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Volume 11, Number 11 | April 25, 2019

That spring fever itch for outdoor adventure will probably only be stoked by this weekend's film festival, but don't think you have to run off somewhere exotic to get a little exercise.

The folks at Daring Women, a local organization dedicated to developing authentic connections to better oneself and the world, recently took advantage of The Monkey House in Carbondale for a special "On the Rocks" event.

Heather Montross-Cowan, coowner of Defiance Rafting, certainly seemed to enjoy herself.

Photo by Erin Danneker

5Point special events While Carbondale is an outdoorsy town most of the time, expect it to kick up a notch with the 5Point Adventure Film Festival in town this weekend.

Film programs two and three are already sold out and the others were filling up at press time, but there are plenty of other opportunities to participate in the festival — and many of them are free. While the Rec. Center is the main hub unless otherwise noted, events range all over town, so you're bound to encounter something.

Thursday, April 25 1- 3 p.m.: Student film program 4 - 7 p.m.: Van Life Rally / Festival Kick-off 6 - 6:45 p.m.: Dream Project reception 10 p.m. - midnight Local late-night at Batch

Friday, April 26 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Confluence at Thunder River Theatre 3:45 to 5 p.m.: Watercolor workshop at TRTC 5 to 6 p.m.: Gallery reception at The Launchpad

Saturday, April 27 8 a.m. - noon: Fryingpan cleanup 9 a.m. - noon: Run at Independence Run & Hike, bike ride at Aloha a.m. - noon: Plein air painting and hike at TRTC 10 a.m. - noon: Confluence conversation at True Nature 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Flyfishing casting clinic 12:30 to - 2:30 p.m. Ice cream social and picnic 1 to 2 p.m.: Business confluence at TRTC 5 to 6 p.m.: Gallery reception and happy hour at TRTC 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.: Local late-night at The Way Home

Sunday, April 28 5 - 5:30 p.m.: Ceremony awards For tickets and more information, visit 5pointfilm.org.

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Oh, for the good old days

Conundrum Hot Springs out of Aspen has been so trashed by human excrement that it also has officially limited accessibility, and the irony of this is that its ruin has been at the hands of While driving Highway 82 either in the morning or evening people who claim to be environmentalists and nature lovers. I hours and seeing the Denver-like traffic I am astounded by the am aware that official U.S. Forest Service “Wilderness Areas” cannot have non-historical man-made structures within them. way our local valleys have changed.

My parents described the drive from Glenwood up valley in Speaking personally, however, if I had to choose between campthe 1930s on a simple gravel/dirt road. Even more primitive was ing in an area with human waste behind every bush, or having the county road up the Crystal Valley until being paved in 1959- a simple “outhouse” for backpackers to use tucked away in an out of sight spot —— I’d much prefer the outhouse. The trouble 60.

Nowadays, several times each year the local newspapers in- is, from what I’ve read, Congress has cut the Forest Service budget so much that they couldn’t even afford variably have photos of people soaking in the an outhouse!

Penny Hot Springs along the Crystal River.

All of this reminiscing and complainSadly, the springs seem pretty much trashed ing is to set the stage for criticizing what by overuse and no toilet facilities, and conI see as a very negative mindset — but sist of only some temporary rock-rimmed one to which I admit not having a viable calf-deep pools useable when the river is low. solution. The negative mindset is one of My memories of the hot springs go back growth and more growth. But strangely, to the dirt road of the 1950s. As I recall, it seems to be schizophrenic growth. For the grade of the county road was somewhat example, many people seem to be fleeing lower and nearer the river than today’s highCalifornia or the Front Range to smaller way, but the main difference was that in communities. But as they flee they bring those days one didn’t need to get into the the demand for more amenities with river for a hot soak. Someone, I don’t know them. I think of the Glenwood Caverns who, years before had built two small woodsteady expansion, or of Glenwood been shacks, probably ten or twelve feet square

By Paige Meredith ing touted as the “Funnest Town in the below the road but above the water. Each USA.” one had a rectangular pit lined with marBy contrast, I think of the old fisherble which occupied probably half the floor space. If memory serves me correctly, at least one of the pools man mentality that a real fisherman would never reveal his even had a submerged marble bench in it. One of the pools was favorite spot to anyone. Oppositely, it is amazing that all of so hot that you could barely get into it, while the second pool those glossy travel and adventure magazines broadcast to the world about undiscovered, lovely, uncrowded islands, private was just comfortably hot.

The great thing about those times was that the population beaches and solitude as their bankrolls grow. As I write this I was so sparse that a family could arrive at the shacks and usu- have in front of me an “environmental” magazine advertising ally find them vacant. But even if they were occupied it was only a book for the “Best Backpacking Trips in Montana, Wyoming, a matter of waiting 15 or 20 minutes and your turn would come and Colorado”. Concerning Carbondale, I can’t help but wonup. If we went at night we’d take candles or a coal-oil lamp and der: Does Carbondale really need a fourth bank or a bigger, have just enough light in the shack to see what we were doing. fancier supermarket?

Is there such a thing as a successful economic system that When the ‘60s and the new highway came along (with the first Hippies and free love) all of that came to an end. The shacks doesn’t require growth and more growth? I don’t know of one. and pools were bull-dozed away. (Ironically, I suppose the Utes We hear of little towns on Colorado’s Eastern Plains that dry up and blow away. But I guess all of this is just the disgruntled would have resented the shacks and the dirt road.)

Sadly, it seems that this type of “progress” is inevitable. To- muttering of an old curmudgeon longing for the simpler and day, we see once isolated and pristine places being overrun by less crowded “old days.” What do I know? I can’t even submit sheer numbers. Hanging Lake is restricted to a limited number this column to The Sopris Sun by email; my poor wife must do of visitors — I would guess largely from the Front Range as it for me.

Meredith shares this column with fellow conservative Stan Badgett. people try to escape from the nightmare it has become.

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Jankovsky has antiquated ideas Dear Editor: Garfield County’s District One, Carbondale, southern Glenwood Springs, and all the developments in between, has no representation on the Board of County Commissioners. Commissioner Tom Jankovsky proved that again when he explained why he was the only commissioner to vote for approval of the Blue Mountain Garfield self-storage units across Highway 82 from Catherine’s Store.

“I personally believe in the free enterprise system and the market will win out on it if there’s additional need or not,” he said.

Can you believe anybody still thinks that way? The definition of madness is when you keep making the same mistake and expect different outcomes.

“Voodoo economics” is what H.W. Bush called the free enterprise system when he ran against Ronald Reagan in 1980. Fiscal conservativeness came back to bite Bush in the butt in 1992 when it caused a recession that helped him lose that year’s presidential election.

That wasn’t the first or the last time the free

market economy’s fallen on its face: 1929, 1987, 2008, and we’re headed in the direction again.

The majority of Garfield County’s District One certainly don’t go along with Jankovsky’s fiscal approach. That’s why Paula Stepp routed him in District One by a three to one margin last November. We need home rule or an expanded BOCC so District One can have a say in county government.

Fred Malo Jr. Carbondale

Honor Jon Our community lost a special person this spring, long-time resident and nature lover, Jon Hollinger.

Thank you Jon for all that you did for our natural world – your legacy lives on.

Our all-volunteer Board thanks the family of Jon Hollinger for requesting that, in lieu of flowers, donations be given to Roaring Fork Audubon. These donations will help us in our efforts to continue to bring awareness of the wonder of birds and of the natural world by sending young, valley students to Naturalist summer camps, by conducting

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If you choose to honor the memory of Jon Hollinger by supporting our work, please visit our website to donate via PayPal at roaringforkaudubon.org or send a check to P.O Box 1192 in Carbondale.

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All they have to do is dream

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff For the past decade, 5Point has been investing in the best teenage dreams, and it’s already paying back dividends.

