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A TAILING TAIL

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HUMOR

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The Last Hand

Bombeck remembered The new year is a good time to remember Erma’s philosophy

If I had my life to live over … By Erma Bombeck I would have invited friends he wasn’t a over to dinner, politician, even if the carpet never held was stained and public office, but the sofa faded. offered advice BY BOB SWEENEY I would have from her heart eaten the popcorn in the good living that seemed to heal room and worried much less about our souls and tickle our funny the dirt when someone wanted to bones. I heard Erma Bombeck light a fire in the fireplace. speak many years ago. She I would have taken the time to addressed a newspaper audience listen to my grandfather ramble at our annual press convention about his youth. at the stately Brown Palace. I would never have insisted She confessed her addiction to the car windows be rolled up on a smoking, which likely ended her summer day because my hair had life before her time. just been teased and sprayed. As we end 2016 and begin the I would have burned the pink challenges of a new year, we all candle sculptured like a rose before it melted in storage. can take a lesson from Erma.

I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains. I would have cried and laughed less while watching television, and more while watching life. I would have gone to bed when I was sick, instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I wasn’t there for the day. I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn’t show soil or was guaranteed to last a lifetime. Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished every moment, realizing that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. When my kids kissed impetuously, I would never have said, “Later, now go get washed up for dinner.” There would have been more “I love you’s” and more “I’m sorrys,” but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute— look at it and really see it—live it. And never give it back!

Review of 2016 and a preview of 2017

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BY LARRY JOHNSON

Wow - is 2016 over already? It seems like yesterday I was toasting the New Year coming in; playing that fun first hand of the year; and making those New Year’s poker resolutions promising myself I would play better. Playing better meant not chasing those long shot oneouters - and I stuck to this until mid-January. Playing better also meant getting up from the table when ahead when the cards start to turn - and I stuck to this until the third week in February. Finally, playing better meant not allowing the game to beat me up - and I stuck to this until early March when I allowed a player to get under my skin, played too long, and had a big losing session. Once

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I veered from the game I wanted to play, I found myself making the same mistakes on occasion throughout the rest of the year - costing me money. Just like the lead character Mike McDermott narrates from the book “Confessions of a Winning Poker Player” in the iconic poker movie Rounders, “Few players recall big pots they have won, strange as it seems, but every player can remember with remarkable accuracy the outstanding tough beats of his career” - I sure remember the beats from above that occurred in 2016. I find that poker is kind of like a diet - if you stick to your commitments and do what you know you should do, the weight comes off but, if you break your own rules and lose some weight for a short period of time, you will not lose as much as you should in the long run. Poker is the same way - if you play bad even for just one

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hand, it creates bad habits (like renee@villagerpublishing.com calling for long shot draw) and, while it may feel good at the time, in the long runs cost you. Looking back at the year, it’s clear I broke my commitments www.coloradogambler.com coloradogambler cogambler to myself and did not win as much as I could have. My results for 2016 turned out all right - I won a bit and averaged just over $8 an hour while playing. Winning sessions outnumbered losing sessions by nearly a 3 to 2 ratio conservative to get a good start the table when ahead when the cards start to turn; and finally, with my largest win just over to the session. But with the mistakes I con- not allowing the game to beat $4,000. In that specific session me up. It means to have fun I did get up as the cards began tinued to allow myself to make when playing; play to win; and the year, I firmly throughout to turn and felt that I left with make the game fun for others believe the wins were not as big everything I could. My biggest no matter what has happened loss was $2,900 and was due as they could have been. In the with the cards. to staying at the table much too corporate world, we call that Back before the World SeWill vs. Want in other words long in the session mentioned ries became such a huge global I knew what to do and had the above. event, the same Mike McDerThe majority of my play in will but chose to do something mott from the movie Round2016 was at the $30 - $60 Limit else so did not have the want to ers said “Why do you think the Hold em game with just over 20 stick to my plan. same five guys make it to the My rallying cry for 2017 is final tale of the World Series of percent of hands played at the $2 - $5 / $100 Limit Hold em simple - “Don’t break my own Poker every year? What - are game. Interestingly enough, I rules - play well all the time!” I they the luckiest guys in Las Vedid not have a winning record at know how to play so I have the gas? It’s a skill game.” the $2 - $5 game but did at the will - now I have to stick to the So - my game plan for 2017 smaller and less played $1 - $2 / want, show some discipline, will be designed to maximize $100 Limit Hold em game. This and see the long-term results! the skills I have learned over This will mean not chasing the years and be the best poker may be because when I played the smaller game I was always those long shot one-outers and player I can be - all the time. waiting for a bigger game so sticking to the percentages; Remember - play your game played better, tighter, and more this also means getting up from (I know I will!)

