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Volume 8, Number 51 | January 26, 2017

Classic Movie Night returns

When The Sopris Sun scheduled our annual movie fundraiser for Feb. 2, we knew we had only one choice on what to show. “Groundhog Day,� the 1993 fantasy-comedy starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell and Chris Elliott, is a contemporary classic featuring a man reliving the same day over and over.

Tickets are $10 as part of our push to raise $15,000 and sign up 175 SunScribers by our eighth birthday in two weeks. And if you bring an additional cash or check donation that night, you will be entered to win an exclusive door prize.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Crystal Theatre, 427 Main in Carbondale. Costumes are encouraged, but not mandatory. Previous Classic Move Nights have sold out, so come early.

Don’t miss the chance to see “Groundhog Dayâ€? on the big screen on the big day. You might ďŹ nd yourself watching it again and again.

And again.

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Carbondale Commentary The views and opinions expressed on the Commentary page do not necessarily reflect those of The Sopris Sun. The Sopris Sun invites all members of the community to submit letters to the editor or guest columns. For more information, email editor Will Grandbois at news@soprissun.com, or call 510-3003.

Letters

The Sopris Sun welcomes your letters, limited to no more than 400 words. Letters exceeding that length may be edited or returned for revisions.

Include your name and residence (for publication) and a contact email and phone number. Submit letters via email to news@soprissun.com or via snail mail to P.O. Box 399, Carbondale, CO 81623. The deadline to submit letters to the editor is noon on Monday.

Lenience for leaning Dear Editor: I am writing my first letter to the editor to protest the cutting down of the leaning tree near the Carbondale Library. I have spent 37 years in the Roaring Fork Valley planting thousands of trees, and I have to say that I do not see a hazard present with this leaning tree.

That tree has been leaning for years and there are many trees in town and in the forest that lean. It does not mean that it will fall down.

This tree adds beauty to the town and I hope that the town of Carbondale will reconsider its position to cut down this leaning tree.

K. Keating Carbondale

YouthEntity enriches students Dear Editor: I’m writing to highlight the impact that Youthentity, a local nonprofit, has in our schools. While not described as a vocational or technical option, Youthentity does provide practical, technical opportunities that add to what our local schools offer.

Harvard Professor Howard Gardner identified eight intelligences: musical-rhythmic, visualspatial, verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. Unless schools specialize in one of those areas, the intelligences that children possess are often neglected to give way to more “valued” skills. The bias against internships/vocational training has cost us since many of those skills are needed for the 21st Century. Students should be encouraged to explore their own aptitudes and not be locked into an academic plan without room for alternates. We want our students to graduate ready to succeed in a diverse world that needs artists and veterinarians, chefs and engineers, counselors and musicians.

YouthEntity branched out from an organization focused on teaching kids how to retrofit old computers into providing hands-on learning experiences for children. Last academic year they served 2,700 students with their job ready, career ready, life ready programs, including 1,800 kids who completed a personal financial literacy workshop. A 5th grader from our Two Rivers Community School (TRCS) said, “YouthEntity helped me prepare for my future financially by teaching me how to spend and save correctly.” 391 students received career development experience and a chance to participate in a variety of internships. YouthEntity’s ProStart team competed against high schools including Aspen and Vail to place first at the state competition and 8th in the nation, earning $250,000 in scholarships. Over 300 kids participated in Lemonade Day that teaches entrepreneurship and financial literacy, including students at

Aspen Elementary, Crystal River, Basalt Middle, Carbondale Middle, Glenwood Springs Middle and TRCS. Lastly, their Design Team, coached by world-renowned Architect Gino Rossetti, developed plans for a rooftop garden at Valley View Hospital’s Cancer Center.

These accomplishments were possible by engaging the community and the work of over 40 mission-driven volunteers. I’m proud to serve on the Board of this fine organization and encourage you to support us by visiting YouthEntity.org or calling 970-963-4055.

Adriana Ayala-Hire, Ed.D Glenwood Springs

A housing solution Note: This letter was originally addressed to the Garfield County Board of Commissioners Dear Editor: It is no secret that we need lower cost housing for workers in the Roaring Fork Valley. I have a solution that would give hundreds a less expensive place to live. It would also keep as many cars from passing through Glenwood as the workers would be living farther up valley.

Why not let every land owner with suitable acreage have a trailer or RV space on their land? As long as the hookups met all codes, were up to standards and had adequate water, electricity and sewage facilities what would it hurt? The land owner could pay the county a one time fee that would cover the cost of inspection and add a little money to the county coffers as well.

Doing this would not only help the county but put a few bucks in the land owners pockets and save the workers thousands in travel and housing costs. How can this be wrong?

I know that doing such a thing now is against code but codes can be changed. You guys are just the ones to do it. How about it?

It is the sensible thing to do.

Linda Hayes Glenwood Springs

Thanking the police Note: This letter was originally addressed to Police Chief Gene Schilling.

Dear Editor: I moved to Carbondale 1 1/2 years ago from Glenwood Springs. I had some very negative experiences with the Glenwood Springs Police Department. I have had nothing but positive experiences with your people.

Last summer, I had dinner at the Town restaurant. I sat at the bar and had a Manhattan and a glass of wine. I weighed 300 pounds at the time, so there was no way I was intoxicated, but as I walked away from the bar, I missed a step and fell hard on my knee.

A good Samaritan drove me home. Pretty soon, a couple of your officers were at my door.

“Oh boy,” I thought, “Here it comes.” I was sure they knew I was on probation for three DUI’s and should not have been drinking at all.

The officers asked me if I was okay. They didn’t even ask me if I’d been drinking. The officers were not there to judge me. They were there to help. It turned out I needed help as my knee had swollen up like a balloon and I couldn’t walk. The officers called an ambulance that took me to the hospital.

I have been completely sober since July 1 and I believe this experience helped lead me to it.

I love this town. I’ve loved it since it refused to enforce the Patriot Act because it was unconstitutional. I was impressed when you said you would not help ICE deport our Latino friends.

With my history, I can’t believe I’m saying this to a police officer, but if we stick together, we will prevail.

Fred Malo Jr. Carbondale

Work your voice Dear Editor: A time has come. Yet another time has come. Everyday is an opportunity to step into our power as individuals and as a collective.

Many of us are riding high on the power we felt marching together with a very large portion of the world. Many of us are dreaming that important change will come from this catalyst whether we voted for him or not.

Our voices are a strong tool for change, for growth and for unification. It is scary to speak out though and for some, even scarier to sing. There is nothing more powerful than stepping into our fear. By reaching deep we will discover that our voices resonate with kindness, compassion and respect for all life.

I am a lead singer in the band LET THEM ROAR and after years of singing mostly alone, I was initiated into the magic of singing together from which there is no turning back.

I am offering a five week vocal workshop that culminates in a unique performance at the Green is the New Black Fashion Extravaganza. The workshop will center around yoga practices for accessing our collective power source, the Earth. We will learn a song we will sing for Water and share in the thrill of riding a wave of sound.

If this is enticing to you, please email me at connect@scavengerindustries.com and I will share all the details. Classes will be held just up the Crystal River on the beautiful 13 Moons Ranch on Thursday and Sunday afternoons until the 2nd weekend in March. I welcome you.

