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Francis Bell models one of her own CCAH fashion class creations in last week’s Cirque d’ Sopris. For more photos from the show, please turn to pages 14-15. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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Winning and the NFL; who to root for? Well, there you have it, another Super Bowl ing, and those guys have swords. In other down. Personally, I didn’t know whom to root sports, loose-fitting knickers are the norm: basfor between the Cheaters and the Sea Chick- ketball, baseball, rugby… Ah, rugby. Now ens. Apparently the New England Patriots let there’s a sport I can cheer for. No pads or helsome air out of their balls when mets (except for those little rubit’s cold outside so that they can ber caps they wear to protect their catch them, hence their new ears from being torn off). Profesnickname. As my husband likes sional rugby is just a skin-on-skin to say, “Cheaters never prosper, game, with the biggest danger in but they sure do win a lot.” And the scrum being unsolicited orifice lest you think I’m a poor sport, penetration. (And what about the I called Seattle’s team the Sea language in professional sports?! Chickens long before they beat Rim this and rim that, deep penethe Broncos last year. They were tration, tight end. My goodness). my brother-in-law’s team and Rugby is a faster game, which now that I think about it, way makes it more exciting to watch. back before they switched to the The stop and go of football lends NFC West, I think Seattleites more to napping on the couch, may have been the ones to give not that there’s anything wrong By Jeannie Perry with that. After a certain age, their team the nickname. Anyway, did you know that most of us would give anything the NFL is a non-profit? Yep, the professional for a good football nap. But if I’m in the mood sports league that currently brings in about to scream and holler I’d rather watch a rugby $10 billion a year enjoys tax-exempt status. match or a hockey game; “Skate—fight. When I think of a non-profit, I picture tired Skate—fight. Score!” people with frizzy hair feeding hay to stray anAnd to be fair, football’s delay in action has imals or a place for under-privileged youth to more to do with the passionate relationships experiment with music and art instead of drugs between the refs and coaches than the players and alcohol. I do not picture large men with themselves. Like when they bring out the big painted faces running around in tight pants Queen of Hearts stick with the attached chain and neon shoes. to measure down to the centimeter where the What is the deal with the outfits in football? ball landed, when the ref arbitrarily eyed it They don’t even wear pants that tight in fenc- there in the first place. I love how it always

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takes two guys to carry that thing out onto the field. If you ask me, those guys should have special outfits too. My main issue with American football, though, is that the players are under extreme pressure to be perfect during the games, but then not held accountable for any of their actions off the field. I have no idea what it feels like to be treated like a modern day gladiator, but I do know what it feels like to idolize a hero. And that’s what those guys are to millions of kids. What are our children learning when we let star players off without so much as a slap on the wrist (although they do get slapped on the ass quite a bit, but it’s not the same thing). I think all professional sports players should be above reproach, or be fired. Especially since there are so many able bodied back-ups sitting on the bench. As a country we like to gather at the water cooler and bemoan the violence that takes place daily, then go home and pay-per-view professional athletes who bring guns to work and beat their wives. At some point we may want to look at what it means to win at any cost, and then just play for the love of the game. (Also, let’s readjust the NFL’s tax standing to reflect their “for profit” status.) I can’t wait ’til next year! It’s not every Sunday I get to take an afternoon nap after gorging myself on cows-in-a-poncho.* *Local vernacular for the Super Bowl snack food also known as pigs-in-a-blanket.

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Hire Stein (Editor’s note: This letter was sent to the RE-1 school board). Dear Editor: I have tried very hard to contact each school board member, but to no avail. Not one of them has returned my call, or the phone number I was given no longer works.

It is unconscionable not to make Rob Stein head of the RE-1 school district. He has bought a home in this district and has already demonstrated his great ability. The lady should bow out gracefully as she indicated she would, instead of choosing to hang on to the job. Pat Fender Carbondale

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Carbondale fire board issues partial gag order Applies to three of five members By John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent The elected leaders of Carbondale’s fire district have concluded that fire board members, individually, should not be talking with news reporters about fire district policy, and should leave media contacts up to the president and vice-president of the board. That decision was made “six months ago” at a meeting of the board of directors of the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District, according to fire board president Gene Schilling. It is a policy that he recently cited when criticizing another fire board member, Carl Smith, who was elected last year after a campaign in which he was critical of the way the district is being run. Smith last month had spoken with reporters about the district’s ongoing search for a consulting firm to write up a new district master plan. Specifically, Smith had confirmed that he asked that the price tags associated with four proposals, from four different firms, be made public, and about his reasons for that position. At the time of Smith’s comments, Schilling was out of town, meaning that under the board’s policy reporters should have spoken only with vice president Mike Kennedy, who concurred with Schilling in not making public the price tags associated with the master

plan proposals. The proposals have since been made public, including the price tags (see related story). But Schilling, at a Jan. 28 meeting of the fire board where the proposals were discussed, reminded Smith of the board’s unanimous decision six months ago regarding media contacts and suggested that the policy must be followed. Speaking to The Sopris Sun by phone on Wednesday, Schilling confirmed that the policy amounts to a decision to present only a “united front” concerning board policies, rather than allow differing viewpoints to be aired publicly. “We, as a board, need to get together” in discussing district policy, Schilling said, adding that the policy is “just like here at the police department, where I am the one who talks to the media,” or Lt. Chris Wurtsmith when Shilling cannot be reached. Schilling conceded that “it is a little bit different situation” when considering the case of publicly elected members of a special district board of directors, but added, “We, as a board, have decided to go that way” and follow the no-contact policy. If a board member objects to a particular policy, Schilling continued, “They can discuss board business (with the media) if they want to, as an individual … but not as a board member,” although he admitted that the board has no method for punishing board members who violate the no-contact policy. To illuminate his reasoning for the policy, Schilling said that during last year’s election, Smith had told reporters he wanted to

“get rid of” the district’s “command trailer,” which is used as a command post during fire-fighting campaigns. But Smith, Schilling maintained, did not have all the facts surrounding the cost and use of the command trailer. And when Schilling tried to correct what he said were inaccuracies contained in Smith’s arguments, “a lot of the information that I gave … got left out of the stories. “You guys were backing Carl,” Schilling said referring to The Sopris Sun. And, he added, “you guys, rather than taking the facts (and publishing them), were trying to make it what you wanted it to be,” accusing the paper of picking and choosing what it published to conform to Smith’s campaign statements. In addition, Schilling said, “Right now, my issue is that there’s a lot of negative information getting out about the fire district,” although he declined to say exactly what specific information he was referring to. Smith, at the Jan. 28 board meeting, conceded that he had talked with a reporter about his desire to post the master-plan proposals on the district’s website, but stated that he would abide by the no-contact policy. “I understand it’s a process, and I raised the question, and I will raise questions, but I also live with the answer and support the answer,” he said at the meeting. Schilling said at the Jan. 28 meeting, and reiterated in the interview with The Sopris Sun this week, that the no-contact policy could be reviewed at an upcoming board meeting, possibly on Feb. 11.

