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Volume 9, Number 7 | March 23, 2017

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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.

Geeking out over astronauts and art

By Brian Colley Special to The Sopris Sun Any space geeks out there? As an independent artist and illustrator (living and working here in Carbondale) I find the subject of space fascinating. I suppose I “geek out” on it occasionally through my artwork since astronauts, constellations, and rockets make semifrequent appearances in my paintings. While I don’t always completely understand the science and technical bits of space-related discoveries, I do my best to keep up with astronomy and astrophysics theories that I find in the news, and they often help shape and inform upcoming art projects.

You can understand my excitement when a friend from college invited me to join him and his family a couple of weeks ago to watch a test drop of an NASA space capsule instrument model in Yuma, Arizona! My friend works with the Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) team as their Deputy Senior Project Manager, who currently focus on NASA’s Orion mission. So of course I jumped at the chance to watch the test and find new inspiration for a possible new series of paintings (or at least, take some cool photos).

If you’re not familiar with the Orion mission, NASA officially announced it nearly six years ago and is a spacecraft designed to take a crew of four around the moon in 2021 (and perhaps to Mars in the 2030s). The CPAS team has been charged with the designing and testing of the parachute systems for the splashdown landing upon Orion’s return to Earth.

The parachute tests took place in Yuma, located in the far southwest corner of Arizona and home to the Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), an area larger than the size of Rhode Island and used primarily by the US Army. Why Yuma? With over 2,000 square miles of restricted airspace (including all the way into space itself), this is an ideal setting to test drop a space capsule. And though the actual landing will be an ocean splashdown, this arid desert landscape does just fine for preliminary testing (and makes it easier to retrieve the parachutes).

I received a personal tour of the Orion model capsule, learning about the instruments and mechanisms that release the parachutes and measure their performance. Later I witnessed the same capsule as it was loaded onto a C-17 aircraft (which would perform the

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Brian Colley at the landing site of the Orion test capsule in Yuma, AZ. Courtesy photo drop the next day). At sunrise on the morning on March 8, I found myself caravanning with the NASA media group out to YPG where, at around 9:30 a.m., we squinted into the blue sky, saw a small white object fall out of an airplane and watched three massive orange and white striped parachutes deploy, bringing the capsule safely to the ground. This was soon followed by an off-road jaunt to see the landing site and talk with the CPAS engineers (and bonafide NASA astronauts like Stan Love).

A truly memorable and thrilling adventure for this space geek / artist! I’m looking forward to developing new artwork based on the experience and can’t wait to share it with all of you. Stay tuned, space fans!

Letters

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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.

Model it after Moonflower Dear Editor: The Moonflower Community Cooperative in Moab has gone through some of the same issues as Dandelion. It almost closed down and was looking pretty sad.

I visited Moonflower recently and it’s expanded and modernized and is doing very well. I suggest that the manager of board members visit or speak with Moonflower and see how they were able to turn things around so that Moab now has a vibrant and competitive local natural foods cooperative.

Emily Miller Glenwood Springs

GOP the change agent?

Dear Editor: During the 2016 campaign, the Republican Party advertised themselves as the agents of change.

Now, they have submitted their replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its prominent feature is it favors the rich over the poor.

Where’s the change? After Lincoln, the

GOP has always been the party of the rich.

They believe the poor are to blame for being poor. If the poor had any initiative, they’d be rich, like the Republicans are.

The GOP replacement eventually will eliminate Medicaid, the poor’s primary source of health care benefits. For the time being, a larger portion of Medicaid benefits will have to come from the states, and the states, with their meager budgets, will have to decide whether to fund the schools, maintain the infrastructure, or provide health care.

Like the ACA, the GOP plans give tax rebates for health care expenses. The difference is the rich get just as much as the poor, so the poor end up paying a higher proportion of their income for health care.

The only thing wrong with the ACA is Obama did not follow through with his original plan for a single source program, excluding the insurance companies. Health care will never be affordable as long as the insurance companies are involved because it is in their best interest that it not be.

Medical costs are beyond the reach of

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just about everybody but the very rich and that guarantees customers for the insurance companies. Doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical, and medical supply companies charge what the market will bear, the market is the insurance companies, they have all the money in the world, so they’ll pay anything to keep costs high.

The big complaint about the ACA is the premiums are too high. Who sets the rates, the government? No, the insurance companies do and their only expertise is how to squeeze every penny out of their customers.

What do you think the chances are the GOP is going to write out the insurance companies from their health care plan?

Do I advocate socialized medicine? That is unabashedly so. With the exception of some delays in care, Canada’s health care plan is working quite well. Canadians pay a fraction of what we pay in medical expenses. The finest health care plan in the world is in France, where they have a pure form of socialized medicine.

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A look at Carbondale’s energy-efficiency programming

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer A little more than two weeks ago, Carbondale’s elected leaders and three closelyinterrelated energy-efficiency consulting companies came up with a list of projects and programs on which to spend the $50,000 the town has set aside for energy programming in 2017.

The three consulting firms — mostly known by their acronyms; CLEER, CORE and GCE — have been working with the town for years to reduce Carbondale’s “carbon footprint” by helping local businesses, homeowners and the government itself to upgrade the structures around town by installing solar technology and energy-efficiency technology as a way of helping locals reduce their energy consumption.

CLEER (Clean Energy Economy for the Region), CORE (the Community Office of Resource Efficiency) and GCE (Garfield Clean Energy) all maintain offices in Carbondale, at the Third Street Center.

Among the priorities recommended by CLEER and CORE, and adopted at a Board of Trustees meeting on March 14, was a plan to spend $15,000 of the overall allocation to help low-income residents (and their landlords, where applicable) improve energy efficiency in their homes and apartments.

In addition, according to a program summary contained in the meeting’s agenda (available on the town’s website), the projects planned over the coming year include: • Spend $6,000 on programs aimed at continuing to increase the energy efficiency of town-owned buildings and facilities, in order to get the town to “net-zero” energy use; • Spend $10,000 of town money to accomplish “energy retrofits” in local commercial properties, by “leveraging” the town’s money through grants and other funding options; • Spend $8,000 to “finalize” the community’s Climate Action Plan, which has its roots in the town’s original Energy & Climate Protection Plan, begun in 2005; • Spend $3,000 on what is characterized as the community’s “climate-friendly transportation,” which essentially will be in the form of support for Carbondale Bike Week, using grants to augment the town’s contribution and encourage increasing use of bicycles around town.

• Conduct free “energy assessments” for local home buyers, to the tune of $5,000 in town funding and that much again in funding from utilities and from CORE. The program outline also allocates $3,000 in expenses for “project management” by the CLEER team, bringing the total to $50,000.

