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DEPARTMENTS 06 THE WEEKLY CONVERSATION 10 LEGENDS & LEGACIES 13

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14 WINE INK 16 FOOD MATTERS 26 AROUND ASPEN 27 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 28 LOCAL CALENDAR 34 CROSSWORD 35

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16 FOOD MATTERS Will fresh fruits, vegetables, grains and other wholesome foods — like those pictured above —

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POPULAR MUSIC ALEX CLARE’S “TOO CLOSE” has been one of the more inescapable songs of the last two years. Its blend of singer-songwriter balladry and whomping dupstep climaxes hit on something in the zeitgeist and made it into an international hit. The 29-year-old British singer makes his Aspen debut on Saturday, Dec. 6 with a show at Belly Up. “Too Close” came from Clare’s 2011 debut album, “The Lateness of the Hour,” which was co-produced by Major Lazer and showcased Clare’s unique mix of folky acoustic guitar and thumping dance tracks. Curiously, the album took a year or so to catch on. After its initial release garnered little fanfare, his record company dropped Clare. But then Clare licensed “Too Close” to Microsoft for a series of advertisements in 2012, which brought the song to the masses and quickly made it a hit. His follow-up album, “Three Hearts,” was released in August. Clare says his shows tend to mirror the two-sided style on his records, starting gently with his singer-songwriter side and steadily building into an electronic explosion. “It tends to bulk up toward the end into some very crazy, loud stuff,” Clare told me before kicking off his fall tour. “At the beginning of the set we stay with the emotional stuff, but by the end it’s just loud and awesome.” Saturday’s show is scheduled to begin at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $25. Taylor Berrett opens. Read more about Clare in the Dec. 5 issue of The Aspen Times. Tickets and more info at www.bellyupaspen.com.

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LOCAL AUTHORS and home-baked cookies combine for a spirited Aspen holiday season kickoff at the Hotel Jerome. The Aspen Historical Society hosts its annual Holiday Cookie Exchange and Book Signing on Tuesday, Dec. 9 at the downtown hotel. Aspen writers — Bruce Berger, D.J. Watkins and The Aspen Times’ Mary Eshbaugh Hayes among them — will be on hand signing and selling their work. Bring a batch of homemade cookies to contribute to the exchange — give your offering away, sample everyone else’s and take home an assortment from local bakers. The event runs from 5 to 7 p.m. More info at www.aspenhistory.org.

OLYMPIAN, TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT and local hero Chris Klug hosts his 9th annual Summit for Life on Saturday, Dec. 6. The nighttime race up Aspen Mountain raises money for the Chris Klug Foundation, which promotes organ and tissue donation. The 2.5 mile uphill race includes recreational, competitive and team categories. For those not up for the hike, but who want to contribute, there is Friday’s Wine and Dine for Life fundraising dinner and Saturday’s Ride for Life gondola ride to the post-race party. Registration and more info at www.summitforlife.org.

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GOP bombers flying low over ACA landscape NOW IT’S TIME to dive into the world of health insurance again, and I’m more than a little steamed over the topic. Of course when I write “health insurance,” that really is just shorthand for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or the ACA. It also is known by that troublesome nickname coined by haters of President Barack Obama, “Obamacare,” but that’s a title I will not use, except inside quotation marks, as I consider it an underhanded, racist and demeaning effort by Republicans and their ilk to ridicule the law and the president. That said, I should also note that I have not been happy with the law since it was passed in 2010, since in my view it is a weak attempt at shoring up a failed healthcare system that favors the insurance industry, the legal profession and the wealthy, in that order. As I have written before, Obama came out of the chute in 2007 as an advocate of a “single-payer” health-care system, which essentially would have meant extending the methodology of Medicare to everyone in the country rather than exclusively the elderly. But somewhere along the line, I think it was in the spring of 2008, he stopped referring to a “single-payer” and “universal healthcare” kind of reform and switched to that insipid and blatantly misleading term, “universal health coverage,” which basically left the outrageously corrupt insurance industry in charge of our health care. Oh, to be sure, Obama placed a few unprecedented controls on the insurers, which has pissed them off to the point where I think they are now taking it out on us, the insured, by making the ACA as difficult and expensive as they can within the confines of the law. Case in point: I recently received notice from my ACA-qualified insurer, Rocky Mountain Health Plans, that my and my wife’s joint monthly premiums will more than double next year unless we do something quick. WHAT?!?!? That’s right, we’ve been paying about $380 a month for a health-insurance policy, with a $2,500 deductible for EACH of us, and now our monthly premiums are about to be jacked up to nearly $900 a month with no improvement in the benefits. I’ve been fuming over this for the past couple of weeks and have not been able to achieve the state of calmness and deliberation that will be required for me to get back on the “health care exchange” and try to head off what I consider to be little

short of a stagecoach holdup by my insurance company. But now, to add insult to injury, comes the news that the newly ascendant Masters of Congress (a.k.a., the Republican Party) are suing the Obama administration in the party’s never-ending quest to scuttle the ACA and put to the sword the 9 million or so people who now depend on it for health care. Sheesh. What is it about the Republicans? They are rigidly locked into some kind of fantasy about the 1950s and how wonderful it all was when Ike was president, America was on the rise from the ashes of WWII, black people knew their place and stayed in it, young people were respectful of their elders, and God was on His (make no mistake about gender there, by cracky) throne in the Heaven described in the Christian bible. Oh, and there was no problem with Muslims back then, because Western oil companies basically controlled the economies of the Middle East and all those “ragheads,” as native Arabs and Muslims in general are known to bigots everywhere, were so backward and busy fighting among themselves they couldn’t be bothered with us in the West. Yeah, well, the myths and lies represented by that fantasy have been exposed and laid naked on the true table of history, for those who care to learn about it. In any event, the Republicans continue to harken back to those “halcyon days” and believe the rest of us do, too. They also believe the rest of us hate Obama as much as they do, along with the weak-kneed health-care “reform” that Obama managed to push through Congress in 2010. And unfortunately, they can misinterpret this year’s Republican tidal wave of election victories as a mandate for their ideological hallucination and an endorsement for their roadmap to get us back to the 1950s and restore the insurance industry to its rightful place as arbiter of all things health care. All I can say right now, with regard to the mess we’ve made of health care, is that perhaps we really can’t expect any better and we should be prepared for the worst. If the Republicans win their lawsuit, no one is sure what the effect will be, other than a general fear that the landscape of health insurance may begin to resemble a bombed-out city in Germany circa 1944. If so, make for the nearest shelter, if you can find one, and keep your head down.

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Emma has matured beautifully! She is an adorable, sweet, 6-month-old puppy with incredibly large ears that shoot up to the sky and suggest the possibility of some German Shepherd blood in her lineage. Emma is active, playful, and gets along well with everyone!

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Very cool, sleek, athletic, 10-year-old sled dog. Gets along well with people + other dogs. Everyone loves the patches around his eyes. Loves to cuddle once he knows you a little + really enjoys a nice back massage. Needs a responsible home as not good off-leash.

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FROM the VAULT

by TIM WILLOUGHBY

If you could afford the ice, a refrigerator in mining-era Aspen was a luxury.

KEEP IT COOL It may seem strange to write about refrigeration in December,

because keeping it cool in Aspen is easy during winter. It is not a crisis if your refrigerator, laden with holiday food, breaks down in December. But December’s ice became summer’s refrigerant years ago. I learned about mining-era refrigeration from my parents’ generation who lived in the time before refrigerators. I learned my first lesson on picnics as a boy, when family fishing and picnicking trips filled most summer weekends. The first chore assigned to me was to place the day’s beer supply in the stream. Within a half-hour the adults had cold Coors. My second lesson was being sent to the basement of my aunt’s house to fetch jars of canned peaches and pears. Basement is an exaggeration; it was an excavated pit under the house with access through a trap door on the enclosed porch. It was dusty, dark and as cool as a refrigerator, even in August. My third lesson occurred when I discovered that the large mounds in the fields that had doors on one end were potato cellars. There were many of them, some as close as the outskirts of town, but it was a while before I got to enter one. Coming in

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from the hot outside I met cool air. In Aspen during my parents’ generation a refrigerator was not necessary. Many houses had storage areas on their shady sides. They were accessible from a door inside the house, and a screen covered an

iceboxes, were cooled by ice. Grocery stores and ice cream parlors also used them. Cutters harvested ice from Hallam Lake and from the Roaring Fork, and at the Newman Mine (now the Aspen Music School campus). They packed it in straw

I KNOW THAT FOR MY MOTHER, AND I SUSPECT HER PEERS, OWNING A WASHING MACHINE TOOK PRECEDENCE OVER A REFRIGERATOR. PERHAPS IF SHE HAD LIVED IN PHOENIX SHE WOULD HAVE FELT DIFFERENTLY, BUT KEEPING IT COOL IN ASPEN WAS EASY. opening to the outside air to prevent bugs, birds, and rodents from entering. Throughout most of the year, the cool Aspen nights brought the temperature down inside the storage area low enough to keep food cool during the daytime. Cold, as in December cold, presented the more challenging problem of keeping the food warm enough so it didn’t freeze. For much of Aspen’s history, home refrigerators, also called

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for storage in warehouses where it awaited delivery to iceboxes in the few summer months when it was needed. The Keno Lake Ice Company advertised that their ice was made from pure spring water and “costs no more than inferior stuff.” In the 1880s, the Aspen Manufacturing Company made most home iceboxes locally. In the 1890s Leonard Refrigerator and

Alaska Refrigerator offered popular choices. Leonard introduced metal shelves for iceboxes in 1885 and other innovations in the early 1890s. Electric refrigerators came out in the 1920s but didn’t seem to catch on in Aspen until the 1930s. A 1934 Frigidaire sold for $1,900 in today’s dollars. The convenience of not dealing with ice and the demand for something cooler than nature would provide in the summer months might not have justified the expense. I know that for my mother, and I suspect her peers, owning a washing machine took precedence over a refrigerator. Perhaps if she had lived in Phoenix she would have felt differently, but keeping it cool in Aspen was easy. Tim Willoughby’s family story parallels Aspen’s. He began sharing folklore while teaching for 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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FROM the VAULT

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A W I N TER WONDERLA ND

1914 ASPEN

“SNOW, SNOW, BEAUTIFUL SNOW,” proclaimed the Aspen Democrat-Times on Jan. 28, 1914. “It has been wafting down upon Aspen since Monday night and at this writing the beautiful flakes have piled up at least 30 inches and we have a 30-inch blanket of the beautiful as a consequence. And all are happy! It means more water for our farmers and more water for our water company and, thereby, more water for all the people living in this richly endowed city. And this thirty inches of snow is making no difference in the commercial or social life of Aspen — we are used to it and rejoice in it. Like the kiddies, the old folks like to waller in it, roll in it, and play in it. It is good for all these things.” This photo and more can be found in the Aspen Historical Society archives at aspenhistory.org.

