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October 30, 2013
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Tri-Lakes Region, Monument, Gleneagle, Black Forest and Northern El Paso County • Volume 48, Issue 44
Gleneagle Golf Course set to close Nov. 1 A lot of speculation about what will happen short, long term By Danny Summers
Dsummers@ourcoloradonews.com Gleneagle bills itself as “A Planned Country Club Community.” Usually a golf
course is associated with a country club, but come Nov. 1, the only moving creatures inhabiting the area’s 40-year-old course will be squirrels, coyotes, foxes, geese and perhaps a bear or two. That’s because the course is closing down. “There are a lot of rumors and a lot of speculation,” said Ken Judd, who sits on the board of the Gleneagle Civic Association. “I don’t think there is any need for anybody
to be greatly concerned about this. I think somebody will buy it as a golf course, put some money into it and turn it into a good golf course.” Judd has been a Gleneagle resident for 17 years and probably knows as much about the situation as anyone outside of the ownership group. The Gleneagle golf course is owned and operated by MCTN LLC, a Nevada limited liability company set up by Atlanta-based
Mad River Holdings Inc. and the Miles and Denise Scully Trust. MCTN LLC purchased the 135.4-acre course in 2003 for the paltry sum of $825,000, according to records supplied by the El Paso County Assessor’s Office and the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office. Judd has met with Miles Scully — a San
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‘It is too much, with no limits. I might have supported the measure with a smaller amount, and a Mill cap.’ David Cloud
Opponents of Measure 3A say ‘too much, no caps’
Dulces Granados helps four-year-old oxen pair Davy and Dandy make the turn with a log load, Tuesday (Oct. 22), in Monument. Photos by Rob Carrigan
Rare oxen pull living history down the trail
By Rob Carrigan
rcarrigan@ourcoloradonews.com
Fewer than 600 of breed exist in United States By Rob Carrigan “Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free.” — Epodes (c. 29 B.C.) For more than 2,000 years, it has been been a good idea to raise your own teams of Oxen. Rollie and Paula Johnson, with the help of their hired hand of the past nine years, Dulces Granados, have been doing just that, since 2006 at Three Eagles Ranch, just over the Douglas County line near Monument. The ranch is one of the few western ranches that raise American Milking Devon Oxen. “As some of the first cattle in America in 1623 two heifers and a bull from north Devonshire, England were received in the American colonies. In later
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Paula Johnson holds the beasts at bay as tow chokers are arranged Tuesday. years, other Devon cattle were imported and contributed to the American Devon which developed as the ideal multipurpose breed. No other cattle could surpass it for draft work (they can walk at
six miles an hour); the milk was high in butterfat content, making it excellent for cheese and cream; and the carcass Oxen continues on Page 6
Opponents of Measure 3A, the mill levy override for Lewis-Palmer School District 38 funding on the November ballot, say the district is asking for “way too much” and that there are “no controls.” David Cloud, a representative of Direction 38, a group that has opposed this, and previous mill levy override funding measures, was asked to boil down the groups concerns Friday. “It is too much, with no limits,” said Cloud Friday. “I might have supported the measure with a smaller amount, and a Mill cap.” Cloud suggested that others might have different reasons for opposing the measure, but his opposition is rooted in the district not considering a cap of perhaps 50 mills overall. Hilary Brendemuhl, also with Direction 38, cited the hardship on the local business community and the still difficult economy as reasons for her opposition. “There are so many people on fixed incomes in this community that can’t afford this,” says Brendemuhl, and identifies the higher rate business would have to pay because of the previous passage of the Gallagher Amendment. The amendment was enacted in 1982 concerning property tax assessments, and sets what some say is a disproportionate burden on business owners. She suggests some businesses may not survive the increase, or be able to pass it on as costs of doing business, and also says some of her concerns are related to “trust issues” with district officials and the board.
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