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Antonio Gonzelez is tampering with these gates, but as Carbondale’s new ditch rider, he’s actually supposed to. In addition to being tax day, April 17 was ditch day in Carbondale — which has nothing to do with senoritis-afflicted high schoolers and everything to do with the town’s extensive irrigation system. (Which, incidentally, is slated for an efficiency overhaul if the Town can put the planning and funding together).

At 7:30 a.m., Gonzelez opened several gates outside of Carbondale to allow water to flow into town and area ranches.

The Carbondale Ditch has already been running for a couple of weeks with some hiccups, and it may take the rest of the month to get the system perfectly calibrated. We’ll still take it as a sign of spring.

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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.

You can’t repress this press

By Will Grandbois

The Sopris Sun is officially award winning.

In our first trip to the Colorado Press Association convention last weekend, we were some of the loudest and most obnoxious cheerers as we nabbed three top spots in our size category. Photographer Jane Bachrach took home one first place for her overall photo portfolio and another for a photo essay on the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo. I shared credit with Footsteps Marketing for our swanky new website. And freelancer Mark Burrows has a second place award to show for capturing the moment at ladies’ arm wrestling.

I think these awards — and our experience at the conference in general — really says a lot about this organization.

First off, none of it would have been possible had the board not made a Colorado Press Association membership a priority. As a shoestring nonprofit, a big financial push is needed to do things that bigger outlets take for granted, but the community support was there. We’d never had a chance to even participate in this contest before, but I walked into this role knowing that we had a chance to show off what we do.

The Sun has been a photo-forward publication from its inception. Folks know it’s a new issue because of the big new photo winking at them from newsstands. Jane puts together photo pages more often than not, and more recently hatched the idea for the “parting shot” — a quirky or punny pic that wraps things up on the final inside page. I found no shortage of photographic material when I was submitting nominations for the awards, from a fish rescue to shirtless potato harvesting.

I was also struck by the quality that our crew of freelancers produced last year, from Justin Patrick’s iron mule story to Brian Colley’s eclipse cover. Burrows’ award just underlines how much of a

community effort The Sun is. Submitted photos, guest opinions and the like bring a diversity that’s like icing on the cake our core staff serves up.

Then there’s the website. While I’m extremely proud of all our awards, this one is a bit of a personal triumph. Barbara Dills and I worked closely with Footsteps Marketing both times they upgraded our online presence, and they’ve been an invaluable partner. And while I have sort of reclaimed my old title of webmaster in updating the content every week, I have plenty of help from the folks at Footsteps and the rest of our staff. We’re committed to informing you on the platform of your choice — even if I still prefer a physical paper myself.

On that note, don’t think that just because we won a few awards we’re going to rest on our laurels. Quite the contrary, after two days of workshops and seminars, the staff and board have more ideas than we know what to do with. Don’t be surprised if you see some experimentation on everything from layout to writing style to events.

We also formed a closer connection with the Rio Blanco Herald Times, a family-owned paper out of Meeker.

It’s great to catch up with journalists on our scale facing many of the same challenges.

But that also underscored how we are different. Everyone who learned about our nonprofit status was surprised and impressed.

It reminded me how nice it is to have the community at your back rather than a corporation eyeballing its return on investment. In a world of distrust and disinformation, Carbondale has repeatedly proven it wants a newspaper.

So with new energy and new ideas to propel us forward, we’ll keep giving you that — and more.

Letters

The Sopris Sun welcomes your letters, limited to no more than 500 words via email at news@soprissun.com or 250 words via snail mail at P.O. Box 399, Carbondale CO 81623. Letters exceeding that length may be returned for revision or submission as a guest column; please include your name, town, and contact information. The deadline for submission is noon on Monday.

A different balance Dear Editor: In his “biologist’s perspective on wolf restoration,” Mike Phillips argues that “coexisting with wolves in western Colorado is a straightforward affair.”

That’s not surprising, because he’s not just a biologist but also

a Montana state senator, where he has been actively promoting wolf reintroduction. He also works for the Turner Endangered Species Fund, a private company whose mission is to “protect imperiled species with an emphasis on the nearly 2 million acres owned by Ted

Lisa Dancing Light (left) brought a copy of The Sun with her when she dropped by to visit former Carbondalian Anne Canan in Kansas City last week. Photo by John McCormick

Turner.” He has co-authored “Awaking Spirits,” which promotes the restoration of wolves throughout the southern Rockies, linking wolf populations in New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. Phillips also wears two hats at the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project (“RMWP”), being not just an advisor but also its director, according to Tides Center, the San Francisco-based “fiscal sponsor” of RMWP. In other words, Phillips has made a career of promoting wolf reintroduction; he knows more about it than almost anyone else.

But at the core of Phillip’s mission lies a profound fallacy.

His contention that “re-establishing the wolf is a step toward restoring an important part of Colorado’s natural balance” begs the question whether that balance needs to be “restored.”

Phillips assumes that it does because wolves were here until they were eliminated in the first

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half of the 20th century.

In the 21st century there is a new ecological balance in western Colorado. Our cattle, sheep, deer and elk populations are not “out of balance.”

They do not need wolves to thrive. And Colorado’s ranchers and hunters do not need wolves to prosper. Phillips can point to no scientific reports that western Colorado needs a “trophic cascade that promotes ecosystem health.” He has lots of studies of what’s happened elsewhere, in places like Yellowstone (where, unlike Colorado, there is no hunting), but he has no study, not one, that shows that western Colorado’s current ecological balance is unhealthy because there are no wolves here.

All Phillips and other wolf advocates have as their motivational bedrock is an unscientific, idealized conservationist’s dream of restoring Colorado’s LETTERS page 18

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Obituary Wallace Alvari Eugene de Beque, III Wallace Alvari Eugene de Beque, III passed away peacefully at home last Friday after a long life and a brief illness. He was 96 years-old. Wally was a true son of the West. He was born in Carbondale to Margaret Anne Dinkel and Wallace de Beque, Jr. He is the grandson of two Colorado pioneers — William Mansfield Dinkel who settled in Carbondale in 1881 and Dr. Wallace de Beque who settled the town of De Beque in Mesa County in 1884.

Wally attended Carbondale schools and earned a degree from the University of Colorado in electrical engineering. After graduation he served in the U.S Navy at the submarine base on Midway Island during WWII and took part in early sonar research. He returned to Carbondale following the war and went to work for Carbondale Power & Light with his mother.

The Company was later sold to Public Service of Colorado and Wally continued to work for them until he retired in 1983 after 37 years.

Wally married Betty Clagett Davis in 1950 and together they raised four children: Jesse Robert Davis of Hotchkiss (Shari Davis), John Clagett Davis (deceased), Sally de Beque Smith of Grand Junction (J.P. Smith), and Michelle de Beque of Carbondale (Hank van Berlo).

Wally was a quiet contributor and advocate always for his hometown. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Lions Club, Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He served on the Fire Department Board, the Water and Sewer Board and the Town Board of Trustees. He was a founding board member of Alpine Bank. Wally was an active participant in many Carbondale activities including operating the projector at the original Crystal Theatre in the 1960s, cutting up meat and brewing coffee on Potato Day, and flipping pancakes for pancake breakfasts.

He loved Carbondale and the mountains, lakes and rivers surrounding it. He was an early and avid skier and a keen fly fisherman. He hiked and explored the mountain and valleys of the Western Slope by foot, by skis and by snowmobile. He inspired and empowered many a youngster to the summit of Mt. Sopris and other peaks. After retirement, he took up golf, playing locally, and in Queen Valley, Arizona where he and Betty spent their winters. He played golf for more than 30 years and became an accomplished golfer, scoring three career aces. He was also a formidable bridge player, a curious and voracious reader, a daily puzzler and an early adopter of electronic devices. He never said no to an adventure and there was nothing that did not interest him.

