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Carbondale’s weekly, non-profit newspaper Volume 3, Number 16 | June 2, 2011

Roaring Fork High School graduated 63 students during a ceremony in the school gym on May 28. As a group, the students were offered $2.08 million in scholarships fromschools where they were accepted and from local organizations. For more graduation pics, please turn to pages 12-13. Photo by Jane Bachrach

By Lynn BurtonSopris Sun Staff Writer

arbondale’s comprehensive plan pro-cess turned contentious at Tuesdaynight’s trustees meeting as it took

two votes – both 4-3 – to appoint a citizenworking group to help facilitate efforts toproduce a new 10-year land-use document.

At issue was whether trustees should in-clude Larry Green and Bill Lamont in a work-ing group that will serve as a liaison betweenRPI Consulting, town staffers and residents toproduce a new comprehensive plan.

After the first 4-3 vote, a perturbed MayorStacey Bernot asked each trustee who voted

“no” on the motion to approve the workinggroup why they had done so.

“What’s the problem here?” said Bernot,who served on the committee that drew up theproposed working group.“What’s the issue?”

Carbondale is five months into whattrustees expect will be a year-long process ofdrafting a new comprehensive plan. An im-portant part of that process, said RPI principalGabe Preston in a memo, will be the workinggroup’s role.“The working group is responsi-ble for establishing direction,written revisionsto elements of the plan, and for reviewingdraft materials prepared by the community,staff and consultants,” the memo stated.

“The working group is the glue that

holds it all together,” Preston said on Tues-day night.

Early in the discussion, trustee Frosty Mer-riott said,“In my opinion, they (Green and La-mont) are polarizing figures in that group.”

Merriott said if the town has some “po-larizing figures” from the pro-developmentside such as Green and Lamont, it needs some“polarizing figures” such as former townmanager Tom Baker and former trustee RussCriswell from the other side.

“This (the proposed list) appears to be onesided,”he said. (For the complete list, see thisarticle’s sidebar on page 17).

The working group members were nomi-nated by a committee comprised of Bernot

and trustee Elizabeth Murphy, P&Z mem-bers Gavin Brooke and Ben Bohmfalk, andtown planner Janet Buck.

After more than a half-hour of discussiononTuesday night, the first motion to approvethe working group called for replacing Lam-ont with a nominee who didn’t make the finallist (Martha Cochran) and adding a 19thmember – Colin Laird.Voting no were: JohnFoulkrod, Elizabeth Murphy, Pam Zentmyerand Ed Cortez. Voting yes were: John Hoff-mann, Merriott and Bernot.

After several more minutes of sometimesheated debate, a motion was made to ap-prove the working group as originally pre-

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COMPREHENSIVE PLAN page 16

What a turnoutDear Editor:

I was stunned. With everything going onlast Thursday night – the opening of PAC3,the Watershed meeting and several othermeetings around town – there was still apacked room at the Third Street Center ofpeople passionate about growing, eating andselling local food.

The reasons were clear: greater nutrition,less impact on the environment, more con-nection to each other and to the land. Localfood is a win-win-win.

It took countless hours and many con-versations to put together the Slow is theNew Fast series, and I am so grateful to theco-sponsors who helped make it possible.The key sponsor, support system, and con-spirator was Rita Marsh of Davi Nikent.Thank you Rita!

Also, thanks to Amoré Realty, Kay Brun-nier, the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce,the Carbondale Council on Arts and Hu-manities, Carbondale Community Food Co-op, Eco-Goddess, Carbondale Moms forMoms, KDNK, GreenWeaver, ConsciousGlobal Leadership, Slow Food Roaring Fork,

Solar Energy International, Sopris Sun, Sus-tainable Settings, and 3/50 Buy Local project(a Roaring Fork Leadership team.)

See you at the community gardens, farm-ers’ markets, school gardens, orchards, foodco-op, local farms and town hall this summer.

Gwen GarcelonHighLife UnlimitedCarbondale

No respect for CarbondaleDear Editor:

Why – I would like to know– has Car-bondale become the Rodney Dangerfield ofthe Roaring Fork Valley?

We have a gravel pit near Aspen Glen.Wehave gravel pits on both sides of CrystalSprings Road. We dodged a bullet with theso-called waste transfer station (despite ourlong-time appellation as“downvalley trash”).Now the huge, international Lafarge com-pany (headquartered in Paris) wants to wrapthings up in its existing site (itself an eyesoreand a blight on the landscape) and open abrand new, 64-acre gravel pit which, joinedwith the expanding WSA gravel operation,would create a 1.6 mile long open pit east of

Carbondale.We don’t get no respect!The colorful welcoming banners in town

proclaim Carbondale is“a great place to be.”Perhaps they should read,“a great place to be... exploited.”

The Garfield County commissioners havealready approved an expansion of the exist-ing Western Slope Aggregates pit. Now, onJune 13, they will be hearing the applicationfrom Lafarge, and if that application is ap-proved, Carbondale can boast a 1.6 mile longscar in the earth that will produce constantnoise,dust,heavy truck traffic, and in the caseof Lafarge, an asphalt plant.

Drive (or better yet, ride your bike!) easton Highway 82 about 1.8 miles from theCarbondale stoplight, pull over and take agood long look at the giant hole in the earththat is Lafarge. Take pictures! Send them toyour out-of-town friends to show them whatwe are allowing to happen here.

We have all driven past it so many times,we may not even notice it any more. I urgeyou to take a moment and look at it long andhard. It is an affront to everything our townholds itself to represent: the beauty of nature,respect for our environment, love of the out-doors, clean air, an escape from corporategreed.We pride ourselves on our communityarts, our “bike friendly” town, our commu-nity gardens, our leadership in solar en-ergy, the almost unlimited recreationalopportunities, and especially our sense of civic

and environmental responsibility. Havinglived here for almost 13 years, I have a senseof Carbondale as being rather self-congratu-latory, and in most cases, rightly so. But ourresponsibility doesn’t end at the city limits,and what goes on just a couple of miles fromtown should be as important to all of us aswhat goes on in the town itself.

Can you imagine the outrage if this gravelpit were about to open two miles west of itspresent site? Say, the parking lot for Red Hillhikers and bikers? Or maybe along the river,at the outskirts of town? The local citizenswould be up in arms, complete with pitch-forks and flaming torches! So why should thegood people of Carbondale be indifferent tothe desecration of their valley just a couple ofmiles up the road?

It is so easy to look the other way, and it isso hard to fight the big fights.We are all here

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Amy Fuentes (reading TheSopris Sun) celebrated her10th birthday during theCrystal River ElementarySchool’s fourth gradecamping trip in late May.The 74 students hiked,swam, cooked out, playedaround and had a greattime. Photo by Lorri Knaus

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Sylvester heads out; Burton continues as Sopris Sun editorSopris Sun Staff Report

Sopris Sun editor Terray Sylvester hasresigned from the newspaper and isheaded to Nepal to pursue educationaland other opportunities. Lynn Burton willcontinue in his role as editor, The SoprisSun board announced this week.

“Lynn Burton has covered Carbon-dale, Basalt and Glenwood Springs as anewspaper editor, reporter and photogra-pher since the early 1980s,” The SoprisSun board stated this week. “He brings awealth of newspaper experience to the jobin addition to a historical perspectiveabout events and happenings in the Roar-

ing Fork Valley.”Burton and Sylvester have shared edi-

torial duties since January, when Sylvesterreturned from Tibet following a five-month sabbatical from the Sun.

This time around, “I’ll be traveling forthe rest of the summer, studying Tibetanfor two months in Kathmandu and thenI’ll potentially help guide a trek or two inthe mountains,”Sylvester said.“After that,I may return to the U.S., although I’ll betrying my darnedest to figure out a way tolinger longer in Asia. I’ll certainly be read-ing e-editions of the Sun, and I imaginesome of the sweltering monsoon days will

leave me dreaming of taking a dip in theCrystal.”

