October 6, 2011 by The Sopris Sun

LOOK INSIDE:

PAGE 2

Reconsidering 9-11 PAGE 3

Speaking out on VCR

PAGE 5

What a table

the

Sopris Carbondale’s

weekly, non-profit newspaper

Sun

Volume 3, Number 34 | October 6, 2011

Howlin’ with the Rams

Roaring Fork High School students joined in with three howling wolves at the conclusion of a special assembly in the gym on Monday. The animals were brought in by the non-profits Mission:Wolf of Westcliff and SolTribe of the Roaring Fork Valley to teach students about wolves and wolf hybrids. SolTribe is soliciting students to join its Wolf Ambassador program, in which they will learn about wolves at Mission:Wolf’s sanctuary then give presentations in the Roaring Fork Valley. Photo by Lynn Burton

Fire district asking for mil levy override By Allyn Harvey Sopris Sun Correspondent

arbondale’s firefighters are asking voters and residents in the Crystal Valley and greater Carbondale area for money and time to adjust to new economic realities. Specifically, the department will ask voters to authorize a mil levy override for the next two years that will allow the district to continue collecting property taxes at their current level. After two years, the override expires and tax rates return to original levels. If voters agree, the property taxes homeowners pay to the district will remain approximately the same as they currently are. “With the decrease in property value, the fire district portion of property taxes will go

down $70 on a $500,000 house,” explains Fire Chief Ron Leach. “We’re asking them to continue paying that $70 for two years, while we put together a master plan that is in line with the economy.” That will allow the district to collect $775,000 over the next two years, and keep its budgeting at current levels, thus avoiding staff cuts, elimination of some training programs and a reduction in medical response services. The Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District serves approximately 15,000 residents from six stations that cover a 320square-mile area from Marble and Redstone to Carbondale and surrounding areas of Garﬁeld County. The department employs 20 fulltime employees who support 75 vol-

unteer fire fighters. A portion of the paid staff includes paramedics who are able to respond to calls 24 hours a day. In 2010, the department responded to 1,100 emergency calls. The district has 12 fire trucks and four advanced life support ambulances. The money, if approved, will be used to maintain existing levels of employment and service, which ranges from fighting fires and paramedic services to community education and a remote defibrillator program that puts the lifesaving device in key spots around the district. The override will also allow the district to continue its training programs, which keep employees and volunteers up to date on the latest techniques for fighting property and wild-land fires,

and mountain and swift-water rescue. “This two-year mil levy override buys us a little time to see what the economy is going to do, and make an appropriate master plan for the ﬁre district that looks at both capital and operating needs and is responsive to the economic realities we face going forward,” Leach said. The chief says cuts will be necessary if the voters don’t OK the mil levy override. “If this question doesn’t pass, we’re not going to close the doors — we’ll still respond to and put out ﬁres,” Leach said. But the organization will contract, response times will lengthen, equipment will get older and replacement schedules lengthened out, training will get cut and maintenance will be delayed.

Carbondale Commentary

All the gold “All the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else’s name.” – Larry Gatlin My problem has always been that I believed everything I was told (well, that and procrastination, which explains the timing of this article). I was a gullible good girl and I didn’t question authority — except on a psychedelic level in college. For example: I believed that nothing travels faster than the speed of light, that those guys I watch through my little window down on the tarmac are sober and highly qualified, and that there is as much gold in Fort Knox as there are little scraps of paper printed as U.S. currency. Ha! I was like Alice in Wonderland without the patent leather shoes (growing up in Woody Creek, moon boots were much more weather appropriate). I did not, however, believe the story of 9/11. Not even when it was happening and I was working at the airport in Aspen, among all those sober and highly qualified individuals. It was obvious even then that something very wrong was taking place and that it involved money. Anyone who watches the footage can see that the World Trade Center was a straight up demolition job (especially Building 7, which wasn’t hit by anything but ‘flaming debris’ from the towers.) I know next to nothing about demolition jobs, in fact all I do know is what they look like — a building collapsing in on itself; unlike an explosion, which goes out, a demo goes in. If exploding jet fuel really had been the cause, then it would’ve looked a lot more like a Tony Scott movie and less like a controlled demolition. By Jeannie Perry Four-hundred truckloads of debris a day were taken to China ‘for recycling’ and there were traces of Thermite found in the steel. What does this mean? I don’t know, but I think it warrants more than a dummy investigation and a marketed commemorative plaque ceremony. Don’t underestimate Americans. The bankers are thinking Kent State, but the people protesting in their sleeping bags today are in their 50s and well informed. They’re not jobless because they like to take LSD and camp out in the street; they’re actually seeking retribution from the over-privileged clowns helping themselves to our money and getting away with it. I asked myself who stood to gain from the terror inflicted on innocent Americans in September 2001? Well, let’s see. There’s the TSA: whoever makes the wands, the swabs, the highfalutin x-ray machines and those stupid freakin’ bins that aren’t big enough for a pair of boots, a purse and a jacket. There’s the insurance racket* and the Dukes, i.e., Randolph and Mortimer. In other words — buy low, sell high and manipulate the market. I know life is hard, even for a Gatlin, but I don’t think people like the Dukes realize what it’s like to sleep in a park. They’re so insulated from the rest of us, the 99 percent, that they’re more clueless than a Kardashian. Running into them is like watching a Republican debate, surreal and a little humiliating, even if you’re a Democrat.“You can never get the water hot enough.” – JB. Why don’t these guys realize that if they take all of our money and our jobs then we can’t buy their crap and their profits will diminish? I suppose that will take a while to happen though, what with China and India lining up to play the shell game. It isn’t worth all the gold in the Congo if we have to kill each other to get it. The scariest part of 9/11 is that we still don’t even know what happened. Why don’t we have a believable explanation for the collapse of three skyscrapers in the middle of New York City? Where is the evidence? And why in the Sam Hill did they let George W. Bush into a classroom full of innocent children — their brains are like sponges, you know, they absorb anything and everything.

Ps & Qs

*The attacks of 9/11 were some of the largest insured events ever. Makinen, Gail (September 27, 2002) “The Economic Effects of 9/11: A Retrospective Assessment.”

Letters

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

Bag ban is “greenwashing” Editor’s note: This letters was sent to the Carbondale Board of Trustees. Dear Editor: I have a background in the technology, economics and politics of environmental protection that extends over the 45 years of my adult life. As such, I think that the ban on plastic grocery bags that you are considering is a 2 • THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011

ridiculous attempt to mimic Aspen at “greenwashing.” That is a tough challenge, because Aspen is surely one of the world’s leaders at“greenwashing”— meaning, implementing niggling policies that sometimes have minor environmental beneﬁts, but which come nowhere close to offsetting the economic waste (with its invisible but real environmental impacts) that is inherent in sustaining

a local economy that caters to the conspicuous consumption of the super-rich. My wife and I purchase most of our groceries at the Carbondale City Market and usually take them out in plastic bags. An immediate benefit is that we can often carry our entire purchase to our car without taking the cart onto the lot, because we can carry several bags in each hand by using the loops. That’s a minor benefit for people who drive their car to the store, but a much larger benefit for people who walk there to purchase groceries. Another benefit is that any leakage will be contained within the bag. If we used “environmentally correct” cloth bags, we would need to periodically wash them in warm water with detergent that collectively would probably require more energy in production and distribution than the plastic bags that were replaced. I acknowledge, however, that the additional water that would be required would be returned to the Roaring Fork watershed after being treated, and therefore not contribute to water scarcity the way that over-irrigation of cow pastures does (which is another issue). When we arrive at home with our groceries, we put most of the plastic bags in the trash. But even after we put the glass, cans, plastic bottles and newspapers in the recycling bin, the plastic grocery bags constitute much less than 1 percent of the remaining waste by either weight or volume. That’s trivial. We use a few other plastic bags to wrap garbage such as meat scraps and fish skins for disposal in the trash in a way that they will not cause objectionable odors. This allows us to have our trash picked up once per week rather than twice, thereby reducing the labor, energy and other resources required to pick up trash — and that is reflected in the money that it saves us. Of course, if we did not get plastic bags for free at City Market, we could and would purchase them rather than pay for more frequent trash collection, but the bags would still end up in the landfill. Or would some of you like to prohibit all plastic in trash and have the Carbondale police go around checking residents’ trash for compliance? As a property owner and frequent user of trails, roads and waterways, I am also very sensitive to litter and regularly pick it up. It is very rare to find plastic grocery bags. I find a lot more of the small black plastic bags that the town provides at outdoor stations for pickup of dog waste. Should those be banned too? Will the free local newspapers that constitute a significant part of local litter — and are mostly not recycled — be banned next? When pitting the interests of Carbondale’s grocery consumers against an alleged “environmental benefit” as trivial and dubious as regulating plastic grocery bags, I suggest that you consider all of these practical ramifications. But more importantly, please respect the American political/economic principle of freedom of exchange between informed adults. As applied here, it means that businesses should have the freedom to offer whatever appeals to consumers, unless it has a large and demonstrable negative effect on the community that cannot be remedied by other means. If we were considering a ban on, say, selling knives or hazardous chemicals to children, I would enthusiastically support it. But that would be totally different

than this feel-good exercise in greenwashing. Carl Ted Stude Carbondale

Move the disc golf course Dear Editor: My wife and I were reminiscing over old photos of her 40th birthday party held in Gianinetti Park. That was when the park had a two-story picnic pavilion and no disc golf course. Gianinetti Park was known then as a picnic park. But for years we have been down to two to three tables that get moved around frequently for various activities. Unfortunately, most of the best picnic spots are now occupied by disc golf baskets and tees. Perhaps we should do like one person did in our new town manager’s former town of Cortez. Someone apparently lined one of the Centennial Park disc golf baskets with foil and ﬁred up his briquettes for a barbeque. What a great idea! Maybe we now need nine more picnic tables. Actually, in recent weeks, the public works department has returned two of our four missing tables. They are still “searching” for the others. There were also several park benches in those days. The seniors from Heritage Park have always appreciated being able to catch their breath on the bench that used to be at the top of the steeper section of the sidewalk. Now, if seniors need a break, they have to ﬁnd a vacant table or compete for the one remaining bench at the playground. One day we observed an elderly lady resting with her walker on the sidewalk next to the No. 8 basket. There was a group of disc players yelling for her to move so they could play through. When they failed to get her attention we went LETTERS page 14

To inform, inspire and build community Donations accepted online or by mail. For information call 510-3003 Editor: Lynn Burton • 510-3003 news@soprissun.com Advertising: Dina Drinkhouse • 970-456-7573 dina@soprissun.com Bob Albright • 970-927-2175 bob@soprissun.com Photographer/Writer: Jane Bachrach Ad/Page Production: Terri Ritchie Paper Boy: Cameron Wiggin Webmaster: Will Grandbois Sopris Sun, LLC Managing Board of Directors: Peggy DeVilbiss • David Johnson Allyn Harvey • Colin Laird Laura McCormick • Trina Ortega Jean Perry • Elizabeth Phillips Frank Zlogar

Sopris Sun, LLC • P.O. Box 399 520 S. Third Street #35 Carbondale, CO 81623

970-510-3003 www.soprissun.com Visit us on facebook.com Send us your comments: feedback@soprissun.com The Sopris Sun is an LLC organized under the 501c3 non-profit structure of the Roaring Fork Community Development Corporation.