Wally leaves behind five grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. He was a caring and funloving son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend, and will be deeply missed by many. A memorial service will take place on June 9; time and place to be announced.

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‘Lightning Heart’ leaves a legacy in paint and memories

By Trina Ortega Sopris Sun Correspondent

Some were offered a twig of fragrant sage; others a polished stone; some received a graphite sketch of a lone conifer on a cliff’s edge; for those gathering at the annual Carbondale Mountain Fair, it was gentle words for a safe weekend; and for all, artist Fred “Lightning Heart” Haberlein gifted public art — 140 murals that brighten streets, buildings and public halls in Carbondale and other mountain towns in Colorado, as well as Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, New York and Quito, Ecuador.

Frederick Fitzjarrald Haberlein of No Name died April 16. He was 73.

Haberlein’s paintings and special gifts to friends new and old were representative of a spiritual man, full of generosity and deeply connected to the earth and nature, indigenous cultures, and his fellow human.

Meeting people was one of his favorite aspects about painting murals. He loved Haberlein prepares to refurbish “The Interconnected Web of Life” in 2010. listening to their stories and fostering File photo by Trina Ortega pride among community members about their home towns.

In a video spotlight for “The Valley Insider,” Haberlein The beginning Hablerlein was born December 7, 1944, and spent his said: “I love doing big local landscapes of where we live around here because it’s so miraculous. My public art, my early childhood years in Texas where his father was a pemural art, does that same thing. It celebrates what’s best troleum engineer. His parents’ disenchantment with corporate life and his father’s love for hunting, horses, geology about that place.”

His most recognized public art in Carbondale is the and the outdoors, prompted the family to purchase and 9-foot-by-48-foot “Interconnected Web of Life,” depicting move to the Conejos Ranch in southern Colorado. It was a scene along the Crystal River, painted on the west side the beginning of the younger Haberlein’s love for nature.

“Even as a little kid, I wanted to be out of the house as of the Dinkel Building. The mural originally was installed in 1989, but Haberlein spearheaded an effort in 2010 to much as I could. I was 10 when we moved there. We had raise donations for new paint to freshen up the color. An- horses and animals and guest cabins so there was a lot that other large-scale picture, a 4-foot-by-16-foot landscape of needed doing,” Haberlein explains in an interview for “Imthe Crystal River in the fall, was installed at one of the migrant Stories” on KDNK. Around that same age, he received his first set of oil paints.

Carbondale fire district buildings, and several of his mu“I knew I was going to be an artist from the time I was rals and paintings adorn government hallways and public a little kid,” he says. “I thought I’d be a wildlife artist or a spaces in Glenwood Springs.

His paintings depict the wildlife, flora, fauna and geol- cowboy artist. I thought I’d do covers for Field & Stream.”

His art was encouraged throughout high school, where ogy of an area, as well as its cultural and social roots, including farm life, agricultural fields, irrigation ditches, flour the nuns who taught class allowed Haberlein to create illustrations based on books he’d read instead of writing reports. mills and silos.

Haberlein graduated from Colorado State University “He painted the most beautiful scenes of the West that will spark the imaginations of generations to come.… with a degree in sculpture and anthropology and attended His loss impacts many diverse groups of communities,” graduate school at Arizona State University, where he studsaid Gayle Mortell, who worked with arts organizations ied printmaking. During and after graduate school, Haberaround the Valley. “I loved his art, and he will be remem- lein lived in Oracle, Ariz., working alongside other artists bered for his talent, but he was so much more. He was an at Rancho Linda Vista. In 1984, Fred returned to Conejos Ranch and began painting murals in Colorado, the first extraordinary human.”

The Carbondale arts council, under the direction of of which was a Virgin Mary for his high school classmate Thomas Lawley, first commissioned Haberlein for a pub- Johnny Johnson, who was nearly killed in the Vietnam War. Haberlein went on to complete 80 murals in the San Luis lic painting on Main Street in the late 1980s. After learning about Haberlein’s spiritual beliefs, much of it rooted Valley before moving to Glenwood Springs with his wife, Tein Yaqui, Navajo and other indigenous peoples’ teachings, resa Platt, in 1988. For 18 years, Haberlein taught Drawing Lawley and the fair organizers invited him to lead an open- on the Right Side of the Brain at Colorado Mountain College.

One of his more recent projects was the repainting of ing blessing at the Mountain Fair. He later shared the stage with Ute elders, Tibetan monks, Navajo members, and a mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2016 in Antonito, which he completed despite being diagnosed with esophaother spiritual and cultural leaders.

Many fair-goers also recall Haberlein keeping the ga- geal cancer and undergoing treatment at the time.

Haberlein is survived by his wife, Teresa; brother, Bill; zebo crowd cool by spraying them with cold water during son, Kort, and daughter-in-law, Sandy; and two grandchilhot days.

“He’s the staple. He has been the glue that really has dren, West and Ryan.

A celebration of his work and life is being planned for held so many years together. He shows up, and he sages us all, cleanses us, then blesses the fair. That’s going to be later this spring. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be hard to replace,” Carbondale Arts Executive Director Amy made to the Fred Haberlein Documentary Fund at info@ carbondalearts.com or by calling 963-1680.

Kimberly said.

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new organic gardeners. For sign-up packets and to enroll, contact Melissa at The Orchard.

The final set of free portrait sittings for The Sun’s annual Mother’s Day issue take place from 9 to 5 p.m.

April 21. Don’t miss out — contact Mark Burrows at mark@rfvphoto.com or 379-4581 for an appointment.

Tee it up The 9-hole, par 3 Ranch at Roaring Fork Golf Course is open for the season. With easy access off Highway 82 and tee times required, you can play on your schedule without the long time commitment of a bigger course.

Straw poll After rediscovering The Sun’s surveymonkey account, we’ve been playing with polling our readers on different issues. We started off with a simple question on the successful campaign to keep Humpty, in which the vast majority expressed approval although a couple of respondents found it creepy and others would rather have seen the money go to the library itself. Next, we tackled affordable housing, which folks rated 4.5 out of 5 on a star-based concern metric. Apparently, a typical survey taker spends about half their income on housing and would prefer living in an apartment or trailer to having roommates or moving downvalley. You can still participate at the bottom of our homepage.

Sip for The Sun Our own Megan Tackett and her fiance Aaron Luttrell will be guest bartending at Free Range Basalt on Thursday, April 19. Their share of the tips go to support your nonprofit paper, so stop by and have a drink!

More than mayor Carbondale Mayor Dan Richardson is switching careers, from a senior consultant for engineering and surveying firm SGM to chief operating officer of Ascendigo, a nationally recognized autism service and outdoor recreation provider in Carbondale. “I’m thrilled at the opportunity to work with Ascendigo,” Richardson said. “I have been following its rapidly growing success for years and look forward to contributing to its model of helping people with autism thrive.”

School days

Back in November, the Basalt Middle School Lego Robotics Team gave a talk at The Temporary encouraging companies to install more water dispensers in an effort to keep plastic bottles out of the landfills. The Roaring Fork Club Took it to heart, and the team recently stopped by to savor the results. Courtesy photo

Let it bee Although John Colson, Barbara Dills and Fred Malo represented The Sun admirably at Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program’s spelling bee fundraiser, they missed the medal cutoff. Instead, Hukt Awn Fonikz took the top slot, with Ram the Fork (a teacher team) and Highway to Spell rounding out the podium.

Plant a seed Celebrate Earth Day at the Carbondale Branch Library between 12 and 5 p.m. Friday, April 20 or between 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday, April 21 to choose from a variety of seeds to plant and take home to grow. Also, the Good Seed Community Garden is accepting registrations for old and

The Board of Education has approved the 2018-19 Roaring Fork School District calendar. The final version includes two main shifts from past years: a mid-August start and additional break days after each quarter for more rest and planning time for staff. The proposed calendar was developed by a committee that was charged with facilitating the process and conducting outreach. Find out more at rfsd.k12.co.us.

