Roaring Fork February 2016

Roaring Fork FEBRUARY 2016

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Lifestyle Letter

Bless this table

FEBRUARY 2016

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n her article In Praise of Locavores, Andrea Palm-Porter asks, “Do you ever stop to think about what you’re eating and where it came from?”

I do. Although unseemly haste is among my flaws, I try to allow space at the beginning of each meal for a moment of gratitude.

Food and drink, in all their astonishing forms, are truly blessings.

Last summer, when my grandson Sam asked me what God looked like, I said that I thought that the spirit of God was present in seeds.

Isn’t it a miracle that something so tiny and humble can create flowers, fruits and grain? Without anyone having to teach it a thing?

I also wonder how many of our everyday culinary delights came to be invented. Who was the first person to be seized with the notion of eating the well-armored artichoke? Or to decide that a stalk of brussels sprouts looked edible? How did anyone happen to invent yeast-rising bread?

My hat is off to the cooks who grace these pages: Linda Romero Criswell, the godmother of Carbondale’s community bread oven. Amazing chef Jimmy Nadell (who catered this magazine’s first birthday party). Not to mention the confectioners whose work you will find at Grand Avenue Sweets, and master distillers like Connie Baker of Marble Distilling Company.

I offer this issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle as a toast not only to those who prepare our food, but also to the local farmers and ranchers who produce it. They aren’t "unsung" heroes and sheroes, because there are hundreds of songs about food. I’m not much of a singer, so I offer the verse of Ogden Nash as a tribute to those whose labors grace our tables: …Though custom call me crude, I prefer to sing in praise of food…

Just any old kind of food.

Pheasant is pleasant, of course, And terrapin, too, is tasty, Lobster I freely endorse, In pate or patty or pasty.

There's nothing the matter with butter, And nothing the matter with jam, And the warmest greetings I utter To the ham and the yam and the clam.

For they're food, All food…

When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food!

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Rick French | RFrench@LifestylePubs.com editor

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Caitlin Causey, Sue Coyle, Bridget Grey, Gregory John, Andrea Palm-Porter, Nicolette Toussaint, Geneviève Joëlle Villamizar contributing photographers

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February 2016

Departments

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20 Gus the Bus Goes the Extra Mile for Learning

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Lifestyle Letter

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Publisher’s Letter

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Good Times

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Around Town

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Local’s Choice

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Culinary Creations

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Locally Owned

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Animal Kingdom

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Lifestyle Calendar

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Parting Thoughts

Preschool on Wheels Helps Kids from Rifle to Aspen

32 Hot Water & Cool Spirits

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Publisher’s Letter

"If It Weren't for the Last Minute, Nothing Would Get Done.”

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y editor has just emailed me another reminder that this letter is due today. (If you’re reading my letter, then I must have lived up to the Rita Mae Brown quote in the headline and got it done at the last minute.)

That’s a quick fix, really. Five minutes. But that banshee has been whining for about four or five weeks now. Then there’s that little piece of peeling shower grout, right about eye level where you can’t miss it. I’ll knock out the banshee and the grout hole in the same “Honey Do” session—first thing tomorrow, maybe the next day. Someday.

Procrastination is something that I really have to work on. Soon.

The point of this letter is to say that procrastination brings on easily-avoided stress, anger and distraction. I will be having my morning coffee and looking forward to productive activities, when suddenly those little nagging thoughts creep in to destroy my organized direction. Worse, they bring along their favorite travel companions: fear, loss of control and possibly a slightly queasy stomach.

I seem to be plagued with procrastination more in my personal than my professional life (then again, maybe my editor and my wife could have a debate about that).

A few days ago, my wife asked me why I was in a bad mood. I snapped, “Nothing is wrong!” She gave me her famous dagger stare, mumbled something and walked away.

I realized then that the only thing that was wrong is that I let things pile up, and I wait until the last moment to address them. As Ellen DeGeneres says, “Procrastinate now, don't put it off!”

Problem is, those small project demons lurk at the back of the mind and pop up randomly to break my concentration and momentum.

Result: disorganization, anger, self-flogging—and of course, who wouldn’t want to put that off?

As I sit trying to write the Publisher’s Letter, I’m being bedeviled by the master bath toilet tank. It howls like a banshee when flushed.

Nothing like listening to it wailing in the middle of the night!

The solution is actually quite simple. As Janet Dailey has said, “Someday is not a day of the week.”

Each day, take a dedicated 10 to 15 minutes, to do one or two nagging little projects. That way, while they will always pop up, they won’t pile up. Nothing feels better than knocking that whispering little devil off your shoulder.

In case you’re wondering, that devil looks nothing like my editor. Or my wife.

Rick French, Publisher RFrench@LifestylePubs.com

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Good Times

Cups Runneth Over for Carbondale Clay Center

In December, the Carbondale Clay Center held its 18th Annual Cup Auction in a pop-up gallery on Main Street in Carbondale. Local and nationally known artists donated more than 220 cups to the auction. The popular event is the Clay Center's biggest fundraiser.

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Around Town

AROUND TOWN

ROSS MONTESSORI CELEBRATES NEW SCHOOL

alluring and thought-provoking event that also raises money to provide arts education for Roaring Fork Valley youngsters. The fashions are all created from recycled and/or sustainable materials. Buy tickets early; prices go up after February 26!