A group of residents formed The SoprisSun as a non-profit newspaper in early2009, after Colorado Mountain NewsMedia (CMNM) closed Carbondale’s 35-year-old weekly newspaper (The ValleyJournal) in December 2008. Trina Ortegaserved as the founding editor to get thepaper off the ground.

Burton praised The Sopris Sunfounders for giving Carbondale what theysaid every town needs – a newspaper.

“And if every town needs a newspaperto report its goings on, then Carbondale

really needs a newspaper,” Burton said.“Because there’s a lot going on here.”

Burton said he looks forward to work-ing with a small but talented staff that in-cludes layout/graphic designer TerriRitchie, advertising sales representativeDina Drinkhouse, photographer/writerJane Bachrach, “paper boy” CameronWiggin and Web master Will Grandbois.

The Sopris Sun is located at the end of“the long hall” in the Third Street Center.The newspaper also has distribution dropsin Glenwood Springs, El Jebel, Basalt andRedstone. To contact the newsroom, e-mail [email protected].

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THE SOPRIS SUN • JUNE 2, 2011 • 3

Sun insert mapsout Studio TourBy Lynn BurtonSopris Sun Staff Writer

(Note: June’s First Friday extravaganzataxes this reporter’s ability to sum up theevent in a lead paragraph that runs shorterthan a News Brief.

Or two.That’s because three disparate strands of

the local art world intertwine themselves insuch a way that journalistic conventionsare rendered nearly useless for a traditionallead paragraph.

Confused?Read on because by the end of the fourth

or fifth paragraph you’ll either get it, or turnthe page and head for Cop Shop.

Anyway, here goes).First Friday flows into regular Saturday,

followed by the rest of the year thanks to thefollowing organizations:

• Carbondale Community School• Carbondale Council on Arts

and Humanities• Carbondale Public Art Commission.

Events include:•A reception on June 3 hosted by the Car-

bondale Council on Arts and Humanities attheThird Street Center that features artists in-cluded in the Carbondale Community SchoolStudio Tour.

•The StudioTour itself,which takes placeup and down the Roaring Fork Valley onJune 4.

• Installation of the Carbondale PublicArtCommission’s sculptures for the year-longArtaRound Town exhibit.

First (Friday) things first.The reception forStudio Tour artists and gallery exhibit runsfrom 6 to 9 p.m. at the Third Street Center.Live music will be provided by SlightlyWhite

and the Hell Roaring String Band. There’llalso be a live and silent auction, spirits andlight fare.

The Carbondale Community School Stu-dio Tour is the self-guided variety and takesplace from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Saturday.Artistsand studios from Glenwood Springs to OldSnowmass will open their doors and inviteeveryone in for chat and chance to see howthey do their thing.

Artists include: Charmaine Locke, SoozieLindbloom, Staci Dickerson, James Surls,Aricia Matesanz de las Heras, Lee EdwardMulcahey, Wewer Keohane and Steve Keo-hane, Lisa Singer, Kris Cox, David Koffend,Ana Ferrara and Jim Ferrara,Harvey Paparo,Nancy Lovendahl, Travis Fulton, JosephFidance, Lynda Helmich, Nicolette Tous-saint, Jill Sabella, Carol Murphy/Dara Barth/Diane Quarles, Andy Taylor, Herb Seymour,Michael Raaum, Trudi Peet, Mike Otte,Barbara E. Courtney, Richard Carter, EvelynCabrera, Dawn Blain, Glen Rappaport, Sheri

Gaynor/George Stranahan,Dede Isgrig,GerryKnapp,William Park, JanineWhiterell/DennaJackson, Summers Moore, Martin Garfinkle,Bob Boyland, Bob Johnson, David Ras-mussen, Marty Schlein, Michelle Zinanti,Diane Kenney, Studio for Arts + Works(S.A.W.), Laura Smith, Gallery 809, FeleciaTrevor Gallo, Dawn Ogren, Jill Scher, JaneOgden, Barry Sheehan and Mary Matchael.

“This is a chance to chat with artists aboutthe creative process and purchase artworks di-rectly from them,”said a tour spokeswoman.

The tour is a fund-raiser for the Carbon-dale Community School’s arts curriculum.“With public school arts programs being gut-ted or eliminated nationwide as a result ofbudget cuts, the 2011 Roaring Fork StudioTour is on a campaign to raise awareness ofthe importance of arts education for chil-dren,” the spokeswoman continued.

“Art opens up the brain to all kinds oflearning,” said Ro Mead, executive director

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Members of American LegionPost 100 and the Boy Scouts

paid tribute to those who diedserving their country during a

Memorial Day service at WhiteHill Cemetery on Monday. Afterthe 21-gun salute, “Taps” and aprayer, the procession continued

to Weaver Cemetery and con-cluded with the remembrance at

Veteran’s Bridge on Highway133. Photo by Lynn Burton

STUDIO TOUR page 16

Town manager finalist withdrawsChris LeMay, one of the six final candi-

dates for the Carbondale town managerposition has withdrawn from the inter-views, according to a press release. He hastaken a position with another Coloradomunicipality as town manager.

Shane Hale, the first alternate, has beenselected to interview for the position.Hale is currently the town manager inGrand Lake, Colorado, where he hasserved for the past seven years. He alsoserved as assistant town manager for Pon-cha Springs, Colorado.

He earned a BS in mass communicationswith a double minor in philosophy andmarketing from the University of SouthernColorado, and a MA in political sciencewith an emphasis in public policy adminis-tration from the University of Colorado. In2010, he completed the International CityManagers Association Emerging LeadersDevelopment Program.

On a related note, a public reception fortown manager candidates will take placefrom 5 to 7 p.m. on June 3 at town hall.

RFPC reviews recreation centerThe Roaring Fork Planning Commis-

sion will review the Mid Valley Recreation

Center application at 2:30 p.m. June 2 atthe Eagle County Building in El Jebel.

For more information, go to midval-leyrecreationcenter.com or call 963-6030.

Clean Energy board elects officersThe Garfield County Clean Energy Ad-

visory Board elected Greg Russi as chair-man to fill the seat vacated by ShelleyKaup, and Carbondale’s Ed Cortez to fillRussi’s position.

The board is made up of representativesfrom the nine local Garfield County govern-ment partners in Garfield Clean Energy.Theboard meets on the second Wednesday ofeach month, alternating between Rifle andGlenwood Springs. The public is welcome.To find out more about Garfield CountyClean Energy (CLEER) call 704-9200.

BLM council meetsThe Bureau of Land Management’s

Northwest Colorado Resource AdvisoryCouncil meets in Kremmling on June 9.

The meeting takes place from 8 a.m. to3 p.m., with public comment at 10 a.m.and 2 p.m. at the Allington Inn and Suites,215 W. Central Ave. Agenda topics includethe 14-day camping rule.

For details, call 876-9008.

GarCo commission holds hearingThe Garfield County commissioners

hold a hearing to determine district bound-aries at the county courthouse in GlenwoodSprings on June 20.A map showing the cur-rent county commission district boundariesis available at the Garfield County Court-house and also on the county’s Web site atgarfieldcounty.com. Information is alsoavailable from Garfield County Clerk and

Recorder Jean Alberico at 945-2377 ext.1820 or [email protected].

Citizens may make comments before thehearing at 109 Eighth St., Suite 200, Glen-wood Springs, CO 81601 or at Alberico’s e-mail address.

New district lines are required every 10years to ensure that each of the three countycommissioner districts are as equal as possi-ble, according to a press release.