Hot item The overnight permit reservation process for Conundrum Hot Springs began April 18 for dates through the end of July. If you missed it, don’t worry. You can get permits for August through November beginning at 8 a.m.

June 15 and and for December through March at 8 a.m.

Oct. 15 — a schedule that should persist in future years.

Search recreation.gov for “Conundrum Hot Springs Permit” for more information or to make a reservation.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating another year of life this week include: Louie Neil, Leslie Emerson, James Surls, Deborah Colley, Jill and Alleghany Meadows (April 19); Jack Bergstrom, Molly Jacober and April Clark (April 20); Shannon Muse (April 21); Sage Dawson and Kameron Miranda (April 22); Rosemary Dewers (April 23); Holly Tullar and Dick Gibson (April 24).

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Winning ‘Love Pollinators’ design chosen for 47th Mountain Fair

By Megan Tackett Sopris Sun Staff It felt kind of like going to a secret society meeting, except it wasn’t so secret. A group of about 20 people gathered at Carbondale Arts Executive Director Amy Kimberly’s charming house on a Tuesday evening, where there was a smorgasbord of snacks and libations waiting.

There was a small projector propped up on the coffee table in the middle of the living room, encircled by several chairs. This was where the voting would take place.

Someone started handing out “ballots” — slips of paper with questions ranging from how much the voter loved the design to how well it would work on a T-shirt.

Laura Stover sat in the middle of the room, manning the projector. The commotion settled as the people did, claiming a chair or a stair — anywhere to get a good view of the contenders for this year’s Mountain Fair design.

I’m not sure it’s possible to live in Carbondale and not know Mountain Fair. The festival is older than me and attracts about 20,000 fair enthusiasts to our little town.

And even if you’re not one of the hundreds of volunteers who work the weekend, chances are good that you know someone with a backstage pass.

What I’m not sure people really understand is all of the behind-the-scenes organizing that goes into it months in advance. I didn’t — not really.

Tuesday’s gathering was not the first planning session for the 47th Mountain Fair. By the time I was invited, there had already been agreement about the theme: “love pollinator.” There had already been calls put out to local artists for design submissions. There was a cohesion to the group — this wasn’t new to them.

It was to me. In my experience with branding events,

it’s a matter of the organizing entity making internal decisions regarding the details and theme, then putting out a Request for Proposal to agencies and then — again internally — deciding on the winning bid. From there, it’s a straightforward process of exchanging change orders and updated designs until everyone has settled on something.

Mountain Fair, of course, is not a “normal” event.

There are no RFPs, no agencies. Even as it approaches its 50th anniversary, Mountain Fair remains steadfastly, authentically grassroots.

There were 22 submissions, all unfinished concepts that were mostly handsketched. A few options definitely came from child artists, which made me smile.

Apparently, asking for rough sketches instead of finished works was a first. Stover explained that the move was intentional: the winning artist would then work with Carbondale Arts to finetune an idea into a finished design.

Several artists heeded Carbondale Arts’ request for work samples to accompany their Mountain Fair submissions, which Stover also projected onto the screen for everyone’s consideration. They were all stunning.

I was thankful for the questions on the ballots — they helped guide my decisions. Otherwise, I’m pretty sure I would have voted everything as at least a four out of five.

There were all sorts of plays on bees and honey and flowers, and Mt. Sopris unsurprisingly found her way into several sketches, too.

People bantered, defending their top choices. I found myself piping in, too. At the end of the evening, a clear winner emerged: Bonnie Barker. Her concepts encapsulate a sort of whimsical energy that reflects the spirit behind Mountain Fair perfectly, and I can’t wait to

Bonnie Barker’s submission won the design contest for this year’s Mountain Fair, but it wasn’t the first time she’s thrown her work into the ring.

Courtesy graphic rock the finished work on a T-shirt.

After the final decision, people lingered and chatted a bit more before heading their separate ways. Jeff Britt was grinning ear-to-ear, relishing in planning one of his favorite events of the year.

“You know who puts on Mountain Fair?” he asked me rhetorically. “The people who show up.”

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Bike Project reborn in new Third Street space

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff There are many ways to reduce suffering in the world, and building bikes may be one.

Aaron Taylor has been unwittingly carrying out The Way of Compassion’s mission statement with the Bonedale Bike Project since 2009, but now it’s official. Under the umbrella of the Carbondale nonprofit, the project has a new space, energy, and sense of purpose.

You can swing Suite 34 at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) from 1 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays or make a special appointment, but the best way to get acquainted is an opening from 5 to 8 p.m. April 22. Just in time for Earth Day and 5Point, it will feature bike safety improvements like reflective taping and brainstorming sessions for future plans.

“We want to continue to try to grow with the community,” Taylor explained.

The Bike Project started out in the parking lot outside Back Door Consignment in 2009. Taylor had built a fleet of bikes from the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies using police auction parts and decided to apply those skills for others.

“It seems like discarded bicycles are a limitless resource,” he observed. “There are lots of creative people in other towns are doing the same thing. It’s a visual, lightweight, pretty safe thing to learn how to work on.”

Indeed, it seems like wins all around.

Folks can get an inexpensive bike, learn me-

The Bike Project when it was still operating out of a parking lot in 2010 (photo by Julie Albrecht) and Taylor in its new digs (courtesy photo) chanical skills, meet people and help others all through the same program. As long as people want to learn, they can be successful as volunteers overhauling bikes for sale or building their own ride from scratch.

“We overhaul bikes with people I’ve never worked with before in eight hours,” Taylor said. “It’s a real concrete real simple skill I can offer.”

Taylor is more of a teacher or conductor than hands-on mechanic.

“You’re learning how to do it, but

you’re also the one allowing it to happen,” he explained.

At a recommended donation of $10 an hour, it’s an affordable alternative to a bike

shop. But rather than being seen as a competitor, the project was embraced by Aloha Mountain Cyclery and ran out of its basement for years. It was a less than ideal location, however.

“It was cold, it was dark. No bathrooms.

No running water,” Taylor noted.

Even so, when Laura Bartels and John Bruna of The Way of Compassion stopped in with their own bikes, they immediately realized it was a perfect fit. Taylor now works as The Way’s full time director, devoting about two days a week to the Bike Project — though he’d like to see it become its own job someday. The move was “a five year plan that got moved into six months because the appropriate space became available,” he explained.

Already, it’s been a huge success.

“We’ve never been busy in February, and since we moved in every day there’s been people there,” Taylor said.

The Bike Program plans to continue helping out with community events and organizing tuning days, expand partnerships seize any other opportunities that might happen by. While it already attracts a whole range of folks from serious mountain bikers to occasional commuters, Taylor hopes to do more to engage the Latino community and kids. In the end, he said, “it’s because of the community that it will succeed.”

For more information or to get involved, email aaron@wocompassion.org or call 340-8151.

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Here and back again Peter Olenick returns home from coaching Korean ski team

By Jon Nicolodi Special to The Sopris Sun Peter Olenick, famed for being the first to land a double-flip in competitive skiing, is glad to be back in Carbondale again after a position coaching for the South Korean ski team for the 2018 Olympics. He’s been here and back again a lot, and he’s relishing the break.

Peter grew up with his two siblings, now retired athletes as well, in downtown Carbondale, graduating from CRMS in 2002. His father started the Red Rock Diner, shipping the building in two halves from Florida, and then starting diners in New Castle and Eagle. His mother was a nurse in the valley. Throughout his youth, Peter either spent his time at school, working in the diner, or skiing.

“The ski industry has changed a bit,” says Peter. The training for his professional career was simply hanging out with friends at the half-pipe. Olenick’s name exploded with his first X Games competition in 2004 after taking home a silver in slopestyle and a bronze in half-pipe. His accomplishments only grew, and he never felt anything but positivity from our small

town. “Especially around the X Games or other competitions, I’d walk into a store or restaurant and feel the support,” he says.

