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Editor’s Letter

Minds to match mountains.

SEPTEMBER 2015 publisher Rick French | RFrench@LifestylePubs.com

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hen I moved home to Colorado in 2011, I heard a radio ad for my alma mater which ended with the tagline, "minds to match mountains”. The phrase stuck in my head because I do think that a childhood spent exploring nature and mountaineering builds a certain resilience, and for me, becoming one of the first female graduates of Outward Bound in Marble - way back when - was definitely a rite of passage.

This issue of Roaring Fork Lifestyle includes several stories about growing up in the Roaring Fork Valley. Here you will find kids climbing with their mom, frequent contributor Andrea Palm-Porter, who shares ten favorite local hikes, and a three-generation family joining the swelling ranks of the nation's pickleball players.

A Facebook posting by Carolyn Watt Williams, a Lifestyle contributor and local college counselor, prompted the editorial staff to ask Carolyn to share deeper thoughts about a book on helicopter parenting. That, in turn, lead us to look at what's being done to help local young people make the transition from youths to young adults.

Thus, in these pages, you will find intriguing articles about YouthEntity's internship programs and about how First Word, a program affiliated with Aspen Words, is helping young poets to express themselves and find their own voices.

In this issue, you will also enjoy reading about the history leading to the Hotel Denver's centennial and learn how local police forces collaborate to keep the lid on big festivals in our small towns. You will enjoy some delightful photos from Mountain Fair and the 12th annual Grand River Classic Car show, and you will discover how two very different churches are putting down roots in Carbondale.

It's a pleasure to live here, nestled among lofty mountains whose summits hide in the clouds. It's fortunate that our valleys are peopled with teachers, artists, naturalists and professionals whose heads are not in the clouds. It's their down-to-earth efforts that build our communities and fill them with minds to match mountains.

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42 Driver’s Notebook

A local college counselor reflects on the perils of helicopter parenting.

32 YouthEntity Helps Adolescents Find their Calling

46 Lifestyle Calendar 50 Parting Thoughts

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Growing Up in a Small Town

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y sister and I lived for five wonderful years on my grandparents' farm. My first school experience was a one-room rural school house complete with a bell that hung outside the front door. The teacher would ring that bell when recess was over. I had 14 classmates, kindergarten though fourth grade.

The school also had a two-seater outhouse. You learned to “hold it” until you had to make the trip. I don’t think there was ever a need for the second seat, but it was there just in case!

Winters were severe, especially in a five year-old's mind. A story I loved to tell my kids – it made their eyes roll with that “here we go again” look – was about a big winter snowstorm that drifted the roads shut. My grandmother, a fierce believer in education, told me to get ready for school. I looked at the snowdrifts across the farm yard and asked how we would get there since the school was two miles away from our farm. She laughed and said “We will ride the horse.” She wasn’t kidding. One hour later, bundled in my

heaviest coat with a thick scarf over my face, I walked into the one-room schoolhouse with the bell hanging by the door.

When my kids looked out the window at the snow falling and said they wanted to skip school, I just looked at them and said I had a story to tell them.

Times have really changed. Your children can explore the educational reaches of the world from their desktop in their rooms.

The one thing they will never learn on their computer is to say “Yes Sir” or “Yes Ma'am”. That has to be taught at home, under the watchful eye of their parents.

Luckily, our valley is filled with many parents who are teaching their kids to honor the places in which they live and the people around them. Although I don't hear “Yes Sir” much any more, I do meet young here who are learning to respect not just their elders, but also people who look different, speak different languages and come from many places around the world. That's a good change.

And frankly, I don't miss outhouses all that much.

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Good Times

12th Annual Antique Car Show

The Grand River Classic Car Show, sponsored by The Valley Cruisers and the Glenwood Springs Car Club, featured everything from a tin lizzy to hot red convertibles, a classic trailer and a vintage police cruiser. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTIE CARVER

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Mountain Fair

Carbondale's Mountain Fair drew around 20,000 happy people. Sponsored by the Carbondale Council for Arts & Humanities (CCAH), the fair included three days of music, art and performances.

CCAH's Amy Kimberly and Priscilla Dickinson. Photo by Renee Ramge

Belly dancing at the Oasis. Photo by Renee Ramge

Laurie Loeb directs drummers. Photo by Renee Ramge

Gaden Shartse Monks open Mountain Fair with a blessing.

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Around Town CARBONDALE LIT CRAWL OCTOBER 1 A celebration that includes poetry, spoken word, singing and musical performances will take place at the new public sculpture installations around Carbondale during the second Annual LIT (Literature in Town) Crawl on October 1. The LIT Crawl is sponsored by the Carbondale Public Library and begins at 4 p.m.

At 6 p.m. the Art aRound Town 2015-16 exhibition Best of Show winner will be announced and an Open Mic Night will begin.

The Carbondale Public Art Commission’s Best of Show sculpture designation is important to artists, not only for its $1,000 award, but also because of the honor attached. This year, the winning sculpture will be chosen by art classes in local schools.

apostle St. James the Great. Reed will follow the path known as the Way of St. Frances from St. Jean Port du Pied in France, over the Pyrenees, to Santiago de Compostella in Spain, completing his trek at the Atlantic coast town of Muxia. To learn more, visit ChristianAndTed.org.

DUCKY DERBY RAISES FUNDS FOR LOCAL CHARITIES More than 33,000 rubber duckies raced down the Roaring Fork River in the Aspen Rotary Club's 24th Annual Ducky Derby in August, raising funds for local youth groups, scholarships and international aid. Rotarians, along with families and friends, prepared the duckies by placing numbers on them during an annual Duck Stickering Party, or “Sticky Butt Night”.

At the finish, 11 Ducky Derby winners, which cost $10 each, were fished out of the river. Top finisher Allison Kanders took home a $10,000 prize. For the second time in five years, top duck salesman Bennett Bramson of Basalt sold the winning duck, his sixth winner in ten years.

Ted Reed, of Carbondale, geared up to walk the Camino de Santiago

MONKS CREATE COMPASSION MANDALA IN CARBONDALE

TED REED WALKS THE CAMINO FOR CHRISTIAN Ted Reed, who lives in Carbondale, begins a 600-mile pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago in Spain on September 6. He’s walking to raise funds for a third-party special needs trust that will support his young friend Christian DeRiemer, who suffers from a rare form of muscular dystrophy. The trust will ensure that Christian has the care and equipment he needs to live a productive and independent life.

Reed has long aspired to walk the Camino, one of medieval Europe’s three most important Christian pilgrimage routes and a UNESCO-designated World Heritage site.

After seeing "The Way," a Martin Sheen movie about a father who walks the Camino with his son’s ashes, Ted realized he had an opportunity to add meaning to his pilgrimage by scattering the ashes of Christian’s mother and gathering pledges to support Christian. The Camino is a collection of pathways that lead to the shrine of the 14

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A group of monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery, originally located in Tibet but destroyed by China's Cultural Revolution, created Carbondale's first sand mandala in July. Traveling from Southern India, where their monastery is now located, the monks were brought to Carbondale by the Way of Compassion for a week-long "Compassion Days" celebration that featured cultural and religious educational events in the evenings.

