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EDUCATION

Re-envisioning education

MAY 14, 2014 VOLUME 20, NUMBER 84

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By HEATHER SACKETT

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hat will education look like 13 years from now?

That’s the question Telluride School District officials are trying to answer and they are asking for help from the public to accomplish it. On Thursday the district will host the first of three community visioning sessions — open to parents, business owners and any community member who

TSD 2027 will address space constraints because of increased enrollment is interested in the future of local public schools — from 8:3010 a.m. Thursday at the Telluride High School, room 234.

The goal of TSD 2027 is to examine the district’s curriculum, class sizes, bi-lingual learning, technology, facilities and more.

Participants will brainstorm ideas about the future evolution of how kids learn and how the district can prepare them for jobs that may not even currently exist. The days of teachers standing at the front of a classroom dispensing knowledge to

students at desks may become a thing of the past as learning moves online, said Telluride R-1 School Board President Paul Reich.

“I think sometimes it’s hard for people to look that far ahead,” Reich said. “Our job as a board is to be thinking further down the road than next August when school starts.”

One area sure to come under See EDUCATION, Page 2

“Gotta love Telluride in May!”

— The Snowman Family

WEATHER

MAY SNOW BRINGS NEEDED MOISTURE

Calendar Wednesday • First Aid and CPR Intensive: 5-9:30 p.m., elementary school • SMEF Board Meeting: 5 p.m., library • Alcoholics Anonymous: 5:30 p.m., Alpine Chapel • “The Invisible War”: 6 p.m., library • Movie: “Muppets Most Wanted” (PG) 5:30 p.m., “Noah” (PG-13) 7:45 p.m., Nugget Theatre

Weekend storm drops more than a foot in town

Thursday • School District Visioning Session: 8:30-10 a.m., high school • Library Board Meeting: 5:15, library • Cycling Club Ride: 5:30 p.m., Box Canyon Bicycles • Sufi Poets Workshop: 6 p.m., library • Poetry Brothel: 9 p.m., Steaming Bean • Movie: “Muppets Most Wanted” (PG) 5:30 p.m., “Noah” (PG-13) 7:45 p.m., Nugget Theatre

By COLLIN MCRANN

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Telluride/Norwood track team runner Jeff Williams carries the baton toward the finish line in the 4X800 relay during the Western Slope Multi-Leagues Meet last weekend in Grand Junction. Williams and his relay teammates, Malcolm Major, Jack Plantz and DJ Royer, won the event. Williams is among 17 Telluride and Norwood athletes who are heading to the Colorado State Track and Field Championships in Lakewood on Wednesday. The competition starts on Thursday. [Photo by Melissa Plantz]

Muse: The calendar says May 13. But everything else about this morning — the fresh snow piled on my bike and clotting the trees, the icicles dangling off the eaves, the snow crystals drifting through the sky — tells me it’s a powder day in March.

WATER

Ski area water rights bill shot down in state senate committee

Forecast: Wednesday will be mostly sunny with a high near 44. Thursday will be mostly sunny with a high near 52.

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Bill would have protected ski area water rights

By COLLIN MCRANN

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n the latest turn in a long fight over ski area water rights, a state bill that would have kept the U.S. Forest Service from claiming those rights failed to pass a state senate committee last week.

House Bill 1028 was sponsored by State Sen. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango. It would have stopped the Forest Service from requiring that ski resorts turn

over their water rights to the federal government as part of getting their operating permits.

Though it did pass the Colorado House of Representatives in February with a vote of 38-24, the bill failed to pass the Senate State Affairs Committee 3-2 on May 5.

This is the second time that the Colorado State Legislature has shot down a ski area water rights proposal, but Roberts said she thinks new rules are needed.

“What’s at stake is Colorado’s

right to administer its own water,” Roberts said. “The political reality is that the majority party in the Colorado legislature aligns with the Obama administration.

So they’re less likely to push up against that administration. So, I think that’s why the bill was killed.”

Over the past several years there have been numerous court battles involving the National Ski Area Association — a trade asSee WATER, Page 2

Staff reporter

storm that blew in on Mother’s Day brought more than a foot of snow to town, and was one of several spring storms to hit the Telluride area since the lifts closed on April 6.

According to the National Weather Service, most of San Miguel County has seen near normal amounts of precipitation over the last 30 days. The Natural Resources Conservation Service reported on Tuesday that the snowpack in the San Miguel, Dolores, Animas and San Juan River basins is sitting at around 75 percent of normal, meanwhile.

NOAA meteorologist Ellen Hefferman said the weekend storm originated in the Pacific Northwest and hit most of the state. She said the storm brought rain to many lower elevation areas, but places like Telluride got a lot of snow.

“I would say this system is an unusual, and unseasonal, event for this time of year,” Hefferman said.

Thom Carnevale, who keeps local weather records, reported that the weekend storm dropped around 13.5 inches in Telluride. In all, Carnevale reported, See SNOW, Page 9

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the microscope during the visioning process is the district’s buildings. With enrollment up about 120 students since 2011, the elementary school is reaching its capacity, said Superintendent Kyle Schumacher. The building, however, doesn’t really allow for expansion, so any additions or reconfigurations would have to happen at the middle/ high school building.

District officials have already received responses to a request for proposals they sent to several design/build firms. The school board is expected to approve hiring a company at next week’s board meeting, Schumacher said.

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munity and see what kinds of things overlap,” Schumacher said.

An expansion project would address school security, ways to increase multi-use space like the gym and cafeteria and creating multi-use rooms for community organizations to use as well.

“What does a classroom need to look like?” Reich said. “We are really being challenged in our common areas … We need to be a little bit more imaginative today. It’s a balancing act.”

TSD 2027 is so named because that’s the year when the incoming 2014 kindergarten class will graduate from high school. With a senior who’s graduating in a few weeks, Reich said he starting thinking about how education has changed over the past 13 years since his child entered

the school system.

The project aims to come up with a dynamic 3-5 year plan that is continually being re-evaluated.

District officials are also looking for input from community organizations that are involved with education like the Telluride Institute and Pinhead Institute.

“I think it’s important to involve the community because we are a public school,” Schumacher said. “It’s the community’s needs we are really trying to meet. It’s their kids, it’s our kids, it’s my kid. What are the types of things they hope for their kids?”

The visioning sessions will take place Thursday from 8:3010 a.m. and from 5:30-7 p.m. May 19 and 27 at the Telluride High School in room 234.

Water rights bill shot down WATER, from page 1

sociation that represents 325 resorts and operators in the United States — concerning the Forest Service and its rules on ski area permits and water rights.

Most ski areas need water rights so they can make snow to supplement natural snowfall.

In 2012, a federal judge in Denver overturned a Forest Service policy on ski water rights, according to The Associated Press. Since then, the Forest Service has been trying to introduce new policies that take into account public input, but so far nothing has been issued.

The Forest Service says it is concerned over water on public lands because it estimates that snowmaking procedures will likely increase in coming years due to drought and warmer winters.

“We will be proposing changes to the ski area water clause that address the concerns associated with the previous ski area water rights clause,” Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said in a statement. “We believe that

these changes will provide assurances to the public and communities that depend on economic activities from ski areas that they will continue to provide recreation opportunities. Further, we believe that these objectives can be met without requiring the transfer of privately owned water rights to the government.”

Roberts explained that her bill was about current water rights and who holds them within the state of Colorado only.

“This bill didn’t touch federal reserve water rights,” she said. “We were just talking about when ski areas or any other private entity acquires water rights.

It’s usually a pretty expensive venture for them to do that. But how do they protect their water rights without it being made a condition of their permit? It’s very discouraging to ski areas to go make that investment only to potentially lose it to the federal government if they make it a condition of their permit.”

Alongside the state legislation, a similar bill was before Congress this spring called the

Water Rights Protection Act. That bill was put forth by Rep. Scott Tipton, (R-Colo.), and it passed the U.S. House of Representatives in March, but failed to pass the Senate.

“Shortly after it got through the House, President [Barack] Obama made mention of it and said he would veto that bill if it got through the Senate,” Roberts said. “So obviously that had a chilling effect on the legislation.”

Colorado Ski Country USA, which represents Telluride Ski & Golf and many other ski resorts in the state on legislative issues, was unavailable for comment as of Tuesday. Telski deferred all comments to Colorado Ski Country.

While the current bill may be dead, Roberts said she will be talking to officials and others to see what they think about the issue and then decide whether to present the bill next year.

“This bill was to make it clear that Colorado will be in charge with its water rights system,” Roberts said.

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TRUE STORIES BOSTON DRIVERS URGED TO‘USE YAH BLINKAH’

Perhaps the reason notoriously aggressive Boston drivers don’t use their turn signals is that no one’s ever put it in terms they understand.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation on Friday changed that by posting messages on electronic highway signs around the city that read: “Changing Lanes? Use Yah Blinkah.” Drivers who fail to use their “blinkah” when changing lanes on a Massachusetts highway are subject to a fine.

DRIVER CITED FOR USING DUMMY IN CARPOOL LANE

A commuter heading into Boston had a real dummy along for the ride.

State Trooper John Carnell was working a paid detail in Quincy when he saw a vehicle enter the carpool lane on Interstate 93 north with a suspicious-looking passenger.

Carnell pulled over the vehicle and found that indeed, the driver had propped up a jacket with a mannequin head on top in the passenger seat. The fake head even had a little mustache drawn on.

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The View

One battle for civil rights continues

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ometime next year, a ination. In 1884, two decades affederal judge will decide ter the Civil War “freed” blacks, whether Native Ameri- the U.S. Supreme Court ruled cans are still being shut that Indians are not citizens and out of political power in therefore can’t vote. The 1887 Utah’s San Juan County, where Dawes Act declared that the more than 52 percent of the peo- nation’s goal was the “gradual ple are members of the Navajo or extinction” of tribes and reservations, and that in order to vote, Ute Mountain Ute tribes.

The trial will be presided over an Indian must leave the reserby U.S. District Court Judge Rob- vation and “adopt the habits of ert Shelby, the same judge who civilized life.”

Reform slowly followed, instruck down Utah’s ban on samesex marriages last December. At cluding President Franklin issue will be the Navajo Nation’s Roosevelt’s 1934 Indian Citizenclaim that local voting districts ship Act, and ultimately Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Voting have essentially been Rights Act, but tribes gerrymandered to say a long period of ensure a permanent “Jim Crow” enforcewhite majority on both ment ensued. As a the county council and result, some of the the school board. The gains that have been Navajo Human Rights achieved are distressCommission has proingly fragile, and reposed new district cent. boundaries that would In Montezuma give Indians a chance JON KOVASH County, Colo., for exto win a majority of WRITERS ON ample, Utes didn’t get seats.

THE RANGE the vote until 1970, It may seem like and no Ute held county just another skirmish in a dispute that has been go- office until after a 1997 lawsuit. ing on for at least four decades. In Montana, Indians got the vote San Juan County in southeastern in 1975, and in the state’s BigUtah is home to the mostly white horn County, no Indian sat on towns of Blanding and Monticel- the county commission until aflo, although the tiny tribal towns ter a 1983 lawsuit. South Dakota of Bluff, Montezuma Creek, An- Indians had no vote and could eth and White Mesa lie to the hold no office until after legal acsouth. As far back as 1972, the tion in 1980. As recently as 2001, county was challenged in court, white defendants in a court chalwhen Navajos accused county of- lenge there justified themselves ficials of making it almost impos- by arguing that “Indians don’t sible for tribal members to run share the same interest in counfor public office. In 1983, the U.S. ty government.”

