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James Balog on a Greenland ice sheet in 2009. The Boulder based filmmaker first made a name for himself in 1990 with the award winning photo book “Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife.” Photograph by Adam LeWinter/Extreme Ice Survey

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n the past two years, James Balog’s Emmy award winning environmental documentary “Chasing Ice” has been screened in 172 countries and all seven continents. It’s doubtful that Balog has attended, and spoken, at all the screenings. He’s coming to Carbondale, though, for a Q&A after his groundbreaking film on climate change and vanishing glaciers screens at the Third Street Center.

CLEER and others are bringing the Boulder resident to town. Show time is 7 p.m. and it’s free.

In the spring of 2005, Balog, and acclaimed environmental photographer headed to the Arctic on assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth’s changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog said he’d been a skeptic about climate change.

Within months of his first trip to Iceland, Balog and his team began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. The end result is “Chasing Ice.” Aside from winning an Emmy, the film has drawn rave reviews from critics and non-critics alike.

“You’ve never seen images like this before,” said actor/environmentalist Robert Redfort.

“One of the most beautiful and important films ever made,” said the Huffington Post.

The late Roger Ebert said, “At a time when warnings of global warming were being dismissed by broadcast blabbermouths as ‘junk science,’ the science here is based on actual observation of the results as they happen. When opponents of the theory of evolution say (incorrectly) that no one has ever seen evolution happening, scientists are seeing climate change happening right now — and with alarming speed. Here is a film for skeptics who say “we don’t have enough information.””

Riding on the success of “Chasing Ice” and other projects, in 2012 Balog founded Earth Vision Institute to educate global citizens about the impacts of climate change.

For more information, visit earthvisioninstitute.org.

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Poetry to our ears Dear Editor: A big heart-filled GRACIAS to Aspen Words and The Aspen Institute for sponsoring the third annual Youth Poetry Slam on Feb. 12.

Poetic words are not enough to describe the magic that Myrlin, Mercedez and Logan created during their two-week visit to Roaring Fork Valley schools. To experience 24 students step up to the mic and be transformed into poets, exposing their fears, hopes, sorrows and search for identity, was quite amazing.

The teacher in me is trained to write things down, so I wrote down the first line of each poem as it was recited. I realized later that those lines morph into their own poem, creating a collective voice of what it means to be a teen in our valley.

The Variety in our Society should not cause Anxiety My Religion - Depression My John Doe - Monotone.

I Take Pictures, and My brother likes to drink coffee.

My Name is Emily, sometimes I’m a scared kid, feeling like I walk on a wire You can’t SEE in two languages, but I’m from this generation,

Querida Mama, And I am Proud to call myself Sunlight (You are the sky, not the weather!)

I wish that I had the right words, Pretty Boy. Do you ever wonder why things have to be so complicated?

In today’s society, why you’re “The Kid”?

Poetry is . . . here to tell the truth!

Diana Alcantara Spanish teacher Carbondale Community School

Thanks to Bill and Jane Dear Editor: Thanks to Bill Grant and to Jane Spaulding for their recent letters in The Sopris Sun and the Post Independent about the dramatic increases in our property taxes.

Here’s my perspective for further consideration.

I did not vote for these increases nor will I for the two proposed for Carbondale in the forthcoming election. While I share Bill and Jane’s concerns, those are not my primary reasons for voting against these and other recent increases. My concern is that the increases are not presented in terms of how the

most important “outcomes” will be measurably improved as a result.

For example, I don’t believe it is sufficient to propose and justify an increase merely because revenue is down or that things will somehow become better as a result. In each case, I want to see what the vital outcomes are for our town, what measureable results have been achieved over the last three to five years, what improvements are planned for the next three to five, and how the increase will enable that improvement.

For clarity, outcomes are not the same as activities; unfortunately, activity is often seen as equated with results. As an example, constructing a new school may be an admirable activity, yet isn’t an outcome — better education is. Supporting non-profits with good intentions but lacking measurable results wastes our valuable resources, which can be dedicated to those who are able to factually demonstrate improvements.

Please consider asking the taxing authorities to be accountable for outlining and reporting progress, rather than activities or revenue shortfalls. Take a look at the Roaring Fork School District “State of Our Schools” annual report as an example (http://www.rfsd.k12.co.us/about-us/state-

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Carbondale skater to perform in Denver show Sopris Sun Staff Report If Sage Williams isn’t the finest figure skater in town, she’s certainly Carbondale’s best 15-year-old skater. And around here, that’s a hard trick to master.

Williams is currently preparing to perform in an invitational “Fantastiks” show, sponsored by the Denver Figure Skating Club on March 10-13. Her program will include several spins: a camel spin, a flying camel, a sit spin and a catch-foot spin.

Williams also jumps; she can manage a double Salchow and can land a single Axel, the most technically-difficult jump among the six types of jumps in figure skating.

Williams began figure skating three-anda-half years ago with pond skating, then skating on the rodeo arena rink, a local venue that lasts only as long as temperatures stay below freezing. The ice there can be a bit bumpy for figure skating because of rain, snow, melting and cracking, and also because hockey games can chop it up.

“When I tell people that I do figure skating, they are overwhelmed,” Williams reports. “They don’t even know it’s an option around here! Why don’t we have a figure skating program in Carbondale? The rodeo rink has a hockey program, but there’s nothing for figure skaters.”

Prior to learning to skate, Williams took gymnastics, which gave her good balance.

She says, “I kind of did everything – soccer, basketball – but it didn’t stick. There was nothing I loved until I got into skating. I would go down to the rodeo rink and try out moves myself, just imitating what I saw on TV or YouTube.” Although she did make some progress that way, she also picked up bad habits she had to later break by taking remedial classes. When she was nine, Williams wound up taking a basic level 2 class with three-year-olds.

Two years ago, Williams got some private figure-skating lessons after her mom, Carolyn Watt Williams, spotted Nicolette

Toussaint skating on the rodeo rink and asked whether Toussaint could coach her daughter. Toussaint lives in Carbondale and teaches skating classes at the Glenwood Springs Recreation Center during the winter. But Sage learned so rapidly she soon had to find both a more-advanced coach and a year-round venue.

Peggy Behr Williams met her current coach, Peggy Behr, after joining Aspen’s Revolutions Skating Club last fall. Revolutions skaters usually practice at the Lewis Ice Arena, a year-round, indoor rink owned by the Aspen Recreation Center. Club members have access to four coaches, one of whom is Michelle Hocknell, who lives in Basalt.

Williams travels to Aspen five days a week for coaching, often carpooling with Hocknell and her two teenage daughters, both of whom are admirable figure skaters.

Williams says she’s particularly inspired by her coach’s daughter, Sari Behr, who can execute a double Axel jump.

Coach Peggy Behr — who performed with Disney on Ice, skated competitively and coached national skating champion and Olympian Jeremy Abbott — has been the key to Williams’ performances. Behr invited Williams to perform in Denver, and also recruited her to skate in a Valentine’s Day show in Breckenridge.

Williams says, “I don’t get to perform that often, but it’s good to have a chance to be in front of a small crowd, to be in costume and to perform to music.” While she does get nervous, she says, “I’m okay when the music starts. My problem is that I tend to skate timidly, not as well as I can really skate. I’m working on that.”

Williams isn’t aiming for national or international competitions. “It’s not realistic,” she says. “A very small percentage of skaters ever get to the Olympics. But I’m getting to a level where I could do things like Disney

Sage Williams and her dog Whisper. Williams heads to Denver for an appearance in an invitational Fantastika show on March 10-13. She started skating at the rodeo arena rink three years ago and is now coached by Peggy Behr after joining the Revolutions Skating Club in Aspen last fall. Photo by Jane Bachrach on Ice or Ice Capades. Peggy traveled the world in shows, and that would be a goal of mine.”

