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Where the columbines grow Photo and text by Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Rocky Mountain Columbines (Aquilegia caerulea) were blooming in profusion on the Flat Tops a couple of weeks back, but luckily nobody seemed to be picking ’em. As the state ﬂower, they’re protected with a possible ﬁne for pulling one up by the roots or taking more than 25 stems from public land. It’s a good thing, too, as there was once quite a craze for them akin to the Dutch tulip mania in the 1600s.

According to White River National Forest Ecologist Kristen Pelz, it’s been a great year for wildﬂowers statewide despite a fairly dry June. She expects elevations between 9,000 and 11,000 feet — such as around the Maroon Bells or in Lime Park — to be blooming nicely through the end of the month. Richardson’s geraniums, Woods’ rose and scarlet gilia seem be doing particularly well, Pelz said. That’s good news for bumblebees — the

primary alpine pollinators — which are distinct from their honeybee cousins both in size and organization, with the even larger queens joining the drones in the quest for food instead of staying in a hive. In order to avoid damaging the delicate alpine ecosystems, Pelz discouraged picking or trampling the ﬂowers, and suggested distributing your steps if you must venture off trail or across wet ground — basic leave-

no-trace principles. Interested in learning more about our native flora? Check out programming through The Roaring Fork Conservancy and Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (see page 7 for more on their mushroom events) or try some identification on your own with Pelz’s favorite local nature guide, “Wild at Heart” (available at the Carbondale Ranger Station), and websites like www.swcoloradowildflowers.com.

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to laugh The long shadow Learning at language of World War I One hundred years ago, my grandfather was leaving his wife, his four small children and his law firm to join the “war to end all wars”. The trenches where he would soon serve had been dug nearly two years earlier. On July 12 and 13, 1917, the Germans began bombarding allied troops there with mustard gas. Nearly one million French soldiers had already been killed. Conditions were so horrific that several French Army mutinies had already occurred. Thomas Harry Slusser didn’t have to go to France. At 36, he was too old for the first draft, and his children, aged two to nine, entitled him to defer military service even after that. Still, he signed up, spent four months at the Fort Sheridan officer’s training camp, then sailed overseas on Jan. 7, 1918. Seven months later, the Chicago Evening American printed a frontpage story calling him a hero and running his photo under the headline, “Wife and Four Children Couldn’t Keep this Soldier at Home.” A century later, one might wonder By Nicolette Toussaint why not? The T.H. Slusser I knew was patriotic, iron-willed, and high-minded, rather like President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson had won the 1916 election vowing to maintain neutrality, but Germany’s actions — atrocities in Belgium, the sinking of the Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare — dragged him inexorably toward war. Duty and honor must have similarly pulled my grandfather toward Europe’s eddy of blood, but I suspect that there was more to it. By the time the U.S. declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, Wilson and his administration were openly questioning the loyalty of German-Americans. The attorney general approved a plan to use volunteers to gather information on German immigrants and native-born German-Americans suspected of disloyalty. From that volunteer group grew the American Protective League, a vast network of 200,000 untrained, amateur detectives. The APL functioned as a semi-official, but often uncontrolled, branch of the FBI’s forerunner, the Bureau of Investigation. Although my grandfather was a fifth-generation American, sometimes having a German name could be enough to prompt the APL to investigate one’s private affairs. Chicago, where my grandfather’s law firm was located, was also home to Chicago ad executive A. M. Briggs, the man who created the APL. The town was a hotbed of anti-German sentiment: Lubeck, Frankfort, and Hamburg streets were renamed Dickens, Charleston, and Shakespeare. German Hospital became Grant Hospital. Famed conductor Frederick Stock, who was born in Germany, was forced to step down from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra until he finalized his naturalization papers. Across the nation, German-Americans were dragged out of their homes at night and forced to kiss the flag or sing the national anthem. Thousands were forced to buy war bonds. Fearing sabotage, the Red Cross barred those with German surnames. Churches were vandalized. Employers received telephone calls asking if they still had “that German spy” on the payroll. Like the African-American Buffalo soldiers and the JapaneseAmericans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, German-Americans were subjected to “friendly fire” from fellow citizens. Having sworn to uphold the constitution when he was admitted to the bar, my attorney grandfather must have keenly felt a need not just to profess loyalty, but to prove it.

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English is the language in my dreams at night — the one that comes most naturally — but I’ve lived in this country for thirtysix years and I still manage to mess up the English language. Mostly I have it down pat — or is it down pack? Hang tight while I go ask Google. Oh, yes; down pat. You see, English is tough. Learning any language is a big challenge. I know from personal experience that it doesn’t come without falling on ones linguistic face. Over the years I’ve learned to not take myself so seriously and laugh at my language bloopers — and there have been many! Just the other day I went up to my coach and proudly said, “that workout was in my wheel circle!” Recently, my husband taught me the term “in my wheelhouse” so I was excited to try it out in real life. I thought I was saying I was within my expertise, or in my zone, but I knew when he looked at me I had said something incorrectly. Then another time many years ago when I ﬁrst started dating my husband I told him to “take it with a grain of rice.” I know he wanted to laugh, but he smiled and said nicely, “grain of salt, you mean?” D’oh! Those pesky idioms have always tripped me up. I hear new ones pop up every now and then and I’ll have to go as Google or go ask my Anglo-raised-in-Colorado husband what they mean. Even after learning the meaning I often

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Dunk ’em Dear Editor: I admit I got a chuckle out of Jeff Maus’ remarks about the waste of Carbondale monies for the Third Street improvement project. The orange fencing was taken down and then put back as people weren’t smart enough to know not to park on the newly seeded space as might be thought! It also got me to thinking about all the gripes all of us have on occasion. I say let’s have a dunking booth Mountain Fair weekend and raise some big bucks for the town! Any resident could submit a logical reason why someone should be “dunked” and it would be hilarious. It would go on for days! I vote for dunking those that have ugly “infill” dwellings that are an eyesore and also the school district for not taking better care of their (our) properties like the old bus barn spot on Third. Maybe the library board for letting the beautiful landscape to be taken over by the elm tree seedlings and weeds! What about sinking all of those that have trash around their property? Can’t you see the dollars coming in? Wow! Big bucks! What about those homeowners who have for decades rented their single family homes to God knows how many “boarders”? What do you think? I have room in my yard to set up the tank! No infill (yet)! Ramona Griffith Carbondale

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TRTC takes home two Henry Awards 11 nominations By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff

Thunder River Theatre Company’s production of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” earned a Henry for Sean Jeffries Outstanding Set Design. Courtesy photo

