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Libraries say “shop local” Sopris Sun Staff Report

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arfield County Libraries have kicked off a Shop Locally, Support Libraries campaign at the Carbondale Branch Library for the month of March to highlight the relationship between sales tax, local businesses, and libraries.

The libraries receive a quarter cent of Garfield County’s one-cent sales tax, according to a press release. In 2014, that equaled about $2.4 million in sales tax revenues that support library operations including staff, utilities and materials including books, e-books, magazines, movies and audio books.

How does the Shop Locally, Support Libraries campaign work? Carbondale residents are being encouraged to bring their receipts from Carbondale businesses to the Carbondale Branch Library through April 3 to be entered into a drawing to win prizes donated by local businesses. Although this campaign is limited to Carbondale, Garfield County Libraries will be expanding the Shop Locally, Support Libraries campaign to the rest of the county later this year.

Primarily, Shop Locally, Support Libraries is designed as a public information campaign to remind people that shopping locally does more than support local business. Besides the six public libraries, the one-cent Garfield County sales tax also supports the Garfield County Emergency (911) Communications Authority, Garfield County Health and Human Services grants to area non-profits, and all six local municipalities. Shop Locally, Support Libraries was developed in partnership with Roaring Fork Leadership and the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, with numerous local businesses joining in on the project.

Garfield County Library officials said they hope that by heightening awareness of the connection of sales tax to supporting essential services, Shop Locally, Support Libraries will reinforce for citizens the need to spend their dollars close to home.

“I think it’s really eye-opening when you think about the extended benefits of shopping in your community,” said Garfield County Libraries’ Executive Director Amelia Shelley. “It’s more than shopping local to ensure that your neighbor’s businesses thrive. It’s also ensuring that the sales tax dollars that are raised stay local, too, and support the entities that help make our communities great.”

The theme for First Friday at the Launchpad was “Mohawks, Tattoos & Street Art” and Kai Jackson, 7, got pretty much the full treatment. Folks who did the First Friday stroll also stopped in at the Carbondale Clay Center, Main Street Gallery & the Framer, the Third Street Center and other venues around town. For more First Friday photos, please turn to page 8. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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

e midterm report: Some bipartisan action I was totally saturated this weekend reading and preparing for “figure setting” next week for the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, and the Department of Education. So rather than get creative, I’m passing along excerpts from the Senate and House Republican’s recent reports. We are often accused of spending all of our time on partisan bickering and the press likes to play up our conflicts.

Many of the bills we will pass are bipartisan and work to improve the lives and security of all Colorado citizens. I hope you enjoy some news from the capitol.

to Work Package.

Colorado seemed poised to strengthen protections for foster kids on March 4, with unanimous bipartisan passage of House Bill 151078 by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Laura Woods (R-Arvada) and Cheri Jahn (D-Wheatridge) and Rep. Dan Nordberg (R-Colorado Springs) and Beth McCann (D-Denver), could significantly reduce human trafficking in Colorado by requiring that Colorado’s Department of Human Services file a missing persons report with law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children within 24 hours of learning that a child in its custody is unaccounted for.

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From the Denver Post

Still pending for the second half of the session: • The state’s budget, aptly named the Long Bill, which details Colorado’s spending for the next year.

From the Colorado House Republican With divided chambers, negotiations between the two Mid term Report parties are likely to be more intense than in prior years the • HB-1043 (Saine & McCann/Cooke & Johnston) when Democrats held complete control. gives district attorneys the option to prosecute a third • A series of bills still awaiting debate address stuBy Bob Rankin DUI in seven years if certain aggravators are present or dent testing. Lawmakers from both parties have exa fourth in a lifetime as a Class 4 felony. It passed the pressed concern that Colorado students spend too much time taking House Judiciary Committee and was referred to Finance. standardized tests. Lawmakers will consider bills to limit testing to • HB-1031 – (Windholz/Todd) ensures Colorado regulates and federal minimums and to eliminate some tests for the latest grades taxes powdered alcohol like liquid alcohol once it receives federal apin high school. proval. It passed in the Senate and is awaiting re-passage in the House.

From the Colorado Senate’s recent report As of Monday, March 9, a total of 479 bills have been introMore than two dozen legislators — Republicans and Democrats, duced, 190 of which are bipartisan, and 97 have been postponed inrepresentatives and senators — stood in a crescent formation be- definitely (killed). We still have a long way to go.

My own bills are doing well. The most important are my Pubhind the bipartisan collection of Sens. Nancy Todd and Laura Woods, Rep. Mike Foote and House Majority Leader Crisanta lic Lands Bill (HB-1225) and a bill to more equitably fund rural Duran. The foursome joined arms at the lectern in the state Capitol, and small school districts (HB-1201). I’m also carrying a number an impromptu symbol they’re united in helping Colorado’s middle of bills for departments and several very important Joint Budget class do better by connecting training and education with better jobs Committee bills. I’ll include a list of all my bills and their status next month. and fatter paychecks.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve.

Lawmakers’ to-do list in the last half of the legislative session is topped by making good on both parties’ pledge to help those lagging behind in Colorado’s fast-growing economy. Thursday (March 5) Representative Bob Rankin, House District 57, lives in the Carbonthey presented 10 jobs bills collectively called the Colorado Ready dale area and represents Garfield, Rio Blanco and Moffat counties.

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DD article was hurtful Dear Editor: I am both a 2015 Dandelion Day Planning Committee intern and the Carbondale Environmental Board’s newest member. I would like to clarify some inaccuracies in last week’s Dandelion Day (DD) story.

I am a student in CMC’s sustainability program and as part of this program I am interning with EverGreen Events. I am learning event organizing by shadowing Alyssa, founder of EGE and DD planning committee member. Through this opportunity I attended an E-Board meeting along with one of the DD planning ladies. She requested the E-Board’s participation and for a liaison between the groups. It was suggested that I would be a good fit and I happily took on that responsibility of becoming an E-Board member so I could liaison.

I was contacted by (Sopris Sun reporter) John (Colson) and spoke with him just two days before the article was published. I recommended he contact two long time EBoard members so they could tell their side of the story of the split off of the DD Planning Committee from the E-Board. I don’t believe those two members were given fair

time to respond as I gave their names only two days before the newspaper came out. I understand the focus was supposed to reveal the plight of three long-time planning ladies and enter a plea for the public to help them, however I felt the article was too negative and failed to mention the positive that is already happening for 2015’s DD. My efforts were not mentioned along with two other E-Board members who committed to help: Matt Gwost and Scott Mills.

Jason White and Jeff Lauckhart were mentioned — thankfully. Scott and Matt will be co-managing the beer tent, and Jason and Jeff will be co-managing the green team. Jeff will also be assisting with the parade. Incidentally, the E-Board has some fairly new members that weren’t familiar with DD and didn’t know that it was originally an E-Board planned event until recently. The statement that “none of the E-Board members have shown interest in taking part in the planning for Dandelion Day” was hurtful and incorrect. I am involved in both organizations and several of my fellow E-Boarders will be performing duties that require planning; that’s nearly three-quarters of the E-Board.

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My message to DD lovers is to volunteer!

Your help is critical to not only sustaining DD but making it fully bloom. Support these ladies who grew DD from it’s humble beginnings to the amazing event that it is today. To volunteer for DD visit www.dandelionday.org. Be someone these dedicated planners can pass their torch to or give a couple of hours during the event. Robin VanNorman is the new volunteer coordinator. Let her know how you’d like to help!

Julia Farwell E-Board Member Dandelion Day Planning Committee intern

Thanks to these folks Dear Editor: As I’m recovering from back surgery,I have many things to be grateful for: Dr. Miller and Valley View Hospital for the professional care I received; the wonderful care I received at Heritage Park.

I thank Sue for providing me with a private room, and for the P.T and O.T. departments for their expertise in helping me heal. I LETTERS page 19

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Carbondale’s Lindsay Plant: A world-class competitor Returns from SMWC in Switzerland

By Nicolette Toussaint Sopris Sun Correspondent Despite nursing a bad chest cold during the Ski Mountaineering World Championships, Carbondale native Lindsay Plant turned in finishing times that would make her hometown proud. She ranked 14th in the vertical event, 20th in individual competition and sixth in the women’s team event, where she was partnered with her friend and training partner Jessie Young of Aspen.

Recalling the February competition in Verbier, Switzerland, Plant told The Sopris Sun, “It’s extremely thrilling and pretty surreal. It was such a cool experience. It’s such a big sport over there. It was an endorphin rush, just amazing.”

Ski mountaineering is a combination of ski touring, telemark and backcountry skiing, and mountaineering. “It’s a really challenging sport. It takes a lot of training and it’s hard,” Plant admits. And the road to the Mountaineering World Championships is both long and competitive; the U.S. sends only about 16 competitors. To qualify for the team, athletes must rack up points and standing in a series of races held in this country.

Plant, 32, wanted to compete in the World Championships two years ago, but became pregnant with her daughter, who is now 18 months old. The championships are held every other year, so this year and last, Plant went to “as many races as possible” to qualify. After competing at Irwin and Crested Butte in Colorado, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming this year, she achieved the top ranking among women who qualified

to go to Switzerland. (One woman, who ranked above Plant, couldn’t go).

Plant, who works as a medical assistant at Glenwood Medical Associates, said that having a bad chest cold and cough “was a bummer. But I still able to perform well and I was happy with my results.”

Since the town of Verbier is situated at 4,921 feet above sea level, “ it’s low compared to us.” She said, “I felt like I had more oxygen than I was used to.”