Olenick’s career has been changing appropriately with the growth and evolution of freeskiing. As the sport has grown, so have the sponsorships, the crowds, the tricks, and the training, which is where Peter now makes his niche. Initially sidelined by a knee injury in 2010, he retired from being a professional athlete in 2013, and intuitively felt it to be the right move.

Now he makes his living coaching at the Aspen Valley Ski Club and at the Olympic level. With the Games on their home turf, the South Koreans were looking to boost their prominence in freeskiing, a sport that has its roots in the U.S. They reached out to one of the best to train their athletes: Peter Olenick.

Training two weeks each month with his athletes, they’d travel the world to ski at different mountains, on different slopes and in unique parks, hitting a competition here and there along the way. “We really developed a bond. Professionally they were my athletes, but really they were my kids,” he said.

Though he didn’t step home too often these last few years, by the time the 2018 Olympics came, Olenick still felt that Roaring Fork Valley support: “Between Alex and Torin, this area had some great freeskiing representation in the Olympics.”

So what is next?

Peter Olenick enjoys his role as coach at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Courtesy photo He’s thrilled to be home, attending 5Point this weekend and enjoying a change from the continual winter he has experienced for the last three years. Between golf rounds he’s already thinking about the next moves. South Korea wants him back to train their athletes for the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. Following the pattern of wanting to up their game for their home competitions, he has an offer from the Chinese Olympic Team on the table as well.

But the last thought on his mind is the ideal. He has been working with some

athletes in the Aspen Valley Ski Club that are graduating from that program soon.

“They really have potential, and I could take them to the next level, to that international stage.”

Olenick envisions creating his own team, bringing in his South Korean athletes, local talent, and other athletes into a unique, elite freeski training program.

Nowadays it takes that element of intentional training to make Olympic athletes, and it seems like Peter Olenick has got it to give.

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

WATER WAS A CHIEF CONCERN among town employees last week, as crews labored to get the town’s ditch system ready in time to open the headgates on April 16 (they did so) and make irrigation water available to properties around town. The preparations included cleaning up ditches after their winter downtime, as well as installation of “new, inline control gates in certain areas,” and some ditches were “armored” in an effort to minimize erosion, according to a memo to the Board of Trustees and town employees issued by Town Manager Jay Harrington.

IN ADDITION, town crews worked on utility extensions to the Carbondale Marketplace development site (home of a new City Market store planned for opening in 2019), which mainly meant connecting various water lines to the project.

Harrington cautioned that there would be some “traffic impacts” this week, including the presence of flaggers and occasional street closures in the area of West Main Street and Crystal Road, as work crews shift their attentions to different sections along the streets.

MATERIAL FOR GATEWAY RV PARK’S water system was to be delivered to the town this week, with plans for quick installation to follow.

THE FIVE-POINT film festival is to take place this weekend, at the Carbondale Community Recreation Center, and the center is scheduled to close down in the evenings or afternoons of April 19 – 22. Call the rec. center for details, 510-1290.

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REPAIRS TO THE TOWN’S WADING POOL were to continue this week, and a new heater is to be installed prior to opening the pool facilities to the public on May 26.

ARBOR DAY is to be celebrated in Carbondale on May 5, Harrington noted, and anyone interested in planting a memorial tree can contact the town’s arborist, Mike Callas, at 510-1331, for more information.

A REVISED APPLICATION for the Thompson Park development project is under consideration by the town’s Planning & Zoning Commission, and a hearing on the matter that began on April 12 was continued to the next P&Z meeting, on April 26.

RECRUITMENT CONTINUES for town seasonal employees, and Harrington reported the town is looking to hire lifeguards and swim instructors (contact Margaret Donnelly at 510-1280); climbing instructors for the town recreation center (contact Jamie Wall at 510-1214); and parks maintenance crew (contact Russell Sissom at 510-1327.)

IN RECREATION NEWS, the town’s Parks and Recreation Commission and the Roaring Fork Pickleball Association were to present their work plans for the coming summer season, at a work session of the Board of Trustees on Tuesday. Harrington’s memo also reminded readers that the summer recreation programs are accepting registration now at the website, www.carbondalerec.com, or the town’s Facebook page.

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Cop Shop From April 6 through April 12, Carbondale Police handled 194 calls for service. During that period, officers investigated the following cases of note: FRIDAY, April 6 at 1:23 p.m. Officers took a report of a “cold” hit and run accident at 917 Cowen Drive. No suspects were cited in the report.

SATURDAY, April 7 at 9:47 a.m. police took a report of someone trespassing in a vehicle on Cleveland Place. No suspects were cited.

SUNDAY, April 9, at 11:22 a.m. police were called to Bridges High School over an argument between two students that escalated into a physical fight. The students were referred to a restorative justice counselor.

SUNDAY, April 9 at 2 p.m. police received information about a suspected case of child abuse, which was forwarded to the Eagle County Department of Human Services due to jurisdiction.

WEDNESDAY, April 11 at 12:18 p.m. a juvenile was arrested on a felony warrant for allegedly failing to appear in court on a sex assault charge levied by the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office.

WEDNESDAY, April 11, at 5:14 p.m. a man came to the police department to report concerns about “an unsafe learning environment for his daughter” when she is attending a local school.

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Proposed Red Hill Lofts to go through Planning and Zoning

By Megan Tackett Sopris Sun Staff The Carbondale Planning and Zoning Commissioners will consider an affordable housing application next month, and despite the applicant’s name — Aspen Pitkin County Employee Housing Inc. — the proposed project, if approved, will be open to any Carbondale resident who meets the income qualifications.

If that seems confusing, it’s likely because Aspen Pitkin County Employee Housing Inc. (APEHI) sounds much like Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority (APCHA).

But the two entities are not related, and the former existed before the latter, APEHI Executive Director Sheri Sanzone explained.

“We started in 1978,” she said on the nonprofit. “Some of the folks that were instrumental in creating APCHA were a part of us.”

APEHI bought the 1,128-acre land parcel on Dolores Way in September — its first purchase in Carbondale. “We’re very excited,” Sanzone said. “There’s a lot of great resources out there for folks like us for what we say is some of the hardest housing to develop,” she said about affordable housing projects, noting that the organization’s nonprofit structure reflects the nature of the endeavor. “There’s not a lot of people doing it, and there’s a reason why.”

The 22-page application includes an extensive site plan and architectural details with illustrations for the proposed 30 units that will comprise Red Hill Lofts. But Wayne Stryker, the president of the APEHI board of directors, wants to create more than just an affordable housing project; he wants to create a neighborhood.

“The architecture’s design, composed of two buildings linked by open-air connections, creates spaces for people to hang out and

spend time,” he said in an email.

The project’s planners also considered the typical Coloradan lifestyle when creating the initial designs, Sanzone noted.

“We know people like to have toys — storage for skis, paddleboards and all sorts of stuff,” she said, adding that the plans also include a bike-repair stand and a community garden. “Anything where we can get people to be outside and they can really get to know their neighbors is one of our goals for the project.”

The site’s location was also a driving reason for the organization’s purchase of that particular parcel: it’s situated so that residents would have access to both the Rio Grande Trail and Roaring Fork Transportation Authority’s Carbondale park and ride.

“To find a property that would allow residents to walk or bike to high-speed transit sources so people were less dependent on having an automobile — this site is perfect,” Sanzone said.

Though still in preliminary stages, APEHI is actively seeking funding via the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, a dollarfor-dollar tax credit that incentivizes private equity in affordable housing projects such as the proposed Red Hill Lofts.

“If everything goes smoothly and we’re able to get funding — we would learn if we receive that funding in September — construction could happen the following spring, in 2019,” Sanzone said of her ideal timeline.

