The Durango Telegraph, June 1, 2023

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Farmington grapples with post-coal energy future

Wheel deal Party in the pines

The quest to get butts out of cars and into the saddle

Grab your dancing Chacos, festival season is here

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Farmington grapples with energy future amid closing of coal plants by David Marston / Writers on the Range

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Bike Durango’s mission is to get butts out of drivers seats and into saddles

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“My dad just called me all stressed out because the computer he’s had for years doesn’t have a CD burner.”

– Wait, why does a dad need a CD burner in 2023?

Fasten loose objects

Earlier this week, when weather predictions were calling for a heat wave in Southwest Colorado, it appeared this weekend’s Animas River Days was going to be spicy.

But alas, the “back-door monsoons” have returned, along with cool temperatures, which should keep the Animas River at bay (though flows are still expected to be in the 4,000 cfs range, a formidable level that should be taken seriously).

“We were pretty happy to see that cool weather move in,” Ashleigh Tucker, an organizer of Animas River Days, said. “It’ll still be high water, but it won’t be massive.”

Animas River Days kicks off Saturday, with a full day of canoe/kayak/raft slaloms, SUP races, boatercross and surfing competitions (lineup at animasriverdays.com). There will also be a beer garden and food options. And of course, starting at 4:30 p.m., the infamous River Parade.

Speaking of which – is it just us, or has there been a lot more carnage on the Animas this year? Whether it’s all the new boaters experiencing high water for the first time, or perhaps just more people posting to social media, it sure seems like it’s always a scene down at the Whitewater Park.

Tucker added that a lot of the carnage could be due to the fact this is only the second or third time we’ve seen true high water since the City of Durango altered the top section of the Whitewater Park a few years ago.

The city’s alterations essentially created a series of drops river runners must navigate before the rapids at the Whitewater Park (it’s a long story, but the alterations were necessary to direct more water into the City’s water intake above Smelter). However, the new drops can flip unwary boaters, leading to long and cold swims through the Whitewater Park.

“I think those top drops are causing a lot of problems, which is causing more carnage,” Tucker said.

It’ll at least make for interesting viewing Saturday.

As for Sunday’s entertainment, Tucker said organizers added more events, including bringing back the wild water kayak race, which is a classic event from early years of river days. And yes, the beer garden will be at the ready with breakfast beers and cocktails. Tucker said the event is also looking for more volunteers.

Happy (and safe) riverin’.

I’m not here to make friends

A topic of concern lately has been the growing use of social media among teens. A 2021 study published by Common Sense Media reported that on average, teens spent about 8½ hours per day on screen, with social media taking up a large chunk of that time.

Researchers were shocked by these findings. If you’re someone who happens to have been in the presence of a young person at any point in your life, your reaction might have looked something more like this: duh.

Teens and social media are as inseparable as the Kardashians and American culture. Sure, it’s toxic and probably rotting away some vital part of your brain, but you have to keep up, right?

To be clear, I don’t have a god complex, nor do I view myself as someone who’s beyond the allure of social media. In fact, I had to delete Instagram from my phone and relocate it to my iPad because I was spending way too much time hate-watching strangers’ GRWM videos. If you know, you know.

People love to disparage the digital natives for having “screens glued to their faces,” and as the data shows, this might be true. But in my opinion, there’s one generation whose social media use has gone unexamined for far too long. Baby Boomers.

Unlike Gen Z, for whom an online presence is almost synonymous with existence, Boomers grew up in a blessed time before blogs, vlogs and body dysmorphia-inducing filters. They have memories of the “good old days,” back when seatbelts were communism, you walked uphill to school both ways, and if you wanted to block someone, you just didn’t pick up the phone. I have friends in their late 20s who’ve bought clamshell phones just to chase the high of that kind of freedom, so the Boomer fascination with social media is endlessly interesting to me.

Technically speaking, I’m part of the digital natives because I was born after 1980 and have been surrounded by computers, digital devices and social media for most of my life. As part of the later Millennials, I grew up during a transitional period when we still spent our summer days exiled outside until the street lights came on, then logged onto Facebook in the evening to “poke” our crushes into oblivion before a light game of FarmVille. Thankfully, very few relics of my embarrassing teen years were immortalized online.

For people between the ages of 59 and 77, though, cringe-worthy posts are

Thumbin’It

The City of Durango offering free bus service until Aug. 31 in an attempt to reduce cars on the road and curb carbon emissions.

The Environmental Protection Agency awarding Silverton $800,000 for environmental cleanup projects as part of the 2015 Gold King Mine settlement.

Gov. Jared Polis proposing a wager with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to move Disney World to Colorado if the Nuggets beat the Miami Heat. Just what Colorado needs, another fantasy land!

the norm, a daily ritual that mostly takes place on Facebook. By contrast, a Pew Research Center survey found that TikTok and Instagram dominate the social media landscape for today’s teens (which would probably explain why I was laughed out of the classroom when I suggested my students make Facebook Messenger groups for their team projects). Pro tip: if you ever think to yourself “Hey, I’m still pretty cool and young” and want to be immediately disillusioned of that belief, spend 50 minutes with a group of 18-year-olds. Apparently, Facebook is now for dinosaurs. It’s also the place where your great-aunt will share an outdated GIF with a caption like “kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give,” as if she didn’t just post some of the most unhinged things you’ve ever seen another human being say online.

If you need examples, the perfect microcosm of Boomer behavior on social media exists on my neighborhood’s Facebook page. It’s a lawless land, filled with name-calling, questions that could have easily been Googled, and the ultimate Boomer move: correcting people’s grammar and spelling. (Bonus points if the correction is actually incorrect.)