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WET FEET WHILE HUNTING more than 100 years ago in Maine resulted in the invention of one of the most iconic pieces of gear ever made. It was during a soggy trek that Leon Leonwood Bean had the idea of building a boot with leather on the top and rubber on the bottom. His resulting Maine Hunting Boot was an original and hot-selling product of the day. Unfortunately, the rubber cracked on the first batch, causing a mass return by customers who were refunded in full. Leon didn’t give up, and after finding a better rubber supplier he built version after version of his boots, eventually finding a formula for success. It still exists today. Indeed, it is thriving as a product in multiple versions, for men, women and kids, and still made in Maine. Leon Leonwood is now referred to by his initials, L.L.; the retailer that holds his name, and is still operated by his

family, grosses sales of more than a billion dollars a year. I got a unique look at the legacy of the Maine Hunting Boot — aka “Bean Boots” — last week in Minneapolis. Before a store opening event a worker from L.L.Bean drove the company’s gargantuan “Bootmobile” through a part of town near my office. It parked in an icy lot. At more than 11 feet tall, and with shoelaces made of mooring rope, the Bootmobile gets no shortage of strange looks. “I am constantly waving,” said Eddie Flaherty, one of the drivers. It’s built of steel and fiberglass over a pickup truck frame. The boot, which is a scaled iteration of the brand’s hallmark model, is estimated to be a size 708. Flaherty pilots the big boot around the U.S., including about 40,000 miles in the last two years. He attends events to garner publicity for the brand. He told me about driving through Times Square and in a

parade for the Boston Red Sox. Apparently the exposure works. “The boots’ popularity in the last few years has grown exceptionally,” said Mac McKeever, who works in marketing for the company. “They are not only popular with outdoorsmen, farmers and loggers — but they have also garnered favor in the fashion community, with college students and urbanites.” Hundreds of thousands of pairs are sold each year. The company offers many versions, from functional to fancy, and they range from $79 to $299. All have roots in Leon Leonwood’s original design. As for the Bootmobile, I’m sure L.L. never envisioned his footwear idea taking such form. Stephen Regenold writes about outdoors gear at www.gearjunkie.com.

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RIDGE REDUX LAST WEEK, I recommended readers consider attending the Ridge Dinner on Dec. 12 at Eight K Restaurant. Simply writing the piece made me lust for some Ridge Zin and a few days later serendipity played a hand in satisfying that craving. Flying into San Francisco on a sunny morning I was greeted with news of a canceled meeting. That KELLY J. HAYES was all the motivation needed to attempt making an appointment at the Ridge Monte Bello facility. A call was made, a tasting was graciously confirmed and my wife and I were soon on the road, headed south for the hour-long drive from SFO to Monte Bello. As we made our way down the ribbons of freeway that line the valley floors of NorCal, I was struck by how Ridge is cheekby-jowl with Silicon Valley, the entrepreneurial mecca of the modern world. When a passel of Stanford Research Institute engineers purchased the property in the early 1960s, the names that were emergent in the flats below the vineyards were Hewlett Packard, Scientific Data Systems and Fairchild Semiconductors. Today, it is Google, Yahoo and perhaps most importantly Apple that dominate the valley floor. Exiting the freeway, it is just a few blocks before the concrete and curbs give way to the dense chaparral that covers the coastal mountains. The ascendant drive up the windy road to the vineyard is transcendent. For more than 2,500 feet the road climbs from the valley in the shade of ancient oaks and moss-covered trees. Even in this time of drought you feel the influence of the Pacific, 15 miles or so to the west. When we arrived at the winery the view was magnificent. Below us, far below us, was San Jose, Santa Clara (home of the new Levi’s Stadium) and the southernmost reaches of the San Francisco Bay. And on the other side sat the peaks of the rugged Santa Cruz Mountains

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and a glimpse of the sea. But most impressive were the vines. Century-old Cabernet vines clung to the hillsides, fallow on this postharvest afternoon, but proud and resplendent nonetheless. Eric Baugher, an affable and passionate steward of the land, met us at the winery. As the Vice President, Winemaking / Monte Bello, Eric is responsible for producing all the wines from the Monte Bello facility, including the iconic Cabernet Sauvignon which is prized by lovers of Bordeaux-style wines throughout the world, and the single-vineyard and Zinfandel blends that had called me on this sojourn. Eric’s knowledge and generosity were instantly recognizable in his demeanor. It took one question, “Why is Monte Bello so special?” and we were off and running. “So there this is just a little cap of limestone,” said Eric, who grew up and lives a short distance away in the coastal village of Aptos. “It had its genesis just south of the equator and moved northward as the earth aged. The tectonic Pacific plates (the San Andreas Fault is just a few miles away) moved under the land and thrust it upward leaving this cap of limestone.” With that we sat on a wall constructed of the rock that is so favorable to growing great grapes. Perfection is a combination of many disparate elements, not just stone. The surrounding soils, the ancient vines that were planted by Italian immigrants in the 1880s, the location of the vineyards which sit above the fog line but still get a maritime influence from the Pacific, all of these contribute to making a wine that took first place in the 30-year anniversary of the Judgment of Paris tasting. Reluctantly moving out of the stunning California sunshine, Eric escorted us into the barrel room of the winery. There, the last two vintages of Monte Bello Cabernet rested in barrels of American White Oak, a standard of Ridge wines. Walking through the impressive array as Eric gave a tour of the winery, he explained the philosophy of Ridge. “The grapes make the wine,” he

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said. “We just try to be as gentle as possible. All of our vineyards are grown organically and we use native yeasts. We hand-pick all of our grapes. The juices flow from the crush relying on gravity and we pump-over rather than push-down the caps.” He continued his mantra: “We will add the smallest amounts possible of SO2 (sulfur dioxide) when the grapes are crushed, after malolactic fermentation, and very small amounts when we rack for preservation.” With that he grabbed his glass thief, the device used to suction juice from the barrels, and took us to the cool subterranean cellars where the 2012 and 2013 Zinfandels had been placed in barrels. There he extracted the wines and poured small amounts of the single-vineyard Zinfandels from Geyserville, then Lytton Springs and Paso Robles Dusi

Ranch into our glasses. If you have never barrel-tasted wines in their infancy, it is a special experience. There is a freshness, a feeling of being at the beginning of something that overwhelms you. The wines taste of the vineyard — they beguile, they excite. At the end of the day, we had visited and tasted with Eric for close to three hours (yes, I said he was generous). We were left with the inescapable sense that we had been to a winery unique in all the world. That the people and the place had a purpose. In short, we had been to the mountaintop. 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.

UNDER THE INFLUENCE 2011 MONTE BELLO CHARDONNAY Yes, we came for the Zin, were knocked out by the Cabernet and yet… who knew Ridge makes great Chardonnay? This golden juice has a bit of butter and a smooth as silk finish. But it is the fruit, the melon and stonefruit characteristics that distinguish this wine.

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WOULD YOU HACK YOUR FOOD? I NOTICED THE HEADLINE mid-bite: “THE END OF FOOD?” Dangling my fork midair, I read on. “Has a tech entrepreneur come up with a product to replace our meals?” Despite sensing that this New Yorker article would examine an invention that laughs in the face of everything I believe in, I was intrigued. And so it was during that lateMay lunch break that I AMANDA RAE learned about Soylent, a meal-replacement shake engineered by food-apathetic San Franciscans to “nourish the body in the most efficient way possible.” Simply put, Soylent is the ultimate food hack. It’s a carefully calibrated powdered cocktail of raw chemical ingredients — micronutrients, electrolytes, vitamins, and minerals — that, when mixed with water, creates an odorless beige slurry of essential fats, calories, protein, and carbohydrates. Soylent contains virtually no sugar, saturated fat, or cholesterol. Instead, each three-serving pouch ($9) provides exactly what one needs throughout the day for “optimal function,” according to USDA guidelines — nothing more, nothing less.

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“Food really is made of chemicals,” explains 25-year-old science geek bachelor and Soylent founder Rob Rhinehart in his company’s promotional video online. “It is reduceable. We can build it back up, we can change it, and we can make it better.” (By the way, Rhinehart claims that the name is a joke referencing a 1966 sci-fi book, not a wink to the 1973 film “Soylent Green,” which features a food supplement made of human flesh.) Soylent proponents claim myriad benefits. It saves time by eliminating the hassle of daily food preparation — both mental, in deciding what to make, and physical, in making it. Soylent also saves money, since each serving is roughly three bucks,

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far cheaper than any “balanced” meal available elsewhere, and assuming that taking a pre-mixed shake on-the-go negates trips to the corner café or fast-food drive-thru. Rhinehart also claims that Soylent is environmentally sustainable, as it’s simple to manufacture, doesn’t spoil, and is easy to transport. “Soylent gives you the freedom to live the life you want to live,” coos a female voice in the same promo video. That’s assuming one doesn’t enjoy cooking, spending money on meals with friends — or tasting the food she eats. The commercial version of Soylent was released in May thanks to a crowd-funding campaign that topped $3 million; when Rhinehart posted his opensource recipe online, an entire community devoted to DIY versions cropped up (diy.soylent.me). I’ll argue that if you have time to track down a customized formula on a message board, order all the ingredients (standard Soylent comprises maltodextrin, rice protein, and oat flour; DIY “Liquid Cake v1.3” calls for vanilla whey protein, ultra-fine Scottish oats, psyllium husk powder, potassium gluconate, and rapeseed oil, among others), measure and mix ’em all together, you have time to grab some whole foods the supermarket. Maybe that’s just me. I like chewing real food. When I first read about Soylent, I immediately thought of a busy friend who often wishes out loud for a magic pill that renders eating unnecessary. She cringes at the thought of home-cooked meals; she can’t be bothered to learn how to navigate her kitchen, and grocery shopping is an unwelcome chore. So, she eats most meals out. It’s a pricey choice for anyone, but especially for someone who claims to not enjoy the act of eating, anyway. I also consider the Aspen Ski Bum, perhaps a dying breed: Too broke to eat at restaurants regularly and too busy shredding pow to worry about assembling a balanced meal. Most likely, his diet — cereal, cold cuts, frozen dinners — sucks. Perhaps Soylent is the answer. Neither my friend nor I can attest to Soylent’s taste or its hungersoothing power, yet — the waitlist