As for what rent prices would look like, Sanzone emphasized that it is the nonprofit’s intention to stay true to its mission: “to promote the preservation and development of attainable housing in the entire Roaring Fork Valley,” according to the APEHI website.

“We would be looking at Category 1 rents for the housing guidelines,” she said. “[At] the current rate, a studio would be no greater than $980; one-bedroom is $1,057; two-bedroom would be $1268. We see that as the max and rental rates would be even less than that. It’s a segment of the market that there’s a huge need for and something we are pretty passionate about.”

The Roaring Fork Valley and Garfield County regional housing needs assessment is available for public participation at regionalhousingsurvey.org/open.

Public meeting What: Planning and Zoning review When: 7 p.m. Thursday, May 10 Where: Town Hall, 511 Colorado Ave.

The proposed Red Hill Lofts would comprise 30 affordable housing units, with an emphasis on shared outdoor social space.

P&Z Commissioners will review the application on May 10. Courtesy graphic

TOWN OF CARBONDALE

OFFICIAL RESULTS

Total votes cast 1202

ABSTRACT OF VOTES CAST AT A REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTION Held in Carbondale, Colorado APRIL 3, 2018 Votes cast in Precincts 1, 2 & 3

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The Sopris Sun, Carbondale’s weekly community connector • APRIL 19-25, 2018 • 9

Carbondale Community School looks to its roots

By Debbie Bruell Sopris Sun Correspondent

pleasant? That became my dream: making it pleasant.”

Stranahan founded the non-profit educational orga“I am a virus,” is how George Stranahan has de- nization Compass in 1970 and Carbondale Community scribed himself to others — an agent that disrupts a sys- School in 1996. He established CCS tem, initiating a small modification that soon multiplies. as a charter school within the Roaring He founded Carbondale Community School with the Fork School District, rather than an goal of provoking change in systems of education. independent private school, because Stranahan was honored last week at Carbondale he liked the idea of this new school Community School’s Founders Day celebration, which being part of a bigger system. also marked the school’s 20th anniversary. Michael “We thought we could make Hayes, executive director of Compass, the parchange that hopefully everyent organization of CCS, praised Stranahan one else could benefit from,” for his commitment to “innovation and an he said. irreverent attitude toward the status quo” In addition to celebratthroughout all of his endeavors, from ing their founder, the purthe The Manaus Fund, Valley Settlement pose of last week’s event Project and Third Street Center to Flying was to reflect upon the Dog Brewery and Stranahan’s Whiskey. history and founding prinStranahan explained to the auciples of CCS and, as retired dience of over 100 people CCS teacher Cathie Farrar how he became interested explained, “use them in education: as a gauge: Are we living up to our “My own educational educational mission?” experiences [as a youth] The founding principles of CCS were unpleasant for me. included a focus on experiential, I did not like them. hands-on learning; prioritizing And they didn’t children’s social-emotional deseem to like me... At velopment; integrating art 13 they sent me off into all aspects of the curto boarding school riculum; and allowing to learn Greek and children to take the lead Latin. And this was in their own education. unpleasant too. Why As a CCS teacher for George Stranahan discusses Carbondale Community School’s the hell is childhood 17 years, Farrar believes roots and values during the Founders Day event. supposed to be unthat these basic prinPhoto by Stephanie Munk

ciples have remained strong. CCS, she said, is still a place where teachers understand that, “the learner is far more important than the curriculum...the greatest gift we can give kids is a passion for learning.”

“So often people think that there’s a base of knowledge that has to be taught,” he added. “We take our clues from the kids.”

Laurel Tesoro, a parent of two CCS students, agreed that the heart of the Compass schools has continued from the time when she was a student at ACS. “It’s not quite as crazy as it was when I was at [Aspen’s] community school. It’s a little less seat-of-the-pants. But the basic concept, that sense of community, that everyone is responsible for themselves and for everyone else in the community – that remains.”

CCS teacher Ellen Huttenhower noted that while the four “pillars” of the school — social justice, community, responsibility, lifelong learning — remain strong as their guiding principles, actually attaining them is “nearly impossible.” Looking through the school’s archives she found letters from the ’70s which indicated that they were dealing with similar challenges back then as well.

“The ideals will never be attained,” Huttenhower said, “but they give us something to work toward.”

Michael McVoy, past board member of Compass and parent of ACS graduates, praised the community schools in terms of the long term impact they have had on their students.

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“Part of the motivation for the 20th anniversary celebration is to generate a more sharing community of schools within our valley.”

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City of Aspen Council Chambers 5:00-6:30 PM

APRIL 3RD

Pitkin County Pitkin County Library 2:00-3:00 PM

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Town of Snowmass Village Town Hall 4:00-5:00 PM

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APRIL 26TH Town of Basalt Basalt Library 5:00-6:30 PM

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These caped crusaders (left) await the beginning of the tricycle race and (right) competitor Matt Haslett is the first to enter the building and the first to cross the finish line.

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books & bucks It was a cold and windy day in Carbondale on Friday, April 13 when students at Ross Montessori received their reward for collecting over 900 books for the school’s summer program. Student council members came up with the idea to stage a teachers tricycle race starting outside and winding thru the halls of the school while the delighted students watched.

The same morning, Crystal River Elementary held their annual Rams Run, in which students from each grade as well as some teachers and parents ran laps for half an hour.

Students collected pledges for each lap, raising money to buy athletic equipment such as ice skates and bicycles, among other things.

CRES runners. Both exhilarated and exhausted CRES students rejoice and collapse after the race.

Photos and text

by Jane Bachrach

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River Bridge fundraiser highlights need, celebrates successes

By Megan Tackett Sopris Sun Staff

A growing need

Frasier — the smiley facility dog at River Bridge Regional Center — was at the groomers. He had to appear in court the next day, where he had important footresting duties for the child testifying. “Whenever a child has to testify or give a witness statement or an impact statement, Frasier will sit at their feet,� said Bridget Derkash, forensic interviewer and community outreach coordinator at River Bridge.

It’s a seemingly small thing, but it can make a huge difference. “They’re having to look at their offender while they’re talking; it’s so intense,� Derkash continued, “but the kiddo has this dog at their feet, so it helps make that process less intimidating.�

At its core, that’s the entire mission of the center: making something terrible a little less so. The child advocacy center trains and staffs a multidisciplinary team of experts in their respective fields, all of whom are dedicated to ensuring families’ privacy and dignity through reporting alleged abuse. Lori Bennett, River Bridge’s victim advocate and administrative assistant, often finds herself turning on a white noise machine — she tends to prefer birds chirping — to diminish the risk of others overhearing a forensic interview. Derkash keeps toys in her desk. And of course, Frasier is usually on site. “We’re really just trying to reduce anxiety and the stress of the kid after they’ve already experienced something really tough,� Derkash said. “When there’s an allegation of physical abuse or sexual abuse or a kid is a witness to violence, instead of having to go to a lot of different places — like the police department or the Department of Human Services or the district attorney’s office or even a hospital — they get to come here and have all those services in one spot.�

River Bridge Executive Director Blythe Chapman has a lot going on. The organization’s annual signature “Imagine� fundraiser, which requires its own year-round planning committee, is Saturday, April 28.

Additionally, she’s overseeing a brick-andmortar expansion for the center: Garfield County purchased another building just down the street for River Bridge to offer its non-forensic work. “When they built this building 10 years ago, I don’t think there was any idea of what we would become,� Chapman said. “Since 2008, our numbers have increased for forensic interviews alone by 180 percent — that’s just forensic interviewing.� Last year, River Bridge conducted 223 forensic interviews. In 2008, that number was just 80.

Forensic interviews aren’t the only uptick the center has absorbed. “The medical program, the training program, community outreach‌ all of that has grown so much, and that leads to a lot more traffic,â€? Chapman explained.

The second building will help manage that increased traffic. It will also help ensure that forensic interviews truly happen one family at a time in the current location, which presently functions as the center’s headquarters. There are two doors, one at the front of the building and another on the side, to help manage foot traffic so that families never interact with nonessential staff or other happenings.

