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Who invented white carpet? Why?!?
Who is Moving in and Out of Routt County
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Hmmm... I Wonder ....
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Romona Kirby: A Ranch Child at Toponas
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Greetings to Valley Voice Readers
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Market Enhancement 2014
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By Scott Ford
By Tom Traynor, Ph.D.
By Paul & Ellen Bonnifield By Diane Mitsch Bush By Lindsey Hall
Smoke Signals Page 9 By Scott Parker
Browner Pastures Page 10 Publisher:
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Calendar of Events
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Spring flowers… The scent of rain… When bicyclists’ share the road.
Olfactory Fun Page 26
Say What?...
The Why behind “In God We Trust”
“We’re the frosting on a fruitcake.”
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By Scott Ford
Salmonella: Coming Soon to a Store near you Page 28 By Erica Olson
Life & Times of Ticks and Fleas
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Shinin’ Gleamin’ Streamin’, Flaxen, Waxen
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Ripping Yarn Page 31 By LA Bourgeois
Clean Fuel is Elemental By Fred Robinson
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This month I am going to explore the topic of who is moving in and who is moving out of Routt County. Americans are a mobile bunch of folks. Most often folks move to pursue better job prospects or to be closer to family. A segment of the population would like to move for no other reason than a better quality of life. Gallop recently did a survey that indicated if given the opportunity about 50% of the population in Illinois and Connecticut would move to another state if they had the means and opportunity to do so. However, the vast majority (75%) of residents living in Maine, Oregon and Colorado are pretty happy where they are.
The current population of Routt County is about 23,000. That population is distributed into the age cohorts shown in the table below. Insight to the area’s demographics can be seen when contrasting those who either moved in or moved out compared to the resident population.
How do we know who is moving in and moving out? To put it simply, the IRS knows and shares that information with the US Census Bureau. Prior to moving here 22 years ago I lived in Plano, TX. When I completed my federal tax return for 1991 my mailing address was in Plano. When I completed my federal tax return for 1992 my mailing address was now in Steamboat Springs. As a result of moving my entire family showed up in the IRS migration file as moving because our Social Security numbers were listed on my return.
Resident Population 22% 28% 34% 16% Move In 31% 40% 16% 13% Moved Out 48% 27% 13% 26%
All economic analysis boils down to essentially counting two things – bodies, i.e., people and bucks, i.e., dollars and the relationship they have to each other. From 2002 to 2011 the population of Routt County has increased by about 5,000 bodies. There are only two reasons why population in an area increases. First, more people are born than die; this is known as natural growth. Second, more people move in than move out. This is known as migration. Approximately 30% of the population growth in Routt County was classified as natural and the balance was due to migration. It is highly unusual for a county to have 70% of its growth due to migration. This typically indicates a place has a significant increase in economic opportunities or a high quality of life, and sometimes both.
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Routt County Age Cohort Distribution in 2012 by Type; Birth to Age 20, Age 20 to 40, Age 40 to 60 Age 60 and over B-20
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Without trying to torture these numbers beyond what they can tell us, we can simply observe that those moving into the county are concentrated in the birth to age 20 cohort and age 20 to 40. The movement out of the area is dominated by the age 20 to 40 cohort and those age 60 and over. There are likely a host of reasons for this. The “why?” is perhaps left to a future column. As a member of the over age 60 cohort I know that Steamboat winters seem increasingly longer. Now that we have looked at the demographics of migration (bodies) we need to turn our attention to the economics of migration (bucks). Using the IRS master file it is possible to measure the net impact of those moving into and out of the area on an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) basis. This movement on a net basis can either grow or shrink the local economy. Over the past 10 years adjusting for inflation the personal income of the residents of Routt County has grown by about 9%. Migration has accounted for about 4% of that growth. On a net basis those moving into the area are more affluent than those moving out. The inflation adjusted AGI of those folks moving into the area had a household income of $55,125. Those moving out had $42,243. From an economic perspective this is not a bad problem to have. However, it does likely highlight the trend of gentrification as Routt County steadily shifts toward wealthier residents. To put it simply, the gap between the haves and the have nots is growing. This gap likely results in some social/economic implications that often are not apparent in the basic economic data of the county.
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Hmmm... I wonder... By Tom Traynor, Ph.D. This letter is in response to Scott Ford’s column titled, DUI Arrests in Routt County Compared to Other Colorado Counties, printed in the May, 2014 edition of Valley Voice. Please see the correction on the bottom of the page regarding one of the statistics that was printed incorrectly. Thank you, VV Staff If there were 500 bank robberies in Routt county, and 500 bank robberies in Pitkin county, and we caught 3 of them in Routt and 2 of them in Pitkin; would you make the ludicrous and misleading statement that Routt County has a comparably ‘high rate of bank robbery enforcement’? Of course not.
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Any rational analysis of these numbers would clearly state that we are doing a terrible job with apprehending bank robbers in both Routt and Pitkin Counties. Terrible. Shockingly, ridiculously, shamefully, demonstrably terrible. And no one would come away being concerned that we are ‘over-enforcing’ bank robbery in either county. And if we were catching only two or three per 500, would you say “Gee, they are really out there busting those bank robbers…why just look at all the names in the Pilot…there must have been three of them…wow, what a gauntlet…with those rates of enforcement, I bet if you live in Routt County long enough, you are bound to get arrested for bank robbery!” Foolishness.
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Yet all of this poor reasoning is applied to the enforcement of DUI. Yep, all of it. Please consider the following: DUI as a crime is under-enforced in Colorado by ratios of 1 per 300 up to 1 per 1200. DUI apprehension is consistently about 1% of licensed drivers. This is true nationally, state of Colorado, and Routt County
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Intoxicated drivers kill more people every year than all other violent crimes COMBINED. Alcohol intoxicated driving is the suspected cause in about 40% of all traffic deaths. Colorado ranks 9th in alcohol consumption per capita (2.71 gallons/yr) but does not rank in the 10 highest DUI enforcement States, per capita. Neither Routt County, nor Steamboat Springs, has ever had a high rate of DUI enforcement, and in fact, we are almost always at about the national average for (pathetically bad) enforcement of this crime. Just stop and think about “the facts”: for every person who is apprehended for DUI, between 300 and 1200 other incidents of this crime, risking all of our lives every day, goes unapprehended. There is no gauntlet; there is no high rate of enforcement. None. Never has been. The Colorado Department of Health informed me that Routt County DUI arrest rates are: 2013(119), 2112(138); 2011(166); 2010(203); or, about 1% annually (see above). Not 1200; not even close. So let me make a modest suggestion. Let’s quit talking about enforcement rates, gauntlets, county comparisons, and other such nonsense, and let’s talk about what matters: A social attitude that we do not tolerate drinking and driving. We don’t laugh about it, we don’t excuse it on your birthday, we don’t excuse it on the day you get promoted, or on the day you get fired. We don’t tolerate it on the day you get married, or the day you get divorced. Not on the day the mountain opens, or the day it closes. Not on Superbowl Sunday, or Thirsty Thursday. Not on “hump day” or Memorial Day. We don’t tolerate it. C’mon. We did it with smoking. We just plain decided that it was not tolerable that you endanger others with your smoking. End of sentence. Let’s do it with alcohol. Then we are on our way to rational alcohol/drug laws and rational social attitudes about alcohol/drug use.
Tom Traynor, Ph.D. CAC-III is a licensed psychologist and certified substance abuse counselor. He has been conducting DUI treatment programs in Steamboat since 1976. He is a daily drinker of alcohol.
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The number of DUI arrest in Routt County was incorrect in my May 2014 column. The number of DUI arrest annually is not 1,200. That is the approximate total over six year. I failed divide by six. I goofed. However, the DUI arrest rate per 1,000 was calculated correctly. Scott Ford
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The Bonnifield Files
Romona Kirby: A Ranch Child at Toponas By Paul & Ellen Bonnifield
“Our horses never had manes because we grabbed onto them and walked up the horse’s leg to get on. We always rode bareback because Dad said there was too much danger getting tangled up in the stirrups.”
horses were old enough to be ridden, they were used to people and quite tame. It wasn’t hard to break them to ride. Until she left home for college, horseback was Ramona’s primary transportation.
Known and loved by hundreds of people in South Routt as a creative and energetic third grade teacher, Ramona Kayser Kirby recently shared memories of her childhood growing up on a ranch at the foot of King Mountain on King Creek about four miles south of Toponas prior to and during World War II.
During haying season, Ramona’s job was to rake and rerake. Her dad, like others at the time, put hay up in loose stacks. There was always hay left in the field that had to be raked back into rows to be gathered again. Ramona loved the workhorses who pulled the rake, but she would have nothing to do with tractors or snakes. If she saw a snake (they had only harmless water snakes), she ran over it with the rake repeatedly to make sure it was dead.
Two events stand out in Ramona’s earliest memories. At age four, she finally got to ride her horse by herself and she learned to read. Ramona started first grade at the elementary school in Toponas. After about six weeks, the weather got bad and roads snowed in. So her mom, a former teacher, home schooled Ramona. Laughing, she said, “I was probably the first home schooled kid in the country.” Restarting school three years later, she found it kind of boring until she was advanced two years to the sixth grade. She was always two years younger than her classmates and graduated when she was sixteen. One afternoon when she was six or seven, Ramona and her younger brother, Tinker, were helping their dad repair a cattle guard on the road when a summer thunderstorm stopped their work. The kids jumped on the horses and their dad drove the team back to the house. While he put the horses in the barn, the kids ran into the house. Their mom took them into the pantry to fix peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. While there, a bolt of lightning hit the cook stove, knocked a console radio on the floor, took out the telephone, and went into another part of the house. Following the trail of lightning, they discovered four large windows blown out by the force of the lightning. They also smelled something burning. They went to the front porch and discovered the dress on Ramona’s doll on fire. They put the fire out although Ramona did not think that was enough to set the house ablaze. To this day, Ramona does not like lightning, but she finds merit in peanut butter and jelly. Living on a cattle ranch, the family ate beef during the winter. After butchering, the beef was hung in a shed where it kept reasonably fresh. They also had chickens and a few pigs. In the early spring, Ramona’s dad butchered a pig and made hams and bacon that fed them through the summer. The salt kept the meat edible. Her mom made sausage, fried it in patties, and preserved them in lard. The family also had a large garden, but they couldn’t raise potatoes because the season was too short. In the fall, they bought fruit and tomatoes from a peddler and canned it for the winter. In the summer, Ramona often suffered a sick stomach, probably from slightly spoiled food.
The year Ramona was a freshman in high school was a very rainy fall. When school started, her family was still haying. She missed the first month of school and the introduction to geometry. She never caught up and always struggled with math.
Ramona Kirby Photo courtesy of South Routt Elementary Yearbook 2004.
Ramona preferred being outdoors with her brother and dad. Although the family used workhorses rather than tractors, Ramona and Tinker played “tractors and trucks” when they had time. The kids were fixing fence one spring when they spied a very small fawn hidden in the grass. Believing it abandoned by its mother, they took it home. They raised it in the house for a while and then kept it outside. When the buck was about two, it started to get mean. It would leave and come back later. During hunting season, they tied a red bandana around its neck. The year it was four, the deer left and never came back. Another time the kids set out to discover if they really could teach magpies to talk and make pets of them. The summer hired man told them this was possible. They very quietly climbed a tall willow tree in the swampy area near King Creek. Snatching a young bird from the nest, they took it home. Success eluded them time after time until they finally gave up the project. Ramona still respects the intelligence of magpies. She saves dry bread for them. In the winter and early spring, she watches the magpies take the bread, bury it in the snow, and then scratch over it. She has seen them come back later and retrieve it.
Ramona rode her horse to school while she was in elementary school. By the time she started back in school, she was allowed to use a saddle. Trying to carry a lunch pail and books was too cumbersome while riding bareback. A barn in the schoolyard sheltered the horses until school was out. She and Tinker rode to school unless it was an exceptionally harsh, bitter, winter day. On those rare occasions, her dad used a small sled and team to get the kids to school. When snow began, the horses started packing a trail. On bad days, Ramona covered up her face and let the horse go. He knew the way home. The first three years of high school, which was in Yampa, Ramona boarded in Yampa and rode the train home to Toponas on weekends. The first year she boarded at the Home Hotel, now the lovely Victorian home next to Montgomery’s Mercantile Store. The next two years she stayed with a family who had kids in high school. During her senior year, she sometimes rode with friends from Toponas and sometimes stayed in Yampa. Crossan’s Market allowed Ramona to charge any supplies ─ pencils, paper, or an occasional treat ─ she needed while she was in school. Growing up in Egeria Park was a happy time for Ramona. Neighbors were close enough to visit and there were lots of kids. They played games like Gray Wolf, which was similar to hide and seek in a big barnyard. People, especially kids, made their own fun. More from Ramona next time.
Peaches, a grayish white horse, was Ramona’s first horse and her closest friend for years. Horses were always her best friends. She started breaking and training horses when she was eight or nine. She was around the foals from the time they were born. By the time the
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Letter to the Editor
Greetings to Valley Voice Readers! By Diane Mitsch Bush
I wanted to provide you with a review and wrap up for our just completed 2014 Session of the Colorado General Assembly. I am honored and humbled to serve you! The Second Session of the 69th Colorado General Assembly adjourned on May 7, 2014 At 10:26 pm on May 7, Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives Mark Ferrandino brought down the gavel on the 2014 Colorado Legislative Session - Sine Die. We worked effec-tively across the aisle to help build a better future for all Coloradans. In the House, 96% of bills passed with a bipartisan vote. A Balanced, Fiscally Responsible Budget that Invests in Colorado Our Fiscal Year 2014-2015 budget is a blueprint for a better Colorado for all. To achieve the constitutionally required balanced budget, we in the Colorado House and Senate carefully weighed competing needs. Our priorities were education funding to provide opportunity for all our children, furthering economic revitalization, flood and wildfire relief and prevention of future disasters, and building more economic security for all. Most importantly, we increased our reserve from 5% to 6.5 % without raising taxes. Having a solid rainy day fund is critical when disaster strikes or if the economy worsens. I am very pleased that we were able to build up our reserve.
• Funding for tourism and creative industries • Extension of the ReHire Colorado program, providing on the job skills, training, and experi-ence to build on successful job placement shown in 2013 • Increased funding for k-12 public education • A 6% tuition cap at our public state colleges & universities, better targeted public college/ uni-versity scholarships, more adequate higher ed funding to make sure all our children have the opportunity to succeed • Services for veterans • Safety net for vulnerable, needy seniors • Protection of renewable energy standards and incentives that create rural jobs • Energy and water efficiency and conservation • Clean up of contaminated soil and water and prevention of further contamination • Liability protection for agri tourism • Incentives for Ag producers to donate food products to charities
In 2014, all 9 of my bills passed with bipartisan support and either have been signed or will soon be signed into law by Governor Hickenlooper. I am especially proud of two of my 9 bills for which I pulled together diverse stakeholders and got bipartisan support: My Safe Routes to School Funding bill, HB14-1301 will keep this successful grant program funded. Investing in the SRTS program has a proven, significant return on investment for urban, suburban, and rural Colorado. Over 700 schools, their students and surrounding communities throughout our state have benefitted since 2005 as shown by pretest/ post test results. The program is especially important for lower income students and schools.