In addition, CORE has signed on to continue its role as advisor to Carbondale’s Energy Board (known locally as the E-board); look into ways to increase the town’s wastewater treatment plant’s energy efficiency; conduct research into permits for a small hydroelectric facility on the Nettle Creek Water Plant’s outflow facilities; and launch a “community outreach and engagement” effort, known as the High Five initiative, to get more of the Roaring Fork Valley’s residents involved and active in the effort to reduce energy consumption and shrink the region’s carbon footprint.

What’s the diff?

As noted above, CORE, CLEER and GCE have been working with the Town of Carbondale (and other governments) for years to increase energy efficiency and help save local tax revenues and private dollars.

Some have expressed confusion about exactly what difference there is between CORE, CLEER and GCE. It was CORE that emerged first, in 1994, thanks to an inspiration largely credited to its late executive director, Randy Udall. CORE’s original office was in Aspen and its initial mission to assist the region’s communities in achieving greater energy independence and reduction of those communities’ greenhousegas emissions into the atmosphere.

CLEER got its start in 2003, under a different name, as a nonprofit working on transportation related issues, but in 2008 it changed its name and, with GCE, went to work primarily with Garfield County and the six towns located in the county on energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects designed to reduce the towns’ dependence on fossil fuels and their emissions of greenhouse gasses. It is CLEER’s job, according to pro-

gram manager Erica Sparhawk (who also serves as a Carbondale trustee) to deliver the services laid out in contracts between CLEER and, say, the Town of Carbondale or other governmental jurisdictions.

But CLEER also works with entities outside the immediate region, such as a nonprofit known as Refuel Colorado, in a continuation of CLEER’s initial focus on transportation issues, Sparhawk said, while CORE restricts its work to jurisdictions located strictly within the Roaring Fork Valley.

Both CORE and CLEER have annual revenues and expenses of slightly more than $1 million, and the two share an office in the Third Street Center in Carbondale, in part to avoid stepping on each others’ toes, operationally speaking.

“We work very closely with CORE to make sure we are not duplicating,” said Sparhawk, who later added, “We acknowledge the overlap (and the resultant confusion in the public mind), and that’s one reason we share office space in Carbondale.”

Mona Newton, executive director at CORE, acknowledged that there had been some talk about merging parts of the two organizations to reduce the confusion and po-

tential for duplicating efforts, but the idea was abandoned due, in part, to differences in the organizational foundations of the two groups.

Between CORE and CLEER, according to both Sparhawk and Newton, there is a division of duties that includes CORE’s responsibility for conducting energy audits for homes and businesses, while CLEER and GCE take care of supporting the installation of energy-efficient technology or other programs intended to increase the efficiency of homes and businesses.

Meanwhile, GCE is in charge of the Energy Navigator program, which involves installation of monitoring equipment (mostly in government and institutional settings) that permits clients to track their energy use and make modifications to reduce the rate of energy consumption in the facilities in question.

Conceding that the organizations are confusingly close in their goals and operations, Sparhawk remarked, “We truly understand the confusion, but there is enough interest in the area of people wanting to reduce energy use and save money and avoid greenhouse-gas emissions … there is enough to keep both entities very busy.”

CORE opts for art over ‘doom and gloom’

Participants make their mark on a field of white near Ashcroft on March 19 as part of an ongoing community art project.

Story and photos by Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Writer About 30 people from all around the Roaring Fork Valley made the trip to Ashcroft on March 18 and 19 for a public art project with an environmental slant.

Organized by the Community Office of Resource Efficiency (CORE) as part of its brand new “High Five” approach, the project centered on the vision of California artist Sonja Hinrichsen. Her collaborative snow spirals have shown up from New York to the Alps and captured worldwide attention, but actually have their origins right here.

“I was really thrilled when CORE approached me about this. It kind of closes

the circle,” she said. “This is where the project started, and Ashcroft is just so beautiful and really made for it.”

Hinrichsen was at Anderson Ranch for a residency in 2009 when she began playing around with snowshoe patterns on a nearby golf course. She tried it again on the Yampah River and, after seeing the result from the air, began trying to get others involved.

“It’s so meditative and a deep nature experience,” she said. “This artwork embeds itself into the environment. It’s about landscape and about art, not just one of them.

Hopefully this gets people’s minds going that we need these environments, and the air and the water, and need to protect them.”

The climate-change element wasn’t part of the initial vision, but has crept in as snow conditions have proved uncharacteristically unpredictable almost everywhere Hinrichsen has worked. Indeed, four of five potential sites identified for the current project were free of snow by mid-March, while conditions at Ashcroft fluctuated between too hard to make good imprints and so soft that it made for hard going.

Shelly Centerfitt was certainly surprised to find it warmer in Aspen than in her hometown of Atlanta, but enjoyed being part of the project nevertheless.

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Town Briefs Public Works, Rec. Department prepare for warm season • Carbondale’s preparations for spring continued apace last week, according to a memo from Town Manager Jay Harrington to the Board of Trustees, town employees and other recipients.

The public works department commenced its annual chore of clearing out the town’s ditch system last week, which is needed to ensure the efficient movement of water once the headgate on the Crystal River is opened later in the spring.

In addition, the streets crew set bicycle racks along Main Street, and assisted with the breakdown of the wooden enclosure panels at the town's ice skating rink at the Darien Riding Arena.

In a more bureaucratic vein, several town staff members attended a class on “roadway safety and work-zone traffic control,” against the likely possibility that the knowledge will come in handy in the summer months.

• In staff news, Jessi Rochel, formerly the facilities coordinator at the Carbondale Recreation & Community Center (CCRC), has been offered (and has accepted) a new job as Community Center and Programs Manager at the Parks and Recreation Department. She is to start her new job soon, and her promotion has created another

opening — the town will be accepting applications for her old job for the next couple of weeks. Contact Jessi at jrochel@carbondaleco.net for more information.

Staying with the personnel issues facing the town, this week will see the opening of seasonal jobs, and applicants are now being sought for the following positions: parks maintenance (contact Russell Sissom, parks supervisor, at rsissom@carbondaleco.net or by phone at 510-1327); vegetation management (contact arborist David Coon at dcoon@carbondaleco.net); lifeguards, WSI instructors, recreation assistants (contact Margaret Donnelly, aquatics coordinator, at mdonnelly@carbondaleco.net, or by phone at 510-1280).

• Speaking of the rec. department, registration currently is open for several programs, including summer youth baseball and softball for kids from 7-15 years of age.

Registration deadline is April 14, according to Harrington’s memo, but he noted that “teams are filling up fast.” Also, volunteer coaches are needed for the program. Those interested can contact Jason Thraen at jthraen@carbondaleco.net, or by phone at 510-1279.

• Adult leagues and drop-in games are continuing, according to Harrington.

Cop Shop From March 10-17, Carbondale Police Officers and other law enforcement personnel handled more than 238 calls for service. During this period, officers investigated the following cases of note:

FRIDAY, March 10: At 11:37 a.m. police were called to Carbondale Middle School, where a juvenile was summoned into municipal court on a charge of possession of marijuana. No further information was available from the police.

