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Lou Smart Pioneer Woman Part II
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High on the Hero List By Paulie Anderson
Growing up, I had a different set of heroes than most of my friends, or the rest of the world. My heroes were BMX flatland pioneers Mike Buff, R.L. Osborne and Bob Haro. When Matt Hoffman hit the scene, he was high on my hero list and I wasn’t even a ramp rider, but the things that kid could do on a bike were beyond belief. The drug of choice for these guys was 80’s chicks in Guess? Jeans, and they flaunted this in every issue of BMX magazine that I ever read. I have never been a fan of mainstream sports like football, basketball or baseball. I still laugh when people refer to golf as a sport. I never recognized pro players as having anything particularly worthy of note, and therefore never had the love affair with them that so much of America seems to possess. I was always uneasy with the bully factor of sports players during my school years and seeing the special treatment kids received for having athletic talent made me a little sick. I frequently wondered why they weren’t held to the same social and educational standards that the rest of us were. They were a source of annoyance rather than entertainment.
The older I got, the dumber the pro players got. They became even less worthy of the money and status they received while their paychecks kept growing and their education kept dwindling. The class and etiquette that used to be required of pro athletes is a thing of the past. Rather than suits and an attempt at speaking well in public, it’s wife beaters, tattoos and public threats. The idea that a God would favor one team of idolaters over another because of a particularly pious hypocrite made me laugh every time Tebow would open his mouth. You have Michael Vick dog fighting; Lance Armstrong coming clean (pun intended) for his ‘roid use; Barry Bonds getting denied the Hall of Fame for PED use; Pistorius killing his girlfriend; Tiger and countless affairs. The disgusting list goes on and on. This is a bit of a non-sequitur, but Sports Illustrated published a 2009 study that found 78 percent of professional athletes file bankruptcy or are reported as being “under financial stress” within two years of their career ending. It’s a sobering fact, isn’t it? Especially considering most pro careers end before the players are 40.
As I skimmed Google News the very morning I was writing this article, there were two of five sports stories regarding players who got caught doping. According to many of those who get caught, it’s not who is using, it’s just who gets caught, insinuating that most players use. I can’t help but wish we could train our children to emulate people with a little bit more integrity. Or at the very least, end the drug testing and let people who want to be science experiments do it. Let them become the gladiators that they try to become in hiding. We could have two groups of athletes – one on drugs, and one clean group – so people could compete in a more balanced tier. That way we could study the effects of performance enhancing drugs in a controlled and honest environment on people who wish to test the results. I don’t plan on mellowing my disdain for pro football anytime soon, so I will have to be content with the heroes I have in my world. As I have grown up, my heroes have morphed a little. They have changed from BMX pioneers to the people I interact with directly on a life or professional basis. I have grown deep admiration for people who live a life that honors their values, their neighbors and the earth. My heroes have their issues, too. They may work too much, or not make the money they deserve, or maybe they like their music a little too loud. They may have different beliefs from my own, but they generally accept people for who they are, and work towards making their world a better place. I would like to give a huge, hero-high-five to my everyday heroes: The librarians who manage the books I love so much; the cooks, waiters, waitresses, bartenders and dish-dogs who feed me when I don’t cook for myself; my biking buddies, my business partners; my brother, David, the director of the Colorado Natural Heritage Program, who followed his love of all things living to place him in a career that helps keep Colorado the Colorado I know and love; my father, Keith, who taught me to love the question “Why?” and gave my brother and me the gift of music; my wife, Courtney, who lets me be me and supports my every whim and fancy.
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The Ability to Conjure Money into Existance is Relatively Easy By Scott L. Ford
For fun I started asking folks how money gets into our nation’s economy. Without exception they thought that the federal government created money by turning on the presses at the Treasury Department and printing money. Some money certainly is created via the printing presses but it is only a fraction of the total amount that is created. I am going to do my very best to explain how money is created in our economy. Understanding this will help put a lot of what is discussed regarding the deficit and the debt into a completely new perspective. This new perspective will either make you crazy or help you sleep better at night. At least for the present I am not losing any sleep. (I promise I will not use any economist “geek-speak.”) Just about every year the federal government pays out more than it collects in revenues. This practice is known as deficit spending. Currently the federal government is spending about $1.40 for every dollar it collects in revenue. Where does it get the extra 40 cents? It borrows it. It borrows it by issuing Treasury Bonds – essentially a US Government backed IOU.
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For illustrative purposes, we are going to assume that the US Treasury issued a bond for $10,000. The Federal Reserve accepted the bond and loans the federal government $10,000. Where did the Federal Reserve get the $10,000 to loan to the federal government? Simply put, they conjure this money into existence via a rather simple bookkeeping entry. Again, for illustrative purposes let us assume that the federal government issued a bond and used the money they received from the Federal Reserve to pay me for some work I did. Upon receiving the check for $10,000, the first thing I would do is deposit it in my bank. The bank would credit my account. Since banks make most of their money by loaning it out, the owners of the bank want to loan out the $10,000 I deposited to trustwor-
thy borrowers as soon as possible and start collecting interest. Now here is where it gets a wee-bit tricky. Let’s assume I chose to deposit my money in a brand new bank and I am their very first depositor. Most folks think that against the $10,000 I deposited the bank can only loan $10,000. Not true. It can actually make a loan of up to $90,000 against the original $10,000 deposit. The current reserve ratio requirement for US commercial banks is: For every dollar a bank has on deposit it can loan up to nine dollars. ($10,000 x 9 = $90,000) Where did the bank get this extra money to loan? They essentially conjured it into existence via a bookkeeping entry through a process known as, ‘Fractional Reserve Banking.’ Continuing this example - let us say the bank makes a loan to ABC Company for $90,000. Remember that the bank does not really have $90,000 sitting in the vault. ABC Company uses the $90,000 they borrowed from the bank to buy a fleet of trucks. The folks that sold them the trucks take the $90,000 they received and deposit it in their bank. In this example, it is the same bank but it would not have to be because the banking system is interconnected. The local bank can now make loans against this newly deposited $90,000. Simply put, the bank can loan out up to $81,000 - keeping just 10% in reserve, ($90,000 less 10% = $81,000). Theoretically speaking, if everything is loaned out, the original $10,000 I deposited in the bank has resulted in over $800,000 of newly created money in the form of loans which have repeatedly been deposited over and over within the banking system. Now will all the banks actually be paid back by all the folks they loaned money to? No - but the vast majority of the borrowers will pay. This is why banks are very careful in choosing whom they loan money to. Loans they have to write-off as bad debt dramatically reduces the amount of outstanding loans they can have.
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The take away from this example is that though the Federal Reserve was the original source of the conjured $10,000, the local bank(s) used it to conjure over $800,000 of money into existence in the form of loans. The money they created (conjured) circulates in the economy until such time the loans that were made are repaid. If all the debt (public and private) in the world’s economy is paid off, money as we know it would essentially cease to exist. To put it simply, in the modern banking system ALL money is debt.
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The Bonnifield Files
Lou Smart Pioneer Woman of West Routt County Part II
Smarts when they got word that there were buffalo soldiers in Middle Park waiting for orders to head to the White River Agency. This outraged the Utes and in anger they set fire to two empty cabins nearby. Although the cabins were empty Albert had claimed one because he had not been paid for the logs by the builder who had pulled up stakes. Albert, along with a mail carrier, tore off the roof of one cabin and fought the fire as it threatened to burn down towards the Smart’s cabin and would have burned them out if he had not gotten it extinguished in time. Albert’s anger over the misdirected fire which could have burned them out while Lou was still bedridden caused him to write to the Governor and complain.
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As soon as Lou could stand up, Albert left for the Steamboat Springs area to cut hay for Jerry Hook as he had already contracted to do with his brother Gordie. Lou, still not feeling her best, lived in constant fear for the two weeks Albert was gone. She anxiously watched as new fires were set every few days in the distance, not knowing if the letter Albert had sent would cause the Utes to retaliate against him or their family. The situation frightened her even worse when the Sheriff of Grand County rode through with five armed men heading towards the reservation with warrants for the men who set the fires. Credit: Hayden Heritage Center A picture of the Meeker thresher that was burned in the Meeker incident. Abram Fiske went and got the remains and rebuilt in the 1880’s. It was used by a number of West Routt County families.
(A continuation of what happened to pioneer woman Lou Smart during the summer of 1879. See February Valley Voice) The summer would prove long in tense and frightening moments for Lou. It had been a particularly dry summer and all around them was dry grass and timber and very little rainfall. The Utes had gone about setting fires as they had every year, whether this was to herd animals or open grasslands for pasture, or as a means of intimidating people they did not like; a habit mentioned by Capt. Charles Parker in his report of 1877. Nevertheless these set fires, combined with the dry weather, created dangerous situations for settlers. Lou had a companion in Major Thompson’s wife, Eliza, who lived close by, and like Lou was left alone from time to time with five small children about the same ages as Lou’s children. The two women had come to rely upon each other, and had become close friends. They only had each other to depend upon, as the nearest neighbor was over 15 miles in either direction up or down river. The two women alone had to deal with a prairie fire that threatened to burn them out shortly after Lou’s run-in with Big Joe. The wind blew the fire down the river and threatened the Thompson cabin that was sheltered in the trees by the river. Lou and Eliza worked for hours trying to set backfires, and when that failed they resorted to trying to save the Thompson’s possessions by moving them from the cabin as the fire moved closer. They worked tirelessly for hours with the children hauling what they could until exhausted. They finally gave up and watched the fire from a safe
distance praying for a miracle. Luck was with the two women and children and a gale of wind blew up the river and changed the fire’s course, blowing it into the opposite direction leaving the land about them singed, but the Thompson’s cabin unharmed. In a matter of hours the fiery inferno that had blazed across the open valley threatening to burn them out only a few hours before came to an abrupt end. Lou had never seen anything like it and thought that if she lived to a hundred she would never see something like that again.
Conditions at the nearby White River Agency were heating up between the Utes and the Indian Agent, Nathan Meeker, over a disagreement over the plowing up of land. According to Lou there were a few Utes who took to farming and grew fine crops of wheat and potatoes, however the majority were against it, which resulted in the argument between Meeker and some of the tribe members. Major Thornburg and troops from Rawlins were on their way to the agency to check on the situation when they stopped to tell Albert what was
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Major Thompson, who had been away to Washington D.C. at the time of the fire, sent word home that he had acquired an appointment as a land agent, and would be returning to move his family back to Denver. He returned in early July while Albert was still away on business and packed up his wife and children. This left Lou without her one companion and friend, Eliza, and as they drove out of sight Lou had never felt so utterly desolate and miserably alone in all of her life. She was now completely alone with the children and expecting another child. Albert came home within a few days of the Thompson’s departure, but Lou’s happiness was short lived. While helping to move a ladder as Albert dug a new well, Lou tripped and fell and miscarried, this would be her second miscarriage and the worst by far. Lou ended up delirious in pain for a day and bedridden for almost two weeks. While Lou was bedridden, the Smarts were again threatened by fire. The Utes were camping near the
Credit: Hayden Heritage Center A copy of Lou Smart’s letter.
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The rest of Lou’s letter talks of their hasty exodus in their broken wagon, which they had to hammer the wagon tires back on every few minutes. They picked up another family and a few others on the way and after a wet trek through the canyon, most likely driving on the riverbed for portions, as there was no road yet, they made their way to Steamboat Springs. Once in Steamboat, the men gathered what people were there and fortified themselves inside the Crawford home. Lou mentions that Mrs. Crawford was none too pleased to accommodate the Smarts, although she was pleasant to their faces, she made Lou feel like an intruder. Lou had overheard Mrs. Crawford talking to another woman that the Indians were more likely to kill them since the Smarts were there, in reference to the letter Albert had written. After a week of cramped conditions and feeling uncomfortable, Lou gladly reloaded their wagon with only their beds and a few of the other settlers and headed for Hot Sulphur Springs with twelve armed men riding in front and behind the wagon. They left almost everything behind in order to travel quickly. When
they finally reached Hot Sulphur Springs, 10 days had passed since their departure from their homestead. Lou was exhausted and feeling the wear of the experience. She and the children had not even been able to change their clothes the entire time because in their haste to leave they had taken the wrong chest and were without many necessities such as a change of clothing. The Smarts were one of the families that never returned to the Yampa Valley. They remained in Hot Sulphur Springs most likely due to Lou’s deteriorating health. Near the close of her letter, Lou briefly tells of how her hair had turned grey from spells of neuralgia which at times caused her vision to be quite impaired making it hard for her to get around, however even with her physical health impairment, her greatest concern was that the children were not getting any schooling. The hard life finally caught up with Lou and in 1893, at the relatively young age of 53, Lou quietly passed away in Hot Sulphur Springs, Co. where she is buried. You can learn more about Lou Smart and West Routt County history at the Hayden Heritage Center. Read Lou’s entire letter in the Book: ‘History of Hayden, West Routt County’ at The Leslie Memorial Research library located on the second floor of the Museum. Free admission and research help!
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The element of choice also cannot be radioactive for obvious reasons. In the end, there are only five elements out of the 92 that do not evaporate, react, corrode, or radiate. These are rhodium, palladium, platinum, silver and gold.
