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C’dale enjoys aRound The 11th annual Art aRound Town exhibition features 15 works by artists from seven states and celebrates its official opening with a walking tour at 5:30 p.m. on June 6.

Organized by the Carbondale Public Arts Commission, the exhibition attracted entries from 19 states and Bangkok, Thailand. Shown here is “Horse and Rider” by Philip Maior. For more on the 2013 Art aRound Town Exhibition, please refer to the insert in this week’s paper. Photo by Lynn Burton

CARBONDALE’S FIRST EVER

COMMUNITY PHOTO Carbondale is Calling!

First Friday is June 7th! The Entire Valley is Invited! 6:30 at the corner of 4th & Main Street.

Carbondale Commentary The views and opinions expressed on the Commentary page do not necessarily reflect those of The Sopris Sun. The Sopris Sun invites all members of the community to submit letters to the editor or guest columns. For more information, e-mail editor Lynn Burton at news@soprissun.com, or call 510-3003.

Dining with El Diablo I don’t believe in the devil. Or I should say I didn’t believe in the devil, until recently They don’t even try to hide it anymore like when Nixon was in office. From a Washwhen I watched an independent film about Monsanto. Now I agree with my friend Pat ington Post article by Elizabeth Flock: “In 2009, President Obama appointed Michael Fender — they are El Diablo.

Taylor as a senior adviser for the FDA. Consumer groups protested the appointment beHere’s the deal. Their seeds are engineered to grow despite being sprayed with Round cause Taylor had formerly served as a vice president for Monsanto, the controversial agriUp (which, of course, is a Monsanto product) and Monsanto uses corcultural multinational at the forefront of genetically modified food.” ruption, intimidation, sabotage; whatever means are necessary to spread Hey Monsanto: quit trying to get in my plants! their seeds all over the world. Also, Round Up (and, it stands to reason, That was my sign’s message at the March Against Monsanto on May 25. their transgenic seed that can survive Round Up) gives you cancer. LuckGranted, there were more people skiing in Aspen than marching that day, ily I’m not a scientist, so I don’t have to watch it happen in a room full of but we do what we can. And we did pick up a few new marchers along the mice in order to say it. Here’s what the scientist who watched it happen in way, which is better than wearing snow pants in 70-degree weather and a room full of mice said, “Round Up provokes the first stages that lead to eating cancer-causing corn on the cob. cancer.” – Robert Bellé.

Speaking of corn on the cob, the United States currently sends subsidized The good news is — Oh wait, there is no good news. Monsanto will shipments of GMO corn to Mexico, driving down the price of local corn charge farmers whatever price they decide for the seeds, as well as collect and contaminating the ancient source of corn varieties. royalties when the crop comes in; essentially turning all the farmers into Teresa Camou is producing a film titled “Sunnú” about the struggle and indentured servants. determination of the indigenous northern Mexican communities to preserve “Monsanto is trying to take away our right to not eat their food.” – their native corn seed and way of life. The 90-minute documentary will both Caroline Alberino. reveal and explain the fate of this crucial seed at its source and the imminent

By Jeannie Perry On Monsanto’s website they proclaim that GMO crops will ease worldthreat to the sustainability, heritage and overall lives of its ancient caretakwide hunger and end famine, but that is a crock of organic horse apples. ers due to climate change, the introduction of GMO corn plantations in Small farmers are being driven out from Indiana to India by Monsanto, and if they don’t Mexico, and NAFTA farming practices. For more information visit: Sunnú.org.* kill themselves then they are bankrupted and forced to move to the city to look for work.

Monsanto’s next commercial should be a rip off of the old beef ads: “Cancer, it’s what’s Being poor and living in a city is entirely different from being poor and living on a farm. for dinner.” Then they can partner with Eli Lilly and sell us both the cause and the cure.

One big difference is the ‘revolving doors’ way in which big city guys conduct their Al Pacino’s character in “The Devil’s Advocate” i.e., The Devil, would be so proud. business. Picture a revolving door with three suits inside, we’ll call them Industry, Regulation and Legislation. After a while, watching them all go around and around, we tend *Alejandra Rico to get bored and look elsewhere … distracted by a hot dog vendor perhaps. That is ex- All quotes are from the film The World According to Monsanto, with the exception of actly what is going on right now with Monsanto, and it has been since before Reagan had Caroline Alberino’s, which was said aloud at March Against Monsanto. http://topdocAlzheimer’s. By patenting the seeds Monsanto is “in the process of owning food. All food.” umentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/.

– Troy Roush.

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Don’t solarize the park Dear Editor: The town of Carbondale is thinking of installing solar arrays in the Carbondale Nature Park. Solar arrays are good things but first let’s remember what our parks are originally there for.

The dictionary describes parks as “an area in or near a city usually laid out with walks,

drives, playgrounds etc. for public recreation.”

Solar arrays are an industrial use and a contradiction to the name “Nature Park.”

They sure do not fit in the old and original Nature Park plan. Is that old park plan being thrown out or an exception being made?

The land down there is very special and Carbondale probably will never again own such a large and beautiful chunk of parkland

The Sun really shone on these Carbondale Middle School students during their outdoor education trip to Moab the week of May 28-31. The students rafted the Colorado River, hiked Arches National Park (including the Fiery Furnace on a guided outting) and spent time exploring Moab. Courtesy photo 2 • THE SOPRIS SUN • www.SoprisSun.com • JUNE 6, 2013

again. The very best view of Mt. Sopris in Carbondale is from the Nature Park and the views east, west and north are wonderful as well.

The water table is only three feet below the surface. The city has some irrigation ditch water rights there. Plant a tree and once established it will thrive for the next 100 years with no help. This park is an uncut gem.

So why treat it like a wasteland that has no great value? Solar arrays are good on rooftops and land that has little value. Let’s keep the Nature Park land like money in the bank for park-type things and not whittle it away with “worthy projects.” The archery range is a good fit. It is in the far corner and safely out of the way.

Accepting a project like this could set a precedent for other projects with convincing arguments asking for a free piece of city parkland.

And now a new proposal, Plan B, has come up to place the array at the entrance and adjacent to the parking lot. With this plan, we will enter the park among rows of solar arrays made of steel, glass, hard shiny surfaces and a wire fence. Is this what a park entrance should look and feel like? Now Plan A is beginning to look a little OK. Let’s imagine entering the park from the parking lot into an oasis of shade trees, a path with picnic tables and benches, a drinking fountain and welcoming green park things.

This need not cost much. We can begin by planting some trees and committing one acre LETTERS page 14

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Crystal Theatre owners reflect on a memorable month Look ahead to next phase

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer At least one guy walked up to Bob Ezra on the street and handed him a $100 bill.

One night, an anonymous donor slipped a $20 bill under their ticket window after the doors were locked.

The list goes on and on but for Kathy Ezra, two donors during their month-long Digital Cinema fund-raising drive stand out: • Aidan Knaus, age 12, an across-the-street neighbor on Euclid Avenue, knocked on their door one day with a donation from his parents, and approximately $50 in bills and change in a plastic bag he raised selling candy at school. “He had a big grin on his face,” Kathy told The Sopris Sun during an interview in their living room earlier this week. “I was speechless. It blew me away.”

• Then there was 9-year-old Noelle Shield-Taylor. The Ezras had just left their house and were driving west on Main Street. When they got to Fourth Street and pulled up to the stop sign, they looked to their left and there was Noelle sitting behind a fund-raising lemonade stand she’d set up under the Crystal Theatre campaign banner. “ … and it was brutally hot,” Kathy said.

