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Editor’s Letter

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ince 2010, when I moved back home after living in San Francisco for many years, I have been giving my husband an extended tour of the Roaring Fork Valley. I am a Colorado native.

But Mason had been a life-long West Coaster, and I wanted him to feel, as John Denver put it in Rocky Mountain High, that he was “coming home to a place he’d never been before.”

Considering the letters that Mason has been sending to San Francisco friends—extolling our art, our theatre, the bike trails, the scenery, the Aspen Music Festival, the welcoming people here—that extended tour has been a success. Our San Francisco friends have stopped clucking about how sad it is that we moved to the middle of nowhere, and started coming to visit instead!

With this inaugural issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle magazine, it’s my pleasure to both wish you happy holidays and to welcome you to join an extended tour of our wonderful valley. Our magazine will cover the Roaring Fork Valley from Old Snowmass down to Glenwood, and the Colorado River Valley from No Name out to New Castle.

In this holiday issue, we will give you a peek behind the scenes at the Glenwood Vaudeville and introduce you to True Nature Healing Arts, a new yoga retreat, spa and teahouse in Carbondale. You’ll get to see the Frying Pan Valley and meet some adorable puppies courtesy of Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE) and one of our more-famous locals, Neil Diamond. Life-long valley resident Dr. Greg Feinsinger will tell you why he’s on a mission to introduce us to the benefits of vegetarian eating, and our Driver’s Notebook will review an electric car, the Chevy Volt. (I drove one myself and I’m giving it a personal thumbs up.)

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contributing photographers Katie McNeil Diamond, Amy Kimberly Nicolette Toussaint,

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In this month’s issue, we’ll give you a news roundup that gives you a look at Carbondale’s new Launchpad dance facility and Glenwood’s ice rink makeover, and our calendar will help you plan your holiday season. We will be printing these features every month, and I invite you to send your news, events and photos to me—NToussaint@LifestylePubs.com—to round out our view of the Roaring Fork lifestyle. Let the festivities begin.

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I love the safe environment that we have here. We enjoy good schools, strong communities and wonderful social and recreational opportunities. We have engaged nonprofits that give us art, music and sports, and lend a hand to care for neighbors in need. If I were trying to capture in a single word what’s so great about the Roaring Fork Valley, it’s community.

The whole family of Lifestyle Publications—there are now 27 of them across the U.S.—is devoted to community.

big part of why I bought into the Lifestyle publication, and why I chose to start this local magazine.

With the great reads and beautiful photography you will find in our monthly Roaring Fork Lifestyle, I think we’re off to a great start. I hope you will join us in creating a sense of community and that we will be exploring and celebrating this special corner of the world together for a long time to come.

So welcome to the first issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle magazine!

Sincerely,

Rick French, Publisher RFrench@LifestylePubs.com

My two sons and two daughters are grown now, and I have come to a time in my life when I want to give back and to grow our interconnections in the valley. Lifestyle’s emphasis on community is a

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LAUNCHPAD GIVES DANCERS AND ARTISTS A NEW HOME IN CARBONDALE The sky’s the limit for creativity in Carbondale’s old Gordon Cooper library, as circus artists dangle from bright silks hanging down two stories from the now-open ceiling and ballet dancers stretch in front of new barres and mirrors. The old library is the new home of the Dance Initiative and the Carbondale Council for Arts and Humanities (CCAH). Dubbed the Launchpad, the new facility opened on October 8th with a sage smoke and poetry blessing and the opening of CCAH’s Support Women Artists Now (SWAN) show. The building now features two visual art galleries. The two dance areas--both with “sprung” floors used by professional dancers--are a 680-foot, soundproof room and a 1150-square foot open studio. Dancers can rent space for $8-$20 an hour. Details at LaunchpadCarbondale.com.

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Our local Roaring Fork Valley United Way recently launched a Get Connected website that enables volunteers to learn what local charities need in terms of donated equipment, supplies, money and time. “The website is sort of a social-media signup that automatically matches nonprofits to residents’ interests,” explains United Way Executive Director Amy Barr. “The site has been partially funded by Garfield County, because the County Commissioners recognized that many people want to help their communities, but don’t know where to start or whom to contact.” The website allows any nonprofit or community organization to set up their own pages. The website is UnitedWayGarco.org.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE BUILDS INNOVATION CENTER IN BASALT The Roaring Fork Valley’s world-renowned energy think tank, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), broke ground on a 15,610 square-foot Innovation Center in October. RMI says that the Institute will be used to ”convene global energy leaders with whom we collaborate to transform the energy system” and it will “demonstrate to the world how deep green buildings are designed, contracted, constructed, and occupied.” RMI is expecting to get multiple environmental certifications for the building.

FLAT TOPS PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OPEN IN NEW CASTLE The new pedestrian bridge in New Castle opened in November and has been named “Flat Tops Bridge” after the area’s most prominent geological feature. The new Talbot Trail runs from the Apple Tree and Mountain Shadows neighborhood to the bridge, giving pedestrians safe access along County Road 335 and across the Colorado River.

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Glenwood Vaudeville Pulls Out All the Stops for the Holidays ARTICLE NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

Gorst is quite willing to make a fool of himself for Jonathan your holiday pleasure—he’ll dress up in an elf costume. With a silly hat. And little gold balls hanging from the ends of his curly-toed shoes.

He will let children bop him on the head with plastic hosepipes to play a festive tune.

He will pull out all the stops—literally.

Jonathan Gorst is the newest member of the Glenwood Vaudeville Review. Before becoming the Vaudeville’s music director, he spent a large portion of his life living out of suitcases. He has been the conductor and music director for road productions of such legendary Broadway shows as “Phantom of the Opera” and “CATS.” In 2013, his last year on the road, he visited 35 different cities.

Gorst has been friends with John Goss, the artistic and managing director of the Vaudeville Review, for many years. The two met during a 1994 theatrical production in Cripple Creek, and when Goss founded the Vaudeville in 2009, he asked Gorst to join the company. At that point, Gorst “couldn’t escape from Phantom.”

