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23 students graduate from CC-V High School By Norma Engelberg

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The Woodland Park High School Class of 2013 checked in early for the school’s 78th Commencement on May 24 at the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs. Photo by Norma Engelberg

WPHS celebrates commencement By Norma Engelberg

nengelberg@ourcoloradonews. com Woodland Park seniors know how to make a graduation fun. At school’s 78th annual commencement on May 25, many of the 187 students on the school’s unofficial graduate list brought in noisemakers and beach balls (and one blow-up poodle), wore sunglasses, decorated their caps and carried a nonperishable food item and a rubber ducky. They used the noisemakers and sent the beach balls flying whenever anyone at the speaker’s podium said “Class of 2013.” Many of the speakers said the phrase over and over just to increase the noise factor. The food items went into a box for the needy in the names of two students who died in a traffic ac-

cident last summer, Nick Naples and Alex Ragan. Naples’ parents received his diploma posthumously. The rubber duckies, along with a few duck decoys and a toy tiger, went to Principal Del Garrick when the students picked up their diplomas. Commencement started with the processional, which was followed by the National Anthem sung by members of the Junior Madrigals. Other musical numbers were provided by the Madrigals and the Senior Choir. Guest speakers included Salutatorian Kelsey Siebel, Valedictorian Anjolenna Lutz, who gave her definition of success, and Keynote Speaker Joe Roskam, who gave his own definition of success that wasn’t based on striking it rich. “We’re told to pursue happiness, we’re not entitled to it,”

Cripple Creek-Victor High School graduates and their families and friends gathered on May 25 in the junior high/high school gymnasium for the Cripple CreekVictor RE-1 School District’s 117th annual commencement. The graduation of 23 students was a mixture of nostalgia and tradition as students proceeded into the gym one at a time down the red carpet. The students earned more than $115,000 in scholarships. Many of those sponsored by local organizations were handed out at commencement. Superintendent Sue Holmes also pointed out that 100 percent of the students have been accepted by colleges and universities. The class chose teachers Susan Van’t Hul and Regina Viktorin as their keynote speakers. As part of her address, Viktorin had the visiting kindergartners, the Class of 2025, recite the alphabet for the graduates. The kindergartners recited it backwards. Teacher Penni Donnato recited a poem she wrote for the occasion. Traditions include the playing

of a video showing each student’s baby photo, graduation photo and favorite quote. In another nod to tradition, after students received their diplomas, they also received handfuls of flowers to give to their family members. This year the flowers were single white roses. After the commencement exercise, students met with visitors over cake and punch in the high school commons, another tradition.

Cripple Creek-Victor High School Class of 2013

Kara Isabella Abasta, Cale lee Brown, Darren Thomas Caddy (Salutatorian), Darien Amber Carrillo (co-Valedictorian), Jaimi Christine Cloud, Josephine Mackenzie Cloud, Haley Susan Hute (co-Valedictorian), Dane Alexander Hutson, Christopher James Irelan, Rachel Marie Kramp, Richard Charles Larsen, Nikolai James Kashin Louritt, Wyatt Earl McClure, Dustin McClintock Osborn, Branden Edward Oxley, Meggan Lee Peiffer, Jordan Adair Ratteree, Olivia Ellen Ruiz Larsen, Samantha Louise Skottegaard, Kayla Breanne Smith, Julia Diane Stoneking, Stephanie Vel-Flusa and Amelia Grace Wierman.

he said. “Graduation gives you a clean slate. What are you going to do with that? … If you love what you do you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” Woodland Park RE-2 School District Superintendent ended his speech with advice given to him by his youngest son two years ago when he was 4 years old: “Be happy for summer.”

Woodland Park High School Class of 2013

Justin Michael Alday, Edward Thomas Allen, Kasey Mariah Allen, Jude Fahad Al-Mutlaq, Blake William Anstett, Alexander Lynn Anthony, Peyton Nicole Ashcraft, Summer Lily Baker, Jessica Erin Bates, Kieran Zo-an Bennett, Shannon Marie Bingen, Cole Evan Brown, Jayson Andrew Brown, WPHS continues on Page 8

Cripple Creek-Victor High School 2013 graduate Samantha Skottegaard leads her classmates and their families with the singing of the national anthem at the school’s 117th commencement exercise on May 25. Photo by Norma Engelberg

IREA fights renewable standard By Pat Hill

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Mike Kopp, manager of corporate affairs for Intermountain Rural Electric Association, talks about the cooperative’s opposition to SB 252, which has yet to be signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper. Photo by Pat Hill

As two sides of the renewable-energy mandate hold their collective breath over whether Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign SB 252 by June 7, the opposition weighs in on the bill passed by the Colorado General Assembly last month. The bill doubles the renewable energy standard

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from 10 to 20 percent by 2020 for the state’s largest electric associations, which includes Intermountain Rural Electric Association that serves Teller County. “We want to be able to control costs for our customers, so any time a bill has a mandate that causes us to spend money unnecessarily, at a minimum we’re going to raise our eyebrows and probably try to stop the requirement,” said Mike Kopp, manager of corporate affairs for IREA. At issue for the co-op is the secretive nature of the bill sponsored by John Morse, senate president, Mark Ferrandino, House speaker, and Gail Schwartz, state representative from Snowmass Village. All are Democrats. “We engaged in good faith with both Republi-

cans and Democrats yet the sponsors introduced the bill without as much as a simple phone call to us,” Kopp said. “The bill was hatched in secret, sprung on the General Assembly and rural-electric customers without any advance notice.” It’s the mandate part that riles co-op directors. As it is, Kopp said, Colorado has excess generation capacity. “Then the General Assembly comes along and wants us to build more of a certain kind of electrical-generating capacity, even though it’s not needed,” Kopp said. “When we are able to draw our power allotment from Comanche 3 our prices stay down.” According to an article in the Colorado Independent newspaper, published Aug. 20, 2011, IREA invested $366 million in the coal-

fired plant and is a onequarter partner in the Xcel Energy operation. “It almost doesn’t matter how cheap renewable energy is if we have to reduce an expensive asset like the Comanche 3 in order to bring the wind onto the system. There is real cost in doing that,” Kopp said. IREA receives 9 percent of its power from renewable-energy sources. “We have a pretty green system but there comes a point when we’d like to see the legislature be more mindful of the cost impact of these policies,” Kopp said. The association buys power from Xcel Energy, including some renewable sources. “It’s a mix of qualifying sources, including wind,” he said. “The general IREA continues on Page 4

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Truck collides with bus, one fatality Injured students treated, released Special to the Courier The driver of a pickup truck died of his injuries and eight stu-

dents were treated and released at a local hospital after the truck collided with a school bus in the early hours of May 26 on U.S. 24 between Divide and Florissant. The Colorado State Patrol reported that the school bus, heading westbound on U.S. 24, was

carrying 51 students from Summit Ministries in Manitou Springs to a raft trip when 42-year-old Glenn Crow, driving eastbound in a GMC pickup, veered across the center line at about 6:40 a.m. and collided with the bus. Teller County Sheriff’s Office

reported that the accident happened near the intersection of U.S. 24 and Mistletoe Lane in Cougar Canyon. The accident closed the highway for about three hours and the sheriff’s office used its emergency alert system, Nixle, to advise driv-

ers to avoid the highway in that area. The accident is still under investigation but state troopers say Crow was not wearing a seatbelt. Whether alcohol was a factor in the crash will not be known until a toxicology screen is available.

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SQUAW VALLEY

Farewell. Columnist Norma Engleberg writes her last column. Page 6

Retiring. AARF volunteer retires at age 90. Page 4 Helping hand. Kids vounteer at soup kitchen. Page 12

Summer sports. Woodland Park ready for summer baseball season. Page 22

Graduation. Cripple Creek, Woodland Park High Schools celebrate commencement. Page 14, 18

Trucks are hauling dirt, crews are cutting trees and stop lights control traffic when any of the construction vehicles have to cross Colo. 67 as the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. gets ready to cut off a loop of the highway at Squaw Valley for the new Valley Leach Pad. Photo by Norma Engelberg

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y Barber ties multiple yellow ribbons thatBy Pat Hill

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r ins say Compassionate and emotional about belt. people who serve in the military, Doloretta or inBarber has come up with a fundraising idea ntil afor the young men and women fighting America’s wars. It’s yellow ribbons, 8,465 of them, along with a chance at thrusting the city of Woodland Park into the Guinness Book of World Records. “I woke up in the middle of the night one night…and it clicked,” said Barber, who volunteers with Welcome Home Warrior, the nonprofit organization that sponsors the campaign. Taking off from the city’s brand, “Elevate Your Altitude,” Barber combined the city’s elevation, 8,465 feet, the ribbons, a tree in Lions Park and a defining goal, one not imagined by the less-ingenious. “Nobody that I know of, or that Guinness is aware of, has 8,465 yellow ribbons on a tree,” she said. At $1 apiece, the ribbons are designed to involve the community in showing appreciation for the military. “I’m hoping, hoping, that people will donate a few dollars here, a few dollars there, so that we will have enough money to do a retreat for more of our soldiers,” Barber said. “If we can only take a few families, just get them away from the hum-drum of their lives right now, even for a weekend, I feel we have done something for them.” Donna Finicle of Woodland Park founded WHW, a nonprofit organization, in 2007, to offer free retreats that include counseling and support groups for the military and their families. “I don’t think people really have a grip on what these soldiers are going through,” Barber said. For instance, she said, look at Americans’ response to other tragedies. “God forgive me; it may sound mean on my part, but when a disaster like Boston hits, or God love them, in Oklahoma, they collected several million dollars,” she said. “Can you imagine what we could do with a million dollars for our soldiers here?” Multiply the victims of the bomb attack in Boston by 10,000, she said. “Because we have at least that many soldiers who have gone through the same, if not worse, in hospitals in rehab all over this country,” Barber said. “Some of these soldiers are not just amputees they are double-, triple-and quadruple-amputees.” Wracked by sorrow, Barber agonizes over

Dedicated to honoring Teller County’s soldiers, Doloretta Barber, volunteer with Welcome Home Warrior, is finding help throughout the community to craft 8,465 yellow ribbons to hang on the large tree in Lions Park. Having a yellow-ribbon party at Peoples National Bank are, from left, Sharon Grenoble, Barber, and Liza Haight. A fundraiser for the nonprofit, WHW, the yellow ribbons are $1 apiece. Courtesy photo the repercussions of two American wars on the military. “When you consider the suicide rate among our soldiers\veterans, it’s horrific, 21 per day. Woodland Park is not immune to that; it has happened right here,” she said. “If we are instrumental in stopping that happening to one or two or three, I think it’s very important that we should try. As an American, I think I owe it to do something for them.” For a moment, Barber allows herself to dream. “I was hoping I’d win that $600,000,000 lottery; can you imagine what I could do with that for our soldiers?” she said, adding that, yes, she had bought a lottery ticket. Forging ahead without the lottery jackpot, Barber issues her plea for the yellow ribbons. “Our goal is to have the tree finished by the Fourth of July. And we’ve only got 5,450 ribbons to go,” she said on May 24. “If everybody gave a dollar, I’d have enough to do a retreat for 12 families.”

Granted, that’s a lot of ribbons to be tied for a small group of volunteers who meet at Peoples National Bank. “I will make it,” she said. “I will. If I have to stay up all night to

make ribbons, it will be done. Absolutely.” Donations are accepted at Peoples bank or by calling 687-6542 or checking rabarber4@gmail.com.

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Teller County Dems clean up Rampart Range Teller County Democrats host the annual Rampart Range cleanup activity, a free volunteer opportunity in support of the city of Woodland Park’s Keep

Woodland Park Beautiful clean-up day. The event is from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. June 8. The day includes a free barbecue at noon in Memo-

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Commissioners support POW/MIA highway By Pat Hill

phill@ourcoloradonews.com “Last year’s fires cost the state of Colorado $48 million in fire suppression,” said Teller County commissioner Marc Dettenrieder, speaking at the commissioners’ meeting May 23. Dettenrieder represented the county this month at a meeting of the Wildland Urban Interface workshop to review strategies and solutions in preparation for the pend-

ing fire season. Noting another startling statistic, Dettenrieder said, “In Teller County, 68 percent of the wildland urban interface area is undeveloped,” he said. Dettenrieder, who represents southern Teller County, announced the recent inauguration of the Gold Camp Connector, a bus that runs between Cripple Creek and Victor four times a day. The commissioners threw their support behind a proposal by the American Legion

Department of Colorado to rename a section of Colo. Hwy. 67 the POW/MIA Memorial Highway, 18.7 miles from Divide to Cripple Creek. In a letter of support, the commissioners wrote: “There is strong support in Teller County for this request, as evidenced by increased participation in the POW/MIA Recognition Motorcyle Ride, which has grown over the past 25 years to over 5,000 motorcyclists in the ride, and as many as 40,000 event attendees. There are thousands of

missing service members accounted for, and many with ties to Teller County.” Co-sponsored by state Sen. Kevin Grantham and Colo. Rep. Polly Lawrence, the proposal was also supported by Teller County’s American Legion Eric V. Dickson Post 1980. Other supporters include the Woodland Park VFW Post 6051, the Lake George VFW Post 11411, the Cripple Creek/ Victor American Legion Post 171, and the city of Cripple Creek. The motorcycle ride is Aug. 16.

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trend is naturally for integration of more of these kinds of energy and more so as the market naturally makes them more affordable.” As it is, IREA is a connection source for customers who invest in solar or wind power. “We’ll net-meter and buy their energy when the meter turns backward, when they’re producing more than they are using,” Kopp said. “We don’t have a reflexively-negative attitude about renewable energy we’re just very costconscious.” In opposing the bill, IREA highlights issues they consider perplexing. “It’s a bill dealing with technical subject matter which was crafted without the technical input of the utilities that will be impacted,” Kopp said. In addition, constituents of the three sponsors are not affected by the bill, as two are not served by

everything we can to minimize the economic impact.’ Mike Kopp, IREA manager of corporate affairs rural electric association and another, Snowmass, is exempted as the bill affects only those with 100,000 0r more customers. IREA has more than 140,000 customers. Another wrinkle is storage. “If somebody solves the energy-storage problem the game changes dramatically,” Kopp said. “Renewableenergy sources do become dispatchable because you can store energy and use it any time. But we don’t have legitimate storage of industrial scale.” Ultimately, for IREA, it’s about cost. “The fact of the matter is that if it will save money, can be produced

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more cheaply, you’re not going to need mandates,” Kopp said. “Under the right economic circumstances, maybe mandates make sense, but if that’s the case mandates won’t be needed. We don’t need the legislature telling people to go save money.” However, if the governor signs the bill, the issue isn’t over. “It the bill is signed into law, we’ll go to work analyzing and do everything we can to minimize the economic impact,” Kopp said. At press time, the office of Sen. John Morse, had not replied to the Courier request for information.

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As she approaches 90, Betty Grout of Woodland Park has decided to retire as a volunteer for AARF, Adoptable Animal Rescue Force. Photo by Pat Hil

AARF volunteer retires at 90 By Pat Hill

Not because she’s about to turn 90, or that the work is too hard or too much. No, for Betty Grout, the decision to retire after 15 years with Adoptable Animal Rescue Force is not due to health issues or boredom. It’s only because she’s moving to Denver that she is hanging up her badge. From taking rescued pets to the fair in Colorado Springs to calling new owners to check on the dog or cat adoptees, Grout has been a vital part of the organization since its initiation in the early 1990s. “Most of the new owners say their puppies are still chewing on everything, like typical puppies,” Grout said. Not only has she volunteered with the organization, but she is a sucker for dogs. “The dog I have now is one I said I’d take care of until we found a home for her,” she said. Eight years later, Grout and her little dog, Sassy, are fast friends. Asked for the dog’s breed, Grout said, “Who knows?” A native of Colorado Springs, Grout taught elementary school, first-and second-grade, in Denver. She and her late husband, Wesley, moved to Woodland Park in 1982. For the next phase of her life, Grout is moving to an assisted living center in Denver, to be near her family.

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for us through the years. Betty is a special person and we’re going to miss her.’ Dottie Brennan, AARF volunteer In the meantime, she is bidding farewell to her companion, Bob Elliott, whom she met in high school in Colorado Springs and re-connected with at a high-school reunion. Elliott is leaving to live near his family in South Carolina. “I’ll miss him,” she said. Grout has left her mark on the AARF organization. “She’s done a lot of work for us through the years,” said Dottie Brennan, an AARF volunteer. “Betty is a special person and we’re going to miss her.” “We keep having wonderful dogs and no shelter for them,” she said. “there again, to get volunteers to help is a problem.”

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Kevin ence,to historic legalization vote Teller ksonBy Vic Vela e thevvela@ourcoloradonews.com Lake reek/ Gov. John Hickenlooper on May 28 d thesigned several pieces of marijuana-related legislation into law, including those having to do with the regulation and proposed taxation of retail pot sales, which will soon become legal under Amendment 64. The governor said at a Capitol bill-signing event that Colorado is “chartering new territory” when it comes to putting in place a regulatory model on a newly created industry that voters approved in November. “The voters passed Amendment 64 by a clear majority,” said Hickenlooper, who opposed last fall’s ballot measure, which legalized recreational marijuana use and retail pot sales in the state. “That’s why we’re going to implement it as effectively as we possibly can.”

Among the bills signed by the governor was House Bill 1317, which puts in place the regulatory framework retail pot shops must obey, when they are allowed to begin operations on Jan. 1. In-state residents who are 21 and older will be able to purchase up to an ounce of marijuana at retail stores, per transaction, while out-of-state visitors are limited to a quarter of an ounce. Colorado residents can also grow their own pot and possess up to six marijuana plants. Existing medical marijuana dispensaries will have a nine-month head start on other businesses looking to enter into the retail pot arena. Pot shops — which will not be able to sell food or drinks that do not contain marijuana — must sell the drug in child-resistant packages that denote potency. The state Department of Revenue will regulate the retail pot industry. “When you are in uncharted territory, you need a North Star,” said Rep. Dan Pa-

bon, D-Denver, a House Bill 1317 sponsor. “And the North Star we used was public safety and making sure we kept marijuana out of the hands of kids, cartels and criminals.” The regulatory bill is also aimed at trying to appease the federal government, which has yet to respond to the pot legislation in Colorado. Marijuana use and sales are illegal under federal law. Hickenlooper said he expects the feds will be “more specific” in how they respond to states like Colorado and Washington, where voters also recently approved recreational pot use, “relatively soon.” Hickenlooper also signed House Bill 1318, which calls for the drug to be taxed at a 15 percent excise tax rate, and a 10 percent retail tax rate. That’s in addition to other state and local taxes. Funds generated from the excise tax will go toward school construction. Voters must approve the new taxes in November.

Hickenlooper and other bill sponsors called on voters to support the tax measures, or run the risk of marijuana regulatory money being taken out of the state’s general fund. “This is a plea to the people of Colorado to pass these taxes in the fall,” Pabon said. Also becoming law on May 29 was House Bill 1325, which sets a standard by which it is illegal to get behind the wheel while under the influence of marijuana. The bill limits drivers to five nanograms per millileter of blood for active THC, marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient. House Minority Leader Mark Waller, RColorado Springs, joked that his multiple attempts at trying to pass a driving-stoned standard in the last few years have set a “modern Major League record.” However, he’s pleased that his efforts have finally become a realization. “At the end of the day, this is probably the most important public safety legislation that has been signed into law this year,” Waller said.

Monument bank robbed Sheriff ’s office is asking for public’s assistance By Lisa Collacott

lcollacott@ourcoloradonews.com The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a man who robbed the People’s National Bank. A man walked into the bank, located on Woodmoor Drive, at approximately 1:50

p.m. on May 24 and demanded money from the teller. The sheriff’s office said he got away with an undisclosed amount of cash. The man is described as a white male, between 6 feet 4 inches and 6 feet 6 inches tall with facial hair. He was wearing a green t-shirt, black pants and a white baseball cap with it turned backwards. As of May 28 Sgt. Joseph Roybal, spokesperson with the sheriff’s office said no arrest has been made. The sheriff’s office is asking that if anyone recognizes the suspect from the pictures that were released to call 719-390-5555.

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The following list of arrests is provided by area law enforcement agencies. An arrest is not an indication of guilt or innocence and there might be several people with the same name living in the county.

Cripple Creek Police Department

May 11 John Riley Phillips, 50, of Cripple Creek was arrested on a Montrose warrant charging failure to appear and booked into the Teller County Jail. May 12 Terence Rickie Madrill, 52, of Colorado Springs was arrested on an El Paso County warrant charging failure to appear and booked into the Teller County Jail. May 15 Terry Carlos Montoya, 36, of Colorado Springs was arrested on charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was fare- booked into the Teller County Jail. hom May 17 rings Andrea Lynn Sager, 23, of Cripple Creek ol re- was arrested on charges of domestic violence and harassment and booked into the ily in Teller County Jail. d. May 22 F or- Steven Wayne Fowler, 35, of Colorado Springs was arrested on an El Paso Counough ty warrant charging failure to comply and AARF booked into the Teller County Jail. Lindsey Suzanne Johnstone, 25, of Dioing vide was arrested on a Teller County warrant charging failure to appear and booked d no into the Teller County Jail. n, to May 23 Jack Ringler, 25, of Colorado Springs was cited and released on charges of driving under revocation.

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May 15 Robin Laverle Webb, 35, of Colorado Springs was arrested on a warrant charging failure to comply on an original charge of felony criminal impersonation to gain a benefit. Bond was set at $10,000. Tabitha Rachael Dane, 21, of Woodland Park was arrested on a warrant charging failure to appear on original charges of driving under restraint and failure to obey traffic control device. Bond was set at $300. May 16 Kyle David Terry, 31, of Guffey was arrested on charges of driving under revoca-

tion, speed, expired registration and failure to provide proof of insurance upon request. Bond was set at $14,000. Jeremiah Lee Arbuckle, 23, of Woodland Park was arrested on a warrant charging failure to comply on an original charge of driving while ability impaired. This was a no bond warrant. May 17 Mundy Dawn Jamison, 41, of Woodland Park was arrested on charges of driving under restraint, weaving and also on a warrant charging failure to appear on the original charges of driving under restraint and expired license plates. Bond was set at $2,000. May 18 Gene Lavert Macklin, 51, of Colorado Springs was arrested on charges of driving under revocation. Bond was set at $11,000. May 19 Robert James McCafferty, 21, of Woodland Park was arrested on a warrant charging failure to appear on original charges of third degree assault and harassment. Bond was set at $800. May 20 Melissa Renee Evans, 44, of Woodland Park was arrested on a warrant charging felony theft. Bond was set at $3,000. Terry Charles Jones, 54, of Woodland Park was arrested on a warrant charging felony theft. Bond was set at $3,000. May 21 David Lee Bowers, 50, of Woodland Park was arrested on a warrant charging failure to comply on an original charge of theft. Bond was set at $1,000. May 22 Lindsey Suzanne Johnstone, 25, of Divide was arrested on a warrant charging failure to appear on an original charge of no insurance. Bond was set at $100. Daniel Joseph Lewis, 30, of Florissant was arrested on charges of domestic violence, assault in the third degree and harassment. Bond was set at $3.000. May 23 Ryan Michael Harris, 30, of Colorado Springs was arrested on charges of driving under restraint, tail lights and reflectors and on a warrant charging failure to appear on an original charge of driving while ability impaired. Bond was set at $2,000. Penny Robitaille, 35, of Kremmling was arrested on a warrant charging felony theft and felony theft of rental property. Bond was set at $20,000.

