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Vol. 126, No. 48 — December 2, 2009

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Holiday Happenings in Delta County

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The Delta County Independent is pleased to highlight holiday happenings taking place in the coming week. Events may be added to the calendar by sending them to the DCI, P.O. Box 809, Delta, CO 81416 or e-mailing editor@deltacountyindependent.com.

Friday, Dec. 4 Delta — Cookie walk, luncheon and crafts, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Delta United Methodist Church.

Craft and bake sale, soup luncheon at Presbyterian Church of Delta, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Parade of Lights, downtown Delta, 6 p.m. After the parade, visit Santa Claus in the lobby of Wells Fargo Bank.

Valley Symphony Chorus presents “A Christmas Carol” at the Delta County Center for the Peforming Arts at 7:30 p.m.

Paonia — Holiday Art Fair, 3 to 8 p.m. at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts.

Gallery and boutique walk, 3 to 8 p.m.

Crawford — Make holiday

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Santa arrives in Delta for 6 p.m. parade Delta’s Parade of Lights begins at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4. Those parked along Main Street can tune in to 88.9FM, where Santa’s helpers will be broadcasting the parade line-up.

After the parade, stop by Wells Fargo Bank where the winners will be announced and Santa will be waiting to hear kids’ holiday wishes.

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

A federal government website says that of the $12.5 million in “stimulus funds” said to have been approved for Delta County, by far the largest amount — $9.67 million — is allocated for the Highway 92 improvements project extension from Payne Siding to Sulfur Gulch. The feds say that work has created 11.5 jobs.

The stimulus money coming to Delta County is being put to intended uses by local administrators for construction projects, education, and social services, the DCI found in a survey last week.

But it can be a daunting task for anyone who wants to find out how much spending from the $787 billion in “federal stimulus” (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — ARRA) is coming to Delta County.

The federal government’s website devoted to accountability and transparency in stimulus spending gives lots of numbers and comparisons for people to look at. But on closer inspection, the information is probably incomplete, and the numbers and explanations don’t always track with what is actually happening locally.

One example is the $72,328 ARRA allocation the fed’s website says was for Delta County to assist

Amy Miller, 18, of Crawford was sentenced to one year of supervised probation and fined $314.50 after pleading no contest to a charge of careless driving causing death or injury.

Miller was involved in a rollover accident in front of the Paonia Stop ‘n Save on Aug. 21. Hilary Whalen Fitzgerald, 29, of Ridgway died after she was ejected from the van driven by Joshua Cranson, 34. He suffered minor injuries.

The Colorado State Patrol reports that Miller was westbound on Samuel Wade Road. She stopped before entering Highway 133, but failed to notice the van traveling southbound on Highway 133.

Miller was also ordered to complete 60 hours of useful public service and to assist with any requests from a foundation established in Fitzgerald’s name.

DMEA holds rates for second year in a row DMEA’s board of directors recently approved the cooperative’s budget for 2010. DMEA is not planning a rate increase for the second year in a row.

In late 2008, the co-op’s board of directors asked staff to do everything possible to not pass through a $1.8 million increase in DMEA’s wholesale cost of power. DMEA accomplished this through a variety of means including cost cutting, deferring some projects and drawing down the co-op’s equity.

“This year we were fortunate in that our power supplier, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, did not increase the cost of power to its member systems,” noted Dan McClendon, DMEA’s general manager. “The cost of wholesale power represents roughly 70 percent of our overall operating expenses, so the decision by Tri-State’s board is a major factor in our being able to hold our rates constant.”

McClendon also explained that energy prices have moderated in part because of global economic conditions that factor into the local cost of energy.

The prices of petroleum, gasoline, natural gas, coal and other energy sources have come down as compared to the previous year.

“We believe that as the economy recovers energy costs will start to climb. Therefore, DMEA will continue to emphasize the importance of energy efficiency, conservation, demand-side management and any way we can find to help our member-owners save energy and money.”

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The $72,328 was handed off to the Delta-Montrose Technical College where it is accomplishing its intended purpose, and more. Students at the designated income level are getting training in computer classes, business, mining related occupations,

and licensed practical nursing with the funds, explained a school administrator.

With new job skills their training will provide, recipients of the money will be more likely one day to become See Stimulus, Page 3A

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Moonlit Delta glows in evening’s twilight as a full moon rises over Confluence Lake. With clear skies, overnight temperatures in the valley are dropping well below freezing.

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people living at or below 200 percent of the poverty level.

Local administrators have found a way to apply those funds in a way that will increase their effectiveness far beyond what any temporary assistance might do.

By Pat Sunderland

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Methodist Church, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 7 Cedaredge — Pearl Harbor remembrance dinner and holiday get-together for veterans and their families, Cedaredge Assembly of God, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 8 Delta — Advent concert featuring Barbara Bailey, 12:15 p.m., St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 5th and Palmer, Delta.

Lincoln Elementary third grade program, “It’s a Nice, Nice Christmas,” 6:30 p.m.

Delta Lions Club community Christmas party, 6 p.m., basement of the Delta Elks Lodge.

Wednesday, Dec. 10 Delta — Redeemer Lutheran Church mid-week Advent service, 7 p.m. Soup supper, 6 p.m.

Donations of new, unwrapped toys will be accepted for Delta’s Holiday Toy Drive through Wednesday, Dec. 16

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Saturday, Dec. 5 Delta — Craft and bake sale, soup luncheon at Presbyterian Church of Delta, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Craft fair at Bill Heddles Recreation Center, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Story of the “real” St. Nicholas presented in drama and song, 5 p.m., Delta United Methodist Church.

Cedaredge — Baked potato and chili supper, 4 to 7 p.m., at the Masonic Hall. Fund raiser for Cedaredge Community United Methodist Church.

Parade of Lights, 6 p.m. Theme: “Jingle Bell Rock” Dolce Voce performs at the Chapel of the Cross, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Paonia — Holiday Art Fair, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts.

Holiday Book Sale in the new Book Barn behind the Paonia Library, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Gallery and boutique walk, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Crawford — Make holiday cards at Crawford Public Library, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Community bazaar at Crawford Community United

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Although the high school swim program is not a costly undertaking for Delta County School District #50, the combination of low participation and a tight budget have resulted in the termination of the boys’ 2010 program.

The girls’ season is underway, with about 28 participants countywide. Although the boys’ swim season doesn’t start until late February, the district anticipates just six participants from all four high schools.

It’s just not enough to warrant going forward with the program, in the district’s eyes. The half dozen kids from Delta County have been invited to join the Montrose High School swim team.

Michael Barnosky and Kostya Callihan, who attend Cedaredge High School, qualified for state competition last year as freshmen. Neither has a driver’s license yet, so their parents ferried them back and forth to the rec center in Delta every day. This year they’ll tack on another 20 miles to Montrose.

“We’ll do it because we don’t have a choice,” said Kostya’s mom Larisa. Having swum with the Delta Barracudas for 10 years, Kostya isn’t ready to forgo competition. Neither is Michael Barnosky.

His dad Joseph just wishes the parents had been more involved in the decision-making process.

“Had the stakeholders been See Boys’ swimming, Page 3A

‘Dobies north of Delta targeted for disposal of spent oil shale

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

Several hundred truckloads per day of spent oil shale could be making their way through Delta as part of a state and federal program to move the material to a location north of town in the ‘dobies.

The disposal operation, if it gets final approval as expected, will add a high volume of truck traffic “for a short period of time” through Delta.

An original haul route plan for taking trucks along Highway 50 and H38 Road to Doughspoon Road was scrapped in a meeting with haulers last week. A final decision on the haul route has not been made. But a more likely scenario now is for loaded trucks to take Highway 50 to Highway 92, then to Highway 65.

From there the loads would travel west on Fairview Road to Trap Club Road, then to Doughspoon Road.

Empty trucks would return via Trap Club Road and I Road to 1550 Road, then south back to Highway 50.

The materials include spent oil shale deposits that remain on site in the Rulison and Anvil Points areas,

left over from the “early days” of oils shale development, explained Bruce Bertram, county designee for oil and gas issues. There are an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 cubic yards of the material to be moved.

“These have been well-tested and assayed by the federal government which is doing the (removal) work on this project,” Bertram said.

During a discussion of the project at the County Commissioners’ Nov. 16 regular meeting, the BoCC wanted to make sure that the City of Delta is involved in any planning that would bring additional, heavy truck traffic through town, even if for only a short time. The Town of Orchard City is also being consulted.

According to the presentation made to the commissioners, the material would be headed for an existing, privately owned waste treatment facility on Doughspoon Road. The CB Industries facility currently is a disposal site for grease trap waste, contaminated soils, and local residents’ septage (the semi-solid material pumped from septic tanks) which is composted By CB Industries into a commercial grade amendment mate-

rial for various landscaping applications.

The facility’s original permit has been expanded since it opened in 2004 to include some dead animal disposal and limited shipments of septage from outside of Delta County.

According to Bertram, because of changes already made to CB Industries’ original operation plan to allow disposal of those additional materials, the county and state officials will want the facility’s plan completely rewritten as a condition granting a waiver to receive the spent shale deposits. When that new plan is completed, the BoCC will receive copies for public review In a separate item, Bertram reported that state environmental officials are starting to require that “background levels” of naturally occurring salts, heavy metals and other minerals in soils at disposal areas be established in order to better monitor the effectiveness of on-site containment. Facilities like Adobe Buttes Landfill and CB Industries will have soil samples taken in order to begin that documentation process.

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We’re seeing the tip of the iceberg Dear Editor: Yes, I think I am becoming a RADICAL! No matter how hard I try, I just can’t get these crazy thoughts out of my head.

For instance, take global warming. Just because I am freezing my tail off when past

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experience tells me I should be basking in sunlight and balmy breezes, and harvesting tomatoes in July, I am forced to conclude global warming is someone’s pipe dream. Now, I am fully aware global warming is an established fact, attested to by all the intelligent scientists in our government and fully endorsed by our congressional wizards to the point where they are actually writing laws to curtail global warming. How radical can you get?

And then there is this health care crisis. The Obama administration would like me to believe the government can provide health insurance to millions of currently uninsured without increasing taxes or adding to our burgeoning national debt. This must involve some of the trickiest math you will ever see and again I am forced to take a radical position and reject the whole mess.

Actually, the foregoing complaints are trivial. The most sin-

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ister and dangerous development in the history of America is the declaration of war by President Obama against Fox News, the health insurance companies, the national chamber of commerce, and Rush Limbaugh. What we see today is merely the tip of the iceberg. This is laying the ground work for an all out assault on the First Amendment. The vehicle for this assault is what is called “The Fairness Doctrine.” The obvious intent here is to silence all opposition to President Obama’s socialist programs. My conversion to an out and out RADICAL is now complete. I can no longer resist.

Of course there are a multitude of other complaints like the above but I am too far gone to recite all of them. The die is cast. Naturally I realize these crazy thoughts can ultimately put me in a Gulag somewhere but I cannot help myself. With Jesus beside me I will always be free and if I get real lucky I may have Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity for a cell mate.

Jim Andrews Austin

What is the price of a human life?

Dear Editor: Thanks to the support of Representative John Salazar and our U.S. Senators, Udall and Bennett, I am hopeful that perhaps we can all rise above politics and really help people that are neither very poor or rich with health problems. As one of the approximately 30 million Americans who have been priced out of the health insurance market as a self-employed small business owner for the past 30 years I am cautiously optimistic that I will be able to purchase real health insurance (not just catatrophic) in the next year or so.

And no, I’m not concerned that I will be “required” to purchase insurance since price has always been the only thing that kept me from having what most Americans, including the very poor and seniors, have taken for granted.

I will be happy to be doing my part in increasing the size of

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Dear Editor: As evidenced by the tea parties and the New Jersey/Virginia election results, many people have become alarmed at the irresponsible outrageous behavior of our legislators and president. So much so, that they have decided to get up off the couch and get involved.

Telephoning or meeting with friends, sending e-mails, or writing to our existing legislators is no longer enough. In order to be effective we must do more, but what besides attending tea parties and supporting fiscally responsible, constitutionally minded candidates can we do? We can and should support those brave souls that have never run for office.

Those that would return us to the citizen government our founding father envisioned. We are fortunate to have an extremely qualified American, who has never run for office stepping up to the plate. Bob Rankin (RankinForSenate.com), a Republican, has declared himself a candidate for Colorado Senate, District 5.

Bob has been a very successful businessman bringing over 2,000 jobs to Colorado when he was the CEO of Ford Aerospace in Colorado Springs. He has read and internalized “The Road to Serfdom,” “Atlas Shrugged,” “The Federalist Papers” and recently “The 5000 Year Leap.”

It is such a great pleasure to meet someone who knows the Constitution and its original intent. Someone that will take the oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution and know fully what that means. He especially believes in limited government. Bob has organized informal political action groups in Garfield and Pitkin counties, to take an active part in taking back this country. He is a part of the “awakening” taking place in America.

And Bob isn’t the only citizen that has decided this country is worth fighting for. I know of at least four other spectacularly qualified citizen candidates for various offices that are stepping up to the plate. The professional politicians, by ignoring the constraints placed by the Constitution, caused this mess so that our economy, freedom and liberty are being destroyed by an out of control government. Isn’t it about time we got back to our limited government constitutional roots that made this country so great in the first place? For our own survival, for our own liberty we need to get behind these guys and support them financially and otherwise. Further, we need to get involved ourselves. Maybe we can turn it around.

Mike Mason Cedaredge

the overall insurance pool, which should bring down the costs for everyone.

The absolute need for this has been brought home to me even stronger within the last two weeks as my wife of 22 years was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Jane is a few years older than I am and is on Medicare, has some supplemental insurance (subsidized through Medicare) and of course limited prescription drug benefits. I have nothing.

Jane also has rhumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, which already costs most of her own Social Security income to treat, hundreds of dollars out-of-pocket per month. People with few health problems generally have no idea what a chronic problem can cost. When she contracted RA several decades ago, Jane had health insurance through an employer but that insurance ended up paying only about $200 per month and even that reached a ceiling and expired several years ago. So much for the wonders of private unregulated insurance.

Thank goodness for good old government Medicare disability.

And now we will have the massive costs of cancer treatment on top of everything. I am healthy –– for now. And very lucky.

The bills from the House and Senate both contain things that will extend needed help to both Jane and I and to most people in Delta County who are reading this letter. If you are a millionaire making more than a quarter of a million dollars a year you can probably stop reading now. For those of us nearer to the bottom we will have a little less fear in our lives. We may still get sick but perhaps we won’t become entirely impoverished and be forced onto the welfare system

or worse due to not being rich enough to afford the best insurance or treatments. Or to live in fear of losing your health insurance if your job goes away. That is what these bills are about. Justice. Fairness. Human decency.

According to experts, in Colorado approximately one person a day dies because they lacked health insurance or were underinsured. Please, for a moment put politics aside and think about human beings. How many lives is it worth to win a political point, or to embarrass a politician that you don’t personally care for?

Yes, health reform will cost money. I will be paying money that I don’t pay now. Upper income folks may have to share a little more with those further down the ladder. But what is the price of human lives?

Thomas Wills Hotchkiss

It’s time to get the alternative truck route built Dear Editor: I am writing to express my thanks to the voters of the City of Delta for voting in this year’s election and particularly for the Confluence Drive bond question.

I’ve been out of the area for several weeks and was very excited to see overwhelming support (77 percent) for the bond! The citizens of the city have spoken and it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get this alternate truck route built.

Gerald Roberts Delta

Kudos Dear Editor: Habitat for Humanity of Delta County would like to thank the following individuals and businesses for their support in donating money, labor, materials, and use of equipment for our latest building project. Without your generous support Mary Saunders’ new home would not have become a reality: Blythe & Associates of Grand Junction, Leroy Black, Big John’s Lumber, Ken Christenson, Bub’s Dirtwork, Aaron Clay, City of Delta, Fred Davenport, Colorado West Electric, Terry Forbes, Delta County Commissioners & District #1 Road Shop, Albert Duran, Delta Elevator, Lorraine Griffith, DMEA, Tom Harding, Double J Disposal, Nick and Andrew Hattel, Esplin Hardwood Flooring, Ed and Kathy Hecht, Grand Junction Pipe and Supply, Deb Johnson, Guthries Floor Coverings, Dasha Keheier, Intrado Inc., Dale and Donna Kimber, B.F. Kissner Drilling, Josephine Minerich, Brad LeVay Plumbing & Heating, Lyn Moseley, Mesa Rentals & Supply, Henry Nagel, Mountain Top Coating LLC, Luis Ramos, Narroway Excavating–Larry Burns, Ron Sanchez, Presbyterian Ladies, Dave Stueck, ProBuild, Qwest, Safeway, Marty Senske Electric, Sentry Drywall–Rick & Toby Aragon, Source Gas, Sparky’s Electrical Services, Surface Creek Bank, Surface Creek Quilters, Tree Doctor, United Companies, US Floors of Florence, Vogy’s House Moving, Walmart, Wet Paint and Zeta Omicron.

Dear Editor: Altrusa’s 2009 Sugarplum Festival was a huge success... record crowds attended the opening night festivities to preview the beautifully decorated tables. Without the support of the community Altrusa would not be able to produce an event of this size and scope. Our major emphasis is on literacy.

Our Read for Life projects include: Baby First Books - new parents at local hospital receive board books for the baby, emergency room waiting area, lending library is stocked with children’s books; classroom books - in schools throughout Delta County; Delta Correctional Facility - books and tapes supplies to Read to a Child Program; Delta County Opportunity School - books, educational materials and volunteers; Delta senior facilities - large print books.

All proceeds from this event go to benefit literacy programs throughout Delta County. It takes every member and in some cases their spouses to make this a truly successful event. We would like to acknowledge this year for the first time our major contributor and underwriter, Alpine Bank.

Our community partners were Delta Bank, First Colorado National Bank, Wells Fargo Bank and US Bank.

Other acknowledgements: ASTRA Clubs of Delta and Cedaredge, Richard Barker, Borders Books, Delta Hardware, Delta County Independent, Delta Implement, Delta Presbyterian Church, FBLA Delta High School, David and Tamara Hauze, High Country Shopper, Janelle Mock, Moca Joe’s, Marilyn Parker, Ruby’s Floral, Nina Suzanne’s, Tara’s, style show models, Triple A Game Birds, and our Altrouser servers, Mike Ripp, John York, Paul Cross, Tom Harding, Jack Lonis, Anthony Weiss, Eric Sorenson, Dennis Phillips, Mike Twamley, Bud Van Den Berg, Ron Loman, Bruce Hovde, Bob Brown, Keith Johse, Jess Grett, Don Weiszbrod and Dan Shaffer.

This event is the major fund-raising activity for Altrusa International. Inc. of Delta and provides the majority of funds needed for the club’s annual community service projects.

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self-supporting at higher wage levels. The money was approved for use by the college in July.

The Delta Housing Authority received ARRA funds of $179,900, which the federal website says created two jobs. That money is being used to upgrade the DHA’s rental units with paving, planters, landscaping and automatic irrigation. That outlay is correctly tracked on the fed’s site, though it is listed twice in two separate locations.

The government also says that an ARRA payout of $33,196 for child care expense assistance to low-income families was allo-

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A $275,608 allocation of stimulus money is going to Delta’s Schaaf and Associates under a federal contract for surveying abandoned mining claims in Nevada. The contract was already approved when Congress adopted the stimulus legislation, and the funding qualified as one of the “shovel ready” projects that were approved soon after Congress passed the stimulus package.

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stimulus dollars is contributing $2.26 million to Delta County, according to the feds’ website.

In most instances, explain district administrators, that money is replacement for state funding that has been cut. Delta County Joint School District 50 administrators are willing to go over their budget figures with any interested citizens, including use of funds from the federal stimulus.

An ARRA allocation of $636,567 is shown for District 50 on the feds’ website for “services to education.” District administrators agree that amount represents a direct federal replacement for state funding that is being withheld this year and/or next year.

A big $1.63 million entry for ARRA funds for District 50 is broken down into three separate blocks: $199,492 for education technology state grants to improve teaching and achievement through technological innovation; $949,665 for special education and related services; and, $449,242 for Title I funding.

Community relations director John Jones said that stimulus funds which replace discontinued state payments may eventually have to be made up from local or other sources. Some of the district’s spending is mandated by the state, he added.

The federal government’s website offers some incomplete or counter-intuitive tallies for the numbers of “jobs saved or created” by all of the stimulus spending here. If the huge payouts save or create any jobs at all, they come at a cost as high as almost $1 million each. The entire $12.5 million in ARRA funds headed for Delta County will “create or save” a total of 13.5 jobs, according to the federal government’s online information.

The government’s website surveyed doesn’t include any of the ARRA funds that are going to some federal agencies in the area, notably the BLM and U.S. Forest Service.

There is an additional $700,000 to $800,000 of stimulus money flowing into Delta County through the BLM’s Uncompahgre Field Office (UFO) for work that will be done in the 2009-2010 time frame.

The local BLM’s stimulus projects fall into two broad categories: capital improvements and deferred maintenance, and habitat restoration. The UFO is planning a total of 16 ARRAfunded projects. Five of those are wholly within Delta County, and another two span the Delta/ Montrose county line.

The work includes mechanical removal and treatment to eradicate tamarisk along the Gunnison River, concentrating on areas between Austin and the new Dominguez/Escalante NCA. Along with the eradication work, native willow and cottonwood will be planted in the corridor.

Other UFO work includes projects on the Gunnison Gorge NCA constructing a major new multi-use trail; some recreation site reconstruction work; and, two projects to improve habitat for the Crawford population of Gunnison Sage Grouse in the Black Ridge/Fruitland Mesa/ Green Mountain area. There will be habitat reconstruction work for other species in the Escalante area also.

Much of the BLM’s work will be let by contract or completed by existing seasonal workers.

The UFO expects new hiring to include one additional seasonal employee and up to three temporary workers.

The U.S. Forest Service is also receiving stimulus funds for projects on the GMUG. Details of those projects were not available at press time.

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Tightening their belts, DCAD board passes $2.28M budget Put on hold for 2010 has been the purchase of new equipment.

This year, the district was able to purchase, with the help of grants, a new ambulance, two power cots, mobile radios and computer and software upgrades.

The equipment line item dropped by $98,000. The district will continue to apply for grants for equipment, but the board cautioned Laufer to hold off on any big purchases.

By Kami Collins Staff Writer

The board of directors for the Delta County Ambulance District passed a 2010 budget of $2,282,611, a decrease of almost $115,000 from the 2009 budget.

“We don’t know what the economy is going to do,” district manager Doug Laufer said.

“We’re hesitant.” The board also set the mill levy at 2.5, which is unchanged from last year.

Boys’ swimming (football, basketball, etc.) makes it even more inexcusable that the district made this decision without any input or participation from them.”

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informed of the issues and involved with the process at the outset, accurate facts about participation numbers could have been obtained, recruitment efforts to grow the program could have been attempted and other alternatives could have been explored to keep the program in place,” he said in a letter to superintendent Mike McMillan and school board president Robert Tweedell. “If no alternatives could be found, at least the stakeholders would have a clear understanding of the issues.

“The fact that the number of stakeholders in the boys’ swimming program is relatively small compared to the primary sports

The capital reserve fund was dropped by $100,000, partly due to the purchase of a new ambulance this year, and the operating budget was dropped by $91,000.

Year-end employee bonuses have also been cut.

The line item for employee uniforms was raised by $10,500.

It has been five years since employees were given coldweather gear, Laufer said, and the board did budget for that expense. However, employees won’t see the new clothing until next fall, giving the board plenty of time to feel out its resources and the economy.

Likewise, a three percent raise for employees was budgeted, but the pay raises won’t be implemented until at least mid-year.

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Sunday, Dec. 6 • 2:30 p.m.

A memorial service for all our members who have passed away this year.

Hors d’oeuvres will be served in the Clubroom following the service.

All family members and friends are invited to attend.

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Kallsen, Howard to be wed Heads will celebrate golden anniversary Dec. 22 Jock and Theresa Kallsen of Cedaredge announce the engagement of their son Wade to Andrea Howard of Delta.

Wade is a 2005 graduate of Cedaredge High School and is pursuing a degree in laboratory science. Andrea is a 2001 graduate of Delta High School and a 2006 graduate of York College in Nebraska. She teaches at Crawford Elementary and is pursuing a master’s degree in education. Andrea is the daughter of Ron and Karen Howard.

Wade and Andrea will be married Dec. 22 at Delta Christian Church.

Larry and Ruth (Benson) Head invite friends and family members to help celebrate their golden anniversary Saturday, Dec. 6, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Rogers Mesa Community House, 31014 Hwy 92.

The Heads were married on Sunday, Dec. 6, 1959, at 2 p.m. at the Delta Christian Church.

Larry and Ruth have four sons: Stanley Head (deceased); Byron Head of Hotchkiss and his children David (Cari) and Nate (Shawna) of Mt. Ayr, Iowa, and Nikki (Jason) Baker and daughter Cheyenne of Blythedale, Mo.; Wayne (Jamie) Head and sons, Daniel of Fort Hood, Texas, Levi and Matt of Delta;

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Army Reserve Maj. Andre Schlappe completed predeployment training at Fort McCoy, Sparta, Wis., in preparation for a subsequent deployment to Afghanistan to serve in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The solider is a member of the 372nd Engineer Brigade, a Reserve unit based at Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, Minn.

During the extensive training, the reservists received equipment training and learned procedures

and warfighting skills required to successfully complete operational mission objectives while deployed.

The soldiers trained in a field environment and participated in realistic situational scenarios, traveled in convoys, and encountered role players on the battlefield portraying opposing forces.

Other aspects of the training included, weapons qualification, Army Warrior training, physical fitness, leadership, combat life saving, improvised explosive devices, mounted combat patrol operations, urban operations, entry control check points, motor vehicle operations and maintenance, protective mask familiarity and confidence, detainee operations, hand-to-hand combat, reflexive fire, grenades, culture/customs and language, and land navigation.

In Afghanistan, the 372nd Engineer Brigade will have command and control of several battalions with missions to build bridges and construct and clear roads. Their main mission is to train Afghan soldiers in engineering skills to improve the self-governance capabilities of their nation.

Schlappe, a facility engineer team leader, has 14 years of military service. He is the son of Russel and Ritta Schlappe of Austin. The major is a 1991 graduate of Delta High School and the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

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The regular meeting of Delta Emblem Club #462 was held at the Delta Elks Lodge on Nov. 23.

The meeting was opened according to ritual by president Dora Valdez at 7:15 p.m. Immediately following the opening, the annual memorial service was conducted. Past president Wilma Harris draped the charter and lit the candle in memory of departed members.

Roll call of officers showed trustee-guard Ruth Hendrickson absent. There were eight past presidents in attendance. The financial reports were given by financial secretary Kay Thatcher and treasurer Ruth Marvel.

These reports will be filed pending audit.

Corresponding secretary Wilma Harris offered the minutes of the last Colorado state meeting to those not receiving a copy. She then read letters asking for help for needy persons and a thank you card from Delta Middle School.

The corresponding secretary read the bills. A motion to pay the bills was made, seconded and carried.

Sunshine committee chairman Kennadine Duncan thanked club members for the help and care they had given her and her sisters

at the loss of their mother.

Americanism chairman Mary Jo Chaffee reported 2,047 coupons sent with 11.5 hours involved.

She read a copy of a letter from Clifford R. Ellison, M.D., U.S. Army, expressing his feelings on the health and well-being of returned military personnel.

The bingo concession report was given by Doris Levenhagen.

Community service chairman Diane Martinez reported 971 miles, 150 hours, 10 soup labels, two education coupons, seven pairs of eyeglasses, five glass cases, four medium bags pop tabs and $46.

Kelli Martin-Watts reported she had given a program on drug awareness at the Delta Opportunity School. The slogan of her speech was “Is it worth it?”

Ways and means chairman Mary Jo Chaffee reminded members of the craft and bake sale to be held at Westminster Hall Dec. 4 and 5. We will be working with members of the Presbyterian Church.

Diane Martinez reported she has a prospective member in mind.

A recess was called and birthdays for Wilma Harris and Kelli

Martin-Watts were celebrated.

The scholarship march was conducted.

Under unfinished business, Wilma Harris reported on the annual dinner and Christmas party to be held Dec. 14 at the Sundance. Secret sisters will be revealed.

Several charitable projects were discussed under new business. It was decided to donate to the Delta County foster care program. Other projects will need more information.

Gloria Nicholson won the door prize, which she donated to the scholarship fund. President Dora thanked Gloria for filling the chair of first guard. The meeting was closed according to ritual at 8:30 p.m.

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It’s a Cory and Erin Eiler Boy! of Paonia are the par-

It’s a Vince and Kara Boy! Cowan of Paonia are the

ents of a son, Collin Joseph Eiler, born Nov. 19, 2009, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces and was 19.75 inches in length.

parents of a son, Kade Vincent Cowan, born Nov. 24, 2009, at Delta County Memorial Hospital.

He weighed 6 pounds, 13.4 ounces and was 19 inches in length.

It’s a Kris and Susan Boy! Frigetto of Montrose

are the parents of a son, Avellino Drake Frigetto, born Nov. 20, 2009, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces and was 20.5 inches in length.

It’s a Justin and Amber Girl! Edmonds of Delta

are the parents of a daughter, Candace Mae Edmonds, born Nov. 23, 2009, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She weighed 7.56 pounds and was 19.5 inches in length.

It’s a Bradford and Ashly Girl! Henry of Cedaredge are

the parents of a daughter, Sarah Lynn Henry, born Nov. 24, 2009, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 5.4 ounces and was 20 inches in length.

The Delta County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on December 17, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 234, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Delta, CO to present MJ07-029 County Line Estates Subdivision for preliminary plat review. This property is located in Sec. 24, T51N, R11W at 285 Ash Mesa Road, Delta, CO 81416.

Comments on the proposed subdivision may be submitted in writing to the Delta County Planning Department at the Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, #227, Delta, CO 81416. If you have any questions, you may call the Planning Department at 874-2110.

It’s a Chris and Angelina Girl! Jensen of Delta are

the parents of a daughter, Zoey Brooklynn Jensen, born Nov. 14, 2009, in Grand Junction. She weighed 5 pounds, 6 ounces and was 18.75 inches in length.

She has a brother, Damon.

Her grandparents are Sherrie and Fred Fernandez and Bill and Colleen Jensen, all of Delta.

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Delta man wins $100,000 on scratch game Delta resident James Anderson won $100,000 Monday — the top prize in the Lottery’s $5 Multi-Line Slots Scratch game.

Anderson won the game, which is structured similar to a slot machine, by scratching off three crown symbols in a row. He claimed his prize at the Lottery’s Grand Junction office Monday afternoon.

NSDAR meeting set for Dec. 12 The Uncompahgre Valley Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) will meet Saturday, Dec. 12, at the home of Bonnie Murphy. A presentation will be given by Alla LaBarr on becoming a U.S. citizen. Each member should bring two dozen cookies to share and to take to shut-ins. For more information, contact Jane Murphy, regent, at 249-6264.

“It was a nice, pleasant surprise,” said Anderson. “I scratched it off right in front of the clerk and he said it wasn’t going to be a winner. I told him, ‘I’ll buy more of those losers if you have them.’ ” Anderson, who owns an RV sales and repair business, plans to use his windfall to pay off credit card debt and buy a new Dodge pickup truck. He’s also considering a trip to Black Hawk to celebrate. A longtime Lottery player, Anderson won $20,000 two years ago playing the Mega Slots Scratch game.

Proceeds from the Colorado Lottery’s games — Lotto, Cash 5, Scratch, and Powerball — stay in Colorado to improve the quality of life in the state. The Lottery has returned $2 billion to the state of Colorado since its creation 26 years ago. Through Great Outdoors Colorado, the Conservation Trust Fund and Colorado State Parks, the Lottery has provided funding for new trails, precious open space and wildlife protection. Delta County has received more than $10 million in Lottery funds since the organization was established.

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Community is invited to enjoy luminary display On Thursday, Dec. 17, you are invited to view the luminary

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Lucky winners Archie Wethington of Delta was the winner of a quilt and Donna Austin of Delta was the winner of Teddy the Bear, both handmade by the Delta Ward Humanitarians. Pictured are Donna Austin, Ritta Schlappe, president of the Friends of the Delta Public Library, Jean Orton of the Delta Ward Humanitarians, Archie Wethington, Debbie Anderson, secretary of the Friends of the Delta Public Library and Gwen Hillis, library assistant. The library supporters extend a big thank you to all who participated in making this fund raiser a success. All proceeds benefit the Delta Public Library.

Breakfast Wednesday, Dec. 2 — Yogurt parfait, oatmeal, cereal, graham cracker, fruit and milk.

Thursday, Dec. 3 — Pancakes, oatmeal, cereal, fresh fruit and milk.

Friday, Dec. 4 — Biscuits and gravy, oatmeal, cereal, sausage patty, dried fruit and milk.

Monday, Dec. 7 — French toast sticks, oatmeal, cereal, fruit and milk.

Tuesday, Dec. 8 — Breakfast pizza, oatmeal, cereal, oranges and milk.

Wednesday, Dec. 9 — Muffins, oatmeal, cereal, yogurt, fruit and milk.

Lunch K-5 Wednesday, Dec. 2 — Chicken and noodles, mashed potatoes, fresh fruit, fudge brownies, hot rolls and milk.

Thursday, Dec. 3 — Baked cheese sandwich, tomato soup, carrot sticks, fruit and milk.

Friday, Dec. 4 — Frito pie, vegetables, fruit, vanilla cookies and milk.

Monday, Dec. 7 — Cheeseburger, french fries, fruit, Rice Krispies bar and milk.

Tuesday, Dec. 8 — Burritos, green chili, fresh vegetables, fruit, chocolate cake and milk.

Wednesday, Dec. 9 — Hot beef sandwich, mashed potatoes, dried fruit, apple crisp and milk.

Lunch 6-12 Wednesday, Dec. 2 — Chicken and noodles, ham and cheese sandwich or chef salad, mashed potatoes, fresh fruit, vegetables, fudge brownies, hot rolls and milk.

Thursday, Dec. 3 — Baked cheese sandwich, tomato soup, chicken nuggets or taco salad, carrot sticks, fruit, hot rolls and

milk.

Friday, Dec. 4 — Frito pie, baked potato bar or chef salad, vegetables, fruit, vanilla cookies and milk.

Monday, Dec. 7 — Cheeseburger, chili dog or chef salad, french fries, fruit, Rice Krispies bar and milk.

Tuesday, Dec. 8 — Burritos, green chili, hot beef wrap or chef salad, fresh vegetables, fruit, chocolate cake and milk.

Wednesday, Dec. 9 — Hot beef sandwich, teriyaki beef dippers or chef salad, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, dried fruit, apple crisp, hot rolls and milk.

Sons of Norway celebrate Christmas Sons of Norway, Vestafjell Lodge will enjoy traditional Christmas music with the Vestafjell Musikers at the meeting on Sunday, Dec. 13, at 2 p.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 237 32 Road, Grand Junction. Members, bring a side dish for the holiday dinner with meat furnished by the lodge.

Also, please bring an unwrapped child’s toy or clothing gift for our annual Christmas gift donation to Latimer House and homemade cookies for the Christmas cookie sale.

Guests who are interested in Scandinavian heritage and culture are welcome. For more information call 245-5649 or 874-4604 or visit www.vestafjelllodge.org

display at Mesa View Cemetery, 682 1725 Road, in Delta.

The luminaries will be lighted at about 6:30 p.m., in memory of loved ones we have lost.

According to Alice Penick of Mesa View Mortuary-Cemetery, “This is the seventh year we have had the luminary display.

It is our hope that the luminaries will provide a message of hope and beauty during this holiday season as we each reflect on the memories of our loved ones who have died.”

Over 600 luminaries will line the roadways of the cemetery and mortuary grounds.