Olivia Pevec Carbondale LETTERS page 15

Clarification An article in the Jan. 19 edition of The Sopris Sun wrongly indicated that the Carbondale Arts (CA) organization might contribute $70,000 to the potential purchase of a small commercial complex at the juncture of Highway 133 and the Rio Grande ArtWay being planned by CA. In fact, CA has a $70,000 budget for DeRail Park, a planned entrance to the Rio Grande ArtWay at that juncture, and any money left over from that budgeted amount might be made available for the purchase of property at the juncture.

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Trustees fill vacancy with Sparhawk for one year term

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Erica Sparhawk, program director for regional alternative-energy advocacy organization CLEER (Clean Energy Economy for the Region), was picked on Tuesday to fill the trustee vacancy that came open last year when Mayor Dan Richardson was elevated by voters from his original role as a trustee to take on the mayor’s job.

Sparhawk, 40, will begin her new post immediately after being sworn into office on Feb. 14.

The position, however, will only be for the next year and three months, under requirements in the town charter, meaning Sparhawk’s will be one of five positions up for election in 2018.

In April of that year, current Trustee Frosty Merriott will step down due to term limits, and trustees Katrina Byars, Heather Henry, Sparhawk and Mayor Richardson all must run for re-election.

The reasons for the large field of open seats are that Richardson was elected to fill out the term of recent mayor Stacey Bernot, which expires in 2018; Henry was appointed to fill the term of former trustee A.J. Hobbs, which expires in 2018; Byars' first four-year term expires in 2018; and Sparhawk, appointed to fill out Richardson's term, is required by the town charter to run in the next scheduled regular election, in 2018.

Erica’s tale Born and raised in Carbondale, Sparhawk, who is married with two children, has had experience studying and working abroad as well as in the U.S. She studied at the Universidad del Mayab, in Merida, Mexico, in 1997, and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in economics at Colorado State University in 1999.

Following that, she worked for what was

The Carbondale Board of Trustees voted 4-0 Tuesday night to appoint Erica Sparhawk as its newest member. Photo by Will Grandbois then a Carbondale-based alternative-energy company, Solar Energy International, building straw-bale homes, designing sustainable houses and other tasks, before moving, in 2007 to Billings, Montana, where she spent the following two years working and learning about sustainability and alternative energy.

Sparhawk said she has no problem at all with the idea of serving a rather short first term.

“I think it’s a great way for my family and myself to make sure that this works for us,” she said, referring to the rigors of being a trustee with multiple official responsibilities.

Plus, she said, assuming that she wants to continue her service, she is able and willing to run an election campaign in 2018.

“I enjoy campaigning,” she said, noting that while she was living in Montana, first working as a carpenter and project manager for a construction company and then founding her own alternative-energy consulting firm,

she spent some time as campaign manager for a state legislator.

And she has been part of other campaigns, for issues and candidates, at other times.

But, she admitted, “I’ve always done it for other people,” so 2018 would be her first time at running her own bid for office.

Although she plans to keep her job with CLEER, Sparhawk said she will recuse herself from discussions between CLEER and the town board about financial issues related to the town’s ongoing energy conservation programming.

In addition, she said, where she has been the primary contact at CLEER for Carbondale-related energy efficiency policies, she already has set in motion a plan to turn that work over to another staff member at the nonprofit.

In a written summary of her life, Sparhawk noted, “I’m a careful listener, which I think is one of the most important traits for an elected official. I can bring a diplomatic voice to the discussion, because I frequently understand the perspective from both sides of the debate.”

She also pointed out that she has had broad working experience, from waiting on tables at local restaurants to designing and building energy-efficient homes, which she felt should serve her and the town well.

“I’m a home-grown, global-thinking, engaged resident of Carbondale and I think I’d do an excellent job working for and with our community,” she concluded.

And it appeared the majority of the board of trustees agreed.

The board interviewed six of the eight people who applied for the trustee position, a list that included food server, photographer and veteran volunteer April Spaulding; long-time Carbondale Parks & Rec. Commission member Becky Moeller;veterinary technician Beth Broome; educator and water-quality specialist Sarah Johnson; retired draftsman and parttime ski instructor and salesman Jim Breasted; and Sparhawk (local businessman Michael Durant withdrew his name from the selection

KDNK selects news director to manage station

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Gavin Dahl, who has been news director for about nine months at KDNK-FM, Carbondale’s community access radio station, was promoted to the post of general manager by the station’s board of directors this week.

In an phone call Tuesday night, Dahl confirmed that he had been hired to replace former station manager Steve Skinner, who was dismissed in December of last year.

Dahl formally takes the reins of the station on Feb. 1, according to Andi Korber, chair of the station’s board.

When contacted on Wednesday, Dahl, 35, prefaced his remarks by stressing that he was grateful for the work done by Skinner over the decade that he ran the station, and to the community for starting and maintaining the station’s vitality over its 38 years of existence.

His training in radio, Dahl said, began at two college stations, at the University of Texas in Austin and then at Evergreen State College, a liberal arts institution in Olympia, Washington, the schools he attended while ferrying between locations where his divorced parents had settled.

That was where he got his training in the radio-news business, from stories about mu-

sical acts coming to campus to interviews and other productions about issues and personalities of the day.

He also worked at a station in Boise, Idaho (KRBX) after graduating from college, where he got his first taste of management as program coordinator and music director as well as being in charge of station operations as KRBX prepared to move from an Internet platform to the FM band in 2008.

Moving to Colorado in 2009 (“for love,” he explained) he worked as a film projectionist in Greeley, and wrote copy for the RawStory.com website, which had “millions of readers,” giving his first taste of mass-market news work.

He also spent a couple of years in California, including a stint at the Digital Arts Service Corps, an adjunct of Americorps, an agency that provides personnel for national and community service projects. While there, he said, he learned “about how the Federal Communications Commission actually works,” knowledge he hopes will help him now as he prepares to deal with an incoming presidential administration that might be hostile to community radio, net neutrality, and other issues that will affect KDNK.

Returning to Colorado in 2012, he worked with veteran countercultural broadcaster David Barsamian’s program, Alternative Radio, for two years, then went to work for the Open Media Foundation, which works with nonprofit organizations, government agencies and individuals “in putting the power of the media in the hands of the people” by providing assistance with such matters as archiving government meeting recordings and making them available to the public.

While at the foundation, he worked with officials from the Town of Basalt and Pitkin County, which gave him his first introduction to the Roaring Fork Valley and convinced him to move here when a job came open as news director at KDNK in 2016.

His biggest concern, he said, is the possibility that the new administration of U.S. Pres.

Donald Trump will strip funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supplies about a quarter of the station’s annual budget. He is hopeful that his earlier work with the Rocky Mountain Community Radio Network organization will help KDNK fight back against any such efforts by federal authorities.

“If threats come our way, we’ll be unified,” he said, noting that the RMCRN encompasses

process, and 26-year local resident and chiropractor John “Doctor Dandelion” Philip did not appear at the meeting for an interview.)

Breasted was nominated for the post by Trustee Marty Silverstein, citing Breasted’s “years of experience” in valley affairs, but Sparhawk was the only other applicant discussed in depth by the board as a whole.

And it was largely the board members’ familiarity with Sparhawk, thanks to frequent interactions with her as a representative of CLEER, that tipped the balance for the trustees, though Merriott mentioned that bringing Sparhawk onto the board would “kind of equalize” the balance of men and women on the panel.

Several of the applicants complimented the field of candidates interested in the job, noting that the board was lucky to be faced with a choice among such well-qualified individuals.

“This is a very talented group of people,” said Johnson, expressing gratitude that the town has such a competent population base to draw from.

