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A TAILING TALE

Clara Brown - Community Leader and Philanthropist Page 12

WESTERN FOOTPRINTS A ranch in Wyoming and Utah: Elizabeth Harris Page 16

TRAIL’S END

Journalist Helen Black fostered Denver’s first symphony orchestra Page 17

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I stopped in at Johnny Z’s gasoline the odds are very close, players do station for some fuel, chips and a V8 have a chance to win, but luck, bankjuice. Good snacks to munch on while rolls, timing and just plain luck all coming down the mountain highways. count.

On the counter at the Z Stop was chocBut clever, skilled play and proper olate covered bacon, according to the betting can make for exciting games clerk, a “hot item.” and an opportunity to enhance blackThe traffic on the canyon roads just jack winnings. You’ll see more adkeeps growing, as the metro area has vanced blackjack players at these discovered Black Hawk and Central By Bob Sweeney tables playing these extra odd games, City. Strings of cars are heading to the casinos so watch and learn. every day and there seems to be really heavy trafCraps and roulette seems to have really takfic on Friday afternoons. en off, as the tables are always busy. Craps is a The passing lanes are still screwed up on great team sport and you’ll hear the craps playHighway 119 where the right lane ends rather ers shouting and cheering as players make passes than the passing lane. Slower cars in the right with the dice, a lot of fun to play. lane have to merge left into cars in the passing Roulette is breathtaking when players just lane. Almost every trip to the mountains I almost cover the table with chips. Betting on the right see accidents as the lanes merge backwards.

Then there’s always the speedster who passes number and hitting it pays huge odds and one only to fall in line with the many cars heading up can bet odd or even, and red or black, also many the road. Always amazes me how someone will side bet options. A skilled roulette player can pass in a long traffic lane only to advance one make some big money playing the “wheel” and being lucky. spot.

Last of all, the food is just great everywhere, Anyway, gaming statistics show that business is improving rapidly at Colorado casinos. There the buffets have reached the Las Vegas/Reno is a great deal of construction underway around quality and value. If you don’t do anything else the metro area and these payrolls mean a stron- – drive up and enjoy a great meal at the daily bufger economy. Colorado is unique in the nation fets or the gourmet restaurants that open in the with folks moving here constantly with many job evenings.

Gambling isn’t for everyone, but good food is opportunities. We note that the Monarch Casino is advertising for new staff for the upcoming ho- something everyone enjoys. tel.

Casino employees seem to be happy with their jobs and most of the staffs remains with their employers for long times. Many of the dealers have been at casinos for many years really becoming professional like George at the Ameristar.

St. Patrick’s Day is always March 17 and I’ve enjoyed corned beef and cabbage at numerous casinos. The old Fitzgerald’s, now Saratoga, being my favorite. I still enjoy a $2 breakfast at Saratoga on occasion and that is one of the best deals anywhere.

“Streak” is a blackjack derivative game where players can bet on winning two hands in a row up to five hands with odds increasing rapidly all the way to 39-to-1 if a player can win five consecutive hands against the dealer. It always seems like the dealer is streaking, as they constantly pull 20s against the players, at least that is the way it seems.

The great odds that the dealer enjoys is getting to take their hit card last after many of the players have busted out of the game. The 10 “scare card” makes players usually hit everything below a 17, and the dealer goes last. Players generally follow the book on when to hit, but the book isn’t always right. Hitting a 12 against a dealer’s 12 is one of the hardest decisions to make. Splitting pairs is usually a good practice, but not against a dealer 10 face card.

Another derivative is Buffalo Blackjack where players can match their bets that the dealer will bust on taking a hit card. For example, you have a 20 and the dealer shows a six. The amount of your original bet can be bet on the Buffalo spot that the dealer will bust. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. There is nothing worse than the dealer turning over a five for an 11, hitting it with a 10 and winning the hand, happens a lot.

The casinos know what they’re doing when they add these games running millions of computer hands to see what the odds are in winning, and losing, and the game wouldn’t be presented if it didn’t favor the house. In almost all games

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Going Green

Save bucks with energy audits and cost-saving appliances

Often we think “going green” will be costly, but you can be reimbursed many times and also recapture some of the original cost through lower utility bills. Colorado’s Xcel Energy Company now offers many substantial rebates for conducting home energy audits and buying new energy-saving appliances, thermostats, cooling and heating units, etc. If you want to upgrade your appliances or if one breaks suddenly, it can save you some bucks to buy the newer green models.

Before writing this article, I talked with a knowledgeable Xcel customer service representative who recommended that if you are serious about saving energy and money, you should have a home energy audit to help you determine the right energy-saving improvements for your home. The audit can help you save money

on home improvements that can lower your energy bill for years to come.

The customer service representative pointed out that customers can receive up to a $200 rebate on personalized home energy audits with a home expert efficiency that can set you on the path to lower energy bills and a more comfortable, efficient home. Every home is different. That’s why an in-person evaluation is so important.

A qualified energy auditor will identify opportunities for improvement. You’ll receive a customized plan that includes valuable tips and tricks to help you conserve energy and reduce monthly bills. There’s no obligation, and you can apply those recommendations as you see fit.

The comprehensive infrared whole-house audit includes inspection of your home’s exterior

(such as windows and doors), analysis of insulation levels, performance and general condition of your mechanical systems, a carbon monoxide test, and analysis of your utility bills.

Infrared images provide a better idea of what’s happening behind your drywall and other areas that can’t be seen plus thermo images of the walls and ceilings. Leaked air increases your energy bills because it needs to be heated or cooled again.

More technical audits even include a blower door diagnostic

tool to determine how much air your home loses each hour through leakage. The audits offer even more tailored solutions to combat air loss and energy consumption.

ing point for determining energy saving opportunities. This tool requires you to invest time (20-30 minutes) but no money.

Appliance and light bulb savings

You also can take a cost-free energy assessment online to quickly uncover potential energy savings. An online energy assessment is a free online Xcel Energy tool that interviews you about your equipment and operating conditions to uncover areas where energy and cost savings opportunities may exist. Based on industry averages and trends, regional data, and customer knowledge of the facility, the online tool is a start-

Energy efficient appliances and light bulbs may cost a bit more up front, but they can save big money over the life of the product. Xcel Energy offers rebates to help reduce the costs of implementing qualified energy efficiency measures, such as geothermal heat pumps, water heaters, air conditioners, LED lighting, tankless water heaters, and more.

When shopping for a new appliance, carefully read the labels on the floor models for details on actual energy savings. Many labels estimate the yearly savings in utility bills over your older appliance.

For more information visit www.xcelenergy.com or call a customer service agent at 1-800895-4999.

the stone to Germany. The red diamond was later discovered by U.S. General Joseph McNarney in a salt mine, but the General believed the stone to be a ruby. The stone eventually entered the private collection of an anonymous diamond connoisseur, in which it remained for 30 years. The Kazanjian Bros.

