Durango Telegraph - August 16 2018 by Durango Telegraph

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4 La Vida Local

Sharing the bounty Local efforts focus on putting food into mouths of people, not bears by Tracy Chamberlin

4 Thumbin’ It 5 Word on the Street

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Gittin’ after it SCAPE showcases latest crop of local entrepreneurs by Missy Votel

12-13 Day in the Life

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16 Flash in the Pan

When wilderness therapy is needed, Mountain View Crest delivers photos by Stephen Eginoire

17 Top Shelf

18-20 On the Town

Community gardening takes root at Ohana Kuleana by Missy Votel

20 Ask Rachel

All grown up

21 Free Will Astrology

Summer Meltdown

22-23 Classifieds

Ginny Mules headline Meltdown on the Mesa,and brewfest headlines Mancos by Chris Aaland

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Back in the saddle

After a smoky start to the summer, the air has cleared – well at least enough to redo Durango’s annual Clean Commute Week. Festivities are as follows: • Pedal vs. Metal Challenge, 12 noon, Tues., Aug. 21 - The annual test of man or woman against machine will leave from the Transit Center at high noon. Participants on bikes, motorcycles, foot or in cars will face off to see who can complete a set of errands around town the fastest, before ending back at the Transit Center. Friendly wagers encouraged.

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EDITORIALISTA: Missy Votel (missy@durangotelegraph.com)

Ear to the ground: “I never knew who Louis L’Amour was until I went to prison.” – The literary benefits to a stay in the joint, as overheard at Trimble Hot Springs

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23 Haiku Movie Review STAR-STUDDED CAST: Lainie Maxson, Chris Aaland, Clint Reid, Stephen Eginoire, Tracy Chamberlin, Jesse Anderson, Allen Best, David Feela, Ari LeVaux and Shan Wells

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• Bike to Work Day, 7 – 9 a.m., Wed., Aug. 22 - Main Avenue in front of Animas Chocolate Co. or Three Springs in front of Mercy Regional Medical Center. Stop by either station (or both if you’re a real honch) to pick up your free T-shirt and listen to live music while enjoying Desert Sun coffee, and sundry snacks from Clif Bar, Bread, Animas Chocolate Co. and more. As if that’s not fabulous enough there will also be drawings for fabulous prizes. • Love Your Commute Celebration, 5 – 7 p.m., Thurs., Aug 23, Ska Brewing - The culmination of Clean Commute Week features awards for the winners of the Business Commuter Challenge and the Commuter of the Year. And, of course, food, beer and lots of C-clips. Speaking of the Commuter of the Year, shout out to Paul Madonna, who rides his bike to work and for errands around town to the tune of nearly 3,000 miles a year. For him, the commute has myriad benefits, which incidentally might come in handy after the Ska fest. "I like riding to clear my mind before work and to mellow out after work,” he says. “It also keeps my belly in check.” And, for those hoping to make the quadfecta with Float to Work Day on Fri., Aug. 24, details were murky, if you’ll pardon the pun. We say go for it – the boss will approve, as long as you deflate the giant unicorn before bringing it into the office.

Shut screens and shut-eye We all have heard about the epidemic of too much screen time. But now a study by Tuck.com, a website devoted to sleep health, details just how bad the addiction really is, particularly at night: • 53 percent of Americans get just six hours of sleep or less on weekdays, well below the recommended 7.5 to eight hours. • Streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu disrupt sleep for 35 percent of Americans. • More than 12 percent of Americans report staying up all night binge-watching TV. • Colorado residents were among the least likely to watch streaming service from their beds. To see the whole study, go to tuck.com (just be sure not to read it right before bedtime.)

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LaVidaLocal Un-Henged

It requires determination to reach the Nebraska panhandle, an area wedged between South Dakota, Wyoming and the northeast corner of Colorado. Some might go so far as to suggest there’s little to recommend the attempt. But over 60,000 visitors set their sights on a strange tourist site every year, what has been dubbed “one of our nation’s 10 wackiest attractions.” I finally managed to have an up-close encounter after decades of making promises to myself. I missed its official dedication on the summer solstice of 1987, and the enormous gathering that camped out for a glimpse of 2017’s once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse. Carhenge depicts a recycled piece of history, an impulsively accurate replica of England’s prehistoric Stonehenge ruins, which have been falling apart on the Salisbury plain since 2000 BC. Like its ancient counterpart, Carhenge occupies a circle containing three standing trilithons, two station stones, a heel stone, and a slaughter stone, all placed to mimic the original. As its name suggests, nobody dragged monolithic stones across the Nebraska Sandhills to engineer the Carhenge installation. Instead, artist Jim Reinders in 1987 retrieved 39 dilapidated heaps from local sources, all of them mid-20th century American auto salvage, pumped up the tires and rolled them into the circle. The work was completed in six days. When finished, 22 cars were tipped into 5-foot trenches to stand with the headlights pointing toward the stars. Eight were laid flat across upright car pillars and welded in place to imitate traditional trilithon arches. The entire structure was subsequently painted grey, as if to mimic the color of stone, but I suspect the family just wanted to avoid the endless chore of washing and waxing their cars. Carhenge is not a tribute to classic American automobiles, although any savvy autophile might easily identify a ’61 Cadillac DeVille, a ’65 Chevelle, and a ’51 Willys Jeep in the mix. Overall, the cars are lackluster. Mostly they qualify as carcasses rescued from the jaws of the crusher. The literature says the monument originated as a tribute to the artist’s father and no doubt that’s true, but the finished product also qualifies as an elaborate tribute to parody. A 2017 interview with 90-year-old Jim Reinders exists on YouTube, and you can still see the twinkle in his eye as he recounts his personal history working for an international oil company as a petroleum engineer, being shifted to many locations around the globe. His time in London was his

favorite assignment, partly because it provided plenty of up-close time with Carhenge’s distant relative, a place he loved to visit and revisit while living there. Standing in the Carhenge parking lot, glancing across its 10-acre field, I could appreciate how perfectly the Reinder clan memorialized America. After all, most people arrive at this remote site north of Alliance, Neb., by car – our legacy to the world, like it or not. Erecting the monument required six days with a crew of about 35 relatives and friends. Of that monumental undertaking, the artist writes: “We were able to reduce the time of the original Stonehenge construction by 9,999 years and 51 weeks.” And, as if to drive the point of America’s automotive birthright home, three smaller foreign cars were buried at Carhenge with a sign that in part reads, “Here lie three bones of foreign cars. They served our purpose while Detroit slept.” An appropriate wisecrack delivered by a high priest of irony. It surprises me that the sculpture received so much criticism when first completed. Detractors maintained it was an eyesore and should be torn down. I wish this sort of sentiment would erupt in my neighborhood where junk litters the landscape of back yards and backlots, and where salvage yards cover acres of countryside because an old car might one day need a part discontinued by a dealer. I know of one place where a buried car with its windows rolled up served as a makeshift septic tank. How many heaps does one need to abandon behind the garage before a feeling of nirvana replaces that urge to tow another fixer-upper home. A group known as the Friends of Carhenge rescued the Reinders. While grumpy neighbors complained, loosely organized defenders maintained the monument had market potential and an ability to enhance the local economy. Some political bickering ensued. Eventually a comment box appeared on site where visitors reacted to what they’d seen, and an overwhelming unspoken support for the project emerged, not only among the community, but also among a small but steadily growing tourist population. Eventually, the Reinders gave the 10 acres to the city of Alliance and one of the “wackiest attractions” in America found a semi-permanent place on the map. I say “semi-permanent” because in the earthly game of rock, metal and scissors, Stonehenge will certainly outlast Carhenge, and internet pictures are a poor substitute. If visitor statistics continue to surge, it’s only a matter of time before the city council proposes sacrificing the occasional tourist.

This Week’s Sign of the Downfall:

Thumbin’It The State of Colorado pledging $19 million to bring broadband to rural communities, many of which were passed over by the digital revolution

What has so far been a lackluster rainy season in the Southwest, with the monsoons failing to deliver their typical and much-anticipated moisture

Local efforts to glean extra fruit and veggies and put them to good use feeding people instead of feeding the nuisance bear problem

Sec. of Interior Zinke declaring that the record-setting fires in California have “nothing to do with climate change,” contrary to what forestry experts, firefighters and scientists all agree upon

What appears to be a seismic shift in U.S. politics, with the first openly transgender woman nominated to run for governor in Vermont and a SomaliAmerican woman winning the nomination for Congress in Minnesota

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The newly released draft management plans for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, which highlights the development potential for coal, oil, gas and uranium in areas taken out of the original monuments

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Chin-ups and Cheek Crunches So … “facegyms” are now a thing. “Facial trainers” even work there – they spot you and coach you through exercises designed to tone over-40 facial muscles. There are two facegyms, one in London and one in New York, and they promise to help you do away with wrinkles and double-chins via a “non-invasive facelift,” when really, they’re just making you do face Kegels. And yes, these facegyms are just as douchebaggish as regular gyms thanks to their tongue and cheek slogan, “don’t miss face day.”

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With kids heading back to school Monday, the Telegraph asked, “What do you wish you would’ve studied more of?” Megan Matheson

“More philosophy.”

Michael Cahn

“I wished that I would have latched onto to science sooner.”

Alex Dziaba

“Useful skills. I was an English major.”

Jessica Gellings

“Hands-on skills, like woodworking and auto repair.”

Lindsey Abshagen

“A little more time with math.”