Small Hydroelectric Generation Incentive, HB 1030 This bill streamlines and coordinates the complex permitting process for small hydroelectric facilities that produce 10 megawatts of energy or less. It cuts red tape and will stimulate small, rural, hydroelectric businesses and help creates rural jobs. I worked closely with my co prime sponsor, Republican Representative Don Coram (R-Montrose) to gain bipartisan support. We worked with an inclusive, diverse group of stakeholders to build consensus. The Governor will sign that bill on a hydro site in late May.
• Wildfire preparedness
You can count on me to keep being your strong mountain community voice down at our Capitol. This summer and fall I will again serve on two Joint House Senate Interim Committees: Water Resources Review and Transportation Legislation Review.
Fiscally Responsible, Evidence Based, Practical Legislation
• Rural broadband and a 21st Century Telecommunications infrastructure
Routt County Town Hall with Representative Diane Mitsch Bush
In 2014, some of the bills I supported provide for:
• Childcare tax credits and enhanced childcare program assistance
Please join me on May 29. I look forward to seeing you, answering your questions, and discussing issues with you!
I am proud of the budget and of all our accomplishments this session to make Colorado more just, equitable, sustainable and prosperous for ALL!
• Incentives for small business job creation and targeted job training to further revitalize our economy • Reduction in business personal property tax targeted for small businesses
• Protecting our air, water, and wildlife habitat both for our quality of life and our economy
• Affordable housing grants • Improving our criminal justice system, including a grant fellowship for new rural prosecutors • Rural Family Medicine residency programs
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• Creation of a Health Care Cost Commission to examine and make transparent the costs of health care in Colorado In future newsletters and on my web page, I will detail these and other bills for you. I will also cover these at Town Halls over the summer and fall. My next Routt County Town Hall is Thursday, May 29 from 5-6:30 in the Routt County Commis-sioners Hearing Room, Second Floor of the Downtown Steamboat Springs Historic Courthouse at 522 Lincoln Avenue. I look forward to discussing issues with you!
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For those who live here and for those who wish they did.
Thursday, May 29, 5-6:30 pm Routt County Commissioners Hearing Room Second Floor Historic Downtown Steamboat Springs Routt County County Courthouse 522 Lincoln Avenue Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 Yours for a just, equitable, sustainable, and prosperous Colorado for All, State Representative Diane Mitsch Bush House District 26-all of Eagle and Routt Counties
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Mainstreet Update
Market Enhancement 2014
June 2014
Smoke Signals
News from the Chief of the Chief By Scott Parker
By Lindsey Hall
Hello all and thank you for reading the 10th installment of Smoke Signals: News from The Chief of The Chief.
2014 marks the 10th Anniversary of the Steamboat Springs Farmers Market and MainStreet Steamboat has worked hard in the off season to enhance the Farmers Market experience. This year, it will take place in the parking lot of 7th and Yampa Street on Saturdays from 9am – 2pm. Opening day is June 14th and the last day is September 13th.
Happy Summer everyone! If you are at all like me, you moved here to ski for a winter, but it was the summer that made you stay! I LOVE SUMMER IN THE BOAT! With the wacky May we had, this summer will be that much sweeter!
There is much to be excited about this season as we have many returning vendors and some new vendors. Folks have been asking about fresh produce and we are happy to say that Cacklin’ Hen, Sweet Pea, Eat A Peach Organics, and Harry’s Peaches will continue growing and selling for market this year, along with two new vegetable, fruit and herb vendors: Community Agriculture Alliance Local Produce Cooperative and Sandy Graves Art and Vegetable Stand; both of these vendors will begin attending market in late June and early July. The market will also have some new prepared food vendors including: Cantina II, High Mountain Munchies, eLife Eats, Pens Bodhi Bliss Bars, and The Crepe Shop. sReturning again for another great year: Buckin’ Horse Pantry, Cider Fixins, Eagle Smoked Salmon, Enviro House and Home, Fresh Bread and Pastries, J&J’s Honey, Lay Valley Bison, Phenomenal Falafel, Pies... pies… pies, Rockin J Cattle Co, Sauce Haven/Chef Dean Martin, Springs Runoff Outdoor LLC, Steamboat Coffee Roasters, Steamboat Kettle Corn & More, Styria Bakery, Styria Catering, The Crepe Stop, THIRA Venture Two, Yampa Valley Farms, Yampa Valley Sauce Company, and Zirkel Jerky. The market will continue to be full of artisans, jewelers, crafters of all kinds, fine artists and more. Spring Creek and Eagle Scout Park is right next to the market scene and is sure to add an ambiance, while the Yampa River is a short walk or bike ride away. There will be spots for people to eat and kids to play, along with live music every week. In addition to the vibrant Farmer’s Market, the ever-improving Yampa Street is full of fun for the whole family. Ride your bike to the market and continue on the Core Trail down to the Bud Werner Library. Have a seat by the river, take a swim in C Hole, and enjoy a variety of restaurants, bars and health food. There are many recreational possibilities from river tubing, rafting trips, kayak rentals and bike rentals. The new location of the Farmer’s Market will be an experience with the potential to connect locals and visitors into different aspects of the community that Steamboat has to offer; from the recreation and food of Yampa Street to the shops and galleries of Lincoln Ave. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday mornings by the river as we support our local farmers, crafters, artisans and musicians.
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Random reasons I love summertime in The Yampa Valley are as follows: • The Free Summer Concert Series at Howelsen Hill • Tubing the Yampa • Parties at Rick and Donna Boese’s land • Hiking! (Can’t wait to take my kids to Devil’s Causeway) • Yampatika’s Summer programs • Triple Crown!! (not) • The amazing line up at The Chief (cough, shameless self-promotion, cough) June is shaping up to be a great month here at The Chief Theater. Sticking with my bullet list theme, Here are some reasons that June 2014 at The Chief will be one to remember: • We host Cabaret for the 2nd time • The Chief Players will unleash their 3rd production as they present “Sylvia.” (This show is not to be missed…anyone that loves dogs needs to see this! Hence the leash joke) • Magic!!!! (Yes we have an incredible magic show June 10th) • Celebrating 50 years of Wilderness with a John Fielder Slide Show!! • Free Foreign Film!! In May, The Chief Theater threw a wild party/fundraiser to celebrate one year of amazing programming. Thank you to everyone who attended, volunteered, donated, and/or supported The Chief in the past year. I truly believe that the sky is the limit for this venue. I have said it before and I will say it again. Please… please…please…call me (970-367-3830)…email me (scott@chieftheater.com) or stop in. Let me know what we can do better, what type of programming you would like to see, or just share your comments in general. Thank you for reading. Cheers, Scott
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Sylvia is a play about a dog, the couple who adopts her, and the drama that results. It was written by A. R. Gurney and first produced in 1995.
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Valley Voice
Routt County Disasters
Browner Pastures By Lyn Wheaton
Every June, with the final snowmelt memories of my unwilling exodus from the Colorado Mountains, twentyeight years ago, come rushing back like the waters that flow down the mountain into the parched streams and riverbeds. People always get a strange look on their face when I tell them I used to live in South Central Los Angeles. Did I stand out? Maybe a little. Despite being labeled “Guera,” I think I melded into the neighborhood fairly well. It’s not that strange that I ended up living there. It could happen to anyone. It was kind of an accident. In the mid 1980’s, Colorado was in the throes of a pretty bad recession. After several years of toiling in my chosen field of finance and banging my head on the Plexiglas ceiling I was feeling shortchanged by the measly four years of fun my college experience provided, I decided to put the career thing on hold and ski bum for a while. Living in Winter Park and working three jobs wore on me by the end of ski season. That, and a strong suggestion from the sheriff prompted my decision to get the hell out of dodge with the last snowfall. I decided to move to Los Angeles, clean up my act and try, once again, to hunker down with a real job. Soon after my arrival I was hired to manage a large restaurant in Long Beach. I was elated until I tried to live there on the paltry salary it paid. I found myself once again, struggling to keep my head above water, with the cost of living virtually crushing me. It wasn’t long before I took up with one of the line cooks that worked for me. He spoke no English. After a short time he wanted to move in with me. I needed someone to split rent with and he seemed to know the area, I decided I had nothing to lose. Scouring the classifieds for something decent and affordable finally promised to yield results. The advertisement said Norwalk, which according to some co-workers was not that bad. In retrospect the problem was two-fold; the place was not in Norwalk, it flirted with the western border, barely enough to garner that comparably ‘prestigious’ mailing address. And the day I went to see the prospective homestead, I went in through the backdoor cutting up from Lakewood, through Bellflower. A gradual degradation of the area acclimated me to the change. By the time I got to the location, it seemed okay. The pale, brittle grass may have been spray painted, but there were a few live palm trees and the interior ‘courtyard’ had a pool. It was most likely the prospect of a waterfront location that skewed my perspective. The sun’s reflection gleaming off the blue water, into the kitchen window, temporarily blinded me to the industrial grade metal bars surrounding the compound like a fortress. All I saw was a small complex like the apartment building on that show Melrose Place. Overlooking the fact it was an exceedingly crappier white stucco version, trimmed with ramshackle wood desperately holding
onto remnants of peeling red paint, I hastily signed the lease. It was hard to find a place with a pool amidst the expansive, barren stretches of fuliginous concrete that went on for miles and miles in South Central Los Angeles. Not until after we moved in did I discover the place was infested with cockroaches. Practically every night the helicopters would circle overhead with their searchlights flashing erratically in our windows. I soon became suspicious of my surroundings. But I was twenty-six, I had done a lot of crazy stuff borne out of boredom from a comfortable, yet oppressively pretentious upbringing. This was just another adventure. Despite the luxuriousness of my childhood, which served merely as a galvanizing force to extricate myself from the paucity I had plummeted into and been living in for several years, I was forced from a young age to become scrappy and self-sufficient. Although this was not quite the California I had envisioned, based on a previous visit to my sister’s plush digs provided to her courtesy of my father, I had become surprisingly adept at adjusting to almost any circumstance life could hurl at me. Things got more exciting by the day. Having found the place by way of Bellflower on the south side and Norwalk on the east, I was blissfully unaware of my close neighbors to the west, until I found the shorter route to and from work. The new route involved driving up Long Beach Blvd thru Compton, which was one town away from my hood, actually Paramount. This was a far cry from the little seaside town where I grew up. It certainly was nothing like Winter Park, and my years in Denver hardly prepared me for any of this. Oddly when you entered through the East, there was a yellowish din that tainted the entire atmosphere, illuminating the brown lawns and sparse dying palms. Conversely, coming from the West, via Compton, everything had a greyish pallor. The arid, smog filled streets were covered with clapboard buildings resembling lean-tos. They looked as if spray-painted with a dark charcoal color or that nauseating green that happens when you mix primary blue and yellow together and don’t do anything to improve it. The grime was ever present, along with the accouterments of a life not worth imagining. These dingy walls were a popular canvas for gang tags.
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This route contained a section of blocks lined with hundreds of motorcycles. Because of my boyfriend’s unwillingness to assimilate into my culture and distaste for all my friends, it wasn’t long before “Guera” was a full-fledged member of the Hispanic culture in South Central. I inquired of my new friends regarding the area. One of my buddies, I nicknamed “Muerto,” (meaning Dead in Spanish) because of his pale, expressionless demeanor, assumed the role of my protector. I trusted this gentle giant, and heeded his warning when he told me to never stop on that stretch of road under any circumstance, not even for red lights. He told me this was a hang out for either the Cribs or Bloods, I can’t remember which, I’m not sure it matters. I learned my hovel bordered one of the worst ghetto substations in LA at the time. And there I was, living in the thick of it with my illegal boyfriend from Guadalajara. As my Spanish improved, I found out he had crawled thru the desert, climbed fences, crossed rivers, and paid smugglers to get here. To him, this place was the Ritz Carlton. One day I found out I was pregnant. Despite the rough circumstances, I decided to keep my baby. Soon after making this decision, my car died and could not be resuscitated. After I left the restaurant I took a temporary job checking tax returns for errors, but with tax season winding down the job was coming to an end. And the soon-to-be father of my child took his half of the rent money and spent it all on Selena tapes at the swap meet. This had to be a new low. I had no money for rent and was forced to sneak out of South Central under the cover of darkness. Although comfort often breeds discontent, it rarely creates hunger. I had become unfamiliar to myself. This intimate affair with big city poverty instilled in me a primal drive required to pull myself and my unborn baby out of this wreckage that had become my life. Thankfully, the police and helicopters were busy with real criminals as I slithered out much like the cockroaches in the apartment, ready to find cover if any light was cast upon me.
