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Volume 3, Number 37 | October 27, 2011

Trustees vote 5-1 to ban some bags

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun

T

he Carbondale trustees took their first step toward what some hope is a town-wide ban on plastic bags but the ordinance could prove to be less restrictive than most observers expected.

The trustees voted 5-1 to ban plastic carry-out bags and charge a 20-cent fee on paper bags at the town’s only grocery store Tuesday night, but exempted “thin film bags derived from starch-based biodegradable polymers.”

Trustee John Hoffmann proposed the starch-based bag exemption and said allowing such recyclable bags is preferable to banning plastic bags altogether. He said it is a way to “encourage the manufacture of a product that doesn’t choke the environment.”

The new ordinance won’t take effect until May. Acting on a suggestion from the Community Office of Resource Efficiency (CORE), Carbondale, Basalt and Aspen are dealing with ways to reduce the use of plastic carry-out bags for environmental reasons.

A previous public hearing on a bag ban brought out more supporters than opponents but most of them stayed at home on Tuesday night. Not so for four opponents, including Mary Boucher.

Boucher, who told the trustees she shops for a family of six, lugged in the plastic bag recycling barrel from City Market to

demonstrate that bags bags can be recycled.

She also had dozens of plastic bags hung on her arms and said that if the town charges 20 cents per plastic bag (which was one option under consideration), it would cost her $820 per year. “I use 20 bags, four times a week,” she told The Sopris Sun during a break in the action. She also called the notion of a ban “ridiculous.”

Joanne Teeple spoke against the proposed ordinance. She said a plastic bag ban will place a burden on pedestrians and those without “transportation diversity.”

Liquor store owner Terry Kirk got up and told the trustees a plastic bag ban is “ … coming my way … that’s the goal.”

Jimmy Nadel, who owns a catering business, also opposed the ban and said if he switched to reusable bags such as the canvas variety, he risked cross contamination when he put tomatoes into a bag that previously carried chicken.

Later in the meeting, trustee John Foulkrod, a bag ban supporter, dismissed the idea that cross contamination is a major concern. “I’ve eatcn raw chicken out of dumpsters,” he said during a passionate discourse that brought laughs from other trustees and the audience alike. “We’re the worst consumers in the world,” he said at one point, “ … where do recycled bags go? … recycling is a way for people to consume and feel good about it … .” He linked emphysema in children to plastic, pointed out that Colorado BAG BAN page 4

Ballots accepted through Nov. 1 Sopris Sun Staff Report

The deadline to mail in election ballots is Oct. 27, but Carbondale residents can still drop them off Carbondale Town Hall until 5 p.m. on Nov. 1. The 5 p.m. drop off deadline is for Carbondale only, according to the Roaring Fork RE-1 school district.

Other drop off locations are as follows: Garfield County residents, the office of clerk and recorder at the Garfield County Courthouse, 109 8th St., Glenwood Springs, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 1; Eagle County residents, the office of clerk and recorder, 20 El Jebel Road, El Jebel, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 1; Pitkin County residents, Pitkin County office of clerk and recorder, 530 East Main St. Aspen, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 1; Snowmass Village residents, town hall from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 1.

Carbondale Commentary

School Resource Officers should not work with ICE

By Edgar Niebla The Association of Students United in Action (AJUA in Spanish) was formed in 2010

by Roaring Fork Valley students who decided to take on the issue of ICE/SRO collaboration after hearing reports from across the valley that School Resource Officers were conducting operations with ICE, and to provide a policy solution to the problem.

AJUA is a leading member organization of the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC), which has over 70 member organizations from throughout the state. CIRC’s members work with thousands of immigrants and refugees from across Colorado to ensure that we are a welcoming state for new Americans. At no point does CIRC profit or provide direct services to the community; instead, CIRC focuses on creating policies that allow all Coloradans to build safe and thriving communities.

The fact that School Resource Officers in the Roaring Fork Valley are cross-designated to work with ICE is a serious problem for our community. AJUA believes strongly that the fear that immigrant youth live with every day should not extend to our schools, where we go to learn and to feel safe. When a young person sees a police officer in their school, he or she needs to be able to look at that officer as a resource, and not as the officer who conducts immigration raids in our community. The School Resource Officer is not just a policeman who happens to spend part of their day at the school; he or she must be an example to the students and therefore have a higher ethical code.

There are only a limited number of officers per department who have been cross-designated to work as liaisons with ICE. These are not normal “police officers doing police work.” They are a select group of officers who have been trained to do immigration enforcement. When that officer works with ICE, he or she is unable to maintain the trust that the students place in them and that in turn erodes the welcoming environment that has to exist in our schools.

The SRO program is an important resource and has already proven to be an effective mechanism to create respect and understanding for law enforcement officers and the hard work that they do to keep us safe. AJUA proposes, and CIRC endorses, the idea that separating SRO's from ICE will help that program regain the respect it deserves, and help many kids who are now afraid to become familiar with the SRO’s to use them as a resource.

Every member of the immigrant community takes crime and gang issues very seriously -- after all, criminals most often prey on the most vulnerable among us. There are many gang prevention training programs available for law enforcement officers, such as the GREAT program, which has nothing to do with ICE. AJUA is encouraging the police to look into this and other programs as options for preventing gang activity, while preserving the trust of all the students at the school, regardless of status.