Sean Jeffries, behind the curtain (or above the round) By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff If the audience breaks into applause at the sight of the next Thunder River Theatre Company set, Sean Jeffries may or may not be pleased. His various roles as facilities manager, technical director and sound and lighting designer are the kind of things spectators aren’t really supposed to notice consciously, but recognition is always nice. Take, for instance, the “Outstanding Scenic Design” and “Outstanding Sound Design” Henry Awards Jeffries took home recently after receiving a record five nominations. “It feels so good,” he said. “I think a lot of people don’t understand what goes into the images you see onstage, but creating the backdrop and the world of the show is pretty extravagant. When that curtain goes up, there’s no mulligans.” It’s been a long journey from his “dinky” hometown of Hughesville, Maryland, where he had his first formal role in the form of a pantomimed death for a seventh grade production of “I’m Really Rosie.” He must have caught the bug, because the next year he played the title character in “Hyronomous A. Frog” and started taking on off-stage tasks in high school. “We had six lights, none of which matched,” he recalled. “It was the most ridiculous thing.” It wasn’t until he ended up studying theatre at Frostburg State University in Maryland that he began to understand the sort of specialization that most bigger troupes had, and found himself more behind the scenes. The trend continued at Kent State University in Ohio, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts in lighting design and technology. He gained professional experience with shows from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” to “Titanic the Musical” and found himself in an unsustainable routine. “It was about three month cycles and I was moving someplace,” he explained. “After a couple of years of that, I got a little tired of that.” Jeffries had family on the Front Range, so he started searching for jobs in Colorado, and, on the First Friday in November 2015, came to Carbondale for the first time to interview at Thunder River. He was swept up in the festivities, and ended up getting the position and moving here in January 2016. Before that, TRTC founder Lon Winston had been running

Jeffries oversees everything from set design to lighting and sound to add ambiance to TRTC productions. Photo by Will Grandbois things pretty much on his own. “We doubled our capacity for the art and it allowed us to really focus in,” Jeffries observed. Now, with Winston still involved but no longer dealing with the day-to-day, he pretty much takes on whatever current Executive Artistic Director Corey Simpson doesn’t — and he likes it that way. “I get really bored doing the same thing over and over again,” he said. “Having the big picture view of what’s going on in this theatre is important to me. It’s basically my own 40- by 50-foot design studio.” He’s had a chance to work with Winston, Simpson and the rest of the team to ﬁnd his own style within the theatre’s signature minimalism. “The great thing about growing as a designer is to be able to pick and choose what you like,” he observed. “Appropriation is the name of the game, and you do it with great love in your heart.” He’s quite proud of the work on “The Tempest” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” that earned him awards, and hopes to build on that success in the future.

Thunder River Theatre Company has long struggled to assemble the judges necessary to qualify for the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Awards — although they received a special honor in 2012. This year, however, some hard work to encourage more of the fewer than 50 qualified judges in the state to make the trip and the reduction from six judges to five to qualify appears to have borne fruit. TRTC received 11 nominations and two top prizes: Outstanding Sound Design for “The Tempest” and Outstanding Set Design for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” — both credited to Sean Jeffries. “Sean worked so hard this past year and I was so happy to see him get this recognition,” said Executive Artistic Director Corey Simpson. “A great designer adds an ambient magic to create the world of the production around the actors. He’s incredibly talented and we feel so lucky to have him.” It’s also a significant sign for the theatre itself. “These awards represent the highest honor theatres can get in the state, and there was a big effort by some of us to make sure that what’s happening up here gets seen,” Simpson observed. “This is an indicator that we are working at a competitive level and it confirms we’re on the right track.” Simpson himself also was nominated for production and direction awards as well as outstanding supporting actor for “The Tempest,” along with Nathan Cox and Owen O’Farrell. While designers compete in two tiers based on budget, most categories pit theatres of all sizes against each other for the top seven ratings, so having multiple nominees in a single category is impressive. “It’s pretty exciting that three actors who are all scrambling to make a living were there in that category,” Simpson said. He noted that the next smallest staff he encountered for a theatre of the same size was five compared to TRTC’s two. The nonprofit relies on part time acting talent and donations — both financial and practical — to keep producing content. In fact, one of the big items on the wish list is a better sound system, which makes the Sound Design win all the sweeter. The nominations and awards also are great exposure for both the theatre and the Carbondale Creative District. In the end, though, the response the company cares most about are the folks right here at home, and it’s looking good. “We’re getting the message that the audience responds to innovative theatre,” Simpson said. “Now we get to see how much further we can go.” The company’s upcoming 2017-2018 season, which opens at the end of September, includes “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” “Constellations,” Arthur Miller’s “The Price,” and “Bat Boy: The Musical.” Season tickets are available at www.thunderrivertheatre.com or 963-8200.

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Town Report Operation hours modified during bridge closure The Town of Carbondale will temporarily modify some hours of operation during the roughly 95-day Grand Avenue Bridge closure, according to Town Manager Jay Harrington’s weekly report to trustees, staff and others. The specifics are spelled out in a press release: beginning August 14, The Town Hall and Police Department will be open 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday while the Public Works and Utilities departments will be open 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Additionally, construction will be allowed in Carbondale on weekdays 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (or until sunset, whichever is later) and Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and trash hauling will be allowed starting at 6 a.m., an hour earlier than usual. In other news from Harrington’s report… • Seasonal job positions presently open until filled include part-time parks maintenance (contact Russell Sissom for more information at rsissom@carbondaleco.net or 510-1327) lifeguards and WSI instructors (contract Magaret Donnelly at mdonnelley@carbondaleco.net or 510-1280). • The Hendricks Ranch Community Garden shed is undergoing a retrofit with volunteer labor to provide an enclosed area for the storage of tools and other garden needs. • Due to the popularity of its T-Ball programming, the recreation department is assessing a potential after-school program in the fall. • As part of the wellness program, the town is hosting a class for all ages called Milling Grains and Making Tortillas taught by the Colorado State University extension program on from 6 to 9 p.m. on July 31. • Swim Club will conduct a foam rolling clinic on July 21.

The John M. Fleet pool also offers an away of programs and classes for adults and kids. Visit www.carbondalerec.com for more times and registration. • The parks department has noticed an increase in household personal trash in public cans, which is against code. • In preparation for Mountain Fair, repairs took place on the gazebo stairs and volleyball nets at Sopris Park. Additionally, a wood mulch is slated for some of the park’s high traffic areas. • The Revolving Loan Fund committee met and appointed two new members: Kurtis Nestman and Elise Gardiner. The Third Street Center, represented by Colin Laird, is the new administrator for the committee as Randi Lowenthal has moved to Santa Fe. The meetings will be held at Third Street Center the second Monday of the month. • The streets crew worked on backfilling around some recent concrete work on Hendrick Drive, Weant Boulevard and Roaring Fork Avenue. Also, traffic counters were placed in a couple of locations along Hendrick Drive and will be reinstalled after school is back in session to evaluate the differences. Finally, the crew assisted the town arborist with re-mulching planting beds and landscaped areas within the Highway 133 corridor. • The Nettle Creek fire mitigation and siding project has begun, with early estimates putting the project ahead of schedule and under budget. The Crystal Well project has made great strides with the piping and filter trains installed. Telemetry and finishing touches to piping will be performed in the coming weeks. • Officers Kelli Litzau and Luke Blue attended a Strategies of Tactics of Patrol Stops training that certified them to teach the STOPS philosophy and certify other officers.

