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Volume 14, Number 10| Apr. 14 - Apr. 20, 2022

Local artist's show at the Launchpad

By Ken Pletcher Sopris Sun Correspondent

It took a while for The Sopris Sun to get an interview with longtime Carbondale artist John Toly — roughly three years. Polite requests would be gently rebuffed by the quiet, humble 83-yearold. But then he lined up a solo art exhibition at the Launchpad in Carbondale that opens Friday, April 15.

There was a near-miss two years ago, in the spring of 2020, but his show scheduled then was canceled because of COVID. Toly did an interview with The Sun, in 2011, when he was commissioned (there was no contest that year) to design a poster for the 40th Mountain Fair. It was his second; he had already created one for the fair in the late ‘70s.

The artist as a young(er) man We sat in his delightful Sopris Avenue home, surrounded by his artwork and large exotic plants, on a bright sunny afternoon in March, with the artist’s sweet dog, Maggie, curled up at his feet. He began to tell his story.

Toly grew up in Rock Springs, WY, where he had painted with watercolors “because that was the easiest thing [to do].”

He enrolled in the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles (now in Pasadena), “Where I majored in industrial design, specializing in automotive styling.”

He completed the four-year program in three years and, after a two-year stint in the army, went to work for Chrysler in Detroit. That lasted about a year “because my styles of drawing didn’t fit what they were doing,” he explained. He spent a couple more years in the city designing kitchen appliances.

When Detroit erupted in riots in the summer of 1967, Toly had had enough. He decided to try his luck in Denver but was finding no design work. He went to visit his family in Wyoming.

Deciding to take “a scenic route” on the way back to Denver, he stopped for the night in the growing town of Vail. A chance bar encounter there with “this grizzly old guy” turned into a construction job. “I got a place to live and then I stayed that summer. And then, I stayed that winter and learned to ski,” he recalled.

Toly also began to paint watercolor landscapes. He had taken some college elective classes in watercolor painting that “involved landscape painting” and “taught you to use real professional materials,” but he had never thought of it as his calling. He thought he’d stay until the end of winter, “then get back into my profession.”

Instead, he stayed a couple more years in Vail. “I was doing construction in the summer and ski rental in the winter and watercolors of landscapes on the weekends and in between [seasons].” And he was selling his art. “There was a gallery there, and … they sold [the paintings] right away,” he recalled.

“Everything I brought in they’d sell.”

Construction work waned in Vail, but there were employment opportunities in Aspen. Toly found a maintenance job at a building by what is now the Gondola Plaza and lived in a little A-frame (long gone) across the street. He worked half a day and skied half a day, smiling, “It was perfect; a great time for me.”

Toly had also found what he wanted to do. “You know,” he said, “I never worried about [not working in industrial design], I just went with it. I just sort of knew that I would [make painting work].” He added, “I had three or four one-man shows [at Aspen’s Gargoyle Gallery] about a year apart. They were all sellouts.”

Move to Carbondale In the summer of 1974, Toly moved into a cabin in Crystal City near Marble. He stayed there for several months, painting the watercolors that comprised his final show at the Gargoyle, but by autumn he was ready to leave.

An acquaintance in Crystal helped him get in touch with Wally continued on page 7 John Toly at his home-studio in Carbondale.

Photo by Sue Rollyson

OPINION Living the enlivening of spring

Branching Out

By Geneviève Joëlle Villamizar

I almost drove off the road when I caught sight of the wild Merriam’s turkeys — two or three toms were in full display mating mode. How could you miss them? Sunlit, the ivory and cream bands of their tail fans were incandescent, their regal sway reminiscent of an elk’s antlers or a Plains chief war bonnet. Doubled in size, sheaves of feathers puffed and bristled as they strutted about — dragon scale armor in the battle for sex. Even at a distracted 68 mph, spring fever flushed at their virile display.

As a tweener moving into puberty, that fever was unbearable: an unquenchable hunger. A switch flipped with the melting of snow, the rising of sap (did you feel it too?). Winter’s heavy or knit browns and olives gave way to bright and poppy, a match to the energy sizzling inside me. The kiss of balmier air, warmer, more golden sunlight was an invitation to bare the skin.

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afternoons for more golden skin, the contrast of white between brown toes and fingers measured days of lazy pleasures. Laced through it all? That maddening, unrequited yearning.

As a kid, I didn’t quite get it, but walk any college campus in April and you can see it, writ large. “Twitterpation,” Thumper explains to Bambi as the forest creatures get all goofy and pair up.

Mainstream culture markets spring fever, too, selling arousal and attraction.

What a miss, “packaging” such a powerful human experience as something to buy — the Spring 2022 line; another this, one more that.

There’s so much more packaged in the surge of emotions and sensations that rise with the fall of winter. This disconnect as our hemisphere on Earth enlivens misses the sheer profundity of being Homo sapiens.

Spring is transformation; our transformation in relationship to the living world around us.

By nature, the Homo sapiens organism is sensuous. Our physiological body relates to the reality around us through our senses — interconnected, interdependent with species, flora, fauna, environment, weather, climate, energy. On and on. Our skin feels warmer air, eyes see longer days and perceive “spring.” We respond, getting all twitterpated.

Fields development I have seen travel on Highway 82 degrade from a comfortable drive between Glenwood Springs and Aspen to constant traffic in all lanes at all hours of the day and night. Developers who do not live here, and perhaps some who do, are apparently also ignoring the fact there is limited vehicular access in and out of the Roaring Fork Valley, which is a vital concern when wildfires or other emergencies occur. And unless governmental bodies in Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin County have the knowledge and financial means to move mountains, how, and why, do you propose to continue to cram in more vehicular traffic that has a limited way to travel in and out and up and down of the Roaring Fork valley?

I have seen that developers who do not live here, as well as some that do, apparently ignore the fact there is only a finite amount of water available in our high desert region, which later — or more likely sooner — will not be able to support an infinite increase in human population, as well as be able to maintain traditional valley agricultural uses.

I have begun to wonder why the elected representatives of our municipal and county governmental bodies are not looking at the long-term effects of development on water and traffic, let alone the increased demand on public services such as police, fire/rescue and schools.

I hope you will seriously consider how

Osprey in Latin America sense change through eyes, ears, skin, too. They fly north when the reality of Nature downshifts.

Though mated for life, they winter apart, and one of them has returned to Nuche Park.

Today, perched on a side branch, its silhouette to the south of their nest, is an affirming sight to me — and perhaps twitterpating to their mate, leading, hopefully, to a new clutch of eggs.

The H. sapiens organism relates to Nature at a sensual level, too — sense stimulation birthing emotion: the elation, joy, pleasure or hunger we experience this time of year. A skein of geese threading in a V across the skies of February and March, made me long for spring. The changing winter light on their bodies, the buoyant lift in their wings, the familiar honk of camaraderie filled my ears, my eyes.

Pleasure filled me, too: spring!

Andreas Weber, a European marine biologist and philosopher I admire, writes that “The living world, its vibrant matter and radiant energy, is a poetic space where living beings express their experience of being alive.”

While the idea of a frothy new skirt on my golden skin attracting

"My spring fever is now more often satiated through connection with the natural world."

the decisions you make today will affect the future of the people — and the wildlife — who live in our beautiful Roaring Fork Valley.

Sylvia Wendrow, Carbondale

Our Place “Our Place,” an exhibition and sale of over 35 paintings by watercolorist John Toly, opens at The Launchpad (76 South Fourth Street) this Friday night, April 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. with a “meet the artist” reception.

John grew up in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, majoring in automotive and industrial design. After being drafted into the Army after art school, he worked as an auto designer/stylist for Chrysler Corporation in Detroit.

Toly’s return to the West brought him to Vail, where he first learned to ski. The next season’s move with friends to Aspen was pivotal in his development as a fine artist, as the well-known Gargoyle Gallery began to create a market and group of loyal collectors for John’s watercolors.

Toly defines his work as an atmospheric combination of mood, beauty and harmony, with a bit of mystery thrown in to create a sense of time and place. Because of John’s long love of Carbondale and this area, he has chosen the very appropriate name “Our Place” for his show. Each of his paintings deserves an isolated view and appreciation of its content. His control of the very difficult medium of watercolor

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the golden boys of summer amid the golden hour is fun, my spring fever is now more often satiated through connection with the natural world. In vibing with mating species, swelling buds and flowing sap, I meet the appetite and life coursing within me.

I experience commitment in twin silhouettes of the osprey.

Magic is made real in the tassels glistening in the aspens right now. And when the gambel oaks burst into leaf, why, there is nothing like that delicate, bright new green to touch the delicate spaces and hope within my own nature. Pursuing these feelings and feeding the urges pulls me from my desks, from my screens.

As with the creatures around me, Nature in the spring lures me from my den — to work, to forage, to play — to feel genuinely connected to all that lives and exists in this grand vastness.

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is unsurpassed and our close friendship of over 40 years has allowed us to collect several of his paintings, paintings which we continue to “notice” and cherish every day. His style, variety, palette, control and choice of subject matter enhance our lives and add beauty and harmony to our home.

John has included appealing paintings of many sizes and prices for this show, which should allow access to his work from a wide range of budgets. And fine art works, chosen well, increase in value and enhance the lives of viewers through generations.

John Toly’s paintings will be on display at The Launchpad from April 15 through May 20. Don’t miss it.

Frank and Sally Norwood, Carbondale

Our town This is our town, not the developers, or the realtors, nor city council. We work hard, pay taxes and contribute. We love West Glenwood and miss the old drive-in and all the open spaces we once had. Currently, We have one postage stamp sized park, a couple of full schools and an infrastructure that is barely adequate. The proposed 300 units by R2 developers would deny us our safety, our welfare, quality of life and, as Garfield County says, turn West Glenwood into a nightmare. It is critical that Glenwood Springs residents, who are registered voters, vote yes on B by May 3, 2022. A vote yes on B will be a vote to deny the annexation of 480 Donegan.

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5Point Film Festival is a crowning jewel

By Jeanne Souldern Sopris Sun Correspondent

The 5Point Adventure Film Festival is one of the multifaceted jewels in the adventure film festival crown, which includes Mountainfilm in Telluride, the Wild & Scenic Film Festival in California and the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Alberta, Canada.

Luis Yllanes, who took over as executive director of Carbondale-based 5Point Film last December, happily announced 5Point is returning with their in-person, pre-pandemic format from April 21 through 24 at the Carbondale Recreation Center.

Charlie Turnbull, 5Point Film’s programming director, said the one-venue screenings offer viewers a unique festival experience. He said, “There’s like seven-hundred people watching one film, and then they all go to a bar afterward and talk about it, so it feels very communityfocused and special. I’ve been to like 20 or 30 film festivals, and I haven’t seen anything close to 5Point.”

Turnbull, an Australian native, who now makes Austin, Texas home, may be known to some past festival goers for his film, “The Bikes of Wrath,” which premiered at the 2019 5Point Festival.

“I’ve shown films at many festivals and 5Point has always had a special blend of welcoming spirit. We came from Australia to show our film, and I felt like the whole town welcomed us. I think that’s really special,” Turnbull recalled of his 2019 experience at 5Point.

Final selection criteria, Turnbull explained, “is simple — it has to be compelling storytelling.”

“Learning to Drown” by filmmakers Ben Knight and Travis Rummel, of Felt Soul Media, follows professional snowboarder Jess Kimura after the death of her partner. “It’s about how far she pushes the sport but also a personal story of loss, grief and rebuilding her life,” Turnbull explained.

While coping with loss, Kimura’s situation is further exacerbated by head injuries and depression. The physical and

emotional pain lead her to a journey of self-discovery where she decides to give back to girls and women in snowboarding, making an all-girls snowboard film titled, “The Uninvited,” because as Kimura said, “We [the girls] are never invited.”

“Kachalka” is by Irish filmmaker and director Gar O’Rourke, whose brother was living in the Ukraine capital of Kyiv a few years ago and sent him a video of an enormous open-air gym widely considered “the world’s most hardcore gym.” Opened in 1966, on what was once a scrap-metal site, “Kachalka,” Turnbull said, “Is also a look at the unnecessary stuff in life. [The gym is] such an innovation and people are being thrifty with what little they have. It’s kind of inspiring in that regard and it’s a timely look into the spirit of the Ukrainian people. It’s truly a very, very funny film.”

Trumbull said the adventure industry and genre of adventure storytelling have evolved and 5Point has as well. “We have expanded our meaning and definition of ‘adventure.’ It’s focused more on the human side of the people; all of them with accessible stories.”

There will be new faces and voices taking part in 5Point conversations, including Jedidiah Jenkins, the New York Times bestselling author of “To Shake the Sleeping Self.”

“I can’t wait to hear Jenkins speak with [filmmaker] Taylor Reese,” Yllanes said. “She’s a playmaker who is a 5Pointveteran and that’s going to be a great conversation that will be broadcast by our community partners at KDNK radio.”

Yllanes said that on Saturday, “People can come out and just enjoy all day” with films and events, which includes a free ice cream social.

Also on Saturday, the inaugural “Adventure Filmmakers Pitch Event,” presented by festival sponsor Stio, will give seven filmmakers an opportunity to pitch their film ideas in front of a live audience.

The filmmaker with the winning pitch will receive $15,000 to kickstart their project. The event is on Saturday, April 23 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Thunder River Theatre and is free and open to the public.

Yllanes emphasized 5Point’s work is year-round. He said, “We continue to work on other opportunities to

"Learning to Drown" chronicles pro snowboarder Jess Kimura's journey from personal loss to a newfound awareness of her legacy in the sport.

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showcase adventure films. We are looking to work with other partners to engage with our community and offer filmmakers other opportunities throughout the year.”

All festival attendees must show proof of vaccination before attending any festival events or show proof of a negative COVID test taken within 48 hours. Masks are optional at all indoor venues.

For more festival information, go to www.5pointfilm.org

Courtesy photos. 5Point Film Festival kicks off on April 21! Find the full schedule of events and tickets at 5pointfilm.org

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Avian Flu

DHM makes moves

Nearly an entire flock of chickens (35 out of 36) died on a ranch in Pitkin County. The lone survivor was later euthanized.

While there are reports the infected flock was in the Crystal Valley, Pitkin County would not confirm a general location with The Sopris Sun stating, “Per the USDA [United States Department of Agriculture] and Colorado Department of Agriculture, countylevel information is all that can be released regarding this HPAI [highly pathogenic avian influenza] case.” Bird owners are advised to take extra precautions and increase biosecurity measures including keeping their flock closed-in and preventing interactions with, and keeping feed from, wild birds (For more tips, visit www. bit.ly/protectthehens). “HPAI is a highly fatal disease that can decimate a small flock in less than 48 hours, so it is critical for bird owners to take measures that prevent the introduction and spread of the virus,” state veterinarian Dr. Maggie Baldwin advised.

Bird owners are asked to monitor their flocks for any abnormal behavior including feed and water consumption changes, egg production and illness or death. To report a suspected case, call the state veterinarian’s office at 303-869-9130.

DHM Design, an employee-owned planning and landscape architecture firm in Carbondale, is moving its offices two blocks east to 225 Main Street. The larger studio will accommodate an expanding staff of designers, planners and natural resource specialists.”We have called downtown Carbondale home for over two decades and look forward to many more years of shaping the landscape of the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond,” said Managing Principal Jason Jaynes.

