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Volume 2, Number 30 | September 16, 2010

Drummer rediscovers true calling

By Trina Ortega Special to The Sopris Sun

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Kip Hubbard was drawn to drumming at an early age then drifted away from his musical roots during college. When Hubbard returned to his drums he started something called “ensemble” drumming, which he is now teaching at True Nature in the Third Street Center. Photo by Jane Bachrach

It was a motley little crew of rural Washington kids.

They’d never performed before but they had a passion, and under the guidance of drummer Kip Hubbard, those kids became part of a youth rhythm ensemble that performed at nationally recognized venues, including the World Rhythm Festival, Seattle Folklife and Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts.

Hubbard, now a Carbondale resident, hopes to share that drumming passion with kids and adults in the Roaring Fork Valley with six-week, beginner-level Afro-Caribbean ensemble drumming classes. An adult class began Sept. 15 and the kids’ class (for ages 7–10) begins Saturday. Both take place at True Nature Healing Arts Center at the Third Street Center.

“I consider [drumming] my calling. I really see this as an opportunity for me to give a gift to the community and I enjoy teaching,” said Hubbard, who most recently led a drum circle at True Nature’s grand opening last Friday.

For Hubbard, drumming is an extension of the heartbeat that is “deeply engrained in all of us,” he said.

He first felt that beat when he was a boy growing up in a small Connecticut town. The region was a “hotbed” for fife and drum Revolutionary War-style drumming that was designed to rally soldiers and “get everybody fired up,” Hubbard explained.

He remembers standing in his family’s driveway one day when he was about 9 years old. Across the river, more than 10 miles away, he could hear the flute and drum music.

“I remember asking my dad, ‘What’s that sound?’ It was really powerful,” he said. “It was such a huge piece of me. I think that’s why I wanted a drum set instead of a bike [when he was 12]. I had experienced it but never got to do it. If it’s inside it’s hard to get rid of it.”

That fateful decision when he was just a boy led to his first “glistening, blue metal flake, five-piece drum set” and later to playing both the drum set and the snare drum in a local fife and drum corps in Old Lyme, Conn.

When he was in college, Hubbard’s drumbeat was quiet; he’d stopped playing to get serious about school and a career, but the rhythm he felt inside was “always pushing to get out,” he said.

He moved to Port Townsend, Wash., in 1994, and joined in a drum circle one night and his passion was revived.

“Every pore of my body, starved for rhythm, woke up as I stood for the first time at a set of Cuban conga drums and felt my hands miraculously creating a beat. I had to stop at one point to be sure it was really me that was playing,” he said.

At that moment, he hopped back on the path he’d started

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John Seidel returns

Disc golf a danger?

Mural project finds funding

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Carbondale Commentary Why must we kill fewer deer?

By John Seidel Managing wildlife populations starts with managing our county commissioners.

Kevin Wright, the Colorado Division of Wildlife’s long-time local wildlife manager of the Roaring Fork Valley, recently held a meeting to discuss the reduction of the number of deer licenses issued for hunting in this area. This is a difficult thing for him to do. If you reduce the number of licenses sold you reduce the income of the Division of Wildlife. This agency does not receive any funds from your taxes. Its budget is almost entirely made up by fees it collects from hunters and fishermen.Without this agency you wouldn’t have any wildlife in the woods or fish in the streams. Guns and human greed eliminated from the landscape most of the current species that you take for granted. Elk were brought to the valley in boxcars from Yellowstone after they were eliminated by the miners.

The current problem with wildlife populations isn’t with too many hunters but with bad land decisions. Sitting here in Carbondale gives one a unique opportunity to compare a variety of land use issues and how three different counties with different philosophies have made land-use decisions that have negatively affected wildlife habitats.

Eagle County developed the entire valley from Vail to Glenwood Canyon with little concern for wildlife. They studied wildlife and documented its decline, but built: the airport, Costco, Cordierlla, Pete’s Bowl, Wild Ridge and countless other developments right in the winter range of its wildlife populations. Eagle County’s portions in the Roaring Fork Valley didn’t fare much better. Missouri Heights Reservoir is doted with development where the Division of Wildlife used to chase poachers. Eagle County likes development as long as you do it “our way.” See the planning department for details.

Pitkin County has more land-use regulations relating to the environment than Carters’ got little-liver pills. It takes about a million bucks and at least a year to get a building permit. There are several levels of wildlife review both by the state and county.

Pitkin County has protected significant habitat, but over all even its habitats are eaten away at from the edges.

Even the lovers of nature (the outdoor adventure recreationists) are eating up what they love. An old guide and outfitter once argued against making Kline Creeks a wilderness area. His argument was that if they made it an official wilderness area, people would find out about it and come mess it up. Then in 1972 it was wilderness with little evidence of man’s appearance; the trail barely existed and had to be cut out each time you went in. There were few fire rings and no trails up the valley floor. Now there are well kept trails, signs, parking areas and bike trails.

Garfield County, although it has the best wildlife habitats of the three counties, places less significance on them than the others. It rarely considers the impacts of a development, has minimal land use codes relating to wildlife and generally disregards critical comments. If gas and oil are involved they are exempt. Garfield County loves to give agricultural exemptions. That’s the recent thing to do in Garfield County — get an agricultural exemption.

Ranch managers in our valley have cleared out hundreds of acres of important sagebrush along the valley floor under agricultural exemptions, without consultation, review or permits. The new 80,000-square-foot private horse barn with seven bathrooms that has erupted on Missouri Heights like a big pimple came in with an agricultural exemption with no review. It’s not supposed to be commercial so watch for those ‘non-profit’ special benefit events to be held this spring. I guess the elk that used to move through that sagebrush will just have to use County Road 102.

There is a current debate among Garfield County commissioner candidates over whether to protect the water supply of Carbondale. Do we let them pump over 400 unknown cancer-causing chemicals into the Thompson Creek water shed in the process of frac’ing or do we tell them to stay out. Seems simple to me.

Currently the Garfield County commissioners priorities seem to be protecting us from the dangers of marijuana. Why don’t we get to vote on whether gas companies get to inject chemicals into our water supply? Why did “Gasland” have to be made by a guy from Pennsylvania? Why not someone from here?

I recently returned from a tour of Newfoundland where they used to exist on a natural resource — cod. Then they and the rest of the world caught all the cod and in the process destroyed the habitat for the cod. The Newfies blame the seals, the Portuguese, the Russians and the Spanish for the loss of the cod. But they were right in there with them hauling in as many as they could.

If you want to know why there are fewer deer just look in the mirror when you go to vote.

John Seidel is a retired Colorado Division of Wildlife officer for Carbondale (1972-78) and is currently an opinionated skeptic observer.

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Kajsa Sutro (left), Will Rose (center) and Lina Sutro (right) take a few moments during a 10th Mountain hut trip to catch up on their Sopris Sun reading. Courtesy photo.

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Publicize the gardens

What has happened to Carbondale?

Editor’s note: This letter was sent to the Carbondale Board of Trustees.

Dear Editor: After reading the front-page article in the Sopris Sun regarding the use and condition of the educational gardens north of town hall, I have a few thoughts I’d like to share.

I think the town could do a much better job of outreach and publicity regarding the gardens. I consider myself to be fairly well informed of the amenities and doings of the town, but I had not been previously aware of the educational purpose of the gardens, even though I bike by this area almost daily and often admire them. Last year’s tiny news blurb about the planting of vegetables did not publicize the entire scope of the gardens, nor make clear that public participation was in the plan.

