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FOOD & DRINK

Market brings much-needed fresh food to Georgetown Page 4

CULTURE

Duck Race supports more than 60 charities, groups Page 9

ARTS

MUSIC

Film festival’s third year more immersive, horrifying Page 15

Mountain shop celebrates record store culture Page 20

SILVER PLUME • GEORGETOWN • EMPIRE • IDAHO SPRINGS • CENTRAL CITY • BLACK HAWK • GOLDEN GATE • ROLLINSVILLE • COAL CREEK • NEDERLAND • GOLD HILL • WARD • JAMESTOWN • ALLENSPARK • LYONS • ESTES PARK

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Movies

IN THE MOUNTAINS

COVER STORY: Movie viewing in the Front Range mountain towns, which are miles from the nearest multiplex, can range from a modern digital cinema to a library conference room. No matter where seen, movies in our sometimes isolating mountain communities provide much-needed family entertainment and a great way to spend an evening out of the house.

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Historic Places Idaho Springs Argo Tunnel & Mill

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Location: Idaho Springs to Central City Date Listed: National Register, January 31, 1978

Bryan Hose House

Location: Illinois and Virginia Streets Date Listed: National Register, March 19, 1998

Echo Lake Park

Location: Colo. Hwy. 103 and Colo. Hwy. 5 Date Listed: National Register, February 24, 1995

Hose House No. 2

Location: 600 Colorado Blvd.

Date Listed: National Register, March 19, 1998 Continued on page 12

Idaho Springs offers unique mix of historic places PEAK TO PEAK Colorado’s rich history is being preserved through the efforts of locally- and nationally-designated historic places. Each month this year, the MMAC Monthly takes a region-by-region look at the many properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the mountain communities in Clear Creek, Gilpin, Boulder and Larimer counties.

The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. For a property to

be eligible, it must meet at least one of four main criteria involving architectural styles, association with various aspects of social history and commerce, ownership and design/construction.

Idaho Springs, site of the first significant discovery of the Colorado Gold Rush, has several nationally-recognized historic places. George Jackson found gold at the confluence of Chicago Creek and Vasquez Creek on Jan. 7, 1859 and the town boomed throughout the 1860s. It reached a peak population Continued on page 12

Miner Street in Idaho Springs is part of the town’s National Historic District.

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TAKE NOTE – supporting our community

Volume 8, Issue 4 • April 2015

Busy April also time to raise awareness of sexual assault PEAK TO PEAK April is a busy month. There are plenty of holidays and celebrations including April Fools Day, Easter, Beer Day, Record Store Day, Patriot’s Day, 4:20, Earth Day and Arbor Day. It’s also National Poetry, Lawn and Garden and Humor Month among other things and contains Library, Garden and Karaoke weeks. There are more serious things like Tax Day, as well. Warmer weather, of course, means there is much more to do around the mountains, both inside and out.

Each year, the month of April is also

designated Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the United States. The goal is to raise public awareness about sexual violence and to educate communities and individuals on how to prevent sexual violence.

Sexual assault happens when someone forces or manipulates someone else into unwanted sexual activity without their consent. Absence of resistance or physical injury does not mean consent.

According to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, 1 in 2 women and 1 in 4 men in Colorado

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have experienced sexually violent crimes in their lifetime. Studies show that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men are sexually abused before the age of 18.

If you have had an unwanted sexual experience, get to a safe place and address medical needs, be patient with yourself and/or your loved one and understand that there are many responses to this traumatic event. You may experience anxiety, depression, panic attacks, flashbacks, memory loss, rage, numbness or flat affect, sleep disturbances or other issues so speak to a freind and find help.

Call the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault at 303-839-9999 or visit www.ccasa.org/gethelp to learn more about what to do if you have had an unwanted sexual experience, find out your options or find a rape crisis center anywhere in Colorado. .

Addiction Recovery Groups Sunday Gilpin County H.A.L.T. – St. Paul’s Church, Central City, 2 p.m.

Fall River Group AA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, noon Monday Clear Creek Road Runners – United Church of Idaho Springs, 2 p.m.

Al-Anon Families – Allenspark Fire Department, 5 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal,

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Fall River Group AA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, noon St. Vrain Group AA Meeting – IOOF Hall, Lyons, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday AA Meeting – St. Rita’s Catholic Church, Nederland 5:30 & 7 p.m.

Clear Creek Road Runners 2 – Georgetown Community Center, 7 p.m.

St. Vrain Group AA Meeting – IOOF Hall, Lyons, 7:30 p.m.

AA Meeting – Golden Gate Grange Community Center, 2 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal, Fall River Group AA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, noon & 7 p.m.

Wednesday Gilpin County H.A.L.T. – St. Paul’s Church, Central City, 2 p.m.

Morning Group AA Meeting – Nederland Veterinary Hospital (Back Office), 8 a.m.

Canyon Group AA Meeting – Coal Creek Canyon United Power Offices., 7:30 p.m.

Open AA Meeting – Allenspark Fire Station, 5 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal, Estes Park, 7 a.m.

Fall River Group AA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, 7 p.m.

Thursday Morning Group AA Meeting – Nederland Veterinary Hospital (Back Office), 8 a.m.

Clear Creek Road Runners – United Church of Idaho Springs, 2 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal, Estes Park, 7 a.m.

AA Meeting, New Horizons Group NA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, noon & 7 p.m.

Friday Free at Last Group NA Meeting – Harmony Foundation of Estes Park, 7:30 p.m.

Clear Creek Road Runners – United Church of Idaho Springs, 2 p.m.

Wild Basin Book Study – New Covenant Church, Allenspark, 6:30 p.m.

AA Meeting – St. Rita’s Catholic Church, Nederland, 7 p.m.

Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal,

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Fall River Group AA Meeting – 701 Elm, Estes Park, noon & 7 p.m.

Saturday Early Worms Group AA Meeting – St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal, Estes Park, 7 a.m.

Call Boulder 24-hour AA Answering Service at 303-682-8032 for assistance any time of day. Visit www.bouldercountyaa.org, www.daccaa. org or www.northcoloradoaa.org for information in Boulder, Denver and Northern Colorado regions or visit www.aa.org; www.na.org or www.oa.org to find other regional meetings and resources.

If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, call 800-522-4700 where trained counselors can provide treatment options in Colorado.

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MOUNTAIN MIX – the best of all the rest

April 3

‘Dancing Colors’ opening reception

Art Center of Estes Park hosts an opening reception for Linda C. Palmer’s “Dancing Colors” exhibition, April 3, 5-7 p.m. Palmer is a versatile artist whose artwork celebrates “the beauty God has given to us through nature.” Palmer expresses her impressions through drawings and paintings, using the mediums of watercolor and pastel. Her art hangs at the gallery, 517 Big Thompson Ave., until May 10. Call 970-586-5882, e-mail info@artcenterofestes. com or visit www.artcenterofestes.com for more information.

‘Ecosystem Through an Artist’s Eyes’ installation opening reception

Join local artist Susan Q Foster for an intimate reception celebrating her art installation at Nederland Community Library, April 3 from 5:30-7 p.m. Wine and cheese will be served. Foster’s background as an environmental scientist “informs her vibrant pastel paintings.” Her art hangs at the library, 200 Highway 72 N., until June 30. Call 303-258-1101 or visit www.nedlib.org to learn more.

April 9

Inaugural meeting of St. Mary’s Book Group

The newly formed St. Mary’s Book Group meets for the first time, April 9, at 7 p.m. in the Alice Schoolhouse near St. Mary’s Glacier.

The group will discuss the memoir, Altitude Adjustment: A Quest for Love, Home, and Meaning in the Tetons, by Mary Beth Baptiste.

Bring a snack to share and your own drink. The group was started

by Kathy Lynn Harris, author of two Amazon bestselling novels: Blue Straggler and A Good Kind of Knowing, which earned top literary honors in 2013 from the National Federation of Press Women.

Visit www.stmarysglacier.com for more information.

April 11

Vermicomposting: Wonderful Worms!

Worm compost is some of the finest soil conditioner and fertilizer you can give a garden. It’s also odor-free and work-free, since the worms do the turning for you. The Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Hwy. in Lyons holds a hands-on workshop, April 11 from 10 a.m. to noon with local “worm-whisperer” Dan Matsch of Boulder’s EcoCycle. After April 1, the class costs $15 and includes instruction only, but help ordering equipment and worms from a reputable source will be available. Find more infromation and sign up at lyonsfarmette.com or e-mail Betsy@LyonsFarmette.com.

April 18

‘Yesterado: Stories of Colorado from When it Was Young’

The Estes Park Museum hosts “Yesterado,” April 18, at the Estes Park High School Auditorium,1600 Manford Ave. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. and the show runs from 4 -5:30 p.m. Based on accounts from an 1897 Colorado newspaper, performers guide the audience through stories touching on characteristics of frontier life: lawlessness, surviving nature’s challenges, the changing roles of women and social hierarchy. Performed by the Buntport Theater of Denver, “Yesterado” is ideal for grades K-6, but all ages are welcome. Learn more at www.estes.org/museumevents.

April 18

Wild Earth Day

April 25-26

The 14th annual Wild Earth Day is a free day of entertainment and education about the planet earth. On April 18, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., visitors can engage in hands-on experiential activities, presentations and celebrations all day at Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center, 20 Lakeview Dr. in Nederland. Wild Earth Day is Boulder County’s largest Earth Day event, running for 15 years. It features live birds of prey, face painting, bake sale, music, films, hands-on discovery, informative booths from masters in environmental education and fun. Call 303-258-0495 or visit wildbear.org for details.

April 24

Friends of the Georgetown Library Annual Meeting and “Travels in Iran” Talk

Friends of the Georgetown Library host Cindy Neely featuring her travels into Iran at their Annual Meeting & Program, April 24. The free program at the Community Center in Georgetown, 613 6th Street, take place at 7 p.m. and everyone is welcome. Neely, Executive Director of the Georgetown Trust for Conservation & Preservation Inc., answers why and how she went to Iran and share surprising lessons learned. Call John Ewers at 303-569-2620 or visit www.facebook.com/FriendsOf TheJohnTomayMemorialLibrary for more information.

April 25

Disco Party to benefit Charlie’s Place

Friends of Charlie’s Place invites everyone to attend a “flash back to the past” at their 2nd annual Disco Dance Fever Fundraiser at the Elks Lodge in Idaho Springs, April 25 from 6-10 p.m. Dance instruction and a contest will be available with music provided by DDouble-J Josh Reagon. Food and drink will also be available for purchase. Visit www.friendsofcharliesplace.org/ for more information.

‘SWITCH’ movie screening and discussion

April is the month of Earth Day, and Gilpin County’s CSU Extension is holding a free screening and discussion of the movie “SWITCH” at the Gilpin County Library at 1 p.m. on April 25. The movie is a balanced energy film embraced by fossil and renewable energy companies, environmental groups, academics and the general public alike. CSU Extension Energy Specialist, Cary Weiner will lead a discussion following the movie. The short film “Unacceptable Risk, Firefighters on the Front Lines of Climate Change,” will also be shown. RSVP online if interested in attending. Visit www.extension.colostate.edu/gilpin to learn more.

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Palisade Wine and Bike Tour

Clear Creek Metropolitan Recreation District travels to Palisade, April 25-26, for a wine and bike tour of some of the region’s 21 vineyards. The group spends Saturday afternoon visiting a handful of vineyards on a cruiser bike ride for tastings and tours and stay the night at Wine Country Inn with Sunday morning breakfast buffet. Spots are limited, so call to reserve space. The CCMRD van leaves at 8 a.m. on April 25 and returns late afternoon on April 26.

There will be room for some bikes or they can be rented in Palisade. Call 303-567-4822 for more information or reserve a room.

April 26

Spring Heritage Day at Walker Ranch

The annual Spring Heritage Day at Walker Ranch Homestead; 8999 Flagstaff Road, takes place, April 26, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. See costumed volunteers demonstrate chores associated with rural living in the late 1800s. Activities include button making, live music sing along, guided tour, one room school session, calf roping, old fashioned candy, dyed eggs and fabric, cowboy on horseback, blacksmithing, children’s games, laundry, log hewing, shingle making and wood cutting, meal preparation, butter churning and more. Call or e-mail Sheryl Kippen at 303-776-8848 or skippen@ bouldercounty.org for more information.

Fermentation 101 with Ozuké

The Lyons Larmette hosts an afternoon with Mara and Willow King of Ozuké, April 26, from 3-5 p.m., to learn how to simply and easily ferment vegetables to make sauerkrauts, pickled veggies, and more. Participants leave with their own jar of something delicious and the desire to keep making krauts and kimchis forever. The class is $25 per person and includes a jar of what you create. Bring a friend for half off your class. Visit lyonsfarmette.com or e-mail Betsy@LyonsFarmette.com to sign up or find more information.

April 27-May 4

Qigong Series

The Nederland Community Library hosts a series of free Qigong classes, April 27-May 4. The classes welcome the season of spring, a time of planting seeds, beginnings, and new growth. Participants will learn a short and simple form of Wu Xing Qi Gong to nurture and balance the body’s elements and connect to the universal energy using breath, movement and intention. The five-week class meets for an hour at 8:30 a.m. on Mondays. Space is limited. Call 303-258-1101 or email jaymann.ncl@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

Corn Harvest Benefit Ski Party at Loveland May 1

Loveland Ski Area welcomes the 13th annual Corn Harvest benefit ski party for the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, Free Slash and Log Disposal Sort Yards open April 25 from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. The avalanche center plays a big role in skiing safety and safe travels along Interstate 70. Meet in the Basin Lodge the morning of the event to register. Packages that include lift ticket, lunch, New Belgium Beer, raffle, and donation will be available. Meet up with Loveland locals as they show some of the secret stashes and best parts of the mountain. For $60 participants get a lift ticket, BBQ lunch, raffle ticket, donation to CAIC, and a great day of skiing. For pass holders, tickets are $30.

For more information, visit cornharvest.com.

Sport shooting group plans April 13 virtual meeting FRONT RANGE The Northern Front Range Recreational Sport Shooting Management Partnership has scheduled a Virtual Meeting for April 13, from 6-8 p.m. Anyone with an interest in the partnership’s strategy for moving forward is encouraged to participate.

The Partnership is comprised of representatives from Larimer, Boulder, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties as well as the U.S. Forest Service and Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

The goal of the Virtual Meeting is to gauge if the partnership is moving in the right direction and if there are other components the group should

be considering or other comments with regard to its future plans. This meeting will not discuss specifics to do with closures, noise, litter etc. For site-specific shooting conflict concerns, contact local law enforcement or the U.S. Forest Service.

The goal of the Virtual Meeting is to provide a way for as many people to share their thoughts and questions about the strategy as possible. The Partnership will be live webstreaming the meeting in which all of the Partner agencies will answer presubmitted questions and comments Anyone interested in the recreational sport shooting issue in Lar-

imer, Boulder, Clear Creek and Gilpin counties are asked to watch short videos and read the strategy prior to commenting. After reviewing the information, interested parties are asked to submit questions, comments, concerns or other thoughts about the Strategy before April 13 by filling out a form on the website, sending an e-mail or social media message or calling Project Coordinator Garry Sanfaçon.

Learn more about the issue, partnership and virtual meeting at SportShootingPartners.org or contact Sanfaçon, at info@sportshoortingpartners.com or 720-564-2642.

The Nederland and Allenspark Sort Yards are scheduled to open, May 1 and will operate, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Boulder County has established the sort yards to collect logs, tree branches, pine needles, cut grass and noxious weeds from county residents. There is no charge. Keep all types of material (logs, slash, yard waste, noxious weeds) separate to unload in different locations. Full sort yard program details are available here: at www.bouldercounty.org/property/forest/pages/fhsortyards.aspx. Call 303-678-6368 before hauling to confirm hours.