In 2016, the Dream Project covered Bridges High Schooler Hannah Hayden’s 15-day trip to Peru to help poor, rural kids at a federal school.“I definitely wouldn’t be the same person I am today without it.

Being somewhere that you’ve never been, speaking a language you’re not super familiar as an 18-year-old alone, you learn so much about yourself and how lucky you really are and what a chance you have to help other people,” she said. “It changed my own character and confidence. I try to volunteer where I can when I can and with things that resonate with me.”

Since completing his Capstone Project with a 2017 Dream Project-funded camera, Roaring Fork High School grad Cal Branigan has gone on to the Colorado Film School and is even getting ready to submit his own material to 5Point. “I’ve taken that camera to Africa, all across the U.S., I use it frequently in film school even today,” he said. “I have heard from a lot of people that the quality of that film was a bit beyond my years. I know that it would not have been that level without that gear.”

Both past recipients encouraged anyone with an idea to apply. Branigan, in particular, preached patience — he applied twice before he found a project that resonated, which he put down to a bigger purpose.

Then there’s Colorado Rocky Mountain School junior Chloe Gonzales who, after

receiving Dream Project support for a trip to Mexico in 2018, teamed up with two friends for another round this year. She and her classmates Eli Li and Sarah Teague will travel to Denver and Washington D.C. as soon as school is out to connect with folks affected by homelessness and poverty and those working to help them.

The girls have already talked the talk to their classmates, and are even preparing to launch a social-issues magazine titled “The Olive Branch” in print and online in order to support the exchange of such ideas. But the Dream Project outing will lend their mission additional legitimacy.

“It’s not just the money; it’s this amazing audience,” Teague said. “This gives us hard proof that what we’re saying is important.”

Of course, the financial backing also gives them an opportunity to take things to the next level.

“It’s being able to get out into the field and apply what we’ve learned,” Li said.

“It’s important for me to share everything I’m given with those around me and the rest of the world. A huge component of our application was our different backgrounds and how our vision brought us together.”

Teague is a Roaring Fork Valley native, Gonzales grew up in a Mexican-American household in Southern California and Li hails from Hong Kong. They each bring different strengths and perspectives to the project, but they’re well aware that there are still blind spots.

“It’s something we don’t see right in front of us,” Gonzales said. “The school and, to some extent, the community is a

The Olive Branch team interviews folks at the Aspen Women's March.

Photo by Chloe Gonzales bubble of privilege.”

“We know that it’s a huge issue, but it’s hard to figure out how to tackle it,” added Teague, “It’s both trying to get them to empathize with the problem and give them an outlet.”

And that’s just one of the projects selected for funding this year. Roaring Fork High School junior Beverly Patton is planning to share her love of poetry by teaching a weekly class to local middle schoolers. “I've always loved learning new things and then teaching them to others or even just telling others about it,” she explained. ““Developing a one on one relationship with a younger generation and creating something with them, means a whole lot more to me then wondering whether or not anyone read my book. This way, face

to face, poet to poet, we get to really hear each other.”

Ella Beck, a senior at CRMS, will travel to Nepal to work with the Oda Foundation’s Women’s Empowerment Team. Basalt High School sophomore Isaac Musselman is planning to create an aviation and space club complete with guest speakers, astronomy nights, and curriculum tie-ins. A cello will help BHS senior Emily Northrop pursue her dream of becoming a music educator, junior Carla Soto will travel to El Paso to tackle imigration issues through photography and Glenwood Springs High School junior Molly Hancock will channel her love of horses into a documentary about the Riding Institute for Disabled Equestrians.

The full lineup will have a chance to present at 5Point Thursday night.

Documentary to showcase young women on long canoe trips

Portaging canoes in Quebec. Courtesy photo The group of young women Staff report will be paddling traditional When outdoorsmen and film- wood-canvas canoes along the makers descend on Carbondale Eastmain River of Quebec, enevery year for 5Point, things countering rugged terrain as they happen — and what goes around paddle remote waterways and portage untrailed and rough arcomes around.

Case in point, local Max- eas replete with mudholes and ine Christopher’s impression of muskeg bogs.

Canoers will follow traditionHannah Maia, who won "People’s Choice" and “Most Inspir- al tripping methods, including ing Film” at last year’s event for the use of leather tumplines to her documentary “My Big White portage their canoes, equipment, Thighs and Me.” Christopher and wannigans (wood boxes that reached out to her with her own hold supplies) full of food from idea for a film, and as the festival one lake to the next or down gets under way this year, “Be- unpassable sections of rivers, following maps of routes that may yond the Bay” is in the works.

Maia will follow a group not have been traveled in deof ten teenage girls on a seven- cades. The overall course they’ll week canoe trip through north- be following is centuries old, and ern Canada. Her goal? To shoot most of the methods that will be a coming of age documentary used during the trip are the same about young women journeying that were used on canoe trips in into the wilderness, which will Canada over 100 years ago.

How remote will these young be called Beyond the Bay.

women be? To give you an idea, they’ll be driving two long days by bus from Lake Temagami in Ontario to reach the put-in along the Eastmain River, and will receive their one resupply while traveling via float plane.

Most nights they will be setting up a new camp, which will be broken down again in the morning, and cooking their meals over open fires using fire irons and a reflector oven to make bannock and other baked treats. All the food eaten on the trip will be prepared from scratch by the canoers themselves, with modern trip food represented only by powdered milk and eggs and some dehydrated vegetables. Favorite trip foods include bacon sliced off of the smoked slab they carry; “goo balls” smashed by hand for protein-laden snacks; and camp coffee over the open fire.

Although the location will be stunning — and make for some incredible paddling! — the main focus for Maia is on the trials these young women will face as they undergo a grueling, selfsupported canoe trip for seven weeks in the wilderness: the bonds formed through adversity, and the sisterhood that will grow from their endurance and their shared experience of the outdoors.

“In this story we’ll see what it is for young women to step away from the digitally mediated

world of teenagers today and fall in love with their own strength and resilience, with their ‘girltribe’, and with the direct experience of wild places.”

The seven-week trip Maia will be documenting is led by Keewaydin Camp, a non-profit camp focused entirely on canoe tripping. Established in 1893, Keewaydin is steeped in history, and has been using traditional methods for tripping for well over 100 years. However, it’s only in the last 21 years that girls have been allowed to join the ranks.

In addition to the pains of portage, the young women making this journey will be giving up all technology before embarking, which is perhaps one of the more impressive aspects of their journey. This “tech fast” is a practical requirement of the trip since it takes place in remote Quebec in

conditions where anything can, and probably will, get wet, and there are no cell towers for miles.

In a world where we are pulled more and more down — into the screens of our phones, our T.V.s, our laptops, and into the day-to-day that surrounds us — this documentary will showcase what happens when young women prioritize nature and the moment, and dive into the wilderness with their arms open.

When teenage girls go into the wilderness, free from mainstream society’s expectations, precious moments of palpable, uninhibited joy and self-worth can be found, and we’re excited to document those moments this summer.

Want to be part of the journey?The team has launched a Kickstarter campaign — visit BeyondTheBayFilm.com to learn more.

Portaging canoes in Quebec. Courtesy photo

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Cool for school There are three Roaring Fork Schools Board of Education seats that will be up for election on Nov. 5, 2019.

District B, currently held by Matt Hamilton, covers most of Carbondale west of Sopris Park and The Crystal Valley west of Highway 133 as well as Aspen Glen, Ironbridge, West Bank. District C, currently held

by Mary Elizabeth Geiger, covers most of Missouri Height and southeast Glenwood Springs, with District D, currently held by Shane Larson, covering the rest of Glenwood and the surrounding area. Districts A and E, which complete Carbondale and Basalt, are not up for election this year. An interactive map is available at tinyurl.com/rfsdboardmap. Anyone interested in running for a four-year term must be a registered voter of the district for at least 12 consecutive months before the election and live in the district they plan to represent. Nomination packets will be available beginning Aug. 7 and must be filed by Aug. 30.

