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As the wheels turn

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Silverton grapples with banning OHVs in town p8

No wave? No problem for latest toy to hit local waters p10

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Tour de farce Sometimes, laughter truly is the best medicine

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Silverton in uproar over whether or not to ban OHVs in town

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Ear to the ground: “The only good fight is a hockey fight.”

– Local NHL fan promoting world peace everywhere but on the ice

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The hills will be alive with the sound of music and beer swilling this summer.

At least more than last summer.

Telluride Blues & Brews announced it will be returning this Sept. 17-19 to Telluride’s Town Park. This year’s festival includes three stages featuring blues, funk, indie, rock, jam band, gospel and soul, with Denver-based super-crooner Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats headlining the event. Other acts scheduled to appear include Buddy Guy, Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real, St. Paul & The Broken Bones.

"This year's lineup stands to be one of the most progressive and forward looking, while still being anchored by blues fixtures," Festival Director and Founder Steve Gumble said.

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Efoil boards the latest toy to hit local waters

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New wave

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On the cover: Local climber Chris Schulte dons the latest in technical outer wear while he shimmies across Vallecito Creek en route to exploring new bouldering options recently./ Photo by Stephen Eginoire

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And in keeping with the festival’s blues roots, legendary icons Buddy Guy and Anders Osborne will showcase the finest of the craft, with the Music Maker Relief Foundation bringing traditional American roots music. “We're in for a dynamic weekend of live music and I'm really looking forward to it," said Gumble.

Now on to the most important part: the beer.

Although the festival will not be holding the bacchanal Grand Tasting due to COVID concerns, it will still feature an expanded selection of beer styles from a variety of local, regional and national breweries, including six rare, festival-only offerings from festival partner, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. There will also be food and craft vendors, latenight club shows and special events, including free yoga and the Sunset Blues Concert.

Tickets went on sale Thurs., June 3, and are expected to sell out, so you better jump on it sooner than later. Three-day passes are $250, and single-pay passes start at $95 (plus service fees.)

For more info., go to: TellurideBlues.com.

And speaking of beer and the San Juans, Durango’s San Juan Brewfest is also back this year after its COVID hiatus. This year’s event will be held over two days – Aug. 28-29 – in Buckley Park, with 1,000 tickets available for each day.

Although breweries and bands will be announced later this week, tickets to this sell-out event go on sale at 10 a.m., this Sat., June 12, at sanjuanbrewfest.com. Proceeds benefit the United Way of Southwest Colorado.

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LaVidaLocal Tour de farce Most readers are familiar with the phrase tour de force, which identifies a feat displaying great strength, skill or ingenuity. A tour de farce, however, is quite different, referring to an empty or patently ridiculous proceeding, act, or situation that prompts a person to smile, hopefully later even to laugh after the individual safely survives its circumstances.

So conjure up this dilemma: Returning home from a camping trip, I failed to use sufficient force to properly seat the ball mount into the hitch coupler on our little Scamp trailer. Thirty miles down the road, at highway speed, a bump disengaged the trailer from the vehicle. If not for the attached safety chains, it would have careened off the road into a ditch like a produce wagon full of watermelons. Instead, the tongue dropped and hung by its chains slightly above the pavement, glancing off the road surface, igniting a trail of sparks. Let’s just say the entire incident scared the hell out of me!

Absurdity pops up in everyone’s life like a jack-in-the-box, but if I’m distracted – especially in matters of the heart – I forget to pay attention. Adults blame youthful inexperience for foolish behavior, while young people think slipping along the gradual slope toward Medicare explains it all. In the end, life only offers a tour, be it forced or farced, a teeter-tooter where the “whee” is followed by a sudden impact, when the laughter unexpectedly climbs off.

Recently I lived on the road while my best friend underwent a laborious series of medical procedures to save her life. Nothing about the experience leaned toward farce, except for briefly thinking we’d overpacked for a five-day stay. It ended up being five weeks before we managed to return home. Hospitals co-opted our existence, along with a near-lethal dose of worry every day about how things might work out. I learned more about illness and treatment than any person needs to know, but now as I glance in the rearview mirror, I can appreciate how the occasional farce ultimately sustained us.

One long afternoon while she occupied the bathroom, I stretched out on my best friend’s hospital bed to experience what she claimed might be a first organic animated mattress. It wiggled and sagged and adjusted itself continuously while I occupied the bed. As I settled in, a cicada-like buzzing came to life and my right hip started rising without me having to flex a

muscle. It rose in such an awkward way that I feared it might toss me out of bed and to the floor.

Over my head, where spiritual help allegedly resides, a single ceiling tile shouted in bold letters, CALL, DON’T FALL, but I misread the message, thinking it said CRAWL, DON’T FALL. Color, text size and positioning directly above the bed made it impossible for the patient to claim she hadn’t noticed the directive.

Even with my eyes closed, the words seared themselves like a branding iron into my memory.

To complement the effectiveness of this threeword commandment, an alarm installed on the bed could not be turned off by anyone except a nurse who knew the secret passcode. If a patient absentmindedly stood up, the bed erupted into such an audible commotion a visitor might think a fire alarm had just been pulled, so when she returned from the bathroom, we repeated with the stealth of Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom her carefully choreographed simultaneous exchange of positions, and I crawled off the bed toward the safety of a nearby chair.