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Although silver has been used for money it tarnishes easily, and looks ugly after being exposed to the air for extended periods. Rhodium and palladium were discovered in the 1800’s, and would have been unknown to early civilizations. That leaves gold and platinum. Platinum, however, has a melting point around 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures this hot could not be obtained in ancient furnaces. Gold, however, melts at 1,850 degrees–a temperature easily achieved by ancient furnaces.
“Lighter Money, Please!” As I have mentioned in previous columns of this series – the history of money is the history of human civilization. When we ceased being roving bands of huntergatherers, there needed to be a medium of exchange that allowed us to get the things we could not get for ourselves. The barter system developed but it had flaws because most things that were traded were not divisible or transferable. Over time, common commodities that had these two characteristics became the medium of exchange. Only gold, However, became recognized universally across early civilizations as the commodity of choice as a medium of exchange. What makes gold so special? To answer this question we must turn to the Periodic Chart of Earth Elements. This is the chart prominently displayed in every high school chemistry class. The official element count currently stands at 118, however, only 92 are naturally occurring. Some of these 92 elements are gases and therefore not practical because they easily evaporate and blow away. Some elements are corrosive and/or reactive. Try swimming with some Sodium in your pocket and you will catch on fire.
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The Wandering Rose
Vagina February 14th, 2013 brought with it love, pain, heartbreak, life, death. At the center of all these feelings, actions, emotions was the vagina. Audrey Rose had never given much thought to her vagina, any more than she did to her eyes, her hair or her toes. Growing up in the woods, with only her body and mind for companions, she had explored every inch of her being, both inside and out. She sometimes softly tickled the inside of her wrist, just to feel the pleasure of it. She rubbed her toes. When she reached puberty, she felt ticklings and yearnings between her legs. As she had always done with the rest of her body, she investigated. She looked, she touched, she felt. When she rubbed her clitoris she felt shocks of pleasure tremble through her body and she knew this to be good. She knew this to be good, because her entire body was good. Every part of her body served a
purpose - the hands to pick up things, to peel things, to touch things. The belly button as a connection to the place she had come from. The toes and soles to carry her to all the places she wanted to go and her vagina to give her pleasure. This was her sacred area, her pleasure palace. Reading and vaginas both brought Audrey Rose pleasure, so it only made sense that Audrey would read about vaginas. She read about women who were held down and their clitoris cut off. She met a woman who had that happen, who was sewn up between her legs so she would not be able to have intercourse, but ended up with pus-oozing infections. After she escaped and after much therapy, she was able to feel down there and once or twice even to embrace the pleasure that came from down there. She read about women who embraced pleasure but they were labeled whores. More reading revealed that men thought they could control women’s vaginas, their sexuality. There was a fear in men. Women were punished for merely being women and their pleasure was ripped out of them, cut out of them, emotionally screwed out of them. And this is the way the world went on. Even women participated in the process of diminishing women’s sexuality, of demeaning women who wanted to feel pleasure. Monogamy was acceptable for women, polygamy was acceptable for men who wanted to control women, celibacy was acceptable for women wanted some respect (from men), but where did Audrey Rose fit in? She believed in doing what felt right when it felt right She knew the answer could only be in her vagina. There are voices in all of us much older than we are. They are the voices that tell us that fire burns, or that something bad is about to happen. Our bodies know things that protect us. Our bodies speak if we are willing to listen. In order to hear her vagina, Audrey Rose went out deep into the woods, over hills, past rivers, through the deepest winter snows until she found a cave, a dark moist place she could crawl inside. She built a fire for warmth and undressed. She started as she always did when she wanted to hear what her body was feeling. She took a deep breath in. Then out. She let her hands rest on her head, then her face, neck, clavicle, shoulder, arm, elbow, wrist, fingers, breasts, ribs, belly button, hip bones, pelvis, vagina. She felt the warmth run through her body. She lay down and breathed as the fire played around her. She asked her vagina ‘Are you good?’
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She felt the layers of her labia, reached inside as if for answers and felt the wetness on her fingers. She tasted her self, ingested the answers. She tickled and rubbed and felt the tension, the pleasure building until it escaped and she was quiet. And in that quiet she understood the answer ‘because women feel so much pain in life, because childbirth is painful it has to be compensated by pleasure and because if there is ever to be life on this earth, it must come from women, so women deserve a reward for that.’ Audrey Rose thanked her vagina and made to stand up, but her vagina pulled her back down. Her vagina had one more thing to say: “It’s time for a revolution.”
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Mister Helpful’s Dating Guide
The Real Basics of Online Dating
It’s all about your Happiness
By Mr. Helpful, M.D.
A wise man once told me, “Ya can’t do online dating if ya don’t have a computer.” Well put, sir, and that brings up another point – if you don’t like online shopping, you might not like Online Dating. Seriously, you will be sitting in that chair for hours on end. Make sure it’s a comfy chair to start with and that you get up and stretch once in a while. Online Dating gives everyone: • An opportunity to LOOK at other single people without the social stigma of being caught staring in a creepy way. • A chance to say hello and hope for a positive reply. • A secure and safe environment, free of potential Face to Face embarrassment, if we are rejected. (which 90% of online dating is rejection) • The convenience to move on quickly to the next potential date. Choosing which service to use is really the start of it all. The Top Ten Online Dating sites as of Jan 2013 are: • Match.com • Zoosk.com • Ourtime.com • Chemistry.com • Christianmingle.com • Matchmaker.com • Jdate.com • SingleParentMeet.com • BeNaughty.com Many sites specialize in catering to dating preferences like age, race, redheads, sexual preferences, fetishes, or dating vs. marriage vs. encounter. Find out if you can do a basic search for people you are attracted to in your area before you shell out any cash. Then ask yourself: how much money do you want to spend on your happiness? When choosing an online service remember the old adage: You get what you pay for. If you chose a free site there is a chance that the quality of the clientele will also be of low quality. Are there diamonds in the rough, sure, but wow it’s really rough down there in the lower levels of the interwebs. Here’s a quick how-to for your profile: Username: Doesn’t matter. Be clever, but never use your real name. Any idiot can find you on Facebook in less than 30 seconds with that info. Headline: Doesn’t matter. No one reads these anyway. Main pic: Show your face more than body, make sure it really looks like you and for gosh sakes smile, it won’t kill you. Other pics: More than 2, less than 10. Full body, a fun one, an activity or personal interest pic and different
head shot; also pets if you have them. Personal info: Honest and simple. Type this section out first and rewrite it several times. More than 150 words and far less than 450. Less is more. The world of Online Dating is filled with both hope and lies. Figuring out which is which is not too difficult and yet even the best of us can be fooled into thinking we just hit the lottery. A few things to understand while your heart is longing and your brain is wondering:
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So New Year’s Eve was a bit of just OK and Valentine’s Day didn’t work out. Again, so what. Get over it, pull up yer big boy pants and smirk at yourself. You are going to find someone that thinks your kisses taste like chocolate and believes you invented air. Maybe they’re online looking for you. Find Mister Helpful’s Dating Guide on Facebook, hit the LIKE button and read the expanded versions of this column and others.
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The landscape is blue ice. Barren tundra, save for the interspersed pine trees and rock cliffs. The temperatures are brutal. If I were worldly enough to know what the arctic looked or felt like, I would imagine myself in it. We have made some sort of a detour, through a territory called Colorado. Why won’t men read a map? Damn them. (Forgive me Lord, for cursing.) But, again we are in distress. Our wagon train capsized on some rock formation and we have lost most of our provisions. Whose bright idea was it to make this journey, anyway? And why did I decide to go along with it? What is the matter with me? I left the comfort of my Missouri homestead for this? So fool hardy. Just because man invented the wheel doesn’t mean we have to use it for extreme endeavors. I curse technology. I curse my wanderlust. I blame the Groupthink. I blame the Coca Cola (has that been invented yet? I may be clairvoyant or just delirious from the onset of hypothermia); something in that elixir makes one feel euphoric. I could sure use some now. They say it has a special ingredient, I don’t doubt that. I would do just about anything for one right now. I might even try to teach the world to sing. In fact, I wish I were back in Missouri drinking Coca Cola and exchanging home baked pies with my kindly neighbors, in front of my warm hearth. Blasphemy!! I think I am suffering from the onset of depression, characterized by rumination into the past. I cannot shake it. Barely able to move from a severe lack of food and water, we are hard pressed to garner enough energy to hunt. The blustery wind adds to the intolerable temperature that does not even reach zero in the sun. The situation is becoming dire. It appears an evening meal will not be forthcoming. Men, what are they good for? As we sit around the fire, I can see distrust growing. We are all hungry. To each other, we have become nothing more than a food source. I see my husband eyeing me the
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Book Review
Car Store By Cody Badaracca
‘Who dresses this freak?’ I thought sarcastically…He was probably the kind of the gypsies back in Lebanon or Libya or whatever godforsaken place he was from…
Gallup, a DC-based consulting and surveying company, conducted a poll in November of 2012 ranking the ethics and honesty of various professions in America. Topping the list were Nurses with an 85 percent approval; meaning 85 percent of people polled thought Nurses were highly ethical and honest individuals. Pharmacists were next, followed by medical doctors.
‘I’m from Jordan.’ He said matter-of-factly. ‘Christ on a cracker!’ I thought freakishly, ‘Is this whole f’n place full of mind-readers?’
At the bottom of the list, swimming in the mire with the trash and unnamable sludge, were Car Salespeople. Out of the 23 professions polled, Car Salespeople had an 8 percent rating, (Hell, politicians were ranked higher) and I’ll bet that 8 percent was comprised of people who were or are in the business of selling cars – people like Mark Stapleton, the protagonist of Car Store, a book by Mason A. Crow. Stapleton is a just-turned-Thirty recovering alcoholic and former ski-bum whom the world has walloped with a haymaker from left field: his girlfriend-turnedwife just gave birth. For a man who spent his youth on ski slopes, in bars and sifting through a marijuana fog (sound familiar?), Stapleton is now faced with the heavy reality and responsibility of being a breadwinner. He needs a real job that’ll support his budding family.
“I sat in the living room pouring through the want ads in the paper, trying to find some sort of job that my skill set would afford me. What types of careers were available to an ex-pro ski-bum, ex-ad salesman, exbartender, ex-chumpsucker, and recovering alcoholic? I needed money and needed it fast. Then I saw a boxed ad…Sell cars!! I’d sold things before; people generally liked me; how hard could it be? I had no idea.” Here’s a rock. And over here is a hard place. In between them is Mark Stapleton in a continually constricting gap as he delves into the world of Centennial Nissan – a dealership located off Colfax Avenue in Denver. For the record, hustlin’ ain’t easy. We follow Stapleton through training, as he scurries between the parking lot and the “Tower” where the mangers sit and pull the strings on deals, and we’re there as he lands his first sale, albeit with help, like a young boy needing a father to help reel in a fish. We meet the dark slew of cigarette-smoking, jaded salesmen and managers with names like “Mik,” “Brick,” “Z” and “Random” who berate and yell at Stapleton. Their cynicism and agitation border on sadism at times.
“ ‘What are you doing!’ an agitated voice barked behind me. I turned to see Mik standing in the shadowy hallway. ‘Um.’ I stammered, shaken by the intrusion. ‘Um what?’ Mik billowed back. His hair was a messy whirlwind atop his dome. ‘I need the keys to the red pathfinder.’ ‘Which one?’ he asked coldly.
‘Mark.’ He stopped my mind scream. ‘We get paid very well to know what people are thinking, before they know what they’re thinking.’ I stared at him sheepishly, hoping that my embarrassment wasn’t too apparent.” …Mik’s luminescent blue eyes swam in their icy sockets. His hair seemed statically charged; like the tentacles of some long forgotten jellyfish. He loomed above me with an expression that was slightly more indifferent than hate. The hallway seemed suddenly darker. Blood rushed into my feet like wet concrete.” In stark contrast, we also get to see Stapleton at home – a cheap rented duplex in Evergreen, Colorado where his wife and baby daughter exist in a sublime calm amongst the pine trees.
“The morning was still and bright. I didn’t remember Evergreen being so hot when I was growing up there. The bark on the Ponderosas had an orangey pinkish hue that matched the eastern sky. Both seemed to shimmer a bit beyond the smoke of my cigarette. My wife and our baby girl were still both asleep.” These moments are touching because it reminds us why Stapleton is working this lunatic job. Plenty of us have the rug of Hedonism pulled out from under our feet and have to face the music. Here’s Mark, giving it a legitimate try. Stapleton gets his sea-legs and sells more and more cars, sometimes by dumb luck. He learns the process through trial and error and help from his co-workers. He picks up the weird vernacular of the profession – customers are “Ups” and deals are haggled out on “Four-Squares” (quartered pieces of paper where a customer’s car payments are calculated) – and he is progressively cued in on how the game is played. In a conversation with “Z,” the Jordan-born, used car salesman whose attitude and dialogue resemble that of the Caterpillar from Alice In Wonderland, Stapleton is explained the scaly underside of car sales: It’s all about control. “You have to direct your customers to what you want them to see,” Z tells him.
“I looked him up and down briefly. He wore another starched dress shirt, this time a light blue job with a white collar and cuffs. The tie that dangled from his neck was an eighties-style multi-colored print pierced with a gold stud, off-center near the bottom.
