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WELCOME MAT

INSIDE this EDITION VOLUME 2 F ISSUE NUMBER 70

Publisher Gunilla Asher

DEPARTMENTS

General manager Samantha Johnston Editor Jeanne McGovern

04 THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

Subscriptions Dottie Wolcott

10 LEGENDS & LEGACIES 12

FROM ASPEN, WITH LOVE

Circulation Maria Wimmer

14 WINE INK

Art Director Afton Groepper

16 FOOD MATTERS

Publication Designer Ashley Detmering

29 AROUND ASPEN 30 LOCAL CALENDAR

Production Manager Evan Gibbard

38 CROSSWORD

Contributing Writers Gunilla Asher Amiee White Beazley Amanda Rae Busch John Colson Mary Eshbaugh Hayes Kelly J. Hayes Cindy Hirschfeld Barbara Platts Bob Ward Tim Willoughby High Country News Aspen Historical Society

39 CLOSING ENCOUNTERS

Sales David Laughren Ashton Hewitt William Gross David Laughren Max Vadnais Louise Walker Tim Kurnos

14 WINEINK This is it: the week before the weekend that kicks off Aspen’s summer season in “classic” style.

ON THE COVER

Yes, the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen is just around the corner, so wine writer Kelly J. Hayes is

Cover design by Ashley Detmering

offering us a taste of what’s to come as well as a guide on indulding without overdoing during

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THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

by ANDREW TRAVERS

FESTIVAL THE ASPEN FRINGE FESTIVAL has quickly become a highlight of the valley’s early summer arts calendar, with edgy theater and dance performances from leading artists. The festival’s 2012 staging of John Logan’s Tony-winning play “Red,” and last year’s multimedia dance

by Morphoses are among the most memorable performing arts events Aspen has seen in recent years.

This year’s Fringe Fest kicks off June 13 at the Aspen High School Black Box Theatre with a modern dance performance

by New York-based MoralesDance, led by Tony Morales. Its performers include guest dancers from Alvin Ailey Theatre.

Saturday and Sunday nights, the festival stages David Ives’ acclaimed play “Venus in Fur,” starring Nikki Boxer and Fringe Fest co-founder David Ledingham, with valley theater veteran Mike Monroney directing. It’s billed as an R-rated intellectual thriller about sex and power, focusing on a playwright attempting to adapt the 19th century novel “Venus in Fur,” with a dose of comedy infused. The 2011 Broadway production drew a Tony nomination for Best Play.

It’s since gone on to become the most widely produced play in the U.S., and was adapted into a film by Roman Polanski, set for a limited summer release.

On Monday, the festival closes with its “Fringe Lab,” and a staged reading of a new play, titled “The Last Outlaw,”

by Donald Sage Mackay.

The performance allows the audience to see the creative process up close, and take part in a talk-back with the writer and cast.

Tickets are $30 for each performance, $60 for a full festival pass, or $150 for a VIP pass, which includes a ticket to a meet-the-artists cast party on Saturday night. They’re available at the Wheeler Opera House and www.aspenshowtix. com.

David Ledingham and Nikki Boxer star in “Venus in Fur.” The play runs for two nights at the Aspen Fringe Festival.

CURRENTEVENTS POPULAR MUSIC Bassist Les Claypool brings his latest project, Duo de Twang, to the Snowmass Mammoth Festival.

FESTIVAL Heavy metal and mariachi meet comedy on stage with Metalachi.

The band returns to Belly Up on Wednesday.

SURE, YOU’VE SEEN COVER BANDS — but you’ve never seen a cover band quite like Metalachi.

The California-based heavy metal/mariachi spoof outfit is returning for their second show of the year at Belly Up, following a raucous 4/20 performance. Their over-the-top stage show offers familiar songs by the likes of Metallica, Slayer and Ozzy Osbourne in traditional mariachi arrangements.

They play Belly Up on Wednesday, June 18 at 10 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $25 for reserved seats.

YOU KNOW HIM AS the legendary bass-slapping frontman of Primus and as the familiar voice and bass behind the “South Park” theme, and you’ve probably come to expect the unexpected from Les Claypool. His new band with guitarist Bryan Kehoe, Duo de Twang, is as bold and weird as you could hope. Maybe weirder.

Their debut album, “Four Foot Shack,” released in February, is filled with oddball arrangements of outthere covers ranging from the classic “Battle of New Orleans” to Alice in Chains’ “Man in the Box” to the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive,” along with new takes on Primus cuts like “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver” and “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver.” It’s an irresistible blend of gonzo vocals and bass genius.

Duo de Twang plays the Snowmass Mammoth Fest, in Snowmass Town Park, on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. Mark your calendars.

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THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION presents

VOX POP AN EVENING WITH WILLIAM H. MACY AND FELICITY HUFFMAN Saturday, July 5, 8:00pm Paepcke Auditorium

What is your favorite summer event in the Aspen area, and why?

DAVID CLARK B A S A LT

Award-winning actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman in conversation Plus a special preview of Rudderless, Macy’s feature-directing debut starring Billy Crudup, Selena Gomez, Laurence Fishburne and Felicity Huffman.

General Admission $25 in advance/$35 at the door Reserved Seating $50 Tickets on sale @ Wheeler Box Office (970) 920-5770 www.aspenshowtix.com For more details: www.aspenfilm.org

“I’d have to say hands down it’s the Jazz Fest (Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience).

It brings in a lot of really great bands and it’s just a lot of fun.”

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Maggie is a happy, friendly, affectionate, fiveyear-old female Rottweiler who gets along well with people and other dogs. Gorgeous dog.

Ginger is a sweet, seven-year-old, Australian Cattle Dog mix who is a bit shy with new people, but warms up quickly once she gets to know you.

Ginger is generally good with other dogs, but she is occasionally aggressive with other female dogs.

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Loves to cuddle once he knows you a little + really enjoys a nice back massage.

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Chuck is a happy, friendly, handsome, 12-year-old Husky mix who is a retired sled dog. Gets along well with people + other dogs. Still has the energy + ability to hike up Smuggler Mountain or stroll along the Rio Grande Trail. Super laid-back and affectionate.

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Peter is a sleek, athletic, 7-year-old sled dog who gets along well with people and other dogs. He will require a knowledgeable, responsible home because he is not trustworthy off-leash. Another really great dog!

Strong, energetic, black/white 7-yearold female Boston Terrier mix with a splash of Pit Bull— larger than a typical Boston.

Outgoing, very friendly + really cute. Loves people.

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Johnson is a sleek, athletic, 8-year-old sled dog who gets along well with people and other dogs. He will require a knowledgeable, responsible home because of his Huskey breed mix he is not trustworthy off-leash.

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THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION

with JOHN COLSON

Wrestling over ‘local control’ — Colorado’s newest sport AS I WRITE THIS, the legislators in Denver are considering a special session about oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing (called “fracking,” a controversial technique for getting gas and oil from deep rock formations).

Gov. John Hickenlooper has proposed legislation that would give local jurisdictions more control over oil and gas, primarily to head off almost a dozen ballot initiatives aimed at doing the same.

The energy industry has been loudly and frantically opposing the initiatives, maintaining that Colorado already has the toughest oil and gas regulations in the United States, and that further regulations might drive the industry out of the state.

I should say, right here, that I am not one of those unutterably opposed to oil and gas exploration. We need the energy, no doubt about it, but we should be sure to go after it in sensible, nonhazardous ways.

So in some ways I hope the session

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is held, since the prospect of the state’s voters having to choose between 11 (at current count) proposed anti-industry initiatives is a gloomy one.

Given the steady waves of propaganda coming out of both camps in this fight, voters most likely will drown in confusion and apathy before they ever get to fill out their ballots.

I’ve read through the governor’s proposed legislation, and some of it seems to be aimed in the right direction.

It plainly gives local governments more authority to regulate such things as setbacks for drilling rigs and other equipment, as well as regulatory power over health-and-welfare issues and a range of other industry activities.

The counties, it should be noted, already have some degree of local control over aspects of the industry’s activities beyond regulation of “down-hole” work (referring to the actual drilling and fracking, which is regulated by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission).

While some counties have opted to exercise their authority in this regard, many have not, and that includes Garfield County, where the county commissioners

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have steadfastly declined to exercise local control over the industry at all. Already, the Garfield County commissioners have publicly stated their unhappiness with the ballot initiatives and with the idea of a special legislative session.

Observers have long known of health problems and other difficulties reported by those living in the gas patch, though neither the state nor the local authorities have ever given any credence to those reports or moved in any comprehensive way to investigate them.

In talks with county officials while covering the industry as a newspaper reporter, I regularly ran into the mantra voiced by the three commissioners — “We don’t regulate the industry, the state does, and there’s nothing we can do.”

Does that mean that, even if new rules are enacted, it won’t make much difference in Garfield County, the second-most drilled county in Colorado?

Don’t forget, this is a place where spills of “produced water” (a toxic byproduct of the drilling process) are common, and emissions of harmful toxins and other troubles are a fact of life.

Recall, if you will, that several years ago a Colorado School of Public Health

study was about to reveal the likelihood of serious health hazards for those living near the industry’s facilities.

The Garfield County commissioners were paying for the study, after being badgered into it by a cadre of industry skeptics living in the gas patch.

But as the study neared completion, the commissioners spiked it by pulling its funding. Since the study was never completed, industry and county officials can justifiably say it has no validity as a criticism of the industry’s practices, although the study continues to be cited in news stories.

The oil and gas industry, unfortunately, has a history of paranoia about anyone who questions its activities. Rather than welcoming studies to determine the real facts of this growing controversy, the industry closes ranks, ridicules its critics and pounds its chest as a provider of jobs and energy.

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LEGENDS & LEGACIES

FROM the VAULT

by TIM WILLOUGHBY

Colorado Midland excursion trains took passengers to entertaining sites.

DIFFERENT WAYS TO USE A TRAIN When pawing through stacks of books in an antiquarian bookstore, I came across an

old dog-eared copy of “Highball — A Pageant of Trains.” Anyone who is into trains, perhaps only those of my generation, would recognize author Lucius Beebe. Every page features a photo of a steam engine pulling cars and unless you examine them carefully, they all look alike.

A comment in the middle of the book caught my eye: Beebe wrote that Denver and Rio Grande railroad workers said they shot deer from their trains. If you have ever stood near a steam train or ridden on one, you know they are noisy beasts with squeaking wheels, a rhythmic chugchugging of the steam pistons, and blaring whistles. I cannot imagine a deer hanging around the tracks, anywhere within shooting distance, when a train approaches. Beebe mentioned that train workers were armed to prevent robberies and therefore ready for anything, deer or evildoers.

His short note suggested to me that trains could be used for other activities that we might not have considered. I found a few such gems in Morris Cafky’s “Colorado Midland,” a book that has everything and anything you might want to know about Aspen’s

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favorite train.

Although there was no mention of shooting deer from the train as buffalo hunters did on the plains when the transcontinental railroad began operation, the Midland did its part to aid hunting. During hunting season, Midland employees could take a few days off and load up their gear in a caboose that was then connected to a freight train. When they found a good hunting spot near a siding, the conductor would detach the caboose and the men would use it as a home base, all at no cost Railroad employees also found the Midland owners generous at Christmas. The company allowed workers to stop the train in forested areas, where they would cut their Christmas trees and throw them onto the train to take home.

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of a Midland special. You could ride what they called the “laundry’” train to Glenwood. There you could do your laundry and swim in the hot springs pool and return, all for $35 in today’s dollars.

The Midland also ran special trains out of Colorado Springs such as wildflower excursions through the canyons and into the higher elevations where the flowers were blooming. A picnic lunch was provided at locations convenient for walking through the flowers. This was a very popular offering especially in the early part of the 1900s.

If wildflowers were not your thing, the Midland offered a rare opportunity. Sometimes as part of the wildflower excursion, and at other times as its sole destination, the Midland line ran through Florissant. The train would stop and passengers got out to search for

fossils. The tracks passed near to a seemingly endless supply.

There is no train to transport you, but these days you can run your laundry machines at home while you travel to Glenwood to swim in the pool, cut your own Forest Service Christmas trees, or drive to diverse wildflower areas.

You can take your RV to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument and see petrified redwood stumps and fossils of all kinds, but you can’t take any home. Still, you can’t completely relive the old days: I wouldn’t recommend trying to shoot a deer while driving your car.

Tim Willoughby’s family story parallels Aspen’s. He began sharing folklore while teaching at Aspen Country Day School and Colorado Mountain College. Now a tourist in his native town, he views it with historical perspective.

Reach him at redmtn2@comcast.net.

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LEGENDS & LEGACIES

FROM the VAULT

compiled by THE ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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“A WORKSHOP FOR SCULPTURE, painting, drawing and ceramics” was set to open in Aspen in time for the following summer, according to an article in the Aspen Daily Times on Sept. 7, 1950. “The Aspen Art School, under the direction of O. Louis Wille, who has gained recognition as a sculptor, will open at the school studio at 203 Bleeker Street for art classes next summer. Wille, attracted to Aspen thru the Aspen Institute and the native materials at hand for sculpture — the white, grey, black marble, granite and limestone — exhibited his work from these materials at the Aspen Artists Exhibition last month. According to Wille, he will integrate art history with art practice and will help the student draw from his own experiences, rather than teach by precept or example outside the student’s experience. Wille stressed there will be no limitation of age in admitting students, that every age has a capacity for expressing visual conceptions in plastic media, and he is especially interested in teaching children.”

This photo and more can be found in the Aspen Historical Society archives at aspenhistory.org

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ASPEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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GEAR of the WEEK

by STEPHEN REGENOLD

GO-GO GADGET DAD FATHER’S DAY, ON JUNE 15 this year, is an annual chance to give a dad some great outdoors gear. As a father myself (and an obvious gear freak), I offer these products as ideas for the outdoor-loving dad in your life.