Cop Shop From July 7 through 13, Carbondale Police Officers handled 248 calls for service. During that period, officers investigated the following cases of note:

FRIDAY July 7 at 3:05 p.m. Officers responded to a report that a bicycle had just been stolen and located the bike but not the suspected thief. FRIDAY July 7 at 11:45 p.m. Following a Report Every Dangerous Driver Immediately (REDDI) call, police contacted a 66-year-old woman who was parked in the middle of the highway. She was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and prescription pills. SUNDAY July 9 at 12:44 p.m. A harassment report on Euclid Avenue resulted in a warning for both parties to stop contacting each other. MONDAY July 10 at 4:17 p.m. After a 26-year-old Carbondale man allegedly waved a gun during a traffic incident, he was arrested for felony menacing. TUESDAY July 11 at 5:09 p.m. A 21-year-old Carbondale man was arrested on a trio of warrants.

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Trustees discuss daycare shortage in special meeting By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Carbondale’s board of trustees want to help alleviate a shortage of infant and youngchild daycare options in the valley, and they told a group of pre-school personnel, parents and other advocates at a meeting on July 18 that the town will do what it can. But, as Trustee Ben Bohmfalk said during a report about the meeting on KDNK-FM on the following day, “The town doesn’t have a big pot of money” that it can devote to boosting the availability of childcare in Carbondale or elsewhere in the valley. Instead, the trustees agreed they would pass on to the planning and zoning commission (P&Z) a list of suggestions and recommendations from the advocates aimed at making it easier for a preschool or another education-oriented organization to gain town approval for a school or other type of facility. The trustees met on July 18 with representatives of the Cradle to Career Initiative (CCI) of the Aspen Community Foundation (ACF), the Carbondale Childcare Coalition, officials with the Blue Lake & Little Blue Preschools (in El Jebel and Carbondale, respectively) and other advocates. The advocates presented the trustees with a 16-page packet of information, based on numerous studies of child-care education and its effect on later brain development, social skills and other attributes related to a child’s developmental abilities starting at an early age. Among other things, the packet related that there are numerous types of influence accounting for a child’s development, including the number of spoken words a child hears in the first few years of life, and a child’s exposure to early education. “The number of words heard by age three is correlated with the child’s later IQ and academic success,: according to the information presented to the town. “Typically, children of professional parents will hear three times as many spoken words by age three as children in welfare-recipient families, and the three-year-old child of professional parents will have a vocabulary over twice as large. In addition, according to information gathered by the Cradle to Career Initiative, “…when young children are exposed to educational programming, they learn social

and emotional skills at the time that their brains are the most malleable. This opens an opportunity for decades of success. Ensuring broad access to quality early education helps children to gain equal footing when they begin school.” The effects of this kind of development, according to the packet, include the ability to master math and reading skills, higher scores on achievement tests, higher highschool graduation rates, better emotional and behavioral control, and lowered dependence on special education and social welfare programs. The packet also maintains that there are severe unmet needs for families with children between the ages of 1 and 12 years, a claim backed up by stories from parents about the difﬁculties inherent in ﬁnding childcare for infants and toddlers, and even the availability of after-school programming for children in that age group. According to the information provided for the 2015-2016 school year, there were roughly 1,450 children in the 5-12-year-old age group in Carbondale, while the total number of after-school spaces for such children is about 300 during the school year, and about 50 during the summertime.

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Similar ratios were found during the 2016-2017 school year, the informational packet reported. To meet the needs implied by the information above, the child-care specialist told the trustees, there need to be more preschool facilities capable of accepting children from the infant stage onward. Michelle Oger, director of Blue Lake Preschool, told the trustees that there currently is a ﬁve-year wait for infant care in the mid-valley. When Mayor Dan Richardson asked

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agreed to send the recommendations to the P&Z for review and comment, but the mayor noted that Carbondale has one problem that other area towns do not: “The real challenge in Carbondale is, we’re not growing out, we’re growing up,” meaning there is little vacant space for new development in town (without moving to annex more land) so the town is moving toward development that is more dense and building taller structures. Plus, he said, most available commercial spaces in town are “really small” — perhaps too small for the need of preschool facilities. The trustees talked about other potential solutions, such as changing development-review regulations to add child-care facilities to the list of possible exactions from developers, such as affordable housing and parks. The trustees and the child-care advocates agreed that some of the issues under discussion should be presented to area school boards, as well as town governments, with an eye toward ﬁnding a multi-faceted set of solutions to the problem.

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One night only! Award-winning actor and singer Bob Moore takes the stage for his one-man evening of cabaret at 7:30 p.m. July 31 at the Thunder River Theatre. Moore will share memories and songs from roles ranging from a Jewish milkman to a cowardly lion to a crazed barber accompanied by friend, arranger and talented Front Range pianist, Randy Johnson. General Admission tickets are $25 and are available at www.thunderrivertheatre.com or by phone at 963-8200.

Jacob Francis Hanks and Alana Pauline Monge are thrilled to announce their engagement â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jake proposed on Friday, June 16th, at the Opus Hut in the San Juan Wilderness at 11,675 feet, and Alana said yes! The couple would like to thank their friends, family and community for sharing in their excitement and gratitude.

Proud hometown of a honor student Rebecca Maniscalchi of Carbondale was among 51 Coloradans listed on the Provostâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Honor Roll at the University of Wyoming last semester, which means she completed at least six but fewer than 12 hours with a minimum 3.5 grade-point average. Impressive!

In your own mind The Mindful Life Program is holding a foundations course July 21 through 23, which is designed to give you the tools to â&#x20AC;&#x153;live your life with attention and intention, cultivating the skills and the wisdom that empower you to make healthy choices that are in alignment with your values.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s facilitated by Laura Bartels and costs $250; group discounts, payment plans and scholarships are available. For more information or to sign up, visit mindfullifeprogram.org.

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The road less traveled Several White River National Forest roads will be closed for maintenance during the month of July. Chief among them is the Eagle-Thomasville Road (FRS #400), which will have daily closures south of Sylvan Lake State Park up to Crooked Creek Pass from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 25 through 30. For more information about the scheduled road maintenance closures, contact the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District ofďŹ ce at 963-2266.

These kids set up in downtown Basalt as part of YouthEntityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lemonade Dayâ&#x20AC;? and donated a portion of their proceeds to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer. Photo by Heather Hicks.