Fields Eagle County’s Roaring Fork Valley Regional Planning Commission heard from nearly 30 speakers, according to The Aspen Times, at a three-hour public hearing regarding the proposed development of 19 acres across Highway 82 from the Blue Lake subdivision. Developers are seeking to build up to 135 residences, including 27 deed-restricted units, on property currently zoned for nine dwellings. The hearing was continued to April 21.

In conjunction with Autism Awareness Month, Ascendigo unveiled a collaborative art piece and several other works curated by behavioral therapist Katie Alderson at The Launchpad on Sunday, April 10. “Art is a spectrum, community is a spectrum,” said Alderson. Because blue is a color that represents autism, the show was replete with blue hues.

Photo by Raleigh Burleigh

Phony warrant Garfield County reported that a “bogus” tax distraint warrant was delivered to at least one resident in the county. Residents are asked to be vigilant in detecting and not responding to the fake documents. Garfield County Treasurer Garrie Couey explained that a legitimate distraint warrant will have “Garfield County Distraint Warrant” printed on it, include the treasurer’s signature and seal and would be hand delivered by the sheriff ’s office.

Agritourism grant Carbondale Tourism has been awarded $14,000 from the Colorado Tourism Office toward the development of agritourism in the Roaring Fork Valley. This will include enhancing the visitor information map promoting local food and farm experiences, as well as industry training.

Congressional art High school students are invited to participate in the 2022 Congressional Art Competition. The winning artist will have their work on display in the U.S. Capitol for a full year and receive roundtrip tickets to attend the opening reception in Washington, D.C. To participate, a two-dimensional piece no larger than 26”x26” must be mailed to your closest congressional district regional office

by April 27. More info at www./bit.ly/CongressionalArtContest

They say it’s your birthday!

Folks celebrating another trip around the sun this week include: James Armstrong, Ed Brown, Dino Baldizan, Mark Giesecke and Roberta McGowan(April 14); Aisha Weinhold, Deloras Pulver and KDNK (April 15); Rachel Connor, Ylice Golden and Emma Rose (April 16); HP Hansen and Doug Stewart (April 17); Stephanie Schilling and Hadley Hentschel (April 18); Francisco Nevarez-Burgueno, Deborah Colley, Karen Dixon, Leslie Emerson, Jill and Alleghany Meadows, Louie Neil and James Surls (April 19); Julie Bomersback, Jack Bergstrom, Jared Carlson, April Clark and Molly Jacober (April 20).

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By Raleigh Burleigh Sopris Sun Editor This weekend, April 15 and 16, the awarded to first place, $2,000 for second and Aspen Indigenous Foundation will host its $1,000 for third. At the time of our interview, largest native gathering yet. The nonprofit, eight drum groups had already signed up. responsible for organizing dance expositions, Buffalo will be joined by emcee Rick Yazzie. the Shining Mountains Film Festival and The host drum group, doing special songs, is a single day powwow in 2019, is expecting The Descendants. The head man and woman upwards of 300 Native Americans representing are both Ute. There will also be other visiting as many as 75 tribes, plus attendees. royalty, put up at hotels in Aspen.

“Aspen has never had a powwow like this,” “The Utes have been here a long time, it’s assured organizer and co-emcee Buffalo their traditional land,” Buffalo commented.

Child. He is already planning for a three-day “We went out of our way to get a Ute emcee event next year. and Ute head man and Ute head woman dancer.

He explained that the tradition comes from Unfortunately, the emcee couldn’t make it. He indigenous groups reuniting after splitting into had a big commitment at another gathering.” smaller camps during the scarcer months. “People Buffalo was sure to list the event on would share stories, songs, dancing, news history, powwows.com, where it has accrued over everything. Some people would have died that 12,000 views. Additionally, posters were sent winter, some people would have been born.” to reservations and the arena director, Nathan Today, the purpose remains much the Littlechild, sent notice through his networks. same. It’s a celebration of life and a place for Regarding vendors, Buffalo said there will be people to come together. “Some people fall between 10 and 20, including a Navajo woman in love,” Buffalo continued. “If somebody gets preparing fried bread and Navajo tacos, plus other pregnant at the powwow, we call it a powwow food concession vendors and several crafts people baby. And then that powwow baby becomes a selling beadwork and silver and turquoise jewelry. part of a new family that starts off.”

The event takes place at Aspen High School.

The foundation has raised over $15,000 in Both days will begin around 1 p.m. On Sunday, prize money to attract talent from throughout the weekend will conclude with a victory dance the United States. There will be over a dozen and prayers around 5 p.m. The event is expected dance categories, plus intertribal songs to go well into the evening on Saturday. where anyone is welcome to join and dance.

Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for Contestants will be judged based on their students, veterans and seniors and children under regalia, style, adherence to tradition and ability the age of 12 will be welcomed for free. to follow the rhythm of singing and drumming.

“It’s going to be a special gathering for natives,” “It’s pretty intense!” Buffalo told The Sopris concluded Buffalo. “People who come out here Sun. “Some of these guys are excellent athletes.” will have the chance to be immersed in native For the drumming contest, $3,000 will be song and dance … done in a traditional format.”

Last year, in lieu of a powwow, the Aspen Indigenous Foundation hosted a well-attended dance exposition at Wagner Park in Aspen. Photo by Klaus Kocher

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RMKC rolls through life’s speed bumps

By Kate Phillips Sopris Sun Correspondent It’s easy to notice the vibrant, multi-colored Rocky Mountain Kid C.L.U.B.S. (RMKC) RV rolling through town; it’s even easier to spot the dazzling smile of RMKC co-founder, Maureen Thompson, behind the steering wheel.

“I can’t even believe it,” Thompson, M.Ed., enthused. “Look at this thing! I did it! Another dream has come to life.”

For years, Thompson dreamed of taking her social-emotional wellness programs to schools around the Western Slope, and with the acquisition of “Rocky” the RV, that dream is becoming a reality.

As a long-time special education teacher

and behavior specialist, Thompson saw a significant need to support kids who struggled to cope with life’s challenges; whether that be a low test score, friendship drama or family separation, kids needed guidance, she said.

To address this demand, Thompson, alongside School Counselor and Prevention Specialist Lindsay Selig, started RMKC — a nonprofit that provides a safe space for local youth to navigate their stress while fostering meaningful relationships with themselves and their peers.

At RMKC, kids practice these skills in a variety of programs, like the popular FabHERlous — a girls-only group full of crafts, journaling and skits that help normalize talking about problems.

“These are skills that every single person in the world needs, these are life skills,” Thompson

RMKC regular Judson Morton and his pals played a game of pick-up ball while loyal pup Heartly stood watch. Photo by James Steindler

said. “All kids need these skills. This is like learning math — you need to learn these.”

In December 2019, Thompson bought the RV to take her programs mobile, but the RV collected dust while she figured out her next steps.

“When the COVID hit, I thought, ‘I can’t sit here anymore, I have to take control of this, I have to do something’,” Thompson said. “I was very concerned that schools were not going to open up; and I knew if I had my own thing I would be able to help out in some because I was a private situation.

I knew I could do something differently.”

With her inspiration ignited, Thompson spent the entire summer of 2020 renovating the RV with help from a few close friends, and by the start of the school year the RV was ready to receive students.

“We came out of the gate in September full bore. We were a full bore distance learning program,” Thompson said. “We had 20 kids out of the gate — that’s a need, and the teachers needed to have the time, and the school district said they will pay us to monitor the distance learning.”

During the 2020/21 school year, RMKC operated multiple distance learning cohorts in the RV for students from the Roaring Fork School District (RFSD). While traditional learning happened via Zoom, Thompson incorporated educational games, outdoor experiences, and peer interaction to enhance the learning environment and reduce pandemic-induced stress.

“They learned a lot, I don’t think any of those kids skipped a beat,” Thompson said. “They were able to be with other kids and also continue learning. It was a privilege for them.”

In addition to the learning cohorts, RMKC was also supporting two students who struggled with emotional instability and behavioral issues.

“The kids called it Mo School, which is my pride and joy,” Thompson said. “They were the biggest, highest behavioral kids in two school districts. This isn’t new, but things are coming out now that are showing that kids are having a hard time dealing with stuff.”

At Mo School, Thompson took an “unschooling approach” that prioritized a student-led, project-based curriculum and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

According to Thompson, DBT is an incredible resource that helps people practice mindfulness, emotional regulation and stress tolerance using specific strategies to identify, understand, and accept intense emotions.

“Nobody is able to learn unless they are emotionally stable,” Thompson said. “There’s only so much our schools can do because our schools are driven by test scores, and it’s constantly a competition.”

Without the demand of testing, Thompson’s students were able to thrive in a low-stress environment, and in December 2021 they graduated from Mo School and were integrated back into the school district.

Looking toward the future, Thompson hopes that Mo School and the learning cohorts will become permanent programs for RMKC. Emphasizing that this type of learning goes beyond textbooks and test scores, she believes this type of education can change the way our children operate in the world.

“These kids are our future community members and leaders,” she said. “It’s critical for the future that we teach these kiddos how to manage emotions and how to be inclusive to all around them.”

For more information about Rocky Mountain Kid C.L.U.B.S. and upcoming summer programs, visit www. rockymtnkidclubs.org or check them out on Facebook.

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Debeque, owner of the Dinkel Building at the time, and he took an apartment along 4th Street. He lived there more than 30 years, tending the building’s old coal-fired boiler and even hosting an early morning radio show on the infant KDNK. He also staged some shows of his art in the apartment.

In 1990, he bought the house on Sopris Avenue, which originally had been a church, but by then was owned by the Thompson family. Renovating it took seven years, but in the end he had a magnificent, bright and lofty space which he has filled with his artwork and plants.

“Our Place” Toly hit a rough patch with his art. “There’s a big gap from the Dinkel Building, having no shows and I couldn’t sell paintings. I stopped painting for about 15 years.” He did a series of jobs, including being a maintenance man at the brand-new Town Hall.

“Gradually I got back to painting again, little by little.” He noted, “This is the first showing of my work for a long, long time,” adding that nearly all of the paintings were done “in the last five years.”

With a total of 36 works, it will be his largest show. “The other shows usually had about 20 pieces, but this one has a lot of small ones to make that number big,” he explained. An oil painting of Mount Sopris titled “Ancient Mountain Heart” — believed to be the translation of the Ute name for the mountain and only one of two oils in the show — “is about as big as they get.”

Nearly all of the works in the show (33) are watercolor landscapes. The greatest number of them are of his favorite subject: Sopris, in its many moods and colors, and what he described as its “mysterious spiritual quality.” A single acrylic is of the 2008 Mountain Fair and is the only one to depict figures. “I’m not good at people,” he admitted.

Toly is an avid (and talented) photographer. He snaps shots wherever he is “around here.” Over time, using the photographs, a subject evolves. “I’m looking for mood and a sense of place” that will make a good painting.

As for technique, he prefers Asianstyle brushes. “They don’t hold a fine point … but give you more of a random brush stroke rather than a nice perfectly shaped point. When you put it down you get this perfect pyramid of a point stroke on the paper.”

Toly has named the show “Our Place,” which, viewing the works, it certainly is. There will be a reception at the Launchpad from 6 to 8 pm on April 15. The exhibition will remain up until May 20.

This painting is among 33 others by John Toly included in the exhibit "Our Place" which opens at the Launchpad on April 15 at 5 p.m.

‘Make beer, not war’

By Raleigh Burleigh Sopris Sun Editor

You may have seen the quote in one of the bathrooms at Carbondale Beer Works — “Make beer, not war.” It’s an unofficial slogan that is gaining relevance for the microbrewery in a new collaboration with Casey Brewing of Glenwood Springs.

In a global effort to support families impacted by the war in Ukraine, Pravda Brewery, based in Ukraine, has released six of its recipes to the world. “Once the Russian army invaded, Pravda ceased production to make Molotov cocktails with its bottles,” explained Beer Works head brewer Pat Donahue.

He was made aware of the fundraiser thanks to Beer Works owner Patrice Fuller and immediately reached out to other local breweries to join the humanitarian effort. Beginning around April 26, both Beer Works and Casey Brewing will offer “Unite for Ukraine,” a dryhop, golden Belgian ale brewed with coriander seeds. All proceeds from this earthy and strong brew will be donated directly to helping women and children relocated by the war.

“Sometimes you think you can’t really do much,” said Donahue. He sees this as a good opportunity to be helpful, “half a world away.” A QR code linking to a donate page will also be produced, “if people want to donate more than just a pint.”

Additionally, the Beer Works kitchen will prepare a food pairing with proceeds benefiting World Central Kitchen, a global charity that provides meals in the wake of natural and unnatural disasters.

Pat Donahue walks The Sun through the brewing process. Photo by James Steindler

MOTHER’S DAY IS FAST APPROACHING Join The Sopris Sun’s beloved tradition, carried on from The Valley Journal, of featuring portraits of new mothers with their babies born in the past year.

Call 970-379-4581 email mark@rfvphoto.com to schedule a shoot at Sopris Park on April 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 or 24.

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'The Show Must Go On' Photos and text by Jane Bachrach

Stage of Life Theatre Company Executive Director Jennifer Johnson is not one to panic and the show went off without a hitch!

Genevieve Vickers serenaded on the ukelele.

Brian Colley helped eat pizza... among other important duties!

Isaac Emig and Sara Gray Kokish catch some air!

The dress rehearsal for Cirque du Sopris was held last Thursday, April 7, without the show's director. Jennifer Johnson couldn’t be there due to a concussion she suffered the day before, when one of the stage clamps knocked her on the head as she was putting the stage together. Ouch! Fortunately, Carrie Messner, Alyson Marchand and Megan Shapiro all stepped up and — despite a few hiccups along the way — the dress rehearsal proceeded and didn’t turn into a real circus.

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Rae Vickers greets the audience with confidence.

The show featured many marvels, including Suzanna Garcelon on silks!

The Moodie sisters receive their makeup before the big show.

Emilie Bright and other "flower girls" performed a springish dance.

Cirque d'Sopris sold out on both April 8 and 9, with a few chairs added to accommodate as many attendees as possible.

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A.O. Forbes’ odyssey to CRMS

By Jeanne Souldern Sopris Sun Correspondent

A.O. Forbes is retiring from teaching, having completed his 33rd year at Colorado Rocky Mountain School (CRMS), a school he attended and graduated from in 1969.

To encapsulate Forbes’ legacy — as a teacher, coach, mentor, husband, father and grandfather — in one newspaper article, led us to discuss topics central to a well-lived life: education, love, politics, war and heroes.

His father, Gordon Forbes, was a decorated B-24 pilot with the Navy in World War II, and “when we’re little, he’s flying for American Airlines, and inherits money.” Around 1955, his father quit his commercial pilot job to become a book author, and move the family to Switzerland.

At age six, Forbes and his family moved back to the United States. “We moved to Aspen because Aspen is kind of the English-speaking equivalent of Davos, Switzerland,” Forbes shared.