Despite the manipulation, an endearing quality shines through in Stapleton and some of the salespeople – that small 8 percent. Brick, one of the head managers, takes on a stern but almost fatherly role for Stapleton, fronting him money to pay rent and occasionally cracking a joke or picking up on Stapleton’s pop culture references that go over the head of the younger guys. The one confusing aspect of the book is the time – we don’t know if it’s the late 90’s or the early 2000’s. Stapleton has occasional flashbacks and there is some disruption in the continuity of the beginning. The entire story takes place over the span of a couple months but we feel – as does Stapleton – that it’s been a lifelong endeavor. Maybe it is. Car Store is available on Amazon.com, or at Off The Beaten Path Bookstore on 9th street. Swing by and pick up a copy. SOURCES: “Honesty/Ethics in Professions”: http://www.gallup. com/poll/1654/honesty-ethics-professions.aspx#1 Quotes: Car Store, Mason A. Crow, printed: Dec. 8, 2012 Charleston, SC.
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Personality Profile
Linda Laughlin By Mical Hutson
Me: Tell me about the Center for Visual Arts and your motivation to start this non-profit.
Linda Laughlin at the Center for Visual Arts I’m not interviewing an “artist” this month, and here’s why. My art is writing and I spurt and sputter around writing, fighting for odd moments to actually practice writing in between scrabbling to make a living, go to school full-time, raise a child, and shovel snow so I don’t have to strap on crampons to make it to my car. I mention my shovel because it is my most time-consuming and important chore due to my wicked metal roof that dumps tons of compacted, half-melted sludge that quickly freezes into ice, directly into any and all paths leading to my front and back doors. However, I experienced one glorious month where the sputtering became a full-on burn. Last November I participated in NaNoWRiMo (National Novel Writing Month), a nationwide effort encouraging writers to commit to writing 50,000 words in 30 days, which translates into a really short novel. That one sleep-deprived month of literary abandon proved to be the most joyous time I’ve spent in this snow-hovel I’ve called home for the past 8 years. And writing that sentence leads me to a very important question. If that’s the case, then why haven’t I continued? Why not write 50,000 words every month. It’s free after all. I own a computer, the brain and the fingers to type. Let’s say, I don’t write 50,000 words because the pace is nearly insane, then why not 25,000 words, or half that again? According to my psychology professor, if I could answer that question for you, how to create motivation in people, I could write my own first-class ticket on the gravy-train. Since I’m fairly certain I can handle amassing a fortune without losing my soul, I’m going to give my professor’s question of motivation a shot. There is no doubt that the synergy of community fostered my motivation. This is the only difference between November and the rest of the year. I knew there were other
decided that with some money in the bank and her husband’s blessing, she would rent a downtown space to continue her vision. With four months’ rent on the line and just two months after the program closed at the Arts’ Council, the Steamboat Springs Center for Visual Arts opened its doors for business in March 2009.
writers doing it. Other writers who faced the same chores, who were raising their own strange little children, whose metal roofs dump snow not only at their front and back door, but perhaps in through their sky windows as well. It was the community that helped me push through writer’s block at 4 a.m.. It was NaNoWriMo’s online site, and Off the Beaten Path Bookstore’s Kim Keith, and Bud Werner Memorial Library’s Jennie Lay, encouraging us and giving us space and chocolate to write. It was Sherry Larson, Delaney Ziegman (speaking of delightfully strange little children), Jill Waldman and Mary Nelson, all writers in the challenge with me, egging me on. If I had that community year-round, I can safely say I would write more. If a community of people cared about my art, cared that I was actually doing it, putting words on the paper, I can guarantee you I would be writing every day. It’s the reason I write this column. I have someone on the other end saying, “Give it to me, baby!” And that is why, this month, instead of interviewing an artist, I have chosen to engage another side of this art community. I’m talking to one of its mothers, a woman who started a nonprofit that says to any artist in this community, “Give it to me, baby!” and with the help of a talented board of directors, other artists, the community and grants, she supports and encourages their visions into fruition. In 2009, Linda Laughlin had a choice to make. During a restructuring of the now-vibrant Steamboat Springs Arts Council and Art Depot space, the former Visual Director lost what she considered an important asset for our local emerging artists, wall-space to showcase their talent, a special project she spearheaded during her time with the organization. In the transition, when SSAC put their visual arts program on hold, Linda
LL: Look, Steamboat’s art community is built on a long line of legacy. We’re all just trying and doing our best and it’s hard. The CVA started out of a need I saw during a particular time in that long line. Emerging artists need community, they need an opportunity to show in professionally managed space and they need critical feedback. You can’t really get that in a coffee shop, in a restaurant. All of those venues are nice to have, but our Center is non-juried. As long as we have the wall space, you can be part of this, whether your work is at stage one or stage five. You’ll see that this guy (she points to a Gregory Block painting behind her) who is now successfully represented by a Denver art gallery, is more advanced in his technique than maybe some of these other artists who are just coming along, but everyone is learning from each other. They are supportive and it gets the art out of closet. People aren’t painting in a vacuum. We formed as a non-profit because essentially our mission is to support the emerging artist community and then give back to the community. For instance, one of our artists, Michelle Brewster, runs our artist mentoring program. For the past three years, our art- W ists have been going into the Advanced Placement Art K Students’ classroom at the high school and working a with those students. In April those students will have l their final art show here at the CVA. We donate that a space for them. Our artists critique their work online h every single week, because the art teacher would like b the kids to get used to the fact that a lot of communica- a tion happening in college is online. So Michelle, who is S an artist, runs that program for us and manages the i other participating artists. They give studio tours. Just a today Gregory Block hosted all those art students at s his local art studio. This year they’ll get three tours: c Gregory Block, Diane Cionni and at the Steamboat b Springs Art Museum. s
We tested art classes here last summer and one of our B artists, M. B. Warner, graciously volunteered to teach. a We crammed ten ladies into this space for four weeks oft art classes and it was fabulous. We plan on continuing w the program, but in a bigger space. g i We also feel that downtown space is critical to our l success. We had over 9,000 people visit last year. You d can’t accomplish what we want to accomplish and be o on a side street or be in a drive away, so we really feel i that for our artists, it’s critical we have a downtown A location. 9
In the last year, we’ve added professional development M offerings for the local artists. Since we are a co-op of t such a wide range of local artists, from those who are hobbyists, and those who are curious if they are going L to make art a full-time career and those who have made s art their full-time career, they all have different educa- d tional needs. I wanted to find a way to supplement what D they already know and bring it here to Steamboat. So i we submitted a grant to Colorado Creative Industries t to get this off the ground. h
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We kicked off the lecture series in October with Jeffrey Keith, an internationally collected artist and professor at DU, who spoke about Color Theory. Gregory Block, a local artist who had made it to Denver galleries, spoke about his success as an artist as his full-time job and how it’s changed his life and practice, both the good and bad. In January, Monroe Hodder, another internationally known artist who also keeps a studio in Steamboat Springs as well as NYC, spent 45 minutes showing images of the contemporary, cutting-edge work unveiled at international art fairs, which is the new trend in art shopping. The lectures pack the gallery. The audience consists of not only artists but also community members that are art collectors or want to know more, the same people who would take art trips. Bobbi Walker, gallery owner of Walker Fine Art, which is a highly respected gallery located just four blocks from the Denver Art Museum, will be our last lecturer in our winter series. Bobbi, whose lectures have been met with great enthusiasm in Denver, will present a talk on what it takes to get into a gallery like hers, i.e. what a portfolio presentation looks like, what she expects in terms of development of an artist, and what it takes to step out of a small rural artist co-op into a commercial gallery in Denver. (Tuesday, March 12, 6:30 pm at 837 Lincoln Avenue. For more information, steamboatartcenter.com, 970.846.5970) Me: Tell me about your life journey that brought you to this point. LL: I started as an art education major at the University of Maine, until I got lured away by the theater department, which looked like a lot more fun than 2-D Drawing classes. I got into costume design and lighting and graduated with a theater degree in 1974. From there I did costume design in dinner theaters back home in the Philadelphia area, until I got an intern-
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it and being with the artists everyday and I was here and it was there. So when my lease was up, I closed the Portland gallery and got real committed to the arts in Steamboat. And now 10 years later... here we are at the CVA. Me: So you started as an Arts Education major and now?
ship in the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and spent a full season working under the head costume designer. But marriage and an eventual move back to Maine led me to take a real paying job at an advertising agency, while doing costume design for Community Theater on the side. When the ad agency I worked for went into bankruptcy in 1985, I borrowed enough money from my dad for four months of operating expenses, and started my own agency. At the time, I had no money to speak of, but I had experience. I had decided that if the worst thing happened, if I was a total failure at it, I could wash dishes, take a clerical job and pay back the loan. But as it turned out, two years later, we were doing a million dollars in account billings and we had 25 employees in pretty nice Portland waterfront offices. I remember thinking at the time, that if I dropped dead right then, I’d had a great career. Fast forward to 1999, and I was thinking of getting out of the ad business and doing something else so that I could spend more time with my three year old son, Jesse. A photographer friend suggested I take a look at this Portland art gallery that was going under, but represented really great early career artists. Essentially I bought the debt of this gallery, took it out of bankruptcy, and with the help of a young, brilliant curator, we created a very exciting emerging artist gallery in an historic flatiron building, across from the Portland Museum of Art. Again, it was a blast. Loved it. My husband and I turned 50 and with a few ski trips to Steamboat Springs under our belt, we decided to try living here because we had always been curious about the West. In 2003, we rented a house for a year and I left my gallery behind in the hands of the curator. But I was still flying back and forth to Maine for art openings at the Portland gallery, which got really old. As you probably know, the magic and passion and fun in gallery business comes from touching and seeing
LL: I have come full circle, which is really bizarre. I’ll be 60 this year. I think about this all the time. I started out in art education and through this whole circuitous route, here I am, back in this spot. It’s a journey. Me: I find your story inspiring; your ability to maneuver from one thing to another. I want to give my daughter some of your career advice. LL: I’m always throwing stuff on the wall and seeing if it sticks and if it doesn’t, I move onto the next thing. It’s sort of been the story of my life. I’ve never really been afraid of failure. I see failure as a learning experience. If it doesn’t work, then I go around it and go see what else is going to work. I’ve seen a lot of change in Steamboat since I came here. We lost a lot of galleries, we’ve gained a lot of galleries, and we have gotten a lot of new arts and cultural organizations. The Chief is very exciting. I’m very drawn to that from my old theater days and Perry Mansfield is ramping it up now, so, I think we’re going to survive this recession, but it’s been hard. *** There are many Steamboat artists who have benefited from the fact that Linda Laughlin’s story has come full circle, enriched with the skills and talents acquired in her brave career path. In her schema, her core personality archetype, Linda is a woman who loves art, being a patron of the arts, and encouraging artists. Like a good mother who could never favor one child over another, she cannot name a favorite or even a few favorite artists or pieces. She admits she does not have enough wall space for the art she collects on her travels with her husband and the evolving art that documents her life. I, for one, am glad that the collaborative project, the Center for Visual Arts which provides community, motivation and feedback for so many local artists, stuck to the wall.
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ARTISTS’ GALLERY OF STEAMBOAT, 1009 S Lincoln Ave, 970.879.4744 Join this artists’ collective, as they always put on a great show with a welcoming spread of drinks and apps. COLORADO GROUP REALTY, 509 Lincoln Ave 970.875.2917 Kevin Dietrich presents his wildlife and landscape photography featuring images from California to New York. Kevin is an Owner-Broker at Colorado Group Realty and owner of K Dietrich Studios. Visit his website www. kdietrichstudios.com CREEKSIDE CAFÉ & GRILL, 131 11TH ST. 970.879.4925 Glenna Clark/Olmsted, long time local and Steamboat real estate broker of 30 years, paints brilliantly colored oil and watercolor. Come see her new painting collection...some fun surprises! http://www.GlennaO.com Also showing at Center for Visual Arts and White Hart Gallery. Eleanor Bliss Center at the Art Depot, 1001 13th St, 970-879-9008 The Steamboat Springs Arts Council is excited to present Patsy Krebs: Fugue, an unprecedented solo exhibition of print works by the California based artist.
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HARWIGS, 911 Lincoln Avenue, 970.879.1919 David W. Schaller: Photography Local physician, David Schaller, hobbyist photographer unveils his captivating work for public viewing. Come explore his world through his lens in this exciting new exhibit, Upstairs Harwigs. MANGELSEN – IMAGES OF NATURE GALLERY, 730 Lincoln Ave, 871-1822 Thomas D. Mangelsen was named Conservation Photographer of the Year and is one of the most awarded nature photographers of our time. His work is currently featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in Nature’s Best Magazine and his Polar Play video went viral on YouTube after being featured on CBS news and MSN. www.mangelsen.com OFF THE BEATEN PATH BOOKSTORE, 68 9TH St. 879.6830 MB Warner presents contemporary oil paintings that reflect a daily diary of activity. Images included are from the Routt County Fair, still life representations and roadside attractions exhibited at Off the Beaten Path Bookstore, 68 9th Street during the month of March 2013.
