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Rolling in the deep

Salty dawgs

Chickens of the sea

Record snowfall keeps trailwork on the back burner p8

An annual rite of spring: a trip down the Salt River p12-13

No time to bug when boiling up these ocean insects p14

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4 La Vida Local

In deep Taking a wait-and-see approach to snow’s effects on trails, reservoirs

Ear to the ground: “You could call that a spare tire, but you’d have to whisper.”

– One local remarking on the sad state of tread on another local’s spare tire

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The next chapter

by Tracy Chamberlin

5 Word on the Street

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6 ReTooned

Feeling salty

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The annual Southwestern rite of spring: a trip down the Salt River photos by Stephen Eginoire

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Booklovers near and far can breathe a sigh of relief. Durango’s beloved independent purveyor of reading materials, Maria’s Bookshop, will not become a trinket shop, bank or mortgage broker.

This week, owners Peter Schertz and Andrea Avantaggio, who put the Main Avenue store up for sale last summer, announced it will be staying in the family. Literally.

Their son Evan, who is set to graduate from the Colorado School of Mines this spring, will take over the family business.

“I grew up with this bookstore. I’m very excited to step in to learn all I can and lead Maria’s Bookshop into the next chapter,” Evan said.

16 Murder Ink

Dead in the water When it comes to cooking lobster, there’s no time for sissies

17 Top Shelf

by Donna Hewett

18 On the Town

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20 Ask Rachel

Mississippi master

21 Free Will Astrology

Greg Iles proves he’s still got it with Cemetery Road

by Jeffrey Mannix

22 Classifieds

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22 Haiku Movie Review On the cover: The next allotment of Dolores River water greens up the desert landscape near Pleasant View this week./ Photo by Stephen Eginoire

Elder statesmen Elder Grown brings home-grown funkaliciousness to ACT

by Chris Aaland

The Maria’s family: Peter, Evan & Andrea Maria’s, which is coming up on its 35th anniversary, was started by Dusty Teal in 1984. Andrea and Peter have owned it for 21 years, buying it in 1998. “Finding the next owner within our family is extraordinary” Peter said. “While we have, of course, dreamed about family ownership of the business, we weren’t sure the timing would work out or the interest would be there.”

Evan recognized this as an opportunity he couldn’t pass up and said since going off to college, it’s become clear his heart is in Durango. “I value the quality of life and the community,” he said. “I intend to get involved and contribute to making this place even better.”

Andrea and Peter will continue to work at the store while Evan learns the ropes. “Evan is passionate, smart and eager to learn,” Andrea said.

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With the summer growing season almost upon us, it’s time to roll out the rain barrels. To help facilitate with that, 4CORE is doing a groupbuy rain barrel program. Now through April 10, residents can buy a rain barrel for half off retail – $76.50 for one or $151 for two.

According to 4CORE, the benefits or harvesting one’s own rain water (which up until recently was illegal in Colorado) are many. Not only does it help conserve a precious natural resource (water) but it also preserves another precious resource (money) by helping folks save on their water bill. In addition, it helps protect local streams and rivers from run-off pollution and helps control moisture around a home’s foundation. And best of all, rain from the heavens is free of any added ammonia, fluoride and chlorine found in municipal water supplies.

To buy your rain barrel (4CORE recommends two barrels for maximum harvesting) go to www.fourcore.org.

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LaVidaLocal Buddha Judge I’ve been following the 2020 presidential candidates, looking for a glimmer of hope, and then all of a sudden there it was: Pete Buttigieg. (Say it with me, “buddha-judge.”) I first saw “Mayor Pete’s” name pop up in the Wall Street Journal a couple months ago.

(You know you’re no longer a dirtbag when you start reading the WSJ. Alas, I don’t actually pay to read the articles, I just scan the headlines, so maybe I have a little inner-dirtbag left in me.)

It took Mayor Pete appearing on the “Breakfast Club,” a hip-hop centric radio show out of New York City, last week for me to get to know who he was: a 37-year-old mayor and Afghanistan war veteran from South Bend, Ind., who is “blowing up” as a presidential candidate. Right after I heard him on the “Breakfast Club,” I noticed that he had seemingly been all over last week, from the “Late Show” to the “Daily Show.” And he’s climbing in the polls.

As I listened to Mayor Pete speak and tell his story of who he is and why he’s running for president, I started to get emotional. But I wasn’t sure why. I agreed with his politics, and I liked his demeanor. (He speaks intelligently, unlike the current occupant of the office.) Why would him speaking put tears in my eyes? It’s not like he’s a deep poet or something, he’s just a candidate for office.

Then, it hit me. This is someone from my generation. Though Mayor Pete is technically a Millennial, we’re basically the same age (I’m 40). We are the generation that was just coming of age when 911 happened; the generation when school shootings were normalized; and the generation that has provided a good portion of the

troops for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It made me emotional to hear him summarize that, but it also made me realize that our generation is the generation that will eventually lead this country, sooner or later. And that brings tears to my eyes. It brings tears to my eyes because of all the sadness we have had to endure in these years, but also a hope that we will do a better job than the previous generation when we lead. We have to.

The state of the world depends on it.

Dissecting that moment, when I became unexpectedly emotional, I also realized that although I can be very pessimistic about the state of the world, these are problems we didn’t create, we inherited them. In the words of the homey Tupac Shakur, “I was given this world, I didn’t make it.”

Listening to Pete made me feel something I hadn’t felt in a while: that I am still young, my generation is young. I’m practically a f***ing Millennial; I never realized that. I better get on Snapchat.

Wait – is that still a thing? I just figured out Instagram.

All jokes aside, I feel invigorated as our generation rises to power. Something I didn’t mention about Mayor Pete is that he’s openly gay. That would be another major milestone for our nation and would hopefully improve gay rights across the world. I hope that our generation will be the one that truly embraces equality for all people.

I’m not one to write short, but I suppose this time my message is sweet and succinct. It will be time for something new, very, very soon. And whether it’s Mayor Pete or someone else, it is time for our generation to take the lead!

– Luke Mehall Luke Mehall is the publisher of The Climbing Zine. His fifth book, The Desert is due out April 20. You can read more of his work at climbingzine.com.

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Florida Man Great Old Broads husband Mark Franklin avoiding a possibly skewed jury trial and reaching a plea agreement in the now-infamous “cattle-gate” incident in Southeastern Utah

Weekday violence near a busy local laundromat, with a fight on Monday escalating into a stabbing that sent one man to the hospital with critical wounds

Chicago’s newly elected mayor stepping into the history books by becoming the first black, gay, female mayor of the country’s third-largest city

The flip side to this March’s epic snowfall in the Rockies, with record-high temps in Alaska and Australia and dire predictions that the Great Barrier Reef may never recover from back-to-back bleaching events caused by warm water

A banner week for Durango’s reputation as a cycling powerhouse, with local road rider Quinn Simmons becoming the first American ever to win the Gent-Wevelgem junior men’s road race and mountain biker Payson McElveen setting a fastest known time on the White Rim

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Efforts to introduce a bill that would repeal Colorado’s antiquated death penalty meeting its own demise in the House this week

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Florida has open record laws that allow reporters to access police records. Maybe that’s why “Florida Man” has become a nationally trending news category. However, the owners of FloridaMan.com argue that Floridians are simply insane. You decide; here are the top three “Florida Man” headlines: #3 Florida man throws live alligator through drive-through window after his order is wrong; #2 Florida man released after car-theft sentence steals car in prison parking lot but didn’t notice the cop sitting shotgun; and, for equality’s sake, #1 Florida woman robs mail truck with toy gun, flees on tricycle.

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With spring cleanup starting next week, the Telegraph asked, “What are you looking to get rid of?”

Andrew Basse

“All the downed branches on the River Trail.”

Amanda Fair

“The clutter in my head: three jobs; I’m a student; and I have puppy.”

Brian Perea

“A washing machine.”

Aulden Hahn

“All the negative thoughts.”

Lauren Pedilla

“Bad grades.”

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ReTooned/by Shan Wells

HB 1177 gives hope to families To the editor, As a one-time state lawmaker who had an “A+” NRA rating and a former Republican candidate for governor, I’m strongly supportive of HB-1177 – a bill that would provide extreme risk protection orders to temporarily remove firearms for those in the midst of a crisis.

My perspective on this issue is personal. Our family was in constant fear of losing our eldest daughter to suicide nearly a decade ago. She was just a child of 17 years at the time. Today, she’s healthy and successful.

Our family took action and removed all the firearms in our home. However, today Colorado’s families, especially those who have adult family members living on their own, don’t have such capabilities to take preventive measures.

I challenge the members of the Legislature, especially my fellow Republicans, to find common ground and work together in a bipartisan manner to support a thoughtful, comprehensive bill that balances 2nd Amendment protections with desperate families coping with a loved one in the midst of a crisis.

Each member of this committee has an opportunity to make a real difference and reduce suicide in their community, help and protect law enforcement, and, most importantly, give hope to desperate families. Please act!

