Roaring Fork October 2015

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Editor’s Letter

Capture the magic with a camera.

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he chicken on this month's cover looks a bit quizzical, and why not? He's wondering whether the creature taking his picture is old enough to know which button to push.

The person behind the camera was 10-year-old Seychelle Singh, who is quite accomplished.

Seychelle and the other remarkable young photographers in this month's "If You Give a Kid a Camera" story have inspired this magazine to run a photo contest for photographers between 5 and 16 who live in a zip code beginning with the digits "816." You will find a description of the contest in Around Town and full rules in an ad on page 26.

Cameras are amazing. They find the extraordinary in the ordinary and catch things too fleeting to see. Eudora Welty once said, “A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”

You'll find this issue filled with transcendent moments caught by the camera's eye. In Your Neighbor, you will see the stunning work of world-class adventure photographer Tyler Stableford and learn about how he gives back through film-making and photography. You'll see what lurks in the dark courtesy of Ken Krebiel's remote-controlled cameras. And you'll enjoy a bit of Brownie camera nostalgia in "Parting Thoughts."

This issue will also introduce you to Frasier, a courthouse dog who will be helping kids navigate the legal system. It will give you the backstory on what to feed man's best friend, courtesy of Eric Berry, owner of R.J. Paddywacks. It will take you on vicarious trips to the quarries of Marble and to the 10th Mountain Division huts.

You'll learn about how the nonprofit Fat City Farmers is helping immigrant families to put down roots in the Roaring Fork Valley and how Mary Lilly has been building community here for decades.

OCTOBER 2015 publisher Rick French | RFrench@LifestylePubs.com

editor Nicolette Toussaint | NToussaint@LifestylePubs.com

copy editor Mason Ingram

contributing writers Paul Andersen, Barbara Diane Barry, Cheryl Bumgarner, Caitlin Causey, Bridget Grey, Andrea Palm-Porter, Nicolette Toussaint, David Troxel, Geneviève Joëlle Villamizar

contributing photographers Caitlin Causey, Vicki Devine, Brynn Flaherty, Hap H., Ken Krehbiel, Laurie Lindberg, Sean Nelson, Andrea Palm-Porter, Illene Pevec, Renee Ramge, Tyler Stableford, Nicolette Toussaint, Geneviève Joëlle Villamizar.

If You Give a Kid a Camera: Aaron Adams,Emily Adams, Kendall Clark, Wheeler Feer, Sophie Genung, Bridget Placek, Rowan Sampsel, Seychelle Singh, Lola Villafranco.

corporate team chief executive officer | Steven Schowengerdt chief sales officer | Matthew Perry chief financial officer | DeLand Shore director of marketing | Brad Broockerd art director | Sara Minor ad coordinators | Cyndi Vreeland, Chelsi Hornbaker, Lea Whitson lead layout designer | Nicole Sylvester copy editor | Kendra Mathewson executive assistant | Lori Cunningham

All in all, it's a pretty good snapshot of the Roaring Fork Valley, a photo essay that captures why it's so delightful to live here. Enjoy it, and encourage your young friends to contribute their own work to our contest.

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The contest winner will have his or her work published on January's cover. I'm hoping for a shot that will leave that quizzical chicken's jaw hanging open.

Nicolette Toussaint, Editor

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RoaringForkLifestyle.com ON THE COVER “Chicken” by Seychelle Singh,

age 10. Photographed at Rock Bottom Ranch during a If You Give a Kid Camera workshop.

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18 Love from Marble to Carbondale, Italian Style

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Publisher’s Letter

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am happy to say that we have extended our monthly direct mail list to 11,000 homes and businesses in the Roaring Fork Valley. We reach 90 percent of single-family homeowners here each month with a fresh issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle.

As most of our readers know, Roaring Fork Lifestyle is a magazine for local residents and businesses. It features entertaining, educational and just plain delightful articles about the people, organizations and businesses that interact locally, building relationships on a daily basis.

As the popularity of Roaring Fork Lifestyle grows, so do requests that say, “Where can I get a copy of the magazine?”

Roaring Fork Lifestyle is a monthly direct mail "community" magazine. Unlike other publications, we are not a rack-distribution magazine. Roaring Fork Lifestyle is designed for the people who actually live in our wonderful valley. The most reliable way we have of making sure that residents get the magazine is to direct-mail each monthly issue to them at home.

The magazine’s management never intended for it to be available for our tourist friends to pick up as one of many souvenirs during their brief stay. This is the reason we avoid random display racks. Fully 95 percent of our distribution is direct mail, but we also hand-deliver to professional buildings throughout the valley so that people stranded in waiting rooms can read the magazine as they wait to see that person of interest.

So again you ask, “Where can I get a copy of the magazine?”

There are three ways to make sure you get your personal copy of Roaring Fork Lifestyle: • An electronic copy is at your finger tips. We have an incredible website: RoaringForkLifestyle.com. On the home page, next to the picture of the front cover of the current issue, is a button that will allow you to subscribe electronically and get a copy of the magazine emailed to you each month.

• Email me at rfrench@lifestylepubs.com with a request to be added to our mailing list.

• Stop by your local Chamber of Commerce. We keep a hidden supply under the counter for locals. Just give the secret knock and the Chamber will happily hand you one.

Happy reading,

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Good Times

Glitz & Glamour at Thunder River Theatre

In August, the Thunder River Theatre Company's Glitz and Glamour fundraiser featured both theater folks and guests in Roaring Twenties costumes. The benefit celebrated TRTC's 20th anniversary and raised funds for the theater's ongoing programs.

Founding company member Valerie Haugen and Corey Simpson and Todd Chamberlin TRTC founder and Artistic Director Lon Winston

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Lon Winston auctioning art

Major theater supporters Connie and Jim Calaway

Adam Bartley provided entertainment

Aspen Rotary Club’s 24th Annual Ducky Derby

More than 33,000 rubber duckies raced down the Roaring Fork, a fundraiser for local youth groups, scholarships and international aid.

Top finisher Allison Kanders took home a $10,000 prize. Bennett Bramson of Basalt sold the winning duck, his sixth winner in 10 years.

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2nd Annual Shindig

The Mount Sopris Historical Society fundraiser featured barbecue, music, dancing and a visit from Hattie Thompson, as interpreted by a local actress. Interesting artifacts and historical photos decorated the River Valley Ranch barn.

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Around Town

HOTEL DENVER MARKS 100TH ANNIVERSARY October 2015 marks the 100th birthday of the Hotel Denver in downtown Glenwood Springs. “Go out leaf peeping and enjoy the color, and then come by and enjoy some local color,” says April Carver, who owns the hotel with her husband Steven. “If the walls of this place could talk, they would tell stories of immigrant struggles, prohibition, gangsters, two world wars and a shooting or two.”

In honor of the hotel’s centennial, April been researching and retelling many of the hotel’s historical tales on the blog at TheHotelDenver.com/News as the Carvers continue to uncover and restore original brick walls, hardwood floors and antiques.

Today’s Hotel Denver is home to the Glenwood Canyon Brewpub, the Mona Lisa Boutique and the Riverblend Coffee House.

in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Northern California. In early August, the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District sent a brush truck and crew to help fight the Bendire Complex Fire near Vale, Oregon. Estimated at 30,000 acres, it was only 10 percent contained when the crew left.

The Carbondale & Rural crew came home safely on August 28.

Firefighters from both Basalt and the Aspen Volunteer Fire Department also battled blazes in western states. Basalt firefighter Kyle Ryan assisted a crew at a California fire while Steve Howard traveled to Washington to help fight the Kaniksu Complex Fire. Basalt Deputy Fire Chief Pete Bradshaw and firefighters Duane Vasten and John Schneier drove an engine to Montana to help battle the West Fork Fish Creek Fire northwest of Missoula.

Local fire districts benefit by lending a hand with out-of-the-area fires. According to the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District’s news release, “The crews have an opportunity to experience large wildfires, which do not happen in this area often and the district is able increase its revenues with payments from wildfire assignments.”