People normally receive their nutritional supplements from fruits and vegetables, but while in hospital her surgeon prescribed enormous, nasty-tasting pills, one of which burned a meteoric path down her throat and esophagus, swelling her face and throat. She complained, but he insisted. “Couldn’t I just eat bananas for my potassium?” she asked. The surgeon replied, “You’d have to eat a thousand bananas to equal what’s in one of those pills.”

Eventually she said no, she wasn’t taking the pills, and the only thing she would miss was the swelling. The surgeon looked puzzled until she added that they made her face swell so much her wrinkles disappeared, and then he burst out into a hearty laugh, the kind of laugh only a heart surgeon can appreciate.

I could go into more escapades about how she managed to turn the collapsible barf bag into a waterproof sleeve to cover her fresh stitches before taking a shower, or how her midline port for IV transfusions, which stayed stubbornly in place for nearly a month, simply fell out of her arm on the day of her discharge. Everything about this woman’s sense of humor in the face of a potential disaster might keep a reader smiling, but you’d have to have been there to appreciate the “whee” of it all.

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A surprise comeback for the Animas River just in time for River Days, with the river peaking at close to 3,500 cfs after a somewhat piddly run-off season

Vandals tagging the X-rock climbing area with racist and vulgar graffiti, following a disturbing trend at other popular outdoors spots

An all-time high of 70% of Americans, including Republicans, now supporting same sex marriage, according to a new Gallup poll

Wildfires throughout Arizona and New Mexico filling Southwest Colorado’s skies with a smoky haze, a concerning harbinger of the fire season to come

President Joe Biden starting a full-scale effort to reunite migrant families detained along the U.S.-Mexico border

The Colorado Avalanche going down in dramatic fashion Tuesday, putting the team on the brink of a 3-2 series against the Las Vegas Golden Knights

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The Emperor Has No Pose Italian artist Salvatore Garau sold an invisible sculpture for $18,000 last month. Garau claims the sculpture is made from “spirit and air,” so it’s totally there, and he defends its realness by saying it’s just as real as a “god we’ve never seen.” (Touché).

The work of “art,” entitled “Lo Sono” (“I am”), came complete with a 5-by-5-foot square that “contains” the sculpture, along with a certificate of authenticity so the idiot who bought it wouldn’t get his invisible sculpture mixed up with someone else’s.

WordontheStreet Now that the world is opening up for travel again, the Telegraph asked, “Where would you most like to go?”

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“Portugal, to visit my sister.”

Monica

“Somewhere with a secret, deep, dark cave.”

Chad & Chivos

“La Playa en Mexico so we can surf and practice Spanish.”

Stacy

“A secluded, lush, wet island.”

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ToonedUp/ by Kayla Shaggy

SoapBox Nix the filibuster Year after year, we see politicians in Congress make promises about what they can do for constituents like me. And year after year, the progress is usually less than we hoped for.

The solution is clear: It’s time to get rid of the filibuster — a Senate rule that allows a minority of senators to block any piece of legislation. Democrats have introduced some great bills that would help a vast majority of Americans. Right now, the Senate is deciding whether to pass the For the People Act, for instance, a big reform bill that addresses everything from making voting more accessible and streamlined to getting rid of corruption in government. But the fate of the For the People Act is uncertain as long as it can be filibustered by senators like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham.

And that’s only one bill. Imagine all the progress that’s being held up in Congress because the filibuster stands in the way.

For me, for my community and for communities like mine all across America, I’m asking senators to do away with the filibuster once and for all.

–Karen Maloney, Durango

Bipartisan building back stronger When we began this year’s legislative session, the task before us seemed daunting. Across the state and throughout my district, small businesses were devastated, hardworking families were struggling and the end of the pandemic was nowhere in sight.

My colleagues and I rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We knew identifying and facing the challenge would be the most important task ahead of us. Instead of seeing it as an insurmountable obstacle, we saw it as a golden opportunity.

We didn’t want to just help Colorado return to the place we were in before the pandemic hit, we were determined to help chart a better, bolder, more prosperous course. The phrase has been repeated far too often, but

we truly set out to help Colorado build back stronger.

The bulk of our work in this space was done through our state stimulus package, a series of legislation investing roughly $800 million into helping Colorado4

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recover faster and in a more equitable way. The package contains bills, now signed into law, investing in workforce development, small business grants, child-care expansions and programs to help our students close the learning gap created by COVID. I’m proud of all of the work we did this session to help Colorado bounce back, but there are a few bills that I think will have a particularly important impact on Southern Colorado and District 59.

In particular, I’m proud of the work we did to meet the needs of rural Colorado. We put $30 million toward the Agriculture Future Loan Program, which will provide new and existing agriculture operations with crucial funding and create jobs in this critically important industry.

We also funded the ACRE3 program, which invests in the long-term sustainability of the industry by encouraging more energy efficient agriculture operations to ensure that Colorado’s farmers and ranchers can continue to contribute so much to our state.

And to invest in the future of rural Colorado, we provided tens of millions of dollars for the Colorado Water Plan, which will help ensure Colorado has the water resources we need to foster a thriving economy. This was one of several steps we took related to drought resiliency, including a bill I sponsored to create an office in the Department of Agriculture to help the industry respond to and mitigate the impacts of climate change and increasingly severe droughts.