– Victor Mitchell, Castle Rock, Board member, Mental Health Colorado

Turner can navigate choices ahead To the editor, A vote for Jack Turner is a vote for a cleaner energy future at LPEA. Energy technologies are changing rapidly, requiring knowledge and experience to navigate the im-

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portant decisions ahead that will affect our co-op for years to come. We need our energy sources to be both affordable and sustainable. Jack is someone I trust to ask hard questions, research, debate and tackle new chal-

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lenges. He was elected by his peers on the Board to serve as a delegate for the Colorado Rural Electric Association (CREA). Jack has served on the special Power Supply Committee to study the opportunities of power 4

supply and identifying options for increasing LPEA’s flexibility to provide more local renewable transmission. We need his forward-thinking leadership. Your LPEA ballot will arrive early April in the mail.

– Ed Atkinson, Durango

Keep dark money out of politics To the editor, Three in four Americans perceived corruption as widespread in our government, found a Gallup poll. Abuse of power and corrupt behavior is an issue both political parties find intolerable. Special-interest campaign finance, gerrymandering, unethical Washington lobbyists and voter suppression were all targeted for reform in the recently passed anti-corruption House Bill HR 1 – For the People Act 2019.

Keeping dark money spending out of politics is a priority to me. This bill makes it harder for wealthy interests to anonymously dump large sums of money behind politicians to influence their vote. It levels the playing field of democratic values. I was disappointed to find that Rep. Scott Tipton voted no on the bill, as the bill’s aims are broadly popular with the American people.

I question who Tipton is representing.

– Catherine Neill, Durango

Caught Red-handed stealing land To the editor, Here’s the latest twist in the never-ending sage of Red McCombs Village at Wolf Creek pipe-dream. Seems that Friends of Wolf Creek got tired of waiting for their legitimate FOIA request to be honored. Nothing had been handed over, although the deadline had passed well over 200 days earlier.

Now a U.S. Magistrate has stepped in to order the Forest

Service to start releasing those papers. This has the usual suspects all up in arms about how poor old McCombs’ is being abused by out of control environmentalists.

“There is a law that says the USFS has to grant access to inholdings,” … McCombs has a sacred property-owners’ right to develop that land if he wants, curses to those damned environmentalists for playing legal hardball.

There is another side to this story. As it happens We the People firmly believe this is a property rights dispute. Our property was stolen from us, and we have an ethical duty to fight tooth and nail with every legal tool at our disposal until that property gets back to its rightful owner, the American people via the Rio Grande National Forest.

After all, Red’s claim is totally based on manipulating a law that was intended for completely different circumstances. You see, among many other things, in 1980 ANILCA was created for property owners who suddenly found themselves in a landlocked “inholding” because of a newly created national park or other federally designated area.

In the 1980s, McCombs (with pals LMJV) purchased three middle-of-nowhere San Luis Valley foothill parcels that the Forest Service had been eyeing in order to pretty up map boundaries (seriously). McCombs then engaged in those go-go ‘80s national forest real estate poker games hoping to parlay those low-value parcels for a bonanza at the heart of the Wolf Creek drainage basin, near Wolf Creek Ski Area.

It didn’t matter to him that Alberta Park was an integral part of the Wolf Creek watershed and protected for the general good of the American people since 1908.

All McCombs could see was profits, totally oblivious to what an amazing biological keystone this piece of unadulterated wetlands and ancient fens wilderness was for the greater Wolf Creek watershed and the Rio Grande River for that matter. Ecological balance, environmental concerns, nurturing our wildlands – all those considerations Red’s developers and boosters laugh off

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as hippy devil talk.

Back to Red’s real estate poker game: he lost in Colorado. State and regional Forest Service officials concluded his was a bad bet for the health of the Rio Grande National Forest and river and they roundly rejected LMJV’s land swap offer.

But, Red held a trump card, billionaires own politicians, so back in the “real world” of Washington D.C., deep in the bowels of the USDA, papers were fixed, and presto, Red got his land swap.

Now his enablers are again pulling out their standard GOP victim card, crying foul because the poor guy is having to put up with yet more of these never-ending legal hurdles. Cry me a river. Red’s a billionaire and We are the People. Deal with it.

McCombs has been dishonest from the get go, such as telling everyone he wanted a few luxury cabins. After the deal was in, his plans blossomed to 10,000 people worth of luxury homes. Well, Red got caught and he got stopped. Here’s one for the American way.

Just because others got away with it, is no reason for us to let Red get away with his atrocious dream of destroying Alberta Park’s ancient watershed and fens, which building hundreds of homes and businesses on top of certainly will do, no matter how many berms you bulldoze into place for show.

We warned McCombs decades ago, his intentions were ill considered, destructive, unethical and bound to arouse deep moral indignation, antipathy and opposition among Colorado citizens and taxpayers. But will they ever learn?

Unfortunately, it seems to have evolved from a desired speculative business deal to an angry, old, richer-than-god guy, who’d rather get even than learn some lessons and admit maybe he was wrong and enough is enough.

Leave Alberta Park and Wolf Creek alone!

– Peter Miesler, friend of Alberta Park, No-village atwolfcreek.blogspot.com

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Photo by Stephen Eginoire

Rolling in the deep Record snowfall keeps trailwork on the back burner

by Tracy Chamberlin

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his is the time of year when residents are ready to put away the ski boots and break out the hiking boots.

But the hankering to hit the trails may have to wait a little longer this year.

“We’re not able to get into the mid-country or the backcountry to see what it looks like,” Mary Monroe Brown, executive director for Trails 2000, said. “We don’t know what we’re in for.”

Many of the local trails are still buried in snow, and the ones that are accessible are a muddy mess.

Monroe Brown said they were hoping to get to work on trails March 4. Instead, they’re four weeks behind and uncertain when Mother Nature will let them in.

It’s no secret the snowfall this season has been one for the record books. Records have been set across the Southwest, and it’s likely to be some time before many beloved trails are even accessible.

Purgatory Resort had one of its best seasons ever with a total of 352 inches so far. Wolf Creek Ski Area currently sits at 484 inches.

According to the Natural Resources Conservation Serv-

ice, the month of February was the real game-changer for Colorado. It was particularly good in the Southwest, dumping 196 percent of the average precipitation for the month.

“Colorado’s snow enthusiasts rejoiced during February when there did not seem to be a lull for more than a few days between snow events, particularly in the southern mountains of the state,” the NRCS’s March report reads.

Many SNOTEL sites in the Rio Grande and San Miguel/Animas/Dolores/San Juan river basins experienced record February snowfall and many more had the secondhighest to date. Several SNOTEL sites even reported more than 300 percent of normal.

As of April 1, the snowpack statewide was 136 percent of the median, while the San Miguel/Dolores/Animas/San Juan basin was at 157 percent.

“Living here, we’re always glad for the moisture,” Monroe Brown said. “What’s surprising is how quickly it melts.”

Warm daytime temperatures in March meant much of the snow in the lower elevations virtually disappeared, which resulted in a muddy mess for trails like Boggy Draw and Animas Mountain.

With temperatures dropping overnight and keeping things cold, it’s kept the snowpack stable in the higher 4

The waiting game The threat of flooding from the 416 Fire burn area still looms large, and La Plata County Emergency Management officials are keeping a close eye on the situation.

It all depends on the weather. If temperatures stay cold overnight, even when the days are warm, snowmelt will likely be steady and the threat of massive flooding diminished. If temperatures are high throughout the nighttime or the rain hits hard, it could result in the kind of floods and debris flows that keep residents and emergency managers up at night.

For the latest alerts, sign up for the county’s Code Red alert system. Go to the La Plata County website at co.laplata.co.us and click on the “Emergency Notifications.”

In the know Some trails around Durango are open year-round, like the Colorado Trail, Horse Gulch and Overend Mountain Park. Other trails have seasonal closures, like Carbon Junction, Twin Buttes and Perins Peak. Most seasonal trails reopen April 15, with Perins Peak re-opening July 31.

For the latest on trail conditions, closures and more, check out the Trails 2000 website at www.trails2000.org.

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elevations and the snowmelt steady overall. And, that’s welcome news for land managers and trail users across the region.

A fast melt would come with its own pitfalls – like a greater risk for severe flooding in the 416 Fire burn area, a shorter boating season and heavy trail damage from erosion.

Monroe Brown’s advice for everyone is to stay informed this spring. “We would really like people to check out the trail conditions on our website,” she added.

When the team and crew members at Trails 2000 do get into the mid- and high country trails, the focus will be on clearing dead trees, repairing trails damaged from erosion and other maintenance projects. Other projects include work on the Vallecito Trail and several trails in Horse Gulch.

Efforts to address some of the downed and dead trees in the Hermosa Creek trail system, damaged during last year’s 416 Fire, will have to wait until the U.S. Forest Service gives Trails 2000 crews the all clear to enter. Monroe Brown said they’ll likely find out exactly when that will be in the next few weeks.

In addition to the upkeep and repair work, the nonprofit also has some new construction planned – like the new SkyRaider Trail, which branches off the Powerline Trail near Molas Drive in the Sky Ridge neighborhood.

All these projects were outlined in a schedule spanning more than eight months. Now they’ll need to fit all that work into just seven months. It’s a good thing they’ve got extra help.

