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First two weekends of October. Our children’s hay bale maze and treasure hunt add fun and excitement of a fall excursion. Oktoberfest! 3rd and 4th weekends of October. Free Bratwurst and hotdogs to all passengers. Free microbrew tasting (for riders over 21 yrs of age with proper i.d.)
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Rocky Mountain Events MULTIPLE LOCATIONS Holiday Markets - Celebrate the Holiday Season! Many towns throughout the front range are hosting Holiday/Christmas markets for your shopping pleasure. Visit such places as Breckenridge, Georgetown, Aspen, Idaho Springs, Black Hawk and Central City, Leadville and more!
ASPEN December 1, 2009 - April 13, 2010: Time Travel Tuesdays - A different program every Tuesday evening featuring living history performances, engaging lectures, first-person recollections, historical games, and more $5/person. Free to members. Locations Vary. 5:30 pm (970) 9253721. www.AspenHistory.org December 20 - January 2: Aspen Film Academy Screenings - Every year Aspen Film adds celluloid excitement to Aspen’s winter holidays with a slate of the year’s hottest films headlined by top directors and stars. Open to everyone, this two week extravaganza offers a sneek peek at some of the films everyone will be talking about come the Academy Awards. Harris Concert Hall. www.AspenFilm.org January 28 - January 31: Winter X Games 9 - 9:00 am - 10:00 pm. ESPN Winter X Games return to Aspen/ Snowmass for its 9th year. All events are FREE and open to the public. For more information visit www.xgames.com or call (970) 925-1220. February 28 - March 4: US Comedy Arts Festival - 8:00 am - 10:00 pm. Event costs vary. For more information visit www.homeboxoffice.com
BLACK HAWK and CENTRAL CITY May 5: Gregory Day - The Governor’s Mansion, Denver. This is the kick-off event for the 150th anniversary of the discovery of gold in Black Haw and Central City. Celebrate the man who started the rush and became the area’s first millionaire. Evening festivities will
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BRECKENRIDGE Second Saturdays in the Arts District: The second Saturday of Each Month - Breckenridge Theatre, Fuqua, Livery Stable and Tin Shop Ridge Street. Stroll through the arts district on each second Saturday of the month and enjoy new exhibitions at the Breckenridge Theatre Gallery featuring the artwork of local artists. FREE! January 10, 2010 - January 17, 2010: Ullr Festival Week - Pronounced (Ooler), the mythical Norse God of Snow. Week Long of Fun! January 10 - Ullr Fest Skating Party; C West Ice Arena. $5 - includes skate rental. Pizza and soda additional fee. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. January 11 - Ullr Fest Nordic Party; Gold Run Nordic Center. Half price ski and snow shoe rental. 5:00 - 8:30 pm. A reception of light fare and cash bar. The 2010 Ullr King and Queen are crowned followed by a cross country ski or snow shoe (beginner level ability) out to the bon fire. January 12 - The Dating Game Breck style; 8:00 pm at Cecilia’s Martini Bar and Nightclub. Adults over the age of 21. January 13 - Ullympics; 8:00 - 8:00 pm at Carter Park. Participation is FREE. Co-ed teams of 4 compete in the retro ski relay, the group ski race, and the frying pan toss!!! After party follows at a yet to be determined Breckenridge pub. January 14 - Ullr Parade; 4:30 pm. Begins at North Main Street and winds south through the heart of Breckenridge. January 15 - Comedy Night; Light appetizers, giveaways and a cash bar. January 16 - Chili Cook Off Event; 3:00 - 8:00 pm at the Riverwalk Center. Enjoy samplings from local and world famous chili chefs, live entertainment, plus fun activities for the whole family. January 26, 2010 - February 7, 2010: International Snow Sculpture Championships - People come from all over the world to carve 20 ton blocks of snow into beautiful masterpieces. In just 65 hours, these enormous snow canvasses transform into three dimensional works of art. In its 19th
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1. How many times did outfielder Barry Bonds hit 40-plus homers in a season? 2. Which major-league player got the first $1 million contract awarded through the arbitration process? 3. Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell set a record in 2008 for most career touchdown passes (134) in major college football. Who had held the mark?