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June 5, 2013

OPINIONS / YOURS AND OURS

A fond farewell: The last word, maybe This is (probably) the last column I will write for Colorado Community Media. I retired on May 31, which was the drop-dead deadline for this week’s papers. I was a stay-at-home mom until circumstances forced me to think about supporting myself and my kids. I went back to school on what turned out to be the fiveyear plan. I discovered I liked writing and was already used to being poor so I earned a degree in journalism. I began writing columns and news stories for student newspapers at Pikes Peak Community College in the mid-’90s and then at Colorado State University-Pueblo in the late ‘90s. My first job three days after graduation in 1999 was at the no-longer-existing Pueblo Business Journal. It was only 25 hours a week and I still had kids to support and I was looking for a different job when then-Ute Pass Courier editor Jim Lovely

called me in August of that year. The rest is history. For the last almost 14 years, I have come to know the local communities in ways I never thought possible. The first time I went to Victor to interview a new police chief I still lived in Pueblo, almost one mile lower. After climbing the stairs to his office, the chief asked me if I needed CPR. He was nice-looking and I should have accepted! The people and communities in

Teller County and the eastern edge of Park County have been fun to cover. Two years ago I added the northern El Paso County communities to that fun-to-cover category when I started writing for our sister paper, The Tribune. I’ve had close encounters with Black Angus cattle sleeping on Teller County Road 81 after Victor City Council meetings, driven home at 3 a.m. after an election in Cripple Creek in the light from a full moon reflecting off new snow on Colorado 67, waited for elk cows to amble across Teller CR 5, tripped over uncounted numbers of obstacles (klutzy children grow up to be klutzy adults), swerved for falling rocks and mule deer in Ute Pass, plowed through fog too thick to see the highway’s center line, lost my way in Black Forest and reported on two major fires. I’ve also learned a few things, including:

Never write about goats; you’ll always get something wrong. Facts are unlikely to change people’s opinions. Deadlines are the only way some of us get things done. Hold your breath when you snap photos in subzero temperatures. Everyone has a story worth telling. Along the way I have met a lot of wonderful people whom I will greatly miss. You know who you are: you’re the people who smile while you’re getting things done, keeping us safe, keeping us informed, teaching our children and helping our elderly and needy. Some of you are dedicated volunteers while others perform work way beyond the job for which you are being paid. Keep up the good work and thanks for the memories. Watch for me; I’ll be around.

Bankrupting more than the English language Fame is a magnifying glass that can, over time, wither something away to nothing. Or depending on a tender substance’s stability, ignite and eliminate it in a puff of smoke. Almost literally at the turn of the century, Jan. 4, 1900, Irving Howbert turned the first shovelful of dirt on Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek District Railway Company. By April 8, 1901, the railroad commonly known as `The Short Line’ began operations on the brief but `storied’ line. Some of the stories are true; but many are as spurious as some hard-luck miner’s explanation of what happened to his fortune and the related could-have-beens. A rail jaunt along the these tracks became known as “The Trip which bankrupts the English Language.,” a phrase that is often attributed to Teddy Roosevelt who visited Victor and the Cripple Creek District on at least two different occasions via this rail route. Despite its scenic excellence, the `Short Line’ had a very limited life span. By 1922, declining gold ore shipments forced abandonment of the rails. W.D. Corely, Sr., of Colorado Springs, bought the railroad in 1922 and junked the rails and equipment to convert the roadbed into a scenic highway. Corely operated it as a toll road under permit with the U.S. Forest Service until 1939, when it reverted to the public as a free road, by terms of his

permit. A 1946 article in Highway Magazine by Ray Colwell, noted the difficulties involved in building the original road. “There were few places where locating engineers could not avoid the necessity of tunneling through the Pikes Peak granite. Tunnels were decided upon only as a last resort, for the Short Line was built entirely with hand labor, churn drills, black powder and horse drawn dump carts. Tunnel construction was slow and costly, but nine of them, ranging up to 550 feet in length, were finally completed,” wrote Colwell. All of the high trestles, which carried the railroad, have since been filled or bypassed and the road has been rerouted around the various tunnels over the decades. “Designed for the standard gauge railway, they (the tunnels) were large bores and required a great many 12 x 12-inch timbers of coast fir to hold the

badly cracked rock, especially close to the portals. Although the good circulation of dry air 8,700 feet above sea level minimized rot, the crushing weight eventually had its effect. Some of the 12-inch timbers were compressed to 6 inches or less in thickness and three of the tunnels gradually became unsafe for public use. Two of them were bypassed by rerouting the traffic over existing roads but “Tunnel Six” could not be replaced so easily,” recalled Colwell in the 1946 article. This meant whittling several hundred feet of shelf road out of almost vertical cliff. “Three men and a foreman, using modern equipment and high explosives, built 1,000 feet of new road under very difficult conditions in 200-man-days. They moved 4,700 yards of solid rock and 500 yards of loose rock and dirt with the aid of 3,100 pounds of C-3 plastic explosive,” he said of the tunnel rerouting in the late 1940s. Tunnel Three partially collapsed in 1988 and an eight-mile section of the original road was closed as a result. The Old stage Road began being used as an alternate way of getting around this section. In 1997, a group wanting to raise money to fix the tunnel and the U.S. Forest Service responded with a multi-use plan in 1999 that supported this effort. In 1998, a group called the Short Line to

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Cripple Creek, Inc. successfully nominated the entire road as a National Historic Place. Because of failure to secure enough funding for the repairs to the tunnel and controversy over what should be done, a new “scoping report” was ordered in late 2000 to look at the social and recreational impacts of repairing the road. On February 13, 2006, a fire destroyed much of the timber supports in Tunnel Three and though arson was assumed to have caused the fire, the tunnel was then too dangerous to conduct a proper investigation. Among the fables surrounding the road and the tunnels is a tale of a mythical school bus filled with elementary students on a field trip from a Cripple Creek elementary school that was buried in a tunnel collapse on Tunnel Three. Hauntings, characterized by bleeding walls, fingerprints on cars, giggling and laughing of school children in the first two tunnels and screams from Tunnel Three. No such accident ever occurred. Additionally, the area has gained a reputation as a `body dump’ for homicide victims according to the lore. Recently, in February of 2009, hikers found a human jaw bone and later Police investigators, using cadaver dogs, located additional human remains including ribs and long bones in the general area according to reports at the time.

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Extreme heat can be life-threatening On Aug. 20, 2008, Castle Rock mom Stacey Mendieta laid down to take a nap with her 2-year-old son Nathan. She didn’t hear her 5-year-old daughter Jasmine wake him up and both children slip out the back door. The children got into the family car and fell asleep with the windows rolled up. A few hours later, the two were found dead from heatstroke. Coping with the summer heat in Colorado is no small challenge, particularly for children and those older than 50. Children’s immature sweating capacity creates a lower tolerance for hot weather and the over-50 crowd has a diminished sensitivity to thirst and their body’s ability to cool itself. Heat injury, however, can strike anyone, of any age, at any level of physical fitness. Children playing outdoor sports in summer are highly susceptible. Every year about 1,000 Americans die from heat-related illnesses and tens of thousands fall ill. If you are physically active in the summer, it is wise to know the signs, symptoms and treatment of heat

injuries. According to the CDC, www.bt.cdc. gov/disasters/extremeheat/, heat cramps are muscle spasms or pains, usually in the abdomen, arms or legs, and are associated with excessive sweating during strenuous activity. This profuse sweating depletes the body’s salt and hydration resulting in painful muscle cramps. The CDC recommends stopping all activity, drinking juice or a sports beverage and not returning to strenuous activity for a few hours after the cramps subside. The most common form of heat injury is heat exhaustion, which also results from dehydration and/or salt depletion due to heavy perspiration. The symptoms are

Train worker schools on wheels Years ago I did a column on chapels that traveled the railroads providing religious services to remote towns, even in the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District, that did not have churches. There were also schools in railroad cars. I did a column recently about industrial education and the manual arts; this is sort of related to that. There were several kinds of schools on wheels. These train cars traveled through the Pikes Peak region. The idea of providing education for railroad employees came in about the start of the 20th century. Many lacked even a highschool education, and reading and writing skills were starting to be very important. The Santa Fe had cars with teachers and desks that traveled over their lines to help teach basic skills to their men. The Midland also used these cars. They even had classes for some of the more technical jobs. One of these trained engineers, firemen, conductors and brakemen. It took quite a bit of skill to do any of these jobs but it took more skills than they could learn “on the job” and these traveling schools provided quite a bit of that training. A railroader generally started as a basic laborer and, as they learned the skills, moved up. The railroads wanted to have well-trained employees. The traveling schools would travel the railroad through the year, generally in the winter and spring, when work was slower. They would come to Colorado City, Leadville and Grand Junction. A class might take a day or up to a week. There would usually be a dozen or more in the class, depending on the subject. The school might even be held outside the car, working in a shop, on the ground

in a yard, or even on another train, also depending upon the subject. Over the years some of the smaller railroads contracted with eastern correspondence schools, where they would get training through books and lessons sent through the mail. The final test in a class might take place in one of these traveling schools. The cars they used were often converted passenger cars, but others were purpose built, similar to the chapel cars. I have seen pictures of cars where they had even portions of steam locomotives where they could simulate actual conditions. I was in a modern version years ago where the controls of modern diesels were taught. Some of these schools are still around, but mainly the extra training is done at some central school. I know the Union Pacific does quite a bit of their training in Omaha, Neb. The Burlington Northern & Santa Fe has some in Topeka, Kans., and in Fort Worth, Texas. The traveling school is now pretty much gone. The old correspondence schools were paid for in many cases by the railroad, but others had to pay for them out of their own pocket. Mel McFarland, artist, author, retired teacher and railroader, is a Colorado Springs native who has a strong interest in the events of this area’s past.

Rampart Library District News Special to the Courier Summer Reading, “Digging into Reading,” begins June 1 for adults, teens and children. The District offers online registration for children and teens from home or at either library location, Woodland Park or Florissant. Children and teens win prizes for reading goals met, and adults simply fill out forms for each library book they read, and enter into drawings for weekly prizes. The end-of-summer reading party (titled the Stache Bash) is from 1o a.m. to 12 July 19 at the Woodland Park Public Library. Everyone is encouraged to wear moustaches, no matter your age or gender! The snowstorm in May surprised us all with its ferocity, but it made the Woodland Park Public Library reschedule the Espinosa Brothers Program to 6:30 p.m. June 13. Dwight Haverkorn, a former Colorado Springs detective, presents this program based on Colorado’s first known serial killers. In other District news, Denise Gard and her magical dog, Sienna, will perform for story time at 10:15 a.m. at Woodland Park Library at 10:15 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Florissant Library. The age 10 to 16 group can join a new

Drama Club forming this summer at the Florissant Library and learn the ins and outs of drama and have fun practicing for a play in August. If you want to join the drama club, you’ll need to register by calling 748-3939. Don’t miss the annual Book, Plant and Bake Sale at the Florissant Library and sponsored by the Friends of the Florissant Library from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 7, and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 8. Woodland Park Library’s big book sale happens from 12 to 4 p.m. June 21, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 22, and from 1 to 3 p.m. June 23. The Woodland Park Public Library is hosting the first performance of the new Ute Pass Chamber Players, at 2 p.m. June 30. Summer visitors who love to read and share books may want to consider joining one of the District Book Clubs. The Florissant Book Worms meets at 10:30 a.m. the third Wednesday of the month at the Florissant Library. WP Book Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at the Woodland Park Library. Everyone is welcome! If you have questions, in Florissant call Polly at 748-3939 and in Woodland Park call Rita at x132.

goose-bumps, profuse sweating, cold and clammy skin, weak and rapid pulse, headache, dizziness, shortness of breath, pale color, nausea and/or vomiting, muscle cramps, giddiness, delirium and loss of coordination. Treatment calls for cessation of physical activity and lying down out of the hot environment with feet elevated 12-18 inches. Remove excess clothing, force consumption of cool liquids, apply cool wet towels to the body and call your physician. Heatstroke is a complete breakdown of the body’s ability to cool itself and is considered a life-threatening medical emergency. There is generally no perspiration, dry-hot-flushed skin, body temperature as high as 106 degrees, strong/rapid pulse, labored breathing, unsteady gait, disorientation, bizarre or combative behavior and loss of consciousness. Heatstroke requires a 911 call. Move the individual to a shaded, well-ventilated area and remove as much clothing as possible.

Cool the individual quickly starting at the head and continuing down the body by any means possible. Here are some tips from the CDC to help you avoid a heat-related injury: Drink plenty of fluids before, during and after exercising and avoid exercising during the heat of the day. Wear lightweight, light-colored, loosefitting clothes and a wide-brim hat and avoid excessive alcohol and caffeine; they are diuretics than can increase your risk of dehydration. Finally, never leave anyone, human or pet, in a closed, parked vehicle. Being physically active in the heat of Colorado’s summer deserves your respect. Exercise smart — stay cool! Cord Prettyman is a certified Master Personal Trainer and the owner of Absolute Workout Fitness and Post-Re-hab Studio in Woodland Park. He can be reached at 6877437 or cordprettyman@msn.com.

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American Legion hosts pig roast By Pat Hill

phill@ourcoloradonews.com Most of their work for veterans and soldiers is behind the scenes, but the annual pig roast puts the local American Legion in the spotlight. This year’s roast and auction is June 15 at the Crystola Roadhouse. A fundraiser for the Eric V. Dickson Post #1980, the pig roast highlights the legion’s dedication to the men and women who

fought and, continue to fight, America’s wars. For veterans and their families, the members host the annual dinner at the Crystola and regularly send boxes of food and supplies to soldiers in Afghanistan. The legion supports the nursing home for veterans in Florence and pays the tuition for students from Woodland Park High School who attend Boys State and Girls State in Pueblo.

But this year, the legion is absolutely crowing about the most recent victory in which the volunteers played a role, the naming of 18.7 miles on Colorado 67, from Divide to Cripple Creek, to the POW/MIA Memorial Highway. According to language in a joint resolution passed by the Colorado legislature, three Colorado residents are unaccounted for during the Cold War, 24 in the Vietnam War and 67 during the Korean War.

To continue their work as well as their influence on legislation, the legion members depend upon the proceeds from the annual pig roast and auction. The lunch is from noon to 3 p.m. and the auction is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 15. “It’s all home-cooking,” said Dee Grimes, the Legion’s public information officer. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children from 6 to 12. The event is open to the public.

WP neighbors take issue with developer Cite perception of conflict of interest By Norma Engelberg

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Patrick Muir, sports therapist for Dynamic Training and Fitness, talks about the facility’s program with potential clients Rick and Monica. The fitness center hosts a grand opening June 11. Photo by Pat Hill

BUSINESS BUZZ The Business Buzz features news about the economic scene, promotions, acquisitions and expansions. Contact Pat Hill at phill@ourcoloradonews.com or 687-3006. Larry Solecki is starting with one gym in Woodland Park, Dynamic Training and Fitness in the Tamarac Business Center. “Hopefully we’ll be changing the industry,” Solecki said. With sports therapist Patrick Muir, retired Special Forces Army officer, Dynamic offers personal training as well as therapy for injuries of all types. The business motto is RISE, readiness, intensity, speed and endurance, an adaptable fitness regimen for

people of all ages. The center offer nutrition planning, along with a juice bar and a line of clothing managed by independent contractor Melody Balogh. The new business, in the Tamarac Business Center at 800 Research Drive, hosts a grand-opening at noon June 11. For information, call 687-1414. Teller County Sheriff’s Office presents the second annual Golf Tournament June 25 at Shining Mountain Golf Club in Woodland Park. For information, call Deputy Renee Bunting at 304-5815 or go to bunting@ co.teller.co.us.

Woodland Park City Councilmember Eric Smith is the developer behind what could be Woodland Park’s largest apartment complex. His position on council as Mayor Pro Tem and on the city’s Utilities Advisory Board, along with his engineering business, has several of Trail Ridge Apartments complex crying foul. When his cases have come before the Woodland Park Planning Commission and Woodland Park City Council, Smith has been careful to recuse himself and leave the council chambers, taking no part in either the discussion or the voting procedures. “We stand by our record in this case,” said city Planning Director Sally Riley. Jean and Bernard Place, who live across Sheridan Avenue from the development, acknowledged that Smith has recused himself when required but they worry that he was given special favor when it comes traffic increases, reserving water taps, getting a height variance for his three-story buildings and reduced parking requirements. “In the beginning, his project was somewhat reasonable but it just kept growing,” Jean Place said. “He has his fingers in so many of the committees involved with his project.” Their biggest issue is traffic. City code allows developers to provide their own traffic

studies and Smith’s company, Matrix Design Works, is in the traffic study business. They said they were led to believe that Smith’s traffic study was approved by the Colorado Department of Transportation. Later they found that CDOT and Smith in contention over the necessity of adding a deceleration lane on U.S. 24 at Sheridan. CDOT wants it; Smith doesn’t. “If his report is wrong about that, what else is it wrong about?” Bernard Place said. “He conducted his traffic study in the middle of January in midweek. People have already discovered that Sheridan can be used as a shortcut and it’s going to get worse.” The related subject of parking also came up. They thought it was telling that the city council approved lower requirements for apartment parking lots just in time for Smith’s development. Riley said Smith’s project was the catalyst for making the city’s parking requirements more in line with other Colorado municipalities but that making the change was already being discussed as part of the city’s 2010 comprehensive plan long before Smith started his project. “With 168 apartments, these people are going to have visitors and some of them will be bringing RVs,” Jean Place said. “Where are they going to park? On our street, that’s where!” They said they know that Smith is just doing what smart developers do and that there are no hard feelings but they also feel like they had no say in the process. “I know we’re just spinning our wheels,” Bernard Place said.

2013 Memorial Day impaired driving crashes on the rise According to preliminary reports, there were 318 DUI arrests and five alcohol-related car crashes that occurred during the Colorado Department of Transportation’s Memorial Day DUI enforcement period resulting in six fatalities - an increase in fatalities from this time last year. DUI arrests are down from 542 DUI arrests last year made statewide during the Memorial Day Weekend enforcement period. “Law enforcement was out on the roads to reduce the number of impaired drivers and to remind Coloradans that if you make the dangerous decision to drive while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, you will get caught,” said Darrell Lingk, Director of the Office of Transportation Safety at CDOT. “Our priority is keeping the roads safe

for drivers and it’s unfortunate that 318 people were arrested this weekend for their unsafe acts.” The 100 deadliest days on Colorado roads began on Friday, May 24, and CDOT, the Colorado State Patrol (CSP), and local law enforcement agencies have increased DUI enforcement to ensure roads stay safe through Labor Day. “Each year we heighten our enforcement efforts during this holiday and it’s frustrating that so many Coloradans decide to put themselves and others in danger by driving impaired,” said Colonel Scott Hernandez, Chief of the Colorado State Patrol. “The CSP and law enforcement throughout the state will continue conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols this summer with the expectation that this year the 100 deadliest days on Colorado roads

will be safer.” The Persistent Drunk Driver (PDD) Committee has released the top 10 counties for DUI offenses in 2012: Adams (2,970), Denver (2,932), El Paso (2,738), Arapahoe (2,666), Jefferson (1,790), Weld (1,139), Larimer (1,032), Boulder (1,017), Douglas (862) and Pueblo (671). Statewide statistics on the PDD website show that DUI offenses have decreased over the past year by five percent with 1,321 less offense filings. The website, developed by four state agencies on the PDD Committee, serves as a resource to help Coloradans make safer choices before getting behind the wheel after consuming alcohol or other drugs. The Heat Is On runs the entire year with 12 specific DUI enforcement periods centered on national holidays and large, public

events. More details about the DUI enforcement plans and arrest results can be found at HeatIsOnColorado.com. The PDD Committee was formed as part of the Persistent Drunk Driver Act of 1998. The Committee is made up of the Colorado Department of Transportation, Department of Human Services, State Judicial Branch and the Department of Revenue. The Committee is charged with developing and implementing programs to deter persistent drunk and drug-related driving, as well as provide public education. A persistent drunk driver is defined as someone with two or more alcohol or drug related driving violations or someone with a BAC of .17 or higher, even if it’s their first offense. For more information on the PDD Committee, visit NoDUIColorado. org.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: To add or update your their club listing, e-mail calendar@ourcoloramemdonews.com, attn: Courier View. m the ch isPOLITICAL from TELLER COUNTY’S Democrats In 2013, Teller County’s Democratic Party is hostmes, ing education programs and community activities. Members and interested chilcitizens are invited to participate. For o the more information about the TellerDems’ 2013 schedule, contact Ellen Haase, 719-687.1813. TELLER COUNTY Republicans meets at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Pikes Peak Community Center in Divide next to the Conoco. Come and help set the course for conservative thinking and direction in Teller County, Colorado, and the nation. Additional information at http://www.teller-gop. org.

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APPLY SPIRITUAL laws as taught by whatthe Ascended Masters for the achievesaid.ment of personal and global freedom, mid- love, peace and abundance. Free study ve al-group meets every Saturday in Woodland used Park. For information, contact Barbara e.” Royal at 719-687-6823 or Angels911@ camepeakinter.net. the ments DIVIDE CHAMBER of Commerce. Cone for tact president Lisa Lee at 719-686-7587 for meeting dates and times. cata- COMPUTER CLASSES. The Woodland uire-Park Public Library offers computer rado basics, Internet basics, Microsoft Word, angeExcel, PowerPoint, and Digital Photo f theManagement classes. Some classes have eforeprerequisites, and registration is required

for all. Call 719-687-9281, ext. 106 to e areregister. m will here KARDS NETWORKING Group meets hat’sfrom 8-9:30 a.m. Wednesdays at Hungry Bear, 111 E. Midland Ave., Woodland justPark. Help build your business by thatbuilding community. Call Kim Francis at o feel719-232-0142 for information.

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eels,” 7 a.m. Mondays at the Hungry Bear, 111

E. Midland Ave., in Woodland Park. The group helps local businesses through cooperative marketing, professional education and trusted relationships. Call Gail Wingerd at 719-686-1076 or send email to gail@woodlandparkprinter.com or Mike Hazelwood at 719-473-5008

orce- THE TELLER Networking Team oundmeet from 7:45-8:45 a.m. Thursdays at Denny’s Restaurant in Woodland partPark. TNT is a local businesses owners 1998.networking group working to pass leads radoand help each others’ businesses grow. part-Join us to learn more or call Vickie at dicial719-748-1274. enue. ping RECREATION per- EVERY THURSDAY all year the Florisg, assant Grange Hall (The Old School House) is open from 6-9 pm for the Jammers finedMusic and Pot Luck. This is a happenol oring place to be on Thursday evenings. eoneSometimes we have more musicians their than people and sometimes we have n the more people than the hall can hold, but rado.no matter what, we have fun and great music and fabulous food. All musicians are welcome to join in the jam session and if you are not a musician, come for the social evening out. Call 719-7480358.

GET IN shape with a parks and recreation fitness membership. The center offers Paramount and Nautilus equipment and free weights. Schedule a personalized fitness orientation and have an individual workout program designed for your fitness needs. Individuals ages 16 and older are welcome to become fitness members. Minors require signed parental permission. Corporate memberships are available. Call 719-689-3514. FRONT RANGE Fencing Club. Learn to

fence class for children and adults. Meets at Discovery Canyon Campus. Visit http:// frontrangefencing.tripod.com/ Advanced

competitive lessons available too.