Bennet’s back A spokesperson for Michael Bennet issued the following statement following the senator’s treatment for prostate cancer.: “Last weekend, Michael underwent surgery and is recovering at his home in Colorado. His doctors report the surgery was completely successful and he requires no further treatment. Michael and his family deeply appreciate the well wishes and support from Coloradans and others across the country, and he looks forward to returning to work after the recess.”

and called for first chair of Sunlight’s beginner chairlift to be painted pink. Meanwhile, Sunlight’s Winter Stoke Film Festival, produced by the non-profit True Media Foundation of Carbondale, was named as a finalist for Best Use of Video. The film festival asks local skiers and riders to submit 1-3 minute videos of their winter adventures and explorations. This year’s deadline to submit films is Sept. 15; learn more at www. winterstoke.org

Well aged The Eagle County Aging Well Program in El Jebel will host “Total Brain Health MEMORY Level 2.0” classes from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Wednesdays May 8 through June 25 at the Eagle County Community Center (0020 Eagle County Dr.). The cost is $95 for the eight week session and includes a daily challenge log and course book. For more information or to register, call 3198829, or email marti@boostyourbrainpower.org, or visit www.boostyourbrainpower.org.

Now we’re cooking with gas The Carbondale Rec. Center is offering a four-week Fork & Pan cooking class for kids ages 8 to 12 at 2 p.m. Wednesdays beginning May 1. It’s a hands-on course and they’ll get to eat what they make — so let the organizers know if your child has any food allergies. Sign up at carbondalerec.org for $15 per class or $40 for all four.

Living history

Poss it on

The newly formed Carbondale Heritage Garden Club is having its first meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, at the Jail and Cabin History Park (499 Weant Blvd.). Members will learn and practice gardening with heirloom and historic varieties from planting to harvest, plus food preservation and seed-saving as well as historical research like identifying plants in local photographs. All are welcome, no experience necessary. Email info@ carbondalehistory.org to join.

Bill Poss, a founder of Poss Architecture + Planning and Interior Design, has been selected as one of the recipients of the inaugural Legacy Award by Mountain Living magazine in the category of architecture. In an email statement, Bill told his staff that he is grateful for their talent, hard work and dedication, which helped make this award a reality. He also thanked past team members for their very significant contributions to the firm's success, and for their support.

In the weeds

Last call

In addition to purging the spurge, Garfield County is encouraging folks to sock the rocket this year. That is to say, Vegetation Management is encouraging residents to keep an eye out for noxious weeds like Myrtle and Cypress spurge as well as Dame’s rocket. Through June 6, you can bring in pulled plants in exchange for vouchers toward landscape or garden plants at the Mountain Valley Greenhouse in Glenwood Springs.

Visit garfield-county.com for more infomation or call 379-4456 to sign up.

Following 20 months of programming, the Temporary is down to its last week of arts and culture. On Thursday, it hosts a Basalt Master Plan kick-off event. Saturday sees a science show and salsa, and it all comes to an end with Rock and Roll Academy on Sunday afternoon — visit tacaw.org for tickets and more info.

Sunlight spotlight

Sunlight Mountain Resort has been named as a finalist for two Marketing Awards to be presented May 1 by the National Ski Area Association during its annual meeting in San Diego. For the second consecutive year, Sunlight’s Mini-Mayor campaign has been named as a finalist for Best Social Media Campaign.

Colby Rogers, 6, won her bid for reelection this year

hane, Rachel Gillespie, Donni Cochran (April 27); Julia Morton, Julie DeVilbiss and Judy Welch (April 28); Luis Yllanes and Diana Sirko (April 29); Alexandra Jerkunica (April 30); Devika Gurung, Melanie Gianinetti Cardiff, Jeff Leahy and Pixie Byrne (May 1).

Shabbat shalom Join Rabbi Segal and the Aspen Jewish Congregation for a 6 p.m. service April 26 at The Orchard. Each Carbondale Shabbat is conducted in Hebrew and English and is followed by a community potluck dinner. More information at aspenjewish.org.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating another year of life this week include: Lee Ann Eustis and Gayle Embrey (April 26); April Crow-Spaulding, Sloan Shoemaker, Wewer Keo-

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The folks over at Fat Belly Burgers want to make it abundantly clear that they're not going anywhere just because Crystal River Meats is struggling. They've already lined up another local beef producer for down the road, not to mention an array of other options — including chicken, lamb, a BLT, two veggie burgers, salads, "paleo fries" cooked in beef tallow and a selection of ice cream and shakes that is becoming increasingly popular as the weather warms. Photo by Will Grandbois

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Inaugural tournament memorializes Trent Goscha

By Megan Tackett Sopris Sun Staff After chaotic weather in March curtailed organizers’ initial plans to host a Trent Goscha Memorial Baseball Tournament, this week’s sunshine was a welcome calm.

About 20 Roaring Fork High School students populated the stands at the start of the first of two games, and another five or so trickled in before the third inning.

In the end — the first game lasted three and a half hours, according to Coach Marty Madsen — the Rams came up short against the Montezuma-Cortez Panthers (9-13 and 3-5, respectively), but the scores weren’t the most important part of the day.

RFHS Senior Dawson Kuhl, whose .417 batting average is the team’s highest, reflected on playing for the Goscha family. Trent passed away in November 2016; he was 13 years old.

“We all knew that this was a big deal for the Goscha family, so our coaches didn’t really have to say much — we just all knew it was important,” he said. “It was a special thing to have everyone come together to show our love and support for the Goscha family. Trent was a special kid, and we play for him every time we get on the field, but this tournament was a great opportunity to show how much it means to us.”

The inaugural Trent Goscha Memorial Baseball Tournament attracted enthusiasm from spectators of all generations. Photo by Sue Rollyson Madsen remembers Goscha well, as do most of his players.

“Even my veteran junior and senior kids knew him because he would come to a lot of our baseball camps and clinics. He and I had a pretty good relationship when he was in elementary school, and I think one of his big goals was to play for me and for our program,” he said.

Of course, while they’re taking the loss in stride, the Rams would have preferred a victory. But, as RFHS Junior Eli Nickamin acknowledged, the season’s not over.

“Today was rough — we played some good baseball, but sometimes it doesn’t go your way,” he said after the tournament. “We’re just trying to get some wins on our record.”

They have plenty of opportunity to do so, Madsen noted.

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“The crazy thing is we only have two and a half weeks left in our season, and we have … half our season left, so it’s going to get pretty wild here,” he said of the team’s eight remaining games.

It’s a grueling schedule — the next home game is a doubleheader against the Grand Valley Cardinals

at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. April 30 — so Madsen plans practices to specifically train endurance.

“Baseball is a very mental enduring sport where you have to have a lot of focus for a long period of time,” he said. “That’s been the biggest trick with high-school boys — teaching them to have that mental toughness throughout a ballgame. We’ve set up practice for that and really work at the mental side of it, so we’re getting it hopefully to the point where games are actually easier than practice when it comes to that mental toughness.”

As of press time, the Rams are 2-2 in their league. The season ends on Senior Day, May 11 — at which time the recipient of a scholarship will be announced. That, too, is directly in honor of Goscha.

“We kind of designed [the Trent Goscha Memorial Tournament] to be a lot like the Brenda

In addition to their regular uniforms, many players donned wristbands in memory of Trent Goscha. Photo by Sue Rollyson

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Patch Tournament, where it’s going to be a scholarship tournament for one deserving baseball athlete,” Madsen said.

It’s not the only award named for Goscha. Last year, the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo Association established the Trent Goscha Sportsmanship Award. When he wasn’t on the baseball field, the middle schooler could be found at the rodeo.

It’s that level of kinship that RFHS Junior Frankie Harrington admires — in both sports.

“It was nice to see the community come support our first Trent Goscha Tournament,” he beamed.