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June 2014
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Offering Yourself Up for Death in Moto Mecca
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The likelihood of imminent death makes one feel more alive. Staring into the Reaper’s eyes as a group is an incredible bonding experience for those who survive said catharsis. This cuts to the core of the “pre-device” world when the chance of being eaten by a tiger or grizzly on the pampas was a very real thing. The concept of keeping everyone alive forever with pills and machines and looking for other planets to live on when this one gets depleted or unsustainably fouled probably didn’t come up when fight/flight skills, decision making abilities, and fitness levels were measured daily in very real, pass/fail exams. We can still find tests and tastes of real life if we look for them. Such a test, conducted by men on motorcycles, has existed on a small island between England and Ireland for 110 years. Were it not for this motorcycle race, named the Tourist Trophy (TT), I probably would’ve never heard of the ISLE OF MAN; perhaps the most appropriately named piece of land in the history of the homo sapien. Most of the year it’s a tax haven for British Citizens and home to old school sheep farmers, but for two weeks each summer the rainy rock hosts the holy grail of motorcycle races, period. The circuit is laid out on the island’s country roads, which are the antithesis of the perfect surfaces found on today’s MOTO GP tracks built for millions of dollars to host large crowds of buffoons shoveling down 11 hot dogs. Cracks, bumps, potholes, and terrible corners are the norm. Run out zones where one might safely decelerate sans motorbike, don’t exist. Riders are more likely to be stopped by a 6 foot thick , stone wall or land inside a farmhouse or pub. Picture a moto ride up County Road 129 to Clark at speeds approaching 200mph. The number of racers killed is well into the 200s at this point. Once the world championship of motorcycle road racing, the TT was pulled from the mainstream sanctioning bodies due to the extreme danger, but it has managed to live on. The racers today are not the glamorous superstars like Valentino Rossi, but rather working men who have sacrificed much to chase their dreams and be a part of the TT tradition. King Joey Irishman Joey Dunlop is the most revered rider to grace the Isle in a century plus of racing. He consistently dominated the race until he was ironically killed in a less technical race in Estonia. His record of 26 ISLE OF MAN victories in various classes still stands nearly 15 years after his death. He was fearless, untouchable, and competitive on the circuit, but chose to use his non-racing time to drive around to the poorer areas of Europe in his van distributing coats and blankets to orphanages. There is a full-size bronze statue of Dunlop and his machine on a corner of the course named “Joey’s” and his actual race bikes hang from the ceiling of a bar in Ireland. John Mcguinness Born in 1972, and trained as a bricklayer and commercial fisherman, Mcguinness is the first to seriously
threaten the total win record long held by Dunlop. He currently has 20 overall wins and has annually held and increased the overall lap speed record. (currently 131.671.mph avg.) He’s still racing! Mad Sunday As if continuing the regular, somewhat sanctioned event with extremely skilled riders isn’t sketchy enough, somehow “Mad Sunday” lives on. On Mad Sunday, any rider who has the bollocks that can get their hands on a fast motorcycle can show up and ride the sketchy race course with no rules or speed limits. The planets aligned for me in 2010 and although I didn’t reserve a rental bike prior to arriving on the island, I was able to finagle a VFR 800 from a pregnant friend of a friend I met there. ($500.00 and no paperwork whatsoever) I never did see the boyfriend who was the supposed owner, but I rode that red motorcycle as fast as I could and at 145 mph was mid-pack at best. One rider blew passed me and left road entirely in the next corner badly enough to go through a sheep fence. We were all stopped for 45 minutes as the Marshalls cleaned what remained of him and his bike up…then we were off again in a giant holeshot. I would never do it again, but surviving Mad Sunday made me feel alive and I had big S%4# to talk in the pub to the old timers who’d thought they may never see me again when we discussed it the day before. Offering yourself up for death creates physical feelings and adrenaline rushes that cannot be equaled. Returning a Favor I had come to terms with 2010 being my singular visit to the TT. It’s too expensive for the financially embarrassed, too long in the aluminum tube and there are too many other continents I generally prefer. To me, Europa, the supposed enlightened place that creates romantic fantasy in the minds of many, is mostly a smalled-up, snooty place that loves soccer and croissants. I would rather blast across Wyoming at 90 miles an hour scanning the tundra for the ever elusive Jackalope I’ve been stalking all of my life than cross the Atlantic again, but I owe a favor to an old, bald man who dragged me to see Kenny Roberts and Bob Hannah race as a kid. In 75 years of wild, moto life he’s somehow never made it to the obscure, rain-soaked rock of death. It’ll be hard to get him around that imperfect island. A few years ago, he finally gave up his left-leg that had been variously shot-up in Nam, broken in a carpet-searing, burnout lap through the Holiday Inn at a reunion and finally crushed beyond repair in a grandiose Harley-Davidson crash landing. I rolled him into the hospital with what was left of it and rolled him out the other side later that day without it. Life goes on, and that right leg will just have to pick up the slack. We will not be stopped! If I have to carry his ass on my shoulder, so be it. I have friends that say as you grow up life becomes about living for others instead of yourself, but drinking beer and cheering John Mcguinness is a win-win. Throw your television off the balcony and go outside. Life is beautiful and sometimes short.
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Valley Voice
The Wandering Rose
Seriously? Every season is necessary for the survival of the planet. In a very Zen sort of way, Audrey Rose had been taught to take every day as it comes, to appreciate and celebrate the weather no matter what appeared: rain, shine, sleet, hail, snow, rainbows, little clouds, big clouds. Yup. Usually she woke up with a smile on her face, eager to see what Mother Nature and the Gods above were going to deliver. That was until recently. She woke up to snow and howling winds in May. Not so unusual, except that it hadn’t really stopped snowing since September. Snow and cold in September, snow and cold in October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May. By her advanced mathemati-
cal calculations that only left three months in which to honor three seasons - spring, summer and fall. There were those cheery people who loved the cold and the snow, waking up in an almost orgasmic state with each flake. There were the people who only loved the snow during the ski season and then became fair weather friends after that. There were the people who said ‘we need the moisture, or at least we won’t have to worry about fires.’ Then there were the people like Audrey Rose, who were tolerant of seasons, but really loved summer, when the sun baked the earth, releasing the sweet scent of pines and dirt, letting it crawl up into your skin. Being able to walk naked under the blue sky, letting toes and breasts and armpits breathe like they were meant to do, now that was living. She yelled out to the gods, “I want to hear the rush of wetness flowing, to feel the earth moist and hear cries of pleasure from the mouths of birds, babes and all things come alive for the first time!” The gods were not impressed. The babes would wake up anyway, although the bears were grumpier than usual, having slumbered for so long to avoid the colds, the lack of foods, only to wake up to snow and cold, needing food and doing just about anything to get it.
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When the snows came, she howled at the gods from the top of the mountains. She tried hugging each snowflake, to melt them all before they accumulated on the ground. But all of her efforts were in vain. As a last resort, she sacrificed a cow to the higher beings, but that only angered them more, as the beast was pumped so full of antibiotics and hormones that even the wild animals wouldn’t feed from the carcass. Finally, Audrey gave up. She crawled inside her snow cave, vowing to hibernate until her cave melted fully away, but she was restless, as restless as the shoots of the flowers and the grasses that were braving the frosts to taste the sweet, fresh air. She was as restless as the morning bird that called to her at 5:00 a.m. every day, except the days when the snow fell, when confused, the bird called out at 4. She was as restless as the moose, the elk that felt in their bones they should be moving higher, but were still forced to face human beings on a daily basis. What could she do? She could wait, be patient and find her Zen place, or she could say, I am my own destiny. Dear gods, if you will not bring the spring to me, I will bring myself to the spring. Her footprints led south.
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June 2014
Mister Helpful’s Dating Guide
Asking questions makes you a great date!
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By Mr. Helpful, M.D.
The most interesting person in the world to any human being is themself. Asking questions gets someone to talk about their favorite subject and feel comfortable; as if they can share any bit of information with you. This makes you look like you ALSO think that they are the most interesting person in the world and that is the foot in the door you get to discover if the two of you are a match for dating or more. Doesn’t matter, man or woman, we love to talk about ourselves. By asking questions to your date, they get to share their own wonderful selves with you. It’s awesome!! However, asking too many questions makes you look like you are interrogating a suspect for a crime they have yet to commit. No one likes being put on the spot. Daters have to remember how their mama’s taught them to communicate and be social. I know it’s been a while and we have abandoned those social graces, long ago, but they are key. How many questions to ask?!? It’s a fine line and the dance we all dance. How many IS too many? But I’m supposed help you here. Well, first: relax and do your best to feel as comfortable as possible on your date. And then just talk. If you find something they just said interesting, then ask a follow up question. If you disagree with them express it in a casual, comfortable, non- insulting way. Hopefully whatever you say will keep the conversation going and that is the key. Keep the conversations going. Old questions to ask: What is your job? How many brother/sisters? How long have you lived around here? What’s your sign? Fun/New Q’s to ask: Can you touch your tongue to your nose? Ever been skydiving? Would you show me your tattoo if I pay for dessert? Favorite movie 1,2,3-GO! Part Two – STOP TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF SO MUCH!!!!! Shut up about yourself and ask them about their life/ interests and remember to listen to them and ask at least 2 follow up questions. Show that you are not the egotistical jerk your friends laugh at behind your back. (Side note: ask your friends if you are an egotistical jerk. Know Thyself. I was on a First Date with a woman and after a few minutes, conversation waned and she commented
about my having nice hair. I couldn’t stop myself from telling 3 completely stupid tidbits of HAIR info about my wonderful, thick, life-saving hair. When I finished, I saw her eyes glazed over and I said out loud “well that’s 6 minutes of your life you can’t get back.” Luckily she laughed and I apologized for being a conversational ass. But the damage had been done. I failed that date for sure.
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Our stories about ourselves are, most times, not that interesting. So avoid lengthy overly detailed stories. Men can tell boring, useless, lengthy, mind dribble stories just as much as women. NO ONE needs to have every detail about every story. STOP BEING BORING AND OVERLY DETAILED, YOU BORINGLY OVERLY DETAILED STORY TELLING BORE. I was just having a nice awakening to my own nature right there, thanks for helping me out. Let’s move on. If you have any questions about what kind of a talker you are ask your friends. If they are good friends they’ll tell you the truth. If you are really curious, then ask someone you have already dated. Hopefully you are still friends. They would give you great feedback about what kind of a date you are. In the end, you are considering letting this person see you naked. Getting more information about them is a very good idea. Most times it really is about what’s on the inside. I learned in college that “All that Glitters is not Gold” as well as “Distance lends Enchantment”. Yeah, think about those two lines and you’ll come to the same understanding as I did. Oh one more thing: NOT talking enough makes you look – Creepy/Shy/Too Shy/Stupid/Dumb/Not Interesting/ Not Interested/Like you want to Leave/ Like you’re not having fun … or ANY hundreds of “What’s wrong with this person?” reasons. So there you have it: Ask Questions. Listen to your date. Don’t ask too many or too few questions. Talk about yourself. Don’t talk too much about yourself. Don’t just sit there without talking and don’t talk too much. Relax and just be yourself. Easy stuff. Best of luck, you can do it, I believe in you.
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Vol. 2, No. 6 June 2014 The Hayden Surveyor is a joint project by the Hayden Revitalization Project and Hayden Chamber of Commerce. The Surveyor’s goal is to improve communityawareness and communications about special events, business, local government, history, feature stories and more.
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Hiway Bar dodges bullet By Brodie Farquhar
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The Hayden Town Council approved a 50-inch ramp encroachment into an alley for the Hiway Bar & Grill, then backed off from requiring that the bar go through a sevenweek planning process over the expansion of the bar’s deck this summer. The Hiway Bar is undergoing major renovation this spring and wanted better access for anyone wheelchair-bound. The proposal was to build a ramp and turnaround surface outside the door from the bar into the alley. There’s already a short, steep ramp, but Hiway Bar owner Matt Elam and managers Thamra and Jonah Drescher opted for a longer, shallower and wider ramp, which will involve expanding the footprint of the ramp structure an additional foot into the alley. “I think we’ll be accessible to 98 percent of the wheelchaired population,” said Jonah Drescher. The exception would be, he said, a large, electric wheelchair. Should a customer show up who couldn’t negotiate the alley door and its wider ramp, access would be available via a gate at the back of the deck. Drescher said the ideal goal was a 100 percent access via the alley door, but the tradeoff was preserving the historic architecture.
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There’s also the fact that the American Disabilities Act (ADA) requires a handrail on both sides of a ramp. Trouble is, if there were a handrail on the side of the ramp facing the alley, it would be vulnerable to snowplow blades catching it and tearing it out. Councilmember Dallas Robinson said the new ramp design might not be perfect, but it is a vast improvement over the current ramp. “I’ve stumbled leaving that way, and without a single drink,” he said. The council granted the additional foot, with the condition that if town snowplow blades damage the ramp, the town is held harmless and repairs are made by the Hiway bar.
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Town Manager David Torgler asked Drescher to stay for a few minutes, while he asked the council for some policy guidance. He said it wasn’t clear to him, whether a deck expansion for the restaurant would require a conditional use permit – a similar situation simply hasn’t happened before. “Because it isn’t clear, I’d appreciate it if the council could set policy,” he said.
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The Hiway Bar will expand the deck area by 17 percent – enough to accommodate four more tables. Torgler said if the council ruled that the Hiway Bar seek and obtain a conditional use permit, the process would run —at a minimum – seven weeks and delay the expansion of the deck for most of the summer. The deck expansion would extend the deck up the west side of the building, between it and neighboring A1 Liquor, eliminating two, rarely used parking spots. The council debated the merits of the planning and zoning process, versus the desire by Hiway Bar to have the expanded deck up and running this summer. Councilmember Robinson said he was concerned about the loss of the two parking spots, then agreed to allow the deck expansion if two parking spots could be designated on the north side of the deck area. Dresher said that wouldn’t be a problem and the council agreed that the deck could be expanded without going through the conditional use process.
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Hayden water tank project to start By Brodie Farquhar
The construction of a half-million gallon water tank near the Yampa Valley Regional Airport will get underway this summer, now that the Hayden Town Council and Routt County Commission have resolved all issues that impeded an intergovernmental agreement (IGA). The project is being jointly funded by the Department of Local Affairs - Energy and Mineral Impact Assistance Program, Routt County and the Town of Hayden. The purpose of the Energy and Mineral Impact Assistance Program is to assist political subdivisions that are socially and/or economically impacted by the development, processing, or energy conversion of minerals and mineral fuels. DOLA contributed a $1 million grant. The rest of the expense will be split by the county and the town, and the town will own the expanded system when the construction is done. Both the commissioners and council members have approved the IGA, which now allows the town to start the process of soliciting bids for the approximately $3.3 million construction project. The Seneca Hill water tank will be next to the airport and should dramatically improve water pressure, water quality and fire-fighting capacity. The new water tank will be linked to the town’s existing water system via 12,900 linear feet of water lines and a pumping station – allowing the town to conduct maintenance on the Hospital Hill water tank in the future. The airport is owned by Routt County, but is within the town limits. “We’ll get the bid (request) out in May and get bids back before the end of the month,” said David Torgler, town manager. To get the best possible bid, the request for bid will be widely disseminated. Torgler estimated that work on the project should begin by mid-August, with substantial completion by the end of November. Working through the punch-list of project items and linking the new airport water tank and system with the town system, should be completed by March 2015, he added. Torgler said it would take the bid winner some time to assemble a crew and the required equipment and supplies. The airport has been plagued by less water pressure and volume than desired, as well as stagnant-tasting water – all of which should be addressed by the new water tank and system. In addition, the new water tank and system should open the door to more commercial development across the access road to the airport.
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Spike Reedy Insurance Mayor Jim Haskins commented that the signing of the IGA between Routt County and the Town of Hayden is an important step in moving the water tank project down the road to completion. “The airport is an important economic driver for both the Town and Routt County,” he said. “This project protects the integrity of the water system into the future for both the airport and the Town. It also provides the means for future economic development.”
