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County says mail ballots secure 1st all-mail election puts spotlight on verification processes Mike Lawrence

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Steamboat Springs Police Officer Dan Kelliher talks to a motorist after issuing a warning ticket at Walton Creek Road and U.S. Highway 40.

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Adopted fine system brings big returns Zach Fridell

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With more time for officers to devote to traffic enforcement in the city and a new model traffic code in the county, the Police Department and Sheriff’s Office report increased revenue from traffic tickets in the past year. The Routt County Sheriff’s Office expects to pull in an estimated $45,000 in traffic code violations in 2009, compared with $9,629 in 2008. That change is due to the adoption of the Colorado Model Traffic Code, a state-suggested fine system that increased fines when adopted in March and keeps more of that money in the county. Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Miles De Young said deputies were writing more county tickets instead of state tickets because of the new traffic code. In 2008, there were 158 county tickets, compared with 488 so far in 2009. De Young said it’s not that the deputies have written that many more tickets but that more tickets were based on county violations instead of state violations. He See Tickets, page 9A

Local election officials say they are taking a variety of steps to secure mail-in ballots in Routt County’s first all-mail election, but they also stress that voter responsibility can play a role in ensuring a fair, secure election this fall. A few days into Routt County’s first mail-only election, county and U.S. Postal Service employees are encountering new concerns about the security of mail ballots. One such concern is the possibility of residents toss-

ing their ballots into a trash container or recycling bin at a post office branch, leaving the ballots available for potential forgery. Steamboat Springs Post master Tim O’Brien said he is not asking post office staff to check trash containers or recycle bins for discarded ballots. “If someone chooses to take their mail and throw it away, it’s no longer mail,” O’Brien said Friday. “And I don’t have the

manpower to check the trash.” Routt County elections supervisor Vicki Weber discussed security concerns Friday in the Elections Office on the third floor of the Routt County Courthouse. She and deputy Kim Bonner sat in the office behind a chain stretched across the door. That’s the mentality Weber and Bonner say they bring to tasks such as issuing replacement ballots, monitoring ballot drop-boxes and verifying that every ballot envelope mailed to the county is sent from the Matt Stensland/staff correct voter. Routt County elections supervisor Vicki Weber shows one of the ballot boxes, See Ballot, page 10A

which are at the Routt County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Yampa Town Hall, Oak Creek Town Hall, Hayden Town Hall and the Clark Store.

Sisters event called a success Weekend of workshops and outdoor activities continues today

cting on a recent lesson in photography, Kristal Eckley held her arm out to the side with a camera in her hand, kept talking and took a picture of herself. It’s not something Eckley would Story by have thought Margaret Hair to do before Saturday afternoon — taking a selfportrait that might not turn out well — and the results weren’t particularly flattering. But Eckley had come to a workshop to get more comfortable with her digital camera, and she was willing to give workshop leader and local photographer Debbi Funston’s tips a shot. The workshop, which included Eckley and her friend Gail Hunter, was part of Mainstreet Steamboat Springs’ inaugural Sisters in Steamboat Weekend. Activities included a wine reception; workshops on fitness, nutrition, self-empowerment and photography; and outdoor activities such as a hike on Howelsen Hill and a

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Kristal Eckley, left, and Gail Hunter take self-portraits Saturday afternoon in front of a graffiti wall behind Orange Peel Bicycle Service. The friends were participating in a walking photography tour with local photographer Debbi Funston as part of Mainstreet Steamboat Springs’ inaugural Sisters in Steamboat Weekend.

walk through historic downtown Steamboat Springs. A “Wild Women in the West” party with poker, country dancing, tarot card reading and costumes was planned for

Saturday night. Eckley and Hunter attended the weekend events with a friend from Illinois and said they plan to come back next year, hopefully with more

visiting friends. Funston got involved with the event through friend and local author Jill Murphy Long, who gave a workshop Saturday morning called “Give Yourself

Permission to Play,” Funston said. “I think enrichment-type workshops are exciting because See Sisters, page 9A

BOCES financials put school districts in a tough spot State is reviewing issues being raised, but education service provider’s board has most of the control Jack Weinstein

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The recent financial struggles of the Northwest Colorado Board of Cooperative Educa tional Services raise the question: How does a BOCES work? BOCES operate much like Page designed by Laura Mazade

school districts in that they appoint boards of directors, made up of a representative from each school district’s board, said John Condie, performance support manager for the Colorado Department of Education. Condie, who serves as the liaison for school districts on the Western Slope and Pikes

Peak area, said they also submit annual independent audits to the state by Dec. 31. But they’re not accredited, as school districts are required to be. That board of directors, he said, reviews the audit before it’s sent to the state. Last year’s audit didn’t catch anything indicating that BOCES would over-

spend by nearly $317,000. So the board didn’t, either. That seems to explain why BOCES board President Brian Hoza said at a meeting last week in Granby that it was unclear how BOCES found itself in this position. That position also includes BOCES’ increasing assessments of its member dis-

tricts last month by more than $481,000 after the initial assessments were presented in May. BOCES also owes the districts more than $777,000 in title funding and has said it will make those payments after settling last year’s overspending. BOCES’ funding comes from its member districts. Other fed-

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As part of Teen Read Week, Bud Werner Memorial Library will be hosting Amnesty Week for teens, ages 11 to 18, who can have their overdue fines waived just by visiting the library during Teen Read Week, which is today through Saturday. Teen Read Week is an annual event sponsored by the American Library Association that encourages teens to read for fun. Drop by the library to check out what’s happening and see what books got voted the 2009 Teen Top Ten. Call the library at 879-0240 or visit the Web site at steam boatlibrary.org for more information.

1.“Brady Meier died Friday after construction accident” Oct. 10 4,906 pageviews 2. “Construction accident sends man to hospital” Oct. 9 3,009 pageviews 3. “Council annexes Steamboat 700” Oct. 13 2,266 pageviews 4. “No jail time for bear shooter” Oct. 7 2,017 pageviews 5. “Engelken supports more open space, less growth” Oct. 11 1,383 pageviews

Around steamboat South Routt parenting classes planned Tuesdays South Routt School District is hosting a parenting class titled “How to Motivate Your Child without Tearing Out Your Hair.” The three-workshop series runs from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays starting Oct. 27 in the District Administration building behind Soroco High School. Classes are free, and dinner and child care will be provided Preregistration is required, and space is limited. Call Sylvia Teters at 736-2531

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■ Old Town Hot Springs hosts a Poochy Paddle from 2 to 5 p.m., when dogs will be allowed to swim in the lap pool. The cost is $5 in advance or $10 at the door. Pet food donations will be accepted for the Steamboat Springs Animal Shelter.

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■ Routt County Republicans invite senior citizens to the 10th annual Senior BBQ at the Steamboat Springs Community Center. The free meal is at noon and includes a pork roast of the 2009 Routt County Fair Junior Livestock Sale grand champion pig. ■ Steamboat Players present the production of “Kimberly Akimbo” at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 to 25 at the Depot Art Center, 1001 13th St. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $20 for preferred seating. The performance is PG-13. Tickets are available at Epilogue Book Co. and the Depot.

SATURDAY ■ Mountain Hardware Wholesale Inventory sale benefits the Tasaru Girls Rescue Centre in Narok, Kenya. The sale is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. next door to Steamboat Flyfisher, Fifth and Yampa streets. Visit www.marywalkerkenya.blogspot.com or call 879-3810.

■ Breast and Body Thermography Services are available today through Saturday. Call 866-492-2174 or visit www. BetterBreastHealthforLife.com.

■ Children ages 2 through grade school are invited to the 19th annual Pumpkin Festival at 10:30 a.m. at the rodeo arena parking lot in Steamboat. There is a free pumpkin painting until judging at 11:45 a.m. Call Rob at 879-5283 or Paul at 8791086.

■ Bud Werner Library invites children to a special Halloween pajama story-time from 6 to 7 p.m. at Bud Werner Memorial Library. The free event will feature fun,

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■ Routt County Democrats meet at 6 p.m. at Lynn Abbott’s house, 140 Park Ave. Candidates will speak. Volunteers are needed to bring folding chairs; call 8706673.

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■ The Artists’ Gallery of Steamboat, 1009 Lincoln Ave., will host figure drawing at the gallery 8:30 a.m. to noon. The model sets up at 9 a.m. Model fee is $12. Bring all your own supplies. Call 879-4744.

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■ The Deep Steep Tea Co. is offering a Journey Through Tea class from 6 to 8 p.m., which will explore non-flavored, caffeinated loose leaf tea from the top tea producing regions of the world. Space is limited. Contact Josh to register 819-1226.

Happenings is updated daily in the Community Calendar section of www.steamboatpilot.com.

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■ There is a free cardiovascular assessment from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the VNA in Steamboat Springs, 940 Central Park Drive, Suite 101. For an appointment call 875-1880 or 846-9855.

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■ A workshop about funding and technical assistance for water and wastewater systems is from 9 a.m. to noon at the Citizen’s Meeting Room in Centennial Hall, 124 10th St.

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■ “Darfur Diaries” will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Schaffrick Lodge in Willett Hall at Colorado Mountain College.

■ The 1773 Club meets from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Steamboat Smokehouse, 912 Lincoln Ave. The group will screen the movie “Not Evil, Just Wrong.” If you have questions, visit info@steamboatinstitute. org or 871-9936.

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not-too-scary stories for children ages 3 to 7. Wear a costume and bring a stuffed animal. Go to www.steamboatlibrary.org/ kids or call 879-0240 for more information.

■ A First Steps Seminar is from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at 300 Bogue Hall at Colorado Mountain College’s Alpine Campus. The free workshop is for people interested in starting a business.

■ Girl Scout recruitment is 5 to 6 p.m. at Strawberry Park Elementary. Call Cathy at 846-5075.

■ Aging Well, a program of the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association, will host a Senior Wellness Clinic at the Selbe Apartments Community Room at 2 p.m. No appointment is needed.

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October is Breast Health Awareness Month. In honor of that, Planned Parenthood of Steamboat is reminding the community that its health center offers reduced-cost wellness exams, including breast screenings, for qualified clients who are uninsured and 40 to 64 years old. Planned Parenthood also will teach patients how to do a breast self-exam. Planned Parenthood is at 1104 Lincoln Ave. Call 8792212.

Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association is offering free breathing screenings and asthma education during the 2009-10 school year for school-aged children in Routt, Jackson and Moffat counties. For more informa-

■ Cub Scouts, open to boys in first through fifth grade, meets from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Steamboat Springs Middle School. Call Chris at 819-0023.

■ The Hayden Economic Development Commission and the Hayden Chamber of Commerce will host a meeting from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Hayden Town Hall, 178 W. Jefferson Ave., to gather ideas and volunteers from groups, clubs, organizations and interested citizens to discuss issues facing the community of Hayden and plan work on some projects already identified.

■ The Routt County Council on Aging presents the Yampa Valley Ceili Society traditional Irish dancers at 12:45 p.m. at the Community Center. To reserve noon lunch, call 879-0633.

Published every Sunday by the WorldWest Limited Liability Company, Suzanne Schlicht, general manager, 871-4224. Subscription rates: Routt County: one year $29; two years, $51. Outside Routt County: one year, $37; two years, $67. All addresses: three months, $16; six months, $24; single issues, $1.50. Periodical postage paid at Steamboat Springs, CO. Send order for subscriptions, change of address or undeliverable copies to Postmaster Change of Address, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477

■ Edward Jones financial adviser Chris Puckett and Ted Lindsay, long-term care planning specialist with Genworth Financial, are presenting a free Long Term Care Strategy seminar from noon to 1 p.m. at Steamboat Smokehouse. Lunch is included. RSVP to 879-1851.

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■ Bud Werner Memorial Library invites kids ages 5 and older to build with Legos with other kids from 3 to 5 p.m. Each week has a different theme, from dinosaurs to robots and more. Legos are provided, and donations are welcome. The event is free, and no registration is necessary. Parental/ caregiver supervision is recommended, as needed.

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Planned Parenthood offering breast exams

VNA offers breathing screenings for children

■ Sign up for Colorado Mountain College’s free English Classes/Ingles como Segundo Idioma. Register at 6 p.m. today and Thursday at Colorado Mountain College in 300.

■ Local author and Steamboat Pilot & Today city editor Blythe Terrell will read from her book, “The Haunted Library,” for upperelementary children at 6 p.m. at the Bud Werner Memorial Library. The free event includes cookies and apple cider and will be in the Children’s Storytime Room. For more information, call 879-0240 or go to www.steamboatlibrary.org.

■ Steamboat’s Recreational Poker League plays at 1 p.m. at Snow Bowl. The tournament is free and open to the public. Players must be ages 18 or older. Visit www.steamboatpokertour.com.

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Hospice and Palliative Care Services of Northwest Colorado is seeking volunteer massage

■ A Hayden Garden Club meeting is 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Carolyn Roitsch’s house. The topic will be gluten-free baking utilizing a variety of grains including quinoa, buckwheat, teff, flax, millet and more. The Roitsches live at 42005 RCR 78A; call 276-3952.

■ A coffee tasting and pairing with Julie Spitzle, of Storm Mountain Coffee Roasters, is at 10 a.m. at Off the Beaten Path Bookstore. Cost is $10 for one and $15 for two; includes seven rounds of coffee and brunch items to pair with each bean.

10.“Investigation into construction death ongoing” Oct. 14 999 pageviews

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■ Love Inc. will distribute coats, hats, gloves and scarfs to those in need from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Hayden Congregational Church in Hayden. Call Betty Barnes at 824-5298.

■ Thelma Haines, of Steamboat Springs, passed away Oct. 7 in Denver. A memorial service will be 2 p.m. today at Concordia Lutheran Church in Steamboat. Donations in her name can be made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure at ww5.komen.org.

8. “J Michael Turner: Don’t insult us” Oct. 11 1,171 pageviews

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The Steamboat Springs Arts Council is now accepting applications for Holidays in the Rockies, an annual holiday artisan market. The market will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 5 at Christian Heritage School. Booth spaces are filled on a first come, first served basis. Call 879-9008 to get an application.

tion, call Victoria Barron at 970-875-1883.

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7. “Snow piling up north of Steamboat Springs” Oct. 13 1,189 pageviews

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Holiday art market seeks vendors for Dec. 5 event

therapists. All volunteers must complete training requirements. The next training will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 22 and Oct. 23 and 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association in Steamboat Springs. For more information, call Katy Thiel at 871-7628.

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6. “Gravel pit opponents speak” Oct. 12 1,201 pageviews

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Colorado Mountain College and SCORE are offering Next Steps, a semiannual workshop on entrepreneurship and small-business management. The four-evening workshop is from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 27, Oct. 29, Nov. 3 and Nov. 5 in Bogue Hall, Room 300, on the CMC campus. The program costs $80. Randy Rudasics, manager of CMC’s Bogue Enterprise Center, said a $40 credit is available to those who attend the recommended prerequisite, a First Steps seminar Wednesday. Rudasics said the Next Steps workshop would cover finance concepts, location selection, insurance, advertising, critical success factors, borrowing money, budgeting and other business factors. For information or to register, call Rudasics at 870-4491.

Local law firm expands to new Nevada office Feldmann Nagel LLC has announced the opening of a Nevada office servicing the Reno and Las Vegas areas. The opening is an expansion of the law practice from its offices in Steamboat Springs, Denver and Vail/Avon. Steven Pacitti will manage the Nevada office, which will focus on corporate, tax, intellectual property (trademark/copyright/ franchise-licensing law), estate planning and securities-private placement. Feldmann Nagel can be reached at www.cololawyers.com or www.nvlawyers.com.

n Thursday afternoon, orange barrels and construction fencing lined the north curb along Lincoln Avenue at 11th Street, which was closed to through traffic and blocked by a ditch for new sewer Story by pipes. There Mike Lawrence was no street parking, and crews diverted traffic around machinery digging the ditch. Industrial noise filled the air. Kenny Loose looked out the window of Pioneer Spirits and grinned ruefully. “The last two days have been pretty slow — in the daytime,” said Loose, a partial owner of the liquor and wine store that faces Lincoln Avenue and, these days, construction. “But it hasn’t been as bad as I thought.” Loose said business has held steady at night for Pioneer Spirits, and he expects daytime traffic to get a boost when construction moves down the street and curbside parking returns at the store. He’s one of many business owners and employees dealing with construction along Lincoln Avenue where the Colorado Department of Transportation and Scott Contracting are in the thick of a major resurfacing and improvement project that’s moving in stages between 13th Street and Third Street. When added to an economic recession, shoulder season in a resort community and moody fall weather, the construction could seem to be the final straw for downtown businesses. But at least so far, it hasn’t been. Several owners said Thursday that they’re getting by, despite hurdles including less foot traffic and temporary sidewalk closures. “It’s not pretty, but yeah, we can stay afloat,” said Matt Cardille, owner of Fuzziwig’s Candy Factory at 845 Lincoln Ave. Taking a break from making chocolate and coconut “haystacks” Thursday, Cardille acknowledged that the construction is hurting customer traffic. “Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah. You could ask anybody on this

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block and they’ll tell you that,” he said. “Nobody wants to come downtown.” The city’s most recent sales tax report, for collections in August, said downtown figures decreased 20 percent compared with August of 2008, from $336,798 in that month to $269,349 in August this year. That number was close to overall figures, which showed citywide sales tax collections dipping 20.4 percent in August compared with a year ago. Down the block from Fuzziwig’s, Epilogue Book Co. owner Erica Fogue said more advance notice of construction schedules and plans would have been helpful. “People didn’t know who to contact — it’s CDOT who’s doing this, but the city is who people went to,” she said. “We could have planned better, had we known much further ahead of time.” Fogue said that shortly after the construction project began, sidewalk closure signs kept pedestrians from walking down Lincoln on her store’s block. She credited CDOT staff with responding quickly to her phone call and removing the signs. “I think that was the main thing, that the sidewalk was closed,” she said. “But we got it all figured out.” Business owners can call CDOT project information manager Jody Patten at 8197008, e-mail jody@pattencom. com or visit CDOT’s project information Web site at www. coloradodot.info/projects/ us40Steamboat. Updates also are available on Twitter at “US40SB.” Patten could not be reached Friday.

Trade-offs At 10th and Lincoln, Bob Logan, of Bob’s Downtown Conoco, said construction crews have been polite and helpful and have allowed access to his gas station, auto shop and convenience store throughout lane blockages. “The construction people have been very, very good,” Logan said. Kurt Vordermeier, general manager of the Old Town Pub

Contact CDOT ■ For information about the reconstruction work on U.S. Highway 40 from 13th Street to Third Street, by the Colorado Department of Transportation through Scott Contracting, call project information manager Jody Patten at 819-7008, e-mail jody@pattencom .com or visit www.coloradodot.info/ projects/us40Steamboat. ■ Check for updates on Twitter at “US40SB.”

& Restaurant at Sixth and Lincoln, said he has not yet seen a negative impact from construction, which so far has not occurred heavily in front of the pub. “Our lunches the past couple weeks have been busier than they have all summer,” he said. Hunting season could be contributing to that upswing. On Thursday afternoon, Ohio resident Walter Danals strolled down Lincoln Avenue with three companions. The group drove to Steamboat Springs from Ohio and had just finished four days of hunting in West Routt County’s California Park. Each member of the group bagged an elk, Danals said, and construction-related traffic had little impact on their visit. “It’s harder to park, because we’re towing a trailer,” he said with a shrug. “But it wasn’t terrible.” At Pioneer Spirits, Loose said he’s seen some benefits from construction workers coming in to buy cigarettes and that he expects a new streetlight to boost foot traffic. “There’s always a bit of a trade-off,” Loose said. He added that from what he’s seen,

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Fuzziwig’s Candy Factory owner Matt Cardille says the construction has hurt customer traffic because “nobody wants to come downtown.”

the sewer pipes going into the ground are much nicer than the old ones coming out. “It needs to be done,” Fuzziwig’s Cardille said about the construction and improvements. “And this is probably the best time of year to do it.”

Tracy Barnett, of Mainstreet Steamboat Springs, seconded that thought. “What I’m hearing is ‘thank God it’s happening now, when things are slow anyway,’” she said. “It’d be awful if this was happening in July.”

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outt County’s first all-mail election raises legitimate questions about ballot security and verification processes. Although there are no allegations thus far of voting fraud or malfeasance, we urge local election officials and election watchers to be vigilant in ensuring that the proper at issue procedures are followed to the Mail-only strictest letter of the law. elections It’s first important to note how we arrived at our first mailonly ballot. A local citizens elecour view tion committee gave unanimous With first approval to Routt County Clerk all-mail and Recorder Kay Weinland’s election under proposal in February, and way, officials the Routt County Board of must be Commissioners signed off on vigilant about it in March. Officials said the move was appropriate given security voters’ increasing acceptance measures. and preference for mail and early voting, and the cost savings the county could realize by avoiding a traditional polling place format. It is estimated that this fall’s mail-only election will save the county, and thus taxpayers, about $40,000. The percentage of local voters who have voted by mail has increased steadily throughout the past four years — 5 percent in 2005, 17 percent in 2006, 26 percent in 2007 and 46 percent in 2008. In the 2008 general election, only 20 percent of county voters cast ballots in a polling booth on Election Day. Thirty-four percent took advantage of early voting options. Weinland has said about 70 percent of registered Routt County voters have signed up to permanently receive mail-in ballots. Some of the local increase in early and mail-in voting has undoubtedly been driven by the hourslong lines at polling places on Election Day 2006, when some residents were at polling places until 11 p.m. — a full four hours after the polls were supposed to close. In response to that debacle, the county spent about $100,000 to increase its number of electronic voting machines to 60. To comply with federal law, an electronic voting machine has been made available this fall to accommodate disabled voters. For the vast majority of us, we’ll make our voices heard by filling out the ballots that should have arrived in our mailboxes last week, signing the outside of the envelope, and either affixing a 44-cent stamp to return it to the county or pushing it in the slot at one of five ballot drop-off locations across the county. From there, the ballots will be collected and eventually counted by election judges and officials. At the heart of the verification process is each voter’s signature of affirmation on the back of the return envelope. The signature area is beneath the return envelope’s enclosure flap. If a voter forgets to sign the envelope, his or her vote will not be counted. Whereas in traditional elections a voter is required to provide photo identification when signing in at his or her polling place, the only required identification for a mail-only election is the voter’s signature on the outside of the ballot return envelope. According to state law, election judges verify ballots by checking the signature on the outside of the ballot return envelope with the voter’s signature on file with the Clerk and Recorder’s Office. Weinland said the county has 13 years’ worth of signatures on file from registered voters, including ballots from previous years, voter signature cards, change-of-address forms and others. So, Weinland and her staff will individually review the signature on every ballot that is returned to the county. We expect the election judges to scrutinize the first signature they review as closely as the 100th and 1,000th signatures. With our local postmaster having already acknowledged that he and his staff won’t be checking post office trash and recycle bins for inadvertently discarded ballots, it’s even more crucial that our election judges be on the lookout for attempted fraud. And as the law is written, signature verification is the only real method of preventing voter fraud. It is, however, important to note that each ballot and return envelope is encoded with a bar code specific to an individual voter, meaning that a stolen ballot, in theory, cannot be signed by a different voter and mistakenly cross-checked against that different voter’s past signatures. We don’t yet know whether all-mail elections are good or bad for our democracy, but we realize the change causes understandable concern and skepticism from some voters. That’s a good thing. There is nothing more important in a democracy than a vote of the people, and ensuring the fairness and accuracy of that vote should necessitate that all reasonable steps are taken by voters and election officials to protect the will of the people.

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I am sympathetic to the story told by Joseph Rocha, who claims in a Washington Post opinion column that he was discharged from the Navy because he is gay, though he says he never told anyone. Rocha says his male colleagues concluded that he was gay when he wouldn’t laugh at their dirty jokes about women Thomas or visit prostitutes with them. Gay service members have a point when they say a double standard exists for heterosexuals and homosexuals regarding sexual behavior. Rocha also alleges cover-ups by higher-ups about male sexual assaults on lesbians and the pressure he says lesbians feel to keep quiet because by “telling” they could face discharge. But we are beginning in the wrong place. The place to start is whether citizens of this country, through their elected representatives and the military leaders named by them, have a right to determine what type of service members best serve the interests, safety and security of the United States. I contend we do. The military should not be a test lab. Pressure is building to put female

sailors on submarines, along with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people presumably. That many heterosexuals find homosexual behavior immoral and not conducive to unit cohesion is of no concern to the social wrecking crew. What gay activists apparently don’t care about is the effect reshaping the military in their image would have on our ability to fight and defend the country, which, after all, is the purpose of a military. If the armed services were open to all behaviors (as distinct from orientations), recruitment might become more difficult. Some of the services have recently struggled to meet their recruitment goals, though overall enlistment is up because of the economy. At the Human Rights Campaign dinner Oct. 10 in Washington, President Obama said, “I will end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’” He also pledged to bring an end to The Defense of Marriage Act, which was passed by a Republican Congress and signed by Bill Clinton. Obama knows — or should know — that he does not have that power. He took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. The gays in the military and gay marriage issues are part of a broader attempt by liberals to restructure society. Social activists despise biblical morality

(which heterosexuals could use a little more of, too), traditional values that have been proven to work when tried and numerous other cultural mores. This is not an opinion. It is also not a secret. The more radical activists have written and spoken openly about their intentions. President Obama’s language gives lip service to their cause. Opinion polls have shown the public shifting in favor of gays in the military, including a recent Gallup poll, which found that “Americans are six percentage points more likely than they were four years ago to favor allowing openly gay men and lesbian women to serve in the military, 69 percent to 63 percent.” That is mostly because few leaders wish to give voice to opposing points of view. They fear being shouted down or being accused of “homophobia.” What we tolerate we will get more of. Obama won the election with just 52 percent of the popular vote and a margin of 7 percent against Sen. John McCain. This should not be seen as a mandate for him and his administration to make over America in a secular and liberal image. Neither should it be seen as an invitation to give blanket approval to homosexuality, considered by some to be against the best interests of the people who practice it, as well as the nations that accept it.

GOP should review NFL’s sack of Limbaugh By Mary Sanchez

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What if the conservative movement had the common sense recently exhibited by the National Football League? Most of us might have been spared Rush Limbaugh’s over-hyped provocations, such as his charming rendition of “Barack, the Magic Negro.” And his sour wishes of failure upon the White House as our nation struggles with the burdens of two wars and the worst economic crisis in generations. If the right hadn’t pinned its political aspirations on Limbaugh’s brand of divisiveness, he might never have amounted

to more than an interesting sideshow performer, tolerated but never offered a seat at the table of political power. Instead, we’ve had to endure Sanchez Limbaugh’s long, inexorable rise to power as the Svengali of a party he neither represents nor respects. He’s made a mockery of the ideal of patriotism, promoting the insane campaign to question President Barack Obama’s birth in the United States. He’s propagated every harebrained conspiracy theory of the right, the most recent being the ludicrous claim that the

Democrat-sponsored health care reforms will institute death panels. A very few Republicans are secure enough to blast Limbaugh, to take him down a few notches. Sen. John McCain once labeled him a clown and then apologized to clowns. But most Republicans know better than to cross a man with 14 million listeners. By comparison, consider how quickly the NFL quashed Limbaugh’s attempt to become a limited partner of the St. Louis Rams. Essentially they told him, “Your money is no good here.” How refreshing! NFL owners, apparently unlike See Sanchez, page 5A

Dick Cheney and Al Franken. Opposite ends of any spectrum, but now there’s a relationship. Does Cheney, exCEO of Halliburton, still loom over Congress? A subsidiary of Halliburton has a government contract for some federal business. A female worker for that company was allegedly gang-raped by fellow employees and subsequently locked in a container by her employer. She went on to sue her employer. Enter the junior-est senator, Al Franken. He introduced his first-ever bill. It was to make it illegal for the government to hire for federal work any company that had a rule against an employee’s ability to sue it for anything, including employee rape at work. It’s hard to believe that a bill would even be needed for that reason. Slam-dunk vote in the Senate, one would think. A 68-30 vote. The 30 votes against that Federal Contractor Employee Liability Act were, to a person, all Republicans. Ask yourself, please, how can any human being be against a bill like that? We all have or know mothers, daughters, sisters, wives who are out in the work force. To have U.S. congressmen who worry more about the companies that may do the government’s work over the female employees’ safety makes me wonder something. Just how much do these Republicans who are “worried” about our health care reform really care about the American people? The woman’s lawsuit, by the way, was thrown out due to the fine print in her contract, against suing. Does that make you feel all warm and fuzzy, America?