Meanwhile, Williams, who attends Carbondale Community School, has logged some community service hours for the school by coaching other students. “I have just been helping out by coaching younger kids in the club, and helping out with classes,” she says. “Lots of kids here in Carbondale want to skate, but they’re really

not able to. Their parents aren’t able to drive to Aspen, or to pay for lessons or for a coach.

“I really think that we should create a program for younger kids here so that they can really learn and benefit from skating.

That’s my dream,” she says, adding that she would help teach the classes. “Skating is just so cool. There’s always another challenge – the next jump, the next spin, the next bit of footwork.”

Two groups step up to address Carbondale homeless issues

By David Troxel Sopris Sun Contributor On the eve of Thanksgiving of last year, local real estate broker Lynn Kirchner and her husband were wide awake in the middle of the night, with the same thing on their minds. They were thinking about a chance encounter earlier that evening with a homeless woman, and as Kirchner recalls, “I recognized the woman and realized that I knew her. She had been a local landowner and successful part of the community, and here she was at the bus stop dragging around all of her belongings in the middle of a frigid night.”

The Kirchners literally couldn’t sleep, kept awake by the thoughts of that woman, and who knows how many in similar circumstances, wandering the night looking for a warm place to sleep as the temperature dipped below zero. By morning, they had agreed that something needed to be done. Kirchner went to work, reaching out to her network and the community at large

to organize a meeting to examine the issue.

With the cold snap worsening, the need was becoming more pressing every night.

The result of those first couple of meetings has been the formation of the Carbondale Homeless Assistance (CHA) initiative.

With attendance by numerous community members, including representatives of the Carbondale Police Department and municipal government, community activists and many others motivated by raw compassion, the group went to work to address the issue that they saw as, literally, a matter of life and death. As Kirchner recalled, “It wasn’t long ago that a person froze to death on the streets of Carbondale. We couldn’t let that happen again.”

The group brainstormed the problem, and realized that the plight of those living out in the frigid winter elements was too immediate to spend much time on organization. “We needed to pull together the resources to help right now, while the situation was critical,” said Kirchner. By

the end of the second meeting, sources of relief were identified, action teams had been formed, and a strategy was put into effect. Team leaders went to work, including Dawn Dexter, a community activist and organizer who suggested and helped develop a “street sheet,” or guide to resources for the homeless and others when the weather is hostile or resources scarce.

She had been working with the problems of homelessness and the social systems that create them for a number of years, and had spoken with homeless panhandlers at the intersection of Highways 82/133. Her experiences had produced a perspective that is, to some degree, at odds with many assumptions about homelessness.

“The principal causes underlying homelessness are NOT alcohol and substance abuse, or even mental illness,” Dexter said, although these are often features of a homeless lifestyle. “Homelessness is the result of economic disadvantage, pure and simple.

We can’t solve homelessness without look-

ing very hard at economic, wage and opportunity disparity.” She continued: “We’ve talked about the lack of shelter facilities in Carbondale. Aspen and Glenwood both have shelters, but these kinds of facilities often have very strict rules and limitations as to who can stay there. In most shelters, couples and families are often split up, single mothers are not allowed, and so on. So in many cases, the very relationships that people on the street need to ground them in their uncertain lives are denied them if they want to sleep in a bed for the night.

“The CHA is a great response to an emergency need,” Dexter continued, “but we need to go beyond the provision of emergency resources to address the larger issues in community. Economic disparity is one of these, but at a deeper level we need to learn to recognize the basic humanity, the ‘personhood’ of people who are trapped on the street. And while we’re doing that, we need to recognize the diversity of social HOMELESSNESS page 19

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Cop Shop

RVR pickleball lines might be scrubbed

From Feb. 4-11, Carbondale police officers handled 277 calls for service. During that period, officers investigated the following cases of note:

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SATURDAY, Feb. 6: At 1:11 a.m. police contacted a 35-year-old local woman for allegedly driving with her headlights turned off, and after investigating they arrested her on a drunk-driving charge.

In his weekly report to town staff, trustees and others (Feb. 8-12), Town Manager Jay Harrington wrote there has been a request to consider removing “pickleball” blended color lines from the River Valley Ranch tennis courts, which are owned by the town.

The removal is sought to accommodate U.S. Tennis Association sanctioned tennis tournaments at the courts, which according to the USTA cannot be played on courts where pickleball lines have been painted. The request, according to Harrington, will be taken up by the Parks & Recreation Commission at its March meeting.

In other news from Harrington’s report: Two meetings are scheduled this week to discuss the Unified Development Code, the town’s ongoing effort to update its development-review regulations, including a public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission on Feb. 18 at Town Hall. The town’s consultant for the UDC, Clarion Associates, is scheduled to have representatives available at the meeting to discuss the UDC and answer questions from the public.

The P&Z and the Board of Trustees were scheduled to hold a joint meeting on the UDC on Wednesday night (Feb. 17), after The Sopris Sun went to press.

With the recent warming trend, the Gus Darien Riding Arena ice rink has been

closed, and while the 4th Street Plaza Park ice rink remained open as of Feb. 12, town officials were concerned that the ice there “might not last long.”

To get updates on the condition of the ice and other recreation related matters, go to the website, www.carbondalerec.com.

Harrington reported that the recreation department won first prize for its float in the First Fat Friday parade on Feb. 5.

Work on Carbondale’s snow-bound and icy streets continued to be the main focus of the town’s work crews last week, according to Harrington.

The removal of snow and ice was helped by several days of warming temperatures, reaching into the upper 40s (Fahrenheit) on some days, which helped “pop the ice from the pavement” on streets where ice dams were still to be found, Harrington reported.

The parks crew also was working to get the ice off trails that are shaded in winter, while at the same time the crew refurbished several of the wooden benches along certain streets and in the parks.

On a completely different matter, but still related to the streets, Harrington wrote that Xcel Energy has applied for permits to replace a failing electric cable along a portion of Hendrick Drive, Rock Court and Oak Run, on the southwest side of town.

Harrington wrote that the company plans

to bore underneath the street surface along Hendrick Drive and Rock Court, and to make an open cut down Oak Run Road.

Another recreation-related move is afoot, Harrington wrote, with a mini-grant application to the Garfield County LiveWell program to pay for the paving of a pedestrian and bicycle trail connecting Third Street to the Highway 133 Crystal Valley Trail. The trail would surround the Third Street Center and connect to the Community Bread Oven and the area where the Demeter’s community garden is laid out. The grant application is for $5,000; the town is planning to come up with matching funds to strengthen the grant proposal.

At the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center, the adult volleyball league, and a drop-in pickleball series, continued last week.

Drop-in pickle ball games take place on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the center, though Harrington reported that the town planned on starting a new, Sunday night pickleball league on Feb. 14. The Sunday pickleball games, Harrington wrote, were meant to replace the men’s basketball league, “which did not see ample registration this year.”

The adult volleyball games, meanwhile, are on Mondays nights, and results from the matches can be found at www.quickscores.com/carbondalerec.

SUNDAY, Feb. 7: At 3:49 p.m. police contacted a 28-year-old local man who was “asleep at the wheel” in a vehicle on North 4th Street. The man turned out to be intoxicated, according to police, and was arrested for drunk driving.

