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For the record

“The Time Travelers” — the subjects of an eponymous film – on a training run in advance of their unsuccessful attempt to set the Grand Canyon speed record.

Photo courtesy of Forest Woodward

It’s the journey, not the destination

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Writer Let’s get this out of the way to begin with: they didn’t beat the record.

And while it would have been a satisfying ending for the six world-class rafters to make it through the Grand Canyon in less than 34 hours, it’s not essential to the story

of “The Time Travelers.”

Sponsored by Chaco and REI, the Gnarly Bay film is as much about the training process and the people waiting at the finish line as the 277 miles between Lees Ferry and Grand Wash Cliffs.

You can catch it as part of the Five Point Film Festival at 7 p.m. on April 21 at the Carbondale Rec Center or stream it from the comfort of your own home at vimeo.com/208176323.

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films that are just about high level athletes doing exciting things… I think there’s been a shift in the last 5 or 10 years where you can’t get away with just adventure porn.

You have to have another element to it,” filmmaker Brenden Leonard explained. “If you can come to some greater truth, you have a much better product that we can all relate to… I hope we helped the guys dig a little deeper and think about what it meant in the broader scope of their lives. I think there’s some real characters who have some depth and perspective.”

Indeed, over the course of the 23-minute

film, you’ll hear a number of attitudes you don’t expect from exceptional people doing exceptional things.

Indeed, about halfway through the 23minute film, a voiceover from one of the rowers shares an attitude you don’t often hear from exceptional people doing exceptional things.

“It’s pretty insignificant to a canyon that’s millions of years old… Certainly the river doesn’t care if there’s six guys in a boat trying to row real fast down it,” he says. “The significance is more about our TIME TRAVELERS page 17

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

What gets measured? In search of a Golden Rule When the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported on the not a word about health, wasn’t Ryan arguing that we’re better probable impact of the first TrumpCare bill, I wrote this rant: off with people getting sick?

“What the CBO measures is dollars. What it doesn’t measure is Recently, James Martin, a Jesuit priest “who considers himself human misery: The leading cause of bankruptcy in this country is a capitalist” wrote about public reaction to passenger Dr. David medical debt. The most contentious marital issue is money. Di- Dao being dragged bloodied and screaming from a United Airlines vorces rise in times of financial distress, and divorce, flight. “When we watch the video of the event, in turn, is the greatest cause of financial distress something in us says, ‘That’s not right’,” he writes. among women, especially those with children. Sui“Pay attention to that feeling. It is conscience cide rates rise at times of recession and depression, speaking.” What sparked outrage, Martin opined, measured all the way back into the 1930’s. wasn’t just recalling the frustrations we have all What we’re talking about here is death, illness, felt in flying, “but the immorality of a system that divorce, homelessness and suicide. None of that is leads to a degradation of human dignity”. quantified in the CBO report — even though it I don’t know if we can measure human dignity, probably can be projected and measured.” but there are gauges for measuring human wellWhen TrumpCare II premiers, we’ll probably be being: The triple bottom line used by socially reled off track with similar projections. sponsible businesses is one; it includes social, Years ago, in GE management school, I was environmental and financial outcomes. Another, taught that “what gets measured gets done.” But the World Bank’s Wealth Index, defines 60 percent what we measure can be misleading, and what we of a nation’s wealth as “human capital” such as sofail to measure can be crucial. cial organization, skills and knowledge; 20 percent Senator Robert F. Kennedy famously said that the as “environmental capital” and 20 percent as Gross National Product (GNP) “does not include “built capital”, such as factories and financial capthe beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marital. The Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life scale, riages, the intelligence of our public debate or the

By Nicolette Toussaint developed in part by Hazel Henderson, includes 12 integrity of our public officials. It measures neither indicators: education, employment, energy, enviour wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, nei- ronment, health, human rights, income, infrastructure, national sether our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures curity, public safety, recreation and shelter. everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”

