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Toys for all the girls and boys Santa patrols neighborhoods bringing gifts to children in need By Lisa Collacott All children look forward to opening those Christmas presents tucked under the tree Christmas morning, but sadly some children won’t have anything to open because of the financial hardships that their families face. Because of the generosity of the TriLakes community, Santa and his elves will make their way through Monument and Palmer Lake to deliver toys to those in need when Santa on Patrol makes a stop in their neighborhoods on Dec. 21. Santa, otherwise known as Monument Police Chief Jake Shirk, and members of the Monument and Palmer Lake Police departments, the Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District and the Palmer Lake Volunteer Fire Department will visit children with police cars and fire engines and sirens blaring instead of a sleigh and eight reindeer. “Our goal would be to make sure every needy child in the Tri-Lakes area gets a toy,” Shirk said. Santa on Patrol is in its eighth year in the Tri-Lakes area. It was originally started by Shirk in 1993 when he was with the Toys continues on Page 4
Santa Claus hands a child a Christmas gift during Santa on Patrol last December. Santa and his elves will once again bring toys to kids in need in the Tri-Lakes area on Dec. 21. Santa will arrive via police cruiser accompanied by additional police cars and fire engines with sirens blaring. Photo by Lisa Collacott
Another ‘Small Town Christmas’ in Monument Christmas tree lighting takes place Dec. 7 at Limbach Park By Danny Summers
Dsummers@ourcoloradonews. com Monument is a relatively small town so why shouldn’t it have event called “Small Town Christmas?” At least that’s what several retailers in the community think. “The whole idea is to get people to come downtown and experience the holidays,” said Tom Wisdom, owner of Wisdom Tea House and vice president of the Historic Monument Merchants Association. “And maybe while they’re here they can pick up a Christmas present.” This is the 15th year of Small Town Christmas in Monument. Small Town Christmas kicked off Nov. 30 with the theme “Small Business Saturday.” Dec. 7 is the traditional “Small Town Christmas,” while Dec. 14 is labeled “Holiday Open House.” The big event on Dec. 7 is the Christmas tree lighting in Limbach Park. All three Saturday’s will in-
Beginning Nov. 30, the Historic Monument Merchants Association and the Town of Monument are sponsoring “Small Town Christmas.” Courtesy photo clude the following businesses taking part in special events: Village Merchants: Enjoy cookies and hot cider while you shop. All holiday décor will be 20 percent off.
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Bella Casa: Feast your eyes on the beautiful Christmas décor. Enjoy refreshments while you shop and receive 20 percent off all Christmas ornaments. Paisley Chest: See the beau-
tiful, hand-painted furniture. These pieces compliment any décor. Check out the newest furniture paint, FAT Paint™. Enjoy hot cider and cookies. Shades of Amber: Experience the beautiful new Christmas Room. It is fully decorated for the holidays. Enjoy delicious treats while you relax and escape to the European home decor boutique. Margo’s on the Alley has beautiful holiday decorations along with tasty refreshments. Holiday decorations will be 20 percent off. Wisdom Tea House has holiday open house, and 20 percent off packaged tea. It’s a great place to celebrate the holidays with family and friends for breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea. 1492Chocolates turns into a Chocolate Fairy Land with a miniature small town Christmas display and tiny lights throughout the store. Sample the homemade hot spiced cider while you browse the exquisite gift baskets and fresh truffles. Keepsakes Unlimited: Discover the pleasure of finding a treasure at Keepsakes Unlimited with its friendly atmosphere and affordable prices. Enjoy holiday shopping with 20 percent off everything. The Posh Pineapple: Enjoy re-
freshments and a warm, welcoming atmosphere while you shop. Take advantage of a different holiday special each Saturday. Frog on a Limb is your place for hundreds of customizable, Colorado handmade Christmas ornaments, decorations and heirlooms. They will have music on the rocks, tasty holiday goodies, and belly warming winter drinks. Purple Mountain Jewelry: Enjoy holiday cookies and live music while you shop for their oneof-a-kind pieces. Selected pieces are 10-15 percent off. Enter to win a $100 gift certificate to be given away December 17th. Most events take place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. On Dec. 7, folks can also enjoy the following: Hay Rides around town from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Santa and Mrs. Claus: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. La Casa Fiesta will be serving complimentary hot chocolate in its enclosed heated patio while folks wait to see Santa and Mrs. Claus. Children’s Crafts at Tri-Lakes Fire Admin Building from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (door closed to new crafters at 1:30). Christmas continues on Page 4
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Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series coming to TLCA? Congressman Doug Lambown could be among the first speakers By Danny Summers
Dsummers@ourcoloradonews.com It took a little time for Dr. Mike Maddox to finally get a meeting with his congressman, but he walked away extremely happy with the outcome. Maddox, one of the movers and shakers of the Tri-Lakes area, met with Congressman Doug Lamborn on Nov. 25 at the congressman’s office in Colorado Springs. It turned out to be one of those meetings that could lead to a lasting relationship. Among the issues discussed were marijuana, art and lectures. “We also talked about voting, getting people out to vote and creating interest in voting,” Maddox said. “We discussed a variety of issues that concern the Tri-Lakes community.” Maddox is the director for the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts. Since taking over the position three years ago he has aggressively marketed the center and the Tri-Lakes area. Among the items on Maddox’s agenda for 2014 is launching a Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series. One of the first people he is hoping to book is Lamborn. “When you talk about a United States Congressman, you talk about a distinguished speaker,” Maddox said. “He knows all about leadership, responsibility, accountability. As a member of House of Representatives he answers to the people.” Maddox envisions the Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series as being a bimonthly event to start. He is hoping to book politicians (he has Senator Mark Udall) on his radar, as well as sports figures, entertainers and authors. Well-known author Jerry Jenkins, a resi-
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dent of Black Forest, has also been in discussion with Maddox about being part of the speakers’ series. “This might take while to build, but I think once we get some momentum it will really take off,” Lamborn’s wife, Jeanie, is an artist. Maddox thought it might be fun to showcase Jeanie’s art the same month Lamborn speaks. “I’m always on the lookout for new artists,” Maddox said. Among the main topics Maddox and Lamborn discussed was Amendment 64 and the impact it could have on Palmer Lake. The amendment was passed by Colorado voters in November 2012 allows for the personal use and regulation of marijuana for adults 21 and over, as well as commercial cultivation, manufacture, and sale, effectively regulating cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol. Municipalities have the right to “opt out,” which is what many cities and towns in El Paso County did, including Monument and Palmer Lake. Maddox sits on the Palmer Lake Town Council. “Congressman Lamborn complimented the Town Council of Palmer Lake for opting out,” Maddox said. “He appreciates our stance on that and he didn’t express any dismay or disgust that that there is opposition to our position. He respects the rights of the voters to exercise their constitutional right to free speech.” In April 2014, the citizens of Palmer Lake will put the issue to vote again in an effort to try and convince the town council to allow sales of marijuana. “Congressman Lamborn said he’s not going to interfere with the local municipal governments,” Maddox said. “He’s going to let the democratic process take place.” On a lighter note, Maddox presented Lamborn with a lifetime membership to the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts.
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Small Town Christmas. The Historic Monument Merchants Association presents a Small Town Christmas on three consecutive Saturdays. The days are filled with holiday activities including visits from Santa and Mrs. Claus along with crafts and activities for children, open houses, and other special sales and events as the merchants of Historic Downtown Monument celebrate a Small Town Christmas. Each Saturday will have a theme: Nov. 30: Small business Saturday. The Saturday between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses nationwide. Join us this year and shop small. Dec. 7: Traditional Small Town Christmas. Come downtown and celebrate the warmth and magic of the holiday season. Visits from Santa and Mrs. Claus, hayrides, kids’ crafts and all sorts of other traditional Christmas activities. Dec. 14: Holiday Open House. Visit merchants in the historic downtown for refreshments, music, and holiday open houses throughout the day. Go to http://www.monumentmerchants.com/SmallTownChristmas.htm for more details.
Dr. Mike Maddox always has something up his sleeve. He is hoping to start a Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series in the spring. Courtesy photo
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celebration on Dec. 7, Covered Treasures Bookstore, 105 Second St., Monument, welcomes three authors for book signings. First, from 10 a.m. to noon Barb Ziek will sign her latest in the Zadie series, “Zadie and Plain Vanilla Saves Christmas.” Weather permitting, Barb will bring some of her alpacas to the store. Next, Kris Abel-Helwig will sign her picture book series, “I Love You” and “... And Theme Some,” and her stand-alone title, “The wifful, wafful, diffle, sniffle, snaffle, snorful dorful waffle” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Finally, from 1-3 p.m. Dec. 7, Alan Roettinger, well-known chef, will sign his latest cookbook, “Extraordinary Vegan.”