MONDAY, Feb. 8: At 10:37 a.m. police were called to Roaring Fork High School concerning allegations that drug paraphernalia had been discovered in the possession of a juvenile. The juvenile, who is 14 years old, was charged with being a minor in possession of marijuana, and with using marijuana, and his case will be heard in municipal court.

MONDAY, Feb. 8: At 11:32 p.m. police stopped a 22-year-old driver, at the corner of S. 8th Street and Highway 133, for allegedly failing to use his turn signals and having a malfunctioning license-plate light.

After investigating, they arrested the man on a drunk-driving charge.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10: At 7:58 a.m. police were called about a disturbance at an undisclosed location in town. After investigating, they issued a summons to a juvenile at the location, on charges of being a minor in possession of marijuana and harassment.

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confusing land-use review codes dating back to 1993, will be on display at a public hearing of the Carbondale Planning & Zoning Commission at 7 p.m. on Feb. 18.

The UDC, as it is known, also was to be the subject of a joint meeting of the P&Z and the Board of Trustees on Feb. 10, well after The Sopris Sun went to press for its Feb. 11 issue. A final public hearing is scheduled for March 9 before the board of trustees, where the UDC may well be adopted as the town’s new law governing development of all kinds.

A draft of the document is available on the town’s website, www.carbondalegov.org.

The Carbondale 8th grade All Stars went 2 and 2 in Moab in the annual Grand County Shootout. Carbondale opened with a 31-26 OT win vs. Green River, Utah.

Moab took the second game 38-28. AJ Adams poured in 12 points in the loss. Saturday saw the All Stars beat White Horse 31-17 then come up short vs. Duchesne, Utah 37-29. Nate Carricarte had 15 points in the loss. The next action for the All Stars is Feb. 21, when they host Montrose and Glenwood in a round robin tournament.

Attention history buffs Roaring Fork Valley history just got easier to access from anywhere in the world with the upload of additional photographs and written material to the Aspen Historical Society’s Archive Aspen site.

Now, visitors to archiveaspen.org can search more than 14,500 images and documents with their fingertips, according to a press release. The additional material includes 700 additional photographs processed in the Mary Eshbaugh Hayes collection, bringing the total to more than 2,000. Hayes, an iconic Aspen journalist and photographer, passed away in 2015 and left behind a 65,000 photographs, which AHS will process and add to its collection over the next 10 years. The images range from social party pictures to street scenes and significant events in Aspen’s history. Also, twenty-four Aspen High School yearbooks from 1909 to 1981 have been

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They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthday this week include Wendy Moore (Feb. 18) and Steve Skinner (Feb. 24).

Rock Bottom gets certified Wes Engstrom was one of four Students of the Month that were recognized at the Feb. 10 Carbondale Board of Trustees meeting. Due to technical difficulties, a photo and names of the other three students were not available at press time but The Sopris Sun hopes to bring them to readers next week. Courtesy photo uploaded to the Archive Aspen site. More than 4,000 images from The Aspen Times are now searchable online as well. To view the photos, go to archiveaspen.org.

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Following a rigorous auditing process, Certified Wildlife Friendly has recognized the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) at Rock Bottom Ranch for its work to prioritize habitat conservation alongside agricultural production and education, according to a press release. Rock Bottom Ranch implements production systems that mimic natural biological cycles and allow adjacent ecosystems and wildlife to thrive.

911 calls Here are the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District emergency calls for the week of Feb. 7-13: • Medical emergencies (11); • Trauma emergencies (4); • Motor Vehicle accidents (6);

The Carbondale Recreation Department’s broomball league culminated with a double elimination tournament at the Gus Darien Ice Arena on Feb. 5. The Shinanigans pulled off a four-peat with win in the championship round. Second place went to On the Ice and third place to Team Orange.

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Trustees talk City Market at next meeting on Feb. 24

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer When the Carbondale Board of Trustees holds its next regular meeting on Feb. 24, the central item on the agenda will be about the biggest generator of retail sales taxes in town, the City Market grocery store, and the plans to build a new store less than a mile away to replace the existing one.

The old store, which has been in operation for roughly three decades at its current site in the Crystal Village, is too small and cumbersome to meet the needs of its diverse customer base, according to the store’s owners, the Kroger/King Soopers chain.

The replacement project would involve construction of a 59,000 square-foot City Market store; roughly 9,000 square feet of

connected retail spaces, and a separate facility housing a gas station kiosk and pumps, for a total of more than 68,000 square feet of buildings on slightly less than eight acres of ground located northwest of the intersection of Main Street and Highway 133.

The proposed stores would be built on land previously considered for two larger developments, known as the Crystal River Market Place and the Village at Crystal River, which as proposed would have involved construction of considerably more retail and some residential development.

Both of those previous plans were rejected by local voters in two separate elections, both of which followed periods of intense community controversy about the plans.

Left undeveloped would be two adjacent

parcels, known as Lots 1 and 5, that also are part of the 23-acre development site originally proposed for the two larger projects.

The current proposal involves a subdivision of the eight-acre parcel (lots 2, 3 and 4, which comprise the center of the 23-acre property) from the portion of the property that will not be developed now.

The Carbondale Planning & Zoning Commission earlier this month recommended approval, with conditions, of a subdivision plan and other permits for the project, and sent that recommendation on to the trustees.

According to Town Manager Jay Harrington, the City Market discussion is scheduled to last up to 90 minutes, and is likely to be continued to a subsequent meeting in March.

Also on the agenda for the Feb. 24 trustees meeting will be: • Initial discussion of a water and sewer master plan update, which has been in the works since last year.

• A discussion with one of the town’s attorneys about potential modifications to the town’s regulations concerning medical and recreational marijuana stores in Carbondale.

Harrington noted that, every few months, one or more trustees identify issues regarding the regulations that he or she feels need to be tweaked in one way or another. He was unable to identify which issues might be under discussion at this meeting.

The trustee meetings take place at Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, and begin at 6 p.m. in meeting room number one.

Trustees continue “group home” application; okay Ducks

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer At the Feb. 10 meeting of the Carbondale Board of Trustees, the board for the second time continued a public hearing concerning an after-school facility for youth services, known as Stepping Stones, which was not an allowed use under the town’s current zoning code for the neighborhood in question.

The continuance, according to town planner John Leybourne, will benefit the proposal because it will be permitted under the still-pending Unified Development Code, which is expected to take effect by the date of the next hearing.

And that, according to Leybourne, was deemed preferable to going through the time and effort of making changes to the current code or approving a special-use permit for the center, since the UDC is expected to be adopted soon and will supersede the current code.

The matter first came before the trustees on Jan. 27, when the proponents — Valley of Hope LLC of Aspen and the Stepping Stones LLC of Carbondale — requested permits to keep running a group home at 1010 Garfield Ave. in Carbondale, which is meant to “operate a youth services day program providing drop in day programs for teens aged 14-21.”

The facility, according to proponents, offers help to area teens “to reach self-sufficiency by providing a safe and structured environment to learn life skills, eat meals, participate in experiential learning, and have access to professional counseling and support services,” according to background informa-

tion provided by the facility to the town.

According to the application, the facility has been open for a year but without the proper permit, because the zone district for the neighborhood does not allow for such facilities. The need for a special-use permit, which would allow for a non-conforming use at that address, was triggered by an application for a building permit “to make minor interior and exterior modifications” to the structure.

Since opening, according to the information provided by the organization, it has served 114 clients individually, and has “delivered programming for a total of 1,408 daily participants.” The facility serves an average of 19 young people daily, according to its statements to the town, and Leybourne said the town has received no complaints about the operation.

