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APRIL 25, 2009
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Vol. 21, No. 99
RO U T T
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S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Jobless rates increase Statewide unemployment statistics reveal bleak construction outlook Page 3
SPORTS
MATT STENSLAND/STAFF
The Old Town Hot Springs recently said goodbye to four longtime board members who are retiring. Bud Romberg served on the board for 40 years.
A century of service
Right on track Page 11
Correction Steamboat Golf Club’s early season rates are $20 for nine holes and $28 for 18 holes, until May 15. A story on page 27 of Friday’s Steamboat Today incorrectly reported the rates.
Margaret Hair
PILOT & TODAY STAFF
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
A combined 112 years of experience will leave the Old Town Hot Springs board of directors at the end of the month, when four longtime members retire. Bud Romberg, Mike Holloran, Linda Cantway and George Tolles joined the board for a number of reasons — an unexpected nomination from one of the club’s members, a
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■ INDEX Briefs . . . . . . . . .10 Classifieds . . . . .20 Comics . . . . . . . .18 Crossword . . . . .19 Happenings . . . . .7 Horoscope . . . . .18
Retiring members of Old Town Hot Springs board lent decades of experience
Scoreboard. . . . .17 Service directory 13 Sports. . . . . . . . .11 The Record. . . . .10 ViewPoints . . . . . .8 Weather . . . . . . .16
Friday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 1-18-25-29-31 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
desire to provide recreational opportunities for more people or an interest in the programs at the Hot Springs, formerly the Steamboat Springs Health & Recreation Center. What kept the four retiring members in service is the same across the board: a sense that the center provides something important for Steamboat Springs. “It’s a tremendous community organization that contributes dramatically to the community and provides basically the role
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Cooler with periods of rain. High of 56.
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of a city pool for Steamboat,” said Holloran, who joined the board in 1977 and was president of the group for 14 years. With its naturally heated pools, hot springs, fitness center, exercise classes and aquatics programs, Old Town Hot Springs became a community touch point in the 32 years Holloran served there, he said. “It’s become just a central gathering place for a tremendous number of this community. To that extent, it’s a community institution as much as
the library is a community institution,” Holloran said. Linda Cantway, who will leave the board after 25 years, said she joined as a result of spending hours at the pool with her four daughters. “I just thought it was a perfect family-oriented place to be at the time, and it still continues to be that, and that’s what’s kept me there all these years,” Cantway said. In 25 years, the facility has added children’s See Hot Springs, back page
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