News BriefsTheWeekly News Brief The Sopris Sun and the KDNK news departments teamup to discuss recent news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond. Catch the Briefon KDNK between 7:30 and 8 a.m. and between 5:30 and 6 p.m. on Thursdays.

Cop ShopThe following events are drawn from incident reports of the Carbondale Police Dept.

SATURDAY May 21 At 9 p.m., a woman called police to say she was locked in a bath-room in the 400 block of Main Street.When police arrived she was out of the bathroom,but intoxicated. Police gave her a ride home.

SUNDAY May 22 At 3:14 a.m. police were dispatched to a domestic violence incident inprogress on Highway 133. They arrested a 21-year-old female on counts of third degreeassault, resisting arrest and obstruction. She was taken to jail.

MONDAY May 23 At 5:42 p.m. police contacted a group of juveniles who were smok-ing marijuana in Sopris Park. Police confiscated their pot pipe and gave them a warning.

TUESDAY May 24 At 3:42 p.m. on Meadowood, someone called to report a group ofmales were“smoking and peeing.”Police contacted the group of juveniles. One admittedhe was about to pee but didn’t because a female saw him. Officers gave them a warning.

THURSDAY May 26At 2:35 p.m.police received a report from a man who was with hisdog at the Carbondale Nature Park the previous night. The dog started barking uncon-trollably at something behind a woodpile near the parking lot.The man then heard a lowgrowling sound.Police said there have been reports of bear hanging around the north endof Carbondale.They contacted the Colorado Division of Wildlife and Carbondale Parksand Recreation Department.


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Bruce Cockburn sounded like Bruce Cockburn.The MarchFourth Marching Band sounded sharp.And there no flats to be heard as PAC3 passed a

real-time sound check with stellar scores during itsinaugural performances on May 29 and May 30.

“I’m blown away (at the acoustics),” said JeffDickinson at the Cockburn show on Sunday night.“This was an old gym.”

PAC3 (aka the Performing Art Center at ThirdStreet) was born a gym at the Carbondale Elemen-tary School in the early 1990s but has been given anew life as a performance hall, thanks to JoshBehrman and Amy Kimberly, who have teamed tobring Belly Up and Wheeler Opera House-stylebands to Carbondale through their new non-profitgroup Music for the Mountains.

PAC3 is one of the final pieces to be put togetherat the Third Street Center, which itself is the oldCarbondale Elementary School and is now a non-profit center. The big question for the public goinginto Cockburn’s show was whether the acousticswould produce a sound worth buying tickets for.

Cockburn, playing acoustic guitar with a vio-linist and percussion, answered the folky end of thequestion when his sound came through as clear asone of his 30 CDs. Actually, inklings of goodacoustics started when violinist Jenny Scheinmanplucked her fiddle one string at a time John Hart-ford style, and the notes rang true from the front ofthe room to the back.

Dickinson, himself a mandolin player, plantedhimself at every corner of the room and in the veryback to check out the Cockburn sound.“This is re-

ally impressive,”he said before scooting back to thefront of the stage.

The MarchFourth Marching Band put PAC3 tothe test the following night.This Portland, Oregon-based consortium brought at least a dozen horns,drums, percussion instruments and bass guitar totown for their unique blend of marching-band-stylemusic that ranges from funk to traditional jazz.


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Jenny Scheinman (above) gave folks a hint ofhow the PAC3’s sound system performs when

she drew her bow across her fiddle and sangsolo as Bruce Cockburn’s opening act.

Cockburn’s apprearance (right) confirmedwhat the audience suspected: the acoustics are

good. PAC3 co-founder Josh Behrman saidkeys to the room’s sound include acoustical

spray that was applied to the ceiling, andpadded baffles that line the east and west walls.

Photos by Jane Bachrach

PAC3 page 7

PAC3 draws rave reviews from C’dale tune crews

Back Door marks second yearBack Door Consignment celebrated its

second birthday on June 1 and is headedinto year No. 3 with plenty of spunk andmerchandise.“We’re Carbondale’s second-hand department store,” said co-ownerMarie Kuen.

Back Door Consignment’s retail areacovers 1,900 square feet. Offerings includefurniture, men’s and women’s apparel,house wares, linens and more.“We’re not athrift store,”Kuen said.“We’re higher-end.”Unusual items have included a boar’s headand elk head, and deer hide. “Thingschange almost by the minute.”

Co-owner Monk Burkmier also buildspicnic tables on premises. “We had some(display tables) but we had a run on them,”Kuen said. “They sold out.”

Back Door Consignment is located ei-ther north of the Pour House’s back dooror south of American Legion Post 100’sback door, depending on your orientation.The store is also the backside of theChurchill Building, which is located onFourth Street. The hours are 10 a.m. to 6p.m., seven days a week.

And as Marie and Monk have notedsince opening two years ago, “Carbondaleis in fact the center of the universe.”

Did you lose your hive?When KDNK broadcasts its Lost Pet re-

port every day, the hoped for result is usu-ally reuniting dog and cat owners with their

pets, or sometimes a tropical bird and onat least one occasion a rabbit.

The Lost Pet report soared to newheights, so to speak, over the weekend whena caller reported a lost beehive between 10thand 11th Street. Apparently, the hive splitand left no forwarding address. None of the

bees were wearing KDNK pet tags at thetime of the bee flee, which could make itmore difficult for their owners to claim them.

Or maybe not.When the KDNK DJ asked the caller

about distinguishing colorings or markings,she replied, “They are yellow.”

Check out SusieSusie Jimenez, owner/chef of Susie’s

Custom Catering, is competing in the FoodNetwork Star competition, which will pre-miere on June 5 at 9 p.m. (Eastern Time)on the Food Network. Stay tuned.

Dinner at the SmithyThe Village Smithy is now serving din-

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Heading outRon Miller and Joyce Illian have 64

years between them living in Marble (she’sat 29 years and he’s at 35). The pair haslived in a 100-year-old-plus house north ofBeaver Lake Lodge since Illian bought it in1983 but won’t be for long. They plan tomove to a small cottage on a hill over-looking the Columbia River in Astoria,Oregon in the next week or two and willrent out their house. Good luck, Ron andJoyce, and keep us posted. Astoria soundslike a cool place.

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Diana Alcantara and her Carbondale Middle School ESL class visited The Sopris Sun inthe Third Street Center last Friday and asked all kinds of pertinent questions, such as“Where does Cop Shop come from?” and “Do you ever have to report on somethingthat shocks you?” The students read the Sun all year and were eager to learn about howit was put together each week. From left to right: Edgar Reyna, Beymar Silva, ElizabethSalazar, Alex Salvidrez, Jenny Garcia and Diana Alcantara. Photo by Lynn Burton


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Reports from the crowd confirm the band’s sound wasloud but clear from the front to back of the room.

And speaking of back, that’s where the band wants to bein the future. “The band kept saying Carbondale is a cooltown and they loved the vibe of the Third Street Center.Theyall agreed that they want to come back,” Kimberly said.

As for other PAC3 notes:The shows demonstrated contrasting seating arrange-

ments. For Cockburn, 11 rows of folding chairs with an aisle

down the middle seated most of the audience, with a fewchairs just inside the front door and a few more off to the left.For MarchFourth, most of the room was open for dancing,with a few chairs at the back of the room.

The time it took to reach the bar during Cockburn’s in-termission ranged from 10 to 30 seconds, depending onyour seat.

The ceiling height was more than accommodating forMarchFourth’s trio of stilt-walkers.