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STAINLESS STEEL GROWLER As its name describes, the Hydro Flask Insulated Water Bottle & Beer Growler can tote H2O or a microbrew.

It has 64 ounces of capacity and a leakproof cap. You can fill up the doublewall vessel with a cool beverage and keep your drink cold for 12-plus hours outdoors in the summer heat. $49.99, www.hydroflask.com

PUCK-SIZE SPEAKER It’s just a couple of inches across, but the JBL Clip produces excellent audio for its small size. A carabinerstyle clip lets you attach it anywhere, and the little unit syncs with a phone’s music library via Bluetooth or an oldfashioned headphone cable jack. $49.95, www.jbl.com

Go big! The Leatherman Surge weighs three-quarters of a pound and has more than 20 implements to cut, pry, strip, saw, or screw open. It comes with the largest pliers and longest blades Leatherman offers in a multi-tool. $110, www.leatherman.com

TINY ‘SATELLITE TRACKER’ The SPOT Trace is a 2-inchwide module that gives “theft-alert tracking” via a satellite network.

Attach the Trace to a boat, vehicle, or bike and you can track its every move via Google maps on a smartphone, which links to GPS coordinates that the device transmits if it is moved. $74.95 (plus required service plan), www. findmespot.com

POWER STICK To revive a dead phone or small gadget in the field, the Goal Zero Switch 8 offers an immediate charge. Plug it in and the unit, which is about the size of a roll of quarters, sends steady electricity for a charge with no fuss. $39.99, www.goalzero.com Stephen Regenold writes about outdoors gear at www.gearjunkie.com.

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FROM ASPEN, WITH LOVE

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A WINE PLAN OF ATTACK AT THE CLASSIC WE ARE STILL A WEEK AWAY from the opening festivities of the 32nd Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, but the buzz is already beginning. The tents are starting to go up. The pop-ups are starting to, well, pop up, and the wines are arriving by the case.

For regular attendees, volunteers, and those in the hospitality industry, the Classic is a rite KELLY J. of summer. A muchHAYES anticipated weekend of non-stop bacchanalia that sets the tone for the season of the sun.

It is a chance to see old friends, eat some amazing food, drink some great wine, and perhaps even learn a thing or three in the seminars from the world-class roster of presenters.

For me, the Classic is like a wine Christmas as I get to meet so many winemakers and taste so many different wines from around the world. Each time I go into the tents or sit at a seminar or go to an outside tasting event, there are a plethora of choices of what to drink and who to talk with.

After attending close to two dozen Classics over the years, it would be pretty easy to get a little jaded about it all. Instead I find that each year brings its own surprises and discoveries. And besides, even if it didn’t, a June weekend in Aspen with a slight wine buzz never could, or at least never should, get old.

This year will see, by my count, forty-nine separate seminars on wines, cocktails, and spirits. All in forty-nine hours and 15 minutes.

And, if you throw in a round number of, say, six wines per session, that means we are looking at around 300 different wines from the time the first session opens on Friday at 10 a.m. until the finale at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, when Laura Werlin will pour a Tasmanian Rosé with her cheese course. Figure close to 500 cases of outstanding and interesting wines will be on hand. And that is just in the seminars. There will be exponentially more wine available

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for tasting under the tents at the five Grand Tastings So with all of that wine, how do you get the most out of the Classic?

Well, it may be counter-intuitive, but begin with the old adage “less is more.” There are so many wines from so many makers from so many countries that it is easy to be overwhelmed. You want to have a plan. You want to focus on something rather than trying to do everything.

Start with the Grand Tastings.

Instead of just grabbing a glass and heading for the first table, pick something you like and seek it out. Say you’re interested in the reds of Rioja. Head straight for the Spain tent and get an overview of the region in the first Grand Tasting session. Walk in and ask questions.

Find out the difference between a 100 percent tempranillo and a wine that is blended with garnacha. Taste a couple of different vintages and see if you can taste the variations. Learn the differences between a Crianza, a Reserva and a Gran Reserva. Try to discern what the extra aging in American oak does to the wine’s flavors.

Or pick a varietal or a style and wander through the tents tasting just that wine. There will be plenty of Rosé, something that we have watched explode over the last decade here in Aspen. Try them from California, Provence and New Zealand. See if you like your Rosé made from Grenache or Pinot Noir. Do you prefer dry or sweet Rosé? Now is your chance to find out.

Make it your goal to learn something in each and every Grand Tasting. You don’t have to get too serious, but if you are going to put the time in, take something out as well. Besides a glass of wine that is.

As for the seminars, use the same strategy. Pick seminars that focus on what you drink and attend those. If Champagne is your thing then head over to Shayn

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Bjornholm’s “Showstopping Champagne.” If you spend a lot of time in sushi bars then Joshua Wesson is your man with his “Omakase OMG! Sensational Sips for Sushi” seminar. Bottom line is, if you are already interested in a particular wine or style, then the seminars will help you up your game. Oh, and for good measure I always try to attend one seminar about something that I know little or nothing about. This year that means I have plans to attend Ray Isle’s seminar on “The Wines of Portugal,” a place I’d like to get to know a little better.

Have a great time and I’ll see you in the tents.

1. Use the spit bucket You don’t have to expectorate every time you take a sip, but if you are going to be tasting every day, all day, do yourself a favor and make sure all that wine doesn’t go to your head. You’ll feel better at the end of the day.

2. Hydrate Water is life. There is plenty of it at the Classic. Those cold bottles are always so good. Grab one before every tasting and finish at least one bottle every time.

3. Mangia. Mangia!!!

That means eat in Italian and an empty stomach is a wine taster’s Achilles heel. Make sure you have three squares.

Kelly J. Hayes lives in the soon-to-be-designated appellation of Old Snowmass with his wife, Linda, and black Lab named Vino. He can be reached at malibukj@aol.com.

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FIRE-BREATHING MANIACS THE SNOWMASS MAMMOTH FEST CHILI COOK-OFF BREEDS ‘EM I KNEW I WAS in trouble after the first three bites. Arriving full circle around the long table dotted with 16 pints of steaming green chili and buckets of dirty tasting spoons, I wondered if I could continue.

Clipboard in hand and elbows sweating, I surveyed my scribbles beside each number: Mushy. Mealy. Tender pork, nice cubes.

Cinnamon aroma.

AMANDA Gray tinged meat. Oily RAE surface. Salty? Cumin strong. Heat builds, tangy finish. Uniform veg. TOO SPICY KILLS ALL!!

My mouth tingled and my brow dampened. Apparently my cheeks flushed, too, because the guy in the polo took one look at me, sucking air dramatically to try to cool the fire on my tongue, and asked if I needed a break. Yes, I was a green chili judge at last year’s Snowmass Mammoth Fest, and I lived to tell the story.

“Woooph! Just a little intense,” I croaked between bites of tortilla chips and red grapes, the approved palate cleansers set out for us 30 or so judges. I’d only lived out West for a couple of years; my New England-bred taste buds were still sensitive to certain Hatch green chiles. Since skulking away in search of sorbet was not an option, I crossed out the most objectionable numbers on my sheet, took a swig of water, and set out for round two.

The chili cook-off at Snowmass Mammoth Fest, known as the Snowmass Chili Pepper & Brew Fest until 2012, has been a showpiece since the event was founded 11 years ago. Sanctioned by the International Chili Society, it entices amateur and semiprofessional competitors from Colorado, Utah, Texas, Arizona, and as far away as Wisconsin, to descend on Snowmass with ingredients, supplies, and a burning hope that their recipe is tasty

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enough to win cash and qualify for a chance to compete in the $25,000 World Championship Chili Cookoff (WCCC) in October.

“We’re looking for world-class competition chili,” says chief judge and former competitor Steve Tomasek. Qualities are well-defined: “Meat, usually beef, uniform in size, so it cooks evenly.

A smooth, red sauce. No beans, of course. That’s about it. There’s a huge difference between the homestyle stuff: odd-shaped pieces of meat and all kinds of vegetables, very individualistic.”

Green chili is often made with pork. “Unlike its red cousin, it’s going to show green chile, green chile seeds,” Tomasek says. “It’s spicier than the red, too. The main thing is that it looks like it was made with green chiles — it’s not pea soup. I’ve known people who’ve puréed different lettuces to try to get an accent green color.”

I ask if that’s cheating.

“No. But it would give a different flavor, and you’d probably pick that out.”

One winner in each of the three categories — red chili, green chili and salsa — is selected per tasting, this year held June 13-14, at the Snowmass Village Mall.

Both tastings are free, but Friday’s features beverage vendors and live music. Concerts and a microbrew tasting ($55) are held afterward on Saturday afternoon, with music only on Sunday ($45), down at Snowmass Town Park.

Tomasek, from the Castle Rock area of Colorado, has been a competition cook for the past decade. He placed first at Snowmass in 2012, and continued on to the WCCC in Charleston, W.Va. Now in his second year judging, Tomasek usually eliminates two-thirds of chili entries on first taste alone. What avoids the cut?

“Both green and red chili, the sauce is not too thick and not too thin — like a nice gravy,” he says.

“Flavor is a blend of spices — you

don’t want just garlic jumping out, you don’t want pure heat, or all green chile flavor. Particularly in red, they’re going to look very similar. It’s tough. Of course, there’s always the cook who makes mistakes, the meat didn’t get tender or it’s overcooked and mushy.”

Gregory Virant and Lynn Kost Virant don’t make such gaffes.

In their early 60s, the couple has made the 726-mile trek from their home near Omaha, Neb., to Snowmass for the past 10 years and to cook-offs around the country, mostly in Colorado and Illinois, since the mid-1980s. They trade off preparing red and green chili, depending on who wins a firstplace slot before the other. Last year, Lynn’s green chili scored third in Snowmass; Greg’s red chili earned him first place and a trip to the 2013 WCCC in Palm Springs.

“We have the same recipes, but it’s hard to cook an identical pot time after time, you have weather conditions to deal with and all that jazz,” Lynn says. “Once you qualify for World, you don’t need to cook anymore.”

Since 1967, the WCCC has drawn top finishers from chili

cook-offs held in cities across the country (more than 200 now).

“Last year Greg competed in all three categories, and he made Finals Table in both salsa and red,” Lynn says. The duo is ready for Snowmass, sights set on a WCCC return.

Originally a red chili amateur, Tomasek earned a seat at the WCCC Finals Table in 2012. “Guys in particular, we all think we make the best chili on our block or in our neighborhood,” he says.

“Nobody should be intimidated.

Two of our winners last year were rookie cooks!”

A slot in Snowmass might be open still (yours?). Top three winners receive $600 to $50, depending on category.

But for the Virants — and likely everyone else sweating over portable stoves this weekend — it’s not about prize money. “It’s the camaraderie,” says Lynn, eager to see friendly foes. “Chili cooks are just good people.”

Amanda Rae believes capsaicin can make people crazy. Nevertheless, she’s ready to judge chili again. amandaraewashere@gmail.com

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by AMANDA RAE

STEVE TOMASEK’S TASTING TIPS The Chili Cook-Off Chief Judge offers these suggestions: —Talk to cooks as soon as sampling begins. See what they’re cooking. Pick favorites.

—Take small samples; don’t fall in love with any one chili.

—Sip water, save beer for later. Alcohol opens up taste buds, making spices seem hotter than they are.

—Arrive early with spoon ready. If the crowd is like last year’s, chili will go very fast.

—Don’t forget to vote your favorite red chili for People’s Choice Award!

IF YOU GO...

“EVERYBODY’S USED TO THE CHILI THEIR MOTHER MADE, WITH HAMBURGER, BEANS, AND PASTA,” SAYS LYNN KOST VIRANT, OF OMAHA, NEB. COMPETITION CHILI IS DIFFERENT. “THE MAJORITY OF RED CHILI AT THE COOK-OFF WILL BE MEAT, CUBED, TRI-TIP OR SOMETHING OF THAT FORM. IT’S VERY CONCENTRATED AND RICH.”

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GUNNER’S LIBATIONS

by JEANNE MCGOVERN

MAKE IT San Pellegrino Blood Orange Sparkling Beverage Vodka (your choice, though in this instance we used Absolut) Ice

THE GUNNER Sometimes, you just gotta keep it simple. The morning after Gunilla Asher’s memorial — a beautiful tribute to an amazing woman — was just such a time. No more tequila shots (we had plenty of those the night before); no froufrou bellinis (G would have told us to harden up)... what we needed was a good ol’ Gunner. Easy to make and easier to drink, The Gunner is a simple mix of vodka, San Pellegrino Blood Orange soda and ice. It’s the last libation many of us shared with Gunilla, so it was with great pride we tried to channel G through the Ouija Board with Gunners in our hands. I doubt it’ll be the last time.

Libations was created by beloved Aspen Times’ publisher Gunilla Asher, who died June 2 after a brave battle with cancer. Gunilla wrote this column without any real training, other than in the spirit of “she is not a connoisseur, but she is heavily practiced.” We intend to carry on the crusade in her memory, so email jmcgovern@aspentimes.com with what cocktails you’re mixing, what libations you’re drinking, what tastes have tempted your tastebuds and we’ll share them with our readers. Cheers — to Gunner!

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by BARBARA PLATTS

Only a deeksha giver can give energy to someone, however anyone can receive it. The group in Aspen has several deeksha givers who, on a weekly basis, act as a channel through which energy flows to another.

A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN ASPEN DEEKSHA AWAKENS SPIRITUALITY, RELIEVES STRESS

BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT. Breathe in, breathe out.

Inhale for two seconds and exhale for four. Inhale for three seconds, exhale for six.

My mind and body slowly calm. I close my eyes and cozy up on a soft couch in the living room of a house I have never been in before. Despite the new environment, and the BARBARA strangers all around me PLATTS partaking in the same actions, I feel oddly comfortable. I feel strangely relaxed.

Music softly echoes from the speakers as my breath becomes more fluid and I attempt to slow down my racing thoughts. A voice comes from the speaker and instructs us to focus on our chakras, one at a time, in order to open them up. Once all are open, the deeksha begins.

