Mesa County BEACON Senior News: April 2019

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APRIL 2019

Volume: 32 | Issue: 4

Mesa County’s Monthly Magazine for Adults 50+ with over 34,125 Readers

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his year’s BeaconFest Boomer & Senior Fair will be bigger than ever. With booths from over 100 vendors displaying their senior-related products and services, BEACON Senior News’ annual mature lifestyle expo in Grand Junction has kept up with western Colorado’s growing retiree population, making it the largest senior fair in the state.

The 19th annual boomer and senior expo takes place from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16 at Two Rivers Convention Center in downtown Grand Junction. Admission is free!

Enjoy the area’s largest boomer and senior fair!

FREE admission, entertainment, seminars, food

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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“BeaconFest is a one-of-a-kind event for seniors in the Grand Valley and a fun way for the BEACON to celebrate our readers and our community,” said BEACON Publisher Kevin VanGundy. “This year’s show is our biggest boomer and senior expo ever with over 100 vendors and 2,500 expected visitors, making it the biggest, and still the best, senior event in Colorado.”

Attendees immerse themselves in a day filled with high-energy music, great food, lively seminars and prize giveaways every half-hour. Win even

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more prizes with bingo games in the foyer at 1 p.m. Visit one on one with local businesses and community organizations while listening to music performed by King ’n’ Trio, Javier de los Santos, Peggy Malone and many other local entertainers.

The biggest prize of all takes place at the end of the day when one lucky attendee will win two tickets to see the Rolling Stones at Broncos Mile High Stadium in Denver. Plan to stick around, as you must be present to win.

Don’t miss the chance to honor 12 outstanding volunteers at the highly anticipated Volunteer of the Year ceremony near the main stage at 1 p.m. Volunteers will be recognized for their contributions to community organizations, and the reader-selected Volunteer of the Year will be revealed.

There's still time to cast your vote for Volunteer of the Year at www.

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Join the party:

BeaconFest is Tuesday, April 16

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ith all the activity—the people, vendors, prizes, live entertainment, freebies and food—it’s no wonder BeaconFest is the largest boomer and senior fair in the area.

Actually, as we know it, it’s the biggest mature lifestyle show in Colorado.

With booths from over 100 vendors, this year’s BeaconFest Boomer & Senior Fair will be bigger than ever. Restaurants, real estate professionals, home improvement experts, financial service providers, health and fitness gurus, community clubs and many senior agencies will take up every square inch of booth space available at Two Rivers Convention Center. We also have a lineup of eclectic entertainment, a hefty schedule of educational seminars, and plenty of opportunities to take home a prize or two.

We’ll be giving away colorful gift baskets, restaurant gift cards, home décor items, weekend travel packages and more every half-hour, culminating in our grand prize—two tickets to see The Rolling Stones live in Denver.

Did I mention admission is free?

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One of BeaconFest’s most anticipated events is the Volunteer of the Year awards ceremony, where we recognize sev-

eral of our community’s hardworking volunteers.

There's still time to vote for this year’s winner.

Read their stories and vote for your favorite at www.BeaconSeniorNews.com before April 7. All volunteers will be recognized at the stage and the winner will be announced at 1 p.m.

YOUR OPINIONS MATTER Did you know the BEACON accepts Letters to the Editor? We do, and sometimes we'll even print them.

It's all part of our mission of being a voice for Western Slope boomers and seniors. Part of this means inspiring readers to take action for themselves, their communities or for the benefit of older adults everywhere.

I bring this up because I recently received a call regarding an opinion piece in last month's issue that encouraged readers to vote in favor of the Grand Junction Community Center. The caller said the article was "one-sided," which it was, and purposefully so, because it was one reader's opinion. The writer felt strongly enough to advocate for this topic and share her stance with seniors in her community, and we love that!

What a great way to get involved! Typically these articles appear on our Kudos and Kvetch page at the end of the paper.

Do you have an article you'd like us to consider?

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IN THIS ISSUE...

Cover Photo: Alice Monroe sits in the

cockpit of the plane she recently sold to a young pilot. She said he brings it by every now and then so she can "pet it."

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Supplements and medications to take with food Follow these guidelines to avoid discomfort Stop and smell the roses!

Learn how mindfulness can bring you peace.

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Cinque Terre, Italy In the age of over tourism, learn how to immerse yourself in culture, not crowds Lessons learned from one-room schools Bigger is not always better

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The sky's the limit:

These seniors don't let gravity keep them down

By Diana Barnett illow Run, Michigan, near Detroit, was home to the factory that Henry Ford set up to build airplanes. The B-24 Bomber was built there and it was also where Alice Monroe first heard the drone of those planes over her house.

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“My mother would see me watching those planes from the yard and would tell me there were soldiers in those planes,” said Monroe, whose curiosity about the planes launched a lifelong love of flying. “I was only about 4 or 5 when I would use a

wooden sawhorse as a plane. The garden hose holder became my steering wheel, and I would sit there and fly.”

After she’d been in Grand Junction for a while, she’d go to the airport, drink coffee and just hang out and watch the planes.

I took off, I was praying, too.”

At first, she feared big planes, but her curiosity got the better of her.

“At that time, you could go out where the planes were parked and look them over,” she said, “so that’s exactly what I did. I wanted to understand why this big hunk of metal stayed up in the sky.”

She wanted to connect with other pilots so she joined the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots once led by Amelia Earhart.

“I learned that when you’re afraid of something, if you read and learn about it, then you’re not so afraid anymore,” she said.

Monroe said that tactic worked with her fear of spiders, so she studied planes—and nursing, which is what eventually brought her to Grand Junction.

TAKING FLIGHT

“The first time I rode on a commercial flight, I didn’t like it at all,” Monroe said. “It was too closed in. I made people hold my hand.”

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One day, she asked a pilot to take her up with him in the cockpit. He did, and she studied his every move.

Once they were on the ground, the pilot told her he’d see her the same time next week.

“This guy was six-four and was the cruelest instructor in the world,” Monroe recalled. “I took lessons, and after 10 hours he told me to solo. ‘Just let me know if you’re in trouble,’ he said. He went over and knelt on the edge of the runway, which was appropriate, because when

At 50 flight hours, Monroe received her license. On one of her first trips, she flew home to Michigan.

In addition to flying as a hobby, Monroe’s pilot’s license came in handy for her nursing career. For several years, she flew a local orthopedic surgeon to rural destinations in Colorado.

She found a kindred spirit when she met Daryl Monroe, a paramedic with St. Mary’s Flight for Life Team who was just as passionate about flying as she was.

After they were married, they moved to a property on Glade Park, which they named “On a Wing and a

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"I was only about 4 or 5 when I would use a wooden sawhorse as a plane. The garden hose holder became my steering wheel, and I would sit there and fly."

Prayer.” They built Pinyon Airport, a runway approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, and together they restored a 1939 Fairchild aircraft that served in World War II along the Eastern coastline.

Although Monroe recently sold her personal plane, the Fairchild resides in a hangar in Delta. She continues to maintain the Pinyon Airport private runway, which is used by a variety of people, including President Barack Obama when he visited Grand Junction in 2012. Monroe said the South Carolina National Guard camped there for eight days to set up security for the visit.

NO FLIGHT OF FANTASY

John Kroft, another Glade Park resident, also grew up during World War II and remembers all kinds of planes flying over his Nebraska home.

“I admired those guys that could fly and thought it would be pretty neat to do that,” he said. “I never imagined that I would have that chance.”

It wasn’t until the late ’90s that he finally got that opportunity. One year, while wintering in Arizona, he and his wife, Avis, saw an unusual aircraft flying around. Kroft learned that it was a powered parachute, and wanted to take a ride.

“My gosh, I couldn’t believe all I could see!” he said. “We flew over the interstate and all those winter campers and I kept thinking of everything I could see in Colorado from one of these.”

He was hooked after that first ride so naturally he ordered one for his own. Before he left for Oregon to get help assembling it, he told the salesman not to tell anyone he had purchased it just in case he didn’t have enough guts to fly, or didn’t ‹ Alice Monroe's restored Fairchild from WWII sits at a hangar in Delta.

know what he was doing.

For the first few weeks, Kroft practiced flying close to his acreage near Glade Park.

He also flew over his son’s house, hollering and waving.

“Fifteen minutes later, he called my wife and asked if I’d bought some kind of flying machine,” he said. “I hadn’t even told him what I’d done.”

WILD ABOUT FLYING

Kroft and his powered parachute have become a popular sight.

Circling above the grounds behind the Glade Park Fire Department, he’s became a regular entertainer at the community’s Movies Under the Stars event during the summer.

From a young age, Alice Monroe's curiosity about planes launched her lifelong love of flying. She eventually joined the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots.

Weighing 400 pounds, the ultralight has a two and a half hour fuel supply and only travels around 32 miles per hour. He takes off from the runway on his property and has flown into Utah, and has taken it with him to Arizona and Alaska.

“It’s amazing how peaceful it is while flying,” said Kroft. “In Alaska, I spotted caribou and grizzly bears.

You can look at birds and watch how they fly—how they glide when they are on an uplift and don’t even move a feather.”

John Kroft and his "flyin' machine"—a powered parachute.

Even though the craft is a two-seater, he usually flies alone.

“Avis is not very wild about flying,” he said.

He used to fly two to three times a week, but the weather hasn’t been favorable the last few years.

“As it’s gotten warmer and drier, we’ve had more wind,” he said. “You can’t have wind and safely take this thing up.”

Monroe and Kroft agree that you can learn a lot about life by flying.

“Those long distances make you think about a lot of things,” Monroe said. ■

Alice Monroe and her husband, Daryl, moved to a property on Glade Park, which they named "On a Wing and a Prayer." It's now home to Pinyon Airport, an approved runway by the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Like all wildlife, birds need three things to survive: cover, food and water. From a simple potted flower to draw in hummingbirds to plotting where to put a birdhouse, this article serves as an introductory course on attracting birds to your back yard.

CREATE COVER

If you’re living in an apartment or condo, creating cover is sometimes hard or impossible to do. However, if you do have a yard, liven it up by planting trees, grasses and other native plants. Juniper trees and shrubs with berries are the best for birds as they provide a tasty buffet and protection. Grasses will encourage ducks, wrens and other birds to lay nests and reproduce.

Trees, dead and alive, will provide cover and food for many different species. Sleeping birds especially love to snooze in juniper, cottonwood, hemlock and evergreen trees.

These trees also offer protection from cold winter winds.

PROVIDE FOOD AND WATER

Most bird enthusiasts have at least one birdfeeder to attract birds.

Hanging birdfeeders are cleaner than feeding birds from the ground but carefully scattered corn or sunflower seeds in the winter months is a great way to attract many species of hungry birds. Hummingbirds are attracted to bright colors and sugar water, and can drink water from a misty spray bottle or hose as they fly.

“Adding a birdbath or water feature to your back yard will not only provide a place for birds to drink, but will also attract birds to your yard to bathe, even if they’re not seed-eating birds,” said Larry Collins, owner of Wild Birds Unlimited, a retail and bird-feeding supply store in Grand Junction.

If backyard feeding is not an option, attach a suet block or birdfeeder to your window for up-close bird encounters, or make a fun orange treat basket.

Flowers such as trumpet honeysuckle, scarlet and pineapple sage, apple-scented geraniums and spotted bee balm makes a hummingbird’s heart beat faster. They favor flowers with tubular structures that they “hum” on. Other bird cafés that can be potted in containers big and small include zinnias, cosmos, lovelies-bleeding and bachelor button

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Planting fruit trees will also eventually attract fruit-eating birds to your yard, Collins added.

Other things you can do to improve bird sightings include removing cheatgrass and any unused fences (a killer for owls and many predatory birds), planting native bunchgrasses, maintaining prairie dog towns, booking tree-falling projects to winter and fall months when the birds aren’t nesting, avoiding using pesticides and checking for nests before doing any work in the area.

If you’re looking for a landscaping project that will attract birds to your yard, plan variation among plant heights to service a variety of species’ needs. Since no two are alike, birds benefit from a landscape where there is a lot of variation in height and thickness among plant life. Don’t knock the dead tree down if you don’t have to; woodpeckers need dead trees to forage for grubby nutrients. If you live in an area native to Colorado’s beautiful grouse species, a mixture of tall sagebrush and native legumes free of fencing is best.

Diversifying and improving conditions for birds on the lookout for flying insects, spiders and other tasty things to eat in your neighborhood can be a rewarding project to do yourself or with others in your area. Before you know it, new birds will be introducing themselves with their peculiar tweet-twe-tweet! ■

BIRDSIGHTING CHECKLIST ❑ Create cover by planting trees, grasses and native plants. Consider planting juniper trees and shrubs.

