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Volume 13, Number 39 | November 4-10, 2021
Climate horrors on Halloween
By Raleigh Burleigh Sopris Sun Editor
A dozen devilishly-dressed activists protested at the intersection of Highway 133 and Highway 82 on the frosty morning of Friday, Oct. 29. The demonstration fell in line with 350 Roaring Fork’s weekly Friday protests, and was in solidarity with the national Fossil Free Future Day of Action. The youth-led Future Coalition organized events across the country, demanding specifically that Chase Bank and the Federal Reserve end all fossil fuel financing. Chase Bank has loaned the fossil fuel industry $317 billion since the Paris Climate Accords, according to “Banking on Climate Chaos,” a report compiled by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance and the Sierra Club. “The Federal Reserve,” wrote 350 Roaring Fork team coordinator Will Hodges, “could follow the lead of Europe and Japan’s central banks and require [that] firms disclose risks to the economy from climate disasters and steps to prevent such risks.” Inspired by weekly climate strikes catalyzed by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, 350 Roaring Fork has marched every Friday for over a month, “making a public statement for bolder action for climate justice,” continued Hodges. The local climate justice group encourages like-minded activists to meet at the Goat Restaurant at 955 Cowen Drive, Carbondale, every Friday at 8 a.m. “Come stand up for climate justice,” concluded Hodges, “to protect our future while leaders and activists gather in Scotland!” Activists dressed as corporate ghouls protested against fossil fuel financing at the intersection of Highway 133 and Highway 82 on Friday, Oct. 29. Photo by Raleigh Burleigh.
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by Todd Chamberlin Executive Director The Sopris Sun is once again taking part in the Community First Foundation’s ColoradoGives campaign. This year is especially important, because we have several matching grant opportunities that we are trying to reach. In all, we are trying to raise $100,000 in the last two months of the year for 2022. It is a very lofty goal, but we have big plans in 2022 and I know we can make it with your help. So, no matter what level you can give at, it is very much appreciated. In 1786, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” Fast forward to 2021. It was perhaps with similar sentiment in mind that The Sopris Sun’s Board of Directors expanded our mission statement, “to inform, inspire and build community by
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Your donations, quadrupled! fostering diverse and independent journalism.” 2021 was also the year that The Sopris Sun saw new leadership step in. Raleigh Burleigh assumed the role of editor-in-chief and I took on the role of executive director. Joined by a team of talented freelance writers, photographers, columnists, illustrators and designers, we have taken our broader mission to heart. Within the first few months of 2021, we launched our Spanish language insert, el Sol del Valle, with several sponsors helping to seed the endeavour. In addition, we relaunched our radio program, Everything Under The Sun on KDNK. As the year has progressed, we have slowly expanded to regularly printing issues with 28 pages or more. We focused on increasing our points of distribution in the four counties in which we distribute: Garfield, Eagle, Pitkin and Gunnison. We continue to “go green” by offering free downloadable copies of The Sopris Sun online. Plus, in collaboration with the Colorado Press Association, we supported a college intern studying journalism and our weekly newsletter was born. Finally, in September, we launched our Youth Journalism Program for local high school students, which focuses on mentoring the next generation of journalists. In an area where there are three other free newspapers, expansion does not come easily. We pride
Re: PSSWF The article in The Sopris Sun on Oct. 28 about Pauline S. Schneegas Wildlife Foundation (PSSWF), while interesting, missed some important facts: The essence of the foundation is black bear rehab and release work and ursine rehabilitation in the 21st century is a rare profession. There are ONLY TWO PRIVATE black bear rehabbers left in the state of Colorado and PSSWF is one of them. Bears are altruistic and very complex beings with the intelligence of the great ape. In the lower 48 States there are very few bear rehab facilities left, probably less than 10. PSSWF receives NO government help and solely relies on private donations and sponsors. PSSWF is independent and is neither a branch of nor working for Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). But, for more than 41 years, the foundation has played an important role in our area by giving second chances for orphaned or injured bear cubs as a partner with CPW. The aim of this article should have been how we, as community members, can best raise awareness for PSSWF’s very important work to rehab and release bears. Our community is very fortunate to have this foundation “in our backyard” and it truly takes a valley to keep wildlife wild. We must recognize that without PSSWF many young bears would have zero chance of survival. The work of the PSSWF expert staff is also significant. Nanci Limbach and her dedicated and hardworking assistant Erin are
ourselves by focusing on what matters to our readers: community and local news. You simply won’t find any national or international news feeds within The Sun. We are also different in that we are the only nonprofit newspaper in the area. Among other things, this nonprofit status enables us to control our own destiny and not be beholden to shareholders. Our board members, staff and freelance contributors are all locals who care deeply about this community. We are also much more than just a paper, we are a community platform and resource that helps make our community stronger. Over the past few years, we have given away tens of thousands of dollars in free advertising to area nonprofits. Each of these nonprofits help elevate our communities, from Parachute to Aspen. We have also helped struggling small businesses with free ad space and now offer free “help wanted” ads. As we look toward 2022, we are exploring other innovative ways to further support our communities through The Sopris Sun and el Sol del Valle. I wish to express my gratitude to our advertisers, donors and grantors who have helped make The Sopris Sun into the organization that it is today. Rising costs of newspaper production make our job more challenging. If we were to even out our expenses, each weekly issue of The Sopris Sun costs nearly $8,000
always on call and responsive to receive each and every bear cub or any species of wildlife in need. PSSWF currently has nine bear cubs in their care, some over winter because they are still small and the bigger ones will go into high altitude denning and will be released in spring of 2022. PLEASE consider donating to PSSWF. All donations are welcome, no matter how big or small. https://www.psswf. org/donate, @pss_wildlife, and https://www. facebook.com/PSSWF/ Daniela Kohl Roaring Fork Valley Bear Coalition, founder
Small-town flavor I’ve been following and participating in the formulation of Carbondale’s comprehensive plan update, which will provide guidance for the Town’s future growth. The words I hear over and over again in this process, to the point where I’m convinced they’re the overriding concern of the Town’s people, is “preserving Carbondale’s small-town flavor.” I’m on board with that. The reason I left Glenwood Springs six years ago was the infernal traffic. One day, as I was waiting to get out on Grand Avenue from a side street, it came to me, “I gotta get outta here.” You’d think a guy who grew up in the Chicago area wouldn’t be that bothered by traffic, but it did, and it does, and it always will. Having lived in towns with double-digit populations, I’m somewhat amused that a town that has grown from 6,000 to 7,000 in the time
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I’ve lived here calls itself a “small town.” To be honest, where I live, Fourth and Garfield, has very much of a small-town flavor. It’s a short walk from here to the Crystal Theatre, Steve’s Guitars, many fine restaurants and all the features of downtown Carbondale. In another way, Satank is also a small town, a small town in Appalachia. However, where Mayberry ends and suburbia begins is on Highway 133. The corridor is dominated by City Market, old and new, which is a part of Kroger, the world’s largest grocery store chain. Not exactly a locally-owned mom and pop market. My first exposure to Carbondale came in the 1980s when I came to the Roaring Fork Valley to visit my family and ski. It was very much of a small town then. The switch to a suburb began with the construction of River Valley Ranch in the early 1990s. I know about suburbs. I grew up in one. Cold, sterile, lifeless, completely without nuance, they’re not the kind of places I’d ever want to live in again. As a long-time town administrator is quoted as saying about the recent influx of residents, “These people are different. They don’t like cow piles on Main Street or cattails in the ditches.” Carbondale is going to grow. It’s in a valley with plenty of room for expansion without infilling, unlike Glenwood Springs which is in a canyon. The pandemic has taught many people from the city and adjoining suburbs they can work in the city and live in God’s Country. Continued on page 24
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Rams advance in state bracket
By Jeanne Souldern Sopris Sun Correspondent
In the second round of Class 3A playoffs, the Roaring Fork High School Rams advanced in post-season play with a 5-1 home victory over the Prospect Ridge Academy Miners (Broomfield) on Tuesday, Nov. 2. On a night that began at a chilly 42 degrees with drizzling rain under low cloud cover, Head Coach Nick Forbes said the Rams “started pretty slow; they’re [the Miners] a really good team, and they played fast and aggressive soccer at the beginning.” By halftime, the unrelenting downpour had some fans seek cover elsewhere, but the faithful stayed — some with umbrellas, others sheltering under camp blankets and many more enduring the elements.
Those in attendance were rewarded for their perseverance. In the end, the Rams’ unrelenting offense assured the win and a move to the next bracket in tournament play. The 2019-20 season also saw the Rams in tournament finals. Forbes, who was voted that season’s Colorado’s 3A High school soccer coach of the year, said many of the current Rams junior and senior players were a part of that winning squad. The Rams will face the Faith Christian Eagles (Arvada) in the Class 3A quarterfinals on Saturday, Nov. 6, in Denver. The Eagles’ overall record is 15-2, while the Rams are 14-3. Forbes described the night as “a great game played in great spirit and I’m just really happy to show what we can do to our fans for the last game at home.”
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Rams junior forward player Emi Magana, who has been a league leading scorer throughout this season, turned in a stellar performance, scoring four goals. “He’s a little guy, but he plays like he’s a giant,” said Forbes. “He’s really good at finishing, and he’s calm in front of the goal. I’m proud of him.” Photo by Sue Rollyson.
Maley defends title! By Raleigh Burleigh Sopris Sun Editor
Katelyn Maley maintains the lead at the 3A state championship race. Courtesy photo.
Preliminary results are in!
Basalt High School (BHS) junior Katelyn Maley placed first at the 3A state championship cross country race on Oct. 30 in Colorado Springs, defending her title earned last season with a time of 18 minutes, 37 seconds for the five-kilometer race. Teammate Ava Lane, also a BHS junior, finished eighth overall in the same race. This is the third consecutive year that an individual 3A state title was earned by a Longhorn girls cross country athlete. Overall, the Longhorns finished sixth as a team in the race.
“After having a few days to reflect on the state championship race this past Saturday,” Maley told The Sopris Sun, “I feel very thankful for all of my coaches, friends and family who helped me get to this point. This was an incredible season with an awesome team and I am so glad that we ended on such a high note.” Maley will finish her championship season with two more races, one in Arizona and one in Alabama. After that, “it’s back to the track!” Maley also earned the state title in the 3A girls 1,600-meter during track and field championships this past spring.
Election results as of our press time (Wednesday afternoon): It’s looking clear that among the school board candidates: in District A, Kenny Teitler has pulled well ahead of Chase McWhorter by margin of three to one; in District E, Kathryn Kuhlenberg garnered a margin of four to one over Steven Fotion. Meanwhile, Ballot Initiative 5B — increasing teacher and staff salaries and bolstering the district’s retention and recruitment efforts — is on its way to pass with 6,677 (68.45%) votes in favor. It appears all three of the statewide proposals will fail. Amendment 78 requires 55% “yes” votes to pass, as it affects the Colorado State Constitution. If passed, the amendment would give state legislators a say in how state money, outside of the budget, is spent, no longer requiring the state treasury’s approval. Voters are also rejecting Propositions 119 and 120. If approved, 119 would increase the cannabis retail sales tax, with the revenue used to partially fund an out-ofschool education program, and 120 would have lowered property tax rates on multifamily and commercial lodging, resulting in reduced funding for local public school and government services. In other news, eight-year-old Axelle Hansen of Rifle has been elected as Sunlight Mountain Resort’s next mini-mayor. She will receive a complimentary season pass, a new snowboard and a seat at Sunlight’s Executive Table. This year, 10% of all proceeds from Sunny Pop sales will be donated to the charity or nonprofit of Hansen’s choice. “Because I am eight years old, I could help the adults hear from us kids,” assured Hansen.
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SCUTTLEBUTT The search continues The Town of Carbondale announced three new town manager finalists on Oct. 29. Interviews with the three previous finalists — Jennifer Phillips, Kara Silbernagel and Jeff Durbin — did not result in a hire. “We struggled to narrow the field initially because of so many excellent applicants,” commented Mayor Dan Richardson. The community is invited to meet the next round of finalists — Travis Elliott, Lauren Gister and Brian Smith — at a “Meet and Greet” on Nov. 17 at the Third Street Center at 6 p.m.
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Wild work Over 150 temporary positions are open for the 2022 summer season on the White River National Forest. “These temporary positions are open to people across the country, and we want to make sure local residents
know about this great opportunity to work for their local forest,” said Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams. The application period runs through Nov. 12; more information is available at www.fs.usda.gov/whiteriver or by calling (970) 404-3163.
