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VOLUME 2, NUMBER 17 • JUNE 17, 2010

Signs of life at The Third Street Center See page 14 for story and photos

Photos by Jane Bachrach

Can Carbondale be a bike Mecca?

Legislation to halt gas leasing

Time to renew a tax?

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Carbondale Commentary Letters

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

Thanks to the Sun Dear Editor: I want to thank The Sopris Sun and Six 89 for the excellent dinner my wife and I enjoyed at Six89 as we used a gift certificate I won there for my “First Snow on Sopris” photo. We celebrated our 32nd anniversary. Thanks for the contest.Thanks to Adam at Six89 for the great service and dinner.

John and Ingrid Seidel Carbondale

Sunshine on the Third St. Center Dear Editor: Thank you for the coverage that you have given and continue to give to The Third Street Center as it has evolved over the past several years. Trina Ortega’s front page story on the CCAH Center for the Arts, “Home at last,” in your June 10 issue is just one example of the fine reporting that The Sopris Sun provides on the dozens of non-profit organizations that make the Roaring Fork Valley such a caring and vibrant place to live.

The Sopris Sun is an outstanding model of community journalism. It strives not just to inform readers on the diverse activities that go on daily in the valley, but also to convey their meaning to us, as exemplified by Trina’s story on CCAH’s new home.

On behalf of the Board of Directors, I extend a cordial invitation to the entire community to join us at the Grand Opening Celebration of the Third Street Center, this Saturday, 4 to 9 p.m., at the center, 520 S. Third St., Carbondale. The Grand Opening will mark the culmination of years of effort on the part of many. We invite you to celebrate with us and join us in honoring all those who helped make the Third Street Center a reality.

Richard Fuller President Third Street Center Board of Directors

Act nice or hit the trail Dear Editor: First of all, we would like the thank all of the contestants and spectators for a very successful first two rodeos of the 2010 season!

Secondly, we would like to especially thank the volunteers who freely give of their time every week to make the rodeo series possible.

Without the volunteers, there would be no rodeo in Carbondale. This brings us to the point of this letter.

It seems that there is a small group of people in this valley that believes that everything should be free for them. Consequently, they feel compelled to give the gate volunteers a very difficult time every single week. These people feel that it is necessary to cuss and scream at the volunteers, all because they don’t think they should have to pay to enter the rodeo. It costs thousands of dollars to put on every week. We pay for stock (bulls, horses, steers, calves, sheep), the announcer and two pick-up men on horses. We pay an arena director, a rodeo secretary, two judges and timers. We have spent thousands on arena improvements. We pay out the winnings to contestants … Are you getting the picture? It’s not free!

Because of the behavior of a minority, we are finding it very difficult to even get gate help because the volunteers are sick and tired of the rude, belligerent behavior they must put up with every week at the gate as they try to do their job. We, as the rodeo committee, will no longer tolerate this type of behavior. So, in the future, if you plan to argue with any volunteer over whether or not you must pay to enter, you will be turned around at the gate by security and directed to leave and not come back.

We are a non-profit organization run by volunteers and we give out thousands of dollars in scholarships, donations to nonprofits and so on at the end of the year. We must have volunteers to make this a success.

We will not stand by and let a small group

ruin this for everyone.

It’s cheap entertainment. Pay your money, be nice to the person collecting it and go have a great time every Thursday evening, rain or shine.

Thank you, and please help us enjoy a great rodeo season in 2010!

Board of Directors Carbondale Wild West Rodeo Association

A downtown jewel Dear Editor: I was saddened to read of the possible closing of a wonderful part of downtown Carbondale: The Artists’ Collective. This store offers so much to the customer: delightful cards, interesting accessories, gifts of all types (including for mothers to be and new mothers), reasonable prices and the best toy selection in the state! In addition, Ms. Bingham and her associates are friendly, eager to please and they gift wrap with no additional cost.

The Artists’ Collective is a great reason to shop downtown Carbondale. I am not sure another brew pub, market, “medical cannabis dispensary” or empty storefront on Main Street would bring people to shop downtown Carbondale.

In an age when shopping has quickly become a very non-personal experience due to the Internet, catalogs, voicemail, call forwarding, etc., it is a very genuine pleasure to shop at The Artists’ Collective, where Ms. Bingham goes out of her way to make a visit to her store one of confidence, pleasure, competence and care. Her attitude, her willingness to help and go the extra mile makes a visit one of joy, expedience and fulfillment.

What more could any customer ask?

I hope the owners of the Artists’ Collective building will rethink their decision.

If that is not possible, I hope a really smart landlord will recognize the jewel and draw that is the Artists’ Collective and offer it a prominent location in downtown Carbondale.

Janet Johnson Carbondale

Arrow Sign & Design still kicking Dear Editor: Rumors have been spreading that Arrow Sign and Design is no longer in business and I want to clarify that this is not true. Arrow Sign and Design is alive and well, they have just relocated to Carbondale.

Their new address is 524 Highway 133 across from American National Bank. Yes, their old location is empty, but their business is thriving and as one of their loyal customers, I wanted to stop the hearsay and set the record straight. They will be fully functional in their new space by June 15 and their phone number remains the same.

Congratulations on becoming a part of the Carbondale community to Carlos and his great staff.

Wewer Keohane Carbondale

Stop cussing at the rodeo volunteers Lynette O'Kane multitasking in the Sea of Cortez. Courtesy photo 2 • THE SOPRIS SUN • JUNE 17, 2010

Editor’s Note: This letter was originally addressed to patrons of the Carbondale rodeo.

Dear Editor: Patron behavior by some individuals at

our entrance gates is very disturbing. What has happened to the people of this valley? Do you not feel the need to pay your own way?

So much so that you go to the extent of using foul language towards the volunteers taking the entrance fee?

Are you aware that this rodeo you all enjoy is run solely by volunteers who donate a minimum of two to seven hours of their personal time each Thursday? Most of them have already put in eight hours at their fulltime jobs. I am the volunteer administrator and the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo Association secretary. I too volunteer my time to the rodeo.

The gate volunteers are being harassed by rude, belligerent, foul spoken patrons, individuals not wanting to pay the $8 admission fee or the $25 carload fee to attend the rodeo. Without the admission fee, this rodeo will not happen!

If you have an issue paying the entry fee, why don’t you volunteer your time? We are in need of volunteers and appreciate all the help we can get. Giving back to your community can have great rewards. Meet new people while enjoying this old fashioned, hometown event.

Rodeo News has placed the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo series as one of the top 14 rodeos to see this summer. Many people come to vacation and visit our beautiful valley and they have been told that the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo is a must-see event where they can interact with the locals and be part of a wonderful, feel good, small-town time!

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A Bonedale bike Mecca Can Carbondale become a cycling holy land — and should it?

By Trina Ortega The Sopris Sun Recent headlines have touted Carbondale as a cycling Mecca, sparking the interest of some local businesses and outdoor enthusiasts. Cashing in on a clean, tourism-related future such as cycling seems like a no-brainer. But the idea also raises a question: Is the town ready to be –– and does it want to be –– the next Moab, Fruita or Crested Butte?

Some locals, including the owner of a cycling shop, simply say no.

Nick Degross, co-owner of Aloha Mountain Cyclery, says Carbondale stands to be a special place for cyclists but not for vacationers passing through.

“Establishing Carbondale as a cycling-friendly community? I think that’s something every town our size or larger should support. … But as a bike Mecca, I disagree,” Degross said.

Nor is cyclist Chris Bebee, who serves on both the Red Hill Council and a Bureau of Land Management planning advisory group, convinced that becoming a mini-Moab is the right type of growth for Carbondale.

“In the 15 years I’ve been going to Fruita, the only thing that’s improved is the south side of the highway,” said Beebe of the high desert town 100 miles to the west of Carbondale. “The downtown still has failed businesses, and the growth on the south side of the highway is national food chains and national hotel chains. I don’t think it’s going to sustain the people who live in Carbondale.”