The vertical

Lindsay Plant (above) crosses the finish line of an event at the recent Ski Mountaineering World Championships in Switzerland; (left to right) the U.S. Women’s Ski Mountaineering team: Sarah Cookler, Meredith Edwards, Jessie Young and Plant. Young is from Aspen and trains with Plant. Courtesy photo

Plant said that the vertical event, which combines skinning up and skiing down more than 4,500 vertical feet, is the “most sought-out” event, and the experience of the huge crowd cheering the competitors on was “amazing.”

Blogger Chad Brackelsberg, who lives in Park City, Utah, described Plant’s vertical race this way: “For the women, Lindsay Plant, Meredith Edwards, and Jari Kirkland would be racing … All of the team looked strong as they passed through the streets of Verbier. Many of us jumped on the gondola to get to the top to cheer on the team as they finished. The number of people lining the streets and the finish line was amazing. In the US, we may have a handful of spectators, here there were thousands!”

Looking to 2017 Plant is already planning for the next World Championships, to be held in 2017.

She trains with a large group of Roaring Fork Valley ski mountaineers. “My training is just getting out on my skis for a high intensity workout,” she says. “I do long vertical climbs, and it has to be quality over quantity because I work and I have my daughter.”

Plant grew up in Carbondale and learned to ski when she was about three years old.

She didn’t ski through her entire childhood, but took a few years off and played sports.

She returned to skiing in her 20’s, and was introduced to ski mountaineering by her boyfriend, Brian Edmiston, who has been racing for more than a decade. “When I met

him I was into skinning, but he got me into racing,” she said.

Ski mountaineering requires specialized equipment, much of which comes from her sponsorship through La Sportiva, as well as Cripple Creek Backcountry in Carbondale.

“My boots are 555 grams, extremely light.

They are full-on downhill boots, but made for this sport. They are stiff so they ski well,” she explained.

What’s next?

“My goal is really just to push myself. To find out how well I can do, how strong I can become. There are a of couple pretty big races in Europe I would like to compete in — a handful annually or every other year. I just love the challenge.”

Trustees OK controversial four-plex 7-0

By John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent Carbondale’s trustees on Tuesday unanimously affirmed approvals for a residential redevelopment project at 191 Sopris Ave., originally approved by the planning and zoning commission, ending months of controversy over a proposal to replace an aging one-story house with a two-story four-plex of rental apartments that had generated intense opposition from some neighbors.

The project was approved by the P&Z last December, but a band of neighbors, lead by Brigitte Heller, whose house at 226 S. 2nd St. sits across an alley from the project site, appealed that approval to the board of trustees.

Over the course of three hearings before the trustees, and several hearings last year before the P&Z, the neighbors argued that the project was too tall and too massive to fit into the neighborhood.

But the developer, River Valley Ranch resident Kim Kelley and her company, Sopris Properties LLC, countered that the plans conform to the town’s in-fill development guidelines, and that they had reduced the height and mass of the house as well as making changes to the interior and exterior designs of the building in efforts to placate their neighbors.

At the meeting on Tuesday, numerous supporters of the project, some from the neighborhood but most from other parts of town, stood up and urged the trustees to approve

the project and let it be built.

A smaller number of critics, mostly from the immediate neighborhood, again voiced the collective opinion that the building, as proposed, is still too high and too massive to fit in with its surroundings.

Following the vote to approve the project, Heller said, “I am not happy, but I will just live my life like I did” before the controversy arose.

“I don’t think it was a good decision,” she said of the trustees’ vote, which she felt was driven by worries over what might be built at the site if the project were denied.

Heller’s daughter, Barbara Sophia Ulrych of Redstone, also was not happy about the decision.

“It’s not how we would have hoped it would go, but it’s better than it was at the beginning,” she said, referring to the changes to the project plans.

And, she said, “a lot of good came out of it, because they (the trustees) see that there’s a real problem with zoning,” problems that should be addressed as the town rewrites its land-use review codes to match recent revisions to the Carbondale Comprehensive Plan.

The development team, made up of attorneys Kelcey Nichols and Joslyn Wood, planner Mark Chain and architect Jess Pedersen, quietly slapped backs and shook hands in congratulations for finally getting the project approved.

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Bob Flogaus recently celebrated his 100th birthday with friends and neighbors at a luncheon hosted by his son Jay and daughter-in-law Carol at Heritage Park Assisted Living in Carbondale. Flogaus was born in Carbondale in 1915, raised in Marble, and lived for many years with his wife and two children in Lenado/Woody Creek; he operated the family business — Flogaus Sawmill — in Lenado. Flogaus retired in McCoy, later in Gypsum, and now resides at Heritage Park. He said he wants to offer a big “thank you” to all the “wonderful people” at Heritage Park.

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Town submits rodeo roof grant Sopris Sun Staff Report Town Manager Jay Harrington reported, in his weekly memo to the Board of Trustees and town staff, that a grant application for $70,000 in funds has been submitted to the Garfield County Federal Mineral Lease District (FMLD), to pay for a cantilevered roof over the grandstand ($50,225) and rebuilding the arena announcer’s booth ($19,775) at the Gus Darien Riding Arena. If approved, according to Harrington’s memo, the town would provide $10,268 in matching funds, and the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo Board would provide $10,000 in matching funds, with the FMLD providing $49,900 for the project. An announcement on approval or denial of the grant is expected in mid-April.

The Parks and Recreation Commission, at its meeting this week, was scheduled to discuss the needs of Carbondale’s Bicycle Polo Club concerning the club’s need for a playing field, as well as a proposal from the local chapter of the Audubon Society to create a “birding park” along the Riverfront Park Trail on the Crystal River as it passes through town.

Commission members also will be discussing possible projects that could be undertaken this year as a result of recent passage of the Parks Recreation and Trails Master Plan.

The Adult Volleyball League at the Car-

bondale Recreation and Community Center finished its tournament last week with the following results: Taking first place was the Los Eagles squad, followed by Girl Power in second place and Blasters in third. Adult volleyball at the CRCC has now gone back to Monday drop-in games from 7-9 p.m. for the rest of the winter and spring.

Also at the Recreation Center, Harrington reported, a new beginner’s fitness class was started last week, building on the success experienced in an initial class started earlier in the year. A collaboration between the town and the Valley Settlement Project of the Manaus Fund, the classes are designed to provide “a non-intimidating class that trains the participant to use our fitness equipment and provides them with important exercise strategies and fitness goals” catered to individual participants. The classes are covered by a CRCC membership fee, or there is a dayrate for drop-in participants.

Other drop-in programs at the CRCC continue to grow in popularity, particularly the Pickleball games on Saturday mornings, Harrington reported. The time slot for these games has been expanded to meet the growing demand, and they will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays through May. Harrington reported that certain CRCC

The following events are drawn from incident reports of the C’dale Police Dept.

programs will be shut down from March 11-13, to accommodate the staging of the “Green is the new Black Fashion Show” on March 13-14 at the Recreation Center. The doors will be open at 7 p.m. for a dessert reception, and the shows start each night at 8 p.m.

Work crews with the Colorado Department of Transportation will be returning to town this month to finish up work on the Highway 133 corridor, Harrington reported. The contractor will be working on curb and gutter installation on the northwest side of the highway corridor near Garcia’s restaurant and store, and on modifications to the traffic light at the intersection of Highway 133 with Village Road.

Flaggers will be posted to control traffic while work on the signal is underway.

The Carbondale Historic Preservation Commission has received three submissions of qualifications to conduct an historical survey of buildings in Carbondale, Harrington reported. The last survey was conducted in 2010. The CHPC will be reviewing the submissions and interviewing the interested consultants soon.

The town finance department has reported that sales tax receipts in February (reflecting January sales in town shops) were up 1.8 percent over the same time in 2014, and that the lodging tax receipts were up .8 percent.

FRIDAY, Feb. 28: At 12:33 p.m. two youngsters aged five and two years old, were brought into the police department by a citizen who had found them walking near Sopris Park unaccompanied by an adult. The family was notified, and the father came home after he was told there was no one there watching the children.

FRIDAY, Feb. 28: At 7:01 p.m. police took a report from a local woman that her car had been broken into, and that some items were stolen.

FRIDAY, Feb. 28: At 8:42 p.m. a local individual was taken from an address on Sopris Avenue to Valley View Hospital for treatment of a suspected drug overdose. No other information was available in a summary of police reports compiled by the police department.

SATURDAY, March 1: Police took a report about a child left in a vehicle at an unknown location. The report stated that the child was “fine” and that the parents were given a warning ticket for the incident.

WEDNESDAY, March 4: Police assisted a local man concerning a possible harassment incident. A second man involved was issued a warning by telephone, and the summary indicated there would be no further action by police “at this time.”

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Water conservation plan comment deadline: March 17

By John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent If you feel like commenting on a proposed plan to encourage Carbondale residents to think and act more about conserving water in everyday activities, you have until St. Patrick’s Day to do it.

At some point after that, the plan is scheduled to become law, pending approval by the Carbondale Board of Trustees.

The town has been in the process for about a year of adopting a regional water conservation plan, written in conjunction with the four other towns in the Roaring Fork Valley [Glenwood Springs, Basalt, Snowmass Village and Aspen] aimed at giving local communities a better toolbox for dealing with what climate-change forecasters say could be serious water shortages in the coming decades.

Specifically, according to Carbondale Utility Director Mark O’Meara, the decision to take part in the planning effort grew out of concerns that arose after a drought in 2012.

That drought, caused by low snowfall in the preceding winter coupled with a hot, dry and windy spring and summer, nearly maxed out the capabilities of the town’s water and water treatment systems, O’Meara reported in a memo to the town trustees.

“I think the 2012 drought really shook things up,” O’Meara told The Sopris Sun on March 5, noting that while the town put its then-current water conservation rules into effect, it was deemed that a greater effort was

needed for possible future water shortfalls.