But Gorst repeatedly dropped in for guest performances, and when the company moved into its new theatre at 915 Grand Avenue last fall, he came into town during vacation to help Goss open it.

Since Gorst recently bought a house in Glenwood with his

wife Marissa, a dancer in the Aspen-Santa Fe Ballet, he can probably slip out of his seven-league boots. “Being back in my home state is really wonderful,” says Gorst. “There’s nowhere else with the population density of this valley that has this much top-notch art. It really appeals to me as an artist. I have come to an age where I have done everything I wanted to do with my career, but still want to keep contributing my talents.

This is what I wanted to find.”

“Being in Glenwood has a certain feeling,” he continues. “It reminds me of what Woodland Park and Colorado Springs felt like growing up. With all of the regional theaters and arts groups here, I think that there has always been a greater appreciation for the arts as a whole here in Colorado.”

Judging from the comments left by 134 different reviewers on TripAdvisor.com, audiences certainly have an appreciation for the Vaudeville. It rates four and half out of a possible five stars, and is, in the words of one reviewer, “so funny it makes your cheeks hurt.” The Glenwood Vaudeville Revue is a two-hour dinner theater show during which a ten-member cast performs comedy skits, tells jokes, capers in high-energy dance numbers and sings songs that range from operatic to absurd.

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century Wurlitzer photoplayer piano, an instrument that is part player piano and part sound effects machine. Photoplayer pianos, historically used to accompany silent films, are pneumatically powered. That’s where the phrase “pull out all the stops” comes from. By pulling various levers, or “stops,” Gorst says he can play organ and add piano, then add a little xylophone, add some snare drum, and then sound effects. The slide whistle is a classic.

The Vaudeville’s holiday show opened the day after Thanksgiving and runs through January 4.

“All kinds of fun things happen,” promises Gorst. “During the second act, the whole cast dresses up as elves.

For most of act two, we turn the place into Santa’s workshop. We play a variety of holiday music—some more virtuosic and beautiful, some classics.

Then we perform songs with plastic pipes. The actors play tunes by hitting kids on the head with the plastic tubing. Then we teach the kids to do it; they get to come up on stage and whack the actors with the pipes.”

In addition to Gorst and Goss, the cast includes the funny and tuneful vaudevillians Franz Alderfer, Gary Daniel, Tom Erickson, Jennetta M. Howell, Julie

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Creating fresh, fun, topical dinner theater that appeals to the whole family—from young children to their grandparents—is quite a feat. But the Glenwood Springs Vaudeville Review delivers. As reviewer Logansquarr put it on TripAdvisor, “Kids and seniors laughed together - maybe not at the same thing in the witty smart writing being performed, but they laughed just the same. Job well done!”

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Preventing the Diseases of Affluence through Healthy Diet AN INTERVIEW WITH GREG FEINSINGER, M.D. ARTICLE ROARING FORK LIFESTYLE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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bout four years ago, a nurse practitioner told Greg Feinsinger, M.D. to read The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, a book about the largest-ever epidemiologic study on nutrition.

The study found that those people in China who were too poor to afford animal proteins–meat and dairy products—did not suffer the diseases of affluent societies: obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, heart attacks and strokes, diabetes/pre-diabetes and osteoporosis. These people avoided obesity as well as inflammatory diseases such as asthma and rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune diseases, dementia and prostate, breast and colon cancer.

Compelled by what he learned, Feinsinger, who is board-certified in family medicine, started the Heart Attack, Stroke and Diabetes Prevention Center at Glenwood Medical Associates 12 years ago. He recently founded the Center for Prevention and Treatment of Disease Through Nutrition.

How did you get started with vegetarian eating?

I found the China Study very compelling, and my wife and I adopted this plant-based, low-fat, whole-foods diet. Within a month, I lost 12 pounds. I was able to stop taking pills for hypertension and pre-diabetes. I was able to cut my cholesterol meds in half. I felt better. Now I can beat people I was never able to beat before, in running and Nordic ski races.

Why did you start your nonprofit?

I told patients about my experience. Perhaps a quarter of them started the diet on their own with amazing results. The others found it overwhelming to not only eat differently but also to cook differently. So I teamed up with two other physicians, Laurie Marbas in Rifle and Chris Miller in Aspen, and we met with Martin Oswald, the chef-owner of Aspen’s Pyramid Bistro and Basalt’s Riverside. During March, Oswald cooked and froze plant-based, low-fat lunches and dinners for 33 of our patients.

We found that within two weeks, people lost their addiction to salt, sugar and fat. By the end of the month, people felt better. They were so happy with their weight and blood pressure, their blood sugar and cholesterol numbers that they were willing to stick with it.

Your program provides ready-made meals for people who want to try this healthy diet. Who prepares the food?

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The cost is $20 a day for lunch and dinner.

Because I don’t want to make a profit from any of this, I started the nonprofit Center for Prevention and Treatment of Disease Through Nutrition.

What’s your long-term goal?

To get a lot of people eating this way! This diet will improve your health and also cut your medical expenses. We need to cut the cost of our huge health care system; it is geared towards treating disease instead of promoting health and it’s financially unsustainable.

Dean Ornish, M.D., Rip Esselstyn, M.D. and others have shown that not only can you prevent heart disease with this diet, but you can actually reverse it. Statin drugs will lower your risk for heart attack or stroke by 30 percent at best. But studies show that a diet like this can lower your risk by 90 percent—some studies say 98 percent!

What is the diet like?

No meat: no chicken, no seafood. You eat no dairy or eggs, no oil other than the fat you get from plants, no salt and no refined carbs such as sugar. The mainstay of the diet is a variety of vegetables including beans and lentils. You eat some fruit and berries, a handful of walnuts or almonds a day, and whole, unprocessed grains. Eating like this, you get vitamins, nutrients and anti-oxidants the way you’re supposed to, by eating natural foods. Most vitamin and supplement pills are counter-productive, the exceptions being some vitamin B12, vitamin D and omega-3.