Village at Crystal River draws a packed house Both sides jump into Village at Crystal River debate

town and bicycle safety. Bill Laemmel made several points against VCR, and wrapped up by warning the project could end up like the stalled Willits retail development in El Jebel, where “dirt is being irrigated, not dug.” By Lynn Burton Jennifer Boland, a Carbondale native, wondered why Sopris Sun Staff Writer “we have to build a suburban style store on our best piece Opponents to Village at Crystal River spoke out, while of property, and at the same time leave a “huge box” (the exproponents spoke up, at Tuesday night’s Board of Trustees isting City Market store) down the street.“You can drive to meeting as the controversial development nears what is ex- El Jebel for that big (the proposed City Market at VCR) of pected to be its final review next month. a store,” she concluded. An informal tally of folks who spoke Tuesday night Melanie Finan elaborated on the question of what to do showed about 16 people oppose the project while four sup- with existing buildings and said “I’d like to see us put energy port it — and with one guy it was hard into what we have.”As for the PIF (pubto tell where he stood. lic increment financing) “I think of lower After three hours of discussion, the income families who will have to shop trustees tentatively set Nov. 1 as the next there.” public hearing for the project and indiMichael Gorman focused on the procated they might finally vote on the 24ject’s sustainability, such as the amount acre commercial/residential project on of energy that could be produced on site Highway 133 that first surfaced four through solar panels. “I think we can do – Zuleika Pevec years ago. better,” he said. “We only have one “What has taken so long?” asked Bill chance to get it right.” Grant, one of four people in the packed room that spoke in Jason White didn’t necessarily object to something being favor of the project. built on the site, “(but) this is a square peg in a round hole.” The Google Group“Carbondale Citizens”has been e-mail- He said he grew up surrounded by suburban development, ing each other of late, urging members to attend Tuesday “that’s why I live in a mountain town.”White also said VCR night’s meeting and speak up. Soon after Tuesday night’s meet- will compete with downtown and will promote one stoping started at 6 p.m., folks started trickling in and by 7 p.m. ping shopping where customers will “get gas, fast food and they were dragging in extra chairs from the adjacent town hall get out of town.” meeting room. People without chairs sat on the floor, stood in Allyn Harvey (a Sopris Sun board member) objected to the the back of the room or sat on the table at the entrance. PIF, called it a tax, and said that as a tax it should go to a vote Opponents raised several issues, including the safety and of the people. “Every other tax goes to the voters,” he said. pedestrian/bicycle use of a roundabout that developer Rich Later in the meeting, Schierburg himself called the PIF“a tax,” Schierburg is proposing for the entrance to his project. Oth- which he said will be dedicated to Highway 133 improvements ers objected to the national chain stores that might open at and not to infrastructure in the development itself. VCR, the 1 percent PIF that the developer will assess on all One of Zuleika Pevec’s objections was the drive-through sales, the project’s “urban” style, the impact it will have on windows that would be allowed. With exhaust fumes and Carbondale’s “small town character” and more. whatnot, “ … they aren’t very healthy.” She drew a few “How can a car stop in a roundabout to let someone laughs when she concluded, “The way to revitalize a town cross the street?” asked Sarah Johnson, who also pointed isn’t to pave it.” out that Carbondale has made a commitment to be a bike Former board of trustees member Russ Criswell indifriendly community. cated he favors VCR but didn’t exactly come out and say Dan Whitney said he is also concerned with bicycle it. For example, although some object to the 144 houses in safety as it relates to VCR and said the vision of younger the VCR proposal in part because there is not market for people is to “eliminate car transportation as much as pos- the right now,“if he (the developer) thinks he can sell them, sible.” Whitney said he doesn’t like the idea of having to get let him try.” into a car to feel safe just to go across town and that the Robert McClellan, a Carbondale business owner who proposed roundabout is “extremely detrimental” to the grew up in Rifle, favored VCR and called the decision “a

“The way to revitalize a town isn’t to pave it.”

Melanie Finan (foreground) and James Surls (background) sat next to each other but were on opposite sides of the fence during Tuesday night’s discussion about the Village at Crystal River. Photo by Lynn Burton no brainer.” For one thing, “the town needs the (sales tax) income,” he said. James Surls, a Missouri Heights resident, also said he supports the project. He said he agreed with young folks at the meeting that “paradigm shifts must be made,” but that the developer is malleable. “I think there is a way to make this work. … To say ‘yes they can do it’ isn’t the end, it’s the beginning.”

BLM holds management meetings Sopris Sun Staff Report The Bureau of Land Management is hosting three public open house meetings, including one at Carbondale Town Hall, concerning travel management plans, recreation, energy development, resource protection, real estate actions, wildlife habitat, grazing and special designations on Oct. 6, 11 and 12. The meetings coincide with the BLM’s Draft Management Plan Revision for the Colorado River Valley Field Office in western Colorado, according to a press release. The land-use plan revision will guide management decisions in the field office for the next two decades. The draft plan covers 505,000 surface acres and 707,000 acres of subsurface mineral estate administered in Eagle, Garfield, Mesa, Pitkin, and Routt counties, with a small amount of acreage in Rio Blanco County. The draft plan analyzes four alternatives covering all aspects of BLM land and mineral management in this area.

“We’ve worked hard with our partners to craft a wide range of alternatives for public review and comment,” said Steve Bennett, Field Manager for the Colorado River Valley Field Office. “These open house meetings are a great way for the public to learn more about the plan and provide us with specific comments.” The public is invited to stop by anytime during the open house meetings, which are scheduled from 3-7 p.m. at the following locations: • Oct. 6 in Silt at the BLM Colorado River Valley Office, 2300 River Frontage Road; • Oct. 11 in Eagle at the Eagle Public Library, 600 Broadway St.; • Oct. 12 in Carbondale at Town Hall, 511 Colorado Ave. For additional information, including how to provide comments or obtain a copy of the draft plan, visit www.blm.gov/co.

Enola Stamsek, with the Zingers singing group, gives the audience a round of applause last Sunday at Heritage Park Care Center. The Zingers are part of Senior Matters and they rehearse at the Third Street Center every Thursday at 2 p.m. Photo by Lynn Burton THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011 • 3

News Briefs Street graphics hearing is Oct. 13 The Carbondale Planning and Zoning Commission holds a public hearing on proposed changes to the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s code that addresses street graphics at 7 p.m. on Oct. 13. Recently, the Board of Trustees has discussed possible changes to the town code to address offsite signage for businesses. As pointed out by town staff, off-site signs have increased dramatically in the past year. Copies of the proposed changes to the code (18.500.080 Street Graphics) are available at town hall.

Students fare well at Taekwondo test On Aug. 13, Sahn Taekwondo held itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quarterly belt promotion test at the Breckenridge Recreation Center. With over 100 participants testing from the Sahnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four locations, the Carbondale Sahn Taekwondo School was represented by 14 students testing for promotion in color belt ranks, as well as the Carbondale school instructor, Cedar Rose Guelberth being promoted to International Kukkiwon 2nd Dan Black Belt. Katie Bohannan, 10, was awarded the Traveling Trophy, which is given to the student that best excels at testing, and represents leadership skills and hard work in class, and follows the tenants of taekwondo: courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self control and indomitable spirit. Several students were nominated for the trophy including Kelvin and Robin Requeno. Classes are offered Tuesday and Thursday through the Carbondale Recreation Center. Students will begin training for their next level in

Police seek info on hit and run hopes to be invited to the next promotion to be held Nov. 12. The following students were promoted to their next rank: Kelvin Requeno, Chandra Bohannan, Katie Bohannan, Robin Requeno, Jose Pedro Felix, Jaime Lopez, Stacey Marquez, Moises Camargo, Helen Salas, Kayte Marquez, Mark Kazasch, Rodrigo Camargo, Asher Owsensby and Briseyda Camargo.

On Sept. 29, at 8:43 p.m., Carbondale police dispatch reported a call to ofďŹ cers regarding an accident between a bicyclist and a vehicle that had happened earlier in the day. The accident happened at 1010 Main Street at the sidewalk and driveway to the shopping mall on the Carbondale Subway restaurant

side. The car was possibly a maroon or dark-green sedan, driven by a small Caucasian teenage boy with a larger Caucasian passenger. A total of three bikes were at the scene. Anyone with information regarding this accident is asked to call the Carbondale Police Department at 963-2662.

Library board considers budget The GarďŹ eld County Librariesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Board of Trustees will discuss its proposed 2012 budget at its monthly meeting at the Gordon Cooper Library at 4 p.m. on Oct. 6. The regular meeting will begin at 6 p.m. The trustees will present the budget to the GarďŹ eld County commissioners on Oct. 10. For more information, call 625-4270.

Advocate Safehouse receives $25K The Aspen Community Foundation has awarded the Advocate Safehouse Project a $25,000 grant, according to a press release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The grant will give us additional resources to provide services to survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence in GarďŹ eld County,â&#x20AC;? said Advocate Safehouse Director Julie Olson. Over the past ďŹ ve years, the Advocate Safehouse Project has been granted $115,000 from Aspen Community Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unrestricted and ďŹ eld of interest funds. The mission of the Advocate Safehouse Project is to promote healthy relationships free from violence through education, advocacy, empowerment and safe housing, Olson said.

Crime Stoppers looks for sexual assault suspect GarďŹ eld County Crime Stoppers is looking for information on the whereabouts of Saul BarajasApolinar (aka Oscar Garcia), who has an active nationwide warrant out of GarďŹ eld County for sexual assault of a child, sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and child abuse, according to a press release. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s believed he may be trying to leave the country to avoid arrest. Apolinarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last known address was 1131 Colorado Ave., Carbondale. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a 24-year-old Hispanic male, 5-feet 8-inches tall, brown eyes, black hair, 160 pounds with a slender build. GarďŹ eld County Crime Stoppers will pay up to $1,000 for tips leading to the arrest of this suspect. All callers remain anonymous. For details, call 945-0101.

Your Carbondale Fire District needs YOUR help!

VOTE YES

on 4A by November 1, 2011 >L ULLK [V Z\WWVY[ HUK M\UK V\Y Ă&#x201E;YL KLWHY[TLU[ HUK HTI\SHUJL ZLY]PJL 0[ÂťZ NVVK MVY [OL OLHS[O VM V\Y JVTT\UP[` P[Z YLZPKLU[Z HUK ]PZP[VYZ What happens if this mill levy override is not approval? Â&#x2039; -PYL +PZ[YPJ[ÂťZ YL]LU\L ^PSS IL YLK\JLK I` Â&#x2039; ;OL -PYL +PZ[YPJ[ TH` J\[ VM WHPK Z[HMM V]LY [OL JV\YZL VM [OL UL_[ `LHYZ Â&#x2039; ;YHPUPUN 7YLWHYLKULZZ 7YVNYHTZ ^PSS IL YLK\JLK Â&#x2039; -PYL PUZ\YHUJL WYLTP\TZ ^PSS IL PUJYLHZLK Â&#x2039; 4LKPJHS :LY]PJLZ ^PSS IL YLK\JLK PTTLKPH[L YLZWVUZL VM M\SS` JLY[PĂ&#x201E;LK WHYHTLKPJ ZLY]PJLZ ^PSS UV[ IL Z\Z[HPUHISL VU HSS ZOPM[Z Paid for by the friends of the C&RFPD

4 â&#x20AC;˘ THE SOPRIS SUN â&#x20AC;˘ OCTOBER 6, 2011

First Friday soars above and beyond this month By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Maybe October’s First Friday should be billed as “First Friday … Saturday … all through the month and then some.” The monthly celebration of all things Carbondale not only overlaps with this weekend’s Celtic Fest/Okotoberfest, it helps to kick off the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities month-long SWAN events, and incorporates the community oven’s first official firing. Starting at the Third Street Center, the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities hosts a reception on Friday at 6 p.m. for its SWAN exhibit titled “United We Art: New Work from 42 Contemporary Women.” During the opening, local pastry chefs Christine Bergstrom and Donna Lilah will give a culinary demonstration and present a showpiece cake for everyone to enjoy. Following a large-puppet parade from CCAH to PAC3 with Suzie Lindbloom, local performers take the stage at 8 p.m. for “Shakespeare’s Sister,” a collaborative performance based on the premise: what if Shakespeare had a sister? The “42 Contemporary Women” show features: Shelley Bogaert, Donna Gunther Brown, Amy Butowicz, Isa Catto, K Rhynus Cesark, Lynne DeNio, Tania Dibbs, Linda Drake, Sue Drinker, Sheri Gaynor, Lynn Goldsmith, Lisa Grace, Sharill Hawkins, Judy Hill Lovins, Joyce Illian, Pam Joseph, Diane Kenney, Wewer Keohane, Lisa Klakulak, Cami Lien, Nancy Lovendahl, Mary Matchael, Alicia Matesanz de las Heras, Elizabeth Moreno, Nancy Nagel, Janet Nelson, Marsha Nettles Cook, Lynette O’Kane, Susan Olsen, Jan Panico, Olivia Pevec, Sara Ransford, Patty Ringer, Jill Scher, Natasha Seedorf, Jacqueline Spiro Balderson, Kathy Steckel, Susan Strickland, Andrea Wallace, Ellen Woods and Ellenmarie Zagoras. SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) was founded in 2007 with the goal of drawing attention to the works of women artists all over the world. So far, besides Carbondale, there have been more than 700 events in 21 countries, including 29 states in the U.S., according to CCAH. Other SWAN events this week include the comedy review “Laughing Matters” at 7 p.m. on Oct. 9 at PAC3.