Over the years, white opposiJustice Department forced the county to abandon its “at-large” tion has been galvanized by such voting districts because they had litigation, with some counties the effect of diluting the Indian supported by the conservative vote. In 1997, locals considered Mountain States Legal Foundathe situation so hopeless that tion and “white rights” groups. the county funded a study on In Utah’s San Juan County, the feasibility of splitting itself where Navajos charge “racial in two. The University of Utah’s animus,” white county officials study concluded that splitting have complained that Indians the county would disproportion- on sovereign tribal lands don’t ately harm Indian communities, pay property taxes, yet make use which would be “economically of law enforcement, fire proteccrippled” by a lack of operating tion, ambulances and health clinics. Yet when Indians were capital.

The current Navajo suit is left off jury lists, the officials extypical of dozens that have been plained that Indians “ignore jury filed in recent years in Western notices.” San Juan County Comstates, often with the assistance missioner Bruce Adams says he’s of the American Civil Liberties “not convinced that anything is Union. In a 2009 report, “Voting broken.”

Back in 1998, activist Ken Rights in Indian Country,” the ACLU concluded that “courts Sleight, who had spent eight have invariably found wide- years working on Navajo votspread patterns of discrimina- ing rights in San Juan County, tion against Indians in the politi- concluded that “the race issue cal process.” In a case in Blaine remains (the county’s) deepest County, Mont., a judge ruled that and most enduring problem.” “racially polarized voting made it Now, 16 years later, the Navaimpossible for an American Indi- jos still decry what they call an to succeed in an at-large elec- the county’s “history of racial tion.” In numerous cases, courts discrimination in school district have also found discriminatory programs and services” and cite procedures for registering In- a “singular lack of responsivedian voters as well as onerous ness to the particular needs of identification requirements and Indians.” a lack of help with minority lan— Jon Kovash is a contribuguages. On top of this, an inordinate number of Indian voters tor to Writers on the Range, were disenfranchised by crimi- a syndicated column service of High Country News. He is a nal offenses.

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NEWS IN BRIEF DENVER

Paleontologists examine the Morrison Formation

MAY STORM HEIGHTENS AVALANCHE RISKS

Colorado’s May snowstorm is increasing the state’s avalanche danger.

Ethan Greene of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center says that the new snow is landing on top of a thick hardpack of earlier snowfall. Strong winds can dislodge it and start avalanches. The danger may persist for several more weeks because much of the snow in the Rockies hasn’t started to melt.

More than a foot of snow fell in some parts of Colorado’s mountains since the storm began Sunday. Eight people have died in avalanches this year in the state.

DENVER

BROPHY ENDORSES BEAUPREZ IN GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY

State Sen. Greg Brophy is endorsing former Rep. Bob Beauprez as the Republican party’s best potential challenger to Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper.

Brophy was one of several Republicans competing for the party’s nomination to face Hickenlooper in November. But he did not garner enough support at the party’s convention last month to make the primary ballot. Brophy endorsed Beauprez on Monday. He said the former congressman is the best prepared to win the election and successfully govern Colorado.

Beauprez is one of four Republicans competing in the primary.

He is running against former Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler and former State Sen. Mike Kopp.

DENVER

EX-COLORADO SHERIFF ON PROBATION FAILS DRUG TESTS A former Arapahoe County sheriff convicted in a meth-for-sex case has violated his probation by testing positive for meth and alcohol.

Court documents released Monday show 71-year-old Patrick Sullivan tested positive for methamphetamine use three times between September and March. The documents say Sullivan tested positive for alcohol use four times between April 2012 and last August.

Sullivan was sentenced in 2012 to 38 days in jail and placed on two years’ probation after pleading guilty to felony possession of methamphetamine and soliciting for prostitution.

A judge in March extended Sullivan’s probation after he failed a urine test.

By GARY HARMON

Life-saving skills

Telluride Paramedic Brad Blackwell talks to Telluride Intermediate School fourth graders in front of an ambulance truck during a recent emergency skills program at the school. Local EMTs and Search and Rescue crews visited the school all week to teach students Basic Aid Training, which is First Aid training for kids. The entire fourth grade would like to thank these community volunteers for sharing their expertise. [Courtesy image]

WEATHER

Wet spring snows hit the Rockies 3 feet of snow fell in some parts of Colorado’s mountains

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ENVER (AP) — Trucks began rolling again across a southern Wyoming artery that had been shuttered for more than 24 hours and officials in Nebraska made plans to move some primary polling locations Monday following a powerful spring storm that brought up to 3 feet of snow to the Rockies and spawned thunderstorms and tornadoes in the Midwest.

Interstate 80, a major eastwest truck route, reopened in Wyoming a day after its closure stranded thousands of travelers and truckers. Residents in eastern Nebraska were cleaning up from Sunday’s thunderstorms and twisters, which ripped roofs off homes and toppled buildings, but caused no major injuries.

In Colorado, the snow that began falling on Mother’s Day caused some power outages as it weighed down newly greening trees.

Among those affected by the outages was Denver International Airport, where some escalators and elevators temporarily stalled Monday morning. Airport spokeswoman Julie Smith said a backup generator spared the airport any major problems. At least 27 arriving and departing flights were canceled due to the weather, but Smith said there were no major delays. Crews were working overnight to de-ice runways.

The weather appears to be to blame for at least one fatal crash Sunday on U.S. Highway 285 southwest of Denver.

The highway was one of the worst for accidents in the storm.

Two law enforcement cruisers were also hit along the road in less than an hour while responding to other crashes.

Spring is normally the wettest time of year in the Rockies.

While snowfall is common in the

mountains in May, significant snowfall at lower elevations like Denver in May only occurs every five or 10 years, Colorado state climatologist Nolan Doesken said. Denver got between 4 and 7 inches of typical heavy, wet spring snow.

In the West, high winds at the bottom of the storm sent dust blowing across Arizona and New Mexico, and the Los Angeles area had been under “red flag” fire warnings, with authorities saying blazes could quickly spread out of control under low humidity, gusty winds and dry conditions.

The storm is the result of a low-pressure system moving east colliding with a cold air mass from the north. While temperatures were expected to drop below freezing Monday night, spring-like weather was expected to return to the Rockies by Tuesday.

FIRE

Wildfire experts predict average year for Colorado

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NGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Wildfire experts predict an average year for fires in Colorado in 2014, welcome news after two consecutive seasons that were worse than average, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Monday.

But even an average year means fires could scorch more than 155 square miles, Hickenlooper warned.

“Normalcy should not in any way imply relaxing or a lack of vigilance,” he said.

Wearing a yellow firefighter’s shirt, Hickenlooper stood amid aircraft and fire trucks parked inside a hangar at Centennial Airport and discussed the annual wildfire outlook briefing he just received from state and federal wildfire managers.

“The good, positive perspective that I can bring is I think we are ready,” he said.

Hickenlooper also signed three wildfire-related bills, one authorizing nearly $20 million for the state to buy two firespotting planes and contract for four helicopters and four singleengine tankers.

The state currently has contracts for only two single-engine tankers.

Rain and snow fell outside the hangar, leaving slush and puddles of water on the tarmac and prompting Hickenlooper to wish for more.

“We could certainly use more days like this,” he said.

A weekend storm dropped up to 2 feet of snow on parts of the

state. Tim Mathewson, a meteorologist who works with regional firefighters, said spring moisture is important for lowering wildfire danger.

“This is a very critical time for moisture. We expect spring to be wet, which usually reduces our fire risk,” said Mathewson, who works at the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center in suburban Denver, which oversees firefighting in Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming.

Mathewson, who prepared a weather briefing for Hickenlooper, warned that even wet years can be dangerous, citing 1994, when a wildfire killed 14 firefighters in western Colorado.

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RUITA, Colo. (AP) — Marc Jones has studied from half a world away some of the animals that trod the earth some 150 million years ago in what is now western Colorado.

Last week, Jones and more than 50 other paleontologists from around the world got to dig into the Morrison Formation with their own tools, brush away the greenish clay-like soils and peer back into what the earth looked like eons ago.

“This is one of the places where you can get a handle on the entire ecosystem” of those times when dinosaurs and myriad other creatures trod, stomped, burrowed and otherwise inhabited the earth, said Jones, who traveled from the University of Adelaide in Australia to study the native lands and rock of the animals he studies.

In particular, Jones is studying the eilenodon, a smaller creature of the late Jurassic period and likely a relative of the tuatara, an order of reptiles of which only two species remain.

Eilenodon was abundant 200 million years ago, but unknown until paleontologist George Callison discovered the fossil remains of one in 1981 in the Fruita Paleontological Area.

For Jones, eilenodon is of particular interest because it appears to be a distant forebear of the tuatara, a reptile endemic to New Zealand.

The fossil remains suggest that eilenodon was more herbivore than carnivore. Its teeth are ridged, much as are those of hamsters and rabbits, and it had powerful jaws that suggest it chewed dense, fibrous plant material. Jones said.

The tiny creature with a head about 10 centimeters long is intriguing because “it was a reptile acting like a mammal,” Jones said.

For Susannah Maidment, a paleontologist with Imperial College in London, the trip to western Colorado marked a first visit to the Morrison, the layer of earth in which she specializes.

An expert on the stegosaurus, one of the best-known denizens of the Morrison, Maidment will follow outcrops of the Morrison from Montana south with her husband and 1-year-old daughter in tow.

The Morrison, Maidment said, might seem like a simple formation, but it was deposited over a 10 million-year period, leading her to work on correlating the kinds of animals found at different levels within the formation, shedding new light on the late Jurassic.

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Possible charges against Utah ATV protest riders San Juan County Commissioner organized protest ride into Recapture Canyon

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ALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has begun an investigation that could lead to charges against nearly 50 people who rode ATVs on an off-limits trail last weekend in Utah to show their displeasure with the federal government.

The agency is working to determine who broke the law and what happened Saturday, Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Megan Crandall said. A damage assessment is planned of Recapture Canyon, home to dwellings, artifacts and burials left behind by Ancestral Puebloans as many as 2,000 years ago before they mysteriously vanished, she said.

The agency warned riders all week to stay out, vowing prosecution against those who ignore a law put in place in 2007 after an illegal trail was found that cuts through the ancestral ruins.

The canyon is open to hikers and horseback riders.

Bureau of Land Management law enforcement officers were

at the protest in plain clothes recording and documenting who was there, said Crandall, who added that the agency remains committed to holding the riders accountable.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Salt Lake City is waiting to see what information the agency sends before commenting on possible charges, spokeswoman Melodie Rydalch said.

Following a similar ATV protest ride in 2009 on a different off-limits trail, the agency sent the results of an investigation to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah. But federal prosecutors didn’t file any charges.

The U.S. Attorney who oversaw the office then is no longer around. His replacement, David Barlow, is leaving the post this summer after three years to return to private practice.

San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge said 40 to 50 ATV riders went on the trail, many of them waving American flags and some carrying weapons. There were no confrontations or arrests during what was a peaceful protest.

