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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 24 • JULY 23, 2009

Locals in Motion

Hallelujah, it’s Mountain Fair

By Jane Bachrach

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uby Kimberly and Beda Calhoun let their hair down this Monday after loading up their bicycles with more than 200 pounds of fruit and pedaling it over McClure Pass from Paonia, Colo., to Carbondale. The fruit will be used this weekend to make smoothies at the Carbondale Mountain Fair.

Neither Ruby nor Beda are bike riders, but their desire to respect the environment carried them through the 59-mile journey.

These two women are the brains and bodies behind The Pedal Palace at Mountain Fair, where they prepare smoothies using organic local fruit and their own energy. They blend the smoothies by pedaling a stationery bicycle with a blender attached.

Ruby and Beda are among the thousands who will gather for the 38th annual Carbondale Mountain Fair that kicks off at 4 p.m.

Friday with the ceremonial blessing and annual Mother of All Drum Circles. The threeday arts/crafts and music festival will be packed with live music, kids’ activities, competitions, visual arts and crafts, and more.

The jam tent Don’t expect to find any jars of homemade strawberry, grape or apricot in this jam tent that will be located next to a large shade tree at the Seventh Street entrance to the park. However, if you like to jam and listen to music, you’re in luck.

The jam tent is new this year. According to Fair Director Amy Kimberly, “jams will be part of the fair forever now.” In fact, the hope is to have music workshops in the jam tent starting next year, she added. “This is the first year for the tent and we’re going to expand,” she said.

There will be some instruments there but Kimberly encourages people to bring their own. “Anyone who wants to jam can,” she said.

Sunday afternoon will feature a final jam to cap off the inaugural year, and Kimberly said she’s going to try to persuade musicians from the Boulder Acoustic Society and other Mountain Fair performers to join the jam finale.

Rising Stars series

Photo by Jane Bachrach

The Rising Stars series is also a new feature at the fair. It starts at 12:20 p.m. on Saturday and features budding young musicians, including Marilyn Lindquist, who made quite an impression on Kimberly when mentor Nelson Oldham of The Redtones brought her in to KDNK to sing live on the air.

The fair runs Friday through Sunday, July 24-26, at Sopris Park and also features nationally touring acts throughout the weekend. For the full schedule, see the back page of The Sopris Sun or visit www.carbondalearts.com and click on Mountain Fair. To volunteer, call 963-1680.

Carbondale Commentary

Hello, Carbondale

By Terray Sylvester My name is Terray Sylvester. I stand 6-feet 3-inches tall, and I’m your new editor at The Sopris Sun. Judging from our respective statures, you wouldn’t think that the task of filling Trina Ortega’s shoes would be too hard for me to pull off, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s looking more and more like her shoes will be mighty big ones to step into.

I wasn’t in town when the first edition of The Sopris Sun landed in a paper box this February, but from what I see, Trina has done a heck of a job shaping a newspaper, and she’s done so basically from scratch. That’s not to discount the many volunteers – whom I’m looking forward to meeting – who’ve contributed their time, thoughts and effort to the paper; the businesses who’ve supported it; or the board members who have stepped in to put together a newspaper based upon a novel, nonprofit model when papers in general are suffering from a nasty wasting disease; but Trina is the one with her hand on the helm.

She has put together a paper that covers Carbondale’s news, its busy art scene and many topics in between. She has given the paper a voice that may speak from the Associated Press stylebook when necessary, but first and foremost, seems to speak with a tone that residents of Carbondale want to hear.

Though I’ve spent too much time in the office since I arrived here, when I have escaped from my computer and met a few people around town, they’ve invariably said something like this about The Sopris Sun: “What a great paper, we’re fortunate to have it.”

They’ve also stated that they most value the Sun for its close, Carbondale focus.

This is a focus I intend to preserve with strong news coverage and ample community content, but of course, there’s one hitch: I arrived here three weeks ago. I haven’t yet taken a dip in a nearby swimming hole or listened to the entirety of a planning meeting. To my ears, the names ”Carbondalian and Bonedale” still sound somewhat extraterrestrial. I’m just learning Carbondale’s neighborhoods, its potential for growth, the names of the ranches just outside of town, and the many faces of Mt. Sopris.

But I’ve been consistently surprised at just how tightly knit this community seems to be, and that makes me think that it won’t be too long before things begin to feel familiar, and I get something of a handle on what Carbondalians want from a newspaper.

My experiences to date will give me something of a leg up: I grew up in the Lake Tahoe area, so I’m familiar with some of the issues that a mountain town like Carbondale faces; I started my journalism career there, as well, penning stories for Moonshine Ink, an alternative paper whose mission was to provide in-depth coverage of the area’s news; and I just moved here from Paonia, where I’d spent six months as an intern at High Country News.

I’ll be around town but don’t hesitate to call me, at just about any time, at 618-9112, or send an email my way: terrays@soprissun.com.

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By Amy Kimberly and Ro Mead It takes a village to put on Mountain Fair, and the Roaring Fork Valley is one heck of a village. Over 350 volunteers come together to put on this beautiful festival whose proceeds benefit the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities. There is no other event like Mountain Fair that so positively reflects the Carbondale community. From volunteerism to green waste practices, to free music and lots of creativity, Mountain Fair embodies it all. The most magical part of the fair is the people who show up to help at the last minute just when you need them most. Participation is the best part of “localmotion,” this year’s theme.

CCAH builds community through art all year long. It also produces the Carbondale Mountain Fair, along with the free Summer of Music concerts; Green Is the New Black Fashion Show; music appreciation classes; after-school and curriculum-based art programs; and, on the planning board, a “Creative Classroom” series at the Third Street Center. We are the beat of the big, throbbing heart that resides in Carbondale. We can’t do it without our members and friends.

Please join us in keeping the beat going, the arts flowing and our community growing in a positive, creative way!

Letters The Sopris Sun welcomes your letters, limited to no more than 400 words. Letters exceeding that length may be edited or returned for revisions. Include your name and residence (for publication) and a contact email and phone number. Submit letters via email to letters@soprissun.com or via snail mail to P.O. Box 399, Carbondale, CO 81623.

Speaking of the Ute Dear Editor: I would like to take some time to extend Bill Kight’s July 9 Guest Commentary. I believe his call for an apology has only just started the ball rolling. After all, everyone must recognize that an apology rings hollow when your people have been abused in nearly every imaginable way for over 150 years. If the colonizers wish to salve their conscience, their gestures should come in the form of active assistance, not an expression of uncommitted angst. There are many ways to do this, and Mr. Kight seems to have come upon one possibility: surrender (some of?) our ill-gotten gains to the wronged party. I applaud his audacity. Of course, I may be misinterpreting his imperative to “invite the Nuche back to their homeland as only people to people can do who truly desire appropriate peaceful coexistence.” In that case, those who have less of a stomach for radical action can certainly assist in ways that would be helpful. Express interest in helping fund the reservation school system, provide legal assistance, bring medical aid. All of these are potential ways to help. For those without money or professional skills, there are still arenas where your assistance can be felt including volunteering in a number of understaffed and underfunded projects on the reservations.

I would like to mention that simply swaggering up to the reservation and announcing your benevolent intentions is not likely to succeed. In my own experience as a linguist interested in language revitalization, I have found many tribes to be highly skeptical of well-intentioned outsiders who are infused with a missionary zeal. Remember that it is equally insulting to be pitied because of your history, as it is to have suffered it. Approach the Nuche not with the attitude that you are offering them a favor, but with the knowledge that they are sovereign.

One last thing must be touched on. It is practically an outrage that the Nuche have not been included in this dialogue yet. We must open up communication as well. The best way to begin communication is to do it in the language of your interlocutor. Learn to speak Ute. Disciplined study will be rewarded. Our identity as members of this community will be enhanced, our conceptual horizons will be expanded, and the message sent that we mean what we say will be unmistakable.

Dustin Bowers Glenwood Springs

Fish sense Dear Editor: Most of us want to buy seafood caught or farmed in a way that doesn’t contribute to environmental destruction. Fortunately the Monterey Bay Aquarium is making it easy.