Adopt local! Colorado Animal Rescue has over 30 “lovable locals” available for adoption. These are pets that arrived as a local stray or from a resident that could no longer keep them. During the month of November, lovable locals can be adopted for the discounted price of $25. For more information, call 970947-9173.
Birding scholarships Roaring Fork Audubon will award full scholarships to youth (ages 12-18) to attend a week-long nature camp at Rocky Mountain National Park in the summer of 2022. To apply for a scholarship, visit roaringforkaudubon. org and fill out the application.
Rockfall mitigation Rockfall mitigation work on Highway 133 is complete! Nonetheless, state maintenance crews will likely be seen throughout the winter clearing and hauling debris from various locations. Maintenance lane closures will continue for some final hauling, but travel impacts are expected to be minor. The Sopris Sun thanks Geovert for the work and the
folks at CDOT, especially Public Information Officer Nancy Shanks, for keeping us apprised.
Ragged relocation Ragged Mountain Sports has moved... again! No longer along Dolores Way, the consignment adventure gear store is now at 810 Highway 133, next to the Dollar Tree. "Double the space, double the fun!" said owner Aisha Weinhold.
Color the cover It's time to bust out the art supplies! The Sopris Sun's annual "Spruce up The Sun" contest is returning. This year's theme is: "A Healthy Future" and the deadline is Dec. 14 for artwork from local kids from pre-kindergarten through high school. Submissions can be dropped off in a designated box outside The Launchpad.
Meeker Classic The 2021 USBCHA National Sheepdog Finals have come and gone. “It was a week of experiences — celebrations, disappointments, learning opportunities and cherished memories,” wrote Meeker Classic Executive Director Mary Cunningham. The six-day competition saw 170 border collies and their handlers facing a variety of challenges with sheep, time and weather. Nine-year-old Alice from New Dayton, Alberta, and her handler, Scott Glen, were declared
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Crystal Meadows Senior Housing had much to celebrate on Oct. 21. Thanks to DM Neuman Construction’s diligent work, nearly all 79 residential units saw a spectrum of upgrades, from countertops to rooftops. “We couldn’t be prouder of the residents,” said manager Jerilyn Nieslanik, who explained that residents took weeklong turns in the “vacation unit” while work was done at their homes. The celebration featured a performance by Carbondale’s Cowboy Corral, enjoyed by 99-year-old Irene Staats. Photo by Raleigh Burleigh. the winners. View stats at: www. dogtrialentry.com
Burnett persists Despite the redistricting commission having drawn Dr. Debby Burnett out of Colorado’s Third Congressional District, she is continuing to campaign against Lauren Boebert. “We owe it to the families of rural Colorado — and to rural families across America — to stay and fight," wrote the Democratic candidate from Jackson County.
They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating another trip around the sun this week include: Jeff Achey, Debra Burleigh and David Cappa (Nov. 4); Niki Burns and Trina Ortega (Nov. 5); Beth Broome and Murry Daniels (Nov. 6); Lee Beck, Brett Nelson and Noreen Steiner (Nov. 7); Rick Carlson and Mira Winograd (Nov. 8); Wolf Draper and Stephen Molloy (Nov. 9); Natalie Rae Fuller and Tim Ireland (Nov. 10).
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Voices in Hunting: a storytelling event
By Geneviéve Villamizar Sopris Sun Correspondent
Disclosure: Sopris Sun contributor Geneviéve Villamizar is an ambassador for Artemis, a National Wildlife Federation initiative promoting conservation among sportswomen. Head to Marble Distilling on Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. to imbibe in a spirited evening of stories and conversations on the shifts redefining hunting and food today. “Voices in Hunting” is co-hosted by Artemis, a women’s conservation initiative through the National Wildlife Federation, and by Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, a North American organization advocating for public lands and hunter ethics. Why hunting stories, and why now? The lines between farming, hunting, foraging and growing our own food are softening. The face of hunting is quietly evolving as traditional hunters age out and more diverse voices find representation in the media. A surprising 90% of all new hunters are actually women and girls. “Adult onset hunters'' are another demographic on the rise, as are vegetarian hunters — you read that right. Those who refuse to support industrial animal factories are opening up to consciouslysourced protein. State wildlife agencies are reaching out to foodies, urbanites, hipsters and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) communities, recognizing each demographic's desire for meaningful connection and agency. Heart-healthy, ethicallysourced protein, new-found independence in nature and genuine connections to flora and fauna are inclusive to all of us. During the pandemic, hunter safety licenses and game tag sales unexpectedly skyrocketed — in some states, by as much as 67%. For many, COVID freed up bandwidth to finally navigate the traditional barriers to entry into hunting. Empty grocery shelves, a dearth in garden canning supplies and sold-out seeds prompted pathways to sustainable, secure, game meat. “Voices” storytellers are people you might recognize. They are neighbors, farmers, writers, ranchers, foodies, teachers and stewards. ACES Rock Bottom Ranch livestock manager Jennifer Ghigiarelli (known for her vintage style and dramatic, winged
An Artemis archer makes fresh tracks. Courtesy photo. eyeliner!) has been raising cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, laying hens and meat birds for the past six years. Regenerative, holistic practices infuse her work, but deep in her heart, she says she has come to see that hunting for her meat allows animals to live a natural life in the wild and provides clean, high-quality meat. Her notebook from hunter safety is dense with meticulous notes, sketches and questions. Her first deer hunt opens “Voices in Hunting.” Ghigiarelli will chat with Danielle Davis about their shared connections to both domestic meat and game. Davis spent childhood summers fly fishing at a family “basecamp” at the Ranch at Roaring Fork. Autumn meant pheasant season, hunting with her dad and the family bird dog. From these
memories, Davis founded the Western Meat Collective, partnering with ranchers and chefs to teach butchery, whole-animal cookery and charcuterie — moving beyond the obvious choice cuts. Davis believes that, by using the whole animal, we reconnect with the stories behind our food. Barriers to hunting exist not only for women, but for men, too. Unless you grew up in it, how to start? The learning curve is huge. Even for Colorado Parks and Wildlife Ag Commissioner Eden Vardy — executive director of the Farm Collective. He has wanted to hunt for several years, but still hasn’t secured the opportunity. Why is it so challenging? Let’s flip the table. In the wild, the mothers of the herd are the carriers of knowledge. Each season, herd females teach yearlings unique herd patterns: feeding locations, bedding areas, travel corridors, water sources, safety and survival. All of this information changes as the herds migrate seasonal grounds. Each year, that herd knowledge is impacted or altered by humans, other wildlife, or imbalances from weather and climate events. To become hunters, we humans must also learn and interpret this ever-evolving realm. Jason Nauert grew up in the hunting realm and has made it his livelihood, teaching others. For Connor Coleman, it is the reverse: his career in stewardship and conservation led him to hunting to better understand the land and inform his decisions as a land steward. Each speaker’s relationship to hunting is unique, from different backgrounds and at different stages in the journey. As a result, the culture of hunting and the challenges affecting wildlife look different from each perspective. In community, we mirror how to do better individually and collectively — to be better stewards, hunters and providers. Listen to the new dialog framing hunting. Sip hunt camp inspired whiskey cocktails. Meet new friends, craft future adventures, share your own stories. Celebrate wholesome shifts in hunting with Artemis and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. Doors open at 5 p.m. and $25 Twenty-five dollar tickets include door prizes and charcuterie appetizers; purchase on the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers website under “Events” or at the door!
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By Jeannie Perry I recently watched a documentary on Kurt Cobain, and afterwards I thought, “It’s a damn shame he didn’t stick around long enough to make a country album. I bet it would have been great.” As a member of the 27 club (together with Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Amy Winehouse), Kurt didn’t live to see the ripple effects of his artistry. He basically lit the fuse that was grunge music, smashed his guitar and left the garage party before he could watch it all burn to the ground. But I ask you, what’s more country/punk than sticking around to drink with the roadies? My favorite Nirvana album is Live Through This. Sure, this album was put out by the
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band Hole, but I suspect Kurt is responsible for most of the lyrics, which were written in late 1993. At that time in my life, the angst of the writing mixed with Courtney’s babygirl-who-smokes-a-pack-a-day voice really resonated with me. In the early 1990s, I was living in Boulder and working at Wax Trax Records on the hill; all my jeans were baggy with holes in the knees, and my Thursday nights were just getting started at 10 p.m. Nowadays, after virtually attending the meeting on Carbondale’s comprehensive plan update, I settled into bed at 10:00 p.m. — listening to Eddie Spaghetti — just trying to keep my eyes open. It’s inevitable; if we stick around, the angst fades, our jeans fit and we reach a plateau of punk and country. Carbondale is about to see a teen-spirit-sized growth spurt. Get ready for “Presenting the Lofts @ NoDo CarBo!” North Downtown Carbondale will be THE hotspot for diners and shoppers and look-at-meI’m-loitering hipsters. Right now, the area is mostly ignored (much like Carbondale as a whole used to be). But mark my words, that area will be
transformed into something hawt and expensive. And Industry Place (the road next to Roaring Fork Coop) will take you right there. But I expect they’ll change the name to something more gentrified, something more fashion-overfunction. The town will have to scratch RFTA’s back to get permission to cross The Bike Path That Could Always Magically Morph Back Into Train Tracks, and there’s a small house on 8th Street that will probably need to be demolished, but the Town of Carbondale already owns that. Voila! The reason Carbondale stayed inconspicuous for so long is because the traffic stayed on the highways: 82 if you were hanging out with “The Beautiful People,” and 133 if you were looking to get a little break from them. The only people driving down Main Street were on the clock, either taking back roads to the jobsite or bringing the cows home. And the only parking issue was figuring out which way to face the car so the sun would melt the ice on the windshield while in “a meeting” at the Pour House. Aah, the good ole days. We should’ve seen it coming; nothing gold can stay…
We can do our future residents a solid favor though. We could steer Carbondale towards sustainability with incentives that show we were thinking about more than our next bit-o-honey. For example, a limited amount of gas-powered vehicle permits issued for use inside the town limits each year. Just think how exclusive that would be! It could probably create a black market in RVR… Not to mention how peaceful and quiet SoDo CarBo (South Downtown Carbondale) will be with only electric vehicles and bicycles cruising around. And if all these new buildings were required to include infrastructure for clean energy utilities, at least we would know we saved the future residents some time and money with retrofitting projects. Not knowing what the future will bring for our town is tough but, while we’re still here, we might as well join in and smash a few traditional instruments. Carbondale has hit the charts, for sure, but if we play it right, I reckon we’ve got a few more good albums in us… and then we can always go back to our roots and enjoy success with a country release.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Following Cushing Terrell’s community meetings on Oct. 27 and Oct. 28, the next phase for public input on Carbondale’s comprehensive plan update is to join the online discussion at:
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There, you’ll find nine topics for discussion: social equity; housing and jobs; multi-modal mobility; climate action; aging in community; residential focus areas; downtown north; downtown; and “Carbondale Vision.” You’ll also find draft recommendations, slides from virtual meetings and a calendar highlighting upcoming engagement opportunities.