The other applicants all were urged to stay involved and interested in civic affairs, and to consider “tossing their hats into the ring” for the 2018 municipal election.

In other action, the trustees: • Discussed their top five or six priorities for the coming year, which mainly centered around affordable housing; coming up with a permanent funding source for needed infrastructure work; creating an “environmental charter” or “environmental strategic plan” to guide future town decisions about energy-efficiency programming; and expanding masstransportation opportunities to the entire town rather than simply Main Street and the northern portion of the community; along with others.

• Signed off on a list of 30 “special events” for 2017, which will involve closures of town streets, parks and other facilities to accommodate the festivities.

Gavin Dahl in his element, broadcasting during Mountain Fair 2016.

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by Jane Bachrach most of the region’s community radio outlets.

“KDNK is not alone.”

Other plans include his desire to improve the station’s community outreach by highlighting its best volunteers, holding community events at the studio on 2nd Street, and pursuing partnerships with local nonprofits, businesses and other media outlets to keep the town both entertained and informed.

Key to the station’s future, he said, is its ongoing relationship with the Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program (AZYEP), which is a separate nonprofit linked with the station that teaches area youth about community radio and gives them a voice on the air.

“As station manager, I’m committed to doing everything I can to maintain the great relationship we have,” with AZYEP, Dahl said.

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Snowshoe/fat bike event this weekend The Town of Carbondale’s Parks and Recreation Department, in collaboration with Aloha Mountain Cyclery, will be hosting a special event this weekend, known as “Rassle The Castle,” a snowshoe race traditionally put on by the Redstone Community Association.

This year’s event will feature a snowshoe race, followed by a super-fat-tire bike race over the same course, on Saturday, Jan. 28., for a fee of $25 per participant ($20 with a donation of canned food to LiftUp, a beneficiary of the event) to enter the snowshoe race, or $30 to enter both races. Demo bikes will be available, but participants must bring their own snowshoes.

Registration is on the day of the event, up to a half-hour prior to the start, at 10 a.m. For more details, check the town website (www.carbondalerec.com) or Facebook page.

Recent warm temperatures have been affecting conditions at the town’s two municipal ice rinks — downtown at 4th and Main streets, and east of town at the Gus Darien Arena on Catherine Store Road (County Road 100) — according to Town Manager Jay Harrington’s Jan. 20 memo to the Board of Trustees, town employees and other recipients.

“Both rinks are operational,” Harrington wrote, but he added that “ice conditions change daily and we keep our website updated with the present conditions.” As of Monday, the website indicated that both rinks were open for business.

Along the same lines, Harrington reported that, at the Gus Darien Arena rink, the Youth Learn to Play Hockey program continues on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4-5:30 p.m., and the Carbondale Broomball League plays on Wednesday and Friday from 6-10 p.m. through the end of January (the rink is closed to the public for

skating during the scheduled events.)

Staying with the recreational programming of the town, Harrington reported that “Motion Mondays” (they are for preschoolers and take place from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. on those days) are still being offered and can be found on the website or in the town recreation department brochures (covering January through March) for more details.

In addition, according to Harrington’s memo, the wintertime Youth Basketball League (for boys and girls in grades 3-6) started up a week ago. Practice times and game schedules can be found at the rec. department website.

Another new offering is a cooking class in collaboration with the Colorado State University Extension. The first class, Jams, Jellies and Fruit Spreads, is scheduled for Jan. 30 from 6-9 p.m. Call the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center (CRCC), 510-1290, for more details.

Also still on offer is a new fitness class, called Yoga en Español, is scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 6:45-7:45 a.m., and is taught in Spanish to provide opportunities for Spanish language speakers and those interested in learning or improving their Spanish language skills.

Registration is now open for the 2017 Base Camp Cycling classes, scheduled for February and March, which are indoor cycling workouts for a monthly fee of $60. The classes take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 1 p.m. and again from 6-7 p.m.

Also at the CRCC are Sahn Tae Kwon Do martial arts class for kids and adults, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 – 8 p.m. The instructors also will be giving free community self-defense seminars in February, April and May, Harrington reported in his memo.

Cozying up to a crackling fire sounds pretty inviting on these cold, short days.

From January 13-22, Carbondale officers handled 203 calls for service. During that period, Carbondale officers (and officers from other agencies) investigated the following cases of note:

FRIDAY, Jan. 13: At 5:49 p.m. an officer at the Carbondale Police Department took a report from a local resident alleging the commission of fraud and identity theft.

FRIDAY, Jan. 13: At 9:33 p.m. officers were dispatched to a home on Hendrick Drive for an emergency medical call. After investigating, the officers concluded there had been an assault on an elderly woman at that address.

They arrested a 57-year-old woman on charges of assault, and took her to the Garfield County Jail.

SUNDAY, Jan. 15: At 8:50 p.m. police stopped a vehicle on North 8th Street for “multiple traffic violations” and, after investigating, arrested the 24-year-old male driver for drunk driving and resisting arrest, after he refused to take a chemical test and behaved in an “uncooperative” way.

TUESDAY, Jan. 17: At 5:19 p.m. police took a report from personnel at the Marble Distilling Co. and Distillery Inn, regarding the theft of four “cruiser” bicycles taken on Jan. 16.

THURSDAY, Jan. 19: At 10:38 a.m. police were called to Roaring Fork High School concerning a student in possession of marijuana. The juvenile was handed a summons into municipal court.

THURSDAY, Jan. 19: At 2:02 p.m. police took a report of vandalism at a business on Main Street, estimated at more than $1,000 in damages.

SUNDAY, Jan. 22: At 1:22 a.m. Garfield County deputy sheriff contacted a man and a woman at a home on Catherine Store Road (County Road 100) east of Carbondale, about a reported domestic disturbance.

After investigating, the deputies arrested the man involved and took him to the Garfield County Jail.

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THANK YOU, ONE AND ALL! The Sopris Sun Board Melissa Waters Michael & Liz Thele Michael & Patricia Piburn Nicolette Toussaint Niki Delson & Ronald Kokish Patricia Hubbard Patrick & Jocelyn Murray Patrick Curry Paul & Anita Adolph Peggy DeVilbiss Randi Lowenthal Randy Schrock Ray & Margaret Speaker Richard & Sheryl Herrington Richard Blauvelt Richard Hart Rob Fisher Robert & Patricia Johnson Robert Schultz Rosamond & Thomas Turnbull Royce & Sarah Schipper Russ Criswell Sandra Towne

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Dance Initiative ARP returns

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Ski Spree takes place Feb. 4-5. Info: sunlightmtn.com, Facebook or 945-9425.

New York City based dance artist Christiana Axelsen opens Dance Initiative’s 2017 Artist in Residence Program with the aim to create a new work, according to a press release. Axelsen will be in residence at The Launchpad from Jan. 28 through Feb. 5. Axelsen is a graduate of the Merce Cunningham Professional Training Program. During her residency in Carbondale, Axelsen will work and perform with two former New York City dance colleagues, Sumi Clements and Meg Madorin (a 2016 Dance Initiative Artist in Residence). Dance Initiative is offering an all-levels workshop from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 5. Followed by a studio presentation of works in progress at 5 p.m. The workshop is $15 and the studio presentation is free. Axelsen will also teach a CoMotion Company dance class at the Launchpad from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 29. The cost is $10. Info: danceinitiative.org, danceinitiative@gmail.com or 963-8681.

