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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 27 • AUGUST 13, 2009

Survivors walk around the track at Carbondale Middle School during the ceremonial opening laps of the Relay for Life. They are holding a kite string with knots representing those who have made it through a battle with cancer. Photo by Julie Albrecht

Victory Laps t’s 2:30 in the morning Aug. 8 and a waning full moon coupled with the lights at Carbondale’s high school running track illuminate the dark sky. Hundreds of paper bag luminarias light up the track, guiding the way for valley locals walking laps in honor of loved ones who have battled cancer. The Roaring Fork Valley Relay For Life took place Aug. 7-8 at Carbondale Middle School, and for its ﬁfth year, walkers had raised approximately $128,000, with some donations yet to be turned in. The event is one of many held across the country to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. “We did so well for this economy. The valley residents and businesses did a great job,”said Redstone resident Betty Bradley, who served on the event organizing committee. Although major sponsors were down this year, Bradley said the event’s loyal sponsors still made the event a success, as well the new sponsors that came on board. “It was just a miracle that last month, people started

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giving,” she added. Within the last month, donations rose sharply and the event started to take shape to live up to its reputation as a “pace-setting” fundraiser in the region. Plus, new teams and walkers came on board, and “their enthusiasm is over the top,” Bradley said. Additionally, it’s good to spread awareness among new participants, she said. Money raised goes toward cancer research and support programs. In the valley, the new Look Good Feel Better program was launched through the American Cancer Society. The ACS plans to open a new volunteer-run cancer resource center at Valley View Hospital within the month. The center offers support to cancer patients and their families through high-quality, timely, and understandable information to newly diagnosed cancer patients and their caregivers. “It’s a direct result of our relay being so successful,” Bradley said.

About 350 participants were involved in last weekend’s Relay For Life. As part of the event, volunteers also organized kick-off festivities with mayors from Basalt, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs and Aspen; a catered reception for survivors; and a luminaria ceremony with guest speakers from the community. During the event, which began Friday evening, teams of eight to 15 people took laps around the track relaystyle through the night, representing the fact that cancer never sleeps. While they’re walking through the night, participants can take part in activities such as the popular cardboard limousine race, the hula hoop race, and scavenger hunt; or simply reflect on the hundreds of friends, neighbors and family members for whom they walk. And those like Bradley walk for future generations. “I always say I really, honestly do it for my grandkids. I would love to see a world free of cancer for them,” she said.“I’m not a researcher I can’t find the cure. So I’m helping raise the money for those researchers to find a cure.” The new cancer center is accepting volunteers. For more information, email Judy.morehouse@cancer.org or call 970-254-5582.

Carbondale Commentary

Too tall for this town? When it comes to growth and development, there are plenty of proposals to talk about in Carbondale. But of the handful of projects being planned around town, the Village at Crystal River has, at least in terms of sheer size and density, the greatest potential to transform the overall look and feel of Carbondale. The most recent proposal has been discussed by Carbondale’s Planning & Zoning Commission at a handful of meetings since April, and P&Z commissioners have called the proposal too dense. So it’s a safe bet that portions of the proposal will shrink before any bulldozers start breaking ground. We reported for our August 6 edition, the Village proposal calls for 280 residential units, 24 potential employee-housing units and between 125,000 and 145,000 square feet of commercial space to be built on 24 acres bordering north Highway 133. That latest rendition of the proposed residential component would have been as dense as the most crowded apartment complex in Carbondale — the Garfield Avenue apartments with 56 units on 1.56 acres. But the size and the density of the Village proposal aren’t the only things that have set us talking here at The Sun, it’s the fact that developer Schierburg and the Peregrine Development Group have asked for a variance to include buildings as tall as 40 feet high throughout the parcel. On top of that, he has asked for permission to build two 65-foot-tall apartment buildings. In terms of the issues that accompany growth, building heights probably aren’t the most significant. But they are one of the most visceral. For Carbondale, 65-foot structures are nearly skyscrapers. We agree with P&Z commission member Lorey Esquibel that 60-foot buildings don’t belong in Carbondale. As of now, downtown zoning rules allow a maximum building height of 36 feet, and the rezoning proposed for downtown under the so-called “Overlay” would only allow building heights to climb to 42 feet. But are these just gut-level reactions? While tall buildings may bring along with them the traffic, obstruction of views, and other problems associated with density, there are some arguments to be made for them. For example, growing up instead of out will allow Carbondale to grow without sacrificing open space, and multi-unit buildings use and conserve energy more efficiently. That’s a benefit that Carbondale, with its ambitious energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission goals, may not want to overlook. On July 28, P&Z commissioners did ask Schierburg to lower the heights of those two tall buildings (as well as some others throughout the project) and he agreed to do so, but not without mentioning that he didn’t see much difference between the 60foot buildings included in his proposal, and the 42-foot buildings that could be allowed just a few blocks away on Main Street. Esquibel also went on the record saying she was uncomfortable with that sort of thinking, arguing that it would lead Carbondale down a slippery slope toward taller and taller buildings. It’s not hard to share her unease. There’s something mind-bending about picturing two six-story buildings in what is currently a hay field. Such edifices would say “city” instead of “town,” and will probably make many Carbondalians shake their heads at the way their hometown is losing – or at least changing – its character as it grows.

emissions, let’s put some air in our tires. Read the shaded fine print on your sidewall and it likely tells you maximum pressure is 44 pounds per square inch! PR-injected conventional wisdom advises us that tires are happiest at 35 pounds per square inch, but don’t believe it. The last round of federal fuel economy rules, to increase efficiency in cars, achieved an extra three miles per gallon by adding that 10 pounds to the tire pressure. Running tires under-inflated makes them run hotter and wear out faster. The car uses more gas, and resistance shortens the life of the vehicle. Get trucker-smart and air up to the max. John Hoffmann Carbondale

A few words from Lincoln Dear Editor: With our president being so interested in Abraham Lincoln, I thought it would be appropriate to have one of Lincoln’s famous quotes in your paper. It is good to have The Sopris Sun for a Carbondale paper. Ditty Perry Carbondale You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character

and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. ~ attributed to Abraham Lincoln

Good gyrations Dear Editor: Roaring Fork Family Resource Centers wants to thank all the heroes who volunteered at our gyro booth at the Carbondale Mountain Fair. Thanks to all the great teams who worked in 90-degree weather, including: the River Valley Ranch Loopers, all the RFSD teachers Judy Haponstall, Becky Loveless of Dancing Pickle Catering, Tim Mason of the Glenwood Canyon Brewing Company, John Steele of Shamrock Foods, the Thursday veggie-chopping team and The Be a Hero Dancers: Kellie Ulrich and Jeannette Whitcomb. Thanks also to the Roaring Fork School District and the Crystal River Elementary School for the use of their kitchen. Special thanks go to the children and teenagers who volunteered their time and learned about being involved in our community: Jack, Kira, and Mikey Willis, Tanner Jadwin, Evrett Marr, Abigail and Hayden Reilly, Dustin Belcher, Noe and Nelly Gomez, Savanna Bristol, Jessica Hardin, Miguel Fabela and Max Ramge. See you all next Mountain Fair! Katie Marshall Roaring Fork Family Resource Centers

Correction: In our July 30 Scuttlebutt section we incorrectly reported that a handful of fence rails and a post had been stolen from Sopris Park on Mountain Fair Weekend. They were actually removed by Carbondale’s public works department.