Trails 2000 already had budgeted for new sawyers (tree cutters) and a trail crew leader in its 2019 budget. They knew they’d need the extra hands because of all the damage resulting from the 416 Fire, but following this winter’s Snowmageddon, it’ll be key having the additional staff.

“We haven’t seen impacts like this,” Monroe Brown said.

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McPhee releases on docket for the Dolores The massive snowfall this winter translates to a good season for boaters on the Animas River. It’s also turning out to be good for those hoping to hit the Dolores this spring.

The likelihood of a boating release from McPhee Reservoir wasn’t a certainty several months ago. With extremely low reservoir storage due to the drought last year, even a wet winter didn’t guarantee there would be enough to go around.

But, conditions have worked in the boating community’s favor in recent weeks.

“We are going to have some kind of release,” Mike Preston, general manager for the Dolores Water Conservancy District, said.

It’ll happen sometime in May, but how much of a release is uncertain.

Reservoir storage is still low. Statewide it’s just 72 percent of average, while the combined San Miguel/Dolores/Animas/San Juan river basins have an average reservoir storage of 59 percent. The statewide snowpack is 136 percent of the median, and the combined river basins are at 157 percent.

Preston said, on the smaller side, they’d be able to release around 40,000 acre feet from McPhee, which has a maxi-

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mum capacity of 381,000 acre feet. The release would last 10 days to two weeks with peak flows of about 2,000 cfs.

On the larger side, the total release could be as much as 80,000 - 90,000 acre feet and last three weeks with similar peak flows.

The three factors that will determine which way things go are additional snowfall, temperatures and the onset of the irrigation season. At this point, it’s still a waiting game for water managers.

For the latest updates Photo by Stephen Eginoire on McPhee and conditions on the Dolores, check out the Dolores Water Conservancy District’s website at doloreswater.com or the Dolores River Boating Advocates at doloresriverboating.org.

In addition, there will be a spill meeting, hosted by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, at 7 p.m., Thurs., April 18 at the Dolores Community Center.

On the Animas: For the latest readings from the USGS on the Animas River flows, check out the Telegraph website, www.durangotelegraph.com. It includes a direct link to all the nerdy data.

– Tracy Chamberlin

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1A passes; Baxter, Noseworthy voted in

by Missy Votel

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ocal residents will be opening their wallets a little wider and seeing two new faces on Durango’s City Council. In Tuesday’s City election, the 1A tax measure passed by a slim margin, while Kim Baxter and Barbara Noseworthy were elected to fill term-limited council seats.

“I’m really excited and so appreciative of everyone who helped,” said top vote-getter Baxter, who admitted to still riding a bit of an adrenaline wave. “I had a hard time falling asleep last night.”

Baxter, 62, garnered 2,987 votes.

Noseworthy, 60, came in a second with 2,724 votes. Fellow contenders Marcos Wisner, 31, and Baxter Jaime McMillan, 51, received 1,585 and 725 votes, respectively.

Baxter and Noseworthy will fill the seats vacated by Dick White and Mayor Sweetie Marbury who both served two four-year terms. As the top vote-getter, Baxter will serve as mayor in 2021, following Mayor Pro-tem Melissa Youssef and Dean Brookie.

Baxter said her time knocking Noseworthy on doors was important in giving her a grasp on what local residents value. “I found that the character of the town is very important,” she said.

Her priorities are to keep Durango multi-generational

though affordable housing and good jobs so people of all ages and incomes can live here.

She also said she will focus on making good decisions with City spending now that 1A has passed. “I want to give people trust and confidence moving forward,” she said.

Noseworthy, who had just finished walking her dogs Wednesday morning and joked she will probably start needing to carry her phone with her at all times, said she was “thrilled” with the outcome.

“I did the best I could but took nothing for granted,” she said, also admitting to knocking on a lot of doors and “meeting a lot of dogs.”

“In the end, it was up to the voters to decide,” she said.

Like Baxter, she also addressed the need to tackle the City’s shrinking budget with a keen eye. “With 1A passing, it takes some pressure off, but we still have to address the budget issues,” she said.

Noseworthy’s other top priorities include affordable housing; homelessness; preparing the city to better adapt to climate change, particularly in regards to water, renewable energy and fire mitigation.

She also gave kudos to fellow candidates Wisner and McMillan on a clean race and wished to thank all former and current city councilors and county commissioners for their service. “It’s not an easy job,” she said. “I want to thank Marcos and Jaime for putting their hats in the ring, it was a civil and friendly race. No one was running against anyone.”

The only other issue on the ballot was measure 1A, a half-cent sales tax increase to pay for road repairs and upkeep. The measure was the second attempt by the city to raise taxes to pay for infrastructure in a year. The muchbroader 2A, which would have increased sales and property taxes to pay for streets as well as a new police station, was

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soundly defeated last November. The more-streamlined 1A narrowly passed by l95 votes, 2,305 to 2,110.

Ballot measure 1A will increase sales tax by 0.5 percent – from 7.9 percent to 8.4 percent – to raise no more than $4.69 million a year for construction, operation and maintenance of streets, alleys, curbs, gutters and sidewalks. The fund will be overseen by a citizen advisory board, and the tax will sunset in 10 years.

Two campaigns emerged on either side of the issue. “Citizens for Making Durango A#1,” which was chaired by former city councilor Christina Rinderle, was pro-1A. In its argument it pointed to rising costs of labor and materials as well as the slow siphoning of City income to internet sales. The group also argued it is more cost-effective to makes repairs now than later, when streets reach failure.

Coming out against the tax increase was “United for Durango’s Future,” led by former council candidate David McHenry. Opponents of the tax increase argued the City could find funds elsewhere, such as in the half-cent sales tax dedicated to parks, rec and open space passed in 2015.

“I’m very happy that 1A passed and will be having a positive impact on our community,” Rinderle said Wednesday.

According to her, deferring maintenance would only cost taxpayers more in the long run, to the tune of $2 million to $4 million a year.

“I just wanted to say thank you to people who recognized how much this vote means to the community,” she said. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and preserving parks and rec spending is so important to our economy and quality of life.”

According to the city clerk, 4,432 city residents voted in Tuesday’s election – about 37 percent of the nearly 12,000 ballots that were mailed out. n

MountainTownNews Humans causing unnatural variability WESTMINSTER – In Pennsylvania, the groundhog known as Punxsutawney Phil saw no shadow this year. That is supposed to portend an early spring.

In the Rocky Mountains, early springs have been coming no matter what. This was a cold winter in many places, but on average the climate has been warming for several decades. It’s sure to get much warmer yet.

A case in point is Colorado’s North Park, headwaters of the North Platte River but a short distance from the headwaters of the Colorado River and also the Steamboat ski area.

There, according to J.J. Shinker, an associate professor from the University of Wyoming, the temperature overall has increased 1.44 degrees Celsius (2.6 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1909.

But warming during the spring months of March, April and May has been disproportionate, rising almost 2.21 degrees C (4 degrees Fahrenheit) on average since 1909.

“That’s a lot of warming in a short period of time,” she told members of the Colorado Water Congress at a recent conference.

She also pointed out that warming at high elevations has been disproportionately greater than the global average.

This disproportionate spring warming then produces earlier runoff in the North Platte and other rivers. On average, runoff occurs five days earlier for every degree Celsius in warming.

This matters to water managers, who try to ensure irrigation ditches still have enough water come August and September. It also matters to resorts as warming shrinks ski season.

But everybody should be concerned for two more reasons, says Shinker. First, the worst droughts we’ve seen on record since Eurosettlement about 150 years ago don’t come close in depth and intensity of those of the past. Forest fires of the past were also giant affairs.

This was part of natural variability. But now there is the overlay of what might be called unnatural variability, an overlay caused by humans.

“The warming that we are seeing is occurring at a rate that is outside the range of natural variability,” Shinker said in an interview after her talk. “And it’s occurring as a result of the greenhouse gases that result from human activity.”

Paleoclimatologists can tell much about shifting climates of the past 12,000 years by studying high mountain lakes. Consider Emerald Lake, in Colorado’s Sawatch Range, near the trailheads to the state’s two highest mountains, Elbert and Massive. Scientists studying lake sediments and other clues have documented shorelines that a millennium ago were much lower. Those droughts lasted for decades, even hundreds of years, what are called megadroughts.

Lake of the Woods, which is located in Wyoming along the Continental Divide south of Jackson Hole, also offers evidence deciphered by scientists of a megadrought 5,200 years ago.

The point, said Shinker, is that natural variability has always occurred in the interior West. So, too have, extreme events, such as the wildfires that accompanied a megadrought in North Park about 2,000 years ago.

In the Colorado River Basin, scientists have reached much the same conclusion. Undeniably, there have been several hard drought years since 2000. But Brad Udall, of Colorado State University, and other scientists have concluded that it’s not a drought in the conventional sense. Rather, rising temperatures have begun causing more evaporation and transpiration, resulting in less water getting downstream.

That doesn’t mean conventional climatic forces don’t have swagger. From her post in Wyoming, Shinker studies what causes natural climatic variability in the interior West, such as movement of the polar jet stream. But now there’s an overlay, one created by human activities.