The school board will be taking this issue up, and we hope that they make the right decision and require that School Resource Officers be separated from ICE. That is the best way to regain the trust of the community, while simultaneously increasing the participation of students and parents in the schools.

Edgar Niebla is a co-founder of AJUA and a CIRC board member representing the Mountain Region.

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Fed up Dear Editor: I’m more than a little fed up with the notion that you only love and truly believe in your community if you advocate its remaining as it was in the 1960s.

Such is the bullying attitude of a small but well-orchestrated group of activists in Carbondale who, for years, have blocked any reasonable attempt to move our town into the current millennium, simply because any advancement does not conform to their narrow view of “what’s right.”

By its definition, economic development is not a negative concept. In fact, by its charter, the Carbondale Economic Development Partnership is committed “To preserve our community culture, enrich Carbondale’s identity and enhance the Town’s ability to compete for sustainable economic opportunity.” Pretty scary, eh?

Correction Last week’s Sopris Sun incorrectly described the proposed “sharrows” (shared-use-lanes) on Main Street. Darryl Fuller — chairman of the Carbondale Bicycle, Pedestrian and Trails Commission — states: “Shared-use-lane markings invite cyclists to ride down the center of the lane in either direction as if they were a car. By positioning themselves in the middle of the lane, cyclists can ride confidently, visibly and predictably, and hopefully everyone can get to where they’re going in an efficient and safe manner. The so-called “sharrows” (on-street markings consisting of a silhouette of a bike followed by two chevron arrows) indicate that bikes are invited to “take-the-lane” if needed.”

Some Carbondale kids found plenty of Sun in the desert during a Fall Break weekend camping trip to the Needles area of Canyonlands on Oct. 15.

Pictured, from left, park ranger Elijah, Trevor Stroud, Camilo GuevaraStone, Tavia Teitler, Solana Teitler and Will Rose.

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As our tax base erodes in comparison to our more progressive neighboring communities, we’re beginning to lose our ability to maintain both the basic infrastructure and the amenities that make us a truly special place in the valley.

Let the more reasonable residents of Carbondale move to the front of the line in urging our council to approve measures that are vital to the current and ongoing success of our community.

Al Higdon Carbondale

Consider the Lowe’s example Dear Editor: I read in the Denver Post last week that Lowe’s, the 103,000-square-foot anchor store of the redeveloped Alameda Shopping Center at Federal and Alameda in Denver that opened a mere 19 months ago, has just announced that it’s closing the store.

No surprise, as this model of commercial development is a thing of the past, which is one of the many reasons why so many Carbondale folks have been opposed to a big box, suburban-style shopping mall on the Marketplace (now Village at Crystal River) property. Sadly, there are still people here who think we made a mistake by not welcoming Home Depot a few short years ago.

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VCR documents posted; trustees near a decision

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Just in time for the Carbondale trustees’ Village at Crystal River discussion on Nov. 1, the town has posted the entire project’s documents and agreements on its Web site.

The seven documents, compiled by town planner Janet Buck, are named: Summary, Draft Development Agreement, Draft PUD, Architectural and Site Design Standards and Guidelines, TVCR PUDSign Criteria, TVCR Application and TVCR Sustainability.

To access the documents, go to the town’s Web site at www.carbondalegov.org; on the right side of the homepage below “Current topics” click on the heading “TVCR documents.” That takes you to the planning and zoning page; at the bottom of that page is “The Village at Crystal River.” Click on that and the whole project opens up.

The Village at Crystal River, proposed by Denver-developer Richard Schierburg, is a mixed use development covering 24 acres on the west side of Highway 82 that calls for up to 125,000-square-feet of commercial space (including 58,000 square feet for a grocery store), 15,000 square feet of office space and up to 164 residential units.

Trustee John Foulkrod has recused himself from discussions and voting due to a potential conflict of interest.

Much of the project’s meat can be found in the 28 page Draft Development Agreement, which contains all the “whereas’s.”

The phasing infrastructure schedule (exhibit D) is also in this section.

The “Sustainability” document is apparently new for Carbondale. Buck said “sustainability” can be broadly defined as having to do with solar orientation, energy standards,“green” considerations, the com-

munity garden, conservation and more.

Recently, trustee Frosty Merriot said he had a lot of questions about sustainability, which he planned to bring up at the Nov. 1 trustee meeting. In response, town consultant Dan Richardson drafted a five page memo that addresses 14 points from the sustainability document.

Item No. 1 in the sustainability document says, “The Applicant shall construct no less than 50% of all residential units to have south facing glass that is equivalent to at least 7% but no more than 10 % of conditioned floor area. Employee units located on Area 4 shall not be required to meet this condition. The Applicant shall provide adequate glazing/floor area calculations with building permit applications. The Town Official shall verify buildings were constructed as submitted prior to issuance of Certificate of Occupancy.”

In his memo to the town, Richardson replies, “This condition requires that the residential units specified (50% employee units exempted) will be built to best practice passive solar/‘sun-tempered’ design, widely considered to be a cost-effective energy efficient design strategy in terms of occupant lifecycle costs. Common rules of thumb indicate this design approach will reduce utility bills by 10%-30% by itself.”

Item No. 4 states, “ … the new commercial construction within Area 4 (grocery store) shall be constructed to Energy Star Certified.”