MEIER SKIS TO MAKE SNOWBOARDS MURRAY DENTAL HOLDS IMPLANT INFO SESSION Most of the 69 percent of adults who are missing one or more teeth are pretty closed-mouthed about that dental gap. But on Wednesday, October 7, Murray Dental Group in Glenwood Springs will offer an informative open house that will tell visitors about dental implants, a modern and convenient solution to the tooth-loss problem.

Until dental implant technology matured in the 1980s, the standard solutions for replacing missing teeth were bridges or dentures – fixtures that can be uncomfortable and that have to eventually be replaced. Dental implants have the highest success rate of all tooth replacement options and they can last a lifetime when one’s dental hygiene includes daily brushing and flossing.

Murray Dental Group’s open house will offer drinks and light appetizers along with a short 15-minute presentation by Dr. John Murray. Participants will eligible for $500 off their first dental implant. For details, see the Lifestyle Calendar.

ROARING FORK LIFESTYLE SPONSORS KIDS’ PHOTO CONTEST The photos in this month’s Roaring Fork Lifestyle offer graphic proof that our Roaring Fork Valley communities are home to many talented young photographers, and this magazine would like to shine a light on their work. Beginning on October 1, youngsters 16 and under are invited to submit one or two of their photographs to the magazine for a juried photography contest.

Contestants must live in a zip code beginning with the digits “816” and will be judged in three divisions: Elementary Division, ages 5 to 8, Junior Division, ages 9 to 12 and Upper Division, ages 13 to 16.

Winners will be chosen by a panel of judges which includes professional photographers, members of the media and local business people. The photos of all division winners and honorable mentions will be published in the January 2016 issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle, and the overall winner will be featured on that issue’s cover.

LOCALS FIGHT MULTIPLE FIRES ACROSS THE WEST Recently, local fire protection districts sent crews and equipment to several western states as federal officials called for help in battling blazes 12

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This winter, Glenwood Springs ski maker Meier Skis will release its first line of snowboards. The company plans to manufacture a run of 100 to 150 snowboards for the 2015-16 season. The boards will retail for about $500 and will initially be available only on Meier’s website.

Boards will be available in one shape and two lengths, 154 and 161 centimeters. The snowboards will make up about 15 percent of the company’s total production.

ASPEN REACHES 100 PERCENT RENEWABLE ENERGY GOAL Aspen recently became one of just three U.S. cities to run on 100 percent renewable energy. Aspen Utilities and Environmental Initiatives Director David Hornbacher said that shifting to energy generated from natural resources — including wind power, solar power and geothermal heat — has been “decade-plus” goal and “a truly remarkable achievement.”

Aspen had been using about 75 to 80 percent renewable energy. Recently, it eliminated coal and added to its wind power portfolio to replace the remaining 20 to 25 percent of nonrenewable energy.

The first two U.S. cities to reach the 100 percent renewable energy goal were Burlington, Vermont, followed by Greensburg, Kansas.

HARVEST YOUR OWN APPLES The apple harvest season at Orchard Creek Ranch began the last weekend of September, and you’re welcome to bring the family to harvest your own apples there. Orchard Creek Ranch is home to 240 heirloom trees filled with organic Rome, Jonathan and Double Red Delicious apples. No one is too short to reach the fruit because Orchard Creek Ranch will loan long-pole apple pickers to help with their harvesting.

In addition to enjoying just-picked apples, guests will find freshpressed apple cider and apple chips for sale, along with reusable Orchard Creek Ranch cloth apple bags. The working ranch features hay, horses and goats, making it fun for the kids. Orchard Creek Ranch is located off Canyon Creek Road, just off I-70 at Exit 109.

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Eric Berry explains dog food choices to a pet owner.

KEEPING PETS HEALTHY THE WAY NATURE INTENDED ARTICLE BRIDGET GREY | PHOTOGRAPHY NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT

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or Eric Berry, the owner of R.J. Paddywacks’ Pet Supply, his parents’ keeshound and two sickly golden retrievers acquired during college provided an impetus for learning about pet nutrition. “The goldens suffered from incontinence, kidney failure, malnutrition, all kinds of problems,” he recalls. “There weren’t a lot of tools then. I did find one food that was better than what the grocery store offered, but the choices were few. The good part was that I learned about needing to supplement the body’s systems with good nutrition.”

Today, the results of what he learned are apparent in the sleek, healthy body of Soleil, the ebullient golden retriever that greets customers who come into Berry’s store seeking advice.

As Soleil wrestles with Fernando, the shop’s big gray tabby, a customer asks Berry how to best slim down her overweight terrier.

When she learns that Berry’s going to be in Roaring Fork Lifestyle, she says, “Eric’s the best! Tell the folks reading the magazine that nobody where I come from, in San Diego, knows all this stuff.”

Berry knows the pet food industry from the inside out because he spent 12 years as a distributor for original Natura pet products. “My main job is to pull the wool off this five billion-a-year industry,” he says. “It’s massive, and there are huge grey areas. Corporations are using the pet food industry as a dumping ground.”

Berry started R.J. Paddywacks in 1995 with a partner, originally opening it in an 800-square-foot space. Today, 20 years later, customers are lured down from Aspen and up from Glenwood Springs both because the store, now grown to 3,600 square feet, offers so much selection and because Berry, now the sole owner, tells it like it is.

“We need to get beyond all the corporate noise,” he says. “All commercials say that their particular dog food is best, right? And they can’t all be!” Berry explains that although nearly 2,000 different pet foods are sold in the U.S., there aren’t that many recipes.

Because companies that want to sell pet food go to a factory, pick a recipe out of a book and then put their own label on it, the same food can be sold by many different firms.

“The difference is the sourcing and where they buy their ingredients,” Berry advises. “Some companies are very open. You can see the ingredients and where they’re from on their websites. Smaller firms can make connections with small farms, but big Monsanto-type operations can’t work with Joe’s farm. Generally, if you’re buying food from a smaller, independent company, you’re not going to be stuck with a dried kibble made from ingredients that have been so altered that it’s hard for the body to use the nutrients.”

“Our government has extremely low standards for pet food and for what it considers survival to be,” he asserts, ticking off several pet

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Packs, booties and everything a Rocky Mountain climbing dog could want.

food recalls. This year, for example, a law firm filed a class-action lawsuit after more than 3,000 pet owners complained that their dogs died or became seriously ill after eating Purina’s Beneful dry kibble.

“Right now, there’s a strong interest in nutrition for people and it is transferring to pet food,” Berry comments. “Dogs don't need gluten, and there is gluten-free dog food on the market. Of course, gluten was connected with the biggest recall of pet food in U.S. history.”

That recall began in 2007. After a Canadian pet food company reported 14 animal deaths, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the USDA investigated many pet foods and discovered that more than 5,300 brands were contaminated with melamine, a compound used in making unbreakable dishes. The melamine had come from Chinese wheat gluten and rice protein concentrates that were added to pet foods.

“When we use whole grains, meats and ingredients that we can understand, and when they are not processed in ways that downgrade their nutritional content, we do so much better,” Berry comments. “Dogs need meat and fiber. The trend is to eliminate grain and to get that fiber from another source, but that is not right for every dog. We see too many dogs exposed to fractionalization of grain and malnourished as a result. That opens pathways for disease. We tend to see more positive results – pets with shiny coats and bright eyes – when we stick with what Mother Nature intended.”

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Valle Musico Lays Down a Danceable Groove ARTICLE BRIDGET GREY | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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his month, Valle Musico will be playing at the Pumpkin Jazz and Roots Festival in Basalt. If you haven’t heard this local guitar-based world music quintet – or even if you have – you might want to catch that October 17 performance.

Valle Musico was founded by John Ramo, who began playing as a guitar duo with Pat Winger about three years ago. Not long after the two started performing at Steve’s Guitars in Carbondale, they were introduced to bass player Bruce Imig by local musician Chris Bank. Ramo then heard Brett Gould playing Middle Eastern drums at the Gandhi restaurant in Carbondale while his wife Sandra entranced Ghandi's diners with her belly dancing.

The combination of guitars and percussion sounded a chord with Ramo, who owned a recording studio in Washington, D.C. before moving to Colorado in 1997. “In D.C., we recorded a lot of musicians who were African and worked for Paul Simon,” Ramo recalls. Among them was Okyerema Asante, a master drummer from Ghana. Famed for performing all the parts of a traditional five-person drum group by himself, Asante an expert on traditional Ghanaian talking drums. “He was working with Paul Simon around the time that Simon was working on his Graceland album. Asante invited me to a party at Paul Simon’s apartment, and I got to spend some time with him."