Reservations & fee to see Hanging Lake GLENWOOD SPRINGS – Come May 1, you won’t be able to drive to the trailhead to Hanging Lake, a charming waterfall and scenic pool of water amid limestone cliffs reached via a relatively easy 1.8-mile hike from Glenwood Canyon.

The Forest Service, working in partnership with the City of Glenwood Springs, has made the popular destination one that requires a permit year-round. And from May 1 to Halloween, the only access will be shuttle buses from Glenwood.

The Forest Service began taking steps to limit access after a 23 percent increase in the number of visitors in 2016. Altogether, visitation doubled in five years.

This is the third significant attraction along the I-70 corridor in Colorado to which access is being limited. First was the road to Maroon Bells, the pair of 14,000-foot peaks outside Aspen. There, visitors must take free shuttles during summer and autumn days. Driving there during the evening and early morning is still permitted.

The Forest Service also instituted a permit system for the Conundrum Hot Springs. The springs are located just below timberline, not far from the crest of the Elk Range, between Aspen and Crested Butte. The springs are reached by a hike that has 2,800 feet in elevation gain across a distance of more than 8 miles.

At Hanging Lake, located about an hour west of Vail, visitors will be capped at 615 per day.

Of the fees collected for the shuttle and permit system, 5 percent will be allocated toward operations, including a ranger equipped to look after the lake and answer questions.

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Lift-line rage escalates in Deer Valley PARK CITY, Utah – Testosterone ruled in a case of two skiers at Deer Valley. Citing a police report, the Park Record reports a confrontation that started when one of the two men blocked the other from getting into a lift line. Why wasn’t clear.

This led to an argument, shouting top to bottom on the next ski run. At the next life line, one skier took off his skis, and the other skier tackled him and held him down. At least one punch was thrown.

Is dam produced electricity ‘clean?’

KETCHUM, Idaho – Idaho Power, the electrical utility that serves much of Idaho, including Ketchum and Sun Valley, has announced a goal of getting to 100 percent clean energy by 2045. But in this, there is some disagreement about what constitutes clean.

The utility has cut the intensity of carbon emissions from its energy mix by almost half in the last 14 years. And compared to the carbon footprint of electricity in much of the country, including Colorado, the utility is already light on carbon: just 24 percent from coal and natural gas.

This will affect Wyoming, as some of the power for Idaho comes from the Jim Bridger plant, which is near Rock Springs, roughly halfway between Jackson Hole and Park City.

Idaho Power – like other Pacific Northwest states – is blessed with abundant hydroelectric power. But Ben Lzicar sees nothing clean about the hydroelectric power produced by building dams.

Writing in the Idaho Statesman, he cites the threatened populations of steelhead salmon as well as orcas, plus the hundreds of miles of healthy and vital riparian habitat that were destroyed when the dams were constructed during the 20th century.

“Moving the goalposts back by calling dams ‘clean’ isn’t doing anyone good,” he writes.

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Banff town looks into dimming lights CANMORE, Alberta – Towns and cities have been shifting to LED lights, because they’re more energy efficient. But brighter isn’t necessarily better.

That’s the conclusion already in Canmore, the town at the entrance to Banff National Park, which is butting heads with FortisAlberta, an electrical utility. It wants to install LED lights with brightness measured at 5,000 kelvin.

Other towns and cities, studying the literature as well as looking at LED lights, have concluded that less is better, as Canmore’s Andy Esarte, the town’s manager of engineering, has already decided. The Rocky Mountain Outlook reports that the town has commissioned a study at a cost of $20,000 to find the right balance.

Lights of more than 3,000 kelvin “create a harsh glare, making it difficult to see clearly at night,” says the International Dark Sky Association.

The American Medical Association, in a 2016 study, warned that too much blue light – as produced with 5,000 Kelvin – can suppress melatonin production, leading to disrupted sleep and other health risks.

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by Stephen Eginoire

f cold, clean, snowmelt roaring iest climates in the United States rizona’s Salt River is one of those that’s either trickling along at a the canyon’s interior with mon-

ster flows after a long, snowy winter. Home to incredibly diverse flora and fauna only found in the Sonoran Desert and geology that will give any Southwestern canyon a run for its money, the Salt River is a much-anticipated start to the boating season for many Durangoans. Here’s a look:

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Chickens of the sea When it comes to cooking these large ocean insects, don’t bug out

by Donna Hewett

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an a lobster be misunderstood? The answer, on so many levels, is a resounding yes. Take for instance one night in my kitchen a couple weekends ago. Three women gripping delicate wine glasses watch in horror as six scrambling lobsters are dropped into a giant, boiling vat of court-bouillon. The lobsters scream in agony (it seems). Which provokes a lot of screams from us.

Is it justified? All this kitchen screaming?

The first of three husbands steps forward in defense of his seafood dinner. He’s a brainy sportsman hosting one of the many patchy, half-grown, graybrown beards that seem to be defining a generation.

“Lobsters are bugs, like grasshoppers,” he snaps.

“They have no throat, no vocal cords, no lungs, no feelings. They’re gill breathers. So they can’t talk back!”

Seriously?

Even my own soft-hearted husband’s culinary tact is off: “They have teeth in their stomach, dude! Kidneys in their head. Taste with their feet and smell with their walker legs. They don’t have a brain. And no brain means no pain, right, babe?”

It’s my party, and I can scream if I want to. But I don’t have to. One of the seemingly dead lobsters suddenly speaks for me as it flops hot water out of the tall pot. Everyone close by gets splashed. We laugh but not much.

“My buddy Duncan kept a left-handed lobster in a tank. Seriously – in Key West. With a pincer claw that could snap a man’s finger off in one twist, just like this.” The husband demonstrates with an odd gyration of the wrist toward his drunken wife.

Mercury’s still in retrograde. And it’s the Worm Moon. I tell myself: just turn back around to your newly passed crustaceans, in their shiny shells, who have settled deep into the pot and taken on a crimson beauty. And any leftover grief or disgust any of us (monkeys) had has been stiffed by a long swallow of a buttery, cold chardonnay.

It’s been said that the only way you can screw up preparing lobster is by overcooking it. Not true. The placing and forgetting of whole live lobsters in the freezer overnight, where they dissolve, to our astonishment, is a mistake. As is refreshing the poor darlings after a long flight in a cold bath (fresh water kills them). This kind of dead lobster isn’t much fun to look at, smell or contemplate cooking.

My advice is, when it comes to live lobster, relax, dear reader. Throw a wet towel over them and let them chill out in the fridge. Don’t try to interpret their scratching. They like it in there. They can breathe. Don’t even contemplate quieting them. Tazering, hypnotizing or blowing marijuana smoke up its ass (assuming “it” has one), is way too stressful on both you and your soon-to-be supper.

But some people just can’t stand the thought that lobsters might “feel” the boiling water, so they want to kill them before, well, they kill them. One way to dispatch a lobster quickly is to (carefully) remove their eyestalks with small, sharp pliers. Another professional’s favorite is the slice-the-head-off-the-thoraxwith-a-ginormous-knife method. Very messy. Either way it’s a kitchen kill no one likes to consider.

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of boiling lobsters alive. Their logic is that if on the off-chance lobsters do feel pain, boiling them to death seems especially cruel.

But really, it’s the only way. Don’t be a pussy.

Plunge the lobsters live, head first, into a 20-quart stock pot half-filled with boiling water. (No wincing.)

Once the liquid’s rolling again, boil them for a good 20-30 minutes – or until an instant thermometer through the soft side of the tail reads 145 - 165.

When the lobsters are bright red with a bit of very white mucus (which is the cooked, formerly clear-colored blood of a lobster), they’re perfectly done. Feeling better? Take a knife and punch a hole in the body and tail and drain their precious juices into the re-

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maining stock (saving every drop).

Fancy chefs parboil their lobster so the soft meat easily pulls away and out (whole) from the shell. Separately or not, each are fully cooked later into one of a hundred wonderful sauces.

Like most Americans, though, I’m a yank-themeat-out-of-the-knuckle type of lobster eater. Clarified butter all over me. I understand the anatomy of my lobster so well that my husband refers to me as the Edward Scissorhands of dissection. I know it sounds disgusting, but I’m a true connoisseur of the soft green substance known as tomalley, i.e. the liver and pancreas. It’s lobster concentrate prized for its creamy texture. Give it all to me. 4

I’m a fool for lobster. Any lobster. Like the rare blue lobster from Scotland. Or the infamous Fourcha lobster from the tiny, icy banks of Nova Scotia. It’s described as “full, complicated and mineralized.” Some say it’s the best lobster in the world (probably because it’s only available for a few weeks each spring).

But how did a girl born and raised in New Mexico ever get a hankering for fresh lobster? I glance at my cat, Tomas.

He loves fish; salmon Florentine is his favorite, and yet he was born and bred in the desert, same as me. It’s mysterious. Maybe a great, great uncle sailed the seven seas with one of his furry kin.

Neither one of us is fully domesticated, so I don’t really know.

I do cherish the fact that one of the world’s most precious, soughtafter foods didn’t begin as such. Like most good Americans, the Maine lobster started out pretty darn trashy. So plentiful, the pilgrims had to kick through them piled 2 feet high on the sea shore.