During the month of May, the Crystal Theatre owners worked 18-hour days on a campaign to raise $70,000 to pay for digital projection equipment because film is not only on the way out, it’s just about gone. The Ezras reached their fund-raising goal and then some. “We want everyone to know how thankful we are,” Kathy said.

In all, more than 500 Crystal Theatre fans from Aspen to Silt donated with checks and cash, while others from Texas, Florida, Minnesota and Chicago gave via Pay-Pal. Bob is a bit mystified by the out-of-town supporters. “ … are they second home owners? … one e-mail had a MinnesotaNPR.org address.”

1984 The Ezras opened the then-condemned Crystal Theatre in the Dinkel Building in 1984 after an 18-month remodel and renovation effort. They’ve known for at least two years the day was coming when they’d have to “go digital or go dark” and started planning a fund-raising drive last fall. Other independently owned theatres across the U.S. have launched similar drives. Some met their goal and some didn’t.

When asked if the month of May was the longest month or shortest month they’ve ever experienced, Bob replied “It was pretty long …” then Kathy interjected “Both.” At one point, she thought the month would never be over as she literally crossed days off her calendar. But when there were only three days left in the month, she said her herself, “What happened to the month?”

After much discussion during the planning stage, the Ezras decided to limit the campaign to one month rather than stretch it out over two or three. “Kathy deserves the

The marquee says it all but Bob and Kathy Ezra are sending out thank-yous in other ways as well, including a Wall of Fame for donors inside the theatre. When the Crystal Theatre goes digital in September, for a few months they will roll donor credits before the films. Photo by Lynn Burton credit,” Bob said, pointing at Kathy. “I held my ground,” she replied.

At some point both questioned their decision to limit their drive to the month of May, and Bob was first. Kathy wondered about the decision about halfway through the month when the drive sort of stalled at the $42,000 mark. “I was thinking, ‘geez, who is left?’ That was a little stressful.”

But as the days closed in on May 31, donations started picking up again.

Key players Even before the drive started, the Ezras were putting in long hours researching whether to do a Kickstarter-type drive (they decided not to), setting up a Pay Pal account and creating two humorous but effective videos for their website. “Dave (Taylor) was pretty awesome,” Bob said of the Cool Brick Studios owner. “He’d send me rough cuts on e-mail at 1:30 a.m.” Will Grandbois, whose involvement included acting as a TV newsman in the second video, was also indispensable. “He was huge,” Bob said.

(Editor’s note: the second video includes police chief Gene Schilling in a cameo role).

Creating the videos, the first of which included Crystal Theatre employees in Groucho Marx mustaches and glasses rattling tin cups with pennies in front of the the-

atre, was a high point for the Ezras. So was their film memorabilia sale during the May First Friday that featured 27 years worth of posters and promotional materials. “The sale was fun … getting ready was not,” Bob said.

Kathy said that the fund-raising campaign was phase one of a three-phrase effort. Next, they have to complete shopping for digital equipment, then have it installed and learn how to operate it.

There’s no single source to consult on which kinds of digital equipment will work best for the Crystal Theatre.

“You ask three different theatre owners about it, and they’ll give you three different answers,” Bob said.

When asked if they are worried that there’s something they don’t know about buying equipment, and they don’t even know that they don’t know it, Kathy quickly answered, “That’s what keeps (us) up at nights.”

Now that funds have been raised, and decisions are close to being made on equipment purchases and films becoming increasingly scarce, the Ezras hope to convert to digital in September.

Looking back on the fund-raising drive, Bob mentioned talking to a theatre owner before starting the Crystal Theatre fund-raising drive. The theatre owner conducted a similar drive last year and said he’d never worked so hard in his life, but it was also the most rewarding thing he’d ever done. “(We) ditto that,” Bob said.

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Cop Shop The following events are drawn from incident reports of the C’dale Police Dept.

TUESDAY May 28: At 6:13 p.m. police received a call in reference to a horse running at large along Highway 133. Upon arrival, the officer observed a large, brown-colored horse running north on the highway. The horse was later caught and returned to owners who reside near Keator Road.

TUESDAY May 28: Police report seven buses were vandalized with fire extinguishers at the RFTA lot on Industry Way. DATE not available: Officers contacted three juveniles who were smoking marijuana at White Hill Cemetery. Verbal warnings were given.

MONDAY May 27: At 10:43 p.m. police arrested a Glenwood man at Eighth and Main for DUI.

Hiding in plain sight near the Rio Grande Trail, RFTA’s dinosaur eggs are waiting to be placed at the park ’n’ ride lot on Highway 133. The eggs are meant for kids to play on while they and their parents wait for rides on the new VelociRFTA service, according to an agency spokeswoman. No word on when the over-sized eggs will be laid, but the public can be assured they will not hatch. Photo by Lynn Burton

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MONDAY May 27: At 2:57 p.m. a resident called police and said she lost her prescription medicine in Glenwood or Carbondale.

A Carbondale police officer called Glenwood police but was told the woman’s medicine had not been turned in. The woman said she’d continue looking and would call police if she found her medicine.

First Friday hits Satank; Art Car under construction

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer First Friday expands to Satank this month with a special dinner at Fold Kitchen, while back in town everyone is invited to help create an Art Car. But that’s not all.

True Nature healing arts on Third Street presents Kirtan music from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.; 2020 EyeCare cranks up its chocolate fountain; other businesses and restaurants are offering specials; at 6:30 p.m., to mark Carbondale’s 125th anniversary, KDNK is sponsoring a community portrait photoshoot with photographer Mark Burrows and the fire district; plein-air painters scatter out and set up their easels; once again Main Street will be closed for leisurely strolling from 5 to 9 p.m., and the new Art aRound Town sculpture show will be well into its second day.

But what about that Art Car? Designed by sculptor Michael Lindsay, executed by Will Laemmel, and commissioned by CCAH and CPAC, the Art Car will look like a big dandelion, according to a press release. The art part of the car will be made from recycled green garden hose. “So stop by and get creative,” said a CCAH spokeswoman. “The most important aspect of the Art Car is community involvement,” Lindsay continued. The hours are 6 to 8 p.m.

In other First Friday action: • The Crystal Theatre shows “The Sapphires” at 7:30 p.m.;

• In cooperation with the Buddy Program, the Gordon Cooper Library will celebrate Lemonade Day; • SoL Theatre Company in Gateway Plaza (across from the Cowen Center), offers Kids First!, an integrated arts workshop from 5:30 to 9 p.m. (a $25 fee); • The CCAH Yard Art bike tour rolls out from the Third Street Center at 6 p.m. (maps available); • The Carbondale Clay Center at the east end of Main Street opens a new show from 6 to 8 p.m. featuring: Tom Alward, Daniel Bare, Peter Beasecker, Josephine Burr, Andrew Cho, Kim Dickey, Ryan Fletcher, Chanda Glendinning, Gail Heidel, Jamie Lang, Clay Leonard, Shalya Marsh, Brooks Oliver, Denise Pelletier, Peter Pincus, Liz Quan, Sara Ransford, Kelly Schnorr, Kala Stein, Colleen Toledano, Marie Weichman, and Blake Jamison Williams.

• Marcel (Majid) Kahhak will paint live in his Dinkel Building gallery/studio from 6 to 8 p.m.; • Carbondale Beer Works hosts a fundraiser for Purple Star Veterans featuring Matt Haslett at 6 p.m. and All the Pretty Horses at 8 p.m.; • American Legion Post 100 on Colorado Avenue will be serving sloppy Joe’s (with potato salad, cole slaw and dessert) starting at 5 p.m. ($8 per plate); • Peppino’s Pizza will be giving away passes to the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo and other events through the night.