Furthermore, a one-time announcement is not effective in getting out the word on anything.

The town could offer regular weekly garden tours led by Tony Coia, like Basalt does with Lisa DiNardo, their gardens manager.

The town could partner with the schools to bring students to the gardens, and with senior programs, garden clubs, environmental groups and others to bring others there. Inserts could be included with monthly water/ sewer bills; flyers could be distributed at the weekly farmers market, etc, etc, etc. If more people were aware of their existence and purpose, more volunteers could probably be recruited to assist in their maintenance.

Townspeople appreciate and value our green spaces, and I believe would help to maintain them if asked. If volunteers don’t show up one time, the ball shouldn’t just be dropped because further efforts can be productive.

The Sopris Sun has done a good job of beginning to get the word out about these gardens. Now it’s up to the town to do its part to enlist public participation and fulfill the original intent of this wonderfully pleasing gift.

Laurie Loeb Carbondale

Dear Editor: I’m a woman from Glenwood Springs who is considering looking into being put on the waiting list of your senior housing as I think this is a great town and I’d like to live here.

But something happened recently that just knocked me for a loop about your wonderful town. I went into the Novel-Tea bookLETTERS page 14

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Concerns raised over disc golf safety at Gianinetti Park

By Lynn Burton The Sopris Sun A five-month discussion over alleged disc golf safety issues at Gianinetti Park seems poised to spill over into the fall, after the Parks and Recreation Commission voted not to move the disc golf course earlier in the summer.

“At this time, we are still hoping to go back to the P&R (parks and Recreation Commission) … if they will allow us on the agenda,” said Bill Hofto, whose house on Surrey Road sits alongside Gianinetti Park.

Bill and his wife Patti have lived in their house since before the 9-hole disc golf course was installed in the mixed-use park five years ago. They say they are worried the heavy discs used in the sport will hit a child or passerby and injure them, and they’d like to see the course moved.

“Disc golf is not just throwing a Frisbee around,” said Patti during an interview at the couple’s dinning room table earlier this week. Bill picked up a golf disc and a standard Frisbee and pointed out the differences. A golf disc is smaller, harder and heavier than a Frisbee, and comes with a sharper edge. “Pre-teens are sometimes out there just flinging (them) without supervision,” Bill said.

“I’ve seen mothers take their kids off the swings (because of the discs) … It’s a shame the park has come to that.”

The Parks and Recreation Commission toured the park earlier this summer, followed two groups of disc golfers around, took into consideration that no injuries or complaints have been reported due to errant discs, and decided that “the course is fine the way it is,” Carbondale Recreation Director Jeff Jackel said.

The disc golf course at Gianinetti Park extends across a sidewalk in at least one location and near a playground elsewhere. Photo by Lynn Burton The commission later voted 6-0 against Jackel’s recommendation to move the course after he expressed safety concerns.

“They felt I was over reacting,” Jackel said.

Gianinetti Park covers a little over three acres in an arched configuration with the Village Road side running the longest distance. A wide bowl anchors the park’s south end, but beginning in the middle there’s a playground. A sidewalk parallels Village Road and also winds through the park, which is graced by numerous mature trees, shrubs and other vegetation. The disc golf course starts near the Village Road curb at the north end and roughly follows the park’s perimeter, but at times crosses over the sidewalk or into the park’s interior.

Jackel said the town installed the course five years ago after a local golfer suggested

the town build one. Disc golf is similar to regular golf, with a tee-box to begin each “hole” and a target at the end made of a chain basket. Jackel said the attraction of the Gianinetti course is the trees and other obstacles that make it challenging and the fact that it’s in town.

The Hoftos admit they complained about the course when it first went in because discs sometime flew into their backyard, they sometimes had to deal with unpleasant golfers who came to retrieve their discs and later had to build a fence to separate them from the park. The town eventually relocated the hole closest to the Hoftos that was causing the problems.

“Homeowner considerations are no longer an issue; it’s safety,” Bill said.

Jackel said he considered whether the

Gianinetti course could be moved to the high school or Carbondale Nature Park.

Both sites are problematic. The high school will not allow non-students to use the course during school hours. At Carbondale Nature Park (northeast of town hall) there isn’t much vegetation or challenge. “It would just be a contest of who could throw their disc the farthest,” Jackel said.

Jackel said he and a disc golf designer gave the Nature Park a quick look, but it seems like the only logical course would run at the base of a hillside that runs the length of the park. That course would require a lot of work to carve out vegetation.

“So far, there hasn’t been much enthusiasm among the disc golf community to move the course,” Jackel said.

Still, Jackel said he’s putting money in his proposed budget for 2011 to add another course. “The typical cost is about $500 per hole … so for a nine hole course it would be about $5,000 with installation.”

The Hoftos point to their own research that says disc golf course designers say that it’s not good idea to mix their sport into a passive park such as Gianinetti Park. Both the Hoftos and Jackel agree the real solution is for the town to build a disc golf course on land dedicated to that purpose.

Right now, that land does not exist.

Bill and Patti said they came to the September Parks and Recreation Commission armed with research and information that the commission either disregarded or that they could not bring up due to time constraints. They plan to return to the commission in October to further state their case.

They say the commission told them to go out and raise public awareness of the disc golf course issue.

“That’s what we’re doing,” Bill said.

As White River forest dies, officials look ahead

By David Frey Sopris Sun Correspondent The scene up the Crystal River is a familiar one: tall trees turning brown and dying.

Unlike most places on the White River National Forest, as well as across the West, it’s not the mountain pine beetle doing the damage, though.

These are Douglas firs, not pines, and those are Douglas fir beetles, not mountain pine beetles. Why does that matter? Because while the mountain pine beetle gets most of the attention and is doing most of the damage, it’s just one of an array of bugs and blights affecting many of the trees on the forest.

Pines. Firs. Spruces. Aspens. They’re all dying, killing off the White River National Forest as we know it, and creating a new forest in its place.

What that new forest will look like is up to nature, but the Forest Service wants to play a role, too.

“This is our chance,” said Jan Burke, forest health coordinator for the White River National Forest. “It is an opportunity and obligation in terms of stewardship to manage how our forest recovers and what we see as important needs to maintain habitats, all the way from the bark beetle up to human beings. What will the lynx need? What

threatened and endangered species might we be considering in terms of maintaining habitats across the board. We are providing a new forest for us citizens as well. … The bottom line is, you’ve got this giant disturbance.

We shouldn’t be wandering blindly into the next forest.”

Next year In the next fiscal year starting Oct. 1, the Forest Service plans to devote a lot of money to landscape analysis to consider what role the agency should play in shaping the new forest.

Forest Service spokesman Pat Thrasher said the agency is still working on next year’s budget and hasn’t set a dollar figure for the analysis, but he said dealing with the beetle epidemic “is probably the highest priority for the forest.”

That comes in a year with two other major and possibly controversial efforts, releasing a travel management plan and addressing oil and gas leasing.

Some environmentalists are skeptical about the idea of intervening in the forest’s recovery, though.

“The part that makes me most nervous is the notion that we humans can engineer the next forest and know the outcomes,” said Sloan Shoemaker, executive director of the

Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop and president of the Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative, a group of environmentalists, timber industry representatives, land agencies and local governments trying to find ways to handle the spread of the insect.