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Soylent: could it replace food as we know it?

is currently five months long — but anecdotal evidence pours in. (“Satisfying”? Yes. “Yeasty aftertaste”? That, too.) When the company began shipping in May, it already had more than 20,000 international orders. To be fair, Soylent claims that, “The goal wasn’t to replace food, but to provide a better alternative to what we usually eat.” But does “a better alternative” take the form of a tasteless, textureless liquid meant to gulp mindlessly? I suspect that people consuming Soylent as a staple of their diet are missing out. (I should also mention that some experts caution that a lack of nutritional variety day-to-day may not be entirely healthy.) What do we sacrifice by replacing our sit-down meals with sandcolored sludge sipped from water bottles wherever? All sensory pleasure, for starters. The first glimpse of a sunny-side-up egg, yolk quivering with anticipation and ready to break open and cascade over whatever it’s perched upon. The scent of smoke and charcoal wafting skyward from a pepper-encrusted steak. The zesty, mouth-puckering flavor of lemon juice on a salad. The snap heard when biting into an apple. The crunch of a raw carrot. Then there’s the social component. I think of what my uncle said as

we sat with hands folded over our Thanksgiving feast: “Without all of you here around the table, life would be pretty lonely.” Granted, I bet that Rhinehart and the tens of thousands of Soylent converts broke bread with family or friends last week. But what about the unexpected moments? I remember sitting at the bar with my pal Adam during the raucous soft opening of Meat & Cheese Restaurant & Farm Shop, when we traded tastes of our dishes with a couple sitting across the room. This sparked conversation; we learned of mutual friends. Strangers connecting over a meal is a beautiful thing, and food has been a cherished social currency for eons. “Talking around food is powerful, magical,” said Chobani yogurt founder Hamdi Ulukaya, in a recent interview with Fast Company magazine. Perhaps surprising to those who tout Soylent as a time-management tool, the article is titled, “Secrets of the Most Productive People.” Perhaps not surprising to everyone else: not one bigwig attributed his success to a meal-replacement shake. Amanda Rae is hungry for real food. Send tips: amandaraewashere@gmail.com

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GIN UP YOUR HOLIDAYS 9 FRESH COCKTAIL IDEAS Start with 1 1/2 ounces chilled gin:

Much as we might like otherwise, few of us have the cash, time or energy to maintain a full bar. And that can be a bummer, particularly

— GRAPEFRUIT: Add 2 ounces grapefruit juice and 1/2 teaspoon sugar to the gin in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain. — CUCUMBER: In a cocktail shaker, muddle 2 inches of cucumber, then add the gin, ice and the juice of a lime. Shake and strain. — STRAWBERRY: In a cocktail shaker, combine the gin and 1 ounce of juice from a thawed container of frozen strawberries in syrup. Shake and strain. — CRAN-GINGER: In a cocktail shaker, muddle two 1-inch slices of fresh ginger, then add the gin, ice and 2 ounces cranberry juice. Shake and strain into a glass. Top with ginger ale. — CARROT-MANGO: In a blender, combine 1/4 of a peeled fresh mango, 2 ounces carrot juice, and the gin. Blend, then pour over ice. — CIDER CHAI: In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine 1 tablespoon powdered chai mix, 2 ounces apple cider and the gin. Shake and strain. — EXTRA-DIRTY: In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine 1/2 ounce spicy pickle juice, 1/2 ounce olive brine and the gin. Shake and strain. — ROUGE: Muddle a strip of orange zest in a glass, then add the gin and 2 ounces Merlot. — VERT: In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the gin with 2 ounces Sauvignon Blanc, 1/2 ounce lemon juice and 1/2 ounce lime juice. Shake and strain.

as we move through the holidays and are constantly tempted to pour ourselves (sometimes even our guests) something creative and delicious to help make the season merry. So this year we’re taking a fresh approach to the holiday cocktail situation. We’re going to limit ourselves to one liquor and build an entire bar’s worth of cocktails around that. This way, there’s no worrying about tracking down obscure (and expensive) liquors. Just stock up on the booze and everything else can be grabbed at the grocery. We decided to build our bar around gin. It’s an exceedingly versatile liquor that works well with so many flavors. Its spicy notes also mean it plays well with the heavier foods we tend to eat this time of year. And if gin isn’t your thing, most of these ideas also would work well with vodka. Libations was created by beloved Aspen Times publisher Gunilla Asher, who died June 2 after a brave battle with cancer. Cheers - to Gunner!

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AMERICAN MATERIALISM AT ITS FINEST THE EPITOME OF AMERICAN MATERIALISM reared its discounted head last week when hundreds of thousands lined up outside of stores across the country for the retail holiday: Black Friday. One example that stuck out was the story of 55-year-old Derek De Armond who camped outside of the Fort Myers BARBARA Best Buy for two full PLATTS weeks in preparation. He had his eye on a discounted big screen television. Only the first few people in the door would be able to receive roughly $600 off of this specific screen and Armond planned to be the first. To do this, he lived in a three-room tent, complete with air conditioning, TV and a tiki bar. The news of the middle-aged citizen was obscure enough that even the New York Times picked up the story. Armond’s dedication was so adamant, so persistent, that he even had Thanksgiving dinner with his family inside the camping structure. I don’t know the price of the tent’s accouterments, but I’m going to

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guess that, after two weeks, they equaled more than the amount he saved on his purchase. This story is incredibly entertaining, and maybe even slightly inspiring (Armond claimed that he would donate his big screen purchase to a charity). But it doesn’t show our citizens in a very flattering light. It seems to show that we are unhealthily obsessed with things. This is not a new discovery, but perhaps it became blaringly obvious to me last Wednesday in Kansas when I had my own personal Black Friday sale. My brothers and I, after more than a year, were separating my diseased father’s personal property between his five kids. The process was lengthy and grueling, as would be expected. After all was said and taken, I had some nice pieces of furniture and a few paintings of his I’ve always liked. But none of those items mattered to me. I just wanted him. Because his company and love are better than anything that can ever be put on sale. Obviously, I can’t have him back. But the main thought that surrounded me afterward was just how much people who we love matter. Things should and do

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fall by the wayside. But what filled the papers Thanksgiving week had nothing to do with family and friends. It was all about material possessions, and the discounted amount of them that would be up for grabs the day after Thanksgiving. Some stores did not even wait until Friday to start the sales. They opened on Thanksgiving day or, as it’s now being called, “Grey Thursday.” The American greed even jumped across the pond as brawls broke out in shops in England over televisions. England doesn’t even celebrate Thanksgiving, but they sure do recognize Black Friday as a holiday. The retail madness did not occur in Aspen to the same scale it did in the rest of the country. Sure, the new store Intermix had a sale and the recreation center offered a discounted gym pass, but it certainly wasn’t on anyone’s agenda to wake up at 4 a.m. to score a new iPhone. Still, the holiday is still on our radar. We will probably get gifts from our parents from Black Friday sales. And most likely all of us at least perused the online deals on Cyber Monday.

What I find irksome about Black Friday is not the persistent, and often rude, shoppers. Or our country’s allegiance to the day. It’s that it completely contradicts the holiday that precedes it. On Thanksgiving, we celebrate being with the people we love. When we go around the table to state what we are thankful for the answer usually involves people. I’ve never heard someone say what they are thankful for this year is 75 percent off a new sound system. Holidays remind us of the people that matter most. Then the next day it seems like all of that is forgotten in the crowds of shoppers. Call me crazy, but this retail holiday just isn’t for me. Everyone, myself included, loves a good deal. But I hope the tantilizing sales don’t overshadow the true meaning of the holidays: to be with the people we love. And to commemorate the ones we can no longer be with. Barbara Platts may have browsed the Athleta site on Monday for some deals on workout clothes. I mean…she’s not claiming to be some sort of saint. Reach her at bplatts.000@gmail.com or on Twitter @BarbaraPlatts.

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THOMAS BARLOW KNOWS A THING OR TWO ABOUT ART. He has created masterpieces out of sugar and sand. The way he learned to shred a carrot and decorate a cake has translated into ornate designs carved from wood and marble, ice and snow. “I’ve found a niche,” says Barlow, a longtime valley resident who’s made a name for himself as a sculptor — especially in ice and snow. “From carving vegetables to being a kitchen artist to creating 14-foot ice sculptures...it’s a transference of medium.” Still, Barlow is not formally trained as an artist nor a chef. But that hasn’t changed the trajectory of his career path. The proof is written on the, well, ice. “I have no real schooling,” Barlow says, “but I’ve learned on the job; with sculpting I can turn an idea into a sketch, and transform that into a piece of 3D art .” If you’ve strolled through downtown Aspen over the past few winters, you’ve likely seen Barlow’s work — an ice bar in the Hotel Jerome courtyard (he hopes to do another installation there this winter); an entry in Anderson Ranch’s annual Wintersculpt competition (the children’s rendition, Kidsculpt, is one of his favorite things to watch unfold, “It’s just so wonderful to see their creativity; it’s really what it’s all about,” he says). Or, peruse his online gallery (www.thomasbarlow.com), where page after page showcases his work — at local weddings, state festivals and international competitions.

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Thomas Barlow’s ice and snow sculptures, which range from the simple to the intricate (top), all begin with a pencil sketch, such as one depicting a block maze for Aspen’s annual Wintersculpt competition (above).

