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Volume 10, Number 51 | January 24, 2019

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Carbondale Commentary

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It’s like …

By Stan Badgett Ask my students — I’m a stickler when it comes to using the word “like.”

Generally, it’s prohibited in my classroom. At least when it’s meant to stand for veritably — in other words, as an intensifier. If a person wants to intensify a statement, it doesn’t help to fuzzy it up. So my poor students have to put up with me. I try to be direct, but courteous. “Could you please say that again without using the word like?” I’ve trained myself not to say it, but once in a while it still slips out.

When I want to be accepted.Because it’s hip to be vague. Except being hip is to be in the know. If I’m hip I really know what’s going on; I’m dialed into the program. I’m aware. I know what’s what. Using like as a sign of hipness started in the fifties. Seymour Krim’s “The Beats.” Ferlinghetti’s “Coney Island of the Mind.”

“If you would be a poet, create works capable of answering the challenge.” But 60 years later it has worn a little thin. It hasn’t stood the test of time. When I use the word now, it’s because I don’t know what to say.

A while back I witnessed a conversation between two college students, a girl and boy, on the St. John’s campus in Santa Fe. He was trying to make an impression. She looked up to him expectantly as he announced, “I’m like . . . I mean, it’s like . . . Like, I’m like—” And so on. She didn’t cringe, but gracefully endured his heartbreaking display of ineptitude. Maybe they eventually got it figured out, this big-hearted lad and his bright-faced lady companion. There was something ardent, brave and pure he

wanted to express. She was hoping for something deep.

John Lydgate (15th Century) was the first to call comparisons odious. Shakespeare parodied him by calling them “odorous.”

The word like offers to enrich us by making an explicit comparison. Eager to know more, we anticipate the junction of disparate ideas, the prospect of new knowledge, the clarification of an implied relationship. Like is an enticement. A promise of increased understanding. It’s the lynchpin in the figure of speech known as simile. We delight in verisimilitude. We admire an artist who can capture a likeness. Mimesis. It’s so real.

But when the likeness is marred, we adjudge the comparison odious.

One thing is like another. That’s the basis of simile. The lights come on. We notice shared characteristics and that delights us—delight and wonder such as Adam expressed when Eve was brought to him.

“This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”

May I bring to our remembrance a handful of similes that have stood the test of time? “Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table . .” –T. S. Eliot. “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus . .” –William Shakespeare. “You may see their trunks / Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground / Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair / Before them over their heads to dry in the sun.” –Robert Frost.

In contrast, how abysmal to proffer a handful of nothing as if to say, “There is nothing in my experience that correlates to anything else.” To offer only gravel or a handful of dust. No communication. No shared experience. It’s like making an argument with only one premise, or giving up before even trying.

How unsatisfying.

Badgett shares this column with fellow conservative Paige Meredith.

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School board thanks Dear Editor: January is School Board Recognition Month, and the Roaring Fork Schools want to thank our board members for their commitment and contributions to our schools.

Our board members volunteer countless evenings to learning about big and small issues so that they can make decisions on complex educational and social issues that affect our entire school community. It’s an important but tough job that is done without any compensation.

Every year, we invite those who benefit from the time, talent, and passion our board members contribute for the betterment of our schools to help us thank them. This year, we invited members of our school community to submit their appreciations for board members Jen Rupert, Shane Larson, Mary Elizabeth Geiger, Matt Hamilton, and Jennifer Scherer.

While there were too many to include here, we did want to share some examples of what our staff members appreciated.

From GSMS Teacher Autumn Rivera: “Dear Board, I so appreciate all you do to support us teachers. You listen and really try to understand what our needs are ...

I admire all the time you give to making RFSD the best it can be. Thanks again for

all you do. We are better because of it!”

From RFHS Teacher Adam Carballeira: “Thank you SO much for all the time and energy you GIVE to the kids and the future of our valley and world. On behalf of my family, school, and community, we really appreciate it. As a recent inductee into the IBB process, I have a new appreciation for the level of detail and consideration that goes on ‘behind the scenes’...”

From RFSD Staff Member Michael Logan: “I can’t begin to imagine the depth and the breadth of the work involved in being a school board member, and it’s even more difficult to imagine the weight of the responsibility of your work. Thank you for all that you do, and especially for all the unnoticed and underappreciated elements of your work.”

Thanks to everyone who shared their thoughtful appreciations. If you see a board member, please remember to thank them for all that they do for our school community.

The Roaring Fork Schools Executive Team

It was your choice Dear Editor: What false sense of entitlement gives Sandra Lopez the right to make up her own special immigration laws and spit

on our sovereignty? She sneaks into our country, hides in a church to remain here illegally and then whines about not having the courage to leave this country for her dad’s final farewell.

All of us make choices. Some take responsibility for their choices. Some embrace victimhood and blame others for their choices.

Don’t ask for justice, Ms. Lopez. Justice would have deported you.

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Regis University President meets Veazy Dear Editor: On Jan. 15, Emzy Veazy III met in Denver with Regis University President Fr. John P. Fitzgibbons, S.J. at the President’s Office at Regis University.

Fr. Fitzgibbons and his staff showed their highest protocol toward Veazy, a New York City Fordham University graduate.

One of the many special subjects Veazy and Regis University President Fr. Fitzgibbons covered was this Jesuit University’s unique alumni program for graduates of Jesuit high schools, colleges, and universities.

LETTERS page 14

Correction: A story on Wilderness Workshop in the Jan. 10 edition of The Sun misattributed the venue for the Camp Hale Legacy Act, which is in fact before the federal legislature. It also neglected to mention the Audubon Society’s cosponsorship of Naturalist Nights.

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Hallucinogens not included

Local psychedelic series reflects state and national conversations

Dr. Natalie Metz, licensed naturopathic physician and faculty at the Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, will be facilitating a “psychedelic healing” series in Carbondale, proving that professionals and tree huggers don’t have to be mutually exclusive labels. Courtesy photo

By Megan Tackett Sopris Sun Staff Lux Wellness Center co-founders Jade Wimberley, a naturopathic doctor, and Lauren Whittaker, a chiropractor, want their space to be a forum for conversation and education as much as a place for healing. In fact, they see as one informing the other — and, they contend, there is a conversation happening right now around the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelics, which is why they’re hosting a workshop series on the matter.

Wimberly saw firsthand the level of local interest in the subject last summer, when she was third in the wait list for Michael Pollan’s sold-out talk at the Aspen Institute.

“People want to learn more. Granted it’s Michael Pollan, a big name,” she said of the “How to Change Your Mind” author. But waiting in that line got her thinking, she continued. “We know someone in this field who is well trained, well studied — let’s bring her to Carbondale and have a workshop.”

That’s exactly what they’re doing. On Thursday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 2, Dr. Natalie Metz will conduct a two-day series, starting with an informational presentation followed by an experiential workshop.

“We’ll be diving a little bit more deeply around the concepts of integration,” she said of Saturday’s workshop. “So there will be an experiential component; we’ll be using some tools for sound healing, some aromatherapy to help people to have an experience in a shift in consciousness. Then we’ll talk about that and process that a bit and work on practices to integrating experiences like that into life in a way that has meaning and benefit.”

What’s in a name The obvious challenge in hosting an experiential workshop about psychedelics is that most of them, such as psilocybin, ayahuasca and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), are Schedule 1 drugs, which the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency classifies as “drugs with currently no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,” according to the agency’s website.

But there are efforts to combat that scheduling, Metz, a graduate of the Center of Psychedelic Therapies and Research and faculty member of the Integrative Health Studies department at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, explained.