Their bounty made them a precious source of sustenance during hard times, which soon gained them a nasty reputation as being the poor man’s protein. Fed to the indentured servants, to felons sitting on death row, slaves. Lobster was for the starving class; with no butter, salt or mayo (as the French like it.)

So you can understand why colonists eschewed it. Cold, wet flesh of shell fish day in and day out. Revolt! And they did.

It wasn’t until luxury rail travel started serving lobster in dining cars traveling through land-locked areas that it was rebranded as “gourmet.” By the 1920s, over-fishing reduced supply, and lobster finally became fit for the Great Gatsby crowd. It wasn’t until the ’50s and ’60s that lobster came into fashion as an A-lister, late-night, supersexy indulgence.

Which is an irony, if you consider the lonely existence of the poor, cold-water lobster. Around for 100 million years, they’re shy bottom feeders that are biologically immortal (they continue to grow throughout their entire life but never show signs of aging).

They die mostly of external causes (us).

Until the age of 4, the tiny lobster spends his time hiding under seaweed and small rocks, catching bits of food that drift down to it.

Only at night does it venture out. They must molt their shell (and grow) about 25 times before they’re tough enough to survive cod, haddock, seals and humans of the sea world.

At the table, the talk is quiet as we each maneuver through claw and tail. I wanted to throw a small but “fancy” dinner that didn’t cost a fortune. I did good on the product because it was fresh and cheap: six 1½-pound lobsters shipped overnight: $200. And they tasted … SWEET. A simple word repeated again and again and again.

The internet has a few good places to find frozen

Photo by Donna Hewett warm-water lobster tails from lots of different continents.

If you cook these beauties correctly (poached in salted butter) they will be so unctuous your teeth nearly clinch.

But for me, it’s not really lobster unless it comes with tackle: big old claws. Because boiled lobster dipped in butter (with a tiny shake of nutmeg) is just the first course. I gather all the dead lobster parts from everyone’s discard plates – shells, carcass, tentacles, swimmer legs, air sac – and pack them tightly into the deep freeze, awaiting the day they become the backbone of the second best thing in the world: lobster bisque.

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The road to riches Newly released hardback ‘Cemetery Road’ worth every penny

by Jeffrey Mannix

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t’s going to cost you five cents a page to read Greg Iles’ 590-page cloth-bound Cemetery Road, released a month ago today. But when you figure it costs 27 cents a cigarette, five bucks for a rolled joint and $6 for a glass of wine, a nickel a page for Iles’ big-screen doorstop will be a bargain if you’re looking for some time off from the bewildering state of world affairs. Cemetery Road is a luscious story built by a writer who knows how to use the English language.

Cemetery Road is indeed a road in Iles’ story, so you needn’t anticipate anything distasteful, and it doesn’t matter why it’s called that. Iles’ characters are as real as the life we never notice around ourselves for the constant chatter in our heads, and his tableaux will leave you breathless.

Iles is from Mississippi, and his stories are rooted in that part of the country. It is a region proud of its generations of benighted, particular and dissolute adults who believe the South got the best of the War Between the States. It believes laws are made to delineate a place for minorities, women and the underclasses, same as always.

And the men, the owners of the black sedans, the men of bespoke suits, manicured nails and shirts that need cufflinks and starch, they’re the arbiters of society. In New York City or Chicago, the men of personage in Bienville, Miss., would be called mobsters. In the town that Marshall McEwan couldn’t wait to vacate when he came of age, they are the glorified men of The Poker Club. They meet often as a hierarchical coterie to drink whisky, smoke cigars and talk investments. Between the half dozen of them, they own everything but what they don’t want. They carry on with tradition: patronage, lending, taking what they want and prevaricating. You wouldn’t want to know these men, but if you lived in the South, you would.

It’s the men of The Poker Club who welcome home Marshall after 35 years gone.

An internationally celebrated journalist in Washington, D.C., Marshall puts his career on hold to assist his mother with the failing health of the father, whose mien mirrored his reputation as a fourth-generation newspaperman. He was the publisher of the legendary Bienville Watchman, known as the “Conscience of Mississippi.” To Marshall, Duncan McEwan was too grandiose to be much of a father. So it’s with a wince of resignation that Marshall comes home to close down the wheezing, centuryold newspaper and stand by his mother to wait to bury the flag bearer of a small, delusional, backwater Southern town.

And then, Marshall’s boyhood mentor, archaeologist Buck Ferris, is murdered at the river’s edge where The Poker Club grandees are in negotiation with the Chinese to rebuild a paper mill. Every-

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body knows that Buck had found ancient Indian bones at the site. It’s unspoken that the Chinese are too concerned with a low-profile deal to spend too much money they’ll be helped to repatriate by The Poker Club chums who have a big score hovering.

It seems, though, that nobody told the unctuous profiteers that you never, ever pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel.

What transpires after Buck’s murder is the genius of Iles and the reason to read Cemetery Road. This is a rich, textured story of the South and the lives of people who might as well be from Palermo, Sicily. Cemetery Road is the cheapest high you can get.

And before we leave this go round, you mustn’t overlook the April 2 release of Mark Bowden’s The Last Stone from Grove Atlantic. This is a dizzying example of narrative nonfiction, and Bowden has to be the leading practitioner. It recounts the kidnapping of the preteen Lyon sisters from the Wheaton Plaza shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C., in 1975 as a cold case investigation 40 years later. The Last Stone absolutely deserves the cost of a hardback, and it’s a good bet that you’ll buy another copy to gift a friend who relishes a one-in-a-hundred story. n

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Delicious water and funkalicious roots

by Chris Aaland

musical textures. Baritone Michael Hix joins the symphony for “Wayfarer Songs” and the orchestra itself takes center stage for t just doesn’t take much anymore. I spent my 51st birthday the awesome power of Mahler’s First Symphony, nicknamed “The Sunday afternoon at Durango Craft Spirits, listening to tunes Titan.” with my buddy Michael McCardell, while enjoying a couple of The Animas City Theatre hosts some funkalicious roots rockold fashioneds and a mule. Sure, Michael pours ’em stiff, but ing when Elder Grown takes the stage at 9 p.m. tonight three cocktails and a beer chaser at home shouldn’t have been (Thurs., April 4). Punk meets rock and pop meets hip-hop when enough to induce a hangover.

Elder Grown takes the stage.

When you’re young, you Combining the freedom of can pound beers, shots and improvisational jams with cocktails hand over fist. The captivating, original songs, penalty for youngsters can be the quintet encourages you to solved with naps, a greasy break down your idea of meal and usually the hair of genre and tempo with your the dog. But after age 50, four hips and heartbeat. Elder or five drinks are enough to Grown’s members switch inbring on a restless night of struments mid-song, as Josh sleep, cottonmouth that reHoffman (guitar, keyboards, quires tending to every 15 bass, vocals), John Hoffman minutes or so, and a stomach (bass, guitar, keyboards, vothat grumbles with pain the cals), Paul Hoffman (drums, entire next day. You can still vocals), Sam Kelly (saxomanage to get through a day phone, vocals) and Brandon of work, pick up the kids from Clark (keyboards, guitar, bass, school and even help with vocals) share the musical chores at home. But you just love. don’t feel 100 percent.

The finals of “The DuThere comes a point in Elder Grown plays funkalicious roots rock at the Animas City The- rango Voice” take place at 7 your life where you realize p.m. Saturday at the Henry atre at 9 p.m. tonight (Thurs., April 4). that ice water is your favorite Strater Theatre. Ten finalists beverage. Black coffee might jump start your day, a diet soda emerged from February’s blind auditions, receiving vocal training might give you an afternoon kick, but water is the go-to beverage in the interim. Much like TV’s popular “The Voice,” our local of choice – drunk, hungover or stone-cold sober. My old lead role vocal heroes were chosen by the judges, who each turned their from “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” in junior high theatre chairs around to select finalists. These contestants will compete always comes to mind, with Snoopy singing, “Behold that flowagain, with three winners to be selected to receive gift certificates ing flagon moist and sweet that has been sent forth to ease our and prizes in addition to singing engagements around town. The thirst.” event benefits Manna (formerly Manna Soup Kitchen).

I powered through two full Nalgene bottles of H2O Sunday There’s still plenty of seats remaining for tonight’s 8 p.m. night, another one on the drive to work Monday, and two more show with the Tim O’Brien Band at the Sheridan Opera House while I did my Music Blend on KSUT. I looked over my playlist in Telluride. If you’ve ever attended Telluride Bluegrass, then you that afternoon, which yielded some equally bland choices – surely know Tim is one of a handful of performers that are Sting, Bruce Hornsby & the Range, acoustic Grateful Dead, some known on a first-name basis. A Colorado music treasure (he lived bluegrass staples by the Infamous Stringdusters, Town Mountain in Boulder for decades before heading east to Nashville), he first and several of the bands headlining next week’s Durango Bluemade hay with Hot Rize in the late 1970s through mid-’90s. grass Meltdown. Old songs, like old jeans, a favorite T-shirt and a Along the way were the release of 15 solo records, plus collaborabeat-up flannel that Shelly altered for me after the elbows blew tions with his sister, Mollie O’Brien, roots multi-instrumentalist out, are as comfortable as a glass of ice water.