Celtic Fest / Oktoberfest Celtic Fest takes place under the tent at Fourth Street Plaza and just down the street at Steve’s Guitars on Friday

night. Festivities begin with a bagpipe reception at 5 p.m., followed by a best-legs-in-a-kilt competition at 7 p.m. Live music with Jimmy Byrne and Public House, and the Breccia Wilson Duo follows. The event runs until 9 p.m. Down at Steve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Building at 8 p.m., John Colson and Mary Margaret will host another “Celtic Spirits” evening featuring poetry, limericks, readings from Dylan Thomas and “whatever the audience wants to do,” said proprietor Steve Standiford. The Tippetts will wrap things up with original tunes. As for Oktoberfest on Saturday, a highlight will no doubt include Steve Skinner and the Uninhibited Brazilians. For details, check out the ad in this week’s Sopris Sun or the Calendar listing.

Carbondale Community Oven After months of planning, design work and hard labor, the Carbondale Community Oven at the Third Street Center gets its first official firing at 5 p.m. “The bread comes out at 5:45 p.m.,” said oven spokeswoman Linda Romero Criswell. Never let it be said that Carbondale folks will pass up a chance to come together and pound on various percussion instruments; there will be a community drum circle at about 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the oven and honor the folks who made it possible. Criswell envisioned the oven two years ago. The idea was to build an outdoor, wood-fired brick hearth oven in a public space to be shared by community members who want to bake bread, pizza and other edible items. Materials and labor were donated by Gallegos Construction, Valley Lumber, Mayne Block, Ben Sellers, Tile by Jacob, The Fireplace Co. and numerous individual volunteers. Grant funding came from the BKS Charitable Foundation. The project has also been supported by Slow Food Roaring Fork. A schedule for using the oven will be available soon.

Elsewhere Elsewhere around town on Friday night: The Carbondale Clay Center at the east end of Main Street hosts a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. for its national invitational show … the Crystal Theatre presents “Drive” (5:30 p.m.) and “Sarah’s

Bagpipes return to Carbondale for Friday night’s Celtic Fest. Other First Friday action takes place at the Third Street Center, downtown and other venues. Photo by Eric Brendlinger Key” 7:30 p.m., … The Thunder River Theatre Company continues its run of “The House of Blue Leaves” … Carbondale Beer Works presents the Frying Pan Bluegrass Band … Carnahan’s Tavern presents B.M.F. … many downtown stores and galleries will be open late … and Roaring Fork footballers host Olathe at 7 p.m.

rough a glass brightly: Carbondale’s kaleidoscope table By Nicolette Toussaint Sopris Sun Arts Correspondent Kinetic, quixotic, translucent, colorful. Words can scarcely convey what Carbondale’s soon-to-be-famous kaleidoscope table is like. Ironically, a YouTube video that shows the table’s spinning glass plates in action doesn’t fully convey the visual experience either. You have to see this table — a work of art that took eight artists, engineers and fabricators more than seven years to produce — to believe it. You can do so during October’s First Friday at the Ravenheart Gallery on Weant Boulevard. The half-ton table is made of four stacked orbs of glass, each more than six feet in diameter. All four balance on a steel stem, and only the lowest orb, which is made of clear and crackled glass under lit by LEDs, is fixed in place. Above the lighted plate, everything rotates. The secondto-the-bottom orb spins around to reveal rainbow-hued peacocks, ravens, rivers, fish, mountains, orchids and symbols. The third-level orb, which is divided into sections by three jeweled scepters, rotates across the two below, changing colors and flashing as its facets cross the lights. The fourth orb, perched at the top of the stack, is composed of clear tempered glass. Although it protects the artwork below it and provides a dining surface, it also has a decorative job: it frames a large lighted dome of crystal that perches at the table’s center. The table’s three decorated layers contain at least 16 kinds of glass: fused, dichroic, jeweled, stained, rippled, textured, seeded, mirrored, molded, crackled, watered, etched and beveled glass — to name a few.

The kaleidoscope table at Ravenheart Gallery took seven years from concept to completion. During those years, eight artists, engineers and fabricators worked on the oneof-a kind table. Photo courtesy Ravenheart Gallery. The idiosyncratic table was the brainchild of Willa Doolin, who opened the Ravenheart Gallery about three months ago. “I thought of this about 20 years ago,” said Doolin,“but it took 14 years to ﬁnd the right people to make it, and for technology to catch up to my vision.” Because of the table’s weight, and because three of the four orbs are supported only by the tensile strength of the glass plates themselves, the table required custom-made ball bearings. Two engineers and four different metal shops were involved in making the petal-shaped base to which the orbs are attached. Glass artist Mary Matchael, who drew the table’s designs for Doolin and fabricated the glass plates, said,“If anything

was so much as 1/16 of an inch out of true, it wouldn’t work. The glass is essentially balanced on a pipe that is nine inches in diameter, and the plates extend out more than six feet. If a 200-pound man were to lean on the edge — and someone will because it’s a dining table — the table can’t tip. The base had to sit on the floor and be very stable. It took a lot of trial and error to get it all to work, to get it to rotate smoothly and quietly.” Matchael is the owner of the Crystal Glass Studio, located in back of Ravenheart Gallery. Matchael cuts, cooks and carves glass to create sophisticated architectural lighting, doors, windows and giftware. She has received commissions from all across the United States. Despite nearly 40 years of glass-making experience, Matchael had to develop new techniques for adhering and attaching the glass plates in the kaleidoscope. If you’re looking for a distinctive dining room table, this one is for sale. The asking price: $200,000. Doolin admits that she’s “rather conflicted” about selling the table. The art in it commemorates her sons, her birth constellation, the peacocks that her family raised in Dallas, and orchids that her scientist brother named after discovering them in the Amazon. But no matter; now that all the kinks have been worked out, other kaleidoscope tables can be made. “If a person wanted to commission a table like this, we would know how to do it now,” said Doolin. “We wouldn’t have to have seven or eight people work on it. It wouldn’t have to be as heavy; this one could bow a floor. It would have the buyer’s own symbols in it, rather than mine. Or it could be geometrical, more like a traditional kaleidoscope.” THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011 • 5

Scuttlebutt

Send your scuttlebutt to news@SoprisSun.com.

What is up on Qwest’s roof?

COREmuter update

Sidewalk construction managers have been scratching their head of late, trying to ﬁgure out what Qwest is doing up on the roof of its brick building at Fourth and Main Street. Not wanting to waste time on Qwest’s automated phone system to ask them directly, The Sopris Sun went straight to the company’s building permit at town hall for some quick answers. It turns out the permit is for adding a new air handler on the roof, which was brought on by the need for better cooling to handle the increase in phone equipment use. Qwest also had to comply with the town’s new HCC Ordinance #9 of 2010, which means the parapets had to be raised. Because of the raised parapets, the rooftop equipment should not be visible and noise should be reduced.

A total of 48 bikers have signed up for the initial round of the COREmuter Challenge, organized by CORE’s Sustainable Communities transportation group. The teams are out to out do each other in total bicycle miles logged to and from work and elsewhere during work hours. An awards ceremony is slated for Aloha Mountain Cyclery at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 16 to present the ﬁrst round of prizes. New participants and curious commuters are welcome. On a related note, what looked to be the entire CLEER crew was seen pedaling away from the Third Street Center on their way to Dos Gringos for lunch on Tuesday – insiders say that this could be the team to beat.

Oven alert The Carbondale Community Oven gets its ﬁrst public ﬁring on Oct. 20. If you’d like to sign up to bake some bread, cookies, pizza or anything else, e-mail to comoven@gmail.com. For details on the Carbondale Community Oven, check out the First Friday story on page 5.

Travel blogger discovers Carbondale Travel blogger Robin Benzle not only discovered Carbondale a few weeks back, she was introduced to deep-fried Rocky Mountain oysters. The introduction took place at the Pour House and after a few thoughtful chomps, she pronounced that Rocky Mountain oysters (bull testicles) taste a little bit like liver. And she liked them. To view Benzle’s video blog, which includes a lengthy interview with the Pour House’s Skip Bell, go to www.robinbenzle.com and type in“skip”in the archive window.

More on the dogs

Bumper sticker of the week

Halloween volunteers needed

Sighted on a vehicle at the Third Street Center on a Sunday morning:“What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it’s all about?”

The Roaring Fork Family Resource Center is looking for volunteers to help with its third annual Halloween Happening fundraiser at Bridges High School on Oct. 28 from 4 to 7 p.m. The night includes pumpkin bowling, stories, an obstacle course, consume contest, silent auction and more. For details, call Katie Marshall at 384-5689.

If you want to see a bunch of good National Sheepdog Finals pics, go to kensmullenphoto.com. From the looks of his Web site, Ken Smullen must have slept at Strang Ranch during the ﬁnals.

Dog Parker of the Week Dog Parker of the Week honors go to the shorts-clad woman who was jogging with her four-legged companion at Delaney Dog Park last week. When the pooch stopped to clip a yam, she jogged in place until it was ﬁnished. Then after bagging the poop, she continued her run, holding her dog’s deposit with thumb and index ﬁnger at arm’s length to the side until reaching a nearby receptacle.

Hollyhocks have pretty much hollied their last hock this year, except for one patch up Prince Creek Road at the Tybar Ranch entrance (shown here) and another across the road at Flying Dog Ranch. Photo by Lynn Burton

explore the wisdom of Waldorf

Preschool thru 8th Grade

OPEN HOUSE Today - Oct. 6th, 5-7 p.m.

Come in and meet the teachers, tour the classrooms, and have the time to ask your questions in a relaxed, open forum. Now is the time to explore the difference a Waldorf education can make in the life of your child! Perhaps the ultimate allure of a Waldorf education is this: the sense one gets from walking into a Waldorf school that this, at last, is a place that has its priorities right regarding children and education. ~ Jeremy Schosberg, Author

Please RSVP to 963-1960 Childcare provided with reservation.

www.waldorfcarbondale.org 6 • THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011

They say it’s your birthday Birthday greetings go out to Jody Ensign (Oct. 8), Charlotte Vanderhurst (Oct. 10), Peggy Gilcrest (Oct. 11) and Rick Borkovec (Oct. 12).

