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Solar panels stolen from CRMS array

By Terray Sylvester Sopris Sun Staff Writer Four solar panels were reported stolen from the large array at Colorado Rocky Mountain School over the weekend.

Gaps in the array were noticed by Scott Ely, the owner of Sunsense Solar Electric, the company that built the roughly $1 million solar farm, as he drove past the panels after leaving work on Saturday afternoon.

The apparent theft won’t seriously impair the function of the array because all four panels were taken from just one “string” of the installation, Ely said.

“It’s a minimal loss of power,” he explained. The missing panels will cut into the array’s potential by 2,500 watts, the equivalent of the power needed to light 25, 100-watt incandescent bulbs. The capacity of the installation as a whole is 147 kilowatts.

The Garfield County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the theft, said spokeswoman Tanny McGinnis. She said the sheriff estimates the panels are worth $3,200.

Since the CRMS solar farm was created through a cooperative effort involving many different organizations, several of the people interviewed for this article described the incident as a theft from the community as a whole.

“I think the irony of this is that the project depended on an incredible, unique collaboration among community entities, and this represents really a breakdown in one piece of the community that really made the project happen in the first place,” said Auden Schendler, sustainability director at the Aspen Skiing Company, the company that owns the installation and footed the bill for a large chunk of its construction.

The array was completed in July 2008 with contributions from the Skiing Company and Sunsense, as well as the town of Carbondale, the Community Office for Resource Efficiency, Garfield County and Excel Energy. CRMS donated the land for the solar farm and pays the Skiing Company for about a third of the power it generates, while the rest of the juice flows into the grid. In about 20 years, the installation will pass into the hands of CRMS. School security guards were on duty during the weekend, and were checking on the solar array during their rounds, according to CRMS Finance Director Joe White. He said CRMS is consulting with the Skiing Company to figure out how to beef up security.

“Despite the fact that the financial loss is to Aspen Skiing Company, the incident occurred on our campus and we feel violated,” he added.

The theft from the CRMS array is one of a number of similar incidents that have occurred in the area over the last several years, and McGinnis said such crimes are relatively common in Colorado and throughout the country. In May 2009, panels were stolen from the roof of the Carbondale SOLAR PANELS page 9

The group Wake Up Now marked their seventh year honoring the dead in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in front of Town Hall on Jan. 17. Every Monday – rain, shine, sleet, or snow – the group gathers to lower the flag to half staff then read names of U.S. military personnel who have died, address those in attendance and reflect in silence. Monday’s gathering included John Hoffmann, Russ Criswell, Phil Nyland, Sue Bacon, Mary Lilly, Jack Sebesta, and Chris and Terri Chacos, and lasted about 10 minutes. Part-time residents Elliot and Mary Wager were unable to attend. Photo by Lynn Burton

Conan the belly dancer to return?

$88K tax backlog mostly collected

Tandoori oven comes to town

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Carbondale Commentary Real hunters get the lead out It is time for those of us who hunt to quit using outdated lead bullets and start moving toward high-tech copper bullets – even if they are more expensive. Lead bullets are bad for everyone: They contaminate the meat we bring home as well as the gut piles we leave behind, and they also poison any scavengers that consume the contaminated meat.

Moreover, the evidence against lead bullets is now solid. In a North Dakota study of 738 people whose blood was tested, those who ate a lot of wild game had higher lead levels than those who ate little or none.

And the more recent the consumption of wild game harvested with lead bullets, the higher the level of lead in the blood. That is why the federal government now urges pregnant women and children under the age of 6 not to consume any game shot with lead bullets.

In Jackson Hole, Wyo., the Beringia South Research Institute has found that 50 percent of ravens have elevated blood levels during the hunting season, compared to only 2 percent during the non-hunting season. In the Greater yellowstone area, 85 percent of the bald eagles tested had elevated levels of lead in their bodies – more than half of them at levels that can cause impairment or death.

What happens after a bullet kills a big game animal is suron prising. According to a Minnesota Game and Fish study, an the average of 141 bullet fragments per carcass dispersed far

by Paul W. Hansen from the wound channel, for an average maximum distance High Country News of 11 inches. That means that routine trimming of a bullet wound will not remove all of the lead. Because most lead particles in venison are too small to see, feel or sense when chewing, they’re liable to be unknowingly consumed.

For centuries, lead has been known to be a broad-spectrum poison for humans and wildlife, and recently the Environmental Protection Agency described it as “one of the most dangerous neurotoxins in the environment.”The young of all species are at higher risk because their growing bodies absorb more lead than adults do and their developing brains are more easily damaged by it.

Lead has been banned from paint, gasoline, toys, and even tire-balancing weights. In 1991, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ordered a ban on lead shot for hunting migratory waterfowl.

The agency took action because about 1 to 2 million ducks, geese and swans were dying each year from eating spent lead-shot pellets. Now, the Wildlife Society – the professional association of the nation’s leading wildlife biologists – advocates replacing all lead-based bullets used in the field.

Hunters already have alternatives. They can either buy bullets with no exposed lead – a heavy copper case surrounds the lead core – or they can buy a solid copper bullet that fragments very little and leaves no lead behind.

Hunters contribute a great deal to wildlife conservation through license fees, an excise tax on gear, the purchase of habitat conservation stamps and donations to wildlife conservation groups. Given this great conservation legacy, it makes no sense to contaminate our hunt by bringing home tainted meat or leaving toxic lead in the field. When informed of the problem, 90 percent of Arizona hunters in regions critical to the endangered California condor voluntarily switched to copper.

Unfortunately, this issue has become unnecessarily polarized. After making a well-referenced case for banning lead in the field, the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity then over-

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Glad to be at RFHS Dear Editor: Thank you for bringing attention to all the good things happening at Roaring Fork High School.