I’ve been a bystander to some truly gripping interactions on this page. Personal favorites include the grandpa who kept referring to his next-door neighbor as “James Jerk” for an entire thread like they were two kids on a playground. And of course, who could forget the time two older dudes got into an argument and one of them used local tax records to find the offending party’s address, showed up outside their house, posted pictures of their driveway, and then demanded in a public forum that the individual come outside to fight them like it was a modern-day retelling of Troy? Classic.

In all honesty, I’m kind of jealous of Boomers for the way they communicate online, completely devoid of any filters. Thought your niece’s wedding dress made her look fat? Let her know in the comments. Do you have strong feelings about the Bud Light controversy? Go ahead and fire out those thoughts at six in the morning since you’re already awake anyway. Have you decided there are just too many genders to keep track of nowadays? Tell it like it is.

Unlike the rest of us, Boomers don’t use social media out of a desire to be liked. They’re not online to make friends and they’re certainly not anxiously curating the best versions of themselves for the digital world to consume. These folks are baring the unflinchingly honest reality of their souls, unnecessary commas and all, and for that, I admire you.

– Addyson Santese

SignoftheDownfall:

The tragic death of longtime La Plata County resident Russell Hill after falling while crossing a river in La Plata Canyon.

CPR reporting Amazon delivery drivers had to pee in bottles and poop in bags to keep their jobs, ways of relieving oneself that are only acceptable while on a self-support river trip.

Technology experts warning that artificial intelligence could become more powerful and smarter than humans, leading to our extinction. Didn’t we do this already in Will Smith’s “I, Robot?”

Vamp Sire

Multimillionaire Bryan Johnson, who once owned Venmo and spends $2M annually on “de-aging” treatments, recently paid a clinic in Texas to give him injections of his own teenaged son’s blood. It’s all part of “Project Blueprint,” as Johnson named it, and in short, he took nearly 1/5th of his son’s blood, turned it into plasma, shared some with 70-year-old grandpa just to kick the creepy up a notch, and then celebrated with an uberinappropriate photoshoot for Instagram wherein the whole family is hugging and wearing wet tank tops. So, this Father’s Day, if your dad already has everything…

In need of a jolt

Farmington grapples with post coal-fueled future

by Dave Marston

The good news these days about Farmington is that the air looks clear. That’s a huge change.

For 60 years, the air was dingy, polluted by two enormous coal-fired power stations in nine units that produced 3,723 megawatts – enough to power 2 million homes. Now, just 1,540 megawatts remain in two units equipped with modern, air-pollution control systems.

Starting in the 1960s, the town’s giant smokestacks could be seen from miles away, and their dangerous emissions helped add the designation of “national sacrifice zone” to the Four Corners. Pollutants included “beryllium compounds, chromium compounds, cobalt and five other carcinogens,” reports ProPublica

But these days, you might describe Farmington, population 46,422, as an attractive river town where “you can see mountains 100 miles away,” Mike Eisenfeld, energy and climate program manager of the San Juan Citizens Alliance, said.

Farmington is becoming known for its recreation, ranging from nearby national parks and monuments to river walks and mountain biking.

“Jolt Your Journey!” is how the town promotes itself to visitors. A cultural battle, though, is being fought over what replaces coal as the city’s power supply.

Given the town’s near-constant sunshine and underused grid tie-ins to Sunbelt cities, solar might seem the obvious replacement. However, the people with clout in town – Mayor Nate Duckett, City Manager Rob Mayes and the nonprofit

Farmington Electrical Utility – yearn for the good old days of fossil fuels.

Power from the now-closed San Juan Generating Station was cheap, says Duckett, who enjoys broad support, having won his seat with 86% of the vote in his last election in 2018. “It was also homegrown,” he adds, “and there were good jobs.”

To keep its coal plant open, Farmington chased a carbon capture scheme even though the technology’s history is one of failure. All 11 of President Obama’s carbon capture projects have either gone belly up or were never built. A Mississippi coal project alone cost $7.5 billion, leaving only mountains of scrap.

Farmington’s failed carbon-capture scheme cost millions of dollars in legal fees and precious time. Without powerpurchase contracts, Farmington Electric

had no steady electrical supplier when its coal-fired electricity was switched off. The local utility burned through a good portion of $100 million in reserves buying gas and electricity on the open market.

To rebuild a financial cushion, the utility raised rates in April. This angered residents, though resentment had been simmering for years. Everyone knew coal was nearing its end, yet no plans had been made for a replacement.

Aztec, a town of 6,163, was once a customer of Farmington Electric, but it rebelled. It now buys carbon-free electricity from Guzman Energy, a Denver-based wholesaler that serves smaller towns and rural communities, including Taos. Neighboring Bloomfield, population 7,371, says it also wants to partner with Guzman. Meanwhile, solar development has been

flourishing around Farmington, with 1,300 megawatts of utility-scale generation either planned or under construction.

Farmington could easily get into the action, because it can self-permit. It also owns valuable grid tie-ins through its substations. In fairness, it has vague plans for a solar array, but an inefficient, gas-powered plant is what’s in the works to augment a big gas plant they already own.

Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, which gave a boost to nonprofit utilities like Farmington Electric, there’s federal money available to help build solar arrays. The Act allows a utility to build and sell renewable electricity while also raking in generous government incentives. Farmington’s need is pressing, as both New Mexico and the region aren’t producing enough homegrown energy.

All of the financial support right now for developing solar power adds to the frustration of area conservationists.