During the days, the monks worked on an intricate mandala, which was sketched out and then painted using colored sand.

On August 1, the mandala was ceremonially swept away. Those attending the dissolution ceremony received a small bag of mandala sand, while other sand was ritually poured into the Roaring Fork River.

ASPEN RESCUE TIMES SEVEN July 29 probably set some records for Mountain Rescue Aspen and the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office—it was a day that saw seven mountain rescues! First, a 74-year-old local man was rescued after falling, injuring himself and being unable to continue his descent of Mount Sopris.

Members of Mountain Rescue Aspen and Flight for Life responded to text messages sent by fellow hikers. A helicopter was able to reach the man, who was flown to the Aspen airport and then taken to Aspen Valley Hospital by ambulance.

Mountain Rescue Aspen and the Sheriff’s Office conducted five other missions the same day: They found two lost hikers heading for the Betty Bear Hut. They tended to an injured hiker in Capitol Creek. They helped a sick hiker atop West Maroon Pass and located an

overdue horseman in East Creek. Mountain Rescue Aspen volunteers contribute over 10,000 hours of volunteer work a year, engaging in rescues, trainings and community education.

LOCAL UNITED WAY EXPANDS, CHANGES NAME United Way Battlement to the Bells, formerly United Way of Garfield County recently changed its name to better reflect its service area, which runs from Battlement Mesa to the Maroon Bells.

The nonprofit, part of United Way America, raises local funds from employee-payroll deductions, as well from as business and individual donations. United Way Battlement to the Bells provided more than 30 grants to local nonprofits and, through additional designated funds, is helping to support another half-dozen charities this year. The local United Way has launched a new website – UnitedWayBB.org – that matches volunteers and donors with local nonprofits that need their help.

The service area and name change had to be approved by federation headquarters, United Way America, located near Washington, D.C. "Our proposed name took some explaining to East Coasters," comments Amy Barr, executive director of United Way Battlement to the Bells. "On a map, the service area is oddly shaped with towns in three different counties. The required geographic name doesn't make much sense unless you’re a local. The organization also is responsible for El Jebel and Basalt, with parts also located in Eagle County, a very long way away from our sister United Way of the Eagle River Valley, headquartered in Vail." United Way Battlement to the Bells' service area includes all of Garfield County, plus the Roaring Fork Valley south and east up to Aspen. It covers Carbondale, El Jebel and Basalt, and extends up the Crystal Valley to include Redstone and Marble.

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Ten "Bucket-List" Best Family Hikes

iking is a great family activity, and nearby in the Roaring Fork and Colorado River Valleys, you can find trails of every level. Read the trail head signs as they offer history, trail information, folklore and education. You can pose questions for your kids based on the signs, or with a little planning, you can create a scavenger hunt along the trail to make the trip educational.

Safety and comfort are extremely important. Obey the trail rules, know the route, carry plenty of water, sunscreen and snacks and most importantly, get well-fitted hiking shoes.

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Here are some great places to go!

1. HANGING LAKE – GLENWOOD CANYON

My kids’ favorite! This crystal-clear turquoise lake is suspended in Glenwood Canyon, an oasis surrounded by waterfalls. The trail follows Dead Horse Creek crossing seven foot bridges. This 1.9-mile hike is rated difficult due to the steep and rocky terrain, but it’s worth the effort! Elevation gain: 1,000 feet. Time: 2 to 3 hours.

2. GRIZZLY CREEK – GLENWOOD CANYON

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Grizzly Creek is a great alternative to Hanging Lake since it allows dogs and parking is more available. A more moderate hike, seven miles out and back, it parallels the creek. Good for hot days as it’s mostly shaded. Elevation gain: 1,900 feet. Time: 1 to 3 hours.

3. RED HILL/MUSHROOM ROCK – CARBONDALE

This is a locals' favorite, great for a lunchtime hike. It’s dog friendly and there are different ways to hike this loop trail system. All choices take you to a hilltop that provides incredible views of the valley and Mt. Sopris. Elevation gain: 900 feet. Time: 1 to 2 hours.

4. DOC HOLLIDAY’S – GLENWOOD SPRINGS

Doc Holliday’s trail takes you up to the historic Linwood Cemetery, established in 1886. An easy, 1.2-mile hike that winds up a hillside with great views of Glenwood Springs. If the hike isn’t enough, continue past the cemetery and follow a single-track trail to the top of a meadow, where you’ll pass some ruins and what I call the enchanted forest. Elevation gain: 220 feet. Time: 30 minutes.

5. JEANNE GOLAY/RED MOUNTAIN – GLENWOOD SPRINGS

This 3.5-mile dirt trail is named after local Jeanne Golay who won three gold medals at the national Roadrace Cycling Championships and rode in the Barcelona Olympics. Yes, my kids asked, “Are we there yet?” The interconnected side trails let us explore and still know where we were going. Before they knew it, we were at the top. Elevation gain: 1,600 feet. Time: 3 hours with kids.

Here are five other local hikes I would highly recommend: 6. LORAX – CARBONDALE 7. BOY SCOUT – GLENWOOD SPRINGS 8. STORM KING – GLENWOOD SPRINGS 9. THOMPSON CREEK – CARBONDALE 10. SMUGGLER – ASPEN

Some hikes take minimal preparation and others take days of planning, so check them out on SingleTracks.com before you go.

I’m planning my next family adventure hike as the golden aspens approach. I think I’ll be taking the kids on their first 14'er. I can’t wait to get them up on top of the world!

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History 101

HOTEL DENVER CELEBRATES 100TH

ANNIVERSARY HOTEL'S COLORFUL PAST PARALLELS GLENWOOD'S HISTORY

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he fabled Hotel Denver celebrates its 100th birthday on October 17.

For 72 of those years, it has been owned by local families. Since 1991, it has been owned by April and Steven Carver, who have earned the number one ranking among the 23 Glenwood Springs hotels reviewed online at TripAdvisor.com.

“Because historic downtown hotels frequently follow the story line of the town, the Hotel Denver is not just a place to sleep,” says April. “It's a place to absorb the current culture and colorful past of Glenwood Springs. For the last 24 years, we have reversed the trend of look-alike hotels with look-alike rooms, and we have embraced the hotel’s own authentic past.”

In honor of the hotel’s centennial, April been researching and retelling the hotel’s story at TheHotelDenver.com/News.

That tale begins in 1906 when Italian immigrant Henry Bosco established a bottling company across from the train station. In time, that business would morph into the Star Hotel.

In 1906, the “new” train station – a red sandstone and brick building built in 1904 to match the architecture of the Hot Springs and Hotel Colorado – was bringing a lot of traffic to town.

The wealthy migrated to the river’s north bank, while common folk stayed on the depot side of the river.