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Be cool, and climate savvy Dear Editor: I read in Science News that the sun is at solar minimum. Cooler now, it’s producing the fewest heat-radiating, coronal ejections since 1928. We can expect reduced sunspot activity until 2013. But don’t be fooled by the reprieve. The mean temperature of the planet is still on the rise. It’s reacting to forest decimation, ocean degradation and carbon dioxide levels that are rising 1,000 times faster than at any time in the last 400,000 years. We have a small chance to reduce carbon dioxide and ocean killing toxins, and plant forests. If we don’t, we risk releasing the methane permeating vast, frozen tundra. Though carbon dioxide takes 10 years to dissipate 2 • THE SOPRIS SUN • AUGUST 13, 2009

once the source abates, methane – an even more effective greenhouse gas – takes 100 years to dissipate after the source is cut off! Some tricks for cutting carbon footprints in the summer are to utilize the ground temperature – 52 degrees – to cool home and workplace. Draw the curtains on the intense sun in west- and east-facing windows. Get light from the north and switch hot 100-watt bulbs for compact fluorescent (CFL) 20-watt ones. Close up the house in winter. Open indoor doors and vents to the basement and let cool air flow. If you live on a concrete main floor, even better: that floor warms us in the winter and cools in the summer. Count on it and optimize! To reduce automotive carbon dioxide

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Plans for GarCo open space program percolate again By Jeremy Heiman A small group of Garfield County residents has begun meeting to explore the idea of developing an open space preservation program for the county. Martha Cochran, executive director of the Aspen Valley Land Trust, said the group has been meeting since late July, and is mainly involved in a fact-gathering process. It currently numbers six or seven core members. “It’s the very beginning stages of idea sharing,” she said. At this time, Cochran said, no formal organization has taken shape, and the group does not have a name. “There seems to be a pretty committed group of people,” said Jock Jacober, a Fourmile Road resident who has attended recent meetings. The idea of a downvalley agency to purchase open space and place conservation easements on agricultural land has simmered on the back burner in eastern Garfield County since a proposed open space tax failed narrowly in the fall election in 2000. But the recent talks were spurred by Pitkin County’s apparent refusal to support a quick Congressional process for finalizing a land exchange involving the 520-acre Sutey ranch on Missouri Heights and a 1,268-acre parcel on the north flank of Mount Sopris.

Preliminary meetings have been held for a new open space program that could ensure horns like these will have all the room they need in Garﬁeld County. Photo by Jane Bachrach Jacober said that when the Sutey deal, which involved the federal Bureau of Land Management and circumvented any local process, was made public, people were reminded that there was no local land preservation mechanism. “It seemed appropriate to say, ‘Hey, what about those of us who live here?’” Jacober said.

A similar situation arose in 2007, when Westminster Swanson Land Partners LLC proposed a residential community on the Bershenyi and Martino ranches on Fourmile Road. The developers offered a 960acre parcel for a public park to Garﬁeld County and the city of Glenwood Springs. But both governments refused the offer, Jacober recalled. Neither had a mechanism in

place to manage open space. Approaches to preserving open space proposed in the recent meetings include the possibility of a program run by Garfield County, or a separate taxing district similar to the one nearly adopted in 2000. The boundaries of the 2000 district included portions of Eagle County and Garfield County in the Roaring Fork Watershed. But in 2002, Eagle County voters adopted a countywide open space preservation program; so the recent talks are focused solely on Garfield County, Cochran said. Meeting attendees have discussed, but not decided, whether the effort should include the whole of Garfield County, or just the more populated portion, from Parachute to the eastern border. Attendees have also discussed the programs adopted by other counties, to figure out what aspects of them might be adopted to suit local circumstances. “All of our neighbors have open space programs of some sort, and they’re all very different,” Cochran said. The Pitkin County Open Space and Trails Program was established in 1990 and funded by a property tax for acquiring open space and developing trails. To date, the Pitkin program has preserved over 15,500 acres of scenic open space, wildlife OPEN SPACE page 7

P&Z ready to talk about how to balance town’s growth Near-term improvements could include new turning lane on Highway 133 By Trina Ortega With the large Village at Crystal River development back under consideration, the town is once again looking at how to best expand Highway 133 north of Main Street to meet the needs of a growing community. The Planning & Zoning Commission this Thursday will begin a general discussion about the Comprehensive Plan, growth projections and Highway 133 improvements. The commission is currently reviewing the Village development, and as part of the process has been forced to look at how the proposal will affect the entrance to Carbondale. The proposal calls for between 160 and 300 residential units, a 60,000square-foot grocery store, and smaller commercial space on the 24 acres north of Main and along Highway 133. “What kind of character should that take on? The planning commission wants to come up with some kind of direction for the trustees,” said Doug Dotson, Carbondale’s community development director. Additionally, P&Z is reviewing how to make improvements to the state route – primarily by widening it. The Carbondale Board of Trustees has given town staff the green light to explore the possibility of adding a center turn lane from Main Street north to the Veterans Memorial Bridge at Highway 82. The center lane expansion would make it easier for drivers on the highway to make left turns. Currently, trafﬁc tends to stack

up behind anyone making such a turn, which often encourages other drivers to illegally squeeze to the outside to get around the turning vehicle. Such an expansion would be a “workable, affordable” solution that could buy Carbondale 15 years or so, even if the Village at Crystal River gets built out in that time, according to Dotson. A ballpark cost for the center lane project is $430,000. Dotson said staff will begin to research funding opportunities and meet with the Colorado Department of Transportation, but no timeline for actual roadwork has been set. In some spots, adding a center lane would require only minor work, such as resurfacing and painting new lines. But in a few places, such as in front of the Carbondale Co-op, sidewalks and ditches would need to be moved. Overall, however, “without a great deal of effort, we could probably have a nice highway,” Dotson said. “It’s a more logical progression in terms of the investment.” Carbondale is facing a number of different roads-related growth issues at the same time. So the P&Z is trying to coordinate all those pieces to result in better planning. The trustees currently are reviewing the Overlook development in the northeastern portion of town. To accommodate construction trafﬁc for that development, the town is considering an extension to Industry Place, which runs east-west and feeds

North Highway 133: The entrance into Carbondale. The Planning & Zoning Commission will be looking at how to make the state route more welcoming. Photo by Trina Ortega into Highway 133 at the Carbondale Coop and La Fontana Plaza. The plan would extend Industry Place to Eighth Street near the Rio Grande path. But meanwhile, the developer for the Village at Crystal River has proposed that his development’s main entrance be at Nieslanik Avenue and Highway 133, only 300 feet south of the Industry Place and Highway 133 intersection. Stoplights were originally proposed for both intersections, but “that could present timing and queuing problems related to trafﬁc lights so closely spaced,” Dotson said. As a solution, town planners have proposed two roundabouts, one at each intersection.

Dotson said he anticipates that the P&Z will hold upcoming public work sessions to gather input from community members and property owners on the Highway 133 corridor. Some of the concerns expected to come forth are pedestrian and bicycle access across Highway 133.

Next Steps:

The next P&Z meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13. The public is encouraged to attend. Public hearings on the Village at Crystal River will continue on Aug. 27 at Town Hall.

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News Briefs Five in the running for P&Z seat Five Carbondale residents have thrown their names in the hat to serve on the high-profile Planning & Zoning Commission for a term that begins Sept. 1. The voluntary seat will be held for four years. Current commission member Charlie Kees is among the five. The other citizens are Robert Comey, Michael Durant, Richard Goulding and David Powell. Kees, a landscape architect, was appointed as an alternate in July 2007 and became a full voting member in January. He said he wants to remain on the commission to ensure Carbondale grows more compactly to discourage sprawl. His recent appointment to the new Affordable Housing Advisory Committee will strengthen his role as a P&Z member, he says. Comey has experience in public lands management, which he says has given him the opportunity to “look at development and associated human impacts on a landscape level.” As a member of the Environmental Board, Comey has also worked on the town’s Green Building Code and energy plan. With more than 30 years of business management experience, Durant says he can “understand complex issues, evaluate the merits of competing priorities based on law and town policy, formulate trade-offs that result in workable outcomes.” Durant believes Carbondale must balance residential density, open space, and affordable housing while still making it reasonable for developers to build. Goulding is a licensed civil engineer with 10 years of involvement in land use review. Goulding says “traffic generation and drainage, as well as the capacity of existing utilities” are major issues facing new development. He supports a master plan approach to address these issues versus a lot-by-lot approval system. Powell is the owner of Timberline Engineering and

Adobe Designs design/build company. He has served as a planner or an engineer on design teams within the land development community for 18 years. Some of his projects have included the North 40, Burlingame Seasonal Housing, Stirling Ranch PUD, Carbondale Mini-Storage, Carbondale Community School, and Flying Dog Ranch. The P&Z will review the candidates and make a selection at its meeting on Aug. 13.