TRTC’s dark “Blue Leaves” leaves ‘em laughing By Nicolette Toussaint Sopris Sun Arts Correspondent

Usually described as a black comedy, “The House of Blue Leaves” — the story of a New York zookeeper who dreams of escaping from marital martyrdom to become a Hollywood songwriter — demands a careful balance of angst and absurdity to work its malevolent magic. Thunder River Theatre Company’s latest production mostly succeeds in walking that theatrical tightrope. The action takes place in 1965 on the day the Pope arrived in New York City. Two-timing protagonist Artie Shaughnessy, sympathetically played by Lee Sullivan, is making plans to have his schizophrenic wife “Bananas” committed so that he can take a flyer with his mistress, Bunny Flingus. Unlikely as the storyline sounds, the play amuses; it prompted both spontaneous laughter and a standing ovation from TRTC’s opening night house last Friday night. Bunny, portrayed with flighty earnestness by Jennifer Michaud, believes that if she can get the Pope to bless Artie’s music — to catch a ray glinting from his jeweled rings — they will go live in Hollywood and he’ll become a success. She pushes the underachieving Artie into laying plans for their Tinseltown future by arranging a rendezvous with his childhood friend Billy Einhorn, a Hollywood movie producer who is played with an amusing smarminess by Richard Lyon. Overhearing her husband tell Einhorn that she is as dead to him as Einhorn’s deceased wife, Bananas retreats into one of her frequent animal fantasies. It’s s tough role, but veteran actress Valerie Haugen makes the character palatable. (TRTC regulars, however, may find the portrayal a bit too reminiscent of Haugen’s Blanche DuBois in “Streetcar Named Desire.”) Bananas sometimes dons animal masks, and when she

wants to ingratiate herself with Artie, pants and begs like a dog. Bananas later remarks, “How lucky we all are. You going off to California and me going off to the loony bin.” Given the context of Shaunessy’s shabby apartment and their cold, gritty Queens neighborhood, captured in a single stage set with barred windows and an overhanging gray backdrop of the Triborough Bridge, Bananas’ remark is not wholly ironic. Everyone who lives here is looking for escape; maybe the loony bin would be a step up. But the Shaunessys’ AWOL-from-the-military son, Ronnie, has explosive plans that will derail Artie’s trip to California, Einhorn’s movie-making in Australia, and Bananas’ move to the madhouse that Artie calls the “house of blue leaves.” The name comes not from leaves, but from blue birds that Artie saw roosting in a tree outside the place — birds that immediately fled leaving bare branches in their wake. The symbol is apt because the bluebirds of happiness are about to depart from the lives of these characters. In this period piece, writer John Guare explored America’s celebrity obsession, everyman’s deus-ex-machina desire to have his humdrum life touched and transformed by stardust, whether from Hollywood or the Vatican. The playwright juxtaposed insanity, failed marriage, infidelity and blighted dreams against absurdity and madcap stage activity: A trio of grabby, star-struck nuns who missed the Pope inveigles entry through the apartment’s locked windows in Act II. Artie repeatedly bursts into song, his recycled melodies and artless lyrics leading to laughter. To make this material work requires great comedic timing, over-the-top characterization, and strong casting. Under the direction of Thunder River Executive Artistic Director Lon Winston, a cast of new and veteran players makes it work. TRTC mixes up a nicely blended cocktail of affection, friction and affliction that makes for an entertaining theatrical evening.

Lee Sullivan (left) plays Artie Shaunessy and Jennifer Michaud (right) plays Bunny Flingus in the Thunder River Theatre Company production of “The House of Blue Leaves.” Photo courtesy Thunder River Theatre Company

THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011 • 7

Leaves on Kebler Pass between Highway 133 and Crested Butte hadn’t quite hit their peak when this photo was snapped on Oct. 1 but the climax was close. Carbondale and Crested Butte are both part of the West Elk Loop, which includes Gunnison, Paonia and Hotchkiss. Photo by Lynn Burton

Let the

Sun

Help You Shine To place an ad, contact Dina at 456-7573 or dina@soprissun.com Support your community non-profit weekly with your ad dollars

Affordable Rates, Great Ad Design and Wide Distribution throughout the Roaring Fork Valley

We distribute on Thursday afternoons

AD DEADLINES: Ad space reservation MONDAY NOON Ad copy for Sopris Sun produced ads MONDAY NOON Camera ready ads due TUESDAY NOON

8 • THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011

S UPPORT W OMEN A RTS N OW! [[SWAN] SWAN] PRESENTS: SUPPORT WOMEN ARTS NOW!

S HARE. E NJOY Y. C ELE EBRA RATE. ATE. SHARE. ENJOY. CELEBRATE. DELICIOUS, THOUGHT-PROVOKING, INSPIRATIONAL EVENTS THAT SHOWCASE THE DIVERSE AND EXCITING ARTISTS LIVING IN THE ROARING FORK VALLEY.

OCTOBER 7–27, 2011 VISUAL THEATRICAL SCULPTURAL MUSICAL CULINARY DANCE LITERARY CULTURAL FREE!

10.7 SWAN Opening Night Kick-off: 6pm – A Celebration of Women in the Arts 10.9 Laughing Matters: 7pm – PAC3 10.10-14 Cami Lien’s Figure Drawing Workshop: 10am - 3pm – Third Street Center 10.13 One Book/One Town: 7pm – Third Street Center 10.15 Dessert Demonstration Class: 10am – CCAH Classroom 10.15 Fiesta Latina: 6pm – Round Room at Third Street 10.16 An Afternoon of Dance: 4pm – Third Street Center 10.17-18 Cami Lien’s Horse Sculpture Workshop: 10am - 3pm – C’dale Clay Center 10.19 Who Does She Think She Is?: 7pm – Third Street Center 10.20 A Literary Evening of Poetry & Prose: 7pm – Third Street Center 10.21 Women Rising: 5-8 pm – Main Street, Carbondale 10.25 Creating Change: 7pm – Third Street Center 10.27 The Healing Power of Art: 7pm– Thunder River Theater Additional events include Anais Mitchell Performer and more!

SWAN Day/Support Women Artists Now Day is an international movement that celebrates women artists. By focusing attention on the work of women artists, SWAN helps people imagine what the world might be like if women’s art and perspectives were fully integrated into all of our lives.

S FOR MORE INFO & A FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

WWW .CARBONDALEARTS.COM WWW.CARBONDALEARTS.COM

Vollyballers keep rolling Football

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Correspondent The Roaring Fork High School volleyball team trounced Basalt on Sept. 23 and haven’t looked back. Their 3-0 win against Rifle on Sept. 29 only served as a prequel to a weekend on the road. A noon game against Cedaredge on Oct. 1 kept their winning streak alive with a 3-1 victory, and a 3-0 win against Hotchkiss later the same day wrapped up the weekend. The run leaves the Lady Rams at 11-1 for the season. It’s hard not to be optimistic for Roaring Fork’s game against 9-4 Coal Ridge on Oct. 6. In their first confrontation, played in Carbondale at the start of the season, the Rams lost the first two games in overtime, then gained momentum and rallied to take the match 3-2. Whether round two will prove as close remains to be seen. The big match up of the week will take place on Oct. 8, when the Rams take on Olathe and then Gunnison. Roaring Fork suffered their only defeat of the season to Olathe, and the Pirates are 12-1 for the season, having lost a round to Gunnison. The Cowboys have already lost to Roaring Fork this season. The Rams will try to get even with Olathe in what should prove to be an event not to be missed. The game starts at noon on Oct. 8.

Midvalley high school football may have been peaceful and cohesive in the years in which Carbondale Union High School served both Basalt and Carbondale, but almost since the dawn of Basalt High School and the rebranding of Roaring Fork, the two teams have been rivals. Roaring Fork, the heir of Carbondale Union’s legacy, enrolls about 300 students. Basalt, too well established to rightly be called a newcomer, boasts upwards of 400. Even so, last year’s 31-0 rout was Roaring Fork football’s first win over Basalt since the 2007 season, a blow to the ego the Rams were hoping to mend on Friday when they took on the Longhorns at Basalt. Even fueled by their Homecoming victory over Coal Ridge last week, however, Roaring Fork could not quite snag a win, though solid defenses by both teams kept the game to a low scoring 17-6. Roaring Fork’s sole touchdown came in the fourth quarter, when receiver Dakota Grett grabbed a pass by quarterback Clay Gross in a triumphant mirror of a similar play missed earlier in the game. Next, the Rams prepare to take on the Olathe Pirates, a team that downed Basalt 17-12 in their own match up against the Longhorns in late September. The game will take place at 7 p.m. on Oct. 7 at home.

Georgia Ackerman goes high in a win against Riﬂe on Sept. 29. That’s Taylor Adams looking on. Photo by Will Grandbois

Soccer The Roaring Fork soccer team also suffered a defeat to Basalt last week, albeit by a narrower margin of 3-2, but shook it off and smashed the Riﬂe Bears 7-1 on Oct. 4. The charge was lead by newcomer Tommy Adgate, who sat out the ﬁrst half of the

season after transferring from Colorado Rocky Mountain School. Adgate, along with top scorers Sam Carpenter and Enrique Abarca, will seek to repeat their success against 6-3-2 Glenwood Springs in a home game at 4 p.m. on Oct. 6, then travel to Aspen on Oct. 11 for a 4 p.m. game.

TOWN OF CARBONDALE

Crack Seal Maintenance The Town of Carbondale will begin the Crack Seal Maintenance program on Monday, October 3, on streets in River Valley Ranch. The program will continue throughout the fall on various streets in Town as weather permits. Please do not park vehicles on streets that have been signed for work the following day, as vehicles will be towed at the owner’s expense. Questions, please call Larry Ballenger at 963-2733.

Complete women’s care from puberty, pregnancy to post menopause. Certified Nurse Midwife and Licensed Independent Nurse Practitioner Lisa Treadway offers years of experience and personalized services such as: Nurse Midwifery, Obstetrics, Gynecology and limited primary care. Babies delivered at Valley View Hospital.

A Women’s Health Boutique

Carbondale The Local’s Favorite 199 Main Street 970-963-7190

Aspen

For 411 Hyman Ave Affordable Luxuries! harmonyscott.com

GRAND OPENING

Now accepting BCBS, United Healthcare, Cigna/Great West, Aetna, all Cofinity Insurance plans and Medicaid.

970.230.9078 • sopriswomensclinic.com

Lisa Treadway

410 20th St. Suite #102, Glenwood Springs

Nurse Midwife

THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011 • 9

Community Calendar THURSDAY Oct. 6

FRIDAY Oct. 7

ROTARY • The Mt. Sopris Rotary Club meets at Mi Casita every Thursday at noon. Today’s speaker is Elizabeth Means, executive director of Pathﬁnders for Cancer. The Oct. 13 speaker will be Carbondale Town Manager Jay Harrington.

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “Sarah’s Key” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7-13 and “Drive” (R) at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 7-11.

LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works, located in the old post ofﬁce building in front of the new post ofﬁce, presents My Countrymen (jazz, swing, grooves) at 8 p.m. No cover.

GOLF TOURNEY • The Ram Classic golf tournament is held at River Valley Ranch. It’s a fundraiser for Roaring Fork High School sports programs and the cost is $100 per person/$400 per team. Info: 970-355-4554.

VOLLEYBALL • Roaring Fork travels to Coal Ridge for a 6 p.m. match. SOCCER • Roaring Fork hosts Glenwood at 6 p.m HPC MEETING • Carbondale’s Historic Preservation Commission meets at town hall the ﬁrst Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.

FRI.-SAT. Oct. 7-8 DOWNTOWN ACTION • Celtic Fest takes place on Friday night and Octoberfest on Saturday. Celtic Fest kicks off with a bagpipe reception at 5 p.m., followed by a best-legs-in-a-kilt competition at 7 p.m. Live music with the Public House and the Breccia Wilson Duo follows. The event runs until 9 p.m. On Saturday, Oktoberfest starts with a traditional keg tapping at 11 a.m., followed by polka, German dancers (2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.), a liter holding contest at 6 p.m., and music from the Starlettes, and Steve Skinner and the Uninhibited Brazilians. The event concludes at 9 p.m. Info: 704-4190.