Other programs funded by our State Stimulus package, like the Rural Jump Start Grant Program, the Rural Economic Development Initiative and the Community Revitalization Grant Program, will support local economies, create jobs and fund construction projects. They will make our communities more enjoyable for residents and more attractive for tourists, bringing needed business and economic activity to our part of the state.

It’s difficult to keep track of the amount of bills we passed and stimulus dollars we directed toward helping

create an economy that leaves no one behind, but the Coloradans who benefit will remember them all. As we wrap up this legislative session, I can confidently say we both met the challenge presented by COVID and delivered results for our constituents.

– Rep. Barbara McLachlan, D-Durango

Embrace change, delivery services Restaurants resisting the gig economy are shooting themselves in the foot. Rather than punish delivery services, owners should work with independent operators to ensure the quality that they desire.

Read any of the books about future trends, (I would suggest, “The Inevitable”, by Kevin Kelly), and you will find out what happens to businesses who fail to see how these trends will change their operations.

Also, we have missed delivery of The Durango Telegraph to the town of Ignacio. Is there not anyone driving from Durango to Ignacio every day who could drop off new issues of the Telegraph to the library?

–Ron Schermacher, Ignacio

Tim fights for affordable rates Thanks to LPEA board and staff for pushing Tri-State to get us a rate reduction, and passing it on to all of us members in the bill credit as was just announced. During these tough and uncertain times, the bill credit is very important to many. Current incumbent board member Tim Wheeler is making good on his promise when he first ran three years ago to bring us more affordable rates.

Tim Wheeler is running for re-election in District 4 and I am asking the voters in District 4 to put him back on the board for another three years. He has been very effective, shows strong leadership and we need board members like him so we can continue to get more affordable

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rates. He has also been a leader on the board in challenging Tri-State on behalf of LPEA’s members to give us much cleaner renewable power.

If you are an LPEA voter in District 4, please vote for Tim Wheeler. He keeps his promises and puts LPEA members first.

–Kent Ford, Durango

The sportsmanlike thing to do I get it. I’ve ridden the Iron Horse with Ted Compton and he is an exceptional competitor. He’s not just an amazing athlete, he has a discipline and work ethic that makes him formidable against those 20 plus years younger than him.

As an FLC grad, a sense of hard work and good sportsmanship is the fundamental thing I love about this community. That same sense of fair play is what I tried to instill in my athletes as the coach at Durango Swim Club.

That is why it was disappointing to see that Bill Waters broke the rules in trying to beat Ted Compton. Mr. Waters was aware enough to alter some of his campaign materials, but somehow let 2,000 illegal door hangers slip through? It seems like once he saw the first door hanger, he should have stopped hanging them – both as a demonstration of fairness and attention to detail. If it was a mistake, why not also remove the yard signs with the LPEA font and logos? An apology doesn’t mean much if you don’t also correct your behavior.

I’m sure Bill Waters is a good person, and I get it – any race with Ted Compton is hard work. However, that never makes it OK to skirt the rules to win. If you cheat, even because of a lack of attention to detail, the right thing to do is to withdraw from the race.

It is the sportsmanlike thing to do. It is the Durango thing to do.

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As the wheels turn OHVs banned, then unbanned, from Silverton’s streets

by Jonathan Romeo

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fter a seven-year experiment, Silverton is grappling in a serious way with whether to allow off-highway vehicles within town limits.

In an abrupt, and to many shocking, move, the Silverton town trustees voted 43 last month to ban OHVs from riding in town, just days before the start of the summer season. But the battle is far from over.

This week, residents filed a protest and temporarily overturned the ban, which was to take effect June 20, ensuring the thunder of OHVs will continue this summer. And now, a mess of petitions filed by residents may force two separate elections on the matter in the coming months.

It’s complicated, with a dizzying array of moving parts, but to say the debate over allowing OHVs in Silverton has sent the town into an uproar would be an understatement.

Complaints over the motorized vehicles – the sheer number, noise at all hours, illegal off-roading – is an ongoing and contentious debate among the town of about 600. Some Silvertonians, especially in the past three years, have said issues brought on by OHVs have reached a tipping point, ruining the quality of life and forcing some longtime locals to question whether it is time to leave.

But support for OHV use in town remains high, especially among the business community, which sees visitors who travel from all over the country to ride the San Juan Mountains as a vital source of tourism dollars.

If prohibited on town streets, OHVs would be, of course, still allowed to ride designated routes on the outlying San Juan County roads and on public lands. But for many locals, whether to allow the vehicles in town raises all kinds of questions about what Silverton wants to be in the future.

“Our town should not be subjected to becoming some sort of an amusement park,” Karla Safrankski, a resident since 1976, said at a public meeting this month.

“This is where I live… and this is where I want to continue to live.”

Open the gates Though tourism had been part of Silverton’s economic fabric for decades, reliance on visitors spending money in the historic town became the main source of income after the closure of the last mine in 1991.

Ever since, Silverton has tried to allure vacationers to the town at an elevation of 9,318 feet, whether through the Durango &

A sign indicating the OHV route in the town of Silverton may become a moot point later this year. After many twists and turns, the subject of banning OHVs from the town’s streets will go to a vote later this year. A separate vote would ask residents whether they want to allow OHVs on just the town’s current designated route or everywhere. It’s unclear how the two competing votes would impact one another. / Photo by Jonathan Romeo Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad or extreme skiing at Silverton Mountain.