Plan ahead Symphony in the Valley features vocalists Stephanie Askew, Jeannie Walla, Thomas Breslin, Landon Churchill, Kelly Thompson and Hope Starr at its “Come Fly with Me: Symphony Swingâ€? performances and diners at the Ute Theatre in Rie on March 3 and Glenwood Springs Community Center on March 4. Info: sitv.org.

Lacrosse, anyone?

An organizational meeting for the Roaring Fork School District girl’s lacrosse program takes place at Roaring Fork High School starting at 6 p.m. on Feb. 16. The team is open for all aged girls in the Roaring Fork School District. The team will play out of Roaring Fork High School with practices on Monday through Friday; the season will run Feb. 27 through May 5. The team is self-funded, so sponsors are invited to call head coach Sarah Klingelheber at 303-549-3877. For more information, go to roaringfork.portal.rschooltoday.com.

CVEPA looking for board members The Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association is looking for volunteer board members. For details, see the classiďŹ ed ad on page 15 or write Dorothea Farris, PO Box 921, Carbondale, CO 81623.

Tree Board meeting postponed The Jan. 19 Tree Board meeting was canceled due to a lack of a quorum, according to Carbondale Boards & Commissions Clerk Angie Sprang. Agenda items from the Jan. 19 meeting will be included on the next meeting’s agenda on Feb. 16 at 6 p.m. For an agenda, go to carbondalegov.org.

School board meets in C’dale Bake sale-ing on Main Street. Carbondale Community School students Sadie Shoemaker (center) and Avery Smith (right) held a bake sale for the Pennies for Patients nonproďŹ t at Fourth and Main streets on Sunday afternoon.

The sale was part of a CCS effort to raise money for kids with blood cancer. Word has it they raised about $125 over the course of about four hours – and the snooker doodles were especially tasty. On the left is Fisher Jacober, who ďŹ lled in while Sadie and Avery took a well-earned break.

Photo by Lynn Burton

Ski Spree stays on mountain Sunlight Mountain Resort’s annual Ski Spree takes place entirely on the mountain this year. One highlight includes the ďŹ rst ever Taste of Sunlight at 2 p.m. on Feb. 4. Participating restaurants include: Carbondale Beer Works, K-Sea’s Wing House, the Pullman, Red Rock Diner, the Lost Cajun, Glen-

The Roaring Fork School Board meets at Carbondale Community School on Feb. 8. Possible agenda items include a presentation by the Valley Marijuana Council. Info: https://goo.gl/DnE2xW or the school district ofďŹ ce at 384-6000.

Ruoff completes certiďŹ cation Lynn Ruoff recently completed her certiďŹ cation as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and is doing business as Rainbow of Health in the Third Street Center, according to a press release. She is offering free health consultations on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and has partnered with various medical practitioners in an ongoing, donation-based Nutrition-Made-Personal class series starting on Jan. 28 from 9 to 11 a.m. Info: rainbowofhealth.net and 802-999-2253.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthday this week include: Laura McCormick Grobler (Jan. 27); and Candy Holgate (Feb. 2).

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New principal sought at RFHS Adams seeks new horizons

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Writer Roaring Fork School District is accepting applications for a new Roaring Fork High School principal after Drew Adams announced he will be leaving the position at the end of the school year.

Adams took the helm at RFHS five years ago. In an email to community members on Jan. 11, he explained that he had previously contemplated working abroad and felt that the time had come to pursue his options in that regard.

“Traveling abroad is the best method of eliminating ignorance, and it’s a great opportunity for our kids,” he later told The Sun. “I’m privileged to work in a profession that’s marketable throughout the world.”

Roles in Colombia, Paraguay and Barcelona are on the table, as well as some possibilities on the Front Range, where he worked before coming to Carbondale.

“It’s beautiful here, but you don’t have to challenge yourself with dealing with complex issues,” he added. “I think that long-term people who are exposed to that at a younger age are able to deal with problems better later in life.”

That’s not to say he hasn’t appreciated some of the other aspects of living and working in a small town.

“I never had to worry about my kids’ safety. That mindset of watching out for each other is one of the beauties of this community,” he said. “It’s a really rare privilege to have a unique understanding of who students are. That’s a unique thing I don’t think I’ll ever encounter again.”

In the letter, Adams expressed pride in his time at Roaring Fork, particularly the development of the School Based Health Clinic and addition of a mental health clinician as well new opportunities for academic self-challenge such as expanded

Advanced Placement courses. He declined to take credit for some other satisfying projects such as the construction of a major solar array.

“We have amazing students that really want to make a difference and a set of teachers in this building who are willing to do just about anything,” he observed.

Mostly, he said, his role has been as a diplomat and community liaison.

“The additional relationships that have been forged with different branches to the community have really opened up a lot of doors,” he said.

That’s not to say there aren’t still things left undone. Adams thinks the school could benefit from a more robust outdoor leadership program, and would like to see more unity in the student body.

“I do believe that our socioeconomic and ethnic groups come together in a lot of different ways, but when you look at them in the hallways sometimes, they’re not always united,” he observed.

Another challenge facing the school is big fluctuations in enrollment – currently around 360 – which impacts state funding and thus academic offerings. There’s also the matter of the high cost of living. Adams has had to actively find housing for some of his staff, and while it’s likely to be a factor in finding a replacement, he thinks the job is worth it.

“I don’t know why anyone would consider not coming here if they lived in this community,” he said. “This is one of the best schools I’ve ever worked with.”

Indeed, with the Feb. 20 deadline still well off, the district has already received numerous applications, according to Superintendent Rob Stein.

According to Stein, the District plans to involve teachers, students and parents in the hiring process, which should take place in March, though he’s unwilling to rush the process to meet a specific deadline.

Drew Adams will step down as Roaring Fork High School principal at the end of the school year. Photo by Lynn Burton “For every position whenever we hire, we’re looking for the best position possible to work with our kids. Leading a high school is a complex and challenging job,” he said. “One thing I’ve pushed for is more of a performance-assessment approach to hiring.I always wonder why we hire educators by interview and football players by watching them play.”

“We really appreciate Drew’s five years of service to the District,” Stein added. “There’s always sadness that we’re losing someone who’s a valued member of our community, and there’s always excitement that there might be new energy or new ideas.”

RFHS Vice Principal Keslie Goodman also had plenty of praise for her departing boss.

“Drew has been such an instrumental part in finding sources of revenue… and forming them into services we know are needed,” she said. “He really pushes kids to be their best and sets up an environment to help them get there.”

“He has really set us on such a positive course,” she added.

“I hope his replacement can capitalize on that vision and run with it.”

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Sign(s)of the times The Women’s March on Washington, D.C. on Jan. 21 attracted an estimated five million participants world wide, according to press reports. Carbondale area women, men, kids and dogs added their enthusiastic support on a cold winter day. Marchers started at the Goat in the Cowen Center, headed south on Highway 133 for a mile to the roundabout, then circled back to where they started.

Clockwise from upper left: Ready to head out, it was signs, signs and more signs. The march was an all ages and genders event. Some posters were downloaded from the Internet. Monk, from Backdoor Consignments, directed traffic at the roundabout. Goat Restaurantowner Stacy Baldock and her sign. The procession attracted horn honking its entire way. Alice online magazine’s Maura Masters (left) and Jeannie Perry (right).

Photos by Jane Bachrach

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In addition to those who demonstrated in Carbondale, many locals traveled to larger communities to be part of demonstrations there.

Above: Alicia Keleher of Carbondale and Paige Eden of Denver were among those to make the trip all the way to Washington D.C., where they marched among a sea of signs and pink hats from the Capitol Building to the White house.