And it is just the first of what Madsen predicts will be a longstanding tradition for RFHS baseball.

“Next year will be even bigger and better,” he said.

Put a fork in it Lacrosse: The girls boast a 6-2 record and host Durango High School at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, April 27 and Aspen High School at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 30.

Soccer: The girls are 3-1 in their league and host Aspen High School at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 25.

Track: The 2019 Colorado High School Activities Association (CHSAA) Class 3A State Championship kicks off at 8 a.m. Thursday, May 16 at the Jeffco Stadium, 500 Kipling St., in Lakewood.

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Kid-organized event reminds everyone to ‘be you’

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Carbondale’s first pride parade is slated for the First Friday in May and it’s all thanks to a group of middle schoolers.

It’s actually the second year that Carbondale Middle School has had a GSA — which can stand for Gay Straight Alliance or Genders and Sexualities Alliance. Such organizations are common at high schools around the country, but no other local middle schools had one until a student approached Library Aide Lorri Knaus.

“I was thrilled,” she said. “It had to be started by a kid.”

With less than a dozen members, the most significant event that first year was attending the Western Slope GSA conference.

“We were definitely the youngest group there,” Knaus recalled. “I’m an ally, and that’s basically all I know how to do. I’m still learning.”

This year, student involvement has grown and Knaus enlisted the help of Yuen, a prevention specialist at the school.

“LGBTQ people are the highest risk and least likely to reach out,” Yuen noted. “In the broader sense, we’re really about friendship and acceptance. I want our kids to be inclusive and understanding.”

That seems to be happening natu-

rally. At a recent meeting, one student shared a poem that posed a question.

“If I can’t be myself, then who am I?” it read. “If I’m someone else, then the world is a boring, one person planet.”

Another simply expressed enthusiasm in being part of something that was open and welcoming to all, noting that, “some people might be afraid to share their identity, and this lets them know they’re safe.”

The group has already sponsored a dance and conducted a penny war to put money in its coffers, which has also raised its profile. While a few parents had questions — mostly regarding whether the lunchtime library group might be tackling issues better left to health class, which Knaus says isn’t the case — many more have expressed support. With that kind of backing, the sponsors couldn’t see any reason not to move ahead when the students proposed a parade.

“It’s our job to make kids dreams come true,” Yuen said.

Added Knaus, “It’s really turning into a big, happy celebration.”

True Nature Healing Arts will host a pre-parade party from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on May 3, with face painting, sign making and a drum circle. The parade itself takes off from the corner of Weant and Main at 5:30 p.m. and will head down Main Street to the Fourth Street Plaza, where the annual Family Block Party Celebration will already be underway.

The GSA will have a booth there and T-

Carbondale Middle School GSA members have been furiously making and sending out invites to the town's first pride parade. Photo by Will Grandbois shirts with the group’s “Be You” motto, and other organizers will have a presence as well.

In addition to contributing financial support, Aspen Out is sending the giant rainbow flag usually reserved for its Gay Ski Week fundraiser.

Noted Executive Director Kevin McManamon, “It’s half a block long and the parade route is only three blocks.

It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Aspen Out backs a wide array of local GSA programming, including an alternative prom slated for this weekend in Carbondale, and helped found PFlag Roaring Fork, which supports parents

who may have a child questioning their gender identity or sexuality. Also participating in the event is the local chapter of Gay for Good, which is co-sponsoring the Fryingpan River Clean-Up this weekend.

But while there are numerous LGBTQ resources for all ages in the area, McManamon is particularly excited by energy at CMS. “They’re doing an amazing job.

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Annual peace walk committed to community Breaking bread before handcuffs Text by Megan Tackett Photos by Amy Hadden Marsh The desert was blooming. Looking out at the eternal horizon, we saw flowers, not bombs. In fact, other than the ominous blue and red lights from the police cruisers and a black and white sign warning against trespassing, there was little evidence of the Nevada National Security Site.

Even the police presence turned out to be less ominous than could have been reasonably assumed. Nye County Lieutenant Chris Jordan was downright happy to see us, even joining the protesters’ breakfast on Good Friday — an odd sort of breakfast club, given that Jordan would undoubtedly be arresting several of them later that day.

It’s a contention that reflected so much of the experience well. Amy Hadden Marsh had invited me to join her in covering the annual Nevada Desert Experience (NDE) Sacred Peace Walk, a weeklong march that culminates at the Nevada National Security Site, shortly after protesting outside Creech Airforce Base. In a few short days, we spoke with dozens of people, from Western Shoshone Council members to Catholic Worker representatives who had joined the protest to a Desert Research Institute (DRI) archaeologist in Las Vegas — and yes, to the police.

First-timer and Catholic Worker from

That felt particularly poignant sitting on Shoshone land, having been granted a Shoshone permit to be on that land, contemplating willfully getting arrested to protest the United States Department of Energy “tilling” the land via nuclear testing, he continued.

“The United States seems to be the hired hand for the globe, so if we’re making all our money off of military Nevada Desert Experience council member Marcus Pegasus warfare, that basis is Blaise-Page Cologne (right) works to create an open dialogue just a way for people with Nye County Sheriff Lieutenant Chris Jordan. to practice in a great Los Angeles David Harris spoke at length cash transaction of getting us to do about his own contentious relationship something that we shouldn’t be doing,” with land and country. For him, it seemed he said. fitting that walkers sang “This Land” around their first campfire outside Creech. Living history “This black narrative about land — While the Peace Walk was Harris’s not about ownership, not even about first foray into organized activism, naturalization — has always used the many in the group had decades investland in the same way the indigenous ed in political action — for them, it people to the Americas use land,” he was a lifestyle. said, noting his own Ethiopian-AmerTed Thomas chuckled when thinkican identity. “I think the black narra- ing about his own arrest record. He tive is not one of ownership or one of was a 19-year-old street performer its usage but one of being forced to till in New Orleans when he decided to it for someone else’s gain.” join the Great Peace Peace March for

Participants of the 2019 Sacred Peace Walk prepare to cross the line into the Nevada National Security Site, formerly known as the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Fifty activists from across the county walked close to 65 miles from Las Vegas, NV to the NNSS during Holy Week.

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ful part of themselves with other veterans.”

Breakfast with the police who would later arrest you for trespassing and relating to veterans’ perspectives while protesting an airforce base are par for the course in these activists’ lives. Their commitment to nonviolence is formalized — NDE even insists that participants sign a statement that includes nonaggression toward law enforcement — and their walk includes as much spiritual grounding exercises and prayer as it does protest.

Global Nuclear Disarmament in 1986. Willie Fragosa is a longtime peace activist “I’m on a date, and it comes up from California and participates in the jokingly: Have you ever been arrestSacred Peace Walk every year. ed? Sixty-four times,” he laughed. “I Western Shoshone National Counwas in San Francisco with Food Not cil Chief Johnnie Bobb often led those Bombs, and … I got arrested every day prayers.

He’d speak to the Shoshone for a few weeks. It was just a cite and experience — being denied access to release, but it racked up the numbers.” sacred sites turned to nuclear testing James Knight was also part of that sites — before switching to his native cross-country march in 1986. More language. than 30 years later, he and Thomas still “I’m going to pray my way, and you walk together, and many of his clospray yours,” he’d say. est friends today share that history, he And that was the common theme noted. When that walk concluded, “reamong everyone: a longing for comentry into civilian life” proved jarring munity.

When protesting daunting for many — so much so that three proissues like nuclearization and drone testers died by suicide afterward. warfare and climate change, it can “It’s like you share something that feel a bit like shouting into the void, you can’t share with anyone else, which is also similar to what veterans they all agreed. But if enough people feel,” Knight said. “Like they can only shout together, perhaps they’ll create really share this really huge, impact- an echo.

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By Megan Tackett Sopris Sun Staff

Start a business that saves the world.

