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Today, Russia is more prosperI like to babysit our family’s dogs, two of them to be speous and I understand that they do cific, a 4-year-old Australian doodle have dogs. No doubt during World named Fresky and a 12-year-old feWar II they ate them to survive the male Peek-a-pom, Clio. ravages of war.

I would guess that many seniors Dogs and cats are great companwho travel up to the mountains ions and I see people walking dogs have to do something with their everywhere. They are a lot like chilpets. Feed them well and leave dren in many respects, and most them in the house? Seems like we By Bob Sweeney people have an inherent mothering should have a “Pet Place” where instinct to take care of children, the an individual or even a smart thinking casino elderly and, of course, our pets. would offer pet care, take care of the dog while Next to our grandchildren, we love having players do there thing. the pets and when they leave we really miss I’ve not seen any dogs left in cold or hot cars, them. but you can bet that there are plenty of dogs I asked my wife if she would like a dog. awaiting their owners to come home.

Her reply is always the same: “Just another No matter when you arrive, there is always person to take care and we’ve owned enough a warm welcome from our animals, especially dogs in our life.” dogs. Cats just kind of meow but dogs give unI’ll have to rely on just babysitting these questioned love to owners. pooches when I get the opportunity, which isn’t Fresky is somewhat similar to a poodle that often. crossed with a Labrador, and has hunting dog Enjoy those pets while you can, they really characteristics. He will point statuesque-like do enrich your lives everyday. when he sees something.

Now where did I put that leash and litter There are two other doodle dogs in the bag? neighborhood, but much larger than Fresky. I believe they are a brother and sister, but different neighbors in the same block.

The doodle dogs are supposed to be hypoallergenic, meaning less affect on children or adults who are allergic to dog dander. They have very fine hair with their poodle bloodline and do not shed much at all.

The little Peek-a-pom can hear the mail carrier, any dogs in the neighborhood and deer that frequent the neighborhood. Clio is somewhere around 12 and a fussy aging petite little bitch, in dog terms, not personality.

Fresky will eat anything and loves to beg table scraps of human food of any kind. What’s good enough for family is good for Fresky. He is Mr. Personality and has never met a fellow dog or person that he doesn’t like. Dogs always like to smell everyone, especially crotches and rear ends. It is just their nature and they can tell more about us than we’ll ever know. Makes you wonder just how smart they really are and what they’re thinking. I believe that dogs think mostly about food and sex, not too far afield of humans.

They really do have an easy lifestyle; they lay around most of the day, the food arrives on regular schedule, and humans take them for nice walks around the neighborhood. We really don’t ask or expect anything from them except the wagging tails, loving stares expecting a treat, and those eyes watching everywhere we go in the house.

They say a dog is man’s best friend; we can enlarge that saying to include women who clean up after the pooches and buy the dog food at the supermarkets. Pet food and supplies are a billion dollar industry in the United States.

Many years ago I was an exchange journalist in the old U.S.S.R. and the Soviets had no dogs anywhere. I asked one of our Communist escorts one day on a bus trip in Moscow, “Why don’t you have any dogs?” Alexander simply replied, “We don’t need them.”

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Jeep Renegade Giveaway

Join us every day starting Jan. 3 through Feb. 27 for our $100,000 Jeep Renegade Giveaway, win up to $500 in Z-Play at each of our daily drawings. Earn Jeep Renegade finalist entries with every 250 points earned from Jan. 3 through Feb. 27. On Feb. 27, we will have drawings from 1pm-Midnight every hour for $150 in Z-Play at 9:30 p.m. we will have one Jeep Renegade winner and four $500 in Z-Play winners.

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Mustang Grill

Stop by Z Casino’s Mustang Grill and try our specialties which include the amazing Prime Rib dinner or Famous Z Ribs now only $7.77 with your Club Z Card.

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Birthday

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High Hand

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Club Z

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Black Hawk’s premier poker room deals excitement at all of our 22 live poker tables. Don’t miss your shot at our huge Bad Beat Jackpot and coming soon watch for our new Descending Bad Beat promotion.

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Table Games

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Ara Spa January Special

Enjoy being together by getting a couple massage using the Loving Tara oil which also includes a complimentary split of champagne after your massage.

If a single spa treatment is desired: May we draw your bath? We’ll prepare a luxury bath with mineral salts and essential oil before we slip away. You may order bubbles of another sort with our optional champagne and chocolate covered strawberries.

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Centennial Buffet offers food from around the globe

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all in one convenient location. Timberline Grill offers an upscale option, with aged steaks and locally sourced food, come in and sample our new menu today! Fireside Kitchen is a great place for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a delectable dessert. Waypost deli is the place to go for a quick stop, choose from our juicy burgers, delicious sandwiches, wood-fired pizza and more. Stop by the only Starbucks in Black Hawk for a breakfast sandwich, sweet treat or even a cup of coffee.

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Mega Points Multiplier

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Arctic Chill Kiosk Game

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Weekday Warriors $20 Bus Fare Redemption

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with the Players Club or Cashier Services to receive special promotion emails.