All we have to do is go to www.montereybayaquarium.org and download and print its handy pocket guide that easily fits right in your wallet. Then, when you’re in the store, you can easily pull it out to see what to buy

or not to buy. Better yet, download several and give one to a manager of each of the stores you frequent, and tell them this is what they need to pay attention to when buying fish. If enough of us do this, it should make a difference.

Mary Boland Carbondale

Mountain Fair haiku Dear Editor: Hot, sweaty bodies Dance at the feet of Sopris Mountain fair again Bob Schultz Carbondale

Fourth of July Thanks Dear Editor: An event like the Fourth of July requires lots of volunteers, so I would like to thank them again now. Lots of our volunteers were local high school students! It makes me proud and grateful that the Carbondale community spirit is being picked up and practiced by our own high schoolers.

Let me start by thanking the following kids: The Boy Scouts for decorating the gazebo and leading the parade; Adrienne, Catherine, Coral, J.J., and Raleigh for organizing and running the parade; RFHS boys Alex, Willy, and Omar for performing the Evolution Of Dance; CRMS juniors J.J., Kelsey, Paul and Peter for singing and playing on stage; the 30 artists who drew chalk boards for our visual delight; and Alexia and Michael for reading with such sincerity the truth of what happened to the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Of course a few adults did play an important part also, especially in the money and dangerous jobs departments!

Thanks to Bill Roberts, Todd Welsh, and Bill Worley for their financial help. Thanks to Mason Morse for the safe use of knives while cutting watermelon and to Plumbline Construction for all the needed drilling and pounding. Thanks also to our fire department and police department that made sure that the parade and fireworks were safe.

I need to thank my partner, Chris Chacos, who is always modeling the importance of volunteering for the good of our community.

In that same light, thanks to Eric Brendlinger and the Rec. Department for all the preparation work and for displaying all the chalk art for the month of July.

Even though there are even more people to thank, I know they know how I appreciate their help.

Lastly I want to thank CCAH not only for letting us use their sound system and technicians but also for the great music they brought us on the Fourth!

Annie Runyan-Worley Carbondale

Trustee says developer of Thompson Park asking for too much flexibility

By Trina Ortega Saying she doesn’t want to look back years from now and have regrets, trustee Stacey Bernot criticized developer Frieda Wallison’s plan for a medium- and highdensity neighborhood on south Highway 133 for “lacking specificity.”

The Carbondale Board of Trustees on July 14 continued the public hearing on the Thompson Park proposal that calls for 45-85 residential units on 10.2 acres and includes annexation and possible acquisition of the historic Thompson homesteader residence.

Among the concerns at the July 14 meeting was the range of units and how the phasing of the project would affect the density. On the upper end, more than 42 units on two parcels (totaling about 2.8 acres) could end up within the property.

Bernot questioned the plan, saying: “We need to know what we’re approving; once the zoning is in place it becomes less flexible.”

Trustee John Foulkrod described it as a moving target but stated he was OK with the possible maximum number of units on those blocks. Trustees John Hoffmann and Ed Cortez also said they did not have a problem with those maximums. Meanwhile, trustee Pam Zentmyer said the overall maximum of 85 units for the entire project may be too much.

Wallison said she is willing to put more definition on the numbers, but having the ability to plan more units on some of the lots would “give us and you the best shot of getting diversity of housing opportunities

for Carbondale because it will allow us to mix some studios in with one- and twobedroom apartments.”

Bernot was not convinced, explaining that the town would be left with no guarantees if Wallison’s group, Cerise Park LLC, does not complete the project. “The statements that you make may not be what the next guy down the road would make,” Bernot said.

Wallison clarified, however, that detailed development plans for each block would be submitted at each phase, and the town would retain the ability to determine if each plan is appropriate.

“We would still have to come back to you on a blockby-block basis,” she stated.

Still, Bernot was concerned about the timeframe for each phase and said the developer is asking the town to be too flexible. “They want to be ‘Gumby.’ Once we zone it and they’re annexed, they’ve got it,” she said, referring to the 1950s malleable clay figure. “I have the heartburn of, it’s too flexible. Once approvals and zoning are in place then it becomes less flexible for us.”

Bernot further commented that while the developer’s financial risk is well known, the trustees owe it to their constituents to keep the town’s risks at the forefront of their considerations.

“I think we need to make sure the citi-

The acquisition of the historic Thompson house does not outweigh the drawbacks for some trustees, who say the proposed development lacks enough detail and may be too dense for the site.

Photo by Trina Ortega zenry knows what we’re getting. What I see now is not enough specificity,” she said.

“I’m not as concerned about your risk as what the town gets at the end of the day.”

The board has yet to discuss other aspects of the proposal, including open space and the cost to maintain the historic house, which would be deeded to the town. An analysis presented to the trustees on July 14 pins the cost of operating the Thomp-

son house as a public facility at about $24,000 per year for seasonal use during the spring and summer and $56,370 year round.

The public hearing on Thompson Park continues Aug. 18. At the July 28 meeting, the trustees will continue to discuss the Overlook development north of Town Hall. Meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall and are also televised on Channel 12.

Foulkrod to remain on town council

By Terray Sylvester

Artist Tony Ortega paints with children at the stage in Sopris Park as part of mural project organized by the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities. Through his art — which ranges from quilt-making to easel painting, hand-colored etching to acrylic collage — Ortega emphasizes the collective.

Rarely does his work take the individual for its main subject. The mural project, which took place on Saturday and Sunday, was free and open to all Carbondale youth. Photo by Jane Bachrach

After making a heated exit from the Carbondale Board of Trustees meeting on July 14, and indicating that he intended to resign from the council, town trustee and developer John Foulkrod returned to his seat in the town hall meeting room for a trustees meeting on Tuesday.

Foulkrod explained that a number of trustees contacted him following the July 14 meeting and asked him not resign.

Late in the night during a protracted trustees meeting on July 14, Foulkrod stood up and declared, “I quit. I’m out. I’m off the board. I resign,” and walked out of the room.

His exit came while trustees were discussing a fee to be assessed on four major developments currently working their way through the town’s planning process – including the Overlook, of which Foulkrod is a partner.

The proposed assessment would help the town recoup a portion of the costs for a roughly $23,800 study of the town’s network of wastewater pipelines. The study would investigate whether the pipes can handle the increased loads that will accompany growth in the future.

During the discussion, Mayor Michael Hassig pressed Foulkrod as to whether or not his participation involved a conflict of interest.

“As he [Foulkrod] began to talk, it was clear to me that I had to raise the question, ‘Are you speaking as a trustee or are you speaking as an applicant?’” Hassig said. “It didn’t sound like he was speaking like a

trustee and he’s usually pretty careful about recusing himself from conversations that pertain to his project.”

Generally, trustees are expected to recuse themselves from decisions that might entail a conflict of interest. More rarely do other trustees raise that question for them. As a last last resort, the town attorney would step in and take a look at a case.

Foulkrod has recused himself from discussions that pertain directly to the Overlook development, but said that if he were to recuse himself from policy discussion relating more generally to development he would be shirking his responsibilities to a portion of his constituency.

“I think the frustration is that I don’t think all the trustees understand the true cost of developing and the inefficiencies in the system,” Foulkrod told The Sun. “When [a discussion] relates to development as a whole, no, I’m not going to be quiet. I think it’s part of who I represent. I think I bring a very important perspective to the board as a developer.”

It was a point Hassig spoke to, as well.

“There are a lot of people in the community who are in the building trades or who have a stake in development outcomes,” Hassig said. “In any community there are those who are more proponents of growth and those who are advocates for restraint. There’s an ongoing dialogue.”

“I’d rather have him [Foulkrod] there and not be afraid to remind him when I think he’s out of line,” Hassig said. “I think the council would be poorer without his presence.”

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News Briefs Sexual assault alleged in Carbondale Carbondale Police reported an alleged sexual assault on a local woman leaving a downtown establishment in Carbondale in the early morning of July 11. As yet Carbondale police haven’t released any more details.

“Whenever we have a sexual assault people should be concerned,” said Police Chief Gene Schilling. “Just, people need to be aware.”

According to the police, the woman described the suspect as a clean-shaven Hispanic male in his mid-20s, approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing from 180 to 200 pounds.