The canyon is about 300 miles

southeast of Salt Lake City near junction of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, known as the Four Corners.

The protest organizer, San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman, said the ride was a demonstration against the federal government’s overreaching control of public lands. He and others want the trail re-opened to ATVs. Great Old Broads for Wilderness, a Colorado-based group that opposed the ride and believes the trail should remain off limits to preserve the ecology and artifacts, called on federal prosecutors to send an important message and level charges against the protesters.

“It’s not appropriate to break the law, do an illegal ride and go into the canyons with weapons,” executive director Shelley Silbert said. “That’s very different than a non-violent, civil disobedience protest.”

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ASHINGTON (AP) — The government has failed to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells it considers potentially high risks for water contamination and other environmental damage, congressional investigators say.

The report, obtained by The Associated Press before its public release, highlights substantial gaps in oversight by the agency that manages oil and gas development on federal and Indian lands.

Investigators said weak control by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management resulted from policies based on outdated science and from incomplete monitoring data.

The findings from the Government Accountability Office come amid an energy boom in the country and the increasing use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. That process involves pumping huge volumes of water, sand and chemicals underground to split open rocks to allow oil and gas to flow. It has produced major economic benefits, but also raised fears that the chemicals could spread to water supplies.

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did not coordinate effectively with state regulators in New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah.

The bureau has become a symbol of federal overreach to industry groups opposed to government regulations related to oil and gas drilling. Environmental groups say the Obama administration needs to do more to guard against environmental damage.

In the coming months, the administration is expected to issue rules on fracking and methane gas emissions.

The report said the agency “cannot accurately and efficiently identify whether federal and Indian resources are properly protected or that federal and Indian resources are at risk of being extracted without agency approval.”

In response to the report, Tommy Beaudreau, a principal deputy assistant interior secretary, wrote that he generally agreed with the recommendations for improved state coordination and updated regulations.

The report makes clear in many instances that the BLM’s failure to inspect high-priority oil and gas wells is due to limited money and staff. BLM officials

said they were in the process of updating several of its policies later this year.

Investigators reviewed 14 states in full or part: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. In Ohio, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, fracking has become increasingly prevalent.

The report said the BLM had failed to conduct inspections on more than 2,100 of the 3,702 wells that it had specified as “high priority” and drilled from 2009 through 2012. The agency considers a well “high priority” based on a greater need to protect against possible water contamination and other environmental safety issues.

The agency had yet to indicate whether another 1,784 wells were high priority or not.

The BLM has developed agreements with some states, which also have jurisdiction over well inspections on federal lands. According to the GAO, it had reached agreements with regulators in California, Colorado, Nevada and Wyoming.

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UNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Five gay couples filed a lawsuit Monday challenging Alaska’s ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.

The Alaska lawsuit, filed in federal court in Anchorage, lists as plaintiffs four couples who were married outside Alaska and one unmarried couple. It alleges that Alaska’s ban on same-sex marriage violates their rights to due process and equal protection under the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit seeks to bar enforcement of Alaska’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

It also calls for barring enforcement of any state laws that refuse to recognize gay marriages legally performed in other states or countries or that prevent unmarried gay couples from marrying.

Alaska voters in 1998 approved a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. But in the past year, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act that prevented legally married same-sex couples from receiving a range of federal benefits.

Federal courts also have struck down state constitutional bans in a number of states, though ap-

peals were pending in a number of cases. States such as Illinois and Hawaii legalized same-sex marriage.

An attorney for the couples, Caitlin Shortell, said lawsuits have been filed in almost every state with bans on same-sex marriage. A lawsuit in Alaska was seen by those involved as “necessary and important,” Shortell said.

Another attorney, Heather Gardner, said in a statement that under current state law, “a couple who marries in Seattle and returns home to Alaska are married in the eyes of the law when their plane lifts off from SeaTac (airport) but are legal strangers when the flight touches down in Alaska. No Alaskan is a second-class citizen.”

The plaintiffs are Matthew Hamby and Christopher Shelden; Christina LaBorde and Susan Tow; Sean Egan and David Robinson; Tracey Wiese and Katrina Cortez; and Courtney Lamb and Stephanie Pearson. Lamb and Pearson are unmarried.

Hamby, in a statement, said he and his husband — who, according to the lawsuit were married in Canada in 2008 and renewed their vows in Utah last year — are taking a stand “because marriage should be avail-

able to all loving couples. It’s important to us that our family is recognized by the State of Alaska and that we have the same rights and privileges as others.”

Defendants include Gov. Sean Parnell and Attorney General Michael Geraghty, who earlier this year told The Associated Press he would continue to defend the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, even as federal courts around the country strike down similar bans.

The Alaska lawsuit was filed three days after a county circuit judge in Arkansas late Friday tossed out the 2004 constitutional amendment banning samesex marriage, along with a 1997 state law. That state’s attorney general filed paperwork Monday to at least temporarily preserve the ban.

Geraghty said he would not make his decisions based on federal district court decisions that still must be reviewed by appellate courts and perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court, which he expects will ultimately weigh in on the issue.

“Would everybody vote the same way today? Who knows?

But it’s on the books,” Geraghty told the AP in February. He added: “Eventually, as I said, one day there will be guidance.”

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Violence has been ripping the country apart since December

By JOSPHAT KASIRE

the second peace treaty of the conflict. The first one fell apart EER, South Sudan (AP) soon after it was signed.

More than 1.3 million people — Bodies stuffed in wells.

Houses burned down. Chil- have fled their homes because dren playing on military hard- of the violence. Many have spent ware. And infants showing the months living in what people in skeletal outlines of severe hun- this part of the world refer to as “the bush,” the untamed wild ger.

These are the scenes from a where dirty water and disease lie remote part of South Sudan — in wait.

People who fled Leer, a town Leer — where Doctors Without Borders has just begun feeding of 20,000 in Unity state, are just severely malnourished children starting to return to their homes, about three months after the aid many of which are burned out group’s hospital was destroyed or looted. Seasonal rains are in violence that has been ripping starting to pour down, leaving apart the country since Decem- families without a roof to cram in with neighbors or ber. rough it in the rain.

One child “To be living in brought to the clinic “To be living a place where you by a mother hoping in a place where don’t even have a for life-saving aid inyou don’t even roof is awful,” said stead died the next Sarah Maynard, a day. That and other have a roof is Doctors Without scenes of desperaawful. With the Borders project cotion were recently rains coming it ordinator. “With the filmed by an Associwill only get rains coming it will ated Press journalworse. People only get worse. Peoist. ple need help here.”

U.N. Secretaryneed help here.”

Doctors Without General Ban KiSARAH MAYNARD Borders re-opened moon told the SeProject coordinator of its clinic doors last curity Council on Doctors Without Borders Thursday to a flood Monday that he of residents seekvisited South Sudan ing help for malaria, this month in order to “sound the alarm about the measles, diarrhea, respiratory violence and the risk of cata- tract infections — and hunger. strophic famine.” Ban warned The group screened 600 children that if the fighting continues, and found 50 faced the most dire half of South Sudan’s 12 million level of malnutrition.

Nyagaaw Biel Dhoar brought people will be displaced, starv2-year-old son Jacob Rit Wadaar ing or dead by year’s end.

Government troops led by to the clinic in the hopes that the President Salva Kiir and rebel medical personnel could save forces loyal to former Vice Presi- him. She tried to keep breastdent Riek Machar battled each feeding him as he lay dying in other on Sunday, only two days her arms, but it was too late. Jaafter Kiir and Machar met in cob died the next morning.

World leaders like the U.N. Ethiopia to sign a cease-fire deal,

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secretary-general and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry both worked to get Kiir and Machar to agree to the latest cease-fire in part because the aid community says that if residents don’t return home this month and plant crops before the rains truly set in the country will have no food to eat.

“Hunger and malnutrition are already widespread. If this planting window is missed, there will be a real risk of famine. That is why we are calling for 30 days of tranquility backed by both sides.

I am troubled by the accusations by both sides of breaches of the cease-fire already,” Ban told the Security Council.

Ban says South Sudan still needs $781 million for aid operations this year. A donor conference is being held in Norway in one week.

Violence has upturned the rhythm of daily life. Residents showed an Associated Press reporter how garbage and corpses fill one of Leer’s communal wells.

Myabani Nhial, a mother of 10, traded food staples like sorghum before the fighting broke out. Although her home and grain store has been reduced to a burned-out shell, she keeps returning to it in the hope of finding something that might have escaped the looting fighters and their fires.

“This was my home,” says Nhial. “It was burned by the soldiers. They killed three of my children and they took all the sorghum and whatever we had in our house. Now we are left to die without any food, water or shelter. They have taken away everything.”

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Nigeria opens door for talks with kidnappers U.S. reconnaissance aircraft flew over country Tuesday

By BASHIR ADIGUN and HARUNA UMAR

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BUJA, Nigeria (AP) — U.S. reconnaissance aircraft were flying Tuesday over Nigeria in the search for nearly 300 kidnapped schoolgirls, a day after the Boko Haram militant group released the first evidence that at least some of them are still alive and demanded that jailed fighters be swapped for their freedom.

A Nigerian government official said “all options” were open in the effort to free the girls, who were shown fearful and huddled together dressed in gray Islamic veils as they sang Quranic verses under the guns of their captors in a video released Monday.

The footage was verified as authentic by Nigerian authorities, who said 54 of the girls had been identified by relatives, teachers and classmates who watched the video late Tuesday.

The abduction has spurred a global movement to secure the girls’ release amid fears they would be sold into slavery, married off to fighters or worse following a series of threats by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau.

Protesters marched through the streets of the capital, Abuja, Tuesday to demand more gov-

ernment action to find and free the girls, who are believed to be held in the vast Sambisi forest some 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the eastern town of Chibok, where they were seized from their school on April 15.

A U.S. reconnaisance mission was being carried out by a manned MC-12 surveillance aircraft, which is based in Niger, according to senior U.S. defense officials in Washington. In addition to the turboprop model which has seen heavy use in Afghanistan, U.S. officials were also considering the use of drones.

Gen. David Rodriguez, head of U.S. Africa Command, was in Abuja on Tuesday meeting with officials at the U.S. Embassy, according to the defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The Nigerian military said in a statement that Rodriguez visited Nigeria’s defense headquarters to discuss U.S. support for Nigeria’s campaign against the Boko Haram militants, who have killed more than 1,500 people this year in a campaign of bombings, massacres and kidnappings.

Nigeria’s government initially said there would be no negotiations with Boko Haram, but that

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stance appeared to have been relaxed amid growing public outrage at home and abroad over the failure to rescue the girls.

Mike Omeri, the director of the government’s information agency, said all options were being considered, including the possibility of a military operation with foreign help.

“At the moment, because all options are open, we are interacting with experts, military and intelligence experts from other parts of the world,” he said late Monday. “These are part of the options that are available to us, and many more.”

In a statement late Tuesday, authorities in Borno state said that 54 girls in the video had been identified by relatives and friends, including four of some 50 students who managed to escape their captors. At least 276 girls are still missing.

“Fifty-four of the girls in the video have been identified by their names in an exercise that involved some parents of the girls, fellow students, some teachers, security men and some officials of the Borno state government,” said Isa Umar Gusau, a spokesman for the Borno state governor.

