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Goals Set High Archer already working toward dream of being flight nurse
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hace Archer has a clear-cut goal set for his future, and he is working hard toward at-
taining it. Chace, a junior at Florence High School, frequently is seen on the basketball court, football field or running track — but recently he also can be found in the school’s Med Prep class. “I want to be a flight nurse in Flight For Life,” he said. “I’ll have to get emergency room experience before I can do that, so I will be in the emergency room for a while.” The first step toward reaching his goal is the Med Prep program. Applicants must interview and meet criteria to be accepted in the class, which only accepts 10 students. He does not mind that he is the only guy in this year’s class. “There’s so much you learn in there,” he said. “I can’t even explain how much I’ve learned in that class – everything from doing vital signs to charting intake and output to giving somebody a shower. “We do clinicals in the morning — really early — and then we come to school later.” Clinicals are at 6 a.m. at Progressive Care Center and the Bruce McCandless State Veterans Nursing Home, then students head back to school before their first class begins at
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Florence High School junior Chace Archer, left, takes Bryli Bethel’s blood pressure during their Medical Preparation class. He wants to pursue a nursing degree and be a flight nurse.
7:30 a.m. District Nurse and Med Prep Instructor Sheryl Ooton said the year-long course is intense. Students cover 22 units in 18 weeks, and complete CPR and First Aid training through the American Heart Association, as well as complete a course in medical terminology. The second semester is spent on hands-on training. “Chace is very committed,” Ooton said. “He is very organized, he is very compassionate, he has a heart — he has made it very clear he wants to be an ER nurse or a flight nurse, and Chace will succeed in whatever he chooses to do. “He has very high moral and ethical standards.”
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Florence High School’s Chace Archer, left, drives to the basket against Custer County’s Aaron Mullett earlier this season. Chace, a junior at FHS, plays basketball, football and runs track — but recently he also can be found in the school’s Med Prep class. His goal is to be a flight nurse in Flight For Life.
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AMR EMT Chris Clear talks with a group of children in an ambulance about being safe and what to do during an emergency at the annual Fremont County Head Start Safety Town event in 2009. Below: Clear holds the pin that was discharged from a rototiller into his brain.
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hris Clear was helping a friend move a rototiller in 2008. Clear was handling the steering and his buddy was taking care of the throttle. The 19-year-old had no idea his life was about to change. A twoinch-long metal pin that was more than a quarterinch in diameter shot off the tiller and hit right under his eye
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CLEAR He said being a and 15 hours a week,” said Clear, whose position is medical lieutenant. “We’ve firefighter is just been doing our academy for our new something he’s aland into his brain. people coming on. We just put on four ways wanted to do. Doctors said had he been any taller or new guys. I try to be down here helping “I grew up around shorter, or had his tilted one way or the other, with it as much as I can.” it. My dad did it and he would’ve been dead. In his downtime, Clear said he likes to still does it up in Almost three years later, Clear is doing just ride his 2005 Polaris Predator 500 four(Colorado) Springs. fine. wheeler on Independence Trail. He’s still chasing his dreams of being a fire- I was just around it since I was a kid, He said it has its similarities to fightfighter. The volunteer at the Penrose Voluning fires. teer Fire Department is looking to find a paid and it’s just what I “It’s exciting to go do, kind of an position with a nearby fire department. He re- love to do,” Clear Courtesy Photo/ Chris Clear Family adrenaline rush,” Clear said. “Plus I said. cently interviewed for the Colorado Springs “Saving people’s like doing it just get out a relax, too. department and said things went well. An X-Ray from St. Thomas Just get out there and ride around.” “I’m just trying to get on with a paid depart- lives. Going out More Hospital shows the pin But free time isn’t something Clear ment somewhere,” Clear said. “I’m not really there and playing lodged in Clear’s brain. has much of. up to a whole lot right now, just kind of testing with fire. Getting to ride in a big truck. Between the possible 15 hours at the for fire departments and finding a way to go It’s rewarding. I like doing it to help people — fire station and the 36 hours Clear spends as a back to school. “I’ve been testing around here. ... I’d like to especially here in Penrose where it’s my com- construction worker, he said he might get to munity.” go out twice a month to ride. become a firefighter and go back to school Just because it’s a volunteer department Then add in the 36 hours a week he’s expectand become a paramedic and get my associdoesn’t mean he takes his job lightly. ing to work at the job he just took at St. ate degree in fire science.” On the contrary. Thomas Moore Hospital, ironically where he He said the tests are video-based and subwas first taken after his accident, and Clear is “I’ve been down here quite a bit lately — jective on how you react in certain situations. lucky if he gets to ride at all. working on grants and stuff to try and get He said he did well on his test for the Springs But luck, for Clear, always has been on his department, but it was a test where you had to some new equipment. I could easily be down place in the top 20, and he missed that cut. here anywhere between three hours a week side.
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Jackson Hasn’t Slowed Down Bill Jackson
Former Cañon City mayor still contributes to his community with a number of organizations
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Former Cañon City Mayor Bill Jackson talks about the work he does as the treasurer of the Cañon City Hydraulic Ditch.