Unfortunately, in our current political climate, I see little Kennedy came to that view after a 1967 helicopter ride with progress on most of these scales. I hear almost no discussion of economist Hazel Henderson. Years ago, at a Healthy Cities con- them. The only rule is financial, and the golden rule is interpreted ference, I heard Henderson make a statement I have never forgot- as “the guy with the gold makes the rule”. ten. She said that in terms of GNP or GDP, the most profitable Recently, the words of poet William Wordsworth have been shipping run in history had been the “voyage of the Exxon Valdez.” ringing in my head: The reason: those measures “count ‘bads’ as well as ‘goods.’” As Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Mark Thomas explained in a January 2016 Moneywatch column, Little we see in Nature that is ours; “When an earthquake hits and requires rebuilding, GDP increases.

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

When someone gets sick and money is spent on their care, it’s It seems to me, if we are to have a democracy, if we are to have counted as part of GDP. But nobody would argue that we’re bet- an environment that supports future generations, we must be ter off because of a destructive earthquake or people getting sick.” about more than “getting and spending”. We must not only reBut that’s precisely what many of our elected leaders have been capture our hearts, we must also measure and weigh in our pubdoing. Consider what House Speaker Paul Ryan said about lic discourse those things that make life worthwhile.

TrumpCare in March: “What I’m encouraged with is… that the CBO is telling us…it’s going to lower premiums 10 percent. It sta- Nicolette Toussaint has written for the Sopris Sun since 2010. Her bilizes the market, it’s a $1.2 trillion spending cut, a $883 billion writing has also been published in the Denver Post, the San Frantax cut and $372 billion in deficit reduction.” By saying virtually cisco Examiner, Roaring Fork Lifestyle magazine and Newsweek.

OPINION

Seeking Higher Ground

Letters

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Include your name and residence (for publication) and a contact email and phone number. Submit letters via email to news@soprissun.com or via snail mail to P.O. Box 399, Carbondale, CO 81623. The deadline to submit letters to the editor is noon on Monday.

Lost in translation Dear Editor: Public schools are public resources. They’re our schools. Every voice in our school community deserves to be heard and understood.

That doesn’t mean we’re all going to agree with every decision each administrator makes, but it does mean we can’t give up on sharing our views, working to understand views different from our own, and stepping up to support our schools.

At a recent school board meeting that process of understanding each other’s perspectives was short-circuited: two brave and articulate Spanish-speaking parents spoke about an issue before the board and there was no plan for providing translation at the meeting. While the diversity of Carbondale’s public schools makes for a rich educational experience for our kids, it also presents an

added challenge when it comes to understanding each other’s viewpoints.

I imagine the Spanish-speaking parents at that meeting felt like the board and administrators had no interest in hearing what they had to say. However, having sat on the other side of that table, I know it was not a matter of the board members or administrators not caring about these parents’ opinions--it was about the board members and administrators not having the foresight to realize that translation was going to be a problem at this meeting. Yes, someone should have considered this issue ahead of time. At the very least, one of the board members or administrators should have stopped the meeting and figured out a way to address the problem once they realized it was occurring.

However, I also think we can’t just point our finger at “them” and say “they” screwed

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up. Yes, they screwed up. But so did all of us sitting in that room. Any one of us could have raised our hands and suggested that we pause the meeting until we figure out a way to make sure these parents’ words were understood by everyone in the room.

Our schools will be the best they can be when we think of them as our schools and focus on what we can do to improve them.

Thinking in terms of “us vs. them," and blaming "them" for the problems we see, won’t get us very far.

Why didn’t I jump up and stop the meeting when Mr. Clemente was speaking? Because I was busy thinking, “Oh my gosh! Is no one going to translate? What should we do? Should I interrupt him in the middle of his passionate speech and ask what’s going on?” That internal struggle does not excuse LETTERS page 19

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Marijuana industry optimistic despite federal rhetoric

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Marijuana has been legal for adult recreational use (meaning the over-21 crowd) since 2012, and for medical uses (including minors aged 18 or older with parental permission) since 2000, but it remains listed as a “controlled substance” as dangerous as heroin by the federal government.