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Crazy climate economics

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verywhere you controls, and in 2008 John Mclook these days, Cain made proposals for capyou see Marxism and-trade limits on greenhouse on the rise. Well, gases part of his presidential OK, maybe you campaign. But when House Demdon’t — but con- ocrats actually passed a cap-andservatives do. If trade bill in 2009, it was attacked you so much as mention income as, you guessed it, Marxist. And inequality, you’ll be denounced these days Republicans come out as the second coming of Joseph in force to oppose even the most Stalin; Rick Santorum has de- obviously needed regulations, clared that any use of the word like the plan to reduce the pol“class” is “Marxism talk.” In the lution that’s killing Chesapeake right’s eyes, sinister motives Bay. Second, we’ll see claims that lurk everywhere — for example, George Will says the only reason any effort to limit emissions will progressives favor trains is their have what Sen. Marco Rubio is goal of “diminishing Americans’ already calling “a devastating individualism in order to make impact on our economy.”

Why is this crazy? Normally, them more amenable to collecconservatives extol the magic of tivism.”

So it goes without saying that markets and the adaptability of Obamacare is a Marxist scheme the private sector, which is sup— why, requiring that people posedly able to transcend with ease any constraints purchase insurance is NEW YORK TIMES practically the same as PAUL KRUGMAN posed by, say, limited supplies of natural resending them to gulags.

And just wait until the Envi- sources. But as soon as anyone ronmental Protection Agency proposes adding a few limits to announces rules intended to reflect environmental issues, slow the pace of climate change. those all-capable corporations Until now, the right’s climate supposedly lose any ability to craziness has mainly been fo- cope with change.

Now, the rules the EPA is cused on attacking the science.

And it has been quite a specta- likely to impose won’t give the cle: At this point almost all card- private sector as much flexibility carrying conservatives endorse as it would have had in dealing the view that climate change is with an economywide carbon a gigantic hoax, that thousands cap or emissions tax. But Reof research papers showing a publicans have only themselves warming planet — 97 percent of to blame: Their scorched-earth the literature — are the product opposition to any kind of climate of a vast international conspir- policy has left executive action acy. But as the Obama admin- by the White House as the only istration moves toward actually route forward.

Furthermore, it turns out that doing something based on that science, crazy climate econom- focusing climate policy on coalfired power plants isn’t bad as a ics will come into its own.

You can already get a taste of first step. Such plants aren’t the what’s coming in the dissenting only source of greenhouse gas opinions from a recent Supreme emissions, but they’re a large Court ruling on power-plant pol- part of the problem — and the lution. A majority of the justices best estimates we have of the agreed that the EPA has the right path forward suggest that reducto regulate smog from coal-fired ing power-plant emissions will power plants, which drifts across be a large part of any solution.

What about the argument state lines. But Justice Antonin Scalia didn’t just dissent; he sug- that unilateral U.S. action won’t gested that the EPA’s proposed work, because China is the real rule — which would tie the size problem? It’s true that we’re no of required smog reductions to longer No. 1 in greenhouse gases cost — reflected the Marxist — but we’re still a strong No. concept of “from each according 2. Furthermore, U.S. action on to his ability.” Taking cost into climate is a necessary first step consideration is Marxist? Who toward a broader international agreement, which will surely knew?

And you can just imagine include sanctions on countries what will happen when the that don’t participate.

So the coming firestorm over EPA, buoyed by the smog ruling, moves on to regulation of green- new power-plant regulations won’t be a genuine debate — just house gas emissions.

What do I mean by crazy cli- as there isn’t a genuine debate about climate science. Instead, mate economics?

First, we’ll see any effort to the airwaves will be filled with limit pollution denounced as a conspiracy theories and wild tyrannical act. Pollution wasn’t claims about costs, all of which always a deeply partisan issue: should be ignored. Climate polEconomists in the George W. icy may finally be getting someBush administration wrote pae- where; let’s not let crazy climate ans to “market based” pollution economics get in the way.

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tate Rep. Don Coram, hours. In doing so, he argued R-Montrose, was on that the bill could kill a potential the wrong side of his- $3 billion vanadium industry on tory last week on sev- the Western Slope. eral fronts. In opposing For starters, Coram owns Senate Bill 192, he took on the uranium and vanadium mines, role of a lobbyist, argued against and while open about that cona popular and prudent environ- nection, with that, he was funcmental protection and, at the tioning more as a lobbyist than a same time, played off legislator.

REGIONAL VOICES of the unrealistic hopes Worse, though, he THE DURANGO was propagating and of economically chalHERALD lenged towns. It was not perpetuating hoary his finest hour. myths. In the 21st cenSB 192 is a bill meant to ad- tury, environmental regulations dress the kind of environmental do not hinder industry; they disaster experienced by Cañon enable it. Serious economic enCity when the Cotter uranium terprises depend on strong envimill poisoned a neighborhood’s ronmental controls to legitimize groundwater. It sets minimum their activities, shield them from standards for groundwater critics and give them the procleanup before a company can tection of law and policy. What be absolved of further respon- are put at risk are fly-by-night sibility. It also mandates that operators and those whose busiuranium and thorium mines be ness model depends on cutting licensed by the state health de- corners. Mining in particular is partment if they use a process a business where, historically, that involves injecting water into profits too often have been derock formations. pendent on slipshod practices These are basic environmen- and evading responsibility by tal controls and should not be palming off costs on future gencontroversial. Nonetheless, Co- erations. ram led the opposition to the bill Colorado has learned from its and dragged it out into the wee past — and from the millions of

taxpayer dollars the state has spent reclaiming and cleaning up after closed or abandoned mines. The state is not about to allow unregulated or unaccountable mining operations to go forward. Voters and officials alike have too much experience with how that works and have paid too much.

Coram was evoking an economic vision from the 1950s, one that even then was not matched by reality. There is no $3 billion vanadium industry on the Western Slope. And given the realities of the 21st century, there probably will not be one.

And with that, suggesting that a resurgence of uranium mining could be an economic fix for depressed towns borders on cruel.

Referring to Nucla and Naturita, Coram told his fellow lawmakers, “You can kill their opportunity.

You can spoil their dreams.” But the real history of uranium mining in the West is that more than anything, it killed not dreams or opportunity, but miners.

Colorado has moved beyond that. The House passed SB 192 on Monday with a 43-22 vote.

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Eliminate stinky favoritisms DEAR EDITOR, Sunday was Mother’s Day to be followed in a month or so by Father’s Day. I suppose this is all well and good, but what about those left without a day? Grandpas and grandmas? Great-grandpas and grandmas? Sons and daughters? Great grandsons and granddaughters? One could go up and down and across the family ladder as far as you want but I do think to honor Aunt Tillie’s half sister on mom’s side twice removed might be a stretch. I ask: What makes mom and pop so important at the denial expense of all the rest?

If you think hard about it, couldn’t we find it within ourselves to spare a day of recognition to those totally responsible for us being here; namely Adam and Eve? Are they not two of the most important people of all biblical time to ever walk in a garden on the face of the earth and all we do is take them for granted? Some gratitude, eh?

This brings up another flagrantly overlooked historical couple just as important as Monseur Adam and Madam Eve; Noah, of boat building fame and his spouse. Yea, that Noah, the world’s premier environmental-

ist of all time and shipwright extraordinaire who saved all the world’s animals for us, otherwise we would all be vegetarians. Perish the thought because it’s been recently discovered that VGN’s live longer and the planet is now vastly overcrowded as it is. Not only that, but this progenitor and his wife (who for some unknown reason has been dropped from biblical lore), also gave the human race just as big a gift as Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve may have created the human race but Noah and his lesser were the ones who saved it from extinction and gave us humans a humongous jump-start to numerical success measured by the billions. And for this they get zero

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thanks? No thank you, it’s time to give them a their due and day.

Hereafter, I refuse to swallow and wallow in Mother and Father’s Day hype until all the rest who played and continue to play just as big a part in the human population explosion are honored equally with a “day,” and I harbor no illusions that’ll be the day. Therefore, I propose we junk this mom and pop family discrimination celebration taure merde (pardon my French) and replace it with an annual “Family Tree Day,” especially when you consider that since the days of Adam and Eve we’re all “like family,” right? Well, maybe excepting behavior.

OK, OK, I’m not the first to learn nor will I be the last to know there is a competing and radically different view of how we got here. Science insists we were cooked up in a primordial soup and served piecemeal in a bed of Darwinnowism evolutionary time. To keep peace in the family tree and celebrate what we humans have become since that magical recipe concocted on day one I likewise demand a “National Gunk Day.” What could be fairer than that?

JACK PERA

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ASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is broadening the scope of his proposed open Internet rules and suggesting tougher standards for Internet providers who wish to create paid priority fast lanes on their networks.

According to an FCC official, Wheeler made revisions after the commission received 35,000 public comments —many of them expressing outrage. The FCC first briefed reporters on the proposed rules last month.

Wheeler, a Democrat, also tweaked his proposal after the five-member commission’s two other Democrats expressed concern.

“The new draft clearly reflects public input the commission has received,” the FCC official said in a statement. “The draft is explicit that the goal is to find the best approach to ensure the Internet remains open and prevent any practices that threaten it.”

Among the additions is a provision that would “presume” it to be illegal for an Internet provider to prioritize the traffic of an affiliated service — for example, it would be considered illegal if Comcast Corp. tried to give faster treatment to video streams of

its subsidiary network, NBC. However, an Internet service provider would be allowed to challenge that “presumption,” the official said.

In the revised proposal, Wheeler also seeks comment on the possibility of treating broadband providers as so-called “common carriers” like telephone companies, which are subject to greater regulation than Internet providers, under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.

The FCC and Wheeler have so far avoided subjecting cable and telecoms companies to Title II treatment, although Wheeler has said the option remains on the table. In the new proposal, he entertains more discussion on it than his initial proposal did.

The proposal also asks whether all paid-priority fast lanes should be banned outright.

The previous version only asks if some paid-priority services should be banned.

Wheeler has faced a torrent of criticism after the earlier proposal made it appear as if he was overhauling the principle of “network neutrality,” which says Internet service providers should not be allowed to discriminate against Web traffic depending on its source.

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AN FRANCISCO (AP) — “Think different” became Apple’s creed during the late Steve Jobs’ reign as CEO. Now, chief executive Tim Cook is embracing the idea while making decisions that would have seemed crazy to his fabled predecessor.

Apple’s pending purchase of headphone maker and streaming music company Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion is just the latest example of Cook’s deviation from Jobs, who had so much confidence in his company’s innovative powers that he saw little sense in spending large amounts of money on acquisitions.

Cook became chief executive in late August 2011, roughly six weeks before Jobs died. But in a number of ways, he is just beginning to put his own imprint on Apple. Cook is straying from Jobs’ cash-hoarding habits by committing to return $130 billion to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks.

He has orchestrated a company stock split and agreed to match employees’ charitable contributions up to $10,000 annually.

Under Cook’s leadership, Apple also has displayed more social responsibility by working to improve labor conditions in the overseas factories that assemble its devices and taking steps to reduce pollution caused by its data centers and gadgets.