The south bank was a happening place. The neighborhood sported brothels, gunslingers and streetwalkers. Nine saloons were open on Seventh Street between and Blake and Cooper, and another 14 could be found within a one-block radius. Thus, when President Taft 18

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arrived in his private train car in September 1909, he refused to enter Glenwood’s train station. It was too close to Seventh Street for comfort. (Anxious about the press and his image, the 335-pound Taft also declined exclusive use of the Hot Springs pool, saying, "I’ve found it’s much better for a man of my size not to bathe in public.")

In recent years, the Colorado River's south bank has become a fashionable place in its own right. “Seventh Street and the train station district is a thriving gateway to all the town has to offer,” comments Carver. It's at the heart of Glenwood’s culinary district, serves as a stopping point for Amtrak’s California Zephyr and is a short stroll from nightlife, entertainment and sightseeing.

But Seventh Street didn’t turn into a family-friendly destination without struggle. For decades, the place remained wild – a spot frequented by gamblers and gunslingers like Doc Holliday, Kid Curry and later colorful characters.

During the Roaring Twenties, Chicago gangster Diamond Jack Alterie shot a porter at the Hotel Denver. No one knows quite why.

On another occasion, Alterie and a prizefighter named Whitney Hutton argued drunkenly in the lobby. Jack retreated to his room in fear, and came back out with his guns. He mistakenly thought Hutton was in a room, and shot two innocent International Harvester salesmen through the door. After being tried for attempted murder in 1932, Alterie’s was sentenced to either serve five years in prison or leave Colorado. When Diamond Jack chose to leave, it spelled death. In Chicago, he was forced to testify against Al Capone’s brother. He was shot soon after.

Prohibition devastated Seventh Street’s saloons and red light district. Real estate was depressed, and grocery stores and legitimate hotels such as the Star and the Denver Rooms, owned by the Hotel Denver’s other founder, Art Kendrick, soon replaced bars and brothels.

After World War II, Bosco’s nephew Mike, acquired both the Star and Kendrick’s adjacent Denver Rooms, combining them into what we now know as the Hotel Denver.

For a full century, the Hotel Denver has been an anchor and a refuge for Glenwood Springs. As Carver puts it, “When the train brought visitors, businessmen and miners to the young town, the Hotel Denver provided much-needed lodging. It picked up the pieces when prohibition caused riverfront bars to close. The hotel provided jobs when hard times came, and it provided lodging to loved ones of healing WWII servicemen. It continues to anchor the vital Seventh Street hub of activity.”

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Worship Time

FAITH LUTHERAN AND TRUU: BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

Crowd gathered to listen to musician Ellen Stapenhorst at TRUU's Blessing of the Animals.

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TRUU's new minister, Florence Caplow

ARTICLE NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED wo different churches that draw congregants from up and down the doubled in size, counting 60 memRoaring Fork Valley have recently put down roots in Carbondale. bers drawn from as far away as New Faith Lutheran – which formed from the January 2015 merger of Holy Castle, Emma and Lenado. In 2010, Cross Lutheran of Glenwood Springs and Messiah Lutheran of Aspen TRUU began hiring ministers who – recently purchased and is renovating the former Valley View Medical commuted from Denver. The most building at 3140 Highway 133. The congregation has also purchased a recent, the Reverend Stephan Papa, nearby parsonage where Pastor Thomas Thierfelder will live. retired in June. TRUU meets Sunday The Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist (TRUU) congregation has mornings in the Third Street Cenwelcomed its first residential minister. Florence Caplow, who re- ter’s Callaway Room. located from Washington State, lives in Basalt and conducts SunLike TRUU, the two Lutheran day services at Third Street Center where TRUU is a tenant. Caplow, congregations that merged to form who is already ordained as a Soto Zen priest, will be ordained as a Faith Lutheran had done some UU minister in the summer of 2016 and will be the second UU min- creative planning to support their ister in North America to hold these dual ordinations. ministries. Paul Menter, the new congregation’s president explains, “To Like Faith Lutheran, TRUU’s roots lead back to other valley commu- save costs, the congregations had been sharing a pastor – our current nities. Originally called the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Congregation of pastor, Thomas Thierfelder – for about a year before our two memberthe Grand Valley, the congregation first met in Silt in 1996. It later be- ships voted to merge in the fall of 2013.” came the UU Congregation of Glenwood Springs, meeting at different The new Faith Lutheran congregation initially met in the Carbontimes in Glenwood, Basalt and in a math room in Carbondale’s Bridges dale Middle School auditorium while searching for a building suitHigh School. Since moving to Carbondale in 2010, the congregation has able for both worship and their licensed day care facility.

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Both the conversion of the medical building and the merger, which involved votes from the two congregations and approval from the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, a national body of Lutheran Churches, were complex. “The merger was challenging for members of both congregations,” says Menter. Besides serving as the church president, Menter is chief financial officer for RMC, a destination management company headquartered in Aspen. “Long time-members saw church buildings that they had worshiped in for years, and in some cases decades, closed, decommissioned and sold for other purposes. Messiah was sold as a single-family home.

The Holy Cross property became part of a car dealership.”

“Those members who remain understand that the church is not a building, it is a community of believers in Christ,” Menter explains. “We want to start a thriving Lutheran congregation in the mid-valley to serve this community, and most importantly to help members of our community recognize their personal gifts and use them to God's glory. Lutherans believe that salvation is God’s free gift to all of us, available because Christ died for our sins on the cross The Apostle Paul told us that salvation is not something you find, or choose, or earn through works or wealth. His words not only assure of eternal salvation, but also encourage us to work together, with the help of the Holy Spirit, toward the betterment of the world, not in a prideful way, but with humility and compassion for all.”

Faith introduced itself to the larger Carbondale community with a booth at this year’s Mountain Fair and sponsored a community-wide vacation Bible school program in July.

Volunteers from the Lutheran congregation have created a small sanctuary, Sunday school rooms and a pastor’s office in the medical building. Next, they plan to turn a wing of former medical examination rooms into a fellowship hall and to develop space for Faith’s daycare program which is currently renting space on Merrill Avenue in Carbondale. Later, the church plans to expand its sanctuary to accommodate services for up to 100.

“The timing of those improvements will depend upon our growth, Faith Lutheran Church's sanctuary adorned for Easter services.

but it is important to note that we are a community church,” says Menter. “We don’t have grandiose growth plans. We do plan to become an active member of Carbondale's faith community and also the larger nonprofit and service community.”

Faith Lutheran has hired Stephanie Schimidt to serve as director of family ministry; she will be responsible for much of the church’s community outreach, engagement and programming. Schimidt is a graduate of Concordia College in Irvine, California. She and her husband Wally moved to Carbondale in August.

Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist employs a part-time director of music, Jimmy Byrne, who lives in Carbondale, and also a director of children’s religious education, Heather Rydell, of Lenado.

