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Chicago Cubs fan in Carbondale By Fred Malo Spring training is here and I can finally get into my favorite sport. That’s right, you pigskinheads. This is one Coloradan who loves baseball and doesn’t care much for football. What’s more, I’m a life-long, die-hard, true-blue Cub fan, 2016 was the best year of my life, and I’m so looking forward to 2017. Being a Cub fan has been a long, hard ride with plenty of heartbreaks. The Cubs had not won the pennant since four years before I was born and the World Series since four years before my father was born. But 1969 was different. I was 20 years old, away from home for the first time, and living in an apartment on the north side of Chicago, within walking distance of Wrigley Field. I went to 54 Cub games that year. I worked nights in an all-night restaurant so I could attend as many games as possible. I sat in the left field bleachers. I was one of the notorious Bleacher Bums. We started out hot and, by the beginning of August, we had a ten-game lead in the National League East. Then, we went into a deep slump late in August and all of September. Meanwhile, the Mets, the expansion team that lost 120 games in 1962, got hot. The Mets didn’t just sneak by. They blew right by us and beat us by ten games. The 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s were one dreary second division finish after another. In 1984, we won the National League East and needed to beat the Padres in a five-game series to get into the World Series. We were supposed to get home field advantage, but the league took it away from us. The network didn’t want two night games in San Diego and three day games in Chicago (Wrigley Field still had no lights). They wanted two day games in Chicago and three night games in San Diego. Ratings, you know. Guess that shows who runs baseball. Of course, we won the first two games at Wrigley and they won the three games at San Diego and the series. I’m still bitter about the way we lost that series. In 2003, we made it to the LCS against the Marlins. Game Six at Wrigley Field was the famous Steve Bartman game. Bartman, an avid Cub fan, reached up from his seat down the left field line and caught

a foul ball depriving a Cub outfielder the opportunity to catch it. The batter went on to get a base hit and, later in the inning, the Cub shortstop made a costly error and the Marlins won the game forcing a Game Seven. They won Game Seven and another chance to go to the World Series went down the drain. Then there was 2015. We made it to the LCS against the Mets. That’s right, the accursed Mets, the same villains that ruined our lives in 1969. The Met’s pitchers shut us down and they swept us in four straight. It was hard to take. Enough of the Lovable Losers. How about 2016? Like 1969, we started out hot and got way out in front in the National League Central. The Cubs had a brief slump before the All-Star break, but took off and finished with 103 wins. We took out the Giants three games to one in the Divisional Series. Then we beat the Dodgers in six games in the LCS. For the first time since 1945, the Cubs were in the World Series. I told myself I was satisfied. If the Cubs lost the World Series, I would be disappointed at first, but then I would think about what a great season it was. By the time Game Seven against the Indians came about, I wanted it bad. The Cubs scored six runs in the first six innings against their two best pitchers; Cory Kluber and Andrew Miller. We took a six to three lead into the bottom of the eighth with our ace reliever, Aroldis Chapman, on the mound. Chapman was overworked and out of poop. The Indians scored a run, then Rajiv Davis hit a dramatic two-run home run to tie the score. Do I believe in curses? I’m a rational man, so in the cold light of the next day, I don’t believe in curses, but when Davis hit that home run, just like previous heartbreaks, I believed very strongly in curses. The Cubs came back in the top of the tenth and scored two runs. The Indians scored a run in the bottom of the tenth, but it wasn’t enough. The Cubs won the World Championship of Baseball for the first time since 1908. My prediction for 2017: The Cubs will repeat. The 1908 champions were repeaters and the 2016 Cubs were not only good, but they’re young.

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Forming relationships at CRES EDiToR’S NoTE: This is the second in a series of letters submitted by CMS students in support of CRES. More letters to follow in future issues. Dear Editor, My name is Payton, I am in 7th grade at CMS. I previously went to Crystal River Elementary School and I loved it there. The school had fun activities and great teachers. When I was in 4th grade at CRES we went on our first overnight field trip. I remember being so thrilled and excited just like all the other kids. The field trip was at Highline lake campsite. The trip was a blast! We learned a lot while having fun there and it was so much fun to spend time with our other classmates. Another one of my favorite things about CRES was P.E. with Mr. Madsen. Mr. Madsen always made P.E. as fun as it could be with many games and fun sports. He always had a bond with each of his students and he was super kind and funny. Mr. Madsen also keeps his relationships with his kids once they get out of elementary

school which is very special. CRES is a great school with many kind and fun teachers. All the teachers do their best in preparing kids for middle school and years to come. CRES also helps kids make bonds with each other and become friends with all their classmates. I deﬁnitely think that CRES helped me get to where I am today and I will cherish the many memories I have there. I would deﬁnitely recommend this school to kids. It’s a great school that will help your kids be prepared and have fun. Payton Seventh Grade

Palookapalooza Dear Editor: Ever since the announcement of and during the 6 day marathon of Snowmass Village Planapalooza, I kept remembering and thinking about a very popular cartoon character of yesteryears. We Americans can keep awakening to more astonishing American importance which let us discover who around us is one of us and for how long they have been in America. Who is the cartoon character Emzy Veazy

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III keeps recalling because of Snowmass Village Planapalooza? The guy is the heavy weight boxing champion Joe Palooka! For God’s sake I am the only one who has the memory trigger of the Joe Palooka newspaper comic strip?! Joe Palooka, from the 1930’s onward, came out in comic books, a radio series, a newspaper comic strip and motion pictures and television. POW! The Snowmass Village Planapalooza for ideas and goals for the Snowmass Village entry way, the Snowmass Village Center and the Snowmass Village Mall better have the boxing punch of the mighty he-man, heavy weight boxing champion Joe Palooka! It’s long overdue for Snowmass Village to sock ’em and knock ’em dead with a Joe Palooka knock out punch as the resort good enough for a royal court, The British Monarchy! Whatever is lacking I shall put polish on the Snowmass Village Planapalooza in a la Joe Palooka astonishment. POW! Emzy Veazy III Aspen

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Dandelion Market looks for new direction Lease runs out in July By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Writer Dandelion Market needs some help. That message came across loud and clear as members of what’s still generally known as the Carbondale Food Co-op came together at the Carbondale Branch Library to discuss the store’s future on March 1. Less certain was what form that might take. Bill Shepherd, the member who called the meeting, advocated for dissolution of the board and perhaps the whole organization to allow for a fresh start as a nonprofit. “Don’t patch, fix it,” he said. “Do it right.” According to attorney Erika Gibson, such a move would require a petition signed by at least 10 percent of the 600 members to hold a special meeting to amend the bylaws. Most of those assembled at the meeting seemed disinclined to attempt such a drastic change just four months before the lease is set to expire on the market’s Main Street location. The lot at the corner of 6th and Main also hosts Teresa’s Market and an annex for Sweet Coloradough, but it’s unclear whether other business on the parcel – owned by Equanimous Holdings LLC, which in turn is believed to belong to local landowner and philanthropist Bren Simon – will be expected to move, as well. “We’re trying to find a home by July. That’s pretty much tomorrow,” said Jason White. “I would rather see [the board] get some help and get us through the next few months, then see how we want to restructure.” Others wanted more information and communication before choosing a direction. “I know that a lot of things have been tried. I don’t know what they are and why they failed, and I’d like to,” member Stephen Shapiro said. “I don’t think dissolving the board is a solution,” agreed former board member and manager Max Christopher. “I think it’s bigger than that.” For Christopher and others, the move itself was a concern, with some expensive options on the table. While some rentals were available and a few had the potential for owner finance, Co-Op manager and Carbondale Trustee Katrina Byars advocated for one of the largest – 689 Main St., former home of the similarly named restaurant. She envisions a cooperative hub for area food organizations with an incubator kitchen and a meat market. Partnerships, she argues, make it cheaper in the long run – particularly with the potential for grants. “A lot of what we’re doing qualifies us for some pretty special opportunities,” she said. “The intent is to be a really dynamic and viable new business.” Shepherd wasn’t convinced. “I think that 689 would be a dream come true someday, but this is not the year,” he said. He bemoaned the 50-odd member turnout of the meeting and while his approach didn’t seem to gain much traction, his sentiments were not without support. Several of those assembled mentioned bare

shelves in recent months, while even the board and staff acknowledged that Dandelion Market often runs in the red. “We took a pretty big hit when Whole Foods opened,” Byars said. “It’s a struggle without operating capital to be paying out backwards and not be able to buy forward.” Even so, she cited several recent improvements to the store infrastructure and assured members that a recent interest-free loan would help restock the shop. “This place started organically, and the systems have been made up and adaptive as we’ve grown,” she explained. “What we’ve created here is kind of a miracle. These kind of institutions are shutting down.”