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❑ Plant flowers such as trumpet honeysuckle, scarlet, pineapple sage, apple-scented geraniums and spotted bee balm to attract hummingbirds. ❑ Plant fruit trees and pot zinnias, cosmos, love-liesbleeding and bachelor button flowers, which burst with food in the fall.

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“I wish I was better at romance.

If I was better at that, then life would be better all around.”

Kenneth Hoyt “I wish I was better at embracing technology. I have to use it every day at the stores and on my iPad. Modern technology has layers of usernames and passwords and each layer is different. On top of that, the passwords change constantly. Technology is ever morphing at a time when I’m losing neurons. At this point, I’d have trouble operating an abacus.”

Alison Colby “I would like to be better at acceptance.

I used to ski and hike a lot and then I had a hip replacement.

Now it’s debatable if I can ever do either again, which requires acceptance.

I wish I was better at that.”

Jerry Colby “I think I would like to be better at having patience. I’m working on it, but if I was better at having patience, I would be more at ease, more relaxed. I have to say though that the older I get, the better I am at being patient.”

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Can you die of old age when you’re young?

Dear Old Bag: [In your reply to “Old Fogie” in your February column], you mentioned how a “peach stick” was at your rear when, as a child, you were sent to return a tricycle that you stole. There are many ways to correct a child and instill ethics and morals, and a peach stick at the rear is not a good one. Please don’t suggest that any form of physical punishment is a good way to teach a child the difference between right and wrong. Instead, it can instill fear and insincerity, among other unproductive traits. You offer much appreciated help, but this reply was not one of your better ones. Regards, from a psychotherapist and children volunteer/advocate.

Dear Child Advocate: Thank you for writing. I want to make it clear to my readers that I am not a therapist. I am a mother of seven, the youngest child of 12, the confidante of seniors for 40+ years, the foster mother of 18 children, grandmother of 23 and great-grandmother of 15. I was also a registered nurse and I have a BS in psychology. Now I am a senior, and I gained my wisdom from the school of hard knocks.

I have read about many methods of raising children. My early children received an occasional swat if they lied or were doing something unsafe. My children later on didn’t get the swat. In fact, my last child told me that I could not swat her because it would be child abuse! All I can say is that I would not trade my childhood for anyone’s. I never doubted that I was loved and cherished, which was very high on my list of priorities for my own children. And I always had a clear conception of what was right and wrong. I suspect the pendulum will swing again in the future as more data is collected. Thanks again. OB

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Signed, FND Dear FND: I take your question to mean, “Can you die of old age when you are young?” I do not believe people die of old age—they die from disease. Some of these diseases are in our genes and some are brought on by the way we live. If at age 50, you are sitting around, uninvolved, not exercising, eating unhealthily and have no interests, you might be considered old and you are inviting disease into your life, and no doubt shortening it. I hope this answers your question. OB Dear Old Bag: When I look around, I find that I have been mistaken about aging. I always thought that as you grow older, you become nicer and wiser, but my observation is that people often get belligerent and illogical. What is your take on this? Signed, DH Dear DH: My take is that people pretty much become more of what they are. If you are sweet, wise and logical as a young person, you will probably become more of that as you grow older. If you are a nasty young person, you may become nastier. If disease interferes with your healthy aging, a sweet person may become the opposite. Here’s a note to my younger readers: If you are young and have a nasty disposition, you better change it while you can. OB ■

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hen a dietary supplement, enzyme or medication gives the directive to “take with food” it usually means to take while you’re eating, or a few minutes beforehand. But since you have food in your gastrointestinal tract for a little while, it would be fine to take the item right after you eat. No matter what you take, drink a full glass of water to make sure the pill doesn’t linger in your esophagus and cause irritation.

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Ashwagandha: This popular adaptogen should be thought of a little bit like food because it is an herb. All herbs should be taken with a snack or a meal in order to amplify the benefits and reduce nausea.

Multivitamins: There are so many constituents that it’s best to take multivitamins with food in order to minimize stomach upset and nausea.

CoQ10: Some people take this powerful antioxidant for cellular energy production to support their heart, pancreas, liver and brain. Take CoQ10 (ubiquinone) with a fatty meal to speed absorption.

Selenium: This is taken for thyroid inflammation, bone health, prostate support and immune support.

Magnesium: Some people take magnesium for depression, regularity, reduction of leg cramps and blood pressure support. Like most minerals, taking magnesium with a snack can minimize diarrhea and stomach discomfort.

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There are hundreds of reasons to stop and smell the roses, focusing on the moment and blocking out everything that keeps us from experiencing the now in our lives. While work and family life and our various commitments rarely leave time for much else, the world’s negativity can take its toll on our mind and body. Television, internet and social media captures much of our time and allows us to lose ourselves in everyone else’s stuff. Mindfulness allows us to relax, slow down, and bring rest to our body and mind, revitalizing us with energy and promoting positive thoughts.

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“It’s difficult to stay in the present moment because our mind tends to wander off,” said Kautsky, who owns Red Bike Counseling, 327 N. Seventh St. in Grand Junction.

To facilitate a mindfulness practice more effectively, Kautsky said having an anchor to focus on helps bring you back to the present moment.

“Listening to noises that you hear, focusing on your breath, or paying attention to the sensations in your body can all help keep you in a mindful state,” she said.

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You don’t need professional help to set the tone for mindfulness.

Exercise is a great way to focus on being in the present. The intensity and duration of yoga, for example, allows the mind to quiet itself. As your thighs tremble to hold the sun warrior pose, you can only concentrate on the feelings in your body and the strength you’re utilizing to keep yourself there. There is no space to think about your grocery list, who you disagreed with at work today or your plans for the weekend. You’re locked into the moment of energy flowing through your body. At the end of the session, you’re just grateful to have made it to the cool down portion of the workout. You just relax and be.

Even if the gym isn’t your thing, taking a walk can help you connect with your inner body. It’s different than lying down because our attention is directed to our feet as they touch the ground. Walking mindfully is not about getting somewhere; it’s about being with each step fully and noticing where you’re. But don’t look at your feet—look ahead.

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If this is you, turn off the television and your phone and lower the lights. Find a suitable spot in a comfortable chair or on a cushion on the floor to quiet your mind and focus on your breath. Even sitting in your parked car offers an opportunity to close your eyes, focus on your breathing and hear your own thoughts.

Mindfulness has been found to help reduce stress, increase performance, and gain insight and awareness through observing our own mind and increase our attention to the well-being of others.

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Eckhart Tolle, author of “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment,” believes that this inner awareness also has healing effects that may slow down aging of the physical body and strengthen the immune system.

“The more consciousness you bring into the body, the stronger the immune system becomes,” he writes. “It’s as if every cell awakens and rejoices.” ■

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By Lisa Kautsky, Red Bike Counseling Begin with a 5-minute practice, and you can work toward a longer time.

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Close your eyes and notice your breath, paying attention to the physical sensation of breathing—the air moving through your nose or mouth, the rise and fall of your belly or your chest.

2. N otice when your mind wanders away from your breath. Inevitably, your attention will leave the breath and wander to other places. This is normal. When you notice your mind wandering, gently return your attention to the breath without judging your thoughts or your mind.

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By Jan Weeks ermenting foods has been around for millennia, preserving food long before refrigeration or dehydrating.

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Hate sauerkraut? Luckily, cabbage isn’t the only vegetable that improves in both flavor and health benefits when fermented. Kimchi, the spicy Korean version of fermented cabbage, is a staple for many and not just in the Far East.

If you drink kefir (fermented milk) or kombucha (fermented tea), you’re giving your body a boost of health. Miso, another Oriental

food, is a fermented paste made from barley, rice or soybeans. It adds a nice umami (savory) flavor to dishes. It’s high in sodium, so a little goes a long way. You can add it to soups, salad dressings and marinades.

Tempeh, similar to tofu but fermented, is made from soybeans and can be substituted for meat in dishes for vegetarians, vegans or for those who want to cut down on animal protein in their diet.

Yogurt, a flavorful addition to smoothies, is basically fermented milk. Be sure to check the label for “Live & Active Cultures.” Though yogurts not labeled as live and active contain some probiotics, you won’t reap the full benefits of those 17 billion cultures in a 6-ounce serving. The probiotics in yogurt also digest some of the lactose in dairy products, so you may be able to eat yogurt even if you’re lactose intolerant.

The home cook can ferment just about any vegetable, too, using only salt and water instead of vinegar and sugar. You can ferment carrots, cabbage, broccoli, radishes, turnips, okra, even green tomatoes.

Leafy greens such as kale, as well as onions, can develop unexpected flavors that may tingle your taste buds.

Sourdough bread is also a fermented food that’s delicious. You can buy sourdough starter or make your own, though it takes a bit longer. Or if you have a friend who’s a sourdough fanatic, see if you can borrow some starter to make your own first batch. Some people have kept starters for years. You can find plenty of starter recipes online or in cookbooks.

No matter what you choose to ferment, cleanliness is essential. Clean glass jars with lids, clean utensils, and clean vegetables to prevent unwanted “stuff” from growing in your food. Vegetables should be peeled and cut into sticks or slices that will easily fit in the jars. You can layer different kinds in each jar if you like or stick to one kind.

Dissolve a good quality sea salt (not iodized) in filtered or distilled water and pour over the veggies, covering them. Use a flexible knife or spatula to remove bubbles by running it down the sides of the jars. Cover loosely with the lid and set on a rimmed tray in a warm place, like your kitchen counter or the garage.

Time varies so check the process daily. The food needs to stay below the water level, so you may have to add a bit more water daily. ■

Quick fermented cabbage Though not as “ripe” as true sauerkraut, cabbage can be fermented in a matter of days rather than weeks.

Pack shredded cabbage into glass jars or a crock, any non-reactive container, and add brine to the rim of the jar. (If using a crock or bowl, add a plate that will fit the container and weight it with a large can or rock wrapped in a plastic bag to keep the cabbage submerged.)

Top each jar, filled to the brim with brine, with a lid and screw band that’s tightened just enough to keep the lid in place. Set in a warm place and let nature do its magic for a week or so. Check daily, remove any scum that may form, and add water if needed. Soon you’ll notice that vinegary odor; let it “work” until it’s as sour as you like.

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LAUGHING MATTERS Note from the Publisher: Humor is in the funny bone of the beholder. In last month's issue, we published a joke that was attributed to David West. First, this is NOT from the renowned Dr. David West of Grand Junction. Second, it was not our intention to make light of being overweight. Third, we love and support our teachers. I apologize for any consternation this has caused.

I REMEMBER WHY I RETIRED

I said pleasantly, “Good morning and welcome to Wal-Mart. Nice children you have there. Are they twins?”

Submitted by Robert Gale After landing my new job as a Walmart greeter (a good find for many retirees), I lasted less than a day.

About two hours in, a very loud, unattractive, mean woman walked into the store with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance.

The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to say, “Hell no, they ain’t twins. The oldest one’s 9, and the other one’s 7. Why the hell would you think they’re twins? Are you blind, or stupid?”

So I replied, “I’m neither blind nor stupid, ma’am. I just couldn’t believe someone slept with you twice. Have a good day and thank you for shop-

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LIFE BEGINS AT 80 Submitted by Lynette Cherry I have good news for you. The first 80 years are the hardest. The second 80 are a succession of birthday parties.

Once you reach 80, everyone wants to carry your baggage and help you up the steps. If you forget your name or anybody else’s name, an appointment, your telephone number or promise to be three places at the same time, or you can’t remember how many grandchildren you have, you need only explain that you are 80.

Being 80 is a lot better than being 70. At 70, people are mad at you for everything. At 80 you have a perfect excuse no matter what you do. If you act foolishly, it’s your second

childhood. Everybody is looking for symptoms of softening of the brain.

Being 70 is no fun at all. At 70, they expect you to retire to a house in Florida and complain about your arthritis. You ask everybody to stop mumbling because you can’t understand them.

If you survive until you are 80, everybody is surprised that you are still alive. They treat you with respect just for having lived so long. Actually, they seem surprised that you can walk and talk sensibly.

So please, folks, try to make it to 80. It’s the best time of your life.

People forgive you for anything.

GRANDMAS DON’T KNOW EVERYTHING Submitted by Kay Hendricks Little Tony was 7 years old and was staying with his grandmother for a few days. He was playing outside with the other kids for a while

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collar: “He lives in a home with six children, two under the age of 3— he’s trying to catch up on his sleep.

Can I come with him tomorrow?”

A little taken aback, she decided to tell him the truth.

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“It’s called sex, darling,” she replied.

Little Tony accepted the answer and went back outside to play. A few minutes later he came back in and said angrily, “Grandma, it isn’t called sex.

It’s called bunk beds. And Jimmy’s mom wants to talk to you.”