That was the assignment Coventure Cofounder and Operations Manager Evan Zislis proposed to Carbondale Community School and Marble Charter School students.

And he gave them less than 10 minutes after breaking into small groups to create their business concepts.

“This is not easy stuff,” Zislis acknowledged. “Is it easy to agree with other people in your group?”

He was met with a resounding chorus of nos. And yet, the ideas generated from the exercise were plenty ambitious, from founding an Alaskan ski resort with a fleet of solar-powered helicopters to establishing other-planet habitation methods.

Before charging them with saving the world, Zislis walked students through a lesson that he could have titled “Conscious Capitalism 101,” complete with a case study headed by none other than his 9-yearold daughter, Juniper.

“I believe the world is in trouble. Raise your hand if the world is in trouble,” he posed at the beginning of his presentation.

Practically every student raised his or her hand.

“We’re in trouble because of pollution,” one student offered. Other concerns ranged from a pending trade war with China to global warming.

“I think the world is in trouble because the way people have been allowed to do business doesn’t take care of people, and it’s doesn’t take care of the planet,” Zislis said. “So what we want to try to do is change the way people do business.”

To demonstrate, Zislis created a hypothetical T-shirt company, with student volunteers representing every link in the supply chain, from cotton farmer to company owner. He detailed the differences between organic and conventional farming and the meaning of fair trade. He also didn’t sugarcoat some of the harsher realities of the current status quo.

“I’m the guy who toils all day … and I don’t have to pay anyone, so I make the most,” the student portraying the farmer said with confidence.

“Do you think the farmer makes the most?” Zislis asked the larger group. This time, the conclusion was affirmative.

“Unfortunately, some of the poorest people in the world grow our cotton. They’re

also some of the most unhealthy people in the world. They’re also the fastest-growing suicide population in the world,” Zislis corrected, mentioning Bangladeshi farmers in particular.

“Who among these people usually gets the most? The owner of the company,” he continued.

Zislis contends that the owner of a company can spearhead cultural shifts toward a more conscientious business plan at the very founding of that company. His daughter Juniper has already undertaken such exercises in her own endeavors, Awkward Stuffy Co. “We found the most awkward combinations we could think of! It’s kind of cute, right?” Zislis said of the “stuffy” he held, which boasted the head of a seal and body of a lion. “Hopefully, more people are going to enjoy the same stuffed animals that they’d always had for a little bit longer; they’re going to stay out of the landfill for a little bit longer.”

By sewing together parts of stuffed animals that were otherwise falling apart and doomed to the trash, Awkward Stuffy Co. reduces waste. But Juniper goes beyond that in her conscious capitalism — she also gives back to her community.

“Part of what was important for Juniper was not just selling these things for herself, but selling these things … helps raise money for [Carbondale Community School],” Zislis said.

At that, he taught the group another vocabulary term: philanthropy.

It’s all part of Coventure’s initial plans when partnering with the Town of Carbondale; that is, working across demographic barriers, including generationally. It makes perfect sense to Zislis.

“I need your brains,” he told the students. “The world you grow up in is going to be very, very different than the world I grew up in. I can’t solve the problems that you’re going to inherit.”

Breaking new ground Meanwhile, at 418 Garfield Ave., Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) is partnering with several entities to build something for the more immediate future: the ACES Urban Farmhouse, an affordable employee housing project focused on green building.

Greenline Architects Principal Steve Novy has created an educational opportunity from the project, as well. In a three-part series, he’s allowing others in the building industry — as well as

Coventure Operations Manager didn't struggle to find eager volunteers during his Conscious Capitalism presentation to future business stewards. Photo by Megan Tackett

Steve Novy during the first of his three-part on-site seminar series at the ACES Urban Farmhouse. Photo by Erin Danneker curious members of the public — to attend on- and want to just showcase them to other people site seminars about the foundations, framing and in their field,” she said. “It’s a real community energy systems that make the development par- project.”

Longtime local Kim Stacey donated the land ticularly efficient, in both energy and cost.

The Community Office for Resource Efficien- for the Urban Farmhouse, and Clean Energy cy (CORE) awarded the project $20,000, first Economy for the Region (CLEER) is offering through a $10,000 Design Assistance Grant and continuing education credits for architects who then with an additional $10,000 investment. For attend the jobsite seminars. Evolve Structural Marketing and Engagement Manager Kate He- Design, MM Eight Construction and the Town of Carbondale all contributed to making the project nion, the funding makes perfect sense.

“I think we’re lucky to live in a valley where a reality, as well.

The second seminar will be from 5 to 7 p.m. there are a lot of people and contractors who are thinking about sustainability and energy ef- April 30 at the ACES Urban Farmhouse, 418 ficiency, and I also think it’s cool that we have Garfield Ave. (tinyurl.com/SmartDesignSemiarchitects like Steve Novy who have the plans nars).

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5POINT • The flagship adventure fest returns with films, discussions and social events at the Carbondale Rec. Center and throughout the community — tickets and info at 5pointfilm.org.

FRIDAY April 26

ATHENA LUNCHEON • The Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association presents awards for professional excellence, community service and actively assisting women in their attainment of professional excellence with an 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. event at the Aspen Glen Club (545 Bald Eagle Way).

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BAKE • Bring toppings to share and make a personal pizza in the Carbondale Community Oven behind the Third Street Cente at 6 p.m.

Friday and / or bring bread dough at noon on Saturday.

FRI April 26 – THU May 2 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre (427 Main St.) presents “The Mustang” (R) at 7:30 p.m. April 26, 27, 30 and May 2 and 5:30 p.m. April 28 and “Artctic” (PG) at 5:15 p.m. April 27. Closed April 29.

SATURDAY April 27 FRYINGPAN CLEANUP • Meet at Lions Park in Basalt at 8:30 a.m. for a free hot breakfast and to get your bags, vests and assignment to tidy a section of the Fryingpan or Roaring Fork rivers.

FAIRY GARDENING • Eagle Crest Nursery (400 Gillespie Dr.) offers a special 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. class for kids to create their own mini

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gardens. $30 includes container, soil, plants and accents; reserve your spot at 963-1173.

ADOPT-A-THON • Adoption fees are waived (with an approved survey) courtesy of Alpine Bank from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Colorado Animal Rescue (2801 CR 114).

JOY OF PAINTING • Follow along with Bob Ross to create an idyllic landscape with supplies provided and all skills welcome from 2 to 4 p.m. at Basalt Regional Library (14 Midland Ave.).

ART DEMO • Connie Hendrix shares her journey and paints live from 2 to 4 p.m. at Marble Community Church (105 W. Main St.).

XPERIMENT • The Temporary (360 Market St., Willits) hosts a 3 p.m. magic, science show and physical comedy show for kids ages 5 and up. $7 in advance at tacaw.org or $9 at the door.

IMAGINE 7 • River Bridge holds its annual fundraiser from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Old Thompson Barn (333 River Valley Ranch Rd.). $75 per person includes food, drinks and music.

SUNDAY April 28

GLAZE DAZE • Pick a $10-20 piece of pottery and paint it for mom or with mom any time between 2 and 4 p.m. at the Carbondale Clay Center (135 Main St.).

ROCK CONCERT • The students of Rock and Roll Academy Roaring Fork perform for free at 3:30 p.m. at The Temporary (360 Market St., Willits).

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to seniors about CBD from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.).

3:30 to 5 p.m. and a 5:30 p.m. parade down Main Street.

SOCIAL SECURITY • Insider Josh Weller delivers an hour-long webinar beginning at 4 p.m. at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) with a Q&A after.

FAMILY BLOCK PARTY • Enjoy special performances by the school jazz and band groups, kids activities, arts and crafts and an array of local vendors from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Fourth Street Plaza.

COMMUNITY CLEAN UP • Tidy and plant the Latino Folk Art Garden from 4 to 7 p.m. and get dinner in the process.