In 2014, the town of Silverton voted to open select streets to OHVs, providing easy access to those traveling the backcountry roads to businesses in town. But, with OHVs’ stark increase in popularity, some vexed residents started to push back on the noise, dust and traffic, as well as illegal offroading and the environmental damage that comes with it.

In 2017, residents forced another general election to decide whether to open the entire town to OHVs, completely ban them or keep things the same.

Silvertonians decided – by a slim margin – to keep the existing regulations. The problem is, the adverse impacts also remained, and OHV use in town continued to explode, especially with the rise of razors and

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Tipping point Last summer, the San Juan Mountains around Silverton were pounded with visitors, and not just OHV riders. But the loud and visible vehicles, still contentious among locals, took center stage in the debate about town.

A BLM study estimated more than 195,000 vehicles traveled the popular Alpine Loop that traverses mountain roads through Silverton, Lake City and Ouray in 2020, up 23% from 2018. About half those vehicles were thought to be OHVs. With the D&SNG not running trips to Silverton because of the COVID-19 pandemic, thereby depriving the town of thousands of visitors, business owners lauded OHVers as the economic savior.

Others, however, said the crazy day-to-

day, all-hours riding in town was a breaking point, expressing legitimate fears of becoming the high-country equivalent of Moab, an off-road mecca.

It’s been acknowledged, too, that residents who live along the route are disproportionately impacted, having to keep windows closed, not being able to hang out outside and waking up late at night or early in the morning to the din of OHVs. San Juan County Sheriff Bruce Conrad, who regularly says, not jokingly, that the letters O, H and V are worn out on his computer keyboard, has maintained for years his office is unable to keep up with the amount of riders breaking the rules.

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Quality of life Silverton passed through last fall and most of the winter without addressing the OHV issue. In early spring, with summer looming, a working group formed to come up with potential solutions. But before any recommendations materialized, a citizen petition calling for an outright ban of OHVs in town sent the situation into disarray.

On May 18, the seven town trustees had the choice to vote yes on the petition, effectively banning OHVs, or vote no, which would have sent the question to voters.

The contentious, marathon meeting drew about an even split of residents for OHVs in town, and those against.

Nicole Bellman, a Silverton resident who backed the petition to ban, highlighted that catering to OHVers would push out other recreationists from coming into town to spend money.

“OHVs are ruining our quality of life, and we need to put our residents first,” she said. “It’s really divided the town and created animosity … but Silverton has been discovered, and we’ll have tourism no matter what.”

A necessary pain in the butt Pinning down just how much OHVers infuse into Silverton’s economy is nearly impossible. Suffice to say, the town’s sales tax, a good indicator of economic health, has been steadily on the rise in recent years.

While the increase in sales tax does correlate with increased OHV use, the sales tax boost also follows the same trend of most mountain towns in Colorado, which are experiencing more visitors.

Anecdotally, however, Silverton business

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owners say the growth is driven by OHV riders. “OHVs have saved this community numerous times,” Michael Loyer, who owns the Eureka Station restaurant, said. “Quality of life, it is a pain in the butt, but there’s lots of pain in the butts of living in Silverton.”

Since news of the ban spread, OHV rental companies and local campgrounds reported a spike in cancellations for this summer. It remains unclear if the reversal of the ban this week has changed the situation.

“We only shoot ourselves in the foot by losing the tax revenue these tourists bring to our town,” Gigi Raine, a full-time resident, said. “We’ll quickly become a ghost town if we don’t embrace our visitors.”

Bad timing?

No matter what side residents are on, there was a general agreement banning OHVs in town right before summer was bad timing, both for families who booked vacations and businesses that had no time to prepare. And, it was repeatedly said the issue should be decided by a town vote.

“The timing of the vote couldn’t be worse,” Trustee Tyler George, a 40-year resident, said. “But my No. 1 concern is for the quality of lives of people who live here.”

George said Silverton has a long history of putting all its eggs in one basket – the mining industry, the D&SNG – to the ultimate detriment of residents. Coupled with the impacts of OHVs, the majority of trustees felt the time to act was now.

After the 4-3 vote, trustees were accused by some in the room of usurping the power of the people. George said later someone vandalized personal property at his home, which he believed was connected with his

A side-by-side rumbles down Blair Street in Silverton, part of the town’s current designated OHV route. Two separate votes would ask residents whether to ban OHVs in town or open the whole town up to them./ Photo by Missy Votel vote against OHVs. The not so clear path forward So, as it stands, the protest against the ban has reopened Silverton this summer to OHVs on the designated route, and the decision whether to prohibit the vehicles in town is expected to go to a general election in the next few months.

But not so fast.

In yet another snag, a second citizen petition submitted in the past few weeks has forced another special election slated for sometime between Aug. 2 - Nov. 1 with only two choices for voters: open the entire town to OHVs or revert to the existing des-

ignated routes. Perhaps intentionally written as such, the petition does not give residents the option for an outright ban.

Regardless, when asked how these two separate elections will affect the other, a town spokesman Wednesday was somewhat at a loss. And if history tells us anything, there’s sure to be any number of twists and turns over the next few months as residents reckon with the OHV issue in the apparently not-so-quiet mountain hamlet.

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thesecondsection Bryan Saren takes a cruise on one of his efoil boards at Lake Nighthorse recently. Saren started Southwest Foils last year to offer efoil sales, rentals, tours and lessons./ Courtesy photo

Up and coming No wave? No problem for latest toy to hit Durango shores, the efoil board

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ove over Wibit, paddleboard and surf boat, there’s a new toy on Lake Nighthorse: the efoil board.