Submitted by Kathy Bruce An older, tired-looking dog wandered into my yard. I could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home and was well taken care of.

He calmly came over to me. I gave him a few pats on his head; he then followed me into my house, slowly walked down the hall, curled up in the corner and fell asleep.

An hour later he went to the door, and I let him out.

The next day he was back. He greeted me in my yard, walked inside and resumed his spot in the hall. Again, he slept for about an hour. This routine continued off and on for several weeks.

Curious, I pinned a note to his collar: “I would like to find out who the owner of this wonderful, sweet dog is and ask if you are aware that almost every afternoon your dog comes to my house for a nap.”

The next day he arrived for his nap, with a different note pinned to his

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Cinque Terre, Italy:

Melanie Wiseman and her husband, Dan, hike the Cinque Terre Trail.

How to immerse yourself in culture, not crowds

By Melanie Wiseman ifty million people flood into Italy each year, basically doubling the local population. My recent three-week trip to Italy confirmed what some are calling “the age of overtourism.”

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are all reachable by a 19th-century railway line cut through a series of coastal tunnels. Cars were banned over a decade ago. All this and the surrounding hillside are part of the Cinque Terre National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Social media influence, decades of open borders, budget travel options and the middle-class explosion in Asia have opened the world to everyone. In Florence, Rome and Venice, some cities are nearing their breaking point.

One of the best decisions we made was to stay in Corniglia for the last four nights of our Italian adventure. Located on high, precarious cliffs, Corniglia has no pier access, requiring boats full of day tourists to deposit the shopping-starved travelers at the other four towns.

Despite the crowds, my travel companions—my husband Dan and two of our friends—were able to find an oasis among the chaos.

Cinque Terre, a region on Italy’s rugged northwest Mediterranean coast, dates back to the 11th century. The area remained pristine but impoverished into the 1970s until travel experts like Rick Steves began writing and boasting about its remote beauty. Likewise, we wanted to experience its uniqueness and discovered a way to do so without being enveloped by the masses.

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From south to north, the five villages, Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso

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Of course, we were among other brave souls who hopped off the train and climbed the 400 steps up to Corneglia or hiked the Cinque Terre Trail between the five villages, but their impact was minimal.

Tourists flocked to the beaches of the other four towns while we enjoyed cool Mediterranean swims in a hidden rocky cove.

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The hiking trail, known as Sentiero Azzurro (“Azure Trail”), is extremely narrow and rugged, and may have closures due to rockslides, forcing hikers to steeper and longer routes than the waterfront path. With our home base in the center town, we hiked two consecutive days in opposite directions to explore the other four villages.

Cinque Terre’s historical draw is the complicated system of fields and gardens steeply terraced and carved out of the mountainside cliffs. Cog trains carry workers up and down the precarious slopes to cultivate olives and grapes.

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The scope and grandeur of muretti (low stone walls) are considered works of art.

In addition to its famous wines, Cinque Terre has grappa, a brandy made with the pomace left from winemaking, and limoncello, a sweet lemon-flavored liqueur.

Cinque Terre is also known for its pesto and focaccia, and Corniglia specifically for its gelato made from local honey. Seafood is also plentiful in these seaside villages. ■

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• Tour groups congest the four towns surrounding Corniglia between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. during the high summer season. In the early morning and evenings, the pace slows down which makes experiencing the small Italian town a lot more pleasant. Mid-day, get away from the crowds by exploring side streets.

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• We traveled unencumbered for three weeks with small carryon bags and backpacks as we watched other travelers struggle mercilessly on crowded trains and stairs with oversized luggage.

Washers were available in each Airbnb we stayed at.

• The national park sells an optional Cinque Terre card that provides access to the coastal hiking trail and can be combined with a train pass.

• Always have a bottle of water, sunscreen and hat with you.

• Combine eating out with preparing your own delicious meals with fresh pasta and produce.

• If you stay in Corniglia, The Gatto Bed and Breakfast is excellent. It also overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. Antonio will personally greet you with his homemade pesto and limoncello in hand.

• Take time to visit with locals on town square benches and at markets and cafés . Immerse yourself in the culture.

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Men are from Mars: an inside look at man caves and she sheds “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus,” the 1992 classic selfhelp guide for understanding the opposite sex, gained notoriety for illustrating the many differences between men and women. It popularized the “man cave”—a place in the house, basement or garage shielded from female eye and input, where guys can do as they please.

The name evokes mystery, along with the behaviors and relaxed rules of everything male: football cheers and jeers, loud engines, clashing pool balls, grunting, slurping, scratching, farting, belching—all without judgment. Stereotypical man caves are often accessorized with big-screen TVs, tacky lamps, refrigerators, putting greens and musical instruments. It’s a space where men don’t have to be on their best behavior and women don’t have to talk about their feelings. It was surmised that women reigned over the rest of the house.

Flash forward 26 years to where the feminine counterpart, “she sheds,” is gaining popularity. Women have long shared their space with husbands, kids, pets, friends, neighbors and in-laws, and now they’re realizing the need to take care of themselves first.

Although I’m on board with the concept, a women’s sanctuary squeezed between garden tools, potting soil and the lawn mower comes to mind—which is what many women are doing. Before you transform your backyard shed into a private haven, I propose an alternative: the “she retreat,” a quiet harbor either inside or outside the house where women can express who they are, surrounding themselves with things

that bring them joy.

She retreats are comfortable, four-season havens where you can create, work and play. It’s a place where their privacy is respected and they can experience positive recharge and efficient quiet time.

Speaking from experience, creating your own she retreat can be very inexpensive. I recently transformed my office into a cheerful respite hideaway with a few new decorative items and pictures. A little paint, pillows, candles, plants and new lighting created a peaceful space for writing, reading, art, relaxation and solitude.

San Francisco-based blogger Victoria Smith has these tips for developing your own DIY retreat.

• Giving the space a fresh coat of paint can give it a breath of fresh life!

• Bring the outside in by adding live plants or window boxes.

• Make it comfortable. It should feel cozy, serene and relaxing.

• Decorate in whatever way is aesthetically pleasing to you. It’s your space, so you define it. Maybe start with a favorite picture, comfy chair, colorful rug or vintage desk.

Your man cave or she retreat doesn’t have to fit the descriptions mentioned here. According to Sam Martin, author of “Manspace: A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory,” any space in the house can be considered a man cave—even a simple lounge chair and a pair of headphones.

Get creative and make it your own! ■

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Tupperware parties and the woman who brought work and pleasure together

By Randal C. Hill n 1946, a Massachusetts DuPont chemist-inventor named Earl Tupper introduced “Poly-T Wonder Bowls,” polyethylene food-storage containers that varied in size and came in unusual pastel hues. His products—called Tupperware— offered a unique new feature: an airtight cover that Tupper had based on the design of a paint-can lid. Even still, retail sales proved middling at best, as shoppers often failed to understand or appreciate the lid design.

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Enter savvy Brownie Wise, a Georgia-based single mother who reigned as the top salesperson for Stanley House Products. Her success derived from the home parties she had created and hosted to sell Stanley’s products. Wise envisioned greater earnings for herself and perhaps an executive position with Tupperware, so in 1950 she hired on with Earl Tupper, moved to his Orlando home base and developed a home-party approach that would bring the company a fortune.

Wise convinced Tupper to abandon the retail market and focus exclusively on home parties. A Brown-

ie bash meant women inviting others over for an evening of fun and games and lots of purchases.

Wise, who kept the mood light but always focused on the products, would sometimes toss a juice-filled Tupperware bowl across a room to demonstrate the security of the vacuum-sealed lid.

After witnessing Wise’s record-setting sales, Tupper promoted her to vice president of Tupperware Home Parties. She trained thousands of women to become party hosts themselves. Under her guidance, they could each earn up to $100 a week, which was much more than a mid-1950s secretary, nurse or teacher could make.

Wise kept sales-force motivation high by offering exciting (and often unusual) incentives. Each year, she hosted a homecoming jubilee at the company’s Florida headquarters.

Festivities included treasure hunts with prizes such as furs—and reportedly even cars—hidden on the company grounds. Top sales ladies were awarded such high-end items as speedboats, appliances and vacations. Lavish parties, extravagant shows and adrenaline-fueled

person responsible for Tupperware’s runaway success. Since she owned no stock, Wise was left with only a severance package of one year’s salary: $30,000. Tupper then proceeded to expunge her name from every bit of Tupperware company literature.

pep talks were always part of the four-day fun.

Wise’s success led her to become a household name. She showed up frequently on TV and in magazine and newspaper articles. In 1954, she appeared on the cover of “Business Week,” and was the first woman ever to do so. That same year, Tupperware had record sales of $25 million—about $250 million in today’s money.

Wise later began an ill-fated party-plan cosmetics company called Cinderella and eventually faded into obscurity. But her influence lives on to this day; Tupperware remains a billion-dollar industry with a funfilled Brownie-style party starting somewhere worldwide every 1.4 seconds. ■

But storm clouds were gathering at company headquarters. To Tupper, Brownie’s widespread fame had shifted attention away from his Tupperware products themselves.

In 1958, he fired Wise—the very

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Replace your front door. This is the first thing guests see when they walk up to your home, so it’s an excellent place to begin updating.

A higher-end wooden door will add beauty to your entrance, but even installing a new steel door and painting it an inviting color will add a lot of curbside appeal to your home.

Repair window screens. Torn window screens detract from your curb appeal. Fortunately, they’re inexpensive and easy to fix. Buy a package of replacement screen and a screen-rolling tool to do it yourself. If you’re not up to the task, many hardware stores do screen replacement for a reasonable cost.

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Just drop off your damaged screen, and they’ll have it ready for you in a couple of days.

Cure dirty or crumbling grout.

The great thing about tile is not only its look of luxury but also its longevity. Unfortunately, filthy or broken down grout can spoil the look. Make your tile floor or shower look new again by freshening the grout. If it’s just dirty, it’s easy to clean. For instructions, visit www. bobvilla.com. If the grout is broken down and needs to be replaced, find grout removal instructions at www.thespruce.com.

Update switch and outlet covers. This is a super easy way to update a room, and there are so many choices for every decorating style. If you like the look of metal plates but don’t want the expense, pick up some metallic spray paint in bronze, brushed nickel, or silver.

Just remove the covers, spray paint them, and in an hour they’ll be ready to put back on.

Replace ceiling fan blades. Do your ceiling fans look a bit decrepit?

The blades often age faster than the fixtures. Buy new ceiling fan blades to make your ceiling fans look new again.

HOME & GARDEN Liven it up with paint. Fresh paint goes a long way toward updating and freshening a room.

With hundreds of shades to choose from, there’s plenty of room for creativity to give your room the designer look you want. Pick up some paint brochures at your hardware store for color scheme ideas, and notice how unexpected colors are paired together to create beautiful designer looks. Then play around with different colors against the color of your room’s flooring and décor. You might be pleasantly surprised how an unexpected color pairing can create a beautiful new look.

Freshen trim and doors. Paint the trim and doors throughout your entire home in a single color. This will not only freshen your home but will give your home a cohesive look.

If your home is small, white or a light grey paint will keep your home bright and make your rooms feel more spacious. In a larger home, get more creative with a medium or dark color, which will add richness to your home. Medium grays or tans or dark charcoal or coffee colors are good choices. Before getting your paint mixed, pick up plenty of sample cards with various undertones, and hold them against the walls in each room to find the color that looks pleasing against the wall colors in every room.

Wallpaper a small room. Wallpaper is in style again and can transform a small room such as your bathroom or foyer. Neutrals are the current color trend along with geometric patterns, textures and metallics.

Replace vent covers. Over time, banged up and painted-over vent covers become an eyesore. New vent covers will go a long way toward making your home feel like new.

Freshen bathroom caulk. Old stained and deteriorating caulk makes a bathroom look unsightly.

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Clean hard water stains on your toilet and tub. If you live in an area with very hard water, your toilet bowl and bathtub may be hideous. Fortunately, there are several options to remove hard water stains. CLR calcium, lime and rust remover does wonders on porcelain. If your bathtub is vinyl or acrylic, the CLR must be diluted and can remain on the fixture for only a couple minutes, so read instructions carefully. For tougher build-up on porcelain, buy a handled pumice stone to sand the buildup away. Don’t use pumice stones on vinyl and acrylic because it’s too abrasive.

Update cabinet hardware. New cabinet knobs and pulls can give your bathroom or kitchen a facelift, and there are tons of styles to choose from.

Revitalize or paint cabinets.

If your solid wood bathroom or kitchen cabinets look worn, you can revitalize them by rubbing them down with Old English. Otherwise, painting them is a good alternative since white or gray cabinets are the trend. You can also get more creative and choose a bold color to liven up your kitchen or bathroom.

