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Volume 11, Number 6 | March 21, 2019

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Carbondale Commentary The views and opinions expressed on the Commentary page do not necessarily reflect those of The Sopris Sun. The Sopris Sun invites all members of the community to submit letters to the editor or guest columns. For more information, email editor Will Grandbois at news@soprissun.com, or call 510-3003.

Get swept away by beauty, but not an avalanche Several of my friends have described me as “fearless,” but ing I ever experienced! We had to sidestep up on skis and it’s not true. Since adolescence, avalanches have left me frozen then drive 10-foot poles down into the snow, feeling for rein fear. sistance. Because the snow was hard, because we didn’t have Like so many mountain folk, I knew someone killed by trained dogs, and because an avalanche tongue contains trees one. and rocks as well as bodies, we had to jam the wooden poles I remember the anxious buzz that rose in the ski patrol hut down hard enough to shatter them. We also had to dig a lot when Lloyd Gentry didn’t return after the 3:30 sweep. Lloyd’s of false holes. son Lee went to the same Denver junior high I did, and we As I began this column, CDOT crews had been working usually hung out together until our dads, both ski patrolmen, (with plows, thankfully!) to free several cars buried along came down after clearing the slopes at day’s end.

Highway 91 to Leadville. Castle Creek Road and parts of I-70 When Lloyd finally did come down, he lay pale were closed due to natural slides, an avalancheand lifeless in a toboggan. He had been buried in a severed gas pipeline and slide mitigation work. Afreak avalanche on shallow slope — one that none Basin had just reopened; it had to close for two of the patrollers thought dangerous. No one exdays due to avalanche danger. pected a slide on an in-bounds run that had been CAIC has set the danger level at “extreme” for repeatedly skied on that warm, slushy spring day. the entire central Rockies, and I have been worryAs Brian Lazar, Deputy Director of the Coloing about the Sopris Sun’s new graphic designer, rado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), told Ylice Golden. the Sopris Sun a couple of weeks ago, “terrain faYlice has lived in the Roaring Fork Valley bemiliarity” is a common assumption that leads exfore and is relocating back here. She has had to perienced skiers into danger. After returning to the commute over Vail and under Loveland Pass for same spot year repeatedly without incident, they the past couple of weeks, and she’s had a couple of come to regard an area as perpetually safe. white-knuckle drives. She assures me that, excited Familiarity may have played a role in the recent as she is about her new job and returning home, death of ACES Education Director Arin Trook, she will definitely stay off I-70 when CDOT tells who had worked with Outward Bound and the her to.

National Park Service. Trook was cautious and That’s a relief. I don’t think The Sun has any certainly knew about avalanches, but he was avalanche beacons to issue to employees. nonetheless overwhelmed by one near the MarkStill, nearly everyone I know around here gets

By Nicolette Toussaint ley Hut. outside on downhill or cross-country skis or snowThree-time Olympian team member Buddy shoes, and this winter is historic. Avalanches have Werner, who was raised in Steamboat Springs, also ventured into territory untouched enough to hold knew about avalanches. Before he died in Switzerland, he out- 350 year-old trees. A record eight people have been killed, and raced one slide but wasn’t fast enough to beat the second — CAIC reported that 32 were caught in avalanches in January the avalanche that killed him.

2019. That’s nearly three times as many as previous Januaries.

When I worked (briefly) as a ski instructor at A-Basin, I I’m sure we’re nowhere near the angle of repose. was taught what to do if you’re caught in an avalanche: throw It’s still snowing and stunningly beautiful outside, so peoaway your skis and poles and try to swim upward as the river ple will be heading out to get swept away by our beautiful of snow engulfs you. When it stops churning, clear an air hole scenery and epic snow conditions. If you’re going, please do around your head. Spit and watch which way your saliva falls. three things: 1) Check CAIC’s online avalanche forecast. 2) (Reportedly, an avalanche can disorient you so thoroughly Travel with a friend and share your plans with folks back that you truly don’t know which way is up!) Then, if you’re home. 3) Carry an avalanche beacon, a probe and shovel – not hopelessly pinned, dig your way up and out. and know how to use them.

At A-Basin, I was also taught how to help recover a burAnd remember: when it comes to avalanches, discretion ied victim. That was the most exhausting on-the-job train- really is the better part of valor.

OPINION

Seeking Higher Ground

Letters

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Carbondale energy Dear Editor: Thanks to the Sopris Sun for the article on the Town’s progress on switching the municipal buildings to renewable energy.

I also share our mayor Dan Richardson’s concern over eliminating fossil fuel use — not just for the Town’s buildings but throughout Carbondale. We need to switch from gas-fired boilers and furnaces to electric heat pumps.

Your home refrigerator uses a heat pump. That is how buildings are air conditioned. The technology is now up to speed to turn that process around and put heat into the building. This is even more efficient than electric baseboard heaters.

And, as Dan pointed out, the utility companies are on track to “green” their electricity. Buildings with solar collectors can use their own electricity to run the heating and cooling.

Even restaurants can move away from gas burning ranges to magnetic induction cooking that uses far less btus and requires far less venting. More electric vehi-

cles will be on the road and they will want to be charged with all “green” power.

While the Town government is making progress, I worry about greater Carbondale. We passed the climate and energy plan a couple of years ago. I have not seen an update on achieving those goals for reducing the whole town’s energy use.

Instead, I see a host of new development.

That development does not appear to be “net zero” construction (no fossil fuel energy). Plus, this means a larger workforce and more facilities to take care of all the additional population and shoppers. The traffic on Highway 133 is increasing by the day. I’m seeing all lanes full in both directions. We already have rush hour (our hours) traffic tie-ups. Traffic is a major part of Carbondale’s emissions and the fumes are anything but healthy.

I am very concerned that, in the push to develop, the Town’s goals for climate and energy are being set aside. It is not clear that we can even meet those goals.

Patrick Hunter Carbondale

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The same old tune, fiddle and guitar Dear Editor: The oil and gas industry is singing a familiar tune in response to Colorado Senate Bill 181, the legislature’s new approach to drilling regulation. They’re using the same arguments against it in their recent deluge of television advertisements they used for last year’s Proposition 112 ballot initiative.

Oh, it’s doomsday! It will completely shut down energy production! Never mind the 50,000 active wells in the state already in production that wouldn’t be affected in the least! Thousands out on the street! Schools will close! Revenues will dry up! None of this is backed up by any facts or analysis.