Fire board continues master plan bid process By John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent Officials with the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District last week put off a decision on hiring a consultant to put together a new district master plan, and will be meeting again tonight (Feb. 5) to talk with the prospective consultants. Fire Board President Gene Schilling told The Sopris Sun on Tuesday that he hopes a decision will be made at the Feb. 5 meeting about whether to hire one firm or take a different tack, such as splitting up the tasks inherent in the master plan process among one or more of the four companies that have made proposals for the job. The fire board met on Jan. 28 to interview the candidate firms about the master planning effort, for which the district has earmarked up to $90,000. The four candidate firms are: • Mark Chain and Associates, headed by a former fire board member and long time planning consultant in the Roaring Fork Valley, Mark Chain of Carbondale. Chain’s firm proposed to do the job for $98,000, according to Schilling; • Jviation, a Denver-based firm that employs one-time Carbondale fire department volunteer Hilary Fletcher, and which focuses primarily on aviation-related master planning work but also works in such areas as roads and highFIRE DISTRICT page 12

Model UN Club gears up at Roaring Fork High School Heading to NYC By Debbie Bruell Sopris Sun Correspondent A total of eighteen Roaring Fork High School students will be heading to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City this March. Their mission: to work toward solutions to global issues such as the Ebola outbreak, the rights of indigenous people and the globalization of labor, as they join over 2,000 other students from around the country and the world to engage in a four-day simulation of the United Nations. The RFHS Model UN Club has been assigned the country of Cambodia. Each student will represent Cambodia on one of the Model UN committees, such as The World Bank, Disarmament, and International Security Committee, or the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In preparation for the conference, the students have been conducting extensive research on Cambodia and international issues, reviewing UN resolutions, learning about the history of the UN and international diplomacy, writing Cambodian position papers and honing their public speaking skills. Sophomore Tavia Teitler told The Sopris Sun why she joined the club: “I tend to believe that all the problems in the world could and should be solved by talking about them rather than fighting and killing each

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright (far left) discusses the Model UN program with club members Mario Alverde (left), Fiona Laird (center) and Joselinne Medrano (right) during a backstage visit at Thunder River Theatre last December. Other Model UN Club members are: Erik Carillo, Yasmin Castillo, Nick Penzel, Leah Allen, Emily Mata, Emily Bruell, Kelly Walgren, Lorena Aguilar, Naomi Pulver, Jimmy Serrano, Reed Featherstone, Tavia Teitler, Jasmine Tellez and Fabian Rico. Sopris Sun file photo other, so I figured it would be good for me to learn more about diplomacy and what role I could potentially have in helping to solve world problems.” Joselinne Medrano, junior, said that what she is most excited about is “not sleeping.” She explained that Model UN simulates the real UN experience to such an extent that occasionally issues arise and emergency meetings need to be called for certain committees in the middle of the night. Several of the students spoke about how

interesting it has been to learn about a country so different from their own. “Only about 15 percent of all Cambodian households have electricity,” noted Tavia. “There are lots of laws in Cambodia that are supposed to protect women from oppression and abuse, but they’re not being implemented,” junior Naomi Pulver told The Sun. “There’s lot of depressing information, but there’s also information that’s inspiring to read about,” said junior Fiona Laird. “There are all these problems in the world, but there

are also people out there solving lots them — like maternal health is improving.” While individual and group awards are announced at the end of the conference, the RFHS students appreciate that the emphasis of the conference is on collaboration and teamwork. The overall goal is for each committee to work together to create a resolution. Roaring Fork High School teachers Matt Wells and Matt Whisler started the Model UN Club this year. Both teachers come to the RFHS club with years of Model UN experience. Wells headed up the Aspen High School Model UN Club for eight years and took students to the Central America Model UN conference when he was a teacher in Honduras. According to Wells, the Model UN experience deepens kids’ understanding of global issues; provides them with a unique opportunity to interact with bright, interesting kids from around the world; and develops kids’ public speaking skills. “These students will be speaking formally in front of groups ranging from 25 to 200 other students, and they’ll be participating in intense negotiations with small groups of students that they’ve never met before,” Wells said. “I thought it would just be us (the RFHS club) discussing these issues—I didn’t expect to be a part of something so big!” junior Jasmin Tellez said. “More than anything else,” Wells said, “the experience is confidence-building.” While teachers help the students prepare MODEL UN page 19

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The streets department continues dealing with ice, snow, dust and dirt on the streets, as the unseasonably warm days combine with chilly nights. Town Manager Jay Harrington reported, in his weekly memo to the Board of Trustees on Jan. 30, that the town’s street sweeper “needed a new broom” after sweeping up street debris a week earlier. A new broom has been ordered and received, and was to have been installed by this week. Other work by the streets crew includes an effort to “re-establish the street lights on Village Road,” which entails installation of new conduits and bases on some lights. Harrington reported that new LED lights have been ordered for the street lamps, but that the delivery date has yet to be confirmed. He noted that the town employees are working with Western Slope Electric to get the lights going. The parks department crew also is still occupied by ice, in this case at points along the town’s trails system. The parks crew also is working on sprucing up open spaces along the trails and keeping the dog-waste stations maintained, and on painting townowned amenities at the town shop. Carbondale now has an officially certified town arborist after David Coon successfully completed training and examination at a facility in Denver earlier in