With the help of the Community Office of Resource Efficiency (CORE) and two consulting firms out of Denver and Boulder, the five towns started working on a plan that started with three different “water demand forecasts” for the period from 2014-2050, during which time Carbondale is projected to grow from its 2010 population of 6,427 to possibly 16,100.

One forecast, which did not factor in any water conservation measures whatsoever, predicted that local demand for water, including estimated uses of “raw water” for irrigation in the ditches that run through town, would more than double, from 1,208 acrefeet in 2014 to 2,939 acre-feet in 2050. That would equate to a 143 percent increase in water use over 36 years, compared to a population increase of 151 percent.

A second forecast, which factored in “passive efficiencies” such as improvements in plumbing standards and passage of state laws mandating some conservation, indicated that water demand would rise to 2,395 acre-feet in 2050, meaning demand would not quite double.

A third forecast, with significant conservation efforts factored in, predicted that water demand would increase to just 1,988 acre-feet by 2050 “if the elements of this plan are fully realized.”

O’Meara, in his memo to the town board, noted that the town’s existing potable water treatment capacity — from its Nettle Creek

surface water source on the flank of Mt. Sopris, and two well fields on the Crystal and Roaring Fork rivers — technically is about four million gallons per day (MGD).

But, the memo continued, “the current reliable production capacity ranges from approximately 2.5-3 MGD depending on the season.”

“Based on this analysis,” O’Meara wrote in his memo, “additional wells may need to be drilled if conservation does not take place.

Fortunately, the town’s water rights are sufficient to meet all future forecasts.”

The draft water conservation plan is available on the opening page of the town’s website at (www.carbondalegov.org).

SoL Theatre Company presents “The Giving Tree” at Carbondale Middle School on March 12-15. For details, see page 11. The cast includes, from left to right: Sydney Picard, India Butchart, Jessica Kollar, Anna Cole, Katie Huttenhower, Jade Meyer and Julia Gresset. Photo by Asha Ironwood

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Send your scuttlebutt to news@SoprisSun.com. waste events like the ESPN X-Games, Ironman triathlons and community festivals, EverGreen Events started its curbside collection in spring 2011 in the Colorado communities of Carbondale, Basalt, Aspen, Snowmass and Snowmass Village,” the newsletters says. Says David, “Everything that the City of Aspen and Pitkin County is doing has increased our customer base.” EverGreen Events charges $18 per month for weekly residential curbside service, the newsletter says, and $90 for commercial customers up to one cubic yard.

AAM names youth curators

The Carbondale Board of Trustees recognized its Students of the Month on Tuesday night and they are, (back row, left to right): Lauren Curry, Julia Curry, Gabriela Santana and Jackson Kruse; (front row, left to right): Dean McMichael, Sean Braudis and Ethan Wilson. Photo by Lynn Burton

Newsletter inks EverGreen Events The February issue of the newsletter “BioCycle” gave the Carbondale-based EverGreen Events some pretty good ink.

EverGreen Events provides Pitkin County and Aspen with 64gallon wheeled containers and 16-gallon Slim Jim containers for their SCRAPS program, which encourages restaurants, other businesses and individuals to separate food scraps and soiled paper out of the waste stream. The newsletter points out that EverGreen Events is a residential and commercial food-waste hauler started by husband and wife team David and Alyssa Reindel in 2010. “Beginning primarily with zero

The Aspen Art Museum has chosen Roaring Fork High School students Adjoa Hursey, Luke Klotz, Emily Mata and Naomi Pulver to take part in its young curators show titled “Raw.” The show features work by 14 young area artists, including Jackson Porter Hardin, Abril Mendoza and Justice Wofford from RFHS. An opening reception is slated for March 15 at 3 p.m. The show runs through March 29. Now in its ninth year, The AAM Young Curators of the Roaring Fork program brings together high school students from across the Roaring Fork Valley who share an interest in contemporary art. From October through January each year, the curators work together with members of AAM staff to organize an exhibition of artwork by their peers, developing a deeper understanding of contemporary art and strengthening their visual literacy skills in the process.

Gruber reports that she thinks this may be the first musical the school has ever done. The play will run May 7-9 at 7 p.m. and May 10 at 2 p.m. For details on “Flapper” and other RFHS news, check out the Rampage in this week’s Sun.

Johnson named to CAEE board The Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education recently named Sarah Johnson, of the Roaring Fork Conservancy, to its board of directors. CAEE represents and supports more than 850 environmental education providers throughout Colorado.

Hoopsters close at 15-8 The Roaring Fork boys basketball team finished the season with a 15-8 record following a 60-47 loss to Denver Science and Tech at last weekend’s regional tournament in Colorado Springs. “It was a great year!” said coach Larry Williams. “The boys finished higher than expected and we were the only league team to beat Moffat County.” Williams credited senior leadership, team effort and defense for their success. “I’m very proud of this group of young men.” On a related note, first team All Conference honors went to Ben Carpenter (senior), Raul Leyva (senior) and Aldo Pinela (sophomore). Chering Sherpa (senior) was named as an All Conference honorable mention.

A reminder Artists all tied up The Valley Visual Art Show People’s Choice award came down to a three-way tie between Dee Strack (“Now You See-dum”), Wallace Graham (“Time”) and Brian Colley (“Lepus Constellation”).

The Sopris Sun’s Poetry Corner, edited by Jose Alcantara, is accepting 1-3 submissions each at poetry@soprissun.com. All publishing rights remain with the author. For the Flash Fiction Corner, e-mail Jade Moss for guidelines at creativewriting@soprissun.com.

Save the date

They say it’s your birthday

Word has it the spring musical at Roaring Fork High School will be a 1920s piece titled “Flapper.” Director Shanti

Folks celebrating their birthday this week include: Denise Barkhurst (March 13) and John Foulkrod (March 17).

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School district using “crews� to build “whole child�

Part of Expeditionary Learning

By Debbie Bruell Sopris Sun Correspondent While public schools continue to be judged by their students’ scores on standardized tests, there’s a growing belief among public school teachers, administrators, parents and even departments of education that academic achievement should not be our schools’ sole focus.

In fact, many argue that aspects of children’s school experience which have traditionally been regarded as non-academic actually form the foundation for success in the academic arena — as well as success in life beyond school.

This message came through loud and clear during the Roaring Fork School District’s visioning meetings in Carbondale, Glenwood and Basalt in the fall of 2013. Approximately 1,000 community and staff members participated in these discussions. Some recurring themes included the importance of educating “the whole child� and the value of skills and traits (or “habits� in the district’s current language) such as self-motivation, resilience, strong social skills and a strong sense of civic responsibility.

In order to ensure that every school was addressing these and other traditionally nonacademic aspects of children’s school experience, a team of administrators decided that all school staff should be trained in and adopt Expeditionary Learning’s “crew� model of advisory class.

As explained in the district’s February newsletter, crew is a designated time in the school day for monitoring students’ academic and social well-being, helping students set academic goals, developing teacher-student and student-student relationships, enhancing students’ sense of belonging to the school and focusing on character skills.

Many schools already have some form of an advisory class during which they address some of these goals. Crew is a distinct form of advisory class in that the elements of crew are designed to be integrated into the entire structure and culture of the school; crew focuses on developing staff and students’ understanding of why these traditionally non-academic aspects of learning are so critical; and crew is not just something that teachers do with a group of students — school staff themselves form a “crew,� with staff meetings organized around the same principles as the

classroom crew meetings.

The term “crewâ€? stems from the idea that all school staff and students are “crew, not passengers.â€? Second grade Glenwood Springs Elementary School teacher Jordan Schoeller told The Sopris Sun that she explains crew to her students by showing images such as people rowing a boat together and ďŹ re ďŹ ghters working together to put out a ďŹ re. She explains to the students that “a crew is everyone working together, no one is sitting back.

Your actions affect everyone else, and you can depend on everyone else ‌ If you’re upset with the way things are going you can say it.

Your crew is your safety net.�

As RFSD Superintendent Diana Sirko told The Sopris Sun, the goals of crew include: making sure students are feeling a strong, positive connection to teachers, classmates, their school and what they’re learning in their classes; helping students feel empowered to address issues and make decisions at their school; and creating a pervasive sense of caring throughout each school. “We’ve always known that classroom culture and relationships are critical to learning,�

Sirko said. “Crew is about giving schools a structure for making those things happen as an ongoing, integrated part of the school.�

Character skills One essential element of crew is that each school or district identiďŹ es about ďŹ ve character skills to which all students and staff members will aspire. The list of skills must include both “relationalâ€? character skills (those which lead to healthy relationships with others, e.g., kindness, honesty, integrity) as well as “performanceâ€? character skills (those which lead to excellence in academic or real-world endeavors, e.g., organizational skills, perseverance, craftsmanship).

According to the Expeditionary Learning (EL) handbook of Core Practices, “both types of character are essential for success in school and in life.�

Last year the school district identiďŹ ed ďŹ ve key character skills, or “Habits of a Scholar,â€? which every school has adopted and will be a part of every crew: • Executive Skills: plans, organizes, and manages behaviors and responsibilities; • Perseverance: persists through challenges; • Enthusiasm: pursues passions and shows love of learning;

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This reporter spoke with one parent who was not so happy with the idea of schools taking time to focus speciďŹ cally on character development. Sharon Samuelson has one child at Crystal River Elementary School and one at Carbondale Middle School. “There’s so much to do in the school day,â€? Samuelson told The Sun, “is this really what we should be spending our time on?â€? She also questions whether character education shouldn’t be taught in the home, rather than the classroom.