SLEEPING GIANT GALLERY, 601 Lincoln Avenue, 846.3453 Local and regional nature photography by Don Tudor and leather frames and leather tables hand crafted by Peruvian saddle makers. STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM, 810 Lincoln Ave, 870.1755 The Steamboat Art Museum is pleased to announce a Retrospective of the art work of two distinguished local artists, painter Jean Perry and sculptor Curtis Zabel. The artist’s works will be on display at the Helen Rehder Gallery in the Museum. The exhibit will be open through April 13,2013. For information call 970-870-1755 or www. steamboatartmuseum.org. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS, 837 Lincoln Avenue, 970.846.5970 Join us for an evening of the best in local and regional art in our beautiful new location representing 35 artists from representational landscapes to contemporary images in all mediums: paintings, sculpture, photography, jewelry and more. New scenic winter oil paintings from Marion Kahn and new large abstracts from Vicki Rudolph and Jan Maret!. Complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres, www.steamboatartcenter.com URBANE, 703 Lincoln Ave Unit B101, 970.879.9169 URBANE x LOVE. A show of works from Denver Artists Aaron White, Emily J Moore, Andre Lippard, Tom Bond, Jay Paul, Apodaca, Daniel Levinson, Nathan Reese, Josh Tobey, John Haley III, Elena Gunderson & Michael Benninghoven. Art.Love.Urbane. 5-9pm Wild Horse Gallery, 802 Lincoln Ave, 970.879.5515 Fine contemporary realism by local, regional, and nationally known artists. Original oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, etchings, bronze sculpture, turned wooden bowls, blown glass, jewelry and limited edition prints on canvas give the discriminating collector a wide variety of exceptional artwork to choose from. www. wildhorsegallery.com
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Une passion por la vin
Interview with Master Chef Kelly Yepello By Michael Lang & Brian Kofke February 16, 2013 What do the Mayan Empire, Spanish conquistadors, Quakers and war all have in common? Well, chocolate of course. Our article we try to get out once a month has a goal to enlighten our friends about the intricacies of the wine world. Our research for this article began with the idea of pairing wines with chocolate (St. Valentines Day). The pairing not only turned out to be great fun, but also enlightening for us as well. We had the privilege to interview Master Chef Kelly Yepello while tasting a variety of wines with different chocolates. Our eyes were opened to an industry (chocolate) that parallels wine more than we could have imagined. When we took the time to consider theses similarities, this article basically wrote itself. First off, the plantation where cocoa is grown has similar qualifications of quality as wine appellations, i.e. Grand Cru, premier cru and the like. The great chocolate producers of the world select their cocoa just like a wine maker selects the proper grapes. Also, different plantations have distinct flavor profiles because of their location and soil type. “You get a variety of textures and finishes from the distinct growing regions,” says Yepello. Next, when understanding chocolate storage and aging, the concept is the same as wine. “Don’t refrigerate high quality chocolate, keep your chocolates in a cool, dark, dry space and they will do quite well,” says Yepello. The same is true with high quality wines. Here is a very brief insight into the creation of the chocolate we enjoy around the world today. The word, chocolate, is thought to have derived from the Mayan word xocolats meaning “bitter water.” The beginnings of chocolate are not what we consider it today. The Mayan Empire used processed cocoa beans as a drink. The cocoa bean was so important to the Mayan and Aztec cultures that it was used as currency. When we asked Chef Yepello about her knowledge of the history of chocolate, she stated, “It started as a cold beverage and was only first received by the Spanish court because they had conquered all of South America.” When Cortez came to Montezuma, he found huge caches of cocoa beans, as this was the medium for collecting taxes. The Spanish then found silver in Mexico and put the natives to work mining the precious metal. They realized the chocolate drink would keep the people in the silver mines working for longer periods of time (as the mixture contained caffeine). The silver mines brought a great deal of wealth to the Spanish. “They would have the miners drink this chocolate mixture for stamina,” says Yepello. We asked Chef Yepello if she knows where the best cocoa beans are grown; “Yes. Cocoa only grows in the tropics; 20 degrees on either side of the equator. That’s it, that’s where it grows. And the same is true for sugar, coffee and vanilla. Can I just make this statement? The only reasons why we have ever had slaves were to
harvest these products. We had slaves to grow tobacco, we had slaves to grow cocoa, sugar, cotton and coffee. These were things that were not imperative to our lives but were considered luxuries. However, they each could bring great wealth to the plantation owners as long as they had a cheap labor source.” Cortez brought the Aztec chocolate recipe back to Spain where the preparation and origin of the drink were kept a secret of the Crown for nearly 100 years. Eventually, the secret was leaked and chocolate quickly spread throughout Europe bringing an end to Spain’s monopoly. The Quakers in England began processing and selling the Mayan chocolate drink in an effort to offer a healthy substitute to alcohol for the poor. The Quakers fled Britain for America to be free of religious persecution and settled in the colony of Pennsylvania. It turns out a descendent of those original Quaker’s was Milton Hershey. He opened the Hershey chocolate company in 1905. When World War I became our national passion, the Army was interested in the energy created by chocolate and they commissioned various American chocolate manufacturers to provide 40 pound blocks of milk chocolate to troops in the field. It was a matter of convenience that the chocolate was fashioned into smaller pieces for easy travel and distributed to the troops. Thus, the creation of the “chocolate bar.” MEanwhile, in a small, yet very powerful maritime country along the Atlantic coast of Europe, we find the production of port wine. Now, wine has always been part of the culture of Portugal. The center of production is along the Douro River banks. The soils were fertile and the river was an excellent mode of transportation to the Atlantic Ocean. Port wine, however, was a result of circumstance. Its popularity began in England with the Methuen Treaty of 1703, which allowed merchants to import Portuguese wine at a low duty-fee. The English were at war with France. They couldn’t get French wine. The fact of the matter was that a majority of the wines would spoil on the long trip up to England. This problem was solved by adding spirits to the wine so it would travel. The result was what we recognize as “port wine.” Port is made from three grape varietals: Touriga National, Touriga Francesa and Tinta Roriz. A still wine is made and then fortified with the neutral grape spirit known as aguardente. As a result of the fortification process, port wines are sweet, with flavors of brown sugar, raisins, hazelnut and blackberries. Port and chocolate go together like a hand and glove. Port was not made to go with chocolate, it just happens to work out that way by sheer coincidence. The port industry and the chocolate industry worked independently of one another never realizing that when port meets chocolate, something magical happens. We sat down with Chef Kelly Yepello, as a matter of research, and tasted four different wines and two chocolates of varying degrees of cocoa quality. The wines were varied: Sauternes, Zinfandel, Pineau des
Charentes and port wine. Now, the French dessert wine, Sauternes, is great with creams and foie gras but in this case it was just too delicate for chocolate. The Zinfandel, in theory, should pair well with the chocolate but the tannins in each conflicted and the flavor was bitter. Pineau des Charentes is a cognac fortified wine from France. It has a delicate sweetness with orange blossoms on the nose and a hazelnut finish. Once again, it is a delicious beverage, but was no match for the real chocolate. Then we tried the Port and chocolate combination. It was like a buzzer went off. We smiled at one another. Pushed the other wines away and enjoyed a match made in heaven. The sweetness of the Port acted as a perfect mate to the bitterness of the chocolate. The texture of the chocolate was creamy whilst the fruit from the Port was amplified. We found our pairing. Chocolate and Port…yes. For further information on chocolate, go to: Yepello Chocolates & Confections at www.yepello.com Until next time, Cheers.
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Calendar of Events Friday March 1 Bud Werner Memorial Library: TED Live. Broadcast of the 2013 TED conference. 9:30-11:15 a.m. @ Library Hall. FREE. www. steamboatlibrary.org/events Uranium Mine snowshoe tour. Hosted by Yampatika. Ages 12 and up. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.@ Fish Creek Canyon. FREE. 970-8719151 Sit ‘N Stitch at Sew Steamboat. 4 - 6 p.m. @ 929 Lincoln Ave. FREE. 970-879-3222 10th Annual Penguin Plunge kick-off party. Entry is free. $10 Proceeds benefit the Yampa Valley Medical Center. 5 -7 p.m. @ The Chief Theater. 970-871-0700 Joseph Crosby art opening. Crosby’s Mother Earth collection and live music. Proceeds benefit Advocates Building Peaceful Communities. 5-8 p.m. @ City Café. FREE Leaner, Lunker and friends Acoustic. 3-6 p.m. @ The Rusted Porch. FREE. 970-879-1455 Live jazz. 6:30-9:30 p.m.@ Three Peaks Grill. FREE. 970-879-3399 Missed the Boat –mountaingrass-folk-rock. 9 p.m @ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500
Jonathan Warren & the Billy Goats. Folk and Alternative Country. 9 p.m. @ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500 Pete Stein and the Black Tiger Fire Band. Americana and Bluegrass. 9:30 p.m.@ Carl’s Tavern. FREE. 970-761-2060 Sunday March 3 Bud Werner Memorial Library’s Yoga reading group: B.K.S. Lyengar’s “Light on Life”. 10:30 a.m.- 12 @ Library conference room. www.steamboatlibrary.org/ events Lego Club. Build Legos with other kids. 2-4:30 p.m.@ Bud Werner Memorial Library. Every Sunday from October - April. FREE. Daddio’s Bar & Grille’s Poker night. FREE. 7 p.m. @ 21495 U.S. Highway 40. (Milner). 970-871-1415 Djate. Reggae music. 2 -5 p.m.@ Truffle Pig. FREE. 970-879-7470 Monday March 4 Bud Werner Memorial Library: Perry-Mansfield & Steamboat Dance Theatre present “Never Stand Still”. 6:30 p.m. @ Library Hall. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary.org/events
Tertulia - casual and fun Spanish New Speedway Boogie – Grateful conversational group. 5:45 -7 Dead cover band. FREE. 9:30 p.m. p.m.@ 718 Oak St. FREE @ Carl’s Tavern. 970-760-2060 Tom Gregory. Singer-songwriter, String Board Theory. FREE. original music. 4 – 6 p.m.@ The 10 p.m. @ Old Town Pub. Rusted Porch. FREE. 970-879-2101 970-879-1455 Saturday March 2 Snowshoeing 101 —Yampatika hosted tour. Ages 5 and up. 10 a.m.- 12 @ Legacy Ranch. FREE. 970-871-9151 Tread of Pioneers Museum – Community Grand Opening. 12 – 3 p.m.@ 800 Oak St. FREE. 970-879-2214 5th Annual Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball. Silent auction, Cajun food, drinks and live music. $50 per person, $90 per couple. Proceeds benefit the Yampa Valley Autism Program. Tickets at All That Jazz. 6 -11 p.m. @ Steamboat Springs Community Center. www.yampavalleyautism. org. 970-870-4263 Cosmic karaoke night. 7 p.m.@ Snow Bowl. FREE. 970-879-9840 Old Town Pickers. 8 – 11:30 p.m. @ Hahn’s Peak Roadhouse 970-879-4404 Djate. Reggae music. 2 -5 p.m.@ Truffle Pig. FREE. 970-879-7470 Trevor G. Potter. Americana 3:30-5:30 p.m.@ Gondola Pub & Grill. FREE. 970-879-4448
Fireside jam night with musician Trevor G. Potter. 8 p.m. @ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500
Sit ‘N Stitch. 4 -6 p.m. @ Sew Steamboat, 929 Lincoln Ave. FREE. 970-879-3222
Wednesday March 6
Greg Stump ‘s “Legend of Aahhh’s” and “Blizzard of Aahhh’s” film screenings. 6:30 p.m.@ Chief Theater. $15. Tickets: www. steamboatfilmfestival.com
YVSC and Alliance for Sustainable Colorado’s Regional Roundtable on Clean Energy. 8:30 a.m.-1p.m.@ Centennial Hall. $10 fee. RSVP: www.yvsc.org/nwcoenergy-roundtable Yoga Raves™ (with Lyn): Raise your consciousness and connect with the group. Eclectic music playlists (requests welcomed). Come ready to Rockasana. Love life, Love yoga. 5:30-6:45pm @ Sundance Studio (next to Paws and Claws). www.sundancestudio.com Knitting and crocheting group. 5:30 -6:30 p.m. @Hayden Public Library. FREE. 970-276-3777 Pool tournament — Daddio’s Bar & Grille 7 p.m. @ 21495 U.S. Highway 40 (Milner). FREE. 970-871-1415 Jesse Christensen –Americana rock. 4-7 p.m.@ Saddles Bar & Grill. FREE. 970-879-2220 Pat Waters and Ryan Cox — acoustic rock. 5-8 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500 Thursday March 7 Pat Waters. Local one-man band. 2-5 p.m.@ Truffle Pig. 970-879-7470 David Harlan. Original music and covers. 3:30-5:30 p.m. @ Gondola Pub & Grill. FREE. 970-879-4448
Steve Boynton. Live jazz. 4-6 p.m.@ Gondola Pub & Grill. FREE. 970-879-4448 Live jazz. 6:30-9:30@ Three Peaks Grill. FREE. 970-879-3399 One Ton Pig. Chicken Fried Prison Music. 9:30 p.m.@ Carl’s Tavern. FREE. 970-761-2060 Sneaky Bastards. 10 p.m.@ Old Town Pub. FREE. 970-879-2101 All About Me. Dance music cover band. 9 p.m. @ Sweetwater Grill Springdale Quartet – Rock. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898 Saturday March 9 Snowshoeing 101—Yampatika hosted tour. Ages 5 and up. 10 a.m.- 12 @ Legacy Ranch. FREE. 970-871-9151 Cosmic karaoke night. 7 p.m.@ Snow Bowl. FREE. 970-879-9840 22nd Annual Steamboat Pentathlon: 5-stage, multi-sport winter race. Enter as a team or individually. www.steamboatpentathlon.com
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Tertulia - casual and fun Spanish conversational group. 5:45 -7 p.m.@ 718 Oak St. FREE Open mic night. Sign-up at 8. 9 p.m.@ Old Town Pub. FREE. 970-879-2101
Steamboat Dance Theatre - 41st Annual Dance Concert. An eclectic mix of styles performed by local dancers. 6 p.m.@ Steamboat Springs High School. Tickets: $12 - $20. Tickets available at: www. steamboatdancetheatre.org
Blues & Brews with Steve Boynton. 8 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500 Tuesday March 12 Rocky Mountain Milkmaids luncheon. $10. 12:30 p.m.@ MountainBrew. 970-819-0728 Habitat for Humanity - Housing Help. 10-11a.m. @ 2851 Riverside Plaza # 240. FREE. 970-871-6101 Silent Meditation. No instruction. NO CHIT-CHAT. 11 - 11:45 a.m.@ Yoga Center of Steamboat. FREE. The Bud Werner Memorial Library exhibit, “Bud Werner – The Spirit of a Man, the Soul of a Community.” Includes refreshments and screening of “I Never Look Back: The Buddy Werner Story.” 7 p.m. @Library Hall. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary. org/events Artist lecture series: Bobbi Walker. “How to Approach Gallery Representation.” 6:30 p.m.@ Steamboat Springs Center for Visual Arts. FREE. RSVP: info@ steamboatartcenter.com
Steampowered String Band. 4pm @ Circle R (Oak Creek)
Sound Scoundrels. Live music with locals Kate Parke and Tom Wood. 4-7 p.m.@ Saddles Bar & Grill. FREE. 970-879-2220
Open mic night. Sign-up at 8. 9 p.m.@ Old Town Pub. FREE. 970-879-2101
Jazz & Juice with Boynton & the Boys. 7 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500
Young Dubliners. Hard-Rocking Irish music. 3 p.m. @ Gondola Square.