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the winter. On the subject of trees, Harrington reported that all the old Christmas trees have been chipped in the parking lot across from town hall, and any citizens needing a little tree mulch for their yards should feel free to stop by and haul some of it away. Harrington and Public Works Director Larry Ballenger continue their review of the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority’s Access Control Plan, which is intended to provide controls for all public and private access points along the Rio Grand Rail and Trail corridor between Woody Creek and the “Y” in Glenwood Springs. Harrington promised that there will be a memo to the trustees summarizing his and Ballenger’s analysis of the plan, at some future date. Warming temperatures have caused the ice to soften at the town’s rinks, forcing the Youth Hockey lessons to shift to broomball versus ice skating. Still, Harrington wrote, the participants are able to work on positioning and passing skills while waiting for temperatures to drop and the ice to freeze solid. Harrington reported that weather reports call for cooling temperatures in the coming days and weeks. He also wrote that the Adult Broomball Tournament was scheduled to begin last week, and that the Adult Volleyball League is ongoing with regular games on Mondays. In other recreation news, Harrington

noted that the Youth Basketball League games were scheduled to continue this week and into March, with games against teams from Aspen, Basalt and Glenwood Springs. The recreation department has both girls’ and boys’ teams, at various age levels, and information about registration can be found at www.carbondalerec.org. Also continuing are the Youth Climbing classes, which start a new session this week and offers classes as different levels of expertise and different ages. Harrington reported there were 19 participants signed up as of Jan. 30. The town’s ongoing specialty class, called Base Camp Cycling, was set to add additional classes this month and in March due to demand, Harrington wrote. The additional classes were scheduled for Monday and Wednesday mornings from 7 to 8 a.m. And the Summit Conditioning class, which aims to get people ready for the spring and summer hiking seasons, “is seeing increased participation” with 10 students in the morning classes and 8 students at the noon sessions, Harrington stated. Potato Day 2015 will be held on Oct. 3, the town was informed by organizers recently, which means that Celtic Fest/Oktoberfest celebrations will be moved off that month’s First Friday and will be held on the second weekend of October, Harrington reported.

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Kian (left) and Danny (right) Sullivan were two of the record number 125 skiers who turned out under mostly blue skies and warm sun for the 23rd annual Ski for Sisu fund-raiser at the Spring Gulch trail system southwest of Carbondale on Feb. 1. Seven people skied 50 kilometers: Helen Carlsen, Laurie Guevara-Stone, Patrick Johnson, Timothy Lindhold, Jan Stenstadvold, and Tripp and Gabriella Sutro. The event raised almost $10,000 for the Mount Sopris Nordic Council, which maintains Spring Gulch. On a related note, the MSNC reports it has not yet reached its membership goal for the year. For details or to sign up, go to springgulch.org. Photo by Lynn Burton

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Literacy Outreach recently named Barbara Brines (right) and Sonia Serrano (left) as its 2015 Tutor and Student of the Year. The pair started working together in 2008, according to a press release. Logging more than 700 hours together, they have found real friendship while Serrano learns to read in English. “I am so grateful. … She’s like a second mother to me,” Serrano said. When Serrano had to work long hours, Brines found a way to keep the tutoring going through phone calls. Said Brines, “Sonia has hugely enriched my life. She’s wonderful. We just bubble at each other.” For more on Literacy Outreach, call 945-5282 or visit literacyoutreach.org. Courtesy photo

Weird winter Some folks are telling each other this winter is the weirdest they can remember, excluding the no-snow season of 1976-77 when Independence Pass didn’t close until January. A mid-November snowstorm dumped 4-6 inches in and around Carbondale this season, which sent kids to the RVR sledding hill at least two or three weeks earlier than normal. Soon after, night-time temperatures dropped below zero for a week or two. Then it warmed back up and didn’t snow much in December. January was the second driest on record in Aspen, and down in Carbondale, clouds seemed to spit more rain than snow. At the Delaney dog park over the weekend, one guy with 35 years in the valley was expounding on his “weird winter” observation to a guy with 25 years and concluded, “It’ll be really weird if it’s like this next year.” Guy number two reached down with his Chuckit, snagged a ball, give it a toss for his eager border collie then put a global warming spin on the conversation with “Maybe we should get used to it.”

Plant’s mountaineering in Europe Word has it Lindsay Plant is on the four-member U.S. National Ski Mountaineering Team, which is competing in the world championships in Verbier, Switzerland on Feb. 5-12. She joins Aspen’s Max Taam and Jessie Young, and Snowmass Village native Rory Kelly. Ski mountaineering combines uphill dashes on light skis, followed by boot packing up steep pitches, and then skiing down on difficult trails. For more on the event, visit verbier2015.ch.

bays promoted to senior VP Roaring Fork High School alum Ian Bays (class of 1991) was recently promoted to senior vice president/manager at Alpine Bank-Carbondale. After graduating from Teikyo Loretto Heights University in 1995, Bays spent six years in Hokkadio, Japan, and returned to Carbondale in 2004. Bays also serves as president of the Carbondale Senior Housing Authority and is a member of the Mt. Sopris Rotary Club.

beer news The Roaring Fork Beer Company is holding its first-ever homebrew competition through March 14. The contest is sanctioned by the American Homebrew Association. The winner will have the opportunity to brew a batch on RFBC’s commercial system, have it tapped in the tasting room then entered into the pro-am competition at the Great American Beer Fest. For more on the RFBC competition, to go roaringforkbeerco.com, or e-mail Jerod Day at jerod@roaringforkbeerco.com. The Roaring Fork Beer Company tasting room is located at 1941 Dolores Way.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthday this week include: Sara McAllister (Feb. 10); and Linda Criswell, Georgia Chamberlain and Anne Goldberg (Feb. 11). 6 • THE SOPRIS SUN • www.SoprisSun.com • FEbRUaRy 5-11, 2015

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A new, bigger pasture for The Goat By Barbara Dills Sopris Sun Correspondent Rumor dispelled. The Goat restaurant did not close. In fact — in its newly expanded space — it’s more “open� than ever. The Goat is located at 995 Cowen Drive in Carbondale. If you ask The Goat’s owner, Stacey Baldock, how her off-the-beaten-path restaurant got its name, she’ll tell you it kind of came out of the blue. When she and her partner closed Hestia in Basalt and moved to Carbondale eight or nine years ago, they knew they wanted to open a small place here. They had a vision for the type of place but still didn’t have a name. One day, she walked past one of Carbondale’s public art sculptures downtown — a green goat. And that was it. After considering “The Green Goat� or “The Med Goat� (since the restaurant would have a Mediterranean bent), they settled on, simply, “The Goat.� Which seems arbitrary enough until you spend time talking with Stacey about the restaurant’s history and recent expansion. Her determination and persistence (not to mention stubborn conviction that she could make The Goat work in a non-Main Street location) reminds one of a certain remarkably sure-footed, strong-willed, yet loyal animal. We’ll leave it to you readers to decide which is cause and which effect.

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The Goat owner Stacey Baldock has operated restaurants at two locations on Main Street and in the Cowen Center, where she recently expanded. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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The Rotary Club of Carbondale announces its 2014-15 community grant recipients: Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment youth radio program, Home Care and Hospice of the Valley, the Sopris Sun community newspaper, and KDNK Community Radio. Each of these local nonprofit organizations will receive an initial grant of $4,000, plus additional funding from the Rotary Club’s major fundraiser for the year, the 2015 Happening dinner, dance and auction. Mark your calendar now for this year’s Happening, taking place on Saturday, June 20. Ticket information will be posted soon on the club website at www.rotarycarbondale.org, or contact any morning club member for details.