Police are still working to create a composite drawing of the alleged suspect and have advised people leaving downtown in the early morning hours to try to walk home with friends and not alone.

Anyone with information regarding the suspected assault asked to notify the Carbondale Police at 963-2662.

Cop Shop

RSVP holds volunteer classes

Sunday, July 19 3:09 p.m. An officer contacted a man staggering and drunk on the Highway 133 bike path. It was the man’s 45th birthday. The officer took him home to “sleep it off.”

News from Carbondale’s police beat Thursday, July 16 3:00 p.m. A citizen reported that two small, black Chihuahuas at the house next door barked all day long. An officer issued a verbal warning to the dogs’ owners.

Sunday, July 19 1:11 a.m. An officer caught sight of a man urinating behind a business and issued a warning.

Service is one of the new buzzwords in our national dialogue, and whether or not you volunteer, most likely you are involved in some type of community service — working as a volunteer or possibly taking a meal to a neighbor who is ill.

“Volunteering is one of the most pervasive activities in American society, one that has long been a historical tradition and certainly is a strong tradition in Garfield County,” states a press release from High Country RSVP, an organization that works with volunteers 55 and older, as well as other nonprofits.

“The recipients of our service efforts include organizations working in all areas, including religion, health, education, arts and culture, the environment. Volunteers come from all age groups, educational backgrounds, income levels, genders, and types of employment.”

High Country RSVP has been involved with volunteer issues and volunteer management for nearly 40 years in Garfield County and will be offering three volunteer management classes in the coming months. The classes are free of charge to RSVP workstation partners or a minimal donation for other potential partners.

The classes, held at the Colorado Mountain College Blake Street Center in Glenwood Springs, are Volunteer Management Essentials on Aug. 19; Volunteer Recruitment, Placement, Retention and Recognition: Designing a System to Utilize Individuals’ Strengths on Sept. 16; and Dealing with Problem Volunteers on Oct. 21.

Classes open to those interested in any facet of volunteering or volunteer management.

Call 947-8460 for further information and to register.

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Monday, July 20 7:36 p.m. An officer responded to a complaint that several young adults were using foul language in Sopris Park. The officer talked to 11 juveniles, who said they would keep their voices down and watch their language.

Tuesday, July 21 12:46 a.m. Police received a call from the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority regarding a “very intoxicated woman” on the 700 block of Main Street. An officer responded and gave her a ride home.

Tuesday, July 21 1:40 p.m. An officer responded to a citizen who had lost his wallet in Gianinetti Park. The officer found the wallet and returned it to the citizen.

Tuesday, July 21 A driver struck and killed a dog on the 400 block of Eighth Street. The driver had two expired licenses (in California and Colorado) and was cited for not having a valid license. Adding insult to injury, the dog owner also was cited for having a dog at large.

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Citizens mum on current development plan for property that spurred community outcry in past

By Trina Ortega After coming before the town in 2000, the development plan for 24 acres bordering Highway 133 went through years of deliberation, was shot down by Carbondale citizens, and spurred the visionary Economic Roadmap Group. But since making its way back in front of the town’s planning board, the plan has drawn no public comment.

Now the lack of citizen input has some members of the Planning & Zoning Commission wondering what to make of the public’s silence.

“Nobody’s showing up at these meetings,” said P&Z Chair Ben Bohmfalk. “We’re sort of wondering if the public is on board with this or just waiting for the trustees.”

Public hearings on the Village at Crystal River (formerly called the Crystal River Marketplace) began April 23, and after such a tumultuous past — that included a referendum in 2003 — Bohmfalk said he’s surprised citizens aren’t showing up to voice their opinions.

“We assume people aren’t too upset with what the applicant has most recently proposed,” he said.

The property owner, Denver-based Peregrine Group Development, is seeking a rezoning of the property as a planned unit development, or PUD, to add residential units to the project. As it exists today, the property is zoned for planned community commercial space on the southern eight acres and commercial, retail and wholesale space on the 15 northerly acres.

Rich Schierburg of Peregrine Group has made a pitch that the property should be rezoned to allow for “quality residential” that will support the commercial uses of the development and benefit the town as a whole.

The proposal includes roughly 145,000 square feet of commercial space, including a 60,000-square-foot grocery store as the anchor retail tenant. Schierburg is proposing 280 residential units, plus up to 24 potential employee housing units. Residences will consist of studios and one-, two- and threebedroom units ranging from 400 to 2,400 square feet.

The addition of residential units is one of the main reasons for the PUD request.

The underlying zoning on the northern portion would not allow for residential units, but Schierburg said it’s in the town’s best interest to allow residential along with the commercial.

“I looked at the original plan and I didn’t think it was going to work,” said Schierburg, whose Peregrine Group got involved in 2005 and purchased the property from Californiabased developer Brian Huster in 2007. “In my opinion the developer would’ve had a very difficult time” making 350,000 square feet of retail work, he told the Sun.

A defeated plan The Marketplace proposal that came forward in the first part of the decade was controversial. It called for 230,000 square feet of commercial space with a 125,000-squarefoot “big box” retail store.

Former town planner Mark Chain, who

The Next Step Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting 7 p.m. July 30 • Town Hall Meeting will be televised on Channel 12 Continued public hearing on the Village at Crystal River (formerly the Marketplace), calling for 145,000 square feet of commercial space, up to 300 multi-family residential units and a 60,000-square-foot grocery store on 24 acres along Highway 133, north of Main Street. was a staff member when the project came forward, said he recalls how residents were “taken aback” by the scale of the proposal.

“People were offended by the size of the thing,” he said.

Citizen resistance may have pushed the developer to propose “what’s allowed by right,” Chain said, compared to “what’s allowed.”

“Well, it [the second design] came in and it was a lot worse,” he recalled.

Although the Board of Trustees supported the proposal as a way to boost sales tax revenue for the town, it did not sit well with Carbondale residents. Citizens petitioned to put the big box on the ballot, and in July 2003, voters overturned the trustees’ decision. It was a storybook ending – a community sending a big-box store down in flames.

After that, the Board of Trustees formed the citizen-led Economic Roadmap Group to develop a plan to ensure economic sustainability in Carbondale.

“The group included representation form both ends of the spectrum — those that were vehemently opposed to even considering a big box and those who supported a large anchor store moving in,” said town community outreach coordinator Kay Philip. “You had one side saying it would kill Carbondale and the other saying it would be the life blood.”

‘Soul searching’ The Roadmap Group members took their task to heart and met for 18 months, going through some Land Use 101 education and discussing a vision for the pastoral grassy acreage that is the gateway to Carbondale.

“They did a lot of studying and a lot of soul searching,” Philip said. “They did it for the good of the public process.”

The group determined — as stated in the resulting Economic Roadmap plan — that mixed-use residential and commercial developments are acceptable in Carbondale but not large-format, retail big boxes with huge parking lots.

Even though the plan is not binding, P&Z members and developers since, including Schierburg, have referred to the Roadmap Group recommendations to guide their planning.

Schierburg said he stepped into the fray when the group was formed, even before his company purchased the land.

“I hoped they represented what the wishes of the town of Carbondale were. I went forward on the trust that what I heard from them reflected what the town wanted and what I felt I can produce,” he said.

Top: The original proposal with a 125,000-square-foot big box on the southern end of the property. Below: The current plan with a 60,000-square-foot anchor grocery store.

But one of the problems with the Roadmap plan is that it was never formally adopted by the town, said longtime Carbondale resident Laurie Loeb, a founding member of the Town Mothers group that launched a campaign to defeat the big box. Urging citizens to vote, the Mothers spread awareness by telling residents to listen to their mothers and handed out cookies at town events.

Loeb also served as a member of the Roadmap Group when it formed. When it comes to providing public input, Loeb isn’t shy. She regularly attends planning and trustee meetings, often serving as the lone resident speaking out. And she continues to inform residents of major land use decisions and sends out email blasts denoting meeting times.

Citizens not informed Loeb said residents are not informed about many of the development issues.

“There really hasn’t been a lot of news on it,” she said, noting that even the new hometown paper, The Sopris Sun, is not covering enough development news.