“Research is happening because of courageous and steadfast [professionals] who have dedicated their time to the process of jumping through countless hoops to satisfy the FDA to ensure a good clinical model that, as best they can evaluate, will at least initially demonstrate the safety and ultimately the benefits,” she said.

One of the groups spearheading those efforts is the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), she continued, noting her own volunteerism with the organization. In fact, its website states the association’s intentions to make MDMA an FDA-approved prescription by 2021. So far, MAPS has focused its research to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients — that study is currently in its second phase.

“They’ve taken a condition where there really isn’t a lot of therapeutic efficacy out there,” Metz said. “MAPS is able to say, ‘We think MDMA could be really effective,’ and they’re definitely demonstrating that. They showed safety, and then they

got the blessing to move forward to Phase 2, and they’ve shown incredible results.

They’ve shown that long-standing PTSD patients — we’re talking 15 years — are having persisting benefit, meaning five, six years out from doing that therapeutic work, they’re still doing better. Nothing else has the longevity like that. The studies are being scaled up in terms of their applicability and the number of people they can reach as they move into Phase 3, and that’s really exciting because we’re looking at the potential rescheduling of MDMA from Schedule 1 and could go into a schedule where it would be able to be prescribed and be more available for the population at large in a therapeutic setting.”

When it comes to negotiating legal drug classifications and enforcement policies, words matter. MAPS, for instance, is aiming to take advantage of the FDA’s Expanded Access program, which grants access to an investigational medical product for patients with immediately life-threatening, serious disease or condition. Supporters of MAPS’s efforts such as Metz hope that PTSD will qualify as a serious condition. MAPS plans to submit an application with the FDA for Expanded Access early this year.

Taking mushrooms to the voting booths Kevin Matthews, campaign manager for Decriminalize Denver, also chooses his words carefully when discussing the organization’s advocacy efforts to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms in Denver.

“We initially got some inspiration and modeled part of our language after the 2007 Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative,” he said of Decriminalize Den-

ver’s proposed ballot initiative to decriminalize “magic” mushrooms. “Denver was the first city in the country to decriminalize possession and use of cannabis, so there’s your precedent right there.”

Decriminalize Denver collected almost 9,500 petition signatures to put the measure on the May 7 ballot, should the Denver Elections Division successfully verify the signatures.

“The city has been — not that I expect anything less — really honoring the democratic process. I think we surprised them,” Matthews laughed, adding that the campaign will know the verification results by Feb. 1. “But strong emphasis on the word decriminalize, not legalize; I really want to reiterate that.”

The proposed initiative seeks to “deprioritize, to the greatest extent possible, impositions of criminal penalties” for possession and use of psilocybin mushrooms in people at least 21 years old and to “prohibit the city and county of Denver from spending resources on imposing criminal penalties.”

Of course, psilocybin mushrooms would remain illegal, as city and county law is subordinate to state and federal statute. But, Matthews argues, there is existing language that would allow Denver to act independently, within reason. For one, Denver is a home rule municipality — which Matthews thinks works in the campaign’s favor.

“Where we are inserting our ordinance into the Denver code, it’s in the human rights of Denver code, right after the ordinance that makes Denver a sanctuary city. Our decriminalization ordinance is Article 9 of that same section; Article 8 is the sanctuary city language. Denver is home rule — we couldn’t do it statewide right now,” he said. “It’s kid gloves here: decriminalizing, we believe, is the right and necessary first step to reintroduce the substance back in society. Our main focus here is, no one should go to jail for possessing a substance that not only occurs naturally but has proven medical benefits.

We want to keep people out of jail, keep families together. At the same time, we can encourage more research.”

And, at a more local level, Wimberley, Whittaker and Metz hope to encourage more conversation and exploration through the psychedelic series. “[Metz] has knowledge of this power of this set and setting, so it’s important that people get educated on what are these themes and strategies of these sacred strategies without doing the medicine that day,” Whittaker said. “You’re still linked into this world that we’re all connected to, so there’s transformational things that happen in workshops that have to do with inner searching and introspection through the set and setting that she creates and understanding the power of those themes.

It’s cool.”

Hallucinogens not included What: Psychedelic Healing and the Future for Medicine When: 5:45 - 7:45 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31 ($20-40) & 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2 ($75-150) Where: The Helios Center, 601 Sopris Ave. Ticket information and purchasing: 970-510-5394

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At fault Our neck of the woods got an unusual shout out last week in, of all publications, The Onion. “A new Pew Research poll published Thursday revealed that 100 percent of Americans blame the United States federal government shutdown entirely on Scott Tipton (RCO),” the satirical newspaper wrote — more at politics.theonion.com.

While Aspen prepped for the X-Games, Don Chaney was trying an extreem sport of his own on Jan. 20 — sledding at night at Sunlight Mountain Resort. From what we can gather, there’s no official rule governing what you do on the slopes after the patrollers have done their final sweeps, but neither Sunlight nor The Sun would recommend you trying this yourself. It’s dangerous — as the condition of the sled shows. Courtesy photo

Way to go According to Denver’s “Eater” magazine, “Aspen’s coolest new hotel-restaurant is actually in Carbondale.” While we’d prefer not to be defined by our upvalley neighbor, we have to admit the writeup on The Way Home is awfully complimentary. Casual diners may not be aware of the guest accommodations upstairs, or the plans for expansion and coordination with the Gianinettis planned event venue on the floodplain. Read more at tinyurl.

Furlough and high

The Aspen Music Festival and School is offering to federal workers who have been furloughed without pay a free pair of tickets to their choice of one of three recitals in the 2019 Winter Music Recital Series. The series features four internationally acclaimed artists: pianist Yefim Bronfman on Jan. 29; violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Shai Wosner on Feb. 7; and pianist Marc-André Hamelin on Feb. 28, all at 6:30 p.m. in Harris Concert Hall.

Full house The Colorado Republican State House District 57 Vacancy Committee will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at the 4H Community Building (700 Sulphur Creek

Western Slope’s only Authorized, Independent Kinetico Dealer,

Rd, Meeker) to fill the vacancy of the 57th House District seat previously held

by Representative Bob Rankin.

Anyone interested in being nominated for this seat are encouraged to email the following information to Phil Vaughan at 57thhousedistrict@gmail.com prior to end of day Feb. 3.

On the road again The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority has launched its 2040 Roadmap website at rfta.com/2040roadmap, which RFTA will use to help inform the public about implementation of the Destination 2040 capital projects and service improvements. Following the 2018 ballot vote on November 6, member jurisdictions voted to pass the 2.65 mill levy ballot measure to help fund strategic improvements to the region’s transportation system. Potential impacts in Carbondale include a bike share expansion, new employee housing and office space and potentially more frequent service.

Magnificent seven Colorado Mountain College recently implemented a new academic structure designed to improve continuity and academic innovations throughout each college location and program area. Much of this new approach centers on the establishment of seven deans located on different campuses who oversee seven schools, or academic subject areas. From nursing to business to communication to outdoor recreation, these school deans are now responsible for coordinating programing, curriculum and community requests with

campus leaders. An eighth dean oversees academic support in all areas.

All that jazz Jazz Aspen Snowmass has announced major changes in the format of the JAS June Experience, shifting from presenting a select few artists at the Benedict Music Tent to a focus on programming multiple smaller venues and a greater variety of artists and genres across (4) days and nights, from June 20-23. JAS will still collaborate with the Aspen Music Festival for its annual JAS June closing night event at the Benedict Tent on June. 29.