From putting out wildfires only to increase wildfire danger, to trying to contain the Mississippi River only to cause flooding, history is full of examples of attempts to control nature that have gone awry, Shoemaker said.

“We’ve been there before,”he said.“That’s hubris, that we are in control and we can control the outcomes.”

Dying trees The issue on the White River National Forest is most of its trees are old and dying, too weak to fight off invaders like bark beetles. Recent droughts have only weakened the trees further, and shorter winters seem to aid the beetles.

Many of the forest’s lodgepole pines are 150 to 200 years old – older than the tree usually lives. Some of the Douglas firs are over 200 years old. Most aspens are over a century old, even though they reach maturity at 60.

Why? Because unlike some forests that rely on periodic wildfires to renew themselves, much of the White River National Forest relies on rarer but more catastrophic fires

Many of the dead and dying trees up the Crystal are not lodgepole pine, but Douglas fir like this one. Photo by Lynn Burton

to clear them out, Burke said, and it hasn’t had that. So the beetles are doing it instead.

“It’s just the perfect storm right now,” she said. “Things are old. The climate’s changing a little bit. And we’ve got a lot of FOREST page 8

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

Library budget available for review The Garfield County Public Library District’s draft budget for 2011 is available for review at the district’s main office at 796 Megan Ave., Rifle, and at the website garfieldlibraries.org. The Garfield County commissioners will consider the budget at its meeting on Oct. 4. Any interested elector in Garfield County may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections prior to the budget’s final adoption, according to the library district’s legal notice in the Sept. 16 Sopris Sun and other newspapers.

County clerk mails out info All registered voters in Garfield County were sent an informational mailing from the Garfield County Clerk’s office on Sept.

8, according to a press release. This required mailing was sent to verify voter registration information on file for each voter. If voters have moved and need to make an address change, they can use the form sent as part of the mailer to make those changes.

If a voter is currently on file as a permanent mail-in voter as indicated by the word “YES� highlighted in yellow, this means a mail-in ballot will be sent for the upcoming Nov. 2, 2010 General Election.

The mail-in ballots will be mailed out Oct.

12. Permanent mail-in voters who might be away from their local address from Oct. 12 to Nov. 2 should make sure that the Garfield County clerk has the correct alternate mailing address for their mail-in ballot. “If you have not moved, don’t want to change your party affiliation, are happy to be a permanent mail-in voter, or don’t need to give us an alternate mailing address for your mail-in ballot, you do not have to do anything with this informational mailing,� said Garfield County Clerk Jean Alberico.

If you need to make changes or want a mail-in ballot, use the enclosed form to make the necessary changes and return the form to the Garfield County Clerk’s office in person, by mail, by fax at 947-1078 or email to elections@garfield-county.com.

For more information, call the Garfield County election department at 384-3700.

RFTA invites Veloci comments The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) invites the community to provide comments on the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the VelociRFTA Bus Rapid Transit project, according to a press release. The EA evaluates the potential social, economic and environmental impacts associated with the proposed BRT project.

The public comment period runs through

Oct. 15.

RFTA is also hosting two public hearings the week of Sept. 27. The first, on Sept. 29, takes place at Carbondale Town Hall, with an informational open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m, following by a public hearing from 7 to 8 p.m.

The second public hearing and informational session is held Sept. 30 at the El Jebel Community Center in El Jebel from 5:30 to 7 p.m., and 7 to 8 p.m. respectively.

Spanish language interpreters will be available at both meetings.

RFTA’s EA document is available for review at local libraries, government offices, the RFTA BRT project office and at rftabrt.com.

Oktoberfest is going green Carbondale’s ninth annual Celtic Fest and Oktoberfest, in conjunction with EverGreen Events, is going green and needs volunteers to staff zero waste stations during the event.

Celtic Fest will be Oct. 8, with shifts from 5 to 7 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., according to a press release. Oktoberfest will be Oct. 9, with shifts from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 1 to 3 p.m., 3 to 5 p.m., 5 to 9 p.m., and 7 to 9 p.m.

For details, contact Jessi at jrochel@ carbondaleco.net or 704-4115.

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

FRIDAY Sept. 3 A woman in the 200 block of Garfield reported a bear had allegedly tried to break into her Subaru Outback and damaged the roof and tailgate. She claimed that all she had in the car was some bark.

SUNDAY Sept. 5 Police responded to a report of a skunk trapped in the North Face skateboard park bowl. Police called the Colorado Division of Wildlife to come trap it, and advised people in the area to leave the skunk alone.

SUNDAY Sept. 5 Police report that someone stole the Indica Street sign – again.

TUESDAY Sept. 7 A woman called police at 12:19 p.m. to report her vehicle was stolen from in front of the post office.

TUESDAY Sept. 7 A Dalmatian has been reported running loose in the area of Colorado Avenue and Sixth Street.

WEDNESDAY Sept. 8 While patrolling River Valley Ranch at 8:03 p.m., police observed a vehicle parked at Triangle Park. An officer contacted the two parties in the vehicle who said they were “making out.� They agreed to leave the area.

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Obituary Edmond A. Perregaux Jr. The Roaring Fork Valley has lost an uncommon man, a true gentleman, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle and friend. Ed Perregaux, Carbondale’s Rotarian of the Year, was a good, good man who lived his life by Rotary’s 4Way test — Service Above Self. Ed gracefully endured two years with a rare autoimmune disease.

Ed was known not only for his many acts of kindness to others and service to the community but for being a workaholic, working almost to the end as director of development for the Roaring Fork Conservancy. Ed’s other interests were fly-fishing, bridge, watching sports (or channel-surfing for a good detective story) and traveling with Marian, his wife of 31 years. He loved to read, to eat and to dance. He also enjoyed cribbage, Scrabble and gin rummy. He faithfully read the names of those who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, in sunshine, rain or snow, at Carbondale’s Town Hall flagpole on Monday mornings.

An Eagle Scout, he remained active in Boy Scouting, the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce and Trout Unlimited, and was president of several Rotary clubs. Most recently he finished a two-year term as assistant district governor of Rotary’s District 5470.

1935-2010

Active in many Unitarian-Universalist churches over the years, he helped establish the Two Rivers Unitarian-Universalist church in Carbondale.

Ed was born on April 19, 1935, in Willimantic, Conn. to Dr. Edmond A. and Myrtle Files Perregaux. Ed’s grandfather Albert Perregaux emigrated from the French section of Switzerland.

Ed is survived by his wife Marian; son Edmond A. Perregaux III and his wife Cheryl of Phoenix, Ariz.; and brother Paul A. and Shirley Perregaux of Hernando, Fla. His five step-children are Mark Bingham of New Orleans, Susan Scofield and husband John of Katonah, N.Y., Annie Ward of Lakeview, Conn., David Bingham and wife Amy of Hailey, Idaho, and Betsy Bingham-Johns and husband Dwight Johns of Carbondale.

He also had 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Ed was educated at Cornell University, Eastern Connecticut University and University of Connecticut and earned a master’s of education and masters in public health administration, and an MBA from Bryant College. For the majority of his life, Ed was a health-care administrator. Prior to coming to Carbondale, he developed Junior Achievement programs for the state of New Mexico.

Upon his arrival in Carbondale, Ed began his “retirement” as one of Ace Hardware’s first employees, walking to and from work. Recently he was back in his element as a fund-

raiser for the Roaring Fork Conservancy. Ed also “moonlighted” over the years, teaching management courses in several small colleges.