Deeksha was a new concept to me before this initial experience.

In fact, meditation in general was entirely new, with the exception of the occasional yoga class.

But there came a point, about three months ago, when alleviating my stress in a glass of cabernet and a loud and rowdy night out on the town no longer did the trick. I was desperate for a stress reliever that would make me feel better days later and not just in a sweeping moment.

My friend Paula suggested trying out deeksha, a practice defined as a non-denominational energy transfer

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that helps to heighten consciousness.

It works through meditation. While a person is meditating, a deeksha giver touches their head for 30 seconds to a minute in order to awaken energy centers in the body, making a neurobiological shift in the brain that helps to uncloud the mind.

When this neurobiological shift occurs and consciousness is heightened, many benefits are said to ensue. Deeksha can help resolve a person’s inner conflicts, awaken their compassion and creative potential, increase their ability to learn, and much more. The practice is also cumulative, so the more one goes, the more benefits they receive.

I was skeptical, but highly intrigued.

The practice of deeksha goes back thousands of years. However, it was only introduced to the West in the past few decades. Now, deeksha groups exist all over the world. In Aspen, Christin Cleaver is the leader of the deeksha group.

Cleaver discovered deeksha in 2007 when she saw a flier for it in town.

“I hadn’t seen a lot of spiritual stuff going on in the community,” Cleaver said. “So I decided to go to this group.”

She did not feel anything at first, but she persisted.

“I kept going on faith,” she said. “I had a knowing that after trying so many other spiritual things that this was the thing that would help me.

And it has.”

She traveled to India in 2010 to train to become a deeksha giver at the Oneness University, the birthplace

of deeksha. By 2011, she was hosting sessions at her home in Aspen.

Today, Cleaver still invites people to her house every Thursday for an hour session of deeksha. The experience is entirely free, a true rarity in Aspen, and open to anyone who wishes to participate.

“I like to share what I learn with the community,” Cleaver said. “It helps to connect me with people through the heart.”

I was entirely out of my element my first time at Cleaver’s house back in February. Meditation has always seemed appealing, but I never practiced it.

I’ve always considered myself to be somewhat spiritual, but I never did anything with that spirituality.

Though I was hesitant, Cleaver’s home made me feel welcomed immediately. The people who had come to receive deeksha looked overjoyed, as if they were all part of an inside joke that I didn’t understand yet.

I was the youngest participant in the room by quite a few years, but everyone was thrilled that a young person wanted to join.

Cleaver thinks it’s beneficial to start deeksha early.

“I wish I’d had it when I was a kid.

It would’ve saved me a lot of pain and suffering,” she said.

By the end of the hour session in Cleaver’s living room, my mind feels wonderfully blank. All eyes in the room remain closed but we start to grasp awareness of our surroundings.

As our eyes open, everyone begins to smile at one another. I finally feel like I’m a part of the inside joke. I understand why everyone is smiling.

I try hard to recall the stresses from my day, the thoughts that had me worried sick only a short 60 minutes ago, but they’ve disbanded entirely.

When explaining it to me later, Cleaver called deeksha “Drano for the brain,” a very accurate metaphor, in my opinion.

Many people my age are questioning their beliefs. We’re trying out different things to see what fits us.

I’m still learning what my beliefs hold and how best to express them. I’ve barely skimmed the spiritual surface of deeksha and many other religions and practices.

Perhaps I won’t find the spiritual connection that Cleaver and so many others have in this practice. Or perhaps I will. Only time will tell.

For now, though, I know that I love the practice. I crave it each week. I miss it when I can’t be there. And afterward, I sleep like a baby.

That’s all I need to know for now.

To find out more about deeksha or to join the group, email Christin Cleaver at christin.cleaver@ comcast.net.

Barbara Platts believes even the harshest of critics should give strange, new experiences like deeksha a try. After all, we probably only live once. She can be reached at bplatts.000@gmail.com or on Twitter @BarbaraPlatts.

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INTRODUCING

Summer 2014 …

by ANDREW TRAVERS

BILLY COLLINS DESCRIBES Summer Words as “a chance to get together with friends under the banner of literature.” That’s an apt description of the Aspen Writers’ Foundation’s annual retreat, but it can be expanded to the sweeping cultural offerings and various banners under which we gather during the brief mountain summer in Aspen. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll be under the tent and on the lawn at the Aspen Music Festival for the Aspen Symphony Orchestra, in Rio Grande Park for Theatre Aspen’s “The Full Monty,” on the dance floor at Belly Up for Lauryn Hill and, after the construction dust settles, under the roof of an ambitious new museum that will give world-class contemporary art a permanent home downtown.

An expansive cultural season begins this weekend with Collins and Summer Words. Here’s a look at his work — and some of the other most anticipated arts events of the summer.

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Poetry, INSPIRED BY COLLINS

Billy Collins is unlike most American poets in that he’s become a transcendent cultural figure — read by the masses yet still revered by the academy, an in-demand public speaker yet still a dogged craftsman. But Collins, 73, is like every other poet in one way: He began by writing dreck.

“I committed all the sins of bad poetry,” Collins said from his home in Westchester County, N.Y. “I wrote hundreds of bad poems.

And sometimes that’s the only way to find out if you have good ones.”

Fledgling poets, like the students Collins will teach this month at the Summer Words retreat, can take heart that it took years of practice and failure for him to find the charming voice and deceptively simple style that has made him the most popular American poet since Robert Frost.

Readers know Collins for his masterful ability to use simple vocabulary and diction to forge poems of great depth and strength, for his sly wit and for his self-conscious humor (his sonnet, titled “Sonnet,” opens: “All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now.”)

One might be surprised, then, to hear him recall mining the thesaurus for impressive words and writing miserable, self-indulgent poems before discovering his endearing, conversational style and the simple language that’s become his trademark.

“I thought if you’re a writer you need to know all these enormous words that nobody else knows,” the former U.S. poet laureate said with a laugh, “and that’s what establishes you as superior to your readers. It took me awhile to realize that wasn’t working, that no one likes to be talked down to. … It was a matter of figuring out that

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it was OK to be clear but also to get a lot across that’s interesting.”

He piled up rejection letters from poetry journals, wrote in obscurity and gradually found his voice, eventually making his way into print in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. When he was in his 40s, he began publishing collections with university presses.

After publication of his 1998 collection “Picnic, Lightning,” he became a frequent guest on popular National Public Radio programs like “Fresh Air” and “A Prairie Home Companion.” His profile very quickly changed as millions of listeners heard his work.

“If you’re used to giving a poetry reading in a church basement or in a bookstore with some folding chairs and 17 people there, 3 million people is going to be game-changing exposure,” he said.

As poet laureate from 2001 to 2003, he became the country’s champion of the form. In that role, the nation looked to Collins to voice its grief after the 9/11 attacks, which he did in “The Names,” a poem he read before a joint session of Congress in 2002 and finally published last year.

The duties of a public figure, he notes, don’t mesh with the private contemplation necessary to make poetry. During his term as poet laureate, when he was traveling and “being interviewed to death,” he says, he wrote very little. But since then, he’s been able to operate in both of those worlds — devoting time to speeches and panel discussions like the ones he’s scheduled for over the next week in Aspen but not at the expense of his writing.

“It’s sort of Jekyll and Hyde,” he said. “It’s really two different people. And I can pretty quickly go back to that private zone that the books come out of.”

His travels also have made good fodder for some of his work, as evidenced in his latest collection, 2013’s “Aimless Love.” Multiple new poems comment on human behavior aboard airplanes, along with the views of various parts of America from above. In “The Sandhill Cranes Nebraska,” he recalls how the locals lamented him arriving too late to see the migrating birds on the Platte River, just as the natives in Georgia wished he’d been there in time for azalea season, just like in Vermont they’d wished he’d seen the fall colors.

His humorous, observant touch makes for entertaining poetry. But his disarmingly casual tone also drives poems that address some thorny issues.

“Ode to a Desk Lamp,” for example, at first strikes you like gimmicky grade-school poetry — a melodramatic ode to a mundane object that opens, “Oh faithful light, under which I have written.” From that silly premise, it deftly opens up into a poem about the impermanence of relationships. The lamp stays with the narrator while other partners come and go. By the third stanza, the lamp is an emotionally charged inanimate object, like Keats’ Grecian urn or Williams’ bowl of cherries:

“I don’t want to be Mr. Goodwrench — arranging their poems or making their poems sound like my poems, which is not the point,” he said. “I don’t know how to write your poems; only you can write your poems. But we can talk about form and the shape of the poem on the page and that kind of thing. And one of the things I try to do is act like matchmaker and put younger and aspiring poets together with established poets.”

The friendly spirit of a literary gathering like Summer Words, where workshops are supplemented with evening events and author panels, he says, also can be helpful for students who might have a skewed view of the literary world.

“So many people at the festival are aspiring writers,” he said. “It’s good for them to see that at least some writers get along with each other — that it’s not exactly the viper pit that it’s often characterized to be.”

Has anyone been with me longer? me without siblings or children, you with your kindly 60 watt bulb, you who have not died like others I knew, you nestled in a bath towel on the floorboards of my car as I backed down the driveway of my marriage and steered east then south down the two — then four — lane roads.

Asked about the lamp in the poem, Collins said with a laugh, “I’m looking at it right now, and it’s on!”

Poets can’t wait to be struck by inspiration, he added — they need to put pen to paper to find it. And often it comes from an unexpected place, like an old lamp.

“Poems come out of the act of writing,” he said. “You have to sit down and write anything, and just out of boredom you end up writing about something better than that. … If I start with a desk lamp, I’m certainly going to end up with more than a desk lamp.”

Of course, there have been other U.S. poet laureates and countless others who’ve written in the vernacular. But none have crossed over into the mainstream as Collins has in the 21st century, gracing best-seller lists and commanding crowds at events like the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.

“I can’t account for it,” he said. “As a younger poet, and even in my 30s and into my 40s, I thought, ‘If I can get a book out with a respected university press, and if that sold 2,000 copies, then I could say, “I am a poet. I’m published.

I’m read,” and that would be enough.’ So all of this is quite unexpected.”

Then, in a typically self-effacing admission, he added, “At

the same time, I’m an only child, so I really have an appetite for attention, and I don’t mind having a monopoly on attention.”

Though he’s become one of the most sought-after poetry teachers available, Collins has never taken a poetry workshop himself. When he began writing seriously, in the 1960s, there weren’t that many around, he notes.

“I’m still convinced you can do it alone,” he said. “The real workshop is you reading other writers, not sitting around a table and talking about it. But, having said that, there is now a community of writers, and a lot of people profit by it and learn and are encouraged by it.”

Collins’ work also unapologetically breaks academic rules of poetry. He often takes up poetry itself as a subject, a habit that most poetry instructors would have tried to break had Collins been in their classes. In “The Great American Poem,” for instance, he riffs on the narrative contrast between novels and verse, writing, “But this is a poem / and the only characters here are you and I / alone in an imaginary room / which will disappear after a few more lines.”

“It’s a big no-no,” he admitted. “You’re always told to avoid writing poems about poetry. But I find it irresistible because I’m still very self-conscious about being a poet.”

In the classroom, Collins aims to get a sense for students’ tastes and to help them discover work that might help them improve their own.

IF YOU GO ...

ASPEN SUMMER WORDS: Presented by the Aspen Writers’ Foundation June 13 through 18 Hotel Jerome Info: www.aspenwriters.org Tickets: www.aspenshow tix.com PUBLIC EVENTS WITH BILLY COLLINS: “Your First Break” Collins, Bernard Cooper, Julia Glass and Meg Wolitzer June 13 6 p.m.

“The Art of Humor” Melissa Bank and Collins June 15 4 p.m.

“A Literary Feast” AWF Benefit Dinner June 16 Reception 6 p.m.

Dinner 7 p.m.

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Most Anticipated List: Mark Your Calendar!

Most Anticipated: Art

Aspen Art Museum Grand Opening AUG. 9 A 24-hour party celebrates the public opening of the Aspen Art Museum’s new downtown digs, with a performance by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, a “silent disco” dance party and happenings running through the night. The event also marks the public unveiling of the opening exhibitions in its six gallery spaces, with work by Yves Klein, David Hammons and Rosemari Trockel and full-scale models of Shigeru Ban’s disaster-relief architecture. It’s the moment of truth for the much-debated, sometimes divisive new 33,000-square-foot, Ban-designed building.

And don’t forget: Chicago-based installation artist Theaster Gates speaks at the Anderson Ranch Featured Artist Series on July 19. … “Word Works” at Casterline Goodman Gallery, showcasing work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ed Ruscha and others, opens on July 27. …

Christopher Martin celebrates 20 years of painting at Christopher Martin Gallery on Aug. 9.

Most Anticipated: Classical Music

Aspen Symphony Orchestra with Simone Porter JUNE 27 Violinist Simone Porter, 17, returns to the Aspen Music Festival and School for its opening Sunday concert in the Benedict Music Tent. Porter is the featured soloist, with the Aspen Symphony Orchestra, for Mendelsohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor. Porter, an emerging international star, will be familiar to Aspen regulars, as she spent six summers as a student here, beginning at age 10.

And don’t forget: The Music Festival’s Percussion Ensembe performs a tribute to Frank Zappa at Belly Up on July 8. …

Singer, songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright teams with Metropolitan Opera soprano Deborah Voigt for a duet at Harris Concert Hall on July 24.

Most Anticipated: Dance

Stars of American Ballet AUG. 8 Daniel Ulbricht, principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, leads an ensemble of dancers for a one-night performance at the Aspen District Theatre, which includes an appearance by Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and contemporary works by George Balanchine and Christopher Wheeldon.

And don’t forget: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet offers an encore of Nicolo Fonte’s “The Heart(s)pace,” which it debuted this winter, July 17 and 19. … Harlembased Batoto Yetu returns for its second year to perform with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklorico in a kid-friendly show July 26.