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How to make the most of your garden space As April carries us into planting season, it’s time to begin prepping, sowing and digging into the soil and start bringing our dreams and ideas to life.

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’ve decided to try something new this growing season, and I invite you to be part of it. I’ll be centering my column around my own 12-by12-foot gardening space, where I’ll utilize concepts from permaculture, biomimicry and high-impact gardening to create a thriving garden ecosystem.

Join me in designating a precious space to growing food in a way that honors the earth, provides nutrition and nourishment to you and your loved ones, and brings us closer to Nature.

THE LAYOUT My garden, like me, lives in Carbondale, Colorado. Zone 5b. Using only hand tools and just a few simple, low-cost season extension items like blankets and straw, I’ll focus on growing tasty and nutrient-rich annual plants, maximizing space and minimizing weeds using organic growing methods.

If you decide to follow along, you can tweak the layout I’ve designed on the next page to fit your space and lifestyle. I’ve started with a 12-by-12-foot square, giving me 144

square feet of heaven. Here are a few ideas for adjusting the design to suit your needs: • Build raised beds if kneeling low doesn’t feel good in your body.

• Widen the rows to 2 feet, or add additional rows. I’m planting in a way that minimizes the amount of exposed soil to prevent weeds and encourage moisture.

• Divide the square into smaller spaces. If your space is longer and narrower, or you need to spread out your garden for some other reason, you can still follow this design and modify your layout according to the sections.

Sections 1, 2 and 3 can be pulled apart, and throughout the growing season, you can still follow the succession plantings.

• If there’s a particular crop you’re not fond of, simply replace it with something you love that has similar growing habits.

I’ll suggest alternative crops as much as possible.

GET PLANTING Once you’ve tweaked the design to fit your growing space, gather up your seeds and get planting! Prep your garden beds with compost and a nice layer of topsoil that will provide a nice space for your seeds to germinate.

This month, we’re planting potatoes, poppies, greens, carrots, beets, onions, sweet peas and buckwheat.

All these crops can be sown directly into the soil. It’s always best to sow extra seeds and pull the plants out later. This will help ensure we have abundance, and will help

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prevent weeds from coming up in between spaced-out plants.

grow taller. After about 10 weeks, they’ll be ready to harvest.

POTATOES

POPPIES AND PANSIES

Have you ever held onto a potato too long, and it starts sprouting growths? Those are called eyes, and they’re what we plant in order to grow more potatoes.

Poppies add beauty to the garden in spring, before it’s warm enough for many other flowers to come up.

Sow a row of poppy seeds at the surface of the soil. Poppies need light to germinate, so add a thin layer of straw on top of the bed to hold in moisture and provide some protection for spring frosts.

You can order potatoes for planting from seed companies, or you can find your favorite kinds at the grocery store and store them in a warm, light place for a few weeks until they sprout eyes.

One or two days before you’re ready to plant, use a clean knife to slice up the potatoes into sections. This will give the cut pieces time to dry out to prevent rotting.

Each section should have an eye or two. Smaller potatoes can be planted whole. Whatever you’re planting should be about the size of a golf ball.

On planting day, dig a 6- to 8-inch deep trench into soil that you’ve loosened and moistened. Place each potato piece cut side down, with the eye pointing up towards the sky, every 6-12 inches (fingerlings can be planted closer together, while larger potatoes will want a bit more room). Fill the trench with about 4 inches of soil. Let the plants start to grow, and mound up the soil around the plants as they

You can pick up plant starts from a local nursery and plant pansies along with the poppies. Pansies are also cold hardy and the flowers are edible.

GREENS Spread seeds across the bed, so that each section of soil is sprinkled with an even layer of seeds. We’ll thin the plants as they come up, harvesting microgreens, young leaves and eventually fullgrown greens.

For this style of planting, a leaf lettuce might be easier to manage than head lettuce (though I love head lettuce and will mix some into my leaf lettuce mix anyway). Cover seeds with a thin layer of soil and then a thin layer of straw to hold in moisture.

CARROTS AND BEETS Mix a bit of sand into the section of soil where you’ll sow carrots and

beets (unless your garden soil is mostly clay, in which case, skip the sand and add compost instead).

Seed these root veggies the same way you seed the greens, covering them with soil, then a thicker, 1-inch layer of straw. I like to cover my carrot seeds with a layer of fabric to create a darker environment.

Using only hand tools and just a few simple, low-cost season extension items like blankets and straw, I’ll focus on growing tasty and nutrient-rich annual plants,

ONIONS Spacing will depend on the variety of onion you choose, so follow the spacing guidelines on your seed packets when planting. Sow onion seeds in rows and cover with soil, then straw. Onions are slow to start, so be extra diligent with pulling weeds around them.

PEAS AND BUCKWHEAT We’re planting a larger area of peas for a few reasons. Young sweet pea shoots taste wonderful in salads, so this is a cover crop that we’ll harvest and eat! Later, we’ll use this space to plant corn, beans and squash.

maximizing space and minimizing weeds using organic growing methods.

trogen in the soil—all while taking care of the space in our garden that will eventually hold tomatoes and peppers.

Please write and share your stories, questions and insights! I’d love to hear about your experience as we venture into this new growing season together. ■

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Catching fire: Brassfire and

trumpet icon Jens Lindemann wrap up Community Concerts season

By Jan Weeks rassfire gives new meaning to the phrase “brass band.”

Forget parades and floats and twirlers. The fireworks come from a quartet of trumpet players from diverse backgrounds, including Jens Lindemann, one of the best in the world. He was formerly lead trumpet player for Canadian Brass, which he left in 2001 to pursue solo endeavors.

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“As soloist it’s all on you, all the glory and all the blame. I wanted to get back to that challenge,” Lindemann said.

Brassfire was developed in 2006.

The members of the group fluctuate, with up to 11 at one time, but four members is the ideal size, according to Lindemann. Each performer has his own career besides playing with Brassfire. He added that each player chosen for the Grand Junction concert on April 28 is a world-class player.

Lindemann, born in Germany, raised in western Canada, and a professor at University of California in Los Angeles, is no musical snob, although he has plenty to be proud of, including receiving the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor, and being nominated for a Grammy.

Lindemann likes to play in smaller communities.

“Locals want all the music that big places get,” he said. “They have a real hunger to see world-class performances, and we’re so much more appreciative of them because of their enthusiasm.”

Lest you think the concert will be all Bach and Handel, let Lindemann disabuse you of that notion.

“It’s a concert of serious fun,” he said. “Some of the most exciting qualities touch on aspects and styles of some of the most famous players in history—Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Doc Severinsen.”

Severinsen is his hero, and Lindemann became a soloist because he admired Severinsen’s ability to engage the audience. He added that one of the most intricate and famous trumpet solos came from “Penny Lane,” recorded by The Beatles.

Lindemann explained that the trumpet is historically the oldest musical instrument, with roots going back to the ram’s horn, blown as a warning or in celebration, and predating the birth of Christ. Although there won’t be any ram’s horns on stage, there will be five different kinds of trumpets, including a flugelhorn

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Jens Lindemann joins other world-class musicians on stage as Brassfire performs in the final concert of Community Concerts of the Grand Valley’s current season.

and the piccolo trumpet. The trumpet has been influential for over 350 years, first as the most revered instrument of the Baroque period, then moving into its place in R&B and jazz, as well as pop.

“I want to show people that a trumpet can do much more than they think it can,” Lindemann said.

“People don’t know that it can be played softly and lyrically, too.”

After a particularly rousing piece, he likes to segue into a more pastoral mood to show what the instrument is capable of.

Lindemann calls himself the biggest band geek ever and believes it’s important to nurture a love of playing, whatever the instrument of choice may be, in kids. He loves interacting with students and getting them enthused about playing, and wants

to attract middle schoolers and beyond, even teaching master classes for high school bands.

This is the final performance in the Community Concerts of the Grand Valley’s 2018-19 concert series. The matinee performance will take place Sunday, April 28, at the Grand Junction High School auditorium. Doors open at 2:15 and the concert begins at 3 p.m. People start filling the lobby very early, as seating is open and on a first come, first served basis. This concert is included in the 2018-19 CCGV season ticket package. If you don’t have a season ticket package, nonsubscriber tickets are $25 each and can be bought online or at the door, if available. To order tickets, visit www.communityconcertsgrand valley.org. ■

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Social media 101: the crossover between

multi-way communication and traditional media

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ocial Media is an overused and underdefined term.

Typically, a subject is referring to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other site where people are posting pictures of their food and arguing about religion and politics. Social media, however, is much more than a digital version of your annual Thanksgiving gathering.

A more broad definition would put more emphasis on the word “social” than “media.”

“Social” refers to the act of collaborating, sharing, discussing and otherwise communicating. “Media” refers to the digital platform used to carry out such interactions.

Traditional media is typically a oneway broadcast from one sender to an audience of any size. Social media is a platform or system of platforms that allow individuals to simultaneously act as both broadcaster and audience. So technically, email or video conferences are a form of social media.

Social media sites are typically designed as a network of multi-way communication, but social media can be as passively consumed as

any traditional form of media.

Being active on one social media platform doesn’t mean you must participate in all of them. If Facebook scares you or Twitter is too abstract, there is no need to feel guilty for not signing up for them.

On the other hand, many people are participating in social media without realizing it. I like to break social media channels down to platforms that you use to mingle, plan for the future, present what you are currently doing, or preserve memories.

They all cross over, but some platforms are better than others for certain uses.

Here’s a list of the more common social media channels and how they’re generally used: •F acebook - The largest and most versatile social media platform, Facebook is essentially the channel most people prefer for keeping track of acquaintances. If you’ve lost track of friends from junior high or coworkers from 20 years ago, chances are you

can find them on Facebook and reconnect. It’s also great for staying connected with your extended family.

• Instagram - Although Instagram is completely connected to Facebook, you can use it as a separate platform. Instagram is exclusively for posting pictures or short videos with a brief caption. It’s great for posting photos and videos of what you are currently doing. If you’re on Facebook, then you’ve probably had a friend clutter your feed with photos or videos of a concert, birthday party or social gathering. While that behavior can be annoying on Facebook, it is the designated purpose of Instagram.

• Pinterest – I’ve talked with many people who tell me they avoid social media like the plague. Then they follow that up with, “The only website I spend a lot of time

TALKING DIGITAL on is Pinterest.” Pinterest is one of the most successful social media sites because it has managed to attract users from some very reclusive digital demographics.

Pinterest is primarily used to plan for the future. People use it when searching for inspiration for remodeling a room, planning a wedding, designing business cards, expanding a recipe collection or just about any other project that requires inspiration or motivation.

• Twitter - Once the backbone of social media, Twitter has been through many transitions, yet its purpose has always been the same: to broadcast short updates about what's currently going on.

A ny time you’re asked to set up a username and password for a “profile,” you are probably participating in a social media site.

Exceptions to this generalization might include banks, health care sites, insurance sites, or any other entity where privacy is protected by law. ■

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Eco, from the Greek “oikos,” loosely translates “care of household.”

Ecology and economics both examine the allocation and management of scarce resources. The million-dollar question is, from an eco-perspective, are we currently managing earth’s scarce resources in a way that makes financial sense for us and for our descendants?

To address that question, it’s useful to review some successes and failures over the past half century. The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, instituted during the Nixon administration, paved the way for progress visible both in our skies and water and in improved health. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act Amendments will have prevented over 230,000 early deaths by 2020.

Nathaniel Rich, essayist and author of “Odds Against Tomorrow,” believes we came close to solving the earth’s climate crisis from 1979 to 1989. In his New York Times article “Losing Earth: The decade we almost stopped climate change,” Rich writes that the world’s major powers were just a few signatures shy

of endorsing a global framework to reduce carbon emissions.

On the other hand, the financial world, often the last place for novel ideas to go mainstream, is embracing environmental factors as important in investment decisions. ESG (Environmental Social and Governance)-oriented investing currently drives around a quarter of all professionally managed assets worldwide. ESG investors include in their decision-making factors including corporations’ responses to climate change, water use management, employee health and safety, and adherence of these values up and down their supply chain.

Investors keeping an eye on the green line, encourage companies to engage in greener practices.

Environmental progress has been positive over the last half century, but far too slow for the intractability of the issues. Ecologists, scientists and citizens of every stripe are dismayed by the current administration’s throwback positions in virtually every area of caring for our natural resources. The most difficult problems center around the irreplaceability of earth’s resources and maintaining the genetic library of plant and animal species.

Economists generally have a different approach on resource protection. Economists in a capitalist soci-

FINANCE ety traditionally advocate allocating resources by marketplace. They attempt to apply this even to public goods, such as oxygen production by vegetation, the health benefits of clean air, and marshes’ water filtering. Cost-benefit analysis is important, however, the tool fails in valuing future benefits as well as these “free” services of nature.