Forbes remembers a third grade teacher asking him, “Who’s your hero?” After naming Hector and Achilles, he settled on Odysseus, the eponymous hero of the Odyssey, “because he’s nuanced and human and fallible, and he has the spectrum of all that we are.”

His mother, Patsy, was a teacher, and, while simultaneously working the stock market, his father opened The House of Lum Chinese restaurant in Aspen.

Forbes has fond memories of growing up in Aspen. “I was so exquisitely cared for, both

by my parents and Aspen, as this community where I grew up — it was small. It’s like that ‘it takes a village’ kind of thing, but basically Aspen was truly like that back then.”

John and Anne Holden were former faculty at the Putney School, a private boarding school in Vermont, who came to Carbondale to “start a school akin to Putney,” Forbes explained.

Forbes said, “I was set to interview to go to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, as we came from the East, and my mother was always going to send me back East to get me polished for whatever life would bring my way.”

However, he was also set to interview with Wells Kerr, a former dean at Exeter, who was teaching Shakespeare at CRMS. Forbes recalls, “Wells had to be in his 80s, and was this delightful human being. He said to my mother, ‘Don’t send him East, just send him here [to CRMS].’”

Forbes said CRMS, founded by the Holdens in 1953, “along with John Dewey’s philosophical basis, and Kurt Hahn’s Outward Bound kind of influence, created a school centered on education within a community.”

He added, “The school’s foundational beliefs hold to this day. It’s a miracle that this school has made it and is doing so well because I think it’s the most timely, profound educational philosophy you could ever conjure up.”

But it was also 1969, and the height of the Vietnam War. Young men were assigned random draft lottery numbers, based on their birthdays.

Men with lower numbers were called first and were required to report to induction centers.

Forbes’ draft lottery number was four. “I had a draft number that was either go to college and get a student deferment, or do something heroic like go to jail. I went to school; it was easier,” he said.

Journalist and anti-draft activist David Harris was then married to folk singer and fellow activist Joan Baez. In February 1969, Harris and Baez visited the CRMS campus. At the time, Harris

was expecting to be convicted for refusing to report for military service and, in July 1969, was sentenced to three years in prison.

Forbes vividly recalls their visit. “Joan Baez just showed up there at breakfast one morning.

I was eating my Raisin Bran and thinking, ‘Jesus, you guys are courageous.’ But I was also thinking, ‘I don’t know what this means’ — it was all pretty abstract. The evening news with Walter Cronkite, with coverage from Vietnam, was right up front and personal, as you’re watching these horrific scenes of war unfold.”

In fall 1969, with the draft looming, Forbes went to the University of Colorado Boulder, where he earned a degree in geography and continued on to graduate school.

Forbes taught for 12 and a half years at Fairview High School and Casey Middle School in Boulder. Michael Logan, who currently teaches at CRMS, was one of Forbes’ students, “so it’s like this wonderful circle.”

While working in public schools, Forbes said, “I kept trying to make the school into CRMS, and it was exhausting. It was so viscerally wonderful to take somebody, who has never been to the San Juan River, and put them on a raft, and then the next day, they’re over at your house building a frame for a boat they haven’t even yet bought. It was profound, but it was exhausting.”

At the time, Chris Babbs was the head of CRMS. Forbes said, “He wrote me a couple of letters saying I should try this. I had just won a Teacher of the Year Award and was feeling affirmed. I wanted my kids to attend CRMS and knew there wasn’t any way I could probably afford to do that other than teaching here.”

He was able to get a couple of years’ leave of absence from Boulder. “It was totally different. I got to teach more of things that were pertinent to my interests,” Forbes said.

Coming on board at CRMS, he was teaching geology and ninth-grade geography

A.O. Forbes reflected on his teaching career, saying, "My goal is to empower students to feel comfortable with who they are. The purpose of education is to figure out what you hold dear, what you value, and then find the courage to live within that." Photo by Paula Mayer

and coaching the soccer team. He added a class in geopolitical studies, which he still teaches today, at Roaring Fork High School (RFHS) called “Tomorrow’s Voices.”

At CRMS, he said, “you have this latitude.”

He has taken students to work in a Denver homeless shelter, or to Selma, Alabama, to see the National Lynching Memorial or kayaking along the Baja Peninsula to Oaxaca. “The power of CRMS is the relationships that you’ve created with your colleagues and students.”

Forbes met his wife, Janice, on a river trip in Boulder. “Recently, I was telling students about what [American novelist] David James Duncan talks about as wonder, like being swept away by love. I asked them, ‘How many of your parents are still married?’ One girl said, ‘That’s not the right continued on page 29

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14 ANIMAL DIALOGUES Basalt Library hosts a discussion of Colorado Mountain College’s Common Reader, “Animal Dialogues” by Craig Childs, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Learn more at at www.basaltlibrary.org BATCH TRIVIA Help raise funds for the Carbondale Clay Center’s summer kids camps by competing at trivia with a team of up to six at Batch from 6 to 8 p.m. Registration at www.carbondaleclay.org HAPPY HOUR DANCE CLASS Join Sammy Alteneau at The Launchpad for Limón Fusion, a dance technique to explore individuality and physicality within a technical structure, from 6:15 to 7 p.m.

More info at www.danceinitiative.org FULL MOON BREATHWORK Chelsea Bennett hosts a ceremony at the Third Street Center at 6:30 p.m. for letting go to create more space for loving.

Details at chelseabennetthealing.as.me

FRIDAY, APRIL 15 DITCH DAY The Carbondale and Weaver ditches will begin flowing through town again.

SPORTS Roaring Fork High School’s girl’s soccer team plays against Grand Junction in Carbondale at 4 p.m. (JV) and 6 p.m. (V) OUR PLACE John Toly’s solo show opens at The Launchpad and kicks off with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.

SOUND OF MUSIC Basalt High School, Roaring Fork High School, Basalt Middle School and Carbondale Middle School present “The Sound of Music” at 7 p.m. today and tomorrow.

Tickets at bit.ly/SoundofMusicRFV THE WORKSHOP For its first public event, The Workshop presents a reading of local playwright Kristin Carlson’s play “Beyond Reason” at 7:30 p.m. at Thunder River Theatre. More info is at www.thunderrivertheatre.com CRYSTAL THEATRE “The Rose Maker” screens at 7:30 p.m. through Monday, except at 5 p.m. on Sunday. “The Outfit” also shows on Saturday at 5:15 p.m.

April 8, 9, 15, 16 - 7:00pm • April 9, 16- 2:00pm The hills are alive with, The Sound of Music! Come and see the performing arts students of Basalt High School, Roaring Fork High School, Basalt Middle School, and Carbondale Middle School, as they collaborate to present the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music.

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PICASSO Sopris Theatre Company at Colorado Mountain College’s Spring Valley campus presents “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” a play written by Steve Martin, on April 15, 16, 22 and 23 at 7 p.m. and April 17 and 24 at 2 p.m. Tickets and more details are available at www.bit.ly/cmcpicassoatthelapinagile

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 DEMON INVITATIONAL High School track stars compete all day at the Demon Invitational in Glenwood Springs.

EARLY EARTH DAY The city of Glenwood Springs celebrates Earth Day with a Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

City residents can pick up free compost, with other giveaways, a food truck, kids activities, energy rebate information and more.

WHERE MY PEEPS AT? Carbondale’s annual Easter scavenger hunt begins at 9 a.m. Pre-registration is advised at www.carbondalerec.com LITTLE PEEPS HUNT Carbondale Parks and Recreation presents the first annual Little Peeps Scavenger Hunt for ages seven and under starting at 9:30 a.m. Pre-register for this event at www.carbondalerec.com SPORTS Roaring Fork High School’s girl’s soccer team plays against Eagle Valley in Carbondale at 4 p.m. (JV) and 6 p.m. (V) ASPEN POWWOW The Aspen Indigenous Foundation hosts a two-day powwow at Aspen High School, Saturday and Sunday beginning at 1 p.m.

More info at www.aspenindigenous.org ECSTATIC DANCE “Walk, skip, hop, jump,” 13 Moons Ranch hosts the Frog Full Moon Ecstatic Dance Party at 6 p.m.

SMITH AND JUNG Damien Smith and Dennis Young perform at Heather’s Savory Pies in Basalt starting at 6:30 p.m.

TROPA MAGICA Quasi psychedelic grunge meets cumbia when Tropa Magica takes the stage of The Contemporary in Willits at 8 p.m. Tickets and more info can be found at www.tacaw.org

SUNDAY, APRIL 17 EASTER DINNER Heather’s Savory Pies hosts an Easter dinner with entertainment by Josefina Mendez and Mark Johnson starting at 4 p.m.

MONDAY, APRIL 18 SPRING CLEANING Roaring Fork Conservancy organizes volunteers for the 24th annual Fryingpan & Beyond River Cleanup through April 23. Pre-registration is required at www.roaringfork.org/

TUESDAY, APRIL 19 WHAT THE HEALTH The Center for Human Flourishing shows “What the Health,” a documentary about healthy eating from the creators of “Cowspiracy,” at the Third Street Center at 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 AUTHOR TALK Local author Mark Duff personally introduces his new novel, “On Jericho Flats,” at the Basalt Library at 5:30 p.m. More info is available at www.basaltlibrary.org EQUITY SPEAKER SERIES Poet Alejandro Jimenez opens the Equity Action Speaker Series, a collaboration with MANAUS, at the Arts Campus at Willits at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are free by making a reservation at www.tacaw.org

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Aprendiendo con la policía Por Anna Ramirez Asistente ejecutiva de la policía de Carbondale

Anna Ramirez con el jefe de policía de Carbondale, Kirk Wilson.

Foto de James Steindler

En el Departamento de Policía de Carbondale estamos presentando temas para la comunidad latina que hemos escuchado en el pasado o identificado, para ayudar a entender un poco el por qué, y/o recursos que hay en la comunidad por ejemplo cómo obtener una licencia en el estado de Colorado.

Hay recursos en la comunidad que no sabemos y queremos poner a la comunidad en contacto con la gente que los puede ayudar. Queremos escuchar de la comunidad para entender mejor y crear un puente entre la policía y la comunidad latina y los más importante que sepan que somos humanos.

Los cursos que estamos presentando por fecha, es como obtener una licencia el 29 de abril, esto incluirá requisitos de como obtener una si es indocumentado, requisitos para nuestros hijos, leyes de permisos etc. La escuela de manejo, In and Out estará ahí para ayudar a presentar y contestar preguntas.

El 13 de mayo, será derechos de víctimas, tendremos a una Asistente de Víctimas de la Fiscalía que explicará las leyes que hay para proteger víctimas y también los recursos que hay en el condado para ayudar por ejemplo pagar renta, terapias, etc.

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También hablaremos sobre inmigración y cómo el pueblo de Carbondale ha pasado resoluciones para proteger a los latinos.

El 20 de mayo, el oficial de las escuelas hablará sobre derechos de padres y juveniles. El oficial hablará de drogas, tabaco, alcohol, los recursos como YouthZone y Stepping Stones.

El 10 de junio, los oficiales hablarán sobre qué es un cargo criminal y que es algo civil. Oficiales explicarán las diferencias y el proceso de casos civiles. También hablaremos sobre derechos de empleados y empleadores, inquilinos y propietarios.

El 24 de junio, los oficiales presentarán leyes criminales, explicarán el proceso de violencia doméstica, manejar bajo la influencia, etc. Durante estos cursos tendrán la oportunidad de aprender, pero también hacer preguntas y comentarios.

Las presentaciones son los viernes de las fechas dichas anteriormente, a las 6:30 pm en el Ayuntamiento de Carbondale. ¡Las clases serán en español! ¡También tendremos botanas!

Siempre hemos tratado de encontrar maneras para tener una conexión con la comunidad latina, pero nunca nos pusimos a pensar que es lo que quieren.

Las historias y preguntas que nos han hecho en el pasado nos ayudaron a componer los temas. Queremos ayudar

y la mejor manera de ayudar es escuchar las necesidades de nuestra comunidad. El objetivo del jefe de policía Kirk Wilson, ha sido crear relaciones con la comunidad de Carbondale y específicamente crear una profunda relación con la comunidad latina. Estos temas se compusieron por un equipo conformado por: el jefe de policía Kirk Wilson, sargento Bill Kirkland, oficial de las escuelas Paul Lazo, y la asistente ejecutiva Anna Ramirez.

“Cuando me estaban entrevistando para la posición en Carbondale, escuché comentarios sobre el temor de la policía por lo que un oficial en el pasado estaba haciendo. Durante mi tiempo como jefe de policía aprendí de otros traumas que la gente ha pasado en su país, incluso en este país. Deseo hacer conexiones, que ustedes aprendan de nosotros pero también aprender de ustedes” dice el jefe de policía Wilson.

No se tienen que registrar y pueden atender todas las clases o las que gusten.

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Preparando para la temporada de incendios OPINIÓN

Defiende

Por Omar Sarabia El largo invierno ha terminado y poco a poco llega la primavera con días soleados y cálidos en los que se pueden ver las plantas floreciendo, escuchar el canto de los pájaros y la hierba cada día más verde. ¡Es un hermoso momento para explorar las increíbles tierras públicas que nos rodean! La primavera también marca el comienzo de la temporada de incendios forestales, un momento crucial para que todos en nuestra comunidad estén alerta e informados para no provocar un incendio accidentalmente, y/o saber qué hacer en caso de que ocurra un incendio y estar al tanto de los incendios planificados.

El programa Defiende Nuestra Tierra en Wilderness Workshop quiere asegurarse de que todos en nuestra comunidad tengan acceso a información de seguridad importante sobre los incendios, y esta es una gran oportunidad para aprender un poco más sobre los incendios forestales y cómo son parte de nuestro mundo natural. Es bueno tener en cuenta los tres tipos diferentes de incendios forestales que pueden ocurrir durante nuestra temporada de incendios.

Incendios prescritos: Las quemas planificadas o prescritas, también conocidas como fuegos controlados, se refieren al uso planificado y controlado del fuego por un equipo de expertos bajo condiciones específicas (temperatura, viento, humedad, etc). Son un método seguro y calculado para mejorar el hábitat y reducir la cantidad de combustible en el bosque al tiempo que garantiza que propiedades y las personas permanezcan fuera de peligro.

Incendios naturales: causados con mayor frecuencia por la caída de rayos, estos incendios son parte de nuestro paisaje y ecología. A menudo, los bomberos forestales los apagan para proteger a las comunidades, pero cuando las condiciones son seguras, a veces se les permite quemar.

Incendios no planificados causados por humanos: estos son incendios iniciados accidentalmente por personas y, a menudo, representan un riesgo para las comunidades.

Algunas causas de estos incendios son fogatas ilegales, infraestructura eléctrica o por la colilla de un cigarrillo mal apagado.

El fuego es un proceso ecológico natural (al igual que la lluvia o la migración animal) y, si se suprime o elimina del paisaje, daña las plantas, los animales y la ecología forestal.

"Las quemas planificadas o prescritas ... son un método seguro y calculado para mejorar el hábitat y reducir la cantidad de combustible en el bosque."