Inc. purchased it in February 2007. The previously unnamed 5.05-carat Red Diamond thus acquired the name “Kazanjian Red” diamond. The Kazanjian Red was put on display at the Morgan Memorial Hall of Gems of American Museum of Natural History in New York, from October 1, 2010 to March 13, 2011. The whereabouts of this diamond today is not known.

The world’s first largest red

diamond is the Moussaieff Red, a 5.11-carat, trilliant-cut, fancy red, internally flawless diamond.

In the rough state, this diamond weighed 13.90 carats. It was discovered by a farmer in Brazil in the mid-1990s. The rough diamond was acquired by the William Goldberg Diamond Corporation of New York, who transformed it into a spectacular triangular brilliant.

The color of the diamond is a fine ruby red, and was initially given the name “Red Shield” by the Goldberg Corporation.

The diamond was later acquired by the Moussaieff jewelry firm, around the year 2001, for a rumored $8,000,000, and after this transaction the diamond acquired the name Moussaieff red. The Moussaieff red diamond is set as the centerpiece in a platinum ring.

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Gemstones & Minerals

Old garnet hatpin is really a red diamond

The DeYoung red diamond was in the possession of Sidney DeYoung of J & SS DeYoung Inc. Founded in 1835 as diamond cutters and dealers in natural pearls, colored gemstones and antique jewels, the firm was based in Boston, Massachusetts.

The stone had been acquired by his establishment as a part of a collection of estate jewelry in which it was wrongly identified as a red garnet.

The item that included the stone had been labeled as a garnet hat pin! But one day Sidney DeYoung happened to examine the garnet hatpin a little more closely. He noticed the so-called garnet just didn’t look quite like a garnet.

Moreover, he observed that for an old stone, it was remarkably clean

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and wasn’t scratched up. This observation aroused his suspicions, and so he had the stone tested by a gem-testing laboratory. His suspicions were confirmed, and it turned out that the so-called garnet was in fact not a garnet, but a red diamond, the third largest in the world!

The DeYoung red diamond is a 5.03-carat, modified round brilliant cut, fancy dark red diamond with a slightly brownish hue, giving it the appearance of a rhodolite garnet. It is the third largest red diamond in the world and is valued at approximately five million dollars. Sydney DeYoung donated the red diamond to the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in 1987, to be added to the

National Gem and Mineral Collection. He also donated to the institution a 2.86-carat fancy intense pink diamond that came from the Williamson mine in Tanzania.

The two diamonds are exhibited side by side at the Natural History Museum.

The second largest red diamond in the world is the 5.05-carat, emerald-cut Kazanjian Red diamond. This red diamond was discovered as a 35-carat rough in Lichtenberg, South Africa, in 1927, during the “diamond rush” of the mid-1920s. The rough diamond was cut in Amsterdam, and after cutting and polishing, weighed 5.05 carats. The cut employed was an emerald-cut, believed to be the best cut that suited the rough stone. At the onset of WWII, the diamond’s owners placed it in a safe in Arnhem, the Netherlands, but was eventually seized by the Nazis who sent

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ACROSS: 1. March 17th Festival (2, 8, 3) 10. Deeply regretted (4) 11. Bullfighting chant (3) 12. St. Patrick is the patron Saint of this country (7) 13. Blake Shelton loves this TV station (3) 15. League of Legends video game (2) 16. West Coast rapper (3) 17. Baseball injury list (2) 18. Bearded Irish mythical creatures, probably real (11) 21. Circled around, in space (7)

23. Douglas County town, home of Colorado Renaissance Festival (8) 26. Part of a stutter (2) 27. Football poll (2) 28. 800 Malt liquor (2) 29. Able bodied Navy person (6) 31. Half of Mike and Mike (5) 33. French Summer (3) 35. Used to preserve the Frozen Dead Guy (3) 37. Ai machine (5) 40. Local electricity company (6, 5) 43. Famous bear (4) 44. Long, thin fish (3)

46. Leg pot (4) 47. Irish dog and type of dice thrower (6) 43. Pulls out (3) 44. Molten volcano stuff (4) 45. Himalayan bovid (3) 47. Bond rating (3) 48. In, in French (2) 49. Clothes coloring (3) 52. The Queen (3) 53. Bear hole (3) 54. Springs town off Hwy 93 (9)

DOWN: 1. Piece of Irish wood, used as a weapon (10) 2. One who has food, water, shelter and ammo (7) 3. Michigan town near Turtle Creek casino (8, 4) 4. Old alphabet (5) 5. Home made bomb (3) 6. Music disc or old Mercedes diesel coupe (2) 7. In charge of the roadways (3) 8. Gangster and self proclaimed humanitarian, Capone (2)

9. Shouted (6) 13. Could be a suit in cards or a golfing instrument (4) 14. City golf course, in short (4) 16. Jeffco traditional middle school (6) 19. The casino’s advantage (5, 4) 20. Type of brew, like an old train (5, 4) 22. Sea eagle (3) 24. Military address, overseas (3) 25. Japanese carp (3) 30. Floating gel, check it out (4)

32. Breathing tools (5) 34. Isle of Man motorcycle race (2) 36. They run companies (4) 38. Ouch (2) 39. Mineral rock (3) 41. Table games area (3) 42. NJ casino town (2) 45. Rapper Cool J (2)

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BUFFET THURSDAY, MARCH 17 11AM – 8PM

SUNDAY, MARCH 27 11AM – 8PM

Enjoy a traditional Irish meal featuring corned beef, cabbage, bangers & mash and more!

Featuring all your favorite dishes including carved ham, prime rib, snow crab legs and more!

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www.golden mardigras.com St. Patrick’s Day Buffet Come in for the luck of the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday, March 17, and look for our green beer specials. While you are here, stop

by Bourbon Street Buffet, 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Enjoy a delicious St. Patty’s lunch or dinner buffet where we will feature traditional Irish dishes, including corned beef, cabbage, bangers and mash and much more, all for just $14.99.

Easter Buffet

Hop into Bourbon Street Buffet from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. on Sunday, March 27, to enjoy a delicious Easter Buffet. Chef Brian will feature all your favorites including carved ham, prime rib, crab legs and more, all for just $9.99$14.99. If a buffet is what you are craving, we have everything you want, and then some.

Thursday Scratch Cards Mail Offers Make Thursday’s special with a lot of lucky money. If you receive mail coupons from us, watch your mail for a special offer to redeem each Thursday for big bonus offers. Make sure to scratch your offer in front of a Guest Service Team Member and all offers are valid at the Mardi Gras property.

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 percent off any food purchase (up to $10 discount) and one free swipe on our kiosk prize wheel for free entries, FreePlay and possibly 1/2 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.