Peter Hart, staff attorney for the Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop, called the prediction that drilling could start in early 2010, “a bit ambitious.” A ruling on the lawsuit is expected in September. The suit challenges the legality of the guidelines issued by the BLM for energy development on the plateau near Riﬂe.

Roan Plateau drilling: probably not next year In an Aug. 5 article published in the Denver Post, an executive of Bill Barrett Corp., the company that holds the lion’s share of natural gas leases on the contested Roan Plateau, was quoted as saying that he expects drilling could begin by early 2010. But with a lawsuit challenging the drilling still under consideration in court, such predictions may be premature. The Bill Barrett employee quoted in the Denver Post article was Chief Operating Ofﬁcer Joe Jaggers. But Bill Barrett’s Vice President of governmental and regulatory affairs, Duane Zavadil, told The Sun the timeline may be slightly longer. Zavadil said the federal judge considering the case may call for additional environmental review, particularly regarding the climate change implications involved, and smog emissions. But Zavadil said he understand the judge, in ruling, has a wide range of options. “There’s a very wide range of outcomes from the legal process, and some of those could have a very limited impact on the schedule, and some could have a much more dramatic impact on schedule,” he said. “If, in fact, there is a limited number of discrepancies we think we could be drilling by 2010.”

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What’s this? Is Carbondale actually in 18th place among Colorado ski towns in an environmental contest? It’s true. Carbondale is sucking wind trying to catch up with the likes of Vail, and even (gasp) Gypsum. And guess who’s in the lead. Basalt. The contest is the Colorado Association of Ski Towns Reusable Bag Challenge, a six-month contest to see which town can avoid using the most plastic shopping bags. As of Aug. 1, Basalt is indeed in the lead, and Summit County, which is registered as one town, is in second place. But Carbondale may have an excuse. The contest started in March, and Carbondale didn’t even start participating until June, missing half the contest. Ana Hindelang, Carbondale organizer for the CAST Bag Challenge, said that each town made arrangements with some of its prominent stores, and the stores have kept track of how many reusable bags their customers ﬁll each month during the challenge. Organizers ﬁgure that that number equals the number of plastic bags that have been saved. The scores are adjusted to account for the difference in town populations. In Carbondale, participating stores include City Market, Ace Hardware, and Theresa’s Market. According to statistics from Carbondale Energy Manager Josh

Smith, City Market customers filled 10,234 reusable bags in June, and 11,049 in July. Steve Stilson, assistant store manager at Carbondale’s City Market, said what he doesn’t know is whether City Market actually saves money by not handing out plastic (or paper) bags. He said his store, and others in the chain, are doing their own BYOB (bring your own bag) promotions, independent of the contest, because it’s good for the community. “It’s more of a good-neighbor thing, an environmental thing,” Stilson said. David Allen, of Telluride, who organized the bag challenge, said that overall he considers the contest a success so far. “It’s been a great project,” Allen said. By the end of July, the participating towns had saved an estimated 2,408,055 singleuse plastic bags. Allen, who is not connected with CAST, said the idea for the challenge came from his attempt get a bag ordinance passed in Telluride. Telluride’s town council nixed the idea, so Allen got in touch with some of his contacts around Colorado, including Nathan Ratledge of the Community Office of Resource Efficiency (CORE), and eventually was able to get CAST involved. Since then, Allen has been overseeing the contest and doing the calculations strictly on a volunteer basis. The winning town stands to win a

$10,000 grant toward installing solar panels on a public school. Alpine Bank and PCL Construction are providing the grant. In spite of Carbondale’s late start, Hindelang said, the contest is a good thing for Carbondale (and all the other towns) because it’s bound to get a lot of people excited about using their fabric shopping bags, not just when they go to the participating stores, but every time they buy something. The bag challenge ends at the end of August, and a miraculous come-from-behind victory is probably not in the cards for Carbondale. But Hindelang is already looking toward next year, even though CAST hasn’t mentioned plans for a 2010 contest. “If we can get it to continue, that would be wonderful,” she said. “Maybe if this challenge is done next year, we can get more business owners to apply, and to be more interested in making their businesses more sustainable.” But Allen said he doesn’t plan to run the contest again. He has bigger aspirations, which include expanding bag consciousness to more towns and more people, and to get the towns involved in organizing bag programs. “I’d rather see a little more progress, rather than moving laterally,” Allen said. “The whole point of this was to create a friendly competition that will create a new habit.”

is fall promises plenty of fare for Carbondale bookworms Two literary events will visit the Carbondale area this fall. The Gordon Cooper Library’s selection for this fall’s One Book One Town community reading program is “Plainsong” by Kent Haruf. Copies can be borrowed from the Gordon Cooper Library and purchased at local bookstores. Set in the ﬁctional town of Holt, Colo., “Plainsong” is a National Book Award ﬁnalist that tells the interlocking stories of residents in a small community. Haruf will be in town Oct. 14-15 for a community presentation and dialogue, as

well as a discussion with Roaring Fork High School students. This is the sixth year that The Friends of the Gordon Cooper Library have organized One Book One Town events. Past authors have included Greg Mortenson and Aryn Kyle. In another community reading event, Colorado Mountain College is inviting the community to read “The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur” as part of the third annual Common Reader Program. “The Translator” was written by Daoud Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman who grew up

in a village in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 2003, militia attacks destroyed Hari’s village. Hari escaped and, when international aid groups and reporters arrived, he risked his life by offering his services as a translator and guide. The Sudanese government outlawed journalists in the region, and aiding the “foreign spies” was punishable by death. Hari will tell his story to students and the public during his Nov. 2-6 visit to Colorado Mountain College campuses and sites in Riﬂe, Aspen, Glenwood Springs, and other CMC campuses.

Sunday, Aug. 2 1:12 a.m. Police found three women fighting on the ground near the Black Nugget on Main Street. Two were cited for disorderly conduct. Wednesday, Aug. 5 1:15 a.m. Carbondale police helped transport a suicidal man to Valley View Hospital. Wednesday, Aug. 5 1:30 p.m. A woman reported that, on several recent occasions, she had seen an unknown man sitting in his car in front of her house on Holland Drive and apparently watching her. On one occasion the man nodded at her. The woman’s teenage daughter drove home to find the man sitting in his car watching her. Afraid to leave her car, the daughter drove away and returned later. Wednesday, Aug. 5 6:05 p.m. Police were dispatched to Highway 133 after receiving a report that an adult had assaulted a minor. They issued summonses to two people for third degree assault. Wednesday, Aug. 5 11:10 p.m. Police received a report that a group of people were intoxicated, making a lot of noise and driving recklessly on Barber Drive. Officers arrested one person for driving under the influence and for a committing hit and run. Thursday, Aug. 6 10:20 p.m. A woman called from Marble Court to report that a strange man had jumped the fence into her yard. He jumped out again before police arrived. Thursday, Aug. 6 11:54 p.m. A man reported that his roommate’s red cruiser bicycle of unknown make was missing from Meadowood Drive. Sunday, Aug. 9 4 a.m. On Fourth Street, a woman reported that her boyfriend physically attacked her. Police took her boyfriend into custody. Monday, Aug. 10 10 2:26 p.m. Carbondale police responded to a report of an assault in progress in Redstone. They secured the scene until Pitkin County officers arrived.

Calling all historic photos The Mt. Sopris Historical Society needs your old pictures! The Society is looking for all sorts of old photos of Carbondale – people, buildings, events and whatever else. If you want to hang on to the originals, the society can scan the photos and return them to you. Call Linda at 963-9371, or talk to any Historical Society board member to arrange for your old photographs to become an ofﬁcial part of Carbondale history.

Monday, Aug. 10 7:15 a.m. A man reported that his wallet had been stolen from his car on Dolores Way, and that his credit had card had been used at 7-11 on the night of Aug. 9. Monday, Aug. 10 10:35 a.m. Ofﬁcers helped transport an 11-month old boy suffering from a fever and seizures. Delivering the ﬁrst load of wooden pipes to be used for the new Carbondale water system, October 1910. Photo courtesy of Mt. Sopris Historical Society THE SOPRIS SUN • AUGUST 13, 2009 • 5

Scuttlebutt The Moonlight Cruisers Confusion

The ladies of Rebekah's lodge, who also run the Near New Store, recently sent Daniel Pulver to the East Coast on a United Nations Pilgrimage Trip. Pulver is a senior at Roaring Fork High School, and was selected by his teachers for the journey. Pictured from left are Mindy Langston, Daniel Pulver, Nellie LaJoy, Louise Holgate, Donna Natal, Emma Natal and Jewel Schuster.

