool, similar to how people purchase car insur-ance online.

“I don’t think the government should be playing fa-vorites in what our insurance policy should look like, and I can be very clear that anything that draws down ObamaCare into the State of Colorado, I would abso-lutely oppose,” said Maes.

Hickenlooper acknowledged that there are aspects of the health care overhaul that he does not approve of, even as a Democrat.

“I’m not sure all of that is what we need,” he said of the more than 2,500 pages of federal legislation. “I’ve already seen a number of examples as I go around the state of people pointing out incentives that are going to

get doctors to retire prematurely,” said Hickenlooper.The Denver mayor, however, said he does not sup-

port a multi-state lawsuit Republican Attorney General John Suthers has entered Colorado into that would ex-empt the state from major portions of the health care overhaul. Hickenlooper said he also does not support a ballot initiative by libertarian Jon Caldara who is seek-ing to exempt Colorado from the requirement to carry insurance or pay a penalty.

Maes said he supports the lawsuit and Amendment 63, Caldara’s initiative.

BudgetBoth candidates addressed the state budget, includ-

ing issues such as funding safety-net programs, K-12 education, early childhood education, and funding Medicaid and the Child Health Plan Plus programs, to name a few budgetary issues discussed.

Maes said government needs to be reduced, and that cuts need to be made to most departments, especially the executive branch.

Hickenlooper spoke of “leverage” and finding the greatest results for the state’s investment.

“How do we begin to prioritize that?” Hickenlooper asked. “Because we’re not going to be able to do ev-erything.”

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facturing center and then sending it out to the site. But he implied that manufac-turing the module sections on site at a manufacturing center would not have any negative effect on the final rail line.

CDOT plan going forwardYesterday’s forum comes after the

Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) last week argued via its newest

study on proposed improvements to the I-70 mountain corridor that an advanced guideway system such as an elevated, high-speed rail line should play a central part in relieving traffic congestion for the area in the future.

Several high-profile employees from CDOT, including the I-70 Mountain Corridor Environmental Manager, par-ticipated in a panel yesterday on plan-

ning for intercity passenger rail.CDOT had previously eliminated the

idea of implementing an advanced guide-way system because they originally put a $4 billion cap on potential improve-ments to the I-70 corridor. But following an outcry from stakeholders, CDOT em-barked on a “lengthy process” to come to an agreement with the stakeholders that resulted in the recommendation of

an advanced guideway system.CDOT acknowledged that they cur-

rently don’t have nearly enough money to fund such a project. It’s critical that some action is taken on the corridor, though, since weekend travel time is ex-pected to be approximately three times higher by 2035 than it is today.

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