The Colorado Petroleum Council says the people of Colorado spoke their mind when they rejected Prop 112 by an “overwhelming” margin. I don’t consider 45-55 overwhelming. What’s overwhelming is the $40 million the industry spent to defeat 112 compared to the $800,000 by supporters.

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GarCo opts for site visit of proposed storage facilities Carbondalians fear devil in the details — or lack thereof

By Megan Tackett Sopris Sun Staff Even at 1 p.m. on a Monday afternoon, Suite 100 at 108 Eighth Street in Glenwood Springs was standing room only. About 65 people crammed into the Board of Garfield County Commissioners public hearings about two proposed self-storage facilities, Blue Mountain Mini Storage and GO Self Storage.

Ultimately, Commissioner Mike Sampson said he “felt very conflicted” and, as a Rifle resident unfamiliar with the proposed areas for the sites, requested a continuation of the hearings to accommodate a site visit, which was granted and scheduled for April. Both staff and every testifying member of the public vocalized opposition to the applications.

At one point, Commissioner Tom Jankovsky felt the need to calm the crowd.

“The arrogance of heckling turns me the opposite direction, so I would really ask the audience to be respectful. I would thank the audience for that,” he said after Chad Lee, who represents BlueMountain Garfield LLC, felt interrupted in his presentation.

Lee acknowledged that he had his work cut out for him in persuading the commissioners to approve the 96,000-square-foot, three-story proposed facility at the Highway 82 and County Road 100 intersection. Such approval would be in opposition to staff, which recommended the commissioners deny both project applications.

“What the staff report says, basically, is that this project meets all the requirements of this code, except they object on the compatibility grounds,” he said.

“We’re going to talk about why this project is compatible.”

Lee emphasized founders Andy and Jennifer Moszynskis’ local ties in his appeal, adding that the Aspen couple wanted their third commercial endeavor to be closer to home. He mentioned their commitment to community and partnering with local nonprofits. Additionally, Lee’s presentation included a video from brand ambassador and renowned backcountry skier Chris Davenport and a letter from Parker Mayor Mike Waid in support of the project (the other Colorado BlueMountain site is in Parker, which has since banned any further large-scale storage facilities, according to The Denver Post).

“I think I will probably be their first customer,” Davenport, another Aspen resident, said in the video.

Up and down But many Carbondale residents that testified in opposition of the project expressed fears that the facility is better suited for Aspen than the proposed area near Catherine Store. Linda Lafferty, best-selling fiction author and Missouri Heights resident, was among them.

“I do wonder, do we need something like this in our community, or is this really going to be helping Aspen, and is that storage going to be for people who may be more affluent than we are and have

It was standing room only at the GarCo Commissioners meeting. Photo by Megan Tackett

age centered on removing a residentialonly designation for the subdivision at the proposed site, which would require a land-use permit change. After several Carbondalians requested clarification about the current designation and the implications for the future if the land-use permit change goes through.

“We are restricting it against primary residential use, and this is an argument we got into with staff. In our opinion, this is not industrial use … we’re not processing things into new things,” Lee replied, rightly noting that no rezoning will be necessary for the project to move forward. “In order to put this industrial use on this subdivision, we have to pivot primary residential use. That doesn’t prohibit accessory dwelling units…”

At that, Garfield County Attorney Tari Williams intervened.

“We might disagree with you, there.

No residential means no residential.

Accessory dwelling units, that would, I would disagree…” she started, but Lee dismissed her before she could finish.

“OK, well I thought we clarified that before the hearing, and we haven’t talked about that in months, so that’s fine,” he interrupted.

Both the staff and the applicants agreed a continuation on the matter was appropriate, which the commissioners reflected in a unanimous decision.

Further negotiations necessary BlueMountain Mini Storage. Courtesy graphic

GO Self Storage. Courtesy graphic more toys?” she suggested in addition to her concerns about increased traffic on County Road 100.

Susy Ellison, another longtime Carbondalian, chimed in: “I’m happy to live in Garfield County and not in Parker,” to vigorous affirmative nods from people sitting in her vicinity.

Others voiced concerns over optimistic service promises from the applicant with few assurances for delivery.

Carbondale Fire Chief Rob Goodwin, who was not present at the meeting, seemed a little surprised when told that supplying water to fire trucks was among Lee’s pitches for the BlueMountain facility.

“I haven’t looked at their plan. I don’t think anybody has, really,” Goodwin said.

That plan, Lee told commissioners, includes a 90,000-gallon water tank required by the building code.

“It’s engineered so a fire truck can pull

up, hook into it and take off to fight fires, wherever they may be. It’s going to provide up to 20 fire trucks with firefighting capacity,” he said.

Goodwin, for his part, stressed that several factors go into supplying fire trucks beyond quantity of water, such as specific water pressure and accessible heights.

“A simple statement of yes, this happens or no, this won’t — I don’t know you can say that either way,” he said. “I don’t have enough information. We need to see what they’re planning; where the hydrants would be; how high above the hydrants are the tanks; can you access it?

If someone put in 90,000 gallons with a hydrant that you can pull up to from the highway, that’s great, but it’s just not that simple.”

It’s not the only discrepancy between local officials’ and Lee’s interpretations of what’s possible for the area. A second hearing for BlueMountain Mini Stor-

The proposed GO Self Storage facility seeks to build at Planted Earth Nursery, 12744 Highway 82, in the Dixon Subdivision. Originally, the proposal outlined a fenced facility operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When the Carbondale Planning and Zoning Commissioners balked, applicant Wes Grammer compromised.

“It would be foolish to think developing in such a vibrant area would be easy.

We all know the community is active and willing to take part in the shaping of it,” Grammer said, noting his involvement in developing the Willits Town Center. The updated plan limits hours from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Most of the concerns surrounding the BlueMountain Mini Storage were echoed in the public hearing for GO Self Storage: increased traffic at the risk of public safety, lighting and signage disturbing neighbors’ peace, setting the stage for future development and, in the case of GO Self Storage specifically, the future of the Kelso Ditch.

Doug Platte, who represents applicant Wes Grammer, has been working diligently with the Kelso Ditch Company to create a plan for the future of the ditch.

“All that is currently being worked out, so that’s a work in progress,” he said.

But according to the Kelso Ditch Company President Michael Stahl, things are not “hunky dory.”