Richardson’s memo states in part, “This condition requires that the grocery store will be built to Energy Star standards. Energy Star standards are performance standards that allow flexibility in how performance is achieved, based on a score of 0-100. A minimum of 75 is required for certification …

verification of this condition is dependent upon the credibility of the person completing the Energy Star certification.”

Item No. 7 states: “The Applicant shall be required to install piping from the attics of the commercial building to the mechanical room in order to allow the installation of solar in the future.”

Richardson states, “This condition will make it easier to install solar hot water in the future if desired by the occupant … I would consider this to be a best practice standard.”

Item No. 8 states in part, “ … the Board shall have authority to require than an urban farm be established on 25% of the public park. … The applicant shall provide irrigation, construct a garden shack and provide tools at the time the park is improved.”

Richardson states in part, “ … I would consider this to be above and beyond a best practice standard.”

Item No. 12 states, “The Applicant shall provide preferred parking for 5% of spaces for alternative fuel vehicles.”

Richardson states in part, “I have not seen this implemented in our area and

would therefore consider this to be above and beyond best practice standard.”

Richardson’s overall comments state in part, “If all the conditions above are met, the project would be above typical construction standards in terms of green building quality. In order to put the minimum requirements for energy efficiency … in perspective … I offer the following: “The Village at Crystal River buildings would not be as energy efficient as: 1) comparable grocery stores such as recently built Cub Foods, Whole Foods, Food Lion, Hannaford Supermarkets; or 2) or comparablysized retail stores such as Walmart, Target, JC Penny, or many other large format retail stores; 3) or recently built buildings in the area such as the Basalt Library, the Carbondale Recreation Center, Rifle Alpine Bank, the Third Street Center, and every Aspen Skiing building built in the last several years. However, they would likely be more energy efficient than existing grocery stores and various comparable commercial developments built in the area over the past several years.”

Halloween Happening brings generations together

By Katie Marshall Special to The Sopris Sun Three generations are working together on a fundraiser for the Roaring Fork Family Resource Centers.

The Halloween Happening (slated for Bridges Center in Carbondale from 4 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 28) is in its third year. This event was created to fill a gap for parents of young children looking for a fun, safe event for their little ones.

Originally Students for a Better World, a group of sixth and seventh graders, created games for preschoolers and ran the carnival games. Now they are eighth and ninth graders and still love to plan the games and get their families and friends to take part in the fun.

Marc Bruell (Emily Bruell’s father) is the Sleeping Troll where children creep up to him sleeping on a couch and try to steal an egg without waking him. Debbie Bruell (Emily’s mother) will be busy face painting; Emily will blindfold children so they can guess what flavor of skittle they are eating. The kids make up games they think will be fun for all.

Meanwhile, the RVR Loopers, a group of

local retirees, have been busy painting spooky photography backdrops, making witches’-finger cookies and getting ready to sell popcorn donated by Ace Hardware.

Since you can’t have a Halloween event without a Haunted House, Bridges High School students are working on transforming the locker room at the gym into a Haunted Hall of Terror. Not too scary, but just right, since they ask the groups of kids at the door if they want it “scary” or “not scary?”

Usually the kids go for “not scary” the first time through and they come back and try it “scary” the next time.

Pizza will be served along with Halloween food. A silent auction and professional obstacle course top off the event and best of all, money from ticket sales will go to a good cause, Roaring Fork Family Resource Centers, which provides health and human services for local families and children.

The Bridges Center is located in the old Carbondale Middle School at 455 S. Third Street.

(Katie Marshall is Special Events Coordinator for Roaring Fork Family Resource Centers).

Matt Nieslanik helped bring cattle across town via Colorado Avenue last week. He and the herd were headed to pastures east of town. Photo by Jane Bachrach THE SOPRIS SUN • OCTOBER 27, 2011 • 3

News Briefs Agon supporters present petition Sopris Sun Staff Report Local resident Reyna Nevarez presented Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling with a petition with 165 names supporting community resource ofďŹ cer Alvaro Agon on Tuesday. “I would like to greet you by way of this letter and also comment and put things in order as far as Mr. Agon,â€? reads a letter accompanying the petition.

The short letter continues in part,“We are living with more security because he has been collaborating to end delinquency. ‌ He is a person that one can trust and as an ofďŹ cer to us he is only doing his job.â€?

The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and Asociacion de las Jovenes Unidos en Accion (AJUA) have asked that Agon be removed from the schools due to his collaboration with the federal Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Mary Boucher borrowed the recycling barrel from City Market to demonstrate to trustees on Tuesday night that plastic bags can be recycled. Photo by Lynn Burton

voters turned down a mandatory deposit on glass bottles several years ago, told the trustees the town has to make a step somewhere “to do better, � made two or three other comments then as part of his concluding remarks picked up a pencil in front of him and said, “I don’t know the carbon footprint of this pencil.�

Trustee Elizabeth Murphy spoke next and glancing at Foulkrod said, “I don’t know if I can follow that.�

The night’s only bag-ban supporter, who identiďŹ ed himself as Evan, said a ban is good for the environment and for people to shift to reusable bags is a “change in habit and lifestyle.â€?

After the public had their say and the trustees started their discussion, CORE spokesman Jason Haber said his group and the Carbondale Environmental Board looked at the polymer bags that Hoffmann suggested. When asked about whether the bags are actually biodegradable, he said, “They break down ‌ when you put a gallon of milk in them.â€?