But it took another nine years before cannabis, its formal designation, became widely available to the public, after the Obama administration announced it would not pursue enforcement of federal antimarijuana laws in states where the drug had been legalized.

Carbondale, like many other towns around Colorado, experienced a “green boom” starting in 2010, as local and regional entrepreneurs jumped on the medical marijuana bandwagon, and expanding in 2012 after recreational pot was legalized.

At one point there were 13 cannabisrelated licenses on file at Carbondale’s Town Hall, representing cultivation facilities, medical marijuana shops and more.

Today, according to Town Clerk Cathy Derby, the situation may seem a bit tamer than the “wild west of marijuana” of several years ago, as those heady days were known.

But the fact is, while the boom seems to have died down, the cannabis businesses here is as thriving as ever.

Derby reported that the town currently has on file five retail marijuana licenses, two

for medical marijuana, four retail cultivation permits, two medical cultivation licenses, four licenses for retail “marijuana infused products” (or MIPs, as they are known) such as candy and cookies, and three permits for medical-marijuana MIPs. That’s a total of 20 licenses, but because businesses have overlapping licenses for different aspects of the industry, that represents nine distinct businesses.

Only one local store, Rocky Mountain High on Buggy Lane, offers both retail and medical marijuana products.

Derby said three are not “operational,” meaning they are not open for business but still hold a valid license.

Statewide, according to the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division of the Department of Revenue, there are nearly 3,000 cannabis-related businesses — 1,561 of them in medical marijuana, and 1,410 in retail.

Concerns about the feds The “green boom” in Colorado and other areas has recently been tempered by concern that federal authorities, under President Donald Trump, have threatened to shut down or otherwise interfere with voter-approved cannabis industries in the 29 states that either have such laws or soon will.

The emphasis so far, according to statements from Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other members of the current administration, has been on the recreational pot industry, which is legal in only seven states,

This particular room in Rocky Mountain High’s cultivation facility houses plants that are two, three and four weeks old. It appears as if these plants receive a lot of pampering. Photo by Jane Bachrach according to the website www.governing.com.

Even so, most cannabis entrepreneurs in Colorado remain hopeful that the nascent cannabis industry is of considerable value to strapped state economies and is here to stay.

For example, The Hill, an online news publication, reported on April 4 that the governors of four states — Washington, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska — wrote to Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on the topic of cannabis.

The letter asked the Justice Department

to maintain a 2013 agreement crafted under the Obama administration, known as the Cole Memo, which pledged to take a handsoff attitude toward federal marijuana law enforcement in states where cannabis had been legalized by the voters.

And in March of this year, news agencies reported that a bipartisan bill had been introduced into Congress to completely remove cannabis plants from the Controlled Substances Act, leaving cannabis enforcePOT page 16

ousands of uses but gettin’ high ain’t one

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Jackie Chenoweth is what one might call an industrial-hemp enthusiast; someone who, with a silent partner, has been working for about four years through their organization, the Colorado Hemp Education Association (www.coloradohemped.org), to bring about what she sees as a necessary change in laws governing hemp at the state and federal level.

The Carbondale-area resident firmly believes the plant, a non-psychoactive member of the cannabis family of plants — meaning one cannot get “high” on hemp — can change the world for the better if only people can learn that hemp is not the same thing as “pot” and that hemp has more than 25,000 known uses that have nothing to do with altering one’s consciousness.

Hemp and its psychoactive cousin, pot, were legalized by two voter-approved constitutional amendments, in 2000 and 2012, sparking what is known as Colorado’s “green boom” of cannabis-related businesses, though hemp has lagged behind pot for a number of reasons, including federal prohibitions against both.