“Every time a proposal goes through a meeting, each board member says what they like and what they don’t like about it. It goes back and forth through a series of compromises, and you get to see where board members stand,” she said about meeting coverage.

Loeb recognized that it’s difficult for people to carve out the time to attend meetings or watch them on television.

“People are so busy trying to earn a living

and raise families, they are complacent. If they have some free time … they don’t want to use it going to sit at meetings. A lot of people don’t have a clue what’s going on and they don’t realize these things impact their own lives,” said Loeb, whose email sign-off is a Helen Keller quote: “Worse than being blind is to see and have no vision.”

However, town staffer Philip noted that “just because people aren’t showing up doesn’t mean they are not paying attention or doesn’t mean they’re not watching the meetings.”

This past year, the town began televising public meetings that cover major land use proposals on Channel 12. And there is a lot to pay attention to — the Overlook neighborhood north of Town Hall and Thompson Park on south Highway 133, both currently under review by the trustees; the rezoning of downtown (dubbed the “Overlay”) headed for review by the board; and the Village at Crystal River in front of P&Z. Written public comment also can also submitted to Town Hall, reminded P&Z’s Bohmfalk.

“I really hope that if we go through this … and recommend approval to the trustees that then at the trustees’ level people don’t come out of the woodwork and say what a terrible idea this is. If people want to make substantive comment, they need to do it sooner vs. later,” Bohmfalk said.

Next week: A closer look at the Village at Crystal River development proposal

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Scuttlebutt ‘A life fully lived’

Update on a squirrelly accident

On July 14, the Carbondale Board of Trustees read a proclamation honoring longtime Carbondale resident John Palmer, who passed away June 15. The trustees honored Palmer’s “life fully lived,” and proclaimed Carbondale a better place to live because of Palmer’s spirit, personality, intelligence and wit.

The former trustee, building inspector, citizen and friend was recognized for his role in the famous KDNK Talent Show video production of “Carbondale Walks Like an Egyptian.” And the board pointed out that Palmer is the “only Carbondale trustee in national history” to be featured as a Best Person of the Day on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.”

By now you have probably heard that local architect and Rotarian John Baker swerved to miss a squirrel and wiped out on his bike on the bike trail by Catherine’s Store.

The accident happened on July 7, and Baker was flown to Denver with broken ribs, a broken pelvis, an injured and possibly refractured clavicle and who knows what else.

After suffering a great deal of pain, taking a lot of drugs and undergoing surgery, the Sopris Sun has learned that he is doing really well. If you’d like to bring him some food because he apparently has trouble shopping, we’re pretty sure he won’t turn it down. You can email him at jrbaker@jrbakerarchitects.com, which he would probably enjoy so he doesn’t go nuts while recovering. Get well soon, John.

Houndstongues in the dog park?

Armed with goodies from Grana, over 35 people joined members of the Carbondale Environmental Board in a weed pull at the Carbondale Nature Park (AKA Delaney Dog Park) on Saturday, July 11.

The event was hosted with support from the town of Carbondale, Pulling for Colorado and the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority. The weed pull was one of many held around the state to bring awareness to the problem of non-native invasive plants and their impacts on public lands.

Event coordinators Lynn Ruoff and Rob Comey handed community volunteers a pair of gloves and a trash bag, and pointed them

Newlyweds Amber and Stefan Bate exchanged vows in a small intimate ceremony on June 27 at Maroon Bells. toward patches of the target weeds. The weed-pullers ended up with more then 500 gallons of thistle, yellow toadflax, houndstongue, and oxeye daisy in just over 2 1/2 hours.

Several dog walkers showed up, including Mayor Michael Hassig who, according to Comey, was distracted by the novel opportunity to pick up something “big, green and prickly” instead of “small, brown and stinky.”

In addition to Hassig, volunteers included Nancy Smith and John Stewart; Carla Comey and Patty Foster; as well as some volunteers from Jaywalker Lodge, including Ryan, Tom, Kiel, Danny, Steven, Sayres, Eric, Chris, Patrick, Dan and Rick, and others who chose to keep their last names to themselves.

Jimmy Nadell and the Black Nugget!

Nothing. At least not for the next few weeks or so.

A few months ago we reported that there were talks between Tony Mazza, owner of the Dinkle Building; caterer Nadell, owner of Spuds, Subs n’ Suds in Carbondale; and the folks at the Black Nugget about literally switching places.

As of this Monday, Nadell reports that he is currently trying to work out some financial details with Mazza and if they come to an agreement, when everything is signed, sealed and delivered, the Black Nugget will become an affordable Italian restaurant with a large bar and an area that will accommodate live entertainment. Nadell is also having second thoughts about “the switch” for Spuds, Subs n’ Suds. He thinks that he might want to hold on to it ’cause business is buzzing.

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By Jeremy Heiman The future of the Sutey Ranch on Garfield County Road 112 north of Carbondale remains in the hands of Pitkin County officials, who put off a decision Tuesday on whether to oppose a land swap aimed at saving the property from development.

But it could turn out that the fate of the ranch, known as excellent wildlife habitat and desired for recreational use, was really sealed in 2000, when voters in eastern Garfield County and southwestern Eagle County narrowly rejected a proposal to initiate a tax-supported open space preservation district.

In a joint meeting of the Pitkin County Open Space and Trails trustees and the county commissioners Tuesday, most county officials expressed their opposition to the land swap, which would put a tract of federal land in Pitkin County into private hands and convey the Sutey Ranch to the federal Bureau of Land Management.

The commissioners’ meeting room was packed with a standing-room-only crowd, mostly from Garfield County, there to urge the board to support the deal. But the commissioners, who had directed the county attorney to draft a resolution opposing the trade, did not appear to be swayed. In the end, the commissioners and the open space trustees agreed they need more time for discussion, and tabled the issue until a later date.

After an unscheduled public hearing, prompted by the number of citizens who

showed up, the commissioners and trustees were each given an opportunity to state their position on the swap.

“We’ve been accused of being bad neighbors,” said open space Trustee Anne Rickenbaugh. But she pointed out that Pitkin County’s open space program has spent more than $15 million on land preservation deals that cross county lines, several of them into Garfield County. She said Sutey Ranch is only a symptom of a larger problem that exists in Garfield County, the threat of development hanging over many rural properties. She challenged those in the room to come up with a solution.

“There will be more Sutey Ranches,” Rickenbaugh said. “What are you going to do about it?”

Hawk Greenway, chairman of the open space board, has led opposition to the land deal, arguing that public land in Pitkin County shouldn’t be traded away. Greenway also challenged the audience.

“I’m thrilled to see all the open space proponents,” he said.

“We’re essentially begging you guys to create an open space partner in Garfield County,” Greenway said later in his presentation. “In Pitkin County, we have over 70 percent approval of our open space program.”

Tim McFlynn, another open space trustee, said in an interview Monday the Sutey property is now in an uncertain situation because when it came on the market last year, there was no public money available to buy it for

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Photo by Jeremy Heiman preservation. At that time, Aspen Valley Land Trust was looking for a partner to help purchase the property but did not find one.

“Nothing could be a more powerful example than the Sutey Ranch, for the need for an open space program in Garfield County,” McFlynn said. “Garfield County wasn’t there to partner with Aspen Valley Land Trust, because they don’t have an open space program.”

County Commissioner Rachel Richards pointed out the greater need for habitat preservation in Garfield County, noting that the elk that winter in the valley bottom near the mouth of Cattle Creek are being squeezed by development.

“This is just a teeny portion of the habitat this elk herd needs,” Richards said. This discussion, she said, should be a catalyst for a management plan for wildlife in the lower valley.

In November 2000, voters in the Garfield and Eagle county portions of the Roaring Fork Valley were given the opportunity to approve an open space district that would have been funded by a 2.5-mill property tax. The voters supported the program but failed to approve the tax that would have funded it.

The Sutey Ranch is the focus of a proposed land trade involving the Bureau of Land Management and billionaire Leslie Wexner. Wexner owns the former potato farm and cattle ranch, located north of Carbondale, between Red Hill and Cattle Creek.