The shift in management philosophy has resulted in an odd twist: Apple Inc.’s pace of innovation has slowed and it now looks more like a conventional company than the corporate

rebel Jobs tried to cultivate. Instead of releasing revolutionary gadgets such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad, Apple has been mostly upgrading existing products and figuring out ways to manage its bulging bank account since Cook took over.

“Jobs wanted Cook to step out and be different,” says longtime technology analyst Rob Enderle.

“But I think he wanted (Cook) to do the things that were central to the business, not things that Jobs thought were stupid.”

Cook has repeatedly sought to assure investors and customers that Apple remains focused on inventing “insanely great” products, even though the company’s last breakthrough, the iPad, came out in April 2010 — 18 months before Jobs died of cancer.

In the meantime, a host of technology companies have forged ahead with wearable devices, including Google Glass and Samsung’s line of Gear smartwatches. Also stealing the innovation spotlight: Internet connected housewares and appliances like the Nest thermostat, whose maker was founded by former Apple designer, Tony Fadell. Google purchased Nest for $3.2 billion in January.

“We’ve got some great things that we’re working on that I’m very, very proud of and very, very excited about,” Cook told analysts in a conference call last month. “But, for us, we care about every detail and when you care about every detail and getting it right, it takes a bit longer to do that and that’s always been the case.”

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STERLING STIRS NEW DISPUTE WITH MAGIC-HIV REMARKS

An interview that was supposed to be an attempt at rehabilitation instead had Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling facing fresh rebukes as he went from apologizing for recent racist remarks to slamming Magic Johnson, repeatedly bringing up the ex-NBA star’s HIV status and calling him an unfit role model for children.

“He’s got AIDS!” Sterling said loudly at one point in the interview, cutting off CNN’s Anderson Cooper as the interviewer attempted to cite Johnson’s accomplishments after Sterling asked, “What has he done?”

Commissioner Adam Silver, who gave Sterling a lifetime ban and $2.5 million fine two weeks ago, issued a statement saying, “while Magic Johnson doesn’t need me to, I feel compelled on behalf of the NBA family to apologize to him that he continues to be dragged into this situation and be degraded by such a malicious and personal attack.”

LEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert felt he made a big mistake when he fired Mike Brown as his coach in 2010.

That didn’t stop him from doing it again.

Brown’s second shot with the Cavs ended Monday after one just one season as Gilbert dismissed the only Cleveland coach who has ever made it to the NBA finals.

Brown had been re-hired last April by Gilbert, who regretted dismissing him four years earlier.

While the Cavs’ record improved and they made strides defensively under Brown this season, the club missed the playoffs again and Gilbert decided it was time to make another change.

“This is a very tough business,” Gilbert said in a statement. “It pains all of us here that we needed to make the difficult decision of releasing Mike Brown. Mike worked hard over this last season to move our team in the right direction. Although, there was some progress from our finish over the few prior seasons, we believe we need to head in a different direction. We wish Mike and his family nothing but the best.”

In addition to firing Brown, Gilbert announced he’s retain-

ing David Griffin as the club’s full-time general manager. Griffin had been the interim GM since Feb. 6, when Gilbert fired Chris Grant one day after the Cavs lost to a Los Angeles Lakers team which finished the game with just five eligible players.

Gilbert said Griffin would lead the search for Brown’s successor. It’s not known what input Griffin had in Brown’s firing.

Griffin has ties to former Phoenix executive Steve Kerr, who is one of New York president Phil Jackson’s top choices to take over the Knicks. Griffin also has worked with Mike D’Antoni and Alvin Gentry. Other coaches who could get consideration for the Cavs’ opening include Mark Jackson and George Karl.

Brown had four years remaining on his $20 million contract.

Brown, who was fired last year by the Lakers five games into his second season, could not be reached for comment.

Brown went 272-138 in his first stint with Cleveland. Led by superstar LeBron James, the Cavs made the finals for the first time in 2007 and were title contenders throughout Brown’s tenure. However, they didn’t advance past the Eastern Conference semifinals four years ago and Brown was let go.

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It’s a scene that plays out for dozens of draft picks.

But when a sobbing Michael Sam celebrated his selection by the St. Louis Rams by hugging and kissing his partner, another man, it made real and physical that an openly gay athlete had taken an unprecedented step toward an NFL career.

For some, the reaction was joy. For others, there was dismay or even anger. For the networks that carried and repeatedly aired the scene, it was business as usual.

Producer Seth Markman, who oversees NFL draft coverage for ESPN, said that in the extensive preparation for Sam’s possible draft, “we never had one discussion about, ‘What if he’s drafted, his partner’s there and they kiss?’ Honestly, it never came up.”

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In this image taken from video, Missouri defensive end Michael Sam, left, gets a kiss at a draft party in San Diego, before he was selected in the seventh round, 249th overall, by the St. Louis Rams in the NFL draft Saturday. [AP Photo/ESPN] matters.

“When I got home last night and saw the attention (it was receiving), it kind of threw me,” he said. “We’re a young production crew and quite honestly it was just another moment in the years we’ve done this.”

“In the truck, we were only saying, ‘Wow, this is great emotion here.’ No one stepped up and said, ‘Oh, wow, do we really want to be showing this?’”

The same holds true for the NFL Network, which had an agreement to show the video taken by ESPN at the San Diego home of Sam’s agent and first aired by Disney-owned ESPN. “We had no discussion on the NFL Network side about how or how much or how little we would show, if or when Michael was selected,” said Mike Muriano, NFL Network senior coordinating producer.

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San Miguel County Board & Commission Opening San Miguel Basin Fair Board Vacancies for regular seats for 2 year terms. Monthly meetings in Norwood –responsibilities increase in June/ July. Ag Extension staff act as support to the board.

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Application deadline is May 16, 2014 Driver wanted to deliver Norwood Post ASAP Own vehicle and insurance required Wed early morning to Norwood, Nucla, Naturita 2-3 hours per week Contact Shelly shelly@telluridedailyplanet.com 728-9788 The Town Barber is seeking an enthusiastic, licensed barber/cosmetologist Contact Rob: 708-0974 or send resume to rob@thetownbarber.com

<Hotel Telluride-Logo> The Hotel Telluride is looking for a quality person with a service mindset to fill the following positions: Guest Service Rep (PT/FT) AM Server (PT/FT) Apply online at www.thehoteltelluride.com EOE M/F/D/V 221 is hiring energetic, experienced line and prep cooks.

Please call 970-708-0553.

Must be able to work nights.

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Telluride Rentals is seeking a professional to manage housekeeping staff and assist the Operations department.

Full time position with benefits and opportunity to grow. Housekeeping and/or property management experience a plus. Must live in Telluride or Mountain Village. email resume to: kevin@telluride-rentals.com

We are General Contractor Looking for General Laborer.

June Thru August in Telluride High Wages At least 18 years of age pre-employment drug test required Please call 303-482-7437 if interested ACE HARDWARE is hiring FT/ PT with y/r opportunities as floor associate and cashier. Inquire at the store for an application.

Mountain Limo is hiring for: Office Manager and Office Help Dial-a-Ride is hiring for: Dispatch and Drivers PT/FT Please call 970-728-9606 for more information

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<PEAKS_LOGO> <Alpine_Lumber> We are currently accepting applications for a full-time inside customer service position. This position will serve in a backup capacity at both front counter sales and in the paint department. The ideal candidate will be extremely customer service oriented, computer literate, willing to learn and carry-out several positions and be able to lift and carry up to 60lbs. This is an hourly paid position DOE with benefits. The number of weekly hours may vary depending on operational requirements. Alpine Lumber is 100% employee owned.

Applications can be obtained on line at www.alpinelumber.com or at 140 Society Drive in Lawson Hill/Telluride and should be submitted in person.

Pre-employment drug testing and post-offer background checks will be conducted.

JOB FAIR The Peaks Resort & Spa May 16th 10:00am-4:00pm Hiring for all Seasonal Summer Positions!

Please apply in person at 136 Country Club Drive.

If you would like to email your resume in advance, please send to rholschuh@thepeaksresort.com EOE Full Time experienced rocky mountain gardener wanted to join our team. Must have clean driving record. Pay DOE. Begin ASAP. Happy and enthusiastic, attention to detail.

970-729-1657

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Accounts Payable Clerk FT YR, full benefits

HOUSEKEEPER NEEDED PART-TIME IN DOWNTOWN TELLURIDE for luxury rentals and one commercial property.

Must be a hard-worker with good communication skills and attention to detail. Call Max at 970-708-9371

Please apply online at www.worktoski.com or to lmartin@tellurideskiresort.com EOE <ELAVATION_VACA_LOGO>

Elevation Vacations is hiring a full time, year-round GUEST SERVICES COORDINATOR to start immediately. Qualified candidates will be self-motivated, energetic professionals who are well organized problem solvers.

Must live locally, have a valid driver’s license and operational vehicle. Experience in customer service and local area knowledge a must! Email resume to: mike@elevationvacations.com.

All qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview opportunity. Compensation package based on skills and experience.

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<TAL_LOGO> <Franz-Klammer-Logo> TAL is seeking a part-time seasonal guest services agent for 24-30 hours per week.

Must be available to work evenings and weekends.

Please send resumes to Sanne@Telluride.com TAL is also seeking a full-time, year-round housekeeping supervisor. Must have valid driver’s license and clean driving record.

Bilingual is a plus. Please send resume to Lourdes@Telluride.com or apply in person at the Mountainside Inn Shirtworks is hiring FT/PT sales associates.

Looking for energetic, reliable persons able to work independently and as part of a team. Prior retail experience preferred.

Please email your resume to kimberly@shirtworkstelluride.com

Brown Dog Pizza is hiring for all FOH positions: Hosts Bussers Servers Bartenders Please stop by for application

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JOIN A WINNING TEAM!

Telluride Ski and Golf is seeking a:

Scarpe is looking for motivated extraordinare. We are expanding our business into the inerweb and are seeking an employee who wants to grow with the business.

Position would include writing, entering products into webstore, processing orders, customer s ervice, merchandising and working with SEO company. Position will also include in-store sales, merchandising and general shop duties. Please contact and send resume to jenny@shopscarpe.com

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Currently Hiring Housekeepers, Residences Closet Attendant PM Housekeepers, Public Spaces Housekeeping Coordinator Housekeeping Supervisor Assistant Housekeeping Manager Electrical Maintenance Tech Asst Director, Engineering Concierge Supervisor Concierge Bell Person/Driver Dual Licensed Esthetician/ Massage Therapist Please visit http://fairmontcareers.com to apply

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HOUSEMAN Full Time /Seasonal Digital Marketing and Group Sales Manger Full Time/ Year Round with great benefits This position will be responsible for all e-commerce sales and marketing responsibilities coupled with an annual group sales goal.

Please stop by the Mountain Lodge to complete an application or send resume to kbond@mountainlodgetelluride.com 457 Mountain Village Blvd Mountain Village, CO 81435 970-369-6020 Telluride Historical Museum is seeking a Programs and Exhibits Coordinator.

FT/benefits eligible. Help share your love of history!

Complete description online at: www.telluridemuseum.org/contact.