SATURDAY, March 11: At 9:33 a.m.,police received a report of harassment from a local juvenile female, who said an exboyfriend would not stop texting her and writing her letters. No further information was provided.

••• IN COURT: A district court judge on March 9 sentenced Walter Daugherty, a 74-year-old former owner of a Carbondale day care who pleaded guilty to attempted child sex assault, to three months in jail and four years of intensive sex-offender probation, according to a Glenwood Springs Post Independent news story published the next day.

Judge John Neiley sentenced Daugherty to six months in jail, but suspended 90 days of that sentence, after Daugherty pleaded guilty to felony attempted child sex assault (which brought a deferred sentence) and to misdemeanor unlawful sexual contact without consent.

He and his wife owned and operated Carbondale’s Little Angels Daycare, which reportedly was closed and its license suspended in August, 2016, after his arrest in July on two charges related

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Investigators reportedly began looking into the case after a 4-year-old girl told her parents that “Walter” had her touch his penis in the bathroom, according to police reports. This was believed to have happened between June and December of 2015.

Many of Daugherty’s relatives and friends attended the March 9 sentencing hearing to support him. One man whose children once had been watched by the Daughertys said he would still entrust his children to their care.

The victim’s mother also spoke at Daugherty’s sentencing, however, tearfully asking that he receive no mercy and be sentenced to the maximum extent of the law due to the impact of his actions on their family.

Neiley reportedly said that, as a parent himself, he was inclined to grant the mother’s request, that incarceration may serve a purely punitive function. But as a judge, Neiley reportedly concluded, he had to consider other purposes of sentencing beyond punishment, such as rehabilitation.

Daugherty will also have to register as a sex offender (for 10 years at minimum), receive sex offender treatment and pass regular polygraph tests.

Daugherty is also not allowed contact with children younger than 18, including his relatives.

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î‚Šird Street work expected to last through Memorial Day

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer The contractor in charge of Carbondale’s $493,000 renovation and rearranging of South Third Street went to work on Tuesday, following a one-day delay caused by late delivery of trafďŹ c control equipment, according to Public Works Director Kevin Schorzman.

The work is expected to continue into late May, Schorzman told The Sopris Sun, according to a schedule set by the contractor, Johnson Construction of Rie.

The entire area (from Sopris Avenue to the alleyway between Main Street and GarďŹ eld Avenue) is going to be closed (to parking and trafďŹ c) until Memorial Day Schorzman reported, “unless they get it done sooner.â€?

The closure hours will begin at 7 a.m. and, unless changes are warranted, will ďŹ nish at 5:30 p.m., Schorzman said. If needed due to delays of any kind, the work days may be extended to 7 p.m. on some days.

Throughout the project period, anyone experiencing difficulties over the project can call Schorzman at 510-1217 or Rob Bercher of Johnson Construction at 625-2251 though Schorzman said he would prefer that any citizens with complaints call his ofďŹ ce instead of the contractor.

The project has three main objectives, Schorzman said.

The ďŹ rst is to install new sidewalks along the west side of the street to improve the footing for pedestrians, but not along the east side of the street.

At one point, the town was considering the installation of sidewalks on both sides of the street, but citizens balked in a series of public meetings held last year and the sidewalk work will be only on the west side of the street.

A second objective is to install “ribbon curbs,â€? – basically a ribbon of concrete ush with the ground meant to delineate the parking areas from the surrounding dirt and gravel, and to keep gravel from migrating onto the parking surface.

Schorzman referred to the ribbon curb as “kind of like gloriďŹ ed edgingâ€? used by gardeners to separate a garden from a lawn area.

He emphasized that there will be no long-term loss of parking spaces as a result of the work, although those living along the construction area will be prohibited from

The Third Street construction project got down to it on Tuesday, with sidewalk removal on the west side of the street from Sopris Avenue north to the alley by the Smithy. The $493,000 in improvements will include: new sidewalks, upgrades to paving, irrigation, street lighting and irrigation ditches and some landscaping. The project is slated for completion by Memorial Day. For updates, go to carbondalegov.org. Johnson Construction is in charge of the project. Photo By Lynn Burton driving or parking on 3rd Street for the duration of the project.

A third objective, Schorzman continued, is the installation of ditch extensions or “laterals� connected to the existing ditch along the east side of 3rd Street, which carries water from the Crystal River that homeowners can use for irrigation.

The ditch laterals will move water to vaults on the west side of the street, so that homeowners on that side can get access to the irrigation water by dropping pumps into the vault — a longtime desire on the part of those homeowners.

Associated open conduits are to be placed beneath alleyways and sidewalks, through which ditch users can run power cords to the pumps and hoses from the pumps to their private property.

Schorzman said there are to be four such lateral-and-vault installations between GarďŹ eld and Euclid avenues, and another just north of GarďŹ eld Avenue.

In addition, the town is planning to remove some trees along the west side of

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Schorzman said there are perhaps a halfdozen small trees slated for removal between GarďŹ eld and Euclid avenues, but none south of Euclid.

The trees, Schorzman said, are Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn; Seedless Kentucky Coffee Tree; and Summer Charm Peking Lilac.

A landscaping plan calls for the planting of 11 new trees along the west side of the street, and a custom blend of grass seeds and other seed stock in the open areas where there is to be no parking.

Schorzman said there will be irrigation facilities installed along the right of way to water the new trees and other landscaping items being planted by the contractor.

Since cars — including mail-delivery vehicles — will not be allowed on South 3rd during the project, Schorzman said the town has erected a set of mailboxes at the northwest corner of Euclid and South 3rd (adjacent to the Carbondale Branch Library), THIRD STREET page 15

An unknown bicyclist left a mark the last time the sidewalks were redone along Third Street (probably sometime in the mid '80s).

Photo by Will Grandbois

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Through the lens Carbondale got some national attention recently for a technological oddity – a virus on a security camera at a local laundromat. According to the Wall Street Journal, the software,“Mirai”, took root in 600,000 devices last year, using processing power to attack websites. The Sopris Shopping center business got the most attention, however, complete with a photo. Read the whole story at tinyurl.com/cdalelaundryvirus.

Beer birthday Roaring Fork Beer Company is celebrating three years with a week of events. First, there’s a twist on a Texas tradition with the Moody Blues Sunday Brunch from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

March 26. Then there’s the Beermaker’s Dinner, a five course paired feast at town. restaurant on the evening of March 29, and Class and a Glass at Marble Distilling on March 30.

It all wraps up on April 1 with the main bash in two sessions: Brunch (12 to 3 p.m. with Pearl and Wood) and evening (5 to 8 p.m. with DJ Kid Knowledge), both with plenty of food, drink and fun. For more information visit roaringforkbeerco.com or call 963-5870.