Mayor Stacey Bernot, who indicated she favors a town-wide ban on plastic bags and not one directed at the grocery store, voted against the ordinance.

Near the end of the discussion, Hoffmann said the ordinance is “a good ďŹ rst step.â€?

The trustees agreed they’d continue to address the plastic bag issue and monitor the new ordinance’s performance.

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Immigrant rights activists rally Photos and story by Lynn Burton

Attorney Tom Adgate addressed the audience while community organizer Alex Alvarado asked for quiet.

Adgate has filed a defamation of character lawsuit on behalf of Carbondale community resource officer Alvaro Agon over statements made about him in a press release from CIRC and AJUA.

An estimated 200-300 people filled the Orchard auditorium for a rally sponsored by the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) and the Association of Students United in Action on Oct. 20.

The rally, brought on by the two groups’ opposition to local school resource officers (police) collaborating with ICE, included Maricela (no last name available), Ivonne Martinez and Teresa Garcia (to the left in the top photo) who gave accounts of ICE coming to their homes; Ross Montessori School substitute teacher Anita Sherman (top photo, far right) told the crowd some of her students were afraid of a Carbondale school resource officer after he helped with an ICE immigration raid.

The rally was peaceful and well organized. Headphones were passed out at the door for those requiring translation to English.

Silt-resident Bruno Kirchenwitz (far left) and another man showed up wearing black T-shirts that said “Deport All Illegals.”

A pair of private security guards (center) stood watch. Many in the crowd (right) wore white and carried signs that said “No Ice In Schools.”

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Local ink hits Post The Denver Post published a guest commentary by Bill Fales and Auden Schendler on Oct. 22. The topic? Proposed natural gas drilling on Thompson Divide a few miles west of Carbondale.

Under the headline “We don’t need to drill it all,” Fales and Schendler point out

that Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet asked the BLM to allow for more input from stakeholders before the federal government decides whether to permit drilling.

The column references the Oct. 8 rally for Thompson Divide in Carbondale and states in part: “The assembled group expressed fear of truck traffic … water con-

Jean-Marie Hegarty puts bread in the community wood-fired oven during the first official baking session on Oct. 20.

The next scheduled bake day is Nov. 17.

Photo by Lynn Burton

tamination from fracking fluid spills and polluted air. Gas is temporary … but Thompson Divide is forever.”

Items of note The Red Rock Diner now serves espresso … the Goat is kicking in the Smiling Moose’s old stall out at the Cowen Cen-

ter … Elephant Revival thunders over from Nederland for a gig at PAC3 on Dec. 10 …

City Market’s parking lot as black as ever, thanks to a new coat of paint … and in answer to the question that nobody seems to have an answer for until right now – Daylight Savings Time begins Nov. 6 (and not “right around Halloween” as more than one Sopris Sun informant speculated).

Win a trip to Glenwood The grand prize in History Colorado’s “Share Your Story” Facebook photo and story contest is an all-inclusive stay for four in Glenwood Springs. The entry deadline is Nov. 13. For details, go to www.facebook.com/HistoryColorado.

CMC launches radio station Colorado Mountain College is launching a student-powered, low-wattage radio station based in Glenwood Springs. Housed behind City Market, Radio CMC will offer a training ground for students to prepare them for 21st century internships and jobs with radio stations in the valley and elsewhere, according to a press release. Once it’s up and running, Radio CMC will be heard world-wide at www.RadioCMC.com.

They say it’s your birthday Birthday greetings go out to: Ruth “Ditty” Perry, Paul Hassel and Richard Fuller (Oct. 28), Chuck Dorn (Oct. 30), and Justin Marshall and Jay Riley (Nov. 1).

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Ram soccer boys nip Randolph, advance in playoffs

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Correspondent Bruce Randolph High School is better known as a model for educational reform than an athletic powerhouse. When the Roaring Fork Rams took to their own field for the first round of the 3A boy’s soccer playoffs, however, they worried less about the Denver school’s tip of the hat in the State of the Union, and more about the Grizzlies’ 10-4-1 record for the season.

The Rams record had improved to 9-5 after a 7-0 slaughter against Coal Ridge on Oct. 22. What the stats don’t show is Roaring Fork’s near-perfect record since CRMS student Tommy Adgate started playing in early October. Adgate, coupled with the original strong-but-young lineup including Sam Carpenter, Enrique Abarca and Lalo Clemente, fell to Glenwood Springs on Oct. 6 but haven’t lost a game since.

Even so, when the first raindrops sent spectators scrambling for cover, Tuesday’s 32-team first round was tied with a point each, and there were six and a half minutes left in the first half. Sam Carpenter’s spirits were apparently not dampened, and before all the umbrellas were open he’d turned an assist from Adgate into a lead the Rams would keep for the rest of the game. Just before the end of the half, Adgate boosted the lead to 3-1.

After a chilly break, the Grizzlies countered with an elegant shot through Roaring Fork’s defenses. It wasn’t enough. Though a couple of close calls on either side kept the

then stomping Grand Valley and Basalt 3-0 each. Their resulting 15-4 record is just enough to put them in the playoffs.

Colorado Springs Christian will host the first round on Oct. 29, with Roaring Fork taking on Trinidad at 10:30 a.m. and Brush at 1:45 p.m.