HEALTHIER LIVING Colorado, Chronic Disease Self-Management Classes Are you tired of being sick and tired? Teller County Public Health and Community Partnership Family Resource Center offer six-week classes to help you with the challenges of living with an ongoing health condition. Participants learn skills to cope with fatigue, frustration, pain and stress of chronic disease, as well as effective action plans and problem solving. Call Teller County Public Health at 719-687-6416 or visit www.cpteller.org or www.tellercountypublichealth.org for information and a list of classes in your neighborhood. Suggested donation: $35. KARATE PLUS meets at 6 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at Woodland Park Community Church and at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Lake George Bible Church. The class includes Japanese karate and jujitsu, Okinawan weapons, padded sparring and Judo throws. Self-defense is also taught. The program is Bible-based. Black belt instruction. KP has been in the Ute Pass area for more than 16 years. Low rates. Ages 5 through adult. Two free lessons. For more information call Ken at 719-687-1436. KP is nonprofit and non-denominational. THE LAKE George Gem and Mineral

Club Youth Program for Earth Science Education, Peblepups, meets from 6-6:45 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Lake George Community Center on Hwy 24 on the east side of Lake George. The program is free to students age 8-18. Each session discusses a separate aspect of Earth science or mineral collecting. Warm weather will allow field trips on weekends. Further information from Steve Veatch 719-748-5010 or John Rakowski 719-748-3861 or at LGGMClub. org.

THE LAKE George Gem and Mineral

Club meets the second Saturday of every month at the Community Center, Lake George. Meetings begin at 10 a.m. until May, when it changes to 9 a.m. to accommodate a field trip in conjunction with the regular meeting. There is always a program or field trip.

LEARN GUITAR from a guitar player,

singer and entertainer, Cari Dell. Call 719-748-0358.

MOTHER BEAR Self-Defense is offer-

ing Krav Maga classes from 9-10:30 a.m. Saturdays at the Corner Dance Studio in Woodland Park. Contact Wendy at 719323-7949 for information.

THE MOUNTAIN Top Cycling club holds monthly meetings for bicyclist of all types and skill levels. The club meets at different locations on the first Tuesday of the month. Membership fee is $25 for individual and $40 for family. We have guest speakers, presentations and door prizes. The meeting is from 7-8 p.m. Social time at 6:30 p.m. Visit www. mountaintopcyclingclub.com or write us Mountain Top Cycling Club P.O.Box 843 Woodland Park CO 80866. For more information, call Debbie at 719-687-2489. TAI CHI is offered for free at 9 a.m.

Mondays at the Florissant Public Library. Call Pam Powers, 719-748-3378 or Judy Ross, 719-686-9122.

TAI CHI is offered every Wednesday at

Florissant/Four Mile Fire Department. Call Meridel Gatterman, 719-689-5861.

TAI CHI is offered from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Thursdays at the Woodland Park Senior Center. Call Rip Blaisdel, 719-686-1408. TAI CHI is offered from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Woodland Park Library, in the downstairs resource room. Call Cheryl Koc, 719-687-2633 or Judy Ross at 719-686-9122. TAI CHI is offered from 9-10 a.m.

Fridays at the Woodland Park Library, in the downstairs community room. Call Penny Brandt, 719-687-1848 or Judy Ross at 719-686-9122.

TAI CHI, Sun Style 73 Forms, is offered from 10-11 a.m. Fridays at the Woodland Park Library, in the downstairs community room. Call Cheryl Koc, 719687-2633. THE TELLER County 4-H Shooting

Sports Club meets the first Sunday of each month at the Pikes Peak Community Club (PPCC) in Divide at 4 p.m. 4-H projects/disciplines covered by the club: .22 and Air Rifle, Archery, Shotgun, and Air Pistol. For more information about the club meetings or project/discipline practices, please call 719-235-7473.

THURSDAY NIGHT Beginners Book Study meets from 7-8 p.m. Thursdays at Woodland Park Community Church. Email gclark25@live.com for information. UTE PASS Historical Society offers free public tours of History Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the second Saturday of the month from May through September. The tours start at the Museum Center, 231 E. Henrietta Ave., next to the Woodland Park Public Library. A historic walking tour of Woodland Park meets at 10:30 a.m. Contact UPHS at 719-6867512 or e mail uphs@peakinter.net. UTE PASS Historical Society Gift Shop is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays in the Museum Center building at History Park, 231 E. Henrietta, next to the Woodland Park Library. Call 719-686-7512 for information or to schedule a group tour. WALKING TOURS. The Cripple Creek District Museum offers free walking tours at 2 p.m. each Sunday. Tours last approximately 45 minutes. Meet in front of the Colorado Trading & Transfer Company building at the museum, 500 E. Bennett Ave., for an extensive look at the history of downtown Cripple Creek. No reservations are required. Comfortable shoes, bottled water and jackets are advised. Tours may be postponed or canceled due to inclement weather. Call 719-689-2634, visit www.cripple-creek. org or email CCDMuseum@aol.com. WOODLAND PARK Saddle Club, pro-

viding community camaraderie among humans and horses since 1947, sponsors gymkhanas, jackpots, dances, barbecues, parades, trail rides and more. Join us. For information, contact info@wpsaddleclub.com. Visit www.wpsaddleclub.com.

YOGA CLASSES are offered at 9 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, with a senior class offered at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, at the Florissant Grange No. 420 (the old schoolhouse), 2009 County Road 31. Call Debbie at 719-748-3678 for information. YOGA CLASSES are offered in

Woodland Park. All levels are welcome. Contact Michelle Truscelli at 719-5055011 or check out www.shakti3yoga. com for information.

SOCIAL A COURSE in Miracles classes meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays in Woodland Park. Call 719-286-8421 or e-mail lynnzina@ aol.com for information. ABOVE THE Clouds Cruisers meet the first Friday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at 1120 West Bowman Ave., Woodland Park. For information contact Marsh at 719-687-1058. AMERICAN LEGION Post 1980 Woodland Park meets at 7 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month at Grange Hall on Hwy 67, about three miles north of the US-24/Hwy-67 junction in Woodland Park. Visit http://post1980.org. AMERICAN LEGION Post 171 meets at 7 p.m. at the Post Building, 400 East Carr Ave. in Cripple Creek. ART RECEPTION Today is planned for the second Friday of the month and will feature a different artist at Park State Bank in Woodland Park. BILL HARPER, as seen on the Grand Ole Opry, performs 4-7 p.m. every Saturday at Oney’s Restaurant in Florissant. Enjoy old country classic music in a family friendly atmosphere. THE BOOK Club at Woodland Park Public Library meets at 6:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month in the quiet reading room at the Woodland Park Public Library. Call 719-687-9281, ext. 103. COLORADO MOUNTED Rangers Troop

“B” is looking for civic minded people who wish to volunteer and contribute

to their community. We primarily serve Teller and Park counties, and assist other troops throughout the state. Troop B meets at 6 p.m. the first Thursday of each month at the Highland Bible Church, 800 Research Drive, Woodland Park. We are an all-volunteer organization that is recognized as an auxiliary law enforcement agency by the state of Colorado. We assist law enforcement agencies, forest service, and search and rescue organizations. Experience is not necessary, just a willingness to contribute to your community. To volunteer, or for more information, contact us through www. coloradoranger.org.

COLORADO MOUNTED Rangers Troop “I” is looking for responsible and dedicated volunteers who want to make a difference serving their community. You are invited to our monthly meeting the first Friday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Pikes Peak National Bank, in the upstairs conference room, 2401 W. Colorado Ave, on the corner of Colorado Ave and 24th Street. Free parking is available for the meeting in the bank employee parking lot on the south side of the bank’s drive-up facility. Visit http://itroop. coloradoranger.org or e-mail Info@ coloradoranger.org. CRIPPLE CREEK Friendship Club meets from 1-3 p.m. at the Henry C. “June” Hack Arena in City Park. The club is free and offers an opportunity to meet with acquaintances and make new friends. DOLL LOVERS of Teller County are

invited to meetings at 10:30 a.m. the first Thursday of every month at the Village at Skyline. It’s free. A variety of programs include the study of antiques, and vintage and modern dolls. Everyone older than age 12 is welcome. Call Nancy at 719-390-8098.

FLORISSANT GRANGE No. 420 meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month. The grange continues to offer the Florissant Jammers every Thursday for a potluck dinner at 6 p.m. followed by the music of the great Jammers until 9 p.m. All are welcome to come to the Grange. Call 719-748-0358. THE FLORISSANT Library Book Club

welcomes all book readers to its group. It meets at 10:30 a.m. the third Wednesday of the month. Call 719-748-3939.

GOLD CAMP Victorian Society is dedi-

cated to the preservation of the history of Cripple Creek and the surrounding area. The Society plays a role in Cripple Creek’s historic events, celebrations, and festivals, including Donkey Derby Days, the Gold Camp Christmas, the Mt. Pisgah Speaks cemetery tour, the Salute To American Veterans, and many others. The Gold Camp Victorian Society also supports events in other communities in Teller County. The Society also sponsors a Victorian ball as well as a Victorian tea each year, both of which are open to members and non-members alike. Gold Camp Victorian Society members can be seen dressed in period attire welcoming visitors to Cripple Creek on Saturday afternoons during the summer months. The Society also includes the “Smokin’s Guns” club which presents historicallybased skits and other entertainment during local events and festivals. The Gold Camp Victorian Society meets on the fourth Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. in the Centennial Building in Cripple Creek. Persons interested in participating as members of the Gold Camp Victorian Society are encouraged to call 689-0907 for more information.

HELP U Club meets the third Thursday of every month. Pot luck at noon and meeting at 1 p.m. We help people and other nonprofits in Teller County and the Lake George area of Park County. Meetings are at the Lake George Community Center. Information: Joan 719-689-2486 or Help U Club, 1054 High Chateau Road, Florissant, CO 80816. JOIN US to knit, crochet or craft every

Monday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bring your projects. Meet new and old friends. Instructions are provided for free. Meeting are at Cripple Creek Coffee at Aspen Mine Center.

KIWANIS CLUB of Ute Pass/Woodland Park meets at 6:45 a.m. Wednesdays

at Mangia Magnia. Call 719-687-5534. Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world, one child and one community at a time.

THE LADIES of the Veterans of Foreign Wars meets at noon, the second Tuesday of each month at the Woodland Park Public Library. Call 719-687-9157. LAKE GEORGE Fire Protection District Auxiliary meetings are at 6 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at Station No. 1 at the corner of Hwy. 24 and County Road 90. THE LAKE George Gem and Mineral Club meets the second Saturday of every month at 10 a.m. at the Lake George Community Center. Mineral topics will be discussed but no field trips until spring. Call 719-748-3861. MODA U meets at 1 p.m. at Nuts ‘n Bolts Needleworks, 200 S. Chestnut, Woodland Park. Quilters from novice to professional share their craft and get all the latest info about fabrics and notions. Call 719-687-2272. THE MOUNTAIN Artists meets from 9-10:30 a.m. the second Saturday of each month at the Ute Pass Cultural Center in Woodland Park. Call 719-687-1374 or visit www.TheMountainArtists.com. The nonprofit group was established to promote, encourage and support the making and showing of visual arts in Teller County-Ute Pass area. MOPS, MOTHERS of Preschoolers in Woodland Park meets the firtst and third Tuesday of the month September through May from 8:45-11:30 a.m. All mothers of children pre-birth through kindergarten are invited to join. Meetings include guest speakers, social time, and creative activities. Childcare is included! Register anytime online at www. utepassmops.org or call 719-686-8745. THE TIMBERLINE Artists meet at 10 a.m. every Wednesday of each month, upstairs at the Aspen Mine Senior Center in Cripple Creek. Everyone is welcome. Bring your favorite craft or art medium and join a dedicated group. PIKES PEAK Community Club meets

starting at 6:30 p.m. with a potluck supper the second Thursday of each month at the Pikes Peak Community Center in Divide. Supper is followed by a business meeting. The public is welcome to attend.

PIKES PEAK Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the second and fourth Thursday in Woodland Park. Call 719-684-3081. The Pikes Peak Lions Club is part of Lions Club International, which is the largest worldwide service organization in the world. Our annual fundraiser is the annual Donkey Basketball Tournament. Our fundraisers and service projects provide support for our local community through work projects ranging from testing preschool age kids eyes for eye disease to sponsoring special needs kids to our local Lions Camp in Woodland Park. PIKES PEAK Plein Air Painters is a nationally recognized group of regional artists that meet Wednesdays to share the creative experience of painting out on location. New artists are welcome. Call 303-647-1085 or 719-930-7940, or e-mail shanikastudio@aol.com. PIKES PEAK Rotary meets at 7 a.m. Fridays at the Woodland Park Library, south entrance. Call 719-686-7855. Rotary is a worldwide organization working on projects ranging from polio eradication internationally to bell ringing for the Salvation Army locally. Call 719-687-0418. QUILT MINISTRIES meets between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. the third Thursday of each month at Ute Pass Cultural Center to make quilts for families that have been burned out of their homes or are in need for some other reason. The quilts are simple, machine pieced and hand-tied and are excellent projects for both new and more experienced quilters. No sewing skills necessary. Participants are encouraged to bring their own sewing machines but machines also will be available onsite. Volunteers who don’t want to sew can still serve as cutters and pressers. This is a nondenominational group. Call 719-687-6828.

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nengelberg@ourcoloradonews.com Backhoes and construction trailers are already in evidence as Victor City Council awarded several contracts at the May 30 council meeting to complete street and sidewalk work in its downtown and make improvements to the Brian’s Park Ice Rink and the Gold Bowl. Councilmember Michael Wallace also shared news about the possibility of the city obtaining new open space for use by the public. With new soil, an irrigation system and new sod, the Gold Bowl is turning into an all-purpose athletic field. Volunteers removed fences and existing sod and spread out the new soil, and council approved an almost $22,000 contract for Green Belt Turf Farm to lay 79,000 square feet of sod.

The work should be completed in June, but the first of the summer’s monthly Gold Bowl Days on June 8 had to be moved to Wallace Park. These gatherings for Victor residents and friends take place on the second Saturday of each month at the Gold Bowl. Volunteers have also removed the ice rink structure at Brian’s Park to get it ready for a new ice rink and warming hut. Funding for the new structure came from Great Outdoors Colorado, the city, Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. and in-kind donations of time and labor from various local business owners. A contract for $400,000 was awarded to Purgatoire Valley Construction for the actual rink. It should be ready to use by hockey season. AA Construction has started work on South Fourth Street and a $4,925 contract was awarded to Mark Bruckelmyer to reset some the sandstone sidewalks on Victor Avenue. Victor continues on Page 11

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Becky Parham, director of Victor DREAM, said Victor Avenue will also be getting 12 new benches to make the downtown more pedestrian-friendly. Parham received a Citizen of the Year Award from the Victor Elks Lodge. The lodge received a waiver of special event fees for three events taking place this summer: the Victor Gem & Mineral Show June 2223, Gold Rush Days July 19-21 and

Victor Celebrates the Arts Aug. 30Sept. 2. Victor also received a $10,000 grant from the El Pomar Foundation to buy new personal protection equipment for the city’s volunteer firefighters. Fire Chief Larry Beaty told council that the department has 15 volunteer firefighters. One of its volunteers has taken a firefighter job with the U.S. Forest Service. “We’re sorry to see him go but we’re proud that we could train him to the point where he could move on,” Beaty said. Wallace, who is the council’s liaison with the city’s public works department, said he was looking

Construction has already become on the south half of Fourth Street in Victor. Improvements on the north end of the street were completed last year. for additional storage space for public works equipment when he thought about using the stone building located in the valley across the street from City Hall. The entire valley is owned by a woman who lives in Kansas and wasn’t interested in just selling the building. “The city didn’t have enough

money in its budget to buy the property,” Wallace said. “Marilyn and Rich Fay bought the property to preserve it and are willing to sell or lease the stone building and the lot it sits on to the city. They’ll also sell two residences on the property and the rest of the valley will be put into a trust as open space for public use.

They want the space to be named Miners’ Park.” Wallace also talked about creating a pocket park at the corner of Fourth Street and Diamond Avenue. One plan would include moving, restoring and setting a sculpture by former Victor resident Barry Petri and owned by the city.

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Quilters Above the Clouds is a quilting guild for all levels. The guild meets from 1-5 p.m. the fourth Friday of the month at Mountain View United Methodist Church in Woodland Park to share quilting experiences and exchange ideas. The group also participates in projects to benefit charity organizations. rAmpArt rock `n’ Jazz Retro Jam-

mers (RJs) singers rehearse Saturday afternoons in Woodland Park. Rock, soul, jazz, blues; soprano, alto, tenor, and bass vocalists welcome in addition to keyboard or instrumental accompanists. Call 686-8228 for directions or visit www.rampartrocknjazz.com.

an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization whose mission is to locate and rescue lost and missing people in Teller County and the surrounding area. Our general membership meetings are at 7 p.m. the first Monday of every month at the Woodland Park Library, downstairs meeting room. Although we are not accepting new members at this time, the public is invited to our meetings. We are available to give hiking safety presentations to schools, churches or local organizations and we do accept donations. For further information, please contact Janet Bennett at 719-306-0826.

thomAs v. Kelly VFW Post 6051 meets at at 7 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month at Veterans Hall, 27637 Hwy 67, Woodland Park, CO 80863, the old Woodland Park Grange Hall where Eric V. Dickson American Legion Post #1980 meets.

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teller county Knitters meet from 10 a.m. to noon every Saturday at Community Partnership offices in Divide, located above McGinty’s Wood Oven Pub, turn north on Highway 5 and park in the lot onnorth side of building). Yarn fans of all skills and types are welcome for a chance to share projects and conversation. For more details check Teller Knitters on ravelry.com. the teller County Sport Horse

Club meets at 6:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month. Call Grace at 719-661-8497 for more information.

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Order of the Eastern Star meets at 7:30 p.m. at 205 Park St. in Woodland Park. Call 719-687-9800.

woodlAnd pArk Holistic Luncheon is offered at noon the second Wednesday of each month. Contact Jim at 719-6874335 for location. This is a free group, often potluck style lunch.

at 7:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month. Call 719-687-9453.

the ute Pass Historical Society board of directors meets at 5:30 p.m. the second Monday of each month at the Museum Center, 231 E. Henrietta Ave., next to the library. All patrons and members of the public are invited. Call 719-686-7512 for information.

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woodlAnd pArk High School Panther Pride Athletic Boosters meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month in the high school library.

Club hosts the Golden Circle daily hot lunch at 11:45 a.m. Monday through Friday, except for the 2nd Tuesday Potluck and the 4th Tuesday Catered Lunch, both with entertainment or an educational presentation. Pool on Tuesday morning, cribbage, euchre or dominoes most mornings, bridge right after lunch on Mondays and Wednesdays, exercise for arthritis Wednesday and Friday mornings and a host of other activities. Monthly All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast every 3rd Saturday helps raise funds for Senior Center activities. Contact the activities coordinator at 719-687-3877 to find out more or to receive a monthly newsletter.

seniors leAgue. The Seniors League at Pinz Bowling Center offers a seniors league at noon Tuesdays. The league is open and willing to take any new members who are 55 and older. The league requires no weekly commitment; bowlers may show up any week they like, without obligation to be there the next. They also get a senior discount price, playing three games (including shoe rental) all for less than $5. wannabe writers and all those who love the written word. Sponsored by the Cripple Creek Park and Recreation Department the group meets at 2 p.m. the second Sunday of the month at the Bennett Avenue Park and Rec center. Call 719-689-3514.

woodlAnd pArk Community Singers rehearse from 7-8:30 p.m. Mondays at Mountain View United Methodist Church at 1101 Rampart Range Road in Woodland Park. No tryout needed. Just come and sing. Call 719-687-8545.

of all ages and interests. The club has many activities to pick and choose from including bridge, hiking, luncheons, mahjongg, crafts, needle works, and much more. Check out http://sites. google.com/site/upsocial/ or contact Dianne Shafer, president, at 719-6874133.

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meets at noon the second Tuesday of each month in a meeting room in the lower level of the Woodland Park Public Library.

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MOPS group, meets on the second and fourth Friday of each month from 6:30-8:30 p.m. September to May at the Woodland Park Christian Church, 27400 N. Colo. 67. MOPS is for Mothers of Pre-Schoolers, who may have different lifestyles but all share a similar desire to be the very best moms they can be. Call Terri at 719-687-3669.

AA meets from noon to 1 p.m. and 6-7 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and from 5-6 p.m. every Saturday, and from noon to 1 p.m. and 6-7 p.m. every Sunday at 10400 Ute Pass Ave. in Green Mountain Falls. AA meeting is from 7-8 p.m. Thursdays at Woodland Park Community Church. This is a Beginners Book Study meeting. Al-Anon Above the Clouds is now meeting at the People’s Bank in Woodland Park at Hwy 24 and Sheridan Ave., rear entrance Mondays at 5:45-6:45 p.m. Handicap accessible. Al-Anon meets at noon Thursdays in Guffey next to the post office. Call 719-689-5808. Al-Anon meets from 7-8 p.m. Thursdays at the Woodland Park Community Church. 800 Valley View Dr. Ste. D in Woodland Park

Alcoholics Anonymous meets from 9-10 a.m. every Sunday at the VFW, three and a half miles north of Woodland Park on Colo. 67. Alcoholics Anonymous, AA, has a 4 p.m. discussion group every Sunday at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Cripple Creek. Alcoholics Anonymous meets for 12-steps Bible discussion at 6 p.m. every Monday at the Aspen Mine Center in Cripple Creek. This meeting is open to AA members and the general public. An AA meeting follows at 7 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 7 p.m. every Monday and at 5 p.m. Saturdays at the Community Partnership Family Resource Center in Divide.

Alcoholics Anonymous for women meets from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and from men from 7-8 p.m. every Tuesday at the Ute Pass Cultural Center in Woodland Park.

family, and friends will discuss the daily challenges of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias, whether at home, in a facility setting or long distance. Support and encouragement is offered in a confidential setting at no cost. Meet other caregivers and learn more about the disease, common caregiving issues and share suggestions on how to take care of yourself while taking care of your loved. Call 719-2668773 or Paula Levy at 719-331-3640.

bAsic life support classes are taught, as needed, at the NETCO Fire Station No. I, with a minimum of three students. Heartsaver cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid classes are taught monthly, with a minimum of five students for CPR and three for first aid. There is a cost for classes. Registration is required at least one week prior to class. Call Sharon at NETCO Fire at 719-6871866 during business hours, or Kay Poland at 719-686-1806.

domestic violence Education Program, an educational and support group where victims of domestic violence can learn more about power and control issues and the cycle of violence, meets at 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Our Lady of the Woods Church in Woodland Park. Call Devra at 719-243-5508 or e-mail dgoodwin@tessacs.org.

gAmblers Anonymous meets at 5:30 p.m. Sundays at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Cripple Creek. gAmblers Anonymous meets at 7 p.m. every Tuesday at Woodland Park Community Church Offices, Suite A, 700 Valley View Drive in Woodland Park. ged, Adult basic education classes are from 3-6 p.m. Tuesdays in the Aspen Mine Center, Cripple Creek. Free childcare provided. Open enrollment. Call 719686-0705. Sponsored by Community Partnership Family Resource Center. Clubs continues on Page 13

Alcoholics Anonymous, Hilltop AA, meets at 7 p.m. Tuesdays and at 2 p.m. Saturdays at the Cripple Creek Rehab & Wellness Center on North Street. Alcoholics Anonymous meets at 7 p.m. Wednesdays at the Victor Community Center on Second and Portland. Alcoholics Anonymous meets from noon to 1 p.m. every Thursday at the Nazarene Church, 750 N. Colo. 67, at the corner of Colo. 67 and Evergreen Heights.