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Most Anticipated: Film

An Evening with William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman JULY 5, PAEPCKE AUDITORIUM Actor William H. Macy previews his directorial debut, “Rudderless,” in a program presented by Aspen Film. It’s billed as a musical drama, starring Billy Crudup, Selena Gomez and Laurence Fishburne. Macy, best known for “Fargo,” “Boogie Nights” and “Shameless,” also will hold a public conversation about the film with his wife, actress Felicity Huffman, who also co-stars.

And don’t forget: Robert De Niro screens “Remembering the Aritst: Robert De Niro, Sr.,” his new documentary about his father, at the Aspen Ideas Festival on June 28. … “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen gives the keynote at Anderson Ranch’s two-day symposium, titled “Making the Change They Want to See,” Aug. 13 and 14.

Most Anticipated: Music

Lauryn Hill at Belly Up JULY 2 The former member of the Fugees and the genius behind “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” has toured little and released almost no music over the past decade and a half. But she’s bringing back her soulful, reggaetinged hip-hop on a national club tour this summer, continuing a re-emergence into public life after a brief prison stay for tax evasion last year. Her handful of comeback shows this winter were hailed as triumphant returns to form. We’ll find out for ourselves at Belly Up. And don’t forget: Rock icon Steve Winwood is at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience on June 21. … Show-stopping New Orleans trombone-fueled funk outfit Big Sam’s Funky Nation is at the Snowmass Thursday Night Concert on July 10. …

Australian electronic innovators Cut Copy is at Belly Up on Aug. 6. … Aimee Mann and Ted Leo’s new folk duo The Both is at Belly Up on Aug. 10.

Most Anticipated: Theater

“The Full Monty” at Theatre Aspen JUNE 24 TO AUG. 9 Theatre Aspen brings this bawdy Broadway hit about down-on-their-luck steelworkers-turned-strippers to the tent in Rio Grande Park. The Tonynominated musical, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Terrence McNally and based on the 1997 film, promises to be a crowd-pleaser. Theatre Aspen is balancing its R-rated offering with the family-friendly musical “Little Women” (July 1 through Aug. 16), based on the classic Louisa May Alcott novel.

And don’t forget: Thunder River Theatre in Carbondale stages David Mamet’s junk-shop drama “American Buffalo” June 20 through 29. … Sandy Rustin’s farce “The Cottage” is at Theatre Aspen from June 22 through Aug. 16.

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VOYAGES

ESCAPE ARTIST | ALBUQUERQUE

by AMIEE WHITE BEAZLEY

THE PRIDE OF ALBUQUERQUE ON A WARM MORNING in May I walked into Old Town Albuquerque, past the Indian jewelry vendors selling handmade wares on the sidewalk, to Routes, the local bike shop and touring company where I gathered with a group of craft beer enthusiasts.

Me, my guide, and four college-aged beer aficionados hopped on cruisers and road AMIEE WHITE bikes to explore 16 BEAZLEY miles of Albuquerque’s burgeoning craft brewing scene, a point of pride and unification amongst the city’s craft/ scratch/farm-to-table generation.

It has been said that in the past Albuquerque has struggled with a self-esteem problem. At more than 300 years old, it has had a lot of time to figure out what it wants to be. From Old Town, where Spanish settlers established Albuquerque, to its section of Route 66 that still rolls through the center of town, it is a city of many layers yet the self-esteem issue has persisted.

Today Albuquerque might be best known as the setting for AMC’s TV show, “Breaking Bad.” It was here that the show was set, and most of the show was filmed. Residents embraced the show, its actors and the industry, even if the premise was centered around crystal meth.

While “Breaking Bad” might be a way of introduction to Albuquerque, this city of about half-million people can now validly identify itself as a craft beer destination, with approximately 30 breweries open and six more slated to open this year. Just this last

February, the New Mexico Senate passed a memorial designating an industrial area of Albuquerque, where a concentration of new breweries already exist including Il Vicino, La Cumbre and Nexus, to be “The Brewery District.”

One by one our bikes wheeled along back roads, bike paths and through neighborhoods seeking the best craft beer the city had to offer.

The beer and biking tour’s first stop was Marble Brewing, which was more than just a brewery, it was a meeting ground for locals from various parts of the city. Outside food trucks sold hot eats, and inside a wide range of craft beers were poured, including my pick, the Marble Red Ale. The redesigned patio features a colorful mural

by Mexican urban artist Neuzz (Miguel Mejia), whose paintings are based on stories and legends his grandfather told him as a child.

Located within that new Brewery District, La Cumbre Brewing Co. is all about the beer. After having tasted dozens, La Cumbre made the best overall beers tasted during my trip, including top pour Project Dank IPA. I tasted a flight of five beers at La Cumbre, all well-built with sturdy flavors and distinct from one another.

People young and old have rallied around the craft beer industry in Albuquerque. One day I found myself sitting next to a Vietnam War vet, and the next students from the University of New Mexico, which is located in the trendy Nob Hill district.

While the beer scene is rising, so is the food scene. Of course, there is a lot of Mexican influence due to the geography, but there is also

much more. At the impeccable La Merienda restaurant at Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm, a dinner of a handmade apple and leek sausage, and perfectly balanced salted cod and potato brandade, was paired with a wonderful — you guessed it — New Mexican craft beer list. The tranquil grounds of this historic farm date back to before the settlement of Albuquerque.

Since founded as Los Poblanos in 1934, it has served as a creamery, a working organic farm and today a lavender farm and boutique hotel. Although just minutes from downtown, Los Poblanos is a quiet and beautiful expanse of historic buildings, lands and gardens. Farm purveyors from around the state deliver to this kitchen, helping the team here provide a superior dining experience.

I found many of those farmers who work with Los Poblanos the next morning at The Railyards Market in the unpolished Barelas neighborhood. A brand new event for the city, every Sunday farmers, bakers, artists, food trucks, live bands and more take over a brick building that once served as a blacksmith shop in this dilapidated train repair railyard. As I browsed among the young artists, the jugglers and the pastry chefs, I heard young and old applauding The Railyards Market. A grayhaired woman in a wheelchair told me, “I’ve lived here my whole life and I’ve never been here. It’s really beautiful.”

Again, it was lifelong Albuquerque residents rediscovering the beauty, tastes and sounds of the place they call

home, chipping away at that old self-esteem issue organically, from within their own community.

Of course that’s not the end of the lure of Albuquerque. Whether hiking in the Sandia mountains, accessed via the Sandia Tram, hot-air ballooning, or kayaking alongside the banks of the Rio Grande River, there are endless ways to see and experience this exciting, emerging city. And with a fat list of areas for visitors to explore, artists to visit, beers to sip and food to eat, The Duke City should be proud of all that it has and will become.

Amiee White Beazley writes about travel for the Aspen Times Weekly.

Reach her at awb@awbeazley.com or follow her @awbeazley1.

IF YOU GO...

WHERE TO STAY: Hotel Andaluz 125 Second St. NW 877.987.9090 hotelandaluz.com La Merienda Restaurant at Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm 4803 Rio Grande Blvd. NW Los Ranchos de Albuquerque 505.344.9297 lospoblanos.com WHERE TO EAT: Grove Café & Market 600 Central Ave. SE 505.248.9800 thegrovecafemarket.com El Pinto 10500 4th St. 505.898.1771 elpinto.com Zacatecas Tacos + Tequila 3423 Central Ave. NE 505.255.8226 zacatecastacos.com WHERE TO DRINK: La Cumbre Brewing Co. 3313 Girard NE 505.872.0225 lacumbrebrewing.com Marble Brewery 111 Marble Ave. NW 505.243.2739 marblebrewery.com

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AROUNDASPEN

The SOCIAL SIDE of TOWN

by MARY ESHBAUGH HAYES

PICNIC AT THE RED BRICK THE RED BRICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS started having picnics on the lawn, complete with music and dinner for sale and lots and lots of parents and their kids. The picnics started last summer and will begin again this summer.

Undercurrent...

Gunilla Asher was a bright light in the office at The Aspen Times for so long, and MARY ESHBAUGH how we are going to HAYES miss her!

PICNIC In back are Bill and Marilyn Seguin while in front are Lynn Waldorf and John Sweeney.

PICNIC

PICNIC Sarah Schmidt and Tom Gustafson.

Chuck Curry and John Wheeler.

PICNIC Rosalyn and Don Pergande and daughter Laila.

PICNIC Betty Hoops, Patty Kravitz, Jodie Fielding and Heather Hicks.

PICNIC Derek and Marni Mitchell. Marni works in the Red Brick office.

PICNIC Anna Scott and daughter, Savannah.

PICNIC Members of the band are Randy Utterback on guitar and fiddle, Tom Paxton on bass and Steve Johnson on banjo.

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JUNE 12 - 18, 2014

More than 25 breweries will participate with more than 50 different beers.

XAVIER RUDD — 6:30 p.m., Snowmass Town Park, 2000 Brush Creek Road, Snowmass Village.

SUNDAY, JUNE 15 CHRIS PHILLIPS — 10:30 a.m., Heathers Savory Pies and Tapas Bar, 166 Midland Ave, Basalt.

Chris Phillips is an award-winning guitarist who now specializes in playing solo Spanish and classical guitar.

HEAR New Orleans funk band Bonerama will play a free show June 13 on the Snowmass Village Mall for Snowmass Mammoth Fest.

THURSDAY, JUNE 12 NORTHSTAR ROARING FORK RIVER FLOAT — 5 p.m., James H. Smith Northstar Open Space, 26692 Highway 82, Aspen. Bring your canoe, kayak or ducky.

Registration is required at www.roaringfork.org/events or 970-927-1290.

MOONLIGHT CRUISER RIDE — 9 p.m., Limelight Hotel, 355 S. Monarch St., Aspen. The ride will end back at the Limelight.

970-925-3025 40 OZ. TO FREEDOM, A SUBLIME TRIBUTE — 10 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen.

FRIDAY, JUNE 13 “FIZZ BOOM READ” KICKOFF PARTY — 11 a.m., Pitkin County Library, 120 N. Mill St., Aspen.

MOONSTRUCK IN DOWNTOWN BASALT — 6 p.m., downtown Basalt, Midland Avenue and Two Rivers Road, Basalt. Celebrate the full moon in downtown Basalt.

Arts, dining, shopping, fire pits and s’mores.

YOUR FIRST BREAK — 6 p.m., Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St., Aspen.

PATTY AND LARRY HERD — 7 p.m., Heather’s Savory Pies and Tapas Bar, 166 Midland Ave., Basalt. Classic rock, funk, R&B and dance.

ASPEN FRINGE FESTIVAL — 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theatre — Aspen

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THE T SISTERS — 8 p.m., Steve’s Guitars-Carbondale, 19 N. Fourth St., Carbondale. 970-963-3304 SNOWMASS MAMMOTH FEST — 4 p.m., Snowmass Town Park, 2000 Brush Creek Road, Snowmass Village. Three days of music, brews and chili.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14 LIVE MUSIC WEEKENDS — 4 p.m., Red Onion, 420 E. Cooper Ave., Aspen.

ASPEN SUMMER WORDS LIT CRAWL — 5:15 p.m., Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St., Aspen. The first stop is Maison Ullens boutique at 445 E. Hopkins, followed by a leisurely stroll to Galerie Maximillian at 602 E. Cooper.

ASPEN GRAN FONDO — 7 p.m., Red Brick Recreation Center, 110 E. Hallam St., Aspen. A 50-mile group ride with steep climbs, rolling hills and flat sections. 970-920-5140 ASPEN FRINGE FESTIVAL — 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theatre, Aspen High School, 235 High School Road, Aspen.

THIEVERY CORPORATION — 10 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen.

SNOWMASS MAMMOTH FEST GRAND TASTING — 2 p.m., Snowmass Town Park, 2000 Brush Creek Road, Snowmass Village.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 17 LITERARY INFLUENCES AND MENTORSHIP — 4 p.m., Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St., Aspen.

HOLDEN/MAROLT HOEDOWN — 5:30 p.m., Holden/Marolt Mining & Ranching Museum, 40180 Highway 82, Aspen. Aspen Historical Society’s annual summer kickoff.

MUSIC TUESDAYS — 7 p.m., Woody Creek Community Center, 6 Woody Creek Plaza, Woody Creek.

970-922-2342

LIVE MUSIC WEEKENDS — 4 p.m., The Red Onion, 420 E. Cooper Ave., Aspen.

J-BAR JEOPARDY — 7 p.m., Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St., Aspen.

Trivia with a comedic slant and prizes.

ASPEN FRINGE FESTIVAL — 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theatre, Aspen High School, 235 High School Road, Aspen.

ASPEN WRITERS’ FOUNDATION WEEKLY WRITERS’ GROUP — 7 p.m., Red Brick Center for the Arts, 110 E. Hallam, Aspen.

THIS MUST BE THE BAND — 9:30 p.m., Belly Up Aspen, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen. Talking Heads tribute band, only performing Talking Heads music and, if possible, three to four hours at a time.

LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC — 10 p.m., The Red Onion, 420 E. Cooper Ave., Aspen.

ROARING FORK TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SUMMER SCHEDULE START — RFTA will begin its 2014 summer season on June 15. Go to www.rfta.com or call 970-925-8484 to see how your commute may be affected.

SNOWMASS MAMMOTH FEST — Snowmass Town Park, 2000 Brush Creek Road, Snowmass Village.

Festival gates open 11 a.m. Music starts at noon.

MONDAY, JUNE 16 PICNIC ON THE PRESERVE — 5:30 p.m., Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, 100 Puppy Smith St., Aspen. 970-925-5756 ASPEN WRITERS’ FOUNDATION BENEFIT — 7 p.m., Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St., Aspen.

ASPEN FRINGE FESTIVAL — 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theatre, Aspen High School, 235 High School Road, Aspen.

SHEL — 9:30 p.m., Belly Up Aspen, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen.

No cover. $5 for people younger than 21.