The facility is be open Mondays through Fridays, mostly in the afternoons from 3 to 6 p.m., and from noon to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, according to documents on file at Town Hall.

There are to be two staffers on hand when it is open, primarily serving youths who do not own cars and who will get to Stepping Stones on foot or by catching rides with friends and family.

The town planning and zoning commission had recommended approval of the application and the special use permit, after concluding it would not pose a problem to neighboring residents in the “residential/medium density” zone district in which it is located.

But the trustees demurred on Feb. 10, continuing the public hearing until April 13 to

allow time for the UDC to take effect and make Stepping Stones a permitted use without the need for zoning amendments or other special consideration.

In other action the trustees: • Approved a liquor license renewal for Peppino’s Pizza on Main Street.

• Approved special-event liquor licenses for the River Bridge Regional Center (for an event at the River Valley Ranch Thompson Barn on April 16); Ducks Unlimited (for an event at The Orchard on March 5); and the

Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities (for the annual Fashion Show at the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center on the evenings of March 11 and 12).

• Approved a retail marijuana store license renewal for Sweet Leaf Pioneer, 1101 Village Road.

• Approved a medical marijuana dispensary license for Black Dog Valley LLC at 985 Highway 133.

• Approved the conversion of 118 street light lamps to LEDs, which was sought by the Xcel energy company that owns the lights.

Dr. Rob Stein, the Roaring Fork School District’s chief academic officer, is expected to sign a contract to become the district’s next superintendent, after current superintendent Dr. Diana Sirko announced she will leave the position at the end of June, according to a press release. “I do not take this opportunity for granted, and hope that I am worthy of the challenge,” Stein said. File photo by Lynn Burton

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Streets in the vicinity of Bridges High School were closed, and local law enforcement personnel swarmed the area, as an 18-year-old male barricaded himself in an apartment at 312 Sopris Avenue for five hours after a citizen reported a man with a gun. Andres Carillo-Delara eventually came out with his hands up and was taken to the Carbondale Police Department and then to Garfield County Jail. As of late Wednesday, he had not bonded out.

And, it turns out the “gun” was of the B.B. variety, according to Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling.

Schilling said Delara’s mother lives in the apartment. Others were in the apartment when the police were called but Delara was alone when Carbondale police arrived at about 8:30 a.m. and Schilling didn’t describe the incident as a “hostage” situation.

Members of the Garfield County All Hazards Response Team, including the sheriff’s office BearCat armored vehicle, arrived just after noon.

Other responders included: the Silt, Rifle and Glenwood Springs police departments, Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District, Glenwood Springs Fire Department and Colorado River Fire Rescue. The Carbondale Public Works Department and Roaring Fork School District also assisted.

Left: Bridges High School was on lock down throughout the incident. Nobody was allowed to leave the building, or to enter it (other than this unidentified woman who delivered a load of pizzas to the hungry students).

Photos by Jane Bachrach

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Stand off ends peacefully Andres Carillo-Delara, 18, kept law enforcement personnel and others busy for about five hours on Tuesday after finally giving up to authorities and leaving an apartment at 312 Sopris Ave. In photo 1: Garfield County All Hazards Response Team behind Garfield County’s BearCat as Delara is escorted from the apartment.

Photos 2-4: Delara (in blue shorts) is first taken to the BearCat and then to a police car.

Photo 5: Police Gene Schilling when it was all over.

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Trash haulers merge; reviewing recycling options

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer

sorbing those costs rather than passing them on to customers.

The owners of the planned Mountain Eden said it has been costing the comRoll-offs Inc. solid-waste transfer station pany roughly twice as much money to haul east of Carbondale are hoping to demolish the recyclables over long distances as it part of the old Mid-Continent Resources would to bury it in a landfill — $119 per ton coal-loading facility, a large and aging metal to haul it long-distance, versus $58 per ton building along Garfield County Road 100 to bury it in a landfill. that currently occupies the transfer-station The company in 2013 won conditional site, and replace it with a truck maintenance approval from Garfield County to build a and repair facility. solid-waste transfer station at the old MidThe application currently is pending in Continent site, although nothing has yet the office of the director of community de- been built and the site mainly is used for velopment, according to information re- storing and working on equipment owned layed to The Sopris Sun by Garfield County by MWRI. public information officer Renelle Lott.

Eden said the company is still planning At the same time, on building that facility, MRI on Tuesday forprimarily as a new recymally advised the county cling center for the rethat over the past year gion, although for now the company had the project is on hold merged its operations due to a combination of and changed its name as financial and organizapart of a broad plan to tional difficulties. increase the company’s He explained that operating efficiency and the company does not make it more competihave the cash, on its tive in the trash-hauling own, to build and operScott Eden market, according to ate such a facility.

Co-owner of MWRI owner Scott Eden.

“The capital it takes Specifically, accordto do something like ing to an informational that is enormous,” Eden packet provided to the BOCC, three differ- said, pointing to the construction about a ent corporations — Mountain Roll-offs Inc., decade ago of an $11 million recycling faInterMountain Waste and Recycling LLC., cility in the Denver area by Alpine Waste and InterMountain Environmental Services and Recycling.

Inc. — merged under what was termed “the In addition to the high cost of building parent company, Mountain Waste and Re- such a facility, Eden said, the cost of operatcycling, Inc.” (MWRI) and will be known by ing a recycling facility that buries the matethe parent company’s name from now on. rial once it is collected and delivered to the “It was necessary for us to merge,” Eden facility is approximately twice as high in the said of the move. “We weren’t going to mountain region as it is at a Front Range make it separately.” metropolitan area.

Eden said the merger ultimately will reNo local company, nor any of the local sult in fewer MWRI trash trucks on the governmental entities in towns served by streets of Carbondale and other towns it MWRI, are in a position to do anything simserves, although he could not say exactly ilar, Eden said, adding that he did not have how many fewer trucks local MWRI cus- an estimated cost of creating a recycling centomers can expect to see or when the differ- ter at the old Mid-Continent site. ence will be noticeable.

But, he continued, he has been attending While the merger itself will have no ef- meetings with area governmental entities fect on the rates charged to customers for and businesses with an eye toward figuring regular trash pickup, Eden said, the com- out a regional approach to the problem. pany’s continuing effort to put together a “There’s going to be a discussion about resustainable recycling program may well gional planning here,” Eden predicted, adding drive rates upward. that the talks will be aimed at all of the issues underlying the idea of collecting, burying, reNo recycling cycling and otherwise dealing with trash.

He noted that the inherent difficulties of Eden said that starting in 2014, the Pitkin County Landfill stopped accepting recycled recycling, such as the sluggish market for rematerials from private trash haulers, includ- cycled materials and the costs of hauling it ing the roughly 40 tons per year that MWRI around, are well known in the trash-haulhad been hauling up to the landfill, as a way ing industry.

But, he said, “Nobody wants to say they to avoid the roughly $350,000 in annual losses incurred at the landfill as a result of its don’t want to recycle” because it is such a popular idea in the public consciousness. open-door policy for accepting recyclables.

As a first step toward getting the wasteOther area landfills also do not accept much in the way of recyclables, he said, transfer facility going, Eden said, the company is hoping to tear down approximately which has left his firm with few options.

As a result, he said, the company has one-third of the old Mid-Continent coalbeen hauling its recyclables either 60 miles loading shed to make room for a mainteto a landfill site in Wolcott (in Eagle County) nance and repair shop, a project he said is or even further to a site near Denver, and ab- tentatively scheduled to begin next month.

“There’s going to be a discussion about regional planning here.”