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Crossword Puzzle 1

1. Coffee shop next to Black Hawk post office (8, 5) 10. Largest island in the Firth of Clyde (5) 11. Transforms civilians to be combat ready (5, 8) 13. Reginald (3) 14. World Series champs (3, 4) 16. Charlie’s in Central City (3) 17. One got punched on YouTube (3)

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1. Connects the Atlantic to the Black Sea (13) 2. UK but not the Wildcats (6, 7) 3. San Miguel county ski resort (9) 4. Former sixer and Nugget (7) 5. Former British PM (6) 6. Valuable rock (3) 7. Massachusetts export (11) 8. Largest Chinese ethnic group (3)

18. French summer (3) 20. British comedian, Mayall (3) 21. NY Gael University (4) 23. Poison front man Michaels (4) 24. Home-made bomb (3) 26. Fabricator (4) 28. 1977 film directed by Woody Allen (5, 4) 32. A horse getting on the spouse’s nerves (3)

33. Look under the hole card (4) 34. Basque group (3) 36. The Eagle ski jumper (5) 38. Manning’s university (2) 39. Spanish bear (3) 40. All in one (3) 41. Can be City or Utd (3) 43. Pellet gun (2) 44. Dad (2) 45. Music quiz show (4,4,4)

9. Operation High Jump went on there after WW2 (10) 12. Scripture in school (2) 15. Weekley golfer (3) 19. Upcoming announcement (3) 22. Northern suburb of Dallas (5) 25. Canadian unemployment (2) 27. Of that type (3) 29. Comaneci, first to score a 10 (5)

30. Sauce and car power (2) 31. Health care company (5) 35. Drink alcohol like a small shark (4) 37. First responder (3) 39. Shawnee university (3) 42. Expression of relief 2) 43. UK phone giant (2)

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Solar power emerging as viable green energy

2017 is here, and solar power is emerging as a viable green sustainable energy source. Costs are dropping for this clean energy, which is a trend that’s likely to continue in the foreseeable future, according to Mother Earth Living. The way we produce energy now is changing thanks to market forces, consumer choices and government policies. Utilization of more clean solar energy can help to protect our beautiful earth of preying on it harmful, destructive energy sources. Breakthroughs in solar technology have resulted in lowered production costs for such items as solar panels, phone chargers, outdoor lighting and solar-powered keyboards. The price of hardware once controlled solar prices, but now most of the cost for consumers comes from marketing, labor, PAGE 4

permits and inspection. Regulators are still working out the rules for solar, but when the industry is better established, prices should drop even more. As a result, 2017 is shaping up to be a big year for this renewable energy source. In fact, this may be the year that we may be able to afford to go green with more solarpowered gadgets. For several years, I have worn a solar wrist watch powered by natural and artificial light. It has never failed me even though I don’t spend much time in the sun, and I never have to buy batteries for it. I am going to look for more efficient solar powered green devices. A combination of market forces and government incentives

has led to the fall in solar panel prices. Many power companies now offer rebates for using solar panels. The exact rebates, however, may vary by cost of electricity and location. An online solar calculator can help determine what exact costs would be. Solar panels have recently gotten more visually appealing as well.

Going Green

Some solar panels now have been camouflaged to look just like regular roofing tiles. Environmentally-friendly solar cell phone chargers also are more reasonably priced. People on-the-go can find chargers between $10 and $80 for use anywhere. Portable solar chargers can charge most cell phones at almost regular speed, utilizing less than a full day’s worth of sunshine. Some are lightweight, but larger models are also available, which can charge things like laptops and televisions. For those looking for a sustainable portable charging solution, solar may become your best bet. It’s now possible to use solaroutdoor powered lighting to enjoy the outdoors for a reason-

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able price. Outdoor landscape lighting, porch lights and other solar options are cost-effective, require no electricity and look nice, too. Many models can also be put on a timer to turn on automatically when it gets dark. They may not be as bright as electric lighting and may not last as long, especially if it’s a cloudy day, but solar is still a great lighting option for the outdoors. With a solar-powered keyboard, you won’t need to be changing the batteries in your wireless keyboard again. The keyboards are charged with natural or artificial light and will hold a charge for three entire months even in complete darkness, according to Logitech. Because these keyboards hold a charge for so long, you really won’t need to worry about the battery life of your wireless keyboard again. Solar power is now becoming affordable for the average person as a sustainable energy source. 2017 may be the year solar really gets to shine. January 3 - 16, 2017