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ReTooned/by Shan Wells

A thank you to all of the locals To the editor, It’s been a tough summer: wildfires, smoke, mudslides. We all know someone affected in some way. As a downtown merchant, I would like to thank the locals for coming down to support the stores and restaurants. I would also like to encourage my friends who own shops and eateries downtown to hang in there! We will get through this together. During times like these, there is no other place I would rather be than Durango. We will emerge stronger than ever. – Karyn Gabaldon, Durango

New solutions to an old argument To the editor, I am inspired by the youth in the conservative party. They seem to have some things figured out better than us old fogies. Well – at least some things! They understand that the climate is changing; warming temperatures are causing havoc, and they recognize that their generation will have to pay for and suffer the consequences of inaction. I appreciate this statement from conservative college student Jacob Abel: “One of the problems is the conversations around climate change tend toward left vs. right, action vs. inaction, believers vs. deniers. Also stale, the solutions on the table default toward big government, rapid renewable integration ideas that may not be realistic yet have been passed around for decades. Yes, we need renewables – they are the future – but how can we integrate renewable energy while transitioning away from fossil fuels without creating too negative an impact on4

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communities that rely on fossil fuel production?” He adds, “Organizations such as RepublicEN, which advocates for free-market based solutions to climate change have the right idea: put a price on carbon, ensure the revenues remain neutral (i.e. don’t grow the government but instead use to offset a tax cut or provide a dividend to citizens) and watch innovation soar. Utilizing both the technologies of the past and innovations of the future is the best way forward.” Kudos to Abel and all our youth for recognizing we need policy change from our representatives to change the current trajectory. I hope Sen. Gardner and Rep. Tipton are listening. – Ed Atkinson, Durango

Time to bag the plastic habit To the editor, Take stock of all the plastic around you –cell phone, clothes, shoes and it just keeps going. With the introduction of plastic in the ’50s, our use of it has expanded such that we consume about 450 million tons each year. Of that, around 40 percent is disposable. And our oceans are where the majority of that plastic ends up. Imagine five plastic garbage bags stuffed with plastic, on every foot of coastline worldwide, and you’ll be close. A World Economic Forum report stated that the world’s oceans could contain more plastic than fish by 2050! Not too hard to believe considering the thousands of fish, seabirds and other marine animals that die yearly from stomachs full of plastic they’ve mistaken for food. Or else they die from entanglement in plastic fishing nets. How about this … every minute a garbage truck worth of plastic is dumped into the ocean, 24/7. But what about recycling? About 20 percent of plastic worldwide gets recycled. In the U.S., it’s less than 10 percent. And then there’s the ubiquitous disposable plastic bag. Some 100 billion are produced yearly, which means each day everyone in the U.S. can toss one out. Just in

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Colorado, an estimated 2 billion disposable plastic bags are used by shoppers each year. In 2015, the EPA found that only 9 percent of all plastic bags are recycled, 12 percent are incinerated and 79 percent go to the landfill. Considering that China’s new “National Sword” policy now rejects cheap plastics (Nos. 3-7), and requires a near unobtainable 0.5 percent contamination rate, why not ban single-use plastic and boycott buying product using 3-7 plastic? Or start small and enact a plastic bag ban locally, like Aspen, Breckenridge, Carbondale, Boulder, Avon and Basalt did? Or maybe a 10 cent per disposable bag fee to encourage using your own reusable bags and to help pay for recycling? But as with all solutions, it starts with us, our actions, or the buying of, and use of, plastics, and our speaking out or voting to stop that which is polluting our world. As Mark Thompson of Phoenix Recycling said in last week’s Telegraph “Recycling has to be done with a lot of integrity.” I propose we go a step further, to responsibility (for the planet, ourselves and the less responsible, too), and ban cheap plastics and single-use plastic bags. After all, we somehow managed without them before the ’50s, and the world was a lot healthier for it! – Tim Thomas, Durango

Climate Research Network concluded that solving the global warming catastrophe requires massive shift to a plant-based diet. A 2010 United Nations report blamed animal agriculture for 19 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, 70 percent of freshwater use and 38 percent of land use. Carbon dioxide is emitted by burning forests to create animal pastures and by transporting animals. The more damaging methane and nitrous oxide are released from digestive tracts of cattle and from animal waste cesspools, respectively. In an environmentally sustainable world, we must replace meat and dairy products in our diet with vegetables, fruits and grains, just as we replace fossil fuels by wind, solar and other pollution-free energy sources. Let’s start with our next supermarket visit. – Dante Gomez, Durango

How to dance your troubles away

To the editor, A waltz-dancing cowboy pal taught me the “Boogiedown-Two-Step Twirl-Around Rock and Roll Forever” joy of life dance. As a realistic optimist, I found this to be a delightful joy of life experience. Anyone can make up their own version so just try it out and forget your troubles. – Veryl Rosenbaum, Ignacio

Save the world, one cart at a time To the editor, With scorching heat and raging wildfires in the West and torrential downpours and massive flooding in the East, global warming is not just about a gentle sea rise any more. These tragic consequences of dumping greenhouse gases into our atmosphere call for drastic remedies. For starters, we should re-join the Paris Climate Accords and actually become a world leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. One of the most effective ways is by changing our diet. Yes, that. Last fall, Oxford University’s prestigious Food

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Rachel Landis, left, picks pears from trees outside the Smiley Building on Tuesday morning. Fruit from the property will be taken to area food banks and other communities in need - before any bears come calling./Photo by Stephen Eginoire

Bushels & bears Instead of tempting ursine invaders, local harvest could help those in need by Tracy Chamberlin

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ne in four kids in La Plata County worry about their next meal. At the same time, 36 bears were killed in the county last year; 25 of those within city limits. It turns out, there is a way to improve both of those numbers – and it starts with fruit trees. “A lot of people have fruit trees they aren’t using, thousands of apple trees that aren’t being utilized,” Bryan Peterson, executive director of Bear Smart Durango, said. “It’s just a waste.”

It’s tempting Without a late spring frost to take out the blossoms, this year’s fruit crops are epic. Some have already fallen off the trees, like apricots and cherries. While others, like apples, are weighing down limbs before they’re even ripe for picking. One local population is keenly aware of this fact – black bears. Every year in August, black bears begin hyperphagia – the time when they start to pack on the pounds ahead of hibernation. During this time, the average bear consumes 20,000 calories a day – which takes a whole lot of acorns and chokecherries, their typical fare. Thus, when the hunger pangs hit, some start seeking out other high-calorie options. That’s when they end up in the

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To report bear-strewn trash in La Plata County, call Animal Control at 385-2900. To report it in the City, call Code Enforcement at 375-4930. For more on black bears in Durango, check out Bear Smart Durango at www.bearsmartdurango.org. Bear Smart can answer questions, offer tips for being Bear Smart, or even assist with electric fencing for fruit trees or chickens. back yard, tearing down the bird feeder and rummaging through the trash – the No. 1 attractant for bears. It’s one of the reasons the City of Durango requires residents to get a wildlife-resistant container if a bear gets into their unsecured cans. This requirement comes with a $100 fee for delivery of the new can, too. In La Plata County, animal control officials will give violators a fine of $200 for letting bears into trash. If residents get a wildlife-resistant container, the fine can be waived. (Bear-resistant trash cans are available from the city and all three of the county’s waste-haulers: Phoenix Recycling, Waste Management and WCA Transit Waste.) While it can sometimes be a novelty for residents and visitors to see a bear in the yard, it can quickly become a

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safety concern. Often, problem bears ultimately have to be put down. The best way to keep this from happening is to not attract them in the first place by keeping trash secure, pet food inside and the bird feeders put away during the months of hyperphagia. The other way to make a difference, according to Peterson, is to call when bears are seen in yards or trash. Residents may be afraid to make the call, he said, but those calls can help city and county officials address the situation before bears become a problem. Other things that keep bears coming into town are, of course, fruit trees. Peterson, who founded Bear Smart in 2003, said what really gets bears into trouble is when they damage the tree. “It’s basically … Bear in tree. Bear breaks tree. Bear is dealt with. Dead bear,” he explained.

Ripe for the pickin’ To address this, several years ago Bear Smart began a fruit gleaning program. Residents across the county can go to fruitglean.org and list their trees. Then other residents who are interested can find out where to get it. Rachel Landis, director for The Good Food Collective, said the program doesn’t just help reduce human/bear conflicts, “It connects us to the land, the food and the bounty that is here.” 4

Last year, Bear Smart applied for a grant with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, hoping to expand the fruit gleaning program and hire harvesting crews. They were able to get the grant and, this year, the program is bigger than ever. One of the reasons they got the funds was at the same time they were sending in the application, news came out that one in four children in La Plata County are food insecure – meaning they’re worried about where their next meal will come from. In Montezuma County, the statistic is one in three children. It’s not that this area has a food shortage, though. According to Landis, about one-third of all the food people purchase ends up in the trash. This isn’t just bad for those who need it, it’s bad for the environment. The greatest source of greenhouse gas coming out of landfills is from biodegradable waste, like food. Tied up in trash bags and rotting away, this type of waste emits lots of methane and carbon dioxide – instead of ending up on the plates of those who are food insecure. In La Plata and Montezuma counties, Landis said, about 20 million pounds of produce goes unharvested each year. “There’s an abundance of fresh, local healthy food here,” she added. “The gap is distribution.” One of the goals of The Good Food Collective, a Durangobased nonprofit, is to fill that gap. The Collective, which opened its doors about two months ago, has three programs to address the unharvested produce: the fruit gleaning program (which they’re in the process of taking over from Bear Smart); the new community gleaning program started with the grant funds; and Fresh Food Connect. While the fruit gleaning connects private citizen to private citizen, the new community gleaning is able to expand to larger crops with a team of harvesters, hired using the grants, one from the USDA and another from a local business, the Payroll Department. “The biggest addition is the ability for gleaning crews to go out and address bears getting into fruit trees,” Peterson said. Instead of posting the trees on the fruit gleaning website

Pick up lines Want fruit? The Good Food Collective’s fruit gleaning program is free and open to everyone. Find someone on the list and pick up extra fruit for a fun family outing, or get in touch with the collective’s director, Rachel Landis, for a group harvest. Landis said the collective is looking for volunteer harvesters and, it turns out, lots of ladders. To find out more, visit fruitglean.org, goodfood collective.org or email Landis at rachel.l.landis@gmail.com. Also, if you’ve got a backyard garden with more produce than you can use, donate it to those in need by signing up at freshfoodconnect.org.

More from the garden ... Get squashed for the 4th annual Zucchini Extravaganza at the Pine River Library in Bayfield this Sat., Aug. 18, from noon2 p.m., hosted by the Pine River Community Garden Club. “This event is for the entire community, not just the ‘oversquashed’ gardeners,” Darcy Poletti Harp, programming librarian, said. “We want everyone to bring in their award-winning and waiting for a response, he explained, crews with The Good Food Collective will be able to respond immediately. The third part of the puzzle is Fresh Food Connect. It’s actually a national program, and Durango is the first Colorado community outside the Front Range to participate. Landis, who ran the Environmental Center at Fort Lewis College for five years before taking on the new nonprofit endeavor, said the program is geared toward back yard gardens with extra produce. Locals can sign up and let the Collective know when they’ve got extra food to donate. Then she and her team will come by – using their new electric tricycle – to pick up the produce and deliver it places such as the Manna Soup Kitchen, Durango Food Band and Mancos Food Share.