Like Faith Lutheran, TRUU is seeking ways to connect with the larger valley community. Unitarian-Universalist congregations formally affirm “direct experience of transcending mystery and wonder” as well as “wisdom from the world's religions” and “spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions.” For several years, TRUU has joined with Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE) to sponsor a Blessing of the Animals in October, and TRUU has joined with the nonprofit Davi Nikent Center for Human Flourishing to sponsor an annual winter solstice bonfire and service at Third Street Center.

Since TRUU’s new minister Florence Caplow has been a Buddhist practitioner for 30 years and a field biologist for most of her adult life, she and the congregation will spend the coming year exploring connections between contemplative practices, the natural world, environmental action and creating community. “I am excited about being in a place where people care so passionately for their environment,” says Caplow.

Caplow, who is also an author and Buddhist teacher, looks forward to reaching out to those with common interests. “I hope to offer classes and workshops that will be of interest to the wider community, and I want to find ways to creatively integrate spirituality with the love of the outdoors that is so apparent here.”

How to Raise a Successful Adult Reflections on a Book by Julie Lythcott-Haims

ARTICLE CAROLYN WATT WILLIAMS

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elicopter parents” – moms and dads who hover, schedule their kids' every move and bail them out when problems arise – are so common today we’ve had to invent a term to describe them.

Today’s parents tend to handle life for their kids. We wake them, transport them, remind them about deadlines and drive their homework to school when they forget it. We help them make friends and expect teachers to fill their grade portals with up-to-the-minute results. As soon as we can, we buy our child a cell phone so that we may be in constant contact — for safety reasons, of course.

Let’s face it; many of us can be described as over-involved. While no parent would aspire to the helicopter label, most of us agree that parenting today is different than ever before, even here in the Roaring Fork Valley. Sociological and cultural forces have affected the way our generation cares for its children.

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Applying to college is a “rite of passage,” a young person’s first real step into adulthood. As a college adviser, I know that many students, both Anglo and Hispanic, find it difficult to hear their own voices, to listen to their hearts and to determine what they want out of college, or out of life. In part because I protect the student’s sense of autonomy, many students and families are relieved to have an objective, third party providing information and structure throughout the journey to college.

Unfortunately, too few students in our country have achieved true independence by the time they reach college, or even the world of work.

Real research is finally coming in, and it appears that helicopter parenting creates children who are unable take flight themselves. We have created a generation of depressed young adults who lack a sense of purpose and who are unable to think or creatively solve problems for themselves.

be and do things on their own rather than counting on us to assist or stand in for them.”

Unfortunately, millennials who have been parented by helicopters have not fared well in the workforce. Lythcott-Haims notes that they have been called “orchids (can’t survive outside the greenhouse) or teacups (easily chipped and then ruined).”

Having lived “checklisted” childhoods, they are willing to work hard but lack autonomy, independence and a sense of their own purpose in the world.

Surprisingly, Lythcott-Haims isn’t only concerned about the kids.

She thinks that today’s parents are losing themselves, sacrificing everything and becoming increasingly anxious and depressed in the parenting process. She encourages parents to keep up with their own passions and take care of themselves.

MAKING OUR KIDS SICK

As parents, we cannot simply stand on the sidelines and watch our children grow up. In Lythcott-Haims words, we need to “support our children’s interests and teach them the skills and values that will foster independence and prepare them to lead meaningful, adult lives. But we must allow them to develop a sense of independence and self-reliance as they age.”

Lythcott-Haims offers four principles for raising healthy adults: • The world is much safer than we’ve been led to believe and our children need to learn how to thrive in it, rather than be protected from it; • A checklisted childhood designed to lead to a narrow definition of success robs children of proper developmental opportunities and can lead to psychological harm; • Children learn, grow and ultimately succeed by digging into what interests them, doing and thinking for themselves, trying and failing and trying again, developing mastery through effort; and • Family life is richer and more rewarding for all when parents aren’t hovering over and facilitating every moment of a kid’s life.

Helicopter parenting is not just a funny term that describes our behavior. It’s a type of toxic parenting that must change for the betterment of our children and our health.

We parents can help each other to foster independence and self-reliance among our children. We have a sociological, generational challenge before us.

Julie Lythcott-Haims, the dean of students at Stanford, became so concerned about the students she met during the past decade that she began to conduct research and has recently shared her findings in a book called How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.

In her research, Lythcott-Haims found that college counseling centers all across the nation were seeing an increasing number of significant psychological problems. She writes, “The mental health crisis is not a Yale (or Stanford or Harvard) problem; these poor mental health outcomes are occurring in kids everywhere...at every tier of college...(these problems) appear to stem not from what it takes to get into the most elite schools, but from some facet of American childhood itself.”

PARENTING OUT OF FEAR

How have we gotten to this point? Lythcott-Haims explains that, as a culture, we have succumbed to our fears: We fear for our kids’ safety, so we drive them everywhere. They don’t go outside, play freely, negotiate friendships or navigate the bus system.

Even here in the Roaring Fork Valley, where you would think we could let our children roam, many parents won’t let children ride the bus or even walk around town on their own, even in middle school.

Ironically, the world is statistically much safer than it has ever been.

Our fears are unjustified, especially in this valley.

Parents also fear that children won’t get accepted to college – or to the right college. Kids are pushed into the “right” courses and activities, despite their own interests. Because we fear that our own parenting won’t measure up, when our peers support their children with extreme measures, it is difficult not to follow suit.

As a result, says Lythcott-Haims, we ask too little when it comes to life skills, too much when it comes to the academic plans we’ve made for our kids.

WHAT DO WE DO?

Carolyn Watt Williams of Carbondale has worked in education for more than 20 years and helps students find and apply to colleges through her private practice, Carolyn Williams College Consulting CarolynWilliamsCollegeConsulting.com.

MORE HARM THAN GOOD

Lythcott-Haims claims that helping too much “can leave young adults without the strengths of skill, will and character that are needed to know themselves and to craft a life...As parents, we’ll have succeeded if our kids have the wherewithall to

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America’s Fastest Growing Sport – PICKLEBALL! Local Players in a Pickle for Court Space

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onnie Scott smashes a perforated yellow ball across the net to her dad, Russ Mineo. He hammers it back. On the sidelines, seven-year-old Towler, the family’s third generation, practices a few shots of his own.

Bonnie, the co-owner of the Downvalley Tavern in El Jebel, is ranked as a gold medal (4.0 level) pickleball player.

Russ nabbed a bronze (3.5 level) win during a Western Slope tournament in Delta over the summer.

This sunny Saturday morning, the family has come out for several hours of the fastest-growing sport in the U.S. – pickleball.

A pickleball looks more like a whiffleball than a pickle and players use rackets similar to ping-pong paddles. Here on the Darien Tennis and Pickleball Courts in Carbondale – renamed two years ago to include pickleball -- lines have been painted inside the tennis bounds and the nets have been pulled down to accommodate pickleball. Most 26

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of today's players are members of the recently formed Roaring Fork Pickleball Association (FRPBA), which tallies 154 members.

They’re evangelical about the sport. “There are about 30 people here this morning, and sometimes it’s more like 40,” says Mineo.