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FOOD & DRINK CALENDAR

April 1 • Coffee with the Chief, Wine & Words – Happy Trails Café (NED)

• Murder Mystery Dinner – Lyons Fork (LY) • Community Cupboard Food Bank Distribution – Old Gallery Cabin (AP)

• Bugs and Brews (Fly Tying) – Estes Park Feed & Supply (EP) • Coffee-Chat with the Mayor – Estes Park Senior Center (EP) April 2 • Food Pantry Distribution – Nederland Community Center (NED)

April 3 • Wine Tasting – Peak Wine & Spirits (NED) • First Friday Supper: Pizza – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) • Seafood Buffet – Other Side Restaurant (EP) April 4 • Moonlight Dinner Series: A Night in Italy – Arapahoe Basin Ski Area (SC)

April 5 • Easter Brunch – Stage Stop (RV) • Easter Brunch – Peaceful Valley Ranch (AP) • Easter Special Dinner – Fawn Brooke Inn (AP) • Traditional Asian Brunch Buffet – Aspen Lodge (EP) • Easter Brunch – Other Side Restaurant (EP) • Easter Brunch – Estes Park Resort (EP) • Easter Buffet-Style Brunch – YMCA of the Rockies Estes Park Center (EP)

• Easter Brunch Buffet & Easter Egg Hunt – Cascades at Stanley Hotel (EP)

April 7 • Cellar Day – Peak Wine & Spirits (NED) • Soup Night – Old Gallery Cabin (AP) • Rotary Club of Estes Park First Tuesday Lunch – The Hangar (EP)

April 10 • Upslope Brewing Tasting – Peak Wine & Spirits (NED) April 10-11 • Neo’s Restaurant Fundraiser for the Fitness Center – Nederland Community Center (NED) April 11 • Wine Tasting: Classic Wines – Mid County Liquor (RV) • Clear Creek Dems’ Jefferson-Jackson Dinner – Elks

FOOD & DRINK – restaurants, cafés, bars, breweries and more Market brings much-needed fresh food to Georgetown

By Jennifer Pund GEORGETOWN hen heading to the high country, or just heading home to a mountain town, there is always something that didn’t make it into the cooler or grocery bag. The Georgetown Market is the solution. Offering typical snack options like a convenience store, the newly reopened store and gas station provides many grocery staples including fresh fruits, vegetables and dairy.

After years of sitting unused, its new owners spent months giving the 4,000 square foot building and facilities a complete overhaul. The floors have been re-done, new shelving was brought in and the two small bathrooms were merged into one larger, modern, state-ofthe-art restroom.

“The property needed a lot of work,” Store Manager George Marlin said. “It had been years before any meaningful changes were made to the building. We made some infrastructure investments to be able to deal with some of the bigger food distributors, which was something holding back the old store in this location. And, it’s been fun getting regular comments about the quality of our new restroom.”

Aside from the facilities, customers also enjoy the new fresh fruit and vegetable selection, which is regularly stocked with bananas, lemons, onion, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, lettuce,

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mushrooms artichokes, cucumbers, fresh seasonal items and more. The shelves are also lined with items needed for everyday home cooking or vacation needs. “In addition to always having the staples and basics, we are constantly bringing in new items to keep the experience fresh,” Marlin said.

Georgetown has been described as a “food desert” without the market according to the manager. “There’s no access to fresh food. By fresh, I mean meat that’s not overly processed or frozen and fresh produce,” he explained. “We really feel the market can be a success, the community support is there. We think the traffic is there and frankly we are excited to offer… healthy, local food options while supporting the community with our commitment to lower food The Georgetown Market offers waste.

We listen to the customresidents and visitors to the ers for guidance in purchasing small mountain town fresh decisions and that’s what crefood options. ates our version of variety.”

One of the many values the Georgetown Market adheres to is transparency. Marlin explains the store’s management is available to the customer to provide information about food options.

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Popular food truck operator opens permanent location

Downing Playhouse/Town Hall (SP)

By Jennifer Pund IDAHO SPRINGS When Peg Wittmann’s 25-foot brightyellow and brown food truck is parked at events, it can’t be missed. Nor should it be.

Her popular Sunshine Express cuisine has allowed her to build a following in the Clear Creek County area that she is now bringing to her new brick-and-mortar location in Idaho Springs. Following her three-year plan, the café and mobile unit offer the same menu, same procedures and same employees her customers know and trust.

In February of 2012, Wittmann purchased the custom-made food truck from a man in Oklahoma. He had built it for his

April 11-12 • Silver Plume Melodrama Dinner Theatre – George April 12 • Pancake Breakfast – Golden Gate Grange (GGC) • Vegan Potluck – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 15 • Community Cupboard Food Bank Distribution – Old Gallery Cabin (AP)

April 16 • Taste of Estes – Estes Park Events Center (EP) April 17 • Wine Tasting – Peak Wine & Spirits (NED) • Mexican Buffet – Other Side Restaurant (EP) April 18-19 Silver Plume Melodrama Dinner Theatre – George Downing Playhouse/Large Town Hall (SP)

April 22 Earth Day Dinner & Movie – Arapahoe Basin Ski Area (SC)

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wife who wanted something different it once it was complete. Wittmann couldn’t have been happier. “We’re very glad she did. He built her a new truck, and we got this one,” she said. “We started taking it out for business that same March.”

Advised by her father—a master chef from Europe—not to follow in his footsteps, Wittmann pursued her talent for technology. After receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, she studied in an MBA program and before turning 30, was promoted to VP of Technology at her job.

“But I just loved everything about food,”she said. “I was an executive for a Continued on page 8

Sunshine Express now has a permanent location in Idaho Springs in addition to its food truck.

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New business to reclaim downtown vacant lot, create beer destination

By Jeffrey V. Smith ESTES PARK The needs of a non-profit and Estes Park officials’ goal to enhance visitor offerings and have a vacant lot generate tax dollars again have allowed a couple’s business dreams to come true. The Barrel, to be located in the middle of downtown on Elkhorn Avenue, will feature 60 taps of craft beer, high-end spirits and wines from Colorado and beyond in an outdoor beer garden atmosphere when it opens the first week of May. The husband and wife team of Lou and Ingrid Bush have found plenty of support for their idea of turning a vacant concrete slab, where the former Park Theater Mall burned down more than five years ago, into a pop-up beer garden. They have also received both a use variance and tavern liquor license from town boards with unanimous approval.

“We were on the site a couple of weeks ago… and people saw us through the façade windows and asked, ‘what’s going on here?’ We told them and they’re like, ‘oh my gosh, that’s so awesome,’ and they’re local residents,” Ingrid said. “Everybody we’ve come across is just totally stoked and can’t wait. They’re bending over backward asking what they can do.”

According to Ingrid, everything just “kind of came together serendipitously.”

ESTES Performance, Inc (EPIC) and the Bushes approached each at other almost

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the same time. The couple were looking for as many trees, because it’s a concrete slab, a place to realize their beer garden dreams but people will see some amazing views.” and EPIC was looking for a business to uti- There will also be areas covered by umbrellize the highly-desirable downtown site of las for the inevitable afternoon rain storms. its future theater on a temporary basis. EPIC Beer will come from as many as seven actually leases the lot from its owner Sha- distributors and will be mostly Coloradoron Seeley while fundraising to purchase made with some other U.S., German and it. Seeley is allowing EPIC to keep the Belgium options. There will be four nitro taps for cream rent it collects ales and milk from The Barstouts.

They rel in an effort also hope to to accelerate feature mead its capital camand cider for paign. “When gluten-free we started all guests as well nailing down as high-end the details,” she distilled spirits said, “it became from Colorado apparent this is and Scotland a good win for and U.S. wines. both of us.”

While spirits The idea of The Barrel will make use of this vacant lot on Elkhorn The Barrel be- Ave. in Estes Park for its pop-up beer garden concept. will be served neat with ice or gan when the beer and outdoors loving couple were back- water, Colorado-produced sodas will be packing in Europe on their honeymoon and available for self-mixing. It is expected, fell in love with Germany’s Bavarian beer the business will become its own destinagardens. The business is ultimately mod- tion and draw beer tourists to town. eled after the pop-up beer garden movement The Bushes assembled their business found in East Coast cities and Europe where plan—recently praised by a town board a run down lot and shipping containers are member as the best he’d seen—for over modified into a bar and surounded with pic- a year and have always focused on incornic tables and benches. “That’s exactly what porating the outdoors. “My husband and were doing,” Ingrid said. “There won’t be I have been wanted to do something out-

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doors. Everybody seems like they want to sit outdoors, especially, when it starts getting warm,” Ingrid said. “I know I get the itch to be on some patio somewhere watching the views.” She also explained that since most places in Estes Park are indoors, people feel obligated to go back to their room or home and clean up before going out after being outdoors. “If I’m out on vacation, I don’t want to have to go all the way back to the hotel room or condo and get showered up and then go out,” Ingrid said, “I’d rather go from the trail and grab myself a pint and then go get cleaned up for dinner. If you’re going to an outdoor setting, it doesn’t matter, everybody’s been on the trail. It goes along with our lifestyle, it goes along with Colorado’s lifestyle. It’s a perfect fit.”

In the hope that their clientele will learn something while enjoying a great beer, the couple plan to make The Barrel a “heavily educational” place to enjoy a brew. “We want to have the brewers themselves, the representatives, the distributors do a lot of educational events at our place so people that come to Estes… will have that kind of experience rather than just sitting down and having a beer,” Ingrid said. “We want people to have these memorable types of experiences that get them talking about Estes and about our business and their own experience instead than going to just another beer hall.”

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see what’s going to be there in two or three The Barrel hopes to open in May and years.” If the concept proves successful, will remain open through the first week- The Barrel could eventually be relocated end of November for the Fall Back Beer to the rooftop of the Rocky Mountain PerFestival. “They want to encourage people forming Arts Center when built and keep their location. to stay overnight Either way, the and eat downbusiness can town. They do easily be relocata lot of beer ed if necessary. dinners,” In“We are comgrid explained. mitted to breath“If we’re open, ing new life we’re just one into the vacant more reason to lot, supporting encourage peoRocky Mounple to stay and tain Performing book a room in Arts Center and Estes versus go- Artist rendering of The Barrel outdoor beer also see value ing back down garden in Estes Park in investing in the canyon.”

They might open some dates in the in downtown Estes Park,” Ingrid said. “We winter months as well during large events look forward to sharing experiences with like Winter Fest, Chili Cook-Off, Whis- our guests, meeting people from all over key Warm-Up and during the holidays. and becoming a favorite destination.”

Because of its location, they will not have happy hours and no smoking or binge The Barrel will be located at 116 drinking will be allowed.

East Elkhorn Ave. in Estes Park.

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Chefs create intimate dining experience ESTES PARK Set within one of the country’s most iconic and historical sites and amidst one of the nation’s most scenic national parks, The Table culinary series features the talents of The Stanley Hotel’s own culinary team and invited Chefs in Residence to put their skills to the test in an intimate restaurant setting.

Each chef creates and prepares a five course meal with wine pairings. The evening begins with a reception for a very limited group of 20 guests per night, every Friday and Saturday. The guests gather around a communal table to feast on the finest cuisine and enjoy each other’s company. The dinners are held in The Lodge’s cozy Manor Hall with a 6:30 p.m. reception and dinner at 7 p.m.

For The Table series, each chef prepares a previously unpublished menu; each course is paired with a wine specially chosen to compliment each dish.

The Stanley Hotel introduced the community to its new chef at the first event in the series in February. World-class resort chef Alejandro Salazarr brings to The

Stanley a background in international cuisine and several certifications and degrees in the culinary arts. He has studied French cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu Academy in Ottawa and Japanese traditions at the Tokyo Sushi Academy.

“For the first time in the history of The Stanley Hotel, an international chef de cuisine has been brought in to guide the quality and creativity of our restaurants,” said John Cullen, owner of The Stanley Hotel. “This community has waited a long time for The Stanley to take its place in the culinary world.”

As of Memorial Day weekend, the dining events at the Table will be held Wednesdays-Saturdays. Until then, each weekend will offer a unique menu and dining experience. The events are open to the public, but they are limited to only 20 seating’s per evening.

Visit stanleyhotel.com to learn more.

Reservations for each event are required and can be made by calling 970-577-4001. The Table dinners are $125 per person, plus tax and gratuity.

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industry businesses are in the habit of trying to obscure the source of their food and we are not into that. I will tell you exactly where my stuff comes from and exactly how we made it and what’s in it.”

As a recent graduate in economic studies, Marlin pursued the degree because he was interested in the growing number of sustainability issues and looking at them from an economic perspective. “It’s been really fun to hear from different food suppliers about their animal welfare policies, their food production practices and learn about their pricing,” he said. “I’ve had these conversations with our suppliers, so I welcome questions from our customers.”

The Georgetown Market has creative ways to tackle one of the industries largest issues: food waste. “We don’t throw away food at the Georgetown Market,” he said.

The deli staff, headed by Missy Smith, takes items that are not “as pretty” and puts them to use. “Our deli staff just loves it because they come in everyday and see what’s available and make something delicious. There’s always different things coming out of the deli and no one knows what it’s going to be, not even me,” Marlin said.

“But it’s always yummy and it sells really fast. So if you don’t come by every couple days you could miss out on something that was really good and creative.”

Smith makes sweet pepper relishes, pickled items and mustards when the right ingredients are available. Recently she created a strawberry and pineapple salsa that sold so fast, it has become a permanent item in rotation. The Georgetown Market’s deli makes a great meal option with the soup or sandwich and a soda deal, and don’t forget about the homemade breakfast burritos on hand daily.

Samples are always available, so don’t be shy and ask. “We know people don’t want to blindly purchase something without having tried it, and we have a lot of unique stuff,” he said, “so we are always happy to sample from our deli items and produce.”

Marlin keeps waste to a minimum and likes to take things full-circle. Food scraps created from cooking are collected and donated to the local chicken farmers

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in town. In time, the market hopes to sell what products the Georgetown Market oforganic local eggs from these chickens. fers. “We are plenty big enough to supply “I think it is economically viable, and in what people need, but it’s a small enough terms of the legal framework, is doable,” population, one person can single handedly Marlin said. Other grocery items are re- influence our purchasing decisions,” Marmoved from the shelves and frozen before lin explained. “It’s been really cool to see. they go out of date and donated to Loaves If you are into voting with your dollar, you have a lot more and Fishes in influence at the Idaho Springs, G e o rg e t o w n the only food Market.” bank in the Although the county set up fuel need was to handle persomething curishable food. rently met in “This has been Georgetown, a great partthe market nership, and has received we feel people some feedhave enjoyed back. “There’s having these a lot of Shell items availbrand loyalty. able to them.”

I also hear The George- The Georgetown Market offers fresh food and grocery from locals and town Market staples as well as gas. passers-by they has a different take on carrying a “variety” of items, due are excited they can buy gas here, and by to space constraints and commitment to doing so support a locally-owned business the customer’s requests. “Because we are which is meeting the needs of the people not that large, not every option is going to in the community.” Some tension has been be there every time. The staples that sell heard about the additional fuel stop, “but it’s well will stay and other items, when we part of the world, and we are going to sell are through the case, it’s gone. We are con- fuel,” he said. “We are excited we can use stantly rotating different items in and out,” proceeds from gasoline to make sure we can Marlin said. “We try to do our ordering in be suppliers of other good things.” the different departments so there are interesting meal options.

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The Georgetown Market, like many other businesses in town, is proudly locally owned and supports other local businesses when they can. Mountain Girl Bakery owner, Kristin Wheelock finds with the ebb and flow of the tourist traffic, she can’t always be open for retail sales in the off season. “We are ecstatic we can provide her products to people to help her continue to be viable in the winter, and we are excited our customers buy it as fast as we can bring it in.”

The Georgetown market has several new ideas for the future including a dinner special of the week. “We want to bring on a weekly special where if you get a few specific items and follow a certain recipe, you will have a healthy meal. When the items are purchased together, we will give a discount.”

As the market finds a balance between grocery and convenience, organic and conventional, the main goal will continue to be to offer wide array of food options, at affordable prices to satisfy the grab-and-go culture of locals and travelers in Georgetown.

The Georgetown Market is located at 1204 Argentine Street in Georgetown. Call 303-569-2464 for more information. Keep up on specials and new items at www.facebook.com/ GeorgetownMarketCO.

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decade, I had done it. So, I got my degree from a culinary college.”