In loving memory The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies has shared two ways for the public to support the family of Arin Trook, ACES’ Education Director who died in an avalanche on the morning of Jan. 21 — at gofundme.com/arin-trook-memorialfund or any Alpine Bank through the Arin Trook Memorial Fund. In lieu of donating in-person, donors can send checks to Alpine Bank, Arin Trook Memorial Fund, Attn: Stefan Reveal, 600 E. Hopkins Ave., Aspen, CO 81611.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating another year of life this week include: Marty Silverstein and Linda Lafferty (Jan. 24); Felina Cruz (Jan. 25); Kat Taylor (Jan. 26); Elizabeth Ritchie and Laura McCormick Grobler (Jan. 27); Greg Albrecht and Sharill Hawkins (Jan. 28); Noah Scher (Jan. 29) and Ami Maes (Jan. 30).

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Ride the Rockies

New book by S. K. Badgett

will power through Carbondale this summer

Available at Amazon.com

Ride the Rockies has twice before stopped through Carbondale, in 2016 and 2012.

This summer, the 34th ride will again bring about 2,000 people through town on June 12. Courtesy photo

By Megan Tackett Sopris Sun Staff Ride the Rockies organizers at The Denver Post make a point of never bringing the cycling tour through the same town two years in a row, but that doesn’t mean they’ll never revisit. And this year Carbondale will again — for the third time — host as an official stopping point in the seven-day loop on June 12.

Carbondale Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Andrea Stewart couldn’t be more thrilled about it.

“It’s such an opportunity to showcase our community,” she said, noting that the town will see an influx of more than 2,000 people between riders and support staff.

“It’s a huge opportunity for economic development. Our whole point is to be really involved and get them to come and explore, and then come back later: bring their family and stay for the weekend and make it a destination.”

Based on Stewart’s own anecdotal experiences with past Ride the Rockies tours, she’s confident Carbondale will entice future tourism from participants.

“We’ll have people that have actually come and they’re like, ‘Oh we saw that Carbondale was on, so we’ve made sure we made reservations at Phat Thai.’ It’s great to hear that they’re back, and we will get a lot of people that will call afterwards and they’ll say, ‘Oh, we met at Ride the Rockies,’” she said.

Generating that kind of excitement for the mountain towns that dot the state is exactly what The Denver Post Ride the Rockies Tour Director Deirdre Moynihan aims to accomplish.

“We’re trying to showcase Colorado: not only the part where you’re biking, but these wonderful communities, so we try to make sure that we’re leaving a positive impact,” she said.

Of course, not all smaller communities have the infrastructure to easily accommodate an extra 2,000 people or so in the middle of June. That’s why Moynihan and her crew are experimenting with a new yurt village concept — so that Ride the Rockies won’t have to necessarily rely on a town’s lodging capacity in order to include it in the tour.

“They’re kind of like a fancy cot, then there’s dividers, so you have your own little section and it’s climate controlled, and we’ll have kind of luxury restroom trailers,” she said, adding that the yurt is particularly convenient for riders travelling in groups, as each yurt

sleeps up to 10 people.

Of course, the camping options participants may remember from 2012 and 2016 will still exist, including “camping” indoors. But the yurt village is intended to offer an option for people who would otherwise likely seek hotel accommodations in towns that don’t have such accommodations.

“For example, we’re going to Hotchkiss. For people that really want to stay in those hotels, they’ll have to go to Montrose, and I think that’s a haul. And for Buena Vista, they’d have to go to Salida.

When you have your bike, you just want to hang out, you don’t want to have to hop on a bus,” she said. “We don’t want to go to your town then ship everyone down the road. We go, we stay in your town because that’s where the economic impact is.”

The Carbondale headquarters for lodging and meals — which local nonprofits and booster clubs typically provide — will be at Roaring Fork High School.

The chamber is collaborating closely with the high school, Town of Carbondale and Carbondale Parks and Recreation to make everything come together, including entertainment.

“It’s so nice, especially with the proximity with all of Carbondale,” Stewart said. “It’s a mile from the high school. So even though they’ve been on their bikes all day, they can walk downtown or ride downtown, get that lactic acid out — because [otherwise] the next day over McClure Pass is not going to feel good!” she laughed.

Carbondale Town Manager Jay Harrington understands that all too well; he’s participated in Ride the Rockies twice and has helped host at least half a dozen times in Carbondale, Pagosa Springs, Telluride and Cortez.

“It’s really fun to both host and ride (although a full week on a bike can create some sore body parts better left unnamed),” he quipped in an email.

The 445-mile loop from Crested Butte and back again reportedly includes 28,230 feet of elevation gain, but this year is a little more accessible than previous tours, Moynihan noted. This year, Ride the Rockies will include electronic bikes.

“We’re really excited because you know … it’s a pretty aggressive ride.

[Ebikes are] the great equalizer for some.

It’s really helpful for couples: now they can ride together,” she said. “You’re still working pretty hard; there’s just a little extra caffeine out there.”

“A sincere and challenging volume that transports readers into the heart of American coal.”

—Kirkus Reviews Brings you face-to-face with the men who kept the town going for decades—remarkable men who lived on the edge, telling their stories from the heart.

—Tony Vagneur, columnist for The Aspen Times

Also by S. K. Badgett

““A far-reaching, rambunctious collection.”

—Kirkus Reviews

S. K. Badgett’s poems and essays have appeared in dozens of literary journals and some anthologies including The Norton Anthology of Creative Nonfiction. He has a master’s in Language and Communication from Regis University and a master’s in English from Middlebury College. He worked several years at the Mid-Continent and Snowmass coal mines.

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‘It’s the only way I can afford to live here’ The flip side of vacation rentals in a tight market

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff As renters struggle to find housing in the Roaring Fork Valley’s oversaturated market, some have pointed their fingers at landlords offering short-term housing instead — but they may be mixing cause and effect.

It’s part of making it possible to live here,” explained Carbondale Branch Librarian Lacy Dunlavy. “It’s all just going to my mortgage.”

The property near her own home in Canyon Creek was previously just a regular rental — but that didn’t work out.

“My house was just short of destroyed,” she said.

“There was very little recourse for me even for something as simple as rent.”

Now it’s available for visitors through airbnb.com, one of the most popular vacation rental services alongside the more venerable vrbo.com. And while it may seem counterintuitive to invite a steady stream of strangers to spend a night or two rather than have a consistent renter, there are more systems in place to support Dunlavy if, say, someone leaves a door open in midwinter.

“It’s all a risk, but if I have a problem with an AirBnb guest, I have an immediate third party that can handle the situation,” she said.

And folks appreciate the chance to get out of town into some semblance of the outdoors with a friendly local nearby to make restaurant suggestions — at a lower cost than many hotels. It is more work, Dunlavy admitted, and she feels for would-be permanent residents.

“I was a renter, and it sucked,” she said. “Shelter affects everything.We wanted to be the landlords that could help people.”

But she’s not the only one who made the switch due to a bad experience with traditional renters. Leslie Johnson was one of the first AirBnb hosts in Carbondale back in 2012.

“I got a little bit of grief in the beginning,” she said.

“So many people need a place to live.”

Her property had been a full-time rental for almost a decade, but after staying in some vacation rentals on their own vacation, the Johnsons decided to give it a try.

“It’s been a great experience,” she said. “People are really respectful, and they’re hardly even in the rental.

They come here to visit and to eat out, to ski or to visit family.”

“We’ve had the most minor things happen, and AirBnB pays for it right away,” she added. “The only time I’ve had real damage is when we rented it for a month or more. People are hard on other people’s property.”