What now? While the meeting generated plenty of ideas, the true outcome remains to be seen. Shepherd’s petition is still circulating with an unknown number of signatures. Some new members and volunteers have signed up (drop by the store), and calls for new board members may yet bear fruit (currently there are just three board members with room for at least six more; email emsteers@gmail.com for more information). “It’s having a positive response – a call to action,” Board Chair Emily White said in a follow up interview. “My goal right now is to create opportunities for people to get involved … It’s been layers and layers of blame and fear. People make mistakes and right now we need people to rise up in their best selves and help.” White remained optimistic about the potential to survive the move and come out stronger. “We have an amazingly conscious community, and I think that it can be an amazingly vibrant and proﬁtable marketplace,” she added. “It’s so important that we are growing local food and supporting local farmers.” For Byars, there’s also a cultural component. “There’s a deep environmental ethic, but it’s really about the people and a place that we can all connect and break bread,” she said in the interview. “It’s about food, culture and connection.” She sees a tale of two Co-ops – struggling ﬁnancially but also a nexus of community spirit – with the latter as the cure for the former. “The sky is not falling. We have faced challenges that I think are common to small businesses,” she added. “We’re in so much better condition than this idea that we’re upside down. So many people are committed to our success. By the time we talked about it, it was turned around.” White hopes the end result of all the discussion will be momentum for the move. “What we really need is people who will roll up their sleeves and help make this happen,” she said. “It’s really important that folks play an active role. That can be shopping, volunteering, getting people in the know, joining the board … Every little bit helps.”

A Dandelion Market customer dishes up some fresh Nepalese food in exchange for a donation. Photo by Jane Bachrach

Turning leover veggies into hearty Nepalese cuisine By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Writer While most grocery stores don’t even compost their leftover produce, Dandelion Market goes above and beyond by turning it into hot meals for the hungry. The donation-based Nepalese meal of the day is ready at around noon each weekday, thanks to Devika Gurung, 40, who hails from Nepal’s Mustang District and more recently from Pokhara. While she dealt with plenty of Westerners while running a retreat center there, Gurung probably never would have ended up stateside if it wasn’t for her husband, ﬁlmmaker Hamilton Pevec. The couple met in India in 2007 and lived in Nepal together for a while before opting for Colorado when their child was born. “It was a tough decision to make this move, but I wanted to see his life and meet his family,” Gurung said. A multi-generational Carbondale household and a fairly familiar landscape made it easier. “When I saw the mountains and the river and nature I felt already the connection,” she added. Soon, Gurung began looking for ways to get out and engage with the community. She teaches yoga at The Launchpad Wednesdays from 9 to 10:30 a.m., and started out working the produce section at Dandelion Market (559 Main St.). “I liked the intention. It exists because of the local community,” she said. “I saw what is going to the compost every day. I like cooking, so I talked to (manager) Katrina (Byars).” By late autumn 2016, she was trying out some of her recipes for those in need, and by reasonable donation for those who could pay. “There are a few customers that count on us and come regularly, she noted. “Some people you can see don’t have money or haven’t eaten and are hungry.

Devika Gurung concocts the lunchtime specials every weekday using leftover produce that would otherwise be composted. Photo by Jane Bachrach Everybody else knows, when you go to a restaurant, how much it costs.” Her cooking has evoked a warm response in those who sample it. “People are so open here. They want to try new things,” Gurung said. “I’m able to share something that is coming from my roots. If I’m cooking Nepalese food I want to stick to the tradition and not westernize it.” The offerings usually involve curry or lentils, rice, and plenty of produce. It’s always vegetarian and usually gluten free and vegan, as well. All the ingredients are available at the market, and she also sells a custom spice mix and her own blend of chai. Folks who want to dive even deeper can take a three-hour cooking class, which costs $50 and takes place monthly. As she tries to do more independent workshops and Dandelion Market contemplates a move, she hopes to lay the groundwork to continue and even expand the program. “It’s really important the food that you take because it becomes medicine,” she said. “You support your own local farmer instead of using vegetables and fruits from a different country, and whatever you’re missing, nature knows and provides.”

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Rec Center closures for GITNB and more town business The annual fashion show and fund-raising event, “Green Is The New Black (GITNB),” is being staged this weekend in the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center (CRCC), March 10-11, and the production will mean closing down the gymnasium space to other public uses (it actually has been closed to public uses since March 7), according to Town Manager Jay Harrington’s March 3 memo to the Board of Trustees, town employees and other recipients. Harrington wrote that the town recreation department will not be offering its normal array of gym-related programs, or gym-based ﬁtness classes, for the duration. But, he continued, cycling, yoga, cardio room, climbing wall and activity-room classes will go on as usual, except that on March 10 the entire CRCC facility will be closed at 5 p.m. to public activities other than the fashion show, and the same for March 11. In other recreation news, Harrington reported that the streets crew last week removed the concrete slab from the basketball court at Gianinetti Park, on the north side of town, and that a new slab for the basketball court was to be poured this week, possibly by March 8. In the public works department, Director Kevin Schorzman informed Harrington that he and Utilities Director Mark O’Meara last week attended a water-rate workshop in Glenwood Springs that Schorzman called “very informative,” and that he also has been working on the engineering review for the proposed housing project on Roaring Fork School District property between the Bridges High School building and the Third Street Center. In keeping with Harrington’s reorganization of the town’s bureaucracy, interviews were to take place today (March 9) for applicants interested in the newly created CRCC and Recreation Programs managerial position.

And in his weekly rundown of recreation programs offered at the CRCC, Harrington reported that there is room for more participants in the Base Camp Cycling classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These are indoor cycling workouts, with a drop-in fee of $8 per participant, that take place from noon to 1 p.m. and again from 6-7 p.m. on both days. The parks department reports that it has installed a dogwaste container and bag dispenser at Bonnie Fisher Park, adjacent to the north end of the Third Street Center, Harrington wrote. While no specific reason was given, it likely was caused by complaints from park users (and gardeners at the nearby Demeter Community Garden) about dog poop becoming an increasing problem. In addition, parks crew members have aerated and seeded the turf covering the town's various athletic fields, and were scheduled to turn their attentions to the “passive parks” around the community. All of the athletic fields currently are closed to play and practices in order to prevent harm to the saturated grass surface, and signs are in place at the parks to explain the closure period. At the North Face Bike Park, weed mitigation efforts are continuing, including the use of weed-barrier material topped with pea gravel in the areas between the rideable surfaces of the bike terrain. Staffers continue working to get the new Zoning District Map up on the town’s website (www.carbondalegov.org), Harrington reported. He wrote that “there will most likely be a simple PDF map as well as the interactive zoning district map available to the public” some time this week. Sales tax collections in Carbondale for February were 7.3 percent higher than in February 2016, Harrington reported, adding that year-to-date collections so far are 1.6 percent higher than by the same point in 2016.