She studied at Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts in Boulder and the Culinary School of the Rockies, including a stint in Provence, France. “Once I had spent several years in all aspects of the industry, I was ready to start this business,” she said. Seeking interaction with her customers, Wittmann learned about the popularity of food trucks and how it was perfect for restaurant entrepreneurs. “The mobile café was also within reach, financially,” she said.

State law requires food trucks prepare food in a commercial kitchen, so Wittman worked with the now-closed Mangia! Restaurant in Idaho Springs and parked the truck at the Visitor Center in Georgetown.

She knew she wanted to open a breakfast and lunch café, so was always searching for the perfect location. “None of the existing food establishments were suited for the truck,” she said. “When I was ready to build my own commissary, and not have to pay rent anymore, this building was far more than we intended, but we went with it.”

Renovating the former The Stuff Store building in Idaho Springs into a commercial kitchen and café was a learning experience for Wittmann. It came in the form of people taking advantage of her. “The city didn’t put up any obstacles for me,” she said. “We just seemed to find contractors who were either con-artists or just didn’t want to show up.”

Despite the setbacks, Sunshine Express now has a permanent home. Wittmann serves the same menu as on the truck, but with much more room that also includes a deck on the creek. “We are known for cooking the majority of our food from scratch,” she said. “We get quality products from our vendors and keep our prices reasonable while getting your food to you quickly.”

Following the same style of the truck, all items are sold separately so customers can make their own combinations. “We don’t want to sell you a huge plate of food with items you didn’t want,” Wittmann explained. Special requests are always welcome. “Just like we’ve done on the food truck all these years, if we have the ingredients, we’ll gladly make your item.”

Stop in for the maple sausage gravy with eggs, hash browns and light cheese, or a breakfast burrito when on the go. Coffee and espresso drinks are available all day.

For lunch, try the third-pound black Angus cheeseburger, fried chicken or the brats and hotdogs fresh from her butcher in Castle Rock. Lean grilled chicken or one of many deli wraps are available for lighter appetites.

There are also options from personal pizzas to New York Deli items, Texas-style chili to crêpes. Wittmann says, “You can come to the café everyday for either a small snack or a full meal, stay and chat or get back on the road, we are happy you’ve stopped in and look forward to seeing you again.”

Sunshine Express is located at 1856 Colorado Blvd. in Idaho Springs.

Visit sunshineexpressco.com for more information.

Neo’s returns for two-night fundraiser NEDERLAND Affectionately known as Neo’s, Neapolitan’s Italian Restaurant was a favorite of Ned locals and visitors. Although closed for years, Neo’s returns, April 10-11 for a special fundraiser for the Nederland Community Center Fitness Place. Tickets are limited to 120 each night and are available for seatings at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Neo’s former owner and chef Jeff Muskett will be putting together an abbreviated version of his former menu including meat and sausage lasagna, chicken Marsala, pasta with sausage, eggplant Parmesan and garlic rolls. Beer and wine

ESTES PARK The Quota Club of Estes Park’s 31st Annual Taste of Estes takes place, April 16, at the Estes Park Convention Center.

It’s an edible showcase of Estes Park’s finest restaurants highlighting specialties.

Enjoy tastings from over 20 local restaurants in one place, on one night.

Pre-sale tickets, which sell quickly, are $15 and, if available, are $18 at the door.

They can be purchased at the Estes Park Visitor Center, Macdonald Book Shop, local newspapers or A La Carte.

Estes Park Conference Center is located at 201 South St. Vrain Ave. Visit www.facebook.com/TasteOfEstes to find more information and see a list of restaurants.

FOOD & DRINK CALENDAR April 24 • Wine Tasting – Peak Wine & Spirits (NED) April 25 • Coal Creek Canyon Chili Challenge – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Beer Tasting: Alaskan Brewing Company – Mid County Liquor (RV)

April 25-26 • Silver Plume Melodrama Dinner Theatre – George Downing Playhouse/Large Town Hall (SP)

April 30 • Food Pantry Distribution – Nederland Community Center (NED) • Odell Tasting – Rock Inn (EP) May 1 • Community Wellness Challenge Celebratory Dinner – Nederland Community Center (NED)

May 2 • Moonlight Dinner Series: Randonee – Arapahoe Basin Ski Area (SC)

May 2-3 • Silver Plume Melodrama Dinner Theatre – George Downing Playhouse/Large Town Hall (SP)

May 5 • 3rd Anniversary & Taco Tuesday on the Patio – Salto Coffee Works (NED)

WEEKLY FOOD Sunday • Service Industry Sunday – Stage Stop (RV) • Sunday Buffet – Peaceful Valley Ranch (AP) • Brunch & Bloody Mary Bar – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Brunch – Sweet Basilico (EP) • Champagne Brunch – The Other Side (EP) • Brunch Buffet w/Amanda Valley – Waterfront Grille @ Estes Park Resort (EP)

Church (CCC)

• Charity Night – Lucha Cantina (GT) Tuesday • Soccer Mom Happy Hour – Whistler’s Café (NED) • Taco Tuesday on the Patio – Salto Coffee Works (NED) • Taco Tuesday – Mothers Saloon (GT) • Burger Madness – Cables Pub & Grill (EP) • Tuesday Soup Day – Wheel Bar (EP)

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The Nederland Community Center is located at 750 Hwy. 72 N. Call 303-258-9721 or visit www.neder landcommunitycenter.org for more information.

Support Quota Club, taste local fare

Monday • Lovin’ Cup Community Kitchen – Deli at 8236’ (NED) • Maggie’s Marvelous Meatloaf Special – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Dinner Special – First Street Pub (NED) • Pastor’s Pantry Food Distribution – Whispering Pines

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will be available for purchase.

All proceeds from this event will support equipment upgrades at The Fitness Place and donations are tax deductible.

To order tickets, which are $20 each, send an e-mail to neofundraiser@nederlandco.org or fill out an order form at the Community Center.

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Wednesday • Burger Madness – Sundance Café (NED) • Soccer Mom Happy Hour – Whistler’s Café (NED) • Pastor’s Pantry Food Distribution – Whispering Pines Church (CCC)

• Whiskey Wednesday – Pizza Bar 66 (LY) Thursday • Breakfast for Dinner – Sundance Café (NED) • Gyro Thursdays – Troia’s Café & Marketplace (GT) • Open Mic Potluck w/Taylor Radio – Spirit Hounds Distillery (LY) Friday • Chef’s Specials – Stage Stop (RV) • Ribeye Steak Special – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Pastor’s Pantry Food Distribution – Whispering Pines Church (CCC)

• Burger Madness – Lyons Dairy Bar (LY) • Chef’s Special – Cables Pub & Grill (EP) • Community Corner Café – Shepherd of the Mountain Lutheran Church (EP)

• Taste & Create – Snowy Peaks Winery (EP) Saturday • Chef’s Specials – Stage Stop (RV) • Ribeye Steak Special – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Food Pantry – Nederland Community Center (NED) AP = Allenspark BC = Boulder County BH = Black Hawk CC = Central City CCC= Coal Creek Canyon EM = Empire EP = Estes Park GC = Gilpin County GRC = Grand County GGC = Golden Gate Canyon GH = Gold Hill GT = Georgetown

IS = Idaho Springs JT = Jamestown LV = Loveland LY = Lyons NED = Nederland RV = Rollinsville SA = Salina SMG = St. Mary’s Glacier SP = Silver Plume SC = Summit County WD = Ward WP = Winter Park

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Mountain EVENTS CALENDAR Festivals/Special Events April 1 • Coffee with the Chief – Happy Trails Café (NED) • Easter Egg Hunt & Egg Dive – Gilpin Community Center (GC)

April 3 • Easter Egg Dying – Georgetown Community Center (GT) April 4 • Easter Egg Hunt – Werlin Park/Forster’s Place (GT) • Eggmania – Golden Gate Grange (GGC) • Easter Eggstravaganza – CCCIA Hall (CCC) April 5 • Easter Bunny Visits and Annual Egg Hunt – Eldora Mountain Resort (NED)

• Amazing Easter Egg Hunt – Loveland Ski Area (GT) • Beach’N Egg Hunt – Arapahoe Basin Ski Ara (SC) • Golden Bunny Classic Candy Hunt and Fun Race – Winter Park Resort (GC)

• Community Easter Celebration – Planet Bluegrass (LY) • Easter Egg Hunt – Stanley Hotel (EP) April 6 • Municipal Election Day – Georgetown (GT) April 10-13 • Strange Escapes Presents Ghosts of the Stanley Hotel – Stanley Hotel (EP) April 11 • Vegetation Restoration Project – Apple Valley (LY) April 12 • Stella Blu Bohemian Boutique Trunk Show – The Stone Cup (LY)

April 18 • Record Store Day – Sgt. Peppers Music & Video (EP) • Wild Earth Day – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (NED) April 18-19 • Free Entrance Day – Rocky Mountain National Park (EP) April 25 • Friends of Charlie’s Place Disco Party – Elks Lodge # 607 (IS)

• Corn Harvest Benefit Ski Party – Loveland Ski Area (GT) • Earth Day/National Junior Ranger Day – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center (EP)

• GeoFest: A World of Opportunity, A World of Wonder – Estes Park Event Complex (EP) May 1 • Community Forestry Sort Yard Opens – Nederland Forestry Sort Yard (NED)

• Community Forestry Sort Yard Opens – Allenspark Forestry Sort Yard (AP)

May 2 • Estes Park Duck Race – Fall River: Nicky’s Resort/ Riverside Plaza (EP)

• Rail Road Opens for the Season – Georgetown Loop (GT) May 2-3 • Surprise Sidewalk Sale – Downtown Estes Park (EP) Game Nights April 1 • Euchre Night – Very Nice Brewing (NED) April 11 • Game Night – CCCIA Hall (CCC) April 15 • Euchre Night – Very Nice Brewing (NED)

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MOUNTAIN CULTURE – high-country living and activities Duck Race supports more than 60 charities, groups

Orleans in four-star hotels. All major prizes, arranged by ColESTES PARK othing says spring in the mountains like the Estes Park umbine Travel in Estes Park, include airfare from Denver and Duck Race, an event that welcomes visitors from across round-trip transportation to hotels. Area businesses also donate the county to cheer 6,000 rubber ducks as they float hundreds of prizes, from gift certificates to merchandise.

About 95 percent of the sales of duck adoption forms flow didown the Fall River to the finish line. The annual Noon Rotary Club Duck Race is more than a spring festival, as it raises mon- rectly to groups after the race. Rotary volunteers who organize ey for 61 Estes Valley charities and groups. This year’s theme and handle all the administrative, operational and financial aspects of the event make possible the is the 100th anniversary of Rocky high rate of return to charities. CorMountain National Park. porate and individual sponsors pay For a $20 donation, participants for the major prizes. In its 26-year “adopt” a duck, which is assigned history, the Duck Race has a number in the race database. raised $2.1 million for charity.

Thousands of adopted yellow rubThis year’s race also feaber ducks then are dropped into tures a partnership with The the Fall River at 1 p.m. on May Stanley Hotel, which hosts 2, near Nicky’s Steakhouse, 1350 the Stanley Film Festival Fall River Rd. Live music, famthe same weekend. “Zombie ily activities and sales of duckducks” are being offered by themed items begin at noon.

Thousands of ducks—including the hotel, which is doubling Once the race begins, ducks “zombie” ducks this year—“race” the contribution of the first “paddle” about 2.5 miles and down Fall River for a valley-wide fundraiser.

250 adopters. “We are excited cross the finish line near Riverside Park in downtown Estes Park. Volunteers scoop up the ducks as to welcome the “zombie ducks” this year, and to offer major travel prizes, along with hundreds of other prizes donated by they finish the race, and award prizes to the fastest swimmers.

First prize is a seven-night cruise to the Caribbean or Alaska Estes Park merchants,” said 2015 Duck Race Committee Chairwith a balcony cabin or seven nights in Hawaii in an ocean-view man Ken “Big Duck” TeSelle. room. Second prize is a four-night stay in Riviera Maya, Mexico, Visit www.epduckrace.org, www.facebook.com/EPDuckat an all-inclusive five-star resort or four-nights at Walt Disney Race, any of 61 beneficiaries of any participating business in World in standard resort accommodations with passes. Third Estes Park to obtain a Duck Race adoption form. Duck adopters prize is a three-night stay in San Francisco or three nights in New select the charity they want to receive their donation.

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Computer repair comes tailored to mountain residents

By Jennifer Pund JAMESTOWN Most everyone experiences the frustrating feeling that comes with a frozen computer screen, broken smartphone or printer that won’t work. Before tossing your electronics out a window, call Sal DeVincenzo at Affordable PC Medic. Not only can the Peak to Peak-area resident fix PC or Mac computers, he understands the exasperation felt by users and is sympathetic to the mountain resident. Most of all, he wants to develop long-term trust and, ultimately, friendship.

Affordable PC Medic offers assistance with laptop, desktop, phone and camera issues as well as training. Get help with

repairs and network problems; new system advice, set-up and training; data back up and recovery solutions; virus and malware prevention and removal; and digital photography, editing and camera training.

DeVincenzo works on or off site and offers free pick-up and delivery to certain locations.

Get support for Microsoft and Apple systems as well as office applications, desktop hardware, printers, network devices, phone integration, firewalls and routers. Basically, it’s full service IT

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Affordable PC Medic was founded by Jamestown resident Robert Hastings who “handed over” the business to DeVincenzo about a decade ago when he no longer had time for it. DeVincenzo remembers purchasing it for the cost of the company’s Yellow Pages ad contract at the time as well as the start of a 10-year friendship. “It was something like $100 a Continued on page 10

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month, or whatever was left on the contract,” DeVincenzo said. “[Hastings] and I became friends, and still are to this day, because he was so generous in asking me if I wanted to basically take over his business for almost nothing.”

DeVincenzo had already been working with things people depend on for more than 25 years. “I started my life in Colorado with a car repair shop, which lead me to learn about computers,” he recalled.

“Back then everything we did in the shop revolved somehow around computers, and they didn’t work so well. So we couldn’t print, or it wouldn’t talk to another computer, so that inspired my learning.”

The switch from the automobile business to computer repair was a natural step for DeVincenzo. “[The two] are very similar because people totally depend on those four-wheel devices and they get very frustrated when they don’t work or they don’t have them. Computers are exactly the same way,” he explained. “They are as ubiquitous as cars are, and [people] are just as dependent on them, too. As computers, smartphones and the internet became more common, I saw the need to help people learn and understand it.”

A self described “absolute-naturalproblem-solver,” DeVincenzo feels very comfortable taking on jobs that tend to frustrate others. He attributes this to personality traits that help him understand a frustrated user, as well as know how to remedy the situation.

“You have to have a certain kind of personality to deal with people that are frustrated with some kind of device, and then deal with the device,” he explained.

“I know how to make people feel at ease when explaining the problem to me and I am good at translating that into what the fix is. Then, I have a talent in patience with the tenacity to stick with it until I figure it out and get it done. It’s just my personality.”

DeVincenzo, a resident of Bar-K Ranch above Jamsetown, knows the challenges of living in a remote location and has compas-

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sion for people who live in the mountains and depend on their technology. “If you call [Best Buy’s] Geek Squad, they might not even find your house,” he said. “I have lived up here 25 years, I am mountainsmart and have the car to get in the driveway if there is snow. I also know mountain people aren’t made of money and tend to live a little more lean than city slickers.”

Serving the Peak to Peak region from Estes Park to Rollinsville, DeVincenzo says help is only a phone call away. “Most likely you will speak to me when you call,” DeVincenzo said, “and I don’t rely on an automated phone service unless I absolutely can not answer. Our specialty is one-onone help, so I am always available.”

DeVincenzo enjoys meeting people and making connections with his clients.

“Connecting the dots and networking is fun to me,” he said. “Figuring out who you know that I know, that’s what I get out of the whole thing. When I am done with the computer work, and the customer is happy—that’s great—but, somehow I made a friend when it was all finished and it’s all about connection.”

Affordable PC Medic has been handpicked by Amazon.com to be listed with their Home Services. “This means we meet their high-quality bar, have passed their thorough background check and are professionally licensed and certified.

We are constantly monitored for performance and reviews and our services are backed by their ‘Happiness Guarantee,’” DeVincenzo said.