Photo by Caito Foster.

Left: Local organization Save Michelle's Garden was well represented in several marches, with a particularly strong showing in Denver. Formed in the aftermath of the November election, the group's goal is to help preserve the White House garden planted by First Lady Michelle Obama from possible destruction or dilapidation.

Submitted photo.

Carbondale demonstration draws at least 600 Sopris Sun Staff Report

Carbondale practicality and creativity comes out, especially with the “Impeach!” the peach sign (second from top).

Photos by Jane Bachrach

A mile-long procession made its way along Highway 133 on Jan. 21 for “Alice’s March for Women and Land,” a companion event to marches across the country sponsored by Alice Magazine.

Carrying signs and chanting “love trumps hate,” they circled the roundabout and managed to avoid a major traffic jam.

Fred Malo Jr. of Carbondale was one of those driving by.

“Most of the signs didn’t condemn anybody, just advocated love and condemned hate,” he observed. “I drove along side them on 133 and blew my horn and raised my thumb out the car window. The marchers yelled ‘thank you’

back at me. It was a beautiful sight.”

The Sun invited Facebook comments on why people took part – or held back.

“As a woman, daughter of immigrants and mother to a special needs child, it was my obligation to march,” wrote Maribel Obreque.

Ondine Wilson had similar sentiments.

“I’m not a marcher or a joiner and I believe in dialogue and cooperation.

The hateful rhetoric of Trump and his racist anti-environment cabinet picks have pushed me to the point of anger.

So I marched,” she wrote. “I am a social worker serving the marginalized in our community and many are demoralized and afraid. So I marched to stand for them and with them.”

For Jessica Cabe, it was worth it just for the solidarity.

“I needed to know I’m not alone in my beliefs in a woman’s right to affordable, accessible and life-saving health care, a woman’s right to choose abortion with the consultation of her doctor, a woman’s right to being treated like a person with value rather than an object,” she wrote. “I marched because I wanted to do something that would make the news and spread around in conversations and maybe, just maybe, reach a young girl who hasn’t decided whether she’s a feminist yet.”

For more photos and video of the demonstration, visit soprissun.com.

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Community Calendar

To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is noon on Monday. Events take place in Carbondale unless noted. You can also view events online at soprissun.com.

THURSDAY Jan. 26

SATURDAY Jan. 28

MUSIC DOCUMENTARY • Higher Octave Music presents “Of Sound Mind and Body – Music & Vibrational Healing” at 7 p.m. at the Third Street Center. This award-winning documentary highlights world-class performers, musicians and scientists. Brief discussion will follow the film. $10 Donation requested. Info: 9633330 or www.lisadancinglight.com.

WHAT NOW? • Figure out what comes after the inauguration from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Third Street Center. Listen to marchers from DC, Denver, and Carbondale talk about their experiences and plan what our next steps are in our community.

Rev. Shawna Foster will share her first-person perspective from Washington, D.C.

ROTARY • The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at Mi Casita at noon every Thursday.

FRIDAY Jan. 27 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “La La Land” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 27-28, 30, Feb. 1 and showing at 5 p.m. on Jan. 29 and 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 2. Also showing“Groundhog Day”at 7:30 p.m. on Feb 2. Presented by and a benefit for The Sopris Sun. LIVE MUSIC • Valle Musico plays elegant guitar-based music with classical, jazz, Latin and world-beat music elements at the Rivers Restaurant in Glenwood Springs from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.

No cover charge.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the old part of the Dinkel Building presents music every Friday night. Info: 963-3340.

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HOOPS • The Roaring Fork High School girls and boys basketball teams travel to Moffat County for games at 6 and 7:30 p.m. respectively.

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LIVE MUSIC • Tom Ressel plays a variety of classic covers with a few originals at The Marble Bar beginning at 8 p.m.

speaker series continues with “The Second Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas Project” with Lynn Wickersham of Fort Lewis College.

Info: wildernessworkshop.org.

MONDAY Jan. 30

YOGA • Himalayan Yogini Devika Gurung teaches yoga at the Launchpad every Wednesday from 9 to 10:30 a.m.

PLANT-BASED NUTRITION • Every Monday morning at the Third Street Center, Greg Feinsinger, M.D., gives free consultations about heart attack prevention, stroke/diabetes prevention, plant-based nutrition or other medical concerns. Dr. Feinsinger is a retired family physician. For an appointment, call 379-5718.

MINDFULNESS • The Mindful Life Program in the Third Street Center offers group sessions Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation and registration is not necessary. Info: mindfullifeprogram.org and 970-633-0163.

DANCE PARTY • Mountain Westies and More brings nonstop dancing to the Glenwood Springs Masonic Lodge from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Singles and new dancers encouraged — you’ll meet lots of new people! Come early for a beginning hustle dance lesson at 6:30. $10 per person, $14 with class. 18 and over. Info: 970-379-4956.

SUPER CHATS • RE-1 Superintendent Ron Stein hosts coffee chats from 7 to 8 a.m. at Bonfire Coffee (in the Dinkel Building) on the second Tuesday of the month, at Saxy’s in Basalt on the first Tuesday, and River Blend in Glenwood Springs on the fourth Tuesday.

SUNDAY Jan. 29

WEDNESDAY Feb. 1

ASC • A Spiritual Center in the Third Street Center meets at 10 a.m. sharp, with social

NATURALIST NIGHTS • The Carbondale leg of ACES’ Naturalist Nights winter

All the Best for your Retirement !

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While we will miss him, he has more than earned his retirement, and we would like to thank him with a going away party at Carbondale Town Hall on Thursday, February 2nd, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

If you know Jeff and would like to wish him farewell, please plan on attending.

Thank you Jeff, for everything, Your friends at the Town

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TUESDAY Jan. 31

ROTARY • The Carbondale Rotary Club meets at the Carbondale Fire Station at 6:45 a.m.

Save the Date THURSDAY Feb. 2 MOVIE NIGHT • The Sopris Sun presents another Classic Movie Night, at the Crystal Theatre. This year featuring “Groundhog Day” ... on Groundhog Day, Thursday, Feb. 2. The film is a 1993 fantasy-comedy starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott. Doors open at 7:00. Show starts at 7:30. Costumes are encouraged. Previous Classic Movie Nights have sold out, so please plan to come early. Tickets to the film are $10 at the door. And if you bring an additional donation of any size (check or cash only) for The Sopris Sun that night, you will be entered to win an exclusive, super special Sopris Sun door prize. Join in some midwinter fun while supporting your nonprofit community newspaper!

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Further Out FRIDAY Feb. 3

FAT FRIDAY • Carbondale celebrates First Friday with a Mardi Gras parade down Main Street at 5 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC • Marble Distillery hosts Pearl & Wood beginning at 8 p.m.

SATURDAY Feb. 4 HONOR JAZZ • Roaring Fork High School hosts Jazz Aspen Snowmass’ Honor Jazz Festival for District 8 at 5 p.m. Hear four bands and a choir made up of students selected from more than 16 Western Slope schools directed by top jazz educators from around Colorado. Carbondale kids participating include Renee Bruell, Rex Hamilton, Marco Hernandez, Aidan Knaus, Liam Laird, Lucas Schramer, Tyler Treadway, Talon Carballeira and Tristan Maker.

SUNDAY Feb. 5 SKI FOR SISU • The 25th annual noncompetitive family event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.with refreshments, costumes, a silent auction and short course for youngsters. A minimum donation of $15 for individuals or a family supports the Spring Gulch Cross Country Trail System.