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e may have retired several years ago, but he continues to stay busy. Former Mayor William “Bill” Jackson started his public life in 1994 when he was elected to Cañon City Council, where he remained for 10 years, of which four were as mayor. Since leaving office in 2007, he has spent his time gardening and taking care of his house on 15th Street. But 83-year-old Jackson continues to stay busy in several organizations. He serves as the secretary/treasurer of the Hydraulic Ditch, the Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District board, the GIS board, associate member of the Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Lions Club. His involvement in the Upper Arkansas River Conservancy District began with the petition drive to get it on the ballot. After losing the first battle in court, the committee continued to pursue it, bringing it to a vote of the people in 2007. After the district was formed, he joined the board, where he served his first term, which was six months. He is serving his second term. During his tenure, the board has focused on maintaining and gaining more storage of water in case of a shortage similar to 2002. “There’s an enterprise aspect to the Upper Arkansas, which is different,” Jackson said. “We continue to work to get more storage and water for back up in an augmentation plan.” He said the latest project cost $800,000 and includes setting up measuring devices to maintain stream flows in the upper basin and regulate reservoir capacity through SCADA, a technological system hooked to the satellite to control the head gates without going to the locations to regulate the outputs and storage aspect. He also is working on the same thing for the Hydraulic Ditch. “Because the ditch follows the contour around the north side of the city and all the floodwater above it enters the canal, we can’t handle all of it,” Jackson added. “We get more and more stormwater (while the) impermeable area continues to increase. Hope-
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Continued from Page 28 fully, we’ll install SCADA head gates along the canal so we can catch the excess stormwater.” While the hydraulic ditch was built in 1863, maintenance continues to be a big problem, he said. “It’s an old ditch, and it needs maintenance,” Jackson said. “When things are tough, maintenance is always the first thing to go. We’re trying to clear the right of way (because of encroachment).” Since 1998, he has served chairman of the application process with the Lions, serving on the council to provide glasses for the disadvantaged and children on an application basis. In a year, the council serves 50 people, helping them obtain glasses. “Lions is pretty well committed to sight,” Jackson said. “We have a Christmas party for foster children. There are a lot of various programs that the Lions are involved in.” When he isn’t participating in the Lions, he is involved in the Knights of Columbus, where he is serving as Grand Knight again. “Our biggest accomplishment this year is establishing Esquire Circle, which involves young men from 10 to 18,” Jackson said. “We got it established back in the ‘60s, but it (faded away).” Another organization he has been involved in is the Sister City Valdai, Russia, program, where he visited Russia several times and hosted Russian residents when they visited the area. Prior to and during his council years, Jackson served with the Fremont County Planning Commission and the City Planning Committee, as well as serving as the president of the Cañon City Chamber of Commerce a couple times and with the Starpoint board for 21 years. “We’ve seen a lot of change in the county,” he said. “It started way back with a regional plan, but (it never was implemented).” Born May 27, 1927, in Los Angeles, Calif., he moved to the San Luis Valley when he was 6 months old. After graduating from Sargents Consolidated Schools, he went into the Army at the end of World War II. He never saw combat or left the states during his military year. After he was discharged, Jackson worked as a carpenter for about a year, building several homes and the Abbey gym in Cañon City, along with the first Angel Walk at the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park. From there, Jackson attended junior college at the Abbey when it was offered. Then, he transferred to the University of Colorado, where he graduated in 1952 with a degree in geography. At that point, he moved to San Luis Valley, where he worked for a year and married his first wife, Shirley. He transferred to Southern Colorado Power, where he worked as chief clerk for 40 years, retiring in 1993. Jackson purchased the house on 15th Street in 1963 and remodeled it extensively. When his first wife died in 1975, he met and married Janet in 1980. On the side, he and Janet ran a greenhouse, selling trees and plants for 40 years. Four years ago, the Jacksons closed the nursery. A member of St. Michael Church since 1947, he also has served in various aspects of the church. In his leisure time, Jackson and his wife garden together, go fishing and work in a smaller edition of the nursery. Recently, he took over the breadmaking for holiday dinners and for their own use. Together, he and Janet have nine children, numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. “It’s been quite a journey,” Jackson said.
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Kayla Kammrad, center, reads a book with Rocky Mountain Children’s Discovery Center children Caspian Hurst, left, Tanner Kammrad and Heather Thomas. Kayla returned to work in March 2010 after a four-month leave to recover from the H1N1 virus.
A FULL RECOVERY Kammrad happy to be back at home, work after severe bout with H1N1
“I’m still on oxygen, usually at night or sometimes when I get headaches,” she said. When Kammrad returned to Cañon City, she went through speech, physical and occupational therapy for four months before going back to work in t was touch and go for several March 2010. months. But now more than a A teacher’s aide, she returned to year later, she has recovered. work at Rocky Mountain Children’s Kayla Kammrad, 23, was diDiscovery Center, where she monitors agnosed with the H1N1 virus students in a classroom. in October 2009 and was sent to a ColWhen Kammrad was first diagnosed, orado Springs, where the Cañon City her husband, Jeff, who was deployed in resident remained for four months, recuperating from her ordeal. See KAMMRAD / Page 31
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KAMMRAD Continued from Page 30 Iraq, returned to the community to be with her and their two sons, Jordan, 5, and Tanner, 3. “(Being in the hospital) was actually very hard because (my sons) weren’t able to come see me,” Kammrad said. “I was only able to see them one time when I was in the hospital and that was for Christmas, but they weren’t allowed in my room.” Today, a normal day includes going to the same school, where she works at the Rocky Mountain Children’s Discovery Center preschool. During the evening, they play Wii games, such as bowling and Mario. Then, she cooks dinner for her family. Sometimes she visits her mother or just stays at home. “When I was in the hospital, my mom was a big part of my kids’ lives,” Kammrad said. “She had
them a lot of the time. If she wasn’t with my kids, she was usually at the hospital. She never worked during that time.” On Mondays and Tuesdays, her husband, Jeff, who works at the federal prison, is home. Born in Colorado Springs, she was raised in Cañon City, where she attended Cañon City High School. After attaining her GED, she married and had two children. In 2009, she started taking college courses but had to drop out when she contracted H1N1. But she vows she will return to her early childhood studies in the near future to become a teacher. Her interest in becoming a teacher began when she needed daycare for her oldest son. “I was working and needed to find childcare,” Kammrad said. She said after bringing her sons to the preschool, she began volunteering. The director offered her a job cooking. Later, she became
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a teacher’s aide in the Pooh room, with her younger son while her oldest son is in the caterpillar room. “He’ll be starting kindergarten in September,” Kammrad said. Being a part of the school has led to yearning to become a teacher because she enjoys being around children, she said. “I like to see how they work when I’m showing them how to write or (how to say) their ABCs,” Kammrad said. “I love being able to give back to them. It’s difficult being in my son’s room because he’s attached to me.” With their work schedules, it’s hard to spend time with her husband, but sometimes, the couple drives to Pueblo, where they have dinner or go to the movies with their children. Also, the couple enjoy participating in geo caching around the area. “We use the GPS then download stuff off the Internet,” Kammrad
said. “When you find a trinket, you either swap it out with another trinket or you can sign on a piece paper. It’s usually in a film cannister then you put it back like you found it.” They became interested in geo caching through her dad. “It gives us something to do for exercise,” Kammrad said. She appreciated the support from the community when she was ill. “Thanks to everybody,” Kammrad said. “It was surprising how the community had come together. I didn’t know anything that had actually happened until I got out of the hospital.” Even today, she has difficulty talking about being away from her family and almost losing her life. While in the hospital, her mother kept a journal of what happened each day, but she said she could not read it yet. “It’s still very emotional,” Kammrad said.