BASALT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WELCOMES RMI INNOVATION CENTER Nearly 200 people attended the Basalt Chamber of Commerce’s Welcome to the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Innovation Center event on December 30 in Basalt. The Chamber organized the celebratory event with area businesses including Community Banks of Colorado,

On January 6th, 265 students spent their first day in Ross Montessori

Midland Shoe, Bay Equity Home Loans, Element Basalt Aspen, Heir-

School's new building in Carbondale. The school’s new, 19,000-square-

looms Resale, Cafe Bernard, Jimbo's Fine Wine & Liquors, Tempranil-

foot, two-story building replaces modular buildings the school had used

lo, Faboo Fashions and the Basalt Chamber Ambassadors.

for the past eleven years. The new school includes numerous green build-

Throughout the afternoon and evening, guests toured the most

ing features such as natural light in classrooms and super-efficient LED

energy-efficient building of its type and size in any of the country’s

lighting. A $75,000 grant from CORE is funding the LED lights plus a roof-

coldest climate zones. “It was a time to say farewell to a year that

top solar array which will provide 20 percent of the school's electricity.

marked a resurgence of vitality in Basalt and around the valley and

The opening marks the culmination of a decade-long fundraising

welcome a new year of innovation and collaboration,” said Robin Wa-

and organizing effort. Mark Ross Montessori Foundation purchased

ters, Chamber director. Rocky Mountain Institute is holding multiple

the school’s site, nearly three acres along Highway 133, for $1.25 mil-

open houses for the Innovation Center during February.

lion just over a year ago. Ross Montessori received a $6.4 million construction loan through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program. The USDA increased the loan so that the school

NATURALIST NIGHTS HELD THROUGH FEBRUARY IN CARBONDALE & ASPEN

can build two more classrooms. These classrooms will be completed

Each winter, the Wilderness Workshop partners with the Aspen

in March, and they will increase its enrollment by 50 students for the

Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) and Roaring Fork Audubon

2015/16 school year.

to co-host the popular Naturalist Nights speaker series. The free se-

The school is still raising money for the playground, outdoor classroom, gardens and asphalt pavement. A plan is in the works for a phase two which will include a full cafeteria, kitchen, gymnasium, auditorium and more classroom space.

SYMPHONY IN THE VALLEY PLAYS ON VALENTINE’S DAY

ries continues into March, with presentations held on Wednesdays at Carbondale’s Third Street Center and Thursdays at ACES. In the first week of February, Ed Colby, beekeeper and Aspen Mountain ski patroller, will present Neonicitinoid Pesticides and their Impact on Honeybees. The second week's presentation will be The Biggest Global Change You’ve Never Heard of: How Nitrogen is Affecting Colorado’s High Country by Jill Baron, research ecologist for

Symphony in the Valley will host an annual dinner dance and fund-

the U.S. Geologic Survey. The third presentation will be Do Spruce

raiser called Swing Your Sweetheart on Valentine’s Day weekend. The

Beetles Make Forest Fires More Severe? Field Evidence from the San

event features swing era music performed by the Symphony Swing

Juan Mountains, by Robbie Andrus of the biogeography lab at the

orchestra and guest vocalists led by conductor Kelly Thompson.

University of Colorado, Boulder. February's last talk is The Gold King

Check our Lifestyle calendar for details about this fun-filled evening,

Spill: Impacts on the Animas River by Marcie Demmy Bidwell, execu-

which will offer fine dining and dancing and a silent auction in the

tive director of the Mountain Studies Institute.

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BONEDALIANS RALLY TO SUPPORT HOMELESS DURING COLD SNAP During the sub-zero cold snap that occurred around New Year’s,

The Carbondale Council for the Arts and Humanities (CCAH) is

Carbondale real estate broker/owner Lynn Kirchner warned, “We

currently rehearsing the eighth annual Green Is The New Black fash-

need to act before we have a fatality.” Kirchner rallied locals to sup-

ion show, which will be called “Transformation”. The show will take

port the homeless via Facebook and her Amore Realty website. “It’s

place on March 11 and 12 at the Carbondale Recreation Center. Filled

a great way to reach out to people and get instant feedback,” she

with performance art, multimedia, inspiring and sustainable fashion,

observed. After Kirchner gathered more than 300 responses, several

plus a story line to boot, the show isn’t just entertaining. Local and

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Online fundraising has been set up at Generosity.com to take do-

nations. Funds will be used for emergency hotel rooms, emergency items like blankets, gloves and hats, warm coats, etc., assistance for fixing vehicles in which some homeless people live and creation of a "street sheet" to list local resources such as food banks, other shelters, mental health assistance, addiction counseling, etc.

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walked away with new skis, a snowboard and more than $500 in gift cards and certificates. The winner of this year's costume contest—its theme was Elvis—was won by a Gypsum resident who identified himself with just one name: Elvis!

Why a yearly costume contest? Friends note that Skier Appreciation Day founder Phil Long loves contests. Last year, the day's “Paradise” costume contest resulted in men dressed in tropical attire, including grass skirts with real coconut bras. In 2013, Long commissioned a Big Foot costume, and the hairy critter roamed the mountain and lodge all day as a greeter. “The guests went wild, and the little kids had their pictures taken with Sasquatch,” Long laughed.

ONLINE FUNDRAISING SITE SUPPORTS ICE CLIMBER’S FAMILY On December 30, Carbondale resident Ryan Jennings, a famed ice climber, was killed when a 15-ton ice pillar unexpectedly collapsed. The online magazine Alpinist.com posted a memorial to Jennings, and local friends

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Key fundraisers, including Julie Oldham, Pam Zentmyer, Robbie Williams and Randy Spurrier, state that the “fundraising effort is entirely voluntary” and remind donors that contributions will not be tax deductible. (The IRS does not allow donations to an individual family to be treated as a tax deductible.) The website will be found at BeckJenningsFamilyFund.org.

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Local’s Choice

Sweet Treats for Valentine's Day

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inside. 2. Beautiful to look at and quick to disappear, these peppermint and amaretto truffles have kissin’ cousins of many flavors, including rum, hzelnut, raspberry and butter cream. 3. Almond toffee, a perennial favorite! 4. A pretty gift box stuffed with chocolate favorites. 5. Milk, dark and white chocolate with caramel and pecan clusters.