Photo by Stephen Eginoire zucchini: ugliest, largest and best-dressed.” The event features a community potluck, live music from Agave, zucchini carving, a scavenger hunt and more. For more info, call 884-2222. Their new vehicle, or etrike, is a pedal-assist tricycle, much like a pedicab. Instead of a seat for passengers, though, it pulls a large storage container to fold the fruit and vegetables. It can haul up to 700 pounds of produce and has a range of 40 miles, according to Landis. If there’s any extra produce, the next stop is local businesses. Apples have ended up at Fenceline Cidery in Mancos, and plums in the ice cream at Cream Bean Berry or a dessert at the Ore House. “The whole point is to get that food into the community,” Landis said. And, all the while, it’s helping to decrease human/bear conflicts by reducing their temptation to come looking for all that low-hanging fruit. n

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MountainTownNews More summer draws in busy mtn. towns SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Ski areas in the Tahoe-Truckee area continue to add summer attractions. “It’s happening, and it’s only going to continue to grow, hopefully beyond the bigger resorts,” Michael Reitzell, president of the California Ski Industry Association, says. “I think every resort in some way or shape is heading in that direction.” The Tahoe Daily Tribune cites Heavenly, which is owned by Vail Resorts. The “Epic Discovery” offerings include zip lines, climbing walls, tubing, ropes courses and a mountain coaster. Northstar, located near Truckee and also owned by Vail, also has extensive summer operations, as does Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadow, which is owned by Alterra. Others are following: Diamond Peak Ski Resort plans a major summer expansion. But other smaller ski areas, such as those near Donner Pass, seem less inclined to expand into the non-amusement park attractions. Ski areas operating on U.S. government land had been governed by a 1986 law that made no mention of summer use of the land used for downhill skiing. Most ski areas catered to mountain bikers, and many kept gondolas running to mountain-top restaurants. But the U.S. Forest Service, on whose land 122 ski areas in the U.S. operate, was resistant when Vail Resorts and other ski area operations began talking about new, summer-centric attractions. The agency said it needed clear legislation. So, in 2011, Congress delivered that green light, the Ski Area Recreational Opportunity Enhancement Act, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama. The new law loosely authorized the new activities. Vail Mountain was the test case for the new process, followed soon by Breckenridge and Heavenly. The Nature Conservancy blessed the idea and helped construct information panels and other devices intended to explain the natural world evident from the ski area activities. Ski areas get to keep much of the additional revenue and also extend jobs for employees. Ski areas said they never expected that summer attractions would match that of skiing. So far, that seems to be the case. In California, the Sierra Club opposed the summer expansion plans at Heavenly, but not because of the activities on the mountain. Instead, the environmental group worried about extra cars and exhaust in the Tahoe Basin during the busiest time of the year for tourists, explains the Daily Tribune. “I’m sure there are some resorts where the expansion is perfectly appropriate,” Bruce Hamilton, the deputy executive director of the Sierra Club, says. In Vail, the opening of the new attractions three years ago was hard to detect among the summer hustle and bustle. Vail’s two large parking garages 20 years ago sat largely empty. Now, they’re nearly full on many summer days. Jim Lamont, who heads the Vail Homeowners Association, says the new attractions add to Vail’s traffic woes, which decreases the quality of life. He also sees this fitting into a business picture of economic expansion with unintended consequences. Plus, new and more customers results in the need for more employee housing. “Are you ever going to get enough housing built to meet the needs? No,” he tells Mountain Town News. In California, the Daily Tribune portrays this against two important backdrops. One, is climate change and the seemingly greater ups and downs of snowfall. Not every winter is epic, the newspaper notes. The other is the fact that skier numbers have been flat for many years. What it fails to mention is that revenue from ski area operations, as opposed to skier numbers, has been anything but flat. How else do you explain why Vail Resorts’ and Alterra’s furious pace to buy more and more ski areas?

Is an airy tourist perch really progress? WHISTLER, B.C. – Whistler Blackcomb has another summer attraction: the Cloudraker Sky Bridge, which allows people to look down 130 meters (426 feet) to a ski slope below. “Since we opened, it’s been pretty much full-on crowds,” Wendy Robinson, a business development manager with Whistler Blackcomb, told Pique Newsmagazine. This new bridge and viewing platform is seen as a way to broaden the appeal of Whistler Blackcomb. “You don’t have to be

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A northern flicker recovers before flying away after an unfortunate run-in with a patio door. (*Disclaimer: We are pretty sure it’s not OK to handle wild birds, for a variety of reasons.)/Photo by Stephen Eginoire

a big-mountain skier or mountaineer to go up there now,” Marc Riddell, communications manager for Whistler Blackcomb, explained. An anonymous commentator on the newspaper’s website was less impressed, describing it as a “theme park, wow” type of attraction. The commentator seemed to think that instead of sightseeing activities, Vail Resorts should instead pursue active sports. The idea was first assembled by previous owners of the ski area as part of a $345 million development plan called Renaissance. The centerpiece of that plan was a base area aquatic center. At the time of the announcement, it was described as an alternative necessitated by the increasing number of rainy days, at least at the base area and on lower slopes. That plan has been postponed but not formally eliminated. Instead, Vail Resorts is focusing on the on-mountain infrastructure.

Trump’s KGB ties may date back to 1986 TELLURIDE – Clearly President Donald Trump has something going with Russia. A former Central Intelligence Agency operative says the chumminess goes a long, long way back, at least to 1986. Robert Baer, the former CIA agent, was in Telluride recently, where he explained that Trump – without realizing it – began rubbing elbows with KGB agents at a cocktail party. Later, when Trump visited the former Soviet Union in 1991, undercover KGB agents began filling his head with delusions of grandeur, including the possibility of a U.S. presidential run. “It was a piece of flattery,” Baer said. “The Russians started his political aspirations.” Baer, the son of an heiress who grew up in Aspen in the 1960s, has had a storied career. He was a CIA agent for 21 years, working primarily in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He has also written five books and is a commentator on CNN and other national media. If you saw the 2005 movie “Syriana,” the role played by George Clooney was based roughly on Baer’s memoir, See No Evil. Baer now lives in the San Juan Mountains. In Telluride, in a talk covered by the Telluride Daily Planet, Baer said the collapse of the Soviet Union did not end the KGB. It only caused the agency to criminalize. “They simply retreated and regrouped,” he said. One of those places of regrouping, said Baer according to the Daily Planet, was at Trump’s Taj Mahal Hotel & Casino. Trump, who needed money to finance his endeavors, started taking Russian money, said Baer. In his account, Trump has been cozy with Russian agents for a long time. – Allen Best

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Rockets to jams: SCAPE reveals latest round by Missy Votel

t’s time to blast-off for Durango’s latest class of entrepreneurs. This Thurs., from 3 – 5:30 p.m., the Southwest Colorado Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs (aka SCAPE) will host its annual startup showcase in the FLC Ballroom. In addition to offering the fledgling companies time to strut their stuff, the event will also be an opportunity for wouldbe investors to sample the goods, so to speak. The showcase will feature five local startups, the result of last year’s SCAPE application process. “This event will have this year’s companies, some have received funds, some are needing to raise additional funds,” SCAPE Director Elizabeth Marsh said. Each startup will be allowed time to present their company to the crowd. The companies include: • Agile Space – Durango-based developer of state-of-the-art propulsion systems started by Daudi Barnes, a veteran of the Kimmel spacecraft industry. In 2009, Barnes created AMPT, a space propulsion test facility in Durango. His new endeavor will address a need for quality, competitively priced thruster systems that can be built with a quick turn-around using 3D printing. His customers include NASA, the U.S. government and Boeing as well as a range of private aerospace companies.

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• Impact – A boat and dock fender company founded by locals Brian Slaughter and Courtney Gates, both avid water skiers and boat owners. The two saw a need for more modern boat accessories to make life on the water easier and protect boat owners’ investments. Using closed cell recycled foam wrapped in PVC, the patent-pending design promises to be lighter, stronger, more colorful, more durable and easier to use than current boat bumpers. • Vessl – Maker of sustainable modern urns, flat-pack coffins and cremation sanctuaries, the company was inspired by the death of founder Matthew Clark’s father. Clark said he searched in vain for an urn he not only felt OK about buying but that was even good looking. Clark, of Dolores, co-founded the company with FLC graduate Dustin Chapin. The two also founded and run an architecture practice together. • The Choke Cherry Tree Inc. – This Pagosa-based purveyor of jams, jellies, syrups and candies would provide licensing and intellectual property rights to its products for existing and new stores. Started by Bill Goddard in 1999 using his grandmother’s recipes, the store was bought by longtime employee Jenelle Syverson in 2014 upon Goddard’s passing. Goddard’s self-developed caramels, whipped up during a snowless winter, are said to be legendary. • VSTracking.com – A victims database meant to help victim advocates spend more time with victims and less time filing paperwork, as required under a 1984 victims’ rights law. Using cloud-based technology, the company was founded in 2014 at the request of the 22nd Judicial District Attorney and is now sought after by several DA’s offices. Founders include Randy Feuilly, computer pro-

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grammer and president of Online Web Services; Frank Elge, future CEO and marketing executive in the IT field; and Clarisa Feuilly, overseer of the Victim Advocate Program for Montezuma County. In addition to these five companies, the showcase will also feature keynote speaker Travis Kimmel, CEO of Durango-based GitPrime, which provides productivity tracking software. A former SCAPE graduate, Kimmel began his tech career at a web app and e-commerce consulting agency. After moving to the operations side, he joined a startup as an engineer and later created an early prototype of GitPrime. In 2014, he met his co-founder, Ben Thompson, at a co-working space where they began to informally collaborate. In 2015, they secured seed funding and began building the alpha version of the product. GitPrime was a part of SCAPE’s winter of 2016 class. Other speakers include Stephanie Copeland, of Startup Colorado; Peter Adams, of Rockies Venture Fund; and Marc Nager, of Greater Colorado Venture Fund. SCAPE is a nonprofit six-month program that provides mentoring, development, branding and financial education as well as office space and capital-raising preparation for startups in the region. SCAPE also partners with an investment fund that provides seed funding for the companies. Graduated SCAPE companies have been featured nationally on Amazon Launchpad, Huffington Post, CNBC, Modern Family and Popular Science. Since starting in 2012, SCAPE has given a boost to 25 companies and raised $16 million in capital. The 2019 application process begins Sept. 1. Early-stage businesses in Archuleta, Dolores, Montezuma, La Plata, and San Juan counties can apply at www.goscape.org. n

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Wilderness therapy by Stephen Eginoire

hen the work week gets you down, why not head into the back yard for some wilderness therapy? As the name might suggest, Mountain View Crest overlooks what must be one of the Rockiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most spectacular views. And guess what? It is relatively easy to access via the Missionary Ridge Road right here in the Animas Valley. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a look:

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Member gardener Julie Yarsa puts in some time on her plot at Ohana Kuleana on Tuesday. The garden, which has 75 members and is the only large-scale community garden of its kind in Durango, will host an open house this Sunday./Photo by Stephen Eginoire

What’s up in the agrihood Ohana Kuleana celebrates tilling the fertile soil of community by Missy Votel

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o doubt it’s been a challenging summer for locals – animal and vegetable alike. But on the north side of town, on a once rock-ridden, flood-prone, dead-end plot of land, lies a verdant, green oasis. Teeming with fruit trees, veggies, leafy greens and berries, it’s kind of like a Durango victory garden, if you will – although others refer to it by its more formal name: Ohana Kuleana. Taken from the Hawaiian term for “community responsibility,” the garden sits on a half acre of land at the end of E. Sixth Avenue and 30th Street. The land is owned by La Plata County, but former County Commissioner Bob Lieb leased the land from the county several years ago to be used as a community garden. The Garden Project of Southwest Colorado took the reins of the rototiller from Lieb and oversees the garden, now in its sixth growing season. “It’s been really incredible to watch the garden grow and see so many people get involved, not just growing food but also growing community,” Garden Project Director Sandhya Tillotson said. This summer, the garden transitioned from having a paid manager, Mia Carrasco-Songer, who was responsible for getting it up and running, to subsisting solely on the strong backs and dirty hands of volunteers. To commemorate the occasion, Ohana Kuleana will be throwing open the deer-resistant gates to paradise this Sunday from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. The day will be resplendent with live music, a farm stand, and a tour of the old Animas City neighborhood by local historian Bruce Spining. And, of course, no good old-fashioned sum-

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What: Ohana Kuleana Community Garden Open House + 90th birthday party for volunteer extraordinaire Marye Jackson When: Sun., Aug. 19, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Where: 564 E. 30th St. (E. 6th Avenue & 30th Street, up gravel driveway.)

mer celebration would be complete without pie (for a $5 donation.) The event will also celebrate the 90th birthday of green goddess and master gardener Marye Jackson, who has been involved with Ohana from the get-go. In addition, Jackson managed the now (sadly) defunct Shared Harvest Community Garden for seven of its 16 years, helped start gardens at local schools and the DeNier Youth Center, and is a former board member of the Durango Botanical Society. It probably is no surprise that she was also the Garden Project’s 2017 Volunteer of the Year. “Marye has just been an incredible volunteer over the years,” said Tillotson, who recounts working alongside the unbeknownst-to-her octogenarian under the hot summer sun. “She’s such a trooper and so passionate about it. She’s a rockstar gardener.” It’s people like Jackson that make Ohana Kuleana so special, according to just about any of the 75 community gardeners who lease one of the 45 plots you ask.

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In exchange for their $80 fee for the growing season and four hours of volunteer work a month, they get water, irrigation, tools, fencing, fertilizer and unfettered access to all the joys of playing in the dirt. And they get that warm, fuzzy feeling that comes with tilling the fertile soil of community togetherness. “The really cool thing about the OK community garden is that on any given day, you can find gardeners from ages 5 to 90 there,” member Jules Masterjohn said. She and her husband, Steven DiSanto, have been gardening the same plot for three years now (she is currently ecstatic about her cosmos and nasturtiums, which are “going crazy” right now.) They joined Ohana Kuleana because the townhome they were living in did not afford an outdoor growing space. “We both love to grow food and spend time with growing things. We heard about this new community garden within walking distance, so we checked it out,” she said. “We enjoy the community aspect of the garden as much as the growing things part.” In addition to the member gardeners, Ohana Kuleana also hosts school kids from Riverview in spring and fall, as well as kids camps in the summer, making for a varied salad mix of folks and experiences. “It’s wonderful to watch people come through, from first-time gardeners to master gardeners who can share tips and advice,” said Tillotson. “It’s a constant experiment, which is really fun to watch.” But aside from allowing folks to rub dirty elbows with their neighbors, the garden provides a bushel of other benefits. For starters, with the recent closing of Shared Harvest, it is now the only large-scale community garden in Durango. 4

“It’s the only community garden in terms of where someone can get their own plot for their family,” said Tillotson. But the garden goes way beyond radishes and carrots for the dinner table. Ringing the perimeter is what Tillotson calls a “food forest,” a permaculture term for what basically amounts to an edible, permeable landscape. In addition to fruit trees, the forest includes medicinal and culinary herbs as well as berries. But the real beauty of the food forest is that it helps control storm water and erosion, which used to be a big concern among neighbors, whose back yards would frequently flood due to run-off on the lot.

“It’s completely resolved those issues,” she said, adding that keeping the land as open space is also a plus among those living nearby. “Everyone is really grateful to have that garden instead of condos.” Tillotson said studies have also shown that community gardens lead to lower crime rates and higher property values. “Having a community garden nearby is something that people – especially Millennials – are interested in,” she said. There’s even a name for this trend: “agrihood,” sort of a suburban/farm interface if you will. But, above all, perhaps the biggest asset of a community garden is the consciousness raising that comes with

tomato raising. “People who grow their own food are more likely to support local agriculture and support local farming, so it’s a viable career for future generations,” Tillotson said. “How radical would it be if we divested from global corporations and invested in our local food economy instead?” That’s right. That humble eggplant you’ve been nursing since seedlinghood just might grow up to change the world. Or at least make a killer parmigiana. So dig in. For more on Ohana Kuleana, go to thegardenprojectswcol orado.org or visit them on Facebook.

Putting your money where your mouth is: The theory of ‘nurture capital’ By now, most of us have heard of slow food, the movement of eating more deliberately and consciously. But in recent years, an offshoot of that philosophy has also taken root, known as “slow money.” The term was coined by venture-capitalist-turned-writer Woody Tasch, who also founded a nonprofit of the same name. The idea is to bring a seismic shift in the investment mindset. Rather Tasch than putting money into a nameless, faceless, global hedge fund, Tasch envisions a world where people invest in local small food and organic farms to “bring money back down to earth.” Tasch, who lives in Boulder, will be in Durango next week to speak and sign copies of his latest book, Soil: Notes Towards the Theory and practice of Nurture Capital.

His second, Soil is described as weaving poetry, prose and photography into an effort to tackle the question: How can we fix what’s broken in our economy and our country through the entry point of local food systems? Founded in 2009, Slow Money has held a series of events around the country, which have funneled $40 million into small food enterprises. Currently, there are 25 Slow Money networks and 13 investment clubs in the United States. There are two in Colorado – one in Carbondale and another in Boulder, the latter of which offers 0 percent loans to small farmers. Slow Money is also taking root outside the U.S., with groups in Nova Scotia, Switzerland, France and Belgium. In addition to the gatherings, Tasch also

has a goal of 1 million people signing his Illsley, and others in the Slow Money “Slow Money principles,” which advocate movement, feel investing in small, organic for cultural, ecological and economic diver- farms is more important now than ever, sity based on healthy pracgiven climate change, soil tices. 8Slow Money guru and fertility and the oceans, all “We like to describe it as author Woody Tasch will hold of which are adversely imlife after fast food and fast two booksignings and talks pacted by large agribusiness. money,” Tasch said. “It does not matter how next week in Durango: Former restaurateur and much money there is, if we • Wed., Aug. 22, 6:30 p.m., pioneer of Durango’s local continue to invest irrespectMaria’s Bookshop food movement, Linda Ills• Thurs., Aug. 23, 11 a.m., ful of how much we are ley, has attended some of hurting the environment, James Ranch Harvest Grill Tasch’s gatherings and is a we will reach a point where huge adherent to the conwe will not be able to procept. She said more than anything, it offers duce food,” she said. hope for the future of small, local farms. Illsley said she hopes a Slow Money “Through the 14 years I was in business, group will sprout up in Durango some day. I watched farmers quit and leave farming all It’s a hope shared by Tasch as well. together. I often asked them why and … the “That’s one of the reasons I’m making common trend was that it was too expen- the swing through Durango,” he said, “to sive, they could not pay the bills and had no try to spark a little more action.” hope of ever owning land,” she said. For more, go to slowmoney.org.

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Jam out with your clams out by Ari LeVaux

y clam linguine rule goes like this: if clam linguine is on the menu, I order it. The same goes for its Neapolitan progenitor, pasta alle vongole. My rule has never failed me. Indeed, the dish itself is too easy and spectacular to fail. But I sometimes ask myself why I don’t make it more often at home, with as many clams as I please. The classic way to prepare and serve this dish is with fresh clams in their shells. I would argue that the shells look great, but you can’t eat them. And they kind of get in the way. Assuming one of the elemental joys of this dish is to eat noodles and clams together, you have to remove the clams before you can stir them in and have that pleasure. And you can only have as many clams as shells. Do not pass on clam linguine made from canned clams. They bring a distinct set of advantages for a lot less money, with less environmental impact. There are culinary advantages as well. Canned clam linguine is the high water mark for cuisine that can be made from canned seafood. Tuna salad and salmon patties are great, but canned clam linguine is legit fine dining, even when served in a takeout clamshell. If those canned clams are farmed, rather than wild caught, they are among the most environmentally friendly forms of animal protein that exist, sharing the distinction with mussels and oysters. Bivalve mollusks feed on ocean nutrients, cleansing the ocean, and they absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with which to build their shells. One of the reasons alle vongole is better with canned

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clams is that you can add more clams. And without the shells, the clams and noodles can freely embrace and cook together. And perhaps most importantly, canned clams come with clam juice, which adds dank, fishy umami to the dish, like an Italian version of oyster sauce. I would argue that clam juice is more important to the dish than the clams themselves. And if you do make clam linguine with fresh clams, you should add clam juice. Thanks to that bottled savory wharf-whiff, I cook the noodles to less than al dente, and let them finish cooking in the sauce, essentially by absorbing said clam juice. The noodles aren’t just cooked as much as rehydrated with clam juice. On a sweltering day in San Diego last week, I found myself rehydrating with clam juice at a shaded table outside Mona Lisa Italian Foods. A local culinary advisor had sent me to the deli for a certain sandwich, but when I glanced at the menu, the clam linguine rule was activated. Anywhere clam linguine is sold, we are given a choice between red or white, which boils down to with or without a few tomatoes. Cream is sometimes added to white sauce, making it whiter still, but on that day, mine did not have cream, which was just fine. Also fine: it was made with canned clams. Tons. But knowing what I now know, I would never order it without tomatoes again. The hint of acid the tomato provides gives just the right brightness to this rich dish. Cooking for my kids one day, I realized the red/white clam linguine dichotomy can be superimposed upon a box of macaroni and cheese, prepared alle vongole, of course. I call it yellow clam sauce. And it follows that if tomatoes are added, the sauce becomes orange.