The luminary display will be held the same evening as Mesa View Mortuary’s annual community Christmas memorial service.

The memorial service will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, at the Mesa View Mortuary Chapel.

Everyone is invited to participate in this service of remembrance.

A special Christmas tree will be decorated in memory of loved ones. Ornaments will be provided.

For more information, call Mesa View Mortuary at 8748633.

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HOLIDAY

Saturday, December 5 – 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. – Bill Heddles Recreation Center Gymnasium Come one...come all Shop for Christmas!

This is a hand-made merchandise show!

• Stained Glass • Jewelry • Wood Crafts • Ornaments • Quilts & Quilteds • Candles • Elegant Eggs • Watercolor and Oil Paintings • Paper and Fiber Art • Embroidery • Sand Paintings • Photography • Silk Flowers • Gifts in a Jar • Scarves • Etched Glass and Glass Items • Things for Baby • Handmade Stuffed Animals • Purses and Bags • Rugs and Blankets • Jackets and Clothing • Bowls and Vases • Tablecloths and Runners

Lots of Christmas items too...and more vendors to come.

For more information call 874-0923

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Rotarians equip third graders with an essential learning tool Over 200 dictionaries were recently distributed to third graders at Lincoln and Garnet Mesa elementary schools by members of the Rotary Club of Delta.

Now in its fifth year, the dictionary project supports the development of youth, particularly in the area of literacy. Rotarians believe each child should have

their own copy of the Scholastic Children’s Dictionary, to use as they grow academically over the coming years.

The gift of the dictionaries is made possible by the local business sponsor, First State Bank of Delta.

Rotarians Clark Childers, Chuck Vincent, Bob Barnes,

Joe Carlson, Bill Hellman and Chalmer Swain, with his daughter Amber, visited each classroom to hand out the hardbound, full color dictionaries to the appreciative students.

“It is this spirit of giving and community service that makes our volunteer work with Rotary tremendously rewarding,” noted club president Bob Barnes.

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Lions to host community Christmas party A community Christmas dinner sponsored by the Delta Lions Club is rapidly approaching. The party will be held Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 6 p.m., in the basement of the Delta Elks Lodge. The dinner is free. Bring the kids for a fun evening of entertainment, music and Santa. Bring a small wrapped gift (under $10) for each child for Santa to give to them. Please RSVP to Lion Tom Panter at 874-8864 with how many will be attending.

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ABBY CARLSON, CLAYTON ABILA and Berenice Rascon leaf through the colorfully illustrated dictionaries. The Rotary Club of Delta provided copies for every third grade student at Lincoln and Garnet Mesa elementary schools.

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Mon., Dec. 7 Tues., Dec. 8

Basketball at Home vs. Olathe, 3:00, 4:30, 6:00 & 7:30 p.m.

Speech at Fruita Invitational.

Varsity Wrestling at Hotchkiss; JV Wrestling at Montrose; Speech at Fruita; Swimming at Grand Junction, 10:00 a.m.; Play at DHS. Freshmen Basketball at Paonia, 4:00 & 5:30 p.m.

Basketball at Montrose, 4:30, 6:00 & 7:30 p.m.

Splash Mania is open to sixth, seventh grade students Sixth and seventh graders are invited to a pool party at Bill Heddles Recreation Center Friday, Dec. 11, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Pre-register by Dec. 8 and pay $3, or get in for $5 at the door.

Enjoy some ‘70s fun in the pool with loud music and killer nachos. For the safety of all participants, all swimmers must stay in the pool area. Participants cannot leave until a parent or guardian checks in. Swimsuits are required.

Acting out Dan Dunham, the drama teacher at Delta Middle School, directed two sixth grade productions last week. The first class performed the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, adapted by Carmella Gates (pictured above). Wicked Witch of the West was played by Tricia Mountfort, Cowardly Lion by Naomi Hayner, Dorothy by Julie Cassel, and Tin Woodman by Tristyn Johnson. Alexis Williams Abbigail Nicholson, Mariah Perez and Kyndra Houghton were the winged monkeys. The second class performed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, adapted by Carmella Gates. Nathaniel Tracy played Joe Mellema, Shanan Davey was Ichabod Crane, and Kaylee Dunham was Joan Mellema.

DAAL students get real-life education on geocaching field trip

By Kami Collins Staff Writer

It was a race to the finish line in a battle filled with challenges, shots of espresso and mini golf for 25 students from the Delta Academy of Applied Learning.

The students have been learning about latitudes and longitudes, and how to use a GPS unit in school. To put this knowledge to use, and to apply academic subjects to real life situations, the school staff took the kids on a field trip around Delta in what science teacher and school director Al Williams called “Amazing Race meets geocaching.”

The students started out on Tuesday morning, Nov. 24, in teams of five. Each team was given a set of coordinates and a GPS. Along with a parent volunteer or teacher, the teams went to one of 10 Delta businesses. At that business, one team member was issued a challenge. If they

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New Board of Education members were sworn in at the November school board meeting at the Hotchkiss K-8 school. The election results were certified as Cheryl Hines and Chad Campbell were sworn in at the meeting. Tammy Smith was sworn in by separate ceremony.

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AT HELLMAN CHEVROLET, CODY Wollert was tasked with calculating the sales tax on a 2010 Camaro. He could not get any assistance from his teammates, or use a calculator. Once he figured out the amount, his team was given their next set of coordinates, which took them to the DMV.

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ISAIAH SURBER TAKES HIS last shot at the mini golf course. Each stroke he and his teammates took added one minute to their final race time. Isaiah’s team finished first with a time of 3:29:45.

got the challenge correct, they were given another set of coordinates, which led them to another stop.

At Hellman Chevrolet, students had to calculate the sales tax on a 2010 Camaro. At NapaDelta Motor Parts, they were tasked with finding a specific oil filter for a Jeep Wrangler. At the Sundance restaurant, they had to eat a large bowl of oatmeal.

The trip also took students to the Delta Public Library, where they had to find a specific book and record the first sentence in chapter two. They also drank a shot of espresso at Moca Joe’s, and ate French fries with three packets of mustard at Wendy’s.

At the DMV, they had to read the driver’s handbook and figure out, in seconds, how far behind a vehicle drivers are supposed to be while driving on the highway.

At Jeans Westerner, they had to calculate the total price, including sales tax, of a pair of Wranglers and a pair of Justin

boots. At Ace Hardware, they were given the task of finding a 3⁄4-inch white plastic union for a water line pipe and told to find the stock number.

Each team ended their quest at Confluence Golf ‘n Fun, where they golfed nine holes.

Each stroke the team members took added one minute to their final time.

The timed race saw the team of Brendan Leary, Jordan Anderson, Keilee Womack, Hailey Millard and Isaiah Surber finish first with a time of 3:29:45. The five split a $100 cash prize. The second place team of Jake Millard, Victoria Saunders, Ben Sandoval, Jacob Swisher and Hailey Donathan finished in 3:40:35, and split a $50 cash prize. The third place team of Drew Elliott, Logan Williams, Kavan Trujillo, Kristyn Valdez and Mariah Mendoza finished in 3:51:15 and split $25.

The field trip ended with a pizza party at the mini golf course.

These citizens have been elected to serve the children of Delta County School District 50J. They are volunteers who spend many hours in meetings and work sessions on important school district business. The Board of Education governs the district, sets district policy, approves and monitors the budget, hires and evaluates the superintendent, evaluates student academic achievement programs, extends school accreditation, and conducts the state required business of the district.

We welcome our new board members and look forward to a continued tradition of striving toward Delta County School District’s mission of Caring, Challenging, Learning; Every Student, Every Day!

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Cooking for a cause For a service project, the REACH class at Delta Vision made pies to be auctioned at Delta County Memorial Hospital. The auction raised money for the Delta and Cedaredge food banks. Pictured above are some of the learners and two teachers delivering the pies to members of the hospital auction committee.

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School district reps will attend conference

By Pat Sunderland Managing Editor

Two school board members will attend the annual conference of the Colorado Association of School Boards at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs this week. The conference is traditionally held the first weekend in December.

Responding to comments made by Chad Campbell, who was recently elected to the board, school board members said the annual conference provides valuable information and is generally worth the cost.

Cheryl Hines said she was disappointed with last year’s sessions, so she was pleased to see a strong line-up for the 2009 conference. Unfortunately, she said, it’s such a busy time of year she’ll be unable to attend

this year. Delta County will be represented by school board members Robert Tweedell and Bill Kehmeier and superintendent Mike McMillan.

According to the CASB website, an intensive governance workshop will be offered Saturday afternoon in response to member requests to focus on board governance. Board members will learn how to balance competing values of their constituency, address key board leadership challenges, make sustainable policy decisions through the use of practical principles and craft integrative policy solutions that satisfy many of the values of constituents.

Mark Scharenbroich will provide ideas for gaining community support and strengthening board team connections.

Dr. John Medina will open the door to participants’ brains, and explain how his 12 Brain Rules can be applied to education in the classroom.

Sunday’s session will feature a debate on TABOR and whether it helps or hinders representative democracy.

Throughout the district, costcutting suggestions are being put

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The optional ACRE Program provides a safety net based on state revenue losses and acts in place of the price-based safety net of counter-cyclical payments under DCP. A farm’s payment is based on a revenue guarantee calculated using a 5-year average state yield and the most recent 2-year national price for each eligible commodity. For the 2010 crop, the 2-year price average

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According to Paul Drake, director of Painted Sky Resource, Conservation, and Development,

will be based on the 2008 and 2009 crop years.

An ACRE payment is issued when both the state and the farm have incurred a revenue loss. The payment is based on 83.3 percent (85 percent in 2012) of the farm’s planted acres times the difference between the State ACRE guarantee and the state revenue times the ratio of the farm’s yield divided by the state expected yield.

The total number of planted acres for which a producer may receive ACRE payments may not exceed the total base on the farm. In exchange for participating in ACRE, in addition to not receiving counter-cyclical payments, a farm’s direct payment is reduced by 20 percent, and marketing assistance loan rates are reduced by 30 percent.

The decision to enroll in the ACRE Program is irrevocable. The owner of the farm and all producers on the farm must agree to enroll in ACRE. Once enrolled, the farm shall be enrolled for that initial crop year and will remain in ACRE through the 2012 crop year.

The June 1, 2010, deadline is mandatory for all participants.

USDA will not accept any latefiled applications.

For more information on DCP or ACRE, please visit the Delta County FSA office at 690 Industrial Blvd, Delta, or check out www.fsa.usda.gov.

his organization would like the county to write a letter of support for the Hartland Dam reconstruction project, in addition to the $1,700 Delta County has contributed in cash. The county’s $1,700 contribution to the project has been used for feasibility study work, Drake said.

The letter is needed to help keep the project’s grant funding moving forward, Drake said.

Significant funding is being lined up for the estimated $1.9 million project on the Gunnison River in North Delta. But all of the money is not in place and the commissioners’ support is needed to approach grant-making agencies for requests.

Drake made his request to the BoCC during a regular meeting on Nov. 16.

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to commit $800,000 to the project, and an additional $560,000 grant is being sought from the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Drake said that in addition, another $150,000 in funding is possible from the Colorado River District, and possibly more from private foundations.

Drake also reported the use of a $6,000 donation previously made by the county for tamarisk eradication work.

Those funds, Drake said, were “leveraged” to obtain $60,000 in additional grant money to expand Russian olive and tamarisk control and eradication programs locally, and to establish five release sites in Delta County for the tamarisk eating tamarisk beetle imported from Central Asia. *** Have a news tip or story idea?

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Friends of Horse Country Arena invited to join parade Horse Country Arena enthusiasts are invited to bring their equine entries to the Delta Parade of Lights to be held at 6 p.m. on Delta’s Main Street on Friday, Dec. 4.

Line-up is at 5:45 p.m. Bring

your parade-safe horses to form one entry as Friends of the Horse Country Arena. Make sure your horse has lights on.

For more information, call Jami Taylor at 874-8739 or Sara Rapp at 874-3503.

Commissioners deal with routine items

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

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Support sought for Hartland project

Enrollment opens for 2010 DCP and ACRE programs Alan Bull, executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Delta County, announced that enrollment for the 2010 Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) and the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program has begun and will continue through June 1, 2010.

“We at FSA urge producers to make use of the eDCP automated website to sign up,” said Bull. ”The electronic service saves producers’ time, reduces paperwork and speeds up contract processing at their local FSA offices.”

Bull adds eDCP is available to all producers who are eligible to participate in the DCP and ACRE Programs and can be accessed at www.fsa.usda. gov/dcp. To access the service, producers must have an active USDA eAuthentication Level 2 account, which requires filling out an online registration form at www.eauth.egov.usda.gov followed by a visit to the local USDA Service Center for identity verification. For those without Internet access or if they prefer, producers can also visit any USDA Service Center to complete their 2010 DCP or ACRE contract.

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forward. Campbell believes the conference could be streamed live to Delta County via the Internet, saving the district the $10,000 allocated for the cost of the conference, hotel rooms and transportation.

“We don’t need to spend this money,” he told members of the Paonia Rotary Club shortly after the election.

The Board of County Commissioners moved through an agenda of routine business during their Nov. 16 meeting.

Among the matters dealt with were the following: • The board was agreeable to having county planners proceed “administratively” with a land split for the Cotten Veterinary facility in Hotchkiss. By that process, no public hearing is held on the land split unless neighbors offer opposing comments after being notified by mail.

The owner wants to sell the dog kennel operation, commissioners were told. Buyers currently interested, according to the planning department, are the North Fork animal welfare group CAWS and the Black Canyon Sanctuary.

• Commissioners discussed briefly a report that the Spruce Lodge on Grand Mesa is under negotiations to be purchased.

Possible buyers are said to be from Wisconsin.

• The board approved four alcoholic beverage licenses: A club liquor license for the Wilson Head American Legion Post 97 of Paonia; a hotel/restaurant

liquor license for Lala’s Food LLC, dba RJ’s Steakhouse in Cedaredge; a 3.2 beer carryout license for Desperado Inc. dba Desperado Convenience Store in Crawford; and a liquor store license for Desperado Inc. dba Desperado Liquors at Crawford.

• Commissioners set Monday, Nov. 23 for a work session to discuss a request to waive an easement requirement. Frances Loughrey, represented by Pat Stroud, was asking the county to relax its 60-foot easement requirement for a landlocked portion of a 40-acre parcel that is cut off by the Gunnison River.

County regulations call for a 60-foot easement, but a neighboring landowner will give no more than 15 feet, Loughrey said. The issue is complicated further because the county planning department objects to a land contract that was given on the parcel which in effect, planners say, created an illegal subdivision.

• The BoCC signed two letters of support. One was backing the Hartland Dam reconstruction project. The other was in support of a grant request by Hospice and Palliative Care.

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Ken Reyher publishes his fifth book

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Author Ken Reyher has published his fifth book. This one bears his same trademark of exhaustive research, expert storytelling, and illuminating detail set in a broad panorama of local pioneer history that will delight his current readers and win new ones.

Reyher’s four previous books — “Antoine Roubidoux and Fort Uncompahgre,” “High Country Cowboys,” “Silver and Sawdust,” and “Wilderness Wanderers,” an account of the 1776 DominguezEscalante expedition — have all explored the lives and times of pioneers and early settlers in Western Colorado. Reyher’s books tap into the deep, worldwide public interest in all things of the American West, an interest that keeps his books current on booksellers’ lists.

Reyher’s latest book is at once the result of a long-time personal interest, and a broad, detailed survey of the American West’s cultural landscape that is relevant to the everyday lives of his readers.

In his “Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Death and dying in Early Western Colorado,” Reyher takes his readers back to a time when ordinary people no different from our own families struggled to survive in a wilderness where the presence of death was a constant reality.

“People understood death better back then because they had to deal with it all the time,” Reyher said.

“Today we use sanitized terms for death that are devoid of emotional content, like “passed way” “late” and “deceased,” Reyher explained. “As a culture we have insulated ourselves this way from the personal reality of death.”

But on the frontiers of Western Colorado it was different.

Death was a constant compan-

ion, often lurking unseen only to strike unexpectedly in the form of a grizzly bear, a rattlesnake, an incurable ailment either common or unknown, overwork, deprivation, purposeful or mis-attended gunfire, or, in the case of young George Beckwith, death came with sudden, sure violence from the “thrashing hooves” of his own horse.

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Reyher’s brief account of the roping mishap that fatally injured Beckwith, nephew of mountain man Jim Beckwith, and which took the young man’s life three days later on a somber Christmas Eve perfectly captures the sense of suddenness and randomness that pioneers knew as death’s calling card.

The account of Beckwith’s tragedy is in the opening chapter of Reyher’s book; a chapter titled “I Am Death” and which aptly introduces the author’s subject.

The subsequent chapters in Reyher’s book all look at one or another segment of frontier society through the eyes of people who lived it.

You will read about the Utes, inconsolable over the desecration of their graves by greedy artifact hunters. Accounts of the “Miners and Prospectors” detail

the life threatening risks a man had to take for the high wages of a few a day.

Reyher is able to hold the reader’s interest and doesn’t waste the reader’s time. He recounts the frontier’s “Men of the Cloth” and the remarkable acts of courage and endurance that were inspired by their faith.

Perhaps none of those acts was more courageous that their willingness to toss doctrinal divisions aside and ignore denominational distinctions when the work of the community demanded their full participation as men, especially in the face of death.

Though Reyher has written four books, this is the one he wanted to write first. It is the fruit of years of research, including countless visits to local cemeteries all over the Western Slope studying inscriptions on headstones, and reading everything he could find on the subject.

This book got its start in Flagler.

Before coming to the Western Slope in 1991, Reyher, who is director of Delta’s Fort Uncompahgre museum, owned an aerial spraying business in that Colorado Eastern Plains town which is home to some 600 people today. He would occasionally land his plane on a remote stretch of county road, and while waiting for his ground crew to catch up Reyher would

wander through an old cemetery there.

“I wondered who these people were, and what their stories are,” he recalls. Thinking about history in this way – as the life stories of the people who have come and gone before us – was the beginning of a lifelong fascination. And, for his newest book it became the basis of inspiration backed by solid research, as the extensive bibliography will attest.

Reyher’s writing style is entertaining and informative; authoritative and engaging.

A sentence from the back cover review of Reyher’s 167page paperback sums it up succinctly. “Ken Reyher tells the stories of what was then an integral part of life, not in a macabre or offensive way, but as tales of hope, courage, and the survival of those left behind.”

The book is published by Western Reflections Publishing Company of Lake City.

Entering Reyher’s name in either Google or ask.com will lead to retail outlets of his books on line. Reyher’s books can also be gotten through Barnes and Noble and Borders.

The best local source for Reyher’s books is either Fort Uncompahgre at Confluence Park or the Delta County Historical Society Museum at 3rd and Meeker.

Holidays bring sad times for some

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

The holidays aren’t always a happy time for everyone.

While most people look forward to gathering for good times with friends and family to celebrate with thanks the things they have to be grateful for, others aren’t doing that. Sometimes it takes a look at the real world plight of unfortunate strangers in our midst to inspire a true understanding of what the holidays are supposed to mean.

One such stranger is 17-yearold Marion, the daughter of illegal immigrants from Mexico, who is spending the holidays caring for three younger siblings in a relative’s rural Delta County trailer house, and making tamales to try and sell.

Marion (not her real name) has been thrown into the role of primary caregiver for her brother, 12, a sister, 2, and an infant brother only a month old.

Marion’s mother and the infant’s father were both arrested in a Delta store parking lot during a shopping outing.

The 12-year-old brother, whom a family friend described as “small for his age and slightly challenged,” had been left in the car to watch his younger sister.

A passerby noticed, and thinking the boy looked younger than 12 called police.

When officers arrived to investigate, they found outstanding warrants for both adults in the family.

Marion’s mother last week remained jailed in Fort Morgan awaiting a Dec. 16 court appearance. Local law enforcement found a five-year-old warrant for check fraud from cashing a $10,000, check in the northern Colorado town. Marion maintains it wasn’t her mother who cashed the check. “My mother has never even been in Fort Morgan,” the teenager told the DCI. Marion thinks the police are looking for someone else with her mother’s same, common first and last names.

“This situation is so sad,” their family friend said. “It all happened right after the baby was born. She has to be missing that baby terribly, and he is changing so fast. He was ten and a half pounds and feeding continuously at the breast, and then he was yanked away.”

The baby’s father was arrested at the same time, the family friend told the DCI. Police found a bench warrant on him for skipping town on a traffic violation in the Denver area. He now sits in jail in Aurora awaiting a Dec. 3 court date after being transferred from Delta through jails in Grand Junction and Craig along the way.

Marion and her siblings are staying at their aunt’s trailer house. Marion said the aunt works during the day while she stays home and cares for the two younger children. The brother attends school.

Marion said she was being “home schooled” before her mother’s arrest. There has been a temporary break in her curriculum while she looks after two children and makes tamales to sell hoping to raise money for legal expenses.

“I’ll tell you those are the best tamales you ever ate,” said their family friend, who is helping to find outlets for the savory treats.

Marion’s family is involved with a local church. “These are just really good, Christian people,” their friend said.

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Also, there are many pets in need of food and supplies this winter. The drop box for both the coats and pet food is located at RE/MAX Today, 1109 Main, Delta.

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Paonia Holiday Art Fair offers two days of fun and shopping

By Kathy Browning Staff Writer

The 17th annual Paonia Holiday Art Fair is this weekend at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts.

Forget about those long lines at a shopping mall in the big city, come to downtown Paonia for all your holiday gifts. The fun starts Friday, Dec. 4 from 3-8 p.m. and continues Saturday, Dec. 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. You’ll find original and unique gifts by talented local artists, musical entertainment, delicious refreshments, caroling and much more.

Among the artists and artisans featured at the Blue Sage Center will be Kathie Johnson’s beeswax candles, Celia Roberts’ photography, Patricia Weller’s jewelry and cards, Lark Abel’s etched glass, Milicent Young’s wreaths, Grian McFadden’s dolls and puppets and her children’s books, jewelry by Lynn Brgoch

and Diane Stahly, herbal salves and pottery by Lea Rolfsen and Mike McKenna, pressed flower art by Jackie Slater, batiked clothing by Christy Toohey, jewelry and condiments from Carrie Tarran, Kata and Michael Fisk of Heart of the Dragon, Scott Horner’s handbound books, Tara Miller and Sam Brown’s pottery and Peruvian Outreach, Pam Bliss and the Jamaican Outreach and Vision School providing eatable delights for their fund raiser.

Musicians will be creating a holiday atmosphere throughout the fair. The music line up includes on Friday Jeff Regan on saxophone at 3:15 and at 5:30 David and Tamara Hauze. On Saturday come listen to David Sheppard at 10 a.m., Hot Toddies at 11 a.m., Mike Gwinn and David Sheppard at 11:45, North Fork Freedom Chorus at 2 p.m., and Ellen Stapenhorst at 2:30.

Federal grants available for ditch companies

By Kathy Browning Staff Writer

Mike Baker of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will give a presentation on the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program at the request of the Fire Mountain Canal Company.

The presentation will be given at Memorial Hall in Hotchkiss on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m.

Members of local ditch companies, irrigation canal organizations and anyone else with an interest in salinity programs are invited to attend.

Federal grant opportunities are available to ditch companies that qualify for the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program. The Bureau of Reclamation accepts proposals to reduce salinity. Funding is available depending on the ditch company’s ability to reduce salinity from their area. Grandview Ditch in Crawford received a $5 million grant to fund reduction in salinity.

The bureau looks at canals and rates them on how much they seep. The water mobilizes

the salts underneath the ground.

Based on that information, they figure out which are the most cost effective for the bureau to fund.

“I will be presenting background information on the program and also how to apply for funding to pipe and/or line irrigation canals and ditches. Up to 100 percent of the project can be federally funded,” Mike Baker explained. “The Bureau of Reclamation is anticipating requesting proposals under a ‘Funding Opportunity Announcement’ (FOA) in 2010. In 2009, we entered into a $5 million contract to fund the Grandview Canal Company (near Crawford) to pipe about 10 miles of their canal and laterals. Additionally, a brief introduction will be given on the Gunnison Basin Selenium Management Program.”

For more information, call Mike Baker in the Grand Junction office of the Bureau of Reclamation at 248-0637.

Memorial Hall is adjacent to the Hotchkiss Library which is located behind First State Bank of Hotchkiss.

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Santa arrives in Crawford Santa Claus made a dramatic entrance during the Crawford Parade of Lights the day after Thanksgiving. He left his sleigh and reindeer at a nearby ranch and hopped on the back of a fire engine! Everyone was delighted to see him. Mrs. Claus came by wagon a little later.

Santa then stopped by the Black Canyon Cafe and greeted a long line of kids. Below with Santa, Mrs. Claus and the elves are (left to right) The Wares — twins Jacob and Joseph, six; Tristan, four; Sam, four: and Grace, three. More photos at www.flickr.com/kdbrowning.

Severance taxes and mineral leasing funds will sharply drop in 2010

By Kathy Browning Staff Writer

When municipalities in Delta County finalize their proposed 2010 budgets, less revenue will be estimated from severance tax and federal mineral leasing.

These revenues usually add quite handsomely to a town’s General Fund. However, that’s not going to hold true for 2010, and by significantly substantial amounts.

While Crawford’s draft budget lists a modest $7,500 from each revenue, Paonia and Hotchkiss budgets are showing zero from

each. There is word that perhaps a small percent of the “regular” amount of revenue may come through next year. However, finance officers are being conservative with their revenue figures so as not to overspend from their General Fund next year. If any funds materialize from the severance tax or federal mineral leasing, it will be a bonus.

Estimated 2009 severance tax revenue for Crawford is $21,041 and $28,871 for mineral leasing; Hotchkiss estimates $28,001 from the severance tax and

Crawford lights up for the holidays

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AFTER THE PARADE IT was time for chatting with Santa.

$37,556 from mineral leasing in 2009. Paonia faired the best in the North Fork Valley with severance tax revenue estimated in 2009 at $49,092 and $66,217 estimated from mineral leasing revenue. All 2010 budgets have to be adopted by Dec. 15 along with the mill levy for property taxes. All must be filed with the State of Colorado by Jan. 31, 2010.

The Colorado Legislative Council Staff released the “Severance Tax Revenue by Source” as of Sept. 2009. The forecast for fiscal year 2009-10 shows a sharp downward plunge with a recovery forecast for fiscal year 2010-11.

Their analysis explains the state experienced high energy prices in most of 2008 and with expanded drilling and energy production for the last several years, severance taxes, including interest earnings, totaled $336.9 million in FY 2008-09. That was followed by natural gas prices falling at the end of 2008 due to the economic recession. A steep drop in demand for natural gas and high production levels across the nation caused a large oversupply. Natural gas prices in Colorado averaged $2.75 per thousand cubic feet in the first half of September and the Colorado Legislative Council Staff expects prices to average $3.14 per thousand cubic feet for the year, representing a 55.1 percent price decline from last year.

The analysis states, “The

resulting drop in income for energy producers—and thus their severance tax liability—coupled with large severance tax credits based on the higher value of natural gas produced in 2008, will cause a sharp drop in revenue in FY 2009-10. In FY 2009-10, total severance tax revenue is projected to drop to $54.9 million, a decrease of 83.7 percent from FY 2008-09.”

Coal production, the second largest source of severance taxes for Colorado, was down by about 10 percent through the beginning of September compared to this time last year. That will result in decreased revenue for FY 200910. The Legislative Council Staff credit this mainly to the weak economy.

“Severance taxes are expected to rebound in the last two fiscal years of the forecast period with an increase in economic activity. However, it will take time to reduce the nation’s oversupply of natural gas, which will prevent severance taxes from reaching the high levels seen in FY 200809. Though it is possible that increased pipeline capacity, an increase in the use of natural gas for electric power generation, and a stronger economic recovery than expected will put more upward pressure on prices in the last years of the forecast, causing severance tax revenue to recover stronger than projected,” the report states.

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According to Elizabeth (Biz) Collins of the North Fork Mosquito Abatement District, it’s almost unheard of to have an all-volunteer trapping program.

But that is exactly what was accomplished this past season in the North Fork, and hopefully with more volunteers, be expanded next season. The larger the group of volunteers, the more responsibilities will be shared. This past year, Lulu Volckhausen did the lion’s share of counting and identifying the mosquitoes.

Volunteers set traps in the evenings from 5 to 7 p.m., and pick up the traps the next morning and take them to the laboratory. The same person who sets the trap picks it up the next day.

Once in the lab, the mosquitoes are frozen for three hours. Segregated by the location where they were trapped, the mosquitoes are separated, counted and identified. The remainder of the insects collected in the trap are discarded after the sample is double checked under the microscope or a hand held magnifying glass to make sure no mosquitoes were missed. A lab assistant separates the mosquitoes and gives them to Lulu Volckhausen to count and identify.

For at least half of the summer, Volckhausen did the entire job by herself. Perhaps next year there will be enough volunteers to assist her on a regular basis.

Viva Kellogg worked as a lab assistant for half of the time, as

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AMONG THE VOLUNTEERS WHO helped the Paonia Mosquito Abatement District are (left to right) field manager Elizabeth (Biz) Collins, Margaret Musgnung, Viva Kellogg, Ray Taylor, Rand Kokenot, board member Tara Budinger, Laura Major, Carolyn Taylor, Lulu Volckhausen, board member Robin Smith and Jackie Gulick. Not pictured are trappers Rosemary Bilchak, Helen Denison, Bill Musgnung, Mike Smolen and Carol Pierce. The Volunteer Appreciation Potluck was held at Apple Valley Park on Sept. 9.

did Jackie Gulick. Trapping is done four nights a week.

The information from the lab is sent to field manager Elizabeth Collins who then sends a larvicide crew to those locations where numbers of trapped mosquitoes meet the threshold criteria. The crew and the field manager troubleshoot areas with high counts searching for water sources where larvae and pupae are located.

Trap sites are located in more populated areas to protect the greatest number of people.

The volunteer program has grown from two people in 2008—Mike Smolen and Viva Kellogg—to eight volunteers

by the end of that season. This year up to 13 people volunteered. For 2010, if the volunteer program could grow to 20 people, “it would be wonderful,” Kellogg said. Volunteers adopted the six routes.

There were two couples who adopted routes and four individuals. The couples joked that their route was their “date night.” The trappers had the same route each week, with two back-up trappers filling in when needed.

After the crew was laid off for the season due to a shortfall in tax revenue, the district had their first case of mosquitoes with West Nile Virus. Mike Smolen who had developed the trapping and lab program, completed the work of setting traps and the lab work for the last four times.

Kellogg stressed that those who volunteer have to set out the traps and pick them up at specific times. The traps, due to

the life of the batteries, need to be set out between 5 and 7 p.m. and picked up between 7 and 8 the next morning. If the traps are picked up late or set out too early, the batteries fail and the mosquitoes can escape making the sample useless.

As the lab technician, Volckhausen also recharges the batteries each day so they will be ready for the next night of trapping.

Trappers donate their time, cars and gas. They receive no reimbursements for their work.

At the end of the season, there were no funds left for a party for the volunteers, so they had a potluck on Sept.

9 at Apple Valley Park. Local businesses donated gift certificates for the volunteers. Lulu Volckhausen was honored as Volunteer of the Year.

For more information or to volunteer for next season, call the district office at 527-6681 or visit http://pmcd.editme.com.

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The Legislative Council Staff reports that federal mineral leasing revenue grew from $44.6 million in FY 2001-02 to $227.3 million in FY 2008-09 as a result of increased production on federal lands, primarily in western Colorado. Federal mineral leasing revenue also increased to record-high levels in FY 2008-09 because of the high price of natural gas. The $56 million auction of federal land for mineral production on the Roan Plateau added to the revenue total.

“Reduced demand for energy and the fall in energy prices continues to cause federal mineral leasing revenue to drop sharply,” the analysis states.

“The reduction will not be as pronounced as with severance tax revenue, however, because federal mineral leasing revenue is not affected by the tax credit that is allowed against severance taxes. It is expected that federal mineral leasing revenue will come in at $90.6 million in FY 2009-10. As with severance taxes, federal mineral leasing revenue is expected to resume moderate growth in the latter two years of the forecast period as the economy recovers and energy prices begin to improve.”

The North Fork Pool, Park and Recreation District will have two positions on their board up for election on May 4, 2010.

The offices now held by Kellie Spadafora and Bart Eller will be available. Currently serving on the board with Spadafora and Eller are Douglas Egging, Teresa Driscoll and Jean Aaro.

Self-nomination forms to be a candidate for district board member may be obtained and returned to Esther Koontz, district administrator at her office.

She can be reached at 872-6122.

The district mailing address is P.O. Box 2093, Hotchkiss, CO 81419. The completed self-nomination forms must be received by the district by 5 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2010.

District election results will be posted on the Secretary of State website www.sos.state.co.us.

Applications to request permanent mail-in voter status

may be obtained from the Delta County Clerk and Recorder or online from the Secretary of state at www.elections.colorado.gov.

The application must be returned to the Delta County Clerk and Recorder.

The recreation district has regular board meetings the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m., at the district office located at 333 Bulldog Street in Hotchkiss.

Meeting notices are posted at the Crawford Town Hall, Paonia Town Hall, Hotchkiss Town Hall, the Delta County Clerk and Recorder office and the recreation district office in Hotchkiss.

The district mill levy for 2010 is 0.893 mills.

Esther Koontz, district administrator for The North Fork Pool, Park and Recreation District, completed the Special District Transparency Notice — 2010 on Nov. 16, 2009. The district email is nfpool@tds.net.

Photo by Wendell Koontz

Helping make Thanksgiving happy Each year volunteers make sure that Thanksgiving is a memorable holiday by preparing and serving a delicious community dinner with all the trimmings at the Hotchkiss Senior Center. Mayor Larry Jakubiak heads up the task. This year he asked Zack’s Bar-B-Q to smoke the turkey making it extra special.

Among those helping on Thanksgiving Day were (left to right) Richard Kemp, Sarah Koontz and Casey Stengel. The Hotchkiss Community Christmas Dinner will be Dec. 25 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Terra Firma Gallery joins District 81428 Gallery Walk

By Kathy Browning Staff Writer

The fourth annual District 81428 Gallery and Boutique Walk in downtown Paonia happens this Friday and Saturday.

It includes the grand opening of the Terra Firma Gallery at 217 Grand Avenue. Terra Firma Gallery will be open on Friday, Dec. 4 from 4-8 p.m. and again on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Among the distinctive crafts people showing their wares will be Michelle Riley and her Life of Riley Designs and introducing Dirt Road Design

by Suzé Smith. Also displaying their work will be Shannon Castle, Rita Clagett, Melissa

Holiday open house at Crawford Country Bank The Crawford Country Bank will host its annual Holiday Open House on Thursday, Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Adding to the festivities will be performances by the Crawford Beginning Band at 11 a.m., and

by Jeneve Mitchell at 2 p.m.

Everyone is invited to stop by to enjoy great food, refreshments and amazing entertainment.

Clark, Dona Doye, Bill Folger, Kerry Folger, Andrea Lecos, Lynn Mattingly, Skip Naft and Ruby Riggs.

Paonia has many other galleries and boutiques in District 81428. Stop by for the complete list at the Blue Sage Gallery or Terra Firma Gallery and then enjoy Friday evening and Saturday visiting the various galleries and unique shops. Elisabethan Holiday Studio will be open 4-8 on Friday and 10-4 on Saturday; Glennie Coombe Gallery 3-7 on Friday and noon to 4 on Saturday; Studio 334 Friday 5-8 p.m. and Saturday 10-4; Elsewhere Studio Friday 3-8 p.m. and 10-4 on Saturday; Blue Sage Gallery and Gift Shop Friday 3-8 p.m. and Saturday 9-5 p.m.; Fresh and Wyld Farmstore Boutique 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and to reserve your place for the Friday night show and dinner at the farmhouse call 527-4374.