Bennett, for one, is looking forward to not having to utilize that side door as often once the new building is operational — hopefully by the end of the year. “I don’t like making anybody go to the side door and making it feel sketchy,� she said. “That’s the biggest thing: not making it feel sketchy.�

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Knaus, Roaring Fork Family Practice garner state recognition

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Longtime Carbondale doctor Gary Knaus was named Family Physician of the Year at the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians conference on April 13.

The award annually recognizes a Colorado family physician who provides outstanding care, enhances their community and is a role model both personally and professionally. In his nomination, fellow family physician Dr. Lauren Sontag wrote, “it is clear that he (Dr. Knaus) exemplifies what it means to be a family physician: a kind heart, an eager mind, and a listening ear, all with a deep commitment to the community.”

out to change that through mindfulness, gratitude, and focus. They’re already seeing “palpable joy” from that work, but there are still challenges.

“Quality improvement has some unintended consequences. It’s all about money; it’s all about data… we’re not very motivated by that sometimes. My hypertension quality measures don’t do much to sustain me,” Knaus said. “We’re trained in an artisan manner — we learn humility, we learn patience, we learn excellence — and come out into a world where we’re made to feel like technicians.

We came into this business thinking we were going to be working for the corner farm-to-table restaurant and woke up one morning working for the cheesecake factory.”

Rather than give in or give up, however, he offered a solution.

“In each office visit, we’re detectives, we’re gardeners, we’re teachers, we’re coaches, we’re friends and we’re servants.”

Roaring Fork Family Practice, where he has worked for over 35 years, was additionally honored with the Patient Centered Innovation Award.

“Family medicine is a team sport these days,” Knaus told the assembly after receiving his award.

With his wife, kids and grandkids looking on, he took the opportunity to tackle the challenges a somewhat oldfashioned profession — Knaus has been known to still make house calls — can face in the modern era. Despite the old “healer heal thyself” adage, he told the crowd that an informal poll at a past conference had revealed that 40 percent of attendees were burnt out and only two respondents were thriving.

“It didn’t seem right. We ought to be the healthy ones to take care of patients,” he said.

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Community Calendar THU to SUN April 19-22

5POINT • A series of films and events honor public lands in an effort to inspire adventure and educate. Tickets and information at 5pointfilm.org.

THURSDAY April 19

MUSICAL STORYTIME • The Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) hosts a special event with Waldorf on the Roaring Fork’s Ms. Holly at 10:30 a.m. featuring a movement circle, many songs and a story in celebration of spring.

VAN RALLY • 5Point invites folks to show off their homes with a gas tank and an engine from 4 to 7 p.m. outside the Carbondale Rec. Center (567 Colorado Ave.).

FRI to THU April 20-26

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre (427 Main St.) presents “Isle of Dogs” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. from Apr. 20-26.

FRIDAY April 20

ROCK & SOUL • 5Point After Dark presents Josh Rogan from 8 to 11 p.m. at Marble Distilling Co.(150 Main St.).

COUNTY WESTERN • Western Centuries weaves a tapestry of music beginning at 8:30 p.m. at Steve’s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.).

JAZZ COVERS • The Peter & Will Anderson Trio bring you The Magic of Benny Goodman beginning at 8 p.m. at The Temporary (360 Market St., Wilits). $14 in advance at tacaw.org or $19 at the door.

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

Events take place in Carbondale unless noted.

MODERN ROCK • Stubbies Sports Bar (123 Emma Rd., Basalt) hosts duo Cloudship from 9 p.m. ‘til the wee hours of the morning.

cacao from 5 to 7 p.m. at Harmony Scott Jewelry Design (199 Main St.). Info and registration at info@harmonyscott.com or call 963-7190.

SATURDAY April 21

CAJUN DANCE • Following a series of dance workshops from two-step to zydeco beginning at 10 a.m. Gumbo Limbo de Colorado plays live from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) Lessons and dance start at $10 per person; info at billypat4@gmail.com or 366-6463.

RIVER CLEANUP • Volunteers of all ages are invited to help clean up sections of the Fryingpan and Roaring Fork Rivers. Arrive at Lions Park in downtown Basalt by 8:30 a.m. for a free breakfast and your cleanup assignment area, trash bags, and safety vests. Dress appropriately with warm layers, gloves, long pants, a hat and sunscreen. Prizes will be awarded for best of trash, most useful and most unusual trash. More info at roaringfork.org/events or 927-1290.

TRAUMA TALK • Big Heart Big Hands and 5Point partner with True Nature Healing Arts (100 N. Third St.) from 10:20 to 11:50 a.m. to discuss “Trauma, Loss, and Resilience in the Backcountry” with a panel of folks who experienced it first hand.

CACAO CEREMONY • Harmony Scott leads an exploration of “the deep masculine and feminine that lives within all of us” through delicious and heart opening

thanks to a partnership with KDNK. $25 in advance at tacaw.org or $20 at the door.

SUNDAY April 22

OPEN HOUSE • From 5 to 8 p.m., tour the new Way of Compassion Bike Project space in suite 34 at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.)

MONDAY April 23

EARTH FAIR • Kids and teens are invited to stop by the Basalt Regional Library (14 Midland Ave.) from 4 to 5 p.m. for Earth Day games, activities, and snacks.

TUESDAY April 24

WASTE WORKSHOP • Learn how your family or company can send less waste to the landfill and divert more to composting and recycling with Alyssa Reindel of EverGreen ZeroWaste from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Third Street Center.

WEDNESDAY April 25

ROCK COVERS • Colorado Floyd puts a high-country twist on Pink Floyd tunes from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Black Nugget (403 Main St.).

FOLK POP • The Shook Twins and Dustbowl Revival play at 8:30 p.m. at The Temporary (360 Market St., Willits)

YOGATINI • Couple an all-levels Vinyasa Flow class with Jenna Pearce with local libations from 7 to 8:30 pm. at Marble Distilling (150 Main St.). $20; reservations at scoop@marbledistilling. com or 963-7008.

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Town of Carbondale

WASTE DIVERSION & SPRING CLEAN UP DAY

When: Sat. April 28, 8AM-4PM Where: 4th & Colorado, across from Town Hall

Attention Carbondale Residents: For special pricing and free offers bring a photo ID + utility bill or vehicle registration.

Funding for diversion efforts and giveaways come from revenues generated by the disposable bag fee charged at Carbondale’s City Market. Subsidizing these activities circulates that money back into our community.

Items for Diversion & Fees General Household Waste Fees

No liquid hazardous waste accepted.

• Electronic Waste – Up to 1 large and 2 small Refrigerators must be certified Freon free. items plus unlimited cables, cell phones, ink & toner cartridge FREE for • Regular pickup truck load – Carbondale residents. Businesses & Carbondale Residents $10/nonNon-Residents - $.35/lb. Free offer residents-$25. caps at 20,000 lbs. after which all • Large pickup truck load – will be charged $.35/lb.

Carbondale Residents $20/ • Tires – Fees apply. First 100 tires up non-residents-$35. to 18” w/o rims FREE for *Cash/check only for truck Carbondale residents. load, tires and mattress fees.

• Mattress Recycling – Educational Booths $10 for the first 50 residents, $25 & Giveaways for non-residents REUSE! Clothing & Book • Yard Waste – Create a fire buffer zone Swap: Bring usable clotharound your home by clearing tree branching, shoes & books to the es a minimum of 10 feet around structures Swap Table (8am-2pm). and removing dry vegetation. Price included Non-usable textiles, shoes & books will be recycled. in pick up load.

REPAIR! Bring your bike in for complimentary • Metal Items – Price included in pick up load. minor bike repairs.