Play and Stay

Earn 500 tier points on your Fan Club club card Sundays through Thursdays between 8 a.m. and midnight and stay the night on us! Or on Friday earn 800 tier points and your hotel stay is FREE. This offer is valid only on the day the points are earned and is based on availability, blackout days in may apply. You must register prior to playing. Offer subject to availability. Excludes holidays and blackout dates.

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Don’t miss your chance to win up to $1,500 in CASH every Friday in January. Random drawings will take place from 6 – 10 p.m. Winners will get to play Glee Ball and try to roll their way to win some major cash. Get one FREE entry and earn more with play.

Spin, Win & Grin

Spin the wheel to reveal your prize, up to $500 in cash.

With two times the grins each Tuesday in January from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. and again from 5 – 7 p.m. Receive one free entry each Tuesday and additional entries with play.

20X Points on Pennies

Every Thursday in January is 20X points on all penny slots from 8 a.m. – midnight. Register at the Players Club or Cashier Services prior to playing.

Make You Happy Mystery Multiplier

We’re multiplying the fun on Monday, Jan. 25. From 8 a.m. – midnight, you will receive a lucky mystery multiplier when you visit the Players Club or Cashier Services upon registration. Multipliers range from 5X to 20X points. You will receive a free buffet after earning 100 tier points. Not valid on video poker. Multiplier cannot be combined with any other offer. Must register prior to playing.

Bus Fare Refund

The Isle will refund your bus fare up to $22. Simply earn 450 tier points on your player’s card and present your return bus ticket to the player’s club or cashier services. Table Games and Poker players will receive their bus fare back with four hours of consecutive play. Guests must redeem bus ticket at the Players Club or Cashier Services. Limit one bus redemption per person per day.

Calypso’s Buffet

All-you-can-eat CRAB LEGS is back! Thursday-Sunday at the dinner buffet. Whatever your taste, Calypso’s Buffet is sure to satisfy your appetite any day of the week! Enjoy allyou-can-eat breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner buffets.

Featuring delicious breakfast spreads, crisp salads, freshly baked breads, tender chicken and beef entrées, wood stonebaked pizzas and savory side dishes.

Tradewinds

Tradewinds has a new menu that features what we believe to be the best hamburgers in Black Hawk. Whether you try the classics, a green chili and chipotle, the black & blue or mushroom and Swiss burger you will not be disappointed.

Tradewinds now offers the best desserts in town.

$10,000 Pit Progressive Giveaway

Win you share of $10,000 in cash and prizes, Mondays and Thursdays in January from 2 – 8 p.m. Visit table games to find out how to receive a free entry each promotional day and additional entries with play. The Isle has all your favorite table games including Black Jack, Craps with 10 times odds, Roulette and more!

New Member

In January, all new members of the Fan Club will receive a free buffet after playing 30 minutes on their new Players card. Guests who provide an email address at the time of enrollment will receive $5 in Fan Club points.

Social Media

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The tier rewards are racking up in January with a great point multiplier day for Select and Gold players. Tuesday, Jan. 26. Select players will receive 3X points and Gold players will receive 5X points. You don’t need to register, enjoy your favorite slot machine and receive bonus points all day!

New Member

Join the club today. When you’re a fan, you get better rewards faster than ever. For all new members, just play $10 and receive $20 in Otis & Henry’s Bar & Grill. Sign up your email address, receive $5 and start raking in those rewards.

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Work your way up Lady Luck’s Happy Fortunes Pyramid on Friday and Saturdays. From 2 – 8 p.m. you could be chosen to win some green. Win up to $750. Receive one free entry and additional entries with play. See guest services for rules and additional details for all promos.

Happy Go Lucky Hot Seat

Join your friends at Lady Luck from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesdays in January for the Happy-Go-Lucky Hot Seats.

We’re picking players to choose one out of seven mailboxes containing prizes starting at $50 all the way up to $250 Cash.

Plus, the players sitting directly to the right and left of the winner get 25,000 fan club points.

element starting at Aces full of Kings.

And make sure to check out the new Bounce Back Bonus offers—now every day of the week!

• Be in a game by 10 a.m. and receive $10 in Bounce Back Coupons after four hours of play.

• Be in a game by 10 a.m. and receive $20 in Bounce Back Coupons after five hours of play.

Visit the Lady Luck Poker Room, located on the 2nd floor, for additional details.

Win Win Mystery Point Multiplier

Earn up to 20X Points Thursdays in January. Drop the puck from noon until 8 p.m. in the promotions area and try to score up to 20 times points on slots. Plus you get 5X points on video poker.

Social Media

Make sure to “like” Lady Luck Black Hawk on Facebook and follow us on Instagram and Twitter. Also, register your email with Guest Services to receive special promotion emails.

Play and Stay

Earn 500 Tier Score points Sunday through Thursday between 8 a.m. and midnight for a free room in the Lady Luck hotel tower. On Fridays play 800 Tier Score Points between 8 a.m. and midnight for a free room. Register at guest services prior to play. Offer subject to availability. Excludes holidays and blackout dates.