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From February 24 - March 2, Carbondale officers and other law enforcement personnel handled more than 173 calls for service. During that period, officers investigated the following cases of note:

FRIDAY, Feb. 24: At 8:14 p.m. police stopped a vehicle due to a burned-out headlight. After investigating, officers learned that the driver allegedly was driving on a license that had been revoked due to alcohol-related violations, and issued a ticket to the 34-year-old driver. SATURDAY, Feb. 25: At 1 a.m. police stopped a vehicle for failing to obey a stop sign. After investigating, they arrested the 27-year-old driver for driving under the influence of alcohol or cannabis. MONDAY, Feb. 27: 12:52 a.m. police stopped a vehicle for speeding and failing to obey a stop sign. After investigating, they arrested the 25-year-old driver on charges of drunk driving and speeding. TUESDAY, Feb. 28: At 12:22 p.m. police took a report of a “cold” sexual assault allegation that “may have occurred in the Town of Carbondale,” which police are investigating. TUESDAY, Feb. 28: At 7:19 p.m. police were dispatched to a reported hit and run in the vicinity of the Roaring Fork Brewery on Dolores Way. The alleged “run” driver returned to the scene and was cited for careless driving. CORRECTION: In the March 2 edition, it was incorrectly reported that students were cited at the Carbondale Middle School for fighting on Feb. 17. The individuals summoned into court over the incident were members of a local women’s soccer league using school facilities, which was not mentioned in the police summary report. The Sopris Sun regrets any confusion caused by the report.

Judge weighs in on easement dispute near Satank Bridge By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer As the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) continues the lengthy process of updating its controversial Access Control Plan governing the Rio Grande Trail, the agency recently reached a tenuous and perhaps only temporary truce with one of the private property owners who lives next to the trail. Amy Fulstone, owner of the ConďŹ&#x201A;uence Lodge located near the juncture of the Roaring Fork and Crystal rivers, reached a sort of stand-off with RFTA in a federal court case last year, after the transit agency ďŹ led what is known as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;quiet titleâ&#x20AC;? action to resolve a dispute about ownership and control of a 200-foot-wide right-of-way underneath and on either side of the trail (100 feet in either direction from the center line of the trail). In the end, according to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;consent orderâ&#x20AC;? from U.S. District Judge William J. Martinez in Denver, the two sides â&#x20AC;&#x153;agreed to disagreeâ&#x20AC;? about who owns the land containing the right of way, as Fulstone characterized it. But the order itself, issued by the judge in January, declares that both Fulstone and RFTA agree that the agency has an â&#x20AC;&#x153;easementâ&#x20AC;? to the 200-foot right of way. The consent order also allows that RFTA has the right to make improvements to the property, and that Fulstone â&#x20AC;&#x153;is hereby enjoined from interfering with RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use, maintenance, operation, improvement and enjoyment of the surface of the Property,â&#x20AC;? including a prohibition from arguing with or confronting RFTA workers, except with written permission from RFTA. In addition, RFTA agreed to give Fulstone four weeksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; notice prior to â&#x20AC;&#x153;commencement of any construction or substantial maintenanceâ&#x20AC;? of the property, so that she has time to address the plans, object to them or appear before the RFTA board about the matter. The consent order carefully avoids further clariďŹ cation of the nature of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;easement,â&#x20AC;? such as whether it imparts â&#x20AC;&#x153;ownershipâ&#x20AC;? of the property to either party, and declares clearly that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the parties [Fulstone and RFTA] remain in disagreement on this issue.â&#x20AC;? OfďŹ cials of the agency have repeatedly pointed out that RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s predecessor, the Roaring Fork Railroad Holding Authority (RFRHA), purchased the 34-mile Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad right of way in 1997 at a cost of $8.5 million.

The property subsequently was transferred to RFTA in 2001, according to a timeline put together for the RFTA board, and the trail was built over the next few years under a â&#x20AC;&#x153;rail-bankingâ&#x20AC;? agreement to preserve the right of way against the possibility of future resumption of rail service in the valley.

Confrontational beginning â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a major issue with Ms. Fulstone until she started directing our employees to cease and desist,â&#x20AC;? said RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CEO, Dan Blankenship, referring to the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans last year for construction of a ďŹ&#x201A;ight of stairs down to the Roaring Fork River, on land next to the Satank Bridge northwest of Carbondale. Blankenship and RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney in the case, Paul Taddune, said the employees reported that Fulstone or others claiming to speak on her behalf had become abusive and insulting toward the RFTA workers at the construction site. Fulstone, on the other hand, maintained that it was the RFTA employees who overstepped their bounds, and that one of them â&#x20AC;&#x153;yelled atâ&#x20AC;? a tenant at her lodge, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is our (RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) land, and we can do what we want to with it.â&#x20AC;? Fulstone, 54, denied that she, personally, had ever confronted any RFTA employees. But, she maintained, RFTA had no right to build a staircase down the bank of the river, despite claims by Blankenship and Taddune to the contrary. Fulsone maintained that she is in the right because RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easement goes only to the very edge of the river while her property rights, she argued, extend to the middle of the river â&#x20AC;&#x201D; meaning she believes RFTA is â&#x20AC;&#x153;encouraging people to trespass on my property.â&#x20AC;? The transit agency, considering the confrontation with Fulstoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tenants and the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concern that she might be preparing to ďŹ ght RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights to use the righof-way, took the matter into federal court last October. Blankenship said that the judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s order has given the agency what it needs to continue to preserve the right of way for its current use as a trail or, depending on a number of variables, the ultimate resumption of rail travel either for freight or passengers, which was part of the underlying reasoning for buying the right of way in the ďŹ rst place.

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Two ďŹ shermen (and a dog) ply the waters of the Roaring Fork River downstream from the Satank Bridge, treading on river-bottom land that Amy Fulstone says she owns. This is one of Fulstone's examples of questionable public access she claims would be further encouraged by RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plans to build a set of railroad-tie steps down the steep embankment next to the bridge abutment on the left. Photo by John Colson.

Not a trail opponent Fulstone, who bought the ConďŹ&#x201A;uence Lodge out of bankruptcy in 2012, explained that she initially bought it â&#x20AC;&#x153;to have a place where I could live, that would bring in a side incomeâ&#x20AC;? by operating it as a ďŹ shing lodge on the Roaring Fork River. She said she never expected to ďŹ nd herself in a ďŹ ght with RFTA about its use of the old right of way, and insisted that she is a supporter of the trail. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the Rio Grande Trail; I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want people to think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to do something that might endanger the trail,â&#x20AC;? she told a reporter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to live in peace with my neighbors, and to just be left aloneâ&#x20AC;? by RFTA and its plans for the trail. On a March 4 tour of her property with a reporter, Fulstone pointed out the steep, eroded trail next to the Satank bridge that leads to the river, as well as the presence of several ďŹ shermen wading the river where she claims property rights, as examples of the continuing problem of trespassing. She reeled off a list of additional troubles she said she has encountered with

RFTA, including the felling of 11 old Cottonwood trees next to the trail that she understood would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;trimmed,â&#x20AC;? not cut down. The trees once provided her with a vegetative screen between her and the trail, she said, and she condemned RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s removal of the trees. Blankenship, however, said Fulstone had been included in the planning to remove the trees, which he said a professional arborist had found to be old enough to pose a hazard to the trail and to Fulstoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property. Fulstone also said she pays property taxes on the land where her lodge sits, which she cited as proof that it is hers and not RFTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her issue and the county assessorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issue,â&#x20AC;? Blankenship rejoined, maintaining that she might have a case for tax abatement and that she should call the assessorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ofďŹ ce. Despite the judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consent decree in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;quiet titleâ&#x20AC;? case, it appears that the enmity between Fulstone and RFTA has scarcely been resolved, though neither would reveal whether or how it might be resumed in the future.