Call or e-mail for a free consultation and visit the company’s website to see how Affordable PC Medic can move any home or business into the 21st century and keep them running once they’re there.

Affordable PC Medic is located at 538 Ranch Road, Bar-K Ranch in Western Boulder County. Contact Sal DeVincenzo at 303-402-9190, email sal@affordablepcmedic.com or visit www.affordablepcmedic.com for more information.

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Mountain garden class teaches basics IDAHO SPRINGS Clear Creek and Gilpin County CSU Extension present a Mountain Gardening Basics Workshop, May 2, at United Church of Idaho Springs from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Learn from experts how to grow the best vegetable or ornamental garden at altitude. Mountain gardening can be really frustrating, especially for newcomers or beginners. In this workshop, they will help you get started growing both vegetables and ornamentals in the mountains.

They’ll cover plant selection, tips and

tricks and set you up for success. Participants must pre-register for the $15 class.

Additional upcoming classes include Vegetable Garden Season Extension, May 9 from 3-4 p.m. and Native Plant Landscaping for the Mountains, May 13 from 6-8 p.m. at the Gilpin Extension Office, 230 Norton Dr. United Center is located at 1410 Colorado Blvd. in Idaho Springs.

For more information, visit www. clearcreek.colostate.edu or www. extension.colostate.edu/gilpin.

Community challenged to live healthy NEDERLAND The Nederland Community Center Foundation encourages area residents to commit to its Five-A-Day, Five-A-Week Community Wellness Challenge, April 3-May 1.

The fundraiser for the foundation pays its participants daily for a month; gives weekly prizes for using their services and throws a big party at the end. Just eat five fruits and vegetables a day, engage in some form of physical activity five times a week and do five stress-relieving activities a week.

Participation is $25 for employer-sponsored individuals, $40 for non-sponsored individuals and $60 for families or groups of four. Earn a prize for each week completed, get weekly expert trainings, professional support and a weekly newsletter with diet, exercise, and stress-relief tips.

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chance to win a grand prize.

On April 3, Jen Lavely and Tracy Brewer introduce the program and the Fitness Place.

The prize is a three-punch pass to the Fitness Place. Lavely talks about nutrition, April 10, with a prize coupon to local eateries. Stress relief through yoga is on April 17 with a prize of a free class at Tadasana Mountain Yoga. April 24 features Brewer talking about finding your balance and injury prevention. The prize is a sport cord and exercises. Finally, on May 1 there is a pickleball tournament and celebration dinner featuring spring produce and guest speaker.

Visit www.nederlandcommunitycenter. org/cwc to enroll or e-mail nccfounda tion@nederlandcommunitycenter.org with additional questions.

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Downtown Commercial District

estimated at over 12,000. The town is the Constructed in 1881, just to the east of The district has been the commercial terminus of the Virginia Canyon center of the community since its deArgo Tunnel and Road, this small velopment in the late 19th century. The site of the Argo brick structure district’s superb collection of Late VicGold Mill. played an integral torian-era structures—like the Hanchett Today, Idaho role in early fire Building, Mining Exchange and Queen Springs is a popfighting in Idaho Hotel—form the core of a city that is historically significant as the site of the first ular stop along Springs. major discovery of placer gold in ColoInterstate 70 for Echo Lake Park people heading Established in rado and as an important milling and supto the Western 1921 at the foot of ply center for the mining region which Miners pose on velocipede cars and a tram Slope.

Goliath Peak, the accelerated the settlement of Colorado. engine at the entrance to the Argo Tunnel. park contains an Methodist Episcopal Church Argo Tunnel & Mill Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library impressive Rus- This building is a good local example Begun in 1893, the Argo Tunnel extends more than four tic style lodge designed by prominent of the Gothic Revival style. Originally miles toward Central City under an area Denver architect J.J.B. Benedict. Two constructed in 1880, additions date from 1905. Slight variaof extensive mining. It was used to drain other structures, a tions in the brick stone pavilion and problematic water from overlying mines, work serve as eviconcession stand, and to provide a direct route to ship ores dence of the buildrepresent the work from the mines to the Argo Mill. The tuning’s expansion to of the Depressionnel took 17 years to complete and was the meet the changing worlds longest when completed in 1910. Era Civilian Conneeds of a growing The Argo Mill dates from 1913. Primari- servation Corps. congregation. ly constructed with a steel frame surfaced Hose House No. 2 with corrugated iron panels, portions of The circa 1882 Miner Street Bridge the mill rise to a height of nearly seven Hose House No. 2 Echo Lake Park Lodge was designed by Completed in 1902 stories. The operation closed after a mine on Colorado Blvd. Denver architect J.J.B. Benedict.

by Kuyes and Work Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library disaster in 1943, and the mill has been was constructed to to span Clear Creek operated as a museum/tourist attraction store the fire wagon protecting the west- on the east side of Idaho Springs, this since the late 1970s. ern end of Idaho Springs. skewed, pin-connected, five-panel steel

Mountain Events Calendar Health/Wellness

April 3 • Community Wellness Challenge: Introduction to Program w/Jen Lavely and Tracy Brewer – Nederland (NED) April 4 • Full Moon Meditation – StarHouse (GH) April 10 • Community Wellness Challenge: Nutrition w/Jen Lavely – Nederland (NED)

April 11 • Iyengar Yoga w/Craig Kurtz, Vibrational Sound Meditation – The Yoga Room (IS) • Meditating for Your Life – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) April 11-12 • Yoga Getaway for College Students – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) April 17 • Community Wellness Challenge: Stress Relief Through Yoga w/Tadasana Yogi – Nederland (NED) April 18 • 9News Health Fair – Lyons Middle/Senior High School (LY) • 9News Health Fair – Carlson Elementary School (IS)

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Pratt pony truss features wide roadways and cantilevered sidewalks. One of the oldest pony trusses in Colorado still in use, it is significant for its skewed design.

Summit Lake Park

Opened in 1924, the park straddles Mount Evans Road. As the highest park within the Denver Mountain Parks system at 12,800 feet, Summit Lake contains a stone shelter house designed by Denver architect J.J.B. Benedict and constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s.

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Historic Places Downtown Commercial District

Location: Center Alley, Riverside Dr., Idaho St. Date Listed: National Register, January 5, 1984

Methodist Episcopal Church

Location: 1414 Colorado Blvd.

Date Listed: National Register, March 5, 1998

Miner Street Bridge

Location: Miner Street Date Listed: National Register, February 4, 1985

Summit Lake Park

Location: Mt. Evans Rd. Date Listed: National Register, February 24, 1995

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April 19 • Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound Healing Concert – StarHouse (GH)

April 19-24 • Seasonal Ayurvedic Cleanse – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) April 21 • Wellness: What Is It and How Does It Affect Me? – Estes Park Senior Center (EP)

April 24 • Community Wellness Challenge: Balance and Injury Prevention w/Tracy Brewer – Nederland (NED) April 25 • 9News Health Fair – Nederland Community Center (NED) April 28-May 1 • Silent Meditation Retreat – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) May 1 • Community Wellness Challenge Celebratory Dinner/Pickle Ball Tournament – Nederland Community Center (NED) Meetings/Clubs/Groups April 1 • Glen Haven Area Flood Plain Study – Estes Park Town Hall (EP)

• Estes Valley Model Railroaders – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 2 • Gilpin County Republicans – Gilpin County Library (GC) • Idaho Springs Lions Club – Location TBD (IS) • Rotary Club of Estes Park Board – Other Side Restaurant (EP) April 6 • Gilpin County Board of Education – Gilpin School (GC) • Town of Lyons Board of Trustees – Town Hall (LY) April 7 • Central City Council – Town Hall (CC) • Great Decisions Discussion Group: Sectarianism in the Middle East – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 8 • Black Hawk City Council – Town Hall (BH) • Estes Park Women’s Club Luncheon w/Kay Rosenthal, Miracle Mount Horse Therapy – Estes Park Resort (EP) April 9 • Friends of Gilpin County Library – Gilpin County Library (GC) • Clear Creek Dems – Beau Jo’s (IS) • Estes Park Genealogical Society – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 11 • Genealogy Group – Idaho Springs Library (IS)

• Clear Creek Dems’ Jefferson-Jackson Dinner – Elks Lodge (IS) April 13 • Lodge Meeting – Elks Lodge (CC) • Idaho Springs City Council – City Hall (IS) • Gold Hill Town Meeting – Community Center (GH) • Estes Park Garden Club – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 14 • Upper Clear Creek Watershed – City Hall (IS) • Georgetown Board of Selectman – Town Hall (GT) • Nederland Board of Trustees – Nederland Community Center (NED)

• Gilpin County Commissioners – Old Gilpin County Courthouse (CC) • Jamestown Community Meeting – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Estes Park Board of Trustees – Town Hall (EP) April 15 • Special Town Board Meeting: Downtown Estes Loop Project – Estes Park Event Center (EP) April 16 • Clear Creek School District Board of Education Work Session – One Door Down (IS) • Idaho Springs Lions Club – Location TBD (IS) • Gold Hill Fire Protection District Board Meeting – Community Center (GH)

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Meetings/Clubs/Groups (continued) • Duck Race Committee Meeting – Nicky’s Restaurant (EP) April 18 • Sky Watchers – CCCIA Hall (CCC) April 20 • Gilpin County Board of Education – Gilpin School (GC) • Gilpin County Democrats – Call 303-642-0243 for location (GC) • Town of Lyons Board of Trustees – Town Hall (LY) April 21 • Mill Creek Valley Historical Society – Dumont School (DU) • Clear Creek School District Board of Education Business Meeting – Clear Creek High School (IS) • Allenspark Area Club – Peaceful Valley Ranch • Central City Council – Town Hall (CC) April 22 • Black Hawk City Council – Town Hall (BH) April 25 • Genealogy Group – John Tomay Memorial Library (GT) • Estes Valley Astronomical Society – Estes Park Memorial Observatory (EP)

April 27 • Idaho Springs City Council – City Hall (IS) • Lodge Meeting – Elks Lodge (CC) April 28 • Georgetown Board of Selectman – Town Hall (GT) • Spanish Group – John Tomay Memorial Library (GT) • American Legion, VFW – Above Dostal Alley (CC) • Gilpin County Commissioners – Old Gilpin County Courthouse (CC)

• Estes Park Board of Trustees – Town Hall (EP) Sports/Recreation April 2 • Outdoor Divas Demo Day – Loveland Ski Area (GT) April 4 • Full Moon Hike to St. Mary’s Glacier – Silver Lake Lodge (SMG) April 7 • CCMRD Hiking Club: Tour and Boulder Hike – Celestial Seasonings (BC)

April 8 • Ski With a Ranger – Loveland Ski Area (GT) April 9 • Estes Park Equestrian Club – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 11 • Spring Fling Indie Ski Demo – Loveland Ski Area (GT) April 11-12 • 55th Annual Loveland Derby – Loveland Ski Area (GT) April 12 • Closing Day – Eldora Mountain Resort (NED) April 15 • Annual Enduro & Après Party – Arapahoe Basin Ski Area (SC) April 18 • Alpenglow Ascents Rando Challenge – Arapahoe Basin Ski Area (SC)

April 18-19 • Free Entrance Day – Rocky Mountain National Park (EP) April 21 • CCMRD Hiking Club – Notch Trail (GT) April 25 • Lions, Abert’s and Bears Hike – Bald Mountain Scenic Area (BC) • Ski With a Ranger – Loveland Ski Area (GT) April 26 • Spring Splash – Winter Park Resort (GC) • Woman’s Pool Tournament – Wheel Bar (EP) April 30 • Hike for Seniors – Walker Ranch Homestead (BC) May 4 • Closing Day Ceremony – Loveland Ski Area (GT) Talks/Workshops/Classes April 1 • Bugs and Brews (Fly Tying) – Estes Park Feed & Supply (EP) • Estes Park Job Fair – Rocky Mountain Park Inn (EP) April 4 • Paranormal Investigation – Stanley Hotel (EP) • Climbing Presentation w/Paige Claassen – Estes Park Mountain Shop (EP)

April 6 • Leave it to Beaver w/Sherri Tippie – YMCA of the Rockies Estes Park Center

• Email Basics – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 8 • Eleanor Roosevelt: Her Life And Legacy Live Interactive Presentation – Estes Park Senior Center (EP)

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April 9 • iPad and iPhone Tutoring – Estes Park Senior Center (EP) April 10 • Listen to Music for Free – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 11 • Evaluating Mule Deer Migration Behavior w/Dr. Chuck Anderson – Estes Park Museum (EP) April 13 • Safety and Security On the Internet – Estes Valley Library (EP)

April 15 • The Meaning And Intention Of Dreams: Introductory Presentation w/Mary Jo Heyen – Estes Park Senior Center (EP) April 17 • Devil’s Gate History Talk: History of Piñon School and WPA Schools w/Kevin Kuharic – Georgetown Community Center (GT)

• Computer Very Basics: Just for Beginners – Estes Valley Library (EP)

April 17-18 • Mysterious Owls of Rocky – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

April 18 • Job Hunting Workshop – Idaho Springs Library (IS) • Paranormal Investigation – Stanley Hotel (EP) • Yesterado: Stories of Colorado When it Was Young – Estes Park Museum (EP)

April 20 • Internet Basics: Keeping Informed, Keeping In Touch, Non-Profits Workshop: • Introduction to Finding Funders, Common Cents Counts: Goal Setting & Financial Planning – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 21 • Emergency Readiness Workshop – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 22 • The Meaning And Intention Of Dreams: Experiential Dream Workshop w/Mary Jo Heyen – Estes Park Senior Center (EP) April 23 • North with the Spring: Bird Migration – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

• Three Secrets to Job Search Success, Creating Your Core Resume – Estes Valley Library (EP) • North with the Spring: Bird Migration – Rocky Mountain Conservancy Field Institute (EP)

April 24 • Friends of the Georgetown Library Annual Meeting: Travels in Iran w/Cindy Neely – Georgetown Community Center (GT) April 27 • Small Business Resources 101, Common Cents Counts: Key Investment Concepts – Estes Valley Library (EP) • Pioneer of the Peaks: A Ranger’s Mountain Rescues w/ Keith Lober – Estes Park Museum (EP) April 28 • Clear Creek County Advocates Workshop: Communication Strategies – Jacob House (IS) April 29 • Tech Makes Travel Easier: Websites and Apps – Estes Valley Library (EP)

May 2 • Gilpin County Community Wildfire Preparedness Workshop – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Mountain Gardening Basics – United Church of Idaho Springs (IS) WEEKLY EVENTS Festivals/Special Events Friday • Downtown Estes Park Walking History Tour – Bond Park (EP)

Game Nights Monday • Monday Night Trivia – Pizza Bar 66 (LY) • Poker Tournament – West Winds Tavern (IS) • Mah-Jongg, Rocky Rollers Wii Bowling – Estes Park Senior Center (EP)

Tuesday • Pool Tournament – Mother’s Saloon (GT) • Bingo – American Legion Post 119 (EP) • Texas Hold’em Poker Series Showdown – Wheel Bar (EP) Wednesday • Pool League – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) • Game Night – Club Ned (NED) Thursday • Game Night – Blue Owl Books (NED)

• Free Pool – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) • Bingo – American Legion Post 119 (EP) • Bridge: Drop-In Lessons & Games – Estes Park Senior Center (EP) Health/Wellbeing Sunday • Sunday Community Yoga – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) • Maya Vinyasa Flow, Gentle Yoga – Tadasana Mountain

• SilverSneakers, Zumba – Temp. Clear Creek Fitness Center (IS) • Aquacize, Bootcamp – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Adult Pickleball – Estes Park Middle School Gym (EP) Tuesday • Fish Out of Water, Power Up! – Temp. Clear Creek Fitness