Perhaps you’ve already spied one of these space-age Jestsons-like contraptions hovering above the water, its rider effortlessly cruising and carving along. Powered completely by lithium batteries, the boards utilize a small motor that lifts the boards above the surface on a carbon winglike structure (aka “foil”) allowing them to easily glide through chop, white caps and flat water alike. And, for the quiet Nighthorse crowd, since the boards are electric, they are completely silent.

“It’s smooth and quiet. When the waves are high, I’m above them,” Bryan Saren, the efoil master, said during a recent lesson/tour at Nighthorse.

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around renaissance man – began offering efoil lessons, rentals and tours through his company, Southwest Foils.

If last you checked a foil is something you use to wrap leftovers or give yourself a bad frost-and-tip job, you’re not alone. It’s a relatively new phenomenon in the water sports world. Although classic foil boards, i.e. with no motor, have been a fringe occurrence around the world’s surf breaks since the 1960s, it’s only in the last 10 years that electric boards have come on the scene.

The boards employ an old if not obscure technology that’s been around for more than a century: the hydrofoil. According to a reporter’s best friend, Wikipedia, the French and Brits were the first to pioneer and patent the technology on a watercraft, around the turn of the 19th century. Foils entail laws of physics that we won’t go into here, mostly because we’re don’t fully understand them, except to say they give boats less drag, al-

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lowing them to magically elevate above the water. And they look really cool, too.

That’s what first caught Saren’s eye when son Grey was watching foil board videos on the boob-Youtube a few years back.

“I thought, wow, those look cool,” Saren recalls. He did a little research, and that’s when he was blown away yet again. The price tag for making all those surface-dwelling boarders green with envy was a cool $12,000. (Then again, when you consider the cost of a surfboat and the monster truck to tow said surfboat, efoils can seem downright reasonable.)

Saren, who most recently finished building out the new Zia North, wasn’t deterred by the cost. He called the company, Puerto Rico-based Lift, and asked if they needed any reps, as none were listed on the website. As luck would have it, they did and took him up (no pun intended) on his offer.4

Saren is now the sole efoil rep, rental outlet and foil board whisperer for Lift in the region. He offers lessons, tours and rentals, not just on Nighthorse but Navajo, Powell and virtually any other body of water. In fact, they are just at home on the salty coast as they are inland. He recounts a scene over spring break, when he and his kids took the efoils to San Carlos, Mexico, to ride on the Gulf of California, and he was joined by Flicka and friends.

“I was riding with dolphins right next to me,” he recalled.

Of course, before one can ride with the dolphins, one must swim with the minnows. In other words, a little instruction is first in order, mostly due to the aforementioned price tag – wrecking one of these puppies would not be cheap. And while balancing above the water on a what amounts to a pogo stick may look tricky, Saren swears it is not.

“If you can stand up on a paddleboard, you can stand up on one of these. It’s easy,” he assures me during the recent lesson.

Being of a not-so-young age, I am naturally hesitant to try new water sports, or really anything new, especially if it involves me looking stupid. In a wetsuit. But because I have known Saren since my early Durangatang days – and to my knowledge no one has been killed or maimed efoiling on Lake Nighthorse – I agree to participate. Plus, I am a glutton for a story.

We start with a beach sesh, and to my relief there is no pop-up involved with foil boarding as in surfing, so maybe there is hope I can graduate from the foam pile. In fact, a handheld gizmo, kind of like a joy-

stick with a trigger, does all the work. Wetsuits, helmets and life jackets are provided.

And best of all, the helmets come mic’ed, allowing Saren to give you step-by-step instruction.

“It’s all a matter of an inch here and an inch there,” he reassures me. “I’m going to be in your ear walking you through all of this.”

After going over the basics – determining I am “goofy,” standing up, turning, how to fall, how not to fall, and landing and taking off (something called “touch and go”) – we hit the water.

Now for anyone who learned to water ski via the old school enema technique, I would like to say foil boarding is the exact opposite. With the calm voice of Saren in your ear, you lie on your stomach until you come up to a comfortable cruising speed (in my case a “3” on a scale of 15, but you gotta start somewhere.) Then, when you’re comfortable with the foil boarding equivalent of boogie boarding, you attempt to slowly stand up. Even this is a relaxed, easy-to-follow process, starting with all fours, then knees, then front leg and then back leg.

“We’ve got all the time in the world, we don’t have to rush things,” he says, sensing my complete and utter lack of coordination.

According to Saren, folks usually get up and are riding foil (i.e. above the water) within 15 minutes. Kids and women tend to be quicker at picking it up due to the subtle hip movements required to lift and land the board.

(Sorry dudes, you can’t muscle this.)

I’m not going to lie, I took some spills – including an unrecommended forward dive. But before long, guided by what I can

Wing-shaped carbon foils along with a small electric prop are what give the efoil boards lift, allowing them to glide with ease over flat and choppy water alike./ Courtesy photo only describe as the voice of god in my ear, I was able to get up and get on foil (a few times a little too high for my liking. Like rock climbing and sky-diving, sometimes it’s probably best to just not look down.)