When my older son was in eighth grade, we looked at several schools, among them Aspen High. Teddy (Benge) was ski racing at the time and the location would have helped in getting to practices; and I had been reading about the International Baccalaureate program. yet I am so glad he is where he is: at Roaring Fork.

The school has a great spirit. Its principal, Cliff Colia, knows the name and believes in the potential of every student in his halls. He is visible at just about every event, including away ones (half the time he is not only there, he’s driven the bus).The assistant principal,Barbara Mason, is respected and relied upon. My husband and I have another eighth grader now and this time we are not looking anywhere else.

Students can study to whatever difficulty level they choose, taking honors, Advanced Placement and college classes. Last year Teddy took a college-credit law course taught by respected attorneys who brought in experience of local cases. He has a truly sterling lineup of teachers, who are a match for teachers at any private school; and I am not the only parent to say that. He has a diverse group of friends, a great gift to any young person, and is welcomed into their homes and at their tables. Jill Knaus, longtime Spanish teacher, will tell you how Latino and Anglo students have come together and help each other in her classes.

From ninth grade Teddy has wanted to go to everything at Roaring Fork, from ball games to the talent show or even to help scare kids at the haunted house. When the excellent girls’ volleyball team became district champions and played in Denver, literally busloads of kids traveled to support them; a newspaper article reported that Roaring Fork had the loudest cheering section.

Long ago when my older sister approached first grade, my mother asked our pediatrician which was the best school (we were living in a city, San Francisco, at the time). He said, “The best school is the nearest one.”

I encourage any family with any interest at all in Roaring Fork to visit the school, meet the administration and teachers, sit in on a class. Or just go to a game.

Alison Osius Carbondale

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Special steering committee plots course for 40th Fair

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities has appointed a special steering committee to help plot a course for the 40th annual Mountain Fair, slated for July 29-31.

The committee reached beyond Colorado’s borders to bring back former Mountain Fair Directors Joanne Ricci and Thomas Lawley to help or offer input. The committee has looked back in time and plans to reintroduce old events such as wheel barrel races. It is also looking forward to a new approach in designing the logo/poster.

“I think we have some good ideas,” said Carbondale Mountain Fair Director Amy Kimberly.

One of those ideas is publishing a cookbook with recipes from more than 25 years of pie and cake baking contests.

Mountain Fair is CCAH’s primary fundraiser and attracts 15,000-20,000 people to Sopris Park the last weekend of July for music, food, arts and crafts and socializing, in what many up and down the Roaring Fork Valley call the area’s best party.

The fair serves as a reunion for friends and families who sometimes see each other only once a year. Kimberly said that Lawley has been enlisted to organize a reunion for those associated with the fair or CCAH in years past. “We sent out the call to past presidents and (fair) directors to compile a list … we’d like to contact as many people as possible,” she said.

In years past, the fair has picked a logo/poster design through a contest open to all. This year, the fair folks decided to re-

A retrospective slide show, recipe books, artwork and events are all on tap for Mountain Fair’s 40th anniversary. Conan the male belly dancer might put in a repeat performance, too. Photo by Will Grandbois view the past poster winners and settle on one artist in particular. Kimberly said she can’t release the logo/poster artist’s name for a few more weeks, but “people will get excited about it.”

The fair is also planning a retrospective slide show on Friday night.

Kimberly is working with the music committee to book this year’s entertainment, but the lineup is far from final. In previous years, the fair has attracted big timers like former Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

founder John McEuen, up-and-comers like String Cheese Incident and all levels in between. Like last year’s fair, five hours on Saturday will be dedicated to local bands.

On a related note, the fair might also bring in Ute dancers and a Ute village.

One item from the past keeps popping up in fair discussions. For a few years in the mid-1980s, a swarthy, buff, shirtless male belly dancer in tights who went by the name “Conan” wowed the ladies with his come-hither gyrations on the main stage.

Kimberly said she hopes to get Conan back to the fair this year. “We know he’s still in the valley … there have been sightings.”

Next steps:

March 4 – Deadline to apply for an arts and crafts booth.

April 4 – Deadline to apply for a food booth.

Info – carbondalearts.com.

Beloved Mountain Fair food Use tax backlog mostly collected booth finds home in Bonedale

By Terray Sylvester Sopris Sun Staff Writer

By Terray Sylvester Sopris Sun Staff Writer For 15 years Carbondalians have been forced to wait for Mountain Fair to get their paws on a plate of samosas, or perhaps a naan wrap filled with spinach, chickpeas, or slow-cooked lamb, hot out of a clay oven.

But on Feb. 2, the wait will be over. If all goes according to plan, that’s when one of Mountain Fair’s most popular food booths will open the doors of its new home in Carbondale.

The new eatery will be named Ghandi India’s Cuisine, and its owner, Babu Cheema, says he’s been hoping to open a restaurant in Carbondale for nearly half a decade.

“We’ve had the busiest booth in the festival every year. Every year we hear the people really like us,” Cheema said, adding that every third or fourth customer at Mountain Fair would ask when they were planning to open a location in town.

The chance to come to Carbondale full time arrived after Cheema and his family were forced to close their restaurant in Denver to make way for a new high-rise building.

Cheema began looking for a spot in town, and about five years later he settled on the space next to Sopris Liquors on Highway 133, in the suite formerly occupied by La Isla Nueva restaurant.

Earlier this week, he and a few workers were busy putting the finishing touches on the new location – expanding the bar, setting up a family eating area in a separate room, turning on the electricity and anticipating the arrival of a load of decorations from India.

Cheema traces his roots back to the Punjab region in northern India near the Pakistan border. He said the restaurant will serve a variety of dishes – a wide range of vegetarian and vegan options, as well as lamb, chicken and seafood – but it will specialize in Punjabi cuisine, particularly the meats and breads cooked in clay tandoori ovens.