The Carbondale Rotary Club meets at 6:50 a.m. on Wednesdays at the Carbondale Firehouse. Visitors are welcome to come enjoy our weekly program and learn about the wonderful work Rotary does in the community and around the world.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS Feb. 11 – Herschel Ross, film critic Feb. 18 – Asadour Santourian, Aspen Music Festival Feb. 25 – Colin Laird, Third Street Center March 4 – Eric Brendlinger, Carbondale Recreation Center March 11 – Mary Harris, Audubon Society March 18 – John Quinn, Home Care/ Hospice of the Valley For program suggestions, contact Rick Carlson, rccarlson@gmail.com

For membership and other Rotary Club information, visit www.rotarycarbondale.org

Restaurant expansion om page 8 tia for a meal and tell her how much they missed the smaller restaurant. Eventually, Stacey longed for that simpler business herself. She fell in love with the current location on Cowen Drive as a possible place to bring The Goat back. In September of 2011, it reopened there as a lunch place and deli only, with limited staff. When Hestia closed a year later, it enabled Stacey to bring members of her staff with her and to expand the menu and hours to include dinner. Loyal customers followed them and things have grown through word of mouth ever since.

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Shaking things up behind her redesigned bar. In front of the bar, the expanded Goat features booths, high-tops and community tables, as well as The Goat’s original tables. Photo by Jane Bachrach

When the consignment store next door moved out, Stacey eyed the space with interest. But she couldn’t get the terms of a lease to pencil out. Then, when the building eventually went into foreclosure, the new landlord, Community Banks of Colorado, worked with her to come up with a viable expansion plan. The bank covered the structural changes required and she did what she refers to as “the cotton candy” — all the rest. In fact, she did it all pretty much herself. She laid the floors, put up the paneling, painted, created the chalkboards, and designed the lighting. As she told The Sopris Sun, “It was awesome to break out the power tools again. Besides, the price was right. All the bids came in and mine won.” She says the biggest challenge has been to make the entire space — old and new parts — look and feel continuous. As this article goes to press, she says they are about 80 percent of the way there. In addition to enlarging the dining area, the

expansion includes a bigger prep area in the kitchen and more storage space. This has enabled The Goat’s menu to be expanded to include more weekly and monthly specials. Seating options have also been added: The Goat now offers booths, high-tops and community tables as additions to its original tables, as well as a redesigned bar. “We wanted to fit different dining needs and preferences,” Stacey told The Sun. When asked what about The Goat makes her happiest, she emphasized the location. “We are so much more successful in this location [than on Main Street]. Everything is right. It has all the great things: great parking, great patio.” There were plenty of naysayers back when she decided to close Hestia and make a go of the Cowen Drive location, but she pushed forward. “I needed to hope that if enough people enjoyed our services at Hestia, they would come the whole mile from Main Street to see us. And if we weren’t good enough to succeed, then we weren’t good enough to be in the business.” Although the restaurant now spans west to include windows looking toward Highway 133, don’t expect to see a sign for The Goat any time soon. “Friends tell friends,” Stacey told The Sun. “And the room’s full of friends that way.” Oh, and as long as we are dispelling rumors … Stacey’s role in the start-up of the new restaurant at Ironwood was a consulting role only, helping to get the enterprise up and running, advising on menus, hiring management. Once those things were accomplished, she turned 100 percent of her attention back to The Goat.

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Community Calendar

To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is noon on Monday. 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. View events online at soprissun.com/calendar.

THURSDAY Feb. 5

FRI.-SUN. Feb. 6-8

3D PRINTING • The Anderson Ranch Art Center’s Diego Madera gives a presentation on 3D printing at the Launchpad at 5:30 p.m. Madera holds a degree in industrial design from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. This is part of CCAH’s Artist Beat series; there’ll be light happy hour libations and snacks. Info: 963-1680 or carbondalearts.com.

WINTER FEST • Redstone Winter Fest takes place with music, ice climbing clinics a dog parade, bonfire and more. Info: redstonecolorado.com.

SPaNISH COMPUTERS • The Carbondale Branch Library offers a free introductory computer class in Spanish at 5 p.m. today and on Feb. 19. The new class is offered the first and third Thursday of each month. Info: 963-2889 and gcpld.org. MICHaEL FRaNTI • The Aspen Yoga Society and the Shakti Foundation present musician/activist Michael Franti at the Hotel Jerome Grand Ballroom from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door. For details, go to aspenyogasociety.org. LIbRaRy bOaRD MEETS • The Garfield County Library Board meets at the Carbondale Branch Library at 6 p.m., with a Finance Committee meeting at 5 p.m. Info: 625-4270. CaUCUS MEETS • The Crystal River Caucus meets at the Church at Redstone at 7 p.m. Input is especially needed for those who are or might be involved with special events, including outdoor weddings, according to a press release. ROTaRy • The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at Mi Casita at noon every Thursday.

FRIDAY Feb. 6 FaT FRIDay • The third annual Fat Friday Mardi Gras parade heads down Main Street at 4:30 p.m. The struttin’ and jumpin’ starts at Second and Main streets and concludes somewhere in the vicinity of Weant Boulevard. As of press time, the entrants included: Berthod Motors, Carbondale Cub Scout Troop 235, the Carbondale Recreation Department, Casey Concrete, Crystal River Spas, High Country Honda, Mt. Sopris Rotary, Roaring Fork Valley Co-Op, Sopris Liquor & Wine, The Sopris Sun, The Pour House, the Village Smithy and others. Prizes will be awarded in the following categories: Best Overall Float, Runner Up, and Best Effort/Thanks for Trying/Better Luck Next Year. The parade entry fee is $25. Info: 963-1890. The parade kicks off this month’s First Friday. MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “The Imitation Game” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6-12 except Feb. 8, which will show only at 5 p.m and “Wild” (R) at 5 p.m. on Feb. 7. TNHa • True Nature Healing Arts (100 N. Third St.) hosts gong and singing bowl meditation from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Dave Starbear Avalos and Pam Davis will lead the group. Please arrive early and refrain from