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Carbondale artists make national show Wewer Keohane, Staci L. Dickerson and Andrew Roberts-Gray are included in the 15th annual National Contemporary Exhibition at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts in Grand Junction. Only 60 pieces were selected from 177 submissions received from all over the country. The exhibition opening takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. on June 7.

Bear hunting at TSC? Whoever finds the hidden Teddy bear at Lisa’s Third Street Café gets half off the daily special, PLUS the honor of hiding the cuddly bruin for the next person to find. On a related note, Lisa’s Third Street Café (in the Third Street Center itself) is now offering summer outdoor dining 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Rebekahs accepting grass donations The Rebekah Lodge is still accepting donations for resodding and related work at Friendship Park next to the Near New Store at Third and Main. Donations can be mailed to Box 1104, Carbondale, 81623.

Music academy returns The Academy of Music and Performance summer camp offers five-day sessions on June 17-21 and July 8-12. Performances slated for June 22 and July 13 at PAC3. For details, call Shanti Gruber at 366-2889 or go to amp-carbondale.com.

CCAH offerings continue Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities summer-time offerings include The Business of Art: An Open Forum with Wewer Keohane on June 26, Small Tool Making with Natasha Seedorf on June 2930, and Summer Art Camps for youth. For details, call 963-1680 or go to carbondalearts.com.

Castle opens in Redstone Summer guided tours of the Historic Redstone Castle are held every day at 1:30 p.m. For ticket information, call 963-9656.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthday this week include: Rock Leonard and Henry Ortiz (June 9), and Dick Hunt and Paul Sutro (June 12).

Carbondale poet Wade Newsom (shown here) collaborated with filmmaker Jeremy Collins at the recent 5Point Film Festival to create “Participate in Our Existence,” which is now viewable at https:vimeo.com/67430848. Photo courtesy 5Point Film Festival

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P&R considers dog-park solar array June 12

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer The Parks and Recreation Commission considers whether to recommend approval for a solar array at the Carbondale Nature Park (aka Delaney dog park) during its monthly meeting on June 12.

The agenda item is slated for approximately 7:15 p.m.

The meeting takes place at town hall, located at 511 Colorado Avenue.

Two possible sites have been selected, according to town officials. One option is to locate the arrays on the southeast side of the park in the direction of the archery range. The other option is to locate the arrays off to the left of the park entrance near the water treatment building near where the dog-turd bag station is located.

Diagrams of both locations are posted on the town’s website. The Delaney dog park is located northeast of town hall, off of Merrill Avenue.

The proposed array is part of a stepped up effort for the town to meet its long-standing goal of obtaining at least 30 percent of its energy for heating and electricity from renewable sources by 2015, according to town memos.

The dog-park array would be one of three, including arrays on the Third Street Center roof and the public works building on Highway 133, the town would allow to take advantage of Xcel Energy’s awards program.

The solar array on the Carbondale Recreation Center roof is also part of the Xcel Energy awards program, which the company initiated several years ago in its efforts to reach a state mandated 30 percent renewable energy.

Both proposed arrays would cover approximately 1/4 acre.

The array is part of a purchase power agreement, which the trustees approved earlier in the year and sets up a partnership with a solar contractor (in this case Sunsense) and a financing entity, which owns the array. In exchange for

A couple walk their Corgi at the Carbondale Nature Park (aka the Delaney dog park) during a recent evening. One of the proposed solar arrays would be installed near the fence in the background. Photo by Lynn Burton the town allowing the solar array, the town buys power from the financing entity, which makes its money through federal tax credits.

The current push for more solar power is linked to the town’s Energy & Climate Protection Plan, pass in 2006.

Key points to the plan include: • Reduce emissions directly attributable to town facilities and town operations by 25 percent by 2010 through increasing energy efficiency in all buildings and operation, and increasing the percentage of renewables.

• Reduce community-wide CO emissions by 25 percent below the town’s 2004 base year by 2012.

• Turn emissions reduction efforts into an economic advantage by reducing household, business, and local government energy bills; keeping more money currently spent on energy flowing in the local economy; and investing in existing jobs/creating new jobs tied to sustainable energy.

• Leverage community investments to obtain 25-50 percent of non-community funds or significant investment returns to create the new economic activity, through installations of renewable energy production on municipal facilities, homes and businesses.

• Develop a resource-efficient building ethic in Carbondale to serve as a model for other communities.

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Roaring Fork High School graduating seniors received $105,050 in local scholarships this year and $1.6 million in offers from institutions nationwide. The class of 2013 graduated on June 1.

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Sopris Sun Staff Report Carbondale has posted a survey on its website (carbondalegov.org) concerning the proposed solar array at Carbondale Nature Park (aka Delaney dog park).

Other town memos from the week of May 27-31 include: • The Bicycle Tour of Colorado downtown party on June 24 will require a closure of Fourth Street between Main and Garfield from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

• Pickleball court lines were painted on one of the North Face Park tennis courts.

• GOCO is hosting its fall grant-cycle workshop at town hall on June 27.

• The Gateway Park Campground had 19 RV, six tent, and one group tent reservation for the week.

• The Gus Darien Riding Arena RFP lighting bid proposal will be released the week of June 3-7. Bid opening is July 23.

• A Bikes Belong community partnership grant was submitted requesting $10,000 for the proposed bike park at North Face Park.

• Summer youth baseball/softball is under way with enough kids signed up to form five boys baseball and two girls softball teams representing Carbondale in the local travel league.

• The town’s stage and tent was set up at the Fourth Street Plaza park in preparation for special events and Carbondale Farmer’s Market entertainment.

• This year’s crack seal, and chip and seal programs went smoothly. Jim Scales with SealCo did an excellent job staying ahead of Jim Terry’s GMCO chip and seal operation. GMCO will be back in a week to sweep the loose aggregate and apply the fog coat.

• The swimming pool experienced a great Memorial Day weekend opening with revenues up $2,000 over last year.

• The mow crew is working hard on staying ahead this season. The early wet spring has made for some healthy weeds.

• The clerk’s office is continuing to update and reformat the town website.

• The public works crew did an excellent job on the RV Park road.

• The new keypad door locks have been installed on the bathrooms at the RV Morgan Leasure, a 12-year-old student at Ross park. This should help proMontessori School, placed first in balance beam vide security for the guests (Level 8) at the Colorado State Gymnastics meet in using the facility.

Denver in March with a score of 9.525, and placed • Smiley and his crew fourth overall with a score of 36.525. She is have been working on some coached by John Bakken at Aspen Gymnastics. local settling problems on Photo by Brian Williams Rock Court.

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Thanks RFHS Project Graduation is a community effort to keep our high school seniors safe on the important night of graduation, and is completely funded and supported by the generous donations and volunteer efforts of these businesses and individuals.

A sincere THANK YOU on behalf of the Roaring Fork High School graduating class and those who know and love them.