Tanto las quemas naturales como las prescritas brindan importantes beneficios ecológicos, como mejorar o crear un hábitat para la vida silvestre, incluidos los sitios de anidación para las aves, más alimentos para animales como el alce y el venado, Las quemas prescritas pueden ayudar a mantener ecosistemas forestales saludables, reducir el riesgo y la gravedad de futuros incendios forestales y mantener más seguras a nuestras comunidades y departamentos de bomberos.

Este año, el Servicio Forestal y la Oficina de Administración de Tierras están planeando varios incendios prescritos en nuestra región, que incluyen los siguientes lugares: Cattle Creek: nueve millas al noreste de El Jebel y nueve millas al suroeste de Gypsum, hasta 1,500 acres.

Cottonwood Creek: cuatro millas al norte de Eagle, hasta 460 acres.

Muddy Pass: cinco millas al norte de Edwards, hasta 2,900 acres.

Seven Castles: seis millas al este de Basalt, hasta 1,100 acres.

Cherry Creek: 10 millas al norte de Silt, hasta 1,200 acres.

West Divide: 17 millas al sur de Silt, hasta 1,000 acres.

Braderich Creek: una milla al oeste de Redstone, hasta 1,500 acres.

Collins Creek: Siete millas al norte de Aspen, hasta 1,200 acres.

Hunter Creek: dos millas al noreste de Aspen, hasta 1,200 acres.

Sistema de Alerta del Condado de Pitkin: www.PitkinAlert.org.

Condado de Garfield: www.GarCo911.org.

Condado de Eagle: www.ECemergency.org La página de Facebook “Defiende Nuestra Tierra” también compartirá información actualizada sobre incendios prescritos esta primavera.

Omar Sarabia es el director del programa Defiende Nuestra Tierra en Wilderness Workshop. Puede comunicarse con él en (correo electrónico, whatsApp, FB)

Donaciones por correo o en línea P.O. Box 399 Carbondale, CO 81623 970-510-3003 www.soprissun.com Editor Raleigh Burleigh • 970-510-3003 news@soprissun.com Executive Director Todd Chamberlin • 970-510-0246 adsales@soprissun.com Editora Contribuyente Crystal Mariscal Directore Artístico Hattie Rensberry Diseñadora de anuncios Alyssa Ohnmacht Traductoras Jacquelinne Castro y Dolores Duarte Distribucion Frederic Kischbaum Miembros de la Mesa Directiva Klaus Kocher • Kay Clarke Lee Beck • Megan Tackett Gayle Wells • Donna Dayton Terri Ritchie • Eric Smith el Sol del Valle agradece por su apoyo a: MANUAS, FirstBank y Alpine Bank 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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También se puede contactarnos llamando a 970-510-3003.

Este mapa demuestra donde habrán incendios controlados durante la temporada de 2022.

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Qué esperar: Todas estas quemas prescritas están planificadas y sólo ocurrirán si los oficiales de bomberos determinan que las condiciones son ideales para una quema prescrita segura y efectiva: estas condiciones generalmente ocurren en Abril o principios de Mayo.

Si las condiciones no son favorables, los incendios no se producirán. Los incendios suelen tener lugar durante 1-3 días; una vez encendido, las cuadrillas permanecerán en el sitio para monitorear y contener la propagación del fuego.

En días de fuegos controlados, no llame al 911 si ve llamas o humo en estas áreas.Puede esperar ver camiones de bomberos, equipos y posiblemente un helicóptero sobrevolando el fuego. Se colocarán letreros y personal para la seguridad del público. Durante la noche se observará poco o ningún fuego.

Regístrese para recibir alertas: Para obtener información sobre incendios prescritos planificados, comuníquese con: la página de Facebook del bosque nacional White River en Facebook@WhiteRiverNF; o en Twitter: @WhiteRiverNews.

Llame al Distrito de Guardabosques de Aspen-Sopris del Servicio Forestal de EE. UU.: (970) 963-2266 Dependiendo de dónde viva o trabaje, lo alentamos a que se registre para recibir alertas por mensaje de texto, llamada telefónica o correo electrónico:

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Por Geneviève Villamizar Traducción por Dolores Duarte Solicitar un permiso de caza puede ser confuso al inicio. Entre las regulaciones de Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) y la simple vieja estrategia del cazador, todavía estoy aprendiendo los pormenores después de 20 años.

Si estás leyendo esto, es muy probable que seas un nuevo cazador, así que nos apegaremos a lo básico (y guardaremos los aspectos de dominio, tal como los puntos de preferencia, para los cazadores de trofeos).

El sorteo primario de permisos de caza mayor se abrió el 1 de marzo. Los cazadores tenían hasta las 8 p.m. del 5 de abril para solicitarlas. Después del 5 de abril, las etiquetas de caza ganadoras del sorteo se enviarán por correo.

Las etiquetas que queden pasan al sorteo secundario, el 5 de julio, lo que supone un alivio para muchos cazadores que simplemente no lo consiguieron la primera vez (dijo, mirando de un lado a otro).

En primer lugar, para comprar un permiso de caza, necesitarás tu tarjeta de educación de cazador, que tiene tu número de identificación de conservación (CID). Al igual que el permiso de conducir o la tarjeta de seguridad social, es tu número para toda la vida. Utilizarás tu CID cada vez que compres sellos y permisos del CPW. Yo todavía tengo el mío original de 2001 y lo aprecio mucho.

Cada caza ha dejado su huella en

ese gastado trozo de cartón, ya que debes llevarlo contigo al campo siempre que vas de cacería.

CPW publica un folleto anual de caza mayor. Consíguelo. Es tu “manual del operador”. Además de ayudarte a planificar tu caza, tiene los nuevos cambios de este año, las regulaciones de caza, las definiciones, el mapa de la Unidad de Gestión de la Caza (GMU) (más sobre esto después) y todos los posibles códigos de caza que aplican a ciervos, alces, berrendos, osos y alces. Lee esto. Estás obligado y eres responsable de todo lo que contiene si vas a cazar en Colorado.

La página 14 presenta el sello de hábitat. Se añade automáticamente a tu primer permiso de pesca o caza cada año, y los ingresos financian el programa de hábitat de la vida silvestre de Colorado. Más abajo, el folleto enumera varios permisos “calificados”, uno de los cuales debemos adquirir antes de comprar un permiso de caza mayor. Yo compro un permiso combinado de caza menor y pesca todos los años, así que este calificador relativamente nuevo no me molesta. Hay quienes están un poco molestos, pero yo estoy contento de contribuir a la conservación.

Una vez resueltos los requisitos, ¿qué especies quieres intentar capturar?

Como novato, tus mejores posibilidades son los ciervos y los alces. Las otras especies más buscadas tienen un “prerrequisito” que probablemente no hayas

Cómo obtener un permiso de caza acumulado todavía: esos puntos de preferencia que hemos comentado antes.

Los alces son un reto para la caza. Son poderosos, rápidos y tienen ojos y oído agudos. Tengo ganas de probar la carne en el congelador después de un puñado de años infructuosos centrados en el alce, así que espero una caza de ciervos más relajada y con mayores probabilidades este otoño.

Especies elegidas; ¿dónde cazar?

Las tierras de Colorado están divididas en GMUs. Éstos son para la vida silvestre como los condados son para los humanos.

La CPW utiliza las GMU para gestionar las manadas de animales salvajes: pueden contar el número de manadas, seguir los cambios a lo largo del tiempo y utilizar estos datos para limitar o aumentar los permisos de caza en esa zona. El mapa de la GMU se encuentra en el interior de la contraportada del folleto, precedido por el listado de la GMU de las descripciones de los límites físicos. Estos suelen estar definidos por vías fluviales, carreteras, crestas y valles y líneas de condado. Por ejemplo, si alguien quisiera cazar el lado oeste de McClure, solicitaría la GMU 521, definida al este por Huntsman’s Ridge y el eje central de los Raggeds. ¿Cuál temporada para cazar? Ve a tu especie; busca tu GMU; elige tu primera opción, la segunda, la

Emmett Leable y su primo Mike Marzahl sonríen felices después de que Mike abatiera un ciervo de una vez en la vida, en el valle de Roaring Fork. Este ciervo fue cazado el 13 de noviembre de 2021 y recibió el apodo de "Fire Buck" (ciervo de fuego) por su singular estatura. Foto de Jacob LaVine

tercera y la cuarta, para las fechas de la temporada que puedes cazar.

Si sabes que quieres cazar un animal de trofeo o una especie única, haz de tu primera elección un punto de preferencia cada año.

También puedes optar por más de un permiso en una temporada de caza. Puedes solicitar otra especie (alce u oso), o esperar a que pase el sorteo primario y luego solicitar una etiqueta de sorteo

secundaria, o comprar etiquetas ilimitadas de venta libre. Lee más sobre estas etiquetas de la Lista A, B o C en el interior del folleto.

Ya puedes solicitarlo en línea, en cpw.state.co.us. La cuota de solicitud no es reembolsable, y pagas por tu permiso si entras al sorteo. ¡Ahora prepárate para una de las experiencias más profundas que puede tener un ser humano!

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OPINIÓN

Esquina Legal Por Tony Menez

Hace casi 20 años, en el 2004, Roaring Fork Legal Services y Garfield County Legal Services se unieron para crear Alpine Legal Services (ALS). Garfield County Legal Services había existido como proyecto desde 1982, y como su propia organización desde 1987, y Roaring Fork Legal Services desde 1996. ALS, una organización sin ánimo de lucro, fue creada para servir a la comunidades de Aspen hasta Parachute, Colorado con necesidades legales.

La misión de ALS es garantizar acceso a la justicia mediante servicios legales de calidad que defienden y avanzas los bienes jurídicos fundamentales de las personas a quien servimos. ALS ha estado cumpliendo esta misión por medio de asistencia legal a víctimas de crimen, personas

Servicios legales comunitarios, tan importantes hoy como en el pasado

"Desde su incepción, para desempeñar su misión, ALS ha colaborado con una variedad de organizaciones, incluyendo Advocate Safehouse Project, Catholic Charities, las cortes en el Noveno Distrito Judicial, RESPONSE, Colorado Stability Fund, Colorado Legal Services, Towards Justice, Garfield County Libraries, Colorado Mountain College, y otros más." de tercera edad, e individuos de bajos recursos.

Esta asistencia toma las siguientes formas: consejo y representación legal, clínicas legales, el programa “Pregunta a un Abogado’’, entrenamiento a profesionales, y participando en una variedad de comités sobre temas como acceso a justicia, protecciones para adultos, violencia doméstica, y desalojo.

Algunos temas a los cuales ALS ha dado consejo legal incluyen: derechos de tenientes, desalojos, deudas, reclamos menores, custodia, divorcio,

derechos civiles, protecciones civiles, ley de empleo, y beneficios públicos.

Representación directa, significando representar al cliente en la corte, normalmente es limitada a casos de prioridad.

Por lo ordinario, los casos de prioridad son casos de protección civil o de desalojo. No es fuera de lo normal decir que ALS recibe 400 encuestas por mes, y ayuda a más de 1,200 personas al año.

Desde su incepción, para desempeñar su misión, ALS ha colaborado con una variedad

de organizaciones, incluyendo Advocate Safehouse Project, Catholic Charities, las cortes en el Noveno Distrito Judicial, RESPONSE, Colorado Stability Fund, Colorado Legal Services, Towards Justice, Garfield County Libraries, Colorado Mountain College, y otros mas.

Este año, ALS está pasando por un proceso de planificación estratégica. Esta planificación ayudará establecer una visión, las prioridades, y las metas del futuro de la organización. Aunque la junta directiva y el personal de ALS tienen una idea de los retos y las oportunidades para servicios legales que están presentes en la comunidad, es importante recibir comentarios de parte de la comunidad para mejor informar el proceso de planificación estratégica. Queremos saber sobre el trabajo que ALS ha hecho y cómo podemos mejorar los servicios proveídos por la organización.

Si usted quiere ayudar a ALS a ver en donde existen los retos y las oportunidades para el futuro de servicios legales desde Aspen hasta Parachute, o quizás en otros pueblos como Eagle y Gypsum en el condado de Eagle, por favor visite la siguiente encuesta: www.surveymonkey.

com/r/ALSEspanol. La encuesta también se puede encontrar en la página principal de ALS, o alpinelegalservices.org Toma solo unos minutos llenar la encuesta y nos ayudará durante el proceso de planificación.

Alpine Legal Services está pasando por un proceso de planificación estratégica.

Si usted quiere ayudar, por favor visite la siguiente encuesta: La encuesta también se puede encontrar en la página principal de ALS, o alpinelegalservices.org

¡SE APROXIMA EL DÍA DE LA MADRE! Invitamos a todas las madres con bebes nacidos dentro del último año que tomen un retrato profesional con nosotros para la edición especial del Sopris Sun, el 5 de mayo.

Llama o manda un texto a (970) 456-6929 para hacer una reservación para el 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 or 24 de abril en el mirador del Sopris Park.

Fechas adicionales serán agregadas según la necesidad.

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VívidaMente Por Iliana Renteria

Mi recuerdo más bello de infancia no es material. De hecho son pocas, pero significativas, las cosas que recuerdo con cariño y las asocio más con momentos que con su valor económico.

Mi recuerdo más bonito de infancia es mi mamá, y los momentos que me regalaba. Su tiempo. La paz y la paciencia con que me explicaba las cosas, y me hacía entender la diferencia entre el bien y el mal, entre lo pasajero y lo que realmente importa.

Las tardes en que me llevaba a jugar al zócalo y las convertía en momentos mágicos. Las noches en que me leía antes de dormir.

Abril es el mes del niño en México, una tradición que mientras crecía no era más que un pretexto para que me compraran dulces o alguna chuchería, pero que se sumaba a una lista de momentos bonitos. Y es que de

Celebramos el mes del niño

momentos bonitos debe estar hecha la infancia. Momentos que empiezan en el hogar.

Para que una infancia sea plena se necesitan ciertos ingredientes: amor, seguridad, tiempo de calidad, apoyo emocional, educación, juego, estructura, buenos ejemplos, autoestima y acceso a los servicios de salud.

Elementos que debemos procurar que estén más presentes que ausentes en la balanza del día a día.

Pero como la maternidad y la paternidad no vienen con un manual, ante la duda siempre es mejor acudir a los expertos. En esta ocasión les presento a Focused Kids, una organización sin fines de lucro en el Roaring Fork Valley, dedicada a apoyar y brindar herramientas para que nuestros niños y los adultos en sus vidas experimenten relaciones seguras, comprendan cómo funciona su cerebro y cómo pueden estar a cargo de él para crecer plenamente y triunfar en la vida.

Yolanda Gonzalez, gerente de programas, nos comparte: “Sabemos que la pandemia trajo muchos cambios en la vida de nuestros niños; el aprendizaje remoto, el aislamiento, las mascarillas y los nervios de punta todo el tiempo han amenazado con descarrilar el desempeño académico de los estudiantes en Roaring Fork Valley durante los

últimos dos años.

Los profesores reportan que están luchando porque tienen muchos estudiantes que no tienen el interés o las habilidades para aprender en comparación con los años anteriores. Esto nos demuestra que el sistema nervioso de los niños todavía está en alerta, lo que les dificulta tener un buen desempeño en la escuela.