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Beyond the color, tomatoes add depth to macaroni and cheese alle vongole, making it more complete. Meanwhile, the tomatoes also stand out. Especially fresh, juicy ones. Simply follow the directions on the box, but after draining the noodles, cook some canned whole clams and clam juice in butter with garlic, tomatoes and parsley. Make sure it’s soupy with clam juice, then add the noodles, stir in the cheese, and serve. Those instant mac ‘n’ cheese noodles are hollow in the middle, allowing sauce to saturate the cavity. In that spirit, I’ve been making my clam linguine with bucatini noodles, which are round and long like spaghetti but hollow in the middle. Basically it’s a longer version of the macaroni noodle that will suck up an inner core of clam sauce. Here is a basic recipe for a basic red bucatini alle vongole. Canned clams and noodles may be in season all year long, but now is the time to enjoy the tomatoes, garlic and parsley at their finest. Other summer vegetables, like zucchini, can be slipped in as well. Bucatini alle vongole 1 pound bucatini, linguine or pasta of your choice, cooked al dente 1 10-ounce can whole clams in broth Fresh garlic to taste: chopped, grated or pressed Red or white wine Red pepper flakes, to taste Chopped parsley, a few sprigs or more, up to a 1/2 cup Some basil leaves Oregano or thyme Butter, one stick Olive oil Romano or Parmesan cheese, grated 1 bottle clam juice (just in case) Melt half the butter in the pan on medium heat with garlic and 2 tablespoons oil. When it starts to smell nice, add the tomatoes, oregano, pepper flakes, wine and contents of the clam can. Add the noodles and let them finish cooking in the sauce, adding parsley and basil along the way. If it starts to dry out, add more wine or clam juice as necessary. Turn off the heat, stir in grated cheese and the rest of the butter, and serve. But don’t serve too hot. People can’t control themselves with clam linguine in front of them, and mouth burns will certainly occur. n

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Meltdown on the Mesa, Mancos Brewfest & zucchinis by Chris Aaland

songwriter and guitarist. The 12th annual Tour de Farms and fourth annual Zuctop. Breathe. Smell the flowers. Repeat. Gershwin wrote that chini Extravaganza take place in Bayfield on Saturday. Unlike the livin’ is easy in summertime, with fish jumpin’ and cotton the previous 11 years, this year’s Tour de Farms is a van tour, in high. I call bullshit. which gardeners and the locally grown crowd will board vans to Easy? It seems every week, I’m chained to my desk. Relaxing explore Homegrown Farm, De Groats ’n Sheep Ranch, All Seasons weekends and evenings? Bah! Farm and the impressive backyard garden of Andrew Trujillo. Fishin’? I’ve strung up my four-weight fly rod exactly twice Check in at 7:30 a.m. at the Pine River Library for 8 a.m. departhis summer … once on the La Plata during the peak of runoff ture. Then, at noon at the Pine River Library is Zucchini Fest. This (the poor brookies up there community-wide event inhave been extremely stressed vites residents to bring their by the low flows ever since), favorite zucchini (and other and another time at Joe squash) dishes, along with Moore Lake by Mancos, their favorite whole zucchiwhere Otto and I landed nis (prizes for the biggest, countless rainbows, crappies, the worst and the ugliest). perch and bass. I got a SouthFree hot dogs with zucchini ern Ute license this year hoprelish will be provided for ing to hit summer and fall the whole family while trout on the Animas near grooving to the Americana Weaselskin Bridge. Trouble is, tunes of Agave. Cost of the most of the fish in the Anitour is $25, but the zucchini mas are dead from July’s flash fest is free. floods, which choked the Lawn Chair Kings play river with ash and mud. their final show of the Cotton? Even my Fruit of month from 5-7 p.m. the Looms are threadbare. Wednesday at the Rochester Reminder to self: Stop. Hotel’s Secret Garden. Other Breathe. Smell the Flowers. local happenings include the Pop a top, sit my fat ass in a Great Contention at this camp chair and listen to blueweek’s Ska-B-Q, which gets grass. Denver-based Ginny Mules headline the fourth annual Meltdown on under way at 5 p.m. tonight The fourth annual Melt(Thurs., Aug. 16) at the the Mesa on Saturday. down on the Mesa takes World Headquarters; Elder place Saturday at Durango Mesa (formerly known as Ewing Mesa) Grown plays the free Concerts in the Plaza at Three Springs at 6 off Highway 3. Seven bands – most local – will perform, culminatp.m. tonight; Pete Giuliani is at the Dalton Ranch patio from 6ing with the Denver-based Ginny Mules at the end of the night. 8 p.m. tonight; the Black Velvet trio is at the Derailed Pour It’s a laid-back affair underneath a big tent. Pack your own cooler House from 7-11 p.m. Friday, while its duo works the Animas (canned beer is OK, but glass bottles are frowned upon) and catch River Beer Garden at the Doubletree Hotel from 5-9 p.m. Satursuch friends and neighbors as La La Bones, Six Dollar String Band, day; and Kirk James plays solo blues at the 11th Street Station the StillHouse Junkies, People You Know, Lost Souls and the Smelter at 7 p.m. Saturday. Mountain Boys take the stage. Gates open at noon, with music getFinally, the fundraisers in the public and community radio ting under way at 1 p.m. The headliners take the stage at 7:30 for a world are seemingly never ending. I guess that’s just the nature of big 90-minute set before people wander back to their campsites for the beast, when the public and community are what funds these all-night picking and drinking. important voices. The on-air portion of KSUT’s fall membership I’ll be serving as one of your emcees at Meltdown on the Mesa drive is nearly a month away (Sept. 11-14), but per tradition, the along with KDUR honcho Bryant Liggett. Unfortunately, that station will hold earlybird drawings for a pair of weekend passes means I’ll miss Saturday’s Mancos Valley Summer Brewfest with camping to the Four Corners Folk Festival on Fri., Aug. 24, for the first time ever. This event features suds, ciders and wines and a pair of weekend passes with camping to Telluride Blues & by some of Montezuma County’s best purveyors of adult beverBrews on Wed., Aug. 29. All sustaining members are automatically ages, including event host Mancos Brewing Co., plus Dolores entered, but others can get in on the fun by pledging online at River Brewery, Main Street Brewery, WildEdge Brewing Collective, ksut.org. To wet your whistle, Four Corners Folk Festival, Aug. 31 Outlier Ciders and Guy Drew Vineyards. Unlike most beer festi– Sept. 2 on Pagosa’s Reservoir Hill, features Sam Bush; the Dawg vals, this one is not a free-pour event. Tickets are for entrance into Trio featuring David Grisman, Samson Grisman and Danny the fenced festival area at Cottonwood Park, where you can booBarnes; and Nahko & Medicine for the People. This year’s Telgie to four local acts, including Afrobeatniks, Carute Roma, Stillluride Blues & Brews, Sept. 14-16, is highlighted by Robert Plant & House Junkies and Fiery Furnace Marching Band. Purchase tokens the Sensational Space Shifters, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, for drinks ($10 gets you six tokens; pints of beer and cider and Gov’t Mule, Booker T’s Stax Revue and many more. glasses of wine cost three tokens each). Music starts at 1 p.m. and The best thing I’ve heard this week is the new album by the ends just before 7. Record Company, “All This Life.” Powered by the singles “Life to If you were lucky, you already bought tickets to the DuFix” and “I’m Getting Better (And I’m Feeling it Right Now),” the rango Blues Train, which rolls out of the station on Friday power trio’s sophomore effort picks up right where its first album and Saturday nights. If not, it sold out months ago. The lineup left off … ballsy, bluesy, rock & roll that appeals to rockers of all this time around includes the A.J. Fullerton Band, the Rebekah ages. If you’re a fan of classic Stones, Zeppelin and early Black Meldrum Band, Molly Gene – One Whoaman Band, D.W. Crowes, you won’t be disappointed. Turn the volume up to 11. Doucet, Cary Morin and R.L. Cole. I’m a huge fan of Morin’s, a Vitamin D and A and B Complex too? Email me at chrisa@gobrain Native American acoustic bluesman who has chops as a singer, storm.net. n

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Thursday16 Yoga Flow, 8 a.m., Pine River Library. Women’s Drop-in Tennis, 9 a.m., Durango High School courts. www.durangotennis.com. Here to Hear: Office Hour with City Councilor Dick White, 9-10 a.m., Steaming Bean, 900 Main Ave. Beginner Tai Chi, 9:15-10:15 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

day, Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

Powerhouse Pub Trivia, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino del Rio. www.powsci.org.

Grand Opening for Create Art and Tea, noon-8 p.m., inside Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.createartandtea.com.

Acoustic Music Jam, 7 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Screen-Free Playtime, 3-5 p.m., White Rabbit Books & Curiosities, 128 W. 14th St. 259-2213.

“Sita Sings the Blues” screening, 7 p.m., Sunflower Theatre in Cortez. www.sunflowertheatre.org.

Spanish Speaking Parents & Littles Fridays, 3:305:30 p.m., Durango Café au Play, 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Room 201. 749-9607 or durangocafeauplay.org.

The Four Corners Back Country Horsemen meet, presentation and discussion on post-416 Fire recovery, 7 p.m., Florida Grange, Highway 172, half mile south of Elmore’s Corner. 442-0575 or www.4cbch.org.

aby Meetup Thursdays, a Durango Café au Play B event, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 2307 Columbine. 749-9607 or durangocafeauplay.org. Baby Meetup, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Columbine House at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 419 San Juan Dr. Office Hours with La Plata County Commissioner Julie Westendorff, 10 a.m.-noon, Pine River Library in Bayfield. Toddler Storytime, 10:30-11 a.m., Durango Public Library.

Submit “On the Town” items by Monday at noon to: calendar@durangotelegraph.com

Plaza series, 6-8 p.m., Three Springs Plaza. 764-6000.

“Living with Wolves Photographic Exhibit” opening reception, 1-4 p.m., exhibit runs thru Nov. 30, Southern Ute Museum in Ignacio. www.southernute museum.org.

