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RFHS raps it up Joel Rothman (pink pants) and members of the junior class rocked the house at a Roaring Fork High School’s end-of-school assembly last Friday. Each of the school’s four classes climbed on stage to lip-synch, dance, prance and slide around. As might be expected, the crowd went crazy; even adult observers went away impressed with the students’ displays of talent, energy and enthusiasm. Shown above is the sophomore class. Photos by Lynn Burton
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Good advice: Do what enables you to fly The poet Hafiz is reported to have said, “Do what enables you to Going to college and getting a degree in anthropology was next. fly, and brings a feeling to the heart that makes you glad to be alive.” The study of humans is fascinating That resonates with me. It was an easy step from working with prehistory as an archaeolWhat enables me to fly? It seems to require constant ogist to being a heritage resource manager for the Forest motion to keep airborne due to a human tendency. We Service. This included working with history as well as seem prone to divide life into either work or play. And the living cultural of indigenous tribes. never the twain shall meet. In a way, I’m returning to a life-long passion. And Flying is easy when we play. Isn’t that what play is when you live (i.e. work plus play) your passion, then supposed to do for us … enable us to fly? the feeling in your heart, makes you glad to be alive. Most of us don’t have an opportunity to play at work. Living history is at the top of the list of things people That could be a really good thing when we board a plane enjoy while on vacation. Having the job of bringing hisand expect the pilot to take his job very seriously, while tory alive to locals as well as visitors to our valley is a in the air. dream job. My new job, however, has a play element to it. SeriMy new work does not mean abandoning the search ously, it does. for common ground that has motivated me throughout As the new director of the renamed Glenwood my professional career and which gave me the name By Bill Kight Springs Historical Society, there are times when play-actfrom this column. ing is used appropriately to bring history to life. It merely gives a different twist to the same journey. For years I’ve been auditioning for the part. As a member of the anBringing passion to searching for meaningful lessons history nual Ghost Walk cast since its inception almost 20 years ago, getting teaches us seems like a natural progression for me. to play is the job. Playing my character Jasper Ward is almost too Making it fun is the flying part of Hafiz’s wise words. much fun. The same fun factor applies to putting all those years of working The plans are to hand the part of Jasper over to someone else for this in land management to good use by starting a new radio show. year’s Halloween Ghost Walk at the Pioneer Cemetery in Glenwood Tune in to KDNK’s public affairs show “For Land’s Sake” at 4:30 Springs. Directing the show and performing would be a bit much. p.m. the second Tuesday of every month and see if I’m doing what enThat doesn’t stop me getting up from my desk at the Frontier Mu- ables me to fly. seum and giving a tour in costume. Or participating in one of the And check if you can find the show’s connection to this column walking tours around Glenwood that allows me to play as well. (hint, it’s in the music). But in a larger sense, does working with history bring a feeling to Making fun the game of bringing history alive will also keep my heart that makes me glad to be alive? You bet it does. me young. In some ways I’ve been rehearsing for this opportunity most of my life. As a kid there was nothing better than curling up somewhere un- Bill Kight brings his life’s passion and fun to these pages every noticed with a non-fiction book about the West. month. He can be reached at bkight13@gmail.com.
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Rams Run thanks Dear Editor: Crystal River Elementary School held its fourth annual Rams Run on a sunny Friday in April. This event is a fun, healthy fund raiser benefiting our physical education, art, music, science, library and technology departments and our PTO. Students gathered pledges from family, friends and other generous community members based on the laps they ran or walked. This year our students showed grit and determination and ran a total of 773 miles, raising over $14,500. In the past, funds raised from this event have purchased cross country skis and skates for use by every student in PE, and on the winter weekends. Funds have also provided field trips to Hallam Lake, Aspen Mountain, Rock Bottom Ranch, the Redstone coke ovens and castle, Glenwood Caverns and many other educational attractions in our valleys. We’d like to thank these sponsors: Carbondale Family Dental, lulebelle clothing, Casey Concrete, Divide Creek Builders, Ridge Runner Construction, Alpine Animal Hospital, Gallegos Corporation, Pella Windows and Genesis Capital. These business owners consistently say “Yes” when asked to show support for our neighborhood school and students. Please support them with your patronage.
Our Specials Team — Bonnie Fischer, Amber Bate, Sue Annabel, Taylor Pettit and the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies team — worked many hours before and during the event to ensure a fun run for the students. Thanks to them and our principal, Matt Koenigsknecht, assistant principal Sam Richings-Germain, and the entire staff of CRES for ensuring this event wasn’t derailed by April’s rainy weather and scheduling conflicts. Thanks to these extraordinary volunteers for being generous with your time before and during the event: Cresta Stewart, Sharon Samuelson, Kira Kearsey, Crista Barlow, Alicia Cheney, Ashley Smith, Angelique Gifford, Leslie Russell, Amy Charters, Jamie Maybon, Katy Nardecchia, Izzy Stringham, Michelle and Keith Marlow and Angela Hanley. Lorri Knaus was missed this year; her hard work in previous years has ensured the continued success of this event and we can’t wait to have her back for the fifth annual Rams Run in 2017! So many families donated fruit for snacks for the event, ran with their children and lined the track to cheer for the kids that day. Thanks also to the numerous parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles that jumped in to count the 6,188 laps run. It’s amazing to us how many family members attended the event; thanks to all of you for taking time to be there with the kids.
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And finally, thanks to each member of the Carbondale community that donated pledges to our students. CRES continues to be an amazing place because of each of you. Marty Madsen CRES PE teacher Cassie Cerise CRES PTO Vice-President
Thanks to Stacey Dear Editor: Stacey Bernot is the epitome of public service and leadership. It is not what she did that makes her impressive, it is how she did it. She handled herself with great integrity, honoring her word, her colleagues, staff, the public, the law and ultimately her family. She came prepared and educated to every meeting on every topic. If she didn’t know something she would put in the time to learn it. She pushed her colleagues to do a better job, too. Most of all she did it with the ultimate goal of bettering the community and doing it through a fair and just process. What more can you ask of an elected official? Disagreement is inevitable and not everyone will like everything she did, but it is pretty darn tough to disagree with the sacrifices she has made to help make the community better. And when it comes down to it, she did just LETTERS page 5
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Talks of Wild & Scenic for the Crystal turn serious June 14 meetings slated By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer A dedicated group of local activists are hoping once and for all to achieve a goal that has eluded them and others for nearly half a century — designation of a stretch of the Crystal River as a Wild & Scenic River under the 1968 National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act passed by Congress. If proponents Dorothea Farris, Bill Jochems and Chuck Ogilby are successful, the Crystal will become the second officially designated Wild & Scenic river in Colorado. The only Colorado river designated Wild & Scenic at present is the Cache La Poudre, a 126-mile stretch that rises from Poudre Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park and empties into the South Platte River near Greeley. The success of the activists’ efforts may well be determined at a series of meetings on June 14, one in Redstone and the other in Marble, involving officials from Pitkin and Gunnison counties and from the Town of Marble. The first of these meetings, at 4 p.m., is at the Church At Redstone, and is formally intended as a joint meeting of the commissioners from the two counties. The second, at Marble’s town hall, is scheduled as a meeting between only the Town of Marble and Gunnison County. The basic intent of the designation effort, according to Farris and others, is to prevent the placement of dams along a 39-mile stretch of river, known as the “main stem,” from Beaver Lake in Marble (located in Gunnison County) to the headgate of the Sweet Jessup irrigation ditch (in Pitkin County, a couple of miles north of the confluence of the Crystal and Avalanche Creek). According to Farris, some Crystal River Valley residents have been working on getting Wild & Scenic designation for the river for decades — so long that there is confusion about whether the designation already has been granted. “Some people have come up to me and said, ‘I thought this was already done,’” Farris said in a recent interview with The Sopris Sun. “They were surprised when I told
The Crystal River meanders past Beaver Lake in Marble before gathering steam to rush past the old mill site a mile or two down stream. Meetings in Redstone and Marble are slated for June 14 to discuss moving forward with a proposal to get a 39-mile stretch of the river designated as Wild & Scenic. Photo by Lynn Burton them it never happened.” Aside from that confusion, Farris and others worry that there also is a lack of understanding about what the designation means, and that that there will be opposition to the designation from the Town of Marble and some landowners along the Crystal River.