“Pickleball is exploding. There are 400,000 players in the U.S. and 120,000 registered with the USA Pickleball Association (USAPA).

This valley hasn’t begun to catch up with the demand.”

“It’s really popular,” says Scott. “But also a bit frustrating. It seems like more pickleball players are turning up than tennis players, but we don’t have the courts.”

Glenwood Springs has three indoor and four outdoor courts.

Carbondale opens the Darien Courts to pickleball on Monday, Friday and Saturday. River Valley Ranch has installed two courts.

Basalt’s Crown Mountain Park has some courts. Aspen has installed four new courts while Snowmass Village has two indoor courts and four outdoor, converted tennis courts. It’s not enough.

As Scott begins to explain the process of convincing local towns to build more outdoor courts, Brad Nicholson chimes in. “Look at Delta, Montrose and Grand Junction,” he says. “They give the sport incredible support. They’ve all built courts and have more in the works.” Half a dozen picklers nod in assent as Nicholson says, “Our towns don’t have to even fund the courts. Just give us the space and we’ll raise the money for nets and lines!”

Pickleball’s explosive growth has been in part fueled by baby boomers like Mineo. A volunteer USAPA ambassador, he plays six days a week. In a year and a half, he has lost 22 pounds and stopped taking blood pressure and cholesteral medications.

Sonny Darien, 80, a retired high school coach who has taught both tennis and pickleball, says, “Anyone can play. The learning curve is easier than it is for tennis, and anyone who plays any racket sport can pick it up quickly.”

Sonny’s wife Bernie, also 80, agrees, “After 15 minutes practice, people start returning the ball. There’s less ground to cover. Some people think it’s a dinky sport for old people, but they wouldn’t if they watched the 18 to 24-year-olds. They’re very physical, very strategic. Great to watch.”

Many locals travel to tournaments and play together. In June, Scott placed first in while playing doubles in Montrose with Janine Burke of Grand Junction. Christy Maron of Carbondale and several New Castle residents – Karen Wellington, Daria Harlow, Andrea Murr and Ryan Harlow – won medals in that tournament, as did Glenwood Springs residents Jerry Hayes and James Main and Paul Liang of Grand Junction.

“There’s a lot to like,” says Scott. “It’s a sport where men are not necessarily better than women. That makes it easy for couples to play together. It’s a blast playing with my parents. It’s fun and social. People playing pickles seem more mellow than the people I play USTA tennis with. Last week, a woman got frustrated with my tennis partner just because she tied her shoe too many times! Oh, come on…!”

“Pickleball is fun,” Pat Nicholson agrees. “You can play with people at all levels. You're out in the open and it’s a beautiful spot.

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Helping Young Adults to Find Purpose, Passion and Right Livelihood YouthEntity Internships Pave Paths to Careers ARTICLE NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT | PHOTOGRAPHY PAUL HILTS

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he confident young chef shown on this magazine’s cover has good reason to smile. “I love to bake and I figured that if I love something so much, and could make a living doing it, I would never have to work a day in my life,” says Delaney Passmore. “How many people can say they make delicious desserts all day for work?”

Passmore worked as a prep/line cook at the Aspen Glen Club this summer. That job came about because of Passmore’s involvement with YouthEntity, a local nonprofit that helps young people discover their passions, define who they want to be and gain experience that places them on a path to successful careers. While creating a buffet with a YouthEntity team, Passmore met Jeff Gilmore, Aspen Glen’s executive chef. Passmore explains, “He told me if I ever needed a job to contact him. So a few months before school let out, I got ahold of him and we worked from there.”

Passmore is a dean’s list student enrolled in the Baking and Pastry Arts program at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Working at Aspen Glen, she’s gained practical experience between her freshman and sophomore years, and she’s on track to receive an associate's degree in baking and pastry arts in about a year. The young chef, who grew up in Silt, aims to work abroad after finishing a bachelor’s degree in either entrepreneurship or food service management.

In an era when many young people arrive at college with impressive academic records but little sense of what they want from life, Passmore’s story is a refreshing change. Many adolescents today lead over-scheduled, over-supervised lives. They reach the cusp of adulthood having had little chance to try and fail at new things, to discover their own problem-solving skills or to try on different personalities and interests. They lack a sense of their own resiliency or purpose in life.

For Passmore, discovering her passion in life had little to do with family models or academics. She says her aunt is “a pretty reputable baker” who encouraged her, but that there are no professional chefs in her family. Passmore first connected with YouthEntity’s YouthChefs baking and pastry arts after-school program in Glenwood Springs High School. Delaney then came back to serve as a YouthChefs teaching assistant in her junior and senior years at the request of Chef Instructors Christine Bergstrom and Kelly Yepello. Encouragement from professionals outside her family convinced Delaney that she might have the right ingredients to make it as a chef.

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Delaney Passmore, chef in the making

To bring experiences like Delaney’s to even younger students, YouthEntity President Kirsten Petre McDaniel created the “My Career”. My Life” internship program as an opportunity for each young person to learn about their likes and dislikes based on their personality, not a standardized test score.

My Career. My Life gives youngsters a personality test that catalogs their interests and then produces a code that identifies jobs they might like. “You can look up those careers in a book, but that doesn’t help you with intrinsic motivation or finding connections,” McDaniel comments. “I remember that in middle and high school, some kids knew exactly what they wanted to be when they grew up, namely those who aspired to be doctors. Then there were the rest of us, not sure where we would fit in the world or what we were good at that could be translated into a career.”

Psychologists say that for many young people – and even adults – finding the right livelihood often requires trial and

error. YouthEntity’s vision is to enable all local students to participate in a job internship each year from 5th to 12th grade.

Currently, YouthEntity is looking to expand its internship programs in Basalt, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs. The internship programs, headed by professionals volunteering in their own fields, are focused on veterinary medicine, interior design/architecture, journalism, law enforcement, culinary arts and entrepreneurial business. However, the possibilities are endless.

“As kids participate in multiple internships, they will hone in on their future career path and be better prepared to succeed in work and post-secondary education because they know why they're there,” says McDaniel. “They can envision their futures. It also helps them to find out what they don't like, saving a tremendous amount of time and money on a poorly chosen major in college, for example.”

“In an internship, kids discover strengths they didn't even know they had, strengths that may not be apparent in a traditional academic setting,” McDaniel continued. “The result is that they become excited about their work and themselves. As they exceed their own expectations, they set even higher expectations for themselves... Intrinsic motivation is a powerful thing and building it in every youth is what we aspire to do at YouthEntity.”

The Carbondale-based nonprofit launched its experiential learning programs in 2006 with a peer-to-peer workshop where students taught other students how to build desktop computers.

YouthEntity also runs financial literacy programs for 5th and 8th graders, currently serving more than 1,000 students annually in Garfield, Eagle and Summit Counties. Assisted by volunteers from Alpine Bank and organized around workbooks and DVDs written by McDaniel, the “I Am Financial Knowledge” program is based on national standards about money and banking. Students are taught planning and money management, credit and debt, risk management and insurance. They learn about saving and investing, financial responsibility and decision-making and how much money they can make in different careers.