WHITEWASHED • Carbondalian Dave Taylor’s film about the cultural genocide against Native American people and their resilience screens for $10 at 5:30 p.m. at the Crystal Theatre (86 S. Third St).

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WEDNESDAY May 1

AUTHOR TALK • Jeff Smoot discusses his new memoir “"Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14" which chronicles the era when rock climbing exploded in popularity from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Ragged Mountain Sports (902 Highway 133).

INDIE ROCK • Pete Pidgeon and Arcoda play at 8 p.m. at Steve’s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.).

Further Out THURSDAY May 2

GET SHIT DONE • Learn to set and stick to your goals for $35 with Jeremy Goldberg’s light-hearted approach from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at True Nature Healing ARts (100 N. Third St.).

UKELELE JAM • Join the Crystal Ukeuladies and Ukududes for a free evening of strumming and singing beginning at 6 p.m. at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.).

FRIDAY May 3

PARADE WITH PRIDE • Carbondale Middle School’s GSA teams up with other local organizations for a pre-party at True Nature from

PAPER CLAY • Carbondale Arts (76 S. Fourth St.) presents ‘Linear // Planar’ by Savanna LaBauve and Stephanie Seguin and ‘Yellow for Frances’ by Eden Keil with a 6 to 8 p.m. opening reception.

Save the date FRIDAY May 3

FESTIVAL LAS AMERICAS • A celebration of the richness of culture and traditions of the American continents which serves as a fundraiser for educational projects throughout the area. Sopris Park.

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Community Calendar tion about the science behind plant-based nutrition. Finally, at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Monday of the month, participate in a plant-based potluck. All events take place at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) and are supported by Davi Nikent Center for Human Flourishing.

EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN • Catch the staff of The Sun and special guests on KDNK (88.1 FM) at 4 p.m. first and third Thursdays.

OFFICE HOURS • Sun Editor Will Grandbois will be at The Sopris Sun Office (520 S. Third St., Room #32) at 8:30 a.m. every Monday taking tips, questions, comments and complaints.

BLUEGRASS JAM • Bring the instrument of your choice or just your voice for a weekly jam session first and last Sundays at 6 p.m. at Steve’s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.) and all other Sundays at the Glenwood Springs Brew Garden (115 Sixth St.) OPEN MIC • Take the stage at Riverside Grill (181 Basalt Center Circle, Basalt) from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Food and drink specials.

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KARAOKE • The Black Nugget (403 Main St.) and Sandman bring you over 30,000 songs to choose from and a quality sound system to release your inner rockstar at 9 pm. every Thursday.

WORLD DANCE • Learn rhythms from various countries and cultures for $12 per class from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mondays at the Carbondale Community School (1505 Satank Rd.).

LET’S JUST DANCE • Feel great, have fun and dance Tuesdays at The Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). Catch a free lesson at 7 p.m.,

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BACHATA • Learn a Latin dance with Erik and Claudia Peña presenting weekly classes from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at The Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.). $10 drop-in fee; info at 963-8425.

STORY ART • Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.), in partnership with the Aspen Art Museum, invites kids to learn about artists and create masterpieces of their own at 4 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month.

YOUR STORY, YOUR LIFE • A free facilitated workshop for adults, writing your personal history, one story at a time. Facilitated by Shelly Merriam, historian/writer/genealogist.

First and third Fridays, 10 a.m. to noon at the Glenwood Springs Branch Library, (815 Cooper Ave.). Info at 945-5958 or gcpld.org.

WRITERS GROUP • Wordsmiths of all experience and abilities gather at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) at 6 p.m. on the second Monday of the month.

STORYTIME • Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) hosts stories, songs and more

for ages four and up at 10:30 a.m. Thursdays and three and under at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays. Kids must be accompanied by an adult.

LOVE ADDICTS • Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, a 12-step group will meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Holland Hills United Methodist Church (167 Holland Hills Rd., Basalt).

MINDFULNESS IN RECOVERY • An inclusive, peer-led recovery support group open to anyone with a desire for recovery — independent of faith and regardless of race, gender or orientation — meets Tuesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. in room 36 of the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) MINDFULNESS • The Mindful Life Program in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) offers group sessions Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation and registration is not necessary. Info: mindfullifeprogram.org and 970633-0163.

DHARMA • The Way of Compassion Dharma Center holds a Dharma talk and meditation from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and a silent meditation and Buddha of Compassion practice at 8 a.m. Saturdays at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.).

SANSKRIT MANTRA • Devika Gurung demonstrates how chant is about more than spirtuality, but also breath

and rhythm at 4:30 p.m. Sundays at The Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.).

RF INSIGHT • Monday Night Meditation meets from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. at Roaring Fork Aikikai (2553 Dolores Way) and offers instruction in the Buddhist practice of Vipassana. RFI also offers secular mindfulness at the Carbondale Community School and is working with CMC to provide a class on “Zen and the Art of Dying” — more info at roaringforkinsight.org.

MEDITATION • Free silent meditation sessions are held at the Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.) from 6:45 to 7:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (info at 306-1015).

ROTARY • The Carbondale Rotary Club meets at the Carbondale Fire Station (300 Meadowood Dr.) at 6:45 a.m. Wednesdays.

The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at White House Pizza (801 Main Ct.) at noon every Thursday.

RUN AROUND • Independence Run & Hike hosts a run around town Saturdays at 8 a.m.

Meet at the store 596 Highway 133 (in La Fontana Plaza) and run various distances, with different routes each week. Info: 7040909.

WALK WITH A DOC • Aspen Valley Hospital (401 Castle Creek Rd.) invites you to meet in the cafeteria at 10 a.m. the first Saturday of the month for a short discussion on a healthrelated topic, such as high blood pressure, asthma, anxiety, etc.

LIFE DRAWING • Bring your own drawing or painting materials to the Launchpad from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays through April for a non-taught, 18+, $15 drop-in session with live models. Contact staci@carbondalearts.com for more info.

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Town Report

5POINT will take over the Rec. Center this weekend, resulting in numerous programming alterations as a result.

The gym and activity room will be out of commission from April 23 through 28, with all classes held there canceled. The entire facility will close at 5 p.m. April 25 and 26 and noon April 27 and 28.

NEW ART and signage is slated for the corner of Fourth and Main, with streets crew working on a base to accommodate it. They also worked on straightening a light pole base that was hit on Village Road over the winter.

ARBOR DAY in Carbondale is slated for 9 a.m. May 4 at the corner of Hendrick Rd. and Holland Dr. All are welcome to attend and help plant some new trees — just bring gloves, water and sunscreen. The Town will provide the tools as well as coffee and snacks.

SPRING CLEANUP and Waste Diversion Day is also slated for May 4.

RIVER FLOWS are on the rise but still below the 12-year average.

THE DITCHES are running. There have been some calls on overflows with the fluctuation of the river and getting the initial hydraulic balance tuned in, and staff are making adjustments. The Carbondale Ditch was found to have a leak occurring along the bank in Nuche Park, and staff are considering how to repair it.

CONTROLLED BURNS are slated for the North Face Bike Park and Delaney Nature Park for weed mitigation.

PARK BATHROOMS are now open for the season, with porta-potties being removed. Irrigation infrastructure should be operational following maintenance, cleaning, charging and testing.

DOWNHILL BIKE TRAIL construction on Red Hill is nearing completion — keep an eye out for a sign at the trailhead to announce its opening. Multi-directional hiking trail Ruthie’s Run is already good to go.

ADULT CO-ED SOFTBALL has room for five more teams. Youth baseball also needs more signups, particularly for ages 9-13. Contact wtempest@carbondaleco. net or 510-1279.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES include group fitness and Silver Sneakers instructors (call 510-1280); recreation assistants (call 510-1279); climbing instructors, recreation program assistants and front desk staff (510-1214); seasonal parks maintenance (510-1327) and vegetation management (510-1331).