También están entrando niños que nacieron al inicio de la pandemia y básicamente fueron atendidos por un dispositivo electrónico para que sus padres pudieran trabajar en casa o lo que fuera necesario. En ellos se está viendo que todo su desarrollo normal se ha retrazado.

Si bien hasta ahora la investigación disponible limitada sobre los reveses que la pandemia causó en el rendimiento académico

es limitada, la información anecdótica deja claro que los últimos dos años han sido difíciles para los niños. Por lo que hay que reiterar que los padres son la mejor fuente para seguir apoyando a nuestros hijos para minimizar los efectos que la pandemia pudo haber tenido y que ellos puedan regresar a la vida normal y sentirse seguros otra vez”.

Ante esta situación, y con el objetivo de proteger la salud mental y emocional de nuestros niños, nos da las siguientes recomendaciones: “Los padres podemos ayudar a nuestros hijos normalizando y validando sus sentimientos.

Una buena manera de hacerlo es ayudándoles a nombrar el sentimiento, sea cual sea (ira, frustración o miedo). Los niños necesitan saber que está bien tener

esos sentimientos y que son parte de nuestra vida, y luego podemos aprender cómo lidiar con ellos.

Otra gran manera de apoyarles es modelar el agradecimiento.

Encuentren pequeñas cosas por las que están agradecidos; puede ser su casa, la comida, el aire, sus amigos, o el cielo azul.

Y lo más importante, cuida de ti mismo. Haz una pausa para respirar, da un pequeño paseo o asegúrate de reservar algo de tiempo para disfrutar de algo que te haga feliz. Recuerda que eres el modelo para tus hijos, así que trátate con compasión y amor siempre, que ellos te están mirando”.

Si te interesa recibir más información sobre Focused Kids, manda un correo electrónico a yolanda@focusedkids.org o visita www.focusedkids.org

“Porque en todo adulto habita el niño que fue, y en todo niño reside el adulto que será”.

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Recursos gratuitos de la biblioteca, solamente a un clic de distancia

Por Jeanne Souldern Traducción por Dolores Duarte

Para conmemorar la Semana Nacional de las Bibliotecas, estamos adentrándonos con detalle a más de 60 recursos en línea disponibles gratuitamente para los usuarios de la biblioteca del condado de Garfield, con una tarjeta de la biblioteca.

Tracy Kallassy, gerente de la sucursal de Carbondale, dijo que dos servicios populares de películas transmitidas en línea — Hoopla y Kanopy — son de gran éxito entre los usuarios de la biblioteca.

Hoopla ofrece una amplia variedad de películas digitales, programas de televisión, música, audio libros y cómics electrónicos. Kanopy, por su parte, presenta los favoritos de los festivales de cine, los clásicos de culto y los documentales premiados, y está limitado a 10 vistas al mes.

“Hay personas que me dicen que ya no sacan DVD porque les gusta ver las películas transmitidas en línea”, explica Kallassy.

Jenn Cook, directora de servicios técnicos de las bibliotecas del condado de Garfield, está al tanto de los últimos servicios en línea disponibles para los sistemas bibliotecarios. Informó de que Kanopy, disponible para los usuarios de las bibliotecas del condado de Garfield desde enero de 2020, tiene una tasa de uso de unos 850 videos al mes, manteniéndose relativamente estable desde los modestos aumentos de los primeros meses de la pandemia. Hoopla, disponible desde marzo de 2020, vio un aumento de 2,200 a 3,700 usuarios, mencionó Cook.

Entre los servicios disponibles para niños, Kanopy Kids ofrece programas de televisión, películas y libros de animación y acceso ilimitado a su visualización. Scholastic BookFlix combina historias animadas clásicas con libros electrónicos de no ficción para fomentar el amor por la lectura y el aprendizaje de los niños desde preescolar hasta tercer grado. Brainfuse HelpNow ofrece ayuda individualizada para tareas, tutorías y asistencia en escritura.

Kallassy dice: “A la gente que lo usa le encanta, pero me gustaría que más gente lo conociera.

Tenemos muchas cosas en nuestra red por las que ofrecemos acceso gratuito”.

Ancestry.com (accesible sólo en la biblioteca) está disponible para investigación genealógica. Otro recurso en línea es Consumer Reports, que ofrece reseñas imparciales de productos, “que es un servicio por el que mucha gente paga, pero no se da cuenta de que puede obtenerlo gratuitamente en la biblioteca”, dijo Kallassy.

Libby, la aplicación de lectura en línea de la biblioteca de OverDrive, un distribuidor digital, permite leer libros electrónicos, audiolibros y revistas. Hay archivos de periódicos, como NewsBank, y periódicos nacionales como The New York Times y The Wall Street Journal.

Mango Languages ofrece lecciones de conversación práctica en más de 70 idiomas.

Rebecca Zuniga, quien trabaja para la biblioteca basada en Rifle, muestra a Rosa Menchaca cómo acceder contenido digital en español a través de Hoopla. Foto de cortesía

Brainfuse ofrece ayuda para tareas y tutorías individuales en directo. LearningExpress y LearningExpress en español te ayudan a prepararte para los exámenes con pruebas de práctica, incluyendo el GED, el ACT, el SAT, y para carreras como conductor comercial, en lo militar y como agente inmobiliario. Auto Repair Source contiene información de servicio y reparación para miles de vehículos nacionales e importados.

Sobre el catálogo de servicios en línea, Kallassy dijo: “He trabajado en otras bibliotecas y estoy impresionada de lo sólida que es nuestra colección digital en línea”.

Otros servicios incluyen el préstamo de una computadora portátil o un punto de acceso a Wi-Fi durante un máximo de tres semanas. “La gente los utiliza por todo tipo de razones.

Hemos tenido personas que sólo tienen una computadora en casa, pero están de viaje, así que sacan una portátil. O se mudan y aún no tienen instalado el servicio de Internet, así que adquieren un punto de acceso a Wi-Fi”, explica Kallassy.

La sucursal de Carbondale ha ampliado su horario en los últimos meses y ahora abre hasta las 8 de la noche los lunes y miércoles. A partir del 1 de mayo, abrirá de 1 a 5 p.m. los domingos “por primera vez”, dijo Kallassy.

El menú completo de servicios gratuitos en línea puede encontrarse en www.gcpld.org en la pestaña “Research”. Si se suscribe al boletín electrónico de la biblioteca, dijo Kallassy, “recibirá los detalles de cada recurso”.

Para registrarte en línea y obtener la tarjeta de la biblioteca, ve a: www.bit.ly/GCLPDlibcard El registro en línea te da acceso instantáneo a los materiales en línea, a ello le sigue una visita a tu biblioteca local dentro de los 90 días para completar tu membresía y obtener privilegios completos de la biblioteca.

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SEA SABIO EN LA CALLE.

El señalamiento de bicicletas en la calle indica que esa zona es compartida por bicicletas y vehículos. Las líneas aumenta la vigilancia a los ciclistas y conductores a cerca de la presencia del otro.

FORMAS SABIAS DE USAR EL SENALAMIENTO DE BICICLETAS:

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• Conductores: Rebasen a los ciclistas con un mínimo de 3 pies de distancia (Ley estatal)

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Homenaje al gran Mariscal

Eluterio Mariscal y sus bisnietos en California. Foto de Crystal Mariscal

Por Crystal Mariscal Editora Contribuyente

Llegó el calor fresco que solo la primavera trae, y como buen amante de la naturaleza decidiste salir a dar tu caminata de costumbre. Un paso veloz de ese que no cansa.

Todavía recuerdo la última vez que caminamos juntos al parque, me sentía una niña pequeña escuchando las historias de las calles, casas y eventos ocurridos en el vecindario. Hey jefe se escuchó a lo lejos, eran unos muchachos que te detenían a saludarte, después de intercambiar algunas palabras seguimos el camino al parque, tomada de tu mano segun para cuidarte me sentia mas yo la mas cuidada.

Don Jose Flores Simpatico fue el nombre con lo que los niños del parque, ese parque al lado de la escuela te llamaban. Te preguntaba el por que del nombre y solo te reías, a tus 40 y tantos en cada pierna como tu lo decias, tu sentido del humor seguía intacto, una inocencia y alegría que se contagia. Eso sí, terco pero claro al fin y al cabo Mariscal.

Saboreamos nuestro raspado, el tuyo de vainilla con nuez y el mio de chicle con fresa.

Esta última caminata fue diferente, fuiste solo tu, y poco a poco el sonido de tu bordón se fue apagando a lo lejos, los dulces y panes escondidos en tu cajón de los antojos quedo en espera de ser devorados. Claro, tenías que salir a despedirte del vecindario, tantos años viviste allí que tu labor social y altruista no te hubiera dejado irte sin haberlo hecho.

Todas las figuritas en tu cuarto están como tú las dejaste, después de sentarte y esperar ese encuentro celestial con el Creador. Hasta para eso tuviste estilo, no solo para caminar y pararse recto con las manos echadas adelante, imponente, con ojos serios y traviesos. El Ser Supremo te llamo a dar una caminata más, esta vez no podré acompañarte, esta vez me quedaré sentada en los columpios intentando entender por qué los raspados de nuez con vainilla eran tus favoritos y por que el sabor se les acaba tan rapido, y solo queda el hielo como piedra, sin poder disfrutar. Algo así como la vida, cuando hay ausencia de quien se estima.

El bordón ya no es necesario, tu compañero de aventuras ya está al lado de la cama

esperando que el polvo un día lo cubra. Cierro los ojos y veo tanto, respiro y agradezco la bendición de saber que llevamos la misma sangre.

La promesa de estar contigo hasta que te cases, quedó solo en mi corazón, pensando en que si eso hubiese cambiado algo o no. La última vez que te dije adiós me viste a los ojos y con tanto amor me hiciste saber lo orgulloso que estabas de mi. Los valores familiares se tienen que conservar, el no dejes de “echarle ganas” era tu manera de decir el trabajo honrado dignifica. Te abrace con la esperanza de volverlo hacer, como si hubiese garantía de que los momentos perfectos se repitieran. El zon de las golondrinas tocaba en la radio, tantas madrugadas en La Ceja después de la danza a la cruz las escuche, que ahora hacen eco en mi pecho y garganta. El violín lloraba al despedir el alba, al igual mi corazón le llora ahora el alma.

Lo quiero ida y vuelta de aquí a la luna cien mil veces, será nuestra frase. De aquí a la luna cien mil veces serán las veces que lo recuerde.

Dios te llamo a caminar por el paraíso, desde aquí agradezco a Dios el haber podido llevar tu apellido como mi mas grande orgullo “Mariscal”. Descansa en paz güelito (como yo te llamaba), espero y confío en Dios que nos veremos en el cielo. Tus ojitos ya duermen profundamente…

Don Eleuterio Mariscal originario de Zacatecas México, el día cuatro de abril del 2022, pasó a mejor vida. Falleció en Merced California.

Le sobreviven sus doce hijos, nietos y bisnietos, producto de casi 60 años de matrimonio con su difunta esposa Teresa Mariscal, quien falleció el 3 de abril de 2017.

Eluterio Mariscal fue mi abuelo o mi güelito como cariñosamente yo lo llamaba, el gran Mariscal — Descansa en Paz, 1934 - 2022.

EVENTO DE LIMPIEZA DE LA CIUDAD, RECICLAJE Y DEVOLUCIÓN DE MEDICAMENTOS RECETADOS 30 DE ABRIL, 8AM-2PM Tarifas de entrada para cargas de residuos domésticos: Ciudad de Carbondale (residente) $10 no residente $30 Carga con remolque (residente) $20 no residente $60 Mountain Waste: • Basura doméstica general (muebles/madera/cercas, etc.)

• Reciclaje de metales • Reciclaje de textiles ($10/colchón, pagado por el cliente) UBICADO EN EL ESTACIONAMIENTO DE LA 4ª Y COLORADO CORRecycling: • Residuos electrónicos: televisores, monitores, impresoras, microondas, computadoras portátiles, copiadoras y destrucción de discos duros.

• Sin cargo para los residentes de la ciudad hasta que se haya alcanzado el presupuesto y el límite • Una vez alcanzado el límite, se cobrarán cargos correspondientes. https://correcycling.com/ LOCALIZADO EN EL ESTACIONAMIENTO DETRÁS DEL AYUNTAMIENTO Brite Ideas reciclaje de bombillas: • Baterías (carros/teléfono/todas las baterías), bombillas (fluorescentes/CLF/ HID/lámparas UV/señales de neón/balastos PCB/termostatos de mercurio).

• No se cobrará a los residentes de la ciudad hasta que se haya alcanzado el presupuesto y el límite, y entonces se cobrarán cargos correspondientes.

• El cliente será responsable de todos los cargos relacionados con los frigoríficos y otros artículos de freón. http://www.coloradobulbrecycling.com/ LOCALIZADO EN EL ESTACIONAMIENTO DETRÁS DEL AYUNTAMIENTO

Entrega de medicamentos recetados: Departamento de Policía de Carbondale.

GRATUITO para todos Localizado en el lobby del ayuntamiento Neumáticos JLM: • Sin cargo para los residentes de la ciudad por los primeros 100 neumáticos, de hasta 18” con o sin rines.

• Hay un límite de 8 neumáticos por cliente • Después del límite, el cliente deberá pagar $8 dólares por neumático UBICADO EN EL ESTACIONAMIENTO DE LA 4ª Y COLORADO ARTÍCULOS NO ACEPTADOS: • Residuos peligrosos, por ejemplo, aceite, pintura, bote de líquido de limpieza, líquidos de coche, tanques de propano.

• Desechos de jardín y ramas NO serán aceptados en este evento.

Los desechos de jardín y ramas de 2” o menos de diámetro serán aceptados en los eventos estacionales de desechos de jardín que inician el 14 de mayo de 2022, y cada otro fin de semana hasta septiembre. Este evento está localizado en la 4ta. y Colorado, de 9am a 12pm. Sólo para residentes de la ciudad.

• Las cuadrillas alternarán los almuerzos entre el mediodía y la 1pm. La descarga tomará tiempo adicional durante este período. Por favor, planifica de acuerdo con eso.

• Se aceptan cheques, dinero en efectivo y tarjetas de débito/crédito.

• Se requiere una prueba de residencia en la ciudad de Carbondale para la exención de cargos aplicables.

• El sitio web de la ciudad y “Town of Carbondale, CO Public Works” página de Facebook tendrán actualizaciones recientes.

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CHISME DEL PUEBLO Traducción por Jacquelinne Castro

Fields La Junta de Planificación Regional de Roaring Fork Valley del condado de Eagle ha escuchado comentarios de casi 30 personas, de acuerdo con The Aspen Times, en la audiencia pública de tres horas con respecto a la propuesta de desarrollo de 19 acres al otro lado de la carretera 83 en la subdivisión de Blue Lake. Los desarrolladores están esperando construir alrededor de 135 residencias, incluyendo 27 unidades de precio accesible, en una propiedad que actualmente está zonificada para nueve viviendas. La audiencia continuará el 21 de abril.

Orden falsa El condado de Garfield ha reportado que órdenes de embargo fiscales falsas han sido enviadas a al menos un residente en el condado. Se le pide a los residentes que estén al tanto en detectar y no responder a documentos falsos. La tesorera del condado de Garfield, Garrie Couey, explicó que una orden de embargo genuina tendrá impreso “Garfield County Distraint Warrant” (Orden de Embargo del Condado de Garfield), también tiene que incluir la firma de tesorero y un sello, y también será enviado personalmente por la oficina del alguacil.