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Living Life To Its Fullest Kehret reaches major stepping stone in his fight against leukemia
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ake Kehret is grateful to be alive. After being diagnosed with leukemia in 2008 when he was just 14 years old and going through more than 50 surgeries — including a bone-marrow transplant in 2009 — Jake has gotten through the toughest part, with not much showing from it other than a few scars. Jake, 17, celebrated his two-year anniversary of his most major surgery, the bone-marrow transplant, Jan. 6 and just a few months ago had his Medi-port taken out. He said getting his port taken out was a huge stepping stone for him. “I’ve gotten it all removed now so I’ve just got scars. A couple months ago, I got my Medi-port removed so I was happy for that. That was kind of the end step of it all.” The Medi-port was used for his frequent chemotherapy treatments. “When I got that removed that was kind of the end of it for me,” Jake said. “I was excited that I won’t have to get anymore chemo, and surgeries are supposed to be over after that.
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Jake Kehret talks about his hospitalization while receiving a bone marrow transplant at the Children’s Hospital in Denver at his home in 2009. Above: Kehret now wears bracelets to support the cure for cancer.
“That was when you kind of realize that it’s all over.” Jake knows his battle is not completely finished. He said he has to be in remission for five years before they can call it completely cured, and even after that, there will always be a chance it could come back. And Jake still has some lasting effects from the past three years of his life. He is mostly blind in his left eye and has some problems with his feet. “I came out really lucky with what I’ll be dealing
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‘It’s impossible for me to get bored now. I could sit on the porch all day and not get bored.’ — Jake Kehret
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KEHRET He earned his diploma from Cañon City High School on Feb. 24 through an alternative program offered through Pueblo Community with the for the rest of my life,” Jake said. College. He would’ve been a junior in high “Because I got that emergency eye surgery school had the cancer never happened. they had to cut open my lens and retina to get He said he wanted to go back to CCHS when the infection out, so I’m pretty much blind in he was able for the extracurricular activities, my left eye. such as wrestling, football and the normal “I also have neuropathy, which is nerve high school activities but said he made the problems, mainly in my feet. You’ll never see better decision not to. me without socks on in the house and anyNow Jake is taking tests to get into DeVry thing other than socks it hurts to walk.” University in hopes to someday earn his deJake said he has more than a 50 percent gree as an electronics engineer. higher chance of getting frostbite in his feet, Before the cancer sidetracked his life, Jake since he can’t feel them like normal. was heavily into downhill mountain bike rac“It’s just my feet and my eye, other than ing, which he still is able to do, just not at the that I’d be as good as new.” extreme levels he had before. Since Jake was diagnosed his freshman He said he’s determined not to let the year at Cañon City High School and had to leukemia stop his life now that he’s through live in seclusion for so long, when he was fithe hardest parts. nally able to be in public again, re-enrolling in Jake said he was trapped in the hospital for CCHS would’ve meant being in school an exabout a year, so he’s not about to be trapped tra two years to get caught up with enough inside now. credits to graduate. “I live every day likes its going to be my last,” Jake said. “After staying in the hospital He said he didn’t want to do that, so he defor as a long as I did... It’s impossible for me cided to take an alternative path.
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to get bored now. I could sit on the porch all day and not get bored. I sat in the hospital for so many days, that everything seems exciting after that. “I like being outdoors and keeping active. I don’t like staying indoors. I always want to be busy. I like being outside and the social part, being with friends and experiencing that different type of stuff.” Jake has taken up hiking with friends and recently made a hike in five hours that was supposed to take seven. Jake also said he’s better now at pool, even with his blindness in his left eye, than he was before the cancer. He said he still likes to play football and basketball, but takes a different, more fun-inspired, approach than he used to. He knows none of it would have been possible without the support of the Cañon City community. “(The people of) Cañon City have helped me a lot through the whole cancer thing,” he said. “They held fundraisers and the Orchard of Hope Foundation helped.”
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Truly A Blessing Two years after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, Martinez, 11, healthy, back at school
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lthough it never fully went away, Corina Martinez has her familiar bright twinkle back in her big brown eyes. One year ago, she was barely beginning to venture out of her house after more than a year fighting a brain tumor. Corina, 11, was 9 when she was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in December 2008. She started having headaches, walking off balance, vomiting quite often and collapsed in the doorway of the school health office. After an eye examination, an MRI showed a significant sized brain tumor. The next morning, on Dec. 24, Corina underwent surgery to remove the malignant tumor and stayed in the hospital for the next 10 days. The surgery affected the entire right side of Corina’s body, and she had to re-learn how to walk, write and feed herself. Corina began radiation in February 2009, and while the MRI showed the cancer was gone, she still underwent chemotherapy and began losing her hair. Corina completed her treatments in February 2010. “They’re pretty confident that I don’t need anymore medicine,” she said. Now instead of dealing with needle pokes, blood transfusions, and doctor visits, Corina fills her time with homework, outings with friends, reading and swimming lessons.
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Corina Martinez, 11, works on some class material during school at the Harrison School. Martinez was 9 when she was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in December 2008.