Paul Simon told Ramo that for him, music was essentially about “guitars and percussion.” That theme has laid down the major tracks for Valle Musico’s musical collaboration.

For the past year and a half, Valle Musico has been delving into the improvisational and notated aspects of classical, jazz and world-beat musical genres, using guitars and percussion to blend, combine and fuse different styles and traditions. “Our music is danceable because we want that world fusion music groove,” says Ramo. “But whether people dance or not depends on the venue.

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We played sit-down concerts at the West End music series in Christ Episcopal Church in Aspen this summer. But when we opened the summer music series in Carbondale, people danced on the lawn.”

The group includes Pat Winger, who plays nylon and steel guitars, and who has been playing in bars and clubs since he was 14.

After high school, Winger went on the road with a Filipino band playing Polynesian and Top 40 dance music. Other influences he brings to Valle Musico come from having played with an Iranian band that performed Persian and Arabic music and from having been a member of a serious blues band.

Bassist Bruce Imig, who grew up in Boulder, Colorado, has also been a part of many different musical genres. "I feel very fortunate to have played with many different song writers,” he says. “Every musical experience helps you grow and learn, and that's what it's all about."

Gould, the group’s percussionist, played with several internationally known artists while living in Los Angeles. Since 2008, he’s been playing a Middle Eastern drum called a doumbek. In addition to playing with Valle Musico, he plays drum kit with a group called New Shoes, and he also plays for belly dancers.

John Ramo, who plays nylon string and classical guitar, studied and taught classical guitar in Washington D.C. at George Washington University. He has composed for film and video and created the theme for the long-running PBS news show “The McLaughlin Report.” Lured to the Roaring Fork Valley in part by annual skiing trips and in part by a long friendship with Jazz Aspen-Snowmass producer James Horowitz, Ramo and his wife Jolie worked with John Denver on PBS film called “In Partnership with Earth” prior to the singer’s death in 1997.

Valle Music has been working with Dave Taylor to record a CD at Carbondale’s Cool Brick Studio, and it should be done in time for Valle Musico’s performance in Willits on the 17th of this month. The CD will also be available on Valle Musico’s website: ValleMusico.com.

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he sun twinkled over 14 inches of new snow as I arrived in Marble along with four other members of the Carbondale Public Arts Commission (CPAC). We were there to view the mining operations of RED Graniti, the Italian company that has been running the quarries for the past two years. Although the mines had been closed for three days due to avalanche danger, General Manager Daniele Treves was unfazed. He handed out hard hats and mukluks and piled us into four-wheel drive vehicles.

As exuberant Italians drove us up the dangerous one-lane road that leads to the mine, we ogled the enormous blocks of white marble that lined the road.

We were on a quest, searching for bases that would show off the outdoor art that graces Carbondale each year. Inspired by the marble base under James Surls’ “Sewing the Future” sculpture, CPAC had asked Colorado Stone Quarries if they would donate stone to use as bases for CPAC’s Art aRound Town sculptures.

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Treves had proved more than happy to accommodate us.

After arriving at the mine, we received a grand tour. Treves and his assistant, Stefano Mazzuchelli, both of whom speak the same Italian dialect, explained that their company wanted to build a strong relationship between the community and the mine.

To that end, RED Graniti, which is headquartered in Massa, Italy, has elected to use the name Colorado Stone Quarries.

Noting that marble from this mine was used to build the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., and wanting to make sure that people know that this marble – called “marmo” in Italian – is wholly American, RED Graniti has christened the quarry’s galleries “Washington” and “Lincoln.” The company has also upgraded roads, improved mining methods and safety, and reduced dust and debris around the mine.

Treves and his crew showed us how blocks were cut from the mountain’s white marble veins. Enormous diamond saws hew out chunks measuring ten by six by eight feet. Those blocks are loaded on gargantuan trucks, transported down the mountain and then hauled to Delta, Colorado. From there, they travel by train to seaports and are shipped to their final destinations.

Outside the galleries, the miners had piled up huge chunks for marble for us to inspect – and to claim for CPAC’s use! If a piece seemed too big, Mazzuchelli would climb aboard his towering vehicle and chip away at it, asking us to tell him when it reached the size we wanted. We felt like kids playing with Tonka Toys the size of mountains. Treves and Mazzuchelli couldn’t have been more accommodating as we picked out 20 tons for marble for CPAC’s use.

Ultimately, the acquisition of the marble bases became a community effort that stretched from Marble to Silt and Delta.

Daniele Treves referred CPAC to Vic Girardi, who volunteered to haul the heavy blocks from the mine to Delta and then to Pines Stone Company. In turn, Pines Stone donated a portion of their labor to shape the stones and haul them back to Carbondale.

Architect Tim Hagman, a Carbondale local, designed mounting plates free of charge. After being awarded a bid for cutting the base plates, Cody Christensen, owner of Christensen Welding, donated all of his labor for cutting the plates and mounting them onto the marble.

Thanks to Laurie Lindberg and the Town of Carbondale public works team, the marble bases were set in place in time for the June premier of Carbondale’s newest sculptures during the 2015-16 Art aRound Town exhibit.

Along with everyone else involved, I felt gratified by the donors’ generosity. The project proved a delightful and bonding experience.

When you see the new sculptures – they’re easy to spot on their gorgeous white marble bases – please join me in saying molto grazie to Treves, Mazzuchelli, RED Graniti and all the other benefattore who proved so willing to help propel Carbondale into a dazzling center for the arts.

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ll Who Enter center serving Here Will all the kids who ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHY CAITLIN CAUSEY Find Love," reads a sign come through River hanging outside the RivBridge,” she says. er Bridge Regional Center in Frasier will have his work Glenwood Springs. cut out for him, but his world-class These days, there is a little more love training and gentle demeanor make him a inside the homelike walls of the nonprofit’s faperfect fit for the job. His official position as “resicility on 21st Street. The nationally accredited advocacy center for dent buddy” will hopefully give River Bridge kids the courage to speak abused and neglected children recently welcomed a new member more comfortably about the traumatic events they have experienced. to their team. This employee is specially trained to show the most “After abuse is reported, we need more information,” says River vulnerable young members of our community a special kind of love: Bridge’s Forensic Interviewer Kerry Ach. “A child will come here for the slobbery, snuggly, canine kind. an interview, and the idea is that the facility dog will help them feel Enter Frasier. Lanky and doe-eyed at two years old, this gen- comfortable enough to talk to us. We need the child speaking in tleman comes equipped with soft blonde fur, shakable paws his or her own words. What we’re learning is that there is a unique and an adorably knobby head suitable for petting. Frasier also biological response when a dog is present, with lower stress and just happens to have recently graduated from an elite program anxiety levels improving memory and recall.” with Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), a CaliforRiver Bridge plans to employ Frasier’s calming presence whenever nia-based organization that trained him to become a certified a child wants his company. This could mean being called upon during courthouse facility dog. Frasier comes to the Roaring Fork Val- forensic interviews, therapy sessions, or even as a young person takes ley prepared to serve, comfort and befriend the nearly 180 chil- the witness stand to testify against his or her abuser. dren River Bridge assists every year.

“Sometimes a child just likes to have the facility dog in the room, “It’s basically the Ivy League of dog training,” says Meghan or at their feet. They may or may not want to pet him. Other times Hurley, River Bridge’s mental health therapist and Frasier’s new they will tell their entire story, not to the interviewer – but directly owner. “He was specially bred by CCI, and then at eight weeks, to the dog,” Ach notes. “The level of comfort the dog brings to this he was placed with one of their volunteer puppy raisers – actu- kind of experience in a child’s life can mean all the difference as we ally here in Colorado. He lived with that family for 18 months, determine the details of a case.” received some intensive training and then left for San Diego to Hurley agreed that Frasier is poised to make a big difference. receive further training for another six months.”