If you eat a wide variety of plant-based foods, including beans and kale, you will get plenty of protein. Many endurance athletes and even a few NFL and NBA players are on this diet.

Where can people find more information?

The most readable book I’ve found is Rip Esselstyn’s My Beef With Meat. You can read about the research at TheChinaStudy. com or HeartAttackProof.com. To sign up for the program, contact me at gfeinsinger@comcast.net or 970.379.5718.

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ina and Rod Stryker sit across from one another at a dark wood table, its burnished surface reflecting a glass teapot that sits between them. Having just come from a massage, Gina, the mother of four, is sipping a rosy rooibos chai. Scents of cardamom, cloves and ginger waft into a peaceful room adorned with antiques gathered from India, Kashmir, Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan.

The massage, Gina says, was “heavenly–a gift of gratitude” that she received four months ago in July. “It has been so crazy, I just got here!” she says. “I spend my life giving TLC, and I needed some myself.”

The tender loving care that owners Deva and Eaden Shantay have lavished on True Nature Healing Arts is evident around the Strykers in details both large and small. Across the room, a display of jewel-hued aura-soma oils is arranged and backlit on shelves, looking as artful as a mosaic. Carved and weathered wood absorbs the sounds of the day and whispers of far-away times and places. Through the open doorway along the patio, rain chains 18

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and French drains fashioned from fitted flagstone reveal a reverence for nature and an interest in green building.

The Stryker’s tea arrived on woven reed trays accompanied by three miniature hourglasses. The server told Gina to use the three-minute, golden-sand-filled timer, and then remove the infuser so that the tea wouldn’t become bitter.

Rod Stryker, who lives in Missouri Heights, says, “I travel a lot, and this atmosphere is unique. The quality of the space here is extraordinary. People come in here and they are not on the phone; they are not on the computer. It’s perfect for a date night.”

It’s actually only about three in the afternoon, but it’s easy to lose track of time while exploring True Nature’s tearoom, petit spa and yoga studio. The carved doorways leading to the patio and Peace Garden are 300 to 400 years old; the healing arts practiced upstairs are even older.

Along with Swedish, deep-tissue and hot stone massage, True Nature offers facials and Ayurvedic treatments for dry

skin. Ayurveda is a 5,000-year-old system of natural healing that comes from India, and its principles underlie the Five Elements reflexology path located outside in the Peace Garden. Its spiraling path is a mosaic of amber, ivory, green, gray and black river rocks that accupressure your feet as you walk across them.

Coming out from the spa, a bronze Nepalese prayer wheel marks the entrance to a Peace Garden, an enclosure that spans nearly half an acre, nestling between the building and the Rio Grande bike trail.

In addition to the reflexology path–an intricate mosaic of colorful rocks that took four artisans 27 days to lay out–the garden includes a grassy yoga area bordered by a spiraling ramp of Colorado buff sandstone.

Nearby, chunks of honey-hued sandstone have been inlaid into a large labyrinth. An edible garden filled with cabbage, rosemary, lemongrass, lavender and strawberry plants borders a fire pit that invites guests to mingle and linger.

The gateway onto the bike trail and

the path leading to Third Street remain open every day from dawn to dusk, welcoming the community to enjoy the gardens free of charge.

Eaden reports that people often ask him, “why is this here?” He admits that in some ways, Carbondale is an unlikely location for the spa, but it’s where he and Deva met.

“Deva and I set out to explore our passion and to share what we’re passionate about, which is this experience of coming into alignment, of living a life of integrity. True Nature is a marriage of the old and new, a marriage of the physical and spiritual, a marriage between Deva and I. It’s a blending of the inside with the outside. It’s going inward while going outward, like the spiral in the reflexology path.”

To connect the physical and spiritual, the facility offers classes in meditation, tai chi and Ayurveda. The schedule holds up to seven yoga classes each day, taught by Deva and 11 other instructors.

They include stretch, flow, balance and Nidra yoga, and they accommodate students of all levels.

Those seeking yoga wear will find it, along with many other treasures, in True Nature’s boutique. It’s stocked with organic clothing, crystals and polished stones. Sage bundles, rattles, drums and feather wands reveal to an interest in Native American spirituality while tingsha cymbals and murti statues pay homage to eastern influences. Gift items include spiritually-themed jewelry, palm-sized pewter labyrinths and “angelically pure” Coracao dark chocolates. Next to a selection of fine loose-leaf teas are books with titles like Yoga For Wellness and Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers along with Babar’s Yoga For Elephants (and presumably, children).

True Nature opened the first week in September by inviting the whole town to a three-day party called Sacred Fest. Hundreds joined in a raucous drumming circle, delighted at African dancers and wondered at puppets on silts. Carbondalians resonated to kirtan music, which springs from Hindu traditions. Locals practiced yoga in the garden and explored the Shantay’s beautiful renovation in droves.

Prior to 2011, when the Shantays bought the property, the building housed offices; it was fashioned in a modern industrial chic, all galvanized aluminum and steel.

Working with architect Dennis Powell and interior designer Michelle Pauline Lowe, the Shantays gutted the interior and rebuilt it to hold the spa, yoga and massage rooms, a tea bar, boutique and a roofed patio. The adjacent Peace Garden was the brainchild of landscape architect Laura Kirk of DHM Design and the Janssen’s Basalt Mountain Gardens.

“We want to give people a multi-faceted experience, one that meets people where they are. It’s an opportunity for us to inspire and lead by example, and to create excellent service so people feel welcome,” says Eaden. “It’s wonderful to have created an environment where people can get away from business and whatever else is happening in their lives, and have tea, a yoga class, a spa treatment or a massage and get rejuvenated, even if it’s just for a couple hours.”