Ace Hardware of Carbondale Ackerman Log & Timber Allyn Harvey Aloha Mountain Cyclery American Legion Post 100 American Legion Women’s Auxilary Amy Skinner Andre & Jili Ulrych Andrew & Pam Wisnoski Ann & Mark Gianinetti Arthur & Carolyn Ackerman Aspen Skiing Company Audrey & Cliff Ahumada Avalanche Outfitters Avalanche Ranch Cabins & Antiques B & H General Contractors Bank of Colorado Basalt Printing & Copying Beaver Lake Lodge Beijin Tokyo Restaurant Berthod Motors Inc. Bonfire Coffee Brad & Nancy Zeigel Bryan & Betsy Browning Carbondale Animal Hospital Carbondale Car Care Carbondale Center LLC Carbondale Dental Center PC Carly & Frosty Merriott Carolyn & Dan Hardin Casual Culture Chad & Jenny Roeber Cici Kinney Cindy Kenney Agency City Market Cobble Creek Landscaping lnc.

Colorado Poolscapes Inc. Cowen Center Crystal Glass Studio Inc. Crystal River Liquor Mart Crystal River Spas Crystal Springs Builders Dancing Colours David Hamel/Barbara Hansen Domino’s Pizza Dominoes Dreamtime Water/El Dorado Water Dru Handy Custom Painting Inc. Eagie Crest Nursery El Horizonte El Pollo Rico Equus Private Wealth Management

Eric & Christi Small Ernie & Carol Gianinetti Frank X Taverna Realty Garvik Construction George Tempest Glenda & Granville Farnum Glenwood Hot Springs Grand Junction Pipe & Supply Hair Bar Hobbs & Murphy PC Holy Cross Energy Hunter Electric Impressions of Aspen Inc. J Frost Merriott Janet Johnson Jennifer Hunt Jobody Pilates Joe Markham & Cindy Nett Joel & Candi Kolen Joy Blong Julia Marshall Kaegebein Fine Homebuilding LLC Karen Salamida Karen Thompson Kathleen Jaycox Kristina Bingaman La Perla Fashion Lee Ann Eustis lntermountain Waste & Recycling Lulubelle M G Landscaping M.R. Maintenance & Repair Madd Fox Boutique Maria & Ruben Gomez Maureen Rothman Miguel & Guadalupe Olivas Mountainside Sewing Napa Auto Parts Nicole Cavarra LPGA Pro Nieslanik Outwest Guides Penny Ridley & Katie Marshall Peppino’s Pizza Phat Tai Pixie Byrne Pour House Pullman Restaurant Ragged Mountain Sports Randi Lowenthal Redstone Castle Redstone Inn RFHS Rams Booster Club Richard & Sherry Harrington

Ridge Runner Construction Roaring Fork Cabinets Inc. Roaring Fork Family Resource Center Roaring Fork Transportation Authority Roaring Fork Valley Co-Op Robin Garvik RPS Rentals Russets Salon Sublime Sean Martin Señor Taco Show Seven Star Rebekah Lodge #91 Skin Clinique Slow Groovin BBQ Sopris Chiropractic Sopris Engineering Sopris Liquor and Wine Sopris Self Storage Stifel Nicolaus Sunburst Car Care Sunlight Mountain Resort Susan Rudd Telephone Systems Consultants Inc. The Face Place @ Hair Bar The Fireplace Company The Goat The Sopris Sun Toni Cerise Real Estate Tony & Jane Gross Town of Carbondale Town of Carbondale Recreation Department Trident Tyler Stableford Photography Inc. Uncle’s Pizza Valley View Hospital Village Smithy White House Pizza Zeta Epsilon Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi

Apologies to anyone we may have neglected to list.

Please know that your contribution has helped save lives. THANK YOU!

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Community Calendar THURSDAY June 6 RODEO KICKS OFF • The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo Series kicks off at the Gus Darien arena on County Road 100 east of town at 6 p.m. Gates open at 5:30 p.m., with slack at 6 p.m. and the performance starts at 7:30 p.m. The series continues every Thursday through August 22. Adults are $10, a car load (up to six people) is $30, kids 10 and under with an adult are free. Info: carbondalerodeo.com.

LIVE COWBOY MUSIC • The Caleb Dean Band (“pure country music”) plays the Black Nugget at 9 p.m. Info: calebdeanband.com.

ART TOUR • Art aRound Town hosts a tour of new public art starting at Third and Main at 5:30 p.m.

ROTARY • Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at Mi Casita on Main Street at noon every Thursday. Upcoming programs include: Rotary exchange student from Taiwan Annie Lin (May 16). Info: 963-6663.

FRI. & SAT. June 7-8 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “The Sapphires” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. June 7-13.

PLEIN AIR • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities hosts plein air painters at various locations on Main Street.

FRIDAY June 7 FIRST FRIDAY • The monthly First Friday takes places all over town. See the article in this week’s paper for details.

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Community access radio station KDNK is in charge of arrangements and the picture will be downloaded on the station’s website.

Info: jen@kdnk.org.

“Pirates of Carbondale” Happening at the Orchard. Tickets are $125. Info: rotarycarbondale.org.

GOOD GRUB • Starting at 5 p.m., the American Legion Hall on Third Street serves up sloppy Joe’s, potato salad, coleslaw and dessert for $8 a plate.

BREAD BAKE • There’ll be a bread bake at the community cover behind the Third Street Center at 12:45 p.m. RSVP to comoven@gmail.com or 970-306-1015.

COMEDY/LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the old part of the Dinkel Building presents comedians Beth Brandon, Mark Thomas, Alexa Fitzpatrick, Don Chaney and MC Mike Monroney at 8:30 p.m. The Convergence Bluegrass Band plays at 7:30 p.m. Info: 963-3304.

YACHT CLUB • The Aspen Yacht Club hosts an open house/new member mixer at Ruedi Reservoir from noon to 2 p.m.

There’ll be food and the public is invited.

Info: Jeff Dickinson (commodore) at 9630114, 618-3146 or commodore@aspenyachtclub.com. Races take place every Sunday at noon, with the annual Aspen Open Regatta July 13-14.

LIVE MUSIC • Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs presents the Nashville-based indie duo You Knew Me When from 9 p.m. to midnight. No cover.

SAT. & SUN. June 8-9 PET CELEBRATION • Alpine Animal Hospital hosts its annual Pet Celebration with pet agility from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, a 5K K9 run at 10 a.m. at Crown Mountain Park, barbecue, face painting, silent auction and more. Proceeds benefit CARE. Info: 963-2371 or alpinehospital.com. Alpine Animal Hospital is located on the Highway 82 frontage road, between El Jebel and Catherine Store.

COMMENCEMENT • Colorado Rocky Mountain School’s commencement takes place at the school at 10 a.m.

SUNDAY June 9 YOGA • True Nature Healing Arts offers free yoga in Sopris Park Sundays from 5 to 6 p.m. Info: 963-9900.

SPIRITUAL MATTERS • A Spiritual Center in the Third Street Center meets Sundays at 10 a.m. Info: 963-5516. After the meeting, folks are invited to hike to Hay Park toward Mt. Sopris. Info: 963-2138.

ROTARY HAPPENING • The Roaring Fork Rotary Foundation holds its annual

LIVE MUSIC • Jammin’ Jim hosts an open mic at 5 p.m. at the Black Nugget. No cover.

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DAVI NIKENT • Betsy Bowie and Jacquie Wheeler lead tension and trauma releasing (TTR) exercises from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Third Street Center. A donation is requested.

Info: 379-3486.

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To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is noon on Monday. Events take place in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event listings, check out the Community Calendar online at soprissun.com. View events online at soprissun.com/calendar.

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MONDAY June 10 JAM SESSION • Carbondale Beer Works on Main Street hosts an old time jam session with Dana Wilson Mondays at 7:30 p.m.

Bring your banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, spoons or washboard; all skill levels are invited. Info: 704-1216.