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A highlight among the countless projects Barlow has undertaken? A public relations stunt that had a sculpted Denver Bronco crushing the New York City skyline as a lead up to an NFL football match; a photo of the installation made the front page of the sports section of the New York Times. Another moment to remember? Back-to-back People’s Choice Awards at the International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge. “That just said to me that what we did had an impact on the people we create these sculptures for,” says Barlow. “It’s so exciting to see people intrigued by what can be created out of ice and snow.” True, Barlow uses tools like chainsaws and chisels — Japanese ones are best, says Barlow, as the Japanese are the founders of the art of ice

PHOTOS BY DONNA MARTINEZ (TOP LEFT); ASPEN TIMES FILE PHOTO (TOP RIGHT); AUBREE DALLAS

LEFT: Thomas Barlow has been hired to create sculptures for Aspen businesses for years, such as this one for the Hyatt Grand Aspen in December 2005. BELOW: Barlow finalizes plans for a series of ice sculptures to be installed outside Justice Snow’s during the upcoming winter season.

sculptures — as opposed to mitten-covered hands and snow shovels. But the joy of playing in the powder isn’t lost on Barlow, even if his playground consists of 300-pound blocks of solid ice. “Ice is like glass, it creates such sharp sculptures,” he says with a childlike grin. “But snow is free. “And they both change before your eyes; that is the idea — ice and snow sculptures melt. They deconstruct.” Sometimes, when you work in a medium made of water, deconstruction comes a bit too soon.

On a recent bluebird day, Barlow notes that “under 55 degrees is OK” ... so long as the Colorado sun isn’t beating down his designs. “I think about angles and shade and how to protect the sculptures,” he says with an engineer’s eye. “And some years, there just isn’t snow.” But even when there is plenty of the white stuff, Mother Nature can wreck havoc on his creations. In Cripple Creek last winter, during the town’s annual ice festival, Barlow created a complex “101 Dalmatian”-themed sculpture, complete with Cruella De Ville and her decked-out car. After days of work — and an unwelcome warm streak — the masterpiece began to melt. And, just when Barlow had to accept the fact the sculpture was lost, he dropped his keys through a metal grate on the ground. Minutes later, he watched as his keys were washed away with the tide of his deteriorating ice sculpture. Undeterred, and with colder temperatures and fresh ice on the way, he got back to work on a new installation. “That’s the way it goes. That’s part of the fun,” he says. “I wouldn’t have it any other way.” jmcgovern@aspentimes.com

COOL HAPPENINGS Justice Snow’s, the bar and restaurant in Aspen’s historic Wheeler Opera House, is determined to be known as more than a place to eat and drink this winter. “Justice Snow’s wants to go beyond just being a restaurant to reach the heart of the Aspen community,” says local marketing man Alan Cole, who’s working with Justice Snow’s proprietress Michele Kiley on a full slate of winter programming. “Thomas Barlow’s amazing artwork has been gracing the plaza right outside our doors for the past several years as part of the ice sculpture competition held during Wintersköl in January. We decided it was high time we showcased his talents here at the restaurant for a longer run.” In fact, a series of Barlow ice sculptures will soon be installed at each window on the building’s red brick façade, as well as at the restaurant’s main entry. Current sketches for the exhibit call for solid ice window boxes filled with ornately carved icicles. LED lights will be weaved into the sculptures, creating a rainbow of ice for patrons and passersby to feast on. “I presented Kiley with three different ideas for what was possible, and she said she couldn’t choose...for me to decide,” says Barlow. “So I came up with yet another idea. I think the idea of icicles allows for a lot of creativity.” Part of that creativity is captured by the nature of sculpting in ice, and the effects of Mother Nature herself. “The ice boxes will provide some protection from the sun, but these sculptures will change over time,” says Barlow. “Maybe I’ll even carve a hole in them to allow air flow, which will create even more change.” Clearly, Marlow and the people behind Justice Snow’s are thinking alike. “Thomas’ work fits perfectly with our ongoing celebration of the arts here at Justice Snow’s, and we hope his sculptures delight our visitors, our neighbors and our patrons.” UPCOMING EVENTS @ JUSTICE SNOW’S: DEC. 7: Sunday Brunch and Celtic music with Crowlin Ferlies, noon-2 p.m. DEC. 7: December Salon, 5-7 p.m. DEC. 7: Southern rock with John Wesley Satterfield, 9 p.m. DEC. 9: Celtic music with Crowlin Ferlies, 7:30-10 p.m. DEC. 10: Acoustic rock and soul with Josh Rogan, 9 p.m. DEC. 14: Sunday Brunch and Celtic music with Crowlin Ferlies, noon-2 p.m. DEC. 14: Rock and folk with Zak Shaffer & Jackson Emmer, 9 p.m. DEC. 16: Open mic, 8-10 p.m. DEC. 17: Americana music with the Milemarkers, 9 p.m. All events are no cover charge, except the Salon which is $25 per person and includes wine and hors d’oeuvres.

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ESCAPE ARTIST | VICKSBURG

MYSTERIES OF VICKSBURG “VICKSBURG IS THE KEY,” President Abraham Lincoln wrote as the Civil War raged. “The war can never be brought to a close until the key is in our pocket.” The fortress of a city, on the banks of the Mississippi River, was held by the Confederate army, and control of it was pivotal to victory because it meant control of the river. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant led operations to wrest it from the rebels from late 1862 to July 4, 1863, when it fell after a brutal 47-day siege and turned the war in the Union’s favor. Today, the massive battlefield is preserved as Vicksburg National Military Park, run by the National Park Service. A road running through it brings drivers on a 16-mile tour, with numbered stops at trenches, forts and monuments throughout. The monuments — many honoring the units from various states that fought there — number more than 1,300. The Illinois State Memorial is among the most grand of the monuments. Modeled after the Temple of Minerva Medici in Rome, the marble dome sits atop a hill and is filled with the names of men from Illinois who fought at Vicksburg. Beside the Illinois Memorial sits the Shirley House, the only surviving wartime structure in the park. The 45th Illinois Infantry used it as its headquarters during the siege and built bombproof shelters around it. I was in Vicksburg for a wedding earlier this month and spent a day driving the park with my wife and her family. We watched the film about the battle in the visitor’s center, which helped us get the lay of the land, but we

opted for a self-guided tour rather than getting a guide or doing the “cellphone tour.” Driving it on your own, with a map and some chatty companions and stops at historical markers along the way, is a pleasant way to see the park. (We only took one wrong turn, which is pretty good given my spotty navigational record.) I had a particular interest in making a pilgrimage to the battlefield because my greatgreat-great uncle (and my middle namesake) Robert Wallace Healy, of Illinois, was a brigadier general in the Union army. Family lore has always been that he fought at Vicksburg, but the research I was able to dig up before my trip indicated that — while he did fight at Shiloh and other key battles — his service brought him to Vicksburg after the siege, and he was among the Union’s leaders during the occupation of Vicksburg, which continued for the 21 months until war’s end. Civil liberties were suspended for Vicksburg residents under occupation, and the streets were patrolled by 5,000 black troops in the Union army. Given the ignominy of the loss and occupation, and the fact that the city fell on the Fourth of July, Vicksburg did not celebrate Independence Day for decades after the war. Visiting battlefields from the Civil War and Revolutionary War is often underwhelming, reminiscent of elementary school field trips where you stand and look at an empty field and hear a tour guide talk. Not so at Vicksburg. Driving through the park, standing atop the hills and looking down the little valleys

where the fight raged, you can viscerally feel the battle and its high stakes. It helps that the National Park Service has added markers where various Union and rebel lines were held. Cannon and artillery replicas are set up throughout the park, marking various Union and Confederate fortifications. Battery De Golyer, for example, marks the area where Union Capt. Samuel De Golyer staged a bombardment of a Confederate stronghold with as many as 22 pieces of artillery. Across a grassy gorge sits the Confederate Great Redoubt, a fortified area that was held under almost constant attack from May 22 until the battle’s end. One of the most impressive stops along the tour route is the USS Cairo, a massive ironclad Union gunboat that was sunk in the Yazoo River north of

Vicksburg in December 1862 and that has been reassembled and opened to the public on the land. It was sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo — the first ship in history downed by such means. A small museum dedicated to the Cairo outlines its history in the battle and the fascinating research that led to it being salvaged from the bottom of the Yazoo — where it was preserved in the riverbed mud — in the 1960s. In the Vicksburg National Cemetery, overlooking the Yazoo, 17,000 Union soldiers are buried — 13,000 of them unknown. The graveyard is a stark reminder of the sacrifices made to unite the country as a free (or at least slavefree) nation — and the importance of the fight at Vicksburg to win that freedom. atravers@aspentimes.com

Illinois State Memorial in Vicksburg National Military Park. It was dedicated in October 1906.

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IF YOU GO... WHAT: Vicksburg National Military Park WHERE: Vicksburg, Mississippi COST: $8 per car GETTING THERE: JacksonMedgar Wiley Evers International Airport, in Jackson, Mississippi, is about a 45-minute drive from Vicksburg. It’s also easy enough to combine a Vicksburg visit with a trip to New Orleans or Memphis — both about 3 hours, 30 minutes away, using Interstate 55. You also can drive the scenic and historic Highway 61 — the “blues highway” — from either direction. It adds about 30 minutes to the trip. The Memphis side offers more roadside history, including the iconic “Devil’s Crossroads” in Clarksdale, where legend has it blues singer Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. MORE INFO: www.nps.gov/vick

TOP: A tour of the Vicksburg National Military Park gives a sense of the Civil War battle that waged there in 1862 and 1863. This gully hosted some of the fiercest fighting during the final 47-day siege, with the Union holding the high ground pictured to the left, and Confederate forces holding the opposite fortified high ground (right). ABOVE: The sunken U.S.S. Cairo has been rebuilt in the battlefield park. Visitors can walk inside the ship and see its inner workings.

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MORE INSTITUTE FELLOWS IT WAS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY for the Aspen Institute Fellows this year and they had a gala celebration at the end of summer. Undercurrent... Aspen during the holidays is very much like the song “I’m dreaming of a White Christmas.” MARY ESHBAUGH HAYES

INSTITUTE FELLOWS Gary and Laura Lauder and Crystal and Mark Logan.

INSTITUTE FELLOWS Christy Mahon and Glenn Bucksbaum.

INSTITUTE FELLOWS Joanne and David Grimes and Janet Guthrie.

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Kenton Bruce, Shannon Fairbanks, Marita Fairbanks and J.B. Fairbanks.

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INSTITUTE FELLOWS Martha Luttrell and Carol and Mike Hundert.

INSTITUTE FELLOWS Chloe Tabah, Amy Magerum, Jeff and Becky Berkus.

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HALLELUJAH!