OPEN MIC — 10 p.m., Red Onion, 420 E. Cooper Ave., Aspen.

ROUGH MONDAY — 10 p.m., Justice Snow’s, 328 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. 970-429-8192 DJ NAKA G — 10 p.m., Belly Up Aspen, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 SNOWMASS RODEO — 5 p.m., Snowmass Village Town Park.

Barbecue starts at 5 p.m., and the rodeo events start at 7 p.m.

ELJEBOWL’S OPEN MIC NITE — 7:30 p.m., El Jebowl, 280 Favre Lane, El Jebel. Live music. No cover.

FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT IN THE ASPEN MALL — 5 p.m., Aspen Mall, Mill Street, Aspen.

JESSICA CATTO LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE FEATURING CRAIG MCNAMARA — 5:30 p.m., Theater Aspen’s Hurst Theater, Rio Grande Park, Aspen. 970-925-5756 LAST CHANCE WEDNESDAYS — 6 p.m., element 47, 675 E. Durant Ave., Aspen. Indulge in some of the last bottles available from The Little Nell’s wine cellar.

GYPSY LUMBERJACKS — 10 p.m., Justice Snow’s, 328 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen.

METALACHI — 10 p.m., Belly Up Aspen, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen.

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Government Wastewater Operator

Jobs Accounting

Assistant Controller Seeking highly organized, detail oriented Assistant Controller.

This person is highly skilled in all accounting activities including accounts payable, receivable functions, preparation of various accounting statements and G/L reconciliation. Adept in QuickBooks, Excel and proficient with online banking & government reporting.

Minimum five years relevant experience required & accounting degree preferred.

Email letter of interest, resume & salary expectations to careers@masonmorse. com

Gosh, thanks.

More than 71 percent of adults read a newspaper in print or online each week.

The Aspen Consolidated Sanitation District is looking for a highly motivated individual to assist in the operation and maintenance of its Wastewater Treatment Facility. The successful applicant must obtain a minimum of a Class "D" Colorado Wastewater Operator's License and a Colorado Commercial Driver's License within six months of hire. A valid Colorado Driver's License with good driving record, random drug and alcohol screenings plus a physical exam is required for CDL drivers.

A four-year college degree in environmental science, biology, chemistry or similar relevant major/minor is required. This is a full-time, 40 hour per week position with holiday and weekend work required. Benefits include health & dental insurance, paid vacation, paid holidays, paid sick time, 401k plan, ski pass, employee housing and competitive wages. Send resume to: Mr. Tracy Dillingham, Superintendent, 400 Service Center Rd., Aspen, CO 81611. Fax 970-925-7278. No phone calls please. Position remains open until filled.

Health Care Medical Assistant MEDICAL ASSISTANT Exp/FT. Busy Med Off. Bilingual a must. PCMH exp pref. E/M resume to ctalkington@mvfpsportsmed.com

Starbucks Store Manager

Bookkeeper Seeking a very organized and detail oriented accounts payable/accounts receivable bookkeeper, 10-15 hrs/week.

QuickBooks proficiency and a minimum 3 years' experience is required. Email letter of interest, resume and hourly rate expectations to careers@masonmorse. com

Customer Service Center Associate Are you a people person? Do you want to work for a brand new locally owned store right here in Aspen? The UPS Store Aspen is now hiring part-time Center Associates. Employee Entry level Email Scott B e r r y a t aspenups@yahoo.com 625 E Main St #102B Aspen CO

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We are now hiring a Starbucks Store Manager in the heart of Snowmass Village. As a Store Manager, your Starbucks store will be an important part of local community. You will help your store and employees make connections with the customers they see every day. This position is a salaried, year round, full time and comes with a full benefits package including: Competitive salary and incentives, medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401K, paid time off program, opportunity to travel, growth and development and career opportunities, Winter Ski Pass, and more!

Also hiring Baristas and Supervisors with the same great benefits!

APPLY AT www.westin.jobs/snow mass or call us at (970) 923-8234 EOE /M F V D Drug Free Workplace

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Landscaping FT Foreman Crew Leaders & Laborers PT Office Assistant Exp & Drivers Lic preferred. Bilingual preference. Fence contracting & landscape company.

Call 970.948.6169 Now hiring landscape laborers Now hiring landscape laborers Twisted Tree Landscape FT Seasonal landscape construction Legal status a must.

618-2974 Basalt CO

Restaurant/ Clubs Bartenders / Food Runners / Back Servers / Hosts bb's is hiring Bartenders, food runners, back servers & hosts for the summer season/dinner service. Experience and references required.

Forward resumes to: Christina@bbskitchen.c om or apply in person at 525 E. Cooper Ave. Tuesday through Saturday between 3 and 5 PM Cashier/Sandwich Maker Grateful Deli now hiring!

Apply in person before 11 am or after 2 pm at 233 E Main Street or Joe at 970-948-7695.

Cook

Weeder/Gardener Weeder $15-$16 per h o u r , h a n d weeding/some spraying and landscape labor.

Gardener $18-$19 per hour, experienced spraying, pruning, irrigation install/repair, tree/shrub care, fertilization and hand weeding.

Transportation needed, non-smoking job site, speak English, driver's license, hard workers with excellent references. JuneSept. 7am-5pm. Gardener, weeder, flexible hours 4 or 5 days per week.

Send resume to: 970-920-1228 designate position.

FT French Pastry is seeking cook. Exp req.

FT.Apply in person:111 Suite G ABC

Holland & Hart LLP is seeking someone with strong administrative and/or legal secretarial skills to work on a PT basis in its Aspen Office to assist the attorneys and legal secretaries on an overflow basis.

Responsibility may range from answering phones and doing fling to producing correspondence and legal documents the schedule in terms of days and hours is somewhat flexible. Interested candidates should submit resume with letter of interest describing availability and desired schedule to

cmoe@hollandhart.com No Phone calls please

Other RANCH HAND NEEDED Seeking seasonal help through mid November on large multi-use property in Old Snowmass. Job consists of keeping buildings and grounds orderly; incl weed control, trails, roads, etc. Equipment exp preferred. Valid DL/SSN/clean MVR. Clean background.

Prior ranch exp.

Call Josh at 970-948-9118 References required.

No Housing offered.

CALLING ALL If you love having a clean inbox, helping awesome coworkers find important answers and get excited about the words “process,” “protocol,” and “escalate,” then we should talk. Like, soon.

Swift Communications, Inc. seeks a highly motivated individual with excellent written and verbal communication skills to assist in coordination, management, trafficking and reporting of Employee Services Desk tickets, as well as internal employee relations.

Read the full job description at www.swiftcom.com/?p=4977.

Email cover letter, resume and three references to careers@swiftcom.com. Please put “ES Coordinator” in the subject line.

Delivery Drivers.

Domino’s Pizza in Carbondale is hiring. Must have reliable car and good driving record.

Apply @ Carbondale location.

Executive chef Experience and commitment to top quality essential.

POSITION FILLED

Office/Clerical Administrative Asst/ Legal Secretary

AS P E N T I M E S .CO M / P L AC E A D

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Multiple Culinary positions The Westin Snowmass Resort offers multiple dining options to recharge and refresh your mind spirit and soul.

Sous Chef - train, supervise and work with the culinary staff in order to create a high quality guest experience.

Minimum two years Sous Chef experience preferred.

This position is a salaried, year round, full time and comes with a full benefits package including: competitive salary and incentives, medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401, paid time off, opportunity to travel, growth, Ski Pass!

Also openings for Cooks, Stewards, and FOH F/B staff (both summer and year round) – Same great benefits!!!!

APPLY AT www.westin.jobs/snow mass or call us at (970) 923-8234 EOE / M F V D - Drug Free Workplace

Wordpress Developer Want to put your coding talents to work while working at a great company?

Swift Communications is looking for a talented Wordpress developer to work on a unique combination of websites.

If you’re a quick-learner who is well versed in the LAMP stack, able to work effectively with teams across the country and possesses a good understanding of HTML, CSS, JS, AJAX, XML and OOP we want to hear from you. Got a solid understanding of responsive design principlesand mobile web/apps development?

Well, that’s even better.

Apply Today!

The position is based in one of the following locations: Reno or Carson City, NV or the Colorado mountains: Vail, Aspen, Frisco, Gypsum, Glenwood Springs, or Granby. Submit resume and cover letter to rmoulton@swiftcom.com.

Restaurant/ Clubs

Sales/Marketing

Trades/ Construction

Ad Coordinator

Multiple Positions.

Rentals Basalt Area

4 BD furnished Brush Creek. Aspen School District. nr bus $6500/mo.

948-5090

High End 3bdrm, 2 ½ BA, Southside 1/2 Duplex (1900 sq ft), Private Yard, Jacuzzi, Steam Sh., Fireplace, 2-outdoor balconies off bdrms, front porch, patio, AC, WD, Basalt Mtn. Views, 2-car gar., walk to town and bus. N/S, small pet negot., $2700/per mos.

June 1. 970-319-0193.

Licensed, experienced, Real Estate Assistant seeks part-time work for summer. Request resume/references: moejaho@gmail.com

R&R Restaurant 303 S Mill Aspen is hiring all positions. Front of the house, Sous chefs, line cooks dishwashers. Applications are being taken now. Apply in person.

¡TRABAJO! (WORK!)

Are you looking for a fun team to join? The kind that bikes to work and keeps their bike in the main lobby? Do you work hard and play harder?

We are looking for you to be our Advertising Services Coordinator at the Vail Daily. You will be an integral part of the sales team and support the Vail Ad Director and Magazine General Manager in meeting our goals. You will manage the phones, merchandise sales, and ordering supplies. If you have strong attention to detail, along with a keen ability to multitask and prioritize task, you need to apply right now!

Send a cover letter and resume to careers@swiftcom.com and put "Vail Daily Advertising Coordinator" in the Subject line.

Retail Assistant Managers/ Sales Associates THE SPORTS CENTER is hiring outgoing sales associates. Great work environment & good pay!

Apply in person at: 308 South Mill St. Or Call 970.309.8121 Ask for Anthony

Try a border for just five bucks!

Sales Associate Kitchen Collage seeks experienced PT sales associate for our Basalt store. Must be able to work evenings and weekends. Email r e s u m e s t o ann@kitchencollage.co m

Si estas buscando trabajo nosotros en Aspen Workforce te podemos ayudar.

¡¡No necesitas hablar Inglés!!

(Are you looking for employment?At Aspen workforce, we can help you out.

Para mas informacion comunicate con: (For more information call:) •Dolce Ortiz (970)319-3121 •Carlos Velasquez (970)319-3122 Aspen Workforce 232 E Main St, Aspen, CO 970-544-3533

Hire Me Experienced RN available. Flexible hours.

References. Reliable & compassionate care to meet your needs.

303-945-1504

Sales Associate Midland Clothing Experienced PT Sales Associate. Must be available to work weekends. E-mail resume to sandy@midlandclothingcompany.com

Technology Green Dragon ColoradoSeeking FT/PT sales associates to work our fast-paced retail stores in GWS and Aspen. Also s e e k i n g F T / P T bookkeepers. Opening avail. for FT CPA with proven management skills and credentials.

Send resumes to jeff@greendragoncolora do.com

Sales Consultant Contemporary Aspen gallery with international clientele seeks fulltime seasonal employee.

Experience in art sales or high-end retail required. Email resume to aspen@pismoglass.com

Rentals Aspen

Hire Me

Audio Video Tech Techs Needed.

Experience required.

Email

daryl@mackiesystems.com

Aspen - $750,000

Private chef specializing in vegetarian cuisine.

948-9159 alexgradow@hotmail Voice teacher now accepting students ages 15 yrs and up. Mid-valley location. Call for details (970) 319-1033.

Rentals Aspen Rentals Long & Short term avail.

Sybrina Stevens 970-379-1501

Frias Properties of Aspen

Color makes your classified ad stand out.

2BR 2 BA Furn. Duplex with Bonus Rm/Ofc. Secluded quiet East side location with sunny views, F/P, FlatScreen TVs, W/D, parking. Walk to town. NS/NP. Long Term $3,500+elect, First, last & sec. dep. Or avail now thru 8/30 for $15,000. References & credit check required.

Call Holly: 970-379-2477.

3BD3BA FurnCondo $4200/mo no pet/no smoke 845-266-0050 t.sims680@gmail.com

Aspen - $12,000,000

2Br/2Ba Slopeside Condo

Fireplace, balcony, beautifully remodeled.

Pool, hot tub & fitness center. $3,500 Long Term 970-544-3771

Best location, near Sky H o t e l . 4 d i f f condos.2BR/2BA By the week or yr. lease. Flat scrn TV's w/ cable incl.

W/D, NP/NS prkg. from $2900/mo 847-997-4321 ajaxcondorental.com One bedroom located in downtown Southpoint.

Long term. Parking. $2500 includes utilities.

Joe 970-925-1510.

Rentals

Rentals Snowmass

Small solo person cabin on Woody Creek Ranch.

Long term. N/P $1,400/m. outfitter738@rof.net 970-379-3474 Sum Rntl: Duplex 2 Blks to Core: 3 BD/ 3.5BA, Furn&Equipd, Perfectly Maintnd, AMtn Vws, Fd&Wn, July-Aug, 970-925-1677, Cheryl Schmidt, Broker

Rentals Basalt Area 2BD/2BA Condo Downtown Basalt NS/NP $1725/mo. includes utill.

970-948-7358

Rentals Commercial/Retail Willits, B a s a l t S F H 4BR/3+BA - a p p r o x 2900sq ft. Gas Fire Place, SS App, Steam Sh. + more. Pets negotiable. No smoking. $3,000/mo. First, last & security. 1yr (or LT) lease. 970-948-8588,

AABC OFFICE: 1000sqft with 3 large offices, conference room, great light, AC, Private Entry & Bath.

970-618-3544 www.aspenabc.com

db@bccaccounting.com

Rentals Office Space

Sell your vehicle,

guaranteed,

when you place an auto photo ad for a month!