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Richie Warrino, 13, right, serves soup to youths at the soup kitchen at Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation. The soup kitchen was created to provide free meals for local kids but anyone in the community is welcome. Courtesy photo

Kids help each other Soup kitchen at CC Parks and Recreation fills a gap By Norma Engelberg

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Retired preschool teacher Judy Bailey reads stories to kids at Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation after the meal provided by the Cripple Creek Soup Kitchen. Courtesy photo

Cripple Creek-Victor RE-1 School District schools are only in session Monday through Thursday. When Jamie Johnston asked a group of children how they could become the hands and feet of Jesus, they began to tell stories about friends who don’t have enough to eat on days when school is out. That’s where Johnston and the children got the idea of having a soup kitchen for Cripple Creek kids on Fridays came. Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation facility manager Archie Torres found out about the project and said if Johnston and the children could get the project

together, he would let them use the recreation center’s arena without charge. “This is kids helping kids,” Johnston said. “The kids set up, serve and clean up. The only thing the adults do is cook the soup and bread.” For the summer, the soup kitchen is moving to 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Tuesdays. It will go back to Fridays when school starts in the fall. The program is associated with the soup kitchen at the Seventh Day Adventists Church in Woodland Park, which is run by Johnston’s mother. And, just like that program, the Cripple Creek soup kitchen in open to everyone. “The kids are doing this for kids but no one is left out,” Johnston said. “We also deliver food to people

who have a hard time getting here, shut-ins, the elderly, pregnant women, for example.” Johnston encourages people to also drop off donations of clothing, shoes, boots and other items on soup kitchen day. These items will be sent over to the Aspen Mine Center next door. “We’re encouraging people to `shop’ at the center’s clothes closet,” she said. “Any monetary donations will be used to buy ingredients. We really need boots for winter, the kids just snap them up. There are other organizations that take these kinds of donations but it’s nice to keep things in the neighborhood and we don’t charge people who need them.” Anyone interested in making donations or who has questions can contact Johnston at tj.johnston@ ewsys.com.

Cripple Creek kids enjoy a meal together at the soup kitchen at Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation Center. The soup kitchen is open to all but especially youths from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. every Tuesday. Courtesy photo

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RE-1 puts wrap on school year Third-graders score high on state reading assessment By Norma Engelberg

nengelberg@ourcoloradonews.com When Cresson Elementary School Principal Miriam Mondragon gave her end-of-school-year report to the Cripple Creek-Victor RE-1 School District Board of Education on May 29 she had good things to say about her students and their busy last month of school. She complimented the first-graders’ animal projects. “The little ones went above and beyond,” she said. “They created their own ‘prezies,’ working at their mini-laptops making PowerPoint presentations.” The third-graders did a landform project and their parents made food dishes for each

of the countries they studied. “Also, 88 percent of our third-graders scored proficient or advanced on the (Transitional Colorado Assessment Program) test,” she said. “We will focus on writing instruction for kindergarten through sixthgrade next year. … The answers lie in instructional practices.” Cripple Creek-Victor High School and Junior High Principal Trudy Vader also made an end-of-year report to the board. She said this year’s graduating seniors had good things to say about senior seminar, a program for seniors that helps them apply to colleges and for financial aid and scholarships, write essays and create resumes. “We’ll be tweaking our literacy lab tier 1 for next year,” she said, explaining that tier 1 is for students who are performing above their grade level, tier 2 is for students who are at grade level and tier 3 is for those who perform below grade level.

“We need to make tier 1 more challenging for our high achieving students so we’re going to add more technical writing and reading and work with the ninth- and 10-graders on philanthropy and servicelearning projects.” Vader also said that several teachers will be attending a Rachel’s Challenge Conference this summer in Dallas. “The trip is 100 percent grant funded,” she said. “Our Rachel’s Challenge program fizzled a little this year and we’re hoping to revitalize it. “It’s well worth the effort; we can see the culture changing in our building. This year was the quietest last day of school I have ever experienced.” Patty Waddle, director of the district early childhood education program, submitted a revised Early Head Start/Head Start program budget with cuts caused by the federal automatic funding cuts called “The

Sequestration.” “We worked hard not to cut programs and services,” she said. “We tried to be creative and fill in the gaps but we had to cut somewhere.” Budget cuts were also on district Superintendent Sue Holmes’ mind when she talked about the 2013-14 preliminary budget. “It’s a travesty what’s happening to schools in Colorado,” she said, referring in part to the state Supreme Court recent overruling of a lower district court judge’s finding in the Lobato vs. State of Colorado case that the state’s school funding system is unconstitutional. “I don’t know what will happen now. Everything keeps changing.” She does know that there will be no money in next year’s budget to give teachers raises. The board moved their June meeting to June 27 and canceled the July meeting.

Clubs in youR Community Barbara Royal at 719-687-6823.

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GED/ESL cLaSSES are from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays,

Wednesdays, and Thursdays in Divide with open enrollment. Free childcare is provided. Call 719-686-0705 for more information. Sponsored by Community Partnership Family Resource Center.

To hELp local families better prepare for an emergency, the

local Home Instead Senior Care office has a Web site containing downloadable materials such as a checklist of important contact names and information, a medication tracker, allergies/conditions worksheet and a wallet card to carry when away from home. These materials also can be accessed and downloaded at www.senioremergencykit.com. Contact the local Home Instead Senior Care office at 719-534-3064 for more information.

parEnT EDucaTion Workshops for parents with children ages 1 through teens. Workshops provided throughout the year at Community Partnership in Divide. Childcare and meals here,included. Call 686-0705 for session dates and times. nantLE LEchE League, nursing mothers supporting nursing moth-

ers, meets at 6 p.m. the second Monday of each month. Call le toKathleen at 719-687-1164 for location and information. lothtemsLa LEchE League meetings for those interested in breastfeedtemsing are from 3-5 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month at MineCHOICES, 228 Baldwin St., Woodland Park.

LiTTLE chapEL Food Pantry, 69 County Road 5, Divide, is in e tosearch of volunteers to help distribute food to its clients. Any clos-help with paper work, loading cars or packing boxes is greatly

needed. Distribution days are the second and fourth Mondays willof the month. Volunteer times are from 1-7 p.m. Client food e re-pick-up times are from 4:30- 6:30 p.m. Call Little Chapel Food kidsPantry at 719-322-7610 or visit littlechapelfoodpantry.org. other kindsMonThLy coMMoDiTiES food distribution program. Last keepFriday of each month at the Aspen Mine Center, 166 East Benandnett Avenue, Cripple Creek. Proof of Teller County residence and needincome requirements must be met to participate. Call 689-3584 for more information. g do-a MuLTipLE Sclerosis support group meets from 10:30 a.m. canto noon on the second Thursday of each month at the Woodland ton@Park Library. Call Annette at 719-687-4103.

nEw BEGinninGS with Food workshop graduates meet

every third Sunday of the month to provide ongoing support for overcoming health and weight issues and exchanging ideas and inspirations. For location and more information, contact

ovErEaTErS anonyMouS 12-step program group meets from 5:30-6 p.m. every Thursday at Mountain View United Methodist Church in Woodland Park. Call 719-687-0246 or 719-475-0037. parEnTS aS Teachers and Bright Beginnings home visits

available. Please call Community Partnership at 686-0705 to schedule a free visit for your newborn or young child.

a Soup kitchen is from noon to 1 p.m. every Tuesday and Wednesday at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Colo. 67. All soups and breads are homemade, and the kitchen is open to anyone wanting a warm meal and some fellowship. SuDDEn unExpEcTED Infant Death Local Support Group.

The group offers bereavement services for parents, families, friends and caregivers who have been affected by the sudden unexpected loss of an infant or toddler. There is no cost. The third Monday of the month from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Colorado Springs Penrose Library, 20 N. Cascade Ave. Adult meeting only; no child care will be provided. For additional help and information, call Angel Eyes at 888-285-7437 or visit angeleyes.org.

TrE’S crippLE Creek playgroup meets 9-11 a.m. Fridays at

the Aspen MIne Center in downtown Cripple Creek. Call Cathy 719-687-8054.

TELLEr counTy Nonprofit Roundtable, first Tuesday of every month from noon to 1 p.m. (bring your own lunch). Free support group for nonprofits, covering various topics decided by local nonprofits. Contact Debbie Upton at the City of Woodland Park, 687-5218 for locations and more information. TELLEr counTy Search and Rescue meets the first Monday of each month at the Woodland Park Library downstairs meeting room at 7 p.m. We are an all-volunteer, non-profit organization tasked with locating and rescuing lost and missing people in Teller County and the surrounding areas. Experience is not required as we conduct all of our own trainings. Levels of participation range from general support (auxillary), mission support, SarTech I and SarTech II. Please contact Janet Bennett, membership chair, at 719-306-0826 for more info.

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ThE TELLEr County Cancer Education and Support Group

meets from 5:30-7:30 p.m. every third Tuesday of each month at 1644 Cedar Mountain Road. in Divide. A program or handson activities are provided. For more information call Shelley or Carol at 687-1180. Survivors of any type cancer and caregivers are welcome.

TopS, TakE Off Pounds Sensibly, the original nonprofit weight-loss group is an educational support group providing weekly weigh-ins and programs to help members make positive changes in the role food plays in their lives. Local chapter meets every Thursday at 10 a.m. in Green Mountain Falls at the Church of the Wildwood. Call Evelyn at 748-8383 for more information. wEiGhT waTchErS meetings are every Tuesday in Wood-

land Park and Cripple Creek. Woodland Park meetings are 5:30 p.m., weigh-ins start at 5 p.m. at the Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave. Cripple Creek group opens at 5:30 p.m. and meetings begin at 6 p.m. at the Aspen Mine Center, 166 E. Bennett Ave. Weight Watchers meetings last about 35 minutes, and it is recommended members attend one meeting each week to learn about healthy eating, gain motivation and get a confidential weigh-in to track progress. Public is welcome to visit and see what it’s about at a participating Weight Watchers meeting with no obligation to join.

winGS proviDES therapist facilitated support groups for

women and men in which survivors are believed, accepted and no longer alone. There is a women’s group on Tuesday evening and one on Thursday evening. We are also starting a Loved Ones Group for family and friends of survivors. For more information contact the WINGS office at 800-373-8671. Visit www. wingsfound.org

DiviDE pLayGroup meets from 9-10: 30 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at Community Partnership in Divide. Ffdd program. Call 686-0705 more more info. Drop-ins welcome. TrE’S wooDLanD Park Playgroup meets from 9-10:30 a.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays at the The Resource Exchange - Early Intervention Colorado, 509 Scott Ave. Suite B in the Woodland Exchange building. 719-687-5047 or 719-233-5873.

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EarLy inTErvEnTion Colorado - The Resource Exchange offers free playgroups call Nicol Houghland at 719-233-5873. Also provides developmental supports and services to children birth through 3 years of age, who have special developmental needs. For free developmental screening call 719-687-5047 or visit www.tre.org

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younG parEnTS Empowerment Support Group designed for teen and young mothers and fathers to aid in the life changes of having a child. Free program includes childcare and lunch. Please call Community Partnership 686-0705 for meeting times and locations. voLunTEEr haBiTaT For Humanity of Teller County, 700 Valley View, Woodland Park. Call 719-687-4447 hELp ThE Needy is growing in its capacity to help our friends and neighbors in Teller County. To join a fun group of volunteers, an open heart and a generous spirit are all that is required. Call Vince Scarlata at 719-687-7273. inTErnaTionaL cuLTurE club, which meets quarterly, is accepting applications for families wanting the opportunity to host a foreign high school exchange student for academic year 2013-2014. Students arrive in August. Contact Gbrovetto@ gmail.com or 719-460-0355. ThE LocaL Emergency Planning Committee meets 8-9 a.m. on the first Thursday of each month in the Divide Volunteer Fire Department conference room, 103 Cedar Mountain Road, Divide. This committee was created to help prepare Teller County to deal with the variety of emergencies including the possibility of a pandemic influenza outbreak. The meeting is open to the public and visitors are welcome. Call 687-6416. oDySSEy hoSpicE. You can make a difference. Odyssey Hospice seeks volunteers to provide companionship to terminally ill patients living in the Ute Pass/Woodland Park area. Call 719-573-4166. ThE pikES Peak Regional Medical Center Foundation is accepting volunteer applications for its hospital gift shop. Help us run a fun and friendly gift shop/art gallery specializing in local art that raises money for projects supporting the hospital and the medical center campus. Pleasant environment, wonderful customers, light work load, no heavy lifting. Two shifts daily: from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or from 12:30-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call Susan 719-331-9762 or stop by.

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After the Cripple Creek-Victor High School Commencement, graduates and their families and friends gathered in the high-school commons for cake and punch.

Cripple Creek graduation commencement Photos by Norma ENgElbErg

The Cripple Creek-Victor High School Class of 2013 invited the kindergartners in the Class of 2025 to their Commencement on May 25 in the school gym. Giving flowers to family members is a time-honored tradition at the Cripple Creek-Victor High School commencement exercises. This year the flowers were white roses.

This Cripple Creek-Victor High School graduate takes to time to talk to a future CC-V graduate during commencement on May 25 in Cripple Creek.

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Justice delayed by governor is justice denied By Mark Waller I am incredibly disappointed with Gov. John Hickenlooper’s executive order to stay the execution of Nathan Dunlap. With a looming execution date set for this August, the governor was left with few options regarding Dunlap’s fate. He could have signed the warrant allowing the execution to move forward or he could have commuted Dunlap’s sentence to life without the possibility of parole. He chose neither. Instead he granted a temporary reprieve, meaning Dunlap will likely remain on death row for the duration of Hickenlooper’s administration. It’s a non-decision that leaves Dunlap’s fate, and the pursuit of justice by victims’ families, up to the next administration. The governor’s lack of leadership results in the worst possible option for the victims’ families, the integrity of our legal system,

and the citizens of Colorado who have decided more than once that the death penalty is an appropriate sentencing option in our state. Though it has been almost 20 years since this horrible crime was committed, we cannot allow our memory of the victims and the grieving families that Dunlap’s brutal crimes left behind to fade. Justice delayed is justice denied. While I understand the choice to sign or not sign Dunlap’s death warrant was one of the most difficult and personal decisions Hickenlooper will make during his time in office, a decision that provides closure to the victims’ families would have been the right thing to do. To shirk his responsibility and duty as governor demonstrates a lack of courage, a lack of respect for the victims, and a total disregard for our judicial system and the 12 jurors who convicted the Aurora mass murderer. When Dunlap brutally murdered

50-year-old Margaret Kohlberg, 19-yearold Sylvia Crowell, 17-year-old Ben Grant and 17-year-old Colleen O’Connor, and callously shot Bobby Stevens in the head, a nightmare began for their families that continues to this day. For 20 years, these families have waited for justice to be delivered. Now, Hickelooper’s failure to make a decision will ensure their nightmare continues, at least through the end of his time in office. If the governor had decided to commute Dunlap’s sentence to life without the possibility of parole, I would have disagreed with the decision but I could have respected it. At least then the families would have had some sort of resolution to their nightmare. But it is completely unfair to say to the victims, who have doubted for nearly 20 years that justice would prevail, that they

will have to wait even longer for finality in this horrible ordeal. We expect our leaders to make tough decisions when the circumstance calls for it. We may not always agree with the decision a leader makes, but we expect it to be made. Hickenlooper’s refusal to make a decision regarding the fate of Nathan Dunlap is a failure in leadership that ignores the citizens who decided capital punishment is an appropriate sentencing option, that marginalizes the judicial system that got us to this point, and — most importantly — that delays justice for the victims and families of this horrible crime. House Minority Leader Mark Waller is a Republican representing Colorado Springs in the Colorado General Assembly. He also works as a deputy district attorney for the Fourth Judicial District in El Paso County.

Paving project planned for Mueller State Park By Special to the Courier

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Major road improvements are on tap at Mueller State Park beginning May 28. “The park will be open every day, but visitors might encounter some inconveniences during paving operations,” said park manager John Geerdes. “The work is scheduled to be completed by the middle

of July.” Crews will repave and rebuild roads and parking lots between the entrance station and the campground registration building. “The trail system, picnic areas and campgrounds will still be accessible, but we are asking visitors to drive safely through the constructions zones,” Geerdes said. At least one lane of the main road will re-

main open at all times, but visitors may encounter 15-30 minute delays at times. Work will be limited to weekdays 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 7 a.m.-3 p.m. on Fridays. There will not be any roadwork on the weekends. The paving contractor will use the livery parking lot for equipment. The crews will attempt to keep the lot open, but it may be

necessary to divert horseback riders to another location at times. Some parking lots will be closed on days when paving is underway. When the Visitor Center parking lot is closed, visitors can park at Outlook Ridge, which is less than 50-yards away. Updates will be posted on the Mueller State Park web page at www. parks.state.co.us/Parks/Mueller/ .

THINGS TO DO JUNE 9, JUNE 23, JULY 7, JULY 21 GYMKHANA. WOODLAND Park Saddle Club 2013 Gymkhana events are Sundays, June 9, June 23, July 7, July 21, Aug. 4, Aug. 18, Sept. 1, Sept. 15. Events last from 10 a.m. until finished at the WPSC Arena and are open to the public. Entry fee is $20 and jackpot is $200. Visit www.wpsaddleclub.com. JUNE 13 SERIAL KILLERS. Learn about Colorado’s first known serial killers, the Espinosa brothers, at 6:30 p.m. June 13 at the Woodland Park Public Library. This program was canceled because of a snowstorm. Dwight Haverkorn, former Colorado Springs detective and historian, brings his investigative skills to this program. Call 719-687-9281 ext. 132. JUNE 14 RELAY FOR Life. The American Cancer Society Relay for Life

celebration is at 7 p.m. June 14 at CSCS. Visit http://www.tellerrelay.com/ or call Stacy at 650-0505.

JUNE 14, JUNE 21, JUNE 28 MUSIC SERIES. The Ass in the Grass music series presents

Ben Knighten, acoustic goodness, on June 14; Tim Brown, fingerstyle guitar, on June 21; Rich Owen, country fusion, on June 28; George Whitesell, variety oldies, on July 5; Tim Brown, fingerstyle guitar, on July 12; Skip Moore, adult contemporary, on July 19; Bill LaReau, nostalgic Americana, on July 26; Rich Owen, country fusion, on Aug. 2; Vicki Logan, cinematic, electronic, on Aug. 9; Muriel Shickman, folk & flute music, on Aug. 16; Six Minutes Apart, folk bluegrass, on Aug. 23 and Aug. 30; Gordy & Grace, Gypsy jass, on Sept. 6; George Whitesell, variety oldies, on Sept. 13; Vicki Logan, cinematic/electronic, on Sept. 20; Six Minutes Apart, folk bluegrass, on Sept. 27. Concerts are frolm 10 a.m. to noon Fridays on the corner of Henrietta Street and Park Avenue in Woodland Park.

ment JUNE 15 SUPPORT GROUP. The Woodland Park Parkinson Support Group will meet June 15 at the Woodland Park Library. Our group has doubled in size since our first meeting 3 months ago. At our next meeting we will have an open discussion and also talk about medical alert jewelry plus web sites where it can be purchased. On July 20, Cindy Kuykendall from Medtronic Inc. will speak to us about deep brain stimulation and the new studies about DBS. We meet from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Woodland Park Library. JUNE 17-22 TEEN WORKSHOP. Learn oil painting at a five-day workshop sponsored by the Mountain Artists. The class for ages 13 to high school seniors is June 17-22 at the Ute Pass Cultural Center. All levels of ability and talent are acceptable. You will learn from Ken Shanika, an experienced artist and art instructor with outstanding success with students. The workshop is five full days and goes from the basics to a finished painting you would be proud to hang anywhere. Cost is $150 per student for this $1,000-$2,000 value workshop. Art supplies included in this class are worth more than the $150 fee. Register online at www.themountainartists.com. JUNE 19 BIKE RODEO. The fourth annual Teller County Free Kids Bike Rodeo is from 10 a.m. to noon June 19 at the Meadow Wood Sports Complex. The bike rodeo is open to any child who can pedal and will include bicycle skill challenges, safety games,

giveaways and more. Bring a bike and helmet. The event is co-sponsored by Teller County Chiropractic and Parks and Recreation. Prize giveaway is at 11:45 a.m. (must be present to win).

THROUGH JUNE 21; JULY 19-20 QUILT ENTRIES. Firehouse Quilts is looking for quilt entries for its eighth annual quilt show to support its mission of helping children in crisis in Colorado. Early bird entries submitted by May 17 are taken at a discounted entry fee ($15). Otherwise, the fee is $18 per item, and the final deadline is June 21. This year’s show has a special theme, Patriotic, along with 13 other categories. The show is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 19-20 at the Douglas County Events Center in Castle Rock. All forms and instructions are available at www.firehousequilts.org; click on the Quilt Show link at the top. JUNE 25 LITERACY TUTORING. The Children’s Literacy Center seeks volunteers ages 14 years and older to provide free one-on-one tutoring in reading from 3:15-4:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning June 25 at the Woodland Park Library. Call 719471-8672, to sign up for our next training session. Visit www. childrensliteracycenter.org to complete an application and for more information. JUNE 26 CYCLING CLUB. Join the Mountain Top Cycling Club at 6:30

p.m. June 26 at the Ute Pass Cultural Center for a special screen showing of Singletrack High. Cost is $10 a ticket. What is Singletrack High? Many kids in America stop riding bikes in high school. Riding through puddles is no longer cool. Two wheels get traded in for four. For hundreds of kids in Northern California, the ride never stops ... it gets faster. These are the studentathletes of the NorCal High School Mountain Bike League. They come from the mountains, the suburbs, and the city. Some ride carbon fiber race bikes, others old steel clunkers. They ride to win, to finish, and to escape. For six weekends every spring, they don their school colors, roll up to the start line, and fly. This is Singletrack High. You can register at Eventbrite.com. Search June 26. This is a fundraising event for the Mountain Top Cycling Club Youth Mountain Bike Team and the Highlanders. Mike Ebhert, the Mountain Top Cycling Club’s high school team leader, will share his experiences and coaching opportunities to high school students. Mike is an assistant coach for the Highlands team that competes in the NICA league, (National Interscholastic Cycling Association.) The Mountain Top Cycling Club will be seeking grant money to help provide financial aid for these young adults from Teller County who cannot afford registration fees and equipment to compete or register for Mountain Bike training camps. The Mountain Top Cycling Club wants to show these young adults the joys we have come to know as cyclists. To be able to offer good role models and mentors to guide these youths to gain self confidence, personal identity and individual satisfaction in their own abilities. Visit www.mountaintopcyclingclub.com or call Debbie 719-687-2489.