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Blank check In a followup meeting May 15, the Town Council angrily confronted Jeff Blake of CDC Engineering, over yet another request for changing the firm’s scope of services and the need for additional funds for the Seneca Hill water tank project at the Yampa Valley airport. Blake explained that so many change orders were coming in, that CDC couldn’t justify continuing work on the project without assurances from Hayden that his firm will be paid for the additional work. Because the $3.3 million project is time sensitive (According to language in the $1 million DOLA grant, the project must be substantially finished by December, therefore delays must be avoided), CDC asked to be paid on an hourly rate for the remaining bidding and contract services work, without providing an estimate of what the remaining work would cost. Reluctantly, Town Manager David Torgler recommended the council agree to this change. Councilmember Dallas Robinson and Mayor Jim Hastings expressed their anger and disappointment that CDC hadn’t foreseen various change orders in the original bid, and that CDC was essentially holding the project hostage – that failure to continue work on the project would delay it and likely kill it. CDC’s Blake denied that was the firm’s intent and complained that unforeseen change orders were to blame. Robinson said when he submits a bid that comes up short, he eats the difference, asking why CDC couldn’t do the same. The council approved the request to have CDC operate on an hourly rate for the remaining work. In other business, the council: • Donated $1,000 to the RedneX games; • Approved a lease for the use of town land by the Hayden Speedway organization.
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See online at haydencolorado.com: Open letter to Hayden District from the new superintendent. Reports on signage, parking and Walnut Street studies.
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Featured in the bestselling book, ‘Nothing Daunted’ by Dorothy Wickenden The Hayden Heritage Center museum is holding a fundraiser consisting of exclusive day tours of the Elkhead Rock Schoolhouse on June 21 and June 22. Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker and author of the NY Times’ Bestselling Book, ‘Nothing Daunted’ will join in the tours. Nothing Daunted: is the story of two New York socialites who headed west and their experiences teaching at the rural schoolhouse in 1916. One of the young ladies was the author’s grandmother. Participants will have a chance to talk with Wickenden and have their books autographed. This book, as well as other local history books, can be purchased at the museum gift shop. Transportation, and picnic lunch at the schoolhouse will be provided. Other activities include a nature walk near the school to hear about the flora and fauna of the area and the difficulties the homesteaders faced. Belle Zars, local historian and Ferry Carpenter’s granddaughter, will be on hand to discuss the various families that lived in the area. Be advised of primitive conditions, portable bathrooms and limited drinking water. Participants should wear comfortable clothing, sunscreen and insect repellant. Tickets are $100 per person -- limited seating. Tickets must be purchased by June 15. No tickets will be available at the door! This event is sponsored by the Hayden Heritage Center, Wyndham Vacation Rentals, and The Horse & Hen Inn. * Tickets on sale via Paypal at the museum website www. haydenheritagecenter.org * For more information, call the Hayden Heritage Center at (970) 276-4380. * Other Hayden Heritage Weekend events include a barn dance and dinner at the Wild Goose Granary, and Plein Aire art activities. For more information, go to haydencolorado.com
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New name, Same Level of Unpredictable Excitement It may be a new name, but organizers say this year’s Routt County RedneX Games is on track to be better than the previous two years. After a somewhat polite but forceful letter from the United States Olympic Committee over the non-allowed use of the word “Olympics,” the formerly named Routt County Redneck Olympics held a contest for a new name selection. David Moore came up with the winning name, earning himself several contraband tshirts from last year’s event, and an honorary seat on the RedneX Games Fourth of July parade in Steamboat. The RedneX Games will feature amplified versions of last year’s events: the Lawnmower Triathlon, Blind Tractor Driving, Mud Surfing, Paintball Obstacle Course, Hayden Horseshoes, and Redneck Steeplechase. In past years, all ages of competitors took their shot at the cash and sponsor awards; and the Sky Bar will offer refreshments in addition to the many vendors that have already signed on for 2014. Another highlight of this year’s event is a concert by popular Nashville artist Cef Michaels, which will follow the awards ceremony. Rain or Shine, this year’s events will start at 1pm and run through approximately 6 pm, followed by the awards ceremony and concert. The RedneX Games is a fundraiser for the Routt County Agricultural, Youth & Heritage Foundation. Goals for the RCAYHF include making the fairgrounds more accessible to venues by offering reasonably priced insurance, and providing opportunities for kids that might not have access to agricultural activities. For more information visit, www.RCrednecks.com.
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STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM 807 Lincoln Ave., 870-1755 CIRCLE SEVEN FINE ART The Steamboat Art Museum is pleased to 1009 Lincoln Ave., 879-4744 announce that an exhibition of photographs features two gallery artists: PAULA JO showcasing the talent of a select group of JACONETTA photographs inspired by accomplished and emerging nature photograGeorgia O'Keefe, textured bull skulls over phers living and working in Colorado will be at Steamboat landscape. Depicting American the Helen Rehder Gallery in the Museum West. JANICE LAWRENCE acrylic starting May 30 – July 15, 2014. paintings of threatened native species, mammals, amphibians, birds and insects. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS ARTS COUNCIL AT THE DEPOT DOUGLAS KENYON COLLECTION 1001 13th St., 879-9008 435 Lincoln Ave., 970-629-9999 STEAMBOAT SPRINGS CENTER MANGELSEN-IMAGES OF NATURE FOR VISUAL ARTS 730 Lincoln Ave., 871-1822 837 Lincoln Ave., 846-5970 The work of legendary nature photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen. ALTERNATIVE VENUES Introducing Tom's newest book The Last Great Wild Places: Forty Years of Wildlife COLORADO GROUP REALTY Photography. Pre-Order today and save for 509 Lincoln Ave., 875-2917 September delivery. Eva Luna originally from Chile currently resides in Steamboat Springs. Her paintings are a tribute to the intricate yet simple connections
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CREEKSIDE CAFE 131 11th St., 879-4925 Kevin Dietrich presents his wildlife and landscape photography featuring images from Alaska to New York. His focus on wildlife has led him on many adventures including close encounters with grizzly bears, wolves and moose. His latest trips to Alaska and California in search of bears,bobcats and breath taking landscapes will be featured next month. Kevin is an OwnerBroker at Colorado Group Realty and owner of K Dietrich Studios. Visit his website http://kevindietrich.artistwebsites.com
9th STREET TATTOO STUDIO AND ART GALLERY 111 9th St.(corner of 6th & Lincoln Ave.), 970-367-3136 Robin Adkison (Mansfield, TX) uses bright colors to create luminous futurescapes. Kaitlin Ziesmer (Denver, CO) has a cut and paste approach to images, creating figure paintings saturated with color. Together, their work compliments each other with color choices and overall aesthetic, but differ when it comes to content.
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URBANE 703 Lincoln Ave., Suite B101, 879-9169 URBANE presents our 6th Annual Skate Deck Art Show. Subject and Medium are up to the artist, the only requirement is that the artwork be presented on a skate board or longboard. 5-9pm
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Calendar of Events Sunday June 1 Steamboat Marathon 7:30 AM @ Hahn’s Peak Village 33rd Steamboat Half Marathon and 10K alongside the Elk River. One of the “Top 10 Destination Marathons in North America” by Runner’s World magazine. Registration and info: www.steamboatmarathon.com Trek Demo 10 AM @ Steamboat Ski & Bike Kare (442 Lincoln Ave) Try out this year’s Trek road and mountain bikes, get voucher for discounted Trek bike. www.steamboatskiandbike.com Tennis Block Party 11 AM @Tennis Center, 2500 Pine Grove Rd. All ages. Tennis instruction, games, prizes, food and drinks. FREE. To register: 970-879-8400. Cosmic Dollar Night 7 PM @ Snow Bowl $1 PBR, $1 Games. Reservations: 970-879-9840 Psychedelic 70’s Sunday 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dancing. FREE Monday June 2 DIY Organic Gardening Series 5:30 PM @ Legacy Ranch (Highway 40 East) “Ground-Up” and Permaculture: discussion on climates and permaculture. Presenters: Karen Vail, Yampatika; Mary O’Brien, Black Bear Botanicals. $20/course or $80/series. Registration required, space limited. Call: 970-871-9151, www.yampatika.org Ladies 80’s Night 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dancing. FREE Open Mic Night 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Hosted by Jay Roemer. Free drink for Performers. FREE. Tuesday June 3 Woman’s Mountain Bike Clinic and Ride 5:45 PM @ Courthouse Lawn FREE ride and Clinic for women. www.steamboatskiandbike.com Danceworks Adult Class 6 PM @ The Art Depot Modern fusion dance class for adults. All levels welcome. Ballet, hip-hop, modern, African and Belly-dancing. Tuition: $15 for a drop in class. danceworks. steamboat@gmail.com, www.danceinsteamboat.com, 970-846-4450 Two-Step Tuesdays 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Country Dancing. $2 at Door
Bike Maintenance Clinic 7:30 PM @ Steamboat Ski & Bike Kare (442 Lincoln Ave) FREE tune-up workshop. www. steamboatskiandbike.com Dollar Bowling Night 9 PM @ Snow Bowl Only $1! Reservations: 970-879-9840 Wednesday June 4 Jesse Christensen 4 PM @ Aurum Light country acoustic rock. Wednesday Wonderings 5:30 PM @ Yampa River Botanic Park. Different topics of interest each week. Held at the Trillium House in the botanic park. FREE. Topic: Medicinal Tinctures, Mary O’Brien Cole Campbell 8 PM @ Schmiggity’s Solo Acoustic music. $2 at door www.schmiggitys.com Thursday June 5 Steamboat Writers Group Noon @ The Art Depot Writers discuss and critique their work. All are welcome. FREE. www.steamboatwriters. com, info@steamboatwriters. com School Days at the Mesa School Noon @ Mesa Schoolhouse (33985 U. S. Highway 40) Tour the historic Mesa Schoolhouse and experience student and teacher life at the turn-ofthe-century. Kids can play with replica historic toys. FREE. For more info: www.treadofpioneers.org Jody Feeley and Brad Rasmussen 4 PM @ Aurum Contemporary Rock Aural Elixir 6 PM @ Circle R Bar (Oak Creek) Mostly original, semi-improvised, piano poetry FREE Cabaret 2014 7 PM @ Chief Theater 32nd annual Steamboat Cabaret. “Steamboat Time, or there abouts” Ticket: $30. www.chieftheater.org Jaden Carlson Trio 9 PM @ Schmiggity’s Rockin’ Funk music. $5 online; $7 at door www.schmiggitys.com Bone Jugs & Harmony 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Novelty dance music Friday June 6 Jay Roemer 4 PM @ Aurum Rocking Bluegrass
To submit your events or calendar information e-mail: cody@yampavalleyvoice.com Events may be edited for length or content. Calendar entries must be received by the 15th of each month. Cabaret 2014 6 PM @ Chief Theater 32nd annual Steamboat Cabaret. “Steamboat Time, or there abouts” Ticket: $30. www.chieftheater.org Cabaret 2014 8:30 PM @ Chief Theater 32nd annual Steamboat Cabaret. “Steamboat Time, or there abouts” Ticket: $30. www.chieftheater.org Home Grown Jams 8:30 PM @ Circle R Bar (Oak Creek) Mountain Jam FREE Missed The Boat 10 PM @ Schmiggity’s Party-grass music. $5 online, $7 at door www.schmiggitys.com Saturday June 7 Urban Wildflower Walk 9 AM @ TBA downtown Steamboat Join Yampatika naturalist Karen Vail for the Urban Wildflower Walk. Registration required. Call: 970-871-9151 Paddleboard Yoga 9:30 AM @ Fetcher Pond Class that’s comfortable, yet effective in learning yoga and paddleboarding. For registration and info: www.steamboatpaddleboardadventures.com Cog Ride for ALS Noon @ 42065 Lookout Lane (Hayden) Bike Ride benefitting ALS research and treatment. BBQ, silent auction and live music. Race, $30; BBQ and Music, $30. Both, $50 in advance. For more info: 970-846-2333 Leaner, Lunker and Friends 4 PM @ Aurum Acoustic Rock Cabaret 2014 6 PM @ Chief Theater 32nd annual Steamboat Cabaret. “Steamboat Time, or there abouts” Ticket: $30. www.chieftheater.org Cosmic karaoke night 7 PM @ Snow Bowl FREE Karaoke! 970-879-9840 Cabaret 2014 8:30 PM @ Chief Theater 32nd annual Steamboat Cabaret. “Steamboat Time, or there abouts” Ticket: $30. www. chieftheater.org
Old Town Pickers 8:30 PM @ Circle R Bar (Oak Creek) Local Bluegrass FREE Better Than Bacon 10 PM @ Schmiggity’s Rockin’ funky blues. $3 online; $5 at door www.schmiggitys.com Chief Green Bud 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Marijuana music Sunday June 8 ReTree Colorado 8 AM @ Gondola Square ReTree Colorado plants 2,5004,000 trees annually with hundreds of volunteers. 5th year of the event. Locations of plantings vary. For updates, volunteer opportunities, and more info: www.yvsc.org/calendar/upcoming-events/retreesteamboat/ Chris Koltack 4 PM @ Aurum Acoustic Rock Cosmic Dollar Night 7 PM @ Snow Bowl $1 PBR, $1 Games. Reservations: 970-879-9840 Psychedelic 70’s Sunday 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dancing. FREE Monday June 9 Ride the Rockies Jun. 9 –Jun. 11 Annual bicycle tour takes 2,000 cyclists on a seven day ride through Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Steamboat is a host city for a two-night stay. For schedule info: www.ridetherockies.com Bike Week Jun. 9 – Jun. 15 @ Steamboat Springs In celebration of all things bicycles, Steamboat is hosting various activities and events. For more info: www.steamboatchamber.com/recreation/biking/bike-week DIY Organic Gardening Series 5:30 PM @ Legacy Ranch (Highway 40 East) Medicinal Herb Gardening. Local nourishing plants and safely using them. Presenters: Susan E. Mead, M.H. $20/ course or $80/series. Registration required, space limited. Call: 970-871-9151, www. yampatika.org
Ladies 80’s Night 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dancing. FREE Open Mic Night 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Hosted by Jay Roemer. Free drink for Performers. FREE. Tuesday June 10 Two-Step Tuesdays 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Country Dancing. $2 at Door Jared Sherlock and Nick Demeris 7 PM @ Chief Theater Modern magician Jared Sherlock, plus musical sidekick Nick Demeris host an evening of magic, comedy, music, and friendly audience interaction. Tickets: $15; www.chieftheater.org Dollar Bowling Night 9 PM @ Snow Bowl Only $1! Reservations: 970-879-9840 Wednesday June 11 Town Challenge Mountain Bike Race 5:30 PM @ Marabou Ranch Marabou XC race. Part of a 6 race mountain bike series held every summer. Both hill-climb and cross-country events are included. For all ages and classes from 5 years old – up. For registration and information: www.townchallenge.com Pat Waters 4 PM @ Aurum One man band Wednesday Wonderings 5:30 PM @ Yampa River Botanic Park Different topics of interest each week. Held at the Trillium House in the botanic park. FREE. Topic: Propagation by Cuttings, Jeff Morehead Wilderness Slide Show 6 PM @ Chief Theater Yampatika presents the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Wilderness Act. Event includes 75-minute presentation by John Fielder, featuring stunning slide show of more than 200 images of Colorado and other American wilderness areas accompanied by music. For ticket info: www.chieftheater.com Chris Koltak 8 PM @ Schmiggity’s Solo acoustic music. $2 at door www.schmiggitys.com Thursday June 12 Mustang Roundup June 12 – 15th @ Steamboat Springs 26th Annual Rocky Mountain Mustang Roundup. Over 400 Mustang owners from Rocky
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Routt County Riders Sponsorship Day Noon @ Steamboat Bike Park (Mt. Werner) Routt County Riders are a non-profit organization and International Mountain Biking Association Chapter club that continues to grow. Sponsorship day is held at the Steamboat Bike Park to benefit the Routt County Riders trail maintenance fund. Tickets are $15 Visit the Steamboat Bike Shop to purchase tickets and rentals. www.routtcountyriders.org Steamboat Writers Group Noon @ The Art Depot Writers discuss and critique their work. All are welcome. FREE. www.steamboatwriters. com, info@steamboatwriters. com Steamboat Community Blood Drive 12:30 PM @ Yampa Valley Medical Center Walk-ins from 3:00 – 5:30, space permitting. 1 hour process. Eat a full meal and drink water before donating blood. Donors receive small red cooler bag from Bonfils Blood Center. To schedule an appointment: Call Bonfils Appointment Center, 1-800-365-0006 (option 2) Sign up online at www. bonfils.org, using site code 0234. Jody Feeley and Brad Rasmussen 4 PM @ Aurum Contemporary Rock
Steamboat LOST Weekend 5:30 PM @ Chief Theater Kickoff for Ladies Only Sample Tour (LOST). June 12 -15. Fashion show, champagne and party. $10 Registration includes: party, participation button, and coupon book of special LOST deals. For more info: tracy@ mainstreetsteamboat.com, 970846-1800 BMX Series 6 PM @ Howelsen Hill The BMX summer race series on a USA BMX sanctioned track. Registration at 4:30 PM, Race at 6 PM. All ages. More info: www.usabmx.com Yampa Valley Photography Club 6:30 PM @ Bud Werner Memorial Library Theme: Shoot The Moon. Everyone and all abilities welcome. For more info: yampavalleyphoto@yahoo.com, 970-846-4577
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challenge. FREE General Admission. For competition tickets and information: steamboatmountainvillage.com/savorsteamboat
Fletcher’s Grove 8:30 PM @ Circle R Bar (Oak Creek) Appalachian Jam Rock. FREE
Cosmic karaoke night 7 PM @ Snow Bowl FREE Karaoke! 970-879-9840
Earth Like Twins 9 PM @ Schmiggity’s Electro-Funk Duo. $3 online; $5 at door www.schmiggitys.com Naïve Melodies 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Talking Head cover band Friday June 13 Jesse Christensen 4 PM @ Aurum Light country acoustic rock.