WILLITS HOME Spacious, 3BD/2.5BA. Lake Ct. SF Home.

Vaulted Ceilings, FP, Sunny Yard, NS, Available 7/1, $2750/mo.

Brent: 970-379-7309

Rentals Snowmass

4 bd/4.5 ba Gorgeous high-end Basalt unfurn home 3 acres Avail 7/1 $3,700+ (917) 710-0879

Aspen - $19,500,000

2bd/2ba Woodbridge Condo Recently remodeled. Lower level across from pool and hot tub,.

Includes utilities. Currently Avail . $2,400/mo.

970-618-9356.

RE Aspen 2 Studio Condos Fasching Haus West ski-in, pool, hot tub, $329,950 Hunter Creek Top floor corner, Pool, tennis, hot tubs, $285K ED EMR 970-925-3003

2000 Sq Ft Commercial Office Space for Rent, Negotiable Price, Long-term lease.

970-309-3500, Basalt CO

Hoarders be gone.

Advertise your cleaning business in the Service Directory.

Always in print and online. Classifieds@ cmnm.org.

4BD/2.5BA Willits Single Family Home, Fenced Yard, Great Location,

RENTED

Gosh, thanks.

More than 71 percent of adults read a newspaper in print or online each week.

2 Office Suite at 323 West Main Street, Ideal for architectural, drafting or computer businesses. $1650mo. utilities included Call Nina @ 970-925-9577

RE Other Beautiful SKI-IN SKIOUT condo. on the slopes, at Eagle Point Ski Area, Beaver, Utah.

Private deck over looks Black Diamond Runs. 2 levels; finished walk-out basement. Firebox with fan, 15x28 shop, with half sized garage door, 2BD 1BA, this is a growing ski area, with much planned future development. Buy now $115,000.00 Call 435-438-0504.

Aspen $22,950,000

Your listing Pied-a-Terre The most striking studio in the core.

Three blocks to the gondola and updated in 2006 with luxurious custom details throughout.

Brenda Wild

970-379-2299 brendawildaspen@gmail.com 434 E. Cooper Ave., Ste. 210, Aspen

Stunning Victorian Home with mountain contemporary renovation in West End close to Aspen Institute. $8,500,000 or $12,000.000 w/ adjacent lot.

Ryan & Matt Podskoch

303 579 2725 or 970 236 6672 Info@InvestInColorado.com InvestInColorado.com

Aspen - $529,000

Breathtaking Hallam Lake Estate Charming Old World Estate located on over an acre and backing to Hallam Lake nature preserve. With just a short walk to the Aspen Institute this is truly one of the best properties in Aspen.

Ryan & Matt Podskoch

6BR 9BA. Aspen Living at its Best is had at this 14,000sqft home on a 5 acre estate nestled in a peaceful and protected setting within a private gated community.

Ryan & Matt Podskoch

303 579 2725 or 970 236 6672 Info@InvestInColorado.com InvestInColorado.com

303 579 2725 or 970 236 6672 Info@InvestInColorado.com InvestInColorado.com

Aspen

Basalt - $340,000 per lot

classifieds@aspentimes.com

Your listing

Aspen Pied-Á-Terre Super One Bedroom condo in Newly remodeled Building. Extra Storage, onsite Jacuzzi and superb core location make this a great Value! All utilities included in Dues. Pet Friendly too!

Tory Thomas

970.948.1341 Tory@torythomas.net

in front of thousands each week…

Aspen Times Weekly 970-925-9937

Offered at $277,000- $516,000 New 1-3BR townhomes 2.5 miles from downtown Aspen on free bus route.

Some ready to close now or reserve for March ‘15. Must work in Pitkin County and be qualified by APCHA.

Patti Hunter

970-920-5137 patti.hunter@cityofaspen.com www.burlingamepresales.com

Expansive Valley Views Two adjoining lots in Hoaglund Ranch (1.37 or 1.63 acres), can be purchased individually or together to create a private retreat. Build up to 5,750 sq. ft. per lot. Water rights, gorgeous views.

Brenda Wild

970-379-2299 brendawildaspen@gmail.com

in front of thousands each week…

Aspen Times Weekly 970-925-9937

classifieds@aspentimes.com

Aspen Pitkin County Housing Authority A S P E N T I M E S . C O M / W E E K LY

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Basalt - $275,000 Affordable 2-story 2 bed/2.5 bath, 1072 sq.ft. townhome featuring wood laminate flooring, a good floor plan for a roommate situation, fenced patio area, storage, in-unit washer/dryer and carport plus additional parking space. Convenient to Willits and public transportation.

Owners may have a pet, reasonable HOA fees, in the Basalt School District. Makes a great first home or rental property.

Sally Shiekman-Miller 970.948.7530 sally@sallyshiekman.com www.AspenSnowmassSIR.com

Basalt - $759,000

Carbondale - $299,000

Great mid-valley location at one of the most desired neighborhoods. Top floor, 2 Bed/2 Bath condo. End-unit with extra corner windows. Views overlooking the Willits Lake. Stainless steel appliances.

Private deck. Stackable washer/dryer.

Private, peaceful and remote, yet only 10 minutes from Highway 82. Beautiful log home built in 2001. Recent renovation.

Room to roam for horses, snowmobiling & other recreational activities. No HOA. Borders BLM lands.

Build your dream home at this premier location at River Valley Ranch. Spectacular Mount Sopris views overlooking fairway. Enjoy the many amenities of RVR Golf Community... golf, swimming, parks, hiking, biking and more.

Tom Carr

Carbondale - $455,000

• Blue Lake family home • Beautiful custom dark Maple hardwood floors • 3 bedrooms & 3 baths • Gas fireplace, cozy family room, private fenced back yard w/hot tub.

Basalt - $330,000

Carbondale - $460,000

• • • •

Blue Lake split-level home Impeccably maintained Convenient mid-valley location All 3 bedrooms, kitchen, living area & covered patio all on the same level.

• Great fenced yard

Michael Latousek

Michael Latousek

Tom Carr

Tom Carr

970.379.9935 www.aspenreinfo.com

970.379.9935 www.aspenreinfo.com

970.379.9935 www.aspenreinfo.com

Carbondale - $648,000

Comm./Grand Junction-$639,000

Glenwood Springs - $1,150,000

VIEWS OF MT. SOPRIS Your next home is perched above the valley floor, beautiful views & all day sun. Over 2 acres, 7BD and an updated kitchen. New septic with drain field &irrigation. So much home for a great price.

Office/retail building 1 block from Main St. in beautiful downtown GJ. 10,000+ sqft.,offices, lobby, kitchen, conference rms & storage. Private parking lot & convenient street parking. Close to shops, restaurants, hotels & post office.

Creek-side home on fenced-in four acres in Canyon Creek, west of Glenwood Springs. 3 bedroom, 4 bathroom house with large kitchen and master bedroom.

One fifth mile of creek side water, Two apartments, workshop and greenhouse.

Brenda Wild

Dale Beede, CCIM

970-618-7768 michael@joshuaco.com www.joshuaco.com/

970-618-7768 michael@joshuaco.com www.joshuaco.com

970-379-2299 brendawildaspen@gmail.com

970-244-6615 dbeede@cbcworldwide.com www.grandjunctioncommercial.com

Call for Appointment Buyers agents welcome 970-376-3328

Glenwood Springs - $585,000

New Castle - $350,000

New Castle - $429,000

Old Snowmass - $1,650,000

Rifle - $1,150,000

Comfort and Views!

Get inside this 3 bedroom, 3 bath home to enjoy main level master, over-sized garage, office/den and a large walk-out lower level. This is a must see!

Horse property-17.5 Acres-Pasturecreek-views. Senior water rights. Electric & well installed. Over 600ft frontage on East Elk Creek. Borders BLM & near Flattops Wilderness, 14 miles to Glenwood. Consider trade for House, Condo.

Bring the Horses!

2 Bedroom/1.5 Bathroom home on 17 acres on Snowmass Creek Road. Enjoy your private pond through floor-to-ceiling picture windows.

The Midland Building Historic downtown Rifle building with 28 office suites and a popular restaurant leased plus space for retail or a café.

Completely renovated in 2005.

LIVE IN THE MOUNTAINS • 3.77 acres - privacy - views • 3 bedrooms - 3 baths - office • Ranch-style - well-maintained • MLS #133470

Michelle James

Amy Luetke

970.379.4997 michelle@vlgrealtors.com www.vlgrealtors.com

970.618.4956 Amy@propertyshopinc.com MLS#134498

970-524-6829

Silt - $229,000

Snowmass - $1,635,000

Willits - $685,000

Home Sweet Home! Don't lift a finger…all the work has been completed inside this spacious 3 bedroom, 2 bath home! Enjoy two living areas, large master suite, sauna, new flooring, large fenced yard and much more!

Spacious 5+BD home. End of road bordering ranch property. Gorgeous lot features a pond & sound of flowing water with a small creek. Constructed in 2008, this well-built home features windows throughout capturing scenic views.

3 Bedroom/2.5 Bathroom single family home with home office, across from park. Corner Lot.

Tom Carr

970-379-2299 brendawildaspen@gmail.com 434 E. Cooper Ave., Ste. 210, Aspen

Amy Luetke

970.618.4956 amy@propertyshopinc.com MLS#133819

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Brenda Wild

970-379-2299 brendawildaspen@gmail.com 434 E. Cooper Ave., Ste. 210, Aspen

Nella Barker 970-379-2700 nella@rof.net

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Larger Photo + agent photo + extra text.

Brenda Wild

Airstream Bambi Special Edition-2008

Audi Quattro A6 Sedan - 2007

BMW X5 2007

Dodge Ram 3500 2006

19ft, Sleeps 4, indoor & outdoor shower, AC, Awning, High end audio/video system.

Call for more details!

3.2, all options, brilliant black, amaretto interior, technology package, convenience package, premium package, new tires, new battery, 54,000 miles always garaged. $20,500 Call: 970-379-8555

2007 BMW X5. Excellent Condition.

85K miles, AWD, 6-Cyl. 3.0 Liter, Great gas mileage. Moon Roof, Heated Leather, Recent New Tires.

5.9 Turbo Diesel, 6 speed manual, 89K miles, Brand new tires, new brakes, running boards, BMW drop down hitch.

$19,500 OBO 970.948.7455

$29,000 Josh in Silt 719-989-0774

Price Reduced!! $38,500 obo.

970-948-0005

A S P E N T I M E S W E E K L Y V June 12, 2014

Featherlite 8587 2004

Ford F350 Super Duty Super cab 2008

Ford Focus ZX5 2003

GMC Sierra 1500 Denali 2008

Harley Davidson FXDL Dyna - 2008

$40,000.00 Living Quarters 13 foot Used condition. White skin Anne 218-838-2268 aecooley@outlook.com .

Lariat edition. Good condition. 28,000 miles. $35,000.00

Crew Cab, AWD, 46480 miles, black, leather, sunroof, navigation, DVD, excellent condition,

8400 Miles, 2-Tone Blue Suede Pearl, 6 speed, 96 cu. in.

Immaculate Condition!

$40,000.00 218-838-2268

$35,000.00 218-838-2268 aecooley@outlook.com

Ford Focus ZX5 2003 $6000.00 4 door.

Excellent condition. Low Mileage 35,300. Auto transmission. CD Player.

Grey. Ruthie 970-319-4742 ruthhostetler@hotmail.com $6000.00 970-319-4742

$11,600 keca@netscape.com

Asking $12,000 OBO. Please call: 970-379-4850

Honda 4WD Pilot EX-L 2011

Isuzu NPR HD 2002

Jeep CJ7 1986

Jeep Rubicon Unlimited 2005

Jeep Wrangler 2012

Honda Pilot 2011 4WD EX-L 29,415 miles. Leather seats, power sunroof with visor, 1 owner, all records, always garaged. Barely used. $25,950 970-309-2518

15 ft flat bed with hydraulic dump.

Tight turning radios. 4 cyl turbo diesel. 249,672 miles, runs great.

Jeep CJ7 1986 2 door. Used condition.

120K Manual transmission. 258l inline 6 cyl Silver21 Scott

22,000 miles, hard & soft tops, Winter & Summer wheels and tires, $6,200 in accessories, (exhaust, ARB bumpers, 8,000 lb. winch, on-board air compressor, and more), Paid $44 K plus $24,900 OBO 970-319-1832

Best buy in Aspen, only 2,600 miles, freedom hard top, also included full soft top, “Never used� auto, AC, PS.

Jeep Wrangler Sahara X 2008

KAWASAKI KLR 650cc 2007

KTM 450 EXC450 EXC 2008

Land Rover Discovery SE 2003

Mercedes Benz 380 SL 1982

4 door. Good condition.

53,000 miles. Manual transmission.

Many Extras!.

13,500 miles also includes two pelican (hard) cases best in market for touring! Contact Ben $3,900 970-987-4001

KTM 450 EXC 2008 4 hours Like new Chris aspenboarder@gmail.com $4200 970-274-6324

115k miles. Great condition.

New belts, water pump, power steering hose. 110k service done.

Heated seats, dual sunroof, black leather. Very well Maintained. $6,000 OBO 970-309-4060

2 door convertible with 2 tops, garage kept, always serviced and maintained. Runs Excellent. Pwr Steering, & brakes, auto transmission, factory air. See at 600 Meadowood Dr Aspen $11,750 970-925-2001

Mini Cooper Convertible 2011

Phazer II Snowmobile 1991

Sea Ray BR-185 2001

Sundowner LQ Horse Trailer 2001

Tony KartGo-Kart 1995

Art Car painted by Romero Britto, Aero Package, 2 door. Excellent condition, Manual transmission. 524 Miles.

Fresh air kit long track, ski skins, runs and looks great 3,781 miles .

New Engine, VHF Radio, Fish Finder, CD/MP3, Accessories Ready to Go !!