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Culinary Creations

Bravo Catering's

Jimmy Nadell Publishes His Secrets CHEF TO THE GLITTERATI AUTHORS A NEW COOKBOOK ARTICLE BRIDGET GREY | PHOTOGRAPHY APACHULA HURSEY

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hef Nadell has been a celebrity chef in and around Aspen since 1986. He’s whipped up culinary creations for Prince Andrew of

England, Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Vice President Al Gore and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, not to mention stars Tom Cruise, Cindy Crawford, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore and Oprah Winfrey.

He has catered a banquet for the CIA, served front-line firefighters from a mobile kitchen, won competitive ski awards and hosted a TV kitchen show. And now he’s about to become an author.

Chanterelle Mushroom Wood Oven Pizza with Italian White Truffle Oil Pizza Dough Ingredients:

• 6 cups all purpose flour • 2 cups warm water • Dash: sugar, granulated garlic, onion powder, Italian seasoning, kosher salt and white pepper • 1 package dry-active yeast

Pizza Sauce Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon fresh garlic, chopped • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil • Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Toppings:

Chef Jimmy Nadell

Lightly sautéed chanterelle mushrooms and low-fat mozzarella cheese. Finish with grated reggiano parmigiano, chopped parsley and a drizzle of white truffle oil.

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Mix dough for 30 minutes. Mix yeast in warm water, then allow it to activate in a warm spot for five minutes. Add yeast to dough. Weigh out dough at 8 ounces, then roll it out. Set crust in hot oven for one minute. Remove from oven and add pizza sauce. Bake at 450 for about 8-10 minutes or until crust is crispy golden brown. Finish with parmigiano reggiano and chopped parsley.

Enjoy while watching a movie outside on your deck under flame-thrower heaters.

Chef James Nadell—midvalley locals fondly refer to him as “Jimmy of Bravo Catering”—was recently approached via his Facebook page by a stranger with an interesting proposition: “Write down your recipes and I will put together a cookbook. I think we can sell about a million copies.”

As the idea began to simmer, Nadell discovered several reasons to put down his wire whisk and pick up a pen. “Obviously, when you publish a cookbook, you hope to make money off of it, but more importantly, a book opens a lot of avenues.” Nadell, the founder and CEO of the United States Chef Association, an educational association offering several levels of accredited certifications to chefs, is interested in teaching on cruise ships. He’d like share the recipes he publishes on the Bravo Catering website more widely. And he’d like to make good food more accessible to home cooks.

“We have a lot of fans out there, people who have been hiring us for years and years,” he says. He’s known for jaw-dropping creations that range from carved-ice oyster bars and LED light-illuminated sushi towers with live swimming fish to flaming desserts, but he says that one need not go to those lengths to create memorable meals. “What I’m trying to achieve is showing the average cook how you can create beautiful dishes like those in the book,” he says.

“If you’re not too advanced, you can take what I call variations.”

What it all boiled down to was that Nadell and his wife, Apachula "Pach" Hursey, who happens to be an unparalleled food photographer (that’s her photo on this month’s cover) became inspired to create the book themselves.

Called The Artistry of Culinary Arts, the cookbook should be completed in early February. Purchasing information can be found on the Bravo Catering website at BravoFineCatering.com and on the Facebook page of Chef Jimmy Nadell.

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Cradle to Career Initiative Invests in the Youth of the Roaring Fork Valley

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magine a friendly, bright yellow school bus rolling into a down-valley residential neighborhood. The bus is met by eager parents, some Spanish-speaking, some English-speaking, all carrying or holding hands with their young children. Most of these kids can’t wait to get on board, and when they do, they find a colorful, state-of-the-art preschool classroom, equipped with books,

A fan who attends preschool in Gus the Bus in Rifle.

games, puzzles, toys, and of course, a welcoming teacher.

This happy scene is not a vision for the future, but a present reality in our valley.

The Preschool on Wheels program is a small but vital part of the much larger project known as the Aspen to Parachute Cradle to Career Initiative (CCI), whose “backbone organization” is Aspen Community Foundation (ACF).

ACF was founded in 1980 to support non-profits and connect donors to community needs. In 2010, ACF conducted a self-assessment and determined they were not having the desired impact in the region, especially in the area of child education and development. What was needed was the “collective impact” of area-wide organizations collaborating to build youth success. So in 2012, ACF launched the Cradle to Career Initiative, a hugely ambitious program supported valley-wide by more than 100 schools, banks, arts centers, youth organizations, business leaders, churches, libraries, Rotary Clubs and other organizations.

It’s a long, long road from the cradle to a career. That metaphorical road becomes a literal one along the 80-mile corridor that begins in Aspen and ends in Parachute. Along this corridor live 22,000 children who belong to working-class families and parents who commute long hours to work. Current statistics regarding these children’s economic and educational levels can be startling. For example, more than 75 percent of Rifle’s elementary school children qualify for free or subsidized lunches; half of low-income third-grade children perform below grade level in reading; more than 25 percent of low-income students do not graduate from high school. When CCI was created, only seven

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CCI is a region-wide effort to ensure that the 22,000 children from Aspen to Parachute are ready for kindergarten and graduate from high school ready for college and career. Every new mother who gives birth in Valley View Hospital is given a referral for a home visit from nurses or trained volunteers.

Goal 1: Ready for Kindergarten, includes the adoption of a regional kindergarten readiness assessment tool; a five-week, fullday summer program for incoming kindergarteners; increased early learning childcare opportunities; and working with communities to determine how funds are allocated for low-income families.

Goal 2: Develop Social & Life Assets, stresses developing strong life skills and character assets and fosters mentoring programs.

Goal 3: Succeed Academically, combines teacher training, literacy education and youth training; parent engagement, and more.