Ryan Cox 4 PM @ Aurum Acoustic Rock
Steamboat Pro Rodeo 7:30 PM @ Romick Arena (5th St. and Howelsen Parkway) BBQ and entertainment, Bareback riding, barrel racing, bull riding and more. Tickets at gate and several locations in town. Adults,$20 gate/$18 pre-sale; kids 7 -15, $10 gate/$9 presale; kids 6 and under, FREE. West Water Outlaws 10 PM @ Schmiggity’s High energy Rock Music. $5 online; $7 at door. www.schmiggitys.com
Gypsy Lumberjacks 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Bluegrass /Gypsy Jazz / Flamenco Tuesday June 17 International Wildlife Film Festival’s 2013 award-winning short films. 7 PM @ Bud Werner Memorial Library “The Silver of the Sea,” about Norway’s epic migrating herring shoals, and “Wild Things,” about native carnivores. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary.org/ events Two-Step Tuesdays 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Country Dancing. $2 at Door Dollar Bowling Night 9 PM @ Snow Bowl Only $1! Reservations: 970-879-9840 Wednesday June 18
Steamboat Pro Rodeo 7:30 PM @ Romick Arena BBQ and entertainment, Bareback riding, barrel racing, bull riding and more. Tickets at gate and several locations in town. Adults,$20 gate/$18 pre-sale; kids 7 -15, $10 gate/$9 presale; kids 6 and under, FREE.
Sunday June 15 Forrest Yoga Workshops 9 AM @ Sundance Studio with Kate Mulheron and Kelly Kessen of Boulder Topic: Heal your Back $30 advance; $40 @ door. www. sundance-studio.com
National Cattledog Association Finals Wed. Jun. 18- Sun. Jun. 22 10 AM @ Flying Diamond Ranch (30110 Hwy 131) 2nd annual National Cattledog Association Finals. Dogs in action herd 800-pound animals through a series of obstacles. Enjoy crafts booths, food and refreshments. Sponsored in part by Steamboat in the Summertime. Tickets: Adults $10/ day, $30/week; Children $5/ day, $15/week. For more info: www. nationalcattledog.com
Stringboard Theory 10 PM @ Schmiggity’s Groove Infused Funk Rock. $5 online; $7 at door www.schmiggitys.com
Leaner, Lunker and Friends 4 PM @ Aurum Acoustic Rock
Todd Mussleman 4 PM @ Aurum Acoustic Rock/Folk
Cosmic Dollar Night 7 PM @ Snow Bowl $1 PBR, $1 Games. Reservations: 970-879-9840
Wednesday Wonderings 5:30 PM @ Yampa River Botanic Park Different topics of interest each week. Held at the Trillium House in the botanic park. FREE. Topic: Transplanting, Gayle Lehman
Belinda Rossi 6 PM @ Circle R Bar (Oak Creek) FREE
Saturday June 14 Farmers Market 9AM @ 7th and Yampa St. 10th Annual Farmers Market. Over 75 vendors. Foods, arts and crafts, music. www.mainstreetsteamboat.com/farmersmarket Forrest Yoga Workshops 9 AM @ Sundance Studio with Kate Mulheron and Kelly Kessen of Boulder Topic: Breaking Free. $30 advance; $40 @ door. www. sundance-studio.com Paddleboard Yoga 9:30 AM @ Fetcher Pond Class that’s comfortable, yet effective in learning yoga and paddleboarding. For registration and info: www.steamboatpaddleboardadventures.com 2nd Annual Savor Steamboat 3 PM @ Torian Plum Plaza (Mt. Werner) Afternoon festival of food, drink and ranchers and music. Listen to bluegrass, enjoy the Ranch Rendezvous, Shake and Stir competition and the BBQ
Kind Country 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Folk/ Country from MN
Psychedelic 70’s Sunday 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dancing. FREE Monday June 16 DIY Organic Gardening Series 5:30 PM @ Legacy Ranch (Highway 40 East) Water Harvesting and Alternatives. Discussion on legality of rainwater harvesting, and alternatives. Presenters: Sonja Macys and Karen Vail, Yampatika. $20/course or $80/series. Registration required, space limited. Call: 970-871-9151, www.yampatika.org Evening with author Peter Heller 7 PM @ Bud Werner Memorial Library Heller will be speaking about his new novel, “The Painter.” FREE. www.steamboatlibrary. org/events Ladies 80’s Night 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dancing. FREE
Note By Note: The making of Steinway L1037 7 PM @ Bud Werner Memorial Library Documentary film tracing the creation of a single Steinway piano from the forests of Alaska to the stage of Carnegie Hall. Presented by Strings Music Festival and Bud Werner Memorial Library. FREE. www. steamboatlibrary.org/events Premium Blend 8 PM @ Schmiggity’s Acoustic rock duo. $2 at door www.schmiggitys.com Thursday June 19 Steamboat Writers Group Noon @ The Art Depot Writers discuss and critique their work. All are welcome. FREE. www.steamboatwriters. com, info@steamboatwriters. com
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School Days at the Mesa School Noon @ Mesa Schoolhouse (33985 U. S. Highway 40) Tour the historic Mesa Schoolhouse and experience student and teacher life at the turn-ofthe-century. Kids can play with replica historic toys. FREE. www.treadofpioneers.org Jody Feeley and Brad Rasmussen 4 PM @ Aurum Contemporary Rock BMX Series 6 PM @ Howelsen Hill The BMX summer race series on a USA BMX sanctioned track. Registration at 4:30 PM, Race at 6 PM. All ages. www.usabmx.com Monika Leigh 9 PM @ Schmiggity’s Acoustic Folk Rock. $3 online; $5 at door www.schmiggitys.com SOAP 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Highly danceable rock Friday June 20 Leaner, Lunker and Friends 4 PM @ Aurum Acoustic Rock Sylvia 7 PM @ Chief Theater A play about dog, the couple who adopts her, and the ensuing drama. Tickets: Adults, $20; Students, $10 www.chieftheater.org Steamboat Pro Rodeo 7:30 PM @ Romick Arena (5th St. and Howelsen Parkway) BBQ and entertainment, Bareback riding, barrel racing, bull riding and more. Tickets at gate and several locations in town. Adults,$20 gate/$18 pre-sale; kids 7 -15, $10 gate/$9 presale; kids 6 and under, FREE. Wheeler Brothers 10 PM @ Schmiggity’s Rock/ Americana. $7 online; $10 at door www.schmiggitys.com Saturday June 21 Give It a Tri 6 AM @ Old Town Hot Springs Kids & Family Triathlon Various distances for kids based on age group, adult, beginner and competitive divisions. Details and registration: www.getfitfamilyracing.com. Howelsen 8 Miler 8 AM @ Olympian Hall (845 Howelsen Parkway) Part of the Steamboat Springs Running Series. 8M and 4M runs on Emerald Mountain. For info and registration: www. runningseries.com/races/howelsen.php
Farmers Market 9AM @ 7th and Yampa St. 10th Annual Farmers Market. Over 75 vendors. Foods, arts and crafts, music. www.mainstreetsteamboat.com/farmersmarket Yoga in the Botanic Park. 9 AM @ The Botanic Park Green. Sink your feet into lush lawn. All levels. Bring a mat/towel and water. FREE. Suggested $10 donation supports The Park. Free goodies, too! Info: Patty 970-846-5608. zimmer@ springsips.com Paddleboard Yoga 9:30 AM @ Fetcher Pond Class that’s comfortable, yet effective in learning yoga and paddleboarding. For registration and info: www.steamboatpaddleboardadventures.com Pat Waters 4 PM @ Aurum One man band Free Concert Series 5:30 PM @ Howelsen Hill 2014 Steamboat Free Summer Concert Series. Featuring: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. FREE Summer Solstice Celebration 6:30 PM @ Sundance Studio All-levels yoga workshop to celebrate the Summer Solstice with Chelsea Call $25 or $20 early registration by June 20th. www.sundancestudio.com Cosmic karaoke night 7 PM @ Snow Bowl FREE Karaoke! 970-879-9840 Sylvia 7 PM @ Chief Theater A play about dog, the couple who adopts her, and the ensuing drama. Tickets: Adults, $20; Students, $10 www.chieftheater.org Steamboat Pro Rodeo 7:30 PM @ Romick Arena (5th St. and Howelsen Parkway) BBQ and entertainment, Bareback riding, barrel racing, bull riding and more. Tickets at gate and several locations in town. Adults,$20 gate/$18 pre-sale; kids 7 -15, $10 gate/$9 presale; kids 6 and under, FREE. America 8 PM @ Strings Music Pavilion, Grammy Award-winning classic rock. For tickets and information: 970-879-5056 (Ext. 105), Stringsmusicfestival.com Bill Smith 10 PM @ Schmiggity’s Industrial Dance Jazz. $5 online; $7 at door www.schmiggitys.com
Sunday June 22 Sylvia 2 PM @ Chief Theater Special Matinee A play about dog, the couple who adopts her, and the ensuing drama. Tickets: Adults, $20; Students, $10 www.chieftheater.org Leaner, Lunker and Friends 4 PM @ Aurum Acoustic Rock Cosmic Dollar Night 7 PM @ Snow Bowl $1 PBR, $1 Games. Reservations: 970-879-9840 Psychedelic 70’s Sunday 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dancing. FREE Monday June 23 DIY Organic Gardening Series 5:30 PM @ Legacy Ranch (Highway 40 East) Pollinators and Pollinator Gardening; Noxious weeds, and land use challenges Presenters: Karen Vail, Yampatika; Greg Brown, Routt County $20/course or $80/series. Registration required, space limited. Call: 970-871-9151, www.yampatika.org “Tap or Die” 7 PM @ Bud Werner Memorial Library Part of the Dance On Film Series. Presented by Bud Werner Memorial Library Perry-Mansfield and Steamboat Dance Theatre. FREE.www. steamboatlibrary.org/events Ladies 80’s Night 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dancing. FREE Open Mic Night 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Hosted by Jay Roemer. Free drink for Performers. FREE. Tuesday June 24 Yoga in the Botanic Park. 9 AM @ The Botanic Park Green. Sink your feet into lush lawn. All levels. Bring a mat/towel and water. FREE. Suggested $10 donation supports The Park. Free goodies, too! Info: Patty, 970-846-5608. zimmer@ springsips.com Olympic Heritage Walking Tour 9 AM @ Olympian Hall (Howelsen Hill) Easy walking tour explores Steamboat’s Olympic heritage from Carl Howelsen to the Winter Sports Club. Participants receive a $1 off coupon to the Tread of Pioneers Museum and FREE ticket for chairlift. FREE.