Wednesday Slot & Video Poker Tournaments

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for your first round and 100 points for each additional round, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Don’t miss your share of $1,000, at the Golden Mardi Gras Casino, where Denver plays.

Golden Gulch Casino Promotions

Check out the NEW Golden Gulch exclusive promotions with something fun every day of the week. Enjoy Bingo Mondays and Wednesdays, Nifty 50+ specials on Tuesdays, $3,200 Hot Seats Fridays and Saturdays and our Wheel of Winnings kiosk game on Sundays. Stop by and pick up your NEW A-Play Club Card and get all the details of our great new promotions from our friendly Gulch team.

Lucky’s & Full House Café

Feeling hungry? Try our Delicious Double Cheeseburger with Fries for only $4.99 at Full House Cafe and Lucky’s, all day, every day. Lucky’s also offers Pho and daily specials including the best breakfast menu around.

New Member Offer

There has never been a better time to become an A-Play Club Member. Sign up today and you can win up to $1,000 and start receiving all the benefits you deserve. If you earn 350 points on your day of sign-up, you earn a second swipe at our promotional kiosk for even more prizes. Visit guest services for details and see how far your play can take you.

Play your favorite Table Game with us

Try your luck at one of our table games at Mardi Gras or Golden Gates Casinos and reap the rewards. We have so many options for you so feel free to ask any of our experienced and friendly dealers how to play any of our table games.

Poker Parlour

Golden Gates Casino and Poker Parlour Play in Black Hawk’s finest Poker Parlour at the Golden Gates Casino. Featuring 20 liveaction poker tables and the best tournaments in Colorado. Check out our current Poker Promotions and get even more cash for your play.

www.zcasinobh.com 10X points

Every Monday and Tuesday this month receive 10X points on slots, just check in at our

Earn Turbo, Nitro or Flame status and redeem your comps for up to $20 in gas each day.

Simply swipe at any promotional kiosk to receive your FREE scratch ticket. Visit Guest Services for complete details.

Play and Ride

$500,000 Big Draw

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.

Get reimbursed for your ATM fees

$70,000 Clovers of Cash Drawings

Every Saturday, drawings are held at 3 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Winning has never been easier. Simply match the numbers from your entry card during any Big Draw this March to win up to $500,000. Qualifying Player Extras Club members will receive an entry postcard in the mail, valid for each Big Draw.

Earn one additional bonus entry each Saturday with 300 same-day base points or 90 minutes of rated play on table games. Visit Guest Services for complete details.

Catch the free shuttle

kiosk. Every Wednesday through Sunday this month win up to 10X Points, just play our kiosk game. See Club Z for complete details for all promos.

Spin and Win

Every day from Feb. 28 to April 2, join us for our $70,000 Clovers of Cash Drawings from 1 – 11 p.m., win up to $500 in Z-Play at each drawing. We will have two winners per drawing hour. Earn entries with every 100 points for that day of play.

Free Waterford Crystal Vase Stop by Z Casino on Thursday, March 17, to pick up your free Waterford Crystal Vase. Just earn 300 same day base points. The giveaway will start at 11 a.m. and quantities are limited.

Silver Tsunami Clue 60+ Are you 60 years of age or older? Join us every Monday and Tuesday this month for our Silver Tsunami Clue 60+ days. Just earn 60 base points that day and receive one free menu item valued up to $12 and a free nonalcoholic beverage.

Club Z Sign up for a new Club Z card at Z Casino and receive up to $100 in Z-Play the same day.

See Club Z for complete details.

Who Wants a Discount on Gas? Earn your base points Monday through Sunday and receive up to $1.50 off the following Tuesday at our Z Stop Gas Station. See Club Z for complete details.

Earn 75 same day base points, redeem your bus ticket at Club Z and receive $25 in Z-Play.

Earn 500 same day base points and get an additional $5 in Z-Play.

Stop by the Z Stop Gas Station to use our ATM, bring your receipt to Z Casino within 2 hours from the time on your receipt. You will receive $5 in Z-Play or $3 Cash back.

The shuttle stops at Z Casino (on Selak Street adjacent to our free parking lot).

Z Cafe

Stop by Z Cafe located on the 2nd floor of Z Casino to get your favorite Cappuccino, Latte, Mocha and much more.

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. Located on the 3rd floor of Z Casino.

Birthday

Come celebrate your birthday with us. New and existing members play our kiosk game to win free Z-Play.

High Hand

Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday join us for our High Hand table games promotion.

Receive a drawing ticket for every one hour of carded play. Drawings will be every other hour from 4 – 10 p.m. See Club Z for complete details.

Table Games

Play the Hottest Table Games in Black Hawk at Z Casino! We have all your favorites including Craps with Sharp Shooter, and Blackjack! Our table games are open Friday, Saturday and Sunday 2 p.m. to close.

Don’t want to pay for Breakfast?

Just earn 10 same day base points before 11 a.m. and receive a voucher for a free Double Down Breakfast at Club Z. Receive your voucher from the promotional kiosk.

Prime Rib Dinner Join us every Friday this month for our $3.99 Prime Rib Dinner special. Receive your voucher from the promotional kiosk.

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$40,000 Shamrockin’ Rewards Giveaway Every Friday, from 6 – 10 p.m., be one of five lucky guests to win up to $2,000 Promo Play. Score $1,100 Promo Play instantly if you’re dealt the Jack of Clubs. And that’s not all, take home $100 Promo Play for each card in the suit of clubs. Earn entries for every 100 base points or every 30 minutes of rated play on table games.

Accumulate entries from Saturday through Friday each week, beginning on Saturday, Feb. 27. Plus, get 10X entries on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.

Great Outdoors Jeep Giveaway On Saturday, March 26, from 4 – 11 p.m., ride off in a trail-tested 2016 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited or win a share of $10,000.Throughout the evening, 12 lucky players will win from $200 Promo Play to $1,000 cash. Then, another ten contestants will each draw an envelope with a prize – the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, or from $200 Promo Play to $1,000 cash. Earn entries for every 100 base points or every 30 minutes of rated play on table games. Accumulate entries from Tuesday, March 1 through Saturday, March 26 at 10:59 p.m. Plus, get 10X entries on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Leprechaun Loot Kiosk Game Every Thursday in March, play our new Leprechaun Loot kiosk game and reveal a prize of up to $1,000 Promo Play. To win, simply swipe your Player Extras Club Card at a kiosk after earning 100 base points or playing 30 minutes of table games before 11:59 p.m. Some restrictions apply. Visit Guest Services for details.

Mega Points Multiplier Every Monday and Tuesday in March, spin the multiplier wheel at our promotional kiosk and get up to 20X points on your favorite slots.

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Simply swipe your card at a promotional kiosk before 11:59 p.m. Some restrictions apply. Visit Guest Services for details.