“We find people are really looking for something different here in town,” he said.

Although they’ll have a new restaurant to run, Cheema said he will continue to send booths to festivals throughout Colorado, California and elsewhere. That branch of the business operates out of commercial kitchen in Watsonville, Calif. No word yet on whether they’ll put in an appearance at Mountain Fair this year.

Carbondale town employees say they are well on their way toward collecting roughly $88,000 in sales and use taxes that turned up missing during an independent audit of the town’s finances in June of last year.

Six parties – whose unpaid bills account for about $81,000 of the outstanding taxes – have either paid what they owe or are making payments in installments, said Carbondale Building Official John Plano. If all goes according to plan, those individuals will finish paying within six months.

Two parties who together owe almost $17,000 have not yet begun to pay their outstanding taxes and are negotiating with the town, Plano said.

“We’ve been contacting every owner and every contractor verbally and in writing, several different ways, and we’ve gotten their responses and most of them have complied,” Plano said.“We’ve really been busting our butts to get this thing fixed.

We need it to be a non-issue.”

The Carbondale Town Trustees asked town staff to provide them with an update on the uncollected taxes at their meeting on Tuesday. That request was prompted by a member of the public who asked about the unpaid taxes during the

trustees’ meeting on Jan. 11.

Sales and use taxes are levied on construction materials purchased outside of town limits. Some of the uncollected taxes apply to projects that date back to 2006.

Town employees say they have taken steps to prevent similar oversights from occuring in the future.

The building department has drawn up a new form that building owners or contractors will be required to sign to acknowledge they need to pay use taxes before they will be issued a certificate of occupancy, Plano said.

Town Finance Director Nancy Barnett said the town will also begin a separate file for building applications on which use taxes are owed. She explained the town will notify building owners when use taxes are due, both by sending letters and eventually an invoice. In extreme cases, the town may put a lien on a property to collect the tax.

In general, the town finance department will play a larger role in the collection process.

“The finance department wasn’t typically too involved with the collection process prior to this. Now they are,” Plano said. “The building department isn't a collection agency. ... It gets viewed a little differently when you get an invoice instead of people just getting phone calls.”

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The Weekly News Brief The Sopris Sun and the KDNK news departments team up to discuss recent news from the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond. Catch the Brief on KDNK between 7:30 and 8 a.m. and between 5:30 and 6 p.m. on Thursdays.

No new leads in robberies Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling said his department still has no new information on the armed robbery that took place in the home of a medical marijuana caregiver on Cowen Drive in October. “So right now unless we get more information or leads [the case] is just kind of sitting there,� Schilling said.“Unless we get new leads it will be a case that is never solved.�

Schilling declined to comment further on the case because it is still under investigation.

During the robbery, three men wearing masks and wielding guns reportedly broke into a residence and stole cash and marijuana.

One resident received minor injuries during the incident, which spurred the Carbondale Board of Trustees to call for new town regulations on the medical marijuana industry, particularly on marijuana cultivation in residential areas.

Schilling said the police also have not turned up any new information on a series of break-ins that occurred on Main Street last June. Deportes Jenny, the Carbondale Food Co-op and La Perla were all robbed throughout the course of a morning. “There’s no timeline on either of those cases at this point,� Schilling said, referring to the Cowen Drive incident and the Main Street break-ins.

Town to Town Tour postponed Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV)

will postpone its popular Town to Town Tour — originally scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 22 — due to a lack of snow on the lower section of the Rio Grande Trail.

To ensure the “highest-quality event possible� for Nordic enthusiasts, the RFOV Board of Directors and the event organizing committee decided to postpone the third annual tour to Saturday, Feb. 19, according to RFOV Executive Director David Hamilton. “We have the planning in place, and with a lot of encouragement from the community we’ve decided to go forward with the event in February,� Hamilton said.

This year marks the third year for the Town to Town Tour, a 19-mile cross-country ski and snowshoe tour from Aspen to Basalt along the Rio Grande Trail. It is a fundraiser for RFOV, a non-profit organization that conducts trail-building and conservation projects on the valley’s public lands.

The tour will start at 10 a.m. at Rio Grande Plaza in Aspen and finish in downtown Basalt with an end-of-tour party hosted

by RFOV and Basalt restaurants. Participants can start in either Aspen or at the mid-way station in Woody Creek, where snacks and beverages will be served.

All levels and ages are encouraged to participate in what is the only long-distance, noncompetitive Nordic event of the year. Early registration fees (before 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 18) are $30 for individuals and $45 for

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To register or volunteer, go to www.rfov.org, email rfov@sopris.net, or call 927-8241.

FS looks at Avalanche quarry The U.S. Forest Service is reviewing a proposed new plan that would allow the Mystic Eagle Quarry, located between Carbondale and Redstone at the mouth of Avalanche Creek just off Highway 133, to operate year-round.

The current plan, which requires the quarry road’s closure to vehicles annually from Nov. 15 to May 1 to protect bighorn sheep, is due to expire in May, according to Walt Brown, attorney for quarry owner Elbram Stone Co. LLC. The new plan calls for a trial period of winter operations, with the potential for operations seven days a week.

The quarry produces alabaster, which is used in the art market, although the stone can also be used for landscaping and home improvements.

Former quarry owner Robert Congdon first proposed to mine stone at the site in the 1990s and was tied up for years by Pitkin County, which eventually issued a permit. The quarry is located in the White River National Forest.

In 2004, Congdon received approval for a one-year trial period that included wintertime use but never used it.

The following events are drawn from incident reports of the Carbondale Police Department.

FRIDAY Jan. 7 A resident on Boyd Drive reported a “sick and injured� raccoon in the vicinity. Police contacted the Colorado Division of Wildlife, which said they would “take care of it.�

SATURDAY Jan. 8 A resident on Morrison called police to report a deer “hanging outâ€? in the area. An ofďŹ cer was unable to respond at the time but later called back to say there was little the police can do about it.