The workshop’s crowning moment is the final; students are paid 50 cents for each correct answer, earning up to $15. Over the last five years, YouthEntity has paid out more than $30,000, which helps students jump-start their savings. They save using the 10.10.10.70 principle: for every dollar you earn, or are given, you should “pay yourself first” by saving 10 percent, then invest 10 percent, share 10 percent and finally spend the remaining 70 percent.

While YouthEntity has test results that back up the effectiveness of its programs, the most convincing evidence shows up in college and on the job. McDaniel notes that YouthEntity alumni from architecture/interior design internships are pursuing careers in that field by studying at CU Boulder, Cal Poly and the University of Montana at Bozeman. Students from YouthEntity’s culinary internships have gone on to study to be pastry or savory chefs at Mesa State University, Johnson & Wales, Escoffier and Modul University Vienna. One YouthChefs alum is the pastry chef at the popular Coloradough restaurant in Glenwood Springs.

Right answers pay off in YouthEntity's financial literacy program.

Winning YouthEntity culinary team at the Pro-Start Invitational and Sysco Hospitality Cup, a high school competition.

Kids in a vetrinary internship learn to examine a dog's hind leg.

Delaney Passmore hopes that her culinary skills will provide a passport to travel the world. She’s currently looking forward to a college internship in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel or at Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. After that, she’d like to travel the “hotel circuit.” She says, “I want be able to learn in many different areas and cultures. I do love my hometown in Colorado, but I think there are a lot of places in this world that I would like to see that could escalate my knowledge to an amazing level.”

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A Silt officer joins a Carbondale officer to patrol Mountain Fair

An Aspen officer joins a Carbondale officer to patrol Mountain Fair.

How Local Police Prepare for Festivals Keeping a Lid on Big Events in Small Towns ARTICLE NICOLETTE TOUSSAINT

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erhaps the most remarkable thing about the big festivals happening in this valley’s small towns is how little happens, at least from a law enforcement point of view.

“It’s has been a good event when people go home and say ‘Gee, we had a good weekend!’ and not know a thing about what we did,” comments Terry Wilson, who has been chief of police for Glenwood Springs for 20plus years. “We’re the one business in town that no one wants to be too busy.”

But when Mountain Fair draws an attendance of around 20,000 to Carbondale, a town with a population of only about 6,500, local police are kept quite busy preventing mischief.

During Strawberry Days, all of Glenwood’s officers will typically work 30 to 40 hours over a two-and-a -half day period, expending about 25 percent of the department’s annual overtime budget. To patrol Strawberry Days’ parade, art fair, children’s park, carnival and beer garden, Glenwood cops often work 16 hours each day, Friday through Sunday.

And it’s not just Glenwood’s officers.

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Rifle, Silt, New Castle and the Garfield County sheriff’s office all helped out. “There’s a gentleman’s agreement among agencies,” Wilson explains. “We pitch in and they return the favor. We’ll go help Silt with HeyDays, pitch in to help Rifle with the County Fair and back Carbondale up with Mountain Fair.”

Since Carbondale’s police famously turn out in shirts bright enough to blend in with Mountain Fair’s hippie motif, Wilson was asked whether he follows suit. He chuckled, “They are more than welcome to wear tie dye, but I decline the opportunity.”

Planning for celebrity and elected officials’ appearances is the purview of the Colorado State Patrol and the Secret Service, but those visits typically place demands on police and sheriff’s departments up and down the Roaring Fork Valley. In September of 2014, for example, a 40-car motorcade that took Vice President Joe Biden from the Eagle County Airport to Aspen required local sheriff’s departments to provide helicopter support, block parts of I-70 and Route 82, unsnarl traffic and shoulder a hefty bill for overtime. Nine law enforcement agencies were involved, and the visit prompted

Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo to send an invoice for services rendered to Forstmann Little & Company, the firm that invited Biden to its private event.

“In that instance,” says Wilson, “Glenwood Springs got CSP and the Secret Service to accommodate some changes in routing through town. The prior dignitary visit destroyed us. It took 30 people to get one man through town in two minutes. This last time, it worked a lot better.”

The tour de force for event planning is what the Aspen Police department does for the X–Games. “We have gone up and helped, and they do an incredible job,” , says Wilson about the event that combines multiple factors that make for X-rated difficulty. In addition to drawing more than 115,000 people, the X-Games is a large venue, night-oriented and a party atmosphere. It’s a youthful energetic crowd. They have concerts on top of everything, and it all goes late into the night.

It’s international, and that flavors it too.”

For all big events, Wilson says that the keys are relationships and collaboration. To prepare for Strawberry Days, Glenwood police begin meeting with the fire department,

parks and electric department, the Chamber of Commerce and private security months before the event. They go to the park, review maps and event layouts, check to see whether there are enough electric outlets for food vendors, lights and sound systems and review notes from last year. “We’re always looking for things to tweak. This year we looked for more offsite camping and parking for vendors who arrive on Thursday, or come in earlier, to make sure they have enough storage and camping space,” says Wilson. “I thought that was an improvement this year.”

A few years ago, Wilson’s department told the Glenwood Springs Chamber of Commerce that because of growth, more assistance was needed for Strawberry Days. “They jumped right on it and helped augment local police with private security patrols,” Wilson reports.

“Now those patrols watch the booths all night.

They man access to the beer garden, making sure no one brings in dogs, guns or bottles.

They check IDs and take care of wrist banding.

We have a really good relationship.

“What I would stress about making this all work is how much cooperation and coordination it takes. It’s not just us and the city departments. It’s also the Chamber of Commerce and neighboring law enforcement. We’re all there. If we are going to be preventive, we need to heavily staff our events. One reason it’s so trouble-free is that if someone is thinking of being a problem child or a troublemaker, I want them to look around, see a cop and think twice.”

Despite a huge turnout, this year’s Strawberry Days was uneventful. “It was quite possibly the most mellowest ever," says Wilson. "It was very, very calm.

It’s the first time I can remember that we didn’t even ask anyone to leave the beer garden for being inebriated or even grumpy.” The most notable event was the quick return of a three-year-old who got lost in the park. “We had everything set up,” says Wilson. “We were able to immediately put it out on the P.A. Within 25 seconds of it being announced, a private guard saw the child and scooped him up.

Within five minutes, we had him back to his mom.”

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Bellini’s ARTICLE BRIDGET GREY | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

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he Bellini’s Fashion and Beauty Boutique (bellinisfashionandbeauty.com) has long been a bit of a secret, tucked away beneath the Hotel Colorado, but Bellini’s Fashion has stepped into the spotlight by moving to a new location on Grand Avenue in Glenwood Springs. The boutique has more than doubled in size, greatly expanding its selection of ladies’, children’s, plus size, and men’s fashions are soon to come.