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You probably won’t just be making copies and fetching coffee if you get selected as Wilderness Workshop’s summer intern. The environmental advocacy organization is looking for an enthusiastic college student to help plan events, support membership programs, assist in summer hikes, manage social media and more. For more information or to apply, contact rebecca@wildernessworkshop.org.

Cowboy charity Cowboy Up Carbondale is currently accepting applications for the beneﬁciary of this year’s event. Applicants must be a 501c3 and be able to provide volunteers who support their organization. The deadline is April 14. For more information or to apply contact Erin Bassett at 309-3319 or ebassett@masonmorse.com.

‘Merican Idol In other country music news, “American Idol” winner Scotty McCreery will headline the 79th annual Garfield County Fair and Rodeo this August. Tickets go on sale June 1 at 12:01 a.m. at garfieldcountyfair.com. For more information, visit the concert page at garfieldcountyfair.com.

50+ driving class Learn how to compensate for changes in vision, hearing and reaction time while you brush up on right-of-way, blind spots and safety systems with a course at CMC Glenwood on March 22 and April 1 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. $15 for AARP members and $20 for non-members. Register at 945-7486 or www.coloradomtn.edu/register.

Civil disobedience Indivisible Roaring Fork holds a public meeting for those “resisting the Trump agenda” at 3:30 p.m. March 12 at the Third Street Center. Meanwhile, Alice the Magazine continues satellite events for national protests with a March for Science on April 22 and the People’s Climate Movement on April 29. Both marches meet at 10 a.m. at Cowen Dr. and Highway 133. More information at alicethemag.com.

“Demonstrate for Peace” Celebrate the solstice with reading, meditation, prayer, yoga and Mana (food) and a 80 hour non-stop reading of Sacred Yoga Text March 17 to 20 at Carbondale Community Methodist Church. Contact Param at 618-3275 or paramroop1@gmail.com.

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Missing ring A Carbondale couple are on the hunt for a pair of rings that went missing from the ladies locker room at Iron Mountain Hot Springs on March 5. They have sentimental value and a reward is offered for their safe

return. Contact Karen at 987-1711 or John at 379-7123, or opt for snail mail to 1101 Village Road, Unit Ul6D in Carbondale.

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They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthday this week include: Pat Curry (March 11), Dean Bowlby (March 12), Denise Barkhurst and Nancy Thal (March 13).

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Fashion show celebrates the power of ‘SHE’ By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer “SHE” takes the stage at this week’s “Green Is The New Black” fashion show, a sold-out fundraiser for the Carbondale Arts organization to be held March 10 and 11 in the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center. This year’s offering, the show’s creators say, is shaping up to be the most professionally produced extravaganza in the event’s 11-year history. It also is an homage to the feminine aspect of all human beings, women or men, and in particular it was intended to coincide with the elevation of the ﬁrst woman to hold the job of leader of the free world, since by last September Hillary Clinton was projected to win the 2016 presidential election. “When we came up with this theme (last fall) we thought the immediate future would be ﬁlled with women leaders,” Kimberly wrote in the show’s program guide, mentioning Angela Merkel of Germany and Theresa May of The United Kingdom, as well as Clinton’s expected victory. “While that did not happen, this show has taken us on an amazing journey through several different archetypes of SHE,” Kimberly added. SHE, besides raising funds for CA, offers a chance to shine for a wide array of talented individuals from the Roaring Fork Valley and

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from other locales around the U.S. Laura Stover is the chief stylist and design specialist for GITNB (as it is known among the crew), though her overall duties have ranged from searching the internet to ﬁnd and invite designers who might be interested in participating in the show (there reportedly are 25 designers working on this show) to sewing costumes to be worn on the fashion runway. Kimberly, Stover and operations manager Deborah Colley are generally acknowledged as the holy trinity of the show’s directors (as they were called in a KDNK radio spot) — Kimberly in overall charge, Colley working to coordinate choreography and music for the show, and Stover taking care of design and a whole lot more. Stover, 33, came to the valley with her boyfriend, Joseph Tonozzi, about ﬁve years ago from California, where the two met and soon decided that Tonozzi’s home territory (the Roaring Fork Valley) would suit them better. Starting out as a volunteer designer working on the 2012 GITNB (the theme was Back To The Future), by her second year Stover was hired by Kimberly as a paid, part-time staffer (she also does freelance graphics design on the side). Among the innovations brought to the show in recent years is something called “projection mapping” which typically involves projecting images onto 3-D objects, the moving

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told The Sopris Sun, leaving her energized but tired at the same time. One aspect of this year’s show that has her feeling good is the color scheme for the dancers’ costumes. “This year they’re wearing all red — red lips, red shirts, red tights, everything red,” she said. “I’m very excited about it. And what’s great is it’s all of the shades of red. I think it’ll look really good.” The two shows, on Friday and Saturday nights, have been sold out for weeks, but there reportedly were some tickets ($20 per person) left for the dress rehearsal on Thursday, March 9 (call CA at 963-1680 for the latest). Doors open at 7:30 p.m., the show starts at 8.

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Lodging tax tops $100K for ďŹ rst time By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer

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Carbondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dedicated lodging tax hit $100,000 for the ďŹ rst time in 2016, fueled in part by an increase in the number of vacation rental properties, the town-owned Gateway RV Park and a wide-ranging tourism promotion campaign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ($100,000) amount represents a 17 percent increase over 2015, and is 109 percent higher than 2011,â&#x20AC;? said a Carbondale Chamber of Commerce press release this week. The release noted that Carbondale voters approved a 2 percent tax on lodging facilities in 2003, which was introduced in 2004. The Town of Carbondale collects the tax from 45 properties, and contracts with the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce primarily for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;promotion, development, and marketing of tourism in Carbondale,â&#x20AC;? the press release continued. Lodging includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;the lease or rental of any hotel room, motel room, lodging or inn room, motor hotel, guest house, mobile home, bed and breakfast, or any other place that furnishes sleeping accommodation,â&#x20AC;? the press release said. Currently 39 vacation rental properties (such as Airbnb or VRBO) assess the lodging tax, as well as ďŹ ve

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hotels/B&Bs/inns, and the Gateway RV Park. Carbondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two major lodges, Days Inn and Country Inn & Suites, are both located in the Cowan Center and were constructed in the 1990s. Carbondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lodging options have increased since 2011, with eight establishments holding sales tax licenses that year, followed by 10 in 2012 and 2013, 15 in 2014, 34 in 2015 and 45 in 2016, according to Carbondale Finance Director Renae Gustine. The increase in 2015 and 2016 are presumably due to the new vacation property rentals, which are generally deďŹ ned as short stays in private homes. The Gateway RV Park, located near the intersection of Highway 82 and 133, offers a total of 19 sites for recreational vehicles and tent camping. Overnight rates range from $20 to $35 per night. The Town of Carbondale has owned and operated the Gateway RV Park since it purchased the property several years ago. Since 2013, seasonal occupancy has increased from 30 percent that year to 67 percent in 2016, according to

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Recreation Director Eric Brendlinger, who is in charge of the facility. The Carbondale Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Council are also playing a role in the lodging tax uptick through their ongoing tourism promotion campaigns. Chamber of Commerce Director Andrea Stewart told The Sopris Sun that in 2016 the Tourism Council used $77,000 to perform the following: advertising, familiarization (FAM) tours, marketing, merchandise (locally designed and printed Carbondale-branded T-shirts, stickers and stainless steel cups), new iPad kiosks, photography, public relations, social media updates, website redesign of carbondale.com, and ongoing website updates and maintenance. Also in 2016, $26,000 was allocated to stafďŹ ng expenses, including payroll and payroll taxes. The chamber works with FootSteps Marketing for social media and website issues, and Sarah-Jane Johnson (SJPR) for public relations, Stewart said. The chamberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2017 tourism promotion budget is $72,000. The 17-member Carbondale Tourism Council meets monthly. Wrapping up news of the $100,000 milestone, Stewart said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since 2011 the lodging tax revenue has more than doubled, which is an indication of a steady increase in overnight guests and visitors to Carbondale. Tourism has become a vital part of the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy, and we believe our PR and marketing efforts have helped many local businesses thrive thanks to more tourism dollars.â&#x20AC;? Tourism Council Chair Darren Broome added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The secret is out: Carbondale is a great place to visit. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thrilled to see more guests coming year-round for unique events like First Fridays, Mountain Fair and 5Point Film Festival. Plus our convenient location to major ski resorts and abundant offering of mountain activity sets us at the top of many Colorado bucket-lists.â&#x20AC;?