Mountain Music The 46th Annual Carbondale Mountain Fair is filled with some strong local staples and some fresh new sounds to create another memorable experience for those who venture out. Kick things off July 28 with the traditional drum circle at 4 p.m. followed by Spore Favore and the Dirty Bourbon River show. On

July 29, catch the Frank Martin Trio, Valle Musico Quartet, Intuit Band, The Yampers and Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal. An as-yetunknown band will open July 30, followed by The Railsplitters and Mono Verde Collective, with the MarchFourth Marching Band taking the final slot just before the sun sets.

Food focus Rooted Soul LLC (415 S. Second St.) is offering a five week free focus food group from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays through April 11. Additionally, the organization will offer a $125 workshop on “The Language of Food,” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 23. For more information or to register, go to www.rootedsoul.net or call (503) 956-5870.

Kickin’ it Former college kicker Nate Soucie doesn’t kick normal field goals these days. Instead, he’s been finding new ways to apply his skills to kick unique urban trick shot field goals in a film by fellow Valley native and film student Cameron Doherty. Check it out at youtu.be/UDoK97LzCYo.

Ready to garden?

The Carbondale Community Garden on Hendrick Drive has plots available for the season. If you would like more information about joining this organic garden, contact tlee@rof.net crayolyn3@msn.com for CCG policies and application.

Sci-Fi movie week

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Science fiction fans might consider a trip over McClure Pass to catch “Forbidden Planet’, “The Last Man On Earth” and “They Came From Beyond Space” at the Paradise Theatre of Paonia March 28 through 30.

More info at paradiseofpaonia.com.

Turkey hunt Call it a twist on ladies’ night. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is accepting applications for a chance to participate in a guided, women-only turkey hunt near Parachute on April 22-23. On private land opened up by Encana, it’s geared toward true novices and requires no experience or equipment beyond a hunter education card. Apply by March 31 at goo.gl/forms/NMl7V4k46a6BWBai1 or call 255-6181 for more information.

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In its 10th year

Cowboy Up Carbondale will celebrate Carbondale’s unique western heritage with live music, dancing, bbq and auction to benefit a local non-profit.

Cowboy Up Carbondale is currently accepting applications for this year’s event beneficiary.

Applicants must be a 501c3 and be able to provide volunteers that support their organization.

The deadline to apply is April 14, 2017. For more information or to apply please visit our Facebook page, Cowboy Up Carbondale or contact Erin Bassett at 970-309-3319, ebassett@masonmorse.com THIS COMMUNITY AD SPACE DONATED BY COOL BRICK STUDIOS.

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According to Wikipedia, it’s variously called “yarn bombing,” “yarn storming,” “guerrilla knitting,” or “graffiti knitting.” In any case, colorful displays like this started showing up in Glenwood Springs last year or the year before, and more recently in Carbondale. No word on the crochet artist who created this piece on Weant Boulevard, across from the Doctor’s Garden pot shop.

Photo by Lynn Burton

Mr. Richard Brian DeWyne, age 67, of Silt, Colorado, passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital, on March 6, 2017. No services are planned, as of this time. He is survived by his brother, John S. DeWyne of Seattle, Washington, and his sister, Dennie Rae of Franklin, North Carolina. Services are entrusted to Palisade Funeral Home of Palisade, CO.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthdays this week include: Jammin’ Jim (March 24), Alta Otto (March 25) Bonnie Fischer and Lily Meadows (March 26), Andrea Marsh (March 27), Hank van Berlo (March 28) and Stacey Bernot, David Hayes and Bob Schultz (March 29).

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house. He actually hired me when he was the warehouse manager and then around three years later, after he’d been promoted I was offered the warehouse manger position. So I told him I didn’t know much about how to run a place by myself, but he told me he’d be right there, that he’d be my teacher. So I’ve been in charge ever since.

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By Laney Devers Sopris Sun Student Intern

Q: What would you say has been the most satisfying moment of your life so far?

The Sopris Sun is conducting a series of interviews with folks you may not have seen in the paper before – a sort of introduction to your neighbors. This week, we caught up with Heladio Sanchez, who runs things in the back warehouse at the Roaring Fork Co-Op.

A: I’m not going to say when I got promoted, because it was more like a headache, for a while I couldn’t sleep. Probably once I got the crew I have right now.

Because I know no matter what this place will be okay and the job will get done even if I’m not here.

THE SOPRIS SUN: If someone recognizes you in the street where do they most likely know you from?

Q: Do you have any advice for others?

SANCHEZ: I played soccer for a while so maybe from there, but all kinds of people know me from the warehouse so probably from here.

Heladio Sanchez is warehouse manager at the Roaring Fork Co-op store in Carbondale, where he has worked since 2010. Photo by John Colson Q: When did you arrive in the area?

Q: Where are you from originally?

A: I came to Colorado in 1994 after I graduated high school. I moved there for two years to see how moving out of the house would go. After that I went back to California for a while and then came back to Colorado in 2008. In 2010 I started at the COOP and I’ve been here ever since.

A: I was born in Mexico, I move to California just before my thirteenth birthday.

Q: How do you spend your free time?

Q: What exactly do you do at the COOP? A: Right now my title is warehouse manager and I will be moving into outside sales as well.

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A: With my wife and two kids or fishing, sometimes shooting.

Q: How old are your kids?

A: My oldest is ďŹ ve and I have a four-monthold newborn.

Q: Who would you say has inuenced you the most?

A: Roger Fosse, my old boss at the ware-

A: If you want it you have to work for it.

No one will hand you anything. You have to leave your comfort zone if you want to make something out of your life.

Q: Is there anything you want to achieve but have yet to?

A: Right now I’m on top of the world like I said, I never thought I would be running a place on my own but here I am. But I know I can always walk the extra mile.

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Indivisible Roaring Fork already 1,000 members strong wants a place to be informed, sift through all the noise and feel like their individual action is contributing to the whole effort. … we are starting to sort ourselves into a steering committee and then will begin asking for help around each action like marches/rallies/protests, town halls, digital communications and community information events.”

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By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Following Donald Trump’s unexpected presidential win in November, online activists around the country – including those in Carbondale, Basalt and Aspen – started communicating via social media and email on how to counter his agenda and prepare for the 2018 congressional elections.

Thousands of those concerned citizens gravitated to Indivisible, a Washington, D.C. group founded by Dianne Stewart last July, according to a USA Today article.

The lead paragraph on the Indivisible website states, “It’s time to move past ideology to reality. Government is our tool, that when wielded properly can help the American people grow our economy and strengthen our nation. We cannot simply dismiss the use of government to help solve problems. Government is US – not something being done to US.” By mid-January, a handful of Carbondale residents worried about the Trump presidency started e-mailing each other and posting opinions and observations on Facebook. Today, Indivisible Roaring Fork (IRF) numbers about 1,000 members. They put on a standing room only organizational meeting at the Third Street Center earlier

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Sloan Shoemaker addresses a packed room during an Indivisible meeting at the Third Street Center on March 12. Photo by Lynn Burton this month, and plan to invite Colorado Third District Congressman Scott Tipton to hold a town hall meeting in Glenwood Springs in April.