• Mat Pilates w/Nicole – Yoga Room Idaho Springs (IS) • Meditation Class – Lyons Yoga and Wellness (LY) • Master Chen Sermon on Daoism, Community Tai Chi, Qigong Instruction – Aspen Lodge (EP) Monday • Gentle Yoga w/Joelle, Yoga w/Abby – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Hatha Yoga, Yoga Dance – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Continuing Yoga – Temp. Clear Creek Rec. Center (IS) • Qigong Series – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Yoga – Golden Gate Grange (GGC) • Vinyasa Yoga w/Melissa Alamo – The Yoga Room (IS) • Gentle Yoga w/Rebecca – Lyons Yoga and Wellness (LY) • Yoga with Justine – Salida Schoolhouse (SA) Tuesday • Tai Chi Class – CCCIA Hall (CCC) • Yoga – Old Gallery Cabin (AP) • Yoga Sculpture – Temp. Clear Creek Rec. Center (IS) • Hot Jammin’ Yoga – The Yoga Room (IS) • Movers & Shakers – Georgetown Community Center (GT) • Vinyasa Flow, Restorative Yoga – Tadasana Mountain

• Adult Tai Chi, After-School Soccer – Nederland Community

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• Free 5K Group Run – Stanley Hotel (EP) • Quick & Tone, Aquacize, Pickleball, Tae Kwon Do – Gilpin Community Center (BH)

Wednesday • Broomball – Werlin Park (GT) • Wednesday Road Ride – Tin Shed Sports (NED) • Movers & Shakers – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Pickleball, Mountain Movers, After-School Soccer, Planet Motion/Zumba – Nederland Community Center (NED) • Nia, Aquacize, Adult Strengthen Stretch & Balance, Volleyball League, Guts & Glutes – Gilpin Community Center (GC)

• SilverSneakers Cardio, Bootcamp – Temp. Clear Creek Fitness Center (IS)

• Open Gym Adult Basketball – Estes Park Middle School Gym (EP) • Snowshoe Ecology Walk, Ranger-led Program – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center (EP)

Thursday • Fish Out of Water, Power Up! – Temp. Clear Creek Fitness Center (IS)

• Mom & Tot Yoga – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) • Vinyasa Yoga, Gentle Yoga – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY) Wednesday • Mindful Meditation – Location: 303-642-0428 (CCC) • Vinyasa Yoga – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Yoga – Golden Gate Grange (GGC) • Beginning Yoga, Continuing Yoga – Temp. Clear Creek

• CCMRD Adult Ski Group: Ski Lunch – Loveland Ski Area (GT) • Local’s Night – Chipper’s Lanes Estes Park (EP) • Front Range Gang Senior Guided Ski Tour – Eldora Mountain Resort (NED)

• Senior Exercise Class – Allenspark Fire Department (AP) • Kids & Adult Tai Chi, Mountain Movers, Basketball – Nederland Community Center (NED)

Rec. Center (IS)

• Vinyasa Yoga w/Cherie Ebert – The Yoga Room (IS) • Moms & Babies Yoga, Vinyasa Flow – Tadasana Mountain Yoga (NED)

• Pre-Natal Yoga, Restorative Yoga – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY) Thursday • Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Thursday Locals Night – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) • Yoga Sculpture – Temp. Clear Creek Rec. Center (IS) • Movers & Shakers – Georgetown Community Center (GT) • Gentle Yoga, Yoga/Pilates Fusion – Tadasana Mountain Yoga (NED)

• Empowerment Yoga, Flood Trauma Therapy, Yoga for Conditioning – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY) Friday • Vinyasa Yoga w/Cherie Ebert – The Yoga Room (IS) • Yoga w/Annie – Temp. Clear Creek Rec. Center (IS) • Hatha Yoga, Happy Hour Yoga – Tadasana Mountain Yoga (NED) • Gentle Yoga, TGIF! Yoga – Lyons Yoga & Wellness (LY) • Parent & Tot Yoga – Shoshoni Yoga Retreat (RV) • Yoga w/Cariann – CCCIA Community Center (CCC) Saturday • Vinyasa Yoga – The Yoga Room (IS) • Community Clothing Closet – Nederland Community Center (NED) Meetings/Clubs/Groups Monday • Institute of Noetic Sciences – Estes Valley Library (EP) • Rotary of Estes Park – National Park Village Theater (EP) Tuesday • Tech Tuesday – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Clear Creek County Board of Commissioners – County Courthouse (GT)

• 4-H Meeting – Gilpin Fairgrounds Exhibit Barn (BH) Wednesday • Chess Club – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Singles Mingle in Estes Park – Various Locations (EP) Thursday • Rotary Club of Estes Park Meeting – National Park Village Theater (EP)

• Veterans Group – Gilpin County Library (GC) Friday • Institute of Noetic Science – Estes Valley Library (EP) Sports/Recreation Monday • Pre-School Soccer, Pickleball, Kids Tai Chi, AfterSchool Soccer – Nederland Community Center (NED)

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• Adult Co-Rec Volleyball League – Estes Park Middle School

• Bootcamp, Aquacize, Tae Kwon Do – Gilpin Community Center (GC)

Friday • Cardio Sculpt – Nederland Community Center (NED) • SilverSneakers Classic, Bootcamp – Temp. Clear Creek Fitness Center (IS)

• Aquacize, Adult Strengthen Stretch & Balance – Gilpin Community Center (BH)

Saturday • Snowshoe Ecology Walk, Ranger-led Program – Beaver Meadows Visitor Center (EP)

• Bootcamp – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Pickleball – Nederland Community Center (NED) Talks/Workshops/Classes Monday • Downtown Estes Park Walking History Tour – Bond Park (EP)

30 Masterpieces of the Ancient World Art Lecture Series – Estes Park Senior Center (EP)

Tuesday • Downtown Estes Park Walking History Tour – Bond Park (EP)

AP = Allenspark BC = Boulder County BH = Black Hawk CC = Central City CCC= Coal Creek Canyon EM = Empire EP = Estes Park GC = Gilpin County GRC = Grand County GGC = Golden Gate Canyon GH = Gold Hill GT = Georgetown

IS = Idaho Springs JT = Jamestown LV = Loveland LY = Lyons NED = Nederland RV = Rollinsville SA = Salina SMG = St. Mary’s Glacier SP = Silver Plume SC = Summit County WD = Ward WP = Winter Park

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Workshops aid in emergency preparedness NEDERLAND To aid mountain residents in preparing for wildfire and other emergencies, Nederland Community Library hosts workshops on Emergency Preparedness, April 18; and Wildfire Preparedness and Resources, April 25. Both workshops take place from 10 a.m. to noon.

Topics include customizing a household preparedness checklist, caring for pets, shelter options, neighborhood communications and fire mitigation resources. Time

will be also available for questions. Checklists and other materials will be provided.

The workshops precede Wildfire Community Preparedness Day, May 2, and a Gilpin County workshop to specifically address fire mitigation for homeowners.

Nederland Community Library is located at 200 Hwy. 72 N. Call 303258-1101 or visit www.nedlib.org to learn more.

Community challenged to take three steps to protect homes from wildfire GILPIN COUNTY Gilpin County’s Spring FLING Community Wildfire Preparedness Challenge is asking everyone in the county to take three easy and free actions that will go a long way towards protecting their house from wildfire. A Fire Preparedness Workshop takes place afterwards at the Gilpin Community Center, May 2, at 2 p.m.

“FLING” represents three actions everyone is challenged to take before the workshop. “F” is for moving firewood at least 30 feet from decks and from under eaves of any structure. “LN” is for rake leaves and needles and any other combustibles at least 3 feet from decks, rocks, corners and edges of the house. “G” is for clean out gutters.

For every action that people take, they will receive one chance to enter into a drawing for a new chainsaw. The drawing

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takes place at the workshop at 2 p.m., and you must be present to win.

The workshop will briefly discuss defensible space and focus on the little things that can be done to help keep houses safe. We will also screen the film Unacceptable Risk, Firefighters on the Front Lines of Climate Change, followed by a panel discussion of fighting fire from a firefighter’s perspective.

Grants are available to help reduce the costs to mitigate Gilpin County homes.

Contact fire mitigation grant coordinator, Aaron Betcher, for an application or questions: gilpinmitigation@gmail.com.

The Gilpin Community Center is located at 2960 Dory Hill Road. Call 303-582-5214 or visit www.co.gilpin. co.us for more information.

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Classical Music April 4 • Estes Park Music Festival: Peggy Lyon & Gregory Dufford – Stanley Hotel Concert Hall (EP) April 18 • Peak to Peak Concert No. 8: Student Recital – Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church (EP)

April 19 • Estes Park Music Festival: Estes Valley Chamber Singers Season Finale – Stanley Hotel Concert Hall (EP) Crafts/Sewing/Quilting April 2 • Adult Craft Group: Mosaics – John Tomay Memorial Library (GT)

• Beginning Knitting – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 3 • Free Friday Projects: Provence Diagonal Market Bag – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 7 • Gilpin County Stitchers – Gilpin Community Center (GC) • Quirky Quilters – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Quilting Group – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) April 8 • Estes Valley Quilt Guild – Good Samaritan Village (EP) April 9 • Beginning Crocheting – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 10 • Free Friday Projects: Feather & Fan Plastic Bag Holder – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 11 • Random Acts of Culture: Paint a Piggy Bank for Financial Literacy Month – Estes Valley Library (EP) • Wild Wallflowers: Altered Hinged Box – Rocky Mountain Memories & Paper Arts Studio (EP)

April 12 • Stella Blu Bohemian Boutique Trunk Show – The Stone Cup (LY)

• Block of the Month Class – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 13 • Adult Craft Group: Mosaics – Idaho Springs Library (GT) • Origami w/Geoffery Nicosia – Lyons Depot Library (LY) • Sticks & Strings – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 16 • Beginning Knitting – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 17 • Free Friday Projects: Sipp-A-Roo Water Bottle Cozy – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 18 • Ned Knits – Nederland Community Library (NED) • Dyeing Fabric ‘n’ Eggs – Walker Ranch Homestead (BC) April 19 • Simple Lace Scarf Class – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 20 Simple Lace Scarf Class – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 21 Gilpin County Stitchers – Gilpin Community Center (GC) Quilting Group – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) Random Acts of Culture: Make a Bookmark for Library Week – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 22 Sit-n-Stitch – Idaho Springs Library (IS)

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MOUNTAIN ARTS – galleries, artists and crafts people Film festival’s third year more immersive, horrifying

production of the event in 2014.

By Jeffrey V. Smith “I think we’ve hit a nice groove where we’ve been able to— ESTES PARK et ready to be scared. The Stanley Film Festival returns, since the first festival— be a showcase for the best contemporary April 30-May 3, for its third year to showcase the best and classic horror films,” Festival Programming Director Landin classic and contemporary horror cinema while deeply on Zakheim said. “We’ve been able to get a lot of really exciting immersing participants into a fictional world that “amplifies the films from big festivals around the world. That’s something were experience beyond the terrors shown on screen.” There is noth- really excited about, however, we did open up submissions for the very first time.” ing to truly fear, however, as it’s The first two years, the festiall in the name of fun. val was entirely curated, but this The event, operated by the year, organizers opened the event Denver Film Society, is modeled to independent submissions. “I’m to be a complete “horror summit” really excited about the possirather than just another film fesbility that along the established, tival. It brings industry insiders, great horror films, we may also emerging and established filmhave some discoveries this year,” makers, press, actors, artists and Zakheim said. “We may have enthusiasts together to celebrate some new little gems that will the horror film genre, network, pop up along side the big guns of show off their crafts and parthe horror scene.” ticipate in a wide range of live Accepting submissions actually shows, installations, industry makes the proses of programpanels, competitions and more in ming the event a little simpler. a spooky, yet elegant location.

“In many ways it’s actually eas Set at the notoriously haunted Estes Park’s Stanley Hotel is lit in red during its annual ier, because now you have more and historic Stanley Hotel—in- Stanley Film Festival.

Photo by Jeffrey V. Smith work coming to you rather than spiration for Stephen King’s The Shining—the four-day Stanley Film Festival was founded in you having to solicit every single piece,” Zakheim said. “Espe2013 by the hotel’s owner to celebrate the property’s iconic cially as the festival is growing, as people are stating to find out Hollywood heritage. Denver Film Society, known for its Starz who we are and want to be involved with it. We don’t want to be Denver Film Festival and Film on the Rocks series, assisted in a closed off event, so as the festival grows and its name gets out getting the event off the ground the first year, and took over full Continued on page 19

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Mountain Artisans Guild hosts its first spring sale, show Join the artists for an evening meetBy George Watson COAL CREEK CANYON and-greet with complimentary food and The Mountain Artisans Guild hosts beverages, May 1, from 6-9 p.m. Newly its first spring sale and elected President, Ryan show, including an openHenderlong feels the art ing reception, May 1-2. sale, show and reception With a dozen artists is a great way to meet showing their talents, and support local artist. many unique and special “It’s a really relaxed enitems to give as gifts, or vironment meeting with keep for yourself, will Beth Deming’s Electric the artists, while getting be for sale. Like the Dye tie dyes a first look, beating the group’s popular Holiday Saturday rush for the best Art Show, this event is held at the CCCIA selection of items,” he said.

Hall in Coal Creek Canyon and is open to On Saturday, May 2, the sale is open everyone. Admission is free. to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Each

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Auditions held for summer musical ALLENSPARK Allenspark Performing Arts Company holds auditions for its 2015 summer production, Side By Side By Sondheim, April 18 from 6-9 p.m. at Shepherd of the Mountain Lutheran Church, by appointment only. Performances take place inside the new Old Gallery July 23-26, July 30-Aug. 2.

Newly hired Music Director Danielle Hermon Wood is seeking performers age 15 and up for many available roles in the musical revue celebrating famous composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. All are non-paid. Plan to present 16-32 bars of a favorite broadway tune and do a cold reading. An accompanist will be provided. Bring a resume and a headshot.

Rehearsals run May 25-July 22 for 2-3 nights a week until tech week, which starts on July 19 when rehearsals are nightly.

Shepherd of the Mountain Lutheran Church is located at 2000 Ptarmigan Trail in Estes Park. E-mail daniellehermonwood@gmail.com to schedule an audition. For more information, visit www.theoldgallery. org/arts/performance-arts/theater/

Don Quixote re-imagined by CU Theater NEDERLAND The University of Colorado Department of Theatre and Dance present Don Quixote: The Awkward Years at the Nederland Community Library, April 24, from 4-5 p.m. The performance is free.

What would Don Quixote be like if Miguel de Cervantes set his classic novel in a 21st century American high school?

This 50-minute show re-imagines the Man of La Mancha as an awkward teenager. Featuring the most memorable moments from Cervantes’ epic tale, the performance will utilize Spanish to help convey universal themes of imagination, honor, and non-conformity. This is an interactive performance and audience is encouraged to participate.

The free performance offers residents of Nederland an opportunity to see a fantastic performance in a intimate atmosphere.

The Nederland Community Library is located at 200 Hwy. 72 N. Call 303-258-1101 or visit nederland.colibraries.org or www.colorado.edu/ theatredance/theatre/outreach for more information.

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‘Capturing the Light’ seeks photographers for exhibit ESTES PARK The Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park opens its third juried Fine Art Photography Exhibition, “Capturing the Light,” in its Fine Art Gallery, May 2, with a reception from 5-7 p.m. Deadline for entires is April 3

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white as well as black and white film that is dark room processed and printed.

The deadline for entry submissions— maximum of three per artist—is April 3.

For a copy of the prospectus e-mail info@ estesarts.com or call 970-586-9203. Visit www.artcenterofestes.com to learn more.