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Roaring Fork High School honored its senior basketball players on Saturday. The boys are (left to right) Edgar Reyna, Gustavo Olivas, Conrado Dolores, Sergio Vega and Hector Flores. The girls are (left to right): Sienna Serafin, Kimberly Guzman and Joselinne Medrano (not shown, Valerie Loertscher). Middle photo: The Aspen Words poetry slam after the students’ performance at the school. Bottom photo: Reed Featherstone played cupid at the school on Feb. 11, the last day before the school’s four-day break for Presidents Day. Fellow student Mike Skinner handled the belay duties.

Photos by Sue Rollyson

Democrats, Republicans caucus on March 1 Sopris Sun Staff Report Carbondale-area voters undoubtedly realize that 2016 is a national election year, but what some may not realize is that Colorado’s historical devotion to its caucus system means the time is here for interested residents to learn about and get involved in their party caucus meetings if they want to be active in party politics for the 2016 election.

Carbondale Democrats (Precincts 1-4) will caucus at Carbondale Middle School on March 1, with registration at 6:30 p.m. and caucusing itself at 7 p.m.

Carbondale Republicans will caucus at Roaring Fork High School on March 1, with registration starting at 6 p.m. and the caucus itself at 7 p.m.

Colorado, like 15 other states, uses the caucus system to select delegates to county, district, state and national political conventions, and perform other party functions.

Under Colorado’s caucus system, voters in different precincts typically ďŹ nd themselves lumped in with residents living in other nearby precincts, mostly centered around municipalities.

GarďŹ eld County contains 27 precincts, centered around the towns of Carbondale (5), Glenwood Springs (6), New Castle (4), Silt (3), Rie (5) and Parachute (4).

In some cases precincts covering large territories actually are listed on different precinct maps (available at the GarďŹ eld County website garďŹ eld-county.com/clerk-recorder), such as precinct 5 that shows up on maps for Car-

bondale and Glenwood Springs, and precinct 18, which appears on the maps for both New Castle and Silt.

The caucus gatherings in GarďŹ eld County are normally located in one of the six towns and involve residents in multiple precincts.

They can be found through the party websites (www.garďŹ eldcountyrepublicans.com and www.garďŹ eldcountydemocrats.org).

As described on the website maintained by the Colorado Democratic Party, “Caucuses are fundamentally neighborhood meetings.

You gather at the location designated for your precinct ‌ vote for your preferred [presidential] candidate and elect delegates to your county Convention and Assembly.�

But where Democrats will be taking part in “presidential preference polls� at their caucus meetings, Republicans will not.

That is because the state Republican Party voted to eliminate the traditional “binding presidential preference poll� for the current election cycle.

GarďŹ eld County Republican Party Chairman Dave Merritt noted that in the last two rounds of caucus meeting, in 2008 and 2012, the presidential preference polls were “kind of like a beauty contest; your vote means nothing at all except in the end, if your candidate wins, you can tell your buddies you were right.â€?

He said that in both cases, the candidates picked by Colorado Republicans did not end up on a national presidential ticket.

And this year, he said, the same could eas-

ily happen due to the wide ďŹ eld of Republican candidates running for president.

So, he said, if Donald Trump were picked

by Colorado voters in a binding preference poll, and then quit the race, those delegates would still be bound to vote for Trump in the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

“Caucuses are fundamentally neighborhood meetings. You gather at the location designated for your precinct ‌ vote for your preferred [presidential] candidate and elect delegates to your county Convention and Assembly.â€?

Instead, according to an article on the state GOP website, “Colorado’s delegates to the 2016 RNC will be unbound,� which state GOP party chair Steve House said, “means the delegates we send to the national convention will be free to choose the candidate they feel can best put America back on a path to prosperity and security.�

GarďŹ eld County Democrats, on the other hand, will conduct the “presidential prefer-

ence poll� as usual at the caucus meetings, which in turn will affect who is chosen as delegates to the county convention and county assembly — two distinct gatherings that are held on the same day.

The convention’s purpose is to allow precinct attendees to nominate candidates for the presidential contest; the assembly is used for all other nominations, such as for the U.S. Senate, the Colorado state house, county commissioners and others.

County conventions and assemblies for the Democrats are to be held no later than March 26.

To be eligible to take part in the caucus meetings, you must be a resident of your precinct for at least 30 days prior to the caucus, be registered to vote no later than 29 days prior to the caucus, and be afďŹ liated with one or the other party at least two months before the caucus.

It is a complex system, one that has been called “byzantine� by observers who are critical of this way of managing political elections.

But that is how it is done in Colorado.

To learn more about such things as which precinct a voter lives in, or where the caucuses, conventions and assemblies are to be held, or any other information, voters can check with the Colorado Secretary of State (type in “voter informationâ€?), look on the websites of the two parties or call the two party chairs for GarďŹ eld County — Democrat Bob Shively at 970-618-1509 or Republican David Merritt at 970-379-7064.

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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.

THURS.-SUN. Feb. 18-20

FRIDAY Feb. 19

COMEDY • The Aspen Laff Festival takes over the Wheeler Opera House with performances by The Second City, Gilbert Gottfried, Heather McDonald, Pete Holmes and Steve Byrne. The full festival pass is $125.

Info: 920-5770 and aspenshowtix.com.

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “The Danish Girl” (R) at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1925; “Carol” (R) at 5 p.m. Feb. 19; “The Big Short” (R) at 4:45 p.m. Feb. 20; “Room” (R) (captioned) at 5 p.m. Feb. 21 and “Spotlight” (R) at 4:45 p.m. on Feb. 25.

THURSDAY Feb. 18 DEADLINE • SNOW TOUR • Today is the deadline for the Roaring Fork Conservancy’s “Snow to Flow” snowpack tour on McClure Pass, which takes place from 9 a.m. to noon on Feb. 20. Stops include a SNOTEL monitoring site. The costs is $30 per person and $20 for RFC members.

Info: roaringfork.org/events.

UDC HEARING • The Town of Carbondale holds a public hearing for its draft UDC (unified development code) at town hall, starting at 7 p.m. Info: carbondaleudc.com.

ROTARY • The Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at Mi Casita at noon every Thursday.

FRI.-SAT. Feb. 19-20 THEATRE • The Sopris Theatre Company at the CMC Spring Valley campus presents “Anton in Show Business” at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday; 7 p.m. on Feb. 25-26; and 2 p.m. on Feb. 21 and 28.

“Anton in Show Business” is a playwithin-a-play, that pokes fun at theatreical life when a Texas drama company attempts to produce Chekov’s “The Three Sisters.” Tickets are $18 for adults, $13 for seniors and students, and are available at svticketsales@coloradomtn.edu.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the old part of the Dinkel Building presents live music every Friday night. Info: 963-3304.

COMEDY • Marble Distilling Company at the east end of Main Street hosts a comedy night featuring Steve Gastineau. His perception of the ordinary results in him asking “What’s the deal,” leaving no subject unscathed. Gastineau has shared stages with comedians David Spade, Jon Lovitz, Paula Poundstone, Jimmy Fallon and others. Denver’s Channel 9 News calls his style “funny and engaging.” Opening for Gastineau will be Anthony Crawford, who is known for high-energy storytelling. The laughs start at 6 p.m. Coming up on Feb. 25 from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Marble Distilling hosts its monthly Yappy Hour with Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE). Signature cockTAILS include the Muttarita and the Bloodhound Mary. Proceeds go to CARE. RFHS HOOPS • The Roaring Fork High School basketballers wrap up their regular season at Gunnison (5:30 p.m. girls, 7 p.m. boys).