To quote one of his many dear friends, “Ed was a noble, generous and wonderful friend. This beloved guy was a bigger than life gentleman who benefited the entire valley, was considerate of his loving wife and family as well as all of his many admiring

friends. A special soul.”

Ed’s remains will be placed in the Carbondale cemetery’s Rotary Wall and a celebration of his life, open to all, will be held in October.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Carbondale Rotary Club, the Roaring Fork Conservancy and the Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist community.

When Pam Scholl and her kids (Bodhi and Nari) were out walking near Weaver Cemetery on Eighth Street earlier this month, they thought they spotted something in the gutter (above).

Sure enough, closer inspection revealed a salamander, which is native to Western Colorado. Photo by Trina Ortega.

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3. Catherine Bridge Trail Head to Hooks Lane Trail Head – The trail detour will use the Seasonal Closure Detour Route. This route follows county roads from the Catherine Bridge Trail Head to El Jebel, and then utilizes the Willits/West Basalt Trail to the Hooks Lane Trail Head where the Rio Grand Trail is rejoined.There will be no direct access from the Crown Trail to down valley locations.

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gust. Lincicome predicted a dusting of snow on Sept. 9, which was the Sopris Sun’s last publication date before the one you’re reading, but nobody in the office can remember if there was in fact a dusting on that date.

The Tater Trot returns to this year’s Potato Day on Oct. 2 at 8 a.m. at the Hendrick Park soccer field to get ready for the big barbecue and many events celebrated that day. There will be a parade on Main Street and festivities in Sopris Park. The Potato Day poster is reportedly ready for hanging and should be seen around town very soon.

Grab your old books Friends of the Gordon Cooper Library is holding its fall book sale Sept. 23-Oct. 4 and guess what? They need some books to sell. If you have any you’d like to donate to this righteous cause, call the library at 963-2889.

Taylor show coming up It’s fall and you know what that means – this year’s showing of Andy Taylor’s recent art. He’ll be shown at the Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt starting with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 25, along with Elizabeth Sandia and Gregory Stocks.

The show’s title is “Western Color,� and will run through Nov. 1.

TRTC elects board officers

Author discovers the Sun A local reader has discovered reference to the Sopris Sun in the book “The Value of Nothing: How to reshape market society and define democracy� by Raj Patel.

The Sun mention is on page 190 of the book and says, “Returning to a trend discussed earlier, many communities are losing their local newspapers. In Carbondale, Colorado, a local rural weekly went out of business in February 2009. A small group of citizens decided to create their own replacement because, in the words of one of its founders,‘It just beat the dickens out of sitting around and whining that our paper was dead.’ Of course, these sorts of volunteer operations struggle for financing, and the paper's collec-

Artist Fred Haberlein reports he has raised the money required to refurbish his mural on the west end of the Dinkel Building. The mural has taken a beating over the years but the new paint Haberlein is using should stand up well in the years ago come. He said it will take about two or three weeks to complete the project. Photo by Lynn Burton tive is looking for any and all kinds of sponsorship. As one member of the local chamber of commerce puts it,‘Every town should have a park, a library, and a newspaper.’ This, of course, suggests where the resources might come from. Parks and libraries are generally not run by foundations or individual sponsors. They're run through public funding, and there's no reason why such important hubs of community engagement shouldn't be supported as they were in the last depression, by

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At least one of the quotes (the one about whining) comes from a March 23, 2009 article on the Sun by the Los Angeles Times, published approximately one month after the newspaper’s first edition.

A bold prediction Betsy Lincicome reports that in the 35 years she’s lived here, the snow pack on Mount Sopris is the least she had seen in Au-

The Thunder River Theatre Company board has elected new officers. They are: Craig Rathbun (president) and Ron Limoges (vice president). Rathbun is the president of The Fleisher Company, a 35-year-old company based in Carbondale with offices from Aspen to Rifle. Limoges is a fund-raising consultant for the Colorado Mountain College Foundation.

TRTC seeks artists The Thunder River Theatre Company is looking for assistant stage managers, props people (design, build, find, organize) and costume designers/coordinators. “If you are creative and haven't had a lot of theatre experience, we will train you,� said TRTC Artistic Director Lon Winston. “All TRTC artists are paid stipends. We grow the stipend if you commit to working in some capacity on all our productions.� For details e-mail lonw@sopris.net or call 963-8200.

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Trustees continue U-Haul permit application

By Lynn Burton The Sopris Sun The Carbondale Board of Trustees continued discussion on Sunburst Car Care’s application for a permit to allow a U-Haul rental operation on Village Road Tuesday night. The trustees’ action, on a 4-0 vote, came despite the Planning and Zoning Commission and staff recommendation against approval.

“P&Z really struggled with this,” town planner Janet Buck told the trustees.

After a lengthy discussion and public hearing, trustees told the applicant, Tim Moffroid, to return with a more detailed site plan for his special use permit application to store U-Haul trailers on a vacant lot he owns across the street from his Sunburst operation.

Key to the approval would be a twoyear limit on the U-Haul operation. Moffroid is applying for a zone text amendment to the existing CRW-PUD zoning in order to allow the new use.

Early in the discussion, trustee John Foulkrod said he didn’t think the new use was “a big deal.” Moffroid said revenues from a U-Haul operation could boost Sunburst’s bottom line, which has not shown a profit since he and his partners bought it several years ago. A U-Haul operation would also create two to three jobs and

generate $20,000 to $30,000 in sales taxes for the town, he said.

Buck reminded the trustees that if the town changes the zoning to allow such a use, the zoning remains in place even though businesses might change.

In other trustees agenda items: Dave Weimer and Melanie Cardiff updated the board on the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo’s 2010 season. Among the highlights: The group donated approximately $11,000 to local groups such as the Boy and Girl Scouts, 4-H, Senior Matters and the Roaring Fork High School football team out of surplus revenues; On a good night, 700-1,000 people attended the weekly rodeos; Sponsors paid $400 to $2,000 to help with funding; The rodeo put in a new concession building for non-profits, such as Senior Matters to use.

In previous years, the rodeo installed bleachers at the arena, which is owned by the town.

In the off-season the volunteer group plans to organize as a 501(C)(3) non-profit.

Earlier in the meeting, the trustees also approved a liquor license renewal for White House pizza and continued the Village at Crystal public hearing to Sept. 21.

Ross Kribbs, fiddle player for Pastor Mustard’s National Swing Band, plays a solo at Saturday night’s Aspen Valley Land Trust fundraiser. Photo by Jane Bachrach

Public Notice The Town of Carbondale will be starting the improvement work at Main Street / Snowmass Drive / County Road 100 in the near future.

Our contractor, Excavation Services of Carbondale, will attempt to maintain two-way traffic at all times. There may be periods when there will be one lane of traffic that will be controlled with flaggers. Snowmass Drive will be closed to traffic from Main Street to Sopris Avenue for construction and contractor staging. The detour for Snowmass Drive will be 2nd Street to Sopris Avenue to Snowmass Drive.

This project is being funded by a federal grant and must be completed this year. We anticipate it will be completed within two months.

We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience.

Call Larry Ballenger at 963-2733 with questions and concerns.

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e forest continued om page 3 big trees standing on the landscape.”