There’s lots to see and enjoy this weekend in Paonia.

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Holiday dance set for Dec. 12 The Redlands Mesa Grand will host a holiday dance on Saturday, Dec. 12, featuring Fast Eddie and The Lug Nuts. Music starts at 8 p.m., admission is $10 at the door.

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Enjoying ‘Cookies by the Pound’ One of the popular annual holiday events is the Christmas Bazaar at the Crawford Community United Methodist Church. It is this Saturday, Dec. 5 in the Church Annex from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Cinnamon rolls and coffee will be available in the morning. Beef vegetable soup and ham sandwiches will be sold for lunch from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. There will be RADA Cutlery, homemade crafts and gifts. In addition, “Cookies by the Pound” will be sold throughout the day. There was a preview of “Cookies by the Pound” last Friday after the Crawford Parade of Lights.

(Above, left to right) Ruella Kontour and Regina Jaramillo sold cookies while (top left and bottom right) out-of-towner Mary Overington (left) and Pastor Patricia Johnson savored molasses cookies.

Batik process creates unique bamboo clothing

By Kathy Browning Staff Writer

Back by popular demand at the 17th annual Paonia Holiday Art Fair is Christy Toohey of Hummingbird Batiks. She had previously been in the fair with her husband for eight years as Hummingbird Design. She quit when she had her baby, and now she is back.

The name of her business is for her love of hummingbirds.

She makes hummingbird flags that attract them. One has big red azaleas on the flag. This attracts the hummingbirds to flowers in the garden.

“I have done almost every craft, but batik has been a constant for me,” Toohey said. She started out as a painter. Her interest in batik began with a summer-long class when she was 19. Originally done in Java, batik, which means painted, is the method of creating colored designs on textiles by dyeing them after applying wax to the parts of the fabric to be left undyed. The process leaves the textile, such as the flag or pictures framed in glass, with a design that is especially beautiful when held in sunlight.

Toohey not only does flags for both the home and garden, but T-shirts for men and women, baby clothes such as onesies, hemp prayer flags and organic canvas tote bags with batik pockets.

While attending Utah State University she was asked to teach batik to both instructors and students. After that she experimented on her own to create her own unique designs.

She uses bamboo fabric which is super soft and luxuriant. Toohey says it is better than silk or rayon. Bamboo is durable and easy to care for and it takes the dyes very well. It can be thrown in the washing machine.

Bamboo fabric has anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties.

Toohey buys the white Bamboo fabric from Onno Textiles in Boulder and draws the design with a Tjanting pen dipped in hot wax. The wax saturates the fabric and resists the dye.

“I love to play with colors and experiment with different techniques. With batik, there are so many factors that effect the design it is always a surprise to see the finished product,” Toohey said. “You can get as intricate as you want and the possibilities are endless!”

Once the wax is removed by boiling the flag or piece of clothing in water, there is a “crackle effect” in the fabric caused by the wax and dye “that is exciting and unpredictable.” The design permeates the fabric inside and out.

In the future, she would like to expand her batiking to lamp shades and window coverings.

She teaches batik classes for

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CHRISTY TOOHEY WORKS IN her Hummingbird Batiks studio in Paonia. She is one of the featured artisans during the Paonia Holiday Art Fair at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts this Friday, Dec. 4, 3-8 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 5, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

kids and adults. Toohey is a kindergarten teacher at Lamborn Valley School.

Stop by and see Christy Toohey’s creations at the Blue

Sage Center for the Arts this Friday and Saturday. She also can be reached at 527-4830.

Visit her online at www.hummingbirdbatiks.com.

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Nine Delta County students attend national leaders state conference

By Carrie Coats, Hotchkiss K-8 principal Special to the DCI

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PHS Students of the Month Paonia High School recognized their Students of the Month for October on Nov. 18. They are (left to right) senior Stephanie Helleckson, sophomore Jessica Altman and senior Curtis Bushta. Helleckson is the executive secretary for student council; the concert mistress for the orchestra playing violin; on the varsity tennis team; sings in the Swing Choir; and her favorite subject is math. Altman is the sophomore class secretary for student council; plays volleyball and basketball; is a member of Rocky Mountain 4-H Club; and her favorite subject is math. Bushta acted in the fall play, “Papa Was A Preacher;” does football and track; and his favorite subject is English.

This year, nine outstanding Delta County students had a unique leadership development opportunity. Five students came from Delta Middle School and four from Hotchkiss K-8 School.

The theme for the conference was courageous leadership. The National Young Leaders State Conference (NYLSC) helps young scholars take an introspective and highly personalized assessment of their leadership skills and abilities.

This was a four-day program where our students built a working “toolkit” of strategies to help them successfully dream, create and implement plans that will change how they view their role as leaders in our community.

These students gained tremendous skills and left the conference being challenged to step forward in their leadership within their schools and their communities. These students had to meet a selective criteria to be nominated for this National State Level Conference.

We are very proud of these students for representing Delta County at this conference. The

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ATTENDING THE NATIONAL YOUNG Leaders State Conference representing Delta County were (back, left to right) Emily Kuta (DMS), Natalie Anderson-Coats (HK8), Kelli Burhdorf (HK8), Daryl Batt (HK8), Jessica Violett( HK8) and Breanna Music (DMS); (front, left to right) Casey Lingelbach (HK8), Dustin Ownby (DMS), Jace Junberg (DMS) and Javier Romero (DMS). Not pictured is Valerie Velasco (DMS).

Delta Middle School representatives were Emily Kuta, Javier Romero, Dustin Ownby, Bre-

anna Music, Jace Jurnberg and Valerie Velasco. Hotchkiss K8 representatives were Natalie

Anderson-Coats, Kelli Burhdorf, Daryl Batt, Jessica Violett and Casey Lingelbach.

Sweet Sunny South will rock Paradise Dec. 12 Dr. Heidi Marlin

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Paonia’s own old time, good time, anytime band, Sweet Sunny South, returns to the Paradise Theater for the ninth annual Throw Down.

The show takes place on Saturday, Dec. 12. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 7:30.

The band just returned from NFA Studios in Denver where they laid down the initial tracks for a brand new CD to be released in the spring of 2010. Sweet Sunny South brought in their good friend Phil Wade of KCMO’s Wilders to produce and had the best studio experience to date with him.

The band recorded a few tunes that appeared first on the “Live From The Radio Room” which is now out of print, and recorded some brand new songs that had everyone contributing including Phil Wade on dobro and banjo for a few tunes, as well as some incredible surprise guests and instrumentation.

“We think it is the best CD yet! We all look forward to our first shows since the recording session and sharing some of the new stuff with the hometown audience,” said Bill Powers of Sweet Sunny South.

For those unfamiliar with this Western Slope institution, Sweet Sunny South plays a unique combination of old-time and bluegrass music including rocking fiddle rave ups and ballads both traditional and original featuring fine vocal performances from all members. The instrumentation consists of guitar, fiddle, upright bass, banjo and mandolin. There’s always a good dose of humor and styles ranging from

cajun, to swing, and 40s and 50s style roadhouse country and honky-tonk. Sweet Sunny South tips their hat to the tradition but does it somehow with a decidedly rock and roll attitude. The band is well know all across the western region of the US for being one of the tightest and most entertaining groups Colorado has to offer. In 2006 it was recognized by the International Bluegrass Music Association in Nashville where the band performed for the trade as an official showcase ensemble.

Sweet Sunny South is in their ninth year performing. They have released four CDs to critical acclaim with a fifth recorded this November due to be released in 2010. Multiple solo and alter ego projects have spun off from the group, including CD releases from Honey Don’t, Hard Pressed, and Duck Duck Gray Duck. All available from the band’s label, 2 DollaReccas.

Come celebrate the holiday season with song and dance, Sweet Sunny South, and your friends and neighbors. It’s become a special treat to see the band on their hometown stage at the Paradise Theater. Get your tickets early, as the concerts tend to sell out in advance. Tickets are available at Expressions Bookstore, Homestead Market, Paonia Farm and Home Supply and the Paradise Theater in Paonia. Or tickets may be reserved by calling 527-5112.

For more information on the band including schedule of appearances, reviews, biographies and articles visit www. sweetsunnysouth.com.

Time to prepare for stock dog trials art competition

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211 Grand Ave. Suite 102 Paonia, CO 81428 Bus: 970-527-6200

Artists are invited to participate in the fifth annual art competition of the Hotchkiss Sheep Camp Stock Dog Trials.

Previous winners of the TDS Shepherd’s Award include Virginia Blackstock of Hotchkiss, Mary Farmer of Hotchkiss, Kimmer High-Jepson of Grand Junction, and in 2009 there were two winners—Betty Jo McKinney of Crawford and Sherry Cobb of Delta.

There are a couple of changes to the 2010 art competition.

Artists should submit their artwork to the Hotchkiss-Crawford Historical Society Museum on Saturday, Feb. 27 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Out of town artists may also enter the competition by shipping their artwork.

In addition to the $500 Shepherd’s Award, prizes will also be given to first place $200, second place $100, third place $75 and a People’s Choice Award of $100.

Winners will be announced on Saturday, March 6 at an Artists’ Reception at the museum.

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SWEET SUNNY SOUTH WILL perform at the Paradise Theater for the ninth annual Throw Down on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m.

HOTCHKISS HIGH SCHOOL SCHEDULE Sat., Dec. 5

Wrestling, Hotchkiss Invitational.

Mon., Dec. 7 Fall Sports Awards, 6:00 p.m.

Wed., Dec. 9 Freshmen Basketball at Montrose, 4:30, 6:00 p.m.

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sponsor of the Shepherd’s Award and this winning artwork will be used to promote the 2010 Hotchkiss Sheep Camp Stock Dog Trials on Mother’s Day weekend, May 7, 8 and 9 on posters and T-shirts.

For more information, contact Sandy Bliss at (970) 250-4132 or e-mail blissful@sopris.net. Entry forms and competition rules may also be obtained at www.northforkvalley.net.

Christmas musical set for Dec. 13 Paonia’s Friends Church will present “Bows of Holly,” a kid’s Christmas musical about the importance of sharing blessings that we have all received.

The program will be presented at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13.

Admission is one non-perishable food item per person for the PFC food bank. The church is located at Third and Poplar in Paonia.

Thur., Dec. 3 Fri., Dec. 4 Sat., Dec. 5

Mon., Dec. 7 Tues., Dec. 8

Basketball “C” Team at Olathe, 4:00, 5:30 p.m.

Basketball at Gunnison, 3:00, 4:30, 6:00, 7:30 p.m.; Best of the West Select Band.

Basketball at Cedaredge, 1:00, 2:30, 4:00 p.m.; Wrestling at Hotchkiss Tournament, 9:00 a.m.; Best of the West Select Band; Speech at Fruita.

“C” Team Basketball at Home vs. Delta, 4:00, 5:30 p.m.

Basketball at Home vs. Olathe, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30 p.m.

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Moratorium on marijuana dispensaries enacted by emergency ordinance in Paonia

By Kathy Browning Staff Writer

By a vote of 3-1, the Paonia Town Council placed a temporary 120-day moratorium on the operation of a primary care giver or dispensary business that sells medical marijuana within town limits. The emergency ordinance will go into effect five days after its publication in the Delta County Independent Wednesday, Dec. 2. The council discussed the ordinance at their Nov. 24 public meeting.

The moratorium will give the

town staff and board of trustees time to “investigate the Town’s ability to regulate such businesses, and to develop and implement any appropriate regulations.” Currently, the town does not have any business regulations regarding the sale and distribution of medical marijuana.

Jim Briscoe, town attorney, said he didn’t believe the State of Colorado will not be able to develop regulations in 120 days, but it will give the town time to work out their own ordinance regarding distances of dispen-

saries from schools, homes and each other.

The moratorium will not have any effect on Paonia Hydro, the dispensary owned by George Barker which was established before the ordinance was approved.

The motion was made by Sid Lewis and seconded by David Weber. Scott Morley joined Lewis and Weber in voting for the temporary moratorium, while trustee Lucien Pevec was opposed to the motion.

The reason why the morato-

Hotchkiss Emblem Club meets Hotchkiss Emblem Club #306 held its 55th meeting Nov. 2 at the Hotchkiss Elks Lodge.

Refreshments were served at 6:30 p.m. by Donna Cochran and Margaret Deutsch.

Donna Williams opened the meeting at 7 p.m. Roll call found one officer, first guard Margie Brungardt, absent.

Vice president Margaret announced the charter would be draped in memory of Genevieve Price and all deceased sisters. The charter was draped by junior past president Gwen Carpenter.

Donna asked financial secretary Karen Emmons for her report. Karen had received a total of $454.64 for October. Treasurer JoAnn Anderson gave her report.

Both were filed for audit.

Corresponding secretary Betty read a letter from supreme concerning Opportunity Award tickets. It is the club’s policy to buy the book of tickets.

A letter from Karen contained the minutes of the state meeting at Delta.

Betty thanked members for the cards, calls, visits and flowers she received after her operation.

All communication not needing action will be filed. That needing action was taken up under new business.

Betty read a bill from Karen

Emmons for the taco supper.

Members voted to pay the $155.52 bill.

Under committee reports, Margaret had no applications. A short report was given on drug awareness. For community service, Gwen reported one member donated 18 hours at the senior citizen center. One member volunteered 22 hours at Hotchkiss K-8 School. Gwen received 589 cancelled stamps, 71 soup labels and 22 box tops, all for education, 3,122 pull tabs for Ronald McDonald House and 257 card fronts for St. Jude’s. She sent three birthday cards.

Karen Martin congratulated Gwen on the reports given at the state meeting.

For ways and means, Ruth said 88 were served at the taco supper Oct. 16. She thanked Bill Carson, Donna Williams, Karen Martin, Karen and Chrysta Emmons, Anne Pratt, Jennifer Fergesson, Gladys Carpenter and Katie Moran for their help.

No taco supper will be held in December.

For special Elks, Katie reported serving a turkey dinner to 60 on Oct. 26. She thanked Ruth, Karen Martin, Karen Emmons, Gwen Carpenter and Jennifer Fergesson for their help.

No November birthdays were celebrated. December birthdays

Enjoy holiday cheer at the Creamery The Creamery Arts Center events for the holiday season offer activities for everyone.

Our opening reception on Dec. 11 will feature local artist Carol Ann Rasmussen presenting her pottery, sculptures and alcohol ink paintings in the Peach Gallery. The Art Quilt Association (AQuA) of Grand Junction will feature their prize winning quilts in the Churro Gallery.

On Friday evening, Dec. 11, the Creamery will celebrate the holiday season with carolers and music by Tamara and David Hauze. The party starts at 6 p.m.

All are welcome to share in this festive celebration offering seasonal goodies and spirits.

Carol Ann Rasmussen attended the University of New Mexico, University of Montana and New Mexico State University, as well as many workshops taught by significant artists in her fields of study. Carol Ann also travels extensively in the United State studying the work of other artists in their environments.

Carol Ann Rasmussen states, “Color has always been my passion, whether I am making sculptures, pottery in clay or painting in alcohol inks. In order to express my love of color, I formulate my own glazes which are then fired on my clay works to give them the desired effects. Alcohol inks provide me another avenue to introduce an array of color to a two dimensional form of art.

“My feelings are externalized in the making of works of art that express my joy of using color and/ or humor as a vehicle to enjoy the best parts of my day. I first experienced this joy of color in a class at the University of Montana with Rudy Audio, mixing the pigments on my palette, realizing there are no limits to the experiences of color. Later, I found expression in the chemistry of glazes and texture working with clay. I celebrate my life in making art.”

The Art Quilt Association is comprised of fiber artists living on the Western Slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Specializing in quilts as art rath-

er than bed coverings, AQuA is a group which explores textile manipulation and the diversity of mixed media as an art form.

This is not your grandmother’s quilting! The members create unique, contemporary art quilts of all shapes, styles, and sizes.

Interest in art quilting has exploded in the last few years with national focus groups like Studio Art Quilts Association and Surface Design Association growing in membership. The Art Quilt Association in Grand Junction was ahead of the curve.

Established in 1996 the group has grown from a handful to over 60 members. In Jan. 2004, the group decided to “get serious” about their work and has had many successes since then.

Their first juried themed exhibit was at Grand Junction City Hall in 2005. Later exhibit venues have included the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, the Creamery Art Center, and the Johnson Gallery at Mesa State College in Grand Junction. Art quilts featuring the natural world of the Southwest were created for exhibit and sale at Chapin Mesa Gallery at Mesa Verde National Park in fall of 2008.

Here’s the schedule for holiday activities at the Creamery: Dec. 5 — noon to 4 p.m., Card making, ornament making and kids’ card making station; Dec. 11 — noon deadline for the gift wrapping contest for kids, teens and adults. Winners will be announced at the opening reception; Dec. 12 — noon to 4 p.m., Card making, ornament making and kids’ card making station.

Dec. 12 — Visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. Get your photo taken with Santa.

Dec. 12 — Local authors book signing.

The Creamery is located at 165 West Bridge Street in Hotchkiss.

For more information, call 8724848 or toll free 866-821-ARTS. The Creamery is open MondaySaturday, 11 a.m. -6 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

were celebrated by Betty Portman, Marie Stucker and Katie Moran.

Sixteen members signed the register. The dime march was won by Gwen Carpenter.

Under new business, members were asked to provide cakes, candy and baked goods for the cake wheel at the charity ball Nov. 14.

The Emblem Club’s Christmas party will be held Dec. 19 at 6:30 p.m. The club voted to have ham this year. The club furnishes the meat and rolls. Members are asked to bring potluck. Bring $5 gifts for yourself and any guests.

Also, bring $1 for Elks Christmas baskets. You could include a couple of canned goods for the Elks kitchen. Extra food is needed at Christmastime.

Donna’s thought for the day: It’s nice to be important but more important to be nice.

Katie Moran Press correspondent

rium ordinance was tabled at the Nov. 10 council meeting, was because David Weber wanted to ask Jim Briscoe legal questions.

With the town attorney present on Nov. 24, Weber asked if the council had the right to write laws about amendments to the Colorado constitution. “Could we put a moratorium on charter schools?” Briscoe responded that dispensaries were never mentioned in the voter approved constitutional amendment. People created the concept of dispensaries afterwards. Briscoe added that the state will come out with whatever regulations they feel are appropriate. He believes dispensaries will be allowed.

Briscoe noted that if the state does not enact regulations within the moratorium length, the ordinance could be extended by the council. To clarify, he stated, the moratorium is on dispensaries only and not on medical marijuana.

Bob Borchardt/DCI

Where did they go?

This unique sled was spotted unattended at the trailhead of the County Line nordic ske area. The converted stroller lets parents pull their toddler while enjoying the ski trails on the Grand Mesa.

Not to worry. Its owners were simply warming up in their vehicle before loading up their special stroller. Although the trails are groomed, the snow depth is still very shallow.

Commodities distribution is Dec. 17 Department of Agriculture commodities will be distributed in Delta County Thursday, Dec. 17, at the following locations: Delta — First Assembly of God gym, 762 Dodge Street.

Cedaredge — Masonic Hall, 295 W. Main Street.

Hotchkiss — Heritage Hall, Delta County Fairgrounds.

Distribution begins at 9 a.m., and ends at 1 p.m. or earlier, if items are no longer available.

To receive commodities, you must be a resident of Delta County and meet income eligibility guide-

lines of $2,247 monthly for a family of two, $3,400 for a family of four, and $4,553 for a family of six.

Quantities are limited and will be distributed on a first come basis.

Please bring a container to hold the items. The weight of an average order is 84 pounds. The number of items in an average order is 48.

A typical household will receive the following as long as the items are available: frozen meat, canned juice, vegetable soup, kidney beans, instant dry milk, walnut pieces, cereal, fluid milk, apricots,

beef stew, sweet potatoes, northern beans, canned pumpkin and canned pork.

You must be a resident of Delta County (proof may be required) to be eligible. Quantities are limited and will be distributed on a first come basis.

Sign-up cards will be available at each site. Please bring some form of identification. If picking up commodities for another household, an ID and a note from that household is required.

For more information, call 8742039.

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Wells Fargo supports non-profits

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

Wells Fargo Bank in Delta has brightened the holidays for six worthy non-profit organizations in Delta County.

The bank’s annual Community Assistance Grants presentation was held at the local branch on Tuesday morning with a total of $4,000 distributed to the local non-profits, explained bank officer Jennifer Abila.

The beneficiaries of the bank’s assistance program this year are Needle Rock Family Outreach, Delta County Humane Society, Western Slope Concert Series, Girls on the Run, North Fork Historical Society, and Families Plus.

Presentation of the grants was made by bank president Scot

Buhrdorf.

Jolie Clark represented the Needle Rock Family Health Outreach and accepted their donation.

The organization’s work includes providing much-needed, in-home health services in the Crawford/ North Fork area, Clark explained.

Renee Eaton of the Delta County Humane Society accepted the bank’s donation and will put the money to use furthering its mission to care for animals in need.

Master musicians and concert masters Tyme and Katherine Mientka represented the Western Slope Concert Series which they have spearheaded, supported, and performed in for hundreds of delighted audiences over the years.

Girls on the Run, a program

that aims to provide self-actualization development and support along with athletic training for girls was represented by Jill Henwood and Jessica Beller.

Judy Livingston of the North Fork Historical Society said the bank’s grant would be used for a remodeling project that will make

their Paonia location more accessible to the public.

Mike Dodson accepted the Wells Fargo grant on behalf of the Families Plus organization.

Dodson serves on the board for the parent non-profit All-American Families which is directed by Brenda Holland.

Delta chamber establishes a new Christmas tradition The Delta Area Chamber of Commerce invites members to help decorate a Christmas tree which has been graciously donated by Ferganchick Tree Farm.

“We would like each member to bring an ornament that repre-

sents their business to hang on the tree,” said chamber director Linda Sanchez. “If you can’t think of anything that would specifically represent your business, any decoration will do, just put your name on it. We will store and display them year to year.”

The huge tree has been set up in the lobby of the chamber building at 3rd and Main and is just waiting to be decorated.

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Caught shopping in Delta Carol O’Donnell (left) was “caught” shopping in Delta by the Delta Area Chamber of Commerce while making a purchase from Gini McNair (right) at Fat Cat Pottery. The chamber applied $20 towards her purchase as a reward for shopping in Delta during the holiday season. This Friday the chamber will be out during the Parade of Lights, looking for folks wearing “I Shop Delta” buttons while visiting downtown businesses before and after the parade. The parade begins at 6 p.m. and will travel from 9th Street to 3rd Street. As a special treat, Santa’s helpers will set up a special low-power radio station during the parade. Listen at 88.9 FM to hear Santa’s elves describing the parade live — the station will begin broadcasting about an hour before the parade and continue through the end of the parade. And be sure to have those “I Shop Delta” buttons on display.

Honor your favorite nurse

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COMMUNITY SPIRIT, HOLIDAY SPIRIT. Representitives of six hard working, community spirited nonprofit organizations were on hand Tuesday as the Delta branch Wells Fargo Bank presented its annual Community Assistance Grants. Pictured from left are Renee Eaton, Delta County Humane Society; Jessica Beller and Jill Henwood of Girls on the Run; Jolie Clark of Needle Rock Family Health Outreach; Judy Livingston of the North Fork Historical Society; Scot Buhrdorf with Wells Fargo Bank; Mike Dodson representing Families Plus; and Tyme and Katherine Mientka of the Western Slope Concert Series.

The Western Colorado Nightingale Committee is seeking nominations of Registered Nurses for the prestigious Nightingale Award for Excellence in Human Caring by Dec. 4.

If you know a nurse who displays a personal and professional commitment to clinical expertise, leadership and community service, consider honoring him/ her with your nomination. The nominee must be an RN currently practicing in Colorado or retired from practice in Colorado and may not be a previous recipient of the state award.

The Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Human Caring

was founded in 1985 to honor nurses who best exemplify the philosophy and practice of Florence Nightingale, a 19th century nursing pioneer who epitomized the art of helping people toward their optimal health.

For the past 25 years, registered nurses throughout the state are nominated by peers, supervisors and friends for this prestigious award. Fifteen finalists are selected at regional events and forwarded to the state selection committee, which determines the recipients. Finalists are recognized at the gala state Nightingale Event in Denver each May. An initial letter of nomina-

tion and a completed nomination form must be postmarked

by Friday, Dec. 4. Forms may be downloaded at http://home. mesastate.edu/~kreuss/Nightingale.htm The Western Colorado Nightingale Event will be held on March 20 at the Doubletree Hotel in Grand Junction. The theme of the evening is “Celebrating Caring Moments” and will feature Karen Taylor Good, acclaimed singer/songwriter and inspirational speaker. Tickets are $50 and underwriting and sponsorship opportunities are available at the website above or by calling Terri Walter at 257-2363.

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Treasure hunting is an adventure at Charli’s Charm Consignment Center Times are tough. Although the economy seems to have bottomed out, it may be many months before housing prices pick up and the job market rebounds. Smart shoppers who want to stretch their dollars are heading to Charli’s Charm Consignment Center, located at 718 Hwy. 50 in Delta.

An eclectic assortment of antiques and collectibles fill the spacious display area. Glassware, home decor, furniture, clothing, and vintage hats and gloves bring back memories of Grandma’s house. Head off in another direction and you’ll find yourself home on the range with western decor and Indian rugs, pillows and baskets. Christmas decor is prominently displayed in the center of the store. A room at the back contains a surprising collection of used tack and riding gear.

No matter which direction you turn, you’ll feel surrounded by a sense of nostalgia. Books, records and artwork are reminders of a gentler era.

Owner Charli Lawhead reflects the graciousness of days gone by, with a genuine interest in her customers and what’s going on in their lives.

So many people who walk through the door have “lost” things — their jobs, their families. They love the museum-like feeling of the store because it’s filled with warm memories of people and places they once loved.

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though, it had a completely different feel. “It was totally trashed inside and out,” Charli says bluntly. She wandered into the store looking for a headboard but soon left, dismayed by the dark, dusty pile of junk inside.

As she was leaving the building, the owner of Ernie’s Emporium commented, “Everything is for sale, including the business.”

The former manager of an at-risk youth program, she cashed in her retirement benefits and set to work

cleaning out the junk. In Charli’s head, a vision quickly formed — a vision of a business which would match at-risk youth with job opportunities. While her vision of working with youth hasn’t panned out, she is proud to have cleaned up a business which had become an embarassment to Delta.

Still she has a vision for what the store can become — she just has to overcome the challenges facing small businesses up and down

Charli’s Charm Consignment Center offers a unique, enjoyable shopping experience. “People tell me the store has a fun atmosphere,” Charli says.

“Treasure hunting brings the adventure out in all of us.”

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Delta’s Main Street. She’s learned that adaptability is the key to keeping a business open during tough economic times, so Charli’s Charm has seen several transformations.

But after four years of hard work and creative effort, Charli is forced to reach out to the community for the support she needs to keep the business open. She came up with an idea for a “grassroots stimulus plan campaign” to build hope and community spirit.

It involves asking people for money — which is difficult for someone like Charli who’s always considered themselves self-sufficient. On the other hand, Charli asks herself, “Why wouldn’t people want to help?

I’ve cleaned up an eyesore along Highway 50.”

Here’s how it works — by donating a dollar or two, many people can bless the store and its consignees, keeping yet another small business from closing. When Charli’s Charm is again self-sufficient, the stimulus campaign would be directed to another marginal local business. So if you’ve got a dollar to spare, or you’re just looking for something unique for the holidays, stop by Charli’s Charm. The consignment center is open six days a week — Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.

“Come on down and let’s negotiate,” Charli says.

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Bring in 5 canned goods and receive 10% OFF (to benefit Cedaredge Food Bank)

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Wednesday, December 2 OLATHE, DELTA, MONTROSE, COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS CHRISTMAS POTLUCK DINNER, 6:30 p.m., Spiers-Dennis American Legion Post #24. Meat, potatoes, gravy and drinks provided. If last name begins with A-M, bring a salad, N-Z bring a dessert. Only those who are two years out in their grief are asked to contribute food. For any bereaved person coping with grief. For more information, call Maryann Harris, 323-5439 or 209-7719. Also: www. compassionatefriends.org.

Thursday, December 3 DELTA SENIOR HARMONICATS PERFORM, 11:45 a.m.-12 noon, Delta Senior Center. More members are needed too. Anyone interested, meet at the Delta Senior Center today or call Carl, 874-2879 for more information.

December 4 & 5 PAONIA HOLIDAY ART FAIR, Blue Sage Center for the Arts, 228 Grand Avenue, Paonia. Friday: 3-8 p.m.; Saturday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Enjoy live music, caroling and refreshments while choosing gifts from the hand-made items created by local artisans. Also check out the expanded Gallery and Gift Shop. For more information, call Patricia, 527-5421.

HOLIDAY CRAFT AND BAKE SALE, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Westminster Hall, Presbyterian Church, 4th and Meeker streets, Delta. Soup lunch just $5. Proceeds benefit Delta Emblem Club and Presbyterian Church mission projects.

MAKE HOLIDAY CARDS — Crawford Public Library. Friday: 4-8 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. All materials provided.

GALLERY AND BOUTIQUE WALK, Paonia. Friday: 3-8 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Pick up list of galleries and boutiques at Blue Sage Center for the Arts, 228 Grand Avenue, Paonia.

Saturday, December 5 CITY OF DELTA HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Bill Heddles Recreation Center gymnasium, Delta. Approximately 60 vendor booths for holiday shopping. Show is free to the public. For more information, call 874-0923.

DELTA HUBWHEELER SQUARE DANCE CLUB MEETS, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Elementary School, 1050 Hastings Street, Delta.

Mainstream. Larry Schulz calling. Maxine Springer cueing. Round dance lessons at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 874-4962 or 856-3487.

METAMOOCIL MOUNTAIN BOYS PERFORM, 7 p.m., Apple Shed, Cedaredge. Celebrates the release of their CD “Sittin In.” A free copy of the CD will be given to each couple at the show. $15 advance tickets available at Starrs Guitars, Cedaredge or $17.50 at the door. For more information, go to www.acousticevents.com/ MMBoys or www.starrsguitars.com.

DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF RAY CARPENTER, 7-10 p.m., Bill Heddles Recreation Center, Delta. Everyone welcome. Coffee and lemonade provided. Cost: $4. For more information, call 874-0923.

STORY OF THE “REAL” ST. NICHOLAS PRESENTED in drama and song, 5 p.m., Delta United Methodist Church, 5th and Meeker streets, Delta. Designed for children to add to their Christmas celebration. Donation of a toy to be given to the Delta Police Department Toys for Tots is requested.

CHRISTMAS BAZAAR with cookies by the pound, RADA knives for sale, gift items, homemade crafts, cinnamon rolls and coffee in the morning. Soup and sandwiches for lunch. Crawford Community United Methodist Church, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

HOLIDAY BOOK SALE, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., new Book Barn, behind Paonia library. Books, movies and CDs for all ages.

The singers of Dolce Voce present “We Wish You a Dolce Christmas” on Saturday, Dec. 19, at 3 p.m. at Montrose United Methodist Church, and again on Sunday, Dec. 20, at 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Delta. Tickets are available at the door (adults $10; children and seniors $5).

From classics like “Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy” and “Carol of the Bells” to haunting Irish carols, Caribbean swing, and favorites from a Charlie Brown Christmas, this will be an afternoon of holiday music that makes the joy and “sweetness” of Christmas come alive.

Combining both the hallowed and the festive, the group will sing holiday madrigals, medieval chant, and familiar songs of the season made new. This year, they are performing with special guest artist, Tamela Kenning, a

Dance away holiday pounds Come to the Redlands Mesa Grange and shed some holiday pounds with music from Fast Eddie & The Lug Nuts Saturday, Dec. 12. The Lug Nuts (Ed Boiani, Paul Frazier, Ernie Erspamer and Kurt Isgreen) are a premier rock ‘n roll, rhythm and blues, boogie dance band from Delta and Montrose counties.

Known especially for their tight vocal harmonies, they feature songs from the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s and beyond! If you love to dance or simply enjoy great dance tunes, don’t miss the holiday dance. The music starts at 8 p.m.

Admission is $10 at the door.

WINTERSTART CROSS COUNTRY SKI RACES, Skyway, Grand Mesa. 5K classic race at 11 a.m. 5K freestyle race at 12:30 p.m.

Registration on race day only. $10 for GMNC members, $15 for others. All ages and abilities welcome. For more information, call 4349753 or go to: www.gmnc.org.

PEARL HARBOR REMEMBRANCE DINNER AND HOLIDAY GET-TOGETHER for veterans and their families, 6 p.m., Cedaredge Assembly of God Church. Meat, potatoes, beverage provided. Bring salad, side, or dessert and canned donation for food bank. Hosted by Grand Mesa VFW Post 9221 and Ladies Auxiliary.

STORYTIMES FOR BABIES AND TOTS — Hotchkiss library on Mondays, Paonia library on Tuesdays, Delta library on Wednesdays, Cedaredge and Crawford libraries on Thursdays. Lapsit storytimes for babies from birth to one year at 10 a.m. and Tottimes for children from 1-3 years follow at 10:30 a.m. at all libraries.

Tuesday, December 8 COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER AND PARTY, 6 p.m., Delta Elks building basement. Sponsored by Delta Lions Club. Dinner is free. Bring the kids too. Bring a small, wrapped gift (under $10) for each child for Santa to give them. RSVP to Lion Tom Panter, 8748864 with how many will be attending.

ADVENT CONCERT, 12:15 p.m., St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 5th and Palmer streets, Delta. Barbara Bailey, vocalist and instrumentalist, performs secular and sacred selections. She ends the 45-minute concert by asking audience to sing along. Public welcome. For more information, call 874-9489 or 856-7005.

Thursday, December 10 DELTA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Orchard City Town Hall. Light lunch served. RSVP by December 7.

BOARD OF EDUCATION SCHOOL BOARD MEETING, 6 p.m. policy review, 7 p.m. regular meeting, Delta High School, 1400 Pioneer Road, Delta.

PRESENTATION ON FEDERAL SALINITY PROGRAMS and grant opportunities available for local ditch companies by Mike Baker, Bureau of Reclamation, 7 p.m., Memorial Hall, Hotchkiss.

local soloist and former member of the group.

Dolce Voce (which means sweet voice in Italian), is a group of eight a cappella singers from the Grand Valley area.

They perform an eclectic blend of music, ranging from madrigals of the 16th century to modern jazz and spirituals, as well as classics from the baroque and romantic masters. Dolce Voce has recorded three well-received CDs (A Dolce Voce Christmas, Amore, and Sanctus) and even a commercial jingle for a local business.

Celebrating their sixth year together, the group has performed all over the valley, from Ouray’s Wright Opera House to the Mountain Harvest Festival in Paonia, as well as the Presbyterian Church, Cedaredge’s Chapel of the Cross and at the Montrose Pavilion. The a cappella singers span a wide range of backgrounds, all contributing to the magical blend of voices so well loved in the valley. From writers and artists, carpenters and chefs, teachers and technicians, the mix

Barbara Bailey

Advent concert set for Dec. 8 Barbara Bailey, a vocalist of great range as well as instrumentalist, will perform at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 5th and Palmer, Delta, on Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 12:15 p.m.

Bailey directs the choir at Eckert Presbyterian Church. As part of the church’s annual advent concerts, Bailey will sing a number of secular and sacred selections. She will be accompanied

by Vernette Mackley. The miniconcert of 45 minutes will end with a sing-along. The public is welcome. For more information call 874-9489 or 856-7005.

Saturday, December 12 SWEET SUNNY SOUTH IN CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Paradise Theater, Paonia. Advance tickets $15 by calling 527-5112 or $18 at the door.

UNCOMPAHGRE VALLEY CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (NSDAR) MEETING, Bonnie Murphy’s home. Presentation by Alla LaBarr on becoming a U.S. citizen. Each member bring two dozen cookies to share and to take to shut-ins. For more information, call Jane Murphy, Regent, 249-6264.