Increasingly, economists and financial professionals recognize these deficiencies. Perhaps it’s because long-term costs such as climate change “suddenly” have shortterm cost implications. Jeremy Grantham, cofounder and chief investment strategist of GMO, one of the world’s largest asset management firms, believes that human civilization is losing the race for human survival.

“Thirty years ago, the dire predictions of leading climate scientists were laughed at,” he writes. “Now we watch these predictions coming true and ignore the data or pretend to. So as the world starts to burn up, we twiddle our thumbs and talk about ‘just another heat wave!’”

Grantham concludes that people have never been good at dealing with long-term, slowly developing problems. Long-term planning is difficult, but I would differ with Grantham’s allocation of blame to human nature. The fact that some

ancient civilizations lasted thousands of years belies this conclusion. We may not have wanted to be subjects in the Chinese, Egyptian, Byzantine, Roman, or other millennia-long empires, but those societies apparently planned for the long term.

Instead, the real culprit is the overly idealistic idea that all markets can self-regulate. Democracies need to engineer market systems to account for the inefficiencies in valuing public and future goods. We need to operate in accordance with the Precautionary Principle: “When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.”

The good news is that these alternative “eco” perspectives are increasingly converging. Yes, the leadership deficits at the top compared to public opinion are extreme. But in a representative democracy, we know how to fix that. Long term we need to support science and fact-based education.

Short-term, we need to care for our American household by electing truly conservative leaders: ones who value our rich environmental heritage and are willing to face the real problems before us. ■

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Mesa Feed Mart:

Seeds and feed for birds, pets and everything in between

By Melinda Mawdsley

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athy Singer joked that “if it eats, we can feed it.”

Singer is the managing owner of Mesa Feed Mart, which carries supplies to feed everything from humans (they carry garden seeds) to exotic pets such as macaws.

Locally owned and operated since

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Mesa Feed Mart researched several CBD manufacturers and has chosen to offer products from Mesa Lavender Farms. Mesa Lavender Farms produces many products for humans in the form of salves and tinctures (liquid) and also offers a tincture for your pet. We chose them because the company has done exhaustive testing and research and provides a high quality, reasonably priced product.

1968, Singer said Mesa Feed Mart prides itself on maintaining a smalltown sense of service while keeping up with feed knowledge and trends people desire from present times.

Customers can expect their purchases to be carried to their cars. Those unable to drive to Mesa Feed Mart, 520 S. Ninth St. in Grand Junction, can have orders delivered for a fee. In addition, those uncomfortable getting out of their vehicle to go inside the store can call and have their purchase brought out at no charge.

“We run it more like an old-time business where we try to be really friendly,” Singer said.

But service is not the only thing Mesa Feed Mart is known for.

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The store also carries poultry feed, including duck food much healthier for the bird than the stale white bread sometimes tossed to domestic flocks.

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Mesa Feed Mart makes more than a dozen blends of birdseed in-house.

The most popular varieties are used to feed wild birds from backyard feeders and come in bags as large as 50 pounds.

For household pets, customers can expect to find an array of dog and cat food, including a large selection of Victor brand dog food, a label Singer said is, “five-star dog food at midrange prices.”

Owner Kathy Singer said BEACON readers appreciate Mesa Feed Mart's old-time customer service and current knowledge about feed options for birds and pets.

Recently, Singer noted, Mesa Feed Mart has started carrying CBD salves and tinctures for people, as well as a CBD liquid for animals. The products are known to help with pain and anxiety. Singer can answer more questions customers may have about CBD use.

One of the things Singer is most proud of is how local Mesa Feed Mart has been around for 50 years. To further highlight that, the store carries locally made non-feed items such as egg-carrying aprons from Mistie Rickard of Mistie Design Creations and soaps, bath salts and other products from Soap Woman Soapery’s Rita Hoback.

Both women are from Grand Junction.

One thing that should come as no surprise: no need to leave your animal friends at home.

“We are pet-friendly,” Singer said.

Mesa Feed Mart also sells pelleted feed for farm animals, fertilizer and more. ■

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By Sally Breslin t’s always intrigued me how some people are chronic worriers who fret about every little thing, while others are so calm—if lightning struck their house and split it in half, they’d just shrug and say, “Oh well, we were planning to redecorate anyway.”

I’ve always been a worrywart. If I get a pimple, I’m convinced it’s the beginning of smallpox. If I see dark clouds overhead, I want to grab the dogs and rush down to the basement because I’m scared the house is going to go airborne and land on a wicked witch somewhere in Oz. I can’t figure out why I’m the way I am. My mother was the calmest person on earth, and my late husband practically was her clone.

I still wonder why their laid-back attitudes never rubbed off on me.

My husband was the type who’d say, “Oh, it’s only a little nick,” if he accidentally hacked off his thumb with a chainsaw.

When my mother was informed she needed major surgery, she just shrugged and said to the doctor, “Can I go eat lunch now?”

However, when I needed major surgery, not only did I panic, but I researched everything ever written about my condition beforehand. Weeks after the surgery, I still couldn’t relax because I was concerned the doctor might have accidentally lost his wristwatch somewhere in my stomach.

I guess I inherited my worrywart tendencies from my father. Unfortunately, the moment he got even the slightest bit upset, his stomach would rebel in protest.

I’m sure that having me for a daughter didn’t help my dad’s stomach any. He was a night owl, so when I reached dating age, he was the one who’d be up when I got home.

I remember one night I came home crying after a date. My poor

dad, anticipating the worst, went straight to the cupboard, grabbed a big bottle of antacid and gulped down half of it. Then he sat down, took a deep breath and said, “Okay, I’m ready now. Tell me why you’re crying.”

I sobbed out, “I accidentally belched in the middle of dinner! I’m so embarrassed, I’ll never be able to face Kevin again!”

Poor Dad rolled his eyes and said, “You mean I just drank half a bottle of that disgusting chalk for that?”

I guess that’s why being married to such a calm guy was so difficult for me to get used to, even after we’d been married for years. When something was upsetting me, my husband always managed to quickly ease my stress. I remember one night when he drove me to the mall so I could take advantage of a big, semi-annual lingerie sale.

I wanted to stock up on my favorite bras, but after looking through many styles without any luck, I approached the sales clerk and asked her if she had any in stock.

“I really would need the style number,” she said. “Then I could look it up and see if we carry it.”

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I nodded, and to my shock, she came out from behind the counter, and right there in the middle of the store, lifted up the back of my sweater, pulled down the band on my bra and read the tag.

Embarrassed and upset, I returned to the car and ranted to my husband about how the sales clerk had just exposed my ratty old bra and my midriff bulge to half the city.

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By Melanie Wiseman uth Ehlers can still smell lunches warming on the stove of New Hope School during winter in rural Nebraska.

Wilma Baumbach relives the daily health inspections at Jerusalem School in Chelsea, Michigan, when she’d lay out her hands as the teacher checked for well-groomed 12:34 PM hands and fingernails.

Although these two women have never met and their one-room schools were 700 miles apart, Ehlers, 80, and Baumbach, 88, share parallel memories, the only exception being their perspective— Ehlers was a teacher and Baumbach a student.

A TEACHER’S ROLE

Graduating from high school in May 1956, Ehlers began teaching in nearby Gage County three months later for $225 a month. Her only training was 12 hours of summer school at Peru Teachers College. For two years, she taught nine students between kindergarten and eighth grade.

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“I was actually hired before I graduated from high school,” said Ehlers.

“It was the last year you could teach without having a two-year degree.”

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drove their car 10 miles to school.

When she married and started a family, she chose to leave teaching and stay home with her children.

“My mom and aunt were both rural school teachers,” said Ehlers. “In that day, teachers were single women, and it was just understood that when you got married, you were done teaching.”

Ehlers played the piano and led children in song each morning and played games or cards with her students at recess. Time after school was spent tutoring students and doing extensive structured lesson plans for the next day.

Baumbach still remembers Miss Schanz, her teacher of eight years, as an intelligent, quick and high achiever but short on patience.

Her firm hand was helpful in teaching and managing 26-30 students ranging from first through eighth grade in one room.

“I was fortunate to have her as a teacher because she was artistic and musical as well as an academic,” said Baumbach. “She attended Jerusalem School with my dad.”

PATRIOTISM, RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITY Both Baumbach and Ehlers reflected on the roles that patriotism and respect played in their schools.

BEACON SENIOR NEWS “We were taught respect for the flag,” said Baumbach. “We raised it outside each morning and said the Pledge of Allegiance. At the end of the day, we lowered it and learned how to fold it correctly.”

Showing respect for the teacher and fellow students was a given.

“Never once did I have a discipline problem,” said Ehlers. “Rural kids grew up knowing how to work, how to show respect and that you went to school to learn. The kids were mature, tolerant and there was no bullying.”

No matter their age, children had chores and responsibilities.

to know them rather well. Detailed daily schedules were outlined on the blackboard to keep the day organized and all grades on task.

Curriculum was current and standards were high.

God-given gifts and self-confidence,” said Baumbach. “I got up in front of people to sing and act in plays.”

them when she returns to Nebraska for her own high school reunions.

Coming from a German farming community, Baumbach said the only drawback to attending a oneroom school was the lack of cultural diversity, but like Ehlers, she wouldn’t trade it for the world. ■

She also recalled that country schools near Ann Arbor met at the University of Michigan twice a Children rotated to a table at the year for field day and a folk music front of the room by grade level festival. Outside for a 15-20 minute lesson before of school, children returning to their desks to work on took in social exassignments. Older students often periences through helped the younger ones.

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10 WAYS to make life better this Earth Day

By Randal C. Hill t took the story of a burning river in Ohio to really make the American public sit up and take notice.

On June 22, 1969, oil and debris that had collected on the surface of the Cuyahoga River caught fire as it wound its way through Cleveland.

The jaw-dropping news was featured in the August 1 issue of Time Magazine in a report on just how bad the country’s pollution problems had become.

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To many, it was just the price of prosperity.

Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, “Silent Spring,” awakened the world to the dangers of pollution and its impact on public health. A year later, Gaylord Nelson, the former governor of Wisconsin, became a U.S. senator.

Inspired by Carson’s warnings, Nelson became a fervid conservationist. On April 22, 1970, he established the first Earth Day, and 20 million Americans packed streets, parks and auditoriums that day to learn about the dangers of oil spills, polluting factories, raw-sewage dumping, toxic pesticides and chemicals, and concerns about wildlife.

This month marks the 49th anniversary of Nelson’s brainchild, which is observed each year around the globe. Here are 10 ways to make your life better this Earth Day. Get into a whole new bag. Plastic bags are being banned around the world, and good old canvas totes are seeing a resurgence. Such bags are reusable, washable and easy to carry, fold and store. Canvas totes— now available in a myriad of designs and colors—and can also serve as gym or beach bags, overnight totes, day-trip bags and picnic baskets. In comparison to supermarket plastic bags, they don’t break, tear or pollute the world’s water systems.

Cool it with the cooling (and the heating). Americans’ average monthly electricity bill runs $111 a month. The costliest appliances to run are air conditioners, furnaces and heat pumps, which account for a whopping 46 percent of the average American electric bill. Switching to a digital thermostat can potentially save you over $140 yearly.

Give yourself a screen test. Read sunscreen labels carefully. Sun worshippers should avoid sunscreen products containing oxybenzone and/or octinoxate, both of which can harm or kill developing coral and wreak genetic havoc on other marine organisms. Sunscreen

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Clean green. Eco-friendly cleaning products work naturally and without unpleasant (and potentially dangerous) chemical residue.

They are natural, safe, non-toxic, biodegradable and don’t harm the environment. Environmental Working Group (EWG) lists over 2,500 cleaning products that you can research at www.ewg.org. Often, simple everyday ingredients such as baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, water or Borax can take care of many of those cleaning chores and can save cash, as well.

Food for thought. About half of all food produced and consumed in America is discarded; a typical U.S. household tosses an estimated 474 pounds of food waste annually.

Home composting can enrich soil, eliminate the need for chemical fertilizers, help reduce landfill methane emissions and lower one’s carbon footprint. By separating it from trash, you can compost all organic matter, including fruit and vegetable wastes, coffee grounds, tea bags, eggshells and most refrigerator spoilage.

Support good taste. There’s no doubt that fresh, local organic food tastes better than just about anything from your supermarket’s produce section. But the benefits of going organic extend far beyond the palate. Local food doesn’t require long-distance trucking, organic foods often have more nutrients, and organic farms shun harmful chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Farmers’ markets are the best places to find such produce, but it doesn’t hurt to ask whether vendors you buy from are actually certified organic, as not all are.