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MARTINEZ Continued from Page 34 Last month, she had surgery to remove her medicine port that was installed just beneath her collarbone, and her hair is growing back. “Now that she is better we do look back and think, ‘wow, she did go through a lot,’ and we are very thankful and very blessed that she’s where she’s at now and that every day she gets better,” her mother, Amanda Deluchi said. “It’s nice to see her get healthy and eating.” With the help of her tutor, Corina completed third and fourth grade and returned to Harrison School last fall as a fifth-grader. She said the work in fifth grade is pretty demanding, but she continues to get straight As. If she needs to rest, she can do so in the health office. “She gets wore out real, real easy,” her mother said. Deluchi volunteers a lot at the school, just to keep an eye Jeff Shane/Daily Record on her daughter and goes on Corina Martinez, right, 11, the field trips with the fifthgraders. spent the last two years This year, Corina and her fighting brain cancer with her class have gone to the mom, Amanda, by her side. Nutcracker Ballet in Pueblo, a local organic farm and a daylong trip to Denver, where they visited the state Capitol building and the Downtown Aquarium. Her friends are happy to have her back in school and they are quick to lend a hand when she needs it — oh, and the boys are eager to carry her books for her. While the gesture is nice, she is not impressed by boys yet. “All boys are good for is carrying books,” Corina said. What is important to her, however, is her education. “I want to get good grades because I want to go to college to be a radiologist” she said. Corina keeps in touch with a friend she met while going through treatment more than a year ago. The girls get together for lunch when Corina has a routine checkup with her doctor in Colorado Springs, and she even went to a sleepover at her friend’s house. Next on the radar for Corina and her family is a trip to Disney World in May through the Make-A-Wish foundation. “A lot of nurses told me how awesome it was before the Make-AWish people came,” Corina said. “I had a really good feeling about it.” She and her parents and brother, Jakob, 6, will spend a week in Florida. “The hotel is like Candyland,” she said. “They have an ice cream store that’s open 24 hours.” She said the Disney characters even will tuck in the children at night, and Corina hopes to meet one of the Disney princesses. But then again, she only needs to look in the mirror to see a true princess.
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A New Chapter Retired librarian enjoys giving her time to St. Thomas More gift shop
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hen she grew up, she knew about the hard times and how to overcome obstacles, but it was not an easy adjustment when she retired. She had hoped to work longer, but it wasn’t meant to be. Today, former children’s librarian Emily Sutton is happy with her pursuits. “One of the things was funny,” she said. “I could go out any time of the day and go anywhere I wanted. I felt almost like a kid skipping school.” Sutton, 81, worked as the children’s librarian at the Cañon City Public Library. She still gets requests to read stories to children, which she can no longer do because of asthma. At first, Sutton kept up with her knitting and reading various books and magazines, along with completing sudoku and crossword puzzles and learning to work on her computer. In between, she visits family members back East and around the area. When she first retired, Sutton took turns baking and delivering cookies to the teachers at different schools through her church before working for the Family Center a short time. It wasn’t until she met Shirley Baney, of the St. Thomas More Foundation, who suggested she work in the gift shop that Sutton found her niche.
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St. Thomas More Hospital volunteer Emily Sutton, 81, talks about items available in the gift shop, where she works two afternoons a week. Sutton previously worked at the Cañon City Public Library for 10 years as the children’s librarian.
“Then, I started doing that, and I love it,” she said. “When I first started, I did just one afternoon a week. Now, I do two afternoons. It’s the best thing that could have happened to me.” Sutton said she enjoyed getting out and meeting people. But also, she enjoys working with Paula Sheagley, who runs the gift shop. “She is very good with what she does,” she said. “She knows her community and the people. She knows what’s in style and has enthusiasm. It’s going for a good
cause.” As part of her responsibilities in the gift shop, Sutton waits on people, takes the money and writes the prices on the tags of the merchandise. During her stint at the Cañon City Public Library, she provided an outreach program, where she visited all the classes in the preschools once a month. “Most of the time, I saw more than 500 kids a month and had a story hour for them,” Sutton said. Born June 1929, in New Bedford, Mass., she was the youngest
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of five girls, born during the Depression. Several months later, her father died of a heart attack on Dec. 29, 1929. After grade school, she went to high school, where she worked as a page at the library then transferred into clerical department at the library. She received a scholarship to Boston University, but no women were allowed to enroll in the mechanical engineering program at that time.
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Taylor thankful for new freedom after kidney donation from sister
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s he is taking one of his routine walks along the Riverwalk, Ron Taylor often reflects back to where he was a couple of years ago and offers thanks for his improving health. The time now spent on volunteer work and long walks, once was spent on weekly dialysis. About a year and a half ago, Taylor received a new kidney, donated by his sister, Becky Taylor-Wolfe. Taylor was diagnosed with kidney disease in 2006. He began three-day-a-week dialysis in 2008. He was put on a transplant list as soon as his doctor determined his kidneys were failing. Taylor said he and his sister always have been close, with him often dropping by her house in the evenings. Since receiving his new kidney, they now take frequent walks along the Arkansas River together. Taylor-Wolfe never wavered in her decision to donate her kidney. Her main concern was the medical financing until she learned of recipient’s insurance, which covers the donor and recipient in a donation transplant. “There is a lot testing you have to go through,” TaylorWolfe said about a week before her kidney donation surgery in January 2010. “They check for everything you can imagine. They do X-rays and scans, glucose tolerance tests. A lot of it we had done here and in Pueblo. And, a lot of it, we had to go to Denver.” The siblings also were tested for blood type compatibility, tissue matching before transplant surgery, which took place Jan. 14, 2010, at University of Colorado Hospital. Shortly before surgery, Taylor-Wolfe said she felt very blessed to be able to donate to her only sibling. “I think we’ll have a bond a lot of other siblings don’t have because of this,” she said. “It’s just kind of a really unique and cool experience. It’s a privilege. We’re blessed to have each other.” Since the surgery, Taylor has continued to gain strength and renewed health. He no longer has to make frequent trips to Denver. “Last year, after the operation, I had to stay around Denver for a couple of weeks because I had to go in about every other day to give blood,” Taylor said. “Then the schedule drops to once a week, and then once a month. Now, I don’t have to drive to Denver anymore. I just go over to Pueblo about once a month to get my blood checked.” His sister felt better a little quicker than he did, Taylor said, and was able to get back to work in a few weeks. “She had her blood checked at the six-month mark and everything was fine,” he said. “She’s doing as well as she
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Ron Taylor, right, and his sister, Becky Taylor-Wolfe, walk on the Riverwalk near South Ninth Street. Becky donated a kidney to Ron in January 2010 at the University of Colorado Hospital. Shortly before surgery, Taylor-Wolfe said she felt very blessed to be able to donate to her only sibling.