Fireside open jam night with Trevor G. Potter. 8 p.m. @ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500
Blues & Brews with Steve Boynton. 8 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500
Open mic night. 8 p.m.@ McKnight’s Irish Pub & Loft. FREE. 970-879-7881
Quarter Moon. 8 – 11:30 p.m. @ Hahn’s Peak Roadhouse (Hahn’s Peak). 970-879-4404
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Tuesday March 5
Karaoke. 10 p.m. @ The Tap House Sports Grill. FREE. 970-879-2431
Bill McKay - Blues/Rock. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898
Fox Street AllStars- Funk/ Rock. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898
Sneaky Bastards. Three unique songwriters with dynamic 10 p.m.@ Old Town Pub. FREE. 970-879-2101
Habitat for Humanity - Housing Help. 10-11a.m. @ 2851 Riverside Plaza # 240. FREE. 970-871-6101 Silent Meditation. NO CHIT-CHAT. 11 - 11:45 a.m.@Yoga Center of Steamboat. FREE. Yampatika’s Ski with a Naturalist. 1:30 -2:30 p.m. @ “Why Not” trailhead at the top of the gondola. FREE – Does not include ticket. Water measurement solutions workshop. Includes compliant head gates and measuring devices 5:30-7:30 p.m.@ Steamboat Springs Community Center. FREE. 970-879-0272 Sound Scoundrels. Live music. 4-7 p.m.@ Saddles Bar & Grill. FREE. 970-879-2220
Friday March 8 WZ Sewciety — Sew Steamboat. Sew. Mingle. Mend. 10 a.m.- 12@ 929 Lincoln Ave. FREE. 970-879-3222 Uranium Mine snowshoe tour. Hosted by Yampatika. Ages 12 and up. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.@ Fish Creek Canyon. FREE.
Sunday March 10 Daddio’s Bar & Grille’s Poker night. FREE. 7 p.m. @ 21495 U.S. Highway 40. (Milner). 970-871-1415 Trevor Potter- Americana. 7-9 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898
To submit your events or calendar information e-mail paulie@yampavalleyvoice.com Events maybe edited for length or content. Calendar entries must be received by the 20th of each month.
Yoga Raves™ (with Lyn): Raise your consciousness and connect with the group. Eclectic music playlists (requests welcomed). Come ready to Rockasana. Love life, Love yoga. 5:30-6:45pm @ Sundance Studio (next to Paws and Claws). www.sundancestudio.com
Open mic night. 8 p.m.@ McKnight’s Irish Pub & Loft. FREE. 970-879-7881 Karaoke. 10 p.m. @ The Tap House Sports Grill. FREE. 970-879-2431 Worried Men “Willie to Jerry”. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898 Friday March 15 Uranium Mine snowshoe tour. Hosted by Yampatika. Ages 12 and up. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.@ Fish Creek Canyon. FREE. 970-871-9151 Sit ‘N Stitch. 4 -6 p.m. @ Sew Steamboat, 929 Lincoln Ave. FREE. 970-879-3222 Bud Werner Memorial Library & the Steamboat Springs Arts Council present: “Found Memories,” award-winning Brazilian drama. 7 p.m. @The Depot, FREE. www.steamboatlibrary.org/ events Steamboat Dance Theatre - 41st Annual Dance Concert. 6 p.m.@ Steamboat Springs High School. Tickets: $12 - $20. Tickets available at: www.steamboatdancetheatre.org St. Patrick’s Day Concert: The Fighting Jamesons. High energy Irish music. 8 p.m. @ Strings In the Mountain. www.stringsmusicfestival.com Steve Boynton. Live jazz. 4-6 p.m.@ Gondola Pub & Grill. FREE. 970-879-4448 Live jazz. 6:30-9:30@ Three Peaks Grill. FREE. 970-879-3399 Rowdy Shadehouse. Denver funk band 9 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500
Knitting and crocheting group. 5:30 -6:30 p.m. @Hayden Public Library. FREE. 970-276-3777
Rocky Mountain Grateful Dead Review. 9:00 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898
Jim Steinberg Photography – Photos of the Congo. 12-1 p.m./ 6- 7 p.m.@ 1016 Oak St. FREE. RSVP:888-879-3718
Saturday March 16
Pool tournament — Daddio’s Bar & Grille 7 p.m. @ 21495 U.S. Highway 40 (Milner). FREE. 970-871-1415
Steamboat Dance Theatre - 41st Annual Dance Concert. 6 p.m.@ Steamboat Springs High School. Tickets: $12 - $20. Tickets available at: www.steamboatdancetheatre.org Snowshoeing 101 —Yampatika hosted tour. Ages 5 and up. 10 a.m.- 12 @ Legacy Ranch. FREE. 970-871-9151 Cosmic karaoke night. 7 p.m.@ Snow Bowl. FREE. 970-879-9840
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Calendar of Events Old River Road. 6pm @ Circle R (Oak Creek) The Particular Individuals. 8:30pm @ Circle R (Oak Creek) The Aggrolites – FREE. 3 p.m.@ Gondola Square Ragweed. 8 – 11:30 p.m. @ Hahn’s Peak Roadhouse (Hahn’s Peak) Info: 970-879-4404 MTHDS. Beastie Boys tribute band. 9 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500 Euforquestra – progressive, genre-bending funk fusion. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970879-9898 Sunday March 17
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Yoga Raves™ (with Lyn): Raise your consciousness and connect with the group. Eclectic music playlists (requests welcomed). Come ready to Rockasana. Love life, Love yoga. 5:30-6:45pm @ Sundance Studio (next to Paws and Claws). www.sundancestudio.com
Snowshoeing 101 —Yampatika hosted tour. Ages 5 and up. 10 a.m.- 12 @ Legacy Ranch. FREE. 970-871-9151
Bud Werner Memorial Library presents: “Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines.” 6:30 p.m. @ Library Hall. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary.org/events Knitting and crocheting group. 5:30 -6:30 p.m. @Hayden Public Library. FREE. 970-276-3777
Bud Werner Memorial Library’s yoga reading group: B.K.S. Lyengar’s “Light on Life”. 10:30 a.m.- 12 @ Library conference room. www.steamboatlibrary.org/ events.
Pool tournament — Daddio’s Bar & Grille 7 p.m. @ 21495 U.S. Highway 40 (Milner). FREE. 970-871-1415
Daddio’s Bar & Grille’s Poker night. FREE. 7 p.m. @ 21495 U.S. Highway 40. (Milner). 970-871-1415
Sundog – Country/ Rock. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898
Torchlight Parade –spectacular mountain parade lit only by torches while fireworks illuminate the sky. 8 p.m. @ Gondola Square. FREE. Drunken Hearts – Americana. 9:00 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898 Monday March 18 Bud Werner Memorial Library – community talk with author and climber Jim Davidson, author of “The Ledge,” an award-winning book of one man’s odyssey on Mount Rainier. www.steamboatlibrary.org/events. Open mic night. Performers get a free beer. Sign-up at 8. 9 p.m.@ Old Town Pub. FREE. 970-8792101 Blues & Brews with Steve Boynton. Blues jam night. 8 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500 Tuesday March 19 Bud Werner Memorial Library presents a Health Perspectives discussion with nationally accredited acupuncturist Betsy Smith at 6:30 p.m. @ Library Hall. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary.org/events We Write Steamboat — for independent publishers in Steamboat and Routt County. 4-5:30 p.m.@ 350 S. Lincoln Ave. Yampatika’s Ski with a Naturalist. 1:30 -2:30 p.m. @ “Why Not” trailhead at the top of the gondola. FREE – Tickets are not included
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Pat Waters. Local one-man band. 2-5 p.m.@ Truffle Pig. 970-879-7470 Jazz & Juice with Boynton & the Boys. 7 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500 Open mic night. 8 p.m.@ McKnight’s Irish Pub & Loft. FREE. 970-879-7881 Karaoke. 10 p.m. @ The Tap House Sports Grill. FREE. 970-879-2431 Friday March 22 Uranium Mine snowshoe tour. Hosted by Yampatika. Ages 12 and up. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.@ Fish Creek Canyon. FREE. 970-8719151 Sit ‘N Stitch. 4 -6 p.m. @ Sew Steamboat, 929 Lincoln Ave. FREE. 970-879-3222 Steamboat Stomp – community Country dance event. FREE. 7:30 @ Murphy’s Tavern (Clark). 970879-6046 Sam Bush & Del McCoury — Bluegrass legends join forces for an intimate acoustic concert. Tickets: $45-$65. 8 p.m. @ Strings Music Pavilion. 970-8795056. Dyrty Byrds - Southern Rock . 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898 Throwdown. A local electric cover band plays rock favorites. 9 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500
Swing dance lessons featuring Steamboat Swings. Singles: $15, Couples: $25, Students: $5, Kids 12 & under: Free. Lessons at 6:30 p.m., music begins at 7:30 p.m. @ The Grand. 10th Annual Penguin Plunge - For 10 years running, volunteers and fundraisers will jump into icy waters to raise money for the Yampa Valley Medical Center. 12 p.m.@ Catamount. 970-871-0700 Crazy Mountain Beer Tasting Dinner@ Circle R (Oak Creek).970-736-1018 for details. Bronze Radio Return. 2 p.m. @ Gondola Square. The Dunwells. Harmonious blend of acoustic and electric with 5-piece vocals. 3 p.m. @ Gondola Square. Free Range Pickers. 8 – 11:30 p.m. @ Hahn’s Peak Roadhouse 970-879-4404 Missed The Boat - Jam Grass. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898 Sunday March 24 Bud Werner Memorial Library presents: Community Yoga Practice. 10 a.m. @ Library Hall. One-hour session follows Rod Stryker’s “Yoga For Longevity” DVD. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary.org/events Daddio’s Bar & Grille’s Poker night. FREE. 7 p.m. @ 21495 U.S. Highway 40. (Milner). 970-871-1415 Kip Strean - Acoustic. 7-9 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898 Monday March 25 Happy Birthday, Mikes. Bud Werner Memorial Library: Award-winning documentary “Surfing & Sharks.” Film explores the stigma existing between surfers and sharks in South Africa. 6:30 p.m. @ Library Hall. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary. org/events DANCEWORKS Spring Session Classes start this week for Adults, Teens & Pre-Teens. DANCEWORKS Spring Session begins for children. Offering classes for ages 2 - 9 All classes @ the Depot. www.danceinsteamboat.com. Register: Wendy @ 846-4450. Tertulia - casual and fun Spanish conversational group. 5:45 -7 p.m.@ 718 Oak St. FREE Open mic night. Sign-up at 8. 9 p.m.@ Old Town Pub. FREE.