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HIRING NOW Seasonal positions May 7-Oct. 19th $13/hr plus $1/hr end of season BONUS 4 day work weeks Gondola Operator/Driver Plant Care/ Plaza Upkeep Apply on-line at www.townofmountainvillage.com/ careers EOE/DFW MOUNTAIN TAILS Seeking P/T sales associate, starting mid May. Approx 8 hours a week and occasional fill-in. Must be available for additional hours from July 17-27th. Needs to be able ability to work independently, and have strong attention to detail.

Retail or customer service experience preferred. Please email resume to mountaintails@telluridecolorado.net.

Lots of perks!

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Business Opportunities RESTAURANT AND BAR IN NORWOOD. PRIME LOCATION INSIDE THE HOTEL NORWOOD. FULL COMMERCIAL KITCHEN, DINING ROOM AND BAR. LEASE/FLEXIBLE TERMS. CALL 970-327-0312

Pets Dog training lessons on Monday evenings in Placerville begin on May 19. $90 for 6 weekly sessions.

Contact Carrie 327-0302.

Beautiful F1 GoldenDoodles, black M&F Serious Inq. ONLY www.happyheartpuppy.com for more info.

Commercial Rentals PRIME MOUNTAIN VILLAGE CORE LOCATION CENTRUM BUILDING. Office and Retail space Available Immediately.

George Harvey 970-729-0111 Prime Main Street Ground Floor Retail 1141sq ft 970-708-7093 2nd Floor Office space for lease in the Willow Building (east of Jagged Edge), up to 1700sf, NNN included.

Mike, 970.708.2157

MV Longterm

Telluride Long Term

2bed/2bath, Sunny condo in Meadows Mt. Village Condo, Furnished, Pets Welcome.

Short or Long Term www.rockymtnrentalretreats.com 800.894.9086 970.708.7759

PET-FRIENDLY CUSTOM HOME in Ski Ranches 3bed +loft / 2bth, Furnished, Custom Finishes, Mtn. Views, Master Suite/Jacuzzi Tub, Fireplace 970-729-1407

3bd/3ba washer/dryer Fairway Four end unit. Huge views. Available 5/26 $1800/month Call Jennie 970/846-9186 NO PETS

FOR RENT DOUBLE OFFICE IN THE WINTERCROWN BUILDING NEW CARPET AND PAINT Call Carol - 728-4512 Lawson Hill Rio Vista 2 commercial space 440sf.

970-708-1919

Short Term Bluegrass Rental BEST in town!! sunny side above town park sound from deck perfect 400 a night sleeps eight 914-841-0357

Down Valley Long Term

6 BR, 5.5 BA, 5400 SQFT House in Mountain Village Available for long term rental.

Ski in / out slope side. Furnished, no smoking, pets negotiable.

Available Aug 1st $9,000 per month for year rental. www.prospectlodgetelluride.com

Down Valley 4 bedroom 2 bath w/d exercise room. furnished or unfurnished.

1600sf heated garage/shop Private easily accessed location.

970-729-0327 www.coloradorentalhouse.com

Norwood Longterm

Ski Ranches / Ophir

16x80 Mobile Home 2bed/2ba. Master Suite, den, deck and RV port. Country setting with easy access 8 minutes west of Norwood. $800mo/first/last/deposit 970-729-1445

Two bedroom 1 bath apartment in the Ski Ranches. Utilities included. No smoking, children or pets. $1,300.00 per month. pohlbob@hotmail.com

PEACE AND QUIET: 1500 SQUARE Foot Loft-style Apartment Close to Norwood. $1200/month including utilities.

No Pets 970-327-0505

ROOM FOR RENT in a Main Street Condo.

WiFi, W/D, great deck, yard on creek, no pets/smoking. $800+Minimual Utilities.

970-708-3930 Enclosed Loft Bedroom in Nice Condo in Town near Town Park. W/D, WiFi, No Pets/ Smoking. Vegetarians Only. $550+1/3Utilites Dave 970-708-7659

Homes <Make First in Homes>

<HAWKRIDGE_IMAGE> Cottonwood_Image> Hawk Ridge COTTONWOOD CREEK ESTATES 4 BEDROOM/2 BATH HOME @ AN AFFORDABLE PRICE OF ONLY $799 A MONTH! cottonwoodcreekestateshomes.com TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM TELLURIDE! CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT 970-327-4814 3Bedroom / 2Bath $975/Month+Utilities W/D, DW, Microwave, Patio, Garage, Clean, Views, Lawn, NS/NP Available Immediately 728-6779

Telluride Long Term

Roommates Wanted Bedroom in sweet DblDiamond townhouse thru Oct.31+longer Private bath, w/d, hot tub, deck. $800/month,1 person, no smoking,pets.Veg preferred 970-708-3838

Gorgeous Top Floor 1 bedroom, plus huge loft Completely remodeled with hardwood floors, tiled bath, granite counters, completely furnished $1750/mo 303-818-8830

5 BR, 3.5 Baths, Log Home, Hood Park, Long Term rental.

Easy ski access.

Furnished, non smoking.

Pets negotiable.$8000/month. www.obgynconsulting.com

Beautiful corner office/retail space, 307 E. Colorado Ave, Unit 101A is 733 sf. $2,200 plus triple net.

Call 728-6400.

GROUND FL OFFICE200sf-E Pac St-Mo 2 MoAvail Now-728.8177

Cim Lodge 2 bd 2 ba townhome.

Furnished. W/D, View. Deck. Garage.

Term Nego. $1900 mo. No smoke/ pets. 970 729-2889

Community of Telluride Pines Hastings’ Mesa, 5.3A 2BR 1B, Private End Lot. $395,000 web:drrick.com/pines contact@drrick.com 212-243-1276 FOR SALE: Upgraded, corner residence at Fairway Four. Three bedrooms, two decks & solid mountain views.

Custom wood floors & tiles, built-in cabinetry, vaulted ceilings, office nook. Nice place for a growing local family! Walk to skiing & shuttle. $375,000 Call Mike Shimkonis, Telluride Properties, 970-708-2157

Land

<135_West_Galena> 135 West Galena Avenue Now available for a long term lease. Six bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 2 houses, One of the finest family compounds in the Town of Telluride at a quiet, very convenient location.

Starting at $20,000 per month plus utilities. Available January 15, 2015.

Please call JJ, Nevasca Realty @ #970-729-0065

FSBO. Mountain Land. 3.29 acres. Dolores River Valley. Directly off CO145, 15 miles north of Dolores. 49 miles south of Telluride.99,000.

Email:tarawa@outlook.com

MV Longterm Northstar 3br 2ba Upgraded.

Master suite: office, huge shower & private deck.

Garage, W/D, awesome views, yard.

Pet possible. 970-209-6723 Mountain Village Studio Condo avail. immediately. Washer, Dryer, Utilities, and Parking included. $1100/month.

Please call 970/728-3808 for details.

3bd/3ba washer/dryer Fairway Four end unit. Huge views. Available 5/26 $1800/month Call Jennie 970/846-9186 NO PETS

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Health & Beauty 1bd/1ba furnished condo at rivers edge. Hot tub, pool, WD, pkg. $1800/mo, all utilities included.

No pets/smoking. 6-12+mo.

Erin 415-531-9626 Cim Lodge 2 bd 2 ba townhome.

Furnished. W/D, View. Deck. Garage.

Term Nego. $1900 mo. No smoke/ pets. 970 729-2889

TREAT YOURSELF Massage by Alessandra Low off-season rates starting @ $60/hr.

Certified/licensed.

Swedish, deep tissue, hot stones.

House calls available.

970.729.1737 jacobson.alessandra@gmail.com

Legal Notices DISTRICT COURT SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO 305 W. Colorado Avenue PO Box 919 Telluride, CO 81435 Plaintiff(s)/Petitioner(s): Iva Loo Perkins v.

Defendant(s)/Respondent(s): H. Corey Perkins et al Attorney or Party Without Attorney: Mark Reider 360 W. 1st Suite B Cortez, CO 81321 Phone Number: 970-310-6977 E-mail: allenreider@yahoo.com Atty. Reg. #: 40738 Case Number: 13CV30044 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint [petition] filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within

PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION FOR QUALIFYING SENIOR CITIZENS AND DISABLED VETERANS The Colorado Constitution establishes a property tax exemption for senior citizens and disabled veterans. For those who qualify, 50 percent of the first $200,000 in actual value of the primary residence is exempted from property tax. The State of Colorado pays the property taxes on the exempted value. Qualifying seniors are urged to submit applications if they have not yet done so.

SENIOR CITIZEN EXEMPTION: Basic Qualifications - Generally, each of the following statements must be true to qualify for the senior citizen exemption. The qualifying senior: Must be at least 65 years old on January 1 of the year the application is filed; and Must be the current owner of record, and listed as the owner of record for at least 10 consecutive years prior to January 1; and Must occupy the property as his/her primary residence, and must have done so for at least 10 consecutive years prior to January 1.

Exceptions to Basic Qualifications - The applicant may still qualify if one or more of the following statements are true: Ownership is in the spouse’s name, and the spouse also occupies the property; Ownership has been transferred to or purchased by a trust, corporate partnership or other legal entity solely for estate planning purposes; The qualifying senior or his/her spouse was or is confined to a health care facility; The applicant was forced to move when the prior residence was condemned in an eminent domain proceeding; The applicant is the surviving spouse of a senior who met the requirements on January 1, 2002, or on any January 1 thereafter.

35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication.

A copy of the complaint [petition] may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint [petition] in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint [petition] without further notice.

This is an action: Quiet Title Dated: April 21, 2014 Published in the Telluride Daily Planet First Publication: April 23, 2014 Last Publication: May 21, 2014 /s/Mark Reider, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff(s)/Petitioner(s) This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure.

a brochure that explains the senior citizen exemption in greater detail, or if you have any questions regarding the exemption, please call the assessor’s office at 970728-3174.

DISABLED VETERAN EXEMPTION: Basic Qualifications – Generally, each of the following statements must be true to qualify: The applicant must be a veteran who sustained a service-connected disability while serving on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States. This includes members of the National Guard and Reserves who sustained injuries while serving on active duty; The applicant must have been honorablydischarged; The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has rated the applicant’s service connected disability as 100 percent permanent and total. VA unemployability awards do not meet the requirement for determining an applicant’s eligibility; The applicant must be the owner of record and must have been the owner of record since January 1 of the current year; and The applicant must have occupied the property as his/her primary residence since January 1 of the current year.

Exceptions to Basic Qualifications – The applicant may still qualify if one or more of the following statements are true: Ownership is in the spouse’s name, and the spouse also occupies the property; Ownership has been transferred to or purchased by a trust, corporate partnership or other legal entity solely for estate planning purposes; The qualifying disabled veteran or his/her spouse was or is confined to a health care facility.

The applicant was forced to move when the prior residence was condemned in an eminent domain proceeding.

How to Apply - To apply, you must complete the appropriate application form and return it to the assessor by July 15. The assessor must accept late applications until September 15, however, applicants will not have appeal rights for applications filed after July 15. The “Short Form” application may be used by qualifying senior citizens who meet each of the basic qualifications. The “Long Form” application must be used by applicants who satisfy one or more of the exceptions to the basic qualifications. If you would like to receive an application form or

How to Apply - To apply, you must file a completed application with the Colorado Division of Veterans Affairs by July 1. The Division of Veterans Affairs may accept late applications until September 1 if the applicant can show good cause for missing the July 1 deadline. If you would like to receive an application form or a brochure that explains the disabled veteran exemption in greater detail, or if you have any questions regarding the exemption, please call the assessor’s office at 970-728-3174.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 2014-05 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 26, 2014, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of San Miguel records.