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Wolf reintroduction moves forward
By James Steindler Contributing Editor
The road to reintroducing gray wolves in Colorado stretches on, circling back to Glenwood Springs, for the second time since mid-summer, for a public Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) meeting on Oct. 27. The SAG meetings, which occur monthly at various parts of the state, are open to the public. In Glenwood, at Colorado Mountain College’s Morgridge Commons, the daylong forum included presentations and conversations regarding 1) habitat suitability mapping, 2) restoration logistics and 3) livestock interactions. The SAG is made up of regional stakeholders with varying opinions about the management of gray wolves once the species returns to Colorado. The public was allotted two thirty-minute periods, one before lunch and one at the end of the day, to say their piece. Each individual was given three minutes to speak, which a facilitator held them to. Carbondale rancher Marj Perry spoke during the afternoon’s public comment period. “While I have a lot of thoughts about conflict mitigation and compensation, I’d like to address what seems to me to be a gap in these proceedings,” she began. What’s missing, according to Perry, “is a concerted effort to educate the public on the importance of ranches to Colorado.” Perry acknowledged that discussions regarding ranching do occur in the SAG meetings
and in rural areas, but this is lost on urban dwellers. “What should the public understand?” Perry rhetorically asked. “Well, wolves will spend probably as much time on private ranch lands as on the National Forest.” She also argued that wolf packs “are forced to adjust constantly, and in an environment that includes agriculture, reasonable control by humans should be expected.” “The public has a lot to lose if this program fails, and increasing polarization is the outcome,” Perry said. “While ranchers will be challenged to tolerate wolves, the public must be challenged to tolerate the management of wolves and realize that wolves should be managed like all other wildlife, including the need for appropriate lethal control.” Julie Shapiro with Keystone Policy Center, a non-partisan group paving the way for wolf reintroduction policy making, explained that there would be two more meetings before the end of the year. The Glenwood meeting was the fifth SAG meeting to date, and the sixth is scheduled for Nov. 15 in Colorado Springs. “We had planned for November to talk more about livestock,” said Shapiro, “to continue this conversation, including on compensation.” Some members from the stakeholder group expressed frustration that they have not been as involved in setting upcoming agenda items. One SAG member, John Proctor, put it this way: “I do hope that,
Colorado House District 57 Representative Perry Will (right) greets a fellow participant at the day-long Stakeholder Advisory Group meeting hosted in Glenwood Springs on Oct. 27. Photo by Paula Mayer. wildlife biology and members of various government agencies, such as Wyoming and Montana wildlife agencies. “The TWG will contribute expertise towards the development of conservation objectives, management strategies and damage prevention and compensation planning,” reads the wolf engagement website (https:// wolfengagementco.org). “The TWG is meeting on Dec. 14 and we’re meant to get together that evening informally and socially,” Shapiro told SAG members, “then have our meeting together with the TWG on Dec. 15.” Updates from monthly SAG meetings, as well as agendas for upcoming ones, are available at https://wolfengagement.org
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In response to the rising incidence of local human-bear conflicts, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is pursuing an updated management plan for populations in the Roaring Fork and Eagle River valleys. The public has until Nov. 10 to weigh in on two proposed alternatives. The first maintains the current level of black bear hunting opportunity, while the second seeks to actively reduce the local population of black bears by issuing more hunting licenses until the frequency of conflicts has dropped by 50%. Both alternatives make clear that a reduction in conflicts will also depend on “the availability of human-source foods and the frequency of natural food failures.” Black bear population B-11 is currently “number one for conflicts in the state,” announced CPW at a public meeting in Glenwood Springs on Oct. 22. The population is estimated at roughly 1,040 bears, marginally decreasing in the past 10 years. Acknowledging that we live in “bear country,” said Darren Chacron, CPW assistant area wildlife manager for Area 8 (Glenwood Springs), “I’d like to see officers not have to deal with so many calls all of the time.” In “eight of the last 15 years,” states the draft management plan document, “B-11 has had unprecedentedly high humanbear conflicts, which have exceeded CPW field staff ’s time and resources to reasonably handle.” According to Area 8 staff reports cited in the same document, upwards of 900 bear complaints have occurred during poor natural food years, compared with 300 or fewer in good natural food years. The plan focuses on the “bear side” of this conflict equation, with the stated priorities of managing conflicts, quality hunting experiences and sustainable bear populations. Since 2010, CPW has maintained the objective of harvesting 80 bears annually, witnessing around 110 total bear mortalities each year. A population reduction strategy would seek to increase the number of harvested bears to between 122 and 174, according to the draft plan, with total annual mortalities expected to double. “Bear populations today are a conservation success story,” said
A yearling climbs down from a tree in Glenwood Springs, late September 2021. Photo by Ylice Golden. CPW Wildlife Biologist Julie Mao at the Friday evening public meeting, stating that bear populations are higher now than in the past century. Unfortunately, she continued, “bears are now above their socio-political carrying capacity, with conflicts deriving from their scavenger attitudes.” “I understand the CPW side, that they’re short-staffed and don’t have the man-power and resources,” Daniela Kohl, founder of the Roaring Fork Valley Bear Coalition, told The Sopris Sun. Still, Kohl would sooner see residents take responsibility. “It’s imperative we do something as a community.” Kohl’s initiatives to educate and resource people to better secure their trash were praised at the public meeting. “Teaching habit modification to bears takes years,” she stated, while trash regulations vary drastically from town to city to unincorporated county lands throughout the Roaring Fork Valley. Kohl opined that Snowmass Village has done “the best job” by taking a strict enforcement approach. In CPW’s “preferred strategy,” a 50% decline in bear hunter satisfaction after three consecutive years of a declining population would prompt a re-evaluation. At the same time, conflicts (attacks,
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4
CARBONDALE STORYTIME
Young children and accompanying adults are invited to the library for stories and songs at 10:30 a.m. UPCYCLING SESSION
Claire Wright of Cosecha Textiles teaches how to turn old clothes into a brand new wardrobe at Basalt Library from 3 to 7 p.m. “Session One” will be hosted at the same time on Friday and “Session Two” will be on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Details at https://basaltlibrary.org UNDER THE SUN
Join Sopris Sun correspondents and guests for Everything Under The Sun, airing every Thursday on KDNK at 4 p.m. GROUP RUN
Independence Run and Hike leads a weekly group run on Thursdays departing from the store at 6 p.m. REGENERATIVE LIVING
The Center for Human Flourishing hosts conversations about climate change, soil health, nutrition and more at 6:30 p.m. Details at www.davinikent.org VIRTUAL FILM FEST
The Wild and Scenic Film Festival streams online at 7 p.m. Details at https:// rockymountainwild.org/wsff MEZCLA SOCIALS
Dance salsa at Heads, Hearts and Souls (443 Main in Carbondale) on Thursdays at 7 p.m. and Bachata at The Launchpad at 8 p.m. KARAOKE THURSDAYS
The Black Nugget offers karaoke on Thursdays at 7 p.m.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5 YOUR STORY
Garfield County Libraries facilitate a
workshop for adults to write their personal history, one story at a time. The group meets on first and third Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon at Glenwood Springs Library. DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS
Carbondale Arts celebrates a new mural at Fourth and Main, plus Día de los Muertos, with a procession led by Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklórico beginning at the Third Street Center at 5:30 p.m. FEELING-WALLS
The Carbondale Clay Center presents “Feeling-Walls” by Sara Ransford, a showcase of paper clay sculptures. The First Friday reception is at 6 p.m. SCREEN TO STAGE
Symphony in the Valley plays classical music to accompany silent films at the Ute Theater in Rifle at 7 p.m. Tickets at https:/utetheater.com CRYSTAL THEATRE
The Crystal Theatre shows Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” at 7:30 p.m. through Monday, except the Sunday showing is at 5 p.m. STEVE’S GUITARS
The Colorado Currys perform at Steve’s Guitars at 8 p.m. GrassRoots Community Network will live-stream the concert on YouTube.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6 KID FLICKS
Valley Settlement and TACAW present Spanish-language short films for kids (with free box lunches) at The Contemporary at 3 p.m. COMEDY
Visit soprissun.com to submit events. STORYTIME
Young ones and their parents are invited to storytime at the Glenwood Springs Library Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. More information is available at gcpld.org 25TH BIRTHDAY
Roaring Fork Conservancy celebrates a quarter century of dedicated work at the River Center in Basalt from noon to 1:30 p.m. This free community event is open to all. Details at roaringfork.org/
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Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork offers a campus tour (masks required) for prospective students and their families at 9:30 a.m. Details at waldorfschoolrf.com GOOGLE APPS
Basalt Library teaches Google users how to make the most of Google services at 1:30 p.m. Register by calling 970-927-4311. LIVE MUSIC
Oran Mor performs Scottish and Irish music, plus Americana, at New Castle Library at 1:30 p.m. MENTAL HEALTH
Aspen Strong presents “Time to Talk,” a mental health support group meeting monthly online, every second Wednesday at 6 p.m. Register at tinyurl.com/7u36ndly
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11 VETERANS DAY
Comedian Dave Hill performs at The Contemporary at 8 p.m.
The American Legion serves Veterans Day dinner, free for all veterans, beginning at 5 p.m.
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Basalt Library offers take-home kits to design and create a personal stamp from 10 a.m. to closing, while supplies last.
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In honor of Native American Heritage Month, Garfield County Libraries hosts author Brandon Hobson for a virtual conversation about his novel “Where the Dead Sit Talking” at 6 p.m. To register, visit www.gcpld.org/hobson
A community altar in front of The Launchpad welcomes photos and mementos of loved ones beyond “the veil” and will remain in place until Nov. 11. Courtesy photo. FAMILY ASTRONOMY NIGHT
Basalt High School Aerospace Club hosts a night of stargazing at the Basalt Library beginning at 6:30 p.m. IMMIGRANT VOICES
English in Action presents a live storytelling event at The Contemporary at 7 p.m.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 BOOK REVEAL
The Center for Human Flourishing presents Jon Turk introducing his new book, “Tracking Lions, Myth and Wilderness in Samburu,” at the Third Street Center at 6:30 p.m. SOPRIS THEATRE
“The Thanksgiving Play” by Larissa FastHorse opens at CMC’s New Space Theatre at 7 p.m. — kicking off Sopris Theatre Company’s 2021-22 season.
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Conectando comunidades
Avanzan los Rams Por Jeanne Souldern Traducción por Jacquelinne Castro
En la segunda ronda de desempate de la clase 3A, Roaring Fork High School Rams avanzaron en el juego de la postemporada con una victoria de 5-1 contra Prospect Ridge Academy Miners (Broomfield) el martes 2 de noviembre. En la noche que empezó con una lluvia fría de 42 grados bajo una capa de nubes, el entrenador Nick Forbes dijo que los Rams “comenzaron muy despacio; ellos [los Miners] son un muy buen equipo, y comenzaron con un juego rápido y feroz.” Para el medio tiempo, la lluvia implacable tenía muchos
aficionados buscando refugio en otras partes, pero fieles se quedaron — algunos con paraguas, otros buscando albergue mientras que muchos se quedaron resistiendo las condiciones. Aquellos que se quedaron fueron recompensados por su perseverancia. Al final, la ofensiva impecable de los Rams aseguraron su victoria y pasaron al siguiente grupo en los juegos del torneo. Los Rams se enfrentarán contra Faith Christian Eagles (Arvada) en los cuartos de final de clase 3A el sábado 6 de noviembre en Denver. El récord general de los Eagles es de 15-2, mientras que el de los Rams es de 14-3.
La elección Resultados Por Jeanne Souldern Traducción por Jacquelinne Castro
“Fue un grandioso juego y estoy muy feliz de mostrarle a nuestros aficionados lo que podemos hacer.” Dijo Forbes. Foto por Sue Rollyson.
¡Donaciones se cuadruplican! OPINION
by Todd Chamberlin Executive Director Traducción por Dolores Duarte
The Sopris Sun vuelve a participar en la campaña ColoradoGives de la Community First Foundation. Este año es especialmente importante, porque tenemos varias oportunidades de donaciones equivalentes que estamos tratando de alcanzar. En total, estamos intentando recaudar 100,000 dólares en los dos últimos meses del año para 2022. Es un objetivo muy elevado, pero tenemos grandes planes para 2022 y sé que podemos lograrlo con tu ayuda. Así que, sea cual sea el nivel en el que puedas dar, es muy apreciado. En 1786, Thomas Jefferson escribió: "Nuestra libertad depende de la libertad de prensa, y ésta no puede ser limitada sin perderse". Fue tal vez con un sentimiento similar en mente que la junta directiva de The Sopris Sun en 2021 amplió nuestra declaración de misión, "para informar, inspirar
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y construir la comunidad mediante el fomento del periodismo diverso e independiente". 2021 fue también el año en que The Sopris Sun vio entrar a un nuevo liderazgo. Raleigh Burleigh asumió el puesto de editor y yo el de director ejecutivo. Junto con un equipo de talentosos escritores, fotógrafos, columnistas, ilustradores y diseñadores independientes, nos hemos tomado a pecho nuestra ampliada misión. Dentro de los primeros meses de 2021, lanzamos nuestro suplemento en español, el Sol del Valle, con la ayuda de varios patrocinadores. Además, reactivamos nuestro programa de radio, Everything Under The Sun en KDNK. A medida que avanzaba el año, fuimos ampliando poco a poco la impresión regular de números de páginas. Nos enfocamos en aumentar nuestros puntos de distribución en los cuatro condados en los que distribuimos: Garfield, Eagle, Pitkin y Gunnison. Seguimos apostando por la ecología ofreciendo copias gratuitas descargables del The Sopris Sun en línea. Además, en colaboración con la Asociación de Prensa de Colorado, apoyamos a un becario universitario que estudia periodismo y nació nuestro boletín semanal. Por último, en septiembre lanzamos nuestro programa de periodismo juvenil para estudiantes de high school locales, que se centra en la tutoría de la próxima generación de periodistas. En un área donde hay otros tres periódicos gratuitos, la expansión no es fácil. Nos enorgullecemos de centrarnos en lo que importa a nuestros lectores: las noticias
comunitarias y locales. En The Sun no encontrará noticias nacionales o internacionales. También somos diferentes porque somos el único periódico sin fines de lucro de la zona. Entre otras cosas, esta condición de organización no lucrativa nos permite controlar nuestro propio destino y no estar en deuda con accionistas. Los miembros de nuestro consejo de administración, el personal y los colaboradores autónomos son todos lugareños que se preocupan profundamente por esta comunidad. También somos mucho más que un periódico, somos una plataforma y un recurso comunitario que ayuda a fortalecer nuestra comunidad. En los últimos años, hemos regalado decenas de miles de dólares en publicidad gratuita a organizaciones no lucrativas de la zona. Cada una de estas organizaciones benéficas ayuda a elevar nuestras comunidades, desde Parachute hasta Aspen. También hemos ayudado a pequeñas empresas en dificultades con espacio publicitario gratuito y ahora ofrecemos anuncios gratuitos de "se busca ayuda". De cara a 2022, estamos explorando otras formas innovadoras de apoyar aún más a nuestras comunidades a través del The Sopris Sun y el Sol del Valle. Deseo expresar mi gratitud a nuestros anunciantes, donantes y contribuyentes que han ayudado a convertir a The Sopris Sun en la organización que es hoy. El aumento de los costos de producción del periódico hace que nuestro trabajo sea más difícil. Si se equilibran los gastos, la producción de cada número semanal de The Sopris Sun cuesta casi 8,000 dólares
y cada ejemplar impreso cuesta unos 2 dólares (sólo en el último año ha aumentado 20 centavos). Históricamente, la publicidad promedio en un tiraje sólo cubre el 50-70% de los costos totales. Otro 5% proviene de contribuciones y el resto de las donaciones de personas como usted que creen y apoyan a The Sopris Sun como una voz libre e independiente. Puede programar su donación para el Colorado Gives Day en cualquier momento o antes del 7 de diciembre en www.coloradogives. org/thesoprissun Además, si decide establecer una donación mensual recurrente para 2022, todo el año se acreditará a donaciones equivalentes. Si prefiere no donar en línea, las donaciones con cheque, efectivo o tarjeta de crédito también serán equivalentes. Las donaciones pueden enviarse a: PO Box 399, Carbondale, CO, 81623 En nombre de nuestra junta directiva y del personal, ¡gracias por apoyar a The Sopris Sun! Estamos muy agradecidos por su apoyo. También nos gustaría expresar nuestra gratitud a NewsMatch, Colorado Media Project, Facebook y ColoradoGives por sus contribuciones de fin de año. Siempre estamos buscando colaboradores que quieran ofrecer una donación equivalente o un patrocinio publicitario anual equivalente. Para más información, póngase en contacto con Todd Chamberlin en Todd@soprissun. com o al 970-510-0246.