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Clockwise from top: Johnny Nieslanik pulls as mom pushes; #168 Sr. cleans off Jr. right after birth; Sunny’s ﬁrst attempt at walking and ﬁnding where his milk is on unsteady legs; Mom and Sunny walk off into the sunrise.

#168 ‘Sunny’ beefs up the herd For about six weeks starting the beginning of February, you’ll find at least one of the Nieslanik clan in the cow pasture next to Delaney Nature Park. It’s calving season and that means a 24-hour-a-day schedule. You never know when the moms are going to de-

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liver, so in case one of them needs help or medical attention, someone’s there to provide it. If everyone’s okay there are plenty of other tasks attend. According to Parker Nieslanik, calving season for this family is rewarding, heartbreaking, crazy busy, stressful and most of all tiring, as it’s

not uncommon for any one of these family members to be up and working ’round the clock. Because ranching is such an integral part of Carbondale and surrounding area, we decided to show it off with photo journals and online videos (see the ﬁrst one at sopris-

sun.com). You’re invited to follow Calf #168 – let’s call him Sunny– from his birth on March 1st at 9:07 a.m. and his 249 cohorts until they head to their summer pasture and beyond. We hope you enjoy learning what these ranchers go through each year. Let the journey begin…

Left to right: Parker Nieslanik picks up bailing twine during breakfast; Johnny Nieslanik befriends a young calf that was born the day before.

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Community Calendar THURSDAY March 9 FILMFEST • Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) and Patagonia Snowmass will host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival On Tour at 6:30 p.m. the Wheeler Opera House. Returning to Aspen after two years of sold-out screenings, the festival is a collection of short films that inspire and motivate audiences to take action and become part of the solution to issues ranging from energy, food systems, biodiversity, recreation, climate change, and the protection and restoration of wild lands and waters. The evening will feature a curated line-up of nine films including the awardwinning short “Pangolin,” an intimate glimpse into the most illegally trafficked mammal on the planet. LIVE MUSIC • Bobby Mason, dubbed “Aspen’s truest music icon” by the late Aspen Times entertainment editor Stewart Oksenhorn, takes over the Marble Distillery (150 Main St.) at 7 p.m. Since 1969 Bobby has played with John Denver, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Eagles, The New Grass Revival, Jimmy Buffett, Bo Diddley, JJ Cale, Dan Fogelberg, Kenny Loggins, Jerry Jeff Walker, John McEuen, Bonnie Raitt and countless others at nearly every club in Aspen.

THURS-SAT, March 9-11 FASHION SHOW • Friday and Saturday tickets are sold out for Carbondale Arts’ 9th annual Green is the New Black Fashion Extravaganza: SHE. You may still be able to nab tickets to the dress rehearsal on March 9. Full

To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is noon on Monday. Events take place in Carbondale unless noted.

of locals, performance art, multimedia, inspiring sustainable fashion and a storyline to boot, this show isn’t just entertaining — it is about raising money to educate our youth in the Roaring Fork Valley. Doors open at 7 p.m., show begins at 8 p.m.; info at www.carbondalearts.com/events/fashion-show.

FRIDAY March 10 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “Fences” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Mar. 10-16 except Mar. 12 showtime is 6 p.m.; “Lion” (PG-13) at 5 p.m. Mar. 11 and “Jackie” (R) at 4 p.m. on Mar. 12 (captioned). APPALACHIAN SPRING • Basalt Regional Library (14 Midland Ave.) hosts Rachael Lee Priday on violin and Susan Ellinger on piano for a free rendition of Aaron Copland’s classic at 5:30 p.m. LIVE MUSIC • The Rivers Restaurant (2525 S Grand Ave., Glenwood Springs) presents the Leonard Curry Trio and their fun mix of Americana from 9 to midnight with no cover.

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voted his life to stand-up, reporting back to audiences on the terrible decisions and ridiculous insights that make up his daily existence. He is regular Comedy Works headliner and last year opened for Dave Chappelle and Ron White. $5 cover.

taker discuss the four pillars of health that can fuel your energy and provide context for your health choices from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Third Street Center (520 S. 3rd St.). RSVP at 802-999-2253 or lynnruoff@gmail.com.

GROWING FOOD CLASS • Get ready to garden from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Wild Mountain Seeds (6333 Highway 133). $50 including a farm lunch and seeds; sign up at wildmountainseeds@gmail.com or 963-7442.

TUESDAY March 14

DRAGONFLY CLASSES • Inspire sensory awareness, motor skills development and creative expression through singing, sounding, stillness and self-awareness from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. at True Nature Healing Arts (100 N 3rd St.). Students of all ages will also experience an array of movement arts games, storytelling, personal expression, art projects as well as opportunities to listen, play and sing along with original and traditional music at $13 per child or $25 per family. Contact shannon.yoga@gmail.com or text (404)606-2869.

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QUILT GUILD • The Roaring Fork Quilt Guild’s monthly meeting takes place at the Carbondale Public Library at 10:15 a.m. with a business meeting and a presentation. Quilters and guests from the entire valley are welcome. Email roaringforkquiltguild@yahoo.com with questions.

FULL MOON CRUISE • Ride with your neighbors and make some noise under the Worm Moon. Before the equinox, cruises typically begin at 8 p.m. at Sopris Park.

COMEDY NIGHT • Marble Distillery (150 Main St.) welcomes comedian Brent Gill for a 7 p.m. performance. Gill has de-

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BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL • From 5 to 7 p.m. Basalt Regional Library (14 Midland Ave.) screens a documentary on a group of women who, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, returned to the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant and have resided there – semiofﬁcially, for years. CHAMBER LUNCHEON • The Carbondale Chamber of Commerce’s quarterly luncheon and annual meeting takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Gathering Center at the Orchard (110 Snowmass Drive). Garﬁeld County Commissioner Tom Jankovsky will present an update and attendees will learn about projected demographic trends. Early registration runs $25 and includes lunch catered by Carbondale Beer Works. For more information and to register, call 963-1890.

WEDNESDAY March 15 POETRY BROTHEL • A crew of mostly ‘Bonedalian poets takes Justice Snow’s (Mill St. and Hyman Ave. in Aspen) by story with an open mic from 6 to 7 p.m. No cover. CALENDAR page 11

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THURSDAY March 16

SUPER CHATS • RE-1 Superintendent Rob 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.

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.

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

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.

HEALTH CELEBRATION • Garfield Healthy Communities Coalition holds its “Live Healthy Live Local” free celebration from 6-9 p.m. at the New Ute Theater and Events Center (132 E. 4th Street, Rifle). The public is invited to enjoy free food, door prize drawings and live music by Let Them Roar, as well as learn about opportunities to make Garfield County a healthier place to live. Spanish interpretation available. More information at www.garfield-county.com. SCHOOL SHOW • VOICES presents an unique performance experience created by Basalt High School students under the direction of Myrlin Hepworth and Renee Prince. This original, bilingual show uses dance, poetry, music, and puppetry to explore how fear affects our lives. Thursday, March 16 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at Basalt High School Auditorium. $10 suggested donation, children and students FREE. More info at www.amplifyingvoices.org

SATURDAY March 25 INTERACTIVE MOVIE • Enjoy “The Princess Bride” like never before beginning at 3 p.m. at the Carbondale Branch Library! Say your favorite lines along with the characters, blow bubbles, fence with your imaginary sword, and more! Props, instructions, and snacks provided; costumes encouraged for this free event.