SUNDAY Jan. 9 At 4:46 a.m., police received a call about a possible ďŹ ght going on at a party in the 1400 block of Main Street. When police responded, they could not locate any ďŹ ghters.

SUNDAY Jan. 9 Police responded to an accident at Highway 133 and Village Road and arrested a passenger in one of the cars on an outstanding warrant out of GarďŹ eld County.

SUNDAY Jan. 9 Police responded to a call that two people had walked off with 24 CD videos at City Market.

When police responded, one of two alleged shoplifters had split. The other one was arrested on an active warrant out of GarďŹ eld County.

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Trustees put extra funds into community grants

By Terray Sylvester Sopris Sun Staff Writer The Carbondale trustees decided to allocate more than the typical 1 percent of the town’s general fund to grant requests from local non-profit organizations this week.

At their meeting on Tuesday night, the trustees approved roughly $59,230 in community grants. That’s about $6,000 more than the $53,300 they had set aside for the same purpose during budget discussions at the end of last year.

The motion to disribute the extra funds passed in a 5-2 vote, with trustees Pam Zentmyer and Elizabeth Murphy opposed. After the vote, trustee Frosty Merriott suggested that in the future the town should consider allocating more than 1 percent of its general fund to community grant requests as a way to respond to the recession, which he reasoned will continue to strain the budgets of many non-profit organizations.

Despite the trustees’ largesse, the town was unable to fund the bulk of the grant requests. Carbondale received a total of 39 applications amounting to more than $165,000.

This year the town was working with a smaller budget for community requests than in the recent past. In 2009 the town distributed $66,000 in community grants, and in 2010 the town initially disbursed $44,900 while keeping $10,000 of its community grant

funds in reserve to be spent later in the year.

The bulk of the discussion on Tuesday night focused on two of the largest grant requests received by the town: a request from the 5Point Film Festival for a total of $14,330 in cash and in-kind donations, and requests from the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities that added up to $16,250.

The trustees eventually decided to give CCAH all the money it asked for, and to give $10,330 to the film festival.

Merriott argued that the 5Point festival is an important source of sales tax revenue during the shoulder season, and that it may only become more important in the future as Carbondale keeps its belt tight during the recession.

“I like to see this as building something for Carbondale; I like to think big,”he said, speculating that 5Point may someday grow as big as the Sundance Film Festival held in Park City, Utah.

Other members of the town council disagreed, including Mayor Stacey Bernot, who argued that the while the town is struggling to adequately compensate its staff it shouldn’t be distributing disproportionately large sums to entertainment events, and besides, she added, the town gave far less money to other non-profit organizations that work toward more serious goals.

“We gave $1,500 to Lift Up so people can have food,” Bernot said.

2011 Community Requests

5Point Film Festival – $2,330*

Pathfinders – $3,500

Alpine Legal Services – $1,500

Roaring Fork Conservancy – $1,000

Advocate Safehouse – $2,000

Andy Zanka Youth Empowerment Program – $2,000 Aspen Public Radio – $500

Bonedale Bike Week – $500 Buddy Program – $1,000

Carbondale Clay Center – $2,000

Carbondale Community Oven – $700 Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities – $6,900* Circle Club West – $1,500

Columbine Home Health – $2,500 English in Action – $1,000

Family Visitor Program – $2,000 Fat City Farms – $1,000

Hospice of the Valley – $2,500 KDNK – $3,000

Lift Up – $1,500

Mount Sopris Historical Society – $2,000

Project Graduation – $500

Roaring Fork Family Resource Center – $2,000 Roaring Fork Valley Early Learning Center – $1,000 Rock Bottom Ranch – $500 RSVP – $500

Senior Matters – $2,000

Solar Energy International – $2,000 The Sopris Sun – $2,300

Thompson Divide Coalition – $4,000 Western Colorado Early Childhood Co-op – $1,000 Youth Entity – $2,500 TOTAL – $59,230 *In addition to funds distributed from the town’s Recreation Sales and Use Tax Fund

CMS students sample winter light

By Catherine Adams Special to The Sopris Sun Imagine stepping out your door and taking a moment to experience the wonder and tranquility of our natural world. The backyard of the Carbondale Middle School campus was the perfect escape for the seventh and eighth graders of Ami Maes art class as they explored winter’s beauty – and captured with their cameras.

Local professional photographers Gregg and Catherine Adams of Gregg Adams Photography guided the children in an inspirational, instructive opportunity to develop their artistic awareness and an appreciation of the environment through photography. The program was made available in part by the Environment Foundation.

To see more of the CMS images and other projects created by kids, visit visualizeaplace.com or call 963-0721.

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My Majestic Mountain, by Alondra Silvas

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No more faculty meetings Joe Markham’s last day as a Carbondale Middle School health and physical education teacher was Jan. 14. He retired after a total of 20 years with the Re-1 school district and was honored with a ceremony that he said was “touching,�but he tries to avoid the spotlight.

Markham said that although the town might have changed since he first arrived, “the kids haven’t really changed.� Number one on his “What I won’t miss� list are those 7 a.m. faculty meetings on Tuesday mornings. It’ll also be nice not to be governed during the day by school bells. He plans to stick around Carbondale and joked he is looking for a job that pays a lot of money and doesn’t require a lot of work. Less than a week into his retirement and at least one part of the family is already affected. “It’s the dogs,� he said. “They’ll get two walks a day instead of one.�

Chow down Uncle Pizza in the Sopris Shopping Center is now serving Smoke on the Water barbecue.

The menu includes pulled pork and brisket sandwiches, ribs, whole slabs, coleslaw and beans. This week, The Sopris Sun’s Man About Town put his lips around a pulled pork sandwich and gave it a solid thumbs up.