Opposition Some opposition already has cropped up, in fact. For example, Farris produced a letter from Wild & Scenic detractors Larry and Jeffe Hall, who identified themselves as
“property owners in the area.” The Halls’ letter, sent to the town and obtained by Jochems, lays out a number of arguments against designation. The Halls’ letter expresses fears of federal oversight of the land on either side of the Crystal, which some fear would prevent landowners from doing as they like with their property, among other concerns. When asked if the designation would mean federal officials would be taking over private property rights, Farris replied, “No, they’re not. They’re not taking over the river if CRYSTAL RIVER page 12
Gateway Park, Artway Portal face funding challenges By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Gateway, Artway, what’s in a name anyway when a town is trying to spruce up the main entry route from a major state highway? In Carbondale’s current circumstances, the names are useful in providing an illustration that the town will be having a tough time paying any of the costs associated with either of two projects that either have been started but put on hold or still are in the formative stage. The first is Gateway River Park, at the intersection of Highways 82 and 133 north of town, which encompasses an upper bench of land at close to the same level as Highway 82, and a lower bench on the banks of the Roaring Fork River. The other project is known as the Artway Portal, which is part of a larger Artway project that is intended to dress up about a mile-long stretch of the Rio Grande Trail as it passes through the center of town. “Both are wonderful projects at our gateway entrance to Carbondale,” said the town’s recreation director, Jeff Jackel, in a telephone interview on Tuesday with The Sopris Sun, stressing that the two are not seen by the town as competing against each other. But while both projects are seen as desirable by the town, a lack of funding is likely to slow development of either one in the near future, Jackel warned.
Gateway underway In the case of Gateway River Park, the town in 2012 came up with a master plan showing how the park property, purchased for $2.5 million in 2010, is ultimately to be developed, starting with creation of an RV park on the upper bench of land that has been up and running for a couple of years.
“The RV Park and boat ramp are functioning,” wrote Carbondale Public Works Director Larry Ballenger in an e-mail to the Sopris Sun recently. But, Ballenger continued, “the balance of the Gateway River Park plan from 2012 is on hold until there is town funding to match grants. Our current funding model for parks and rec will not support the development of the park in the short term although the plan was to be implemented over a long period of time based on available funding.” The master plan, which was developed by town staff working with a team of citizen advisors and consultants, is available on the town’s website [www.carbondalegov.org]. It calls for a variety of additional improvements, such as expanding the size of the boat ramp to accommodate more boats than currently can be put into the river at any given time, as well as paving a parking area and building additional restroom facilities, picnic areas, possibly a concessionaire or “general store,” a “learning center” of some kind, and an “at grade connection” directly with Highway 133 [currently, vehicles must turn off Highway 82 at the old Satank Bridge turnout and drive about a half-mile to the RV park and loading ramp]. According to a document provided to The Sopris Sun, the town at one time envisioned spending as much as $3.8 million over 15 years, perhaps as far into the future as 2029. But Jackel pointed out that revenues from the town’s dedicated half-cent sales and use tax, designated for recreational spending, significantly declined starting in 2008, coinciding with the recession. When the town purchased the Gateway Park property, according to officials, the town had to dip into the recreationfund balance (about $1 million at the time) to the tune of approximately $500,000 to match grants from Great Out-
doors Colorado (state lottery proceeds), the state parks and wildlife department and other sources amounting to roughly $2 million, in order to make the purchase. More recently, Jackel said, the town paid off about $130,000 in outstanding debt for a grouping of solar panels on the roof of the recreation center, further eating into the recreation fund. According to finance director Renae Gustine, the recreation fund currently contains about $800,000; some of which is needed annually to pay off the bonds that paid for building the recreation center in the first place, which have eight years to go before they are retired. In addition, Jackel said, the recreation sales-tax fund annually pays the $129,000 or so needed to run the town’s swimming pool, as well as in the neighborhood of $175,000 needed to subsidize part of the operating costs of the recreation center itself. Gustine estimated that the fund may have somewhere in the neighborhood of $550,000 at the end of the year. But Jackel said the recreation sales tax money is not sufficient for use as matching funds for the kind of big grants that have helped Carbondale in the past. “We basically don’t have the 30 percent match” that is needed to secure the big grants, Jackel said, although there are smaller grants available, for smaller projects, that do not require local matching funds, he said.