Rather than simply sitting back and hoping for her hemp-advocacy dream to come

true, Chenoweth has become an activist; one who puts out a quarterly newsletter, allows herself to be interviewed by reporters, and joins in activities and organizations who believe in the same thing she does where hemp is concerned.

And, in her latest gambit to gain highprofile adherents to her ideas, she has penned a letter to President Donald Trump, asking him to sign on to movement to legalize industrial hemp as a regular crop in the U.S. pantheon of agricultural products.

“Everybody, I think, has been put off by the whole Trump election,” said Chenoweth.

But, as noted above, she has written to the president, asking him to join our nation’s first president, George Washington, and others through the decades who recognized hemp as an important component of America’s industrial might.

President Trump has indicated, at various times, that he is not all that interested in coming down hard on states that have legalized medical or recreational marijuana and industry observers believe Trump also favors leaving the nascent hemp industry alone in states where it is legal.

Meanwhile, in Colorado, the hemp industry is looking to grow in the coming years, in part by education of the public.

“We do events,” she declared during a recent interview with The Sopris Sun, “and we try to educate the public about the differences between hemp and marijuana.”

Of course, she conceded, that statement alone illustrates a big part of hemp’s problem — it has for too long been inextricably linked to its herbological cousin, popularly known as marijuana.

In fact, the very word, “hemp,” is viewed by some as interchangeable with the common terms describing its more psychoactive cousin — pot, herb, ganja, weed, the drug is called by many different names.

But, she said with emphasis, “Hemp is not marijuana!”

Hemp, she said, looks very different from the usual pot plant, in that hemp typically is thinner and taller does not have the same bushy “buds” that characterize pot plants, and usually is below the legal maximum of .3 percent level of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive component that gives users the high from pot.

In fact, the .3 percent maximum THC level, which is enforced by the State of Colorado to determine whether a hemp crop can legally be harvested and used, is one of the legal limitations that she and others believe needs to be changed (pot grown and

sold in Colorado, by comparison, can reach THC levels as high as nearly 20 percent.)

Growing industry As noted by those interviewed for this story, the hemp industry in Colorado is growing rapidly.

There is a division of the Colorado Department of Agriculture devoted exclusively to the industry, and the CDA’s website (www.colorado.gov/pacific/agplants/industrial-hemp) displays more than 55 pages containing more than 400 businesses that have registered with the hemp program.

In the Roaring Fork Valley region, the list shows five such businesses in Garfield County (one of which is listed in Carbondale), one in Pitkin County, and 19 in neighboring Mesa County, to count just a few.

A woman with one of the companies, Salt Creek Hemp Co. in Collbran (at the eastern fringe of the Grand Mesa), and a man who has started a county-wide cooperative of hemp companies from different parts of Mesa County, spoke with The Sopris Sun about the business, their prospects and their concerns.

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Town Briefs

e ditches are running in the ’Dale The streets and utilities crews were finishing cleaning and preparing the town ditches for an April 18 start, according to Town Manager Jay Harrington’s weekly memo to staff, trustees and others the previous Friday. The Sopris Sun was later able to directly confirm that water began flowing on schedule.

Meanwhile…

• The Rec Center will have an altered schedule as the 5 Point Film Festival takes place there. The basketball gym and activity room will be closed April 19 through 24 and no programs or classes will take place there. The fitness area will be open April 20 and 21 from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. and April 22 and 23 from 8 a.m. to noon.

• The summer recreation brochure was mailed out throughout the zip code, inserted in The Sun and is also available at carbondalerec.com. The newest adult league, women’s volleyball, commenced with six teams. Registration is being taken for summer programs; contact Jason Thraen with questions at 510-1279 or jthraen@carbondaleco.net. Drop-in offerings include basketball on Wednesday evenings, soccer on Friday evenings, and pickleball on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings. New students are also being accepted for SahnTaeKwonDo. • Interviews begin this week for the full

time position of Recreation Facility Coordinator with the Town of Carbondale Parks & Recreation Department. Meanwhile, seasonal job positions still open include: parks maintenance (contact Russell Sissom for more information at rsissom@carbondaleco.net or 510-1327) vegetation management (contact David Coon at dcoon@carbondaleco.net) lifeguards, WSI instructors, and recreation assistants (contact Margaret Donnelly, mdonnelley@carbondaleco.net or 510-1280).