“The bottom line is that kids are afraid to tell – about the abuse, Hurley traveled to California in early August to train with CCI’s lat- about their abuser. If we don’t have a child who’s able to disclose, then est class of facility dogs during the program's final two weeks, when it is difficult to move forward with prosecution,” she says. Since many she was matched with Frasier. “He will live with me and my family as a cases do not ultimately go to trial due to the lack of a disclosure, the pet dog when he’s not working, but otherwise he’ll be at the advocacy hope is that, over time, Frasier may alter those statistics by helping 20

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Frasier posing with two volunteer models, the daughters of River Bridge’s mental health therapist Meghan Hurley.

more kids feel brave enough to open up about the crimes committed against them.

“Having the dog nearby could help them gain independence from their offender, from following their offender’s rule of silence,” Hurley continues. “What we know about abuse is that it thrives in silence – so it will be very interesting to see if Frasier can help these children feel more courageous. If he can make them feel freed from the rules of their perpetrators, he’s done his job.”

Now that Frasier has arrived at River Bridge and is prepared to serve in the courtroom when needed, local officials have sought assistance in proper facility dog protocol. That’s where Ellen O’Neill-Stephens and Celeste Walsen of the Courthouse Dogs Foundation stepped in.

For the past several years, their Seattle-based group has been helping legal professionals around the country learn how to appropriately manage the use of facility dogs. “We do not train the dogs. What we

do is train the people: the judges, attorneys, victim advocates and the forensic interviewers,” says Walsen, a former veterinarian. “We assist agencies that have decided to bring in a facility dog and help guide them through program development.”

O’Neill-Stephens, who worked as a prosecuting attorney for 26 years prior to her work with Courthouse Dogs, says a key component of their specialized training is teaching the River Bridge team to effectively use Frasier’s presence without disrupting legal proceedings.

“Part of what I teach is how to have these dogs be present during the investigation and prosecution of crimes without creating any sort of legal issues,” she says, adding that the dog could adversely impact the outcome of a case if handled improperly in a courtroom. Both Hurley and O’Neill-Stephens emphasized that courthouse dogs are utilized solely for the purpose of comforting a young victim and are never intended to sway a verdict. Thus, proper training for the dogs – and their humans – is essential.

O’Neill-Stephens also stressed that Frasier’s title is specific to his work alongside the River Bridge team: that he is trained as a facility dog, not a service or therapy dog. “Facility dogs are placed with a professional, assisting in his or her work. There can be school facility dogs, hospital facility dogs, or in Frasier’s case, a courthouse facility dog.

These are not service dogs, because those types of dogs serve people with a disability,” she explains. “That is a very important distinction. Courthouse facility dogs are specifically trained to work in high-stress environments.”

Can Frasier handle the pressure? Absolutely.

“If he was lying at a child’s feet on the witness stand, no one in the room would even know he was there,” Hurley revealed.

Hurley estimates that Frasier will spend the next eight to 10 years doing his life’s work with the abused and neglected kids who pass through River Bridge. Hundreds of children will have the opportunity to shake his paw, scratch his ears and feel his calming presence as they face the most difficult experiences of their young lives.

Good boy, Frasier! That is the kind of unconditional love that only man’s best friend can provide. Welcome to the Roaring Fork Valley.

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"American Flag" by Sophie Genung, age 11, at Willits Town Center.

"Sleeping Pig" by Lola Villafranco, age 8, at Rock Bottom Ranch.

"Maple Leaf on Rock" by Emily Adams, age 14.

If You Give a Kid a Camera,

MAGIC HAPPENS! Workshops spark creativity and connections with nature.

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"Sunflower" by Kendall Clark, age 8, at Rock Bottom Ranch.

"Sheep" by Aaron Adams age 11, photographed at Rock Bottom Ranch.

hat comes from giving a kid a camera? Curiosity.

Creativity. Connection.

Cath Adams, of Gregg & Cath Photographers, saw it happen with her own kids and wanted to pass the magic on.

“I’ve been involved in photography since I was very young, and I came to a time in life when I realized that the purpose for having a gift is to share it with others," says Cath. "I love discovering, exploring and creating images with kids, and I have a strong desire to share my passion with them.”

Cath and her husband Gregg developed a project called “If You Give a Kid a Camera – You Begin to See their World!” The couple has taught camera workshops for kids from age 3 to 18 at venues ranging from the Carbondale, Basalt and Aspen middle schools to a home school group called the Roaring Fork Home Scholars, as well as at Rock Bottom Ranch and the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies. They have given classes to Boy and Girl Scout troops and to silent auction fundraisers.

The results speak for themselves. The kids prove pretty eloquent, too. After one workshop, 9-year-old Aaron said, “I feel like a pro photo-taker. I liked taking pictures of the green garden because there were fresh veggies and it was very cool to see. I feel like an explorer with my camera. It’s fun being outdoors and getting fresh air.”

Fifth-grade teacher Angela Buffo worked with Gregg and Cath Adams to integrate a social studies concept about Inuit rock art into a workshop at Basalt Middle School. The Innuits create human-shaped stone markers called “inuksuk”. For the workshop, each child built one. The kids were then asked to create, photograph and CONTINUED >

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explain the meaning behind their inuksuk. Jonathan, one of the fifth graders who took the workshop, offered this interpretation, “My inuksuk represents smooth rocks and wavy water. When things seem a little wavy, we can work with each other to make things smooth.”

Photos and quotes from Buffo’s class were uploaded into a slideshow on the internet so that the kids, their families and friends could view them. Buffo comments, “My students benefited from this workshop immensely. Many of my students would not have had the chance to take a photography workshop on their own, and this empowered them to explore their creativity with the digital camera.”

Part of Cath’s goal in creating workshops like this one has been to moderate the sometimes-overwhelming influence of the internet and electronic media on children. She says, “I want to encourage kids to unplug and acquaint themselves with the outdoors and to gain a sense of place by exploring our environment and engaging in free play.”

That desire began with her own parenting experiences. “Gregg and I always enjoyed taking our kids out on hiking adventures and explorations,” she recalls. “We marveled at how nature sparked their curiosity and ignited wonderment. But when our oldest entered middle school, we became aware of how much electronic devices were consuming the youth in our society.”

In their business, Cath and Gregg specialize in weddings, portraits, events, editorial and commercial photography. Both began shooting pictures as kids. Cath purchased her own camera at 16 with money saved from teaching swim lessons and working as a lifeguard in her hometown of Conneaut, Ohio. Cath later earned a degree in fine art photography at the College of Notre Dame in Maryland. Gregg got his first camera when he was 7. His father happened to stop at a gas station where a sign read, “Free Camera with a Fill Up.” That first camera led to work on school yearbooks and then to the photography program at Michigan State University.

"Street Lamps" by Sophie Genung, age 11, at Willits Town Center.

"Eggs" by Bridget Placek age 9, photographed at Rock Bottom Ranch.

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The two met in Aspen on a photo shoot in 1990. Cath says, “We live in a valley of amazing beauty, and Gregg and I wish to knit together families, schools and communities through photography. We want to encourage a healthy, creative and active lifestyle. Our environment offers endless opportunities to develop creativity.

“What motivates me is seeing the excitement in a child’s eyes and hearing the enthusiasm in their voices when they tell me they captured the best photo ever. It’s watching tears of happiness when a mother is touched by seeing her child’s images and reading their profound words of expression.

It’s being in nature, sharing cool experiences, having fun chats, listening to child’s dreams and getting a huge hug because a kid had a fun day.”

Parent and individuals interested in a children’s photography workshop can sign up online at IfYouGiveAKidaCamera.com. Organizations may phone 970.948.3621 to discuss and schedule workshops.

Greg and Cath will design private or group sessions to fit particular interests and schedules. They also offer classes for adults and mentorship programs. Their workshops are available year round.

Although there are variable costs associated with the workshops, Cath says, “We do our best to create affordable prices and other opportunities. We encourage businesses and individuals to sponsor workshops for kids. We wish to provide workshop opportunities to kids with special needs, teen parents, and kids diagnosed with a life-threatening medical conditions. We want to provide an opportunity for them to focus on the positive and discover the world around them. ” A portion of the proceeds from photo sessions and assignments booked through Gregg & Cath Photographers, the Adams' photography business, are contributed to If You Give a Kid A Camera workshops.