The mountain pine beetle gets all the attention. It has killed millions of acres of forest across the country, leaving a 2,200mile swath of brown timber from the Canadian border to the Mexican border.

It has killed some 2 million acres in Colorado. The White River National Forest received a portion of a $13 million package of federal stimulus money to help Colorado deal with the infestation, often removing dead timber around trails and campgrounds.

Aspen and Pitkin County joined with the nonprofit group For the Forest in an effort to protect Smuggler Mountain from the beetles, in part by using the hormone verbenone to turn them away.

But it’s not just pine beetles. A spruce beetle epidemic is on the rise. Up the Crystal, it’s the Douglas fir beetle. That’s true in Glenwood Canyon, too, and at Aspen Highlands, where the Forest Service is using another pheromone to turn away those Douglas fir beetles – one that seems more effective than verbenone is in affecting pine beetles.

“Simply put, the mountain pine beetle has stolen the show,”Burke said.That’s because of the vast amount of pine acreage being affected, she said, but it’s only one of the beetles transforming the forest.

“I think we are in for a period where we’re going to see some pretty dramatic

changes happening,” Shoemaker said, “but that doesn’t mean there’s a crisis or it’s unhealthy or there’s something wrong.”

Over time, forests change slowly, he said, but when they change, they change dramatically. That’s what’s happening now, he said, and we just happen to be around to see it.

“It’s kind of a privilege to be observing a natural laboratory that otherwise we don’t have an opportunity to observe,” Shoemaker said.

The next forest The forest may come back differently than before. If it’s warmer, that may mean more deciduous trees, like aspen or Gambel oak, Burke said.

She said she would like to see the Forest Service play a role in encouraging more of a mixture on the forest.

“I’m not saying we’ll get out there and do gardening on 2.2 million acres, but you don’t stand down and do nothing,” Burke said.“By the same token, you don’t stand up and say you’re going to do something everywhere. But somewhere in the middle, there’s a stewardship role.”

Shoemaker said he’s skeptical.

“I think we just need to step back and see how things are going to change and respond,” he said, “but we have a hard time doing that.”

down as a teenager — to be a drummer and a teacher. He began developing “ensemble” drumming classes for kids and adults in 1995 and started an after-school youth enrichment program that, over the years, blossomed into a large youth program and eventually into an accredited music educator program offered at Seattle Pacific University and the University of Denver.

“The idea was to enrich the kids, immerse the kids in something they could really be proud of,”he said of the after-school program that empowered kids to create their own percussion performance bands.

And if he can help kids find their passion — drumming or otherwise — then he’s succeeded, he says.

When it comes to drumming, though, Hubbard does not want the cost of the class ($75 for the six-week session) to be an issue for youth who may need financial assistance.

To that end, he says he will offer one scholarship for every two students enrolled.

“I don’t want anyone to feel it’s not possible. When I heard those drums, on the driveway of my home, it changed my life. If there’s a kid out there that feels that way, I want to be part of that.”

The beginner-level class focuses on the fundamentals of hand drumming while introducing multi-part rhythms from West Africa and the Caribbean. Students will be guided through the basics of hand placement, tonal quality and understanding the fundamentals of time. Both djembes and congas will be available if students do not have their own drum.

“It’s not a pure form of African drumming,

Kip Hubbard and one of his daughters, Brae, have some fun at a recent True Nature drum circle. Photo by Jane Bachrach but a hybrid that is simplified for kids,” he said.“It’s really designed to be simple and accessible to kids. Each individual rhythm pattern is simple, but when you layer all the patterns over each other, it’s really complex.”

Space is limited; classes are not drop-in but rather cumulative in which students will build on what they learn. For more information or to register, contact Hubbard at 963-0841 or (303) 704-0471.

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Downvalley bikers crank it up for fun and wilderness

By Allyn Harvey Sopris Sun Correspondent Team Bike-Wild laid it down. Churned it up. Cranked it hard. And represented.

Bike-Wild, a Carbondale/Glenwoodbased mountain bike group that supports wilderness protection, fielded a “team” in the 12 Hours of Snowmass mountain bike race last weekend and came away with a number of distinctions.

They raised over $600 for Aspen Youth Center (over $16,000 was raised by the event as a whole); The eight-member squad placed first in the open class (out of two teams); The team fielded two solo racers on single-speed bikes: Will I AM Inverso and Darin Binion, and two Solo Men’s racers: Garrett Alexander and Randy Mason; The team included two couples: Kazzy Saito and Sarah Graf, and Will I AM Inverso and Brittany Parker.

Steve Novy, Bike-Wild founder and mountain biking pioneer, posted the slowest lap time on a Pugsley at approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. (It was also the fastest Pugsley lap, as he was the only guy racing the bike, which was notable for its nearly 4-inchwide tires.) Novy hinted that there were actually advantages to riding the over-40-pound bike but would not elaborate.

“Only the racer behind me, trying to pick me off, will ever know,” Novy assured.

Team member Aaron Taylor proved once again that life is possible without a car in

the Roaring Fork Valley. He left his Carbondale home at 2:45 a.m. on race day and rode all the way up to Snowmass Village. He arrived at the course start less than an hour before the 7 a.m. start, then climbed on his mountain bike and raced the first lap for Team Bike-Wild, finishing in an hour and three minutes.

“Aaron, The Great White Hope, as we call him, rode his Xtracycle up from Carbondale towing his mountain bike, and then rode the first and last laps for our team,” Novy said. “What a great example of being bike-centric and living a no-combustion lifestyle. You don’t need a car in the Roaring Fork Valley, as long as you’re an animal.”

The 12 Hours of Snowmass is a threeyear-old race that raises money for the Aspen Youth Center. The course starts and ends in the Base Village plaza, just below the Village Express chairlift.

It climbs up Fanny Hill and above the Coney Glade lift and crosses lower Max Park to Alpine Springs. The trail then traverses the center section of the Alpine Springs area and into out-of-bounds terrain located between Alpine Springs and Two Creeks before curving back toward Base Village.

The 8.7 mile circuit starts with a long, hard climb up the ski area that becomes quite technical in spots. After that the racers were treated to a smooth, rolling, rocky section of the Government Trail that most of them know by heart. The course wraps up with a fast, bumpy descent that finally allows for some serious speed coming into the start/finish area.

For the solo racers, plans changed radically as the day wore on and the energy levels wore down.

“I’m walking uphill now, where I rode everything at first,” said Inverso as he was about to start his 7th lap. “But the descents get faster, cause you begin to memorize the trail.”

The team also included a few newcomers to the sport of mountain biking, including first-year aficionado Graf.

“It’s a good way to get better,” Graf said of her lap as a member of the open team. “I had a couple of people say ‘Yeah! Bike-Wild!’ as I was riding,” she added.

Bike-Wild was formed to give mountain bikers the opportunity to express their support for wilderness preservation efforts, such as those under way with the Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign.

“Bike-Wild is made up of mountain bikers who support wilderness,” Novy said.“We are encouraging folks to learn about the current wilderness proposals and engage in the conversation, regardless if they are for or against them.”