Finally, tourism critics and supporters alike agree that Carbondale lacks an infrastructure of trails and roads and a variety of places for travelers to sleep.

As BLM employee Brian Hopkins put it, “When you invite people to an area, you have to have the amenities to accommodate them.”

Bonedale loves bicycles The community is committed to promoting cycling as a means of transportation. From the Stomparillaz bike crew with its funky art bikes and spirited full moon cruiser rides, to Daryl Fuller, who oversees Colorado Rocky Mountain School’s bike program and is pushing to establish Carbondale as a leading national bicycle friendly community, the

people who saddle up for a two-wheeled commute every day, Bonedale loves bikes.

The town has invested resources and acquired nearly $300,000 in grant funding for paved bicycling routes, such as the Rio Grande and Crystal River trails and other paths in town. And BLM land on Red Hill and The Crown are highlighted by the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, as well as in the June 6 issue of the Aspen Times Weekly, as premier destinations for mountain biking.

Yet it’s the popularity of those BLM areas that is pushing some to question whether Carbondale has the capacity to be the region’s next cycling destination.

Carbondale can never be like Moab or Fruita for at least one basic reason, Degross says — the town does not have the same vast amounts of contiguous public land. Moab is considered a mountain biking Mecca not so much for its single-track as for its scenery, slickrock and endless miles of 4-wheel-drive routes that are a playground for cyclists, too, he claims.

Red Hill a problem Hopkins, who has served as a BLM community planner, explains that when Red Hill was formally established in 1999-2000, it was determined by the agency and the town of Carbondale that it would be managed as a “community area” for locals.

As a result, the BLM did not consider upgrades to parking (to name one issue) for the 3,000-acre property. The public land forms a rough donut shape through the juniper, piñon and sage above Carbondale and is virtually surrounded by private land.

The parking lot along Highway 82 is a known problem, typically overflowing with commuters and recreationists from up and down the valley. The trash receptacles at the trailhead often are overflowing, dog-owners leave pet waste along the trail, and foot and bike traffic on the stretch of road from the parking lot to the trailhead has become a safety concern for drivers.

“Red Hill Council is strained. You have a handful of people [the Red Hill Council] doing the best they can … but there’s no solution to the ongoing problems,”Hopkins admitted. “Red Hill was just not designed as a tourist destination.”

A sign of things to come? Carbondale may not be suitable for a cycling Mecca, but some folks think last weekend's Rocky Mountain Omnium is just the sort of event the town should try to attract. Photo by Lynn Burton “If a town or county wants to market BLM lands and do it through mountain biking, then what does it mean to our management?” he asked.

The BLM is currently revising its management strategies for The Crown and other areas.

Hopkins said one option for The Crown is to leave it as is: open to hikers and runners, dirt bikers and 4-wheelers, mountain bikers, hunters, and ranchers who graze cattle.

But the BLM is also drawing up three other alternatives for the 9,000 acres of land, including one scenario that would close off the area to motorized use and cater to mountain bikers. It would mean additional trails and formalized camping. Establishing other nearby BLM-owned properties BIKE MECCA page 17

Thompson Coalition drafts bill to prevent gas leasing west of town

By Terray Sylvester The Sopris Sun A local group has drawn up draft legislation that would prevent more natural gas leases from being issued in the Thompson Divide area west of Carbondale.

The Thompson Divide Coalition describes the bill as an important step, but also as just one of the first steps in its larger effort to stave off oil and gas development on roughly 220,000 acres that stretch from north of Sunlight ski resort to south of McClure Pass, mostly in the hills to the west of Highway 133.

In its current form, the bill would prevent the Bureau of Land Management from issuing new leases for mineral development in the area, said Jock Jacober, president of the coalition’s board of directors.

That means that no natural gas development could occur on roughly 110,000 acres of the coalition’s focus area that have not yet been leased to gas drilling, according to Peter Hart a lawyer working with the coalition.

The bill would have less effect on the rest of the acreage in the Thompson Divide area, where 81 leases already exist. However, if the bill becomes law it would require the BLM to retire any leases that lapse in that area, Jacober explained. Typically, a gas lease will sunset after 10 years if the leaseholder does not make a certain minimum amount of progress toward developing it, Jacober said, noting that a significant portion of the leases in the Thompson Divide area were issued between 2000 and 2003, and will retire in the next few years unless the leaseholders take steps to pre-

serve their claims.

But aside from the retirement provision, the bill is not intended to address the existing leases. That work is still to come, Jacober said, and will require the coalition to work directly with the roughly 12 gas companies in the area to figure out methods for the companies to sell, donate or exchange their leases. Leaseholders in the Thompson Divide area include Encana, SG Interests, Chevron, Gunnison Energy, Falcon Seaboard and others.

The bill is “the first prong of the [coalition’s] strategy, really,” Hart said. “If you think of these leases like a wound, first you’ve got to stop the bleeding then you’ve got to deal with the wound. So this is stopping the bleeding.This is to ensure that no additional leasing is going to transpire. The next step is actually to cure the problem.”

Jacober said the coalition is aiming to have the bill on Rep. John Salazar’s desk by the end of the month. Meanwhile, to gather support for the bill, the coalition is soliciting comments from affected counties and towns, gas companies, the BLM and the Forest Service, community groups and other stakeholders.

The coalition will hold a meeting with those stakeholders tomorrow, Friday, in Carbondale Town Hall.

Judy Fox-Perry, who sits on the board of the coalition, called the meeting “very significant.” “We’ve been talking to all these entities for over a year and a half,” she said,“but this is the first time we’re actually bringing them together to see where the goal alignment is.”

Fox-Perry said the coalition is also planning a community meeting in the coming weeks.

The Thompson Divide Coalition was founded in November 2008 to protect from gas development the Thompson and Four Mile watersheds and portions of the Muddy Basin, Coal Basin and the headwaters of East Divide Creek. That area spans portions of Pitkin, Gunnison, Garfield, Mesa and Delta counties. The majority of the leases in the area are undeveloped, and the coalition is concerned that future development will pollute water resources in the area, disrupt ecosystems, and destroy ranching and recreational values.

The coalition has been forced to adjust since its campaign director, Lisa Moreno, left the organization in early May. The Sopris Sun reported at the time that the coalition had $59 in its bank account.

Fox-Perry said the coalition’s finances are currently in somewhat better shape. The coalition is raising funds toward a matching grant of up to $75,000. So far the coalition has raised about $40,000 in a number of smaller donations, including about $14,000 in ticket sales for a fundraiser planned at Carbondale’s Wild West Rodeo on July 1.

Next Steps:

The Thompson Divide Coalition is raising funds by selling spaces to park a trailer at the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo on July 1. For $1,000 the coalition provides a spot for a tailgate party, 10 individual tickets to the rodeo and 10 meals. For more information on the rodeo fundraiser and the Thompson Divide Coalition, email info@savethompsondivide.org, or call 355-4223.

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News Briefs

Cop Shop

The Weekly News Brief The Sopris Sun and the KDNK news department team to discuss recent news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond. Catch the Brief on KDNK at 6:50 a.m., 7:50 a.m. and at 5:50 p.m. on Thursdays, or online at KDNK.org.

Body found near County Road 100 The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a body found at the intersection of Lion’s Ridge Road and County Road 100 yesterday, June 16.

Sheriff’s department spokeswoman Tanny McGinnis said the Sherriff’s Office received a report of a possible gunshot victim just before noon, yesterday. She said that all unattended deaths are initially investigated as homicides. As of The Sopris Sun’s press deadline yesterday evening the Sheriff’s Office had released no further details pending a Coroner’s report.

dle of a road. But only approach the animal to get it to move, don’t touch it. The mother will find it later.

Bike Express back in service After a one-year hiatus, the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority’s bike express is re-

turning to service on weekends through the summer season. Starting June 19, the Bike Express will run Saturdays and Sundays through Sept. 5.