The MarchFourth Marching Band played Belly Upin Aspen last year and have also played suchvenues as the Hollywood Bowl and Antone’s inAustin, Texas. They are variously described asa “mobile big band spectacular” and “joyous,free wheeling and funky.” Their music blendselements of Balkan, Latin, Caribbean,African, reggae, New Orleans and U.S.funk styles. The band also receives prettygood airplay on KDNK these days.Photos by Jane Bachrach

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MarchFourth silt-walkers didn’t belly up to the PAC3bar. They sort of ankled up to it. One of them evengave Bonedaler Peggy DeVilbiss a twirl duringintermission. The band features several femalevocalists during various times of their set. Out inthe audience, the crowd was in a dancing mood.Upcoming acts include country honky-tonkerHayes Carll, who PAC3 co-founder Amy Kimberlysaid is an up-and-comer who probably won’tbe playing gigs Carbondale’s size for verymuch longer. Photos by Jane Bachrach


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THURSDAY June 2RODEO • The Carbondale Wild WestRodeo kicks off its 10 week season at the GusDarien arena east of town (on County Road100) at 7:30 p.m.Tickets are $10 at the gate.

HPC MEETS • Carbondale’s HistoricPreservation Commission meets at town hallthe firstThursday of each month at 6:30 p.m.

FRI. & SAT. June 3-4STUDIO TOUR • The Carbondale Com-munity School’s eighth annual Studio Tour isJune 3-4. The weekend kicks off with anartist’s reception at the Third Street Center at6 p.m. on June 3, followed by self-guidedtours of artists’ studios from GlenwoodSprings to Old Snowmass on June 4. Artistsand the artwork can be previewed at roar-ingforkstudiotour.org.

FRIDAY June 3MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents“Jane Eyre” (PG-13) at 8 p.m. June 3-9;“Win Win”(R) at 5:45 p.m. June 4 and “TheConspirator” (PG-13) at 5:15 p.m. June 5.CLAY CENTER • The Carbondale ClayCenter opens the show“Landscape as Inspi-ration” featuring Ginny Beesley, SandieGardner, Susan Muenchen and Sara Rans-ford from 6 to 8 p.m. Refreshments will beserved. Info: 963-CLAY.LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the DinkelBuilding present s A Vision Quest at 8:30p.m. “This is a hot local funk band com-prised of some great young players,” saidSteve.“It’s a dance band with electric guitars,keyboard, sax and drums.” Info: 963-3340.

LIVE MUSIC • White House pizzapresents the Roaring Fork Ram-blers as part of Stacia’sgoing away party from7 to 10 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC • Carna-han’s in the DinkelBuilding presents StickyMulligan at 10 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC • Riversrestaurant in GlenwoodSprings presents StraightShot from 9 p.m. to midnight.

WYLY • The Wyly CommunityArt Center in Basalt opens theshow “Distant and Close” byBasalt High School art teacherTish McFee from 5 to 7 p.m.Info: WylyArts.org.

CANDIDATE RECEPTION • Areception for town manager can-didates takes place from 5 to 7p.m. at town hall.The public isinvited. The candidates are:Elizabeth Black, Jay Harring-ton, Chris LaMay, JohnLyons, April McGrath andDeborah Quinn.

SATURDAY June 4GRADUATION • Colorado Rocky Moun-tain School holds its graduation on campusat 10 a.m. The school is located at the westend of Main Street.

ROAD RACE • The Mountain to Valley 10mile race goes from the top of Dry Park

Road west of Carbondale to Sopris Ele-mentary School in Glenwood Springs.

Racers will be bused to thestarting line from the school.There’s also a four-mile race thatcovers the final section of the 10-mile course. For details, go tomountaintovalleyrace.com orcall Independence Run & Hikeat 704-0909.

LIVE MUSIC • Carnahan’spresents The Filthy Rich at10 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in theDinkel Building presents the Dixie BeeLiners. Info: 963-3340.

RIVER FLOAT • The Roaring ForkConservancy holds its annual Commu-nity River Float at 8 a.m. The startingpoint is Veltus Park in GlenwoodSprings. Rafts are provided by BlazingAdventures and Rock Gardens rafting.

Tickets are $15, which includes a bar-becue after the float. Info: 927-1290.

GOP DINNER • The RepublicanParty of Pitkin County holds its an-nual Lincoln Day Dinner at the Innat Aspen at the base of the Buttermilk

Ski Area. Congressman Scott Tipton, whorepresents the 3rd District, will be thekeynote speaker.Tickets are $75 or $700 fora table of eight. Info: 970-274-3303 or 927-2401.

WHOLEBODY BREATHING • DaviNikent presents a whole body breathing/cel-lular health workshop from 9:30 a.m. to

4:30 p.m. at the Solara Early Learning Cen-ter, 54 Favre Ln., in El Jebel. Info: 309-7588.

SUNDAY June 5DANCE • Aspen Dance Connection andAspen ECO-Fest present EVOLUTIONMOVEMENT at the Wheeler Opera Houseat 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $28 foradults/$18 for students at AspenShowTix.com or 920-5770.EVOLUTION MOVE-MENT is a multi-media theatrical dance ex-perience featuring the music and message ofJohn Lennon and the Beatles. Performers in-clude dance instructors from the RoaringFork Valley Jayne Gottlieb (owner of JayneGottlieb Productions) and Heather Starr-Kallas (owner of Dance Progressions).

TUESDAY June 7LIVE MUSIC • Carnahan’s presents GregMasse at 10 p.m.

BURLESQUE • Auditions for the burlesqueshow “Viva la Woman” take place at theThird Street Center from 6 to 8 p.m. Theshow is July 15-16.

WEDNESDAY June 8LIVE MUSIC • White House pizza presentsTil Willis (country singer songwriter) from 7to 10 p.m.

DAVI NIKENT • Healing prayer meditationfor the Japanese radiation crisis takes place atA Spiritual Center in the Third Street Centerform 7 to 8:30 p.m. The event is supportedby Davi Nikent. Info: 970-710-9579.

Community Calendar To list your event, email information to [email protected]. Deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday. Events takeplace in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event listings, check out the CommunityCalendar online at soprissun.com.

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Save the datePAC3 • Country honky-tonker Hayes Carll plays PAC3 June 23. Advance tickets are $12 andthe day of the show they are $17. PAC3 is located in the Third Street Center. Info: 925-1663or PAC3carbondale.com.

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June 14DRUMMING • Colorado Mountain College’s ArtShare program and the Aspen Dance Con-nection will present a performance by the Maputo Mensah African Drumming and DanceCompany, known as Logo Ligi, at the Third Street Center at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adultsand $5 for students up to 17. Children 5 and under are free. Advance tickets are available at947-8367 or [email protected].

MAYOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat with Carbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdays from7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy, located at 26 S. Third St.

FARMER’S MARKET • A farmer’s market takes place each Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.in the lawn of Crystal River Meats at 55 North 4th St. The Market features Crystal RiverMeats (beef, pork, lamb, chicken), Osage Gardens (featuring organic veggies, plants and herbs)Avalanche Cheese and Midland Baking. Info: 963-9996.

ZINGERS SING • The Zingers singing group gets together at the Third Street Center everyThursday from 2 to 3 p.m. Info: 945-7094.

GROUP RUN • Independence Run and Hike at 995 Cowen Drive leads group runs Saturdaysat 8:15 a.m. rain or shine. Info: 704-0909.

AL-ANON MEETS • Al-Anon for friends and families of alcoholics meets at the OrchardTuesdays at 7 p.m.

Public gets first look at new sculptureSopris Sun Staff Report

The public gets its first look at the new Art aRound Town exhibit with a downtowntour starting at Fourth and Main St. at 5:30 p.m. on June 3.

The tour will make 11 stops between Third Street and Eighth Street to view the newsculptures brought in by the Carbondale Public Art Commission for its yearlong show.

The sculptors come from New York, Cal-ifornia, Kansas, Texas, Michigan and Col-orado. The sculptures are offered for sale atprices that range from $8,000 to $38,000.

