Steamboat Today, April 24, 2009

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S T E A M B O AT

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APRIL 24, 2009

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

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Vol. 21, No. 98

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4 Points: Your guide to weekend entertainment

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Steamboat Golf Club superintendent Andy Keyek uses a dethatcher to remove dead grass from the course Wednesday morning. The course opens Saturday. “It came out of winter alright,” Keyek said about the course. For story, see page 27.

Getting noticed Page 27

■ INDEX Briefs . . . . . . . . .10 Business. . . . . . .25 Classifieds . . . . .32 Colorado. . . . . . .15 Comics . . . 4 Points Happenings . . . . .7

Mountain News .14 Nation. . . . . . . . .17 Sports. . . . . . . . .27 ViewPoints . . . . . .8 Weather . . . . . . .22 World . . . . . . . . .26

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Group energizing arts 1st show organized by Arts Council committee opens May 1 Margaret Hair

PILOT & TODAY STAFF

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS

A group of volunteers with the Steamboat Springs Arts Council has come together to plan visual arts exhibits and events for the nonprofit organization, starting with the May 1 opening of the group’s annual Routt County Youth Art Show. Arts Council board mem-

■ LOTTO Thursday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 8-11-12-16-29 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.

ber Mary Levingston said the all-volunteer Visual Arts Committee has come up with a schedule of proposed shows to hold at the Depot Art Center on 13th Street for the rest of the year. Committee members commit to leading the planning and execution of those exhibits, she said. “They take on a show, they learn to set it up and put it all together, and they usually will

■ WEATHER

Cloudy, breezy and mild. High of 62.

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pick people to work with them for that show and help them put it on,” Levingston said. “We just want to continue to bring Steamboat the great shows that we’ve always brought for 37 years, and just be able to have space for visual artists to show their work.” The Youth Art Show will be the Arts Council’s first curated exhibit at the Depot since the end of February. The organiza-

tion went through staff changes earlier this year, shedding its executive director and three part-time employees, including two involved in visual arts. Levingston said the Depot will resume its monthly spot on the First Friday Artwalk starting May 1. Beth Banning, a Visual Arts Committee member who was See Arts Council, page 12

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