To get there, go west through the Carbondale Roundabout and continue 6 miles on Thompson Creek Road.

SCULPTURE DEADLINE • The Town of

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Carbondale and Carbondale Public Arts Commission are seeking 15 original sculptures for the annual Art aRound Town exhibition. Those chosen will be displayed around Carbondale; the artists will receive $750 upon installation. The exhibition opens on June 1 and $1,000 will be awarded for Best in Show. Submissions for entry are available at the CAFÉ (Call for Entry) website: callforentry.org. Info: carbondalegov.org.

SUPER BOWL TAILGATE • Join Marble Distilling Co. for a Super Bowl Tailgate – mountain style! Doors open at noon, and kickoff is at 4:30 p.m. and $20 gets you local gameday eats, a signature MDC kickoff cocktail and a local “superâ€? brew from Roaring Fork Beer Company. There’s also a pool beneďŹ tting Colorado Animal Rescue.

SUN - WED Feb. 5 - 7 TAKE TEN • Theater Masters presents an evening of ten minute plays by MFA playwriting students at Arizona State University, Brown, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern, NYU, UCLA, UCSD and two plays by local high school students Zamira Mullally & Genevieve LaMee of Glenwood Springs High School. It all takes place at Aspen High School at 7:30 p.m.. Tickets are $25 or $12 for students and available at www.theatermasters.org. For more information, email theatermasters@gmail.com or call (970) 618-5219.

Classic Movie Night

POTLUCK • Heart Healthy Meals hosts a plant-based whole food potluck at the Third Street Center on the fourth Monday of the Month. It starts at 6:30 p.m. Info: Ardis@HeartHealthyMeals.us.

IMMUNIZATION CLINICS • GarďŹ eld County offers immunization clinics at the Carbondale Family Resource Center (in the Bridges Center at 400 Sopris Ave.) the second and fourth Thursday of the month (Oct. 27 this month). To schedule an appointment, call 945-6614, ext. 2030.

CLAY EXHIBITION • The Carbondale Clay Center at the east end of Main Street presents “Food, Drink, Flower,â€? featuring new works by artists Fumiko Nagai and Frank McGuirk. The show will remain on display throughout the month. Info: carbondaleclay.org or 963-2529.

YOUR STORY, YOUR LIFE • This is a facilitated workshop for writing your personal history, one story at a time. Have you wanted to explore your legacy of living and the wisdom of your experience? Join the Glenwood Springs Branch Library with stories, ideas and inspiration. It’s facilitated by Shelly Merriam, historian/writer/genealogist. Your Story, Your Life takes place the ďŹ rst and third Friday of the month at 10 a.m. to noon. It’s free. Info: 945-5958 or gcpld.org.

SENIOR MATTERS • The nonproďŹ t Senior Matters, based in the Third Street Center, offers numerous programs for senior citizens, including: tai chi with John Norman at 8:30 a.m. on Monday and Wednesday; tai chi with Marty

Finklestein at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday; 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.

KOROLOGOS GALLERY • The Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt presents “Awards and Accolades: Twelve Acclaimed Western Artistsâ€? through Feb. 7. Info: Korologosgallery.com.

ABA • The Art Base Annex in Basalt (174 Midland Ave.) continues the Isa Catto show “Taking Inventory: New Works.â€?

C’DALE TRUSTEES • The Carbondale Board of Trustees holds regular meetings the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at town hall starting at 6 p.m. The trustees usually hold work session at 6 p.m. on the ďŹ rst and third Wednesday. Info: 963-2733 or carbondalegov.org.

EMPATHS MEET • The “RFV Empaths Uniteâ€? support group meets at the Third Street Center (Room #31) from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Donations are accepted. Info: Kelli Welsh at 417-893-8578.

GRIEF AND LOSS • PathďŹ nders 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.

PathďŹ nders offers support groups from Aspen to Rie and is located in Carbondale at 1101 Village Rd. Info: pathďŹ ndersforcancer.org.

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WHAT A WIN. Roaring Fork players mob Jassiel Petatan (upper right) after he bagged a three-pointer at the buzzer to beat Grand Valley 57-56 on Jan. 21. Petatan’s clutch basket was set up when sophomore forward Joe Salinas (upper left) scored to pull the Rams to within two points. Grand Valley had a chance to put the game on ice with 6.2 seconds left but Kade Hurst missed the first of a one-on-one. Roaring Fork grabbed the rebound, hustled the ball up court and Petatan drained his shot from the left corner.

On the girl’s side, the Lady Rams fell 42-25. In basketball action at Coal Ridge on Jan. 24, the girls won 43-36 while the boys went down 53-41. Photo by Lynn Burton

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To request an emailed copy please contact Joan Preisner at joanp@sgm-inc.com. The email subject line shall read: Request for Electronic Bid Documents – Town of Carbondale Nettle Creek WTP.

All questions pertaining to the project shall be directed to Jaimal Proctor through email or phone at jaimalp@sgm-inc.com (970) 384-9074.

Questions will be received until end of business on February 15th.

Town of Carbondale Mark O’Meara Utilities Director

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Community responds to Crystal trail plans

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer The Pitkin County Open Space & Trails department last week got its first look at public preferences regarding plans to build a bicycle trail from Carbondale to Crested Butte (a former mining town turned ski resort in Gunnison County), following openhouses that drew more than 130 people to two meetings in Redstone and Carbondale.

The county has about $300,000 to work with in the trail-planning task — $100,000 from Great Outdoors Colorado (GoCo) and $200,000 from the Open Space & Trails (OS&T) itself.

A statement on the county’s website declared that the next step in the process will be “selection of ecological and engineering consultants to help plan options for routing the trail.”

Further input from the public, the web site statement continued, would be sought in open-house gatherings next summer, and the entire planning process leading to proposals for specific routes is expected to take up to two years.

In the wake of the first round of “kickoff” meetings, as the open houses were called, OS&T officials are working through responses to a survey that asked respondents to write down their thoughts on what the trail planning effort should take into account.

The answers indicated that area residents want the county to consider everything from wildlife preservation to talks by experts with local homeowners’ associations, and a whole lot more.

In the survey the county asked several questions, seeking respondents’ ideas about certain aspects of the broader project.

These included: • How planners could best go about seeking community input; • What kinds of information should be incorporated into the final “decision matrix” that will be used to come up with

proposed routes; • Which “elements” that “make the Crystal Valley special” need to be preserved, managed and maintained in light of the proposed trail; and • “What would make the Carbondale to Crested Butte Trail a success?”

According to survey results uploaded onto the county’s Open Space & Trails web site (www.pitkinostprojects.com), the questions generated about 20 answers apiece, as of Jan. 19. The survey questions have been left up on the website, and answers by respondents will be recorded and tallied until Feb. 24.

Questions & Answers In their answers, respondents dealt with a wide range of topics, such as one demand that the process be modified to include “a series of presentation from wildlife experts, not just local ‘know-it-alls,’” and that the presentations not be in an “open house” format but be built around factual statements by the experts that citizens could then respond to.

One of those experts, another respondent wrote, could be Betsy Jacobson, the Colorado Department of Transportation’s manager of trails and other concerns, who could talk about the impact of trails construction on other towns and regions around the state.

One respondent seemed to consider the public-input effort for a trail of this length (approximately 83 miles, according to Pitkin County) as “a major outreach challenge” that would be all but impossible to accomplish meaningfully, due to the diversity of communities and distances involved.