WHAT YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS SAY

Kendall, age 8 – “It feels fun taking pictures. I like testing new angles. I took pictures of the chickens, pigs and the landscape. I took a million chicken pictures.”

Jack, age 8 – “I feel that my pictures really show the scenery of the ranch. I take pride in my pictures. The garden was breezy, pretty and I also liked the smell. I feel that my pictures are creative and fun. I like taking pictures of the animals. I had fun and I really like being a photographer because you get to be creative.”

Luke, age 8 – “I like taking pictures of the pigs. They are very cool.”

Abigail, age 10 – “I took pictures of flowers and animals. I feel happy and joyful when I take pictures of flowers. When I take pictures, I express myself. I love to take pictures. I feel like a professional photographer.”

Anna, age 12 – "Nature is beautiful and cool – capture it."

Isaac, age 6 – "I feel relaxed when I take photos."

Landon, age 3 – "It's just so much fun taking pictures with my camera, you should try it."

Steve, age 13 – "Photography is an expression of who I am."

Tilly, age 8 – “I learned how to take a framed picture, scenic pictures and how to compose shots.”

Noah, age 9 – "I like to tell a story with my photos."

Ashley, age 9 – "I feel the freedom to be creative."

Rio, age 18 – "It's a great feeling to move away from the electronic world and really, really see the beauty of nature and experience the creativity with my camera."

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Contest is open to individuals 16 and under who live in the Roaring Fork Valley with a zip code that begins with 816XX. Each contestant may enter up to 2 photographs in the contest.

Entries must be high-resolution color photographs (size should be at least 12 by 9 inches at 300 dots per inch and larger sizes are desirable because a landscape photo may need to be cropped for cover presentation). Low-resolution photos are not eligible for publication or for the contest.

Photos must be the original work of the contestant and not of a teacher, parent or other adult. Photos should not be the product of classes or workshops, but should be the young person’s independent work.

Photographs must be submitted by email to the editor of Roaring Fork Lifestyle magazine – ntoussaint@lifestylepubs.com – and electronically postmarked by 5 p.m., Mountain Time, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015.

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Contestants must state their age along with the work submitted as photos will be judged in three divisions: Elementary Division, ages 5 to 8 Junior Division, ages 9 to 12 Upper Division, ages 13 to 16 Entry into the contest will give Roaring Fork Lifestyle permission to publish photographer-credited photos anytime after January 1, 2016.

The publishing permission granted to Roaring Fork Lifestyle magazine is non-exclusive, so the photographer may also use his or her photos for any purpose s/he desires at any time.

Winners will be chosen by a panel of independent judges that includes professionals in the photography and publishing business, among others.

Winners will be announced on Dec. 5, 2015. Decision of the judges is final.

Family members of judges are not eligible for the contest.

The first-place winner will have his or her winning photograph published on the cover of Roaring Fork Lifestyle magazine in January 2016.

All photos that receive at least an honorable mention will be published in a story that will run in that same issue, and all youth photographers will receive a photo credit in print.

Fat City Farmers Grow Kids,

Community and Food Mexican Families Learning Together ARTICLE GENEVIÈVE JOËLLE VILLAMIZAR PHOTOGRAPHY ILLENE PEVEC & GENEVIÈVE JOËLLE VILLAMIZAR

Eladia says, “I never saw Manuelito like this, soooo tender with the new plants! He’s usually so rough with things, but he carried the tomato seedlings as gentle as could be. He planted with so much care.”

Photo by Geneviève Villamizar

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vining chayote squash sends curling tendrils up the natural support of a fruit tree. Remnant tree branches are lashed together with old pallets to create pergolas over garden plots.

Weeds have been put to good use, spread across the pergola, shading tender veggies. Walking the east beds of the Roaring Fork High School Community Garden, one sees Mexican ingenuity at play.

“There is a common misconception that all Mexican immigrants are former farmers,” comments Illene Pevec, a food activist with the nonprofit Fat City Farmers. Pevec sees a disconnect between local Mexican families and the worldwide farm-to-fork movement. Her desire is “to see all families – especially Mexican families – participating in the gardening community, growing their own food and gaining the benefits of food independence.

Mexico has the highest rate of diabetes in the world and fresh vegetable consumption is a healthy way to help prevent this.”

Fat City Farmers (FCF) was founded in 2007 by Michael Thompson, Susan Brady and others “to educate a new generation of farmers who nurture the land with organic techniques,” explains Pevec.

“We focus on school and community garden work. We developed the large garden and greenhouse at Roaring Fork High School to offer workshops to teachers all over the valley, to integrate gardening activities with meeting Colorado Learning Standards.”

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Meet Juan, Eladia and Manuel. Eladia commented, “I grew up in Guadalajara, where my father grew frijol and maiz. My mother always had a garden, and I helped. My husband Juan, this is his very first time.”

Photo by Geneviève Villamizar..

with agriculture science teacher Hadley Hentschel, breaking ground on a growdome greenhouse in 2010. In ensuing seasons, they planted a heritage fruit orchard and community garden plots. Hentschel uses the grow-dome and garden plots to teach juniors and seniors about soil science, the American agriculture system, forest gardening concepts, plant science and plant physiology. The students grab shovels and hoes and experiment in the grow dome and community garden. The school then uses their produce in cafeteria lunches.

But the school’s community garden was barely used during the high growing season. That’s when schools go on summer vacation. How could the group steward the garden during the brief – but intense – growing period of summer?

Fat City Farmers reached out to the Valley Settlement Project (VSP). Founded by George Stranahan’s Manaus Fund, VSP brings immigrant families into the community. Working with both children and parents, VSP hopes to create lasting change for lower-income immigrant families by focusing on school preparedness, improving economic stability and increasing community involvement. El Busesito, sponsored by VSP, is a traveling preschool program that serves lower-income neighborhoods. Fat City Farmers invited Busesito children to tour the garden and invited VSP families to use the gardens. It was a good fit.

Last spring, eight families broke ground at the high school's community garden. Only two had ever grown food before, and they shared their knowledge with other families.

Pevec and Hentschel provided guidance.

Many of the seeds and starter plants were donated, including tomatoes and squash plants grown by the ag science students. Growing Food Forward, a garden nonprofit for hunger relief, donated seeds and starter peat pots.

The families arrive in the cooler evening hours after work. “All ages are

Pulling from scraps around the gardendry branches, pallets and weeds, families have lashed together shade structures for the growing plants.

Photo by Illene Pevec.

Photo by Illene Pevec.

“We help each other out. We don’t just look at ‘our’ plot of land, we look at each others'.

If theirs looks thirsty, we water it. We work together.”

working together,” Pevec says. “Babies sit in their little bouncy chairs while preschoolers take turns with the mini-shovels. Moms and dads work side by side with older children.”

Adds Hentschel, “It’s been really fun watching the families all summer… lots of gardening! These 5- and 6-year olds are just going at it!"

Each family’s plots add up to a couple hundred square feet. The land is sloped, bisected by an intermittent wetland. Beds range from 10-by-10 to 10-by-20 feet, depending upon the slope. Some straddle the wetland. Some hold fruit trees or native shrubs planted for their nitrogen-fixing capacity, berries or forest role.

The ultimate goal is to teach forest gardening, growing in supportive guilds. VSP wants families to learn to grow nutritious food and to develop food independence.

But this year, it was more important to just get them started. “Grow as you know how to grow,” Hentschel chuckles wryly.

Collectively, Pevec and the families grew a “Three Sisters Garden” at the center of all the plots: corn, beans and squash planted in the traditional way. Sue Gray, another local garden activist, donated the corn seed, a traditional variety bred for high altitudes.

Cilantro and several varieties of chilies and CONTINUED >

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peppers weave through the family plots, whispering of the Mexican spirit that pervades the garden.

Vegetables of all shapes, size and color glow amid verdant green.

Onions, kale, carrots, bell peppers, lettuces and zucchini fill the beds alongside weeds. But the weeds bring life and biodiversity. Bees, butterflies, humming birds, finches and robins fill the air. Snakes slide through grass blades; frogs have begun to move in. “The children are having a ball discovering worms and roly polies,” says Pevec.