LIFEGUARD CERTIFICATION for ages 15 and up is being offered May 10 to 12 and June 10 to 13 at the cost of $150 with $115 refunded for participants who end up working full-time at the John M. Fleet Pool. A water safety instructor certification will be offered June 6 to 8 at a cost of $200. All training materials will be included with the course and participants must pass each section with a minimum of 80% or higher to become certified. For more information, email mdonnelly@carbondaleco.net or call 510-1280.

MARKETPLACE work continues, with Rockford Ditch reroute compete and regular traffic expected to resume on West Main Street in early May. Utility and road infrastructure preparation through the site will continue on Shorty Pabst and Nieslanik Avenue.Updated plans for City Market have been submitted to the Building Department.

site plan review for an Accessory Dwelling Unit on April 25.

REGIONAL HOUSING STUDY will be presented at 8:30 a.m. April 30 at the Garfield County building in Glenwood SPrings and 2:30 p.m. April 30 at the Eagle County Building in El Jebel.

ORDINANCE OFFICER Terrazas completed the Colorado Animal Association Conference Organization training.

Cop Shop From April 12 through 18, Carbondale Police handled 187 calls for service. During that period, officers investigated the following cases of note: FRIDAY April 12 at 9:14 a.m. Police took a report of a sex offense of a juvenile.

FRIDAY April 12 at 10:55 a.m. Officers found a report of a restraining order violation to be unfounded.

SATURDAY April 13 at 1:36 a.m. Follow a traffic stop for driving on the shoulder, police arrested a 45-yearold woman on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.

SATURDAY April 13 at 11:05 a.m. An assault was reported at a local bar.

SATURDAY April 13 at 1 p.m. Someone reported possible criminal mischief on Wheel Drive.

WEDNESDAY April 17 at 3:18 p.m. Police took a report of damage to a vehicle.

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CASA seeks volunteers with caring hearts

By Jeanne Souldern Calls to Colorado's Department of Human Service's Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline increased recently and when calls increase so does the demand for CASA of the Ninth volunteers.

CASA, which stands for Court-Appointed Special Advocate, is a national non-profit organization, formed in 1977, with CASA of the Ninth being founded in 2011. The local branch was founded in 2011 and serves Garfield, Pitkin, and Rio Blanco counties within Colorado's 9th Judicial District from offices in Glenwood Springs.

"At any given time in Garfield County, there are approximately 30 open dependency and neglect cases with, on average, about one opening a month,” Executive Director Christy Doyon said. "This past quarter [Jan. 1 to March 31] though, those numbers with calls to the Child Abuse Hotline spiked, so we're hoping that was just a fluke and not a trend."

CASA volunteers are the voice for abused and neglected children in the court system. Cases are appointed by the county court and assigned to a CASA volunteer within as little as two days after a child has been removed from the home and placed into foster care. Ages of children range from newborn infants up to age 17.

The process to become a CASA volunteer involves talking with Christy or one of CASA's two volunteer supervisors, completing an online application, participating in two interviews, and background screenings.

Training is a comprehensive, 30-hour curriculum, with 21 hours in-person and another nine hours online, with the next one beginning mid-May. After the court completes a final assessment, you are sworn in as an independent "Friend of the Court" and can be appointed to a case.

When a volunteer takes a case, a meeting is set up with all parties, including the DHS caseworker, the county attorney, the Guardian ad Litem (GAL) who is the attorney for the child, and the Respondent Parents' Counsel (RPC) who is the attorney for the parents.

The CASA volunteer meets with the child twice a month, talking with foster parents, biological parents, teachers, and coaches to assess how the child is doing. They will also make observations and prepare written recommendations to submit to the court.

CASA's number one goal is recommending a safe, permanent home for the child. They also convey the wishes of the child to the court. Reunification with parents is the ultimate goal, however, when that is not the safest option, a CASA volunteer will stay on the case until a permanent home placement is found.

"Our volunteers come from a variety of different careers. We have volunteers that are working full time, some are raising small families,” Doyon explained. "They don't have a legal background. They're just regular people who want to help. And the training and the support really helps regular people do this job to support these kids."

If you have doubts about volunteering, Doyon recommended, "If people are on the fence, I really encourage them to just set up a coffee meeting with one of us."

Given the serious nature of cases, CASA provides support to volunteers through two advocate supervisors who do regular individual supervision. Opportunities are made so volunteers can process with one another. There is also a monthly training component.

CASA Supervisor Mary Rippy worked as a volunteer for two-anda-half years and has now been a staff member for two years. For people who have trepidation about volunteering, Rippy assured them that, "No CASA is ever standing by themselves out there on a case. So even though it's scary, they don't have to have this expert knowledge base. We're asking them to be a caring layperson, we never ask them to step into the role of an expert."

Rippy emphasized, "We are looking for community members with a caring heart."

To become a CASA volunteer, you can call 987-4332 or complete the online form at casaoftheninth.org.

Investigating wildlife impacts of bark beetle outbreaks Staff report As Colorado’s private and public forests recover from insect and disease outbreaks and other disturbances, humans and wildlife are adjusting to significant environmental changes. Spruce beetle and mountain pine beetle outbreaks may have changed the way you recreate, but have you thought about how wildlife are responding?

That’s precisely the question research scientists from Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service attempted to answer in a recently published paper in the journal Ecosphere: Mammalian responses to changed forest conditions resulting from bark beetle outbreaks in the southern Rocky Mountains.

“It’s such a far-reaching event, both in terms of the amount of the state impacted and how far into the future this impact will ripple,” said author Jake Ivan, a Senior Scientist in the Mammals Research Section of Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “As a first cut, we wanted to try to get a handle on how various species altered their use of these impacted areas, and we focused on lodgepole pine and spruce-fir systems as those two types of subalpine forest were hardest hit [by mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle, respectively].”

To do this, the researchers hired a team of technicians to deploy game cameras at 300 randomly located sites in subalpine forests across the state. The sites represented a gradient of beetle activity from green forests (no beetles) to forests that had been impacted more than a decade prior to sampling. The cameras were mounted low to the ground and pointed at a “lure tree” where a piece of wool, soaked in that most universal of all wildlife lures – peanut butter - was tied. This setup allowed researchers to obtain photos of the various mammalian species living in the vicinity, from chipmunks to moose.

The effort returned over 300,000 photos of 26 species. “As is often the case with big changes to a landscape,” Ivan said, “the response varied widely by species. There were species that responded positively and used these impacted areas more intensely, some species that responded negatively, and others that didn’t seem to care at all.”

Ungulates were among the big winners in this changed system, although their response varied. Elk, for example, tended to increase their use of impacted areas in the decade after a beetle outbreak, responding most strongly in areas where the beetle impact was most severe (more dead trees).

Use of beetle-impacted areas by moose, however, increased immediately after trees died, peaked three to seven years after the outbreak, then declined. Mule deer showed increasing use of beetle-impacted areas with each year after an outbreak, but unlike elk, their use was not strongly related to severity. Researchers attribute increased use to increased forage and hiding cover available as understory and shrub cover increases once the forest canopy opens up.

Red squirrels were among the few species to be negatively impacted. “I imagine their decreased use is largely related to the loss of cone crops, which take a big hit when all of the mature trees in a stand die,” Ivan said. “That’s the main food source for squirrels in these systems, and storing those cones in middens so they can get at them later is what helps get them through the winter.”

While the response of some species is easily explained, for others, an easy explanation doesn’t exist. Pine martens, for instance, commonly prey on red squirrels, yet use of beetle-impacted stands by pine martens did not follow the noticeable decline of red squirrels.

Instead, marten use remained completely unchanged through time, regardless of severity of the outbreak.

According to Ivan, “This project gave us a better understanding of what to expect in the coming years as beetles finish their march through the green forests in the state. It gives us a sense of issues that may arise both in the non-game world, and in the game world.”

