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Outdoor consignment store opening at old Sounds Easy spot Other retailers adapting, marking anniversaries

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer

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An outdoor consignment store is opening at the old Sounds Easy spot in the Sopris Shopping Center.

Meanwhile, Independence Run & Hike is moving from the Cowen Center to La Fontana Plaza, while Crystal Fly Shop has settled into new digs in Crystal Plaza.

And downtown on Main Street, lulubelle owner Lindsey Cynoski is celebrating her clothing store’s first anniversary on May 6.

Carbondale retailers continue to face numerous challenges: the recession, fewer dollars circulating in town, competition from on-line retailers, plus the fact as noted in the town’s Economic Roadmap study that 75 percent of Carbondale residents’ retail sales dollar is spent out of town (mostly in Glenwood Springs).

Still, some retailers are not only hanging in there, they are putting their time, energy and money into new operations they hope will not only pay off for themselves, but provide residents with a bigger variety of goods and services.

Ragged Mountain Sports

A couple of marmots are posting themselves high atop round bales of hay about one mile up Prince Creek Road these days.

Their lofty perch commands a great view across the cattle pasture to the west and down Prince Creek Road to the north. One Prince Creeker remarked, “If a coyote wants to get at those marmots, he’d better bring a stepladder.” Photo by Jane Bachrach

Jenny Hamilton, owner of Ragged Mountain Sports, is a new entrepreneur who has staked her claim in the old Sounds Easy spot in the Sopris Shopping Center.

“I thought Carbondale could use a way to recycle outdoor gear and apparel,” Hamilton said during one of her typically busy days in the run up to her May 7 opening.

Hamilton, a 2003 graduate of Aspen High School, will sell bikes, kayaks, skis and other outdoor gear and apparel on consignment. The consignee gets 60 percent and the store keeps 40 percent, she said.

For many years, Sounds Easy Video anchored the southwest corner of the Sopris Shopping Center on Highway 133 until owner Staci Dickerson closed the operation and went to study art at Naropa Institute in Boulder.

Hamilton said she chose her new spot for several reasons. For one, it offers “super access” for folks dropping off consignments and picking up their purchases. There’s also the size. At 2,200 square feet “it’s huge” she said. People still reRETAIL page 11

5Point returns

Village developer threatens to sue

Tales from the fire line

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Carbondale Commentary The Educators’ Roundtable

Letters

We’re in this together

The Sopris Sun welcomes your letters, limited to no more than 400 words. Letters exceeding that length may be edited or returned for revisions. Include your name and residence (for publication) and a contact email and phone number. Submit letters via email to letters@soprissun.com or via snail mail to P.O. Box 399, Carbondale, CO 81623.

A community-wide conversation about our schools

Tipton should prioritize the people

Speak out about oil shale

Dear Editor: It is of great concern and disappointment to realize that Rep. Tipton has voted to block the enforcement of critical safeguards that would curb harmful air pollution and protect public health.The Clean Air Act must remain unthreatened and intact. It has saved lives and worked very well for 40 years. Scientists at the EPA know very well what happens when pollution standards are lowered. The ongoing battle seems to be between the health, welfare and future of the people of Colorado versus the profits of the corporate polluters. It is hoped that his priority will be us, not the companies who endanger our health.

Caroline Duell Carbondale

Dear Editor: In 2008 the Bush Administration opened up two million acres of land to oil shale development in western Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. That plan was challenged and last February, Secretary Ken Salazar decided to take a fresh look at it and consider its potential impacts. The plan is now back on the table. Oil shale hasn’t yet been successfully developed in commercial quantities, but independent scientists project that commercial development would fundamentally impact water supplies, air quality and wildlife habitat in the West.

The BLM is initiating a planning process to determine the future of oil shale, and wants to hear from us, the public. The potential impacts of oil shale development are huge and it’s up to us to make sure the BLM is considering them during the planning process. The question at hand is whether we should sacrifice millions of acres of western landscapes to

By Aaron Garland Local philanthropist George Stranahan and I have been having an ongoing conversation about our common interests in schools and education; the whole process of teaching and learning, often over a brew or two. I teach English at Yampah Mountain High School, and George’s credentials as an educator include, among many other things, the vision and effort that created the Aspen and Carbondale Community Schools. A while ago an idea occurred to us of bringing all of our Carbondale school principals together into an Educators’ Roundtable – an open conversation – to find common vision and power in common purpose. Together, we thought we could do more for our educational community than separately.

Principals, as you may have imagined, are as busy as that proverbial one-armed wallpaper hanger, yet they have scratched out time to form the Roundtable, to test drive some ideas and they came up with this one: a monthly interactive column in our own local Sopris Sun.The schools feel a desire to be more closely connected with our community, and we deeply believe that developing a continuing conversation – getting to know and trust each other, learning to work together – will significantly improve our children’s experience of growing up and acquiring an education here in Carbondale.

As most of you who have been reading the news already know,we are entering what is likely to be a pitched battle in the coming years, a struggle between conflicting values and desired results. School funding, teacher accountability, teacher unions, common core standards, closing the gap between different segments of the population and of course the use of high stakes testing to measure learning are some of the topics our principals may address. However, other less divisive topics will come up for discussion as well, such as how to keep your son or daughter engaged during the summer months.

The great struggle in education offers us an opportunity to put our attention on what we value and to move those values into a

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widening conversation. Many of us have seen and debated the movies “Waiting for Superman”and“Race to Nowhere.”Many have also recently read and discussed at Gordon Cooper Library Diane Ravitch’s book “The Death and Life of the Great American School System.”The conversation on education has already begun, and the Educators’ Roundtable will keep it moving forward.The principals in Carbondale (and Marble because they’re all alone up there) are as follows: Clif Colia at Roaring Fork High School; Jeff Leahy at Colorado Rocky Mountain School; Lyn Bair at Bridges High School; Rick Holt at Carbondale Middle School; Tom Penzel at Carbondale Community School; Karen Olson at Crystal River Elementary School; Julietta Miranda, acting administrator at Waldorf on the Roaring Fork; Mark Grice at Ross Montessori School; and Deborah Wilson at Marble Charter School. Most of these principals have joined the Educators’ Roundtable and will be taking turns authoring this column.

The format we’ll follow will begin with a column at the beginning of the month from one (or several) of the principals. Over the following three weeks you, the reader, are invited to respond to the article by sending your thoughts to The Sopris Sun: news@soprissun.com or P.O. Box 399, Carbondale, CO 81623. Your comments, and responses from the principal, will be published over the next several weeks. Then we’ll begin the cycle over again with another Educators’ Roundtable column authored by another principal. Our hope is that this will be the beginning of a productive conversation that will bring our schools and community closer together.

Aaron Garland teaches English at Yampah Mountain School in Glenwood Springs. He and George Stranahan are spearheading the Educators’ Roundtable, a community forum on the local school system featuring columns by school administrators published monthly in The Sopris Sun.

Carbondalian Crystal Beltz spent January, February and part of March in Mumbai, where the Sun was shining. Photo

by Jen Hill

Island worth more than money Dear Editor: I have just returned from the Carbondale Town Council meeting where our trustees wisely directed staff to look for an alternative to their earlier notion of selling off a 17-acre island that was given to the town in 1981. Many river folk have come forward to inform them of the island’s uniqueness as nearby wildlands accessible by boat. During the debate, three of our trustees (Ed Cortez, Elizabeth Murphy and John Foulkrod) justified their support of the sale of the island primarily as a quick way to raise funds for the development of other town parklands. Heck, why not put price tags on all town assets? Who knows how much fast money we might raise?