Indeed, there was a kind of almost guilty serenity – like one person shouldn’t be allowed to have such a sublime surf-like experience with so little pain. No sand in the

orifices, no suit malfunctions, no arms ripping out of the sockets. And no enemas – nasal or otherwise. In fact, if it wasn’t for an awful cramp in my trigger hand foiling my uh, foiling, I’m pretty sure I could’ve gotten her up to 4. And maybe even seen some dolphins. But there’s always next time.

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Thursday10 Cafe au Play free outdoor baby group, 10 a.m.12 p.m., 495 Florida Road (behind Christ the King church). 970-749-9607 for more info.

SkaBQ, live music, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Ska Brewing World HQ, 225 Girard St. Adam Swanson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Jose Villareal, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. “Non-fatal attacks by black bears in the lower United States, 2000-17,” free online lecture, part of Bear Smart Durango’s online speaker series, 6:30-8 p.m.

Register at www.bearsmartdurango.org Trivia night 6:30-8:30 p.m., the Powerhouse Science Center, 1333 Camino Del Rio. No groups larger than eight. $5 suggested team donations. Cash bar, food available from Soup Palette and Mariana’s.

Beam Me Up Starlight Trivia Night, weekly 7:309:30 p.m., drag, trivia, prizes, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Jason Lythgoe, left, as Serge, and Jeff Graves, right, as Marc, in a scene from Merely Players current theatre al fresco production of Yasmina Reza’s comedy “ART.” Merely Players presents the show outside at the TBK Bank parking lot, 259 W. 9th St. The show runs June 10-12 at 6:30 p.m., and June 13 at 4 p.m.

Pay what you can. No reservations required. BYOC (bring your own chair) For info., go to www.merelyplayers.us. / Photo by Kara Cavalca

Deadline for “Stuff to Do” submissions is Monday at noon. To submit an item, email: calendar@durangotelegraph.com

Songwriters Circle featuring Thom Chacon, Anthony D’Amato and Daniel Rodriguez, live, inperson concert, 7 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. www.durangoconcerts.com

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San Juan Mountains Association’s Campground Concert Series featuring the San Juan String Band, 7-8 p.m., Junction Creek Campground Pavilion, free.

Durango Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-12 p.m., Saturdays through October. TBK Parking Lot, 259 W. 9th St. www.durangofarmersmarket.com

Dave Mensch, 7 p.m., Ernie’s @ 11th Street Station, corner of 11th & Main.

“The Fast and the Curious,” 5k/10k fun run to benefit the Durango and Cortez Adult Education Center, 8-11 a.m., Animas River Trail. For details or sign up: www.durangoadult.org

Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 8-10 p.m., The Roost, 128 E. College Dr.

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Explore the Japanese bokken (sword) and jo (staff) 9:30-10:30 a.m., Claire Viles Park (across from St. Columba). www.durangoaikido.com

Virtual Pro Se (free) Legal Clinic, 4-5 p.m. Call 970-563-9287 to sign up.

Bently Monk, 12 p.m., Ernie’s @ 11th Street Station, corner of 11th & Main.

Yes, No, Maybe plays, 5 p.m., Ernie’s @ 11th Street Station, corner of 11th & Main.

Reeder and Spencer play, 5 p.m., Music Under the Tent, Vallecito.

Red Eyed Djinn, 5 p.m., The Nugget Mountain Bar, HWY 550, south of Purgatory.

Reeder and Spencer, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Summer Music Series, Ignacio Library.

Alex Forstoff and Friend, 5 p.m., The Nugget Mountain Bar, HWY 550 south of Purgatory.

Adam Swanson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Adam Swanson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Dustin Burley, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Matt Rupnow, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Disco Night, 6-9 p.m., Chapman Hill Roller Rink.

Disco Night, 6-9 p.m., Chapman Hill Roller Rink.

Friday Nights at Fox Fire Farms, music, food & wine, 6-9 p.m., Fox Fire Farms, 5513 CR 321 Ignacio.

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The Shook Twins live in concert, 10 p.m., Sheridan Opera House, Telluride. www.sheridanoperahouse.com

Sunday13 Hillcrest Sunday Showcase: Sean O’Brien plays, 2-5 p.m., Hillcrest Golf Club.

7th Annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering Outdoor Concert & Barn Dance featuring Tim Sullivan Band, 5-8 p.m., River Bend Ranch. www.durangocowboygathering.org Blue Moon Ramblers play, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Rob Webster, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Monday14 Meditation and Dharma Talk, 5:30-6:15 p.m.

Online at www.durangodharmacenter.org Adam Swanson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Rob Webster, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Tuesday15 Teen Summer Learning Program: Frisbee Golf, 11 a.m.–12 p.m., Pine River Library park.

Bitcoin Study Group, Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m., Zia N.4

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International incident, growing turmoil and belly aches Interesting fact: That whole “humans use only 10% of their brains” thing is apparently a myth, and most of our brains are active most of the time. Not saying they’re usefully active. Just active.

Dear Rachel, I got myself into trouble. I started dating an Italian woman not long ago. Not a serious committed relationship or anything, but it’s going well. Then I went on a couple dates with a lovely Argentinian woman. Also not serious and committed. But now, I’m terrified. Not to lean on stereotypes, but both these woman are as fiery as you might imagine. If they ever find out about each other, I’m as good as a roasted piglet. Any guidance for navigating my way out of this one?

– Aguas Peligrosas Dear Boiling Over, I hate to point out the obvious, but… haven’t you noticed how extremely white our corner of Colorado is?