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The Sun has it on good authority that construction at Bridges High school resulted in the power being unexpectedly turned off for Bonedale Ballet, which rents studio space in the building. After a scramble for a temporary home, it sounds like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found a solution right here at The Third Street Center.

Roaring Fork Brain Train, a premier program of Senior Matters since it opened in July 16, is switching nonprofits in November and will be under the umbrella of My Community Health Foundation in Basalt. The only enrolled program of its kind on the Western Slope, the program will stay in its current location at the Third Street Center in Carbondale, also maintaining its stellar staff and volunteers. For more information, visit www.seniorsmatter.org/braintrain.html and www.mycommunityhealthfoundation.org.

They say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your birthday Folks celebrating the day of their birth this week include: Dave Dixon and Amy Burdick (July 20); Ernie Kollar, Brian Wexler and Colleen Weinfurter (July 21); Jessica Kollar (July 22); Jeff Wadley, Shelle DeBeque, Ruth Frey and Mary Boucher (July 23); Adele Hause and Mark Von Hagke (July 24); Jim Tippett, Frank Norwood, Adrienne Ackerman, Robert Moore and Ruby Honan (July 25).

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Learn about mushrooms in a series of ACES events Mycelium: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the largest organism on the planet. It can heal you, feed you, clean up an oil spill â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it can even shift your consciousness.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Louie Schwartzburg, pioneering timelapse nature cinematographer

Well, if that quote grabs you, explore more through The Aspen Center for Environmental Studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual mushroom event, kicking off Wednesday evening, July 26, with a free presentation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Colorado Mushrooms: A World of Wonder at Your Feet,â&#x20AC;? 7-8:30 p.m. at Hallam Lake in Aspen. Dr. Andrew Wilson, Assistant Curator of the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at the Denver Botanic Gardens, will take you on â&#x20AC;&#x153;an imaginary hike through aspen groves, along waterways, on high passes and in the subalpine regions of spruce/ďŹ r while examining the animals, plants, and mushrooms we might ďŹ nd there,â&#x20AC;? promises ACES. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Learn identiďŹ cation clues and gain great appreciation for the amazing diversity of mushrooms in our local habitats.â&#x20AC;? Dr. Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fascination with mushrooms, and their mycelium (root networks) began almost twenty years ago, along â&#x20AC;&#x153;a convoluted and serendipitous path, taking a course in Bi-

ology of Fungi at San Francisco State University,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really opened my eyes to this fascinating world that no one seemed to be paying attention to. By comparison, birds or ďŹ&#x201A;owers or other â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;charismaticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; organisms seemed to occupy an inordinate number of biologistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention. Mycology was this vast untapped ďŹ eld that seemed â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;justâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as important, if not more so, than studying something like lions, tigers, or bears.â&#x20AC;? Composing 25 percent of the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biomass, mycelium are key players in the ongoing recovery/rejuvenation processes of our planet. In breaking down organic matter and stone, they are the creators of soil, a foundation of life on this planet. Without mycelium, gone is the living communication system of plant life; gone are the plants, needing soil in which to root; gone are pollinators, needing plants for nectar and pollen; gone is our food, our sustenance. Gone: humans. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not there yet, though! Thursday and Friday, twelve early birds already got the worm and will enjoy two days aďŹ eld with both Dr. Andrew and Dr. Vera Evenson, Curator of the Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi at the Denver Botanic Gardens, for ACESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Mushroom Field Workshop, July 27 and 28. Dr. Evenson has been guiding this ďŹ eld trip â&#x20AC;&#x153;since the early eighties,â&#x20AC;? she says, and is ecstatic to continue teaching with â&#x20AC;&#x153;the ACES staff, as

well as the students, who appreciate our wonderful natural world so much, and are always ready to help, to come along on our forays, to respect nature in all its forms.â&#x20AC;? Having published three tomes on Colorado and Rocky Mountain mushrooms, fungi are Dr. Evensonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I grew up on a small Montana â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;dirtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; farm and was always interested in what was growing out in the ďŹ elds and along the rivers and creeks; how everything in nature is connected. Years later, my family turned me on to higher fungi by ďŹ nding lots of beautiful, colorful mushrooms during camping trips.â&#x20AC;? Fungi continually excite her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially,â&#x20AC;? she declares, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the absolutely essential role

that fungi play in the lives of plants.â&#x20AC;? The ďŹ eld workshop culminates in the free Annual Mushroom Fair on July 28 at Hallam Lake in Aspen. Workshop participants will sort, present, talk about and answer questions about the fungi specimens theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve collected in the ďŹ eld. The public will learn all theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever wanted to know about common and rare mushrooms, through identifying and examining them, and peering at them under microscopes. As an aside, both Dr. Evenson and Dr. Wilson admit to still being most fascinated by the puffball mushroom! For more information, visit aspennature.org or call 925-5756.

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Fire department plans tax question, working on details By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District’s board of directors expects to ask constituents for authorization for some kind of tax increase in the upcoming November election, but they do not yet know exactly how much they need or want. But the directors recognize they need to figure it out pretty quickly, as the deadline is approaching to submit ballot language to the three counties in the district’s jurisdictions — Garfield, Pitkin and Gunnison. That was the upshot of a July 12 meeting at which the board members directed the staff to alert the county clerks in the three counties that a revenue question likely is coming their way. The deadline for that notification is July 28, and the district’s financial manager and public information officer, Jenny Cutright, said on Monday that the letter of notification will be sent out this week after it is drafted by Cutright and the district’s contract attorney, Eric Gross. At the same time, Fire Chief Ron Leach has been directed to get to work on various budgetary scenarios that will help the board members in their discussion about the amount to be requested of the voters, the duration of the tax (will it be limited to two or three years, or longer) and any other issues that may arise. The district two years ago won voter approval for a temporary tax hike of 1.75 mills (the district’s historic tax rate has been 5.903 mills) which was expected to boost the district’s annual revenues by approximately $595,000 this year, and would generate close to $640,650 in 2018 if it were still in effect, according to budgetary information provided by Leach. A mill equals a dollar in taxation for every $1,000 in

assessed valuation of a taxable property. The 2015 mill-levy override came after several years when the district was operating on short rations due to a crash in real estate values during the recent Great Recession of 2008-09. The fire department’s operating budget and other fiscal needs are met primarily by property tax bills issued to residents and businesses in the sprawling 320-square-mile district. During the recession, the district’s annual revenues dropped by an estimated 40 percent, and the district began making up the revenue loss by dipping into its cash reserves and slashing its annual budgets. The voters in 2011 approved a mill-levy override that took the district to a tax rate of 8.0 mills for two years, and when that expired in 2013 the district board asked voters for another tax hike, this time without a “sunset clause,” or expiration date. Voters rejected that tax hike overwhelmingly, handing the district a defeat that prompted a number of changes to the departmental operations and prodded district officials to begin work on a master plan, which had been promised by the district several years earlier. The district now has a master plan in hand and has been linking that plan with its decision-making process. At the July 12 meeting, Leach presented a budget that he termed a “no-growth budget,” meaning it reflected the expiration of the mill-levy override approved in 2015 but did not reflect voter approval of any new tax question for the coming years. Among other things, the budget document called for the district to dip into its cash reserves, estimated to stand at $1.7 million at the end of this year, which would draw those reserves down to below $1 million by the end of 2018.