Jake and Jane goes to Thursdays The Jake and Jane show on KDNK-FM has moved to every other Thursday from 2 to 4:30 p.m., alternating with Steve Skinner. Their next outing is Jan. 28. Jake likes to describe their programming as “World-

class Americana,� while Jane doesn’t. They are known in some radio circles for their “Live at the Free Box� segment, which features items up for grabs in the Telluridestyle free box just inside the station’s front door. Jake doesn’t mind sniffing the clothing on the air but so far, Jane refuses to get her nose involved. They get mixed reviews for their occasional “Sing Along with the Beatles� segment but plan to keep on doing them. Tune in at 88.1 (Carbondale, Glenwood, Rifle), 88.3 (Aspen and Snowmass Village), 88.5 (Basalt, El Jebel, Redstone), 94.9. (Thomasville), 93.5 (Leadville) and 94.7 (Old Snowmass). Also streaming live at KDNK.org.

Mark and Lari expand Mark and Lari Fischer, who own Six/89 and Phat Thai in Carbondale, have opened a new restaurant, The Pullman, across from the train station in Glenwood Springs. The space is the former Ritz nightclub, which the Sun’s resident historian said might have been a car dealership several decades ago but he isn’t sure. Anyway, there’s a large bar in the front room and a large copper pig by the late Gene Adcock in the back.

Ski bum relocates Ski bum Chris Tatsuno has relocated to Carbondale, according to an Aspen Daily News article by Curtis Wackerle. The article said Tatsun, 27, was born in Sun Valley, Idaho and his father was a ski instructor. He is best known in skiing circles for winning an “ulti-

mate ski bum contest,� whose prize was a three-month ski trip in the Canadian Rockies.

with live auction. Tickets are available only in advance at symphonyinthevalley.org.

It’s not our bridge

Was it a Bigfoot?

Some folks up Prince Creek report a mysterious midnight animal-like sound that continued for more than an hour the past few nights. One resident describes the sound as a little bit like a bugling elk but with much better vocal control, or a little bit like a loon.The other said it sounded like a coyote. In any case, it was not a horse, mule, cow or goat, all of which live nearby. Nor did it sound like any bobcat, wildcat, mountain lion or Canadian lynx they’ve seen on outdoor TV channels. If you think you might know what kind of creature produced this sound (which wasn’t scary but did become annoying after awhile), e-mail the Sun at news@soprissun.com.

Save the date Tickets are now on sale for Symphony Swing, the Symphony in the Valley’s gala dance and social event to benefit the community orchestra.The event features the Symphony in the Valley Jazz Orchestra playing the top tunes from the Big Band era, with vocalists Jeannie Walla, Lorraine Curry, Krista Espelien, Steve Cole and Kelly Thompson, and solo instrumentalists John Bokram, Steve Cole, Kelly Thompson and Ross Kribbs.

Symphony Swing will be presented at the Grand River Hospital ballroom in Rifle at 7 p.m. March 4, and at the Aspen Glen Club outside Carbondale at 6 p.m. on March. 5.

The Aspen Glen event is a dinner dance

Some football fans were doing double takes at a Bud Lite TV commercial during the NFL playoffs. The commercial showed some guys on a bridge doing goofy things that only goofy beer commercial guys do.What caught this locals’ eye was the bridge on which the goofy guys were doing their goofy things.The bridge looked so much like the Satank bridge, you had to view the commercial more than once to see that it wasn’t. For one thing, the bridge was blue. The old Satank bridge was a faded pink and it’s now stained dark brown.

The background also showed scraggly hills rather than the pinion specked, sheer rock of Red Mountain.

The Sopris Sun editorial staff is a curious bunch but they don’t have time to track down the location of the Bud Lite bridge. But if anyone out there feels like Googling their lunch hour away on this project, let us know what you find out at news@soprissun.com.

Happy birthday Birthday greetings go out to Audrey Ahumada and John Smollen (Jan. 20), Karen Jameron, Jeremiah Bernot and Dick Howard (Jan. 21), Tom Penzel and Awnee Montano and Wick Moses (Jan. 22), Ted Kauffman, Tom Adgate, Cindy Weaver and Shelle de Beque (Jan. 23), Phil Harris, Susanne Shrimp, and Peggy Chain (Jan. 24), and Amber van Berlo, Kristen Graham,Victoria Madden, and Karen Olson (Jan. 26).

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Wednesday, January 26

Cook’s Tale: A Guide to Understanding New Materials Paul Canfield, Iowa State University

Wednesday, February 2

Fluid Viscosity: from Maxwell to String Theory Dam Thanh Son, University of Washington

Wednesday, February 9

What Makes up the Dark Matter?

Blas Cabrera, Stanford University

Tuesday, February 15

New Data from the Energy Frontier Ben Kilminster, Ohio State University

These are popular talks designed for an interested, non-scientific audience.

Physicists are available for questions and discussion during the Physics CafĂŠ before the lecture.

All of our lectures are now available online at www.aspenphys.org, Lectures and Dialogues.

For more information, please call (970) 925-2585

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Letters continued om page 2 lives at Crystal River Elementary School in the peer-to-peer mentoring program. Watching you spend time with your Little Buddy is heartwarming, tender and joyous!

Changing lives is important business and little things do matter! The Buddy Program invited you to share yourself with a student and have the opportunity to share basic social emotional skills, and you responded with open arms, smiles, inspiration and energy.

Not only do you have a chance to begin a relationship with a child, but also the opportunity to impact a child’s academic and social future. your presence in our school is noticed and appreciated by all. All week, I hear from teachers, children and parents about the positive impact you are having on our children and how each and every child involved feels special because they have a Big Buddy. I can only hope that this program will grow and

expand so that more children will have the same opportunity.