He also owns a working cattle ranch, the Two Shoes Ranch, on the north slope of Mt. Sopris, south of Carbondale. The Two Shoes spread consists of two parcels that are separated by a half-mile wide strip of BLM land.

Wexner bought the Sutey Ranch last year on the advice of his representatives, who proposed trading the 520-acre property to the Bureau of Land Management for the 1,268acre parcel that separates the two parts of Two Shoes.

Wexner’s representatives, Andy Wiessner of Western Land Group, Inc., and Aspen attorney Gideon Kaufman, have asked Pitkin County to issue a resolution expressing support for the land swap to the Roaring Fork Valley’s U.S. representatives and senators. The town of Carbondale, Garfield County and several local nonprofit groups have already done this. With the support of local officials, the land swap could be accomplished relatively quickly, through an act of Congress.

But Pitkin County officials have bridled at the prospect of seeing federal land in Pitkin County transferred into private hands.

Patti Kay-Clapper, who chairs the board of commissioners, noted that the commissioners had received some less-thanrespectful letters from Sutey proponents in Garfield County.

“This process has pitted neighbor against neighbor, county against county,” she said.

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The eclectic and inventive art of Janet Nelson Hospital installation to be dedicated Tuesday

Janet Nelson with one of her trout sculptures during installation at Valley View Hospital. Photo by Becky Young

By Rebecca Young Janet Nelson is taking a breather. Lounging in her Carbondale backyard, long blond hair flowing and coffee in hand, she looks the picture of serenity. But this is a fleeting moment. Like the dragonflies she sculpts, this prolific artist has just alighted for a moment before darting off to her next creative endeavor.

Next week, with the dedication of her sculptural installation at Valley View Hospital, Nelson will see her third art opening in a little more than a month. The creation hangs in a two-story atrium surrounded by viewing windows in the hospital’s new acute care unit, and transforms a previously blank-walled space into an ethereal pool of circling fish. From steel mesh and wire, Nelson has fashioned 16 brown and rainbow trout. They’re 5-feet long and embellished with shimmering details.

Swimming together as a single entity, the school of fish reflect the spirit of the plaque installed next to the piece: “Dedicated to the skilled and caring staff who work together in harmony and unison to care for our patients and families.”

The response to the installation has been touching and satisfying for Nelson. Hospital staff members have relayed stories of patients pausing to gaze at the work, distracted for a time from illness and immersed in beauty.

“As an artist, I work alone with a piece. It is a huge relief when it is displayed and it seems to be a positive thing. Ultimately, it matters how the patients feel about it.”

Nelson’s work exists in the compelling intersection between the right and the left brain, between pure vision and precise engineering. Always a resourceful and sophisticated scavenger, she is a master of both the physical properties and creative applications of an eclectic range of

materials. She ordered a pallet of mesh for the fish bodies, but she collected the contrasting material for the heads from old satellite dishes in various locations. The method of assembly is mysterious and invisible, the layers of subtly applied paint finishes are understated and painstakingly crafted.

It took several days for Nelson, and Valley View employee John Sullivan to hang the work. Sullivan first hung a grid of nearly-invisible thread between the walls. Then, with Nelson directing him, he maneuvered a scissor jack around the space, repeatedly ascending to the ceiling to place the fish.

Nelson’s work is currently on display at the Glenwood Center for the Arts in the Wild Women exhibit and the Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt. Demonstrating her creative range, the Glenwood venue features Nelson’s lifesize horse sculpture of sticks, bones and wire. Imposing and organic, the horse stands in contrast to the replicas of Native American ceremonial clothing she is showing in Basalt. In mixed media, the Native American pieces mimic leather, beads and quills with intricate precision.

“I just can’t do one thing for very long,” she says. With no major deadline now looming on her horizon, Nelson looks around her yard and gardens. “I think I’ll put some energy here for a while,” says with a grin.

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By Mike McKibbin

Finding the services and help that new and existing businesses need is the goal of a nonprofit business incubator gearing up for clients this fall.

The Roaring Fork Business Resource Center was formed in March by former Carbondale Chamber of Commerce Director Randi Lowenthal. Headquartered in Glenwood Springs, the center’s service area stretches from Parachute to Aspen.

With the help of Colorado Mountain College’s campuses from Rifle and Aspen. The center’s efforts will be Web-based.

“We’re trying to push the technology angle because it’s such a broad service area,” said president and CEO Lowenthal. “That’s why Colorado Mountain College’s campuses will be such a help, if we need a classroom, a conference room or some other type of facility, and the online courses fit with our focus on the use of technology.”

Beth Shaw, the college’s dean of business and industry and executive director of CMC’s Customized Business Services, is also on the Beth Shaw center’s board of directors.

“Our goal is to have a local, one-stop-shop resource for all kinds of services — for business startups to existing businesses ready to take the next step,” Shaw said. “It’s basically taking the services we have in the eastern part of our district (where the college now hosts the regional Small Business Development Center office) and bringing them to the western part of the district.”

Corporate training and development through CMC’s Customized Business Services is another benefit Lowenthal’s center will offer clients. The center also will provide information on financing options, education, training and technology, as well as how to close or sell a business.

The center plans to sign up clients starting Sept. 1, and an advisory council will be formed to help customize business programs for clients, Lowenthal said. Established business owners could also act as mentors for newer businesses.

“Our goal is to have a local, one-stopshop resource for all kinds of services — for business startups to existing businesses ready to take the next step.”

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Carbondale town officials announced earlier this month that the town was awarded a $50,000 Rural Business Enterprise Grant from USDA Rural Development for the purpose of adding to the town’s Local Business Revolving Loan Fund. Carbondale is contracting with the Roaring Fork Business Resource Center to administer the town’s loan fund.

Lowenthal is also seeking matching funds for a three-year $150,000 grant from the Colorado Economic Development Commission.

Additionally, the center has received money or in-kind contributions of $25,000 from Garfield County; $10,000 each from the City of Glenwood Springs, town of Carbondale and Colorado Mountain College; $5,000 from Colorado Lending Source, a private, community-based, nonprofit economic development corporation; $1,250 from American National Bank; $1,000 from the Aspen Chamber Resort Association; and $500 each from Ace Hardware, Red Mountain Inn, the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association and the Rifle Chamber of Commerce.

Lowenthal has received initial positive feedback from Pitkin County and municipal officials in Aspen, Rifle and Basalt, and faces a July deadline to have enough money committed to seek the grant in September.

For more information, contact Lowenthal at 989-8987 or visit www.rfbrc.org.

Grant Presentation The community is invited to attend the ceremonial presentation of a $50,000 Rural Business Enterprise Grant to the town of Carbondale on Friday, July 24.

USDA Rural Development representatives will present the grant to town officials at 10 a.m. at Town Hall. The funding will be used to supplement the town’s Local Business Revolving Loan Fund to provide new and existing business enterprises with lending opportunities.

Members of the public are invited to the celebration, along with Colorado and U.S. legislators, the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce and the Roaring Fork Business Resource Center, which will administer the grant.

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Events take place in Carbondale unless noted.

THURSDAY, July 23 STRESS RELIEF • Davi Nikent presents trauma release exercises for those experiencing unsettling results of stress, anxiety and trauma. For more information, contact Rita Marsh at 963-8979 or rita@davinikent.org.

GREEN HOME TOUR • Northway Construction is having an Open House at one of its model green homes in Ironbridge Subdivision from 4-6 p.m. July 23. Call 963-4418 for more details.

RODEO • The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo is ongoing through Aug. 20. For more about the rodeo, visit www.carbondalerodeo.com.

Friday and Saturday. Class information and registration at www.aspennature.org.

For info, call 925-5756.

FRIDAY, July 24 GRANT PRESENTATION • USDA Rural Development and the Town of Carbondale will have a ceremonial presentation to award a $50,000 Rural Business Enterprise Grant at 10 a.m. July 24 at Town Hall. This funding will be used to supplement the Town’s Revolving Loan Fund to provide new and existing business enterprises with lending opportunities. For more information on the event, contact Pattie Snidow, Delta USDA Rural Development Office, (970) 874-5735, ext 4.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars presents Slaid Cleaves at 8:30 p.m. Visit www.stevesguitars.net for more info.