Original Grantor(s) ROBERT J. BORCHARDT, JR., TRUSTEE UNDER THE DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED SEPTEMBER 28, 1998 AS TO AN UNDIVIDED ONE-HALF (1/2) INTEREST AND JENNIFER ELLEN BORCHARDT, TRUSTEE UNDER THE DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED SEPTEMBER 25, 1998, AS TO AN UNDIVIDED ONE-HALF (1/2) INTEREST Original Beneficiary(ies) MB FINANCIAL BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLFIN BULLS FUNDING A, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Date of Deed of Trust August 24, 2007 County of Recording San Miguel Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 01, 2007 Recording Information (Reception Number) 397147 Original Principal Amount $125,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $122,564.57 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: CONDOMINIUM UNIT A, THE SMUGGLER CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP RECORDED AUGUST 26, 1986 IN PLAT BOOK 1 AT PAGE 651, AND ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR THE SMUGGLER CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED AUGUST 26, 1986 IN BOOK 429 AT PAGE 438 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER, AS AMENDED OR SUPPLEMENTED; SUBJECT TO THE TERMS, CONDITIONS,

PROVISIONS AND OBLIGATIONS OF SAID CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION, COUNTY OF SAN MIGUEL STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 766 Smuggler Avenue, Unit A, Telluride, CO 81435.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, 06/26/2014, at 305 W. Colorado Avenue, East entry, Telluride, CO, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 4/30/2014 Last Publication 5/28/2014 Name of Publication The Norwood Post & Telluride Daily Planet IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED. DATE: 02/26/2014 Janice M. Stout, Public Trustee in and for the County of San Miguel, State of Colorado By: /s/ Janice M Stout, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Douglas Brown #10429 Brown, Berardini & Dunning PC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd., Tower Two, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80222 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3255-043 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt.

Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

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Calendar The Telluride Daily Planet accepts local calendar items via e-mail at calendar@ telluridedailyplanet.com. Please, no phone calls. Events may take several days to appear in the published events calendar and may not run each day due to space considerations.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14: FIRST AID AND ADULT CPR INTENSIVE: 5-9:30 p.m., Telluride Elementary School SMEF (KOTO) BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING: 5 p.m., Wilkinson Public Library ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS WOMEN’S MEETING: 5:30 p.m., Alpine Chapel, 122 S. Aspen “THE INVISIBLE WAR”: 6 p.m., Wilkinson Public Library, Sexual Assault Awareness Month with the San Miguel Resource Center MOVIE: “Muppets Most Wanted” (PG) 5:30 p.m., “Noah” (PG-13) 7:45 p.m., Nugget Theatre

THURSDAY, MAY 15: TELLURIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMUNITY VISIONING SESSION: 8:30-10 a.m., THS room 234 PILATES WITH ANIKKE: 8:30-9:30 a.m., Wilkinson Public Library FREE WAX CLINIC: 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Atmosphere Spa, Connecting Point School of Massage WILKINSON PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD MEETING: 5:15, Wilkinson Public Library, Telluride Room TELLURIDE CYCLING CLUB RIDE: 5:30 p.m., Box Canyon Bicycles, 398 W. Colorado Ave. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 5:30 p.m., Alpine Chapel, 122 S. Aspen St. SUFI POETS WORKSHOP: 6 p.m., Wilkinson Public Library, with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Muslim Journeys Series, Hafiz, Rabia and Rumi

POETRY BROTHEL: 9 p.m., Steaming Bean, Telluride Literary Arts Festival MOVIE: “Muppets Most Wanted” (PG) 5:30 p.m., “Noah” (PG-13) 7:45 p.m., Nugget Theatre

UPCOMING: ELECTRONICS RECYCLING: May 16 and 17, Black Bear Road ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETING: May 16, 7 a.m., Christ Presbyterian, 434 W. Columbia Ave. YOGA WITH ANDREA: May 16, 8:30-10 a.m., Wilkinson Public Library TOUR OF AMERICAN ACADEMY OF BOOKBINDING STUDIO: May 16, 4 p.m., 117 N. Willow TELLURIDE’S GOT TALENT: May 16, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Michael D. Palm Theatre, all-school family lip sync and talent show, auditions are May 6, 7 and 14, contact Deb Gesmundo at 519-1409 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETING: May 16, 5:30 p.m., Christ Presbyterian, 434 W. Columbia Ave. FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: May 16, Sheridan Opera House, Telluride Mountain School’s 12th annual benefit fundraiser, short films, silent auction, after hours dance party, 728-1969 MINDFULNESS COURSE: May 16, 7-9 p.m., Telluride Yoga Center, with John Bruna, for more information call 970-633-0163 LITERARY BURLESQUE: May 16, 8 p.m., Ah Haa School for the Arts, $5, Literary Arts Festival HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RECYCLING: May 17, Black Bear Road RAISING THE DEAD: A WALKING CELEBRATION OF LANDSCAPE AND LITERATURE: May 17, 8:30 a.m., Between the Covers, with Craig Childs and Amy Irvine McHarg, $50

Legal Notices COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 2014-06 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 10, 2014, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of San Miguel records.

Original Grantor(s) Karl Grant and Susan Grant Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for U.S. Bank N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. Bank National Association Date of Deed of Trust August 31, 2007 County of Recording San Miguel Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 05, 2007 Recording Information (Reception Number) 396585 Original Principal Amount $196,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $193,761.93 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 3, BLOCK 2, THE HOMESTEAD SUBDIVISION, FILING 1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT RECORDED APRIL 23, 2002 IN PLAT BOOK 1 AT PAGE 3018 COUNTY OF SAN MIGUEL, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1615 South Pine Street, Norwood, CO 81423.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS

ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, 07/10/2014, at 305 W. Colorado Avenue, East entry, Telluride, CO, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 5/14/2014 Last Publication 6/11/2014 Name of Publication The Norwood Post & Telluride Daily Planet IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED. DATE: 03/10/2014 Janice M. Stout, Public Trustee in and for the County of San Miguel, State of Colorado By: /s/ Janice M Stout, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Torben M. Welch #34282 Messner & Reeves LLC 1430 Wynkoop Street, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 623-1800 Attorney File # 7239.0041 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt.

Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

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activity in the wellbeing area of your chart warns if you push any harder you could face collapse.

up for your right to be different. If it means you fall out with certain people, well, that’s too bad.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23): You want to build something of lasting value but it is beginning to dawn on you that you won’t be able to do it on your own.

Why should that be a problem? There are lots of people out there who share your dream. Work together.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21): You are who you are for a reason, so don’t let anyone get away with telling you that you should think or act in ways that don’t feel right to you. Fortunately, there is something obstinate in your nature that refuses to compromise.

BIRTHDAY THURSDAY: Your birthday planets urge you not to work quite so hard over the coming 12 months.

Where possible, get others to do the hard stuff for you. If that isn’t possible, don’t do it at all. Life is not supposed to be a trial or a torment, it’s supposed to be a delight.

LEO (July 24 - Aug. 23): The Sun in the career area of your chart is on your side but other forces are at work that are trying to deny you the chance to move up in the world. Don’t give in to negative people or the negative thoughts they try to sow in your mind.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20): You will be rather forthright in your views today and not everyone will like it. Too bad.

Most of the time you keep your opinions to yourself but every now and again you go right the other way and shout them from the rooftops.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Today’s full moon warns that, where money and possessions are concerned, nothing is quite what it seems. For that reason alone it would be wise to think twice before signing up to anything you don’t have complete personal control over.

VIRGO (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23): Don’t let anyone convince you that your ideas are of no value and that your beliefs are wrong. Today’s full moon will muddy waters and make you wonder what is fact and what is fiction but you can always trust your inner voice.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19): It will be easy to get annoyed with certain people today but if you are wise you will call upon your reserves of self-control and make a virtue of being both patient and forgiving.

If you do fall out with someone, forgive and forget quickly.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21): Chances are you will have to face up to someone who opposes you in every way.

If you value your independence you must tackle them head on and leave them in no doubt that you will fight for your right to do your own thing.

LIBRA (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23): If you let your emotions influence what should be a purely logical decision today you could end up out of pocket. Where money and other material matters are concerned you must not take risks, not even if the potential rewards are great.

PISCES (Feb. 20 - Mar. 20): Some things in life are important and some things in life are not. Do you know how to tell the difference? Today’s full moon will encourage people to get agitated about issues that are simply not worth the effort.

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Life lessons at the skate park CAMP, from page 24

Wasserman and his instructors put a big focus on safety, teach etiquette and skateboard maintenance and place a lot of emphasis on creating a supportive environment.

“We really push the part of creating a positive atmosphere,” Wasserman said. “Encouraging each other is really cool. It’s all about being part of something and having a good time.”

Wasserman launched Telluride Skate Camp in 2006 following the construction of the concrete skateboard facility in Town Park. He had helped organize local skaters to raise roughly $30,000 for the new park and have input in its design, and was impressed with the buy-in they had in the project. After it was built, he realized the new facility was going to boost interest in the sport and create a need for a safe and non-intimidating way for kids to learn how to skate.

Being both a lifelong skater and a teacher (Wasserman teaches art at the Mountain School), “it just made sense to start teaching skateboarding,” he said.

It’s a really tough sport, he said, with a slow learning curve.

So it’s important to start with the basics.

“You have to learn the basics first. You can’t just jump in and start doing high-level tricks,” he said.

The camp started small, with just a couple kids showing up to

Colorado author Craig Childs, and kismet: Telluride Literary Burlesque was born.

“It was so exciting to feel this incredible sisterhood, and brotherhood, around this idea of taking the writing to the core of who we are, to risk revealing everything in words, but also in the visual realm — with costumes, and projected imagery,” McHarg said. “The result has been electric; none of us is who we were before we began to create this performance. I think the audience may experience some of that too, for we have, with a deep bow to Telluride Theatre’s Burlesque tradition, turned the genre of burlesque inside out.

Indeed, we have turned ourselves inside out, in asking what it means to be the female form beyond story, exposed, in her fear and wounds and rage and desire.”

McHarg first pitched the idea to her close friend and colleague Childs, who is already scheduled to teach Telluride LitFest’s

Harvey, who is a poet, artist and musician. An acclaimed songwriter from Omaha, Neb., Harvey spent some time in the back seat of a van, touring the country with a band called It’s True.

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learn how to drop into bowls or do ollies. By 2008, the growth in skaters prompted Wasserman to hire additional instructors. Local Walter Kvale has long worked for him, along with Hagan and Harry Kearney.

This year, Wasserman will have former campers coming on to work as junior instructors. The idea is to have very small instructor-to-student ratios, he said.

By allowing skaters of all ages and abilities to participate in a camp together, the Telluride Skate Camp works to create tolerance and openness, he said.

“One of the beauties of skateboarding itself is it creates a very multi-age scene, and multigender scene,” he said. “The idea of creating a positive scene,

welcoming others, being friendly and being stoked for other people … I want to teach my campers this. This creates a really cool and open thing.”