Instead, the respondent suggested, the county should tackle the public outreach by using videos instead of meetings in public venues.

Many of those who submitted answers, though, seemed to think the trail can be

Amanda McIntosh worked out on the cleared portion of the Crystal River Trail south of Carbondale on Wednesday. McIntosh — who graduated from the University of Denver in 1987 and now lives in San Antonio, Texas — is a two-time winner of the Leadville 100.

She told The Sopris Sun she’s in Carbondale visiting a friend. Her next major event is a 50-miler in Normandy, France, on Oct. 7. Photo by Lynn Burton built, though there was a broad array of ideas concerning how that should be done.

One answer insisted that wildlife impacts be the primary concern for the trail planners, especially impacts on the ailing Bighorn sheep population that lives in the area of Avalanche Creek and Filoha Meadows, a few miles north of Redstone.

Another suggested the planners avoid the heavily traveled Highway 133 pass route used by vehicular traffic, and find a way to use the old McClure Pass Road that is still visible just to the north of the newer one.

That route, the respondent wrote, “has a gentle grade, great views, and no right of way issues,” at least as far as the route over

into the North Fork Valley is concerned.

From Carbondale to near the Highway 133 turnoff to Marble, several said the trail should be built in the highway right of way, perhaps on widened shoulders on both sides of the roadway.

And one suggestion was to route the trail through Marble and over the Schofield Pass (10,707-foot elevation) to Crested Butte, perhaps including construction of a paved, one-lane trail “on especially steep segments.”

The entire array of answers to the survey question, currently numbering about 180 but likely to increase over the course of the next couple of weeks, can be read at the OS&T website.

Court unseals Martin case, appoints prosecutor

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer A local judge this week unsealed a court file containing charges of embezzlement against Garfield County Commissioner John Martin, and appointed a special prosecutor to oversee the investigation of those charges.

Ninth Judicial District Judge James Boyd, in an order dated Jan. 22, has appointed Fifth Judicial District Attorney Bruce Brown, whose district includes Eagle County, to look into whether Martin is guilty of improper use of public funds.

The Ninth District comprises Garfield, Pitkin and Rio Blanco counties, with its central district offices in Glenwood Springs.

The matter involves charges leveled by defeated county commissioner candidate John Acha, a Democrat, who last year tried to unseat Martin, a Republican, from the commissioner’s post Martin has held for the past 20 years.

Part of Acha’s campaign was to closely research county records and policies to un-

cover anything that might be of value in the Court Chief Judge James Boyd noted that Democrats’ effort to oust Martin. the case file had been sealed at Martin’s reThat search yielded, among other things, quest, after Martin maintained that “invesexpense-account records that tigatory records are ‘routinely’ Acha and his campaign team not disclosed in public until took as evidence that Martin and unless charges are filed.” had been “double-dipping” in The text of the order also expense vouchers submitted noted that “defendant cites for trips around the state and no legal authority in support country on county business. of his request” and the judge The case landed in the lap ultimately concluded that of then Ninth Judicial District “no grounds have been Attorney Sherry Caloia, who shown to keep the records of claimed she had a conflict of this case sealed.” interest because the Garfield In the matter of appointJohn Martin County commissioners overment of a special prosecutor, see her office’s operational Boyd wrote in the order that budget, and asked Ninth District Chief Martin argued that Caloia “lacks authorJudge James Boyd to appoint a special pros- ity” for asking for a special prosecutor, beecutor to oversee the case. cause at that time there was no official case Boyd quickly sealed the case in late Oc- for an appointee to oversee, and that the tober of last year, while awaiting motions matter under consideration is not “worthy filed by the two sides in the case. of investigation.”

In a court order dated Jan. 22, District But the judge ruled that, if the DA is dis-

qualified at her own request due to a conflict of interest, state law contains no “factors or elements for the court to consider” in terms of appointing a special prosecutor, beyond the DA’s request.

In addition, Boyd wrote, it is part of the DA’s job to investigate as well as prosecute, by hiring investigators and looking into the facts of the case.

“Absent investigation, a district attorney could not fulfill his or her ethical obligation” to put cases before the court that are based on carefully considered evidence, Boyd wrote.

As for whether the case is “worthy of investigation,” Boyd concluded that the DA’s office, under the constitution, is part of the executive branch of government, while the courts are in the judicial branch. Any intervention on Boyd’s part in the DA’s deliberations about the worthiness of the case would be a violation of the separation-of-powers enshrined in the national and the state constitutions, the judge wrote.

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Standing Rock protestors brace for changing political landscape

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer While resistance continues at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation against an oil pipeline routed through reservation lands straddling the U.S.-Canadian border, President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an executive order that caused alarms to be raised among the pipeline’s opponents.

The president’s executive order, according to press reports, called for resumption of work on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the equally controversial Keystone Pipeline, which is meant to take an estimated 800,000 barrels per day of tar sands crude oil from the Canadian province of Alberta to Steele City, Neb., where it would connect with existing pipelines that would carry the crude to refineries in Texas.

The DAPL, a smaller pipeline being built by the Energy Transfer Partners company, is expected by industry observers to be easier to get underway again and completed, as it already is 95 percent finished except for a short stretch underneath a reservoir along the Missouri River near the Standing Rock site.

The DAPL, at a cost of roughly $3.8 billion, is projected to carry nearly 500,000 barrels of crude oil from the Bakken fields in North Dakota to a pipeline juncture in Illinois, from which it would be sent to refineries and shipping facilities in the southern U.S. The Standing Rock and nearby Cheyenne River Sioux tribes, with the assistance of thousands of Native Americans from other tribes as well as non-tribal individuals, for about 10 months have been fighting against the DAPL, which is being built by a company called Energy Transfer Partners or ETP. The protesters, who call themselves “water protectors,” fear that leaks from the pipeline could contaminate the Missouri River and surrounding groundwater, which is the primary source of drinking water for the tribes and other, downstream communities.

The tribes also contend that the pipeline construction already has disturbed sites that are sacred to the Sioux, and that further construction would worsen that disturbance.

In early December, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declined to issue a critical, final construction permit for the pipeline, declaring the agency needs to study the situation further and instructing ETP to cease working.

A recent notice in the Federal Register, the official journal of federal actions, hearings and other matters, carried an announcement about the Army Corps’ plans to start an Environ-

mental Impact Statement (EIS) under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, to further study the DAPL. No information was available on Tuesday as to whether President Trump’s executive order would immediately cancel out the Army Corps of Engineers’ call for an EIS on the Dakota Access pipeline.

But Tim Brogdon, a Carbondale activist who has been a leader in the local support for Standing Rock, this week urged his fellow supporters to send comments on the EIS, if the study goes ahead as planned. He said anyone interested can contact him by email at tbrogdon@gmail.com.

tribes to keep the pipeline out of their lives.

According to Brogdon, as of about a week ago there were approximately 1,000 water protectors still living in three camps — named Sacred Stone, Rosebud and Oceti Oyate — in the area of the pipeline construction.

And it is to these camps that a contingent of Carbondale and Roaring Fork Valley residents have continued to send supplies, clothing and winter gear to help the water protectors maintain their vigil safely.

But changing conditions at the camp have brought changes to the local valley’s aid efforts.

“It always morphs, it always changes,” Brogdon told The Sopris Sun by telephone.

and which makes the cleanup of all materials and goods left at the camps an imperative.