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April 23 Estes Park Area Weavers Guild – Estes Valley Library (EP) Beginning Crocheting – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 24 Free Friday Projects: Scrubby Cloth – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 25 Wild Wallflowers: Believe – Rocky Mountain Memories & Paper Arts Studio (EP)

April 27 Origami w/Geoffery Nicosia – Lyons Depot Library (LY) Sticks & Strings – Stitcher’s Den (EP) April 30 Random Acts of Culture: Poem in Your Pocket Day for Poetry Month – Estes Valley Library (EP) May 1-2 Mountain Artisans Guild Spring Art Show & Sale – CCCIA Hall (CCC)

Film/Photography April 3 Local Photography Show Opening Night – The Glass Tipi (WD) Poetry on Film: “Bright Star” – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 4 Four Mile Film Society – Salina Schoolhouse (SA) April 4-May 23 Local Photography Show – The Glass Tipi (WD) April 7 Poetry on Film: “Dead Poets Society” – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 18 • Four Mile Film Society – Salina Schoolhouse (SA) • Poetry on Film: “A Fine Madness” – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 21 • Movie Night – Stage Stop (RV) April 25 • Movie: “Switch” – Gilpin County Library (GC) April 30-May 3 • Stanley Film Festival – Stanley Hotel (EP) May 2 • Four Mile Film Society – Salina Schoolhouse (SA) Fine Arts April 1-5 • 27th Annual Women’s History Month Art Exhibit – Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park (EP)

April 1-May 3 • Rails to Trails Exhibit – Gilpin Arts Showcase Gallery (CC) April 3 • First Friday Artist Showing – Salto Coffee Works (NED) • Susan Q. Foster’s “Ecosystem Through an Artist’s Eyes” Exhibit Opening Reception – Nederland Community Library (NED) • “Dancing Colors” Exhibit Opening – Art Center of Estes Park Gallery (EP)

April 4-May 10 • “Dancing Colors” Exhibit – Art Center of Estes Park (EP) April 12-26 • “17th Annual Student Expressions” Exhibit – Cultural Art Council (EP)

“Capturing the Light” was created to showcase a diverse approach to photography and is open to artist who resides in Larimer and Boulder Counties, as well as the Denver metro area only. The call for entries is accepting submission in digital photography in color and black and

April 18 • Brushes and Booze – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) April 24 • Creations & Libations – Two Brothers Deli/One Door Down (IS) May 1 • Wild Inspirations w/Kathi Dougherty and Nancy Zoller – Aspen & Evergreen Gallery (EP) Literary Events/Book Clubs April 2 • Book Club – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC) April 5 • Signing/Reading: Darren Roebuck – Blue Owl Books (NED) April 9 • St. Mary’s Glacier Book Group: “Altitude Adjustment:

A Quest for Love, Home, and Meaning in the Tetons” – Alice Schoolhouse (SMG)

April 15 • Financial Book Club – Estes Valley Library (EP) April 16 • Book Group – John Tomay Memorial Library (GT) April 20 • Book Group – Idaho Springs Library (IS) Museums April 1-October 4 • Climb On! An Exhibit – Estes Park Museum (EP) April 18 • Museum Open – James F. Bailey Assay Office Museum Poetry/Spoken Word/Comedy April 1 • Wine & Words – Happy Trails Café (NED) April 11 • “Hippieman” Novosad, Heath Arthur – Reserve Casino (CC) April 15 • Prolific Poets of Estes Valley History – Estes Park Museum (EP) April 24 • Poetry Slam (Middle School) – Coffee of the Rocks (EP) April 25 • Stand-up Comedian Bag Lady Sue – Stage Stop (RV) • Poetry Slam (High School) – Coffee of the Rocks (EP) April 26 • Blue Owl Blue Now Poetry Night w/Burt Rashbaum – Blue Owl Books (NED)

Theater/Dance/Fashion

April 4 • Lithium Girl Fashion Show – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) April 11-12 • Silver Plume Melodrama Dinner Theatre – George Downing Playhouse/Large Town Hall (SP)

April 13 • Swingin’ Peak to Peak Swing Dance – Stage Stop (RV) April 18 • Allenspark Performing Arts Company Auditions: “Side by Side by Sondheim” – Shepherd of the Mountain Lutheran Church (EP)

April 18-19 • Silver Plume Melodrama Dinner Theatre – George Downing Playhouse/Large Town Hall (SP)

April 24 • CU Department of Theatre and Dance present “Don Quixote: The Awkward Years” – Nederland Community Library (NED)

April 24-25 • It’s Showtime! Variety Show – Presbyterian Community Church of the Rockies (EP)

April 25-26 • Silver Plume Melodrama Dinner Theatre – George Downing Playhouse/Large Town Hall (SP)

May 2-3 • Silver Plume Melodrama Dinner Theatre – George Downing Playhouse/Large Town Hall (SP)

Writing April 14 • Writers Open Mic – Coffee on the Rocks (EP) April 18 • Read Write Publish – Golden Gate Grange (GGC) WEEKLY ARTS Classical Music Friday • James Davis Classical Guitar – Twin Owls Steak House (EP) Crafts/Sewing/Quilting Monday • Stitch ‘n Rippers Quilters – New Covenant Church (EP)

Tuesday • Warped Weavers – Kelley House (AP) • Trail Ridge Quilters – EP Medical Center (EP) • Sit & Knit – Stitchin’ Den (EP) Thursday • Thursday Evening Clay – Gilpin Community Center (BH) • Beginning Kitting – Stitchin’ Den (EP) Friday • Free Friday Projects – Stitchin’ Den (EP) • Taste & Create – Snowy Peaks Winery (EP) Film/Photography Monday • NAS Movie Matinee – Backdoor Theater (NED)

Friday

• Movie – Backdoor Theater (NED) Saturday • Movie – Backdoor Theater (NED) Fine Arts Monday • Palette Pals Open Art Studio – Estes Park Senior Center (EP)

• Sip & Paint – Murphy’s Resort (EP) Tuesday • Tuesday Evening Arts for Adults – Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center Eco-Arts Lounge (NED)

Wednesday • Art Group – Old Gallery • Nederland Seniors Art & Painting – Location: 303-2589392 (NED)

• Drop In Artists – Eco-Arts Lounge @ Wild Bear (NED) • NAS Watercolor Painting – Nederland Community Presbyterian Church (NED)

• Sip & Paint – Murphy’s Resort (EP) Friday • Sip & Paint – Murphy’s Resort (EP) • Taste & Create – Snowy Peaks Winery (EP) • Friday Fireplace Flames – Estes Park Senior Center (EP) Saturday • Sip & Paint – Murphy’s Resort (EP) Theater/Dance/Fashion Monday • International Folk Dancing – Nederland Community Center (NED)

• Swing Dancing Lessons – Appenzell Inn (EP) Tuesday • Mountain Players Theater Group, Planet Motion Dance – Nederland Community Center (NED) AP = Allenspark BC = Boulder County BH = Black Hawk CC = Central City CCC= Coal Creek Canyon EM = Empire EP = Estes Park GC = Gilpin County GRC = Grand County GGC = Golden Gate Canyon GH = Gold Hill GT = Georgetown

IS = Idaho Springs JT = Jamestown LV = Loveland LY = Lyons NED = Nederland RV = Rollinsville SA = Salina SMG = St. Mary’s Glacier SP = Silver Plume SC = Summit County WD = Ward WP = Winter Park

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Glass Tipi hosts local photographers WARD The Glass Tipi Gallery in Ward holds its Local Photography Show, April 3-May 23. An opening reception takes place, April 3, from 4-8 p.m. The show runs every weekend from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Featured photographers include Karen Stephenson, Stephen Ruddock, Barbra Monroe, Karelle Sharff, Kathy Banich, Nika Perkins and Nona Ruth.

The Glass Tipi Gallery is located at 55 Utica St. in Ward. E-mail theglasstipi ward@gmail.com or visit theglasstipigallery.com to learn more.

Kathy Banich, who has a “lifelong passion for photography” is part of the Glass Tipi’s show.

Artists sought for 69th Gilpin Arts show GILPIN COUNTY Gilpin Arts hosts its 69th annual juried exhibition, June 6-Aug. 9 in the Washington Hall Gallery in Central City. All artists interested in being considered must send entries with a postmark no later than April 15. Participants must be members of Gilpin County Arts Association.

Jurors for the 2015 exhibition include Molly Davis for 2-D art, Debbie Kneale for 3-D art and Marc Morris for photography.

For more information and complete entry information, call 303-5825952 or visit www.gilpinarts.org.

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work and, along with Deming and Helen Keen, they will show their own style of creative fiber art. Brandi McCarty, Sammie Kinder and Susan Schultz will show their jewelry while Tom Cowherd will be on hand with stone and silversmith pieces.

The Gilpin Clay Studio will present items from different artists who use its facilities. Cindy Riegel is selling her ceramics and fused glass. Eliza Zimmerman will have personal care and goat milk products. Ryan Henderlong will be showcasing a selection of hand-carved wooden art

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pieces and bowls while his wife, Kathy, will be showing her photography.

The Mountain Artisans Guild is an organized group which allows local artists to work with and learn from each other. It also offers a place that fosters and encourages artistic knowledge and growth and gives artists an outlet to bring their work to the public.

The group has an open call for artists to join. The guild holds itself to a high level of quality and craftsmanship, therefore, the current membership of 35 artists— representing 30 different disciplines— must vote for approval and agree new artists will meet these same high standards.

The CCCIA Hall is located at 31528 Hwy. 72 in Coal Creek Canyon. For more infromation, visit www.coalcreekcanyon.org.

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Stanley Film Festival features best in contemporary, classic horror McQuaid are writing an original piece for there, we want to make sure people have a the festival that includes a live a score, live way of getting work to us quickly and eas- sound effects and performers who are all acily if they want to be considered.” tors in films at the festival. “That embodies According to Zakheim, event organizers the entire community aspect for the festival are also “pushing far deeper into the im- in one single event,” Zakheim said. mersive aspects of the festival, trying to The film festival will also feature another create what we like to call a horror summer free family screening on Sunday. This year, camp or horror retreat. We started adding the 1935 version of the Bride of Frankena lot of interactive events and more tactile stein will be featured according to Denver kind of events to the festival to enhance the Film Society’s Marketing and Communicommunity experience, but also to explore cations Manager JoAnna Cintron. “We’re the other artistic also going to do aspects of hora photo booth ror. Eventually, in partnership as the festival with the 13th grows, we’d Floor Haunted like to encomHouse, which pass all things has been voted horror in any arthe scariest tistic medium, haunted house with film alin Colorado, ways being the and the nation,” bedrock. We’re she said. starting to strive Fangoria and toward that, we Shock Till You have some re- Doc of the Dead Producer Robert Muratore, Drop’s Dead ally cool things left, and Director Alexandre Philippe, center, Right Horror coming.” with Stanley Film Festival Programming Direc- Trivia Night is R e t u r n i n g tor Landon Zakheim at the first year’s festival. coming back this year is the to the Wheel immersive horror game, which has be- Bar as well. “It seems like it had a big locome much more involved. “Last year cal draw [last year] because it was free,” was sort of a beta test for where we’re Cintron said. “It’s good for people who going with it,” Zakheim said. It’s a game are curious about the festival and what where you can opt in at any time for a to experience the side-show aspect of the fuller experience, or you can play more event, but not necessarily buy a pass. Then, causally at your discretion. “Your basi- if that captures their attention, there is a cally the protagonist of your kind of hor- full weekend of programming for them to ror story throughout the entire festival. By check out.” the time you have arrived at the festival, The festival is also continuing its retro whenever that is, the game has already programing. “This year we’re going to be begun. Your level of participation is en- continuing our anniversary tract, so we’re tirely up to you. You’ll spend the weekend going to be celebrating some cool annigetting more involved in the story solving versaries of some pretty groundbreaking puzzles, learning revelations, interacting horror films,” Zakheim said. “We’ve gotwith game pieces and characters.” ten our hands on some fresh prints and Live radio plays staged at the Historic restorations so we’re going to have some Park Theater were some of the more popular really clean, cool versions of these iconic events during last year’s event and will be movies. This year, in particular, there is so making a return this year. Indie horror icon much to choose from. It’s kind of an emand Glass Eye Pix founder Larry Fessen- barrassment of riches of how many great don and Dublin born writer-director Glenn films have an anniversary of some kind in Continued from page 15

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the horror genre. Our team is having some very fun arguments about it, but the four final are going to be really something.”

For anyone who stays overnight at the Stanley Hotel during the event, their in-room channels are utilized to do even more special programming in secret.

Part of the success of the Stanley Film Festival has come from its relationship with the industry itself. “We’ve had a great relationship with a lot of the genre indie sales agents, distributors and filmmakers since the beginning. That’s why we were able to get a lot of key films and guests that first year when the festival was conceived only four or five months before the first one went up. We had to rely on a lot of help from key genre industry people very early on. Luckily, because of the concept of the festival and the people involved, we were embraced very quickly as being something that sounded exciting.”

The idea of simply adding another film festival to the circuit wouldn’t have been enough to get the Stanley Film Festival off the ground. “Unless we knew this was going to be different, it wouldn’t be of interest to a lot of these people. Myself included,” Zakheim said. “I don’t necessary think we need another film festival, but this one is not the usual, regular film festival. We have a chance to create a

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We can do something very site specific and immersive and create community and a destination. I think that’s the aspect of that the unique idea behind it is what has attracted a lot of the horror industry and horror press to the festival. I think it’s because we’ve established a credibility and a good experience. People can smell something that is not legitimate, or that’s trying to exploit them rather than cater to them. I believe we’ve done a good job so far of establishing a credibility and actual good time that people can get excited about. That’s the goal anyway.”

The full festival program will be announced on the festival’s website April 2. A special opening-night film and party as well as a special closing-night film and party as well and several special musical guests and full-weekend of programming will be part of the fun. Tickets are on sale now.

The Stanley Film Festival takes place, April 30-May 3, at The Stanley Hotel, 333 E Wonderview Ave.; Reel Mountain Theater, 543 Big Thompson Ave.; and the Historic Park Theater, 130 Moraine Ave. in Estes Park. Call 303595-3456×240 or visit www.stanley filmfest.com for more information and ticket sales.

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Mountain MUSIC CALENDAR

April 1 • First Wednesday Music Club – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY)

• Matt Turk – Gold Hill Store & Café (GH) • Matthew “The Kilted Man” Gurnsey – The Tavern at Mary’s Lake Lodge (EP)

April 2 • Open Mic Night – Da Rivuh Restaurant (IS) • Jim Bradford Band – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) April 3 • Mark Rayborn – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Chris Daniels Band – Reserve Casino (CC) • Jim Stahlhut – Troia’s Café (GT) • First Friday Supper w/Suzie Fritz – Coal Creek Coffee (CCC)

• The Brotet: Grisman, Leslie, Hargreaves and Smith – Salina Schoolhouse (SA) • Jay Scott – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Delta Sonics – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Shaefer Welch – Rock Inn (EP) April 4 • Tacos N Tunes: Fred’s Got the Blues – Blue Owl Books (NED)

• The Whale Tales – Pioneer Inn (NED) • DJ Rockstar Aaron – Reserve Casino (CC) • Local Folk – Loveland Ski Area (GT) • Jack Yoder – Troia’s Café (GT) • Matt Skinner Band – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Blue Canyon Boys – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) April 5 • The Swing Chicks – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) • Jon Pickett – Rock Inn (EP) April 9 • Open Mic – Very Nice Brewing (NED) • Open Stage w/Eben Grace – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY)

• The Bell Hours – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) April 10 • Jesse Holt & the Cult – Stage Stop (RV) • Them Raggedy Bones – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Tony & Jos – Very Nice Brewing (NED) • Steve Thomas Band – Reserve Casino (CC) • Jerry Barlow – Idaho Springs Library (IS) • Gary and Claudia – Troia’s Café (GT) • Lee Johnson – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY)

• Head for the Hills, Rumpke Mountain Boys – Wildflower Pavilion @ Planet Bluegrass (LY)

• Just Jill – Rock Inn (EP) April 10-11 • Zenobia – Whistler’s Café (NED) April 11 • Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore – United Center (IS) • Psychodillo – Pioneer Inn (NED) • DJ Rockstar Aaron – Reserve Casino (CC) • Jim Stahlhut – Troia’s Café (GT) • David Booker – Alpine Restaurant & Bar (GT) • Todd Johnson & Breaking Blues – Loveland Ski Area (GT) • Wing and a Prayer – Da Rivuh Restaurant (IS) • Bonnie & the Clydes – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Music in the Mornings: Eric Adrian Gonzales – The Stone Cup (LY)

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Mountain shop celebrates record store culture

though, can still be a rare sight, even in the largest cities let

By Jeffrey V. Smith alone a small mountain town. The populous metro area is home ESTES PARK ecord Store Day—the third Saturday of April—has become to a handful of music buying options, but Estes Park’s Sgt. Pepthe music industry’s biggest holiday. The special day is set pers Music & Video makes sure its nearby mountain residents aside for staff, customers and artists to celebrate the unique and visitors are supplied with great tunes. culture of a record store and the special role these independently- Ryan Hoover, manager of Sgt. Peppers, eagerly awaits the anowned stores play in their communities. It’s also when fans can nual event. “We participate in Record Store Day because it is our day, it’s like asking a mom why acquire from their favorite musicians she participates in Mother’s Day,” recording exclusives, archival reissues, he said. “Even being a small rarities, limited releases and various store, not a busy time a year, and promotional products made exclusively not having a overwhelming local for the day. Take part in the celebration, response, it is still the one day set April 18, at Sgt. Peppers Music & Vidaside for the local independent reeo in Estes Park—the only remaining cord store. It is a day to celebrate independent record store in the Front what we are as a store and what Range foothills. we are part of on a larger level.