Mark Pearson, executive director of the San Juan Citizens Alliance, says, “Farmington … wants to export chemicals manufactured from natural gas. But they have the means to export a finished product – electricity made from the sun.”

The Alliance’s Eisenfeld thinks a tipping point is approaching. “You need the philosophical buy-in that the transition from coal is upon us,” he says. “Then it all happens quickly.”

But for now, the good ole boys are still in charge.

Dave Marston is the publisher of Writers on the Range,  writersontherange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He lives in Durango. ■

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The now-closed San Juan Generating Station./ Courtesy photo

Where rubber meets road

Bike Durango wants to get more people out of the driver’s seat and into the saddle

by Missy Votel

Don’t know the difference between a top tube and an innertube, a seat and a saddle, or an Idaho stop and an Idaho spud? Not to worry. Bike Durango, a newish organization in town, is here to demystify all the bikespeak in an effort to get more people in the saddle (or the seat, which, as it turns out, is the same thing) and out of their cars.

“I created Bike Durango a couple years ago to promote, educate, advocate and inspire folks to commute by bike more and drive their cars less,” Bike Durango’s big cog Jennaye Derge said.

Derge, who moved to Durango from the Front Range to attend Fort Lewis College in 2006, said she has been getting around town by bike for almost as long. One could say she was scared into it after taking a class called “End of Oil” taught by the late, great Professor Dennis Lum at FLC.

“Dr. Lum was this really fiery professor of sociology who would throw chairs and curse about the end of cheap oil,” Derge recalled. Well, the antics worked, and from that class forward, Derge vowed to be one less car on the road to climate disaster (at least as reasonably as possible; a girl’s gotta get to the ski hill once in a while.)

“I went straight to the Cyclery and bought a cheap Jamis,” she said of her first steed, which unfortunately was stolen (a story for another day.) “I started commuting everywhere, and soon after, I started mountain biking and bike touring and doing all these bike things.” (As an aside, Derge even wrote a book of essays about biking called “How to Cry While Riding Your Bicycle.”)

Still, Derge said in a town of bicycle superheroes, she never really felt secure in referring to herself as a cyclist. “I ride my bike every single day and spend all my free time on my mountain bike, but I felt uncomfortable calling myself a cyclist,” she said. “There’s something wrong with that.”

She said from there, the seeds for Bike Durango were planted. However, they didn’t start to sprout until about 2020 when a friend reached out with a very solvable bike problem.

“She wanted to start bike commuting but didn’t know how to move her seat up and down and was too nervous to go into a bike shop,” Derge said.

So, Derge went over to her friend’s house and showed her not only how to adjust her seat to her height but also how to lube her chain and fix her brakes. And that’s when the wheels really started to turn.

“I said, ‘OK, something needs to happen where people can feel confident finding resources to learn about these things and feel inspired to commute,” she said. “If moving a seat is keeping someone from riding to work, it’s such a simple fix.”

And with that, Bike Durango was off and, uh, rolling. Derge set up a website (www.bikedurango.org), began DIY-publishing a semi-regular ’zine on her laser jet and started setting up a booth at any and all bike commuting-related events. She said the mission of Bike Durango is threefold: to advocate, educate and inspire.

In the advocacy department, Derge has made it her (unpaid) job to attend all those snoozy city meetings to be the oftlone voice advocating for bicycle commuters. “One day, there was all this gravel in the road, and it was really dangerous, so I emailed the city,” she said. “That’s when I realized there wasn’t anyone say-

ing, ‘Hey, we need to be cleaning up the streets and shoulders to make it safer for cyclists.’”

From there, she began attending all of the city’s multimodal budget meetings to speak up for cyclists and their needs. She has also taken part in the city’s downtown and midtown planning meetings, where she and a few others are often the only voice for bikes in a car-centric world.

“It’s been really frustrating; cyclists are really underrepresented,” she said. “Everyone else is just worried about parking.”

In fact, after one recent meeting, she left in such despair that she sent out a rallying cry to the bike community to start

Jennaye Derge, founder of Bike Durango, on one of her many bicycles. The organization works to advocate for bicycle commuters, educate riders on the rules of the road and inspire would-be commuters to give it a try./ Courtesy photo

showing up. And, she said, word got out. “I went to a city meeting last week at the library, and the bike rack was full,” she said. “I could tell more cyclists were showing up.”

And speaking of more cyclists, we can all agree that recently, there has been an influx of bikes, particularly e-bikes, on the road. This is where Bike Durango’s second tenet of education comes in, Derge said.

“There are more people on bikes, which is good,” she said. “But I also see more and more people blowing through stop signs.”

tenet: inspiration. In order to share the spoke, er stoke, Bike Durango will host its second annual “Filmed by Bike” film festival on Fri., June 9, at the FLC Community Concert Hall. Films start rolling at 6 p.m. and include 89 minutes of short films (I suppose you could call them “bike shorts,” but that might be confusing.) curated by the Portland-based Filmed by Bike nonprofit. The event is also a fundraiser for Bike Durango to continue spreading the bike-commuting gospel.

JusttheFacts

What: “Filmed by Bike,” bicycle film fest and rundraiser for Bike Durango

Yes, Colorado did just pass a law legalizing the so-called “Idaho stop,” whereby bikers can yield instead of coming to a full stop at a stop sign, if no cars are present. However, this is not carte blanche to blatantly ignore traffic signs willy-nilly. For starters (and we shouldn’t have to tell you this), it’s dangerous. “If a bike gets hit by a car, the bike will lose,” Derge said. Not to mention, it makes the rest of us law-abiding cyclists look bad. “It just perpetuates the car vs. cyclists war and increases tensions,” she said.