Brogdon noted that a GoFundMe site has been started (Support the Bald Eagles at Oceti, or simply search for Bald Eagles) to assist tribal elders Amos Cook and his wife, Phyllis Beautiful Bald Eagle, and other leaders as they get to work both sustaining the remaining water protectors, directing a cleanup campaign and preparing for the needs of the camps once spring arrives.

In addition, Brogdon said, another Carbondale supporter of the Standing Rock resistance, Amy Kimberly of the Carbondale Arts organization, recently heard from a man in Minnesota who has a semi-truck loaded with 22 cords of firewood and hopes to deliver it to the camps.

“So we’re in the wood hauling business again,” said Brogdon, referring to past supply trips carrying firewood and other supplies.

Other avenues

The Bald Eagle family, headed up by Phyllis and Amos (center, with fist raised), along with water protectors staying at the Oceti Sakowin encampment at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Submitted photo.

Native American leaders condemned the order, including Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock tribe, who compared the pipeline’s threat to the tribe’s water to the water contamination in Flint, Mich.

“Creating a second Flint does not make America great again,” Archambault said in a Jan. 24 story on the InsideClimateNews website. “It not only violates the law, but it violates tribal treaties. Nothing will deter us from our fight for clean water. We will be taking legal action and will take this fight head on.”

Support continues Brogdon, who lives in Carbondale, has been working with numerous local supporters of the Standing Rock resistance effort, said last week that the effort continues by residents of the Roaring Fork Valley to support the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux

Following the Corps decision in early December to withhold the final DAPL permit, Brogdon said, winter set in and it became increasingly difficult to obtain firewood in the region around the camps, creating a scarcity that was somewhat offset by deliveries of firewood from the Roaring Fork Valley support network.

As December progressed, Brogdon said, winter conditions and pleas from tribal elders resulted in an exodus of people from the camps, where the number of supporters once reportedly exceeded 10,000.

In the wake of that exodus, Brogdon reported, are piles of stuff left behind, including clothes, building materials and other detritus that has been buried in snow and frozen in place.

The area also is bracing for spring melt-off, which can bring sudden and massive flooding,

Shawna Foster, minister to the Two Rivers Universal Unitarian Church in the Roaring Fork Valley and a key figure in the local Standing Rock support effort, said last week that she has been helping to raise money to help the tribes build a “model village” that gets its energy from alternative sources, primarily wind power because “North Dakota has a lot of wind.”

The idea, she said, is to show the world how to live without dependence on fossil fuels. Such endeavors, she said, can act as both a limiting factor for global warming, and a way for communities in the region to create jobs and an energy infrastructure that bolsters the local economy rather than international oil conglomerates, and would not involve “trampling on indigenous peoples’ rights.”

According to Foster, she and Jessica Catto of Aspen, who Foster said has taken at least one trip to Standing Rock to help out, have been talking about working with some Aspen groups or individuals as a way of raising money for the Standing Rock effort and getting valley residents involved in a “disinvestment” strategy aimed at putting pressure on various financial institutions to stop financially supporting the pipeline.

Foster said she plans to hold a meeting in Carbondale, in the Calaway Room at the Third Street Center on Jan. 28 at 4 p.m., to discuss the president’s executive order and other matters.

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Bids are due on Friday, February 3, 2017 at 2:00 p.m., to Kevin Schorzman, Public Works Director, Town of Carbondale, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, Colorado 81623, at which time they will be opened and read aloud.

The project consists of approximately 57,050 square yards of 3/8 inch chip and seal coat surfacing of existing streets. Bid packets can be obtained on the Town of Carbondale website or at Town Hall.

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New high schools, trains and the Dalai Lama From the archives of the Roaring Fork Valley Journal Jan. 27, 1977 Carbondale and Basalt students and teachers all reported that the newly constructed Basalt High School and Roaring Fork High School were working out well, despite deficiencies, electrical-system problems and other hitches about the buildings.

In Carbondale, the new Roaring Fork High School on Snowmass Drive (which has since been replaced with a bigger, more modern building further south) offered a more spacious environment than the old building, including a much larger cafeteria space, a well-equipped auditorium and classroom space that made way for a broadened science curriculum.

The new Basalt school, which itself also has since been replaced with a bigger building, accommodated about 200 students and 18 teachers in grades nine through 12 at that point (officials said it could grow to perhaps 300 students before it would start to feel crowded).

Jan. 29, 1987 A Carbondale man, Allan Kramer, came up with a plan to run a “dinner train” up and down the Roaring Fork Valley, as an adjunct to a proposed Roaring Fork Railroad ski and commuter train that was to run from Denver to Glenwood Springs and then along the Denver & Rio Grande Western tracks to Woody Creek. The proposed ski and commuter line came from rail advocate Randy Parten, with passenger service from the old Sta-

pleton International Airport in Denver and a new terminal in Aspen, in keeping with a national reawakening of interest in localized train travel.

Jan. 30, 1997 A decade later, Carbondale was still wondering about the best use of the Rio Grande right of way (Kramer’s dinner train and Parten’s ski train ideas had never gotten rolling). Valley residents were hotly debating a proposal to create a new layer of government, the Roaring Fork Railroad Holding Authority and buy the right of way (for $8.5 million) in order to keep the valley’s options open to either reinstituting passenger train service or turning the right of way into a pedestrian, bicycling trail. Carbondale’s estimated share of the purchase price was to be $118,000.

Jan. 25, 2007 Carbondale filmmaker Hamilton Pevec, son of local activist, teacher and author Illene Pevec, won an invitation to Tibet to help preserve the teachings of the Dalai Lama. Specifically, he wrote in a grant application to help defray his costs, he would be assisting monks at the Namgyal Monastery in Dharamsala, “the skills they need to tell their own stories to the world,” by filming the Dalai Lama and documenting his words.

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Dear Editor: Thank you to the many women, men and children who participated in the Alice March for Women on Sat., Jan. 21. We estimated that 700 people stretched at least one mile down Highway 133. The march was about 3 miles long, but it felt much shorter because it was so inspiring — a perfect example of an engaged community.

Now is the time to harness that energy and contact our U.S. representatives to let them know that we are watching them.

Their votes on issues that affect us will not go unnoticed. We are strong and we have a voice, and we will take action.

Find out how they are voting on upcoming issues and call them if you disagree. Stay informed (www.govtrack.us). Let them hear you, and make them represent you.

Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO): 970-241-2499 Grand Junction and 202-225-4761 Washington, DC Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO): 970-245-9553 Grand Junction and 202-224-5941 Washington, D Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO): 970-241-6631 Grand Junction and 202-224-5852 Washington, D.C. Here in Carbondale we are proud to join the hundreds of thousands of other Women March activists across the globe.

We can’t stop now; we have just begun. Contact our representatives and let them know that they work for us.

Maura Masters and Jean Perry Alice Magazine

Walking together Dear Editor: We walked together, hundreds of us, quietly, peacefully, determinedly, for a variety of reasons. To me, the walk represents our sense of place, our sense of community, our sense of belief that together we can and must protect those values and beliefs and actions that represent and embrace the reasons we are here.

Only by walking together, traveling together along the path of community, can we preserve and protect and enhance and resolve our issues.

Our issues are many… pick one… and remember we are all here, in America and in the Crystal River Valley, because at some point, we, or our ancestors, made a choice to be here…

With that choice, comes an obligation. The ‘walkers’, independently, without any identified mission, or signs, or chant, or group direction, represented the recognition that together we can do so much…with respect and dignity.

Dorothea Farris Carbondale

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