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The Not-Its! 11 AM @ Strings Music Pavilion Seattle-based group playing music for young children. $1 youth tickets. For tickets and information: 970-879-5056 (Ext. 105), Stringsmusicfestival.com George Winston 7 PM @ Strings Music Pavilion Grammy Award-winning pianist plays eclectic style on Strings’ new Steinway For tickets and information: 970-879-5056 (Ext. 105), Stringsmusicfestival.com Two-Step Tuesdays 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Country Dancing. $2 at Door Dollar Bowling Night 9 PM @ Snow Bowl Only $1! Reservations: 970-879-9840 Wednesday June 25 Mineral Springs Walking Tour 9 AM @ The Art Depot Yampatika naturalist discusses the curative properties of the springs and why Steamboat was slated as a world-class spa destination. Participants receive a $1 off coupon to the Tread of Pioneers Museum. FREE Jesse Christensen 4 PM @ Aurum Light country acoustic rock. Town Challenge Mountain Bike Race 5:30 PM @ Mt. Werner Sunshine Loop XC race. Part of a 6 race mountain bike series held every summer. Both hillclimb and cross-country events are included. For all ages and classes from 5 years old – up. For registration and information: www.townchallenge.com Wednesday Wonderings 5:30 PM @ Yampa River Botanic Park Different topics of interest each week. Held at the Trillium House in the botanic park. FREE. Topic: TBA Quiles & Cloud 8 PM @ Schmiggity’s Folk-Americana duo $2 at door www.schmiggitys.com Thursday June 26 Meditation in the Botanic Park 9 AM @ The Botanic Park Green. Meditation in The Park. Some gentle movement and meditation guidance. All welcome! Bring a mat/towel and water. FREE. Suggested $10 donation supports The Park. Free goodies, too! Info: Patty, 970-8465608. zimmer@springsips.com
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Calendar of Events Downtown Historical Walking Tour 9 AM @ Tread of Pioneers Museum (800 Oak St.) Easy walking tour highlights historic buildings and architecture of Steamboat Springs. Participants receive a $1 off coupon to the Tread of Pioneers Museum. FREE Steamboat Writers Group Noon @ The Art Depot Writers discuss and critique their work. All are welcome. FREE. www.steamboatwriters. com, info@steamboatwriters. com Trevor G. Potter 12:15 PM @ Yampa River Botanic Park, Local Musician, part of the Music on the Green series. FREE. For information: 970879-5056 (Ext. 105), Stringsmusicfestival.com Jody Feeley and Brad Rasmussen 4 PM @ Aurum Contemporary Rock BMX Series 6 PM @ Howelsen Hill The BMX summer race series on a USA BMX sanctioned track. Registration at 4:30 PM, Race at 6 PM. All ages. More info: www. usabmx.com Evening with Arturo LopezLevy 7 PM @ Bud Werner Memorial Library Latin American policy expert Arturo Lopez-Levy speaks about changes in post-Fidel Cuba and their implications for United States foreign policy. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary. org/events
Pat Waters 4 PM @ Aurum One man band Sylvia 7 PM @ Chief Theater A play about dog, the couple who adopts her, and the ensuing drama. Tickets: Adults, $20; Students, $10 www.chieftheater.org Steamboat Pro Rodeo 7:30 PM @ Romick Arena (5th St. and Howelsen Parkway) BBQ and entertainment, Bareback riding, barrel racing, bull riding and more. Tickets at gate and several locations in town. Adults,$20 gate/$18 pre-sale; kids 7 -15, $10 gate/$9 presale; kids 6 and under, FREE. Filthy Children 10 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dirty funk $5 online; $7 at door www.schmiggitys.com The Congress 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Denver based Rock Saturday June 28 Farmers Market 9AM @ 7th and Yampa St. 10th Annual Farmers Market. Over 75 vendors. Foods, arts and crafts, music. www.mainstreetsteamboat.com/farmersmarket Yoga in the Botanic Park. 9 AM @ The Botanic Park Green. Sink your feet into lush lawn. All levels. Bring a mat/towel and water. FREE. Suggested $10 donation supports The Park. Free goodies, too! Info: Patty, 970-846-5608. zimmer@ springsips.com
Sylvia 7 PM @ Chief Theater A play about dog, the couple who adopts her, and the ensuing drama. Tickets: Adults, $20; Students, $10 www.chieftheater.org
Paddleboard Yoga 9:30 AM @ Fetcher Pond Class that’s comfortable, yet effective in learning yoga and paddleboarding. For registration and info: www.steamboatpaddleboardadventures.com
Highland View 9 PM @ Schmiggity’s Smokin’ grass music/ Grass smoking music $3 online; $5 at door www.schmiggitys.com
Jim Walters 4 PM @ Aurum Acoustic Rock
Friday June 27 TOP Museum’s Brown Bag Lecture Series Noon @ Tread of Pioneers Museum (800 Oak St.) Discover the history of Steamboat Springs through the locals. Hour program features a lecture topic revealing the history of the area. Bring a friend and lunch. www.treadofpioneers.org
Sylvia 7 PM @ Chief Theater A play about dog, the couple who adopts her, and the ensuing drama. Tickets: Adults, $20; Students, $10 www.chieftheater.org Cosmic karaoke night 7 PM @ Snow Bowl FREE Karaoke! 970-879-9840 Steamboat Pro Rodeo 7:30 PM @ Romick Arena (5th St. and Howelsen Parkway) BBQ and entertainment, Bareback riding, barrel racing, bull
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Happy Hours riding and more. Tickets at gate and several locations in town. Adults,$20 gate/$18 pre-sale; kids 7 -15, $10 gate/$9 presale; kids 6 and under, FREE. Opening Night Orchestra 8 PM @ Strings Music Pavilion Orchestra: Tchaikovsky and Piazzolla. For tickets and information: 970-879-5056 (Ext. 105), Stringsmusicfestival.com Springdale Quartet 10 PM @ Schmiggity’s Groovy Jazz-Funk $5 online; $7 at door www.schmiggitys.com Sunday June 29 Jay Roemer 4 PM @ Aurum Rocking Bluegrass Cosmic Dollar Night 7 PM @ Snow Bowl $1 PBR, $1 Games. Reservations: 970-879-9840
Last minute changes can and do occur - Mother Nature, illness, tour malfunction, whatever - the accuracy of this calendar is not guaranteed!
The Rusted Porch 2-6 PM, Everyday McKnight’s Irish Pub & Loft 4-6 PM, Everyday Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant 3-6 PM, Everyday Sunpie’s Bistro 3-6 PM, Everyday Steamboat Smokehouse 3-6 PM, Everyday Mambo Italiano 3-6 PM, Everyday Carl’s Tavern 4-6 PM, Everyday Cantina 4-6 PM, Everyday
Psychedelic 70’s Sunday 7 PM @ Schmiggity’s Dancing. FREE
Old Town Pub 4-6 PM, Everyday
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Boathouse Pub 4-6 PM, Everyday
DIY Organic Gardening Series 5:30 PM @ The Home Ranch (54880 County Road 129, Clark) Local Producers Visits. Visit and discuss local gardens and greenhouse of the Home Ranch. $20/course or $80/series. Registration required, space limited. Call: 970-871-9151, www.yampatika.org Watchtower 7 PM @ Chief Theater Part of Bud Werner Memorial Library’s Foreign Film Series. Turkish film. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary. org/events All About Me 8 PM @ Schmiggity’s 80s Dance music. FREE Open Mic Night 10 PM @ Old Town Pub Hosted by Jay Roemer. Free drink for Performers. FREE.
Sweetwater Grill 4-6 PM, Everyday Big House Burgers & Bottlecap Bar 4:20-6 PM, Mon – Sun Rex’s American Grill & Bar 4:20-6 PM, Everyday 8th Street Steakhouse 4:30-6 PM, Everyday Mahogany Ridge Brewery & Grill 4 – 5:30 PM, Everyday Laundry 4:30-6, Everyday Riggio’s Ristorante 5-6 PM, Everyday Mazzola’s Italian Restaurant 5-6 PM, Everyday Bistro CV 5-6:30 PM, Everyday The Tap House 3-6 PM, Mon. – Fri. Slopeside Grill 3 – 6 PM, Mon. – Fri. Cugino’s Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant 4-6 PM, Mon. – Fri. Circle R Bar 4-6 PM, Thurs. – Sat.
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. – Miguel
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Psychedelic 70's Sunday Dancing FREE 7 pm
Psychedelic 70's Sunday Dancing FREE 7 pm
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Psychedelic 70's Sunday Dancing FREE 7 pm
Ladies 80’s Night Dancing FREE 7 pm
Ladies 80’s Night
Two-Step Tuesday Country Dancing $2 Door 7 pm
Two-Step Tuesday
Dancing FREE 7 pm
Country Dancing $2 Door 7 pm
Ladies 80’s Night
Two-Step Tuesday
Dancing FREE 7 pm
Country Dancing $2 Door 7 pm
Ladies 80’s Night
Two-Step Tuesday
Dancing FREE 7 pm
All About Me 80’s Dance $5 Door 8 pm
Country Dancing $2 Door 7 pm
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Jaden Carlson Trio
Solo Acoustic $2 Door 8 pm
Rockin’ Funk $5 presale; $7 door 9 pm
Chris Koltak
Earth Like Twins
Missed the Boat
Party-Grass $5 presale; $7 door 10 pm
Stringboard Theory
Solo Acoustic $2 Door 8 pm
Electro-Funk duo $3 presale; $5 door 9 pm
Groove Infused Funk Rock $5 presale; $7 door 10 pm
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Monika Leigh
80’s/90’s Dance - 8pm
Acoustic Rock Duo $2 Door 8 pm
Acoustic Folk-Rock $3 presale; $5 door 9 pm
Quiles & Cloud
Americana Folk/Rock - 8pm
Folk-Americana Duo $2 Door 8 pm
Ashley Monical Highland View
Smokin’ Grass - 10pm $5 presale; $7 door
All About Me
Better Than Bacon Rock/Funk/Blues $3 presale; $5 door 10 pm
West Water Outlaws
High-Energy Rock n Roll $5 presale; $7 door 10 pm
Bill Smith
Rock/Americana - 11:30pm $7 presale; $10 door
Wheeler Brothers
Industrial Jazz Dance $5 presale; $7 door 10 pm
Filthy Children
Springdale Quartet
Funk $5 presale; $7 door 10 pm
Groove-Jazz-Funk $5 presale; $7 door 10 pm
DOORS OPEN NIGHTLY AT 7 PM Presale tickets available at www.schmiggitys.com & All That Jazz
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Sustainably Situated
It’s not just about planting trees By Andy Kennedy for YVSC Since 2010 the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council has been a part of the ReTree Steamboat legacy, at which dedicated volunteers have planted over 20,000 trees. But it’s not just about digging holes and dropping in saplings. In alignment with our mission, ReTree is also acutely focused on the trees’ long-term care. Like adopting a puppy, it’s not just about taking one home, it’s about being the guardian throughout his entire life. When it comes to trees, that life extends through generations, and thus, while ReTree demands many hands to help get the trees in the ground, this program also requires a sustainable youth stewardship component to ensure its longterm success.
life; how to meet energy and other resource needs; how to create and sustain healthy communities; and how to provide opportunities for residents to partake in the state’s natural beauty while protecting it for future generations.
This ongoing, hands-on involvement in the life of the new trees will significantly increase the odds of survival for the trees. Through watering and long-term care of the newly planted trees, youth engagement in past ReTree events has had a measureable effect on the survival of the seedlings. Initial survival rates for the trees planted during ReTree Steamboat 2013 were measured in October 2013 and are scheduled again for May 21, 2013. The initial results showed great success—over 80% survival at all three planting locations, drastically increased from the first year in 2010. We are confident the spring survival rates will be above or on par with 2012 planting survival rates, which averaged 60%. This rate is a huge success given the ongoing extreme drought conditions in Routt County.
In its fifth year, ReTree 2014 will only see 1200 trees being planted in 3 locations – Hayden’s Dry Creek Park on May 15, North Routt Community Charter School on May 22 and along the Core Trail in Steamboat on June 8 – but the 20,000 trees that have been planted in the past four years are just as important. With the help of over 1600 volunteers so far, we are fostering new forests slowly but surely. ReTree was founded in 2010 by Steamboat Springs resident Tristan Frolich, after he won a one-time $20,000 grant from SunChips and National Geographic to support his proposed one-day tree planting project to reforest areas devastated by the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic. The inaugural event on June 26, 2010 jump-started reforestation efforts throughout Routt County. That day, not only were over 12,000 thousand trees planted, but volunteers also united together to create change in their community and surrounding environment. Through ReTree Steamboat, YVSC is addressing the root cause of the poor condition of Colorado’s—and our nation’s—forests. A primary factor in the massive devastation caused by the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic is decades of forest mismanagement, including a lack of diversity (vast stands of single tree species of the same age), fire suppression, and a misunderstanding of how humans and forests are—and should be—connected. Although the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic was the impetus for ReTree, the event has now evolved to focus on the bigger picture of getting people connected and committed to their community forests. This change has led to a focus on quality over quantity of trees planted, a strong partnership with the Colorado State Forest
If you want to help out with the success story of these trees and our local forest, contact YVSC at info@yvsc.org or 970-871-9299 to get into the watering rotation, and help us ensure forests for the next generation. Learn more about ReTree and all the locations we’ve planted since 2010 at www.yvsc.org/retree.
Service (CSFS), education of ReTree participants about how a forest works, a commitment to—and long-term investment in— the survival of trees, and, above all, a change in the relationship between participants and their local forests, or “community forestry.” There is no better way to ensure a healthier future for our planet than by educating youth. Each year YVSC engages an ever-growing group of youth into the longterm care of the trees. This year, in partnership with the Services Learning Corps, Community Youth Corps, 4-H, and local school groups, more than 200 students will assist in planting, monitoring, and watering the ReTree seedlings. The work helps youth establish an appreciation for the forests, gain knowledge of scientific monitoring practices, and gain a sense of satisfaction as they become intimately involved in the care and survival of the newly-planted trees. Colorado’s environment, economy, and communities depend on informed citizens who can make decisions about air and water quality; the health of farms, ranches, forests and wild-
We did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to. – Smokey Robinson
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Olfactory Fun By Karen Vail
wafts up to greet you and it is that wonderful earthy smell of soil. This is the best!! You can thank bacteria for this one. Actinomycetes are bacteria growing in damp, warm soils. When the soil dries out, the bacteria produce spores in the soil. The force of the rain bounces these spores into the air where the moisture after a storm acts as an aerosol carrying the spores up into the air where we breathe them in. If we have had a prolonged dry spell the aroma will be even more pronounced. These bacteria are found all over the world so travelling to Australia will bring on the same aromatic nostalgia as being in our own Yampa Valley (or close, anyway). Here comes summer and the sensory stimulus that comes with it. Aaah, I love the aromas and feelings and tastings (I know, not a word, but just think of fresh picked wild strawberries!). I think what I miss most in winter is the sense of smell. It really is pretty dull in the winter. I might pick up a fox or elk scent while I am out skiing, but there is nothing like the aromas of summer weather! The smell of an oncoming storm is amazing. Just tip your head into the wind, close your eyes and breathe in the tinge of rain and oncoming frenzy. Why can we smell storms, and what are those aromas? Get on the raincoat! The storm is moving your way and you begin to smell a zingy, fresh and sweet scent. That is ozone, which originates from the Greek word ozein meaning “to smell.” Ozone is a strange form of oxygen created from the electrical charges in the clouds. Ozone also comes from fertilizers and pollutants as well as several other natural sources. Our normal atmospheric oxygen is made up of two atoms – O2. But ozone has three oxygen molecules – O3. As the storm approaches, the downdrafts carry O3 from high in the atmosphere, where it was produced, to nose level. Here comes the rain and we are finding shelter under a lodgepole pine. If it has been dry for a while before this storm moved in, the odors from the storm will be more intense. This is because volatile molecules from plants and whatever is spilled on concrete and asphalt have had plenty of time to collect on solid surfaces. Falling water nudges these molecules into the air and to our nose. These scents are called petrichor. Some of these aromas can be pleasing, as most plant aromas are, or unpleasant, such as the smells from gasoline and other chemicals on asphalt. The rain is easing and stepping out from under the lodgepole pine you are surrounded with the petrichor of the pine and other plant aromas. Then another aroma
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Spring brings a flurry of bird activity as mating rituals are energetically rehearsed, nests are constructed and the serious business of rearing little balls of fluff takes on urgency as the parents try to keep up with their young ones’ ever expanding appetites. It is so fun watching the birds building their nests as much of this is done before the trees and shrubs have fully leafed out. I was watching a black-billed magpie constructing this huge mass-of-twigs nest outside the Egg and I. Both the male and female magpie help in building their domed nest, although they occasionally do not agree on where it should be placed. The female builds a mud cup, which the male then surrounds with large sticks; the thornier and “stickier” the better. The female will complete the mud cup with grass or other soft items. Many people think these large nests in oaks, conifers, and many other trees look like squirrel nests. But our pine squirrels nest only in lodgepole pine and make a smaller, more refined nest. Another fascinating nest is that of the Bullock’s oriole. The nests are placed high in trees in more open wooded areas, usually near water, and resemble a deep hanging basket woven from hair, grasses and other plant materials, and occasional pieces of plastic. The nest is lined with soft feathers, cottonwood or aspen seed fluff or other found items. The Tuesday Bird Walks with Yampatika through June are a great way to learn even more about our fascinating feathered friends and the sessions are free. Yampatika also offers wildflower hikes and medicinal herb walks, plus many more adult field school offerings. Enjoy the summer rain and we will see you on the trail!