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Leach’s no-growth budget called for a 2.8 percent increase in expenses in “all categories” to keep the district’s finances on a par with general inflation, including a 5 percent salary increase “across the board” for the paid firefighters and emergency medical personnel. “This is about as conservative as we can get,” Leach told the board, adding that without some added revenues in the coming year, “the consequences would be severe” for the district’s operations. Board member Mike Kennedy suggested the board could ask voters for an extension of the current tax rate, perhaps for three years, to see if rising property values might put the budget on a more sound footing by then. The district already is hopeful about state-mandated bi-annual tax valuation data, which is expected to show a general increase in property values and thus an increase in the district’s revenues for the coming year. But, Leach pointed out, that the county assessors offices will not release the information until Aug. 10, which is a day after the next fire district board meeting, meaning the information will not be available for the board’s next discussion of the tax issues. The district has until Sept. 8 to submit final ballot language to the clerks of the three counties.

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Annexation mulled for Snowmass Drive, trailer park By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Carbondale and Garﬁeld County have for years talked about exploring ways to put a trail alongside Snowmass Drive, the one-time bypass for coal trucks hauling loads from mines near Redstone to the coal loading facility on Catherine Store Road east of town. Following a joint meeting between town trustees and the county’s Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) in June, the two entities may be moving closer to actually getting a project underway. Before anything concrete happens, it will be up to Carbondale to come up with estimated costs of such a project, as well as an idea of whether the town should annex the road and perhaps the adjacent Vetter Trailer Park (aka The Garﬁeld Court Mobile Home Park), both of which currently are in the county's jurisdiction.

The road Snowmass Drive, which is the main focus of the talks between the town and the county, was built in the mid-1970s, according to Carbondale resident Rebecca Young, co-founder of The Valley Journal newspaper that operated in Carbondale until 2009. She said that when she moved to Carbondale in 1974, “They were still bringing the coal trucks through town” on the way to the loading facility on 100 Road. Soon after that, she recalled, the coal mining company, Mid-Continent Coal & Coke (later renamed to Mid-Continent Resources) built Snowmass Drive as a bypass to get the coal trucks off the town’s streets and avoid conﬂicts with the cars, bikes and pedestrians using those streets. For some time, there was little development along what became known as “the coal road,” other than the former Roaring Fork High School building and a home across Snowmass Drive from the intersection at Sopris Avenue. Although some Crystal River Valley residents used the bypass as a quick route around Carbondale on the way to jobs in Aspen, for some time the road saw little trafﬁc other than the coal trucks. Since then, however, the community has seen the construction of the Crystal River Elementary School and The Orchard, a nondenominational church next to the ele-

mentary school, with a resulting increase in automotive traffic on Snowmass Drive. At the same time, Carbondale and other entities have created a bike-and-pedestrian trail system that includes a leg that runs from the intersection of Sopris Avenue and Snowmass Drive (at the southeastern corner of the Vetter Trailer Park) south along Snowmass Drive to a point near Highway 133, where the trail joins with another trail that follows the highway on southward. It is the town’s hope to link that portion of its trail system by building a connection along the 900 feet of Snowmass Drive that remains technically within the county, confirmed Town Manager Jay Harrington in a telephone interview on July 18. Referring to the joint meeting on June 20 with the BOCC, Harrington said, “We talked about trying to figure out some way to get bikes and pedestrians (off) the road,” Harrington said, but he added that while there have been “a lot of discussions” over the years, there has been “nothing definite” in the way of formal planning. The whole idea, he said, is on hold while the town comes up with cost estimates for the trail work and whatever else such a project might entail, which will be turned over to county officials to see how it fits into the county’s budget for 2018 or beyond. Harrington said town officials are envisioning a trail of six to eight feet in width, separated from the traffic lanes of the road, but noted that the Carbondale Board of Trustees has yet to decide whether the town should annex the road and take on the maintenance and repair costs it would bring. While the county has shown a willingness to take part in paying for the improvements, said County Manager Kevin Batchelder, it is now waiting for the town’s information before going any further. He noted, though, that the county “would like to see the town annex the road.”

The trailer park The Vetter Trailer Park, which was created by former coal miner Carl Vetter in the 1950s and later purchased by Bob and Molly Olenick (former owners of the Red Rock Diner), has been owned since 2012 by local entrepreneur Simon Casas, whom Bob Olenick said already owned several trailers in the park. According to records on ﬁle with the

Snowmass Drive was originally designed as a coal truck bypass, and the unincorporated section just south of Main Street is consequently not terribly pedestrian friendly. If it were annexed, the town might be able to offer a better option than trying to walk down or ride a narrow dirt strip along the fence of the adjacent trailer park. Photo by Will Grandbois

Garfield County Assessor’s Office, Casas purchased the park for approximately $1.4 million, a sum that Bob Olenick said he had financed and that Casas “almost has completely paid off.” Casas, several years ago, was hoping to add another mobile home to the park, and attempted to buy an additional water tap for that purpose. But the town declined to go along due to a moratorium on selling water taps to properties outside the town boundaries. When reached by phone on July 18, Casas said he had not heard that the county and the town were discussing the possible annexation of the road and his trailer park. Asked how he felt about the possibility of annexing the park to the town, he said, “It has, I think, good and bad things” about it. Two possible outcomes that he considers bad from his viewpoint, he said, are the likelihood that his property taxes would be higher if the park were in the town’s juris-

diction, and the potential that he would need to undertake considerable improvements to bring the trailer park up to the town’s codes. “I have no idea what the town codes may require,” he said, adding that he would need to talk with town ofﬁcials before he could say much more about the situation. Batchelder, after acknowledging that annexation of the road by the town would leave the trailer park as an isolated “county enclave” entirely surrounded by the town, said the county would like to see the trailer park annexed if that is feasible. Any costs of improvements to the park, in order to meet town code requirements, “would be up to the owner,” Batchelder predicted. Neither Batchelder nor Harrington could say how long deliberations might take before actual work on road improvements might begin, though the hope is that it could start next year, depending on costs.

