S T E A M B O AT
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NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
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Vol. 21, No. 266
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Soup dinner to aid child Event to pay for care for Ella Mosciaro, who has focal cortical dysplasia Page 2
S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Veterans to hold dance USO Ball to celebrate Veterans Day with old-fashioned music Page 6
SPORTS
MATT STENSLAND/STAFF
Winona’s Restaurant server Tara Wernig sorts her tickets Wednesday after the restaurant closed early because of a lack of customers. Restaurant owner Jamie McQuade blames downtown construction on U.S. Highway 40 for the drop in business.
Bumps in the roadwork Businesses, CDOT, contractors meet to talk about spring plans Mike Lawrence
PILOT & TODAY STAFF
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
Title at stake Page 31
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■ INDEX Briefs . . . . . . . . . 10 Classifieds . . . . . 39 Colorado . . . . . . 16 Comics . . . . . . . 37 Crossword . . . . . 37 Happenings . . . . . 7
After a fall season that has been nightmarish for some downtown businesses, talks are under way about how to better plan for effects of spring construction on Lincoln Avenue. The Colorado Department of Transportation and Scott Contracting are wrapping up fall’s portion of the major resurfacing and improvement project
Horoscope . . . . . 38 Nation . . . . . . . . 18 Scoreboard . . . . 36 Sports . . . . . . . . 31 ViewPoints . . . . . 8 World . . . . . . . . . 21
Thursday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 10-17-26-31-32 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
that’s moving in stages between Third and 13th streets. Work on a box culvert at Seventh Street concluded Thursday morning, and the last day of work until spring likely is Nov. 13, a week away. That day can’t come fast enough for some downtown business owners, who said they were not prepared for the scope of the project’s impacts, including road closures for five consecutive blocks and a lack of downtown parking.
■ WEATHER
Mostly sunny. High of 59.
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Jamie McQuade, owner of Winona’s Restaurant, 617 Lincoln Ave., said she lost $15,000 in the last two weeks of October. “I’m down 50 to 60 percent … and if it keeps going the way it is, honestly, I’ll be out of business in the spring,” McQuade said Thursday night in Centennial Hall, at a meeting with representatives from CDOT, Scott Contracting and HDR Engineering, which is providing design support for
the project. The meeting was held to discuss ways to mitigate effects of spring construction work, slated to start April 1, weather permitting, and continue through most, if not all, of June. At that meeting or earlier this week, Joe Kboudi, of All That Jazz, Eric Dorris, of the Space Station gas station, Steve and Denise Hitchcock, of Zirkel Trading, and Lane and See Roadwork, page 14
■ EXPLORE STEAMBOAT Your weekend guide to arts and entertainment in Steamboat Springs, including movie times and film reviews, begins on page 25.
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