“Get Smart” opening night, presented by Theater Ensemble Arts, 7:30 p.m., performance also runs Aug. 1718, 23-25, Lions Wilderness Outdoor Amphitheater in Farmington. 326-2839. squareup.com/store/theater-ensemble-arts.

Friday Night Funk Jam with Bootyconda, 6-9 p.m., Moe’s Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Open Mic & Stand-Up Comedy, 8 p.m., El Rancho Tavern, 975 Main Ave.

Open Mic Night, 7-11 p.m., Steaming Bean, 900 Main Ave. 403-1200.

Karaoke with Crazy Charlie, 8 p.m.-close, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave.

The Black Velvet Trio performs, 7-11 p.m., Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave.

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La La Bones performs, 8 p.m., Balcony Backstage, 600 Main Ave.

Rocky Mountain Race Series, Aug. 17-19, Purgatory Resort. purgatoryresort.co.

2018 SCAPE Startup Showcase and Investor Social, 3-5:30 p.m., Student Ballroom at Fort Lewis College. www.goscape.org. Drop-in Tennis, all ages welcome, 4 p.m., Durango High School courts. www.durangotennis.com. “Doc Swords,” PTSD Social Club for Veterans, 4-6 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave.

Free yoga, 8:30-9:30 a.m., Lively Boutique, 809 Main Ave.

Durango Farmers Market, featuring live music from Tim Hillwood, 8 a.m.-noon, First National Bank parking lot, 259 W. 9th St. www.durangofarmersmarket.com.

Zumba Gold, 9:30-10:15 a.m., La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

Ska-B-Q featuring live music from the Great Connection, 5-8 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.

Open Art Studio, 10 a.m., Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287.

Sitting Meditation, 5:30-6:15 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave. durangodharmacenter.org.

Lactation Support Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon, Prenatal Yoga, noon -1 p.m., Durango Café au Play, 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Room 201. 749-9607 or durangocafeauplay.org. Preschool Storytime, 10:30-11 a.m., Durango Public Library.

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The Sweetwater Station Band performs, part of Burger & a Band Series, 5-8 p.m., James Ranch Harvest Grill, 33846 HWY 550. 676-1023.

Pete Giuliani performs, 6-8 p.m., Swing Restaurant at Dalton Ranch.

Teen Game Night, 7-10 p.m., Mancos Public Library. 533-7600.

Durango Early Bird Toastmasters, 7-8:30 a.m., LPEA headquarters, 45 Stewart St. 769-7615.

Engage, Exchange, Explore: Book Walks, 9:15 a.m., meet at the Ignacio Community Library for carpool, or 9:30 a.m., meet at Little Bear Trailhead for walk back to library. 563-9287.

Farmers Market, 4-8 p.m., Three Springs Plaza.

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Chattanooga Fen Field Trip and volunteer revegetation, sponsored by Mountain Studies Institute and Colorado Native Plant Society, 8 a.m., meet at Animas City Park, 32nd Street and E. 2nd Avenue. Register at amandakuenzi@hotmail.com. Tour de Farms and Zucchini Extravaganza, hosted by the Pine River Garden Club and Pine River Library. Tour, 8 a.m.-noon; zucchini fest, noon-2 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. 884-2222 or prlibrary.org. Drop-in Tennis, all ages, 9 a.m., Durango High School courts. www.durangotennis.com. Veterans Breakfast, 9-11 a.m., Elks Club, 901 E. 2nd Ave. 946-4831. Ophir & Chattanooga Fen Plant Walk & Restoration at Ophir Pass, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Ophir4

Pass. Register at discovery@mountainstudies.org. Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Café, 601 Main Ave. 570-650-5982. VFW Indoor Flea Market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 1550 Main Ave. 247-0384. Meltdown on the Mesa, featuring Ginny Mules and more, gates open, noon, Durango Mesa Park. www.durango meltdown.com.

Kirk James performs, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Swing Restaurant at Dalton Ranch. Blue Moon Ramblers, 7 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Monday20 Yogalates, 9 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. Play days for caregivers and children, 10 a.m., also Wed., Pine River Library in Bayfield. Watch Your Step class, 10:15-11:15 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

Writers’ Workshop, 2 p.m., Ignacio Community Library.

Monday Music, for a half hour of instruments, rhythm and singing, 10:30 a.m., Durango Café au Play, 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Room 201. 749-9607 or durangocafeauplay.org.

The Black Velvet Duo performs, 5-9 p.m., Animas River Beer Garden at the Doubletree, 501 Camino del Rio.

Kirtan, 6-8 p.m., Studio 10, Smiley Building, 1309 E. 3rd Ave. The Kirk James Blues Band performs, 7 p.m., 11th Street Station, 1101 Main Ave. Comedy Cocktail open mic stand up, 8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar, 723 E. 2nd Ave. DJ Noonz, 8 p.m.-close, Moe’s, 937 Main Ave.

Sunday19 Ohana Kuleana Community Garden Open House and birthday celebration for master gardener Marye Jackson, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Ohana Kuleana Community Garden, E. 30th Street and 6th Avenue.

Legos & Wii, 2 p.m., Ignacio Library. 563-9287.

Books & Brews, hosted by Durango Public Library, 78:30 p.m., Animas Brewing Co., 1560 E. 2nd Ave. Learn to Square Dance, with Wild West Squares, 78:30 p.m., Florida Grange, 656 Hwy 172. 903-6478.

Tuesday21 Yoga for All, 9 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. Beginner Tai Chi, 9:15-10:15 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Toddler Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 4 p.m., Durango Café au Play, 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Room 201. 7499607 or durangocafeauplay.org. Zumba Gold, 9:30-10:15 a.m., La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Café, 601 Main Ave. 570-650-5982.

Ballroom Dance, 10-11 a.m., Tuesdays thru Aug. 28, Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

Pete Giuliani Band performs, part of the Wine and Shine Classic Car Show, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Wines of the San Juan in Blanco, N.M.

Storytime, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Mancos Public Library. 533-7600.

National Theatre Live Productions presents screening of “Yerma,” 1 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Ave. www.animascitytheatre.com. Adult Coloring & Afternoon Tea, 3-5 p.m., White Rabbit Books & Curiosities, 128 W. 14th St. 259-2213.

Twin Buttes Farm Stand, 3-6:30 p.m., Tuesday and Friday, Twin Buttes Farm, Highway 160. Drop-in Tennis, all ages welcome, 4 p.m., Durango High School courts. www.durangotennis.com. Rotary Club of Durango, presentation from Paula Woener of Wolfwood Refuge, 6 p.m., Strater Hotel. 3857899. Knit or Crochet with Kathy Graf, 6-7 p.m., Mancos Public Library. 533-7600.

Gentle Yoga, 1 p.m., Durango Senior Center.

Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Blondies in Cortez. Andy Sickler performs, 5:30 p.m., Digs in Three Springs.

ICL Knitters, 1-3 p.m., Ignacio Library. 563-9287. Baby Storytime, 2-2:30 p.m., Durango Public Library. Smiley Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m., each Tuesday, Smiley Building, 1309 E. 3rd Ave.

Mancos Valley Summer Brewfest, featuring live music, kids’ activities and more, 1-7 p.m., Cottonwood Park in Mancos.

Picker’s Circle, all levels, 3-5 p.m., White Rabbit Books & Curiosities, 128 W. 14th St. 259-2213.

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Pedal vs. Medal Challenge, 12 noon, Transit Center. Part of Clean Commute Week. www.durangogov.org Teen Babysitter Training, 1 p.m., event also runs Aug. 22, Forest Lakes Rec Center in Bayfield. Register at 884-2222. Tuesday Crafternoons, 1 p.m., Pine River Library in

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Adult Board Game Night, 6-7:30 p.m., Durango Public Library. 375-3380. Folk Jam, 6-8 p.m., Steaming Bean, 900 Main Ave. 4031200. DJ Crazy Charlie hosts karaoke, 6:30-10:30 p.m., Billy Goat Saloon in Gem Village. Open Mic Night, 7 p.m., Blondies in Cortez. 920-5399998. Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.-close, Moe’s Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Wednesday22 Bike to Work Day, 7-9 a.m., Animas Chocolate Co. and Mercy Medical Center. www.durangogov.org Morning Meditation, 8 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield. 884-2222. StoryTime, 10-11 a.m., Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287. Intermediate Tai Chi, 10-11 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Story Hour, hear stories about farms and ranches, 10-11 a.m., Wednesdays thru Aug. 22, James Ranch. 767-1023. Early Literacy Play Date, 10:30 a.m., Durango Library. Storytime, 11-11:30 a.m., White Rabbit Books & Curiosities, 128 W. 14th St. 259-2213.

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AskRachel Interesting fact: Studies show that workers get tipped based on their age, gender, race, hair color, and (no duh) breast size more so than the quality of their service. So next time your cheap-ass dad complains about the service, you’re free to call him out on his euphemism for the waitress’ erm, “attributes.” Dear Rachel, Is there any more blatant indicator of the inherent rottenness of the human soul than group tipping? You know what happens… you’re out to dinner with a group of folks, and the restaurant doesn’t split the tab, and so you put the whole thing on your card and everyone else gives you cash. And somehow, you end up paying a 50 percent tip just to get the overall tip up to 15 percent. Why do people suck so badly at tipping? – Tipped Off Dear Tipper Gore, Oh, people suck at tipping for all kinds of reasons. The biggest reason is that people just suck in general. The same people who will pay $8 for a cup of coffee can somehow sleep at night for giving their server a $2 tip instead of $3 because the ketchup bottle was plastic instead of glass. It’s not a tipping problem; it’s a human decency problem. I mean, come on. Who pays $8 for a cup of coffee? – Gratuity included, Rachel

Dear Rachel, Now that the fair is over, I feel safe in speaking up. Why the heck do people get so worked

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up over a bunch of livestock and carnival rides? I mean, we live in an area where you can go ice climbing and skijoring at 10,000 feet. What’s so exciting about riding a Ferris wheel up a hundred feet at slow speed? I just don’t understand the allure of the fair, and maybe you can help me understand it. – Carney Conundrum

Dear Fair Shake, I, too, stay off the county fair bandwagon. The only reason I knew it was approaching was the uptick of flies in my house. But perhaps we’re both on the wrong side of the fence here. Shouldn’t we be thrilled that, in this day of gadgetry and Instagramming from inside our homes, thousands of people get together in the out-ofdoors to enjoy posting pictures of their carnival rides in public? Think about it. – All’s fair, Rachel

Dear Rachel, People’s sense of frugality baffles me. I’ll see people (*cough* my father *cough*) fight the laws of traffic and physics to get gas across the street because it’s a penny cheaper, and then those same people will grocery shop without looking at a single price tag. What twisted childhood upbringing leads to such erratic money consciousness? – Penny Rich, Pound Poor Thank the Veterans! potluck, Peter Neds and Glenn Keefe perform, 5:30-8:30 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave.

from p. 19 Bluegrass Jam, 6-9 p.m., Steaming Bean, 900 Main Ave. “Slim Woman: Louisa Wade Wetherill of Kayenta,” free lecture, 1:30 pm, Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, Room 120. 247-7456.