Weekday Warriors Exclusive Menu

All day, Monday – Thursday, and from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Fridays, take advantage of the $2 breakfast, $4 lunch and $6 dinner menu in the Main Street Café. Some restrictions apply.

Visit Guest Services for details.

Weekday Warriors Bus Fare Redemption

All day, Monday – Thursday, and from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Fridays, get $20 cash back or $25 in Promo Play when you redeem your bus ticket at Guest Services. Gold members – only 150 same day base points. Platinum members – only 100 same day base points. Diamond members – FREE. Some restrictions apply. Visit Guest Services for details.

Join Now, Win Now

New Player Extras Club members get up to $210. Visit Guest Services for details.

in March 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 every Monday in March. From 8 a.m. – midnight, you will receive a lucky mystery multiplier when you visit the Players Club or Cashier Services upon registration. Receive up to 20X points on your favorite slot machines and a free buffet after earing 100 tier points. Not valid on video poker.

Multiplier cannot be combined with any other offer. Must register prior to playing.

50+ Perks With age comes big bonuses. Every Sunday in March 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 tier points from 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Cannot be combined with any other point multiplier.

Seafood Takeover

Come Shellabrate with us during our Seafood Takeover in March and dive into our delicious seafood specials. We are bringing back the biggest and best All-You-Can-Eat Crab Legs seven nights a week, as well as a seafood pasta action station at Calypso’s Buffet. Farraddays will feature a Brazilian Lobster Tail and Jumbo Sea Scallops that are guaranteed to hit the spot. Check out Tradewinds for delicious weekly seafood specials.

Hoops to Happiness Giveaway

Every Friday in March you have a chance to head home with up to $2,000 in cash. Random drawings will take place from 6 – 10 p.m.

Winners get to take a shot at winning a huge cash prize by shooting some hoops. Get one free entry and more with play.

Grab Some Green Giveaway

On Tuesdays in March random drawings will be held from 2 – 7 p.m. Winners will get to test their luck with our claw machine and try to grab some green up to $1,000. Get one FREE entry and more with play.

20X Points on Pennies

Earn 20X points on pennies every Thursday

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Whatever your taste, Calypso’s Buffet is sure to satisfy your appetite any day of the week. Enjoy all-you-can-eat breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner buffets. Featuring delicious breakfast spreads, crisp salads, freshly baked breads, tender chicken and beef entrées, wood stone-baked pizzas and savory side dishes.

Try the New Desserts at Tradewinds

Tradewinds at the Isle has a new menu that features 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; visit Tradewinds@ at the Isle Casino Hotel Black Hawk.

New Member Play 30 & 5,000 Points for an Email In March, 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.

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Social Media Make sure to ‘like’ Isle Black Hawk on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

To stay up to date with all promotions, events and special contests. Also, make sure to register your email with the Players Club or Cashier Services to receive special promotion emails.

Play and Stay at the Isle During March, earn 500 tier points on your Fan Club card Sunday’s through Thursday’s 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 may apply.

You must register prior to playing. Offer subject to availability. Excludes holidays and blackout dates.

Bus Fare Redemption Do you ride the bus to Black Hawk? The Isle will refund your bus fare up to $23. Simply earn 350 tier points on your player’s card in February for your refund. Then, 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.

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The fun happens Fridays and Saturdays in March between 2 and 8 p.m. See guest services for rules and additional details for all promos.

20x Points Party on Saturdays Join us Saturdays in March from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for 20X Points on all Penny Machines at Lady Luck. You must register your card prior to play to receive the multiplier-stop by Guest Services and get registered.

Lucky Loot of the Leprechaun With Lucky Loot of the Leprechaun, three winners each hour will get to pick a leprechaun duck, and reveal cash prizes up to $250. What’s a leprechaun duck? Stop by on Tuesdays March 15 and 22, noon to 6 p.m.

favorite gift items. Just earn 200 unadjusted points that day and claim your favorite gift. Get here early, supplies are extremely limited and are first come first serve. Don’t forget to swipe your card to see if there’s any cash with your gift, you could win up to $500. See guest services for rules and additional details.

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 Play And Stay Giveaway Join your favorite table games crew in Black Hawk for the Hot Spot, Cool Chips Progressive Giveaway. Fridays and Saturdays in March from noon – 9 p.m. you could be a winner. Two seats will be chosen every hour to win $50 dollars in promo chips and their tablemates will win $10 in promo chips. If you’re in the winning hot seat, we’ll give you a drawing slip for our Electronics Frenzy Giveaway on March 27 where you could go home with some great prizes, including a 42” television. If a player is not in the Hot Spot, the $50 rolls into the progressive which will be awarded during the last drawing.

Jackpot Frenzy 1 & 2 Earn an entry into Lady Luck’s next $10,000 Jackpot Frenzy. Guests will receive one free entry for every jackpot $1,200 or better won from Feb. 1 through noon on March 26. On March 26, place your entries in Lady Luck’s Jackpot Frenzy drawing that takes place from 2 – 7 p.m. You could win up to $1,000. A total of $10,000 in cash prizes will be given away! And don’t forget we start the next Jackpot Frenzy Monday, March 28, with drawings on June 4.

Platinum and Millionaire Bonus Points The tier rewards are racking up in March with a great point multiplier day for Platinum and Millionaire players. Tuesday, March 15 Platinum players will receive 8X points and Millionaire players will receive 10X points. You don’t need to register, come on in and enjoy your favorite slot machine and receive bonus points all day!

New Members When you’re a fan, you get better rewards faster than ever. For all new members, just play 10 unadjusted points and receive $20 in Otis & Henry’s Bar & Grill and an additional $10 Match Play on Table Games. Sign up your email address, receive $5 and start raking in those rewards.

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

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.

Social Media Make sure to “like” Lady Luck Black Hawk on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and Instagram.

Stay up to date with all promotions, events and special contests! Also, make sure to register your email with Guest Services to receive special promotion emails.

Monte Carlo There are now even more chances to win in the Lady Luck Poker Room. 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, located on the 2nd floor, for details and updated jackpot amounts.

Lady Luck Poker The Bad Beat Jackpot now includes a decreasing qualifier element starting at Aces full of Kings.

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Spin and Win Mystery Table Games Spring Cleaning, Surprise Inside Point Multiplier Play craps, roulette, Bonus 6, Buffalo Giveaway Earn up to 20X Points Thursdays in March. Blackjack Bonus and Double Deck Blackjack every We’re doing spring cleaning here at Lady Luck on March 29 from noon – 8 p.m., cleaning out the closets and bringing back some of your

Spin the wheel from noon – 8 p.m. in the promotions area and try to score up to 20X points on slots. Plus you get 5X points on video poker.