When: Fri., June 9, 6-8 p.m.; group ride to film fest leaves Second Ave. Sports at 5 p.m.

Where: FLC Community Concert Hall

For info.: www.bikedurango.org

“All the films are really good and meant to be approachable, inspirational and feel-good,” Derge said. “The whole point of the film fest – and Bike Durango – is to make cycling more inclusive.”

To that end, there will be a group bike ride starting at 5 p.m. at Second Ave. Sports to the Concert Hall. And for those who may be daunted by the thought of riding up Goeglein Gulch (present company included), Derge said the Trolley will also be running, and she is working with The Hive to have the Buzz Bus available for rides after the event.

So, if you don’t want to be that guy, Derge is in the process of posting Colorado’s cycling laws on her website, in laypeople’s terms. However, she admits it is still a work in progress, because Derge is working unpaid during her free time and in between bike rides.

Which brings us, in a roundabout way, to the third

“It sort of defeats the purpose of having a bike film fest, and everyone drives,” she noted.

And that is something Professor Lum, rest his soul, would wholeheartedly agree with.

For more on Bike Durango or to buy tickets to the “Filmed by Bike” film fest, go to www.bikedurango.org.

Cyclists wait for the light at the Camino del Rio and 9th Street intersection during a Bike Durango En Masse bike ride from the Visit Durango office to Ska in October 2022./ Courtesy photo

Let the festing begin

Pagosa Folk N’ Bluegrass kicks off festival season in SWCO

by Telegraph Staff

It’s time to grab your camp chair and dancing Chacos. Festival season in Southwest Colorado hits the ground running June 9-11 as the Pagosa Folk N’ Bluegrass returns for its 16th year on Reservoir Hill in Pagosa Springs. Sixteen acts in the bluegrass, folk, R&B and Native American genres will perform over the course of the weekend, including several that have received multiple International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) awards.

“We are excited to welcome back festivarians to Reservoir Hill for our June bluegrass and folk festival,” Tami Graham, Executive Director of KSUT, which puts on the festival, said. “The lineup reflects both the festival’s long history and our diverse on-air programming.”

Headliners for this year’s festival include Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, Sister Sadie, Becky Buller and the Larry Keel Experience. The lineup also includes old favorites like FY5 alongside up-and-coming artists like Caleb Caudle, Full Cord and Sihasin, an acclaimed Diné duo with punk rock roots that appeared at last summer’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The Flagstaff-based group incorporates traditional Diné healing and hoop dancing into their rhythm-heavy, drums-and-bass music.

of the Year awards from 2019-21 – no small feat in a genre dominated by male pickers and singers. The five women that make up the group – original members Deanie Richardson (fiddle) and Gina Britt (banjo & vocals) and newcomers Jaelee Roberts (guitar & vocals), Dani Flowers (guitar & vocals) and Maddie Dalton (upright bass & vocals) – have played the Grand Ole Opry, been featured in an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and continue to rack up awards, both as a group and individually.

“We are proud of our roots as one of the nation’s oldest tribal radio stations, and we’re committed to presenting award-winning indigenous performers in a variety of genres,” KSUT Development and Music Director Chris Aaland said.

• Ickes is a 15-time IBMA Dobro Player of the Year from the Bay Area who co-founded the highly influential bluegrass group Blue Highway. And Hensley, one of Nashville’s most sought-after session musicians, he has been called “Nashville’s hottest young player” by Acoustic Guitar magazine. As a duo, Ickes and Hensley have released four albums that weave bluegrass, country, blues and rock & roll. Their latest album, “Living in a Song,” has charted highly in national bluegrass, Americana and alternative country music polls.

• Sister Sadie won three straight IBMA Vocal Group

• Becky Buller is a 10time IBMA award recipient for her fiddle playing, singing and songwriting. In addition to her own award-winning albums, her songs have won Grammys for the Infamous Stringdusters and the Travelin’ McCourys. When not touring with the Becky Buller Band, she serves as a board member on IBMA and is heavily involved in music education.

• The Larry Keel Experience is led by its namesake, who is widely regarded as one of the most innovative flat pickers in the world. He has collaborating with musical innovators such as Tyler Childers, Billy Strings, Al DiMeola, Keller Williams, Sam Bush and the late Tony

Rice. Keel has appeared on over 20 albums, 12 of which he produced. Alongside his wife, bassist Jenny Keel, and longtime mandolin player Jared Pool, the Experience is one of the most popular bands on the jam-grass circuit. Other artists who will appear at Pagosa Folk N’ Bluegrass include Fireside Collective, Henhouse Prowlers, Stillhouse Junkies, Armchair Boogie, Full Cord, Phoebe Hunt, Leon Timbo, Sihasin, Caleb Caudle, FY5, The Bonnie & Taylor Sims Band (formerly known as Bonnie & The Clydes), and the Stone-Hall Trio.

Other festival happenings include a late-night stage, workshops, children’s tent, campground picks, food and craft vendors, and a beer garden featuring Breckenridge and Riff Raff beers and Talbott’s ciders and wines. As has become tradition, Saturday and Sunday mornings will kick off with Bubbles & Bluegrass, which pairs acoustic performances by FY5 (Saturday) and Bonnie & Taylor Sims (Sunday) with complimentary beverages in the Breckenridge beer garden.