Steve Novy shows off his Pugsley, a fat-tire monster that proved to be his secret weapon as a member of the nine-person Bike-Wild open team. Photo by Allyn Harvey

12 Hours of Snowmass mountain bike race Results Will I AM Inverso – 3rd place, Solo Single Speed Men Darin Binion – 5th place, Solo Single Speed Men Randy Mason – 6th place, Solo Men Garrett Alexander – 10th place, Solo Men

Open Class Team – 1st Place Aaron Taylor Sarah Graf Steve Novy Aaron Dallas Mike Gettinger Chris Romeyn Kazzy Saito Aaron Humphrey Brittany Parker

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Community Calendar THURSDAY Sept. 16 TIPPETTS PLAY CARDIFF • The Tippetts (Shanti Gruber and Meagan Goodwin) take the stage at the historic Cardiff School in celebration of women’s voices at 7:30 p.m. Joining the Tippetts are Jennetta M. Howell, Lee Martin, Gwen Hill and students Lisa Atkinson and Hailey Taylor.

Tickets are $12 at 945-6247. To get to the school, drive past Sopris Elementary and turn right onto Sky Ranch Drive. Look for the event parking signs.

RED BRICK TAKING ART • The Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen is accepting art for its Red Brick Biennial show.

Applications are due Sept. 16; art must be delivered on Sept. 30; notification is Oct. 4; the opening reception is Nov. 4. Info: 429-2777.

BIRD WATCHING WALK • The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies offers a morning bird watching walk with Rebecca Weiss from 7 a.m. to noon. BYOB (binoculars). Info: 925-5756.

CHAMBER HOLDS LUNCHEON • The Carbondale Chamber of Commerce presents “Social Media for your Business,” presented by Roy Brandt, at the Church at Carbondale’s Gathering Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. A pasta buffet will be offered

by Smiling Moose Deli ($20 in advance; $30 on the day of event). RSVP at 9631890 or mary@carbondale.com.

FRIDAY Sept. 17 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents

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

“Get Low” (PG-13) at 8 p.m. Sept. 17-23.

LIVE MUSIC • Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs features General Dixie & the Bad Habits (bluegrass) from 9 p.m. to midnight.

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SAT.-SUN. Sept. 18-19 HANGING LAKE NEEDS VOLUNTEERS • Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado is rounding up workers for its Hanging Lake trail project Sept. 18-19. Info: 303-5646492.

SAT.-SUN. Sept. 18-19 SNOWMASS HOSTS WINE FESTIVAL • The eighth annual Snowmass Wine Festival is held in conjunction with the Snowmass Balloon Festival. Hosted by the Snowmass Village Rotary, the grand tasting is from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, with samplings from more than 300 varieties plus regional cuisine. For details, call 379-5356.

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BALLOONS ASCEND • Snowmass Village holds the 35th annual hot air balloon festival with 31 balloons taking part. Launch time is 6:30 a.m. and viewing is free.

SATURDAY Sept. 18 LIVE MUSIC • The John McEuen Trio plays the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs at 8 p.m.

McEuen is a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (now in their 44th year) and is coming off a 45 city summer tour. Tickets are $25 in advance ($28 the day of show) at Dos Gringos in Carbondale, and Glenwood Music and the Hotel Colorado. Dan Sheridan is the opening act. Info: bluegrasstickets.com.

JILL SOUKUP DEMONSTRATES HER ART • The Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt presents Colorado artist Jill Soukup in a live art demonstration from 5 to 7 p.m. While working in oil with brush and palette knife, she will discuss the artistic process, whether the subject is Western animals or the urban landscape. Her paintings are included in many private, corporate and public collections including: The Denver Museum of Nature and Science, The Madden Museum of

RAW FOODS EXPLAINED • Kimberly Williams gives free lectures about raw food at Nur-ish each Saturday at 4 p.m. through September. Topics include: Raw Food 101, Detoxification, Water, Cancer and Chronic Disease (the nutritional link) and Cooked Food (how they contribute to disease). Nur-ish is located in Sopris shopping center.

SUNDAY Sept. 19 LEAD KING LOOP RETURNS • The sixth annual Lead King Loop returns to Marble. There’ll be a 12.5K, a 25K and kids races, plus lunch, pint glasses, T-shirt, a raffle and marble prizes. This race was voted the most scenic run in Colorado and proceeds benefit the Marble Charter School. Sign up at Independence Run and Hike in Carbondale or online at leadkingloop25k.com. Info: 704-1275.

HAWKS WATCHED • The Audubon Society holds its fourth annual Divide Creek Hawk Watch near Silt starting at 9 a.m.

They’ll be looking for their first broadwinged hawk. To take part, bring your binoculars, lunch and lawn chair to the Silt park and ride lot on the southwest side of the Silt/I-70 interchange for the ride to the hawk watch site. The watch ends at around 2 p.m. Info: Tom McConnell at 379-7356 or immac@rof.net.

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HAY STOMPAS RIDE â&#x20AC;˘ The Valley Cruisers go on full moon bike ride out of the Carbondale Clay Center this month. A highlight will be an art bike exhibit showing the work of Aaron Mayes (aka Metal Headz Designz). Sponsors include Gear Xchange, Aloha Mountain Cyclery and the Bonedale Bike Project.

BOOK SALE RETURNS â&#x20AC;˘ The Friends of the Gordon Cooper Library hold their annual fall book sale through Oct. 4. To donate books, call 963-2889.

FREE FILM â&#x20AC;˘ The 5Point film team, Six89 restaurant and Patagonia present a free screening of the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;180 Southâ&#x20AC;? in the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s garden at dusk (bring a lawn chair, sweater and friends). Food (pulled pork) will be served inside at around 7 p.m.

The film details the story of Patagonia founder/owner Yvon Chouinard. Info: 5pointfilm.org.

ACES POTLUCK AT TOKLAT â&#x20AC;˘ The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies holds a membership potluck at Toklat from 3 p.m. to dark. At 3 p.m. Paul Andersen will lead a walk and share readings from his books Moonlight Over Pearl and Aspen's Rugged Splendor. Dinner is at 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 25 NATURALIST WALK â&#x20AC;˘ The Roaring Fork Conservancy hosts a guided walk among the rare orchids, hot springs, bighorn sheep, fireflies and riparian habitat of the Filoha Meadows Open Space in Crystal River Valley from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Free. Registration:

927-1290 or roaringfork.org/events.

RED WING ALUMNI ARRIVE â&#x20AC;˘ The Stirling Cup All-Star Weekend brings the Detroit Red Wings alumni team to town to take on the Aspen Leafs in hockey. The action starts at 7 p.m. at the Lewis Ice Arena in Aspen. Tickets are $10 at the door. Info: 920-7081.

POTLUCK BONFIRE â&#x20AC;˘ Sustainable Settings at 6107 Highway 133 hosts a community potluck and bonfire from 4 to 8 p.m.

Bring a dish and an instrument to play for an evening of family fun. Info: 963-6107 or rose@sustainablesettings.org.

CARNIVAL â&#x20AC;˘ The second annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blow Upâ&#x20AC;? carnival at Carbondale Middle School is Sept. 25 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Proceeds will be distributed to schools in the form of technology grants.

Sept. 26 FOODIE SUMMIT HELD â&#x20AC;˘ Slow Food Roaring Fork holds its Foodie Summit at Rock Bottom Ranch from 3:30 to 6 p.m. To RSVP e-mail passavant@aol.com or call 963-0205.

Oct. 2 POTATO DAY â&#x20AC;˘ Events for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Potato Day 101: Back to Basicsâ&#x20AC;? include: Farmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s market at 8 a.m. in Sopris Park; Tater Trot 5K and 1-mile run/walk at 8 a.m. at Hendrick Park; parade at 10:30 a.m. on Main St.; Live music 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. by All the Pretty Horses and barbecue at noon at Sopris Park and Bareback Bonanza at 3 p.m. at the Gus Darien riding arena. For more information, call 963-3744.