Subvención de agroturismo Carbondale Tourism ha sido otorgado $14,000 por la oficina de turismo de Colorado hacia el desarrollo de agroturismo en el Roaring Fork Valley. Esto incluye mejorar el mapa de información de visitantes, promover comida local y experiencias agrícolas, además de entrenamiento de la industria.

han realizado una considerable compra de más de 200 títulos de libros electrónicos en español. Usted puede tener acceso a éstos y otros cientos de títulos en español con una tarjeta de préstamos gratuita y la aplicación de Overdrive/Libby. ¡Tome uno prestado (o más) hoy mismo! Pida ayuda a sus bibliotecarios.

Agua recreativa La ciudad de Glenwood Springs ha asegurado un Uso Recreativo de Desvío de Agua en el Río Colorado. Esté es el segundo uso recreativo de agua en el Río Colorado y protegerá los flujos de agua a lo largo del verano. Esto también le permitirá a la ciudad a crear parques de recreación en tres ubicaciones a lo largo del río.

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Resultados de la elección El pueblo de Carbondale ha reelegido a Erica Sparhawk para servir en la junta de representantes. Junto con Erica también están Chris Hassig y Colin Laird. Ben Bohmfalk fue seleccionado como alcalde y la propuesta de la piscina pasó con el 77.8% de votos. Esto le permite al pueblo tomar $8 millones en deudas para reemplazar la piscina John M. Fleet con nuevas comodidades acuáticas, fundada principalmente a través de ventas de un impuesto ya existente. La elección de alcalde de Bohmfalk creará una vacante en la junta. Una solicitud pública ya está en proceso para las personas interesadas, en la cual tendrán que completar el resto del periodo de dos años de Bohmfalk. Las solicitudes están disponibles en la oficina del secretario del ayuntamiento (y en línea en www.carbondalegov.org ) y deben ser entregadas antes del 28 de abril.

Arte del congreso Estudiantes de secundaria están invitados a participar en la competencia de Arte del Congreso del 2022. El artista ganador logrará tener su obra de arte en exhibición en el Capitolio de los Estados Unidos por un año

completo y recibirá boletos de viaje para asistir a la recepción de apertura en Washington D.C. Para participar, una obra de arte bidimensional que no sea más grande de 26”x26” debe ser enviada por correo a la oficina regional del congreso más cercana antes del 27 de abril.

Taller para exponer arte ¿Alguna vez has imaginado tener tus obras de arte en exposición en una galería pero no tienes ni idea de como empezar?

La galería R2 de Carbondale Arts ubicada en The Launchpad en Carbondale tendrá un taller en español con la artista Vanessa Porras el día domingo 17 de abril de las 9 a.m. a las 12 p.m. Vanessa te tomará de la mano y te guiará paso por paso a través del proceso de aplicación. Para más información puedes comunicarte con Vanessa: vanessaporras.art@gmail.com

¡Atención, usuarios!

Gracias a una subvención, las bibliotecas públicas del Condado Garfield

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Casi una bandada entera de gallinas (35 de 36) han muerto en un rancho del condado de Pitkin. El único sobreviviente fue sacrificado eventualmente. Aunque haya reportes de que el grupo de gallinas fue infectado en Crystal Valley, el condado de Pitkin no le pudo confirmar la ubicación general al The Sopris Sun, declarando, “de acuerdo con el USDA (el departamento de agricultura de los Estados Unidos) y el departamento de agricultura, la información con respecto a los condados es lo único que se puede publicar por el momento, de acuerdo con este caso de HPAI (alto virus patogénico de gripe aviar).” Los dueños de aves son alentados a tomar extremas precauciones e incrementar medidas de bioseguridad incluyendo mantener su rebaño cerrado y prevenir interacciones con aves salvajes.

“HPAI es una enfermedad muy fatal que puede exterminar un pequeño rebaño en menos de 48 horas, por lo cual es crítico que los dueños de aves tomen medidas para prevenir el propagó de este virus,” aconsejo la veterinaria estatal Dr. Maggie Baldwin. Se les pide a los dueños de aves que observen anomalías o comportamientos extraños incluyendo cambios de consumo de comida y agua, producción de huevos y enfermedades o muertes. Para reportar las sospechas de algún caso, llame a la oficina de la veterinaria estatal al 303-869-9130.

A living local legend: John Waldo Tripp

By Ted Frisbie Special to The Sopris Sun

In response to the National Geographic cover story, “The Last Voices of World War II” (published June 20, 2020), I felt compelled to draw attention to one of our Valley’s last surviving members of the 10th Mountain Division.

Born July 28, 1919 in Waterbury, Connecticut, John Waldo Tripp first enlisted as an Air Corp Cadet on Feb. 5, 1942. He “washed out’’ by October, but re-enlisted in the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment nearly immediately after an honorable discharge. This was to become the famed “10th Mountain Division,” but they had no division yet.

He then went to training at Camp Hale near Leadville.

His first deployment was to recapture the Aleutian island of Kiska from the Japanese in 1943. Only upon their arrival did they learn that, to everyone’s surprise, the Japanese had left the island about a week previously. Dogs roamed around stacks of nice canned food and coal fires were still burning.

Tripp and his division returned to Camp Hale, where they formally established the 10th Mountain Division. He spent the winter at Camp Hale, and was married to Irene Walker on March 18, 1944. His father sent him a letter telling him he had no mercy for any man who took on “two battles at once.”

Tripp shipped out for Italy just before Christmas in 1944.

As Italy had joined the Allies by this time, they fought German troops in the Apennine mountains in Tuscany north of Florence.

Tripp became a Platoon Tech Sergeant with a mortar section.

On March 3, 1945, Tripp was shot twice in both legs in the Apennines on Monte Della Vedetta, just overlooking the Po River valley near Bologna. He was taken to a MASH unit in Pistoia (“Where they invented the pistol,” he loves to note,) to recover, and then returned to his company at Lago Garda in early May, 1945, just before V-E Day. Immediately after the war, Tripp stayed in Europe most of the summer, even enjoying ski races in Austria on the Fourth of July!

Upon returning to the United States, he first worked for his wife’s father’s sheet metal factory, installing gutters and furnaces.

He eventually owned his own barrel plant in Denver from 1950

to 1971. Upon retiring, he and his wife Irene bought a little corner of land from John Neislanik. “He took my offer when he needed a new truck and his wife was pregnant,” Tripp remembers.

The Tripps would travel to Carbondale each weekend and camp under a leaning tree on their property as he built their “Albergo Paradiso” over the next two years.

In post-war life, they traveled extensively, often with some or all of their four children. They visited all seven continents, but always strongly favored Europe, which they’d toured in younger days. “I was pretty poor in all subjects except geography,” Tripp says. “I love maps.”

I met Tripp at the Carbondale Post Office in the fall of 2018. As was his wont, he had strapped the front wheel of his adult-sized tricycle in the back of his Subaru and trailed it down the bottom of Prince Creek Road (at 98, no less!). From there, he would ride it into town to shop and do errands, then ride back to his car.

We struck up a conversation concerning the state flags he was flying from his tricycle. He was interested in me because my name is “Frisbie,” and he grew up near the Frisbie Pie Company (yes, that one). It reminded him of the motto (perhaps misremembered), “A Frisbie pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.” Thus began our tradition of collecting, sharing and laughing about idioms and jokes. Visiting Tripp is often like reading the “Laughter, the Best Medicine” page from Reader’s Digest.

He asked me one morning whether I had any metal mesh.

Why? He was dealing with a pesky flicker that was drilling a hole just outside his bedroom and keeping him awake. At the time, he was climbing a ladder with his pockets loaded with pebbles, then dropping the pebbles into the hole in his exterior wall in an effort to fill it up, leaving no room for the flicker.

The idea of this man alone at his house on a ladder is what led me to poke around Prince Creek until I found his home, the amazing Italian albergo, and a 20-foot ladder leaning against it! This was the beginning of my regular visits to chat and check on my new and oldest friend.

Tripp lived in that home until last winter. At 101 ½, he

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As of today, he has lived in the Heritage Park Assisted Living division for about a year. His mind and hearing are as sharp as ever, but his sight and mobility are starting to hinder him. When he reluctantly agreed to my publishing this article, Tripp asked that I include a message of thanks to all of the people who have called or sent letters to him since he’s moved to Heritage. He can’t respond to every note or call, but has truly appreciated them all.

Husband, father, businessman, tech sergeant, world traveler and lifelong learner, Tripp will turn 103 this July. His life has spanned the Spanish Flu in 1919 to COVID today. He is just about the best conversation partner any person could wish for, with compassion and humor, experiences that span the world and a century — and a flair for jokes, idioms and funny jingles.

John Tripp skinning up to Pearl Pass in a German Army hat.

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GARFIELD COUNTY REPORT

Bear and water preparation

By James Steindler Contributing Editor

Bear aware Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Glenwood Springs District wildlife manager Matt Yamashita and assistant area wildlife manager Darren Chacon asked the commissioners to sign a letter in support of a regional funding effort to mitigate human and black bear encounters.

CPW will distribute $1 million in grant funding, from the new Human Bear Conflict Reduction Community Grant Program, statewide. CPW’s Glenwood Springs District plans to request between $200,000 and $250,000.

Chacon relayed to the commissioners that the CPW commission approved a new data analysis unit bear plan last month, with the goal to keep human-bear contact calls under 450 annually.

“Those 450 calls don’t just impact CPW officers,” explained Chacon. “They impact municipalities; they impact the PD [police department] and the sheriff 's department … a lot of times they’re going to a call before we are. It’s not only impacting our agency; it’s community-wide.”

CPW is reaching out to the 13 municipalities in the Eagle and Roaring Fork valleys, as well as the four counties (including Gunnison County), to request support for a cohesive approach.

“Rather than all of the municipalities and counties competing against each other, if we can collaborate and work together as one large group, then Matt [Yamashita] would apply for one lump sum.”

“Local agencies may form partnerships with other agencies, including local CPW staff, to conduct a project,” reads the grant program guidelines. “While such partnerships are encouraged, they are not required.”

“We’re looking at different ways to spend this money,” said Chacon, “it can be for bear-proof trash cans, hazing or education … the list goes on.”

“The second part to it,” continued Yamashiata, “is just to get us to talk across municipal and county boundaries, and recognize that bears don’t see those boundaries … so to properly address those problems we need to be thinking along the same lines and not just pushing the problem onto our neighbors.”

Grant applications are due by May 6, “So, CPW is looking for letters or funding up until April 22,” explained Yamashita.

“I think it’s a good deal,” said Commissioner Mike Samson. “I see where you want everyone on the same page and I applaud you for that.”

Commissioner Tom Jankovsky wanted to clarify that CPW wasn’t requesting funding from the county. Yamashita explained that CPW

would not turn down an offer but, at this time, is relying on the municipalities to add to the coffers for matching funds.

“This grant process, the way it’s laid out, matching funding is taken into consideration,” explained Yamashita. He stated that the majority of the 13 municipalities have committed between $10,000 to $20,000.

Water quality Following the wild fires of 2020 and the mudslides of 2021, concerns over water quality have peaked.

Paula Stepp, executive director of the Middle Colorado Watershed Council (MCWC), appeared to request funding for the continuing effort to monitor and improve water quality on the Colorado River between Glenwood Canyon and De Beque.

“When we have a debris flow incident up here, it’s all coming in and we’re seeing it rise pretty quickly in Glenwood. By the time it gets to Silt, Parachute or De Beque, the problem is that it’s not like immediate and then flushed through,” Stepp explained. “It just stays, stays and stays, and they’re dealing with a runoff situation of sediment throughout the summer and into the fall, as opposed to just having a short-term runoff period where they have higher sediment.”

Last year, among other efforts, MCWC set up water quality monitoring, soil moisture monitoring and rain gauges.

Ryan Sparhawk, soil scientist with White River National Forest based out of Glenwood Springs, spoke to the source of the debris flows.

“Our question is, where did this material come from?”

Rather than from the burn scars themselves, where only about two inches of soil was lost, according to Sparhawk, the large debris flows came from the gulches leading into the canyon.

“It was really interesting for us to find out that the fire scar had an impact on these debris flows, but there were also other physical forces happening to produce all of that debris,” he explained.

After a thorough presentation, the commissioners unanimously agreed to award MCWC $10,000 from the general fund and an additional $5,000 from its discretionary funding budget.

As a reminder to readers, video recordings of the commissioners’ meetings are available online at www.garfield-county.com

Blue Gulch in the Glenwood Canyon. Courtesy photo

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CARBONDALE REPORT

Emergency Task Force looks beyond COVID

By Raleigh Burleigh Sopris Sun Editor All trustees were in attendance at their regular meeting on April 12.

As per usual, the meeting began with public comments from persons not on the agenda (there were none) followed by comments by the trustees.

Marty Silverstein was sure to thank Town Clerk Cathy Derby and her “band of elves” for running a smooth election. Silverstein also thanked Dan Richardson, Heather Henry and Luis Yllanes, as well as youth representative Boden Hamilton, for their time serving on the board.

Lani Kitching announced that a graduate student at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is writing about Carbondale’s passage of a flavored tobacco ban having influenced the Valley. House Bill 1219 would next ban the sale of flavored tobacco in the entire state, if it passes.

Erica Sparhawk has been busy with Colorado Communities for Climate Action and coauthored an opinion piece for the Colorado Sun about a bill that leans on producers of plastics to help communities deal with their waste and improve recycling. Sparhawk also testified before the Colorado Department of Transformation and Air Quality Control Commission on behalf of Carbondale and in favor of clean truck rulemaking.

Henry made it known that a state bill cleared the way for locally-collected lodging tax money to be spent on the impacts of tourism, and not just its promotion.

The majority of Tuesday’s meeting focused on the Carbondale Emergency Task Force. “I wanted to recognize leaders of lines of effort,” said Richardson, “and also talk about what the task force looks like moving forward."

In March 2020, before the governor’s statewide shelter-at-home order went into effect, Carbondale’s government was meeting with other community leaders to plan for the worst. At the height of the pandemic, the task force met sometimes twice a week.

Early on, Carbondale resident PC Drew, whose professional background in the military involves strategic planning and disaster relief, reached out with a framework proposing eight lines of effort: health, economy, strategic communications, human capital, finance, technology, advocacy and crisis response.

The task force involved Andrea Stewart of the chamber of commerce, registered nurse Ryn Calhoon, Sarah-Jane Johnson on strategic communications, Amy Kimberly organizing human capital, Carbondale Finance Director Renae Gustine, Justin Lewis with Roaring Fork Technologists, Sparhawk on advocacy, Gene Schilling and later Kirk Wilson on crisis response and the eventual involvement of Syndey Schalit with MANAUS. “As I reflect back on this, it was clearly a shining moment for the community because of how we responded,” said Richardson.

“From the bottom of my heart, thank you for all you've done for Carbondale.”