Single-day, weekend and patron passes are on sale at www.ksutpresents.org, as are camping passes and a limited number of vehicle passes. ■

Reservoir Hill will be alive with the sound of music June 9-11./ Courtesy photo

Sihasin

Trey Hensley, left, and Rob Ickes

The dandelion challenge

by Ari LeVaux

Imake a point to eat a dandelion every day. The whole plant is edible, from the sunny top to the deep taproot, and all the stem, stalk and leaf in between. And there are ways to eat it that won’t contort your face with bitterness, but rather turn your frown upside down, inside out, round and round. Yes, dandelions can taste good and be part of a delicious meal. They’re one of the most all-around healthy foods you can eat, rich in vitamins, fiber and many other nutrients.

The sunny flowers, fried in butter, oil or bacon, taste like extra floral artichokes. The buds have a meaty chewiness and are slightly sweet, with a sunny floral taste that’s a lot like a dandelion flower smells. Like summer.

The hollow flower stalks make great cocktail straws, bitters included. The roots can be roasted until chewy, crunchy or browned like coffee. The leaves are most of the plant. Raw and cooked, I have found ways to get hooked.

Native to northern Europe, dandelions specialize in colonizing disturbed areas, which humans specialize in creating. They have followed humans and their disturbances around the world, colonizing every continent except Antarctica. And while often labeled as weeds, they don’t hang out where they don’t belong.

In this little old-growth forest near my house, where most of the plants and animals living there or passing through are native species and the ecosystem is roughly intact, there are no dandelions, except alongside the one trail. And you sure don’t want to eat those.

The best dandelion habitat is unsprayed, overgrown lawn, which is

about as disturbed as a piece of land can get. Dandelions want to help steer the ecosystem toward diversity. And they can provide a diversity of nutrients and flavors to your diet. When you go out hunting, look for a place that wouldn’t have yellow snow in winter, if you know what I mean. Whether it’s the root, leaf, stalk or flower you seek, harvest them as cleanly as possible, bringing as little dirt home as possible.

In winter, it will be more challenging to eat dandelions on the daily. It will involve more tea, and roots, if you can jump on them before the plant flowers. That stuff needs to be gathered now, in these days of summertime, when the living is easy and the buds are open and high. Eat them fresh, stock them up for later. Blanch and freeze. Dry the leaves and roots. Add flowers to a jar of pickled cucumbers for some quick pickled buds.

They will close up but get chewy and tangy. Add leaves to sardine salad. Make dandelion-infused oil, dandelion wine, dandelion BBQ, curry, potato salad, smoothie, olives and cheese in a rolledup leaf, a tapestry of daring dandelion tapas.

Here are some do-it-yourself dandelion cookery ideas, one for every day of the week.

Sunday: Fried flowers - In a cast iron or omelet pan, fry flowers with the yellow sides in butter, oil or bacon, with garlic, salt, pepper and whatever else you can think of.

Monday: Raw leaves with grapefruit - Wash, dry and chop a bunch of raw leaves. Add onion and garlic. Dress with olive oil and lemon juice, and season with salt or copious amounts of feta, or both. Toss with peeled, cut or separated grapefruit flesh.

Tuesday: Radikia, the famous Greek dandelion dish - Blanch leaves in salted, boiling water for about 60 seconds. Transfer immediately to cold water to chill. Then drain, squeeze and chop the dandelion. Dress with lemon juice, salt and olive oil.

Wednesday: Namul - This is a Korean-style way to prepare dandelions. Blanch leaves as above, dress with a sauce made of minced garlic, sesame oil, cider vinegar, chile powder, a pinch of sugar and fish sauce or anchovy paste, and salt to taste.

Thursday: Roasted RootsExcavate the root as gently as you can, loosening it as deeply as possible, ideally before it has flowered, after which the root can get woody. Scrub it clean and chop it, and roast slowly at 275 degrees until dark brown. Serve with salt, honey, chocolate or as a coffee-flavored tea.

Friday: Stalking bitter bubbles - Go into the yard and pick the longest dandelion flower stalks you can. Pop off the flowers. Mix gin `n juice or tonic. Insert straw. Serve.

Saturday: Ramen - Tampopo means dandelion in Japanese. It’s also the name of a movie heroine, a hapless maker of mediocre ramen, in “Tampopo,” a masterful Japanese comedy from 1985. The heroes attempt to teach Tampopo how to make ramen but can’t. Drama and hilarity ensue. I only found out about it when I searched for dandelion ramen, to see if I invented it. But no. I am not the first person to add dandelion to a high-end ramen, like Nongshim or Sapporo Ichiban brands, with an egg cracked toward the end. Use any part of the plant, including leaves, even roots. As long as it’s clean, add it to the pot.

Now’s the time to jump on this super – and super plentiful – food

A lovely tapestry

Fijian writer makes charming debut with tropical mystery

by Jeffrey Mannix

The crime fiction genre is exploding and giving unheard-of opportunities to first-time authors and veteran novelists alike, en couraging police procedural se rials hoping for name recognition.

The results, at least in this moment, are multi-book contracts and big advances to established authors by publishing conglomerates. Debut writers, on the other hand, receive modest exposure with little to no advances. But they do get first-rate editing and dust cover design, and an outfield of sales reps and publicists sending out fulsome blurbs and advance-reader copies to a small army of reviewers like me.

But young writers with first books now have at least a modicum of hope of securing an agent with a cold call and a barely edited typescript, who can then pitch the big publishing houses with product they had never before dared to recruit.

In my experience, offshore and small publishers have been and are still discovering and publishing great crime fiction writers and genuinely literary crime fiction. Early crime fiction in the United States began as episodics in pulp magazines, then progressed to back-pocket paperbacks with lurid cover art sold in drug stores and newsstands. All the while, European and British publishers had been featuring true literary writers for decades with fictions that still set the standard for noir literature.