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The North Fork Community Chorus and Orchestra will present Handel’s Messiah and other Christmas selections at two locations — Eckert Presbyterian Church at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11, and North Fork Baptist Church in Paonia at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13.

Eckert Presbyterian is located on Hwy. 65 across from the Big E Market and North Fork Baptist is on Hwy. 133 across from Paonia

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The group has traditionally performed the Christmas portion of the Messiah in odd-numbered years since 2001. Conducting duties will be shared by Vern Davis, Gretchen Nicholoff, Dale Soucek and Jan Tuin. Soloists will be Vern Davis, Robin Nicholoff, Colleen Thliveris, Ed Horton, Barb Soucek, Sarah Bishop, Diane McCulley and Dee Holt.

Two boy sopranos, Derek Holt

Valley Symphony Association is pleased to announce a special Christmas concert showcasing the talents of the Valley Symphony Chorus under the direction of Bethany Ward and Jan Tuin. Come celebrate the holiday season with Dickens-inspired Christmas caroling and wassail for all!

Selections will include “Christmas Day” by Gustav Holst, “The Coventry Carol,” “A

Hymn to the Virgin” by Benjamin Britten, “On Christmas Night All Christians Sing (The Sussex Carol),” “Wassail Song of Gloucestershire,” “O Magnum Mysterium” by Morten Lauridsen, audience sing-along Christmas carols plus much more.

Concerts will be held Friday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the Delta Performing Arts Center and Sunday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m. at the Montrose Pavilion auditorium. This will be one of the most popular presentations of the Valley Symphony Association’s 39th season — don’t miss it!

Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $5 for students 17 and under and may be purchased in advance via e-mail to vsa@sopris.net.

Tickets are also available in advance at the following locations: Homer L. Sims Agency (901 Main Street, Montrose); DeVinny Jewelers (321 Main Street, Montrose); Montrose Pavilion Office - by credit card either in person or by telephone (249-7015).

Tickets will also be available at the door prior to both concerts.

Rec center is site of holiday craft show The City of Delta’s annual holiday craft fair is scheduled Saturday, Dec. 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the gym at Bill Heddles Recreation Center. About 60 vendors will have booths offering everything from stained glass and jewelry to fiber art and antiques. There will be clothing, purses, scarves, items for babies, embroidery, elegantly decorated eggs, woodcrafts and more. The show is free.

City of Delta Activity Update • TAE KWON DO - ongoing classes are held Tuesday and Thursday from 6:458:00 p.m. (4 week sessions).

• BODY COMPOSITION ANALYSIS - Call the fitness department and set up an appointment.

• HEALTHY BODY STRONG BONES - Adult Fitness Class on Monday/ Thursday 8:30-9:30 a.m.

• PERSONAL TRAINING - Hire a certified trainer for 1 hour sessions to give you some fitness motivation. Personal Training can now be done in Aquatics too!

• BOXING FOR KIDS - Saturdays, 10:00a.m.-12:00 Noon. Drop in fee every Saturday. (No class Dec. 5) • KIDS IN MOTION - For ages 3-5 on Wednesday from 9:00-9:45 a.m.

Register in advance for each weekly session.

• ALIVE AT 25 - 4-hour class taught by Colorado State Patrol on Tues., January 20 from 4:30-9:00 p.m.

• BOXING FOR FITNESS - Ongoing

ing vocal blend and exceptional musicianship for which Dolce Voce has become noted.

For more information, call 626-4104.

North Fork chorus, orchestra to perform Handel’s Messiah

Friday, December 11 NORTH FORK COMMUNITY CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA PRESENTS HANDEL’S MESSIAH, 7 p.m., Eckert Presbyterian Church.

OPENING ARTISTS RECEPTION with Carol Ann Rasmussen and The Art Quilt Association, 6-8 p.m., Creamery Arts Center, 165 Bridge Street, Hotchkiss. Free and open to the public.

“EXAMINING ABANDONED MINE LANDS IN THE UNCOMPAHGRE WATERSHED” WORKSHOP, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Ouray Community Center. Hosted by Uncompahgre Watershed Planning Partnership. Workshop involves short presentations as well as a roundtable discussion focusing on data sharing and prioritizing abandoned mine sites for future reclamation. For more information, call Andrew Madison, 413-297-7232 or Ridgway.vista@gmail.com.

of personalities and voices create something special that must be heard to be believed. The upcoming Christmas concerts promise to be full of the shimmer-

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Friday, December 4 COOKIE WALK, LUNCHEON AND CRAFTS, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., luncheon served from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Delta United Methodist Church, 5th and Meeker streets (new Fellowship Hall), Delta.

Homemade cookies and candies. Sloppy joes, potato salad, chips, beverage and pie, $5. Sponsored by The United Methodist Women of Delta.

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT VARIETY CLASS - Cycle and Tone with Letty (Class format changes every 6 weeks) Wed. 5:30-6:30 p.m.

TEAM TRAINING - Monday, Nov. 16-Dec. 18 Intermediates: M/W/F Noon-1:00 p.m. Advanced M/W 4:30-5:30 p.m.

HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR - Saturday, December 5 from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Over 55 venders with handcrafted items.

DENVER NUGGETS BASKETBALL SKILLS CHALLENGE - Wednesday, December 30 at 10:30 a.m. Boys and girls ages 7-14 (age as of April 30, 2010.)

3-ON-3 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. Form your team and register by December 28.

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MORNING AND EVENING PUBLIC SWIM LESSONS - Registration going on now. Classes start the week of January 11, 2010. Call for exact times and levels offered.

PRIVATE AND SEMI-PRIVATE SWIM LESSONS - Registrations starts December 1-December 28. Session will run January 4-February 26.

BABYSITTER’S TRAINING COURSE - Great for ages 10-15 to learn to be a safe and responsible babysitter. Monday and Tuesday, December 28 and 29 from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

BREAKFAST WITH SANTA - Saturday, December 12 from 8:30-10:30 a.m.

Bring a camera to take pictures with Santa!

COMMUNITY EVENING DANCE Saturday, December 5 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. Music by Ray Carpenter.

HATHA YOGA CLASS - Instructed by Dea Jacobson RYT on Wednesdays 5:30-6:45 p.m.

SPLASH MANIA - 70’s Mania in the pool, for 6th and 7th graders only, Friday, December 11 from 6:00-9:00 p.m.

BEGINNING CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH - Mondays, January 11-February

and Samuel Stech, will make a special appearance.

Handel’s Messiah was first performed in 1742 in Dublin, Ireland, as a benefit for an orphanage. Orphanages were the needy institutions of that day, as food banks are the pressing need in these times. Since the music and other expenses are donated, and all other musicians, vocal and instrumental, have given freely of their time and talents, 100 percent of your donations go to the local food banks. A cash donation is your ticket to the concert.

Dance to the music of Ray Carpenter Come to Bill Heddles Recreation Center in Delta Saturday, Dec. 5, to dance the night away with Ray Carpenter. This dance is for everyone, so don’t miss out on the fun. Coffee and lemonade will be provided. The dance is from 7 to 10 p.m., and the cost is $4 at the door.

For more information, call 874-0923.

Kids, have breakfast with Santa Dec. 12 Kids, have breakfast with Santa at Bill Heddles Recreation Center Saturday, Dec. 12, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. After a pancake breakfast provided by the Delta Kiwanis, kids can make a holiday craft and jump in the inflatable bump house. There’s no charge for kids under the age of 12; 13 and up are $5. Bring your camera and have your picture taken with Santa.

15 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Register by January 7.

• INTERMEDIATE CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH - Thursday, January 14-February 18 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Register by January 7.

• INTRODUCTION TO MAHJONGG Learn to play this Chinese tile game on Wednesdays, January 13-February 3 from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR Saturday, Dec. 5 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

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Bright lights of Dec. 5 parade welcome holidays

By Bob Borchardt Staff Writer

’Tis the season, and the annual Cedaredge Christmas Parade of Lights is headed our way this weekend.

Decorating the streets is made possible through a joint effort of the Cedaredge Area Chamber of Commerce (CACC), Delta Montrose Electric Association (DMEA), TDS and the Town of Cedaredge Business Support Group. The lights are all LED lights, and were donated to the chamber last year by DMEA. This year’s Parade of Lights begins at 6 p.m., on Saturday, Dec. 5, and lineup begins at 5:30 p.m. on SW Second Ave. (on the south side of the Town Park).

This year’s theme for the parade is “Jingle Bell Rock,” according to CACC administrator Carol Peterson.

Adding to the festivities will be two live performances, featuring “Dolce Voce” at the Chapel of the Cross on Saturday, Dec.

5, at 4 p.m., and again at 7 p.m., following the Parade of Lights.

The Metamoocil Mountain Boys will also be celebrating the release of their new CD titled, “Sitting In,” with a live performance at the AppleShed on Saturday, Dec. 5, starting at 7 p.m.

Also on Saturday, the Methodist Church will host its famous chili and potato dinner at the Masonic Hall from 4-7 p.m., and the Blu Sky Saloon, located at 220 W. Main St. in Cedaredge, will feature a spaghetti buffet and, following the parade, a dance with live music.

Entry forms for the parade are now available at the Cedaredge Area Chamber of Commerce Office, located at 245 W. Main.

Entry forms need to be returned to the CACC office no later than Dec. 3.

For more information on any of these events and/or others, call the Cedaredge Area Chamber of Commerce at 856-6961.

Veterans holiday dinner to remember Pearl Harbor

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

A special dinner event for all military veterans and their families is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 7, to be held at the Cedaredge Assembly of God. The combined Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and Thanksgiving and Christmas celebration is being hosted by the Grand Mesa VFW Post 9221 and Ladies Auxiliary of Cedaredge.

This event, which has also been hosted in years past, is an opportunity for friends, comrades in arms, and families to join together and enjoy the meaning of the holiday season.

It is also a special time to help ensure that the dedication, courage, and sacrifice shown by Americans on that Dec. 7, 1941— a day so simi-

lar to the events of Sept, 11, 2001 — will not be forgotten, and that they will continue to inspire generations of freedom loving Americans to honor, protect, and serve this very unique and special country.

The Cedaredge Assembly of God is the big building on the left just as you enter town on Highway 65 from the south. The address is 1596 SW 9th Street.

The Post and Ladies Auxiliary will provide meat and potatoes for the dinner. Those attending are asked to bring a salad, side dish, or dessert.

There is no charge, but the Post and Auxiliary are asking that everyone bring at least one non-perishable food item for donation to the Surface Creek Food Bank.

The event begins at 6 p.m.

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Autumn still life A sense of peaceful autumn stillness seems to rest on Fruit Growers Reservoir in this view under cloudless skies near the dam seen last Sunday morning.

Orchard City 2010 budget reflects cautious outlook for coming year

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

The 2010 budget that Orchard City town trustees will consider for adoption on Dec. 9 does not dictate hard-and-fast spending commandments to the town staff.

Rather, it is a statement of spending priorities based on a “best guess” of what revenues will be available and what expected costs will be.

Actual amounts allocated in the budget do not have to be spent if revenues don’t come in as anticipated. While overspending an official budget can require adoption of a supplemental budget at year’s end, the administration and town board are free to decide not to spend budgeted amounts if the financial picture begins to cloud or darken as the year unfolds.

Two examples of that ongoing budget process were raised at the

town board’s last budget workshop on Nov. 18. The administration’s 2010 budget document projects spending in both the Water Fund and the Parks Fund that may not happen if hoped-for revenue doesn’t materialize, or if revenues are lower than projected.

As explained in the town administrator’s budget message, “Many of the town’s sources of revenue are decreasing, and we have no control over them.” In addition to that, budgeted spending on a big water project next year depends on whether a longterm, low-interest loan becomes available – if money isn’t borrowed for the project it can’t be spent on the project.

Completion of the town’s park improvement plan depends on whether GOCO will finally look favorably on a grant request and approve $123,000 for Orchard City Park after two previous grant applications were turned down.

Even two badly needed road projects — the chip-sealing of 2100 Road and Fairview Road — could get scaled back or eliminated from 2010 spending if state revenue sources dwindle further.

The town Water Fund begins the year with a $1.76 million cash balance carryover from 2009.

The administration’s budget proposes spending up to $750,000 of that cash cushion for the first phase of the West Main transmission line replacement project.

“Next year the town could fund approximately $750,000 from the balance in the Water Fund,” states the budget message.

Moving forward with the project at this time depends on receiving a $2 million loan at one-percent interest for 30 years.

The town administration says there is more than enough money generated annually from the new $5-per-month water capital construction fee to pay off that loan.

But if the loan doesn’t come through, current spending plans are off for the West Side transmission line project next year.

The same situation applies to the GOCO grant for Orchard City Park.

The town expects to get word on its $123,000 grant application early in December. If the grant is approved, the project will likely move forward rather than risk losing the grant.

But if the grant is turned down a third time, the mayor and Trustee Len Johnson have said spending on completing a pavilion may or may not go ahead. There appears to be sufficient revenue to complete part of the park improvements without GOCO grant money.

But, there is no requirement that the town spend the money, especially if the grant isn’t approved or if other revenues begin to lag.

Cedaredge council moves forward on zoning code

By Bob Borchardt Staff Writer

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ALTHOUGH THE GROUND IS white, the snowpack on Grand Mesa is not deep enough for quality racing, so the Cedaredge Challenge dog sleg races scheduled for Dec. 12-13 have been canceled.

December dog sleg races canceled for lack of snow

By Bob Borchardt Staff Writer

Sadly, shallow snow on the Grand Mesa means there will not be any sled dog races any time soon. A phone call late Sunday night (Nov. 30) confirmed the bad news.

The snowpack on the Grand Mesa is not deep enough for a sled dog race Steve Bethka, race coordinator for the Colorado Mountain Mushers, organizers of the Cedaredge Challenge, said the race, scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 12-13, has been canceled until further

notice, once more, due to the lack of snow.

Sponsored by the Cedaredge Area Chamber of Commerce, the Cedaredge Challenge is now in its fourth year. However, for the past three years, the race has had to be postponed due to lower than usual snowpacks, certainly not a good sign for Colorado.

According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, “Recent mild weather has only made a shallow snowpack even shallower.” To make matters worse, there is no significant snow forecast for the near

future.

But they say there is a “silver lining” for every bleak situation.

These two cocker spaniels (in photo above) were caught enjoying a day out on the Grand Mesa on Friday, Nov. 27, strolling with their owners.

For more information on all the winter activities on the Grand Mesa, call the Cedaredge Area Chamber of Commerce at 856-6961, and for information regarding sled dog races on the Grand Mesa, call Steve Bethka at 256-9056 or go on line at www. colomtnmushers.org.

During the regular meeting of the Cedaredge Town Council, on Thursday, Nov. 19, trustee Bruce Bertram moved to accept the Draft Title 16, Land Development and Zoning Code as presented by the Planning Commission, with the reservation that the annexation portion of the Code (16.02) may not be fully completed within the scheduled time frame to approve the Title.

The week before, during a work session, on Thursday, Nov. 12, a statement Bertram had commented that he would not accept Title 16, until Title 13 of the Town’s Municipal Code, had been updated and reconciled with the annexation portion of the new Land Development Code.

During the Nov. 19 meeting, it was noted that acceptance of the new Land Development and Zoning Code (Title 16) and the Public Works Manual are formal actions to transfer responsibility of the drafts from the Planning and Zoning Commission to the town council. “Acceptance” does not infer approval of the code, only accepting the responsibility to carry the regulation through the appropriate approval process.

If the draft is accepted and it is determined at a later date that the drafts are not adequate to address

the land development need of the town, the board can send one or both documents [both Title 16 and a new Public Works Manual, to replace the current Standard and Specifications, when completed] back to the Planning Commission with revision direction.”

Following the explanation, the trustees voted unanimously “to accept “ the new Land Development and Zoning Code (Title 16), with the current Standard

and Specifications, and the aforementioned reservation regarding annexation.

The trustees also officially accepted the resignation of Mayor Tony Sluski, and formally recognized a “mayoral vacancy” on the Cedaredge Town Council. It was noted that a replacement to fill the vacancy, left by the mayors resignation, will take place during a special meeting on Thursday, Dec. 3.

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Tutoring Lab Open Library, 7:30-8:15 a.m.; Wrestling at Home vs. Norwood, JV/V. JV/V Wrestling at Hotchkiss Tournament; Basketball at Home vs. Paonia, 1:00, 2:30, 4:00 p.m.; Cedaredge Parade of Lights, 6:00 p.m.

Tutoring Lab Open Library, 3:15-4:00 p.m.; Basketball C Team at Olathe, 4:00 p.m.

Tutoring Lab Open Library, 7:30-8:15 a.m. & 3:15-4:00 p.m.

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Cedaredge library needs a few new friends As 2010 approaches, the Friends of the Cedaredge Library are looking to increase their enrollment.

The Friends support the library by raising money, mostly by book sales. There is the big book sale at AppleFest, the paperback sale held in the spring and the on-going sale at the Coffee Barn. This money is used to buy additional books and supplies for the Library and support programs that not fully funded through the county, such as the Summer Reading Programs.

With the budget cuts that the county library district is experiencing, the Friends give much needed support to the Cedaredge Library.

Anyone in the Surface Creek area is invited to join the Friends of the Cedaredge Library. The group holds monthly meetings January to May and then again from September through November. The next meeting will be Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2010, at 2 pm at the library’s meeting room.

For the January program three local poets will be giving readings of their favorite poems. All meetings are fun, and include a short program on interesting topics, following the business meeting. Annual dues are $15 for an individual, and $25 for a family.

For more information or to join call Gini Moseley at 856-2376.

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Dictionaries from Rotary Members of the Cedaredge Rotary Club are working overtime as Santa’s helpers to bring early Christmas cheer to the community. During November club president, Steve Wilson, presented Surface Creek Community Services, Inc. president Jean Weisbeck and board member Ellet Paul Cramer with a check for $250, to be used by the food bank to help purchase the food needed for 200 Christmas dinners, to be given out during the holiday season. The Rotarians also presented the Cedaredge Community Gardens Committee chairman Julia Dalbow with a check for $250. And on Tuesday, Nov. 17, Rotary Club members Steve Wilson, Richard Udd, Max Kendrick, Phil Ellsworth, Jamie Meiklojohn, Gary Fleischman and Deb Edwards distributed 74 dictionary’s, donated by the Cedaredge Rotary Club, to the third grade students at both the Hunsicker Elementary School, and the Vision School in Cedaredge.

After receiving their dictionaries the students were asked to look up the word “aardvark.” No problem.

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Trustee Bertram said he hopes the trustees will take the time to think about the issues and conflicts that brought the town council to this point. Bertram said the issues included problem and conflicts related to negligence in following the town’s home rule charter, regarding the duties of the mayor and in defining the responsibility and objectives of committees.

Bertram, noting that under the home rule charter the mayoral duties are minimal (e.g.—ceremonial head and setting the agenda for meetings), asked that the trustees review job descriptions, and to provide the mayor’s position with additional authority. Bertram said, “The board has not applied the recommendations made by the personnel committee. We need to make sure we address how the town should be administrated/managed and make the proper changes.”

In a follow-up interview, Bertram said, “If we [the trustees] had addressed these issues earlier and had taken the responsibility to make the necessary changes, the town would have run smoother.”

The trustees also approved Resolution 21-2009, regarding modification to Resolution 112009 to systematically reduce the Capitol Improvement Assessment , but then tabled taking any action on Resolution 22-2009, to raise water rates, until more studies can be done.

During the discussion, Bertram said he understands the

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need for the increase in the rates, but feels there are better options than what is being proposed by the resolution.

The trustees also approved Resolution 20-2009 to transfer $15,000 from the General Fund to the Golf Course Enterprise Fund, as allowed for by TABOR. During the period set aside for public comment, Jacki Dapkus, secretary for the Friends of Cedaredge Animal Control (FCAC), asked for clarification of the term “Animal Services” as used in Resolution 23-2009, regarding the commitment of $25,000 of Legislative discretionary funds “to maintain minimal

operational expense to maintain animal services” through 2010.

Dapkus was told the term “animal services” includes both animal control and animal shelter.

Resolution 23-2009, to commit the $25,000 to maintain “animal services” through 2010 was unanimously approved by the trustees.

The trustees also approved the consent agenda which included; authorizing the town administrator to renew or enter into a new service agreement with the town’s Internet provider; approved updates to the personnel hand book; authorized the town administrator to sign an agreement with the US Census

Bureau for donated space; and authorized the town administrator to sign a $250,000 grant application to reconstruct pedestrian/ bike-routes west of Highway 65, Cedar to Main and/or construct pedestrian/bike routes [from the intersection of Third Street and NW Birch Ave.] to Main.

Cedaredge Town Administrator Kathleen Sickles reminded the trustees of the “budget” public hearing on Dec. 3, starting at 6 p.m. Following the public hearing, a special meeting has been scheduled for 7 p.m., to appoint a replacement for the vacancy left by the resignation of Mayor Tony Sluski, followed by a work session.

Subdivision access at issue

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

The proposed and approved but as yet un-built 70-lot subdivision on Running Deer Road has created some question about who needs to take responsibility for the intersection at Running Deer Road and Highway 65.

Last week, the county commissioners said they don’t want to be the ones responsible for shepherding an access permit through CDOT’s approval process.

Although the subdivision on the town’s western border is actually in the county, the BoCC and the county planning department think the town should delegate the chore of dealing with CDOT to the developer.

CDOT isn’t going to pay for any road improvements

required for the subdivision at the intersection. While the state’s road building agency will decide what improvements are required and to what specifications they will be built, someone else will pay for the work.

All of the parties involved are in agreement that should be the developer.

The Town of Orchard City would like the county to at least apply for a highway access permit for the subdivision. Running Deer is a town road. The town says it has no tax base to pay for CDOT fees, road improvements or potential liability.

Still, the county isn’t interested in being involved. County planners tried hard to get Orchard City to annex the proposed development.

Orchard City has agreed to be the domestic water provider for the Orchard Mesa subdivision, but the town refused to annex the subdivision because with no sales or property tax the town board concluded they would end up spending more money providing services, especially snow plowing of roads in winter, than the development would generate in revenue.

The developer is John Peters of Ridgway. His plan is to phase develop 70 large lots on a dry bench overlooking Tongue Creek Valley.

The commissioners decided they didn’t want CDOT permit application chores delegated to them by the town, and decided the town should instead delegate that responsibility to the developer.

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A time for patience Although temperatures have turned cold on the Grand Mesa, it has not yet turned into the world class winter playground it is known as. Snow depth is too shallow for good snowmobiling, and the ice on the lakes — such as at Island Lake in this photo — has not developed to allow safe ice fishing. Nordic trails at County Line, Lands End, Skyway and Ward Creek Reservoir have been groomed and provide some opportunities for outdoor fun. But the best is yet to come. Give winter a few more weeks to bring snow and thick ice, and folks will be flocking to the the Grand Mesa to enjoy all kinds of outdoor activities.

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Chili and potato dinner in Cedaredge The Cedaredge Community United Methodist Church will host its annual chili/baked potato dinner on Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Masonic Hall in Cedaredge from 4 to 7 p.m. during the parade of lights.

The menu includes chili and potato with all the fixings, plus dessert and drink, for $8. Children under 10 are $5 for chili and potato, dessert and drink. For $5 ($3 for children under 10) you can have chili, dessert and drink, or a potato with the fixings, dessert and drink.

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MMB concert on Dec. 5 marks second album release Staff Writer

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METAMOOCIL MOUNTAIN BOYS — Paul Frazier, George Gertz and Larry Claxton — will play Saturday, Dec. 5, beginning at 7 p.m. at the AppleShed to celebrate the release of their second CD.

“Dark Eyed Gal.” Claxton also said the Metamoocil Mountain Boys (Larry Claxton, George Gertz and Paul Frazier) have shortened their name to MMB, but will still go by the Metamoocil Mountain Boys.

Advance tickets are $15 and

are now on sale at Starr’s Guitars. Tickets at the door go for $17.50. With the purchase of a ticket, couples and individuals will receive a complimentary copy of the new CD. For advanced tickets or more information, call Starr’s Guitars at 856-2331.

Air Force Airman 1st Class Tyler L. Stratman graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

He is the son of Brad and Christie Stratman of Cedaredge.

Stratman is a 2007 graduate of Cedaredge High School. *** “The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday.”

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Ginter’s Grove special tax district eyed

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

Residents in the Ginter’s Grove neighborhood north of Cedaredge are moving forward with a two-year-long search for money to replace a $350,000 pipeline that brings domestic water from the Cedaredge treatment plant to 27 homes on Ginter’s Grove Lane.

Mike Martin is a property owner in the residential enclave set along the piñon, juniper and oak brush covered banks of Surface Creek off of NE Shady Oak. He told the county commissioners he is getting homeowner approval to set up a type of special improvement district to fund the project.

Residents of the neighborhood have been on a nearly fruitless two-year search for financial help to replace their four-mile-long failing water line. The neighborhood buys its domestic water from the Town of Cedaredge. But being outside the town limits, they are responsible for getting

treated water to homes through their own pipeline.

Special improvement districts are areas set up by property owners within them for the purpose of taxing themselves for some needed improvement.

Martin told the commissioners he has valid petition signatures from 20 owners of 31 lots, and 27 of 53 eligible voters who would have to approve formation of a district.

Martin said he and his neighbors want to proceed with formation of either a Public Improve-

ment District or a Local Improvement District – each a special case application of the special improvement district scheme.

Setting up the district will require that certain legal procedures be followed, including holding an election to form the district and authorize its taxing authority. The county will be involved in facilitating some of those procedures, but responsibility for doing the work rests with the neighborhood.

County Attorney Brad Kolman said, “We’ve never done

one before in Delta County,” referring to the public and local improvement district procedures.

So, Martin and the county will work with a template of procedures another county has used.

Martin told the BoCC that preliminary engineering work is being done, paid for with a $10,000 grant, and that preliminary design and cost estimates have been completed.

It will likely be months before an election on forming an improvements district can be held.

West line, park pavilion topics at budget session

By Hank Lohmeyer Staff Writer

Should the Town of Orchard City commit to spending $750,000 of its own funds next year on the first phase West Main transmis-

sion line replacement, and should the town spend General Fund money on a new pavilion for the park if a hoped-for GOCO grant is denied a third time?

Those were the questions the trustees discussed during a workshop in what is likely to be the last tweaking session on the town’s 2010 budget before scheduled action on Dec. 9.

The administration’s proposed 2010 budget document states, “Next year the town could fund approximately $750,000 from the balance in the Water Fund.” That money would be in addition to a hoped for $2 million low-interest loan.

And still, $2.75 million comes well short of the estimated $4 million-plus cost estimate for the project.

Trustee Gale Doudy said he thought it unwise for the town to spend so much of its own reserves on the first phase, and then leave itself short of money to finish the project.

Mayor Don Suppes explained the town won’t know about the low-interest loan probably for another six months. In addition,

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On Saturday, Dec. 5, starting at 7 p.m. — following the annual Cedaredge Parade of Lights — the MMB’s (also known to their fans as the Metamoocil Mountain Boys) will be performing live in concert at the AppleShed Arts Complex and Gallery, located at 250 S. Grand Mesa Drive in Cedaredge. The concert is to celebrate the release of their second CD, “Sitting In.” The concert is sponsored by Starr’s Guitars.

According to bass player Larry Claxton, the name was selected because the recording has a couple of guests, David Starr (slide guitar, keyboard and percussion) and Greg Cooperman (harmonica), “sitting in” with them.

Claxton said the MMB’s hope to have David and Greg “sitting in” with them during the concert.

More good news. Claxton noted that on this CD the MMB’s have finally included, what many of their fans consider to be their “signature” song,

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The morning and afternoon pre-kindergarten classes from Little Sprouts Community Preschool help carry coats and food to the Surface Creek Food Bank. Thanks to the generous donations from preschool families, more than 50 coats, sweaters and snow pants, as well as a large cache of canned food, was donated just in time for Thanksgiving.

“Many changes can take place after the budget is adopted. We can scale the project back and we don’t have to spend all the money in the budget for that project next year.”

By the most recent estimate, the new $5 monthly capital construction water fee will raise $129,000 this year, Town Administrator David Varley said. It will cost the town $78,000 annually to amortize a $2 million loan at one percent over 30 years, he added.

Other money from federal “stimulus funds” might become available to borrow, but at higher interest rates, in the 3.5-percent to 3.8-percent range, Suppes said.

In a separate budget matter, Trustee Len Johnson said if the GOCO grant for Orchard City park is denied a third time, the town could go ahead and build the pavilion on a concrete pad with its own funds. The town has an estimate of $87,000 for the work, and Suppes thinks it can be re-bid for less.

Johnson also pointed out after the meeting that if revenues tighten further, the town could delay the pavilion for another year.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Delta County Boards & Commissions The Delta County Board of Commissioners is recruiting interested volunteers to serve on the boards/commissions listed below. Appointments are made annually and are effective as of January 31 of each year.

Delta County Airport Advisory Board: 3 positions available. 1 position shall be an airport user at the Blake Field Airport, 1 airport user at the North Fork Airport, and 1 At-Large position. Airport Advisory Board members will consult with and advise the BoCC and Local Fixed Base Operators (FBOs) on issues concerning the development and operations of the County’s two airports. These terms will expire January 31, 2013.

Delta County Tourism Cabinet: 3 positions available. 1 position open from the Surface Creek area, 1 position from the Delta area, and 1 AtLarge position. Appointments are for three-year terms that will expire January 31, 2013. Tourism industry or agency representation is required.

The Tourism Cabinet meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 10:00 a.m. The Cabinet is responsible for developing an annual tourism marketing plan and for the administration of funds derived from the County Lodging Tax. Community Services Block Grant Advisory Committee: 3 Committee vacancies exist in the following categories: 1 low income individual or their representative; 1 private individual and 1 member of business, industry, labor, religious, law enforcement, education, or other major groups of interest in the community served. Applicants will be appointed to 1 and 2-year terms. Duties include review of the County’s annual CSBG Application, Mid-year, and year-end reports.

Crawford Cemetery Board: A Board vacancy exists for a representative from the Crawford area to serve a 6-year term which will expire in January 2016.

Hotchkiss Cemetery Board: A Board vacancy exists for a representative from the Hotchkiss area to complete a term which will expire in January 31, 2015.

Paonia Cemetery Board: A Board vacancy exists for a representative from the Paonia area to serve a 6-year term which will expire in January 2016.

Library Board: 1 At-Large vacancy exists for the Delta County Library Board, this term will expire 1/31/2010 to complete a vacancy created by resignation.

Region 10 Board of Directors: 3 vacancies exist. Business financing is available through the RLF program for new or expanding businesses.

Region 10 works in partnerships with local banks to address the financial needs of businesses. This term expires January 31, 2012.

Youth Shooting Sports Advisory Committee: 8 vacancies exist. 2 positions are available from the Delta area, 2 from the Surface Creek area and 2 from the North Fork area, 2 At-Large positions are open. YSSAC is responsible to develop policies relating to the Board, administer and enforce the policies, coordinate scheduling and similar activities related to the youth shooting sports.

PLANNING COMMITTEES. Crawford Advisory Planning Committee: 4 vacancies exist for the Crawford Area Planning Committee. Duties include the review of planning proposals from the Crawford area. One position term will expire January 31, 2012, other 3 positions will expire January 31, 2013.

Delta County Planning Commission: Applications are being accepted from citizens interested in serving on the Delta County Planning Commission. Representatives are needed from the Cedaredge area, and the Crawford area. Duties include the review of proposed subdivisions and other planning proposals within the unincorporated areas of Delta County. Compensation is $15.00 for each Planning Commission meeting attended and mileage to and from meetings. These terms will expire January 31, 2013.

Leroux Creek Advisory Planning Committee: 4 vacancies exist for the Leroux Creek Planning Committee. Duties include reviewing planning proposals for the Leroux Creek area. These terms will expire January 31, 2013.

North Fork Advisory Planning Committee: 3 vacancies exist for the North Fork Planning Committee. Duties include reviewing planning proposals for the North Fork area. These 3-year terms will expire January 31, 2013.

Surface Creek Advisory Planning Committee: 3 vacancies exist on the Surface Creek Area Planning Committee with the 3-year terms expiring January 31, 2013.

Please submit a letter of interest to the Delta County Board of Commissioners, 501 Palmer Street, #227, Delta, Colorado 81416 on or before Friday, January 8, 2010. Please state your qualifications and which board/commission you are interested in serving on.

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Public Notices —————— Public Notices —————— COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0120 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 31, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Antonio Quintero Felix AKA Antonio Quintero and Maria Saenz Original Beneficiary: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 10/19/2007 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 10/24/2007 Reception No.: 620057 Original Principal Balance: $148,190.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $145,953.51 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 2A OF RESUBDIVISION OF LOT 2 OF WEST ECKERT SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 13036 Alboe Lane, Eckert, CO 81418 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 12/30/2009 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/4/2009 Last Publication: 12/2/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 08/31/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JEFFREY C. GASTON #40389 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-19950 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 4, 11, 18, 25 and December 2, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0121 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 1, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Karan Dale Haag and Deanna Lynn Haag Original Beneficiary: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 10/17/2005 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 10/21/2005 Reception No.: 596871 Original Principal Balance: $110,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $105,972.69 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 12 AND THE WEST 1/2 OF LOT 13, BLOCK 5, GARNET MESA SUBDIVISION, TO THE CITY OF DELTA, COLORADO. COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 611 E 4th Street, Delta, CO 81416 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice

of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 12/30/2009 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/4/2009 Last Publication: 12/2/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/01/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: KEITH A. GANTENBEIN, JR. #39213 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-18164 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 4, 11, 18, 25 and December 2, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE AND RIGHT TO CURE AND REDEEM FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0054 To whom it may concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: Public Trustee’s Foreclosure Sale No. 2009-0054 was commenced on 05/11/2009 in the office of the undersigned Public Trustee relating to the Deed of Trust described below: Original Grantor(s): R Kathleen Cobb and Richard L. Cobb Original Beneficiary: Washington Mutual Bank, FA Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 07/26/2005 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 08/01/2005 Reception No.: 594090 Original Principal Balance: $304,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $291,519.82 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT A, HORN SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 21669 Myers Road, Eckert, CO 81418 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 12/23/2009 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764 sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale, and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/04/2009 Last Publication: 12/02/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE NO LATER THAN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS

AFTER THE SALE. DATE: 05/26/2009 Jim D. Ventrello Public Trustee of Delta County, State of Colorado By: /s/ Jim Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address and telephone number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JEFFREY C. GASTON #40389 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-09321 Published in the Delta County Independent November 4, 11, 18, 25 and December 2, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0119 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 31, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Olivia KuzovAragon, Trustee of Olivia KuzovAragon-Revocable Living Trust and John Aragon Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Residential Finance Corp, An Ohio Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Flagstar Bank, FSB Date of Deed of Trust: 11/13/2008 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 11/19/2008 Reception No.: 630347 Original Principal Balance: $115,954.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $115,681.00 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. ALL OF THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN THE CITY OF DELTA, DELTA COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 896, PAGE 143, ID # R 15540, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 29, 30, BLOCK 5 BUSINESS MENS ADDITIONS, TOGETHER WIT ALL IMPROVEMENTS LOCATED THEREON. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 1410 Howard Street, Delta, CO 81416 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 12/30/2009 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/4/2009 Last Publication: 12/2/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 08/31/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: PETER C. DeCAMILLIS #38929 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-16557 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 4, 11, 18, 25 and December 2, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0122 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 3, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Robert D. Pearsall Original Beneficiary: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 10/31/2008 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 11/5/2008 Reception No.: 629964 Original Principal Balance: $145,745.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $144,863.54 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. THE NORTH 8 FEET OF LOT 20, AND ALL OF LOTS 21, 22 AND 23 IN BLOCK 11 OF GARNET MESA SUBDIVISION OF THE CITY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 448 Howard St, Delta, CO 81416 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 12/30/2009 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/4/2009 Last Publication: 12/2/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/03/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: KATHARINE E. FISHER #39230 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-20793 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 4, 11, 18, 25 and December 2, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0127 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 10, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): John M. Fike and Carolyn S. Burton Original Beneficiary: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 7/16/2007 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 7/16/2007 Reception No.: 616960 Original Principal Balance: $168,720.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $165,782.41 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 1 OF MOUNTAIN VIEW ESTATES MINOR SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 5700 Sundown Road, Delta, CO 81416 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/13/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/18/2009 Last Publication: 12/16/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/11/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DEANNE R, STODDEN #33214 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-20790 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 18, 25, December 2, 9 and 16, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0118 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 28, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): BOBINELL J. CASEY Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. acting solely as a nominee for WAUSAU MORTGAGE CORP dba BROAD STREET MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: AURORA LOAN SERVICES LLC Date of Deed of Trust: 5/26/2006 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 6/5/2006 Reception No.: 604258 Original Principal Balance: $416,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $416,000.00 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE LEGAL DESCRIPTION A PART OF THE SE1/4 NW1/4 OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 15 SOUTH, RANGE 92 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT WHENCE THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 35 BEARS NORTH 54°24' WEST, 3,238.2 FEET; THENCE NORTH 86°06' WEST, 282.5 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 00°17' WEST, 771.5 FEET; THENCE NORTH 89°36' EAST, 282.0 FEET; MORE OR LESS, TO THE CENTER QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 35; THENCE NORTH 00°17' EAST, 750.3 FEET, MORE OR LESS, ALONG THE EAST LINE OF THE NW1/4 OF SAID SECTION 35 TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 38502 LAMBORN DRIVE, CRAWFORD, CO 81415 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 12/30/2009 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/4/2009 Last Publication: 12/2/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST

FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 08/28/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DALE, TONI M. N. #30580 Dale & Decker LLC 2 INVERNESS DRIVE EAST SUITE 105, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112 (720) 4934600 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-6975 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 4, 11, 18, 25 and December 2, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0124 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 8, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): TERRY L. PRATT Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. acting solely as nominee for SECURITYNATIONAL MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: AURORA LOAN SERVICES LLC Date of Deed of Trust: 5/18/2005 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 5/20/2005 Reception No.: 591623 Original Principal Balance: $130,350.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $122,618.00 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. SEE LEGAL DESCRIPTION ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE. LEGAL DESCRIPTION Part of the Northwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 36, Township 14 South, Range 95 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, described as follows: Beginning at a point whence the West 1/4 corner of said Section 36 bears North 15°15' West a distance of 699.5 feet, said point being at the Northeast corner of that tract of land as described in Deed recorded in Book 434 at Page 294; Thence South a distance of 369 feet along the East line of said tract; Thence East a distance of 171 feet to the Southeast corner of that tract of land as described in Deed recorded in Book 300 at Page 97; Thence North a distance of 369 feet along the East line of said tract to the Northeast corner thereof; Thence West a distance of 171 feet, more or less to the Point of Beginning.