The cost to take a bike on the bus is $2 each way. Check rfta.com for a schedule and a list of stops.

Leave young wildlife alone This is the time of year when many species of Colorado wildlife are giving birth. It’s also the time when people often see young wildlife alone on trails, in the woods or next to roads.

As tempting as it might be to “help” a young animal by picking it up or offering it food, the Colorado Division of Wildlife is reminding people not to approach, touch or handle young animals.

Every year people pick up young animals such as deer fawns, elk calves, small mammals or birds and then call the DOW asking what needs to be done to “save” the animal.

Unfortunately, if a young animal is handled it will likely die without the nourishment its mother provides. The only time the DOW suggests moving an animal is if it’s in the mid-

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A signature for the species: Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law the Wildlife Crossing Zones and Traffic Safety Act on June 9. Carbondalian Frosty Merriott (far right) was instrumental in shaping the bill. Representatives of the Colorado Division of Wildlife, Colorado Department of Transportation, the Center for Native Ecosystems and the Western Environmental Law Center were on hand for the signing, as well as State Sen. Gail Schwartz, D-Snowmass Village (front left), and State Rep. Kathleen Curry, Gunnison, (second from right). The bill gives CDOT authority to created up to 100 miles of special wildlife crossing zones Courtesy photo

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

THURSDAY June 10 At 12:39 a.m.

Carbondale police summonsed a resident of Cleveland Place for harassment.

THURSDAY June 10 At 11:40 a.m. two women said they watched a small red car back up in the parking lot of the Gordon Cooper Library and hit a woman. The car allegedly sped away and the woman picked herself up off the ground then walked away limping. Police have been unable to find the driver.

THURSDAY June 10 At 11:49 a.m. a woman reported a beaver in her backyard on Rock Court. The police told her they had loaned a live trap to her neighbor the day before for the same problem, and suggested she borrow the trap from her neighbor.

THURSDAY June 10 At 2:55 p.m. Carbondale police assisted Pitkin County Sheriff’s officers with an assault at the Redstone Inn. THURSDAY June 10 At 10:15 p.m. someone reported two gunshots on South Second Street. The police decided it was probably just fireworks.

THURSDAY June 10 At 11:15 p.m. the police picked up a yelling, intoxicated woman at The Pour House and gave her a ride home. Her husband reportedly said she just needed some sleep.

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Town mill levy may end up on November ballot

By Terray Sylvester The Sopris Sun Over the next month or so the Carbondale town trustees will try to figure out what to do with a property tax that has been helping the town pay for capital improvements for 11 years.

The 1.5 mill levy is set to expire at the end of the year, leaving the trustees wondering whether to ask voters to renew it in the coming November election. It was approved in 1999 to pay for “streetscape” improvements on Main Street, including crosswalks and landscaping that are now in place and construction planned for the Snowmass Drive/Main Street intersection in September.

A 1.5 mill levy works out to roughly $63 per year on a $500,000 home, or about $225 on a commercial property of the same value, said Town Manager Tom Baker. With property values at their current level, the mill levy would send about $175,000 to the town each year.

If the voters approved the tax again, the revenue could be put toward capital projects as they have in the past. But at a work session on Tuesday the trustees floated other options as well.

Trustee Frosty Merriott said he thought the town should consider asking the voters to renew the 1.5 mill levy –– or increase it –– in order to buffer Carbondale against potential economic turmoil in the future. Merriott speculated that a “double dip” recession could cause the town’s sales tax revenue to

“We have a lot of work ahead of us either way, but there is a huge need.

So I think this is a very serious thing we’ll be grappling with.”

Stacey Bernot Carbondale mayor plummet past the roughly 15 percent drop it has taken since the recession took hold in early 2008.

“I think we ought to keep a little bit of a global perspective on how that may affect our town,” Merriott said. “The 1.5 mill I look at is more of a diversification of our income than anything.”

But Merriott and other trustees recognized that with voters already reeling from the recession, and from a county appraisal schedule that has left them paying more property tax even while their properties have declined in value, the town would have to play its cards carefully to get the voters to approve added taxes.

“I don’t think we stand a chance with the voters with any vagueness,” said Mayor Stacey Bernot, stressing that if the trustees decide the money should go to capital improve-

ments they should tell the voters precisely what projects would be on the to-do list.

Bernot reminded the board that voters may be skeptical of another mill levy. In 1999, she said, the streetscape levy was approved by just a few votes, and some of the resulting projects––such as the “bulbouts” on Main Street –– met with derision from some residents.

But with the town strapped for funds and capital improvement projects likely to pile up in the near future, the mill levy may not be such a laughing matter.

Baker told the Sun that the town doesn’t have a dedicated fund for capital improvements. Before the recession, as Carbondale’s sales tax and other revenues were ballooning, he said the town had been able to divert some of its general fund in that direction. Town staff have identified about $2.73 million –– most of it from the general fund –– that the town could potentially now put toward capital improvements without tapping another mill levy. But on Tuesday some of the trustees seemed reluctant to dip into those reserves.

As an alternative, the trustees could get creative. A transportation impact fee imposed on development, special taxing districts, selling town assets and renewing the mill levy could all be options, Baker said.

Meanwhile a memo from town staff describes a roughly $21 million wish list of potential projects, which includes a number of infrastructure upgrades to help the town

adapt as it grows. About $7 million of those projects are identified as promoting safety or protecting existing infrastructure, such as a roundabout or stoplight at the intersection of Snowmass Drive and Highway 133, traffic-calming retrofits on Cowen Drive and Second Street, and projects to resurface roads or improve drainage systems around town.

“We have a lot of work ahead of us either way, but there is a huge need,” Bernot said.

“So I think this is a very serious thing we’ll be grappling with.”

Baker told the Sun that the timeline for many of the projects is uncertain; it depends on how quickly, and where, the town grows.

Town staff Tuesday night urged the board to begin prioritizing the projects around town, and to eventually draw up a five-year “capital improvement plan.” Such a plan could be tied to a request for a mill levy extension to help the voters understand what they’d be paying for, Baker told the trustees.

Baker said that if the trustees want a mill levy on the November ballot, they’ll have to let town staff know by early August.

Next Steps:

The Carbondale Town Trustees are scheduled to discuss a mill levy and other potential funding options for capital improvement projects at their meeting at 6:30 p.m., July 20, at town hall, 511 Colorado Ave.

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Join us at the Carbondale Rodeo on July 1st, for a

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THOMPSON DIVIDE COALITION Fundraising Extravaganza!

Carbondale’s Jacques Houot caught up with seven-time Olympian Jeannie Longo at the Street Fight Criterium bicycle race on Main Street on Saturday. Longo, who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, has won four Olympic medals and 56 world cycling titles — she was also the fastest woman at Rocky Mountain Omnium over the weekend (See page 18). Photo by John Baker

Ridin’ into the big time

You don’t even have to sneak in!

If you haven’t caught Carbondale’s Wild West Rodeo, you should probably saddle up and head over there, and if you have gone, you should probably go again: American Cowboy magazine named our rodeo one of their favorite rodeos in the nation. Yippee!

The Backdoor Consignment Store is open seven days a week, and on Saturday, June 26, one of its owners, Monk Burkmier, will hold a party to celebrate the store’s one-year anniversary, his 66th birthday and Lobsterfest. As if that isn’t enough excitement, on Saturday and Sunday everything in the store will be 10 percent off, and Monk is going to donate 10 percent of all sales to The Sopris Sun. Thanks, Monk. The Sun will shine on you all weekend!

Roller Derby?

For a $1,000 donation you can purchase a trailer space arena side that includes 10 entry tickets and 10 hamburger meals from our own locally raised, 100% grass-fed beef.

Spaces are going quickly! Please call 970-355-4223 or email info@savethompsondivide.org to reserve your place.