Artway not begun As for the planned Artway improvements, the project is still in the conceptual stage, although the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority [or RFTA, which owns the Rio Grande Trail], the Town of Carbondale and the CarbonARTWAY page 12
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Time to bike to work, again Sopris Sun Staff Report National Bike To Work Week is May 16-20 and National Bike to Work Day is May 20, according to Town Manager Jay Harrington’s weekly memo to the Board of Trustees and other recipients. In conjunction with the events associated with the celebration of biking, the town will hold its second annual bike-riding competition at North Face Bike Park, called The Bonedale Bike Jam, on May 21. Things get started at 10:30 a.m., and the cost of participating is $10 per rider (parental waivers are needed for competitors under 18 years of age), and all riders must be wearing a helmet to compete. Registration for the Bike Jam can be done online at www.carbondalerec.com, or at the park at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday. For information, call 510-1290. The North Face Bike Park was the scene last Thursday of the ďŹ rst volunteer work day, from 4:30-6:30 p.m., and the second volunteer work day is this May 19 at the same time. All users of the park are invited to take part in preparing the park for the summer riding season, including weeding, rock picking, painting and helping to install a sand-clay mixture on the riding surface. In other news from Harrington’s report, replacement of a main electrical line in the Rock Court/Wald Drive area “is not going wellâ€? due to the rockiness of the soils in Carbondale, which Harrington reported is interfering with Xcel Energy’s efforts to bore through the ground for new buried lines. Harrington wrote that the company may need to do some excavation work in the town’s rights-of-way to ďŹ nish the project. Carbondale’s parks maintenance crew was kept busy over the past week on various repairs and projects, according to Harrington. Up ďŹ rst was a summary of work on the park irrigation systems, Harrington reported, including a “ground faultâ€? on the
From May 5-14, Carbondale ofďŹ cers and other law enforcement agents handled 265 calls for service. During that period, ofďŹ cers investigated the following cases of note:
Highway 133 system that has yet to be tracked down. An irrigation pump at Glassier Park has been replaced, and the crew is now working to repair, replace and adjust sprinkler heads and get the system up and running. Another irrigation pump motor, at Gateway Plaza, also was replaced, Harrington wrote. He also noted, “The parks mow crew continues to do a great job considering all of the precipitation we have been getting,â€? and that the crew has resumed its summertime schedule of cleaning restrooms, removing trash and pet waste from waste stations, attacking weeds along the Highway 133 corridor with weed-whackers, and ďŹ nishing up removal of holiday LED lights from the trees along Main Street. Spruce trees have been removed from planters along Main Street, which are being prepared for a ower-planting contest, and the town’s arborist, David Coons, has been responding to citizen requests on tree-trimming in the rights-of-way and in the parks. The town is accepting cost estimates for a planned installation of new wall tiles in the showers at Gateway RV Park & Campground, and any interested contractors are urged to get in touch with Recreation Director Jeff Jackel at 510-1214. Registration for the town’s summertime recreation programs is proceeding apace (online registration is available at www.carbondalerec.com), and Harrington wrote that the youth summer baseball and softball programs have been closed out at 100 participants. Lifeguard training continues, Harrington reported, in preparation for the opening of the John Fleet Municipal Pool on May 28. At the Carbondale Police Department, Lt. Chris Wurtsmith was presented an award as Law Enforcement OfďŹ cer of the Year for 2015, by the GarďŹ eld County Victim Response Team.
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FRIDAY, May 6: At 11:46 p.m. a juvenile was reported as a runaway, and was subsequently located. SATURDAY, May 7: At 3:51 p.m. police responded to a report of two men ďŹ ghting at the intersection of Sopris Avenue and Weant Blvd. Investigation revealed that the driver of a vehicle was attempting to help a friend who had gotten out of the vehicle but was intoxicated, and the driver was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. SATURDAY, May 7: At 7:18 p.m. police arrested a 42-year-old man at a location on Marble Court on charges of trespassing, third-degree assault and menacing with a gun. No further information was provided in a summary report of the incident. TUESDAY, May 10: At 3:23 p.m. police were contacted by a resident of Rio Grande Lane about a theft of several items from near his home. The reporting party named a possible suspect, but investigation did not turn up any evidence to support the claim. SATURDAY, May 14: At 7:23 p.m. GarďŹ eld County deputies responded to a report of a suicidal man in the vicinity of the Mushroom Rock trail just north of Carbondale. Upon investigation, the deputies found the 24-year-old man, from Beggs, Oklahoma, was subject to multiple outstanding arrest warrants. He was arrested and taken to the GarďŹ eld County Jail.
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Man faces prison time for alleged pot possession Claims trooper profiled him By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer A Carbondale man arrested earlier this year in Ohio on marijuana-related charges will go to trial on May 26, and could find himself in prison for the next eight years. But the man, Kelly Harding, 48, maintains he was unaware that there was roughly 123 pounds of pot in the back of the car he was driving east on I-70 through Ohio, bound for New York State, when the car was stopped on Jan. 13 by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. And at the most recent of three hearings on the case, Harding’s attorney maintained that the traffic stop that lead to the arrest was illegal. Harding, who was released from jail on Feb. 10 on a bond of $50,000, told The Sopris Sun in a recent telephone interview that he was driving a friend, Craig Voight, 46, also of Carbondale, to see Voight’s mom in New York. Voight, who was arrested with Harding, was soon released and the charges against him were dropped, apparently because federal drug authorities are investigating him on other matters, according to an article in the Madison County, Ohio newspaper, the Madison Press. Harding declined to discuss details of his defense, citing his attorney’s advise. But the May 7 Madison Press article contains details from a court hearing at which Harding’s attorney, court-appointed lawyer Seth Schertzinger, tried to convince a judge that Harding was “profiled” by state troopers because his car bore Colorado license plates and had a Denver Bronco’s magnetized emblem on it. Schertzinger, who is listed as a “contracts/agreements at-
torney in Plains, Ohio” on the Internet, was appointed by Madison County Common Pleas Court Judge Eamon Costello to represent Harding. The hearing concerned Schertzinger’s motion to suppress all evidence obtained as a result of the traffic stop.
The bust The state trooper who pulled over the 2014 silver Subaru that Harding was driving (it belongs to Harding’s mother) maintained in court that Harding was tailgating a semitrailer-truck in front of the Subaru, and had closed to within three car-lengths of the truck rather than the seven car-lengths he should have maintained based on highway speeds. The trooper, Michael Wilson, also testified that he “noticed Harding lean forward on the steering wheel, adjust his hands to the 10 and 2 o’clock positions, and focus intently down the road, prompting him to pull Harding over,” according to the article. Seeing a blanket covering “something across the back seat of the vehicle,” and that “Harding’s hand shook as he handed over his license,” Wilson testified, he called for a K-9 drugsniffing dog to check out the Subaru, allegedly leading to discovery of the marijuana. Schertzinger argued that anyone pulled over by a Ohio
state trooper would be nervous, and questioned Wilson as to why he did not mention the tailgating when he talked with Harding at the scene of the traffic stop, and why the tailgating charge did not appear on the charging documents. “The stop was purely pretextual,” Schertzinger is quoted as saying, calling Wilson’s use of tailgating an “afterthought” to provide probably cause for the stop. Although Harding questions the integrity of the videotape from Trooper Wilson’s dash-top camera, claiming it has been altered, his attorney was not able to get the cruiser video from two other trooper vehicles called in on the arrest because, according to prosecutors, those videos have been wiped clean per state law that calls for them to be archived for 60 days before they can be reused. The judge concluded that “it didn’t matter if troopers zeroed in on Harding’s Colorado ties” and ruled that the traffic stop was legal. Harding is charged with possession of marijuana, a class2 felony in Ohio, and “possession of criminal tools,” another felony, according to the article. The charges carry a mandatory eight-year sentence under Ohio law. The explanation that charges were dropped against Voight at the DEA’s request, according to the story, came from prosecuting attorney Nick Adkins.