Football

Tommy Adgate has given the Rams the punch it needs to make the playoffs after joining the team several weeks ago. Photo by Sue Rollyson crowd on its feet, neither team made another goal before the whistle blew. The final score: 3-2 Rams.

At the beginning of the season, coach Aaron Anderson was cautiously optimistic.

With such an underclassmen heavy team, he hoped for a state-ready team in the next couple of years. As the last light was fading on the heights above town, he didn’t even want to talk about next year: “There’s no need to wait for the future. We’re on it. We actually have the skill. We have the drive, we’ve put in

a lot of hard work and we can get it done.”

The boys travel to Colorado Springs on October 29 for a game against Classical Academy. Time and location were unavailable at press time.

Volleyball The soccer boys won’t be alone in Colorado Springs on Saturday. After falling to several of the area’s top teams at the beginning of the month, the volleyball girls got their groove back, squeaking by Aspen 3-2,

Though their loss to Cedaredge on Friday dropped the Rams to 2-6 for the season, the game was not without its moments for Roaring Fork. When the Bruins took the opening kickoff in second half and turned it into a touchdown, Trae Moxley countered with a catch and a 43-yard gain, dragging several opponents with him for several yards. Trenton Reeds converted the distance into a touchdown, bringing the score back to a more manageable 27-19.

After the teams traded scores, a 10-point gap didn’t stop coach Tory Jensen from pulling out all the stops. With just over a minute left in the game, receiver Dakotah Grett turned a catch into a hook and lateral (aka “hook and ladder”), tossing the ball to Trenton Reeds and getting the Rams in close.

With Roaring Fork pressed for time, however, quarterback Clay Gross couldn’t quite connect with Johnny Nieslanik, and the 41-31 score stuck.

Though the Rams won’t be following their classmates to state, their season isn’t over. On Oct. 28 they’ll travel to Grand Valley, then play Aspen at home for their final game on Nov. 4.

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Community Calendar THURSDAY Oct. 27 ROTARY • The Mt. Sopris Rotary Club meets at Mi Casita every Thursday at noon.

Today, the speaker will be Cynthia Meyers (wine specialist for Republic National Distributing Company).

LIVE MUSIC • Bluesman Anders Osborne plays PAC3 in the Third Street Center at 8 p.m. Osborne is a Grammy award winner who has been compared to Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and Van Morrison. He landed in New Orleans by taking the long way – trekking through Africa and Egypt, and working odd jobs to get to his next destination. Paste magazine says, “Osborne has an impossibly great, soulful voice and the songs to match.” His Alligator Records debut,“American Patchwork,” is a collection of soul-baring rock, blues and ballads. Many of the songs deal with healing and redemption, spirituality and acceptance. It is about rebuilding what has been destroyed, not only a ravaged city, but also a hollow man. Info: www.pac3.com.

SWAN FINALE • The Embrey Family Foundation and the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities close out SWAN month with Valerie Haugen and “The Healing Power of Art” at Thunder River Theatre.

It’s free. The performance features TRTC’s Associate Artistic Director Valerie Haugen.

In a unique personal performance, Haugen will share how art saves lives. “Art is not extra-curricular, it is essential to life. Art helps us give meaning to the events of our lives, events both joyful and tragic. Theatre, poetry, literature ... allow us to grow ourselves as hu-

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mans, to enlarge our humanity. Art has saved my life on more than one occasion.” Haugen’s reading debuts passages, harrowing and hilarious, from an original performance piece entitled “What Drips in Sleep Against the Heart.” Curtain time is 7 p.m. The theatre is located downtown at 67 Promenade.

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“INHERIT THE WIND” • Colorado Mountain College Theatre presents “Inherit the Wind” at its Spring Valley campus between Glenwood Springs and Carbondale. Curtain time on Oct. 27-29 is 7:30 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on Oct. 30.Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, seniors, staff and faculty and can be reserved at svticketsales@coloradomtn.edu or at the door. Info: 947-8177.

HALLOWEEN • The Roaring Fork Family Resource Center is hosting its third annual Halloween Happening fundraiser at the Bridges High School gym (Fourth and Sopris Avenue) from 4 to 7 p.m. There’ll be pumpkin bowling, seasonal stories, an obstacle course, costume contest, the not-too-spooky hall of TERROR kids’ carnival games (prizes) plus food, and a silent auction. This community event is co-organized by Students for a Better World and Bridges students, with the help of adult volunteers (including the RVR Loopers). Admission is free and volunteers are still needed. Info: 384-5689.

FRI.-SUN. Oct. 28-30 GHOST WALK • The Frontier Historical Society in Glenwood Springs concludes its 12th annual Historic Ghost Walk through Linwood (Pioneer) Cemetery on Oct. 28-30.

Times vary. Tickets are $15.

Info: 945-4448 or e-mail history@rof.net.

FRIDAY Oct. 28 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “The Help” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28-Nov. 3; “The Guard” (R) at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 2829 and “Sarah’s Key” (PG-13) at 5:15 p.m. Oct. 30-Nov. 1.

BEATLES TRIBUTE • The Crested Buttebased Beatles tribute band Doctor Robert performs at Carnahan’s in the Dinkel Building at 9:30 p.m. The band dresses in Ed Sullivan-era suits and plays songs from every Beatle’s album. Instrumental details include a Hofner violin bass made famous by Paul McCartney and Epiphone Casino played by George, Paul and John on every album starting with Rubber Soul, according to the band.

LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works presents Mile Markers.

FOOTBALL • RFHS travels to Grand Valley for a 7 p.m. game.

SATURDAY Oct. 29 LIVE MUSIC • PAC3 throws a Halloween party with Euforquestra. Info: www.pac3.com.

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DRUMMING • Laurie Loeb offers a hand drumming workshop from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Carbondale Community School.

The fee is $35, with a $10 drum rental charge. Info: 963-2798.

SUNDAY Oct. 30 POETRY • The Aspen Poetry Society hosts a reading and Halloween celebration at the Hotel Lenado from 6:30 to 9 p.m. There’ll be music from Tom Edman, and open mic for poets and readings from David Mason (Colorado’s Poet Laureate). Info: 379-2136.

TUESDAY Nov. 1 DIA DE LOS MUERTOS • Everyone is invited to help create a Dia de los Muertos alter from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Third Street Center Round Room. Bring a candle, family photo or other relic in memory of a loved one to place on the altar, which will be displayed through First Friday.

WEDNESDAY Nov. 2 DAY OF THE DEAD • Thunder River Theatre Company and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s Folklorico Dancers present the eighth annual El Dia de lose Muertos celebration at 6 p.m.

TRTC actors will also give readings.The event is free. Info: www.thunderrivertheatre.com ROTARY • The Carbondale Rotary meets at the firehouse Wednesdays at 7 a.m.

OPEN MIC • Dan Rosenthal hosts open mic nights at Rivers restaurant every Wednesday from 8 to 10 p.m.

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THURSDAY Nov. 3

SUN FUN • The Sopris Sun, Carbondale’s non-proďŹ t newspaper, throws a fund-raising party from 5 to 7 p.m. at Dos Gringos Burritos in La Fontana Plaza on Highway 133. There’ll be free food, cash bar and opportunity to support community-based journalism.

ments of Sculpture,� which opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The center is located at 110 E. Hallam St. in Aspen. Info: 429-2777.

FRIDAY Nov. 4

SATURDAY Nov. 5 STEVE’S GUITARS • Lisa Dancing-Light and Penny Nichols present a concert at Steve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Building at 8:30 p.m. Nichols will perform songs from her new CD “Colors of the Sun: the Early Songs of Jackson Browneâ€? and songs from her previous recordings. Dancing-Light will perform songs from her recently completed CD “Light Years.â€? Tickets are $15 at the door or by reservation at 963-3304.

Dancing-Light and Nichols also offer a vocal workshop on Nov. 6. Info: 963-3330.

STEVE’S GUITARS • Cheryl Wheeler plays Steve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Building. Info on Wheeler: www.cherylwheeler.com.

DAY OF THE DEAD • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities hosts a Day of the Dead-inspired puppet and mask show at the Third Street Center at 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., plus an exhibit of altars, shrines and related art. Info: 963-1680.

ART OPENING • Carbondale artists Olivia Pevec and Jill Scher are included in the Red Brick Center for the Arts show “The Five Ele-

STEVE’S GUITARS • 4 - Steve Forbert plays Steve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Building. Info: www.stevesforbert.com.

TEEN PHOTO SHOW • The Gordon Cooper Library presents a photo show from local teens based on their favorite book titles.

ART SHOW • The Redstone Art Center presents Western landscape watercolor artist Kurt Isgreen through October. Info: 963-3790.

Club meets the third Tuesday of the month at the Third Street Center from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Info: 945-7094.

MAYOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat with Carbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdays from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy, located at 26 S. Third St.

PHOTO SHOW • The Colorado Mountain College Gallery in downtown Glenwood Springs presents the photographs of CMC graduate Elizabeth Moreno through Nov. 29.

BLOOD DRIVE • Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs holds its monthly blood drives from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month. Info: 384-6657.

FREE DANCE LESSONS • Crystal River Ballet School is offering a free contemporary jazz workshop for ages 7 and up at Bridges High School Wednesdays from 4 to 5 p.m. through October. Info: 704-0114.

GLENWOOD ART CENTER • The Glenwood Art Center presents “Evolution of Flightâ€? with the works of more than 50 artists.

Info: 945-2414.

CONVERSATION CIRCLES • Literacy Outreach holds conversation circles for non-English speakers to practice their English at the 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.

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CCAH • As part of SWAN month activities, the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities presents “United We Art: New Work from 42 Contemporary Womenâ€? at the Third Street Center. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Info: 963-1680.

LYLA GOLDSTEIN • S.A.W. presents new work by ceramist Lyla Goldstein. S.A.W. is located at 978 Euclid Ave., and the hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday or by appointment. Info: 963-0201.

TEXTILE ARTS • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities’ 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.

LIVE MUSIC • The Roaring Fork Valley Pin-

GORDON COOPER • The Gordon Cooper Library presents activities for kids from kindergarten through ďŹ fth grade from 4 to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, and toddler and infant story time on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. Info: 963-2889.

LINX NETWORKING • 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.

BOOK CLUB • The Senior Matters Book

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ups host their Rockabilly Ball at PAC3 at 9 p.m.

Music will be provided by The Rhythm Getters. The Pinups will also be releasing their 2012 calendar to beneďŹ t Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE). Tickets are $10 at the door.