Goal 4: Graduate Ready for College & Career, includes college and career counselors in all the region’s nine high schools, as well as creating community connections that lead to jobs for these young adults.

percent of low-income kids were attending preschool.

Obviously, these numbers do not bode well for the health of our communities or for the futures of our children. After extensive study, the CCI partners identified four major goals necessary to achieve youth success.

CCI Director John Bennett strives to educate local residents about the need to improve educational quality and access. Behind all the sad educational numbers are many real-life families with real-life children who have not had access to a preschool education. Experts agree that kindergarten is one of the most important building blocks to school success, and Bennett often speaks of the “kindergarten gap”—the fact that children without preschool too often begin kindergarten as much as 18 months behind their peers. “They start that far behind, and many never catch up,” he says.

But what is the solution, when both parents work all day and when preschool programs are either too expensive or too far away? Susan Birdsey, former superintendent of the Garfield Re-2 School District, explained that because of budget cuts, “We can’t serve preschool kids the way we’d like to.” An answer came in the proposal that Aspen Community Foundation partner with the school district. As

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Thus was born “Preschools on Wheels.” First came Gus the Bus, a retro-fitted school bus that takes a classroom to neighborhoods in Rifle. Next came the Sunshine Bus, which serves three- to five-year-old children in Silt and New Castle. Together they provide free, quality, bilingual preschool education to 120 children, and they are the first mobile preschools to be licensed by the State of Colorado. The two buses now serve three communities and 12 neighborhoods for eight hours a week.

Teachers Kim Gorsett, Elizabeth Russo, Rhonda Kachevar and Isela Menchaca do more than teach. They arrive at the bus garage early to check the oil, lights, tires and brakes. Bus driver/auto mechanic/ teacher—it’s all in a day’s work!

So is it making a difference? Dan and Ashley Mickelson of Silt think so. Their older son studied in Gus the Bus, and now their younger son, Calder, attends the Sunshine Bus. Ashley said home daycare is available in Silt, but there’s no preschool. Calder is shy. "But he’s getting used to the classroom setting, learning how to interact with peers and developing social skills,” according to his mom.

Christina Ruiz agrees, “We’re not able to afford preschool, but this is such a great way for [my son] to get education. The learning, the social experience, it’s all been really great. Because of Sunshine Bus, we have peace of mind, and we are confident that our son will be prepared and will do great when it’s time for him to go to kindergarten.”

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Since Preschool on Wheels began in 2012, individuals, businesses and governments have supported the program, whose annual budget is $350,000. ACF stresses the value of this investment: “Every dollar invested in early childhood education returns $4 to $9 to the public as a result of reduced special education, welfare, and crime

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In Praise of

Kameron Miranda and Gina D’Orazio Stryker of Gina Cucina; photo by Willy Wheeless.

Locavores Where Your Food Comes from Matters

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Gazpacho watermelon soup from Gina Cucina; photo by Cathy Miranda.

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o you ever stop to think about what you're eating and where it came from? How the food you're eating got to your table? The efforts it took to get there?

As the climate changes and impacts our communities, it is important to have a strong local food economy and agricultural system. The Roaring Fork Food Alliance, formed in 2012, is a local food coalition that is helping to expand our local food system. “Investing in yourself by eating locally produced, organic foods will reap benefits to your health and keep you out of the doctor’s office,” comments the Alliance’s Gwen Garcelon.

Our valley offers many options when it comes to local organic foods, and the benefits of locavore eating are huge: better health, better taste, fresher food, lower environmental impact, higher nutrient content and a stronger economy.

The nutritional value of our foods has been declining for decades due to soil depletion. The link between human health and food has been documented for decades, and local producers understand the need to improve our food sources.

is key to producing food with higher nutrient value.”

Osage, which is dedicated to growing certified organic culinary herbs, is a great example of a local organic food producer that puts a serious effort into improving the soil as they grow their herbs and vegetables.

Osage has a farm store on their property that sells both their products and other locally-made items. In addition to offering winter hours and extended summer hours, they also offer a version of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. In this flexible program, a consumer can receive a produce box that allows him or he to select what the fresh produce s/he wants. (Other CSA Programs usually make up the box, choosing from their seasonal produce without consumer input.) If you make a visit, be sure to call ahead to arrange a farm tour.

SOUPS FROM GINA CUCINA IN CARBONDALE

Gina Cucina soups are made by two local gals who use locally-produced ingredients. Gina D’Orazio Stryker, founder and recipe artist, grew up in Idaho and then went off to culinary school in Italy at the age of 17. Stryker now lives in Carbondale with her husband and twin boys. Kameron Miranda, who works in sales and marketing for Gina Cucina, contributes a plethora of homegrown food production experience to the firm. She has processed coffee, cocao, yogurt, cheese and other fermented products. She has even started and sold a water-buffalo dairy, a renewable energy installation company and a citrus orchard and gardens!

HERBS FROM OSAGE GARDENS IN NEW CASTLE

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Fresh salsa at Osage Gardens

Mountain Valley Greenhouse; photo by Adam Juul.

Stryker says, “Fresh is a must. You do not get the nutrients needed out of the food if it is processed out and preservatives added that I cannot even pronounce! It’s better all the way around to source locally: better for carbon footprint, better for the farmer, better for the environment and your health. Know your farmer, know your food.”

Gina Cucina offers a soup-of-the-month club; members can receive two seasonal organic and gluten-free soups each month, packaged in 16- or 32-ounce sizes, via the mail. Details can be found on at GinaCucina.com.

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The Mountain Valley Greenhouse, located near Sopris Elementary School in Glenwood Springs, is another local growing collaborative. Mountain Valley teamed up with Sopris Elementary to give the students greenhouse space that enabled them to grow their own food for their cafeteria. The school also secured funding for a solar heating system that both helps to reduce the greenhouse's heating expenses and to shrink its carbon footprint.