Club 40

We’re multiplying the fun Mondays and Wednesdays.

Join us twice a week for Club 40. All guests age 40 or better will receive 6X points on slots and 2X points on video poker.

Guests will also receive a free entrée at Otis & Henry’s once they earn 25 Tier Score points on their Lady Luck Player’s Card.

Hot Spot, Cool Chips Progressive Giveaway

50+ Perks

Every Sunday in January from 8 a.m. – midnight, everyone age 50 or better is invited to stop by for 5X points on slots and 2X points on video poker. Receive one free buffet after earning 100 unadjusted points from 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Cannot be combined with any other point multiplier.

Select and Gold Bonus Points

Fridays and Saturdays in January and February from noon to 9 p.m. you could be a winner. Two seats will be chosen every hour to win $50 in promo chips and their tablemates will win $10 in promo chips! If a player is not in the Hot Spot, the $50 rolls into the progressive which will be awarded during the last drawing.

Bus Fare Redemption

Guests who play with a Fan Club Card can receive up to $22 cash back on bus fare every day. Earn 350 unadjusted points on Lady Luck Player’s Card to receive cash back. Poker and table games guests can earn too. Ask Supervisor for details. Guests must redeem bus ticket at Guest Services.

Limit one bus redemption per person per day.

Monte Carlo

The new Monte Carlo Jackpots are up and running with 12 individual progressive prizes. There are jackpots for Royal Flushes, Straight Flushes and any 4 of a kind. Visit the Lady Luck Poker Room for details and updated jackpot amounts.

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More than 120 winners will win $200 in our $24,000 Snow Plow Progressive, all month long. Drawings are Thursdays and Fridays 3 – 10 p.m. and Saturday’s 1 – 10 p.m.

If a winner is not present for a drawing, that prize amount will be added to the final drawing of the day so stick around for your change to plow in big winnings! Earn one entry for every 10 base points or every half hour of tracked table games play at our Golden Mardi Gras and Golden Gates Casinos.

$10,000 Polar Point Chase

Play every Sunday in January and you could win the Polar Point Chase and your share of $10,000. The top base point earner of the month will win $4,000 in cash with prizes awarded for top three overall point earners and top five weekly point earners.

Winter Wonderland Play & Earn

Each Monday, play at Golden Mardi Gras or Golden Gates and take home gloves, scarf, hat and a blanket. There is a different item each Monday starting at only 500 base points. Stop by any Guest Service center for full details and find out how to get yours.

All-New Fab 40+ Tuesdays

Win up to 500,000 points every Tuesday in our all new Fab 40+. All guests aged 40 and better will receive 50% off any food purchase (up to $10 discount) and one free swipe on our kiosk prize wheel for free entries, FreePlay and possibly a million points. Play 200 base points for additional swipes. All you need is your A-Play Club Card so stop by Guest Services for full details!

Frosty Flakes Kiosk Game

Now every Wednesday, come in to win up to $1,000 cash, or FreePlay and other great prizes. Swipe your A-Play Club Card at any promotional kiosk with no point requirement for the first swipe and get an additional swipe after earning 200 base points on the day of the promotion.

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Stop in at the Z Stop gas station each week to spin and win. Winning is as easy as 1) swipe your Club Z card into the promotional kiosk inside the station, 2) play the spin and win game and 3) get up to Z Casino and activate your prize within 30 minutes. If you don’t have your Club Z player’s card, you can print a new one inside at the Z Stop too. Free Z-Play prizes are available at Z Casino (Black Hawk) only.

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In January our Friday/Saturday drawings Shake, Rattle, and Roll will now feature our new ticket-less drawing system, InstaDraw. Earn entries just the same way you always have. Never wait in line again at the Player’s Club to print out your entries. Every drawing day, all you have to do is play with your Player’s Club card that day to “activate” all your earned entries for the drawing period (the full month’s worth with Shake, Rattle and Roll) will go into our digital, virtual Insta-Draw ticket barrel. Watch the drawings on any of our HD TV screens around the casino, and the winner’s name and countdown will be displayed for you so you can enjoy our weekend drawings right from your seat.

Free Prime Rib Tuesdays Every Tuesday you can enjoy the our Prime Rib Special at the Mid City Grill for FREE from 11 a.m. with just 150 base points earned

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$7.99 Prime Rib Every Day Enjoy our 8 oz. slow-roasted Prime Rib Special, accompanied by choice of potato with seasonal vegetables, for just $7.99 from 11 a.m., just by having a player’s card.

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Gemstones & Minerals

Padparadscha, the orange-pink sapphire

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apphire is a variety of corundum and comes in many colors especially blue.