And how are the massages? Kirsten Burch, a 45-year old guest who is visiting from Dallas says, “I’ve had services across five continents and several islands. Today, Paul, my masseur, touched points that have never been addressed. I would say that this ranks with 10,000 Waves in Santa Fe, and that was the top of my scale.”

While True Nature is drawing patrons down the valley from Aspen and from as far away as Texas and New York, it remains intentionally local, distinctively “Bonedalian”.

“Deva and I are involved in co-creating conscious community,” says Eaden.

“It’s called Sangha in Sanskrit. Our goal is to create a place where people can look within and find the reasons we’re here.

We’re inviting them to an inner journey of discovering their true nature, their Buddha nature.”

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Neil Diamond Embraces CARE Rescue Pups What a little bit of love can do for a special video production along the Frying Pan ARTICLE LYNETTE DENIKE PHOTOGRAPHY KATIE MCNEIL DIAMOND

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magine this: You’re in charge of a nonprofit, sitting and doing your usual job of organizing, making friends with volunteers, raising funds. The phone rings. Unbelievably enough, it’s someone who claims to be producing Neil Diamond’s first completely-original album in eight years. The company plans to shoot a video nearby. Could you help find some puppies to include in the shoot?

That’s how Leslie Rockey, the executive director of Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE), remembered the beginning of an adventure that held immense promise. Her immediate response, “We would love to be involved!”

Serendipitously, CARE had just taken in a litter of 10 puppies from another shelter. Rockey sent off photos of the puppies and waited.

The news was a let down; it wasn’t going to happen. The production company decided to go with trained animals and a professional handler. Rockey says, “I was disappointed, but I understood.”

A few days later, the company called back. Katie McNeil Diamond, Neil Diamond’s wife, had seen CARE’s photos. She fell instantly in love and insisted, “I want the shelter dogs!”

Given the lack of a professional handler, the production crew wanted to be certain that CARE staff would come manage the puppies. Since CARE had a long-scheduled event occurring the same day, Rockey had to turn puppy wrangler in a hurry.

“The staff for the shoot turned out to be me and a friend of mine, who helped as my assistant,” she says. Neither had a movie-production background. They didn’t know what to expect.

When Rockey arrived at the Diamond’s mid-valley ranch early on the morning of shoot day, she was surprised to find a full-scale production with dozens of people. A guesthouse was rapidly converted to puppy headquarters. Rockey’s team of two set up playpens to contain the active pups and kept them entertained. The puppies became instant celebrities.

“It seemed that everyone working on the video came in to meet them, to sit in their playpens with them, to just hang out with them,” Rockey recalls. “At times, I had to turn visitors away so the puppies could nap.”

Neil came to meet the puppies. He thanked Rockey for her help, but was rushed. “Although he communed with the puppies for a little while, he didn’t have time to bond with them,” Rockey explained.

“He was filming another video while we waited for rain to clear.”

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Much to everyone’s chagrin, it rained until midday. That gave the puppies lots of time to make new friends—and one of them was Katie Diamond.

“She spent all day with the dogs and fell in love with two of the puppies,” Rockey says. “She took them to the main house and introduced them to her dog.”

The sun came out; the field dried enough that the company could shoot. But the puppy wranglers’ problems had just begun.

“The puppies were not attached to Neil, so we had to figure out ways to get them to follow him, to climb on him, to be interested in him.” That was difficult because the people the puppies knew well were on the sidelines. How could the puppies be convinced to follow someone they barely knew? The answer: treats!

In the Something Blue video (Tinyurl.com/carepuppies), the puppies appear to be curiously exploring their terrain. In reality, they are searching for freshly tossed puppy nibbles.

During a few scenes, Neil picked up one particular puppy.

Rockey was amazed.

“Unbeknownst to him, the puppy he kept holding was one of the dogs his wife had fallen in love with during the morning,” she says.

Puppies are babies. They get tired. They need nap time. They need to stay warm. That created a challenge for the puppy wranglers. As the long afternoon wore on, the temperature dropped and the puppies got cold.

“Everyone was taking turns holding puppies under their sweatshirts to keep them warm,” Rockey recalls.

The video’s storyboard showed it ending with puppies running down a road. But those tuckered-out dogs had no interest in running anywhere. Credit for the final sunset scene should be given to Rockey, who was off camera making it happen.

“I ran backward down the road in front of the dogs—shouting, energizing and exciting them during multiple takes.”

In the video’s credits, Rockey is listed as “The Wrangler.”

It was 8 p.m. when the crew finished the shoot. Before they left, Katie confessed to a case of puppy love. The Diamonds wanted to adopt two of the puppies—the two that Katie had taken to introduce to her current dog.

After Katie and Neil filled out the paperwork as part of CARE’s normal adoption process, Rockey went back to the ranch to meet with them.

“We sat on the porch, discussing the challenges of raising litter-

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“Their dogs are part of their family.”

Rockey expressed concern about what would happen when the Diamonds travel. It turns out that a caretaker is there to provide consistency for the pets even when they cannot go along with Katie and Neil.

There are heart-opening common denominators in life, and loving dogs is one of them. Katie and Neil named their CARE puppies from the Something Blue video which comes from Neil’s Melody Road album (Amazon.com/Melody-Road-Neil-Diamond/ dp/B00N4XIKQQ). The pups are called Bluebelle and Melody.

Rockey reports that all ten litter mates have been adopted and that Katie Diamond has continued to send photos of Bluebelle and Melody growing up.

“The Diamonds gave CARE permission to use the Something Blue video in any way that will benefit the organization,” says Rockey. Something Blue was the first single released from the Melody Road album. Given Neil Diamond’s following, it’s likely to be an ongoing favorite, which means that CARE will always be associated with its uplifting message. The song’s words perfectly describe what dogs do for us all: It wasn’t supposed to happen, But it happened to come my way.

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n December, our garden center is completely transformed into a winter wonderland,” says Diana Mundinger, general manager of Eagle Crest Nursery. “It’s kind of sad in the fall when our blooming annuals and perennials fade away. But come the end of November, we set up 15 to 20 trees that are decorated in different themes, and of course, Santa visits too.”