JULY 4 CEMETERY CRAWL. The Ute Pass Historical Society presents its second annual Woodland Park Cemetery Crawl on July 4. Take a walk and meet some of the old pioneers who are resting in the Woodland Park Cemetery, 650 Short St. Tours start every 15 minutes from 1 to 3 pm. Tickets cost $5, and are available at the Ute Pass Historical Society Gift Shop, 231 E. Henrietta Ave., Woodland Park, or at the gate. Call 719-686-7512 or e mail uphs@peakinter.net for information.

JULY 27 CLASS REUNION. Woodland Park High School will have its all-class reunion from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 27 at Memorial Park, followed by a dance at the Cultural Center at 7 p.m. THROUGH AUGUST ART EXHIBIT. Some of the works of late local artist Nadine Kent Drummond were on exhibit in Woodland Park last summer. Now an expanded exhibit is on display through August in the Western Art History floor at the Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway.

ONGOING NEW EXHIBIT. The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Association “Over The Hill Gang” display is now complete. We invite you to see the amazing time line of photos from the 1920s to present day, in addition to memorabilia from the second oldest race in the world. ONGOING EXHIBIT. The Ute Pass Historical Society presents

Scenic Views from the Colorado Midland Railway. The exhibit is on the second floor of the Woodland Park Public Library adjacent to the Colorado Room. The library is at 218 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park. Call 686-7512.

APPLY SPIRITUAL laws as taught by the Ascended Masters

for the achievement of personal and global freedom, love, peace and abundance. Free study group meets every Saturday in Woodland Park. For information, contact Barbara Royal at 719-687-6823 or Angels911@peakinter.net.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. The Pikes Peak Regional Medical Center Foundation is accepting volunteer applications for its hospital gift shop. Help us run a fun and friendly gift shop/art gallery specializing in local art that raises money for projects supporting the hospital and the medical center campus. Pleasant environment, wonderful customers, light work load, no

heavy lifting. Two shifts daily: from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or from 12:30-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call Susan 719-331-9762 or stop by.

FREE COMPUTER classes. The Woodland Park Public Library offers computer basics, Internet basics, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Digital Photo Management classes. Some classes have prerequisites, and registration is required for all. Call 719-687-9281, ext. 106 to register. THROUGH JUNE 15 CABARET. THIN Air Theatre Company, now in its seventh year at the Butte Theater, kicks off the 2013 season of all new productions with a preseason show, the all-new Cripple Creek Cabaret: Gems of the Silver Screen, with 11 performances from May 31 to June 15. To make reservations visit ThinAirTheatre. com or call 719-689-3247. JUNE 16 WOLF TOUR. Celebrate Father’s Day with the wolves from 9-11 a.m. June 16 at the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center in Divide. Have breakfast, take a wolf tour and meet the center’s new wolf pup, Keyni. Cost is $25 for adults and $15 for ages 12 and younger. Call 719-687-9742 for reservations. JULY 20 TO AUG. 24 GEOLOGY OF Teller County. Teller County enjoys some of the most amazing geology on the planet. Several features are found nowhere else. Community Partnership Family Resource Center, a Colorado nonprofit devoted to education, is offering a 6-Saturday course, from 9 a.m. to noon July 20 to Aug. 24 in Divide. Learn about our gold & silver, gems, fossils, faults, volcanoes, glaciers, and more, with computer imagery, specimens, and a field trip. Great for teachers, rock hounds or students. Fee is $80. Call 719-686-0705 for information and registration. Calendar continues on Page 17

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Cresson YES Club students fly Learn about birds, bats, wind, clouds By Norma Engelberg

nengelberg@ourcoloradonews.com Cresson Elementary School’s Young Environmental Stewards Club used the scientific methods they learned in their classrooms to help them learn about atmospheric conditions and aeroecology, the study of airborne life-forms. The YES curriculum is provided by the Catamount Institute with help from the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. Academic sponsor Jo Heida explained to the Cripple Creek-Victor RE-1 School District Board of Education on May 29 that the Catamount Institute has created four study areas: water ecology, aeroecology, wildland fire and underground ecology. The club takes on two subjects each year. It is usually only open to and fourth- and fifth-graders but because Cresson is such a small school sixth-graders can also join to learn about subjects they have missed, she said. Heida, her daughter Emily and another student, Victor Mondragon, showed the board photos of the work the club did this school year. They studied bluebirds, made nesting boxes that they placed near the gold mine’s reclamation areas and monitored. They also constructed a bat house. The section they studied on clouds and wind led to a bake sale to raise money for model wind turbine kits that they could use to test their hypotheses about what blade shape, size and angle would generate the most power. Because they planned to take their experiment to Colorado College for a YES Club symposium they set it up to use indoor wind generation. The symposium included YES Clubs from Cresson, Woodland Park elementary schools Lake George Charter School and 12 Colorado Springs schools.

At the May 29 Cripple Creek-Victor RE-1 School District Board of Education meeting, Cresson Elementary School teacher Jo Heida, left, and two members of the Young Environmental Stewards Club, Emily Heida and Victor Mondragon show photos of the many activities the club was involved in this school year. Photo by Norma Engelberg

“We proved that our original hypothesis was wrong,” Emily Heida said. Jo Heida said the Cresson YES Club earned an Outstanding Impact Award at the

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y Home Front Cares celebrates 10th year El Paso County Commissioners recognize organization’s good work Special to The Tribune and Courier

El Paso County Office of Communications The Board of El Paso County Commissioners recognized the 10th anniversary

of The Home Front Cares with an official Proclamation during their May 21 meeting. Since 2003, The Home Front Cares has raised more than $4 million to help more than 2,000 Colorado veterans and active duty military families with rent/mortgage, utilities, car and home repairs, childcare, groceries, and other essential life needs. “In the last 12 months, we’ve assisted veterans and their families with half a million dollars in direct support, mostly to pre-

vent homelessness throughout our state,” said April Speake, The Home Front Cares executive director. “We want everyone to be aware of what we do so we can continue to do it longer.” The Home Front Cares was established following the deployment of American military personnel to Iraq and Afghanistan. According to its website, 100,000 service personnel will be leaving the military in the next two to three years, and many of these brave warriors will be returning

to civilian life while still bearing the scars of battle. “It’s a great organization for veterans who need a hand,” said Jim Tackett, manager of El Paso County Veteran Services. He went on to say that his office regularly refers veterans to The Home Front Cares. El Paso County has more than 76,000 veterans as residents. For more information on The Home Front Cares go to its website, http://thehomefrontcares.org/ .

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JUNE 7-8 BOOK, BAKE, plant sale. The 17th annual Friends of the Florissant Library Book, Bake and Plant Sale is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 7 and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 8. The sale will feature many plants, plus paperback and hard-bound children’s books as well as adult fiction and nonfiction books, videos and audio books as well as a variety of baked items. The proceeds will help provide for security cameras for our library as well as programs for our children and adults. JUNE 8 PAINTING CLASS. Glass painting class is back at the Floris-

sant Grange. Learn the “one stroke’ painting method from 10 a.m. to noon June 8 and find that your painting options are endless. Paint on glass, mirrors, or just about anything. Join us to learn this fun craft. For more information call 748-0358.

JUNE 15 BASKET MAKING. The next pine needle basket making class is June 15 at the Florissant Grange. Call 748-0358 for information. JULY 27

tiga- HERITAGE DAY. Don’t miss the biggest event of the year for r the Florissant. Start the day with a pancake breakfast at the fire with house. Then make your way to the Pikes Peak Historical Society Museum, Costello Street Coffee House, Florissant Cemetery, and most importantly, The Old School House. At the School house (The Florissant Grange) you will have live music on the Bandstand all day featuring The Elbert Sisters, Mel March, Rich Currier and more. Food is served starting at 10 a.m.; we will serve burgers, brats and dogs. A meal that includes chips, a drink and a cookie is a suggested donation of $5. Vendors will sell everything from handmade crafts to Miche purses and emergency food. Cowboy poets and magicians, you don’t want to miss these shows featuring Susie Knight and Dwyane Faux; Historic Readings and reenactments by local well known ladies and gentlemen of the Florissant Area. Buckboard Rides are offered by MLazyC Ranch from 10 a.m. to noon. Gold Camp Victorian Society will create great ambiance with their beautiful historic attire. 20 years on the trail productions: Gun shoot outs and a historic play. Children’s play and activities, horseshoes and an ice cream social. The sheriff ’s posse will help us out with traffic and more.

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FREE COMPUTER classes are offered starting in February at the Florissant Library. You can take Computer Basics, Word I, Word II, Excel, and PowerPoint. To register for a class, or for information and a schedule, call 719-748-3939. JAM NIGHT. The Grange Hall is open from 6-9 p.m. every Thursday for the Jammers music and potluck. This is a great night and the place to be on Thursdays. The music is always different depending on who and how many musicians show up. We always have fun, good food and dancing. All musicians are welcome to join in the jam session. If you are not a musician, come for a social evening out to meet other community members. Call 719-748-0358. YOGA CLASSES are offered at 5:30 p.m. Mondays and 9 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, with a senior yoga class offered at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, at the Florissant Grange, 2009 County Road 31. Call Debbie at 719-748-3678 for information. MUSIC LESSONS. Guitar, drums and general music lessons are now offered on Friday mornings at the Florissant Grange, 2009 County Road 31. Call 719-748-0358. JUNE 29-30 POND TOUR. Purely Ponds presents the seventh annual Parade of Ponds, a self-guided pond and waterfall tour that will benefit the Boys and Girls Club of the Pikes Peak Region. The tour will last from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 29-30 at 30 stops in the Colorado Springs area. Visit www.bgcppr.org or call 719570-7077 to learn more about the Boys and Girls Club. Visit www.purelyponds.com for information about the tour. JUNE 30 BOARD APPLICATIONS. The Pikes Peak Library District has a vacancy on its board of trustees, which is a seven-member volunteer board responsible for setting library policies, setting the library’s budget and hiring an executive director to oversee the operation of the district. The term of office is five years. Applications must be postmarked at noon on June 30 and should be mailed to Pikes Peak Library District, Board Applications, P.O. Box 1579, Colorado Springs, CO 80901. Board responsibilities will begin Aug. 1. Applications and position description available at http://ppld.org/sites/default/files/bot/ boardapplication.pdf. EDITOR’S NOTE: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. Send information to calendar@ourcoloradonews.com, attn: Courier View. No attachments please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

“Heat is On’ for another year Stepped-up DUI enforcement aims to keep roads safe

By Special to The Tribune and Courier State of Colorado

Just as Memorial Day weekend kicks off a summer filled with outdoor events, it also kicks-off the 100 deadliest days on Colorado roads and highways and the 15th annual statewide “Heat Is On” campaign. During 12 specified national holiday periods and large public events throughout the year, the Colorado Department of Transportation, the Colorado State Patrol, and local law enforcement agencies throughout the state work together to ensure Coloradans stay safe by stepping up DUI enforcement. “Throughout the summer, law enforcement will work hard to protect lives and arrest those who choose to put themselves and others in harm’s way,” said Col. Scott

Hernandez, chief of the Colorado State Patrol. “The Colorado State Patrol enforces zero tolerance for impaired driving.” “We launched the ‘Heat Is On’ campaign 15 years ago in response to the summer months being the deadliest time on Colorado roads,” said Darrell Lingk, Director of the Office of Transportation Safety at CDOT. “Our goal is to educate the public on the dangers of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, which can easily be avoided by designating a sober driver.” During the Memorial Day weekend enforcement period last year, there were 542 DUI arrests made statewide. To reduce the number of DUI arrests in Colorado, law enforcement will be out on the roads, making sure that Coloradans are protecting themselves and others by making safe travel decisions. More details about the DUI enforcement plans and arrest results can be found at HeatIsOnColorado.com.

El Paso County’s Rainbow Falls Recreation Area west of Manitou Springs will be closed for the summer while the Colorado Department of Transportation works on banks stabilization and drainage improvements. Photo by Norma Engelberg

Rainbow Falls Rec Area closes for summer By Special to The Tribune and Courier El Paso County Office of Communications

El Paso County Parks has announced that the Rainbow Falls Recreation Area west of Manitou Springs will be closed to the public beginning May 28. Weather permitting, the project is expected to be completed by September. The closure will allow the Colorado Department of Transportation to construct major bank stabilization and drainage improvements on the site and along U. S.

Highway 24 in the Ute Pass area. The improvements will help protect public and private property and ensure public safety. Renovation of Rainbow Falls Recreation Area has been underway since El Paso County secured ownership of the property in 2010. Following the transportation departments improvements, El Paso County will resume efforts to improve trails and recreation amenities. For more information on closures or renovation of the property, please contact El Paso County Parks at 719-520-PLAY.

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Their ducks are all in a row on the table where their diplomas used to be when Woodland Park High School graduates leave the stage at the end of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 78th annual commencement on May 24. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a school tradition that students exchange some item for their diplomas. This year that item was a rubber ducky. Norma Engelberg

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Alexandria Kathaleen Buchholz, Solomon Burcea, Emily Kelley Burgo, Sandra Mae Busby, Dylan Clement Bushman. Joseph Edward Callahan, BayLee Elizabeth Campbell, Marc Anthony Cannella, Richard Lee Carriker, Jacob George Censner, Thomas Edward Chisholm, Jessica Cheyenne Chitwood, Dutch VanBuren Coburn, Emma Rose Colligan, Elijah Robert Comis, Triston Lazarus Cooley, Brandon Charles Coulier, Madeleine Elizabeth

Cox, Hannah Leigh Crosby, Ryan Howard Crouse, David Nicholas Cruse, Ashley Nicole Culpepper, Alicia Simona DeLaCruz, Meghan Anne Deleruyelle, Charles Michael Dickson, Michalah Lynn Diekhoff, Megan Savoie Dillinger, Stephen William Duncanson II, Devyn Kathleen Dutcher. Matthew Luke Eden, Saide Danielle Elbert, Tyler James Elwell, Micaela Charlotte Enger, Anthony James Alan Ereon, Hannah Catherine Erickson, Travis Riley Esperanza, Isabella Pauline Fallon, Riley Alexander Feland, Brady Adams Fisher, Ian Michael Forbes, Michelle Heather Franke, Jacob Paul Franklin, Maxwell Joseph Friedl, Erika Jean Furnes, Caelan Rushton Garner, Kyla Ashley

Gibson, Brandy Dawn Goble, Brandon David Gressett, Meghan Sierra Groves, Jenna Lauren Gundy, Jeremy Jeffrey Gwinn. Daniel Riley Hagney, Nathan James Hale, Samantha Marie Hannappel, Zachery Milton Harris, Alexander Matthew Hart, Michael Joseph Hartley II, Ashley Marie Hatfield, Shayne Austin Haynes, Eridanus Moon Henderson-Wyckoff, Tyler DelRay Hensinger, Kristian Hernandez, Connor Reid Hewett, Aaron James Hills, Allyson Renee Hinkle, Carissa Sue Hiteshew, Jamie Marie Holmes, Elsa Louise Huber, Dustin Robert Hudson, Michaela Lindsey Huntington, Kayla Anne Ibarra, Brooke Katelyn James, Cody Craig John-

Beach balls, sunglasses and noise makers were abundantly evident at the Woodland Park High School commencement for the Class of 2013. Photos by Norma Engelberg

son, Nation Rodeo Jones. MaryGrace Ann Kelley, Tucker Michael Kelly, Matthew Bryan Knowlton, Amanda Hope Konczak, Alyssa Elizabeth Koski, Michaela Marie Kratko, Ashley Louise Langlois, Evan James Lays, Levi Austin Leonard, Zachary James Leute, Max Levy, Chelsea Marie Loera, Kristyn Ashlea Long, Nathan Jacob Longoria, Dannielle Marie Lopez, Alicia Laurelle Lovstad, Megan McKinzey Lunsford, Anjolenna Lucile Lutz. Emily Grace Maki, Reanna Jai Cheyenne Marcengill, JoLynne Elizabeth Simmons Matthews, Charles John McAleer, WPHS continues on Page 19

After receiving their diplomas, Woodland Park High School 2013 graduates wave at family members and friends in the packed Pikes Peak Center. Norma Engelberg

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The Woodland Park High School Senior Choir sings ‘It’s Time’ by Imagine Dragons, accompanied by students on guitars and a ‘box drum.’ This was the school’s 78th annual commencement.

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Ryan Michael McCafferty, Brycen Scott McCright, Alyssa Nicole Meier, Tanya Itzel Mello, Zachary Stephen Menz, Alyson Victoria Moore, Katrina Kay Moore, Kramer Brunton Moore, Kathleen Lindsey Morand, Shelby Lynne Morgan, Megan Marie Moss, Jacob Travis Neal, Caitlin Rose Norquist, Courtney Lynn Norvell, Tyler Kevin Obernesser. Mandy Ann Palacio, Sarah

Megan Parker, Matthew Maddox Parr, Christopher Martin Pedroza, Baillie Ann Perales, John Randall Perkowski, Brieana Lynn Peterson, Trevor Michael Zaleski Pierce, Kaylen Ann Poole, Connor Joseph Posusta, Jerick Crawford Pratt, Alexis Nicole Price, Adam Ray Primrose, Joshua Thomas Pyle, Abigail Marie Reed, Gunner Paul Reid, Sydney Marie Richardson, Amanda Lynn Ridgeway, Elizabeth Huston Ruth Robinson, Kylie Renee Robinson, Gabrielle Kaliee Ruddick, Austin Dewayne Russell, Kaylyn Ann Russell, Mitchell McKenzie Ryan. Hannah Marie Sauer, Elin Mar-

Woodland Park High School Senior Class president Riley Youngman welcomes visitors to his school’s 78th commencement. tina Saxon, Zachary Brock Saylor, Kelsey Reylene Seibel, Leslie Noel Simmons, Ryan Willard Sipes, Matthew Randall Sirko, Robert Christopher Slaughter, Kristopher Neal Smith, Kyle Jacob Smith, Levi Bennett Snare, Emily Brooke Solomon, Sabra Anne Spedilari, Katie Lynn Steinbeiser, Joshua Charles

Stover, Maximilian Edward Strelec, Jesse Warren Summers. Chelsea Lynn Taylor, Ryan Brody Theobald, Austin Lambert Thorne, Timothy David Timshel, Paul Thomas Toler, Amanda Rosemary Townley, Kymberly Erin Trutwin, Kellye Raye Umberger, Alexander Vincent Utter, Jared

Peter Venman, Ashley Jade Vrtis, Thomas Reid Waddell, Brian Wayne Warren, Janelle Marie Watson, Travis Samuel Weaver, Keaton Blake Wells, Cody Wayne Westfall, Tanner Alan Wilson, Carol Ann Wink, Elizabeth Autumn Woods, Noah Christian Wyka, Riley James Youngman.

Volunteer needed for board of health By Special to The Tribune The El Paso County Board of Commissioners is seeking a community-minded citizen volunteer to serve on the board of health. Applications for the open position are due by June 14. This position represents the medical profession and may be filled by an individual currently active in the medical field or retired. The board of health works closely with the medical community to positively

affect the health of county citizens. Three to five years of senior level medical experience is desirable and applicants should have a wide range of interest in public health issues in El Paso County. The board of health is the governing body for El Paso County Public Health. It is responsible for developing public health policies, approving a local public health plan, providing advice to the Public Health director and overseeing health department financial matters among other responsibili-

Palmer Land Trust preserves community values Conservation only part of its mandate By Norma Engelberg

nengelberg@ourcoloradonews.com For more than 36 years the Palmer Land Trust has been working toward protecting lands for public recreation and agriculture. The trust works in 10-county area of Colorado but the presentation given to the Woodland Park City Council at its last meeting by Executive Director Scott Campbell focused mainly on work the trust has done in Teller County to protect the slopes of Pikes Peak from development. “We wanted to form a continuous ring of public and private land around the Peak to protect it and agricultural land from growth,” he said. “We’ve been helped by Great Outdoors Colorado and the state conservation easement tax credit that was passed in 2000.” The Palmer Land Trust’s quarterly newsletter states that with help from other conservation groups and private land owners, the Pikes Peak Conservation Corridor, protecting the peak’s north face, is complete. The trust is driven by community values and is not an advocacy organization. “We don’t take a stand on land use,” Campbell said. “We work to preserve what’s important to our communities.” Using a map and slides, Campbell showed the areas around Pikes Peak that are already protected either as public land served by state parks and wildlife areas, National Forest or Bureau of Land Manage-

ment, or through conservation easements. The first of the land to be protected from development between Woodland Park and Divide was the Broken Wagon Ranch 1992 and the last of the large ranches in the corridor to be conserved for agriculture and to protect the view of Pikes Peak was the Markus Ranch in 2012. “This conservation corridor connects to Mueller State Park and Dome Rock,” Campbell said. “That park was formed when The Nature Conservancy and Colorado Parks acquired the Mueller Ranch in the 1980s. We’ve also helped preserve other agricultural lands and riparian areas along the Gold Belt Scenic Byway.” Five years ago only 900 acres in those areas were preserved; now the number of preserved acres is 9,000, he said. He also pointed to fire mitigation work the trust performed on the Solitude Park Open space near the Cedar Heights in Colorado Springs. “It was to act as a buffer between the Pike National Forest and the high-density residential area but it also helped keep the Waldo Canyon Fire out of the neighborhood,” he said. “Contrast that with Mountain Shadows where no fire mitigation work was performed. We can help communities with conservation planning.” Since it began the Palmer Land Trust has protected more than 75,000 acres of historic farms and ranches, wildlife habitat, scenic travel corridors and recreation open spaces. This work has put the trust among the top 25 land trusts in the United States. For more information about the Palmer Land Trust, visit www.palmerlandtrust.org.

ties. Members are appointed for five-year terms. Meetings are held bimonthly on the third Monday of the month at 2:00 p.m. at the Regional Development Center, 2880 International Circle in Colorado Springs. The volunteer application is located at www.elpasoco.com and can be accessed by clicking on the “Volunteer Boards” link. Applicants are asked to reference the board and position they wish to represent and include a mailing address and daytime phone

number. Send completed applications and letter of interest and/or résumés to: Board of County Commissioners Attn: Frances St. Germain, County Administration Manager 200 S. Cascade Avenue Colorado Springs, CO 80903-2208 Applications may also be faxed to 719520-6397 or emailed to webmaster@elpasoco.com. For further information call 719520-6436.