At the heart of the garden sit bee hives that provide honey and pollination. Volunteer Don Gunther manages the hives and hasn’t yet involved the community gardeners. He’s pursuing a master gardener certification with a specialization in bee keeping, and he hopes to lead future workshops.

Pevec hopes that Fat City Farmers can put more gardens on school grounds. “We still need more financial support from the school district or a foundation to keep everything going,” she says. “It should be as integrated into education as are school sports, as it supports the good health of all students.”

Next spring, the same eight families will return to garden over the summer. Pevec believes that it’s a way for families to get more involved in school activities that directly serve family health and to grow community simultaneously.

Summer has waned. Much to the delight of the niños, the zucchinis grew to the size of clubs. Pumpkins morphed from green to orange. As they share harvests and ideas, the Mexican families continue to learn: Did the chayote actually ripen before frost? Did the tomatoes do better when partially shaded?

The vegetables and soils have taught them about themselves, about each other and about how to connect to this new place called Carbondale.

Fat City Farmers is seeking social media help and garden volunteers. Their funding comes private donations and grants; consider a tax-deductible donation to Fat City Farmers.

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Cameras Catch What Goes Bump in the Night

ARTICLE PAUL ANDERSEN | PHOTOGRAPHY KEN KREHBIEL

K

en Krehbiel is a photographer who does most of his work in bed – asleep. His cameras are often miles away, unnoticed, except by a curious bear or a passing mountain lion. His subjects are usually unaware that their pictures are being taken. None of them complains about an invasion of privacy.

Krehbiel is a wildlife photographer who uses hidden, battery-powered cameras triggered by motion detectors. The images he comes home with are surprises and discoveries. “Every time I download the images, it feels like Christmas,” says the Carbondale resident who owns and operates a Basalt framing store with his wife, Sue, a guitarist, singer and songwriter.

Ken’s images are often stunning.

A mountain lion with a kitten feeds on a deer carcass artfully concealed beneath a thatch of sticks and grasses. “This image was taken at a place that’s only a stone’s throw from where I live in a residential neighborhood along the Crystal River,” he explains.

A huge, blondish sow bear and two cinnamon-colored cubs devour an elk carcass Krehbiel left in the Flattops after a successful hunting trip last fall. “I like to go back to see what’s left after a week or two, and often find only the teeth. Apparently, that’s the only part of the elk that doesn’t get eaten. Everything else – hide, skull, bones – is gone.”

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variety, but have a slight genetic difference due to fox breeding dating back to the Great Depression.

Raccoons, skunks, coyotes, turkeys, ducks and, of course, deer proliferate among Krehbiel’s photos, many shot in his backyard where an apple tree serves as a natural lure.

One night the camera produced a mysterious image of a creature wandering his backyard that took some study before recognizing it as a neighbor’s dog wearing a sweater. “I said, ‘What’s that?!’”

Another image shows Krehbiel’s wife making a face at the camera. “You never know,” he laughs.

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The remote cameras he uses are available commercially for up to a couple hundred dollars. They are often used by hunters to discreetly survey prospective turf before hunting season.

“I got mine, not for hunting, but just for curiosity, even just to see what was walking around in my backyard," Ken says. "I started putting the cameras out at different places and the images have been amazing.”

Ken usually fastens his cameras to trees in specially designed, metal bear boxes. He learned that bears will otherwise tear them off of trees. “They’re so curious,” he says, referring to incredible close-ups of bear noses where one can look right into their nostrils.

On the elk carcass site in the Flattops, Ken’s camera lenses got smeared up a little, but he came away with 340 pictures of bears, including big sows with cubs and big boars.

“At least seven different bears came by to clean up that elk,” he says.

When mountain lions began appearing, Ken got really excited by images of a most elusive keystone predator.

“You just don’t see them – maybe tracks sometimes – but you don’t see them," he explains. "One day I went out near Carbondale and discovered some random tracks. I found them near a pond where it looked like a beaver had slid across the snow. I noticed there was blood in the snow, so I followed it to where the trail ended at a ravine. Then it just disappeared. Well, that’s where it happened. A lion had killed a deer and buried it under sticks and grass. There was only one ear sticking out of the snow.

I set up three cameras and got a huge range of pictures. Three separate females, and some kittens, visited that site.”

Ken knew that the smarter animals move around a lot, and most of them are nocturnal. The camera at the mountain lion site recorded the date and times of the images. Most shots were triggered in the early morning hours.

Some cameras use a flash that can frighten the subjects.

Others rely on infrared, but produce only black and white images. The flash cameras give full color.

“I was concerned the flash would scare them off, but it didn’t,” reports Ken. “One lion bedded down right next to a camera. Another just sat there licking its paws.”

CATCH-AND-RELEASE HUNTING

Ken usually places the cameras by himself, something he’s prone to do because nobody seems willing to tag along with him on his wilderness forays. He goes out winter camping alone, sheltering in a three-season tent that Ken customized to accommodate a backpackable wood-burning stove that heats the tent like a sauna.

Using cameras to hunt animals, says Ken, is a hunter’s version of catch-and-release. “You get to hunt them and they have no idea what catches them. These cameras are the ultimate live trap.”

Since these cameras were invented decades ago for scouting and monitoring populations of whitetail deer back East, public interest has grown. Today there are online galleries showing unique images.

Ken scrolls through his iPad to show a picture of a white-tailed deer that had locked antlers with another whitetail. In the ensuing struggle of life and death, one deer evidently kicked the head off the other deer and carried the severed head around on its antlers.

“That’s something you just wouldn’t see,” muses Ken. Even after recording thousands of images, Ken’s curiosity remains piqued. His brother, who lives in Twin Lakes, has been bitten by the same bug.

“This is an ongoing theme for us – to see how many species we can get,” says Ken. “Not everyone wants you to hunt on their property, but most people are very accommodating to allow us to set up cameras because the pictures are so fascinating. Everybody should have one of these,” he says, hefting one of his cameras.

Reprint courtesy of Paul Andersen, Aspen Journalism.

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Your Neighbor

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Tagitu, a photo honored by the Fourth Annual Photography Masters Cup in ther Portraits category.

International Photographer and Humanitarian, Tyler Stableford ARTICLE NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT | PHOTOGRAPHY TYLER STABLEFORD

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n 2009, Tyler Stableford volunteered to film a documentary about a nonprofit that was helping transform the lives of destitute children in Ethiopia, a country devastated by drought, famine and disease. Sharp increases in HIV and malaria coupled with a lack of healthcare led to a startling statistic: 80 percent of the deaths occurring in Ethiopia were due to preventable diseases.

Stableford, who grew up in Connecticut and now lives in Carbondale, spent a college semester focusing on anthropology and environmental studies in Africa. He says, “I think my time in Kenya really opened my eyes to how much of the world lives. I did home-stays the whole time. That experience was part of my coming of age. I learned that you have to be involved in something bigger than myself. And now I am.”

Stableford, a world-class photographer and cinematographer and a first-class storyteller, dramatized the Ethiopian crisis for Wide Horizons, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit. With roots that go back to two couples who cared for dozens of children orphaned by the Vietnam war, the organization has placed close to 13,000 children from 60 countries into adoptive homes.

That Wide Horizons film was one of many contributions that Stableford has given to nonprofits here in the Roaring Fork Valley and abroad. He offers up his talents for free to nonprofits for at least one week a year.

Stableford, who has been named one of Canon Camera’s prestigious “Explorers of Light,” is an internationally recognized outdoor and adventure photographer and director. He has won awards from Communication Arts, the Global Art Directors Club, the International Photography Awards and many other organizations. Among the recurrent themes in his work are adventure, the outdoors and physical challenges.

In 2005, for example, he filmed inside Iceland’s Langjokuil Glacier, listening to the moving snow above him creaking and groaning as cracks appeared in the ice cave where he worked. Men’s Journal named him one of "World's Greatest Adventure Photographers” for that footage.

In 2012, Stableford’s ice-climbing film

Stableford documented a Guatemalan boy named Lalo foraging in a landfill; photo was chosen as a winner in the American Photography 26 contest.

Tyler Stableford

“Shattered” was an official selection of the Telluride MountainFilm festival.

Stableford’s 2010 film “The Fall Line” tells the story of 101st Airborne Ranger Heath Calhoun who lost his legs in a grenade blast in Iraq. Overcoming his disability, Calhoun learned to monoski in Aspen and earned a spot on the U.S. Paralympic ski team.