Darrell Scott, Cajun and old-time pioneer Dirk Powell, newgrass Maybe I’m attracted to water because my first vice was fly fishsupergroup NewGrange, and many others. This time around, he’s ing. The sound of a bubbling brook is like a symphony to me. I returned to his bluegrass roots for his brand-new, eponymous get as much satisfaction out of a streamside nap as I do of having record. Most of his previous solo albums wandered into country, an 8-inch brookie or cutthroat grab my Royal Wulff. On hot sum- rock, Celtic, Cajun and Americana territory. mer days, I’ll wet wade underneath waterfalls and wash the stink Then on Friday and Saturday, the Ride Festival presents and sins away. two nights of Big Something at the Sheridan. A longtime faI’m as enamored by the helicopter videos of the avalanche vorite of Telluride’s mid-summer rock festival, Big Something chutes on Red Mountain Pass this winter as the next guy. It’s tickets aren’t available at the Opera House until the night of going to be an epic water year in the San Juans, and the creeks the show. If you want tickets in advance, you’ll have to visit won’t really be fishable until July. But after years of drought, the the Ride’s website. trout that survived the past two summers need a break. And if the Congratulations are in order for Michael McCardell and Ducreeks are rushing too fast for fishermen like me, I’ll happily rango Craft Spirits, which took home more hardware at the snooze streamside listening to water plunge over rocks.

American Distilling Institute awards ceremony in Denver a couThe San Juan Symphony pays homage to the music of Gus- ple weeks ago. Cinder Dick won a silver medal in the bourbon tav Mahler when it performs “Mahler and the Titan” at 3 p.m. category, while Mayday Moonshine took home a bronze for Sunday at the Community Concert Hall (there’s also a 7 p.m. moonshine. You can sip each this Friday when the StillHouse evening show Saturday at San Juan College in Farmington). A Junkies play from 7-9 p.m. at the tasting room. greatly expanded SJS will present two iconic works from the turnof-the-(last)-century Austrian composer’s early period, showcasOld Dan and I, our throats slate dry, our spirits cry out for water? ing his brilliant integration of simple melodies into complex Email me at chrisa@gobrainstorm.net. n

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Thursday04 “Yoga for Good,” proceeds donated to a different local charity each week, 8 a.m., Pine Needle Dry Goods, 858 Main Ave. Here to Hear: Office Hour with Councilor Dick White, 9-10 a.m., downstairs at the Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave. ​ aby Meetup with Durango Café au Play, 9:30-11:30 B a.m., 2307 Columbine. 749-9607.

STEAM Lab: LEGO Club, for ages 5-12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Durango Public Library.

Spanish Speaking Parents & Littles Fridays, 4-6 p.m., Durango Café au Play, 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Room 201. durangocafeauplay.org.

Saturday06 Drop-in tennis, 9 a.m., Durango High School courts, 2390 Main Ave. Free Maintenance Clinic, 10-11:30 a.m., Mountain Bike Specialists, 949 Main Ave. Register at 247-4066 or service@mountainbikespecialists.com.

Coffee & Car Care, meet the mechanics, learn the basics and more, 10 a.m.-noon, Durango Small Car, 138 Bodo Drive. 259-3460 or 247-4040.

Drop-in tennis, 4 p.m., Needham Elementary School courts, 2425 W. 3rd Ave.

“The Inside Out: Visions from the Artist’s Mind,” opening reception, 5-7 p.m., Southern Ute Museum, 503 Ouray Drive. www.southernutemuseum.org.

“Doc Swords,” PTSD Social Club for Veterans, 4-6 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave.

Plein air painter Peggy Immel, 5-7 p.m., Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. www.sorrelsky.com.

VFW Indoor Flea Market, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 1550 Main Ave. 247-0384.

Police Chief Candidate Meet and Greet, 4:306:30 p.m., Durango Rec Center.

Power UP the LPEA Election, hosted by San Juan Citizens Alliance, 5-8 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave.

Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kids’ Sake fundraiser 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Rolling Thunder Lanes at the Sky Ute Casino, Ignacio. www.bbig.org/events/bowl-forkids-sake/.

Leah Orlikowski performs, 5-7 p.m., Ska Brewing, 225 Girard St. Tim Sullivan performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Sitting Meditation, 5:30-6:15 p.m., Durango Dharma Center, 1800 E. 3rd Ave.

Submit “On the Town” items by Monday at noon to: calendar@durangotelegraph.com

Zumba Gold, 9:30-10:15 a.m., La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave.

Open Mic Night, 6 p.m., Eno Wine Bar, 723 E. 2nd Ave. “The Quantum Mechanics of Music,” part of the Life Long Learning Lecture Series, 7 p.m., Noble Hall at Fort Lewis College, Room 130. www.fortlewis.edu/profes sionalassociates.

Dustin Burley performs, 7 p.m., The Office, 699 Main.

Open Mic & Stand-Up, 8 p.m., El Rancho Tavern, 975 Main Ave.

Tim Sullivan performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. La La Bones performs, 6-9 p.m., DJ Hakan, 9 p.m.close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave. 5th annual Casino Night, fundraiser for the Durango Area Youth Hockey Association featuring gaming, food, music, prizes, silent auction and more, 6-11 p.m., Durango Elks Club, 901 E. 2nd Ave. 759-2298.

10th annual Daddy Daughter Dance and Dessert, 6:30-9 p.m., The River Church, 860 Plymouth Drive. trc durango.com/dance.

The Black Velvet Trio performs, 7 p.m., Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave.

Karaoke, 8 p.m.-close, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave.

Disney’s “The Lion King Experience, Jr.” part of the Creativity Festivity’s 25th Anniversary, opening night 7 p.m., show also runs 10 a.m. April 6, and 2 p.m. April 7, Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.durangoarts.org.

Elder Grown performs, 9 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive. www.animascitytheatre.com.

Black Velvet Trio performs, 7-11 p.m., Derailed Pour House.

Plursday featuring Kid Konsume, 9 p.m.-close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

An Evening of One Act Plays, presented by Theater Ensemble Arts featuring “Tuesdays with Morrie,” “A Way Back” and original work by New Mexico playwright Dennis West, opening night, 7:30 p.m., show also runs April 6, 12-13, and 2:30 p.m., April 14, Totah Theater in Farmington. 505-326-2839.

Friday05 Durango Early Bird Toastmasters, 7-8:30 a.m., LPEA, 45 Stewart St. 769-7615.

Free yoga, 8:30-9:30 a.m., Lively Boutique, 809 Main.

Blue Lotus Feet Kirtan, 7:30-9:30 p.m., YogaDurango, Florida Road.

Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Restaurant & Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave.

Legislative Lowdown, hosted by the League of Women Voters and featuring Sen. Don Coram, R-Montrose, and Rep. Barbara McLachlan, D-Durango, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library.

DJ CodeStar spins, 2-4 p.m., The Beach at Purgy’s. dj codestar.com.

Adam Swanson performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Cocktails with the Conductor, presented by Music in the Mountains, 6 p.m., Sorrel Sky Gallery, 828 Main Ave. musicinthemountains.tix.com.

Bitnova performs, 6-9 p.m., Mancos Brewing Co. La Plata Family Center 35th Anniversary, AfroBeatNiks perform, 6-9 p.m., Grange Hall at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. 385-4747.

The Durango Voice Finals, fundraiser for Manna Soup Kitchen, 7 p.m., Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave. www.henrystratertheatre.com.

La La Bones performs, 7-9 p.m., Fenceline Cider taproom in Mancos.

DJ Affex performs, 9 p.m.-close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

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Veterans Breakfast, 9-11 a.m., Elks Club, 901 E. 2nd Ave. 946-4831.

Henry Stoy performs, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Jean-Pierre Restaurant & Wine Bar, 601 Main Ave. Hemp Connections, a hemp networking event, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., La Plata County Fairgrounds. kindhempco.com.

Free books, hosted by Durango Book Rescue, noon-4 p.m., 923 Narrow Gauge.

Traditional Irish Music Jam, 12:30-4 p.m., Irish Embassy, 900 Main Ave. “I’m Not Running,” screened by National Theatre Live Productions, 1 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Dr. www.animascitytheatre.com.

Purgatory Pond Skim, 1:30-4 p.m., Purgatory Resort. www.purgatoryresort.com.

Writers’ Workshop, 2 p.m., Ignacio Community Library.

“Energy in Action,” season finale from San Juan Symphony, 3 p.m., Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. www.durangoconcerts.com.

Blue Moon Ramblers, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

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Manna fundraiser ‘The Durango Voice’ finals return Saturday What: The Durango Voice Finals When: 7 p.m., Sat., April 6 Where: Henry Strater Theatre Tickets: $36; available at www.henry stratertheatre.tix.com The best up and coming singers in Durango will take to the Henry Strater Theatre stage this Saturday to find out who is the 2019 voice of Durango.

Based on the wildly popular TV show, the annual competition, now in its fourth year, is a benefit for Manna.