Crusin’ after hours According to a reliable source, after the Moonlight Cruisers put their instruments to bed and tucked them in, they went over to Amber Sparkles’ place to join her and about 30 friends who were chowing down on a yummy, very dense chocolate birthday cake baked by Drea Marsh. The Cruisers also brought along their tequila and you know what that means. In a conversation with the Cruisers, the guys revealed they like Carbondale more than any other town, city or state they have been to, in the U.S.A or not.

“We love the people in Carbondale,” guitar player Al Martinez said. In fact, next year they want to return during Mountain Fair and bring their families because they want them to see how wonderful Carbondale is. Let’s hope there’s a full moon during Mountain Fair 2010 because the Moonlight Cruisers would really like to go on a Moonlight Cruiser bike ride. No kidding. They would also like to bring some acoustic instruments and play music while they ride. Hopefully CCAH will ask them to play at Mountain Fair too.

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According to a semi-reliable source, there was a bit of confusion last week regarding the Moonlight Cruisers. Folks were confusing the Moonlight Cruisers with the Moonlight Cruisers and CCAH received several calls about the Moonlight Cruisers (bicyclists) making too much noise on Wednesday night during their ride. Why call CCAH? Their Moonlight Cruisers (musicians) didn’t even arrive in town until Saturday. The Moonlight Cruisers (bicyclists) were confused too because the full moon wasn’t scheduled until Thursday night, so they rode too soon. Just ignore the noise. It only lasts for a minute and those noisemakers – well, they’re the voices of the community simply having a good time. What’s wrong with that?

Sopris Sun gets some airtime The Sopris Sun received a little airtime on KNFO's "Con Games" earlier this week. The airing out occurred during host Michael Conniff's interview with Aspen Institute spokesman Charles Firestone as part of the pre-event promotion for the institute's upcoming FOCAS 2009: Models for Preserving American Journalism. Firestone was telling Conniff about ways in which newspapers are trying to survive. Then he went into a fair amount of detail about how the Sopris Sun rose from the ashes of the old Valley Journal as a nonproﬁt newspaper. Firestone seemed to be pretty familiar with The Sun. We hope The Sopris Sun also shines during FOCAS 2009, which will be held Aug. 16-19 and feature well-known journalism and industry ﬁgures from around the U.S., including Craig Newmark of Craig's List, and Vivian Schiller of National Public Radio.

Was it an apparition? Or was that really Martha Rideout DVM at the Moonlight Cruisers concert? If it was Martha, we’re wondering if she rode into town to visit or to stay for a while. Hey Martha, if that was you, can you please contact the Sopris Sun before you Rideout? We’d like to know what you’re up to.

Cook and Clark each ﬁnish ﬁrst Mark Cook and David Clark, both of Carbondale, traveled to Boulder last weekend to compete in a triathlon. Not only did

they both ﬁnish, they both took ﬁrst place in their respective age groups. Nice goin’ Cook and Clark.

Happy belated birthday Amber Sparkles, Nuria Moya, Mark Taylor, Levon Allnite, and the town of Carbondale’s feng shui expert, Tony Coia.

Doing some double takes Folks motoring into and out of town on Catherine Store Road are doing double takes as they drive past Paul and Celia Nieslanik’s east pasture. Turns out the tall, stationary figures that are turning heads are not actual ranch hands out standing in their fields. They are authentic scarecrows. Two of them. The scarecrows are out there earning their keep by putting fear into geese, who have a habit of mucking up golf courses, pastures and other flat surfaces with their poop. The scarecrows’ appearance prompted some ‘Bonedalers to speculate the straw figures are escapees from the upcoming Burn Man Festival in California. The Sopris Sun, however, does not believe this to be true.

Dressage at “Les Corbeaux” Barbara McElnea reports that her ranch (“Les Corbeaux”) will host a dressage schooling show on Aug. 19. Spectators are welcome at no charge and the ranch is located on Catherine Store Road in Missouri Heights, just east of CR 102. Please leave your dogs at home, but bring a folding chair. For more info, go to awww.aspendressage.com.

And in other belated news Carbondale’s Mollie Honan graduated from George Fox University in Oregon this spring. She earned a bachelor’s degree in writing and literature, and made her way on to the Dean’s List to boot. We writerly types at The Sopris Sun wish her the best of luck if she does decide to pursue a writing career – and we wish her the best of luck with whatever she decides to do.

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Restoration dollars go to Emma town site By Trina Ortega The Pitkin County Open Space and Trails Department has been awarded $278,325 from the Colorado State Historic Fund to assist with the protection of the Emma Store buildings located along Highway 82 near the Emma intersection. This property, including a half mile of riparian lands on the banks of the Roaring Fork River, was purchased by the Open Space Department for $2.6 million last summer with a $250,000 contribution from the Basalt Open Space fund. Before the Pitkin County Open Space Program purchased the property and performed some initial renovations on the buildings, the structures were dilapidated and at risk of crumbling apart completely. The buildings are among the few examples of 19th century commercial architecture to have survived in the Roaring Fork Valley. Pitkin County Open Space and Trails Director Dale Will compares them in importance to Aspen’s Jerome Hotel and Wheeler Opera House.

The two buildings represent a bygone agricultural era in the mid-valley, where local farm products were traded for wares brought in on the Rio Grande Railroad. The rails have now been replaced by a valleywide trail system that brings thousands of pedestrians and cyclists near the Emma town site every year. Heirloom fruit trees planted on the site in the nineteenth century survive as well, providing a living link to the valley’s heritage. The $278,325 awarded by State Historic Fund comprises 58 percent of the estimated $477,819 needed to put on new roofs and reestablish waterproof shells for two large buildings. The Open Space Department needs approximately $100,000 in further fundraising needed to move forward on the new roof and weatherprooﬁng for the Emma buildings. To date, the Open Space Fund has invested $121,000 to stabilize the structure walls until long term planning for their use can be conducted.

Pitkin County was awarded $278,325 from the State Historic Fund to restore the Emma Store buildings, which are among the most sophisticated 19th century commercial architectural structures in the valley. Photo by Trina Ortega

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Watch for Troll sightings! Our favorite Troll has gone ethereal! You may see him popping out from behind a bush (scaring the girls) or, since he’s a tree troll by lineage, you may ﬁnd him hanging out of a tree with a Trollish grin just when you think you’re alone. But rest assured, he will be popping in on each of you for a laugh or two. Bring your favorite Troll stories and come to the celebration of his amazing life on Sept. 20. Place to be announced.

Open space plans continued om page 3 habitat, and agricultural landscapes. The Eagle County Open Space Advisory Committee provides recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners for preserving valuable open land. The program is funded by a 1.5 mill levy on property in Eagle County. Mesa County’s approach was to institute a Technical Resources Advisory Committee, which provides land conservation guidance to landowners and residents. The group has also discussed potential funding mechanisms, weighing whether it would make more sense to attempt to collect money through a sales tax or a property tax, or by reallocating funds already being collected by the county. Funding attracts funding, Cochran said. She pointed out that signiﬁcant sums are available from the state and federal governments for land preservation when local matching funds are put forward. Pitkin County, for example, has been very successful at getting Colorado lottery money from Great Outdoors Colorado, better known as GOCO. Other potential funding sources include the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service, a federal fund for conservation of ranch lands; and the Colorado Division of Wildlife, which grants money for the purchase of good quality wildlife habitat. But

these grant sources require matching money. Because Garfield County doesn’t currently have a program to attract grants, it leaves millions of dollars of available funding on the table each year, Cochran said. “You have to show local support,” Cochran said. The current recession makes it both a good time and a bad time to start a push for an open space conservation agency, Cochran said. Several large ranches are on the market in Garfield County. Examples are the Argonaut Ranch on Fourmile Road, the Storm King Ranch on the edge of West Glenwood, Spring Valley Ranch near the CMC campus and the former Sanders Ranch at Cattle Creek and Highway 82. Prices are depressed due to lack of demand. Further, the frantic development of housing and of natural gas has slowed in the area. Some of the boom town people have moved on, leaving a more stable population of long-term residents who care about their surroundings, and would tend to support preservation of open space. But ironically, it’s not good time to expect people to institute a new tax on themselves. “It’s a difficult economy to ask people to fund an open space program,” Cochran said.