In addition, the students interact with many of the staff of parent organization Mountain Valley Developmental, creating a bridge and inclusion of people with differences. Most of Mountain Valley's staffers are people with disabilities, since the organization’s mission is “to encourage and support individuals with developmental disabilities.”

The greenhouse is as “green” as it gets; it includes solar heating, worm beds to develop the soil and natural fertilizers, compostable pots and zero pesticides. A store inside the greenhouse sells seasonal flowers both at retail and to other businesses. It also offers vegetables and local soap that greenhouse manager Adam Juul makes from local beeswax.

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Growing your own food is worth the time and effort. For example, a $2 tomato plant can provide ten pounds of fruit in just one season.

Start by figuring out what you enjoy eating and want to plant, and get the kids involved. Some easy-to-grow and much-needed vegetables are: tomatoes, sweet peppers, cucumbers, snow peas, spinach, basil and beans. Determine the amount of space needed; containers are a great way to start. (You might want to explore indoor gardening. Local author Jerome Osentowski has written a helpful book on this called “The Forest Garden Greenhouse”.)

Edible gardens of Locate a sunny spot for your garden; most Mountain Valley vegetables need six to eight hours of Developmental; photo direct sun each day, and they

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Mountain Valley Developmental's produce; photo by Adam Juul.

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IN PRAISE OF LOCAVORS

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Community gardens are great if you don’t have the space in your backyard.

They can be found in Rifle, Glenwood Springs, Carbondale, Basalt and Aspen.

Good, nutrient-rich soil will make all the difference (compost really helps, so start composting today.) To save time digging into existing dirt, build or purchase a raised bed and line the bottom with newspaper, then fill it with nutrient-rich soil. Plant the seeds, weed and feed, harvest and enjoy the benefits.

Better ingredients make better food and a healthier you!

Tom Rumery, co-founder and owner of Osage Gardens.

HOW TO BE A LOCAVORE AND SUPPORT LOCAL PRODUCERS

Make the change:

• Plant a backyard garden (or a few pots) with your family.

• Eat at restaurants that purchase their foods from local farms.

• Purchase your foods from local producers: farmer’s markets, farm

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stores, coops, produce delivery services.

• To create less food waste, eat what you have.

• 1 squash, cubed

• Compost the food you throw away.

• 2 bell peppers, cubed

• Attend a “farm-to-table” event in your area.

• 1 sweet potato, cubed • 3 baking potatoes, cubed

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• 1 red onion, sliced

• Osage Gardens (eggs, herbs, vegetables) – New Castle

• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme

• Gina Cucina Soups – Carbondale

• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary

• Potters Farm (eggs, meat) – Carbondale

• ¼ cup olive oil

• Crystal River Meats – Carbondale

• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar (can substitute with lemon)

• Peach Valley CSA Farm – Silt

• Salt and pepper to taste

• Rock Bottom Ranch (eggs, meat, flowers) – Basalt

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squash, bell peppers, potatoes and onion. Combine the thyme,

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Breaking Bread in

Community Carbondale's Public Oven Proves a "Roll Model"

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yclists have been tempted off the straight and narrow bike path that runs just west of Carbondale’s Third Street Center by a yeasty, golden aroma wafting on the breeze. Seduced by the scent, they follow their noses to the community bread oven where they receive a warm welcome.

“It’s the one place where everyone goes with the intention of sharing,” says veteran baker Linda Romero Criswell. “We always make extra.”

A baker, writer and quilter, as well as director of the Mount Sopris Historical Society, Criswell is usually at the center of the locals who gather monthly over the summer to share a free community baking day. Their preparations begin 24 hours before dough goes into the oven. That’s when a volunteer—one of just eight people who know the process—builds a fire in the brick-and-stone oven’s baking chamber.

The blaze crackles all night, glowing behind locked steel doors. Through the wee hours, the volunteer monitors the flame to make sure the wood is burning cleanly. The fire-tender continues to stoke the blaze until about an hour before the bake begins.

Anywhere from a handful to a couple dozen bakers appear at the appointed hour, bearing dough they have prepared in advance. Aged from six to 85, the bakers have created culinary treats that have ranged from olive, sage and sourdough breads to challah and pizza.

Last summer, one baker created a loaf of orange Broncos bread while another crafted desert pizza garnished with chocolate and bananas!

After loaves are loaded into the oven using a long-handled paddle called a peel, the oven’s doors are closed for an hour. “Once it's in you can't open the doors," says Criswell. “Getting it right involves a lot of experimentation. We’re not the boss; the oven is the boss. There is no sure-fire way of making it work the same way each time.”

Criswell, who has been baking for more than 50 years, notes that even flour from the same batch and mill can vary between bakings because its moisture content changes. “Bread is forgiving and there’s no one recipe,” she explains. “There are many ways to make a good loaf of bread. We learn by making mistakes. What’s important is to learn by doing.”

What’s also important is doing it together. The oven’s shining, burnished doors bear a motto that reads, “The flavor of bread shared has no equal.” Since the oven can hold up to 16 loaves and retains its heat for hours, multiple batches of bread—including yeast breads, corn breads, breads made with various flours, seeds, cheeses and fruits—can be baked in one day. That leaves plenty of time for the bakers to get to know one another.

The recipe for a successful baking day involves getting the right balance between control and community. “You can’t have people opening the oven and peeking in during the bake," says Criswell. "Someone 30

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Steven Delyannis getting ready to bake a pizza.

Left to right: Tom Passavant, Karen Glenn, Sean McWilliams, Linda Criswell, Stacy Stein and Larry Tallmadge.

Tom Passavant (kneeling) and Sean McWilliams building the oven.