The beautiful orangepink variety is called padparadscha. With the exception of red corundum, which is ruby, all other colors of corundum are sapphires. The padparadscha sapphire owes its color to the additional trace elements of chromium and iron in its formation, and ranges in hue from pale orange to a vivid reddish-orange, or a deep orange with pink overtones. The name is derived from the Sandskrit/Sinhalese “padma raga,” meaning “lotus color” and refers to the orange/pink color of the lotus flower. Most padparadscha gems are small, less than two carats in weight. However, a stone from Sri Lanka is on display at the America Museum of Natural History in New York that weighs an incredible 100 carats.

Though once considered an obscure gemstone, the padparadscha sapphire has recently gained in popularity for its rarity and beautiful fashion color.

These sapphires are not mined in great quantities, so even stones with slight to moderate inclusions are still valuable gems.

For decades collectors, dealers, and gemologists have debated the issue of how pink or orange a stone in this category can be and whether some stones are too dark to qualify to be a padparadscha.

To date there is no agreeable standard for the color range. Natural padparadscha is among the rarest and most highly prized varieties of sapphire and has become a collector’s item. It is also a very expensive gemstone.

Some believe that padparadscha sapphires are enpowering stones for artists, writers, singers and all who wish to express their deepest truth in cre-

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ative expressions. These gemstones are useful for both sexes in enhancing sex drive and increasing sexual pleasure. They are also powerful stones for increasing fertility. They say that these sapphires bring a vital energy to the emotions, allowing one to be more outgoing and dynamic, playful and full of joy.

In antiquity, diamonds and rubies were divided by the Hindus into four classes, and being a sapphire corundum of unique reddish hue, padparadscha was called the Oriental Ruby. It was said that the possession of a padparadscha sapphire conferred perfect safety upon the owner, and as long as he owned the precious stone, he could dwell without fear in the midst of enemies and was shielded from bad fortune. However, great care had to be taken to keep this stone of the first class from contact with inferior specimens, as its virtue would be contaminated and its power for good diminished accordingly.

The original locality for padparadscha was Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and many purist today believe the term should be restricted only to stones from Sri Lanka. However, the stones have also been found in Vietnam’s Quy Chau district, Tanzania’s Tunduru district and Madagascar.

Stones from each of these areas are often heat-treated at a low temperature and such heat treatment is not always detectable. Padparadscha sapphires are considered among the most beautiful and valuable of the corundum gems.

Prices for the padparadscha vary greatly according to size and quality. At the high end, they may reach as much as $50,000 per carat.

Central City Nuggets $50,000 American Dream Giveaway

How would you like your house payment made for one year? Dec. 4 – Jan. 30, we will hold drawings every Friday and Saturday, 5 – 9 p.m. Three winners from each drawing will win cash or Reserve play prizes and automatically receive 50 entries into the grand finale drawing on Jan. 30. The winner of the grand finale drawing will receive a prize package valued at $20,000. See Guest Services for full details on all promos.

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A Tailing Tale

A Tailing Tale of Baby Doe – Woman Miner Elizabeth was We’ve all heard tales Mine failed to produce any far too ambitious of Baby Doe Tabor, the significant gold, the investor to leave her finanbeautiful woman who withdrew his support, forcleft her husband, Harvey cial future to a lazy ing Baby to search for other Doe, to run off with Horhusband and took backers. This scenario was command of the ace Tabor. repeated time and time again. property and limHowever, there was She refused to give up or sell much more to Baby Doe ited income. After the property outright. For than a pretty face and moving their bethree decades, she steadfastly fancy clothes. She never longings out of the feared hard work and expensive Teller maintained that riches were was one of only a handful House and into a buried deep within the walls of women miners. small cottage, she of the mine. Her daughters Born in 1854, Elizaorganized a crew of grew up and moved on, but Cornish miners to beth Bonduel McCourt Baby remained in Leadville in work at the mine. was one of 14 children a dilapidated cabin at the site.

Maggie@maggiempublications.com Some of the born to an Irish immi“I shall never let the prominent town grant family of moderMatchless go,” she told a ate means in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. By the leaders with whom Elizabeth was actime she was 15, the 5-foot-2 girl with long, quainted advised her to have a shaft banker she was asking to blonde hair, a robust figure and porcelain dug into the mine before winter fully back the mine operations. skin drew men of all ages—like bees to a set in and urged her to do the digging “Not while there is a breath hive. However, Elizabeth was determined herself if necessary. in my body to find a way to Motivated by his wife’s drive, Harto marry a man of great wealth and posifight for it.” tion. vey finally bent to her will and joined When the money ran out, In 1876, she competed in a skating con- in the work. The first shaft the pair Baby worked the mine alone. test wearing a skirt that revealed her claves, sank proved to be unsuccessful. ElizShe lived the life of a recluse, impressing the male onlookers and enrag- abeth convinced her husband and ing the female audience members. At the their employees to drive a second visited only by a neighbor end of the competition, Elizabeth took shaft. Dressed in one of Harvey’s old and his daughter. home the first place ribbon and won the shirts, a pair of dungarees, and a cap, On Feb. 20, 1935, Baby heart of the handsome socialite, Harvey Elizabeth worked alongside the men.