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Brits bring “real” football to Carbondale kids By Allyn Harvey Five coaches from Great Britain just finished up a week-long camp in Carbondale, where they taught children ages 4-16 about the virtues of the game and how to kick harder, pass more sharply and move up the field with greater effect and agility. The weeklong camp featured the running and drills and scrimmages that kids all around the country experience every summer at soccer camp. The coaches also spent a fair amount of time working on improving the skills of individual players. “It’s all about making good players better — that’s something that makes this camp different,” Aaron Dallas, the local organizer, said. The Challenger Sports’ British Soccer Camp program has been around for more than two decades. It sends coaches from Great Britain to teach the game in all 50 states, Canada and Australia. The coaches are in their 20s and 30s mostly, and each brings an impressive set of credentials. Sophie Dewar, for instance, spent years playing at the club level with the Hull City Ladies, and was a member of her university team. Daren Smith, another coach in Carbondale during the first week in August, played semi-professional football in Great Britain. And David Healy played

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club soccer in Birmingham and was a member of his university team for four years. They all are certified in coaching as well. On the last morning of camp, Friday, Aug. 7, there were four games under way on the Triangle Park field. Coaches were refereeing the games and instructing the kids on technique, sportsmanship and whatever else the moment demanded. Parents lined the fields, quietly rooting for their favorite player. All of the players were between 6 and 9 and wearing jerseys to represent a national team — six teams in all, including Great Britain, Turkey, Russia, Jamaica, Scotland and Italy — in the “2009 World Cup of Carbondale.” A goal in the final minute by the Italians sealed the championship and the makeshift trophy that went with their win. But none of the kids on any of the other teams looked too unhappy with the result. “I like the globalness of it all,” says Devin Padgett, whose 8-year-old son Riley is in camp for a second year. The kids in Riley’s age group were asked by the coaches to learn more about the country whose jersey they wore. So Riley and dozens of others spent their evenings learning and talking about the countries they were playing for.

At the Challenger Sports’ British Soccer Camp, Carbondale kids learned about soccer and foreign nations – and evidently spirit as well. Photo courtesy of Mark Burrows/ RFVPhotos.com.

Challenger Sports has more than 800 coaches working in the United States. Currently, there are 40 coaches in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico teaching weeklong camps. The coaches spend the week staying with host families in the communities, which gives them a taste of life in America. On Aug. 5, all ﬁve coaches got a taste of Carbondale when they were packed onto

bicycles and sent careening through town with 250 other riders out for the moonlight ride. Carbondale’s sport proved as much a hit with the Brits as England’s is with us Americans. “I’ve stayed with 30 different families over two years now, and I haven’t got a bad word to say about any of them,” said David Healey, who is in his second year coaching for Challenger Sports.

Training for fitness and focus By Jane Bachrach The aromatic scent of pine sets the tone for your early morning workout. You tune in to your breathing and don’t even notice the steam that escapes your mouth as your warm exhalations meet the cold air around you. It’s 5:30 a.m. and you’re in the “zone.” You’ve completed mile five, and now six and seven will seem effortless. You’re relaxed, in tune with your body. A distant but loud growl pierces the silence, and you’re drawn out of “the zone,” as it quickly becomes a roar. The smell of gasoline and exhaust permeates the air and fills your nostrils. You can’t quit, but the high screech of truck brakes infiltrate your brain and you have to stop. You can’t stand it. A gas guzzling, noisy, smelly truck that shouldn’t be allowed on these mountain highways anyway has once again halted your workout. You’ve searched everywhere for quiet places to run but there’s always some kind of disruption that ruins your experience. Only four more weeks to go before you pack your bags and head out to compete in your first triathlon. Your biking and water workouts have gone swimmingly. You can focus in the pool and have found some awesome back roads where you can train on your bike. Unless you get out on the road by 4:30 a.m., the noise and traffic are a problem for you. So you cut down your miles in order

to complete your run before the noise and foul smells take over. Your frustration grows and you cut your miles even more. You know you have potential and want to compete, but there’s this issue about not being able to focus. On the other hand, aren’t you better off than a person that is frustrated because he or she doesn’t know how to get started? Think about the person who hates to run, doesn’t know how to swim and doesn’t have the energy to pedal far on a bike. Doesn’t that person have a much steeper hill to climb? Compared to them, you’re not so bad off. Though you have different issues, you are both in the same boat. You don’t know how to solve your problem and you feel helpless so you give up. You’re not alone, and now you don’t have to give up or quit because there is an answer; and it’s right here in Carbondale. Ashley Naegele started team Mindful Sports two years ago. Naegele is a sports psychologist who works with athletes nationwide on both the physical and mental aspects of competing. She is also a triathlete herself. A few years ago, friends started asking her to help them train for triathlons, and before long she realized she could help a lot of people. Team Mindful Sports (TMS) resulted. It’s a spin-off from her work as a sports psychologist. Naegele started TMS in 2008 with eight athletes, and for most of 2009 that number

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A partial team photo of the Mindful Sports triathalon team. Submitted photo has tripled. “About 5 percent of my clients are elite athletes, i.e. world and national champions,” Naegele said. The bulk of her team, however, consists of recreational athletes who are either bored with training, or athletes who like to train in a group to be competitive. Naegele says she has been successful. “Most of my team members tend to be podium finishers in their age groups,” she said proudly. Last Saturday, 11 TMS members competed in the Aspen Triathlon, and of the 11 on the team, five placed in the top three spots. Competing as a team is truly the fun part. “I wanted this to be a high quality team so I hired Carrie Messner Vickers as my running coach,” Naegele said. Messer Vickers placed in the top three in Nationals and third in the 2004 Olympic Trials. Darren Broome works with the cyclists. He is a certified cycling coach who runs Ute City Cycles in Carbondale and lived in Hawaii for 10 years while coaching. Naegele, who was a competitive swimmer and qualified for the 2000 Olympic trials, trains the swimmers. “People were coming out of the woodwork to compete in triathlons so I wanted to hire somebody more triathlon specific,” Naegele said. She hired David Clark as program coordinator and triathlon coach. Clark has participated in a number of triathlons himself. He also coaches cycling and is a certified triathlon coach.

TMS Members According to Naegele, the team is coed, and the average age of clients is 35 – 40 with a few in their late 20’s and late 50’s. She has adults 40 – 60 who have been athletic and are looking for new challenges and many of them want to try triathlons. “We also have a woman in her forties who has never been athletic and wanted to get into shape. Her story is amazing,” Naegele said. When Sherri Harrison joined TMS in 2008, she could barely swim one length of the pool.“Ashley was fantastic and patient,”Harrison said. “Getting over my fear was the biggest thing for me. I was mostly afraid and had a lot of doubt as to whether I could attain my goals. Sometimes I was afraid of the water during some of the drills, like when we did

such things as swimming with one arm,” Harrison said.“Having your face in the water and being in the water to swim nonstop for 20 minutes was a long time,” she added. Afraid or not, Harrison literally dove right in and decided she wanted to compete in a triathlon. “The challenge of doing three different disciplines was so attractive and the team aspect was great. There weren’t as many people then, (in 2008), about a dozen or so and they were very supportive.” “I really, really didn’t like to run but Carrie [Messner Vickers] was awesome. I was one of the only ones that came to running classes,” Harrison said. We’d run up White Hill and I was thinking I was going to die but she pushed me through. Running is the hardest to me cause all you have is you.” Harrison started training in May and her ﬁrst race occurred two months later in July of 2008. Then she completed two more triathlons in late summer and early fall. Harrison said that, mentally and physically, she faced a huge challenge because she had never done sports before. “I was a rags to riches poster child for being not athletic. Every race I completed was like a milestone for me,” she said. Naegele stresses the importance of preparing not just physically but psychologically as well. So she incorporates goal setting into the program. She teaches athletes to be very clear about what they’re trying to achieve, breaking that down and making an action plan to achieve that goal.“It’s important to be speciﬁc and clear and set benchmarks,” Naegele says.