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.

THUNDER RIVER THEATRE • The Thunder River Theatre Company presents “The House of Blue Leaves” on Oct. 7-9 and Oct. 1315. Ticket info: 9638200. Thunder River Theatre is located downtown at 67 Promenade, west of the Dinkel Building. FIRST FRIDAY • First Friday takes place all over town. For details, see stories in this issue of The Sopris Sun. CCAH OPENING • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities, and SWAN, opens the show “United We Art;

Get by with a little help from your friends. Food for families in need is available at LIFT-UP’s 7 area food pantries. Support from our caring community makes the work of LIFT-UP possible. It’s community spirit in action, since 1982.

Mid-Valley Food Pantries Carbondale: Third Street Center, 520 South 3rd Street, #35 Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 10am-12:30pm • 963-1778

Basalt: Basalt Community United Methodist Church, 167 Holland Hills Rd. Wednesday & Thursday: 11am-1pm • 279-1492 Learn more at www.liftup.org and join us on facebook! 10 • THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011

New Work from 42 Contemporary Women” at the Third Street Center at 6 p.m. Info: 963-1680. CLAY CENTER • The Carbondale Clay Center takes part in SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) with a reception for its national invitational show (sponsored by Summers Moore) from 5-7 p.m. For a list of artists, go to www.carbonda leclay.org. LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works on Main Street presents The Frying Pan bluegrass band at 8 p.m. No cover. LIVE MUSIC • Carnahan’s in the Dinkel Building presents B.M.F. at 10 p.m. FOOTBALL • Roaring Fork High School hosts Olathe at 7 p.m., and travels to Gunnison for a 7 p.m. game on Oct. 14. THEATRICAL PRODUCTION • A rollicking show of the music of Frankie Valli and Broadway presented by The Unexpected Boys opens the Glenwood Community Concert season at 7 p.m. at Glenwood Springs High School. Admission is by mem-

bership ticket. For details, call 945-8722.

SATURDAY Oct. 8 THOMPSON DIVIDE RALLY • A rally to oppose natural gas drilling in the Thompson Divide area southwest of Carbondale takes place at the Third Street Center from 10 to 11 a.m. The rally includes speakers, live music, larger-than-life puppets, petitions to sign, and a group photo. Info: the Community for Thompson Divide’s page on Facebook. VOLLEYBALL • Roaring Fork hosts Olathe at noon and Gunnison at 6 p.m., and on Oct. 11 host Eagle Valley at 6 p.m. SOCCER • Roaring Fork hosts Grand Valley at 11 a.m. (varsity game only). LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works, located west of what used to be Berry’s Garage, presents Electric Lemon (rock, blues, jams) at 8 p.m. No cover. LIVE MUSIC • Carnahan’s Tavern in the Dinkel Building presents Dead Volts at 10 p.m. GLENWOOD • The Glenwood Springs Art Council’s Wine and Brewfest takes place at the Hotel Colorado from 4 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $45-$60. Info: 945-2414.

SUNDAY Oct. 9

COMEDY REVUE • “Laughing Matters” revue, an evening of comedy by some of the funniest women around, takes place at PAC3 at 7 p.m. The show features Ananda Banc (music), April Clark (stand up) and Ellie Davis (her one-woman play “Spanked by an Angel”), and is hosted by Noreen CALENDAR page 11

Community Calendar Steiner. The presentation is part of SWAN (Support Woman Artists Now) month and a $10 donation is asked. Info: 379-0115 or www.carbondalearts.com.

continued from page 10

TUESDAY Oct. 11

SOCCER â&#x20AC;˘ Roaring Fork hosts Aspen at 4 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ Carnahanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern in the Dinkel Building presents Greg Masse at 10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY Oct. 12 ROTARY â&#x20AC;˘ The Carbondale Rotary meets at the ďŹ rehouse Wednesdays at 7 a.m.

Further Out FRIDAY Oct. 14

PAC3 â&#x20AC;˘ Anais Mitchell brings her folk-opera â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hadestownâ&#x20AC;? to the PAC3 in the Third Street Center. In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hadestown,â&#x20AC;? Mitchell spins stories about forgotten old poets, jilted lovers

and three wise men, making each one a distinct chapter of a cohesive work. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accompanied by several vocalists and musicians, including the Hadestown Orchestra. Tickets are $25 advance/$30 day of show. Info:

www.pac3carbondale.com.

from 42 Contemporary Womenâ&#x20AC;? at the Third Street Center. Info: 963-1680.

Gordon Cooper Library Mondays from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and Fridays from 10 to 1 a.m. Volunteers are needed. Info: 945-5282.

SAT.-SUN. Oct. 15-16 CLASSICAL MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ Flutist Jane Kuenzel (a graduate of the Juilliard School) joins Sym-

phony in the Valley for an all Mozart concert at RiďŹ&#x201A;e High School on Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m., and Glenwood Springs High School on Oct. 16 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $12, $10, $6 and $30 (families) at www.sitv.org.

Ongoing GORDON COOPER â&#x20AC;˘ The Gordon Cooper Branch Library offers numerous activities for kids from kindergarten through ďŹ fth grade Tuesdays from 4 to 5 p.m. The activities rotate. Info: 963-2889. New Toddler and Infant Story Time takes place Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ART SHOW â&#x20AC;˘ The Redstone Art Center presents Western landscape watercolor artist Kurt Isgreen through October. Info: 963-3790. PHOTO SHOW â&#x20AC;˘ The Colorado Mountain College Gallery in downtown Glenwood Springs presents the photographs of CMC graduate Elizabeth Moreno. Her work was included in the 2005 Photo District News annual, and also included in a show at Duke University in 2010. A reception will be held at 5 p.m. on Oct. 14. The show continues through Nov. 29. CCAH â&#x20AC;˘ As part of SWAN month activities, the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;United We Art: New Work

GLENWOOD ART CENTER â&#x20AC;˘ The Glenwood Art Center presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evolution of Flightâ&#x20AC;? with the works of more than 50 artists. Info: 945-2414. S.A.W. â&#x20AC;˘ S.A.W. presents the work of Amy Butiwicz, Steve Leetch and Stanley Bell. The gallery is located at 878 Euclid. Info: 963-0201. KOROLOGOS â&#x20AC;˘ Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt continues a show featuring Carbondale artist Andy Taylor and others. FARMERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MARKET â&#x20AC;˘ A Saturday farmers market takes place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the Crystal River Meats lawn at 55 N. Fourth St. Venders include Osage Gardens and Crystal River Meats. Info: 963-9996. CONVERSATION CIRCLES â&#x20AC;˘ Literacy Outreach holds conversation circles for non-English speakers to practice their English at the

Be seen in the Sopris Sun

TEXTILE ARTS â&#x20AC;˘ The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; School of Textile Arts offers classes in sewing, block printing, batik and more through Nov. 4. Class costs vary. Info: 963-1680 or www.carbondalearts.com. LINX NETWORKING â&#x20AC;˘ The Linx networking group meets each Tuesday morning at 7:15 a.m. at the ChafďŹ n and Light Real Estate ofďŹ ce in downtown Basalt. Linx is a business networking organization whose members work together to grow and promote their businesses. All dues not used for administration are given to local charities each December. Info: Keith at (970) 390-8401. 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, located at 26 S. Third St.

KIDS â&#x20AC;˘ Weekly winter activity for 0-4 year olds (physical movement, games, obstacle course, climbing wall, bubble and more) is offered at Bridges High School from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday all winter. The fee is $12 per family. Info: 977-0109. AL-ANON MEETS â&#x20AC;˘ Al-Anon for friends and families of alcoholics meets at the Orchard Tuesdays. Info: 963-8773. GRIEF GROUP â&#x20AC;˘ Hospice of the Valley, in partnership with Grand River Hospital, is offering an ongoing Grief and Loss Support Group that meets the ďŹ rst and third Monday of every month. Info: 544-1574. ZINGERS SING â&#x20AC;˘ The Zingers singing group gets together at the Third Street Center every Thursday from 2 to 3 p.m. Info: 945-7094. GROUP RUN â&#x20AC;˘ Independence Run and Hike at 995 Cowen Drive leads group runs Saturdays at 8:15 a.m. rain or shine. Info: 704-0909.

Redstone, Colorado

Close to Worlds Home, Away! & ur Yo g n i Br mera ! Ca + Continuous Dining from 8am + Lodging Specials RedstoneInn.com 970.963.2526

The Sopris Sun works hard to make your ad noticed: â&#x20AC;˘ Bright, mando paper instead of newsprint â&#x20AC;˘ We don't stack ads like other papers in the valley do â&#x20AC;˘ Every page draws readers with great stories and pictures â&#x20AC;˘ Our readers live in Glenwood Springs, Carbondale, El Jebel and Basalt Shine some light on your business, advertise in the Sun. To place an ad, contact %JOB %SJOLIPVTF at dJOB@soprissun.com or 970. .

Octoberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Special Pumpkin Body Wrap Private Mineral Bath Back, Neck and Shoulder Massage plus a Day Pass to Our Historic Vapor Caves

ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S A DAY AT THE SPA FOR $115 -VY 0UMVYTH[PVU 9LZLY]H[PVUZ JHSS Â&#x2039; `HTWHOZWH JVT :WH 6WLU :HSVU Â&#x2039; 4HQVY *YLKP[ *HYKZ Â&#x2039; .PM[ *LY[PĂ&#x201E;JH[LZ (]HPSHISL THE SOPRIS SUN â&#x20AC;˘ OCTOBER 6, 2011 â&#x20AC;˘ 11