Resultados para la elección, desde nuestra fecha límite de prensa (miércoles a mediodía): Parece seguro que, para candidatos para el distrito escolar: Kenny Teitler está en la delantera de Chase McWhorter con tres veces más el número de votos en el Distrito A; Kathryn Kuhlenberg ha ganado cuatro veces más votos que Steven Fotion en Distrito E. Mientras tanto, la iniciativa de votación 5B — incrementar el salario de maestres y personal y aumentar los esfuerzos de retención y reclutamiento del distrito — está en marcha para ser aprobada con 6,677 (68.45%) votos a favor. Parece ser que las tres propuestas del estado fallarán. La enmienda 78 requiere que el 55% vote “si” para poder ser aprobada, ya que afecta la constitución del estado de Colorado. Si es aprobada, la enmienda le podría dar a legisladores la palabra de cómo el dinero estatal fuera del presupuesto es gastado, sin requerir la aprobación de la tesorería. Votantes también están rechazando las proposiciones 119 y 120. Si son aprobadas, 119 podría incrementar el impuesto de venta de cannabis, con los ingresos para financiar parcialmente programas fuera de la escuela, y 120 podría disminuir las tasas de impuestos a las propiedades en alojamiento multifamiliar y comercial, resultando en la reducción de financiamiento en escuelas públicas locales y servicios de gobierno. En otras noticias, Axelle Hansen de ocho años de edad de Rifle, ha sido elegida como la siguiente mini-alcalde de Sunlight Mountain Resort. Ella recibirá un pase complementario de temporada, una nueva tabla de snowboard y un asiento en la mesa ejecutiva de Sunlight. Este año, el 10% de los ingresos de las ventas de Sunny Pop serán donadas a la caridad o alguna organización sin fines de lucro de cualquier elección de Hansen. “Porque tengo ocho años, podría ayudar a los adultos a escuchar las palabras de les niñes,” aseguró Hansen.
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OTRA PERSPECTIVA Por Crystal Mariscal Cuatro casos de violencia doméstica por día, que hacen un promedio de ciento cuarenta y tres casos al mes. Esto según un reporte de un muy conocido periododico en Denver. Estas cifras detallan los casos de la zona metropolitana. A lo que me di a la tarea de buscar estadísticas en nuestro valle, todo para hablar de esto en Octubre, que es el mes que se conciencia sobre la violencia intrafamiliar. Pero espere a Noviembre para escribir sobre este tema tan sonado en Octubre. Al llegar la nieve, todos volvemos a nuestras vidas diarias, hasta que escuchamos en las noticias de que otra mujer perdió la vida, o vemos en redes sociales que algún conocido fue llevado a la cárcel por cometer el crimen de tomar poder sobre su pareja. Hoy quiero tocar las fibras de este
No basta con estar consciente tema y desglosarlo, es por eso que no usaré estadísticas como números, sino que contaré la historia que esconden algunos de esos números. Aunque la conciencia es importante, no basta con estar consciente de un problema. Estas fueron las palabras de mi hija de diecisiete años al hablar del tema en casa, como cada Octubre lo hacemos. Esta frase tiene sentido, no por saber más de un tema te vuelve un experto, incluso por otra parte los narcisistas estudian a sus víctimas para saber cómo manipularlas. Comencemos por partes, el amor no lastima, y no, ¡Tu no hiciste nada que merezca que alguien te castigue! Si escuchas la frase “tu me haces que yo actúe así'', es una bandera roja y te recomiendo pedir ayuda. Es por eso que necesitamos conocer nuestros límites, qué es lo que no tolero, y que es lo que para mi ya es abuso. La relación de tus padres o tus abuelos fue creada en otro momento. A pesar de que vemos esos casos como ejemplo, no debemos olvidar que ellos son terceras personas en nuestra relación. Una jovencita me contaba que ella pensaba que su relación era complacer y obedecer a su novio, ya que eso creció viendo toda la vida por parte de sus abuelos, hasta que el tipo terminó dañando mucho emocionalmente y económicamente. Por eso, ella decidió tener en claro que acepta y que no acepta del comportamiento
de una pareja. Es decir, si hace algún tipo de comentarios negativos sobre tu vestimenta o maquillaje, para esta joven era un total no, no hay una siguiente cita. Otro jovencito me contaba que prefería no entrar a una relación hasta estar bien seguro de que tenían los intereses y metas en la vida bien definidos. Es decir, los dos tenían un plan de vida con expectativas. Ya que él había pasado una relación donde su ex novia tenía celos de todo mundo, lo que lo llevó a aislarse de su familia y de sus amistades, creando problemas de autoestima y depresión. En algún momento, tuve una conversación, tipo-debate, con un hombre que decía guiarse por la biblia, y que allí se mencionaba que la mujer se debía someter a su esposo, a lo que respondí: en la misma Palabra dice esposos amen a sus esposas. No podemos utilizar solo lo que nos gusta de la Verdad. Es normal para mi el tener confrontaciones así, pero intento buscar el balance para poder debatir, ya que en varias ocasiones se me ha dicho “hormonal” o “estas en tus días”, algo que me parece desagradable, ya que utilizar la biología de mi cuerpo para desacreditarme deja mucho que desear de la otra persona. Faltas de respeto como estas me llevan a pensar que no hemos hecho lo suficiente para que el respeto a cada individuo sea otorgado.
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¡Y bueno! Ya ni hablar del típico caso del amigo o amiga que comparte las fotos de su pareja o que habla de su intimidad. Ese afán de compartir todo en redes sociales sin que ambos estén de acuerdo. Otro de lo que a menudo escucho es: ella está dañada (loca) porque todas sus parejas la han dejado; ella tiene la culpa de seguir con puros hombres violentos. Pese a que hay verdad en el proceso de la sanación, también pongamos a la luz el que en este siglo sobreabundan hombres violentos. Que ¿en qué momento ponerle la mano encima a una mujer los hace “hombres”? Claro, hay casos en los que son las mujeres las que abusan a su pareja, desde económicamente hasta físicamente, y el hombre gracias a la cultura de machismo no se atreve a pedir ayuda ya que ''deja de ser hombre”. No voy a parar de hablar de este tema, hasta ver que todos tomemos manos en asunto, así que, ¿Qué vamos hacer con el conocimiento que ya tenemos? ¿Qué es lo que yo puedo cambiar en mi, en mis hijos y en mis amistades? No hablemos del tema solo en Octubre, actuemos para mejorar, durante todo el año. Si necesitas ayuda llama a Response (970) 920-5357 o a Advocate SafeHouse (970) 9452632. Pero, sobre todo, no temas llamar al 911.
Donaciones por correo o en línea P.O. Box 399 Carbondale, CO 81623 970-510-3003 www.soprissun.com Executive Director Todd Chamberlin • 970-510-0246 adsales@soprissun.com Editor Raleigh Burleigh • 970-510-3003 news@soprissun.com Directora Artística: Ylice Golden Traductoras: Jacquelinne Castro y Dolores Duarte Distribucion: Crystal Tapp Miembros de la Mesa Directiva Klaus Kocher • Kay Clarke • Lee Beck Megan Tackett • Gayle Wells • Donna Dayton Terri Ritchie • Eric Smith • Vanessa Porras The Sopris Sun, Inc. Es un miembro orgulloso del Distrito Creativo de Carbondale The Sopris Sun, Inc. es una 501(c) (3) organización benéfica sin fines de lucro. Contribuciones financieras son deducibles de impuestos. ¡ESCRÍBENOS! Para contribuir ideas y contenido al Sol del Valle, escribiéndonos a: sol@soprissun.com Para comprar espacio publicitario en español, inglés, o ambos, mándanos un correo electrónico a:
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CHISME DEL PUEBLO Crystal Meadows Crystal Meadows Senior Housing tuvo mucho que celebrar el 21 de octubre. Gracias al trabajo diligente de DM Neuman Construction, casi 79 unidades de residencia vieron una variedad de mejoras, desde encimeras hasta techos. “No podríamos estar más orgullosos de les residentes,” dijo la administradora Jerilyn Nieslanik, quien explicó que los residentes tomaron turnos semanales en la “unidad vacacional” mientras que el trabajo se completaba en sus hogares.
La búsqueda continúa La ciudad de Carbondale anunció tres nuevos finalistas para administrador del pueblo el 29 de octubre. Las entrevistas con los últimos tres finalistas — Jennifer Phillips, Kara Silbernagel y Jeff Durbin — no resultaron en una contratación. “Luchamos mucho para poder reducir el campo inicialmente porque teníamos muchos solicitantes excelentes'', comentó el alcalde Dan Richardson. La comunidad está invitada a conocer la siguiente ronda de finalistas — Travis Elliott, Lauren Gister y Brian Smith — a un “evento de bienvenida” el 17 de noviembre en el Third Street Center a las 6 p.m.
Trabajo al aire libre Más de 150 posiciones temporales están disponibles para la temporada de verano del 2022 en el bosque nacional White River. “Estas posiciones temporales están disponibles para todas las personas a través del país, y queremos asegurarnos de que los residentes locales estén informados de esta grandiosa oportunidad de trabajo en sus bosques locales,” dijo el supervisor forestal Scott Fitzwilliams. Este
periodo de solicitudes estará disponible hasta el 12 de noviembre; para más información visite www.fs.usda.gov/whiteriver o llame al (970) 404-3163.
¡Adopte local! Colorado Animal Rescue tiene más de 30 “lugareños adorables” disponibles para adopción. Estas son mascotas que llegaron como callejeros locales o de un residente que ya no pudo mantenerlos. Durante el mes de noviembre, estos lugareños adorables pueden ser adoptados por el precio de descuento de $25. Para más información, llame al 970-947-9173.
Observación de aves Roaring Fork Audubon premiará becas para jóvenes (de 12 años a 18 años) para ir a un campamento de una semana de naturaleza en Rocky Mountain Park en el verano del 2022. Para solicitar la beca, visite roaringforkaudubon. org y complete la aplicación.