wearing perfume or fragrance. Info: 9639900 or truenaturehealingarts.com. DROP IN • Bonedale Ballet and Coredination (located in the Bridges Center on Sopris Avenue) invites folks to drop in from 4 to 7 p.m. and observe yoga and Pilates classes and demonstrations, and rehearsals for ballet, tap and modern dance performances. All ages are welcome. CLay CENTER • The Carbondale Clay Center (at the east end of Main Street) hosts Molly Berger and her show “A Thing Like Home)” from 6 to 8 p.m. Berger hails from Reading, Pennsylvania, and recently moved to the Roaring Fork Valley from Boulder. The show continues through Feb. 27. Info: 963-2529 or carbondaleclay.org. LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works on Main Street presents Hell Roaring String Band from 9 p.m. to midnight. LIVE MUSIC • The Black Nugget on Main Street presents the Beatles tribute band Doctor Robert at 9:30 p.m. There’s no cover. LIVE MUSIC • CCAH presents local band Saddle The Unicorn (Sarah Morehouse, William Brown, Dylan Fixmer and Morgan Williams) from 6 to 8 p.m. The Launchpad itself will open its doors for First Friday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The 35th annual Valley Visual Art Show is currently on display. Info: 963-1680 or carbondalearts.com. LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the old part of the Dinkel Building presents live music every Friday night. Info: 963-3304.

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LIVE MUSIC • The Roaring Fork Beer Company on Dolores Way presents Josh & Ananda (acoustic) from 5 to 8 p.m. LIVE PaINTING • Marcel Kahhak will paint in his Dinkel Building studio from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The painting he produces will be love themed. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres will be served. PINEWOOD DERby • Carbondale Boy Scout Troop 235 races their homemade pinewood derby cars from 5 to 7 p.m. at Crystal River Elementary School. The public is invited to come out and watch. LIVE MUSIC • Rivers restaurant in Glenwood presents the No Joes from 9 p.m. to midnight. No cover. Upcoming bands are: Corn Bred Fed (Feb. 13) and the Leonard Curry Trio (Feb. 20).

SATURDAY Feb. 7 MOUNTaIN bIKES • The Rassle the Castle fat bike and snowshoe race/run/ walk will be staged in Redstone as part of Winter Fest. The bike race starts at 9 a.m. and makes two loops around the Redstone Castle. The snowshoe race/walk starts at 11 a.m. and makes one loop (5K). Pre-registration is available at Aloha Mountain Cyclery and Independence Run and Hike, and also at the castle on race day. The entry fee is $20 for adults and $10 for kids. Proceeds benefit the Calaway-Young Cancer Center at Valley View Hospital. Info: 704-1843 and redstonecolorado.com. CALENDAR page 11

Community Calendar LIVE MUSIC • The Crystal Club presents the Lionel Young Band at 7 p.m. The band won the 2011 International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Young himself has worked with the likes of Count Basie, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Page, Linda Ronstadt and others. Info: 963-9515. CHENREZIG PURIFICaTION • The Way of Compassion Foundation offers a day-long Chenrezig Purification from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Third Street Center. Info: wayofcompassion.org. EaGLE CREST • The Saturday Winter Market continues at Eagle Crest Nursey in El Jebel on Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Check out the local produce, food, coffee, clothing, accessories and more.

SUNDAY Feb. 8 aSC • A Spiritual Center in the Third Street Center presents Yolanda Del Hierro (Tibetan rites) at 10 a.m. On Feb. 15 it’s Larry Gottlieb (“The Seers Explanation”) and on Feb. 22 Lisa Dancing Light (live music). Info: 963-5516.

MONDAY Feb. 9 KING CHaRLES RETURNS • The Dance Initiative presents Chicago Footwork workshops with King Charles at the Launchpad. King Charles is an original member of FootworkKINGZ and has been featured on “America’s Got Talent” and “America’s Best Dance Crew.” A workshop for kids 10 and under takes place from 4 to 5 p.m. ($10); a workshop for teens and

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adults is at 5:15 p.m. ($15). Workshops are also offered in Aspen on Feb. 10. Info: danceinitiative.org and 544-9771. MEDITaTION • Silent meditation is held at the Launchpad from 6:45 to 7:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Please bring your own cushion or chair. Info: meditationcarbondale.weebly.com.

Nights series at the Third Street Center presents the film “Ordinary Extraordinary Junco” at 5:30 p.m. It’s free. Upcoming events are a wilderness pecha kucha with CCAH on Feb. 18, and “Lessons in Protecting Wildlands from Oil and Gas Development” with the Wilderness Society’s Peter Aengst on Feb. 15.

TUESDAY Feb. 10

LIVE MUSIC • Dan Rosenthal hosts open mic nights from 8 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday at Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs.

TWO-STEP TUESDay • Foot stompin’ fun continues at the Third Street Center with Two-Step Tuesday. An intro for twostep beginners is offered from 7 to 7:30 p.m., followed by a mix of country, line and other dance styles until 9:30 p.m. Admission is $8 per person and $14 per couple, plus $2 for a lesson. Don’t forget your hats, boots, Wranglers and bling jeans. Info: http://www.meetup.com/RFVDance/events/ 219969549/. NEW HISTORy TaLK • Winter Words presents author George Packer at Paepcke Auditorium on the Aspen Institute campus at 6 p.m. Packer will discuss his National Book Award winning work “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America” with Aspen Times reporter Andrew Travers. Info: aspenshowtix.com or aspenwords.org. aRT DEMO • The Glenwood Springs Art Guild gives a free demonstration titled “Color and Composition” at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (16300 Grand Ave.) at 7 p.m. Info: 274-3325.

WEDNESDAY Feb. 11 NaTURaLIST NIGHTS • The Naturalist

ROTaRy • The Rotary Club of Carbondale meets at the Carbondale Fire Station at 6:45 a.m. on Wednesdays. Info: riccarlson@gmail.com and steve@kdnk.org.

Further Out SATURDAY Feb. 14 SyMPHONy SWING • Symphony in the Valley presents its annual Symphony Swing dinner/dance at the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs beginning at 7 p.m. The program includes Big Band and Sinatra favorites featuring solo vocals by Jeannie Walla, Stephanie Askew, Jack Lanning, Landon Churchill, and Nathan and Anna Wubbena. Featured musicians include Karen Tafejian and Frank Martin of Sirens fame. Tickets are $80 each, with tables of 10 available for

FRI.-SAT. Feb. 13-14

bURLESQUE • Roaring Fork Follies presents Le Burlesque de L’Amour at the Launchpad. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 with a limited number of VIP tickets are $50. They are available at Downhill Boardshop and at eventbrite.com (under Roaring Fork Follies). Some proceeds benefit the Advocate Safehouse.