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Thompson Divide Coalition is commited to protecting our home, our watershed, our livelihood. www.savethompsondivide.org 6 • THE SOPRIS SUN • JUNE 17, 2010

You heard it here first, folks. Because Scuttlbutt is so rich in specialized investigators our underground roller derby specialist, Whipper Round, told us there is a startup roller derby league being formed right here in the valley called the RFRD — the Roaring Fork Roller Derby.

The group will practice on Mondays from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Glenwood Springs recreation center. For more info you can email Gena or Paula at roaringforkrollerderby@yahoo.com.

Keep an eye on Scuttlebutt for more from Whipper Round.

Dog park update If you are heading down to Delaney Park with your dog, watch where you step. The Sopris Sun’s scatologist informed us that “tall grass turding conditions” currently exist in the park, and as we all know, that can be dangerous. Our scatologist recommends that if you find a turd, any turd, pick it up even if it’s not yours or your dog’s, because in these conditions they’re quite hard to spot and you never know if you will be the next victim. It is also recommended that you double bag the turds.

High tea or high fashion According to our fashion operative, who also happens to be an expert tea taster, the first High Tea/Fashion Show hosted by the Carbondale Community United Methodist Church was a success.

The event was a fundraiser for the church’s new garden. The bounty from that garden will be offered to Lift-Up for distribution to the needy. There were 64 ladies in attendance that showed up adorned in their finest. Sounds like this is high on the list of possibilities for annual events.

The Potato Princess According to our undercover snoop on the Aspen social scene, The Sopris Sun’s own Potato Princess, who so gracefully adorned our Potato Day cover last year, will become our Potato Queen this Sunday.

Former Carbondalian and Potato Princess, Gina Guarascio, is gittin’ hitched to Aspenite Jerry Murdoch in a big to-do in Aspen.

Congratulations, love and peace to the newlyweds to be. We’re guessing she’ll be a fried potato queen on Monday.

A time of transition As we transition from the time of the nervous, cunning and superficial Gemini twins to the moody, touchy and clinging crabs of Cancer, we would like to wish these folks a happy birthday: Jennifer Bauer, Arleen Ginn, Todd Fugate, Ernie Kollar, Jessica Kollar, Marc Loggins, Brian Keleher and Jim Calaway.

A hole in one One of our sleuths, who may or may not also volunteer his time as a copy editor at The Sun, reports that J. Richard Hunt sunk a hole in one on Tuesday on the seventh hole at the Ranch at the Roaring Fork.

“There’s more water than there is land at that particular hole,” said our informant, but Hunt’s 89-yard drive hit the mark nonetheless. ~ By Jane Bachrach If you see any Scuttlebutt scuttling by, send it her way: scuttlebutt@soprissun.com.

Coal vs. gas: Colorado’s quest for clean air

By Allen Best High Country News Not long after the economy crashed, pulling down natural gas prices with it, hand-painted placards popped up in Delta County.“Why does Ritter hate oil and gas?” they demanded, angry about state drilling regulations enacted by Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat. Now, the hundreds of Delta County folks who rely on three big coal mines for their livelihoods may wish that Ritter hated natural gas a little more.

On April 19, Ritter signed the Clean Air Clean Jobs Act. The bipartisan-sponsored law –– intended to reduce air pollution along the populous Front Range –– requires Colorado’s biggest utility, Xcel Energy, to slash nitrogen oxide emissions by as much as 80 percent by 2017. Although it stops short of requiring Xcel to convert some of its coal power to cleaner-burning natural gas, it strongly encourages such a trade-off. The bill is commonly known as the “coal-to-gas bill.”

Or, in Delta County, as the “anti-coal bill.”

The legislation forged some odd alliances: Gasfield Republicans sponsored it with urban Democrats. But it has also opened up new rifts between the gas and coal industries, as well as between urban environmentalists and their rural counterparts, who worry that it will inspire another drilling boom in their backyards.

With carbon-constraining legislation on the national horizon, many greens see this bill as a template for other states; in a recent Denver Post op-ed, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged America to “follow Colorado’s lead.”

Colorado’s bill doesn’t require reduced carbon emissions. Instead, it focuses on more immediate concerns: national regulations on regional haze and ozone. Under Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency has accelerated enforcement of the Clean Air Act, so that new regulations, in the words of Frank Praeger, Xcel’s vice president for environmental policy,“are coming on like a freight train.”

By January, states must submit their plans for dealing with the visibility-impairing regional haze caused by oxides released when fossil fuels are burned. In Colorado, haze has blotted out views in national parks and wilderness areas. Ozone is an even greater challenge. Created in part by emissions of nitrogen oxides, ozone poses particular health hazards to the young, the elderly and people with respiratory diseases. Colorado’s northern Front Range, home to 3 million people, failed to meet the EPA standard of 84 parts per billion, let alone the new standard of 75 ppb.

Now, the EPA expects to lower the standard again, this time to between 60 and 70 ppb.

Xcel might have responded to these regulations incrementally. But last year, company representatives, state officials and environmental groups decided that the confluence of coming regulations created an opportunity for big-picture responses. “Those forces converged to sharpen everyone’s focus,” says Vickie Patton, deputy general counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund. Ritter — who had been politically hammered for his drilling regulations — reached out to natural gas companies when crafting the legislation. That ensured the support of key Republican lawmakers from the

Western Slope, who see it as a potential boon to the gas-producing regions they represent.

To make the switch to natural gas — which is notorious for price instability — palatable to utilities, the legislation also includes a provision that allows utilities to enter into longterm contracts for gas. The bill swept through the Legislature and became law in little more than a month.

Coal industry officials were furious. Stuart Sanderson, executive director of the Colorado Mining Association, estimated that it would result in some 500 lost mining jobs in Colorado and Wyoming. Western Slope environmentalists, who dread the impacts of increased drilling, were equally unhappy.

The hundreds of Delta County folks who rely on three big coal mines for their livelihoods may wish that Ritter hated natural gas a little more.

Gas production not only tears up the land, it creates its own air pollution, thanks to methane leaks, truck traffic and emissions from all the associated diesel engines. Ozone near rural gasfield towns such as Pinedale, Wyo., Vernal, Utah, and Farmington, N.M., has reached levels as high as those of Front Range urban areas. Josh Joswick of the San Juan Citizens Alliance, a group that monitors gas issues in the Four Corners area, says the bill deems rural air quality expendable for the sake of urban air quality. “None of the people who were at the bargaining table live in the gas patch,” says Joswick.

Jim Martin, the director of the state’s Department of Natural Resources and an architect of the new law, rejects such criticism.

“I think this is a model for how to do this, because it shows you have to think about the pollutants together instead of one at a time,” says Martin, who is soon to become the EPA’s regional director. He contends that the state’s new drilling regulations will protect rural Colorado. So does Elise Jones of the Colorado Environmental Coalition. “Nobody else around the country should mimic us unless they mimic that part of it (the regulations) as well,” says Jones.

Until Xcel submits its plan and the Public Utility Commission rules on it, worries about increased drilling and lost coal-mining jobs remain hypothetical. Xcel could clean up its act by retrofitting the old plants in question — Valmont in Boulder and Cherokee in Denver — with pollution controls, or even retire them and buy electricity from other places. As for Gov. Ritter, he may have finally gotten over the stigma of hating oil and gas, but it hardly matters: He’s not running for re-election.

This essay originally appeared in the May 24, 2010 issue of High Country News (hcn.org).

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Community Calendar THURS. & FRI. June 17-18 THEATRE • The Thunder River Theatre Company presents “Bernice/Butterfly: A Two-Part Invention” by Nagle Jackson previewing 7:30 p.m., June 17, and opening at the same time, June 18, at 67 Promenade.

Tickets and more info: 963-8200, thunderrivertheatre.com.

THURSDAY June 17 GRANT WRITING 101 • Colorado Mountain College offers Grant Writing 101 from 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Lappala center.

Advance registration: 963-2172.

HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY • The Roaring Fork High School library is open from 10 a.m. to noon with books on student summer reading lists. More info: 384-5762.