Being Mindful Being “mindful” is important to Naegele. “It means that we care for each person not only as an athlete but as a human being. When you’re healthier and more balanced you have more to give. You have more conﬁdence and self esteem, so you want to take that and give it to someone else. My hope is that we’re starting to create this in their sports and take it to the next step and give it to the world. I want to bring awareness about how people’s physical health and their talents can play a role in the greater good,” she said. For rates and details go to www.teammindfulsports.com or you can call team director Ashley Naegele at 970/355-4734 THE SOPRIS SUN • AUGUST 13, 2009 • 9

Community Briefs Bike polo tourney inbound

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The Stomparillaz will host a bike polo pony tournament on Aug. 15 in the field behind the Bridges Center (the old middle school). Newcomers to the sport are welcome to come out and give it a try. Bring a bike, a helmet and full-fingered gloves. The group is also looking for women to play since the Durango MalletHeads will be bringing a four-person women’s team. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and games start at 10 a.m. The finals are at 5 p.m. Registration is free. For more information, visit stomparillaz.blogspot.com. Call Steve “Z” G. Novy at 309-2023 to register.

The town of Carbondale and Zeta Epsilon sorority are currently accepting nominations for two honors: Man of the Year, and Woman of the Year. The titles will go to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the community by volunteering. The honorees will be recognized at the Carbondale board of trustees meeting on Sept. 8, 2009. They will also serve as grand marshals for the 100th annual running of the Potato Day Parade on Sept. 19. Nomination forms are available at Carbondale Town Hall. The deadline for submitting the forms is Aug. 28. Drop them off where you picked them up, or fax them to 963-8084. For more information call 963-0161.

Time to bust out the volleyballs Practice for fall sports at Roaring Fork High School will begin on Monday, Aug. 17 at the high school. To participate, students will need to have a physical on ﬁle with the school. Football practice will be held weekdays from 7 to 9 a.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m., and on Saturdays at 10 a.m. Volleyball practice will occur at the same times, but only on weekdays. Soccer practice will be held weekdays from 7 to 8 a.m. and from 5 to 7 p.m. Golf practice started on Monday, Aug. 10. For more information call 384-5757 and ask for Larry Williams. For more information on any of the above sports, contact RFHS Athletic Director Greg Holley at 987-1943.

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Potato Bake Off volunteers needed Carbondale’s 100th Potato Day will take place this year on the weekend of Sept. 18-20. On Friday night, Potato Day attendees will get to dance to the groovy tunes of the Heart of the Rockies band at the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center. Saturday’s events will include The Fossil Trot, a parade, farmers’ market, horseshoe contest, and pit barbeque in Sopris Park. And Saturday night, The Redtones will perform live in the gazebo. On Sunday, Sept. 20, the Bareback Bonanza will be held at the Gus Darien Arena.

The Potato Day Committee is currently looking for a volunteer to organize and hold the Potato Bake Off. Vendors for the farmers’ market are needed as well. For information or to volunteer, call 963-3744.

Guitar showdown set for KDNK Blues and BBQ Live blues and roots music, a local barbecue featuring Jacober Brothers local beef, an award-winning slaw recipe, luau-style pork, barbecue chicken, Olathe sweet corn, hot dogs, locally made desserts and plenty of napkins will be served at the annual KDNK Blues and BBQ set for 2-9 p.m. Aug. 22 at the Fourth Street Plaza. So start up your saliva glands. While you eat, rock out to the tunes of Frank Martin, Dan Sadowski with Frank Peters, Howard Berkman and Big Bottom, and the Johnny O Band. Blazing blues guitarists Berkman and Johnny O will face off in a crossroads jam during the last set. For the kids, there will be face painting and other special activities, and the Ferris wheel will return as well. The event is a fundraiser for KDNK, and the radio station is looking for volunteers. Volunteers are needed to dish out tasty eats with all the ﬁxin’s, serve Tommy Knocker beer and margaritas, and join a “Green Team” to keep compostable waste out of the landﬁll. Call Cindy at 963-0139 or email

cindy@kdnk.org to sign up for a two-hour shift and receive a heaping plate full of goodness and a beverage on the day of the event.

Health centers celebrated Mountain Family Health Centers, where healthcare access and quality care begin for people in our community, is joining more than 1,200 community health centers nationwide to observe National Health Center Week 2009, on Aug. 9-15. The theme of the week, “where access and quality care begin,” highlights the fact that such healthcare centers serve some 18 million people in America by providing primary and preventive care and a range of services. Mountain Family Health Centers serve more than 8,000 patients in Colorado each year – a number that is increasing due to layoffs and cutbacks from the economic downturn. Health center patients pay on an income-based sliding fee scale; no one is turned away, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. Mountain Family Health Center will host an open house from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 13 to allow community members to meet the healthcare providers and staff, and see the facility. Free health screenings will be available, and refreshments will be provided. Mountain Family is located at 1905 Blake Ave., Suite 101, across the street from Valley View Hospital. Call 945-2840 with questions.

Stranahan collection lights up photography fans’ eyes By Lynn Burton Special to the Sopris Sun A Carbondale couple’s vision is lighting up the eyes of area photography fans. The couple, River Valley Ranch residents George and Patti Stranahan, donated their extensive black and white photography collection to Colorado Mountain College earlier this year and much of it is on display through Sept. 24. The 80-piece collection includes wellknown 20th century photographers such as Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward and Brett Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, Jerry Uelsmann and others, plus lesser-known photographers such as Mark Citret and Rocky Schenck. During Saturday night’s opening reception at the CMC Gallery in Glenwood Springs, one enthusiastic photographer paused during his initial round of viewing, exclaimed “These are photographers we’ve looked at in books,” then dove back in to give the collection a closer look. A total of 58 prints are on display at the gallery, located at 9th Street and Grand Ave., and they trend toward landscapes and cityscapes, environmental portraits, spontaneous street scenes, still lifes and a few nudes (by Ruth Bernhard and Edward Weston). Of particular note is a Citret print, “Poplars, Po River Valley,” which greets visitors at eye level as they enter the gallery. For many viewers acquainted with iconic photographers from the 1920s and into the 1970s, Citret is a new name. Born in 1949,

Citret created “Unnatural Wonders,” a body of work that surveys architecture in national parks in the 1980s. In the early 1990s, he photographed a massive construction site in San Francisco. Both of his photographs in the Stranahan collection were taken under lowlight conditions. The one at the exhibit’s entrance shows neat rows of trees in a small grove while the other shows a tennis court net that looks more like some kind of ﬁshing net on a wet, foggy day. A Schenck print anchors the exhibit on the gallery’s south wall, which also includes photographs by W. Eugene Smith (“Mad Eyes, Haiti,”) Joseph Sudek, Kenro Izu and a Marilyn Monroe portrait by Milton Greene. Schenck’s “Three Trees, Manresa, Spain,” is one of the collection’s larger prints and one of the moodiest. He is constantly searching for places he can reinvent, according to the exhibit’s catalogue, and he manipulates tones and paints his images until they achieve their desired effect. An Andre Kertesz image on the west wall is one of the collection’s best known. Titled “Chez Mondrain, Paris,”created in 1926, the photograph shows a vase with ﬂowers on a wooden table in the foreground, with stairs leading up and out of the frame. Next to the Kertesz are two Cartier-Bressons: “Hyeres, France (bicycle)” and “Siphnos, Greece.” The Greece photograph shows a girl dashing up a stone staircase, surrounded by white-washed walls. At Saturday night’s reception, George Stranahan said the image is one of Cartier-Bresson’s most im-

Two people linger over a photo in the Stranahan collection during the opening reception on Saturday night at the CMC gallery in Glenwood. Photo by Lynn Burton portant, because the photographer thought the use of planes was one of the most important considerations in photography.“Look at this,”Stranahan said, as he moved close to the print and pointed out the image’s key components, “Plane, plane, plane, plane.” The Stranahan exhibit was organized under the auspices of Colorado Mountain College’s Center for Excellence in the Arts.As Saturday night’s reception wound down, the center’s director, Alice Beauchamp, said the Stranahans chose to donate their collection to CMC because students and the public will have a better opportunity to view it than at a larger institution. “They (the Stranahans) wanted it to be seen.”