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Scary intersection The intersection of Aprés Ski Way and Village Drive is a very dangerous intersection for those driving north on Village Drive and coming to the intersection with Aprés Ski Way. On the left, as you proceed north on Village Drive approaching Aprés Ski Way, is a six-story building called Highmark on the southwest corner of Aprés Ski Way and Village Drive. Highmark has erected a large sign on this corner that reads, “Highmark Steamboat Springs, A Mountain and Ski Resort.” As you drive north on Village Drive and come to the intersection with Aprés Ski Way you must stop, but when you look west to check on any traffic coming down Aprés Ski Way headed east, your vision is totally blocked by the large Highmark sign. It is impossible to see vehicles coming down Aprés Ski Way because they are hidden by the Highmark sign. As a result, many cars, not knowing if traffic is coming down Aprés Ski Way from the west, pull out into the intersection only to learn to their horror that a car or truck is coming east on Aprés Ski Way and is headed right at them. This sign should never have been erected in this location and must be removed, or at least moved to a location where it does not block views of coming traffic at the intersection See Letters, page 5A

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While some are praying for a big winter so they can play, many are praying for a big winter so the news gets out and a lot of people travel to steamboat and spend some $. A weak snow year would be a double whammy for our local economy. Pray for snow so we can all make enough to survive this winter! — boater1

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Proposed gravel pit I can sympathize with these people that will be directly impacted by this project. It’s going to be an ugly neighbor. (As commented earlier) But the fact remains. As long as there is construction the gravel must come from somewhere. This is the classic “not in my backyard” scenario. So where do these opponents propose the needed gravel should come from. Obviously someone else’s back yard. — snowbow

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Some really interesting ideas about the gravel pit. Surely fog could be a potential danger at the wrong times. I bet a lot of that gravel will make its way across downtown, not many building sites left by the ski area. I think that when the old 131 gravel pits were operating, they were doing so on a much smaller basis, and their

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With only one source of printed and electronic news in Steamboat Springs, the public is subjected to the effects of a monopoly. The blatant bias of our local papers has been clearly illustrated by the subheadlines of the Oct. 15 edition of the Steamboat Today regarding the Kevin Bennett vs. Cari Hermacinski City Council race. A balanced presentation of the two candidates would have included an equal quantity

Hayden residents will be voting for an additional “special tax” on rental cars and lodging only: Referendum 2A and Referendum 2B. This tax will be paid by people that rent cars and rooms. These folks are mostly from out of town. How can these citizens represent themselves? Taxation without representation. Why should one business pay a higher tax than other businesses in the same town? This tax would

cares, there are no small businesses. Additional tax on a small business in a recession, when business is down, does not sound like a good idea. Any resident in town who needs to rent a car will pay this additional tax. The lodging tax builds in an additional expense into a room before it is even built. This could have a negative effect on the town’s marketability to a hotel chain. That is bad for future growth. The town of Hayden’s fiscal spending has increased 96 percent in five years. While the town’s population has remained fairly static. About $1,415 per person. If this continues, then who is next for an additional “special tax”? I will keep these things in mind when I vote “No” this November on Referendum 2A and Referendum 2B. Taxation without representation; target taxing; raising taxes in a recession; negative impact on locals; negative impact on future growth.

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GOP could realize they need to attract, persuade people Sanchez continued from 4A the GOP, care deeply about image. To protect against interlopers, they run their enterprise like an exclusive club. Threefourths of the current owners have to approve any new ones. And they wanted nothing to do with Limbaugh. The radio bawler predictably returned to his microphone with the fury of a wronged man. “This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the

media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative,” he said. But with minimal effort, one can discern that the typical NFL owner is hardly a cheeseeating liberal. Many of them lean strongly Republican, if campaign contribution records are any indication. Regardless of where their political sympathies lie, the NFL owners seem to know how to behave in public. Limbaugh’s

fame and fortune, by contrast, have been built by misbehaving, by repelling a large and growing part of the public. His summary blackballing was about class — his lack of it, to be precise. Understand, class is a matter of more than mere accumulated wealth. Limbaugh is a savvy businessman who has done quite well for himself. Whatever stake he was going to buy in the Rams was probably a small fraction of his wealth. Yet Limbaugh attempted to play the snub up as an affront to the true

Americans he thinks he speaks for. “(T)his is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we’re going to have,” he said. On this point, we can only hope Limbaugh proves clairvoyant. For if the GOP chooses to study the excellent example set by the NFL owners, they might realize that to be a viable party they have to actually attract and persuade people. To stand for something positive. That would be good for American politics, and not so good for Limbaugh.

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of assets and deficits of each person. Instead, the information on Bennett bordered on being a personal attack. The quoted negative comments regarding Bennett were caustic and had no redeeming value to the voters. There were no equally demeaning comments quoted regarding Hermacinski. Balanced reporting would provide a more valuable service to the community than the current imbalanced presentation.

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Bunco, and she was a devoted mother to her sons. She was preceded in death by her mother, Connie. She leaves behind her father and his family, Don Davis, of Laramie, Wyo.; husband, Bob; and three sons: Taylor Cooper, of Steamboat, currently living in Shreveport, La.; Spencer and Mac Noel, who are students at Steamboat Springs High School. The Kim Noel Memorial Fund has been established at Yampa Valley Bank. Donations in lieu of flowers are appreciated. A memorial service was Oct. 17 at the Catamount Lake clubhouse. Kim was a wonderful wife, mother and friend who will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.

Lois May Macfarlane, the beloved wife of 55 years of Billy Jay Macfarlane, a cherished mother, grandmother, aunt and friend, passed away Sept. 30 of natural causes. In honor of the Macfarlanes’

wishes, a joint service will be held in the future. In lieu of flowers, you can make a donation to the Rollingstone Hospice House of Steamboat Springs or to your local animal shelter.

Jeffrey Strawn 1953 — 2009

Jeffrey Strawn died Sept. 27, 2009, in Fort Collins, after a courageous fight with a chronic illness. Originally from Tempe, Ariz., Jeff was an avid skier who loved nothing better than ravishing his powder stashes, gliding through the trees on Twilight or Closets, sucking up the bumps on Three O’clock and telling jokes on the chairlift. He loved waterskiing, particularly on those mornings when Stagecoach was like glass and he would slice rooster tails. He was a beautiful dancer who practiced moves in his kitchen and adored knocking

’em dead on the dance floor. He was a fiendish cribbage player, a kite flier, avid horseman and master craftsman. He is survived by his son, Ryan Strawn, of Denver, who he adored; his mother, Pat Strawn, of Green Valley, Ariz.; his father, Eli Strawn, of Honolulu, Hawaii; his brothers Greg Strawn, of Tempe, Ariz, and Dean Strawn, of Honolulu; and numerous nieces who loved their uncle Jeff. In remembrance, the next time you head down Twilight or Closets or Ted’s Ridge, take a moment and think of Jeff and a life fully lived.

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coursework for a Ph.D. An avid reader, bird watcher and lover of the outdoors, Roz was an accomplished horseback rider and enjoyed working with animals. She also was a talented classical pianist and with her brothers loved to sing cowboy and hobo songs. She taught history at DU, Colorado College and numerous high schools. She also worked for many years as a paralegal. Roz campaigned tirelessly for John Kennedy and took her civic responsibilities seriously. An early environmentalist and freethinker, Roz worked for better strip mine

reclamation, air pollution control and fought indiscriminate predator hunting. She found great beauty in the landscape of Northwest Colorado, which she captured in her many watercolor paintings. Roz married Peter Zars in 1952 and had three children, Belle, Reed and Hugh (Buzz). During the summer, Roz and her children regularly stayed at Oak Point, her father’s homestead. She married George Elmer Garcia in 1971 and together they worked in the sheep business for many years. After the Carpenter Ranch

was conveyed to The Nature Conservancy in 1996, Roz carried on her life of conversation, correspondence and inquiry from a small house she built overlooking the ranch. She is survived by her three children, eight grandchildren, and her brother Willis, of Denver. A memorial service to celebrate Roz’s life is at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Hayden Congregational Church. Please consider a donation to The Nature Conservancy or the Hayden Public Library in lieu of flowers.

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JAIL REPORT The following is a list of people booked into the Routt County Jail on suspicion of the listed charges. The arresting agency is listed in parentheses. Saturday, Oct. 10 Alonso Mancillas, 26, Melbourne, Fla. — Driving while ability impaired, weaving (Routt County Sheriff’s Office) Gregory Stefan Creamer, 41, Clark – Driving under the influence, child abuse (three counts), weaving (RCSO) Jay Tyler Gabwebin, 27, Thornton — Reckless driving, passed where prohibited, speeding (40 mph over limit) (Colorado State Patrol) Casey Edward McGlone, 32, Steamboat Springs — Harassment (Steamboat Springs Police Department) Sunday, Oct. 11 Timothy Rogers, 38, Craig — DUI (RCSO) Mark Richard Wentling, age not listed, transient — Harassment, violation of protection order, disorderly conduct, parole violation (RCSO) Josh Mark Merrill, 24, Steamboat — Harassment (SSPD) Sandra Dawn Harder, 21, Hayden — Violation of restraining order, violation of bond conditions (Hayden Police Department) Steven Darrel Harder, 30, Hayden — Violation of restraining order (HPD) Nicholas James Bucci, 23, Steamboat — Use of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, possession of paraphernalia, violation of parole order (SSPD) Monday, Oct. 12 Alexander Joseph Maher, 32, Steamboat — Failure to appear (dangerous drugs) (SSPD) Lori Reeves King, 46, Milner — Driving under restraint, DUI, DUI per se, careless driving (SSPD) Kevin Dean Davis, 40, Colorado Springs — DUR, no proof of insurance, unsafe passing (CSP) Tuesday, Oct. 13 Clinton Morris Galorath, 19, Steamboat — possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, conspiracy to distribute, false imprisonment (SSPD) Wednesday, Oct. 14 No arrests Thursday, Oct. 15

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Jassen Eddie Lester, 27, Oak Creek — Fugitive of justice (DUI) (SSPD) Friday, Oct. 16 Laura Anne Galligan, 37, Hayden — DUI, DUI per se, third-degree assault (HPD) Jaime Garcia-Mauriquez, 34, Denver — FTA (DUR) (RCSO) Bruner Wayne Alexander, 56, Steamboat — FOJ (liquor possession) (SSPD) Jimmy Lee Varela, 26, Steamboat — DUI, possession of more than 1 ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, open alcoholic beverage (RCSO)

POLICE BLOTTER Friday, Oct. 16 5:23 a.m. Steamboat Springs Police Department officers were called to a report of a bear in the 1400 block of Pine Grove Road. 5:31 a.m. Routt County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a complaint about an animal at Routt County Road 14 and Ghost Creek Ranch. 6:59 a.m. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a complaint about an animal on C.R. 27 near mile marker 4. 7:41 a.m. Police were called to a complaint about a vehicle at Hilltop Parkway and Eaglepointe Court. 7:43 a.m. Sheriff’s deputies were called to reported wildlife at C.R. 33A and U.S. Highway 40. 7:53 a.m. Colorado Division of Wildlife responders were called to reported wildlife in the 42600 block of C.R. 86 near Hayden. 8:12 a.m. Police were called to reported vandalism in the 900 block of Angels View Way, where police said a rock was thrown through a window. 9:31 a.m. Sheriff’s deputies and emergency responders from North Routt Ambulance and North Routt Fire Protection District were called to a burglary alarm in the 31000 block of C.R. 55 near Clark. It was a false alarm. 9:39 a.m. Police were called to a reported car crash in the first block of Spruce Street. The crash was a hit-and-run that occurred Oct. 3; police found the suspect, who handled the dispute with the

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People who live in the foot hills west of Boulder want state wildlife officials to ban hunting in the area. Boulder County bans firing weapons in the Sugarloaf area but the Colorado Division of Wildlife allows people to hunt deer there. The high-powered rifle hunting season started Saturday. Area residents petitioned the state in 2005, but no ban was approved. A lawsuit filed in 2006 challenging hunting still is in court. State wildlife officials say can’t exclude one small part from the surrounding areas where hunting is allowed. They think it’s safe to allow hunting despite concerns that there are too many homes.

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could put landing zones used by the High-Altitude Army Aviation Training Site offlimits. The program, known as HAATS, is the only helicopter training site for the U.S. where the terrain and conditions are similar to those encountered by pilots in Afghanistan. The Hidden Gems wilder ness proposal would declare a total of about 450,000 acres as federal wilderness. Motorized equipment generally is banned in wilderness areas, but there are exceptions.

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Colorado Army National Guard helicopters are helping look for a a 40-year-old man who is missing after getting off a bus on a mountain pass. Authorities say the man got off the bus during a short break on Monarch Pass about 140 miles southwest of Denver at about 6 p.m. He was last seen walking into a wooded area. The man’s name wasn’t released. The bus was traveling between Salida and Gunnison. The Chaffee County sher iff’s office is leading the search.

Police and ambulance calls Record continued from 6A owner of the other car, police said. 10:02 a.m. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a juvenile situation in Yampa. A possible third-degree assault was reported. The case was turned over to the Routt County Department of Human Services, law enforcement officials said. 10:27 a.m. Police were called to a request for an officer to possibly handle a property dispute in the 2700 block of Riverside Drive. 10:51 a.m. Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue emergency responders were called to a request for an ambulance. 11:49 a.m. Police were called to a report of domestic violence in Steamboat Springs. 12:22 p.m. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a complaint about an animal in the 26500 block of C.R. 43. 12:48 p.m. Police and Fire Rescue emergency responders were called to a request for an ambulance in Steamboat Springs. The request was for someone who needed to be moved from one medical center to Yampa Valley Medical Center to treat a cut that wouldn’t stop bleeding, police said. 1:43 p.m. Police were called to a hit-andrun in the 1200 block of Lincoln Avenue. Police located the driver of the vehicle responsible for the crash and took a report, police said. 2:21 p.m. Police were called to a reported burglary in the 100 block of 11th Street, where there was a broken window at a restaurant, police said. Nothing appeared to have been stolen, and an investigation is pending, police said. 3:55 p.m. Police were called to a reported hit-and-run on Lincoln Avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets.

4 p.m. Police arrested a 56-year-old Steamboat Springs man on a warrant as a fugitive of justice in the 1800 block of Central Park Drive. 4:49 p.m. Sheriff’s deputies and Yampa Ambulance emergency responders were called to a request for an ambulance in Yampa. 5:19 p.m. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a reported gas skip in the 300 block of Myers Street in Oak Creek. They arrested a 26-year-old Steamboat Springs man on suspicion of driving under the influence, possession of more than 1 ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and having an open alcoholic beverage. 5:31 p.m. Police were called to a reported disturbance in the 3100 block of Ingles Lane. 6:40 p.m. Police were called to a reported suspicious incident on the bike path west of the James Brown Soul Center of the Universe Bridge. 7:26 p.m. Sheriff’s deputies and emergency responders from the Oak Creek Fire Protection District and the Yampa Fire Protection District were called to a car crash in the first block of McCoy Road in McCoy. 8:10 p.m. Sheriff’s deputies and Hayden Police Department officers were called to a reported car crash on U.S. 40 near mile marker 112. There were no injuries, an officer said. 8:40 p.m. Police were called to a reported two-vehicle crash in the 1800 block of Central Park Drive. There were no injuries, police said. 9:34 p.m. Police were called to a suspicious incident in Steamboat Springs. 10:41 p.m. Hayden police were called to a juvenile situation. 10:42 p.m. Police were called to a complaint about noise in the first block of Anglers Drive.

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Schauer said warm waters fueled Rick’s rapid jump from Category 1 just two days ago. “Right now, it’s over very warm water, and the current forecast track keeps it over warm water for quite a while,” she said. Rick was forecast to pass near Socorro Island, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of Cabo San Lucas, on Tuesday. The island is a nature reserve with a small Mexican Navy post and it hosts scubadiving expeditions in winter months. Acapulco’s Civil Protection Department had warned that rains from the outer bands of the storm could cause landslides and flooding in the resort city, but no such effects were reported Saturday.

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Pakistan starts offensive against Taliban the region, then holding it, officials said. Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said the effort was focused on uprooting the Pakistani Taliban, an umbrella group of militants led by members of the Mehsud tribe blamed for most of the attacks that have battered the country throughout the past three years. About 10,000 local militants and about 1,500 foreign fight-

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Police captain says No. 1 complaint is vehicle speeding Tickets continued from 1A said he did not have figures for how many state tickets were written this year. Violations on state highways — Colorado Highway 131 and U.S. Highway 40 — must still go on state tickets. When persuading the Routt County Board of Comm issioners to adopt the model traffic code, Sheriff Gary Wall predicted that it would bring in more cash for the department. “This is an advantageous thing for us to do,” Wall said at the time. “It allows us to collect more revenue and come up with fines we think are appropriate.” The Steamboat Springs Pol ice Department also has seen

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Sisters continued from 1A they give women a chance to support each other and maybe open doors and open people’s minds as to what they can do and what they can accomplish,” Funston said. Eighty-five women registered for Sisters in Steamboat. “Last Saturday, I was hoping for 50,” said Tracy Barnett, event organizer and manager for Mainstreet Steamboat Springs. She hopes the turnout for next year’s event — scheduled for the same weekend — will be larger. “It’s just going to grow. I can’t tell you how many people told me, ‘I couldn’t get it arranged this year, but my sister and my friends all know about it for next year,’” Barnett said. About 35 women came to Bud Werner Memorial Library at 11:30 a.m. Saturday for local Matt Stensland/staff nurse and counselor Diane Local photographer Debbi Funston gives photography tips to Kristal Eckley, left, and Gail Hunter on Saturday at the beginning McCrann’s workshop, “Are You of a Sisters in Steamboat Weekend photography workshop. Living the Life You Imagined?” McCrann encouraged work- local National Public Radio sta- Sisters in Steamboat Weekend Events continue today shop attendees to “live out tion and persuaded her sisters — and others had taken advanSisters in Steamboat Weekend contage of special offers at shops loud,” asking them to close their to attend. tinues today with a yoga session from “They’re married, and I and spas. Event participants eyes and picture a color, and 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the Yoga Center of then think of a word, when don’t get to spend a lot of time seemed to bond quickly, she Steamboat; pre-registration is required. she said “passion.” The women one-on-one with them, so it said, mentioning that “some Off the Beaten Path Bookstore hosts participating also filled out a sounded fun,” Joy said. The of them apparently danced up a coffee tasting with food pairings worksheet listing five things three sisters met a trio of local a storm at the Ghost Ranch to from 10 to 11:30 a.m. today. Julie Spitzley, of Storm Mountain Coffee they want, five things they need women, also sisters, at a Friday that Johnny Cash cover band” Roasters, will present signature brews. wine reception at Harwigs and Friday night. and five things they desire. Admission is $10 per person or $15 Lori Joy, of Denver, and planned to go horseback riding “It’s happening just the way for two tickets; pre-registration is her two sisters, Julie Victor, with them Saturday afternoon, I thought it would. Women just encouraged. Call 879-6830. of Longmont, and Wendy Joy said. love to get together,” Barnett For more information about Mainstreet Barnett said some women said. McGowan, of Colorado Steamboat Springs, call Tracy Barnett Springs, attended the workshop. went shopping — driving at 846-1800 or go to www.mainstreet Joy said she heard about Sisters downtown retail was one — To reach Margaret Hair, call 871-4204 steamboatsprings.com. or e-mail mhair@steamboatpilot.com in Steamboat Weekend on her of Barnett’s stated goals for

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Study Center in 1967 with three districts. The current six districts have been a part of it for as long as Executive Director Jane Toothaker, who joined BOCES in 1982, can remember. BOCES provides state-mandated special education services for the districts. It also offers a number of additional services. For instance, it operates the Yampa Valley School, an alternative school; runs the South Routt Preschool; and provides professional development. It also provides teachers’ aides, preschool teachers, psychologists and physical and occupational therapists. Condie said a BOCES board is its primary governing body and that the Department of Education would step in only when a concern came up. He said that could occur after the board or the BOCES executive director requested a closer review. Or the Department of Education could choose to step in, Condie said. That has happened. Toothaker said three Department of Education representatives met with her Friday. She said they requested financial information, including bank statements, receipts and expenditure reports. The department will submit some

Ballot continued from 1A Weber said each ballot envelope has a bar code and a serial number tied to a specific, individual voter. Weber said a different bar code on the ballot itself is for programming — related to which questions are on the ballot and where the computer should look for votes — and do not tie the ballot to a voter or violate ballot secrecy. The voter identified on the envelope is matched to the signature on the envelope, Weber said. She said county officials have “13 years worth of signatures” on file from any form submitted by a voter, including prior ballots, voter signature cards, change-ofaddress forms and more. Weber said election staff checks the signature on the envelope of every mail-in ballot. “If the signature does not match, we try to contact that voter,” she said. “The ballot remains sealed until we resolve the issue of the signature.” Weber said she realizes that signatures change throughout time but cited handwriting patterns such as a main character that remain consistent. She readily acknowledged that while she received an overview of signature training from the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, she and her staff are “not signature experts” — leading them to double-check when necessary. “If there’s a question, we contact the voter,” Weber said. Weber said residents should not place an unused ballot in a post office trash container.

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Toothaker said BOCES presented the changes it’s already made to the Department of Education representatives. Those include hiring a new finance director, changing how it is auditing funds internally, being more open and transparent about its budget process and getting more input from the superintendents and board.

Current situation In the meantime, Toothaker has proposed using $273,000 in federal stimulus funding to help pay for last year’s overspending. The remainder would come from a $44,000 contribution from Steamboat, Hayden and South Routt for services BOCES provides for the Day Treatment program for at-risk students. The superintendents also met with Toothaker on Wednesday to discuss their preference that BOCES cut the entire $481,000 in increased assessments from its 200910 budget. Last week at the BOCES board meeting, board members directed Toothaker to start making cuts based on recommendations from the superintendents. Toothaker said that didn’t happen because she and the

superintendents still were reviewing possible staff cuts, in relation to contracts. She said she and the superintendents could decide on cuts such as benefit reductions and eliminating contingencies in funds when they meet again Tuesday. South Routt Superintendent Scott Mader said he feels better about the BOCES financial situation after Wednesday’s meeting but thought things would have moved faster. “I would have thought by now we would have more work done on it,” he said. “It’s been slower than I thought because it’s more complicated than I thought.” Toothaker said she hopes to have cuts implemented by Oct. 28, the next BOCES board meeting, which will be in Steamboat. “We definitely need to get moving ahead,” she said. And she hopes to have a revised budget to present to board members at the Nov. 12 meeting in Hayden. “It’s a necessity that it gets done because every day that we move forward is a day we’re spending at who knows what rate,” Mader said. “That’s a must in my mind.” — To reach Jack Weinstein, call 871-4203 or e-mail jweinstein@steamboatpilot.com

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information back to BOCES this week, Toothaker said. “It wasn’t really an audit,” she said. “It was more of a factfinding trip for them.” Vody Herrmann, the assistant commissioner of public school finance for the Department of Education, said during those visits, the agency would review a BOCES’ internal controls for accounting. That includes revenue and expenditures, cash management and whether BOCES was in compliance with state and federal regulations. A review also would probably include an explanation about what happened. She said a review could have several outcomes, such as a BOCES returning federal funding if it was used improperly, but it depends. Ultimately, Herrmann said, oversight of BOCES falls to its superintendents and board. “The responsibility of the BOCES are truly its member districts,” Herrmann said. “They own that BOCES. They own its assets. It’s an entity formed by those members.” In the case of the Northwest Colorado BOCES, Herrmann said the Department of Education’s plan of action would depend on its findings, which is what it will present to Toothaker.

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“They should take it home and destroy it,” she said. “They should not throw it in a public garbage can.” Routt County Clerk and Recorder Kay Weinland said her office would take action upon discovery of a fraudulent ballot. “Voting a ballot that’s not issued to you is a federal offense, and I will turn them over to the district attorney if we ever have evidence of a violation,” Weinland said. Weber said she went to Denver last week to oversee the mailing of the ballots to Routt County. “I escorted them from the sorting facility to the post office,” she said, adding that she followed the truck carrying the ballots. “I’m very protective of my babies.”

Drop-boxes Voters can drop off completed ballots at five locations in Routt County: the Routt County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Yampa Town Hall, Oak Creek Town Hall, Hayden Town Hall and the Clark Store. Weber said each drop-box is verified as empty before it is initially closed with a numbered seal. There is a log recording each time a drop-box is opened, Weber said, which occurs through a “chain of custody” that begins with her. “They’re the same ballot boxes we’ve been using for 25 years,” she said. “There’s a tracking process that goes with it now.” O’Brien said although the post office gives “the same security to all mail,” each mailed ballot gets “top priority in billing and handling because it’s time-sensitive.

Election 2009 key dates and notes ■ Ballots have been mailed to all active Routt County registered voters. If you’re an active voter and your voter registration information is current, you don’t need to request a ballot. The U.S. Postal Service will not forward ballots. If you haven’t received your ballot by Wednesday, call the Routt County Elections Office at 970-870-5558. ■ Oct. 27 is the last day to request a ballot be mailed to you. ■ There are five drop-off locations in Routt County for voters to submit their completed ballots: Routt County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Yampa Town Hall, Oak Creek Town Hall, Hayden Town Hall and the Clark Store. ■ All ballots must be received by 7

“We handle them the same every year,” he said. “And we’ve had a significant portion the past few years. It’s been growing.” Weinland said about 80 percent of county voters have chosen to receive mail ballots permanently. On Friday, Neil and Helen Bergman, residents of Steamboat’s Brooklyn neighborhood, stopped by the Elections Office because they soon were leaving for a vacation and hadn’t yet received their ballots. They learned that their address had not been updated, and they worked with Elections Office staff to amend the issue. “Piece of cake,” Neil Bergman said. O’Brien encouraged postal customers to make sure they have the proper amount of postage on their ballot. Although the normal, 44-cent rate should apply for most bal-

p.m. Nov. 3. Voters should not mail their ballots after Oct. 29. ■ Voters can request a replacement ballot until 7 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Elections Office on the third floor of the Routt County Courthouse, at 522 Lincoln Ave. ■ Voters will receive ballots specific to where they live. For example, South Routt residents won’t receive ballots because there are no contested school board races or city elections there. ■ Voters who have any questions about the mail-in ballot process should call the Elections Office at 870-5558. ■ Electronic voting is available for disabled voters or any voter who chooses to vote electronically, at the Elections Office.

lots, O’Brien said, depending on how much paper is inside the envelope, some ballots could weigh more than an ounce, which would require 61 cents in postage, or 17 cents for each additional ounce. “We won’t delay any mail because of short postage,” O’Brien said, explaining that the county would be billed for any postage shortages. Weber said not only has the use of mail ballots grown in recent years in Routt County, but she also sees more people signing up for permanent mail ballots each day. Steamboat Springs City Councilman Jon Quinn, for one, misses the polling-location process that could soon become archaic. “I’m kind of a poll guy,” he said. “I like the routine.” — To reach Mike Lawrence, call 871-4233 or e-mail mlawrence@steamboatpilot.com

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Month of November sees 32 home sales Five home sales priced between $900,000 and $1 million, a price point that has not been active this fall, helped the Routt County real estate market attain $26 million in home sales in November. Those sales accounted for $4.8 million in dollar volume. In addition, there were six sales between $1 million and $2 million, representing $9 million in sales. According to statistics researched by Bruce Carta of Land Title Guarantee Co., there were 11 transactions for homes priced between $200,000 and $500,000, totaling $3.9 million, about 15 percent of total dollar volume for home sales in November.

Drahota staffers gain green certifications Drahota’s Derek Cohen, a project manager; Ed Hurtubis, an assistant project manager, and Brad McDanald, an assistant superintendent, have earned LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is recognized as the standard in the design, construction and operation of green buildings. With this accreditation, Cohen, Hurtubis, McDanald and their LEED-accredited counterparts at Drahota can guide clients who desire to construct buildings that will earn LEED certification. “We want to continue to keep an upper edge on our competition,” President and CEO Terry Drahota said. “Our team feels strongly about doing their share for the environment and by educating our team members about LEED, we can provide a better building experience for our clients.” Call Drahota at 204-0100.

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Nationally, mortgage rates fell to an average of 5.19 percent, the lowest level in 37 years, according to a weekly survey released Dec. 18 by Freddie Mac. It’s too soon to say what effect the rates will have on the moribund real estate market. The most immediate beneficiaries appear to be homeowners hoping to swap their adjustable-rate mortgages for fixed payments.

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The European style home on Graystone Court is secluded from the view of passing motorists on Steamboat Boulevard.

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here is a home in the Stonebridge Park neighborhood that evokes nothing else as much as an Old STORY BY TOM ROSS World, European country manor. The home on Graystone Court is like nothing else in the Yampa Valley. paned doors with internal curtains. The iron chandelier in the living room The shower area, completely unenis about 7 feet in diameter, there is a closed, has two large chrome showerlibrary with a 40-foot ceiling and a mas- heads. ter bathtub in its own oval-shaped room The home is so secluded that there beneath a vaulted cupola. is virtually no need for If you know where to look, window treatments other “It feels like you’re there’s even a secret room. than to keep the morning The 10,022-foot house in a manor outside sun out. Stonebridge Park, overlooking Fish Creek London, but it’s not. reached via Steamboat recently was co-listed by You’re in Steamboat Boulevard, is the only Charlie Dresen and Pam gated community within and five minutes Vanatta, of Prudential the Steamboat Springs city Steamboat Realty, for $6.8 from everything.” limits. million. “This is a very romantic “I’ve spent 15 hours phoPam Vanatta house, and it’s one you can’t tographing the interior of Co-listing Graystone Court just drive by,” Vanatta said. the home, and I’ve really “Buyers feel safe in this gained an appreciation for neighborhood. It feels like the level of craftsmanship,” Dresen said. you’re in a manor outside London, but “The molding was hand-milled, every it’s not. You’re in Steamboat and five doorknob was hand-forged, and the minutes from everything.” external lighting is handmade gas lamps. It’s definitely very European.” ‘Labor of love’ The level of luxury could be illustratThe original developers of the subdied by describing the secondary master vision have gone to great lengths to prosuite, with its 300-square-foot bathroom. tect the 100-year-old pine trees along the It is separated from the bedchamber by creek from the prevailing beetle infestaa dressing area featuring a dual wardtion in the surrounding mountains. robe area with four chandeliers of its own and room for an antique architec“All of the major rooms are oriented tural detail from the altar of a church. to overlook the creek,” Dresen said. “It’s The his-and-hers closets have glassso peaceful and it will always be that

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Exceptionally tall ceilings above the library give the room a feel all its own.

way. You couldn’t replicate this home if you set out to.” The home has five bedrooms, each with its own full bath. The kitchen is designed for someone who enjoys cooking for a family and has its own sitting See Graystone Court, back page

When general contractor Tom Dover finished a luxury spec home on Blazemark Trail for Will Bashan of WB Real Estate last fall, Bashan knew the ground had shifted under his feet during the construction period. “It’s been two years since we started construction, and the world was a lot different … two years ago,” Bashan said. “It was a different place six months ago.” In an effort to tap into a different marketing approach in a different kind of market, Bashan has retained the Redfield Group auction house of Rainbow City, Ala., to offer the 8,000-squarefoot house at auction Feb. 17. In fact, Bashan will attempt to sell two homes that day — the Blazemark home and the 6,500square-foot home he and his family are living in Dakota Ridge. The Blazemark home sits on 21 acres on Routt County Road 14. The lot includes about 300 feet of Yampa River frontage opposite Bald Eagle Lake. The house itself sits on the west side of the county road. Bashan said his decision to offer both homes at auction shouldn’t be misinterpreted. “It’s not a distress sale by any means,” Bashan said. “I have the good fortune to own two really nice homes. The Blazemark home is the primary impetus for the auction, if by chance the one I’m living in sells, I can move into the other, and if they both sell, I have another piece of development ground” to build on. Bashan said he has sold more than a dozen properties in the Steamboat market via more traditional means. In this case, he said he felt Redfield’s track record in reaching outside the typical pool of buyers for a particular market, was something he needed to tap into. “In my other sales, we waited for the buyer to come to us from a See Auction, back page

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Pines Condo 1 bedroom 1 bath, Immaculate, new wood floors, unfurnished, W/D, NP, NS, on bus route, $1100.00/monthly, includes some utilities, year lease, 1st/last/security deposit. Call 879-6978 or 846-0364.