Desplazamiento de rocas ¡El trabajo para la mitigación de desplazamiento de rocas en la carretera 133 ha sido completado! Sin embargo, los equipos de mantenimiento del estado probablemente serán vistos a través del invierno limpiando y transportando escombros desde varias ubicaciones. Cierres de carriles por mantenimiento continuarán para algunas transportaciones finales, pero los impactos de transporte se esperan que sean mínimos. The Sopris Sun le agradeció a Geovert por el trabajo y a las personas en CDOT, especialmente a la oficial de información pública Nancy Shanks, por mantenernos informados.
Día de los Muertos El altar comunitario frente a The Launchpad está recibiendo fotografías y recuerdos de seres querides y permanece ahí hasta el 11 de noviembre. El 5 de noviembre, Carbondale Arts celebrará a los artistas y a la comunidad que ayuda a crear el mural más reciente en Fourth y Main de 4 a 5 p.m. Una procesión, dirigida por marionetas gigantes y Santa Fe Ballet Folklorico, comenzará en Third Street Center a las 5:30 p.m. y concluirá en Fourth y Main con actuaciones por Ballet Folklorico, Roaring Fork Youth Orchestra y bailarines de fuego. Chocolate mexicano y otras golosinas serán servidas.
Clásico de Meeker Las finales de 2021 USBCHA National Sheepdog han venido y se han ido. “Fue una semana de experiencias — celebraciones, decepciones, oportunidades de aprendizaje y recuerdos apreciados'', escribió la directora ejecutiva de Meeker Classic Mary Cunningham. La competencia de seis días vio a nuestres amigues en cuatro patas con sus entrenadores enfrentando a una variedad de desafíos con ovejas, tiempo y clima. Alice de nueve años de New Dayton, Alberta, con su entrenador, Scott Glen, fueron declarades ganadores. Para ver las estadisticas visite www.dogtrialentry.com
350 en marcha 350 Roaring Fork invita a los activistas a marchar cada viernes por la mañana por la justicia climática, en acuerdo con las huelgas climáticas “Fridays for the Future” de la activista climática sueca
Lizdebet Núñez disfruta de leer el Sol del Valle al lado del río Roaring Fork. Foto de cortesía. Greta Thunberg. El grupo se reúne cada viernes en el estacionamiento del Goat Restaurant, al otro lado de Cowen Center en la intersección de Cowen Drive y la carretera 133, a las 8 a.m. La plataforma de 350 Roaring Fork es: desinvertir fondos públicos de combustibles fusibles, detener perforaciones nuevas, capturar el metano de carbón, cerrar centrales eléctricas de carbón.
Conozcan a las 3 coordinadoras Comunitarias de SANA.
Maria Judith Alvarez
Soira Ceja
Brenda Kaiser
Si gusta más información por favor de comunicarse con ellas. www.facebook.com/2020SANA
Nuestra juventud local requiere sentir una conexión ahora más que nunca, con sus recursos escolares limitados, menos actividades en grupo, y menos conexión con sus compañeres. ¡Convertirse en mentor para un menor es ahora más importante que nunca! Su desarrollo y crecimiento es ahora fundamental.
Buddy Program busca mentores o “Big Buddies” que tomen INICIATIVA para apoyar a nuestra juventud. Quizás pienses “ahora no tengo tiempo” pero en realidad una conexión 3 o 4 veces por mes puede ser la GRAN DIFERENCIA en la vida de un menor.
Para más información, contacta a Sylvia: Sylvia@BuddyProgram.com 970-704-8479
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Maestra local se reúne con el Dalai Lama
Por Raleigh Burleigh Traducción por Dolores Duarte
Brittany Rose, maestra de educación bilingüe de la escuela primaria de Basalt, fue seleccionada entre sus compañeros para dirigirse a su santidad el Dalai Lama durante una conversación virtual organizada el lunes 25 de octubre por la noche. La oportunidad se dio a través del proyecto Compasión y Dignidad para Educadores desarrollado por la facultad de educación de la Universidad de Boulder con el Renée Crown Instituto de Bienestar y el Instituto de Compasión. Este nuevo programa de certificación en línea se diseñó específicamente para educadores, en respuesta a los tremendos retos a los que se enfrentan los jóvenes y al papel fundamental que desempeñan los educadores para prepararlos para una vida bien llevada. "Me siento muy honrado de que me den esta oportunidad", comenzó diciendo el Dalai Lama. "La supervivencia de la humanidad requiere una mente compasiva". Antes del evento del lunes, The Sopris Sun se puso al día con Rose. Al preguntársele por las lecciones que ha extraído de sus estudios, respondió que la compasión, aunque a menudo se confunde con la empatía, es especial. Describió la empatía como un espejo que refleja una experiencia común. Como si: "Ya he pasado por eso y sé lo que se siente". "La compasión es acción", continuó Rose. Es menos emocional y requiere tomar
medidas para aliviar el sufrimiento de los demás. Tampoco es lo mismo la compasión que el amor. "El amor requiere moralidad y es crítico". Dijo que es poco realista creer que el amor puede arreglar el mundo, porque el amor es selectivo y se basa en sentimientos profundos. La compasión, sin embargo, no excluye. "Todo el mundo merece compasión". La compasión también puede adoptar muchas formas. Desde una simple sonrisa hasta una mano amiga, incluso responsabilizar a otros al compartir verdades difíciles, puede ser considerada tomando una acción compasiva. Dirigiéndose a los estudiantes y al público, el Dalai Lama describió la energía producida por la ira como "corta, temporal y que puede llegar a ser autodestructiva". En un planeta con 7.8 billones de seres humanos, "7 billones de hermanos y hermanas", dijo el Dalai Lama, los educadores deben ir más allá del conocimiento intelectual y enseñar "calidez de corazón". "Me produce una inmensa alegría hablar con usted", se dirigió Rose a su santidad, "Este último año ha tenido muchos desafíos a causa del COVID. Pero, a pesar de ello, no he tenido un mal año. Creo que he tenido un año hermoso. Saber que podemos ser felices en mi aula me da paz. Al mismo tiempo, no quiero despreciar el sufrimiento que hay en el mundo. Mi pregunta es: ¿cómo puedo ser feliz con mis alumnos y a la vez mantener mi corazón abierto al sufrimiento en nuestro mundo?". "El mundo con problemas es una fuente
La maestra del RFSD Brittany Rose tuvo la oportunidad de conocer al Dalai Lama durante una conversación virtual el lunes 25 de octubre por la noche. Captura de pantalla por Raleigh Burleigh. de práctica de compasión", respondió el Dalai Lama. "Para mostrar más compasión a los demás, primero practica tú mismo, toda tu vida. Luego, incluso hacia tus enemigos". Y continuó: "El problema no se puede resolver con la fuerza, con las armas, con la ira. El problema puede resolverse con mentes más compasivas". "No hay otra alternativa", enfatizó, y sugirió que llevar una sonrisa a las aulas ayudará a difundir la calidez del corazón: "Mi cara siempre sonríe. Si la cara del Dalai Lama fuera más de enojo"... "o dura", ofreció el traductor, "puede que no fuera tan popular", dijo el Dalai Lama riendo. "Incluso los animales sin fe religiosa aprecian una actitud cálida". Además de alimentar la calidez de corazón, "la compasión es un factor clave para la paz mental", explicó el Dalai Lama.
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"Una mente compasiva y abierta permite tener menos miedo y más fuerza interior y confianza". En conversación con The Sopris Sun, Rose también reconoció que esas cualidades son esenciales para la enseñanza. "Los educadores deben ser conscientes de sí mismos y de los demás, para ser intencionales". Permanecer "regulado", dijo, navegando uniformemente en cada circunstancia para atender equitativamente las necesidades y el crecimiento de los estudiantes — esto también requiere compasión y realismo hacia uno mismo. "Si los profesores pueden 'cuidarse a sí mismos', eso marcará la diferencia para nuestros niños". Al ser cuestionada sobre la Iniciativa electoral 5B, Rose respondió: "No podemos ser buenos con los demás si no somos buenos con nosotros mismos".
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sE aNuNcia a Los NuEvos fiNaListas paRa EL caRgo DE aDmiNistRaDoR DE La muNicipaLiDaD y sE iNvita a La comuNiDaD a uNa sEguNDa REuNióN paRa saLuDaR y coNocER a Los caNDiDatos: La comunidad es invitada a asistir a una segunda reunión para saludar y conocer a tres nuevos postulantes finalistas para el cargo de administrador de la municipalidad el miércoles 17 de noviembre, de 6:00 a 8:00 p.m. en la sala conocida como Round Room en Third Street Center. Se servirán bebidas ligeras. La mesa directiva entrevistará a los nuevos finalistas entre el 17 y el 19 de noviembre. uNa NuEva maNERa DE ExpLoRaR EL pREsupuEsto sugERiDo paRa 2022: Nuevo este año: La Municipalidad de Carbondale ha creado un resumen gráfico ilustrativo del presupuesto sugerido para este 2022. Descargue una copia en carbondalegov.org chaRt caRBoNDaLE, actuaLizacióN compLEta DEL pLaN: Se ha añadido una nueva pregunta de discusión al sitio web del proyecto. Revisar el borrador de Recomendaciones Clave y descargar materiales de reunión de las Reuniones Públicas Virtuales celebradas los días 27 y 28 de octubre. Web: carbondalekaleidoscope.org/chart-carbondale
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actúE ahoRa paRa EvitaR EL coNgELamiENto DE tuBERías: Tomando en cuenta que las temperaturas continúan en constante descenso conforme se avecina el invierno, el Departamento de Servicios Públicos de la Municipalidad de Carbondale recomienda firmemente a todos los residentes que tomen medidas preventivas cuanto antes, para proteger las tuberías de agua del gélido clima. Sugerencias para evitar el congelamiento de sus tuberías: > Permita que el agua en sus lavabos corra, en un chorrito cuyo diámetro no exceda el grosor de un lápiz delgado > Aisle el calor en las líneas de drenaje de los entrepisos, semi-sótanos y sótanos fríos mediante sistemas de insulación; > Abra las puertas de los gabinetes en su cocina y baños, para permitir que el aire tibio circule alrededor de las tuberías; > Mantenga las puertas de su cochera cerradas si es que ésta cuenta con líneas de suministro de agua; > Durante los días de frío extremo, permita que su termostato se mantenga siempre a la misma temperatura, tanto durante el día como por la noche.
Día DE muERtos DuRaNtE fiRst fRiDay EL 5 DE NoviEmBRE: Las festividades incluyen la celebración de los artistas y miembros de la comunidad que ayudaron a crear nuestro último mural en 4th y Main St. Acompáñenos de 4 a 5 p.m. en un costado del edificio de Century Link para disfrutar bebidas calientes y dedicatorias. Una procesión por motivo del Día de Muertos, que incluirá marionetas estilo “La Catrina” a larga escala y el arte de Aspen Santa-Fe Ballet Folklorico, iniciará el recorrido en Third Street Center a las 5:30 y regresará a 4th y Main St. para cerrarlo, con presentaciones del Ballet Folklorico y artistas locales realizando ejecuciones con fuego. La calle Main St. estará temporalmente clausurada para vehículos motorizados de 5 a 9 p.m., desde Weant hasta 3rd St. Se servirán chocolate caliente estilo mexicano y otras golosinas. El evento es gratuito y todos son bienvenidos.
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All winners at Coventure pitch-fest
By James Steindler Contributing Editor
Coventure is a nonprofit based in Carbondale that provides coworking space for members, ranging from single day use to permanent desk space. But, according to Administrative Director Teresa Tenbrink, it’s much more than that. “We have a mission to empower and support local communities and businesses on the Western Slope,” she explained during the organization’s 2021 virtual pitch event. For the past four years, Coventure has put on an annual pitch event for up-and-coming businesses in the region. Presenting entrepreneurs are selected after applying to partake in the event to get exposure for their businesses. “This year, we wanted to showcase businesses that are tackling big issues during COVID, such as affordable housing and labor shortages,” said the pitch event’s host Diana Peiffer. Presenters could pitch for capital investment, strategic partnerships and “even employees,” Peiffer explained. Garfield County Commissioner Tom Jankovsky made an appearance. “We’ve worked really hard on economic development and Coventure has been an important part of that,” he said before wishing the six participants the best of luck. While there were three judges to ask questions of the six presenters, there
were no winners or losers, explained Coventure Executive Director Mike Lowe. “It’s not that kind of shark tank,” Lowe said. “The fact that they made it to the pitch event, that’s the victory, because most of these companies will get some kind of funding or resources to help move the needle." Read on for a brief description of each of this year’s presenters.