Looking back at C’dale’s sheepman – Elmer Bair Memoirs of a River…

Elmer tells of some hairWhat with those pheraising, neck-stretching nomenal black-and-white confrontations when in units flashing around at that part of the country. the National Sheepdog And not SO long Finals at Strang Ranch, ago, when there were and those cutie-pie still more of them than stuffed lambs (Agnes and us, local herders of Baa) popping up here, By Charlotte Graham sheep and cattle trailed there and everywhere, no Sponsored by the thousands of fourwonder I’d been asked to Mt. Sopris Historical Society leggeds right through wooly-up some local Carbondale and up the sheep stories. There’s one name in Carbondale that is Crystal River Valley. Sometime, go stand in front of the Hensynonymous with baaaaaa and that is Bair. This month, “Memoirs” honors Carbon- drick Ranch subdivision sign on Highway 133 dale sheepherder Elmer Bair. My source’s lin- in Carbondale. Then look at this photo of eage curls right back around to my Memoirs young Jeri Farnum sitting on “Old Red” and story from this July. Who knew? Not I. Hint: her grandpa, Elmer, astride “Paint” just barely 50 years ago. Somewhere in between, if you in-laws, in-laws , in-laws. still could, you’d be A visit with Jeri looking at Mount SoI got to visit with pris from about the Jeri Farnum Alberts, same spot. daughter of Laura Imagine! For 100 Bair Farnum Melton, years through what is who was daughter of now Carbondale Jeri’s grandfather Senior Housing, socElmer and grandcer fields, golf course, mother Ida. Ida was grocery store, high daughter of nowschool and a multiFaceBook icons housing culture, tons “Black” Bill and of meat on-the-hoof Nettie Smith, (my have thundered onto July story); who was train, then truck traildaughter of notoriers at Carbondale’s ous mountain-of-astockyards — now man Jasper Ward. Town Hall. (Ahhh, Whew! no wonder … nah, Think it might don’t go there with have been hard for that thought, folks!) these poor sons-inLife in full color law to stand in the Jeri shared her shadow of the ulti- Jeri Alberts and her grandfather, Elmer mate tough guy “in- Bair, near what is now Hendrick Ranch. childhood memories of spending her youth law” in this lineage? Courtesy photo with grandpa Elmer’s Elmer Owen Bair, at 4 inches taller than a 5-foot post, never sheep. Like when they’d trail two or three flinched, I bet. A diminutive person, Elmer sheep bands, at 1,000 per band, to different sure was an extraordinarily accomplished grazing pastures on the Flat Tops (north of Glenwood Springs). They’d come down giant in every endeavor of his 103-year life. And forget Louis L’Amour stories. Hands through Cattle Creek up towards our Crystal down, Elmer Bair is the name that is most as- River hinterlands on the midvalley corridor sociated with telling a colorful Western Slope adjacent to today’s Highway 82. Jeri sure remembers her April birthdays. story. Unless, as I hear it, you were around to hear Ida’s skills! Like Fred Astair and Ginger “I got to pull all the new baby lambs. It was Rogers, I’m told there was many a tale-telling a treat,” Jeri said. “One time there were tango put on by these two. “Only grandma quadruplets.” Jeri smiled at that memory: “And [every year] Grandpa told me my didn’t tell the naughty ones!” Jeri said. If you don’t have his book, go to the library lambs never went to market.” “That’s what Grandpa said!” she reiteror Mount Sopris Historical Society Museum to read Elmer’s fist-thick autobiography – ated firmly. Yes, what grandpas say, you “Elmer Bair’s Story, 1899-1987.” It is chock- must believe. Then Jeri proceeded to tell me a bit more full of real-life Western drama and gallows humor from a man whose life had stretched about the world of sheep, of which I know dip except that sheep dip stinks. There were across three centuries when he died in 2002. lots of new interesting words like “docking” Git along “dingleberries.” While hard in every way, life was pretty In the case of sheep shifting, remember simple for sheepherders and cattlemen alike now, we’re talking thousands upon thouaround here. Some even did both. Fortu- sands and thousands more of those dumb nately, Carbondale did not experience as woolies, every season. Was falling asleep much, if any, of the violent cattle/sheep graz- counting sheep a real job hazard? Jeri said no. ing wars as did communities further west and “We counted them by the number of allsouth, around Moab in Utah and surrounds. MEMOIRS page 14

Up the Crystal

Mount Sopris Forever

Pictures from the historic postcard collection at Mt. Sopris Historical Museum

Poster 11" x 17" $5 at Museum or order at

mtsoprishistoricalsociety.org ($8 post paid)

Mt. Sopris Historical Society 499 Weant - PO Box 2 Carbondale, CO 81623 970-963-7041

12 • THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011

Community Briefs Library presents Story Art The Aspen Art Museum is partnering with the Gordon Cooper Branch Library to offer Story Art, a free program that combines stories with visual literacy and art making. Held once a month, Story Art introduces children to the basic foundations of art through storybooks, looking activities and hands-on art projects. The ﬁrst session will be Oct. 6 at 3:45 p.m. Registration is recommended. For more information, call 963-2889.

Lift-Up looking for temporary space

meets the third Thursday of the month from 8-9:30 a.m. Applications are due Oct. 21. For details, call 963-1890.

Flu vaccinations offered The Garfield County Health Department is offering flu shots at numerous times and locations, including Carbondale Ace Hardware from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 15. Appointments are not necessary. Adult flu shots are $20; flu mist nasal spray is $25; children’s shots or mist are $10. For details, call 625-5200, ext. 8122.

The Carbondale Lift-Up ofﬁce is looking for space for food distribution for both the Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays. An ideal location would be at least 300 square feet with parking for at least 10 cars near the door. Dates needed are approximately November 7 through December 31. Anyone who knows of the availability of such a space may contact the Lift-Up ofﬁce at 963-1778 or Debi Boyle at 618-0631.

Crack seal maintenance begins

Tourism Council nominees being accepted

Wyly offers classes for kids

Nominations are being accepted for the Carbondale Tourism Council. The council manages the 2 percent lodging tax to market Carbondale through various mediums, including the Chamber of Commerce Web site, event planning and more. The council

The town of Carbondale started its crack seal maintenance program in River Valley Ranch on Oct. 3. The program will continue throughout the fall on various streets in town as weather permits. The town asks residents not to park vehicles on streets that have been signed for work the following day, as vehicles will be towed at the owner’s expense. For details, Larry Ballenger at 963-2733.

The Wyly Community Art Center in Basalt offers several programs for kids including: Girls Club (Part 2) for ages 6-11 and Boys Club (Part 2) ages 5-10; Halloween masks with Tanya Black; block printing and more. For details, go to www.wylyarts.org.

Almost 9,000 attend National Sheepdog Finals Sopris Sun Staff Report Almost 9,000 spectators attended the National Sheepdog Finals held at Strang Ranch on Sept. 13-18 and for one competitor the event won’t soon be forgotten. Not only did Alasdair MacRae win the Open finals national championship for an unprecedented 11th time, he did it with his dog Star’s final competitive run. “She (Star) has earned the life of luxurious retirement,” said National Sheepdog Finals spokeswoman Laura Esterman. In the Nursery finals (for younger dogs), Amanda Milliken and her dog Dorey took home the first place trophy. “The competitors seem to have had a

The results are as follows: Handler & Dog Score Alasdair MacRae & Star 532 Vergil Holland & Brooke 461 Suzy Applegate & Buzz 458 Scott Glen & Don 437 Allen Mills & Sis 361 Amanda Milliken & Roz 360 Herbert Holmes & Juno 351 Roy Taber & Craig 327 Mike Hanley & Moss 321 Dennis Gellings & Jake 306 Mary Thompson & Beauty 281 Patrick Shannahan & Andi 266 Suzy Applegate & Dot 217 Don Helsley & Tag DQ Dennis Edwards & Nap DQ Ron Enzeroth & Dusty DQ Ian Zoerb & Sam DQ

terriﬁc time in Carbondale, with many expressing wonder and appreciation for the spectacular Colorado mountain scenery and the hospitality of everyone at Strang Ranch,” Esterman said. “Such a successful event couldn’t have been put on without the tireless help of so many volunteers and the support of the wonderful community here in the Roaring Fork Valley. Perhaps we’ll see everyone again in 2014.” The U.S. Border Collie Handlers’ Association National Finals are held each year and rotate sites every three years. This was the ﬁrst year the Finals were held in Carbondale. More than 250 handlers from across the United States and Canada (and their dogs) competed. 2011 NURSERY FINALS Handler & Dog Score Amanda Milliken & Dorey 244 Bill Orr & Sly 237 Suzy Applegate & Coop 229 Jon Tholkes & Doc 224 Barbara Ray & Stella 222 Alison Holmes & Britt 221 Pat Shannahan & Abby 221 Patricia MacRae & Sweep 215 Rose Anderson & Bitti 214 Joni Swanke & Possum 214 Scott Glen & Reba 199 Libby Nieder & Derby 183 Jo Ferguson & Sage 182 Shauna Gourley & Mercy 182 Roy Taber & York 181 Elizabeth Baker & Craig 178 Vickie Close & Jess 177 Suzy Applegate & Tru 171 Vergil Holland & Trim 158 Marilyn Terpstra & Lola 152

KEEP THE SOPRIS SUN SHINING Your financial support is a critical part of our community news effort DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE

FOR LEASE: 245 CRYSTAL RIVER ROAD Donate online at www.soprissun.com Send a check made out to the Sopris Sun LLC, P.O. Box 399, Carbondale, 81623 Take out an ad for your business by contacting d?D7@soprissun.com, uvwÄxvxt

New home on five (5) pristine, private acres, located 1 mile from Main Street and CRMS, and overlooking the Crystal River Valley. Listen to the small mountain brook from this 3 bedroom, 2 bath home which is surrounded by a covered porch. Features include a wide open floor plan, 2 car garage, secluded patio and large manicured yard. The $2500/mo rent includes HOA fees, water, garbage removal and snow plowing. JUST ASK AUSSIE The beautiful leaves are falling and there is new snow on Sopris. Time to move before the snow falls in Carbondale.

Call Linda for Appointment

(970) 618-4598 THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011 • 13

Letters continued î&#x2C6;&#x2021;om page 2 over and spoke with her. As it happened, she was a new resident of Heritage Park at an impressive age of 103. When we explained what was going on in the park, she looked with alarm at one of the discs and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I get hit by one of these, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take me out.â&#x20AC;? This is no way to treat our seniors, especially in their own neighborhood park! Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s move the course now. Bill Hofto Carbondale

Public education is a foundation Dear Editor: Strong public school education has for generations been a foundation of the strength of our nation, preparing our youth to prosper as world challenges present themselves. Effective education needs excellent committed teachers, teachers who are themselves enabled to improve their effectiveness by learning from their own experience. Schools need principals who can discover and motivate those teachers. Committed teachers need adequate pay and time outside the classroom to develop

Legal Notices

Memoirs continued î&#x2C6;&#x2021;om page 12

their teaching practices. Current budgets do not satisfy needs found by educators and district boards. Limitations imposed by Coloradoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Constitution in times of prosperity have imposed limitations that have become devastating in these sad economic times. Despite conscientious cutting and innovative restructuring, educators are no longer able to preserve the quality of public school education for coming years. Programs are being eliminated. Nationally, we are falling behind other countries in many important criteria. Because of once-wise appearing constitutional limitations, these deďŹ cits are particularly damaging in Colorado. I hope all my neighbors will vote yes on proposal 3E on the ballot Nov. 1. Reduced property assessments and levy adjustments mean that, compared to prior years, tax costs of this measure to property owners will likely not be noticeable. Without it, program deďŹ ciencies will compound annually. All of us will be the losers. Please vote yes on 3E. Dick Hart Carbondale

black or black-faced sheep. One per ďŹ&#x201A;ock meant so many.â&#x20AC;?

Sometimes not Since I really wanted to know more of the 3-D reality in a day-in-the-life of docking and â&#x20AC;&#x153;dingleberries,â&#x20AC;? Jeri made a little scrunched facial expression that looked like â&#x20AC;&#x153;yuckâ&#x20AC;? to me and she started like this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Docking the tails was necessary because of all the wool around the anus and potential for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ďŹ&#x201A;y bloat.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Maggots get inside. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just go around and snip their tails off. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bandage them or anything, blood would be squirting all over,â&#x20AC;? she said. I gulped and visualized 1,000 of them, their â&#x20AC;&#x153;uranususâ&#x20AC;? jumping all around, red spray everywhere, probably not â&#x20AC;&#x153;quiet-as-a â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? either. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d HAVE to be a kid to enjoy this, right? Kinda takes the bloom off the romanticized rosy lambie-pie picture right there, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I thought anyway, until I asked Lew Ron Thompson about the â&#x20AC;&#x153;dingleberryâ&#x20AC;? part. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[With sheep castration], theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so small and you are using both hands to hold and cut so you had to grabâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;em [pregnant pause] â&#x20AC;Ś by your teeth.â&#x20AC;? His eyes looked

ORDINANCE NO. 13

ORDINANCE NO. 14

ORDINANCE NO. 15

AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADO APPROVING SUBDIVISION AND PUD AMENDMENT APPLICATION FOR LOT 10. TWELFTH STREET INDUSTRY PLACE

AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADO APPROVING THE GATEWAY PARK ANNEXATION

AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADO APPROVING INITIAL ZONING FOR GATEWAY PARK

SERIES OF 2011

NOTICE: This Ordinance was introduced, read, and adopted at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Carbondale, Colorado, on September 27, 2011.