ASPEN CHORAL SOCIETY CARRIES ON ‘MESSIAH’ TRADITION ON A RECENT STORMY NIGHT in the midvalley, dozens of locals made their way into Grace Church, shaking snow from their coats and holding sheet music in folders under their arms. The occasion was one of the final rehearsals of the Aspen Choral Society as it prepared for its annual performances of Handel’s “Messiah” to kick off the local holiday season. Singers filed into the pews as conductor Paul Dankers played keyboard, warming the group up with scales. He spoke soothingly over the music, directing his singers with prompts like “Raise soft palate” and “Like you’re kissing an owl.” Getting everyone in the choir to sing uniform, same-shaped vowels, he says, is the most important component for choral music. In his second year leading the choir, Dankers has a smile that never quite leaves his face as he conducts. His jolly demeanor and enthusiasm for the material is infectious, creating an enthusiastic group of singers as they make their way through exercises like “Nine new neckties and a nightshirt and a nose.” For each rehearsal, a choir member chooses a “word of the day” to give the group — which numbered 40-plus at this run-through — a collective intention. Dankers borrowed the tradition from his choir director at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Clair. On this night, Basalt’s Siri Dove chose the word “peace.” After the warm-up, but before the group delved into Handel’s baroque masterpiece, she spoke briefly about the word’s meaning (and the need for peace during the often-harried holiday season) and then read Maya Angelou’s poem, “Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem.” The poem includes the lines, “The word is peace. / It is louder now. It is louder. / Louder than the explosion of bombs” — an appropriate introduction to a practice of Handel’s overpowering, beloved composition, which has been a Christmas season fixture since its first performance in 1742. Dankers led the group through “Messiah,” working from the final

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section backward toward the beginning. He’s a spirited, physical conductor, speaking words of encouragement and correction throughout the piece. During the familiar “Hallelujah” chorus, he worked with tenors and altos to tone down their performance, reminding them that, while it may be the bestknown section of “Messiah,” it’s not the big finish. “It’s not the final piece in the program and we don’t want people to be deceived by that,” he instructed his singers. Now in its 37th year, the Choral Society brings together volunteer singers and musicians from throughout the valley, along with professionals, for high-caliber performances. Dankers compares the premium quality of the choir to Aspen Community Theatre’s renowned, professional grade performances, which also come from volunteers. The choir practices through the fall to bring the local Christmas tradition to life. Dankers is also musical director at the Snowmass Chapel. He took over as

conductor of the “Messiah” last year, to do is not only perform music, but after the death of Ray Adams, who had build communities through music,” led local “Messiah” performances since choir manager Stacey Weiss says of the 1977 and founded the Aspen Choral valley-wide presence. Society in 1995. At its performances, the choir — which numbers more than 70 singers atravers@aspentimes.com — is accompanied by a 15-piece chamber orchestra. As tradition dictates, the choir takes all volunteers, and as a result draws a diverse cross-section that includes WHAT: Handel’s “Messiah,” performed by the teens singing alongside Aspen Choral Society octogenarians and ski bums TICKETS: www.aspenshowtix.com beside elected officials. MORE INFO: www.aspenchoralsociety.org The group traditionally COST: $15 held performances in Aspen and Glenwood WHERE: Grace Church, Basalt Springs, but last year added WHEN: Thursday, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m. a Snowmass Village concert and this year is making a WHERE: Snowmass Chapel, Snowmass Village four-day tour of the Roaring WHEN: Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m. Fork Valley. Performances will be held Thursday through WHERE: Wheeler Opera House, Aspen Sunday in Basalt, Snowmass, WHEN: Saturday, Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. Aspen and Glenwood. “One of the things we want WHERE: First United Methodist Church,

IF YOU GO...

Glenwood Springs WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.

The Aspen Choral Society draws volunteers from throughout the valley. The choir will perform Handel’s “Messiah” at shows in Aspen, Snowmass Village, Basalt and Glenwood Springs.

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children 12 and younger. Visit www. aspenchoralsociety.org for further information.

SATURDAY, DEC. 6 HANDEL’S “MESSIAH” CONCERT — 7:30 p.m., Snowmass Chapel, 5307 Owl Creek Road, Snowmass Village. The Aspen Choral Society presents the 37th annual concerts of Handel’s “Messiah.” Conducted by Paul Dankers, the performance features a 75-voice choir with soloists and orchestra. Admission is $20 at the door with free admission for children 12 and younger. Visit www. aspenchoralsociety.org for further information.

HEAR Members of the indie band Animal Collective will perform a DJ set on Friday night at Escobar. The show is due to begin at 11 p.m. Tickets are $15.

THURSDAY, DEC. 4 JAMESON — 7 p.m., Living Room at the Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St., Aspen. Classic covers. “THE CLIMB OF YOUR LIFE”: FILM SCREENING — 7 p.m., Wheeler Opera House, 320 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. An intimate documentary following the lives of seven men determined to conquer one of the toughest peaks in the world. Movie is followed by “Your Personal Expedition,” a conversation and exploration with director Stephen McGhee and host Jeff Patterson. Tickets: $10, available at Wheeler Box Office. Call 970-920-5770, or visit www. aspenshowtix.com. $5 per ticket benefits Mountain Rescue Aspen. HANDEL’S “MESSIAH” CONCERT — 7:30 p.m., Grace Church, 1776 Emma Road, Basalt. Aspen Choral Society presents the 37th annual concerts of Handel’s “Messiah.” Conducted by Paul Dankers. Performance features a 75-voice choir with

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soloists and orchestra. Admission is $20 at the door with free admission for children 12 and younger. HEAD FOR THE HILLS — 9:30 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen. Progressive string music. 970-544-9800

FRIDAY, DEC. 5 “PRETTY FACES” — 7:30 p.m., Wheeler Opera House, 320 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. A film that celebrates women who thrive in the snow and are committed to taking the path less traveled to accomplish their dreams. 866-449-0464 HANDEL’S “MESSIAH” CONCERT — 7:30 p.m., Snowmass Chapel, 5307 Owl Creek Road, Snowmass Village. The Aspen Choral Society presents the 37th annual concerts of Handel’s “Messiah.” Conducted by Paul Dankers, the performance features a 75-voice choir with soloists and orchestra. Admission is $20 at the door with free admission for

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ALEX CLARE — 9:30 p.m., Belly Up, 450 S. Galena St., Aspen. Anyone younger than 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian. $5 surcharge for anyone younger than 21. 970-544-9800

SUNDAY, DEC. 7 CROWLIN FERLIES, BRUNCH AND MUSIC — Noon, Justice Snow’s, 328 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Celtic band from the Roaring Fork Valley. 970-429-8192 DECEMBER SALON — 5 p.m., Justice Snow’s, 328 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Composer Andrea Clearfield and local choreographer Alya Howe have co-curated a program of performances including music, dance, puppetry and poetry. Price is $25 per person and includes one complimentary glass of wine and passed hors d’oeuvres. Space is limited. RSVP to 970-429-8192, or purchase tickets in advance at http://decembersalon.eventbrite.com. JOHN WESLEY SATTERFIELD — 9 p.m., Justice Snow’s, 328 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Bluegrass/folk guitar. 970-429-8192

TUESDAY, DEC. 9 HOLIDAY COOKIE EXCHANGE AND BOOK SIGNING — 4 p.m., Hotel Jerome, 330 E. Main St., Aspen. Meet-and-greet with more than 25 local authors who will be selling and signing their books for holiday gifts. Traditional cookie exchange. Part of proceeds benefit the Aspen Historical Society. Free. WYLY ART TALK: ANDERSON RANCH ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE ART TALK — 5:30 p.m., Wyly Community Art Center, 99 Midland Ave., Basalt. Six resident artists from the Anderson Ranch Artists-in-Residence Program will speak about their artwork. Artists include Daniel Leivick (photography), Lily Dithtrich (wood), Jeremy Dean (sculpture), Daniel Greenbert (print), Tara Cooper (print) and Anna Garner (photography and new media). 970-927-4123 ASPEN WRITERS’ FOUNDATION WEEKLY WRITERS’ GROUP — 7 p.m., Red Brick, 110 E. Hallam, Aspen. Writers share and receive feedback on writing projects. CROWLIN FERLIES — 7:30 p.m., Justice Snow’s, 328 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Celtic band from the Roaring Fork Valley. 970-429-8192

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10 GUIDED TOURS — 1 p.m., Aspen Art Museum, 637 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Spotlight tours of current exhibitions led by museum staff. 970-925-8050 BIG EASY BRAIN TEASY — 7:30 p.m., Square Grouper, 304 E. Hopkins, Aspen. Free trivia with prizes. JOSH ROGAN — 9 p.m., Justice Snow’s, 328 E. Hyman Ave., Aspen. Local acoustic rock. 970-429-8192

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Line Service Tech PT Service Associates Louis Vuitton Aspen is currently hiring for highly motivated, team oriented PT Service Associates for the winter season. Please email resumes to manager_aspen@us.v uitton.com or apply in store

Rentals Basalt Area

3 bed/3 ba home. 35+ acres. East Sopris Creek area. $3k/mo +utilities. Tom Carr. L&C. 970-379-9935.

Think inside the box BASALT in Willits. Single Family home. 4 Bedroom, 2.5 Bath, Garage. No Pets. No smoking. $2700+ utilities. First, last & security. 1 year lease. 970-379-3694

Rentals Carbondale

River Valley Ranch 4 BD 4.5 BA Custom Home on RVR Golf Course.2-Car Garage. Long term. Unfurnished. NS. $3600/mo 970.963.0400

Rentals Glenwood Springs VILLAGE GREEN TOWNHOMES! FP, W/D, Great community, beautiful landscaped play area. 2BD avail, $1250/mo. NP. N/S. 970-945-6622

Rentals Commercial/Retail AABC Bldg 300, Unit B Office space, 2nd Floor, 1040 sf Near bus/high visibility 970-920-1558 x111

Sell your vehicle, Luxury Barn for Rent! 6 horse stalls with heated floor. Brand new everything. Luxury apartment above barn also available. Price TBD Brent 650-773-2804 bwickam@cbcburlingam e.com Lower River Road Snowmass CO

Basalt -Professional office for long-term lease in downtown Basalt. Bright and sunny, quiet, private entrance, half bath, parking, 350 sq. ft. $600 per month, first, last, deposit, share utilities. Call Lu 309-3659.