DANCE • The Aspen Dance Connection celebrates its 38th anniversary at the Launchpad starting at 7 p.m. Highlights include a filmed multi-media dance per-

formance created by Loren Wilder. There will also be a champagne reception and silent auction that includes works by Linda Loeschen, Frida Kahlo and Alicia de las Haras. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students, free for kids under six. Info: 927-0641.

LIVE MUSIC • Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs presents Whiskey Stomp from 9 p.m. to midnight. There’s no cover.

On Feb. 25 is Valle Musico.

SATURDAY Feb. 20 FILM EVENT • CLEER and others present environmental-filmmaker James Balog and his award-winning film “Chasing Ice” and “1,000 cuts” at the Third Street Center at 7 p.m. It’s free. There’ll be a Q&A following the films. Other sponsors are: the Colorado River District, Aspen Skiing Co., CORE, Marble Distilling Co., Rock and Ice magazine, Trail Runner magazine, Wilderness Workshop and Colorado Mountain College. Info: earthvisioninstitute.org.

LIVE MUSIC • The Black Nugget on Main Street presents Our Mutual Friend at 9:30 p.m. No cover. Coming up on Feb. 27: 4AM at 9 p.m. No cover.

HOOPS • The Carbondale boy’s seventh and eight grade basketball teams host a CALENDAR page 13

Join us Tues., Feb. 23, 7 p.m.

Calaway Room, Third St. Center, Carbondale

www.tworiversuu.org

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MOUNTAIN MINYANS • The Aspen Jewish Community continues its Saturday Mountain Minyans at 11 a.m. at Elk Camp restaurant. There’ll be 20 minutes of “community, song and inspiration,” followed by lunch and skiing. Info: 925-8245, office@aspenjewish.org and aspenjewish.org.

The final minyan of the season will be held at 11 a.m. on March 19.

CARE BENEFIT • Doggone Clean in the Sopris Shopping Center on Highway 133 hosts a CARE benefit and adopt-a-thon.

with compliments to our community

Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist

FILM • The Carbondale Branch Library continues its “The West” film series at 5 p.m. The library, in conjunction with the Mt. Sopris Historical Society,” is screening episodes from PBS’s documentary series “New Perspectives on the West” on the third Saturday of the month through March. It’s free and popcorn will be served.

Info: 963-2889 and gcpld.org.

SUNDAY Feb. 21

an inspirational film

@ Third Street Center

SATURDAY MARKET • Eagle Crest Nursery hosts an indoor Saturday farmer’s market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through March 15. Items include local produce, eggs, fish, meats, bread, pastries, spices, jewelry, arts, apparel and more.

Info: 963-1173.

COMMUNITY MEAL • Faith Lutheran Church (south of Main Street on Highway 133) hosts a free communiy meal from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The meals are offered the third Saturday of the month. Info: 510-5046 or faithcarbondale.com.

Sacred Journey of the Heart

Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist (TRUU)

Bring in your pet for a self-serve bath from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., then check out CARE’s adoptable pets from noon to 2 p.m. Doggone Clean will donate half the day’s proceeds to CARE. There’ll also be door prizes.

Info: doggonecleanllc.com and coloradoanimalrescue.org.

999-999-9999 Address City, State Zip

Community Calendar round robin tournament at Roaring Fork High School. The Carbondale seventh graders face Montrose at 1 p.m.; Montrose plays DeBeque at 2 p.m.; Carbondale plays DeBeque at 3 p.m. The Carbondale eighth graders play Montrose at 1 p.m.; Montrose plays Glenwood at 2 p.m.; Carbondale plays Glenwood at 3 p.m. Doors open at 12:15 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults, $2 for kids. Concessions will be available.

MAGIC • The Wheeler Opera House presents magician/illusionist Jason Bishop at 6:30 p.m. From his breathtaking double levitation to his cutting edge op-art and plasma illusions, his show features stunning and original state-of-the-art magic. Tickets are $38 for adults; $22 for kids 12 and under.

Info: 920-5770 and aspenshowtix.com.

ASC • A Spiritual Center in the Third Street Center meets at 10 a.m. sharp (social time starts at 9:45 a.m.). Info: 963-5516.

TRUU • Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist meets at the Third Street Center at 10 a.m.

Info: tworiversuu.org.

THURS.-FRI. Feb. 18-26 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE • KDNK continues its winter membership drive through Feb. 26. Early bird prizes for folks who join or renew early include: dinner for two at Juicy Lucy’s along with passes to Iron Mountain Hot Springs. Sustainable members have a chance to win a $150 grill pack from Sustainable Settings. Info: kdnk.org.

TUESDAY Feb. 23 KINDERGARTEN TOURS • Crystal

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River Elementary School on Snowmass Drive offers kindergarten tours for new families today at 9:30 a.m., and at 1 p.m. on March 15. To schedule a tour, call 384-5620.

WEDNESDAY Feb. 24 SNOWSHOE TOUR • Spellbinders, the Roaring Fork Conservancy, the Aspen Historical Society and Pitkin County Open Space host a snowshoe tour, campfire and storytelling from 5 to 7 p.m. at Emma Open Space in Basalt. The tour will cross wetlands and snowy fields in a critical migration corridor for deer and elk. Stories will include the native people and animals of Colorado. It’s free, but registration is required at 927-1290 or roaringfork.org/events. A limited number of snowshoes will be available. Minors must be accompanied by an adult.

NATURALIST NIGHTS • Marcie Bidwell (executive director of the Mountain Studies Instiute) presents “The Gold King Spill: Impacts on the Animas River” at the Third Street Center at 5:30 p.m. It’s free. The program is repeated at ACES in Aspen at 7 p.m. on Feb. 25.

SENIOR MATTERS • The Senior Matters Book Club meets at the Carbondale Branch Library at 4 p.m. This month’s book is “The Nightingale” by Kristen Hannah.

Everyone is invited.

ROTARY • The Rotary Club of Carbondale meets at the Carbondale fire station on Meadowood Drive Wednesday mornings at 6:45 a.m. Info: rccarlson@gmail.com.

Further Out

THURSDAY Feb. 25

CCS OPEN HOUSE • Carbondale Community School, a public charter school of the Roaring Fork School District, hosts an open house for prospective students in grades K-8 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 25. Principal Tom Penzel will review the school’s mission, philosophy, integrated curriculum, admissions proceedure and approach to academic excellence, creative arts and outdoor education. Child care will not be available. The lottery deadline for the 2016-2017 school year is April 1. Info: 963-9647 and discovercompass.org.

OPERA • The Aspen Music Festival’s “The Met: Live in HD” series continues with Berg’s “Lulu” at the Wheeler Opera House starting at 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY Feb. 26 MT. FAIR DEADLINES • Todays is the deadline for arts/crafts vendors to apply for the 2016 Carbondale Mountain Fair; the food vendor deadline is April 1. The fair is held in Sopris Park on July 29-31. Info: marianne@carbondalearts.com and carbondalearts.com.

Save the Date

FRI.-SAT. March 11-12 GITNB • The eighth annual Green is the New Black fashion extravaganza takes over the Carbodale Recreaction Center. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35 for CCAH members and $40 for non-members, but go up after Feb. 26. Info: carbondalearts.com.

Ongoing VVAS • The 36th annual Valley Visual Art Show continues at the Launchpad and Bonfire Coffee through Feb. 20. The show features more than 70 local artists. Info: 963-1680 and carbaondalearts.com.