Dec. 11-12 Dental services. Perfect Teeth, a Colorado-based dental services organization, presents its “Brightening Monument One Smile at a Time,” in which the company will provide three days of free dental care to military retirees and their families. Call 719-488-0101 for information. In addition, there is an open house at 4 p.m. Dec. 12, when community members can meet Dr. Brian Buccellato and tour the new dental practice opening in the Jackson Creek Shopping Center. Dec. 14
TIMELESS TRADITION: Yule Log warms through the ages.
SPORTS: Titans enjoyed another solid season on the gridiron. Page 13
LOCAL LEGEND: America’s oldest living survivior of Pearl Harbor honored. Page 11
Dec. 7 Author signings. During the Small Town Christmas
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40 YEARS AGO Palmer Lake Monument News Dec. 6, 1973 Young at Hearts will meet Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 11:30 a.m.at the Monument Baptist Church. The Lewis Palmer High School choir will perform. Mrs. Peggy Syferd is director of the choir. A history of the Palmer Lake star and the yule log celebration will be presented. ••• A special service will be conducted at the Monument Baptist Church on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 11 a.m. The Baptist Student Union Choir of Colorado Springs under the direction of Rev. Don Gurney,
the director of BSU will present a music program. BSU is made up of college and nursing schools in Colorado Springs including the Air Force Academy. A potluck will follow the service. The church will provide refreshment and table service. All in the community are invited. Bring a dish to share. ••• Mr. Don Breese, Lewis Palmer High School principal, attended the Pikes Peak League Energy Crisis meeting in Leadville, Wednesday, Nov. 28. If any cutting of athletic programs is to be done it will be done at freshman and junior varsity level.
All other prearranged school and music activities will be held as scheduled. Return bus trips at night will be funded by the host school. Pep clubs will not be taken on long trips. Mr. Breese reported that Lewis Palmer has a safe gas margin until January, 1974. ••• J.J. Morland’s Fifth Annual Production Sale will take place in Simla, Colo. next Tuesday at the ranch. A free lunch will be followed by a sale of livestock. Seventy bulls and 36 females will be offered for sale with free delivery of purchase of $1,000 or more.
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••• Elementary school news: The Library at Palmer Lake Elementary is now in full service. School pictures were sent home with the students for approval. Mrs. Dianne Moore will give art classes on Dec. 7. On Dec. 12, a story hour is planned for those children going into kindergarten next year at Palmer Lake Elementary. Children must be 5 by Sept. 15, 1974. Story hour will continue once a month for the remainder of the year. — Compiled by Linda Case
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OPEN HOUSE. Covered Treasures Bookstore, 105 Second St.,
Monument, will host a holiday open house Dec. 14. Allison Flannery will sign her children’s title, “In the Hall of the Mountain King” and will do a craft with the children from 10 a.m. to noon. From 1-3 p.m., Julie Raber, creator of Pocket Pals Trail Maps of the Pikes Peak Region, and Susan Davies, director of Trails and Open Space, will discuss the trails in the area, which ones are open and which ones need repair. Stop by for an informal discussion of our beloved trail system. Visit www. coveredtreasures.com.
DEC. 15 LIGHTS HAYRIDE. The annual Festival of Lights Hayride is from 5-8 p.m. Dec. 15, leaving from the Gleneagle Golf Club parking lot. However, because the course is closed, the ride will go along the streets of Gleneagle. The festivities include Mr. and Mrs. Santa, carolers from Holy Trinity Church and cookies. Event is funded by the Gleneagle Women’s Club. No fee will be charged. The Palms Restaurant will be open, selling hot chili and hot and cold drinks. Sponsors include Holy Trinity Church, Gleneagle Golf Club, The Palms Restaurant, Gleneagle Women’s Club, Gleneagle Sertoma and Scout Troop 194. Contact Ruth Spencer, Gleneagle community advisory committee, 719-4813161 or daru250@aol.com.
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Cookie Walk: The Tri-Lakes United Methodist returns to the Tri-Lakes Fire Administration Building from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. They will bake cookies by the dozens and sell them by the pound. Proceeds aid the Black Forest fire victims. Christmas tree lighting takes place at 5 p.m. in Limbach Park with a performance by The Ascent Church Children’s Group. The Town of Monument will light the tree after the program. Hangers Thrift Shop will have their Annual Small Town Christmas Kids Gifts from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m. Every child under the age of 12 can come in and shop for one free gift to be given to a family member. Their elves will make sure gifts come complete with gift-wrap. Santa Fe Trail Jewelry: See the newest collection of jewelry by Darlene Armstrong
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Aurora Police Department. That year the Santas at the shopping centers were receiving threats and many of the shopping centers and malls canceled appearances by Santa. Shirk decided to rent a Santa suit and dress up as the jolly old fellow and bring Santa to the children. When Shirk moved to the Monument area eight years ago and became chief of police, he saw a need in the area and decided he would continue the tradition of Santa on Patrol. Donations from the community have made that possible. Last year, more than 1,000 gifts were handed out to children ranging in age from infants to teenagers. “We would like to collect over 1,000 gifts this year,” Shirk said.
THROUGH DEC. 15 GIFT CARD drive. Resort 2 Kindness (R2K) hosts its BIG GIVE 2013 gift card drive to benefit the Colorado flood victims. The drive runs from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15. R2K will collect unused, unexpired gift cards valid at any restaurant, grocery store, home store or retail store in Colorado. All cards will be given to the Emergency Family Assistance Association. Gift cards can be mailed to Resort 2 Kindness, 9781 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 200, Englewood, CO 80112. Monetary donations can also be made online at resort2kindness.org. DEC. 8 CONCERT. JAKE Schepps and the Expedition Quartet will perform traditional bluegrass music at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 8 at First Christian Church, 16 E. Platte Ave. Also featured are the Colorado Springs premiere of a newly commissioned work by New York City-based composer Matt McBane for banjo, mandolin, guitar, violin, and bass, and a couple of numbers for the Christmas season. A free will offering will be taken. EDITOR’S NOTE: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. Send information to calendar@ourcoloradonews.com, attn: Tribune. No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a spaceavailable basis.
and enjoy holiday cookies and cider while you shop. Armstrong’s talent and inspiration gives voice to her designs, making it easy to find a gift worthy of giving. Enter to win a $50 gift certificate. Shades of Amber: Kids are invited to come make a free holiday ornament. Covered Treasures Bookstore hosts author signings: Barb Ziek, from 10 a.m. to noon, signs Zadie and Plain Vanilla, and The Rainbow Alpaca Saves Christmas; Kris Abel-Helwig signs her children’s books from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Alan Roettinger, from 1 to 3 p.m., signs Extraordinary Vegan. Expectations Spa and Salon will have face painting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jewelry will be 50 percent off. Monumental Miniatures: Enjoy cookies, and see live alpacas from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Love Shop: Sample Aspen Mulled Cider and bring your children to see live reindeer in our parking lot from 10 a.m. to noon. The Bead Corner: Children make a free bracelet for themselves or as a gift.
Unwrapped toys and gifts will be accepted until 5 p.m. Dec. 20. Gifts can be dropped off at the Monument Police Department at 645 Beacon Lite Road or at the Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District Administration Building at 166 Second St. or any TLMFPD fire station. Gift cards to local grocery stores will also be accepted in order to help families with groceries or a holiday meal. It brings Shirk joy that the community and fire and police departments can help those in need in the Tri-Lakes area. “The look on these children’s faces when Santa comes to them and gives them a gift. The look on their parents faces. A lot of them aren’t able to go see Santa,” Shirk added. Santa will patrol local neighborhoods from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 21. Santa and Mrs. Claus will also greet children at the Tri-Lakes YMCA from 10 a.m. to noon on Dec. 14.