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2BD/1BA Wagon Wheel Condo at Stagecoach, unfurnished. NS/NP, $900/monthly, available now. 610-869-8362

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January 1st occupancy, long term rental. Walton Creek condos #16, 2BD/2BA. Rennovated, unfurnished and on bus route. $1,500 per month. Contact Shannon Peterson (970)879-0763 extension 3014. Light & Airy Sunray 2BD/2BA, Top Floor, 2 Car Tandem Garage, WD/FP/NS/NP, Unfurnished, Utilities Included, Avail 1/17, Lease $1,700 (561)414-4530 LEASE/BUY/OWNER CARRY! Brand new 2bd/2ba Sunray Meadows w/1-car garage, granite, stainless, bus route. Studio/1ba Rockies w/golf membership. Call 846-3353 Very nice top floor 2 Bd/2 BA Sunray Meadows condo available now! Near ski area, 1 car garage, W/D, fireplace, decks. $1700/ month includes heat. NP. NS. 6 - 9 mo lease. Call Central Park Management 879-3294.

Duplex- 2 bedroom, 2 bath duplex for rent on mountain available Jan 1st. $1300/month. 1st, last, security due at move in. pets okay. Call Amy 970-846-2114 for more information. Fish Creek Falls area, new construction, 3600sqft walk out basement ranch, amazing views, 5BD/3BA, large decks, bar/wine cellar, theater room, very high end finishes. $3,800/monthly, NP/NS, (970)819-4422 Brand New 1/2 Duplex for Rent: 3BD/2BA, 2-car garage, all appliances included+central vacuum. N/S, Pet negotiable. Sierra View, Oak Creek. $1650/month+utilities. Call Joe 846-3542 Fish Creek Falls area, new construction, 3200sqft walk out basement ranch, amazing views, 5BD/4.5BA, large decks, bar/wine cellar, very high end finishes. $3,800/monthly, NP/NS, (970)819-4422 Large 3BD/2.5BA West End Village Duplex. 1 car attached garage, all appliances, gas fireplace, view, on school bus route, NS/NP, 1st/last/security. $1,700/month plus utilities. Call 870-8976 Duplex in Phippsburg, 3BD/2BA, large single car garage, large yard, radiant heat, newer/efficient. $1350/monthly + utilities, NS/dogs considered. (970)819-4422

3BD/3BA in Clark, one mile from Clark Store. Very private, fabulous view! $1600/month. References. 4-wheel drive required. (970)846-5565

Country Living-4BD/3.5BA, garage barn 2-car+work area. 8 acres. Horses OK. 15 min to Mt. Werner Road. Available 11/15/08. $2000/month. 303-798-4085 Historic Ranch Home, Peaceful Setting Near Steamboat. New Carpets/Paint, Fireplace. Pets okay! $1600 + utilities and security deposit. (970)879-2868 3BD/3BA Heritage Park. Unfurnished, open floor plan, vaulted ceilings, family room. Large deck with hot tub. Southern exposure, beautiful interior, marble floors in baths, oversize 2 car garage with extra storage, large fenced yard. N/S, Pet negotiable. Available February 1st. $1,900 month. Call 970-846-2880 Brand New 4BD/3BA House in Steamboat II, Fully finished basement, stainless steel appliances, gas fireplace, 2 car heated garage, Pets possible! $2,100 OBO 1st/Last/Security, Lease required. (970) 846-6767 Open space, lake & mountain views surround this new single family home in Stagecoach. 3BD/2.5BA upgrade hardwood, tile & granite. Whirlpool appliances, w/d, 2 decks, 2-car garage. $1800+ utilities. 970-846-7292 Beautiful Log Home 9 miles from town. 5BD/5.5BA Studio, 3 car garage, Great views! Pet negotiable. $3,500/monthly. (970) 879-1982 3BR/2.5BA single family Stagecoach home just minutes to Steamboat and the Ski Resort, open space with lake & mountain views, custom tile & granite, new appliances + W/D, big closets & decks, 2 car garage, pets & lease term negotiable @ $1800/mo. Greg 970-846-7292. $900/monthly in Oak Creek. Spacious, remodeled 2BD/1BA in nice duplex. Garage, laundry room. Water/sewer/trash/snow plowing paid. NS/NP. 736-8223. Executive 3Bed/3.5Bath Home Convenient Hilltop location! Hot tub, Home Theater, Granite, Lease/Purchase option available, NS,NP $2,500month/negotiable. Available now. Call 303-907-9766

3BD/1.75BA, furnished, located 1/2 mile from Gondola. 2-gas fireplaces, NS/NP, $2,800/monthly including utilities, first/last/security. Steamboat Home Management & Realty (970)879-1982 3BD/2BA in Yampa. Washer/Dryer, large yard/shed, pets ok, quiet neighborhood, close to school and park. $1100/monthly. Available January 9th. 846-1322,871-0399 Country home, Yampa area. 3Bd/2Ba plus office. Garage. $1,100/mo. plus utilities. Call 846-4378. Luxury 3BD/2.5BA on Bear Drive! Beautiful, near Gondola & forest. 2-car garage, views. Gourmet kitchen. $2,200+ utilities. 6 month+ lease. (970)879-5677

Downtown home, 3BD/2BA/2car garage. Gas heat with woodburning stove. W/D, pets okay, N/S. Hot tub, adjacent to park. Snowblower for driveway. $1,900 a month (970)846-0181. Old Town-charming house, 2BD/1.5BA, fully furnished, great condition. Large corner lot. Walk to work & schools. $1800/monthly. (303) 324-7892 Newly remodeled 2BD/1BA home in downtown Oak Creek. $1,000/monthly includes utilities. Please call (970) 846-3824 for more information. 2BD/2.5BA with incredible views 6 miles south of town. Partially furnished. NP/NS. 6+ month lease. First/Last/Deposit. Available now! $1300/month+utilities. (970)846-7195 MUST SEE! Spacious house on mountain, great views! Game/Movie/Playroom. Available January 1st-June 1st. NS/NP. Call Marc at 970-846-6480 Great downtown home, quiet neighborhood, 3BD/2BA, newly remodeled, pets welcome. WD, NS, $1,650 month plus utilities and deposit. (970)846-4267 3BD/2BA, near High School. Passive solar, wood-floors, large yard, garage, pet negotiable. $1,850 monthly/+utilities. 6 month lease/NS/Available January 5th (435)260-2675 Hayden: brand-new 3BD/2BA with oversized 2-car garage, stainless steel appliances, huge deck, unfinished basement, 1/2 acre lot bordering open space. N/S, N/P. $1500/month, first/security, references. 970-276-3079 3BR, 2BA Quiet family neighborhood in town on bike path/bus route. Lg fenced yard borders bike path/river & Emerald Park. All appliances, gas fireplace, attached heated garage. $1800/MO, 1 yr lease/pet negoc. 970-871-0280/970-819-2687 CRAIG: Spacious Home! Nice location! 4BD/2.5BA, 2 car garage, NS/NP, references/back ground check. Lease, $1,250/monthly first/last/security 970-819-2849 4+bedroom old town home, big fenced yard, pets okay. Partially furnished, $2,900 includes utilities. Flexible terms, call for appointment. (970)846-5883

2BED/1BATH, Oversized garage; fits 2-cars. long-term lease. Newly remodeled/painted, excellent condition. NP, $1200 per month, includes water and trash. (970)846-0588 West Acres 3BD/2.5BA Large master suite, storage shed. One pet negotiable, NS First/Last/Deposit. $1,450. (970) 846-5646

Beautiful immaculate 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath townhome, close to downtown and mountain area. 2-Car heated garage. Almost brand new, clean as a whistle, available for immediate occupancy. Lease to own option offered. No smoking/no pets (sorry!). Pictures available! $2150 per/month plus utilities/deposit. Call 846-3480 or 875-2943 Exceptional immaculate corner 2BR, 5 bay windows, paneling/log-trim, W/D, micro, huge deck, pool, hottub, sauna, bus-route, bike-route NP/NS. Last/Deposit, long-term $1500/monthly. Call (970)879-6717 (970)846-6717

Hill top area between town and ski area. On bus-route, across from private park. 3BD+Den/3 Full Bath/1 Car Garage. NS/References required! 1 dog neg. $1950, 1 Year lease, available 02/01/2009. 970-879-7179

2BD/1BA fully furnished townhome on mountain. NS/NP/WD/GF, basic cable/hot-tub, pool/parking, LT lease. On bus route. Available now. First/last/security $1350/monthly+utilities. 879-1834

Old Town home Available February 1st, 3BD/2BA, 2-car garage, fenced yard, recently remodeled with granite and stainless steel. $2000/month. 846-5983

Nicely furnished, spacious Stagecoach townhome 2 bed/2 bath+bonus room. Beautiful views, woodburning stove, flatscreen TV. N/S other terms negotiable. $950.00 per month. All utilities paid. (970)217-5071

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Brand newTownhome 3BD with large office/4thBD. 4BA, long term lease with deposit. Mountain views. Available now. NS/NP. $2,900/monthly unfurnished or $3400/monthly furnished. Donna 846-5928 3 bedroom/3 bath Stagecoach townhome, hot tub, new appliances, NP, NS, $1100/month. Water, sewer, and garbage included in rent, available immediately, first and deposit required, 6 month lease available 846-5893 Ideal Location On Mountain! Furnished 3 bedroom, 3 bath, Penthouse Unit Walking distance to Gondola! NS/NP Steamboat Home Management & Realty 970-879-1982

Stop leaking rent and gain equity. Lease with option purchase. 130-5,000 sqft. Premium commercial or office. Beautiful central location. (970)879-9133 Office Space for rent: room for rent in Fox Creek office building. Beautiful office space, apx. 180 sq.ft. Bottom floor, private. Possible access to kitchen and other amenities. Available 01/01/09. Rent $500.00/month. Utilities included. 970-871-0065 Bustling, high-traffic location in downtown Steamboat Springs. 780 SqFt. of premier retail space available. 970-453-2992 First month free. Professional suites and individual offices available at 1205 Hilltop Pkwy from $600. Lofted ceilings, A/C, security, plenty of parking, great views from every office. Call Jules 879-5242 144 sqft office on Oak Street in quiet professional building downtown. Wireless, kitchen, meeting area. Steve 846-3123

Rooms/Beds available weekly or monthly. (970)879-9101 or (970)819-2022

Sundance @ Fishcreek. “Office Space Available: Small Offices, Recently Remodeled, Lots of Natural Light, Call: Bob Larson, 871-4992 or 846-6899.”

Downtown Steamboat 7th Street location. Furnished Master Suite - fabulous home. $1,000/mo. Includes utilities, cable, parking n/s, n/p. 875-0700

RIVERSIDE PLACE Several square footage options available for retail/office/restaurant space. Jim Hansen (970)846-4109 Thaine Mahanna (970)846-5336 Old Town Realty

New Copper Ridge condo, sunny corner bedroom. private bathroom. Large Deck with awesome views! WD/DW/NS/NP $800 month, 1/3rd utilities. 1st/Last/Deposit 970-819-8151 Fully furnished Master Bedroom for rent in new Townhome located in West End Village. NP/WD/DW/Parking $950.00 month and 1/3 utilities. Young professional please call: 970-819-3303/or vincentmconnolly@gmail.com 2 rooms for rent ASAP in Steamboat. In beautiful 4BD Townhome, shared bathroom, NS/NP, furnished. Rent includes all utilities & internet. First/deposit. $650/monthly per room. Month-month lease. (970)846-6423

Storage units for rent, 8x10’s $50/monthly, 8x15’s $75/monthly. (970) 879-1065 Need more office space ?? Hilltop Document Storage is the perfect solution for storing sensetive and confidential documents. Call (970)879-5242

Fish Creek Falls Condo. Offered at $234,500 #123921. Unit 104 is on the “main” level with a deck facing Sleeping Giant and downtown Steamboat Springs. This unit has been well kept and ready for a new owner. Dogs are allowed for owners, the dues are VERY LOW, and complex is on the bus route. Fishcreek Falls condos offers one of a kind location between town and mountain. Don’t miss this one! Call Cheryl Foote a t ( 9 7 0 ) 8 4 6 - 6 4 4 4 www.SteamboatMountainProperties.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

FSBO #313 Ski-inn, 2BD/2BA, W/D 987 sq.ft. $572,500 Phil (713)818-1513

Timber Run, lowest priced 3BD condo on the mountain. On site check in and shuttle service Reduced to $479,900. Call Mike at (970)875-2940 CGR Realty

Property #1: Ski In / Ski Out! Offered for $399,900 Mls # 123006 Two bedroom plus loft with two bathrooms. Beautifully remodeled furnished turn key. New fireplace,furniture, cabinets, appliances, lighting and plumbing fixtures, floors, and much more! Tour: www.propertyPanorama.com/43829. Property #2: Affordable Mountain Condo! Offered for $259,900 MLS #122773 Two bedrooms with great layout. Perfect for locals and 2nd homeowners. New windows, pets allowed, views, two blocks to the base area ready for your redecorating! Tour: www.propertyPanorama.com/43173.

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Ski Inn Condo. Offered at $454,000. #124058 Great location, ski in ski out on the mountain. Remodeled larger two bedroom unit. Bldg 1 has larger bedrooms and extra owners closets. Lower level unit gives you easy access. Views of the gondola, Emerald Mountain from the deck and living room. Beautiful fireplace in the living room. Call Marc Small at (970)879-8100 or (970)846-8815 www.ForSaleSteamboat.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

DRASTIC REDUCTION - SAVE $200,000. NOW @ ORIGINAL DEVELOPER’S PRICING. New construction, slopeside @ gondola. Exquisitely furnished 4 Bed 4 Bath, 1/8 fractional residence @ One Steamboat Place. Includes membership @ Catamount Ranch & Club and exchange privileges in Napa, Tuscany, Cabo, St Thomas, Scottsdale, Snowmass & future residence clubs. $425,000. Call 561-818-2393

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RENT REDUCED! 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath Indian Meadows Townhome. Back deck over looks pond. New carpet & paint, W/D, D/W, N/S, gas fireplace, on bus route, dog negotiable. $1300/monthly includes water, snow removal, trash & cable. 970-879-4104

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1BD, shared bath, great views! W/D, $600/monthly includes utilities, on the bus route, No drugs, NS/NP, (970) 734-7374 Offering Weekly and Monthly room rentals. $199/week single, $250/week double. $700/monthly single, $900/monthly double. Room tax is applicable. Rooms include mini fridge/microwave, satellite TV, wireless internet, 24 hour fitness room, 24 hour diner on property. Extra quiet and dark rooms. All rooms include private bath/maid service 3x weekly. Located at 98 Moffat Ave. Yampa, CO. Telephone (970) 638-1000 Room available 3BD new home, 30 minutes from Steamboat. NS, fenced yard, W/D. $450/month includes all utilities. Must like dogs. 970-846-0880

Princeville Hawaii, Westin 2BD, brand new condo. Available 2009. 1 week. Luxury vacation opportunity at only $3900. 970-871-0166 IDEAL FOR TWO FAMILIES Luxurious 4 Bedroom, 3 bath home at base of mountain; hot tub. two kitchens; jetted tub/steam shower in deluxe master suite; sleeps up to 14; Weekly ski season rentals. VHR07-16 (970) 879-5371 ext 101. One Bedroom Furnished Guesthouse in Hayden. Daily or Weekly Rental. Call Kristy for more information. (970)846-3805

Unfurnished room with private bath 3BD/3BA duplex downtown. W/D, fireplace, deck, great views, wifi, NS/NP. $650/month+1/3rd utilities. Available 1/1/09 (970)846-6233

Very nice Hayden home, furnished room for rent. W/D, NS. $550/month+ utilities. Hot tub. Must love dogs. Fist/Last/Deposit (970)-276-4545 Roommate wanted to share 3BD/2BA home in Heratige Park with one other. $550 /monthly + utilities. (970) 846-8890 Responsible and clean roommate wanted for cute, sunny home, close to downtown. $595mo + $595 deposit &1/3 utilities. NS/ND, 970-846-8483 2 rooms, full private bath, shared kitchen, high speed internet, garage, WD, pet negotiable. Lots of storage, available January 1st . $725 per month plus 1/2 utilities plus first, last and deposit. (970)846-8783

Office space for Free! Single to large executive suite in a professional building great parking,1st month Free 970-870-3473

Seeking Equity partner for Steamboat Springs based Technology business. BackgroundMarketing/Sales preferred. Pursuits@DreamPursuits.com

1,240 s.f. Commercial/Retail in Central Park Plaza. Call 846-3652

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Executive Office Suites Available at the Historic Old Pilot Building Great downtown location with full amenities: Phone System, Wireless Internet, Cable TV, Conference Room, and Kitchen. Contact Rhianna at (970)875-0999

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Pentagon West A professional office building. Unique, creative & dog friendly. Common area kitchen, conference room & high speed internet included Unit 304 Fantastic views of ski area. Bright sunny space. 331 sqft. plus storage space. $500/monthly plus cam. Unit 205 Exterior/Interior entrance. Lots of natural light. 256 sqft. $425/monthly plus cam. Call (970)871-9101 ext 10 or (970)846-4267

FSBO- Very well established Alteration and Repairs Sewing Shop. Have been in business for 28 years. Call 970-846-7200

LETS MAKE A DEAL! BRAND NEW LIVE WORK BUILDING. FRONTS ELK RIVER ROAD. 1250 UP TO 7500 SQ FT. WILL TENANT FINISH TO YOUR SPECS. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO MISS! DAVID EPSTEIN 291-9555 300sqft Office in Professional Suite located at HWY 40 and Walton Creek Road. $1,250 per month. All inclusive. Contact the COMMERCIAL PROPERTY GROUP LLC. at (970) 879-1402 540sf Office space in the “Truck Stop” building. Available immediately. Call The Commercial Property Group LLC, 970-879-1402 2007sq ft warehouse and office space for rent. Overhead doors, good access and parking, West Steamboat Location. Contact Commercial Property Group (970)-879-1402 2 Professional offices located between the mountain and downtown. 1,000sqft/1800sqft. High end finishes. Turn key. Call Scott Bessette (970)879-7430 100 Park Avenue/Office Space. Call Mark 879-3311

MAIN STREET OAK CREEK HIGH PROFILE HISTORIC LOG CABIN , TRADING POST,CANTINA.HAVE THE VISION?ALL OFFERS CONSIDERED.RENT,SELL,OWC DAVID EPSTEIN 291-9555 Beautiful, Centrally Located Classy Store Front or Office Space. Office space up to 5000SF. Financing options available. 970-879-9133 THE VICTORIA 10th & Lincoln RETAIL AND OFFICE SPACE FOR SALE OR LEASE Hal Unruh - Prudential Steamboat Realty 970-875-2413 ��

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Professional office space in a Park like setting. Generous parking, easy access, individual offices, conference room and Kitchen. Call the Commercial Property Group (970)879-1402

Live/Work units available 1700 sq.ft. down, 750 sq.ft. up, w/private back yard. Steps from downtown. $539,000 or lease w/option. 970-846-7441

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Top of the world views at The West condominiums, 2BD/2BA. Walk to the slopes. A 4 diamond rated unit! $499,000 Call Roy Powell, RE/MAX Steamboat 970-846-1661 Steal this Gem! Walk to Gondola. Views, Park, Hot tubs, Bus Line. Gorgeous 3br/2bath end unit. Balconies. Heated Garage, $445,000. 970-846-7012 MLS#123945 SEE MORE GREAT DEALS LIKE THIS at CoolColoradoRealEstate.com * MORTGAGE AND REAL ESTATE NEWS * CURRENCY CONVERTER * KEY WEATHER REPORTS here to Denver * THE BEST www LISTING COVERAGE CoolColoradoRealEstate.com PUT ME AND MY WEBSITE TO WORK FOR YOU! MARGIE CALLAHAN-BROKER, REALTOR®, ePro® Margie@CoolColoradoRealEstate.com 970-846-7012 Yampa View’s Most Luxurious Condominium! Offered at $437,500. #123522. This 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo has just been beautifully remodeled from floor to ceiling with all of the finest finishes. Featuring hardwood and slate tile floors, granite countertops, stainless appliances, new cabinetry, new bathrooms and beautiful furnishings. Quiet corner unit with incredible valley views – this one is not to be missed! Call Adrienne Stroock at (970)846-3590 or (970)879-8100 Prudential Steamboat Realty

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GREAT VALUE, SPACIOUS HOME. Offered at $349,900. #124232. Cute, bright and sunny 2+ bedroom/ 2 bath home above Oak Creek. Artistic details throughout, room for everyone. Private master with big windows and balcony. Nice location on 3 fenced lots, storage shed and room to build a garage. www.SResortRealEstate.com Call Kathy or Erik Steinberg at (970)846-8418 steiny@cmn.net Prudential Steamboat Realty

Ideal location on a cul-de-sac and backing to a small stream. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 3 levels. 3 decks, and 2 fireplaces in this classy spacious half duplex, Under $700K Greg Forney Prudential 870 1020

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Two Red Hawk Village Single Family Homes. Offered at $315,000 & $350,000. #s123201 & 123202. Brand new, 3 bedrooms, under $400k for a limited time - priced for a quick sale! 100% frame construction, attached two car garage, hardwood floors, solid knotty pine 2-panel doors and trim, slate entryway, spacious vaulted ceilings and decks. Great neighborhood with play area. Close to fishing, boating, hiking & hunting. Call Cindy MacGray at 970-846-0342 Prudential Steamboat Realty High Atop Whitewood Subdivision. Offered at $1,750,000. #116875. Panoramic views and set on 9 acres! Enjoy an abundance of windows for passive solar heat and lots of light, vaulted ceilings and excellent layout. Newly remodeled, this spacious 5 bedroom home is offered in “turn key” condition with all furnishings. New granite countertops and appliances in the kitchen, new master bathroom, new office/sunroom, new deck and hot tub. There is plenty of room for entertaining, home office, exercise or guests. Bring along the horses! Call Cam Boyd at (970)879-8100 ext. 416 or (970)846-8100 www.SteamboatRealtor.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

Two homes for the price of one!! One side consists of 1BD/1BA adjoining to a 3BD/2BA Home on 1.72 acres. Quiet private location, consider possibilities! $620,000 Call Roy Powell RE/MAX/STEAMBOAT (970)846-1661

2BR/1BA Riverside Duplex unit, New roof, carpet, paint. Nice yard, No HOA $279,000. (970)879-2025 Broker Direct MLS# 122695

Tamarack Point Subdivision Offered at $562,000 #123755 Great family neighborhood with childrens’ playground in center of the subdivision right across the street from this home. This is one of the best located homes in the subdivison. It is a very private location with great southern views from the master bedroom. This home has the largest floor plan available with a wonderful family room in the basement. Call Jack & Diane Carter at (970)879-8100 or (970)846-3261 Prudential Steamboat Realty

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Post and Beam Overlooking Town. Offered at $684,000. #122249. “Amazing views from Strawberry Park to Sleeping Giant, this post-and-beam log home has room for everyone with 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, second family room, office/den, upstairs loft area and a oversized two-car garage. Rustic elegance with granite countertops, maple cabinets, vaulted ceilings, hand hewn wood and slate flooring, huge wrap around deck and outstanding views. This home is air-conditioned and has no HOA dues. Call Colleen de Jong at (970)846-5569 Colleen@PrudentialSteamboatRealty.com Prudential Steamboat Realty Two homes for the price of one!! One side consists of 1BD/1BA adjoining to a 3BD/2BA Home on 1.72 acres. Quiet private location, consider possibilities! $620,000 Call Roy Powell RE/MAX/STEAMBOAT (970)846-1661 4BD/3.5BTH $489/month! Foreclosure! Stop renting! 5% down, 30yrs @ 8% APR! For listing call 1-800-576-6921 ext. B030 5 bedroom overlooking downtown with 2 Living areas, hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings and commanding views. $1,100,000. Wayne ranieri, Steamboat Village Brokers, 970-879-7800 ext 123 Quiet and private new home on the mountain, nestled in the pines with views to elate. 7 bedrooms, (3 have lofts) 6 baths in 5400 sqft. All the new technologies, theater room, whole house sound system and lock off guest quarters. $1,825,000, Wow! Greg Forney -Prudential- 970-846-5507 Stunning Home in Silverview Estates! Approximately 4,600 sqft 4BD/4.5BA Exceptional finishes and detail throughout! $849,000 Call Roy Powell at RE/MAX STEAMBOAT (970) 846-1661

FORECLOSURE! 4BD/2BA, $32,500! Bank foreclosure! Must Sell! For Listing Call 1-800-576-6921 ext.R406 Exclusive Steamboat Offered at $1,625,000, #122714 This Chadwick Townhome is in one of the best locations of this exclusive boutique complex. This end unit boasts gorgeous mountain views and soothing summertime sounds of the flowing stream and pond that it overlooks. With 4+ bedrooms, the new owner will be assure maximum space and privacy. Fully upgraded with luxury hardwood floors, granite, stainless steel appliances, private hot tub, soaring ceilings and furniture package! Call The Hibbard Team at (970)846-8247 or (970)846-8536 www.steamboatliving.com Prudential Steamboat Realty Beautiful South Valley Home on 35+ Acres. Offered at $1,600,000. #122748. Just remodeled 5 bedroom, 3 bath home on over 35 acres in the beautiful South Valley. Enjoy the expansive views as you sit in your hot tub, or entertain in the brand new kitchen and family area, recording studio, 12-car garage. Large outbuilding for all of the toys. Only 15 minutes from downtown Steamboat. Call Kathy or Erik Steinberg at (970)846-8418 steiny@cmn.net. Prudential Steamboat Realty FSBO Maintenance free home on 12 acres Rabbit Ears Village 1536 SQ FT., 2 BR, 2BA, 32x32 attached heated garage, 1600 SQ FT., Trex party deck- hot tub, Sno-Cat Owner Finance $405,000 Call (719) 395-2545

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Classy log home on 36 acres.2/2 with oversized garage. Recreation at doorstep with real privacy. Steamboat Lake Area at $695,000. Call Doug at Button Realty Co. 846-3475 Architectural Gem. Offered at $2,112,750 #120578 HUGE PRICE REDUCTION! World class luxury home overlooking the Sheraton Golf course. 30’ vaulted ceilings, windows all around for amazing views, granite and marble countertops, custom cabinetry, & top-of-the line appliances. Incredible home with dramatic views of the valley, Golf course membership and transfer fee. Call Cindy MacGray at (970)875-2442 or (970)846-0342 Prudential Steamboat Realty Luxury Ski-In/Ski-Out at The Antlers Offered at $2,500,000, #123339 Luxury Ski-in/Ski-out slopeside residence in Premier location within the Antlers @ Christie Base community. Rarely on the market, top floor unit commanding breathtaking unobstructed views of the ski area. This 4 bedroom, 4 bath residence is beautifully appointed and offers all the conveniences one needs to enjoy the ultimate family retreat. Tastefully furnished, turn-key, and ready for your occupancy or high-end nightly rental. Call Kim Kreissig at (970)870-7872 or (970)846-4250 Prudential Steamboat Realty Luxury Home in the Sanctuary Offered at $3,979,000, #122392 This home overlooks the Sheraton Golf Course with amazing views of the mountain and valley. This 5 bedroom/ 7 bath including a 1 bed caretakers unit home & backs up to 38 acres of green space.The master suite has a private deck, fireplace and oversized his and her closets. A gourmet kitchen, covered deck and media room top off this amazing home. Call for an appointment. Call Marc Small at (970)879-8100 or (970)846-8815 www.ForSaleSteamboat.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

Great Downtown Neighborhood. Offered at $599,000. #123971. This comfortable three bedroom, two bath home is located on a quiet street within a short walk to the high school, in a great downtown neighborhood. A perfect family residence awaits you on this .3 acre lot with mature landscaping. Newer kitchen appliances. Enjoy excellent ski area views with your family and friends on your large back deck. Call Suellyn Godino at (970)846-9967 Prudential Steamboat Realty

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�� Amazing Views! Offered at $1,495,000 #123632. Stunning new 5 bedroom home with marvelous views of Fish Creek Canyon and Mt Werner. The dramatic solid stone exterior entrance makes for a warm welcome into the two story grand foyer with its custom wrought iron stair railing. This well designed, professionally appointed home includes designer lighting through-out, elegant rustic Italian hardware, the use of all natural stones including granite and travertine slabs accented with metals and glass detailing. Knotty Alder solid two panel doors with arch tops, 5” Alder base and case and wide plank solid hardwood flooring imported from the Bordeaux Region of France sets this home apart from all others. Walk-out completed lower level with wet bar, full bath, two bedrooms, laundry room and 800sqft activity room. Stamped and stained patio with professional landscaping. Two-car heated garage with easy access to mudroom and kitchen. Call Cindy MacGray at (970)875-2442 or (970)846-0342 Prudential Steamboat Realty

100% FINANCING AVAILABLE Less Than Rent- 2 BDRM - $199,000 Unfinished 1935SF Basement- 3+ BDRM, never lived in - $329,000 SELLER SAYS SELL NOW PRICED BELOW APPRAISAL- 5555SF w/360° Views- $1,395,000 5 ACRES- 10 min to town- $245,000 BEST BUYS IN STEAMBOAT ONLY $159,000-4 BDRMS w/garage Ski-Bike-Walk-2 BDRM w/gar-$378,000 Trappeur’s- 2 BDRM w/AC - $415,000 Walk to the Slopes- 2 BDRM - $429,000 Mtn Townhouse-3 BDRMS w/ gar $765,000 FOR VIRTUAL TOURS OF ALL LISTINGS VISIT WWW.LISAOLSON.COM

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West Condo Four diamond, 2BD/2BA updated and furnished/ QUick sale at $399,000. Call Mike at 970-875-2940 CGR Realty.