For instance, results from this project suggest that snowshoe hares, the primary food source for threatened Canada lynx, may weather the bark beetle outbreaks largely unscathed. However, lynx may be at increased risk during years of low hare abundance when they would normally turn to red squirrels to get them through.

On the game side, scientists expect that in some areas, elk will focus their habitat use in severely impacted areas during early season hunts. However, access and travel in these patches is difficult for hunters due to down timber. So, in some places, it’s possible to end up with a mismatch between elk availability and hunter access.

“On the one hand, it is a bit sad to see all of these dead trees on the landscape,” Ivan concedes, “but on the other, we’re witnessing a once-in-a-millennia event, and Colorado is ground zero. It’s quite a spectacle from an ecological perspective.”

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OPINION

Climate delayers are climate deniers

Are you feeling a little more than pissed that so much said and written about climate change is about the problem but not the solution? I am. How BIG is the problem?

The International Panel on Climate Change Report, here’s a key section of the policy makers’ summary: “The report finds that limiting global warming to 1.5°Celsius would require “rapid

By Arn Menconi and far-reaching” transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide would need to fall by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching "net zero” around 2050. This means that any remaining emissions would need to be balanced by removing (carbon dioxide) from the air.” You can find the IPCC Report here: https://www.ipcc.ch.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes we have one year to change course and get started. "If we start today, when global emissions are still growing, the necessary rate is 10 percent. If we delay another decade, it will require us to cut emissions by 30 percent each year,” wrote David Wallace Wells in his New York Times best seller "The Uninhabitable Earth".

In order to stop climate disaster, we need policy changes on world, federal, state and local levels. Here are 10 policies that should be put in place to meet the call to action to a clean energy future for our children's children: 1. Get rid of government hand-outs to the fossil fuel industry.

2. Give incentives to the renewable energy instead.

3. Start a works corps to build America’s renewables programs.

4. Enact a carbon tax to raise funds to invest in renewables and slow the growth of fossil fuels.

5. Stop future fossil-fuel development through banning drilling, fracking, etc.

6. Require utilities to produce all their electricity from zero-carbon sources — such as wind and solar.

7. Set energy efficiency standards for new homes and commercial buildings.

8. Curb methane emissions from oil-and-gas operations.

9. End the use of hydrofluorocarbons, powerful greenhouse gases used in air-conditioners, refrigerators and foams from the reduction in future emissions.

10. End endless wars for oil and profit and cut the 800 U.S. military bases and trillion-dollar-a-year budget by a third and redirect the spending to renewables, clean jobs, electric transportation and new research and innovation.

We are only 12 years away from locking in extreme warming. The IPCC report released last October had a huge impact on leaders around the world and ignited the Green New Deal. The Report outlined how little time we have and how much destruction is expected over the next 50-100 years during our children’s and grandchildren's lifetime.

It showed how global warming will be 50% worse if we strive to keep on track of the 2 degrees Celsius goal of the Paris Climate Summit as opposed to 1.5 Celsius.

If we put sustained policy and options in place, we can avoid the crisis. We have the technology in place. Solar is 90 percent cheaper than it was 30 years ago. China has surpassed us in development and implementation.

By 2050 70-90 percent of our energy could come from renewables. In the next 10 years, countries like Norway will ban combustible engines.

We need 85 percent of electric to come from renew-

Coping with Columbine April 26, 1979 The Carbondale Spring Talent Show was officially becoming an annual event, with acts sought for the second such extravaganza. Several acts — such as Brad Hendricks and his shadow figures — had already signed on to vye for the grand price of $100 “and the lasting adulation and prestige that goes with it.” The Clapo-meter was slated to return, and Ramon and the Moanettes would be featured from the pit at the Crystal Theatre. The whole thing was slated to be recorded by Basalt’s Valley Vision TV (and we hope that whoever has that tape will upload it to YouTube and send us the link).

In other news… Gas prices were going up an average of a penny a week, with the Roaring Fork Co-op at 77.9¢ a gallon as of press time.

April 27, 1989 A giant reunion was planned for Carbondale Union High School classes 1919

to 1960. The event was expected to include around 500 folks from the era before the short-lived merger with Basalt High School and the subsequent name, mascot and color change. The Blue and White Bulldog banner would thus fly over the event. “Most of the time the classes were so small, we didn’t have enough boys to make an 11-man team,” organizer Jeanne Rey recalled. “But we had a great band.”

In other news… Basalt & Rural Fire Protection landed Ron Theiring as its first paid chief.

April 25, 1999 In the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings, Roaring Fork and Basalt high schools were raising funds to assist the victims’ families, with Alpine Bank

ables by 2050. We can do this on just solar alone. This is an attainable goal. The oil and gas industry has spent nearly $2 billion dollars to stop climate solutions, buy off politicians and tell us that it’ll cost over $50 trillion dollars and millions of jobs to save their industries.

“We need $2-3 trillion per year in investments. We spend money on fossil fuel energy and methane emitting technology now. The U.S. spends about $300 Billion dollars on renewables already. If we increase that by 15% each year for 12 years that's $10.5 trillion dollars to fix the problem,” explained Jigar Shah Co-founder and President of Generate Capital a ‘resource revolution’ venture capital firm.

“There are now more jobs in renewable energy in the state of Pennsylvania than coal, natural gas, and oil combined,” said Bill Peduto, mayor of Pittsburgh.

We have the evidence. If there's going to be a Green New Deal, cities, counties and states need to adopt ways to become Carbon Neutral. 108 cities have adopted a commitment to Net Carbon by 2030-2045.

Your community can too. Climate justice is good for our economy, people and environment.

Start demanding our politicians, journalists, leaders and teachers on the strategies and tactics to get the problem solved. My kids will be 46 and 44 in 2050, when we need to be at zero carbon emissions as a Planet to postpone long term climate destruction. Next month I turn 60. I don’t have hope, I have kids. Let’s work as a nation like our grandparents and great grandparents did during World War II to protect the destruction to our Democracy, economy and planet.

Arn Menconi was former Eagle County Commissioner and had run for U.S. Senate and Congress.

From the archives of the Valley Journal and The Sopris Sun providing matching. “We really just want to get off the helpless and hopeless and into ‘what can we do?’”

RFHS Principal Wendy Moore said. “Anything like this is very difficult, but the magnitude of this particular incident, involving people their own age while they were at school, it really makes you meet yourself coming around the corner.”

Meanwhile, both schools were reviewing their own safety plans and considering the possibility of instating school resource officers.

In other news… Karl Terry urged Garfield and Eagle county residents to push for home rule rather than continuing to follow the standard format supplied by the state.

April 23, 2009 An extensive Roaring Fork Valley Forest Health Guide was inserted into The Sun just in time for Arbor Day, with a significant focus on the impact of the Mountain Pine Beetle. “These are times of both challenges and opportunities,” Pitkin County Land Manager Crystal Yates-White wrote.

“Disturbances are part of a forest’s longterm life cycle.” A lot of the onus was on public land management, but the guide also suggested how locals could help — by having any infected trees removed and not using beetle-kill logs as firewood, but potentially treating it and using it as a building material. The outlook was less optimistic on Aspen decline, as managers were still not entirely sure what was even causing it.

In other news… The Garfield County Library Board had narrowed down potential sites for a new Carbondale Branch Library to two: kitty corner from Town Hall or next to Bridges High School.

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held before the Carbondale Planning and Zoning Commission for the purpose of considering a Special Use Permit and a Minor Site Plan Review for the purpose of constructing an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) in the OTR Zone District. The owner/applicants propose building a Single Family Detached Dwelling with the ADU above the garage.

The property is located at 417 Sopris Avenue, The Applicants is Chris Beebe The owner is Said Mohammadioun.

Said Public Hearing will be held at the Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, CO at 7:00 p.m. on May 16, 2019.

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. The application may also be reviewed on the Town’s website at www.carbondalegov.org John Leybourne Planner Published in The Sopris Sun on April 25, 2019.

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