Doe Tabor, the woman once For a time, Elizabeth and Harvey Doe. known throughout the West William Harvey Doe, Sr., Harvey’s fa- strove for a common goal, working as the “Silver Queen,” died ther, owned a substantial number of min- diligently, only leaving the mine to alone in her cabin. ing claims in Colorado and a lumber busi- collect supplies in town. Historians For more about Baby Doe ness in Oshkosh. Father and son were in speculate it was during one of those Baby Doe Tabor and other women prospectown to check on their investment where trips when Elizabeth acquired the earned more than $1 million and Horace’s they attended the skating event and Harvey name of “Baby Doe.” As she passed the other investments more than $4 million tors of the old west, see Chris Enss’s book men in town on her way to purchase sup- but when the bottom fell out of the silver A Beautiful Mine. was quite taken with Elizabeth.

In 1877, Harvey and Elizabeth Doe were plies one man is said to have called out, market they lost all their wealth and were My “Misadventures of the Cholua Brothmarried and immediately after the ceremo- “There goes a beautiful baby.” The name stripped of their possessions with the ex- ers Series” Book 1- “Dead Man Walking,” ny they boarded a train bound for Denver. fit her small frame and delicate features. ception of the gold mine. and Book 2 -“Pistols and Petticoats” can Harvey, Sr. planned for his son to take over From that time on, people referred to her Horace died in 1899 from an appendici- now be purchased from the Cholua Broththe mining property near Central City and as “Baby Doe.” tis attack. With his last breath, he encour- er’s Coffee section in Mountain Menagerie Despite the Does valiant efforts, the once the newlyweds finished honeymoonaged Baby to hold on to the Matchless. The on Main Street in Central City. Copies of ing, Harvey Jr. was to embark on a life in Fourth of July Mine never yielded the gold grief-stricken widow focused her efforts on the gold fields. Elizabeth’s father-in-law necessary to fund continued diggings. The “Dead Man Walking” are available at the arranged for the young couple to reside at mine eventually shut down and Harvey finding investors to back the reopening of Gilpin County History Museum. Copies the posh Teller House with its elegant décor went to work for another miner, abandon- the mine. After an exhaustive search, she of either book can and the finest of everything money could ing the dream of striking it rich. Baby Doe located a businessbe purchased on my buy. held on to her aspiration of becoming a man who fronted website at Maggie her the capital to beElizabeth was enthusiastic about her “woman of great means,” with or without mpublications.com, gin operations.

Baby new home and the luxurious living arrange- Harvey. moved her 15 and Amazon.com, Barnes The Does divorced in 1880 and Baby ments were exactly what she envisioned for Mail your stories with contact 9-year-old daughters andNoble.com and herself. She was also enchanted with the moved to Leadville with Central City busiinformation: Maggie M Doe’s Fourth of July Mine. The sights and nessman, Jake Sandelowsky. But Jake was to Leadville and went Lulu.com.

P.O. Box 6571, Westminster, CO sounds of the miners descending into the only a means to an end. Everywhere Baby to work hiring help to This column is 80021 diggings and reappearing with chunks of Doe went in Leadville she heard stories support and dig. She sponsored

by Cholua Email: Maggie@maggiem earth that might be gold stirred her desire about Horace Tabor. She set her cap for encouraged her chilBrothers Old Time publications.com for outrageous wealth. the infamous mine owner and politician, dren to learn all the Coffee Store - Black If you prefer to tell me your At the time, she believed the opportunity and on March 1, 1883, she married him in aspects of running the Hawk and was previstory orally and have me write to amass a fortune could only be realized St. Matthew’s Catholic Church in Denver mine, from swinging a ously published in the it for you, please feel free to call pick to hauling ore to through her husband’s efforts. However, wearing a $7,500 wedding dress.

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Going Green

America is becoming greener

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hanks to innovative inventions by eco-friendly manufacturers and new services by retailers, America is becoming greener. More and more national companies are now publicly declaring themselves eco-friendly, which can mean anything from manufacturing a tubeless toilet paper to recycling waste to repairing electronics. Also Americans have increased t h e i r awareness of purchasing products that are more eco-friendly to our earth.

That’s really great green news for Mother Earth.

Colorado companies have taken the lead in many types of green recycling, such as Alpine Waste & Recycle in Commerce City. They are the first company in Colorado to recycle all types of polystyrene foam (commonly known as Styrofoam) from businesses and homeowners.

About 99 percent of recycling companies don’t accept Styrofoam waste because it is difficult to recycle and make large investments in new complex machinery, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Now this company can take this environmentallyharmful product, which takes hundreds of years to decompose, and recycle it in a single-stream process into 60-pound bricks. These plastic bricks then can be transformed into many things from park benches to picture frames.

Unfortunately, however, Colorado has one energy-hog industry that produces a green colored product, but definitely is not eco-friendly. It’s the cannabis (marijuana) industry. According to a recent article in the Denver Post, Colorado’s pot facilities used as much energy in 2014 as 35,000 homes. Furthermore, this booming industry’s 24-hour demands for thousands of their indoor growing sites taxes aging electricity grids and unravels hard-earned gains in energy conservation.