Immaculate Single Family Home Offered at $799,000, #121389 Offering the ultimate location close to Whistler Park, minutes from the Ski Area, and easy access to the Core Trail. Fabulously remodeled in 2007 – no expense spared in this lovely home. Exterior has rustic appointments with real log siding. Owner has dramatically improved the property with the addition of new redwood deck (with great views of ski hill), installation of an irrigation system, a new stone patio, additional landscaping including a rock wall and new three-rail fence. Interior offers a great open floor plan with vaulted T&G wood ceilings. Home is warm and charming with luxury appointments that include new appliances, hickory cabinetry, slate flooring and slate shower surrounds. Truly a MUST SEE residence. Call Kim Kreissig at (970)870-6470 or (970)846-4250 Prudential Steamboat Realty

Views, Views, Views! Offered at $3,989,000, #122380 Possibly the best views of the mountain can be seen from this 5 bedroom/ 7 bath home. The master suite is on the main level with its own office and walk out to a private hot tub. A large family room, wine cellar, great storage and incredible craftsmanship can be found in this luxury home. Call for an appointment. Completion in August of ‘08. Call Marc Small at (970)879-8100 or (970)846-8815 www.ForSaleSteamboat.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

Unigue, spacious downtown site. 11 city lots, .79 acres total. Wonderful views of Sand Mountain, Sleeping Giant & Soda Mountain. Includes 2BD rental home. $584,900 Call Roy RE/MAX Steamboat 970-846-1661

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Wonderful View Home. Offered at $699,500. #123494. An architecturally designed home with views and great natural light all day and into the sunsets. Hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances, an open floor plan - truly an ideal home. 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and a separate apartment to offset the mortgage. Call Charlie Dresen at (970)846-6435 www.SteamboatsMyHome.com Prudential Steamboat Realty Overlook Drive Oasis Offered at $2,400,000, #122522 This 4 bedroom / 4 ½ bath home has panoramic views from the valley to downtown. The house overlooks the Rollingstone Golf Course (formerly the Sheraton) and comes with a transferable golf membership. Easy living with a main floor master and his /her walk in closets. Eat-in country kitchen has a sitting area and fireplace. Three bedrooms on the lower level have access to a covered deck and large family room with wet bar. Great storage, 1000+ square feet of unfinished space, fenced in dog yard, water features, and a spacious office with a private bath complete this special home. Call Marc Small at (970)879-8100 or (970)846-8815 www.ForSaleSteamboat.com Prudential Steamboat Realty Buy Now & Save! OLD TOWN, $875,000 1121 Merritt St. 2663 sq.ft. 4BD/2BA Ranch w/walkout basement. Views, Deck, Sunroom 24x30 Garage, Extra Parking, Secondary Unit 970-846-4445 Brokers Welcome www.mlscheckout.com/112809

Creekside Bungalow. Offered at $639,000. This lovely creekside bungalow in Old Town Steamboat is just about as cute as it can get. Located on Butcherknife creek, this two bedroom, one bath home has a blend of timeless style and modern efficiencies. Vaulted ceilings greet you in the living area followed by an updated kitchen, dining area, and all wrapped around the sounds of the babbling brook that is in the back yard. Walk to shops, restaurants, and local schools from this cute home in Steamboat Springs. Call Charlie Dresen at (970)846-6435 www.SteamboatsMyHome.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

Mobile Home- 2BD/1BA 12 x 64 $26,000 OBO, Neg. 879-3339 2BD/1BA Mobile Home West Acres. $35,000 2BD/1BA Mobile Home in Dream Island. $20,000 Negotiable partial trade. Day-819-8108 Evenings 724-1288 For sale 16X80 Magnolia trailer house. Good shape, needs some work. MUST BE MOVED. Call 824-7655 for more information. Leave a message. PRIME LOCATION IN WEST ACRES. 3BD/2BA. $70K (970) 819-2699

BRING OFFERS! BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED TOWNHOME ON MOUNTAIN! 3+BD/4BA 2,000 SQFT. GRANITE/SLATE, NEW CARPET, $659,000 KARI AT OLD TOWN REALTY (970)879-TOWN

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Subalpine Condo. Offered at $345,000. #123268. This is a totally remodeled top floor corner unit. Enjoy ski mtn views and lots of light due to the extra windows in this unit. The remodel completed last year includes hardwood floors, new paint and texture, new tile and carpet and new vanities in the baths. Call Cheryl Foote at (970)846-6444 www.SteamboatMountainProperties.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

Downtown 3BD/2BA. $742,000 near schools, caretakers: plans; Downtown 3BD/2BA. $489,000. Strawberry Park Ranch, Sweetest land, $2.65M. Paul Hands, Mountain Home Realty (970)879-1086

Location! 360 Views! Offered at $1,500,000 #124047. Exclusive neighborhood. Privacy! All within easy access to downtown, Central Park Plaza, Ski area, Core Trail, Rita Valentine Park, bike trails and much more. Large home with 5 bedrooms plus library, 4,300 + square feet on 1.38 acres. Expanded deck off the main level with incredible views of the valley. 3-car garage, circular driveway and landscaping. Great equity potential with remodel. Call Cindy MacGray at (970)875-2442 or (970)846-0342 Prudential Steamboat Realty

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Charming, top floor, 1 bedroom West condo with vaulted ceilings, beautiful furnishings, views and more. Complex is just steps from the Gondola with great amenities. $320,000 - MLS #123511 Laura Hetrick, Coldwell Banker 846-3985 or 879-814

Hillsider Condo. Offered at $449,900. #123059 Great spacious end unit in small boutique Hillsider Condo! Great updates, nicely furnished, deck over looking Valley and Mountain views, on the bus route or walk to ski area! This unit is a great full time or rental unit....whether it’s Summer time or Winter time! Call The Hibbard Team at (970)846-8247 or (970)846-8536 www.steamboatliving.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

Great Location! Offered at $875,000. #124046 Great location with easy access to public schools, Spring Creek Trail, and downtown area. Sitting on two city lots this 3 bed, 2 bath home is loaded with potential. A feeling of privacy, views of the Ski area, great fenced back yard with water feature plus mature trees with landscaping and large deck for entertaining or enjoying morning coffee. 2 car garage and storage shed. Call Cindy MacGray at (970)875-2442 or (970)846-0342 Prudential Steamboat Realty

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Location, Location, Top floor corner, 3 bedroom at Base of Ski Area. Fantastic views, vaulted ceilings, price reduced to $550,000. Wayne Ranieri, Steamboat Village Brokers 970-879-7800 ext 123

Just steps to the base of the Mountain. Offered at $839,000. #123086. Just steps to base of Mountain Area, this oversized Phoenix unit boasts soaring ceilings, tile, updated kitchen and privacy for the 10 plus guests it holds comfortably. This property is set apart from others with its own studio lock unit which can be rented or saved for private use, while the other part is rented out! This unit holds its own and has tons of really unique options! Call The Hibbard Team at (970)846-8247 or (970)846-8536 www.steamboatliving.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

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A Must See! Offered at $245,000. #123409 Completely remodeled one bedroom, one bath West Unit. Tile floors, granite countertops, two double sinks in bathroom, designed furniture package. 4 Diamond rated. Includes golf course membership at the Rolling Stone with transfer fee. 300 yards for Ski Slopes. This will not last long! Call The Hibbard Team at (970)846-8247 or (970)846-8536 www.steamboatliving.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

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Dignified Mountain Abode. Offered at $1,675,000. #124176. Newly built and exquisite in every manner, this Cimarron townhome gives you 5 bedrooms on three levels. Upgrades include shower & bath enclosures, security system, ceiling fans throughout, custom fireplace stonework and a quaint entry hall cubby. The finishing touches include Giallo Venizianno granite and knotty alder cabinetry, trim and doors. Within walking distance to the slopes, you’ll enjoy every minute that this 3,000+ sq ft villa has to offer. Call Cam Boyd at (970)879-8100 ext. 416 or (970)846-8100 www.SteamboatRealtor.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

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Charming Townhome for Sale, Offered at $575,000, #122225. Beautiful townhome ideally located in Longview Highlands. Corner parcel with private driveway, large open space in front yard, no power line issues!, and wonderful sunny views of Emerald Mountain. Exceptionally well-maintained by original owner, the interior is like new! This 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath home boasts an exceptional upgrade package including alder cabinets, granite tile countertops, stainless appliances, & brushed nickel faucets. Vaulted ceilings, a stone fireplace, and wonderful storage add charm and functionality. Call Kim Kreissig at (970)870-6470 or (970)846-4250 Prudential Steamboat Realty Ski in/Ski out. The ultimate ski Chalet bordering ski trails. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, car port and beautiful views out every room. $895,000. Wayne Ranieri, Steamboat Village Brokers. 970-846-1002 New Price . Walk to the slopes from this 3+ bedroom Herbage . Beautifully remodeled, pet friendly, nightly rentals allowed, on bus route Amazing deal $449,000.00 #121566 Anchor Realty 970-879-9212

West End Village, Ridge Line lot, single family w/caretaker, $250,000 Elk River Realty Norbert Turek 846-1610 norbert@elkriverrealty.com 5 & 7 Acre LPS Parcels. 11 miles South of Steamboat. Boarders 200 acres open space, by owner $220,00 Make offer. Owner financing available. 970-879-0868 Rare Ranchland in South Valley. Offered at $1,500,000 #118981. Rare larger parcel in the fabulous South Valley. Extensive panoramic views of the ski area, divide, Sarvis wilderness area, Blacktail Mountain, Stagecoach, and Thorpe Mountain. Wonderful pond dug in the late 1950’s is a wildlife watcher’s delight. Homesite has 30+ year old trees and the best views in the South Valley. Sellers have owned and farmed this land since 1954. Call Kathy or Erik Steinberg at (970)846-8418 steiny@cmn.net 2 - 35 acre parcels 12 miles South of Steamboat. $220,000/each,make offer, by owner,Owner financing available. 970-879-0868 Snowmobiler’s Welcomed! Magnificent Mountain Vistas! 5+acres w/National Forest Access, $225,000 Hahn’s Peak views. High speed internet, DSL available! Roy Powell RE/MAX Steamboat (970)846-1661

Stagecoach at South Shore. Great water views Lot 143, .75 acre adjacent to 10 acres of open space! $67,000.00 (970)879-5677 Call All Bargain Hunters. Offered at $387,000. #124111. This is the ultimate building site with fabulous views and gentle slope. Why live in the boonies? Have the feeling of seclusion and wide open spaces, but with all the creature comforts. Elk River Estates is a horse-friendly subdivision within 3 miles of Ski Town U.S.A. This property is priced to sell. Call Suellyn Godino at (970)846-9967 Prudential Steamboat Realty

160 contiguous acres. 4 miles North of ElkHead Reservoir. Easy access. (2)80 acre parcels $240,000 each or $470,000 for both. 970-846-8630 or 970-846-7796 FSBO Emerald Ridge Ranch. Offered at $10,800,000 #123258. Over 9,500 sq ft on 300+ acres with 6 bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms. This manor comes appointed with native log beams, immense stone fireplace, large picture windows and panoramic views. The property’s acreage borders state land and lies adjacent to 4,000 acres of BLM land for endless horseback riding, hiking, cross-country skiing or watching the countless elk, deer and other wildlife that calls this area home. A 5-stall horse barn makes this an equestrian paradise. Call Cam Boyd at (970)879-8100 ext. 416 or (970)846-8100 www.SteamboatRealtor.com Prudential Steamboat Realty River Bend Ranch. Offered at $1,495,000. #123153. Overlooking the Elk River and Mad Creek below, River Bend Ranch is a hidden gem conveniently located just 7 miles from town. The 35-acre property provides fly fishing on over 1.5 miles of the river. The classic 4,188 square foot home with 5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths and is well suited for entertaining or enjoying the beautiful scenery. Call Cam Boyd at (970)879-8100 ext. 416 or (970)846-8100 www.SteamboatRealtor.com Prudential Steamboat Realty

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Downtown Triplex- Fully rented, legal, triplex in, great neighborhood close to schools overlooking downtown and to the ski area. Live in one and rent the other 2 units. It’s on a large lot that can be split into 2 buildable lots. Will consider owner financing. $775,000 Realtors welcome. 970-846-4154.

Want Views? 35 acres with fantastic ridge-top building sites and 360° views. Driveway and walking trails already cleared. $350,000. Wayne Ranieri, Steamboat Village Brokers 970-879-7800 ext 123

Seller Will Consider Trade! Aspen Tree Covered. Great views of the continental divide. Ready to build. Steamboat Lake. $125,000 Call Roy Powell RE/MAX Steamboat 970-846-1661

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�� 2006 Arctic Cat M7, 153” track, $5000. 2002 Polaris 700 RMK, 144” track. $3,500. Both in excellent condition. (970) 824-7737

�� 2002 Chevy Suburban 4WD. Runs, but needs engine work, 240k miles. $3,000 OBO (970)870-1494 or (970)846-3970 1983 Jeep Cherokee. 4WD. Snow tires. Ultimate valley car. Body is rough but she runs like a champ. $1,500. 856-904-4470.

1993 Toyota pickup, extra vcab, 5 speed manual. Runs good. $3500/OBO Call for more details. 970-736-2279 or 970-819-8953

New MAC Tools Tech 1000 tool box with top hutch keyed a like. $3000 OBO. 970-629-8898

1995 Subaru Legacy Outback, 5 speed manual transmision. Great gas mileage. Runs great. 175,00 miles $3,500. Must Sell. 846-1594 2002 Nissan Sentra GXE, Tinted windows, snowboard rack, Premium-CD/AC, auto, Power-features, Tilt/Cruise 83k miles, VERY good condition $6300 970-871-0399, 970-846-1322 1994 Honda Civic LX. Runs well, great gas mileage. 130k miles. $2100 (303) 709-7706 FINANCING / WORKING PEOPLE! $500.00 MINIMUM DOWNPAYMENT. NO CREDITCHECK. Tom Reuter, Dealer, 875-0700. “Working Cars/Working People” 24,000 Mile Warranties! www.checkpointautosales.com

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Tune-ups, Troubleshooting & Repairs All Computer & Laptop Brands New & Used PCs, Laptops & Parts, Virus Removal & Prevention, Wireless Networking, DELL Registered Partner 970-879-8890 DaveGlantz@ComputerCures.biz

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Sanyo 25 inch tv w/ remote. Works perfectly and has great color $35 Call Andy @ 970-988-9613

Loftness 6’ snowblower 3pt PTO, like new (3 seasons) $1950. Call 879-6478

GONZALES FIREWOOD Cut, split, seasoned stacked & delivered (970)723-8604 (970)846-6206 Firewood Pine/dry/split, delivered/stacked. Serving Steamboat and surrounding area. $150/cord Call Beetle Loggers, LLC at 970-756-6125 Dry firewood, $40 for half cord. Delivery extra. J.Bonn Wood Products. (970) 846-8430

Free copies of Three Wire Winter magazine, NRC Broadcasting’s Yampa Valley Heritage 2009 historical photograph calendar, and Steam Rails to Ski Trails: An Architectural Walking Tour of Downtown Steamboat Springs, are available at the Tread of Pioneers Museum. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm. Free towing of unwanted & abandoned vehicles. 879-1065

STEAMBOAT’S MATTRESS HEADQUARTERS Mountain Mattress and furniture, Queen sets from $299. All natural, memory foam, 22 models on floor (970)879-8116

Lost grayish, purple fuzzy purse with gold chain in Wal-mart parking lot on New Year’s Day morning between 9:30-10:00a.m. 970-879-3304 City of Steamboat Springs Animal Shelter Phone: 879-0621 - 760 Critter Court 12/30/08 12/29/08-Found in Old Town Steamboat- Adult orange short hair un-neutered male cat. 12/20/08-Found in Hayden: Female long hair cat. White with 2 grey spots on head. 12/30/08 Found in White Haven Trailer Park- 1 large, un-neutered, black and white male cat. 1 grey and white female short hair cat. 12/31/08 Found on Lynx Pass- Female, tan, thick coat, female, medium size shepherd (?) mix. Found at Three Peaks Grill- Black long hair with gold eyes kitten. Found on CR 179 on Oak Creek side Un-neutered male, black and white short hair cat.

Buying Coins Gold and Silver. By appointment ONLY Call Dan 824-5807 or 326-8170 anytime Leave message if No Answer.

96 Yamaha snowmobile and trailer runs, needs carb adjustment, truck bed trailer, must go! $150/OBO will sell separately 303-718-3094

36 gun safe.1926 Victrola. 7’x7’ hot tub. Antique radios. Snowplow. Moving Sale. Everything must go! Call for price. 970-819-8336 Beautifully finished Fireplace surround: Contemporary design with wonderful attention to detail in the crown mantle and side pieces. $250 OBO Call 846-0482 to inquire or make offer. ALL STEEL PORTABLE STORAGE CONTAINERS. Strong, secure, weather & rodent proof. Great for business, home, ranch, oil field & more. 8x8x20ft in stock. 8x8x40ft. available. 970-824-3256.

Come home to a clean house! Thorough, dependable, insured housecleaning.One time or on-going cleaning. Local references. Call Kathy 638-4495

CELLULAR UPGRADE PHONE LOOKING FOR YOU. CONSTANT COMPANIONSHIP AND LOTS OF COMMUNICATION. UPGRADE YOU CELL PHONE TODAY. CALL MY WIRELESS…… 1755 Central Park Dr - between Walmart & Village Inn 970-846-7000 or 675 S. Lincoln - between town and the mountain, 970-846-2000

Purebred Mini Pinchers. Black & tan. 1 female, 2 males. Claws/tails/1st shots. Ready now. $250-$300. (970)756-2478 or (970)824-7464, leave message.

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Micro chip, vaccinated, wormed, health certified, registered. All from top USDA licensed Breeders. Baker Drive Pets 970-824-3933.

City of Steamboat Springs Animal Shelter Phone: 879-0621 www.petfinder.com DATE: Dec.-19-08 Dogs for Adoption Billie- Beagle mix. Female. Affectionate, playful. In foster care. Bubba- Pit Bull- Male, 1 ½ yrs. old. Purebred Red Nose. Big baby! Apollo- Presa Canario-Male-Senior. AKC registered. Extra large! We are accepting holds for 4 puppies-Red Heeler/Border Collie- 8 weeks old. $30-$120. Cats for Adoption Many cats and kittens are available for adoption! $30-$100.

2006 Polaris 600 RMK 144 track, 2000 miles. See at 365 Steele Street, Craig. $3850/obo. (970)-620-0396 or 824-6938, Scott.

Free confidential pregnancy tests & ultrasound. Pregnancy Resource Center. 544 Oak Street (The Good Shepherd House) Walk-ins welcome Tuesdays from 12-6PM, and Thursdays 9-1PM or call for an appointment any time. 871-1307

German Wirehaired Pointers - * Puppies ready December 18th! * 2 year old started male. Call Mike @ (970) 875-2940

Oak entertainment center. Excellent condition, includes 50” projection style TV. (970) 879-7609

PHOTOGRAPHERS WANTED at Visiting Nurses Association for help with project. Please contact Ann at 879-2545

There are funds available for uninsured and underinsured local women to pay for annual wellness exams, mammograms and breast cancer treatment costs. Don’t compromise your health we can help! Call the Yampa Valley Breast Cancer Awareness Project to learn how to apply for funds. 846-4554.

Piano Tuning-Formally trained. Guild certified. The only Registered Piano Technician in northwestern Colorado. Home. School. Concert. John Mason 970-819-2771.

PUPPIES: 3 weeks old. Frenchbo puppies. Very cute! Taking deposits. (970)-824-3409 or (970)-629-9486.

1988 34ft. Pace Arrow, 60k miles. Very nice. $8,500 or trade for 4x4 pickup at equal value. Car dolly,$500. (970)-620-7179.

2003 RMK 800,151 track new motor,new clutch, pipe, can, reeds + many extras. $3,500. 819-2496

LOST: 178 cm K2 Apache Crossfire skis w/marker bindings. Older gentleman riding on greenline on 01/01, at 12:30 you got off the bus @ Bear DR & grabbed my skis. Call Ray 846-8706

5 piece light tan leather couch that has many possible arrangements. Cost $5,000, sell for $2,500. (970) 870-1413

Designer chandelier with brass wildlife and wrought iron. Full long hanging chain. Perfect condition. Originally $2,119 now $950/OBO. 870-8900

Bike/jogging Body sculptSaddle/$500 & chande-

Grass Hay for Sale $5 per bale. Stored inside. 970-870-1767

Found- Drum sticks in a small black case on Pine Street. (970)879-5157

AFFORDABLE FURNITURE, NEW AND USED Beds, dressers, bookcases, desk, couches, end tables... RUMMAGERS THRIFT STORE 11th St. South, downtown 870-6087

Futon/$50, Jogger stroller/$75, stroller/$35 Loft-twin bunks/$100, ing set/$75, Courbette Dressage Printers/$25, huge monitor/$25 lier/$75 (970)879.2231

BOOT REPAIR serviced from our home for the past year. Drop point at Craig Ford or call Burl at (970)326-8391.

Lost a pink ipod around the movie theater area and downtown. Christmas present please return. Very special! (970)870-1973

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16’ Utility Trailer with ramps. $1,500. Snowmobile 440, good condition $700! CLEAN used hotel carpet, installed, $8 a yard. 970-819-8108/724-1288

05 Polaris RMK 900 Slp can and intake 159 track 820mi. $4000. 846-9191

BARN- FSBO - 4 stall barn made by Tote-A-Shed. 12x40. Used rarely. Sky lights, gray with blue trim. Sliding doors with bared windows. Very nice barn for any big or small ranch. Please call 970-620-0059 and ask for Tina. Price Reduced!

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2000 GMC Extra Cab SLE 4x4, Clean. Highway Miles 174,000. Sell or Trade For Newer Mountain Snowmobile. Craig Area 307-710-4326

After Christmas Sale 50-75% OFF!! All Christams party supplies, ornaments, decorations and wrapping paper on sale! Stop by Celebtations in Central Park Plaza or call (970)870-6778

Snow Blower ARIENS-ST824LE. Well maintained 6 forward 2 reverse, electric start and pull start, very clean. Tires not tracks. $600.00 Call 871-9925.

200 running age bred Corriente cows. April calvers. $300/each. Also 20 fresh roping steers. Call Tim Zupan at 1-406-578-2234

Found at bottom of Buff Pass Rd. KBC full face helmet and goggles. Call 970-946-9075

Four Star Repair is accepting clean, used motor oil! (970) 879-7557

2004 Toyota Sienna XLE AWD Van, excellent condition. 100k miles, full Thule rack. $14,000 Call evenings (970) 870-0930

Burton Cartel Snowboard Bindings Black & White colorway, Size Large Comes with all hardware, Burton & 4 hole mounting discs and a spare ratchet! Great condition and work perfectly! Get ‘em before their gone!! Only $60!! Call Andy @ 970-988-9613

Elk, Deer and Moose Antlers Wanted, We Will Be in The area Every Weekend. Call 801-851-0791 For Prices.

Johnson Excavation. Large Iron I Beams For Sale-Delivery Available. Call: 879-0982

2002 Nissan Frontier CrewCab, Supercharged! 1997 Dodge ExtraCab, $3,995. #2861. (2) 00-02 Ford Expeditions, Great! Tom Reuter, Dealer, 875-0700. www.checkpointautosales.com

1996 Tacoma LX, 4x4, 2.7 liter, automatic transmission. New topper & 2 sets of tires & rims. $6,500 (970) 846-2690

Sweet dual tip freeskis. Solomon 1080 L161. Brand New. $300. Sweet deal. 871-6694

FIRST CLASS EQUINE TRANSPORT, LLC Need your horse hauled somewhere,anywhere? UPCOMING ROUND TRIPS: California 1/3/09 Florida; 03/18-03/25 Call (970)846-6392 www.firstclassequinetransport.com

Free Boxer/Lab mix puppies. Free to a good home. Very cute! Ready to go. Please call (970) 846-3139

1991 Subaru Loyale, $2,500, Amazing! #2864, (2) 98-00 Pontiac GrandAms, Hot! 2002 Toyota Corolla, Nice! Tom Reuter, Dealer 875-0700. www.tomreuter.com.

I need a place to keep two snowmobiles on a trailer this winter. Preferably in town or mtn. area. Can you help me? Please call Bret@ 970-846-1580. Willing to pay reasonable storage fee. Thanks! ��

Need Computer Help? Friendly, experienced & local service to help with computer/printer setup, wireless networking, application training & troubleshooting. John Gontkof (970)879-5678 jgontkof@hotmail.com

PLOW TRUCK-76 Chevy- Very good condtion, 82k miles. $5,000 Too much? Don’t Call 870-0443

2004 Arctic Cat Mountain Cat 900, 159” track. $4,000. 2004 Wells Cargo 2 place enclosed snowmobile trailer. $2,500 1994 Hallmark pop-up topper. $1,200 (832)754-3186

Flat Tops Ranch Supply Business is being offered for sale. Great location on 131 in Phippsburg capturing a large portion of Routt County clients. Nice net proﬁt margin with room to grow. Very reasonable lease rate on building (also offered for sale). Co-listed with Jon Wade. Listed $695,000

Computer Repair and Virus Cleanup Dell Registered Partner – Let Us Help You With Your New Purchase. New! 24x7 Remote Network Monitoring 970-879-0734 Steamboat www.northwestdata.com

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1993 Chevy Suburban 2500 454/7.4L 4x4, 130k+/-miles, $2,800. 2003 Ford Excursion Limited V8, 7.3L Turbo Diesel 4x4, 140k+/-miles, $10,500. (970)879-6841

HEALTHY CHOCOLATE ??? Yes Santa there really is a Healthy Chocolate. Unprocessed cacao and Acai Berry. Diabetic friendly. 513-218-9304 Christine

Limited guided goose and upland bird hunts. A.M. goose, P.M. birds plus lunch. Call 970-326-7923 or 824-2803.

2000 Honda CR-V, Sweet! (2) 99-01 Subaru Foresters, Fabulous! (2) 2003-4 Grand Cherokees! Tom Reuter, Dealer, 875-0700. 24k/mile warranties www.tomreuter.com $500 Police impounds. 1-800-576-6918 ext. K044

Individual and Group Health Insurance PPO, ALL-PROVIDER. Emergency room, RX. Rates guaranteed. Replace expensive COBRA Plans. www.LoneEagleInsurance.com (970)879-1101

For Sale: Erskine Snowblower model-ES2400 85”x3’ head serial # 1007717. High flow 30 hrs $4,900. Call 970-276-7286

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‘99 Ford F-250 SuperCab , V10, 4x4, pickup. 91k miles, auto, power everything, CD player. Clean, good condition. $8,500. See at 1083 Legion Street in Craig. Cell 509-200-0732/970-326-5164

Set of 245/75r/16 tires all seasons 50% tread $200 OBO. Call 970-629-8898

We can convert your old vinyl records and cassettes to CD. Pick your favorites and call (970)-824-4636 for information.

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2003 Dodge Ram 2500, 4WD, quad cab, long bed, 5.9L diesel. 78k miles, tool box, headache rack. $15,000. (970)846-9714

Prettiest Street In The Subdivision! 1/2acre Aspen tree covered site. Ready for your mountain home. $98,000 Call Roy Powell RE/MAX Steamboat (970) 846-1661

Sanctuary Lot 148-Clearwater Trail. Offered at $850,000, #120831 $500,000 Price Reduction! A gorgeous 1.24 acre flat lot just steps from Fish Creek and trail system to National Forest. Quiet with privacy and beautiful Aspen trees. Golf course membership included! Call John or Wanda Busch at (970)870-7900 www.move2steamboat.com HUGE PRICE REDUCTION Prudential Steamboat Realty

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Build Your Dream Home Along Beautiful Fish Creek!! Offered at $995,000, #121532 Premier lot in highly coveted Barn Village subdivision. Located in small, select cul-de-sac of single family homesites within the development. This .65 acre parcel offers old growth forest and is ideally situated bordering both Fish Creek and the common area open space. Building envelope easily accommodates Fish Creek as your private back yard. Call Kim Kreissig at (970)870-6470 or (970)846-4250 or Karen Hughes at (970)879-8100 or (970)846-4841. PRICE REDUCED! Prudential Steamboat Realty

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Childcare available West side of town. Licensed, experienced & great references. Full day & half days available. Tuition includes healthy snacks and activities/field trips. Call Jen at 819-9932

REMODELER/FINISH CARPENTER SINCE 1977. Insured, local references. Call Tom at (970) 819-7279 or 970-879-5045

PLUMBERS WANTED: Licensed plumbers, apprentices and laborers. Top wages. Benefits included. Full time, year-round. 879-3721.

The Hayden School District has the following positions open for the 2008-2009 school year: Food Service Director: Open immediately-benefits included. Responsible for all administrative and operational aspects of the Food Service Department. Primary responsibilities include personnel supervision, purchasing, inventory control, developing department policy and procedures, maintaining food and facility sanitation, ensuring compliance with all mandated regulations, ensuring proper record keeping procedures, meeting positive relationships with district administration, students, and staff. Application deadline: January 7, 2009. To apply, visit the district website at www.haydensd.org and download an application or call (970)276-3864 and leave message if necessary.