Currently in the United States, one small New York publisher has run alongside the big American crime imprints with early and steadfast dedication to exceptional crime fiction. Soho Press has fed “Murder

Ink” with a steady supply of outstanding mysteries over the years and now gives us a June 6 release, “A Disappearance in Fiji,” a debut by a young Fijian-born woman, Nilima Rao.

the reader gets to stroll along with a proper 25-year-old rookie Indian police sergeant by the name of Akal Singh. The year is 1914, and Singh is on punishment duty for a nameless error he made policing in Hong Kong and is expecting to restore his status after a few days accompanying the Indian Delegation for India’s Relations with Fiji. He has come to review the Indian indentured servitude program and to perfunctorily look into missionary Father Hughes’ reported kidnapping of an indentured woman named Kunti at the Nabanigei plantation.

The British believed they controlled this primitive and warring archipelago, and the examination of the Nabanigei plantation was intended only to show British hegemony and provide make-work for the delegation of low-level bureaucrats. But Sergeant Singh is Indian, not British, and is young and aspires to higher ranks, so this overland visit was to be thoroughly investigated.

Rao obviously spent years researching and writing this book. And Soho Crime noticeably spent time and talent editing Rao’s lovely voice and unadorned storyline.

Singh is indefatigable in his investigation, probing and digging deeper into every clue, causing supervisors to chafe dumbstruck over Singh’s unveilings.

Fiji” is an easy, warm read that quickly establishes a charm and a hint of starchy humor to this far-away island. This palliates the debauchery behind a system fed lavishly by wealthy Britowned sugarcane plantations labored over by families tricked into indentured servitude and overseen like slaves.

With subtleties beyond Rao’s years,

And we have a story rich with place, culture, pathos and profound suspense amid a country unaccustomed to presumptuous civil servants.

You won’t forget this book, and remember to ask Maria’s Bookshop for your “Murder Ink” 15% discount. We’ll see awards coming Rao’s way, and I, for one, will be eagerly awaiting her next lovely tapestry.

Thursday01

Afrobeatniks play, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard Ave.

Fiesta Days and Carnival, 5 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.

Thursday Night Sitting Group, 5:30-6:15 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave, Suite 109.

“Furniture as Art,” fundraiser for KDUR, 6 p.m., FLC’s Student Union.

Durango Climber Coalition General Meeting, 6 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Professor Andy Gulliford, presentation on Bears Ears, 6 p.m., San Juan National Forest Headquarters, 15 Burnett Ct.

Bluegrass jam, 6 p.m. weekly, Durango Beer & Ice, 3000 Main Ave. All levels welcome.

Howling Coyote Tour play, 6-9 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Jeff Solon Jazz Duo play, 6-8 p.m., Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., Powerhouse Science Center, 1330 Camino del Rio.

First Thursdays Songwriter Night, 7:30 p.m., The iNDIGO Room, 1315 Main Ave.

Friday02

Animas River Days, June 2-4, Santa Rita Park. www.animasriverdays.com.

Annual Adopt-a-Thon, 8 a.m., La Plata County Humane Society, 1111 Camino del Rio.

Girls Gone Golfing, 8:30 a.m., Hillcrest Golf Club, 2300 Rim Dr.

Conservation Easements 101 for Realtors, 9 a.m.-12 noon, Durango Public Library, lposc.org

Open Meditation, 12 noon-1 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave, Suite 109.

First Friday Featured Artist: Lorna Meaden, 48 p.m., Studio & Gallery, 1027 Main Ave.

First Friday Art Crawl, 4-7 p.m., ArtRoom Collective, 1309 E. 3rd Ave.

Thee Fearless Peasants play, 5-8 p.m., Durango Craft Spirits, 1120 Main Ave.

Architecture of Durango Area Art Show, 5-8 p.m., Create Art and Tea, 1015 Main Ave.

Solitary Moments by Waldemar Winkler, opening reception, 5-8 p.m., Studio & Gallery, 1027 Main Ave.

Fiesta Days and Carnival, 5 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.

Mesa Verde National Park Film Premiere, 6 p.m., FLC’s Student Ballroom.

The Assortment plays, 6 p.m., Fire Fox Farms, Ignacio.

Bo DePena plays, 7-10 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Ru Paul’s Drag Race Watch Party, 6 p.m., Father’s Daughters Pizza, 640 Main Ave.

Hauntings & History Ghost Tour, 7:30 p.m., Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Depot.

That’s So Durango, variety show, 7:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.

Drag Show, 8:30 p.m., Father’s Daughters Pizza, 640 Main Ave.

Saturday03

Animas River Days, June 2-4, Santa Rita Park. www.animasriverdays.com

Durango Farmers Market, 8 a.m., TBK Bank parking lot, 259 W. 9th St.

Annual Adopt-a-Thon, 8 a.m., La Plata County Humane Society, 1111 Camino del Rio.

Fiesta Days and Carnival, 2 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.

100 Year Flood plays, 6 p.m., Gazpacho, 431 E. 2nd Ave.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Community Yoga, 6-7 p.m., Yoga Durango, 1485 Florida Rd. Donations accepted.

StoneHall plays, 7-10 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Hip Hop Night, 7:30 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Nosotros plays, 7:30 p.m., FLC’s Community Concert Hall.

That’s So Durango, variety show, 7:30 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.

Animas River Days Late Night Party, 9 p.m., El Rancho Tavern, 975 Main Ave.

Silent Disco, 9-11:30 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Sunday04

Animas River Days, June 2-4, Santa Rita Park. www.animasriverdays.com.

Durango Flea Market, 8 a.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.

Veteran Benefit Breakfast, 9 a.m., VFW Post 4031, 1550 Main Ave.