Sirko said that she has not received any pushback from parents. “Certainly character is taught at home, but ... it needs to be in all aspects of children’s lives.�  According to Sirko, the stuff of crew is essential to any learning experience. The Habits of a Scholar are not just about each student’s individual character development, but about creating a “climate of learning� at the school. “You have to have a good environment for learning before learning can occur,� Sirko said, “One precedes the other.�

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entire rest of the school day: “Because crew helps kids feel really comfortable in class and feel OK about making mistakes, they’re way more willing to take risks during the academic time and ... put in the hard work.�

Carbondale Middle School teacher Aimee Brockman told The Sun that providing middle schoolers’ with a safe place to express themselves and strong connections to their peers and teachers is critical to healthy brain development.

According to CRES counselor Linda Haydock, crew provides a time for teachers to work with kids on life skills that are also critical to their academic success, such as how to deal with stress and frustration.

Even the Colorado Department of Education is recognizing the importance of the traditionally non-academic aspects of school.

State standards now include skills such as working well with peers and the ability to plan ahead.

What crew actually looks like on a dayto-day basis varies for every school. “It’s not a cookie-cutter model in any way,� CRES fourth-grade teacher Betsy McMichael told The Sun. At CRES, they initiated “community meetings� this year in every classroom, every day. These meetings are a time for the classroom group to gather together in a circle and for every child to share his/her thoughts and

Third Thursdays @ Third Street is a new monthly series highlighting community artists, music, ideas & interests.

Formed in 2008, Tjaar is a band that explores boundaries, both musical and metaphysical. Based on the theme of a mythical island off the coast of Norway with the same name, Tjaar is about unbridled creativity. Playing mostly original songs running the gamut from funk to folk, country to jazz, and rock to soul, Tjaar features beautiful music with a beautiful message. Tjaar is Dan Rosenthal, drums and vocals, Pam Rosenthal, bass and vocals, Marc Bruell, guitar and vocals and Kendal Spyker guitar and vocals.

Adults – $5 cover (all proceeds go to the band) CASH ONLY, Children under 12 free

Beer from Roaring Fork Brewery Wine and soft drinks Tamales from Cocina del Valle

See the 3rd Thursday Schedule @ www.thirdstreetcenter.net/events/3rdthursdays/

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First Friday fantasies and fun CCAH sent lots of folks out from the Launchpad and into the night looking like something they didn’t look like when they first arrived on March 6. Other First Friday stops included the Carbondale Clay Center’s “Pairings” fund-raiser, art demonstrations, bars, restaurants, music venues and more.

Clockwise from upper left: Meghan Gillespie, Ryan Young and Laura Stover; Dana Ganssle Ellis and Aben; Nancy Draina (center) with Zac (left) and Sylvi (right); Saffron (left) and Ticah Burrows; John Cohorsta and Kendra Sparks; DJ Karl Gunselman (of Holographic Era) and Mary Noone at Main Street Gallery.

Photos by Jane Bachrach

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CPAC makes Art aRound Town selections Releasing names in May

By Nicolette Toussaint Sopris Sun Correspondent Say goodbye to Ernesto the buffalo. He will be leaving the corner of Seventh and Main soon to make way for one of the 14 new sculptures recently selected for year-long display in Carbondale’s public spaces starting in June.

“We’re always sad to see a piece as wonderful as Ernesto go, but we look forward to the new pieces. The chorus of sadness for the Pink Bunny’s departure a year ago quickly yielded to glee when people saw Ernesto,” said Sue Edelstein, long-time Carbondale Public Arts Commission (CPAC) member and advisor.

This year, CPAC selected two works from Carbondale, three from Denver, two from Iowa, two from New Mexico and one each from Boulder, Wyoming, Texas, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The new sculptures will be announced in May, and the sculptors will be publicly welcomed to present their works on June 4 during the annual Art aRound Town walk.

“The range of art submitted for our annual show is astonishing, playful, thought-provoking, from minimalist to extremely intricate,” said CPAC Chair Ashley Todey. “Entries come from across the country, which is a great testament to Carbondale, since we can pay only a small honorarium that cannot begin to cover most artists’ costs. Opening the jury and seeing the new year’s submissions is always one of the most exciting moments of my year!”

The chosen sculptors receive a $500 honorarium to help defray shipping costs to and from Carbondale. That usually falls far short of what it costs to move a sculpture that can be as large as a small car and weigh nearly as much.

Artists compete in the juried event more for prestige and

Non-profit highlight

Carbondale Public Arts Commission members met recently in the Third Street Center to make final selections for the 2015 Art aRound Town show. They chose sculptors from Carbondale, Denver, Boulder, Iowa, New Mexico, Wyoming, Texas, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Photo by Jane Bachrach exposure than for profit, but they do have a good chance of selling some work.

All of the sculptures shown are offered for sale, and in the 14 years since the program began, 16 have been sold to private collectors. Some of those buyers donated works to the

town. Two sculptors have also donated works, and CPAC has purchased about half a dozen for Carbondale’s permanent collection. CPAC receives small commissions on sales.

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ROTARY CORNER

ROTARY CLUB OF CARBONDALE March with Carbondale Rotary 2014-15 Rotary International Theme

“Light Up Rotary” “SERVICE ABOVE SELF”

RI President Gary C.K. Huang Carbondale Rotary Practicing Service Above Self, at home and around the world …

Meet Manu Carbondale Rotary welcomes our Youth Exchange student for the coming year, Manuel “Manu” Cortina Téllez. Manu comes from Olavarria, Argentina, and is the son of César Alejandro Cortina and Nilda Emilce Téllez. He is 17, and is attending Roaring Fork High School during his stay in Carbondale. Manu’s home town is located 400 kilometers from Buenos Aires. He describes Olavarria as “small, and this is a very good thing because you can know a lot more people and you can go walking to almost everywhere in the city.” Sounds like he should enjoy Carbondale! Welcome Manu!

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 March 18 – John Quinn, Home Care/ Hospice of the Valley March 25 – Club Assembly April 1 – Paul Anderson Huts for Vets April 8 – Sarah Wood 5 Point Film Festival April 15 – Club Assembly April 22 – Debbie Wilde Insight to Impact For program suggestions, contact Rick Carlson, rccarlson@gmail.com

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

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Community Calendar THURS.-SUN. March 12-15 THEATRE • SoL Theatre Company presents “The Giving Tree” (based on a story by Shel Silverstein) at Carbondale Middle School.

Curtain time is 7 p.m. on March 12-14 and 2 p.m. on March 15. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for kids at the door and at soltheatrecompany.com.

THURSDAY March 12 FOOD DOCUMENTARY • Davi Nikent presents the plant-based diet documentary “Forks Over Knives” at the Third Street Center. A potluck dinner precedes the film at 6 p.m. The suggested donation is $10.

CRYSTAL CAUCUS • The Crystal Caucus discusses Bull Mountain oil and gas development, and the ongoing master plan process (agriculture, recreation and transportation) from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Church at Redstone.

Info: 963-2143.

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt Regional Library offers a class in Windows 7 from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m.

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

THURS.-SAT. March 12-14 THEATRE • Thunder River Theatre Company concludes its production of “Hamlet” at 7:30 p.m. on March 12-14. The TRTC production runs for approximately two hours. The cast includes: David Pulliam as Hamlet, plus Mike Monroney, Valerie Haugen, Corey Simpson, Richard Lyon, Owen O’Farrell, Nick Garay. Sophie Sakson, Kim

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.

Nuzzo, Cassidy Willey, J.D. Miller and Brendan Cochran. Tickets are $14, $17 and $25 at thunderrivertheatre.com or 963-8200.

Sam Harvey and Alleghany Meadows open their show “The Language of Making from 5 to 7 p.m. Info: 927-4123 and wylyarts.org.

an Avalanche Level 1 course from Aspen Expeditions. The hours are 3 to 7 p.m. Ticket info: http://tinyurl.com/CAICaspen.

FRI.-SAT. March 13-14

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt Regional Library offers a class in Internet basics from 1 to 2:15 p.m.

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt Regional Library offers a class in social media from 1 to 2:15 p.m.

SATURDAY March 14

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.

FASHION SHOW • CCAH’s Green is the New Black Fashion Extravaganza takes over the Carbondale Recreation Center for two nights. The theme is “Underground.” Tickets are available at carbondalearts.com and the Launchpad. Info: 963-1680.

FRIDAY March 13 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “Still Alice” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m. Mar. 13-19 except Mar. 15, which will show only at 2 p.m. (captions not available) and “Awake: The Life of Yogananda” (PG) at 5:30 p.m.

Mar. 14-15.

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

FOODIES MEET • Wellness practitoners and foodies meet at the Third Street Center Board Room at 4 p.m. to discuss their role in the April First Friday. Info: 510-6390.

OPENING RECEPTION • The Ann Korologos Gallery in Basalt opens the show “Angus Wilson: A Singular Vision” from 5 to 7 p.m. The show continues through April 10.

Info: 927-9668.

HASSIG AT THE WYLY • The Wyly Art Center in Basalt hosts a reception for Carbondale artist Chris Hassig and his show “Close In and Far Away” from 5 to 7 p.m. The show continues through April 25. At the Wyly Annex,

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CELTIC DANCE • The Hell Roaring String Band provides the music for a Celtic concert and dance at the Carbondale Branch Library starting at 3 p.m. The HRSB features Ted Frisbie (vocals/mandolin), Shannon Meyer (vocals/fiddle), Mark Sumera (guitar) and Kayo Ogilby (banjo). The event is free and refreshments will be served. Info: 963-2889 or gcpld.org.