Spring Born The first presenter was co-founder and president of Spring Born, Charles Barr. “Spring Born is a fully-automated lettuce production facility in Silt,” explained Barr. It's an indoor agricultural facility that grows lettuce 365 days a year. The company operates on 255 acres of land that sees traditional ranching uses as well. “We see this greenhouse as an extension of traditional farming and we’re enhancing it with this new greenhouse automation.” Some of the benefits to growing indoors which Barr outlined are: 1) cleaner produce, 2) 90% less water use compared to outdoor lettuce grows and 3) freshness year-round. “Spring Born will produce 3000 pounds of lettuce every single day. Those 3000 pounds are for this market; they’re produced in this area, they’re consumed in this area and it makes for a very stable source of production for our retail partners.” More information about Spring Born can be found at: https:// springborn.us
Copper Key Tiny Homes
“I’m here because we believe that tiny homes will shift the housing paradigm and help us all with the housing crisis we’re facing today,” said Copper Key Tiny Homes co-founder Emily Hisel. “Our company is poised to build a first of its kind, pocket tiny home community featuring both tiny homes on foundations as well as land space for those who own a tiny home on wheels,” Hisel stated. “This will allow us to immediately build and rent to the local population while also attracting people from across the country who want a legal place to live in their tiny homes.” Hisel explained that they have already acquired 15 acres of land for the pilot project adjacent to the city of Rifle. There, they plan to include 184 rental units, a community building and a gazebo. The land is located in unincorporated Garfield County. More information about this start-up can be found at: https:// copperkeytinyhomes.com
NexWell This company endeavours to support individuals diagnosed with chronic diseases. “We spend $19 billion every year on wellness and preventive medicine, but patients need support every day which is too expensive oneon-one,” said founder Chris Beebe. “We see this as a massive issue and we’re building NexWell to fix it.”
The application platform is designed with three tiers: 1) a patient paced habit change program, 2) a health-oriented discovery feature “to help patients find the businesses and places that support them” and 3) an optional social community component to connect folks battling the same or similar diseases. More information can be found at: https://www.nexwellhealth.com
humans,” said co-founder Eric Amyot. The modules are like Legos and can be added upon as a family or business grows. “The modules include renewable energies such as wind and solar,” Amyot explained, “and sustainable solutions like water recapture. And they also grow their own food to feed their inhabitants.” More information can be found at: https://thrijv.com/
Jupiter and Co.
IronIQ Inc.
Heather Bryan is the first woman to design and develop an engraving system. “More importantly,” said Bryan, “I’ve created a franchise and business opportunity that can be duplicated easily as a home-basedbusiness.” This was also the only franchise highlighted during the pitch event. Bryan developed the company in part due to the pandemic, to enable folks to work from home. More information about Jupiter and Co. can be found online at: https:// jupiterengraving.com
Thrijv Thrijv is another company whose team is concerned with providing people with affordable housing, but with the potential to live off-grid. “Thrijv creates modular prefab offgrid and autonomous dwellings and infill solutions for self-reliant
Mike Ligrani created IronIQ Inc., a supervisory control and data acquisition (more commonly referred to by its acronym: SCADA) software company based out of Grand Junction. “SCADA is used in a lot of mission control industries, such as oil and gas, power quality, power distribution, water treatment, mining — and it’s starting to get a pretty big foothold in green energy and precision agriculture,” explained Ligrani. He stated that most SCADA software is becoming obsolete. “IronIQ has reinvented the way SCADA software is built. They’ve taken something that has been historically very complicated and now made it accessible to every company,” said pitch-host Peiffer. For more information about IronIQ Inc., visit: https://iron-iq.com
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RFSD discusses vaccines and more By Jeanne Souldern Sopris Sun Correspondent
The Roaring Fork School District (RFSD) Board of Education meeting on Oct. 27, held via Zoom, focused on the implications of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages five to 11. Also, the board discussed a bilingual communications plan for the district to address federal requirements to provide language access for families that are not primarily English-speaking. The meeting began with Superintendent Rob Stein presenting Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) guidance updates on COVID protocols. Stein said the district will continue to stay the course with a mask mandate, noting in RFSD "the incidence rates are about nine times higher than what would have been recommended as conditions for unmasking, so we're still not really in the safety zone, in Garfield County anyway, in terms of the level of COVID cases that are present in our community." However, quarantine incidences have dropped dramatically from a year ago. Stein shared that, so far this school year, RFSD has had a total of 12 quarantines, resulting in 35 students and two staff members quarantining. Last year, RFSD had an average of 131 students per day out of school due to quarantines. RFSD Chief of Student and Family Services, Anna Cole, said the district worked with local health partners this spring to set up vaccine clinics in the high schools and some middle schools. Cole said the CDPHE now
anticipates the rollout of COVID vaccines for children ages five to 11, early this month. Cole continued that the district would partner with Mountain Family Health Centers to facilitate on-site vaccination clinics at district elementary and middle schools and provide another round of offering vaccines at the high schools. As of yet, the FDA has not provided a schedule for the vaccine rollout but, Cole shared, "the minute we get that information from Mountain Family, we will kick into trying to make those vaccines as accessible as possible to families that would like to have that done at school." She said the on-site clinics would also offer vaccine boosters to school staff. The in-school vaccination services are provided at no cost to the district, similar to other health services like dental hygiene clinics and vision and hearing screenings, Cole said. "Ideally, we could get families access to two doses, so that kids could be fullyvaccinated going into the winter break,” she explained, “But it's all kind of a little bit of a timing game. It's a continuation of our commitment to equity and access to resources to let schools be a site for that." Cole announced that the state’s mobile vaccination bus is coming to the Roaring Fork Valley on Nov. 16 and 17. It will be located in the parking lot of the Basalt Middle School. COVID vaccines and booster shots will be available to the general public. Preregistration is encouraged, and limited walkup appointments are available. To make an appointment, visit: https://www.mobilevax. us/western-slope
Develop and begin implementation of a bilingual communication toolkit based on stakeholder feedback and best practices
Timeline
June 2021 - Now June/July: Toolkit drafted July 29: Initial feedback from leaders on best practices Aug. 11: 2021-22 Strategic Initiatives Approved Early August: Bilingual Communication Specialist position created Aug. 25: Board update on initial feedback from leaders October: Bilingual Communication Specialist hired; parent-teacher conferences interpretation pilot; remaining policies required to be translated by federal law sent to legal translation experts, feedback from family liaisons on Language Justice systems and implementation Now - June 2022 November-December: Final feedback from leaders and initial feedback from communication leads (what do you need in terms of capacity, training and resources to meet best practices); initial review from Language Justice consulting group December-January: Get feedback from families at Family Advisory Council and targeted one-on-ones; strategic planning from feedback gathered around capacity, training and resources January/February: Mid-year report on strategic initiatives, including board review of toolkit; allocation of needed resources for this work through budget process February/March: Final review and feedback from Language Justice consulting group March/April: Finalizing toolkit based on feedback and continuing of implementation
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An update on one of the district's ten strategic initiatives — bilingual communications — was presented by Yerania Moreno, hired in October as a bilingual communications specialist. The initiative began a couple of years ago, with the district developing and implementing a bilingual communication toolkit. The toolkit is based on stakeholder feedback gathered last year. Feedback will continue to be collected this year in order to establish best practices around language access and language justice. In October, the district launched a conference interpretation services pilot to facilitate last week's parentteacher conferences and offer additional interpretation services for teachers or staff who wish to conduct telephone calls to parents. Moreno also said the remaining district policies, which had yet to be translated into Spanish, were sent to legal translation experts for translation required by federal law. In addition, Moreno said, "We coordinated with our family liaisons and the Family Resource Center on best practices for implementing interpretation, and how to best use final feedback from the leaders at our schools." The details of the bilingual communications plan include soliciting feedback from families and staff to ensure that benchmarks are being met. At the beginning of 2022, Moreno explained, "we would develop a mini report on strategic initiatives, including having the board review our toolkit and the allocation of resources needed through the district's budget office to do this work."
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Vacuum cleaners for the land
By Will Sardinsky Sopris Sun Correspondent
Country Road 112 may have seen its most heavilytrafficked day yet. However, the traffic did not come from cars, but from goats. On a recent dewey fall morning, Lani Malmberg and her son, Donny Benz, co-owners of Goat Green LLC, ran 800 goats down the road to load them into trailers that were too big to access the Sutey Ranch Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property. “Some of the challenges are that we never have a set of corrals or load outs we regularly use, because we work in so many places. A lot of the time, we’ll run four to five miles down the highway to be able to get to a spot where we can get the trailers in,” said Benz. “What’s so important for us with the moving is that we don’t slaughter our animals, so they remember how to load into the trailers, load out and that there will be food at the next job. Our goats go back 26 generations, so they are just so well trained.” The goats were being loaded up to move to another BLM job at the edge of the Grizzly Creek burn. “We were at Sutey Ranch transforming an old cattle ranch back to native habitat for wildlife,” said Malmberg. “Now, in this area, we’re hoping to prevent wildfires like that and also prevent mudslides. Goats stand on their hind legs to eat, so they eat and clear from nine feet up to the ground of the fire-fuel ladder. In the process, they recycle the plant material through their guts,” Malmberg explained. “They can get in really tight areas because they’re smaller-bodied animals with narrow, triangular mouths. I call them ‘the vacuum cleaners’ for land.” Benz added. Malmberg continued, “Then they stabilize soils on top of the steep terrain with their hooves. Eight-hundred goats is 3,200 hooves, all compacting the soil.”
In order to move 800 goats from Sutey Ranch to another remote place, Lani Malmberg, Donny Benz and their team ran their goats down the road, set up temporary corrals, built impromptu chutes and shuttled multiple rounds of goats into double-decker trailers. "Everything I own has four legs or four wheels, said Malmberg. " We move to where the job is." Photos by Will Sardinsky.
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“Wild and Scenic” protection for Crystal River sought
By Andre Salvail Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
The local nonprofit Ecoflight is seeking a $30,000 grant from Pitkin County’s Healthy Rivers Fund to assist efforts aimed at getting federal protections for the Crystal River. The county’s Healthy Rivers Board on Sept. 13 heard one grant request for its fall funding cycle, and it came from Ecoflight, which is based in the Aspen Airport Business Center and uses small aircraft to assist projects related to various environmental initiatives. The rivers board is recommending approval of the request to the Pitkin Board of County Commissioners, which has the last word on the grant and is expected to take up the issue during a Tuesday work session. According to the funding application from Jane Pargiter, conservation director for Ecoflight, the money would be used for “aerial advocacy” to complete strategic oversight programs that will engage stakeholders and decision-makers involved in achieving a “Wild and Scenic” designation for the Crystal River from the federal National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. A designation through Congress “will protect the river’s natural, cultural and recreational values in a freeflowing condition for the benefit of the Roaring Fork watershed now and in the future,” the application states. The designation would
permanently protect the Crystal River from new dams or diversions, without impacting existing water rights, according to the application. It would keep water “in what is one of today’s last untamed, undammed natural rivers, thus ensuring ecological health, recreational opportunities and wildlife and riparian habitat,” the request says. As Colorado’s population continues to grow, “so do the demands for water and the threat of trans-basin diversions, which could be detrimental to the health of the Crystal River,” the application continues. Ecoflight’s mission is to educate and advocate for the protection of remaining wildlands and wildlife habitat using small aircraft. “Our Crystal River overflight programs will be an important strategic component in the local campaign to secure ‘Wild and Scenic’ protections for the Crystal River,” the request states. The application goes on to say that two steps must be completed for a river to be included in the system: eligibility and suitability. The U.S. Forest Service already has found the Crystal River to have “outstandingly remarkable values for its scenic, historic and recreational character,” making it eligible for protection under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the application says. “The next step, suitability, will take support for suitability documents and draft legislation for Congress to consider and act to designate the river for inclusion into the [system],” the
request adds. Colorado’s U.S. senators prefer to see strong local support at the town or county levels before they act to support issues such as the designation for the Crystal River. “Therefore, it is crucial to build a groundswell of support from local citizens and governments, and to communicate this support to Colorado’s leaders in Congress,” the application states. Ecoflight has a proven history of handling this type of work, according to the request. The nonprofit was a founding partner in the Thompson Divide Coalition, and with its many partners, it flew the Colorado governor, U.S. senators, and almost all county commissioners, mayors and city councilors of the Roaring Fork Valley to the Thompson Divide area to emphasize the need for its protection. “The net result is that Thompson Divide is mostly protected, and will hopefully with the passage of the CORE Act become fully protected,” the request says. “EcoFlight will do likewise with the Crystal River,” the application promises, conducting a series of overflights based out of regional airports with river and conservation advocates, as well as local elected officials from the Roaring Fork Valley and Crystal River Valley. “All parties will need to work together to successfully create lasting protections for the Crystal River. The aerial perspective provided on
A section of the Crystal River Valley is shown in this aerial photograph from 2019. Aspen Daily News file photo. overflights is a highly effective way to educate passengers about the Crystal River watershed and the importance of the proposed ‘Wild and Scenic’ designation,” the application says. “From the seat of a small, single-engine airplane, passengers will see firsthand the scenic beauty of the Crystal River watershed, and will gain a deeper understanding of the impacts that threats like new dams or diversions would impose on this vital waterway.” Bill Jochems, a member of the Healthy Rivers Board, provided comments for Pitkin County commissioners to consider when mulling a decision on the grant request. “I think all board members felt Ecoflight could be a good addition
to the Wild and Scenic Crystal Campaign,” he wrote. However, Jochems added that approval of the grant should be conditioned on periodic reporting to the Healthy Rivers Board of the activities for which the grant was sought. “Another point of general concern, at least with me, is that some of our grant recipients give little or no public acknowledgement of our assistance. I think this should be considered, although it would be difficult to define as a condition of a grant. Perhaps the best we can do is say that a failure to acknowledge us will be considered when they apply again,” he concluded.