ROTARY MEETING • The Mt. Sopris Rotary Club holds its weekly lunch meeting at noon at the Aspen Glen Club featuring a local speaker. More info: 948-0693.

GREEN DRINKS • Hestia at 348 Main St. hosts Green Drinks, a mixer for environmentally minded folks, from 5 to 7 p.m. More info: 704-9200.

DIVORCE CLASS • Alpine Legal Services offers a Do It Yourself Divorce Class at 5 p.m. at the Garfield County Court House in Glenwood Springs. Participants receive documentation and information to manage their own divorces. Small donation requested but not required. More info: 945-8858.

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vate consultations on divorce, renter’s rights, powers of attorney and other matters at 5 p.m. at the Garfield County Courthouse in Glenwood Springs. Bring all pertinent documentation. Small donation requested but not required. More info: 945-8858.

RODEO • The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo happens Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. through Aug. 19 at the Gus Darien rodeo grounds on Catherine Store Road west of town. $8 per person, or $25 per carload of up to six people. More info: carbondalerodeo.com.

TRAIL WORK • Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers holds a work session from 5:30 p.m. to dusk to build new single track on the Wulfoshn Open Space in Glenwood Springs.

Tools, dinner and refreshments provided.

More info: 927-8241, rfov.org.

E-THURSDAY • The Pitkin County Library offers an open forum for computer help from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the library, 120 N. Mill Street, Aspen. Bring your laptop if you want.

More info: 429-1910.

PITCO REPUBLICANS • The Pitkin County Republicans meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at 460 Red Mountain Rd., Aspen.

LIVE MUSIC • Elise Helmke plays live with world fusion group FEAST at 7:30 p.m. at the historic Cardiff School House, Glenwood Springs. More info: 945-6247.

FRI. & SAT. June 18-19 STRAWBERRY DAYS • The 113th Glenwood Strawberry Days Festival takes place at Sayre Park. Parade, live entertainment,

art festival, kids fest, free strawberries and ice cream. More info: strawberrydaysfestival.com, 945-6589.

FRIDAY June 18 MEETING & MUSIC • CCAH holds its annual membership meeting and party along with a concert by The Redtones in Sopris Park. Meeting and mixing starts at 5:30 p.m., music at 7 p.m. Open to the public. Free food and drink.

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo” (R) at 8 p.m. June 18-24; “City Island” (PG-13) at 5:45 p.m. June 19; and "Babies" (PG) at 6 p.m. June 20.

THIRD STREET OPENING • The Third Street Center at 520 S. Third St. celebrates its grand opening from 4 to 9 p.m. with food and drink, live music by The Defiance String Band, children’s activities, contra dancing and a Ballet Folklorico performance.

STEVE’S GUITARS • Steve’s Guitars at 19 N. Fourth St. hosts the Hell Roaring String Band at 8:30 p.m. $10. More info: 963-3304, stevesguitars.net.

STEVE’S GUITARS • Steve’s Guitars at 19 N. Fourth St. hosts Paul Frantzich, “Feed Them With Music,” at 8:30 p.m. $15. More info: feedthemwithmusic.com.

LIVE MUSIC • Dejah Blue plays reggae, rock, folk and blues at 9 p.m. at Rivers Restaurant, 2525 S. Grand Ave, Glenwood Springs. No cover. More info: 928-8813.

SATURDAY June 19 HERB CLASS • From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute in Basalt offers a workshop on medicinal and culinary herbs with an emphasis on local varieties. $50. Reservations: Jerome@crmpi.org.

LET THE SUN SHINE • Jayne Gottlieb Productions presents “Let the Sun Shine in Hair” for ages 12-18 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Basalt Middle School. More info: jgptheatre.com.

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SUNDAY June 20 SPIRITUAL SPEAKER • Gwen Garcelon speaks at 10 a.m. at A Spiritual Center at its new location in the Third Street Center, 520 S. Third St. More info: 963-5516, aspiritualcenter.org.

SOLSTICE CELEBRATION • A Spiritual Center in the Third Street Center, 520 S.Third St, hosts a Deeksha Solstice Celebration with live music from 1 to 2:45 p.m.. More info: 963-5516, aspiritualcenter.org.

STEVE’S GUITARS • Steve’s Guitars at 19 N. Fourth St. presents The Hillbenders at 8:30 p.m. $15. More info: thehillbenders.com.

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BEER PACKAGING • Sustainable Settings at 6107 Highway 133 hosts a workshop with Michael Thompson on safely and artfully kegging, bottling and labeling your home brew. More info: 963-6107 or rose@sustainablesettings.org.

SUMMERTIME STORIES • The Pitkin County Library hosts storyteller Susan Marie Frontczak from 2 to 3 p.m. at the library at 120 N. Mill St. in Aspen. Whales, waves and wonderment. More info: 429-1920.

TUESDAY June 22 TIE DYE • The Gordon Cooper Library hosts an event to tie dye shirts at 10 a.m. at Fourth and Main streets. Limited space; reservations: 963-2889.

GLOBAL WORK PARTY • Help plan a community event to fight climate change in conjunction with the 350.org campaign at 7 p.m. in the pavilion at the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center. More info: 350.org, 510-0697.

PITCO REPUBLICANS • The Pitkin County Republicans host a gathering with Peter Wallison to discuss national financial legislation from 7 to 9 p.m. at 1880 Lazy O Rd., Old Snowmass. RSVP: fkwallison@aol.com.

WEDNESDAY June 23 FARMERS’ MARKET • The Carbondale Farmers Market takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 29 at Fourth and Main streets. Fruits, veggies, meats, cheeses, bread, prepared food, live

music and more. More info: carbondalefarmersmarket.org.

CHAMBER LUNCH • The Carbondale Chamber of Commerce hosts, “Heath Care Reform: How will it impact you and your business?,” a lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Gathering Center at the Church at Carbondale. $30; $20 in advance. More info: 963-1890.

MAIN STREET BAZAAR • The Main Street Market and Artist Bazaar runs from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays on Main Street.

Vintage retro-wares, books, music, veggies, preserves, clothing, live music and more.

More info and to reserve a booth location: 704-4190.

RIVER FLOAT • Float through wetlands in the James H. Smith North Open Space on the Roaring Fork River with the Roaring Fork Conservancy from 5 to 8 p.m. bring your own boat. Advance registration: roaringfork.org/events, 927-1290.

BASALT MUSIC • Holy Smoke plays at Triangle Park in Willits from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Business booths. More info: basaltchamber.com.

SUMMERTIME STORIES • The Pitkin County Library presents Ponyo, an animated film about mermaids from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the library at 120 Mill St. Free. More info: 429-1920.

PIZZA TUNES • White House Pizza at 801 Main Court presents Jacob Jones with a little southern soul from your soul from 7 to 10 p.m. No cover. Drink specials. More info: whitehousepizza.com, 704-9400.

June 24

ENERGY STAR BUILDING • A training for builders on the costs of sustainable, energy-efficient construction will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Garfield Re-2 Administration Building in Rifle. Free. More info: 704-9200.

TRAIL WORK • Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers holds a work session from 5:30 p.m. to dusk to build new single track on the Wulfoshn Open Space in Glenwood Springs.

Tools, dinner and refreshments provided.

More info: 927-8241, rfov.org.

June 25-27 THEATRE • The Thunder River Theatre Company presents “Bernice/Butterfly: A Two-Part Invention” by Nagle Jackson at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, at 2 p.m.

Sunday at 67 Promenade. Tickets and more info: 963-8200, thunderrivertheatre.com.

June 26 & 27 ANNIVERSARY PARTY • The Backdoor Consignment Store at 50 N. Fourth St. celebrates its one-year anniversary and a 66th birthday with live music, 10 percent discounts and 10 percent of all Saturday and Sunday sales donated to The Sopris Sun. More info: 963-3380.