SHAMATHA MEDITATION • The Way of Compassion Dharma Center offers a day of shamath (calm abiding) meditation in Suite 28 of the Third Street Center. It’s for beginners as well as seasoned meditators. The hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: 510-0583 or wayofcompassion.org.

LIVE MUSIC • The Wheeler Opera House presents the Subdudes. Dancing will be allowed. Tickets are $39. Info: 920-5770 and aspenshowtix.com.

CAIC FUND-RAISER • The non-profit Friends of Colorado Avalanche Information Center hosts a fund-raiser for the Colorado Avalanche Information Center from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Aspen Highlands Ale House.

There’ll be live music, beer, a raffle with prizes from Black Diamond Equipment and others.

Everyone who attends receives a discount on

MONDAY March 16 PESHLAKI SPEAKS • Navajo artist Mae Peshlakai returns to the CRMS barn to talk about Navajo lifestyles, beliefs, arts and culture at 7 p.m. She started weaving at a young age, helping her mother, carding wool, spinning wool into yarns and weaving. After marrying James Peshlakai, an accomplished silver and gold smith, she took up silversmithing and now makes jewelry every day. She is the daughter of a medicine man and medicine woman. Info: 963-2562.

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt Regional Library holds family game night (loteria) from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

KDNK BOARD MEETS • The KDNK Board of Directors meets at the radio station’s offices (76 S. 2nd St.) at 5:30 p.m. The meeting is open to the public and the agenda is posted at the station. Info: 963-0139.

TUESDAY March 17 ST. PAT’S PARADE • American Legion Post CALENDAR page 11

Community Calendar 100 hosts the St. Patrick’s Day parade and post-parade dinner. On the parading front, it starts at 4 p.m. at the corner of Seventh and Main Street, heads east on Main Street, turns left at Third Street and concludes at American Legion Post 100. There is no entry fee.

On the food front, we’re talking traditional corned beef and cabbage starting at 5 p.m.

The cost is $8 per person. The public is invited. Info: 963-2381.

WEDS.-THURS. March 18-19 BIG EVENT • Carbondale Community School’s 17th annual Big Event – “Westward Ho! “ — will be performed at the school at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for kids 12 and under, and are available at the school and Carbondale Recreation Center.

Info: 963-9647.

WEDNESDAY March 18 GOTTLIEB SPEAK • Larry Gottlieb talks about his book “The Seer’s Explanation” at the Third Street Center starting at 7 p.m. Gottlieb is a physicist, musician and auther. Info: davinikent.org.

ROTARY • The Rotary Club of Carbondale presents John Quinn (Home Care/Hospice of the Valley) at the Carbondale Fire Station at 6:45 a.m. Info: rotarycarbondale.org.

TIGERTONES PERFORM • The Princeton Tigertones preform during a Pitkin County Republicans chili-supper fund-raiser at the home of Peter and Frieda Wallison (1880 Lazy O Road in Old Snowmass). The hours are 6 to 7:30 p.m.; tickets are $50 per person, $80 per couple and $10 for those

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under 25. RSVP at fkwallison@me.com.

Proceeds go toward sending Aspen High School Young Republicans to Washington, D.C. on April 29.

Save the Date THURSDAY March 19 MARGARITAVILLE ON MAIN STREET • From 6 to 9 p.m. at Mi Casita restaurant. Put on your Hawaiian prints and come party with the Sun! A five-dollar entrance fee gets you discount margaritas and option for the $10 allyou-can-eat taco & pozole bar (kids eat for $5).

Free admission for all SunScribers OR if you sign up to be a SunScriber at Margaritaville.

Further Out

Ongoing SOUL DANCE • Core Healing Arts presents Soul Dance at the Launchpad on Sundays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Dance experience is not necessary and drop-ins are welcome. The cost $15 per session. Info: 319-6854.

PLANT BASED MEALS • Meet ups for Dr. Greg Feinsinger’s 28-day plant based whole foods meal program are held at the Third Street Center every Monday at 7 p.m. through March 30. Info: 510-6390 or hippocratestable.com.

TWO-STEP TUESDAY • Foot stompin’ fun continues at the Third Street Center Round Room from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The cost is $8 per person/$14 per couple. Info: meetup.com/RFVDance/events/21996954.

MAYOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat with Carbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdays from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy.

THURSDAY March 19 LIVE MUSIC • The Third Street Center kicks of its Third Thursdays music series in the old gym with Tjaar from 7 to 9 p.m. Tjaar explores boundaries both musical and metaphysical, playing mostly original songs ranging from funk to folk, country to jazz and rock to soul. The band is comprised of Dan Rosenthal (drums and vocals), Pam Rosenthal (bass and vocals), Marc Bruell (guitar and vocals) and Kendal Spyker (guitar and vocals).

Admission is $5. Beer, wine, soft drinks and tamales from Cocina del Valle. Kids under 12 are free.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION • Discussions about mindfulness meditation and Buddhist philosophy take place from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Sundays at Carbondale Community School. All are welcome and mats/cushions are available. Info: 970-618-1032.

MEET THE CHIEFS • Police Chief Gene Schilling and Fire Chief Ron Leach meet the public over coffee and chat about various issues at the Village Smithy from 8 to 9 a.m. on the third Thursday of each month.

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.

MINDFULNESS GROUP • The Mindful Life Program hosts a weekly meditation and mindfulness group on Mondays from 7:30 to 8:15 p.m. in Suite 28 at the Third Street Center. All are welcome. Info: 970-633-0163 or mindfullifeprogram.org.

LUTHERANS MEET • Faith Lutheran Church holds worship services at the Carbondale Middle School auditorium: traditional service (9 a.m.), educational hour (10 a.m.), living praise worship (11:30 a.m.). Info. Faithcarbondale.com and 925-7725.

PHOTOGRAPHY • An exhibit of Colorado Mountain College photography students work continues at the CMC ArtShare Gallery (802 Grand Ave. in Glenwood Springs) through April 28. The photos range from award winners in the Colorado Photographer of the Year competition to photojournalism, commercial, fine art and portraits. The ArtShare gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Info: 947-8367 or cmcartsahare.com.

TOURS • Castle tours at the historic Redstone Castle are offered on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are available on the days of the tour. Info: 963-9656.

JAZZ JAM • The Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs continues Jazz Jam Mondays from 7 to 9:30 p.m. All abilities are welcome. Info: Hunter Damm at 319-7853.

LUNCH • Crystal Meadows senior housing hosts a lunch followed by Bingo every Wednesday.

BRIDGE • The Carbondale Bridge Club meets at the Senior Matters room in the Third Street Center Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. You must have a partner and the fee is $3 per person. Info: 963-0425.

DAVI NIKENT • Weekly meditation and dharma talks with John Chophel Bruna continue Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. at the Third Street Center. Info: wayofcompassion.org.

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Highway 133 construction returns

Carbondale Lions Club meets

United Companies will return to town for CDOT the week of March 16 to install a curb along the southbound lanes of Highway 133 at Cowen Drive. “This work is being done to create a more controlled access allowing for a safer environment for pedestrians and motorists alike as well as enabling the town of Carbondale with it’s SH133 Landscaping Project,” said a CDOT press release. The work is expected to begin at 8 a.m. on March 16 and continue through March 20. Minor delays are expected. Work is also slated for the traffic signal at Village Road and Highway 133 on March 17.

The Carbondale Lions Club holds its monthly meeting on April 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the Orchard. The public is invited. The Lions Club will also be involved in the Health Fair at Roaring Fork High School on April 11. Lions Club International is the largest community service organization in the world, with nearly 1.4 million members worldwide, according to a press release. The focus of Lions Clubs is service to the community, with an emphasis on providing support to persons with sight and hearing problems.

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Cowboy Up seeks recipients The seventh annual Cowboy Up Carbondale is looking for beneficiaries for this year’s event. Applicants must be a 501(c)3 nonprofit and provide volunteers to help staff the event. The application deadline is March 31.

For details, call Erin Bassett at 309-3319 or email ebassett@masonmorse.com. Cowboy Up, slated for Aug. 28 at Fourth Street plaza, celebrates Carbondale’s western heritage with live music, dancing, barbecue and auction.

CCAH accepting Gallery proposals The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities is accepting R2 Gallery proposals for 2016 through May 1. Proposals can be for individual or group shows. Two and three dimensional works, as well as video installa-

The Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program held its Let It Spelling Bee fund-raiser on March 5. Champion Team honors went to Ross Montessori School and Best Dressed to Basalt Elementary School. The event raised about $500 for the program.

Courtesy photo tions, will be considered. A preliminary proposal for exhibition form is available at carbondalearts.com and also at CCAH’s Third Street Center office. Notices of acceptance will be sent out by July 15.

Free tax preparation for seniors RSVP provides IRS certified volunteers to help seniors, those with disabilities or households with incomes less than $49,000

electronically file their state and federal income taxes. The service is free. Those who must file the following forms are eligible: 1040; Schedules A, B, EIC (Earned Income Credit) and R; Child and Dependent Care Credits; and Education Credits; and Schedule C-EZ for small business owners. Appointments are available Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., through April 15.

For details, call 384-8740.

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Wilderness Workshop eyes “next phase” in its evolution

By John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent The Carbondale-based Wilderness Workshop organization, founded some 48 years ago, is heading in new directions, as indicated by Executive Director Sloan Shoemaker in a recent press release about a change in the organization’s relatively small staff and a conversation with The Sopris Sun. The press release concerned the recent hiring of Lindsey Palardy as the organization’s public information officer and lead fundraiser, replacing long-time employee Dave Reed, who left recently to become executive director at the Western Colorado Congress in Grand Junction.