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The Why behind the “IN GOD WE TRUST” Motto on United States Money By Scott L. Ford
The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was first placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment that occurred during the Civil War. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase received many appeals as the nation was plunged into war from devout persons throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize God on United States coins. From Treasury Department records, it appears that the first such appeal came in a letter dated November 13, 1861. It was written to Secretary Chase by Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel living in Pennsylvania. The US mint under the directorship of the Secretary of the Treasury could make no change to the coinage of the United States without approval of Congress. The approval to include the motto, IN GOD WE TRUST, passed Congress on April 22, 1864. The motto first appeared on one cent and two cent coins minted in late 1864. Over the course of the next two years it appeared on the majority of newly minted coinage. The use of IN GOD WE TRUST has not been uninterrupted on all coinage. The use of the motto was sporadic depending on the coin’s value. For example, the motto disappeared from nickels minted after 1883 and did not reappear until 1938. The motto has been in continuous use on the one cent coin since 1909, and on the ten cent coin since 1916. It also has appeared on all gold coins and silver dollar coins, half-dollar coins, and quarter-dollar coins struck since July 1, 1908. In 1956, the President approved a resolution of Congress, declaring IN GOD WE TRUST as the national motto of the United States. IN GOD WE TRUST was first used on paper money in 1957, when it appeared on the one dollar silver certificate. The first paper currency bearing the motto entered circulation on October 1, 1957. Over the next ten years the motto was incorporated into all denominations of coinage and paper currency.
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Salmonella: Coming Soon to a Grocery Store Near You. Legally. By Erica Olson for Deep Roots
It’s illegal to sell unsafe cars. It’s illegal to sell unsafe toys. But it’s perfectly legal to sell meat contaminated with salmonella, a bacteria that kills hundreds of Americans each year and sickens thousands more. Specifically, it’s legal for poultry producers to have up to 7.5% of their broiler carcasses and 49.9% of their ground turkey test positive for salmonella.
Beef Processors, Inc. for repeatedly failing salmonella performance standards in their ground beef. In return, Supreme Beef sued the USDA, arguing that the agency did not have the legal right to do so. Part of their argument was that since the raw material came in already contaminated with salmonella, it was beyond the USDA’s scope to declare salmonella an adulterant in the finished product. Not only was Supreme Beef granted an injunction, but the appeals court decided that the USDA did not have the legal right to enforce their salmonella regulations.
What’s even worse? When those numbers are higher, the USDA (specifically, their Food Safety and Inspection Service division) does not have the authority to issue a mandatory recall or shut down a plant’s production. How is that even possible? It’s possible because salmonella is not classified as an adulterant, which is the legal term for a substance in food that is unsafe, thereby rendering contaminated food illegal to sell. Despite the fact that salmonella is a potentially deadly bacteria--and one with more and more strains becoming antibiotic-resistant, making them increasingly difficult to treat--it is not legally considered a “poisonous or deleterious substance that may render meat injurious to health.”
If you think something stinks in Denmark, you’re right. Time for a little history lesson. As some of you may remember, back in 1993 there was a major E. coli outbreak. Over 600 people got sick, four children died, and many of the survivors suffered longterm complications. The outbreak was traced to undercooked hamburger meat at Jack in the Box restaurants, and brought food safety to the public’s attention as a matter of significant importance. In 1994, the FSIS’s new Administrator, Michael Taylor, took the bold step of declaring E. coli O157:H7 (the type of E. coli involved in the Jack in the Box outbreak) as an adulterant in raw ground beef. This was a brave new world as far as food safety was concerned; prior to Taylor’s announcement, the term “adulterant” had usually been reserved for chemicals or foreign objects. This classification meant that ground beef contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 was now illegal to sell and must be discarded when tested positive. As a result, there has been an 80% decrease in E. coli O157:H7 in the last twenty years. In 1999, the FSIS began making the distinction between E. coli O157:H7 in “intact” meat versus “nonintact” meat, reflecting the USDA’s traditional stance regarding pathogens. If the bacteria in question would be destroyed during “customary cooking practices” standard for that type and cut of meat, the USDA does not be declare it an adulterant. For example, E. coli is allowed on roasts, steaks, and other whole pieces of meat because they way they are usually cooked kills any bacteria on the surface of the meat. However, the internal temperature of a medium-rare burger does not get high enough to kill E. coli, so it remained an adulterant--but only in raw ground beef.
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This policy backfired on the USDA in 1999 when FSIS attempted to shut down a meat plant called Supreme
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Supreme Beef’s victory, combined with FSIS naming a specific type of E. coli as an adulterant, has created the expectation that each strain of bacteria must be declared an adulterant before the meat industry will begin to police itself--or allow itself to be policed. In 2011, the USDA named six more strains of E. coli as adulterants, reinforcing that outlook. To this day, however, salmonella is not considered to be an adulterant. Instead, the FSIS regards it as an “indicator organism”; companies are judged whether or not they are producing safe food based on the amount of salmonella and other bacteria found. Poultry plants are not required to consider the presence of salmonella as a “hazard likely to occur” in their prevention-based safety guidelines, nor as a significant risk that needs to be controlled during processing.
This is not the only safety flaw in the FSIS’s take on “food safety” where salmonella in poultry is concerned. Several other noteworthy weaknesses exist, including the lack of performance standards for chicken parts, which are purchased far more commonly than whole chickens (Consumer Reports noted a few years ago that half of all raw chicken breasts were found to be contaminated with antibiotic-resistant salmonella.) These performance standards are not updated regularly, and plants are inspected only once every one to two years--with advance notice given, to boot. The farms that produce the chickens have even less responsibility; there are no requirements at that level for measures to help reduce salmonella infection in chickens before they arrive at processing plants. Of course, the USDA is under immense pressure from those industries not to shore up any of these weaknesses due to the increased expense the businesses will incur. In order to protect consumers, the first step is declare salmonella as an adulterant. Until then, salmonella-contaminated meat and poultry are perfectly legal to sell to the public. How’s that chicken tasting now?
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Dog’s Life
Life and Times of Ticks and Fleas By Lisa Mason
The majority of topical flea and tick treatments on the commercial market make me nervous. (One product label cautions: “Avoid contact with skin, eyes or clothing. Wash thoroughly with soap and water after handling.” So it’s Ok to put on my dog’s skin but not my own? Hmmm…) Putting a deadly, toxic pesticide onto my dog’s skin isn’t appealing to me, but check out the EPA Pesticide Division’s take on Fipronil, Imidacloprid, and Pyrethrins – chemicals used in many anti-flea products – and decide for yourself. Flea and tick bites are terrible and the resulting itching can be unbearable for your dog. Thriving in 65° to 80° humid climates, flea infestation for those living above 5,000’ and/or where freezing can happen year-round is fairly low. But fleas (and ticks) can still happen. There are four life stages for the flea: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The life cycle from larva to adult lasts approximately 3-6 weeks. The adult flea living on your dog’s skin lays (possibly hundreds of) eggs which then fall off and hatch in the dog’s environment – be it outside or inside. Then worm-like larvae, which feed on the feces of the adult fleas, are hatched from the eggs and burrow down into dark, hidden areas (inside under furniture cushions, in the cracks of your wood floors or your dog’s bedding or outside in leaf piles, mulched flower beds or underneath decks) and after a couple of weeks, spin protective cocoons which defend the developing pupae from outside threats such as insecticides. Finally, stimulated by external forces such as heat, moisture or even the vibrations of a vacuum cleaner, new adult fleas emerge from the pupal state to bite your dog. What to do? • First and foremost: a healthy dog with a strong immune system creates an inhospitable environment, making your dog less “tasty” to a flea. Fleas tend to pick on dogs with compromised/weakened immune systems or those that are ill. Feeding a species appropriate raw meat, homemade/commercial diet or adding human-grade food to your dog’s meals is a good
way to boost your dog’s overall health. Dogs are what they eat, after all… Adding supplements of fresh garlic (check out Dr. Pitcairn’s or Dr. Marty Goldstein’s book mentioned below for info on safe doses*) and Vitamin B complex to your dog’s diet may also help make her less appealing to fleas. • Frequent grooming of your dog with a flea comb allows you to check for fleas, once a day, every day, during the infestation season. Comb around the dog’s tail, stomach, and face, where fleas tend to congregate. Look for fleas, as well as flea eggs (tiny white specks) and flea feces (slightly larger black specks). Drop anything you find into a glass of water; it will drown the eggs and fleas. With ticks, my recommendation is to do a nose-to-tail check after every hike. • Believe it or not, simply bathing, with a gentle, diluted shampoo will kill fleas by drowning them. Leave the lather on for 3-5 minutes, then rinse thoroughly. Please don’t bathe your dog daily since this can dry out her skin. Bathing alone doesn’t control the fleas, but it can be a quick, partial remedy if your dog has a sudden outbreak. Adding a few drops of organic essential oils to the shampoo – such as lavender (also has soothing properties), citronella, neem, eucalyptus and/or cedar oil are a few possibilities – can create a natural repellant for your dog. Cedar oil can work repelling ticks as well.
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• Create your own natural topical spray repellants. Mix approximately 10 drops of essential oil with 1 T of olive oil. Results may vary. All dogs are unique individuals and what may work for one dog may not work for another. If you don’t get the desired results after 3-4 weeks, try another combo of oils. • Wash floors and vacuum daily (get in those cracks and toss the SEALED vacuum bag when finished each time!) Applying a layer of human-grade diatomaceous earth or Boric Acid Borax to your dog’s bedding, the carpeting and outside on the lawns and flower beds helps kill fleas. Flooding any outdoor areas where you dog frequents with a garden hose also works to drown adult fleas, and kill flea larvae, pupae, and eggs. Be aware that some pets have a condition called flea allergy dermatitis (FAD), a sensitivity to flea saliva. The saliva from the bite of ONE flea can cause incredible irritation and itching. So, even though you may not see fleas, a dog with FAD can be miserable with itching discomfort that can last for many weeks – long after the fleas are gone. Be vigilant. Flea and tick season is upon us! *The Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats, by Dr. Richard Pitcairn, DVM The Nature of Animal Healing, Dr. Martin Goldstein, DVM
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The Way I See It
Shinin’ Gleamin’, Streamin’, Flaxen, Waxen By Nina Rogers
Shinin’, Gleamin’, Streamin’, Flaxen, Waxen I have a confession to make. Hello, I’m Nina and I have curly hair! Gasp! Okay, apparently no one is surprised except me, and I’m only surprised because I am REALLY good at denial! I always wanted straight hair, but my father’s hair genes dictated otherwise. Unlike my father’s hair, though, my hair has always been baby fine, like my mother’s. Baby fine and fly-away. So the one time I tried to do the trick of rolling my hair around huge curlers to straighten it, little tendrils of hair wrapped the wrong way around the rollers, and I practically had to shave my head to get the rollers back out. So, no more of that! Of course, I always insisted on long hair (I think I pictured long, flowing locks), so my hair mostly lived in a ponytail as I was growing up. In my teens, Charlie’s Angels was popular and all the girls wanted to look like an Angel. Who did I choose? Oh, no, not Farrah that would have made too much sense, since her hair actually was fairly curly. No, I wanted to have hair like Jacqueline Smith - her hair cut started at her jawline, then curved gently down to just below her shoulders in the back, smooth and silky. I had a friend who said she could cut my hair that way, so one afternoon we got my hair good and wet (mistake #1!) and she began snipping away, starting at my jawline. It apparently didn’t occur to either one of us that curly hair might look straight when it’s wet, but guess what happens when it dries? Yep, it curls - a lot! So, my ‘do that was supposed to start at my jawline and curve gently down to my shoulders shrunk up to begin at my ears, and it just puffed out like a clown wig (I lived in the Midwest at the time and the one thing that one could count on was humidity. Humidity + curly hair = FRIZZ!) My mother rescued me and cut my hair into a short shag, which she said looked cute, but I didn’t want to hear it because it was, after all, curly and I wanted my hair to be straight! When I turned “freak” in high school, there was a brief period in which I felt lucky for my hair, as all the other
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girls were braiding their hair into tiny little braids so that when they took the braids out, their hair would be wavy and kinky and I didn’t have to do the braid thing, since my hair already was. In my later teens, I got a curling iron and, if I wanted to spend a couple of hours with it, I could get the hair I always craved - smooth and shiny with just the right amount of body - until I exposed it to rain or humidity, that is! Finally, I hit on a plan that worked for a long time - after washing my hair, I’d pull it back into a twist and pin it to the back of my head. Once it dried, my hair stayed fairly smooth, with an adorable little curly cue at the end. My hair and I had made peace. Fast forward 20 years or so. As my hair became more gray (hair stylists never say “gray” - they say “Your hair is getting lighter!”), it became more aggressively curly and less willing to cooperate. No matter how tightly I pulled it back, fly-aways would pop up almost immediately, and I soon looked very much like a Q-tip! I tried putting goo in my hair, but couldn’t stand the way it felt. I struggled to find a solution for quite some time and then finally, last fall, I went all Aries and chopped a bunch of it off. And yes, I know one should never cut one’s own hair and all that, but when I go Aries, I go Aries! It turned out fine, since really curly hair can cover a multitude of sins. In a few months I had gotten tired of pulling it back, so I cut off some more. After a couple of friends helped me to trim and shape it some, I have to admit, it’s kind of fun! I never know how it’s going to behave and if I don’t like my style that day, all I have to do is wet my hands and run them through my hair and, Voila!, new look! But finally admitting that my hair is c-c-curly made me realize just how long I’ve been in denial about having curly hair, since I always saw myself with straight hair! Even with all the evidence to the contrary staring me in the face every morning, I still saw myself with straight hair! And then I get to thinking about when I was a Cub Scout. My mother was a Den mother and my father was a Pack leader, so we often had meetings at our house and I accompanied my mother to meetings and did all the projects and learned the Scout pledge and everything, so I considered myself a Scout just like my brother. Imagine my shock and outrage when I found that I couldn’t go to the Father-Son Banquet because (duh!) I was a girl - a daughter and not a son. And do you know, I never even saw that coming! Boy, did I have a GIANT temper-tantrum that night! IT’S NOT FAIR!!!!!!! Yep, I’m really good at denial! Anyhow, I guess where I’m headed (or have I already arrived?) with this is how good we can be at fooling ourselves. What beliefs do we hold about ourselves that have nothing to do with the truth of who we are? Beliefs that we are unworthy or less than or somehow wrong, when every day we are faced with evidences to the contrary, but we just can’t see them. When really, all we need to do is look through the eyes of self-acceptance. Try it - I bet you’ll like what you see!