The exhibit continues until June 2, 2012.There are also 17 permanent pieces of publicart throughout Carbondale, mostly in thedowntown area.

Other First Friday action includes an artistdemonstrationat CollageCreativeCollections(1154 High-way 133), areception atRavenheartgallery (acrossfrom SoprisPark), a rec-eption at theCarbondaleCouncil onArts and Hu-manities’ R2Gallery, andother eventsaround town.

Clockwise from top: Triple Bond by Bill Wiener, Valkyrie byJack Howard-Potter and Catalyst by John Ferguson.

Facing page: Totem by Jud Bergeron


Traditionally, graduation ceremonies can be overly serious, but last Saturday at Roaring Fork High School students andspeakers alike strayed from the norm and added some levity to their special day.

Between a game of Mad lib (during which students who came up with correct words were handed bags of Skittles fromgraduate Dalton Handy) to the speech delivered by guest speaker Joe Markham (who removed items of clothing during hisspeech then donned a baseball cap and whistle) the event was more joyous than somber.

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Cici Kinney was one of anumber of folks taking photos, although

her method was somewhat differentthan others. Photo by Jane Bachrach

Jake Strack-Loertscherand AdrienneAckerman focus onhis Skittles. Photoby Jane Bachrach

During the graduation ceremony, students handedout flowers to friends, family and teachers.

Pictured here is Wendy Adame.Photo by Jane Bachrach

Joe Markham began hisspeech wearing a yellow tieand white dress shirt, andended it wearing a T-shirt,baseball cap and whistle. Heused what he said were theashes of his recently deceaseddog as a way to get across tothe graduates the messagethat we should all be morelike dogs because they arenon-judgmental and giveunconditional love. Photoby Jane Bachrach

Bridges High School graduated 26 seniors during a ceremony at the school on May 27.The class emcees were James “Leo” Caudill, Jacob Hiltner, Taylor Luck and April

Snelson and the class speakers were Tia Koski and Ryan Lake. Steve Beaulieu wasthe class speaker. Guest speaker was Amanda Boxtel. A musicnumber was performed by Allison Bower, Maggie Riley,Andrew Morley and Drew Bair.

From top, clockwise: the senior class mugs forphotographer Jury Jermone, Alex Guenther,

April Snelson, Amanda Boxtel, Tia Koski andKirstie Smith. Photos by Lynn Burton


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Community BriefsGymkhana club starts June 11

A local gymkhana club is forming and will compete at GusDarienarenaat1p.m.onJune11,July16,Aug.13andSept.17.

The club is for equestrians over seven years old and theevents are: barrels, poles, flags and a rotating event.

Check-in time is noon.Volunteers are needed. For details, call Mike Goscha at

274-3223 or Steve Groom at 379-9978.

“Hidalgo” shown at the OrchardA fund-raiser, organized by high school student Sasha

Williams, to helpThirdWorld countries produce clean drink-ing water takes place at the Orchard (110 Snowmass Drive)from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on June 4. The film “Hidalgo” will beshown and refreshments will be served.There’ll also be a raf-fle. The suggested donation for entrance is $3 to $5. “Hi-dalgo” is set in the 1890s and revolves around a cross-countryhorse race in Arabia. For details, call 963-4073.

RFOV tackles DrosteRoaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers will work with Pitkin

County Open Space, the town of Snowmass Village and thecity of Aspen to conduct a volunteer trail work day on June4 at the recently acquired Droste open space in SnowmassVillage. The work day runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and in-cludes lunch for volunteers.

Volunteers will complete the construction of a 1.3-miletrail on the Droste land,which will become part of SnowmassVillage’s single-track system.

To volunteer, log on to rfov.org, email [email protected], orcall 927-8241.

CCAH offers booth spaceThe Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities is ac-

cepting applications to the local’s booth at Mountain Fair.Participating artists help set up and break down the booths,and they work approximately two shifts during the weekend.

The cost to participate is $50 per artist; CCAH takes take a15 percent commission.Space is limited and the artwork is ju-ried. For details, call 963-1680.

Volunteers needed for OmniumThe Carbondale Chamber of Commerce needs volunteers

at the beer tent on June 18 during the Rocky Mountain Om-nium bike race, which runs June 17-19.

The following positions are open:• Set up – 10:30 a.m. to noon;• Bartenders – noon to 7:30 p.m. (three shifts);• Security – noon to 7:30 p.m. (three shifts);• Break down 7:30 to 9 p.m.For details, call the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce at

963-1890.

Senior Matters needs volunteersSenior Matters needs volunteers to staff their snow cone

concession booth during the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo,which takes place Thursday nights at the Gus Darien arenastarting on June 2. For details, call 963-2653.

On a related note, Creative Spark Studio offers a visualstorytelling workshop to seniors from 10-11:30 a.m.on Mon-days from June 6-27. The workshop will help participantscreate an artistic memory journal.The class fee is $25; schol-arships are available. The registration deadline is June 4. Fordetails, call 618-0561.

Strawberry Days searches for “Idol”Strawberry Days throws its own version of “American

Idol,”with preliminary auditions at Glenwood Springs Mid-dle School from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on June 14. The competi-tion is for ages 15 and up.The top 10 performers will auditionon June 18 in front of crowds at the FamilyFest Stage at SayrePark. The winner will perform later that night on the mainstage to help kick off the night’s headliner band from LasVegas. For details, call 945-6589.

High winds knocked over this spruce tree at Fourth andEuclid on Sunday morning. No injuries were reported. Apasserby on a bike counted the rings on the tree and de-termined it was about 50 years old. Photo by Lynn Burton

CONGRATULATESTHE FOLLOWING ALUMNI AS HIGH SCHOOL

GRADUATING CLASS OF 2011:OUR 8TH GRADE GRADUATES MOVING

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Joshua DarlingKidd Martin BaranLiesl BellackLoren CreerMackenzie Cole

Max RamgeOrion Mount Paul StruemplerSarah RosenthalShira Mailes

Summer HiltyTait AndersonTaylor LuckJosh FitzpatrickCooper Marshall

Brianna Young – Eagle Valley High School

Cameron Stover-Donaubauer – Aspen High School

Cole Hawkins – Animas Charter School

Cole Pates – Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy

Had Deane – The Forman School

Halia Frantzich – Glenwood Springs H.S.

James Nurlu – Glenwood Springs H.S.

Malia Machado – Aspen High School

Mikaela Liotta – Glenwood Springs H.S.

Miles Petterson – Eagle Valley High School

Rhianna- Borderick – Aspen High School

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for pretty much the same reasons, and wehave a duty to protect the area that drew ushere in the first place. If we want to be proudof where we live, and be proud of what wehave done to preserve it, we have to take astand. We have to say “NO” to the exploita-tion of the Roaring ForkValley, and“NO”toyet another gravel pit defacing our land, and“NO”to corporate greed that has no respectfor everything we love about our valley.

Please contact your county commission-ers, please contact your local newspapers, andplease attend the Garfield County commis-sioners meeting on June 13.This is not some-one else’s problem, it’s OUR problem, andonly we can preserve the integrity of this placewe all call Home.Let’s demand some respect!

Sue CoyleCarbondale

Let’s rodeoDear Editor:

The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo is ex-cited to bring you another great season ofrodeo. Last year we invested in arena im-provements including a permanent shed forthe Senior Matters refreshment stand andnew livestock chutes that improve event flow.

This year also brings changes that will re-sult in a better event. In addition to the new$20 fence-parking fee, the admission price foradults has increased to $10/$30 for a carloadup to six people. These changes were neces-sary to ensure the continuing financial stabil-ity and reflect the increased cost of producingthe rodeo event.