Jean-Marie Hegarty putting bread into the oven.

will come along and ask, ‘Can I just stick in my cake?' On the whole, we have opted for what might be called ‘messy vitality’. We wanted that.”

While building the oven was a community project that involved more than 50 different organizations and 100 volunteers, ask around Carbondale and you’ll be told that Criswell “was the yeast that made this oven rise.” The idea for a community oven was something she mulled over with friends on her deck after cooking at home.

While there are plenty of privately-owned, outdoor brick ovens around the U.S.—Tom Passavant, chapter leader for Slow Food Roaring Fork, had encountered one at a California vineyard and was separately ruminating about building one—public ovens are rare. Prior to Carbondale’s oven, there were a handful of community ovens owned by churches and one or two public ovens in far-flung places like Minnesota, New York State and Toronto.

But neither Passavant nor Criswell knew that. After a meeting arranged by mutual friends, the two got busy reaching out and writing grants. In the summer of 2011, the aptly-named Tom Baker, then Carbondale’s town manager, suggested Third Street Center as a site. Soon, the oven began to rise there in Bonnie Fischer Park.

Criswell says that local blacksmith Sean McWilliams, who forged the oven’s handsome doors, was the only person on the construction crew who had had any prior oven-building experience, so he led the project’s design. (Recently, McWilliams also designed a roof to go over the oven.) To build the oven itself, Gallegos Construction, Valley Lumber, Mayne Block, Ben Sellers, Tile by Jacob, the Fireplace Company and dozens of individuals donated time and materials. The BKS Charitable Foundation provided grant funding and Slow Food Roaring Fork contributed in many ways.

Criswell, along with friends Larry and Katie Leonaitis, baked the first official loaves in October 2011.

Since then, Carbondale’s oven has become a model for how to break bread— and break ground—in community. “People call and visit from all over, looking for advice,” said Criswell. She has fielded calls not only from Fort Collins, Bridgeport and Los Angeles, but also from Peru and Mexico. One group, which hailed from Columbia, made visit plans a full year in advance!

The response that would-be oven builders receive about constructing ovens on public land often proves disappointing. “It’s unusual for an oven to be communal,” says Criswell. “I talked to a New Jersey group that wanted to build a public oven and feed homeless, but their town said no. Our town was so receptive! In our case, the town manager was the one to suggest putting the oven on public land!”

The new roof over the oven, supported by a Garfield County Federal Mineral Lease District grant, will create both a picnic area and an outdoor classroom. Elizabeth Cammack, founder of the adjacent Demeter's Garden, says, “One of the wonderful aspects of a community garden is gathering with fellow gardeners to enjoy the bounty of your hard work. We love potlucks, but… when we join the community bread oven people for gatherings, there is just not enough room. The size of the new shade structure will be more than enough to accommodate everyone comfortably.”

Baking season will begin the first Saturday in March and continue on first Saturdays through the fall. Criswell notes that a growing number of community groups have plans for the oven.

“Everyone is invited,” she says. “No experience necessary. One single dad brought store-bought pizza last summer. We baked it. There is no fee to bake. We just ask that you share a taste of your bread with the group or bring butter, oil, toppings or beverages. Donations are always welcome.”

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MDC's spirits are filtered through crushed marble from the Yule Quarry in Marble, Colorado.

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he evening crowds at the Marble Distilling Company (MDC) are pure Colorado: boots or heels, Carhartts or silk. They gather to enjoy seasonally-evolving cocktails blended with locally-brewed spirits that have been garnering awards and rave reviews.

In contrast to Carbondale’s usual architecture—a mix of funky shacks and newly gentrified brick storefronts— MDC’s building is a spare, monochromatic study in sustainability and regionalism. Despite modish interiors accented with reclaimed wood and local Yule quarry marble, the atmosphere is relaxed. Entering the distillery and luxury inn feels like walking into Cheers.

The ambiance shifts like the weather: one night, an acoustic live set; on another, a low-tempo reggae warms the spirit. Happy chatter from private parties floats out onto Carbondale’s Main Street.

The avalanche of accolades garnered since opening in 2015 makes it clear that Marble Distilling is a Head Distiller Connie Baker preparing the finishing still. smashing success.

But when asked what truly excites her, co-owner and head distiller Connie Baker lights up about something seemingly humdrum—their water reclamation system.

“Think about how they made booze in Kentucky and Tennessee a hundred years ago,” she says, “A 50-gallon drum by a cold running stream.”

Translation: a lot of water!

Having visited other distilleries, Baker says she’s “blown away” by how much clean hot water runs down the drain. “Water is the most precious resource we have!” she exclaims. “Everything gets re-purposed here. We use the hot water to heat our building and preheat our processed and domestic waters.” It even CONTINUED >

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flows through outdoor patios, “not as a snowmelt system, but as a heat-dissipation system.”

This groundbreaking water system earned a $197,500 USDA grant that covered one fourth of its cost, a CLEER grant and another $25 thousand that came from CORE’s Randy Udall True Pioneer Grant. In December, the system won an Exceptional Implementation of Sustainable Technologies Award from the U.S. Green Building Council of Colorado.

Why the award? MDC’s water savings are comparable to the amount of water and energy needed to: • Run a fracking well for one year, • Fill 12.5 football fields with one foot of water (4.1 million gallons), or • Service 20 homes for one year!

Named WETS, for Water Energy Thermal System, the system comprises the world’s first fully closed-loop distilling process. Baker says that when the Roaring Fork Conservancy recently visited MDC to see the system, “they were blown away.”

Proud but not possessive, Baker wants other distillers and industries to use this technology. She plans to present WETS at this year’s American Craft Spirits Association conference in March, and explains, “Anyone can do this.

Every component in WETS is off the shelf; it’s just that no one’s ever put it all together as we have to make the closed-loop system.”