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View of piano is black and white The 74-year-old Knabe grand piano sits silent in the room behind them. But the three women sipping tea at the small dining room table feel the music settle into them with the quiet joy only an old, beloved companion can bring. Music. “It’s like food,” Dee Netzel, 86, says. “I couldn’t imagine life without it.” “It’s a passion,” says Donita Banks, 77, “a compulsion.” The piano belongs to the third woman, the tiniest, just now able to sit at the bench after two months battling a back injury. Rita Jo Tensly, 84, says simply: “I want to die at the piano.” ••• They call themselves “sisters” — Dee from a small Wisconsin town, Rita from New York City and Donita from Pueblo. All classical pianists, a love for music binds them tightly. But what brought them together originally was the Denver alumnae chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, an international music fraternity for women they joined while in college. Donita, the chapter’s archivist who chronicles the organization’s history in carefully constructed scrapbooks, spreads open an album on the table and points to a picture of smiling women, the SAI Singers. “There’s Dee and there’s me. We had a bicentennial program.” 1976. She turns to another page and another picture. 1995. Rita: “There I am in the front row.” Donita: “We were looking a little younger then.” All three burst into laughter. On the next page is a photo of revered member Lila Putney, whose 104th birthday they celebrated in 2008. She left Denver several years ago to live near family and died this past February at 108. Donita added the obituary and stories of her life to the scrapbook. Donita, who joined in 1960 and is one of the longest-running members, is adamant the SAI alumnae chapter was a key ingredient to Lila’s longevity. “What has kept us going,” she says, “has been music, friendship and service.” The chapter has 44 members from their mid-20s to Dee, the oldest active member. About 25 attend monthly meetings from September to June in homes and churches throughout the metro area, wherever a good piano can be found. “I think one of the neat things about our group now is we are online,” Dee says, “and as careers bring people to our area, they look us up online and they find us.” The website also brings younger women to the graying chapter. Dee: “I love being with young people.” “It keeps me young,” Rita says. Dee: “We really aren’t categorized by age. … Music is just music.” “They like us for what we are,” Rita says. “Musicians.” ••• Donita, an only child, began playing at 7 when her parents brought home an old, Baldwin Acrosonic upright piano, signed by the sister of the famed pianist José Iturbi of Spain. “Really?” Rita asks. “Mmmhmmm,” Donita says, smiling, remembering. “I loved piano from the beginning.” In junior high school, she began ac-
companying the singers at church. In high school, she played for a singer who performed for service organizations and then was hired to accompany dancers at the Pueblo Conservatory of Music. She attended the University of Colorado on scholarship where a professor introduced her to contemporary music. Her son, her first child, was just seven weeks old when she accepted a job as youth choir director at a Lakewood church, the start to a career as a freelance musician who combined one-woman shows with choir directing. “It came to be a way of life,” Donita says. And when she battled breast cancer two years ago, she couldn’t wait to play again. “I had to get back to my music. Yes, I had to get back to my regular life.” Rita was 10 when her parents surprised her with the same piano in her sitting room for her birthday. “I took to it like a duck takes to water,” she says. She attended Juilliard and graduated from the University of Miami in Florida, then moved to Denver in 1953 and taught elementary school music for 28 years. She loves the classical composers. “I just love the way they put the music together. I think about the music, what they were thinking about, why they composed this music.” Her favorites are Debussy and Mozart. She looks at her hands. “My hands are very small.” She fans out her fingers. “So Mozart fits my hands.” Her eyesight is failing. And that is her biggest fear. “I dread the time if I never have any more sight to see the music because I don’t want to stop playing,” she says. “I feel better when I play this beautiful music.” Dee grew up in a poor, rural Wisconsin home. But her mother had inherited a piano. And to keep a mischievous Dee out of trouble, she started her with piano lessons. “I loved the teacher; I loved the music,” Dee says. “Nobody had to make me practice and I never stopped.” She would attend the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on scholarship. Later a staff accompanist at Metropolitan State University for 27 years, Dee began as an elementary and high school music teacher for nine one-room schools in rural Wisconsin that she had to get to in two days. “I’d roar up in my car and teach, then roar up to the next one,” she says. “I would spin around on the roads, I would knock over the mailboxes — I was in such a hurry.” Dee laughs. “I was young.” Rita smiles, taking a sip of tea. “We were all young at one time.” Dee still practices every day, one of the reasons, she believes, that she doesn’t have any pain in her arthritic hands. Twelve years ago, macular degeneration clouded the sight in her left eye. In August, doctors found the beginning of the dis-
ease in her right eye. “I’m surviving,” Dee says and tells Donita and Rita about the musical program she played recently with a friend. “I played practically note-perfect. I’m going to keep going until I can’t see anything.” ••• The stories around the table this day compose a concerto of family remembered and talent ignited, of challenges faced and overcome, of the importance of sharing a singular passion with the world. They also, perhaps mostly, recount a friendship born, nurtured and sealed by the implicit understanding of a love and need for music and the deep happiness it brings. The piano waits across the room. A brass light that cost $100 arches over the music books of Debussy and Chopin resting against the piano rack. Rita’s $400 piano glasses lie on top. Rita: “It was worth it to me, to see the
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December 4, 2013
It is all a matter of perspective I suppose it is a matter of perspective. “I’m 81-years-old and it is just too much,” former Green Mountain Falls resident Jack Shippy used to say to me. He was talking about maintaining residence in two states at the time. I listened to Jack before he died, and if you ask me, “too much” is relative. If you were to ask him, he could have told you about a lot of things. Shippy drove a ‘71 Chevy Impala crosscountry from Colorado to Florida. “Last of the muscle cars,” he explained. “It has a 350 Chevy V-8 and it just floats down the highway.” But he put his Florida home on the market and planned to stick closer to home here in the shadow of the Peak. Shippy could tell you about things like Pearl Harbor. He was there when the Japanese Imperial Army attacked on Dec. 7,1941, bringing the United States into WWII. But maybe it was hard to speak of such things. “I get pretty emotional about it. It was terrible —our boys in the water, every-
thing on fire, the noise.” he told me once. Jack had joined the Navy at 16. He said he had lied to recruiter about his age. Twice, the first time when he was 15. “He told me to come back in a year. I did and I was in.” He could also describe to you what it was like to put an airplane back together on an island in the Pacific in the complete darkness. Darkness because he knew a sniper was out there waiting for the lights to come on to take a shot. All of the following experiences (and many more) made up his story list. He could have told you Navy test pilot tales
about damaging his ears, battles with various kinds of cancer and illness, leaving Oklahoma during the dust bowl, coming to live with relatives in Colorado Springs as an orphan, working on the “bull gang” as a mechanic for Golden Cycle Mining company, trying to scratch out a living during the depression, volunteering for years in service clubs like the Lions Club and Friends of the Fossil Beds. After retiring from the service, he could even speak in Whiskey salesmen parables of a Colorado past and of people in small towns like Gunnison, Creede and all across the state. And he usually had a joke for us, though it is sometimes it is off-color enough that I’ll decline to retell most of them here. Sometimes in the summer, I was even able to trade him yellow crookneck squash for jars of chokecherry jelly that his wife made. He threatened every year to come down and pick the crab apples off the tree outside the office window so his wife could make crab apple jelly. Nothing should go to waste.
He always had ideas. Perhaps, just by discussing it, he and I could have solved the Social Security crisis or balanced the budget or picked the best president to lead the country. Maybe we would chat about his newest acting gig in television commercials for the hospital or the TV commercial where he is in the steamed up car “with someone else’s wife” as he describes it. He let me know when he thought I should write about the city’s arrangements with the Lions Park, or would tell me to find out what they are building at the edge of town. But what else did he want to talk about? “The war over in Iraq makes me nervous. And all these economic problems,” he said. “I took getting knocked around in the Pacific so that my kids don’t have to go through another depression or fight another World War,” he said. That was a valuable perspective. I trust that if Jack Shippy was still around to ask, he could have told us all, about a lot of things.
a whip. “Then I saw the West Virginia get hit, and the Tennessee. When the bomb hit us (at 8:10 a.m.), there was just a tower of smoke and fire, hundreds of feet high. It shook that 30,000-ton ship like a dog shakes a rat, but we were inside the director, and that protected us some.” Stratton awoke on that Sunday morning to the peaceful surroundings of a Hawaiian paradise. Dressed in a T-shirt and shorts, he went to breakfast about 7 a.m. He returned to the Arizona shortly before 8 a.m. and was heading to the sickbay to visit his friend, Harl Nelson, when he heard sailors “yelling and hollering” and point to nearby Ford Island. Stratton never made it to Nelson’s bedside, and sadly, Nelson was among those who died that day. “I saw either the dive tower or the water tower on Ford Island go over,” Stratton
said. “The planes would peel off, and we could see their Rising Sun insignias and then we could see bombs bursting. I asked myself, `What the hell is going on?’” Stratton had little time to think as he worked his way to his battle station. There was carnage all around him. Hundreds of sailors were trapped and drowned below decks as the shattered ship went down. Others were flung into burning oil-covered water when the Japanese bomb penetrated and blew up the Arizona’s powder magazine. The ship’s foremast, however, was intact, more or less, although leaning at a sharp angle, Stratton and a few others still hanging on as flames ate at their bodies. Stratton’s hands, arms, legs and torso were charred from the fires, as were most of those on the foremast AA battery. “We had burned skin and flesh hanging off our arms like long black stockings,” Stratton said. “We just pulled it off, threw it off and went on. We were burned all to hell.” After spending a year in the hospital, Stratton was medically discharged from the Navy and returned to Nebraska for a year. But he grew bored and reenlisted. He served in the Pacific and was discharged for good in December 1945, months after World War II ended. Many years ago, Stratton and the other
Arizona survivors made it a point to get together annually for a reunion of sorts. Every five years they meet in Hawaii and visit Pearl Harbor. “When I go to these reunions and there are Japanese pilots there that were doing the bombing, they ask if I’ll get up there and shake hands with them,” Stratton said. “I don’t do that. I never will do that. You have to understand my position. There’s a thousand men down on that ship that I was on and I’m sure they wouldn’t do that, and I’m sure they wouldn’t want me to do it. I know that I’m very fortunate to be here. I just can’t help but think people should be more aware of what happened that day and how many lives were taken. How many of those sailors and Marines onboard that ship right now don’t even know what happened to them or why it happened or who it was?” Stratton has received cards and letters from people all over the world asking him to sign photos and other memorabilia. He answers each person individually. “I sign `em and send `em back,” said Stratton, whose granddaughter, Jessika, was former women’s basketball coach at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. “But my autograph is not for sale.