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The Lansford family, residents of Teller County recently had an opportunity to meet Colorado Sen. Mark Udall in Washington, D.C. Pictured are Lynn Lansford, left, granddaughter Kayla Lansford, 13, Sen. Udall, grandson Andre Hageman and Jim Lansford. Kayla Lansford is a world traveler who will soon be adding Australia to the list of countries she’s visited. Courtesy photo

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Kayla Lansford, 13, is a world traveler. She’s been to France, the United Kingdom, Belize, Honduras, China, Mexico and Singapore, which she said is her favorite country outside of the United States. She may have a new favorite country in July when she goes to Australia for three weeks with the People to People Ambassador Program, an international cultural exchange program started by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. Kayla Lansford is the granddaughter of Jim and Lynn Lansford. Because of her family’s travels, she is enrolled in the Lake George Charter School online school. “She was enrolled in the charter school for one semester but we travel so much that we decided to enroll her in the online school,” Lynn Lansford said. “My husband works for a company out of the UK and we tag along with him. Singapore is the last place we went.” “I love Singapore,” Kayla Lansford said. “It’s beautiful all around and very peaceful.” Applying to be part of the People to People cultural exchange mission was easy, she said. “They just wanted to know what I expected to get out of the trip and to explain things about myself,” Kayla Lansford said. “This is going to be a new experience. I’ve never been to Australia.” Lynn Lansford said this is also the first trip her granddaughter will take without family. “She’ll be part of a group of 40, 12-15 year olds,” she said. “They’ve already met each other a few times and there will be a bon voyage party when they leave from Denver International on July 4. They’ll be back on July 27.” The group’s itinerary includes a trip through a rainforest, opportunities to meet and learn about koalas and other indigenous wildlife, going walkabout in the Outback, visiting the aboriginal peoples and staying with local families at the end of each day. “I’m really looking forward to snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef,” Kayla Lansford said. “I’ve been snorkeling in Hawaii but I expect this to be a lot different.” Lynn Lansford said this was a great opportunity for her granddaughter and she isn’t worried even though her cousin said “Everything in Australia is there to kill you!” “I’m sure Kayla will have a great time,” she said. “She’s

Kayla Lansford will be spending three weeks traveling across Australia as a cultural ambassador for the People to People Ambassador Program. Her travel group includes 40 children ages 12-15. She is the only one in the group from Teller County. Courtesy photo

even taking her underwater camera.” For more information about People to People, visit http://peopletopeople.com.

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Junior achievement reaches nearly 850 students Special to the Courier Throughout the month of May, Junior Achievement (JA) of Southern Colorado, along with more than 60 Teller County volunteers representing 25 local businesses and service clubs, plus community members, parents, grandparents and neighbors, spent the day teaching the Junior Achievement in a Day curriculum to elementary school students at Summit Elementary school in Divide and Columbine and Gateway Elementary schools in Woodland Park. Guided by the classroom volunteers, nearly 850 students learned about financial literacy from interactive programs designed to teach a variety of monetary skills and empower young people to own their economic success. Business volunteers represented the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Co., Pikes Peak Regional Hospital, Teller County Board of County Commissioners, City of Woodland Park, Teller County Sheriff’s department, Woodland Park Police Department, Vectra and Peoples National banks, Pikes Peak Credit Union, Swiss Chalet, Michael Harper Real Estate, Benchmark Mortgage, Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center and Nikki’s Knots. Service club volunteers represented the Pikes Peak Rotary Club and the Ute Pass Lions Club. Businesses outside of the Teller County area included Century Link (Pueblo) and Zycron (Denver). Students learned to recognize the difference between wants and needs and understand life outside of their home and school by exploring businesses, the roles of people working in a community and the skills needed to perform certain jobs. Older elementary school students had the opportunity to discover how entrepreneurs use resources to produce goods and services in a community. Through engaging activities, these students also learned about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills and resources. Teller County’s response to and support of JA’s presence in the elementary school

More than 60 Teller County volunteers who represent 25 local businesses and service clubs spent a day at area schools talking about Junior Achievement of Southern Colorado. Pictured, is a group of residents who spent the day at Columbine Elementary School. Courtesy photo

classroom was extraordinary. The Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Co.provided a $4,000 grant for which the monies were dedicated to purchasing the specialized classroom kits used to teach the JA curriculum at each grade level. “CC&V is one of Teller County’s largest employers and eagerly contributes to community activities and programs that serve the region, said Jane Mannon, Community Affairs Manager. “The value of Junior Achievement to inspire and prepare young

people to succeed in a global economy is important to CC&V and our families. We encourage our youth to gain the skills necessary to return to their community and contribute to its prosperity.” The Creative Providers Foundation, administered by Pete Kuyper, also funded JA programming with a grant while Vectra Bank, Walmart, Dominos, the UPS Store, Starbucks and the Donut Mill provided in-kind donations. JA also received invaluable sup-

port from Summit, Columbine and Gateway Elementary schools, the Greater Woodland Park Chamber of Commerce, SCORE, the Pikes Peak Courier View, the Ute Country News and The Mountain Jackpot. For information, contact Sherri L. Albertson, Teller County Area Coordinator at (719) 650-4089 or via email to sherri.albertson@ja.org. The JA in a Day programs will begin again this fall with Cresson Elementary in Cripple Creek and then cycle through the Divide and Woodland Park are

School-finance ball is in voters’ court Lobato ruling means no quick rescue for funding By Vic Vela

vvela@ourcoloradonews.com Those who had hoped that the Colorado Supreme Court would come to the rescue of underfunded public schools now turn their attention to persuading taxpayers to provide more money for classrooms in school districts across the state. In a highly anticipated ruling, the court on May 28 overturned a lower court’s decision that declared that the state’s school funding system — which plaintiffs said was inadequate and unfair — is unconstitutional. Now, the only immediate way that school funding will reach levels that are even on par with the rest of the nation — Colorado spends nearly $2,000 less per pupil than the national average — is if Colorado voters decide to foot the bill of about $1 billion annually that is tied to a major piece of legislation that overhauls the school-finance formula. “It’s really our last best hope,” said Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Cindy Stevenson. Jeffco schools was one of 67 plaintiffs in the high-profile Lobato case that the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on this week. The case originated from a 2005 lawsuit that was named after a San Luis Valley family who alleged that Colorado was not living up to its constitutional mandate of providing a “thorough and uniform” system of funding for education. Plaintiffs argued that the state’s funding system particularly affects poor students and that money is not equally allotted among school districts. A state district court agreed with the plaintiffs in 2011.

However, the state Supreme Court overturned that decision, ruling that school financing decisions should be left to lawmakers, and not for the courts to remedy. “While the trial court’s detailed findings of fact demonstrate that the current public school financing system might not be ideal policy, this court’s task is not to determine `whether a better financing system could be devised,’ but rather to determine `whether the system passes Constitutional muster,’” wrote Justice Nancy Rice in the court’s majority opinion. Gov. John Hickenlooper, a supporter of the court’s decision, told reporters after the decision that the high court did not rule that schools are funded adequately, but that a civil action “was not the right way to increase that funding.” Although Stevenson said she was disappointed with the court’s decision, she agrees with the governor’s assessment of the ruling. “What it says that is that it needs to be determined through the people or the Legislature, and not for the court system to remedy,” she said. “I don’t think either side is cheering about this.” Republican lawmakers released statements in favor of the court’s ruling. Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman of Colorado Springs said the decision “affirms the constitutional authority of an elected legislative body to represent the people of this state.” Rep. Carole Murray, R-Castle Rock, said that “a plaintiff victory would have drained the general fund and intruded on the General Assembly’s constitutional authority to appropriate taxpayer dollars.” Colorado’s K-12 education system already consumes about 40 percent of the state’s general fund. Supporters of the decision said that, had the court sided with the plaintiffs, it would have put a greater burden on the state. Now, the focus turns to Senate Bill 213, which has been

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dubbed the Future School Finance Act. The legislation, which has been signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper, would fund full-day kindergarten and provide more money for at-risk students and English learners. The act also aims to fund school districts in a more equitable fashion. State Republican lawmakers flatly objected to the bill this past legislative session, arguing that the act imposes a $1 billion tax increase on Coloradans without addressing true reform needs. But bill supporters say there is now a greater sense of urgency for voters to pass the tax hike, on the heels of the Lobato decision. “We’ll be in a deep, deep hole that we may never be able to get out of if we don’t get that ballot measure passed,” said Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster. “It’s very important.” Although the Jeffco school board has yet to take a position on Senate Bill 213, count Stevenson as a supporter. “I see it as our best hope, at this point, for increasing funding,” she said.

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Woodland Park senior Cody Hedges will be a key player for the school’s American Legion summer baseball team. The season opens June 10. Photo by Dave Turley

Panthers Ready for Legion Summer Baseball Season Woodland Park will host American Legion state tournament in July By Danny Summers

jdsummers30@gmail.com WOODLAND PARK – The Woodland Park American Legion summer baseball season gets underway June 10 at Meadow Wood Sports Park. The Panthers are hosted by Post 1980 and Woodland Park mayor Dave Turley. Three teams will be represented this summer: B, C and D. The B squad will be comprised of varsity players, while the C team will be mostly freshmen and junior varsity players from last season. The D

squad will consist of seventh and eighth graders from the middle school. “Summer is a time when kids step up and separate themselves,” said Woodland Park coach Cliff Richardson, who is overseeing all three programs. “We’ll have to field guys who can move around a little bit. The hope is to field your best nine.” Mayor Turley and Richardson are working together to host the Legion B state tournament July 25-28 at Panther Field. Parents and volunteers are needed to help coordinate the event. The B league consists of teams from Canon City, Rampart, Mesa Ridge, Liberty and Fountain-Fort Carson. Richardson said that the B squad will also play a handful of games against teams from the Denver area. The district tournament has not been

appointed, but Woodland Park automatically qualifies for the state tournament because it will host the state tournament. The district tournament will be held the week before the state tournament. Eight teams will be represented in the state tournament. The C and D squads will play teams from George Washington, Fountain-Fort Carson. Rampart, Liberty, Sand Creek, Canon City, Buena Vista and Palmer Ridge. “One of the big advantages of summer ball is seeing different competition, seeing different fields and developing relationships,” Richardson said. “You see quality teams from top to bottom.” Among the top Woodland Park B team players who saw significant varsity time

this spring are Logan Watters, Cody Hedges, Chase Fish, Sam Ballard, KaydenOsborne, Dakota Herman and Keegan Harmen. Junior varsity players Nash Gragckowski and Anthony Woods will join the group as well. Harmen will be relied upon as the main pitcher. Also expected to see significant time on the mound are Watters, Osborne, Hedges and Herman. “Keegan has that dirty curve ball and he throws harder than anybody else we have,” Richardson said. “This is the summer for Keegan to make that jump.” The Woodland Park B team advanced to last year’s state tournament in Greeley. Woodland Park last hosted the state tournament in 2006, when it won the championship.

Recreation report Woodland Park Parks & Recreation offers the following programs and sports. Sign up at least a week prior to session starting. Classes may be cancelled due to lack of participants. Call 719-687-5225, stop by our office at 204 W. South Ave or visit www.citywoodlandpark.org.

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British soccer camp. Challenger has developed a camp program that offers players a much broader soccer skills experience. Camp coaches are selected and trained in the UK. They are professional, outgoing, have a cool “British” accent and a genuine interest in helping each participant develop their skills and provide them with a very memorable and positive experience. Boys and girls 3-16 years old. Register online at www.challengersports.com; register by May 31 to receive a free soccer jersey. Camp dates: July 15-19.

June 1

Dog training. Led by Alice Roszczewski, family dog training is offered from 9-10 a.m. Saturdays. Session dates are June 1, 8,

15, 22, 29, July 6. Classes are at the CSCSWP branch gym. Learn commands such as loose leash walking, focus, wait, come stay, sit, down, leave it and more. Cost $150 per session (6 classes). Baseball skills challenge. All boys and girls are encouraged to test their baseball skills in base running, hitting off a tee and throwing at the Rockies baseball skills challenge. The top scoring boy and girl in each age group will have the opportunity to advance to the regional competition in Pueblo. The top scoring boy and girl in each age group at the regional level will advance to the state championships in Denver, followed by a Rockies Baseball Game. For ages 6-13 (age as of Dec. 31, 2013). The challenge is from 9-11 a.m. June 1 at the Meadow Wood Sports Complex Green Field. This event is free.

June 7

Adult soccer league. Form a new team or get your team together from previous seasons and get ready to have some fun by playing in the adult soccer league. If you would like to play, but do not have a team,

contact the Parks and Recreation Office to place your name on the free agent list. Players must be at least 18 years of age during the league to be eligible to participate. Team packets are available at the Woodland Park Parks and Recreation Office. Season runs from July 7 to Sept. 29, and play is on Sundays. Team fee is $270. Register by June 7. Late registration fee is $320, and late registrations accepted through June 14. Games are played at the Meadow Wood Sports Complex Synthetic Turf Soccer Field.

June 7-8

Babysitters’ boot camp. American Red Cross offers a babysitters’ boot camp from 1:30-5:30 p.m. June 7, and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 8, in the Parks and Recreation Classroom. Designed for ages 11-15 years, this class gives babysitters the skill and confidence to safely and responsibly care for children and infants. Through hands-on activities, interactive video and lively discussions, the course teaches young people how to care for children and infants, be a good leader and role model, make good decisions and solve problems, keep children

and themselves safe, handle emergencies and much more. Each student will receive a participant’s set that includes a babysitter’s training handbook, emergency reference guide, and babysitter’s training CD-ROM. Both days are required. Space is limited. Cost $82. Sign up by calling 719-687-5225, or visit www.city-woodlandpark.org.

June 10 to Aug. 2

Adult tennis. An adult tennis league open to all skill levels. Contact the Parks and Recreation Office to place your name on the free agent list if you do not have a partner. Prior to registering, participants are to do a self skill rating. Players must be at least 18 years of age during the league to be eligible to participate. Player fee: $35 one league/$30 second league. League meeting is at 6 p.m. June 6 at the Woodland Park Library, upstairs. League format: 10 games. Season runs from June 10 to Aug. 2. Tennis balls provided; 1st place receives shirts and 2nd place receives individual plaque. Visit our website for self skill rating information. Ladies doubles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles.

Synthetic Turf Field a Long-Term Goal for Woodland Park AD Michael DeWall said field could be in place by fall 2015 By Danny Summers

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WOODLAND PARK – Woodland Park High School athletic director Michael DeWall has a dream. It’s a dream that involves synthetic grass, ground up tires and paint. DeWall is in the early stages of laying the groundwork for what he hopes will turn into a new all-weather turf football and soccer field – replacing the current grass field at the school’s dilapidated outdoor facility. “That’s my goal; my dream,” DeWall said. “I want to have that in place by the fall of 2015.” DeWall took over as the school’s athletic director in June 2012, replacing Brian Gustafson. He spent much of the last year evaluating the athletic facilities in and around the school, as well as talking to coaches about their concerns and long-term goals. If DeWall had his way, he would have the new turf field installed in the next couple of months. But coming up with $500,000, or so, is a bit of a problem. So that’s why he is looking at grants and other funding to finance the project. “We have the knowledge of some resources that are available,” he said. “It looks like this could be done through grants and other monies.” Those other monies could come from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO). GOCO invests in communities, using a portion of state lottery proceeds to protect and enhance the state’s wildlife, parks, rivers, trails, open spaces and schools. “I have to be able to go down to the school board and say we need zero dollars to put our turf in,” DeWall said. “Hopefully, this project will not involve district money.” DeWall is hoping to begin the grant process as early as March 2014. The process is a long one, meaning ground likely won’t be broken on the synthetic turf project – if financed – until summer 2015. “There’s a lot that goes into laying down a synthetic turf field,” DeWall said. “We dges, would have to tear out the grass, get the orne, ground up to code and upgrade our drainn. Ju- age system, for sure.” and DeWall is also looking at other grants to well. help fund the project. The Grace Center in main Colorado Springs was partially funded by ficant money made available by the Denver Bronorne, cos. The are numerous benefits to having a nd he ave,”

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Woodland Park High School football coach Joe Roskam directs his team during a practice on the school’s grass football field. Roskam endorses the efforts of WP athletic director Michael DeWall in his pursuit of funding for a synthetic turf field. Photo by Danny Summers synthetic turf field: man hours to maintain the field would be cut dramatically; water to keep the field green and healthy would not be a factor.; the wear and tear on the synthetic field would be minimal. DeWall estimates that he spent about $12,000 over the last year to maintain the four fields that the high school uses. That number also includes things such as chalk and paint to line fields. Synthetic fields are typically already painted for football and soccer. “I really believe that a synthetic turf field would benefit our whole community,” DeWall said. Woodland Park’s primary tenants of the football stadium are the football team, and boys and girls soccer teams. “It’s so hard to keep that (grass) field with the amount of traffic we have on it,” said Woodland Park football coach Joe Roskam. “We would love to be out there practicing on it now, but we can’t. We have to stay off of it so it can be ready in the fall. “Even so, it’s beat up. It’s not squared. There are some

Hill Climb a Month Away

nced 30; Takeshi Aizawa of Japan (Scion tC), Aneeley. By Danny Summers drew Comrie-Picard (ScionxD), and Robert tour- jdsummers30@gmail.com Walker (Scion FR-S). mpiFans of the Pikes Peak International Hill Every driver and racer must first register, Climb will have a special opportunity to then go through tech inspection before bemeet the drivers and racers with their autos ing allowed to take part in daily practices and motorcycles on a very close, personal on Pikes Peak from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on basis as Race Week opens on Monday, June Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 24. before the race. Hill Climb Tech Inspection day, presented by Scion, will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. GUSTAFSON TAKES OVER GOLF TEAM in the parking lot of the Colorado Springs Former Woodland Park High School athletic director and boys basketball coach Brincies World Arena. ive a The event is free to the public and fami- an Gustafson has been named the school’s tter’s lies, and every driver and racer will be on new boys golf coach. Gustafson replaces Brad Eggspuehler, ence hand with their autos and motorcycles as ROM. they go through inspection, giving fans the who coached the team for three years. mited. chance to see the vehicles and bikes and 5225, meet the competitors, who will pose for NEW FIELD TURF? pictures and sign autographs. Woodland Park athletic director Michael Race tickets and special PPIHC mer- DeWall said he is working on plans to have chandise and apparel will be on sale at Tech a new all-weather synthetic turf installed Inspection at the World Arena. inside the school’s football stadium by the ague Food and drinks will be available for 2015 season. Parks breakfast and Lunch for the fans on hand DeWall said the new turf would be fundname for the event as well. ed through grants and other non-taxpayer ave a Team Scion has three entries in the Time funding. The turf would replace the existing pants Attack Division for the race on Sunday, June grass field. st be ue to 5 one eting Let us ceLebrate with you k Limes. Have a wedding, anniversary, engagement, birth and special occasion coming up? Share it! ennis Colorado Community Media invites you to place an announcement to share your news. Go to s and ourcoloradonews.com/celebrations for package and pricing information. Deadline is 10 a.m. Visit Tuesdays the week preceding the announcement. tion. mixed

holes in it. Problems with the sprinkler system.” Woodland Park soccer coach Andrew Pappadakis also loves the prospect of a synthetic field.

“A new field would be spectacular,” Pappadakis said. “I think it’s a no-brainer. Clearly, at elevation, it should be done. Our current field is so hard. It’s so difficult to grow anything.”

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Conni O’Connor, museum technician at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, and Herb Meyer, the monument’s paleontologist, go over the fossil display in the new exhibit room in the Visitors Center. The center opens to the public the weekend of June 14, 15, and 16. Pat Hill

Fossil Beds celebrates new Visitors Center By Pat Hill

phill@ourcoloradonews.com Fossils come alive at the new Visitors Center at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. With fossils from 34 million years ago as narrator, the center offers suspense, excitement and discovery. The story begins with a hint of things to come, with a replica of the monument’s famous redwood stump. “The theme of the exhibit is that the Florissant fossil beds is a place that piques our curiosity, where discovery still takes place and science is used as a way of understanding,” said Jeff Wolin, the monument’s lead interpreter. “Not only do we learn about the ancient world but we learn about our current world and our world to come.” For the curious, the stump provokes questions about the origin of the redwood trees in Colorado, a query answered with dioramas and paintings. “The paintings are a snapshot in time,” Wolin said. “Dioramas are here to help people immerse in the ancient landscape.” The Earth has been busy over the past 34 million years. Ancient mud flows, for instance, were the catalyst for trees evolving into petrified rock, movement shown in the paintings. “Mud flow from the Guffey Volcano buried the forest and that’s why we have the petrified trees,” Wolin said. “Another mud flow dammed up a stream and that dam is actually where the llama farm near Evergreen Station is now. That rock is from that dam which is from that volcano which made the lake.” One of the paintings shows the ancient lake covered with ash as well as the different layers that formed the bottom of the lake, paper-thin layers. The curiosity part of the center’s museum is enhanced with a drawing by Jack Shimon, 7, who included the words: “It be-

Fossil Beds Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument celebrates the opening of the Visitors Center June 14-16. A ribbon cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. June 14 begins the celebration and continues throughout the day. June 15 • 10 -12 and 1 to 3: Meet the scientists, including Estella Leopold who was instrumental in saving the land in Florissant for the national park. Leopold is the daughter of the late Aldo Leopold, who wrote “Sand Country Almanac.” • 10 to 2: Tour the paleontology center • 10 to 2: Behind-the-scenes tour of the building’s technology • 12 noon: Jr. Ranger Concert featuring Jeff Wolin • 10 to 3: Light refreshments served by the Friends of Florissant Fossil Beds June 16 • 11 to 1: Tour the paleontology center • 10 to 2: Behind-the-scenes tour of the building’s technology • 10 to 3: Refreshments served by the Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds gins with curiosity.” Shimon is one of Steve Veatch’s Pebble Pups, a club for rock-andgem science students in Teller County and Colorado Springs. From curiosity to science, the center advances the visitor to other exhibits. “Science is the way the National Park Service answers questions about the natural world,” Wolin said. There’s an air of excitement, of anticipation, at the juncture between curiosity and science. Flip-up panels on a replica of a rock wall reveal fossils yet to be discovered. The exhibit was done with the guidance of the Monument’s paleontologist, Dr. Herb Meyer. “Not only does it look like a rock wall, it looks exactly like the shale rock that we had in this park,” Wolin said. The new center offers opportunities to

The exhibits in the museum at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument are as lifelike as possible. Pictured, is a recreation of the ancient paper-shale bed to highlight the narrative of the Earth’s movements from 34 million years ago. Photos by Pat Hill tout the Monument’s distinction as a mover and a shaker in the insect world. “A lot of the fossils are small because we are a worldclass insect fossil site,” Wolin said. The tour wraps up with a glass case filled with spruced-up fossils, the last remnants of the Monument’s ancient ecosystem. “Right after that the Earth cooled. These fossils help scientists understand what happens when the Earth’s climate changes,” Wolin said, adding that, with a change in climate, plant and animal communities adapt, migrate or go extinct.

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In a kind of time line, the last panel of the exhibit shows that the Earth’s planet is warming again. “And the Park Service is concerned about climate change,” Wolin said. With a series of solar panels on the roof of the new building, the park service is part of the solution to the negative effects of climate change. “We are helping to mitigate our carbon footprint. There is a natural link between the fossils that we see, this building and climate change. We tried to integrate the building and the exhibit.”