Although traditionally decorated trees always draw shoppers’ attention, last year a tree decorated with natural elements–large pine cones, birch poles and ornaments with feathers–elicited the most “oohs” and “ahs.”

WHO DOES ALL OF THAT TREE TRIMMING?

“Members of our staff come inside from working out in our nursery yard all summer,” explains Mundinger. “They become decorating elves setting up trees and garlands, and displaying the thousands of unique ornaments we have for sale. The nursery is stocked with everything that’s needed for holiday decorating.”

Eagle Crest’s Holiday Shop, which is open daily, is bursting with ornaments, gifts, cut trees, wreaths and greens. Mundinger says that fresh cut wreaths, greens and fresh-cut Christmas trees make up the bulk of the nursery’s holiday business. The trees range in size from small, three-foot high table toppers to 18-foot estate-size giants, and many families drop by year after year, making a holiday tradition out of choosing a Christmas tree and a special ornament.

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With so many Christmas trees around, Santa can’t resist dropping by. He was there the last weekend in November, and the elves have informed nursery management that he’s coming back on December 6 and 7 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

In addition to the Holiday Shop, Eagle Crest plays host to El Jebel’s popular Winter Market, now in its third year. The expanded market, which opens December 6 in Eagle Crest’s bright and sunny annual/perennial greenhouse, will welcome shoppers every Saturday through March 14. The market features live local musicians each week and a cornucopia of edibles from local farmers and cooks.

“We already have commitments for local produce, sauces, seafood, soups, prepared meals, pastries, eggs and meat,” says Mundinger. “The market will also feature handmade jewelry, art and clothing.”

This year, the El Jebel Winter Market has changed its hours so that skiers are able to drop by on their way down the valley from the slopes in Aspen and Snowmass. The market will open at 11:30 a.m. and stay open until 4:30 p.m.

“This is a real community event—a great place to bring friends, or just run into them by happenstance,” Mundinger comments.

“Local farmers, artisans and cooks make the winter market a reality, and we hope that all our summer gardeners put on their parkas and come by to support them.”

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RECENTLY SOLD PROPERTIES OVER $400,000 NEIGHBORHOOD

ORIGINAL LIST

SOLD PRICE

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DOM

BASALT

BEDS

FULL/ HALF BTH

SOLD PRICE/ SQ. FT

Laura J Estates

$775,000

$770,000

99%

364

4

3/1

$331

Holland Hills

$650,000

$600,000

92%

203

5

3

$215

Elk Run

$605,000

$549,000

91%

110

5

2/1

$214

Willits

$749,000

$749,000

100%

72

4

4

$214

Castle View

$1,750,000

$1,475,000

84%

189

6

6

$209

Hendricks Ranch

$775,000

$757,500

98%

43

4

3/1

$256

River Valley Ranch

$675,000

$675,000

100%

36

4

3/1

$190

River Valley Ranch

$1,995,000

$1,794,500

90%

75

5

5/1

$267

Crystal Village

$544,900

$470,000

86%

123

3

2/2

$202

Midland Point

$649,000

$605,000

93%

330

4

3/1

$245

Midland Point

$849,000

$795,000

94%

117

4

4/1

$197

Missouri Heights

$1,488,000

$950,000

64%

763

4

3/1

$235

Missouri Heights

$2,995,000

$2,800,000

93%

116

4

3/1

$600

Missouri Heights

$997,000

$905,000

91%

98

5

3/1

$184

Townsite GWS

$509,500

$488,000

96%

136

4

4/1

$150

Red Mountain

$485,000

$485,000

100%

49

3

2

$240

Oak Meadows

$469,900

$460,000

98%

181

3

2/1

$188

Oak Meadows

$565,000

$560,000

99%

72

3

3/1

$164

Ironbridge

$489,900

$450,000

92%

173

3

3

$232

Springridge Reserve

$489,000

$475,000

97%

161

4

2/2

$177

Elk Springs

$675,000

$625,000

93%

125

3

2/1

$232

Elk Springs

$995,000

$960,000

96%

120

5

3/1

$251

4 Mile Ranch

$668,000

$667,500

99%

57

4

4/1

$194

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Giving Back

United Way Supports Nonprofits from Battlement Mesa to the Maroon Bells FALL GIVING CAMPAIGN NOW IN FULL SWING ARTICLE ROARING FORK LIFESTYLE STAFF | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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bake a lot of brownies to serve when I’m invited to present to managers and their employees,” says Amy Barr, executive director of the local United Way. “Really, anyone who wants a brownie in exchange for discussing our community’s charitable needs should call me. And, yes, the brownies are frosted with extra chocolate!”

While the Roaring Fork Valley’s United Way office is closely linked to the other 13 United Way nonprofits in Colorado and to a national organization, it is locally controlled and relies on local donations. United Way of Garfield County has always reached beyond the county’s borders to connect ordinary people to those most in need in communities along the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys.

Barr recites a bit of local history about how United Way got started here.

“It was a group of local business people, spearheaded by Alpine Bank Founder and CEO Bob Young, who first brought United Way to our area,” she explains.

United Way of Garfield County recently awarded grants to 32 nonprofits from Parachute to Aspen. Each year, a committee of local citizens reviews a mountain of financial documents, community-impact details, and legal documents from each organization requesting a grant.

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“When people donate to their favorite charities, do they really know and understand those organizations’ finances, and the successes and failures of their programs? My committee members look for those details to ensure that limited donor dollars get spent effectively,” Barr says.

According to Barr, the familiar term “I gave at the office” is a fundraising tool that originated with United Way. Historically and to this day, community-minded individuals donate hard-earned dollars from their paychecks; donations range from about $2.50 up to $25 per pay period. United Way invests those donations in local nonprofits that meet local health and human-service needs.