3 horse slant w/Mangers, 8'6" short wall, Dinette, A.C., Heat, Shower, Solar, Hayrack, Lg. Fridge, Rear Tack. Fully self contained, Lovingly maintained

Honda 5.5hp four stroke motor.

Needs brake master rebuild and tires.

Good condition, fun Kart.

$69,900 Please call 970-922-1152

$1200.00 Call David 970.618.2003

$25,500 970-948-2156

$650 Text or call Jeff 310-908-1333

Vintage Airstream 1962

Volkswagon Toureg 2007

Volvo xc70 2002

VW Passat 2001

Yamaha PhazerSnowmobile 1997

Beautiful Interior, needs completion.

26 ft 2x axel. Redone interior, very unique must see to appreciate, on ranch in Missouri Heights.

Red. 4 door. Excellent condition. 62k Auto transmission. V6 AWD. Bike rack.

Heated seats. Leather seats. jayeng1990@gmail.com

208k miles. Good condition.

Heated leather seats.

All wheel drive.

ONLY 148 miles.

Has not been started for 5 years, good condition.

$6800 970-987-3884

$12,500 obo 970-404-1144

$4000 970-379-7618

V6 4-motion tiptronic wagon. Leather int., new tires, cold air, excellent winter car. Everything works - needs engine or professional engine work, 184K miles, automatic. $2,200 OBO located in GWS, 970-309-4432

$21,900 Ken 970.367.6363 kenlovelace@hotmail.com

Autos

Keep your local news free!

Advertise and buy through the Classified Marketplace

info@avalancheautosales. com

$9,950 (970) 274-1518

Heavy Equipment/ Trucks

Furniture/Home Furnishings

Gosh, thanks.

More than 71 percent of adults read a newspaper in print or online each week.

Comfortable couch queen sleeper. Tan with white cording. $300 OBO Call 970-927-6448. Pick up in Aspen

Merch andise Furniture/ Dining Room

AVALANCHE AUTOMOTIVE LLC

05 Subaru Outback Auto. 152K. We finance anyone with approved credit.

BUY HERE PAY HERE. Hwy 24 in Minturn.

(970) 827-5336.

$2,500 970-948-1787

$9,999 OBO 970-618-9729

94 John Deere 410D HL 4x4, thumb, clamshell bucket, 80% tires w/4chains, pallet forks, 3300 original hours, private owner, Great shape, runs strong. 29,000 OBO Winter Park Carl 303-517-5472 carl@carlphoto.com

Cherry Wood Dining Room Set two captain chairs and 4 regular chairs, all with leather seats. $750.00 Aspen Good condition.

970-925-1464

Health & Beauty Vectra model 1450 Home Gym $500.00 OBO Carbondale Like new condition. Judi 970-704-0754 judibonnerleake@gmail. com

Housewares

Runtal 4624 electric radiator/towel warmer.

Mounts on wall, 4 ft high, 2 ft wide. New, In original packaging.Yours for $400. Sells online for $750.00.

Cozy up that cold bathroom!

970 925-6177

$22,944 970-948-7271

$750 Text or call Jeff 310-908-1333

Jewelry

Office

RON"THE GOLD GUY "

Office Moving Sale.

Office furniture, equipment and supplies $10.00 and up, AABC, Used condition. Solid Oak Trestle Table, $100.00. Free Windows X P c o m p u t e r s .

970-925-1849.

REPUTABLE GOLDSMITH paying CASH for gold, silver, platinum jewelry, gold or silver coins, nuggets, sterling silver sets.

Many loyal customers thank me for BEST RETURNS, BEST SERVICE and convenient appointments. I Recycle, Remake, and Repair. For today's spot see: ronthegoldguy.com.

Call Ron (970) 390-8229

Want To Buy/ Merchandise Wanted to buy: Four tires, size 195/65/15 for my Jetta. Summer or all-season tires p l e a s e . C a l l 970-376-5317.

80 percent of adults who spent $500 or more on business clothing read a newspaper in print or online in an average week.

SOLD...

GUARANTEED!

Auto Photo Ads work.

Beautiful, heavy glass Punch Bowl $60 OBO. Excellent condition, unique shape. Includes 12 matching cups and glass ladle. Fraser, 970-726-4063.

Lawn & Garden Acres of Trees - Spruce, Foxtails, Aspens $20, Corral Poles. Since 1974 For appt. 719-836-2639

Want to purchase minerals and other oil/gas interests.

Send details to: P.O. Box 13557, Denver, CO 80201 A S P E N T I M E S . C O M / W E E K LY

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Bicycles/Mopeds

2004 Bianchi Lite Alloy Reporta Corsa Very rare italian design road bike. 57cm.

7 out of 10. Sram Force drivetrain. Sram Red cranks. One owner, never crashed, stored inside, more pampered than your wife. L o o k i ng f o r a good home. Pedals included. If the shoes fit, I'll include those as well. $970. Interested parties please text 937-286-0789

Did you know more people read a newspaper on a typical Sunday than watched the 2011 Super Bowl?

Bicycles/Mopeds

Large Surrey- $900 / Small Surrey- $500.

Aspen Used condition.

Ed Garland 970-925-9169 info@aspenbikerentals.c om aspenbikerentals.com

Canoes/Kayaks/ Row Boats

AIRE FORCE XL INFLATABLE KAYAK Great one-person kayak for beginners and advanced boaters. Optional use of thigh straps for secure fit, stability and bracing. Includes pump, storage bag, and Pelican box with repair kit.

Gently used under 20 times. Only $650, Retailed for $1400.

Joyce@nenningers.com.

970 274 0522.

Exercise Equipment

Professional Trampoline from Canada. Extra Large 16 feet diameter. $250 Text or Call Jeff 310-908-1333

ClassifiedMarketplace SPEND LOCALLY! Jobs Look in the Rentals merchandise Real Estate Transportation section for Merchandise great deals!

Recreation Dune Buggies/ Pets Farm Dirtbikes TORSO TRACK AB Services TONER $199 Excellent Announcements DISTRICT COURT, PITKIN COUNTY, STATE condition.

OF Flatten that COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2012CV253, Division/Courtroom 2

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

German Shepherd. $400 2 Female 8 weeks Good natured 719-480-4769 Mary In Alamosa

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY THE INDEPENDENCE BUILDING OWNERS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v.

DIANA HOPPES. Defendant(s).

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DISTRICT COURT, PITKIN COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2012CV253, Division/Courtroom 2

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Department of Pitkin County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 23rd day of July, 2014, at 506 E. Main Street, on the front steps of the Courthouse, Aspen, CO 81611, phone number 970-920-5300. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $23,497.88.

First Publication: May 29, 2014 Last Publication: June 26, 2014 Published In: Aspen Times Weekly Published in the Aspen Times Weekly May 29, 2014 and June 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2014. (10172868)

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 14-005 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 20, 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 Pitkin records.

Original Grantor(s) BRENT FORD AND ELIZABETH FORD Also known as: 404 South Galena Street, #205, Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION Aspen, CO 81611.

SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please FOR LENDER, QUICKEN LOANS INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt take notice: NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC You and each of you are hereby notified that a Date of Deed of Trust Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be May 22, 2009 conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's De- County of Recording partment of Pitkin County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., Pitkin on the 23rd day of July, 2014, at 506 E. Main Recording Date of Deed of Trust Street, on the front steps of the Courthouse, As- June 18, 2009 pen, CO 81611, phone number 970-920-5300. At Recording Information (Reception Number) which sale, the above described real property and 560059 improvements thereon will be sold to the highest Original Principal Amount bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, $439,596.00 possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real Outstanding Principal Balance $408,821.37 property in connection with this sale.

NOTICE OF SALE to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby Pursuant notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATE LAW, A SALE WILL BE HELD AT ASPEN MINI STORAGE CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER been violated, including, but not limited to the following: failure to pay monthly installments due THEIR HIGHEST BIDNAME AT THE TIME OF LAST SALE.KNOWN TENANT ADDRESS UNIT NUMBER Note Holder.

Jackie Reiver 6741 E Briarwood Dr.FORECLOSED MAY G25 THE LIEN NOT BE A FIRST PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECentennial, CO 80112 Contents unknown CLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the ITEMS WILL BE SOLD OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF 75, AT THIS SITE ON JUNESUBDIVISION, 14, 2014 AT 10:00 LOT ASPEN VILLAGE ACamount $23,497.88.

AM, ATof THE ADDRESS LISTED BELOW TO SATISFY OWNER DUE IN ACCORCORDING TOLIEN THE FOR PLATRENT THEREOF FILED MAY DANCE WITH THE STATE STATUTES, SECTIONS28, 38-21.5-101 TO 38-21.5-105.

TERMS THE 1996 IN PLAT BOOK 39 AT PAGEOF 73, AS First Publication: May 29, 2014 SALE ARE CASH ONLY; NO CHECKS WILL BE ACCEPTED. RECEPTIONALL NO.GOODS 393065. ARE SOLD IN "AS IS" Last Publication: June 26, 2014 CONDITION. UNIT Times MUSTWeekly BE COMPLETELY EMPTIED BY 5:00 DAYand OF SALE. SALES Also known byPM street number as: 75TAX ASPublished In: Aspen MUST BE in PAID RESALE FURNISHED. BUYERS MUST OWN LOCK IF ASPEN, COPROVIDE 81611.

Published the OR Aspen TimesNUMBERS Weekly May 29, PEN VLG, NEEDED. ALL5,ITEMS NOT BE AVAILABLE ON DATE OF SALE. HEREIN IS ALL THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED 2014 and June 12, 19OR andSPACES 26, 2014.MAY (10172868) OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMASPEN MINI STORAGE BERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. 105 Woodward Lane NOTICE OF SALE Aspen, CO 81611 The current holder of the Evidence of Debt se*NO CALLS ABOUT AUCTION PLEASE* cured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as Published in the Aspen Times Weeklyprovided June 5 and 12,and 2014 by law in (10235932) said Deed of Trust.

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MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, QUICKEN LOANS INC. Current Holder of Evidence ofM Debt O N DAY- F R I DAY 8 : 3 0 A M TO 5 : 0 0 P M NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Date of Deed of Trust 970. 3 8 4 - 9 1 3 5 May 22, 2009 County of Recording L E G A L S @ AS P E N T I M E S .CO M Pitkin Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 18, 2009 Recording Information (Reception Number) NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION 560059 PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Original Principal Amount NOTICE TO CREDITORS $439,596.00 Outstanding Principal Balance James F. Newkarn, Deceased $408,821.37 Case Number: 2014PR Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby 30018 notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated, including, but not limited to the folAll persons having claims against the abovelowing: failure to pay monthly installments due named estate are required to present them to the Note Holder.

Personal Representative or to THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. [X] District Court of Pitkin, County, Colorado or The property to be foreclosed is: [ ] Denver Probate Court of the City and LOT 75, ASPEN VILLAGE SUBDIVISION, ACCounty of Denver, Colorado CORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF FILED MAY on or before October 5, 2015 or the claims may 28, 1996 IN PLAT BOOK 39 AT PAGE 73, AS be forever barred RECEPTION NO. 393065.

Also known by street and number as: 75 ASPatrick C. Newkam, as PEN VLG, ASPEN, CO 81611.

Personal Representative THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL of the Estate of James F. Newkam OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUM2 1 1 W. Main Street BERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. Aspen, Colorado 8 16 1 1 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt sePublished in the Aspen Times Weekly June 5, cured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has 12, and 19, 2014. (102297890 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 Wednesday, 07/23/2014, at Pitkin County Courthouse, at the south front door, 506 E Main St, Aspen, Colorado, 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 5/29/2014 Last Publication 6/26/2014 Name of Publication The Aspen Times Weekly 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. LEGAL NOTICE DATE: 03/20/2014 Thomas Carl Oken, Public Trustee in and for the ORDINANCE 16, 2014 PUBLIC HEARING County of Pitkin, State of Colorado Ordinance #16, Series of 2014 was adopted on first By: Tiffany Wancura, Chief Deputy Public Trustee reading at the City Council meeting June 9, 2014.

The name, address, business telephone number This ordinance, if adopted, will amend title and bar registration number of the attorney(s) rep- 24regarding the operation of bicycles and other resenting the legal holder of the indebtedness is: human powered vehicles on public roads in the Holly L Decker #32647 City of Aspen. The public hearing on this ordiToni M.N. Dale #30580 nance is scheduled for June 23, 2014 at 5:00 p.m.

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BLVD, SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 To see the entire text, go to the city's legal notice Attorney File # 14-945-26108 website The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector http://www.aspenpitkin.com/Departments/Clerk/Leand is attempting to collect a debt. Any information gal-Notices/ provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised IF you would like a copy FAXed or e-mailed to you, 9/2012 call the city clerk's office, 429-2687 Published in the Aspen Times Weekly May 29, 2014, June 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2014. (10198669)

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LEGAL NOTICE ORDINANCE 17, 2014 PUBLIC HEARING Ordinance #17, Series of 2014 was adopted on first reading at the City Council meeting June 9, 2014.

This ordinance, if adopted, will amend chapter 26.710.180 to include retail and restaurant uses as a permitted use for all buildings within the Mixed Use Zone District.The public hearing on this ordinance is scheduled for June 23, 2014 at 5:00 p.m.

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To see the entire text, go to the city's legal notice website http://www.aspenpitkin.com/Departments/Clerk/Legal-Notices/ IF you would like a copy FAXed or e-mailed to you, call the city clerk's office, 429-2687 Published in the Aspen Times Weekly on June 12th, 2014 (10267883) LEGAL NOTICE ORDINANCE 18, 2014 PUBLIC HEARING Ordinance #18, Series of 2014 was adopted on first reading at the City Council meeting June 9, 2014.

This ordinance, if adopted, will approve AspenModern historic landmark designation and preservation benefits at 120 Red Mountain Road.The public hearing on this ordinance is scheduled for June 23, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. City Hall, 130 South Galena.