This year’s event features 10 singers who were culled from the first round of live blind auditions Feb. 23. Each finalist received a month of voice coaching from one of “The Durango Voice’s” four judges: Bailey Barnes-Fagg; Andreas Tischhauser; Drea Pressley; and Linda Mack.

Finalists are: Lu Carter; Rebekah DeLaMare; Charlotte Emm; Macie Fogel; Rayne Grant; Zada Lile; Mark Palmer; Kelsey Marie Pinter; Naima van Tyn; and Zoey Zwisler.

meets, presentation on nonviolent communication with Rachel Turiel, 5:30 p.m., Commons Building. www.thrive laplata.org.

Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Blondies in Cortez.

The Durango Public Library’s Literary Festival, April 8-11, Durango Public Library. www.durangogov.org/li brary.

Rob Webster performs, 7 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave.

Yoga Storytime, 9:30-10:45 a.m., Smiley Building Studio 10, 1309 E. 3rd Ave.

Contiki Party with the Aussies, 9 p.m.-close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Watch Your Step class, 10:15 a.m., Durango Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. Bohjalian Book Club: Midwives, discussion of works from author Chris Bohjalian and part of the Literary Festival, 2-3:30 p.m., Durango Public Library.

“Neither Wolf Nor Dog” screening, commemorating the film’s star elder Dave Bald Eagle’s 100th birthday, 4 and 6:30 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive. www.animascitytheatre.com.

Joel Racheff performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. La Plata County Thrive! Living Wage Coalition

Three winners will be selected: third runner up, second runner up and first place. Winners will receive gift certificates and prizes in addition to singing engagements around town. There also will be a category for the contestant that garners the most funds toward Manna’s fundraising mission.

Tickets for “The Durango Voice” are $36 and available at www.henrystratertheatre.tix.com. Proceeds support the efforts and mission of Manna, a nonprofit organization that, in addition to providing free meals, offers job training and support services including clothing vouchers, transit passes, food bank referrals, prescriptions and emergency food boxes. Manna also provides weekend meal backpacks to local school children and maintains a garden that produces fresh vegetables for the kitchen during the growing season. For more information about Manna, go to: www.mannasoupkitchen.org.

5:30-6:30 p.m., Four Leaves Winery, 528 Main Ave. www.leadershiplaplata.org.

“Ben Nighthorse Campbell” screening, panel discussion and celebration, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, Lyceum Room. rmpbs.org/coex.

Living Room Conversations: Forgiveness, 5:45 p.m., Mindfulness Basics, 6 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Bohjalian Book Club: The Flight Attendant, discussion of works from author Chris Bohjalian and part of the Literary Festival, 6-8 p.m., Durango Public Library.

Tuesday09 Zumba Gold, 9:30-10:15 a.m., La Plata Senior Center, 2424 Main Ave. “Nuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future,” part of the Great Decisions International Affairs Discussion Program, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Durango Public Library. www.fpa.org.

Drop-in tennis, 4 p.m., Needham Elementary School courts, 2425 W. 3rd Ave. Terry Rickard performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave. Leadership La Plata: Recruiting our 2019-20 Class,

Rotary Club of Durango, presentation by Mark Pearson with San Juan Citizens Alliance, 6 p.m., Strater Hotel.

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Super Ted’s Super Trivia, 6:12 p.m., Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave. Trivia Factory, hosted by Ben Bernstein, 6:30-8:30 p.m., The Roost, 128 E. College Dr. DJ Crazy Charlie, 6:30-10:30 p.m., Billy Goat Saloon.

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AskRachel Interesting fact: The FDA wants to force non-dairy milk products to remove “milk” from their labels. But it hasn’t happened yet, possibly because of the covertly powerful milk of magnesia lobby.

thing called oat milk. Now I’m gaslighting myself and wondering if I’m insane for drinking regular ol’ Vitamin D cow juice.

- Dairy Air

Dear Rachel, I generally think that technology is the worst.

It divides us and isolates us. But then again, I started using DuoLingo to learn German, and I’m pretty certain this is the greatest possible utility of technology. There’s all sorts of interesting facts you could use for your advice column, too. Like, there are more Irish language learners on the app than there are Irish speakers in the world! Sehr cool, ja?

- Ich heiße deine #1 fan

Dear Milkman, Some folks say that all the GMOs and environmental chemicals we’ve been ingesting and inhaling for generations have altered our ability to digest foods. Others say that since we are not, most of us, baby cows, we should not be drinking the lactic secretions of bovines. Me? I think people should drink whatever they choose, especially if it spares me being in the same room as their suffering bowels. So long as they don’t talk incessantly about the moral superiority of their Quaker beverage product, I’m good.

- Drink and let drink, Rachel

Lieber Berliner, Thank god we have personal computing devices in our pockets that can make up for all the shortcomings in our national educational system. Maybe we really can cut millions of dollars from public schools, because 34 hours on DuoLingo is the equivalent of one college semester. Except for the interpersonal skills, cultural awareness and equal access to education provided by schooling at its best. But hey, on the app, you earn gems!

- Danke sehr, Rachel Dear Rachel, Is everyone lactose intolerant these days? Used to be that bread and milk were the staples binding the pages of the American story. Now, no one in my own family drinks regular milk. It’s all lactose-free and almond-vanilla and even some-

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Dear Rachel, I’m as ready to get rid of Trump as anyone.

But that doesn’t mean I’m ready for the Democratic campaign season to start. Almost two years of this crap? And then I started hearing about the mid-30s mayor of South Bend, Ind., and I’m getting all tingly in funny places. He seems too perfect. I’ve never had feelings like this about a politician. Is it possible that I could be in love? Or is it just lust?

- Buttigieg Curious Dear Peter Piper, Get in line. The only box that Pete Buttigieg doesn’t check is the one that says “woman.” Otherwise, he’s litLoki Moon – Raw Experiments, 6-8 p.m., Eno Wine Bar, 723 E. 2nd Ave.

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Latin Social Nights, 8-11 p.m., Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave. 375-2568.

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society meets, presentation from Garry and Ming Adams on “Spirits of the Stone: A Journey to Southwestern Mystery – Seeing rock art from a photographer’s eye,” social time, 6:30 p.m., meeting begins, 7 p.m., Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College. sjbas.org.

Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.-close, Starlight Lounge, 937 Main Ave.

Terry Rickard performs, 7 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave.

Leah Orlikowski performs, 7 p.m., The Office, 699 Main Ave.

Wednesday10 Death Café, 10:30 a.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Fired Up Stories, storytime with preschool children and families with fire fighters and EMTs from the Durango Fire and Rescue Authority, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Durango Public Library.

Free Trauma Conscious Yoga for Veterans and Families, noon-1 p.m., Elks Lodge, 901 E. 2nd Ave. BookMarks Book Discussion, featuring The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, 2 p.m., Pine River Library in Bayfield.

Karaoke, 8 p.m., Blondies in Cortez.

Karaoke with Crazy Charlie, 8 p.m.-close, Wild Horse Saloon, 601 E. 2nd Ave.

Ongoing “Imprint” by Andrea Martens, thru April 27, Friends of the Art Library at Durango Arts Center, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.durangoarts.org.

After-school program, 4:15-5:15 p.m. Wednesdays, Mancos Library.

Tween Time: Mosaic Flower Pots, 4-5 p.m., Durango Public Library.

Free Morning Yoga with YogaDurango, 8:30-9:30 a.m., Saturdays and Sundays, Durango Mountain Institute at Purgatory.

Greg Ryder performs, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave.

Karaoke, 8 p.m., Thur-Sun, 8th Ave. Tavern, 509 E 8th Ave.

Thank the Veterans potluck, Peter Neds and Glenn Keefe perform, 5:30-8:30 p.m., VFW, 1550 Main Ave. 8287777.

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“Three Farmers” free lecture on August Sander and Adam Kirsch, 4-5:30 p.m., April 11, Durango Arts Center Theater, 802 E. 2nd Ave. www.durangoarts.org.

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Email Rachel at telegraph@durangotelegraph.com erally everything we could ever want, with the added bonus that Trump won’t want to shake his hand (or anything else, for that matter) because he’s gay, smart, young, eloquent and with seven languages, is probably the man behind all of DuoLingo. He’s like a Tinder match who you’re sure is a bot except for that photo in your neighborhood pizza parlor. I’m not saying I’d marry him. I’m just saying, I’ll Netflix and binge his policy positions.

- Give Pete a chance, Rachel Keynote Address with author Chris Bohjalian, part of the Literary Festival, reception begins, 5:30 p.m., author talk, 7 p.m., April 11, Durango Public Library.

Smelter Mountain Boys perform a special Bluegrass Meltdown warm-up show, 7-10 p.m., April 11, 11th Street Station.

Jessica Fichot performs, 7:30 p.m., April 11, Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College. www.durangocon certs.com.

Durango Bluegrass Meltdown, April 12-14, downtown Durango. www.durangomeltdown.com.

Symposium on Social Work in the Four Corners, featuring keynote presentation on “Historical Trauma and Unresolved Grief Intervention” with Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, 2-5:15 p.m., reception and retirement celebration for University of Denver professor Wanda Ellingson, 5:30 p.m., April 12, Sky Ute Casino and Resort in Ignacio. Register at 303-871-2531.