“Most of those grant funds comes from individuals like you and me,” Barr explains. United Way receives both individual-donor gifts and local-company checks. “The business community understands the importance of local charities, which, in return, also help circulate monies back into our community.”

United Way of Garfield County runs an annual “workplace giving” campaign. Many local banks, energy-industry companies, national-delivery corporations and communications firms with offices in Western Colorado are major donors. Retailers such as Lowe’s, Wal-Mart, J.C. Penney and Target are big supporters.

Xcel Energy is the oldest and largest United Way donor in Colorado, and its local employees donate to United Way of Garfield County. Lowe’s recently joined the campaign, offering to match local grants with corporate funds.

“People always are surprised when I tell them the organization that became the modern United Way started right here in Colorado,” says Barr. “In 1887, Denver was in the middle of a silver boom, and it was a rough place. People flocked to the Rockies to seek fortunes in mining, railroads and land speculation, and Denver’s problems increased alarmingly due to a lack of housing and schools, grifters and get-rich-quick schemers, and soaring prices on nearly everything. An English traveler of the time, William Hepworth Dixon, wrote that ‘a man’s life is of no more worth than a dog’s in Denver’.”

“Of course, back then, outside of churches, there were no social services or government programs to help the needy, and no single church or charitable society could handle Denver’s problems. So, a concerned Denver woman brought together two priests, two ministers and a rabbi to address their town’s social plight.”

The organization they founded grew into today’s United Way America, with more than 1,200 offices, and a worldwide division.

“Our own local United Way has been working in the Parachute-to-Aspen region for more than 30 years,” says Barr. That area boasts an unusual concentration of nonprofits, more than 800 in a region that stretches roughly from Battlement Mesa to the Maroon Bells.

“From Glenwood Springs, our service area encompasses the region south and east up to Aspen. We cover El Jebel and Basalt,

United Way Service Area

where Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin counties meet. The charities we support also serve Redstone and Marble. United Way’s reach stretches out along I-70 from just east of Glenwood Canyon clear out to Parachute,” says Barr.

With such a huge service area, the organization is considering a name change; people often think that United Way’s support stops at Garfield County’s borders.

“Garfield County has been very generous, but when we work with donors up in the El Jebel and Basalt, they often comment that they are located in western Eagle County or in Pitkin County,” Barr explains.

We want to ensure that people understand how local nonprofits, and the needy they serve, are supported by their local United Way, and that’s us!”

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Driver’s Notebook

Charge It Up THE CHEVY VOLT OFFERS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE ELECTRIC-VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS ACROSS OUR AREA This fall, the Electric Vehicle Rally of the Rockies toured our fall colors and highlighted the opening of electric-vehicle charging stations in many spots across the Western Slope.

Multiple local organizations sponsored the Rally: local towns, including New Castle, Glenwood Springs, Carbondale and Basalt; Garfield Clean Energy; CORE; Colorado Mountain College and Clean Energy Economy for the Region (CLEER).

Mountain Chevrolet donated a Chevy Volt for CLEER energy coach Matt Shmigelski to drive during the event.

New chargers have recently been installed in Aspen, Snowmass Village and on CMC campuses. PlugShare.com tallies three public stations in Aspen (one for resort guests only), two in Snowmass (one restricted to resort guests), four in Glenwood, two in Carbondale, two in Rifle and one each in New Castle and Parachute. That gives our corner of the Western Slope what may be the most-robust charging infrastructure of any rural area in the United States!

That, along with federal and Colorado rebates that take as much as $15,000 off the price, makes this the perfect time for a personal account from a Chevy Volt driver.

ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHY TOM STRONGMAN

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recently drove the battery-powered Chevrolet Volt for the second time. When I tried it last year, I plugged the car in each night using an extension cord and a 120-volt line. This time, because I decided not to risk using an outdoor extension cord, the car’s batteries were not charged by an external source. That meant that the car had to rely on its gasoline engine to keep the battery charged.

The Environmental Protection Agency calculates the Volt’s battery-driven mileage at the equivalent of 93 mpg, or 37 mpg when using the gasoline engine to recharge the batteries. Last year, I drove 266 miles on 2.5 gallons and averaged 106.3 mpg by plugging in every night. My mileage this time, at 37 miles per gallon, was in line with most hybrids.

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Even though the Volt has an electric drive system, it is technically a hybrid. The Volt can travel 25 to 50 miles on electric-only power. After that, its gasoline engine kicks in to charge the batteries.

Volt owners will be happiest if they install a 240-volt charger at home. That drops charging time from 10 hours to as little as four hours. A 240-volt charger lists for $490, and Chevy estimates it will cost about $1,475 for installation. Of course, electricity is not free. Chevy estimates a night’s charge costs about $1.50. Figuring gas at $3.80 a gallon, that yields a per-mile cost roughly half that of a regular car.

The test car’s base price was $39,195. A $7,500 federal credit and another $7,500 Colorado credit can bring the effective

price down to around $24,195. CNN Money reports that you dual LCD screens display tons of information, including mileage can lease a Volt for two years for $269 a month with a down and power usage. Bluetooth and Bose stereo are standard. payment of about $2,800.

The Volt’s 5.5-foot long, 435-pound lithium-ion battery pack The Volt’s unique drive system uses a 111-kilowatt traction motor consists of thin, 5-by-7-inch cells that are heated and cooled by to launch the car from rest. At highway speeds, a smaller 55-kilo- a water-and-antifreeze liquid. The battery runs down the center watt motor-generator recharges the battery. The electric motor of the car, so the back seat holds only two passengers. The rear delivers torque right from rest. Chevy says hatch is large and the seats fold down to the car can accelerate to 60 in about nine expand cargo space.

AT A GLANCE seconds and has a top speed of 100 miles The Volt is thriftiest as a commutPOINT: The Volt’s quiet and innovative elecper hour. Heavy throttle use hurts mileer car, but the gasoline engine lets you tric drive system is supplemented by a age, however; so smooth acceleration and drive long distances without worrying gasoline engine, and the car is also nicely coasting are the order of the day. about plugging it. That makes it viable equipped and comfortable to drive.