The hometown team that put it all together included Jeff Dickinson of Energy and Sus-

tainable Design, Baker’s husband Wm. Carey Shanks, energy consultant Joani Matranga, Angela Loughry of Confluence Architecture, Kyle Manske of 20/20 Engineering, Joe LeFavbre of CSI Inc. and August Hasz of REG Inc. In WETS, ten heat exchangers and a fully integrated control system ensure maximization of stored energy. This efficiency creates 1.8 million BTUs in energy savings per year, enough to power 20 down-valley homes.

Adds Baker, “We haven’t even calculated how much energy we’re saving our water department to not process our clean, hot water!”

How much water does MDC use in the distilling process? Behind MDC sits a red tank that holds, as one might guess, hot water, and a blue tank that holds cold water.

Together, they store and move the approximately 10,000 gallons of water needed to make MDC’s Crystal River Vodka 80, Gingercello and the award-winning Moonlight EXpresso—infinitely.

WETS will pay for itself in ten years. By then, MDC will have used 10,000 gallons of water—in comparison to a typical distiller’s 41,000,000 gallons!

Typically, a newly-constructed distillery would include underground tanks. But Baker wanted the tanks above ground to show them off, “to show that this system works as a retrofit.”

Asked whether the brightly colored tanks constitute visual blight, MDC’s back-alley neighbor, puppeteer Soozie Lindbloom shot back, “I want to see that! This is awesome!”

WETS might not be statuesque like “Hazel,” MDC’s jaw-dropping six-plate copper-pot still. It won’t elicit as many wolf whistles as MDC’s massive marble slab bar.

But to Baker and the MDC family—who live, work and play in Colorado’s premier watershed—it’s a beauty.

“I love vodka. You don’t have to destroy the planet to make it! That’s the coolest message here!” says Baker.

Message received. Cheers, Marble Distillery!

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t all started with a dog named Dundee.

“I met Dundee at Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE) in 2011,” recalls Jenna Mitchell, a lifelong Roaring Fork Valley local and former CARE employee. “He was this funny greyhound/shepherd-y mix, about eight years old. He’d been waiting for a home for a while, and I took him on as my project.”

Dundee did eventually find the forever home he deserved. With Mitchell.

“I pretty much fell in love,” she remembers. “He was just a very special dog. It wasn’t until about a year later that he got sick.”

When Dundee suddenly stopped eating in the summer of 2012, Mitchell took him to get checked out. Multiple vet visits ensued as his condition worsened. Bills piled up. “The vet thought maybe it was ulcers, or an auto-immune disease, or cancer. It was tough to tell,” Mitchell says. “In a month, he was gone.”

Even before Dundee’s death, Mitchell faced over a thousand dollars in vet bills.

“At the time I was working at CARE, and just didn’t have the cash to cover the costs immediately,” she says. “That’s when Laurie (Raymond) at High Tails had the idea to host a dog wash fundraiser.”

In August 2012, with the help of her husband, the High Tails crew, and a few others, Mitchell raised approximately $1,400. “It was four hours, three bathtubs, something like 64 dogs and a lot of support from people who cared,” Mitchell says of the fundraiser. “It was an immense help for me during a really tough time.”

“I met Jenna years ago when she was helping trainer Tracey Yajko with dog classes at High Tails,” recalls Raymond, who has owned the beloved Glenwood Springs business since 2004. “We had held dog wash fundraisers before, so when Dundee got sick it seemed like a great way to help Jenna cover the medical costs.”

After the success of Dundee’s dog wash, Raymond had a light-bulb moment.

“People were standing in line that day waiting to get their dogs bathed,” she remembers, “and they said, 'Wow, this is a great way to help others, because anyone could end up with unexpected vet bills.’

Afterward I thought, 'Why don’t we pay this forward?’ So we did.”

Raymond approached Mitchell with the idea, and the Dundee Dog Wash Memorial Fundraiser was born. The next wash took place

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Lisa Doherty and her son Wyeth Doherty washing their sheepdog.

The dog wash helped with vet bills for their yellow lab mix, Butters.

in November 2012 and they have continued once a month since then.

“We do a fundraiser on the first Sunday of every month from noon to 4 p.m. at High Tails,” Mitchell says. “It’s $15 per dog with free nail trims. The money we raise goes directly to helping local families and their pets.”

Funds have helped critters like Rosie the beagle, who needed a wheelchair, and Moon, who received diagnostics and acupuncture treatments for an auto-immune disease. There was also Mr. Dude, a pomeranian who under went extensive treatments after Laurie Raymond washing Phoxi, who has been to being attacked by a racalmost every dog wash since coon, and border collie Dundee started! Regulars mix Nikita who needed provide more than 70 percent of the support for the spinal surgery after being dog wash. hit by a car.

“We have also helped cats in the past, and of course we’d help other types of pets, too,” Mitchell says.

To receive financial assistance from the Dundee Fund, a local pet owner must first provide information about their animal’s needs and treatment plan as determined by a veterinarian. “ We can’t pay for routine care like vaccines or spay/neuter—help with those ser vices is already available from other groups in the county,” Mitchell notes. “ We focus more on pets that have suffered some kind of unexpected emergency which the owner is having trouble paying for.”

Once the pet’s needs are clarified, Mitchell will counsel the owner to consider seeking assistance from a variety of other sources before committing dog wash funds. “Before we offer assistance we recommend they look into alternative options first, like maybe a payment plan their vet could arrange,” she says. “If they still need help after that, we will take on a portion of their vet bills.”

In exchange for financial assistance, pet owners are required to work at the dog wash alongside volunteers who have come to help.

“And we are always looking for more volunteers!” Mitchell says. “We want to be able to keep the fundraiser going for as long as we can.”

As of January 2016, the Dundee fund has raised over $32,700 and helped 74 local pets.