“What I am attracted to as a storyteller is a transformational challenge," says Stableford. "This was a great opportunity to tell the story of a wounded warrior undergoing a challenge in life, a challenge that is more mental than physical. That’s a story about the human spirit, about suffering, about soul searching. It’s the reconstruction of a person’s sense of self and the connection to self and family that’s the story, rather than the disability.”

Children and poverty, both at home and abroad, are abiding concerns for Stableford. Between 2008 and 2011, he volunteered in elementary schools, reading to children.

Last month, he was busy shooting photos of kids in need of homes for Colorado Foster Services.

Two years ago, he produced, directed and donated a video used by the Manaus Fund and Valley Settlement Project. “The Valley Settlement project is doing such amazing work to integrate Latino families and others into our communities and schools here,” Stableford commented. “Their efforts truly benefit everyone in our communities.”

George Stranahan, the Fund's founder, explains that the name "Manaus" refers to a city in Brazil where two rivers, one muddy and one clear, meet. The name is an apt metaphor for the work of blending low-income groups and communities of color into our society. "But we had trouble explaining to people what we did," he says. "The movie was useful for that. Tyler did a bang-up job with it, and it's powerful."

Stableford has filmed for Wide Horizons for Children twice, shooting in Guatemala, as well as in Ethiopia. In both cases, photos taken on location won photography awards.

The Fourth Annual Photography Masters Cup honored Stableford’s image of an Ethiopian woman named Tagitu in their Portraits category. Stableford notes, “Tagitu had lost her husband to illness two years ago. Destitute, she became unable to care for her children and sequentially gave up her two- and five-year-old boys for adoption.” In 2010, Stableford’s shot of a seven-year-old boy named Lalo foraging in a Guatemalan landfill was chosen as a winner in the American Photography 26 contest. “It is one of my favorite journalistic photos, for the sense of hardship and lost youth that Lalo conveys.”

“We all have experience of adversity and adapting to challenging circumstances and a changing world,” he says. “I am drawn as a seeker to stories of people who are leading the way and expanding themselves. That makes an interesting story and also makes a strong personal connection for me.”

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Water & Woods

The author and her main squeeze Jack Scherrer on the deck of Markley Hut. Photo

by Brynn Flaherty.

Skiiers at Peter Estin Hut. Photo by Flickr photographer Hap H.

Hut Trippin' Colorado Style FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION ARTICLE ANDREA PALM-PORTER | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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have lived in Colorado for an adventurous 18 years, but I hadn’t quite “arrived” until last March. That’s when friends showed me the ropes. They took me to Markley Hut. The trip was booked months in advance, and because friends were hut trippin’ together, it was sure to be a blast.

Markley Hut is located at 10,400 feet, outside Ashcroft at the foot of Green Mountain. To get there, we skinned in on split boards, alpine touring and telemark equipment, trekking two and a half miles from the parking lot and gaining 1,000 feet in elevation.

To prepare, I used a packing list from the 10th Mountain Division website. I looked at what gear I had and what amenities the hut offered to figure out I what would need to borrow or buy.

I borrowed a good backpack and personal locator beacon, a device that will broadcast a personal distress signal if you get lost or caught in an avalanche. I needed a sleeping bag, and I got my hands on a Big Agnes Boot Jack 24, which is made in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. It's lightweight, easy to pack and filled with high-quality down that kept me comfortable while sleeping inside the hut.

Perhaps you’re asking, “What’s a hut?”

It's back-country cabin, one you reach by skiing it, or by mountain biking or hiking.

The Roaring Fork Valley is smack-dab in the middle of hut country.

More than a dozen huts are run by the 10th Mountain Division Hut Association, a nonprofit formed in the early 1980’s by several Aspen skiers, including 10th Mountain Division veteran Fritz Benedict.

The 10th Mountain Division was a World War II infantry unit that trained at Camp Hale, near Leadville, and at nearby huts. After learning

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alpine tactics, men from the 10th Mountain Division fought in the Italian Alps, and following the war, they founded most of Colorado’s ski areas.

Today, one chain of huts is located in the Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness area, and others cluster along the Front Range and around Vail. Colorado’s entire hut system includes more than 30 huts: The 10th Mountain Division system has 13 huts. Some privately owned huts have been added into the network. Another group is operated by Braun & Friends and still another by Summit Huts.

There is even a yurt alliance!

Huts are available year round, so you can access them by snowshoeing, skiing, hiking or biking. You can plan a single-hut adventure, or you can travel between huts as the 10th Mountain Division did during training. For example, the Tagert and Green-Wilson Huts can be used in conjunction with the Friends’ Hut, enabling you to ski between Aspen and Crested Butte.

The average hut route is six to seven miles long and climbs 1,500 to 2,500 feet, starting from a trail head located at 8,000 feet or higher. Given those elevations, weather and safety must always be factored into your planning and packing.

The first step in planning a hut trip would be to check out the 10th Mountain Division’s website (Huts.org) and to call them at 970.925.5775. You can reserve an entire hut or reserve space on a per-person basis.

But plan ahead! The huts are popular, so you might need to reserve months in advance. After all, hut tripping is a rite of passage not just for Colorado kids, but also for grown-ups from other states who, like me, finally go native by arriving at the huts.

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History 101

Exemplifying the Pioneer Spirit: Mary Lilly ARTICLE DAVID TROXEL | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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ecently, the Mount Sopris Historical Society (MSHS) honored Mary Lilly with the Hattie Thompson award in recognition of Lilly’s love of learning, appreciation for the land and dedication to the community. “Mary’s indomitable spirit, kind heart and practical resolve exemplify the pioneering spirit that gave rise to the American West,” says MSHS Executive Director Beth White.

Mary Lilly first saw the Roaring Fork Valley in 1951, when she and her former husband, research scientist Dr. John Lilly, traveled from Philadelphia and camped near the Crystal River with their young sons Johnny and Charlie. There they befriended fellow campers John and Anne Holden, who had taught at Vermont’s Putney School and planned to start a similar school here.

Two years later, local rancher Harald “Shorty” Pabst donated 350-acres to the Holdens. Mary’s son Johnny was invited to come help build the new Colorado Rocky Mountain School (CRMS). As Mary Lilly recalls, “They spent the summer digging holes for privies and building all kinds of things, which was pretty good for a city boy.” Both Johnny and his brother Charlie eventually attended CRMS. Back east, Mary Lilly spent years supporting the work of her famous husband – only to be abruptly and wordlessly abandoned by him. In 1958, Mary was attending graduation ceremonies for her own, long-deferred bachelor’s degree in Washington while Dr. Lilly was presenting a conference speech to the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco. Following the conference, John Lilly disappeared with the wife of a colleague. The Lillys divorced soon after.

In that era, more than a decade before the modern women’s movement, society was distinctly unfriendly to divorcees and partnerless mothers, and few career options were open to women. Nonetheless, Mary Lilly was undeterred in moving on with her life. Shortly after her divorce, she began working on a graduate degree in art at American University.

Over the next decade, Mary Lilly used that degree to teach art at the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland. She chaperoned students to the World Academy for Study Abroad, telling the girls all about everything in Rome and Florence and Greece. "I didn’t know very much,” Mary recalls mischievously, “but I told them!”

In 1971, Mary returned to Carbondale. She bought a ranch and ran it with her son Charles. She also taught art at Colorado Mountain College, and renewed local friendships going back 20 years or more.

Soon, Mary was actively involved with the Mount Sopris Historical Society and the Methodist Church. She also helped establish the local chapter of the League of Women Voters and co-founded the Crystal Valley Environmental Association.

While serving on the Mt. Sopris Historical Society’s board of directors, Lilly curated the community’s first oral history archive.

The collected oral histories aired weekly on a KDNK radio program called "The Way it Was.” Mary Lilly, who is now 99, received the Hattie Thompson award at the Historical Society’s annual Shindig in August.

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WYLY ART CENTER

Sponsored by Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist Congregation (TRUU) and Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE). Non-denominational event celebrates family pets, service animals and our connections to the web of life. Bring your dogs, cats, hamsters, rabbits, goats, parakeets (all properly restrained), or bring a photo. Free-a small bag of dog or cat food or a cash donation requested. Outdoor event.