Dale Will Carbondale

Let’s get going Dear Editor: I’m writing to you today because of my concerns – yes, even my worries.

Almost daily I hear of more and more parents who are unemployed. Time for Carbondale to take a more realistic lead on this problem. Instead of letting a poor economy affect so many lives, we need projects that provide consistent employment for families.

How many years has the 24 acres on Highway 133 stood vacant? And how many years has usage of that land been discussed ad infinitum?

With new businesses there will be needed builders, carpenters, retail workers and more.

Nostalgia is great, but does not serve up well on your family’s dinner plate.We have a need to live in the here and now.

It would be great if Whole Foods became interested in opening a market along with other businesses. Dare we dream? Then Carbondale could become a“destination”as opposed to a unique mountain small town.

I have tremendous faith and trust in Stacey Bernot and the board of trustees. The old adage “When the going gets tough the tough get going” certainly applies here.

Let’s get going.

Rusty Burtard Carbondale

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Correction In the April 21 edition we stated that the Carbondale Town Trustees voted 43 to approve a motion to explore other alternatives for settling a lawsuit on the town’s 17-acre “island” parcel. In fact, the motion passed 6-1 with Trustee John Foulkrod opposed.

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5Point film fest returns to Carbondale

By Terray Sylvester Sopris Sun Staff Writer Transport and transformation. You won’t find those listed in the 5Point Film Festival’s mantra of guiding principles, but with this year’s event, festival organizers say they’re shooting for both.

With 5Point now in its fourth year, festival organizers are working on refining their mission. The event has grown steadily since it kicked off in 2008. Its budget has roughly doubled to $200,000 and its programming has expanded from two evenings of films to four days of screenings and other events. At the same time, festival organizers have added an adventure scholarship program for local high school students, begun hosting a winter film series between festivals and started dreaming of taking the festival on tour.

But as festival director Beda Calhoun puts it, the 5Point crew isn’t only interested in growing the festival, they’re also working to perfect what they’ve already created.

Calhoun explained that she and 5Point founder Julie Kennedy attempt to tread a line between two extremes, between simple outdoor “sports porn” on the one hand and, on the other, the sort of environmental and social-justice material that has increasingly taken center stage at some of the more established outdoor film festivals, such as Mountainfilm in Telluride and Banff Mountain Film in Alberta, Canada.

Instead, said Calhoun, 5Point searches for films that blend daring with depth; “adventure” films that depict a “development of place, spirit or character, that show how a person is transformed by an experience.”

And this year, 5Point has taken a few extra steps to help audiences embrace the experience as well, including an art installation designed to transform the lobby of the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center into a high Himalayan landscape and a performance art piece intended to transport viewers to the border country between China and Mongolia.

When festival goers enter the recreation center they’ll be greeted by prayer wheels, clouds, gates and a cairn reminiscent of the Tibetan Buddhist highlands of the Himalayas. The gates were constructed by local woodworker David Rasmussen, and

the installation as a whole is a collaboration between the 5Point organizers and Boulder artist Amee Hinkley, who came up with the concept for the piece.

Hinkley, a mixed-media artist who specializes in acrylics, said she was mesmerized by the Buddhist iconography she encountered during a recent trip to the Mt. Everest region of Nepal. She said she is drawn to the idea of transforming a space with an art installation, and she hopes the piece will help festival patrons experience the flavor of the exotic locations featured in so many of the 5Point films.

Hinkley said that much of her own artistic inspiration springs from climbing expeditions and her other travels, and she hopes some of that mindset will flow into everyone who enters the recreation center.

“As a wanderer you’re just so aware of your surroundings, hyper aware of your surroundings,” she said.

An element of hyper awareness probably informed one of the more unique productions of this year’s festival as well.“The Wolf and the Medallion,” which shows on Saturday and Sunday, is a 35-minute mixed media production that will blend film with live music and live painting. The production was underwritten with a grant from Garfield County and created by Jeremy Collins, who entered a film named “Border Country” into last year’s 5Point festival.

In “The Wolf and the Medallion” Collins tells his young son about a trip he made to the Keketuohai region of China’s Xinjiang Province. He said the piece offers not only a glimpse of the culture and climbing potential of the area, but also a perspective into the relationship between himself and his child, and because he is speaking to a four-year old, his descriptions of the journey promise to be uniquely accessible.

“It’s a climber’s dream, a virgin valley of granite domes, beautiful, perfect domes way off the beaten path,” said Collins of Keketuohai.

Collins said he has been dreaming of creating such a performance piece for some time, but it took 5Point to provide a venue.

“They had all the tools necessary,” he said, “and an open mind seemed to be the most important tool they needed.”

Artist Amee Hinkley, of Boulder, helped set the mood for the 5Point film festival by creating a vision of the high Himalayas in the recreation center. Photo by Lynn Burton

Share the experience

The 5Point Film Festival lists “respect,” “commitment,” “humility,” “purpose” and “balance” as its core principles. It kicks off at 5 p.m. this evening, April 28, at the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center, and continues through Sunday with gallery shows, book signings, low-key “campfire story” sessions with some of the filmmakers and, of course, plenty of films. The 2011 lineup ranges from the incongruous (such as “Skateistan,” a film about skateboarding in Kabul, Afghanistan), to the imaginative (“Waste Land,” an artist’s encounter with trash-pickers at a massive dump in Brazil) to the indefatigable (three of the “Baffin Babes,” who spent three months dodging polar bears and scaling peaks in the Canadian Arctic, will be on hand to discuss their adventures.)

Tickets are $28 at the door. For more information, visit 5pointfilm.org.

Two options for public comment on new town manager

By Terray Sylvester Sopris Sun Staff Writer Before the Carbondale Board of Trustees hires a new town manager, the public will have two opportunities to comment on the candidates.

The selection process will include a public reception with the top contenders for the post. The town plans to solicit feedback from the public after the reception.

Applicants will also be vetted by a panel of roughly a half dozen members of the public.

At the trustees’ meeting on Tuesday night, mayor Stacey Bernot explained that anyone interested in serving on the panel will be asked to submit an application to the board of trustees. She also explained that the trustees are considering a set of criteria for the

panel’s membership to ensure it represents a broad cross-section of the public.

The town council had considered barring staff, volunteers and anyone who sits on the board of directors of a media organization from serving on the panel, but at the town council meeting on Tuesday night trustees Pam Zentmyer, John Hoffmann and Frosty Merriott argued against such a restriction.

“Just because they work for a newspaper or the radio or a blog doesn’t mean they can’t keep the confidence of a board,” Hoffmann said, suggesting the restriction would demonstrate a lack of trust on the part of the trustees and stifle a potentially valuable source of input.

Trustees Elizabeth Murphy and Ed Cortez were more supportive of the restriction.

Cortez said he thought it would allow a greater diversity of perspectives on the panel.

“If they’re employed or on the board [of a media organization] I think it would probably not be in our best interest to have them on this [committee],” Murphy said, explaining he was concerned that personal information about the candidates might get leaked.

Conrad Wilson, news and public affairs director at KDNK, said such a restriction would bar about 100 people from serving on the panel, since KDNK works with about 70 DJs and other volunteers in addition to its staff and 10-person board.