Become electric trained. Energy takes a massive chomp out of today’s household budgets, as utility bills average about $2,200 per year. Save up to $90 annually with LED-model light bulbs rather

than incandescents. Unplug unused electronics and pocket up to $50 a year. If two people in a household shorten their showers by just one minute each, they could save up to $30 over 12 months. Spend $27 less annually by switching off your dishwasher’s heat-dry setting. Wash clothes in cold water rather than hot for a $22 yearly savings.

Water, water everywhere. Cutting back on water usage at home means a lower monthly bill and conserving a precious resource. Low- or dual-flush toilets can cut indoor water use by about 30 percent. Low-flow showerheads use much less water, as a four-minute “regular” shower can mean up to 40 gallons of water going down the drain. For extra savings, turn off your shower water while soaping up, then turn it back on when you’re ready to rinse.

Driving the economy. Automobiles account for about 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in America. By leaving your car at home, you can help reduce air pollution, improve your health and save money. Consider walking for short trips or use public transportation for longer ones. A four-mile round-trip by bicycle keeps about 15 pounds of pollutants out of our air. Finally, consider a hybrid auto for your next purchase.

Be a good sort. Each year, nearly 100 tons of recyclables are put into bins that promise life anew to items once destined for the local landfill.

Good recyclers flatten cardboard boxes (to make room for more of the same) and contribute newspapers, envelopes, greeting cards and phone books. Metallic containers— empty spray cans; tin foil; soda, fruit and vegetable cans—can earn a second life, too, and glass can be recycled endlessly. Remember to leave caps on plastic bottles, and wash food waste off containers headed to the recycle bin. ■

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By Bill Vossler aseball has coursed through my veins every moment since birth. In the hospital where I was born, I could have heard the cheers of the crowds at Cobb Stadium three blocks away.

When Mom stepped out of the car, cradling me in her arms, no doubt the first sound I heard was the crack of baseballs off the bats of the Billings Mustangs rookie league team because we lived right across the street from the stadium. The Cincinnati Reds National League baseball team’s rookie-league members played there, striving to move to a higher level.

As a tyke, Mom said she took me over near the stadium. She sat on the grass while I stood with my fingers hooked through the fence, watching the Mustangs’ batting practice or the American Legion teams play, all the while imbibing the holy sound of the cracks, and watching the white balls soar.

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When we moved to Wishek, South Dakota, my brother Ron and I tossed the baseball back and forth outside almost every summer day.

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So when I was 12, with the bright fire of belief still burning inside me, we decided to build our own private baseball stadium on a sloping lot next to Jim Woehl’s family garage.

Initially, Woehl Stadium consisted of a pitcher’s mound and odd bases, like an old stop sign for second. A little later, a dugout—a cut-open Kelvinator refrigerator box dug into the earth with boards protecting the cardboard top. Inside, a burlap bag held our cracked taped bats, worn leather balls with seams restrung with fishing line, score cards and batting statistics, and finally a wooden home plate.

That glorious summer we played baseball most every day. I cracked long home runs and made difficult running catches in center field—all part of reaching the Yankee dream!

But that dream crashed down while playing high school and American Legion baseball. My great abilities in our bandbox stadium translated to only average competing against players from other towns. And that was generous at best.

I felt like I’d been struck on the side of the head by a fastball, dizzy with the pain of my loss. I was disappointed knowing I would never smack home runs in teenage competition, much less for the Yankees.

Yet my passion for the game never waned. I realized I did possess one useful baseball skill: speed.

So I concentrated on bunting, stealing bases and patrolling center field, running down drives smashed deep into the outfield, and ended up playing on amateur teams that made the North Dakota State Amateur Tournament several times. Not as the star I’d wanted to be, but an average player just having fun. ■

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SPECIAL EVENTS APRIL 18

Senior Easter Party Dance to live music and enjoy a potluck (ham provided) from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Senior Recreation Center. Cost is $4 at the door. Bring a potluck dish to share!

APRIL 27

Southwest Arbor Fest Enjoy live music, arts and crafts booths, beer tasting, kids’ activities, a mac and cheese cook-off, and Earth Day celebration and tree giveaway at the 17th annual Southwest Arbor Fest from noon to 5 p.m. at Lincoln Park Barn. Festival admission is free; cost is $25 for beer tasting and $5 for mac and cheese tasting.

HEALTH APRIL 18

Pull Your Own Weight Learn how to effectively use your own body weight on the Canyon View Park playground circuit in this free class from noon to 1 p.m. Wear comfortable clothes and tennis shoes. Class size is limited; preregistration required.

TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS

Gentle Active Yoga This class is designed for active beginners and above. Class is 8-9 a.m. at Lincoln Park Barn.

Cost is $7 to drop in, or purchase a 10-punch pass for $50.

MONDAY-FRIDAY

Aqua Aerobics These classes are for beginner or novice individuals, and incorporate noodles, hand paddles, water weights and more. Class is from 8:15-9:15 a.m.

Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays and 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Orchard Mesa Pool. Drop in for $4.50 or purchase a 12-punch pass for $46.50.

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MONDAY

Line Dance This combo class focuses on beginning steps, then builds on those steps to create more challenging dances to a variety of music. Class is from 12:15-2 p.m. at Lincoln Park Barn. Cost is $18 for the session or $5 to drop in. No partner needed.

9:00 am Cribbage 9:30 am Cards 10:30 am Computer Classes 12:00 pm Gray Gourmet Lunch 1:00 pm Card Bingo & Dominoes 5:30 pm Singles Pinochle (1st & 3rd Monday)

THURSDAYS

TUESDAY

Senior Dances with Live Music Dance from 7:30-10 p.m. at the Senior Recreation Center. Cost is $3.

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9:00 am Cribbage & Pool Tourney 12:00 pm Gray Gourmet Lunch 1:30 pm Bingo

WEDNESDAY

APRIL 13

Learn to Play Pickleball Learn basic rules, equipment and play strategies from 9-11 a.m. at the Pineridge Courts. Equipment is provided. Cost is $15.

INTERMEDIATE PICKLEBALL CLINIC

Learn playing strategies, court positioning, court communication and more from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Pineridge Courts. Equipment is provided.

Cost is $15.

MONDAYS: 8:30-11:30 A.M. TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

THURSDAYS, FRIDAYS: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; 5:30-8:30 p.m.

SUNDAYS: 1 P.M.-4 P.M.

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Medicare 101 seminar Are you new to Medicare? Learn when and how you sign up, what Parts A and B cover, how to choose the best health and drug plan and more at this free seminar from 10 a.m. to noon at Mesa County RSVP in US Bank, 422 White Ave. Call 2439839 to reserve your seat.

APRIL 3

“Portolano: A Film about Jack Mueller” This film by Mesa County resident Kyle Harvey will have a free public screening at Mesa County Libraries’ Central Library at 6:30 p.m. “Portolano” details the life of poet Jack Mueller, who earned his national reputation as part of the San Francisco literary scene in the 1970s and ’80s.

Mueller moved to Ridgway in the early 2000s, inspired many western Colorado poets, and was instrumental in the birth of Lithic Press in Fruita. Mueller died in 2017 in Grand Junction. The film weaves together interviews with literary icons such as Neeli Cherkovski and Jack Hirschman, archival photographs, and audio recordings to create a vibrant, poetic portrait of Mueller.

For details, call 243-4442 or visit www.mesacountylibraries.com.

APRIL 5

A Night at the Races fundraiser

Enjoy a delightful evening at this fundraiser for Grand Valley Equine Assisted Learning Center at 5 p.m. at Mesa County Fairgrounds. There will be a live and silent auction, a race wager with funny money, catered dinner and more. Tickets are $40 per person or two for $75.

Ticket holders will be entered into a drawing to win a weekend getaway in Moab or a trail ride for four in one of our area’s great national parks.

For tickets or more information, call 216-8723 or visit www.gvequine assistedlearningcenter.com.

APRIL 5

Public Stargazing Public astronomy viewing at the Saddlehorn Picnic Area next to the park’s Visitor Center, weather permitting. There will be an attempt to hold the viewing on Saturday night if Friday night is cloudy. See amazing views of Mars, various galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters, and a brief view of the International Space Station at 10 p.m. This and all public viewings will begin after sunset.

APRIL 5

Symphony Guild meeting All music lovers are invited to attend the next meeting of the Grand Junction Symphony Guild at 9:30 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 3940 27 1/2 Road. Following social time, the symphony’s music director, Charles

Latshaw, will talk about the upcoming performances of the Metamorphosis concert. Jane Kuenzel, principal flutist, will join Latshaw in presenting this concert preview. For more information, or to buy tickets to “Metamorphosis,” contact the symphony office at 243-6787.

APRIL 6

Senior Theatre: Double Trouble in the Grand Valley Grand Junction Senior Theatre teams up with Museums of Western Colorado to present two performances of this melodrama at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. at Cross Orchards Historic Site, 3073 F Road, during the Day on the Farm celebration.

Admission to the event is $5 for adults, and $3.50 for seniors and kids. For details, call 234-1828.

APRIL 12-14

Palisade Spring Art Show Palisade Art Lovers are hosting a Spring Art Show at the Veterans Memorial building in Palisade. This is an open show with three judges to award $950 in cash. This art show is to be held in conjunction with the 11th annual Palisade Honey Bee Festival in Palisade. For details, visit www.palisadeartlovers.org.

APRIL 13

007th: A James Bond Parody Bookcliff Barbershop Harmony Chorus presents this musical parody of the 007 franchise, featuring Canyon Grand Barbershop Chorus, Grand Mesa A Cappella Chorus, Steppin’

Up Sweet Adelines Quartet, and choirs from Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction High School and Caprock Academy. Concerts are at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Avalon Theatre. Cost is $18 for adults. Tickets can be purchased at the Avalon box office, by calling 263-5757 or visit www.avalontheatregj.com. For details, call 257-7664.

APRIL 16

19th annual BeaconFest Boomer & Senior Fair BeaconFest Boomer Senior Fair, Colorado’s largest mature lifestyle expo, will be held from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Two Rivers Convention Center, 159 Main St. in Grand Junction. This year’s BeaconFest features an exciting lineup of entertainment, free food, lively seminars and informational booths from over 100 senior-related agencies and businesses. Admission is free.

Thousands of dollars worth of door prizes will be given away. A special ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. announcing the winner of this year’s Volunteer of the Year award and honoring nominees.

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Cross Orchards’ Eggs-traordinary Egg Hunt Bring the grandkids to Cross Orchards Historic Site’s Easter egg hunt from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at 3072 F Road in Grand Junction.

Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the hunt begins at 10:30 p.m. Cost is $2 per child, and kids will be divided into three different age groups. Kids will be able to meet with the Easter Bunny, explore the historic museum, pet the animals and enjoy cookies.

For details, call 261-7839.

APRIL 27

Children’s Charity Poker Tournament Discovery Kids Learning Center is sponsoring a Children’s Charity Poker Tournament at Warehouse2565 from 1-6 p.m. to benefit the Western Slope Center for Children.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Everyone wins a prize.

Call 245-3788 for details.

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APRIL 29

Rocky Mountain Dementia Conference An estimated 750 medical professionals, persons living with mild cognitive impairment and early dementia, unpaid and professional caregivers will gather on Monday, April 29, for the 30th annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Dementia, hosted by the Colorado Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Registration is now open for the one-day conference, which will be held from 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center, 7800 E. Tufts Ave., Denver. The current state of research to develop a prevention, treatment or cure for Alzheimer’s will be the focus of opening keynote speaker Dr. Rebecca Edelmayer, director of Scientific Engagement for the Alzheimer’s Association.

The conference will include a broad spectrum of sessions, including: Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia, Navigating the Confusion and Heartache of Dementia Care at the

End of Life, Resilience Strategies for Activities of Daily Living, Nutritional Support for Caregivers, Discussing Future Planning in Dementia - Promises and Pitfalls, Humor and Caregiving, and more. To learn more about the Rocky Mountain Conference on Dementia, or to register, call 800272-3900.

MAY 18-19

"Scottish Games & Celtic Festival New to the Grand Valley, this festival features traditional heavy athletic events like tug-o-war and the caber toss, as well as Highland dance competitions, and piping and drumming. Enjoy musical performances all day long by massed bagpipe bands, unique Celtic merchants and eateries, Scottish clans, heritage and cultural booths, highland athletics and more. The festival takes place at Mesa County Fairgrounds. For details, call 201-7757, visit www. gvsgcf.wixsite.com or email gvsgcf@ gmail.com. ■

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Bookcliff Barbershop Harmony Chorus

007th: a James Bond Parody

Featuring: Bookcliff Barbershop Harmony Chorus * Canyon Grand Barbershop Quartet * Grand Mesa A Capella Chorus * Steppin’ Up Sweet Adelines Quartet * CMU Men & Women’s Choir * GJHS Men’s Choir * Leading Tones Women’s Septet * Caprock Academy HS Choir

Saturday, April 13, 2019 2 pm and 7 pm

Historic Avalon Theatre, 7th and Main St Purchase at Avalon Box office, 263-5757 or online www.avalontheatregj.com $18 adults / $12 students

For more information, call 257-7664

Western Colorado’s Greatest Hits

Zane Mathews hosts The Most Music Morning Show every weekday starting at 6:00 Morning Challenge at 7:30 – Your chance to Win!