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Let be known to all interested parties that request Let Letitititbe beknown knownto toall allinterested interestedparties partiesthat thataaarequest request for the development application described below has for forthe thedevelopment developmentapplication applicationdescribed describedbelow belowhas has been filed in the office of the Steamboat Springs Debeen been filed filed in in the the office office of of the the Steamboat Steamboat Springs Springs DeDepartment of Planning & Community Development: partment of Planning & Community Development: partment of Planning & Community Development: Applicant: Michael J.K. Olsen Architects, P.O. Applicant: Applicant: Michael Michael J.K. J.K. Olsen Olsen Architects, Architects, P.O. P.O. Box 772385, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 (970) Box Box 772385, 772385, Steamboat Steamboat Springs, Springs, CO CO 80477 80477 (970) (970) 870-1584 870-1584 870-1584 Location of Development: 1285 Buckskin Drive Location Location of of Development: Development: 1285 1285 Buckskin Buckskin Drive Drive Type of Application: Variance Type Variance Type of of Application: Application: Variance General Description: A Variance for front and General AA Variance General Description: Description: Variance for for front front and and side setback encroachments for garage and retenside side setback setback encroachments encroachments for for aaa garage garage and and retenretention wall. tion tion wall. wall. Project Planner: Seth Lorson, City Planner Project Seth Project Planner: Planner: Seth Lorson, Lorson, City City Planner Planner 970-871-8280 or 970-879-2060 970-871-8280 970-871-8280 or or 970-879-2060 970-879-2060 E-mail: slorson@steamboatsprings.net E-mail: slorson@steamboatsprings.net E-mail: slorson@steamboatsprings.net This variance application has been submitted and This This variance variance application application has has been been submitted submitted and and processed consistent with the Steamboat Springs processed processed consistent consistent with with the the Steamboat Steamboat Springs Springs Revised Community Development Code. This petiRevised Community Development Code. This petiRevised Community Development Code. This petition has been scheduled to be heard at public tion tion has has been been scheduled scheduled to to be be heard heard at at aaa public public hearing by the Steamboat Springs’ Board of Adjusthearing hearing by by the the Steamboat Steamboat Springs’ Springs’ Board Board of of AdjustAdjustment on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 6:00 P.M. in ment ment on on Thursday, Thursday, January January 15, 15, 2009 2009 at at 6:00 6:00 P.M. P.M. in in Citizens’ Meeting Room, Centennial Hall 124 10th Citizens’ Citizens’ Meeting Meeting Room, Room, Centennial Centennial Hall Hall 124 124 10th 10th Street, Steamboat Springs, Colorado Street, Street, Steamboat Steamboat Springs, Springs, Colorado Colorado

The City of Steamboat Springs is soliciting proposals The TheCity Cityof ofSteamboat SteamboatSprings Springsis issoliciting solicitingproposals proposals from qualified vendors to supply and deliver, FOB from from qualified qualified vendors vendors to to supply supply and and deliver, deliver, FOB FOB Steamboat Springs, one (1) Type I ambulance. Steamboat Steamboat Springs, Springs, one one (1) (1) Type Type II ambulance. ambulance. Request For Proposal documents may be obtained Request Request For For Proposal Proposal documents documents may may be be obtained obtained by contacting Anne Small at (970) 871-8249 or by by contacting contacting Anne Anne Small Small at at (970) (970) 871-8249 871-8249 or or asmall@steamboatsprings.net asmall@steamboatsprings.net asmall@steamboatsprings.net Proposals must be submitted to City Offices, 137 Proposals Proposals must must be be submitted submitted to to City City Offices, Offices, 137 137 10th Street, PO Box 775088, Steamboat Springs, CO 10th 10thStreet, Street,PO POBox Box775088, 775088,Steamboat SteamboatSprings, Springs,CO CO 80477, Attention: Anne Small no later than 5:00 pm, 80477, 80477, Attention: Attention: Anne Anne Small Small no no later later than than 5:00 5:00 pm, pm, January 12, 2009. January January 12, 12, 2009. 2009. The City of Steamboat Springs reserves the right to The The City City of of Steamboat Steamboat Springs Springs reserves reserves the the right right to to reject any and all bids and proposals and enter into reject rejectany anyand andall allbids bidsand andproposals proposalsand andenter enterinto intoaaa contract or issue a purchase order which, in its opincontract contract or or issue issue aa purchase purchase order order which, which, in in its its opinopinion, best serves the needs of the City of Steamboat ion, ion, best best serves serves the the needs needs of of the the City City of of Steamboat Steamboat Springs and its citizens. Springs Springs and and its its citizens. citizens. Publication Dates: Publication Publication Dates: Dates: Legal Ad: December 21 && 28, 28, 2008 Legal Legal Ad: Ad: December December 21 21 & 28, 2008 2008 and January 4, 2009 Steamboat Pilot and and January January 4, 4, 2009 2009 Steamboat Steamboat Pilot Pilot 10161564 10161564 10161564

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Chalet Manager Wanted: Join the top hospitality team in Steamboat helping take care of guests staying in our luxury catered chalets and assisting with our catering operations. Candidates should be outgoing, responsible, hospitality experience preferred and must hold a clean driving license. Benefits include : monthly salary, ski pass and lodging. Please apply by calling Moving Mountains Chalets 870-9359. Chef / Cook Wanted: Join the top hospitality team in Steamboat cooking three meals per day for guests staying in our luxury catered chalets and assisting with our catering operations. Candidates should be outgoing, responsible, hospitality experience preferred and must hold a clean driving license. Benefits include: monthly salary, ski pass and lodging. Please apply by calling Moving Mountains Chalets 870-9359.

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Caseworker III/Routt County: Salary Range $3,762 to $4,027 plus benefits. Details: http://www.co.routt.co.us. Click on Employment. Deadline: January 5, 2009; Human Resources, PO Box 773598, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477. Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Seller’s name listed first, followed by the buyer ■ FIFTH AND YAMPA LLC to PERRY-SMITH, DEBORAH J for OLYMPIAN UNIT 101 — $318,000 ■ FIFTH AND YAMPA LLC to HUMANN, GEORGE W for OLYMPIAN UNIT 205 — $639,000 ■ FIFTH AND YAMPA LLC to COCONUT ENTERPRISES LLC for OLYMPIAN CONDOMINIUMS UNIT 102,103 — $1,683,000

■ KOWALSKY, GREGG and KOWALSKY, CAROLYN to KUTSKA, KAREN Y for SHADOW RUN CONDO UNIT 204 — $207,500 Total real estate sales: $2,847,500 ■ STEINBERG, MIRIAM to DALE ARTHUR AND LORI ANN WEELDRYER REVOCABLE TRUST DATED 07/26/1996 for STEAMBOAT GRAND RESORT HOTEL CONDOMINIUM UNIT 356 QUARTER SHARE ESTATE IV ALTERNATING SHARE B

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■ HAMILTON, BUD and HAMILTON, JOANNE to RESORTS ACCESS NETWORK LLC for AN UNDIVIDED 1/51ST INTEREST IN AND TO: SUITES AT STEAMBOAT CONDO, TIMESHARE UNIT 301A SEASON 7 — $1,000

■ PREFERRED GUEST SERVICES LLC DANTER, RICHARD and DANTER, LINDA A for STEAMBOAT GRAND RESORT HOTEL CONDOMINIUM UNIT 326 — $45,000

■ MCLAUGHLIN, RONALD C to MCLAUGHLIN, EDWARD L and MCLAUGHLIN, STEPHANIE H for AN UNDIVIDED 31% INTEREST IN AND TO: FAIRWAY MEADOWS SUBD F1 LOT 48

■ QUARTER SHARE ESTATE IV ALTERNATING SHARE A CALENDAR 4 SATURDAY TO SATURDAY Total timeshare sales: $342,000

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room with fireplace. The partial basement has been finished into an entertainment room with a drop-down screen, but even here, the emphasis is on the tasteful, Old World aesthetic. Just off the formal dining room there is a stone-faced, temperature-controlled wine grotto. The great room is dominated by views to the creek and an unusually large gas fireplace fitted with a custom-hinged iron enclosure that is about 6 feet tall. The master bedroom’s wardrobe area has its own coffee station and drawer-style refrigerator. The owners and interior designer clearly shared a sensibility that called for downplaying many of the trappings of a 21st century house. Wherever one goes in the home, it seems there is a sitting room with comfortable chairs that invite one to sit down with a book and lose track of time. However, Dresen is quick to say that all of the internal systems are as modern as possible. There are twin heating systems — in-floor and forced air gas heat, the latter to allow the volume of the home to be brought up to temperature quickly. The sprayed-in Corbond foam insulation ensures energy efficiency and

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The great room is notable for its views of Fish Creek and the custom ironwork of the chandelier and fireplace grille.

a ventilation system ensures proper air exchange. Where the home borders a dark wooded area, twin exterior walls enhance the energy efficiency. There is a central audio system with unobtrusive speakers in every room, but the flat panel video screens that have become ubiquitous in some Steamboat homes are tucked out of sight, if they exist at all. Graystone Manor was completed two years ago and

Vanatta said the owners realized after completing it that it was too large for their needs, and they would be happier downsizing. Dresen said he felt certain they would feel some regret about selling the home. “Probably, when it does sell, it will be a little sad because this was a labor of love,” Dresen said. Dresen said it was difficult to place a dollar value on the intangibles — the private lot in the city limits and the music of

the creek — when pricing the home for sale. Vanatta said the asking price was set with the slowdown of the last year in mind but added the holiday resort period has brought with it people interested in looking at homes in the price range. “We looked at replacement value, and we looked at comparables,” she said. “We priced it in the market, for this home. There are qualified people in town looking right now — absolutely.”

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Steamboat developer Will Bashan will offer two homes at auction Feb. 17, including this home off Routt County Road 14. He’s optimistic the auction process will attract potential buyers he might not have reached otherwise.

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pool of people who already had a connection to Steamboat,” he said. “I thought, ‘This is a different market, maybe I should try something different.’” Redfield Project Manager Don Boozer said his company’s clients are usually attracted by the possibility of compressing the work and money that goes into an extended real estate marketing campaign into one that has the potential to bring finality by a fixed date. Bashan said Redfield has placed an ad in the Wall Street Journal and soon will begin advertising in Inc., Ski and even the entertainment industry trade publication, Variety, to tap into potential buyers in Hollywood. Boozer said the auction process Bashan has chosen is known as a confirmation auction. That means it is not an absolute auction — one in which the seller agrees to sell at any price, nor is it a reserve auction, where the seller sets a minimum price he will accept. Instead, Bashan retains the right to accept or reject the offer of the highest bidder. Bashan said it’s important to him that Redfield is a real estate company that will pay a 3 percent commission to a local Realtor, for example, who brings the successful bidder to the auction. He added that Redfield, like other auction houses, would

collect a commission in the range of 4 to 7 percent, depending on who brings the buyer. Boozer said his company, which has scheduled auction of a luxury Sun Valley, Idaho, home after the Steamboat event in February, does not view ski resort real estate markets in the way that it views the troubled housing markets in some major U.S. cities. “We don’t see vultures circling over the ski areas,” Boozer said. “I know there are investors that are looking for (distressed) property. However, we don’t see the Steamboat market being affected to the state that other cities are. This isn’t San Diego or Las Vegas or South Florida.” He expects the buyer for Bashan’s property to be a user — someone who will possess and enjoy the property. The minimum bid for the Blazemark house is $1 million, but Bashan said he expects the bidding to move up from that level, and still provide the buyer with an attractive purchase. “We expect the person who buys the house will get a very, very good deal,” Bashan said. “If someone thinks they are going to get an 8,000-square– foot house on 23 acres for $1 million, it’s not going to happen. I know what I have in the house, and I know what an acceptable return is.” How does he think auction day will go? “I’m as curious as you are,” Bashan said.

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Olympic trials bring games to the ’Boat

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Steamboat’s Keegan Burger knocks a return Saturday at the state tennis tournament in Pueblo. Burger finished fourth in the tournament.

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know the three events scheduled for December in Steamboat Springs are not the Olympics, but they might be the closest most Steamboat residents get to the games without dipping into a 401(k) account. If you are one of those people in Colorado who love the Winter Olympic Games, the U.S. freestyle and Nordic combined Olympic trials are kind of like an early Christmas present. For two days, Dec. 23 and 24, all the action, the athletes and emotion of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be represented in Steamboat Springs — a little town with a mountain of Olympic spirit. There is no reason to drop $1,000 a night on a hotel room in Whistler or book a flight to Vancouver International Airport. Instead, just head to Howelsen Hill and the slopes of Steamboat Ski Area, and soak up the atmosphere that’s sure to ignite an Olympic spirit all its own. I understand that the events will not be covered by thousands of journalists from around the world, but you can bet there will be more than a few in town to record all the highlights. I also understand that the Steamboat event will be missing the top international athletes that make the Olympic Games an international spectacle. But the fact is that many of the athletes competing in Steamboat are the same ones you will be cheering for in February. As far as emotion, the Olympic trials are sure to have plenty of that. No, the athletes will not be competing for gold, silver or bronze. However, they will be competing for the chance to earn a shot at one of those precious medals. In a time of uncertainty for most elite athletes in the United States, the Olympic trials offer them a chance to punch their tickets to compete at the Olympics before everyone else. The trials will offer five athletes — one in men’s moguls, one in women’s moguls, one in men’s aerials, one in women’s aerials and a Nordic combined skier — a chance to relax a bit in the days leading up to the Olympics. Most of the athletes hoping to represent the U.S. Ski Team in Vancouver will have to wait until the Olympic teams are officially named. The athletes who win in Steamboat can get in line to be fitted for their Olympic Team jackets. I’m hoping thousands will come out to watch the mogul and Nordic combined events Dec. 23 and the aerial event Dec. 24. I can’t think of a better way for Steamboat Springs to display its Olympic heritage than having thousands of cheering fans packing the venues when the events are televised on NBC at 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Dec. 26. Yes, it’s true that Steamboat may not have an Olympic venue, but that doesn’t mean our town can’t be a part of the Olympic spirit.

A weekend that started with hopes for a top-three team finish at the state tournament in Pueblo bottomed out Saturday as the two remaining Steamboat Springs High School boys tennis team entries lost in straight

sets in the consolation finals. Still, No. 2 singles player Keegan Burger and the No. 4 doubles team of Gabri Erspamer and Kyle Rogers found they could take pride in their weekend and fourth-place medals from the Class 4A state tournament. “Overall, in the tournament, we did pretty good,” Erspamer

Sailors topple Huskies, fall to Devils

he Steamboat Springs High School volleyball team split a doubleheader Saturday, prevailing against Battle Mountain in four games before falling in three to Western Slope League champion Eagle Story by Valley. The Sailors Luke Graham came into Saturday with an opportunity to compete for a league title. Steamboat, 14-3 overall and 10-2 in league play, had to beat Eagle Valley to have a shot. With the Devils’ win, Eagle Valley secured its second consecutive league title. Eagle Valley won, 25-21, 25-20 and 25-21. “It was good that it was a big game in the sense they had a reason to get up for it,” said Eagle Valley coach Shawn Weatherred, whose team was in a hurry with homecoming in its sights Saturday night. “If we’re going to be late for homecoming, let’s go in there with no regrets.” The two teams battled in the first game, before Eagle Valley pulled away. The real turning point came early in the second game. The Sailors jumped out to a 9-1 lead, before the Devils responded. With sophomore Kelsey VanGoey serving, Eagle Valley ripped off eight straight points to tie the game at 9. The two teams traded points before Eagle Valley took its first lead at 18-17. From there, the Devils’ multifaceted attack was too much. In the third game, Eagle Valley jumped up 12-10 before putting the game away. “I’m not sure this team believes they’re capable of

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Steamboat Springs High School seniors Devin Wilkinson, left, and Jayde Mattox raise their arms for a block during their match Saturday against Battle Mountain. The Sailors beat the Huskies in four games.

beating a team that good,” Steamboat coach Wendy Hall said. “I know they want to believe it and beat a team that good. I don’t think they played with that look in their eye I saw in the morning. I felt like we played them tight to the

20th point, but we could never make a run after that.” Against Battle Mountain, Steamboat started slow before pulling away with a 3-1 win. The Sailors won 20-25, 25-18, 25-18 and 27-25. After falling behind early in

Game 1, Steamboat started to play better. The Sailors cruised through games two and three before hitting a wall in game four. The Huskies led for most See Volleyball, page 3C

Friday’s game sets up an undefeated showdown with Norwood this week It wasn’t necessarily how Soroco football coach David Bruner drew it up. But with Friday’s 54-50 win against Silver State, Soroco now has a chance to experience something that hasn’t happened since 1968. Soroco, now 7-0 overall, welcomes 7-0 Norwood at 7 p.m. Friday at Soroco High School. If the Rams win, they’ll be the first undefeated football team at Soroco since the 1968 season.

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said. “I thought we could get second or third here, but I still go away feeling good because we got the medals. I really want to do better next year.” Both entries had to rally in their consolation semifinal matches late Friday just to earn the chance to play Saturday.

It becomes all the more important considering that Soroco isn’t postseason Friday’s game: eligible because Rams 54 the team moved Patriots 50 from Class 1A to 8-man football last season. “I don’t think it will take much to get them up,” Bruner said. “This was our playoffs. Two weeks ago it was the quarterfinals against Dove Creek, (Friday) was the semifinals, and our championship game is Friday against Norwood.”

But before Soroco could get there, the team had to deal with a pesky Silver State team. The Rams offense got off to a quick start Friday, jumping up 24-6 after one quarter and 40-18 at halftime. But the Patriots scored right before the break, giving them momentum heading into the second half. With Soroco senior Alex Estes having already returned two kickoffs for touchdowns, Silver State decided to go with onside kicks. The Patriots got four of them in the second half, limiting what the Rams offense

could do. Silver State cut the lead to 48-34 going into the fourth quarter, before the Rams finally held on. The Patriots’ strategy worked in the second half, as the Rams offense scored on seven of its nine possessions in the game. The onside kicks limited the Rams possessions in the second half. “We should have put more points on the board, but I was proud of the kids. They never got their heads down,” Bruner See Soroco, page 3C

Tyler Hansen wanted to prove that he should have been Colorado’s starting quarterback all along. He sure showed he deserves to be the Buffaloes’ main man from here on out. Hansen, who replaced Cody Hawkins — the coach’s son — Saturday’s in the starting game: Buffaloes 34 lineup, ran for touchdown Jayhawks 30 a and threw a TD pass to lead Colorado to a 34-30 upset of No. 17 Kansas on Saturday night. Providing a spark through the air and on the ground, Hansen threw for 175 yards and ran for 34 yards. Colorado (2-4, 1-1 Big 12) handed Todd Reesing and the Jayhawks (5-1, 1-1) their first loss. Reesing was 30-of-51 for 401 yards and two scores, but he was sacked six times. Hansen led the Buffs to the winning score after Reesing had rallied the Jayhawks from a three-touchdown deficit to give Kansas a 30-27 lead early in the fourth quarter. Hansen drove the Buffaloes 76 yards in 10 plays, the payoff coming when Rodney Stewart scored from 12 yards out, dragging a defender the final five yards into the end zone with 8 1/2 minutes remaining. Reesing, whose pass to Dez mon Briscoe fell incomplete on fourth-and-goal from the 6 with 4 1/2 minutes left, got the ball back with 59 seconds remaining and nearly pulled off yet another comeback. He drove the Jayhawks all the way to the Buffaloes 19 thanks to a 26-yard strike to Briscoe, but after spiking the ball with seven seconds left, his final two passes were knocked away by the Buffaloes. Cornerback Jalil Brown tipped away a pass intended for Kerry Meier, who caught 11 passes for 103 yards, with three seconds left. Then, Reesing went to Briscoe again, and this time, cornerback Cha’pelle Brown batted it down as time expired and the crowd stormed the field, celebrating Colorado’s biggest win in a year. Hansen, a sophomore, lost out to Hawkins in August but his redshirt was stripped last week when he replaced him at Texas.

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Scoreboard College football The Associated Press All times MDT EAST Albany, N.Y. 20, Bryant 17 Albright 34, King’s, Pa. 16 Allegheny 35, Denison 13 Bentley 28, Pace 27 Bloomsburg 28, Cheyney 6 Boston College 52, N.C. State 20 Bowdoin 21, Hamilton 7 Bridgewater, Mass. 27, Coast Guard 6 Brown 34, Princeton 17 Buffalo 21, Akron 17 C.W. Post 35, Millersville 3 California, Pa. 38, Edinboro 14 Cent. Connecticut St. 31, Duquesne 24 Colgate 31, Georgetown, D.C. 14 Connecticut 38, Louisville 25 Cortland St. 35, W. Connecticut 6 Curry 37, Endicott 6 Delaware 49, Towson 21 Fordham 39, Cornell 27 Hofstra 28, Rhode Island 16 Holy Cross 34, Dartmouth 14 Indiana, Pa. 45, Lock Haven 0 Lafayette 35, Harvard 18 Lebanon Valley 40, FDU-Florham 14 Maine Maritime 41, Mass. Maritime 34 Massachusetts 23, New Hampshire 17 McDaniel 16, Muhlenberg 9 Merrimack 48, New Haven 20 Monmouth, N.J. 42, Sacred Heart 20 Montclair St. 23, Buffalo St. 7 N.Y. Maritime 68, Becker 6 Northwood, Mich. 42, Tiffin 7 Penn 27, Columbia 13 Penn St. 20, Minnesota 0 Plymouth St. 48, Nichols 30 Richmond 38, Maine 21 Robert Morris 28, St. Francis, Pa. 0 Rochester 52, Merchant Marine 21 Salve Regina 49, Mass.-Dartmouth 14 St. John Fisher 34, Utica 17 Susquehanna 35, RPI 30 Temple 27, Army 13 Trinity, Conn. 10, Tufts 3 W. New England 59, MIT 21 Wesleyan, Conn. 28, Bates 20 West Virginia 24, Marshall 7 Westfield St. 21, Framingham St. 2 William Paterson 43, College of N.J. 28 Williams 37, Middlebury 27 Yale 7, Lehigh 0 SOUTH Alabama 20, South Carolina 6 Alcorn St. 34, Alabama A&M 16 Appalachian St. 44, Wofford 34 Averett 24, Maryville, Tenn. 21 Benedict 28, Kentucky St. 14 Bethune-Cookman 34, Savannah St. 24 Carson-Newman 17, Lenoir-Rhyne 13 Catawba 41, Tusculum 27 Catholic 38, Gallaudet 13 Clemson 38, Wake Forest 3 Cumberland, Tenn. 27, Virginia-Wise 20 Delaware Valley 23, Wilkes 0 E. Kentucky 31, Tenn.-Martin 25 East Carolina 49, Rice 13 Florida 23, Arkansas 20 Franklin & Marshall 29, Moravian 13 Furman 26, Samford 24 Gardner-Webb 27, Charleston Southern 20 Georgetown, Ky. 23, Cumberlands 20 Georgia 34, Vanderbilt 10 Georgia Southern 30, Chattanooga 20 Georgia Tech 28, Virginia Tech 23 Gettysburg 59, Juniata 14 Grambling St. 23, Alabama St. 12 Grand View 24, Kentucky Wesleyan 12 Houston 44, Tulane 16 Jacksonville 39, Morehead St. 0 Kentucky 21, Auburn 14 LaGrange 37, Eureka 10 Liberty 58, Coastal Carolina 13 Louisiana College 42, E. Texas Baptist 28 Louisiana Tech 45, New Mexico St. 7 Louisiana-Lafayette 30, W. Kentucky 22 Lycoming 28, Widener 16 McNeese St. 51, Northwestern St. 23 Miami 27, UCF 7 Mississippi 48, UAB 13 Mississippi College 17, Mary Hardin-Baylor 14 Mississippi St. 27, Middle Tennessee 6 Morehouse 35, Lane 33 Murray St. 9, Tennessee St. 6 N.C. Central 52, Cent. Methodist 7 N.C. Wesleyan 35, Christopher Newport 7 Norfolk St. 46, Hampton 6 Old Dominion 28, Campbell 17 S. Carolina St. 35, Florida A&M 20 SE Louisiana 37, Sam Houston St. 21 Shaw 53, Chowan 20 Southern Miss. 36, Memphis 16 Southern U. 55, Fort Valley St. 23 St. Augustine’s 31, Livingstone 7 Stillman 20, Miles 0 Stony Brook 27, VMI 20 Texas Southern 19, Jackson St. 17 Texas St. 34, Nicholls St. 28 Thomas More 17, Grove City 7 Trinity, Texas 40, Sewanee 0 Troy 42, Fla. International 33 Union, Ky. 21, Pikeville 6 Ursinus 16, Johns Hopkins 14 Villanova 27, James Madison 0 Virginia 20, Maryland 9 W. Carolina 14, The Citadel 10 West Alabama 33, Ark.-Monticello 0 Westminster, Pa. 31, Bethany, W.Va. 28 MIDWEST Albion 17, Adrian 16 Alma 33, Kalamazoo 23 Angelo St. 42, SE Oklahoma 30 Arkansas Tech 62, West Georgia 30 Augsburg 27, Concordia, Moor. 20, OT Augustana, S.D. 41, Upper Iowa 21 Baldwin-Wallace 27, Muskingum 14 Bemidji St. 46, Minn.-Crookston 6 Benedictine, Ill. 32, Maranatha Baptist 6 Bethel, Minn. 20, Hamline 17 Bowling Green 31, Ball St. 17 Briar Cliff 33, Dakota Wesleyan 7 Buena Vista 24, Cornell, Iowa 17 Butler 23, Valparaiso 14 Cent. Michigan 34, W. Michigan 23 Cent. Oklahoma 41, SW Oklahoma 23 Central 35, Luther 17 Chicago 28, Macalester 24 Coe 35, Wartburg 21 Concordia, Ill. 41, Lakeland 32 Concordia, St.P. 29, SW Minnesota St. 17 Concordia, Wis. 24, Aurora 21 Dayton 17, Davidson 0 Defiance 28, Rose-Hulman 21 Dubuque 36, Simpson, Iowa 33 E. Illinois 23, Tennessee Tech 15 Fort Hays St. 31, Nebraska-Omaha 20 Franklin 50, Anderson, Ind. 23 Grand Valley St. 38, Findlay 13 Gustavus 28, Carleton 21 Hastings 7, Nebraska Wesleyan 3 Hillsdale 28, N. Michigan 17 Illinois College 50, Beloit 42 Illinois St. 38, Indiana St. 21 Indiana 27, Illinois 14

Indianapolis 38, Michigan Tech 20 Iowa 20, Wisconsin 10 Iowa St. 24, Baylor 10 Kansas St. 62, Texas A&M 14 Kent St. 28, E. Michigan 6 Lawrence 17, Knox 13 Martin Luther 53, Crown, Minn. 35 Mary 20, Northern St., S.D. 16 Michigan 63, Delaware St. 6 Michigan St. 24, Northwestern 14 Minn. Duluth 31, St. Cloud St. 7 Minn. St., Mankato 59, Minn. St., Moorhead 14 Minot St. 28, Black Hills St. 9 Missouri St. 17, W. Illinois 16 Monmouth, Ill. 35, Ripon 13 Mount St. Joseph 28, Hanover 13 Nebraska-Kearney 65, W. New Mexico 30 North Central 63, Carthage 48 Northwestern, Minn. 55, St. Scholastica 28 Ohio 28, Miami (Ohio) 7 Purdue 26, Ohio St. 18 S. Arkansas 15, Ouachita 7 S. Dakota St. 28, N. Dakota St. 13 S. Illinois 27, N. Iowa 20 Saginaw Valley St. 42, Ashland 14 Sioux Falls 28, North Dakota 13 Southern Cal 34, Notre Dame 27 St. Francis, Ind. 63, Trinity, Ill. 7 St. John’s, Minn. 20, St. Thomas, Minn. 17, OT St. Norbert 28, Carroll, Wis. 20 St. Xavier 66, Malone 31 Texas Tech 31, Nebraska 10 Toledo 20, N. Illinois 19 Trine 42, Olivet 17 Valley City St. 38, Mayville St. 21 Walsh 31, Taylor 12 Wayne, Mich. 45, Ferris St. 7 Wayne, Neb. 48, Winona St. 31 Wis. Lutheran 40, Rockford 14 Wis.-Eau Claire 34, Wis.-Platteville 26 Wis.-LaCrosse 49, Wis.-River Falls 47, 3OT Wis.-Stevens Pt. 24, Wis.-Oshkosh 17 Wis.-Whitewater 38, Wis.-Stout 3 Wittenberg 10, Wabash 7 SOUTHWEST Hardin-Simmons 38, Howard Payne 31 Incarnate Word 53, Texas Lutheran 18 McMurry 35, Sul Ross St. 28 Prairie View 38, MVSU 0 Stephen F.Austin 33, Cent. Arkansas 30 TCU 44, Colorado St. 6 Texas 16, Oklahoma 13 FAR WEST Air Force 10, Wyoming 0 Arizona 43, Stanford 38 BYU 38, San Diego St. 28 California 45, UCLA 26 Carroll, Mont. 23, Montana Tech 3 Colorado 34, Kansas 30 Drake 21, San Diego 14 E. Oregon 40, Montana Western 30 Idaho 35, Hawaii 23 Montana 41, E. Washington 34 Montana St. 31, South Dakota 24, OT N. Arizona 44, Portland St. 23 N. Colorado 30, Idaho St. 7 Nevada 35, Utah St. 32 Rocky Mountain 52, Montana St.-Northern 27 Weber St. 49, Sacramento St. 10

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L N.Y. Rangers 8 7 1 Pittsburgh 8 7 1 New Jersey 7 4 3 Philadelphia 6 3 2 N.Y. Islanders 6 0 3 Northeast Division GP W L Ottawa 7 5 2 Buffalo 6 4 1 Boston 7 3 4 Montreal 7 2 5 Toronto 7 0 6 Southeast Division GP W L Washington 8 4 2 Atlanta 5 4 1 Tampa Bay 7 2 3 Carolina 7 2 4 Florida 6 2 4 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L Chicago 8 5 2 Columbus 6 5 1 St. Louis 6 3 2 Detroit 7 3 3 Nashville 7 2 4 Northwest Division GP W L Colorado 8 6 1 Calgary 8 5 2 Edmonton 7 4 2 Vancouver 7 3 4 Minnesota 7 1 6 Pacific Division GP W L Phoenix 7 5 2 Dallas 7 3 1 San Jose 8 4 3 Los Angeles 8 4 4 Anaheim 7 3 3

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Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. ——— Friday’s Games Atlanta 4, New Jersey 2 Buffalo 6, N.Y. Islanders 3 Florida 4, Philadelphia 2 Boston 3, Dallas 0 Edmonton 5, Minnesota 2 Calgary 5, Vancouver 3 Saturday’s Games Atlanta 4, Buffalo 2 Ottawa 3, Montreal 1 Colorado 4, Detroit 3, SO San Jose 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 Washington 3, Nashville 2, SO Columbus 4, Los Angeles 1 N.Y. Rangers 4, Toronto 1 New Jersey 2, Carolina 0 Pittsburgh 4, Tampa Bay 1 Dallas 4, Chicago 3 Phoenix 4, Boston 1 St. Louis 5, Anaheim 0 Vancouver 2, Minnesota 1 Sunday’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games San Jose at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m. Los Angeles at Dallas, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

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——— Friday’s Games Indiana 119, Houston 104 New York 93, New Jersey 89 Chicago 94, Minnesota 90 San Antonio 105, Cleveland 98 Phoenix 115, Philadelphia 113 Saturday’s Games L.A. Clippers 103, Utah 96 Memphis 115, Detroit 94 New Orleans 108, Indiana 96 Milwaukee 101, Minnesota 87 Dallas 93, Cleveland 82 Sacramento 101, Golden State 94 L.A. Lakers 91, Charlotte 87 Sunday’s Games Maccabi at New York, 11 a.m. Boston at Toronto, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at Phoenix, 5 p.m. Denver at Portland, 7 p.m. Monday’s Games Washington at Atlanta, 5 p.m. Orlando at Chicago, 6 p.m. Oklahoma City at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

MLB postseason (Subject to change) (x-if necessary) DIVISION SERIES American League NEW YORK 3, MINNESOTA 0 Wednesday, Oct. 7 New York 7, Minnesota 2 Friday, Oct. 9 New York 4, Minnesota 3, 11 innings Sunday, Oct. 11 New York 4, Minnesota 1 LOS ANGELES 3, BOSTON 0 Thursday, Oct. 8 Los Angeles 5, Boston 0 Friday, Oct. 9 Los Angeles 4, Boston 1 Sunday, Oct. 11 Los Angeles 7, Boston 6 National League LOS ANGELES 3, ST. LOUIS 0 Wednesday, Oct. 7 Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 3 Thursday, Oct. 8 Los Angeles 3, St. Louis 2 Saturday, Oct. 10 Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 1 PHILADELPHIA 3, COLORADO 1 Wednesday, Oct. 7 Philadelphia 5, Colorado 1 Thursday, Oct. 8 Colorado 5, Philadelphia 4 Saturday, Oct. 10 Philadelphia at Colorado, ppd., weather Sunday, Oct. 11 Philadelphia 6, Colorado 5 Monday, Oct. 12 Philadelphia 5, Colorado 4 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES American League NEW YORK 1, LOS ANGELES 0 Friday, Oct. 16 New York 4, Los Angeles 1 Saturday, Oct. 17 New York 4 , Los Angeles 3 Monday, Oct. 19 New York (Pettitte 14-8) at Los Angeles (Weaver 16-8), 2:13 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20 New York at Los Angeles (Kazmir 10-9), 5:57 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 x-New York at Los Angeles, 5:57 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 x-Los Angeles at New York, 2:13 or 6:07 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25 x-Los Angeles at New York, 6:20 p.m. National League PHILADELPHIA 1, LOS ANGELES 1 Thursday, Oct. 15 Philadelphia 8, Los Angeles 6 Friday, Oct. 16 Los Angeles 2, Philadelphia 1 Sunday, Oct. 18 Los Angeles (Kuroda 8-7) at Philadelphia (Lee 14-13), 6:07 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19 Los Angeles (Wolf 11-7) at Philadelphia, 6:07 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21 Los Angeles at Philadelphia, 6:07 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 x-Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 6:07 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 x-Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 6:07 p.m. WORLD SERIES Wednesday, Oct. 28 National League at American League, 5:57 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29 NL at AL, 5:57 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31 AL at NL, 5:57 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1 AL at NL, 6:20 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2 x-AL at NL, 5:57 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4 x-NL at AL, 5:57 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5 x-NL at AL, 5:57 p.m.