At The Sopris Sun, about 30 people – volunteers, board members and contract employees – would be affected by the restriction.

Although the trustees did not make a clear decision on the restriction, after the meeting Bernot said she felt most of the board was leaning toward narrowing it to apply only to employees of media organizations.

The trustees have been searching for a new chief administrator since they decided not to renew former Town Manager Tom Baker’s contract in December. With the assistance of Fred Rainguet of Rainguet and Associates, Bernot said the board has almost winnowed its way through to the top candidates. Those finalists – there will probably be less than eight of them – will be interviewed by the board in early June. Bernot said the public vetting process will occur at the same time. A panel of town staff will also vet the candidates.

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News Briefs

Cop Shop

The Weekly News Brief The Sopris Sun and the KDNK news departments team up to discuss recent news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond. Catch the Brief on KDNK between 7:30 and 8 a.m. and between 5:30 and 6 p.m. on Thursdays.

Summit County wilderness bill reintroduced Rep. Jared Polis has reintroduced a bill that would designate thousands of acres of new wilderness in Eagle and Summit counties.

The Eagle and Summit County Wilderness Preservation Act was reintroduced on Earth Day, April 22. A portion of the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign, the bill would designate a total of 167,000 acres of new wilderness and special management areas in Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District. The wilderness designation would prohibit mechanical use and development.

The bill has the support of the Outdoor Industry Association as well as the Conservation Alliance, a group of roughly 175 outdoor industry companies that disburse funds to protect recreational and ecological resources.

The Hidden Gems Campaign, a coalition made up of the Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop, Colorado Mountain Club, Colorado Environmental Coalition and the Wilderness Society, is also working to garner support from Rep. Scott Tipton to designate new wilderness in the state’s 3rd Congressional District. The proposal has met resistance in the past from mountain bikers and motorized recreation groups.

BLM seeks oil shale input As it reconsiders how many acres of federal land should be opened to commercial oil shale development, the Bureau of Land Management is holding a series of public meetings in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Meetings will be held at the West Garfield Colorado Mountain College campus in Rifle on May 3 from 1 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 9 p.m.

The BLM announced it would take a “fresh look” at plans for commercial oil shale and tar sands leasing approved by the previous administration. In 2008 the BLM amended eight resource management plans in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming to make approximately 1.9 million acres of public land available for commercial oil shale development and 431,224 acres available for tar sands leasing and development.

But with commercially viable techniques for oil shale development still unproven and with significant land and water impacts in the offing from both oil shale and tar sands development, the BLM is initiating a new planning process. Public scoping meetings have already been held in Utah. Additional meetings will be held in Denver on May 4, and Cheyenne, Wyo., on May 5.

Sales tax revenue lingers at new low The latest figures from the town finance

The following events are drawn from incident reports of the Carbondale Police Department.

department indicate that Carbondale retail sales tax revenue climbed 2.6 percent in March above the same month in 2010.

However, the town's sales tax revenue is still far below pre-recession levels. This year's sales tax revenue was roughly 73 percent of what the town raked in in March 2008, before the recession laid its hand on Carbondale's economy.

For the first quarter of 2011, the town's sales tax revenue dropped by about 1 percent compared to the same period last year.

In a memo, Finance Director and Interim Town Manager Nancy Barnett interpreted the latest financial data as yet more evidence that the town economy has reset to a “new normal” and the town “should not expect to see revenue increases as in past years.”

FRIDAY April 15 At 10:13 p.m. a woman called the police to report that a clerk at 7-Eleven had been rude and refused to get her a hotdog.

Police activity light in March

SUNDAY April 24 At 6:25 p.m. police transported someone to Valley View Hospital after the individual, who was disoriented and hearing voices, was found attempting to enter an apartment on Roaring Fork Avenue.

Last month Carbondale police responded to four domestic violence incidents, one assault and two petty thefts.

They also cited four minors for possessing alcohol, cited four people for driving under the influence and made two warrant arrests, according to a report summarizing monthly police activity. A variety of traffic infractions were the most common item on the list of police work for March.

SATURDAY April 16 At 2:15 a.m. officers arrested two men at the town pool on trespassing and robbery charges.

SUNDAY April 17 At 1:04 p.m. a boy reported that two older kids had knocked him off his bike and stolen his shoes.

THURSDAY April 21 At 7:29 p.m. police responded to an alleged trespassing incident on Second Street and found a homeless person staying in a vacant apartment.

SATURDAY April 23 A resident of Redstone Avenue reported that someone had written “Don’t park in front of my mailbox” in chalk on the side of his car.

MONDAY April 25 At about 1 a.m.

Carbondale police assisted Garfield County officers with a noise complaint.

They summonsed roughly 40 minors for possession of alcohol.

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Village developer threatens lawsuit over ex parte contact

By Terray Sylvester Sopris Sun Staff Writer Despite threats of a lawsuit from the developer, Carbondale Town Trustee Frosty Merriott said he will not recuse himself from future hearings on the proposed Village at Crystal River development.

“I’m staying,” Merriott replied during a Trustees’ meeting on Tuesday night, after Town Attorney Mark Hamilton asked whether he would step down.

“I’ve thought a long time about the developer’s allegations of bias and ex parte on my part,” Merriott said, reading from a prepared statement. “I can assure everyone in this room and the citizens of Carbondale I have not prejudged this project and this land use application in any way.”

He added that he would base his decision on the project wholly upon information that is part of the public record, not information he might have gleaned elsewhere.

But that statement did not appear to satisfy the developer, Rich Schierburg of the Denver-based Peregrine Group Development, who has asked Merriott to recuse himself, asserting that Merriott engaged in ex parte communication concerning the development.

Mark Grueskin, a lawyer for the developer, said his client would likely pursue legal action against the town.

“I really don’t make my life or my living threatening to go to court ... the momen-

tum of this announcement is going to leave people very little choice,” said Grueskin, who works for the Denver-based firm Rothgerber, Johnson and Lyons. “This applicant has authorized me to say not only will they take the matter to the next level for their own sake ... but because you simply do not sanction behavior where decisions are announced months before votes are made because that sends everyone … the wrong message.”

Grueskin was referring to statements made by Merriott in two episodes of the “Trustees’ Report,” which airs on Wednesdays on KDNK’s “Merle and Chameleon Show.” Quoting from recordings of the show, Grueskin argued that Merriott’s onair discussion of the development had been substantial, involving topics such as the new City Market grocery store, and the number of residential units, proposed for the project.

Grueskin also presented the following quote from Merriott: “What we really need to do is get a new grocery store and delay the rest of this project.”

Grueskin argued that statement indicated Merriott had prejudged the project.

“The goal, the decision, was to delay to project,” Grueskin said.

In an interview with The Sopris Sun, Merriott said the developer had taken his statements on the show out of context.

During Tuesday’s meeting, Merriott said he could not remember much of what had been said on the “Trustees’ Report” since

the town council began discussing the Village more than a year ago. He asserted that most of what was said on the radio show would probably have been discussed during the trustees’ meetings as well.

Hamilton, the town attorney, said he agreed with the developer that Merriott’s participation on the show constituted ex parte contact, but declined to speculate on how the town would fare in court.

If the developer does decide to take the issue to court, the lawsuit will probably come during a 30-day window after the trustees reach a decision on the project, Hamilton said.

Merriott has been the subject of scrutiny since a trustees’ meeting on March 1, when lawyers for the developer asserted he had compromised the integrity of the land use review process by discussing the Village on the “Trustees’ Report.”