TASTE OF BASALT • The Basalt Educational Foundation presents the 16th annual Taste of Basalt at the Roaring Fork Club. The night includes food, drinks, dancing to Milemarkers and a rafe. Tickets are $85 per person/$160 per couple in advance at Midland Show or www.tasteofbasalt.com. Sponsors include Alpine Bank and American Family Insurance.

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.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP • PathďŹ nders holds its support group at the Third Street Center the fourth Tuesday of every month. Info: Elizabeth Miller at 925-7792.

KIDS • 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 • Al-Anon for friends and families of alcoholics meets at the Orchard Tuesdays. Info: 963-8773.

GRIEF GROUP • 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.

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Community Briefs Dia de los Muertos seeks artists The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities is accepting work for a gallery show honoring Dia de los Muertos. Altars, sculpture and visual works will be included.

Works must be dropped off at CCAH in the Third Street Center on Nov. 1. For details, call 963-1680. The show continues through November.

Dia de los Muertos is a three-day Mexican festival in

which families pay their respects to loved ones who have died.

Parent/teacher conferences slated The Roaring Fork School District holds parent/teacher conferences Nov. 10-11 at all schools in Basalt, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs. For details, call 384-6004 or go to www.rfsd.org.

Medical pot and schools The Roaring Fork School District, Youth Zone and the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association present a discussion on how medical marijuana is impacting kids from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 at the Glenwood Springs Community Center.

Teen Book Circle started The Gordon Cooper Library has started a Teen Book Circle. Participants will read and discuss a different literary genre each month. For details, call 963-2889.

English in Action receives matching grant English in Action has received a $5,000 grant from the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado. The grant includes a $2,500 matching component, according to a press release.

English in Action’s primary service is a one-on-one tutoring program, where volunteer community members meet with students for an hour a week. For details, go to www.englishinaction.org.

Little kids on big horses were the order of the day at the 10th annual Harvest Party at Rock Bottom Ranch on Oct. 22. Kids also got to carve pumpkins (under parental supervision), tour the grounds, observe chickens and pigs, and pet the goats. The Hell Roaring String Band provided musical entertainment in the ranch’s pole barn.

Rock Bottom Ranch is located between Carbondale and El Jebel, and is part of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies. Photo by Lynn Burton

Exhibit seeks artists The Glenwood Springs Art Center is accepting entries for its 20th annual Winterfest Artful Gift exhibit, which runs Nov. 9 through Jan. 3. Artwork will be accepted on Nov. 3. For details, call 945-2414.

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Letters continued om page 2 Our trustees are once again about to approve or deny another of these dinosaur developments, albeit a smaller version this time around. We, the public, are being asked to pay for the developer’s infrastructure improvements through a PIF (i.e. tax) on all purchases made there (groceries included), travel farther (more likely by car) to a 20 percent larger City Market to be located at the northern end of the property, approve a pad for another bank, another gas station, and a drive-through restaurant, and maybe some day more residential units and maybe more commercial and maybe, maybe, maybe who knows what else in the vague future of this development proposal?

What is sure, however, is that this developer is unwilling to incorporate any renewable energy production, or various sustainability and design elements to set this project above and beyond all the other homogenized, anywhere U.S.A. shopping malls that have killed so many downtown small independent businesses around the country. What a waste of a golden opportunity to develop that property in a fashion

that truly reects Carbondale’s commitment to natural beauty, uniqueness, the arts, sustainable development and renewable energy, a development that could be a feather in the hat of the town and a forward-thinking developer, if done well. But this one sure doesn’t look any better than what’s been presented in the past.

I urge all concerned residents of our beloved town to show up at the trustee meeting on Nov. 1, which might be the ďŹ nal public hearing on this proposal, and demand that this development be put before a vote of the people!

Laurie Loeb Carbondale

Disappointed with CMC (Editor’s note: This letter was sent to the Colorado Mountain College board and president).

Dear Editor: It is with great disappointment that I hear CMC is not providing a space for the CMC Art Share Gallery in the new district ofďŹ ce. This is a tragedy; a slap in the face; a degradation of the arts at the community

level. The Art Share Gallery is the only truly professional honoring of ďŹ ne arts that CMC has offered to those of us in the arts and patrons of the arts.

What are you thinking? The arts are necessary for joy and beauty and creativity and they support all the other subjects in education in ways that nothing else can.

This act will demoralize your ďŹ ne-arts staff and students, whereas the continued exhibition of art will continue to lift the spirits and morale of all.

I urge you to rethink this shortsighted decision as it will not serve CMC or our community in the future.

Wewer Keohane, Ph.D Carbondale

Vote yes on 3E – A kid’s perspective Dear Editor: I’m too young to vote but not too young to create an awareness. My name is Emily Adams; I am 12 years old and a seventh grader at Basalt Middle School. I would like to express the importance of art, music, team sports and ďŹ eld trips in our schools. I have put together a series of photos and words titled “If you give a kid‌â€? and created a Web site to share the importance and a way to express to voting citizens why they should vote yes on 3E. My Web site is titled “Just Emily Iâ€? a kid making a difference step by step. Please visit me at www.justemilyi.com and you'll see why to vote yes on 3E. To all of you that can vote, just imagine the difference you can make in our schools and community by voting yes!

Thanks so much.