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Speed Competition and rail jams. Live music and fun for the entire family.

FEBRUARY 12 OUT OF SIGHT INSIGHT PHOTO EXHIBIT ART BASE, BASALT

FEBRUARY 1, 3 & 18

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SWING YOUR SWEETHEART

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HOTEL COLORADO

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leen Goodrich, history instructor at Colo-

Swing Your Sweetheart at the Symphony in

rado Mountain College, leads a discussion

the Valley’s an annual dinner/dance fund-

covering the years 1565 to 1800 following a

raiser at the Hotel Colorado. The evening

VALLEY HOUSING FORUM

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features swing-era music performed by the

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son. Enjoy dining, dancing and a silent

teachers, workforce and creatives? Be part

FEBRUARY 5

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STUDENT CONCERT

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between Glenwood Springs and El Jebel; a

ROARING FORK HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

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Join Eaden Shantay from noon to 1 p.m.

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FEBRUARY 4

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auction in the historic Victorian setting of

pleting a final painting in three, day-long ses-

ture Tea Room to explore purpose, freedom

FEBRUARY 6

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CLUTTERFREE BOOK SIGNING

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SKI SPREE

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Women of Burlesque from 5:30 to 7 p.m. for

Join Sunlight Mountain for Ski Spree, featur-

Frontier Historical Society and the Glenwood

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FEBRUARY 18 BASALT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUSINESS AFTER HOURS ALPINE BANK BUILDING, BASALT Enjoy flavors and refreshments, a business card treasure hunt, door prizes and informal business networking at this networking benefit

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FEBRUARY 20 - 29 MCCLURE PASS: SNOW TO FLOW REDSTONE INN Ever wonder how snowpack data is collected every hour at remote mountain sites? Join the Roaring Fork Conservancy for this indoor/outdoor Snow To Flow program and be a snow surveyor for a day! Meet at the Redstone Inn for refreshments and an introduction to snow science, then head out for some hands-on exploration! Registration required. See RoaringFork.org for details.

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FEBRUARY 25 PREJUDICE & PRIDE NEW CASTLE BRANCH LIBRARY Join Colleen Goodrich, history instructor at Colorado Mountain College, in viewing the fifth episode of the PBS series Latino Americans: 500 Years of History. Discussion covers Bracero Movement and how it relates to Latino American immigration to the United States and the subsequent formation of the Chicano Movement, led by Cesar Chavez. Free. Call 970.984.2346 for details.

FEBRUARY 26 PAIRINGS LAUNCHPAD, CARBONDALE Featuring cups made by over 30 local and national artists and beverages from a selection of distinguished Colorado distilleries, wineries, brewers, as well as other non-alcoholic beverage makers, Pairings promises to be a night of fun for all ages. Hosted by the Carbondale Council for Arts & Humanities (CCAH).

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Parting Thoughts

Forever A PRINCIPAL'S NOTES FROM THE PLAYGROUND WORDS GREGORY JOHN

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hen Karina and Grace got into it yesterday morning, they did not know that I, the school principal, stood near enough to hear every word. It started with a typical litany of grievances, infractions, betrayals and spite delivered with a hiss. The first barrage came from Karina. Then, with a stammer, from Grace. Then back to the top.

Their spat ramped up with speed and force, causing Karina’s long black braids to swing in vertical arcs while Grace’s soft brown cheeks turned to mottled red. It seemed I had discovered the “throw-down corner” where the real action happened!

Just then, I saw Karina’s eyes widen as she told Grace she would no longer be her best friend. The likely “I-hate-you’s” and maybe something worse appeared imminent, so I emerged from the my little doorway perch and “loomed” as one of the fourth graders called it—wherein I tower over little ones and fix my gaze upon them.

“How are things going, girls?”

My first question got no response, but both girls froze, looked up at me and then at each other. I didn’t have a plan past the shockand-awe greeting, so I had to think fast. I tried a second question: “Friends today, gone tomorrow?”

“What do you mean?” I heard one or the other say. I stepped closer.

I found myself questioning what I wanted to accomplish by butting in. But, my gut said “continue” even as my brain failed to guide me. I knew these girls well—as if they were my own— and knew they had been friends forever. I thought of synchronicities that would create a moment with the three of us talking to one another.

Both girls remained speechless, so I filled in the blanks with a story.

“Do you see those two trees?” In fact, two old oaks grew side by side on the other side of the chain link. What luck! Come on, I said to myself. Spin it! And the words came: “They are the oldest living beings on this hill. Some say they are more than 500 years old.

When no water comes, when the heat spikes, you name it, they stick together. And every year they inch closer. If you look at their roots, they have even started to grow together. And you know what else?”

I got an eye roll from Grace, but I kept talking: “I believe that trees can talk.”

“Oh come on!” Karina cut in.

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Author Gregory John.

“Not in words like you and me. They speak the way trees speak.

They were saplings and then proud trees, standing even when other trees bent and fell. They bent with the wind and they grew closer.”

“So what did the trees say?” Now it was Grace being suspicious.

“You see that tree on the left? The bigger one? That one does most of the talking. So the big one said to the little one: “I am never going to leave you. We’ve been through too much.”

“Oh come on,” said Karina again. “These trees got nowhere else to go.”

“Well look around, little angel. Neither do you. Figure out how to make it work. Both of you could use a good friend...”

That wrapped things for the moment. Meanwhile, I noted that we stood upon a slab of solid tar, surrounded by a high fence, and filled with little humans who shadow-boxed with their own forms of “looming”. They toyed with the awesome power of choice and the irrevocable ways of consequence.

A good enough reason to choose “in”, every single day. _____

Gregory John is the principal of a grade school in San Francisco. He's also

the author of Notes from the Playground, a collection of essays about childhood that is available on Amazon.com.

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