Letters continued om page 2 that, and will continue to do that in a different capacity. I am so grateful to have served with Stacey and learn from her over the past two years on the Carbondale Board of Trustees. She has taught me the importance of how you do things over what you do. No matter what the issue is and no matter what decision you make, someone will be upset. If you take the time to do it with utmost respect, comprehensive education and proper communication, to the best of your abilities, then you are doing a good job of serving the public. I am very thankful of all Stacey has done for our community and how she did it. And if you are not, then she will be the first to tell you to “step up and do something about it.” AJ Hobbs Trustee Carbondale
Can you imagine? Dear Editor: Can you imagine the more wonderful widespread business prosperity and financial uplifting of many Garfield County poor people out of the poverty abyss because of a $33 billion valuation natural gas reserves exploitation that the selfish, well-off anti-fossil fuel crowd celebrates stopping (“Commissioners weigh fighting BLM’s Planning 2.0”, GS Post Independent)?! The honorable Tom Jankovsky must stay on the back of the Bureau of Land Management to allow his down trodden to have the more meaningful financial security and career opportunities that the petroleum industry can provide for them over the long term that the pennies offered by the gas guzzling SUV environmentalists and the affluent trust funders. The $33 billion forecast, even if it turned out to be $15 billion, is more than the Aspen-Carbondale anti-Garfield prosperity mob will ever provide to the Garfield economically disadvantaged during the next 100 years or more! Financial freedom from the selfish upvalley moneyed mob is imperative. Go get ‘em Hon. Jankovsky! Emzy Veazy III Aspen/Burbank, Calif.
The Sharp Family Singers, from Auburn, Kansas, sang at Carbondale Community United Methodist Church and other locations in 2014. The family recently made news in Kansas after Odalis Sharp (far right) assaulted a police officer. Sopris Sun file photo
Sharp family matriarch arrested in Kansas By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer You might remember the Sharp Family Singers from their unexpected visit to Carbondale in April 2014. Under the leadership of their mother, Odalis, the 10-member group was on its way from their hometown of Auburn, Kansas to Oregon to support rancher Cliven Bundy in his 20-year feud with the BLM over grazing rights on federal land. Long story short: Their 1995 Dodge van broke down in Glenwood Canyon as they headed west and they eventually ended up staying at Crystal River Baptist Church and then Carbondale Community United Methodist Church, where they sang hymns for an Easter sunrise service. During their short stay in Carbondale, the Sharps also sang on KDNK and at Heritage Park Care Center. The Methodist church helped send the Sharps on their way, but at the time it wasn’t certain if they were headed on to Oregon or back to Kansas. Flash forward to January, 2016, and Odalis was back on the road with seven of her 10 children, headed to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon to support armed militants in their occupation of the refuge. During the family’s stay at the refuge, 18-year-old Victoria Sharp was riding in a vehicle with Nevada rancher LaVoy Finicum and three other militants, when Finicum ran a road block and was shot and killed by Oregon state police, according to a May 3 Associated Press article in the
Kansas City Star. In the most recent Sharp Family Singers update, Odalis, 46, was arrested for assaulting a police officer on May 2 after Kansas authorities removed seven of her children from her home. She was booked into Shawnee County jail and later made the $3,000 bail. According to the Associated Press, Sharp’s arrest occurred after she went to court trying to file paperwork accusing her landlord of breach of contract, who had earlier tried to evict her. Sharp told AP that when she returned home, law enforcement personnel and Kansas Department of Children and Families staffers were waiting. “They wanted me to go with them,” Sharp told the Associated Press reporter. “They wouldn’t let me go to the house. One grabbed my arm and legs and dragged me out of the car. I kicked the woman officer.” At the time, The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office was responding to allegations of child abuse. “The federal government hates us right now, because my daughter is a primary witness of a murder they committed,” Sharp told the Kansas City Star. “ … they want to Sharp family out. And so they divide and conquer.” According to testimony from a hearing on May 4, five of the Sharp children fled on April 29 as their mother climbed into the shower. The kids took guns from the house and then got a ride from a neighbor to the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office.
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Send your scuttlebutt to news@SoprisSun.com. the guest speaker at this year graduation, slated for May 28 at 4 p.m. Jimmy Serrano is the Valedictorian. Special musical guests will be Naomi Pulver and Maura Beth Fawley.
CCAH makes ďŹ rst cut The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities is now a ďŹ nalist, one of eight, in the Colorado Creative Industries’ (CCI) Creative District initiative, according to a CCI spokeswoman. A total of 15 communities or organizations submitted applications to become an ofďŹ cial Creative District, which brings with it the possibility for state funding and other support. The CCI council will choose the new Creative Districts on June 10, and notify them the week of June 13.
Heading to State Roaring Fork High School is sending eight students to Thursday’s 3A Colorado Track & Field championships at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood. Those students are: sophomore Kendall Bernot (300meter hurdles); senior Robbie Thompson (800-meters); sophomore Jasper Germain (110-meter hurdles and high jump); sophomore Justin Thompson (110-meter hurdles and long jump); and in the 4X800-meter relay: Lyle Luckett, Trevor Stroud, Ronald Clemente and Robbie Thompson.
Hoffmann makes cut Carbondale metal worker/sculptor John Hoffmann is one of 14 artists who have been named to the 2016-2017 Art aRound Town exhibition. The others are: Tim DeShong (Denver), Ted Schaal ( Loveland), Daniel Romano (Colorado Springs), Dimitry Domani (Durango), Steven Carmer (Fort Collins), Paul Bloch (Santa Fe, New Mexico), John Simms (Jackson, Wyoming), Matthew Duffy (Washington, D.C.), Joe Sackette (Albuquerque, New Mexico), Steven Durow (Fruitland, Maryland), Francis Fox (Boise, Idaho), Andrew Arvanetes (DeKalb, Illinois) and Jamie Burnes (Santa Fe, New Mexico). The Carbondale Public Arts Commission announced the sculptors included in the show this week. The 14 pieces will be unveiled during a public art walk starting at town hall at 5:30 p.m. on June 2, followed by a reception at the Marble Distilling Co. at 7 p.m.
This just in Krystal Wu, an English teacher at Roaring Fork High School from 2013-2015, will be
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Library receives legacy gift Carbondale Chamber of Commerce Director Andrea Stewart recently accepted two awards during the Colorado Chamber of Commerce Executives Conference (CCCE) in Parker. The chamber received a ďŹ rst place award for its increase in membership for 2015, and second place for increase in dues revenue for the same year. “This award is an honor and is for a team effort,â€? Stewart told The Sopris Sun. “The chamber staff, board of directors and membership all contribute to our success.â€? On a related note, Stewart was also voted onto the CCCE board of directors. Photo by Jane Bachrach
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Local resident and philanthropist Jim Calaway recently committed to leave a legacy gift to the Carbondale Branch of the GarďŹ eld County Libraries, according to a press release. “Jim Calaway has always been generous to the library, from sponsoring our well-loved community room, to arranging for the wonderful Surls sculpture,â€? said Mollie Roache, Branch Manager in Carbondale. “We are so grateful to have him in our community.â€? Said Calaway, “The library is such an important part of our community, and I want to help it.â€? For more information on leaving a legacy gift, contact executive director Sandi Kister at 625-4270 or skister@gcpld.org.
Garden plots still available Garden plots are still available at the Community Garden on Hendricks Drive, as well as the Good Seed Community Garden on Snowmass Drive. Help is available for those who need assistance in getting started. For more information, call Fred at 963-0229.