Record Store Day was conAlso, whether we sell the items ceived in 2007 at a gathering of right now or much later, it is cool independent record store ownto get them in and we always sell ers and employees as a way to them at some point.” celebrate and spread the word Sgt. Peppers in Estes Park offers According to Hoover, a lot of about the unique culture surnew and used CDs and vinyl. great items have been through Photos by Jeffrey V. Smith rounding independently owned the store for the annual celebrarecord stores in the US and simtion.

“Each year they outdo the last by having more titles, more ilar stores internationally. There are Record Store Day participatcolored vinyl, more picture discs,” he said. “I think the favorite ing stores on every continent except Antarctica.

In this age of digital downloads and streaming radio, corpo- item I’ve picked up for myself was a 2011 12-inch vinyl of the rate-owned record stores have all but disappeared. Independent Foo Fighters covering classic rock songs.” music retailers, however—thanks to a renewed interest in vinyl While the store doesn’t normally have a huge turnout for records and the efforts of Record Store Day—have experienced Record Store Day, it did have its first line last year, if one guy a bit of a resurgence in recent years. Record stores in general, Continued on page 26

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Reformed Grass is Dead touring for first time in decade

By Jeffrey V. Smith ROLLINSVILLE The Grass is Dead is growing again. The South Florida band has rearranged Grateful Dead songs in their own bluegrass style since forming in 1997 as a side project of the tribute band Crazy Fingers. With new members and a refreshed outlook, the act has reunited in 2015 and is touring more than ever. It performs at the Stage Stop in Rollinsville, April 20, as part of the 4:20 Fest, which also includes Manitou Springsbased Barrel House String Band.

The band is currently comprised of Billy Gilmore on banjo, mandolin, fiddle, Dobro, guitar and vocals; Bubba Newton

on bass; Brent Hopper on mandolin, guitar and vocals; Jack Schueler on guitar, mandolin and vocals; and Brittany Reilly on bass, guitar and vocals.

All members have spent a lifetime making music including an extensive past with other popular Florida bands.

Gilmore began playing banjo at age seven before learning guitar, mandolin, fiddle, Dobro, bass, and pedal steel. The vocalist, producer, arranger and multi instrumentalist, who is always looking to “spread a pos-

itive vibe,” has played in numerous projects and toured the world over the past 25 years. Newton, born and raised in Southern Maryland, moved to South Florida to make it his home in 1979. He played bass in various bands before forming “Crazy Fingers,” South Florida’s premier Grateful Dead tribute band in 1990.

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Concert series hosts season finale

Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore

United Center hosts O’Brien, Moore IDAHO SPRINGS The United Center in Idaho Springs welcomes Grammy award-winner Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore, April 11.

O’Brien became known to the rest of the world as a singer’s singer when, in 1988, she and her brother Tim released the first of three critically-acclaimed albums.

Eventually, she recorded five equally well-received solo albums. Additionally, she was a regular on the nationally-syndicated radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion” from 2001-2005. She’s long been known as a singer who doesn’t recognize a lot of musical boundaries, and audiences love her fluid ability to make herself at home in any genre while never sacrificing the essence of the song she tackles.

Husband Moore has busied himself in the Colorado music scene for many years including performing with Pete Wernick and Celeste Krenz. Not only is Moore known to produce some of the funniest on-stage commentary, he’s also a powerhouse guitar player who can keep up with O’Brien’s twists and turns from blues to traditional folk to jazz to rock and roll.

Discount tickets can be purchased at Two Brother’s Deli, 1424 Miner St. in Idaho Springs and Tomay Memorial Library, 605 6th St. in Georgetown.

Visit www.mollieobrien.com or www. unitedcenterinc.com to learn more.

LYONS High Street Concerts—a volunteer-run, non-profit concert series—holds its Season 12 finale concert, April 11, at Rogers Hall in Lyons. It includes two long-time Front Range favorites: Danny Shafer and Finnders & Youngberg. Tickets are $15.

Shafer, who lives in Lyons, has been dubbed “the hardest working musician in Colorado.” With over 200 shows a year, Shafer brings his acclaimed songwriting and fingerstyle guitar to every setting, energizing and inspiring his audiences in every show.

Finnders & Youngberg are a five-piece Americana band that possesses an undeniable chemistry and an energy that flows with might. The act “proudly swims in the deep currents of American music”—

classic bluegrass, honky tonk, country swing and folk. While their sound evokes timelessness, it is a decidedly contemporary, well-traveled 21st century sensibility that informs their songwriting. The act’s tunes draw on the bumps, bruises and laugh lines earned when we find ourselves in the “bogs” of backroads, dive bars, and long, lonesome nights.

Rogers Hall is located at 4th and High St. in Lyons. Door open at 7 p.m. and show time is 8 p.m. Advance tickets are available at The Stone Cup, 442 High St. in Lyons Visit www.highstreetconcerts.com for more information or to purchase tickets online.

Young musician plays new Empire venue EMPIRE The Phoenix Bar & Grill, a newly opened bar in Empire that replaces the 1860 Tavern, welcomes 19-year-old blues phenom A.J. Fullerton for a free show, April 25.

Playing professionally since 14, the Montrose-based singer-songwriter and multi- instrumentalist has built a reputation around Colorado as a “top-notch showman” and “quality musician.” His music features soulful vocals and guitar.

The musician is classically trained as a vocalist, and has a practical applied knowledge of music theory. He’s one of the busiest and most in-demand acts in Western Colorado. In 2014 he was one of three finalists in the Telluride Blues & Brews “Blues Challenge.”

The Phoneix offers “excellent service, delicious food and an amazing environment inside and out” including pool, horseshoes, bonfires and more.

A.J. Fullerton

The Phoenix Bar & Grill is located at 409 E Park Ave. in Empire. For more information, visit www.ajfullerton.com or www.face book.com/PhoenixEmpireCO.

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Fingers, Almost Acoustic Band and Cosmic Revolution. He left Florida in 2005 to began writing music and touring with his wife in the Brittany Reilly Band.

Schueler, Originally from the suburbs of Chicago, has been playing regionally out of South Florida since 2006. He was the front man and songwriter for the jamband Cypress which disbanded in 2003. Since then, he has focused on acoustic music while fronting The Short Straw Pickers.

Reilly, who has been performing with Hopper and Gilmore in her own nationally touring band since 2005, is the act’s newest addition. “I was, and am, first a fan of The Grass is Dead,” she said. At 18 years old and 1200 miles from home, she fell in love with “the boy holding the mandolin, and the music that poured out of all of them.” She has now been “welcomed onto their stage to add her own “colors and melodies.”

According to Reilly, The Grass is Dead—which has released three fulllength albums including one offered by Grateful Dead Merchandising—has experienced numerous changes this year.

After losing guitar player and founding member Corey Dwyer last spring, remaining members found “renewed energy in carrying on something sacred that was started back in ’98 with him.” Each of the members continued to play with different lineups, but the band’s other three original members have not played together under

The Grass is Dead play 4:20 Fest at the Stage Stop in Rollinsville on April 20.

the name The Grass is Dead since 2005.

The band has also embraced new members Schueler and Reilly, who calls the group “an ambitious lineup” since two members live in Florida, one in Colorado and two more in Ohio.

While the band’s name describes a lot, it couldn’t possibly describe everything, according to Reilly. “You can assume that bluegrass music and Grateful Dead songs will be fun. You can predict that your body may be forced to boogie. And you can guess that you’ll be listening to more music with fiddles and banjos in the days to follow,” she said. “But what you perhaps could not have foreseen, is the depth of emotion present in every word, every note. There are jokes, and laughter, and ‘pickin’ and grinnin’, as they say. You will dance and have a ball, but you will also find yourself in moments of spiritual clarity, you’ll feel empathy for the characters in the stories and then you will find yourself in some of these characters.”

The band’s musical style comes from having roots in bluegrass and because “we are all deadheads, of course,” Reilly said. “[The Grateful Dead] have been and continue to be a gateway into so many other styles of music that have formed us all as musicians. Their form and lack thereof has molded our playing, writing, and lifestyles in general.” The Grass is Dead will even be playing pre-parties outside at The Hyatt across the street from Soldier Field during all three days of the Grateful Dead’s final shows, and “enjoying being a part of as much of the circus as possible!”

As far as bluegrass goes, Reilly says she has listened to honky tonk as long as she can remember and Newton has “listened to it his whole life.” Hopper’s mom “had him listening to fiddles and country music at a very young age” while Schueler has roots in pickin’ guitars and writing music that pulls from bluegrass, old time and country. Gilmore, however, is responsible for the majority of the band’s bluegrass arrangements and is an “absolute genius, whether it be composition, mixing sound, or playing any of the eight or so instruments that he picks on almost flawlessly,” Reilly said.

The band’s reformation was too good not to take on the road. Reilly and Hopper started booking tours, “and we all jumped in head first.” Reilly explained, that with band members’ “geographical differences,” their sound will be “developed on the road.”

The Grass is Dead members are excited to come through Colorado. Gilmore, Hopper and Reilly have all played Colorado several times in her band. “We all love going out west, and the Denver/Boulder area has always been good to us,” Reilly said. “Very recently Bubba, relocated to Colorado and we have all been anxious to come out to his new home turf and play for all of our friends. We look forward to making it a regular stop. We can’t wait to have a ball with everyone.”

Watch for a live album from the act’s summer dates to “share this transformation with our friends and fans.”

To learn more about The Grass is Dead, visit grassisdead.com. The band performs at Quixote’s True Blue in Denver on April 17 and 19, Hodi’s Half Note in Fort Collins on April and Stage Stop in Rollinsville for 4:20 Fest on April 20.

Visit stagestoprollinsville.com for more information about the 4:20 Fest.

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NOTEWORTHY

Making Tracks Home

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Taarka

n March 24, Lyons-based band Taarka released its latest album, Making Tracks Home. It’s their sixth full-length album.

Taarka features David Tiller and Enion Pelta-Tiller, who draw musical influences from Romania and Appalachia, on mandolin and violin. Making Tracks Home is their follow-up to the successful Songs from Vagabondia. It features new explorations of bluegrass, Celtic, classical and gypsy-jazz, woven into a unique sonic quilt best characterized as folk-rock.

Tiller, who also plays bass, tenor guitar and bouzouki and sings, was born just outside of Washington, D.C. and raised in the National Historic Landmark district of Waterford, Va., a region rich with bluegrass history. Pelta-Tiller, a classically trained five-string violinist and vocalist, was born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland, where she began studying violin at 3½. Now making their home in Lyons, the pair met in 2001 in New York, where they busked in the subway and became members of Brooklyn Browngrass before forming Taarka. Their touring band includes bass master Troy Robey and guitar prodigy Mike Robinson; on Making Tracks Home, their accompanists include guitarist Ross Martin and bassist Sam Grisman.

Originally an instrumental string band, Taarka has evolved into an act with two lead vocalists; the pleasant contrast can be heard on “Heart and Song,” which features Pelta-Tiller, and “Old Waterford Town,” featuring Tiller. As befitting a pair of vagabond musicians (they’re raising their alreadyperforming son, Aesop, on the road), the couple simply likes to go where the music takes them.

According to Tiller, the band goes as deeply into the music as they can to see what happens when they “come out the other side.” The results of this exploration can be heard on Making Tracks Home. Visit www.taarka.com to purchase the album, find tour dates and learn more.

1) Heart and Song 2) Old Waterford Town 3) Moon Song 4) Trip to Duncan 5) Another Morning 6) Grounded

TRACKS 7) Bouncing Tale 8) Look at Miss Ohio 9) River’s Eddy Blues 10) Crocodile Tears 11) The Lark and The Owl 12) Waterbound

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MOUNTAIN MUSIC

Distillery brings ’70s back to Lyons LYONS The 1970s make a comeback at Spirit Hound Distillery, April 11, at its 1970s Throwback Bash featuring live music from Kit Colt and The Groupers. The free party starts at 7 p.m. and costumes are highly encouraged.

Founded in 2011, the Pennsylvaniabased band came to fruition on the “coattails of whimsy, with here-say jams and late night bourbon impromptus’ that started to evolve into something more serious than any one person could fathom.”

Kit Colt has the “notorious sound of wild guitar driven blues melody with blasts of trebly, country-rock guitar over a funky, laid-back bass-and-drums groove.”

Members include Chris Haus, Alexander Haus and George Wallace Davis V. Through countless hours spent practicing and recording, their “pockets were full of tasty jams and it was time to take the scene by storm.” Kit Colt always recognizes the importance of the audience, take pride in its fan-base and “constantly strive to deliver professionally novel performances that are sure to keep bodies moving and heads consuming.”

Spirit Hound Distillery is located at 4196 Ute Hwy. in Lyons. For more information, call 303-823-5696 or visit spirithounds.com.

Gilpin swing dance group forms ROLLINSVILLE A new swing dance group has formed in Gilpin County for twice monthly dances at the Stage Stop in Rollinsville. Swingin’ Peak to Peak’s inaugural dance, April 13, is free and all levels of dancers—including singles—are welcome. The free event includes a demonstration and instruction from David Vinson and Annalisa Ryle of the The Denver Turnverein. Vinson also DJs the event.

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The evening begins with a demo at 7 p.m. and the dance begins at 8 p.m. Donations for the music and instructors will be accepted. Future events take place on the second and fourth Monday of each month.

The Stage Stop is located at 60 Main St. in Rollinsville. Call 303-582-3934 for more information or if you are interested in helping with future events.

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MOUNTAIN MUSIC

Record store employees love to sell music, see a customer’s ‘vinyl smile’ in a camping chair reading his morning paper is a line. “Either way, he was excited about Record Store Day and I was excited to see his enthusiasm,” Hoover said.

“We also had some out-of-town visitors who happened upon our little store, unaware that the store was in town and a little down about being in a town without a record store on Record Store Day. So they were super stoked and surprised to find us and to find out we participate in Record Store Day.” “I definitely look forward to the entire process of Record Store Day every year,” Hoover said. “First the list of releases comes out, so I get to pick what the store will choose to carry depending on cost and what I think will do well—keeping in mind that we usually only get about half to two-thirds of the items. Then I get to find out what we actually get once they are shipped. Finally, I get to see who is excited and chooses to purchase these coveted items. Whether it is on Record Store Day, or days, weeks or even months later, it is always fun to see.”

Sgt. Peppers, which opened in 2009, sells a wide variety of rock ‘n’ roll novelty and collectable items, small instruments and guitar accessories, games and cards and other fun items. It is owned by Randy and Rachael Martin from Moab, Utah where they run a second location.

The ever-growing music section in Estes Park that offers new and used vinyl and CDs, however, wasn’t always in the mix.

“When I took over [as manager in Au- with a CD copy, which are both great margust 2010], we carried one vinyl record: keting tools in my opinion.”

Abbey Road,” Hoover said. “I would get According to Hoover, all types of people asked about vinyl once or twice a week un- shop in the store including “everyone from til eventually I began shopping for used vi- senior tour bus groups, family tourists, colnyl at thrift stores and antique shops. Even- lege kids from neighboring communities, tually, we got a decent enough collection local high school kids, normal local folks that people started to ask if we bought old and folks from all over who still appreciate music in its truer vinyl collecforms.” He said tions, and now they also get a lot that is where of people from the majority of Greely and other the used stuff valley communicomes from.” ties who “sadly” The store’s don’t have a collection of good music store new records and are “looking has also grown for a little differa lot in the last ent variety” then couple of years offered by chain from a couple Sgt. Peppers Music & Video in Estes Park sells a stores. of dozen to a wide range of rock collectables and more.