POKER • The Black Nugget hosts Texas Hold ‘Em at 7 p.m.

TUESDAY June 11 LEMONADE SOCIAL • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities hosts a lemonade social for plein air artists from 5 to 8 p.m. at the historic Thompson House.

Info: 963-1680.

GENEALOGY • The Gordon Cooper Library presents genealogy consultant Diane Hitchcock-Owens from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The free event is supported by the Aspen Community Foundation and the Garfield County Federal Mineral District. Info: gcpld.org.

ART DEMO • Marcia Fusaro gives a black and white mixed media demonstration at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Glenwood Springs at 7 p.m. A Glenwood Springs Art Guild meeting follows the free demonstration. Info: 404-1208.

WEDNESDAY June 12 CULTURE CLUB • The newly founded Carbondale Culture Club continues its lunch-time presentations with singer/songwriter Ellen Stapenhorst and Dave Teitler (“Acupuncture and Allergies) at the Third Street Center Calaway Room from noon to 1 p.m. To reserve CALENDAR page 11

Community Calendar a time to perform, call Lisa at 963-3330. On June 19 is classical pianist Elizabeth Gauger and wellness coach Kate Carie-Eakins; June 26 are the students of the Academy of Music & Performance, Alicia Sirkin of the Sirkin Creative Living Center.

FARMERS’ MARKET • The Carbondale Farmers’ Market takes place downtown from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 2.

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the Gordon Cooper Branch Library on at 4 p.m. to get creative with duct tape and other materials. Info: gcpld.org or 963-2889.

ROTARY • The Rotary Club of Carbondale meets at 7 a.m. on Wednesdays at the firehouse.

Info: Ken Neubecker at eagleriver@sopris.net.

NORTHSTAR • The Roaring Fork Conservancy leads a river float through the Northstar preserve east of Aspen from 5 to 8 p.m. Info: 927-1290.

Further Out THURSDAY June 13 LIVE MUSIC • The Fabulous Thunderbirds play the Wheeler Opera House. Tickets are $35/$40. Info: wheeleroperahouse.com.

PLEIN OPENING • “Plein Air: Fresh Paint” opens from 6 to 8 p.m. at CCAH’s R2 Gallery in the Third Street Center. Info: 963-1680.

Friday June 14 LIVE COMEDY • Mark Lundholm at PAC3, 7:30 p.m. From humble beginnings on the streets of Oakland, California, as a homeless criminal and mental patient, to a worldrenowned entertainer, Mark Lundholm’s humor is a wild ride of challenges, changes and second chances. No cover. Info: pac3carbondale.com.

PATIO CONTAINER DESIGN • Crystal Gardens designer Shirley Pierce teaches you how to design an annual floral patio container. Bring your own container or purchase one at the gallery. Annual flowers will be available for purchase in design packages from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Redstone Art

Center. Info: 963-3790.

SATURDAY June 15 RAFTING TRIP • A Spiritual Center is sponsoring a rafting trip on the Upper Roaring Fork River. The cost is $47 per person. Meet at 1:15 p.m. at the Snowmass Intercept lot.

Info: 923-4544.

MONDAY June 17 GLENWOOD IDOL AUDITIONS • The 116th annual Strawberry Days festival welcomes Glenwood Idol (a celebration of talent). Open to talented amateurs, ages 15 and up, auditions will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. today at Glenwood Springs High School.

The top 10 performers will earn the right to perform again on June 22. Info: 945-6589.

FRI.-SUN. June 21-23 STRAWBERRY DAYS • The 116th annual Strawberry Days festival takes place at Sayre (Strawberry) Park in Glenwood Springs. Info: strawberrydays.com.

Ongoing CCAH ART CAMP • Registration is under way for Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities Summer Art Camps. Info: 963-1680.

WYLY SUMMER ART CAMP • Registration is under way for Wyly Summer Art Camp, which takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on June 17-20. Kids will create sculptures inspired by Andy Goldsworthy and Bill Gruenberg. Info: 927-4123.

Day, Mountain Fair and Potato Day. Info: 9632798 or the band’s Facebook page.

NEW SHOW • Gayle Waterman shows her abstract photography at Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt through June 15.

MUSIC TOGETHER • Classes for infants, toddlers and young children take place at Music Together in Carbondale and Aspen. Info: allvalleymusic.com or 963-1482.

ART SHOW CONTINUES • “Art in a Song: Synesthesia” continues at the Wyly Art Center through June 27. Info: 927-4123.

TNHA CLASSES • True Nature Healing Arts offers classes in chakras, metta, tantra, meditation with a sweat lodge, and more. Info: 963-9900.

SMITHSONIAN EXHIBIT • The Aspen Historical Society continues the traveling Smithsonian exhibit “Journey Stories” at the Aspen Fire Station. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors/kids, and free for kids under 12. The exhibit runs through July 10.

SCULPTURE SHOW CONCLUDES • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities presents its annual sculpture show at the Third Street Center through June 7. Sculptors include: Thomas Barlow, Joe Burleigh, Doug Casebeer, John Doyle, Mark Harris, Connie Hendrix, Michael Lindsay, Nancy Lovendahl, Susan Olsen, Tai Pomara, Lisa Singer, Sherrill Stone and James Surls. Info: carbondalearts.com or 963-1680.

RENEGADE BAND REHEARSAL • The Carbondale Renegade Marching Band holds weekly rehearsals at Sopris Park Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. Upcoming gigs include Independence

Hold the Presses COG HOLDS BROADBAND MEETING • The Northwest Colorado Council of Governments (NWCCOG) holds a public-input session on broadband access at Carbondale Town Hall from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on June 14, according to a press release. NWCCOG has begun a planning project for the development of an eight-county strategic plan to improve broadband access across the region. To RSVP, call Sherry Rogstad at 970-468-0295 ext. 104.

LEARN THE ZINIO APP • The Gordon Cooper Library offers a workshop on the Zinio app at 6 p.m. on June 6. The app is for magazine lovers with Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac and PC. Space is limited. Bring your own laptop or tablet device.

AWF OFFERS KIDS WORKSHOPS • The Aspen Writers’ Foundation offers summer workshops for kids. For details, go to aspenwriters.org.

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Community Briefs

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Please submit your community briefs to news@soprissun.com by noon on Monday.

Gordo closing for good Gordon Cooper – from Shawnee, Oklahoma, whose mother moved to Carbondale in the 1950s – was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, chosen by NASA to blast off into space in the early 1960s after Soviet cosmonauts got there first.

The last day for the Gordon Cooper Branch Library, located on Fourth Street between Main Street and Garfield Avenue, will be June 22 before the new and renamed Carbondale Branch Library opens at Third Street and Sopris Avenue.

The new Carbondale Branch Library will open on July 20. In between, the library is offering extended checkouts: All three-week loan items that are checked out on June 3 or later will be due on July 27, and all one-week loan items that are checked out June 17 will be due on July 27.

During the closure, the library will continue to offer summer reading programs every Tuesday at town hall at 10:30 a.m. at Carbondale Town Hall. For more information on Carbondale Branch Library programs, go to www.gcpld.org.

in supporting t he Su n Sopris Sun is an important connection to “ourThecommunity.

Newspapers like the Sun make us feel good about the world. ”

Amy Kimberly CCAH Executive Director

Photo by Mark Burrows

Louis Swift joins Farmers’ Market The weekly Carbondale Farmers’ Market returns from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 12 at Fourth and Main. There’ll be new vendors plus old faves. The market continues Wednesdays through Oct. 2. For details, go to carbondalefarmersmarket.com.