Drew praised the “whole community approach,” with “things the town government could and couldn't do augmented by things the community could and couldn't do, under a unified vision able PC Drew was recognized for facilitating the Carbondale Emergency Task Force.

Photo by Raleigh Burleigh

to deliver things.” He highlighted that $3.2 million was administered to individuals in $1,000 increments thanks to MANAUS and LaMedichi in an initiative that sought to help local people excluded from federal stimulus funds.

“In June 2020, I came in as an outsider,” said Wilson, Carbondale’s police chief.

“What other municipalities were struggling and scrambling to do — make relationships with organizations — were already in place here. [Carbondale] is a community that cares. It is incredibly resilient and adaptive.”

“What this task force did well is respond to champions of ideas,” concurred Richardson Among those was the idea of “neighborhood heroes,” checking in on people and making sure that crucial information was circulating. Henry called it “a really fascinating piece of this to keep some energy around. When we talk about communicating and how much we have to rely on whatever — the electrical network, internet — it’s one of our biggest vulnerabilities.

Door-to-door communication was incredibly powerful and would be amazing to foster in good times, so there’s a network in place in most challenging times.”

After some discussion, it was determined appropriate to maintain a framework and list of contacts to activate the task force again in a future disaster scenario, whether that relates to wildfire, a recession, fentanyl, mental health or even affordability. A group would meet a few times each year to review the town’s disaster preparedness strategies and maintain a living document.

“It’s the natural thing for a municipality,” responded Wilson. “Whatever the crisis may be, to have a reference to jump to immediately, so everybody is playing from the same sheet of music very quickly.”

In other news, the waste contract put out to bid for yard waste collection was awarded to EverGreen ZeroWaste.

Although their proposal was slightly more expensive than that of Mountain Waste & Recycling, Public Works Director Kevin Schorzman said they clearly put a lot of thought into their application, and their “ability to engage the public will be as good or better. And that’s not a slam on Mountain Waste.”

Next week’s work session will focus on the Town Center properties, parcels recently donated to the town that surround the Thunder River Theatre Company building.

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LOCATED IN THE PARKING LOT AT 4TH & COLORADO ITEMS NOT ACCEPTED: • Hazard waste, i.e., oil, paint, cleaning fluids/canisters, car liquids, propane bottles.

• Yard waste and branches will NOT be accepted at this event. Yard waste and branches 2” or less in diameter will be accepted at the seasonal Yard Waste events which begin on May 14, 2022, and every-other weekend thru September. This event is located at 4th & Colorado, 9a-noon. Town residents only.

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• Check, cash, debit/credit card accepted.

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• The Town website and “Town of Carbondale, CO Public Works” Facebook page will have current updates.

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RFSD superintendent finalists announced

By James Steindler Contributing Editor

The Roaring Fork School District (RFSD) is narrowing in on its search for a new superintendent to replace Rob Stein at the end of the school year. Three finalists will travel to the Valley to meet the community and get a glimpse of what they might expect in the Valley.

Each candidate will spend a day in the district touring the schools, participating in advisory committee meetings and spending the evening getting to know the community. Community forums will take place at the Carbondale District Office (400 Sopris Avenue) at 7 p.m., with Jesús Rodríguez on April 14, Jose “Joe” Lopez on April 18 and Tammy Clementi on April 19. The district’s board of education hopes to announce the new superintendent at its April 27 meeting.

The Sopris Sun had the opportunity to ask each of the finalists one question, and considering that all of the candidates are from outside of the Valley, this is what we went with: “What motivates you to move to the Roaring Fork Valley to support education in this region?”

Here are their responses in their own words.

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Jesús Rodríguez I was born in Denver and grew up in a community on the Front Range similar to those in the Roaring Fork Valley. Creating high-quality educational opportunities for students has been my life’s work as a bilingual teacher, principal, higher education leader and currently as deputy chief academic officer in one of the largest school districts in the country.

Great teachers made a huge difference in my life.

I am looking for a home where I too can directly and significantly impact the lives of young people. There is great work already happening in the Roaring Fork schools and I am motivated to build on it by working collaboratively to ensure that every student receives the world-class education that they deserve. My wife and I would love to return to Colorado and raise our young son in one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Jose “Joe” Lopez My family and I love the outdoors. We both grew up in smaller communities like Glenwood Springs, Carbondale and Basalt. The RFSD is founded on down-home values, a commitment to equity and excellence and supports the education of the whole child. These attributes of the RFSD are very important to me.

If given the opportunity to serve as superintendent of the RFSD, you will see my family and me participating in community events and becoming part of the fabric of the community. I truly believe that together we can continue the academic excellence of the RFSD through collaboration, teamwork, professionalism and a high level of accountability. My family and I are looking forward to meeting with all the stakeholders of the RFSD on Monday, April 18.

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Tammy Clementi Love this question! Moving to the Roaring Fork Valley to serve and support education, for me, always starts with two questions: What is the need?

How can I serve? My skill set 100% aligns with the areas identified in the leadership profile (cumulative responses by stakeholders) needing support. My life’s work has centered around ensuring we are executing the equitable practices in our schools that allows every child to succeed. This is the work that keeps me up at night and lights my fire to continue to advocate and champion for every child!

Additionally, RFSD is ripe to break through to the next level of excellence. The competence and dedication of the staff and community is the secret sauce to making magic happen. I am excited to work with folks who share the same desire I have for the students in our schools. When there is unity in our Courtesy photos work together, regardless of the climb and growing pains, it makes our work that much more rewarding. Living and serving in the Roaring Fork Valley is the icing on the cake. The Valley is one of the most beautiful areas of Colorado. I am a Colorado native whose passion is appreciating and playing in our great outdoors… So, to live and work in the Roaring Fork Valley would be a dream come true!

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Sustainable Settings preps for phase three

By Raleigh Burleigh Sopris Sun Editor

News of Sustainable Settings selling its property came as a shock to many. The announcement’s proximity to April 1 had some wondering if it was a joke. After nearly two decades of building soil south of Carbondale, the biodynamic ranch has become a defining characteristic of the region. Soon, however, the land may inherit a new custodian, as Sustainable Settings looks onward toward its next iteration.

“Woody Creek was 1.0,” Maestro di Niente Brook LeVan told The Sopris Sun on a sunny afternoon. “This is 2.0,” he said, gesturing to the surrounding ranch, “and something else is 3.0.”

Maestro di Niente, LeVan’s self-given title, translates as “Master of Nothing.” His demeanor is determinedly playful.

Asked first if he’d like to address any misconceptions since the news broke, he responded, “Well, we’re not retiring. That word’s not even in my lexicon.”

To tell the story of Sustainable Settings, he began by introducing his viking ancestors. The idea of settlement, he explained, is a thread through the work that he and Rose, his wife and accomplice in creativity, have cultivated throughout their lives. “She’s incredible,” he stated, recounting their world adventures.

Freshly graduated with master’s degrees in fine arts in 1989, they traveled to West Africa on a Fulbright grant to study “how human meets nature.” Learning from the Gurunsi people, whose territory intersects Ghana and Burkina Faso, he had an epiphany. “The Gurunsi woke us up,” he said. “They had no word for ‘art.’” LeVan ceased signing his name on work and vowed to integrate art into everyday living.

Years later, shortly after floating the Yellow River in China with traditional watercrafts fashioned from goat carcasses, the couple arrived at Anderson Ranch in 1997. With another Fulbright already secured for a subsequent trip to India, they made the acquaintance of George Stranahan, who invited them to dust off a ceramics studio at his home and take up residency.

One day, while crossing Woody Creek, LeVan was struck with inspiration. Under the umbrella of the Aspen Educational Research Foundation, now Compass, the seed for Sustainable

Settings was sown at the Aspen Community School. The trip to India was perpetually postponed.

In 2003, the nonprofit secured funds, thanks to generous donations, to purchase 244 acres of the historic Thompson Creek Ranch for $2 million. The land had been subjected to many decades of conventional agriculture. So, the artists set out to explore building soil using “potentized homeopathic fertilizers,” as LeVan calls their biodynamic preparations.

“Raw dairy, incredible meat, peak flavor and health benefits, these are all byproducts of the main effort: to build soil and discover incredible relationships with all of life,” said LeVan. Nineteen years later, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) soil tests demonstrate consistent improvements in the ranch’s health and vitality. “Seven years of Soil Health Test Data have shown me that the principles Sustainable Settings employ have led to positively trending results,” Derrick Wyle, a USDA soil conservationist, is quoted saying in a press release for the sale of the ranch. “The active life in their soils has gone up every year” and tests higher than any other farm he’s analyzed for the Glenwood Springs Field Office.

As “our latest community-based, site-specific installation,” said LeVan, “This work of art will finance the next.”

Opening at $24.25 million, “this rare gem becomes more precious each year and will remain as you see it today forever in an agricultural open space,” the press release continues.

The ranch itself and surrounding properties are protected by conservation easements, restricting what can be done on the properties into perpetuity.

The sale also includes senior water rights fed from two separate watersheds, three wells, and several structures including pole barns, a solar-powered bathhouse, three greenhouses, an outdoor kitchen, store, office, a guest cabin, the Thompson’s homestead cabin and a Victorian house. It’s described in a sales brochure (www. crystalrivergem.org) as “a turnkey agricultural operation.”

The crew at Sustainable Settings is prepared to move within 30 days, said LeVan, but also open to advising the land’s next custodians.

“There’s been interest already, different scenarios discussed with different groups.” Until the ranch is sold, the Biodynamic Raw Dairy Herdshare program will continue serving its current 120

“We were artists when we got here,” said Maestro di Niente Brook LeVan. “We didn’t know anything. Now we know less.”

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family members. The vegetable CSA and ranch store will also remain until further notice.

In the press release, Sustainable Settings board president Pete Hawkins attributes “the expense for a growing, landbased nonprofit organization to keep pace with the ongoing costs locally” to the unanimous vote to sell, determined best for the long-term success of the organization.

Proceeds from the sale would fund the purchase of another smaller ranch parcel, the press release continues, “construct facilities … and provide an endowment to help fund annual operating expenses.”

For Brooke, 3.0 means “to continue the work, find the next place … more data points, implement right away what works here.” They will test the soil immediately for a baseline, then attempt to “prove it again.”

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LOCAL THEATER

A theater review: “Picasso at the Lapin Agile”

By Myki Jones Sopris Sun Correspondent

On April 8, Sopris Theatre Company (STC), at Colorado Mountain College’s Spring Valley campus, premiered “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” a one-act comedy written by Steve Martin.

The fictional satire involves world-famous scientist Albert Einstein, played by Joshua Adamson, and infamous painter Pablo Picasso, played by Wyatt Tulk, meeting at the historic Lapin Agile bar in France in October 1904. The humor of the show was full of the intelligent, existential and slapstick humor which Martin is known for and does a wonderful job capturing the hypothetical answer to a “what if ” question.

Along with an element of wonder and surprise, there are science fiction components including time travel. Another famous figure, listed as “Visitor” in the program and played

by Sebastian Dunn, travels to 1904 to discuss cultural and socioeconomic changes of the 20th century with Picasso and Einstein.

Perhaps the most poignant line from the show comes from Picasso when he states, “The twentieth century has to start somewhere, and why not now?” Rhetorical reflections such as this keeps the audience engaged.

The large cast of characters also includes the barkeep, Freddy (Mike Banks) and his unfaithful lover Germaine (Courtney Lindgren), who, like Suzanne (Hattie Rensberry), is one of Picasso’s many female admirers, Gaston (Willie Moseley), a regular at the Lapin Agile, the eccentric art dealer Sagot (Travis Wilson) and the fasttalking egocentric inventor Charles Dabernow Schmendiman (Scott Elmore).

Wyatt Tulk (Picasso) and Joshua Adamson (Einstein) draw pencils. Courtesy photo

While a few jokes may go over the heads of some viewers, the fourth wall breaks, art and science references and the hypnotic and abstract stage design is enough to keep everyone engaged the entire show.

Each character is unique, but they also share some commonalities. While some characters have goals that the audience can relate to, others are stuck in a realm of uncertainty.

For example, Sagot, Schmendiman, Picasso, Einstein and Freddy are set on achieving success by their own measure. Whether that be Picasso creating groundbreaking art, Sagot trying to commission said art, Einstein figuring out what his scientific breakthrough is, or Freddy just working to keep the bar afloat.

In contrast, Gaston, Germaine and Suzanne, who added a lot of brilliant commentary and comedic quips throughout the dialogue of the show, stand out by merely standing on the sidelines of so much genius entering the shared space throughout the course of the night. What was striking about these characters in particular, was their tendency to strike up a one-on-one conversation with the audience.

The cast of "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" raises a toast. Courtesy photo

Given the time in which the play is set, it was somewhat refreshing to see women, who didn’t have equitable rights, speaking about the pleasures with, and attraction to, the opposite sex and not be shamed for it. In that regard, the topics of love and sex were portrayed in a way that wasn’t vulgar or graphic but quite digestible.

All in all, “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” is a whimsical, fun and lovely play that features wonderfully rounded characters, hilarious dialogue and pensive fourth-wall breaks. It keeps

viewers engaged during the show and pondering once the curtain goes down.

“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” runs again on Apr. 15, 16, 22 and 23 at 7:00 pm along with 2 p.m. matinees on Apr. 17 and 24.

Live streaming dates for the show are also available on Apr. 16 and 22. Masks are now optional in the New Space Theatre.

To purchase tickets, call the box office at 970-947-8177 or visit www.bit.ly/ picassoattheLapinagile and enjoy the show!

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LOCAL THEATER

The Valley is alive with ‘The Sound of Music’

By Marlo Bowman Youth Correspondent

The student production of “The Sound of Music,” directed by Sonya Meyer, premiered Friday, April 8. A collaboration between Basalt High, Basalt Middle, Basalt Elementary, Carbondale Middle and Roaring Fork High schools made the show possible.

This wildly popular musical set at the beginning of World War II, follows the story of Maria Rainer, a soon to be nun who gets sent to the Von Trapp family to be a governess.

As her time progresses with the family, she quickly falls in love with the children and their father, Captain Georg Von Trapp. While the plot unfolds, Maria brings the love of music back into the Von Trapp family’s home and reminds them of what it means to feel joy.

From the moment the curtains open, it is clear that the cast and crew put their passion into this show. The costuming, vocals and acting were rehearsed with precision and the result is captivating.

Evie Becker, who plays Rainer, has a powerful voice and an energetic stage presence.

Victor Argueta Gomez (Captain Von Trapp), acts alongside Becker phenomenally, creating a convincing and authentic love story.

To viewers’ delight, there appears a hidden gem who nearly stole the show. Portraying the role of Uncle Max Detweiler, Rebeca Galicia masters an amusing and unforgettable character.

At any point Galicia is on stage she manages to have the audience engaged and laughing.

There were a couple of technical difficulties, as to be expected on opening night.

However, the cast persevered and left the audience in awe of their coordination. In speaking with Becker once the show concluded, it was clear that this harmony was achieved due to the connections formed between the student participants from each of the schools.

Combining talents from Carbondale through Basalt impacted the music program in a great way. Even considering having had less time than normal to prepare, the students pulled off an extraordinary musical experience worth seeing.