“The shareholders of the ditch do not feel that their ditch should be taking a right or wrong view on someone developing their property — however, our ditch is potentially seriously impacted by this,” he said, alleging that the applicant has threatened legal action.

The commissioners’ site visits will occur April 8 before holding additional public hearings April 15.

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Scuttlebutt

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They’re on to us Once again, our little burg is getting broader attention, although West of 105 at least acknowledges the town’s lessthan-secret status in its recent feature “24 hours in Carbondale.” The piece encourages visitors to wake up early for coffee at Bonfire and breakfast at SILO. Depending on the season, they suggest skiing at Spring Gulch, fishing in the Roaring Fork or taking a drive up to McClure Pass. Then, it’s lunch at Batch, a moment of zen at True Nature and dinner at The Way Home with pre- and post-dinner drinks at Beer Works or Marble Distilling. They have you finishing off your night with live music at Steve’s Guitars and a bed at Cedar River Ranch. Read more at westof105.com.

Joy joy joy Want a piece of Main Street? The Carbondale Public Arts Commission has teamed up with OlovesM Bags of Aspen to create tote bags from old lamppost banners. Support CPAC by purchasing yours at the Carbondale Rec. Center.

It’s free real estate Your last chance to take a free tour of the Thompson House is 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 23. After that, the historic residence just north of River Valley Ranch will be closed until June, when it will reopen with a new schedule and free tours.

Money for nothing Unclaimed income tax refunds totaling almost $26 million may be waiting for an estimated 23,500 Colorado taxpayers who did not file a 2015 Form 1040 federal income tax return, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

To collect the money, these taxpayers must file their 2015

seed and other food that the deer couldn’t digest. For more information about wildlife in Colorado, see cpw.state.co.us.

Strike!

In an overwhelming vote, members of UFCW Local 7 who work at King Soopers stores across Colorado have authorized a strike in the near future. Their current contract ended on Jan. 12 and Local 7 has been engaged in bargaining for new contracts since mid-December. King Soopers and City Market are owned

by The Kroger Co., the leading With the spring equinox just past, we’re at that perfect balance point in which you can comfortably bike to Spring Gulch for an afternoon ski (above, photo by Marc Grandbois). If that’s not impressive enough, you should know that Carbondalian Sean Van Horn came skied 60,400 feet in 24 hours at Buttermilk over the weekend — just 800 feet shy of a record set at lower altitude (right, photo by Justin Patrick).

Even though temperatures are warming, for wildlife Colorado remains in the depths of

Country music star Trace Adkins is bringing his iconic hits and deep voice to the 81st annual Garfield County Fair and Rodeo concert on Aug. 2.

Joe Nichols is slated as special guest earlier in the evening.

Tickets go on sale to the general public at 12 p.m. March 22 at garfieldcountyfair.com.

Basalt Middle School announced this week that former Aspen Middle School Assistant Principal Molly Tiernan has been chosen as the new assistant principal. In the fall of 2019, Tiernan will replace Ty Hayden, who will retire this June after serving in the position for the past 16 years.

In 2018, Tiernan left Aspen Middle School after 10 years as a school counselor and four years as assistant principal. She has been serving as an assistant principal and fifth grade teacher at a dual language International Baccalaureate elementary school in Mexico City and plans to be back in Basalt to her family home by August.

Your own medicine

Don’t feed the animals

Something’s going on

A new vice

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If you think you might qualify, call High Country RSVP for assistance at 384-8744.

ing a Chromebook or logging into Google Classroom. Virtual meetings take place weekly on Fridays beginning March 28, with an in-person culmination on the last Friday in May at the New Castle Branch Library. Contact your local library for more information.

winter; and despite the recent snow storms Colorado Parks and Wildlife is reminding citizens that big-game wildlife do not need our help. Feeding big game in Colorado is not only illegal but also does more harm than good. CPW wildlife managers recently have received reports of dead deer in the San Luis Valley and Gunnison Basin and found their stomachs to be full of corn, grain, bird

Davi Nikent, Hippocrates Docs & Dr. Greg Feinsinger invite you to an evening with Dr. Joel Fuhrman — a six-time New York Times best-selling author, President of the Nutritional Research Foundation and internationally recognized expert on nutrition and healing through lifestyle modification.

7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6 Community Hall, Third Street Center 520 S. Third Street, Carbondale Dr. Fuhrman will present the most critical and proven concepts that enable slowing of the aging process, prevention of cancer and prolongation of life. He will review the scientific evidence showing we can win the war on cancer with adherence to a diet-style rich in anticancer phytochemicals, which also prevents against dementia.

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Reading rainbow Garfield County Library is inviting teens to participate in a virtual book club by borrow-

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating another year of life this week include: Judy Bartels (March 21); Erin Danneker and Jose Miranda (March 23); Jammin’ Jim (March 24); Paul Struempler and Alta Otto (March 25); Lily Meadows, Ruby Marker and Brian McIsaac (March 26) Shea Courtney and Andrea Marsh (March 27).

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Local ties bring top pianist for Castle concert benefit

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Robin Sutherland believes in tackling things like they matter, so when he performs a benefit concert for The Sopris Sun on Aug. 12 at The Redstone Castle, you can be pretty sure he means it.

“This is going to be all about fun, but also all about purpose,” he said. “I think it’s too important that one has a subscription to a local newspaper. It’s too late for The Valley Journal, but it survives genetically in some fashion.”

Sutherland’s follows The Sun from the Bay Area, where he was the principal pianist for the San Francisco Symphony for 45 years. Upon his retirement last year, the City of San Francisco issued a proclamation declaring Nov. 12, 2018 Robin Sutherland Day. How he got there is “lost of the mists of time,” he said, but here’s “the commonly accepted wisdom.”

Sutherland was born in Denver but grew up in Greeley. As a toddler, he gained an interest in the piano at home — “quietly picking out intervals that were consonant to my ear.” He did same at school during recess, unaware that his preschool program at Colorado State College — now University of Northern Colorado — was also an opportunity for students to observe the education process. His talents were noticed, and two weeks before his fourth birthday he was studying piano at the college.

“Here’s this school of music plunked down in the cow shit and the wheat fields of Weld County, but it was absolutely first rate,” he said.

“I couldn’t have done any better.”

His teacher for the next 14 years was Rita Hutcherson, one of the first women to get a music degree from Yale.