What is a progressive Christian? Looking for a church that actually loves and doesn’t condemn? Join the congregations of Carbondale and Basalt Community United Methodist Churches for an eight-week sermon series by Pastor Brad Walston on what it means to be a progressive Christian and rediscover the Gospel as a life-giving message that still transforms. Continuing this Sunday, July 23 Every week through Sunday Aug. 27

8:30 a.m. at Basalt Community UMC 0167 Holland Hills Rd. 10:30 a.m. at Carbondale Community UMC 385 S. Second St. This week’s sermon: “We Are Not Alone” All are Welcome … Really! THE SOPRIS SUN, Carbondale’s weekly community connector • JULY 20-26, 2017 • 9

Community Calendar THURSDAY July 20 BOOK CLUB â&#x20AC;˘ Discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Gentleman in Moscowâ&#x20AC;? with other bookworms at 6 p.m. at Bookbinders Basalt (760 E. Valley Rd; Unit C-122).

THU-SUN July 20-23 RENT â&#x20AC;˘ The Stage of Life Theatre (SoL) Company takes on the rock musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;RENT!â&#x20AC;? with performances at 7 p.m July 20-22, and 2 p.m July 22-23 at the Third St. Center in Carbondale. Tickets are $20 and available at the door or at soltheatrecompany.org.

FRIDAY July 21 MOVIES â&#x20AC;˘ The Crystal Theatre presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Big Sickâ&#x20AC;? (R) at 7:30 p.m. July 21-27; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Beguiledâ&#x20AC;? (R) at 5:30 p.m. July 22 and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wonder Womanâ&#x20AC;? (PG-13) at 4:30 p.m. on July 23. SONGWRITER DUO â&#x20AC;˘ At 8 p.m., Marble Distilling (150 Main St.) hosts husbandand-wife Americana act Fort DeďŹ ance. FOLK TO GOSPEL â&#x20AC;˘ Brigette DeMeyer and Will Kimbrough of Nashville bring soul, humor, poetry and picking to Steveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.) at 8:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or thereabouts. FUNK & PUNK â&#x20AC;˘ At 9 p.m., ďŹ ve piece band â&#x20AC;&#x153;Primal J and the Neanderthalsâ&#x20AC;? descends on The Black Nugget (403 Main St.).

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host â&#x20AC;&#x153;a Mid-Summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ranch Dream,â&#x20AC;? a multi course local dinner with multiple main dishes and a wide array of libations. It starts at 4 p.m. and runs $175 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tickets at brownpapertickets.com/event/2948383. INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ At 6 p.m. the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) offers a free concert featuring Aspen Music Festival musicians performing solo and chamber music. BLUEGRASS BAND â&#x20AC;˘ The Rattlesnakes out of Los Angeles, featuring local mandolin player Guy Welles, come to Steveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.) at 8:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or thereabouts.

MONDAY July 24 HEALTH THROUGH NUTRITION â&#x20AC;˘Â Free opportunities includeâ&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;˘ One-hour consultation about heart attack prevention, plant-based nutrition, other medical issues. Call retired family doctor Greg Feinsinger, M.D. for appointment (379-5718). â&#x20AC;˘ First Monday of every month catch a powerpoint presentation by Dr. Feinsinger about the science behind plant-based nutri-

tion 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the board room Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). â&#x20AC;˘ Fourth Monday of every month, plantbased potluck 6:30 p.m. Calaway Room Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). All events supported by Davi Nikent, Center for Human Flourishing. More information at www.davinikent.org.

TUESDAY July 25 TRAIL WORK â&#x20AC;˘ Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers teams up with The Roaring Fork Mountain Bike Association, Bureau of Land Management and Pitkin County to tackle The Crown â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and they need your help. Show up anytime after 4 p.m. to pitch in; more details and signup at rfov.org 927-8241.

WEDNESDAY July 26 TOY HACKING â&#x20AC;˘ Disassemble and reassemble toys to create a monster, masterpiece, or something in between at 4 p.m at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.). FOREIGN FILM â&#x20AC;˘ At 5:15 p.m., the Basalt Regional Library (14 Midland Ave., Basalt) shows the 2016 documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Eagle Huntress,â&#x20AC;? which follows a 13-year-old no-

madic Mongolian girl who is ďŹ ghting to become the ďŹ rst female eagle hunter in twelve generations of her Kazakh family.

Save the Date FRI.-SUN. July 28-30 CARBONDALE MOUNTAIN FAIR â&#x20AC;˘ Carbondale Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 46th annual Carbondale Mountain (aka the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roaring Fork Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Partyâ&#x20AC;? takes place in Sopris Park. Food, music, arts/crafts and more. Admission is free. Volunteers are needed to make this event a success plus volunteers who give over four hours of their time are also eligible to receive a Mountain Fair T-Shirt! Info: carbondalearts.com or 963-1680.

Further Out SATURDAY July 29 FOSSIL REUNION â&#x20AC;˘ At 1 p.m., members of the old Mid-Continent soccer team will gather at White House Pizza (801 Main Ct.).

TUESDAY Aug. 1 CLIMATE TALK â&#x20AC;˘ Renowned scientist Dr. Ben Santer will discuss personal and scientiďŹ c lessons learned following the widespread, dramatic response to a single sentence of the 1995 IPCC report on climate (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human inďŹ&#x201A;uence on global climateâ&#x20AC;?) at 6 p.m. at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (100 Puppy Smith St.).

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Community Calendar HIGH NOON • Bring your compliments, complaints and ideas to Sopris Sun Editor Will Grandbois at 12 p.m. Thursdays at the Pour House (351 Main St.). BIRDING • Meet a Roaring Fork Audubon volunteer at 7 a.m. every first and third Thursday May through August in the little parking area next to the south Crystal River Bridge. Free. BLUEGRASS JAM • Bring the instrument of your choice or just your voice for a weekly jam session first and last Sundays at 6:30 at Steve’s Guitars (19 N 4th St.) and all other Sundays at the Glenwood Springs Brew Garden (115 Sixth St.). SENIOR MATTERS • The nonprofit Senior Matters, based in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.), offers numerous programs for senior citizens, including: tai chi with John Norman at 8:30 a.m. on Monday and Wednesday; tai chi with Marty Finklestein at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday; Alaprima Painters at 11 a.m. on Thursdays; the Senior Matters Book Club at 4 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of the month; and the Roaring Fork Brain Train. Info: seniormatters.org; Diane Johnson at 970-306-2587; and Senior Matters, Box 991, Carbondale CO, 81623. SENIOR RADIO • Diane Johnson talks about senior issues and services on KDNK at 4:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of the month. BRIDGE • The Carbondale Bridge Club hosts duplicate bridge (not sanctioned by ACBL) from 6:30 to 10 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). $6/per pair C’DALE TRUSTEES • The Carbondale Board