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26 Pikes Peak Courier View

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 a.m. in the forenoon of July 17, 2013, (After Qualified Owner Deferment) at the Teller County Public Trustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

Public Trustees Public Notice NOTICE OF DEFERRED SALE (CRS §38-38-103) Foreclosure Sale No. 2012-0213 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On December 14, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Teller records. Original Grantor: RAMONA KIMLER Original Beneficiary: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 9/30/2010 Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 10/6/2010 Recorded in Teller County: Reception No. 638920 Original Principal Amount: $193,443.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $188,124.59 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together will all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 5, DIVIDE RANCHES FILING NO. 1, TELLER COUNTY, COLORADO which has the address of: 183 Joshua Road Divide, CO 80814 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 a.m. in the forenoon of July 17, 2013, (After Qualified Owner Deferment) at the Teller County Public Trustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 5/22/2013 Last Publication: 6/19/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Dated: 4/25/2013 ROBERT W. CAMPBELL Teller COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE By: Pamela A. Cronce Deputy Public Trustee

First Publication: 5/22/2013 Last Publication: 6/19/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View

Public Trustees

Dated: 4/25/2013 ROBERT W. CAMPBELL Teller COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE By: Pamela A. Cronce Deputy Public Trustee Attorney: KIMBERLY L MARTINEZ Attorney Registration #40351 THE CASTLE LAW GROUP, LLC 999 18TH STREET, SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone: 1 (303) 865-1400 Fax: 1 (303) 865-1410 Attorney file #: 12-13471 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. Legal Notice No.: 2012-0213 First Publication: 5/22/2013 Last Publication: 6/19/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Public Notice NOTICE OF SALE (CRS §38-38-103) Foreclosure Sale No. 2013-0016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 1, 2013, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Teller records. Original Grantor: SUSAN A PATTERSON AND MICHAEL PATTERSON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS , INC., AS NOMINEE FOR USAA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION Date of Deed of Trust: 11/14/2005 Recording Date of Deed of Trust : 11/17/2005 Recorded in Teller County: Reception No. 587634 Original Principal Amount: $138,450.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $156,975.72 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together will all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. L O T 3 7 , A R R O W H E A D E S T A T E S, COUNTY OF TELLER, STATE OF COLORADO which has the address of: 540 Red Feather Lane Woodland Park, CO 80863 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

are hereby notified that the covenants of scribed Deed of Trust: the deed of trust have been violated as 26-Color follows: On March 12, 2013, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust Failure to pay principal and interest when described below to be recorded in the due together will all other payments County of Teller records. provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violOriginal Grantor: ANDREW B GOMLEY ations thereof. AND JANICE L BLAND THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE Original Beneficiary: CHASE MANHATA FIRST LIEN. TAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPIS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE SOCIATION DEED OF TRUST. Date of Deed of Trust: 12/29/2000 Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 1/4/2001 LOT 37, ARROWHEAD ESTATES, Recorded in Teller County: Reception No. COUNTY OF TELLER, STATE OF COL513417 ORADO Original Principal Amount: $114,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: which has the address of: $73,334.64 540 Red Feather Lane Woodland Park, CO 80863 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of NOTICE OF SALE the deed of trust have been violated as follows: The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described Failure to pay principal and interest when herein, has filed Notice of Election and due together will all other payments Demand for sale as provided by law and provided for in the Evidence of Debt sein said Deed of Trust. cured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 a.m. in the forenoon of THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE July 3, 2013, at the Teller County Public A FIRST LIEN. Trustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENauction to the highest and best bidder for CUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE cash, the said real property and all inDEED OF TRUST. terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said LOT 3B, BLOCK 4, SUBDIVISION EXEvidence of Debt secured by the Deed of EMPTION PLAT OF LOTS 3A AND 10, Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses BLOCK 4, RAINBOW VALLEY UNIT 1, of sale and other items allowed by law, COUNTY OF TELLER, STATE OF COLand will issue to the purchaser a CertificORADO ate of Purchase, all as provided by law. which has the address of: First Publication: 5/8/2013 165 Timber Ridge Road Last Publication: 6/5/2013 Divide, CO 80814 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View NOTICE OF SALE Dated: 3/5/2013 ROBERT W. CAMPBELL The current holder of the Evidence of Debt Teller COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed Notice of Election and By: Pamela A. Cronce Demand for sale as provided by law and Deputy Public Trustee in said Deed of Trust.

Public Trustees

Attorney: KIMBERLY L MARTINEZ Attorney Registration #40351 THE CASTLE LAW GROUP, LLC 999 18TH STREET, SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone: 1 (303) 865-1400 Fax: 1 (303) 865-1410 Attorney file #: 13-01019 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. Legal Notice No.: 2013-0016 First Publication: 5/8/2013 Last Publication: 6/5/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Public Notice NOTICE OF SALE (CRS §38-38-103) Foreclosure Sale No. 2013-0019 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 12, 2013, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Teller records. Original Grantor: ANDREW B GOMLEY AND JANICE L BLAND Original Beneficiary: CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust: 12/29/2000 Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 1/4/2001 Recorded in Teller County: Reception No. 513417 Original Principal Amount: $114,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $73,334.64

Public Trustees

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 a.m. in the forenoon of July 10, 2013, at the Teller County Public Trustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 5/15/2013 Last Publication: 6/12/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Dated: 3/21/2013 ROBERT W. CAMPBELL Teller COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE By: Pamela A. Cronce Deputy Public Trustee Attorney: KIMBERLY L MARTINEZ Attorney Registration #40351 THE CASTLE LAW GROUP, LLC 999 18TH STREET, SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone: 1 (303) 865-1400 Fax: 1 (303) 865-1410 Attorney file #: 13-01472 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. Legal Notice No.: 2013-0019 First Publication: 5/15/2013 Last Publication: 6/12/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Public Notice NOTICE OF SALE (CRS §38-38-103) Foreclosure Sale No. 2013-0020

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows:

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

Failure to pay principal and interest when due together will all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof.

On March 25, 2013, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Teller records.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given Public Notice Attorney: KIMBERLY L MARTINEZ Attorthat I will, at 10:00 a.m. in the forenoon LIEN of FORECLOSED MAY NOTICE OF SALE The current holderofof theTHE Evidence Debt secured by the NOT DeedBE ney Registration #40351 July 3, 2013, at the Teller County Public A has FIRST (CRS §38-38-103) Foreclosure of Trust described herein, filedLIEN. Notice of Election and DeTHE CASTLE LAW GROUP, LLC Sale No. 2013-0015 Trustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., mand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. 999 18TH STREET, SUITE 2201, DENTHE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public VER, COLORADO 80202 This Notice is given To Whom It May Concern: with regard to the S A L LGiven O F that THE P RatO10:00 P E R Ta.m. Y ENauction to the highest THEREFORE, and best bidder for Is IHereby Phone: 1 (303) 865-1400 following described Deed of Trust: Notice I will, BY THE LIEN OF THE cash, the said real property and allofin-July 3,CUMBERED Fax: 1 (303) 865-1410 in the forenoon 2013, at the Teller County Public DEED OF TRUST. terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs Attorney file 1, #: 2013, 12-13471 On March the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Trustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, Colorado, assigns for at thepublic purpose of to the highest and best bidder for cash, the Notice of Election and Demand relating to theand Deed of Trusttherein, sell auction the indebtedness in said 3B,ofBLOCK 4, SUBDIVISION The Attorney above is recorded acting asinathe debt described below to be Countypaying of Teller records. saidprovided real property and allLOT interest said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’EXEvidence of Debt secured by the Deed EMPTION PLAT of OF LOTS AND 10, collector and is attempting to collect a heirs and assigns of therein, for the purpose paying the3A indebtedTrust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses BLOCK 4, RAINBOW VALLEY UNIT 1, debt. AnyGrantor information provided may beJOSEPH G SCHMITZ Original LORY A SCHMITZ AND ness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of of sale and other items allowed by law, COUNTY OF TELLER, STATE OF COLused for that purpose. Original Beneficiary JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items and will issue to the purchaser a CertificORADO Current Holder of Evidence of DebtJPMORGAN CHASE BANK,all asallowed by by law,law. and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of ate of Purchase, provided Legal Notice No.: 2012-0213 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Purchase, all as providedwhich by law. has the address of: First Publication: Date of Deed of5/22/2013 Trust: 7/24/2012 First Publication: 5/8/2013 165 Timber Ridge Road Last Publication: Recording Date6/19/2013 of Deed of Trust: 8/8/2012 Last Publication: 6/5/2013 First Publication: 5/8/2013 Divide, CO 80814 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Recorded in Teller County: Reception No. 655346 Last Publication: Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View 6/5/2013 Original Principal Amount: $201,900.00 Published in: Pikes Peak CourierOF View NOTICE SALE Outstanding Principal Balance: $201,640.11 Dated: 3/5/2013 Dated: 3/5/2013 ROBERT W. CAMPBELL The current holder of the Evidence of Debt Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you areTeller hereby notified PUBLIC ROBERT W. CAMPBELLsecured by the Deed of Trust described COUNTY TRUSTEE that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as Teller COUNTY PUBLICherein, TRUSTEE has filed Notice of Election and follows: By: Pamela A. Cronce Demand for sale as provided by law and Deputy Public Trustee By: Pamela A. Cronce in said Deed of Trust. Failure to pay principal and interest when due together will all Deputy Public Trustee other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by L MARTINEZ Attorney: KIMBERLY THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. Attorney: EMILY JENSIKthat Attorney Registration Attorney Registration #40351 I will, at 10:00 a.m.#31294 in the forenoon of ARONOWITZ & MECKLENBURG, LLP at the Teller County Public THE CASTLE LAW GROUP, LLC July 10, 2013, THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. STREET, SUITE 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, COLORADO 999 18TH 2201, DENTrustee’s Office, 101 W. 80204 Bennett Ave., Phone: (303) 813-1177 Cripple Fax: VER, COLORADO 80202 Creek, Colorado, sell at public THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPAttorney file #: 1068.05853 Phone: 1 (303) 865-1400 auction to the highest and best bidder for ERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THEFax: DEED OF TRUST. 1 (303) 865-1410 cash, the said real property and all inThe Attorney above is acting debtGrantor(s), collector and is attemptAttorney file #: 13-01019 terestasofasaid Grantor(s)’ heirs ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT ‘A’ AND INCORPORATED ing to collect a debt. Anyand information be used for of assigns provided therein, may for the purpose HEREIN AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH. The Attorney above is that purpose. paying the indebtedness provided in said acting as a debt Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of collector and is attempting to collect a Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses provided which has the address of: 431 Twin Lakes Drdebt. Any informationLegal Noticemay No.:be 2013-0015 of sale and other items allowed by law, used for that purpose.First Publication: 5/8/2013 Divide, CO 80814 and will issue to the purchaser a CertificLast Publication: 6/5/2013 Legal Notice No.: 2013-0016 ate of Purchase, NOTICE OF SALE Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View all as provided by law. First Publication: 5/8/2013 Last Publication: 6/5/2013 First Publication: 5/15/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Last Publication: 6/12/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Dated: 3/21/2013 ROBERT W. CAMPBELL Teller COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE By: Pamela A. Cronce Deputy Public Trustee Attorney: KIMBERLY L MARTINEZ Attorney Registration #40351 THE CASTLE LAW GROUP, LLC 999 18TH STREET, SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone: 1 (303) 865-1400 Fax: 1 (303) 865-1410 Attorney file #: 13-01472 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. Legal Notice No.: 2013-0019 First Publication: 5/15/2013 Last Publication: 6/12/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View

June 5, 2013

Public Notice NOTICE OF SALE (CRS §38-38-103) Foreclosure Sale No. 2013-0020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 25, 2013, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Teller records. Original Grantor: SIMON A. KANE Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR RBC MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust: 3/14/2003 Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 3/20/2003 Recorded in Teller County: Reception No. 546462 Original Principal Amount: $99,900.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $102,624.46

Public Trustees

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together will all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 33, FLORISSANT HEIGHTS FILING NO. 2, TELLER COUNTY, COLORADO. which has the address of: 188 Paint Brush Florissant, CO 80816 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 a.m. in the forenoon of July 24, 2013, at the Teller County Public Trustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 5/29/2013 Last Publication: 6/26/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Dated: 3/25/2013 ROBERT W. CAMPBELL Teller COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE By: Pamela A. Cronce Deputy Public Trustee Attorney: EMILY JENSIK Attorney Registration #31294 ARONOWITZ & MECKLENBURG, LLP 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone: (303) 813-1177 Fax: Attorney file #: 1068.06060 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. Legal Notice No.: 2013-0020 First Publication: 5/29/2013 Last Publication: 6/26/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Public Notice NOTICE OF SALE (CRS §38-38-103) Foreclosure Sale No. 2013-0018

Public Notice NOTICE OF SALE (CRS §38-38-103) Foreclosure Sale No. 2013-0018 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

Public Trustees

On March 12, 2013, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Teller records. Original Grantor: PATRICK B. CARVELL AND LESBIA P. CARVELL Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER THE LENDING CONNECTION, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: 5/25/2006 Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 6/12/2006 Recorded in Teller County: Reception No. 594758 Original Principal Amount: $143,250.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $134,637.47 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay monthly installments due Note Holder. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. LOT 15, BLOCK 2, FOREST EDGE PARK -FIRST FILING, COUNTY OF TELLER, STATE OF COLORADO. which has the address of: 1130 Parkview Place Woodland Park, CO 80863 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 a.m. in the forenoon of July 10, 2013, at the Teller County Public Trustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 5/15/2013 Last Publication: 6/12/2013 Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Dated: 3/21/2013 ROBERT W. CAMPBELL Teller COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE By: Pamela A. Cronce Deputy Public Trustee Attorney: HOLLY L DECKER Attorney Registration #32647 MEDVED DALE DECKER & DEERE, LLC 355 UNION BLVD., SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 Phone: (303) 274-0155 Fax: 1 (303) 274-0159 Attorney file #: 13-910-23992 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Original Grantor: SIMON A. KANE Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTo Whom It May Concern: This Notice is Legal Notice No. 2013-0018 TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, given with regard to the following deFirst Publication: 5/15/2013 INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE scribed Deed of Trust: Last Publication: 6/12/2013 FOR RBC MORTGAGE COMPANY Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPOn March 12, 2013, the undersigned PubMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASlic Trustee caused the Notice of Election SOCIATION and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust Date of Deed of Trust: 3/14/2003 described below to be recorded in the Recording Date of Deed of Trust: County of Teller records. 3/20/2003 Public NoticeB. CARVELL Recorded in Teller County: Reception No. Original Grantor: PATRICK 546462 AND LESBIA P. CARVELL NOTICE OF DEFERRED SALE Original Principal Amount: $99,900.00 Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELEC-of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed (CRS §38-38-103) Foreclosure Sale No. 2012-0195 The current holder Outstanding Principal Balance: TRONIC REGISTRATION of Trust SYSTEMS, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and De$ 1To0 2 , 6 2 4 It. 4May 6 Concern: This Notice is given INC., SOLELY AS Whom with ACTING regard to the mand forNOMINEE sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. FOR LENDER THE LENDING CONNECfollowing described Deed of Trust: Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you TION, INC. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will, at 10:00 a.m. in are hereby notified that the covenants of Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: of BANK On December 4, 2012, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the forenoon July 3, 2013, (After Qualified Owner Deferment) the of of trust haveand been violated as toOF N.A. at the Teller County Public Trustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., thedeed Notice Election Demand relating theAMERICA, Deed of Trust follows: Date of Deed of Trust: 5/25/2006 described below to be recorded in the County of Teller records. Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public auction to the highest and Recording Date ofbest Deed of for Trust: bidder cash, the said real property and all interest of said Failure to Grantor: pay principal andLEE interest when 6/12/2006 Original DAREN STOECKEL Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose due together will all other payments Recorded in Teller County: Reception No. Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRAof paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt provided for in the INC., Evidence of Debt se- AS 594758 TION SYSTEMS, ACTING SOLELY NOMINEE FOR secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses cured by the Deed of Trust and other violOriginal Principal Amount: $143,250.00 WACHOVIA MORTGAGE CORPORATION of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the ations of the terms thereof. O u t CHASE s t a n d i nBANK, g P r i npurchaser cipal Ba a lCertificate a n c e : of Purchase, all as provided by law. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMORGAN $134,637.47 NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONMAY NOT BE THE LIEN FORECLOSED of Deed First Publication: 5/8/2013 A Date FIRST LIEN. of Trust: 6/25/2007 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you Recording Date of Deed of Trust: 7/16/2007 are hereby notified that Last thePublication: covenants 6/5/2013 of Recorded in TellerDESCRIBED County: Reception No. 608662 Published in: Pikes THE PROPERTY HEREIN the deed of trust have been violated as Peak Courier View I SOriginal A L L Principal O F T H EAmount: P R O P$213,150.00 ERTY ENfollows: Outstanding Principal $220,027.99 Dated: 4/19/2013 CUMBERED BY THEBalance LIEN : OF THE ROBERT W. CAMPBELL DEED OF TRUST. Failure to pay monthly installments due Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you areNote hereby notified Holder. that33, theFLORISSANT covenants of the deed of FILING trust have been violated as Teller COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE LOT HEIGHTS follows: By: Pamela A. Cronce NO. 2, TELLER COUNTY, COLORADO. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE Deputy Public Trustee A FIRST LIEN. Failure to pay principal and interest when due together will all which has the address of: other payments Debt secured by DESCRIBED Attorney: EMILY JENSIK Attorney Registration #31294 188 Paint Brush provided for in the Evidence of THE PROPERTY HEREIN the DeedCO of Trust and other violations of the terms LLP Florissant, 80816 I S Athereof. L L O F T H E PARONOWITZ R O P E R T Y &EMECKLENBURG, NCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE THE LIEN MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. NOTICE OF FORECLOSED SALE DEED OF TRUST. 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone: (303) 813-1177 Fax: THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPAttorney file #:PARK 1068.05716 The current holder ofDESCRIBED the EvidenceHEREIN of Debt IS ALL LOT 15, BLOCK 2, FOREST EDGE ERTY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. secured by the Deed of Trust described -FIRST FILING, COUNTY OF TELLER, The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attemptherein, has filed Notice of Election and STATE OF COLORADO. ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT AND INCORPORATED ing to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for Demand for sale as provided by law‘A’and AS of THOUGH inHEREIN said Deed Trust. FULLY SET FORTH. which has the address that of: purpose. 1130 Parkview Place which has the address of:Hereby 909 Browning Legal Notice No.: 2012-0195 THEREFORE, Notice Is Given Avenue Woodland Park, CO 80863 Woodland 80863 First Publication: 5/8/2013 that I will, at Park, 10:00CO a.m. in the forenoon of July 24, 2013, at the Teller County Public Last Publication: 6/5/2013 NOTICE OF SALE Trustee’s 101 W. Bennett Ave., NOTICE Office, OF SALE Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public The current holder of the Evidence of Debt auction to the highest and best bidder for secured by the Deed of Trust described cash, the said real property and all inherein, has filed Notice of Election and terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs Demand for sale as provided by law and and assigns therein, for the purpose of in said Deed of Trust. paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses that I will, at 10:00 a.m. in the forenoon of of sale and other items allowed by law, July 10, 2013, at the Teller County Public and will issue to the purchaser a CertificTrustee’s Office, 101 W. Bennett Ave., ate of Purchase, all as provided by law. Cripple Creek, Colorado, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for First Publication: 5/29/2013 cash, the said real property and all inLast Publication: 6/26/2013 terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs Published in: Pikes Peak Courier View and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Dated: 3/25/2013 Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of ROBERT W. CAMPBELL Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses Teller COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE of sale and other items allowed by law, By: Pamela A. Cronce and will issue to the purchaser a CertificDeputy Public Trustee ate of Purchase, all as provided by law. Attorney: EMILY JENSIK Attorney Registration #31294

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sponse within 21 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this Summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

PUBLIC NOTICE

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, judgment by default may be entered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, without any further notice.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jo Annette Payne, Deceased Case Number: 2013PR8

This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to the real property situate in Teller County, State of Colorado.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Teller County, Colorado on or before September 22, 2013 or the claims may be forever barred.

DATED: May 10, 2013. ROTHGERBER JOHNSON & LYONS LLP

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Laura Payne Personal Representative Address: 3536 Glencoe Street, Denver, CO 80207 Legal Notice No: 933613 First Publication: May 22, 2013 Last Publication: June 5, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Sheila Diane Ponders, Deceased Case Number: 2012 PR 1234 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Teller County, Colorado on or before October 1, 2013 or the claims may be forever barred. /s/ Tony C. Rossi Tony C. Rossi, Esq. Attorney for Estate 18401 E. Hwy 24, No. 122 Woodland Park, Colorado 80863 Legal Notice No: 933630 First Publication: May 22, 2013 Last Publication: June 5, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, TELLER COUNTY, COLORADO PO Box 997 Cripple Creek, Colorado 80813 Phone: 719-689-2574 Plaintiff: DIOCESE OF COLORADO SPRINGS, a Colorado corporation sole v. Defendants: ESTATE OF BERT BERGSTROM; CLARA MARIE BERGSTROM, an individual, THE HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF CLARA MARIE BERGSTROM, JAMES R. HUNT, an individual, THE HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF JAMES R. HUNT, CLANON HUNT, an individual, THE HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF CLANON HUNT, an individual, PAGE PROPERTIES CORPORATION, a Colorado corporation, and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action. Attorneys for Plaintiff Michael Francisco, #39111 Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP 90 S. Cascade, Suite 1100 Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903 Phone: 719.386.3000 E-mail: mfrancisco@rothgerber.com Case No.: 2013CV64 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend the claims of the Complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 21 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this Summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court. If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, judgment by default may be entered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, without any further notice. This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to the real property situate in Teller County, State of Colorado.

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DATED: May 10, 2013. ROTHGERBER JOHNSON & LYONS PUBLIC NOTICE LLP s/ Michael Francisco FLORISSANT WATER AND SANITATION Michael Francisco, #39111 DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS Attorneys for Diocese of Colorado Springs, Teller County aThe Corporation sole Board of County Commissioners is, in accordance with C.R.S. THIS SUMMONS IS ISSUED PURSU32-1-905(2.5), considering the appointANT ofTO 4(g), C.R.C.P., ment ﬁveRULE members to the Florissant AS AMENDED Water and Sanitation District Board. Interested Notice citizensNo.: must be eligible electors of Legal 933625 the Florissant Water First Publication: Mayand 22,Sanitation 2013 District and will, ifJune appointed, serve for Last Publication: 19, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Courier View a term of up to 6 Peak months, until a District special election is held to elect board members. Anyone interested in being considered for appointment is asked to promptly submit a written notice of interest to the Teller County Board of County Commissioners, P.O. Box 959, Cripple Creek, CO 80813. Letters of interest should be submitted to the Teller County Board of County Commissioners by the close of business on June 7, 2013. Legal Notice No: 933658 First Publication: June 5, 2013 Last Publication: June 5, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View ________________________________

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s/ Michael Francisco Michael Francisco, #39111 Attorneys for Diocese of Colorado Springs, a Corporation sole THIS SUMMONS IS ISSUED PURSUANT TO RULE 4(g), C.R.C.P., A S AMENDED Legal Notice No.: 933625 First Publication: May 22, 2013 Last Publication: June 19, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View Public Notice ACTION TO QUIET TITLE IN FLORISSANT COLORADO OF TELLER COUNTY, COLORADO Plaintiff: ALAN J. COPELAND v. Defendants: DONALD G. MUNRO and DELORES C.MUNRO; ROCO, INC., and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action. CIVIL ACTION – LAW NO. 2013CV74 TO: DONALD G. MUNRO and DELORES C. MUNRO; ROCO, INC., and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action their heirs, personal representatives, executors, administrators, successors, assigns and all persons having or claiming to have any right, lien, title, interest in or claim against LOT 82 INDIAN CREEK NO. 16 Also known as 207 Mohave Creek Trail, Florissant Colorado 80816 (Lot 82). TAKE NOTICE THAT Alan J. Copeland has filed a Complaint in Action to Quiet Title in the aforesaid Court as of the above term and number, averring their interest based on the complaint and praying the Court to adjudicate and decree their title and right of possession to said premises, more particularly described in the said Complaint, indefeasible as against all rights and claims whatsoever, and you are hereby notified to file an Answer within twenty (20) days following the date of this publication, in default of which an Order may be entered as prayed for against you, requiring you to take such action as may be ordered by the Court within thirty days after the entry of such Order in default of which final judgment shall be entered. If you wish to defend, you must enter a written appearance personally or by attorney and file your defenses or objections in writing with the Court. You are warned that if you fail to do so the case may proceed without you and a judgment may be entered against you without further notice for the relief requested by plaintiff. You may lose money or property or other rights important to you. Send info to: /s/ Tony C. Rossi Tony C. Rossi, Esq. #45051 The Moller Law Group, LLC 18401 East Highway 24, Suite 122 Woodland Park, CO 80863 Telephone: (719) 687-2328 Facsimile: (719) 687-2378 E-Mail: tcrossi@mollerlawgroup.com Attorneys for Plaintiff Legal Notice No.: 933651 First Publication: June 6, 2013 Last Publication: July 3, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View

Government Legals Public Notice City of Woodland Park Parks and Recreation Advisory Board June 12, 2013, 6:30 p.m. Downstairs Conference Room Agenda I. Call To Order and Roll Call II. Approval of Minutes A. April 10, 2013 Meeting III. Reports A. Parks and Recreation Report IV. Old Business V. New Business A. Memorial Park Master Plan Project PUBLIC NOTICE Kickoff VI. Public Comments Not on the Agenda VII. Adjourn Notice is hereby given that a proposed Please if you are budget call has687-5225 been submitted to able the to attend. Board of Education of the Cripple Creek-Victor School District Re-1, Legal Notice No.: 933653 TellerPublication: County, Colorado the fiscal year First June 6,for 2013 Last Publication: JuneJune 6, 2013 July 1, 2013 through 30, 2014, a Publisher: Pikes View copy of which is fiPeak led inCourier the office of the Superintendent of Schools and online at ccvschools.org where it is available for public inspection. Such budget will be considered for adoption at the regular meeting of the Board of Education in the Board Meeting Room located at 410 North B Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado on June 24, 2013.