County of Delta, State of Colorado.

WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 9391 2125 ROAD, AUSTIN, CO 81410 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/06/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/11/2009 Last Publication: 12/9/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/08/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: MARCY L. McDERMOTT, ESQ #38030 Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, CO 80204 (303) 813-1177 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting

to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 8080.28278 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 11, 18, 25, December 2 and 9, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0123 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 4, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Harold L. Fay and Eldonna Fay Original Beneficiary: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 12/21/2007 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 12/27/2007 Reception No.: 621730 Original Principal Balance: $296,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $291,054.52 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 14, GRAND VIEW ESTATES SUBDIVISION TO THE TOWN OF ORCHARD CITY, DELTA COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 10344 Kings view Rd, Austin, CO 81410 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/06/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/11/2009 Last Publication: 12/9/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/04/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JASON C. HILLIARD #40859 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-20582 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 11, 18, 25, December 2 and 9, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0126 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 10, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Claude L. Bragg Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for NORTH FORK MORTGAGE Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: First Horizon Home Loans, a division of First Tennessee Bank National Association Date of Deed of Trust: 9/18/2007 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 9/20/2007 Reception No.: 618965 Original Principal Balance: $114,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $112,354.29 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 13 AND LOT 14, BLOCK 6, ORIGINAL TOWN OF PAONIA COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 228 Main Avenue, Paonia, CO 81428 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/13/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/18/2009 Last Publication: 12/16/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/11/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DEANNE R, STODDEN #33214 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-19704 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 18, 25, December 2, 9 and 16, 2009.

PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF DELTA NOTICE OF CONTRACTOR’S SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that on the 11th day of December, 2009, at Delta, Colorado, final settlement will be made by the City of Delta with BPS Concrete, hereinafter called the "Contractor" for and on account of the contract for the 2009 Concrete Replacement Project.

1. Any person, copartnership, association or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the said project for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor of any of the subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claims.

2. All such claims shall be filed with the City Clerk of the City of Delta, Colorado, 360 Main Street, Delta, Colorado.

3. Failure on the part of a creditor to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve the City of Delta from any and all liability for each claim.

Dated at Delta, Colorado, the 20th day of November, 2009.

CITY OF DELTA, COLORADO Published in the Delta County Independent November 25 and December 2, 2009.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC BUDGET HEARING Notice is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Crawford Water Conservancy District for the ensuing year of 2010. A copy of said proposed budget has been filed in the office of the Crawford Water Conservancy District, 183 Highway 92, Crawford Co, where the same is open for public inspection by calling (970) 921-4775 for an appointment.

Such proposed budget will be considered at a public hearing to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at the District office prior to the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Crawford Water Conservancy District.

Any interested elector of the Crawford Water Conservancy District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objection at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

Published in the Delta County Independent November 25 and December 2, 2009.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Betty Margarete Peacock, a/k/a Betty M. Peacock, a/k/a Betty Peacock, Deceased: Case No. 09PR99 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Delta County, Colorado on or before April 5, 2010, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jonathan L. Peacock Person Giving Notice PO Box 71 Wamsutter WY 82336 Attorney for Personal Representative: Aaron R. Clay P.O. Box 38 Delta CO 81416 Published in the Delta County Independent November 25, December 2 and 9, 2009.

Delta County Independent,

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Public Notices —————— Public Notices —————— COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0128 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 11, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Paula J Glendening and Greg C Glendening Original Beneficiary: Ameriquest Mortgage Company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMC Specialty Mortgage LLC Date of Deed of Trust: 8/13/2004 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 8/26/2004 Reception No.: 582818** Original Principal Balance: $157,250.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $154,528.70 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOTS 10 AND 11, PLEASANT VIEW SUBDIVISION, AS AMENDED, COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO. **EXCEPT THAT PORTION OF THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION REFERENCED IN THE REQUEST FOR PARTIAL RELEASE OF DEED OF TRUST AND PARTIAL RELEASE RECORDED ON MARCH 29, 2005 AT RECEPTION NO. 601918 IN THE REAL PROPERTY RECORDS OF DELTA COUNTY, COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 9871 Horeshoe Lane, Austin, CO 81410 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/13/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/18/2009 Last Publication: 12/16/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/11/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DEANNE R, STODDEN #33214 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-15224R ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 18, 25, December 2, 9 and 16, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0132 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 16, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): CRISPIN SAENZ AND ROSA SAENZ Original Beneficiary: WELLS FARGO BANK Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK Date of Deed of Trust: 2/26/2009 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 3/23/2009 Reception No.: 633049 Original Principal Balance: $23,842.06 Outstanding Principal Balance: $23,830.94 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 1A OF THE RE-SUBDIVISION OF LOT 1 OR THE HANSFORD GARRETT SUBDIVISION NO. 4

WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: NO COMMON PURPORTED ADDRESS, AUSTIN, CO 81410 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/13/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/18/2009 Last Publication: 12/16/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/16/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, CO 80204 (303) 813-1177 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 9106.00123 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 18, 25, December 2, 9 and 16, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0131 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 15, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Robert R. Boruch Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Major Mortgage USA Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 8/31/2007 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 9/4/2007 Reception No.: 618535 Original Principal Balance: $127,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $125,547.63 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE EXHIBIT "A" Part of the NE1/4 SE1/4 of Section 12, Township 15 South, Range 96 West of the Sixth Principal Meridian described as follows: Beginning at the Southwest corner of the NE1/4 SE1/4 of said Section 12; thence North 0°03' West along the subdivision line 366.3 feet; thence North 64°15' East 101.34 feet to the True Point of Beginning; thence from the True Point of Beginning North 210.28 feet; thence East 117.07 feet; thence South 144.81 feet more or less to the North line of the County Road; thence along said County Road South 64°15' West 129.98 feet to the Point of Beginning.

County of Delta, State of Colorado Also Known as: 1526 H38 Road, Delta, CO 81416 WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 1526 H38 Rd, Delta, CO 81416 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/13/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/18/2009 Last Publication: 12/16/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY

OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/15/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DEANNE R, STODDEN #33214 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-21928 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 18, 25, December 2, 9 and 16, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM RESTART PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0095 Republished to restart foreclosure stayed by bankruptcy and reset sale date.

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 30, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): MANSEL L. ZECK Original Beneficiary: FIDELITY MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: ONEWEST BAN, FSB Date of Deed of Trust: 11/17/2006 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 11/22/2006 Reception No.: 609944 Original Principal Balance: $213,600.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $209,273.11 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 67, STONE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 785 GENNESE STREET, DELTA, CO 81416 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/27/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/2/2009 Last Publication: 12/30/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/30/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JANEWAY, LYNN M. #15592 Janeway Law Firm LLC 19201 E MAIN STREET SUITE 205, PARKER, CO 8013-49092 (303) 706-9990 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 9261 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent December 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0134 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 18, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Jorge L. Olivas and Yvonne K. Olivas Original Beneficiary: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 7/31/2006 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 8/8/2006 Reception No.: 606451 Original Principal Balance: $166,074.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $160,081.47 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 112, STONE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, DELTA COUNTY, COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 794 Albany St, Delta, CO 81416 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/20/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/25/2009 Last Publication: 12/23/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/17/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DEANNE R, STODDEN #33214 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-22528 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 25, December 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0135 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 18, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Mark M. Esplin and Laura J. Esplin Original Beneficiary: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 3/14/2008 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 3/19/2008 Reception No.: 623961 Original Principal Balance: $299,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $295,104.12 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 43 IN BLOCK 2 OF GARNET MESA ESTATES, COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 680 Cypress Wood Lane, Delta, CO 81416 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given

that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/20/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/25/2009 Last Publication: 12/23/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/18/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DEANNE R, STODDEN #33214 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-22609 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 25, December 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0138 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 23, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Anita J Messano Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Bank, FSB Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. Date of Deed of Trust: 5/9/2008 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 5/12/2008 Reception No.: 625545 Original Principal Balance: $158,619.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $157,982.06 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE EXHIBIT "A" Parcel A, Vincent Subdivision, according to plat recorded May 14, 1984 in Book 8 at page 5 of Maps, being described as follows: Part of Block 5, Garnet Mesa Subdivision, City of Delta, Delta County, Colorado, being described as follows: Beginning at the SE corner of Lot 17, Block 5, Garnet Mesa Subdivision, thence following along the South line of Lot 17, North 89°00'38" West 150.00 feet to the SW corner of Lot 15; thence following the West boundary of Lot 15, North 01°03'36" East 115.23 feet; thence South 89°00'18" East 150.00 feet to the West line of Leon Street; thence South 01°03'36" West 115.23 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, County of Delta, State of Colorado.

WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 651 E 4th St, Delta, CO 81416-2307 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/20/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/2/2009 Last Publication: 12/30/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER

THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/25/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JASON C. HILLIARD #40859 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-20423 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent December 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0140 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 29, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): Dennis E. Webber and E Gail Webber Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Universal Lending Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. Date of Deed of Trust: 7/15/2005 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 7/19/2005 Reception No.: 593628*** Original Principal Balance: $180,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $200,027.25 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE EXHIBIT "A" That part of the NW1/4 NW1/4 of Section 26, Township 14 South, Range 95 West of the 6th P.M., described as beginning at a point on the East line of the said NW1/4 NW1/4 of said Section 26 whence the Southeast corner of the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of said Section 26 bears South 410.1 feet; thence due West 781.8 feet more or less, to the center line of Surface Creek; thence along the approximate center line of Surface Creek as follows: North 55°00' East 215 feet; thence North 88°45' East 275 feet; thence North 3°05' East 162.7 feet; thence leaving the center line of Surface Creek, due East 158 feet more or less, to a County Road; thence along said County Road South 16°31' East 71.4 feet; thence South 51°45' East 182.9 feet to the East line of the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of said Section 26; thence South 103.9 feet along the subdivision line to the point of beginning.

County of Delta, State of Colorado Also Known as: 20218 Stell Road, Austin, CO 81410 ***Loan Modification Agreement DATED August 14, 2007 Signed

by Dennis E Webber and E Gail Webber WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 20218 Stell Rd, Austin, CO 81410 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/27/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/2/2009 Last Publication: 12/30/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE.

DATE: 09/29/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: KEITH A. GANTENBEIN, JR. #39213 CASTLE, MEINHOLD & STAWIARSKI LLC 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 09-20674 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent December 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2009.

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM PUBLIC TRUSTEE FORECLOSURE NUMBER 2009-0137 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 22, 2009, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the Delta County records.

Original Grantor(s): CRISPIN SAENZ Original Beneficiary: WELLS FARGO FINANCIAL COLORADO, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO FINANCIAL COLORADO, INC. Date of Deed of Trust: 7/24/2008 County of Recording: Delta Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 8/5/2008 Reception No.: 637785 Original Principal Balance: $149,760.45 Outstanding Principal Balance: $150,986.71 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED

BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 1G, OF THE RESUBDIVISION OF LOT 1 OF THE HANSFORD GARRET SUBDIVISION #4 COUNTY OF DELTA, STATE OF COLORADO. WHICH HAS THE ADDRESS OF: 20274 KETTLE ROAD, AUSTIN, CO 81410 NOTICE OF SALE The current owner of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed notice of election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 am on Wednesday, 01/20/2010 at Public Trustee’s Office, Delta County Courthouse, 501 Palmer Street, Suite 202, Delta, CO 81416-1764, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will execute and record a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/25/2009 Last Publication: 12/23/2009 Name of Publication: Delta County Independent NOTICE OF RIGHTS YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS, IS ATTACHED TO ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED. A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO C.R.S. §3838-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE WITHIN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS FOLLOWING THE SALE. DATE: 09/22/2009 Public Trustee in and for Delta County, State of Colorado Jim D. Ventrello By: /s/ Jim D. Ventrello, Public Trustee (SEAL) The name, address, telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, CO 80204 (303) 813-1177 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Attorney file number: 9106.00130 ©Colorado Public Trustee Association Rev 07/09 Published in the Delta County Independent November 25, December 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2009.

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED BUDGET Notice is hereby given that: a proposed budget has been submitted to Paonia Cemetery District for the ensuing year of 2009; a copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of David J. Hurr, where same is open for public inspection; such proposed budget will be considered at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees at the Paonia Cemetery District to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Dec., 8th, 2009 at 508 Oak Ave., Paonia, CO. Any interested elector of such Paonia Cemetery District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

Dated: November 18, 2009 Board of Trustees Paonia Cemetery District By: /s/ David J. Hurr Title: Treasurer Published in the Delta County Independent November 25 and December 2, 2009.

COLORADO ORDINANCE NO. 2009-05 AN ORDINANCE IMPOSING A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE OPERATION OF A PRIMARY CARE GIVER OR DISPENSARY BUSINESS THAT SELLS MEDICAL MARIJUANA WITHIN THE TOWN OF PAONIA, COLORADO, PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY GRANTED BY ARTICLE 18, SECTION 14 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION; DIRECTING THE PROMPT INVESTIGATION OF THE TOWN'S REGULATORY AUTHORITY OVER SUCH BUSINESSES; DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO CONSIDER THE ADOPTION OF APPROPRIATE TOWN REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO SUCH BUSINESSES IF PERMITTED BY LAW; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY WHEREAS, in the November 2000 general election, the voters of the State of Colorado adopted Amendment 20 to the Colorado Constitution ("Article XVIII Section 14") which authorizes and limits the sale of medical marijuana for use in the treatment of debilitating medical conditions; and WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees has been made aware that surrounding municipalities and staff have received inquiries from persons that are interested in opening and operating businesses that would offer medical marijuana for sale; and WHEREAS, the Town has no current land use or business regulation governing the operation of businesses or cooperatives that offer medical marijuana for sale and/or distribution ("Medical Marijuana Dispensaries"); and WHEREAS, the imposition of a one hundred twenty (120) day moratorium on the submission, acceptance, processing, and approval of all applications for Town permits and licenses relating to the operation of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries will allow the Town staff and the Board of Trustees to investigate the Town's ability to regulate such businesses, and to develop and implement any appropriate regulations; and WHEREAS, a hundred twenty (120) moratorium is a reasonable length of time and no longer than necessary for the Town to properly investigate, develop, and, if appropriate, adopt and implement any regulations with respect to Medical Marijuana Dispensaries; and WHEREAS, proprietors of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries will not be unduly prejudiced by the imposition of such moratorium.

THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED

BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF PAONIA, COLORADO, THAT: SECTION 1. FINDINGS AND INTENT. The above and foregoing recitals are incorporated herein by reference and adopted as findings and determinations of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Paonia, Colorado.

SECTION 2. IMPOSITION OF TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS AND LICENSES RELATED TO BUSINESSES THAT SELL MEDICAL MARIJUANA. Upon the adoption of this Ordinance a moratorium is imposed upon the establishment or operation within the Town of Paonia, Colorado, of a Medical Marijuana Dispensary. The Town staff and the Planning Commission are directed to refuse to accept for filing, and not to process or review, any applications for such businesses during the moratorium period.

SECTION 3. STAFF TO INVESTIGATE AND PREPARE PROPOSED REGULATIONS. Before the expiration of the moratorium imposed by this Ordinance the Town staff, working with the Town Attorney, shall prepare appropriate regulations for Medical Marijuana for consideration by the Board of Trustees.

SECTION 4. POLICE POWER FINDING. The Board of Trustees hereby finds, determines, and declares that this Ordinance is necessary and proper to provide for the safety, preserve the health, promote the prosperity, and improve the order, comfort and convenience of the Town of Paonia and the inhabitants thereof.

Section 5. Authority. The Board of Trustees hereby finds, determines and declares that it has the power to adopt this Ordinance pursuant to: (i) the Local Government Land Use Control Enabling Act, Article 20 of Title 29, C.R.S.; (ii) Part 3 of Article 23 of Title 31, C.R.S. (concerning municipal zoning powers); (iii) Section 31-15-103, C.R.S. (concerning municipal police powers); (iv) Section 31-15-401, C.R.S. (concerning municipal police powers); and (v) Section 31-15-501 (concerning municipal power to regulate businesses).

SECTION 6.

EMERGENCY DECLARED; EFFECTIVE DATE; EXPIRATION. The Board finds, determines and declares that passage of this Ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety in order to prevent a person from filing an application for a Town permit or license relating to the operation of a Medical Marijuana Dispensary until the Town has had a reasonable opportunity to determine: (i) the extent of the Town's regulatory authority over such businesses; and (ii) what regulations, if any, should be imposed by the Town upon such businesses. Failure to immediately impose the moratorium provided for in this Ordinance will potentially allow acquisition of certain rights with respect to Medical Marijuana Dispensaries before the Town has had the reasonable opportunity to consider appropriate regulations thereof. The Board of Trustees further determines that the adoption of this Ordinance as an emergency ordinance is in the best interest of the citizens of the Town of Paonia. This Ordinance shall be effective upon adoption. The moratorium imposed by this Ordinance shall commence as of the date of the adoption of this Ordinance, and shall expire one hundred twenty (120) days thereafter, unless repealed prior to that date.

MOVED, SECONDED, PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF PAONIA, COLORADO, THIS 24TH DAY OF November, 2009.

TOWN OF PAONIA, COLORADO By: /s/ Neal J. Schwieterman Mayor ATTEST: /s/ Barbara J. Peterson Town Clerk (SEAL) Approved as an emergency ordinance on November 24, 2009.

Published in the Delta County Independent December 2, 2009.

PUBLIC NOTICE MEETING CHANGE The Crawford Town Council will NOT have their regular meeting on Wednesday, December 2, 2009. It has been changed to Wednesday, December 9, 2009, at 7:00 PM in the Council chambers. /s/ Margaret A Pearce, Town Clerk Published in the Delta County Independent November 25 and December 2, 2009.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009,

Delta County Independent

Grief and the holidays

Kami Collins/DCI

New wheels Crews from the Delta County Ambulance District are driving around some new wheels. The 2009 GMC ambulance replaced an older rig, and has been in service in Delta since summer. The ambulance, a new hydrolic cot and radios cost $114,000, and was purchased with a matching grant. Pictured are district manager Doug Laufer, Chris Martin, an EMT-B, and Dan Neil, a paramedic.

Delta County School District

Holiday Programs 2009 DELTA HIGH SCHOOL December 16 — DHS Choir Concert at Center for Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m.

December 17 — DHS Band Concert at Center for Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m.

DELTA MIDDLE SCHOOL December 10 — DMS Band Concert at Center for Performing Arts, 6:30 p.m.

December 16 — DMS Choir Concert at Center for Performing Arts, 6:30 p.m.

LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL December 8 — 3rd Grade Program, “It’s A Nice, Nice, Christmas,” 6:30 p.m.

GARNET MESA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL December 11 — Kindergarten Holiday Concert at Bank of the West, 1:00 p.m.

CEDAREDGE HIGH SCHOOL December 10 — Jazz Band Concert at CHS, 7:30 p.m.

December 14 — Choir Concert at CHS, 7:00 p.m.

December 15 — Band Concert at CHS, 7:00 p.m.

December 18 & 19 — “Best Christmas Pageant Ever” (CES/CMS/CHS Combined) at CHS, 7:00 p.m.

CEDAREDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL December 10 — Jazz Band Concert at CHS, 7:30 p.m.

December 14 — Choir Concert at CHS, 7:00 p.m.

December 15 — Band Concert at CHS, 7:00 p.m.

December 18 & 19 — “Best Christmas Pageant Ever” (CES/CMS/CHS Combined) at CHS, 7:00 p.m.

CEDAREDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL December 10 — 2nd Grade Program at CHS, 7:00 p.m.

December 17 — Kindergarten & 1st Grade Carolling at CES, 12:30 p.m.

December 18 & 19 — “Best Christmas Pageant Ever” (CES/CMS/CHS Combined) at CHS, 7:30 p.m.

CRAWFORD SCHOOL December 17 — Band and Choir Winter Program at Crawford School, 6:30 p.m.

HOTCHKISS HIGH SCHOOL December 15 — Band and Choir Holiday Concert at HHS, 6:30 p.m.

HOTCHKISS K-8 SCHOOL December 15 — Kindergarten-2nd Grade Program at HK8, 6:00 p.m.

December 17 — 3rd-5th Grade Program at HK8, 6:00 p.m.

December 16 — 6th-8th Grade Choir and Band Performance at HK8, 6:00 p.m.

December 16 — 7th & 8th Grade Drama Performance at HK8, 6:00 p.m.

PAONIA HIGH SCHOOL December 17 — Holiday Concert (7-12) at PHS Cafetorium, 7:00 p.m.

PAONIA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL December 17 — Holiday Concert (7-12) at PHS Cafetorium, 7:00 p.m.

PAONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL December 15 — Holiday Concert at PHS Gym, 7:00 p.m.

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For those who are grieving, the holidays can be a difficult time of the year.

“You may feel angry when you see others celebrating or you may feel deep sadness when finding a gift that would have been perfect for the loved one that you have lost. Remember, you need to let your emotions flow, so that you can deal with them. Share these feelings with a friend who is a good listener,” said Jane Dupree, Delta-based chaplain, Hospice & Palliative Care of Western Colorado.

Holidays in themselves are often stressful and exhausting without the added pain of grief.

The best thing you can do is to be prepared for the holidays.

Sit down with your family now and make a plan. Remember, you have the right to celebrate the holidays differently this year.

There is no law that says you must always do everything the same way. Remember to write your plan down on paper — so that you can refer to it later.

“Remember to make time for yourself. Use this time to listen to music, pamper yourself, take a hot bath, write in a journal, or just sit quietly reminiscing about

your loved one. Taking time for yourself is especially important in stressful situations – so be sure to schedule time alone and to call a ‘time out’ when you need a break,” says Dupree.

Find a way to bring the memory of your loved one into your holiday activities. Here are some suggestions: Light a special candle in memory of your loved one.

Make an ornament for the Christmas tree. This ornament could be made of something that was special to your loved one or it could be made from a picture of your loved one.

Prepare your loved one’s favorite meal and share it with friends and family.

Visit the cemetery or another special place. Go alone or with others. Say a prayer or bring flowers.

Plant a tree, bush or other plant in memory of your loved one. You may want to plant it in a pot in the house and transplant it in the spring to the garden.

Create a scrapbook of pictures, stories or other moments that you can look at from time to time with your family.

Give friends and family small gifts that belonged to or were

special to your loved one.

Make a donation to a charity in the name of your loved one.

Pick a charity that was special to your loved one. The donation does not have to be large — every little bit helps.

Buy a present for your loved one in the form of a gift for the home or the church or synagogue.

Hospice & Palliative Care of Western Colorado offers comprehensive bereavement services to anyone in the community who is grieving the loss of a loved one. Services include individual and family counseling; ongoing weekly Mending Hearts grief groups; groups for caregivers dealing with the effects of a loved one’s serious illness; monthly bereavement newsletters; consultation with churches, service clubs, schools and organizations; educational inservices on grief; Grief in the Workplace consultation and training for businesses; lending library of resources; and pecialized services for grieving children and teens For more information about the bereavement services offered through Hospice & Palliative Care of Western Colorado, call (866) 310-8900.

Production of ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ will replicate old time radio “Miracle on 34th Street,” is the script chosen for the third annual Christmas Radio Show with a live audience in the Wright Opera House in Ouray.

The evening performance will be on Saturday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. with a Sunday matinee Dec. 6 at 3 p.m.

The programs replicate “old time radio” and are recorded for playing throughout the holiday season on the local radio station, KURA-FM. Live audiences have always been an integral part of the performances. Prior performances were “A Christmas Carol” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” which played to sold out audiences. The play will be produced by the Ouray County Players, and will have the usual sound effects team appropriate to radio theater.

This year the lead role of Kris Kringle will be played by veteran stage, film, and television actor, Terry Kiser. Kiser, a Ridgway resident, received Obie and Theater World Awards and a nomination for a Tony honoring his

‘Ten Friends’ craft show returns to Montrose The annual Ten Friends Arts and Crafts Show will be held in the Chipeta Room at the Ute Indian Museum, 17253 Chipeta Drive, Montrose, in conjunction with the museum’s annual holiday open house. The event is free and will be held Saturday, Dec. 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

role in Neil Simon’s play, “God’s Favorite.” This is the LUX Radio Theater 1948 version of “The Miracle on 34th Street” which was based on the 1947 film by Valentine Davies. The script is followed exactly, including the announcer doing commercials for Lux Soap between acts. LUX Radio Theater was a pioneer in radio drama, broadcasting live with studio audiences and creating a new format in home and studio entertainment. Many of their broadcasts are now available as podcasts in “old time

radio.”

The performances are sponsored by the Alpine Bank as a benefit to help the Friends of the Wright Opera House who intend to buy the building in 2010, upgrade the performance spaces and convert the non-retail spaces into the Ouray County Arts Center. Tickets are $10 per person, or $25 per family (parents and their children). For information about the play or advance tickets, call Dee Williams, events chair for the Friends of the Wright Opera House, 325-4932.

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Planning session Chi Chapter members Sandy Balerio, Leila Koenig and Linda Read take a moment to visit at the Delta Kappa Gamma state board meeting in Denver. All three ladies hold positions in the Omega State organization. Balerio is the chairman of the World Fellowship Committee, Koenig is the corresponding secretary, and Read serves on the nominations and membership committees. Plans were made for the 2011 International Southwest Regional Conference to be held in Denver and hosted by all the Delta Kappa Gamma Colorado chapters.

Public Notices —————— PUBLIC NOTICE TOWN COUNCIL BUDGET PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Public notice is hereby given that the Town Council of the Town of Crawford, Colorado, will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009, at 7:00 PM in the Town Hall Council Room. The purpose of the Public Hearing will be to receive public comment on the 2010 proposed budgets for the Town of Crawford.

Copies of the proposed 2010 budgets during normal business hours in the Town Clerk's office are available at the Town Hall, 425 Hwy 92, Crawford, Colorado. The public has the right to provide written comments prior to the hearing and/or attend the hearing to comment on the proposed budgets. The Town Council will consider the budgets for final adoption at the regular meeting following the public hearing. /s/ Margaret A Pearce Town Clerk/Treasurer Published in the Delta County Independent November 25 and December 2, 2009.

PUBLIC NOTICE TOWN COUNCIL HOTEL & RESTAURANT LICENSE TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP Public Hearing Notice Pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado, Bruce W Forster, whose address is PO Box 509, Crawford, Colorado 81415, by application dated October 20, 2009, has requested the licensing authority of the Town of Crawford, Colorado to grant Bruce W Forster, a Transfer of Ownership for a Hotel & Restaurant License for the premises located at 356 Highway 92, Crawford, Colorado. The premises shall be known by the trade name of Branding Iron Steak House.

Public hearing on this application will

be held before the Board of Trustees of the Town of Crawford, Colorado.

The hour, date, and place of the hearing will be 7:15 PM, on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009, in the Town Hall Council Room, located at 425 Hwy 92, Crawford, Colorado. At said time and place any party of interest may appear to be heard for or against said granting of a Hotel & Restaurant License Transfer of Ownership. /s/ Margaret A Pearce Town Clerk/Treasurer Published in the Delta County Independent November 25 and December 2, 2009.

NOTICE OF BUDGET Notice is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Bone Mesa Water District for the ensuing year of 2010. A copy of such proposed budget is available for inspection at the Paonia Library, the Hotchkiss Library and the Delta County Annex in Hotchkiss. Such proposed budget will be considered at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the District to be held at the Bone Mesa School House, 38496 Bone Mesa Road in Paonia on the 8th day of December, 2009, at 7:00 o’clock p.m. Any interested elector within such Bone Mesa Water District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

Dated the 24th day of November, 2009.

BONE MESA WATER DISTRICT Secretary Published in the Delta County Independent December 2, 2009.

Public Notice Highline Ditch and Enlargement Company Notice of Annual Meeting

The regular annual meeting of the Ellington, Allen Mesa, and Highline Ditch and Enlargement Company Stockholders will be held immediately following the regular annual meeting of the Leroux Creek Water Users Association scheduled for 1:30 pm on Monday, December 14, 2009, at the Rogers Mesa Community House. The purpose of the meeting is election of directors and any other business that may come before the company.

Marvin Carr, President Published in the Delta County Independent December 2 and 9, 2009.

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Delta County Commissioners will meet at 1:30 PM December 21, 2009 at the Delta County Courthouse, Room 236, 501 Palmer Street, Delta Colorado, for the purpose of reviewing the 2010-11 Community Services Block Grant Proposal for Delta County. The public is invited to comment on the proposed service plan through Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Copies of the Plan document are available for perusal at the Delta County Health and Human Services Department, Health Building at 255 West 6th Street, Delta, CO. /s/ Bonnie Horn Koehler, Deputy Director Delta County Department of Health and Human Services Published in the Delta County Independent December 2 and 9, 2009.

Public Notice Leroux Creek Water Users Association Notice of Annual Meeting The regular annual meeting of the Leroux Creek Water Users

Association Stockholders will be held on Monday, December 14, 2009, at the Rogers Mesa Community House at 1:30 p.m. for the purpose of electing directors and any other business that may come before the company.

Mark Smith, President Published in the Delta County Independent December 2 and 9, 2009.

BID REQUEST The Town of Paonia is requesting bids for the replacement of a sprinkler-irrigation line in the Town Park located at 700 Fourth Street. The Town is looking for innovative design and installation. Prospective bidders can review the job site by calling Scott Leon at 527-4101. Bids may be mailed to: Paonia Town Hall, Attn: Scott Leon, PO Box 460, Paonia, CO 81428 for receipt by Friday, January 15, 2010.

Published in the Delta County Independent December 2, 2009.

FIRE MOUNTAIN CANAL & RESERVOIR COMPANY NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Fire Mountain Canal and Reservoir Co. will be held at the Hotchkiss Memorial Hall, 175 North 1st Street, Hotchkiss, on Thursday evening, January 21, 2010 at 7:30 p.m., for the purpose of electing three members of the Board of Directors for a term of two years, and to consider all other business that may properly come before the meeting.

Dixie Jacobs Luke, President Randall Fisher, Secretary Published in the Delta County Independent December 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2009, January 6, 13 and 20, 2010.

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DaCosta of San Carlos, Calif.; three uncles, Julio Sequeira and his wife Catriona of San Rafael, Calif., Manoel Sequeira and his wife Lalie of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Robert DaCosta of Martinez, Calif.; three aunts, Lolly DaCosta of Walnut Creek, Calif., Delysia Balhatchet of Brighton, England, and Mercia Remedios of Hong Kong; and many cousins.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado, P.O. Box 24, Delta, CO 81416.

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Russell DaCosta Russell Louis DaCosta of Eckert died Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 after battling kidney cancer for 3 1/2 years at his home. He was 49.

A celebration of life was held Nov. 29 at Cedaredge Assembly of God with Pastor Russ Ooms officiating.

Mr. DaCosta was born Sept.

13, 1960, in San Francisco, Calif., to Guadie and Iria (Sequeira) DaCosta. He graduated from St. Ignatius High School in San Francisco in 1978. He attended General Motors Institute, now Kettering University in Flint, Mich., and received his bachelor of science in mechanical engineering in 1983. He attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., in 1987.

He married Jane Huckeby on Nov. 29, 1985, in Lake St. Louis, Mo. They lived in Altadena, Calif., for 14 years before moving to Eckert in 2000. She survives.

Mr. DaCosta worked in automotive design engineering. He taught Sunday school, ran the sound board for the worship service and participated in the men’s groups. He ran a landscaping business and taught technical drafting, math and science. He attended The Father’s House Church in Cedaredge. He enjoyed photography, music, camping, Boy Scouts and racing his Subaru STI. He raced with the Red Rock Racer at the Grand Junction Motor Speedway on Oct. 31 and got second place overall.

Mr. DaCosta is survived by his wife, Jane DaCosta; six sons, Timothy, Ryan, Andrew, Patrick, Scott and Christian; his parents, Gaudie and Iris DaCosta of Daly City, Calif.; a brother, Keith

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James Schnyer James Russell Schnyer of Cedaredge died Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, at his home. He was 77.

A gathering of friends and family was held Nov. 25 at DeerCreek Golf Club in Cedaredge.

Mr. Schnyer was born Nov. 15, 1932, in Haverhill, Mass., to Elmer and Margaret (Jarvie) Schnyer. He spent his childhood and attended school in New Haven, Conn.

He served in the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict.

Mr. Schnyer married Justina Mikalchus on June 20, 1959, in Union City, Conn. They celebrated over 50 years of marriage.

She survives.

He was a high school teacher.

He enjoyed traveling, golfing, tennis and his family. He lived in Venice, Fla., for 18 years before moving to Cedaredge in 1998.

He was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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Mr. Schnyer is survived by his wife, Justina Schnyer of Montrose; a daughter and her husband, Jana and David Dorsey of Steamboat Springs; four siblings, George Schnyer, Richard Schnyer, Nancy Ianonne and Rhonda Peppe, all of Connecticut; and two grandsons, Trenton Beck of Colorado Springs, who is serving in the U.S. Army, and Cory Beck of Fort Collins.