Stratton survived the attack on Pearl Harbor President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it “A date which will live in infamy.” Former Navy Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was at Pearl Harbor on the ship USS Arizona that fateful day, Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked the United States fleet in the Hawaiian Islands. Now here is the rest of his story. Stratton, a self-described “flatlander from Nebraska,” was just 19 years old at the time. He was burned over 65 percent of his body, spent a year in the hospital, endured numerous surgeries, but survived. By the time the fighting was over that fateful day, 1,177 of Stratton’s crewmates had perished. About 375 survived. Less than 20 are alive today. “Time passes pretty fast,” said Stratton, a resident of Colorado Springs who has been married for 63 years to his wife, Velma. “It’s always on your mind, but you have to get on with life. It’s hard to believe it’s been 72 years.” At the time of the attack, Stratton had been in the Navy just 14 months. He was on anti-aircraft guns that morning when he returned to his battle station - shooting at Japanese planes as they rained down bullets and bombs from the sky. “I saw the Oklahoma capsize,” said Stratton, who is now 91 but still sharp as
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What a trip to town was like My grandfather grew up on a farm in what is now part of Monument. He told us many stories about growing up there. One of my favorites was about going to the big city! A trip into town was like today’s trip to the mall. Have things changed all that much? On their trip into town, they bought bulk groceries, animal feed, clothing, tools, parts for their vehicle and sometimes ate and got haircuts! Sometimes all of these activities were done in the same store. Now, this was not a mall, it was at the general store in some town. Usually this was not a long trip, this is what made small towns useful. Occasionally there might be a need to go into a bit larger town. Someone near Black Forest might need to go to Colorado Springs, but only for some hard-to-get item. A hundred years ago my grandfather, and his father, would go into town in a wagon maybe once a month. A trip into Colorado Springs might take all day! Today we might expect to find some of these things in a big box store, and go at the drop of a hat at one many miles away, even to Denver. Many of the usually used items could be bought down at the general store, but unlike today they rarely wanted to see a wider variety of items. If there were several general stores in a town, maybe they might have different selections; otherwise
there were also the Sears, Roebuck or Wards catalogs! Things ordered in the mail might come in on a train in two weeks, In Colorado Springs, every Saturday was shopping day! There were a number of stores that specialized in serving those who lived out in the country. In fact, there were many stores that catered to farmers and ranchers from all over who did this kind of shopping. They carried the basics in large quantities. There was even a corral in the middle of town, behind the buildings where they bought and sold horses, cows and sheep. This all ended in the 1950s when things became easier and quicker to do. The trip into town could even be done over the phone, and now online. You can be at Walmart in minutes, but do not forget those local merchants. You can still find local businesses that can trace their history back 100 years, and sell items not found in those big box stores.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: Many thanks to Rosie’s leadership, our local business, Monument Academy for the table decorations, and all the great community organizations sponsoring the Tri-Lakes Community Coming Together Thanksgiving meal. What a wonderful and heartwarming event. Rosie’s served over 100 family participants a traditional Thanksgiving meal, and the welcoming Monument Board of Trustees and community volunteers replaced the chills of the windy morning with great food and warm Rosie’s smiles. In summary, the common feeling from all participants was heard many times, “we are so proud to be a part of such a wonderful community!” Happy Holidays to all. Gordon Reichal Monument Dear Editor: Editor’s note: This letter is addressing John Mann, John Magerko, Mark Pfoff and Robb Pike, it has been edited for brevity. Thank you for agreeing to let me send you some information at the last D38 School Board meeting on Nov. 21 regarding the Common Core program the board has adopted. While it is concerning that one or more of you admitted you didn’t know much about the federal Common Core program, I appreciate your honesty in the matter. I am hopeful that each of
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I don’t want to make money off all the guys who died that day. I’m not a hero. The real heroes are the guys still on that ship.” A few years ago, Stratton’s likeness became the focus of an action figure. The doll is sold at the USS Arizona Museum at Pearl Harbor. To date, Stratton is the only Arizona survivor honored with an action figure. Stratton believes the young people of today should be better informed about the
you will read my letter in its entirety. For convenience, I’ve included numerous links to information at the bottom of this note, but it is my desire that that you will research Common Core on your own. It is important to start out by noting that the parent, teacher and community concerns and objections to Common Core truly do transcend all party affiliation, all socio-economic levels and multiple geographies of the country. The reason I began researching this so feverishly is as follows: “Across the country, more than a few troubling reports have emerged of biometric schemes being foisted on children, too. Of course, we’re all hearing about the iris scanning that is going on so that the kids don’t have to carry student IDs,” Black explained in the video, referring to just one of the schemes being used to identify children using their unique biometric data. In some areas, as numerous media outlets have documented, students are also being forced to supply their fingerprints to get their lunch.” Sound familiar? It should given this is the same program in which the D38 School Board did not appear to be aware that funding had been approved for a similar program at Bear Creek Elementary just a month ago. As I mentioned at the last D38
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events of Dec. 7, 1941, as well as the tragedy that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. “For the simple reason that something like Pearl Harbor and 9-11 can happen again,” he said. “We need to keep it in front of the public. “I think about it every day. I have no animosity against the Japanese people, but I can’t forget what happened. It seems like an awful, awful waste of life for something that people are going to forget about. We have so many people [today] who don’t appreciate their liberty and wouldn’t fight for it.” I am honored to know Donald Stratton. He would never call himself an American hero, but I will.
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Yule Log warms through the ages
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rcarrigan@ourcoloradonews.com A heart-warming celebration of holiday season, steeped in tradition, and shared with friends, has way of taking the edge off tough times. To put things in context, a person has to think about what was going on back in 1934. That year turned out to be the worst year of the ‘dust bowl’ and the depths of the ‘Great Depression.’ Dust storms ruined nearly 100 million acres and damaged another 200 million acres of cropland in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado. The gross national product of this country was cut in half from 1929 to 1933 and nearly 16 million people — a third of available work force — were out of work. More than 2 million were homeless and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was forced to declare a “bank holiday” the day after his inauguration. Also in 1934, Adolph Hitler became the fuehrer of Germany when the chancellery and presidency were united. Bonnie and Clyde died in a bullet storm from automatic weapons fire and shotgun blasts (at least 130 rounds) in an ambush by Texas and Louisiana lawmen. John Dillinger suffered a similar fate outside a movie theater in Chicago. Mao Zedong began the ‘long march north’ with 100,000 soldiers. And to boot, the year goes down in the record books as the warmest in history. Remarkably, it still holds that record. But here in Palmer Lake, in the festive spirit of the holidays, it was shaping up as year to remember. For 1934 was the year that a small, well-dressed librarian in a hat, who loved the arts, brought back a splinter of a log from Lake Placid, New York. Though Lucretia Vaile is fondly remem-
sent to communities to start other ceremonies,” says Sabin’s book. “It started because Lucretia thought it would be a fun thing to do here,” Susan Davis, curator of the Lucretia Vaile Museum in Palmer Lake at the time, was quoted in a Gazette story by Linda DeVal in 2001. In the same story, Virgil Watkins, then president of the Palmer Lake Historical Society, said Vaile participated in the early festivals, and “she even got us a sliver of the Yule Log from Lake Placid (N.Y.) to start our first fire.” This year, the president of the celebration, Kurt Voelker, says he expects from 200 to 450 people. “It depends on the weather and what football games are on.” The annual potluck was held Dec. 3 at 5 p.m. and the Yule Log Celebration itself, The finder of the Yule log, pictured right, helps to cut the log in half so that half will be burned in the bonfire and begins at 1 p.m. at the Town Hall on Dec. 8. the other half saved for kindling for next year. The traditional Yule Log Hunt in Palmer Lake will take place Dec. 8. Wearing red and green capes, every File photo by Lisa Collacott year the crowd searches for the log with bered for many accomplishments and on the town and its residents,” the book a notch on the end and a red ribbon. “It noteworthy acts of kindness to the town holds. “At the suggestion of Miss Lucretia is 8 to 12 inches in diameter and eight to she loved, the founding of the Christmas Vaile, Miss (Evalena) Macy and the young twelve feet long and is cut on town propYule Log Celebration stands out, especial- people of the church (Little Log Church) erty,” Voelker said. Voelker says entertainment has been ly this time of the season. It has become sent for a splinter of the Lake Placid one of the most enduring and endearing Yule Log in New York and organized the lined up and will be provided while the celebrations of the holiday spirit in the first Palmer Lake Yule Log ceremony.” search is underway. “Nothing too fancy, state and perhaps the nation. Coinciden- The event was held in the Charley Orr- but it all is very nice.” How much entertainment? tally, just one year later, another long- Dr. E.M. Spaulding home and 50 people “It depends on how long it takes to find held tradition — the lighting of the star on wearing red or green capes, went on the Sundance Mountain, helped seal Palmer hunt in Sherwin Canyon. The first Yule the log, it has been found in few minutes Lake’s reputation as a Christmas town. Log was discovered by C.R. Hays, princi- before, and sometimes it takes much longer,” he said. According to the Palmer Lake Profile — pal of the elementary school. Part of the log is then burned in a town1920 to 1972 portion of the updated MarIn 1935, the ceremony became a comion Savage Sabin’s book “Palmer Lake: munity project and as crowds grew, it was hall ceremony in which people gather to A Historical Narrative,” the Depression moved to the Town Hall in 1937 and has drink wassail, carol and watch the Yule log burn. The event provides an excellent brought many hardships, the W.P.A., and been there since. little growth to Palmer Lake. But it also “Every year except in World War II, opportunity to take the edge off the hustle brought us the Yule Log celebration. this heart warming, free ceremony has and bustle of a busy season, forget about “An old English custom was adopted occurred on a Sunday before Christmas. tough times, and warm your heart in the in 1934 which has far-reaching effect Hundreds of Yule Log splinters have been spirit of the season.