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Any person paying taxes in said District may at any time prior to the ﬁnal adoption of the budget ﬁle or register his/her objections thereto. DATED THIS 29th DAY OF MAY, 2013. /s/ Nancy Byers, President Board of Education Cripple Creek-Victor School District Re-1 Teller County, Colorado ATTEST: /s/ Claudia Alonzo, Secretary Legal Notice No.: 933659 First Publication: June 5, 2013 Last Publication: June 26, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View

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27-Color Public Notice City of Woodland Park Parks and Recreation Advisory Board June 12, 2013, 6:30 p.m. Downstairs Conference Room Agenda

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I. Call To Order and Roll Call II. Approval of Minutes A. April 10, 2013 Meeting III. Reports A. Parks and Recreation Report IV. Old Business V. New Business A. Memorial Park Master Plan Project Kickoff VI. Public Comments Not on the Agenda VII. Adjourn Please call 687-5225 if you are able to attend. Legal Notice No.: 933653 First Publication: June 6, 2013 Last Publication: June 6, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View Public Notice WOODLAND PARK BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT MEETING AGENDA City of Woodland Park Council Chambers June 17, 2013 6:30 PM I. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Review and approval of the December 17, 2012 minutes IV. REQUEST/PUBLIC HEARINGS: A. CASE #VAR13-001 Our Lady of the Woods Height Variance - Request for a height variance on a property located at 116 S. West Street to increase the maximum building height in the Central Business District Zone from 35’ to 45’ for the purposes of constructing a new sanctuary with a clerestory height of 43’ 6”. The applicant is Rev. Dr. Timothy Corbley I.V. Dei-Pastor. V. STAFF REPORT: Nothing significant to report VI. AJOURNMENT Legal Notice No.: 933654 First Publication: June 5, 2013 Last Publication: June 5, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF THE FLORISSANT WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT Date: July 05, 2013 Time: 6:00 pm Location: Florissant Water & Sanitation District Address: 2244 US Highway 24, Florissant, CO 80816 Topic: Drinking Water Treatment and Distribution System Upgrades

PUBLIC NOTICE Government Legals

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEETING AGENDA Thursday, June 13, 2013 TELLER COUNTY CENTENNIAL BUILDING 112 North A Street, Cripple Creek, CO Commissioners’ Meeting Room 1. 9:15 a.m. Convene in regular session - Invocation - Pledge of Allegiance - Minutes of Previous Meetings - Accounts Payable - Board Reports - Elected Official’s Report - Administrator’s Report 2. 9:25 a.m. Time reserved for Department Heads and Public without an appointment. 3. 9:35 a.m. Employee Service Awards 4. 9:40 a.m. Public Works – Transportation: Consider adoption of Annual Road Maintenance and Improvement Plan. 5. 9:55 a.m. Administration: Consider appointment of Board Members to the Florissant Water and Sanitation District Board. 6. 10:15 a.m. Finance: Presentation of 2012 Audit by RubinBrown LLP. 7. 10:25 a.m. Assessor: Consider Abatement #13-009 for Amory Properties, account #R0000501, legal description L4-7 B22 CR CK FREM ADD for tax year 2012. 8. 10:40 a.m. Assessor: Consider Abatement #12-026 for Amory Properties, account #R0000501, legal description L4-7 B22 CR CK FREM ADD for tax years 2010 and 2011. 9. 10:55 a.m. Assessor: Consider Abatement #13-003 for McGinnis and Associates, Inc. personal property account #P0001181 for tax year 2012. Commissioners Business Items: Sheryl Decker, County Administrator Legal Matters: Chris Brandt, County Attorney Adjournment The implementation, modification, rescission, or amendment of a restriction on open burning in Teller County may be added to the Agenda of, and considered at, this meeting. If possible, an Amended Agenda adding that item will be posted, and placed on the Teller County website, at least 24 hours before the meeting. Appointments may vary by 15 minutes earlier or later than scheduled depending upon cancellations and time required for review and/or consideration of an agenda item. Legal Notice No: 933657 First Publication: June 5, 2013 Last Publication: June 5, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View

WOODLAND PARK PLANNING COMMISSION WOODLAND PARK CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS 220 W. SOUTH AVENUE, WOODLAND PARK, CO REGULAR MEETING AGENDA JUNE 13, 2013, 7:00PM

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I. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING Minutes of the regular meeting May 23, 2013 IV. REQUESTS AND/OR PUBLIC HEARINGS A. Case #FHDP13-002 Fountain Creek: Request for approval of a Flood Hazard Development Permit to construct a 6’ x 8’ reinforced concrete box culvert that is located within the Special Flood Hazard Area of the Fountain Creek main stem, as requested by the City of Woodland Park. The storm sewer improvements (approximately 1200 linear feet) are located within the Rosemont right of way and sand wash, together with a portion of Laura Lane, all shown on the Plat of Property of C.D Weaver situated in the SE1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 24, T12S, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M. in Teller County, Woodland Park, Colorado. (QJ) B. Case #SUB13-001 for Our Lady of the Woods Church: Request for review and approval of a major subdivision plat titled Teller Catholic Subdivision for tracts of land located in the N½ of Section 24, Township 12 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M. in the City of Woodland Park, Teller County, Colorado consisting of 6.15 acres (more specifically the southwestern corner of US Highway 24 and S. West Street), as requested by the owner, Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs. (QJ) C. Cases #CUP13-002/SPR13-002 for Our Lady of the Woods Church: Request for approval of a Conditional Use Permit with a Site Plan Review for use as a place of worship and development of a 7,824-Square Foot Sanctuary on the property at 116 S. West Street in Woodland Park. (QJ) V. WORK SESSION A. Continue discussion of Zoning Section 18.09.090, Table of permitted uses for business, industrial and residential districts. (A) VI. REPORTS A. Chairman’s Report B. Planning Director’s Report VII. DISCUSSION AND COMMENT VIII. ADJOURNMENT (A)Administrative Action (QJ)Quasi-Judicial Action (L)Legislative Legal Notice No.: 933650 First Publication: June 5, 2013 Last Publication: June 5, 2013 Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View Public Notice City of Woodland Park CITY COUNCIL AGENDA June 6, 2013 * 7:00 PM

1. CALL TO ORDER 2. ROLL CALL 3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PUBLIC NOTICE 4. CEREMONIES, PRESENTATIONS THE CITY OF WOODLAND PARK & APPOINTMENTS: BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT Morse A. Appointment to the Board of Adjustment Committee (alternate). (A) A Public Hearing has been scheduled for Morse B. Appointment to the PPACG the following case on Monday, June 17, Citizen Advisory Committee. (A) 2013 at 6:30PM before the City of Wood5. ADDITIONS, DELETIONS land Park Board of Adjustment to be held OR CORRECTIONS TO AGENDA: in the City Hall Council Chambers at 220 (Public comment not necessary) W. South Avenue, Woodland Park, Color6. CONSENT CALENDAR: ado. (Public comment may be heard) CASE #VAR13-001 Our Lady of the Morse A. Approve minutes of May 16, Woods Height Variance - Request for a 2013 Regular Meeting. (A) height variance on a property located at Morse B. Approve application from Safe116 S. West Street to increase the maximCopies of the Preliminary Engineering way Store #46, Inc. for renewal of a 3.2% um building height in the Central BusiReport and TMF Plan are available for Beer Off Premise Liquor License located ness District Zone from 35’ to 45’ for the public review prior to the Public Hearing at at 1039 US Highway 24, Woodland Park, purposes of constructing a new sanctuary the following location: to be effective July 2, 2013. (QJ) with a clerestory height of 43’ 6”. The Morse C. Approve application from Westapplicant is Rev. Dr. Timothy Corbley I.V. Florissant Water & Sanitation District ern Convenience Stores, Inc. for renewal Dei-Pastor. 2244 US Highway 24, Florissant, of a Liquor Store License located at 20421 CO 80816 East Highway 24, Woodland Park, to be If you have any questions, please call the effective June 11, 2013. (QJ) Planning Department at 687-5209. The point of contact for the Florissant Morse D. Approve Lake Avenue Sidewalk Water & Sanitation District is: Improvement Agreement between the City Legal Notice No.: 933652 Konrad Swift /President of Woodland Park and Mallett Excavation. First Publication: June 6, 2013 (719) 748-3565 (L) Last Publication: June 6, 2013 Morse E. Approve East Fork Fountain Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this notice is Creek Construction Agreement between given June 05, 2013. the City of Woodland Park and a contractPublic Notice or to be determined after the May 30th bid FLORISSANT WATER AND SANITAopening. (L) TION DISTRICT WOODLAND PARK PLANNING Morse F. Approve Memorial Park Master COMMISSION Plan Agreement between the City of Legal Notice No.: 933655 WOODLAND PARK CITY HALL Woodland Park and Land Patterns Inc. (L) First Publication: June 5, 2013 7. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: COUNCIL CHAMBERS Last Publication: June 26, 2013 A. None. 220 W. SOUTH AVENUE, WOODLAND Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View 8. ORDINANCES ON INITIAL POSTING: PARK, CO Riley A. Approve Ordinance No. 1187 on REGULAR MEETING AGENDA PUBLIC NOTICE initial posting concerning the annexation JUNE 13, 2013, 7:00PM of the Southwest Valley Annexation Plat 1, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Parcels 1 and 3 containing 0.88 acres I. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE situated in the NW¼ of the NW¼ of the Thursday, June 13, 2013 III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF Section 25, Township 12 South, Range 69 TELLER COUNTY CENTENNIAL PREVIOUS MEETING West of 6th P.M. in Teller County with an BUILDING Minutes of the regular meeting May 23, address of 1000 CR 231 (S. West Street) 112 North A Street, Cripple Creek, CO 2013 as requested by the petitioners Donald R. Commissioners’ Meeting Room IV. REQUESTS AND/OR PUBLIC and Beth J. McCarl and set the public HEARINGS hearing for June 27, 2013. (L) 1. 9:15 a.m. Convene in regular session A. Case #FHDP13-002 Fountain Creek: Riley B. Approve Ordinance No. 1188 on - Invocation Request for approval of a Flood Hazard initial posting concerning the annexation - Pledge of Allegiance Development Permit to construct a 6’ x 8’ of the Southwest Valley Annexation Plat 2, - Minutes of Previous Meetings reinforced concrete box culvert that is locParcels A and B containing 0.58 acres - Accounts Payable ated within the Special Flood Hazard Area and a portion of Parcel 2 containing 0.38 - Board Reports of the Fountain Creek main stem, as reacres situated in the NW¼ of the NW¼ of - Elected Official’s Report quested by the City of Woodland Park. the Section 25, Township 12 South, - Administrator’s Report The storm sewer improvements (approxRange 69 West of 6th P.M. in Teller 2. 9:25 a.m. Time reserved for Departimately 1200 linear feet) are located withCounty with addresses of 1050 and 1000 ment Heads and Public without an apin the Rosemont right of way and sand CR 231 (S. West Street) as requested by pointment. wash, together with a portion of Laura the petitioners Karl Hirshbeck (Parcels A 3. 9:35 a.m. Employee Service Awards Lane, all shown on the Plat of Property of and B) and Donald R. and Beth J. McCarl 4. 9:40 a.m. Public Works – TransportaC.D Weaver situated in the SE1/4 of the (portion of Parcel 2) and set the public tion: Consider adoption of Annual Road SE1/4 of Section 24, T12S, Range 69 hearing for June 27, 2013. (L) Maintenance and Improvement Plan. West of the 6th P.M. in Teller County, Riley C. Approve Ordinance No. 1189 on 5. 9:55 a.m. Administration: Consider apWoodland Park, Colorado. (QJ) initial posting concerning the rezone of the pointment of Board Members to the FlorisB. Case #SUB13-001 for Our Lady of Southwest Valley Annexation, containing sant Water and Sanitation District Board. the Woods Church: Request for review 1.83 acres, from Teller County’s Zoning 6. 10:15 a.m. Finance: Presentation of Districts of Industrial (M-1) and Agriculturand approval of a major subdivision plat 2012 Audit by RubinBrown LLP. al (Ag) to the City of Woodland Park’s titled Teller Catholic Subdivision for tracts 7. 10:25 a.m. Assessor: Consider AbateZoning District of Community Commercial of land located in the N½ of Section 24, ment #13-009 for Amory Properties, ac(CC) located in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 Township 12 South, Range 69 West of the count #R0000501, legal description L4-7 of Section 25, Township 12 South, Range 6th P.M. in the City of Woodland Park, B22 CR CK FREM ADD for tax year 2012. 69 West of the 6th Principal Meridian in Teller County, Colorado consisting of 6.15 8. 10:40 a.m. Assessor: Consider AbateTeller County, more specifically, 1000 and acres (more specifically the southwestern ment #12-026 for Amory Properties, accorner of US Highway 24 and S. West 1050 CR 231 (S. West Street), Woodcount #R0000501, legal description L4-7 Street), as requested by the owner, Cathland Park, Colorado as requested by the B22 CR CK FREM ADD for tax years olic Diocese of Colorado Springs. (QJ) applicant, Jay Baker and set the public 2010 and 2011. C. Cases #CUP13-002/SPR13-002 for hearing for June 27, 2013. (QJ) 9. 10:55 a.m. Assessor: Consider AbateOur Lady of the Woods Church: Re9. PUBLIC HEARINGS: ment #13-003 for McGinnis and Assoquest for approval of a Conditional Use (Public comment is appropriate) ciates, Inc. personal property account Permit with a Site Plan Review for use as Smith A. Approve Ordinance No. 1186 #P0001181 for tax year 2012. a place of worship and development of a Amending Title 18 of the Woodland Park 7,824-Square Foot Sanctuary on the propMunicipal Code by the addition of a New Commissioners Business Items: Sheryl erty at 116 S. West Street in Woodland Chapter 18.79 to Prohibit the Operation of Decker, Park. (QJ) Marijuana Cultivation Facilities and Sales, V. WORK SESSION Marijuana Product Manufacturing FacilitCounty Administrator Legal Matters: Chris A. Continue discussion of Zoning Section ies, Marijuana Testing Facilities, Retail Brandt, County Attorney 18.09.090, Table of permitted uses for Marijuana Stores and Marijuana Memberbusiness, industrial and residential disship Clubs in the City of Woodland Park; Adjournment tricts. (A) and Amending Chapter 9.30 of the MuniVI. REPORTS cipal Code to Prohibit Selling Marijuana The implementation, modification, rescisA. Chairman’s Report Grown for Personal use. (L) sion, or amendment of a restriction on B. Planning Director’s Report Morse B. Approve application from the open burning in Teller County may be adVII. DISCUSSION AND COMMENT Woodland Park Saddle Club, located at ded to the Agenda of, and considered at, VIII. ADJOURNMENT 19250 East Highway 24, Woodland Park, this meeting. If possible, an Amended for a Special Events Liquor License for Agenda adding that item will be posted, (A)Administrative Action (QJ)Quasi-Judievents to be held on July 4, 2013, August and placed on the Teller County website, cial Action (L)Legislative 3, 2013, September 7, 2013 and October at least 24 hours before the meeting. 5, 2013 at the Woodland Park Saddle Club located at 19250 East Highway 24, Legal Notice No.: 933650 Appointments may vary by 15 minutes Woodland Park. (QJ) First Publication: June 5, 2013 earlier or later than scheduled depending Morse C. Approve application from The Last Publication: June 5, 2013 upon cancellations and time required for Cellar Door for the 6th Annual Vino and Publisher: Pikes Peak Courier View review and/or consideration of an agenda Notes Wine, Food, and Jazz Festival Speitem. cial Event Wine Festival Liquor License to be held on August 3, 2013 located at MeLegal Notice No: 933657 morial Park, Henrietta Avenue, Woodland First Publication: June 5, 2013 Park.device. (QJ) The newspaper, yes the newspaper, is still America’s best portable information Last Publication: June 5, 2013 10. NEW BUSINESS: InPikes thesePeak complex times, trusted Publisher: Courier View newspaper newsrooms continue to produce the most Riley A. Approve Resolution No. 757 setforth the findings of fact and conclujournalism available anywhere, thanks to teams of dedicated, professionalting reporters sion concerning the annexation petition for and editors. That’s why more than 100 million Americans pick up a newspaper every Valley Annexation Plat 1, the Southwest 1 and 3 containing 0.88 acres day. So impress your family, friends and co-workers by enjoying the mostParcels portable, situated in the NW¼ of the NW¼ of the easy-to-use information device available anywhere. No charger required. Section 25, Township 12 South, Range 69 West of 6th P.M. in Teller County with an address of 1000 CR 231 (S. West Street) as requested by the petitioners Donald R. A public hearing will be conducted for informing citizens and soliciting public input, written or oral, regarding the Florissant Water & Sanitation District Water Treatment and Distribution Systems. A Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) and Technological, Financial, and Management Plan (TMF) will be reviewed at the meeting. The PER is a report detailing the project which consists of upgrades to the treatment and distribution system. The documents are being submitted to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to qualify the District for a State Revolving Fund Loan.

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Pikes Peak Courier View 27 8. ORDINANCES ON INITIAL POSTING: Riley A. Approve Ordinance No. 1187 on initial posting concerning the annexation of the Southwest Valley Annexation Plat 1, Parcels 1 and 3 containing 0.88 acres situated in the NW¼ of the NW¼ of the Section 25, Township 12 South, Range 69 West of 6th P.M. in Teller County with an address of 1000 CR 231 (S. West Street) as requested by the petitioners Donald R. and Beth J. McCarl and set the public hearing for June 27, 2013. (L) Riley B. Approve Ordinance No. 1188 on initial posting concerning the annexation of the Southwest Valley Annexation Plat 2, Parcels A and B containing 0.58 acres and a portion of Parcel 2 containing 0.38 acres situated in the NW¼ of the NW¼ of the Section 25, Township 12 South, Range 69 West of 6th P.M. in Teller County with addresses of 1050 and 1000 CR 231 (S. West Street) as requested by the petitioners Karl Hirshbeck (Parcels A and B) and Donald R. and Beth J. McCarl (portion of Parcel 2) and set the public hearing for June 27, 2013. (L) Riley C. Approve Ordinance No. 1189 on initial posting concerning the rezone of the Southwest Valley Annexation, containing 1.83 acres, from Teller County’s Zoning Districts of Industrial (M-1) and Agricultural (Ag) to the City of Woodland Park’s Zoning District of Community Commercial (CC) located in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 25, Township 12 South, Range 69 West of the 6th Principal Meridian in Teller County, more specifically, 1000 and 1050 CR 231 (S. West Street), Woodland Park, Colorado as requested by the applicant, Jay Baker and set the public hearing for June 27, 2013. (QJ) 9. PUBLIC HEARINGS: (Public comment is appropriate) Smith A. Approve Ordinance No. 1186 Amending Title 18 of the Woodland Park Municipal Code by the addition of a New Chapter 18.79 to Prohibit the Operation of Marijuana Cultivation Facilities and Sales, Marijuana Product Manufacturing Facilities, Marijuana Testing Facilities, Retail Marijuana Stores and Marijuana Membership Clubs in the City of Woodland Park; and Amending Chapter 9.30 of the Municipal Code to Prohibit Selling Marijuana Grown for Personal use. (L) Morse B. Approve application from the Woodland Park Saddle Club, located at 19250 East Highway 24, Woodland Park, for a Special Events Liquor License for events to be held on July 4, 2013, August 3, 2013, September 7, 2013 and October 5, 2013 at the Woodland Park Saddle Club located at 19250 East Highway 24, Woodland Park. (QJ) Morse C. Approve application from The Cellar Door for the 6th Annual Vino and Notes Wine, Food, and Jazz Festival Special Event Wine Festival Liquor License to be held on August 3, 2013 located at Memorial Park, Henrietta Avenue, Woodland Park. (QJ) 10. NEW BUSINESS: Riley A. Approve Resolution No. 757 setting forth the findings of fact and conclusion concerning the annexation petition for the Southwest Valley Annexation Plat 1, Parcels 1 and 3 containing 0.88 acres situated in the NW¼ of the NW¼ of the Section 25, Township 12 South, Range 69 West of 6th P.M. in Teller County with an address of 1000 CR 231 (S. West Street) as requested by the petitioners Donald R. and Beth J. McCarl. (L) Riley B. Approve Resolution No. 758 setting forth the findings of fact and conclusion concerning the annexation petition the Southwest Valley Annexation Plat 2, Parcels A and B containing 0.58 acres and a portion of Parcel 2 containing 0.38 acres situated in the NW¼ of the NW¼ of the Section 25, Township 12 South, Range 69 West of 6th P.M. in Teller County with addresses of 1050 and 1000 CR 231 (S. West Street) as requested by the petitioners Karl Hirshbeck (Parcels A and B) and Donald R. and Beth J. McCarl (portion of Parcel 2). (L) 11. PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA 12. REPORTS: (Public comment not necessary) A. Mayor's Report. B. Council Reports. C. City Attorney's Report. D. City Manager's and Department Manager's Report. 13. COMMENTS ON WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE: (Public comment not necessary) 14. ADJOURNMENT * * Per Resolution No. 90, Series 1982. (A) Administrative (QJ) Quasi-Judicial Action (L) Legislative Action

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Pain - the red is a knee joint with painful osteo-arthritis. Arthritis causes the joint space to decrease, grinding, stiffness, decreased motion, bone spurs, swelling and a lot of pain.

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Successful Treatment - Hyalgan (blue) being precisely injected directly into the knee joint using hologic digital imaging. Advaced imaging allows treatments to be as precise as possible. Hyalgan can lubricate the joint and decrease pain.

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