Thank you to the Buddy Program staff for your continued work with children in the Roaring Fork Valley. Also, thank you to Andrea Caruso, counselor at RFHS, for coordinating the high school students. My biggest thanks are to the RFHS students: Ana, Willy, Rene, Judith, Haley, Ricardo, Carlos, Trevor, Keegan, Ana Karen, Kenia, Nayeli, Georgia and Jocelyn for your time and dedication to the Buddy Program.

January is National Mentoring Month. If you want to learn how to become a Big Buddy or lend your support, please contact 920-2130 or buddyprogram.org.

Linda Haydock School Counselor Crystal River Elementary School

Writers on the Range continued om page 2 reached by petitioning EPA to ban the manufacture of all lead bullets. The group is now suing the agency.The lawsuit over-reaches because most lead bullets are fired in target practice, which presents little hazard to wildlife or people. The issue is what happens during hunting, and that is where federal and state governments should take a stand and eliminate lead bullets.

This fall, I made a killing shot on an elk using the lead-core copper case bullet. I found the bullet, with the lead core intact within the copper case. Advanced ballistics make these bullets very accurate and more likely to make a clean kill.

It was nice to come home and process the elk with no second thoughts about the lead I brought home, or left behind.

Steam rises up from the Crystal River at River Valley Ranch in the early morning of Jan. 10. The time and temperature sign at nearby Roaring Fork High School said –8 degrees. Photo by Lynn Burton

Paul Hansen is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a lifelong conservationist and former executive director of the Izaak Walton League of America. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming.

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Community Calendar THURSDAY Jan. 20 GREEN DRINKS â&#x20AC;˘ KDNK News Director Conrad Wilson recently returned from Germany and will describe that countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alternative energy programs at CLEERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Green Drinks get together at Mi Casita, located at 580 Main St., from 5 to 7 p.m.

PHOTOG TALKS â&#x20AC;˘ The Pitkin County Library holds a reception for photographer Philip Miller from 5:30 to 7 p.m. His work is on view through Jan. 31.

FRIDAY Jan. 21 LIVE MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ Steveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guitars, located in the old part of the Dinkel Building, presents Cahalen Morrison and Eli West. Info: 963-3304.

MOVIES â&#x20AC;˘ The Crystal Theatre presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Swanâ&#x20AC;? (R) at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21-27.

To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday. Events take place in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event listings, check out the Community Calendar online at soprissun.com.

atre outside Glenwood Springs with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Foolzâ&#x20AC;?

by Wells and Woodhead. The show is described as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;character-driven amalgamation of music, comedy and juggling.â&#x20AC;? Tickets are $20 adults/$10 students. Info: 947-8367.

WINDWALKERS FUNDRAISER â&#x20AC;˘ WindWalkers equine assisted learning and therapy center holds a fundraiser at the Church at Carbondale at 6:30 p.m. featuring the bands All the Pretty Horses and A Vision Quest, catered food from Kip Feight (of Conundrum Catering) and private chef Ray Payne, plus a â&#x20AC;&#x153;very practicalâ&#x20AC;? silent auction. Tickets are $40 per person. Kids 6-16 are $15. Reserved and VIP sponsorship tables are also available. Tickets include food, wine and beer and a good time. Info: 963-2909.

LIVE MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ Carnahanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern in the Dinkel Building presents Hood Ratz.

THEATRE â&#x20AC;˘ Theatre Aspenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Winter Teen Conservatory presents the comedy â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Curious Savageâ&#x20AC;? at the Aspen District Theatre.

Curtain time is 7 p.m. Info: 920-5770.

LIVE MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs presents Missing Link (rock, country, R&B, and blues) from 9 p.m. to midnight. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no cover.

PINEWOOD DERBY â&#x20AC;˘ Basalt Cub Scout Pack 242 holds a Pinewood Derby miniature car race for scouts and the general public.

Kits are available for $5 at 379-3244.

LIVE MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ Big Daddy Lee plays Jimmyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, located in Aspen at 205 S. Mill St. Danceable blues and R&B. 10:15 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

SENIOR MATTERS â&#x20AC;˘ Senior Matters hosts a community gathering in Room 33 at the Third Street Center from 4 to 6 p.m. Everyone is invited to come visit with volunteers, who are working to provide programs, activities and services for seniors. Info: 963-2536.

KIMBERLY ADDRESSES ROTARY â&#x20AC;˘ Carbondale Mountain Fair Director Amy Kimberly speaks at the Mount Sopris Rotary Club meeting at Mi Casita at noon.

CALAWAY SERIES CONTINUES â&#x20AC;˘ The Jim Calaway Honors Series continues at the Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley The-

SATURDAY Jan. 22 LIVE MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ Carnahanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern in the Dinkel Building presents Disciples (rock and reggae).

LIVE MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ New york City band El Tioga, who at one time performed as the Woody Creek Kids, brings their mix of rock, blues and â&#x20AC;&#x153;romantic psychedeliaâ&#x20AC;? to the Third Street Center at 8 p.m. The band is comprised of Roaring Fork Valley natives Alexander Bauer, Tobyn Britt, Jonathan Wright and Ben Aley. The show is presented by the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities and begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at the door.

Info: carbondalearts.com.

T-SHIRT RECONSTRUCTION â&#x20AC;˘ The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities presents a workshop on reconstruction of old T-shirts from 10 a.m. 4 p.m. at the Third Street Center.The cost is $35. Info: 963-1680.

NATURALIST NIGHTS CONTINUE â&#x20AC;˘ Jeffery Parrish, director of Freedom to Roam, discusses wildlife fragmentation and related issues along Interstate 70 at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies at 7:30 p.m.

The multi-media presentation is free.

SUN. & MON. Jan. 23-24 OPEN AUDITIONS â&#x20AC;˘ Open auditions for Colorado Mountain Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;&#x153;All in the Timingâ&#x20AC;? will be held at the New Space Theatre on the collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spring Valley campus at 6 p.m.