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day of the week. There are 20X odds on Craps everyday! $5 games open every day and $2 craps Monday through Thursday.

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Are you 60 years of age or older? Join us every Monday and Tuesday this month for our Silver Tsunami Clue 60+ days. Just earn 60 base points that day and receive one free menu item valued up to $12 and a free nonalcoholic beverage. Just one more way to win at the Z.

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Sign up for a new Club Z card at Johnny Z’s and receive up to $100 in Z-Play the same day! See Club Z for complete details.

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Stop by Z Cafe located on the 2nd floor of Johnny Z’s to get your favorite Cappuccino, Latte, Mocha and much more.

Join us every Friday this month for our $3.99 Prime Rib Dinner special. Receive your voucher from the promotional kiosk.

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Every Monday through Thursday join us for our High Hand table games promotion. Receive a drawing ticket for every one-hour of carded play. Drawings will be every other hour from 1 to 11 p.m. See Club Z for complete details.

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Tuesday Bonus Entries Earn 5X Entries on Slots or 3X Entries on Video Poker with all your play on March Tuesdays to win our weekend Chase the Pot ‘O Gold. Drawings to win up to $7000.

Enjoy FREE Bingo every from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., with double prizes, St. Patrick’s Day, Thursday March 17. Win $200 InstaPlay Play or Table Games Play Chips prizes each hour, or $500 cash prizes for our bigger bingo games at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., and one random game in between. Players with a Player’s Card can pick up their Bingo card at the Player’s Club one hour before each game.

Chips Ahoy – Win Playing Table Games Play table games any day at Century and you can take “The Helm” for a spin and win Promo Chips to boost your bets and your chances of winning. You earn spins on the ship’s wheel with specific bonus hands or conditions in all of our table games. Promo prizes on the wheel include prizes up to $100 in promo chips.

Light Up Your Easter With a Scented Candle Earn an extra-large fruitscented candle with just 300 base points

played on Easter Sunday, March 27, your choice of scents while supplies last.

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 on your Player’s Club card that day.

Must redeem for certificate at the Player’s Club prior to being seated for your meal, and must redeem certificate on the same day it is issued. Just play on Tuesdays and eat our most popular meal for FREE.

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Sign up at our Player‘s Club for a free club card to get a FREE SPIN to win up to $1,500. Earn 10 base points on your day of signup and return to the Player’s Club for $5 in Insta-Play added right to your account. Earn 100 base points total on your signup day and redeem at the Club for $5 in Insta-Play added to your account.

Earn 200 base points that same day for another $5 Insta-Play bonus. Finally, earn 300 base points that same day for another amazing $5 in Insta-Play bonus available at the Club. That’s up to $20 in Day One Insta-Play for New Members. Wow.

Military Appreciation Monday Guests with military ID will receive a free ice cream, plus 50% off meals (up to $25 in one day) at the Retro Deli or Mid City Grill.

Fantasy Golf Wednesday Earn up to seven Fantasy Golf Card Scratch Tickets Each Wednesday (at 250 base points, 400 base points, and 1,000 base points, and every thousand base points thereafter up to 5,000) and Win your share of $1,000 in Cash and InstaPlay prizes if you have one of the lowest five scores recorded that day. Win DOUBLE PRIZES if your score is under par for the card. Scores are tallied and winners posted the next day and prizes must be claimed within one week. Play, scratch, and win with Fantasy Golf Wednesdays at Century.

$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

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Senior Celebration – Wednesday And Thursday Guests aged 50 or better receive 2X points on play ALL DAY from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., plus 50% off purchases (up to $25 in one day) at the Retro Deli or Mid City Grill.

Please note that 50% food discount cannot be combined with any other coupon or discount, and including daily food specials.

Birthdays At Century All guests can come in on the day of their birthday and get 2X points plus a free gift. Guests who come in on the day of their 21st birthday receive the 2X points and the gift, plus $10 in comp added to their account, plus a $5 Promo Chip to use at the tables. Guests with a birthday coupon from our mailer redeem it at the Player’s Club for a gift of 10X their age in points.

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A Tailing Tale A Tailing Tale of Clara Brown Community Leader and Philanthropist A Tailing TaLe

By Maggie Magoffin

Maggie@maggiempublications.com

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lara Brown was born into slavery near Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Jan. 1, 1800. At a young age, she and her mother were sold to a Virginian tobacco farmer who eventually moved to Kentucky.

At eighteen-years-old, Clara married a slave named Richard and together they had four children: Richard, Margaret, Paulina Ann and Eliza Jane.

Sadly, at 8 years of age Paulina, the twin sister to Eliza Jane, drowned. In 1835 their owner died and in the process of settling the estate the family took Clara’s family to a slave auction where they were each sold to separate owners in distant locations. A plantation owner from Kentucky sensed Clara’s intelligence and strength and placed high bids to attain her.

When her owner died, Clara was 56 years old and per a stipulation in his will, she was granted her freedom. However, Kentucky law required freed slaves to leave the state and so she hired on as a maid and cook for a family heading to the westward departure point of Leavenworth Kansas Territory.

From there, she was hired to work as a cook on a wagon train headed for Denver. It was a hot, difficult eight-week journey made more uncomfortable by the complaints of a southern man about a black woman traveling with them.

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Clara Brown

settled in Auraria where she worked at the City Bakery. She was one of the founding members of the nondenominational Union Sunday school through her affiliation with two Methodist missionary ministers.

Following the tide of miners heading into the mountains, Clara set up the first laundry in Gilpin County in Gregory Gulch. Her laundry service eventually expanded to where she took on a partner. As a result of the growth of her business, her income grew substantially. She invested her earnings in land and mine claims

and within several years accumulated $10,000 in savings. At this time, she was reported to have owned 16 lots in Denver, seven houses in Gregory Gulch as well as property and mines in Boulder, Georgetown and Idaho Springs.

Clara gave generously of herself to those in her community and hosted the first Methodist church services at her house.

She helped people in need in any way she could, whether newly settled Euro-Americans or Native Americans. Lovingly called Aunt Clara, her home was a hospital, a home, a

general refuge for those who were sick or in poverty.

She was quoted as saying, “I always go where Jesus calls me.”

The Catholic Church and the first Protestant church in the Rocky Mountains were built partly through Brown’s donations towards their construction.

Clara gave of herself unselfishly to anyone who needed her, but she desperately missed her family who’d been torn from her nearly thirty years prior. With the help of friends who could write, she began sending letters asking for any information on her husband and children. She eventually heard that her husband, Richard, and daughter, Margaret had both died. Her son, Richard was lost, but she vowed to find her daughter, Eliza Jane.

At the end of the Civil War, Clara liquidated her holdings to travel back to Gallatin, Kentucky. She didn’t find Eliza Jane, but she helped relatives and others who were former slaves travel to Colorado by train and wagon train, where she helped them find work once they were settled. In 1879, she went to Kansas to help former slaves build a community and farm the land.