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of Trustees holds regular meetings the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at Town Hall (511 Colorado Ave.) starting at 6 p.m. The trustees usually hold work session at 6 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays. Info: 9632733 or carbondalegov.org. ROTARY • The Carbondale Rotary Club meets at the Carbondale Fire Station (300 Meadowood Dr.) at 6:45 a.m. Wednesdays. The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at Mi Casita (580 Main St.) at noon every Thursday. GRIEF AND LOSS • Pathfinders offers a grief and loss support group every other Monday at 6 p.m., and a caregiver support group every other Wednesday noon. An RSVP is required to Robyn Hubbard at 319-6854. Pathfinders offers support groups from Aspen to Rifle and is located in Carbondale at 1101 Village Rd. Info: pathfindersforcancer.org. CASTLE TOURS • Take a step back in time with a guided visit to the baronial home of Redstone’s founder, J. C. Osgood, at 11 a.m. every day in July. Tickets available on the day of the tour in Redstone and at the Hotel Denver in Glenwood Springs. More info at www.theredstonecastle.com or 963-9656.

everyone’s invited for SRF meditation from 10 to 11 a.m. on the first Sunday of the month and 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month. LET’S JUST DANCE • Get out on the dance floor at 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday at The Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). No partner or experience necessary; 7 p.m. lessons available with Wild Bill. Questions? Call 970-366-6463 or email BillyPat4@gmail.com. IMMUNIZATION CLINICS • Garfield County offers immunization clinics at the Carbondale Family Resource Center (in the Bridges Center at 400 Sopris Ave.) the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. To schedule an appointment, call 945-6614, ext. 2030. MEET THE MAYOR • Carbondale Mayor Dan Richardson holds his weekly “Office Hours” session at the Village Smithy from 7 to 8 a.m. on Tuesdays. Drop by and say hi. MINDFULNESS • The Mindful Life Program in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) offers group sessions Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation and registration is not necessary. Info: mindfullifeprogram.org and 970-633-0163.

FARMER’S MARKET • Local produce and more available at the Fourth Street Plaza from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays.

LUNCH • Crystal Meadows (1250 Hendrick Dr.) senior housing hosts a lunch followed by Bingo every Wednesday.

MEDITATION • Free silent meditation sessions are held at the Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.) from 6:45 to 7:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Additionally, The Monday Night Meditation Group meets from 7 to 8:15 p.m. at True Nature (100 N. Third St.) and offers instruction in the Buddhist practice of Vipassana. Also at True Nature,

RUN AROUND • Independence Run & Hike hosts a run around town Saturdays at 8 a.m. Meet at the store 596 Highway 133 (in La Fontana Plaza) and run various distances, with different routes each week. Info: 704-0909. YAPPY HOUR • Colorado Animal Rescue’s Yappy Hour at the Marble Bar (150 Main St)

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Moments of zen Maybe it’s the mountains; maybe it’s the people, but Carbondale seems to have an unusually strong connection to Eastern philosophy for a community its size. That was particularly evident this month, with the simultaneous visits of the Venerable Thubten Semkye and Zen Master Tae Won Snim. Semkye, a Buddhist nun from Srvasti Abbey in Washington state, offered a public talk on Buddhist teachings of peace and harmony on July 13 and led a retreat through the The Way of Compassion Dharma Center on July 15. Snim, the Abbott of a Seon Temple in Daejeon, South Korea and Grandmaster in the Korean Martial Art of Poong Ryu Do, conducted a wide array of events at the Aspen Chapel, Davi Nikent, Rocky Mountain Taekwondo Retreat and True Nature Healing Arts. The trend continues July 25 through 30 with the return of the monks of Gaden Shartse Monastery. Donation-based programming includes a Vajravidarana Puriﬁcation Ritual on Tuesday, a teaching on cultivating bodhicitta (great compassion) on Wednesday and chenrezig empowerment on Thursday — all at 7 p.m. at the Third Street Center. And, of course, look for their tent at Mountain Fair. The Venerable Thubten Semkye gave a public talk at the The Way of Compassion Dharma Center on July 13. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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Zen Master Tae Won Snim invited locals to join him in the sacred ritual of the Korean Tea Ceremony on July 17. According to the associated Facebook event, “the spiritual path and awakening, that of equanimity and harmony, are achieved through puriﬁcation, absorption and meditation attained through the ritual of making and drinking tea.” Photos by Mark Burrows

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Taekwon‘do’ or ‘do not’ The testing continued at elevation, with a base camp at Capitol Lake covered in waist deep ﬂowers and raspberries. Photo by Master Jonah Fuechsel

ere is no try On Friday, July 14, PRO TKD Martial arts training center in Carbondale was teeming with activity as eight students prepared to test for their Taekwondo black belts. Seated along the far wall was a line of young children wearing white doboks while several ofﬁcial looking adults wearing red, blue and black and white doboks occupied the front wall. The room suddenly became silent, serious and disciplined when the students entered the center of the room and lined up before the judges to perform their tests. PRO TKD is located at 1079 Highway 133 (call 963-2685 or visit protkdmac.com for more information). Other Carbondale martial arts centers include Rising Crane Training Center at 768 Highway 133 (274-8473 / risingcrane.net) and Roaring Fork Aikikai at 2553 Dolores Way (340-8178 / rfaikikai.com). Sahn Taekwondo also offers courses at the Carbondale Rec. Center.

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A Carbondale state of mind

Margaret (Margy) Miller Our beloved Margy passed away on June 22, 2017, as a result of pancreatic cancer. A native of Redlands, California, Margaret Miller was born to Mary and Joe Rezendes on November 3, 1936. She grew up in a Portuguese Catholic family in Redlands and spent much of her youth riding and training horses and competing in horse shows. At Redlands High School she was a life member of the California Scholarship Federation and a varsity cheerleader. While in high school, a close friend nicknamed her â&#x20AC;&#x153;Margy.â&#x20AC;? Margy was awarded the Mabel Woodbury Scholarship to the University of Redlands, where she was a member of Alpha Theta Phi, serving as its president in her senior year. After graduation in 1958, Margy began her teaching career in Riverside with RUSD at Pachappa Elementary and later, as part of Title I under RUSD at St. Francis de Sales Elementary. In 1963, she met the love of her life, Ron, also a teacher in RUSD, and they married in June 1965. They were thrilled to welcome their only child, Christopher, in August 1972. Chris has spent many years abroad working in international develop-

ment, including in Sarajevo with the World Bank; he now works with the Royal Family of Jaipur in India. Margy and Ron spent every summer at their second home near Redstone in Coloradoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crystal River Valley, enjoying being with Ronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extended family and many friends. In both Riverside and Redstone she enjoyed walking and playing card games like Bridge and Quiddler with her friends. She loved all sports and enjoyed playing tennis and soccer through the years. Margy wants everyone to know that she was always an avid Denver Broncos fan! She will be long remembered for her smile, wit, warmth, courage, and her loving and generous spirit Margy is survived by Ron, her husband of 51 years; son Christopher; sisters Helen Rezendes, (Santa Clara) and Dorothy Johnson (Santa Cruz); brothers-in-law Stan Miller (Linda) and Gary Miller (Lori) of Colorado; and many nieces and nephews. In lieu of ďŹ&#x201A;owers, if you wish to make a donation in Margyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory, please consider Riverside Young Life, Box 547, Riverside, CA 92502; or St. Benedictâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Monastery, 1012 Monastery Road, Snowmass, CO 81654. A Celebration of Life will be held on her birthday, November 3, 2017, 10 a.m. at St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Newman Center, 105 West Big Springs Road, Riverside 92507, Father Nathan Castle, O.P., ofďŹ ciating. Private interment will be held at Riverside National Cemetery.