Jack Taylor Weekday Afternoons catch the Kool Drive Home at 5:00!

Mike Harvey

The Mike Harvey Show is a mix of the greatest hits of the 70’s and 80’s with a sprinkle of the 60’s for fun!

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Mesa County Libraries Poetry Contest entries accepted through April 8 Are you a poet? Enter your best work in the Mesa County Libraries’ Poetry Contest. The contest features separate categories for adults (18 and older) and teens (grades 6-12). Poets are invited to submit as many as two original, unpublished poems by 5 p.m. April 8, for a chance to win Downtown Grand Junction gift cards. Entries must be submitted online using the official entry form available at www. mesacountylibraries.org/poetrycontest. No poems will be accepted in person. Poems cannot exceed 40 lines, and they must be suitable for a general audience. Complete rules are available on the library’s website. For details, call 683-2408 or email ctaylor@mcpld.org. The awards ceremony takes place at 5 p.m. on April 30.

Roice-Hurst Community Health Liaison earns human-animal connection certificate Ashley DiGrado, Community Health Liaison at Roice-Hurst Humane Society (RHHS) presented her capstone in Denver and received her Certificate in Animals and Human Health from the University of Denver's Graduate School of Social Work - Institute for Human-Animal Connection. Her capstone focused

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on the work RHHS is doing with Grand Mesa Youth Services to integrate kittens into the therapeutic work done by their staff with incarcerated youth. For details, call 434-7337.

Jurassic Giant femur exhibit opens at Dinosaur Journey Imagine a 90-foot lizard, weighing 38 tons, roaming western Colorado 150 million years ago. Museums of Western Colorado volunteers came across a relic of one of these giants from the Jurassic Period in 2010 when they found a humongous 6’4” long femur at the Mygatt-Moor Quarry. With many years of excavating and preparing, this bone is now on display at Dinosaur Journey in Fruita along with a 20-inch juvenile femur. While visiting the exhibit, you can learn how a tiny Apatosaurus hatchling survived against all odds to become one of the most colossal dinosaurs to roam the land.

For more information about the exhibit and other museum offerings, visit www.museumofwesternco. com or call 858-7282, ext. 2217.

One New Venture: Colorado-sourced hemp products now open With the passing of the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp is now permanently removed from the Controlled Substances Act and is now considered an agricultural commodity.

All of the hemp products sold

by One New Venture, located at 4550D Hwy 6 & 24 in DeBeque, are sourced from Colorado Department of Agriculture’s registered farmers. One New Venture has researched and selected the very best product manufacturers in Colorado that adhere to these high standards and are able to provide a COA of the hemp oil used in their production. Store hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

For details, email brandon@one newventure.com or call 640-7575.

Certified Advanced Care Planning Guide training Who would you have speak on your behalf if you were unable to speak

for yourself? What is important to you at the end of your life? Learn how to have these meaningful conversations and increase self-awareness of your own preferences in values in this free, two-day class to become a certified Advanced Care Planning Guide. This training, offered by AARP Colorado, the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Denver Hospice, takes place on April 6 and 27, from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Fruita Community Center, 324 N. Coulson St. Lunch will be provided; class space is limited. Register online at aarp.cvent. com/d/n6q9y1 or call 877-926-8300 Travel to El Salvador with Spay/ Neuter Brigade Join the Foundation for Cultural Exchange on its second annual Spay/ Neuter Brigade in Grand Junction’s sister city of El Espino, El Salvador on June 11-18, 2019. The campaign’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of residents and animals by spaying/neutering 500 animals in three days. The trip includes cultural activities in and around the capital city of San Salvador and the all-inclusive cost covers your airfare, lodging and meals while in the country. (Total cost ranges from $1,800-2,000, depending on the price of airfare.) Space is limited, so sign up today! To learn more about traveling or to donate, call 433-2897 or visit www.fceelsalvador.org.

Doctor empowers people to take charge of their health in new book In her groundbreaking new book, “Save Your Life Now: Your Health Is In Your Hands,” April Schulte, a local doctor of acupuncture and oriental medicine, aims to show the power of combining complementary medicine with conventional medicine and to empower each person to believe that they are the director of their own health ship.

For details, call Healing Horizons Media at 256-8449.

Free swing dancing on Fridays Swing dance from 8-10:30 p.m. at

BEACON BITS Four Winds Coffee and Tea. This group is open to all ages and skill levels. Parking is located behind the coffee shop or across the street.

Check the Friday Night Swing GJ Facebook page to confirm the class is happening.

Free square dances The Mesa Community Club offers free square dances from 7-9 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of every month at the Mesa Community Center, 48973 KE Road, Mesa.

Beginners and families welcome.

Casual attire.

AARP Driver Safety classes Save money on insurance and keep up on newer traffic laws at the AARP Driver Safety course. Cost is $15 for AARP members and $20 for nonmembers. Call for location and to register.

April 4 - 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Call Donna at 720-290-4053.

April 17 - 1-5 p.m.

Call Mary at 433-0384.

April 26 - 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Call Bob at 243-2531.

Free tax preparation services through April 15 AARP Tax Aide volunteer preparers are trained in tax law, then tested and certified each year through the IRS, ready to prepare and electronically file 2018 federal and state returns on behalf of community members at no cost to them. Bring your Social Security card, picture ID for each individual on the return, all documents needed to complete your return, proof of bank account and routing information, and last year’s return. Filers are helped on a first-come, first-served basis. Spots fill quickly so get there early! For more information, call 589-3789.

Tax-Aide volunteers will set up at the following locations at the specified times: • 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - Wells Fargo Bank Annex, 359 Main St., Grand Junction • 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday - Wells Fargo Bank (downstairs), 2808 North Ave., Grand Junction. ■

RIVER CITY SINGLES

An Art Center Benefit

Saturday, May 4, 2019 Starting at 5pm Tickets: $30 for one, $50 for two Preview on First Friday, May 3, 6:30-9pm Sponsored by 1803 N 7th Street

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“Young-at-heart adults getting together for fun and friendship.”

Annual membership is $20.

Fridays at 5 p.m. - Calling all singles over 50! Meet new friends at Friday Afternoon Club (FAC) in the Hideaway Lounge at the Travelodge, 718 Horizon Drive. Call Chuck at 242-5252 for details.

Tuesdays at 9 a.m. - Early Start Breakfast at Denny’s on Horizon Drive.

Visitors welcome. Call Debbie at 245-4995 for details.

Sundays at 12:30 p.m. - Bowling Sunday at Orchard Mesa Lanes, 295 27 Road. No need to RSVP, just arrive at noon if you want to play. For details, contact Kirby at 260-1358.

Saturday, April 6 - Sing karaoke with us at the Grand Vista Hotel, 2790 Crossroads Blvd. Dinner is at 7 p.m. Karaoke starts at 8 p.m. RSVP to Pat at 242-0407.

Wednesday, April 10 - Play Bingo at Gold Mine Bingo, 511 28 ¼ Road.

Meet at noon for lunch. Games begin at 1 p.m. RSVP to Kathy at 589-1871.

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Wednesday, April 17 - Take a walking tour of downtown Grand Junction starting at Main Street Bagels, 559 Main St., at 9 a.m. RSVP to Jan at 201-3090.

Thursday, April 25 - Meet in the Sutherlands parking lot at 11:30 a.m. to carpool to lunch at Loma’s Cattlemen’s Bar & Grill, 1369 12 ½ Road, and then take a walk near Highline Lake. RSVP to Jan at 201-3090.

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Monday - Saturday | 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

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SUPPORT GROUPS Art Exploration Class for cancer patients meets 4-5:30 p.m. the second and fourth Mondays of the month at the Oncology Conference Room. Call 298-2351.

Caregiver Connections meets from 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays at the Miller Homestead at HopeWest.

Call 260-8931.

Caregiver Support Group meets from 1:30-3:30 p.m. at Cappella Grand Junction, 628 26 1/2 Road.

Call 822-7070 to RSVP. Compassionate Friends offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents from 7-8:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month at Unity Church. Call 434-3822.

Complementary pick-up available for larger items.

DELTA 532 Main Street (970) 874-5251

GRAND JUNCTION 635 Main Street (970) 254-8556

MONTROSE 435 E. Main Street (970) 252-3648

COPD Support Group meets monthly at 1 p.m. on the fourth Friday at 581 Grand Valley Dr. in Grand Junction. Call 317-7556 or email jimcampbell3@aol.com.

Divorce Support Group meets at 6:30 p.m. Saturdays at 103 S. Fifth St. in Palisade. Call 200-1191.

Gamblers Anonymous, a 12-step meeting to help compulsive gamblers recover, is held from 7-8 p.m. at The Meeting Hall, 1938 N. First St.

Taking care of each other is what community is all about.

We’ve proudly served our community for more than a century with personal, compassionate care.

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GriefShare, a nondenominational Christ-based support group for those mourning the death of a loved one, meets from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursdays. For details, call 628-1453.

Head & Neck Cancer Support Group meets monthly from 6:30-8 p.m. on the first Tuesday at Colorado West Otolaryngologists. Call 245-2400.

Healing Hands Hour meets from noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays in St. Mary’s Hospital’s Reflection Room.

Call 298-2351.

HEARTBEAT/Survivors After Suicide meets monthly from 7-9 p.m. on the third Tuesday at First Congregational Church. Call 7789274 or 241-4349.

Job Searching After 50 Networking Group meets from 8:30-10 a.m. on the first and third Thursdays of the month at Mesa

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County Workforce Center. You must be registered as a job seeker at www.connectingcolorado.com.

Call 248-7560 for details.

Leukemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma Support Group meets monthly from 4-5 p.m. on the third Monday in St. Mary’s Hospital’s Reflection Room.

Look Good, Feel Better meets monthly from 3-5 p.m. on the last Wednesday. Beauty professionals provide tips to help women defy the appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment. Call 800-2272345 to register.

MACHO Men cancer support group meets monthly at 2 p.m. on the first Thursday at the VA Medical Center In-Patient Dining Room. Call 298-2351.

Mending Hearts is for any adult who has experienced the death of a loved one, and meets from 2-3:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Miller Homestead at HopeWest. Call 248- 8844.

MS and Men, a support group for men living with MS, meets monthly from 11 a.m. to noon on the third Thursday at The Artful Cup. Call 241-8975.

MS Breakfast Group meets monthly at 9 a.m. on the first Tuesday at Village Inn, 757 Horizon Drive. Call 241-8975.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offers support groups for family members of adults who have a serious mental illness and connection groups for adults living with a mental illness.

Groups meet at various times and locations. Visit www.NAMIWS.org or call 462-3989 for details.

Parents of Addicted Loved Ones meets at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday at First Presbyterian Church. If you have a child who struggles with alcohol, drugs or food, there’s help and hope. Call 379-5786.

Tinnitus Support Group meets monthly at 6 p.m. on the third Wednesday at Community Hospital’s Legacy Room 1.

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CLUBS & ACTIVITIES American Association of University Women meets monthly at 11:30 a.m. on the second Tuesday, usually at Chez Lena. For details or to confirm location, call 201-0386.

Blue Lodge Masons meets monthly at 10 a.m. on the first Saturday at the Masonic Center. Call 245-5312.

Bookcliff Duplicate Bridge Club plays at 12:45 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays, and 6:30 p.m. Thursdays at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Grand Valley. Call 244-9989.

Colorado Archaeological Society Grand Junction meets monthly from 6:30-9 p.m. on the second Monday. Call 433-4312 or visit www.meetup.com/CAS-GJ/events.

Fleet Reserve Association (FRA) #244 meets monthly at 7 p.m. on the second Wednesday at the VFW #3981. All former, retired and active sea service, U.S. Navy, Marines or Coast Guard are welcome. Call 434-0868.

Friendship Force meets monthly at 6:15 p.m. on the third Thursday at First Baptist Church. Call 7786191 or visit www.ffwcolo.com.

Golden K Kiwanis Club meets from 9-10 a.m. Wednesdays at the Redlands Community Center. Visit www.gjgoldenk.com.

Grand Junction Chess Club meets at 6:30 p.m. Mondays in the Safeway Starbucks, 2901 F Road.