• Volunteer registration is now open for Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) Carbondale Boat Ramp Project, which is scheduled for May 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Interested volunteers can go to the rfov.org to sign up for the project.

• Parks crews conducted their usual removal of trash and dog waste from trails and parks, as well as playground safety inspection and a weed mitigation burn in Delaney Nature Park. They also tiled the volleyball courts and put up nets, added new locks to park bathrooms, mulched and cleaned up the Rec Center grounds and prepared the Fourth Street Plaza for 5Point.

• The Third Street project continued with new sidewalk and ribbon curb between Sopris and Euclid, with work moving steadily north. In addition, the street crew began work this week on the new sidewalk along Village Road near Bert and Ernie

Park. During the sidewalk project, parking on the west side of Village Road will be prohibited to allow enough room for workers and equipment.

• The Public Work Director had a meeting with contractors at the old landfill site and anticipates receiving quotes for this work in the near future. The Crystal Well contract is being routed for signatures, the flow meter arrived, and submittals for the baffling and telemetry have been routed to SGM. Water demand has started increasing. The Roaring Fork plant is being operated during the daytime to keep the water tanks full. The Gateway RV park water system has been pressurized and disinfected. A leak has been discovered in the house crawl space; repairs are scheduled.

• The Planning Commission met on April 13 to consider a Major Site Plan Review application for a seven unit townhome development on Lot A of Crystal Village PUD behind City Market and Ace Hardware. The Commission continued the public hearing based on concerns that the design of the building did not comply with aspects of the unified development code.

Overall, planning staff have seen many more inquiries on the development of parcels throughout town. They have also been working with the City of Durango on updates to their marijuana regulations.

Cop Shop Between April 7 and 13, Carbondale Police Officers handled 228 calls for service. During that period, they investigated the following cases of note:

FRIDAY, April 7 at 11:54 p.m.: A 17year old girl was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, among other charges, following a report of a hitand-run accident near Eighth Street and Cleveland Avenue.

APRIL 6 & APRIL 12: Police took at least two separate reports on possible sex assaults on children.

WEDNESDAY, April 12 at 12:47 a.m.: Carbondale officers noticed numerous vehicles that had been egged in the Hendrick Ranch neighborhood. According to a press release, this is the third time in three weeks that different neighborhoods have been egged late at night or early in the morning. Eggs can be very difficult on paint and building materials and might cause permanent expensive damage if not cleaned immediately, the release noted. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 963- 2662.

In the same release, police invited business owners and managers to update their after-hours contact information in case of an emergency by contacting Josh Sanders at 510-1256.

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Arbor Day Celebration Saturday April 29, 2017 Meet at Miners’ Park at 9 AM Please join the Town of Carbondale and the Carbondale Tree Board in planting three memorial trees and a tree for National Autism Awareness Month. Bring friends and family to help in planting trees for Carbondale. Bring work gloves. Coffee, tea, juices and donuts will be served.

Celebrating 8 years of 6SHFLDO WKDQNV WR .D\ %UXQQLHU IRU KHU JHQHURXV ¿QDQFLDO FRQWULEXWLRQV IRU WKH SODQWLQJ of trees in the Town of Carbondale’s parks, open spaces and public right of way. The Kay Brunnier Tree Fund has made possible the planting of Eighty trees since 2010 through a matching fund program with individuals, groups and businesses.