Ex parte communication can occur when a trustee discusses a pending land use application outside of a noticed public hearing. Such conversations deny due process rights to the applicants and to any opponents of the application because they

cannot be present to hear, and potentially rebut, information given to the trustee. Ex parte contact can also create an appearance of bias for the trustee involved. When trustees discuss land use issues they are required to act as “quasi judges” and take certain precautions to maintain the appearance of impartiality.

Unlike conflicts of interest, the board of trustees cannot vote to recuse a trustee who has engaged in ex parte communication. According to a memo from town staff, the standard remedy in such situations is for a trustee to disclose the content of such communication so that it can be incorporated into the public record. However, in cases where the communication was exceptionally lengthy or detailed, a trustee may resolve the problem by recusing himself.

Although 15 episodes of the “Trustees’ Report” have coincided with trustes’ meetings in which the Village was discussed, town staff has been able to obtain only eight recordings of the show from KDNK. Six of those recordings were of shows that did not coincide with hearings on the Village.

Next Steps:

The Carbondale Town Trustees will again discuss the proposed Village at Crystal River Planned Unit Development during their meeting on May 24 at town hall, 511 Colorado Ave. For more information, call the town: 963-2733.

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Performance in the Park lineup slated The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities has announced a Performance in the Park series that includes everything from funk to jam band with a healthy dose of downhome Americana. The schedule is as follows: June 17, Smooth Money Gesture (jam band); July 4, Shannon McNally and Hotsauce (blues); July 10, Big Sam’s Funky Nation (New Orleans jazz); July 17, The New Familiars (American rock ’n’ roll); July 23, the Trishas (country/folks).

All concerts except the one on June 17 take place at Sopris Park (June 17 is at Fourth Street Plaza) at 7 p.m. Opening bands take the stage at 6 p.m. The concerts are free. For details, go to carbondalearts.com.

New farmer’s market There’s a new farmer’s market next to Crystal River Meats (on Fourth Street) on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

CMC production includes Sophie Sophie Sakson is included in the Colorado Mountain College production of the comedy “All in the Timing” April 28May 1. For details, check out this week’s Calendar section.

You might remember Sophie from a Sun feature about the Lottimer Brothers’ Vail filmfest short subject contest winner on April 14.

Art and gifts sale Jeanie Norris (of the Sweater Jeanie), Barbara Ulrych (of Barbara Sophia Designs) and ceramicist Joyce Webb are having a Mother’s Day sale at 19 Dakota Ct. from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on April. Dakota Court is located off Highway 82 between Cerise Ranch and Blue Lake. For details, call 876-0768.

Don’t forget The Crystal River Elementary School playground con-

struction project is under way through May 1. To volunteer, call 704-1745 (English) or 618-6785 (Spanish).

Mystery jet spotted, again That low-flying military-looking jet that has been spotted lumbering up and down the Roaring Fork and Crystal River valleys for several years was spotted south of Carbondale last week. If you happen to snap a picture of this mysterious aircraft, send it to news@soprissun.com and we’ll try to track down its origin.

Majid paints Denver Kahhak will paint live at the Jockeys, Juleps and Jazz Kentucky Derby party at Invesco Field in Denver at 2 p.m. on May 7. Proceeds benefit mylifeline.org.

Scher gets inked Fiber Arts magazine mentioned fiber artist Jill Scher in the “Acquisitions” section of its spring issue. The blurb includes a photo of Scher’s “Foundation Stones” that hangs in the Third Street Center and explains it honors those who donated funds to renovate the former Carbondale Elementary School. For more, go to fiberarts.com.

They say it’s your birthday Birthday greetings go out to Jeff Leahy (May 1), Kathy Goudy and Maura Masters (May 3), and Aaron Laemmel and Zoe Kimberly (May 4).

Mystery photo winner The winner of last week’s Mystery Photo contest is Cindy Hall, who was first to correctly point out the photo (a sign and wagon wheel) was taken on Rio Grande Lane at the north end of Second Street. Runner up honors go to Matthew Wampler, who provided a specific address – 175 Rio Grande Lane. Stay tuned for more Mystery Photos in the future.

Cassidy Cook (left), Macee Wilson and the rest of the students in Andrea Peña's Spanish class at Ross Montessori School celebrated spring by making cascarones. The confetti-filled eggs reportedly originated in Italy during the Renaissance before spreading through Europe and eventually to Mexico and the American Southwest. They are traditionally cracked over someone's head as a sign of affection during weddings, carnivals, Easter and other occassions.

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Around the West, dams slowly clogging with silt

By Matt Weiser/High Country News Gary Esslinger, manager of Elephant Butte Irrigation District in southern New Mexico, spends as much time moving silt as he does water. Elephant Butte Reservoir, built in 1915, is fed by the naturally muddy Rio Grande, which drains 28,000 square miles of easily eroded desert in two states. Sediment has claimed 600,000 acre-feet of its 2.6 million acre-foot capacity.“If I could create a bumper sticker,” Esslinger says wryly, “it would say, ‘Silt Happens.’”

The sediment clogs canals, pipelines and farm fields. It has filled 33 small flood control dams below Elephant Butte, effectively rendering them useless. The district – which supplies some 7,900 farmers – maintains a fleet of excavators, dozers and dumptrucks, but Esslinger is running out of places to move dirt. He encourages developers to haul it away for fill, but demand remains low. “It’s just going to become a bigger and bigger problem as these (dams) get older,” he says.

It’s a global conundrum: Dams slow the natural run of water, and slow water drops sediment to the bottom of reservoirs – eventually filling them. Yet the problem has received precious little attention over the years, and as a result, it’s not well understood.

A High Country News analysis of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation data – which offers the most recent, publicly accessible surveys for eight of 11 Western states – reveals that 35 reservoirs have lost some 4.6 million acre-feet of storage capacity to sedimenta-

or hydroelectric works, for sediment storage – a space often dubbed the reservoir’s “dead pool.” Once that space filled, the dam’s life The actual amount of storage lost is cer- was over.

Utah is one of the few Western states that tainly greater.The surveys examined by HCN cover less than 10 percent of the dams man- have even attempted to assess sedimentation.

In a March 2010 report, aged by BuRec. Thouthe state’s Department of sands more are Water Resources estioverseen by other agenmated that in 40 years, cies, from small irrigaUtah’s total storage cation reservoirs to giant pacity will have declined multipurpose reservoirs 25 percent. Its reservoirs owned by state agenlose about 12,340 acrecies. And many of feet a year to sedimentaBuRec’s surveys are altion, yet the state needs ready two decades old. about double that “(This) will be, in amount annually in adthe next 20 to 50 years, ditional supply to keep an extremely important up with population topic,” says Robert growth. The reservoirs Baskin, a hydrologist at Robert Baskin, USGS hydrologist “cannot be considered the U.S. Geological Surrenewable resources unvey's Utah Water Science Center. “The economic impact ... could less sedimentation is adequately addressed,” the report states. be dramatic.”