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JaZZ aT RFHS • The 14th annual Jazz Aspen Snowmass Honors Jazz Festival takes place at Roaring Fork High School on Feb. 6-7, with a free public performance Feb. 7 at 5 p.m. The festival features middle and high school musicians and vocalists from more than 16 schools (a jazz choir and four big bands). Guest clinicians this year are Jeff Jenkins of CU-Boulder, Dr. Sean Flanigan of Colorado Mesa, Carbondale’s own Tim Fox and JAS educator Chris Harrison. The vocal clinicians are Jonathan Gorst and Brad Pregeant. $1,000, and are available at sitv.org. Proceeds go to support the Symphony in the Valley community orchestra. Symphony Swing will also be presented at the Grand River Health Ballroom in Rifle on Feb. 13.

THURS.-SAT. Feb. 19-21 LaFF FEST • The Wheeler Opera House hosts the fifth annual Aspen Laff Festival. Comedians include Hippieman and his “Plan for America,” Jim Breuer, Andrew Sleighter and others. Info: aspenshowtix.com.

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Phone scam targets Garfield County

Fire district

Sopris Sun Staff Report Garfield County has recently been targeted by a phone call scam relatively new to the area, according to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Department. Citizens are being called and told that they owe money to the IRS or U.S. Treasury. They are further told that if they do not make an immediate payment, they will be subject to arrest and/or additional financial penalties. Recipients telephone caller ID may show either an unknown, a series of zeros or in some cases (through a procedure known as ghosting) may reflect an actual IRS call back number. “Since calls to an IRS number generally require the caller to hold anywhere from 15 to 60 minutes, even if you call back to try to verify the information there will be a wait,” said a sheriff’s department spokesman. Most people who call back the number and find it to be an IRS number unwittingly will assume the call is legitimate and may be tempted to believe the scammer. The caller will usually ask for a credit or debit card number to settle the matter or instruct the citizen to send the money through a “wire” service or a cash-card purchase found at many local stores to avoid further action. “Be advised that our government at any level will generally notify you by mail if you owe money and allow you the opportunity to make legitimate arrangements to pay any outstanding debts you may have,” the spokesman continued. “That paper trail protects you and them if there is a future need to re-visit an issue.” Beyond the immediate phone scam, the sheriff’s department is also advising residents to be wary of anyone who calls asking for personal information, money or an immediate payment of any amount through personal accounts or non-traceable “cash” cards and cash transfers. Other active phone schemes in the area include promises to deliver products or services such as satellite TV/Direct TV. “The list goes on, but in each case the citizen is being requested to make an immediate payment or deposit through a credit or debit card or to transfer money through a local service to another address or location.

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ways, bridges, civic and municipal development and water/wastewater planning, according to information available on the Internet. Jviation’s proposal came in at $150,000, Schilling reported; • Almont Associates, a Florida firm that originated more than 20 years ago in the unincorporated town of Almont, Colorado, in Gunnison County. The firm reportedly still maintains an office there, and its focus is on fire, police and other emergencyservices planning and public safety issues, according to its website. Almont’s proposal carried a price tag of $68,225, Schilling said; • Fitch & Associates, a Missouri-based company that boasts of nearly 30 years of experience in planning for fire and emergency medical services districts. The bid from Fitch & Associates came in at $66,400, according to Schilling. The master plan is an outgrowth of a 2013 tax hike election, in which voters rejected the district’s request for additional tax revenues to overcome losses of revenues due to the recent national recession. District officials have warned taxpayers that the district is facing serious fiscal problems and must find ways to boost its revenues or be faced with cutting the quantity and quality of services provided to district residents.

Delay Among the reasons for a delay in the proceedings, Schilling said, was to give the board time to explore the idea of applying for grant funds to pay for the master planning effort. But, upon investigation, it turned out that a grant application process would take until at least April, “and we didn’t want to wait that long to get going,”

Schilling said. At the Jan. 28 meeting, Schilling confirmed that the board discussed splitting up the master-planning contract in some way, specifically whether or not either Chain or Fletcher could take on the local outreach aspects of the process, as they are familiar with the area and the needs of the district. But, Schilling continued, “We’re not sure how we’re going to go yet.” He said the board recognizes that any delay could pose logistical problems for getting a tax-hike question on a ballot in 2015. “That’s why we’re meeting on the fifth,” Schilling said, “because we didn’t want to push it out further and further.” Although he declined to predict what will happen at the meeting on Feb. 5, Schilling said he hopes that “we’ll be able to say whether we want a hybrid [contract arrangement], or if we want Mark Chain Consulting … or if there’s some stuff in here [the formal Request For Proposals] we don’t really need.” If no decision is made on Feb. 5, Schilling said, the next regular board meeting is on Feb. 11. “I figure at that next board meeting we should have everything finalized,” he declared. “That’s my hope.” The fire fighters and equipment of the district serve approximately 15,000 residents in a 320square-mile area that includes the towns of Carbondale in Garfield County, Redstone in Pitkin County and Marble in Gunnison County. Founded in 1953, the department has 19 career personnel and 68 volunteer personnel, according to information on its website, www.carbondalefire.org.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Founder

John McEuen With Special Guest

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Saturday February 7th, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Founding member of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John brings music, stories, and your Dirt Band favorites to the Ute Theater stage!

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Emry Foote puts up a shot in Carbondale’s third/fourth grade #2 team win over Glenwood’s #3 team on Monday afternoon. The Carbondale Recreation Department has nine teams total (boys and girls) in a league that includes Basalt, Aspen and Glenwood. Lynn Burton photo

Sopris Sun Staff Report Garfield Clean Energy, the town of Carbondale and CLEER will provide home-energy visits and free energy-efficiency upgrades to 57 income-qualified households in Garfield County through the 2015 Home Energy Program, according to a press release. “This program is for households with incomes that are just a bit too high to qualify for the region’s other free weatherization program,” said Erica Sparhawk, program director for CLEER, which manages Garfield Clean Energy. Depending on the needs of the home, energy upgrades could include a furnace or boiler tune-up and safety check, insulation and air sealing, high-efficiency refrigerator, high-efficiency water heater, CFL light bulbs, storm windows, programmable thermostat and low-flow shower heads. “Households won’t have to pay for any of these improvements,” Sparhawk said. The home-energy visits and energy upgrades are being paid for through a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, by funding from the town of Carbondale’s Clean Energy 2020 program, and by the

energy utilities serving Garfield County: Xcel Energy, Holy Cross Energy, Glenwood Springs Electric and SourceGas. A percentage of the visits and upgrades are earmarked for Carbondale residents, according to a CLEER spokeswoman. For rental housing, landlords will be asked to pay for up to 50 percent of the upgrades, Sparhawk noted. For more information on the program, contact CLEER at 704-9200 or info@cleanenergyeconomy.net. The income guidelines are as follows: Family size and income range 1 person, up to $41,400 2 people, up to $47,300 3 people, up to $53,200 4 people, up to $59,100 5 people, up to $63,850 6 people, up to $68,600 7 people, up to $73,300 8 people, up to $78,050 “We see a great need for helping low-income families and seniors reduce their utility costs. Energy efficiency upgrades are the best way to meet that need,” Sparhawk said. “We hope to find additional funding for this effort, because we will be meeting just a small portion of the need in 2015.”