2017 Arbor Day Tree Plantings will be taking place at the following locations: Miners’ Park Ƅ Bur Oak – Sponsored by Ascendigo – honoring National Autism Awareness Month Ƅ Ponderosa Pine – Sponsored by Kay Brunnier and Ryan’s family – In memory of Ryan Jennings

Sopris Park Ƅ Bur Oak – Sponsored by the Kuznier z extended family – In memory of Ryan Becvarik

Thompson House Ƅ Autumn Blaze Maple – Sponsored by friends and family of Mary Lilly – In memory of Mary Lilly

For more information, contact David Coon Town Arborist at 970-510-1331

Scuttlebutt

Send your scuttlebutt to news@soprissun.com. pearing from 16 to 18 days after exposure. People who think they may have mumps should contact their healthcare providers. Health officials are seeing a large increase in mumps cases reported nationwide, and County Public Health Director Yvonne Long urged locals to keep up to date on vaccinations.

Waste of energy With hot summer months coming up, home energy assessments — the first step in making a home more cool, comfortable, safe and energy efficient — are available through Energy Smart Colorado at CORE for $100. The assessment, valued at $400, includes up to $100 worth of immediate energy saving upgrades such as LED light bulbs, water heater insulation and a programmable thermostat.

For more information or to sign up, call an energy coach at 704-9200 or visit garfieldcleanenergy.org.

Potent potholes

The local girl scout troop recently donated over 80 boxes of cookies to the Carbondale Police officers, who they voted as their Home Town Heros this year. Left to right are Kyra Reeds, Kailei Gianinetti, Jillian Cole and Isla Brumby with officers are Gretchen Bell Lieutenant Chris Wurtsmith. Courtesy photo

Mump change Garfield County Public Health is investigating four reported mumps cases in county residents, all in adults and stemming from the same initial exposure.

Mumps is a viral infection that causes painful swelling in the glands of the cheek and jaw, with symptoms usually ap-

The freeze and thaw cycle of spring means plenty of potholes on public roads, and while the Colorado Department of Transportation is on the lookout, they also rely on customers to let them know when one is getting out of hand.

Visit www.codot.gov/topcontent/contact-cdot to report highway maintenance concerns or to ask about other CDOT related topics.

Carbondale commando A ’Bonedalian recently took to social media to report overhearing the following conversation in Glenwood Springs: (Female 1) “The trouble with Carbondale is that there’s nowhere to shop. I don’t know where people in Carbondale even go to buy underwear.” (Female 2) “What makes you think that people who live in Carbondale wear underwear?” The staff of The Sun would like to assure newcomers that, while there was a time when such things were hard to obtain, City Market

and Family Dollar carry the cheap stuff, while you could probably get something snazzier at Lulubelle. We chose not to investigate per capita undergarment usage rates.

Clean cut The whole community is invited as Colorado Mountain College holds a road and single track build from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 21 at its Spring Valley campus (3000 County Road 114). Foot, gloves, safety vests and bags will be provided. For more information, call 947-8204 or email amaes@coloradomtn.edu.

Go wild Early bird tickets are on sale ($30 for general admission and $125 for the whole shebang) through May 15th for “Wildfest” on July 1 — a celebration of public lands at the late Hunter S. Thompson’s Owl Farm in Woody Creek.

Bands include World’s Finest of Portland and The Railsplitters of Boulder. Visit wildernessworkshop.org/wildfest for tickets and info.

Cranky constituents Indivisible Roaring Fork Valley and other local organizations are planning a rally demanding a public, in person town hall from Senator Cory Gardner, who will be at the Hotel Colorado (526 Pine St., Glenwood Springs) for a party event on April 21. The rally is slated for 5 to 7 p.m. on the public sidewalks around the hotel.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthdays this week include: Jack Bergstrom, Molly Jacober and April Clark (April 20), Shannon Muse (April 21), Kameron Miranda (April 22), Rosemary Dewers (April 23), Dick Gibson (April 24) and Gayle Embrey (April 26).

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Harrington in the running for Vail town manager

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Carbondale officials were uncertain when they will learn whether Town Manager Jay Harrington will be leaving soon to take a new job in Vail following two days of interviews that Town Clerk Cathy Derby described as “intensive.”