Need a bike? The Aspen Police Department holds its annual bike auction at Courthouse Plaza on May 20. Bike previews start at 11 a.m., followed by the auction at noon. Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted. For details, call 920-5400.
Get potted, maybe Volunteers for adopting downtown ower pots started signing up on May 15. The Sopris Sun doesn’t know whether any pots are still available, but Chris Chacos does. Give him a call at 274-8150 to ďŹ nd out.
Fire plan meetings The Carbondale Fire District holds master plan meetings on the fourth Wednesday of the month, starting at 5:30 p.m. at the ďŹ re station on Meadowood Drive. The public is invited.
They say it’s your birthday Birthday greetings to out to Peter Frey (May 19), Jenny Garcia (May 20), Charlie Chacos (May 22), Tai Jacober and Jenny Tempest (May 23), Patti Hall and Tom Mercer (May 24), and Charlie Cook (May 25). A belated happy birthday goes out to Chris Chacos (May 17).
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The second annual free ride contest at Carbondale’s North Face Bike Park. From Striders to Pros, many divisions and contests. Pump track time trials, best trick jam sessions and more! Ages: 4 and up Day: Saturday, May 21 Cost: $10 Comp starts at 10:30 am Register on-site at 9:30 am or pre-register online. www.carbondalerec.com
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Laura French loves answering students’ questions More so than “teaching” By Debbie Bruell Sopris Sun Correspondent
Roaring Fork High School science teacher Laura French is retiring at the end of the school year. Photo by Sue Rollyson
Since announcing her retirement from Roaring Fork High School, science teacher Laura French has been receiving a barrage of questions from her students, such as: “Can you make sure the next science teacher still does that project where students build rockets?” “... and the one where you make magnetic levitation cars?” “... and the one where you create gear-robots?” French has been perfecting these science projects over her 35 years of teaching, and evidently they’re quite a hit with students. French decided to become a teacher when she was a student at Colorado State University. Working as a math tutor, she noticed long lines of students waiting outside her door, while the other tutors sat alone in their offices. “For some reason, people thought I was good at explaining things,” she told The Sopris Sun in an interview earlier this week. Nevertheless, almost everyone advised her not to go into teaching. “They told me it’s re-
ally hard work and I could make a lot more money if I went into industry,” French said. She knew, however, that while she loved working in science labs, she also “wanted to be around people.” French graduated CSU in the spring of 1981 with a degree in chemistry, and began teaching the following fall at Parker Junior High near Denver. Two years later she started working at Roaring Fork High School where, over the past 33 years, she has taught physics, chemistry, earth science and math. Her favorite classes to teach are chemistry — because “You get to work with kids who have never put things together and seen them fizz and foam” — and physics — because it’s about things that kids are “naturally curious” about. French said that her overall approach to teaching science is to “inspire students to look at the world in a different way — to wonder and to ask why.” She noted that students will often ask her about something they saw in a science fiction movie, such as “Can you really do that thing with potatoes on Mars like Matt Damon did in ‘The Martian’?” When she was pregnant,
students would constantly ask her questions about her developing fetus. “I can’t tell you how many biology lessons I taught,” she said. “When students come up to me and ask me questions, answering those questions is far more important than anything I was going to teach that day.” French also believes that a curriculum that is activity-based and focused on problem solving tends to get kids most excited about learning. Her assignments have included: make a boat that is powered by rubber bands and can travel the length of the 25 foot trough she keeps in her classroom; and, create a device that is powered by bricks and gravity and can move an egg 27 feet without breaking it. After retiring at the end of this school year, French and her husband plan to move to the Front Range to be closer to family: her three daughters, her one grandchild (and another on the way), her parents and five of her six siblings. She plans to find a job — possibly something related to teaching or perhaps something totally different. As she told The Sopris Sun, “I can’t imagine being in a different high school. I can’t imagine not being a Roaring Fork Ram.”
Larry Black says final good-bye aer 32 years (Editor’s Note: Roaring Fork High School teacher Larry Black semi-retired from teaching in 2012, but is heading in to fulltime retirement at the end of this school year. Here is the Q&A part of an article The Sopris Sun printed on May 31, 2012, when he first retired). Sopris Sun Staff Report Question: When you graduated from Roaring Fork did you see yourself coming back here? Answer: I didn’t even think about going to college. I worked for a year for my dad, who was a builder and for the (Aspen) SkiCo. I didn’t make a whole lot but I saved most everything. At that point I thought “I think I’d like to be a teacher, and I want to be a basketball coach.” Q: What set you on that path? A: At that time, all the coaches were teachers. So I thought, “What in the heck could I teach?” I’m not a math teacher or an English teacher. But I thought I could be a shop teacher.
Q: Are kids more or less the same? A: They’re a lot the same. I’ve always enjoyed the kids. Certain kids I have right now remind me of kids I had 20 years ago. They do different things. The music changes, the clothes change, the hairstyles change, their vocabulary is different. It’s usually pretty subtle. Carbondale kids are great kids. They’re good people to be around. They’re kids, but they’re also polite, mannerly, they laugh. They do what kids are supposed to do. Q: Any particular moments or students that stood out? A: There’ve been some students that were incredibly successful in school and went on to successful adult lives. You just feel great knowing you were part of that. Most kids when they’re in high school don’t really have the ability yet to let you know that they appreciate what you’ve done or that you’ve made a difference. Years later, some kid will knock on your door and they’re not a kid anymore. They’re a grown man or a grown woman and they’ll say “Hey do you remember me, this is what I’m doing. I just wanted
to thank you.” I got an e-mail one day from a kid that said, “I just want you to know I have three daughters, and I built my first daughter a cradle. And I learned how to do that in your class. I love doing that now, it’s my hobby. I live to be out in my shop. All three of my girls have slept in that cradle.” There’s nothing better than that. I had this one kid, he was so smart. He became some sort of engineer. I couldn’t even spell it, probably. His daily schedule was like, chemistry, calculus, physics ... and shop. He’d say, “That stuff’s all OK, but if I didn’t get to come in here every day, I’d go crazy. I just need to make something, not think, just DO something.” Q: What do you think you’ll miss about being here? A: I’ll miss being the shop teacher, ’cause that’s what I am. That’s what I’ve been for 30 years. That’s my claim to fame. I’ll miss the people that I work with. There’s a lot of folks working here. I’ll miss ‘em all. I’ll miss our custodial staff, I’ll miss our cooks They’re great people.
Roaring Fork High School shop teacher and coach Larry Black is retiring at the end of the school year. Photo by Sue Rollyson I’ll miss the kids. Not just one kid, but all the kids. One of the best things about teaching is that the kids help you stay acting younger. I mean, I know I’m old, and I look old, but I feel young. Teaching’s a good life.