• Prescription & Over the Counter Medicine – LEARN! Visit educational booths to learn about FREE – Accepted at Town Hall Police energy efficiency and how to divert your waste Station 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. only. year round. Giveaways include LED bulbs & fin• Batteries – FREE for residents (single use, ished compost (bring your own container). rechargeable, phone, auto, etc.)

• Thermostats & Smoke Detectors – $10 per item. FREE for first 25 C’dale residents • Light Bulbs – FREE for residents – CFL’s, linear fluorescents, halogens, incandescent, etc.

• Refrigerators & A/C units – Price ranges from $50-$125. $15 discount for first 30 Carbondale residents.

• Bicycle Recycling – Usable Bikes & Bike Parts FREE **Businesses are welcome to recycle their waste but will be charged full price.

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Ongoing TRIVIA • Geeks Who Drink comes to Batch (358 Main St.) for free at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays.

CABARET • Colorado Mountain College’s Sopris Theatre Company presents the 1998 revival version of the classic musical at 7 p.m. April 6-7, 13-14 and 19-21 at 7 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees on April 8, 15 and 22. Tickets are $20/adults and $15 for students, staff and seniors at coloradomtn.edu/theatre.

HIGH NOON • Bring your compliments, complaints and ideas to Sopris Sun Editor Will Grandbois at 12 p.m. Thursdays at the Pour House (351 Main St.).

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

HEALTH THROUGH NUTRITION • Free opportunities include… One-hour consultation about heart attack prevention, plant-based 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 (520 S. Third St.). Fourth Monday of every month, plant-based potluck 6:30 p.m. Calaway Room, Third Street Center.

All events supported by Davi Nikent, Center for Human Flourishing. More information at www.davinikent.org.

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

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. Additionally, The Monday Night Meditation Group meets from 7 to 8:15 p.m. at True Nature (100 N. Third St.) and offers instruction in the Buddhist practice of Vipassana. Also at True Nature, everyone’s invited for SRF meditation from 10 to 11 a.m. on the first Sunday of the month and 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month.

MINDFULNESS • The Mindful Life Program in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) offers group sessions Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation and registration is not necessary. Info: mindfullifeprogram.org and 970-633-0163.

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

SENIOR MATTERS • The nonprofit Senior Matters, based in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.), offers numerous programs

for senior citizens, including: tai chi with John Norton at 8:30 a.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays; tai chi with Marty Finklestein at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays; Alaprima Painters at 11 a.m. on Thursdays; the Senior Matters Book Club at 4 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of the month; and the Roaring Fork Brain Train. Info: seniormatters.org; Diane Johnson at 970-306-2587; and Senior Matters, Box 991, Carbondale, CO 81623.

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

RUN AROUND • Independence Run & Hike hosts a run around town Saturdays at 8 a.m. Meet at the store 596 Highway 133 (in La Fontana Plaza) and run various distances, with different routes each week.

Info: 704-0909.

LET’S JUST DANCE • Feel great, have fun and dance Tuesdays at The Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). Catch a free lesson at 7 p.m., then from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. it’s open dancing with two-step, swing, waltz, line dance, salsa and more. No partner or experience necessary. $8/person; $14/couple. Questions? Call 970-366-6463 or email billypat4@gmail.com.

CONTRA • Every first Saturday October through May, catch contra, waltzes, polkas and square dances from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at the Carbondale Community School (1505 Satank Rd.). No partner or experience necessary; $10 for adults and $8 for

students. More info at glenwoodspringscontradance@gmail.com.

ONE VOICE • Lisa Dancing-Light, founder of Higher Octave Music Programs, presents a community singing group intended to celebrate the joy that music brings to the spirit. Every other Thursday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at The Helios Center (601 Sopris Ave.) in Carbondale.

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

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. Info: 510-5046 or faithcarbondale. com. Carbondale Homeless Assistance also has its meeting on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

Save the Date SATURDAY May 12

DANDELION DAY • A celebration of spring and Carbondale’s town flower with the Parade of Species down Main Street at 10 a.m. followed by artists, farmers, food vendors, brewers and musicians at Sopris Park.

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Spring fire sparks evacuations along Catherine Store Road From the archives of the Roaring Fork Valley Journal April 20, 1978 The “mysterious” brick telephone building at Fourth and Main was almost ready to begin operation. After about a 10 minute outage — during which police planned to up patrols, famous phone phreak Joe Engressia was supposed to show up to check things out. Engressia had mastered the art of whistling at just the right frequency to fool the phone systems of the era, getting free calls and once reaching a secret missile base. Luckily, he chose to use his powers for good and ended up working for Ma Bell.

In other news… Two men were killed in falls while snowmobiling on Sopris (an area now part of the Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness and thus closed to motorized traffic).

April 21, 1988 Carbondale entrepreneur Jerry Pransky unveiled plans to build a 21-unit bed and breakfast hotel “on the model of small inns… in Europe.” It would feature a residential style and a coffee house, and might be located in Crystal Village or at Eighth Street

and Highway 133. His ambitious timeline called for design and site acquisition almost immediately with doors open that fall. The rush, he said, was demand: “I asked what the town needed the most and they said ‘a place for people to stay.’”

In other news… Helen Tibbetts had recently celebrated her 90th birthday.

April 23, 1998 River Valley Ranch was “being transformed from a construction site to a community,” noted project manager Mike Staheli. The old Thompson barn was in the process of an extensive renovation into a preview center and event venue.

The 5,800 square foot clubhouse was slated for completion in June, and construction on a health and fitness spa would start in August. Meanwhile, the first homes were under construction on the west side of the Crystal River, while several units in the Thompson Corner neighborhood were already complete and ready for summer move-ins.

In other news… A comment by Mayor Randy Vanderhurst about “what’s in it for the town” led to speculation that a developer

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looking for an annexation may be “buying his way” into Carbondale.

April 17, 2008 A small fire near the rodeo grounds spread to over 100 acres along Catherine Store Road, but was 70 percent contained by press time. A three mile radius was evacuated by reverse-911 call, affecting the Ranch at Roaring Fork, Aspen Equestrian Estates and even portions of Missouri Heights. Three homes caught in the blaze, but were doused by fire crews. One fisherman jumped into the river to escape the flames, but wasn’t badly hurt.

“We got through a very bad situation with really no serious injuries or loss of property,” Fire Chief Ron Leach noted.

In other news… A local citizens’ group was working to restore the Marble Mill site and turn it into a park.

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“What’s most impressive to me is the diversity of where [ACS and CCS] kids go in their lives,” he said. “Everyone has gained the independence and confidence to go out and make their own change.”

In an email to The Sopris Sun after the event, Stranahan noted that the impact CCS has had on the school district as a whole is more limited.

“I think it would be fair to categorize the 20 year relationship of the school to the community as friendly yet aloof,” Stranahan wrote.

“CCS is barely noticed except amongst its own families...

Part of the motivation for the 20th anniversary celebration is to generate a more sharing community of schools within our valley.”

The Founder’s Day program ended with a plea to contribute to the school’s annual fund. As a public charter school, CCS is funded by tax dollars. However, in order to fund their full program for their 135 students, they set an annual fund goal of $48,000 for the 2017-18 school year.

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By Nicolette Toussaint Sopris Sun Correspondent

On April 16, two Roaring Fork Valley teachers trekked to Denver, each on her own time and own dime, to join around 300 other public school teachers in delivering a message to the Colorado State Legislature: schools are underfunded and lawmakers need to ante up.

Lisa Dameron, who lives in Carbondale and teaches at Basalt Middle School, commented, “There’s a lot at stake: We spend $2700 less per pupil than the national average, and school funding has been declining” despite Amendment 23, which voters passed in 2000 to reverse a decade of budget cuts.

While ranking 43rd nationally in perpupil spending, Colorado ranks 46th in teacher pay. Teachers make an average of $46,000 a year, according to the National Education Association figures. That puts Colorado dead last in terms of the competitiveness of teacher salaries, a recent study from the Education Law Center shows.