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UCLA running back Christian Ramirez is stopped by California’s Brett Johnson for no gain on a play in the second quarter Saturday in Los Angeles. California beat UCLA, 45-26.

Nascar — Sprint Cup NASCAR Sprint Cup-NASCAR Banking 500 Results Saturday At Lowe’s Motor Speedway Concord, N.C. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 334 laps, 139.1 rating, 195 points, $328,826. 2. (4) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 334, 122.3, 175, $240,915. 3. (3) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 334, 125.6, 170, $198,723. 4. (9) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 334, 115.1, 165, $172,701. 5. (12) Joey Logano, Toyota, 334, 96, 155, $162,976. 6. (11) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 334, 106.2, 150, $113,875. 7. (42) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 334, 88.2, 146, $109,550. 8. (10) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 334, 101.5, 142, $134,623. 9. (25) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 334, 95.6, 138, $127,065. 10. (15) Kurt Busch, Dodge, 334, 97.6, 139, $99,600. 11. (6) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 334, 93.1, 130, $113,304. 12. (8) Brad Keselowski, Chevrolet, 334, 80.3, 127, $77,850. 13. (5) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 334, 85.3, 124, $100,373. 14. (34) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 334, 80.1, 121, $119,931. 15. (21) David Reutimann, Toyota, 334, 84.6, 118, $101,548. 16. (23) Greg Biffle, Ford, 334, 77.4, 115, $90,975. 17. (2) Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 334, 86.3, 117, $87,375. 18. (32) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 334, 74.2, 109, $111,178. 19. (27) David Stremme, Dodge, 334, 64.8, 106, $106,065. 20. (29) David Ragan, Ford, 334, 67.7, 103, $82,925. 21. (37) Reed Sorenson, Dodge, 334, 57.1, 100, $109,751. 22. (13) Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 333, 64.6, 97, $86,573. 23. (26) AJ Allmendinger, Dodge, 333, 61.5, 94, $72,550. 24. (7) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 333, 63.5, 91, $71,850. 25. (14) David Gilliland, Toyota, 333, 56.1, 88, $68,225. 26. (38) Elliott Sadler, Dodge, 332, 51.4, 85, $78,725. 27. (31) Paul Menard, Ford, 332, 43.4, 82, $100,806. 28. (16) Scott Speed, Toyota, 332, 50.5, 79, $82,173. 29. (36) Bill Elliott, Ford, 332, 42.4, 76, $66,875. 30. (19) Robby Gordon, Toyota, 332, 53.1, 73, $89,910. 31. (24) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 331, 45, 70, $96,579. 32. (33) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 331, 40.1, 72, $74,225. 33. (20) Jamie McMurray, Ford, 331, 46.4, 64, $75,050. 34. (30) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 330, 58.2, 61, $94,298. 35. (18) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 330, 66.2, 58, $100,398. 36. (41) John Andretti, Chevrolet, 330, 29, 55, $73,650. 37. (43) Terry Labonte, Toyota, 329, 31.9, 57, $68,025. 38. (39) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 304, 44.3, 49, $83,400. 39. (28) Carl Edwards, Ford, engine, 299, 35.6, 46, $114,131. 40. (22) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 298, 27.1, 43, $83,910. 41. (40) Max Papis, Toyota, engine, 286, 27.8, 40, $65,000. 42. (17) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, engine, 192, 100.5, 42, $87,875. 43. (35) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, rear end, 26, 27, 34, $65,251. ——— Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 137.658 mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 38 minutes, 22 seconds. Margin of Victory: 2.303 seconds. Caution Flags: 10 for 42 laps. Lead Changes: 22 among 9 drivers. Lap Leaders: M.Martin 1-6; J.Johnson 7-36; M.Waltrip 37-39; T.Labonte 40; M.Kenseth 41-42; J.Johnson 43-44; M.Kenseth 45-51; J.Johnson 52-70; D.Hamlin 71-94; M.Kenseth 95-98; D.Hamlin 99-121; J.Gordon 122-164; D.Hamlin 165-170; J.Gordon 171-189; D.Hamlin 190; M.Kenseth 191-222; K.Kahne 223-245; Ku.Busch 246-247; K.Kahne 248-291; J.Johnson 292-318; J.Gordon 319-320; J.Johnson 321-334. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led):

J.Johnson, 5 times for 92 laps; K.Kahne, 2 times for 67 laps; J.Gordon, 3 times for 64 laps; D.Hamlin, 4 times for 54 laps; M.Kenseth, 4 times for 45 laps; M.Martin, 1 time for 6 laps; M.Waltrip, 1 time for 3 laps; Ku.Busch, 1 time for 2 laps; T.Labonte, 1 time for 1 lap. Top 12 in Points: 1. J.Johnson, 5,923; 2. M.Martin, 5,833; 3. J.Gordon, 5,788; 4. T.Stewart, 5,768; 5. Ku.Busch, 5,746; 6. J.Montoya, 5,728; 7. G.Biffle, 5,655; 8. R.Newman, 5,635; 9. K.Kahne, 5,592; 10. C.Edwards, 5,582; 11. D.Hamlin, 5,551; 12. B.Vickers, 5,438. ——— NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race. The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

GOlf — pga PGA European-Portugal Masters Leading Scores Saturday At Oceanico Victoria Golf Course Vilamoura, Portugal Purse: $4.4 million Yardage: 7,231; Par: 72 Third Round Retief Goosen, South Africa 68-64-64 — 196 63-66-68 — 197 Francesco Molinari, Italy 66-67-66 — 199 Lee Westwood, England 66-66-68 — 200 Pablo Martin, Spain 68-68-65 — 201 Peter Lawrie, Ireland Gareth Maybin, Northern Ireland 69-67-65 — 201 Charl Schwartzel, South Africa 65-65-71 — 201 67-70-64 — 201 Oliver Wilson, England Robert-Jan Derksen, Netherlands 68-67-67 — 202 67-67-68 — 202 Oliver Fisher, England 71-65-66 — 202 Peter Hansen, Sweden Padraig Harrington, Ireland 69-62-71 — 202 James Kingston, South Africa 71-64-67 — 202 69-66-68 — 203 Johan Edfors, Sweden 67-69-67 — 203 Marcel Siem, Austria 69-68-66 — 203 Danny Willett, England 71-67-66 — 204 David Lynn, England 68-65-71 — 204 Alvaro Quiros, Spain Alejandro Canizares, Spain 71-68-66 — 205 71-64-70 — 205 Stephen Dodd, Wales

MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T y-Columbus 13 6 10 10 7 12 Chicago New England 10 10 9 10 10 9 Toronto FC 9 8 12 D.C. 8 13 8 Kansas City 4 19 6 New York WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T x-Chivas USA 13 9 6 12 8 8 x-Houston 11 7 11 x-Seattle x-Los Angeles 11 6 11 10 9 10 Colorado 11 12 6 FC Dallas Real Salt Lake 10 12 7 7 13 9 San Jose

Pts 49 42 39 39 39 32 18

GF 41 38 32 37 41 31 22

GA 30 34 37 41 42 40 47

Pts 45 44 44 44 40 39 37 30

GF 32 36 36 34 42 49 40 36

GA 27 27 28 31 35 45 35 48

NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. x- clinched playoff berth y- clinched conference ——— Wednesday’s Games Real Salt Lake 2, New York 0 Saturday’s Games Toronto FC 1, Real Salt Lake 0 New England 0, Chicago 0, tie D.C. United 1, Columbus 0 Seattle FC 3, Kansas City 2 FC Dallas 2, Colorado 1 Chivas USA 2, San Jose 2, tie Sunday’s Games Los Angeles at Houston, 1 p.m. Thursday, October 22 Chivas USA at Chicago, 6 p.m. Saturday, October 24 Toronto FC at New York, 5:30 p.m. D.C. United at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m. Colorado at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m. FC Dallas at Seattle FC, 8:30 p.m. San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, October 25 Houston at Chivas USA, 1 p.m. New England at Columbus, 3 p.m.

CHL Central Hockey League NORTHERN CONFERENCE W L OTL Rapid City 2 0 0 Colorado 1 0 1 Tulsa 1 0 0

Pts GF GA 4 8 4 3 7 5 2 6 3

Bossier-Shreveport 1 1 0 Mississippi 1 1 0 Missouri 0 2 0 Wichita 0 2 0 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE W L OTL Allen 2 0 0 Amarillo 2 0 0 Laredo 2 0 0 Odessa 1 1 0 Texas 1 1 0 Corpus Christi 0 1 1 Rio Grande Valley 0 1 0 Arizona 0 2 0

2 2 0 0

5 8 4 3

9 9 8 10

Pts GF GA 4 7 4 4 7 1 4 11 4 2 4 4 2 5 7 1 5 7 0 0

3 4

5 7

NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for loss in overtime or shootout. Overtime or shootout losses are only denoted in the OTL column, not the loss column. Saturday’s Games Allen 6, Arizona 4 Amarillo 2, Odessa 1 Bossier-Shreveport 4, Corpus Christi 3 Colorado 5, Texas 2 Laredo 5, Rio Grande Valley 3 Mississippi 5, Wichita 3 Rapid City 5, Missouri 2 Sunday’s Games Mississippi at Amarillo, 5:05 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Rio Grande Valley at Odessa, 6:05 p.m.

MLB playoffs Playoffs Extra-Inning Games American League Oct. 17, 2009 — New York 4, Los Angeles 3, 13 innings Oct. 9, 2009 — New York 4, Minnesota 3, 11 innings Oct, 11, 2008 — Tampa Bay 9, Boston 8, 11 innings Oct. 5, 2008 — Los Angeles 5, Boston 4, 12 innings Oct. 13, 2007 — Cleveland 13, Boston 6, 11 innings Oct. 5, 2007 — Cleveland 2, New York 1, 11 innings Oct. 18, 2004 — Boston 5, New York 4, 14 innings Oct. 17, 2004 — Boston 6, New York 4, 12 innings Oct. 9, 2004 — New York 6, Minnesota 5, 11 innings Oct. 8, 2004 — Boston 8, Anaheim 6, 10 innings Oct. 6, 2004 — New York 7, Minnesota 6, 12 innings Oct. 16, 2003 — New York 6, Boston 5, 11 innings Oct. 4, 2003 — Boston 3, Oakland 1, 11 innings Oct. 1, 2003 — Oakland 5, Boston 4, 12 innings Oct. 3, 2000 — Seattle 7, Chicago 4, 10 innings Oct. 13, 1999 — New York 4, Boston 3, 10 innings Oct. 7, 1998 — Cleveland 4, New York 1, 12 innings Oct. 15, 1997 — Cleveland 1, Baltimore 0, 11 innings Oct. 11, 1997 — Cleveland 2, Baltimore 1, 12 innings Oct. 9, 1996 — New York 5, Baltimore 4, 11 innings Oct. 5, 1996 — Baltimore 4, Cleveland 3, 12 innings Oct. 2, 1996 — New York 5, Texas 4, 12 innings Oct. 8, 1995 — Seattle 6, New York 5, 11 innings Oct. 4, 1995 — New York 7, Seattle 5, 15 innings Oct. 3, 1995 — Cleveland 5, Boston 4, 13 innings Oct. 11, 1992 — Toronto 7, Oakland 6, 11 innings Oct. 11, 1991 — Minnesota 3, Toronto 2, 10 innings Oct. 12, 1986 — Boston 7, California 6, 11 innings Oct. 11, 1986 — California 4, Boston 3, 11 innings Oct. 9, 1985 — Toronto 6, Kansas City 5, 10 innings Oct. 3, 1984 — Detroit 5, Kansas City 3, 11 innings Oct. 8, 1983 — Baltimore 3, Chicago 0, 10 innings Oct. 3, 1979 — Baltimore 6, California 3, 10 innings Oct. 9, 1973 — Oakland 2, Baltimore 1, 11 innings Oct. 11, 1972 — Detroit 4, Oakland 3, 10 innings Oct. 7, 1972 — Oakland 3, Detroit 2, 11 innings Oct. 5, 1969 — Baltimore 1, Minnesota 0, 11 innings Oct. 4, 1969 — Baltimore 4, Minnesota 3, 12 innings National League Oct. 12, 2007 — Colorado 3, Arizona 2, 11 innings Oct. 9, 2005 — Houston 7, Atlanta 6, 18 innings Oct. 20, 2004 — St. Louis 6, Houston 4, 12 innings Oct. 7, 2004 — Atlanta 4, Houston 2, 11 innings Oct. 10, 2003 — Chicago 5, Florida 4, 11 innings Oct. 7, 2003 — Florida 9, Chicago 8, 11 innings Oct. 3, 2003 — Florida 4, San Francisco 3, 11 innings Oct. 7, 2000 — New York 3, San Francisco 2, 13 innings Oct. 5, 2000 — New York 5, San Francisco 4, 10 innings Oct. 19, 1999 — Atlanta 10, New York 9, 11 innings Oct. 17, 1999 — New York 4, Atlanta 3, 15 innings Oct. 9, 1999 — New York 4, Arizona 3, 10 innings Oct. 8, 1999 — Atlanta 5, Houston 3, 12 innings Oct. 7, 1998 — San Diego 3, Atlanta 2, 10 innings Oct. 2, 1996 — Atlanta 2, Los Angeles 1, 10 innings

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Steamboat soccer still in the game Tuesday’s match-up against Eagle Valley looms large for Sailors high school team Luke Graham

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The Steamboat Springs High School soccer team continued to do everything it could to remain in the Western Slope League title race, dispatching Rifle, 8-1, on Saturday. The Sailors, now 6-0-4, will prep for their biggest game of the year, when Eagle Valley comes to Gardner Field on Tuesday. The 6 p.m. game will have a huge impact on the eventual

league standings. Battle Mountain leads the league, with Steamboat and Eagle in hot pursuit. If Steamboat wins out and Battle Mountain loses any of its remaining two games, the Sailors will be league champions. Eagle Valley and Battle Mountain play Thursday. “Tuesday is key,” Steamboat coach Rob Bohlmann said. “The big thing for us is to go into that game with confidence. Tactically we feel our game plan going in is good.”

On Saturday, Steamboat had little trouble with Rifle. Despite the Bears having seven players back in the lineup that they didn’t have the first time the two teams met, the Sailors all but put the game away in the first 40 minutes. Steamboat got two first-half goals from Andrew White and goals from Johnathon Ricker, Grant Murray and Enrique Lopez en route to a 5-0 lead. Kyle Kounovsky, Connor Birch and Sam Glaisher scored

in the second half for the 8-0 win. “It was a hard-fought game,” Bohlmann said. “There was a little hostility, but the players dealt with it well. They played with composure and kept things in check.” Still, most of the attention Saturday was on the scenarios that could play out for a league championship.

If Steamboat wins out, the worst the team can finish is second place. That position is looking more and more like it will get a home playoff game when the Class 4A state playoffs start. Eagle Valley made the case Saturday for two teams from the league to get a home game, beating Front Range power Golden, 4-2.

The Sailors beat the Devils 1-0 earlier in the season on a late goal by Lopez. Despite the earlier win, the Sailors know that both teams will be primed to play come Tuesday. “Right now, that’s the biggest game of the year,” White said. “We feel it’s a league decider. We know we can do it. They probably have some doubts, but they’re coming off that win against Golden. We have to finish off every chance. Every opportunity we get, we have to make it count.”

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said. “They got the win. That’s the main thing. I didn’t have them prepared as well as I should have.” In addition to his two returns, Estes caught three touchdowns. Quarterback Cody Miles and Pie Lombardi each had a rushing touchdown. Also important, Bruner said, was Soroco’s conversion of six of its seven two-point conversion attempts. Now the talk and focus turns to Friday and Norwood — possibly the biggest game in Soroco football in more

— To reach Luke Graham, call 871-4229 or e-mail lgraham@steamboatpilot.com

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Kyle Rogers swings for a return Saturday at the state tennis tournament. Rogers and Gabri Erspamer, Steamboat’s No. 4 doubles team, lost in the consolation finals and finished fourth in the tournament.

State results ■ No. 2 singles Harrison Long, Niwot, def. Keegan Burger, Steamboat, 6-1, 6-2 ■ No. 4 doubles Nathan Liston and Tanner Trace, Fossil Ridge, def. Gabri Erspamer and Kyle Rogers, Steamboat, 6-2, 6-2.

came as Erspamer won his service game to open the second set. They couldn’t make it two in a row, and Fossil Ridge opened the second set up the same way it had the first. “We made most of the mistakes,” Erspamer said. “We were setting them up for most of the balls they got clean winners out of. We kept giving them easy ones.” Rogers said the effort was a far cry from the kind of tennis that lifted the pair into the match. “We definitely didn’t play our best. Our intensity was low the entire match,” Rogers said. “I didn’t have the motivation I had (Friday). Either way you get a medal, and they were pretty good. Thinking like that was my biggest mistake.”

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When the fruits of those efforts came, however, the players couldn’t summon the same comebacks. Burger lost, 6-1, 6-2, to Niwot freshman Harrison Long, and Erspamer and Rogers fell to Fossil Ridge’s Nathan Liston and Tanner Trace, 6-2, 6-2. “We got off to a slow start and basically stayed there for the whole match,” Erspamer said. “I think all those other matches this week wore me out for today.” Both entries had moments where it appeared they might make a match of it. Burger fell behind and was quickly washed away in the first set, and was down 3-0 in the second. He strung together backto-back victories, however, and appeared to be on the verge of a real swing. At his best, Long had Burger hoofing it from one end of the baseline to the other and then occasionally running desperately forward with a perfect change of pace. He returned Burger’s offerings with the consistency of a brick wall. Finally, early in the second set, Burger found cracks in the mortar. He began to dictate the pace of play, and the freshman didn’t handle it well, loudly arguing calls, slamming balls into the fence between points and tossing his racket high in the air. He walked out and away from the court during the changeover after Burger’s two wins. Wherever he went, he found his composure. Burger lost two points to double faults in his ensuing service game, and the rally was deflated. “I thought Keegan might have it. I saw it coming out in his eyes and his speed. You could hear it, how he was stroking the ball,” Steamboat coach John Aragon said. “But you have to give that kid credit. He didn’t let it happen.” Erspamer and Rogers faced similar struggles with gaining and sustaining momentum. Their only lead of the match

than a decade. “We talked about it the first of the year in August during two-a-days what their goals were,” Bruner said. “A bunch of those guys, their goals were to go 8-0. They have that opportunity now. They’ve stuck together and overcome a lot. “It’s big. It’s big for our program. We’re on the right road for success in our program. Our kids know that. They know in 1968 the guys were undefeated. The kids are taking some pride in that.”

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Gabri Erspamer returns a serve Saturday at the state tennis tournament in Pueblo.

Sailors face busy week, take on Palisade on Thursday for a huge week of games. The team plays at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Palisade. The Bulldogs are one game behind the Sailors for second place in the league. Hall said that although Saturday’s loss was tough, she thinks she has a group of girls that can bounce back from just about anything.

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“The good news is we still got some season left,” she said. “We have time to make adjustments and get better. We’re going to see another team as good as that. They are a good group. This is what it comes down to. They never turn on each other. When times are tough with this team, they will come back.”

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of the match and were up 23-16 when the Sailors staged a comeback. Steamboat got the score to 23-18, before Battle Mountain’s Samantha Miletich got a kill to put the Huskies on game point. But the Sailors wouldn’t give

up. Steamboat reeled off point after point to finally come away with a 27-25 win. “That’s how our season has been going,” Battle Mountain coach Lara Bossow said. “When it comes down to the fourth or fifth game, we error ourselves out of the game.” Steamboat now preps

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Alex Rodriguez is turning this postseason into his personal showcase. Coming through under pressure once again, Rodriguez hit a tying homer in the 11th inning and the New York Yankees edged the Los Angeles Angels, 4-3, on Saturday night on Maicer Izturis’ throwing error in the 13th for a 2-0 lead in the American League championship series. After the rain came and went on another chilly night, New York pulled out its latest lateinning thriller and remained unbeaten in this year’s playoffs. The game ended at 1:07 a.m. when Izturis threw away Melky Cabrera’s grounder to second base. Pinch-hitter Jerry Hairston Jr. opened the 13th with a single off losing pitcher Ervin Santana in his first postseason at-bat. Brett Gardner sacrificed and Robinson Cano was intentionally walked as the crowd chanted “Melky! Melky!” Cabrera hit a bouncer in the hole between first and second, and Izturis curiously tried to throw back across his body to

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ALCS get the force at second. The low throw skipped past shortstop Erick Aybar and rolled behind third, where Chone Figgins tried to pick it up. Figgins fumbled the ball and Hairston, who had slowed up, sped home and slid in with the winning run. It marked another sloppy performance by the Angels, and finished a game that lasted 5 hours, 10 minutes. The Yankees poured out of the dugout to celebrate, knocking over Hairston behind the plate. Moments later, he took a pie in the face from starter A.J. Burnett, which has become a fan-favorite tradition for the Yankees after walk-off wins this year. They led the majors with 15 such victories and have added two in the playoffs — the Yankees are 5-0, including a first-round sweep against Minnesota in which Rodriguez went 5 for 11 with two home runs. Rodriguez saved them in this victory, hitting a leadoff shot against major league saves leader Brian Fuentes to keep the game in extra innings. After a travel day, the best-of-

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Los Angeles Angels’ Erick Aybar scores on a wild pitch by New York Yankees’ A.J. Burnett, No. 34, in the fifth inning Saturday during Game 2 of an ALCS game at Yankee Stadium in New York. The Yankees won, 4-3, in 13 innings.

seven series shifts to Anaheim, Calif., for Game 3 on Monday. Jered Weaver is scheduled to pitch for the Angels against Andy Pettitte, with a forecast of 73 degrees and partly cloudy skies. The warm weather will allow players to ditch the ski masks and hoods some have sported under their baseball caps in New York. It was 47 degrees

at gametime, 2 degrees warmer than Friday night, with 15 mph winds gusting to 23 mph. Most of the crowd of 49,922 was still around for the finish, though many were huddled in bright ponchos under the overhangs. It was the longest postseason game by innings since Houston beat Atlanta, 7-6, in 18 innings Oct. 9, 2005.

Chase Utley makes two costly throwing errors, and suddenly he’s being mentioned with Steve Sax and Chuck Knoblauch. Utley’s fielding gaffes were the talk of the town when the Philadelphia Phillies returned home Saturday after splitting the first two games of the National League championship series at Los Angeles. Game 3 is tonight in soggy Philadelphia, weather permitting. The forecast calls for showers all day and it’s expected to be 42 degrees at game time. Cliff Lee starts for the Phillies against Hiroki Kuroda. The weather will make it tough to grip the ball and make accurate throws. Utley, a fourtime All-Star second baseman, had enough problems throwing to first in sunny L.A. The Phillies overcame his blunder in Game 1, but it hurt them on Friday. Trailing 1-0, the Dodgers got their first two runners on in

NLCS the bottom of the eighth. After failing to put down a sacrifice, Russell Martin then hit a sharp grounder to third baseman Pedro Feliz. It was a routine double-play ball except Utley’s relay throw sailed wide of first. Instead of two outs and a runner on third, the Dodgers had a run and one out. They went on to score again and held on for a 2-1 victory. Utley typically wasn’t around to speak to reporters during Saturday’s one-hour, open clubhouse session. But manager Charlie Manuel and others had his back. “I’m sure nobody in Phila delphia hates that more than Chase, but at the same time, he’ll correct it,” Manuel said. “I have all the faith in the world in him as far as that goes. That’s going to happen to anybody.” Ronnie Belliard was bearing down on Utley and slid hard into second, possibly forcing him to rush his throw. Belliard, a fellow second baseman, sympathized with Utley. “It’s nothing mental,” Belliard said. “He’s a good second baseman. It’s a difficult situation to turn a double play like that. You have to forget about it and do your job.” In the series opener Thursday night, Utley made a similarly poor throw on what should have been an inning-ending, doubleplay grounder hit by Andre Ethier in the fifth inning. Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels was visibly upset that shortstop Jimmy Rollins and Utley couldn’t make the turn. Manny Ramirez followed with a two-run homer that cut Philadelphia’s lead to 5-4, but the Phillies won, 8-6. Rollins, a Gold Glove winner the past two years, was slow to shuffle the ball and that may have thrown off Utley’s timing. “Looked like he had trouble gripping the ball, really taking it out of his glove,” Manuel said of Utley. “Looked like he had trouble getting a hold of it.” In between the two errors, Utley made three iffy throws on routine grounders. All three resulted in outs, but his erratic tosses suggest this could be more than a simple case of two bad throws under difficult circumstances in clutch spots. Dodgers third base coach Larry Bowa, who managed Utley when he first came up in Philadelphia, doesn’t buy it. “No, no, no,” Bowa said when asked if Utley’s issues are comparable to Sax and Knoblauch. “I don’t think it’s a problem at all. He rushed two throws. It was coincidental that he did it two games in a row.” Sax, the NL Rookie of the Year with the Dodgers in 1982, inexplicably stopped being able to make routine throws to first in his sophomore season. Sax committed 30 errors that season, many on errant tosses. Knoblauch began experiencing the same problem after joining the New York Yankees in 1999. A former Gold Glove winner with Minnesota in 1997, Knoblauch was moved to the outfield because he never regained his ability to throw to first. Dodgers manager Joe Torre managed Knoblauch in New York. He’s not ready to put Utley in that category. “I don’t think it’s an issue,” Torre said. “If I was Charlie, I wouldn’t be concerned about him. He’s too tough a kid and he’s too good of a player. Stuff like that happens. Sometimes there’s no rhyme or reason why it happens, but the nature of the game is what it is.” Utley played second at UCLA, but the Phillies tried to make him a third baseman after selecting him in the first round of the 2000 amateur draft. He committed 28 errors in one season at third, quickly ending that experiment. The Phillies already won one World Series with Utley. They’re hoping his defense doesn’t prevent them from getting another title.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla.