The car offers three drive modes: Norfor someone who wants it as an only car.

COUNTERPOINT: The Volt is pretty expensive, mal, Sport and Mountain. The Mountain and for commuters, an indoor 240-volt mode raises the battery’s reserve level to Price: The base price is $39,145. The charger is practically a necessity. ensure adequate electricity for climbing test car was equipped with the premium MOTORS: 111-kW drive motor, 55-kW generhills. Coasting and braking recharge the package of heated leather seats, Bose ator batteries, and using low range in traffic premium stereo and a navigation system.

ENGINE: 1.4-liter, four-cylinder adds even more regenerative braking.

The sticker price was $43,880.

Front-wheel drive To relieve range anxiety, a 1.4-liter gasWHEELBASE: 105.7 in. oline engine kicks in to make more elecWarranty: Three years or 36,000 miles, CURB WEIGHT: 3,781 lbs. tricity when the batteries reach a miniwith an eight-year, 100,000-mile warBASE PRICE: $39,145 mum level. The car can then travel about ranty on the battery.

AS DRIVEN: $43,880 300 miles on a tank of gasoline.

MPG RATING: 93 MPG equivalent The interior is nicely finished, and

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December

Deck The Walls show will be open for holiday shopping. More information at CarbondaleArts.com or 970.963.1680.

DECEMBER 6 MOONSTRUCK IN DOWNTOWN BASALT MIDLAND AVE. & TWO RIVERS RD.

Celebrate the full moon in downtown Basalt with arts, dining, shopping, fire pits and s’more. Details at BasaltDowntown.com.

DECEMBER 1-23

DECEMBER 6 EL JEBEL WINTER MARKET & SANTA

SCULPTURE & POTTERY SALE

400 GILLESPIE, EL JEBEL

CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER, 135 MAIN ST.

The winter market features produce, sauces, jewelry, art, clothing, seafood, soups, prepared meals, pastries, eggs, meat. Live music.

Santa visits Dec. 6 & 7. Child & pet friendly. Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through March 14. Call 970.963.1173.

See 30+ local and national artists offering functional pottery and small ceramic sculptures for sale. Items include handmade cups, bowls, plates, vases, pitchers, cream and sugar sets, ceramic jewelry and small sculptures. Call 970.963.2529.

DECEMBER 1 - 31

DECEMBER 7 MINDFULNESS BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY

CHRISTMAS DISPLAYS

CARBONDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOL

HOTEL COLORADO

Practical meditation training integrated with modern life. Includes a short talk and guided meditation. More information: 970.618.1032. $15

Millions of lights and dozens of displays. Enjoy the smell of gingerbread, carolers atop the fireplace, Santa in his antique sleigh, a night in a ski cabin.

The Hotel Colorado is a wonderland all month.

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DECEMBER 9 WYLY HOLIDAY ART CLUB: AGES 6-12

ADULT POTTERY CLASS

WYLY ART CENTER, BASALT

GLENWOOD ARTS, GLENWOOD SPRINGS

Kids can create colorful holiday gifts and decorations. Tuition is $55, members receive 10% off, scholarships available.

Details and registration at WylyArts.org.

970.927.4123 or art@wylyarts.org

Judy Davis teaches the basics of ceramics, both handbuilding and wheelthrowing techniques. More information at GlenwoodArts. org or 970.945.2414

DECEMBER 4 HISTORY TOUR OF HOTEL COLORADO

DECEMBER 10

GLENWOOD SPRINGS

CASA AT THE GRIND FUNDRAISER

Completed in 1893, the Hotel Colorado was built to host the rich and famous of that elegant era. Walk through the history, humor and a few “Haunts” at the grand dame of Western Slope hotels. $8.

720 GRAND AVE., GLENWOOD SPRINGS

DECEMBER 5

DECEMBER 10

FIRST FRIDAY: SANTA IS COMING TO TOWN

COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE

CARBONDALE COUNCIL FOR ARTS & HUMANITIES (CASA)

HEALING ARTS, CARBONDALE

Santa is coming to Carbondale for a special First Friday visit from 3 to 5:30 p.m. and from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Launchpad. CCAH’s

Licensed acupuncturist Anne Van Druten offers treatment on a sliding scale of $30-$50 per visit.

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Food and drink, music and a silent auction to benefit Court Appointed Special Advocates of the Ninth Judicial District. 5-8 p.m.

s ’ y r e s r u N Eagle Crest

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Fresh Cut & Artificial Trees · Greens · Garland · Poinsettias Ornaments · Specialty Lights · Wreaths · Gifts · Decorations 400 Gillespie Drive, El Jebel, CO 81623

970-963-1173 Christmas Shoppe Hours Monday-Saturday 10am - 6pm • Sundays 11am - 5pm

The Indoor Saturday Farmers’ Market

Eat Shop

Mingle

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heart of movement—dance! A fusion of live drums and sound with cosmic high-vibration beats lays the foundation. 7 p.m. CarbdonaleArts.com/the-Launchpad Suggested donation $9.

TOUR D’ ART AT DOWNTOWN ART GALLERIES GLENWOOD SPRINGS

Food and drink, art and entertainment from the art galleries along Grand Ave. Every second Friday. Free.

DECEMBER 20 SOLISTICE CELEBRATION, BONFIRE & SPIRAL DANCE

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THIRD STREET CENTER, CARBONDALE

HEALING MOVEMENT THIRD STREET CENTER, CARBONDALE

Senior Matters presents healing movement for exercisers who have chronic conditions, joint restrictions, and balance issues or are recovering from surgery or injury.

Call John Norton 970.379.1375.

Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist congregation presents a Solstice Celebration with carols, a community spiral dance, return of the sun ritual, hot chocolate and snacks; 5-8 p.m. Child friendly and free. TwoRiversUU.org.