Others, like Hank van Berlo, have spaces that may not be suitable for long term use, anyway. Originally designed as private apartment for a relative six years ago, it just didn’t prove large enough for someone full self sufficient.

“Anybody who has outdoor equipment needs somewhere to put it,” van Berlo observed. “It was already on

There are about a dozen AirBnB offerings in Carbondale our radar that it was going to take away from a worker bee, but we have two other rentals that are long term and at below-market rates because we want teachers to stay here.”

The space also serves as guest quarters for family, who van Berlo says seem to show up more often now that it’s there. There’s a system to block out dates if the space is going to be occupied or the host is busy — no questions asked.

Carbondale now has an agreement with AirBnb to collect taxes, which has made van Berlo’s job easier. Instead, he concentrates on keeping the space spotless and playing host. That process starts right when someone requests to book.

“I got a little bit of grief in the beginning,” she said.

“So many people need a place to live.”

“I do a lot of due diligence before we accept somebody. Everything is based on peer review,” he said. “In five years we’ve met more people than we would any other way. How the hell somebody finds me from Thailand or Ireland or South Africa is beyond me. It just gives you a real sense of how small a world it is because of the Internet.”

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“I do a lot of due diligence before we accept somebody.”

“I’m an avid traveler myself, so the people that stay are usually the kind of people that I would meet traveling,” she said.

Here situation is even more personal, with folks renting a room in her home — an antique that was moved from Glenwood in the ‘60s —rather than a separate space.

“They have to share a bathroom, and it takes a certain kind of person to be willing to do that,” she said.

“It’s people that really appreciate that vintage and want to stay in it. It’s kind of like a bed and breakfast, but we don’t serve breakfast.”

It’s also one of the cheapest rooms in town, and would likely be a challenge to rent on a longer term basis.

“If I found the right roommate that hardly wasn’t home, I’d probably jump on it,” she said. “It does get old making beds, but I haven’t had any terrible experience and only a couple of odd experiences.”

And while she appreciates the needs of those looking to stay, she’s also sympathetic to those who just want to visit.

“The state’s growing by 10,000 a month and it’s mostly on the Front Range, so there’s all these people coming to check out the Western Slope,” she said.

And in the end, she has to be able to make it herself.

“It’s the only way I can afford to live here,” she said.

Celebration of Life in honor of Jim Calaway Saturday, February 2ⁿd The Orchard

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Please arrive at 9:30am

Celebration will begin promptly at 10:00am.

Jim’s favorite hotdog wagon lunch to follow at Third Street Center at Noon.

Wear your favorite fun & colorful socks.

In lieu of flowers the family invites you to make a gift in Jim’s honor to one of his favorite non-profits:

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ACLU of Colorado • Aspen Institute • CARE • CMC Foundation • Garfield County Libraries Habitat for Humanity • Sopris Sun • Third Street Center • Thunder River Theater Company Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist • Valley View Foundation / Calaway-Young Cancer Center

The yellow ribbon, one month in branch of the U.S. government, it’s also classified as an independent agency, one that funds itself through Now in the thirty-third day of the its products and services and not by partial government shutdown, the imthe tax-dollars that are apportioned pacts are only becoming more magniby the federal budget. This allows it fied as furloughed workers are bracto stay open when there is a governing to miss a second paycheck and the ment shutdown because of a lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Profederal funding. gram, also known as food stamps, runs But looking again, is the flagpole out of funding in February. Impacts at the Carbondale U.S. Forest Service of the shutdown are making national office entirely bare? Someone earlier headlines, and a number of them can in the month neatly tied a yellow ribbe translated into local impacts around bon around the pole, at head height, Carbondale. The U.S. Forest Service and another at the Post Office across was deemed “nonessential” and has the street. been closed since the shutdown began, One furloughed U.S. Forest Service as evident by the bare flagpole outside employee saw that ribbon around the the Carbondale office of the U.S.F.S. otherwise bare flagpole at the office A yellow ribbon adorns the flagpole of the shuttered Forest Service building while business Aspen-Sopris Ranger District. and nearly started crying. “I’m old continues at the Post Office across the street. Photo by Jon Nicolodi “The town has pending applicaenough to know the song, and I imtions for special use permits that mediately thought of that,” she said, we’re waiting to hear back on from the talking about the 1970s hit “Tie a Yellow RibU.S.F.S.,” said Jay Harrington, Carbonbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” by Dawn feadale’s Town Manager. turing Tony Orlando.

“One’s for a micro-hydro plant at Nettle The historical usage of the yellow ribbon Creek, and another special use permit is for has been to signify a loved one away, serving our recreation department in the summerthe country during a time of war. time. It’s really holding us up on some of “It made me feel missed, wanted back, supService flagpole. our initiatives, and we’ll have to start to ported,” she said. “This community has been How can two federal agencies, right across the street incredibly supportive during this time. Offers of haircuts think around this if nothing changes soon. If this partial government shutdown continues into the spring,” he added, from each other, be in two completely different states of and meals for furloughed employees on the Facebook “all the work we’ve put in on Red Hill will be put on hold.” operation? Closure of the U.S.P.S. would be felt by many. Roaring Fork Swap page are all over the place, and the The Bureau of Land Management is closed as well, in- The holiday shipping rush would have been impacted. little symbolic gestures, like the yellow ribbon, mean the hibiting the planned trail work in the area that will get the Any checks that aren’t handed off or on a direct-deposit world. A community doesn’t always have a great relationsystem go through the U.S.P.S., as does nearly every other ship with the U.S. Forest Service, but this community is renovated system ready for the height of summer use. one of the best out there,” she said.

Looking only across the street, however, from the bare type of mail.

While the U.S.P.S. is an agency under the executive The yellow ribbon speaks: Bring them back to work.

Forest Service flagpole, the U.S. flag hangs on the Postal

By Jon Nicolodi Sopris Sun Correspondent

The historical usage of the yellow ribbon has been to signify a loved one away, serving the country during a time of war.

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Be prepared Photos by Mark Burrows Among the Buddy Program’s array of offerings is Leadership through Exploration Action and Discovery (LEAD), which includes group mentoring and outdoor leadership for Colorado Mountain College credit. Before the summer backpacking trips, however, the kids had a chance to practice their Wilderness First Aid skills with help from Desert Mountain Medicine.

The 16-hour, two-day course offered a sampling of the kinds of things that might go wrong in the backcountry — from hypothermia to heatstroke, dehydration to broken bones — and encouraged deductive reasoning, risk management, scene assessment and included CPR certification.

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Over the years, Beth has represented “many, many clients”. She says, “Every single one, no matter how bad it was, they have gone through major transformations and have gone on to do amazing things.”

One former client has been elected to a city council.

The last victim she represented, a 65-year-old woman who was kept chained as a work slave, won a $4.5 million legal judgment against the “Romeo pimp” who tortured and electrocuted her.

Klein explains that human trafficking here in Colorado generally takes two forms: traffic for the sex trade and migrant workers abused by agricultural firms. Local residents may not be aware of it, but law enforcement authorities across multiple states recognize I-70 as a human trafficking corridor. Because I-70 and I-25 cross in Colorado, Denver is a hotspot.

Klein says that many local cases involve “men brought here to care for livestock and then dumped,” but Glenwood Attorney Angela Roff, the attorney who asked for the recent trafficking summit, is working on a local child prostitution case. A couple, 30-year-old Dasjuan Goode and 25-year-old Damara Hester, were arrested for bringing children from Aurora to a motel on Sixth Street in Glenwood and making them available for sex.