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Continued from Page 36 So Sutton didn’t go to college until much later when she enrolled in Southern Colorado State College in Pueblo, where she earned an associate’s degree. Later, her sister helped pay for four years at SCSC, where she majored in speech. While living in the Denver area, she worked at the University of Denver library, where she worked up to supervisor of circulation. Then, she moved to Fleming, where she set up the school library and later, she worked at the library in Rocky Ford. When a position came up in the Cañon City area, the head of the district sent an application to Sutton. Several days later, she was hired for the position. Since growing older, only her older sister and Sutton are left from the family. “That’s another thing that bothers me about aging,” she said. “You begin to lose your friends and siblings. I know nothing is guaranteed.” But she has learned to look on the positive side of things when she loses someone, when it’s cold or when her asthma is bothering her. Instead, she looks for the positive. “I am such a lucky person,” Sutton said. “I’m still in my own home. I go out to feed the birds. I have my washer and dryer. I can take care of myself and I can do what I want.” She has two sons, Stephen (Carolyn) Sutton, Peter (Melanie) Sutton, a chosen daughter, Sandy (Rob); several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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of my life,” he said. “Becky doesn’t have to take any type of did before the operation. As far as drugs at all since donating.” either one of us goes, there are Before the surgery, Taylor was not any activities that we’ve curon blood pressure medications, tailed or had to stop because of but with the successful transthe surgery.” plant, he’s been able to get his The things he does to maintain blood pressure back to normal. his health after surgery are Since the surgery, Taylor said things he feels most people should he’s glad to be back doing his voldo anyway, Taylor said. unteer work at Loaves & Fishes “Keep your weight down and ex- and as a driver for Senior Serercise, watch your blood pressure, vices Solutions Plus. eat a good diet — those type of “You just take as good of care of things,” he said. “And, with a kid- yourself as much as you can, and ney transplant, it’s important to live each day as it comes,” Taylor drink a lot of water every day. said. “From time-to-time, I get They want me to drink roughly very thankful for the new freedom two and a half to three liters every that I didn’t have before. I am so day. You want to keep your body thankful I am able to get out and and kidney as flushed out as posdo things today. I think that’s why sible.” I am more aware of other people’s Taylor was on high doses of im- needs, and that’s what makes me munosuppressant drugs for a want to go volunteer and help othwhile after the transplant, but er people do things. I just feel that said those have tapered over the with this new freedom I have, past year. there is more responsibility to use it in a wise and good way to help “The dosages I’m on now will probably be the same for the rest other people.”
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Ron Taylor and his sister, Becky Taylor-Wolfe, visit in early 2010 about their kidney transplant. The surgery was Jan. 14, 2010, at University of Colorado Hospital. Since the surgery, Taylor has continued to gain strength and renewed health.
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e may have served as mayor for six years, but he continues to stay active in the community. “When I decided not to seek reelection for mayor, the seat for HD44 became available when Bob Kirsch, who was the legislator at that time, decided he wanted to be governor,” said George Turner, 71. “That opened up that seat. I thought that would be kind of fun to go to Denver to become a legislator.” In fact, Kirsch made the nomination speech for Turner. When Kirsch lost being in the primary, he changed his mind and decided to run for his former seat. Rather than split the party, Turner chose to withdraw from the race. Kirsch eventually lost the election anyway. After that, Turner worked as an assessor technician with Don Packard at Pueblo Community College. From there, he was hired to represent Cañon City, Fremont County and Florence through the Cañon City Chamber of Commerce as a lobbyist in Denver to bring another prison to Fremont County. During that time, the Federal Bureau of Prisons took an interest in the Abbey as a prison camp, but when it didn’t work out, Turner contacted them to bring the federal prison to Florence. After successfully completing that project, Turner joined the chamber as an interim executive director in 1991 when the former one resigned. More than 15 years later, he was still there. “It kept me involved in the community,” he said. “It seemed to fit as far as I’m concerned.” In 2007, because of health problems, Turner resigned as executive director. “I miss the good times working with the chamber,” he said. “I enjoyed it (and) had good employees, too.” Soon after, Turner began helping Randy Roberts stake uranimum claims in Canada. When Vicki Casey called him to join their operation at Buckskin Joe, Turner transferred to the Royal Gorge Scenic Railway to drive the train around the property. “I needed something to do,” he said. “You have to have Jeff Shane/Daily Record a reason to get up in the morning. Since then, I’ve driven the train in the summer time. That has been great fun for Former Cañon City Mayor George Turner talks about the several organizations he works with and operating the train at Buckskin Joe. See TURNER / Page 41
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me.” Turner also conducted marketing for the railway throughout the state. For six years, he also worked for the Town of Terror at Buckskin Joe, which ended last year when it was sold to an anonymous buyer. As part of his community service, he has served as secretary of the Cañon City Rotary Club since he was president in 1988-89. He serves as treasurer of the Cañon City Rotary Foundation, secretary/treasurer of the Cañon City and Oil Creek Ditch Company, treasurer of the Pueblo Pachyderm Club, co-chairman of the Community Relation Board of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. “(The board helps) to keep them informed of what’s going on in the community and keep us informed of what’s going out there,” Turner said. He also spent 23 years with the Planning Commission, from 1977 to 1985 and from 1991 to 2007. Born Feb. 20, 1940, Turner graduated from Cañon City High School in 1958, then attended Colorado State University for two years, but had to quit when his father became ill during his sophomore year. At that point, he operated the OK Dairy until it become El Cañon Holsteins. After he sold the cows in 1975 and shut the operation down, he spent five weeks in Fairbanks, Alaska before getting involved with the Cañon City Council. In his leisure, Turner has traveled to Europe several times, as well as Mexico. He spends his winter vacations in Nogales, Ariz. Turner is not married, but he lives with his dog and four fish.