Last year, about a quarter of campers were girls, he said, and about half of campers were visitors.

One of the mottos he shares often with campers, he said, goes like this: “The more we skate, the better we get, the better we get, the more fun it is, the more fun it is, the more we skate.”

Wasserman said teaching skateboarding is one of the most rewarding things he’s ever done.

“I love it, and I’m enthusiastic about it, sometimes overly … but it’s very genuine,” he said. “I truly believe in skateboarding. I love how much it teaches.”

“Raising the Dead: A Walking Celebration of Landscape and Literature” with McHarg on Saturday. For Burlesque, McHarg asked Childs to stand in as “pimp” so to speak, and impromptu storyteller. He jumped right in.

“I didn’t really think about what I was getting into, as usual,” he said. “That’s why I said yes.”

When Childs invited fellow Paonia-based writer and High Country News associate editor Gilman to participate, she decided to embrace the opportunity to challenge herself to be vulnerable on stage while simultaneously challenging the audience to re-think what vulnerability means.

“As a shy person who’s learned to be extroverted by necessity … I’ve always admired and envied the willful vulnerability of onstage performers,” Gilman said. “It has also long irked me that vulnerability is so often construed as invitation for sexual comment, advance or even

abuse, especially for women…”

When San Miguel County’s two-term Poet Laureate Trommer said yes to Literary Burlesque, she said, “I had no idea what I was getting into and just how revealing it might be. I would like to think I would still have said yes, even knowing how vulnerable I would become.

Working with the other women inspired me to take risks with my own writing ... what a fantastic, terrifying gift!”

Fellow poet and past San Miguel County Poet Laureate Ellen Marie Metrick will also perform. Her three poems for Literary Burlesque arise from three eras of her life, “from three layers in which I have, and perhaps still do, exist,” she said. “The poems each mark waypoints in my descent into soul.”

Literary Burlesque begins at 8 p.m. sharp at the Ah Haa School, 300 S. Townsend. Tickets are $5 at the door. For more information on the show and biographies and photos of the performers, go to ahhaa.org.

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MAKE YOUR OWN BOOK PARTY: May 17, 11 a.m., Between the Covers, kids’ activity, $5, Telluride Literary Festival

SUFI POETS WORKSHOP: 6 p.m., Wilkinson Public Library, with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Muslim Journeys Series, Hafiz, Rabia and Rumi POETRY BROTHEL: 9 p.m., Steaming Bean, Telluride Literary Arts Festival

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On Friday, the youngest among us are going to strut their stuff across the big stage at the Michael D. Palm Theatre during We R-1’s annual talent show contest, Telluride’s Got Talent. The event starts at 5:30 p.m. Students from grades K-12 will be competing for cash prizes and the coveted “Best of Show” award.

We all know that kids raised in Telluride are unique and have a special panache that you just don’t find anywhere else in the world, and here is a much-anticipated opportunity for them to show it off. And since seeing is believing, here’s a chance for you to catch a glimpse of some of our amazingly talented youth.

Expect to see a wide variety of

Chloie Plumber and Brooke Shiffrin perform at the 2013 Telluride’s Got Talent event. [Courtesy photo by Brenda Colwell] musicians, singers, dancers, a puppet show as well as lip sync acts, gymnastics and more.

In addition to being a showcase event, Telluride’s Got Talent is also an annual fundraiser for the School District’s Parent Association (We R-1). And with each passing year the show gets better and better. This is defi-

nitely not your run-of-the-mill school talent show, so be sure to mark it on your calendar and come prepared to be wowed!

See the show Telluride’s Got Talent is Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Michael D. Palm Theatre. Tickets are $5/person or $10/family at the door.

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Baked Alaska once was the star dessert of cruise ship dining rooms and upscale restaurants. The classic recipe called for vanilla ice cream enrobed in sponge cake, lavishly frosted with meringue, then lightly browned in a high-heat oven. At the last moment, it was doused in alcohol and set on fire. The waiter would emerge from the kitchen and parade around the room holding the star of the evening aloft. Now that’s showbiz!

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peal — and mystery — is easy to understand. How can you bake ice cream in an oven and not have it melt into a bubbly puddle? The answer? It’s doubly insulated by the cake and the meringue. This may seem daunting, but it’s not beyond the skills of a home cook.

My version results in mini baked Alaskas: one person, one Alaska. Accordingly, a small brownie stands in for a full cake. Any store-bought brownie (roughly 2 inches square) will do. You cut it in half horizontally (to create two thin halves), then sandwich in the frozen filling. Won’t the brownie crumble when you cut it? Not if you freeze it for 30 minutes ahead of time.

The “ice cream” in this recipe is raspberry sorbet. It’s a slimmer option than full-fat ice cream, a refreshing flavor that nods to the

season, and a time-tested and deeply satisfying complement to the dark chocolate.

I wasn’t sure that the brownie and the meringue would match up as well, but it turns out that the meringue — basically just a lighter-than-air mixture of beaten egg whites and sugar — somehow transforms our tiny stuffed ice cream sandwich into something quite substantial. Before you bake it, just be sure to slather every part of this concoction with the meringue. That’ll protect the ice cream during its short blast with heat.

Once you pull your baked Alaska out of the oven, top it off with assorted berries. They add color and flavor and — Mom has to say it — they’re good for you, too.

has passed, remove the sorbet from the freezer to soften.

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Remove the ice cream sandwiches from the freezer and place them 3 inches apart on the prepared sheet pan. Frost each with some of the meringue, making sure to cover the sandwich on all sides right down to the parchment. Bake the frosted sandwiches in the center of the oven for 4 minutes, or until lightly browned on top.

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This is the Ah Haa School’s Friday event, “Take It All Off: An Evening of Literary Burlesque,” part of the inaugural Telluride Literary Arts Festival taking place all weekend in town. Conceptualized by award-winning author Amy Irvine McHarg, Literary Burlesque brings six regional writers together on stage to perform their most vulnerable work, peeling back layers to reveal tender hearts, tender words, bare souls and a little bit of skin.

“The idea of ‘literary burlesque’ was largely inspired by Telluride Theatre’s Burlesque Show, of which I am a great fan,” McHarg said. “What Sasha Sullivan, Christopher Beaver and others have done in that show is ask how a woman can truly reveal herself within the cultural constructs of sexuality and entertainment — and in doing so, they demolished those projections and assumptions entirely.

“But the notion for a literary version came to me this winter,” she said, “on an evening in New Hampshire, where I was part of a group of women authors who were all reading very vulnerable and revealing work, and I thought, ‘Wow, we do a kind of burlesque up here too.’”

McHarg started thinking about how they could intensify that vulnerability, “how much more honest and exposed we could be, if we took what we do with our writing and made the removing of layers, of stories, more visual.”

Enter fellow regional writers Kierstin Bridger, Ellen Marie Metrick, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Sarah Gilman, plus See LITFEST, Page 21

LitFest The Telluride Literary Arts Festival kicks off on Thursday with a Poetry Brotherl at 9 p.m. at the Steaming Bean. Literary Burlesque takes place Friday night at 8 p.m. at the Ah Haa School.

Birthdays May 14: Brendan Clarke, Scott Daigle, Sarah Daulton, Harold Graham, Jr., Karen Hart, Quisqueya McDermot, Chris Parr, James Phelps, Heather Pierson, Jennifer Radge, David Reed, Linda Tueller, Roger Vandall, Sandra Vandergoot, David Wade, Kerry Wagner, Catherine Walsh, Sally Whiting; May 15: John Arnold, Chris Bennett, Annie Bennett, Michelle Brown, Charles Drimal III, Laura Ebbs, Geoff Hanson, John Hopkins, Suzan Jennings, Brandy Kashiwa, Billy Mattson, Gloria McKittrick, Chris Sommers, Megan Sullivan, Jane Taylor, John Wierdsma.

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Share your ideas about the future of the Telluride School District and where you see education in 2027 at the first of three community visioning sessions. The meeting is from 8:30-10 a.m. Thursday at the Telluride High School in room 234.

Telluride’s first Literary Festival kicks off Thursday night with a Poetry Brothel at the Steaming Bean. The vaudeville-style show features song, dance, spontaneous theatrical performances and poetry. The event starts at 9 p.m. and admission is $5.

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Editor

kateboarding has long been dogged by a reputation of anti-authority hooliganism, youthful rebellion and danger.

But, Craig Wasserman, founder of the Telluride Skate Camp, wants to dispel those negative stereotypes. In his eight years of teaching kids how to skateboard, he said, he’s watched the sport instill invaluable life lessons, turn young skaters into better humans and change lives.

“I truly truly believe in skateboarding as this amazing activity and physical outlet that is super good for kids. It teaches them all these things that we try to force on them in school: perseverance, balance, respect and commitment,” Wasserman said.

Skateboarding teaches focus and dedication, he said. Kids

learn to support and respect one another, have a creative physical outlet and reap huge awards if they stick with it.

“Some of it sounds like an after-school special,” Wasserman said. “But it’s the real deal.”

The Telluride Skate Camp, a licensed and insured camp that has been offering summer instructions since 2006, is getting ready to kick off its 2014 season.

Kids ages 5 to 15 are invited to sign up for weeklong camps, where they will learn everything from the basics of stance to park etiquette, safety and maybe even some tricks.

Camps start on June 9 and run through Aug. 15 (with the exception of Bluegrass week).

They take place Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-noon at the Telluride Skate Park with the occasional trip to the Youth Link Park near the post office.

Participation in the full week is encouraged, but the camp does accept daily drop-ins if there is room.

Campers are not limited in the number of camps they participate in — Wasserman said some skaters sign up for camp all summer long. And kids of all ages, abilities and of both genders are invited to sign up.

“We teach all the way from the ground level — kids who have never put their feet on a skateboard — all the way up through high-level stuff — competitivelevel tricks in the street course and bowl,” Wasserman said.

See CAMP, Page 21

he 16th annual Mark Fischer Poetry Prize awards and reading will take place on Saturday from 6-7:30 p.m. at Arroyo Wine Bar. Word lovers are invited to join Elaine Fischer to honor her late husband, Mark Fischer, and enjoy readings by Art Goodtimes and the 2014 prizewinners.

The annual prize invites poets residing in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico to enter.

A whopping 110 poems were submitted for consideration this year. The judging is blind, so the judge considers each poem independent of its author.

This year, the poetry prize is being presented in conjunction with the Telluride Literary Arts Festival, a new collaboration between local partners to present literary events over the course of the weekend.

The Mark Fischer Poetry Prize is named in the memory of Telluride’s much-loved poet, lawyer, skier and raconteur. Fischer was a daring experimenter who combined a polyglot’s command of languages with a quirky sense of humor and a passion for obtuse words. In that spirit, prizes have been awarded to the entries that best exhibit the qualities of originality, novelty, complex meaning, linguistic skill and wit.

This year’s winners were selected by Fruita, Colo., poet Kyle See POETRY, Page 21

Skate Camp

Mark Fischer Prize

Camps begin on June 9 and run MondayFriday through Aug. 15, except during the Bluegrass Festival week. Visit tellurideskatecamp.com for more information or to sign up.

The Mark Fischer Poetry Prize awards celebration takes place Saturday from 6-7:30 p.m. at Arroyo.

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