A Tailing Tale A Tailing Tale of Dolores Spellman, Matriarch of Black Hawk Born January 10, reporter covered Black 1933 in Chase Gulch, Hawk’s School Band Dolores Blake Spelland she said, “There’s By Maggie man proudly states not a whole lot to say, Magoffin she is the oldest native but just recently I read resident still living in this article again and Black Hawk. As I sat thought people might down with the town like to know what they matriarch recently, said about Black Hawk, she pointed out on a and how the school had picture of the town ev22 students and 17 were ery location that has in the band.” With great Maggie@maggiempublications.com been an integral part enthusiasm, she went of her life for the past on to explain. “We did 82 years. With the sweetest smile, have a good band and Miss Gibbons, sparkling eyes, and her beautiful gray was our teacher. It was a one-room braid piled atop her head, she pointed school. She taught my dad, too. She to each location. “This here is Chase was there forever. The idea about the Gulch where I was born. This is where band was that we were so little and so I was raised, in the Gilpin Hotel. This poor a town, except we had this fantasis where I went to school, and this is tic little band, thanks to this man who where I still go to church, at St. Mary’s was a great band teacher. His name was George Roy. I played the clarinet. in Central City.” She handed me a 1944 copy of We had to buy our own instruments The School Musician (A national and Mr. Roy wouldn’t let us have the magazine) and pointed out an ar- instruments until we could name the ticle written about the Black Hawk notes and keep time and that.” School Band. She said, “You want Then she showed me a program to talk about the band?” She had the from 1944 for a performance of Paul magazine open to the pages where a Loses the Ration Books, and she

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said, “Back then, Fritz Hall was above where Johnny Z’s is now, and that was where we had our programs.” I asked Dolores to tell me what it was like to grow up in Black Hawk. She explained that she and her sister, Elizabeth, were born at the house in Chase Gulch where Professor Robert Cameron now lives. Then in 1944, her parents, Ruth and Otto O. Blake purchased the Gilpin Hotel. Dolores said, “When they bought the Gilpin, Mama borrowed $300 from Joe Barzago who had Barzago’s Grocery Store. It was a lot of money in the 40’s, but the building was in pretty good shape. Mama hired a paper hanger named Papa Conrad, or something like that, and he stayed there at the hotel until he finished hanging all the paper.” The she asked me, “Have you ever heard of Dic-A-Doo?” I had to admit that I had not, so she explained, “It was a cleaner and Sissy and I scrubbed all the woodwork in the hotel with DicA-Doo. And there was this one room that was dedicated to the pigeons. The family that lived there—and I’m not sure if they were squatters, but they weren’t paying any rent—but anyway they had broken out a window on the third floor and setup bedsprings for the pigeons to roost in, so we had to clean that room really good.” In 1945, Dolores’s youngest sister, Linda, was born and joined the rest of the family at the Gilpin. Not long after that, Dolores recounts how her grandmother became seriously ill and came to live with them so they could care for her. At that time, there were 20 rooms and one bathroom and Dolores fondly recalls a swamper that worked for her mother by the name of Carl James. “One thing I will always remember that Carl did for me was when Grandma was bedridden. We had the one bathroom and we had to carry the potty down this hall, up the stairs and down another hall, and I was going up the stairs one day and I fell. Carl helped me clean it up.” Later, Otto installed a downstairs bathroom off the kitchen for the family. Dolores chuckled and told me, “It wasn’t long before the guests learned of that bathroom and they were using it too.” She recalled, “We did all the washing with the old washing machine and we hung our clothes out back of the Hepburger house (the old Wild Card casino). We hung the clothes out there and when Sissy and I came home from school, we’d take the sheets off the lines and put them on the beds. Mama did have people help-out in the season, but we did a lot of making beds and carrying coal for the pot-belly stoves in all the rooms. We didn’t have

to work elsewhere because Mama kept us plenty busy.” In 1946, Dolores also kept busy helping her grandmother clean the Central City Opera house and many years later Dolores was a tour guide at the Teller House and Opera House. She said, “We had some great times at the Gilpin, lots of holiday celebrations and I had my 16th birthday party there. Mama had a surprise party and invited my friends from school.” She explained, “We don’t have many pictures from back then because we couldn’t afford the camera and film, but we had lots of good times.” Black Hawk in those days was very poor, and Dolores said during the years they owned the Gilpin, from 1944 to 1953, the hotel never made any money. If Otto hadn’t worked for the mill, then for the county and later for Coors, they couldn’t have kept it open as long as they did. She said, “I remember when the welfare people came to the house with commodities and dresses for my sister and myself. They were all alike. They were blue, red and yellow check. That was after the depression was over.” After Dolores graduated from high school in 1951, she went to Denver to find work and landed a job as a soda jerk at Walgreen’s, but that didn’t work out because she said she was never very good as a waitress. She said, “When Mama had the dining room at the Gilpin and I tried to serve people, I would spill soup down somebody’s neck.” Then she landed a job as a receptionist for Tolin Air Conditioning. She stayed at a boarding house in Denver, but came back to Black Hawk to the Gilpin with regularity, and that is where she met her husband of over 60 years, Bill Spellman. She recalled with