ENSEMBLE DRUMMING OFFERED â&#x20AC;˘ Kip Hubbard offers beginner-level AfroCaribbean â&#x20AC;&#x153;ensembleâ&#x20AC;? drumming classes for kids and adults at True Nature (located in the Third Street Center). Hubbard has worked on this drumming approach since 1995 and it has been incorporated into the teacher programs at the University of Denver and at Seattle Pacific University. He also helped lead the drum circle at this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Carbondale Mountain Fair. Info: 963-9900.

NIA OFFERED â&#x20AC;˘ Studio Sol offers Nia at 3627 County Road 100 every Tuesday and Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m. through Oct. 7.

Info: Julie at 303-333-3311.

CLASSICAL HARP â&#x20AC;˘ Through September, Elise Helmke plays classical harp from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursdays at Russets, located at 225 Main St. DOYLE SHOW CONTINUES â&#x20AC;˘ Dorothy Doyle shows pen and ink drawings of 14 Aspen historical buildings at the Wheeler Opera House second floor lobby through Sept. 22.

LIVE MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ Konnyaku restaurant, on Highway 133, presents Bobby Mason every Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Info: 7040889.

MAYORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE HOUR â&#x20AC;˘ Chat with Carbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdays from 7 to 8 a.m. at The Village Smithy, 26 S. Third St. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION MEETS â&#x20AC;˘ The Carbondale Historic Preservation Commission meets at town

hall at 6:30 p.m. the first Thursday of every month.

RED BRICK PRESENTS SCANDRETT â&#x20AC;˘ The Red Brick art center in Aspen presents artist Laura Scandrett in Abstraction through Sept. 29. Also in the exhibition are Buzz Dopkin, Shelly Hamill and Elliot Norquist. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday thru Friday. Info: 429-2777.

BEADLES PRESENTS LANCASTER â&#x20AC;˘ A. Beadles Fine Art presents Joey Lancaster in a show titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aspen Treesâ&#x20AC;? through Sept.

31. The gallery is located at 225 Main St. GROUP RUN â&#x20AC;˘ Independence Run and Hike at 995 Cowen Drive leads group runs, Saturdays at 8:15 a.m. rain or shine.

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FARMERS MARKET â&#x20AC;˘ The Carbondale Farmers Market takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 6 at Fourth and Main streets. Fruits, veggies, meats, cheeses, bread, prepared food, live music and more.

ACOUSTIC CARNAHANS â&#x20AC;˘ Singer/ songwriter T Ray Becker hosts an acoustic music night with new musicians every week from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays at Carnahanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern (formerly the Black Nugget). Info: 963-4496.

CASTLE TOURS â&#x20AC;˘ Guided tours of the historic Redstone Castle run Friday thru Monday at 1:30 p.m. Tickets: Tiffany of Redstone, The Crystal Club CafĂŠ and the Redstone General Store. Adults, $15; seniors, $10. More info: 963-9656 or redstonecastle.us.

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Community Briefs Carbondale middle schoolers compete

Carbondale’s middle school cross-country team (the Runnin’ Kokopelli’s) competed in the Longhorn Invitational meet at Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel on Sept. 11.

Hailey Swirbul was the team’s top finisher, placing second overall in the 1.5-mile middle school race with a time of 10:13. Evelina Sutro was the third female finisher (fourth overall) in 10:23. Rounding out the Carbondale girls finishers were: Emily Fisher (10:59), Brittany Bruder (11:14), Emma Crane (11:43), Alice Furlong (11:52), and Tavia Teitler (14:06).

Trevor Stroud paced the Carbondale boys, finishing fifth in the boys race with a time of 11:17. He was followed by Robbie Thompson (11:40), Colin O'Gorman (12:33) and Rohnan Holt (12:44).

The Carbondale team combines fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth graders from Carbondale Middle, Ross Montessori and Carbondale Community schools. Coaches are John Stroud and Hadley Hentschel.

Go grab some veggies Laurie Loeb reports her garden bounty is “too voluminous” and she’d like people to come and share it.“I’m also offering organic gardening apprenticeships, which would begin this fall with preparation for next year's garden,” she said.

Loeb has worked her downtown garden for 40 years and the soil is like “a featherbed.”

For more information, call 963-2798.

Archaeology Society meets The Roaring Fork Chapter of the Colorado Archaeology Society will meet on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 1016 Cooper Avenue, Glenwood Springs. The program will be an hour-long video from the Ancient America Series titled “Ancient Arizona” that explores the dramatic prehistoric past of sites such as Betatakin, Canyon de Chelly, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Keet Seel and more.

The public is invited.

Wheels and Wheels returns The Carbondale Clay Center along with the Stomparillaz presents the second annual bike themed clay fundraiser called “Wheels and Wheels.”The event will take place Sept. 23 at the Carbondale Clay Center and coincides with the full moon cruiser ride.

The cruiser ride will depart from the clay center at 9 p.m. There’ll be several contests, including a bike and rider decorating contest and more. Wheels and Wheels itself goes from 6 to 9 p.m.

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Roaring Fork High School’s Vania Martinez cheers her Rams during the football team’s 42-20 win over Battle Mountain last Friday. In other weekend action, the girl’s volleyball team downed Olathe 3-2 and the boy’s soccer team defeated Vail Mountain 6-0. Photo by Lynn Burton

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A chef paints designs using blueberry purée as her base.

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TRTC 2010-2011 season delves into sentiment, whimsy and a celebrated drama Sopris Sun staff report Plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights and an original production by local actors/directors are in the lineup for Thunder River Theatre Company’s 2010-2011 season, which opens in October.

Joining its longtime company members this season are Heather Miller and Kelly Ish. Miller has been named TRTC’s stage manager and is also working on her master’s degree in adult education. Ish was last seen in TRTC’s “The Glass Menagerie” and appeared in “Mother Courage and her Children.” She was assistant stage manager for “Bernice/Butterfly.”

This season’s curtain opens Oct. 1 with Sarah Ruhl’s “The Clean House,” a runnerup for the Pulitzer Prize. Ruhl is considered an “exciting new voice” in American drama and “The Clean House” is a whimsical look at class, comedy and the nature of love.

“The Clean House”is directed by TRTC’s resident member Sue Lavin. Performing on the TRTC stage for the first time are valley professionals Eileen Seeley, Maureen Jackson, Charisse Layne and Lee Sullivan. Returning is Janice Estey. Artistic director Lon Winston is the set designer and company member Brad Moore designs lights. Additionally, a special showing of the George and Patti Stranahan Collection of black and white photographs will adorn the lobby walls during“The Clean House,”which runs through Oct. 15.

Second in the season lineup is “Shake-

speare: Who was that Masked Man?” a TRTC original. This production is an indepth theatrical look into the life, times and plays of the world's greatest playwright. The piece was conceived, developed, written and directed by Winston and fellow TRTC artistic director Valerie Haugen. The play runs Dec. 3-18.

TRTC’s season continues in the new year with“A Street Car named Desire”by Pulitzer Prize winner Tennessee Williams. Opening on the TRTC stage Feb. 25, this celebrated drama ranks as one of the greatest in American theater. It stars Valerie Haugen as Blanche DuBois and is directed by Winston.

Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful” runs June 17 through July 2. Foote, also a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, explores “the myth”of an idea called home in“Bountiful.”

Julia Whitcombe takes the stage for this production that is directed by Winston.

Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. for all performances except Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. For all show dates, visit thunderrivertheatre.com. Season tickets, priced at $70, are available for all four productions. To download the brochure and purchase tickets online, visit thunderrivertheatre.com; mail a check or credit card information to TRTC, 67 Promenade, Carbondale, CO 81623; or call 963-8200.

Local artists are needed to assist with stage managing, props (design, build, find, organize) and costume design.Training and stipends will be provided. Email lonw@sopris.net or phone 963-8200 for more information.

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Letters continued om page 2 store and sadly found it is closing after its current owner has been there for five years and in existence for many years.While there, I learned there are now 10 new marijuana stores in your town with two more applications waiting approval, but since then I found there are now 15 such dispensaries or stores.

Novel-Tea is now being taken over with another yoga store. While walking from the bookstore past a building across from your new recreation center, I casually spoke to a person who appeared to be leaving work around 5 p.m.After a brief sharing about the beauty of the day, I mentioned what I had just learned as this person (for anonymity) appeared to be a police officer and the person confirmed that. I asked what is happening in this special, little town and why aren’t people fighting against these stores?

The answer was that the people want them. I asked if that were the young couples pushing baby carriages, the bicyclists, the adults and the elderly with the namaste signs on their doors and their Buddhism flags hanging in their yards and he said “yes.”

This police officer said when they stop someone in their car, they quickly whip out their ready marijuana cards. And most who have them do not have medical needs but have figured out a way to get the cards quite easily.

I spoke with another downtown merchant about this the next day and they said they were surprised the town didn’t rally around saving this bookstore like they saved Steve’s Guitars.

I returned to the bookstore for one of the sale items the next day and the conversation

returned to this issue. A man who lives in town who was in the store said the real reason is the town is allowing all these marijuana stores for taxes. Could that be correct?

Where are you people who don’t want this? I thought you were the ones here in Carbondale who would fight, write letters and carry placards. I just continued walking, thinking and am now writing "where are you?"

It just takes a few to move mountains and you have one of the most beautiful mountains right here in your backyard. If you care and are not one of those who have a real need for medical marijuana or a person who has no reason to remove yourself even slightly from reality, then why aren’t you moving?

Judith Bartels Glenwood Springs

Reward offered Dear Editor: The Pour House is offering a $100 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the destruction of the bench that has always been in front of The Pour House, on the night of Sept. 5 or early morning of Sept. 6.

That bench is a memorial to a former Pour House employee who has since passed away, but will never be forgotten. We will repair it and return it to it’s rightful place but I pray that someone will have the guts to either turn themselves in or sweat out the fact that someone else will.

Skip Bell, manager The Pour House

Kobe – Pricey basketball star and pricey beef Within the past few years, we started hearing about Kobe. Restaurants offered it in various forms, Japanese steakhouses popped up with Kobe in their names, someone on nearly every television food show mentioned it.And there was this basketball player.

The most striking thing we heard about Kobe beef was that devotees in Japan merrily pay up to $500 per pound for it. The next was that the cows drank beer and sake, got daily massages, and listened to soothing music while they contentedly converted food to fat. Clearly, this was something America needed to get into.

America did, and in our typical fashion, promptly made somewhat of a melting pot of this very special breed of beef cattle. Just up Highway 82, at Emma Farms, Tom Waldeck is raising the only purebred herd in Colorado.

How did all this begin?

Around 2000 years ago, cattle were imported into Japan to serve as draft animals in rice fields. Over several centuries, in this fragmented land where meat was rarely eaten, breeds were developed in isolated areas for specific work. The resulting strains were collectively called Wagyu, which merely means Japanese (wa) cow (gyu).

Many individual strains were named for where they developed. One line of cattle arose around Kobe, the cosmopolitan capital city of the Hyogo prefecture (state). This industrial port city was one of the first to open trade with the West, so it follows that its beef was the first to become known outside Japan.

After World War II, Japan became more the U.S. and Australia, crossbred those origindustrialized and needed cattle less for agri- inal Wagyu with breeds well-adapted to cultural work. Influenced by Western habits, local conditions, mainly Angus. Calling the Japanese became more interested in eat- these Kobe-style cows, they hope to aping beef. Serendipitously, the proach Wagyu’s high-fat contraits that contributed to the tent with hybrid cattle that cows’ great stamina and mature more efficiently. A strength involved deposition smaller number of purists, like of tremendous amounts of Waldeck, have chosen to fat throughout the meat – maintain a purebred herd. the marbling associated with Foreign ranchers raised tenderness and great flavor. pure or crossbred cattle more That remarkable fat is also economically than is possible in highly unsaturated (good for land-poor Japan, and sold it you), and the meat boasts back into Japanese markets at high levels of other heart“bargain” rates. The Japanese healthy compounds. Japangovernment, concerned about ese ranchers quickly realized degrading its prized beef with that they had unintentionally these unreliable imports, recrafted unique beef cattle, cently ruled that only beef born and demand for this unusual By Chef George Bohmfalk and raised in Japan could be lameat exploded. beled as Wagyu.

To protect its new market, Japan banned This ruling didn’t apply elsewhere, so a exportation of live Wagyu. As political winds buyer outside Japan must beware when payshifted, exportation was allowed for a few ing top dollar for what he expects to be speyears in the 1990s, during which a single cial Japanese beef. As has become the case prominent breeder sold a couple hundred with Angus crossbreeds, merely including the head to America. He was promptly expelled names Wagyu or Kobe on a cow or steak is from the Japanese Wagyu Association (JWA), no guarantee of top quality. General terms which tried to maintain the export ban de- such as bloodlines, genetics, and DNA tracespite its illegality. Under continued lobbying ability are other marketing euphemisms for from the JWA, the government again banned not being purebred. If a product is purebred, exportation, of both live cattle and genetic the seller will make that abundantly clear. material in any other form.

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that these prize cows often lose their appetites. Ranchers found that a daily beer seemed to stimulate them to eat more. Sake, the Japanese rice wine, serves as an organic spray that keeps annoying flies at bay. The typical Japanese Wagyu rancher, with precious little land, only raises a very few cows at a time. Those spend much of their lives in small sheds, rarely venturing outside. The massages, now largely things of the past, were aimed at stimulating their little-used muscles.

Rancher Waldeck is conducting a bold experiment – to see whether raising purebred Wagyu cattle can make economic sense in the Roaring Fork Valley. After only a few years, his herd has grown to around 100. Most of these are brood cows and calves; he processed just five steers last year but expects to double that this year. Committed to a hormone- and antibiotic-free regimen, he currently has a single buyer: Ryan Hardy, chef at Montagna Restaurant in Aspen, who imaginatively crafts a multitude of products from each steer.

With only some 5,000 purebred Wagyu cattle currently in the U.S., Waldeck foresees great market potential. But don’t expect to find purebred Wagyu beef in your local meat market anytime soon. Even at a fraction of the prices it commands in Japan, it will always be a high-luxury specialty item.

And that basketball star? Prior to his birth, his parents saw Kobe beef on a restaurant menu and liked the sound of it. His naming was inspired – he turned out to be pretty pricey, too.

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