Like the old prices?You can buy a book of six tickets for $50

at Sopris Liquor and Wine. In addition, twonew events were added this year: cowhideraces and rescue races. Cowhide races were ahit last year – be sure to catch them and allthe fun this year at the rodeo that startsThursday, June 2 and continues for a 12-week season until Aug. 18.

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Vote for GilmanDear Editor:

You have likely received a ballot in themail from Holy Cross Energy for the annualBoard of Directors election. I am running fora board position in the Northern District andask for your support.

I know utility elections seem pretty mun-dane and unimportant but I promise you –this actually matters. Just seven people in

Western Colorado get the final say in impor-tant decisions that directly affect us all. It iscritical that board members have in-depthknowledge about the needs and usage of themembers to pave a well-informed path for-ward. I understand as well as anyone howimportant affordable, reliable and clean elec-tricity is to you, your families and businesses.I have worked one-on-one with hundreds ofhomeowners, business owners and tenants toreduce energy usage and save money. I’m alsoa local small- business owner with experiencemaking difficult financial and planning deci-sions, and would be able to represent the bestinterests of the members. The strength ofHoly Cross and its board have everything todo with the board’s members, so I hope youwill consider voting this year.

I look forward to working with this greatcommunity to help make it even better. Pleasevisit megangilman.com for more information,and don’t forget to mail your signed ballot byJune 4.

Megan GilmanEagle-Vail

Thanks to school administratorsDear Editor:

I want to thank our Re-1 and Re-2 highschool administrators for supporting ourChildAbuse Prevention Month efforts by giv-ing us time during their school day. With thesupport from the Glenwood Springs VictimAssistance Law Enforcement Fund and Qual-ity Inn and Suites we were able to bring Mikeand Cassandra Harris, investigators whowork on crimes against children cases withthe Jefferson County District Attorney’s Of-fice, to speak at our local high schools.

This husband and wife police team hasbeen active in their fight against sex offenderswho prey on children/teens through the Inter-net and cell phones. Thanks to the followingschools we reached 2,194 students: RoaringFork High School,Bridges High School,Glen-wood Springs High School, Coal Ridge HighSchool and Rifle High School.

While Childhelp River Bridge’s primaryfocus is to respond to, investigate and treatchild crime victims, we are also committed topreventing these crimes from happening in thefirst place. Thanks to our school communityfor helping us educate and bring awareness toour youth on this important issue.

Susan Ackerman, DirectorChildhelp River BridgeGlenwood Springs

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sented to trustees that includes Green andLamont, but adding Laird, Cochran andOni Butterfly (who the nomination com-mittee had interviewed).

Voting for the motion were: Cortez, Mur-phy, Foulkrod and Bernot. Voting againstwere: Zentmyer, Hoffmann and Merriott.

Following the vote the trustees exhaled,shuffled their papers and took a five minutebreak.

Early in his remarks before the first vote,Merriott said he’d left Lorie Loeb and RussCriswell off his list of nominees, implying thetwo are known for their anti-big box retailstance and related slow growth stands. Hesaid some on the proposed working groupare known more for their“talking skills thantheir listening skills.”

Merriott said that Green, an attorney, iswho he’d hire if he were a developer and La-mont is who he’d want for his negotiationskills. “You don’t want advocates (on thegroup),” he said.

Green, an Aspen Glen resident whoowns property in Carbondale, was a towntrustee in the 1980s while Lamont is a re-tired urban planner from Denver whoserves on the Re-1 school board andGarfield County library board.

Bernot and Foulkrod were Green’s twobiggest supporters. Bernot said that for onething, Green brings“buy-in” from propertyowners who might not be interested in par-ticipating in the process. She also said thatif Green is at one end of the political spec-trum, working group member Dale Will

(Pitkin County’s open space director) is atthe other end.

Foulkrod said that environmental boardmember Jason White is also at the other endof the spectrum from Green.As for Lamont,“The only person he’ll advocate for is hisgrandchildren,” Foulkrod said. “He comesfrom a pretty good place.”

Before the second vote, which authorizedthe working group 4-3, trustee Zentmyersaid, “I can’t support Larry Green,” whiletrustee Hoffmann said he’d been approachedby others with “red-flag” warnings againstGreen and Lamont.

Merriott then took a shot at Foulkrod,who was sitting to his right, saying, “He(Foulkrod) has it where he wants it.”

Bernot said she took issue with Merriott’s

remark.“I withdraw my comment,” he replied.Although the discussion was tense and

heated at times, there were a few momentsof borderline levity. One came when a trusteeasked Brooke and Bohmfalk why Laird, whois active in community affairs, did not makethe final list of 18. The answer? He was ex-cluded due to his“age demographic and gen-der.” (Editor’s note: Laird appears to be in his40s and when last seen sported a beard).

When asked why there aren’t many non-white, non-males on the committee, Brookeand Bohmfalk said the nominating commit-tee contacted prospects from that group butthey cited “lack of time.” Also, females ingeneral “disproportionately” reported theydidn’t have time for the working group.

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of CCAH.“But it is not given the importanceit deserves. Arts education improves reason-ing, logic and abstract thinking.The more artwe can give our kids, the better learning op-portunities they have … and it feeds their fab-ulous souls.”

As for the Carbondale Public Art Com-mission’sArt aRoundTown unveiling, it’s thegroup’s first new exhibition of street sculpturesince 2009. “We waited so that we couldmount a first-class show,”said sculptor MarkHarris, the commission’s chair.

The public is invited to join the artists ona walking tour of the new work on June 3 at

5:30 p.m., starting at the corner of Fourthand Main Street.

The 11 new sculptures come from artistsspread from NewYork City to San Francisco,including two from the Roaring Fork Valley:Michael Lindsay of Carbondale and BillWeiner of Aspen.

The artists were chosen by a jury headedby internationally-renowned sculptor JamesSurls,whose studios are on Missouri Heights.

For the first time, the call for artists toapply was placed on Café, a national siteseeking applications for public art. Caféyielded 94 applications for the jury to evalu-

ate, compared with a handful when a re-gional call was last issued in 2009.

“The quality of the work was terrific andthe choices were not easy,”said Sue Edelstein,the art commission’s jury manager.

The Carbondale Public Arts Commissionis a town-appointed group charged with ad-ministering the street art program and the 1Percent for Art program.

Jane Ogden, right, a print maker, is one ofdozens of artists who have opened their

doors for the Carbondale CommunitySchool’s Studio Tour on June 4. A tour

map is included in this week’s SoprisSun insert. Courtesy photo

Sopris Sun Staff Report

With gasoline at $4 a gallon, this might be the year to stay in town forall your summertime entertainment. Between June 2 and Oct. 7-8, there’llbe a rodeo series, free music, a major bike race, an aerial circus and more.

The following schedule was compiled by the Carbondale RecreationDepartment.

June 4 – The Carbondale Community School Studio Tour

June 2-Aug. 18 (Thursdays) – The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo

June 5-Aug. 28 (Sundays) – Team roping series

June 15-Oct. 5 (Wednesdays) – Carbondale Farmer’s Market

June 17-19 – Rocky Mountain Omnium bicycle race

June 17 – Performance in the Plaza

June 23-26 – Brown’s Amusement Carnival

June 23-26 – Sopris Music Fest

July 4 – Performance in the Park

July 9 – The Happening (Rotary)


July 16 – GrassRoots Games


July 29-31 – Carbondale Mountain Fair

Aug. 5-8 – American Crown Aerial Circus

Aug. 20 – KDNK Blues & BBQ

Aug. 28 – Festival de las Americas

Sept. 13-18 – National Sheep Dog Finals

Sept. 16 – Cowboy Up block party

Sept. 17 – Citizen Appreciation block party

Sept. 24 – Potato Day

Oct. 7-8 – Celtic Fest & Oktoberfest

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HUMAN SERVICES GRANT APPLICATION FOR 2012

PLEASE BE ADVISED that the Board of County Commissioners for Garfield County,Colorado, is accepting applications from non-profit organizations interested in receiv-ing Garfield County Human Services funding for fiscal year 2012. Application formscan be picked up from Dawn Burgess, Grant Administrator, Garfield CountyAdministration Office, Administration Building, 108 8th Street, Suite 213, GlenwoodSprings, CO 81601 or can be requested by calling Dawn Burgess at 970-945-5004or email at [email protected] Completed applications must be receivedor delivered to the Garfield County Administration Office by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday,June 30, 2011. Any questions or comments should be directed to Dawn Burgess.