But Utah was able to find data for only 18 Engineers have been aware of the problem for centuries. A dam built in Spain in 1394 is of its 133 reservoirs larger than 1,000 acrestill operating because it was built with a gate feet. Nationally, the state of knowledge is at its base so sediment can be flushed out. equally poor. John Gray, a hydrologist at the Some modern dams, including the giant U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va., manThree Gorges Dam in China, incorporate ages the nation’s only large database on resersimilar systems. But American engineers, voir sedimentation, which includes surveys of while ingenious at storing and moving water, 1,824 large and small reservoirs across the essentially ignored sediment. They generally country compiled by the Soil Conservation set aside a certain percentage of each reser- Service, now the Natural Resources Conservoir’s volume, usually below its outlet gates vation Service.

tion. That’s about 8 percent of their total storage, or enough water to serve at least 9 million households.

This will be, in the next 20 to 50 years, an extremely important topic ...

The economic impact could be dramatic.

Most of the surveys are much older than BuRec’s and haven’t been updated in at least two decades; many were completed using crude techniques – measuring reservoir depth with weighted rope, or noting how much piano wire sank to the bottom from a boat crossing a known transect. As a result, it’s hard to know for sure how rapidly the nation’s reservoirs are filling, or how full they are.“We’re just not even the tip of the iceberg here,” Gray says. “We should be ... getting a lot more data on this, and where there are problems, start alerting those locations.

There’s time to address this.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided funding last year to help move the data to a more modern software platform. The data are available for public download, but are not searchable online. Gray hopes to obtain $1 million over four years to fix that, and to allow new surveys to be easily uploaded.

But it’s unclear where the money will come from, given the current budget crisis.

Meanwhile, BuRec has been plodding away making new surveys, says Ronald Ferrari, a Denver-based BuRec hydraulic engineer who oversees the agency’s sediment survey program, though many have not been added to the USGS database. Ferrari spends two to three months every year visiting reservoirs with a specially equipped boat, using GPS, multibeam sonar and lidar to render detailed profiles of their bottoms. It once took a team of six people five or six months to survey a massive reservoir like Lake Powell, on SILT HAPPENS page 15

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Obituaries Anna Fredericks July 4, 1915 March 31, 2011 Anna Agatha Fredericks, 95, passed away peacefully on March 31 at Glenwood Springs Harmony House where she had resided since July of 2010 after eight years in Carbondale.

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September 30, 1926 April 25, 2011 Lois Jane Fender passed away in the early morning hours of April 25 at her home at Windchime Assisted Living in Kingsland, Texas. She was 84.

Lois was born on Sept. 30, 1926, in Mead, Neb., to Lillian and Jerome Gartrell, an only child. After the loss of her parents, she went to live with two aunts, Hattie and Myrtle, in Omaha. Upon high school graduation, she moved to Denver to go to Presbyterian Nursing School. She then moved to Glenwood Springs where she worked as a nurse at the local hospital. She stayed in the Roaring Fork Valley, marrying and raising her three children on a small ranch with her former husband, Ray, a lifelong Carbondale resident.

Late in life, she moved to Grand Junction where she lived at Grand Villa Assisted Living and then to Kingsland, Texas, to be near her two daughters.

Throughout her life she held various nursing positions. In addition to Valley View Hospital, she worked at Glenn Valley Nursing Home in Glenwood Springs, the Pitkin County Public Health Department, and concluded her nursing career as a school nurse.

The many patients in her care benefited greatly from her God-given compassion and kindness. She poured herself into service for

sculpture, creating pieces in various media.

Her particular specialty was life-size portrait busts for which she earned awards in juried exhibitions.

Anna moved to Colorado from the east coast where she was known in art communities. In 2006 a bas-relief in cast stone by Anna was exhibited at the Aspen Art Museum.

Anna was an active member of Valley View Hospital’s prayer shawl knitting group, knitted warm hats for American soldiers in Afghanistan, and produced countless handmade items for the harvest festival of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

Anna is survived by her daughter Ruth Frey of Carbondale, her son Michael Fredericks, Jr. of Ghent, NY, and three grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband and three brothers.

others as wife, mother, nurse and friend.

Lois enjoyed working outdoors each summer raising a huge vegetable garden and planting annual and perennial flowers in her yard. She was also a fabulous cook, perhaps most famous for the dozens of fresh fruit pies and hundreds of canned fruits, jams, jellies and vegetables she put up each year to be shared with many around her table. Lois also took great pleasure in swimming and soaking in the natural springs of the Glenwood Springs pool year round and was an ardent Denver Broncos fan, sharing many televised games with her friend Helen. She even made a personal appearance at Mile High Stadium for her 75th birthday to see the Broncos play.

Lois is survived by her children Marlan (Paula) Fender of Phoenix, Ariz., Willa (Jim) Holgate of Highland Haven, Texas, and Kathy Fender of Austin, Texas. “We are so blessed to have had such a wonderful mom.

She was a perfect example of goodness always doing what was right and just. She put her love to work tirelessly putting others’ needs before her own and joyfully serving us and all those around her with a gentle, meek and humble spirit. She was deeply loved and will be missed by many.�

The memorial service for Lois will be held at Windchime Assisted Living on Saturday, April 30.

The family suggests donations, in lieu of flowers, be made in her memory to your local Salvation Army. And every time you hear the little bell jingling at Christmas, you can remember Lois and her heart as big as the state of Texas.

A Benefit for Phil Rosenberg Will be held on May 4, 2011 Opening men’s day event at River Valley Ranch The play will be a shotgun to start 12:30 P.M. All green fees are being generously donated

by River Valley Ranch Players not involved in the men’s day event are encouraged to create their own groups for this worthy cause.

Cost $50.00 per player.

Only cash or checks for the green fees, please.

For more information contact Jim Dallman @ 948-4419 Ken Garvik @ 379-9336

Letters continued om page 2 develop this dirty fuel before we understand its impacts, or if we should focus on cleaner energy sources for our future.

Please come to the hearing at CMC in Rifle on Tuesday, May 3, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. or 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and let them know that oil shale is not the clean energy that Colorado and the rest of the nation really need!

Your input is an important part of the planning process and the future of the West We can’t let them sell out our state to destructive industry before looking at these enormous impacts.

The BLM predicts that large scale development of oil shale alone could require up to 378,000 acre feet of water per year.This is 50 percent more water than the Denver metro area uses annually.

The BLM estimates that electricity needed to produce one million barrels per day would require 10 new coal-fired power plants, each with a capacity to power a city of 500,000 people.

Production of oil shale emits 23 percent to 73 percent more greenhouse gases than conventional liquid fuels from crude oil.

If you can’t make the hearing,the BLM welcomes comments at blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/oilshale_2/comments.html.

More info about the hearings: michael@ wildernessworkshop.org.

This is your chance to stand up for our right to clean air, clean water and a sustainable future.

Michael Gorman Wilderness Workshop

Bag fee by the numbers Dear Editor: Some of you have probably caught wind of an Aspen movement to place a fee on disposable, single-use paper and plastic bags.

Decision makers have asked other valley towns to weigh in on this topic to take advantage of regional momentum and consistent ordinance language. The foundation issue here is to reduce the customer service expectation of “free” plastic and paper bags.

So a fee is even a band-aid. Fact: Some people take the time to call grocery stores when free cookie samples are taken away. Globally, we need to stop sending plastic bags to the oceans. They do not disintegrate; they simply dissolve into minuscule plastic pieces eaten by sea animals. Do a Web search on Pacific Garbage Patch or watch the movie “Bag It” and it will make you take a step back. There are many layers to this onion, but as a point

of clarification: This is a fee and not a ban – yet. A ban is what would really get folks to pay attention, but a fee will create an income stream for the retailer and the town. The fee is tapping into some social nerves that some have about being told what to do. Yes, nobody likes to be told what to do, but this is truly the only way we are going to make change.

