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September 8, 2016 VOLUME 121 | ISSUE 32 | 75¢
More people are cutting gluten from their diet, but the reasons vary. PAGE 10
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Plan to harvest deer still evolving Nonprofit in works as program moves ahead By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media
Erin Hazelton checks out the special modifications on a 1925 Dodge owned by Kirk Herring at the Spring Valley Golf Club’s Car Show on Aug. 28. Photos by Tom Skelley
Cool cars and sunny skies Spring Valley Golf Club hosts seventh annual vehicle show By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com A blazing sun reflected off the wellpolished hoods and fenders of about 70 cars and trucks at the seventh annual car show at Spring Valley Golf Club in Elizabeth on Aug. 28. “I can’t believe there’s this many cars out here,” said John Vendetti of Elizabeth, one of the more than 200 people who attended. “There’s a lot of nice cars, and I’ve met so many different people. That’s what’s so cool about it.” Vendetti owns a 1976 blue Chevy Vega, a car manufactured the same year he graduated from high school. “We learned to drive in these cars,” he said. Most every era of automotive engineering was represented at the show, from a 1925 Dodge Rat custom-fitted with gun turrets to top-of-the-line Mustangs and Corvettes from 2007 and 2008. Sandy Patterson owns one of the newer models, a 2008 Corvette, and said he was impressed by the turnout — and all of the sunshine. “This one’s bigger than it was last year, and the weather’s cooperating,” Patterson said. Cars continues on Page 9
When the Elizabeth Board of Trustees voted unanimously to initiate a deermanagement program in 2014, one of the many stipulations was that no taxpayer money could be used to fund the program; the cost must be borne entirely by the volunteer hunters who participated. Initially, the program gave permission to five specially screened archery hunters to hunt within three designated areas inside the city limits under the strict control of the town and in partnership with Casey Westbrook of Colorado Parks and Wildlife. In addition to donating time for the hunts, program volunteers were responsible for providing their own equipment as well as delivering donated animals to individual families or covering the expense of processing the meat for delivery to local food banks. In that first year, the five participating hunters harvested nine deer and donated 325 pounds of venison. In 2015, Westbrook and Elizabeth Town Administrator Dick Eason approached Brian Danforth, a participating hunter in the inaugural year, to step in as the volunteer program coordinator. That year the deer management program expanded to include private property outside of Elizabeth, and though the Deer continues on Page 5
ABOVE: Tony McIlroy, left, and Blaise Flaherty look under the hood of a 1966 Pontiac GTO at the Spring Valley Golf Club Car Show. Flaherty’s car, a 1946 Halfton Chevy panel truck, won Best in Show. LEFT: Craig Campbell, of Parker, peeks at the interior of a 1946 Chevy COE. The truck is owned by Marty Fidrich, of Elizabeth.
REF ROAD AHEAD Once plentiful, officials are becoming harder to find for football games. PAGE 13
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