Seen it is and seen it will be. Monday morning, a steady stream of viewers entered the gallery for a peek. Look for other lookers during the noon hour and into the fall when Denver folks motor over and start poking around town. CMC also plans to show the collection in other communities on the Western Slope and get this: some of the collection’s best known photographers were not in the current exhibit, including John Sexton, Paul Caponigro, Lotte Jacobi, Harold Edgerton and Linda Connor. In years to come, we’ll be looking for those photographs as well. Lynn Burton is a long-time Roaring Fork Valley newspaperman. He graduated from CMC’s photography program in 1981.

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Community Calendar THURSDAY, Aug. 13 HEALTH OPEN HOUSE • In observation of National Health Center Week, Mountain Family Health Center will host an open house from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 13 at 1905 Blake Ave., Suite 101, in Glenwood Springs. Free screenings and refreshments. Call 945-2840 for details. GREEN DRINKS • SCoR, the Sustainability Center of the Rockies, hosts Green Drinks from 5-7 p.m. on every second Thursday of the month.

To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Friday. Events take place in Carbondale unless noted.

hike at Basalt Mountain. All hikes are free; advance registration required at www.whiteriverwild.org.

YOGA CLASS • True Nature Healing Arts hosts restorative yoga with gopi from 67:15 p.m. Mondays at 549 Main St.

BASALT TUNES • Heart of the Rockies, featuring Twirp Anderson, Cash Cashman and John Sommers will appear at the Lion’s Club pancake breakfast from 7:30-9:30 a.m. Aug. 15 at 22826 Old Pond Park, Two Rivers Road, Basalt. Call 927-4031 for more information.

HEALTH SCREENINGS • Mountain Family Health Centers conducts free health screenings, open to the public, throughout the region. Contact Sharla Gallegos at 6183159 for more information. This week’s screenings are: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Riﬂe Public Health, 195 W. 14th St.; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Mountain Family, 1905 Blake Ave., Glenwood Springs; and 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 14 at La Perla in Carbondale.

LIVE MUSIC • Eco-Goddess presents Ann Federowicz on the ﬁddle and John Sommers on the guitar from 7-9 p.m. Aug. 13 at the restaurant, 335 Main St. Event also features music from members of the Crowlin Ferlies, all-organic cuisine, and drinks. No cover. Call 963-7316 for more information.

CONCERT SERIES • The “Magical Moments” Summer Concert Series in Redstone begins Aug. 15 with Peter Karp Band playing Nashville folk and blues from 6-9 p.m. at the Crystal Club Café. The Strolling Scones perform ’60s music from 6-9 p.m. Aug. 22 at Redstone Park. Heart of the Rockies play country rock and bluegrass from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sept. 6 at the Labor Day Art Show.

RODEO • The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo is ongoing through Aug. 20. For more about the rodeo, visit www.carbondalerodeo.com.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars presents live music by Jake Schepps & Expedition at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 15. For further details, visit www.stevesguitars.net.

P&Z MEETS • Carbondale Planning & Zoning Commission meets at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. On tonight’s agenda: Planning for Highway 133 expansion.

TRTC PARTY • Thunder River Theatre Company honors its PrimaDonor contributors with the annual Thank You Party from 4-6 p.m. Aug. 16 at the theater. PrimaDonors receive four season tickets, their name on the PrimaDonor plaque, and guaranteed seats to all TRTC events. To become a donor and attend the party, visit www.thunderrivertheatre.com/theatre season.htm, scroll down to the bottom and download the PrimaDonor Invitation.

FRIDAY, Aug. 14 EXHIBIT OPENING • The Ann Korologos Gallery presents The American Experience — Natural Vistas opening Aug. 14 at 211 Midland Ave. in Basalt. The exhibit features paintings by Dan Young, Greg Stocks and Elizabeth Sandia. An opening reception will be from 6-8 p.m. REDSTONE CASTLE TOURS • Guided tours of the Historic Redstone Castle are at 1:30 p.m. Fridays through Mondays. For group tours or more information call 9639656 or go to redstonecastle.us. LIVE MUSIC • Danny Schmidt performs at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 14 at Steve’s Guitars. For more information, visit www.stevesguitars.net.

MONDAY, Aug. 17 THEATER CAMP • Aspiring thespians can enroll in a theater camp Aug. 17-21 the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts. Call 945-2414 for more information or to sign up.

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “The Hurt Locker,” (R) Aug. 14–20 at 8 p.m. Also showing: “Whatever Works,” (PG-13) Aug. 15–16 at 6 p.m.

STARRY, STARRY FAMILY NIGHTS • Visit the Gordon Cooper Branch Library from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 17 for Family Nights in conjunction with the “Visions of the Universe: Four Centuries of Discovery” exhibit featured at the library. The evening focuses on “Charting the Night Sky.” Free and open to public. For further details, call 963-2889.

DANCE CLUB • Deejay Deeogee spins for the under 21 crowd from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. every Friday at The Lift on Main St. in Carbondale.

CLAY CAMPS • Carbondale Clay Center is enrolling for kids and adults clay camps that meet Monday through Friday. Visit www.carbondaleclay.org for full schedule.

SATURDAY, Aug. 15 CLAY WORKSHOP • Aug. 15 is the registration deadline for the Carbondale Clay Center workshop “Kiln Building & Wheel Repair” with Moses Klaassen on Sept. 1213. Visit www.carbondaleclay.org for further details. BIKE POLO TOURNEY • Stomparillaz holds a bike polo pony tournament at 10 a.m. Aug. 15 behind Bridges High School. Registration is at 9 a.m., games start at 10 a.m., and ﬁnals are at 5 p.m. Newcomers welcome; women’s teams are needed. Free. Go to stomparillaz.blogspot.com for more info. Call Steve“Z” G. Novy at 309-2023 to register. HIKE SERIES • The Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign hike series continues with a 12 • THE SOPRIS SUN • AUGUST 13, 2009

tration deadline for the Carbondale Clay Center workshop “Magic & Mystery: Carbon-trap Shinos on Porcelain” with Malcolm Davis on Aug. 29-30. Visit www.carbondaleclay.org for further details. FARMER’S MARKET • The Carbondale Farmer’s Market is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Wednesday through Sept. 30 at the corner of Fourth and Main streets. Fruits, vegetables, meats, cheese, bread, coffee, wine, ﬂowers, prepared foods, crafts and more. Free entertainment. SPECIAL TRUSTEES MEETING • The Carbondale Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting/public hearing to discuss the Overlook development. Hearing is at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 19 at Town Hall. LIVE MUSIC • White House Pizza presents the Rosenthal Family Band playing live from 7-10 p.m. Wednesday.

THURSDAY, Aug. 20 LEGAL ADVICE • Alpine Legal Services presents Thursday Night Bar for help with civil issues, divorce, custody, tenant rights and more at 5 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at the Garﬁeld County Courthouse in Glenwood Springs. For further information, call 945-8858.

OPEN STUDIO • The Third Street Artists host an open studio (all media) from 4-7 p.m. Mondays at Carbondale’s new Third Street Center. Walk-in fee is $10; four consecutive sessions is $20. Bring all materials. Casual critique during the last half hour. Call 963-2122 or 963-8275 for more info.

ENERGY STAR CLASS • The free Energy Star Builders Training Series will be at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Garﬁeld County Human Services Building, 195 W. 14th St., Riﬂe. Call 319-3939 for info.

TUESDAY, Aug. 18 YOGA • True Nature Healing Arts hosts early bird yoga ﬂow with Bettina from 78:15 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. True Nature is located at 549 Main St. TRUSTEES MEET • The Carbondale Board of Trustees meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall. On tonight’s agenda: Thompson Park development and the downtown rezoning/downtown “Overlay.”