From the archives of the Roaring Fork Valley Journal July 21, 1977

July 24, 1997

Valley Journal Editor Pat Noel addressed a growing sense that Carbondale was becoming Aspenized by pointing out that the inďŹ&#x201A;ux of upvalley folks was nothing new. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the end, I suspect everything will have changed quite a bit from what it used to be, but if â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;what it used to beâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; had any real merit, the vestiges of it will certainly remain,â&#x20AC;? he wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carbondale is, after all, more than a name â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a state of mind.â&#x20AC;? In other newsâ&#x20AC;Ś The discovery of herd of dead elk near Telluride had wildlife ofďŹ cers scratching their heads, as all 61 of them seemed to have fallen off a cliff.

Following the sale of its old sewer lagoon property, the town was looking to buy a piece of land for a new recreation complex, but not having a lot of luck ďŹ nding space at a fair price Part of the problem, Mayor Randy Vanderhurst surmised, is that Carbondale had $1 million to spend â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and landowners knew it. In other newsâ&#x20AC;Ś City Market (which had recently acquired Circle Soopers but not yet become a Kroger property) introduced its Value Card for automatic coupons, complete with a giant strawberry graphic on the front.

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Jim Boyd wrote a letter suggesting â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Little Street Where Old Friends Meetâ&#x20AC;? as Carbondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme song. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To you, it may be old / And sort of tumbled down / But it means a lot to folks / in my hometown. // Although Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m rich or poor, / I still feel sure / Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m welcome as the ďŹ&#x201A;owers that bloom in May.â&#x20AC;? In other newsâ&#x20AC;Ś John Buxman and John Buxman Jr. completed the renovation and reopening of the Springs Theatre in Glenwood Springs (which shuttered again in 2013 and now hosts the Glenwood Vaudeville Revue).

The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority was busily constructing its new Park and Ride across from Village Road while the Colorado Department of Transportation prepared for the construction of a new four lane bridge at the intersection of Highway 133 and Highway 82. Both projects were taking Mountain Fair weekend off. In other newsâ&#x20AC;Ś Residents were calling for more notice when the utility department planned to jet the sewer lines after backups caused a mess in several bathrooms.

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World War I om page 2 By June 1917, the first American division reached France. By year’s end, 175,000 Americans were serving there; 18 months later, the American Expeditionary Force numbered nearly two million men. T.H. Slusser was among them. He became a commander in the First Light Infantry on November 27, 1917. His unit joined the 126th Infantry in the Aisne-Marne offensive in Alsace, then marched with Army of Occupation in Germany after the armistice on November 11, the day that would become my birthday 33 years later. In its 1918 article, quoting an army field dispatch sent from “somewhere in France”, the Chicago Evening American reported that “Lieutenant Thomas Harry Slusser and Lieutenant Otto H. Buder of Kalamazoo, Michigan “distinguished themselves by charging across an open field swept

by machine gun fire.” As PBS has aired “The Great War”, I have reflected on how much WWI shaped the world we live in today. Bellicose leadership and conflict abroad can still inspire hatred and violence at home. Today, while our allies have reason to question our nation’s commitment to live up to Woodrow Wilson’s call to “make the world safe for democracy,” I believe that most Americans still aspire to that noble goal. WWI had an important effect on me too. Had my grandfather not survived his machine gun charge 100 years ago, I wouldn’t be writing this column today. My father wasn’t born until 1925, six years after Thomas Harry Slusser returned from the trenches of France.

TOWN OF CARBONDALE ORDINANCE NO. 12

TOWN OF CARBONDALE ORDINANCE NO. 13

AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADO APPROVING A SIXTH EXTENSION OF THE DEADLINE TO RECORD A FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT FOR THE CARBONDALE MARKETPLACE SUBDIVISION

AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADO IMPOSING TEMPORARY CHANGES TO CONSTRUCTION AND TRASH HAULING REGULATIONS DURING THE GRAND AVENUE BRIDGE PROJECT

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

This Ordinance shall take effect immediately. The full text of said Ordinance is available to the public at www.carbondalegov.org or at the office of the Town Clerk, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, Colorado, during normal business hours.

SERIES OF 2017

NOTICE: This Ordinance was introduced, read, and adopted at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Carbondale, Colorado, on June 27, 2017.

NOTICE: This Ordinance was introduced, read, and adopted at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Carbondale, Colorado, on July 11, 2017.

THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE _________________________ By: s/s Dan Richardson, Mayor

ATTEST: __________________________ s/s Cathy Derby, Town Clerk

Published in The Sopris Sun on July 20, 2017.

Language om page 2 get the words jumbled up in my head. Imagine my delight when our former President George W. Bush said, “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” Yesss! Even the presidents get those idioms wrong! As a child at any given time there were four languages spoken in our home. My father is Japanese by way of Brazil, so he brought into our home Japanese and Portuguese. My mother is from Mexico so she spoke in Spanish and together we all navigated our way through the complicated web of the English language. My mom attended CMC classes at night after a long day of cleaning houses in order to improve her English. She never parted with her pocket dictionary. She’d whip that thing out in no time ﬂat to search up a word she didn’t know, even if it meant holding up the entire line at a bank. There was so much beauty in the micro melting pot we had in our home. And there was laughter. Laughter got us through some of the more difﬁcult times. I saw how my par-

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ents were forced to put their language skills out there every day. Their small business depended on it. My siblings and I would be in the background snickering as my mother left a message on her client’s answering machine, “would you like us to change the shits on your bed when we clean your house next time?” Sheets, mama, SHEETS! Or we’d hold our breath as she would recount a story to a neighbor about our recent “Bitch vacation.” Beach, mom, BEACH! My dad would mean to say “God bless you.” But, it came out sounding something more like, “God breast you.” Even after we corrected him he saw the twisted humor in his slip up and continued to say it his way. Oh, the awkward comical moments with immigrant parents are endless. But you don’t have to be an immigrant to know learning a new language is hard stuff. Any language learner knows it’s a tough battle sometimes. But I say, who cares? Go ahead and slip up. Be embarrassed for a minute and then take a bow. In the process you’ve learned something new and now you’re now a proud owner of a great story to share with your friends.

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