Trail Crew Leader Training, 5-8 p.m., April 12, and 8 a.m.-5 p.m., April 13. www.trails2000.org.

Deadline for “On the Town” submissions is Monday at noon.

To submit an item, email: calendar@durango telegraph.com

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by Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): A mushroom shaped like a horse’s hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the U.S. If you strip off its outer layer, you get amadou, spongy stuff that’s great for igniting fires. It’s not used much anymore, but it was a crucial resource for some of our ancestors. As for the word “amadou,” it’s derived from an old French term that means “tinder, kindling, spunk.” The same word was formerly used to refer to a person who is quick to light up or to something that stimulates liveliness. In accordance with astrological omens, I’m making “Amadou” your nickname for the next four weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them,” novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote. “Life obliges them over and over to give birth to themselves.”

Here’s what I’ll add to that: As you mature, you do your best to give birth to ever-new selves that are in alignment with the idealistic visions you have of the person you want to become. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t skilled at that task in adolescence and early adulthood, and so the selves we create may be inadequate or delusory or distorted. Fortunately, as we learn from our mistakes, we eventually learn to give birth to selves that are strong and righteous. The only problem is that the old false selves we generated along the way may persist as ghostly echoes in our psyche. And we have a sacred duty to banish those ghostly echoes. I tell you this, Taurus, because the coming months will be an excellent time to do that banishing. Ramp up your efforts NOW! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in his memoir. He quickly amended that statement, though, mourning, “The only thing that could spoil a day was people.” Then he ventured even further, testifying, “People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” I bring these thoughts to your attention so as to prepare you for some good news. In the next three weeks, I suspect you will far exceed your quota for encounters with people who are not “limiters of happiness,” but who are as good as spring itself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s time to prove that Cancerians have more to offer than nurturing, empathizing, softening the edges, feeling deeply, getting comfortable and being creative. Not that there’s anything wrong with those talents. On the contrary!

They’re beautiful and necessary. It’s just

that for now you need to avoid being pigeonholed as a gentle, sensitive soul. To gather the goodies that are potentially available to you, you’ll have to be more forthright and aggressive than usual. Is it possible for you to wield a commanding presence? Can you add a big dose of willfulness and a pinch of ferocity to your selfpresentation? Yes and yes!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): General Motors manufactured a car called the Pontiac Aztek from 2001-05. It wasn’t commercially successful. One critic said it looked like “an angry kitchen appliance,” and many others agreed it was exceptionally unstylish. But later the Aztek had an odd revival because of the popularity of the TV show “Breaking Bad.” The show’s protagonist, Walter White, owned one, and that motivated some of his fans to emulate his taste in cars. In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I suspect that something of yours may also enjoy a second life sometime soon. An offering that didn’t get much appreciation the first time around may undergo a resurgence. Help it do so.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Of all the female sins, hunger is the least forgivable,” feminist author Laurie Penny laments. She’s referring to the hunger “for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love.” She continues: “If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings.” I’ve quoted her because I suspect it’s crucial for you to not suppress or hide your longings in the coming weeks. That’s triply true if you’re a woman, but also important if you’re a man or some other gender. You have a potential to heal deeply if you get very clear about what you hunger for and then express it frankly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Only one of Nana Mouskouris’s vocal cords works, but over the course of an almost 60-year career, the Libran singer has sold more than 30 million records in 12 different languages. Many critics speculate that her apparent disadvantage is key to her unique style. She’s a coloratura mezzo, a rare category of chanteuse who sings ornate passages with exceptional agility and purity. In the coming weeks, I suspect that you will be like Mouskouris in your ability to capitalize on a seeming lack or deprivation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your tribe is symbolized by three animals: the scorpion, the eagle and the mythological phoenix. Some astrologers say that the scorpion is the ruling creature of “unevolved” or immature Scorpios, whereas the eagle and phoenix are associated with those of your tribe who express

the riper, more enlightened qualities of your sign. But I want to put in a plug for the scorpion as being worthy of all Scorpios. It is a hardy critter that rivals the cockroach in its ability to survive – and even thrive – in less-than-ideal conditions.

For the next two weeks, I propose we make it your spirit creature.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Sagittarian novelist Gustave Flaubert declared that it’s “our duty to feel what is sublime and cherish what is beautiful.” But that’s a demanding task to pull off on an ongoing basis. Maybe the best we can hope for is to feel what’s sublime and cherish what’s beautiful for 30-35 days every year. Having said that, though, I’m happy to tell you that in 2019 you could get all the way up to 95-100 days of feeling what’s sublime and cherishing what’s beautiful. And as many as 15 to 17 of those days could come during the next 21.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sommeliers are people trained to perceive the nuances of wine. By sampling a few sips, the best sommeliers can discern facts about the type of grapes that were used to make the wine and where they were grown. I think that in the coming weeks you Capricorns should launch an effort to reach a comparable level of sensitivity and perceptivity about any subject you care about. It’s a favorable time to become even more masterful about your specialties; to dive deeper into the areas of knowledge that captivate your imagination.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every language is a workin-progress. New words constantly insinuate themselves into common usage, while others fade away. If you traveled back in time to 1719 while remaining in your current location, you’d have trouble communicating with people of that era. And today linguistic evolution is even more rapid than in previous ages. The Oxford English Dictionary adds more than a thousand new words annually. In recognition of the extra verbal skill and inventiveness you now possess, Aquarius, I invite you to coin a slew of your own fresh terms. To get you warmed up, try this utterance I coined: vorizzimo!

It’s an exclamation that means “thrillingly beautiful and true.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of history’s most audacious con men was George C. Parker, a Pisces. He made his living selling property that did not legally belong to him, like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Statue of Liberty. I suspect you could summon his level of salesmanship and persuasive skills in the coming weeks.

But I hope you will use your nearly magical powers to make deals and perform feats that have maximum integrity. It’s OK to be a teensy bit greedy, though.

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CommunityService Free Book for Every 4-Year-Old Durango Public Library is promoting early literacy by providing a free picture book to every 4-year-old in Durango, April 8-22, while supplies last, as part of the statewide One Book Colorado program. Families of 4-year-olds can stop by the Durango Public Library during regular library hours starting Mon., April 8, to pick up a copy of the book in either English or Spanish. Books will also be available at Sunnyside and Fort Lewis Mesa branch libraries. For more info, visit www.onebookcolorado.org.

For more info about Durango Public Library, visit www.durangogov.org/library or call 375-3380.

Volunteer Opportunities for individuals who are passionate about supporting our farmers and artisans in Bayfield. We are looking for 4-5 individuals to help with the Bayfield Downtown Farmers Market. We will have our premier opening June 20 at the Bayfield Block Party. The market then runs each Thursday from 3:30-7 p.m. until the end of Sept. Go to: www.bayfielddowntownfarmersmarket.org or 970-769-6873 for more info or to volunteer.

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fter this winter, all of us are anticipating warmer weather and the signs of spring. We anxiously await the greening of the land and fragrant blossomings. For me, spring is also the advent of my favorite sport, baseball.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to head to Phoenix and Mesa, Ariz., to watch some of the rookies as they pursued their dream of making it up to the majors.

After the game, I had the opportunity to meet Bert Campaneris and Blue Moon Odom. They autographed a ball for me that I gave to my wife’s nephew for his birthday.

As a boy, baseball was my personal religion. I would cut out the Phillies schedule from the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer and tape it to my bedroom door, keeping track of wins in red and losses in blue. My father and I would have a game of catch in the back yard on Saturdays.

My first team of many was the “Ramblers.” The jerseys were gray, with maroon socks and trim. Dad, with a chuckle, always reminded me that I slept in my uniform before the little league season opener. I guess I was too embarrassed to remember that incident, but I do remember those sticky, baggy woolen uniforms!

In those days, I played a variety of positions: short, second and right field. I wasn’t much of hitter, but then

again, none of us were. Games were played exclusively on Saturdays, as there were no lights back then. Some of those days were stifling and we were exhausted from the heat and humidity. None of us minded or even noticed until bicycling back home after the game.

Back on top.

As I grew older, I played “Babe Ruth Baseball” and varsity ball. Most of the time, I was relegated to the bullpen. I didn’t mind, as long as I had a chance to come into a game. Many years passed, and eventually I became a coach for the Ignacio Bobcats. There was nothing sweeter than helping pitchers get a handle on a slider or curveball.

My coaching days have passed, and most recently, I decided to look up some of my favorite players on the internet. I remember Tony Taylor crossing himself before stepping into batter’s box (one of the first to do so.)

I was saddened by the passing away of such greats as Chris Short, Johnny Callison and Wes Covington. These were my childhood heroes. On occasion, I still watch my two favorite baseball movies, “The Sandlot” and “Field of Dreams.”

In summation, I always wondered what made this game of “baseball” so inviting. I guess it had to do with hope. Hope is that eternal quest that keeps us all going. The game is played to the last out, so there is always a chance. They say “hope springs eternal,” and as Yogi had said, “It ain’t over till it’s over!” Things are greening up this spring, and I can barely make out ole Shoeless Joe rounding third and heading home!

– Burt Baldwin

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