Lemonade Day returning to C’dale Registration for the Buddy Program’s Lemonade Day takes place at the Gordon Cooper Library from 5 to 7 p.m. on June 7.

It’s for Crystal River Elementary School third graders. For details, call 920-2130.

JAS needs some help Jazz Aspen Snowmass is looking for volunteers for the annual festival slated for June 21-23 at the Benedict Music Tent. For de-

tails, e-mail Krystyna Nedele at jasvolunteer@gmail.com.

Sopris Chiropractic honors schools Doctors Scott Tesoro and Ashley Kauffman of Sopris Chiropractic are happy to announce their annual School Employees appreciation weeks now through June 21.

All school employees are invited to come in for a free initial chiropractic evaluation and treatment. Established school employee patients receive a free massage with their chiropractic visit. Appointments can be made by calling 927-9204.

Naturopathic University classes slated Naturopathic University, with Dr. Jody Powell, ND, offers classes at Basalt Center Circle from 6 to 7 p.m. on Thursdays through June. The topics are: Liver support and detoxification/how to love your liver (June 6), emotional well-being from a naturopathic perspective (June 13), skin detoxification and non-toxic skin care (June 20), lung and kidney health and detoxification/detoxifying your home (June 27). The fee is $25 per class or five classes for $100.

For details, call 970-236-6178.

Meta-Healthy training Jon Robson, a META-Health master trainer, offers a two-day training workshop at the Third Street Center on June 14-15.

META-Health™ is an advanced system of healthcare that will teach you about the connection between your Mind, Body, and Social experience, according to a Davi Nikent press release. For details, call 970-989-3329.

Theatre auditions slated in Aspen Theatre Aspen School has slated auditions for its Summer Teen Conservatory production of “Romeo and Juliet: A Musical” for June 26. For details, call 925-9313 ext. 203.

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The Rotary Club of Carbondale recently awarded $10,500 worth of student scholarships to graduating seniors from high schools in Carbondale and Basalt. From left to right are: Shelly Briscoe, Emily Thomas, Michael Wampler, Taylor Adams, Georgia Ackerman, Madison Handy, Hailey Thompson, Emily Eason, Lea Linse and Josiah Maner. Not pictured are David Salguero and Kayla Henley. Funding for the Carbondale Rotary Student Scholarship Program comes from the club’s annual Happening event, which takes place on June 8. To purchase tickets for The Happening, visit rotarycarbondale.org, or contact any Carbondale Rotarian. Courtesy photo

Our Children, Our Schools

Community

Homework:

#1 Educate Yourself • Stop by 4th & Main this First Friday and see what the Carbondale Conversation is all about.

• Log onto our website at: carbondaleconversation.org and check out the videos and links on education

“Now it’s our turn to get educated.”

• Check out our online Summer Reading List • Do your own research about education today • Learn the great things currently happening in our schools and the awesome things that are possible if we make it happen together

“School’s out!”

#2 Start Talking

Thank you to our children for all of their hard work and efforts over the school year.

Now get outside, let the life lessons of summertime begin and remember to wonder about everything — how, why, what if... The world is an amazing and exciting place to learn — inside and outside the classroom.

Thank you to our teachers for lighting up our children’s sense of wonder and desire to learn. Thank you for all you do in the face of federal and state issued mandates that can suck the life out of your desire to teach. We want you to love teaching and truly value your input into this conversation about what education can look like in our community. Please join the conversation online and let’s dream big together to build a vision that brings out the best in our children and our teachers.

Educate yourself or others today @ www.carbondaleconversation.org

• Put words to what education means to you via our website, our First Friday booth, the papers or your own creative idea • Host a dinner party with friends and have the topic of conversation be about education • Log onto our website and share your thoughts and learnings • Give your input via the RSFD survey at: www.rfsd.k12.co.us

IMAGINING THE BEST FOR CARBONDALE’S STUDENTS THE ROARING FORK CHAPTER OF PARENTS ACROSS AMERICA

Who are we? Andrea Chacos, Aaron Garland, Hannah Lippe, Julie Oldham, Erin Rigney, Beth Shoemaker, George Stranahan, Sophie Schlumberger,... and more. Join us today!

We are a group of community members from diverse backgrounds and schools who are passionate about what education looks like for children. We want to get the community talking about education now so that when the RFSD visioning process starts next Fall, everyone has some background and ideas on what kind of education is important to us and essential for our children. Check out the website or ask one of us when you see us out-and-about this summer.

#3 Stay Tuned • Subscribe to our RSS feed online to get the latest in the conversation on education

Letters continued om page 2 of the entrance to beauty and green park things and not steel, glass and wire fence.

I suggest that we start thinking about what kind of projects to allow and not allow in the future. The Nature Park is a diamond in the rough and has so much potential. Let’s not chip little pieces off and give it away.

I ask the parks board to act with responsibility, imagination and vision.

John Toly Carbondale

Ashamed of trustees Dear Editor: For the first time in the 30 years I have lived in Carbondale I am ashamed of the actions taken by our mayor and five of our trustees.

Regarding the future use of the Gordon Cooper Library site, these six elected officials have chosen to chase an Aspen “wanna-be” pipe dream predicated on false assumptions.

They have turned a blind eye and deaf ear on an essential need for a quality infant/toddler pre-school located in the heart of Carbondale.

Carbondale families and young children need and deserve more thoughtful, proactive consideration than this from their elected representatives.

Kathy Zentmyer Carbondale

Don’t change Carbondale Dear Editor: It’s time to NIMBY up people! A magazine from Iowa says we’re in a great place to live. I have to agree.

Telling the whole world this will mean MORE people and MORE cars and MORE stress on our town and environment. More money and higher prices and poorer quality of life, fewer artists, less messy vitality, more second homes. More cops, more crime, less open space. Could a fur store be just around the corner? I think even Aspen in the 60’s never though it could or would become the way it is today.

We’ve been trained to believe that if we’re not growing then we’re dying. I say bullcrap! Let’s establish a status quo that reflects change without growth. No growth does not mean death.

Carbondale! Tell Outside magazine to take their “poll” and shove it up their mailbox! Let Carbondale change you! Don’t change Carbondale.

Mark Burrows Carbondale

Reed is right Dear Editor: I just read the letter posted in the Post Independent by New Castle resident Roy Reed.

Obituary I think it’s great that he took the time to write a letter and have it published about the disappointing Colorado state legislature and Gov. Hickenlooper. I am one of those that have been writing Hickenlooper’s Website for months. I wasn’t positive, but I have had the same response as Mr. Reed has had. I didn’t get a chance to visit the state legislature, but my letters have gotten the same old song and dance from Hickenlooper.

It seems that one lady in particular and Hickenlooper are of the same mind. They do not wish to listen to anybody’s opinion other than their own. How do you tell your son or daughter that this is not the way the Colorado state legislature is suppose to be run?

How do you explain that a person in charge, such as Gov. Hickenlooper, is supposed to be open minded and he isn’t? This would be a very difficult thing to do.

I am sure there are a lot of questions by a young mind that you can’t answer. It’s too bad that Gov. Hickenlooper would rather give the Giffords more time, because after all they agree with his opinion. Just something to think about at the next election.

Jane Spaulding Carbondale

Christopher Charles George 1975-2013 Christopher Charles George, 37, of Carbondale, Colorado, formerly of Atkinson, New Hampshire and North Andover, Massachusetts, died unexpectedly on May 28, 2013.