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• Arapahoe Basin 4 of 7 Lifts OPEN • Aspen/Snowmass 33 of 43 Lifts OPEN • Beaver Creek 22 of 25 Lifts OPEN • Breckenridge Ski Resort 17 of 30 Lifts OPEN • Copper Mountain Ski Resort 14 of 22 Lifts OPEN • Crested Butte Ski Area 12 of 16 Lifts OPEN
4. Which NBA team originally drafted Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki in 1998?
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year, artists will carve these huge 12 foot blocks of snow into expressive pieces of art using only their own two hands, creative vision and approved hand tools. From a whimsical bouquet of enormous flowers, to thought-provoking abstract shapes, sculptures form these creations before thousands of spectators over the course of five days at Riverwalk Center. www.GoBreck.com
6. Name the last owner-driver to win a Cup championship in NASCAR. 7. Before Andy Murray in 2009, who was the last person to hold the No. 2 spot in the men’s ATP tennis rankings other than Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer? Answers 1. Eight times. 2. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela in 1983. 3. Hawaii’s Colt Brennan, with 131 (2005-’07). 4. Milwaukee, which traded his draft rights to Dallas along with Pat Garrity for Robert “Tractor” Traylor. 5. It was 1995. 6. Alan Kulwicki in 1992. 7. Lleyton Hewitt in 2005 (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
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GEORGETOWN, IDAHO SPRINGS and SILVER PLUME December 18, and 19: Christmas at Hamil House - Georgetown. Join us for a Christmas evening in classic Victorian style. Ticket price includes open bar, heavy hors d’oevres, entertainment, caroling with the Silver Plume Singers, traditional Tree Lighting ceremony, readings, wassail bowl and toasts, and general good cheer. Reservations Required. Call for details (303) 5692840, or go to www.HistoricGeorgetown. org
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LEADVILLE February 13, 2010: Valentine’s Day Wine Tasting - Leadville. At the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum. This is a semi-formal event. Come join us for an elegant evening of good food and wine with your sweetheart. For information and reservations call the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum: (719) 4861229 To place your event in this section, send an email to: Info@TidbitsOfDenver.com as far ahead of your event as possible.
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A SPORTING VIEW
something wrong -- but I don’t think so. My mother called what they were doing to him as “barbaric.”
By Mark Vasto
Ali Hurt More Than Himself Burgundy carpet, beige couches and reheated pepperoni pizza from the night before, television tuned to WABC to watch the Wide World of Sports ... that was a typical Saturday spent with my father during the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. It’s hard to understand now, in the SportsCenter and Yahoo Sports world, but for the sports fan of the Jimmy Carter era, it was Sports Illustrated, the back of your local evening tabloid newspaper if you lived in a town lucky enough to have one, and the Howard Cosell hovel that was ABC’s Wide World of Sports. And there could be no Cosell without a peculiarly great heavyweight boxer by the name of Muhammad Ali. The interviews were often better than the fights. Most of the great ones I saw had been tapes of old shows, and those were even better than the ones I was watching live on those suburban Saturday mornings. By this time, Ali -- the one shown on our Sylvania cabinet television -- was not “the Greatest,” at least not in the way my father used to speak of him. I watched him lose three out of four fights. I saw a lumbering, slurring man that people cheered on relentlessly even though he was clearly losing, and laughed at all of his jokes even though they weren’t funny. Maybe only a child could see the truth -- that there was
Ali was warned after his third fight with Ken Norton to hang up the gloves. The Mayo Clinic said his muscles weren’t in sync with his brains, resulting in slurred speech. His own doctor, Ferdie Pacheco, sent him medical exam results and warned Ali that if he continued fighting, he “would have no shot at a normal life” after his career. But Ali promised easy fights. Pacheco stayed on for one last bout -- a brutal mess of a war with Ernie Shavers, a fighter with 54 wins and 52 knockouts, and somehow won the decision. Pacheco jumped ship. “He was about the strongest guy in boxing,” Pacheco said at the time. “That was easy?” I watched Ali get pummeled by Larry Holmes and just hang on long enough to lose a decision to Trevor Berbick. Before the Berbick fight, which took place 28 years ago this week, it was all too clear that we were sending the guy to the gallows for our own amusement. Unable to talk at press conferences, he used to perform magic tricks.
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My dad would just shake his head. Ali, he explained to me, used to perform magic in the ring. “He’s only hurting himself,” he would say. But I could see, sitting on that rug next to his chair, that Ali was hurting everyone else, too. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter and publisher of The Kansas City Luminary. (c) 2009 King Features Synd., Inc.
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