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre showing “Away We Go” at 8 p.m. (R) through July 30, run time 1 hr 40 min..

SNOWMASS MUSIC • The Snowmass Summer of Free Music runs Thursdays on Fanny Hill. The Band of Heathens performs July 23. For more information go to www.snowmassvillage.com or call (800) SNOWMASS.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars presents the Tony Furtado Trio at 8:30 p.m July 24.

Visit www.stevesguitars.net for more info.

THURS.-SAT., July 23-25 ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES • presents “Astronomy for the Outdoor Enthusiast” and “Wildflower Walk & Families in Nature” Thursday,

AFTER HOURS • DJ Deeogee will be spinning under the dance lights for the under-21 crowd at The Lift. Music is from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday at the coffee shop on Main Street. $5 cover

FRI.-SUN., July 24-26 MOUNTAIN FAIR • The 38th annual Carbondale Mountain Fair opens with the cer-

Holistic Harmony Thursday, July 30, Valley View Hospital upper lobby.

A night of great music and food, benefitting the Holistic Harmony music program, which provides music to enhance the hospital atmosphereand soothe both patients and staff.

emonial blessing and drum circle at 4 p.m.

Friday. For the lineup of this year’s music, contests and other events, refer to page 16 and visit www.carbondalearts.com.

SATURDAY, July 25 MT. SOPRIS RUNOFF • The 31st annual Mt. Sopris Runoff begins promptly at 8 a.m. July 25. Registration for the 16.5 mile race from Basalt to Carbondale is at Ute Mountaineer in Aspen, Basalt Bike and Ski, Independence Run and Hike in Carbondale, and Summit Canyon in Glenwood. Registration on the morning of the race begins at 7:15 a.m. at the Basalt 7-11.

For more information, call Bruce Gabow at 927- 4135.

JAS FUNDRAISER • Jazz Aspen Snowmass will host a French Style Picnic & Dance fundraiser on July 25 at the new Greenwald Pavilion at the Aspen Meadows. Proceeds benefit JAS’ educational programs for youth throughout the valley.

Visit www.jazzaspen.org for full details and call 920-4996 tickets.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars presents the Hillbilly Hellcats at 8:30 p.m. July 25.

Visit www.stevesguitars.net for more info.

SUNDAY, July 26 HIKE SERIES • The Hidden Gems Wilderness Campaign hike series continues with a hike in Hunter Creek, Aspen. All hikes are free; advance registration required at www.whiteriverwild.org.

POETRY NIGHT • Live Poetry Night and Book Sale, featuring live music, open mic for poets and special guest poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Poet Laureate of San Miguel County. Events are from 7:3010 p.m. at The Hotel Lenado. All poets and listeners are welcome. For more info, call 379.2136 or 309-4828.

SUMMERFILMS • Aspen Film and the Aspen Music Festival and School present the 11th annual SummerFILMS series through Aug. 16 at Paepcke Auditorium.

For full details, visit www.aspenfilm.org.

MONDAY, July 27 BIBLE SCHOOL • Vacation Bible School at Crystal River Baptist Church, 2632 Highway 133, begins July 27 and runs through July 31. The school for K-sixth grades runs 9 a.m. to noon, and the Teen Program is 6-9 p.m. RSVP to Pastor Reeves at 963-3694.

DANCE CLASSES • Learn African and Caribbean dances with live drummers and fun rhythms. All ages and abilities welcome. $10. Mondays from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Carbondale Community School, 1505 Satank Road. Call Steve at 379-8422 with questions.

OPEN STUDIO • The Third Street Artists host an open studio (all media) from 4-7 p.m. Mondays at Carbondale’s new Third Street Center. Walk-in fee is $10; four consecutive sessions is $20. Bring all materials.

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DRAMA CAMP • Thunder River Theatre Company holds the final session of its 2009 Summer Drama Camp with sessions for ages 6-8, 9-11 and 12-14 on July 2830. Download a Summer Drama Camp brochure at www.thunderrivertheatre.com and click on “Professional Theatre Education for all Ages” and follow the link.

READ ALOUDS • Gordon Cooper Branch Library hosts Summer Read Alouds with teachers from Crystal River Elementary School at 12:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 5. Bring a bag lunch.

For more information, call 963-2889.

LIBRARY PROGRAMS • Gordon Cooper Library hosts programs and workshops as part of its Summer of Reading series. Call 963-2889 for details.

STORY ART • Pitkin County Library presents Story Art for 4- to 6-year olds on Tuesdays through Aug. 4 at the Pitkin County Library. Free and open to the public. For more information, call the library at 429-1900 or visit www.pitcolib.org.

TRUSTEES MEETING • The Carbondale Board of Trustees meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall. On the agenda: Overlook neighborhood.

FREE SELF-DEFENSE • High Country Security is offering a free women’s self-defense class at 7 p.m. July 28 at the Glenwood Springs Community Center. The class is limited to the first 30 women who register. Call Tami Lacy at 945-HELP (4357) with questions or for additional information.

LIVE JAZZ • The Tuesday night Live Jazz Series takes place from 7-9 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays at Steve’s Guitars.

FARMER’S MARKET • The Carbondale Farmer’s Market is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Wednesday through Sept. 30 at the corner of Fourth and Main streets. Fruits, vegetables, meats, cheese, bread, coffee, wine, flowers, prepared foods, crafts and more. Free entertainment.

LIVE MUSIC • Dave Notor and company will be playing classic acoustic rock ’n’ roll from 7-10 p.m. July 29 at White House Pizza.

THURSDAY, July 30 HARMONIOUS CELEBRATION • Valley View Hospital hosts the fourth annual Holistic Harmony music celebration from 6-8:30 p.m. July 30 in the upper lobby of the hospital in Glenwood Springs. The night features music with Valley View musicians and hors d’oeuvres. $25 donation.

For more information, call 384-6651.

THEATER CAMP • Aspiring thespians can enroll in a theater camp Aug. 17-21 the Glenwood Springs Center for the Arts. Young actors will be taught to create costumes, organize props and the week will end with a performance. Call 945-2414 for more information or to sign up. reservations recommended

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Community Briefs Mountain Fair competitions set The 38th Carbondale Mountain Fair is July 24-26 featuring arts, music and friendly competition in Sopris Park. There are many ways to participate but some of the favorites are the competitions.

The Mount Sopris Runoff, an 16.5-mile foot race between Basalt and Carbondale is held on July 24. The race starts at the Basalt 7-11 at 8 a.m. Registration begins at 7 a.m.

A shuttle will be available to take people back to their cars from Carbondale. The Porcupine Loop Bike Race takes place on July 26. This race starts at Sopris Park and follows the Porcupine Loop Trail. Registration begins at 8 a.m. at Sopris Park. Participants of both races will receive a T-shirt. For more information call CCAH at 963-1680 or register at the fair at the Info Booth.

The famous Pie Baking Contest is held at 11 a.m. Saturday. Bring your tasty treats to the Judging Tent starting at 10:30 a.m. The cast of judges will sample and choose a winner in these categories: Cream, Exotic and Fruit. The Cake Baking happens on Sunday, same place and time. This year’s theme is royalty so expect many judges with crowns and capes. The categories are: Torte, Exotic and Cake.

The most attended competitions are the Men’s and Women’s woodsplitting events.

Open to all, steel-toed boots are required and available. The competition is fun and fierce.

The women will compete at 6 p.m. Saturday and the men at 4 p.m. Sunday. Registration is at the Info Booth and the winners will receive a maul and T-shirt.

Horseshoes (singles and doubles), Limbo, and Fly Casting competitions are also fun parts of the fair. Try your luck at any of these and find your place in fair history. For a full schedule of events, check out www.carbondalearts.com or call 963-1680.

when they see a harp being rolled into their room or an a cappella group surrounding their beds, performing especially for them.”

Music is a great diversion to pain, anticipation of frightening procedures, fear of the unknown, and more, said Russo, who also started the Harmony Chorus as an extension of the music program. The chorus calms and supports those who are near the end of life.

The anniversary performance is the group’s only fundraiser and helps pay for the musicians to perform regularly at the hospital. The evening includes food, wine and, of course, live entertainment. The cost is $25. For information on the program or the chorus, call Russo at 309-1701.