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. THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE _________________________ By: s/s Stacey Bernot, Mayor

ATTEST: __________________________ s/s Cathy Derby, Town Clerk

SERIES OF 2011

NOTICE: This Ordinance was introduced, read, and adopted at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Carbondale, Colorado, on September 27, 2011.

ATTEST: __________________________ s/s Cathy Derby, Town Clerk

Published October 6, 2011 in the Sopris Sun.

970-963-1234

Service Directory

SERIES OF 2011

NOTICE: This Ordinance was introduced, read, and adopted at a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Carbondale, Colorado, on September 27, 2011.

TMI! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aieee, grandpa. TMI!â&#x20AC;? TOO MUCH INFORMATION! How gullible I am or not, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure I want to know more. But now that storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s told and passed on! I laugh and celebrate a local liquor store quote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.â&#x20AC;? Or was it? Most of us will NEVER have any idea. Leave it be said, raising sheep â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and cattle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; makes for burning hot, freezing cold, dripping wet, bone dry, always dirty, forever long, hard labors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was and still is. Same with independent farmers -- they just smell better. HA! It is good to honor these folks who still love what they do and for carrying on this Crystal Valley heritage. This October, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wish them abundant harvests all. Carpe autumn diem! For more on this story, go to: www.marbledweller.com. Charlotte Grahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column appears the ďŹ rst Thursday of every month.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

The applicant is Vortex Engineering/Federal Express. The property is located at 698 Merrill Avenue.

Said Public Hearing will be held at the Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, CO at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 25, 2011.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held before the Carbondale Board of Adjustment and Appeals for the purpose of considering an application seeking relief from the maximum 8-foot fence height in the Industrial zone district to 9 feet.

Said Public Hearing will be held at the Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, Colorado at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 2011.

Copies of the proposed application are on file in The Planning Department office, Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, Colorado and may be examined by interested persons during regular working hours, 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. John Leybourne Town of Carbondale

ATTEST: __________________________ s/s Cathy Derby, Town Clerk

straight at me and then shifted away â&#x20AC;Ś just a touch. Sign of a good story-teller. â&#x20AC;&#x153; Grab whaaaaatt?â&#x20AC;? I cried!

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held before the Carbondale Board of Trustees for the purpose of considering an amendment to Carbondale Municipal Code Section 18.50.080 Street Graphics.

Copies of the proposed application are on file in The Planning Department office, Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, CO and may be examined by interested persons during regular working hours, 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. John Leybourne Community Development

Published October 6, 2011 in the Sopris Sun.

green miracle MEDICINALS

J. FROST MERRIOTT

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Come in and see what everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking about!!

Office 970-704-1101 Fax 970-704-9101 Email frosty@sopris.net Web frostycpa.com

Certified Public Accountant

*ask about membership discounts*

1101 Village Road Carbondale, Colorado

985 Hwy 133 â&#x20AC;˘ Carbondale, Colorado Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all a buzz... experience the Miracle!

h! s a W r a C Fre e

XJUI &WFSZ 'VMM 4FS WJDF 0JM $IBOHF 970 963 8800

745 Buggy Circle in Carbondale www.sunburstcarcare.com

14 â&#x20AC;˘ THE SOPRIS SUN â&#x20AC;˘ OCTOBER 6, 2011

LLA2 81623

GO RAMS! New

Loc

atio

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Talk REAL ESTATE! Brian Keleher

a salon for nails Carbondale

963.1043

acrylic nails â&#x20AC;˘ manicures â&#x20AC;˘ pedicures

Broker Associate, Realtor, GRI, EcoBrokerÂŽ 970.379.3296 mobile 970.704.3226 office 970.963.0879 fax bk@masonmorse.com

Mani & Pedi Special - $49 Carbondale | 0290 Highway 133 | 970.963.3300

www.masonmorse.com

Legal Notices GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO NOTICE OF COORDINATED MAIL BALLOT ELECTION

OFFICIAL BALLOT 2011 COORDINATED ELECTION Garfield County, Colorado November 01, 2011 Composite

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Election Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Election Type: Mail Ballot Only Election Hours: 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Ballots will be mailed between October 11th and October 16th to all eligible registered voters. Eligible property owners residing outside the participating special district must request a property owner mail ballot from the Garfield County Election Department.

Voters who do not receive their ballots may request replacement ballots in person at the following Clerk and Recorder locations from October 11th through November 1st or by phone, fax, or e-mail. The last date to request that a ballot be mailed is October 25, 2011. After that date voters must appear in person at the County Clerkʼs office to request a ballot. Any voter may surrender their mail ballot and cast their vote on an ADA accessible electronic voting machine located at the Clerkʼs office in Glenwood Springs or Rifle during normal business hours and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day. Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 109 8th Street, Suite 200 Glenwood Springs, CO 970-384-3700 Option 2 Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 144 E. 3rd Street Rifle, CO 970-625-0882

If you will be away from home when the ballots are mailed out, please make a request for your mail ballot to be sent to an alternate address in writing. You must include your full name, date of birth, physical address, mailing address and your signature. Mail Ballot request forms are available by calling either of the County offices or online at www.garfield-county.com. The last day to request a Mail ballot be sent to an alternate mailing address is Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Mail requests to:

Garfield County Clerk and Recorder 109 8th Street, Suite 200 Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 E-mail: elections@garfield-county.com Or jalberico@garfield-county.com Fax requests to: 970-947-1078

Return your ballot by mail with appropriate postage affixed ($0.44 stamp) or you may hand deliver your ballot to one of the designated drop-office sites listed below. Remember postmarks do not count as a received date. Verify your voter registration information and track your ballot (sent and received) at www.govotecolorado.com. Drop-off sites for voted ballots:

Garfield County Clerk & Recorder 109 8th Street, Suite 200 Glenwood Springs, CO East Entrance M-F *7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Suite 200 M-F 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Election Day Open 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Rifle Branch Office 144 E. 3rd Street Rifle, CO Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Election Day Open 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. New Castle Town Hall 450 W. Main Street New Castle, CO Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Including Election Day Silt Town Hall 231 N. 7th Street Silt, CO Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Including Election Day Parachute Town Hall 222 Grand Valley Way Parachute, CO Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Including Election Day Carbondale Town Hall 511 Colorado Ave. Carbondale, CO Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Including Election Day Questions: 970-384-3700 Option 2

COLORADO MOUNTAIN JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES DIRECTOR DISTRICT NO 2 Four Year Term Vote for One Kathy Goudy Stan D. Orr COLORADO MOUNTAIN JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES DIRECTOR DISTRICT NO 4 Four Year Term Vote for One Richard E. Hague Robert C. Taylor COLORADO MOUNTAIN JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES DIRECTOR DISTRICT NO 5 Four Year Term Vote for One Ken Brenner John Fielding COLORADO MOUNTAIN JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES DIRECTOR DISTRICT NO 6 Four Year Term Vote for One Pat Chlouber Wes Duran EAGLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE50J BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT A Four Year Term Vote for One Tessa M. Kirchner EAGLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE50J BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT B Two Year Term Vote for One Kate Cocchiarella EAGLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE50J BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT C Four Year Term Vote for One Carrie Neill Benway EAGLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE50J BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT D Four Year Term Vote for One Jeanne McQueeney EAGLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE50J BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT G Two Year Term Vote for One Thomas H. Johnson GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO RE-2 DIRECTOR DISTRICT B Four Year Term Vote for One Patrick Burwell Troy Feese GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO RE-2 DIRECTOR DISTRICT C Four Year Term Vote for One Chris Pearson GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO RE-2 DIRECTOR DISTRICT D Four Year Term Vote for One Scott Doherty

ROARING FORK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO RE-1 DIRECTOR DISTRICT B Four Year Term Vote for One Matthew Hamilton ROARING FORK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO RE-1 DIRECTOR DISTRICT C Four Year Term Vote for One Phil Weir Terry Lott Richardson ROARING FORK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO RE-1 DIRECTOR DISTRICT D Four Year Term Vote for One Myles Rovig Daniel Biggs BALLOT MEASURES

“Ballot issues referred by the general assembly or any political subdivision are listed by letter, and ballot issues initiated by the people are listed numerically. A ballot issue listed as an “amendment” proposes a change to the Colorado constitution, and a ballot issue listed as a “proposition” proposes a change to the Colorado Revised Statutes. A “yes” vote on any ballot issue is a vote in favor of changing current law or existing circumstances, and a “no” vote on any ballot issue is a vote against changing current law or existing circumstances.” STATE OF COLORADO PROPOSTION 103 SHALL STATE TAXES BE INCREASED $536.1 MILLION ANNUALLY IN THE FIRST FULL FISCAL YEAR AND BY SUCH AMOUNTS AS ARE RAISED ANNUALLY THEREAFTER BY AMENDMENTS TO THE COLORADO REVISED STATUTES CONCERNING A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN CERTAIN STATE TAXES FOR ADDITIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDING, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, INCREASING THE RATE OF THE STATE INCOME TAX IMPOSED ON ALL TAXPAYERS FROM 4.63% TO 5% FOR THE 2012 THROUGH 2016 INCOME TAX YEARS; INCREASING THE RATE OF THE STATE SALES AND USE TAX FROM 2.9% TO 3% FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS COMMENCING ON JANUARY 1, 2012; REQUIRING THAT THE ADDITIONAL REVENUES RESULTING FROM THESE INCREASED TAX RATES BE SPENT ONLY TO FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION FROM PRESCHOOL THROUGH TWELFTH GRADE AND PUBLIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION; SPECIFYING THAT THE APPROPRIATION OF THE ADDITIONAL TAX REVENUES BE IN ADDITION TO AND NOT SUBSTITUTED FOR MONEYS OTHERWISE APPROPRIATED FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION FROM PRESCHOOL THROUGH TWELFTH GRADE AND PUBLIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION FOR THE 201112 FISCAL YEAR; AND ALLOWING THE ADDITIONAL TAX REVENUES TO BE COLLECTED, KEPT, AND SPENT NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LIMITATIONS PROVIDED BY LAW? ___YES ___ NO

DE BEQUE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 49JT BALLOT ISSUE 3A SHALL DE BEQUE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 49JTʼS TAXES BE INCREASED $350,000 ANNUALLY, OR SUCH LESSER AMOUNT AS THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MAY ANNUALLY DETERMINE, FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED SIX (6) YEARS, BY THE COLLECTION OF ADDITIONAL AD VALOREM PROPERTY TAXES FOR THE 2011-2012 BUDGET YEAR AND FOR EACH OF THE FIVE SUCCESSIVE BUDGET YEARS THEREAFTER TO AND INCLUDING THE 2016-2017 BUDGET YEAR, FOR DEPOSIT IN THE DISTRICTʼS GENERAL FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: EXPANDING CURRICULUM AND COURSE OFFERINGS;

Coordinated Election Official: Jean M. Alberico, Garfield County Clerk & Recorder

___ YES ___ NO

EAGLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE50J BALLOT ISSUE 3B SHALL EAGLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT RE50J TAXES BE INCREASED NO MORE THAN $6,000,000 ANNUALLY (THE MAXIMUM ADDITIONAL AMOUNT WHICH MAY BE COLLECTED IN ANY YEAR BEGINNING IN THE TAX COLLECTION YEAR 2012) OR $1,000 MULTIPLIED TIMES THE FUNDED PUPIL COUNT (AS DEFINED IN 2254-103, C.R.S), WHICHEVER IS LESS; SHALL THE PROCEEDS OF THE TAX INCREASE BE USED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES: MITIGATING STATE FUNDING CUTS; RETAINING QUALITY TEACHERS CONTINUING NECESSARY CLASSROOM SUPPORT FOR ALL STUDENTS MINIMIZING REDUCTIONS IN EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, ARTS AND ATHLETICS REPLACING BUSES AND COMPUTERS THAT HAVE EXCEEDED THEIR USEFUL LIFESPAN MAINTAINING BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS; AND SHALL SUCH TAX INCREASE BE IMPLEMENTED BY AN ADDITIONAL PROPERTY TAX MILL LEVY IN EXCESS OF THE LEVY AUTHORIZED FOR THE DISTRICTʼS GENERAL FUND, PURSUANT TO AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 22-54108, C.R.S.; AND SHALL THE DISTRICT BE AUTHORIZED TO COLLECT, RETAIN AND SPEND ALL REVENUES FROM SUCH TAXES AND THE EARNINGS FROM THE INVESTMENT OF SUCH REVENUES AS A VOTER APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE AND AN EXCEPTION TO THE LIMITS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE APPLY UNDER ARTICLE X, SECTION 20 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION? ___YES ___ NO

GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO RE-2 BALLOT ISSUE 3C SHALL GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE-2 TAXES BE INCREASED UP TO $3 MILLION ANNUALLY ($3,000,000) THROUGH A PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE MILL LEVY IMPOSED AT A RATE SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE THE AMOUNT SPECIFIED ABOVE, FOR THE PURPOSE OF, AMONG OTHER THINGS, ATTRACTING AND RETAINING QUALIFIED TEACHERS, AND PROVIDING STAFF FOR ESSENTIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS MAINTAINING LOWER STUDENT TEACHER RATIOS THAN ARE OTHERWISE POSSIBLE DUE TO REDUCTIONS IN THE STATE FUNDING, AND ELIMINATING POTENTIAL SCHOOL CLOSURES THAT MAY BE NECESSARY DUE TO REDUCTIONS TO DATE IN STATE FUNDING, WHICH TAXES SHALL BE DEPOSITED INTO THE GENERAL FUND OF THE DISTRICT, SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO THE PROPERTY TAXES THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE LEVIED FOR THE GENERAL FUND, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE A VOTER-APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE? ___YES ___ NO

GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 16 BALLOT ISSUE 3D SHALL GARFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 16 TAXES BE INCREASED UP TO $4,808,064 ANNUALLY (A PORTION OF WHICH INCREASE SUNSETS), FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES, $1,204,026 OF ADDITIONAL TOTAL PROGRAM REVENUE AUTHORIZATION AS PERMITTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 22-54-108, C.R.S., $583,103 OF ADDITIONAL REVENUE AUTHORIZATION FOR FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN AS PERMITTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 22-54108.5, C.R.S., AND $3,020,935 OF SPECIAL BUILDING AND TECHNOLOGY AUTHORIZATION (WHICH AUTHORIZATION IS FOR A LIMITED THREE-YEAR PERIOD, FOR COLLECTION IN 2012 THROUGH 2014, AND TERMINATES THEREAFTER) AS PERMITTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 22-40-102(1.5), C.R.S., THROUGH ADDITIONAL PROPERTY TAXES LEVIED AT ANNUAL RATES SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE THE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED ABOVE (PROVIDED THAT THE RATE OF LEVY FOR THE SPECIAL BUILDING AND TECHNOLOGY AUTHORIZATION SHALL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THREE MILLS), WHICH TAXES SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO THE PROPERTY TAXES THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE LEVIED BY THE DISTRICT AND SHALL CONSTITUTE A VOTER-APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE? ___YES ___ NO

ROARING FORK SCHOOL DISTRICT RE-1 BALLOT ISSUE 3E SHALL ROARING FORK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. RE-1 TAXES BE INCREASED UP TO $4.8 MILLION ANNUALLY THROUGH A PROPERTY TAX OVERRIDE MILL LEVY IMPOSED AT A RATE SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE THE AMOUNT SPECIFIED ABOVE, TO MITIGATE CURRENT AND FUTURE BUDGET CUTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTINUING TO PROVIDE A HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION THAT HELPS PREPARE STUDENTS FOR LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL BY PRESERVING SMALL CLASS SIZES, ATTRACTING AND RETAINING QUALITY STAFF, PROVIDING QUALITY TEXTS, TECHNOLOGY FOR LEARNING, AND MATERIALS, AND PRESERVING SAFE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR KIDS, WHICH TAXES SHALL BE DEPOSITED INTO THE GENERAL FUND OF THE DISTRICT, SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO THE PROPERTY TAXES THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE LEVIED FOR THE GENERAL FUND, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE A VOTER-APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE? ___YES ___ NO

CARBONDALE & RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT BALLOT ISSUE 4A SHALL CARBONDALE & RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT TAXES BE INCREASED BY $775,236 ANNUALLY FOR A LIMITED TWO-YEAR PERIOD, BEGINNING IN TAX COLLECTION YEAR 2012, CONTINUING EACH YEAR THROUGH TAX COLLECTION YEAR 2013 AND TERMINATING THEREAFTER, WITH SUCH INCREASE TO BE DEPOSITED IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUNDING THE COSTS OF, AMONG OTHER THINGS: MAINTAINING CURRENT LEVELS OF ESSENTIAL FIRE FIGHTING AND PARAMEDIC SERVICES BY AN ADDITIONAL PROPERTY TAX TO BE LEVIED AT A RATE SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE $775,236 (SUCH MILL LEVY TO BE IN ADDITION TO THE MILL LEVY CURRENTLY IMPOSED BY THE DISTRICT) AS A VOTER-APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE UNDER ARTICLE X, SECTION 20 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION AND AUTHORIZATION TO EXCEED THE LIMITATION CONTAINED IN SECTION 29-1-301 OF THE COLORADO REVISED STATUTES? ___YES ___ NO

/s/ JEAN M. ALBERICO COUNTY CLERK & RECORDER GARFIELD COUNTY, COLORADO

This may not be your only ballot. You may receive a mail ballot from another political subdivision conducting an election on the same day.

Unclassifieds

PURCHASING EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY NEEDED TO IMPROVE INSTRUCTIONAL QUALITY AND OPPORTUNITIES; MAINTAINING PROGRAMS AND ACCEPTABLE CLASS SIZES BY ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR FURTHER STAFF REDUCTIONS; MAINTAINING BUDGET EVELS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT; PERFORMING DEFERRED MAINTENANCE AND FUNDING NECESSARY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS; AND ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR FURTHER BUDGET REDUCTIONS; SUCH INCREASED REVENUES AND THE EARNINGS THEREON TO CONSTITUTE VOTER-APPROVED REVENUE CHANGES AND AN EXCEPTION TO THE LIMITS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE APPLY UNDER ARTICLE X, SECTION 20 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION AND OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS?

Published October 6, 2011 in the Sopris Sun.

Submit to unclassifieds@soprissun.com by Monday 12 p.m. Rates: $15 for 30 words, $20 for up to 50 words. Payment due before publication.*

WANTED - favorite retailer seeks seasoned part time employee to work Saturdays and some Fridays with additional hours over the holidays. Talented merchandiser, artful eye and joyful attitude a must. Resumes only to Dancing Colours, 968 Main St. Carbondale, CO 81623. No phone calls please.

*Credit card payment information should be emailed to unclassifieds@soprissun.com or call 948-6563. Checks may be dropped off at our office at the Third Street Center or mailed to P.O. Box 399, Carbondale, CO 81623. Call 618-9112 for more info.

THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011 • 15

Obituaries Amy Lee Luttrell 1963-2011 Amy Lee Luttrell, 48, passed away unexpectedly at home in Carbondale, Colorado on Sept. 29, 2011. Amy was born on Jan. 9, 1963 to Tom and Donna Jones. Amy and her family moved to Carbondale in 1973 where she at-

Andreux Jeffree (AJ) Argento 1987-2011 AJ Argento passed away suddenly at his home in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. While not yet conﬁrmed, Hantavirus is suspected. At the time of his death, AJ was 23 and a student in the aviation mechanics program at Redstone College in Broomﬁeld, Colorado. Friends and family of AJ will gather to

tended school and graduated from Roaring Fork High School in 1981. She met Paul Luttrell, the love of her life, during her freshman year. “She asked me to dance at the Sadie Hawkins dance, because I was too chicken to,” Paul said. Paul and Amy married two months after her high school graduation in August 1981. In August they celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. Their marriage remains a strong love story; wherever you saw Paul, you saw Amy. Amy was an artist. She was a writer, a

painter, a poet and photographer. Their home is an expression of her art and spirituality. To support her husband, she volunteered with the Carbondale Fire Department as a photographer and presented the yearly Christmas slide show for several years. She was known to be always kind, peace loving and loyal to her friends and family. She is survived by her husband, Paul Luttrell; her sisters Cheryl Jones Franz of Battlement Mesa and Elaine Jones of Grand Junction, Colorado. Her parents are the late Tom Jones, and Donna Jones Burritt who

resides in Grand Junction, Colorado. Amy is also survived by the Luttrell family: Eve Luttrell (mother-in-law); Paul’s brothers and sisters, Bob Luttrell, Sue Williams (Homer) and son Dan Luttrell (Brandi) who all live in Texas. In Carbondale, she is survived by Mark Luttrell (Maureen) and their sons Adam and Aaron. In Denver, she is survived by her extended family, long-time friends Jim and Kathy Horvath. A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 1 p.m. at the Carbondale Fire House (Administration Building).

share memories and fellowship this Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011 at 4 p.m. at the Old Thompson Barn at River Valley Ranch. For directions or questions, call 963-5597. Friends and family will miss AJ’s charm, sincerity, ready smile, loyalty to his friends, uncommon good judgment and positive nature. He was passionate about cars, dirt bikes, skiing, and road trips — all fast. AJ attended elementary school in Sonoma, California. As a child, he loved the ocean and swam with turtles in Hawaii and dolphins in Mexico. After he moved to the Crystal Valley, he attended the Carbondale Elementary School, Marble Charter School, Colorado Rocky Mountain School, and Bridges High School.

Early in life, AJ demonstrated an extraordinary talent for automobile mechanics. During high school, he was employed by Swedish Auto and Beyond and European Autos of Glenwood Springs. AJ decided to leave school to join the work force. He worked for the Aspen Skiing Company in the mechanic shop at Buttermilk where he worked on a wide variety of machines and operated snow cats. In 2009, he joined Eco Performance Automotive as Jason Harvey’s partner. Eco is a full service automotive shop specializing in conversions to alternative fuels. Last spring, AJ was proud to receive his GED, which made it possible for him to attend school to master aviation power plants, avionics and air frame. He was ex-

cited about the next phase of his life but nervous about physics. (Shortly before his death, he passed his ﬁrst physics exam.) AJ is survived by his father, Carlos Ronay, Jr.; Kio, his loving dog; his tribe of loyal friends; his grandfather, Carlos Ronay, Sr.; his grandmother, Kathy Ronay of Iola, Kansas; his aunts, Dale Bowen of Lake Tahoe and Amy Ronay of Aspen, Colorado; his uncles, Bill and Patrick Bowen of Marin County, California, and Tom Ronay, of Midpines, California; great-aunts and uncles in California and Mexico; and his cousins in California. He was predeceased in 2009 by his mother, Jeffree Lee Bowen Argento, of Marin and Sonoma counties, California.

HOME OF THE NATURAL HOT TUB EXPERIENCE.

1197 Main Street, Carbondale | CrystalRiverSpas.com | 963.2100

LAVA HEAT $3,000 1/2 price ($1,499) for first 20 units sold! 4,100 BTU of heat Natural gas or propane Remote control operated

RHYTHM

$4,995

FINLEO PORTABLE SAUNAS STARTING AT $2,995 Warm up anywhere with these portable saunas. 115 volt infrared, portable or custom traditional and wood fired heat available.

JETSETTER $6195 Seats 3 13 Jets 2 year warranty

Seats 7 35 Jets 2 year warranty

LET

KEEP CRS YO U WARM this FALL!

16 • THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 6, 2011