Mr. Schnyer was preceded in death by his parents, Elmer and Margaret Schnyer.

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Frances West Hall of Delta died Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, at Montrose Memorial Hospital.

She was 94.

At her request no services will be held.

Mrs. Hall was born Jan. 5, 1915, in Uhrichsville, Ohio, to John and Anna (Edwards) West. She spent her childhood and attended school in Midvale, Ohio. She graduated from Rio Hondo High School in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, in 1933.

She married Warren Hall on April 26, 1941, in Norwalk, Ohio. They lived in Denver for many years before moving to Delta County in 1977. They celebrated over 48 years of marriage before Warren’s death on March 1, 1990 in Eckert.

Mrs. Hall and her husband owned and operated several family businesses, where she was president, vice president and secretary/treasurer. She enjoyed knitting, needle point, handwork, her family and friends and keeping up with current events. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. Hall is survived by her son, Wade Hall of Delta; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren Hall; two brothers; and four sisters.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association, 5600 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Suite 100, Greenwood Village, CO 80111.

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Onofer Sanchez Onofer Sanchez of Delta died Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, at his home. He was 90.

Mr. Sanchez was born Oct. 12, 1919, in Ponil, N.M., to Donaciano and Fidelia (Mitotes) Sanchez.

He served in the Army during World War II. Mr. Sanchez married Lucy Valdez on Dec. 26, 1949, in Delta.

He was a uranium miner for many years. He was a member of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Delta. He enjoyed collecting coins and working in his yard.

Mr. Sanchez is survived by a son, Rudy Sanchez of Portland, Ore.; a daughter, Samantha Stokka of Des Moines, Iowa; four sisters, Louise Esquibel of Gallup, N.M., Linda Villalobos of Montrose, Alvina Villalobos of California, and Dora Gonzalez of Salt Lake City, Utah; eight grandchildren; and six greatgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two sons, Don and Kenny Sanchez; four brothers, Tony Sanchez, Raymond Sanchez, Dale Sanchez and Julian Sanchez; and four sisters, Erma Ryan, Beatrice Valdez, Antonita Espinosa and

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Rocco Vendegna Rocco J. Vendegna of Eckert died Wednesday, Nov, 25, 2009, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert. He was 87.

At his request, no services will be held.

Mr. Vendegna is survived by a son, David Vendegna of Delta; a daughter, Nancy Blue of Aurora; and five grandchildren, Carrie Coats of Hotchkiss, Eloy Vendegna of Grand Junction, Gina Vendegna of Hawaii, David Vendegna and Anthony Vendegna, both of Thornton.

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Hazel Edwards Hazel Marie Edwards of Grand Junction died Nov. 25, 2009, in Grand Junction. She was 87.

A funeral service will be held Thursday, Dec. 3, at 10 a.m. at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary.

Burial will follow at Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado.

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Patricia Moore Patricia Gail Moore of Cedaredge died Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. She was 54.

At her request, no services will be held.

Mrs. Moore was born March 10, 1955, in Azusa, Calif., to Allen and Berdine (Robinson) Mangels. She spent her childhood in Glendora, Calif., and graduated from Glendora High School in 1973.

She married Timothy Moore on Nov. 21, 1982, in Pasadena, Calif. They celebrated 27 years of marriage. He survives.

Mrs. Moore was a registered nurse. She enjoyed reading, spending time with family and taking care of her pets.

She is survived by her husband, Timothy Moore of Cedaredge; a son, Ethan Moore of Grand Junction; a daughter, Erin Moore of Cedaredge; her mother, Berdine Mangels of California; and two brothers and their wives, Timothy and Debbie Mangels of Virginia, and Steve and Minnie Mangels of Big Bear, Calif.

Mrs. Moore was preceded in death by her father, Allen Mangels.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2232 North 7th Street, Suite 14, Grand Junction, CO 81501.

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Community Christmas Memorial Service Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.

MESA VIEW MORTUARY CHAPEL 682 1725 ROAD, DELTA, COLORADO Please join us for this unique service of remembrance and celebration of those loved ones we have lost. A special Christmas Tree will be decorated during the service in remembrance and celebration of each of our loved ones.

Ornaments will be provided.

If you are unable to attend the service, but would like your loved one remembered, please stop by Mesa View Mortuary the week of December 14-17, 2009 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to complete a card of remembrance.

Your loved one’s name will be read during the service.

If you need transportation please call 874-8633.

Luminaries will be lighted in Mesa View Cemetery that evening in remembrance of our loved ones.

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Visitation will be held Thursday, Dec. 3, from 6 to 7 p.m. at Mesa View Mortuary. Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. A funeral service will be held Friday, Dec. 4, at 10 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Delta. Burial will follow at Mesa View Cemetery with VFW Post #3571 presenting military honors.

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She is survived by her husband, two sons and their wives, five grandchildren, a sister and a brother.

A memorial service will be held Thursday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. at Paonia Friends Church. A graveside service will be held Friday, Dec. 5 in Poncha Springs.

Memorial contributions may be made to Delta County Memorial Oncology Unit.

Alston Leroy Martin of Delta died Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, at Delta County Memorial Hospital. He was 83.

Mr. Martin was born April 30, 1926, in Englewood, to Clifford and Sophia (Savage) Martin.

He served in the Army during World War II, attaining the rank of private.

Mr. Martin worked at Bond Farms for many years. He lived in Pueblo before moving to Delta 20 years ago. He enjoyed fishing.

He is survived by a brother, Gene Martin of Pueblo; three nieces, Phyllis Godfrey and Dorothy Roberts, both of Grand Junction, and Frances Schmidtman of Quincy, Fla.; two nephews, Lester Cutsinger of Culpepper, Va., and Loren Croenberg of Grand Junction; and several other nieces and nephews.

Mr. Martin was preceded in death by three sisters and a brother.

A private inurnment will be held at a later date at Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado in Grand Junction.

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Belda Jo Denison Belda Jo Denison of Hotchkiss died Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, in Hotchkiss. She was 48.

Mrs. Denison was born Nov. 16, 1961, in La Junta.

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‘Boxing for Fitness’ program earns award for rec center The fitness department at Bill Heddles Recreation Center was honored with a Colorado Parks & Recreation Association Columbine Award for its new and innovative class, “Boxing for Fitness.”

Tom Hunsinger, local boxing coach, provided the expertise for the program, which offers a workout that can be accomplished by males or females from 8 to 98 in varying levels of expertise, from novice to pro athlete.

Hunsinger is a 1968 Hawaii State Golden Gloves lightweight boxing champion and 1968 Oahu Amateur Boxing Association middleweight champion, and has been a certified coach, referee, judge, timer and clerk since 2005. He coaches students in Delta who compete in regional boxing tournaments, in addition to providing assistance to Lainie Boyden, the fitness program director at Bill Heddles Recreation Center.

“Boxing is proving to be the newest and most exciting program for our center,” Boyden noted. “Kids, young men and women, special needs clients, recovering stroke patients, and older citizens are conditioning and challenging their minds and bodies with a sport that is simple

and easy to learn.”

Though the sport of boxing originated in the 18th century, it’s not often offered in a recreation center setting.

Since its kickoff in June 2009,

the program has exploded. “The ‘buzz’ is all about boxing at the recreation center,” Boyden said.

More information about classes can be obtained by calling 874-0923.

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BOXING COACH TOM HUNSINGER and fitness department coordinator Lainie Boyden (wearing a boxing robe and gloves) accept the Columbine Award at the Colorado Parks & Recreation Association’s annual conference in Steamboat Springs. Other recreation centers across Colorado have requested information on how implement similar programs in their facilities.

No-texting law takes effect for Colorado drivers of all ages Keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road. Don’t hold the phone.

As of Dec. 1, it’s a crime for a 16- or 17-year-old driver to use any cell phone — handheld or not. And no driver may text while behind the wheel.

Patrick Sims, a Colorado high school senior, killed a 63-yearold man because he was sending a text message while driving.

Nine-year-old Erica Forney in Fort Collins was tragically killed by a cell phone-using distracted driver. A truck driver who was distracted by his cell phone ran his truck off I-76 during rushhour causing secondary accidents from flying debris. One week after five girls graduated from high school they were killed in an accident attributed to texting while driving. A young mother lost her leg in Colorado Springs, impaled against her car by a driver on a cell phone.

• Sixty-six percent of drivers 18 to 24 years old are sending

or receiving text messages while driving.

• Motorists on cell phones exhibit the reaction speed and coordination of drivers with blood alcohol levels exceeding 0.08 — that’s like getting behind the wheel after four drinks!

• Drivers on cell phones are four times more likely to be in an accident.

• A 2002 study showed that talking on a cell phone was the cause of at least 2,600 deaths and 330,000 injuries annually.

“It is inherently dangerous to multitask while you drive.

This bill is aimed at the most dangerous distraction commonly engaged in: text messaging and e-mailing while driving. If this new law prevents just one more senseless death or injury, HB 1094 will have done its job,” said Rep. Claire Levy.

Rep. Randy Fischer said, “When presented with the sobering evidence documenting the risks of texting while driving, the

legislature took decisive action to address this growing public safety issue. I’m pleased to have worked alongside Rep. Levy and others to get this bill enacted into Colorado law. It will save lives!”

Any driver who has been sending text messages, tweets, or emails while driving can be charged with a secondary offense if pulled over by law enforcement. Because it is not a primary offense, drivers will not be ticketed only for texting but can receive two charges if they have, for example, exceeded the speed limit (primary) and are texting (secondary).

However, any driver under the age of 18 using a cell phone, even a speakerphone, to talk or text, can be pulled over as a primary offense.

First offenders will be required to pay a $50 fine, but phoneaddicted teens and chronic texters will face a $200 penalty if ticketed again.

BLM, Audubon Society team up for Christmas Bird Count The Bureau of Land Management and the Audubon Society are looking for a few good birders interested in helping out with this year’s Christmas Bird Count.

This will be the 110th annual bird count conducted by the Audubon Society nationwide.

This year they have partnered with the BLM’s Uncompahgre field office to continue the tradition locally.

The count will take place between Dec. 14 and Jan. 5.

Volunteers ranging from families and students to birders and scientists will go out armed with binoculars, bird guides and checklists to collect data and assess the health of local bird populations.

Audubon and other organizations use data collected in this longest-running wildlife census to assess the health of bird populations.

The count takes place within Count Circles, which focus on specific geographical areas. Each circle is overseen by a Count Compiler. Beginning birders will have the opportunity to join a group that includes at least one experienced birdwatcher.

In addition, if your home is within the boundaries of a Count Circle, you can stay home and report the birds that visit your feeder.

Volunteers are needed to take part in the following counts in Gunnison, Delta and Montrose counties: • Saturday, Dec. 19, Gunnison.

Contact Arden Anderson for meeting time and location, 641-

5322, kankan@frontier.net • Saturday, Dec. 19, Delta.

Meet at 8 a.m. in the Delta City Market parking lot. Contact Dennis Garrison, 527-4131, dennisgarrison@hotmail.com • Sunday, Dec. 20, Montrose.

Meet at 8 a.m. at the BLM/Forest Service parking lot on South Townsend Avenue. Contact David Sinton, 729-2089, david. sinton@gmail.com.

• Sunday, Jan. 3, Hotchkiss.

Meet at 8 a.m. in the Hotchkiss City Market parking lot. For more information and for those who want to meet earlier for observing owls, contact Jason Beason at 527-4625, jason. beason@rmbo.org.

For more information about Christmas Bird Count participation, visit www.audubon.org/ bird.cbc and click on the “Get Involved” link on the left-hand side of the page.

Christmas memorial service planned Dec. 17 For those who have lost a loved one, coping with the holidays can be a painful time. As a special feature of the holiday season, Mesa View MortuaryCemetery is pleased to sponsor a community Christmas memorial service as a unique way to remember and honor loved ones who have died.

The community Christmas memorial service will be held Thursday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m., at Mesa View Mortuary Chapel, 682 1725 Road, Delta. The service will include several area ministers and special music of the season. A special Christmas tree will be decorated during the service in remembrace and celebration of loved ones who have died. Ornaments will be provided.

Everyone is invited to bring their family and friends to share in this service. If you are unable

to drive at night but wish to attend, the staff of Mesa View Mortuary will pick you up at no charge. Call 874-8633 to reserve transportation.

If you are unable to attend the service on Dec. 17, but would like to have your loved one remembered, just stop by Mesa View Mortuary the week of Dec. 14 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to complete a card of remembrance. The name of your loved one will be read during the Dec. 17 service.

As an additional remembrance, luminaries will be lit in Mesa View Cemetery the same evening of the memorial service, beginning at about 6:30 p.m.

The entire community is invited to come view the beauty of the luminary display.

For more information or to arrange transporation, call Mesa View Mortuary at 874-8633.

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Lady Eagles’ basketball team in title hunt

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

The Class 2A WSL is highly competitive as proven a year ago when three teams from the Western Slope participated in the

state championships in Pueblo.

Paonia had the highest finish of the three teams after losing to the state champion Wray Eagles 46-35 in the title game. Hayden’s Lady Tigers and Meeker faced

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PAONIA’S LESLIE TRUJILLO USES a drop step to get to the basket in the picture above. Trujillo returns as a senior for the Lady Eagles and will see extensive playing time at a guard position. The Lady Eagles begin their season with a pair of games this weekend. The first one is in Gunnison (Dec. 4) and in Cedaredge (Dec. 5).

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off in the third place contest with Hayden earning a 42-40 decision.

Paonia finished at 25-2 last year while Hayden was 23-4 and Meeker 19-8.

For coach Scott Rienks the thought of another trip to Pueblo in March of 2010 has certainly crossed his mind. Rienks will be in his third season as the head coach at Paonia High School and will have a total of 17 campaigns at the conclusion of this season.

Rienks’ able assistants include 10-year veteran Cindy Swartzendruber and Allen Golden who is in his fourth year.

Paonia has a total of 28 girls in this year’s program with 10 seniors topping the list of players. Only one junior is out this season with seven sophomores poised to see lots of junior varsity action.

As the prep basketball season nears opening day, the prospect of a repeat appearance in the state playoffs has the Lady Eagles looking forward to the 2009-10 season.

Coach Rienks knows the road to Pueblo is not an easy one with Meeker and Hayden on his Eagles’ schedule for 2009-10.

Both teams are on Rienks’ list of teams to contend with as well as Rangely. The Lady Panthers return three off a team that qualified for regional play a year ago.

In looking at the upcoming season, Rienks has a lot of confidence in the Lady Eagles’ ability to get the job done. When asked about impact players for the season, Rienks simply replied, “There can’t be just one player.

I have to say the eight returning seniors from last year’s team will

be impact players.”

All eight of those seniors are letter winners from last year’s team. A pair of them are fouryear starters in their varsity careers.

Johanna Reed has been desiginated a starter for the fourth straight season and will see extensive action at the point guard position.

Jordyn Rienks, a transfer into the program two years ago, will be starting for her fourth straight season as well. Rienks will see playing time at post and on the perimeter.

Shelby Campbell is a guard and will share time with Leslie Trujillo and Kelly Stewart. Sophomore guard Jessica Altman will also share duties at the guard’s position.

Other seniors who figure to be on the floor for coach Rienks include Grayson Pipher, Kendra Hinton, and Christy Farnsworth.

Paonia has the tools to be a top choice to return to post-season play and Rienks has little doubt about his team’s potential.

“With nine returning lettermen and the work we put in this summer, we feel we have a chance to compete at the state level.”

Paonia faces Gunnison’s Cowboys in Gunnison Friday, Dec. 4 with game time set for 6 p.m. Preliminary games are set for 3 and 4:30 p.m. Paonia’s boys varsity team will follow the girls’ varsity game.

The Lady Eagles travel to Cedaredge on Saturday, Dec. 5, for a 2:30 p.m. game with the Lady Bruins. The boys varsity follows at 4 p.m. There’s only one junior varsity game for this date and that is set for 1 p.m.

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JORDYN RIENKS (LEFT) AND Grayson Pipher work an offensive drill at the post in a recent practice session at Paonia High School.

The Lady Eagles, on paper, look to be one of the favorites in 2A WSL play in 2009-10. They return eight seniors with playing experience and have several underclassmen who add support to the core group.

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Dec. 19 - Bank of the West Tourn.

Jan. 7 - at Gunnison Jan. 8 - GRAND VALLEY Jan. 15 - at Basalt Jan. 16 - at Coal Ridge Jan. 22 - OLATHE Jan. 23 - at Hotchkiss Jan. 29 - at Roaring Fork Jan. 30 - GUNNISON Feb. 5 - ASPEN Feb. 6 - at Grand Valley Feb. 13 - BASALT Feb. 16 - at Aspen Feb. 29 - COAL RIDGE Feb. 20 - at Olathe

Dec. 3 - OLATHE Dec. 8 - Montrose Dec. 18 - BANK OF THE WEST TOURNMENT Dec. 19 - BANK OF THE WEST TOURNMENT Jan. 8 - GLENWOOD SPRINGS Jan. 9 - at Rifle Jan. 15 - STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Jan. 16 - MOFFAT COUNTY Jan. 19 - GRAND JUNCTION CENTRAL Jan. 22 - at Battle Mountain Jan. 23 - EAGLE VALLEY Jan. 26 - at Palisade Jan. 29 - RIFLE Feb. 5 - at Moffat County Feb. 6 - at Steamboat Springs Feb. 12 - BATTLE MOUNTAIN Feb. 13 - at Eagle Valley Feb. 16 - PALISADE Feb. 19 - at Glenwood Springs

Dec. 11 - at Cedaredge Dec. 12 - at Olathe Dec. 18 - at Bank of the West Tourn.

Dec. 19 - at Bank of the West Tourn.

Jan. 8 - COAL RIDGE Jan. 9 - at Roaring Fork Jan. 12 - at Paonia Jan. 15 - at Grand Valley Jan. 16 - at Gunnison Jan. 22 - at Basalt Jan. 23 - CEDAREDGE Jan. 29 - OLATHE Jan. 30 - ASPEN Feb. 5 - GRAND VALLEY Feb. 6 - at Coal Ridge Feb. 12 - ROARING FORK Feb. 13 - at Aspen Feb. 19 - GUNNISON Feb. 20 - BASALT

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Dec. 3 - OLATHE Dec. 8 - Montrose Dec. 18 - BANK OF THE WEST TOURNMENT Dec. 19 - BANK OF THE WEST TOURNMENT Jan. 8 - GLENWOOD SPRINGS Jan. 9 - at Rifle Jan. 15 - STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Jan. 16 - MOFFAT COUNTY Jan. 19 - GRAND JUNCTION CENTRAL Jan. 22 - at Battle Mountain Jan. 23 - EAGLE VALLEY Jan. 26 - at Palisade Jan. 29 - RIFLE Feb. 5 - at Moffat County Feb. 6 - at Steamboat Springs Feb. 12 - BATTLE MOUNTAIN Feb. 13 - at Eagle Valley Feb. 16 - PALISADE Feb. 19 - at Glenwood Springs

Dec. 11 - at Cedaredge Dec. 12 - at Olathe Dec. 18 - at Bank of the West Tourn.

Dec. 19 - at Bank of the West Tourn.

Jan. 8 - COAL RIDGE Jan. 9 - at Roaring Fork Jan. 12 - at Paonia Jan. 15 - at Grand Valley Jan. 16 - at Gunnison Jan. 22 - at Basalt Jan. 23 - CEDAREDGE Jan. 29 - OLATHE Jan. 30 - ASPEN Feb. 5 - GRAND VALLEY Feb. 6 - at Coal Ridge Feb. 12 - ROARING FORK Feb. 13 - at Aspen Feb. 19 - GUNNISON Feb. 20 - BASALT

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Dec. 19 - Bank of the West Tourn.

Jan. 7 - at Gunnison Jan. 8 - GRAND VALLEY Jan. 15 - at Basalt Jan. 16 - at Coal Ridge Jan. 22 - OLATHE Jan. 23 - at Hotchkiss Jan. 29 - at Roaring Fork Jan. 30 - GUNNISON Feb. 5 - ASPEN Feb. 6 - at Grand Valley Feb. 13 - BASALT Feb. 16 - at Aspen Feb. 29 - COAL RIDGE Feb. 20 - at Olathe

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Dec. 19 - at Bank of the West Tourn.

Jan. 7 - MONTROSE Jan. 8 - VAIL CHRISTIAN Jan. 12 - HOTCHKISS Jan. 15 - at Rangely Jan. 16 - WEST GRAND Jan. 23 - at Plateau Valley Jan. 26 - RANGELY Jan. 30 - NORTH PARK Feb. 5 - HAYDEN Feb. 6 - at Soroco Feb. 12 - at DeBeque Feb. 13 - at Meeker Feb. 20 - District Quarterfinals Feb. 26 - District Semifinals at Rangely Feb. 27 - District Finals at Rangely Mar. 5 - 2A Regional Semifinals Mar. 6 - 2A Regional Finals Mar. 11 - 2A State Quarterfinals Mar. 12 - 2A State Semifinals Mar. 13 - 2A State Finals

———— GIRLS ———— Dec. 4 - at Gunnison Dec. 5 - at Cedaredge Dec. 8 - OLATHE Dec. 10 - PLATEAU VALLEY Dec. 11 - at Montrose Dec. 18 - at Bank of the West Tourn.

Dec. 19 - at Bank of the West Tourn.

Jan. 7 - MONTROSE Jan. 8 - VAIL CHRISTIAN Jan. 12 - HOTCHKISS Jan. 15 - at Rangley Jan. 16 - WEST GRAND Jan. 23 - at Plateau Valley Jan. 26 - RANGLEY Jan. 30 - NORTH PARK Feb. 5 - HAYDEN Feb. 6 - at Soroco Feb. 12 - at DeBeque Feb. 13 - at Meeker Feb. 20 - District Quarterfinals Feb. 26 - District Semifinals at Rangley Feb. 27 - District Finals at Rangley Mar. 5 - 2A Regional Semifinals Mar. 6 - 2A Regional Finals Mar. 11 - 2A State Quarterfinals Mar. 12 - 2A State Semifinals Mar. 13 - 2A State Finals

———— BOYS ———— Dec. 3 - at Delta Dec. 4 - MEEKER Dec. 8 - at Paonia Dec. 11 - at Coal Ridge Dec. 12 - HOTCHKISS Dec. 19 - at Roaring Fork Jan. 8 - ASPEN Jan. 9 - GRAND VALLEY Jan. 15 - GUNNISON Jan. 16 - BASALT Jan. 22 - at Cedaredge Jan. 23 - COAL RIDGE Jan. 29 - at Hotchkiss Feb. 5 - ROARING FORK Feb. 6 - at Aspen Feb. 11 - at Gunnison Feb. 12 - at Grand Valley Feb. 19 - at Basalt Feb. 20 - CEDAREDGE

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Returners give Eagles shot at another wrestling title

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

After a state championship in 2009, the Paonia Eagles expect nothing less than a chance to repeat in 2010.

The Eagles had two first place finishes, a second, a fourth, fifth, and two sixth places to help win the state tournament with 139.5 points. Wiggins High School was second with 120.

First place finishes went to Justin Iacovetto (119) and Lukas Wiggins (152). Justin Smith was second at 145. Preston Bonine was fourth at 112, Adrian Lopez fifth at 130, and sixth places went to Chad Bradbeer (125) and Josh Burns (189).

Several of those past state placers are gone due to graduation. In their places are eager and determined athletes who are

working hard for head coach Andy Pipher.

Assisting Pipher this year is Mike Reedy, Mark Milner, Bob Reed and Nate Wiggins.

Pipher, and the Eagles, have several returning athletes who are looking to make post-season trips to state competition.

Cody Clawson was at 103 a year ago and competed at state.

He finished with a record of 2119 and has moved up to either 112 or 119 for the 2009-10 campaign.

Lopez wrestled at 130 last season earning a 31-13 record.

This year, Lopez is looking at either 135 or 140 as he attempts to return to state.

Senior James Drinkhouse is working at 140 this season and could be one of the Eagles who makes it to post-season.

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Another top returnee is Michael Brown. A senior, Brown is slated to wrestle at 152 where competition is always tough.

Justin Smith was a 145pounder a year ago and his only loss at state was to Dove Creek’s Colten Huskey in the title match.

Smith finished with a record of 27-6. His new weight classification for this season will be 160.

KC Martin is back for his senior year at 171. Martin qualified for state last year but lost in the quarterfinals of the consolation bracket. Kohl Knutson won the state title for Wiggins at this weight. Martin finished with a 28-10 mark and may find Knutson waiting at state later in the season.

Heavyweigth Zach Solaas lost three matches at state a year ago but gained valuable experience, as a sophomore, in the process.

Paonia will have several athletes vying for varsity roles in 2009-10. A list of athletes, not already mentioned, include Sam Park (FR, 103), Dylan Stroud (FR, 112), Matt Hayden (FR, 119), Dustin Braslin (SO, 125/130), Cody Rapke (JR, 125/130), Kyler Bear (SO, 145), KC Christain (SO, 145), Tyler Kendall (FR, 160), Morgan Rieder (FR, 189), Myles Cumpston (SO, 189), and Matt Tucker (SR, 215).

Hayden and Rangely may well be the toughest competition in the 2A WSL. Norwood was fifth at state a year ago while Hayden was fourth and Rangely seventh.

The Eagles will begin their season with the annual Hotchkiss Tournament on Dec. 5. A starting time has not been released.

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THESE TWO PAONIA GRAPPLERS are working on single-leg takedowns during a practice session prior to Thanksgiving break. Paonia won the 2A state wrestling title last year and have several returnees from last year’s squad. The Eagles have the talent to win a second straight title.

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ZACH LOVE, RIGHT, WORKS on technique during a recent practice session in Cedaredge. Love wrestled at 125 last season and qualified for the state tournament. Even though Love failed to place in the tournament, he gained valuable experience and completed his sophomore year with a record of 22-19. Love’s partner in the photo above, Martin Alejandre, is a senior who did not make the post-season tournament but is on the verge of getting there this season. Alejandre will be wrestling at 160 for the Bruins.

New coach, new start for Cedaredge wrestling program

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

Wrestling is alive and well in Cedaredge in 2009-10. The program has a new coach and a full complement of potential grapplers to fill each weight classification.

Ted Schanen will guide the fortunes of Cedaredge’s wrestling program as their head coach. Schanen will be in his first year as the head coach with 25 athletes seeking starting roles

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in 14 different weight classifications.

Schanen hails from Wisconsin and has had a previous stint as an instructor at Cedaredge Middle School. He wrestled in high school and college with his parents playing a major role in helping guide him to his presentday endeavors with their support efforts.

After working with sled dogs for a while, and living in Wisconsin, Schanen was persuaded

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to return to Cedaredge and now believes this is where he would like to call home.

Just recently, Schanen and his wife Lynn, found out they were expecting their first child in July of 2010.

Assisting Schanen will be Chad Anderson, Marty Humble, and Ty Williams.

This year’s Bruins’ team will sport four seniors, seven juniors, nine sophomores, and five freshmen.

There are four top returnees for the Bruins. Marty Peterson, who wrestled at 112 last season and finished with a 30-9, attended the state tournament but did not place. Peterson will be at 119 this year.

Zack Love wrestled at 125 last season and is up to 135 this year. Love went to state last year and finished at 22-19.

Nolan Kissner will compete at 145 for the Bruins and is expected to do well.

Martin Alejandre is the Bruins’ 160-pounder as a senior.

The Bruins have a pair of hopefuls at 103. Samuel Williamson (sophomore) and Skylar Heidrich (freshman) will compete for varsity roles here.

Cedaredge’s 112-pounder for this season is Jordan Eiler (freshman).

Junior Zack Jones is listed at 125 with Joey Kallsen (junior), Austen Bollinger (freshman), and Michael Barrington (junior) listed at 130.

Along with Love at 135 is Justin Engle (freshman).

A pair of sophomores, Jon White and Sterling Rose, are battling for the 140 pound spot with Kissner and Dustin Stracener (freshman) listed at 145.

The Bruins have one athlete, junior Brady Dean, listed in the 152 pound slot.

Alejandre will have competition at 160 as Tory Eyre (senior) is also listed at the same weight.

Cedaredge has one prospect at 171 and that is Cole Caywood (sophomore).

The team’s biggest challenge for a starting spot will be at 189 where Ely Fritchman (sophomore), Luke Miller (junior), Travis Martin (sophomore), and Greg Edgington (sophomore) make each practice interesting.

At 215, Joe Laird (sophomore) and Corby Deutsch (junior) will battle for varsity assignments.

This year’s 285-pounder will be Tyler Balistreri.

Coach Schanen knows the area’s wrestling teams and sees Olathe, Centauri, and Grand Valley as teams to compete with for top honors. Schanen also notes, “But, we will have great yardstick matchups with Hotchkiss and Paonia.

The Bruins begin their season Friday, Dec. 4, in Cedaredge against Norwood. Competition begins at 6 p.m.

Cedaredge will compete in the Hotchkiss Tournament on Dec. 5.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Delta boys’ basketball team gears up for year

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

Von Mitchell will be in his second season at the helm of Delta High School’s boys’ basketball program. The Panthers finished 8-12 a year ago and made it to post-season where they lost to Evergreen in the first round. Mitchell will be looking to have more success in 2009-10 with 40 athletes signed up for the upcoming campaign.

Mitchell will celebrate his 10th year as a head coach and will have Kelly McCormick and Rob Ames back as his assistants.

McCormick will be working on his third season and Ames 15.

The Panthers return four seniors, nine juniors and seven sophomores from last year’s squad. There are 16 freshmen listed on a players’ roster.

Mitchell will have a highly mobile team this season and all are expected to have major roles in the success of the Panthers. Three of the top prospects, according to Mitchell, include Eli Baier, Phillip Decker and Austin Watson.

Baier, a junior, plays post and is a returning first team all-conference selection. Decker is a senior post player who was an honorable mention all-conference choice last season. Watson, another senior, can play either

the post or a guard’s position and may well be one of the best three-sport athletes on the Western Slope according to Mitchell.

All three are 6-3 or taller and can defend the paint.

Mitchell’s assessment of the league’s best teams shows Glenwood Springs and Steamboat Springs at the top. “Tradition never graduates at those schools,” notes Mitchell.

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A BALL BOUNCING ON the rim drew plenty of attention at one of Delta High School’s boys basketball practices prior to the Thanksgiving Day holliday. Head coach Von Mitchell has his team playing in an up-tempo pace that keeps players constantly looking fo the other team’s mistakes.

Hotchkiss boys’ hoops team working to make playoffs

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

The Hotchkiss Bulldogs are looking to rebound from a dismal season a year ago and prove to their fans, and themselves, they can play basketball. Second-year Bulldogs’ coach Kyle Crowder, seven years altogether, has his team working hard on the little things that build winners.

There are 35 hopefuls participating in practice sessions at Hotchkiss High School. Seven of those hopefuls are seniors with seven juniors battling for playing time as well. The sophomore class has eight athletes working out and 13 players, are freshmen.

Coach Crowder has his play-

ers separated into varsity and junior varsity players as the season nears its opening day.

Players listed on Crowder’s varsity roster includes the seven seniors mentioned earlier. Those players are Jesse Hotchkiss, Pat Sullivan, Kevin Struble, Steven Floyd, Nick Coleman, Antonio Padilla and Kenai Panish.

There are three juniors listed on the roster as well. Those athletes are Dakota Coats, Dylan Ware and Isaac Fisher.

Hotchkiss’ junior varsity team is comprised of three juniors and eight sophomores. The junior members of the team include Aaron Leger, Ryan Violett and Brandon Duval.

The eight sophomore play-

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PLAYERS FROM THE HOTCHKISS Bulldogs’ varsity team work on a fastbreak and defensive drill during a recent practice. The Bulldogs are much improved over last year and are hoping to show that improvement by finishing high in league standings and make the postseason playoffs as well.

ers on the junior varsity include Tell Hawk, Mitch McCallister, Tanner Simpson, Brice Simpson, Chris Lamberg, Garrett Tiedeman, Ryan Pachel and Shane Jones.

For the Bulldogs, full, early practice sessions were held without those members who are listed in this story that were members of Hotchkiss High School’s state 1A playoff team.

Crowder’s assistants for the 2009-10 season are Chase Roeber and Jed Trefren. Roeber is in his first season and Trefren enters his second season with the Bulldogs.

Impact players for the Bulldogs in 2009-10 might well fall on the shoulders of three athletes according to Crowder. His top three choices were Floyd, Sullivan and Hotchkiss.

Floyd, a 6-4 senior post player, is a strong inside threat who can score and rebound at both ends of the court.

Sullivan, at 6-0, is another senior who will play point guard.

Sullivan is quick and is a good defender. He also has solid leadership qualities.

Hotchkiss stands 6-3 and can play either the wing or post positions. He is another quick player who jumps well and has the ability to score in bunches.

The rest of the Bulldogs are certainly highly touted in their roles as well as the three players previously mentioned. Together, the Bulldogs, “potentially could be league champs and qualifiers for state,” quoted Crowder.

Hotchkiss, unfortunately, must wait for their first game experience of the new season until next weekend, Dec. 11 and 12. The Bulldogs face Cedaredge on the road Dec. 11 and then travel to Olathe on Dec. 12. Both junior varsity teams, as well as varsity teams, play on both days.

By Robert Miller Fitness Proffessional and TASP Instructor

“Crossing The Line” As we start the time of the season, where it gets darker and colder earlier, and we just want to really just sleep in and hibernate a little, how do we “cross the line” to stay on our fitness paths? A few of my training buddies have been dragging themselves in a few minutes later every workout lately, especially squat and clean days. The problem this time of the year is the holidays. Every person just has something planned. The only guys that are consistent, as we refer to ourselves, are the guys with no one waiting at home. The gym is our haven. We are the misfits who look pretty darn good for each other and whatever reunion there is coming up!! But

whatever class you fall into, married or single, have a plan. It’s the hardest time of the season to really go in and bust your butt trying to make any gains.

So, try to keep “crossing the line” and just maintain for one more month. Your trip to Mexico in January or February will be an awesome one for you. I am also teaching some ski strength clinics for TASP in Telluride. All donations received go to the program for kids. Call Tim McCough at 970-728-7537 for info or e-mail me at remiller80452@yahoo.com.

Clinics are done in Spanish for those who are interested in the Spanish-speaking communities.

Hang in there during the darkest time of the year.

The days start getting longer after January 12.

Heading into the upcoming season, Mitchell is more than optimistic about the Panthers.

“We’re going to work hard and strive to continue the tone and tempo established by our football during their great season. I think the outlook is very positive for this crew.”

Mitchell, and the Panthers, will have a most capable core of senior players to lead the way in 2009-10. Along with Watson and Decker, other talented seniors on the roster include Matt Brattain, Donny Stewart, Brian Hernandez, Saul Olmos and Ernie Baier.

Juniors on this years’ squad, other than Eli Baier, are Cullen Long, Tim Ashurst, Tyler Jones, Devan Ruble, Aaron Sakala, Nolan Britain, David Whiteside and Eric Fuentes.

A list of the nine sophomore athletes on the roster include Colin Fraser, Jacob Ames, Leroy Arreola, Blake Velasquez, Miguel Ramirez, Vinny Pinela, Sean King, Ethan Baier and Chris Lopez.

Coach Ames’ freshman team will be composed of Tyler Scheetz, Ivan Carrasco, Douglas Hawkins, Chris Black, Zach Decker, Jaden Cowley, Jade Astin, Austin Kimber and Curtis Garcia.

The remaining sophomores

on this years’ roster include Dom Marquez, Robert Williams, Kyle Collins, Travis McCormick, Josh Carney, Lino Ortiz and Mitch Whiteside.