“If you subscribe to the school of pedagogical ancestry, I have some pretty fancy piano grandteachers,” he noted. “It was the only thing I was remotely any good at. I’m ungainly, so all my best choreography happens below the wrist.”

His sexuality was an added challenge, though not one he feels defines him.

“I’m gay, and that was a tough one in Greeley in the ‘50s,” he said. “That whole part of me was kept very repressed for a very long time, and when I came out seismometers registered it as a far as Chicago.”

Meanwhile, he had plenty of support from his family as he pursued his passion.

“My parents loved me to pieces even though they had no idea what I was doing,” he said.

Whether it was luck or savvy, Sutherland also set himself up for success while visiting a friend and former garage-band member at Colorado Rocky Mountain School as a teen.

“An amazing thing happened to Carbondale, Colorado, and that is that John and Anne

Holden showed up and got cozy with Shorty Pabst. All the sudden these weird people began arriving from the East to make their home in Carbondale,” he said. “My last semester of high school I was pretty much full-time hanging around being a fake student at CRMS.” He stayed at the guest quarters under the Bar Fork and played recitals in the Barn. But while he called Sopris “the single most astounding geologic thing I’ve ever seen in my home state,” he doesn’t deny the upvalley draw.

In the summers, he said, the Juilliard School practically moved to the mountains for the Aspen Music Festival. There, he met Rosina Lhévinne who, along with her husband Josef, was “the most sought-after piano teacher in the world.”

“She could have been on the faculty at the Panoma State Barber’s College and I would have followed her,” he said.

Instead, her recommendation meant that Sutherland “entered Juilliard through the screen porch in back.”

When Lhévinne stopped teaching, he defected to the San Francisco Conservatory.

“Then one day a pianist gets ill and they send me down to the Symphony to help them out,” he said. I think that was the first actual real money that I saw doing what I do. Little did I know that I was setting the tone for my entire career…

You can either say I have 45 years of experience, or one year repeated 45 times.”

Meanwhile, Sutherland continued to play concerts in the Roaring Fork Valley, including three that he can remember at the Redstone Castle.

“When I first set foot in the Castle, it was really rundown and nobody was quite sure what it’s fate would be,” he noted.

Rosemary and Ken Johnson of the Grand Junction Sentinel purchased the property, properly Cleveholm Manor and sometimes referred to as the Osgood Mansion after its first occupant, John Osgood. They heavily renovated, just as current owners Steve and April Carver of the Hotel Denver have done more recently.

In Sutherland’s assessment, it’s the perfect venue.

“There’s nothing like the Redstone Castle for what it is and where it is and what it stands for.

Houses of that magnitude were designed for entertainment. This is the matrix in which chamber music thrives,” he said.“Carnegie Hall is too damn big. You need that level of intimacy.”

While you might also hear a piece of ragtime written for him by John Adams, listeners learned to expected plenty of Bach and Brahms.

“I’m a deep classicist,” he said. “I have always felt you can never go wrong with the music of the masters.”

The concerts of yore were never major money-making endeavors for Sutherland, instead benefitting Carbondale Arts and, on the last oc-

Robin Sutherland prepares for a barn concert of yore.

Photo courtesy of Colorado Rocky Mountain School casion, honoring the passing of Paula Mechau.

The next event happens to coincide with the 50th reunion of Sutherland’s class at CRMS. “I’m even, if not more, looking forward to the benefit for The Sopris Sun,” he said. “I want the sun to come up and everybody to go, ‘God damn it that was fun.’”

The Sun, for its part, is approaching the event as a fundraiser, board member John Colson explained.

“As a nonprofit, we are able rely on donations from the community in addition to advertising revenue,” he said. “It’s a little more high-

tone than The Sopris Sun has ever gone. The hope is that it sets the bar for future fundraisers.”

Tickets are limited and $125 per person at tinyurl.com/suncastlebenefit, with a select number of $1,000+ donors invited to stay overnight — contact jcolson@soprissun.com for more information.

The doors will open at 5 p.m. with an open bar and a chance to check out the Castle, and the music starts at 6 p.m. sharp.

“It’s 75 minutes of beautiful music by one of the best pianists in this country,” Colson said.

“What more could one person want?”

Spellebration: The Musical, Broad Way to Literacy April 5, 2019, 6:00 p.m.

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What I did with my parents’ bodies

By Illène Pevec Special to The Sopris Sun I want to share our experience of handling my parent’s end of life process as this may help others.

My mother died in August, 2014. My father died last May. In both cases my children and I cared for them at home as neither wanted to be anywhere else. This was not easy as there always needed to be one of us at home with them, but we managed with a lot of family teamwork and the wonderful support of Home Care and Hospice of the Valley and the Veterans’ Administration in the case of my father. In both deaths we obtained their death and burial certificates and buried them ourselves.

The day before my mother died I bought two adjacent burial plots in the Evergreen Cemetery on Eighth Street from the Carbondale town clerk. I learned the town needed two days’ notice to dig a grave. My mother died in early morning and our hospice nurse called a local mortuary where there was an assistant coroner to come and sign the death certificate, explaining that we would not be using the mortuary services.

He very graciously signed the death certificate and told us that we needed to take it to the Garfield County clerk to register it and get the burial certificate which the town needed in order to dig the grave. The information you need for a death certificate is simple: name of deceased, name of their parents, birth date and where the person was born along with time and place of death.

My daughters and I bathed my mother, dressed her and anointed her with lavender oil with our wonderful nurse and home assistant to help us. My brother-in-law had just taken apart his children’s tree house in Cape Cod that my mother had often used to do her morning yoga when she visited them each summer, and he cut up those boards for the coffin and wrapped the bundle of boards with

tape. My sister checked the bundle as her baggage when she flew out later that day to join us.

When the boards arrived our family nailed together the coffin. We picked flowers from our garden. Aaron Taylor from the Way of Compassion Bike Project (at that time called Carbondale Bike Project) brought over his bike trailer and we loaded the coffin onto the trailer. The rest of us got on our bikes including five young great grandchildren, and a friend went ahead of us to stop traffic as our funeral procession made its way across town to the cemetery where we had my parents’ friends waiting and my father safely seated.

I coordinated the ceremony and my sister and all the grandchildren present spoke and friends also as we thanked God for my mother’s long and loving life.