He was born on July 21, 1975, son of Barbara (Rice) George of Hampton, New Hampshire, and Charles George of North Andover.

After graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts in 1993, where he was head of Blue Key (honored with leading the graduation procession), Chris attended the University of Minnesota where he continued to reside for 10 years.

While in Minnesota he was employed as a Realtor for Coldwell Banker. He moved back to New England and worked as the sales manager for Petrageous Designs, Burlington.

More recently he resided in Carbondale and was employed as a horticulturist at the Aspen Glen Country Club.

His greatest love was helping

people, which lead him to becoming a member of the board of directors for the Aspen affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Fund, and also volunteered at the Colorado Animal Rescue.

Chris especially cherished time spent with family and friends, was an avid fisherman and skier and truly loved the outdoors.

Besides his parents, his survivors include a brother, Brian George of Hampstead, N.H.; his stepmother, Gretchen Seitz George of North Andover; his mother’s companion, Don Main of Hampton, N.H.; and several aunts, uncles, cousins and numerous friends in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Florida, Colorado and Minnesota.

H.L. Farmer & Sons Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Burial was scheduled for Atkinson Cemetery in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Aspen Affiliate of Susan G. Komen, P.O. Box 4810, Aspen, CO 81612, or ARC of Greater Haverhill/Newburyport, 57 Wingate St., Suite 301, Haverhill, MA 01832. Condolences to his family may be made at www.farmerfuneralhomes.com.

Celebrate Summer Solstice with the Sopris Sun

Everyone’s invited to a

2013 THEME A Midsummer Night's Dream “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear.

And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream” Better Vision for Life

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The Brink took top honors in the middle school division of the JAS Band Battle during the recent Dandelion Day. From left to right are: Sam Weiser, Camilo GuevaraStone, Tanner Korn, Narayan Koss and Ian Catto. Photo by Hal Williams

Colorado Rocky Mountain School Congratulates the Class of 2013 for being accepted to the following colleges and universities: Bard College Bates College Bennington College Bowdoin College University of British Columbia University of California at Santa Cruz Chapman University University of Colorado at Boulder Colorado College Colorado School of Mines Colorado State University Columbia University Dartmouth College Emerson College

Eugene Lang College - New School for Liberal Arts Fordham University Fort Lewis College Franklin College Switzerland Gonzaga University University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Lewis & Clark College Lynchburg College Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan New York University Northeastern University Princeton University University of Puget Sound

Quest University Reed College Santa Clara University School of the Art Institute of Chicago School of Visual Arts Skidmore College University of Southern California St. Olaf College Stanford University Tufts University University of Vermont Western Washington University Westminster College Whitman College Yale University

Colorado Rocky Mountain School A college preparatory boarding and day school for students in grades 9-12 located in Carbondale, CO Since 1953

Learn more at

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THE ASPEN AIRPORT BUSINESS CENTER ROAD, STORMWATER & PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IS NOW UNDERWAY!

Did you know Pitkin County maintains 254 miles of roads and 14 bridges?

Please Note: All scheduled work subject to change due to weather and other conditions.

Stay tuned. We’ll do our best to keep you informed.

Questions? 920-5206

Stein Trail will be closed from 6/10 to 7/1 for drainage improvements, with intermittent closures after 7/1.

Curb and gutter work is underway throughout the AABC. Pedestrian Pathways and sidewalks will be created.

Asphalt paving is underway.

One way loops during construction to expedite traffic flow begin in July.

roadwork ahead!

Among the 38 seniors graduating from Colorado Rocky Mountain School on June 8, 15 are local students. The seniors just returned from three-week internships, which allow them to experience volunteering in a particular area of interest. From left to right: Mackenzie Small (trained wild mustangs near Salt Lake City), Aaron Mindt (designed an RSS reader in Seattle), Ben Pope (environmental education and sailing on the Hudson River), Lea Linse (conservation and public outreach for the Thompson Divide Coalition), Will Sardinsky (film internship in Nelson, British Columbia), Torrey Sanson (physical therapy clinic in Pasadena, California), Tom Bender (skateboard warehouse in Oceanside, California), Reynis Vazquez (computer science at Twitter in San Francisco), Ben Sardinsky (organic farming and manual labor in Paonia), Mollie Podmore (explored the Thompson Divide and volunteered for the Wilderness Workshop), Weaver Froelicher (worked in the ER at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver and built surfboards in La Jolla, California), Jamie Ramge (assistant director for drama production at a Waldorf school in San Diego), Coleman Spence (photography and ceramics in New York City), Michaela Craig (glass blowing in Crawford), and Justine Timms (worked at an Orphanage in Hong Kong). Photo by Laura McCormick

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The story behind Lisa’s Third Street Cafe We were gonna name it the Teddy Roosevelt Bull Moose Diner. After all he was an all round swell guy, typifying the Carbondale spirit, and he used to hang around the valley when he wasn’t charging the San Juan Hill with his Rough Riders. But let’s get real; it’s really Lisa’s damn-fine-full-servicerestaurant and it’s in the Third Street Center, thus, instead, Lisa’s Third Street Café.

Still, we don’t want to entirely let go of the Roosevelt thing. The Teddy bear was named after him, and we have hidden one in the restaurant.

If you or your child find it, you can cuddle it while you get HALF-OFF Lisa’s daily special, and then hide the teddy for the next person.

OPEN 9AM–2PM SUMMER OUTDOOR DINING Catering available too: 618-4053 5 2 0 T hi r d St r e e t , Sui t e 2 2 T hi r d St r e e t C e nt e r, C a r b o nd ale

Known throughout the West for Daily Specials that are the best!

Carbondale then (top) and now (below). The year was 1972 when John Seidel planted himself in the middle of a deserted Main Street and snapped the above photo.

Look closely to the upper left in Seidel’s picture and you can see a leafless cottonwood at the corner of Third and Main.

ENROLL NOW FOR SUMMER SESSIONS

AMP Camp Highlights Academy of Music and Performance (AMP) Summer Camp 2013 is a 5-day session for teenage students interested in learning about the music industry. We’re bringing together many of the professionals involved in the valley’s music industry, including performers, songwriters, teachers, audio engineers, and producers.

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Students will explore: • Voice • Songwriting • Music Theory • Playing with a band • Composition

The Academy of Music and Performance is a safe and welcoming place for students to experience playing, performing, producing, and composing music with students their age and similar interests.

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Chalk Art Contest open to all Sopris Sun Staff Report Wyly Community Art Center in downtown Basalt presents Chalk Art Contest: Where the Sidewalk Ends from 3 to 5 p.m. on June 8. Prizes are: Best of Show (a skateboard from Radio Board Shop), Best in Theme (a $50 gift certificate to Radio Board Shop), the Funniest (two tickets to “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown”) and Most Colorful (a $50 Wyly Gift Certificate).

“This contest will surely ‘draw’ a crowd,” said a Wyly spokeswoman.

The contest is open to artists of all ages and abilities.

Chalk and poems will be provided starting at 3 p.m. Participants are welcome to bring their own chalk and get an early start. Winners must be present to claim their prize at the ceremony at 4:45 p.m.

“All participants also receive a free Popsicle,” the spokeswoman continued.

Basalt Mayor Jacque Whitsitt, town manager Mike Scanlon, and town trustee Rob Leavitt will judge the contest.

In other news:

10am to 5pm

• Lemonade Day takes place June 29. Valley-wide, kids will set up and Chalk artists of all ages and abilities are operate their own lemonade stands as a way to learn about philanthropy, invited to enter the Wyly Art Center conopening a bank account and goal setting, according to a press release. For test on June 8. Courtesy photo details, go to rfv.lemonadeday.org.