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School Board meeting in November, these types of biometric initiatives are heavily tied in with the federal Common Core curriculum. In my opinion, there are several items that are important in understanding why Common Core is concerning to parents like me. The first is data mining and gathering of biometric data and the loss of local control while being straddled with mediocre education standards. It would take many pages to lay out all of the dangers to our liberty and educational freedoms contained in the Common Core State Standards initiatives. In brief, by adopting Common Core, local school districts have essentially been bribed by the State and Federal government to accept the copyrighted and thus, unalterable, Common Core standards. The standards were developed behind closed doors at the federal level by offering states millions in so-called “race to the top” money or exemptions from the failed No Child Left Behind program. In a nutshell, the Common Core program cedes curricular control to the federal government and takes it away from parents, teachers and local school boards. Beyond the educational mediocrity that Common Core standards further imposes on public schools, there are elaborate plans to use the required national assessments within the Common Core Standards as a tool to institute massive data collection about American school children that has nothing to do with education and everything to do with government intrusion and control. A few of the hundreds of data points that will be collected on each child and his/her family per the adoption of Common Core include but are not limited to the list I bulleted below. I would ask you each to think about what these data points have to do with educating our children here in the Lewis Palmer School District? To track student performance and align the new curricula and testing systems, in May of 2012, Colorado was awarded a $17.4 million federal stimulus grant to build a statewide education data system, which debuts this school year. As required
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Sloppiness cited in mental health delay Uproar leads state to start process over By Kristin Jones
I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS Susan Beckman wants you to know that “a lot of sloppy work” — and not a conspiracy — were behind the state’s botched job of finding someone to run a network of walk-in mental health crisis centers. Beckman — a Littleton resident and former Arapahoe County commissioner — heads the administrative branch of the Colorado Department of Human Services, the office responsible for the failed solicitation process. The department has been accused of colluding with local actors — that is, local providers of mental health services — to elbow out a newcomer, but Beckman says a slew of mistakes were just human error. The department on Nov. 22 issued a new request for proposals to run the crisis centers, three weeks after deciding to rescind an award it had made on Oct. 16 to Crisis Access of Colorado, which set up shop in the state for the purpose of applying for the contract. Crisis Access is affiliated with a private Georgia-based crisis intervention company called Behavioral Health Link and Recovery Innovations, an organization with operations in Arizona, California and Washington. Awards made to two Denver-based companies — Metro Crisis Services, to run a hotline, and Cactus Communications, for marketing — were also scuttled. The contracts will determine who runs
‘If there were concerns about the process, then the state should have required the regular protest procedures. That wasn’t done.’ David Covington, CEO of Crisis Access the keystone mental health initiative of the Hickenlooper administration. The crisis stabilization centers are meant to take pressure off of hospital emergency rooms, jails and prisons — which have become the main providers of services for people with mental illness — after decades of funding shortfalls. But so far, the piece of legislation meant to promote unity and cooperation among mental health service providers in Colorado has proven divisive, at best. Crisis Access has accused the state of making a political decision when it scrapped the contract. In a protest letter filed with the Department of Human Services on Nov. 11, the company called the decision unlawful, and alleged that the state skirted proper procedures and bowed to pressure from a consortium of local community mental health facilities that had lost out on the bid. “If there were concerns about the process, then the state should have required the regular protest procedures,” says David Covington, who left a job at Magellan Health Services to become CEO of Crisis
Access. “That wasn’t done.” The state rejected Crisis Access’ protest last week. Beckman says the decision to scrap the award had nothing to do with pressure from the losing bidders. Instead, she blames plain old sloppiness for a bidding process that was “an embarrassment to the department.” Before the bid was even awarded, says Beckman, she became aware of “blatant” errors including missing scores, incorrect calculations and improper weighting. “We were wondering how we had gotten this far without checking our work,” says Beckman, adding that in retrospect, the award should never have been publicly announced. “It was just such bad timing. It was awkward. It was not good.” Her division instead referred the matter to the Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration. That office found that the bid process was not only stocked with errors, says Beckman, but didn’t meet the requirements of the legislation creating the new behavioral health crisis system, including principles of cultural compe-
Calm After the Storm
tence, strong community relationships and building on existing foundations. Harriet Hall was among those who were unhappy with the way the bid went the first time. She heads the Jefferson Center for Mental Health, and is part of a group of local partners who got together to apply to run the crisis centers. “Our sense of the competing bid was that those strong community relationships were non-existent,” Hall says. “And yet if you looked at the scoring they were scored as high or higher as folks that have the community relationships.” But Covington says there was no requirement that the bidders have a history of operating in the state. Reviewers were impressed with Crisis Access’ focus on peer support and trauma-informed care, records show. If there’s any consensus, it’s that the state’s mistakes will be expensive to fix. A new bidding process means another costly effort by the mental health service providers applying for the job — not to mention those reviewing the proposals. Beckman says the disruption is worth it in order to re-do the bid process with a fresh crew and a clean slate. “When we’re done, everyone’s going to say, this is a really good process,” says Beckman. The state hopes to finalize the new contracts by Feb. 24 — four months later than planned. I-News is the public service journalism arm of Rocky Mountain PBS and works collaboratively with news media across Colorado. To read more, please go to inewsnetwork.org. Kristin Jones can be reached at kristinjones@rmpbs.org.
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America’s oldest living survivior of Pearl Harbor honored Staff report Jim Downing, 100, joined the El Paso County Board of Commissioners last week as they unanimously approved a proclamation recognizing Pearl Harbor Day and honoring the 72nd anniversary of the attack that launched the United States into World War II. “The Empire of Japan suddenly and viciously attacked the Pacific Fleet of the United States of America while at Pearl Harbor in the United States’ Territory of Hawaii,” noted Commissioner Sallie Clark as she read the proclamation into the record. “Dec. 7, 1941, a date that forever ‘lives in infamy.’” Retired U.S. Navy Lt. Jim Downing was 28 years old when the United States fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was hit by a surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941. He was serving on the U.S.S. West Virginia. After watching a brief video recalling the events of Pearl Harbor, Downing told commissioners, “These pictures bring up pleasant and unpleasant memories. What’s missing are the noises and the smells of that morning.” After the attack, Downing, who had been assigned postmaster duties on the ship, went to the hospital and took the names and addresses of dozens of wounded soldiers and wrote notes to their families to let them know they were alive. He went on to say, “I want to express for the retired community and active duty community our appreciation for the way El Paso County supports us. Thank you so much.” At least 107 of his crewmates were among the many Americans who died in the attack. Downing celebrated his 100th birthday last August. After the war, Downing joined the staff of The Navigators in 1956. He served the organization as financial vice president, working alongside many early Navigator leaders. Downing also served the Navigators internationally and was the area representative in Washington, D.C. until his retirement from fulltime ministry in 1983. Also speaking at the meeting was Doug Huggins, who was 19 on the day of the attack. His ship was in port getting a new ra-
Downing as a young man. dar system after a trip to the Philippines. He told the commissioners of his routine day going immediately to battle stations. “When the alarm sounded, I was getting dressed to go play pool,” Huggins said. “It promptly stopped that and I was racing to my battle station, which was two levels above topside.” Huggins concluded, “Thank God for our country, we came together at that time. I wish we could do it now.”
‘These pictures bring up pleasant and unpleasant memories. What’s missing are the noises and the smells of that morning.’ Jim Downing Jim Downing, 100, holds up a paper from Dec. 7. Courtesy photos
Monument Community Presbyterian Church
The Church Crossroads Chapel, SBC at
Woodmoor
A church for all of God's people
www.thechurchatwoodmoor.org Sunday Worship: 8:30, 9:45 & 11:00 am Sunday School: 9:45 am
Traditional Worship Service Sunday 10a.m.-Nursery available 18125 Furrow Road Monument 80132
488-3200
481-0141
www.northword.org
840 North Gate Blvd. Bible Study 9am 10:15am Celebrating HIM in Worship
We Welcome You!