Check out Bellini’s reviews on Yelp, and you will discover that tourists have long delighted in the store’s selection of casual, functional and elegant fashions – even if many locals have been in the dark. For example, Glen M. from Santa Monica wrote, “Wandered into Bellini's while on a weekend trip with my fiancee and we got lost in there for over an hour. While she was try-

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ing on every other thing in the store, I had a wonderful conversation with the owner.

Very inviting, a plethora of clothing and ridiculously low price points for a specialty shop connected to the hotel…”

On Yelp, Michelle E., from Austin, Texas, described going to Bellini’s website to find a dress she had seen in the window but hadn’t had to time try on. “My dress was not there,” she wrote. “So I emailed the store, and they called me the next day. I was able to order the dress and get it shipped to my home at no additional charge!”

Jana P. of Houston, wrote, “I saw so many cute things that I wanted to buy!”

Jana made a few attractive purchases while hubby, who had been dragged into the boutique, worried that she “was going to buy the whole store.”

Bellini’s Yelp reviewers hail from Austin, Houston and Santa Monica. The closest to local comes from Vail. So where are the Roaring Fork Valley shoppers?

Now that Bellini’s has moved to an easy-to-find 1575 square-foot showroom at 916B Grand Avenue, they should be turning up in droves to shop for popular labels such as Elan, Not Your Daughters Jeans, LA Idol, Boho Chic, Pacifica and Alpaca. Locals will find loads of beautifully made clothing and accessory items starting at just $6. The store carries gorgeous dresses, tops, cami's, sweaters, jackets, jeans, leggings, intimate apparel, boots and shoes.

The boutique also carries adorable girl’s clothing in sizes 4 to 14. There’s even a Bronco’s dress with matching hair clip.

The fashion eye behind Bellini’s is owner Deb Burkholder, who admits that she, “loves to talk,” and will honestly tell you what looks great on you – or doesn’t.

“I find quality fashions and offer them at affordable prices,” she says. “I want to give my customers the opportunity to purchase a beautiful outfit or accessory with confidence that they will look fantastic wherever they go.”

Burkholder, who has frequently joined Valley View Hospital’s Rally the Valley race, offers a full selection of wigs. “I have the wigs in a private area where chemotherapy patients can try them without public exposure,” she notes.

Bellini’s is moving at the end of August and a Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting is slated soon after.

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Local Limelight

Poetry in Motion YOUTH POETS FIND THEIR VOICES ONSTAGE ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHY CAITLIN CAUSEY

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nnocence. Self-realization. Understanding. Pain. Passion.

These are just a handful of big concerns that a group of young poets in the Roaring Fork Valley explored over the summer.

Surprised? Don't be. The Valley has long been fertile ground for creative expression and experimentation, an area rich with artists, musicians, writers, dancers and performers drawn to the area’s progressive values and idyllic beauty. It seems only natural that young people raised here should feel free to express themselves, but these teens are pushing boundaries. Seeking inspiration beyond just mountains and rivers, they are fearlessly looking deep into the heart of our community. They are tackling – nay, annihilating – tough subjects via a provocative, daring art form: spoken word.

Meet a few members of First Word, the Roaring Fork Valley’s newest youth poetry group: Moises Camargo, 16; Alyssa Szczelina, 16; Naomi Pulver, 17, and Julia Lee, 15. To watch them perform is to witness them challenge and reinvigorate the valley’s artistic legacy one poem at a time.

“With spoken word, you have the freedom to express your feelings about how you see the world,” says Pulver, a student at Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) in Carbondale. Lee, who also attends RFHS, agrees, “I used to think poetry was stuffy and boring, but after joining this group I realized that you can weave ideas and emotions into your poems, and really make people see and feel and think.”

Often referred to as slam poetry, contemporary spoken word is a creative medium borne of the tumult and civil unrest of the 1960s. Rhythmic and brimming with raw emotion, this style of performance-based poetry rose from a small urban movement to somewhat of a national phenomenon by the early 2000s. Today, it has even found its way to the Western Slope.

“The goal of slam poetry is to evoke emotion in the audience. It pushes buttons. And it is truly the place where writing and performance come together,” says local teaching artist Kether Axelrod.

With the help of her daughter Anika Jade, Axelrod leads First Word, an offshoot of literary nonprofit Aspen Words’ Youth Poetry program. The First Word teen poets have a true role model in 20-year-old Jade, a Carbondale native and a junior at New York City’s Pratt Institute who has won national recognition for her work as a rising slam poet. Recently she performed at the White House Poetry Night at the invitation of First Lady Michelle Obama.

Axelrod believes the original tenets of spoken word – freedom of language and freedom to challenge the status quo – have not been lost on her students. “The kids have something really important to say,” she notes, “and a lot of them haven’t been heard before.”

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Renee Prince, Education Associate at Aspen Words, agreed that the organization’s Youth Poetry program struck a chord with local middle and high school students after its inception nearly four years ago. Since then, the program – held for a madcap two weeks each February – has grown to feature multiple renowned teaching artists at 16 schools throughout the valley.

“We really plugged into the energy of the kids after that first year,” Prince recalls. “Suddenly we had this lovely, powerful momentum going and we wanted to continue to honor their voices.

Many of the students had never had an opportunity to express themselves freely like this before, but just given the invitation to use their voices, they took it.”

Prince was thrilled to find that many students wanted a way to keep practicing spoken word long after Aspen Words’ annual twoweek intensive had ended. “For these kids, spoken word is a fresh, accessible way to speak out. It has the ability to connect them to the outside world,” she says. “We have been working with community members and local artists like Kether Axelrod to help the students continue writing and performing throughout the year.”

So, what is it like to be a teenage spoken word artist? On a July morning before performing at Mountain Fair in Carbondale, the young members of First Word gathered at The Launchpad to rehearse and discuss their work.

For starters, they all agreed, you can’t be afraid to go onstage.

“I actually wrote a poem about being nervous,” Szczelina, a Yampah Mountain High School student, says with a laugh. “I actually read it the first time I ever performed in front of a large group of people. At first, you always get the jitters but oddly enough, the more you keep performing, the more comfortable you get.”

Szczelina, who employs dynamic vocal cadence and physical gestures to deliver a decidedly classic form of spoken word, has been performing pieces about social struggles, equal rights and other hot button issues. “I like speaking about topics that others don’t want to address. What inspires me are those emotions that people don’t usually want to experience,” she adds. “Poetry is a way to get negative feelings out. Although I don’t like them, they have value and they have a story to tell—something to teach me.”

Each member of the group has an individual flair.

Lee performs her poems with a softer edge and a contemplative delicacy. Her stage presence is surprisingly disarming in light of the controversial subject material she often broaches in her work. A piece she presented at Mountain Fair examines the emotional toll of human violence on a young heart.

Pulver’s performance style is defined by a natural, frank delivery of her work. Her poems are at once wide-eyed and yet keenly observant, gleaning significance from the beauty of everyday struggles. “When you finish a poem, I feel like it reveals some truth you’re trying to get at,” she explains.

Axelrod was quick to note that much of the group’s strength lies in the students’ differences, both in experience and aesthetic.