The City of Cañon City is proud to announce some of our progress made in 2010 and exciting activities to watch for in 2011! You can now sign up for e-mail utility billing. No more watching your postal box for water/ stormwater utility bills! And you can now make your water/stormwater utility payments using your debit/credit cards! Contact us to find out how! Coming in 2011, we hope to adopt a process that would allow customers to make payments for all City services via credit/ debit cards. In 2010, over $1,075,000 was received in grants and outside funding for the Riverwalk Trail Extension project (extending the trail from Centennial Park to Pueblo Community College and Tunnel Drive) and to complete the Master Plan for the Hogbacks. Look for progress on the trail construction and community visioning meetings on the Hogbacks project in 2011!
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In 2010, a design for a new addition for the existing Cañon City Library was created. The design allows for the City to keep the library in the downtown area, while alleviating the structural problems of the “old” addition. While it’s not bigger, the addition is much better and more useable than the existing crumbling structure. The Carnegie would still be restored! Watch for more to come on this subject in 2011! In 2010, the City of Cañon City put over $5.8 million into the local economy through purchases from local vendors and payroll to our employees. For a complete summary of activities of the City of Cañon City in 2010, get your copy of our “Year in Review” publication, available March 8th at City Hall, or visit our web site at www.canoncity.org.
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CCHS senior hopes to turn technology interest into a career
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f it involves technology, David Leonard is involved. The Cañon City High School senior enjoys working with information technology systems, and often helps the high school office staff with their computer systems. Co-editor-in-chief of the high school yearbook, David, 18, spends most of his spare time at the high school, often photographing school activities and events. He also is president of the local Future Business Leaders of America chapter. “I’m just kind of all over the place,” David said. His love of technology drew him into the CCHS Tiger Paws Publishing program, where he is Chief Executive Officer. “That’s probably what takes up most of my time,” he said. “It is just so much fun being in a class, doing what I’m going to be probably for my career.” David hopes to pursue a livelihood in design and development of websites, graphic design and making flyers for advertisements and the selling of products. David spends the first part of his
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Cañon City High School senior David Leonard works on a computer at the school during his technology intern period.
morning as a student information technology technician at the high school. “I’m around to help the school district out with any IT issues here at the school,” he said. His love of computers began around age four, when he first played on the family system, learning by trial and error. “I’ve always strived for the best I can do,”
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David said. “I don’t let roadblocks hit me. I try to, if I can find somebody to help me, go where I want to go.” David and his parents, Cindy and David, Sr., moved to the Cañon City area from Texas when he was in fifth grade. His four older sisters had
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‘A Natural Athlete’ FHS senior to pursue interest in equestrian arena
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atie Gray will attend college this fall without having to give up something she loves — show horses and compete in the equestrian arena. Katie, 18, was recruited by four colleges for equestrian. “It was really down to A & M and TCU,” she said. “When I went out and visited both of them I just decided TCU is the place.” As a Texas Christian University Women’s Equestrian, Katie will participate in the NCAA Division 1 Team this fall. “They give us all of the swag just like the football players,” she said. “We have our own personal trainers, gear, everything – swag, horses, our barn, facility, clothes.” Katie said TCU competes against other schools, but the competition is a little different than her previous experience. “Through equestrian, it’s a head-to-head competition,” she said. “So you verse another team and the whole team draws horses and whichever girl draws the same horse as you, you compete on the same horse and you’re scored that way. It’s level playing ground, it’s just on the rider and not the horse’s ability.” Katie, a senior at Florence High School, plans to major in nursing. “They have the masters program I want to go through to be a nurse anesthesiologist,” she said. “I chose it because I wanted to go to medical school to be an anesthesiologist, but it’s less
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Florence High School student Katie Gray talks about her 12-year-old paint Robbie that she travels to shows with across the country. She will be attending Texas Christian University with an equestrian scholarship to study nursing.
schooling and TCU has one of the number one nursing programs and one of the few schools that has that program.” She will enter college with 26 credit hours, having maxed out the available math and science courses at her school. “I’m just shy of the 30 credits that would allow me to be a sophomore at TCU,” she said. “All that will take is an online class, and I can make that up.” Katie’s grade point is higher than a 4.0. “I’m kind of in a little bit of a race for valedictorian/salutatorian,” she said. “The last couple of years I’ve been trying to hold as high of As as I can.”
Katie said everything her horses have taught her has benefited her in her school career. “Like working hard for something — it might seem like you don’t want to do it right now, but it makes it so much better in the end when you can look back on it and say ‘that wasn’t that bad and look at where I am at now,’” she said. “In school, I look at it like I should work hard now to where the rest of my life is kind of easy, and I can do what I want instead of just float now and struggle later.” Katie’s father, Tim, said being a world title holder in equestrian events requires a good deal of athleticism.