Now for the math part: This is a 20-cent fee per bag. Let’s say you have to buy even five disposable bags in a trip; this equals $1.

Once a week shopping, four times a month, 48 times a year and you are at $48. This is 12 lattes or microbrews, three concert tickets, seven packs of gourmet cigarettes, or one garage sale bike. You could buy four reusable bags for $48 and stick one in every nook and cranny to help you remember to take them in the store.

I realize it is difficult to remember. The Carbondale Food Co-op and Vitamin Cottage already do not offer disposable bags at the register. Use your bag, your arms, a box or a bike basket. Let’s keep the discussion going.

Jason White Carbondale

Thanks for the fertilizer Dear Editor: On behalf of the Carbondale Community Garden, I would like to thank Teresa and John Nieslanik for supplying their homegrown fertilizer again this year for the garden members. John very carefully selects the very best, seed-free material, and it sure helps us produce bumper crops each year. Gardening is such a satisfying hobby, watching carefully tended plants grow, and thanks to the organic matter the Nieslaniks provide, they grow so well. Thank you John and Teresa, from all of us green and not-so-green thumbs. We appreciate your kindness and generosity.

Fred Pulver Carbondale

Home sweet home Dear Editor: My family is back in Carbondale after spending two years and eight months out of the country. Thanks to all who helped to bring them back sooner. My family and I think that we are lucky to live in a town where people offer support when it is needed.

Thank you very much.

Rico Torres Carbondale

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Community Calendar THURS.-SUN. April 28-May 1 THeATRe • Colorado Mountain College presents five comedic acts from David Ives’ “All in the Timing” at the Spring Valley Campus between Glenwood Springs and Carbondale at 7 p.m. April 28-30 and 2 p.m. on May 1. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, seniors, staff and faculty, and can be reserved at 947-8177 or purchased at the door.

THURSDAY April 28 LIVe MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works presents My Countrymen (smooth jazz/ blues) at 8 p.m. There’s no cover.

LIVe MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Building presents Alexa Fitzpatrick. Comedian Beth Brandon is the opening act. Info: 963-3304.

FRI.-SAT. April 29-30 THeATRe • Colorado Rocky Mountain School presents “Frankenstein” at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 adults/$5 kids. Info: 963-2562.

INTRO TO KUNDALINI • Studio Sol hosts an introduction to Kundalini workshop Friday and Saturday. Info: wendya@ sopris.net.

FRIDAY April 29 MOVIeS • The Crystal Theatre presents “Win Win” (R) at 8 p.m. April 29 - May 5 and 5:45 p.m. May 1.

To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday. Events take place in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event listings, check out the Community Calendar online at soprissun.com.

LIVe MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works on Main Street presents Mile Markers. There’s no cover.

Center every Tuesday through May 17. The fee is $25 and scholarships are available.

Registration is required. Info: 963-1680.

LIVe MUSIC • Carnahan’s, located in the Dinkel Building, presents Sector 7G at 10 p.m.

WED.-THURS. May 4-5

SATURDAY April 30

SHeePDOG TRIALS • Strang Ranch on Missouri Heights hosts a sheepdog trial from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 4-5. The ranch is located at 393 County Road 102 (across from the Missouri Heights schoolhouse). The public is invited.

LIVe MUSIC • Carnahan’s in the Dinkel Building presents Jack High Ten at 10 p.m.

WEDS.-FRI. May 4-6

RIVeR CLeANUP • The Roaring Fork Conservancy holds its annual Fryingpan River Cleanup starting at Lions Park in Basalt at 8:30 a.m. There’ll be prizes for Best of Trash, Most Toxic, Most Useful and Most Unusual Trash. Info: 927-1290.

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ART • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities presents“Kids’ Art Show”featuring student art from Carbondale schools. The show opens at the Third Street Center from 5 to 7 p.m. and continues Tuesdays through Fridays from May 10-31. Info: 963-1680.

LIVe MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Building presents live music every Friday night. Info: 963-3304.

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May 7 TASTe OF SPRING • The Carbondale Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual Taste of Spring at the Church at Carbondale’s Gathering Center from 6 to 10 p.m. There’ll be food, drink, a silent auction, live painting

by Majid Kahhak and music from Mile Markers.Tickets are $50 in advance and $60 the day of the event. Info: 963-1890.

TUESDAY May 3 LIVe MUSIC • Carnahan’s in the Dinkel Building presents Greg Masse at 10 p.m.

PAINTING CLASSeS • Senior Matters and the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities have teamed up to offer acrylics painting classes to seniors at the Third Street

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combines Dandelion Day with Arbor Day with a parade and events at Sopris Park. Volunteers can sign up at g.Suzanne@rocketmail.com.

May 8 MOTHeR’S DAY MILe • Registration is now open for the Mother’s Day Mile, scheduled for Glenwood Springs on May 8 at 1 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Advocate Safehouse project. Cost is $15 per person or $55 per family. Info: advocatesafehouse.org.

May 10-11 DANCe • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities presents the Denver-based Zikr Dance Ensemble at Thunder River Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for CCAH members at $25 for non-members. Reservations: 963-8681.

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LIVe MUSIC • White House pizza on Main Street presents Greg Giffler (South American reggae). Info: 704-9400.

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Local retail on the move continued om page 1 member Sounds Easy and feel comfortable in the spot. There’s a great view of Mt. Sopris and with windows on the east and south sides, “there’s lots of natural light.”

Hamilton grew up in the Roaring Fork Valley and loves to ski, snowboard, kayak, bike, hike and explore the outdoors. She graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont in 2007 with a BA in environmental science and Spanish.

Hamilton said her mom and dad, Ruthie Brown and Al Bayer, have been supportive, as well as the Carbondale community as a whole.“It’s been amazing … everyone is really excited about the store.”

Independence Run & Hike After a stint with Adidas America Inc. in Portland, Oregon, then selling advertising for Channel 16 in Aspen, and managing Ute Mountaineer in Aspen, Brion After opened Independence Run & Hike in the Cowen Center at the north end of Carbondale in August 2006.

After, who graduated from college with a BA in business/political science, said the Adidas job and advertising sales didn’t appeal to him. Years before, someone told him he’ll know he’s moving in the right career direction when he wants his boss’s job.

When he realized he wanted to own his own outdoor store, After settled on Carbondale.

Independence Run & Hike is the valley’s only running store and also sells other outdoor apparel and gear. After said “it’s been

a wild five years.” He said after opening he was surprised at the number of runners in the Roaring Fork Valley. Business was good when the local economy was growing, but “all of a sudden” sales started to drop. “It’s been a roller coaster.”

In the past two years, some loyal customers have moved away and “fewer customers mean fewer sales.” After looked at his sales figures and knew something had to change. The change turned out to be moving from the Cowen Center to a less expensive but slightly smaller space next to Dos Gringos burritos in La Fontana.

The move should increase foot traffic for the store due to its location between Dos Gringos and Aloha Bike & Sport, and proximity to Ajax bikes across Highway 133. Independence Run & Hike hosts group runs every Saturday “rain or shine” and also special events, such as the one for women slated for May 12. There’ll be two speakers, catered food from Eco-Goddess, massages and goodie bags for the first 50 people to sign up. At last year’s similar event, After expected 25 people and ended up with 100. “That’s a lot.”