Delta began their practice sessions without several players who were competing on the Panthers football team in Class 3A state football playoffs. Those players included Phillip Decker, Watson, Ernie Baier, Britain,

David Whiteside, Eric Fuentes and Chris Lopez.

Delta begins their prep season with a non-conference contest at home against Olathe’s Pirates on Thursday, Dec. 3. Boys varsity action is set to begin at 7:30 p.m.

The Panthers continue preseason play on Tuesday, Dec. 8, with a trip to Montrose for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff.

The 2009-2010 high school basketball season has tipped off.

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DELTA 4:00, 5:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009,

Delta County Independent

HHS Lady hoops’ team looks to be a force in 3A WSL division

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

Hotchkiss High School’s basketball season will begin with a new girl’s basketball coach.

Josh Kasper assumes the head coaching duties at Hotchkiss and will be in his first year as a head coach and sixth overall. Assisting Kasper this season is Katie Peebles and Mike Price. Peebles

is in her sixth season and will have the junior varsity program.

Price is in his 15th season and is working with the Lady Bulldogs’ ‘C’ team.

Hotchkiss has a total of 31 athletes vying for playing time at Hotchkiss High School. Kasper’s job at HHS will be somewhat hindered by the fact that there are only four seniors on this

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years’ varsity roster who return from a year ago. There are only five juniors and none of those were varsity starters a year ago.

The four returning seniors were all starters for the Lady Bulldogs and are considered by Kasper as impact players for this year’s team. Renea Ranch will be the team’s starting point guard who can score and play great defense. Kasper describes Ranch as, “tougher than tough; sees the floor well; good shooter; and determination.”

Amy Miller is one of the Lady Bulldogs’ post players, who according to Kasper, “does everything well. She’s extremely smart and tough.”

Sarah Koontz, another post player, is a good finesse player who is a good rebounder.

Kasper’s final comments are for CeCe Pieper, who plays a wing for the Lady Bulldogs.

“She is athletic, aggressive, has great hustle, rebounds well, very competitive, and smart.”

Other seniors on this year’s roster include Dusty Curtis, Sydney Carvill and Mandy Barnes.

Mariah Broome is the lone junior on the varsity roster. Other juniors who will see action at the junior varsity level are Alexandra Matheson, Wendy Pear-

son and Lauren Polson.

There are four sophomores listed on the varsity roster at HHS. Those four ladies are Chelsea Hotchkiss, Erin Jones, Brandy Dutton and Lindsay Todd. All four will also see plenty of junior varsity action in 2009-10.

This year’s freshman contingent has a dozen names listed on their roster. Players on that list include Mariah Adams, Megan Chermak, Bryanna Cox, Katie Evans, Faline Farmer, Christina Jaramillo, Katelyn Morgan, Sadee Smith, Annie Stechert, Bree Vernon, Alexis Westergren and Meaghan Wright.

Coach Kasper sees Olathe and Grand Valley as teams to beat in the 3A WSL. Olathe will be one team to watch out for because of their tenacious play and the Lady Cardinals were picked because they are quick and nasty (good aggressive play).

Kasper’s assessment of the future for the Lady Bulldogs is quite high. “We have the talent and determination to win the league and advance deep into state playoffs.

Hotchkiss’ first competition comes on Dec. 11 at Cedaredege with tipoff set for 6 p.m.

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HOTCHKISS SENIORS AMY MILLER, left, and Sarah Koontz work on scoring from the post. Miller is making the task a little more difficult for Koontz as she jumps to block the shot. The Lady Bulldogs have a new coach in 2009-10 and are working hard to be one of the top four teams in the competitive 3A WSL.

Delta girls inexperienced; have potential to finish high in league

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

After posting a 7-13 record a year ago, the Delta High School Lady Panthers hope to extend their regular season into the postseason for the second straight year in a row. Delta entered last year’s first round of 4A state playoffs and played well before losing a double overtime game to Pueblo County.

Matt Hamm will be coaching in his eighth season and enters the year as Delta’s head coach for

the second year. Joining Hamm will be boys’ veteran coach Joe Mock, who switched to the girls’ program just this season. Mock has at least 10 years of experience in coaching to share with his athletes.

Courtney Hellman comes onboard to take the reins of Delta’s freshman program and will be in her first season at the high school level.

Delta graduated a serious amount of talented players last season but have some equally

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DELTA’S KATIE KAHRS, FAR right, had the ball knocked away from her during a recent scrimmage against the Fruita Monument Lady Wildcats. In the background is Lindsay Velasquez, who watches the ball and awaits the outcome of the following scramble to secure it.

Delta’s team is inexperienced but talented in 2009-10.

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DELTA FRESHMAN SKYLYN WEBB shoots over a Fruita Monument player in a scrimmage held at Delta High School before the Thanksgiving break.

talented players returning for the 2009-10 season. Four seniors, four juniors and eight sophomores return from last year’s team. The Lady Panthers also have nine freshmen listed on the team roster.

Hamm didn’t have to think long about his impact players for the coming season. Junior Jenni Jones heads the list. A starter last year, Jones brings the most experience and potential to the floor for the Lady Panthers. She has the ability to score from both inside and outside.

Sophomore Katie Kahrs is another impact player Hamm singles out. Kahrs is a scorer who can score from anywhere on the floor. She has a quick first step and has the ability to get to the rim.

Sadie Carrillo, another sophomore, will be Hamm’s starting point guard who also has defensive shut-down capabilities. Carrillo creates turnovers and often scores off them.

This year’s varsity team will consist of four seniors, two juniors, three sophomores and one freshman. Other players may have the opportunity to play up as the season progresses.

Seniors on this year’s varsity roster include Lea Sanford (guard), Jennifer Graff (guard), Lindsea Velasquez (post/wing), and Katey Laurita (post).

Junior varsity players are Jones and Tiffany Schaaf. Both are post players for the Lady Panthers.

Sadie Carrillo (guard), Alyssa Goff (guard), and Kahrs (guard/ wing) make up the sophomore class representatives.

The Lady Panthers have one freshman who has plenty of ability and is destined to see

varsity experience this season.

That freshman player is Skylyn Webb. She can play virtually any position on the floor but will see extensive action at a guard’s position.

Junior varsity players for 2009-10 include freshmen Callie Gafford (post), Natalie Larkin (point guard), and Webb.

Sophomore players on the roster include Carissa Sidor (guard), Rory Liston (post), Kayla DeVilbiss (guard), Amanda Ortega (post), and Kylie DeVilbiss (guard).

Juniors listed on the junior varsity roster are Kyla Fulton (post) and Flor Chavez (guard).

Delta’s C-team has nine players on the roster. Those players are Patti Chapman, Autumn Tsosie, Brooke Taylor, Monica Hernandez, Katlin Davis, Grace Kathrein, Emily Johnson, Alex Arias and Vanessa Arias.

Coach Hamm sees Glenwood Springs and Moffat County as two of the teams to beat in 4A WSL play. “Glenwood Springs will be tough because they were the league champs last year.

Moffat County because they are always a tough team and are always competing for the league title.”

In spite of Delta’s youth, Hamm sees the Lady Panthers as potential top four finishers.

“We are young but talented. If we can get it all put together, we have the potential to finish in the top three or four teams in the league.”

The Lady Panthers are at home against Olathe on Thursday, Dec. 3. Game time has been set for 6 p.m.

Delta’s next contest is set for Dec. 8 at Montrose with a 6 p.m. tipoff as well.

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Lady Bruins excited for season

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

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CEDAREDGE’S RACHELLE LITSHEIM, WITH the ball, drives the middle of the lane against a teammate during a drill at a recent practice session. Litsheim has come back from a knee injury in the offseason and appears to be ready for the opening day of the 2009-10 prep basketball season.

Delta swim team uses members from four county HS

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

After not having a boys’ swim team at Delta High School in the fall, the new winter sports season will have a team of girls who hail from various Delta County high schools.

Amanda Hatch is back for her third season in the Delta program. She is the coach for both swimming and diving events.

Last season, Brittany Conger attended state competition as a diver for the Delta program.

Conger who graduated, placed 20th with 202.1 points.

Coach Hatch reports there are 25 athletes out for the team this season. Athletes from Cedaredge, Delta, and Hotchkiss are represented on the team.

This year’s captians include seniors Rachel Garcia (Cedaredge), Nicole Davis (Hotchkiss), and Kat Laws (Delta).

Garcia will compete in the 200 individual medley and the 100 butterfly. Davis will swim the 100 breaststroke and the 100 backstroke. Laws will compete in the 50 and 100 sprint freestyle events.

Other returning swimmers who are seniors this year include Shelby Crosby (Cedaredge, 100 backstroke and 100 freestyle), Amber Hernandez (Cedaredge, 100 backstroke and 100 freestyle), Heidi Stinson (Delta, 500 freestyle and the 4x100 relay), and Lauren Sweat (Cedaredge, 100 and 200 freestyle).

Juniors competing on the team include Rebekka Davignon (Delta, diving and 100 backstroke), Brooke Hernandez (Cedaredge, spring freestyle and the 100 and 200 distances), and Gabby Young (Cedaredge, diving and 100 backstroke).

There are five sophomores listed on the roster. Lindsey Alsdorf (Delta, 50 freestyle and 100 breaststroke), Katari Lewis (Delta, sprint freestyle in the 50 and 100 distances), Bryn Marah (Cedaredge, 100 butterfly and 200 individual medley), Kyla Ownbey (Delta, 200 freestyle and 200 individual medley), and courtney Struble (Hotchkiss, 50 freestyle, and 100 breaststroke) are those five individuals.

Hatch has several newcomers to the swim program this season. Among those newcomers is Keeley Ballard (Delta, senior), Meghan Conway (Delta, senior), Allyson Davis (Cedaredge, junior), Cori DeField, Soraya Luna (Delta, freshman), Malca Gordon (Cedaredge, freshman), Monica Medrano (Cedaredge, junior), Hayley Suiter (Cedaredge, freshman), Katherin Villafranco (Cedaredge, sophomore), and Evelina Yun (Hotchkiss, junior).

Hatch’s swim team has a 10meet schedule before going to league championships in early February. Delta’s season gets underway on Saturday, Dec. 5, at Orchard Mesa Middle School where they will compete in the Western Slope League Relays.

Starting time for the meet is 10 a.m.

For Eric Hollembeak, this year’s group of girls may be talented enough to provide a top three finish in the 3A WSL basketball league standings. After a less than average season a year ago, Hollembeak sees this year’s team as a potential top contender for league honors.

In all there are 31 athletes listed on the Cedaredge Lady Bruins’ team roster.

There are five returning seniors and another five players from the junior class who also return.

The sophomore class accounts for eight players on the roster who return. In all there are 11 sophomores on the roster. Eight freshmen have been practicing for the Lady Bruins as well.

The Lady Bruins had a suc-

cessful summer of camps and competition, despite losing their talented point guard, Rachelle Litsheim, to a knee injury early.

Litsheim has been cleared to play for Cedaredge and certainly makes their front court more formiddable with her presence. Litsheim is a senior this season.

The other four seniors on this year’s team who are battling for varsity playing time include Katie Anderson (post), Jamie Deal (guard), Jheri Gates (post), and Caitlin Walker (post). All but Anderson saw extensive playing time last season.

Junior athletes listed, who Hollembeak sees as potential impact players this season, are led by guard Amber Farr. Others noted by Hollembeak include Jennifer Badding (post), Leah Burnett (guard), Brenna Otts (post), and Crystal Pettay (post).

The sophomore class will be represented by 11 athletes, eight of whom return from their freshman season. The list of sophomores includes Rachel Bate, Frankie Hejny, Brianna Henrie, Sammie Henrie, Savannah McIntire, Sidney Navarro, Rhonda Peters, Emily Rodriguez, Hanna Schaefer, Kailyn Williams and Tani Zamarripa.

From the freshman class, the team roster includes Lindsey Cotton, Lindsey Gardner, Annali Getz, Savannah Hassinger, Savannah Herman, Justice Kuhn, Jordan Smith and Skylar Smith.

Helping Hollembeak with

coaching duties for the season is Angie Morgan, junior varsity, and Joe Berger, “C” team.

Hotchkiss, Olathe, and Grand Valley are teams Hollembeak sees as potential roadblocks for the Lady Bruins in 2009-2010.

Hollembeak is optimistic when it comes to his teams’ chances for the upcoming season. His comment about the season was, “We should be pretty tough.”

Cedaredge will open its season with a home contest against Paonia’s Lady Eagles on Saturday, Dec. 5. Varsity games begin at 2:30 and 4 p.m.

Bruin boys’ basketball to be competitive in 2009-10

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

The Cedaredge Bruins’ basketball program has a new coach for the 2009-2010 season. Brandon Wilkes is the new mentor for the Bruin boys hoops team.

In his first season as the head coach, Wilkes will be out to produce a team that will hope-

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fully improve on last year’s 9-13 record.

Kevin Dunbar will be in his first year as the junior varsity coach at Cedaredge after spending four years as a manager at the University of Wyoming.

Billy Kissner returns for his fourth year as the coach for Cedaredge’s freshmen players.

The Bruins reached the regional semifinals before ending their season a year ago.

Numbers for the Bruins in 2009-10 include five seniors, six junior, 11 sophomores, and 10 freshmen. All together, there are 32 players vying for playing time.

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CADE SWEENEY, LEFT, AND Geordan Brewer work on a drill while at one of their last practice sessions prior to Thanksgiving Break.

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Brandon Wilkes Kevin Dunbar Billy Kissner Eric Hollembeak Angela Morgan Joe Berger Ted Schanen Chad Anderson, Marty Humble and Ty Williams

DELTA PANTHERS School Colors: Green & White Boys Varsity Basketball Coach: Boys JV Basketball Coach: Boys Fresh. Basketball Coach: Girls Varsity Basketball Coach: Girls JV Basketball Coach: Girls Fresh. Basketball Coach: Varsity Wrestling Coach: Assistant Wrestling Coaches: Girls Swim Coach:

Von Mitchell Kelly McCormick Rob Ames Matt Hamm Joe Mock Courtney Hellman Clayton Curtis Luis Meza and Ryan Whittington Amanda Hatch

HOTCHKISS BULLDOGS School Colors: Red & White Boys Varsity Basketball Coach: Boys JV Basketball Coach: Boys Fresh. Basketball Coach: Girls Varsity Basketball Coach: Girls JV Basketball Coach: Girls Fresh. Basketball Coach: Wrestling Coach: Assistant Wrestling Coaches:

Kyle Crowder Chase Roeber Jed Trefren Josh Kasper Katie Peebles Mike Price Glen Suppes Doug Horton, Corey Watkins, Benson Murdoch and Brandon Sullivan

PAONIA EAGLES School Colors: Red & Black Boys Basketball Coach: Boys Assistant Basketball Coach: Boys Freshman Basketball Coach: Girls Basketball Coach: Girls Assistant Basketball Coach: Girls Freshman Basketball Coach: Wrestling Coach: Assistant Wrestling Coaches:

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Paonia boys have size, speed, motivation

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

Steve Swartzendruber’s Eagles finished 3-16 last season and have been working hard to erase those memories as they prepare for another basketball campaign in Paonia.

There are 24 athletes currently practicing in Paonia. Four of those hopefuls are seniors while the largest number of candidates are from the junior class with 10 names appearing on the team roster. Both the sophomore and freshman classes have seven and five players, respectively, battling for playing time.

Swartzendruber will be in his sixth season as the head boys’

coach at Paonia and will get plenty of help from assistant coaches Tim Esgar (sixth season) and Brian Mitchum (third year).

The Eagles are basically young but do have some athleticism to make up for inexperience.

When asked about impact players, Swartzendruber identified a pair of guards who will be the trigger for Paonia’s offense.

Senior Taylor Bradford is a team leader and will be starting for the third straight year for the Eagles.

Adrian Penny, a junior guard, is an excellent shooter with great quickness and athleticism.

Joining Bradford as seniors on this year’s roster are Nate Huey

(guard), Noah Kropp (guard/forward) and Oscar Medina (forward).

Other juniors, in addition to Penny, listed on the roster include Alex Flynn (forward/center), Thayne Clement (guard), Jonathan Wardlaw (guard/forward), John Devlin (forward/center), Allen Flinchum (guard), Kacey Kropp (guard), Richard Emmons (guard), Blake Oard (guard/forward), and Blaine Escher (guard/ forward).

The seven sophomores listed on this year’s roster include Anthony Roeber (post/forward), Trevor Walters (guard), Daniel Ford (post), Richard Kendall (post), Sam Dutton (post), Ben Justman (forward), and Lance Trujillo (guard).

Representing the freshman class is Taylor Katzer (guard), Keaton Kropp (guard), Justin Manupella, (post/forward), Jonathan Van Vleet (post), and Lane Clawson (forward).

As the Eagles head into their 2009-10 season, Swartzendruber picks Meeker, Hayden and Rangely as the teams to beat.

Meeker was chosen because they lost just one player from their third-place team at state.

Both Hayden and Rangely qualified for state last year and each returns a number of key players for the 2009-10 season.

In spite of the number of teams with a great deal of playoff experience, Swartzendruber has high hopes for his Eagles this season.

“We should finish in the top four in the league and hope to qualify for one of four regional berths.

We will be young but quick and athletic. We’ll improve as the season goes along and hopefully peak at the right time.”

The Eagles open their season with a trip to Gunnison on Friday, Dec. 4. Varsity boys’ action is set to begin at 7:30 p.m.

Paonia plays their second game of the season on Saturday at Cedaredge. That contest has a 4 p.m. starting time.

A third game in less than a week is slated for Dec. 8 in Paonia against the Olathe Pirates.

Tipoff for this contest has been set for 6:30 p.m.

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PAONIA BOYS COACH STEVE Swartzendruber shares information with his players as the team participated in an offensive practice session.

Returnees give Delta mat team experience in 2009-10 campaign

By Wayne Crick DCI Sports Writer

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MESA STATE COLLEGE’S MIKE Bear gets a good look at the basket against Metro State College of Denver. The Mavericks were hosting Metro State for the final game of the Thanksgiving Day Classic last Saturday. Bear graduated from Delta two years ago and is now the sixth man in Mesa State’s rotation. Mesa State won the game.

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Delta High School wrestling will feature three athletes who participated in last year’s 4A state wrestling tournament. Another wrestler, Michael Patton, was a qualifier for state a year ago but will not be wrestling this year due to an injury suffered against Pueblo Central in a 3A state playoff football game.

Gene White, a potential state

qualifier, did not wrestle last year due to knee injuries as well.

White has been cleard to wrestle and is ready to go this season giving the Panthers at least six prospects that have legitimate shots at attending the state meet in 2010.

Head coach Clayton Curtis will be in his third season as the head mentor at Delta and will have the services of Luis Meza who returns for his fourth year.

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THESE TWO DELTA WRESTLERS are working from the standing position at a recent practice session. The Panthers have several wrestlers who have state experience and others who are capable of becoming state qualifiers. Delta is one of the teams that will participate in this weekend’s Hotchkiss Invitational on Saturday, Dec. 5.

Ryan Whittington is also assisting this year and he is in his first season as an assistant.

The Panthers have fielded 23 wrestlers who are battling for varsity positions. There are three seniors, eight juniors, five sophomores and seven freshmen listed on the wrestling roster.

Top returnees and their weight classifications include sophomore Morgan McCracken at 130.

In the junior class there are four athletes who could have what it takes to make the trip to state. Mykal De Herrera wrestled at 103 last season and was a state qualifier. De Herrera lost to freshman Nick Babcock of Broomfield in his first match.

Babcock went on to earn second place in the tournament. De Herrera slipped into the losers’ bracket where he defeated Prairie View’s Ricky Becker 10-8 in overtime. De Herrera ended his state tournament appearance with a loss to Frederick’s Mike Ashton in the next round and finished the season with a record of 26-12. He will wrestle at 103 again this year.

Rudy Fantin was a 119pounder a year ago and qualified for the state tournament as well. Fantin won his first match by a 5-4 decision but lost in the second round to Broomfield’s Gave Gomez. His next match, in the losers’ bracket, was to Elizabeth’s Clayton Garza. Fantin finished the year at 20-18. In his junior year, Fantin will wrestle in

the 125-pound slot.

Junior Nathan Trujillo qualified for state at 130 in 2009.

He lost in the first round by a 6-4 decision and dropped into the losers’ bracket. In the losers’ bracket, Jon Zurek ousted Trujillo with a 4-2 overtime win.

Trujillo completed the season with a record of 23-16.

Dylon Taylor has no state experience but looks to change that as he prepares for competition at 140.

Delta’s looking for great things from White, who is at 215 for the 2009-10 season. The only questions concerning White’s performances will be how well he reacts to the rigors of lower extremity contact.

Other varsity wrestlers not already mentioned include Shane Anderson (FR, 112), Hunter Brasfield (FR, 119), Victor Martinez (SO, 152), Edgar Tegeda (JR, 160), Josh Holveck (JR, 171), Cris Velasquez (SR, 189), and Juan Medina (FR, 285).

The remaining members of the Panthers’ roster include Seth Hartman (SO, 119), Josh Lindsey (FR, 125), Irvin Hernandez (SO, 130), Kayden Isom (SO, 130), Tyler Taft (JR, 130), Eduardo Zavala (FR, 145), Cody Musgrave (JR, 145), Nick Buffington (SR, 152), Alfredo Rosales (FR, 152), and Corey Ainslie (FR, 160).

Coach Curtis sees Broomfield, Roosevelt, and Montrose as teams that are on track to reach state.

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The Hotchkiss Bulldogs are still in the football mode as the wrestling team is still in doubt as to exactly who and where potential team members will begin the season. As reported by head coach Glen Suppes, the battle for some weights is an ongoing process due to the lateness of some athletes reporting for practice.

The recent 1A football season ended just days ago and those athletes need time to rejuvenate.

Suppes is in his fourth season at Hotchkiss with four assistants providing instruction as well.

The four assistants include Doug Horton, Corey Watkins, Benson Murdoch and Brandon Sullivan.

Officially, the Bulldogs are holding practices with 39 athletes attending.

The Bulldogs are high in senior experience as their are eight practicing daily.

Top returnees for Hotchkiss include Caleb Wyatt, Tyler Hanson and Kyle O’Brien.

Wyatt, a senior, wrestled at 145 last season and qualified for state tournament. He opened the tournament with a decision over Peyton’s Blake and then lost to Cole Kembel of Brush in the second round.

Once in the losers’ bracket, Wyatt went to work and three matches to take home third place.

Wyatt’s record for the year was 37-9.

O’Brien wrestled at 171 last year and earned a trip to state.

Unfortunately, O’Brien lost his

first two matches and finished the season at 16-16.

Several Bulldogs are not listed

by Suppes but had stellar season a year ago.

As a sophomore, Ryan Spor made it to state at 125 pounds. he won his first match but lost his second to drop into the losers’ bracket. Spor lost his first match there and finished the season with a dandy 36-7 record.

Kyle Douglass was Hotchkiss’ 189-pounder last year and was a

all-conference honoree last year.

Burke Lowry, one of the team’s newcomers to the mix, is an excellent scorer as noted by Wilkes. Lowry plays forward for the Bruins.

Chaunce Lindley is classified as a pure shooter and an excellent athlete by Wilkes. Lindley, according to Wilkes, is “another solid newcomer.”

Wilkes’ final impact player is Alec Zamarripa. A good ball handler and leader, Zamarripa will be the “engine that runs our offense,” noted Wilkes.

The final touches to this year’s varsity roster will include

four juniors and a trio of sophomores.

Juniors on this year’s varsity roster include Michael Mackey, Jesse Barbich, Andy Hieber and TK Ullery.

The three sophomores listed

by Wilkes include Luke Weiben, Danny Martinez and Miguel Barajas.

Of all the teams in the 3A WSL, Wilkes sees Aspen as the team to beat. “Aspen is the consensus pre-season favorite in our conference. They return a lot of talent from a team that went to state last year. However, there will be no easy games in the

WSL.” Wilkes has a great deal of optimism for his team’s chances in the competitive 3A WSL. “Our team has bought into the mentality of “going to work.”

Our practices have been intense and we feel as a team that we are working as hard as any team in the WSL. We shoud be competitive in a very tough division. If we come together as a team, we will be playing in meaningful games in February and March.”

The Bruins host Paonia to begin their season on Saturday, Dec. 5, at 4 p.m. Cedaredge’s next contest is Dec. 11.

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Coach Wilkes has five players he’s tabbed as core players who should have high impact as to the Bruins’ success this season. Those five players are all seniors.

Cade Sweeney will most likely be the Bruins’ starting center.

Sweeney returns as Cedaredge’s leading scorer and rebounder and was an all-conference selection a year ago. At 6-5, Sweeney will be a solid defender for the Bruins.

Another 6-5 player, Geordan Brewer, will see plenty of action at one forward. He too was an

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Paonia’s 1959 state title in football relived

State football playoffs continue in 1A-3A

The following details of Paonia High School’s thrilling run to the state title in football are written by Claudia King, the wife of long-time and beloved coach of the Eagles, Granville King.

Fifty years ago, the high flying Paonia Eagles carried home the football Class A State Championship of Colorado securing for their hometown the first state title in Paonia history. They won the trophy in a defensive battle defeating the Windsor 7-0 on November 28, 1959, on the Eastern Slope playing field of the Wizards. The backfield, characterized by sports’ writers as brilliant, was composed of fullback Gary Schroeder, Clinton (Kinky) Stratton, and Dan Cholas. In nine plays quarterback Bob Sunich sent Schroeder 17 yards, Stratton 15, and Cholas three with Schroeder scoring the only touchdown from one yard out.

Cholas kicked the extra point.

(Sophomore Chase Wieining also was the quarterback). Helping clinch the victory were interceptions by Paonia’s Dub Schroeder and Bill Wiening, thus holding Windsor to no score.

Coaches for the exuberant Eagles were Head Coach Granville King with his staff of Leon Shell, Gary Noddings, and Cal Campbell.

In their bid for state, the

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Eagles challenged Rangely in the quarterfinals drubbing the Panthers 20-0 with Cholas scoring all 20 points for the Birds.

The semifinals were played on the Eagle field with Paonia stunning the Alamosa Maroons in a 16-14 sudden-death victory.

Schroeder got off a 75 yard punt against Alamosa, his longest in the 1959 season.

All-State selections for the 1959 first team were fullback Gary Schroeder and tough center Bob Shaeffer. Named to second team were end John Mraule and halfback Dan Cholas.

Coach Granville “Granny” King, a husky Texan, was a three-year letterman for HardinSimmons University starting at guard and center. While in the U.S. Army during the occupation of Germany, King coached football and other sports. His first high school coaching job was at Hotchkiss in 1956. He came to Paonia in 1958, coaching both high school and middle school.

The Paonia Eagles won the 1959 Class A State Championship, captured the 1962 state-runnerup, and in 1963 made it to the state semi-finals.

King’s coaching career spanned 31 years. In 1984, King coached the Munkkiniemi Colts, a semi-pro ootball team in Helsinki, Finland. He died in December, 1989, in a car acci-

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PAONIA WRESTLING COACH, ANDY Pipher, right, demonstrates the proper technique for a move he was wanting his team to master.

The Eagles were last year’s 2A State Champions with 139.5 points.

Wiggins, the second place team, will be one of the teams to beat at the 2010 state championships.

This past weekend cleared up several issues of who is the best in prep football in 1A through 3A competition.

At the 1A championship in Akron, the Yuma Indians stayed unbeaten in a 14-12 win. Play in 2A saw Faith Christian getting

by Brush 28-7, and Kent Denver rolling over Platte Canyon 42-21.

A major surprise occured in 3A play where Steamboat Springs blasted previously unbeaten Pueblo Central 35-7, and Valor Christian slipped past Mountain View 21-7.

The 1A championship featured two state-tested teams with Yuma earning the edge with its 14-12 victory. On Oct. 23, Yuma edged the Rams 17-14 to remain unbeaten. For Akron, it was their lone loss of the season until Saturday’s championship game.

The 2A semifinal round had a pair of 12-0 teams battling for the right to play in the title game this Saturday, Dec 5. Faith Christian

managed to earn its berth in the title game while Platte Canyon’s season came to an end with a 121 record following their loss to Kent Denver (10-2). Kent Denver defeated Olathe the previous week, knocking the Pirates from the ranks of the unbeaten.

Faith Christian will host Kent Denver at Legacy Stadium in an 11 a.m. contest this Saturday.

The 3A title game is also at Legacy Stadium in Denver with that starting time set for 2:30 p.m.

Steamboat Springs, Pueblo Central, Mountain View, and Valor Christian all entered the semifinal round of the 3A state tournament with 12-0 records.

Steamboat Springs and Valor Christian will play for the state title with 13-0 records.

The Sailors have been perfect through a season that saw close games with three other playoff team from the WSL. Palisade lost to the Sailors 28-21 while Delta and Glenwood Springs lost by nine points each.

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state qualifier. Douglass opened the tournament with a loss sending him to the losers’ bracket.

He advanced in the first round of losers’ bracket competition with a 16-0 technical fall over La Junta’s Vic Medina. Douglass’ last

match of the tournament came with a loss to Platte Valley’s Aaron Olson. He finishes at 2911.

The Bulldogs open their season with the annual Hotchkiss Invitational Wrestling Tournament this Saturday, Dec. 5.

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HOTCHKISS WRESTLERS DYLAN RUPE, front, and Nick Johnson demonstrate a sit out during a practice session.

CRAWFORD QUILTERS meet 4th Monday afternoon of each month. Information, call Carolyn Thompson, 921-5099 or Connie Sanders, 921-5583.

CROCHET CLUB MEETS 4th Saturday of each month, 1 p.m., Delta Public Library community room. Refreshments served. Everyone welcome.

DBSA (DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE) SUPPORT MEETING, 7 p.m., 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month, Centennial Towers, Montrose. Free and open to the public. For information, call Tom, 240-8847.

DEL-ROSE CHORUS OF SWEET ADELINES meets Mondays, 6:30 p.m., Delta Middle School, choir room, corner of 8th and Cleland Park, Delta.

For more information, call Bev, 964-5299 or log on to www.delrosechorus.org.

DELTA AMERICAN LEGION POST #65 meets 3rd Monday of each month, 7 p.m., 1460 Howard Street, Delta. Information, call 249-9224.

DELTA CHAPTER 1259 OF AARP meets 4th Tuesday of each month, 2 p.m., United Methodist Church, 477 Meeker Street, Delta. For more information, call Agnes, 874-9101 or Jane, 874-4676.

DELTA COUNTY ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM offers free reading and writing instruction, classes in GED preparation in Hotchkiss, and English as a Second Language (ESL) in Hotchkiss and Delta. For information, call 872-3396.

DELTA COUNTY ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP meets last Wednesday of each month, 6 p.m., Heaven’s View Apartments, 1445 Porter Court, Delta. For more information, call Jane, 874-5021.

DELTA COUNTY AMBULANCE DISTRICT BOARD MEETING, 3rd Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., Delta County Ambulance Station #1, 60 Heinz Street, Delta. Public invited. For more information, call 874-7001.

DELTA COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TASK FORCE meets 4th Monday of the month, noon - 1 p.m., Delta County Courthouse, Room 234.

Information, call 874-4941.

DELTA COUNTY FAIR BOARD meets first Tuesday of the month, Heritage Hall, Delta County Fairgrounds, Hotchkiss, 8 p.m.

DELTA COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT offers high-quality health care to local residents from before birth through the senior years. Board of Health meets the third Tuesday each month. Public invited. Call 874-2165 for information.

DELTA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT BOARD meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 2 p.m. Call 874-6852 for location.

DELTA COUNTY MUSEUM: summer hours Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., 251 Meeker Street, Delta. For special tours, call 874-8721.

DELTA COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE meets 2nd Thursday of each month, Delta County Sheriff's conference room.

DELTA COUNTY SEXUAL ABUSE PREVENTION COUNCIL meets 2nd Thursday of each month, Sunshine School, 504 E. 5th, Delta. Call Barb at 874-5494 for more information.

DELTA ELKS BPOE 1235 meets first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., 563 Main Street. Information, call 874-3624.

DELTA ELKS #1235 BINGO, Thursdays, 7 p.m., 563 Main Street, Delta.

DELTA FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION meets second Monday of each month, 2 p.m., alternately First National Bank, 150 Gunnison River Road, Delta and The AppleShed, Cedaredge. For more information, call Martha Canum, 874-4700.

DELTA FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY meets 1st Monday of every month from 2-3 p.m. and 5-6 p.m. on alternating months.

DELTA HUBWHEELERS SQUARE DANCE CLUB meets first Saturday of every month, 8 p.m., Lincoln Elementary, Delta during winter months and Cleland Park, June through August. Information, call 856-3889.

DELTA IOOF LODGE #116 meets, Thursdays, 8 p.m., 860 Hwy. 92, Delta. For more information, call 874-4588.

DELTA KATHERINE REBEKAH LODGE #65 meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month, 7:30 p.m., Odd Fellow Hall, 435 Main St., Delta, except July and August when they recess for the summer.

DELTA LIONS CLUB meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month, 7 p.m., Delta Elks Lodge dining room. Dinner and social meeting. New members welcome. Anyone can attend meetings. For information, call 874-0640.

DELTA MASONIC LODGE #62 meets 2nd and 4th Mondays of every month, 7:30 p.m., Delta Masonic Hall, 437 Main Street. Do not meet during July and August. For more information, call John Davis, 323-5748 or Darrell Fisher, 835-5063.

DELTA TRAP CLUB meets Wednesdays, 7 p.m., the clubhouse, 1670 I Road.

DIABETES SUPPORT GROUP meets 2nd Monday of each month, 6:30 p.m., Classroom B, Delta County Memorial Hospital. For more information, call Jeannie Mueller RD, CDE or Mary Grosvenor RD, MS, 874-6410.

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS, DELTA COUNTY CHAPTER 23 meets the 2nd Monday of every other month, 7 p.m., 1502 Howard St. For information, call 872-3970 or 874-5150.

DO-IT-YOURSELF DIVORCE CLINIC, Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m., Montrose Justice Center.

DOUBLE TROUBLE SUPPORT GROUP — Dual diagnosis and recovery for persons with addictions including alcohol, drug and mental disorders.

8-9 p.m., Tuesdays, United Methodist Church, Paonia.

DO YOU WANT TO GET YOUR GED but feel you need some individual instruction and tutoring? Contact the Adult Basic Education Center at 8745393 free of charge.

EATING DISORDER SUPPORT GROUP meets Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Dolphin House, 735 South 1st, Montrose. For more information, call 249-5034.

EATING DISORDER SUPPORT GROUP FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS meets Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m., Center for Mental Health Building, 2130 E. Main St., Montrose. For more information, call 249-5034.

ECKERT LODGE #136 A.F. & A.M. meets second and fourth Tuesday of each month, Masonic Hall, Cedaredge (next to town hall), 7:30 p.m.

Information, call Clarence George, 856-6533.

ECKERT LODGE IOOF NO. 168 meets every Thursday, 8 p.m.

ELBERTA REBEKAHS #106 meet the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month except in July and August, 7:30 p.m., IOOF Hall, 3rd and Main, Cedaredge. For more information, call Myrna Bertram, 856-7688.

EMBLEM CLUB meets the fourth Monday of every month, 7:30 p.m., Delta Elks Lodge, 563 Main. No meetings held during July. For more information, call Ruth Marvel, 874-4309.

ENCAMPMENT and the Ladies Auxiliary Encampment meet the first and third Mondays of the month, 7:30 p.m., IOOF Lodge, 860 Hwy. 92, Delta.

For more information, call 874-4588.

FAMILY COUNCIL, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., family lounge, Paonia Care Center. Open to family and friends of Paonia Care Center residents.

FEDERATED WOMEN’S CLUB meets 2nd Wednesday every month, 1:30 p.m., St. Michael’s Church Parish Hall, 628 Meeker Street, Delta. For information, call 874-3604 or 874-4226.

FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN COWBOYS, DELTA CHAPTER meets 2nd Monday of every month, 7:30 p.m., Delta Sales Yard. For more information, call Shane and Amanda Kier, 323-6060.

ALL ORGANIZATIONS ARE URGED TO KEEP THESE LISTINGS CURRENT. PLEASE CALL 874-4421 WITH ANY CHANGES.

DELTA’S 189-POUNDER, CRIS VELASQUEZ, left, and Gene White, the 215-pound wrestler for the Panthers practice various moves on each other during one of the team’s last practice sessions before the Thanksgiving break. Delta will take part in this weekend’s Hotchkiss Invitational on Saturday, Dec. 5.

COMPILED FROM DELTA NEWSPAPERS

By DELTA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY December 3, 1909 (From the Delta County Independent) Delta County, at the National Horticultural Congress at Council Bluffs, Iowa, captured 36 fruit first prizes out of a total of 44 entries. The only prize of any consequence lost by Delta county was the first prize for Jonathans, and those who were in charge of the exhibit say this prize was lost only on account of a mistake by the judges.

The people of Delta county are getting pretty “uppish” about their fruit. They have a right to the feeling. Like Mesa county, they have marketed this year the biggest crop in their history. And though first Mesa, then Delta, then Mesa again, then some other Western Slope county, may carry off the first prize, after all there is so little difference between the fruit of these various sections that it is impossible to decide which is best.

After all, the main thing isn’t so much whether Mesa or Delta or Montrose or Garfield is ahead. It is that Western Slope fruit is ahead of all other fruit everywhere. And that fact is amply demonstrated, wherever our fruit comes in competition with fruit from other sections.

We all rejoice with Delta, therefore, over her victory at Council Bluffs. *** The Western Slope foot ball season closed with the games Thanksgiving day. Delta played Grand Junction 26 to nothing in favor of the Junction team. Delta basket ball girls won on the same day against Grand Junction.

Paonia won on that day over Gunnison, score 11 to nothing, and Teller Indians played the Y.M.C.As. at Montrose 6 to 6.

The season has not been a very brilliant one for Delta. The name “Huskies” which the Grand Junction players still give the Delta team, is hardly appropriate, as most of the boys are not heavy. They started out as quick players and not only won several victories but promised well for the season.

Last year and year before, the Delta team was entitled to the name “Huskies” for the players were so “husky” that not another team on the Western Slope was able to score against them.

*** The result of the votes cast for representative and candidate for Apple Queen up to 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, as counted at the offices of the Independent and Tribune, was as follows for the three Delta candidates: Eva Belle Conklin – 5,780, Zetta Keiffer – 2,355, Genevieve Hartig – 2,165. *** The increasing number of fatalities resulting from foot ball threatens the abolition of the game. The present short season of playing reports 25 deaths and maiming accidents almost without number.

It is waged that nothing can take the place of the game “as exercise” – modified’ they argue, nothing else can arouse so much enthusiasm. The first assertion cannot be true. You can’t put a light frame against that of a giant, to be beat up, crippled or killed and call it “exercise.” That the game arouses enthusiasm, is no doubt true, but it is the class of mad enthusiasm witnessed at the prize ring or the race track.

Competition is said to have gone so far that leading colleges, or their teams, have come to search the country over for a modern Hercules whom they can but to attend, not as a student, particularly, but to be trained a member of their foot ball team.

This feature threatens to destroy the game.

It’s votaries may succeed in modifying it sufficiently to restore it to practical favor, but that is doubtful. If excluded by school faculties for a time, some modified form may be installed. *** A heating plant and garage is being put in at the rear of the First National bank building. *** Houses are said to be under the demand at present in Delta. There are half a dozen families wanting houses to live in and some new comers say they have been compelled to pay storage on goods because they could not secure a house to move into. *** It is hard to keep track of Delta’s growth.

Every time one casually takes a walk of a few blocks he sees new buildings and new improvements. Delta is getting so big that these things are not noticed as they formerly were. ***

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Pioneer spirit of Escalante Canyon

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LOOKING DOWN-CANYON TO THE north, guests on the tour enjoy the same vista that the Musser family often saw as they worked their pioneer ranch.

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ake an absolutely stellar October weekend day in western Colorado.

Combine that with a van full of friendly folks who all share an interest in local landscapes and the early days of Delta County.

Then add a tour guide who knows her subject from the ground up because she has lived it herself as part of a Delta County pioneer family.

With those ingredients, plus your own sack lunch, you have the makings of a truly fun, entertaining and informative day trip through the astonishing landscape of Escalante Canyon, back to the beginnings of western civilization’s arrival in western Colorado.

The guide for this tour is Bernice Musser, a member of pioneer families who settled and ranched in Escalante Canyon. Every now and then a few local residents are fortunate enough and have the chance to accompany Bernice on one of her interesting and fun guided tours of the canyon.

A good preparation for the tour is a reading of Muriel Marshall’s book “Red Hole in Time” which gives a comprehensive background of the canyon’s history.

But while reading — Marshall’s book is well worth anyone’s time, and a number of the features on Bernice’s tour refer to Marshall’s book — reading it isn’t a requirement for enjoying and learning a lot on the tour.

After heading west on Highway 50, the tour bus turns south on Escalante Road and begins a descent to the Gunnison River and across. This is where the interesting part of the trip really begins.

Pointing out features along the way, Bernice makes sure no one misses any of the sites: ruins of little stone pioneer homes, the remains of cabins and school houses all highlighting the history of civilization’s march through the canyon.

Still home to a working agriculture operation today, Escalante Canyon’s pastures, fields, and orchards testify in the present to the agricultural production potential

BERNICE MUSSER’S GUIDED TOURS of Escalante Canyon have provided an insightful, knowledgable, and entertaining experience of Delta County’s pioneer heritage.

of this scenic canyon that attracted early settlers. And that is thanks to the abundant waters of Escalante Creek that has made the canyon bloom.

The tour includes reference to dozens of landmarks and descriptive place names the early settlers gave to geologic features and man-made structures – names that sometimes entertain with creative word play, or which aptly describe physical characteristics, or ownership and habitation.

There is “The Huff” named for the Huffington family which loaded its fruit there.

The “Windy” is where some sturdy ranch structures stand now in the canyon bottom on the Gunnison, a prime spot for strong winds to whip their ways between the narrow canyon walls.

The McCarty Trail, evokes yet another retelling of the infamous 1893 Delta bank robbery in which two of the three bandits were shot dead making their escape. The trail is thought to have been the thieves’ planned route for eventual getaway.

The tour takes you near the place where Cash Sampson and Ben Lowe gunned each other down one day for an unknown reason.

TOUR GUESTS WITH AN adventurous spirit scramble up a rocky incline to examine Native American art chiseled by hand long ago into the sandstone’s patina of desert varnish.

A COMFORTABLE VAN WITH extra big windows enhances viewing. The group made a stop at the Walker Cabin historic site.

The tour heads along and past the routes and roads that pioneer settlers traveled, and guests will learn the names of Brent Grade, Boyce Gulch, Big Hill and Suicide Hill, Kelso Mesa, Long Point, and Canfield Flats.

Interesting natural features of the tour include Table Rock where Ben Lowe displayed his famous horse jumping maneuver, The Key Hole or Peek-aboo rock, an area known as the hanging Gardens, and a relaxing rest stop at The Potholes. Here, the creek has cut down through the soft sedimentary layers of sandstone and shale to expose the bedrock granite, said in some areas of the west to be thousands of million years old.

The Walker Cabin, Ben Lowe’s Cabin, and Captain Smith’s Cabin all provide interesting side trips and an opportunity for the 10 or 15 tourists to get out of the van, stretch their legs and get to know one another a little.

The local names associated with places and events of early Delta County history are sometimes as familiar as those of your neighbors. That’s because many descendants of early settlers still live in Delta County.

Names like Huffington, Shreeves, Musser, Austin, and others will ring with familiarity as Bernice recounts a bit of each one’s contribution to the settling of TOUR GUESTS WITNESSED A mid-day Escalante Canyon and to the early days moonset over the canyon rimrock high of Delta County. above.

A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED ONE-ROOM school house located near where the Mussers’ ranch was is the next to last stop on the Escalante Canyon tour.

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TEN FRIENDS ARTS & Craft Show, Saturday, Dec. 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ute Indian Museum in Montrose. All local artists and crafters. Free admission to the show and the museum. For more information call Janice at 240-8377.

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No chasing all over the country!

West Slope Ag Center 412 S. 5th St. • Olathe 970-323-5869

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THANK YOU TO THE ladies who offered help when I fell that Friday, especially the one who followed me home. (1x48)

LOOKING FOR A PEACEful parcel of land to rent/buy for nice RV, horse and corral.

Utilities nice but not necessary. Good credit and local references. Will consider cabin or small home. 970596-1536. (2x48)

RED POTATOES BY THE sack or truck load. Also pumpkins, squash, pinto beans, apples, onions, roasted chiles and more.

Also buffalo meat. Devries Buffalo Ranch. 970-323-6559. (tfnx43)

52 INCH HD RCA TV $300. 260-1268 or 874-0493. (tfnx44)

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Foster Grandparents help children in schools, child care centers, and at-risk youth facilities.

No teaching experience necessary.

If you are 55 or older, contact Foster Grandparent Program for more information.

970-263-9091 DRIVERS, CO. REGIONAL good wages. 100% Co. Paid family benefits. Great home time. Paid training plus vacation. CDL-A w/tank end. 800397-2753. (2x48) THE TOWN OF CEDARedge is announcing the Police Chief opening and asking interested candidates to US mail confidential resumes, cover letter, and five professional references to be recieved by December 18, 2009, to: Fred Rainguet, Ph.D.; KRW Associates, LLC; P.O. Box 267, Palisade, CO 81526, 970-464-1079.

Two years of college, or associate’s degree, and Colorado POST certification are required for permanent appointment; a bachelor's degree is preferred but not required. Candidates must have a minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible law enforcement and police administration experience, including three years in a command capacity (police leadership and supervisory experience). The salary range is $41,205 to $64,376, with starting salary DOQ, plus an excellent benefit package. Cedaredge is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

(2x48) WILLOW TREE CARE Center, a five star quality community located on Main Street in Delta is seeking qualified individuals for the following positions: Nursing, RN/LPN full time/part-time shift available. All require licenses in good standing.

Ideal applicants will possess excellent interpersonal skills, compassion for the aging, attention to detail in providing quality care and ability to work with a diverse team. EOE. Please come in to complete an application or contact Douglas Lossner, ADON. Willow Tree Care Center, 2050 South Main Street, Delta, CO 81416.

(2x47) BOWIE RESOURCES LLC, located in Paonia, Colorado is seeking a janitor. Interested candidates should be willing to clean with detail, safety minded, self starter and a team player. The position requires weekend day shifts Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The pay is $10 per hour depending on experience with no benefits. MSHA certificate preferred. You may apply at the mine office at Bowie, Colorado or at the Delta Workforce Center in Delta. An Equal Opportunity Employer. (2x47) HAIR DESIGNERS AND Nails has an opening for a hair stylist with clientele, full or part-time. Clean salon, fun environment. Call Julie at 874-1818. (tfnx45)

Deadline for classifieds is 10 a.m. Monday mornings For your convenience call 874-4421 to place ad or drop off or mail to 401 Meeker Street, Delta, CO 81416

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THE DELTA COUNTY Independent runs these items as a public service free of charge for non-profit organizations, if no fees are charged. However, each group is asked to please keep them current by calling 874-4421.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS offered by Hospica and Palliative Care of Western CO are held weekly at the following locations: Hotchkiss United Methodist Church, every Monday 12:30 p.m.; and in Delta at the Grand Mesa Oncology and Education Center on Stafford Lane, every Thursday, 6-7:30 p.m. No fee involved. Open group to anyone in the community. Call Anne at 8746823 for questions. (TFNx31) FREE DIAPERS FOR UP to one year! Pregnant women in Delta County can now get help to quit smoking and get something they can really use after their baby arrives — free diapers.

Healthy moms have healthy babies. Enroll in the Baby & Me Tobacco Free program today. Contact the Delta County Health Department at 874-2165 or your local physician. (TFNx2) THE DELTA ELKS LODGE has been since its beginning and continues to be at the center of the social scene in the community.

We have hosted wedding receptions, anniversary celebrations, birthday parties, class reunions and dances for nearly a century. Now we need the community's help in building an elevator.

Please send any donations to 563 Main Street, Delta, CO 81416 or call 874-3624 for more information on how you can help make this a reality.

THE DISTRICT ATTORNey's Office provides services to those who have been victimized by a crime of domestic violence, assault and other crimes. To learn more about the victim assistance services provided by the District Attorney's Office, please contact Lou Nesbit at 970-252-4260. (tfx41) HOTCHKISS-CRAWFORD Historical Museum. Winter hours, Saturdays 1-4 p.m. thru December 24. $3 admission or free to members.

Come see our museum at 2nd & Hotchkiss Streets in Hotchkiss. 872-3780. (tfx44) ALCOHOLICS ANONYmous, at Friends of Bill W. club at 9th and Palmer, meets Mon., through Fri. at noon (Mon. meditation, Tue. discussion, Wed. step study, Thu. discussion, Fri. big book study); Tuesday 8 p.m., big book study; Thurs. 8 p.m., discussion, Sun. 1 p.m., speaker. Phone number is 874-8282, for more information. (tfx12) ALCOHOLICS ANONYmous meeting, women only, (non-smoking), Saturdays, 11 a.m., in the basement of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 5th and Palmer, (go to the back door). (tfx1)

Call 874-4421

DELTA FOOD PANTRY needs meals for Delta families who are temporarily in need. Donations of non-perishable food may be brought to 628 Meeker. (tfx36)

for more information.

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KEEP THE animal population under control, and SAVE an animal's life. Adopt your new cat or dog from the Delta County Humane Society. Adoption fee is minimal. Call 8742149. (DCHS) THERE IS A VFW MEETING on the first Monday of each month. At 6 p.m. there is a potluck and the meeting is at 7 p.m. at the Veterans Building, 15th & Howard, Delta. For further information, call 874-5174. (tfx31) CHAPTER, UNITS OF DAV regular meetings on the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Veterans Building, 15th & Howard, Delta. For further information, call 874-5174. (tfx19) ALANON FAMILY GROUP meets in Delta at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 5th and Palmer. If there is a problem of alcoholism in a family member or friend, we can help you. You are not alone.

Call 856-3446 or 835-3408 for information. (TFNx19) THE PREGNANCY REsource Center needs staff volunteers to join our team of those committed to presenting life and the truth of Jesus Christ. Why not call us at 874-5733 and find out more? (tfx26) YOU HAVE THE POWER TO change a child's life!

Children are waiting for senior partners in Delta County right now! Can you spare 3 hours a week? We need your help! Call today for more information. Please volunteer to spend time with a child in our community.

Partners of Delta, Montrose and Ouray, 874-4661, www. partners-west.org. or www. deltayouth@montrose.net. (tfx13) PAONIA AMERICAN Legion runs a year round non-perishable emergency food pantry. This is for the North Fork area. For information, call 527-6252. (tfx49) SAVE EYEGLASSES, OLD jewelry and silver or bits of gold and silver scraps. The Grand Odd Fellow Lodge is sending them to: New Eyes for the Needy, 549 Millburn Ave., Short Hills, NJ 07078 or send them to: Gale Conger, Secretary of IOOF Lodge #116, 544 St. Hwy. 548, Delta, CO 81416.

THE AMERICAN RED Cross needs you. Become one of the Red Cross volunteers who says, “We’ll Be There, Because Help Can’t Wait!” Call your local Red Cross Chapter at 970-2424851 or 1-800-HELP NOW for information on the difference you can make in someone’s life as a disaster volunteer. ((TFNx4)) HEALTHY BABIES START with early prenatal care. Delta County Health Department.

Offers access to immediate, temporary Medicaid for pregnant women who qualify. 874-2165. (tfx25) THINK YOU'RE PREGnant? Abused? Need help?

The Pregnancy Resource Center in Delta offers free service, support and advice to all teenagers and women in crisis pregnancy situations. For Christian help, anytime, call 874-5733.

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Advent midweek services ongoing at Redeemer Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1000 Pioneer Road in Delta, is observing the season of Advent, which began on Nov. 29, with Wednesday evening services beginning this week and continuing for the next three weeks.

Kids’ play stresses the importance of sharing blessings Paonia Friends Church presents “Bows of Holly,” a kids’ Christmas musical about the importance of sharing the blessings we have received. The musical will be presented at the church at Third and Poplar Sunday, Dec. 13, at 6 p.m.

Admission is a non-perishable food item for each person. Donations will go to the Paonia Friends Church food bank.

Those Wednesday evening Advent services start at 7 p.m.

Pastor Jeffrey C. Ryan reminds us that Advent is a Latin word which means “coming.”

The theme for this year’s Advent services will be “Savior of the Nations Come.”

“During the weeks before Christmas we look forward to the anniversary of Jesus being born into our world, but we also look forward with hope and anticipation to the time when Christ will come again. And so during the season of Advent we have special evening services so that, as people of faith in Christ and his promises, we can look forward and reflect together on what Advent and Christmas mean for us,” Pastor Ryan said.

A soup and sandwich dinner, beginning at 6 p.m. in Redeemer’s fellowship hall, will precede each Wednesday night service.

Methodists host lunch, cookie walk The women of Delta United Methodist Church extend an invitation to their annual cookie walk, luncheon and craft sale Friday, Dec. 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Choose from an assortment of homemade cookies and candies for the holidays, as well as a selection of handmade crafts.

A luncheon featuring sloppy joes, potato salad, chips, a beverage and pie will be served in the church’s new fellowship hall from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The cost is just $5.

Delta United Methodist Church is located at the corner of 5th and Meeker.

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The live nativity will be presented Saturday, Dec. 12, on the lawn of Redeemer Lutheran Church, located at 1000 Pioneer Road, between the hours of 6 and 8 p.m., with performances given every 30 minutes. Biblical characters will be portrayed by church members and its youth, the story of Christ’s birth as told in the book of Luke, will be spoken by Pastor Jeffrey Ryan as each scene unfolds in the live tableau.

Between performances, visitors are invited to warm up with a free will offering chili supper,

cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate inside Redeemer’s fellowship hall. All funds collected in the free will offering and a Christmas cookie sale ongoing in the fellowship hall that evening will benefit the Tiny Treasures Pre-

school. Prior to the Live Nativity performances the Tiny Treasures preschoolers will present a brief Christmas Program at 5:30 p.m.

Redeemer invites everyone to come and enjoy the live nativity presentations.

Crafts, baked goods will fill Westminster Hall Dec. 4-5 Original art, fresh green wreaths, woodcrafts and much more will be featured at a craft and bake sale sponsored by the Delta Emblem Club and the Presbyterian Church of Delta.

Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4 and 5.

On both days a soup lunch will be served for just $5. A variety of soups, breads and desserts are included.

Proceeds benefit Delta Emblem Club projects and church mission projects locally, nationally and internationally.

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DELTA FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD Eaton & Dodge Pastor: Lee Ponder Sunday: Celebration Service Sunday School Celebration Service Tuesday: Bible Study Wednesday: Family night Royal Rangers Missionettes Fireproof Youth (Jr. & Sr. High) Saturday: Men's Prayer Breakfast

874-3568 8:30 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m.

7:00 p.m.

6:00 a.m.

LANDMARK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 12th & Grand, Delta • 874-3717 Pastor: Ken Gilchrist Sunday: Sunday School (all ages) 9:45 a.m.

Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Sunday Evening 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Evening 7:00 p.m.

CHURCH OF CHRIST 164 Grand Blvd.

(Left on top of 3rd St. Hill) Sunday Bible Study Sunday Morning Worship Sunday Brown Bag Lunch Sunday Afternoon Service Wednesday Bible Study

874-4971 9:45 a.m.

10:45 a.m.

12:00 Noon 1:00 p.m.

6:30 p.m.

EL BUEN PASTOR SPANISH ASSEMBLY OF GOD 860 Crawford Ave., Delta Carlos & Rosemary Sluder, Pastors – 874-0167 Jaime & Blanca Moreno, Youth – 874-6111 Arturo & Alicia Carrasco, Children – 874-0771 Domingo: Escuela Dominical 10:00 a.m.

Predicacion 11:00 a.m.

Culto de la Tarde y Niños 6:00 p.m.

Lunes: Middle School 7:00 p.m.

Miercoles: Family Night 7:00 p.m.

Jueves: Jovenes 7:00 p.m.

Viernes: Cultos de Hogar 7:00 p.m.

GUNNISON VALLEY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Senior Pastor Terry D. Hedrick Associate Pastor Edward (Mike) Sandridge Website: gvcnazarene.org Email: gvcnazarene@aol.com 1721 H Rd. Delta, CO 81416 (970) 874-0848 Sunday: Sunday School for all ages 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service: With Worship Leader Gary Lear & The GVC Praise Team Including Children’s Church And Nursery 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday: Ladies’ Breakfast 8:30 a.m.

Fellowship & Bible Study Including Potluck Dinner 6:00 p.m.

Study Groups: Meeting at various places and times throughout the week.

We want to extend a personal invitation to everyone. Please come and make yourself at home.

“Our church could be your home.”

“We exist to glorify God by raising up Christ-centered, Spirit-filled Disciple makers.”

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Pastor: Bill Forbes 874-4893 135 E. 4th Street Delta, Colo. 81416 Adult Bible Study 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service & Praise Music 10:15 a.m.

Children’s Church 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Church offered every week during worship Child care available

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST

CENTER FOR RELIGIOUS SCIENCE

1061 Meeker St., Delta cofchrist.org Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 a.m.

For more information call 626-3347

658 Howard St., Delta Rev. Kay Spinden 874-3425 Sunday Services 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Classes 10:30 a.m.

Science of Mind Classes Also Available

CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH 1290 A St., Delta, CO 874-9497 Pastor Andy Thomas Website: www.cbdelta.com E-Mail: contact_us@cbdelta.com Sunday: Bible Study 9:00 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday: Praise and Prayer 7:00 p.m.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY 751 Meeker St., Delta 874-8083 Sunday: Bible Lesson Sermon Sunday School Wednesday: Testimony Meeting Child Care Provided Everyone Welcome

GARNET MESA BAPTIST CHURCH 863 A Street, Delta Dick Neale, Pastor — 874-4837 Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Services 11 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.

Prayer Meeting (Wednesday) 7:00 p.m.

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DELTA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 5th & Meeker Streets - Delta Office — 874-9501 Roy Trueblood, Pastor delta.umc@juno.com Early Worship 8:30 a.m.

Sunday School 9:15 a.m.

Worship 10:45 a.m.

(Child care, handicap accessible) Communion Worship 1st Sunday Traditional Worship 2nd & 4th Sunday

GRAND MESA BIBLE CHURCH Pastor Paul Graves 874-8315 710 Crawford Ave. – Delta Sunday School For All Ages 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

Please call for information about Bible studies and Prayer times

FIRST CHURCH OF GOD 1102 Howard St., Delta Church 874-4676 Minister - Rev. Tom Grimes Sunday School 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service 10:15 a.m.

Children’s Church Available Tues. Prayer & Bible Class 2:00 p.m.

Thurs. Bible Study 6:15 p.m.

Potluck - 1st Sunday Every Month 11:45 a.m.

MARANATHA FELLOWSHIP (The LORD Cometh) 1712 H Road, Delta Pastor Earl Douglas 874-9135 Sunday School Morning Worship Sunday Night Wed. Prayer & Bible Study All Welcome

10:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

6:00 p.m.

6:30 p.m.

ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH “Loyal to the orthodox Christian faith as received by Anglicanism” Pastor Tom Seibert 5th & Palmer St. Rector's Study: 874-9489 Holy Eucharist and Sunday School (Sunday) 10:15 a.m.

Order of St. Luke & Healing Service, First Monday each month 6:00 p.m.

Morning Prayer/Communion Wednesday 10 a.m.

ST. JOSEPH’S TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Latin Mass 59350 Carnation Rd., Olathe 323-0243 Sunday Masses 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m.

Rosary & Confessions 1/2 hour before each mass Daily masses as scheduled

ST. ANDREW THE APOSTLE ORTHODOX 298 Bert St. 874-5225 Father Daniel Jones www.saintandrewsdelta.org Saturday Great Vespers 5:00 p.m.

Sunday Divine Liturgy 9:30 a.m.

Please call: for feast day services schedule

REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH (Missouri Synod) Pastor Jeffrey Ryan 1000 Pioneer Road - 874-3052 Worship Service 9:00 a.m.

Bible Classes and Sunday School 10:15 a.m.

Tiny Treasures Preschool

10:00 a.m.

10:00 a.m.

7:00 p.m.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DELTA American Baptist Church deltafirstbaptist.org Pastor James Conley 1250 Pioneer Road 874-3847 Sunday: Sunday School 9:15 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:30 a.m.

Sunday Night Church 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday: Middle School Blitz 6:30 p.m.

AWANA (Sept.-April) 6:30 p.m.

Friday: House of Prayer 6:00 p.m.

Saturday: Men’s Bible Study 7:30 a.m.

High School Saturday Night Live 7:00 p.m.

ST. MICHAEL’S PARISH

DELTA CHRISTIAN CHURCH Reaching the children and youth of Western Delta County I Rd. & 1600 Rd. North Delta 874-4322 Ministry Staff: Don Bavor, Kirsten Alsdorf Buffy Zentmeyer; Jay Alsdorf Sunday: Worship First Service 8:45 a.m.

Adult & Teen Connections 10:00 a.m.

Second Service 10:45 a.m.

Children’s Church: Age 3-5th grade Childcare (infant/preschool) all services.

For Elem., M.S. & H.S. activities, please call

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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Pastor: Seth Coridan 763 Meeker St. Sabbath School Saturday Morning Worship Prayer Meetings Wednesday

9:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

7:00 p.m.

Father Henry Aguwa, S.M.M.M., Pastor 628 Meeker St., Delta 874-3300 Saturday: Sacrament of Forgiveness 4:30 p.m.

Mass 5:30 p.m.

Sunday: English Mass 10:00 a.m.

Spanish Mass 12:00 Noon Daily Mass Wed.-Fri. 8:00 a.m.

THUNDER MOUNTAIN CHURCH OF CHRIST Meeting: Bill Heddles Rec. Center Sundays: Bible Classes 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

(Children’s church available) Youth Ministry: Matt Hamm 640-4257 Children’s Ministry: Dan Dunham 874-1629 Weekly home Bible studies Information: 874-4372 • 874-7816

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 290 S.W. 2nd Ave., Cedaredge 210-3398 Pastor Seth Coridan Sabbath School Saturday 9:15 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:50 a.m.

Prayer Meeting Tuesday 7:00 p.m.

CEDAREDGE COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Debra A. Edwards, Pastor Vickie Richards-Street, Pastoral Associate Rev. Bob Watts, Pastor Emeritus 3rd & Aspen, PO Box 369, Cedaredge, CO 81413 (970) 856-3696 Sunday School 8:45 a.m.

Celebration Service 9:00 a.m.

Traditional Worship Service (Nursery provided) 10:00 a.m.

Communion Worship First Sunday Mid-HS Youth 4:00 p.m.

Crossfire Youth Group 6:00 p.m.

Children, Youth and Adult Choirs Bible Studies Available OPEN HEARTS! OPEN MINDS! OPEN DOORS!

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE 2291 Q25 Road, Cedaredge, Colo.

856-6137 Pastors John and MaryLouise Dannels Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

1679 Pioneer Rd., Delta Corner of E. 16th St./F Rd. and Pioneer Rd. 874-3444 Sunday: Uncompahgre Ward 9:00 a.m.

Delta Ward 11:00 a.m.

JESUS’ NAME PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Serving One God as One People 12th & Meeker St., Delta Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

Sunday 5:00 p.m.

Home Bible Studies Available For more information call: 970-275-2461 or 970-417-7834

Surface Creek FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CEDAREDGE 370 W. Main St. — 856-3830 P.O. Box 400, Cedaredge, CO 81413-0400 Email: fbc@kaycee.net Senior Pastor Dik Abbott Associate Pastor Justin Dryden Sunday: Sunday School for All Ages 9:00 a.m.

Morning Worship Service 10:15 a.m.

Children’s Church Available Evening Service 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday: Bible Study 6:00 p.m.

AWANA and Youth 6:30 p.m.

GRAND MESA SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH 110 S.E. Jay Ave., Cedaredge, CO 856-4672 Rev. Steven Puls Bible Study 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service 10:45 a.m.

Evening Worship 6:00 p.m.

Team Kid (Wednesday) 6:00 p.m.

Prayer & Bible Study (Wednesday) 7:00 p.m.

Brotherhood Breakfast (1st Saturday) 8:00 a.m.

Fellowship Breakfast (last Tuesday) 8:00 a.m. (at Ole Bakery)

ECKERT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 13025 Highway 65, Eckert P.O. Box 7 835-3441 Pastor Jo DeVinny Sunday: Morning Worship: Year Round 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Sunday School during worship Second Tuesday of the Month Youth Group (Hunsicker Hall, Lower Level) 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Thursday: Bible Study Held at Big E Market 7:30 a.m.

CRAWFORD FRIENDS CHURCH Non-Denominational 3842 Stearman Lane Crawford, CO 81415 921-LORD (5673) Pastor Jerry Dutton Sunday Worship Service 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School & Adult Bible Study 10:45 a.m.

Children’s Church and Nursery provided Home Bible Studies Available www.crawfordchristians.org

MOUNTAIN VIEW BIBLE CHURCH Lazear, CO – 872-2139 Pastor Jim Jesser – 323-6412 Youth Pastor Jake Erickson - 872-6329 Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Morning Service 11:00 a.m.

Evening Service 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Service & Youth Night 7:00 p.m.

Christ Centered Country Church Independent and Fundamental

PAONIA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 2nd and Onarga Pastor Russell Fletcher Bible Study 9:30 a.m.

Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Worship 10:30 a.m.

Youth Group 6:00 p.m.

Child care provided every Sun. and on special occasions.

NEW HOPE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH

Meets at Cedaredge Community Center Pastor Bill Williamson 856-4458 www.newhopefreechurch.org Sunday Worship Service 10:00 a.m.

Children’s Church 10:45 a.m.

Nursery Available Men’s Breakfast 1st & 3rd Sat. 7:00 at Ole Bakery Youth Groups — schedules vary Call for time and place

(Missouri Synod) 5th & North Fork, Paonia at the Northwest corner of City Park Pastor Rod Loose 527-3232 Morning Worship 9:00 a.m.

Lent Worship Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

Bible Study following worship service Visitors Always Welcome.

ST. PHILIP'S CATHOLIC CHURCH

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF PAONIA

Cedaredge

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS

North Fork

Father Henry Aguwa, S.M.M.M., Pastor 856-6495 8:00 a.m. Mass

Sunday: Tuesday: Sacrament of Forgiveness

5:30 p.m.

6:00 p.m. Mass For more information, call 856-6495

ALL SAINTS LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA Janice Johnson, Pastor 20101 Deer Creek Rd., Austin - 835-3667 www.allsaintslutheran-delta.org Sunday: Worship 10:00 a.m.

Open Communion (1st & 3rd Sundays)

227 Oak Street • 970-527-7291 • 970-527-3450 P.O. Box 413, Paonia, CO 81428 Co-Pastors James Gall & Ed Hollett Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Traditional Church Service 10:45 a.m.

1596 S.W. 9th St., Cedaredge 856-3586 Bob Hillyer - Senior Pastor Dane Hillyer - Youth Associate Lynde Munfrada - Children Sunday School 9:00 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship 10:00 a.m.

Revolution Youth 6:00 p.m.

Wed. Family Night: Adult Bible Study, Youth & Children's Ministries 7:00 p.m.

Men's Breakfast (Saturday) 7:00 a.m. cedarag.org

SURFACE CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH 21987 Austin Road • Austin John Copper, Pastor 856-4675 Jacopper@tds.net Sunday: Worship Service 10:00 a.m. with Children’s Church and nursery provided Wednesday: Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

DEREK HAMASHIYAH QAAL Christ’s Way Fellowship A Hebrew Root’s Fellowship Shavvat (Saturday) 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday: Torah/Tanakh Scripture Study 6:30 p.m.

Robert at 589-6142 (local cell) rlpeck@hughes.net

North Fork HOTCHKISS COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Patricia Johnson 872-4881 2nd & Orchard Office: 872-3540 Sanctuary is handicapped accessible Children's and Adult’s Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

Peace Circle, 2nd. Tues.

9:30 a.m.

Girl Scouts Tues.

4:00 p.m.

Girl Scouts Wed. 4:00 p.m.

Wearhouse hours: Monday 9 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

UMW Meet 3rd Saturday 9:00 a.m.

40259 M Rd., Paonia 970-527-5443 Sunday Morning 10:00 a.m.

Wednesday Evening 5:00 p.m.

Teaching Sound Bible Doctrine

PAONIA FRIENDS CHURCH 409 3rd St., Paonia, CO 81428 Pastor Gaylen Kinser Office: (970) 527-6151 Sunday: SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 9:00 a.m. with NURSERY for children 19 mos.-3 years SUNDAY SCHOOL for ages 19 months-adults 10:00 a.m.

CRAWFORD COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Patricia Johnson 297 Dogwood Ave., Crawford 921-3300 Sunday Worship 9:00 a.m.

Adult Education 8:00 a.m.

Children’s Education 9:00 a.m.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HOTCHKISS 203 W. Main - Hotchkiss, CO 81419 Church 872-3313 Sunday: Sunday School all ages 9:45 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Choir Practice, Wednesday 6:00 p.m.

Bible Study and Prayer, Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

1st & 3rd Saturday Pre-Teen Youth Group 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Teen Youth Group 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Food Pantry Available Call Velma at 872-3373

PAONIA ASSEMBLY OF GOD 7th & Oak Paonia • 527-3292 www.paoniaassemblyofgod.com Pastor James Crawford Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Morning Worship 10:45 a.m.

Kids’ Church 10:45 a.m.

Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

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HOTCHKISS CHURCH OF CHRIST

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

Minister Windell Howard 175 N. 1st St., Hotchkiss 527-3225 Sunday Service 10:30 a.m.

Bishop Stephen W. Bayles 5th and Oak, Paonia 527-4239 Sacrament Meeting 10:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m.

Sunday School 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.

Priesthood & Relief Society 12:10-1:00 p.m.

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(Anderson Affiliate) 188 N. First Street, Hotchkiss P.O. Box 477 Visitors Welcome 872-3664 Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

Sunday Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer 7:00 p.m.

PAONIA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH 235 Box Elder Avenue - Paonia 527-3161 Youth Pastor: Mike Mills www.paoniachristianfellowship.com Sunday Services: Sunday School for ages 2-112 9:00 a.m.

Worship Service 10:15 a.m.

Children’s Church 10:15 a.m.

Overboard 4-6th Grade 6:00 p.m.

Monday Ladies Bible Study 1:00 p.m.

Wednesday: Youth Group 7:00 p.m.

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BIBLE CENTER CHURCH 1117 Third Street, Paonia www.biblecenteronline.com Paul Millermon, Pastor Phone 527-4169, 527-4955 Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Prayer Service 5:15 p.m.

Evening Service 6:00 p.m.

Awana Clubs - Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

NORTH FORK BAPTIST CHURCH Pastor Del Hampton 527-4644 1516 Hwy. 133, Paonia Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

Evening Service 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m.

Nursery Provided

OLD KING JAMES BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH 5th & Horton, Olathe, CO (970) 497-0790 Sunday School Preaching

9:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.

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Montrose LIVING WORD LUTHERAN CHURCH 33 N. Uncompahgre Ave. Montrose • 249-4405 Pastor Matthew Frey Sunday Service 9:00 a.m.

Sunday School/Bible Study 10:15 a.m.

Wednesday Night Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

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That's only $28.00 a four-issue month and $35.00 a five-issue month.

(one month minimum)

(one month minimum)

480 Riley Lane

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