At eighty years of age, Clara’s funds were depleted due to monies spent on charitable contributions, her efforts to find her family, and having been cheated by real estate agents. She moved to Denver when she could no longer endure the higher altitude, and she lived in the home of a friend.

After years of writing letters, Clara heard that Eliza Jane lived in Council Bluffs. At 82 years of age, she traveled there to meet her daughter. The Council Bluffs Nonpareil reported on March 4, 1882 that Brown was “still strong, vigorous, tall, her hair thickly streaked with gray, her face kind.”

After a lengthy visit in Council Bluffs, Clara returned to Denver with her granddaughter.

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She was later visited by Eliza Jane, who remained with her until Clara’s death on Oct. 23, 1885.

Clara was buried in Denver’s Riverside Cemetery. Colorado state dignitaries attended her funeral, including Denver Mayor John Long Routt and Gov. James Benton Grant. The Central City Opera House dedicated a permanent memorial chair in her name.

FROM MAGGIE

Be sure to check out my website for past columns at www.MaggieMPublications. com.

The first two books in my Misadventures of the Cholua Brother’s Series are available on my website, on Amazon.com, Lulu.com and BarnesandNoble.com. They can also be bought through the Gilpin Historical Museum and Mountain Menagerie in Central City. Watch for the release of the third and final book in the series Bonanza Beans available in late February or early March.

Cholua Brothers Mining Company specialty coffees are available at Mountain Menagerie in Central City or from their website at www. choluabros.com.

This column was previously published in the Central City Weekly Register-Call.

Send in your tales Mail your stories with contact information: Maggie M P.O. Box 746495 Arvada, CO 80006-6495 Email: Maggie@ maggiempublications.com If you prefer to tell me your story orally and have me write it for you, please feel free to call me at 303-881-3321.

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From Beth Chapman’s photo albums, 1910, Sara and Ronnie, Elizabeth Harris’s children

A ranch in Wyoming and Utah: The women of Neponset Elizabeth Harris

work, but the change was a release for her.

Elizabeth Harris and two of her children, Sara and Ronnie, took their first ride in eponset an automobile on their trip to Land and Neponset. The headquarters Livestock, of the ranch was in Evanston, which I and from there the ranch have been writspread well into Utah, north ing about, is now to almost Woodruff and Deseret Land and south to near Wahsatch. The Livestock. I have © Anna Lee Ames Frohlich “Home Ranch” was west of had the privilege of working with Craig Kennedy who is Evanston. Since this was a summer in charge of the Range Resources/ position, Elizabeth and her children Irrigation lands program at De- would be living in a tent. There was seret. We discovered that we had lots of adventure ahead for the chilsomething interesting in common. dren. Elizabeth’s daughter Sara reBoth our great-grandmothers were corded their time there.

While the children played, Elizainvolved with Neponset, the original ranch that belonged to the Chap- beth worked hard doing the daily cooking. There were between 40 man family.

(I am indebted to Margaret Wil- and 60 men there at any given time. liams who allowed the use of her in- A Chinese cook had been hired to cook for the cowboys. The sheepformation about Elizabeth Harris.)

My great-grandmother Eliza Ma- herders had their own wagons and ria Chapman was married to George could do some cooking for themF. Chapman who owned the ranch. selves, but there were still a lot of She married him in 1882, lived in people to cook for including the Evanston, Wyoming, and was in- family.

As if that were not enough, it was volved with the Utah ranch until her also Elizabeth’s job to cook for endeath in 1897.

Craig’s great-grandmother, Eliz- tertainments that the family hosted. abeth Harris, lived with her hus- Family and friends from the East band in Evanston. Her life was not came to visit for extended periods of easy, and she worked to make ends time. The young people liked to go meet by cleaning houses and cook- on excursions around the ranch on ing. She came to Neponset around horseback or in a wagon. Elizabeth 1910 for at least several summers in probably packed their picnics. a row to work as a cook. It was hard George Chapman was likely to

N

The Natural Bridge, a favorite place for a picnic at the ranch (1910). The arch has fallen in since that time.

have had various groups of people who he entertained. There were salesmen coming through town with foodstuffs for his market, men buying or selling livestock, hunting parties, Union Pacific officials (since he was the master mechanic of the entire line), and politicians. (Mr. Chapman was a Republican and was elected a member of the legislature of Wyoming in 1892.) There was an enormous amount of work for Elizabeth.

There were also weddings. The one I know about was the 1910 wedding of George Hobart Chapman, son of George Fredric Chapman, to Frances Clark. Frances and her sister had been friends of Mr. Chapman’s daughter Beth since childhood. They were the daughters of Clarence Clark, the U.S. senator

This is a tent in front of the ranch house like the one the Harris family might have stayed in, 1910.

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Beth Chapman and Milly Ames feed orphaned lambs, 1910.

from Wyoming. The wedding was not at the ranch, but there must have been a celebration there. The wedding took place in Washington, D.C., and was attended by the president of the United States. Beth was a bridesmaid.

Then there were the children.

Their enchantment with the ranch must have been not that different from what the Chapman children had experienced. There was so much to see and learn and plenty of room for exploration and shenanigans.

The ranch was not a quiet place.

The animals, “enormous herds of sheep and cattle,” made noise, as did the cowboys. The dust in the air must have been thick. Sheep and cattle were brought closer in to the corrals for branding. Sara and Ronnie watched lambs and calves being born. If they were lucky, they might have been able to bottle feed orphaned lambs. The hard part for them was watching the more violent aspects of the cowboys jobs. “…

It was the branding, the roping, the earmarking, docking, etc., that made them sick to the stomach, and

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yet they were so fascinated that they couldn’t take their eyes off it.”

The Chapman children too had spent time at the corrals. They fed little abandoned lambs and played with the puppies of the sheepherding and hunting dogs. My grandmother Beth learned to use a lasso.

After 1915 in Brookline, Massachusetts she lived with her husband two doors from the firehouse, which still used horses. One day the firemen showed up on her doorstep, holding a lasso. A horse had escaped, and they couldn’t catch it. Beth took the lasso in hand and caught that horse in one try.

Sara and Ronnie played in the fields and enjoyed nature all around them. There was a hot spring by the pigs, and they would throw the hot water on the backs of the pigs making that boar very angry. Children seem to think that they are immortal!

At the end of the summers it must have been very hard for the children to go back to Evanston, and difficult for Elizabeth too. Despite the hard work, there was a kind of freedom to being at Neponset Ranch.

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Trail’s End

Journalist Helen Black fostered Denver’s first symphony orchestra In honor of Women’s History Month

her popular in social circles.