“Alyssa really gives a powerful slam experience, Julia has this soft, evocative tone, and Naomi brings a tenderness—beautiful and joyous,” she says.

After rehearsal in The Launchpad’s intimate outdoor amphitheater, Axelrod and Anika Jade gathered the students for a few final words before their upcoming Mountain Fair debut. When the technical notes addressing diction, delivery, and presence were finished, Axelrod offered encouragement.

“Trust yourselves. You’ve worked really hard. You all have something very important to say out there.”

And now, it is up to the rest of us to listen.

For more information about youth poetry in the Roaring Fork Valley, visit AspenWords.org.

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R.I.P. - The Tucker Automobile ARTICLE DAN JENKINS

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hen I was a teenager, my parents took us to an automobile museum near Detroit. The car that fascinated me the most was the Tucker automobile. The futuristic design of the Tucker caught my attention.

The Tucker was built from 1947 to 1948 by Preston Tucker. Only 51 cars were actually manufactured before the company was shut down by bad press and allegations of stock fraud.

But I'd like to focus on the car itself. It had a lower body profile than cars commonly had during those years. So Tucker overcame this difference by designing the doors into the roof for ease of entry.

Of course, one of the first differences observed when one sees a Tucker is the cyclops-like headlight in the center of the front of the car. More intriguing is the fact that Tucker designed this headlight to turn from side to side with the turning of the car.

The engine was a modified six-cylinder aircraft motor installed in the rear of the car. Rear engine automobiles were still very uncommon at that time.

Tucker included many safety features in the car that were also ahead of their time. The windshield was designed to pop out in a crash, and it was made of shatterproof glass. The chassis had a perimeter frame which surrounded the car to protect the passengers, and a roll bar was built into the car. The dash was padded. Although

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it never went into production, Tucker had designed a collapsible steering column to protect the driver. The steering box was mounted behind the front axle for further safety.

Other safety innovations planned by Tucker, but not put into production, included magnesium wheels, disc brakes, fuel injection and self-sealing tubeless tires.

Preston Tucker was indeed ahead of his time in the auto manufacturing world. His direct-drive torque converter transmission was developed but only installed in two of the 51 Tuckers manufactured.

Yes, when I checked, I found that I was right about the museum where I had first learned about the Tucker automobile. It was at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

Preston Tucker died in 1956 at the age of 53. He was a visionary, and as visionaries are impatient with the process of implementation, Tucker probably got ahead of himself in the production of his automobile. There are suspicions that the Detroit automakers were able to stop the production of the Tucker automobiles through fraud allegations and through an investigation by the SEC. Even though the charges in the investigation of the SEC were dismissed and proven baseless, it was too late. The company had been too crippled to continue manufacturing.

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Come see the fastest-growing sport in the U.S! This tournament is sponsored by the Carbondale Recreation Department. For more info, contact Eric Brendlinger at 970.510.1277.

SEPTEMBER 13 THIRD ANNUAL 5K-K9 RACE CROWN MOUNTAIN PARK

Join the fundraiser for Helping Hoof and Paw and run with your companion (animal or human) at Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel at 9:30 AM. Registration available at 9 a.m. the day of the race. Sponsored by Alpine Animal Hospital. Helping Hoof and Paw provides funding for pet owners with emergency medical needs. Online registration and details at AlpineHospital.com.

SEPTEMBER 17 MUSICAL KALEIDOSCOPE BASALT LIBRARY

Folk, bluegrass, swing, Cajun and rock by the Leonard Curry Trio.

Free and open to the public. Doors open 20 minutes before concert, which starts at 5:30 p.m.

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SEPTEMBER 25 FOLKLORICO DANCERS BASALT LIBRARY

The Folklorico dancers of the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Free and open to the public. Doors open 20 minutes before the 5:30 p.m. concert. Free.

SEPTEMBER 26 POTATO DAY PARADE & CELEBRATION SOPRIS PARK

Potato Day is the longest-standing annual community event in Carbondale! Since 1909, local farming and ranching families have kept local traditions alive with a parade, BBQ, potato sack races, and other fun activities that will take place in Sopris Park. Sponsored by the Xi Gamma Tau Sorority. For more info, contact Lisa Quint at 970.618.6887.

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

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HOME SERVICES 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 20 20 Eyecare (970) 945-2020 2020eyecare.com

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Parting Thoughts

Seeing Nature The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. – Helen Keller WORDS KENTON WHITMAN

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vividly remember when I learned that my grandfather was becoming blind. Macular degeneration had destroyed all but his peripheral vision, and to see me when we spoke, he looked away from me.

It was an eerie experience for a young boy. As grandfather's vision disappeared, his precious wood-carving tools began to gather dust in the basement and his well-loved books sat silent on their shelves.

But my grandfather never seemed upset as his vision faded. I’d sit next to him in the living room, gazing out the huge picture window, and he’d say, “Here come the chickadees.” The first time he did this, I felt a little embarrassed for him because the feeders were empty except for a pair of cardinals. But a moment later, as if my grandfather were some mystic seer, his predication came true and the chickadees flickered down out of the sky.

He could predict which birds would come to the feeders with uncanny accuracy. He wasn’t psychic, of course. Rather, he was hearing birds perched in trees across the yard as they discussed how they’d approach the feeders. But the sounds that were so clear to his ears seemed inaudible to me. The loss of his sight had helped him pay more attention to his other sensory impressions – impressions that I ignored because I relied so heavily on sight.

I had forgotten the lessons of my grandfather’s blindness until my wife and I stepped outside the other day and were confronted with a remarkable cacophony. It was the busy chirping of a horde of goldfinches that had just come to the feeders.

As we stood there enfolded by an almost deafening symphony, I closed my eyes and suddenly remembered my grandfather’s ability to

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predict the coming of the birds. It made me wonder how much of the world passes us by, lost because our senses have grown complacent.

As writers, Rebecca and I often spend much of our day in front of a computer, with a bright glare in our eyes and the computer’s hum in our ears. Often, it’s not until we step outside that our senses begin to wake up, and if we sit outside long enough, the world begins to come to life: birdsong and wind’s caress, dripping icicles and billowing clouds, a hawk spreading its feathers into the rising air of a thermal. These are hints of the bounty available to our senses when we take the time to step out into nature.

As Rebecca and I went back inside to sit down to our computers, I silently thanked my grandfather. He had turned his blindness into a gift, inspiring a young boy to realize that the world is bigger and more mysterious than we usually think. Nature is uniquely qualified to compliment my grandfather's teachings – next time I go for a walk, I think I’ll take a bit more time to pay attention to the sounds, smells, vision and sensations around me.

As Helen Keller suggested, the gifts of our senses can lead us to beautiful discoveries. For me, the sound of the goldfinches led me back to a memory of my grandfather, and his lessons bring me full circle to nature, where I discover what it really means to see, even when my eyes are closed.

This story first appeared in the Wild About Nature blog. Author Kenyon Whitman is an adventure and mindfulness instructor who runs ReWildU.com in Wisconsin.

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