June 26 RUNNING RACE • The GreenLeaf Running Race (formerly the LobsterCrawl) starts at 8 a.m. at the Carbondale Recreation Center. Five- and 10-kilometer events, organic pancake breakfast, green farmers market. Proceeds benefit the GreenSprouts Foundation.

More info: 309-7907, greenleafrun.com.

Annual Meeting June 18th, 5:30 Sopris Park

CCAH members are invited to its Annual Meeting for free food & drinks before the concert. Support the arts community by becoming a member of CCAH. Annual memberships may be purchased at the event. $40 Individual or $75 Family.

The Redtones June 18th, 7:00 Sopris Park

Kick off CCAH’s Summer of Music concert series. Dance to he rythms of The Redtones. A little bit of rock & roll with blues, roadhouse, country, & folk. Free & open to the public.

Grand Opening Third Street Center June 19th, 4:00-9:00

Come see Carbondale’s new non-profit center. c and activities.

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Ongoing LEGAL SERVICES • Alpine Legal Service offers intake to eligible clients from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays at the Garfield County Courthouse in Glenwood Springs and Tuesdays and Wednesday at the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen. More info: 945-8858, 920-2828.

SOCCER CAMP • The Challenger British Soccer Camp offers two sessions this summer at RVR Triangle Park: August 2-6 recreational camp for ages 3-16, and August 9-13 competitive camp for ages 9-17. Sign up online by June 18 and receive a free British Soccer replica jersey: challengersports.com.

TEA DATE • Charlotte Graham hosts tea dates Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Mount Sopris Historical Society Museum at 499 Weant Blvd. Chit chat and share stories. More info: 704-0567 or (970) 306-8771.

ACOUSTIC CARNAHAN’S • Singer/ songwriter T Ray Becker hosts an acoustic music night with new musicians every week from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays at Carnahan’s Tavern (formerly the Black Nugget), 403 Main St. More info: 963-4496.

SENIOR MATTERS CLASSES • Senior Matters offers a variety of classes and clubs weekly, throughout April and beyond, at its room in the Third Street Center, 520 S. Third St.Acting classes, book club, storytelling class, singing group, tai chi, basket weaving. Free or small fee. More info: 963-2536.

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Dear Daddy, Happy Father’s Day, Daddy! I love all the things we do together, like mowing and weeding the yard, camping in the mountains, shooting our bows, going on bike rides, fishing in the river, going to the pool and working in your shop.

You’re such a great daddy and I love you so much!

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Daddy, Working in the garage with you is my favorite,especially hiding your tools. I love you and happy Father’s Day. Love, Keegan Jaeger

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Alan and Anne Goldberg inWarsaw, Poland,June 2003

This picture was taken when my dad was 79 years old.We traveled together through Poland, just the two of us, for a week. Dad was curious, funny, thoughtful, and (mostly) mentally “all there” on the trip.We cried together in Warsaw as we watched “The Pianist,” about a Jewish musician struggling to survive the Warsaw ghetto of WWII. He told me stories of hisWWII service as a navigator bombing Germany.

We laughed and smiled as we walked the spectacular streets and alleys ofWarsaw and Krakow together,enjoying our daily ice cream (our passion) in sidewalk cafes. My father passed away last November. I miss you dad!

Anne Goldberg “Happy Father’s Day Daddy-O!!!

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I love this photo of my dad, WaltYoung, with my son Will, taken when my dad was about 64. It sums up his relationship with all six of his children and his seven grandchildren. His engagement with life is both thorough and lighthearted, penetrating to the core of an issue or a feeling, and quick to find the pathos and humor to endure the tough times.

He remains the rock of all of our lives.

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This is my daddy and me.

His name is Jim (& I’m Max), but Mama calls him, “Daddy Jim.” On Father's Day, I will be 3 weeks + 1 day old.

I love my daddy because he is always there for me, like: changing my poopee diapers, playing cool games like airplane, helicopter, and bicycle with me, burping me, picking out cool outfits for me to wear like my Pink! Leisure suit, and taking naps with me.

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Third Street Center comes alive Its grand opening bash is planned for Saturday, and Carbondale’s new non-profit hub is already buzzing with activity. Some of the Third Street Center’s 33 future tenants have already set up shop –– artists, fitness trainers and others have moved in around the “round room,” Lift Up is handing out food from the long hall of the center –– and bike racks and playgrounds that have been quiet since Carbondale Elementary School closed are coming back to life.

The Third Street Center will throw its opening party from 4 to 9 p.m. on June 19. Aside from the ribbon-cutting ceremony the event will include live music and dancing, kids activities, guided tours, and plenty of food and drink. ~ Photos by Jane Bachrach

The citizens of the Third Street Center Ballet Folklorico / Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities Clean Energy Economy for the Region Coredination Pilates Community Office for Resource Efficiency Compass Creative Spark Studio

Dave Durrance, artist Flux Farm GreenWeaver Healthy Mountain Communities Jaywalker Lodge Andrea Korber, artist Lift Up The Manaus Fund Mountain Regional Housing Corporation

Mountain Valley Developmental Services Roaring Fork Community Development Corporation Jill Scher, artist Senior Matters Lisa Singer, artist Sol Energy Solar Energy International The Sopris Sun

A Spiritual Center Third Street Center Cafe True Nature Healing Arts Karen Trulove, artist Turning Point Western Colorado Preschool Cooperative Wilderness Workshop Pat Winger, artist Youth Zone

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Above: Lift Up volunteers Debi Boyle (center) and Pat Wanner (right) prepare a basket for a client.

Facing page: The Third Street Center has brought new life to the playground left over from the Carbondale Elementary School.

Left: Students spread their creative wings in Sheri Gaynor’s new Creative Spark Studio.

Above: Students are captivated by Brad Yule’s Art(e) class, offered through the Aspen Art Museum’s summer workshop.

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Community Briefs is asked to lead volunteers for at least two projects per season.

To sign up or for more information, visit rfov.org,call 927-8241 or email rfov@sopris.net.

Kick it for a Kenyan village “SERVICE ABOVE SELF”

Mt. Sopris Rotary Club 5th Annual Childhelp River Bridge Golf Tournament held Monday May 17, 2010 at the Aspen Glen Club Charles Cunniffe Architects Alpine Banks of Colorado Roaring Fork Liquors Lassiter Electric Bishop & Mohl CPA’s Berthod Motors Big Horn Toyota Eugene Covello DDS Rocky Mountain Capital Homestead Park—Clay Boland Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Ackerman Obermeyer Asset Management Epicurious Balcomb & Green P.C. John & Linda Wells Ed & Judy Brown Mi Casita Restaurant Valley View Hospital American Tree & Cement Basalt Realty Dalby Wendland Postnet Carbondale The Aspen Glen Club & Staff Childhelp River Bridge Center Staff & Board Mt. Sopris Rotary Club Members

A BIG THANK YOU! The Mt. Sopris Rotary Club meets weekly on Thursdays during the Noon hour at the Aspen Glen Club & it is not necessary to be a member of Aspen Glen to join. For membership opportunity please call — Jim Waddick at 948-0693 or Toni Cerise at 379-6029.

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The modern gardener: Bailey Haines multi-tasks while watering her veggies at the Hendrick Park Community Garden last Wednesday evening. Photo by Trina Ortega

Summer activities boost reading The Garfield County Library’s summer reading program continues with a special visit from the Denver Zoo. Children entering kindergarten through sixth grade are invited to see and learn about different animals found around the world. The final programs with the Denver Zoo will be at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

June 18 in Parachute and Rifle, respectively.

Reading activities take place at Gordon Cooper Library throughout the summer with the next one scheduled for 10 a.m. June 22 at Fourth and Main Streets.

A teen scavenger hunt is ongoing on Mondays, when a new question is unveiled at all six libraries and on the library Web site. The questions are from popular books, and youth will work as a team to answer them.

For more information about the reading program activities, visit garfieldlibraries.org.