Tim Tebow kept Florida’s perfect season intact. Tebow directed a 69-yard drive in the final minutes, setting up Caleb Sturgis’ 27-yard field goal with 9 seconds remaining that gave the topranked Gators a 23-20 win against Arkansas on Saturday. Was it Tebow’s Heisman moment? Regardless, it kept Florida unbeaten and likely No. 1 in the country. And maybe even the Gators’ chances to repeat as national champions.

No. 12 TCU 44, Colorado St. 6

shocked mistake-prone Ohio State. Elliott threw for 281 yards and two touchdowns, and the Boilermakers snapped a fivegame losing streak by beating No. 7 Ohio State to effectively end what national-title chances remained for the Buckeyes. Purdue dominated the first three quarters, then held on as Ohio State tried to mount a comeback behind Terrelle Pryor, who threw two interceptions and lost two fumbles.

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No. 9 Miami 27, UCF 7 ORLANDO, Fla.

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Jeremy Kerley tiptoed the sideline, then came to a near stop before finding an open lane to the end zone for his second punt return for a touchdown in three games and TCU remained undefeated with a victory against Colorado State. Kerley’s electrifying 69-yard return just before halftime made it 17-6 and came less than 2 1/2 minutes after TCU (6-0, 2-0 Mountain West) had finally taken the lead on Joseph Turner’s 2-yard touchdown run.

No. 2 Alabama 20, South Carolina 6

Jacory Harris completed 20 of 26 passes for 293 yards and a touchdown, and Javarris James rushed for another score on the way to topping the 2,000-yard mark for his career at Miami. Damien Berry added a fourthquarter touchdown run for the Hurricanes (5-1), who matched their best start since 2005. Brett Hodges threw for 163 yards for UCF (3-3), but the team’s top rusher — Brynn Harvey, who was coming off a 219-yard effort against Memphis — was held to 25 yards on 12 carries.

No. 11 Iowa 20, Wisconsin 10

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Mark Ingram rushed for a career-high 246 yards and a game-clinching touchdown, powering Alabama past South Carolina. Ingram’s tackle-breaking, defender-dragging runs and a punishing defense helped the Crimson Tide (7-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) overcome four turnovers — doubling their season total. It also helped ’Bama avoid the downto-the-wire scares No. 1 Florida and No. 3 Texas had — or an upset defeat like No. 4 Virginia Tech endured.

No. 3 Texas 16, No. 20 Oklahoma 13

No. 11 Iowa needed a second-half road rally to keep its perfect season alive. Trailing by a touchdown at halftime, the Hawkeyes (7-0, 3-0 Big Ten) began the third quarter by turning an interception into a tying touchdown pass from quarterback Ricky Stanzi to tight end Tony Moeaki. Iowa took the lead on a 10-yard touchdown run by Adam Robinson early in the fourth quarter, and the Hawkeyes’ defense kept the Badgers scoreless in the second half.

No. 14 Penn State 20, Minnesota 0 STATE COLLEGE, Pa.

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Enough about Colt McCoy. Texas knocked off rival Oklahoma on Saturday because of its defense. Aaron Williams knocked out Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford on a first-quarter sack, then he and Earl Thomas picked off backup Landry Jones in the fourth quarter to send Texas to a victory against the Sooners.

No. 19 Georgia Tech 28, No. 4 Virginia Tech 23 ATLANTA

Virginia Tech might have lost its shot at a national championship on another doomed trip to Atlanta. Josh Nesbitt rushed for 122 yards and three touchdowns — the last of them tiptoeing down the sideline to finish off the Hokies with 3 minutes left — as Georgia Tech ran to a win that threw the Atlantic Coast Conference race up for grabs while perhaps finishing off the league’s top contender in the national race.

No. 6 Southern California 34, No. 25 Notre Dame 27 SOUTH BEND, Ind.

Jimmy Clausen threw three incomplete passes into the end zone in the closing seconds as Southern California held on for a victory and its eighth straight win against Notre Dame. Notre Dame’s streak of lastminute victories ended at three, but the Fighting Irish at least showed they could compete with their longtime rivals this season. The Irish rallied back from a 34-14 deficit, but couldn’t score into the same end zone where the Trojans famously scored four years ago on the Bush Push.

Purdue 26, No. 7 Ohio State 18 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.

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Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, No. 15, runs for a first down on fourth-andone near the goal line Saturday during the second quarter against Arkansas at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla.

and ran for another score to lead Brigham Young to the 500th victory in school history, beating San Diego State. BYU (6-1, 3-0 Mountain West Conference) beat SDSU (2-4, 0-2) for the eighth time in the last nine games.

No. 23 Houston 44, Tulane 16 NEW ORLEANS

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Navorro Bowman led a stifling defense, Evan Royster ran for 137 yards and Derek Moye had a disputed touchdown catch in Penn State’s easy win against Minnesota. Moye’s 12-yard reception in the end zone was initially ruled incomplete, then overturned after an official review for a TD on a drive that gave the Nittany Lions (6-1, 2-1 Big Ten) a 13-0 lead late in the first half.

Texas Tech 31, No. 15 Nebraska 10 LINCOLN, Neb.

Steven Sheffield passed for a touchdown and ran for another in his first road start, and Texas Tech jumped out fast to upset Nebraska. Sheffield, who passed for 490 yards passing and seven touchdowns in his debut as the starter against Kansas State last week, was nearly perfect early, completing 14 of his first 16 passes against the Cornhuskers. Playing for the injured Taylor Potts, Sheffield went 9-for-16 in the second half and finished with 234 yards.

No. 16 Oklahoma State 33, Missouri 17 STILLWATER, Okla.

Hubert Anyiam filled in for ineligible All-American Dez Bryant with 10 catches, a career-high 119 yards and the go-ahead touchdown for Oklahoma State. Zac Robinson threw for 227 yards, and Lucien Antoine added an interception return for a touchdown as the Cowboys (5-1, 2-0 Big 12) snapped a four-game losing streak on their home field against the Tigers (4-2, 0-2).

No. 18 Brigham Young 38, San Diego State 28 SAN DIEGO

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Case Keenum’s lowest passing total of the season was still pretty good, and more than enough to help Houston win its first conference game of the season. Keenum was 30 of 43 for 334 yards and two touchdowns, and the Cougars defeated Tulane. Bryce Beall and Justin Johnson each ran for two

touchdowns for Houston (5-1, 1-1 Conference USA), which pulled away after leading only 9-6 at halftime.

No. 24 Utah 35, UNLV 15 LAS VEGAS

Terrance Cain threw two touchdown passes and rushed for another score Saturday night to lead No. 24 Utah against UNLV, 35-15, the 600th victory in school history. Eddie Wide rushed for 111 yards on 17 carries, including a 37-yard touchdown run. Wide’s TD run down the right side gave the Utes (5-1, 2-0 Mountain West Conference) a 20-point lead with 12:55 left in the fourth quarter. The Utes have an all-time record of 600-418-31 in 116 seasons.

A four-minute penalty kill got the Colorado Avalanche’s comeback started. Marek Svatos and Milan Hejduk scored shootout goals to complete the Av a l a n c h e ’ s rally to a 4-3 win against the Detroit Red Wings on Satur Saturday’s day night. game: Colorado, Avs 3 which has won Wings 4 four straight, rallied from 2-0 and 3-2 deficits in the third period. Cody McLeod had two goals, and Matt Duchene also scored for Colorado. Ryan O’Reilly recorded two assists, and Craig Anderson stopped 28 shots. He also turned aside Henrik Zetterberg and Ville Leino in the shootout. “I think resiliency was the key thing for us,” Anderson said. The Avalanche pointed to the killing of Svatos’ double minor for high-sticking, in which he cut Jason Williams’ face 3:09 into the third period, as the game’s turning point. “Killing that four-minute penalty gave us a lift,” said McLeod, who also fought Brad May with 2:36 left in the first period. Justin Abdelkader, Todd Bertuzzi and Valtteri Filppula scored for Detroit. Chris Osgood made 25 saves. Williams had a goal scored in the shootout. “It’s disappointing having a 2-0 lead and 3-2 toward the

end of the game,” Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom said. “We played a solid game. We had some breakdowns, especially on a couple of goals. “Disappointing to lose the way we did.” McLeod’s second goal made it 3-3 with 2:32 left in regulation. He beat Osgood from the bottom of the left circle after taking a pass from O’Reilly. “It was just kind of an open net,” McLeod said. “O’Reilly made a great pass to me.” Filppula had given the Red Wings a 3-2 lead with 6:33 left. The Avalanche scored twice in a 2:37 span in the middle of the third to tie it at 2. McLeod got the Avalanche within 2-1 at 9:08 when he beat Osgood with a wrist shot from the inside edge of the right circle. “Just beat him 5-hole. I was just trying to get a shot away,” McLeod said Duchene tied it at 2 with 8:15 left with his first NHL goal, beating Osgood with a wrist shot from the top of the right circle. “We did a lot of good things in the third period,” Colorado coach Joe Sacco said. Abdelkader opened the scoring 3:25 into the game when he put in the rebound of Darren Helm’s shot. Helm started the play by taking the puck away from defenseman Kyle Cumiskey. It was Abdelkader’s first NHL regular-season goal. “I think we played pretty well. We had a lot of opportunities,” Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. “I thought we squandered the four-minute power play.”

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he state tennis tournament can be a loud affair, with fans from potentially 32 schools screaming for competitors on 16 courts. When the tournament winds down, they all converge on the remaining matches and two often bewildered-looking players more accustomed to the serenity of a tennis court than the insanity of a football game. There’s one sound that pierces through that environment like a dagger. The words may be different, but it’s all the same. “Are you sure that was out? Are you sure?” There’s no more constant cause of controversy and conversation at the state tennis tournament than line calls. Like fouls in a playground basketball game, the rule is you call it. The potential for disaster is obvious. The children making the decisions have a vested interest in calling a close ball one way or another, and being children, they don’t always have the maturity to swallow hard and move on after an unfair call. Such bickering is a part of tennis, and every player who lashed out wasn’t necessarily trying to cheat. Watching from the far side of the net, every ball can look in. I couldn’t help but wonder this weekend what’s the right way to handle such situations. Steamboat’s players almost always were respectful, though they ran into a few knuckleheads. Mirko Erspamer’s firstround opponent in the No. 3 singles bracket seemed on the verge of quitting after one important ball Erspamer called out in an all-important third set. “I will not give you that point! That was in! I will not do it!” he hollered, carrying on for more than a minute. Erspamer didn’t say much more than, “No, it was out.” Fans supporting both players, meanwhile, quietly agreed that the ball indeed had been out. The problem for Steam boat was that whenever it was on the polite end of such outbursts, it usually lost the game. Erspamer gave up the next three points, lost the critical game and, eventually, the match. The opponent, jerk or not, harnessed his anger and applied it. Certainly there was more to the game and the match than an argument about a point, and obviously Steamboaters should be proud of the way their players handled similar bickering throughout the tournament. But sometimes that growling is evidence more of passion than a lack of manners. That certainly wasn’t the case in the Erspamer point, but elsewhere it was. Steamboat’s players fought with class all weekend, and that’s something they need take pride in and carry forward. After a lackluster performance at the biggest meet of the season, they also might be wise to find a way to get more fired up when everything’s on the line and contribute more than rolling eyes and quiet mutterings to the din of a state tournament.

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Local cyclocross rider Jon Cariveau runs up the rodeo grounds steps Saturday at the base of Howelsen Hill.

A biking blend Cyclocross combines disciplines, seasons sundayfocus Story by Joel Reichenberger J.R. Thompson remembers when he brought competitive cyclocross to Steamboat Springs. “I ran a circuit here in 1997,” he said Wednesday afternoon, outdoors in downtown Steamboat Springs on a cloudy, miserable day seemingly perfect for the mud season sport. “The cyclocross scene, where it’s at now, reminds me of where mountain biking was in the early 1990s. It’s still new, fresh and has that feeling going for it.” The Steamboat Cyclocross Circuit proved to be a shortlived endeavor and didn’t return for mud season 1998. Now, more than a decade later, the sport is still “catching on” in Steamboat Springs. Those who have adopted it, however, claim to have found the perfect answer to one of a mountain town’s biggest problems. When it’s cold and miserable and Mount Werner is more than a month from opening, what is an outdoors enthusiast to do?

Sporting hybrid Cyclocross is a variation of the same kind of mountain biking so many dedicate summers to. Instead of long hours on rocky and remote mountain trails, it’s usually one intense hour on a comparatively tame in-town course. Instead of a rugged, thickwheeled mountain bike, it’s a lighter cross between a road bike and a mountain bike. For its fans, instead of a few unhappy weeks staring out the window from the couch, it’s a perfect primer for ski season. “It’s a great thing for fitness,” said Dr. Jon Freckleton, an osteopathic physician who practices in Steamboat at Aspire Osteopathy. “It is real intense, gets the heart rate up and hopefully gets people outdoors even when the weather

is crappy.” After the bike and the distance, the running segments are the main difference between mountain biking and cyclocross. Where a mountain biker takes pride in rolling up and over anything in the way, cyclocrossers are quick to leap from the saddle, shoulder the bike and hoof it. “It’s going to have a better effect on training for skiing than just riding alone will and probably better than just running would, too,” Freckleton said. “For skiing, you have to have that agility and rapid acceleration and deceleration. Cyclocross has a lot of that, plus there’s a great fun factor.”

Venues aplenty Enthusiasts say there are three prime-time places to ride cyclocross in Steamboat Springs, though it doesn’t take Walt Disney’s imagination to dream up dozens more. The lower portions of Howelsen Hill played host to Thompson’s 1997 circuit races. “It was the perfect time for something like that over there because there isn’t anything else going on,” he said. “You have that right mix of pavement and dirt you’re looking for. It was a good venue.” Steamboat cyclocross enthusiast Jon Cariveau said great riding also can be had at Whistler Park and near Strawberry Park Middle School. All three venues offer the trademarks of cyclocross courses. Rough trail would take a toll on the lighter bikes, and all three areas have more gentle trails. They also have a healthy mix of pavement and gravel and enough obstacles and elevation change to create a challenge. Riders at Howelsen, for instance, run up the steps of the concrete rodeo grandstands to simulate some of the hurdles presented in a real cyclocross race. “You want to look for ter-

Cariveau heads down a trail at Howelsen Hill. Cyclocross is a variation of mountain biking.

rain that will challenge your handling skills and the equipment you’re on,” Cariveau said. “So look for steep little hills on Howelsen and the stairs. Shoulder the bike and run up those. “It’s really about taking the lighter weight equipment and pushing it to the limits of its usability.” The bikes simply aren’t tailored to be light, though. They’re often designed to work well on well-maintained dirt roads. Any such terrain, combined with a few hills and creatively incorporated physical obstacles, can work. The intensity of a good one- or two-mile course can provide the kind of workout in one hour that summer cyclists might pedal 20 miles to achieve. With days growing shorter, that’s the key. “For me, the Steamboat cycling season isn’t long enough,” Cariveau said. “This is a way to extend that season right up until we get really good snow for skiing.”

Saddling up Picking out the right gear for cyclocross doesn’t have to be difficult, either.

The bikes are more similar to road bikes than the Steamboatstandard dual suspension mountain bike. They have brakes more similar to mountain bikes, though, and tires that split the difference between the two breeds. They are narrower than most mountain bike tires so as to take advantage of the usually smooth trails, but they still have knobs on the tires to help grip. “They offer room for fatter, knobbier tires, and they have a little longer wheel base for stability,” said Brock Webster, owner of Orange Peel Bicycle Service shop in Steamboat. “Basically they have some of the features of a mountain bike but in a road bike package.” The whole contraption is designed to get riders across everything from smooth, caredfor grass to ugly, muddy potholes. “It’s an off-road sport, but it’s done on traditional light equipment because unlike in mountain bike where you try to ride everything, in cyclocross it’s often faster to run,” Webster said. “You want a light, fast bike you can pick up to sprint up a steep hill, then hop back on for a road section.” Otherwise, the only equip-

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Because cyclocross is a sport designed to survive wet mud season weather, warmer cycling clothing usually is necessary. A long-sleeved jersey from Orange Peel, right, ($90), a pair of Pearl Izumi Cyclone gloves ($40) and fleecelined Salsa bib knickers ($100) can stand up to the fall weather.

ment necessary is typical early or late-season riding gear that will stand up to potentially brisk early mornings or evenings. Orange Peel and other local bike shops offer plenty of longsleeved and full-pant options, many complete with a thin fleece lining to help keep the cold out. page designed by Allison Miriani

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City Editor: Blythe Terrell • 871-4234/bterrell@steamboatpilot.com

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Age: 29 Occupation: Youth services librarian Place of birth: Harrisburg, Pa.

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Q. When did you move to Routt County, and what brought you here? A. In 2003. Kostin I had a friend living here who needed a roommate for “just a few months.” I thought I’d make a pit stop in Steamboat before moving out to the Pacific Northwest. The pit stop has been six years now, and I’m very happy.

Halloween costume ideas from Sandy Pugh, owner of The Costume Party & Dance Shop: Current-events-related costumes were a trend in Sandy Pugh’s first week at her recently opened party and costume store, she said. “I have to restock on pig noses — (there is) a lot of swine flu out there,” Pugh said. Michael Jackson or the Jackson Five have also been popular choices, she said. A group of girls came in looking for outfits for a ’70s party on Thursday afternoon, and Pugh has already had a few customers gearing up for Mambo Italiano’s Zombie Prom, scheduled for Oct. 30, she said. Vampire costumes have been in demand, riding on popularity of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” books and subsequent movies, and TV shows such as “True Blood” and “The Vampire Diaries.” The classic costume is one of several that can be put together at home and on the cheap, Pugh said: ■ Vampire: Buy a pair of fangs, and grab a nice suit or dress at home. Buy or improvise a cape, and begin terrorizing.

Q. What’s the biggest risk you’ve taken recently? A. Giving up coffee. Q. Describe your morning routine. A. Shower and clothes. Teeth and contacts. Toast and tea. Hop on my cruiser bike with wet head under a hat, finishing my toast and tea as I pedal to work. Q. Has a book ever changed your life? What was it and why? A. Come on, I’m a librarian! If I had to pick one, it would probably be “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein, because it taught me to love language. Or most recently, “Born to Run” by Christopher McDougall because it taught me to enjoy running again. Oh, and “The River Why” because it made me laugh while recovering from knee surgery. And, “The Story of B” by Daniel Quinn and … Q. What’s the best piece of

advice you’ve ever been given? A. Be impeccable with your word. “Four Agreements” (another lifechanging book)

Q. What three things would you want people to know about you? A. I love chocolate. I love to laugh. I need a lot of sleep. Q. What did you want to be when you grew up? A. A National Geographic photographer Q. Do you collect any-

thing? A. Books, dirty laundry, mismatched socks

Q. In the Meatloaf song, “I’d do anything for love, but I won’t do that,” what is that? A. Drive a stick-shift car Q. Do you have any pho-

bias?

A. The scary underwater people from Harry Potter who live in lakes like Catamount, which is why I couldn’t swim in the triathlon

Favorites Book: “The River Why” by David James Duncan Food: seafood Sport to watch: people watching Vacation spot: the ocean Movie: “Juno”

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The Costume Party and Dance Shop owner Sandy Pugh, clockwise from top left, Carol Herman, Sara Pugh and Victoria Belz model costumes at the store between 11th and 12th streets on Lincoln Avenue. Pugh said the store would be open through November.

Longtime party store operator opens new shop for Halloween

n Thursday afternoon, Sandy Pugh shuffled through racks of old rental costumes for a replacement outfit. What she’d worn to work had gotten misplaced in the shuffle Story by from one Margaret Hair Halloween costume to the next, and her Renaissancestyle dress wouldn’t do for an errand to Staples. Playing with costumes and party supplies has been Pugh’s business for 17 years, and after a half-year pause, she’s back in it. The Costume Party & Dance Shop — Pugh’s fourth Steamboat Springs costume and party store — opened Monday on Lincoln Avenue between 11th and 12th streets and is set to stay in the location at least through November, Pugh said. Filled with Halloween decorations and costumes, fall-themed adornments, party supplies and dance gear, The Costume Party is a separate venture from Pugh’s former store, Celebrations, Pugh said. That Central Park Plaza business closed in March. Pugh is operating her new shop on a monthto-month basis with a silent partner, she said. “Right now, we’re doing

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just Halloween and fall — Thanksgiving, that sort of thing. And it’s a month-tomonth, so we might stay and do Christmas,” Pugh said. How often the store will be open depends on business, she said. Since opening her first party and costume store in 1992 at a location roughly across Lincoln Avenue from where she is now, Pugh has acquired more than 1,000 rental costumes and has spent countless hours playing with them. “I’ve always had fun — I just love being out with the people, and how often do you get to play dress-up with the whole town?” Pugh said. The biggest reward comes on Halloween night, when Pugh gets to see the results of her carefully planned selection of oddities and absurdities. Before she got into the costume business, Pugh spent years as a special events planner in town, eventually becoming frustrated with the lack of a place to buy solid-colored plates and other supplies. So she bought a set of costumes and built her party business from there. As of Thursday, Pugh had used a Facebook page, e-mail contact lists, some neon orange fliers and a large “costume party” sign in her store window to advertise the new business. “We’ve had people drive by

Sandy Pugh will be on Steamboat TV18’s morning show, “Steamboat Today” on Thursday. Tune in about 8 a.m. to catch the interview live, or check www. steamboatpilot.com to watch the segment online later Thursday.

Halloween events ■ Halloween pajama story-time — Bud Werner Memorial Library, 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday Bud Werner Library invites children to a free special Halloween pajama story-time, with fun, not-too-scary stories for children ages 3 to 7. Wear a costume and bring a stuffed animal. Go to www.steamboat library.org/kids or call 879-0240 for more information. ■ 19th annual Pumpkin Festival — Rodeo grounds parking lot, 10:30 a.m. Children ages 2 through grade school are invited to paint pumpkins for judging from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Call Rob at 879-5283 or Paul at 879-1086.

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Bonnie Dougherty looks through the costumes Thursday at The Costume Party and Dance Shop in downtown Steamboat Springs.

and they just see the sign and they come in really excited,” Pugh said. Lila Powers, of Hahn’s Peak, and her son, Robi, were shopping for Robi’s Halloween outfit at another store when a fellow shopper told them Pugh had opened a new location. They came over immediately to check out the expanded collection of scary masks, the Powerses said. Susan Phillips said she and her 12-year-old daughter, Joylynn, were disappointed when Celebrations closed; they went there each year for Halloween supplies. Phillips’ husband received an e-mail about The Costume Shop, and

Susan and Joylynn headed over to look at costumes, Susan Phillips said, checking out at the register with a bumblebee costume for Joylynn on Thursday. “She likes to have a new one every year, so some day we can probably open our own store,” Phillips said. For this Halloween season, Pugh stocked up on horns, prop noses and other facial appliances, retro outfits, and infant and toddler costumes, she said. The store also stocks dance wear and shoes. The Costume Party & Dance Shop, at 1125 Lincoln Ave., is open from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

■ Halloween crafts — Steamboat Arts & Crafts Gym, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday Bring your own pumpkin for a free carving party from 1 to 4 p.m., or sign up for Halloween candy and cake making from 2 to 4 p.m. Call 879-0384. 1280 13th St. ■ Halloween Carnival — South Routt Elementary School, 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 24 The carnival is at the school gym in Yampa. Call 638-4558. ■ Scary stories with Spellbinders — Bud Werner Memorial Library Hall, 6 p.m. Oct. 30 The Bud Werner Memorial Library invites adults and children older than 8 to listen to bone-chilling tales in the dark of Library Hall. The free program will feature local members of Spellbinders, a volunteer storytelling organization. Call 879-0240 or go to www.steamboatlibrary.org. ■ Hallow’s Eve Zombie Ball — Mambo Italiano, 10 p.m. Oct. 30 Costumes and undead makeup are encour-

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Weathering the storm Event to raise funds for Samoans rebuilding after tsunami, quake Mike Lawrence

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A local volunteer sports trainer is hosting a fundraiser Saturday to benefit the people of his native Samoan islands, who are rebuilding after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Sept. 29. Steamboat Springs resident Pio Utu owns Strong Arm Cleaners and Strong Arm Security and has worked with young athletes in the area for more than 25 years. He said fortunately, every member of his

vast extended family in Samoa is safe after the disaster last month. But many Samoans are not so fortunate. More than 110 people were killed by the earthquake and tsunami, which left vast swaths of property damage and shattering loss across the islands. Utu said his sister, Sose, and his brother-in-law, Fono Fepulea’i, are working on relief efforts in Samoa with an international Christian charity group, Youth With a Mission. Fepulea’i told Utu that the situation in Samoa is “chaos” as the islands approach cyclone season.

In a Sept. 30 e-mail to family and friends, Fepulea’i wrote of the disasters’ aftermath. “It was such a sad scene as the villages directly hit by the tsunami, which are mainly on the main island of Upolu, have been totally devastated. Nothing left except rocks and debris. Churches, schools, homes, etc., all destroyed,” Fepulea’i wrote. “The government of Samoa is presently still in the first phase of the disaster trying to find as many bodies as they can and supplying the most immediate See Samoa, page 4D

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Members of Steamboat Springs resident Pio Utu’s family including his sister, Sose, center, and brother-in-law Fono Fepulea’i, right, help with disaster relief in Samoa, which is rebuilding after a Sept. 29 earthquake and tsunami. A benefit for relief efforts is Saturday at Steamboat Springs High School. PAGE DESIGNED BY ALLISON MIRIANI

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In a medium mixing bowl, combine the peanut butter, sugar, butter, milk, vanilla and salt. Using a rubber spatula, stir and mash the ingredients together until evenly combined and very smooth. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour. Put the semisweet chocolate, or the milk chocolate and vegetable oil, in a medium metal bowl large enough to rest inside the rim of a medium saucepan. Bring about 1-1/2 inches of water to a boil in the saucepan; and reduce the heat to maintain the barest simmer. Rest the metal bowl on the rim, making

in the recipe. But, in fact, you don’t even need a stove. If you prefer, you can melt the chocolate in the microwave. Put the chopped chocolate in a microwave-safe mixing bowl. Heat on the medium power setting for 1 minute. Then check to see if it looks soft and shiny, a sign that it’s ready for stirring. If not, continue heating at 30-second intervals until it does, keeping a close watch to avoid scorching it. Finally, stir the soft, shiny chocolate, which

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Anyone who thinks that a bottle of wine retailing for $10 or less isn’t worth drinking has a lesson to learn. There are a lot of wines in that price category that deserve attention. Will they rock your world? No. But there are nice, well-made reds and whites that are easy to drink and easy on your budget. My favorites tend to come from Washington State and Australia. From the Pacific Northwest, consider Arbor Crest Sauvignon Blanc, Chateau Ste. Michelle Sauvignon Blanc, Chateau Ste. Michelle Riesling and Hogue Merlot. For less than $10 a pop, I also like Columbia Crest Two

Vines Merlot-Cabernet and Snoqualmie Winemaker’s Select Riesling. Australia offers a wide range of wine bargains, including Alice White Shiraz, The Little Penguin Merlot, Hardy’s Stamp of Australia Cabernet Sauvignon, Jacob’s Creek Riesling and Alice White Chardonnay. If your price limit can be stretched to $11 a bottle, I think you’ll like any of the wines made by Yellow Tail, including shiraz, merlot and cabernet sauvignon. Bargain hunters looking for something from California should be pleased with Bogle Merlot, Fetzer Valley Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon, Beringer California Collection Chardonnay, J. Lohr White Riesling and Montevina Chardonay. And Francophiles should not despair. Mouton Cadet Red and Mouton Cadet White (produced by the same house that makes Chateau MoutonRothschild) are user-friendly wines that offer great value. Affordable favorites from other countries include Valentin

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Bianchi Elsa Malbec (Argentina), Vina Santa Rita Carmenere (Chile), Goats Do Roam White (South Africa) and Marques de Caceres White (Spain). Serve with: Pair the reds with beef, lamb, pork and cheese. The whites go well with chicken and seafood. The rieslings are easy-to-like sipping wines that also can be enjoyed with spicy seafood or poultry dishes. Availability/suggested retail: Sold in food markets and wine shops (and sometimes on sale), Yellow Tail wines retail for $11; the Arbor Crest, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Hogue and Goats Do Roam wines are $10 each. The others are priced from $7 to $9 a bottle.

Wine of the week Selection: Albarino white wines are among my favorites. They’re clean, crisp, refreshing and food friendly. The 2008 Martin Codax Albarino from northwestern Spain is a good example of just how pleasant these white wines can be. Serve with: Any seafood. Or enjoy as an aperitif wine. Availability/suggested retail: Sold in wine shops and food markets for between $13 and $15 a bottle.

sure its bottom does not actually touch the simmering water below. Stir the chocolate with a wooden spoon as it melts. When it is almost completely melted, turn off the heat and let the chocolate continue to melt, stirring occasionally, until completely melted and smooth. Keep the bowl over the warm water. Arrange 28 or so miniature paper or foil candy cups on a baking sheet. With a teaspoon, scoop up about 1/2 ounce of the peanut butter mixture and, with your hands, gently roll it into a smooth, bitesized ball slightly smaller in circumference than the height of the cups. (If you like, check the weight on a kitchen scale.) Set the ball inside a cup and repeat with the remaining mixture. Using a small spoon, carefully spoon the melted chocolate into each cup to cover the peanut butter balls. Transfer the baking sheet to the refrigerator and refrigerate until the chocolate is firmly set, about 1 hour. The cups will keep at least 2 weeks, refrigerated in a covered container.

will turn smooth and fluid. Unlike some chocolate candy recipes, there’s no dipping involved, either. You just spoon the melted chocolate directly over the peanut butter centers, which you’ve already shaped and placed in individual little cups. Refrigerate until set, and you’ve got treats that will literally melt in your mouth. They’re so good, you won’t want to make them just for Sweetest Day, either. Remember: Halloween and the holiday season are just around the corner!