To see the entire text, go to the city's legal notice website http://www.aspenpitkin.com/Departments/Clerk/Legal-Notices/ IF you would like a copy FAXed or e-mailed to you, call the city clerk's office, 429-2687 Published in the Aspen Times Weekly on June 12, 2014 (10267820) PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE FOLLOWING MATTERS OF INTEREST REGARDING THE PITKIN COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: ·Unless otherwise notified all regular and special meetings will be held in the Board of County Commissioners, Plaza One Conference Room, 530 E Main St, Aspen ·All regular meeting items begin at 12:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the conduct of business all o w s .

C h e c k a g e n d a a t http://www.aspenpitkin.com or call 920-5200 for meeting times for special meetings. ·Copies of the full text of any resolution(s) and ordinance(s) referred to are available during regular business hours (8:30 - 4:30) in the Clerk and Recorder's office, 530 East Main Street, Suite 101, Aspen, Colorado 81611 or at http://aspenpitkin.com/Whats-New-/CalendarEvents/ NOTICE OF FINAL ADOPTIONS BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AT THE FOL-

meeting times for special meetings. ·Copies of the full text of any resolution(s) and ordinance(s) referred to are available during regular business hours (8:30 - 4:30) in the Clerk and Recorder's office, 530 East Main Street, Suite 101, Aspen, Colorado 81611 or at http://aspenpitkin.com/Whats-New-/CalendarEvents/ NOTICE OF FINAL ADOPTIONS BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AT THE FOLLOWING DULY NOTICED PUBLIC HEARINGS Resolution No. 049-2014, approving the Paul E. and Virginia I. Soldner Family Limited Partnership Subdivision Conceptual Submission, Special Review and GMQS Exemption for TDR Receiver Site, and Activity Envelope Review NOTICE OF FINAL ADOPTIONS BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the general public that on May 28, 2014, the Pitkin County Community Development Director granted approval for the Approving the Deadwood Ranch I LLC Site Plan Review (Case P102-13; Deter. #039-2014). The property is located on Swearingen Way and is legally described as the East ½ NW ¼ and the West ½ NE ¼ of Section 27, Township 8 South, Range 87 West of the 6th P.M. The State Parcel Identification Number for the property is 2465-274-02-007.

This site-specific development plan grants a vested property right pursuant to Title 24, Article 68, Colorado Revised Statutes.

S/Cindy Houben Community Development Director Jeanette Jones, Deputy County Clerk Published in the Aspen Times Weekly on June 12, 2014 (10262036) PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE FOLLOWING MATTERS OF INTEREST REGARDING THE PITKIN COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: ·Unless otherwise notified all regular and special meetings will be held in the Board of County Commissioners, Plaza One Conference Room, 530 E Main St, Aspen ·All regular meeting items begin at 12:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the conduct of business all o w s .

C h e c k a g e n d a a t http://www.aspenpitkin.com or call 920-5200 for meeting times for special meetings. ·Copies of the full text of any resolution(s) and ordinance(s) referred to are available during regular business hours (8:30 - 4:30) in the Clerk and Recorder's office, 530 East Main Street, Suite 101, Aspen, Colorado 81611 or at http://aspenpitkin.com/Whats-New-/CalendarEvents/ NOTICE: THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WILL BE HOLDING THEIR REGULAR MEETING SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 25, 2014 IN THE RIO GRANDE CONFERENCE ROOM, 455 RIO GRANDE PLACE, ASPEN, CO 81611.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2014:

·Copies of the full text of any resolution(s) and ordinance(s) referred to are available during regular business hours (8:30 - 4:30) in the Clerk and Recorder's office, 530 East Main Street, Suite 101, Aspen, Colorado 81611 or at http://aspenpitkin.com/Whats-New-/CalendarEvents/ NOTICE: THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WILL BE HOLDING THEIR REGULAR MEETING SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 25, 2014 IN THE RIO GRANDE CONFERENCE ROOM, 455 RIO GRANDE PLACE, ASPEN, CO 81611.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2014: Ordinance Authorizing the Sale of Stapleton Brothers Ditch Historic Consumptive Use Credits to Maroon Creek NOTICE OF CONFIRMATORY PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2014: Emergency Ordinance Authorizing a 50-Year Ground Lease of Lands Underlying the Common Ground Housing Subdivision

101, Aspen, Colorado, 81611 Attention: Jeanette Jones, Deputy County Clerk.

NOTICE OF HEARINGS BEFORE THE PITKIN COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners or its designee(s) acting for the Pitkin County Board of Equalization ("the Board"), will sit in the Courthouse Plaza Building, 1st Floor, 530 East Main Street, Aspen, Colorado, beginning July 1, 2014 to hear appeals from determinations of the Pitkin County Assessor of 2014 property valuations. The Board shall continue these hearings from time to time until all petitions have been heard. All appeals on real property must be filed with the Board no later than July 15, 2014. All appeals on personal property must be filed with the Board no later than July 23, 2014. All hearings must be conducted by the close of business on August 5, 2014.

Any decision shall be mailed to the petitioner within five business days of the date on which such decision in rendered.

Jeanette Jones, Deputy County Clerk Published in the Aspen Times Weekly on June 12, 2014 (10262002)

SPECIAL EVENT LIQUOR LICENSE SUBMITTED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: The Friends of the Aspen Animal Shelter has requested the licensing officials of Pitkin County to grant a special events liquor permit to dispense malt, vinous & spirituous liquors or 3.2% beer for a benefit to be held on July 12, 2014 at the Sachson Residence, 2129 Snowmass Creek Road, Snowmass, Colorado between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.

Petitions and remonstrances may be filed with the Pitkin County Clerk at 530 East Main Street, Suite 101, Aspen, Colorado, 81611.

MARIJUANA LICENSE SUBMITTED BY COOPER MASON VENTURES 2, LLC D/B/A/ SILVERPEAK APOTHECARY Notice is hereby given that an application has been submitted by Cooper Mason Ventures 2, LLC d/b/a Silverpeak Apothecary for issuance of a retail marijuana cultivation facility located at 11556 Highway 133, Carbondale, Colorado 81623.

Petitions and remonstrances may be filed with the Pitkin County Clerk at 530 East Main Street, Suite 101, Aspen, Colorado, 81611 Attention: Jeanette Jones, Deputy County Clerk.

NOTICE OF HEARINGS BEFORE THE PITKIN COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners or its designee(s) acting for the Pitkin County Board of Equalization ("the Board"), will sit in the Courthouse Plaza Building, 1st Floor, 530 East Main Street, Aspen, Colorado, beginning July 1, 2014 to hear appeals from determinations of the Pitkin County Assessor of 2014 property valuations. The Board shall continue these hearings from time to time until all petitions have been heard. All appeals on real property must be filed with the Board no later than July 15, 2014. All appeals on personal property must be filed with the Board no later than July 23, 2014. All hearings must be conducted by the close of business on August 5, 2014.

Any decision shall be mailed to the petitioner within five business days of the date on which such decision in rendered.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Of DEVELOPMENT APPROVAL Notice is hereby given to the general public of the approval of a site specific development plan, and the creation of a vested property right pursuant to the Land Use Code of the City of Aspen and Title 24, Article 68, Colorado Revised Statutes, pertaining to the following described property: Arthur O. Pfister Fully Developed Subdivision Lots 2 and 3, First Amendment. Property is located at 511 Lazy Chair Ranch Road; aspen, Co 81611.

PID#2737-113-02-002 and 2737-113-02-003. On May 27, 2014, Aspen City Council adopted Ordinance 12, Series 2014, granting an amendment to the subdivision approval converting all requirements of the subdivision to City of Aspen requirements, removing all reference to Pitkin County requirements, and removing the building envelope from Lot 3. For further information contact Chris Bendon, at the Aspen Community Development Dept., 130 S. Galena St, Aspen, Colorado, chris.bendon@cityofaspen.com, (970) 429-2765.

Telephone inquiries regarding the subject matter of the public notice may be made by calling (970) 328-8746. Please call (970) 328-8754 for agenda items and times for the Planning Commission.

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, COUNTY OF EAGLE, STATE OF COLORADO. /S/ TEAK J. SIMONTON County Clerk and Recorder and Ex-officio Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners Published in the Aspen Times Weekly June 12, 2014. (10262205)

Published in The Aspen Times Weekly on June 12, 2014 (10266644)

PUBLIC NOTICE Of DEVELOPMENT APPROVAL Notice is hereby given to the general public of the approval of a site-specific development plan, and the creation of a vested property right pursuant to the Land Use Code of the City of Aspen and Title 24, Article 68, Colorado Revised Statutes, pertaining to the following described property:, Parcel ID #2737-073-16-008 (Lot 1) and Parcel ID #2737-073-16-007 (Lot 2), Legally described as 223 E Hallam St.; Lots C, D, E, and F, Block 72, City and Townsite of Aspen, Colorado. The approval grants a Subdivision Amendment pursuant to Ordinance No. 5, Series 2013, Condition 4. Lot 1 will be reduced to one (1) unit of density and Lot 2 will be allocated two (2) units. A building permit shale be submitted and a new occupancy classification will be issued for Lot 2 prior to any building permit applications being submitted to increase the unit density for Lot 1. The change is depicted in the land use application on file with the City of Aspen.

For further information contact Hillary Seminick at the City of Aspen Community Development Dept., 130 S. Galena St., Aspen, Colorado, hillary.seminick@cityofaspen.com, (970) 429-2741.

Published in The Aspen Times Weekly on June 12, 2014. (10266691)

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 30-28-116, C.R.S., and Section 5-210.E. of the Eagle County Land Use Regulations, as amended, that the Roaring Fork Valley Regional Planning Commission, County of Eagle, State of Colorado, at a meeting on July 3, 2014 at the Eagle County Community Center, 0020 Eagle County Drive, El Jebel, Colorado, shall hold a public hearing to consider the following: File No.: ZS-4799 Alexander Co. Marijuana Cultivation Facility Special Use Review Request: Special Review Use ("Special Use Permit") to operate a marijuana cultivation facility consisting of up to four (4) greenhouse structures of approximately 1,700 square feet each within the Resource Zone District.

Location: 420 Upper Cattle Creek Road; Pleasant Valley Ranch Subdivision, Tract 4.

Copies of the aforementioned application and related documents may be examined in the Office of the Eagle County Department of Community Development located at 500 Broadway, Eagle, Colorado, or by visiting the Planning Department webpage at: http://www.eaglecounty.us/Planning/Active_Land_ Use_Applications/

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Notice is hereby given that an application has been submitted by Cooper Mason Ventures 2, LLC d/b/a Silverpeak Apothecary for issuance of a retail marijuana cultivation facility located at 11556 Highway 133, Carbondale, Colorado 81623.

Petitions and remonstrances may be filed with the Pitkin County Clerk at 530 East Main Street, Suite 101, Aspen, Colorado, 81611 Attention: Jeanette Jones, Deputy County Clerk.

NOTICE OF HEARINGS BEFORE THE PITKIN COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Pitkin County Board of County Commissioners or its designee(s) acting for the Pitkin County Board of Equalization ("the Board"), will sit in the Courthouse Plaza Building, 1st Floor, 530 East Main Street, Aspen, Colorado, beginning July 1, 2014 to hear appeals from determinations of the Pitkin County Assessor of 2014 property valuations. The Board shall continue these hearings from time to time until all petitions have been heard. All appeals on real property must be filed with the Board no later than July 15, 2014. All appeals on personal property must be filed with the Board no later than July 23, 2014. All hearings must be conducted by the close of business on August 5, 2014.

Any decision shall be mailed to the petitioner within five business days of the date on which such decision in rendered.

Jeanette Jones, Deputy County Clerk Published in the Aspen Times Weekly on June 12, 2014 (10262002)

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by CORY ELDRIDGE for HIGH COUNTRY NEWS

BOOK REVIEW

NOTEWORTHY

‘THE URBAN BESTIARY’ MOST COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE WEST, urban and rural, are home to the animals in Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s new book, “The Urban Bestiary,” a collection of joyful meditations on the fauna that scamper over our lawns and roost on our power poles. While eastern gray squirrels, crows and the other denizens of Haupt’s bestiary make up the most accessible of the local wildlife, Haupt worries that their very familiarity renders them somehow “unwild” to us and therefore not worth our notice. We imagine wildlife as, say, a moose wading in some distant boreal swamp, but consider nearby and more common animals like raccoons and starlings as much less important, reducing them “to fluffy cuteness or mere annoyance.”

That simplification, Haupt argues, robs us of a better understanding of the world and our influence on it. “I come to this understanding by exploring

‘The Urban Bestiary’ Lyanda Lynn Haupt 337 pages, hardcover: $27 Little Brown, 2013

wilderness with a pack on my back and with my ear to the wind, yes, but also by observing a migratory warbler in my backyard and by joining my daughter in watching a nonnative house sparrow gather nest material in the backyard garden, while allowing myself to recognize fully that these activities are all of a piece.”

Haupt, as a good naturalist, loves all things fauna, but she’s gracious about those who don’t and even finds some humor in their uncharitable views of many urban animals, often the result of ignorance or of unnerving interactions with an animal trapped in a kitchen, garage or garbage can. She refuses to scold, even when confronting urbanites’ outsized fear of coyotes, a solitary and collie-sized predator. “Most adults cannot accurately identify the song of an American robin,” she writes. “Why on earth would we know what to think of a coyote?”

Haupt’s big-hearted approach especially benefits those animals even nature lovers tend to hate: introduced species. In a chapter on what she calls the “nonnative triumvirate,” Haupt mounts an impassioned defense of sparrows, starlings and pigeons. “These birds aren’t here because they have chased away everything else; they are here because we have chased away everything else, because there are so few other species capable of living on little besides concrete and car exhaust and bread crumbs.”

There’s something heartening about the animals that do more than survive despite us; they actually manage to thrive alongside us. In doing so, they remind us of how fuzzy the divide between urban and wild really is.

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