After points to the energy created by the Green Is the New Black fashion show, Mountain Fair and other events, and said one key to his strategy is community involvement. “That’s what we like to see.”

Crystal Fly Shop & Outdoors Owner David Johnson has added “outdoors” to his store’s name following his

move next door to Dominos pizza in Crystal Plaza. The expanded name comes because the larger space will allow for more retail offerings.

“We outgrew our old location (on Main Street next to Fatbelly burgers,)” Johnson said.

Johnson, a long-time Roaring Fork Valley fishing guide, first opened Crystal Fly Shop to book guide trips on local rivers. He started selling reels, flies and related angling gear and over the years that side of the business started picking up. “I never planned it (to grow),” he said.

Part of the shop’s success comes from offering alot of mid-priced items rather than focusing on high-end fishing gear. “We also offer good customer service,” Johnson said.

“There’s no pressure to ‘upsell’ them.”

Crystal Fly Shop & Outdoors is supported by a broad clientele, Johnson said.

His market ranges from local working-class anglers who don’t have a lot of money to spend, to second homeowners from River Valley Ranch and Aspen Glen, and a strong following from Denver. “It’s extremely mixed,” he said. “We’re a little less expensive than upvalley shops.” The shop casts a “broad net,” Johnson said,“which certainly seems to help us.”

Johnson also credits manager Wolf Scheibleerg for much of the store’s success.

Crystal Fly Shop & Outdoors is open in its new location but it still waiting for its new sign. A grand reopening is scheduled for mid-May.

lulubelle lulubelle Clothing owner Lindsey Cynoski celebrates her store’s first anniversary with live music and a fashion show on May 6. “The first year has gone very well,” she said.

The boutique’s Website at lulubellecarbondale.com says the store offers “high quality designers at an affordable price.”

Those 18 designers include Kensie, Sanctuary and 7 for Mankind. lulubelle is located at 320 Main Street between Hestia and Roadside Gallery.

Cynoski, a Boulder native, moved to the Roaring Fork Valley with her CPA husband Ryan in 2006 so she could work for a local developer. When the recession arrived and her employer took a hit, Cynoski turned her sights to opening a women’s store.

“My husband and I just really believe in the community,” she told The Sopris Sun last April. “It’s so alive and vibrant.”

Cynoski said customers often comment about her reasonable prices. “That (the prices) resonates really well.”

Cynoski lives near her store and rides her bike to work. She often ducks around the corner to grab a gluten-free muffin at Grana.

In the morning when she comes to work, Cynoski sometimes has to wipe nose prints off the windows from people who have peeked into the store the night before.

“It’s been a great first year,” she said.

“The community support has been great and we’re thankful for that support.”

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Community Briefs Students help organize benefit Roaring Fork High School students are helping organize a benefit for earthquake victims in Japan and New Zealand. The benefit features youth musicians of the Roaring Fork Valley with special guests Bobby Mason & Friends, Derek Brown & Friends, and the Defiance String Band. The event takes place at Roaring Fork High School at 7:30 p.m. on May 6.

Bring in those books Friends of the Gordon Cooper Library is accepting book donations for its spring book sale until May 3. Just bring ‘em to the library.

The spring book sale itself will run May 5-16 during regular library business hours. The Friends are also signing up volunteers for the sale at 963-2889.

Sipping lemonade for a cause The Buddy Program is taking part in National Lemonade Day and will operate stands at City Markets in El Jebel and Aspen on May 1. The day helps teach kids how to start and operate their own business. The Buddy Program pairs adult mentors with kids 6-18 years old and has operated out of Aspen since 1973.

Church at Carbondale changes name The Church at Carbondale has changed its name to “The Orchard,” according to a church press release. Pastor Doug Self said the name change establishes “each one of us as a fruitful tree in this Orchard, bearing bountiful fruit and bringing fellowship to others in

the community.”The Church at Carbondale, located at 110 Snowmass Drive, started in 1990 and held services for several years at Roaring Fork High School.The church eventually built a campus north of Crystal River Elementary School that includes the Gathering Center.

Childhelp offers classes The Childhelp River Bridge Advocacy Center presents “10 Things Every Parent Should Know to Protect Your Child from Sexual Abuse” at Carbondale Community School from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on May 3. For details, call 945-5195.

Deer management meetings slated The Colorado Division of Wildlife is asking for input regarding herd populations and management plans for Game Management Units 31 and 32. Meetings are scheduled for the De Beque Community Building (381 Minter Ave. in De Beque) from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 16 and the Grand Valley Fire Protection District Fire Station No. 1 (0124 Stone Quarry Road in Parachute) from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 17. For details, call (970) 255-6162.

Rep.wilson holds town hall meeting State Rep. Roger Wilson (D-Glenwood Springs) holds a town hall meeting at the Church at Redstone from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on April 30. The church is located on Redstone Boulevard. Wilson will also hold a meeting at Silt Town Hall from 9 to 10:30 a.m. the same day.

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Madison Handy, goalkeeper for the Roaring Fork girls’ soccer team, enjoyed a stretch with her teammates last week. As of The Sopris Sun’s press time on Wednesday, the Lady Rams had gone 2-8 in the season. They were slated to play Vail Christian at Roaring Fork on Thursday at 4 p.m. Photo by Trina Ortega

Carbondale Spring Clean-Up Day Día de Limpieza De Carbondale Saturday, May 14, 8 AM - 4 PM Sábado Mayo 14, 8AM a 4 PM Parking Lot across from Town Hall at Northeast corner of 4th St. and Colorado Ave. Estacionamiento Público Por la calle 4 y Colorado Junk, furniture, branches, appliances (refrigerators must be certified Freon free) Muebles, ramas, y aparatos (los refrigeradores deben ser libres de Freon) $10 per pick-up load ($20 for large load) In-Town Carbondale residents $10 por carga para residentes de Carbondale ($20 si la carga es grande) Tires $4 each/$10 large (llantas $4/grande $10) Rims must be removed (deben quitar los rines) $25 per pick-up load ($35 for large load) Residents outside Town limits $25 por camioneta ($35 si la carga es grande) Para personas fuera de Carbondale

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Foresight: e best way to fight a forest fire The fire season has started earlier than ever At that time 50 firefighters, many of whom this year with human-caused wildfires burn- were my friends, were still missing. Later our ing homes on the Front Range while we expe- local fire team would have to deal with the rience spring snow locally. agony and heartbreak of losing But we are only a few 14 men and women that day. months away from the There are other fires seared summer thunderstorms into my memory, times when that bring lightning-caused getting people out of harm’s way fires to our Western Slope. was no easy task.

Will we be lucky enough One fire near Norwood was to avoid being driven from giving us lots of trouble as it our homes by mandatory burned mile after mile of heavy evacuations? I wouldn’t bet timber. It was headed straight for on it. Not if we have our fire camp.Air attack directed learned anything from past the lead plane to bring in load wildfire seasons. after load of retardant on the As a member of an inciedge of the clearing to buy time dent management team while firefighters scurried to that is called to help manmove camp to a safe place.

By Bill Kight age large wildland fires, I In the midst of the chaos the have had to evacuate my family twice in the incident commander and me, as safety officer, last two decades. The first time was in 1994 were manning a roadblock to keep the public when the fire the media named“Storm King” from re-entering the forest where private cabthreatened to wipe out much of West Glen- ins were scattered among the tall pine trees. wood Springs.