No rain, or snow, on this parade. Advertise your roofing company in the Service Directory. Classifieds@ cmnm.org.

Hoarders be gone. Advertise your cleaning business in the Service Directory. Always in print and online. Classifieds@ cmnm.org.

Real Estate Wanted $$ ?? !! Wanted. Single Family - 1+ acre - valley floor property, not in MLS. December 31st Deadline. ms@mspofc.com

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Aspen Office space on Main St. 880 sf, $25 per sf, NNN lease. Call Craig, TFC 970.927.6828

HOME SWAP- KINLOCH NEW ZEALAND We'd love to ski Aspen a few weeks Jan/Feb Swap to our new home, visit www.lovehomeswap or email amy@beany.biz

when you place an auto photo ad for a month! 1BD 1BA Emma unfurn. apt. Garden, w/d n/s No dogs. $1,250incl. 1st,last & sec. Long-term.Kim 970-379-5913

Rentals Commercial/Retail

Downtown Carbondale 2 BD 2 BA 1104SF Home. 953 Colorado Ave. W/D, full kitch, wood flrs, fence yard w/shed, south porch, 2 parking, pets OK, year lease, $1950/m+util. info@bldgseed.com. Leave phone#.

SPEND LOCALLY!

on the river, 4 blocks to Gondola, private location, FP, WD, assigned parking, NS,

Other

Atlantic Aviation Aspen seeking full time position for Line Service Technician. Four day work week with full benefits. High school education or GED required. Drug free workplace, back ground checks required. EEOAA. Apply at www.atlanticaviation.com

Seasonal rental. Jan 1 April 30. Must be ski-in ski out. Aspen/ Snowmass. Retired professional gentleman. No pets. Non smoker. quincyllc@aol.com.

2BR/Loft/2BA,

Dispatcher- Phone Help Dispatcher- Phone Help High Mountain Taxi Full-time Seasonal Dispatcher-phone help evening and overnights E m a i l r e s u m e gretchen@hmtaxi.com Aspen CO

Rentals Housing Wanted

1BD 1BA Core 1.5 blck to Gondola. Vacation. NS/ NP. $2000-$3500/Week. 646-335-5400

Boot Fitter / Ski Sales & Delivery Driver

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A great place to work!

Customer Service

Professional Program Assistant

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Aspen - $1,595,000

Beautiful West End Lot

Aspen - $22,950,000

Gorgeous large lot in the West End. Incredible location, beautiful views. Priced to sell!

OPEN HOUSE THURS-SUN 11-5PM 1580 Tiehack Rd. is one of the finest homes in Aspen! Amazing front row Pyramid Peak views are had from this new approx 14,000 sq ft Aspen estate.

Ryan & Matt Podskoch

970-710-1725 Info@InvestInColorado.com InvestInColorado.com

Basalt - $575,000

Basalt - $599,000

Immaculately maintained, south-facing, 3bed/2.5 bath Willits townhome. Open floor plan, stone tiled gas log fireplace with wood mantle, upgraded kitchen, tastefully appointed bathrooms, custom walnut shutters, crown moldings, Casablanca ceilings fans in the livingroom and master bedroom. Privacy and views toward the mountains from the deck and fenced courtyard area, 2-car garage.

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

Willits townhome with mountain views. High-end finishes, central A/C, new carpet throughout. High ceilings and plenty of windows give the place an open feel. 2-car garage for all the toys needed to enjoy the Colorado lifestyle!

Casey Slossberg 970-319-7075 casey@bjac.net

BJ*Adams and Company

Basalt - $649,000 No HOA, no covenants! Flat acre with potential to subdivide! Tastefully remodeled 4 bed/3 bath plus office and family room 2460 sq.ft. home with plus 1200 sq.ft. garage, storage shed, roomy deck, yard and fruit trees and located just across from Crown Mountain Park and in the Basalt School District. Currently on well and septic, livestock and chickens are permitted. Room to store vehicles/equipment.

Sally Shiekman-Miller

Carbondale - $595,000

Basalt - $875,000 Lodgepole Pine log home with expansive windows and great mountain views. 4 bed, 3 bath custom built, 3540 sq.ft., vaulted ceilings, open floor plan, hardwood & stone floors, poured concrete countertops, custom carved banisters and railings, Jacuzzi tub, versatile finished basement, passive solar, spacious decks, abuts public land, overlooking valley floor and river.

Sally Shiekman-Miller

970.948.7530 sally@sallyshiekman.com www.AspenSnowmassSIR.com

LIONS RIDGE ~ ACREAGE AND VIEWS Room for all in this 5 bd 4.5 bth home on over 2 acres. Enjoy views off the decks of the bedrooms on 2nd level. New kitchen, carpet, septic and drain field. Located just moments to Carbondale and Basalt.

Brenda Wild

970-379-2299 brendawildaspen@gmail.com

Commercial Carbondale

Glenwood Springs - $1,150,000

Glenwood Springs - $75,000

New Castle - $599000

Snowmass - $519,000

Just completed 3-story building combines historic exterior details w/warm interior finishes. 948 sf retail allowed on 1st fl. Office suites on 2nd and 3rd fls range from 188 to 618 sf. Shared kitchen and and elevator. 25NNN.

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.

SKI-IN/SKI-OUT Brettelberg Condo on Sunlight Mtn Resort. Recently remodeled w/ Stainless Appliances, wood floors and cabinets, and more. HOA $249/mo, Taxes $250/yr.

Lovely home in Lakota. Assumable 2% mortgage for qualified buyers makes this home an attractive purchase. Brokers 2%.

Nothing like this for the price! Bright, contemporary remodel 2 bedroom, 2 bath. High end appliances, finishes and media. Convenient, ski in location. Walk to lift and grocery store. In the Aspen school dist.

Karen Toth

970-379-5252 CarbondaleOffices.com

Call for Appointment Buyers agents welcome 970-376-3328

303-519-9807 CJEliassen@mac.com www.brettelbergC2.com

970-379-7926 peter@martininsurancegrp.com www.owners.com

Joshua Landis

970 948-9485 Joshua@JLandis.com SnowmassLuxuryCondo.com

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Trans portation

BMW X-3 2007

Buick Grand National 1987

Chevrolet Suburban 2004

Ford F150 King Ranch 2003

Premium, Cold Weather Packages. Excellent condition. 87,000 mi. AWD. 6-spd Auto. 3.0 liter V-6. Heated, leather seats. Black, tan interior stan@scaplanning.com $15,500 970-274-3265

For Sale all original numbers Matching 1987 Buick Grand National. Only 20,888 original miles!

Good condition. Great in snow 149,000 miles

Call: 402-841-9364

$6000 970-309-0770

Ford F150 King Ranch 2003 4 door. Excellent condition. 161,000 Auto transmission. Leather seats. ABS. Bedliner. Blue Gary Williamsgatw3259@yahoo.com $8.900.00 650 399 5807

Raptor Toy Hauler 2006

BMW R90s 1975

KTM 350CXF 2011

Mini Cooper 2009

Asking $30,000 - obo.

Auto Photo Ads Work! Call or go online to sell your car 925-9937 www.aspentimes.com/placead

Ex cond. 79,400mi. 6 spd manual, 39 mpg, winter/premium package w/heated leather seats, 2 sets tires; $2K recent mech work. skeating@sopris.net $12,250 970-927-0747

Like new condition, has never seen black or gray water. Only 20 hrs on generator, too many extras to list, 3 pop outs. Less than 3000 Miles.

Black, 35k Miles. Excellent Condition.

Street legal. Less than 500 miles. Like new condition. 10k with all accessories.

$30,730.00 970-618-8218

$9,027 970-948-4541

All yours for $7,500 Call 970-376-0215 Located in Grand Junction Area

Auto Parts/ Accessories

22" Boss Wheels and P305 x R22 Sumitomo HTR Sport Tires, Fits Dodge 5 Bolt pattern, also fits other vehicles, spacing is 5 x 139.7, check your bolt spacing. $1200.00 Located in Gypsum, Very Good Condition. Gerald 970-379-6743 gggdoggg@hotmail.co m

Clothing

Merch andise Appliances

North Face WInter Down Jacket $150 OBO Snowmass Excellent condition. Wore the jacket once, looks and smells new. Size Large. Doesn't fit, or I'd keep it. Please call (310) 482-0459 with questions, or if interested. Thanks!

Construction Equipment/Material

Furniture/ Dining Room

Merchandise Wanted

$100. Located in Silt Call for information 970-404-1701 Garbage disposal, Ace Model 2000. 1/2 horsepower, $20 OBO Call Lisa 970-404-1701

Please Recycle

Old automobile manuals: 1963-1971 T r i u m p h Service / Repair Handbook $15 Feb. 1973 Popular Mechanics $5 1976 Briggs & Stratton Service and Repair instructions $10

T r u c k f u e l t a n k,

Aluminum tank, $50. Located in Silt CO. Call for information 970-404-1701

Cameras/Photo Equipment

Electronics

Vintage Photo Equipment

1967 Chiltons Yamaha Repair & Tune-up guide $5 1973 Petersons Basic Auto Repair Manual $10

Technal Dry Mount Press 500. Includes manuals. $450

1971 Car Care and Repair by David N. Wenner $15 1972 Volvo 140 Service Manual $30 1963-1967 Motors Auto Repair Manual $30

Pets - Dogs

Sheltie. $500.00 Male 6 weeks 1 sable, 2 tri's 3 Good with children Shots current AKC litter registered 970 487-3228 tomas tjg61853@hotmail.com collbran

Call Lisa 970-404-1701

Jewelry RON"THE GOLD GUY "

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

Paper Trimmer 24” $80

Call Lisa 970-404-1701

SHED CITY USA

Holiday Specials!

Children/Baby Items WINTER SNOW TIRES $500 Excellent condition. Set of 4 Dunlop Winter Sport 205/55R16 on Sport Edition Rims Off BMW 3 series. $500 970-379-7180

Red Bugaboo Frog Stroller. $450 OBO. Includes bassinet attachment and cold weather bag. Aspen Gently used condition. Billy 970-309-7045 Jamielarae@gmail.com

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Tappen Wood Stove

Older model. Needs 5-6 inner bricks. In great condition.

$300 OBO

Call Lisa 970-404-1701 or email lisap22@msn.com Located in Silt, CO.