thank you! together, we care for the places we care about. As one community under the leadership of Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers, 2021 was a stewardship success! The staff and board of RFOV would like to thank everyone who volunteered with us and supported our efforts this year. Here’s some of our accomplishments:
91 partners
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Shedding light on inter-generational trauma
By James Steindler Contributing Editor
"For Trees so Tall” is a recently published memoir written by Carbondale resident Jess Jacobson. It is her first published book. The story follows her life, as well as her family members’, and the shared experiences will resonate with people that have endured intergenerational trauma. Jacobson is a healer, practicing for over 20 years, having gone to school to study Asian Bodywork Therapy. She and her husband run her business, Sacred Soul Healing Arts, out of Basalt. In the book, her calling to heal others comes up at various points, sometimes in the most unlikely of scenarios. “I thought it would be a book about teaching others how to heal. After all, I have dedicated over 20 years to this endeavor in my personal practice,” said Jacobson, “but I found that when I sat down to write, my life story unfolded.” The book may be particularly interesting to those who live in the Colorado or Roaring Fork valleys; not merely for the reason that much of the narrative takes place in the area, but also because some of the struggles described are not unique to this one local family. “It has some great local history,” added Jacobson, “which people seem to enjoy.” Jacobson was raised between Aspen and Vail and born into a poor family that raised a fortune in the fur-coat industry. Some may recall the family’s retail locations in Vail or Aspen, but you’ll have to read the book to find out. "As the book reveals, my family moved to Aspen in 1976, hoping to change their fortune from desperately poor to anything
Author Jess Jacobson wrote For Trees So Tall, A Memoir Revealing the Nature of Connection, that others may follow her example and choose to walk a path of courage and light rather than suffering and selfsabotage. “Like the tall trees of the forest that have weathered countless storms,” she writes, “You too, can grow ever closer, to the light. Watch a book trailer at: http://dustineli.com/ promo/promo.mp4
but," Jacobson reflected. "My grandfather's idea of a family run fur store launched in Snowmass and grew to be the largest furrier west of the Mississippi River." From the time she was a young girl, Jacobson witnessed her mother succumb to substance abuse and the tumultuous domino
effect of life choices and events that resulted. From that bright young age, Jacobson found solace in nature. The importance of nature to Jacobson’s own path to healing comes up throughout the book. Therefore, she hopes “that the readers connect with a better understanding of our interconnectedness with nature, and what it can bring us — be that peace, healing, understanding or excitement and adventure.” She always cared for her family (including aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) and hoped that their differences and personal struggles wouldn’t get the best of them. At the same time, even at a young age, she longed to be free from the chaos that surrounded her upbringing. As soon as she could, Jacobson fled to a big city and indulged in her own life choices, some of which mimicked her mother’s. However, while she overcame these self-made obstacles, her mother continued to struggle with her own. Her mother’s situation culminated in a fatal event, a story that was sprawled all over the local papers in the early 2000s. While she intended to write the book to teach others, she ended up helping herself too, by unpacking her life circumstances, page after page. “I think the most important process of writing this book for me was the healing that took place,” said Jacobson, “I have spent a long time moving through my past trauma and have helped hundreds of people move through their own, yet there was clearly residue of my trauma still with me.” Jacobson is working on her next book “To Love Like a River: A Mother's Resistance to Deep Pain and Even Deeper Love,” which
Local author and healer Jess Jacobson. Courtesy Photo. will pick up where “For Trees so Tall” leaves off. “This book is deeply personal, because it moves through my relationship with my daughter who had just been born at the end of ‘For Trees so Tall’ but is now seventeen,” explained Jacobson. “To be raised in these mountains among the trees and creeks is a true gift, sure there were consequences, but to be able to feel so at home in these mountains,” the author sighed, “I can't think of anything better.” Visit https://fortreessotall.com to snag a digital copy for your Kindle, order a paper copy or download the audiobook.
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Recommended Reading: “The Beekeeper of Aleppo” By Jenn Cook Garfield County Libraries staff
It is hard to wrap my head around the hardships experienced by children and families around the world whose lives are in upheaval from war and unrest. Sometimes the reality is so brutal that it is easier to digest in fiction. “The Beekeeper of Aleppo” by Christy Lefteri tells the story of Nuri and his young family as they seek asylum from their war-torn homeland. Nuri’s family watches helplessly as civil war descends and disrupts their simple way of life, tending beehives and selling honey products in Syria. Their plans to flee are put on hold by a family crisis. Nuri and his wife Afra, frozen by tragedy and trauma, are unable to force themselves to seek safety. The violent opening paragraphs describing the savagery of war was certainly uncomfortable for me to read. When Nuri faces an ultimatum under threat of death, it is the trigger that finally sets them into motion. Because Afra is blind, Nuri describes their experiences in vivid sensory detail. We hear the buzzing bees and the crashing
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waves, we smell the spices and the flowers, we taste the different flavors of honey and the tea with milk. An interesting stream-ofconsciousness technique is used that submerses the reader in the narrator’s train of thought. In the middle of each chapter, a sentence is abruptly interrupted, the last word is left off, and that word becomes the first word of the next flashback section. Each chapter begins in a bed-andbreakfast in the UK — where a group of asylum seekers from different places is housed while they wait to be granted refugee status — and shifts to memories of the past and the journey to this place. As they travel through the refugee camps of Turkey and Greece, migrants from all over the Middle East and Northern Africa attempt to find normalcy in their current existence, despite the trauma experienced in their home countries and the dangers they continue to face on the journey. Children play games, mothers care for infants, and others find solace in drawing or playing musical instruments. In one exchange, Nuri speaks in Arabic to another man who
responds in Farsi, and they both laugh to discover that their common language is English. Along the way, Nuri interacts with a young boy named Mohammed who is traveling alone. Nuri takes him under his wing until they become separated, and much of the story revolves around unraveling where Mohammed came from, what happened to his parents and whether he is safe. Beekeeping is not a vocation that can thrive in chaos. “Where there are bees there are flowers, and where there are flowers there is new life and hope.” It is this thread of hope that keeps Nuri and Afra moving forward to seek a life of peace and order. This is a powerfully written book that helped me see a current crisis with a complex history through different eyes. I think it will help you see the world a little differently too. “Recommended Reading” is a new collaboration between The Sopris Sun and the Garfield County Public Libraries District, highlighting important literature available at local libraries.
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NEW ToWN MaNagEr fiNaliSTS, SECoNd MEET & grEET aNNouNCEd:
The community is invited to attend a second Meet & Greet with three new town manager candidate finalists on Wednesday, November 17, from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in the Round Room at the Third Street Center. Light refreshments will be provided. Town Board interviews with the new finalists will be held November 17 – 19.
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New this year: The Town of Carbondale created an illustrative graphical summary of the proposed 2022 Budget. Download a copy at carbondalegov.org
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New survey added to the project website. Review draft Key Recommendations and download meeting materials from the Virtual Public Meetings held on October 27 and 28. Website: carbondalekaleidoscope.org/chart-carbondale
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With temperatures going down steadily as winter approaches, the Town of Carbondale Utilities Department strongly urges residents to take preventative measures now to safeguard water pipes from freezing weather. Tips for Avoiding Frozen Pipes > Leave water running from the faucet in a stream no wider than a thin pencil (call the Utilities office for billing adjustments to be made) > Insulate and heat drain lines in crawl spaces and cold basements where appropriate > Open kitchen and bathroom cabinet doors to allow warmer air to circulate air around pipes > Keep garage doors closed if there are water supply lines in the garage > Set the thermostat to the same temperature both day and night during extreme cold
firST friday | NovEMbEr 5Th | dia dE loS MuErToS: Events include a celebration of the artists and community who helped create the mural at 4th and Main. Join us from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. on the side of the Century Link building for dedications and warm beverages. A Dia De Los Muertos procession, featuring large-scale catrina puppets and the artistry of Aspen Santa-Fe Ballet Folklorico, begins at the Third Street Center at 5:30 p.m. and ends at 4th and Main with performances by Ballet Folklorico and local fire performers. Main Street will be closed to traffic from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. from Weant to 3rd Street. Mexican hot chocolate and other goodies will be served. Attendance is free and everyone is welcome.