Jeff Solon Jazz Duo performs, 6-9 p.m., Cyprus Café, 725 E. 2nd Ave.

Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com Dear Miss/Mister Moneypenny, What? Is this “Ask Rachel About Money” week? It’s hard to fault your *cough* father *cough* because he must know the old saw, “A penny saved on gas means you can go bananas at the grocery store.” I seriously wouldn’t worry about his (or anyone else’s) little joys in life, like getting 0.008 more gallons of gas for the same price. It’s when he takes it out on the local waitstaff that you should disown him. – Clippin’ coupons, Rachel “Living with Wolves” photographic exhibit, “Lummi Nation Bear Totem Pole” and “Riders of the West,” exhibits run thru Nov. 30, Southern Ute Museum, 503 Ouray Drive. www.southernutemuseum.org. Free one-on-one technology tutoring, Durango Library. Register at 375-3382 or durangopubliclibrary.org

Floor Barre Class, 3-4 p.m., Absolute Physical Therapy, 277 E. 8th Ave. 764-4094.

Meet the Author event featuring Woody Tasch, author of Soil: Notes Toward the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital, 6:30 p.m., Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave.

Bar D Chuckwagon, 5:30 p.m., 8080 County Road 250.

Trailwork Party on Hidden Valley Trail, 4-7 p.m., meet at Hidden Valley Trailhead in Overend Mountain Park. www.trails2000.org.

Gary Walker performs, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Jean-Pierre Restaurant & Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave.

Live music, 7 p.m., daily, The Office, 699 Main Ave.

Fundraising event for The Bhotia Foundation, a nonprofit helping in the Bhot-Khola region of northeastern Nepal, 5-6 p.m., social time followed by presentation and a talk about service in Nepal, 7:15-9:30 p.m., buffet dinner served, Himalayan Kitchen, 992 Main Ave. www.bhotiafoun dation.org.

True West Rodeo, featuring bareback, barrel racing, bull riding and more, 6:30-9 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds. www.facebook.com/TrueWestRodeo. Yoga en Español, 7:30-8:30 p.m., YogaDurango, 1140 Main Ave.

Live music, 5:30 p.m., daily, Diamond Belle, 699 Main .

Karaoke, 8 p.m., Thur-Sun, 8th Ave. Tavern, 509 E 8th.

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Meet author Woody Tasch, founder of the Slow Money movement, 11 a.m., James Ranch. Starting Your Own Business workshop, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Aug. 23, Durango Public Library. Register at 247-7009.

Karaoke, 8 p.m., Blondies in Cortez. The Lawn Chair Kings perform to benefit the La Plata Youth Services, part of the Summer Concert Series, 5-7 p.m., Rochester Hotel Secret Garden, 726 E. 2nd Ave.

Karaoke with Crazy Charlie, 8 p.m.-close, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave.

Animas City Farmer’s Market & Night Bazaar, 5-7 p.m., 2977 Main Ave.

Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 8:30 p.m., BREW Pub & Kitchen, 117 W. College Dr. 259-5959.

Meet and Greet with Sheriff Sean Smith, 5-7 p.m., Ignacio Public Library. www.seansmithforsheriff.com.

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Pete Giuliani performs, 5-9 p.m., Animas River Beer Garden at the Doubletree, 501 Camino del Rio. Edible Plants Field Seminar with Katrina Blair, sponsored by San Juan Mountains Association, 5:30 p.m., La Plata Canyon. Register at MK@sjma.org or 385-1269.

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Works by Sheila Maynard (Dan Groth’s mom), thru August, Raider Ridge Café, 509 E. 8th Ave.

“Collection,” works of Mary Ellen Long, thru Sept. 1, F.O.A.L Gallery, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. Plein Air Juried Exhibit, exhibit runs thru Sept. 1, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.durangoarts.org.

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Movies for Grown Ups featuring “All About Eve,” 4 p.m., Aug. 23, Ignacio Community Library. 563-9287. Battle of the Brands, fundraiser for Trails 2000, 5 p.m., Aug. 23, El Moro Spirits, 945 Main Ave. www.trails2000.org.

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FreeWillAstrology by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The prettier the garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener,” writes aphorist B. E. Barnes. That’ll be especially applicable to you in the coming weeks. You’ll have extra potential to create and foster beauty, and any beauty you produce will generate practical benefits for you and those you care about. But for best results, you’ll have to expend more effort than maybe you thought you should. It might feel more like work than play – even though it will ultimately enhance your ability to play. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author and theologian Thomas Merton thought that the most debilitating human temptation is to settle for too little; to live a comfortable life rather than an interesting one. I wouldn’t say that’s always true about you, Taurus. But I do suspect that in the coming weeks, a tendency to settle for less could be the single most devitalizing temptation you’ll be susceptible to. That’s why I encourage you to resist the appeal to accept a smaller blessing or punier adventure than you deserve. Hold out for the best and brightest. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I’ve learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.” So says the wise and well-educated novelist Margaret Atwood. Judging by your current astrological omens, I think this is an excellent clue for you to contemplate right now. What do you think? Have you been half-avoiding any teaching that you or someone else thinks you’re “supposed” to be learning? If so, I suggest you avoid it even stronger. Avoid it with cheerful rebelliousness. Doing so may lead you to what you really need to learn about next. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sometimes you make it difficult for me to reach you. You act like you’re listening but you’re not really listening. You semi-consciously decide that you don’t want to be influenced by anyone except yourself. When you lock me out like that, I become a bit dumb. My advice isn’t as good or helpful. The magic between us languishes. Please don’t do that to me now. And don’t do it to anyone who cares about you. I realize that you may need to protect yourself from people who aren’t sufficiently careful with you. But your true allies have important influences to offer, and I think you’ll be wise to open yourself to them. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant,” wrote French author Honoré de Balzac. I

think that’s an exaggeration, but it does trigger a worthwhile meditation. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to raise your appreciation of elegance, understand how it could beautify your soul and add more of it to your repertoire. So here are your homework meditations: What does elegance mean to you? Why might it be valuable to cultivate elegance, not just to enhance your self-presentation, but also to upgrade your relationship with your deep self? (P.S.: Fashion designer Christian Dior said, “Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity.”) VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of us imagine medieval Europe to have been drab and dreary. But historian Jacques Le Goff tells us that the people of that age adored luminous hues: “big jewels inserted into book-bindings, glowing gold objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches, and the colored magic of stained glass.” Maybe you’ll be inspired by this revelation, Virgo. I hope so. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you can activate sleeping wisdom and awaken dormant energy by treating your eyes to lots of vivid reds, greens, yellows, blues, browns, oranges, purples, golds, blacks, coppers and pinks. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An astrologer on Tumblr named Sebastian says this about your sign: “Libras can be boring people when they don’t trust you enough to fully reveal themselves. But they can be just as exciting as any fire sign and just as weird as any Aquarius and just as talkative as a Gemini and just as empathetic as a Pisces. Really, Librans are some of the most eccentric people you’ll ever meet, but you might not know it unless they trust you enough to take their masks off around you.” Spurred by Sebastian’s analysis, here’s my advice to you: I hope you’ll spend a lot of time with people you trust in the coming weeks, because for the sake of your mental and physical and spiritual health, you’ll need to express your full eccentricity. (Sebastian’s at http://venuspapi.tumblr.com.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A blogger who calls herself Wistful Giselle has named the phenomena that make her “believe in magic.” They include the following: “illuminated dust in the air; the moments when a seedling sprouts; the intelligence gazing back at me from a crow’s eyes; being awaken by the early morning sun; the energy of storms; old buildings overgrown with plants; the ever-changing grey green blue moods of the sea; the shimmering moon on a cool, clear night.” I invite you to compile your own list, Scorpio. You’re entering a time when you will be the beneficiary of magic

in direct proportion to how much you believe in and are alert for magic. Why not go for the maximum? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Since 1969, 8-foot 2-inch tall Big Bird has been the star of the kids’ TV show “Sesame Street.” He’s a yellow bird puppet who can talk, write poetry, dance and roller skate. In the early years of the show, our hero had a good friend who no one else saw or believed in: Mr. Snuffleupagus. After 17 years, there came a happy day when everyone else in the Sesame Street neighborhood realized that Snuffy was indeed real, not just a figment of Big Bird’s imagination. I’m foreseeing a comparable event in your life sometime soon, Sagittarius. You’ll finally be able to share a secret truth or private pleasure or unappreciated asset. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Activist and author Simone de Beauvoir was one of those Capricorns whose lust for life was both lush and intricate. “I am awfully greedy,” she wrote. “I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish.” Even if your longings are not always as lavish and ravenous as hers, Capricorn, you now have license to explore the mysterious state she described. I dare you to find out how voracious you can be if you grant yourself permission. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my reading of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to vividly express your appreciation for and understanding of the people you care about most. I urge you to show them why you love them. Reveal the depths of your insights about their true beauty. Make it clear how their presence in your life has had a beneficent or healing influence on you. And if you really want to get dramatic, you could take them to an inspiring outdoor spot and sing them a tender song or two. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, Piscean knitter Kyoko Mori writes, “The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil spirit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches.” The idea is that the mistake “is a crack left open to let in the light.” Mori goes on to testify about the evil spirit she wants to be free of. “It’s that little voice in my head that says, ‘I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.’” I’ve quoted Mori at length, Pisces, because I think her insights are the exact tonic you need right now.

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Deadline for Telegraph classified ads is Tuesday at noon. Ads are a bargain at 10 cents a character with a $5 minimum. Even better, ads can now be placed online: durangotelegraph.com. Prepayment is required via cash, credit card or check. (Sorry, no refunds or substitutions.)

Ads can be submitted via: n classifieds@durango telegraph.com n 970-259-0133 n 777 Main Ave., #214 Approximate office hours: Mon., 9ish - 5ish Tues., 9ish - 5ish Wed., 9ish - 3ish Thurs., On delivery Fri., 10:30ish - 2ish please call ahead: 259-0133.