Library events and time changes The Gordon Cooper Branch Library will change its hours of operation slightly by opening at 10 a.m. on Fridays beginning Sept. 1. The library’s new hours will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays; 10 a.m. to 6 pm. Tuesdays and Thursdays; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

The library will host family nights in conjunction with its “Visions of the Universe” exhibit. From 5-7 p.m. Aug. 3 and Aug. 17, the library will feature interactive displays and take-home activities for families. The Aug. 3 event will focus on “Photographs of Outer Space” and Aug. 17 will be “Charting the Night Sky.” Way Out Wednesdays for upper elementary and middle school students will take place on Wednesdays through August. Students can discover online the answer to the question of the week and win prizes from 20/20 EyeCare.

For more events and more information, call the library at 963-2889.

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The Holistic Harmony music program will celebrate its fourth anniversary with a performance from 6-8:30 p.m. July 30 at Valley View Hospital.

Now in its fourth year, the program includes about 40 musicians who provide live music to patients, staff and visitors of Valley View.

“It is not only beneficial to the patients, but the musicians themselves feel so moved in that they have provided this special gift that evokes so much emotion,” said program director Lesa Russo.

The mission of the program is to enhance the atmosphere of the hospital, to demystify the hospital experience, Russo explained.

“I personally take the musicians around to the patients when they go into rooms, and it is amazing what goes on behind closed doors. Their eyes about pop out of their heads

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Northway Construction’s Ironbridge Subdivision Project is in the preliminary gold certification under the USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for homes.

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The spirit of pink rides again

By Kayla Henley Sopris Sun Intern Waves of pink flooded out the regular hues of browns, reds, blacks, blues and whites at the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo, providing an interesting sight to the fans last Thursday as the Tough Enough to Wear Pink made its annual visit to Carbondale.

Tough Enough to Wear Pink is an organization that researches breast cancer and also helps women who are diagnosed with it. The group visits hundreds of rodeos year-round, promoting the fight against the deadly disease.

Anita Witt was one of hundreds of attendees that night, and she was proving her toughness by wearing pink. But Witt has already done more than just wear the signature color, she is a survivor of breast cancer. Witt had surgery five years ago and has played a major role in the Tough Enough events ever since.

“I think it’s the most important thing on earth,” Witt said referring to Tough Enough to Wear Pink. “I have had many friends who’ve had breast cancer and we rally each other and support each other. I am all for helping women who are going through it and for those who have been through it. We are all sisters.”

Witt also visits hospitals and heritage homes with her two horses, Whiskey and José Cuervo, and her dog, Spanky, bringing smiles to young and old as they perform a variety of tricks.

“They [her animals] seem to understand that people are not as physically strong as they’d want to be,” Witt said.

Whiskey, a 21-year-old American Paint, is on the verge of retirement. Although he’s still capable of doing small tricks like smiling, crossing his legs, holding a flag and removing a blanket from his back, his last public appearance was at Thursday’s rodeo. He can also count his age, but

when Witt asks him how old she is he shakes his head no, she told the Sun. Witt has owned Whiskey since he was 10 and José Cuervo since he was 5. She taught both horses the tricks that they demonstrate at rodeos, heritage homes and hospitals.

José Curevo, a 12-year-old Paso Fino, enjoys pulling a little baby buggy with a stuffed horse seated in it – an absolutely adorable sight, according to Witt. And to complete the foursome is 3-year-old Spanky, a young female dog whose breed is unknown, but who has her share of tricks up her furry sleeves. She crawls, waves, lifts her paw when Witt says “Who wants ice cream?” and plays dead, when Witt asks “Would you rather be married or dead?”

Witt and her animals have traveled to many different places, bringing pleasure to those at Heritage Park here in Carbondale, Cumberland Children’s Home in Denton, Texas; Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas; Crossroads Assisted Living in Rifle and Open Gate Assisted Living in Glenwood Springs.

At age 70, Witt is as vigorous as any young person and lives life to its fullest, supporting those who are diagnosed with breast cancer and remains friends with those who have survived.

“We are hanging in there and trying to help others,” she said. But overall, she treasures the time spent with her animals while lifting others’ spirits.

“Whiskey, José Cuervo, Spanky and I love going places and making young and older people happy. If we can make them laugh and forget their pain and troubles by doing a few tricks, it’s worth all the effort. When I see the joy and contentment on their faces from touching a horse or Spanky, I know that it’s what my animals and I were meant to do.”

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Taboulleh makes carefree days of summer even lighter aEvery year, as the days warm up, I start thinking about taboulleh. My first Middle Eastern friend introduced me to this quintessential Lebanese salad in the ’70s, and I loved it immediately.

Like many other Arabic words, you’ll find taboulleh spelled nearly as many different ways as there are recipes for it. I most commonly hear it pronounced “tuh-BOO-lee.”

The essence of taboulleh is pre-cooked and dried cracked wheat, called bulgur, mixed with lots of parsley and some tomato. Most recipes also include fresh mint, cucumber, green onion, and a little garlic. The important thing is to make it to your satisfaction.

You can buy pre-mixed packages of dried taboulleh components, but those don’t compare to making it fresh.

Other than a bit of peeling and chopping, no advanced skills are required.

By Chef George Bohmfalk Buying bulgur may be the most challenging aspect of this recipe. You may find it as burghul, bulghur, or some other spelling variant. It is available here in Carbondale, both at the food co-op on Main and City Market. When I’m in a city, I often pick up a supply at a Middle Eastern grocery. I’ve been stumped when asked what size bulgur I wanted, as some places offer several. Any size could work, but larger pieces may be too firm to chew, and smaller ones so fine that they might get lost in the mix. Go for a medium size, which may be labeled No. 3 or “taboulleh bulgur.”

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The next challenge is softening the bulgur. I simply pour hot tap water over it in a bowl and allow the bulgur to soak for 10-15 minutes. Then I pour off any excess water and mash down on the wheat to squeeze out as much water as possible. That’s a bit tedious, but a search of dozens of recipes on the Internet failed to reveal an easier technique. Some call for boiling water, and soaking times range from 10 minutes to two hours. Keep it simple.

While the wheat is soaking up water, I start chopping. I like the nutty bulgur to predominate rather than the parsley, but in some recipes, half a cup of bulgur is mixed with several cups of chopped parsley. Obviously, proportions are completely up to you. I usually soak about half a cup of bulgur and chop one bunch of parsley, which amounts to about a cup.

Similarly, add as much mint as you wish. I like about half a cup chopped, along with half a bunch of green onions, one peeled and seeded cucumber, and a clove of finely minced garlic.

Peel and seed a tomato, and cut the solid red meat into about quarter-inch pieces. The French term for that process is concasse, pronounced conecuh-SAY.

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Put everything into a bowl and squeeze in the juice of a lemon or lime or two, add salt and pepper to taste, and a few tablespoons of olive oil. There are so many competing flavors in taboulleh that any subtle nuances of high-dollar extra virgin olive oil would be lost, so just use the everyday stuff.

Mix this well, taste to see whether you want more salt, lemon juice, or oil, cover, and allow it to rest an hour or so in the refrigerator. Taboulleh can be eaten immediately, but over time, the wheat fragments will absorb some of the flavorful moisture and the mixture will come together somewhat. I like it when just a little liquid accumulates in the bottom of the bowl, ensuring that the mix is not too dry.

Connoisseurs traditionally scoop taboulleh from a serving platter with wedges of soft, warm pita bread, which is a curious example of wheat with wheat. I usually use tortilla chips. There’s nothing wrong with using a spoon or fork, but I enjoy it as a dip, even though it never stays in one blob on my chip.

On a hot summer day, chilled taboulleh is a real pick-me-up. The bright green onion tops, parsley, mint, and red tomato, the tangy lemon and sharp raw garlic elevate the lowly cracked wheat to a high plane. It’s the perfect companion for backyard burgers. And it’s even good for you. As my friend would say, “Sahtein wa Hana!” (Health and happiness!)