Blues & Brews with Steve Boynton. Blues jam night. 8 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500 Tuesday March 26 Bud Werner Memorial Library: An interactive evening for parents dealing with kids and sex. Features “Queen of Sex Talks”, Melinda Clark. 6 p.m. @ Library Hall. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary.org/events Sound Scoundrels. Live music with locals Kate Parke and Tom Wood. 4-7 p.m.@ Saddles Bar & Grill. FREE. 970-879-2220 Fireside open jam night with musician Trevor G. Potter. 8 p.m. @ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500 Wednesday March 27 Yoga Raves™ (with Lyn): Raise your consciousness and connect with the group. Eclectic music playlists (requests welcomed). Come ready to Rockasana. Love life, Love yoga. 5:30-6:45pm @ Sundance Studio (next to Paws and Claws). www.sundancestudio.com Bud Werner Memorial Library presents: Talk + slideshow with photographer Jordan Matter, author of bestselling book “Dancers Among Us,” 6:30 p.m. @ Library Hall. FREE. www.steamboatlibrary.org/events. Knitting and crocheting group. 5:30 -6:30 p.m. @Hayden Public Library. FREE. 970-276-3777 Snowshoe in the moonlight and explore Emerald Mountain and Howelsen Hill. $20. Times vary. Registration required. 970-8719151 Pool tournament — Daddio’s Bar & Grille 7 p.m. @ 21495 U.S. Highway 40 (Milner). FREE. 970-871-1415 Thursday March 28 Wildlife ecologist Craig Downer speaks about wild horses, their evolutionary roots, their ecological contribution and the current management predicaments. 7 p.m. @ Library Hall. FREE. www. steamboatlibrary.org/events Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association hosts Line Dancing, Movement and Exercise class. 10 a.m.@ Steamboat Springs Community Center. $3 donation. 970-871-7676 Pat Waters. Local one-man band. 2-5 p.m.@ Truffle Pig. 970-879-7470 David Harlan. Original music and covers. 3:30-5:30 p.m. @ Gondola Pub & Grill. FREE. 970-879-4448
Jazz & Juice with Boynton & the Boys. 7 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500
Daddio’s Bar & Grille’s Poker night. FREE. 7 p.m. @ 21495 U.S. Highway 40 (Milner). 970-871-1415
Open mic night. 8 p.m.@ McKnight’s Irish Pub & Loft. FREE. 970-879-7881
Pat Waters- Acoustic. 7-9 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898
Karaoke. 10 p.m. @ The Tap House Sports Grill. FREE. 970-879-2431 Me & Ed’s Music Machine-Rock. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898 Friday March 29 Sit ‘N Stitch. 4 -6 p.m. @ Sew Steamboat, 929 Lincoln Ave. FREE. 970-879-3222 Steve Boynton live jazz. 4-6 p.m.@ Gondola Pub & Grill. FREE. 970-879-4448 Live jazz. 6:30-9:30@ Three Peaks Grill. FREE. 970-879-3399 Bill Smith- Rock. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898 Instant Cash — Johnny Cash tribute band. 9 p.m.@ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500. All About Me. Dance music cover band. Favorites from the 80’s – today. 9 p.m. @ Tugboat Saturday March 30 10k Winter-Trail Run - Support Yampatika by participating in this scenic 10K run on Emerald Mountain single track trails. 9 a.m. @ Olympian Hall. $22. Register: winter.runningseries. com/lovers-loop Cosmic karaoke night. 7 p.m.@ Snow Bowl. FREE. 970-879-9840 All About Me. Dance music cover band. Favorites from the 80’s – today. 9 p.m. @ Old Town Pub MarchFourth Marching BandFrom Eastern European gypsy brass to Afro-beat, FREE. 3 p.m. @ Gondola Square Copious. 8 – 11:30 p.m. @ Hahn’s Peak Roadhouse 970-879-4404 Ilya - of the duo “Emancipator” performs electronic violin set. 9 p.m. @ Sweetwater Grill. FREE. 970-879-9500 Wish You Were Pink- Pink Floyd Cover Band. 9:30 p.m.@ The Ghost Ranch. 970-879-9898 Sunday March 31 Bud Werner Memorial Library’s yoga reading group: B.K.S. Lyengar’s “Light on Life.” 10:30 a.m.-12 @ Library conference room. www.steamboatlibrary.org/ events.
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Happy Hours Cugino’s 2pm – 6pm The Tap House 2pm – close The Rusted Porch 2pm – 6pm Smokehouse 3pm – 6pm The Rio 3pm – 6pm Tugboat Grill and Pub 3pm – 6pm 8th St Steakhouse 3pm – 5pm Sunpies Bistro 3pm – 6pm New Panda Garden 3pm – 7pm Ghost Ranch 4pm - 7pm Carl’s Tavern 4pm - 6pm Cantina 4pm – 6pm Old Town Pub 4pm – 6pm (Mon-Thur) Old Town Pub 3pm-6pm (Fri-Sun) Boathouse Pub 4pm – 6pm McKnight’s Irish Pub 4pm – 6pm Mahogany Ridge Brewery & Grill 4pm – 5:30pm Sweetwater Grill 4pm – 6pm Big House Burgers & Bottle Cap Bar 4:20pm – 6pm Rex’s Grill 4:30pm – 6pm Mambo Italiano 4:30pm – 6pm Laundry 4:30pm – 6pm La Montana 4:30pm - 6pm Saketumi 5pm – 6pm Three Peaks 5pm – 6pm Cottonwood Grill 5pm -6pm Mazzolas 5pm – 6pm
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Wishful Thinking
Retired at 35? By Mike Baran
One of my long term goals in life is to be retired at 35. I just had this birthday pass and this goal is fast approaching its deadline. As I write this, I wonder how I got here and how to reach this long-term plan with an expiration date.
18-years-old we are invincible and incapable of failure, I stuck with landscaping! In June of 1997, my father died of a heart attack while we were all away from the house. Before this, he had decided to garnish his retirement from the Air Force for a survivors’ dead benefit package. This gave me the ability to attend college without incurring tuition expense or lab fees. After soul-searching for my higher education, I decided on a natural resource school (another mistake???). I became immersed in how our world works for things other than humans. After three years at a two year school, I was finished (no degrees to speak of…another flaw to my retirement?) and went back to landscaping.
When we are young, our educators try to help us to determine our career future. We take placement tests to give us a direction to head towards with our academia. I always wanted to work outside with my hands (first mistake toward retirement now). As I got closer to graduating high school, college became the buzz word of choice from teachers, family, friends, and pretty much anyone I spoke to. I really enjoyed landscaping and decided this would be my path (next mistake). My father and I argued incessantly about this subject. He was a military man without a college degree and spent 20 years being showed in so many ways that this was a shortcoming in his career. His constant stance was, “If you want to landscape, do so, but go to college first so you have something to fall back on if it doesn’t work out.” Why do this? I have a fool proof plan and my whole life ahead of me. This, coupled with the fact that at
After several years passed, I met my wife. We clicked so well together and had so many common goals for our future. We could work, have great vacations, find a great home, build our wealth, have kids (not at the top of the list of things to do!), and live happily ever after! So we had kids first…OOPS! We made sure to parent our own children, which left me to continue landscap-
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ing and her, a kick ass stay at home mom. Now we are to our current place… I don’t play the lottery because I abhor the idea of giving away that money on a one-in-two billion chance of winning (too risky). I currently have no investments beyond my children and wife (best ones for me to have though). I do have a plan right now that I think will be a winner! A potato chip company held a contest to create a new chip flavor to be released. I entered and think my flavor is a winner! I put a lot of time and energy in crafting this flavor, which is why I know it is a winner! The first round finalists win 30k of which there are only three winners. These flavors hit the shelves and America decides who the best is by gorging themselves on the best one. The big winner gets a million dollars or a percentage of the gross sales, whichever one is higher. Man, what a good plan this one is. No matter what happens, I still have 10 months to figure out my retirement. If this plan fails, I will simply come up with a better one. As Winston Churchill said “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” P.S. – If anybody has any great ideas for retirement, let me know via the Valley Voice, and I’ll get right on it!
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Most people don’t know that I was totally buried by an avalanche in 1976. You need to know what saved my life. But first, let’s save your car. Vehicles are so trouble free and require so little maintenance now, it can be months between times the hood gets opened. The Check Engine Light gives many people a very false sense of security. Your vehicle has no way to directly monitor the oil or coolant levels. Some cars do, but most do not. That means when the light comes on half way up Rabbit Ears Pass, it is not telling you to check the engine, it is telling you that you need a new engine, because you just killed it. Figure out how to open the hood and check the oil and water once in a while before you start the engine. Top them up and understand continued losses of water or oil mean a repair is necessary. January, 1976. It hadn’t snowed for weeks and it had been warm and sunny. The old snow had a glazed surface. We got a thirty plus inch dump one night, which was the perfect condition for a slab avalanche, and Ed and I knew it. We had cords made out of red nylon that had brass buttons with numbers and arrows. The cords are 40 feet long and we tied them around an ankle, dragging them behind us when descending. The numbers and arrows would indicate which way and how far the body was. We hiked up to the microwave tower on top – no Morningside lift then kids – and skied incredible powder shots down the first two pitches. My skies were skinny Fischers that had a cable binding and adjustable toe angles that allowed cowboy boots or any boot for that matter. Back then, tele boots were a lot like tennis shoes, but not as tall.
seem like I was going to see him again or raise him. It was obvious that I would not last long and it was a very conscious effort to stop breathing. Possibly the hardest thing to do was to stop breathing, but I did. I held my breath until the adrenalin started to subside and took the smallest sip. It seemed like hours, but was really only minutes. It worked. My breathing was now normal and the adrenalin subsided. The snow around my face melted and I could focus on the pain and darkness. Ed dug me up and said we didn’t need the avalanche cords, he watched where I was deposited and knew exactly where to dig. Our troubles were not over however, my ski was broken, my back really hurt, and we didn’t know about the thousand steps then. We skied to Fish Creek Falls, down the trail and walked to town. I used my avalanche cord to tie a branch to my broken ski so it could be used to push. I still have that cord and use it to install windshields.
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We skied the pitches separately in case we did create a slide. Ed stepped onto the third pitch skiing some incredible face shots and endoed half way down. He got up and skied to the bottom. I pushed off on the left side of the slope and the whole slope broke all at the same time. The snow around me wasn’t moving, but I was going 60 miles an hour in a second. The noise is loud enough to scare you to death, REALLY, the swimming instinct kicked in instantly too. The boiling snow tried very hard to suck me down into it. I was carried all the way down the slope by the slide and ended up in the trees on the right side of the run. My left ski was wrapped around a little tree behind me and my right foot was next to my head. Both pole straps were still on my wrists, my left arm was under me and my right was pointed straight up. The fluffy stuff we had been skiing on turned into concrete and I was totally buried. I had so much adrenalin in my system and I was breathing so hard that I was choking on snow crystals that I was sucking into my lungs, causing my adrenalin level to go even higher. At that point I was almost dead from a heart attack or stroke. My thoughts were of my oldest child who was almost one at the time, and it didn’t
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Steamboat Springs is a destination town for skiing and recreation. Biking, hiking, fishing, snow are all words that come to mind when people ask ‘Why did you move to Steamboat?’ What isn’t often mentioned are the over 150 mineral springs that drew the first settlers to this town. When James Crawford staked his famous land claim on a quaking aspen tree, he did it in sight of the Steamboat Spring that once chugged like a steamboat. When he built a home he did it with the Crawford Spring in his back yard and the Sulphur Spring, a temperate spring that could be used for bathing, right across the way. Today, while the springs have signs and viewing platforms, their notoriety has fallen greatly from the days when the Cabin Hotel (where the Bud Werner Memorial Library now sits) drew in visitors from across the country to sample the many springs at their front door. The variety of springs in Steamboat is unmatched in most of the rest of the world. We have natural hot springs, Lithia springs, sulphur springs. We had a soda spring that offered naturally carbonated waters.
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This town was built on the belief that these waters would one day be bottled and sold for their healing properties around the world. Lithia is said to cure manic-depressive disorder. Old timers still drink a glass a day to balance mood and emotion. The mud around the Terrace and Narcissus spring were believed to cure skin disorders. The waters of the Old Town Hot Springs were once free to all to bathe in and was the preferred bathing alternative to a tub on the floor of a home filled with boiling water.
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Some of the springs have been lost due to development and expansion, but the ones that remain should not be taken for granted. While we ski and ski jump on Howelsen Hill, the Sulphur Cave Spring trickles sulphur water into mysterious depths where the Ute Indians were once rumored to force people to their death at spear point. Today, snottites have been found in that cave, a type of formation only found in one other cave in the world in Mexico. The noxious gases have kept people out over the years, but now we have the technology to penetrate deeper than before. The springs of Steamboat still hold answers, mysteries and refreshment, if only we would take the time to look.
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You’re Invited to the Community Grand Opening of the newly expanded Tread of Pioneers Museum! When: Saturday, March 2nd from 12:00-3:00pm Where: Tread of Pioneers Museum, 8th and Oak Streets What: All community members are invited to this special reception and behind-the-scenes-tours of our new collections facility. Free refreshments. Why: History is made every day, and as our town continues to grow, the Tread of Pioneers Museum’s ability to capture this history was compromised by our previous buildings. Professional artifact conservation and architectural assessments determined that the current collections building was overcrowded, lacked proper environmental controls, and was unsafe for collections and staff. The 4,280 square foot Expansion Project provides a quality facility that was urgently needed to preserve the growing collection and exhibit the compelling stories of our community’s heritage. The Museum expansion project features: • Space for appropriate care and storage of irreplaceable artifacts and archives (documents, diaries, maps, photographs, etc.) • Curatorial work space for artifact conservation work, exhibit preparation, and storage • Museum quality HVAC system, security, and fire suppression Additional exhibit space shares our community’s unique heritage: • The new exhibits showcase our history in a vibrant and engaging way. • The Museum uses multi-media technology, interactive hands-on elements, and exhibits that bring the past to life. • Exhibits interpret stories of the area’s unique agriculture and industry, cultural traditions, skiing and Olympic heritage, and family histories. The facility enhances our town: • The Museum presents innovative and exciting exhibitions and programs and is a must-see destination in our resort town. • The enhancement of this cultural facility serves as a draw for downtown and benefits local businesses. You won’t want to miss your rare opportunity to go behind-the-scenes and see all that is new. Join us for our open house on March 2nd!