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Cherishing the Golden Years
OPINION
Mature Content by Larry Bogatz
This month’s columnist writes about what it’s like being old in Carbondale. He’s luckier than most, he tells us, because he has means that translate into options. Still, the choices can be heart-wrenching. After reading his story, imagine yourself in a similar situation (unless you are already there). Will you or your loved ones be lucky enough to have choices? – Ron Kokish, Carbondale AgeFriendly Community Initiative
When we moved to Carbondale in 2016 to be near my wife Sheryl’s best friend and Sheryl’s sister,
LETTERS
we were hoping for support that even our close Los Angeles friends couldn't provide. Although initially misdiagnosed, Sheryl’s disease was eventually correctly identified as early-onset Alzheimer’s. Despite not being the news we wanted to hear, it did help us know more about what we were facing. Curative treatment doesn’t exist. What we were about to confront were profound loss and the indescribable sadness it comes with. No amount of support would save us from that. Sheryl has been residing in a local nursing home for nearly two years. She no longer recognizes me or anyone else. Additionally, because of my own current health issues, I’m no longer able to physically participate in most of the outdoor activities I love and for which our area is famous. Hopefully that will improve with an upcoming surgery, but how much, how soon and for how long? I have a housemate who occupies the second floor of my home. It’s a friendly relationship. We typically see one another at some point during the day to decide on dinner, which she prepares. After that, we usually watch television for a while
to end the evening. I have many friends, but pretty much live alone. This is not what I planned. It’s how things turned out. At 83, I don’t make long-term plans, but I’m fortunate to have options. I can stay where I am. I inhabit a big, lovely home in a friendly neighborhood and have a great view of Sopris. I’m not too far from shopping and services and, when able, can drive or walk to them. At some point, I may need caregivers. I could move to a smaller home which has a mainfloor bedroom and is closer to the town’s core. However, the thought of moving is daunting at my age, especially knowing that it would likely be for a limited time and that I’d probably still need caregivers. A more logical choice would be to move to one of the local retirement communities, but I have important relationships with two dogs who also get a vote, and they are not ready for me to move without them. I could also relocate to Las Vegas to live with my son or in one of its many retirement communities. As I said, I’m fortunate to have options, but with choices come responsibilities and gnawing
doubts. I’m not the only person who will be affected by the choices I make. My son has a home, a wife, four children, two dogs, a cat, a business and friends in Las Vegas. They are a wonderful family: kind, sensitive, fun and practical. My wellbeing is very important to them, but what would it be like to have day-to-day responsibility for me? How much care will I eventually need? Will I live long enough to eventually stop recognizing them while still needing them? There is the obvious issue of cost, largely a function of how much longer I live. There are so many unknowns, only some of which I have a measure of control over (at least I think I do). I love living in the Colorado mountains and don’t for a minute regret having made the move. I know that it’s unrealistic to make inflexible plans, but I want my limited future to be as good as possible. How do I best accomplish that? Carbondale is not an easy place in which to be old: transportation is limited; there’s no senior center; where sidewalks exist, they often need lighting and/ or repair; it’s an expensive town and appropriate, affordable housing
is hard to find; although medical services are adequate, especially for a town this size, specialized cares is often lacking. Some services for older adults do exist. Valley Meals and More offers wonderful services, from which I already benefit, but they depend on grant funding, which may or may not continue. Senior Matters and The Carbondale Age-Friendly Community Initiative are working with AARP to implement best practices in Carbondale. Our town’s elected and appointed leadership have been supportive of these efforts, but most of what the Town is working toward is years rather than months in the future. Unfortunately, Garfield County’s services for the older population are minimal compared with neighboring Eagle and Pitkin counties. For many, there is reason to be optimistic. But me, I’m working against the clock. Here’s hoping the “Spirit of Life” is on my side. Mature Content is a monthly feature from the Carbondale AARP Age-Friendly Community Initiative (CAFCI)
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Affordable housing so the people who work in Aspen can live closer to that city is a must. If we’re going to welcome these folks to our fair town, we must encourage them to take public transportation to work and leave their cars at home. A gas tax would help with that. We absolutely don’t need any more singlefamily homes, condos, or town houses. I’m anxious to see what Cushing Terrell, the consulting firm that’s helping with the update, comes up with. Here’s hoping they’ll lead us in a direction of controlled growth. Fred Malo Jr. Carbondale
RFHS mountain bike team The RFHS mountain bike team would like to give a shoutout to all of our sponsors that supported us this season. Thank you to Alpine Bank, Reese Henry and Company, FirstBank, Revel Bikes, Why Cycles, Basalt Bike and Ski, Stepping Stones and Roaring Fork Cycling. With your support, 14 studentathletes were able to ride and race throughout the state and 7 of our riders qualified for the Colorado High School Cycling League state championships in Durango. During the season our team covered hundreds of miles at practices on local trails, helped build new trails for everyone to enjoy, and worked to develop an inclusive high school mountain bike program that will provide opportunities for young cyclists in our community for years to come. We are so proud of every rider on our team and are looking forward to next season and continuing to build a team focused on camaraderie, individual growth and empowering experiences for our athletes. During the off-season, we are hoping to recruit new riders and coaches to join the team. If you are interested in learning more about
the RFHS mountain bike team contact coach Kyle at 720-2077646. Thanks again to everyone that has supported us. We can't wait to see you out on the trails again next year. GO RAMS! Coach Kyle Crawley Coach Parker Lehman
Meals and more Like many of you in our close community, I have become a caregiver as the daughter to an amazing 81-year-old woman. Dementia finally became clear to me when she asked whether she usually comes over for Christmas, a highlight holiday we’ve shared as a family for the past 20 years since she moved to Carbondale’s Crystal Meadows. I cried. I still cry. As much as I love and am close to my mom, I didn’t sign up to be a caregiver. But I did sign her up for Valley Meals. Obviously this program is about feeding our seniors, but it is so much more than that. We brought mom dinners and were in touch daily, but there’s nothing like a hot meal delivered come rain, snow or shine by a cheerful volunteer. The volunteers maintain a smile on their faces, a friendly greeting and a purpose, making sure she is alive and well. It is an act of humanity, of human kindness. It gave me more than comfort. It gave me daily support in my new and increasingly demanding role of caring for my mom. Having these meals gives her a sense of independence. It also gives us a bit of a breather of responsibility. We know she has good meals that she likes which are delivered with regularity and superb quality. I’m saddened that Valley Meals is coming to an end this December, UNLESS we as a community find a way to support this service. It is so unique and efficient that the president of City
Market came to the Carbondale store with a production crew to film the staff preparing the Thursday meals. When I hear stories of people across the nation standing in growing food lines. I'm grateful that our family isn't in that position and that my mother isn't in those lines. We can't thank Mary Kenyon and Valley Meals enough for this program and hope that perhaps others may be in a position to help continue what has become a part of the fabric of taking care of each other in these unbelievably challenging times. I hope my story is compelling enough that we, as a community, take action. Take a look at the website to learn more: https:// valleymealsandmore.com Maybe you have leads, including local concerned citizens, private funders and grant sources. If so, please contact Mary directly at mary@valleymealsandmore.com Lastly, call or write an email to your county commissioner letting him know how important Valley Meals is to our community. His email is: tjankovsky@garfield-county.com Our family is so grateful for this service. I know we are not alone, and join many families, near and far, in our appreciation for Valley Meals and More. Carrie Haberern Carbondale
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“I do my shopping at the Dumpsters of Satank” Compiled by Will Grandbois From the archives of The Valley Journal and The Sopris Sun
Nov. 8, 2001 Carbondale voters shot down a proposed four-mill property tax to fund affordable housing, 574 to 223. They also shut out a 2.5-mill tax to support a new open space, parks and recreation district. Basalt, for its part, was feeling more magnanimous, with voters backing both a bond and a mill levy increase to buy open space and establish riverfront parks throughout town. Meanwhile, the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce was looking at ways to drum up more visitors in hopes of staving off an economic slump. In other news… Carbondale was looking at the possibility of becoming a home-rule municipality, offering more flexibility than a statutory town.
Nov. 25, 1981 The USDA Forest Service was considering allowing gas exploration in two parcels of the Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness Area — one at the base of Sopris and one near Placita Creek — as well as some in the West Elks, Raggeds and Flat Tops. Public pressure, however, inspired Interior Secretary James Watt to impose a moratorium on leases in wilderness areas through June 1982. That left oil and gas companies with a narrow window to exploit a loophole in the Wilderness Act which placed a 1983 deadline for lease applications. Outside of the most protected areas, meanwhile, an official estimated that 90% of White River National Forest land west of Eagle was already leased. In other news… Tom Clark, the 18-year-old son of Carbondalians Dave and Rosemary Clark, was named “best all around rider” by the Bicycle Racing Association of Colorado junior division.
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Nov. 7, 1991 The Valley Journal decided to take a leaf out of “Car and Driver” and review some of the top new models of cars at local dealerships. Pat Noel took a spin in a ‘92 Toyota Camry with Bighorn salesman Marc Grandbois and praised the Ford Aerostar as “a full-size van combined with the handling and driving ease of a mini.” Donna Daniels compared the Audi 100 to “slipping into the cockpit of a private jet” and was impressed by the Suzuki Sidekick’s AM/FM stereo, fuel injection and remote mirrors and locks — in a 4x4, no less! But Cate Hollerbach really stole the show with her take on “Dodgezilla” — a 30 mpg 5.9-liter turbodiesel Ram with a $21,000 price tag. “Some women like their vehicles like they like their men: easy to handle, comfortable to drive, hot to look at and fun to talk about with friends,” she wrote. Others went for family-friendly, or sleek and sporty. “Me, I like the hard-working type.” In other news… Movieland opened its doors with a showing of “The Addams Family” — and proceeds benefiting local schools.
Long before Roaring Fork High School became a soccer powerhouse, it shared a team with Basalt. The 1991 RamHorns battled hard, but finished their season without a win. Decades of determination later, the 2021 Ram soccer boys are headed back to state champsionships! Valley Journal file photos.
The Village at Crystal River — a proposed planned unit development on 24 acres northwest of the Highway 133 / Main Street roundabout — was headed to a referendum. The plan called for 125,000 square feet of retail space, up to 164 residential units, a gas station, bank and fast food restaurant, with the possible addition of a hotel, medical facility, school or light manufacturing. More than 50 people came out for a four-hour public hearing, representing a healthy mix of pros and cons. Brad Hendricks called it worse than the Crystal River Marketplace proposal that had been shot down a decade earlier on the same property. “I do most of my shopping at the Dumpsters of Satank,” he asserted. Dave Weimer, however, felt that “Carbondale needs an economic development plan … mom and pop stores don’t generate enough money to pay the bills.” (Trustees decided to leave it to the voters, who ended up shooting it down 1,245 to 667. The last decade has in fact seen the development of retail space — including the new City Market — residential units and a bank on the property, but in a more piecemeal fashion, and without the public improvement fee.) In other news… A special musical memorial was held for local icon T. Ray Becker at the Pour House.
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LEGALS ORDINANCE NO. 8; Series of 2021, AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADO AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE 7 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE REGARDING PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION CODE REVISIONS NOTICE: This Ordinance was introduced, read, and adopted at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Carbondale, Colorado, on October 26, 2021. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after publication of this notice. The full text of said Ordinance is available to the public at www. carbondalegov.org or at the office of the Town Clerk, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, Colorado, during normal business hours. The Town Of Carbondale, By: s/s Dan Richardson, Mayor. Attest: s/s Cathy Derby, Town Clerk. NOTICE: PURSUANT TO THE LIQUOR LAWS OF COLORADO Curated Provisions, INC., dba Plosky’s, 1201 Main Street, Carbondale, Co 81623 has requested the liquor licensing officials of Carbondale to grant a new a liquor license to sell malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors for consumption on the premise at 1201 Main Street, Carbondale, Co 81623. Hearing on
application to be held at: Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, Colorado And via Zoom. Date And Time: December 14, 2021 At 6:00 p.m.; Date Of Application: November 2, 2021; By Order Of: Dan Richardson, Mayor; Applicant: David Eisenson. Information may be obtained from, and petitions or remonstrance’s may be filed with the Town Clerk. Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, CO, 81623 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held before the Carbondale Board of Trustees for the purpose of considering a Final Plat to divide an established lot into two separate lots. The property is located at Section: 34, Township:7, Range: 88, Subdivision: Colorado Meadows, Block: 3, Lot 10 The address is 520 Mesa Verde Avenue. The applicant is Ryan Lee with Forum Phi. The Owners are Damon Roth and Danyielle Bryon. Said Public Hearing will be held at 6:00 p.m. on November 23, 2021 in person at Town Hall located at 511 Colorado Avenue and via Zoom and You Tube via the instructions below. You may watch a live streaming of the meeting on You Tube. Search Town of Carbondale November 23, 2021, meeting. Please be aware that you will
experience a 15-30 second delay. If you would like to submit comments regarding this application, email your comments or letter to msikes@carbondaleco.net by 4:00 pm on November 23, 2021. This email or letter will be entered into the record. If you would like to comment during the meeting, email jleybourne@carbondaleco.net with your full name and address by 4:00 pm on November 23, 2021. You will receive instructions on joining the meeting online via Zoom prior to 6:00 p.m. Also, you may contact jleybourne@carbondaleco. net to get a phone number to listen to the meeting, however, you will be unable to make comments. Wifi will be available in the lobby of Town Hall and a phone will also be available in the lobby for the public to listen to the meeting. Please email John Leybourne at jleybourne@ carbondaleco.net or call 970/510-1212 by 4:00 p.m. the date of the public hearing if special accommodations are necessary to participate in the meeting. Copies of the proposed application are available on the Town's website at www.carbondalegov.org. Please contact msikes@carbondaleco.net if you are unable to view the application on the Town's website and would like to request an alternate method of review. John Leybourne, Planner
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By Chromostome Across 1. Edible cactus sometimes seen in our grocery stores. (2 words) 6. Trout eggs. 7. Weave strands of leather together. 9. ___ Rippy owned Rippy Construction Company. 10. Strap to put your foot in when riding a horse. 14. One of Colorado's all-time classic ridge traverses. Located on La Plata Peak. (2 words) 17. Care center in Carbondale. (2 words) 19. Strata at Tie Gulch.
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Down 2. ___ Llewelyn prospected in Coal Basin in the 1950s. 3. A graduate of Roaring Fork High School, he started PECO Equipment of Carbondale and later an excavating company. (2 words) 4. ___ Hill. Laced with trails. 5. ___ conservation, a concern on Grizzly Creek. 6. Regret. 8. Strap for tightening the saddle. 11. Weekly event at Gus Darien Arena. 12. Street one block north of Main in Aspen. 13. Dining outside. 15. Eskimo. 16. Real estate company in Rifle. 18. Munches on grass on Catherine Store Road.
PARTING SHOTS
Bonedale Ballet, directed by Alexandra and Anthony Jerkunica, performed Michael Jackson's "Thriller" dance with 28 performers of all ages on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 30. As an added bonus, the all-ages troupe danced to the 1964 hit, "Monster Mash.” The performance was enthusiastically attended by their largest audience ever, according to Alexandra, with roughly 50 spectators. Photo by Sue Rollyson.
The winner of the Pumpkin Fairy pumpkin count contest is Ryan Newberry! Shown here with his 5 month old daughter, Gentry Joy, Newberry counted 157 pumpkins along Frying Pan Road and won a gift certificate for a fresh pumpkin pie from Heather’s Savory Pies and Tapas. Photo by Ylice Golden.
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“Doing it the Hard Way”
Reverand Aaron Norris offers a reflection on the power and difficulty of nonviolent resistance to injustice. A method of change which is universally praised and rarely well-practiced, Unitarian Universalism has a deep connection to non-violence. We will ask the question, why and how do we go about doing things the hard way. Rev. Norris will be live and in-person at the Third Street Center and on Zoom.
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Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. Third Street Center, Community Room Susan Proctor Worship Aassociate
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