New green tubeless toilet paper

I am always searching for new ways to go green, but I never ever expected to find a way to save trees by using tubeless toilet paper. Presently more than 17 billion card-

board toilet paper tubes are used every year, which is enough to fill the Empire State Building twice, according to the makers of Scott’s new tube-free toilet paper. Recently I purchased a roll and discovered that it rolled easily without the tube. When I read more information on their website, www.scottnataurals.com, I discovered that a household of two adults purchases enough cardboard tubes with their toilet paper in a lifetime to completely cover a queensize bed. This fact has convinced me to continue to purchase tubeless toilet paper as another easy way to go green.

Become a CASA in Jefferson, Gilpin counties

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Jefferson and Gilpin counties (CASA Jeffco/Gilpin) is steadily growing; however, there continues to be a strong need for dedicated community members to become a voice for abused or neglected children in court.

With more than 200 committed and compassionate CASA volunteers, CASA Jeffco/Gilpin is only able to provide support to less than 35 percent of the cases in court for abused or neglected children. CASA Jeffco/ Gilpin needs your help and support to ensure that every child in our community has a safe, permanent home. You can make a difference in the life of a child by becoming a CASA volunteer. CASA volunteers are caring adults who are appointed by a judge; they provide the courts with objective information and recommendations to help ensure that a child abuse victim’s best interests are served.

Previous experience is not necessary, just

compassion for children and the desire to make a difference in our community. It’s that time of the year that we begin to reflect, set new goals, try new things, and give back. The next CASA of Jeffco/Gilpin volunteer training is scheduled to begin Monday, Jan. 25.

The training course includes approximately 40 hours training. All in-person sessions will be held at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80401.

For more information, contact Tiffany Schlag at 303-271-6537 or at tiffany schlag@casajeffcogilpin.com.

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Also I am delighted to find new ways to keep my cordless, battery-powered personal electronics running instead of buying new ones. For its customers, Batteries Plus stores now offer free installation of batteries in electronics and recycling of old batteries and electronics purchased in its stores. Plus, their experts can repair broken screens for iPhones and iPads.

“We are an extremely green company,” reports Stephen Wiles, president of the Denver area franchise stores. “It’s our business to know batteries, light bulbs, and electronic devices inside and out. We do more than offer an amazing assortment of products, we also provide services to make your products work better and last longer.”

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Trail’s End

A Tribute to the Celluloid Cowboy In honor of the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo

more cynical after World War I, his plots were criticized for being too sentimental, moralistic and predictable. Although he was in his fifties and looked it, he insisted on playing the romantic lead, a drawback

By Rosemary Fetter During the early years that doesn’t seem to callieanne_9@msn.com th of the 20 century, as the impede modern acfrontier vanished into history, the tors with access to Botox and good myth of the romantic American makeup.

West began to take hold throughAnother superstar of the 1920s, out the country. The image of the Tom Mix, had true style. A skilled cowboy hero, inspired by Owen horseman whose movies were liveWister’s book The Virginian, and ly and action oriented, Mix was a Zane Grey’s Spirit of the Border former circus performer. He even and Riders of the Purple Sage, be- dressed the part of a cowboy hero, came synonymous with cherished wearing flashy rhinestone outfits, American values, including inde- a wide brimmed hat and smart pendence, courage under fire and a leather boots. He even did his own strict code of honor. stunts. In 1926, Mix shot The Great The Western movie may argu- K & A Train Robbery in Glenwood ably be called the greatest distinctly Springs, where he rappelled down American contribution to the film the walls of Glenwood Canyon and industry. The Great Train Robbery galloped the length of Shoreleased in 1903 and running for a shone Dam on his co-star, full 12 minutes, was the first movie Tony the Wonder Horse. that featured a real plotline, lots of Unlike many movie action and innovative camera tech- stars today, Mix loved niques. Although filmed in New publicity and cared little Jersey, it had all the elements of for privacy. According to a Western – lots of action, villains one source, a neon sign and heroes, and, of course, horses. fronted his Hollywood Since then, the genre has become a mansion, flashing his staple in American movie making, name day and night. He from the silent of William S. Hart was King of the Cowboys, and Tom Mix to the more recent and true to form, when Django Unchained. he died in an Arizona car In The Great Train Robbery, crash, driving into a ditch Broncho Billy Anderson played at 75 mph after a night of the triple role of bandit, passen- partying. Ironically, when ger and tenderfoot who “danced” the car overturned, an while cowboys shot at his feet. On aluminum suitcase full of The Great Train Robbery was a smash hit the heels of the movie’s success, cash dislodged from the in the early 1900s.