Food Pantry announces new hours In order to serve people in need during the lunch hours, LIFT-UP’s Aspen Food Pantry is now open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.Tuesdays and Thursdays. The food pantry is located at 465 N.Mill St.Nonperishable food items always are needed and may be donated during business hours. Call 544-2009 during operating hours with questions or to find out about volunteering. For information about other LIFT-UP area food pantries and services, visit liftup.org.

Trail maintenance training A free training for potential trail-building crew leaders will be offered by Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) on June 26-27 on the Thompson Creek Trail in Carbondale.

Volunteers will learn how to build and maintain sustainable trails in different types of terrain; safely use a variety of tools and techniques; lead a crew of five to eight volunteers; and ensure work of the highest standard.

RFOV instructors will share their techniques and knowledge of crew leading during this session, which also will introduce the trainees to RFOV’s mission, goals and crew leader program; how projects are run; leadership basics; and trail construction and maintenance techniques.

In addition to the special training sessions, crew leaders get to work with various groups of volunteers from the region. Each crew leader

Basalt students will continue their fundraising effort to help two Kenyan brothers build a medical clinic in the African village of Lwala by holding the “Kick it for Kenya” 3-versus-3 soccer tournament on June 26 at Crown Mountain Park.

Brothers Milton and Fred Ochieng’ were sent to America to become doctors. But after losing both parents to AIDS, they were left with the task of returning home to finish the health clinic and develop an education assistance fund for local secondary students.

The Kenyan government does not fund high school education. Many Kenyans do not attend school beyond eighth grade. This is especially true for girls; boys more often go on to secondary school. The Lwala Community Alliance is working to improve education, health care and infrastructure in Western Kenya.

For more information, visit lwalacommunityalliance.org or email ashleycarruth@gmail.com.

Lobster fest tickets on sale Tickets for the ninth annual Music & Lobster Festival are on sale now, available at the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center, Glenwood Music, Butch’s Lobster, and Steve’s Guitars. Presented by Steve’s Guitars and the town of Carbondale, the festival celebrates nearly 100 local musicians at 12 different venues in downtown.

Musicians so far include: The Crowlin Ferlies, Arch Angel, The 3 Joes, Tjaar, Frank Martin Trio, JAS All Stars Band, Acoustic Mayhem, All the Pretty Horses, Rick Rock and the Roosters, Slightly White, Monkey Love, The Tippetts and many, many more.

Live music venues will be at the town plaza, Steve’s Guitars, Phat Thai, Hestia, Grana Cafe, The Lift, Green Miracle Medicinals, Russets, Carnahan’s, The Back Door Consignment Store, Eco-Goddess Edibles and elsewhere.

Butch’s Lobster Shack will serve up fresh Maine lobsters at the town plaza (Fourth and Main streets) starting at 5 p.m. June 25 and continuing all day on June 26.

Other events include a 5K and 10K foot race, an organic pancake breakfast, a beverage garden, amusement rides, a farmers’ market, antique vendors, massage tables, ice cream and more.

For more information, call 963-3304 or email sguitars@sopris.net.

Business Briefs Basalt designer honored Robyn Scott Interiors Ltd. earned two first place honors in the categories of “Bedroom/Bathroom” and “Contemporary Kitchen” in the 2010 Cyrstal Awards. The event is sponsored by the American Society of Interior Design (ASID) Colorado Chapter and was held May 13 in Denver.

A Basalt resident, Scott has received a total of seven awards by the ASID Colorado Chapter dating back to 2003. She is known for her “modern interiors that blend with the mountain architecture and landscape,” states a press release.

A bike Mecca? continued om page 3 (such as Thompson Creek west of town and Fisher Creek north of town) with mountain biking routes would be part of this plan, as well.

“That would be a big change in focus,” Hopkins said, and not well-received by all, including some in the local mountain biking community. All of the different scenarios also have to consider the impacts to wildlife, Hopkins added.

The BLM has not made any changes or decisions about The Crown. Hopkins said the agency will prepare a draft resource management plan and present it for public comment in the fall and into the winter.

What does Carbondale want?

Hopkins says that as the BLM determines how to manage its lands, it works with town and county leaders, user groups and other affected parties to come up with options.

“One of the first questions in our planning process is not about BLM lands,” Hopkins said. “It is: ‘Where is the community headed?’ Then we ask: ‘How do BLM lands fit in?’ We have to work together.”

But with everything from rock climbing to ranching, wilderness proposals to mountain biking, and oil and gas development in the mix, he thinks Carbondale “lacks focus” as to what it wants.

“Carbondale’s been very complex.

There are a lot of different ideas … about how to manage public land,” he said.

Town Manager Tom Baker says bicycling “fits in a number of ways with Carbondale … but the town hasn’t specifically said we are going to have biking as an economic strategy.”

A soggy trial run The Rocky Mountain Omnium, a threeday cycling competition that came to downtown Carbondale on Saturday, could have been a good chance to judge whether bikes and the tourists they draw can buoy the town’s economy.

It “seemed to be a fit with what Carbondale’s all about,” Baker said. But the event didn’t receive rave reviews from downtown businesses, especially those on Main Street, which was closed for the daylong race.

With the weekend’s cold and rainy weather, few spectators showed up.

The community has to “regroup,” Baker says, and launch a discussion about its economic future and whether recreation-based tourism fits into that.

Carbondale’s recreation director, Jeff Jackel, notes that towns like Leadville have bolstered their bottom lines by capitalizing on outdoor athletic events.

“I really don’t have the answer on what’s going to jump-start the economy, unless we find ways to bring them into town,” Jackel said, describing the topic as “catch-22” as community members try to promote growth and economic stability while preserving small-town character.

“We need to find a clean industry. I think tourism is one of the cleanest industries,” he said.

Both Degross and Bebee agree that Carbondale needs to look inward at its own creative, community-minded residents.

Bebee’s vision: Carbondale needs more businesses such as Backbone Media and Rock & Ice magazine that are based on “people doing what they love to do” in the outdoors. Had The North Face relocated to town nearly a decade ago, he says, it would have been another perfect example.

And though he doesn’t think Carbondale should sell itself to bike tourism, Degross does envision more one-day and weekend recreation events, like the Rocky Mountain Omnium, that are focused on outdoor recreation, including cycling, fly-fishing, trail running, rock climbing and more.

“We should be promoting events on a smaller scale to support the current industries in town … looking within the community to generate money versus tourism is better for the long term,” he said.

Letters continued om page 2 wards the rodeo volunteers is unacceptable. It does not set the kind of positive example I know the citizens of this community are capable of. I am simply asking for kindness, respect and proper behavior towards your fellow community members. However, act improperly and you will promptly be removed from the rodeo grounds by authorities.

Melanie Cardiff Secretary/Volunteer Administrator Carbondale Wild West Rodeo Association

Grateful teachers Editor’s Note: This letter was originally addressed to the “gracious donors of the Carbondale Teachers’ Appreciation Fund.”

Dear Editor: We are honored to be the 2010 recipients of the Carbondale Teachers’ Appreciation Fund award, which was announced

during this year’s graduation ceremony at Roaring Fork High School. We are grateful to be recognized for just doing what we love — teaching and working with the children of our community. There are so many examples of excellence every day among our staff and students, and Roaring Fork High School is filled with many amazing programs, so it truly is an honor to be recognized. While many rewards are inherent within the work we do –– from working with accomplished and caring fellow teachers to the joy of seeing a student finally “get it” –– there is also something special about being recognized for our role within the community. This award shows not just that we are appreciated, but that the schools and the education field are appreciated within Carbondale. It takes many of us to make a strong community.

Laura French Hadley Hentschel Roaring Fork High School

DON’T TEACH BEARS NEW TRICKS Bears have been seen in and around Carbondale Early Prevention Early prevention keeps bears from making a habit of visiting neighborhoods.

We CAN prevent repeat visits!