Tea, great support from instructor Pam Porter and most art materials provided. Bring your own large drawing pad (around 14 x 17 inch with 80-90 pound paper), and any special collage materials desired. All skills levels; 9:30-11:30 a.m. on Thursdays. Fee is $75 for three classes or $35 per class for drop-ins.

OCTOBER 15 BRAHMS AND FRIENDS BASALT LIBRARY

Piano Trio featuring Brittni Brown, violin; Sarah Graf, cello; and Kevin Kaukl, piano. Free and open to the public. Doors open 20 minutes before the 5:30 p.m. concert.

OCTOBER 15 BUSINESS AFTER HOURS BASALT FITNESS

Join the Basalt Area Chamber of Commerce for “Celebration of Bosses Day”. Hosted by Basalt Fitness, Albright & Associates, and 46

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Rock Canyon Coffee with food from Smoke Modern BBQ and refreshments by El Jebeverage. A complimentary benefit for Basalt Chamber members and first-time guests; non-members $15. Reserve your spot: info@BasaltChamber.com or 970.927.4031.

OCTOBER 17 JACK FROST KICKOFF SUNLIGHT MOUNTAIN

Ready to hit the slopes? Get your snow-dance on to the mountain funky blues tunes of Tight Thump followed by the blues-twisted, reggae-rock sound of Zolopht as music returns to your favorite locals' mountain. Great music, good friends, food and drink on the deck from 3:30 - 7 p.m. Bands around the bonfire at Sunlight Lodge's New Bar. SunlightMtn.com.

OCTOBER 17 CULINARY ARTS & BREWFEST HOTEL COLORADO

Largest annual fundraiser for the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts. An evening of dining from top area restaurants, hundreds of wines, handcrafted brews, live music and a silent auction. Tickets support collaborative outreach programs at local schools plus world culture programs for home school students. GlenwoodArts.org

OCTOBER 17 BASALT PUMPKIN JAZZ & ROOTS FESTIVAL BASALT

Come enjoy 10 different musical events in and around Basalt: five in Willits Town Center and five in the historic town core. Valle Musico (profiled in this issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle) will be one of the 10 musical treats. Free to the public.

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business directory ANIMALS & ANIMAL CARE

Alpine Animal Hospital (970) 963-2371 alpinehospital.com

FASHION & ACCESSORIES

Bellini’s Fashion (970) 945-9448 bellinisfashionandbeauty.com

High Tails Dog and Cat Outfitters, LLC (970) 947-0014 hightailsco-op.com

FINANCIAL SERVICES & PLANNING

Willits Veterinary Hospital (970) 510-5436 willitsvet.com

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

Bay Equity Home Loans (970) 309-2911

Burkholder Homes, Inc (970) 948-7044 burkholderhomesinc.com Janckila Construction (970) 927-6714 janckilaconstruction.com

HOME DESIGN & FURNISHINGS

Colorado Pool & Spa Scapes (970) 945-8775 Iron Mountain Hot Springs (970) 945-4766 ironmountainhotsprings.com JBC Agricultural Management (970) 319-8962

CAPCO Tile & Stone (970) 963-7320 capcotile.com

Osage Gardens. Inc. (970) 876-0668 osagegardens.com

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY HEALTH & WELLNESS

Down Valley Design Center (970) 625-1589

Photo Contest - House Ad (970) 618-8981

AUTOMOTIVE

Gotcha Covered Roaring Fork (970) 945-4010 Gotchacovered.com

Spring Creek Land & Waterscapes (970) 963-9195 springcreeklandandwaterscapes.com

HOME SERVICES

The Glass Guru (970) 456-6832 theglassguruofglenwoodsprings.com

Sculpture By Dahl (970) 987-0350

Burn Fitness Studio (970) 379-7403 burnfitnessstudio.com

Audi Glenwood Springs (970) 384-5330 audiglenwoodsprings.com

Hot Springs Pool & Spa (970) 945-6571 hotspringspool.com

Jim’s Automotive Service (970) 945-6666 jimautomotive.com

Midland Fitness (970) 945-4440 midland-fitness.com

Mountain Chevrolet (970) 928-9777 mtnchevy.com

True Nature Healing Arts (970) 963-9900 truenatureheals.com

DENTISTS & ORTHODONTICS

Weight Management of the Rockies (970) 945-2324 wmrockies.hmrdiet.com

Jack B. Hilty (970) 945-1185 hiltyortho.com

Murray Dental Group (970) 945-5112 murraydentaldg.com

ENTERTAINMENT & RECREATION

Glenwood Vaudeville Revue (970) 945-9699 gvrshow.com

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HOME BUILDERS & REMODELERS 3 G Construction (970) 984-7046

Ace Roofing & Sheetmetal (970) 945-5366 aceroof.co B & H General Contractors (970) 945-0102 bandhgeneralcontractors.com

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Apex Security (970) 945-2152 apexsecurity.com

Tom Roach Hardwood Floors (970) 274-0944 tomroachfloors.com

LEGAL SERVICES

The Noone Law Firm PC (970) 945-4500

MEDICAL CLINICS & FACILITIES

Rocky Mountain Audiology (970) 945-7575 rockymountainaudiology.com Win Health Institute (970) 279-4099 winhealthinstitute.com

OTHER

Aspen Glen Club (970) 704-1905 aspen-glen.com

The Hotel Denver (970) 945-6565 thehoteldenver.com

PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE Coldwell Banker Mason Morse Real Estate (970) 963-3300 masonmorse.com

Re/Max Mountain West (970) 963-1940 coloradohomesranches.com The Property Shop (970) 947-9300 propertyshopinc.com

SPECIALTY SHOPS Bethel Party Rentals (970) 947-9700 bethelpartyrentals.com

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Alpine Animal Hospital offers Wellness Packages for Annual Care We know you love your horse and can often tell if he is not feeling well. Have your horse examined at least once a year to catch the things she is not “telling” you, before they become serious issues.

Alpine offers a 20% discounted package for annual wellness and preventative care.

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Parting Thoughts

Creative Acts WORDS BARBARA DIANE BARRY

M

y earliest adventures in art read like a baby boomer's TV guide. I began with "Winky-Dink," an interactive show, in which viewers drew the starry hero to safety on a magic screen.

I colored by number with luscious, Venus Paradise pencils. The official "John Gnagy" drawing kit presented me with authentic tools of the trade. (For those of you under 45, these things are now considered "vintage.")

But there was something about my first camera that gave me a much grander experience of artistic vision – and with it a taste of autonomy. At the age of 11, a family friend gave me his old Brownie Bullet. Nothing unique, just another black, Kodak box. Not even a flash. Still, for me, it was an artifact from the adult world, given in trust, like the passing of a baton.

From the moment it was in my hands, I was recording my world, both real and imagined. I went around sneaking candids of family and friends. Click. My father's "grouchy" look. Click. The neighbor's squalling kid. Click. My grandmother coming up the walk, all feminine grace.

In warm weather, I was out on the porch, arranging my old "ginny" dolls in scenes of domestic bliss. Under the willow tree, I staged tableaus of my little sister, a living manikin, dressed in mother's petticoats and pop-it beads. Now bride, now widow. I became director, producer and costumer maker, putting frame after frame around my creations.

One winter I remember taking "action" stills of my best friend and her Flexible Flyer sled. A study in three acts. Lonely girl trudges up hill, dragging sled. Girl slides down hill, waving arms frantically. Girl lands at bottom, in an arranged heap, but triumphant. The visual joke was that our "hill" was nothing but a small bump of snow in the backyard!

Years later as an adult, while preparing for a move to the city, I found the camera in its original box. I would have little space for memorabilia where I was going. To make room for the new life, I had to let go of some of the past.

As I reflect on it, I feel touched that this small cherished object should again symbolize independence and artistic growth, but in a different way. Now I was passing the baton, trading up for a larger vision of myself as an artist, as a teacher, as a person.

Artist and teacher Barbara Diane Barry lives in New York and is the creator of "Art for Self-Discovery" workshops. She is the author of the book Painting your Way out of a Corner.

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