Palardy, who holds a master’s degree in environmental studies, a degree in environmental law and most recently was a fund-raiser for the Aspen Youth Center, will “help launch us into the next phase or our evolution, wherever that may take us,” Shoemaker predicted in the press release.

But exactly what that “next phase” will entail is not entirely clear, Shoemaker and other Wilderness Workshop officials told The Sopris Sun in a recent interview.

“If we track the arc of Wilderness Workshop’s evolution,” said Shoemaker, “we’ve come a long way from an all-volunteer organization that focused on local wilderness … to an organization that isn’t solely focused on wilderness anymore and has a professional staff.”

History Originally created in 1967 by a group of Aspen wilderness advocates — Joy Caudill, Dottie Fox and Connie Harvey, nicknamed the “Maroon Belles” for their dedication — and named Aspen Wilderness Workshop, the organization was deeply involved in winning wilderness designation for the Hunter-Fryingpan and Collegiate Peaks wilderness areas, in getting the Maroon Bells Wilderness Area expanded, and in passage of the Colorado Wilderness Act that brought designation to other areas in the region.

In the years since, the Wilderness Workshop has dropped its Aspen moniker, moved downvalley to the Third Street Center in Carbondale, and dived into a broad array of wildernessrelated activities and some activities involving areas that may not technically fit the wilderness criteria but are at least “roadless” and exhibit a variety of wilderness-type characteristics.

A key focus in recent years has been in preventing oil and gas drilling in the Thompson Divide area, which encompasses 221,500 acres of remote terrain in five counties. The Workshop and a sister organization, the Thompson Divide Coalition, have concentrated on leases issued to energy companies in a 105,000-acre area to the southwest of Carbondale.

While sharing the overall goal of protecting Thompson Divide and other regions, one of the Workshop’s key roles is to do detailed, highly legalistic “administrative” work that primarily is the province of attorney Peter Hart, who splits his time between the Carbondale office and one in Grand Junction.

“We’ve been working on these (administrative issues) all along,” said conservation director Will Roush. And that work, mostly managed by Hart, has “put Wilderness Workshop on the front lines” of detecting and moving to block efforts by energy companies to get the Thompson Divide drilling underway, Shoemaker added.

It was largely that kind of work that uncovered deficiencies in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s issuance of 65 Thompson Divide leases in 1993, based on what a court ruled were inadequate environmental studies, and led to the BLM’s having to put the leases in a kind of bureaucratic limbo while new studies are conducted.

“We have to keep holding the line, holding the line,” as energy companies try new ways to get their drilling programs underway, and conservation organizations move to block those efforts, Shoemaker pointed out.

Other tasks that the Workshop has taken on recently include an effort to create a new, single-track backcountry trail between Basalt Mountain and Gypsum, open to user groups from motorized dirt bikers to mountain bikers, hikers and equestrians, over U.S. Forest Service lands.

Roush, who is the Workshop’s point man in that effort, said he is working with forest service officials as well as the

Wilderness Workshop has been going wild since 1967, advocating for wilderness and all things wild on public lands surrounding the Roaring Fork Valley. These days, the organization also gets involved in desk-bound “administrative” work that has put it on the front lines of multiple environmental issues. Photo by Jane Bachrach Colorado Backcountry Trail Riders and other recreation groups in “almost a facilitator’s role … bringing folks together” to discuss the issues involved.

“The goal is to come up with a management plan” that satisfies the USFS interest in safeguarding wildlife and the environment, but still allowing motorized, pedal-powered, hikers and equestrian users.

Other projects, Shoemaker said, include the idea of using fire as a management tool in wilderness areas.

“It’s a hot topic, so to speak,” he said half-jokingly, noting that fire is “a more cost-effective way of doing forest management, [better than logging or] other mechanical treatments,” particularly in an era when USFS budgets have been cut virtually in half.

He cited the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park as an example of fire’s potential for beneficial management. Those fires scorched about 1.2 million acres of the park and initially left the world with the impression that the world’s first national park, created in 1872, had been irretrievably ruined.

Today, it is acknowledged that the park benefitted from the scorching, as new growth started appearing almost as soon as the ground cooled.

“We don’t characterize the fire as causing damage to the park,” conceded park superintendent Bob Barbee in a 2008 interview with National Public Radio.

WW turf Still, Shoemaker said, despite Wilderness Workshop’s evolving role, “Our turf, if you will, is that we are all about public lands,” working with such diverse groups as the Colorado Bark Beetle Cooperative and the Grand Mesa/Uncom-

pahgre/Gunnison national forests (known as G-MUG for short) on a variety of management initiatives.

One project, the hotly contested Hidden Gems proposal in 2010 to give wilderness designation to small areas the Denver Post called “the overlooked spots of Colorado,” is no longer the subject of bitter controversy that spawned a bumper-sticker war between proponents and critics.

Instead, the controversy proved to be a “catalyst … to get the conversation started in Congress,” which has resulted in several wilderness proposals now on the table.

“And some of it rises above that,” added Palardy, “to [Washington] D.C.-level advocacy work,” such as sending Shoemaker to testify before committees of the U.S. Congress on wildlife and other wild-lands issues.

With an annual budget of about $550,000 and its staff of six paid personnel and numerous interns and volunteers, “We sort of punch above our weight,” Shoemaker said, using a boxing metaphor.

The three Workshop staffers noted that the organization sponsors or benefits from a number of activities and events every year, including Wild Fest, a celebration of wilderness values; an upcoming Ragnar Trail running event in Snowmass Village that has picked the Wilderness Workshop as it local beneficiary; the Artists In Wilderness program that puts artists to work in a back-country cabin and generates artworks that can either be included in national shows or sold by the Workshop at fundraising auctions; and periodic trail hikes into wilderness areas to acquaint participants with the land and generate supporters for future wilderness protection and preservation.

“The things we work in are very long-term,” said Roush.

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Staff: Proposed Rio Grande plan might spell trouble C’dale could be on financial hook for millions John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent Carbondale’s town government is worried that a proposed “Access Control Plan” (ACP) for the Rio Grande Trail would spell trouble for the town in terms of money, land-use control and staff time spent dealing with trail crossings and other issues related to the publicly owned right of way that cuts through the northern part of the town.

The ACP was first created in 2000, three years after the then-controlling agency, the Roaring Fork Railroad Holding Authority (RFRHA), bought the 34-mile stretch of the old Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) right of way, between Woody Creek and Glenwood Springs, which no longer was being used as a freight line following the closure of coal and ironore mines in the area.

The old rail line was “rail banked” in

1998, to preserve it for the possible resumption of rail service in the Roaring Fork Valley. The rails were pulled and sold off, and the strip of land was converted to its current use as a bicycle and pedestrian trail stretching from Aspen to Glenwood Springs.

The ACP is a required document under federal rail-banking guidelines, as a way to ensure the right of way would be preserved and protected from incursions by adjacent governmental entities and private landowners. It was updated in 2005 and is once again being reviewed to accommodate what RFTA, in a memo to the Carbondale trustees at a Jan. 27 meeting, termed “an expansion on the current ACP policies.”

The modifications to RFTA’s policies, according to the agency’s memo, are needed to avoid the potential “loss of the railbanked status” of the right of way, which could result if the RFTA corridor is blocked

Art aRound Town om page 9 capital improvement projects to a “1 percent for the arts fund.” Those monies, plus private donations, have enabled CPAC to create a public art program robust enough to prompt other towns to call and ask, “How did you do it?”

“When they ask that,” said longtime CPAC member Jody Ensign, “I tell them that they need a good town! The program never would have started and never would have grown without the support of the town staff and public works. They help us install everything. And the town trustees have been incredibly generous with their support.”

The first Art aRound Town event was held in 2002, and eight years ago, CPAC started to judge the entries using an online system sponsored by the Western States Art Federation in Denver. “When we did that, artists started coming from farther away,” recalled Ensign. “Our reputation started growing, and three years ago, we got more than 90 applicants from as far away as England.”

This year, CPAC received 45 online applications. In the first two rounds of online jurying, CPAC members worked solo, seeing only the sculpture, an artist’s statement and information about size and medium.

For the final selection, the jurors discussed the works projected on a screen and then voted on their individual computers.

“We feel a real sense of responsibility to look at each work carefully, evaluating it in and of itself, as well considering its context within the show,” said Todey. “As we review each submission, we have an open dialogue on all aspects of the work — from the artistry to pragmatic issues such as whether or not the work is safe and appropriate for public display. It is always illuminating to hear other CPAC member’s perspectives, especially since we all come from such diverse backgrounds.”

The members of the Carbondale Public Arts Commission are chairperson Ashley Todey, Allison Berger, Carol Klein, Cheryl Bumgarner, Heather Bryan, Jody Ensign, Nancy Kyner, Nicole Kinsler, Mindy Kaegebein, Sarah Moore, Jim Moser and Sondie Reiff. Lisa Nieslanik, from the town staff, serves as secretary. Alumni Sue Edelstein, Mark Harris, Andi Korber and Brad Sherman are commission advisors and vote as part of the annual jury. Town trustee Allyn Harvey and Laurie Lindberg, from Carbondale Public Works, also assist with the process.

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or somehow split by intervening developments or ownership disputes.

That, the transit agency stated in its memo, might cause the federal government to revoke “land grants” governing about seven miles of the 40-mile right of way.

According to RFTA CEO Dan Blankenship, even if the federal land grants were not revoked, the affected portions of the trail might revert to ownership by those who own the adjacent land.

He added that “it isn’t clear what would happen if we lost the land grant areas,” in terms of the effect on the public use and ownership of the entire RFTA corridor.

Carbondale’s issues The town and RFTA appear to have different priorities at play concerning the need to protect the right-of-way’s railbanked status.