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Carbondale fire district revenues on the upswing Training budget back to historic level By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer The Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District, after winning voter approval for a temporary tax hike in 2015, appears to be in pretty good financial shape this year with the budget nearing $3 million for the first time in years, the district’s board of directors was told at a recent board meeting. But, cautioned Fire Chief Ron Leach, the tax hike is set to expire after next year, and the board needs to determine how it wants to proceed if it wants to avoid a repeat of the district’s recent financial malaise. The board met on May 11, and the agenda included a presentation by Leach on the district’s budgetary progress for this year and its projected budget for 2017. According to documents included in the meeting packet, the district this year expects to bring in more than $2.6 million in property and other taxes, plus nearly $300,000 from fees and other sources, for a total of more than $2.9 million in revenues for 2016. For 2017, according to the documents, the district hopes to bring in more than $3.1 million in revenues. That compares to a budget of less than $2 million per year over the previous couple of
years, during which the district was spending out of its cash reserves in order to maintain fire and ambulance services at historic levels. The district’s revenues dropped by roughly 40 percent per year due to the 2008 recession and a resulting crash in property values. Property taxes are the district’s main source of income. The district’s voters rejected one tax hike request, in 2013, for reasons having to do with the open-ended nature of the tax hike [no “sunset clause” was included] and the fact that it essentially would have doubled the district’s property-tax rate. But two years later, in November of last year, the voters agreed to a temporary, two-year tax increase that was both less ambitious and in keeping with the electorate’s interest in only approving tax hikes of a predetermined duration. The district also undertook a year-long master planning process, as promised to the taxpayers after the failure of the 2013 taxhike request, the results of which are being studied and implemented, where possible, by district officials throughout this year. In his presentation, Leach noted that the district’s cash reserves are expected to continue holding at approximately $1 million. That is well below the $2.88 million in reserves that had built up in the years prior to the recession, but at a level that Leach reported may be sufficient for the district’s needs. “We don’t like to go below a million dollars in the bank,” Leach stated. “That’s our
policy.” He explained that the district does not have a separate reserves fund, but typically plans it’s spending to keep at least that much in the bank for emergency needs. He noted that local planning consultant Mark Chain, a former board member and one of the consulting experts in the recent master-planning process, at one time advised that the district might want to raise its standing cash reserves to $2 million, but added that such decisions are up to the board. “It’s something to keep your eyes on,” Leach said of the district’s bank account. “If we drop below a million, you guys should perk up … that should be a huge red flag” indicating that the district might be in fiscal trouble. Reviewing the 2016 general-fund budget [which covers the district’s day-to-day operations], Leach told the board that the district expects to spend about $2.16 million on wages and other personnel costs this year, plus approximately $700,000 in additional spending on administration, equipment, training and other expenses, for a total of about $2.85 million. The district would finish the year with roughly $1.1 million in the general-fund reserve, and nearly $600,000 in a dedicated capital-projects reserve, according to the budget documents. For 2017, the proposed budget at this point calls for general-fund revenues of $3.1 million, and overall general-fund expenses of slightly more than $3 million, approximately
$2.3 million of which would be for wages and other personnel costs. Leach noted particularly that the district’s training budget has been increased from a little over $12,000 in 2015 to a nearly $72,000 for this year and a proposed amount of about $73,000 in 2017. “We cut this drastically in 2014 because of the budget crisis,” Leach said, adding “that’s not wise.” The training budget needs to be kept up because “this is a dangerous business” and training can save the lives of not only the taxpayers who use the fire and ambulance services, but the district’s personnel, too. During the budget discussion, Leach noted that the board should prepare itself to start thinking about asking the voters to extend the tax hike approved last year, in order to keep district revenues at their current levels. “By this time next year, we’ll be talking about that,” he told the board, explaining that allowing the temporary tax hike to simply expire would mean a loss of approximately $500,000 in annual revenues. The Carbondale fire district covers about 320 square miles, from Spring Valley in the north to Marble in the south. The district’s personnel includes five elected board members, 18 paid staff and about 65 volunteers. The district board of directors meets on the second Wednesday of each month, at 5:30 p.m. in the district headquarters, 301 Meadowood Drive.
House fire on wheels heading to Carbondale May 26-28 By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Carbondale’s firefighters will undergo a new training program this month, using what is known as the “Mobile Live-Fire Training Unit,” a large trailer that can simulate a blazing inferno in a house or other structure that lets trainees run through their paces and learn to work together. The Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District (CRFPD) training officer, Frank Nadell, explained that the mobile unit is owned by the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention & Control, created four years ago by the state legislature to take over responsibility for wildfires and other fire-related issues. The mobile unit, though, was only purchased by the division recently, Nadell said, and Carbondale is one of the first of Colorado’s 400 or so fire departments to use it in training exercises. The training exercises are scheduled to take place at the grounds of the CRFPD, 301 Meadowood Dr., on May 26-28. The training is similar, Nadell said, to sessions conducted in permanent “burn buildings” erected in Rifle and near Gypsum, which are made available for use by fire departments in surrounding communities. But this is different, in that the training facility is hauled by truck to those districts that do not have a burn-facility of their own. The trailer, specially built for fire-fighting training purposes, contains several “burn rooms” lined with heat-resistant tiles to protect the overall structure from the fires, which burn gas and can reach temperatures in the hundreds of degrees.
Members of the Grand Junction Fire Department trained on the Mobile Live-Fire Training Unit in February. Carbondale firefighters get their chance on May 26-28. Photo courtesy the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control. If the fire gets too hot, he said, different measures can be taken to reduce the heat. “It’s very safe,” Nadell said. Nadell said the training exercises typically involve 15 firefighters — three in the burn room itself, using hoses to douse the flames, with others acting as support personnel on the outside, filling such roles as operating the pump, maintaining the water supply for the hoses, and acting as an “incident commander” directing the operation. In addition, Nadell said, there are safety observers to watch over the exercise, and a ventilation group controlling the heat and smoke by knowing when to break open windows or doors, which typically gives a boost
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of oxygen to any fire. “Having this mobile building allows us to have people work in these different roles, and to trade off,” Nadell said, giving firefighters experience in different aspects of the overall operation. “It’s all these different groups,” he said, performing a variety of tasks. “Here in a rural area, every firefighter is trained in a (variety of) different role(s)” so that each firefighter can take up another role if needed. In big-city departments, Nadell added, firefighters often are paid specialists in these roles. Nadell explained that modern fire fighting often entails going into buildings that are
filled with modern furniture and other articles made of highly flammable plastics, pressed particle-board and other substances that catch fire and are consumed much more quickly than more traditional articles of furniture made of natural wood and metal. The modern furnishings, Nadell said, give off smoke that is “loaded with hydrocarbons; very, very toxic.” Showing an Internet video from Underwriters Laboratories [now known simply as UL], a national safety and testing firm, depicting two “rooms” — one termed “legacy” containing older furniture and appliances, the other labeled “modern.” Fires were simultaneously lit in each room in a controlled experiment, and within a couple of minutes the flames in the “modern” room were already tall and threatening, while the “legacy” room remained relatively unscathed. Within three and a half minutes, the modern room exploded in flames and showed temperatures above 700 degrees Fahrenheit. “This is not survivable,” Nadell said, meaning residents must be gotten out quickly and firefighters must be fully suited-up with protective clothing and very careful upon entering the fire zone. Legacy rooms, he said, will not reach the same dangerous stage for up to half an hour. “This is our world,” Nadell continued. “It’s a much more dangerous environment, and getting water on the fire quickly is much more important” than it might have been 20 years ago. One outcome of these changing circumstances is that it is critical that every firefighter be trained in various roles, “so they all work together in a safe manner,” Nadell said.