Terry Rickard plays, 12 noon-3 p.m., 11th St. Station.

Vinyl Sundaze, 12 noon, Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave.

Fiesta Days and Carnival, 2 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave.

Feed the People! free mutual aid meal & gear drive for homeless community members, every Sunday, 2 p.m., Buckley Park.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., The Office & Diamond Belle, 699 Main Ave.

Sunday Funday, 6 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Monday05

Durango Chamber Music Festival, 12 noon, St. Marks Episcopal Church, 910 E. 3rd Ave.

Happy Hour Yoga, 5:30 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St.

Meditation and Dharma Talk, 5:30 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave, Suite 109.

Going for the burn and Boebertgate

Interesting fact: For most people, 10-20 minutes of sunshine a day are ideal for getting vitamin D without the risk of excessive sun damage. So basically, pumping up my paddleboard is my upper limit on a lake day.

Dear Rachel,

It’s that time of year when I freak out about balancing my mental health need for the outdoors with the dread fear of getting skin cancer and wrinkles and that unfortunate skin resembling homemade beef jerky. Yeah yeah, sunscreen and hats. But I like getting sun on my face, and going into nature without looking like my dad, who is the REI equivalent of a pocket protector. How do you maintain your own balance between beauty & sanity?

– Estee Outdoors

visit. Figured someone would have asked you by now if you had thoughts, or whether she should have stayed away from the school, or if liberal snowflakes need to get over a sitting congressperson engaging students in civics. Dust has had time to settle, and I can’t wait anymore. Where do you stand?

– Staybert or Gobert

Dear Uncover Girl,

Here’s how: I don’t. I am exactly the person who would run around naked at the river if it were permitted, and then the person who would cry for a week about the sunburn, and then the person who would anxiety themselves into wearing a hoodie through July, convinced it was already too late for me and I’d just doomed myself. And then the person who would be naked at the river again before Labor Day.

– You are my sunshine, Rachel

Dear Class Act,

First off, I find it admirable of you to use the word “person” in “congressperson.” That’s rather inclusive of you, considering how many people would refuse to call her a person at all. Second off, I remember seeing some big-shot TV actor coming to my elementary school. I didn’t know who he was, but he was a TV STAR. I’d have listened to anything he said for longer than some politician. So she can visit any school she pleases, so long as we get, like, Donald Glover to visit first.

– I pledge allegiance, Rachel

telegraph@durangotelegraph.com

Dear Rachel,

Dear Rachel,

I’m surprised you haven’t said peep about Boebert and the Case of the public school

Tab Benoit & Matt Anderson play, 7 p.m., Animas City Theatre.

Comedy Showcase, 7:30 p.m., Starlight, 937 Main.

Tuesday06

Coffee Connections with Durango Botanic Gardens, 8 a.m., Durango Public Library.

Durango Chamber Music Festival, 12 noon, St. Marks Episcopal Church, 910 E. 3rd Ave.

Community Yoga, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Yoga Durango, 1485 Florida Rd. Donations accepted.

Slow Bluegrass Jam, 5:30-7:30 p.m., General Palmer, 567 Main Ave.

This TBR (to be read) pile in my place is getting out of hand. It’s technically three TBR piles. Two are in the shared living room. I keep intending to read them, but it doesn’t happen. I’m not willing to compromise with myself: I am still walking into Maria’s every time I go by, and I’m still walking out with books. How can I up my reading and actually enjoy the stacks I’ve built for myself before they bury me?

– Bookshelf of Amontillado

Rotary Club of Durango meeting, featuring guest Aleksander Orlik, 6 p.m., Strater Hotel, 699 Main Ave.

Live music, 6-9 p.m., Lola’s Place, 725 E. 2nd Ave.

Man 2 Man Prostate Cancer Support Group, 6:30 p.m., Durango Public Library.

“Smashed Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet,” 7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.

Open Mic, 7 p.m., Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Wednesday07

Open Meditation, 8 a.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave, Suite 109.

Dear Telltale Stack,

I’m increasingly of the opinion that books are not actually meant to be read. Even the ones that do get read spend the vast majority of their existence NOT getting read. They are meant to sit around and be books. Books, like most of us, are just suspended potential … we have a whole world within us, but it mostly sits there unaccessed. Until I get that killer sunburn and turning a page is the most movement I can handle.

– Dogeared, Rachel

Restorative Yoga for Cancer, 9:30-10:45 a.m., for cancer patients, post-treatment survivors and caregivers, Smiley Building, 1309 E. 3rd Ave. Register at cancersupportswco.org/calendar.

Durango Chamber Music Festival, 12 noon, St. Marks Episcopal Church, 910 E. 3rd Ave.

Max & Brittany Flinn play, 6 p.m., EsoTerra Ciderworks, 558 Main Ave.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters play (sold out), 7:30 p.m., FLC’s Community Concert Hall.

Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 8 p.m., The Roost, 128 E. College Dr.