“I want people here in Carbondale to know that kids here are at risk,” says Klein. As we learned at the summit, trafficking typically happens when there are income disparities, when families are struggling to make ends meet. Their kids have problems and they wind up making dangerous choices to survive.”

“When a 14-year-old girl is getting picked up from school early, if she’s suddenly carrying around a Chanel bag in Carbondale, if she’s suddenly wearing clothing that’s not representative of her social status, that’s when you need to pay attention,” Klein explains.

“What you look for is kids in the wrong place at the wrong time; they’re not in school when they should be. Or if they’re in school, there’s been a dramatic change in behavior. They’re not the same as they were a year ago.”

Another anti-trafficking conference is being organized and will be held in Grand Junction soon. Those interested in participating may call the Klein Frank Foundation at (303) 448-8884 and ask for Beth Klein.

By Nicolette Toussaint Sopris Sun Correspondent

More than 125 local cops, doctors, teachers, philanthropists and citizens recently gathered for the biggest anti-human-trafficking conference ever held on Colorado’s Western Slope.

That one-day summit happened because Glenwood Springs Attorney Angela Roff asked Carbondale resident Beth Klein to make it happen.

Beth Klein, a Boulder attorney who retired here with her husband James two years ago, has a history of making things happen: she wrote Colorado’s 2010 and 2011 anti-human trafficking laws. Former Governor Hickenlooper appointed her to the Colorado Children’s Trust Fund Board, the body that established Colorado’s Child Abuse Hotline. Along with longtime law-school friend and fellow attorney Carrie Frank, Beth Klein established the Frank Klein Foundation, which works in three areas: law, community empowerment and leadership development.

It was the Klein Frank Foundation that sponsored the recent anti-human-trafficking summit at CMC in Rifle, offering it for free to anyone who wanted to attend. A group of physicians from Valley View Hospital came; they wanted to learn the signs of victimization so that they could help patients. Five officers from the Rifle Police attended. A group of co-workers from Alpine Bank’s risk management division showed up; they wanted to be able to recognize how human traffickers arrange their financing.

Klein, who wrote the 2010 Colorado law that defined human trafficking as a RICO (crime, says that “anti-trafficking is really about creating a cohesive community where everyone cares for each other and no one is left out.” The law she wrote helps with that effort because it “allows us not just to go after the pimp, but the whole gang, the delivery driver, the hotels…”

Klein’s husband, the Honorable James Klein, a retired juvenile court judge who also works with the Klein Frank Foundation, prosecuted one of Colorado’s first human trafficking cases back in the 1980s. In that case, the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park had been importing laborers into the U.S. and then refusing to pay them.

Back then, Colorado had little way to prosecute; James had to use tax law to go after the hotel. Now, thanks to laws written by Beth, trafficking is defined not only as a criminal offense, but also a civil offense, Many survivors engage in art therapy to come to terms with the past and create new lives.

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Community Calendar THURSDAY Jan. 24

MOUNTAIN ART • Basalt Regional Library (14 Midland Ave.) hosts the naturally-inspired works of photographer Jeremy Joseph and painter Kelly Peters with a 5:30 to 7 p.m. reception.

FRI to THU Jan. 25-31

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre (427 Main St.) presents “Green Book” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25-26, Jan.27 at 5:30 p.m.; Jan. 28-30 at 7:30 p.m. “Backcountry Film Festival” (not rated). Presented by Colorado Mountain Club, Jan. 31 at 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY Jan. 25

COMEDY SHOWCASE • A night of homegrown hilarity with some of the valley’s funniest comics, including Beth Brandon, Don Chaney, Todd Hartley, Chad Abraham and Kevin Herzing kicks off at 8 p.m. at The Temporary (360 Market St., Willits). $8 in advance or $12 at the door.

SATURDAY Jan. 26

REFLEXOLOGY • At 10:30 a.m., TAC FITness and Wellness Center (1460 E. Valley Rd., Basalt) invites you to learn the ‘where’ and ‘how’ of the reflexology basics to assist recovery from injury, chronic condition or stress.

NUTCRACKER EXCERPTS • Families are invited to Coredination & Bonedale Ballet’s 2019 winter dance performance at 2 and 5:30 p.m. at the Waldorf School (16543 Highway 82).

HONKY TONK • Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams play at 8 p.m. at The Temporary (360 Market St.). $15 in advance or $20 at the door.

To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is noon on Monday.

Events take place in Carbondale unless noted.

TUESDAY Jan. 29

ALT FOLK • The Tony Furtado Trio plays Steve’s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.) at 8:30 p.m. — reserve your seat at brownpapertickets.com/event/4049707.

WEDNESDAY Jan. 30

MUSIC BOXING • Choose your favorite tune from a variety of hand-crank musical movements, then decorate a plain wooden box using paint, collage, and more from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Basalt Regional Library (14 Midland Ave.). Register to hcondon@basaltlibrary.org.

NATURALIST NIGHTS • Lake Christine Fire Hydrologist Liz Schnackenberg discusses how changes in watershed conditions immediately following a wildfire can result in increased erosion, flooding and debris flow potential at 6 p.m. the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) and the next day at Hallam Lake in Aspen.

WEAVING • Learn the basics on a small loom to create a unique wall hanging with Jennifer Swanson from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at The Art Base (99 Midland Spur, Basalt). $35 for members and $45 for others.

4 p.m. every second and fourth Saturday.

Free and arranged by the Carbondale Historical Society (carbondalehistory.org).

HEALTH THROUGH NUTRITION • Free opportunities include: One-hour consultations Monday mornings by appointment (379-5718) about heart attack and other chronic illness prevention through plant-based whole foods lifestyle with retired family doctor Greg Feinsinger, MD. New at 6 p.m. Tuesdays, a livestream of Just 1 Thing 4 Health’s interviews with featured doctors. At 7 p.m. the first Monday of the month, a Powerpoint presentation about the science behind plant-based nutrition.

Finally, at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Monday of the month, participate in a plant-based potluck. All events take place at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) and are supported by Davi Nikent Center for Human Flourishing.

Ongoing

VALLEY VISUAL ART SHOW • Check out a wide array of 2D and 3D art from 50 local artists in an unjuried display of the area’s full range of talent at the Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.).

DRUM & DANCE • Learn some African rhythms in a six-week series open to all ages and levels. Drumming from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.; dance from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m.

Mondays — $150 for everything or $15 drop-in per subject per day.

WINTER ART • The Ann Korologos Gallery (211 Midland Ave., Basalt) continues its “Seasons of the West” series with a group exhibition of the moods of snow as captured by Peter Campbell, Ewoud de Groot, Michael Fain, Simon Winegar, Dan Young and others.

THOMPSON TOURS • Check out the Historic Thompson House Museum (located at the end of Lewies Lane and complete with its original contents) from 2 to

IMPRESSIONS IN INK • The printmakers of Carbondale’s Creative District show their work at the CMC ArtShare Gallery (815 Cooper Ave., Glenwood Springs).

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OFFICE HOURS • Sun Editor Will Grandbois will be at Blue Spruce Coffee in the Third Street Center at 8 a.m. every Monday taking tips, questions, comments and complaints, and will be available in the office around the corner thereafter.

EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN • Staff and sources talk about this week’s paper and more at 4 p.m. Thursdays on KDNK (88.1 FM).

YOUR STORY, YOUR LIFE • A free facilitated workshop for adults, writing your personal history, one story at a time. Facilitated by Shelly Merriam, historian/writer/genealogist.

First and third Fridays, 10 a.m. to noon at the Glenwood Springs Branch Library, (815 Cooper Ave.). Info at 945-5958 or gcpld.org.