Ask a cook Refrigerator ajar? Check the contents before closing door Q. I accidentally left my refrigerator door slightly ajar when I went to bed and discovered it the next morning. Do I need to throw everything away? The milk that was in the refrigerator door tastes fine for now, but it feels room temperature. A. When this reader contacted us that morning after discovering her refrigerator door open, I checked with Sally McNeill, a family and consumer educator from the North Carolina Extension Service. Her answer was what I expected: Potentially hazardous food, such as raw meat and dairy products, needs time and temperature control to keep it safe. This type of food needs to be kept at refrigerator temperatures of 40 degrees or less. If the temperature of the food rises into the temperature danger zone (40-140 degrees) for longer than two to four hours, it should be discarded. However, the problem in determining what was safe to keep was that the reader already had closed her refrigerator door. For most of us, that would be our first impulse. But if you do that, you don’t have any way of knowing what was no longer cold to the touch. Some things deeper in the refrigerator, such as meat in a meat-chilling drawer, may have stayed cold longer than things that are in the door or on the outer edge of a shelf. If you get into a situation like this, go through the contents of the refrigerator quickly to assess the damage before you close the door. — McClatchy Newspapers

MILESTONES BIRTHS

Happy birthday

Riley Louise Turner, daughter of Becky and Clyde Turner, of Steamboat Springs, was born at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 2, 2009. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. Her grandparents are Nancy Purdy, of Huntington, N.Y.; and Sue Turner of Homer, N.Y.

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We want to make it extra special by publishing his or her photo in the Steamboat Pilot & Today. The Steamboat Birthday Club is free of charge and open to children ages 1 to 12. For details, call Nicole Miller at 871-4246 or e-mail nmiller@steamboatpilot.com

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ALPINE RESORT MINISTRIES 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Vista overlook on Tower Run. Call Dr. Kent Osteen 870-1992 or 879-7062. HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH 524 Oak St., 879-0671. Saturday Mass at 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. (in Spanish); Sunday Mass at 8 a.m. (8:30 a.m. during ski season) and 4:30 p.m.; Mass at 7 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday; and 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursday. On Holy days, Mass is at 5:30 p.m.

October Rain View, daughter of Jessica and Sky View, of Steamboat Springs, was born at 5:55 p.m. Oct. 12, 2009. She weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and was 10 1/2 inches long. Her grandparents are Laura Okeefe, of Steamboat; Patrick Okeefe, of Steamboat; Donald View, of Candler, N.C.; and Davelynn ViewBell, of Salt Lake City, Utah. She has a sibling, Harmony.

CONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCH 755 Concordia Lane (Corner of Maple Street and Amethyst Drive — above high school football field), 879-0175. Sunday worship at 8 and 10:30 a.m.

Gravel surface of Rabbit Ears Pass completed 75 years ago From the Friday, Oct. 19, 1934, edition of The Steamboat Pilot: The gravel surfacing of Rabbit Ears Pass was completed Saturday by N.H. Honnen, the contractor. Lee Ryan was boss of the job. Twenty trucks were busy hauling gravel from this end. During the summer, a camp was maintained near the top of the pass. The graveling was started June 10, covering a distance of 21 miles, the entire surface of the pass from the east to the west end. A total of 60,000 tons of gravel was spread on the road.

Rapid work on the completion of the septic tank The work of the construction of the septic tank for the town of Steamboat Springs is about half completed. The entire job will cost about

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$9,000. A 15-inch pipeline has been laid. The basin for the concrete tank has been dug out, and the forms are being set. Steel posts are being placed. Concrete pouring started Wednesday of this week. The cement structure will be 12 feet deep, 22 feet wide and 60 feet long.

Useless slaughter of wild animals featured The senseless slaughter of predatory animals in the western Colorado stock ranges is severely censured in a recent issue of “Our Dumb Animals,” official organ of the American Humane Education Society. A government trapper was

given permission to trap coyotes in a certain area. He far exceeded his territory and succeeded in almost exterminating the coyotes with the result that the next year the region was overrun by jackrabbits, prairie dogs and field mice, the natural food for coyotes. Without the coyote check, the rodents multiplied in unbelievable numbers, doing damage to grain and gardens far in excess of any loss suffered by stockmen.

Better health in county is object of new campaign A better health campaign will be carried on in every school in Routt County through the relief and the home demonstration offices. Every school that wants this service may have it for the asking. The object is to decrease the number of underweight children by adding milk and cod liver oil to their regular diets. The milk and oil will be

furnished by relief funds in cases where patients cannot afford to purchase it. All children will be weighed and measured, and those found to be underweight will be given special attention. A record of the weights will be kept for each month. A similar program carried out in eight schools of the county last spring through the relief office gave very satisfactory results. Of the 107 children who were found to be underweight, 13 lost, 25 remained the same, and 69 had gained weight after two months. This time, however, was not long enough to show permanent results. The use of cod liver oil and milk in the diet does not necessarily indicate that there will be a gain in weight to the extent that the individual will be up to normal. However, it does build up the resistance of the body to colds and other ailments and in this way tends to be a better condition generally.

Bars offer costume contests to attendees on Halloween aged for the Zombie Ball, with a costume contest for zombie king and queen and a “Thriller” dance-off. Cover to be announced. Call 870-0500. 521 Lincoln Ave. ■ Kids carving event — Steamboat Arts & Crafts Gym, 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 31 Bring your own pumpkin for this free carving party. Call 879-0384. 1280 13th St. ■ Festival O’ Pumpkins — Routt County Courthouse lawn, 3:30 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31 The Steamboat Springs Arts Council presents its second annual Festival O’ Pumpkins contest, with prizes for scariest, funniest, most artistic or best in the

‘Boat. Registration is from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., judging is from 5:30 to 7 p.m., and pumpkin pickup goes until 8 p.m. Free. Call 879-9008.

mentary popcorn and beverages. Free. The Boys and Girls Club is in the gym at Eighth and Aspen streets. Call Sahra at 303-532-9274.

■ Downtown Halloween Stroll— Lincoln Avenue, 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 31 This free event invites children of all ages to trick-or-treat at the businesses on Lincoln Avenue. Call 846-1800.

■ Agent Orange with the Amputators — Ghost Ranch Saloon, 9 p.m. Oct. 31 Classic punk rock band Agent Orange returns to Steamboat with local rock band Amputators opening the show. Wear a costume for a chance at prizes. Pay $10 at the door. Call 879-9898. 56 Seventh St.

■ “Monster Mash” – Boys and Girls Club of Steamboat, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 31 The Boys and Girls Club of Steamboat is sponsoring a “Monster Mash” after the Halloween. Events include a dance party, costume contest, games and compli-

■ Missed the Boat — Mahogany Ridge Brewery and Grill, 10 p.m. Oct. 31 Local folk rock and bluegrass band Missed the Boat will bring a disco theme

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■ Halloween party with DJ Also Starring — The Tap House Sports Grill, 10 p.m. Oct. 31 DJ Also Starring provides the music for a Halloween bash that includes a costume contest for a snowboard. The $10 door fee buys a chance to win a 2009-10 season ski pass. Call 879-2431. 729 Lincoln Ave.

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CHRIST COVENANT REFORMED CHURCH Sunday worship at 10 a.m. at the Steamboat Springs Community Center. Call Del at 879-5729. BUDDHIST CENTER OF STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Meditation and Dharma talk are at 6:30 p.m. Mondays at 2550 Copper Frontage Road, No. 201, off of Elk River Road in Copper Ridge Business Park. Call 8795425 for a recorded schedule. ECKANKAR, RELIGION OF THE LIGHT AND SOUND OF GOD Worship service is at 11 a.m. the first Sunday of the month at the Community Center, 1605 Lincoln Ave. Call 736-0202. ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Ninth and Oak streets, P.O. Box 722. Sunday, 8 a.m. Holy Eucharist (no music); 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist (music/child care) in new church; 9:15 a.m. Sunday School— all ages; Thursday, 7 a.m., Holy Eucharist in old church. HAR MISHPACHA “The Mountain Family” Jewish Community Group. Call 879-2082 for information. BAHA’I FAITH Call Sandy at 846-9994. CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Church phone: 879-0220; 879-0224. Sunday meetings: 9 a.m. Sacrament Meeting; 10:20 a.m. Sunday School and Primary; 11:10 a.m. Priesthood, Relief Society, Young Men and Young Women. 1155 Central Park Drive. ANCHOR WAY BAPTIST CHURCH — SBC 40650 Anchor Way, Steamboat II, 879-7062 or 8790674. Sunday traditional worship 8:45 a.m.; Bible study and Sunday school 9:50 a.m.; contemporary worship 10:45 a.m.; Hispanic worship service, 6 p.m. EUZOA BIBLE CHURCH Meets at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sundays at 32305 R.C.R. 38 in Strawberry Park. Nursery provided at both services. Call 879-0123 or visit www.euzoa.com. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 970-871-4927, 347 12th St. Saturday services 10 a.m.-Noon with worship at 11 a.m. STEAMBOAT CHRISTIAN CENTER 879-0063. The Log Church across from the Fairfield Inn on Hwy 40. Sunday services 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Spanish service 7 p.m. www.steamboatchristian.com CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Meetings held at 3000 Elk River Road. Public meeting and Watchtower Study, 1 p.m. Sunday. Bible study, ministry school and service meeting, 7:30 p.m. Thursday. For more information, call 879-4075. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 879-1446 or 870-9583. One mile north of U.S. Highway 40 on Elk River Road west of Steamboat. Sunday services: 10 a.m. Sunday School (all ages welcome); 11 a.m. Morning Worship; 6:30 p.m. Eve

ning Worship. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH Seventh and Oak streets. Sunday services at 10:30 a.m.; first and third Wednesdays of the month at 5:30 p.m. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Eighth and Oak streets, 879-1290. The regular Sunday worship service is at 9 a.m. “Elevate” Contemporary Service is at 10:45 a.m. Sunday School adn nursery at both hours. CHURCH OF CHRIST 879-6670. 1698 Lincoln Ave. Sunday — Sunday School, 9:30 a.m.; Worship, 10:30 a.m. CHURCH OF THE MOVEMENT OF SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESS (MSIA) Mondays 7 to 9:30 p.m. 1/2 hour peace meditation, plus video tape seminar by John-Roger — discussion following. Call for location and more information 879-3157. Counseling and ceremonies available. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH Meets at Christian Heritage School in Heritage Park. Sunday worship is at 10 a.m., followed by Discipleship classes for all ages at 11:15 a.m. Call 879-3020.

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HAYDEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - UCC 202 E. Jefferson Ave., Hayden, 276-3510. Sunday Worship at 10:30 a.m. and youth group at 6 p.m. HAYDEN CHURCH OF CHRIST 301 E. Jefferson, 276-7268. Sunday Worship 11 a.m.; Bible Study 10 a.m., Ladies Bible class 12:30 p.m.; and Evening Worship Service at 7 p.m. Wednesday Bible study at 7 p.m. MISSION OF GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH Harvest Dr. and Cactus Street. 276-3111. Sunday service, 10:30 a.m.; Sunday evening and special services as announced.

SOUTH ROUTT GRACE EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH WISCONSIN SYNOD Services are held on the second Sundays of the month. Worship and Bible study at 6 p.m. Call 7362491 or 638-4647. SOUTH ROUTT BIBLE CHURCH Highway 131 Oak Creek, 736-8422. Sunday worship, 9:30 a.m.; Prayer and share, 11 a.m. Wednesday; AWANA Youth Program 6 p.m. ST. MARTIN OF TOURS CATHOLIC CHURCH Sharp and Williams, Oak Creek, 879-0671. Sunday 10:30 a.m. Mass. (11 a.m. during ski season) 7 a.m. Holy Days FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Yampa, 638-4622. Sunday 9:45 a.m. Sunday School; 11 a.m. Morning Worship; 7 p.m. evening worship. Thursday service from 6 to 7:30 p.m. YAMPA BIBLE CHURCH Sunday school 9:45 to 11 a.m.; Sunday morning worship 11 a.m.; Prayer Meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. McCOY COMMUNITY CHURCH 653-4302, McCoy. Sundays 9:30 a.m. Sunday school and Bible study. 10:30 a.m. Church services.

Support Groups Adult literacy programs are available in Steamboat through CMC. Free, individualized diagnosis, tutoring and GED preparation. Call CMC at 879-4444. Advocates Against Battering and Abuse is a crisis-intervention organization for battered women and their families. Rape crisis counseling also is offered. The hotline (879-8888) is answered at all hours. Call 879-2141. Alcoholics Anonymous is a support group for people who want to quit drinking. Meetings are at 437 Oak St., upstairs. SUNDAYS: 9 a.m., open; 7 p.m., open (speaker) MONDAYS: 7 a.m., open; 6:45 p.m. men’s only; 7 p.m., women’s only at Concordia Lutheran Church; 8 p.m., closed (step) TUESDAYS: 7 a.m. open; 6:45 p.m. newcomers; 8 p.m. open WEDNESDAYS: 7 a.m. open; 5:30 p.m. open; 8 p.m. closed (big book) THURSDAYS: 6 a.m. open; noon, step study; 8 p.m. open FRIDAYS: 7 a.m.; 9 a.m. women’s; 5:45 p.m. (at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church); 7 p.m. open. SATURDAYS: 7 a.m. open; 7 p.m. closed Oak Creek open meets at 6 p.m. Fridays at Oak Creek Library, 227 Dodge St. Call 736-8371. Al-Anon is a support group for persons whose lives have been affected by another’s drinking. Meetings at 437 Oak St., upstairs. Call 879-4882. MONDAYS: Noon; WEDNESDAYS: Noon; THURSDAYS: Step study 5:30 p.m.; SATURDAYS: 9 a.m. (at Luteran Church) 10 a.m. (ACA) ; SUNDAYS: 11 a.m. Teens in Recovery Al-Anon is a support group for young people whose lives have been affected by another’s drinking. Call 879-1729. Autism Asperger Awareness of Steamboat meets the first Monday of the month at United Methodist Church, Eighth and Oak. Call Janna 871-1418. Celebrate Recovery, a Christ-centered recovery program, meets at Concordia Lutheran Church, 755 Concordia Lane in Steamboat, at 6:15 p.m. on Thursdays. Call 879-0175 for more information. Crisis Pregnancy Support Group provides confidential support from a Christian perspective for those coping with unplanned pregnancy. Call 871-1307. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia Support Group Call Jody Akers at 879-1282. Compassionate Friends is a self-help organization offering friendship and understanding to bereaved parents and siblings. Meeting are at 7 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month at the First Congregational Church, 6th and Green streets in Craig. English as a Second Language provides instruction for people who are not native English speakers. Call 870-4534. Foster Parent Support Group is open to all Routt County foster parents or people seriously interested in becoming foster parents. The group meets bimonthly. For infor mation call Dena Joslyn at 879-1540. Heartbeat offers support for those who have lost a loved one or been touched by suicide. Meetings are at 4 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month in the VNA Comfort Room. Call Ronna Autrey at 970-875-2941 to find out more about group meetings.

Depression/Bipolar Support Group for those who have been diagnosed with these diseases, meets the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 6:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2 at Yampa Valley Medical Center. Friends and family always welcome. Call Ronna Autrey at 871-0682 or 875-2941. Hospice of Steamboat offers support for peo ple who are grieving the death of a loved one. Anyone interested in joining an educational support group should call Carol Gordon at 870-3232. Learning Unlimited is an adult literacy program for people who would like to improve reading skills. Call 870-4542. Meals on Wheels provides meals for seniors 60 or older for $3 suggested donation. It serves seniors in South Routt, Hayden and Steamboat Springs and provides transportation to meals and medical appointments. Call 879-0633. Narcotics Anonymous is a support group for persons with addictions to substances. Meetings are at 437 Oak St., upstairs. The public can feel free to call the club house at 879-4882. TUESDAYS: 5:30 p.m. open; THURSDAYS: 6:45 p.m. open; SUNDAYS: 5:30 p.m. open Newborn Network is a parent service, focusing on families with infants. Trained volunteers are available to visit families in the home and there are weekly “Baby Get-Togethers” in Oak Creek, Hayden and Steamboat. Call 879-0977. Parent Connection, for families of children with attention deficit disorder and similar conditions, meets at 6:15 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at the library house.Call 8797879. Parents of Preemies and Special Infant Care Linking Energy offers mentoring and resource information to parents of preemies. Call Tracy at 736-0025. Post-Abortion Support Group provides information and support for women dealing with symptoms of post-abortion stress. Call 8711307. Rational Recovery is a support group for those looking for non-spiritual sobriety and/or substance-abuse assistance. Call 879-9646. Suicide Attempters Support Group is a free group for those that have attempted suicide or contemplated it and for their families. This is a place to learn coping skills and how to work towards recovery. Meets the 1st and 3rd Wed of each month from Noon - 1 PM at the Rollingstone Hospice House. Call Ronna Autrey at 875-2941 or 846-8182. Wee Life is a support system for women with unplanned pregnancies who choose to have their babies. It offers education guidance, community resource information, support groups, maternity and baby clothes and furnishings. Call Sandy Deetz at 736-1047. Wellness Group, a support group for people with cancer or other chronic illness, meets from noon to 1:30 p.m. every first and third Wednesday at the Visiting Nurse Association office. Yampa Valley Cancer Support Group is a support group meeting in the evening on the third Wednesday of the month at the Visiting Nurse Association Conference Room. Call Jan Fritz 879-1632.

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Around the county News from South Routt’s Lila Rider and Hayden’s Laurie Hallenbeck HUNTING, HORSE and CATTLE RANCH

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her son Wayne Buton came in to visit her, too. Dorothy and Marvin Shively have been in visiting. Elvin Miles made a trip to Longmont, and he’s back home doing well. Good to see you again, Elvin!

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Frances Wither has been enjoying company from family and friends this week at the Doak Walker Care Center. Elinor Hocket has been having family come in and visit with her, and Lila Rider has had different visitors in throughout the week. They are all appreciated.

Joe Lacko’s daughter and family were in visiting with him this week, and Joanne Cannon’s daughter has been visiting with her. Juanita Davis enjoyed all her family in over the past weekend, and Alice’s sister comes in about every day to see her.

On the road Bettie Pierce’s family has started back to California, where their son graduated. Congratulations!

Rosa DeVault has been having visitors and regular company, and her brother John went to Denver to the game the other day. He said it was a blast.

Phyllis Burrowes has been enjoying visits from Edwina Bruder, from Oak Creek, and

Bingo Again people are asking for donations of rings and pins for the ever-popular bingo game. Donations can be made at the nurse’s station, or to Lila Rider.

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■ Steamboat Springs High School Monday: Hot dog bar and fries Tuesday: Taco bar, black beans and Spanish rice Wednesday: Flank steak and mashed potatoes Thursday: Wings and fries Friday: Pasta bar and garlic cheese bread

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Many, many thanks to everyone who is praying for Lila Rider’s nephew, Jim Goggin, who was in the head-on collision near Yampa. He’s had several surgeries, and he’s doing better.

Anniversary

The Garden Club will meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday at Carolyn Roitsch’s house, where the topic will be gluten-free baking. For more information, contact Carolyn or call Tammie at Yampa Valley Feeds.

Joke of the week This guy went to the hospital and the doctor told him he was going to die soon. So he turned to his wife and said, “Honey, I want you to promise that six months after I’m gone, you’ll marry Bob.” She said, “What? Bob? I thought you hated him.” And the man said, “Oh, I still do.”

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Happy birthday Happy birthday wishes to Hailey Archuleta, Elsie Richardson, Jacob Goddard, Scotty Armbruster, Jill Delay

Anniversary wishes to Tim and Tena Frentress, and Chuck and Julie Grobe.

Get well Get well wishes to Gayle Valora, who had heart surgery earlier this week. Her family hopes she’ll make it home Saturday. Get well wishes to Bob Powell, who had an angioplasty Thursday.

Fall luncheon The Annual Fall Salad Luncheon was held Thursday and it was well attended. Great salads were enjoyed by all.

Saturday tea The American Legion Women’s Auxiliary is having a tea at 2 p.m. Saturday at American Legion Hall. All ladies are welcome to attend.

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Monday: Corn dogs and baked beans Tuesday: Chicken fried steak and eggroll Wednesday: Mac and beef Thursday: Taco bar Friday: Stuffed-crust pizza

■ Hayden School District Monday: Chicken fajitas, refried beans, long grain wild rice, fruit salad and milk Tuesday: Chicken parmesan, polenta, sautéed zucchini, fresh melon and milk Wednesday: Hamburgers, three-bean salad, macaroni salad, jello and milk Thursday: Pepperoni pizza, mixed veg-

etables, green garden salad, crustini bread and milk Friday: No school ■ South Routt School District Monday: Sloppy joes, Fritos, salad and fruit bar and milk Tuesday: Fish patty, French fries, salad and fruit bar and milk Wednesday: Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes and gravy, salad and fruit bar and milk Thursday: Nachos, corn, salad and fruit bar, cookie and milk

Pumpkin carving Yampa Valley Feeds has pumpkins for Halloween to delight your carving creations. Head to the Hayden Artisans Marketplace on Saturday to carve your pumpkin with friends and family. All you need is a pumpkin. Supplies for carving and decorating will be provided.

Pets workshop Georgia Steeter and her “Healing Friends” will be presenting a workshop about keeping pets healthy at 12:45 Wednesday at the Haven Community Center. Call Kathy Lozinksy at 875-1887 for more information.

Friday: Corn dog, tater tots, salad and fruit bar and milk ■ Christian Heritage School Monday: Azteca Taqueria: Chicken burrito, tortilla chips, salsa and sour cream and drink Tuesday: Freshies: Turkey sandwich, watermelon, cookie and drink Wednesday: Quiznos: Ham and Swiss sub sandwich, chips, cookie and drink Thursday: BeauJo’s Mountain Bistro: Pizza slices and drink Friday: Half day, no lunch

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Somoa continued from 1D needs — shelter, food, medicine and water — for the affected villagers. The second phase of rebuilding will be soon.” That second phase is now under way. Fepulea’i said an incredible amount of work lies ahead. “This is going to be a longterm effort after the two to three weeks of the adrenalin initial stage of tsunami relief,” he wrote in an Oct. 8 e-mail, describing Youth With a Mission efforts. “Our YWAM base in Samoa is now the base of some of the medical teams and other relief agencies coming from overseas. … We have been taking chainsaws we were able to find to clear land for people so they can build temporary or permanent homes for their families. Please note that Samoa is not like America where people afford machinery to clear land. Samoa is a different story. So we have to provide the best possible help we can to COURTESY PHOTO best serve them.” Steamboat Springs resident Pio Utu said that in his native Samoa, the Sept. 29 earthquake and tsunami leveled churches, Saturday’s event is 5 to 8:30 homes, schools and more, leaving many residents without shelter as cyclone season approaches. p.m. at Steamboat Springs High School. Utu said plans include Utu said volunteers are needsuggested donation for those younger a luau with “smoked pigs and ed to help with event publicity, If you go than 12 turkeys,” door prizes and enter- hosting, ticket sales, prize conWhat: Benefit dinner, prizes and enterTo help: Volunteers are needed to help tainment. Tickets cost $15 for tainment to raise funds for residents with event publicity, hosting, ticket sales, tribution and more. Call Utu at those 12 or older, or a $10 sugof Samoa, who are rebuilding after the prize contribution and more. Call Pio Utu Sept. 29 tsunami and earthquake. Relief gested donation for those young- 846-9064 or Luther Berntson at at 846-9064 or Luther Berntson at 870funds will go to Youth With a Mission er than 12. Tickets are available at 870-9675 for details. Donations 9675 for details. workers in Samoa. can be made to the Samoan To give: Donations can be made to Freshies and All That Jazz. When: 5 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday Tsunami Relief Fund at Alpine the Samoan Tsunami Relief Fund at Where: Steamboat Springs High School Alpine Bank, 1901 Pine Grove Road in Bank, 1901 Pine Grove Road in Cost: $15 for those 12 and older, $10 Steamboat Springs. Steamboat Springs.

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Sunday, October 18, 2009 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Carly Schroeder, 19; Wynton Marsalis, 48; Vincent Spano, 47; JeanClaude Van Damme, 49 Happy Birthday: Voice your opinion and put your ideas into play. You will attract the help you require to do something great. This is a year to reevaluate and make whatever changes are required to make your life better. Don’t settle for less when you don’t have to. It’s up to you to set your goals and forge ahead until you reach your destination. Your numbers are 4, 9, 13, 25, 28, 31, 43 ARIES (March 21-April 19): As long as your plans are honorable and you stick to them, you will come out a winner. A chance meeting with someone from your past will prove to be entertaining but don’t venture down a path you’ve already experienced with this person. ★★★ TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Protect what you have worked so hard to achieve. Someone you meet will captivate your imagination but don’t let an offer fool you. You should take a pass until you know more. ★★★ GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Work hard now and you will never look back but, give in to a lull and you will have trouble finishing what you began. A personal problem will arise if someone feels left out or neglected. ★★★ CANCER (June 21-July 22): Accept inevitable changes and you will find it easier to deal with things. A love relationship may give you reason to rethink your connection and how you should handle this person in the future. ★★★★★ LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Face all the little aggravations that have been standing in your way and you will make a statement and be able to change what you don’t like. You are in a position to adjust the dynamics of any relationship that has been causing you grief. ★★★ VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Configure a way to implement what you do best into something that can become a lucrative investment. Uncertainty has been holding you back when it should be firing you up to make a move before one is forced on you. ★★★

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Exploit your talents and you will gather interest in what you are trying to do. Plan to have some fun and you will encourage a romantic time spent with someone you care for. Children can add to your joy. ★★★ SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There will be a lot that you are not being told. Authorities should be questioned if you aren’t getting the answers you need to make an honest assessment. Your unique way of seeing things can help those perplexed by what’s going on. ★★★ SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may think you have everything in order but someone is likely to make a last minute-change to disrupt your plans. Don’t get angry. If something seems too easy, you’ve probably overlooked an essential component. ★★★ CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep a close eye on the climate of a situation that could escalate out of control. Travel will lead to problems with authority, delays or even loss. Don’t fight or cause a ruckus -- be rational, reasonable and practical. ★★★★ AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your heart will lead you in one direction and your head another. Don’t give in to someone making promises that aren’t likely to pan out. Keep things simple and your costs down and you will have no regrets. ★★ PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You can have the upper hand but, if you take advantage of someone, you will be questioned and reprimanded. Be fair, no matter what, and you will reap financial, emotional and legal rewards. Protect your rights, possessions and reputation. ★★★★★ Birthday Baby: You are popular, original and passionate about your beliefs. You are engaging and open. ©2009 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE

Cryptogram Solutions 1. Tiger’s low points at the PGA epitomized the yin and the yang of the game for a golf wizard. 2. Two crocs were complaining while snacking at a picnic. One of them snapped: “I don’t mind living in Florida as long as I don’t have to drink Gatorade.” 3. A bridge foursome got fairly disturbed when a new player at north started protesting that he wasn’t a dummy! 4. A multi-colored alien, arriving to live on earth, was interested and amused by the use of the term “green thumb”. He would certainly fit in!

The Sunday Crossword Los Angeles Times Sunday Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis The ultimate sandwich By Alan Arbesfeld Across 1 Place to surf 7 Like the best straight, in poker 14 Creature that divides to multiply 20 One-named Tejano singer 21 Cure-all 22 Scams 23 Like hawks, vis-à-vis doves 24 Course covering the Roman Empire, perhaps 26 Earthquake 27 Pilot 28 “You’re not telling the truth!” 29 White Rose __-Tea, first instant iced tea 31 Take pieces from? 33 Noodge 34 Pentathlon event 40 Service station job 42 Jazz singer Anderson 43 Post with planes 44 __ Raton, Florida 45 Cut grass 48 Chaos 50 Slangy “OK” 51 Rehearse quickly 54 Important time 55 Gods’ drink 57 Bambi’s aunt 58 British county 59 “Under Milk Wood” playwright 62 Lunes y martes, e.g. 65 Small songbird 66 Mother of the Titans 67 “I’ve been __!” 69 Attend 71 Deity skilled at archery 74 Wealthy 77 Malfunctioned 83 Toon skunk Pepé 85 Vintage auto 87 __ Sebastian Bach 88 Lux. neighbor 89 Gardener’s gift 92 Org. with a longstanding journal 93 Include, at the poker

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table 95 NC State’s gp. 96 “Diamonds & Rust” singer Joan 97 Starts 100 Nobelist Morrison 101 Turner on screen 102 One of the Seven Sisters colleges 104 Bank-confiscated auto, briefly 107 Reach rudely for 110 Pronto, in memos 111 Hints at 113 Poland Spring competitor 117 Bandleader’s cry 121 College accommodations 123 “Driver carries __”: robbery deterrent 124 Like a stiff drink 125 Operative, as a rule 126 Psychologist’s concern 127 Horseplay sounds? 128 Vegas light source 129 __-skelter Down 1 Recipe amts. 2 “__ we go again!” 3 “The Time Machine” race 4 Old movie house staple 5 Canine coat? 6 Paving goo 7 “C’mon, be __!”: “Help me!” 8 Child’s plea 9 Suffix with defer 10 Coifs 11 Sprain treatment 12 Classy fellows 13 __ yoga 14 Slightly more than one can tolerate 15 Dishevel 16 Recorded with a VCR 17 French school 18 Tennis great Becker 19 So far 25 “Portia is Brutus’ __, not his wife”: Shak. 27 All done, in Verdun 30 Radius times two 32 “If __ a Rich Man” 34 Were in accord 35 Big name in labels 36 Gore who wrote

“Lincoln” 37 “__ see it my way ...”: Beatles lyric 38 Letter-shaped girder 39 Enthusiastic 41 It’s bad to be behind them 44 __ B’rith 45 Naturalist John 46 Fairy tale beast 47 Invitation word 49 “The King and I” teacher 52 Berlin conjunction 53 “I’m amazed!” 56 Indian tea 60 Go along 61 Noticed 63 Turkish general 64 %#&!#! ones 68 “This seems familiar” feeling

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