“We’re a completely volunteer-led organization and there is no formal structure,” early IRF member Andy Zack told

The Sopris Sun. “But there is a group of approximately 10 of us that have taken more responsibility in terms of organizing events and helping others get more involved.”

Gretchen Brogdon, another early IRF member, added “We are currently working on a structure now. … The community

With a national office in Washington and more than 4,500 autonomous chapters across the U.S. (including 139 in Colorado), getting a definitive handle on Indivisible takes several grabs.

The main website (indivisible.us) paints the group’s mission as primarily educational, especially targeting young people through the Internet. “Indivisible energizes and informs Americans about government’s potential and enlists them to imagine and create the government we need for all to have a safe, healthy, just and prosperous future,” states the website.

The website continues in part, “Indivisible is working to inspire a cultural shift in how Americans think about the role of government in America by training the next generation of civic-minded leaders, disrupting and reframing negative media discourse about government, and creating a network of champions to change the conversation about government in their INDIVISIBLE page 9

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Indivisible om page 8 communities. We are tapping into the minds of some of the most creative and funny people in America to change American culture with engaging, thought-provoking tactics that meet people where they are. If we want to continue accomplishing big things through government it is going to require us to have the honest conversations, but that doesn’t mean they have to be boring.”

The official Indivisible publication, “A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda,” turns the rhetoric spigot in its introduction. “ … in spite of the fact that he (Trump) has no mandate, he will attempt to use his congressional majority to reshape America in his own racist, authoritarian, and corrupt image.”

The guide also describes how Indivisible plans to use the Tea Party’s own tactics that were used on Obama and use them on Trump. Unlike the Tea Party, the “resistance” will be built on the values of “inclusion, tolerance and fairness,” it says. “If a small minority in the Tea Party could stop President Obama, then we the majority can stop a petty tyrant named Trump.”

Local action Brogdon said that beside the town hall meeting in April, Indivisible Roaring Fork is streaming its digital calls to action that go out via email and Facebook, and aligning the actions with other regional groups. “We are connected to Indivisible Action and D3 Indivisible. By connecting all these together we will make a much larger statement.”

Brogdon, who works for a local nonprofit and is the mother of 7-and-10-year-old girls, concluded her Sopris Sun interview by saying in part, “ … I am so amazed and proud of our community. Indivisible means we will not be divided. While we all have specific issues we are passionate about, we understand that everyone’s rights are at risk if even one is being exploited. The greatest impact this movement is having on the United States is the unification of multiple causes around the deeper threats to human and civil rights. We are exploiting this unstable presidency and will push our society forward in ways that may not have been possible before. Change always happens in an environment of chaos and I think we can all agree our federal government is in chaos right now. We will not allow it to change without our input.”

It’s calving season and ranchers are always keeping their eyes on the herd to make sure nobody needs medical attention. Felix and Sarah Tonare could see that this little fella was shivering and wasn’t doing so well soon after his birth during the wee hours on Monday morning. They brought him into the house and placed him in a dog bed under a heat lamp for several hours to warm him up. After he wasn’t improving, they took him to the vet who treated him for swelling of his head. He has recovered and is now back with his mom nursing hungrily. In other calving news, The Sun recently managed to spot “Sunny” #168 and is happy to report that he seems happy and in good health. Keep an eye out for photos and videos of branding coming soon. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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Community Calendar THURSDAY March 23 TALENT SHOW • The Glenwood Vaudeville Theatre (915 Grand Ave, Glenwood Springs) hosts the first in a planned monthly series of free events featuring singers, dancers, comics and the like. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and talent starts at 7 p.m. with a bar and menu available. To showcase your talent and maybe win a prize, contact the Vaudeville at 945-9699.

FRIDAY March 24 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “The Founder” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Mar. 24-30 except Mar. 26 showtime is 6:30 p.m.; “20th Century Women” (R) at 5 p.m. Mar. 24; “Fences” (PG-13) at 4:45 p.m. Mar. 25 and “Lion” (PG-13) at 4 p.m. on Mar. 26.

WATERCOLOR SHOW • See the results of two years of Thursday meetings by The Alaprima Painters at the Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.) with a 6 to 8 p.m. reception.

The show exhibits a variety of subjects and showcases the unique style of each Alaprima member and is dedicated to friend, mentor and teacher Sarah (Tootie) Peterson.

PAINT SOPRIS • Capture the sunset on Sopris from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Cedar Ridge Ranch (3059 CR 103) with all materials and instruction included for $30.

MAGIC PIPE • Mike Silverman aka That 1Guy brings his monstrosity of metal, strings, and electronics to Steve’s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.) at 8:30 p.m. More information at www.that1guy.com.

through meditation and exploring different chakras to find blocked energy and release it. The workshop runs from 1 to 3 p.m. at True Nature (100 N. Third St.) and costs $30.

UTE LECTURE • The Spring Lecture Series kicks off with a visit from the Native American Cultural Programs’ current chairperson, Roland McCook at 6:30 p.m. at the Glenwood Springs Branch Library (815 Cooper Ave.). The next likely descendant of Chief Ouray and Chipeta, Roland McCook creates numerous educational opportunities for all who call these places home today.

BLUEGRASS • The Rivers Restaurant (2525 S. Grand Ave. in Glenwood Springs) hosts Stone Kitchen’s acoustic bluegrass and Americana from 9 p.m. to midnight with no cover.

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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.

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

Events take place in Carbondale unless noted.

HEALTH THROUGH NUTRITION • Free opportunities include…

• One-hour consultation about heart attack prevention, plantbased nutrition, other medical issues, call retired family doctor Greg Feinsinger, M.D. for appointment (379-5718).

• First Monday of every month catch a powerpoint presentation by Dr. Feinsinger about the science behind plant-based nutrition 7 to 8:30 p.m. board room Third Street Center (TSC) in Carbondale.

• Fourth Monday of every month, plantbased potluck 6:30 p.m. Calaway Room TSC.

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YOGA WORKSHOP • Devika Gurung directs a workshop tailored to your specific needs by focusing on different body parts

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THURSDAY April 6 NEVER GIVE UP • The story of Minoru Yasui comes to the Carbondale Library (320 Sopris Ave.) at 7 p.m. in the form of a film by Holly Yasui exploring how the son of Japanese immigrants became an Oregon attorney and challenged the removal and incarceration of those of similar ancestry during World War II. A $5 donation is requested by the sponsors, the Two Rivers Unitarian Universalists and Davi Nikent.