Anderson moved out West and luggage rack and broke his John Wayne was the ultimate proceeded to create the first West- neck. (The “suitcase of death” is on cowboy hero whose legacy spanned ern hero. Modeled after a char- exhibit at the Tom Mix Museum in decades. A former University of acter in a Saturday Evening Post Dewey, Oklahoma.) The inmates of California football star, he changed story, Broncho Billy often played a Florence State Penitentiary built a his name from Marion Michael bad man turned good in the end, a metal monument with a cutout of Morrison when he got into movtheme still carried out in Westerns Tony to mark the site. ies. He starred in his first Western, today. Although his acting talents The next Cowboy superheroes were limited, he became the genre’s on the scene would be Gary Coo- The Big Trail, in 1930, and for the first movie star. His popularity had per and John “Duke” Wayne. Nei- remainder of the decade got stuck waned by 1920 as the next star ther Cooper nor Wayne restricted making dozens of B movies. His big arose in the Western firmament, themselves to Western movies, but break came in 1939, with the plum William S. Hart. they are probably best known for role of The Ringo Kid in StageHart had experience as a stage that film genre. In 1929, Cooper coach, still considered one of the actor and director, which helped starred in a remake of The Virgin- best Westerns ever made. Wayne immensely. His movies stuck with ian, which set the tone for his fu- later credited his success to acting the good/badman scenario with ture movies, including Along Came coach and character actor Paul Fix, little variance and followed the Jones, and the classic High Noon. who essentially created the John same formula - lots of action, con- Cooper epitomized “the strong si- Wayne persona.

The Western movie had always flict and successful resolution by lent type,” soft-spoken but dangerbeen a man’s world, with women the hero. As the country became ous when riled.

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John Wayne epitomized the Western hero for decades. He is shown here with Gail Russell in The Angel and the Badman. playing minor parts, usually the schoolmarm or the saloon girl with the heart of gold. This stereotype prevailed in TV westerns of the 1950s and early 60s, a.k.a. Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke. The one exception was Gail Davis, who played the part of sharpshooter Annie Oakley in the TV series of the same name.

Although producers continued to make Western movies, they stopped making low budget films in the 1950s due to competition from TV. The genre proliferated on television, with series including singing cowboys Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, The Cisco Kid, Maverick, Hopalong Cassidy and a host of others. One TV series, Rawhide (1959-1966) spawned the next cowboy superstar, Clint Eastwood, who played the role of Rowdy.

Social unrest dominated the ‘60s and ‘70s in America, reflected by the Westerns, which took on an anti-establishment and often humorous tone, from Eastwood’s “spaghetti Westerns,” made in Italy, to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the hilarious Blazing Saddles. Eastwood in par-

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ticular created characters that were cold-blooded killers who were still, in a sense, good guys, in films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Only John Wayne refused to play the anti-hero, and people still flocked to his movies in spite of critic Pauline Kael’s pontification that “The Western is dead.” Films like Midnight Cowboy, The Electric Horseman and Urban Cowboy attempted to provide a broader view of America during the 1970s with varying degrees of success.

The subsequent decades have failed to produce a Cowboy hero of the John Wayne caliber, Kevin Cosner came the closest (Dances with Wolves and Wyatt Earp) although Keifer Sutherland (Silverado and Young Guns) and Sam Elliot (Lonesome Dove) deserve honorable mention. Beginning with Eastwood’s Unforgiven in the 1990s, Western movies have become increasingly violent, such as Academy Award winners No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. For those of us who miss the good old days of Maverick and Bonanza, however, there are always reruns.

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Humor

I like winter … really

I’d tell my Florida friend that I like having four seasons. I wouldn’t tell her that sometimes we only have two, and the two that get skipped are my favorites, spring and fall. Still I like the variety.

People who live in the land of permanent summer probably order vanilla every time they go to Baskin Robbins. And it melts faster there.

I’d tell her the changing seasons give me a chance to move the winter clothes out of my closet and move the summer clothes in. If it weren’t for winter, I’d never clean my closet.

I’d tell her I love a white Christmas. I don’t care for a white Halloween or a white Easter, and I’ve seen plenty of both. But I wouldn’t tell her that.

And I’d say, “Haven’t you ever heard of a snow blower?” I wouldn’t ask her if she’s ever heard of a snow shovel, because I bet she has.

I’d tell her that being snowed in can be fun and I really mean that— as long as the power stays on. And as long as it doesn’t last long, and there’s nowhere I want to go, and I

have a good book to read and plenty of food to eat, and there’s someone else to do the shoveling. Then it’s really fun.

I’d tell her that those of us in cold climates know enough

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TAURUS - (April 21 - May 21) Relationships around seem to be at a stand still. Perhaps words were said that have been misunderstood by both parties involved.

This is the time to examine your relationships. Also to let them be what they are, and listen carefully. Lucky Numbers: 2, 6, 22, 25, 44, 46

GEMINI - (May 22 - Jun. 21) Plans for your home may seem stalled at this time. This does not mean that you will not be successful later on. You are meant to reevaluate your choices so as to make choices that you will make you happy in the long run. Lucky Numbers: 1, 2, 32, 33, 38, 53

CANCER - (Jun. 22 - July 22) If you are in the communications field you may have just had a promotion and now you are in training. If not, you still maybe in training of some kind. This is a time for careful communications as many misunderstandings are in the works. Lucky Numbers: 6, 22, 26, 38, 39, 41

LEO - (July 23rd – Aug 22) This transit brings a close examination of your spending and saving.