One of her best friends, fellow At a time when East coast reporter Mary critics considered Denver a Coyle (Chase), cultural wasteland, a spirited later became faex-newspaperwoman with a mous when she passion for the arts fostered the authored the hit city’s first real symphony or- By Rosemary Fetter play, Harvey. chestra. Although Helen Black callieanne_9@msn.com Committed received little appreciation for to caring for her family, Helen dated her efforts, as the first female manbut never married. Norman Fuller, ager of a national symphony orchesa cartoonist at the News, came clostra, she made history. est to putting a ring on her finger. In Helen Marie Black sprang from 1930, after suffering a bout with tuan affluent family with a cultural berculosis, she changed careers. She bent. Her mother, Palma Lanier, attook a job in the advertising departtended European convent schools, ment of the Denver Dry Goods store where she learned to speak several and later moved to Daniels and languages, including French, ItalFisher Department Store, where she ian and Greek. Although she never worked full time for 10 years while practiced medicine, Palma was the first female graduate of Johns volunteering as Hopkins University, Baltimore. An the Orchestra’s intellectual who enjoyed literature, manager and music and theatre, she passed these public relations interests down to daughter, Helen, representative. and her two other children, William In 1932, the and Blanche. Helen’s father, Henry orchestra was Mortimer Black, was an engineer, failing finandescended from prosperous spice cially because of the Depresmerchant, George Black.

Along After Helen’s birth, the couple sion.

Jean left Washington, D.C., for New York with Cranmer (wife City, where they lived in the fashionable (at the time) Harlem neigh- of Parks Diborhood. In 1910, Henry became a rector George stockbroker and founded Henry M. C r a n m e r ) , Julliard Black & Co. in Chicago. A few years and later, he moved the family to Utah. graduate, Lucille Wilkin, Helen Despite his disapproving spouse, he reorganized the group, which was sunk his assets into a mineral wax renamed the Denver Symphony Ormine near Salt Lake City. Unfortu- chestra. Although they performed nately, the mine failed and Henry only four times that first season, it lost everything. Palma left her hus- survived.

In 1944, Helen hired the symband and took the children to Denver, where she used her medical phony’s first professional conducdegree to obtain a job as a travel- tor, Saul Caston, associate conducing lecturer for Horlick’s Powdered tor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

To pay the professionals, who she Milk Company.

Helen studied at North High hired a union scale, Helen solicited School and helped her mother raise memberships. When Caston held the other children. She transferred the first performance at the City to Manual Training and Arts High Auditorium (now the Ellie Caulkins School after a teacher suggested she Opera House), she finally became pursue a career as a writer. At 16, the Symphony’s paid business manthe talented teenager snagged a job ager, the first woman in the country at the now-defunct Rocky Moun- to hold that position.

Innovative at programming and tain News as assistant to the society editor. She soon worked her way up expert publicists, Helen and Caston to reporter, interviewing everyone initiated the first youth concerts in from aviator Charles Lindbergh to the country. The orchestra took its Helen Keller and evangelist Amee first tour in 1945, traveling to small Semple McPherson. With big wide towns in Colorado and Wyoming. eyes and dark hair, Helen had a For some who attended, this was the quiet beauty and charm that made first time they ever saw a Symphony

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Orchestra. When the DSO took its first national tour in 1953, Time magazine labeled it a “happy orchestra,” a term coined by Helen to describe the enthusiastic young musicians. Although the orchestra received good reviews elsewhere, Chicago audiences panned the group from the Rockies as “an adequate orchestra within its limitation of size, technique, talent and tone.”

Rabid critic Claudia Cassidy of the Chicago Tribune wrote a scathing review, calling Saul Caston “a rigid conductor with little talent for music.” When the orchestra returned to Denver with a relatively small $15,000 deficit, the board refused to pay. Helen supplied the funds out of her own pocket, cashing in her insurance policy. Regarding the incident, she said later, “I have given my money and my life to Denver having a good orchestra. I’m not sorry.”

The Chicago

reviews outraged certain orchestra members, who took the criticism personally and led a well-publicized revolt against Caston. Calling themselves the “Better Music Associates,” the rebels grew in strength over the next ten years. Since Helen strongly supported Caston, she stood directly in the line of fire.

Ensuing bad publicity over the disputes let to dwindling public support and resources. When the city auditor refused financial assistance because the orchestra had fallen behind on rent for the auditorium, an anonymous supporter (probably Alan Phipps) donated $100,000.

Caston resigned in 1963 and played his last concert to resounding applause on March 24, 1964. He died of cancer six years later. Helen stayed with the symphony until a new conductor came on board, Vladimir Golschmann of the St. Louis Symphony. She resigned on April 24, 1964, admonishing the musicians, “Lest you forget, never sell yourself short!” The board presented her with a string of pearls,

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but offered no pension to the 67 year-old woman who had dedicated her life to the symphony. Fortunately, former board presidents Alan Phipps and Charles Sterne set up annuity that, in addition to her Social Security, sufficed until she entered a nursing home a few years later. A member of several civic organizations, she spent her final years doing volunteer work.

Over the years, Helen supported the careers of talented young musicians, including pianist Van Cliburn and coloratura soprano Beverly Christensen. Through her public relations genius, she brought national attention to the symphony, making possible the Junior Guild, Symphony Guild and Symphony Balls. In 1983, the Denver Woman’s Press Club, of which she was past president, and the Rocky Mountain News initiated the Helen Black Arts and Letters Award in her honor, and the Symphony Guild formally recognized her contributions. She died on Jan. 31, 1988, at age 91, only a year before the Symphony went bankrupt again. A new, cooperative Colorado Symphony Orchestra rose from the ashes, playing its first concert Oct, 4, 1989. Since that time, the CSO has garnered national applause and grown to include 80 fulltime musicians from around the world.

For years, symphony concerts were held in Boettcher Auditorium, now the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.

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Humor

Suddenly I like lutefisk I’ve always said, sale this time of year. it’s a shame lutefisk I don’t think that’s is only served during the case with lutefisk, the holiday season. but it wouldn’t matOh wait. I never said ter if it was. that, and I never will.

I know that listenBut if I did feel ing to a non-relative that way, I’d have talk about their famgood reason for it. ily history is like havIt’s in my DNA. I reing them show you cently took a DNA their home movies test and was shocked while they pull your to discover that a full By Dorothy Rosby teeth out. I like you 10 percent of mine too much to do that drosby@rushmore.com is Scandinavian. My to you, so that’s all family had previously been un- I’m going to say about it. But, I aware we had any Scandinavian am going to encourage you to take in our history. Fortunately, I’ve al- the test yourself. You don’t have to ways been fond of Scandinavians, study. All I had to do to pass my particularly the full-blooded one test was spit into a tiny tube. Some I’m married to.