FRIDAY APRIL 7 CLAY AND GLASS • The Carbondale Clay Center (135 Main St.) partners with Spiro Lyon Glass for its April exhibit featuring collaborative work by four local clay artists (K Rhynus Cesark, Matthew Eames, David Goin and Giana Grossman) and four local glass artists (TJ Ossola, Robert Burch, Jacqueline Balderson and Jose Chardiet). It all kicks off from 6 to 8 p.m. with an opening reception at the Clay Center.

SPELLEBRATION • A night of outrageous costumes and spelling feats to benefit Literacy Outreach and the CMC Learning Labs.

Teams of three can spell their way to the top or at least nab a prize for their costume

on the theme “‘Put Literacy Under the Big Top.” Free admission for spectators from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on April 7 at the Hotel Colorado (526 Pine St., Glenwood).

SATURDAY APRIL 8 BIKE BLESSING • Make sure your bike is ready to take you wherever you need to go at the annual blessing of bicycles, 2 p.m. at the Third Street Center (520 S 3rd St.) Sponsored by the interfaith community of the valley, monies raised will go to Way of Compassion Bike Project, which makes sure anyone who needs a bike or needs a bike fixed up is helped.

MEET THE AUTHOR • Kids and teens will have a chance to connect with local Nicole Be-

instein, who will read from her book “The Middle World” at 2 p.m. at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave). This novel, set in both historical and present day Redstone, follows twelve-year-old neighbors Rose and Kenai as they discover the mystery behind their once celebrated coal-mining town by communicating with local spirits. A ghost-story writing workshop will follow the reading. This program is free and open to the public. For more information call 970-963-2889.

ACLU Q&A • Colorado ACLU Director Nathan Woodliff-Stanley will speak about civil liberties and host a community question and answer session at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) at 7 p.m.

Ongoing ART ON DISPLAY • Carbondale painter Andy Taylor brings his colorful, gestural local landscapes to the Ann Korologos Gallery (211 Midland Ave., Basalt).

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. To schedule an appointment, call 945-6614, ext. 2030.

SENIOR MATTERS • The nonprofit Senior Matters, based in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.), offers numerous programs for senior citizens, including: tai chi with John 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.

BLUEGRASS JAM • Bring the instrument of your choice or just your voice for a weekly jam session first and last Sundays at 6:30 at Steve’s Guitars (19 N 4th St.) and all other Sundays at the Glenwood Springs Brew Garden (115 6th St.).

6 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays.

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SILENT MEDITATION • Free silent meditation sessions are held at the Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.) from 6:45 to 7:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The public is invited.

COMMUNITY MEAL • Faith Lutheran Church (1340 Highway 133) hosts a free community meal from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the first and third Saturdays of the month.

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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

C’DALE TRUSTEES • The Carbondale Board of Trustees holds regular meetings the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at Town Hall (511 Colorado Ave.) starting at 6 p.m.

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Ram kickers go 2-1 following Vail loss

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Vail Mountain ended Roaring Fork’s twogame, season opening winning streak with a decisive 5-0 soccer win at home on March 18. “They (Vail Mountain) were last year’s state tournament runners up,� said head coach Nick Forbes after the game.

Unfortunately, the Rams not only lost the game, they lost sophomore-starting defender Solana Teitler to a season-ending injury.

Forbes said that going into a “defensive 50/50 tackleâ€? she collided with the defender through the ball and fractured her femur above the knee. “Her ďŹ rst question was ‘did they score’,â€? Forbes told The Sopris Sun. Roaring Fork started the season with a 50 win against Rie and 3-1 win over Delta. In the Delta win, Camilla Wikum scored two goals and Lily Nichols one.

Forbes said the school had a great group of girls in 2016, with several of last season’s freshmen stepping up to the varsity level this year. “They’ve adapted quite quickly to varsity play and show some serious potential for our team,� he continued. “This year we get to add an equally deep and talented freshman class to the mix with three already in the starting varsity lineup from the beginning of this season who are already producing results above their age. The future looks bright. We also have great leadership out

of our older players, who have been with the program for the duration of high school, who show skill and quality as well.

The Lady Rams return to the pitch after Spring Break with a 4 p.m. home game against Coal Ridge on March 28. The boy’s baseball team takes on Meeker at home at 4 p.m. on March 28.

Track Roaring Fork’s Jasper Jermain and Justin Thompson got their track season off to a quick start with podium ďŹ nishes at the Rie Invitational track and ďŹ eld meet on March 17.

Jermain brought home gold in the 110meter hurdles and high jump (a leap of 6’4�).

Thompson took second in the 110-meter hurdles and won the long-jump at 21’9�.

A pair of Ram boys scored top-10 ďŹ nishes.

Ronald Clemente placed seventh in the 1600 meters (“the metric mile�) with a time of 4:51:56. In discus, Spencer Ochko had a throw of 107’6�.

On the girl’s side, Cindy Salinas took fourth place in the 200 meters with a time of 28.30. Jazmin Contreras notched a seventh place ďŹ nish in the 100 meters at 13.57.

The Ram’s co-ed track team returns to action at the Mikey Dunn Invitational in Grand Junction on April 1. The girl’s junior varsity lacrosse team also travels to Grand Junction for an 11 a.m. game on April 1.

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Rec. Department basketball wraps up

By Jason Thraen Carbondale Recreation Coordinator Another youth basketball season has come and gone here at Carbondale Parks and Recreation. This past season was ďŹ lled with great teams, fantastic fans, and thrilling games. This year we had 71 participants, making 7 teams, from 3rd-6th grade. The highlight of the season was deďŹ nitely our 3rd-4th grade girls team taking home the gold and completing a perfect 9-0 season! With a program this large, it takes a lot of talented individuals to make it happen. With that in mind, I have a lot of people to thank.

First, thank you so much to all of my coaches. It takes a special person to coach youth athletics, and luckily I have an amazing group of these folks right here in Carbondale. Thanks to Jim Gohery, Travis Stewart, Kiko Pena, Steve Groom, Jason Kreiling, Karen Crownhart, Kary Tardif, Edgar Hernandez, Ryan Pratt, Luis Yllanes, and Michelle Meeker. You all did a fantastic job with the kids, and I can’t say thank you enough.

Second, thanks to my referees. I honestly believe I have the best group of refs in the valley. Your patience and ability to control a game are second to none. So a GIANT thank you to Deb Ottaviano, Michael Mulry, Lonnie Busby, Matt Kraemer, and Ben Sarno. I would also like to

3rd-4th Grade Girls Basketball Champions ďŹ nished with 9-0 season. Courtesy photo

say thanks to scorekeeping extraordinaire Will Tempest.

Next, thank you so much to our 2016 / 2017 jersey sponsors: Mi Casita, Donna Riley Architecture, Structural Associates, Gallegos, and Casey Concrete. Your generous sponsorships help keep the cost of youth basketball affordable. The support of youth athletics here in Carbondale is incredible, and businesses like yours are making a huge impact with our young athletes.