LIFE DRAWING • Drop in for figure drawing with Staci Dickerson at 6:30 p.m. Mondays at The Helios Center (601 Sopris Ave.).

RF INSIGHT • Monday Night Meditation meets from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. at Roaring Fork Aikikai (2553 Dolores Way) and offers instruction in the Buddhist practice of Vipassana. RFI also offers secular mindfulness at the Carbondale Community School and is working with CMC to provide a class on “Zen and the Art of Dying” — more info at roaringforkinsight.org.

MEDITATION • Free silent meditation sessions are held at the Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.) from 6:45 to 7:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (info at 306-1015).

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Ongoing

MINDFULNESS • The Mindful Life Program in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) offers group sessions Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation and registration is not necessary. Info: mindfullifeprogram.org and 970-6330163.

days at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.).

GRIEF AND LOSS • Pathfinders offers a grief and loss support group every other Monday at 6 p.m., and a caregiver support group every other Wednesday noon.

An RSVP is required to Robyn Hubbard at 319-6854. Pathfinders offers support groups from Aspen to Rifle and is located in Carbondale at 1101 Village Rd. Info: pathfindersforcancer.org.

LET’S JUST DANCE • Feel great, have fun and dance Tuesdays at The Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). Catch a free lesson at 7 p.m., then from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. it’s open dancing with two-step, swing, waltz, line dance, salsa and more.

No partner or experience necessary. $8/ person; $14/couple. Questions? Call 970366-6463 or email billypat4@gmail.com.

ROTARY • The Carbondale Rotary Club meets at the Carbondale Fire Station (300 Meadowood Dr.) at 6:45 a.m. Wednesdays. The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at White House Pizza (801 Main Ct.) at noon every Thursday.

YOGA • Get a donation-based introduction to Hatha Yoga Tuesdays from 8 to 9 p.m. at The Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.).

MAKERSPACE • Children and teens are invited to design, create, tinker, and play with art and technology to design and create with 3D Pens, make stop-motion animation films, engineer duct tape creations, build their own video games, and more from 2 to 3:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.).

DHARMA • The Way of Compassion Dharma Center holds a Dharma talk and meditation from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and a silent meditation and Buddha of Compassion practice at 8 a.m. Satur-

WORLD DANCE • Learn rhythms from various countries and cultures for $12 per class from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mondays at the Carbondale Community School (1505 Satank Rd.).

SANSKRIT MANTRA • Devika Gurung demonstrates how chant is about more than spirtuality, but also breath and rhythm at 4:30 p.m. Sundays at The Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.).

BLUEGRASS JAM • Bring the instrument of your choice or just your voice for a weekly jam session first and last Sundays at 6 p.m. at Steve’s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.) and all other Sundays at the Glenwood Springs Brew Garden (115 Sixth St.) OPEN MIC • Take the stage at Riverside Grill (181 Basalt Center Circle, Basalt) from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Food and drink specials. Free.

KARAOKE • The Black Nugget (403 Main St.) and Sandman bring you over 30,000 songs to choose from and a quality sound system to release your inner rockstar at 9 pm. every Thursday.

WALK WITH A DOC • Aspen Valley

Hospital invites you to meet in the cafeteria at 10 a.m. the first Saturday of the month for a short discussion on a healthrelated topic, such as high blood pressure, asthma, anxiety, etc.

SENIOR RADIO • Diane Johnson talks about senior issues and services on KDNK at 4:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month.

SENIOR MATTERS • The nonprofit Senior Matters, based in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.), offers numerous programs for senior citizens, including: tai chi with John Norton at 8:30 a.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays; tai chi with Marty Finklestein at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays; Alaprima Painters at 11 a.m. on Thursdays; the Senior Matters Book Club at 4 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of the month; and the Roaring Fork Brain Train. Info: seniormatters. org; Diane Johnson at 970-306-2587; and Senior Matters, Box 991, Carbondale CO, 81623.

BRIDGE • The Carbondale Bridge Club hosts duplicate bridge (not sanctioned by ACBL) from 6:30 to 10 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). $6/per pair. Contact Marlene for more info: 928-9805.

WRITERS GROUP • Wordsmiths of all experience and abilities gather at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) at 6 p.m. on the second Monday of the month.

BOOK CLUB • Join friends and fellow readers to discuss great books at Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) at

4 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month; call 963-2889 for this month’s selection.

STORYTIME • Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) hosts stories, songs and more for ages four and up at 10:30 a.m. Thursdays and three and under at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays. Kids must be accompanied by an adult.

STORY ART • Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.), in partnership with the Aspen Art Museum, invites kids to learn about artists and create masterpieces of their own at 4 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month.

BACHATA • Learn a Latin dance with Erik and Claudia Peña presenting weekly classes from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at The Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.). $10 drop-in fee; info at 963-8425.

YAPPY HOUR • Colorado Animal Rescue’s Yappy Hour at the Marble Bar (150 Main St.) takes place at 5:30 p.m. the third Thursday of the month. Sip on handcrafted cocktails and meet a C.A.R.E. dog, with $1 from every drink donated to C.A.R.E. Bring your own dog along as well.

Save the Date SUNDAY Feb. 10

BIRTHDAY BRUNCH • The Sopris Sun celebrates a decade of independent newspapering with an 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. brunch at A Way Home (689 Main St.).

OFFICE HOURS

Sopris Sun Editor

Will Grandbois available at

Blue Spruce Coffee (520 S. third street)

at the crack of 8 every Monday morning, then heading around the corner to The Sopris Sun office (Room 32) to see who shows up.

It ain’t always easy to find Editor Will Grandbois, see. He’s got people to meet and leads to follow. But if you know of a person of interest to the paper, or a case that needs cracking, or just have a question, concern or even a compliment, check out his “Office Hours.”

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Town Report The following items are drawn from Town Manager Jay Harrington’s weekly report to staff, trustees and others.

SELF STORAGE FACILITIES, each more than 90,000 square feet, were the subject of two referrals from Garfield County to the Town’s Planning Department. One is to be located next to the Planted Earth Nursery and would be three stories in height with 24-hour access. The other would be located to the northwest of the County Road 100 and Highway 82 intersection and is also expected to be three stories but would operate only during scheduled business hours. Both will be reviewed by Planning and Zoning on Jan. 24.

NORTH FACE PARK master plan stakeholders (including Town of Carbondale Parks & Recreation Department, Roaring Fork Pickleball Association, representatives from the Parks & Recreation Commission, the Roaring Fork Soccer Club, the Roaring Fork Lacrosse, the Little League, the local skateboarders, USTA and High School Tennis teams, La Liga Spanish Soccer League, and neighbors) will meet from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at Town Hall to discuss preferred designs for the future of the park.

P&Z will also be reviewing a Minor Site Plan Review to allow construction of a Single Family Dwelling and an Accessory Dwelling Unit in the OTR zone district. Meanwhile, Planning staff met with the architect who designed the mixed-use development on the northeast corner of Main and Highway 133, which was approved for 18 residential units.

The property is up for sale and the potential buyers are looking to amend the approval to allow smaller rental units.

ICE SKATING rinks downtown and at the rodeo grounds are operating with public skating hours scheduled around recreation programming — see carbondalerec.com for a full calendar.

A STREETS FOREMAN is being sought with a close date of Feb. 5.

ART AROUND TOWN submissions are due by Jan. 31 at callforentry.org — more info at carbondalegov.org.

TREE RECYCLING will continue through Feb. 4 in the lot across from Town Hall.

A WASTE HAULING pre-proposal meeting was held with interested haulers.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES at Carbondale Rec. Dept. include climbing instructors (call 510-1214), group fitness and Silver Sneakers instructors (510-1280) youth basketball referees and recreation assistants (510-1279).