Visit www.jctchess.com.

Grand Junction Gem & Mineral Club meets at 7 p.m. on the second Thursday and at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of the month at 2328 Monument Road. Email grandjunctionrockclub@gmail.com Grand Junction Newcomers Club meets monthly at 9:30 a.m. on the second Wednesday at First Christian Church. Call 549-0440.

Grand Junction Petroleum & Mining Club meets monthly at 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday at

Two Rivers Convention Center. Visit www.grandjunctionpmc.com.

Grand Valley Pets Alive meets monthly from 4:30-6 p.m. on the third Wednesday at Church of the Nativity. Call 462-7554.

Grand Valley Woodcarvers meets at 6 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays and 1 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at Redlands United Methodist Church. Call 245-8817 or 523-5965.

Grand Valley Woodturners meets monthly at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday at Redlands United Methodist Church. Call 245-8817 or 856-3632.

Guys’ Giving Club meets quarterly at the Springhill Suites, 236 Main St. in Grand Junction. Members donate $100 at each meeting and are invited to nominate a local charity to receive the evening’s total contributions. The next meeting is at 5:15 p.m. May 7. For membership information, call 243-8829 or 270-6184.

Mesa County Genealogical Society meets on April 11 and April 24. Visit www.mesacounty genealogy.org for location and details.

Not Going Quietly meets from 1:30-3:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at Center for Spiritual Living Grand Junction. This group is intended to create a space of empowerment, grace, community and wisdom for individuals age 60 and older. Call 433-7799.

Orchard Mesa Lions Club meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of the month. For location, call 216-2919.

Outing Club meets monthly at 7:30 p.m. on the first Monday. For location, call 812-6759 or 243-7645.

Sons of Norway, Vestafjell Lodge, meets at 2 p.m. on April 13 at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church.

BEACON BITS Learn about storytelling and Norwegian culture. Call 245-5649 or visit www.vestafjelllodge.org.

Sweet Adelines International, Grand Mesa A Capella Chorus, rehearses from 6:30-9 p.m. Mondays at 527 Village Way. Call 255-9419 or 523-3464, or visit www.grand mesachorus.org.

Talk of the Town Toastmasters meets at noon on Thursdays at Cendera Funding. Call 250-3969.

Thunder Mountain Camera Club meets monthly from 7-9 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday at Western Colorado Community College, Building B. For details, visit www.thunder mountaincameraclub.org.

Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) #3981 meets monthly at 5:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday for a family style dinner and meeting at the Post Hall, 503 1/2 Florence Road in Grand Junction.

Call 778-8242.

Vintage Motor Car Club of America, Colorado West Chapter, is looking for new members. Call 260-0543 for details.

Western Colorado Amateur Radio Club meets monthly at 9:30 a.m. on the second Saturday at the Civil Patrol Hangar, 2868 Aviators Way. Visit www.w0rrz.org.

Western Colorado Astronomy Club meets monthly at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday at Colorado Mesa University’s Wubben Hall, room 161. Call 812-3661 or visit www. wcacastronomy.org.

Western Colorado Decorative Artists meets monthly at 9 a.m. on the second Saturday at Grand Junction’s First Congregational Church.

Call 640-2751.

Western Slope Coin Club meets monthly at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday at VFW #1247. Get a free coin/currency evaluation at 5:30 p.m. Visit www.gjcoinshow.com.

Western Slope Toastmasters meets Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at Chronos Builders, 637 25 Road.

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DOUBLE TROUBLE IN THE GRAND VALLEY Saturday, April 6 11 am & 2 pm Cross Orchards Historic Site 3073 F Rd. Come spend a day at the Farm and enjoy our show Melodrama: Free Admission Farm Entry: Free to Museum members

Tickets: $5 Adults $3.50 Senior & Children 3-12

Saturday, April 13 2 pm & 7 pm KAFM Radio Room, 1310 Ute Ave. Tickets: $12 at the door $8 Children 3-12 Advance Tickets: $10 from Roper Music & The Main Street Gallery

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Call Stacey at 243-8829, ext.102 to reserve your space in next month’s issue.

SUPPORT GROUPS

REAL ESTATE

Gamblers Anonymous Finally a 12-step meeting in Grand Junction to help compulsive gamblers recover from our self-inflicted miseries. Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m., at The Meeting Hall, 1938 N. First St. It takes courage to change.

$199,900

FOR SALE Handicap Ramp EZ-ACCESS aluminum handicap ramp to keep ADA standards; ramp will reach a 31” high doorway. 3 turning platforms for tight space. $9,600 new, asking $6,000. Lee 435-862-3585. Leave message please.

2012 Durango 5th Wheel $17,999 35 feet, 3 slides, 2 air conditioners, 2 bedrooms, outdoor grill, full custom skirting, four seasons, two TVs, Jensen stereo and DVD player. $17,999. Great condition and a great deal! Books for over $20K. Must sell! Call 858-4775.

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HOME SERVICES Scene Clearly, LLC Window cleaners specializing in making your day a little brighter!

Grand Junction area. Call Frank Cordova at 242-1264.

Sam’s Tilling and Maintenance Spring roto-tilling, spring yard cleanup and summerizing: swamp coolers, sprinkler systems, pumps, etc. New sprinkler/irrigation systems, new lawns, gardens and fences. Fast affordable service, quality equipment and people. Sam’s Tilling and Maintenance, 697-6031.

Custom Draperies, Blinds and Solar Shades Floor coverings and design services.

Interior Monologues, Inc. 2340040.

Window Cleaning Isn’t it time to get those dirty/hazy windows cleaned? No problem, free estimate. Ryan & Michele Allowitz, Blue Ribbon Cleaning Services.

361-0531. 35 years’ experience and insured. Housecleaning services, also.

Computer Lady, LLC In-home repair. 15 years serving Mesa County. Windows, Internet, Wi-Fi, Android, tablets, Netflix, Roku. Virus removal, installation and instruction. Dependable, reasonable, qualified. 255-1216.

HAVE SOMETHING TO SELL OR A SERVICE TO OFFER?

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Call Stacey at 243-8829 to reserve your space in next month’s issue.

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Antiques, Appraisals, Estate Sales With over 40 years in the antique, appraisal and estate sale business, Great American Estate Sales is the valley’s leader in appraisals and estate liquidation. Settling an estate, moving into a smaller home or just simplifying your lifestyle? Great American Estate Sales can provide a worry-free and quick solution.

Free consultation. 216-0048.

The Cleaning Lady It’s that time of year again! Time to clean out the winter buildup and college move outs. I do weekly, biweekly, once a month or just a one-time shot. Thank you, The Cleaning Lady, Linda K. 720-8417505 or 263-7364.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Medical Marijuana Doctor Days in Montrose and Grand Junction Got pain? Find out if medical marijuana is right for you. Doctor evaluation and education on cannabis use in a professional HIPAA-compliant setting. Call for appointment times and days. 720-443-2420 or visit www.healthychoicesunltd.com.

Medical Cannabis Certification Cannabis treats arthritis, fibromyalgia, migraines, Parkinson’s, MS, cancer, glaucoma, PTSD, etc.

GJ - Thursday 4/11 Rifle - Wednesday 4/10 Wendy Zaharko, MD, 970-319-0652, z@alumni.princeton.edu. Your local Western Slope cannabis physician since 2009.

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SERVICES Kind Heart Pet Care Pet care in your home while you’re away. Please call Sarah at 242-5236 for more information and to schedule a free meet and greet. Member of Pet Sitters International. Bonded and insured.

UPS, USPS, FedEx Shipping Center Copy and fax services. Unique gifts and consigned crafts by local artisans. Sign up for crafty art classes.

HOMESPUN Shipping & Gifts, 644-5060. 3225 I-70 Business Loop #A-10, Clifton. M-F 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Pat’s Hair Salon and Ceramics Family salon. April special: Senior citizen perms $35 includes shampoo, set and blow dry; appointment only. Classes in making ceramics and porcelain dolls; call for class times. 3004 East Vista Drive, GJ. 778-8075.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES MOPS Share your love of children and knowledge of parenting with a new generation. Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) is desperately seeking volunteers to love, watch and teach children 9 months to 6 years during its meetings on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at Canyon View Vineyard Church.

All curriculum, materials, snacks and coffee are provided. Rooms are divided by ages. Time commitment is 8:45-11:15 a.m. Please call MOPS Kids coordinator Morgan Barb at 216-2952.

USED BOOKS Buy, Sell or Trade Gently used books on hundreds of subjects. Westerns, romance, mysteries, suspense, kids, young adult, inspirational and many others.

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kudos \ ku • dos  "Every month I hunt for the latest copy of the BEACON. The articles make me want to go and see what the authors have seen or done.

The jokes! I enjoy them so much I forward them to a friend. And, if we can’t laugh at the not-so-funny things that happens to us we might as well give up.” - Elizabeth V.

 “It was a nice article [“Feel good about giving: Solutions for when

your stuff no longer brings you joy” in March’s issue] and an informative paper!” - Keita D.

 “I wanted to drop a note and say you did a great job on the feel good about giving feature [in March’s BEACON]. You captured Heirlooms and our mission so well.”

- Callie Rapke, HopeWest Community Relations Manager

 “I just received a copy of the BEACON. What a classy gig you've got there! I love the layout of the story [Namibia: where arid desert meets frigid sea” in March’s issue]. The online version doesn't do it justice.” - Fyllis H.

 “My husband and I attended The Jersey Tenors on March 1 with

tickets we won from Community Concerts and the BEACON. It was wonderful. Thank you!” - Kathleen V.

kvetch \ kfech  "I felt I had to say something about the joke ‘Life Lessons' in last

month's issue. Sad to say that this is not a joke. There is no respect anymore for anyone or anything and this is a product of what we see today. I would think that there could be several teachers that hurt just by reading this joke. How insensitive it was to print this.

While l enjoy most of the BEACON, it would be nice if it leaned to the niceties of life rather to fall to the crudeness that our culture has fallen into.” - Emmalee

Cloie: "Thank you for writing in. I apologize for the joke that was published in the March issue. In hindsight, we realize it was insensitive toward a number of groups. Please accept my personal apology, and see our formal apology on page 18-19 of this issue. Thank you for reading and for keeping us on our toes."

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Gun sense = common sense

“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

By Susan Elenz he Second Amendment is here to stay, but it’s the interpretation that’s central to the gun reform debate. There’s no need to confiscate guns when common sense gun reform can do the trick.

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It's important to first understand the history of the Second Amendment, which was ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights. It’s poorly written and has sparked debate since the beginning.

James Madison proposed this amendment to the Constitution to empower the states to defend themselves from oppression by the federal government. Remember, they’d just fought the Revolutionary War against the British, and Madison wanted to establish the principle that the government should not disarm its citizens. Back then, communities stored their guns and gunpowder in safe storage areas because the gunpowder was so explosive. This is one way they “regulated” the “well-regulated Militia.”

protects the individual’s right to have guns in the home for reasons of self-defense. All this changed the Founders’ original intent of the amendment and disregarded the “well-regulated Militia.”

Common sense is defined as sound judgment in practical matters, and to behave in a practical and sensible way. To be clear, I’m not against individuals owning guns. The right to protect yourself and your family is common sense. Hunters and target shooters need guns for sport, which, to me, is also common sense.

However, if you or someone else is the aggressor with the gun (the one we need protection from), then it’s common sense to not allow them to have easy access. This is where gun sense becomes common sense.

Regulations were a central part of the rationale for the Second Amendment. After all, a free State or country without regulations or laws leads to anarchy, not freedom.

An angry mob is not a militia. The Constitution still has the treason clause, which partly defines treason as taking up arms against the government.

Gun sense doesn’t mean confiscating guns (unless you’re threatening people). It means doing something to reduce or prevent the many murders and suicides increasing in America. Things like requiring permits to purchase guns and passing background checks to prove you have no violent or criminal history.

It’s requiring gun manufacturers to design guns with regard to safety.

It’s addressing mental health issues, and not letting people who are threatening or mentally ill to have easy access to them. Making it difficult for these people to purchase guns is common sense.

Things changed over the years.

Around the Civil War, southerners used their Second Amendment rights to control slave uprisings and defend against Union soldiers. Guns became “safer” to keep at home or business, and militias turned into the National Guard. Individual rights were not considered part of the amendment until the 1980s. Then, in 2008, the Supreme Court established that the Second Amendment

Right now we are all sitting ducks waiting to be hunted. While we can’t possibly stop all the gun crime in America, it makes absolutely no sense to do nothing. ■

What can we do to help reduce gun deaths? Contact your congressmen and let them know we want common sense gun control just like the Founders intended. If they don’t listen or understand common sense, then we need to vote them out.

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