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

COMMUNITY MEAL • Faith Lutheran Church (south of Main Street on Highway 133) hosts a free community meal from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the third Saturday of the month. Info: 510-5046 or faithcarbondale.com.

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. $6/per pair

RUN AROUND • Independence Run & Hike hosts a run around town Saturdays at 8 a.m. Meet at the store in La Fontana Plaza and run various distances, with different routes each week. Info: 704-0909.

LUNCH • Crystal Meadows senior housing hosts a lunch followed by Bingo every Wednesday.

MUTUAL MAKERS • The Carbondale Clay Center at 135 Main St. presents an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of Colorado Mountain College in Aspen’s ceramics program. Info: www.carbondaleclay.org or 970963-2529.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the old part of the Dinkel Building presents music every Friday night. Info: 963-3340. OPEN MIC • Dan Rosenthal hosts an open mic night at Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs every Wednesday from 8 to 10 p.m. PLANT-BASED NUTRITION • Every Monday morning at the Third Street Center, Greg

LIONS MEET • The Carbondale Lions Club meets the ﬁrst Tuesday of the month at the Gathering Center (the Orchard on Snowmass Road) starting at 6:30 p.m. Info: Chuck Logan at 963-7002 or Chris Chacos at 379-9096. ROTARY • The Carbondale Rotary Club

meets at the Carbondale Fire Station at 6:45 a.m. Wednesday. The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at Mi Casita at noon every Thursday. YOGA • Himalayan Yogini Devika Gurung teaches yoga at the Launchpad every Wednesday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. 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. SENIOR MATTERS • The nonprofit 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 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. COMMUNITY MEAL • Faith Lutheran Church (located across from Wells Fargo Bank on S. Hwy 133 ) & Carbondale Homeless Assistance with the help of volunteers, hosts a free community meal from 11:30am1:30pm on the first and third Saturdays of the month. For more information please call Lilly @ 366-9549.

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e end of the beginning at Standing Rock By Jennifer H. Catto Special to The Sopris Sun By Feb. 15, snow on the ground at the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock – or at what most water protectors by now called the Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Camp – was melting, fast. When I had arrived to camp a few days before, an uneven sheet of ice covered the terrain. But now, slowly rising waters had reached the wooden floor of the Colorado-donated army tent used by Amos Cook and Phyllis Baldeagle, the Cheyenne River tribe elders Carbondale, Colorado had supported with firewood and supplies all winter. For years, Amos Cook an inspired spiritual layman, singer, drummer and storyteller, and his wife Phyllis, have acted as surrogate parents for disenfranchised native youth. Two of the youth, Jasilyn and Jasilea Charger, both founding members of the International Indiginous Youth Movement, led the marathon run from North Dakota to Washington, D.C. that brought the movement at Standing Rock, and the camp at Oceti, into national prominence. “It’s hard to leave here,” Amos said while we picked through pots, pans, sleeping bags, blankets and pantry items – a massive amount of donations; a massive amount of stuff. It was a slow process deciding what to keep and what to throw away. By now, Ellie Davis, an energy healer and parttime resident of Carbondale, had arrived to help. “This is where so many prayers were said,” Amos said, looking around the cavernous green tent. “Damn, it’s like I was born here.” Around camp, about 300 worn out water protectors were also contemplating leaving Oceti for camps on higher ground. Everyone was aware of the rising floodwaters, and an upcoming Army corps deadline for evacuation, but most were more inclined to move on mother nature’s schedule than the government’s. After all, many tent stakes were lodged in ice. And several “deadlines” for them to leave had come and gone already without incident. Some in camp set up smaller tents up to a mound of earth known as Facebook hill, determined to stay in Oceti no matter what. In the Sioux language, “Oceti Sakowin” means “Seven Council Fires.” Last year, a historic reconciliation between the seven tribes of the Sioux nation had taken place nearby. Afterward, members of hundreds of indigenous tribes arrived to stand up to 500 years of native oppression, support the sovereignty of the Sioux nation, and resist the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on native treaty lands. Several months later, thousands of supporters from across the country and the world joined them. I’d been to Standing Rock once before, during Thanksgiving week 2016, when the numbers in camp had swelled to 10,000 or more. In retrospect, that week had been the movement’s glory time. Dazzling sunshine.A peaceful direct action on the front lines. The successful take-back of sacred ground on Turtle Island. The arrival of Army veterans to support water protectors in numbers that would soon balloon into thousands. “It’s a calling to come here,” Uqualla, a medicine man from Arizona, said during my first visit to the sacred fire. He was wearing an enormous white headress. His voice was steady and slow. “We know many of you came, not by making a decision, but because you just knew you were supposed to come.” Many new arrivals, myself included, looked up at each other. Connecting eyes. Smiling and nodding. “Right now, this is the most spiritual place on earth,” Uqualla said. “When you leave here, speak of this place from a place inside you of quiet strength and peace. Do not chase others with the message. You will know the time.” On Dec. 5th, 2016, thousands were gathered around the sacred fire to celebrate after the Army Corps denied the permit for the easement and ordered a new environmental impact statement. But circumstances change quickly on the Great Plains; and soon afterward, Chairman Archambault II of the Standing Rock tribe, in the first of several acts that

Chase iron Eyes of the Lakota People’s Law Project, addressing the crowd on Cannonball Bridge. iron Eyes is a supporter of the 1869 Treaty of Fort Laramie, an agreement between Lakota nations and the U.S. government which created the Great Sioux Reservation and stated that “no white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy any portion of the same; or without the consent of the indians ﬁrst had and obtained, to pass through the same.” iron Eyes ran for U.S. Congress in 2016 in an unsuccessful bid to unseat Republican incumbent Kevin Cramer. Photo by Jennifer H. Catto raised questions about his allegiance to the movement, directed water protectors to go home and leave what remained of the battle to the courts. Thousands of supporters left Oceti during a pounding winter storm. So many things were left behind. Tents. Yurts. Small wooden cabins they had just built and stocked full of supplies to survive the winter. Many intended to come back and remove the structures, or occupy them and stand in support again. But then came blizzard after blizzard after blizzard.

“We know many of you came, not by making a decision, but because you just knew you were supposed to come.” – Uqualla, medicine man from Arizona

Most of the youth who helped to start the movement stayed throughout the storms. So did Amos and Phyllis. Temperatures plummeted to the negative twenties and thirties, and winds surged to over 40 miles per hour. The focus wasn’t solely on prayer and resistance, it was also on survival. For many weeks Amos and Phyllis slept around a propane heater, along with their grown children and their children’s friends, in a small Mongolian yurt.

