Wick Moses

Jan. 22, 1947 - Feb. 23, 2023

It is with heavy hearts that the community bids adieu to Wick Moses, a fun-loving man who played a great role in the shaping of Carbondale’s culture.

Wick came to the Roaring Fork Valley in 1963 as a student at Colorado Rocky Mountain School (CRMS). He came by train from Springfield, Massachusetts, with a head full of dreams, an electric guitar and amp and a Sony transistor AM radio. After graduating in 1966, Wick studied history at the University of Denver, got immersed in the hippie scene and discovered a love of FM radio and stereo sound systems.

“I am still wearing the CRMS school uniform — jeans, and a flannel shirt,” he joked during an interview with The Sopris Sun last year. “The summer of ‘67 was the last summer I spent back east and I never went back.”

He returned to CRMS to teach in 1970 and later opened a record store on Main Street which expanded to Aspen before closing in 1980. Wick and Pat Noel were the dual managers of KDNK when it first came on the air in April 1983. He later served on the station’s board of directors and was an avid supporter (leveling honest criticisms at times) for the past four decades.

Wick also performed at the very first Mountain Fair (Chautauqua) and was part of the fair’s early leadership and sound direction. “The thing about Mountain Fair was that it carried on that whole idea of a group of volunteers coming together to create something. That really was a big driving force in the town,” Moses told The Sopris Sun.

After Wick followed “love and money” back to Denver in 1988 and returned to the Valley in 1992, KDNK had moved its transmitter to Sunlight Peak and now had valley-wide coverage. In the ensuing years, he hosted a jazz show, sold underwriting and did production work and engineering for the station until his retirement in 2012.

As well as an audiophile, Wick was a motorcycle enthusiast and traveled the American West. He watched Carbondale grow and change along with new technologies and expressed gladness in 2022 at seeing young people continue to come to the area and be involved in creating community.

“One of the things I think about during the whole time I have been involved with Carbondale is that there was this incredibly fascinating cast of characters that came here. The place attracted some really unusual and unique people. For the most part, they were really good people.”

Editor’s note: Wick’s beloved cat, Jazzy, has been adopted into a new home.

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By Melissa Sidelinger

When I first met you, love, It was like being reacquainted

With a very dear friend

As if in another lifetime

We had promised to find each other

Here in this one

Before I met you

I was afraid to grow old

I wished for life to be fleeting

To burn bright like a falling star

But now, I know I would miss you

I'd rather grow old together

I want years to memorize

The shape of your hands

The blue of your eyes

The smell of your hair

The curves of your body

Your limbs tangled around mine

I cried on your shoulder this morning

Overwhelmed with life

I told you I was scared of many things

You kissed me and held me in your arms

And said, maybe many of the things I fear

I don't really need to be afraid of

Maybe you are right, love, I found home in your arms

When I wake beside you in the morning

When I am tucked safe in your embrace

And you kiss me and stroke my hair

It makes the world outside less frightening

Time and again

JM Jesse Glenwood Springs

Dusk is a sneak thief Slowly makes off with the light Ransoms it to dawn

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Diamonds on the hillside

Throng by the thousands

Diamonds on the Hillside

By Linda Helmich Feb.

The air is crisp, cold, strong

Glancing early morning sun

Soon will have her way

The sparkles then will disappear

Their mounds will melt away

Like fallen ice cream cones

On a summer day

The birds who now must scrounge for food Will be singing with delight

As the food they most desire Comes back into sight

We too will be rejoicing To be spending time outside Instead of reading by the fire

Writing words that rhyme

Basalt Report continued from page 7 stated that the initial marijuana codes were penned in 2014 when licensing was first introduced. The code would change primarily in four areas — the first being regular language cleanup. The second eases the renewal process: while liquor licenses are automatically renewed every year, marijuana licenses come to Town Council yearly for a public hearing in order to be renewed, which was deemed excessive. The third change amended a previous provision requiring at least one license holder to be local, which may come too close for comfort against the dormant commerce clause (which prohibits protectionist lawmaking). Instead, the new code would call for license owners to use a local manager to provide information to the Town. The fourth change added Triangle Park to the list of areas with spacing requirements.

The liquor code was cleaned of outdated references, and updated to contain a new class of festival liquor license authorized last year by the state. Originally, beer and liquor festivals had to be licensed as special events, for which only nonprofit businesses were eligible. Theoretically, a for-profit business could go through the state for a license in Basalt, but the amendment to the code allows for more local control of licensing. Second public hearings on March 14 were unanimously set for both the marijuana and liquor ordinances.

The final order of business was an executive session for Town Manager Review, and with that the meeting was adjourned.

Francisco also received a copy of the 2021 Powers report. continued from page 5

“The mediator will go back and forth between [the rooms] and attempt to find common ground when it comes to the terms of a settlement agreement,” said Fairhurst. “He has the ability to recommend that the sides do certain things but he doesn’t have the power to require anything.” It’s ultimately up to both sides to agree on a resolution.

Fairhurst did not discuss what a settlement might look like but stated, “We want to see [the police] take accountability for the serious harm that they've inflicted on Mr. Francisco by subjecting him to the blatant racism that they did.” He added that Francisco is prepared to litigate if mediation is not successful.

According to Town records, the 2021 Powers report also contains “administrative investigation information involving [the Carbondale Police Department] that could be contrary to the public interest if disclosed.” It is likely, since both Hamilton and Ziporin received copies of the report in 2021, that they knew about this information before agreeing to the mediation. Hamilton declined comment due to attorney-client privilege. Jay Harrington and Chief Wilson also chose not to answer any questions.

LETTERS continued from page 2 had it at least one staffer didn’t like the segment, or Jake and Jane’s “Sing along with the Beatles.”)

So, email me your stuff and I’ll try to use whatever fits.

Please note: It looks like my email address (kdnk4lynn@gmail.com) works with lowercase kdnk or uppercase KDNK.

Thanks in advance.

Lynn “Jake” Burton, Carbondale/Glenwood Springs

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CRMS IS HIRING:

Lunch Cook

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The second annual Puzzle and Pie Night took place at the Carbondale Community Center on Feb. 26, 2023.

Sponsored by ANB Bank, first place finisher, Fong Tour 2023 (bottom right), beat last year’s winner, The Best Team Ever, by a mere nine seconds and three puzzle pieces! This year, the entrant pool more than doubled with 53 teams participating. Thanks to Uncle Pizza and Portrait Puzzles for their donations.

Photos by Paula Mayer

Legal

Notice Of Cancellation And Certified Statement Of Results

§1-13.5-513(6), 32-1-104, 1-11-103(3) C.R.S.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District, Garfield, Gunnison, and Pitkin Counties, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 2, 2023 is hereby canceled pursuant to section 1-13.5513(6) C.R.S.

The following candidates are hereby declared elected:

Gene Schilling 4 year term until May, 2027

Sydney Schalit 4 year term until May, 2027