My mother, though not Catholic, had attended services at St. Benedict’s monastery for years but we had no local minister to call on and it felt right for us to do this burial on our own with a song sung by Olivia Pevec, granddaughter, and poems and prayers by us all. Olivia designed the grave stone and it is there awaiting its engraving of my father’s name this spring.

Why did we do this ourselves? My father was a lawyer who had a good friend die in his early forties from a heart attack. He handled this friend’s estate for the family and was appalled at the way the funeral industry took advantage of the widow to persuade her to spend money she could not afford on the funeral. I remembered this clearly and really had no desire to have anyone involved in this intimate last rite but our family members and friends. It all flowed beautifully.

We felt very united in our caring for my mother as she moved from this life to the next.

My father had signed a living will to donate his body to medicine but then told us he wanted to be buried next to my mother. My father had dementia in the last years’ of his life

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Courtesy photo and my sister and I decided to donate his brain to medical research, thus fulfilling both his wishes. The Alzheimers’ website had a list of research centers across the US. I called Boston University as they were accepting the brains of veterans. Usually they send out a doctor to “harvest” the brain but there was no operating room available nearby so the university contracted with a funeral home in Glenwood to pick up my father’s body and return it to us at the graveside for burial. The university paid for this service.

My father’s death was quiet and peaceful at home in the early evening as he slept. Our hospice nurse was out of town so I did not phone the on-call nurse till the next morning.

This time getting the death and burial certificates proved more difficult than the first. The man who picked up my father’s body offered to get the burial certificate for me for $700. Since our family members were the only ones who knew my father’s vital statistics I balked at this price. I drove to the county clerk’s office and discovered that I had to have either a coroner or doctor’s signature to get a burial certificate, something I had forgotten.

The hospice doctor was off duty so I called my father’s life-long physician who fortunately I knew well, drove

back to his house with the necessary form, got his signature, returned to the county clerk’s office and got the necessary paperwork in time for the funeral home to return the body to the graveside that afternoon. The Garfield County coroner told me that the coroner’s office will store a body in refrigeration if someone needs that done. I would certainly check ahead of time with the coroner if that service is needed.

Again, family and friends gathered at the gravesite to bury my father. We buried him in a shroud my daughter made for him and each person there dropped a flower on him with a blessing.

We sang and we told stories and celebrated his wonderful life that made possible all our lives. Old friends from more than fifty years ago as well as younger friends came to help us in this sacred process.

Carbondale Public Works personnel were very to helpful us, waited respectfully at a distance while we buried my parents and covered their graves when we left. Thank you to them and Maria in the county clerk’s office who helped me with the paperwork and to our town clerk. Our way of dealing with death may not be the norm now but certainly was in the past, and we are grateful it is still possible.

HELP WANTED The Town of Carbondale is now accepting applications for the

Street Maintenance position The Town of Carbondale is accepting applications for the Public Works Department, Street Maintenance position. A valid Colorado driver’s license is required. Physical exam, pre-employment and substance abuse testing will be required. Work hours are Monday through Friday 7:00 am to 3:30 pm. Starting pay will be $19.25 - $21/hour depending on qualifications.

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BIG EVENT • Carbondale Community School (1505 Satank Rd.) presents “What a Wonderful World” at 6 p.m. — $10 for kids and $20 for adults.

GONG BATH • At 7 p.m., a dynamic meditative experience in which each participant is acoustically guided into realms of physical well-being, emotional balance and spiritual awareness comes to True Nature Healing Arts (100 N. Third St.) for $25 per person.

THE HUMAN ELEMENT• CORE and TACAW (360 Market St., Willits) present a free screening of Emmy Award winner James Balog’s latest documentary at 7 p.m., followed by a conversation with the film’s producer, Olivia Ahnemann.

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MOVIE & POPCORN • Carbondale Branch library (320 Sopris Ave.) screens “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” at 2 p.m. with refreshments provided.

SPEAKER SERIES • Evan Zislis teaches you to clear the cluttered path to becoming a full-time entrepreneur with a free 5:30 p.m. talk and book signing at CoVenture (201 Main St.).

CONSENSUAL IMPROV • Thunder RIver Theatre Company’s troupe hangs out on its own

stage (67 Promenade) for an 8 p.m. performance. $15 at thunderrivertheatre.com.

MULTI-INSTRUMETALISTS • DeVotchKa takes the stage at 8 p.m. at The Temporary (360 Market St., Willits). $24 in advance at tacaw.org or $29 at the door.

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INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY • The Temporary (360 Market St.) hosts Toubab Krewe for an 8 p.m. show. $17 in advance at tacaw.org or $22 at the door.

COUNTRY • Dylan Earl plays Steve’s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.) at 8:30 p.m. or thereabouts.

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre (427 Main St.) presents “Arctic” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. March 22-24 & 27-28; “If Beale Street Could Talk” (R) at 5 p.m. on March 22; “They Shall Not Grow Old” (R, Captioned) at 5:15 p.m on March 23; “Cold War” (R, Subtitled) at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday March 24. Closed March 25 & 26.

DISCUSSION CLUB • Read a book of your choice set during the Revolutionary War or about the Founding Fathers and discuss how that vision is being implemented today from 10 to 11 a.m. at The Hub (105 W. Main St., Marble).

PRUNING CLASS • New Castle Gardens (6501 CR 214) invites you to get hands on with some fruit trees in a free 10 a.m. class.

MON March 25 & TUE March 26

HEALTH THROUGH NUTRITION • Free opportunities include: One-hour consultations Monday mornings by appointment (379-5718) about heart attack and other chronic illness prevention through plant-based whole foods lifestyle with retired family doctor Greg Feinsinger, MD. At 6 p.m. Tuesdays, a livestream of Just 1 Thing 4 Health’s interviews with featured doctors. At 7 p.m. the first Monday of the month, a Powerpoint presentation about the science behind plant-based nutrition.

Finally, at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Monday of the month, participate in a plant-based potluck. All events take place at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) and are supported by Davi Nikent Center for Human Flourishing.

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JAZZ SERIES • The Roberta Lewis Quartet honors the memory of Walt Smith at 4 p.m. at The Temporary (360 Market St.). $15 in advance at tacaw.org or $20 at the door.

FOLK • John Gorka plays an earlier show at Steve’s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.) with a 7:30 p.m. start.

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We welcome wellness practitioners and businesses that support the health and well-being of our community to host a table at Carbondale Recreation at 567 Colorado Avenue from 5 to 8 pm, or if you are in downtown area host an OPEN House at your place of business.