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“It takes a good athlete,” he said. “Bottom line she was a good athlete in school, and it takes an athlete to ride the horses — there’s a lot of balance and strength involved in that. She’s kind of a natural athlete and rider.” Katie played basketball, track and volleyball, and went to state in track her freshman and sophomore years. She recently was the manager for the FHS girls basketball team. “But I just decided that equestrian was where college was going to be for me,” she said. “I was definitely more likely to get
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LEONARD David recently was accepted into Colorado State University – Pueblo, where he wants to continmoved out of the home by the time he came along, he said. ue his work in information tech“We don’t have any other family nology. Eventually, he wants to around, but we love it here,” complete a master’s in computer David said. “It’s a great town.” information systems. He will be His mother works at Head leaving with a treasure trove of Start, and on his days off, David positive memories and experioften can be found at his mother’s ences. school, helping those students “All of the staff I’ve interacted with their computers. with here — everybody has given “I try to help them with their me something great,” David said. computer issues,” David said, “and I try to help them with their “It’s so hard to single anybody out student machines, so I volunteer a at this school, because everybody bunch of hours up there.” has given me a great, positive exHis dad has been the one to enperience.” courage his love of computers. David also credits his parents “My dad used to be into computwith encouraging him. ers a whole lot,” he said. “He just “My parents have been a great kind of got me started on it. It was inspiration for me,” he said. so amazing what a computer could do. It was so limitless.” “They have always worked hard Most of his time on the comput- all their lives. It is something great to have them as role moder is spent working, though, els. I definitely have to thank my David said, he does enjoy a good computer game now and again. parents.”
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GRAY Continued from Page 43 a full ride through equestrian.” She started competing at the national level when she was 6 and has ranked in the top in nationals ever since. She has a total of five world titles – two reserves and three world championships – in the American Paint Horse Association. Katie also won four circuit championships and High Point Western Horse at the 2011 National Stock Show. “I’ve been blessed with being able to naturally ride well,” she said. “I’ve always had really strong horsemanship and equitation.” In school, Katie is involved in Future Business Leaders of America, student council, National Honor Society and F Club. She also is active in the National Paint Horse Association and Rocky Mountain Paint Horse Association. She has one older step-brother, Tim Jr., and parents Tim and An-
nette plan to head to Fort Worth whenever their daughter has a competition. Riding and competing at her level is a huge time commitment, but Katie said it has been worth the ride. “Overall, it has helped me become the person I am,” she said. “I really think one thing that has been different for me is my parents haven’t put me on the nicest or the most made horses — most girls get put on extremely expensive horses and everything is kind of handed to them and their horses stay at their trainer’s — but I keep my horse here and do all the work.” She said she also has learned a strong work ethic. “It made me stick with it because I really loved it and a lot of times if it’s just handed to you you don’t stay with it very long,” she said. “But it’s something I truly love and it just makes when I do go out there and win world championships mean that much more.”
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Garden Park High School student Audrey States, right, visits with Hildebrand Care Center resident Millie Hall. She volunteers at the center as a musical therapist assistant. Her favorite activity is joining in on the drum circles with the residents.
A People Person GPHS senior found her calling after being a volunteer at care center
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Park High School this spring. In anticipation of a medical career, Audrey is taking classes at Pueblo Community College, as she works toward her Certified Nursing Assistant certification. “I work two days a week, but I go up there and volunteer on my days off as often as I can,” Audrey said. he loves her job so much, that when she’s not on the She feels fortunate to have found such a supportive staff at schedule to work, Audrey States heads to Hildebrand GPHS, Audrey said. Care Center to volunteer as a musical therapist as“The teachers are positive, and they help you toward your casistant. Her favorite activity is joining in on the reer,” she said. “They help you mature and get on the right drum circles with the residents.
A high school senior, Audrey, 19, will graduate from Garden
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STATES Continued from Page 45 path.” After completing her CNA certification, Audrey hopes to complete her Emergency Medical Technician licensing. Audrey wants to stay close to her mother, Peggy, and 4-year-old niece, Alia, who lives with Audrey and her mother. “I help out with her a lot,” Audrey said of her niece, the daughter of her only sister. “It’s really fun for me.” A Cañon City native, Audrey hopes to be able to settle in the area after completing her college degree. She credits her mother with encouraging her to stay in school and complete her degree, as well as helping her discover her love of working with people. “She encourages me and keeps me on the right path by helping me out with my CNA stuff,” Au-
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drey said. “She was a CNA, too. She taught me to help people, and that honesty is the best policy.” Audrey began volunteering at Hildebrand after a guest speaker addressed the students at GPHS. “She asked us for any volunteers,” Audrey said. “I went one day and tried it out, and I really liked it. It was great to help the residents.” She enjoys the drum circles because they help people who have experienced strokes. Another favorite activity at Hildebrand, Audrey said, is participating in singalongs. “We play a lot of gospel,” she said. “I like the music, and I’m learning to read music from the lady I work with. She also taught me to play a tin-whistle.” Audrey said she doesn’t think she would be doing as well in school if it were not for the GPHS staff.
“They encourage us to get on the right road before we leave high school,” she said. “That way, when we get out in the real world, we’ll be set to work or go to college. Cathy Bergin has helped me learn to write some poetry. She’s helped me to learn to keep a positive attitude every day. Becky Anderson also has helped me. We’ve both bumped heads a lot, but she was just trying to help me to keep on the right path.” Audrey continues to write poetry for herself as a way to keep in touch with her feelings. Another area in which the GPHS staff has helped Audrey has been in offering her support after her lap band surgery a year and a half ago. She’s lost more than 100 pounds since then. “It’s been really positive,” she said. “My teachers here have been a big support of it. They’ve worked with me through my ap-
“I still want to lose weight in the future,” Audrey said. “The lap band is a tool, but I have to watch what I’m eating. I have to exercise regularly. I take my niece on a lot of walks. I eat a lot more vegetables.” She hopes her experiences will help encourage others to seek help when they need it, Audrey said. “I just thank the people who have been here for me,” she said. “I know people are here to help me, especially the staff at Garden Park High School.”
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Florence High School senior Matt Kay, right, talks with sophomore Tyler Correa during school. He has been a peer counselor/tutor for two years and also is involved in student council and his church.