IRRIGATION REPAIR and replacement project on the Highway 133 corridor west from Phillips 66 south to Donitas Townhomes has gone to Grand Junction Pipe for design specs and pricing. This 2019 project will go out to bid in February.

AUDITORS from McMahan and Associates performed a review of procedures and policies with Town departments. They will return in May to continue with the audit so the 2018 financials can be presented to the Board in June.

Cop Shop From Jan. 11 through 17 Carbondale Police handled 218 Calls for Service.

During that period, the officers investigated the following cases of note:

SATURDAY Jan. 12 at 1:43 a.m. A stop for speeding and a defective tail light led to a the arrest of a 29-yearold man on suspicion of driving under the influence.

SATURDAY Jan. 12 at 7:49 a.m.

Someone reported a theft from a car on Village Road.

SATURDAY Jan. 12 at 4:49 p.m.

Following a disturbance call, officers took a man into protective custody.

SUNDAY Jan. 13 at 3:56 p.m. After receiving a report of a suspicious man at a bar, police arrested a 69-year-old on suspicion of obstruction and disorderly conduct.

MONDAY Jan. 14 at 2:07 p.m. A suspicious call led to a failure-to-appear citation for a 54-year-old man.

THE WATER TREATMENT PLAN on the Roaring Fork wells has been offline due to a problem with the flow pacing system to the chlorine pump. However, the Crystal and Nettle Creek plants are operating well and keeping up with demand.

TUESDAY Jan. 15 at 10:29 a.m. Police investigated a marijuana infraction at Bridges High School.

INTERVIEWS are being conducted for the open police officer position. Meanwhile, Officer Leach attended an emotional survival class and School Resource Officer Bell taught Roaring Fork High School students a class on sexual assault.

WEDNESDAY Jan. 16 at 7:46 An officer took a report of a truck that backed into a parked van several times and then left the scene — but not before someone got the license plate.

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By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff When Carbondale Police Officer Brandyn Rupp stopped a gray Subaru Forester near the intersection of Second Street and Snowmass Avenue for allegedly speeding just after midnight on Jan. 12, the driver turned out to be Luis Yllanes, a member of the Carbondale Board of Trustees.

In addition to a citation for exceeding the speed limit by 10 to 19 miles per hour, Yllanes, 44, was summoned for driving under the influence of alcohol.

District Attorney Jeff Cheney was quick to point out that Yllanes is presumed innocent unless proven guilty and cited Rules 3.6 and 3.8 of the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct in declining to release the discovery — a more in-depth description of the incident prepared for the court. That makes the summons and the Carbondale Police Department’s weekly press log the sole public documents in the case.

In fact, a Colorado Bureau of Investigation check revealed no criminal history in the state for Yllanes or any other member of the board. Police Chief Gene Schilling did recall some department interaction with past trustees. According to Town Manager Jay Harrington, the municipality’s ethics code addresses conflicts of interest but not criminal accusations.

Defense attorney Michael Fox told The Sun that Yllanes blood alcohol content was measured at .080 — which is exactly the limit for DUI. “At this time we are investigating whether Luis was over the legal limit. We trust that Luis’s case will be resolved through the legal process,” Fox said in a statement. “Luis deeply values serving the town and people of Carbondale. He looks forward to learning from his mistakes and growing from this experience.”

Yllanes himself declined to comment. His first appearance in court is scheduled for 1:30 Luis Yllanes p.m. on Feb. 28.

Singletrack Trails began work on Red Hill last autumn. Courtesy photo

By Jeanne Souldern Special to The Sopris Sun A collaborative effort among multiple community stakeholders will result in three new trails and safer trail access at the Red Hill Recreation Area.

The partnership between the Town of Carbondale and the Carbondale-based Aspen Valley Land Trust (AVLT) started with an effort to acquire and permanently protect a 25-acre parcel of land at the base of Red Hill.

The Garfield County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 21 unanimously approved a $200,000 disbursement from the county’s Conservation Trust Fund. That contribution closes another chapter in the Red Hill Trail Project.

Garfield County commissioners, in January 2018, tentatively committed $200,000 for the property acquisition. However, the funding was contingent based on the state providing funding from the Lottery to the Conservation Trust Fund this year.

The area, at the junction of County Road 107 (CR-107) and State Highway 82 (SH-82), with its red-rock face is the focal point when you enter and leave the town of Carbondale. Suzanne Stephens, executive director of AVLT, says, “People didn’t want to see development at the bottom of the hill.”

Two of the three trails are completed.

The first is a hiker-specific trail, for foot traffic only. This trail is named “Ruthie’s Run” in honor of Ruth Brown.

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The second is a shared-use trail, for hikers and bikers. The third trail is bike-use only. It is a down track directional biking trail, now partially completed at 972 linear feet. The remaining 1,772 feet is scheduled to be completed by Singletrack Trails, a trail construction company based out of Fort Collins, in March and April, depending on weather conditions.

DHM Design’s Carbondale office was brought on to handle public outreach locally and some of those ensuing outreach results.

Eric Brendlinger, Parks and Recreation Director for the Town of Carbondale, said a meeting was held in late December 2018 with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Red Hill Council, DHM Design, and AVLT to devise a work plan for signage.

The new trails butt up against BLM land. The plan, if everything goes accordingly weather-wise, is for final trail completion in April.

Brendlinger said when all the trails are done the BLM and the Red Hill Council will “make sure that people understand that that historical trailhead is going to be gone.”

Access to all trails in the area will be from the new trailhead. Signage will go up in February to direct people towards that trail usage.

Another project goal is to reducing user conflicts between vehicle and bike/pedestrian traffic on CR-107.

This will be accomplished by moving pedestrian traffic off of CR-107. The trailhead is being moved down the hill and the straightening of CR-107 will allow access to a new parking area on the west side of CR-107.

Carbondale Public Works Director Kevin Schorzman says they are finalizing the design and upon completion it will be submitted to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) for approval because they are responsible for the intersection of CR-107 and SH-82.

Schorzman said the plan is for Garfield County to do the work of realigning the road. He explains, “If the County and the Town worked together on it, we could probably do it cheaper than we could do it with a contractor.”

Road work will begin depending on how it fits into the work schedule for the County.

When asked about the possibility of traffic delays during construction, Schorzman says, “What we’re trying to do is design it in a way where there might be some delays, but not from the perspective of having to fully close off the road.” He adds, “There may be delays, but not closures.”

When that time comes, meetings will be set up with area residents for input.

The successful 1.35 mil capital campaign for land acquisition and trail, road, and parking lot construction came from a variety of sources, including the $200,000 from Garfield County, $350,000 from AVLT, $200,000 from the Ruth H. Brown Foundation, $100,000 from the Alpenglow Foundation, $100,000 from Abigail Wexner, $200,000 from additional private donations, $150,000 from Pitkin County, and $50,000 from the town of Carbondale.

The $350,000 from AVLT came from their River Valley Ranch (RVR) transfer fee fund. Every lot sale in RVR has a 1/4 of a percent transfer fee dedicated to open space preservation within seven miles of Carbondale.

The $300,000 in private donations was comprised of about 350 donations from individuals from Glenwood Springs to Aspen. It was raised between October 2017 and February 2018. As Stephens describes the community’s enthusiasm of contributing to the cause, she says, “Everyone could see the value in it.”

Stephens says about the success of the project to date, “I think it’s been brilliant.

It’s a great partnership with the community and the town and you couldn’t ask for more.”