Lastly, thanks to the Carbondale fans.

The way you acted is absolutely the way adults should act at a youth athletic function. You were all shining examples of sportsmanship and class!

Everyone listed above, and countless others, help me make youth basketball the successful program that it is. I truly appreciate all of your time and talents. We’ll see you next season!

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By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Writer Roaring Fork School District no longer needs money or even, strictly speaking, approval from the Town of Carbondale to build a staff housing complex on Third Street, but that won’t stop RFSD from trying to live up to the “Community Partnership” name.

The Carbondale Planning and Zoning Commission certainly found little to object to as the Roaring Fork School District voluntarily went through the standard approval process on March 16, while the sole public comment came down to questions more than objections.

Indeed, town staff recommended rezoning approval at the start of the meeting, citing almost complete compliance with town standards. The project fell short on number of street trees but provided twice the minimum overall, leading Town Planner Janet Buck to note that the requirement might be worth revisiting.

“I think they set a high bar for development in town using the Unified Development Code,” she said.

“I think the things you seen in the plan are going to look very familiar for all of you who worked on the UDC,” agreed local planning consultant Bob Schultz, who helped present the project. “We think it’s a better project because we’re working together.”

Under the proposal, a 1.37-acre plot currently occupied by a bus barn would be rezoned to high density residential, allowing for the construction of 20 school subsidized apartments totalling 33,000 square feet across four buildings.

Unlike pre-recession plans for the property, most of the existing athletic field would remain open and the only new connection to Weant Boulevard and Highway 133 would be a limited access fire lane. There are no current plans to further develop the lot, although one of the buildings — probably number three or number four – may be constructed in a second stage. It all depends on how the final estimates stack up against the $5 million RFSD allocated for staff housing from a recent bond issue.

“If all the chips fell into place, we would just do the whole thing,” Schultz said. “That would be the cheapest and least impactful.”

The cost is likely to be higher, however, thanks in part to attempts to reduce the impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

“There were some diagrams that were drawn as large single structures. Those were really quickly ruled out,” explained architect jv (sic) DeSousa of Reveal. “The view from the main reading room in the library has also done a lot to shape the planning and development of the project.”

DeSousa recalled spending one cold and snowy afternoon walking through town, trying to get a sense of Carbondale’s architectural style, which he decided came down to “funky.”

“This is the only community that has ever asked me for a mudroom,” he noted.

Considerations for the local lifestyle include roofs designed to accommodate large solar arrays, and bulk storage

A rendering of the proposed RFSD housing project by REVEAL. The 1.37 acre former bus barn site is slated to host 20 units totaling 33,000 square feet across four buildings. Courtesy graphic for outdoor gear and the like on the ground floor. There’s also space for bicycle parking – though maybe not enough.

That was one of the few concerns raised by alternate P&Z member Jay Engstrom, who noted that while the bulk storage could accommodate some as well, “most people around here have more than one bike.”

P&Z member Gavin Brooke, himself an architect, also had some self-admitted micromanaging questions. He questioned the location of bulk storage in some otherwise prime locations, as well as limited off-street guest parking, but neither issue seemed to be a sticking point. He later moved for rezoning approval, which passed 5-0.

“I know that that state is the governing body here, and you don’t have to be here,” chair Michael Durant said in closing. “We’re grateful that you are.”

Genuine excitement The day after the meeting, The Sopris Sun caught up with RFSD Chief Operating Officer Jeff Gatlin to expand a bit on the district’s vision.

“It’s going to be a cool product,” he said. “We’re really proud of it. Hopefully the town’s proud of it, too.”

Indeed, the teacher housing initiative seems to be coming together in Carbondale more easily than in Basalt – where the purchase of 17 units is pending – and Glenwood Springs – where six are slated to be built and others may have to wait.

The Community Partnership space, meanwhile, may allow for even more than 20 staff members when the potential for married teachers or simply roommates is factored in.

“The more staff we can get in the units, the more strategic we’re being,” Gatlin said.

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any guide, and while not everyone may be thrilled to live surrounded by co-workers, Gatlin hopes it will actually prove beneficial.

“We’ve looked at other programs, and it has created this sense of camaraderie,” he said. “It’s been recognized as a potential issue, but I don’t think it outweighs the benefits.”

The rental cost is also anticipated to be very competitive.

“They should be pretty good deals,” Gatlin said. “It’s not going to fly if we don’t provide price points that are attractive to our staff.”

Even so, RFSD expects to make a little money after operating expenses – a request for proposal is currently pending for property management – which can be reinvested into more rentals or into some sort of ownership assistance.

“I think the most important thing we do is put quality teachers in our classroom and quality staff in our buildings,” Gatlin said. “There were some pretty key folks that left, and housing was a big part of that.”

The pay rate for most teachers is in that awkward zone above most affordable housing requirements but below what it generally takes to rent or own locally – assuming one can find a vacancy. While some contend that the solution is just to pay teachers more, that’s not entirely within the district’s control.

“As much as we’re able to increase our mill, it’s not enough to make the difference,” Gatlin said. “Knowing we could put one-time capital dollars into something seemed like a more viable option.”

“There’s a genuine level of excitement about this coming,” he added. “People are jazzed, and that’s really cool.”

The Community Partnership Development will go before the Carbondale Board of Trustees on April 25.

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Darien reflects on teaching, Corthell on the weather From the archives of the Roaring Fork Valley Journal March 24, 1977 Margaret Darien (neé Letey) announced her retirement after a teaching career spanning 50 years. “I’d like to teach a couple more years if I could,” she told the Valley Journal, but the school district – which didn’t even exist when she started teaching – had instituted a mandatory retirement age. A Valley native, “Mrs. D” recalled a time when the school board kept close tabs on teacher church attendance and had to grant permission for her to get married (luckily, Ben Darien was a board member at the time). She admitted to some intimidation when she started as “a little wisp of a girl” teaching big farm boys who, she’d heard rumored, had locked a teacher in the coal shed, but said those boys turned out to be much better behaved than some later students. Although she saw some strides in public education, she thought the one-room schoolhouse had its advantages. “I cannot truthfully say I’ve enjoyed the consolidation and enormous population growth in the community,” she said, though “… we must accept it and live with it.”

In other news… “Ma Bell” (AT&T) announced plans to construct an electronic switching station at the corner of Fourth and Main to replace a town office off Third Street. The building, which bears striking resemblance to the sketch accompanying the article, is still in use by CenturyLink.

March 26, 1987 The Valley Journal took a journey through Joe Corthell’s weather diary, which chronicled local trends all the way back to 1938. Corthell recorded 48 nights below zero that year, alongside notations about snowfall and cloud cover. He also made frequent references to his bees.