Karaoke Roulette, 8 p.m., Starlight, 937 Main Ave.

by Rob Brezsny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): History tells us that Albert Einstein was a brilliant genius. After his death, the brain of the pioneer physicist was saved and studied for years in the hope of analyzing the secrets of why it produced so many great ideas. Science writer Stephen Jay Gould provided a different perspective. He said, “I am less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” I bring this to your attention, Aries, in the hope it will inspire you to pay closer attention to the unsung and underappreciated elements of your own life – both in yourself and the people around you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Human life sometimes features sudden reversals of fortune that may seem almost miraculous. A twist in my own destiny is an example. As an adult, I was indigent for 18 years – the most starving artist of all the starving artists I have ever known. Then, in the course of a few months, all the years I had devoted to improving my craft as a writer paid off spectacularly. My horoscope column got widely syndicated, and I began to earn a decent wage. I predict a comparable turn of events for you in the coming months, Taurus – not necessarily in your finances, but in a pivotal area of your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I am weary of gurus who tell us the ego is bad and must be shamed. In my view, we need a strong and healthy ego to fuel our quest for meaning. In that spirit and in accordance with astrological omens, I designate June as Celebrate Your Ego Month for you Geminis. You have a mandate to unabashedly embrace the beauty of your unique self. I hope you will celebrate and flaunt your special gifts. I hope you will honor your distinctive desires as the treasures they are. You are authorized to brag more than usual!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One study reveals that British people own a significant amount of clothing they never wear. Other research suggests that the average American woman has over a hundred items of clothing, but considers just 10% of them to be “wearable.”

If your relationship to your wardrobe is similar, Cancerian, it’s a favorable time to cull unused, unliked and unsuitable stuff. You would also benefit from a compa-

rable approach to other areas of your life. Get rid of possessions, influences and ideas that take up space but serve no important purpose and are no longer aligned with who you really are.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In July 1969, Leo astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk on the moon. But he almost missed his chance. Years earlier, his original application to become part of NASA’s space exploration team arrived a week past the deadline. But Armstrong’s buddy, Dick Day, who worked at NASA, sneaked it into the pile of applications that had come in time. I foresee the possibility of you receiving comparable assistance, Leo. Tell your friends and allies to be alert for ways they might be able to help you with either straightforward or surreptitious moves.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Great shearwaters are birds that travel a lot, covering 13,000 miles every year. From January to March, they breed in the South Atlantic Ocean, about halfway between Africa and South America. Around May, they fly west for a while and then head north, many of them as far as Canada and Greenland. When August comes, they head east to Europe, and later they migrate south along the coast of Africa to return to their breeding grounds. I am tempted to make this globetrotting bird your spirit creature for the next 12 months. You may be more inclined than ever before to go on journeys, and I expect you will be well-rewarded for your journeys.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One of the central myths of Western culture is the Holy Grail. For more than 800 years, storytellers have spun legends about the search for a precious chalice with magical qualities. Sober scholars are more likely to say that the Holy Grail isn’t an actual physical object hidden away in a cave or catacomb, but a symbol of a spiritual awakening or an enlightening epiphany. For the purposes of your horoscope, I’m going to focus on the latter interpretation. I suspect you are gearing up for an encounter with a Holy Grail. Be alert! The revelations and insights and breakthroughs could come when you least expect them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): June is Dare to Diminish Your Pain Month for you Scorpios. I hope you will aggressively pursue measures to alleviate discomfort and suffering. To address the physical variety, how about acupuncture or massage? Please be equally dy-

namic in treating your emotional and spiritual pain, dear Scorpio. Spend as much money as you can afford on skillful healers. Solicit the help of empathetic friends. Pray and meditate.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A humpback whale can hold more than 15,000 gallons of water in its mouth at once –enough to fill 400 bathtubs. In a funny way, their ability reminds me of you right now. You, too, have a huge capacity for whatever you feel like absorbing and engaging with. But I suggest you choose carefully what you want to absorb and engage with. Be open and receptive to only the most high-quality stuff that will enrich your life and provide a lot of fun. Don’t get filled up with trivia and nonsense and dross.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Funny story: A renowned Hollywood movie mogul was overheard at a dinner party regaling an aspiring actor with a long monologue about his achievements. Finally, the mogul paused and said, “Well, enough about me. What do you think of me?” If I had been in the actor’s place, I might have said, “You, sir, are an insufferable, grandiose and boring narcissist.” In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I hope you will consistently find a middle ground between telling the brazen truth to those who need to hear it and protecting your precious goals and well-being.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When faced with important decisions, most of us benefit from calling on all forms of intelligence. Simply consulting our analytical mind is not sufficient. Nor is checking in with only our deep feelings. Even drawing from our spunky intuition alone is not adequate. We are most likely to get practical clarity if we access the guidance of our analytical mind, gut feelings and sparkly intuition. This is always true, but it’s extra relevant now. You need to get the full blessing of the synergistic blend.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Has your intuition been nudging you to revise and refine your sense of home? I hope so. That’s what the cosmic rhythms are inviting you to do. If you have indeed responded to the call, congratulations. Buy yourself a nice homecoming present. But if you have resisted the flow of life’s guidance, please take corrective measures. Maybe start by reorganizing the décor and furniture. Clean up festering messes. Say sweet things to your housemates and family members. Manage issues that may be restricting your love of home.

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Jackson Antix Kayak 1.0 Med.

Just in time for high water! Gently used Antix - been down the Grand 1.5 times and taken out for a few highwater town runs but mostly has hung in the garage. This is a super fun river runner/surfer and can catch eddies like a dream - just a little too big for me. Very good condition - all outfitting intact, no tears or rips, clean cockpit. A few minor cosmetic blems but otherwise in great shape. In hot pink/orange/yellow fade. $699 OBO. Downtown Durango. Message for dets: 970-749-2595.

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Greater Colorado Pitch Series Applications open now through June 9. New this year, four finalists will attend invite-only Greater Colorado Venture Fund event in Salida on Aug. 3. Finalists will be asked to present a single business problem “House of Genius” style, opening finalists up to a new form of problem-solving and networking.  Winner announced at West Slope Startup Week, Aug. 21-24 in Durango. Apply at: tinyurl.com/yybj8mfy

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