Snowboard Equipment

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Pet Supplies/ Services MOBILE DOGGIE STYLIST Grooming and Petsitting Book Now For The Holidays Come Home to a Freshly Groomed Pet (970)710-1099

(970)668-0998

Please Recycle

Delivery Service

Busy Bees Delivery LLC

Mobile Botox®, 10% off first appointment, www.kindilan.com (970) 510-6505

Recreation Latch - Custom Boot Fitting & Orthotics in Aspen above the Belly Up! Open seven days a week! Fits by appointment, free evaluation, call Chris @ 970-623-4404.

Snow Removal Caudill Valley Services Plowing and snow removal. Old Snowmass to Aspen. 970-948-3284

970-456-8392

www.busybeesdelivery.com buzz@busybeesdelivery.com

Grass Quality Grass Hay St. Benedict’s Monastery 970-927-3312

Includes 380 pounds of weights, Olympic bar and weights and Olympic Smith Machine. Price is $1,200 new. We are asking $900. If you buy it, we will help you move it!!

SOLD IT!!

Interior Finish Interior carpentry and finish,remodel Paul 970-379-4180

Mobile Notary

Brand New, still wrapped. K2, Coors branded Snowboard 158cm. $300 OBO. Text 937-286-0789 to inquiry.

Platinum Gold's Gym

Construction

Same Day Delivery Service

The Banquet of Snowboards!

Sporting Goods Miscellaneous Merchandise

Clutter Clearing

alluremedaesthetics.com

Transform your Life This Clarity is a Gift Deborah 970-948-5663

Sofa-bed. FREE! Gently used condition. Marge 970-963-1285 mpalmer@sopris.net

I Buy Gold

LASER TATTOO REMOVAL • Ross Dickstein, MD

Furniture/Home Furnishings

22" Flat Screen TV Viore $150 OBO Snowmass Excellent condition. Perfect for a small room. Easy to mount. Comes with power cord and remote. Please call (310) 482-0459 with questions, or if interested. Thanks!

Fireplaces/Stoves

E l e g a n t G i f t wrapping,baskets Start from$3.00 970-306-8311 Aspen sraksanee@yahoo.com

Cleaning Service

Fuel tank, Steel tank, 4 Nitto studless snow tires. 205/70/15 Gently used 1 season. Excellent condition. $330 total. Terry 970-923-9603

Arts/Crafts/ Hobbies

Want to purchase minerals and other oil/gas interests. Send details to: P.O. Box 13557, Denver, CO 80201 SOLID OAK DINING TABLE, LIKE NEW! 64Lx42Wx30H + 18" leaf Must See! $1000 OBO. can deliver 970.710.1734

Thousands of other autos have ALREADY sold!

Health & Beauty Lost

Basalt Barber Shop Open Tues - Fri 9am-6pm Sat. 8:30am- 1pm

$2000

Service

Directory

Hair Cuts Chad and Lonnie Bones 302 Midland Ave.

970-366-6550

LOST: PANASONIC LUMIX G3 CAMERA at Keystone Resort Fri. Nov 28,14. no questions a s k e d . K r i s (970)390-9101 kris.hasbrouck@gmail.c om

Announcements $1000 prize for an inventor of a paddle wheel electric generating system to float in rivers and streams. richaspen@comcast.net

tional Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-GEL2 Susan J. Hendrick, Atty Reg. No. 33196 Marcello G. Rojas, Atty Reg. No. 46396 Klatt, Odekirk, Augustine, Sayer, Treinen & Rastede, P.C. 9745 E. Hampden Ave., Ste. 400 M O N DAY- F R I DAY 8 : 3 0 A M TO 5 : 0 0 P M Denver, Colorado 80231 Phone Number: 303-353-2965 970. 3 8 4 - 9 1 3 5 FAX Number: E-mail: shendrick@klatt-law.com L E G A L S @ AS P E N T I M E S .CO M mrojas@klatt-law.com 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 legally described property: 113 E. Hopkins Avenue, Lots C and D, Block 68, City and Townsite of Aspen, Colorado, PID# 2735-124-58-002. Minor Development approval has been granted to change a roof pitch on a nonhistoric area of this landmarked home. Approval was granted through Historic Preservation Commission Resolution #34, Series of 2014. For further information contact Amy Simon, at the City of Aspen Community Development Dept. 130 S. Galena St, Aspen, Colorado (970) 429-2758, or amy.simon@cityofaspen.com. s/ City of Aspen Published in The Aspen Times on Dec 6th, 2014 (10763710) NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Monroe G. Summers, a/k/a Monroe George Summers, Deceased Case Number 2014PR30054 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to [X] District Court of Pitkin, County, Colorado or [ ] Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before March 20, 2015*, or the claims may be forever barred. Glenda G. Summers c/o Holland & Hart, LLP P.O. Box 8749 Denver, CO 80201-8749 Published in the Aspen Times Weekly November 20, 27, 2014 and December 4, 2014. (10724930)

Small Claims Court Pitkin County, Colorado Court Address: Combined Court 506 E. Main, Suite 300 Aspen, CO 81611 PLAINTIFF(S): PROPANE SERVICES INC. Address: PO Box 3318 City/State/Zip: Basalt, CO 81621 Phone: Home: 970-927- 4757 Cell: 970-379-3261 v. DEFENDANT(1): JOSH MEACHUM Address: 106 Haystack Lane City/State/Zip: Snowmass, CO 81654 Phone: Home : 970-366-0203 Work Cell Case Number: 14S22 Division Courtroom ALIAS NOTICE, CLAIM AND SUMMONS TO APPEAR FOR TRIAL (Part 1) If Defendant(s) is/are other than a person, go online at www.sos.state.co.us to determine the registered agent for service of this notice. Please enter name and address of the agent. Name: Address: 1. The Defendant(s) is/are in the military service: a [ ] Yes [X] No [ ] Unknown 2. The Defendant(s) reside(s), is/are regularly employed, has/have an office for the transaction of business, or is/are a student in this county, or the Defendant(s) own(s) the real property in this county that is the subject of this claim arising from a restrictive covenant or security deposit dispute. [X] Yes [ ] No 3. I/We understand that it is my/our responsibility to have each Defendant served with the "Defendant's Copy" of this Notice by a person whose age is 18 years or older and who is not a party to this action 15 days prior to the trial and to provide the Court with written proof of service. [X] Yes [ ] No 4. I am an attorney: [ ] Yes [X] No Notice and Summons to Appear for Trial To the Defendant(s): You are scheduled to have your trial in this case on Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (date) at 10:00 a.m. (time) at the Court address stated in the above caption. Bring with you all books, papers and witnesses you need to establish your defense. If you do not appear, judgment may be entered against you. If you wish to defend the claim or present a counterclaim, you must provide a written response or written counterclaim on or before the scheduled trial date and pay a nonrefundable filing fee. Dated: November 26, 2014. ROYA BEKLIK Clerk of Court/Deputy Clerk Plaintiff(s)'s Claim (Please summarize reasons to support your claim below.) The Defendant(s) owe(s) me $1694.10 , which includes penalties, plus interest and costs allowed by law, and/or should be ordered to return property, perform a contract or set aside a contract or comply with a restrictive covenant for the following reasons. (If seeking return of property, please describe the property being requested). PROPANE FUEL FOR HOME HEATING Note: The combined value of money, property, specific performance or cost to remedy a covenant violation cannot exceed $7,500.00. Plaintiff(s) declare under penalty of perjury that the above statements are true and correct, and that I/we have not filed in any Small Claims Court in this County more than 2 claims during this calendar month, nor more than 18 claims in this County this calendar year. Date: November 25, 2014 Margaret Devan Plaintiff's Signature Published in the Aspen Times Weekly December 4, 11 , 1 8 , a n d 2 5 , 2014 and January 1, 2015. (10758793)

District Court, Pitkin County, Colorado 506 E. Main, Suite 300 Aspen, Colorado 81611 Plaintiff: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-GEL2 v. Defendants: LAURENCE WOZNICKI, an individual; NANCY LAFEVER, an individual; TOM OKEN, in his official capacity as the Public Trustee for Pitkin County, Colorado; WHITE STAR RANCHES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, an HOA planned community; LOWE W/J, LLC, a Colorado limited liability corporation; W/J METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, a quasi-municipal corporation; FAMILY TITLE INSURANCE CORP., an Illinois corporation; and ANY AND ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY Case Number 2014CV30115 Division 1 Courtroom Attorneys for Defendant Lowe W/J, LLC: Rhonda J. Bazil, Attorney Reg. No. 14921 Rhonda J. Bazil, P.C. 230 E. Hopkins Ave. Aspen, Colorado 81611 Phone: (970) 925-7171 Fax: (970) 925-4668 Email: rjbazil@sopris.net Beth Van Vurst, Atty. Reg. No. 36931 Priority Water Law, LLC P.O. 6560 Vail, Colorado 81658 Phone Number: (970) 343-9507 Email: beth@prioritywaterlaw.com SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO DEFENDANT: FAMILY TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, an Illinois Corporation, 815 Commerce Drive, #100, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: FAMILY TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend against the CROSS-CLAIM OF LOWE W/J, LLC filed with the Clerk of this Court in this action, by filing an answer or other response. In the Cross-Claim, Lowe W/J, LLC seeks recovery of its attorneys fees for breach of an existing contract along with any other relief the court may deem just and proper. You are required to file your answer or other response to the Cross-Claim within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this Summons shall be complete on the last day of the publication. A copy of the Cross-Claim made against you may be obtained from the Court. If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Cross-Claim in writing within the applicable time period, the Court may enter judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Cross-Claim without further notice. Dated: November 21, 2014 Published in the Aspen Times First Publication: _November 27, 2014__________ Last Publication: December 26, 2014 /s/ Beth Van Vurst Beth Van Vurst, #36931 Attorney for Lowe W/J, LLC Published in the Aspen Times Weekly November 27, 2014 and December 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2014. (10744742) NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S NOTICE TO CREDITORS* Estate of Eliseo Lopez, Deceased Case Number: 14R30081 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Eagle County, Colorado, on or before March 20, 2015 , or the claims may be forever barred. JOSE ANTONIO AMAYA LOPEZ 605 West Hopkins Avenue, #103 Aspen, Co 81611 Published in the Aspen Times Weekly, Citizen Telegram, Glenwood Springs Post Independent, November 20, 27, 2014 and December 4, 2014. (10715075) DISTRICT COURT, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 506 E. Main, Suite 300 Aspen, CO 81611 Plaintiff: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-GEL2, v. Defendant: LAURENCE WOZNICKI, an individual; NANCY LAFEVER, an individual; TOM OKEN, in his official capacity as the Public Trustee for Pitkin County, Colorado; WHITE STAR RANCHES HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, an HOA planned community; LOWE W/J, LLC, a Colorado limited liability corporation; W/J METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, a quasi-municipal corporation; FAMILY TITLE INSURANCE CORP., an Illinois corporation; and ANY AND ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT REAL PROPERTY, COURT USE ONLY Case Number: 2014CV30115 Division 1 Courtroom Attorney or Party Without Attorney: U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-GEL2 Susan J. Hendrick, Atty Reg. No. 33196 Marcello G. Rojas, Atty Reg. No. 46396 Klatt, Odekirk, Augustine, Sayer, Treinen & Rastede, P.C. 9745 E. Hampden Ave., Ste. 400 Denver, Colorado 80231 Phone Number: 303-353-2965 FAX Number: E-mail: shendrick@klatt-law.com mrojas@klatt-law.com SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO Defendant: Family Title Insurance Corp. an Illinois Corporation 815 Commerce Drive #100