“He furnished honey for the entire valley,” Mary Ferguson recalled, “Especially during the war … you couldn’t get sugar.” He kept an extensive garden to support the bees, and was particularly fond of dahlias, which the Carbondale Civic Improvement League named the town flower in his memory – well before the creation of Dandelion Day. In other news … The Roaring Fork Farmer’s Union met in El Jebel to discuss the future of the industry. Instead of worrying about drought and cattle rustlers, the article

noted, the main concern was the pending expiration of longstanding protections against foreclosure and bankruptcy.

March 27, 1997 Carbondale contemplated taking a leaf out of Silt’s book by expanding its ditch system to reduce demand for treated water. The town had some extra bond money left over after the expansion of the Nettle Creek water plant and some trustees proposed to increase untreated water use by building an underground pressurized system for summer watering. Had the proposal panned out, each house would have been fitted with hose bibs and offered a discount on untreated water without having to live near a ditch or set up a pump system.

In other news … Basalt trustees considered a two-year moratorium on growth after the community grew from 900 to 2,200 in the course of a decade. Staff, they said, were so bogged down with land use applications there was no time left to update codes or to plan growth.

March 22, 2007 “This is just the carcass here. There’s not even enough to make a good soup,” Bill Fales commented as everything from saddles to plows to the anvil were auctioned off at the historic Mount Sopris Hereford Ranch south of Carbondale. Fales, who “hides his hurt behind a worn cowboy hat,” had worked the land for 30 years under Bob and Ruth “Ditty” Perry. The property had been sold the previous year to Sue Rogers and Tom Bailey, who said they planned to keep the 1,100-acre property intact and eventually place it under a conservation easement. “There’s a lifetime worth of memories here,” noted Perry son-in-law Tom Turnbull, who still runs a ranch across the road.

In other news … While staff recommended against a development option for a Home Depot on the Crystal River Marketplace property on the west side of Highway 133, the Board of Trustees was unable to come to a consensus on how to proceed.

– Compiled by Will Grandbois

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Letters continued om page 2 with the failures and weaknesses of capitalism and the attributes of socialism, but it is best summed up in the words of Karl Marx, “To each according to their needs.

From each according to their abilities.”

That makes a lot more sense to me than grab everything you can and let the needy fend for themselves.

Fred Malo Jr. Carbondale

Dispatch from Denver Dear Editor: Hey y’all!

It’s great to meet and talk with both the Hon. Bob Rankin and the Hon. Steve Childs in Denver while I am here in the groove.

We’re all doing our separate things at the Colorado State General Assembly.

More later on the Denver action you’re missing out on by not being here with me.

Emzy Veazy III Aspen •• • EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final installment in a series of letters submitted

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CRES will fit your kid Dear Editor: I am a seventh grader at Carbondale Middle School and I went all through preschool and elementary school at Crystal River Elementary School. I loved CRES, and the teachers there. My favorite teachers were Ms. Jaynes, Ms. Carney,

Snow art om page 3 she said. “It’s been unique. I’ve done labyrinths, but that’s a little different because you’re in a set course. This you can make your own.”

Having set her own course the day before, Kendall Cafritz opted to retrace and enhance someone else’s design that had nearly melted away. She found many levels of meaning in the project — themes of community and isolation, in particular — and appreciated the juxtaposition between the ephemeral experience of the installation and the enduring impact of the photography. Hinrichsen, in Cafritz’s opinion, is “one of the greatest living artists on the planet. … “I love being outdoors and love contributing to what she’s creating on the planet,” she said. “I just hadn’t ever seen anything like it.”

Weather permitting, Hinrichsen and volunteers will be there again on March 25-26.

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and Ms. Karla.

They were always so compassionate and made learning fun. I loved going on field trips — especially the one to Grand Junction in Fourth Grade. When we went on field trips, we learned a lot as well as had fun. I loved specials and having concerts with Ms. Bates.

Another thing I loved about CRES was that they could put you in a class that was your level and could fit your learning needs best, but you would still be with your homeroom class the rest of the day. I loved CRES and I think it is a great school to send your kid to.

Robin Seventh grade

Trip to the lake Dear Editor: One of the best experiences I had at CRES was going to Highline Lake in Grand Junction with the whole fourth grade. We participated in many different team building activities that made each kid have to participate and contribute to the group.

Another fun thing about the trip to Highline Lake was creating a skit with the prop that you brought on the field trip, and presenting it to the whole grade. This was fun because many of the skits were very funny and enjoyable to watch. The best skit of fourth grade was when the one teacher would be behind the other and using their arms to put shaving cream on their faces or brush their teeth, while the person who was in front had no control of what was

Meanwhile, CORE is contemplating a downvalley environmental-art project and is preparing to officially launch “High 5” at the Aspen Brewing Company production facility at 5:30 p.m. on April 4, and at the Launchpad in Carbondale at 5 p.m. April 7. The goal, according to CORE Marketing Manager Lara Whitley, is to reach beyond Aspen and expand the scope of action.

“It was born out of this idea to involve more people and get them to do more things,” she said.

“We recognized that business as usual wasn’t going to get it done. The kind of doom-and-gloom environmental message we recognized has limits. People tend to shut down. We started looking at creativity and local pride as leverage we can use to get people involved.”

Hear an extended interview with Hinrichsen at kdnk.org. For more information, visit high5rfv.com and aspencore.org.

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happening to them.

On the last day before we left the teachers went around at 6:30 am and tapped on the tents to ask if kids wanted to go do the polar plunge. Most kids got up and walked to the lake with their swimsuits on ready to plunge.

We got in a line and the teachers counted down from ten as the kids sprinted into the cold morning water. Shivering we got out of the lake ready to put on some warm dry clothes and take the bus ride home.

Ross Seventh grade

where homeowners can go to pick up their mail while the project is underway.

In general, according to Schorzman, the contractor will not be digging down to and replacing the entire street’s road base. Instead, a wide swath of asphalt down the middle of the street will be undisturbed by the work, while excavators will be digging along the edges, mainly to install the ribbon-curbs, sidewalks and irrigation lines.

For regular updates on the project, residents can check the town’s website (www.carbondalegov.org) or the public works department’s Facebook page.

Learning was fun at CRES Dear Editor: I am a 6th grader at Carbondale Middle School and I am writing to share one of my many good memories at CRES: my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Talley.

I remember singing songs like “Opposite Antonyms” and “Ones, Tens, Hundreds, Coma”. Mrs. Talley made learning fun and easier to remember. She also had a ticket bin. If you did something good like helping a classmate or being on task you would get a ticket. Every day at the end of class she would pick a few names and if you got pulled you got candy.

On days that we all did good she gave us all mints. I remember mints flying across the room and everyone trying to catch one.

I can’t remember a time that she was mad or frustrated. Mrs. Talley is one of my fondest memories of CRES. Sam Sixth Grade

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