“We love to sell couple of hundred. “We are always happy to special order music here,” the manger, who prefers the vinyl, CDs or DVDs from our music vendor sounds of the Avett Brothers, Trampled By at no extra cost,” Hoover said. “We are cur- Turtles as well as locals Elephant Revival rently in the process of increasing our vinyl and Chimney Choir, said. “It just means stock and cutting back some on CDs as that more than when we sell the other things. We seems to be where the intrigue and demand carry everything else because we have too, is and continues to grow. Kids these days because it sells. We carry music because we seem to either want the download or, if they love it. I wish we could be wall-to-wall all go for the physical copy, it seems to be vi- music stuff, who knows, maybe one day. It’s nyl. Many vinyl [records] come with digital really cool to see who buys music and we downloads these days and some even come especially love to sell the vinyl.”

Mountain MUSIC Calendar 1970s Throwback Bash w/Kit Colt & The Groupers – Spirit hound Distillers (LY)

High Street Concerts: Danny Shafer, Finnders & Youngberg – Rogers Hall (LY) Jesse Garland Band – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) Billy Shaddox – Rock Inn (EP) April 12 Acoustic New Family Dog – Very Nice Brewing (NED) Zenobia Street Funk Collective – Loveland Ski Area (GT) David Booker – Da Rivuh Restaurant (IS) Dave Miller – Lewis Sweet Shop (EM) Grant Gordy & Ross Martin – Salina Schoolhouse (SA) Music in the Mornings: Jay Stott – The Stone Cup (LY) Jami Lunde & Eben Grace – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) Jon Pickett – Rock Inn (EP) Estes Park Music Festival: Giddy Up Kitty – Stanley Hotel Concert Hall (EP)

April 16 Celtic Session w/The Gael – Very Nice Brewing (NED) Complete Unknowns – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) Decker – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) April 17 Cocksmith & Rugburn – Stage Stop (RV) Captain Quirk and the Cosmic Rangers – Pioneer Inn (NED) Steve Thomas Band – Reserve Casino (CC) David Booker – Alpine Restaurant & Bar (GT) Gary and Claudia – Troia’s Café (GT) Laura Meyer – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) Ethyl & the Regulars – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys, The Lil’ Smokies – Wildflower Pavilion @ Planet Bluegrass (LY)

Terry & Ash – Rock Inn (EP) April 18 Live Music – Pioneer Inn (NED) DJ Bedz – Reserve Casino (CC) Jack Yoder – Troia’s Café (GT) Tom McNair – Lewis Sweet Shop (EM) Whiskey Autumn – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) Music in the Mornings: James Faulk – The Stone Cup (LY)

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Sgt. Peppers Music and Video is located at 160 E Elkhorn Ave. in Estes Park. Call 970-586-7625 for store hours or find them on Facebook for more information.

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Wild Road – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) Great Blue – Rock Inn (EP) April 19 Ron Kohler – Lewis Sweet Shop (EM) Music in the Mornings: Antonio Lopez – The Stone Cup (LY) Felonius Smith – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) Jon Pickett – Rock Inn (EP) April 20 4:20 Fest w/Grass is Dead, Barrel House String Band – Stage Stop (RV)

Mary Lou, an employee who has worked at the store every summer since it opened, says she loves to see that “vinyl smile.” People can be excited about CDs, but Hoover said that everyone who buys vinyl is “genuinely excited about it and they have a bigger smile than anyone else in the store.”

Hoover expects the vinyl resurgence to keep Sgt. Peppers in the music business for a long time. “People should shop at Sgt. Peppers because it is awesome,” he said. “We are pretty unique to downtown with the selection and type of items we carry. Also, with the variety of our selection you are bound to find something for everyone. We hear multiple times a day in the summer that we are the coolest store in town, and occasionally we hear that we are the coolest store anywhere ever in the world. Who are we to argue with such obvious informed logic?”

Check out Sgt. Peppers’ portion of countless exclusive Record Store Day releases on April 18. You’ll undoubtedly find a unique recording while doing your part to support independent record stores and a small-town business.

April 23 Idlewhile – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) April 24 Malai Llama – Very Nice Brewing (NED) Wooleye – Pioneer Inn (NED) Caribou Mountain Collective – Very Nice Brewing (NED) Steve Thomas Band – Reserve Casino (CC) Jim Stahlhut – Troia’s Café (GT) Jeff Scroggins & Colorado – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) Moe & Tom – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) April 25 George Nelson Band: 19th Century Night – Pioneer Inn (NED) DJ Bedz – Reserve Casino (CC) Collin Raye – Reserve Casino (CC) RapidGrass – Loveland Ski Area (GT) Gary and Claudia – Troia’s Café (GT) A.J. Fullerton – Phoenix Bar & Grill (EM) Intuit – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) Johnny O Band – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) Music in the Mornings: Thomas Gronberg – The Stone Cup (LY) Sean Flynn – Rock Inn (EP) Winter Park Springtopia – Winter Park Resort (GC) April 26 Acoustic New Family Dog – Very Nice Brewing (NED) Music in the Mornings: Glenn Colby – The Stone Cup (LY) Johnny Long – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) Jon Pickett – Rock Inn (EP) April 27 Shawn James & the Shapeshifters – Stage Stop (RV)

Lyon High School Band – Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (LY) April 29 Greg Schochet & Katie Glassman – Gold Hill Store & Café (GH) April 30 Strangebyrds – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) May 1 Antonio Lopez Band – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) The Railsplitters – Wildflower Pavilion @ Planet Bluegrass (LY) May 2 Boo Daddy – Loveland Ski Area (GT) Whitewater Ramble – Arapahoe Basin Ski Area (SC) Contraband – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) May 3 Closing Day Celebration – Loveland Ski Area (GT) WEEKY MUSIC Sunday • Open Bluegrass Pick – Salto Coffee Works (NED) • Grumpy Jam – Alpine Restaurant & Bar (GT) • Brunch w/Amanda Valley – Estes Park Resort (EP) Monday • Karaoke – Whistler’s Café (NED) • Open Jovan “Open Mic Jimtown Style” – Jamestown Mercantile (JT)

Tuesday • Open Mic – Pioneer Inn (NED) • “A Night at the Goat” Open Mic – KYGT Radio (IS) • Bluegrass Pick – Oskar Blues (LY) • James Davis – Twin Owls Steakhouse (EP) Wednesday • Blues Jam – Pioneer Inn (NED) • Vinyl Night – Very Nice Brewing (NED) • Karaoke – West Winds Tavern (IS) • Open Bluegrass Pick – Jamestown Mercantile (JT) • Brown Bag Lunch Jam – Highland Music (EP) • Open Mic w/Justin Faye – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) • James Davis – Twin Owls Steakhouse (EP) • Dennis-Tobias Band – The View @ Historic Crags (EP) Thursday • Bluegrass Pick – First Street Pub (NED)

• Open Jam Night – Whistler’s Café (NED) • Open Mic: Taylor Radio + Potluck – Spirit Hound Distillery (LY) • Vic Anderson – Coffee on the Rocks (EP) • Ladies Night: Mountain Town Rockers – Estes Park Resort (EP) Friday • Steve Smersh – Mountain Strong Restaurant (EP) • Ray Young – Nicky’s Restaurant (EP) • Bob Smallwood – Coffee On The Rocks (EP) • James Davis – Twin Owls Steakhouse (EP) • Karaoke (Theme Night) – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) Saturday • Karaoke (Prize Night) – Lonigans Bar & Grill (EP) • Ray Young – Nicky’s Restaurant (EP) • Vic Anderson – Coffee On The Rocks (EP) • Mountain Town Trio – Tavern & Brewery at Mary’s Lake Lodge (EP)

AP = Allenspark BC = Boulder County BH = Black Hawk CC = Central City CCC= Coal Creek Canyon EM = Empire EP = Estes Park GC = Gilpin County GRC = Grand County GGC = Golden Gate Canyon GH = Gold Hill GT = Georgetown

IS = Idaho Springs JT = Jamestown LV = Loveland LY = Lyons NED = Nederland RV = Rollinsville SA = Salina SMG = St. Mary’s Glacier SP = Silver Plume SC = Summit County WD = Ward WP = Winter Park

Submit music-related events for free listing in the Mountain Music Calendar to: MMACeditor@gmail.com All listings/dates subject to change.

Contact venues to confirm events.

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COVER STORY – highlighting mountain culture

Movies in the mountains provide much-needed entertainment close to home

In 2013, Evans was approached by In the summer, the Historic Park The- Movie screening can be found in even

By Jennifer Pund a group dedicated to helping non-profit ater in downtown Estes Park shows first the tiniest of communities. In a small canFRONT RANGE ach weekend, Kayla Evans greats ev- theaters convert to the modern standard run films the Reel Mountain Theater can yon west of Boulder the Four Mile Film ery patron of the Backdoor Theater in digital projection. The theater had two not. “Because we are only three screens, Society holds a screening and discussion seNederland as long-time friends. After weeks to come up with the funds to match we can’t play everything,” Conley said. ries dedicated to the exploration of the eth15 years of almost never missing a shift, a grant that had already been approved. “And they have 35mm still, so they can run ics of film making and film viewing twice a they pretty much are. No matter the size of Evens wasn’t sure it would happen. “With film, too. It’s great there is a place for that.” month. Its founder co-curated a salon series a town—big or small or even smaller—a the board, we held a ‘chew and view’ The Park Theater is the oldest motion of film events at his mountain cabin, bringparty with a spa- picture theater in the United States. The ing together visiting filmmakers and poets movie screening ghetti dinner and theater’s construction was started in 1913 with the communities of Four Mile Canyon, can often be the silent action. The with the landmark tower and lobby added in Gold Hill, Boulder and Denver. only regular form community really 1926 by owner Ralph Gwynn as an homage Also, each year in April, the Stanley of family enterpulled together to represent the beauty of his true love and Film Festival brings the best in contemtainment and comand we raised is now known as the “Tower of Love.” Ola porary and classic horror film to several munity interaction. about $17,000 in and Mickey Stanger took over the theater’s screens in Estes Park including the Stanley Whether screened just over a week,” operations in 1968. Upon their deaths in Hotel Concert Hall. in a library, local Finally, restaurants, coffee shops, hisshe said. The 2003 and 2005, collaborative efforts of relabusiness, commutorical groups and funds were enough tives keep the theater nity auditorium, other local busito cover the digital operational through historic theater or nesses will schedule conversion and an the summer season modern cinema, movie nights for free upgraded sound and remains a familyclassic, indepen- Backdoor Theater at the Nederland viewings at times system. “It shows owned business. dent and newly- Community Center when little else is released blockbuster films fill a much- how much this is an institution in the The Park theater going on and locals has kept up with modcommunity and it’s supported.” needed entertainment void in our small, simply need to get The Estes Park community has supported ern times. In 2013, sometimes isolated mountain towns that out of the house. Be its local Reel Mountain Theater for more the theater received a are miles from the nearest multiplex. sure to check MMAC Evans has the perfect background for than 28 years. About five years ago, Craig new digital projector, Monthly calendar working at the theater. With a Bachelor’s Conley and his wife purchased the cinema Dolby 5.1 surround listings each month Degree in music and a Masters in Theater, as a way to slow down from his previous sound and a new 3D Reel Mountain Theater in Estes Park or visit the websites she began her career in New York. In 1991, position as Head of Operations of Dick- system. The next year, she moved back to Colorado to help with inson Theaters in Kansas City. “I helped 2014, the theater upgraded the screen and of the various venues to find a movie build that company from about 25 loca- touts every one of the 224 seats has a good screening near you. her family’s ranch near Nederland.

Obviously, options abound in the larger “I don’t know anybody else that can tions to over 40, and 150 screens to about viewing angel. do what she does. You really can’t replace 400,” Conley said. “After running across the Lyons Photography and Art Center— metro-area cities, but for a local, commuher.” theater volunteer Carol Handler. country building theaters, I have really en- aside from hosting workshops, “photo nity experience, the small-town theater— said. “She cares so much for this commu- joyed slowing down.” With family connec- jams” and classes—screens modern and or coffee house wall—can’t be beat. No nity and is so dedicated. It really means a tions to the area for nearly 100 years, Con- classic films on the first and third Saturday matter where you chose to see a movie, sit ley had vacationed in Estes Park and had an each month. All showings are free, with back, relax and enjoy the show. lot to the community.”

Coordinating the Backdoor Theater, idea of what they town was about. “I have a $10 suggested donation. Popcorn, soft located inside the Nederland Community had family here on and off, so it was kind of drinks and candy are available and, to deWHERE TO SEE fray some of the costs, subscriptions with Center, includes purchasing the movies a natural fit,” he said.

MOVIES IN THE MOUNTAINS and all the concessions, overseeing the When Conley took over the theater, he reserved seats for all showings, are offered.

In smaller mountain communities, liBoard of Directors, and much more. She replaced the seats and converted all three Estes Valley Library braries can often be the center says she does it for personal reasons as screens to the modern digi970-586-8116 • www.estesvalleylibrary.org for entertainment, which inmuch as a community need. “This is my tal upgraded projection sys335 E. Elkhorn Ave., Estes Park cludes screening movies. The world, with props and wigs and stages, so tem, but didn’t have to do Four Mile Film Society/ Clear Creek Library District it’s out of love for the theater and to give much else. “This was a well Little Church in the Pines occasionally screens films back to the community,” she said. “And, established theater,” he said.

303-823-6399 • salinaschool.blogspot.com at both the Idaho Springs it’s really all about the volunteers and the “There wasn’t a whole lot 414 Gold Run Road, Salina Library and John Tomay of things I had to do, I was time they dedicate here as well.”

Gilpin County Library Memorial Library in George “I know so many people in town, it’s handed a well run movie the303-582-5777 • www.gilpinlibrary.org town and often hosts trips like sitting around the kitchen table goof- ater.”

15131 Hwy. 119, Black Hawk from Clear Creek County to ing off with your friends,” Evans said. Conley said he is a fan of Historic Park Theater first-run films at a Denver “It’s all done in humor, kindness and in- film and loves the business 970-586-8904 • www.historicparktheatre.com theater. clusion, never to hurt someone’s feelings, side, even the “roller coaster 130 Moraine Ave., Estes Park The Gilpin County Liride” it can be. “It’s fascijust to have fun.”

Idaho Springs Library brary also occasionally The 260 seat theater is registered with nating, all the different parts 303-567-2020 • www.tinshedsports.com Historic Park Theater in screens movies likes this all the major film distribution companies, that make up the business,” 219 14th Ave., Idaho Springs Estes Park month’s free screening and giving it access to first run films. Evans he said. “Estes Park follows John Tomay Memorial Library also programs kids films, nature films, the trends of Hollywood, too; 2014 was discussion of the environmental movie 303-823-5810 • redstonecyclery.com documentaries, classics, obscure and his- kind of a down year, and we feel that too.” SWITCH, April 25, in recognition of Earth 605 6th St., Georgetown tory films. “The only thing I don’t do is The Reel Mountain theater sees a mix Day. Other month-long series may be ofLyons Photography Art Center of locals and visitors, especially when it fered throughout the year. the slasher, gore-type movies,” she said.

303-823-6399 • lyonscinema.com The community theater operates on an rains. “Everyone floods out of the park The Estes Valley Library schedules sev442 High Street, Suite 2, Lyons average of about 250 volunteer-hours a about 2 p.m., when the afternoon rain eral movie screenings throughout the year.

Nederland Backdoor Theater month including concession stand work- showers come in, and people who come Many times, they are grouped into a series 303-258-0188 • www.backdoortheater.org ers, ticket takers, and after-show clean up to visit are staying at a hotel and look- about a relevant subject or popular book.

243 W 4th St., Nederland up. “In return, volunteers get to see the ing for something to do in the evening,” Because April is National Poetry Month, the Reel Mountain Theater movie at no charge, with a treat while he said. “We are definitely the town’s en- library is featuring a series of films “that cel970-586-4227 • www.reelmountain.com they watch,” Board of Directors Member tertainment. When there’s nothing else to ebrate poets and the poetry in our souls” in 543 Big Thompson Ave., Estes Park its Poetry on Film series all of April. do, you are going to go to the movies.”

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