The play is a collection of one-act comedies written by David Ives and will be presented April 21-23 and April 28-May 1. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s directed

by Wendy S. Moore. Info: 947-8252.

WEDNESDAY Jan. 26 LIVE MUSIC â&#x20AC;˘ White House Pizza on Carbondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Main Street presents Tony Rosario

(coffee house rock) from 7 to 10 p.m.

FILM FESTIVAL â&#x20AC;˘ The Colorado Mountain Club holds a backcountry ďŹ lm festival at the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. The suggested donation is $10. Info: 925-5756.

Further Out Jan. 27

ROTARY MEETS â&#x20AC;˘ The Mount Sopris Rotary Club (formally the Aspen Glenwood Rotary) is now meeting each Thursday at noon at the Mi Casita Restaurant, at Main and Weant, in downtown Carbondale. Any one who may be interested in joining Rotary is invited to attend. Third Street Center Director Jody Ensign speaks on Jan. 27.

PAUL MULDOON â&#x20AC;˘ The Winter Words lecture series at the Little Nell continues with Paul Muldoon at 5:30 p.m. Info: aspenwriters.org.

Jan. 28

CASUAL CULTURE COMPETES â&#x20AC;˘ Carbondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Casual Culture joins other local and regional retailers ďŹ elding teams to compete head-to-head in the Shop versus Shop Challenge at the new Buttermilk terrain park at 3 p.m. The event is part of United States of America Snowboard Association (USASA) sanctioned events that coincide with ESPNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Winter X Games and is open to snowboarders and freestyle/freeride terrain park users. Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club also offers clinics at the park on Jan. 28-30. Info: teamavsc.org.

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Ongoing OLD-TIME JAM â&#x20AC;˘ Carbondale Beer Works holds an old-time music jam session every other Monday at 7 p.m., with the next one slated for Jan. 31. Info: 963-7089.

BRIDGE â&#x20AC;˘ Senior Matters in the Third Street Center offers bridge every Wednesday. Info: 945-7094.

ZINGERS SING â&#x20AC;˘ The Senior Matters Zingers singing group gets together at the Third Street Center every Thursday from 2 to 3 p.m. Info: 945-7094.

MAYORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEE HOUR â&#x20AC;˘ Chat with Carbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdays from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy, at 26 S. Third St. OPEN MIC â&#x20AC;˘ Jamminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jim hosts open mic nights at Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs from 8 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday.

Tacos are a buck.

PLAY TIME â&#x20AC;˘ The Carbondale Recreation Center presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Run, Jump & Playâ&#x20AC;? for kids 0-4 years old Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The cost is $10 per family.

RAILROAD MUSEUM â&#x20AC;˘ The Glenwood Springs Railroad Museum, located at 413 7th St., is open Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Exhibits include historic photos, artifacts and toy trains. Admission is $1 adults/free for kids. Info: 928-8721.

SAMUELSON SHOWS WORK â&#x20AC;˘ Kyle Samuelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wilderness paintings and sketches are on display at the Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mercantile & Gallery, 720 E. Cooper Ave. in Glenwood Springs, through Feb. 5. A reception will be held Jan. 14 at 5 p.m.

HISTORIC TOURS â&#x20AC;˘ The Aspen Histori-

cal Society offers free historic ski tours of Aspen Mountain Fridays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (a lift ticket and intermediate skiing ability is required). Meet at the information kiosk on top of the mountain. Info: 925-3721. â&#x20AC;&#x153;PERSPECTIVESâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘ The Red Brick Gallery in Aspen presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perspectivesâ&#x20AC;? with Meredith Ogilby, Doug Rhinehart, Pat Sudmeier and Peter McBride. The gallery is located 110 E. Hallam St. Info: 429-2777. â&#x20AC;&#x153;GLASS ART MENAGERIEâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;˘ The Colorado Mountain College Gallery, located at 831 Grand Ave. in Glenwood Springs, presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glass Art Menagerieâ&#x20AC;? featuring the works of Spencer Crouch, Mary Matchael, Shannon Muse, Charlie Pace and David Powers. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Info: 947-8367.

MUSEUM EXHIBIT â&#x20AC;˘ The Aspen Historical Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out of your Mind, Body and Spirit: Voices of Aspen, 1975â&#x20AC;? continues at the Wheeler/Stallard Museum in Aspen. The hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Info: 925-3721.

EXHIBIT CONTINUES â&#x20AC;˘ The Frontier Historical Museum in Glenwood Springs presents exhibits on Doc Holliday, Kid Curry, Teddy Roosevelt, Ute Indians, mining and more. The museum is located at 10th and Colorado and is open from 1 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

AL-ANON MEETS â&#x20AC;˘ Al-Anon for friends and families of alcoholics meets at the Church at Carbondale Tuesdays at 7 p.m.

Info: 963-3514.

This Stellarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jay surveys the scene up toward the Spring Gulch Nordic ski area earlier this month. Photo by Jordan Hirro (jordanhirro.zenfolio.com).

Solar panel theî&#x2020;? continued î&#x2C6;&#x2021;om page 1 Recreation and Community Center but later recovered. McGinnis said solar equipment thefts have been relatively common at oil and gas operations, but as the gas companies have tightened their security she has noticed more crimes occurring on private installations.

Ely noted that stealing from a solar array isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like stealing a car â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the panels canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feasibly be broken down and sold for parts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The component is only good as a whole,â&#x20AC;? he explained.â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not worth squat to sell the frame. The copper wire is minimal. The glass would just get broken.â&#x20AC;?