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Integrated Chronicles
There is no greater feeling! By Kestral Johnston
After my year abroad in Brazil, I knew that I wanted to help others who were immigrants. I was familiar with the language barrier and the struggle of adapting to a new culture as I had experienced them myself. I received so much support from my host families and teachers in Brazil that I knew I wanted to help others in similar, but more permanent situations. Returning to Steamboat, I began interning at Integrated Community and working with an ELL student. Working with my student can be challenging at times. It’s hard for him to go to school all day and learn things he may not understand entirely. After this, he then has to come home and work with me for another hour. This is made even harder because of other kids running around playing while he is inside studying. He has to switch between Spanish and English constantly. Even though there are these challenges, he is very dedicated and works to the best of his abilities each week. We have fun and laugh a lot, but still manage to read books, write sentences, and solve math problems in the little time frame of an hour. Being a youth tutor has been one of the most rewarding jobs I have ever had. The best thing that I had heard in months was one of his teachers telling me that she thought he was improving. There is no greater feeling than knowing you’re helping someone succeed. Después de mi año fuera en Brasil, yo sabía que quería ayudar personas que son inmigrantes. Yo conocía el obstáculo lingüístico y la lucha de adaptarse a una cultura nueva porque yo los experimenté. Yo recibí tanto apoyo de mis familias de acojo y maestros en Brasil que yo sabía que quería ayudar las otras personas en situaciones similares pero más permanentes. Regresarme a Steamboat, yo comencé a internarme con Comunidad Integrada y trabajando con un estudiante de ELL. Trabajar con mi estudiante puede ser difícil as veces. Es difícil para él va a la escuela todo el día y estudia cosas que él no entiende totalmente. Después de esto, él necesita regresar a la casa y trabajar conmigo una hora más. Es más difícil aún porque hay otros niños jugando al aire libre cuando él está estudiando dentro la casa. Él necesita cambiar entre Español y Inglés con mucha frecuencia lo mejor de sus habilidades. Nos divertimos y reímos mucho, pero aún con eso también leemos libros, escribimos oraciones, y resolvemos problemas de matemáticas sólo en el tiempo de una hora. Siendo una tutor en mi juventud ha sido uno de los trabajos más gratificantes en mi vida. La mejor cosa que yo oí en los meses pasados fue que una de sus maestras me dijo que ella pensaba que él estaba mejorando en la escuela. No hay un sentimiento mejor de que saber que se ayuda una otra persona a tener excito.
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Here Knitty-Knitty
Ripping Yarn By LA Bourgeois
When knitters have to unravel their work, they call it “ripping” or “frogging.” The term “frogging” comes from a pun (which I love) because you “rip it.”
ting. Sometimes they even put the project aside again when they decide they’ll “finish the seaming over the weekend.”
Get it? Rip it = Ribbit Haha!
This step back into theater is like my old sweater project. My BA is in theater and, when I graduated from college, I remember being sure that I was going to rise like a star in some part of that world. I found theater comfortable and thrilling at the same time, like a beautifully intricate lace shawl.
Yes, I do laugh easily. Why do you ask? Ripping out and re-knitting a piece takes a resilience that non-knitters don’t seem to realize. Each stitch a knitter rips out represents a moment of their life. That evening you spent watching an old action movie on television while you knit the sleeve of a sweater. Three inches of sock you knitted without looking while attending the annual Christmas Concert. Five rows of a lace shawl knitted on the porch swing as you chatted with friends and drank a glass of wine (which is why you have to rip back those rows). Lately, I feel like I’ve been ripping out my life like it is one continual strand of yarn that I keep knitting up to a certain point and then pulling out because the pattern isn’t to my liking. I pull it back and knit forward again, hoping that my calculations work this time. I need it to be tighter. I need it to be looser. I rip and rip and rip again, hoping for a better result, knitting furiously on as fast as I can. Recently, I started working two part-time jobs, one with the Steamboat Arts Council and the other with the Chief Theater. Besides greatly reducing my knitting time, this means that Steph is now the housewyfe and I am the one who goes outside to work. It’s a complete 180 from where we’ve been in the past. I feel like I’m moving from knitting sturdy stockinette to a series of thick cables which intertwine and form celtic knots. I don’t quite know where I’m going, but I stay interested and the process definitely keeps my attention. I’m just putting my faith in the pattern and seeing where it takes me. I’ve met knitters who continue to pick up projects they started so many years ago, the yarn has been discontinued. They despair when they realize they need just one more skein or rejoice as they finally finish the knit-
Instead of learning to knit lace, I started with stockinette and set off on a journey filled with computers and book-keeping, learning to be a housewyfe and a boss, finding what it really means to be a partner to another person. Now that I re-enter that theatrical space, I know the pattern I’ve created supports the new one I’m progressing into. Maybe some lace will make it into those cables. I certainly have the skills now to support a little lacework. As I talk to my friends, I find I’m not alone. I discover friends are having babies and getting married. They rip back, re-design, make room for a new part of the pattern and knit on. Others are getting sick or dying. They and their partners have to rip back and create a whole new design to fill the blank space before knitting on. Each change requires some sort of re-design of our lives. The strand must be ripped back and re-knit. As the strand is knitted anew, our experience makes the pattern that much more sturdy or intricate or simple or delicate. We see the error and correct it as we can. Because that’s all we can do. Knit on.
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I joke to people in the press that I realize I’m not black, I’m actually white. But I’ve got these roots in black American music. I love it. – Glenn Hughes
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Energetically Speaking
Clean Fuel is Elemental By Fred Robinson
The cleanest fuel we can use is Hydrogen and it is the most abundant element in the universe. The problem with hydrogen is that it does not exist by itself on this planet. It is always combined with other elements. The reason gasoline, diesel, methane, and ethanol work as fuels is because of the hydrogen content. Those fuels also have varying amounts of carbon. The hydrogen has to be separated from something else if we want to use it in the pure form. It takes energy to do that and there are many ways to accomplish the separation. Steam reformation of methane, thermal decomposition of almost anything, chemical reactions of different substances and electrolysis of water. Electrolysis of water makes the most sense if the energy source is cheap or free and causes no pollution. Iceland has abundant geothermal energy converted to electricity that is used to separate hydrogen from water. The hydrogen is available at several service stations there to use in vehicles. Solar electricity works even better and is used in many systems in California and Germany. Some systems use it directly and others put the solar electricity into the electric grid and then use grid electricity to extract hydrogen, even when the sun isn’t shining. Either way the power for electrolysis is free! California is building
28 more hydrogen stations that use several sources for the hydrogen. One of the systems uses waste water and sewage to create the electricity for electrolysis. California is doing this to fuel vehicles that will not add more pollution to the atmosphere. Toyota and Hyundai will begin selling hydrogenpowered fuel cell vehicles next year. Honda, General Motors, Mercedes, Ford, and Volkswagen will be selling them soon. The price is high and will come down as volume increases. Europe has been building hydrogen infrastructure for many years that is used for mass transit. They have fuel cell buses that travel in and between cities producing NO pollution. Colorado has created a coalition to build the infrastructure needed for hydrogen fueling. The first meeting of the Colorado Hydrogen Coalition is May 20, 2014 at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. NREL and CHC’s goal is to create hydrogen-fueling corridors around Colorado and the USA that can take advantage of the pollution-free vehicles being manu-
factured right now. The focus is on cities, towns and ski areas. A highlight of the first meeting will be a tour of the ‘wind to hydrogen’ facility between Golden and Boulder. NREL has been fueling vehicles there for over five years. NREL is also building a hydrogen dispenser on the campus in Golden. Representatives from cities, towns, ski areas, corporations and businesses have been invited to the meeting. My company, Intergalactic, has been modifying regular vehicles to run on hydrogen since 1975. Any engine can be modified to run on hydrogen, the first two we did were a diesel for a fishing boat and a Pontiac V8. A standard engine running on hydrogen has the same advantage of no harmful emissions. We just need the fuel. My favorite fuel for engines is a blend of methane and hydrogen. The emissions from such a fuel are a tiny fraction of what comes from a petroleum-fueled engine. A racing series for hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles is being created. Patrón (Tequila) will be a big sponsor and participant.
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Transitory Adventures
Gripin’ Tweener By Nacho Neighbor
“Old enough to know better, young enough not to resist.” My headstone, will read as such. (if anyone is stupid enough to spend the money on me!) Lately the clash of the ages is griping me. Better put, “I’m grippin’ about my grip The handshake has been around since the 2nd Century BC according to Wikipedia. The meaning a handshake carries serves a different purpose today than its original origins. One tale is that medieval knights would show and grip each others’ hands to show that they were not concealing weapons and meant no harm to each other. Today, handshaking is used to establish your place in the feudal social scene. People even judge others based on their handshakes. A firm handshake implies power, strength, know-how. Whereas a weak handshake implies weakness, uncertainty, and uninterested. So now that most of us aren’t carrying weapons, why must we continue this ancient tradition? Some say that you can really get a good read on someone’s character by shaking their hand. Well, how true is that? I mean we have all read “How to Master the Perfect Handshake” articles. “Squeeze hard but not too hard and you’ll come across strong, confident,” blah, blah, blah.
We can all fake a good hand shake.
So what have we got? Well, honestly we have social evolution plain and simple. We are so egocentric at times we feel we invented it. “It” being any number of things, the different shake for example, or ergonomically fun positions with your good friend. (Very good friend). We rediscover it daily and take credit for it. Sweet!
But today it’s not so easy. I’m a Don Draper, threemartini, firm handshake kind of guy. I even expect that from a woman too. But the kids these days? Oy ve…… Ya know it’s a moving target for me as I drift through different strata’s on a daily basis. Work first, kid second, and random people from the food industry third. They all have their own protocol. I can’t keep up. I pound as the other person goes for the high-five essentially taking his paper and covering my rock. I lose and look like a dork trying to be hip. It’s times like these when people calling me sir is a positive thing. Yeah, it hurts the ego to be seen as old, but…………….it defaults to the good old standby, the “grip.”
Now for some blatant plagiarism. (Wikipedia said it best. This time.)
My definition goes like this; Look them square in the eye, looking from the left eyeball to the right. You can’t stare at the middle of the bridge, the darting of the eyes from one to the other makes it genuine. Left, right, left. Simultaneously two and a half up and down pumps while locked into a firm, assertive grip. It makes the world go round. Unfortunately for you younger generation, the “dumb” phone is sapping your interpersonal communications skills one “Selfie” at a time. When I was a kid, a “Selfie” occurred when you found some literature you shouldn’t have in the garage.
Though it can refer to many kinds of greetings involving hand contact, dap is best known as a complicated routine of shakes, slaps, snaps, and other contact that must be known completely by both parties involved. Dap greeting sometimes include a pound hug. Elaborate examples of dap are observed as a pregame ritual performed by many teams the world over.
Dap is a form of handshake and friendly gesture that has recently become popular in western cultures. The term dap may have originated as an acronym for dignity and pride, or may have been “backronymed.” According to one tale, it was introduced and popularly used by African-American soldiers by Marine Captain John Dapolito during the Vietnam War. It appears to have been introduced to Western culture through film. For example, the 1936 movie Tarzan Escapes depicts the gesture.
In summation, I’m not familiar with the term, “backronymed,” and I’ve never been accused of being a righteous “dapper.”
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Yepelloscopes
Your Monthly Message By Chelsea Yepello Aries
March 21 - April 19
The answer to the question that has boggled you for the longest time is “food additives.” Now you know.
Taurus
April 20 - May 20
After you and your friend drink out of the same glass while sick with a cold, your germs will mingle together and develop into the virus that creates the zombie apocalypse. You thought you wouldn’t accomplish anything with your life...but look at you now!
Gemini
May 20 - June 20
Sometimes it’s just bad timing. It turns out that your life is not a chick movie, unlike the expected happy ending, your co-star gets stuck in traffic on the way to the airport and you get on the flight. At least there’s always Facebook.
Cancer
June 21 - July 22
A new study came out last week that concludes, yes, one hundred percent of all nonsmoking vegetarians eventually die. Cheerio!
Leo
July 23 - August 23
For some reason it feels like everyone is ignoring you, which is odd because you explained to them that the smell will go away and the wound will eventually stop seeping.
Virgo
August 23 - September 22
Now is the time to follow your dreams. So tomorrow, when you get into your flying unicorn car to float to work at the marshmallow factory, drinking a steaming cup of sunshine and eating a bag of sugared rainbows, remember that this is only temporary, and your dreams will be a reality if you believe... until a giant-cigar-smoking-monkeyrobot eats you.
Libra
September 23 - October 23
You told someone that you would never date them, even if they were the last person on earth. Which is unfortunate, because soon after they move to Yemen, the world will end, as well as earth’s entire population... besides you... and that one person in Yemen. Not so cocky now, are you?
Scorpio
October 24 - November 21
You will feel awfully silly when the creditors finally find you. Apparently moving every other month doesn’t stop them, and growing a mustache doesn’t confuse them either.
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Sagittarius
November 22 - December 21
When they say, “Home is where the heart is,” they didn’t mean that hording hearts under your floorboards will make you feel at home. Seriously, eventually all those hallucinations of a dozen beating hearts will make you a little uncomfortable.
Capricorn
December 22 - January 19
For some reason, you flirting with the opposite sex will not leave you satisfied or hopeful, it will however, leave you with a few cups of sugar and one very offended pool cleaner.
Aquarius
January 20 - February 18
You feel that no one is paying attention to you, so you have decided to reveal your life long addiction to oxygen to stir it up a little. Strangely, that doesn’t seem to shock anyone and doesn’t give you the attention you hoped for.
Pisces
February 19 - March 20
For some reason, you start to suspect that your call really isn’t important to them. And there is a good chance that they are laughing at you for waiting on the phone for three hours.
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