CCC • The Carbondale Clay Center presents 19 years of work from the non-profit’s visiting artists, teachers and students in the show “Our Collection.” Info: 963-2529 and info@carbondaleclay.org.

ART SHOWS • The Art Base in Basalt continues Ada Christensen’s show “Colorscapes”

at its Charles J. Wyly Gallery, and “Out of Sight Insight” by photographers Judy Hill Lovins and Amory B. Lovins at the Art Base Annex. Info: theartbase.org.

LIVE MUSIC • Lyn Byars hosts open mic nights at Carbondale Beer Works the first and third Monday of each month. Sign up begins at 7 p.m. Info: 948-8228.

LIBRARY • The Carbondale Regional Library hosts the Harry Potter Fan Club (kids 7-11) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m. Feel free to bring a snack.

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Free Community Meal Sat., Feb. 20 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

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We are located on Highway 133 between Sopris Ave. and 8th St. Please call if you you have any questions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Community Meals will be every 3rd Saturday.

Come join us for a tasty meal, music and socializing.

Faith Lutheran Church 1340 Highway 133 Carbondale, CO 81623 www.faithcarbondale.com (970) 510-5046

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EAT. SHOP. PLAY. CONFLUENCE OF RIVERS, RECREATION & CULTURE

Philip Hone Williams varnishes one of his paintings at the Third Street Center as he prepares for an upcoming one-man show in the Charles J. Wyly Gallery at the Art Base. The show, “Rocks with Personality,” opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on March 11. Also at the Art Base, Judy Hill Lovins and Amory Lovins discuss the photographs in their “Out of Sight Insight” show at 3 p.m. on Feb. 24. Photo

by Lynn Burton

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Coffee with the

Mayor

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On Wednesday mornings, after a Tuesday night Council meeting, visit in an informal setting with Basalt Mayor Jacque Whitsitt for coffee and a chat at Saxy’s Coffee Shop, 104 Midland Avenue.

This is a great opportunity to share your thoughts, make comments and catch up on what’s happening in Basalt.

All issues and topics welcome.

The next Coffee with the Mayor is:

Wednesday, 'FCSVBSZ at 8 a.m.

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right here; and you help your neighbor because most of Carbondale’s store and businesses are locally owned.

Walk this way.

Rehearsals are well under way for the Green is the New Black fashion extravaganza, slated for March 11-12 at the Carbondale Recreation Center. Tickets are $40 through Feb. 26, then go to $45. VIP seating is $100.

For details, go to carbondalearts.com.

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About half of KDNK’s squad of 60 volunteer DJs during a pep talk (aka DJ meeting) to kick off the non-profit station’s Winter Membership Drive on Feb. 15-26. A few names: DJ Phathead (lower right in purple jersey), Scout the dog, DB (next to the woman who has just spotted Superman and might be Lynette O’Kane), Pam Rosenthal (behind Terry Glasnap in a blue jacket), Big Daddy (tall guy in back with eyes closed). For more info, go to KDNK.org. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Carbondale voters will be asked on April 5 to impose a new “climate action excise tax” on themselves, as a way of guaranteeing a steady funding source for the town’s ongoing programs aimed at reducing its carbon footprint.

The proposed tax is described in a ballot question as a levy on residential users of $0.008 (eight-tenths of a cent) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity used, or $0.035 (three and a half cents) per “therm,” a measuring unit of natural gas.

According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, a therm is equal to 100,000 British Thermal Units or “approximately the energy equivalent of burning 100 cubic feet of natural gas.”

For “non-residential” customers, meaning industrial or commercial users of electricity or natural gas, the levy would be $0.0029 (29-hundredths of a cent) per kWh of electricity used, or $0.02 (two-tenths of a cent) per therm.

Officials have estimated that the cost per “average” residential customer would be about $7 per month added onto their utility bills, which by agreement with the utilities serving Carbondale is how the new fee would be charged to customers.

For commercial or industrial users, according to the Climate Action Yes committee (climateactionyes.com), which is campaigning for passage of the ballot measure, the estimated cost of the excise tax would be $15-$30 per month. The committee’s membership includes Trustees Frosty Merriott and Pam Zentmyer, as well as community members Ken Olson, Chris Ellis, Matt Hamilton, Dan Richardson and Katherine Rushton. The committee’s treasurer is former mayor Michael Hassig.

Based on usage “It’s all based on usage,” said Merriott on Monday, confirming that the trustees crafted the ballot question in the expectation that commercial and industrial customers would end up paying higher monthly amounts than residential customers, even though commercial and industrial fee rates are lower than residential rates.

The town’s trustees, along with the volunteers serving on the Carbondale Environmental Board, have been considering the imposition of a climate action tax of some sort since 2014, when it started becoming clear that the town’s two energy-efficiency consultants — CLEER (Clean Energy Economy for the Region) and CORE (Community Office of Resource Efficiency) needed a more stable funding source than an annual dependence on the general fund budgets of Carbondale and the other communities working with the two organizations.

About two years ago, Bernot said, the trustees set up the TFAC (technical and financial advisory committee) to “develop a plan for how Carbondale can use energy efficiency and renewable energy to meet targets, and identify funding options for the necessary programs.”

The proposed climate-action excise tax came about as a result of the TFAC talks and other discussions among town officials, climate-action volunteers and the CLEER/CORE representatives.

For years Carbondale’s energy programming has been funded by a combination of town utility revenues, a portion of energy-impact mitigation funds from state and federal sources (severance taxes and mineral lease fees paid by energy companies working in Western Garfield County), and the town’s general fund.

2004 Starting back around 2004, the year Bernot was first elected as a trustee, the board of trustees has been working on a set of goals, known as Carbondale Clean Energy 2020 (CE2020), to reduce local energy consumption and cut back on greenhouse gas emissions and the town’s contribution to global climate change, Bernot told The Sopris Sun on Tuesday.

Along the way, she said, some goals have been fulfilled, and some have been modified due to changing circumstances, but in general the broader ambitions have stayed

the same.

Among the goals set out in CE2020, according to Climate Action Yes, are to: • Increase energy efficiency of local homes and other structures by 20 percent by the year 2020; • Come up with ways to see that 35 percent of Carbondale’s electricity is generated from renewable sources by 2020; • Reduce the consumption of petroleum products by 25 percent, again by the year 2020.

“I think this should have been done years ago.”

Carbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot

As of this year, the town and its partners claim to have assisted more than 300 families and 50 businesses through these programs, boosting the efficiency and comfort of the buildings involved and reducing utility bills.

The programs also have included the installation of rooftop solar systems on numerous homes, installation of an electric vehicle (EV) charging station in front of Town Hall for public use, and the installation of solar panels and other renewable technology on town facilities, among other things.

According to the CLEER website (www.cleanenergyeconomy.net), the ultimate “scenario” envisioned by CE2020 is the installation of “energy-saving measures” on at least 1,200 homes (half the homes in town) and in 60 more businesses, along with doubling the amount of solar electric systems on homes and businesses.

By doing so, according to CLEER, “Carbondale could meet its adopted climate targets.”

According to figures provided by town Finance Director Renae Gustine, Carbondale has spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.8 million in energy-efficiency programs managed by CLEER and CORE since 2007.

Multi-year conversation While the town’s electorate apparently has approved of the overall goals and programs, by re-electing the trustees involved, there has never been a specific question put to the voters about the costs of the programs.

“This has been a multi-year conversation,” said Bernot.

“I think the time has come to have the voters weigh in.”

Actually, she said, “I think this should have been done years ago,” but the idea was never forcefully pursued until recently, when the availability of energy-impact funds began to fall off as gas and oil activities in Western Garfield County began to slacken.