Christmas Eve at The Historic Pinecrest 106 Pinecrest Way, Palmer Lake 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
6pm evening Adult Bible Study
10:30 a.m.
Wednesday AWANA 6:15pm 495-3200 Pastor: Dr. D. L. Mitchell Child care provided
11:00 a.m.
Regular Services – Sundays at 10:00 a.m. Tri-Lakes Y • 17250 Jackson Creek Pkwy. www.foxmeadowchurch.com 719-445-9444
Worship Service at 9:30 a.m. Lewis Palmer High School Higby Road & Jackson Creek Parkway
Monument Hill Church, SBC
18725 Monument Hill Rd. 481-2156 www.monumenthillchurch.org Sunday: Bible Classes 9:15am Worship Service 10:30am Pastor Tom Clemmons USAFA ‘86, SWBTS ‘94 Preaching for the Glory of God God-centered, Christ-exalting worship Wed: AWANA 6:30pm The “New” MHC - Where Grace and Truth Abound
675 W. Baptist Road Colorado Springs, CO 719.481.2255
7:30 AM – Classic Worship 9:00 & 10:45 AM – Modern Worship 9:00 & 10:45 AM – Children and Student Programs 5:00 – 7:00 PM – Programs for all ages
Pastor David Dyer Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Worship with Praise Team Adult Bible Class Children’s/Middle School Sunday School Fellowship Coffee Youth Sunday School Adult Bible Class Worship with Chancel Choir
238 Third Street Monument, CO 80132 719.481.3902 www.mcpcusa.org
Maranatha Bible Fellowship
Family of Christ Lutheran Church
True Direction from God’s Word
9:15 a.m.
Service TimeS Woodmoor Campus 8:15, 9:30 and 11:00 a.m 1750 Deer creek rd., monument, cO Northgate Campus 9:30 a.m. 975 Stout Dr., colo Spgs, cO Church Office 1750 Deer creek rd. monument, cO 80132 (719) 481‐3600 www.TheAscentChurch.com
A Home Church Spirtual Growth Meaningful Relationships Solid Biblical Teaching A New Testament early church format that is changing lives 495-7527
20450 Beacon Lite Road • 488-9613
Sunday Bible Classes … 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship … 10:30 a.m. Evening Worship … 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Night Classes … 7:00 p.m.
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Connecting People to God and Others SUNDAYS 10 AM Bear Creek Elem School 1330 Creekside Dr. 487-7700 www.forestridgechurch.org
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clubs in your community
Editor’s note: To add or update your club listing, e-mail calendar@ourcoloradonews.com, attn: Tribune. Professional
Front Range Business Group meets from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at Bella Panini in Palmer Lake. Tri-Lakes Business Networking International meets from 8-9:30 a.m. every Wednesday at the Mozaic Inn in Palmer Lake. Call Elizabeth Bryson at 719-481-0600 or e-mail ebryson@farmersagent.com.
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NOTICES
Tri-Lakes Chamber Business After Hours meets at 5:30
p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month at various locations. Free to members; $10 for non-members. Call 719 481-3282 or go to www.trilakeschamber.com.
Tri-Lakes Chamber Business Networking Group meets
at 7:30 a.m. the first and third Thursday at Willow Tree Cafe, 140 2nd St., Monument. New members welcome. If District 38 is delayed or cancelled, their will be no meeting. Yearly membership dues are $20. Call 719 481-3282 or go to www. trilakeschamber.com.
Wisdom and Wealth Master Mind Group Lifting Spirits
meets from 7-9 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday from July to September at 755 Highway 105, Unit C, Palmer Lake. RSVP Public Notice
Government Legals
NOTICE OF PROPOSED 2014 BUDGET NOTICE TO AMEND 2013 BUDGET OF FOREST VIEW ACRES WATER DISTRICT
PUBLIC NOTICE LEWIS-PALMER SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 38 BOARD OF EDUCATION VACANCY SCHOOL DIRECTOR DISTRICT NO. 1 The Board of Education of Lewis-Palmer School District No. 38 will receive applications from eligible voters residing in School Director District No. 1 to fill a vacancy on the Board. The completed application should include a letter of intent, a resume, and written answers to a questionnaire. This questionnaire can be found on the District website or may be obtained from the Superintendent’s office. All applications must be received in the Superintendent’s office prior to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 11, 2013. They may be hand delivered to 146 Jefferson Street or mailed to Lewis-Palmer Board of Education, Attention: District 1 Applications, P.O. Box 40, Monument, CO 80132. The Board will tentatively interview prospective candidates at a special public meeting to be convened on either Friday, December 13, 2013, or Saturday, December 14, 2013. For further information about the application process call (719) 481-9546. /s/Robb Pike Secretary, Board of Education Lewis-Palmer School District No. 38 Monument, Colorado Legal Notice No.: 932192 First Publication: November 27, 2013 Last Publication: December 4, 2013 Publisher: The Tribune
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Forest View Acres Water District for the ensuing year 2014; that a copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of the District located at Community Resource Services of Colorado, L.L.C., 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection; and that such proposed budget will be considered at a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the District to be held at Monument Sanitation District, 130 Second Street, Monument, Colorado at 6:00 PM, on December 12, 2013. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN THAT THE Board of Directors of Forest View Acres Water District may consider amending the District’s 2013 budget at this meeting. Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2014 budget or 2013 budget amendment, inspect the budget and file or register any objections thereto. This meeting is open to the public. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE FOREST VIEW ACRES WATER DISTRICT /s/ COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES District Manager/Secretary Legal Notice No.: 932195 First Publication: December 4, 2013 Last Publication: December 4, 2013 Publisher: The Tribune
to Meredith at 630-618-9400. Visit www.MeredithBroomfield. com.
Woodmoor Business Group Meeting is the second Monday of every month from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Woodmoor Barn, 1691 Woodmoor Dr. We are Woodmoor residents offering products and services to the community. New members welcome. For more information, call Bobbi Doyle at 719-331-3003 or go to www.woodmoorbusinessgroup.com. Recreation Amateur Radio Operators, W0TLM (Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Radio Association), meets the third Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Tri-Lakes Monutemnt Fire Protection District Station 1, 18650 Hwy 105. All Amateur Radio Operators are welcome. Call Joyce Witte at 488-0859 for more information. Adult recreational and intermediate pick up volleyball is at Lewis-Palmer Middle School every Monday from 7-9 p.m. Call Claudia at 719-313-6662 for details. Bingo by the Tri-Lakes American Legion Post 9-11 is
conducted from 7 to 9 p.m. every Saturday at the Post home, Depot Restaurant in Palmer lake. Proceeds are dedicated to Scholarship and community support activities of the Post. At least 70 percent of the game sales are awarded in prizes, and free food drawings are conducted. Doors open at 6 p.m. and all are invited for the fun, food, and prizes. See www.americanlegiontrilakespost911.com/bingo.htm for more information.
Big Red Saturday Market. Fresh vegetables and fruit, bakery items, local honey, crafts, jewelry, pet stuff and more are for sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday at the Big Red Saturday market at Second and Jefferson streets in Monument. The money benefits Lewis-Palmer community schools. Friends of Monument Preserve is a nonprofit organization that works to keep trails rideable and hikeable in the Monument Preserve Area. Meetings are at 7 p.m. every third Wednesday at the Monument Fire Center. Trail work is done at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday in the summer months. Contact info@fomp.org or Chris at 719-488-9850. Gleneagle Golf Club has implemented a Community Advisory Committee. Their mission is to help establish a stronger relationship between the club and the community. They are looking for representatives from all home owners associations. The committee meets the fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30PM at Gleneagle Golf Club. If you can join, give Rick Ebelo a call at the club at 488-0900. The Pikes Peak chapter of Pheasants Forever meets at 6:30
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p.m. the second Tuesday of every month (except June, August and September) at the Colorado Division of Wildlife Training Classroom in the back of the building at 4255 Sinton Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80970.