And Ely added that pilfering panels can be risky business. For example, the CRMS array is hooked up to the grid 24/7 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; whether or not the sun is shining. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go out and just snip wires at any time, day or night,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evidently these people either have a method, or donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care, or are ignorant to the fact that these things can harm you. â&#x20AC;Ś On one hand I hope somebody got knocked on their kiester, but I guess we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that,â&#x20AC;? he added.

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support group, led by Sheri Gaynor, LCSW, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist.

For anyone whose life has been touched by illness or cancer. Creative writing, poetry and collage. Absolutely no art experience needed.

Ongoing sessions will be held on Tuesdays at noon in the Valley View Hospital Cancer Center.

To register, call Sheri at 970-618-0561 or email sheri@sherigaynor.com.

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Community Briefs Creative cancer support Expressive arts therapist Sheri Gaynor will host an introduction to her creative cancer support group from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Jan. 20, at Creative Spark Studio in the Third Street Center. The group is offered to anyone whose life has been touched by cancer and will include work with creative writing, poetry and collage. No art experience is needed.

Ongoing sessions will be held on Tuesdays at noon in the Valley View Hospital Cancer Center. To register, contact Gaynor at 6180561 or sheri@sherigaynor.com.

College financial aid seminars Colorado Mountain College will host a series of informational meetings on financial aid for all college- and university-bound students and their parents, not just those who are planning to attend CMC. The seminars, which started Jan. 19, will feature information for the 2011-2012 school year and will be held in several communities. On Jan. 26 an information session will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Glenwood Springs High School, followed by another at Coal Ridge High School at 7:15 p.m. On Jan. 27 a session will take place at Grand Valley High School at 6 p.m. followed by a session at 6:30 p.m. at Roaring Fork High School. A final seminar will take place at Eagle Valley High School at 6 p.m. on Feb. 2. For more information, call Deb Cutter in Glenwood Springs at 947-8358.

Basalt library hosts art series The Basalt Regional Library District kicked off its Winter Arts Series with a ju-

ried quilt show on Jan. 9. The Arts Series will continue through April on the second Sunday of each month. Future programs will consist of “Strings from the Heart” with harpist Elise Helmke at 4 p.m. on Feb. 13, a classical guitar performance with Javier de los Santos in March, and cowboy poetry in April. For more information, visit basaltlibraryevents.org.

with her group, which includes her husband, saxophonist Jim Tomlinson. The series will wrap up with Paula West and her trio on March 25 and 26. Each night features shows at 7:30 and 9:15 p.m. Tickets are $30 per show and can be purchased by calling 920-4996 or visiting jazzaspen.org. Depending on availability they can also be purchased at the door.

X-Games parking info

From old energy to new energy

There will be no parking available at Buttermilk Mountain during the Winter XGames on Jan. 27-30. Free shuttles to the games will run from the Aspen/Snowmass area and from the Brush Creek/Highway 82 intercept parking lot three miles west of Buttermilk. Public parking will be available at the intercept lot as well. Service from the intercept lot to the event venue starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 8 p.m. daily. RFTA will offer additional evening service to and from Snowmass Village during the games. Buses will run until 8 p.m. For more information call 925-8484 or visit rfta.com.

The Roaring Fork Cultural Council presents a talk by the Calaway boys (Jim, James and John, titled The Future of Energy: From Old Energy to New Energy.

The talk takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 29, at the Thunder River Theatre across Colorado Avenue from the Carbondale Recreation Center.

Jim Calaway is a local philanthropist and businessman who has worked in the oil and gas business since he was 24 years old. His twin sons, Jim and James, now 53 years old, worked with him in the oil industry for many years before branching off into renewable energy. John Calaway is now the chief development director of Pattern Energy, one of the largest wind energy companies in the Americas. James Calaway is chairman of Orocobre, Limited, which is focused on becoming one of the largest and lowest-cost producers of lithium, a key component in batteries for electric cars and other technology. Orocobre owns one of the largest lithium deposits in the world in Argentina.

To purchase tickets, visit rfculturalcouncil.org or call 948-7060.

Women in Jazz This year, Jazz Aspen Snowmass will host three female jazz artists as part of its annual Downstairs at the Nell jazz series.

The Women in Jazz performances will take place the last Fridays and Saturdays of January, February and March. The Jan. 28 and 29 performances will feature Karrin Allyson, a vocalist and pianist who has been nominated for a Grammy. On Feb. 25 and 26 vocalist Stacey Kent will take the stage

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Dalton Handy (#1) evades a Coal Ridge player in Roaring Fork’s game on Jan. 15, which the Rams won 44-37. The Ram boys are 4-0 in Western Slope league play. They travel to Rifle for a 7:30 p.m. game on Jan. 21 (girls at 6 p.m.) and Cedaredge at 4 p.m. on Jan. 22 (girls at 2:30 p.m.). Photo by Jordan Hirro, jordanhirro.zenfolio.com.

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Go ahead, toss the recipe to the wind This is my 24th monthly column for The Sopris Sun, a full two years. I hope you have enjoyed reading them and have tried a recipe or two.

Recipes are like road maps. There are many ways to get to a particular place, both traveling and cooking. I use recipes when I’m going someplace new with food.

Once I’ve been there a few times and am familiar with the way, I’ll frequently take a different route.

Often I’ll whip up a dish in a way I’ve never exactly done before. If it turns out to be really good, my wife implores me to write down how I did it.

I gently remind her that probably never again will I find the same combination of ingredients in the pantry and refrigerator, and I won’t make a trip to the store on the spot to get some missing item, so it would not be the same anyway. Recipes definitely help you get on your way, like training wheels and painting by numbers. But cooking is easier, and more interesting when you fly on your own.

Recipes nearly killed my budding food interest. Many years ago my sister gave me a subscription to Gourmet, the late magazine for home cooks, and I slavishly tried to follow their laborious recipes.

One day I wore myself out using every pot and pan in our apartment.

Recipe writers should be more consid-

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