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Baby Chicks: The First Few Days By Erica Olson for Deep Roots It’s 5 a.m., and the phone is ringing. Who the hell, you think blearily to yourself, staring at the number on your phone. You don’t recognize it, so you swipe your finger across the screen to send the call to voicemail. Just as your head hits the pillow again, you remember: the chickens! You sit bolt upright and scramble your clothes on. Hair mussed, teeth unbrushed, you bolt out the door--only pausing long enough to turn on the heat lamp in the broody box.
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It’s time to welcome your new babies home. If ordering your chickens from a hatchery, be sure to have some flexible time available to pick them up from the post office. Have your brooding pen up and ready to go ahead of time. Chicks are usually shipped in a minimum order to help provide body heat for each other, but small body mass means they chill easily. It is a good idea to give your pen a test run a few days early in order to fix any problems that may come up. Turn on the heat lamp when you leave to get your chicks. On the way home, keep your car as warm as possible. Get them home quickly and into the warmth of the broody box. Brooding Pen The broody box can be made of just about anything: an old stock tank, a bathtub with the drain covered, even wood or cardboard. Something without square corners is ideal, as chicks can crowd and crush each other. The walls will need to be solid in order to prevent drafts, and high enough that the chicks won’t be able to fly or jump out. As they get bigger, you can extend the walls upwards with cardboard or put a screen on top. To start with, aim for half a square foot per chick. Food and Water When your chicks first arrive in the brooding pen, they will need to learn where the food and water is. Since they have no mama around, you will have to show them. Without this knowledge, the chicks will die. Mix a quart of warm water with a spoonful of sugar or electrolytes. Take each chick and dip its beak into the water, allowing it to get a taste of water before you let it go. Shallow self-waterers are best; this way, the chick does not climb in, get wet, and become chilled. The first day, scatter chick starter on paper towels around the box, replacing the paper towels as needed. The chicks will peck at the feed and it can be relocated to a shallow crock or trough the next day. Adding chopped hard-boiled or scrambled eggs to the top of the food will encourage them to eat and give them a little protein boost. After the first day or two, cut up blades of grass in quarter-inch sections and add; they will go completely nuts for the greenery. Chicks that are not eating or drinking are usually chilled. They may need to be syringe-fed with warm sugar water to regain their body temperature. Start
by dribbling just a drop or two of water on the chick’s beak to encourage it to open its mouth. Chicks that are farther gone may need the corners of their mouths pinched open. To encourage a chick to eat, mix chick starter with the sugar water to form a paste, then smear a few granules on the chick’s beak. Never let your chicks run out of food or water. They will climb all over their dishes and foul their food and water, so replace their water twice a day or so. Food dishes for chickens often come with a little cover, or you can make one out of a plastic lid in a pinch. Temperature To keep your brooding pen warm, invest in a heat lamp. The first few hours, keep the temperature at 100-101 degrees, measured by a thermometer on the floor. Once the chicks are all eating, drinking, and active, lower the temperature to 97 degrees by raising the height of the heat lamp. After the first week, reduce the temperature by five degrees a week until you reach 70 degrees. At this point, the chicks are usually large enough to maintain their own body temperature and shouldn’t need much more assistance.
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If the chicks are huddled together directly under the heat lamp, they are too cold. If they have all fled to the corners, they are too hot. Ideally, they should be active and milling around. Be sure to allow space away from the lamp for chicks to cool off if they get too hot. When a Baby Chick Dies Sometimes, despite all best efforts, a chick will die. I have spent hours bent double over baby chicks, only to have them die in my hands. Many hatcheries will include a few extra chicks in their larger orders as a buffer against loss, but it’s still hard to see such an itty bitty thing go. For us, in the spirit of not letting anything go to waste, deceased chicks get fed to the giant dog. Before we got Ben, we would bury them in the garden, allowing their tiny bodies to return to the earth. For those with children, this is a good opportunity to help demonstrate and explain the cycle of life. For the rest of us, it is an excellent reminder.
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Transitory Adventures
Yakity-Yak, Ranching in the Black By Nacho Neighbor
“In the winter they prefer to eat snow over drinking water,” he laughs. Just another example of the yak’s inherent ease of maintenance versus the cow. I was just listening to him at the bar and I’m sold. What’s not to like? A yak scarf keeping my neck warm as I eat yak skewers dipped in gooey yak cheese by the fire. “Well, I took a lot of lumps in my first two years,” Nilsson laughs and brought me back to earth,”First was not being as good a horsemen as I’d like, and not too good at training them (yaks) either.” Could be a bit of an impediment, I thought, but he was on a roll. Getting yaks to be as gentle as a horse takes time and know-how, he said. Upon his arrival in Routt County in 2010, Nilsson met some other local yak ranchers, Jody and Marsha Hampton of Yampa Valley Yaks in South Routt. They are a local source of information for Nilsson to ease his learning curve and grow the yakking community. Then, in March of 2011, Nilsson bought his first yaks from Sanders. A year and a half later he was getting awards at the stock show for his own yaks. “Second best yearling bull” his first year and another second in “the pack” class last year.
If you’re born into a ranching family, odds are you will be a rancher. But what if you weren’t? What if mom was a cop and dad was in sales and you never had large mammals growing up? “I took one bite of a yak burger at The Denver Western Stock Show a couple of years ago and it was the best tasting meat I’ve ever eaten,” says Eaton Nilsson, a new breed of rancher in Colorado. The things you learn about a guy when you work together in a completely different job. I tell ya. Eaton went on this rant about his passion. So here you go. “From that moment on,” he matter of factly states, “I knew that was what I wanted to do.” Epiphany in a pasture.
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Once in a while, some people veer off the beaten path, others do a 180. For Nilsson, it made perfect sense. With a ton of enthusiasm and little knowledge Nilsson met a Colorado rancher and breeder of domesticated Yaks by the name of Eddy Sanders. Sanders runs Grunniens Ranch in Elbert, CO. He’s currently Nilsson’s mentor and supplier of the split-hooved multi-functional bovine, and he helps Nilsson navigate the unfamiliar and expanding yak culture. “I just believe in the breed, totally,” Nilsson says, “It not just for the meat.” there are plenty of other reasons to like the benefits of a yak for sure.” The list of pros versus cons was a no-brainer for him, “Ride, pack, and pull... meat, milk, and wool,” Nilsson quips, believing in the mantra more after every time he says it. Then he elaborates with the three-to-one feeding ratio of a yak versus a cow and even I could see the benefits. “Three yaks can live off the same amount of grass as one cow per year,” he asserts. You can’t argue with the logic given the drought-related problems livestock ranchers have faced over the last couple of years.
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The yak originated in the upper plateaus of China, India and Nepal and is right at home with the thin vegetation and sparse existence of those regions. Put that together with the fact that they are trainable to be as gentle as a pack horse, will give you 15 years of good service, milk, cheese, wool as fine as cashmere, and eventually a nice hide, how can you argue?
“Where I found my niche, is to buy older 9-18 montholds, train them myself in a revolving heard, or, at least, in a situation where I’m being paid to train,” he said. Either way he’d be happy in the narrow, positive cash flow portion of ranching. There is a big difference between breeding for meat and breeding to train yaks. Edible sized yaks come in around 750 lbs. of meat for a nice tasty 3 year-old. After processing you yield 375 lbs. On average yak sells for $2 a lb. more than beef. Then there is the skull and hide that are desirable as well... Or you can have an extremely docile, useful, beast to help you and your friends on a great hiking trek, a or successful hunting trip. For many years to come. Your call. The training aspect is obviously more time intensive then just grazing them until harvest. On average, it takes 6-9 months to train one pack animal. He also noted that the yak was fine with the blood from a harvested elk nearby. “Some horses shy away from blood but not the yaks,” has said. At 13 hands high and a lot wider than a horse, they are also ergonomically better for packing heavy loads. If that weren’t enough to persuade the casual observer, he gets a great deal on trade-ins as well. “I give Eddy one trained one, and he gives me back two young ones,” Nilsson said. That way Nilsson stays stocked up.(pun intended) If it’s perfect for you, and you’d like to know more, go to IYAK.Org for the International Yak Association, or contact Eaton Nilsson direct at Yakandpack@gmail.com.
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Here Knitty-Knitty
Shawl People By LA Bourgeois
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a shawl person. You know, one of those people who can fling a shawl over her shoulders and elegantly greet the world. Today, I see women at events, easily wearing lacy concoctions around their necks and over their shoulders and sometimes even around their waists. I read about and talk to women who say, “I just wear my shawls to the grocery store. Who needs an occasion?” They always look elegant and at ease in their gorgeous shawls. They wrap them around their necks like scarves if they are wearing coats, and then rearrange the piece effortlessly when they remove the coat, ending up with an elegant swooped wrap to wear as they sip their champagne or search for green beans.
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I am, unfortunately for me, kind of a goofball. I’m heavy and short, making me appear quite round. If I’m not looking and not paying attention, I run into stationary objects and other people. When I plop down into an overstuffed chair, I always mash down the beautifully placed pillow with my ass. Therefore, if I want to look elegant, I have to try really, really hard. For a long time, when I placed a shawl on my shoulders, I directed it like a mini play. In front of my mirror, I very carefully placed the most decorative part of the shawl just behind my shoulder, so the beauty would have the most chance to be seen. One side comes over the opposite shoulder and the other side gets placed over the top of that corner to hopefully hold the whole thing on my body. The shawl was my actor, and my very recalcitrant partner in drama. I tried all sorts of ways to wear a shawl: • Around my neck like a kerchief (Welcome to the ‘80’s), • Around my shoulders symmetrically with the ends tied on my chest (definitely effortless, but with the worry of looking like a granny), • Looped through my arms with the point falling behind my back (so I can spend the entire evening grasping frantically at my elbows trying to keep the sucker on), • Asymmetrically across my shoulders with the center draping down one arm (my favorite, but one that
ensures I’ll spend the evening flinging one point over O my shoulder again and again). i s • I’ve even draped a shawl over my head and wrapped the ends around my neck to warm my ears on a chilly F day. “ w In my head, I look like Julie Christie in Dr. Zhivago. y t In reality, I look more like a round Russian peasant m woman going to the market. A Except the whole outfit was purple, so perhaps I looked n more like a big plum. I I worried about my inability to carry off a “shawl out- s fit.” I love to knit shawls. All sorts of shawls. Lacy, solid, v multi-colored, garter stitch, stockinette, worsted weight, sock weight, laceweight, wool, silk, cashmere. Oh how I M wished to wear a delicate lacy shawl I made myself out t of laceweight cashmere. s c In that particular scenario, I was also thin with long l flowing hair, wearing a gorgeous matching designer v dress, smiling elegantly at my date before taking a sip from my champagne flute. M So that didn’t happen. V Quite recently, I made a realization about those amazing ladies. I remembered how, when I looked at those M ladies elegantly and dramatically wearing those beauti- m ful shawls, they were usually flinging them over their shoulders before returning to their infinitely interest- V ing conversations. Shawls were flung before swiftly crossing streets. Shawls were flung after bending over F to fetch a can from a bottom shelf at the market. V Either that, or they have a shawl pin securing the beautiful object around their necks. M I realized that flinging is something you do with a shawl unless you have a shawl pin.
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Kid Chronicles
Potterheads vs. Twilighters By Delaney Ziegman
Okay, I’m going to tell you of a very unfortunate tale involving me, some Potterheads, a very old man and some crazy Twilight fans. I do hope you enjoy. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, “Potterhead” refers to a person who is crazy obsessed with the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. I’m sure you are familiar with Twilight fans – people who love the series Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. You could call me a Potterhead. And Twilight fans, I suggest you go reread Twilight for now.
I’m going to paint a scenario for you before we begin, something that sparked my interest in writing this very opinionated article. , My friend and I, on a quest to gather some Harry Potter merchandise, go to the very highly geek appraised store, The Wizards Chest in Cherry Creek Denver. Of course, with no or very little luck finding what we looked for, we asked a store clerk for assistance. (He is very old, mind you) It is the proper thing to do, no? Me: “Excuse me sir?” Very Old Man: “Yes?” Me: “I was wondering, do you have any Harry Potter merchandise?” Very Old Man: “Harry Potter?” Fellow Potterhead: “You know, the books and movies?” Very Old Man: “Oh yes, that. Yes, we carry the series.” Me: “Yeah, we saw that. Anything else?” (Fellow Potterhead wanders off to examine Doctor Who merchandise.) Very Old Man: “Well, no. You know, Harry Potter is kind of over.” And here, for a moment, I stand in complete and utter shock. Surprise runs through my veins and I have a sudden urge to do something that will make him eat his words. What to do? Very Old Man: “No one really reads or sees those movies anymore. They’re really quite over. No one really cares anymore.” Internal me: “What?! Are you kidding?! They are the most brilliant books since Dickens! You shut your mouth!!!! Sir.” External me: “Oh. Okay. Thanks anyway.” Okay, so that was the first little… incident. Because, first of all, Harry Potter is not over. What? Is Shakespeare over?