The town, according to a Feb. 10 summary by Public Works Director Larry Bal-

lenger and Town Manager Jay Harrington, “is fully supportive of retaining and maintaining the Rio Grande Trail, but the town also needs to insure the ACP is written in a manner that is workable for the town’s infrastructure needs.”

Carbondale, according to the memo, has at least a half-dozen street crossings and a water-line “encroachment” into the Rio Grande right of way that are “licensed” by RFTA, as well as a number of other utility lines underneath the trail.

The cost of maintaining or upgrading those crossings, particularly if rail service ever is resumed, would fall to the town, under the current draft of the ACP, according to the memo.

“The ACP, as written, places the financial burden (of) upgrading crossings to meet rail standards on the license holders,” the memo states. That means that the cost of changing existing at-grade crossings into RFTA page 15

What is CPAC? The Carbondale Public Arts Commission (CPAC) is a group of local citizens who are charged with a mission on behalf of the town: To provide visual art for the enjoyment and enrichment of the citizens of Carbondale and all visitors.

As detailed by the town’s website, CPAC carries out this mission by: • Evaluating sites appropriate for public art; • Promoting local artist’s work; • Giving recommendations to the town trustees about the purchase or acquisition of works of public art; • Pursuing funding to purchase, promote and commission works of art; • Working in cooperation with other public agencies and individuals to promote art awareness.

The Carbondale Public Arts Commission was founded in 1999 by Chris Chacos, Frank Norwood and the town trustees. Other than the two town staff members and the trustee representative, all CPAC members are volunteers.

New members are nominated by current CPAC members, then reviewed and discussed. Nominees are then presented to the town trustees for appointment to a three-year term. A member can be re-nominated for an additional threeyear term.

The CPAC budget for 2015 is $14,300 and the 1% fund for the arts is at $13,920.

CPAC meetings are held at 4:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month and are open to the public. Agendas and minutes may be found on the town website.

Arts commissions are common in many municipalities and are used to open government to citizen participation and input. San Francisco, for example, has commissions on the arts, film, the environment and the status of women, among many others. The city of Denver has commissions on cultural affairs, sports, youth, aging, homelessness and people with disabilities, and others.

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RFTA om page 14 grade-separated (bridges or underpasses) crossings would fall on the town.

For example, Ballenger told The Sopris Sun, “If RFTA were to decide, hey, we just have too much trafďŹ c at the 8th Street crossing (to ensure safe travel for trail users,) they could force the town to spend $5 million to build a grade-separated crossing.â€?

Ballenger said that estimated cost came from City Hall in Glenwood Springs, where town staff have done extensive research into the possible impacts of the ACP. Harrington added that the town has long sought to connect 8th Street to Industry Way, which currently is a dead-end street off Highway 133. But that would mean crossing the Rio Grande right of way, and “the ACP requirements could dramatically increase the costs of making that connection,� Harrington said.

Another potential trouble spot is the intersection of 2nd Street and the right of way, where several parcels of land to the north of the trail are for sale and where additional development might occur, Harrington said.

Besides the crossings, another area of concern, according to the memo, is that the ACP seeks to consolidate existing crossings, whether by private driveways or public roads, and to minimize if not completely prevent any additional crossings from being created, as a way of ensuring the safety of users of the trail and the crossings in the case of resumption of trail service.

But, according to the memo from Ballenger and Harrington, that puts RFTA in the driver’s seat regarding development of land adjacent to the trail, as most developments would need to arrange for crossings in order to have access to Colorado Highway 82 and other public roads in the valley. “The Draft Access Control Plan places RFTA as a major decision maker in land use planning in the Roaring Fork Valley,â€? the memo states. “We are not sure if this has been fully discussed with the RFTA board and the communities impacted by the rail corridor,â€? meaning Basalt, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs and subdivisions in unincorporated GarďŹ eld County.

And all that aside, Ballenger told The Sopris Sun, the present, 2005 ACP “is night and day compared to what’s proposed now,� meaning the draft 2015 ACP. He said the old plan comes to about 11 pages of text, while the draft 2015 plan is

“hundreds of pagesâ€? that are “onerous and difďŹ cult to get through.â€?

If RFTA were to drop its plans to adopt the draft 2015 ACP, Ballenger said, “I could easily write a memo saying I support the 2005 plan. It’s friendly. It’s workable. You can use it.�

RFTA’s side On the other side of the equation is RFTA, where the governing board and the bureaucrats of the agency say they need to preserve the integrity of the trail itself, for the possible resumption of rail service, as the “primaryâ€? focus of the agency’s mission related to the right of way, according to agency documents and ofďŹ cials.

But RFTA also sees its mission as including more than just the right of way. In light of the corridor’s current use as a recreational amenity, the preservation of “conservation values� inherent in the lands surrounding the right of way is viewed as integral to the “secondary� use of the corridor as a public trail.

According to the 2005 ACP, these values include access to the Roaring Fork River, wildlife habitat, connecting trails and other recreational attributes. “The provisions to minimize new public and private crossings, so as to protect the corridor for its primary and secondary uses, and to place the burden on public project sponsors to bear the costs associated with public crossings,� according to Blankenship, stem directly from historic intergovernmental agreement between RFRHA and local governments, funding agreements with Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), a Comprehensive Plan concerning trail management written in 2000, and the 2005 comprehensive plan and ACP updates.

Blankenship wrote in his e-mail that he did not recall the sort of objections or concerns that are being raised now, over the draft 2015 ACP, as being an issue during the 2005 ACP update process.

But he said the 2005 ACP was used as a “guide� during discussions, in 2008 and 2010, about a proposed South Bridge connecting Midland Avenue to Highway 82 at a point south of the Glenwood Springs Municipal Airport.

And, he continued, “I believe the South Bridge project sponsors (Garfield County and the city of Glenwood Springs) were aware of RFTA’s desire for

Worst-case scenario for Carbondale? Under terms of RFTA’s draft access control plan, the town might have to spend millions of dollars for an above grade (bridge) or below grade (underpass) where 8th Street crosses the Rio Grande Trail in the north part of town. Photo by Lynn Burton their project to protect the corridor for future freight rail reactivation.�

The current controversy over the draft 2015 ACP, he wrote, may be due to the possibility of “imminent public crossing being proposed� at different points along the corridor.

Blankenship wrote that the federal Surface Transportation Board (STB), which granted the rail corridor its original “rail banked� status, does not send personnel out to check on the rail-banked status of old freight lines. But, he continued, the STB “does respond to petitions that are filed by adverse parties� who may consider RFTA’s efforts to preserve the corridor to be “overreaching� and unreasonable, Blankenship wrote.

So, if RFTA relaxed its protective posture, or if neighboring property owners or some “other adverse party (were to) make the claim that the corridor had been effectively abandoned,â€? then “the STB could conclude that there wasn’t any intention or ďŹ nancial capabilityâ€? to arrange resumption of rail service in the valley.

At that point the STB could ofďŹ cially “declare the corridor abandoned,â€? which could lead to the loss of the federal landgrant portions of the corridor, Blankenship wrote. “RFTA understands that some people

may not believe that freight rail or passenger rail are ever going to be ďŹ nancially feasible and, therefore, they don’t believe their public crossing projects should incur additional costs to avoid adverse impacts to the corridor,â€? Blankenship conceded. “RFTA fully understands and is sympathetic to their concerns,â€? he continued, “but RFTA was made the steward of the corridor (and) we need to adhere to the requirements of the railbanking (sic) mechanism (and other agreements) to protect and preserve the corridor for its primary mass transit purpose and interim trail and recreational uses.â€?

Given all that, Blankenship wrote, “Whether or not there will ever be freight or commuter rail operating on the corridor is difďŹ cult to say, but what can be said is that RFTA is charged with preserving that option and, in the interim, to maintaining a valuable public asset that serves as safe and scenic 34-mile continuous recreational trail that is enjoyed by thousands of residents and visitors each year.â€?

He also maintained that his agency will “continue to work cooperatively with public crossing sponsors to assist them with developing their projects in ways that make it possible for them to move forward, to the extent that RFTA is able to do so and also protect the corridor asset.�

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RJ Paddywacks: 20 years in the pet products business

By Steve Jundt R. J., the inspiration behind the initials, was a chocolate Lab. The rest of the name came from the children’s song, “This Old Man.” You remember: “with a knickknack paddywhack, give a dog a bone.”

Over the past 20 years, RJ Paddywacks has supplied an inordinate amount of bones to local dogs, and dogs on vacation as well.

Owner/operator Eric Berry said he owes at least some of his love for animals to his two older sisters. “They were into horses, but other pets came into play as well” says Eric, “and being a few years older than I was they assigned me the task of animal caretaker. Grooming the horses and being the facilitator of the family dogs, cats, and turtles was their way of letting me play with the animals.”

The Berry’s have a long Rocky Mountain history. Eric’s grandparents immigrated to Colorado in 1902. The first Jewish family in Fort Collins and the own-

ers of only the second car in the county they opened a shoe store and taught school.

Eric’s dad, Richard, received a scholarship to Harvard after winning a Westinghouse

in publishing for a time in Chicago. When he returned to the Roaring Fork Valley in the early 1990s he worked for both the Aspen Times and the Daily News as well

“I also feel a responsibility to give back to my community and part of that is to teach what is and what is not important for your pet.”

Science Talent Search. He went on to become a chemical physicist. While Richard taught school in Chicago he would bring his family to Aspen, which included young Eric, to wile away the summer months of the 1960s with his peers at the Aspen Center for Physics. “Dad was familiar with Aspen from ski trips as a teenager,” says Eric. “the summer trips we spent there were great and we built a house in Aspen in ’67.”