Celebration of Life in honor of Jim Calaway Saturday, February 2ⁿd The Orchard

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Please arrive at 9:30am

Celebration will begin promptly at 10:00am.

Jim’s favorite hotdog wagon lunch to follow at Third Street Center at Noon.

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In lieu of flowers the family invites you to make a gift in Jim’s honor to one of his favorite non-profits:

ACLU of Colorado • Aspen Institute • CARE • CMC Foundation • Garfield County Libraries Habitat for Humanity • Sopris Sun • Third Street Center • Thunder River Theater Company Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist • Valley View Foundation / Calaway-Young Cancer Center

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The passing of John Holden From the archives of the Roaring Fork Valley Journal

John and Anne Holden. Photo by Rebecca Young

officers, a dispatcher and some part-time fill ins, to say nothing of the Sheriff’s Department.

Smith pointed out, however, that they had to keep an eye on things 24/7.

“If you think Big Brother is out to get you, it’s only Big Blue serving and protecting the peaceful valley residents,” he wrote, “and hopefully not chasing each other for lack of anything better to do.”

In other news… After a change of ownership, Printer’s Alley in Basalt was billed as “a store with things for the mind.”

Jan. 26, 1989 Jan. 25, 1979 M.G. Smith parodied the idea that Old West policing might have been preferable to the trend in law enforcement toward “a bureaucracy that makes the Pentagon look old-fashioned.” Long sleepy enough to warrant just a single part-time cop, Carbondale had grown to support a chief, three patrolmen, a sergeant, two ordinance

Colorado Rocky Mountain School co-founder John Holden died at the age of 77, prompting a written remembrance by Jack Snobble — a CRMS legend in his own right. “John’s blunt honesty and belief in combining the work ethic with academic excellence, the fine arts, enjoyment of nature and especially of skiing as a way of life, are all still reflected in the school that he and Anne founded,” he wrote. “Starting out in the ‘log house’

they led their faculty and students in literally building CRMS from the ground up in the early years. Part of CRMS was an outgrowth of their long experience at the Putney School in Vermont. Much of it, however, was a response to the unique situation they created in Carbondale. In any case, this pioneer school has become one of the finest in the country, a fitting memorial in itself.”

In other news… Despite snow and cold, Colorado was still resistant to salting the roads.

Jan. 28, 1999 The Town was considering swapping an unused strip of Colorado Avenue right of way for a section of Main Street that had encroached on private property “for as long as anyone can remember.” The deal would give developer Jay Leavitt more space to meet open space and parking requirements on his envisioned development near the intersection of Main and Highway 133 — but some trustees were concerned it might lead to another development like the one just west of the parcel, nicknamed “Baltic Avenue.”

In other news… Sheepherder and local Mormon leader Elmer Bair turned 100.

Jan. 22, 2009 A rudimentary website was up and running at soprissun.com, “Carbondale’s new independent newspaper… envisioned as a non-profit, sustainable community entity.”

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Food for thought Dear Editor: Thanks to The Sopris Sun for the important article on growth impacts on local wildlife. As one who has taken college courses on conservation, I can report that the loss of habitat means the loss of animals; as well as the vegetation.The Colorado Parks and Wildlife are reporting of a major decline of elk and deer in populated portions of the state.

Wildlife had no problem in the Roaring Fork Valley before Europeans arrived. We humans are the problem.

I’ve read that much of the wildlife was wiped out by hunting during the mining days. In fact, today’s elk are immigrants brought down from another state and restarted.

So today, we have a society that says wildlife and the natural world are essential and a very valuable part of our mountain lifestyles. So much so that Colorado P&W have a high priority to maintain these herds. Oddly, Colorado P&W salaries are paid by fees collected for hunting licenses. Hunting and fishing turn out to be a good part of the state’s GDP. So here we are, destroying the valued wildlife with bumpers and stressful impacts like dogs in the woods, as well as shooting them. At the same time, we expect the state professionals to do all they can to keep the herd numbers up.

Even more confusing, biological science proves that predators of the game animals are necessary for the health of the ecosystems. The introduction of wolves in the Yellowstone park proved the benefits of predators.

But when herd numbers go down, the CPW people advise shooting our lions and bears that prey on the ungulates. Sad. I guess if we extrapolate these concepts to the human situation in the valley, we could conclude that we have an excess of humans vis a vis the animal population and habitat. The logical solution to the problem is clear, we need predators that feed on humans to keep our own overgrown populations in check.

Patrick Hunter Carbondale

most often an evolutionary gift. It is designed to sustain specific organisms at specific places around the globe.

Humanity has been tossing out ripples that are not always paying it forward and impacting the environment in both good and bad ways since we have lived here ...

At this moment, the bad is outweighing the good.

Humans are inventive beings. After fossil fuels, we began finding ways of explosive innovation, and these innovations, like boats and cars, brought an easier way of life for humans. But it also brought with it a way of life that was not beneficial for of the world. Boats began spreading different bacteria and species across different countries and ruining the natural order of our ecosystems. Additionally, automobiles have been the main factor inducing carbon dioxide into our atmosphere and damaging the ozone layer.

Humanity often thinks of only the short term practicality of actions and tends to overlook the importance of sustaining the only thing keeping us alive, the Earth.

There is a character split between our values and our actions; we are the “doctors with no interest in saving lives.”

If you ask someone what is bad for our environment, most will be able to come up with a substantial list, yet every day we still add to these issues and continue to harm the planet. This split between our values and actions is morally expensive and spells an end to our earth.

We can no longer excuse ourselves from living in harmony with the planet with the excuse that being Ecofriendly is hard and expensive.

In today’s society, we believe that money is the only way to happiness. Money entertains us and keeps us busy so we don’t have to think about the troubles our planet is facing. We all look for the easy way to gain money without thinking about the ripple effect it will have on the planet. Why pay more for organic food when you can get the “same” thing for half the price, why grow your own food when it requires manual labor?

We see people overproducing in order to feed this simple way of life so everyone is able to become “happy” with overproducing the money they are not spending.

We all know our rights, but do we know our responsi-

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bilities? Do we understand that it is our responsibility and only ours to save this planet? We have all fought for the rights of individuals we may never come in direct contact with, so why are we not fighting for the planet Earth that sustains all 7.5 billion of us?

We are constantly in contact with the Earth, and the rights of the environment are the same rights that we hold so dear when it comes to people. So when we realize that our fate and that of the planets is the same fate, we may wake up.

We are past the point of saving the Earth and everything it has, but we are still able to reverse the effects of this climate crisis. We must embrace the “collapse” in the same way we care for people who need our help. We must first start with individuals, help them understand what is truly at stake here and what the actions we need to address are.

Saving the planet is the only way we can become fully human, and act in ways that allow us to redeem our species in ways that honor the miracle and mystery that we are so lucky to live in. We must take back control of our lives which come from this earth! The time is now. The planet is dying and it is up to us to save it.

Hannah Cole Roaring Fork High School

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Dear Editor: Each and every day, we take for granted the beauty and abundance of our lives, all provided to us by a generous planet.

Despite us, somehow, this planet we live on is able to sustain life, able to work in mysterious ways, and I love the mystery. Many of us, hough, have forgotten the miracle, the treasure life truly is. We are stuck on a dying globe, orbiting through space, with nowhere to run once it is gone. We are able to subconsciously understand that our species will perish, but we take no action to delay our extinction.

The climate crisis we face is indeed a crisis, both of our climate and our character, our human character, mine yours, all of us. Our individual and collective character. Life as we know it has always counted on a type of ripple effect, a kind of pay it forward, and the ripple is

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