Quite the grand opening The official grand opening of the newly improved, expanded and remodeled Roaring Fork Valley Coop brought out hundreds of folks last Friday through Sunday. Saturday was the big day with a free BBQ, raffle and giveaways. The parking lot was packed and cars overflowed into the streets. Carbondale Rodeo Queen for 2016 Shannon Weeks (left) and Katy Parr (right), both of Windwalker Equine Therapy, were on hand to explain their organization, as was Holly McLain from the Roaring Fork Valley Horse Council. Photo by Jane Bachrach
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Community Calendar THURSDAY May 19 PAINLESS LIFE • TEAMHEALTH presents a seminar titled “Living a Fulfilling and Painless Life” at the Carbondale Branch Library starting at 5:30 p.m. The presenters will be Dr. Kent Albrecht (chiropractor), Megan King (acupuncturist) and Sandro Torres (health coach and founder of Custom Body Fitness). A $10 donation, which will go to Canine Outreach Care and Rescue, is being asked. STREETSCAPING • Carbondale hosts an open house to explain and discuss the Third Street streetscaping project from 4 to 6 p.m. at town hall. The open house will be attended by Andi Korber (Land + Shelter); Larry Ballenger and Janet Buck from the town; Carbondale Tree Board Member Chris Lehrman; employees from SGM engineering; and community members. CHIEFS MEET • Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling, and Fire Chief Ron Leach, meet the public at the Village Smith from 8 to 9 a.m. NRA FILM • Davi Nikent and TRUU present the film “Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA” at 7 p.m. at the Third Street Center. The suggested donation is $5. Info: info@davinikent.org. DRUG TALK • Results from a drug and alcohol student survey by FCD Prevention Works will be released at a meeting at Carbondale Middle School starting at 6 p.m. The accompanying presentation will help parents understand numerous drug and alcohol topics such as: the latest facts about addiction and the effect of alcohol and other drugs,
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ART TALK • Art Base Executive Director Genna Moe and artist Wewer Keohane conduct a members-only conversation starting at the Art Base Annex at 5:30 p.m. Keohane will discuss how working from her dreams has inspired authentic art and a lifetime’s worth of imagery, feelings and symbolism. The conversation will revolve around her exhibition at the Art Base Annex, “Evolution of a Dream.” LIVE MUSIC • Iron Mountain Hot Springs continues its Rhythm on the River weekly series from 6 to 8 p.m. with Jeremy Isenhart. On May 26 it’s John Riger. Regular admission prices apply. Info: 945-4766. ROTARY • The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at Mi Casita at noon every Thursday.
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BONEDALE BIKE JAM • The Bonedale Bike Jam takes place at North Face Park. Registration is online at carbondalerec.com or starting at 9:30 a.m. at the park. Competition starts at 10:30 a.m. It’s for bikers four years old and older. The cost is $10. Info: carbondalerec.com. CD RELASE CONCERT • Lisa DancingLight and Friends perform at the CRMS Barn to celebrate the release of her new CD “The Song of Love” at 7 p.m. It’s been more than 15 years since Dancing-Light performed her transformational healing songs on her favorite Kawai grand piano at the Barn. She’ll be joined by guitarist Mateo Sandate, drummer Aaron Taylor, Roxana Duval translating songs in sign language, and t’ai chi master John Norton. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and kids at lisadancinglight.com. Tickets are $20 and $15 at the door. MUD RUN • The Basalt High School Student Leadership is staging a two-mile obstacle course and mud run starting at 11 a.m. (registration at 10 a.m.) It’s called the Longhorn Stampede, and it starts at the school. Obstacles include giant waterslide, multiple mud pits and “huge” hay bale climb. “Be prepared to get dirty and wet,” said BHS student
Kaylin Williams. The event is open to the public and costs $15 online and $20 on the day of. Info: bhs.rfsd.org or kaylin837@rfschools.com. CLEAN UP • The Prince Creek clean up starts at 9 a.m. and goes for two hours. Park at the Flying Dog barn and bring some gloves. Info: Tom or Roz Turnbull at 963-2888. COMMUNITY MEAL • Faith Lutheran Church (south of Main Street on Highway 133) hosts a free community meal from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the third Saturday of the month. Info: 510-5046 or faithcarbondale.com.
SUNDAY May 22 AUTISM WALK • Smiling Goat Ranch (east of Carbondale near the rodeo grounds) hosts the GO AuTism! family fun walk. Registration starts at 1 p.m., followed by a 5K walk through town starting at 1:45 p.m. There’ll be a party at the ranch following the walk. There is no fee to register but organizers are encouraging people to get walk sponsors. Everyone who raises $100 by walk day will receive a free T-shirt. The after-walk party will be catered by chef Susie Jimenez ($15 for adults; $5 for kids). To register, go to eventbrite.com and type in “goautismfamilyfunwalk.” For more information, call 3791383 or go to the Smiling Goat Ranch’s Facebook page.
TUESDAY May 24 COFFEE WITH DAN • Carbondale Mayor Pro Tem Dan Richardson holds “office hours” CALENDAR page 11
Community Calendar at the Village Smithy from 7 to 8 a.m. on Tuesdays. Drop by for some coffee and a chat. QUARTERLY LUNCHEON • The Carbondale Chamber of Commerce’s quarterly luncheon takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Orchard. The presentation will by “Safety in the Work Place” by the Carbondale Police Department. Peppino’s will serve lunch ($25). RSVP at 963-1890.
Ongoing ART SHOW • The Art Base Annex in Basalt continues “Evolution of a Dream” featuring internationally collected and exhibited artist Wewer Keohane through June 4; the Art Base presents “Young Curators of the Roaring Fork Valley 2016 through May 21. CCAH • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities continues “Renascence: Works by Dean Bowlby, Andrea Kemp, Daniel Sprick and Gregory Tonozzi” through May 27. CCAH’s R2Gallery in the Launchpad is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Info: carbondalearts.com or 963-1680. PLANT-BASED FOODS • Dr. Greg Feinsinger
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WEDNESDAY May 25 BOOK CLUB • The Senior Matters’ Book Club discusses “The Japanese Love” by Isabel Allende at the Carbondale Branch Library starting at 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome. TEEN VOLUNTEERS • The Carbondale Branch Library holds an orientation session for teens want to volunteer at the library this summer. The session starts at 3 p.m. Info: gcpld.org or 963-2889.
speaks on the health advantages of eating plantbased whole foods on the first Monday of every month at the Third Street Center starting at 7 p.m. A plant-based whole foods potluck dinner is held at the Third Street Center at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Monday of every month. Everyone welcome. Info: info@davinikent.org. LINX • The Linx Business Network meets Tuesdays at 7:15 a.m. at the Sotheby’s International real estate office (201 Midland Ave.) in Basalt. Linx is a networking organization whose members work together to grow and promote their businesses, according to a press release. All dues not used for administration are given to
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CALL TO ENTRY • CCAH is accepting entries to the “Clay National XI: The Intimacy of Scale” through today. CCAH is partnering with the Carbondale Clay Center for the show. Applications can be downloaded at carbondalearts.com. Info: 963-1680 and brian@carbondalearts.com.