DECEMBER 31 NEW YEARS EVE VAUDEVILLE CELEBRATION

DECEMBER 19

915 GRAND AVENUE

Doors open at 9 p.m.; dinner menu. Show only $50; reservations important. 12 a.m. complimentary glass of champagne and New Years Eve favors. Call 970.945.9699.

HALF A MILLION LIGHTS, THRILL RIDES & SANTA GLENWOOD CAVERNS ADVENTURE PARK

Iron Mountain comes alive with twinkling lights, fire pits, a warming hut, thrill rides, laser tag and cave tours. A giant Christmas tree, visits from Santa.

Through Jan. 4. Call 800.530.1635.

DECEMBER 31 NEW YEARS IN THE HOT SPRINGS GLENWOOD HOT SPRINGS

DECEMBER 19 HEART RHYTHM DANCE LIBERATION PROJECT LAUNCHPAD, CARBONDALE

Welcome Winter Solstice with a sacred journey into the

The world-famous and world’s largest mineral hot springs pool is ringing in the new year like no place else on earth. Open until 1 a.m., Glenwood Hot Springs offers a refreshing, healthy and family-friendly New Year’s celebration. 970.947.2955

Behind every great planner, caterer, production Company or private party, there needs to be a great rental company, and “Bethel Party Rentals” is that company. Call us for a 20% discount on your next order from December 2014 until March 2015.

5396 County Rd 154, Unit #3 • Glenwood Springs, CO 81601

970-947-9700 • bethelpartyrentals.com

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Business Directory ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

HOME BUILDERS & REMODELERS

FASHION & ACCESSORIES

Sculpture By Dahl (970) 987-0350

Janckila Construction (970) 927-6714 janckilaconstruction.com

Treadz (970) 928-0620 treadzshoes.com

AUTOMOTIVE

FINANCIAL SERVICES & PLANNING

Mountain Chevrolet (970) 928-9777 mtnchevy.com

Cornerstone Home Lending (970) 945-2011 donziegler.com

DENTISTS & ORTHODONTICS Murray Dental Group (970) 945-5112 Murraydentaldg.com

WJ Bradley Mortgage Capital (970) 456-4821 wjbradley.com

ENTERTAINMENT & RECREATION

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Glenwood Vaudeville Revue (970) 945-9699 gvrshow.com River Valley Ranch Golf Club (970) 963-3625 rvrgolf.com

Glenwood Chiropratic Center (970) 945-8466 glenwoodchiro.com True Nature Healing Arts (970) 963-9900 truenatureheals.com

HOME SERVICES Apex Security (970) 945-2152 apexsecurity.com

MEDICAL CLINICS & FACILITIES

Glenwood Medical Clinic (970) 945-8503 glenwoodmedical.com

OTHER

CAPCO Tile & Stone (970) 963-7320 capcotile.com Eagle Crest Nursery (970) 963-1173 eaglecrestnursery.com

R.J. Paddywacks (970) 963-1700 rjpaddywacks.com

PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE Mason & Morse/ Coldwell Bankers (970) 963-3300 masonmorse.com

Plan B Real Estate (970) 366-6000 planbrealestate.com

SPECIALTY SHOPS Bethal Party Rentals (970) 947-9700 bethalpartyrentals.com

Fine Things (970) 945-5222 finethingsjewelrycollectables.com

Available To Be More Than Just Your Average Doctor.

Dr. Dave Lorah

Dr. Brett Hesse Dr. Jamie Faught

Dr. Lippman Sr.

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Dr. Susan Inscore

Dr. Lippman Jr.

An Independent Medical Practice www.glenwoodmedical.com

1830 Blake Avenue 970-945-8503 Enhancing lives through quality, caring and trust

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Parting Thoughts

It’s All in the Family, However You Define It WORDS ANNE POTTER RUSS

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ith a family the size of a small compact car, I often use the term “family” to describe my friends. My lineage is a long thin vine, rather than a large leafy tree, due to circumstances and odds that would win the lottery, if played. My mom was an only child. My dad was an only. Both of my paternal grandparents were only children. My husband is an only child. And, of course, I round out the roulette wheel as an only. Norbert and I had two kids so fast, it made the four grandparents’ heads spin.

As soon as our children could talk and watch Mr. Rogers, they wanted to know where all the cousins were. “Is this a cousin?” they’d ask as the babysitter walked in the door. I had learned from my own childhood that “aunts” and “uncles” could be created; so, as an adult, I figured I must be able to conjure up some cousins for my kids. It wasn’t as easy as I’d thought. As I contemplated my friends in terms of being family members, it occurred to me that they had plenty of relatives, and might not be so thrilled to have to take on mine as a hobby.

But finally, after reaching my half-century mark, I have come to realize that many folks in many places have reasons to create extended families. We are only a drastic case due to our very small numbers – there are just four of us in total, that is until we get to the branch of third cousins twice removed, whatever that means.

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We could bulk up the numbers with the multiple-removed people, but we don’t really know them well. Who we do know and want to spend time with are the friends now designated as family.

Every Christmas night when I was growing up, we had an open house for anyone who needed someplace to go on a dark holiday night. My parents were inviting their “family” into our home for a holiday. (At the time, I thought it was just a ploy to delay my union with my newly opened gifts!) It was always a wonderful experience where people literally came in out of the cold to celebrate the season and the fellowship.

Thanks to some wonderful friends, of multiple generations, we have recently spent some very rewarding time with our “family.”

Our inclusion in a rehearsal dinner, wedding, and surrounding festivities; our invitation from a dear friend to celebrate her mother’s birthday; and our crazy holidays spent with anyone who will have us, all add up to family.

Lest you think I’m getting carried away anticipating the holidays this year, it does translate to our daily lives. As you read this magazine, think about the families who are being helped, often by people they’ve never met in soup kitchens and food pantries. Think about the families to whom you’ve become attached through work, play or philanthropy. It’s powerful stuff.

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