There are only so many Italian or Argentinian women around. If they read this, they’ll have really good odds of figuring out you’re the person in question. I don’t know what the odds are, exactly, but they’re really, really high.

Like… I think I know who these women are already.

– You’re done for, Rachel

don’t own my home, let alone the dirt around it where these plants will go. But they will make me happy, so it is worth it. But now I am left with just a couple big looming questions: how will I make rent this month? And if I get evicted, can I dig up the plants and take them with me? Or do they belong to the house now?

– Pulling Up Roots Dear Planter’s Warts, What if you proposed a trade? Say, you cut a deal with your landlord/lady/person: throw out a number (like, oh, $400) in reduced rent in exchange for beautifying the property. The worst that happens is they say no, and you’re left to sell your organs to make rent. I’ve done that. Turns out I really don’t use 90% of my brain.

At least, not anymore.

– Rooting for the home team, Rachel Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com Dear Rachel, Yay end of the pandemic! I had friends over for the first time in a year. We had a lovely brunch. The other couple brought food to share, my girlfriend and I cooked a main dish, and all was well with the world. Then one friend excused herself to the bathroom. Then the other guest excused himself. Then she excused herself again. Then he excused himself again. And these were not quick trips. Yet my girlfriend and I were fine. We all ate the same food. Should I be

worried about some delayed-onset violent expulsions here?

– Ticking Time Bomb Dear Rumbles, I must note that you didn’t specify if they excused themselves to the restroom together or separately.

Maybe the departures weren’t digestive at all! Maybe they had much more romantic intentions. Like, perhaps they were each sneaking out to pay quick visits to their Italian lovers under cover of gastrointestinal distress.

– Buon appetito, Rachel

patio. For info., call 970-426-2464 or email bitcoinstudygroup@protonmail.com

Terry Rickard, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

Tuesdays June 8 - July 31. For babies thru adults. Stop by or call the library to get started.

Adam Swanson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

The Jeff Solon Jazz Duo, 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays thru Sept. 8, Dandelion Café, 725 E. 2nd Ave.

Sean O’Brien, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave.

“Staying Safe in Bear Country,” free online lecture, part of Bear Smart Durango’s online speaker series, 6:30-8 p.m. Register at bearsmartdurango.org

Outdoor Family Storytime, June 17, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, northeast lawn. All unvaccinated people are requested to wear a mask.

True Western Rodeo, 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays ‘til August, La Plata County Fairgrounds.

All Ages Summer Learning Program: Rock Painting, June 18, 3-6 p.m., Pine River Library park.

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iAM Music Fest, featuring Miller and the Other Sinners, June 18, 5-9 p.m., The Nugget Bar, south of Purgatory.

Tickets: www.iammusicfest.us

Dear Rachel, Soooo I just spent $400 on plants at the local nursery. Let me tell you, $400 in plants is not as many plants as I would have guessed. Sure, I

Wednesday16 Virtual book club, 2-3 p.m., non-traditional book club to discuss what you’ve been reading or watching lately.

Email spenser.snarr@durangogov.org for info. or to register.

Trail Work at Twin Buttes, 4:30-7 p.m. Registration required at www.durangotrails.org

Mountain Archery Fest, June 11-13, Purgatory Resort.

Info. at www.purgatoryresort.com

“Smoking and Vaping: The Real Deal,” 5-6:30 p.m., Durango Rec Center. Sign up at tosh.black@durangofire.org or 970-382-6014.

Episode 7 of the Actor’s Journal now streaming, featuring Henry Winkler and more. Presented by the Durango Playfest. For tickets, go to: www.durangoplayfest.org/actors-journal

Explore the Japanese bokken (sword) and jo (staff) 5:30-6:30 p.m., Claire Viles Park (across from St. Columba). www.durangoaikido.com Adam Swanson, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

The Pine River Valley Heritage Society Museum, open from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 East Mill St., Bayfield. Admission is free.

Summer reading at Durango Public Library,

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“Frozen: II,” free Movie in the Park, June 18, Durango Rec Center lawn, seating starts at 7:45 p.m., movie starts 15 minutes after sunset.

Bear Smart Bird Feeder Exchange, June 19, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Bring in your bird feeder and get a hanging flower basket, Pine River Library park.

Trail Party Enduro Race gravity stage racing, Sat., June 20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Purgatory Resort, www.purgatoryresort.com

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries actor Leonard Nimoy became mega-famous by playing the role of Spock, an alien from the planet Vulcan in the “Star Trek” franchise. He always enjoyed the role, but in 1975 he wrote an autobiography called I Am Not Spock. In it, he clarified how different he was from the character he performed. In 1995, Nimoy published a follow-up autobiography, I Am Spock, in which he described the ways in which he was similar to the fictional alien.