The Vaile Museum, 66 Lower Glenway, is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays year-round and from 1-4 p.m. Wednesdays from June through August. Groups by appointment are accepted. Call 719-559-0837. Vini e Crostini, 6 flight wine tasting paired with moZaic tasty bites is at 5 p.m the first Saturday of the month at 443 S. Highway 105, Palmer Lake. Cost is $40 per person. Services SHARE Colorado, a nonprofit organization, is a monthly food distributor that offers grocery packages at half the retail price to everyone. Call 800-375-4452 or visit www. sharecolorado.com. Social The Black Forest AARP Chapter meets for a luncheon the second Wednesday of each month at the Black Forest Lutheran Church. Call 719-596-6787 or 719-495-2443. The Centurian Daylight Lodge No 195 A.F and A.M meets at 7 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month. Eastern Star meets 7:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesdays. Both groups meet at 18275 Furrow Road. Call 719-488-9329. Coalition of Tri-Lakes Communities. Call John Heiser at 719-488-9031 or go to www.CoalitionTLC.org. Colorado Mounted Rangers Troop “I” is looking for volunteers. The troop meets at 7 p.m. the first Friday of the month at the Colorado Springs Police Department, Gold Hill Division, 955 W. Moreno Ave, Colorado Springs. Visit https:// coloradoranger.org/index.php/troops/troop-i or email info@ coloradoranger.org Girl Scouting offers opportunities for girls ages 5-17 to make friends, learn new skills and challenge themselves in a safe and nurturing environment. Call 719-597-8603. Gleneagle Sertoma Club luncheon meeting is every Wednesday at 11:45 a.m., at Liberty Heights, 12105 Ambassador Drive, Colorado Springs, 80921. Call Garrett Barton at 719-433-5396 or Bob Duckworth at 719-481-4608, or visit www.sertoma.org. Clubs continues on Page 14
SALOME’S STARS FOR THE WEEK OF DEC 5, 2013
ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) Decisions involving your finances might seem to be foolproof. But they could have underlying risks you should know about. Don’t act on anything until all the facts are in. TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) You’re attracted to a situation that appeals to your Bovine intellect. And that’s good. But don’t neglect your passionate side when romance comes calling later in the week. GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) A recent development enhances that special relationship. Spending more time together also helps make the bonding process stronger. Expect news about a possible career change.
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GALLERY OF GAMES
CANCER (Jun 21 to Jul 22) A suspicious situation should be dealt with before it leads to serious problems. Get all the facts needed to resolve it. Then refocus your energies on those tasks that need your attention. LEO (Jul 23 to Aug 22) Try to be more open-minded in working toward a resolution of that standoff between yourself and a colleague or family member. A little flexibility now could work to your advantage later. VIRGO (Aug 23 to Sept 22) You might feel a bit threatened by a proposed workplace change. The best way to deal with it is to ask questions. You’ll find that those involved will be happy to provide you with the facts. LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) Feeling alone in a crowd during the early part of the week is an unsettling emotion. But your spirits soon perk up, putting you into the right mood to start making holiday plans. SCORPIO (Oct 23 to Nov 21) A pesky problem should be dealt with immediately so you can put your time and effort into something more important. Someone from your past could have significant news for you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 to Dec 21) High-energy aspects dominate, both on the job and at home. Use this time to put some long-range plans into operation. Things level off later in the week. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 19) Even the usually gregarious Goat might feel overwhelmed by a flurry of activities. Be patient. Things soon return to your normal social routine. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 to Feb 18) Career choices that seem too confusing to deal with at this point probably are. More information would help uncomplicate them. On the personal side, a friend might need your advice. PISCES (Feb 19 to Mar 20) Your Piscean imagination is stimulated by possibilities you see in a new opportunity. But keep those ideas to yourself until you feel ready to translate them into a workable format. BORN THIS WEEK: You have an ingratiating way of helping people deal with their fears. Have you considered a career in social work or with the clergy? © 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.
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team of destiny
The Classical Academy running back Andrew Register, #5, is brought down by a Coronado defender during the Nov. 23 Class 3A state semifinals game. TCA lost 28-27 and finished its season with a 10-3 record. Photos by Coy Harvey
Titans enjoyed another solid season on the gridiron TCA came within an eyelash of advancing to state title game By Danny Summers
Dsummers@ourcoloradonews.com Given the same situation, David Bervig would make the same decision to deliver the knockout punch. In fact, he wouldn’t even hesitate. But hopefully for Bervig and his Classical Academy football players there would be a different result. On Nov. 23, TCA scored two touchdowns in four minutes to pull within 28-27 of Coronado on a cold, snowy and windy day at Garry Berry Stadium. With a trip to the Class 3A state championship game on the line, Bervig elected to go for the victory with 20 seconds remaining on the clock in regulation, rather than kick the extra point and force overtime. But chaos ensued and the Titans were not able to implement the perfect play for the two-point conversion. When senior quarterback Jantzen Ryals was tackled at the two-yard line it signaled the end of a long and emotional game. “It was my decision to go for it,” Bervig said. “We had some confusion. We called a play and got the guys on the field and then it was just chaos. “We had no timeouts, so we probably should have taken a delay of game.” TCA’s thrilling comeback from a 28-14 deficit in a hostile environment showed the true character of the players, coaching staff and fans. The “Cardiac Kids” as some called them, played nail-biters in each of the first two round of the playoffs, coming out on top each time. There was every reason to believe, whether you were a TCA fan or not, that perhaps the Titans were a team of destiny and could pull off a stunning victory to keep its season alive. “We had all the momentum,” Bervig
The Classical Academy’s Peter Troupe, #13, avoids a Coronado tackler after catching a pass during the Titans’ 28-27 loss on Nov. 23. said. “I felt like we could do it. I felt like we were going to score. “Overtime, with our kicker, probably would have been a good call. In retrospect, that’s probably what I would have done. This is just too bad for the kids that it had to end like that.” Coronado, it seemed, was also a team of destiny. The Cougars came from behind in their first two playoff games to pull off improbable wins. Their coach, Bobby Lizarraga, could never have imagined that would be the case two years ago when his bunch was 0-10 and the doormats of the Colorado 4A football world. But the Colorado High School Activities Association threw the Cougars a bone and allowed them to “play down” to 3A in order to rebuild the program.
CHSAA’s decision was not popular with a lot of the 3A football coaches and athletic directors, but the rule was in place to help programs rebuild and Coronado certainly did that. “Coronado is a phenomenal football team,” Bervig said. “But we had five turnovers today and we gave them the game. “But hats off to a great football team over there in Coronado. They did a great job.” TCA’s turnaround is just as impressive. The Titans were 2-8 in 2011. Last year, in Bervig’s first season as head coach, the Titans went 9-2 and earned a No. 4 overall seed in the playoffs. This season the Titans were the No. 7 seed, went 10-3 and won their first-ever playoff games.
Ryals had another solid season, completing 121 of 248 passes for 1,796 yards with 15 touchdowns and 16 interceptions. He also rushed for 198 yards and three scores. Senior running back Andrew Register rambled for 867 yards and nine touchdowns, while junior slot back Peter Troupe rushed for 525 yards and nine touchdowns. Troupe also caught 17 passes for 312 yards and three touchdowns. Jake Frankmore led the team in receiving with 33 catches for 359 yards and three touchdowns. Senior kicker/defensive back Kyle Jacobs proved to be a huge asset. He had a team-high six interceptions and made 44 tackles. He booted eight field goals and made 39 of 40 extra point attempts.
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Rangers’ swimmers and divers hit the water Lewis-Palmer and Discovery Canyon prep for big seasons By Danny Summers
Dsummers@ourcoloradonews.com The girls’ high school swimming season is upon us and that means Lewis-Palmer’s Andie Turner has begun her quest to defend her Class 5A state title. Turner won her first state championship in the 100 backstroke last season. Just a freshman at the time, Turner will be looked upon this year to be one of the team leaders of a relatively young squad. Coach Alan Arata’s Rangers feature a blend of veterans and underclassmen. Returning state qualifiers are senior Hannah Beckwith (11th in diving), senior Niki Russell (2012 All-American), senior
Olga Britton, (2012 All-American, senior Rachel Kriete, senior Sarah Mallette, (qualified in 200 and 400 free relays), junior Hanna Hartel (qualified in 100 fly, 200 IM), junior Natalie Rees, junior Katie Roh, senior Kayla Sunada and junior Elissa Watson. Newcomers include freshmen Julie Day and Cori Dech. Lewis-Palmer finished 14th at the Class 5A state meet last season. Discovery Canyon returns the bulk of its team. Among the top returners are seniors Abby McCrary, Emily Hand, Emma Plentl and Lauren Funk; junior Allison Bullock; sophomores Hannah Olson, Jessica Pastorello and Megan Smiley. HILL CLIMB TO BE SHOWN ON TV THIS MONTH Pikes Peak International Hill Climb fans can experience the thrills and excitement of the record-setting 2013 Race on Altitude
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any hobby is welcome. A new member meeting is the third Thursday in October.
HISTORY BUFFS meets at Monument Library from 1-3 p.m. the first Wednesday of every month.
ORDER SONS of Italy in America meets on the first Tuesday at 702 S. Tejon St. in Colorado Springs. Call Tony Rodasta for details or information, 719-260-8773.
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Loeb maneuvered through the 156 turns on the 12.42-mile course in 8 minutes, 13.878 seconds, more than a minute-anda-half faster than the previous race record of 9:46.181 set by Rhys Millen last year. “I felt really good in the car, and I pushed it hard from the start to the finish,” Loeb said last summer. “I made no mistakes, and I felt the race was really good. To drive a car like this and race up here (to the top) is what makes this special. It’s amazing.” Driving a Peugeot 208 T16 Pikes Peak in the Unlimited class, Loeb averaged 87.471 miles per hour while setting the record. Millen finished a distant second with a time of 9:02.192, the second fastest time in the history of the race, in his 2013 Hyundai PM580T, and Jean-Philippe Dayraut of France also topped the previous record with a time of 9:42.740 while driving a 2011 Mini Countryman.