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CABARET SHOWCASE • The students of a six-week studio course present their arrangements at 7:30 p.m. each night at Thunder River Theatre (67 Promenade). $25 at thunderrivertheatre.com.

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SOIL MOISTURE • Aspen Global Change Institute, Pitkin County Senior Services and Eagle County Public Health present a free interactive talk on the impacts of weather and water from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Basalt Regional Library (14 Midland Ave.). RSVP to 328-7682.

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THOMPSON TOURS • Check out the Historic Thompson House Museum (located at the end of Lewies Lane and complete with its original contents) from 2 to 4 p.m. every second and fourth Saturday.

Free and arranged by the Carbondale Historical Society (carbondalehistory.org).

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BLUEGRASS JAM • Bring the instrument of your choice or just your voice for a weekly jam session first and last Sundays at 6 p.m. at Steve’s Guitars (19 N. Fourth St.) and all other Sundays at the Glenwood Springs Brew Garden (115 Sixth St.) OPEN MIC • Take the stage at Riverside Grill (181 Basalt Center Circle, Basalt) from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays. Food and drink specials. Free.

KARAOKE • The Black Nugget (403 Main St.) and Sandman bring you over 30,000 songs to choose from and a quality sound system to release your inner rockstar at 9 pm. every Thursday.

LOVE ADDICTS • Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, a 12-step group will meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday at Holland Hills United Methodist Church (167 Holland Hills Rd., Basalt).

MINDFULNESS IN RECOVERY • An inclusive, peer-led recovery support group open to anyone with a desire for recovery — independent of faith and regardless of race, gender or orientation — meets Tuesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. in room 36 of the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) MINDFULNESS • The Mindful Life Program in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) offers group sessions Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation and registration is not necessary. Info: mindfullifeprogram.org and 970-633-0163.

DHARMA • The Way of Compassion Dharma Center holds a Dharma talk and meditation from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednes-

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days and a silent meditation and Buddha of Compassion practice at 8 a.m. Saturdays at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.).

SANSKRIT MANTRA • Devika Gurung demonstrates how chant is about more than spirtuality, but also breath and rhythm at 4:30 p.m. Sundays at The Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.).

RF INSIGHT • Monday Night Meditation meets from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. at Roaring Fork Aikikai (2553 Dolores Way) and offers instruction in the Buddhist practice of Vipassana. RFI also offers secular mindfulness at the Carbondale Community School and is working with CMC to provide a class on “Zen and the Art of Dying” — more info at roaringforkinsight.org.

MEDITATION • Free silent meditation sessions are held at the Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.) from 6:45 to 7:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (info at 3061015).

WORLD DANCE • Learn rhythms from various countries and cultures for $12 per class from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mondays at the Carbondale Community School (1505 Satank Rd.).

LET’S JUST DANCE • Feel great, have fun and dance Tuesdays at The Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). Catch a free lesson at 7 p.m., then from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. it’s open dancing with two-step, swing, waltz, line dance, salsa and more. No partner or experience necessary. $8/person; $14/couple. Questions? Call 970-366-6463 or email billypat4@gmail.com.

BACHATA • Learn a Latin dance with Erik and Claudia Peña presenting weekly classes from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday at The Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.). $10 drop-in fee; info at 963-8425.

DRUM & DANCE • Drop by the Carbondale Community School (1505 Satank Rd.) Mondays through March 4 for an African drum class at 5:15 p.m. and African Dance class at 6:30 p.m. — $15 each. Also, catch a World Rhythms Dance Class from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at True Nature (100 N. Third St) — $14 with a punch pass.

WRITERS GROUP • Wordsmiths of all experience and abilities gather at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) at 6 p.m. on the second Monday of the month.

STORYTIME • Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.) hosts stories, songs and more for ages four and up at 10:30 a.m.

Thursdays and three and under at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays. Kids must be accompanied by an adult.

STORY ART • Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.), in partnership with the Aspen Art Museum, invites kids to learn about artists and create masterpieces of their own at 4 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month.

YOUR STORY, YOUR LIFE • A free facilitated workshop for adults, writing your personal history, one story at a time. Facilitated by Shelly Merriam, historian/writer/ genealogist. First and third Fridays, 10 a.m. to noon at the Glenwood Springs Branch Library, (815 Cooper Ave.). Info at 945-5958 or gcpld.org.

LIFE DRAWING • Drop in for figure drawing with Staci Dickerson at 6:30 p.m. Mondays at The Helios Center (601 Sopris Ave.).

RUN AROUND • Independence Run & Hike hosts a run around town Saturdays at 8 a.m. Meet at the store 596 Highway 133 (in La Fontana Plaza) and run various distances, with different routes each week.

Info: 704-0909.

ROTARY • The Carbondale Rotary Club meets at the Carbondale Fire Station (300 Meadowood Dr.) at 6:45 a.m. Wednesdays. The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at White House Pizza (801 Main Ct.) at noon every Thursday.

YOGA • Get a donation-based introduction to Hatha Yoga from 8 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays at The Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.).

MAKERSPACE • Children and teens are invited to design, create, tinker, and play with art and technology to design and create with 3D Pens, make stop-motion animation films, engineer duct tape creations, build their own video games, and more from 2 to 3:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Carbondale Branch Library (320 Sopris Ave.).

LOSS SUPPORT • The Compassionate Friends of the Roaring Fork Valley, a group for parents, grandparents or siblings who have lost a child of any age, meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month at The Orchard (110 Snowmass Dr.).

GRIEF AND LOSS • Pathfinders offers a grief and loss support group every other Monday at 6 p.m., and a caregiver support group every other Wednesday noon.

An RSVP is required to Robyn Hubbard at 319-6854. Pathfinders offers support groups from Aspen to Rifle and is located in Carbondale at 1101 Village Rd. Info: pathfindersforcancer.org.

WALK WITH A DOC • Aspen Valley Hospital (401 Castle Creek Rd.) invites you to meet in the cafeteria at 10 a.m. the first Saturday of the month for a short discussion on a health-related topic, such as high blood pressure, asthma, anxiety, etc.

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Town Report The following items are drawn from Town Manager Jay Harrington’s weekly report to staff, trustees and others.

PREVIEW NIGHT for Green is the New Black prompted plans for additional security next year to ensure that the Thursday evening is alcohol free as intended.