In the spirit of Nimoy’s expansive self-definition, Aries, and in accordance with current astrological potentials, I invite you to make it clear to people exactly who you are and who you aren’t.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The poet Rumi declared, “A lover has four streams inside, of water, wine, honey and milk.” With that in mind, Taurus, I will recommend that you seek a boost in the honey department. Your passions and feelings have been flowing along fairly well, but lately they’ve lacked some sweetness. As a result, you’re not receiving as much of the sweetness you need from the world around you. So your assignment is to intensify the honey stream within you! Remember the principle, “Like attracts like.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m glad you’re not on the planet Saturn right now. The winds there can blow at 1,000 miles per hour. But I would like you to feel a brisk breeze as you wander around in nature here on Earth. Why? Because according to my interpretation of the current astrological omens, winds will have a cleansing effect on you. They will clear your mind of irrelevant worries and trivial concerns. They’ll elevate your thoughts as well as your feelings. Do you know the origin of the English word “inspire”? It’s from the Latin word inspirare, meaning “blow into, breathed upon by spirit.” Its figurative meaning is “to inspire, excite, inflame.” The related Latin word spiritus refers to “a breathing of the wind” and “breath of a god” – hence “inspiration; breath of life.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Franz Kafka put his characters into surreal dilemmas. In his novella The Metamorphosis, for example, the hero wakes up one day to find he has transformed into a giant insect. Despite his feral imagination, however, Kafka had a pragmatic relationship with consumerism. “I do not read advertisements,” he said. “I would spend all of my time wanting things.” In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to adopt his earthy attitude for the next two weeks.

Take a break from wanting things, period.

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yearnings that constantly demand your attention. Please note: This break in the action won’t be forever. It’s just a vacation.

When you return to wanting things, your priorities will have been realigned and healed, and you’ll feel refreshed.

money to pay his debt. The story was titled The Gambler. Its hero was a not-very-successful gambler. Is there a comparable antidote in your future, Scorpio? A gambit that somehow makes use of the problem to generate the cure? I suspect there is.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Umberto Eco declared that beauty is boring because it “must always follow certain rules.” A beautiful nose has to be just the right shape and size, he said, while an “ugly nose” can be ugly in a million different unpredictable ways. I find his definition narrow and boring, and prefer that of philosopher Francis Bacon, who wrote, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” Poet Charles Baudelaire agreed, saying, “That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment – is an essential part and characteristic of beauty.” Then there’s the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, which reveres beauty that’s imperfect, transitory, and incomplete. Beginning now, and for the rest of 2021, Leo, I encourage you to ignore Eco’s dull beauty and cultivate your relationship with the more interesting kind.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): In her poem “Escape,” Michelle Tudor addresses a lover: “Inside of you: a dream raging to be set free.” She implies that she would like to be a collaborator who provides assistance and inspiration in liberating her companion’s dream. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to make a similar offer to an ally you care for – and to ask that ally to do the same for you. And by the way: What is the dream inside you that’s raging to be set free? And what’s the dream inside your comrade?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the more evocative passages in J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Return of the King is about the warrior Éowyn. It says, “Then the heart of Éowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter passed, and the sun shone on her.” I’m predicting a comparable transformation for you in the near future, Virgo. There’ll be some fundamental shift in the way your heart comprehends life. When that happens, you will clearly fathom some secrets about your heart that have previously been vague or inaccessible. And then the sun will shine upon you with extra brilliance.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran actor and author Carrie Fisher had more than the average number of inner demons. Yet she accomplished a lot and was nominated for and won many professional awards. Here’s the advice she gave: “Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident.” I hope you’ll employ that strategy in the coming weeks, dear Libra. The time is favorable for you to work hard on your number one goal no matter what your emotions might be at any particular moment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–81) had a gambling addiction for many years.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Martha Beck has helpful counsel for you to keep returning to during the coming weeks. “It isn’t necessary to know exactly how your ideal life will look,” she writes. “You only have to know what feels better and what feels worse. Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than on how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realization of the Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author James Dickey celebrated “the holy secret of flowing.” But he added, “You must be made for it.” In other words, he implied that the secret of flowing is a luxury only some of us have access to. And because we “must be made for it,” he seemed to suggest that being in possession of the secret of flowing is due to luck or genetics or privilege.

But I reject that theory. I think anyone can tap into the secret of flowing if they have the desire and intention to do so. Like you! Right now! You’re primed to cultivate a robust relationship with the holy flow.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Why do humans enjoy much longer life spans than other higher primates? Here’s one reason: grandmothers. Anthropologists propose that earlier in our evolution, families with elder females especially thrived. The grandmothers helped care for children, ensuring greater health for everyone as well as a higher rate of reproduction than grandmother-less broods. Their longevity genes got passed on, creating more grandmothers. Lucky! Having older women around while growing up has been key to the success of many of us. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to celebrate and honor the role your own grandmothers and female elders have played in your life. And if you’re a grandmother, celebrate and honor yourself!

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GarageSales Durango West 1 Neighborhood Sale June 12, 8am–4pm. Large multi-family sale, great items include rock climbing gear, road bike, clothes, toys, lg/sm appliances, furn., camping, etc. 7 miles west on 160.

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Apply to Join the Genesis Alkali Team Genesis Alkali employs approximately 950 people at eight processing plants and an underground mining operation that is 1,600 feet (488 meters) below the Earth’s surface. We are proud of employing several generations of reliable, hard-working families over many decades and are determined to maintain a culture of safety as a core value. We currently have openings for the following positions: • Mine Supervisor • Senior Process Engineer • Process Control Systems Engineer • Engineering Project Manager • Electrician • Project Manager, Electrical • Electrical Engineer • QC Lab Supervisor • Mechanics Why Join Genesis Alkali?

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• Pension for hourly union employees plus an opportunity to participate in a 401(k) savings plan. The company does not provide a matching contribution for pension eligible employees.

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