Lost/Found Lost Smartphone Lost Samsung S6 in white case. Last seen at Skyline trailhead. Please call 970880-0808.

Announcements Low Price on Storage! Inside/outside near Durango, RJ Mini Storage. 970-259-3494. ReCycle. ReUse. ReLove. Clementine Design Studio and Vintage Finds @ The Warehouse District. 2413 E. Empire Street. Cortez. Open - Fridays & Saturdays. 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. One year anniversary sale! 8/3 - 10/01 The Perfect Gift for your favorite dirtbag. Literature from Durango’s own Benighted Publications. The Climbing Zine, The Great American Dirtbags, American Climber, Climbing Out of Bed and Graduating From College Me are available at: Maria’s Bookshop, Pine Needle Mountaineering, the Sky Store, or on the interweb at www.climbingzine.com.

Pets Love Your Dog! At the Durango Dog Wash behind Liquor World in the Albertson’s parking lot. Open every day!

Wanted Office Share Looking for right person to share counseling office. Multiple days avail. 759-6392.

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Turn Vehicles, Copper, Alum, Etc. Into Cash! at RJ Metal Recycle, also free appliance and other metal drop off. 970-259-3494.

Hawaiian Hula Dance Classes Beginner series Monday nights start Sept 10. $60 pre-registration required. anandafoleystudio.com

vents. Improves indoor air quality; reduces dust and allergens, energy bills and fire risk. 970-247-2462 www.advanced ductcleaninginc.com

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Hope Yoga Studio: Age Gracefully and Live Vibrantly Dr Keneen Hope McNiven D.C. New Tues and Thurs, all-levels welcome, noontime yoga classes resume. Uplifting and alignment based Anusara Certified Yoga Classes. Punch passes available. Smiley Studio 10. Pre-register at www.hopechi royoga.com or 970-305-3239.

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Experienced Prep/Line Cook Looking for responsible individual with excellent knife skills for full-time position at BREW Pub & Kitchen. Must be clean and reliable. Email resume to brewpubkitchen@gmail.com Axiom Cycling Studio Instructors wanted! Come join our team. Experience required. Inquire at julie@axiomcyclingstudio.com Maintenance Technician Open interview/tour at DeNier Youth Services, Tuesdays 10:00 am or 5:30 pm, Thursdays 3:00 pm or 5:30 pm. Must be 21 yo and pass drug/background tests incl THC. Email resume Kimberly.Todd@ROP.com or apply at 720 Turner Dr, Durango. Barber Needed For At-Risk Youth Open interview/tour at DeNier Youth Services, Tuesdays 10:00 am or 5:30 pm, Thursdays 3:00 pm or 5:30 pm. Must be 21 yo and pass drug/background tests incl THC. Email resume Peggy.McMahan@ROP.com or apply at 720 Turner Dr, Durango. $1000 Sign-On Bonus Interested in psych, human services or corrections careers? Work with at-risk students in a secure detention facility. - Coach counselor (FT/PT days/nights). Open interview/tour at DeNier Youth Services, Tuesdays 10:00 am, Thursdays 3:00 pm or 5:30 pm. Must be 21 yo and pass drug/background tests incl THC. Email resume Karen.Doyle@ROP.com or apply at 720 Turner Dr, Durango.

Classes/Workshops Free Talks with Dr. Melaney Monthly insight series on first Wed. of each month at R Space. drmelaney.com, 970-382-1188.

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Parenting Workshop “Finding Calm in the Chaos” is a 3 hour workshop that will provide parents skills that can be used immediately to put an end to arguing, back talk and whining. This interactive workshop is grounded in the skills of Love & Logic plus Dr. Doug Miller’s 16 years of professional and personal experience. Thursday, August 30th 5:30pm - 8:30pm. Summit Psychology 270 E. 8th Avenue, Suite 206. $95/person; $170/couple. To register call 970/382-2680 or email dougmillergroup@gmail.com Hope Chiropractic and Yoga Presents: Help heal your hurting shoulders: 5 things you need to know. Sat Aug 25th. 9-12 Smiley Studio 10. Pre-register. Class size limited to 10. Early bird by 8/18, $55; $65 thereafter. 416 Fire partial scholarships available. Dr Keneen Hope DC. 970305-3239 www.hopechiroyoga.com

Insight Cranial Sacral Therapy Quiet, relaxing, deep. Don 970-7698389. Massage by Meg Bush, LMT 30, 60 & 90 min. 970-759-0199. massageintervention.life 25 years experience. Couples, sauna, cupping. Reviews on FB + Yelp. 970-9032984. Massage with Kathryn 20+ years experience offering a fusion of esalen style, deep tissue massage with therapeutic stretching & Acutonics. New clients receive $5 off first session. To schedule appt. call 970-201-3373.

RealEstate Radon Services Free radon testing and consultation. Call Colorado Radon Abatement and Detection for details. 970- 946-1618.

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Mommy and Me Dance Class Come join the fun! Now registering for classes. Call 970-749-6456. mom myandmedance.com.

Services Piano Lessons w/ fun, expert teacher. Any level or age. Lawrence Nass 769-0889. Harmony Organizing and Cleaning Services Home and office 970-403-6192. Spray Tans! Organic and Beautiful! Meg Bush, LMT 970-759-0199. Advanced Duct Cleaning Air duct cleaning specializing in dryer

1981 Honda Cub Motorscooter Sweet vintage ride, fully refurbished by local mechanic. Only about 6,000 miles, 70 cc, manual, new tires and battery. It runs – just not currently. Needs small-engine jedi to get her up and on the road again. $1,300 OBO. 970-749-2595. Hot Tub – New 6HP pump, 50 jets. Cost $8,000. Sell $3,650. 505-270-3104. Tristan’s Stained Glass Specializing in custom orders, repairs. Sheet glass and art glass supplies. 970403-2011.

2014 Kawasaki KLR 650 2014 Kawasaki KLR 650 “New Edition.” New tires and chain. Comes with hard saddle bags, tank bag, and bar bag. Very well maintained. Text 720.938.1375

to rent nice sized bedroom suite with private luxury bath/deck No pets. River views. Convenient Trolly access. For pictures & contact info: https://westslope.craigslist.org/roo/ 6637639922.html or 759-4699

Durango Townhome for Sale! Beautifully updated & 1.5 miles from downtown! 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2-car tandem garage and lots of storage! $345k. Call Brittany McCoy, Re/Max for a showing! 970-946-3238

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Free Lake Nighthorse Annual Pass with purchase of any Colorado paddle board package! Available at Durango Outdoor Exchange. Expires 08/31/18 Reruns Home Furnishings Back-to-school – nice variety of desks, chairs, lamps and rugs. 1950s table and chairs, dishes; kitchen items; bedding; tapestries and more! Unique treasures arriving daily. 572 E. 6th Ave. 385-7336.

RoomateWanted Male Only 2 BR avail. Share great in-town home. Clean, responsible, quiet. No smkr, pets, partiers. $550 incl. util., plus dep. 970-7590551. 1 Bedroom Suite in 3 Bdrm Townhome Looking for a mature, responsible person

Furn’d Dwtn Vic 3/1+1/2 Av 9/1-5/31 $1550+util’s. No P/S. 382-0134.

CommunityService Free Park Entrance to Active Duty Military, Veterans Colorado Parks and Wildlife salutes all active-duty military and veterans by offering free entrance to all 41 Colorado state parks during August. Eligible veterans may pick up their hangtag and pass beginning Aug. 1. Proof of service must be presented at any CPW office or state park. If you are already in the CPW system as a military member or veteran, no further proof is necessary. Visit cpw.state.co.us for more info.

and live local music all weekend on two stages. For more info contact Volunteer Coordinator Doug Gonzalez at 970- 259-2606, ext. 13; or sign up at https://signup. com/client/invitation2/secure/2390154/fals e#/invitation. Durango Public Library Seeking Businesses for Card Discount Program Each September, the library partners with local businesses to celebrate National Library Card Sign-Up Month. The discount program promotes shopping locally as well as encourages people to sign up for library cards. To participate, local businesses offer discounts and incentives for customers who show their library card when visiting their location. In turn, businesses receive free advertising as well as more local community members discovering what they have to offer. The Durango Public Library has over 30,000 active card users. Free to participate. Contact Daisy Grice at 970-375-3387 or daisy.grice@ durangogov.org for info.

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Volunteers Needed for Durango Autumn Arts Festival As the Durango Arts Center’s most significant fund- and “friend-raising” event, the annual Durango Autumn Arts Festival benefits from the skills, generosity and enthusiasm of over 100 volunteers each year. The festival features over 90 incredible artists and craftspeople from our region and across the country, local food vendors

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Stephen Ministry Program Open to Help People in Our Community The First United Methodist Church of Durango has an active Stephen Ministry program which offers one-to-one care for individuals experiencing a crisis like losing a job, losing a loved one, divorce or terminal illness. Stephen Ministers are available to all members of our community. Please note: Stephen Ministry is not mental health counseling. If you know someone who is having a tough time, please ask them to call Stephen Leader, Cathy Schadt, at 970- 259-9293.

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Drinking&DiningGuide Himalayan Kitchen 992 Main Ave., 970-259-0956 www.himkitchen.com Bringing you a taste of Nepal, Tibet & India. Try our all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. The dinner menu offers a variety of tempting choices, including yak, lamb, chicken, beef & seafood; extensive veggies; freshly baked bread. Full bar. Get your lunch punch card – 10th lunch free. Hours: Lunch, 11am-2:30 pm & dinner, Sun. - Thurs., 5-9:30 p.m., Fri. & Sat. ‘til 10 p.m. Closed 2:30 to 5 daily $$ Crossroads Coffee 1099 Main Ave., 970-903-9051 Crossroads coffee proudly serves locally roasted Fahrenheit coffee and delicious baked goods. Menu includes gluten-free items along with bullet-proof coffee, or bullet-proof chai! Come in for friendly service and the perfect buzz! Hours: Mon.- Fri., 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. $

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BREW Pub & Kitchen 117 W. College Drive, 970-259-5959 www.brewpubkitchen.com Experience Durango’s award-winning brewery & restaurant featuring unique, hand-crafted beers, delicious food - made from scratch, and wonderful wines & cocktails. Happy Hour, Mon.- Fri. 3-6 pm & all day Sunday with $2 off beer, $1 off wines & wells & 25% off appetizers. Watch the sunset behind Smelter Mountain. Hours: Sun.-Thurs.11 a.m. - 9p.m., & Fri. & Sat.11 a.m. to 10 p.m. $$

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