Emily Adams Basalt

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Notice is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Town of Carbondale Board of Trustees for the ensuing year of 2012; that a copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of the Town Clerk at Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection; that such proposed budget will be considered for adoption at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees to be held at Carbondale Town Hall on November 29, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.

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Vote yes on 3E Dear Editor: For the past nine years I have worked toward making positive changes in the Roaring Fork School District. As a parent volunteer, grant writer and school board member, my perspective and vision have remained the same: Public schools are the heart of every community and the key to our nation’s future; our children and our communities are incredibly fortunate to have the outstanding teachers and outstanding schools that we have here in the Roaring Fork School District; there are numerous ways we could be drawing on our district’s strengths to provide an even better education for our children.

It is for these same reasons that I urge everyone to vote yes on 3E. Our schools need adequate funding in order to maintain the high quality of education we provide and to make our schools stronger.

Voting against the mill levy will not make improvements happen. Voting against the mill levy will mean more cuts in the coming years. It will mean the loss of teachers, larger class sizes and out-dated materials. Voting no will make it more difďŹ cult to make improvements to our district.

Voting no will shortchange our children and our communities.

Over the years, many of the issues I have raised and the votes I have cast have been quite controversial. Ballot initiative 3E is separate from those issues. Whatever other changes we may desire for our district, 3E is critical to the education of our children.

Please vote yes on 3E and keep working to make our district the best it can be.

Debbie Bruell RFSD School Board member Carbondale

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Giving up grunge; going for the rad In the 1980s I spent the vast majority of my pre-teen fettered and unfledged days of childhood. years bopping out to Cindy Lauper, trying to decide if I I guess we all have those places: farms, backwoods, liked Pepsi or Coca Cola better, and popping through mountains, oceans, lakes, and rivers that remind us about mogul fields on straight-edged skis. If not slightly abnor- how lucky we are. My refuge here, from both not quite fitmal, I was, for a kid growing up in Colorado and Wash- ting into the community and in order to re-center, has been ington, kind of typical, with one exception: Crater Lake National Park. As the number each summer my family would load up into of days I have spent in the park have inan Airstream and head out to central Orecreased, my comfort levels in the area have gon where my dad was doing field work. gone up. No matter how tough, stressful, He was, is, and probably always will be good, or bad of a day I’ve had at the school, a rock-licking, andesite dating, beer drinkI can always slip into the park and coming geologist. A volcanologist to be exact. pletely disappear into the trees or up a trail.

And while his field work has taken him all Life is better in the trees. over the world from Alaska to the PhilipTrails generally lead us to beautiful places. pines, I spent most of the ’80s carrying Plus I don’t have to worry about being shot pieces of pumice for him, puking up tuna at during hunting season in a national park. fish sandwiches on Crater Lake and in cinOne of the general half-formed, crackder cones, and just generally getting compot, high-noon theories I’ve been thinking pletely covered in dust, dirt and ash. about recently is how every adult needs Like most things in life, I didn’t know By Cameron Scott some sort of playground. That our refuges how atypical and rad I actually had it until often coincide with where we play is no cothe 1980s became the 1990s and I transformed into a incidence. Neither is it coincidence that we often are found grunge-infused teenager rocking out to Alice In Chains. playing in our refuges. This type of tree climbing, cow ropWhile there is nothing particularly wrong with grunge in- ing, cloud surfing happiness is essential to our well being fusion, rad is just better. and all too often we decide we don’t need or deserve this As chance would have it, I landed in Chiloquin, Ore- kind of freedom. gon this October as a Writer in Residence at the local That is not to say work is bad. Once back from my exhigh school. cursion to Crater Lake National Park yesterday I began Chiloquin is smack dab on a reservation that is no an article for a magazine, went to the Klamath Dam relonger a reservation. A place with a long history of having moval open house at the library, and then met up with a wounds just start to scab up before they get ripped off again writing colleague to suss out the finer points of the writing (kind of like a bad string of mountain biking wipe-outs, life. More than anything, all of this is just to say, like only for decades instead of weeks). A place just south of William Carlos Williams once did, that sometimes you where I used to spend most of my summers as a kid. A place have to eat the plums. Or as Chiloquin has taught me over that could generally use less grunge infusion and more rad. and over again: sometimes you have to give up the grunge A place where I can’t help but reminisce about those un- and just go for the rad.

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Some Rivers “Each day goes by, the current boiling around the rock you have made of your life.” – Michael Delp Each day goes by, the current boiling around the rock you have made of your life.

Every river is different, but not your rock.

Your rock is always the same. Char hide behind you.

Moss forms on the side that sees the least amount of sun.

Sometimes ferns begin to grow on you.

Sometimes a tree.

Some rivers try to bury you. Some rivers undercut you.

Some rivers attempt to scrim you away.

Some leave algaeic slime. Some leave angelic kisses.

Open the floodgates! Let loose the barges!

Your life is a rock that will never move!

Your life is a rock that must move!

Your life is a rock the size of a fist.

Your life is a rock the size of seventeen cedars.

You can argue with a river about your rock.

If you want to argue it will be like jumper cables connected to two dead batteries.

Your rock needs to be prepared for anything and everything.

Some rivers will try to run through you.

But you are a rock.

You are a rock and don’t say much.

Some rivers push and push and push against you.

You will make them sing.

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