Bernot said she supports a “yes” vote on the excise tax question, noting that in her personal life, “I’m fine paying for that,” despite the likelihood of a minor fiscal squeeze when the utility bills go up.

But she recognized that some voters might not feel the same, particularly as residential and commercial propertytax bills have risen considerably this year.

Higher taxes A statewide, post-recession revaluation of property conducted last year dramatically raised the taxable values of most property in Garfield County, and two significant tax increases were passed by voters last year — for the Roaring Fork School District RE-1 and the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District.

As a result, tax bills for local property owners have increased just as dramatically, sometimes by as much as 80 percent or so, and some on the Carbondale Board of Trustees worry these increases may spell trouble for the excise tax.

Merriott, in particular, who has expressed concern about the possibility of taxpayer resistance to still more tax-related increases, said some may view this as a move “that continues to spiral the high cost of living in this area,” by applying upward pressure on businesses to charge more to customers as well as the direct effect of higher residential taxes.

“There’s already a negative reaction,” he said, referring to conversations with local residents who have told him they are not inclined to vote for the excise tax or any other tax hike right now.

“That’s going to be a tough sell,” said Merriott, who has been a proponent of the town’s energy-efficiency efforts and of the excise tax proposal itself.

But both Merriott and Bernot noted that other tax questions are likely to be put to the area’s voters in the near future, such as a property tax increase to support the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority’s mass-transit programs, the possibility of taxes being used to pay for a Garfield County detox center to treat drunks and drug addicts, and another property-tax-based funding request from the Carbondale fire district in 2017 or 2018.

That is the chief reason the tax question is on the ballot this year, rather than some years down the line, said both Merriott and Bernot.

Homelessness om page 3 causes of homelessness and stop scapegoating people who are struggling to live in this community, and work to identify the ‘invisible’ homeless who are sleeping in their cars, bouncing from one friend’s couch to another, or otherwise lacking stable housing. Whatever help we can give to people, the bottom line is that we need to get them into housing.” To that end, Dexter and others have developed another organization (Shining Mountain Homes for All) to address housing availability specifically and raise funds to build “tiny homes” and other affordable alternative housing.

A basic strategy One of the most basic strategies of the CHA group has been to reach out to the homeless, both to get a clearer idea of how many are homeless in Carbondale and to identify their needs. Jim Coddington, of Offering Hope LLC, is a long-time recovery and substance abuse expert who is leading the outreach team for CHA. In his work, he has spoken with many homeless and atrisk individuals (the “about-to-be-homeless”). He offers a perspective that touches the core of the social issues

that CHA seeks to address: “It’s great that we can help people find the resources we’ve been working on, like a place to take a shower or a warm sleeping bag, and the collaboration of the community businesses in helping to provide services has been incredibly important. But it will not be enough to keep people, whatever their circumstances, from freezing on the streets of Carbondale.

We need to support and spread the idea that these folks are our neighbors, and bring them into the community.

They’re as much Carbondale as we are, and marginalizing them is our mistake and our loss.”

Coddington also agrees with the intentions of Kirchner and Dexter; the end of winter will not signify the end of these efforts. As Kirchner put it, “Groups like this have come together and then come apart over the years, but the problem persists. We intend for this to continue in the summer this year and beyond. We’re in this for the long term.”

Editor’s note: Carbondale Homeless Assistance, and Shining Mountain Homes for All, are accepting donations on Facebook and through crowd funding).

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Letters continued om page 2 of-our-schools-report.html).

Also, expect those authorities to challenge their operating departments, and grant recipients to improve and report their performance and set aside the resulting savings to fund demonstrable progress in their worthiest key outcomes.

If they can, great!

If not, ask them to start measuring and reporting progress and come back later with concrete progress reports and proposals focused on further improvements.

Roy Davidson Carbondale

Be a Buddy Dear Editor: My husband and I have been mentors in the Buddy Program since 1998.

Each pairing, including our current with twins Mayda and Lluvia C., have enriched our lives.

Mentoring in the Buddy Program goes beyond its definition. A bonding, lasting relationship is created and nurtured over time. The mentoring creates a circle of trust around the Little Buddy that positively affects their social and emotional development, academics, and their relationships with family and friends. The intrinsic rewards outweigh the time invested.

Enrich the life of a deserving child in the Roaring Fork Valley. Enrich your own life by becoming a mentor in the Buddy Program.

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It’s calving season in the pasture east of the Carbondale Nature Park (aka Delaney dog park) so you know what that means. Keep your dogs on a leash or under good control as you walk that section of the park. Barking, snarling, romping dogs and cows do not and should not mix. Photo by Jane Bachrach

Roaring Fork High School poet Emily Mata, and others, read their work to a full house at the Third Street Center’s former PAC3 on Feb. 12. The place was so crowded, folks spilled out into the hallway. Photo by Tony Cannistra

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Karen Chamberlain connects us to the desert The desert is calling me again. It happens this time of year, right in the middle of winter…the call of the wild desert.

Reading “Desert of the Heart” by Karen Chamberlain is contributing to wanting to escape the claustrophobic grip of winter.

It doesn’t matter that the last few days have been somewhat warm and sunny. Single digit temperatures can still be felt going to work early in the morning.

The fact that the desert is also still very cold means not going there quite yet for escape.

I’m not as hardy as Karen was when she went to the Horsethief Ranch and experienced all the seasons of the Utah desert for a few years.

My trips in and around Canyonlands National Park are usually a few days to a week at a time. Gradually over the years I have grown to know the place, earning a sense of belonging.

Where, as Karen says, “ … its rock slumped and lifted, bristling like mythic serpents turned, like Medusa’s head, to stone.

This shield-shaped mesa above the confluence

of the Green and Colorado snow lightly covering the land.

Rivers bears names like UpMy favorite picture from that heaval Dome, Island in the Sky, trip shows our camp on the top The Empty Triangle. The names edge of sandstone cliffs only a suggest the paradox: eternal turdozen feet from a thousand feet moil petrified into perpetual drop off down to the confluence serenity.” of the Green and Colorado.

Why does the paradox of the Off in the distance toward desert, the mythic grandeur of the La Sal Mountains are the such a place draw some of us storm’s jumbled clouds of cold and repel others who feel desofoggy snow retreating eastward. lation instead of wonder?

Another time in early spring, Chamberlain says it’s the landsome of us locals took off in veBy Bill Kight scape as “… not a place you live hicles loaded with bikes, headed in, but a place that lives in you.” to the White Rim Trail for a So here I am stuck in the cold of Colorado’s four-day trip.

Rockies while that bit of desert wildness living The weather was fine until the last day, in me wants to go back home. when a storm caught us by surprise as we were Such yearning will have to wait a few coming out of the park and you could feel the months. Even then, expecting warm weather in temperature dropping more than 20 degrees.

April can be foolish. I know from experience.

Being prepared for such uncertain Camping out one day in mid-April with weather can make desert trips memorable insome Park Service ranger friends helping re- stead of miserable. locate a trail, we woke in the morning to Sometimes, going as a camping minimal-

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held before the Carbondale Board of Trustees to consider the adoption of the Unified Development Code (UDC). The UDC would include development regulations including but not limited to General Provisions, Administration, Zoning Districts, Use Regulations, Development Standards, Subdivision, Nonconformities, and Definitions. The UDC would replace the existing subdivision and zoning regulations (Titles 17 and 18) in the Town’s Municipal Code.

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THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE _________________________ By: s/s Stacey Bernot, Mayor Pro-tem

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