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Billed as “a youth show of design, daring and dance,” CCAH’s Cirque d’Sopris once again put kids on the Roaring Fork High School stage for an entertaining evening on Jan. 31 and afternoon on Feb. 1. The fashions were designed and sewn by the kids themselves. Imber Design of Paonia set the stage with inflated sculptures that hung from the ceiling. Musical accompaniment included “Happy” by Pharrell, “Bongo Bong” by Manu Chao, a remix version of “Who Let the Dogs Out,” “Funny Genius” by Chinese Flutes and “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift. Photos by Jane Bachrach THE SOPRIS SUN, Carbondale’s community supported newspaper • FEbRUaRy 5-11, 2015 • 15

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e Aspen Clinic: Your one stop wellness center By Steve Jundt Most of my interviews begin with the question, “Where are you from?” The responses span the United States and beyond, and are most often a story of relocation involving an initial ski trip that inevitably turned into more. So it is always a delight to sit with a home-grown local who may have briefly left the Roaring Fork Valley for higher education but returned to her roots for both career and, well, the good life that has turned so many of us into passionate residents of this valley. The executive director of The Aspen Clinic, Amanda Wagner, was born and raised in Glenwood Springs and personifies the active lifestyle that brings many to Colorado’s Western Slope. Like many of us, Amanda has experienced an occasional injury with results serious enough to keep her from the activities she loves. Enter The Aspen Clinic (TAC). The Aspen Clinic is not the type of clinic you run to after severing a finger while slicing jicama in the kitchen for your kale salad. Although TAC doesn’t do stitches, it is the clinic your

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volves physical recovery, weight loss, nutritional programs or simply changing bad habits to ones that will serve you. Their in-house staff of exercise, diet and behavioral specialists are easy to access, easy to talk to, and are there to ensure you meet your goals. This is a group of trained professionals who love to help. “We help you determine what you want, what you need, and what you want to be doing five years from now,” says Amanda. “Then we encourage you to let us figure out how to get you there.” And corporations take note: the clinic also works with businesses helping individuals improve health and productivity by addressing all aspects of their lifestyle and offering services that can lower medical costs, increase productivity, reduce absenteeism and enhance employee morale. To learn more, call or stop by The Aspen Clinic, located on East Valley Road in Basalt or check out their website at theaspenclinic.org, where you will find both detailed information and some wonderful blogs that will serve you now.

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snow from private property or adjacent sidewalks, should be stored on private property. Residents are responsible for clearing snow along sidewalks and away from mailboxes and fire hydrants.

may be towed.

• PRIVATE SNOW PLOWING - Placing, dumping or pushing of snow onto city streets or right-of-ways from adjacent properties is prohibited.

• SAFETY AROUND PLOWS - Please slow down and use caution. Keep back a minimum of 50 feet. • CHILD SAFETY - Please ensure that children refrain from playing on, in and around snow mounds.

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Zane Kessler touts “real success in civil life” A Teddy Roosevelt notion By Trina Ortega Sopris Sun Correspondent Anyone looking to Zane Kessler to be an absolutist will be disappointed. The executive director of the Thompson Divide Coalition (TDC) has a mission to protect the pristine area west of Carbondale, but his fight is not about fracking nor is it about driving the oil and gas industry out of Colorado. As a child raised in an oil-and-gas family from Oklahoma, he acknowledges the nation’s economic need for such natural resource development. “My grandfather developed his minerals, which helped pay for my mother to go to college in the same way that my mom and dad’s minerals helped for me and my sisters to go to college,” said Kessler, who moved to Carbondale nearly three years ago to take over leadership of the TDC. “I recognize the benefits that oil and gas provides economically for us as a nation and as a state, but that doesn’t mean we have to develop every square inch of resource that we have.” Instead, he seeks to find a balance between that type of industry and the businesses that rely on healthy public lands, including the Thompson Divide — the 221,500 acres of wild and roadless land that Gov. John Hickenlooper has deemed a Colorado “Crown Jewel.” Kessler, 33, moved to the Roaring Fork Valley from Denver with a resume focused on federal energy and natural resource policy. He graduated in 2005 from Colorado State University with a bachelor’s degree in political science and natural resources, and a graduate certificate in environmental affairs. While in the Denver area, he worked on statewide efforts to advance sustainable energy solutions (biofuels primarily) at a private clean-tech company and additionally worked in the U.S. Senate on energy and natural resource issues.

It was the work he conducted in northern Colorado for U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colorado) that drove home the need to find middle ground when protecting public natural resources. Kessler had gone from focusing on clean energy research and progressive ideas at the university in Fort Collins to dealing front-and-center with ranchers whose crops were dying because of a lack of water.

“… the idea that men and women are able to earn a living for their families, to do right by their neighbors and at the end of the day know that they’ve left the world a little better off and not a little worse because they’ve lived.” “That just ultimately taught me that if we can find middleground solutions that work for the most people, we can achieve what Teddy Roosevelt once called ‘real success in civil life,’ the idea that men and women are able to earn a living for their families, to do right by their neighbors and at the end of the day know that they’ve left the world a little better off and not a little worse because they’ve lived,” Kessler told The Sopris Sun. That means finding solutions that protect special lands and the people whose livelihoods rely on those lands, but also allow for development that is appropriate in other areas.