great fondness and humor how Bill came to Black Hawk from Kansas to be an author. He travelled there with an artist friend, and after he saw Dolores, he was determined to woo her. He even went so far as to bribe one of her school friends, Douglas Prentice, to give him her telephone number. And as she said, “The rest is history.” They were married at St. Mary’s church in 1954 and after the birth of their daughter, Sandra, in 1955, Dolores stayed at home to raise her children. She said she would babysit other children and take in odd jobs. And later she and Bill had Mark and David. She laughed and told me, “Can you believe we raised three kids in this little house?” Bill and Dolores still live in that little home, it is the pretty, purple house above the new post office and park area. Dolores and her family (Blakes and Spellmans) have been a driving force in the City of Black Hawk since its beginnings when the first Blake dipped his pan into the creek looking for gold in 1859. Dolores worked for over 12 years at the Lodge Casino and the Gilpin, and has always been a strong advocate of gambling in Black Hawk. She was instrumental in getting the beautiful chimes installed that ring out from the old schoolhouse every day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.. A quest she set out to accomplish nearly 10 years ago by proposing the petition and gaining the approval of the town council. Today, you’ll still see Dolores and Bill at city events and walking around town. Black Hawk is their home. Unlike others who bailed when the going got tough, they have no plans to leave the place Dolores refers to as our “Heaven on earth.”

FROM MAGGIE

Be sure to check out my website for past columns at www.MaggieMPublications.com. The first two books in my Misadventures of the Cholua Brother’s Series are available on my website, on Amazon.com, Lulu.com and BarnesandNoble.com. They can also be bought through the Gilpin Historical Museum and Mountain Menagerie in Central City. Watch for the release of the third and final book in the series Bonanza Beans available in late February or early March. Cholua Brothers Mining Company specialty coffees are available at Mountain Menagerie in Central City or from their website at www.choluabros.com. This column was previously published in the Central City Weekly Register-Call. Send in your tales – Mail your stories with contact information: Maggie M P.O. Box 746495 Arvada, CO 80006-6495 Email: Maggie@maggiempublications.com If you prefer to tell me your story orally and have me write it for you, please feel free to call me at 303-881-3321.

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Check your texts and other lessons from 2016 I made at least What’s-Her-Name. one person mad in But recently I met 2016. There might someone else with a be more, but one was movie name who, in a mad enough to say so. not-so-pleasant way, You know how when informed me that not you’re introduced to everyone feels that someone named Ruway. I won’t say who, dolf, you’re tempted because he asked me to say, “You do have never to use his name a very shiny nose.” again. Or when you meet Anyway, it’s just BY DOROTHY ROSBY drosby@rushmore.com someone named Mcone of the valuable Donald, you’re overlessons I learned in come with the urge to say “Ee-I- 2016. And as I begin a new year, ee-I-o” or “Would you like fries I like to take stock of everything with that?” I learned in the past one. Don’t You’re not? Well I am and I worry; it doesn’t take long. know I’m not alone. I’ve heard I didn’t learn how to make up “We’re not in Kansas anymore” my mind in 2016, but I did learn and “I’m going to get you and that I should learn to. Nine your little dog too!” so many times out of 10, when my hustimes I nearly broke into a cho- band parks to run into a busirus of Somewhere Over the ness, I choose to stay in the car. Rainbow just thinking about it. Eight times out of nine, I change I’ve never minded. That other my mind after he’s gotten out, Dorothy seems to help people taken his keys and locked the remember my name, and it doors out of habit. I’ve learned beats going through life as old the hard way, which is my main

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method of learning, that trying to get out of the car at this point sets off the car alarm. I’m not sure why. You’d think that if there were ever a thief in your car, you’d want him to get out. I learned that loyalty doesn’t pay. Or anyway it doesn’t if you can’t find your loyalty card when you need it. I have loyalty and membership cards for every hotel, convenience store and fast food restaurant in the five-state region. I have the potential to save hundreds of dollars on buy-10-get-1-free punch cards. And now I know I should locate them before I get

tion. I learned to break for lunch. Anyone who knows how I am about lunch probably thought I already knew that. But just because I don’t break, doesn’t mean I don’t eat. My almost daily habit is to eat lunch at my desk while I go through emails. If you were to shake my computer keyboard upside down, the equivalent of a four-course meal would probably fall out, though I doubt you’d want to eat it. I finally decided I might have time to break for lunch the day I was lunching on a turkey avocado sandwich and I absent-

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