A Natural Born Leader Senior an exemplary student who stands firm in his leadership role at school
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e is rarely seen without his trademark vest and polished cowboy boots — and usually a Diet Coke close by. That’s the way Matt Kay likes things: organized and predictable. The Florence High School senior is a natural born leader, exemplary student and has a servant’s heart. Matt is the Head Boy for the FHS Class of 2011 and with the job comes some pretty hefty responsibilities. One of his duties is to
help run student council. Not a problem — he has plenty of experience in that arena. Matt started participating in student council activities back in his elementary school days, and one of his favorite aspects is the community service. “I’ve just always found community service to be fun,” he said. “It’s just fun to help out with different things.” FHS counselor Sandra Miller said Matt is a young man that, as a leader, is committed to standing by what’s right for the group and what needs to be done. She said he takes into account what everyone wants, what the group wants, and then looks at
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Faces In The Crowd KAY one that’s there.” Matt also enjoys teaching Sunday school to freshmen and what the best thing is for all insophomores and helping them to volved. learn more about their faith. “It may not necessarily be the popular thing to do, it may not be “In my opinion, it’s kind of sad the easy thing to do, but he knows to see how much kids don’t know that’s what needs to be done for about their religion these days,” the group and he’ll do it,” Miller he said. “Sometimes, I’ll ask them said. “He’ll sometimes take the basic questions they should know heat for it, that’s a hard thing for — like about sacraments — and an adult to do much less a high they look at me like I’m speaking school student, and he’s real good another language; it’s kind of disabout standing firm in leadership appointing to me that parents that has to take place.” don’t teach their children, they Matt, 18, was the Elks student just take them to mass and figure of the month twice and the Mathat’s it.” rine Corps League Student of the Matt’s grade point average is month. He also is in National 3.9, he said, and after graduation, Honor Society and is a second he plans to attend CSU Pueblo, year peer counselor. where he will major in biology “Basically, we’re counselors with an emphasis in forestry and slash aids,” he said. “We help the wildlife. He will commute, so he counselors out if they need help can remain close to his family around the office and we also do and church. mediations between students, if He also enjoys the outdoors, they are arguing and they need hiking and exploring with his parhelp, we’ll sit down with them, ents, Chris and Tina Kay, and oldtalk to them and try to help them er siblings, Josh Kay, Vanessa solve the problem.” Trujillo and Jessica Miller. Peer counselors also offer tuWhat little spare time he has, toring during their counseling pehe watches “Law and Order: Speriod. cial Victims’ Unit” and enjoys lis“I’ve always enjoyed helping people,” Matt said. “It’s just what tening to Reba McIntyre. Matt does have one other obsesI’ve always kind of wanted to do. I’ve even thought about becoming sion — one that some may consider kind of cheesy. a counselor — I thought counseling, being a priest, it all kind of “One thing that’s real big in our goes along the same line — being family is the Green Bay Packers,” a teacher — I don’t know what I he said. “The Super Bowl was a would want to do; it all sounds huge deal at our house. We’ve fun.” been Packer fans forever.” Joining the priesthood has Matt said his dad is from Milcrossed Matt’s mind, he said. waukee, and the devotion to the He has attended St. Benedict’s green and yellow runs in the famiCatholic Church in Florence his ly. entire life and served as an altar January’s Super Bowl was a big server for about 11 years. deal to the Matt family, but he Matt recently became a Eusaid every week is a big party charistic minister and helps the when Green Bay plays. priest distribute communion. Matt admits, however, he is anHe said not many young people ti-Favre. will step up and take on such re“The second he left the Packers, sponsibilities. I was like ‘good, he’s gone,’” he “We have quite a few altar servers, but after altar serving, it said. “He was OK when he was on seems like most of the kids kind of the team, but the second he’s off the team, goodbye — I don’t like drop out of the church or move away,” he said. “I am the youngest him.”
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Enjoying The Silence CCHS student embraces quiet moments in life
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aving a father who preaches, it is no wonder Angela Kettle knows how to write and deliver an inspirational message, and she practices what she teaches. A junior at Cañon City High School, Angela is active on the school’s Speech and Debate squad. She also is involved in Encore!, student council, Key Club and Future Business Leaders of America. Outside of school, Angela, 17, is an active part of her church youth group, where her father, Larry, is a pastor, and she sings on the worship team. Angela said she is close to her family, and especially her mom, Marilyn, whom she said is her main inspiration. “We’re both shy at first,” she said. “But we warm up to people pretty quickly. We don’t like to get in anyone’s way, which is sometimes a weakness. My dad is really funny, really friendly and very outgoing, like my sister.” Angela also has a sister, Amanda, and an older brother, Joshua, who she adores. “My brother and I are very close, but we tend to butt heads more often,” she said with a laugh. Though Angela is involved in many activities, she has not settled on her life’s career, yet. “Right now, I’m really exploring a lot of options,” she said, “but my main interests are communications, writing, speaking and things around
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Cañon City High School student Angela Kettle, right, rehearses a duet with classmate Michaela Chisholm for an upcoming concert.
‘By exercising silence, I think we can get a better grasp on what’s important.’
— Angela Kettle that field. I would really love to travel with a magazine and write stories or be a columnist.” After she graduates in 2012, Angela thinks she will head off to Washington State to go to college. She said she especially enjoys being an active part of the Speech and Debate team, which helps her hone her interests in writing and public
speaking. “In speech and debate, I compete in what’s called original oratory,” Angela said. “It’s a 10-minute speech that you write yourself about any topic. You write, memorize and perform. That’s really my passion right now.” She enjoys working on nonconcrete topics, Angela said. Her latest speech is on the importance of silence. “I really like writing about big concepts like that, and then relating them to things in everyday life,” Angela said. She practices her own appreciation of silence by taking a quiet moment every morning to have a cup of tea by herself at her kitchen table.
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“I think it’s important because there is so much noise in the world,” Angela said. “Sometimes it is hard to see what is important and what’s not. By exercising silence, I think we can get a better grasp on what’s important. And also, sometimes silence says more than words.” In her oratory, Angela uses an example from the movie, “Up,” when one of the characters quietly presents his future wife with a balloon in a hotel. “I think it’s really important we form relationships that are deeper than speech,” Angela said. “Sometimes, I think people talk to hear their voice, or
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