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The comprehensive planworking group, approved by theCarbondale Board of Trustees onTuesday night, is comprised of:Jeff Leahy (Colorado RockyMountain School),Trevor Canon(south of Main Street), MattHamilton (River Valley Ranch),Patti Brendlinger (HendrickRanch), Jose Luis Rico (Col-orado Meadows), Larry Green(Aspen Glen), Mark Beckler(Glenwood Springs), AndreaChacos (River Valley Ranch),Tom Penzel (Hendrick Ranch),Brad Ziegel (north of MainStreet), Ivonne Munoz (Satank),Jason White (Crystal Village), BillLamont (River Valley Ranch),Dale Will (south of Main Street),Beda Calhoun (north of MainStreet), Andy Taylor (south ofMain Street), Gavin Brooke(south of Main Street), BenBohmfalk, Martha Cochran,Colin Laird and Oni Butterfly(residency not available).

The June 18 leg of the Rocky Mountain Omnium takesover downtown as racers in several stages pedal east onMain Street, left on Third Street, left on Colorado Avenueand left on Sixth Street on a continual route. Riders aver-age 35-miles an hour. Sopris Sun file photo


Last time we met here we were hob-nobbing with Hattie Thompson in theRoaring 20s. Time flies in the Sopris Sun’shistory column world. Now, the year is1956. Ponytails and poodle skirts. Duck-tails and blue suede shoes. Even upvalleyMarble had heard of Elvis Presley. Therock ’n’ roll king’s first million-record hitsong; “Heartbreak Hotel” had blasted offthe charts.

Since my baby left meWade and Wilma Loudermilk had built

Beaver Lake Lodge. Readers will remem-ber from the Marble Memorial Airportstory in Memoirs, Vol. 1, that Wade had allthe right excavating equipment to build theairstrip. The family would come up fromthe Phoenix area to escape the summer’sheat. They rented out horses and guidedJeep tours besides housing and feedingtheir guests.

Business was running at a good clipwhen they began to host annual visits forBaylor University’s summer geological fieldcourse.There just so happened to be a malemajority of the 30-35 students in atten-dance from early June to mid-July; the oddsof which did not go unnoticed by the Lou-dermilk daughters — college-aged Raqueland her high-school sister, Kareen. Prettymuch the only two girls in Marble at thetime, they decided to share their summersocial largess with Raquel’s USC sororitysister, Ann Smith. They invited her to cometo work with them.

“We were the slave-labor force, “ saidKareen. “It was a lot of hard work but wedidn’t mind. We had a lot of fun.”

There’s room; you’re skinny!Beds in the lodge and its cabins were

stacked to the rafters and they still ran outof room. They had another cabin down to-wards the Crystal River across from theold Marble jailhouse and their horse sta-bles. It isn’t clear if they sometimes usedthe pokie and paddocks too. But even thatwasn’t enough.

The Loudermilks then rented a smallcabin east across the road from the lodge.None of the accommodations had runningwater or indoor toilets. Rows of metalbunkbeds were the only adornments.

Ann was quite the artist, so she painteda sign to put over the door of the cabinclosest to the lodge, thusly christened“Heartbreak Hotel.” Later on, folks wouldarrive at the lodge and ask to be bookednext door at the Heartbreak. “They reallythought it was a hotel,” Kareen said. Thosepoor fellows stuck down at the decidedlyunromantic cabin next to the horse stablesfelt left out and pouted. So Ann penned an-other sign for them: “Leper Colony.”

“We eventually had to take the ‘LeperColony’ sign down as it scared the tourists,”Kareen told me,“but we got a lot of mileageon the jokes about both places.”

“and though it’s always crowded, youstill can find some room, for brokenheartedlovers to cry there in the gloom.”

Dear JohnIt became a common event those sum-

mers that the postman would leave “DearJohn” letters at the lodge for the boys stay-ing there.After all, in teen time, June to Julywas oh, so long.

“the bellhop’s tears keep flowing, thedesk clerk’s dressed in black.”

“We would have big bonfires everynight,” Kareen said. “That was our enter-tainment in those days. There would be aguy with a guitar and we would singsongs. “Heartbreak Hotel” was a popu-lar request. I remember one lovesick guywho was a newlywed. He wouldn’tchange his watch from Waco (Texas) timewhere his bride was.”

While Raquel and Ann played the field,Kareen caught the eye of young mannamed Ben. Ben Man was a third-year ge-ology student that summer of ’56. Spurredby the competition, it took Ben nearlythree years of long-distance letter writingand courting before the couple became en-gaged over Christmas of ’58 in Marble.They wed at the Marble church the fol-lowing October.

“I always wanted a fall wedding uphere,” said Kareen. “Turned out it was theearliest snowstorm in history that Oct. 3.Our best man and minister were stuck onLoveland Pass due to the snow. They did fi-nally arrive and I’ve never heard the end ofit about my wanting a fall wedding.”

Last October, Ben and Kareen Man re-turned to Marble and celebrated their 50thanniversary at the Redstone Inn withfriends and family.All Kareen’s stories werecorroborated by Ben, sister Raquel andAnn Smith.

If your baby leaves youActually, I first heard about“Heartbreak

Hotel” from the delightful storyteller andlifetime Marble resident June Blue back in1997. It was certainly an honor to meetitty-bitty June with the waist-long silverhair. The Blue family home was, and still is,adjacent to Thanos Johnson’s place andacross the road from the little cabin withthe broken-hearted reputation.

June told me during a visit with her onetime that, “every spring, there was a lot ofactivity over there, like musical chairs, peo-ple moving out, others moving in … win-ters here are long, you know … and tiring!The losers ended up at ‘Heartbreak Hotel.’”

By the early ‘70s, the cabin was absen-tee-owned and suffered the indignities ofneglect. Occasionally, bargain-priced paintwould be slapped on, such as the time itwas covered with highway-stripe-reflective-yellow. It glowed in the dark.Made it much easier for inebriates to findtheir way home at night, I’m told. Alas, foryears and years it sat lonely, abandonedand forlorn.

A legend waits“Heartbreak Hotel” has a new owner

and like other ladies of a certain age, hashad a flattering facelift. Now a sparklingbride-white paint job dresses up new win-dows, roof and porch, but alas, there are no

new tales to tell. I’ll watch and await thenext chapter of this legend.

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“Heartbreak Hotel” is located just east of Beaver Lake Lodge. Teens used to sing ElvisPresley’s first million-selling hit around a bonfire in back of the place in the 1950s.Photo by Lynn Burton

By Mary HarrisSopris Sun Contributor

How lucky can we be? All we need to dois be aware and we can witness one of na-ture’s miracles unfolding right in front of us.

No need to spend thousands of dollarstraveling to Africa to see a bird migration.It’s happening right in front of us, rightnow. Just get outside, go for a walk, or ifyou live where it is allowed, put out someblack sunflower seed and oranges andyou’ll get more rewards than you can imag-ine. These hungry birds have flown from asfar as Argentina and Chile to nest with usin the Roaring Fork Valley.