WEAVER DITCH headgate options are being considered as part of the restoration process. Utilities staff will also be looking at flow monitoring sites for placement of staff gauges and data collectors.

SPRING INTO WELLNESS on First Friday, April 5 will include an event at the Rec. Center showcasing practitioners and businesses who support the health and well-being of our community. Contact Rita at www.davinikent. com to find out how to have a booth or table at the event.

IRRIGATION CONTRACTORS are being sought for a replacement project on the southeast section of Highway 133 through town.

ARBOR DAY is slated for May 4 in Carbondale, with a special celebration of our 25th year as a Tree City USA. Memorial trees can be donated with assistance of the Kay Brunnier Tree Fund — contact Town Arborist Mike Callas at 510-1331 for more information.

WOOD CHIPS from recycled Christmas Trees are still available in the parking lot east of Town Hall. Don’t let previous dumpers fool you — new trees are no longer being accepted.

SNOWPACK is up to 158 percent of normal snow-water equivalent and twice that of last year for this date.

DITCH PREP and pothole repair continues as we head into spring. Meanwhile, the ice rinks are being dismantled and the pool locker room floors are being resurfaced.

BIDS on the Meadow Wood Drive reclamation project are due by March 26. Interested firms should contact Parks & Recreation Director Eric Brendlinger, at 510-1277 or visit carbondalegov.org by March 28.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES include group fitness and Silver Sneakers instructors (call 510-1280); recreation assistants (call 510-1279); climbing instructors, recreation program assistants and front desk staff (510-1214); seasonal parks maintenance (510-1327) and vegetation management (510-1331).

DEHYDRATING FOODS, leathers and jerkies is a cooking class offered from 6 to 9 p.m. March 25 at the cost of $10.

Register at the Rec. Center.

PARENT TOT ZUMBA continues for 2-5 year olds and their guardians from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Fridays. It’s $5 for members and $6 for others per child.

CIRCUITS & CONDITIONING is a new fitness class at 6 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays beginning March 18. Instructed by Nevada Crandall, it’s a hour-long high-energy circuit- based workout combining targeted resistance training with high intensity interval training for maximum efficiency. Get it as part of a membership or daily drop in.

HEALTHY PREGNANCY, a free clinic with tips for a great foundation for fitness during and post pregnancy, takes place from 11 a.m. to noon March 30.

SOLAR INSTALLATION at the Miner’s Park bathrooms will begin soon, with new roofs and partitioned in several park bathrooms funded by a Garfield County FMLD Mini-Grant.

SALES TAX revenues in February were 9.1 percent above 2018, bringing the year-to-date revenue to 3.5 percent up.

THE PLANNING COMMISSION approved an Accessory Dwelling Unit on the 100 block of Sopris Avenue and held a public hearing on code amendments to establish development standards for Wireless Facilities — which will go before trustees on April 9.

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As of March 11 Town crews will be cleaning irrigation ditches throughout Carbondale. Be advised there may be smoke in your neighborhood when the crew is working near your home. Please keep access open, inspect the ditch condition and remove any debris and plant growth that has accumulated since last year. We anticipate the ditches will be turned on April 16.

In preparation for this year’s irrigation season, please make appropriate adjustments to your pump intakes to allow for low flow conditions which appear toward the end of the season.

The low flow conditions in the Crystal River will pre-empt calls by the Colorado Water Conservation Board to reduce diversion amounts throughout the Crystal River basin as appropriate for minimum stream flow and drought conditions.

These calls will reduce the depth of the irrigation ditches throughout town.

Ditch usage information Per the Town of Carbondale Municipal Code 13.44.020: .All rights of persons and entities to use or divert water from the town ditch system shall be permissive only, and may be refused, canceled, or revoked at any time by the town for any reason whatsoever. Without limiting the foregoing, no use or diversion by any person or entity of water from the town ditch system shall entitle such user to any legal water right of any kind.

Per the Town of Carbondale Municipal Code 13.44.040: Obstructions - No person or entity shall: A. Place any obstructions to the flow of water in any ditch in the town ditch system; B. Place any fence or other structure across or within the easement of any ditch in the town ditch system; C. Throw or lodge any solid matter into any ditch in the town ditch system; this includes lawn clippings and yard waste D. Refuse to remove any obstruction, fence or structure from any easement of any ditch in the town ditch system, when so requested by the town; E. Pollute any ditch, or water therein, in the town ditch system; F. Prevent access for authorized town personnel to operate, maintain, inspect, or otherwise use the town ditch system, or easements or head gates utilized by the town ditch system.

If you have questions please call the Town Utility Department at 963-3140. Thank you.

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MAIN STREET MARKETPLACE work continues on West Main, with a water tie-in scheduled to be done this week and a sewer line installation on tap.

A FIELD SOBRIETY TEST instructor course drew Officer Brandyn Rupp.

Cop Shop From March 8 through 14, Carbondale Police handled 211 calls for service. During that period, officers investigated the following cases of note: TUESDAY March 12 at 6:30 p.m. Officers took report of criminal mischief on Barber Drive.

TUESDAY March 12 at 8:28 p.m. Following a traffic stop, a 23-year-old was arrested on a warrant.

Also, on March 6, the Garfield County Sheriff’s office responded to an unattended death near Carbondale. The case, as well as that of a man found unresponsive and declared dead on March 17, is officially open pending a coroner’s report.

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By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff The Carbondale Board of Trustees followed staff’s lead in awarding the Town’s residential hauling contract to Mountain Waste and Recycling.

Public Works Director Kevin Schorzman estimated that Mountain Waste’s bid represented a 6 or 7 percent savings over Waste Management, the main competitor — at least for the average customer. Otherwise, he found both proposals to be about equal.

“I’ve worked with both companies and I’m confident that either one of them could do this,” he said.

Mayor Dan Richardson had come to a different conclusion.

“My analysis said that the cost was so close… that it wasn’t a driver for me,” he said. “I could live with either, but Waste Management came out on top for me.”

Trustee Erica Sparhawk also saw some merit in the alternative choice.

“I have heard really great things about their staffing and their training nationwide as a corporation,” she said.

Still, she was inclined to follow the Schorzman’s recommendation, as were the other trustees.

“They’re the ones who put in literally hundreds of hours on this,” Marty Silverstein said.

Besides, Ben Bohmfalk pointed out, most people in town are already using Mountain Waste.

All else being about equal, Heather Henry thought that was a pretty compelling benefit.