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Knowing the Divide Kessler came to know the Thompson Divide as a youngster while visiting family in the Roaring Fork Valley, and skiing Sunlight and riding dirt bikes on the four-wheel-drive roads in the Four Mile area. Those experiences influenced his desire to move to the Roaring Fork Valley and protect those lands. His efforts are paying off. Since he came on board with the TDC, the organization has quadrupled the number of supporters who favor preserving the land; increased volunteer capacity by 250 percent; increased the staff to 2.5 employees; launched a major publicity effort, gaining ink in national newspapers including The New York Times and Denver Post; and gained support in the U.S. Senate, specifically the Thompson Divide Withdraw and Protection Act put forth by U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorardo). The coalition celebrated a major victory in December 2014 with the Forest Service’s decision to close the majority of the area to new oil and gas leasing. “So we’ve really kind of created this drumbeat that I think has helped to breathe new life into this campaign and to help ensure we have the resources we need to see it across the finish line,” he said, giving credit to the 6,000 or so community members who have volunteered, made donations, signed petitions and spoken out in support of the TDC. “This is a great example of what happens when a community stands united together for a common cause.” Next up for Kessler? He’s currently preparing the coalition for the next huge task — the BLM’s analysis of existing natural gas leases (and subsequently whether to retroactively cancel them). This summer he hopes to retrace on horseback Roosevelt’s famous bear hunt from New Castle to Redstone. In the long-term, Kessler’s not sure, but he looks forward to some day writing a dissertation about the Thompson Divide.

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Burlesque returns Here’s a revealing sneak preview of the Roaring Fork Follies production of Le Burlesque de L’Amour. A total of eight lovely ladies will tantalize, titillate and delight what is expected to be a receptive audience. The show takes place at The Launchpad at 8 p.m. on Feb. 13 and 14 (doors open at 7:30 p.m.). Libations will be available. Tickets are $25 for general admission and $50 for VIP seating. They are available at Downhill Boardshop and online at Eventbrite.com (under Roaring Fork Follies).

Clockwise from upper left: Jacqui Edgerly, Deborah Macsalka and Brianne Jones. Photos by Jane Bachrach

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Legal Notice PUBLIC NOTICE

Request for Proposals to provide Construction for Elk Park Phase I Pitkin County #047-2015 CDOT # SBY C570-021 Construction Project Code No. 19370

Pitkin County is accepting proposals to provide Construction for Elk Park Phase I. Elements will include the construction of a “Depot” open air structure and site work. More detailed information may be ob tained by contacting:

Lindsey Utter Recreation Planner Pitkin County Open Space and Trails 530 East Main Street, Third Floor Aspen, CO 81611 lindsey.utter@pitkincounty.com http://www.rockymountainbidsystem.com/ Desk: (970) 920.5224

Proposals must be received at the above address no later than 1 p.m. MST, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, to be considered. There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid meeting at 10 a.m. MST, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015,

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Regarding infill Dear Editor: Joan and I have written letters to the town regarding all of this infill. We are so against just building on every little tiny piece of property. You know it goes without saying that the town gets swayed a lot by those that don’t want any new grocery store and want nobody buying anything except at the Dollar Store. We can’t afford gas up here as it goes up faster than you can blink, even though its lots less down in Glenwood where we shop anyhow. But nobody is against them building two and three stories high buildings. Even if it’s against the building code, so we all know those that pat the other ones on the back and this means Frosty Merriott and a few others that don’t seem to care what the building code is. Apparently it suits them just fine to ignore it all. So my two cents worth is — no, absolutely not. Either the contractors stay with the code or you just toss it out and let the chips fall where they may. Jane Spaulding Carbondale

at the project site, the current parking lot at Elk Park. Project Goals. The CDOT EEO officer has set Disadvantaged Business Goals at 3.5% for this project. There will be no on the job training goals.

The CDOT Form 347, Certification of EEO Compliance, is no longer required to be submitted in the bid package. This form certified that the contractor/proposed subcontractors were in compliance with the Joint Reporting Committee EEO-1 form requirements. The EEO-1 Report must still be submitted to the Joint Reporting Committee if the contractors and subcontractors meet the eligibility requirements (29CFR 1602.7); we will, however, no longer require certification. For additional information regarding these federal requirements, please refer to: http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/eeo1survey/faq.cfm This project includes funding by CDOT administered by FHWA grants; therefore Davis Bacon wages will apply. Bidder must include CDOT forms 606, 1413, 1414 with his bid. On the day of the bid opening, the low bidder will be given the following forms: Form 605, Contractors Performance Capability Statement

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for the conference, the conference itself is run entirely by students — college students organize and manage the entire conference for the high school student participants. Hundreds of Model UN conferences are held around the world. The RFHS students will be attending the National High School Model UN conference, currently in its 41st year and the only conference held in the actual UN Headquarters in New York City. The club has been fund-raising throughout the year to help defer the cost of the conference and to make the experience possible for all interested students. There are no requirements to join the club aside from a passion for international affairs and a commitment to prepare for the conference.

Next Steps:

RFHS Model United Nations Presentation/Fundraiser Feb. 21, 5 to 7 p.m. in the Calaway Room at the Third Street Center. This event will include food and a presentation by the Model UN students about the club and upcoming conference. For details, call Matt Wells at 384-5777.

The four purposes of the United Nations: • To keep peace throughout the world; • To develop friendly relations among nations; • To help nations work together to improve the lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each other’s rights and freedoms; • To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations to achieve these goals.

Form 621, Assignment of Antitrust Claims Form 1415, UDBE Commitment Confirmation (If the UDBE goal > 0) Form 1416, UDBE Good Faith Effort Documentation (If the UDBE goal is not met) These forms need to be returned to the Local Agency by 4:30 pm the following day.

If a work schedule is included as part of the bid package it must also be completed in ink and signed by the individual who will execute the Contract Form. Any work form completed as part of the bid package shall indicate the commencement date for construction. The work schedule must conform to the commencement and completion dates for the contract.

Published in The Sopris Sun: Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 2015.

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PURSUANT TO THE LAWS OF COLORADO

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TO GRANT A MODIFICATION OF PREMISES FOR THEIR MARIJUANA TESTING FACILITY TO TEST RETAIL MARIJUANA AT:

1101 VILLAGE ROAD, UNIT LL5C CARBONDALE, CO 81623

HEARING ON APPLICATION TO BE HELD AT: CARBONDALE TOWN HALL 511 COLORADO AVENUE CARBONDALE, COLORADO

DATE AND TIME: FEBRUARY 24, 2015 AT 6:00 P.M. DATE OF APPLICATION: JANUARY 22, 2015

BY ORDER OF: STACEY BERNOT, MAYOR

APPLICANT: Green Hill Laboratories, LLC HILARY GLASS

Information may be obtained from, and Petitions or Remonstrance’s may be filed with the Town Clerk Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale, CO 81623

Published in The Sopris Sun on February 5, 2015.

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Open Mon.-Sat. 8am-6pm and on Sundays from 9am-4pm for washes only

THE SOPRIS SUN, Carbondale’s community supported newspaper • FEbRUaRy 5-11, 2015 • 19