REMOVE ITEMS THAT ATTRACT BEARS: • Garbage • Bird Feeders • Pet Food • Barbeque Grills • Fruit • Compost TOWN CODE: No Garbage Before 6AM on Collection Day The Town of Carbondale passed an ordinance prohibiting placement of trash for pickup before 6:00 AM on collection day, and empty containers must be brought in no later than 8:00 PM the same day.

The smell of any food may attract bears. Keep garbage indoors until the morning of trash pick-up and keep outdoor barbeque grills clean and odorless. It is best to keep windows and doors securely locked, especially at night. If a bear enters your home, open doors and leave the bear an escape route.

GARBAGE KILLS BEARS Bears that make repeat visits to neighborhoods may need to be moved or euthanized. To keep your family and the bears safe, please remove any attractants, and follow these guidelines until the bears hibernate in winter.

Bears are 90% vegetarian and rarely hunt or kill animals, however they are wild animals and can be unpredictable. Do not approach any bear, especially cubs.

For additional information, call the Division of Wildlife: 947-2920. Call the Carbondale Police Department if you see a bear anywhere in town: 963-2662.

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World champ Jeannie Longo dominates at Omnium Terray Sylvester The Sopris Sun The streets near Carbondale were filled with speeding bicycles last weekend as more than 350 racers turned out for the third annual Rocky Mountain Omnium.

Two of those tires belonged to seven-time Olympian Jeannie Longo, who dominated the women’s pro division of the three-day event. She won the women’s time trial on Friday and an 85-mile road race that took place near Dotsero on Sunday. The pro women’s race in the criterium in downtown Carbondale on Saturday was cancelled due to rain.

Longo, one of the most successful cyclists on the international scene, is a seventime Olympian who holds four Olympic medals and over 50 world titles. She took first overall at the Omnium, which was a series of three races. Racers were free to compete in some or all of the events, and earned overall points based on their performance in each. Longo also took first in a 20-kilometer time trial between Colorado Rocky Mountain School and Glenwood Springs on Friday.

Aspenite Jonathan Baker took second overall in the men’s pro division, and placed second in the criterium and the time trial as well. Some of the other local racers fell victim to the wet conditions on Saturday. Jason Anderson and Max Pamm of Aspen both crashed in the criterium, Anderson just a few laps from the finish.

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OVERALL RESULTS

STREET FIGHT CRITERIUM Pro Men

Pro Women 1 Jeannie Longo 2 Marisa Asplund 3 Kasey Clark 4 Amy Gray-Smith 5 Therese Johnson

(Pro Women event cancelled due to weather)

1 Greg Krause 2 Jonathan Baker

3 Joseph Lewis 4 Jesse Goodrich 5 Taylor Shelden

ROCK THE RIVER ROAD RACE (85 miles) Pro Women (course shortened due to conditions) 1 Jeannie Longo 1:24:19 2 Marisa Asplund 1:24:30 1:27:23 3 Kasey Clark 4 Therese Johnson 1:27:23 5 Amy Gray-Smith 1:27:23

Pro Men 1 Greg Krause 2 Jonathan Baker 3 Scott Moninger 4 Taylor Shelden 5 Dan Porter

Pro Men 1 Scott Moninger 2 Greg Krause 3 Jonathan Baker 4 Taylor Shelden 5 Zack Davies

1:53:35 1:53:35 1:54:02 1:54:02 1:54:02

20K WESTERN SLOPE CLASSIC TIME TRIAL Pro Women 1 Jeannie Longo 2 Marisa Asplund 3 Jane Finsterwald 4 Amy gray-Smith 5 Kasey Clark

23:38 24:26 25:20 25:57 26:07

Pro Men 1 Greg Krause 2 Jonathan Baker 3 Nico Toutenhoofd 4 Jason Anderson 5 Dan Porter

21:20 21:21 21:55 22:14 22:24

The pro men’s division duked it out in a steady rain on Saturday evening during the Street Fight Criterium in downtown Carbondale.

Photo by Will Grandbois

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Six simple exercises for stress release “Stressed”is a word that slips out in many sion pattern for which I would periodically conversations today. It’s a catch-all descriptor seek massage, cranial sacral and acupuncture of how people feel about their lives. Stress, treatments. On the third day of the TRE tension and trauma are common place and workshop, as a result of Dr. Berceli’s six easy have compounding effects on exercises, I experienced the our health and wellbeing. tension release throughout What is stress? By a simmy body. A very fluid ple definition, stress is the movement went up to the emotional and physical strain top of my head. In the quiet caused by our response to relaxation that followed I pressure from the outside moved my head from side world. Many of us experito side and felt an amazing ence the common signs and freedom. I sat up and symptoms of stress: tension, turned my head to look beirritability, inability to conhind me. In both directions, centrate, difficulty sleeping, the range of motion was chronic fatigue and physical more than before and ocsymptoms such as headache, curred with ease, no hesitamuscle tension, digestive uption. This has been a lasting sets, heart palpitations, diseffect. No more lurching into turbed breathing patterns on my bike in those left and more. hand turns!

by Rita Marsh Last year I was fortunate The second effect of RN, BSN to be introduced to the six TRE was not apparent simple trauma release exercises (TRE) devel- until about four weeks after the workshop. oped by Dr. David Berceli. When I read Dr. When I ride in a car I become overly alert.

Berceli’s book, “The Revolutionary Trauma This has happened ever since a wheel came Release Process,” I knew from years of ex- off our vehicle while I was sleeping during a perience with stress-related health problems drive from Denver 34 years ago. No one was that TRE offers a powerful self-facilitated injured, but ever since that incident I had not tool to dissolve stress-related symptoms, re- been able to relax and fall asleep while ridlease chronic tension and ing in a car. Any slight resolve the most severe movement of the vehiform of stress –– post cle would create a traumatic stress disorder. startle response in my This April I had the body. Four weeks after opportunity to attend a the TRE workshop we workshop with Dr. drove over to Denver.

Berceli in Aspen and I On the trip east I found all of that was true. closed my eyes and By doing TRE, I have reunbelievably, actually solved long-standing subwent to sleep for a petle, and potentially riod of time. No starunhealthful patterns of tle response! It seemed stress, tension and trauma like such a natural in my body. thing to do that I didI am happy to share n’t realize until the two personal experiences to demonstrate the next day that, for a change, I had slept! The powerful potential that TRE holds for any- long-held pattern of tension had been reone who has experienced trauma, chronic leased from my body. I know that this stress and tension in their lives. change is the effect of the TRE that I learned Over the years of living an active lifestyle in the workshop and continue to practice on I have incurred three whiplash injuries and a weekly basis. As Dr. Berceli states in his gradually I had noticed a decrease in my book, “The key to these exercises is their neck’s range of motion. It was especially no- ability to evoke shaking (tremors) from the ticeable when I was riding my bike and center of gravity of the body, located in the needed to turn my head to see if there was pelvis, using nothing but the natural mechatraffic behind me before making a left hand nism of the body. When the shaking is turn. The restriction would cause me to have evoked at this powerful center, it reverberto turn my body to see behind me. More ates throughout the entire body, seeking out than once, I came very close to lurching my- any deep chronic tension that lies in its path self and the bike into a car that was behind and naturally discharging this tension and me. I also noticed that I tended to carry a lot relaxing the muscles.” of tension in my shoulders and neck, a tenTRE works!

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A very fluid movement went up to the top of my head. In the quiet relaxation that followed I moved my head from side to side and felt an amazing freedom.

Rita Marsh has been a practicing nurse for more than 30 years. Over the past nine years she has designed and co-taught courses to enhance well-being, reduce the effects of stress, support healthful aging and ultimately help people prepare for life’s final transition.

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An introductory TRE course will be held at 7 p.m. this evening, June 17, at True Nature Healing Arts, 549 Main St. The introductory session will prepare you for a two-day workshop with Dr Berceli on Aug. 11 and 12 in Carbondale. For more information contact Jacy Sundlie, 948-5154, Jacy@trepromotions.com, or visit traumaprevention.com.

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