“I’m glad that the program is being expanded. It’s an awesome opportunity to grow a community of people that are passionate about the same thing,” Becker added.

In a goofy and endearing comment from Meyer on opening night, she said, “Tell your friends — and even your enemies — to come see the show again and again!”

“The Sound of Music” continues at Basalt Middle School’s auditorium Friday, April 15 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 16 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are available at www.bit.ly/SoundofMusicRFV Come support the local youth as they sing their hearts out for all the valley to hear.

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(Above) A cast and crew of elementary through high school students came together to bring "The Sound of Music" to the Valley. (Right) Jacqueline Northrup (Liesl Von Trapp) and Gus Richardson (Rolf Gruber) lock eyes during a pivotal scene.

The final showtimes are Friday, April 15 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 16 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

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“The Theology of Me” - Credo Service Sunday, April, 17, 2022 at 10:00am Third Street Center, Carbondale This special service will be devoted to the credos of TRUU members who have been participating in a UU program called Building Your Own Theology. Under the guidance of our minister, the Rev. Aaron Norris, this morning’s speakers have spent the past few months exploring what they personally believe, and they will share their reflections this morning.

Worship Associate Nicolette Toussaint will also share a credo written years ago on a dare. Music by Jimmy Byrne.

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OBITUARY

Janet Masters

May 20, 1927 - March 24, 2022 Janet Masters, 94, quietly passed on March 24 at home in Basalt. She was known and loved for her exuberance and determination to have her home and her way of life, her way.

Janet Sheila Ross Caldwell was born in Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada to Elsie Gillies and William R. Caldwell on May, 20 1927. It was the same day that Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Caldwell and Gillies clans were the two iconic Scottish lumbermen of Lanark County and Carleton Place. She grew up between the Caldwell’s Loch End Ranch and the Gillies’ “Ross Dhu” homestead.

During World War II, Janet boarded at the Elmwood School for Girls in Ottawa with European evacuees, including Beatrix, the future Queen of The Netherlands. After the war, she briefly attended McGill University in Montreal and the Katharine Gibbs School in Boston, where she lived with her cousin Ruth. In 1947 she and Ruth moved to Los Angeles, California, and her life changed forever.

In the University of Southern California business office, Janet was responsible for distributing checks to the work-study students. Warner Masters instantly fell in love with Janet when he one day went to collect his check as a dishwasher. They were married for 60 years.

Janet made it her life’s work to support her husband in every way. She was a consummate homemaker — a flawless hostess and accomplished chef — who always dressed beautifully and strived to make her many guests feel welcomed. Janet remained a loyal Canadian Scot her entire life, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen 35 years after she arrived.

Janet and Warner lived for 20 years with their family in Tarzana, California. With their children grown, they moved to Westlake Village, and later to Sedona, Arizona, where they gained a wide circle of friends. They eventually retired to Rockwood, Colorado. Ardent travelers, they enjoyed many vacations on mostly small ships in Alaska, the Baltic and Panama, among other cruises. They continued hiking in the mountains, glamping in the Yosemite High Sierra Camps and the Canadian Rockies and embarking on frequent road and train trips in the U.S. and Canada.

Janet’s favorite train trip was the annual Snowball Special from Los Angeles to Sun Valley for a week-long Gemütlichkeit with friends and ski instructors. Once a Girl Guide Leader, Janet loved the outdoors; skiing, camping and mountain hiking were constant endeavors during her adult life, as well as tennis and golf. A long-time dog lover, she cared and nurtured many, including her last rescue who was by her side at the end.

Janet is survived by her three children: Lindy Masters, Basalt; Bill (Jill) Masters, Telluride, and John (Maura) Masters, Carbondale. Grammy Jan had nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

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GUEST OPINION

Affordable housing shouldn’t have to take a miracle

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By Benjamin Waddell

Residents of the Westside Mobile Home Park in Durango, in southern Colorado, called it a miracle. They are under contract to buy the land their homes sit on, their rent will not go up and they proved that the housing cooperative they’d founded had staying power.

Westside’s fate was hardly a given.

The New York-based owner, Neal Kurzner, rejected their first offer, saying he had a corporate buyer who owned many trailer parks and was ready to pay $5.5 million in cash.

He gave the community just seven days to come up with a cash offer.

“We knew what was at risk,” resident Darcy Diaz told me. “But how do you raise $5.5 million?”

Diaz, who grew up in Colombia and moved to Westside in 2018, knew their only hope was to organize. With a group of other determined residents, Diaz helped start the Westside Mobile

Westside families waiting to hear if their bid was accepted. Photo by Benjamin Waddell

Home Park Cooperative.

It launched a GoFundMe account, opened a Facebook page and prepared tamales, posole and empanadas to fundraise for the cause. Then Local First, which supports development initiatives in La Plata County, granted Westside $140,000 in cash plus a $395,000 zero-interest loan, while the Durango community turned out in force, helping Westside raise just over $50,000 in less than a week.

In the meantime, Stefka Fanchi, who heads up Elevation Community Land Trust, shored up support from county officials, banks and a handful of nonprofits. Westside Cooperative’s relationship with Elevation, which

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For nearly a week, the community waited to hear back, with many residents saying they could hardly sleep.

Then, on March 31, Fanchi said she had news. Diaz and her fellow organizers gathered around a single computer in a neighbor’s kitchen.

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began over Zoom. “And I do have an update, and that is that we are buying the Westside Mobile Home Park!”

“They accepted!” residents screamed, crying, and turning to each other in joy. Diaz hugged her twoyear-old daughter, and on the screen, Fanchi and her colleagues wept.

Westside’s success provides hope in a housing market where mobile home parks are frequently sold on short notice followed by large rent hikes or eviction.

But Westside’s success is an exception. Since 2020, when Colorado began requiring mobile home park owners to provide their residents with notice of their intent to sell, over a hundred trailer parks have been placed on the market and only four have successfully bought the land beneath them.

Now, Colorado needs to pass additional legislation that would grant first right of refusal to park residents, give them more time to submit an offer, and cap the percentage that parks can raise rent. A bill to do just that has been introduced by State Democratic Rep. Andrew Boesenecker.

Westside Mobile Home Park residents needed a miracle, and they got it. But access to dignified housing shouldn’t come down to miracles. It should simply be the way things are.

Benjamin Waddell is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, a nonprofit dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He is a sociologist based at Fort Lewis College in Durango.

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question.’ When I asked what was, she said, ‘How many of them still love each other?’ That was beautiful.

I keep telling my kids that I can’t believe how I lucked out big time.”

Forbes’ son, from his first marriage, Jesse, has three children and lives in Boulder. His daughter, Kate, lives in California and has two children. Nick teaches at Riverview School in Glenwood Springs. All three attended CRMS and Forbes was their soccer coach.

Currently, Nick is the head coach for RFHS Rams boys soccer team.

Former Aspen teacher Willard Clapper and Forbes grew up together in Aspen. When Clapper retired in 2000, Forbes continued teaching “Tomorrow’s Voices” to “create engaged voices that aren’t cynical, burned out or apathetic.”

He says everyday heroes are everywhere. “There are little embers of heroic behavior in Ukraine right now.

We have such a hunger for meaning.

My whole thing with students is, if you share your humanity, nobody can turn it down. I love being in a place where people’s humanity is effervescent. That’s where more of those heroes can be seen and felt.”

On leaving CRMS, Forbes said, “It’s this profound place to teach. It’s addictive because it’s so compelling and contagious, but I’m 70 and I’ve got grandkids. It’s definitely bittersweet.”

And our community and world are all the better for your years of service, A.O.

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LETTERS YES on B I am one who is opposed to the annexation plan for 480 Donegan, as it currently stands, and in favor of sensible development that includes, among other things, an increased amount of truly affordable housing. I’m not alone in this position, as you know if you’ve been following the issue. Approval of R2’s initial plan was denied by the Glenwood Springs Planning and Zoning Board. Our Garfield County Commissioners are not in favor of the plan either. Their July 19, 2021 letter to the Glenwood Springs City Council outlined the reasons for their decision.

Some people have asked those of us who are fighting the current plan, “What do you want if the measure is defeated?” One of the best answers I have seen is from Garfield County Commissioner Mike Samson who said, “I would hope that there could be a coalition of groups, organizations, governments that could come together and work with the Diemoz family to perhaps make that a more beneficial area to the people that already live there … I would even be in favor as a County Commissioner to be part of that, to work with the city, to work with the family, to work with the other groups … I think that would be a better solution for all of Garfield County…”

Mr. Samson is correct. We need to back up and consider some alternate solutions.

Vote YES on B. Vote YES to repeal the annexation of 480 Donegan. Check out our website, www.gscsd.org (especially the FAQs page) for more information.

Thelma Zabel, Glenwood Springs

Healing Hoof It The turnout for the Healing Hoof It was the best ever since the inception of the event.

This is our fifth year for this event and the number of participants for the newly added 5k was beyond my expectations, with 70 runners. Huge thank yous to the Carbondale Chamber for allowing us to partner during April’s First Friday, and to the Carbondale Rec team for executing the race details. It was the debut for Carbondale Rec’s race arch, which even the Smiling Goat therapy animals got to go through. One of the horses wasn’t too sure about it, but we got him through it! And so much gratitude for our wellness partners who had information booths at the Fourth Street Plaza, and to our sponsors.

Without them, this event would not be possible. And to the Main Street businesses who offered treats to the participants: Peppino’s Pizza, Carbondale Beer Works and Batch Provisions. Also a big thank you to Michelle Marlow of Ascent Events, who brings her brilliance to our three annual signature events. And to Independence Run and Hike who graciously offered runners energy drinks, water and nutritious snacks, post-race.

The following is the list of Wellness Partners who graciously work with our valley’s youth, families and veterans and provide invaluable services and support. We are thrilled and honored to have them as part of our Smiling Goat Family: Aspen Hope Center, Western Slope Veterans Coalition, Arc of the Central Rockies, Grand Junction VA

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Medical Center, Ascendigo, Challenge Aspen, Huts for Vets, Mind Springs Health and Aperture of Hope. Wellness Partners who couldn’t make it: Aspen Strong, YouthZone, Stepping Stones Our Sponsors: Wrangler, Slifer, Smith & Frampton Real Estate, Alpine Bank, Lowe, Grand River Health, Berthod Motors and R&A Enterprises.

Sheryl Barto, Smiling Goat Ranch

Vote YES Lately in the news there have been so many issues with labor shortages and lack of housing for employees. I have seen these in Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge and now our mountain oasis of Glenwood Springs. Real estate has skyrocketed and with that the rental market has gone up and there is very little inventory. When I first moved to Glenwood Springs in 1996, it was the same story and I was very lucky to have housing handed to me.

Otherwise, I might not be here today. What do I mean by handed to me? Well, a soonto-be co-worker offered me her basement apartment — what I imagine what employee housing is like today. The apartment was affordable, in the town that I worked in, easy to attain and I was able to live alone in a studio apartment.

Affordable housing is housing that a household can pay for while still having money left over for other necessities like food, transportation and health care. That means that which is considered “affordable” depends on a household’s income. Housing should cost less than 30% of a household's monthly income. For example, if rent is $1,800 a month the household should make $6,000 a month which is approximately $34 an hour. How many individuals in Glenwood Springs make $34/hour? I look at the local ads and do not see that level of pay for entry level positions. In my opinion, when we look at affordable housing, we need to gauge it with the income levels of the many people who work in Glenwood Springs. The essential workforce of Glenwood Springs such as teachers, firefighters, police officers and restaurant workers should be able to find places that are in their price range which requires affordable housing; like a $1,000 a month studio.

The reason that I encourage folks to vote YES on B is because the City of Glenwood Springs (COGS) needs to come up with a plan for affordable housing. I want COGS to look at what the other mountain communities have done and learn from their successes and mistakes. Glenwood Springs is lucky that we still have time to make this an option.

If you Vote Yes on B, you are telling the City Council to not annex the 480 Donegan property and to come up with a proper plan for affordable housing prior to developing or approving any more housing that our workforce cannot afford.

Vote YES on B! Lori Welch, Glenwood Springs

Liar’s Contest Last Saturday afternoon, we held our third annual Liar's Contest and in celebration of Roaring Fork Valley Storyteller's (previously Spellbinders) 25th anniversary of storytelling in the Valley. True and false stories were told by Nina Gabianelli, Mike Monroney, Barbara Shaw and Sylvia Wendrow. Torre, Steve Child, Chris Wheatley and our amazing audience judged the contest.

I'd like to thank the community who came out in droves and supported this lively and hilarious event.

I'd especially like to thank our sponsors: The Mountain Chalet and Alpine Bank.

Jill Sheeley RFV Storytellers President

Spring?

Lovely pink blossoms Will they become fruit or freeze Spring brings wonderment Peace, Bob Schultz, Carbondale

GUNNISON COUNTY PATROL DEPUTY Patrol Deputy Marble & Somerset Area: Full-Time, 40 hours/week, starting monthly salary $4,707 plus full benefits. Work in the Marble and Somerset area. For more information, including the complete job description, required qualifications and application instructions, please visit: www.GunnisonCounty.org/jobs.

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PARTING SHOTS Dance Aspen Connection hosted John “Mr. Tap” Williams (bottom left) for a weekend of events. The fun began with a performance at Sopris Lodge on April 8, together with Karen Kent (top left) of Aspen Dance Connection and Bailey Barnum and Jameson Osborne of Legacy Dance Company.

“We are elated to partner with Aspen Dance Connection to bring the sounds and movement of Mr. Tap to campus,” said Sopris Lodge Community Relations Director Molly DeMarr.

Next, on April 9, Mr. Tap and Legacy Dance Company performed at the Glenwood Springs Library to a full audience with live jazz music from David Parker, Ashton Tauger and Mateo Sandate.

Mr. Tap sends gratitude to other legends of the art: William Henry Lane a.k.a Master Juba, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, John W. Bubbles, Eleanor Powell, Charles "Honi" Coles, Ann Miller, Gene Kelly, the Nicholas brothers, Betty Ryer, Fred Astaire, Gene GeBauer, Bunny Briggs, Jason Samuel Smith, Henry LeTang, Savion Glover and Gregory Hines.

“Tap Dance is a unique style of dance that involves rapid and special footwork,” Mr. Tap told The Sopris Sun. “The dancer's feet and tap shoes act as a drum and each part of the shoes makes a particular sound and beat. Tap dancing can be performed with or without music because the Tap dancer makes music with the sound of taps on the shoes.”

Photos by Raleigh Burleigh

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Hello Carbondale!

We are two young professionals, looking for a Carbondale rental, starting in May, June, or July. We grew up here, love the area, and would like to continue living in town.

We have excellent references from the owners of a Missouri Heights home we have been caretaking for the past 3 years.

We’d love to live near downtown Carbondale so we can walk/ bike to our jobs. Adele works for the Carbondale nonprofit; the Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program and Isaias works as a professional soap maker at Osmia Organics.

Seeking long-term housing in a 2–4-beroom, unfurnished property (townhome or house) $2500-$4000 depending on the # of bedrooms. We have one friendly, well-behaved medium sized labmix. Fenced yard and garage or storage shed would be great.

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In our free time, we enjoy being in the outdoors. We love to cook, garden, make art, and participate in community events.

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