No, you fool. It’s a classic. Of course, this was enough to make my anger boil, but not enough for me to rant for a whole article. The next little problem was relatively short because I never received a reply. Please continue to read if you want to hear about me losing my head and all my sanity. Twilight Fan (as written under YouTube comments. Including errors): “i dont see how ANYBODY can like such a blatant ripoff of twilight. For one thing, that guy Serious Black is total copy of Jacob Black becuz hes a werewolf just like jacob and the dumb author didn’t even bother changing the last name. Also, every potter book is the same: Voltemord finds a way to come back to life and harry kills him again. yawn. Twilight has a dynamic plot twists and romantic suprises everypage, unlike potter where all it is is harry and herminy. Twilight >>Crap >>Harry Potter” Me: “W-What? What? Who do you think you are? You are going into dangerous territory, girl. First of all, Harry Potter was both filmed and published first. Three years earlier, to be exact. Look who’s unoriginal now. And, if you want to make a sound argument, maybe spell some stuff right. 1. Sirius Black. 2. Voldemort 3. Harry 4. Hermione And dynamic plot twists? Sure, like bad romance, abusive relationships and horribly developed main characters? You obviously haven’t even read the books because Harry and Hermione aren’t even a couple. That’s Twilight ruling your world if you think every girl and boy have to be in a relationship if they ever even really see each other. And, did you really just call The Queen (Ms. Rowling, the beautiful) dumb??????!!!! Now go Avadekedavra yourself.” Well, maybe I’m a little nicer than that. That was mostly my thoughts. I couldn’t bring myself to reply to such a horrible comment. Something that both disrespects the Queen AND Potter himself? No, that was just too horrible. So, I thought I may address the issues I find in the Twilight Saga. First of all, as you probably know, a lot of us Potterheads have a true problem with the characters. The bland, submissive, idiotic or abusive characters.
plains about not being pretty. She is a Mary Sue. Her name literally translates as “Beautiful Swan.” Is that not enough for you? She’s constantly throwing herself into peril so the sparkly vampire and the wolf can save her. And she welcomes Edward’s abuse like it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to her. Maybe I won’t even review the sparkler and the wolf, because there is one simple thing that really bothers me about Twilight. What it’s doing to today’s youth. I’ve once, and I kid you not, heard a young lady say this to me like her very life depended on it. And I understand that she wants to be loved and taken care of, but no one should have to say this: “I want to be just like Bella. I look up to her.” You want to be abused by a cruel man? In a relationship that gets women’s souls stolen? I don’t think so. Because Hermione and Harry taught us how to be warriors. And Harry Potter will never be over. As Stephen King once said: “Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.” Have some opinions? I know you do if you like Twilight. I’ll take your comments. Please, please e-mail me at CalamityCreates@gmail.com and I promise to tone down the snarkiness. Oh! And I might add that Sirius Black is an animagus, not a werewolf. Lupin is the wolf, thank you very much. Now go obsess about your sparkler.
Delaney Ziegman is a sixth grader at SSMS who is crazy about writing, loves to read and on occasion, enjoys old movies and TV shows like Doctor Who. If you have any ideas for this column, e-mail her at CalamityCreates@gmail.com.
Harry Potter Facts: Number of books: 7 Number of words: 1,090,739 Number of movies: 8 Number of hours: 17 hr 13 min
Bella Swan describes herself as Barbie and then com-
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. – William Butler Yeats
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Sustainably Situated
Support Mother Earth and Turn Off the Lights By Andy Kennedy, for the Yampa Valley Sustainability Council On March 31, 2012, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., over seventy children of all ages lined the rope barricade with their jaws gaping and gazes fixed on the spinning flames in front of them, bobbing to the drumming coming from the darkness, holding candles to mark their participation in the global event known as Earth Hour. It was our largest turnout yet, and it was in one word: inspirational. A simple yet powerful awareness event centered around climate change, Earth Hour was launched in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, led by the World Wildlife Fund and is now supported by millions of Earth lovers in thousands of cities worldwide. The Yampa Valley Sustainability Council (YVSC) adopted Earth Hour as one of its signature events in 2010 for many reasons, but a big one is that our locals don’t honor Earth Day (April 22) as a community because it falls after the mountain closes and many locals are out of town for Spring Break. By joining together for Earth
Hour, we can show our support for invoking change in our habits to help create a more sustainable future.
up commitments of how they would take Earth Hour one step further throughout the year.
In 2011 we turned the focus for this event towards local youth through YVSC’s Sustainable Schools program and asked the students how they can “Go Beyond the Hour,” one of Earth Hour’s key themes for 2011 and still a general theme of the event. The High School’s Eco Club jumped to the lead and requested to turn off the lights during the afternoon on the Friday before the event, which always falls on a Saturday. About fifty participants gathered on the Courthouse lawn, the Teen Council lit a candle luminaria in the shape of a 60, the Steamboat Firespinners provided glowing entertainment to some acoustic music, and a tradition was born.
This year the momentum continues to grow as the global event theme adds an “I Will if You Will Challenge.” Stories have poured in for months with green commitments of all types, like public transportation, sustainable food sourcing, reducing energy consumption, and more.
In 2012, the event’s crowd grew to nearly 100 and was hosted on the parking lot in front of Olympian Hall and included live music from the Steamboat African Drum Ensemble and Prairie Tunegrass. On the Friday prior, the schools focused on a lights-out afternoon, drawing
The view from above must be magical, as the shutoffs roll around the world from Beijing to Europe’s historical structures, to Manhattan, DC and the Vegas Strip. The video on EarthHour.org shows the crowds cheering as someone pulls the switch and monuments, sporting arenas and skylines go dark. More than 7,000 cities in 150 countries turned their lights off in 2012, and now Steamboat is joining the ranks. We are excited to welcome official support from the City of Steamboat Springs, which has agreed to darken Lincoln Avenue lighting (except traffic lights) during the hour. It is our hope that Mainstreet businesses will do the same and all restaurants across town will host a candelight hour to show their support. This year’s celebration moves back to the Courthouse; join us on 6th Street at 8:30 for the firespinning and drumming demonstrations, as well as an inspiring short speech from Pete Maysmith of Conservation Colorado. Bring a candle, and show your support for the future of our planet. To get ideas for your business, restaurant or home, visit www.earthhour.org, www.youtube.com/earthhour, or www.yvsc.org/earth.
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The Way I See It
Those Things We Do
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I was talking recently to a man whom I like and admire, and he was complaining about something that upset him. Not being personally invested in the issue one way or another, I was able to listen without becoming involved or losing my objectivity, which is a very interesting place from which to listen, it turns out. A part of my mind was wondering whether these things the man found upsetting were really out of the ordinary, or were just business as usual, but he’d never made himself aware of them before. And the more the man talked, the more upset he became and the more he increased his feelings of powerlessness, which of course upset him all the more. As I listened and observed, I was aware that I had behaved this way myself, many, many times. And I had made myself upset and miserable, just as he was doing, many, many times. I was grateful to this man for providing a mirror for me, with which to view and recognize myself. Because far too often, this is what I do; what we all do. We focus on something we do not like, and we tell ourselves all the reasons why we don’t like this thing. As we focus on all these reasons, we grow this thing and our dislike of it, bigger and bigger. And as it grows bigger, we dislike and fear it even more, until we have ourselves worked into such a state about it that we have trouble focusing on anything else. We blame this thing for ruining our day, our week, our month and even our lives. But truly, outside of this thing and all the misery we cause ourselves about it, the sun is still shining (or the snow is still falling) and we still have people who love us and our eyes still see and our hearts still beat and the world is still a miracle, if we can only step out of ourselves for a moment and see it that way.
of well-being and abundance? What if all we have to do, really, is to look for those miracles, reach out for that well-being and receive that abundance? You might think me foolish and naive, but if I can feel wonderful simply by choosing to focus on the things in my life that are wonderful, why would I choose to do anything else? We have all heard the story of the young man who was talking to an elder and the elder told him that he had two wolves fighting inside him, a black wolf and a white wolf. And that the black wolf was hate and anger and the white wolf was love and forgiveness. And the young man asked the elder, “Which wolf will win? ,” to which the elder replied, “The one you feed.” A more modern version of that tale was told by the genius Charles M. Schultz, via his magical creations Linus and Lucy. Lucy has told Linus that one side of him is hate Healthy Pets, and the other side of him is love, and Linus cries out, Wallets! “But, I don’t want to beHappy half hate! I want to be all love!” So Lucy tells him to stand tilted to one side, so the love can overflow and spill Sundance into the hateat side, so Creek that he can Fish be all love. And the last frame shows Linus standing 879—6092 tilted to one side and Charlie Brown looking on and rolling his eyes. But, I gotta say, I’m with Linus on this one!
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Einstein quoted one of my favorite quotes, and I quote, “There are two ways to live your life – one is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.” And how true is that? It’s all about OUR OWN focus. If we focus upon the things in our lives that are wonderful and extraordinary, with awe and love and gratitude in our hearts, we will live extraordinary lives; lives full of things for which to be grateful, because we call those things into our lives by our very focus upon them. If, on the other hand, we focus upon those things which we dislike and fear, we will fill our hearts with fear and anger and darkness and we will call those things into our lives so that we can have more fear and anger and darkness upon which to feed. It is easy to fall into the habit of focusing on the negative, especially if one allows oneself to be influenced by the media, where a vast majority of the stories told are about pain and disaster and the evil that humans do to one another; while the feel-good stories are considered “fluff pieces” and are mostly aired on the day-time “news” programs. And we are told so often that the world is a dangerous and fearful place, that we allow ourselves to believe it. But what if that’s not true? What if the world is a place of miracles and wonder? What if the Universe extends to us a constant stream
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. – Winston Churchill
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Yepelloscopes
Your Monthly Message By Chelsea Yepello VISUAL ARTS: Patsy Krebs: Fugue an unprecedented solo exhibition of aquatint prints from the nationally acclaimed minimalist painter. Open through March 28 Classical Conversation, Fugue: SSO Conductor Ernest Richardson and SSAC Curator Park Myers March 15th 6:00pm Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot: 1001 13th Street info@steamboatspringsarts.com WINTER SOIREE: Steamboat Symphony Orchestra Steamboat Springs Arts Council & Emerald City Opera present a polo themed evening of pageantry performance, and exquisite dining! CABARET 2013: THESPIANS! WRITERS! MUSICIANS! WANNABE’S OF ALL KINDS! The 2013 Cabaret will be showing May 9th, 10th and 11th. The Arts Council is looking for HILARIOUS talent to help create another amazing and historical comedic performance! If you are interested please email info@steamboatspringsarts.om steamboatspringsarts.com
Aries
March 21 - April 19
You are a little green sprout springing from the remnant of what was once a mighty forest. You reach your little leaves to the sun, representing the single beacon of hope that may regrow the fallen forest once more. Grow you brave little seedling, grow!
Taurus
April 20 - May 20
Though you are an avid scrapbooker and enjoy immortalizing significant moments in your life, you stifle the urge to cut out an article you found in the newspaper titled “Goats and Methlabs – Whats the Connection?” after you see your name is mentioned more than once.
Gemini
May 20 - June 20
Though it is noble that you decided to become a risk annalist in an attempt to make the world a better place, stop world hunger and give a teddy bear to all the children of the world, it is still unclear how this profession is going to accomplish that.
Cancer
June 21 - July 22
After years of therapy, it will finally dawn on you that much of your deep seeded angst is connected to that weird little clown doll that sat of your shelf and always had a slight smell of burnt popcorn.
Leo
July 23 - August 23
There really is no significance to your secret chili recipe if no one really cares that your secret recipe is a secret.
Virgo
Libra
September 23 - October 23
You really start to question the quality of those sewer maps when despite your greatest efforts, you still cant find the Ninja Turtles secret lair.
Scorpio
October 24 - November 21
Just because you floated around on a cruise ship pretending you were a pirate, does not, in fact make you a pirate. That’s just not how it works. Nice eye-patch though.
Sagittarius
November 22 - December 21
Unfortunately, you will not be the next David Blaine when you demonstrate the sheer power of gravity.
Capricorn
December 22 - January 19
Your car will not react well to you pouring vegetable oil into the gas tank. Yes, you may want to reduce your carbon footprint, but somehow abandoning a smoking car that smells like french fries on the side of the road doesn’t seem to be what you were going for.
Aquarius
January 20 - February 18
Your week will be shot to hell when it dawns on you that your credit agency calls you so often they know you by name and always ask how your mom is doing.
Pisces
February 19 - March 20
You never would have imagined how emotionally fulfilling a night in prison would be. Somehow your three hundred pound cell mate with tattoos on his face... just... got you...
August 23 - September 22
Just for a moment, it seemed like you were almost human. But then you were found plugging yourself into a electrical socket to recharge your robot battery. Oh well, you almost fooled them.
Valley Verses
Nunca te dejaré ir. Cuando necesites alguien con quien llorar, Allí estaré, extenderé mi brazo, Te acogeré en mi regazo para curar Tus heridas. Caminaré junto a ti hasta el anochecer, Cuidaré de ti en las noches pasajeras, Prenderé velas para alumbran las noches oscuras. Y ver juntos hacia el amanecer.
Cuando ninguna puerta se encuentre abierta y el mundo se encierre para ti, yo abriré La mía para dejarte pasar. Cuando la tristeza te invada Te contaré chistes para hacerte reír. Y cuando sientas que nadie te escucha, mira al cielo porque yo te escucho y comparto tu pena. - Salvador Mendoza
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I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag. – Jessica Simpson
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