SUMMER FEST • Crown Summerfest will be held from 3 to 9:30 p.m. at Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel. Highlights include a valley-wide taco competition, bounce kingdom (free), hot air balloon rides (free), outdoor movie (free) and live music with Spore Favore and Kevin Heinz. Sponsors include the Town of Basalt. Info: 963-6030 and crownmtn.org.
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LIVE MUSIC • Lyn Byars hosts open mic nights at Carbondale Beer Works the first and third Monday of each month. Sign up begins at 7 p.m. Info: 948-8228.
HEALTHY HEART • Healthy Heart Meals meet-ups are held at the Third Street Center every Monday at 7 p.m. Greg Feinsinger, M.D. speaks on the first Monday of the month; the last Monday of the month features a pot-luck gathering at 6:30 p.m.
LIVE MUSIC • Dan Rosenthal hosts an open mic night at Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs from 8 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday. MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS • Dr. Greg Feinsinger offers free heart, diabetes and stroke counseling on Monday mornings at the Davi Nikent office in the Third Street Center (Suite
RUN AROUND • Independence Run & Hike hosts a run around town Saturdays at 8 a.m. Meet at the store in La Fontana Plaza and run various distances, with different routes each week. Info: 704-0909.
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ROCK CANYON COFFEE • Sustainable Settings hosts a tasting for Rock Canyon Coffee from 10 a.m. to noon on May 21. Sustainable Settings is located on Highway 133, just south of Carbondale. For details, call 963-6107 or e-mail rose@sustainablesettings.org. PAT FENDER • A Celebration of Life service for the late Pat Fender will be held at the CRMS Barn at 2 p.m. on May 22. Light refreshments will be served.
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Crystal River om page 3 you make it wild and scenic.” The designation, she explained, would involve what is known as “the bed and bank” of the river, and is mainly meant to prevent the construction of dams. Farris and her team point to the fact that, staring in the 1950s, a state water conservation district won approval to build two dams, one just below Redstone and the other just below the old townsite of Placita, which would have resulted in reservoirs roughly the size of the existing Ruedi Reservoir on the Fryingpan River above Basalt. Efforts to build those dams ran into resistance among the local population, and were abandoned a few years ago.
Dam fears But activists still fear that dams might be proposed in the future, possibly to feed diversion tunnels to slake the thirst of growing cities on the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies, as is already is happening through 26 tunnels that take water from rivers on the Western Slope. At the same time, states to the west of Colorado depend on water from the Colorado River, which means the river’s resources are being tapped from both the east and the west, with the likelihood that future water-resource engineers will be calling for more dams and reservoirs on Western
Slope rivers. Proponents of designation pointed to the construction of the Ruedi Reservoir dam on the Fryingpan River, and the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River that created Lake Powell, as examples of earlier dam-building efforts that have flooded large amounts of terrain, including towns, where there was no local effort in opposition. “So, this campaign to Save The Crystal seeks limited application of (the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act) to the Crystal. The only feature of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act sought for the Crystal is the prohibition of dams on the main stem of the upper 39 miles,” states an introductory memorandum that will be presented at the meetings in June. Speaking with a reporter, Farris emphasized, “We want to protect the integrity of the river [and] the rights of agricultural users below the Sweet Jessup diversion,” noting that much of the opposition to the designation has sprouted out of what she termed unrealistic fears that local control of the river would be relinquished and private landowners would lose the ability to use their lands as they wish. The Sopris Sun’s efforts to contact Marble Mayor Will Handville, to gauge the town’s thinking about the designation effort, were not successful. The meetings in Redstone and Marble on June 14 are open to the public.
The headgate for the Sweet Jessup irrigation ditch would be the northern terminus for the Wild & Scenic section of the Crystal River. Proponents are working toward a Wild & Scenic designation, in part, to prevent the construction of dams on the river. In a letter to the Town of Marble, Larry and Jeffe Hall lay out a number of arguments against the designation. Photo by Lynn Burton
The proposed Gateway River Park runs for about a quarter mile along Highway 82, starting at Highway 133. Diagrams, site plans and narratives for the park are posted on the town’s Website at carbondalegov.org. To get to the plans, click on Town Departments (upper left), then Parks & Recreation, and then scroll down to Gateway Park.
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The “Welcome to Carbondale” sign at the northeast corner of Gateway River Park was originally placed at the intersection of Main Street and Highway 133. Plans for developing the park are on hold until funds are available. Photo by Lynn Burton
dale Council on Arts and Humanities [CCAH], as part of its Creative District planning for the town, all are eager to see it get started. Because it is so early in the planning process for the Artway, Jackel confirmed, there are no cost estimates for planned improvements, which range from a special archway where the trail meets Highway 133, to a “linear park” stretching from the archway to a Latino folk-art garden where the trail crosses 8th Street, and other beautification efforts. Jackel acknowledged that the town is likely to be in line for some costs connected to the Artway, although RFTA and CCAH are jointly in charge of the planning and execution of the project. Jackel said the town is looking forward to a boost in sales tax revenue once a planned new City Market store is opened on a site along Highway 133. “I think you’ll see the town being able to go for larger GOCO grants” once those additional revenues start flowing,
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Jackel predicted. Documents show that the half-cent recreation sales and use tax and other sources pulled as much as $715,000 into the town’s coffers in 2008, just before the recession took hold, though that had dropped to $535,000 in 2009. Last year the sales and use tax, combined with recreation center entrance fees and other sources of income, brought the annual take up to more than $922,000, according to a document provided by Jackel. At the same time, however, the town paid out more than that amount in costs of various kinds, resulting in more than $67,000 in red ink for the recreation department, according to the financial document. The upshot of all this, Jackel said, is that the town has a choice — either dip into its general fund reserves to come up with matching funds for big grants to pay for the projects, or wait to see if the ongoing increase in sales tax revenues will be quickened by the opening of a new, more modern and larger City Market grocery store.
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Ram Day 2016 Roaring Fork High School’s annual Ram Day took place last Friday, with all kinds of activities including a morning assembly, followed by community service projects, a barbecue and games. There was music in the air (note Mr. Wells in blue T-shirt), plus footballs, volleyballs and lacrosse balls. Coming attractions include: the Tunnel of Love for seniors at 3:15 p.m. on May 20, and the Baccalaureate at 7 p.m. on May 24. Photos by Jane Bachrach
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