The lobby day was called by the Colorado Education Association as lawmakers considered two bills, the School Finance Act, which will modestly increase per-pupil spending and school funding, and Senate Bill 200, which would amend Colorado’s Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) plan.

Jessica Crawford, who teaches at Crystal River Elementary, joined Dameron in taking personal time off to join teachers from around the state, wearing “red for ed” and

Carbondale teachers gathered on Snowmass Avenue on the morning of April 16 while others traveled to Denver on their own dime to act as advocates.

Photo by Rhonda Tatham rallying at the capitol. They sang Twisted Sister’s “we’re not going to take it anymore” and dropped in on legislators.

After the rally, the House Education Committee passed the School Finance Act as proposed and the House Finance Committee passed an amended PERA bill.

“The rally was really exciting, and the result speaks to the power of collective action,” Dameron commented. “We are underfunded by about $800 million due to some interesting math done by the legislature to work around Amendment 23, which says that funding has to increase. Because of recession and TABOR, that hasn’t happened.” SB 200, as approved by the House Education Com-

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mittee, would restore $150 million of the missing Amendment 23 increase. It would also provide $222 more per pupil, $35 million for school safety, $30 million for rural schools and $225 million for PERA. The Finance Committee’s amended version of SB 200 would allocate $225 million to PERA and eliminate proposed contribution increases that would have been paid by teachers, as well as state troopers, snow-plow drivers, judges and other state employees.

Crawford commented, “I felt it was important to fight SB200 because it was going to do nothing but hurt education and teachers. It is a small success that legislators passed amendments. It was great to hear

they are not taking more out of teachers’ paychecks for PERA, and that the proposed retirement age was reduced from 65 to 60.”

Dameron spoke personally to State Representative Bob Rankin about both bills.

“He was a good listener, and I was encouraged,” she said. “He was adamant that they put in a big chunk to pay down the debt on PERA” and he pointed out that because of local mill levy overrides, Colorado’s perpupil spending isn’t as low as national statistics make it appear. (According to Education Week’s figures, Colorado ranks 42nd in per-pupil spending after adjusting for regional price differences.)

“Carbondale did pass a mill levy override, but poorer districts haven’t been able to do that,” Dameron noted. “That helps out people like us, but not everyone.” Some Colorado school districts, largely in the eastern part of the state, spend $20,000plus per pupil. Some Front Range districts spend less than $10,000 per year.

As Crawford noted, “My future feels a little better, but our everyday expenses need help still. We need more funding for our students and we also need a livable salary.

The fight today was a small step in the right direction, but there’s still a lot more to do.”

With the rally at the capitol, Colorado teachers have joined a wave of recent protests that have taken place in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona to draw attention to what teachers’ unions see as a growing crisis in education.

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Letters from page 2 “native species as originally arranged by nature.” Which arrangement is that? The one that existed before there were cattle ranches, sheep ranches, potato farms and residential subdivisions? The one that existed when there were only Ute Indians living here? The one that existed when the Maroon Bells were a sea bottom and Mt. Sopris didn’t yet exist?

Phillip’s dream of “restoring all native species as originally arranged by nature” is an unscientific fantasy. It has a nice biblical ring to it, but it’s bogus. It’s a feel-good exercise for city-dwellers and others who wouldn’t have to deal with the damage and pain wolves would inflict if they were brought back.

Instead of RMWP, maybe Phillips should start the Rocky Mountain Beaver Project. Beavers don’t prey on sheep, cattle, deer or elk, and they are great riparian restoration engineers. The name might not have the sizzle that nonprofit fundraisers like, but it might actually do some good.

I’d even buy one of their T-shirts.

Barry Vaughan Carbondale

Coloring in colorful Colorado Dear Editor: I’ve got about a ton of thank-yous to get out about the success of my art show at the HANDMAKERY this past week.

First, I thank my beautiful and loving wife Elsie (aka “Granny”) for her support, advice and input on my coloring.

Next, I thank Ami Maes and her hus-

band Chris for the opening up of the HANDMAKERY to display my work in three rows of 10 on the wall.

Next, I thank Terry Hayes and her husband T.J. for all the work they did to make my work presentable. Also, Terry is Ami’s mother and our daughter — she’s also Ami’s helper on a daily basis, and T.J. is always available to do about anything that she is asked to do.

Next is Steph, our granddaughter, and her husband Kevin for their outpouring of advice, compliments and suggestions.

Next, my four “munchkins:” Emmy, Sophia, Maielle and Mountain, our greatgrandkids. A special word about Mountain: he is part of the crew at KDNK Radio and frequently does his own show live.

Next, Megan; she is the gal responsible for that beautiful and informative piece in the Sopris Sun. Also, Megan and Will have done a live interview with me on KDNK. Next, Elsie and I made it a point to go to the HANDMAKERY on the evenings of April 3, 4 and 5 to see the kids’ craftwork, “Lil’ Llamas in Pajamas,” and to meet the parents when they came to pick up their kids — what a great bunch.

And then “Fantastic Friday!” I was completely overwhelmed by the compliments, the handshakes, the hugs, the questions and all the fellowship in general. What a beautiful thing to visit with friends, family from out of town, neighbors, and strangers that are strangers no longer. I want you all to know how much it meant to me for all of you to take time to see to it that my show was a

Dear Editor: There is only one person that has a possibility of overcoming the oil industry support of our current 3rd District Federal Representative and that is Diane Mitsch Bush.

If we truly want across the aisle representation of the interests of the people of Colorado and the nation we have only one choice, Diane. 2018 is the year of the women. Diane Mitsch Bush and Cary Kennedy have a unique opportunity to insert a wholesome perspective into the health of our state and country.

I consider Arn, the independent candidate a friend and know what a straightforward person he is, but his running will dilute the vote and possibly keep us from electing Diane, a master legislator. Karl is a masterful attorney that the industry could maneuver into being the democratic candidate. He would, however, have no chance of winning against our current, industry friendly, representative. I would ask both to back out for the good of the third district.

Diane is the only candidate with the experience, cred and record to face off with Tip and win. We might finally get a representative of the people, for the people and by the people.

John Hoffmann Carbondale

Dear Editor: I’ve lost my Shaman - and a good friend. Muralist Fred Huberlein left us Monday morning. Who will show me the way of knowledge now?

A student and advocate of Yaqui, Anasazi, and other indigenous cultures and theologies, Fred’s deity was not a long bearded, flowing white robed figure that looks like a big monkey, but a Great Spirit, whose aura prevails over the universe and gives us the opportunity to thrive, but guarantees nothing.

I made friends with Fred at the Glenwood Hot Springs Pool. One day, I was kicking around the political football with a conservative adversary in the therapy pool, as I’m prone to do, when Fred came over and gave me a mild admonishment.

“This place is sacred,” Fred said, “The ancient ones came here to free their minds of all worldly thoughts. You really shouldn’t discuss such matters here.”

Since then, I have sheathed my political sword at the pool and saved it for letters to the editor.

To Fred’s soulful and spiritual wife Theresa I say he’s not really gone. As long as the building walls throughout the West adorned by his beautiful murals stand and pupils like me remember his teachings, Fred will live on.

Fred Malo Jr. Carbondale

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held before the Carbondale Planning and Zoning Commission for the purpose of considering a Special Review for Site Plan as Allowed by the Kay PUD to allow residential units on the ground floor, for Lot 12B, Kay PUD, Phase II. The property is located at 2601 Dolores Way. The property is also described as Lot 12B, Kay PUD, Phase II. The applicant is Red Hill Lofts, LLC. The property owner is APE Housing, Inc. Said Public Hearing will be held at the Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, CO at 7:00 p.m. on May 10, 2018.

Copies of the proposed application 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.

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During KDNK’s 35th birthday party on April 15, 15 month-old Sean Passmore took a moment to select the vintage that he thought might be best suited for his mommy, Megan.

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