I’ve been stumped when asked what size bulgur I wanted, as some places offer several. Any size could work, but larger pieces may be too firm to chew, and smaller ones so fine that they might get lost in the mix. Go for a medium size, which may be labeled No. 3 or “taboulleh bulgur.”

Life's little pleasures at the town library

By Marilyn Murphy Manager, Gordon Cooper Branch Library

What makes a visit to the dentist bearable?

How do you occupy your mind while you are waiting for your oil to be changed or your car to be washed? Why do you sometimes find extra $10 impulse buys on your grocery receipt?

Magazines are a little diversion that can take you out of the moment.

There are magazines dedicated to any interest you might have. If your passion is sports, there is the classic Sports Illustrated. If you are an outdoorsman you may peruse Running, Outdoors, Field and Stream, and Climbing, to name a few. Ski, Golf and Tennis are geared toward those enthusiasts.

Home-making provides fodder for hundreds of magazines, including Real Simple, O and Martha Stewart’s Living, which advise us on everything from decorating to recipes.

There is no end to lifestyle magazines, including Mountain Living, Town and Country and Rolling Stone.

If you are intrigued by celebrity lives you will enjoy People, Vanity Fair or Us. Let’s not neglect fashion and the beautiful images in Vogue, Bazaar and In-Style. News, literature and the arts can be found in Time, the New Yorker, U.S. News and World Report and the Economist. Seventeen, Teen People, Skateboarding, ESPN and Boys Life appeal to our teen patrons. There are also Spanish-language magazines including Vanidades, People en Espaùol and Americas. You can find magazines about parenting, crafts, yoga, computers and

gaming, and anything else you can imagine.

Magazines are one of life’s little pleasures.

They help time pass quickly while you are waiting, and they are a perfect way to spend a few minutes on a shady summer porch.

If you are concerned about the environment and hesitate to order magazine subscriptions, or if you are trying to get out of the grocery store while staying within your budget, remember that the Garfield County Library subscribes to more than 200 diverse magazines. Once the new issue arrives you can spend leisurely time reading in the air-conditioned library or check

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out any back issue for seven days. Think how this could help mitigate the clutter in your home. When you are done with an issue just return it to the library.

You won’t even need to read bits and pieces of articles in line at the grocery store. You can read the whole thing – for free – just by using your library.

Next time you stop by the library pick up a magazine and take it home. If you are looking for a research article, or something specific from a back issue, simply ask a librarian or access Ebscohost, a periodical database on the library web site.

From home or from the library, log on to www.garfieldlibraries.org Either way, enjoy your browsing.

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‘Building community’ for 38 fairs Rick Lawrence, pictured here at Mountain Fair 1977, has pitched in as a handyman at the fair since the beginning. For 10 years he dished up omelettes, and sometimes tempura, as well.

“The fair just brings in good food. But since I retired as the Omelette King it’s never been quite as good,” he quipped.

Having already rolled in a flatbed trailer for the stage, a crew assembles the rest of the structure before Mountain Fair in 1976. Photo by Rebecca Young.

Rick Lawrence first rolled into Carbondale in March 1972, and a few months later helped put together the first Mountain Fair. Now, 38 years later, he’s had a hand in assembling every Mountain Fair. Though he works as a carpenter, Lawrence prefers to say that he has only worked as a “handyman” at Mountain Fair, that he’s just been someone who has pitched in, where needed, year after year.

The Sopris Sun caught up with him before the final push to assemble the fairgrounds began this week.

Sopris Sun: So you attended Mountain Fair number one?

Lawrence: I’ve only missed one [fair]. A few years ago my wife and I did a motorcycle trip to Canada for 31 days. I always said I’d be here for all of them unless something really great came up – and that was a really good something.

Sopris Sun: How’d you get involved in the first fair in 1972?

Lawrence: Carbondale was so small at that point, and Laurie Loeb [who organized the first Mountain Fair] was the first person I met in town. And really the community of us – we were longhairs, some would call us “hippies” – were our own little entity compared to the rest of Carbondale, which was very much a coalmining and ranching town back in those days. We were very tight knit.

Sopris Sun: I hear that for the early fairs, the stage was built from scratch every year?

Lawrence: In the first years when Laurie put this thing together, the Colorado Rocky Mountain School loaned her stage blocks. They were 4-foot by 8-foot boxes that would get you off the ground. I think [the stage] stayed that way for a couple years and then they started building a temporary stage in the corner where the stage is now, and it was always out of logs. They’d bring log trucks and slab wood in on the weekend and spend a day or two building the stage before the fair. It was always an eclectic group of folks who put the thing together. There were just always a lot of super-quality, highly-skilled craftsmen to come in and put together a log structure and make it look as awesome as possible for a three-day event. And then, boom, down it came.

Sopris Sun: What has kept you coming back to help out at Mountain Fair year after year?

Lawrence: Just the community getting together. I personally am not a go-getter in the community so this is my once-a-year chance to give back. Even though Carbondale has all these events now, Mountain Fair is still the biggest community event. Even with 10,000 people it’s still a large, family get-together. People that have lived away for years still come back just for Mountain Fair because they know they have a better chance of seeing people in a party atmosphere.

Carbondale Mountain Fair Schedule of Events Key: G = Gazebo, O = Oasis, C = Competition, JT = Jam Tent, A = Art Tent Friday, July 24

Saturday, July 25 (continued)

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4:00 p.m. – Opening Blessing 4:05 p.m. – Community Drum Circle with Rhythms Of The Heart 4:00 p.m. – Parade the Festival Grounds to the Oasis 5:00 p.m. – The Tony Furtado Band 6:30 p.m. – Dance Extravaganza w/ Sahara Moon 7:00 p.m. – Vince Herman and Great American Taxi

Saturday, July 25 C 7:15 a.m. – Mount Sopris Runoff A 10:00 a.m. – Art Booths Open C 10:00 a.m. – Fly Casting Competition in the Open Space O 10:30 a.m. – Music Together with Annie Flynn G 11:00 a.m. – Round Mountain C 11:00 a.m. – Pie Baking Contest O 11:30 a.m. – Story Telling w/ Drea Marsh C Noon – Singles Horseshoe Tournament at Glassier Park JT Noon – Bluegrass Jam at 7th Street Tent O 12:15 p.m. – The Rock Bottom Ranch G 12:20 p.m. – Rising Stars Series featuring the Jazz Aspen Student Recital, No Joes and Marilyn Lindquist O 1:15 p.m. – The Jammin Jim Show C 2:00 p.m. – The Adult Limbo Contest in the Open Space O 2:15 p.m. – Jeff Kagan – Environmental Musical Kids Performer G 2:45 p.m. – Jes Grew O 3:30 p.m. – Music by Sophie Dasaro JT 3:45 p.m. – Acoustic Jam at the 7th Street Tent C 4:00 p.m. – The Womens Woodsplitting Competition in the Open Space

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– Brave Combo – Hula Hoop Competition w/Betty Hoop – Young Talent On Stage – The Hillbilly Hellcats – Masri Nar Egyptian Fire Dance Troupe

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– Earthbeat Choir – Artists Booths Open – Music Together w/ Annie Flynn – Cake Baking Contest at the Judging Tent – Old Tyme Jam at the 7th Street Tent – The Sybarite 5 – The Sneetches – Doubles Horseshoe Tournament at Glassier Park – Bikrams Yoga Exposition with Bel and Emily Carpenter – Spring Creek – The Jammin’ Jim Show – Colin O’Brien – Banjo For Kids – Boulder Acoustic Society – The All Ages Talent Show!

– Men’s Woodsplitting Competition – Bluegrass Jam at 7th Street Tent – Poi Workshop with Carolyn Cipperly and Friends – Spiritual Rez – Art Booths begin to close – Closing Parade beginning at The Oasis – Juno What!

– The Sopris Sun presents the 2009 Mountain Fair Slideshow

The bounty of free entertainment at Mountain Fair, as well as the free Summer Concert Series, are presented by CCAH: Building community through art, and the town of Carbondale. Support these endeavors with your membership. Become a member at the info booth or by calling 963-1680.

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Top: Rising Star Marilyn Lindquist. Bottom: Staci Dickerson drops off the last load of wood at last year’s woodsplitting competition. Photos by Jane Bachrach