• On June 8, it’s the Basalt Bash’s second annual Motors on Midland car show. The day will be filled with sales and specials at stores and restaurants in downtown Basalt and in Willits. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., kids can enjoy activities and ride a mechanical bull in downtown Basalt. Adults can enjoy local fare, cold beer and live music by Echo Monday (alternative funk rock from Carbondale) from 5 to 8 p.m.

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Back when claim jumping could mean death

By Ray Sauvey Special to The Sopris Sun Looking at the Roaring Fork Valley today — the subdivisions and golf courses, the shift from traditional ranching and mining to a tourism and recreation base, the transformation of Carbondale into a boutique community — it’s easy to forget that the area was a much rougher place, with a far different lifestyle, during its initial settlement years.

One of the lesser known threats, although a real fear for the settlers at the time, was claim jumping — theft by taking over the land claimed by another. Most often associated with mining camps during the 19th century, it was also a crime faced by homesteaders, and led to one of early Carbondale’s most sensational shootings.

In 1884 Harry Burrows settled on land described as being along the Roaring Fork 13 miles above Glenwood Springs, opposite Doc Kelso’s place. This puts Brown’s property on the south side of the Roaring Fork River, just east of present-day Planted Earth landscaping (based on a U.S. Land Patent issued to Kelso). One version of the story says he purchased it for $250, another that he homesteaded government land, although there is no patent record in his name.

After clearing his quarter section of sage, then irrigating and cultivating it, he leased the land during the 1886 season to a neighbor, W. D. White, who was also superintend-

ent of Garfield County schools. Hay was selling for $60 a ton that year and the two men stood to make a tidy profit. Even so, like many farmers before and since, it may not have been enough to make ends meet as he also worked in the Leadville mines during the winter and on a grading crew for the Colorado Midland railway during the summer.

Shortly after Burrows returned to his land that May he was approached by two other neighbors: Daniel Fenton and Michael Ryan. They informed Burrows that, because he had abandoned the property by not living on it year-round, and that he was a Canadian who couldn’t own property in America, they were going to take his hay crop and warned him in no uncertain terms not to cut it before they did.

There doesn’t seem to be any evidence that either charge was true, they were merely excuses by the two men to “jump” Burrows’ land. Burrows promptly consulted a lawyer in Glenwood Springs who advised him to post a bond, seek an injunction and prosecute if Fenton and Ryan cut the hay. Burrows didn’t have the money for that kind of litigation and sought a second opinion from a law firm in Aspen. The younger lawyer gave him the same advice, but his older partner, overhearing the conversation, had a different solution.

“You say you haven’t any money, young man: have you a Winchester?”

Looking back

“ … the first time one of those men sets foot on your ranch, shoot him dead.”

– Attorney for Harry Burrows Yes, Burrows had a rifle.

“Well, haven’t you any ammunition?”

Yes, he had plenty of cartridges.

“Well young man, you take your Winchester and plenty of those cartridges and the first time one of those men sets foot on your ranch, shoot him dead. It is nothing but highway robbery that they have planned against you and don’t you stand for it. You might warn them off before you pull the trigger, but don’t you let them cut that hay and don’t you take any chances. That’s my advice, and you don’t have to pay for it, either.”

The above passage was written several years after the fact so it’s unknown how accurate it is, but that’s essentially what happened.

The showdown On Sunday morning, Aug. 15 Fenton and Ryan showed up with a mowing machine, and at least one of them was armed.

Burrows met them at his boundary, warning them that if Fenton: “attempted to cut the hay, he would never live to sell it.” Then Fenton and Ryan refused to leave so Burrows retreated to his cabin. Shortly afterward two shots rang out.

Neighbors, hearing the shots, ran to the scene and found Fenton and Ryan badly wounded. They were taken to Doc Kelso’s saloon and Dr. Cockrell was summoned from Glenwood, along with Sheriff Kendell.

While the good doctor tended to the wounded, Sheriff Kendell went to the scene of the crime, but found only White on the premises. Burrows had fled.

Ryan maintained that White was working with Burrows at the time of the shooting and that both men had fired a shot.

Fenton stated that only Burrows shot.

Based on Ryan’s statement, White was arrested and hauled off to jail in Glenwood.

Both Ryan and Fenton died the next afternoon, Ryan lingering long enough to leave behind a will that was to cause more grief years later: “If I die you may sell my ranch, and send part of the proceeds to my family in Ireland, Mary Ryan (mother), Tipperary. I give in case of death $300 (Three Hundred Dollars) to Tim Hayes, balance of my estate to my mother as above mentioned.

– Michael D. Ryan CLAIM JUMPING page 20

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Claim jumping continued om page 19 Sentiment over the shooting was divided, although largely with Burrows, as claim jumping was a serious threat, faced, as mentioned above, by many Western homesteaders. Also the deceased Ryan was known as an unsavory character who was feared in the neighborhood; at least one version of the story had Ryan initially driving Burrows and White from the hay fields at the point of a .45 caliber pistol. Burrows, on the other hand, was well liked and hard working. But Fenton’s supporters held that both men had been shot in the back and called for a lynching bee.

Meanwhile, although the sheriff was confident he’d soon have Burrows in jail, that proved to be a false hope. As the weeks went by, Burrows became something of a minor celebrity as he continued to elude capture. One story held that he had fled to the rough country above Prince Creek, another that he was in the timber above

Emma. There were several sightings; he had dinner at Elmer Chatfield’s one night, and at the La Veta restaurant another. Posses went out, and came back empty handed.

Meanwhile, White appeared before a grand jury a week after the shooting and was acquitted of any charges. The Wednesday following their deaths, both Fenton and Ryan were buried in Glenwood Springs.

In another story that may or may not have been true, Burrows also visited the Aspen lawyer who had advised him to defend his property. The lawyer told him to stay hidden since he didn’t have any money to post bail and would otherwise spend the time in jail, then to turn himself in just before the trial and he, the lawyer, would supply the defense.

Again, Burrows took the Aspen lawyer’s advice and stayed on the run until just before the trial, which was held in Glenwood during the week of July 23, 1887. The jury wasted

very little time. One account says the jury was out for less than a minute. One charge against Burrows was discharged and he was acquitted of the other. That seems to have brought the tragedy to a close, at least as far as the four main participants were concerned.

There’s more But there was one more episode to play out. In 1902, Michael Ryan’s brothers and sisters brought suit against Tim Hayes, John Noonan and J. W. Dollison for attempting to defraud the siblings of their brother’s ranch. Hayes was administrator of the will mentioned above, Noonan was a prominent local judge and Dollison was an up-andcoming lawyer who would later also become a judge and prominent Colorado politician. The Ryans alleged that their brother’s ranch was worth $8,000, but had been sold, on orders of Judge Noonan, to

Dollison for $800, who had then resold it to Hayes for the same amount, thus getting the land for 1/10 of its real worth.

An investigation by the Glenwood Post, probably because the allegations could besmirch two of Glenwood’s leading citizens, told a much different story. Far from being valuable, the land was unimproved and worth at most $700, and there were claims against it for more than $750. The sale price had been a good bargain given those figures and the newspaper concluded there was no wrongdoing whatsoever. The courts must have agreed since there is no record of any other litigation on the matter.

(Information for this article came from the Aspen Times, Aspen Daily Times and Rocky Mountain Sun. Len Shoemaker also mentions it briefly in his history of the Roaring Fork Valley).

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