While it can take time for the birds tofind you and return with their offspring,have patience. Right now I have over 30gorgeous yellow, black, and bright orangeWestern tanagers gobbling up the oranges Iput out every morning. The brilliant Bul-lock’s orioles, black-headed Grosbeaks, cat-birds, yellow warblers, and more, are partof the flashy show we get every day. If youcannot feed in the summer, take heart be-cause winter-feeding is even more impor-tant for our birds.

Of course, not all birds will come toyour feeders, but it’s not that difficult tofind the other beautiful show offs and per-haps watch their courtship behavior.

Our large impressive nesting birds (in-cluding the great blue herons) are feedingbabies right now. After two years of aban-doning their nests due to disturbances on

the Rio Grande Trail and two years of whatwe believe were inexperienced breedersmoving in, only to have their babies eatenby a golden eagle, we are cautiously watch-ing the heronry that now has at least threebabies getting bigger by the day.

With their lightning quick, accurate

aim, and sharp bill designed to stab fishout of the water, great blue herons haveevolved to use their bill as protection. Ac-cording to heron researchers, the birdscould also take your eye out before youknow what’s happening.

Luckily for the herons, the last two

springs have been so cold and rainy thattheir eggs had time to hatch before therewas much action on the Rio Grande Trail.Once the eggs hatch, usually around mid-May for the herons in our valley, most birdswill not abandon their nests. We hope thisis giving them time to adapt to the humansin their territory.

If you are interested in learning moreabout the Roaring Fork Valley’s amazingbirds, mammals, plants and insects, or yardfeeding, join us or find another organiza-tion to help get you started. We all have alimited number of springs and summers inour lives, so take advantage of every one ofthem. How many do you have left?

Fun Bird FactsDid you know that each baby robin in

the nest requires 14 feet of earthworms aday to survive? So, if there are 6 babyrobins in the nest, it means 84 feet of earth-worms a day are required, and figuringeach earthworm is about 4 inches long thatmeans each baby robin needs 42 earth-worms a day! And when you learn thatearthworm experts discovered each wormhas 10 hearts and is both male and female,that means each baby robin consumes 420earthworm hearts a day. Hmmm…no won-der a robin’s song is so heartfelt.

Mary Harris is president of the RoaringFork chapter of the Audubon Society(roaringforkaudubon.org).

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A blue heron flies low over Carbondale Nature Park a couple of weeks back. The birdtook off from the north end of the park, reached an altitude of 10-15 feet then cruisedabout 200 yards to the pond next to the water treatment plant. Photo by Lynn Burton

CaliforniaNever at a loss for novel ideas, the animal rights folks at PETA, People for the Ethical

Treatment of Animals, want the mayor of San Francisco and other city leaders to changethe name of the city’s Tenderloin District to the“Tempeh District.”Tempeh, for those whoprefer hamburgers and are unfamiliar with it, is a “cruelty-free” meatsubstitute made from fermented and firmed-up soybeans. Other sug-gestions from PETA, according to the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance, were“Granola Flats” or “Seitan’s Lair,” the latter a wheat product. PETAspokeswoman Ashley Gonzalez argued that a vegan name would bet-ter reflect the philosophies of locals, but while that might be the case,there’s a historical problem, reports The New York Times. The Tender-loin doesn’t allude to an expensive cut of meat or even the sleek mus-cle on the leg of a lady of the evening; it refers instead to the bribesgiven to unscrupulous cops by the operators of bordellos and other il-licit businesses.“It wasn’t like they were giving them steaks,” said RandyShaw, who hopes to open a museum in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.“They were giving (the police) cash.” So PETA unveiled another initia-tive, promising to pay for any man’s vasectomy if he would also agreeto neuter his cat or dog.

ColoradoIt’s always a treat to read a newspaper columnist when she or he

comes unglued, and if you were reading the Telluride Watch lately, youhad the pleasure of either sympathizing with Rob Schultheis’s outrageor chortling at his discomfort. What sent Schultheis over the edge? Mentally lazy Ameri-cans “who don’t bother to read, write or think.” His first example: Over half of Prince-ton students polled recently believed that the quote, “We hold these truths to beself-evident, that all men are created equal,” came from the Communist Manifesto. Andone student at a different college hilariously thought that the civil rights movement got abig boost from Martin Luther King’s speech,“If I had a hammer.”This is exactly the kindof ignorance, he says, that led to the election of “fanatics and sleazoids” to Congress, andnow these congressional representatives are busily cutting school lunches for poor kids,among other destructive acts, all of which led the columnist — using all caps, though heapologizes for the indulgence — to demand of Tea Party adherents: “JUST HOW STU-PID ARE YOU PEOPLE?”

CaliforniaIf pot growers in the Southern California town of Hemet thought their “watchgator”

would foil a police raid, they were sadly mistaken. The 4-foot alligator stayed quietly inhis water-filled tub while narcotic-control cops confiscated 2,300 marijuana plants valuedat $1.5 million, reports the Press-Enterprise. One man was arrested but the docile alliga-tor got to go to a desert sanctuary.

WyomingTo say that former Sen. Alan Simpson, 79, of Wyoming doesn’t mince

words is putting it tepidly. On MSNBC’s Hardball TV show recently, heblasted presidential hopefuls from his own Republican Party because of theirpositions on social issues: “Who the hell is for abortion?” he asked.“I don’tknow anybody running around with a sign that says, ‘Have an abortion,they’re wonderful.’ They’re hideous. But they’re a deeply intimate and per-sonal decision, and I don’t think men legislators should even vote on theissue.”Simpson didn’t stop there, attacking potential presidential candidatesfrom his party who oppose gay rights and declaring that he won’t stick withRepublican “homophobes” who hypocritically indulge in affairs while giv-ing speeches about moral values. You can find a small cache of Simpson’squotes through the years on the Web; here’s a pithy example: “An educatedman is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and triesto give his thoughts in speech or on paper, some style.” And here’s a morerecent quote from during the time Simpson was working on reforming thefederal budget: “The country is gonna go to the bow-wows unless we dealwith entitlements, Social Security and Medicare.”

MontanaAnother straight shooter when it comes to controversial issues is Montana State Rep.

Alan Hale, a Republican who hails from the tiny town of Basin. Hale unabashedly backsdrinking while driving and opposes efforts by some of his fellow legislators to put teethin the state’s notoriously permissive DUI laws. Passing sterner driving-under-the-influence laws became big news this year after several “high-profile drunken drivingdeaths,” reports the Missoulian, but Hale, citing the needs of far-flung taverns that bringlocals together, calls reform a mistake: “These DUI laws are not doing our small busi-nesses in our state any good at all. They are destroying them.” Unfortunately, reform tooka hit earlier this year when it was revealed that one of the leaders, Republican State Sen.Jim Shockley, was arrested in January for drinking while driving. As if to illustrate howlightly the law now treats drinking drivers, Shockley’s fine for getting caught with an openbeer was a paltry $51.

Betsy Marston is a blogger for High Country News.

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The Garfield County Board of County Commissioners is required by CRS 30-10-306 to make sure that eachcommissioner district be as nearly equal in population as possible based on the most recent federal cen-sus of the United States.

The hearing to discuss and determine commissioner district boundaries based on 2010 Census numbersis set for Monday June 20, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. during the regularly scheduled board meeting at 108 8th St.,Room 100 in Glenwood Springs.

A map showing the current commissioner districts with 2010 population numbers is available on the home-page of the Garfield County website www.garfield-county.com. Information is also available from JeanAlberico, Garfield County Clerk and Recorder at 945-2377 ext 1820 or [email protected].

Any citizen may make comments prior to this hearing by contacting the County Clerk. Comments may bemade in writing to the Clerk's email address or mailed to 109 8th St., suite 200 Glenwood Springs, Co.81601. Any person desiring to express his or her opinion or give testimony regarding commissioner districtsmay appear at the above date, time and place.

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