You will be closely looking your thinking behind your spending choices. There maybe a new member to your family withing the next 4 months. Lucky Numbers: 2, 13, 31, 40, 41, 43

ACROSS

29. Colas 31. My 32. Ol 33. ARM

34. Twin 36. Gravel 39. Ivan 40. Hemi

41. WW 42. Dog 43. Og 45. Pomona

ARIES - (March 21 - April 20) Your enthusiasm for your work may seem to be waning at this time.

Miscommunications seem to be run a muck at this time. This is the time to reevaluate and examine your projects. By May, you will achieve success on that which rework now. Lucky Numbers: 5, 8, 9, 21, 39, 58

SCORPIO - (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) Friends and associates are examined at this time. You may heal some relationships that had been thought gone and done. People may re-enter your life who will be important in some way over the next four months. Lucky Numbers: 3, 5, 11, 21, 33, 39

SAGITTARIUS - (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21) This is the time to look at your career and goals that define you. You maybe asked to take over a project that has been mishandled and fix the issues associated. You can shine in fixing that which was not working. Lucky Numbers: 4, 10, 13, 28, 38, 54

22. IM 23. LA 24. Radon 27. Redated

AQUARIUS - (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19) This is a time where you will be concerned with joint finances.

Money that you deal with that is either owned by somebody else, as in investing other people’s money, or money you share. You must prepare carefully how you will handle joint finances. Also you will look into your meaning of life at this time. Lucky Numbers: 1, 2, 5, 24, 36, 59

PISCES (Feb 20 - March 20) Relationships are the focus for you now. Somebody you dated may come back into your life at this time to see if you two were meant to be. All one to one relationships will be examined by you as this is a way to understand yourself and move forward. Lucky Numbers: 7, 8, 15, 16, 50, 52

VIRGO - (Aug. 23 - Sept. 23) There is a tendency to eat more than is needed at this time. This is a time where you are trying to nurture yourself. This transit lasts for four months so you want to look at your goals and aspirations as they can become a reality. Lucky Numbers: 2, 11, 12, 23, 32, 37

LIBRA - (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23) This transit is a time to examine your secret most self. That which you don’t share with others is highlighted. You must look at your motivations to move forward for your future success. Lucky Numbers: 9, 12, 14, 17, 35, 40

17. Ore 18. Run 19. Durango 21. Lager

CAPRICORN - (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20) You may be contemplating a big move, even one to another country. This would be the time to research, rather than make the big move. You may instead take up some form of training to change your career, this will go well. Lucky Numbers: 1, 16, 22, 25, 44, 50

10. Rue 12. Under 14. Two 16. Ono

Horoscopes by Teelok

to keep our pantries well stocked in case of a blizzard. I’d never starve in a storm. I might get tired of eating canned corn and tuna fish though.

I’d tell her that sure we have blizzards, but blizzards beat hurricanes in that your house is still standing afterwards.

And I’d tell her that no announcement makes children happier than, “Snow day. No school!” except possibly, “We’re going to Disney World.” No, maybe I wouldn’t tell her that.

(If you like to shovel, contact drosby@vastbb.net or see www. dorothyrosby.com.)

1. Santa Claus 1. Breckenridge 9. Ali

they run their air condiA Floridian once tioners so cold their drool asked me how I freezes? could bear to live Actually I don’t rememin a place that has ber what I said, but if I had winter three months the chance again, I know out of the year. I exactly what I’d say. I’d didn’t tell her it’s tell her I like winter. And actually six months.

I wouldn’t be lying—much.

She didn’t need to That might come as a know that. surprise to those of you We were attendBy Dorothy Rosby who know me well enough ing a conference in drosby@rushmore.com to know I’m chilled when Orlando, and we the temperature falls bewere standing in a hotel meeting room, which, in low 72, but you stay out of this.

I’d tell her winter makes people typical fashion for hotel meeting rooms, was cool enough to store a tougher. She might ask me why, if side of beef. At least it was a moist I’m so tough, I’m the only one in the room wearing a sweater. I’d tell cool.

Despite the air conditioning, my her I’m hiding my tattoos. (I don’t new friend was wearing a sleeve- have any tattoos, but don’t tell her less blouse and a skirt. I was wear- that.)

I’d say, “Don’t you know layers ing a parka. I’m joking. I wasn’t, but only because I hadn’t thought are fashionable?” I wear three or four of them all the time; four in to bring one.

I told her if anyone could handle the winter because it’s cold outside, winter, it was her, able to bare her and three in the summer because limbs in a meat locker the way she it’s cold inside. And I like that in was. And I said if people in warm the winter, no one makes fun of me climates don’t like winter, why do for it.

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