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Sports this month. The program is called “King of the Peak: The 2013 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.” It is produced by Red Bull TV and will air Saturday, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m. The broadcast will also be shown, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m., Dec. 24 at 9 p.m., Dec. 25 at midnight and Dec. 31 at 3 p.m. Altitude is shown across 10 states. Once again, race fans can see French driver Sebastien Loeb’s record-smashing rush to the summit of America’s Mountain that set the new Pikes Peak record, breaking the previous best by a minute and a half. Nine-time World Rally Champion Loeb of France set the racing world ablaze on June 30 when he obliterated the overall race record in the 91st running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. In his first appearance in the “Race to the Clouds,”
icated to providing assistance to those less fortunate in the Tri-Lakes community, meets 8 a.m. Saturdays at The Inn at Palmer Divide, 443 Colo. 105. Join us for breakfast, great fellowship and informative programs, and come be a part of the opportunity to give back to your community. Visit http://monumenthillkiwanis.org; call 719-4871098; e-mail info@monumenthillkiwanis.org
LEGACY SERTOMA dinner meetings are at 6:30 p.m. the second and fourth Thursdays monthly at Monument Country Club. New members and visitors welcome. Call Ed Kinney, 481-2750. MOMS IN Touch prayer groups meet, by school, throughout the school district for one hour each week to support the children, their teachers, the schools and administration through prayer. Call Judy Ehrlich at 719-481-1668. THE MONUMENT Homemakers Club meets the first Thursday of every month at the Tri-Lakes Fire Department Administrative Building, 166 Second Street, Monument. Arrive at 11:30 a.m. to prepare for a noon potluck, program, and business meeting, which ends around 1:30 p.m. Newcomers are welcome. Call Irene Walters, Co-President, at 719-481-1188 for Jean Sanger, Co-President, at 719-592-9311 for reservations. MOUNT HERMAN 4-H Club meets at 7 p.m. on the
third Thursday of each month at Grace Best Elementary. There are no meetings in June, July and August. Anyone interested in pursuing animal projects, archery, cooking, sewing, model rocketry, woodworking or just about
THE PALMER Lake Art Group meets on the second Saturday of the month at the group’s Vaile Hill Gallery, 118 Hillside Road. Call 719-488-8101 for information. PALMER DIVIDE Quiltmakers meets at 7 p.m. the
first Thursday of each month at The Church at Woodmoor. Contact Carolyn at 719-488-9791 or hockcf@ aol.com.
THE PIKES Peak Branch of the National League of American Pen Women offers information by calling 719-532-0021. PIKES PEAK Women’s Connection meets the second Thursday of the month for a luncheon at the Clarion Hotel Downtown, 314 W. Bijou St., Colorado Springs. Social time begins at 11:30 a.m., with luncheon and program from noon to 1:30 p.m. Free preschool childcare is available with a reservation; $16 inclusive. Call 719-495-8304 for reservations or information. All women are welcome. ROTARY CLUB of Colorado Springs InterQuest meets at 4:45 p.m. Thursdays at Liberty Heights Retirement Center, 12105 Ambassador Drive in Colorado Springs. Call Scott Allen at 719-590-7460. SILENT SPRINGS Social Group is a social group for hard of hearing and deaf adults. Sign language users are welcome. Dining out at local restaurants, potlucks and community activities are available on an ongoing basis. Call 719-487-9009 or e-mail silentspringscos@ hotmail.com.
TOASTMASTERS FACC Masters Club meets at noon Thursdays at Lockheed Martin, 9975 Federal Drive. Visit http://faccmasters.freetoasthost.us or call Kirby at 719-481-3738. TRI-LAKES AMERICAN Legion Post 9-11 meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the Depot Restaurant on Colo. 105 in Palmer Lake. Contact Ed at 719-481-2750. TRI-LAKES BARBERSHOP Chapter meets Mondays. Call Phil Zara at 719-481-3197. TRI-LAKES CROP Club meets on the third Saturday of the month. Call Angela at 719-481-9735. TRI-LAKES CRUISERS Car Club meets at 7 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month at the Tri-LakesMonument Fire Station on South Colo. 105. Open to all vehicle makes and models. Call Dale at 488-2852. TRI-LAKES FRIENDS of the Libraries meets from 10 a.m. to noon the second Monday of each month from September through June at Monument Library. THE TRI-LAKES Lions Club meets the first Thursday of every month at Monument Hill Country Club. The social is at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting is at 7 p.m. The International Association of Lions Clubs is the largest service club in the world with over 1.35 million members. The Lions are known as the “Knights of the Blind.” By conducting vision screenings, equipping hospitals and clinics, distributing medicine and raising awareness of eye disease, Lions work toward their mission of providing vision for all. Lions clubs are groups of community minded men and women who are interested in helping serve their communities. For information about the new Tri-Lakes Lions Club, contact the club’s president, Dave Prejean, at 719-492-8274. More information is available at lionsclubs.org.
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Discovery Canyon leads a talented group of area wrestlers By Danny Summers
Dsummers@ourcoloradonews.com Discovery Canyon has been open for only a few years, but wrestling coach Ron Sukle has built his wrestling program into a state power. The Thunder qualified nine wrestlers for the Class 4A state tournament and sent four to the finals last winter to help the squad to a second-place finish as a team; just four points behind champion Broomfield. “I think we’ll be all right again this year,” Sukle said. “We’re excited. We just want to be better in the end.” The Thunder returns four state placers; senior Adrian Mack (3rd place, 170 pounds), senior Tyler Oberg (2nd, 145), senior David Traynor (2nd, 195) and sophomore Sammy Turner (2nd, 106). “I need those four big point getters to do the job,” said Sukle was named the 4A outstanding coach of the year in 2013. Mack is hoping to cap his senior season with a state title. He finished second as a sophomore. “The first thing I have to do is cut down the weight and to train with Tyler and David every day and prepare myself,” Mack said. “They’re the best competition we have in pretty much this area for me. David has unbelievable wrestling skills and he’s just amazing. And Tyler is a muscle ball. They are making me better each day.” Oberg, who is headed to Columbia on a scholarship, appreciates the title of “Muscle Ball,” but is more concerned with what he has to do to improve his chances of winning a state title. “I know it will take even more work than last year,” Oberg said. “Wrestling Adrian and David every day in the room will help a lot, and also working with the younger guys to show them what hard
work can get you.” Traynor, who is headed to Western State, is aiming for his first state title. “I’m not really a muscle ball like Tyler, so it helps to wrestle those smaller guys who have more speed and technique,” Traynor said. “We have to give it to each other. I give a lot to these guys.” Turner is aiming for more than a state title. “I don’t want to lose any matches this year, actually,” said Turner, who plans to wrestle at 113 this season. “ The rest of the Discovery Canyon roster will be a mixture of veterans and freshmen: senior Canin Ritz (160), junior Alex Weber (182), sophomore Spencer Reynolds (120s), and freshmen Ryan Weber (138) and Jack Roy (132). “We have a good core of kids,” Sukle said. The Thunder hosts Mountain Range on Dec. 12. LEWIS-PALMER Nick Baker is back for his seventh and final season - presumably - as the Rangers’ “head” wrestling coach. Baker, who was named the school’s athletic director in June, will be relying on assistant coach Dustin Tupper as his main man this season. The Rangers have two returning state qualifiers in seniors Joseph Glenn and Brad Kadlubowski. Glenn finished fifth in state last season at 170 pounds. Other Rangers who figure to play key roles are senior Darrayan Vanderpool (126), Luke Fowler (heavyweight) and Alec Oberndorfer (106) and junior Trevor Wilch (113). THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY The Classical Academy experienced a first in its program last season when Andrew Register won the school’s first-ever state championship. Register, now a senior, won his title at 138 pounds in the 3A division. For four consecutive seasons TCA has seen growth in its program. “We had our first state qualifier, then
Discovery Canyon returns four state qualifiers from last year’s wrestling team that finished second in the state in Class 4A. Front row left to right: Adrian Mack and David Traynor. Back row left to right: Tyler Oberg and Sammy Turner. Photos by Danny Summers our first two state qualifiers, then our first guy to place at state and now our first state champion,” Collins said. “It’s fun to see the guys put forth the effort and see the results.” The Titans return four other state qualifiers; sophomore Ryan Francis (106), senior Zach Johns (152), junior Nathaniel Johnston (126) and junior Hudson Baker (132). “How you do anything is how you will do everything,” Collins said. “If we get set in the mantra, we will be in a good place come February.” The Titans open their season at home against Mitchell on Dec. 4. PALMER RIDGE The Bears will be led this season by junior Rylen Thalhammer (113). Other top wrestlers include juniors Ryan Best (152) and Max Althouse (182).
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