Prelude “We are here, and we are cleaning up,” said a tall, native American man in his mid thirties, standing ankle deep in mud next to a loaded red pick-up truck. “I live down river from here; I don’t want all this in the water.” I didn’t ask the man his name. Since the new administration took ofﬁce in Washington, the mood in camp had changed. Now the Army Corps, in a reversal of its earlier decision, had cancelled the Environmental Impact Statement

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and granted the permit for the pipeline. Now there were more suspicions. A new arrival to camp might be an infiltrator helping police profile the remaining water protectors, so there were times when it just seemed friendlier not to ask a stranger his name. Actually, many in camp now had handles instead of names. You were more likely to meet a “Smudgebear,” a “Rabbit,” or a “Rider” than a “Harry,” “Dick,” or “Sally.” “I say we proved something here,” the man said. He put his arms on the side of his truck bed and leaned forward. “We proved that wisdom trumps education. Natives got wisdom. We showed the world, the government is corrupt.” By now, I’d enlisted a team of young volunteers from Oregon to help Amos and Phyllis with the move. Using picks and axes, it took the team nearly a full day to dislodge tent stakes from ice. Meanwhile, news in camp was that Governor Doug Burgum had proclaimed another mandatory evacuation order, and that a gathering had been set with officials from the governor’s office and the Army Corps near the entrance of camp on the Cannonball Bridge. At the meeting, a representative from the governor’s office spoke to a circle of about 50 or 60 people, reiterating the governor’s orders for evacuation, while the water protectors peppered him with questions, and a persistent young woman kept asking him to speak from his heart. “I’m asking you to look inside, to connect with your heart and to speak from there,” the woman said. “I am asking you to tell us all, all of us standing here, how you really feel about what is happening here. From your heart. From your heart!” “This is an illegal occupation of army corps land,” the official said. “It’s time to evacuate.” That comment, a complete 180-degree reversal of how water protectors view things, left the group speechless. Next, Chase Iron-Eyes, an outspoken attorney with the Lakota People’s Law picked up a megaphone and addressed the crowd. “Their legal institutions are trying to… target the leaders STANDiNG RoCK page 13

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arrested for the cause. These brave people are all on the right side of history, I thought. And I was proud to have met so many of them â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to have just been there. That was a grief-ďŹ lled moment, but there were other types of moments up in North Dakota as well. There was the joyful time when, right before I left for the airport, a pristine Black Camero pulled up next to a barricade, and a majestic-looking Batman emerged from the car and opened up his cape at the

Morton County police on the ridge. There was the toxic moment of realizing the rising ďŹ&#x201A;ood waters in Oceti were releasand neutralize the movement. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on. But we ing something poisonous from the ground, perhaps the rat have to do this on our own terms. Each of us individually has poison the water protectors said that DAPL had been sprayto look within. We know we gotta move off the ďŹ&#x201A;oodplain, ing at them from biplanes; the peace of being taught how to and we are trying to do that. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s logistically impossible to ceremonially tan a buffalo hide; the strangeness of driving meet this arbitrary deadline the Army Corps has put on around in a rental car that might as well have been handeverybody! We have a right to be here, and I want to support dipped like an ice cream cone in mud; the serenity of watcheveryone who exercises their own rights, according ing agents from the Army Corps and the Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to their own decision making.â&#x20AC;? ofďŹ ce hold hands in a prayer circle with several When, I left camp on Saturday February 17th, water protectors after a discussion about roadthe army tent was folded and ready for its new blocks; the odd sensation of eating dinner at the bar home, which turned out to be at a new camp near of the Prairie Knightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Casino, and looking around the path of the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota. me at the myriad of types â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the anarchists, the spirAlready, new indigenous-led resistance camps for itual devotees, the yoga teachers, the natives from all environmentally sensitive sites across the country are over, the dreadlocks, the varying shades of mud in the works. stained clothes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and feeling like I had dropped â&#x20AC;&#x153;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the end,â&#x20AC;? Amos said, sitting near the into the bar scene from Star Wars; the poignancy of camp stove after a rousing evening of drumming feeling like crying every time I visited the compost and prayer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is just the end of the prelude. toilets, because volunteers were still there, and that Chapter one is next.â&#x20AC;? meant that the effort to remain conscious and in community was intact until the very end. Welcome home And there was that unseasonably balmy day, the ďŹ rst time I arrived to Standing Rock; when, A few days after I returned to Carbondale, a milafter driving along a rolling, two-lane highway up itarized conglomeration of state and federal police over a rise, the camp revealed itself to me like a miswept through Oceti Sakowin with tanks, machine rage. The tepees, the horseback riders, the multiguns, and full riot gear to evacuate camp. My heart, colored ďŹ&#x201A;ags, the hay-covered ground â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all already wrenched from all I had seen, ached as I glowing it that late-afternoon, high plains light watched this surreal, war-like scene at camp unfold live on social media. It was like seeing the greedy Ellie Davis of Carbondale and Sweden, throwing away trash at the oceti that makes pale blues and oranges pop. At the enmind of a nation chase away its own soul at gun- Sakowin camp. News reports of large amounts of trash at Standing Rock trance gate, a smiling Native American guy wearpoint. I was watching with my friend, Amy Kim- had been spread by opponents of the DAPL pipeline resistance movement, ing a faded Carhart jacket popped out of a berly, who Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d travelled with to Standing Rock back in order to paint the water protectors in a negative light. But workers and wooden shack and stood next to a crackling ďŹ re. I in November. Even on the small screen of Amyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front loaders from tribal environmental agencies were busy cleaning up unrolled my window and took in the smell of phone, the show of military force at the camp was and hauling away trash when we arrived, and volunteers were still in the wood smoke and burning sage, while my new astonishing. But so was the dignity of the water pro- process of sorting through donations and throwing away trash when camp friend connected his hands in prayer, looked me right into the eye, and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welcome home.â&#x20AC;? tectors who stayed and allowed themselves to get was evacuated. Photo by Jennifer H. Catto

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infielder Dawson Kuhl, a sophomore, makes a throw at Tuesday’s Roaring Fork baseball practice. The boys were lucky – they got to practice outside when Tuesday’s temperatures warmed up and melted most of the snow on the field. Roaring Fork’s first game is at home against Delta, starting at 3 p.m. on March 10. Photo by Lynn Burton

RFHS spring sports underway Baseball, soccer, track and lacrosse By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer An old Roaring Fork High School spring sports observation goes something like this: There’s a good chance the weather for any given baseball game will be colder than any football game in October or November. You can also add girls soccer and lacrosse, and co-ed track to the mix. The month of March shows up most brutally, with snow, freezing train and wind sometimes postponing games or sending practices inside to the gym. Warmer days of April mean baseballs smack into mitts a bit louder than when it’s cold, and batters must only battle pitchers instead of the elements. The same goes for soccer, lacrosse and track, as those athletes can actually have fun in the sun, competing with their teammates. The girls junior varsity lacrosse team has already had three scrimmage games in Grand Junction last week (going 2-1), while the baseballers see their ﬁrst action at home at 3 p.m. on March 10. Here is a partial preview on Roaring Fork spring sports.

Baseball Head coach Marty Madsen reports that a total of 24 players are coming out, which includes eight starters from last year’s 2-17 team. The Rams play in the Western Slope league, which includes: Delta, Battle Mountain, Hotchkiss, Aspen, Meeker, Grand Valley, Steamboat Springs, Basalt, Riﬂe, Coal Ridge, Cedaredge, Moffat County, Olathe and Gunnison. The regular season concludes with a home game against Gunnison at 11 a.m. on May 6.

Girl’s lacrosse Roaring Fork is ﬁelding a junior varsity girls lacrosse

team that also includes girls from Basalt, Glenwood Springs and Yampah Mountain High, which currently totals 12 players with three coaches. Seven are returning players and ﬁve are new. Colorado girls lacrosse is organized into one 5A class. Roaring Fork plays in the Mountain League, and plans to ﬁeld a varsity team in 2019. “The coaches and I are so proud of our players,” said head coach Sarah Klingelheber. “It is no easy task to build a new sports program and we could not do it without our players’ dedication, enthusiasm and motivation.” The assistant coaches are Chelsea Robson and Amanda Wynn.