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Tequila and rubber chickens make an awesome combo The ﬁnal event of the CCAH Summer of Music concert series featuring the Moonlight Crusiers was held last Saturday night on the Fourth Street Plaza. Big Daddy Lee and the Kingbees played a great ﬁrst set but when the Moonlight Crusiers took the stage it was all downhill from there – in a good way. The band rocked the town and word has it the town wants them back. Photos by Jane Bachrach

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Miss Rodeo Colorado rides back into town By Kayla Henley Sopris Sun Intern

Audra Dobbs warms up her horse, Sequoia, before she enters the main arena at the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo. Photo by Jane Bachrach

Carbondale citizens proudly welcomed Miss Rodeo Colorado, Audra Dobbs, back to her home valley for the Carbondale Rodeo last Thursday. The crowd applauded and cheered their “welcome backs” when Dobbs appeared with the American flag in hand. The flag’s broad stripes and bright stars rippled as she galloped around the arena while the audience prepared to sing “The StarSpangled Banner.” 25-year-old Dobbs was raised in Glenwood Springs. She graduated as valedictorian from Glenwood Springs High School and then went to Mesa State College in Grand Junction, where she graduated with honors; this time earning a bachelor’s degree with an elementary education endorsement. She is currently a first-grade teacher in Grand Junction, and plans to earn a master’s degree in education and become a primary school teacher. But since June 25, Dobbs has been on the road paying visits to rodeos in Wyoming, Nevada and Florida, where she carried the flag for grand entry ceremonies and signed autographs. Now, after a month of traveling, she has returned to her hometown of Glenwood Springs – and her hometown rodeo. “It’s always wonderful to have the opportunity to see friends and family and go to rodeos I grew up with,” said Dobbs, with feeling. “I’m proud to come back home. These are good people on the Western Slope.” A special treat for Dobbs since returning home is being reunited with her beloved quarter horse mare, Sequoia, who usually stays behind while Dobbs is on the road. While traveling, Dobbs performs with stock horses provided by contractors.

“It’s nice to ride my own horse again,” Dobbs said happily. Dobbs has participated in different horseback events since the age of 7. But whether competing in shows or gymkhanas, she has always had a passion for the Western lifestyle. That passion inspired her to compete for the title of Miss Rodeo Colorado 2009. The final, most rigorous trials of the Miss Rodeo Colorado pageant were held once the pool of contestants had boiled down to fewer than 10 women. Those final trials lasted four days and consisted of a written test, public speaking, modeling, interviews, horsemanship demonstrations and more. Then, on June 28, 2008, Dobbs was crowned Colorado’s fifty-fourth Miss Rodeo Colorado. She began her reign at the beginning of January 2009. As Miss Rodeo Colorado, Dobbs has enjoyed the privilege of representing Colorado not only during in-state rodeos, but also throughout the country, she explained. Dobbs was visible at numerous times at the Carbondale Rodeo on Thursday, signing autographs and helping out with the kids’ events. But soon she will depart again, this time for Las Vegas, where she will appear in the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and represent Colorado in the Miss Rodeo America Pageant. The pageant will be held from November 29 through December 5. She will be competing against contestants from 38 other states in the pageant. The pageant includes basically the same trials as the one held in Colorado. Carbondale is honored to have Audra Dobbs back and looks forward to her next visit on August 20 at the last rodeo of the season. For her part, Dobbs declared that, “there really is no place like home.”

VVH Auxiliary gives $30,000 in scholarships for locals The Valley View Hospital Auxiliary once again honored its commitment to health education, awarding $30,000 in scholarships to local students this spring. The volunteer organization supports, through Teeny Jeung Scholarships for graduating seniors and the Health Sciences Scholarship for continuing student, study in the health sciences fields. In addition, scholarships are also awarded to selected students in the Colorado Mountain College nursing program. This year’s recipients are (front row, left to right: Lucio Perea (CMC), Tyler Ting and Jeesica Needham (Teeny Jeung). Second row, left to right: Sharla Gallegos (CMC), Leanna Harju (Teeny Jeung), Monica Rodriguez (CMC). Top to bottom at left are members of the Auxiliary’s scholarship committee Melanie Livingston, Sandy Ketchum and Maggie Pedersen. Not pictured are recipients Heidi Marquez (Health Sciences), Laurie Cohen (CMC) and Diego Rubio (Teeny Jeung). The Auxilairy support health education from the proceeds of their Heart to Heart Gift Shop at Valley View Hospital and their annual raffle.

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What is health? When Carbondaleâ€™s new, weekly newspaper ďŹ rst hit the stands I was invited to coordinate this column, â€œJourneys into Health.â€? So far, its authors have offered readers a variety of approaches to supporting health and wellbeing. Theyâ€™ve ranged from suggestions on how to manage stress, to tips on growing and eating healthy foods; and from techniques for planning and executing a wellrounded ďŹ tness program, to hints for tapping into your lifeâ€™s passion. So now feels like an appropriate time to deďŹ ne what we mean by the into word â€œhealth.â€? Perhaps you, the reader, have a deďŹ nition of by Rita Marsh what health is RN, BSN for you. By offering some deďŹ nitions of health, I intend to provoke introspection and reďŹ‚ection. So you can discover what health means to you and, with that deďŹ nition in hand, begin to explore changes you might make in your life to gain the health you have deďŹ ned.

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Integral Health An emerging deďŹ nition of health was introduced in 2006 by Dr. Elliott Dacher in his book, â€œIntegral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing.â€? There, Dr. Dacher proposes that health encompasses the entire range of the human experience. From relationships to culture, and from the psycho-spiritual to the purely biological, Dr. Dacher thinks that all aspects of life contribute to the disease process and also to health and healing. A central aspect of the integral approach involves the inner aspect of healing by expanding oneâ€™s consciousness. According to Dr. Dacher, integral health offers the capacity to gain freedom from suffering and to experience the ďŹ‚ourishing of the full potential of our humanity â€” the natural arising of an inner peace, wholeness, love, compassion and joy â€” that can sustain itself throughout the life cycle regardless of the presence or absence of disease. Many factors contribute to an individualâ€™s health, and

â€Śhealth encompasses the entire range of the human experience. From relationships to culture, and from the psycho-spiritual to the purely biological, Dr. Dacher thinks that all aspects of life contribute to the disease process and also to health and healing.

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According to the new Oxford American Dictionary the word â€œhealthâ€? means â€œthe state of being free from illness or injury.â€? The word is derived from the Old English â€œhĂŚlthâ€? which is of Germanic origin and is related to â€œwhole.â€? Early attempts to deďŹ ne health focused on the absence of disease and the presence of high levels of function. For example, take a look at the following deďŹ nition offered by Dr. Joseph Stokes III, former professor, cardiologist and epidemiologist at the Boston University Medical Center: â€œA state characterized by anatomic, physiologic and psychologic integrity; ability to perform personally valued family, work and community roles; ability to deal with physical, biologic, psychological and social stress....â€? Perhaps the most famous modern deďŹ nition of health

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was drafted in 1946 as a portion of the preamble of the constitution of the World Health Organization. It reads, â€œHealth is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or inďŹ rmity.â€? Although this deďŹ nition is commonly quoted, there is another that might serve us better today. During the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion in 1986, the World Health Organization expanded the concept of health to read: â€œThe extent to which an individual or group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment. Health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.â€?

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should be taken into consideration. Such factors include a personâ€™s physical environment, socioeconomic status, culture, education, and ability to take advantage of health care services. A personâ€™s job prospects and employment conditions, support networks, genes, gender, diet and techniques for coping with stress can also inďŹ‚uence his or her overall health. But what does health mean to you? Ask yourself which of the factors mentioned in the preceding paragraph impact your health. Can you improve any of them by changing some of your patterns, habits or ways of thinking? And if you feel like you just canâ€™t inďŹ‚uence some of those factors, are there resources that you can tap into to gain a fuller experience of health for yourself and your family? May your journeys into health be fulďŹ lling.

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