“I think this is going to be enough change as it is,” she said.

The public contract, which will be implemented between June and September, is intended to reduce truck traffic and wildlife impacts while increasing diversion.

Vendor requirements included fewer delivery days, volumetric pricing and built-in recycling and yard waste collection.

Residents will be billed by the Town just like any other utility — although they can also opt to contract with alternative or additional services as well.

It’s something of a compromise between the old municipal hauler and landfill service Carbondale used to run and the free-market approach of recent years. And while households that produce a lot of trash may end up paying more, it’s expected to actually be cheaper for most residents.

“I see this as being a win-win for everyone,” Silverstein said.

Added Town Manager Jay Harrington, “It’s amazing what some people go through to save on trash pickup.”

Industrial and commercial users, as well as residential complexes with more than eight units, will not be affected. Nor does the Town intend to penalize folks who might struggle with the transition.

“I don’t want people to be hit with penalties right away,” Sparhawk said.

Schorzman assured trustees that, whichever option they chose, that wasn’t likely to be the outcome.

“Both companies proposals were… more focused on ‘let’s educate before we penalize,’” he said. “I think what we would endeavor to do in the start up phase of this is sit down with the hauler and let them know we’re not out to just hammer people right off the bat.”

Eventually, however, enforcement will be necessary to make sure the Town is accomplishing its goals. Folks who pile bags on top of a small container will be billed more, and those who risk attracting wildlife by putting their containers out early can be subject to a fine or simply charged for a bear-proof can.

Bohmfalk also expressed hope that a combination of education on what you can and can’t recycle coupled

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with waste stream monitoring would ensure their diversion goals are actually met.

With the outcome almost certain, Jeb Hensley of Waste Management was graceful in defeat. He thanked the board for seriously considering the merits of each proposal rather than just rubber-stamping the cheapest option.

“You guys put a long of thought, effort and consideration into this,” he said. “Obviously the price is a big deal… We have to pride ourselves on the service, the technology and the safety part of it.”

Doug Goldsmith of Mountain Waste also praised the process while expressing satisfaction that the local company won the day.

“The fact that there is nobody here is a testament… to Kevin, staff and the ability to get the information out,” he said. “We are your neighbor. We are right down the road.”

The ultimate approval was unanimous.

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Passed several amendments to the Unified Development Code ranging from rules for mobile home parks to lighting requirements to typo fixes. A specific tweak to the sign code was considered separately on a “fast track” due to pending litigation. Bohmfalk praised the enhanced accessibility of the code and, like the trash discussion, took the lack of public comment as a good sign. It likely won’t be the last tweak to the UDC. “Once we adopt this, the next update process starts tomorrow,” Harrington said.

Granted CoVenture a special event liquor license for April 12 even though no one from the organization showed up to present.

Approved a $10,000 matching grant for school mental health programs.

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‘This I remember’

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The passing of Mary Ferguson From the archives of the Valley Journal and The Sopris Sun March 22, 1979 The possibility of a higher-than-average runoff prompted fears of floods.

Redstone, in particular, was gearing up for a potential 100-year flood by reinforcing a berm that had, the year before, been only six inches from swamped. Meanwhile, one landowner along the Crystal was cited for using a caterpillar to push rocks from the river up onto the bank, a violation of the United States Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 without a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. Besides, not only does ripping up the streambed cause problems for wildlife and downstream users, the article noted, but round river rocks are next to useless for “rip rapping” mitigation.

March 23, 1989 Locals Terry Glasenapp and Bob Chaffin were among the extras visible in the Glenwood-filmed Charson Bronson flick “Messenger of Death.”

But that wasn’t the end of suspension of disbelief for those familiar with the town, as “trick geography” has the characters hopping from street

to street mid-cut. Luckily, while they renamed the Post the Beacon for the purposes of the film, actual pressman Kent Lohse had more-than-extra role.

March 18, 1999 Carbondale remembered longtime teacher Mary Ferguson following her death at the age of 92.

“She was a strict but fair teacher with a good moral background,” former student Lew Ron Thompson said. “Looking back, I hope I’ve lived the lessons she taught us kids.”

Born in the Spring Gulch mining camp in 1906, she grew up and began teaching in the days of one-room schoolhouses and ended her career at Carbondale Elementary School in 1976. She hardly retired, however, with 10 years on the Board of Trustees and a “Woman of the Year” award in two consecutive years by two different organizations.

Right up until her death, she hosted a radio show on KDNK titled “This I Remember” with special guests sharing tidbits about their past and the area’s history. Added Thompson, “When you think of the area’s beautiful resources — Mt. Sopris and the rivers — she fit into that category.”

March 19, 2009 Planning and Zoning approved a proposal to build more than 200 residential units on 13 acres north of Town Hall.

With nearly 400 unbuilt units already approved elsewhere, some residents had concerns about the scope of potential development, and Commission member Lorey Esquibel even made a motion to deny the application. (They needn’t have worried — a decade later the area remains industrial rather than residential.)

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Prop 112 and SB 181 are both badly needed measures, but they’re not the same. The legislative bill has nothing to do with setbacks. It focuses on reprioritizing the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and giving local governments more control over drilling regulations.

The industry claims the state senate passed the bill “in the middle of the night.” There was a “bomb cyclone” snowstorm passing through Denver at the time, but it was daytime. State senators don’t work at night.

Much is made of the fact both of the bill’s sponsors are from Boulder County.

Intellectual snobs, I suppose, who don’t care about the working man. I think it’s appropriate they be from Boulder County, particularly on the local control issue, since it was a drilling ban imposed by the Boulder County Commissioners that was overruled by the state Supreme Court stacked with Hickenlooper appointees.

Boulder is the home of a great university. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some very intelligent people in that community.Not surprisingly, our own state Senator, Bob Rankin, voted against SB 181. He said it will show Colorado isn’t friendly to the oil and gas industry and will result in no new drilling. I’m sorry, Bob, I find it hard to feel remorse that a soon-to-be obsolete industry will be restricted from expanding and sickening nearby residents, besmirching the environment, and destroying the climate.

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Janet Buck Planning Director PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held before the Carbondale Planning and Zoning Commission for the purpose of considering a Subdivision Exemption to divide a 10,890 sq. ft. lot into three lots. The proposed Lot 1 and Lot 2 would split the duplex currently under construction into two lots. The new single family currently under construction would be on Lot 3.

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