Track & field The Roaring Fork co-ed track team has 30 students and competes in the 3A Western Slope league. “We have a lot of new faces this year but we return some strong veterans from last year,” said head coach Ryan Erickson. “Last year we took eight competitors to the state meet, which was the most we have had since I started coaching at Roaring Fork. We will be looking to try to improve on that total this year.” The Rams are led by junior Jasper Germain, who took first place in last year’s 3A state meet with a schoolrecord jump of six feet, five inches. He also placed 12th in the 110-meter hurdles. Other tracksters who competed in state last year and their finishes are: • Jazmin Contreras (senior), 100 meters, eighth place; • Kendall Bernot (sophomore), 300 hurdles, 18th place; • Ronald Clemente (sophomore), 4x800 relay, 16th place; • Trevor Stroud (junior) - 4x800 relay, 16th place; • Justin Thompson (junior), long jump sixth place and 110 hurdles 16th place.

Girl’s soccer Information on girls soccer was not available at press time. They start the season at Riﬂe at 4 p.m. on March 14 and conclude the regular season at home against Middle Park at 4 p.m. on May 4.

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By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer After trailing 40-31 going into the fourth quarter against Manitou Springs on March 4, the Rams took a brief lead before getting tripped up 56-54. The action took place in the Sweet 16 round of the 3A boys’ basketball tournament and ended Roaring Fork’s season with an 18-6 overall record, and 7-2 in Western Slope league play. The Rams made it to the tournament’s second round with a 73-64 win against Denver Manual on March 3. The next day, the #18 seed Roaring Fork took on the #2 seed Manitou Springs on the Mustangs’ home court. Manitou jumped out to a 15-8 first quarter lead on the strength of four three-pointers. The two teams exchanged points in the second and third quarters, with Manitou taking a 40-31 lead into the fourth quarter. That’s when things got tense for Mustang fans and wild for Roaring Fork’s. Justin Thompson, a 6’3” junior forward, scored 14 of his game-high 26 points in the fourth quarter. Also scoring for Roaring Fork in the fourth quarter were 5’8” sophomore Ronald Clemente, 5’8 senior Jassiel Petatan, and 6’0” senior Aldo Pinela, according to the MaxPreps website. The Rams used a 7-0 run to take a 54-53 lead with 49 seconds left, “ … forcing a stunned Mustangs team to call a timeout,” according to an article in the Colorado Springs Gazette. Manitou’s inbound pass went to senior Lucas Rodholm. He was swarmed by defenders but found Jared Keul under the basket for a layup and a 55-54 lead. But the game wasn’t over. With seven seconds left in the game, Manitou sent Thompson to the free-throw line for a 1-and-1. Thompson missed the front end. Manitou’s Rodholm snagged the rebound. A Ram foul sent him to the line for two shots. He made one. A desperation Ram shot went wide, and Manitou made its third 3A state finals in the past four years. After the game, Roaring Fork head coach Larry Williams said “It was a great fourth quarter … Justin Thompson was unstoppable.” Manitou’s head coach, Ken Vecchio, more or less agreed with Williams’ assessment of Thompson. “That (the missed free throw) might have been the only miss he had all game the way he was going,” he said in the Gazette article. Stacey Bernot, the mother of senior Hayden Bernot, was one of more than a dozen Ram fans who motored over to Manitou Springs for the game. She told The Sun in an e-mail “…RF boys played hard, hustled, and played with integrity. Many Manitou parents complemented us on our boys. Very tough loss. These boys really deserve a ton of credit, as well as the coaching staff.” ● In other local 3A state tournament action, the #9 seed Basalt Longhorns advanced to the Great 8 with a pair of convincing wins last weekend. Basalt takes on #1 seed Kent Denver at the University of Denver at 8 p.m. on March 9. The winner of that game makes the final four at 5:30 p.m. on March 10; the championship game is at 6 p.m. on March 11.

Legal Notice Tax hikes, smoking ban, battling teens and Marketplace March 10, 1977 Garfield County tried to persuade the state government to give the county a pass on paying about a $4 million increase in property taxes due to a rise in the county’s assessed valuation of commercial, residential and industrial property, which was estimated at a rise in individual tax payments of 29 percent over the year before. The assessor at the time, Jim Drinkhouse, argued that the increased assessments were a “political” move by then-Gov. Richard Lamm. Drinkhouse maintained that Garfield County was being targeted for its conservative politics and politicians, while other, more liberal counties were not seeing the same level of tax increase. The reason for the higher valuations was a shift in responsibility for school funding, and Drinkhouse accused Lamm of trying to unload financial liability onto local taxpayers that should belong with the state.

March 12, 1987 In what a reporter termed the “fuliginous” (meaning smokey) debate over a proposal to ban cigarette smoking in public places, several local business owners (including Skip Bell, former owner of the Pour House; Colleen Rominger, former co-owner of the long-gone Carbondale Drug store; Jack Arbaney former owner of the equally longgone TJ’s Cowboy Shop; and others) asked the board of trustees to “be fair” and consider the rights and desires of smokers, and those running businesses here, as having equal weight as those of non-smokers. A full debate of the issue was still two weeks off.

March 13, 1997 Carbondale police were waiting on DA Mac Myers to figure out whom to charge, if anyone, resulting from a fight among some 30, mostly teenaged combatants, that left one teenage boy seriously injured. A news story indicated that such fights were becoming more and more common since a pair of fights the previous summer in which guns were pulled. Although then-acting Police Chief Gene Schilling hesitated to term the battles as gang-related, he told The Valley Journal at the time, “there are definitely gang-like actions” taking place.

March 8, 2007 Local citizens and ofﬁcials were deep into a “consensus-building” exercise meant to provide a new look at the troubled Crystal River Market Marketplace site (today the location of a planned new City Market grocery store). The site, 24 acres of vacant ground next to (and formerly belonging to) Colorado Rocky Mountain School, remained undeveloped in the wake of the shopping mall’s electoral defeat in 2003. Hoping to cool local emotions and defuse tensions about the plans, local small-town-atmosphere activists were proposing such uses as an “eco-village” or local agriculture production, while others preferred to stick with the shopping mall idea with a big-box anchor. — Compiled by John Colson

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This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after publication of this notice. The full text of said Ordinance is available to the public at www.carbondalegov.org or at the office of the Town Clerk, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, Colorado, during normal business hours.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held before the Carbondale Planning and Zoning Commission for the purpose of considering a Major Site Plan Review and Major Plat Amendment.

The subject parcel is legally described as Lot A, Resubdivision of Lots 2 & 4, of the Crystal Village PUD, Filing No. 3. The property is located west of Hen-

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held before the Carbondale Board of Trustees for the purpose of considering a Petition for Annexation by 133 Limited Partnership. The property is legally known as:

A parcel of land situated in Lot 16 of Section 28, Township 7 South, Range 88 West of the Sixth Principal Meridian, being more particularly described as follows: beginning at a point on the Westerly right-ofway line of Colorado State Highway No. 133, whence the East Quarter corner of said Section 28 bears North 24°43'21" East, 2372.8 feet; thence South 01°16'00" East, 511.89 feet along said Westerly right-of-way line; thence leaving said Westerly right-of-way line along the boundary of that Exception Parcel described in that document recorded as Reception No. 232893 South 88°44'00" West, 195.0 feet; thence continuing along said boundary South 01°16'00" East, 49.14 feet to a point on the Northeasterly right-of-way line of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad; thence leaving said boundary North 33°10'35" West, 47.30 feet along said Northeasterly right-of-way line; thence leaving said Northeasterly right-of-way North 01°16'00" West, 520.88 feet; thence North 88°44'00" East, 220.00 feet to the point of beginning. Containing 2.602 acres more or less.

The site is generally located directly North of the RFTA Parking and bus stop and West of Hwy. 133. Said parcel contains 2.602 acres in size.

Said Public Hearing will be held at the Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, CO at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, 2017.

Copies of the Petition and Annexation Plat are on file in the Planning Department office, Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, CO and may be examined by interested persons during regular working hours, 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

John Leybourne Planner

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