Eric schooled in journalism and worked

as working the restaurant circuit. “The notion to open a pet supply store was one of practicality,” says Eric. “There were a lot of pet owners … in the mid-valley. I knew I did not want to be involved in a politically charged business and I also did not want to operate a business, which is governed by the tourist cycles. Unfortunately, it turns out that all business here are governed by the cycles to some degree.”

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By John Colson Sopris Sun Correspondent A recent report from Garfield County health department specialists has alarmed some local observers, concerning the apparent detection of a toxic substance in air-quality monitors located in the Carbondale area.

The substance, which appears to match a chemical called acetonitrile, showed up in reports about air-monitoring data for 2013 collected at a Garfield County monitoring site, on land owned by Colorado Rocky Mountain School, according to a recent presentation to the Carbondale Board of Trustees by the county’s environmental health specialists Morgan Hill and Anna Triebel.

The pair of specialists reported that, while nothing definitive is known about the appearance of acetonitrile in the local air, it could be related to the use of the substance in preparing the filtration media used in the monitoring station, meaning it could simply be a case of contamination of the sample.

In any event, Hill told the trustees, at the level of detection the substance should not be a concern to local officials.

A story in The Sopris Sun on the presentation prompted local resident Malcolm McMichael to write, on the “carbondalecitizens” Google group site on Feb. 2, that based on his research acetonitrile “is also found in fracking fluid” and may be used as a corrosion-inhibitor in pipelines.

McMichael’s assertion, however, was denied by Hill in an e-mail exchange with The Sopris Sun.

“In my own research,” Hill wrote on Feb. 23, “I was not able to find a source that listed acetonitrile as a constituent in fracking fluid.”

Fracking [short for hydraulic fracturing] fluid, made up of water, sand and a cocktail of chemicals, is injected in large quantities down wells drilled for natural gas and oil, to break up dense rock formations thousands of feet below the surface and allow the petroleum liquids contained in the formations to rise to the surface.

The controversial process has been widely used in Garfield County over the past two decades as part of the Piceance Basin boom in natural gas drilling activities, and possible air pollution from that industrial activity is a main reason the county has started up air-quality monitoring programs in the region.

A significant part of the controversy is over the exact nature of the chemical cocktail that goes into fracking fluid. Industry sources have argued that the list of chemicals is “proprietary,” and not subject to public disclosure laws, although some companies have voluntarily publicized partial lists of the chemicals used in response to pressure from the public and from the federal government.

Hill and Triebel, in their report in Carbondale, told the trustees that the county has the most extensive air quality monitoring program of all the rural counties in Colorado.

In a subsequent exchange of emails with a reporter, Hill reported that no further in-

“We are expanding our monitoring which will include acetonitrile.

This will allow us to determine specifically what concentrations it is in and potentially identify sources.”

Morgan Hill Environmental health specialist for Garfield County formation about acetonitrile in the local atmosphere is available at this time.

“It is categorized as a hazardous air pollutant (HAP) by the EPA,” Hill wrote, referring to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

But, she continued, it was detected only “as a tentatively identified compound” and in such low amounts that her department “cannot confirm the concentrations it was present in from our samples in 2014.”

In her e-mail, dated Feb. 13, Hill stated, “We are expanding our monitoring” of certain compounds at the Carbondale site for 2015, “which will include acetonitrile. This will allow us to determine specifically what

concentrations it is in and potentially identify sources.”

According to the EPA’s website, acetonitrile is used as a solvent and “for spinning fibers,” for the casting and molding of plastics, and is found in lithium batteries.

In addition, according to the EPA website’s section on sources and potential for exposure, “sources of acetonitrile emissions into the air include manufacturing and industrial facilities, automobile exhaust” and proximity to “aquatic environments.”

Individuals, the site continues, “may be exposed to acetonitrile through breathing contaminated air, from smoking tobacco or proximity to someone who is smoking, or through skin contact in the workplace.”

Short-term exposure can cause irritation of mucous membranes, the EPA reports.

Chronic, or long-term exposure “results in central nervous system effects, such as headaches, numbness and tremors,” or at high levels chronic exposure can “produce weakness, nausea and convulsions,” according to the website.

The EPA site states that “no data are available on its carcinogenic effects in humans,” which has led the agency to classify it in a category called “Group D,” meaning it is “not classifiable as to human carcinogenicity.”

A list of some 750 compounds reported to be used in fracking fluids, submitted to the U.S. Congress in 2011 as a “partial list,” does not contain acetonitrile, according to the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

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Highway 133 work under way; expect some delays Sopris Sun Staff Report According to a press release, the Colorado Department of Transportation has started three bridge projects between Carbondale and Redstone: At mile-marker 51.6 (Coal Creek), mile-marker 62.8 (Thompson Creek) and milemarker 65.8 (the Crystal River).

Weather permitting, the next phase of work will be rock scaling scheduled to begin the week of March 23. The rock scaling will be taking place at the following locations: milemarker 52.6 (between the north and south entrances to Redstone), mile-marker 55.6 (near Penny Hot Springs),

mile-marker 58.3 (about one mile north of Avalanche Creek), mile-marker 60.1 (about two miles south of the former BRB now KOA campground).

A pilot car service will be implemented at times during these projects to minimize traffic delays. Near the end of May the resurfacing part of the project is scheduled to begin.

This $4.07 million dollar project was awarded to Oldcastle SW Group of Grand Junction and is scheduled to be complete by mid-September 2015.

Lane closures will occur for the duration of the project and speeds will be reduced to 35 mph through the work

zone. Depending on how much material is scaled, delays could be about 20 minutes. Vehicles wider than 12 feet will be restricted through the project.

A community open house for this project is planned for mid-April. To be added to the project update list or request an invitation to the open house, please email ColoradoSH133@gmail.com or call the project hotline at 704-5269.

Real time travel updates are available at www.cotrip.org, downloading the CDOT Mobile app or by calling 511 from anywhere in the state.

Trustees om page 3 As approved, the plan calls for a four-plex containing 5,081 square feet of habitable space, including two garages, on a lot of just over 8,200 square feet in size, at the intersection of Sopris and South 2nd Street.

The proposed building, as most recently modified, is to be 24 feet high at the roof’s mid-span (26.6 at the roof peak) according to Pedersen, although the in-fill guidelines and zoning regulations would have allowed a building up to 35 feet high at the mid-span.

At an earlier hearing before the trustees, a vote to deny the project failed by a 3-3 vote (Trustee Frosty Merriott was not present at the meeting).

At the meeting this week, some trustees voiced reservations about aspects of the project, concerning how it would fit in with the neighborhood and whether it would yield truly affordable apartments as promised by Kelley and her team.

“I personally am not in favor of the project,” said Trustee A.J. Hobbs, noting that he was one of the three negative votes at the previous meeting.

But, he added, he felt “obliged to approve it,” largely out of “fear that something worse could be built” on the site if this proposal were to be denied.

“While I’m not excited to approve this,” said Trustee Pam Zentmyer, who along with Trustee Katrina Byars voted against the project on Feb. 10. “I think we have a better project out of this process” than the project as it originally was proposed and approved by P&Z, she explained.

She noted that, although much was said by project supporters about the need for rental units in town, this project would only provide four such units in the face of strong opposition from neighbors.

But Mayor Stacey Bernot, who voted in favor of approving the project on Feb. 10, reiterated her view that the project is better than “the potential for what could be there,” which might be a 4,000 square-foot, single family house built to a height of 35 feet, as allowed by zoning.

“My job is to see to it that we have things in place for the betterment of the whole community,” she said, adding that she feels this project is an example of that ideal, despite objections.

In other action, the trustees: • Approved the final master plan subdivision plat for the Thompson Park project, located next to the Historic Thompson House museum and park along Highway 133 opposite the Third Street Center. Further approvals are needed before construction can begin on the project, which calls for a mix of housing units next door to the planned new Ross Montessori School, the site for which was sold to the school by Cerise Park developer Frieda Wallison.

• Approved special event liquor licenses for four events in town; the Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers annual kickoff party at the Third Street Center on April 2; an April 10 fundraiser for the Blue Lake Preschool, to be held at The Orchard Gathering Place on Snowmass Drive; an April 11 Corn Hole Tournament to be held at the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center next to Town Hall; and the annual Five Points Film Festival, April 23-26, to be held at three locations this year — Steve’s Guitars on Fourth Street, the Carbondale Spruce Building at 201 Main St., and the Recreation and Community Center next to Town Hall.

• Approved a new retail cannabis shop at 259 Main St., the former location of the Floyd’s of Mayberry barbershop.

Backed by Benton Jackson (left) on the “parmonica,” cheered on by a cheese-hungry crowd and fellow employees, and armed with four specific tools, Nate Brewick (in the hat) “cracked” a 100-pound wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano in about 70 seconds at Whole Foods at 1 p.m. on March 7. The El Jebel event was one of more than 400 simultaneous crackings at Whole Foods stores across the U.S. and beyond. Brewick, the store’s special team leader, said Whole Foods goes through a Parmesan wheel such as this one about every 10 days. Photos by Lynn Burton

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bike-path link on Snowmass Drive, in between Sopris Avenue and Main Street, with a bike lane. We see the dangers of not having any safe way for bikers and pedestrians to travel along that section of Snowmass Drive and we are concerned. Crystal River Elementary School lies right down the street, and for the elementary kids who use that section of Snowmass Drive to get to school their parents are also concerned. This showed in results from a survey we gave out to the parents of the elementary school students.

We are proposing to solve this by adding a painted bike lane along this small strip of Snowmass Drive. A bike lane would not only service bikers and pedestrians, but is money and time efďŹ cient. In order to achieve this we need support not just from Carbondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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