Before we could stop him, a man in his car I will never forget standing on the deck raced around the blockade headed straight for gathering our family together to leave.Amber, his little piece of heaven in the woods, a small too young to know what was happening, had mobile home 100 yards down the road. We a stuffed animal in her arms. Shandra wasn’t both ran as fast as we could to try and stop him. leaving without her pillow.

The noise of the fast approaching wall of My wife Linn asked me what she should flames sounded like an express train bound take with her. I looked down at my daughters for glory. We were on the heels of this crazy then glanced at the house for what could have man yelling for him to get out as he made it been the last time and I replied,“Nothing.We through the front door. We grabbed him and have all that really matters here with us safe.” headed for safety. He broke free and stood in

the middle of the room frozen like a deer in the headlights.

Then he made a choice to grab something important to save on his way out the door.

He chose a $19.99 K-Mart blue light special – his radio.

If you live in the woods don’t be foolish and unprepared this summer. Be your own rescuer. Have all your priceless photos scanned and saved with any important papers in a small fireproof file box. Keep it and a bag packed with a few essentials close to the front door.

Do your part by being Firewise. Call your

local fire department or fire district. They will point you in the right direction to help prepare your property for wildfire.

Visit one of the many Firewise Websites available: firewise.org and csfs.colostate.edu/ pages/are-you-firewise-program.html.

Be prepared. Don’t put firefighters in danger thinking it can’t happen to you.

Bill Kight has spent over 30 years helping manage America’s public lands. He is currently community liaison for the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District and member of Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team A.

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The first dandelions of spring are hugging the ground at a few spots around town.

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Try some coffee on that steak There may be one or two more late thing is that the steaks don’t taste like coffee. snowfalls yet to come, but we’ve pretty well They just taste better, deeper, like a dry-aged entered spring, which means firing up those flavor without the gaminess. My customers outdoor grills after several months of loved them, and we rarely got a request for frozen idleness. a steak without the coffee You can grill just about rub. And no one complained anything, but the gold stanof any difficulty sleeping after dard is a big ol’ juicy steak. enjoying one.

I’m going to share one of my If you can’t find Turkish favorite discoveries, which coffee or similarly-ground became a signature item at espresso but have a grinder at my Texas restaurant. home, you can grind beans or For several years before regular coffee to a near-powgetting into the business, I dery degree in just a few secoccasionally read about cofonds. The grinders in the fee-rubbed steaks in restaucoffee sections of many grorant magazines. I never saw cery stores will also provide a a recipe or description of sufficiently fine grind. how this was done, but the We often judge doneness idea intrigued me. I didn’t of steaks by outside appeareven know whether they By Chef George Bohmfalk ance, among other things. We were talking about using like to see nice deep brownground-up beans or the brewed liquid. ing, or even a little char on the surface. This I decided to give it a try one summer consideration goes out the window with cofwhile filling in at a Middle Eastern chef fee-rubbed steaks, as they are black from the friend’s restaurant. He always had several get-go. You’ll either have to go with your bags of finely ground Turkish coffee on own experience, use the professional chefs’ hand, which I figured would be preferable “poke test,” or cheat and peek into the inteto coarser regular grind coffee. I mixed some rior to determine how long to cook these. salt, pepper, and garlic powder into a small I recommend the poke test, which is easmound of the Turkish coffee and rubbed a ier and more reliable than you might think. generous amount of this dry mixture on Before cooking a steak, poke it gently with both sides of filets and ribeyes right before your finger. It will be squishy and soft. Now slapping them on the grill. imagine what it would feel like to poke a The results were marvelous. The strange fully cooked chicken breast – pretty firm and

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resistant, right? Squishy and soft correspond to very rare (uncooked), and firm and resistant mean well done. You probably want something in between – somewhat soft, slightly resistant, medium rare to medium, pink and juicy in the middle. Every few minutes as your steak is cooking, give it a little poke. You’ll detect the changes from raw and squishy to the subsequent stages. Just let it go as long as you like.

Most professional chefs condemn the peek test, which involves either slicing into the steak or pulling its fibers apart in order to see how done it is. First, they feel that any chef worth his salt should be able to properly cook a steak without having to violate it for a visual. They are also concerned that opening up a steak might allow more of its juices to escape, which probably is not a real issue. And no one wants to find a big gash on a steak he’s paying the big bucks for in a fancy restaurant. But if you’d feel more confident taking a peek, go for it.

I’ve coffee-rubbed many other meats, including hamburger patties, pork tenderloin and lamb chops. The very lean pork tenderloin was the least successful, perhaps because a little fat is necessary to mix with the coffee to form a good tasty juice. I’ve also cooked these in a skillet, which works

just as well as a grill, for year-round coffee-meat pleasure.

Since coming up with my version of coffee-enhanced steaks, I have seen recipes that involve marinating steaks in a mixture of strong coffee and other flavorings. That might work just as well, but there doesn’t seem to be anything easier or quicker than coating a steak with my rub mixture right before cooking.

Recipe Notes:

Ingredients: steak, finely ground coffee, garlic powder

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the Colorado River. Now, two people can do it in two or three weeks, and they get far better data. Even so, the agency tackles just four or ďŹ ve a year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to have more of them completed,â&#x20AC;? Ferrari says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deďŹ nitely dictated by the allowable budgets.â&#x20AC;?

Southwestern reservoirs are generally surveyed more often because of known higher sedimentation rates in that region. The last full survey at Powell, however, was in 1986.

No new survey is planned, Ferrari says, because its sedimentation rate is considered low and because of budget constraints.

How quickly reservoirs ďŹ ll, and where, varies widely,but all are shrinking every day.Soil type and local geography and land use all play roles. And unexpected events, such as wildďŹ re in the watershed, can have huge consequences.

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Elephant Butte in New Mexico is an extreme example, with a 23 percent decline in capacity. Most others surveyed by HCN are ďŹ lling more slowly; McKay Reservoir near Pendleton, Ore., for example, has lost 2.6 percent of its capacity over 90 years. Yet even at slow rates, problems can emerge early, especially when exacerbated by drought or other factors.

Southern Montanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bighorn Lake has lost 3.9 percent of its capacity over 50 years.

The long, narrow reservoir stretches across the state line into Wyoming. For half of every year, cliffs and plateaus of sediment maroon a popular boat launch and marina in Lovell, Wyo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We no longer have a lake,â&#x20AC;? says Bob Croft, president of Friends of Bighorn Lake. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a river channel that has 18-foot

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The problem is aggravated by water releases at Yellow Tail Dam â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 30 miles north â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which serve a trout ďŹ shery below the dam.

This creates dramatic water-level changes around Lovell, which in turn cause sediment to settle out of the water there, rather than dispersing widely on the reservoir ďŹ&#x201A;oor.

Most large reservoirs have centuries to go, but small ones may have only decades, and many have already ďŹ lled completely. On the Stanford University campus in California, sediment has reached the brim of Searsville Dam. Meanwhile, the Matilija Dam on Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ventura River, which was built in 1948 for water supply and ďŹ&#x201A;ood control, now provides neither. A single storm in 1969 ďŹ lled 27 percent of the reservoir with sand and mud; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently 90 percent ďŹ lled with sediment. There is agreement to remove the

dam, but ďŹ nding a place to move the accumulated muck remains an obstacle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every reservoir is headed towards that condition, just at different rates,â&#x20AC;?says Baskin.

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