DNA tests require a cheek swab, On the other hand, I was disap- but you don’t have to study for pointed to find my dab of Irish was those either. much smaller than I thought, apTV crime lab people can track parently having been crowded out down a killer using DNA taken by marauding Vikings. I won’t be from a piece of chewed-up bubble trading in my corned beef for lu- gum they find in a mud puddle at tefisk anytime soon though. I love the crime scene. It will take more corned beef, and you can get it on sample than that, but not much.

Horoscopes by Astra Birdsong

I’ve seen people spit more on the sidewalk. (If you’re one of those people, stop it. That really bothers me.)

After collecting your sample, you shake it up to mix it with the stabilizing solution, seal it, and send it off to the lab. I’ll pause here to express my respect for the fine lab techs who do this important and painstaking work. I, for one, am in awe that they can look at “samples”

Horoscopes

all day and still eat lunch.

After a month or two, you’ll get a report outlining your ethnic mix and linking you to any distant relatives who have also taken the test. There may be a few surprises in your DNA mix, as there were for me. That’s because people long ago did not let a lack of U-Haul and airline service keep them from migrating all over the place and starting families wherever they went.

You may also be surprised to find that the DNA you share with your siblings may not be as similar as you’d think. You get 50 percent of yours from your father and 50 percent from your mother. So do

your siblings. It’s just not the same 50 percent. There’s one more thing to fight about.

One Stanford University researcher I found on the Internet said it’s like having two bags of 50,000 different colored marbles.

You take 25,000 out of each bag, combine them and record the results. Then you return them to the bags and take out another 25,000 from each one for the next sibling.

Naturally, you’re bound to get two different sets. This explains why siblings can be so different, and why some of yours seem to have lost their marbles.

Put another way, it’s like you each got a ladle of soup, but yours has more noodles. Or you each got a scoop of trail mix, but theirs has more nuts. And that helps explain why some of my Scandinavian relatives eat lutefisk.

(Dorothy Rosby is the author of the humor book, I Used to Think I Was Not That Bad and Then I Got to Know Me Better. Contact drosby @vastbb.net.)

email her at astra.birdsong@gmail.com

CANCER - (June 22 - July 22) Oh crabby love, how are the travel plans coming along? Don’t wear yourself out over planning though, grab a map and stick a pin in it and go where your little claws with carry you. Don’t forget that love is still on the cards for you but where will you find it? Lucky Numbers: 14, 19, 23, 41, 12, 3

SCORPIO - (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) Keep extra close attention to your finances this month, there could be personal finance troubles coming your way. Keep an eye on a new friend on the 20th, as they are trying to tempt you into old habits. Use your judgement this month, you will need it. Lucky Numbers: 24, 13, 2, 5, 18, 32 SAGITTARIUS- (Nov. 22- Dec. 21) Keep your eyes on the prize this week, your hard work is about to pay off! Present yourself well and professional on the 29th, a new opportunity is coming your way. Do not be afraid to give yourself a new look this month. Keep your focus on the future, not on past struggles. Lucky Numbers: 22, 14, 2, 18, 33, 11

TAURUS - (April 21 - May 21) Oh lovely bull, you’re taking life by the horns aren’t you, no messing about this month for you. Things are looking very hot for you in the old garden of romance too. Will you be tiptoeing through the tulips I wonder? Lucky Numbers: 12, 3, 8, 33, 23, 9

LEO - (July 23rd – Aug 22) This month is all about breaking down boundaries for you. Be on the lookout for a new job opportunity around the 28th as your boss and co-workers are being less than appreciative of all your hard work. Be careful not to overdo it at the end of the month, you deserve a reward but be mindful of your finances. Lucky Numbers: 32, 18, 3, 16, 11, 28

VIRGO - (Aug. 23 - Sept. 23) Be careful not to neglect those closest to you, as you will need them by your side around the 18th. Do not be afraid to show off your talents, there may be an opportunity for personal growth. Do not be discouraged by others this week, keep your head up and you will come out on top. Lucky Numbers: 3, 26, 14, 2, 36, 10

GEMINI - (May 22 - June 21) So how is the passion going for our alluring twins? I do hope you are getting some rest between being a beautiful social butterfly!

Love is so in the air for you, you simply ooze attraction. Lucky Numbers: 3, 14, 21, 34, 10, 24.

LIBRA - (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23) Take care of yourself this month. Love is in the air around the 15th and you don’t want to let it pass you by because of a bad mood.

Get outside and begin that new exercise routine you have wanted to try, today is the start of a new healthy future for you. Lucky Numbers: 36, 14, 1, 12, 27, 18

AQUARIUS - (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19) Saturn is going to guide you through finding that work and play life balance and boy do you need it! All those new challenges can leave you feeling a bit frazzled but never fear, take time to ponder and relax, pamper yourself and look ahead, your future is looking very bright. Lucky Numbers 8, 1, 17, 23, 13, 12

CAPRICORN- (Dec.22- Jan.19) Be ready this week for a new romance or a spark in an existing one.

Stay focused on what is most important to you, there is an inner struggle on the 20th. There is a financial gain around the 26th, so be ready to splurge a little on that special prize you have had your eyes on. A new exciting opportunity opens itself up to you this month, do not hesitate to take it as it will bring many rewards your way. Lucky Numbers: 12, 37, 2, 14, 16, 1

16. Blu 17. DL 18. Leprechauns 21. Orbited

23. Larkspur 26. Er 7. AP 28. OE

29. Seaman 31. Golic 33. Ete 35. Ice

37. Robot 46. Cast 40. United Power 47. Setter 43. Yogi 44. Eel

1. Shillelagh 2. Prepper 3. Traverse City

DOWN

ARIES - (March 21 - April 20) With all the excitement surrounding you this month, it’s time to really prance and strut your stuff. Make time to keep a journal of all your dreams and experiences, you’ll be amazed when you look back in six months and how much magic there has been for you.

Lucky Numbers: 3, 4, 9, 13, 14, 24

11. Ole ACROSS 12. Ireland 1. Colorado 1. St. Patrick’s Day 13. CMT 15 Vi 10. Rued

PISCES (Feb 20 - March 20) Well this is your month and oh how you have some good loving and luck coming your way. Dreams really can come true you know.

The next few months are pivotal for you my fishy friend so let’s see you shine and really be open to all things new and exciting. Lucky Numbers: 23, 43, 7, 19, 21, 3

4. Runic 5. IED 6. CD 7. DOT

8. Al 9. Yelled 13. Club 14. Muni

16. Barret 19. House Edge 20. Steam Beer 22. Ern

24. APO 25. Koi 30 Aero 32. Lungs

34. TT 36. CEO’s 38. Ow 39. Ore

41. Pit 42. AC 45. LL

Contact Mary Nightstar at marynihtstar@yahoo.com and type “horoscope” in the subject line.

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