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO Defendant: Family Title Insurance Corp. an Illinois Corporation 815 Commerce Drive #100 Oak Brook, Illinois 60523

District Court Pitkin County, Colorado Court Address: 508 East Main Street Aspen, CO 81611 NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION §15-12-801, C.R.S. NOTICE TO CREDITORS*

All unknown person who may claim an interest in the subject property.

Estate of, Karl Holladay Siegel, Deceased Case Number 14PR30055

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint [petition] filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35* days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint [petition] may be obtained from the clerk of the court. If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint [petition] in writing within 35* days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint [petition] without further notice. This is an action: This is a C.R.C.P. 105 action for determination of interest and judicial foreclosure in the property legally described as: Parcel 2 of the W/J Ranch is a tract situated in Lot 8 and the NW1/4 SW1/4, (previously described as being in the NW1/4 NW1/4) of Section 22, Township 9 South, Range 85 West of the Sixth Principal Meridian, described as follows: Beginning at a point whence the West ¼ corner of said Section 22 bears North 7018"45" West 1097.94 feet; Thence South 5631"00" East 416.60 feet; Thence North 004700 West 530.02 feet; Thence South 483500 West 453.70 feet to the Point of the Beginning. Parcel 2 Access Easement: A perpetual, nonexclusive easement for the benefit of the Land and Premises described as Tract A above for access and egress of every kind and nature to and from the Land and Premises and that certain publicly dedicated right-of-way known as Bullwinkle Circle Access Easement, and for the installation, maintenance, operation and use of utilities, including without limitation, electricity, telephone, gas, cable television, sewer, and water, and together with the right to maintain said easement, and in so doing, to use and occupy such land adjacent to the easement as may reasonably by necessary or desirable for construction, maintenance and operation of the easement, snow stacking, storage of materials and the like, such easement being more particularly described as follows: A strip of land situated in Parcel C of the W/J Ranch, located in Government Lot 8, Government Lot 9, and Government Lot 13 of Section 22, Township 9 South Range 85 West of the 6th Principal meridian, being 40 feet wide, 20 feet each side of the following described centerline: Beginning at the southeasterly end of the Parcel 2 Access Easement centerline being on the westerly line of Bullwinkle Circle Access Easement whence the W1/4 corner of said Section 22 bears North 6133'13" West 1884.16 feet; Thence North 3751'56" West 187.59 feet; Thence North 4427'05" West 200.78 feet; Thence North 0047'00" West 6.72 feet; Thence continuing North 0047'00" West 291.69 feet with the westerly sideline of Parcel 2 Access Easement adjoining and being identical to the easterly property line of Parcel No.2 to the northerly end of the Access Easement centerline. Also, the sidelines at the southeasterly end of Parcel 2 Access Easement shall be lengthened or shortened to terminate on the westerly line of the Bullwinkle Circle Easement. which is commonly known as 150 Bullwinkle Circle, Aspen, CO 81611 (the "Property").

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the

Dated: October 29, 2014 Published in the Aspen Times. First Publication: November 6 2014. Last Publication: December 4, 2014.

District Court of Pitkin County County, Colorado, on or before April 9, 2015 , or the claims may be forever barred. Arielle Rae Siegel Shipe PO Box 160 Truckee, CA 96160

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 DETERMINATIONS BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the general public that on November 19, 2014, the Pitkin County Community Development Director granted approval for the 155 Danielson LLC Activity Envelope & Site Plan Review (Case P073-14; Deter. #81-2014). The property is located at 155 Danielson Drive and is legally described as Lot R-72, Block 11, Starwood Eleven Subdivision. The State Parcel Identification Number for the property is 2643-351-08-001. 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 December 4, 2014. (10757255)

Published in the Aspen Times Weekly December 4, 11, and 18, 2014. (10760796) 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 allows. Check agenda at 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 PUBLIC HEARINGS BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2014:

DISTRICT COURT, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO ASPEN, CO 81611 - November 08, 2014 DISTRICT COURT, PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 506 East Main Street, Suite 300, Aspen, Colorado 81611 In Re the Parental Responsibilities concerning: TIANNO REYES VATTIMO, of: Petitioner: REYES, Baldwin v. Respondent: VATTIMO, Gisela Case Number: 13DR40 Attorney for Petitioner: Cecilia Kupchik #35041 Firm Name: Kupchik Rossi LLC Address: 3171 W 38th Ave, Denver, CO 80211 Phone Number: (303) 351-1011 Fax Number: (303) 642-3136 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO RESPOND TO PETITION FOR ALLOCATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Summarizing Revenues and Expenditures for each Fund and Adopting a Budget for Pitkin County, Colorado for the Calendar Year 2015

To the Respondent named above this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case.

Appropriating Sums of Money to the Various Funds, for Pitkin County, Colorado, 2015 Budget Year

You must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

Levying General Property Taxes for the Year 2014, to Help Defray the Costs of Government for Pitkin County, Colorado, and its Special Districts for the 2015 Budget Year

Your response must be accompanied with the applicable filing fee.

Ordinance Establishing Fees for the Environmental Health Department and An Ordinance of the Board of County Commissioners of Pitkin County, Colorado, Establishing Fees for the Community Development Department and Repealing and Replacing Ordinance 030-2009 An Ordinance of the Board of County Commissioners of Pitkin County, Colorado, Establishing Fees for the Environmental Health Department and Repealing and Replacing Resolution 064-2010 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014: Resolution Approving Supplemental Budget Appropriations (July-December) County Medicaid Incentive Contract with Health Care Policy and Financing

The Petition requests that the Court enter a Order addressing issues involving the children such as, child support, allocation of parental responsibilities, (decision-making and parenting time), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction. Notice: Colorado Revised Statutes §14-10-123, provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities by the Petitioner and Co-Petitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Order is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply to the Court for further temporary orders, an expanded automatic temporary injunction, or modification or revocation under §14-10-125, C.R.S. A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities pursuant to §14-10-124(1.5), C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained prior to a legal establishment of paternity and submitted into evidence prior to the entry of the final order, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.

/s/ Marcello Rojas Marcello G. Rojas, #46396 Attorney for U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2007-GEL2

IGA for Financial Support of Colorado West Regional Mental Health, dba Mind Springs Health Detox Center Operated in Pitkin County Resolution to Approve IGA for Provision of Public and Environmental Health Services

Dated: November 11, 2014

Published in the Aspen Times November 6, 13, 20, and 27, 2014 and December 4, 2014 (10682458)

Resolution Setting Initial Airport Fees and Charges for 2015.

Published in the Aspen Times Weekly on November 20, 27, 2014 and December 4, 11, 18, 2014. (10714942)

An Application submitted by Aspen Organics, LLC for issuance of a Retail Marijuana Cultivation Facility License at 24505 Highway 82, Basalt, CO 81621 Pitkin County, Colorado. Petitions and remonstrances may be filed with the Pitkin County Clerk and Recorder at 530 East Main Street, Suite 101, Aspen, Colorado, 81611. ATTENTION: Jeanette Jones, Deputy County Clerk. Jeanette Jones, Deputy County Clerk Published in the Aspen Times Weekly on December 4, 2014. (10757378) PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE FOLLOWING MATTERS OF INTEREST REGARDING THE PITKIN COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S NOTICE TO CREDITORS* Estate of Mayra Lopez, Deceased Case Number: 14R30080 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Eagle County, Colorado, on or before March 20, 2015 , or the claims may be forever barred. JOSE ANTONIO AMAYA LOPEZ 605 West Hopkins Avenue, #103 Aspen, Co 81611 Published in the Aspen Times Weekly, Citizen Telegram, Glenwood Springs Post Independent, November 20, 27, 2014 and December 4, 2014. (10714909)

"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 allows. Check agenda at 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 DETERMINATIONS BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR:

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the general public that on November 19, 2014, the Pitkin County Community Development Director granted approval for the 155 Danielson LLC Activity EnvelopeA&S P E N T I M E S . C O M / W E E K L Y Site Plan Review (Case P073-14; Deter. #81-2014). The property is located at 155 Danielson Drive and is legally described as Lot R-72, Block 11, Starwood Eleven Subdivision. The State Parcel Identification Number for the property is

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INTELLIGENT EXERCISE

by ANDREW TRAVERS

BOOK REVIEW

‘LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU’ NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO, Richard Ford wrote, “New Jersey’s is the purest loneliness of all” in “The Sportswriter,” the novel that introduced readers to Frank Bascombe and began Ford’s series following the real estate agent and writer. The observation has never been truer than in the new, fourth Bascombe book, “Let Me Be Frank With You.” In the new book’s linked stories, Bascombe is (as always) emotionally adrift and now 68 years old, retired from real estate. It finds him in New Jersey at its loneliest, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in late 2012. Though it is filled with the vivid, pitch-perfect descriptions readers have come to expect from Ford, the book is less about Sandy than it is about getting old and contemplating death. Watching nature take its course and level the homes along the by MATT GINSBERG / edited by WILL SHORTZ

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