Derby told The Sopris Sun that the interviews of Harrington and two other finalists for the Vail town manager’s job would be taking place on April 18 and 19, and that the process involved numerous meetings with members of the town council, the town staff and others.

Harrington was not scheduled to return to his office at Carbondale’s Town Hall until April 20, Derby said, adding that Harrington had not told her when a decision by Vail might be expected.

Harrington confirmed on April 13 that he is one of three finalists for the job in Vail.

Harrington, 50, has been the town manager for Carbondale since the summer of 2011.

He has 23 years of city and town management experience, according to a bio on the Vail website, having served as manager for Telluride and Pagosa Springs, and as a senior planner for La Plata County.

The other two finalists are Dave Buckingham, currently city manager for Morro Bay, California, and Michael Kovacs, city manager for Fate, Texas, according to an announcement published on the Vail municipal website (www.vailgov.com). The three were picked out of a field of 61 applicants.

The search for a new manager has been underway since shortly after the former manager, Stan Zemler, announced his resignation in late November 2016, with the plan of leaving the office on March 31.

According to a town spokeswoman, Zemler was earning approximately $197,000 a year when he quit. Harrington, according to town records, currently earns approximately $135,000 annually.

Harrington, in a recent interview with The Sopris Sun, said he had submitted an application for the Vail job earlier this year, in part just to go through what he described as the educational potential of the interview process.

“I’ve applied for another job a little while back, and I found that I learned things in the process that I might want to apply to my own hiring procedures (in Carbondale),” said Harrington.

But he also said that there are significant reasons for him to consider the position.

“There’s obviously way more to it than money,” he said, explaining that he has not yet had his final interview with Vail officials and was not even sure exactly what “financial package” would be offered to the three candidates.

Beyond that, he said, “It all comes down to fit, and you have no idea of the fit until you go through the process” of being interviewed for a position.

He is also not sure he wants to pull his son out of school at Roaring Fork High School.

“It would have to be a great opportunity, and everything would have to fall into place, for me to want to move my son from Roaring Fork,” he said, adding that Frankie has told him more than once that he attributes “a lot of his success as a student to the vice principal (Kelsie Goodman).”

Harrington also stressed it’s not that he is tired of working for Carbondale, noting that “we have a good board of trustees here” as well as an experienced staff with which he works well.

Still, he said, it is not unusual to see a town manager in Colorado checking out other employment opportunities every couple of years.

“It all comes down to fit, and you have no idea of the fit until you go through the process.”

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Stringer excited to be new RFHS principal despite debate

By Will Grandbois Sopris Sun Staff Writer Brett Stringer has taken a hands off approach as the community discussed Superintendent Rob Stein’s decision to offer him a job as principal of Roaring Fork High School, but now that the School Board has approved the move, he’s eager to introduce himself to the community. “I really want to meet people,� he told The Sopris Sun. “I’m extremely appreciative of what I’ve learned from afar. They want what’s best for their kids, and you can’t argue with that.�

Stringer, 39, spent most of his childhood in Eagle County, went to high school in Colorado Springs, and studied ďŹ lm at The University of Denver, where he met his future wife, Mandy. He didn’t take a direct path to administration. “There seems to be a push lately for people to jump right into it, but it was a nice gradual thing,â€? he said. “I think being in the classroom is one of the greatest things in the world.â€?

Coaching teachers on a part-time basis led to the role of Dean of Instruction at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College, then assistant principal at Merrill Middle School. He currently serves as principal of the North Middle School Health Sciences & Technology Campus in Aurora.

The couple have two kids — Sully, 10, and Lucy, 8. While they were fairly content, they couldn’t help taking note when

the Riverview School principalship came Principal Keslie Goodman should have open last year. Stringer applied, and while been selected for the top job, he doesn’t he didn’t get the job, “it kind of solidiďŹ ed take it personally. that it was a place to be‌ We’ve been in “I think Kelsie is amazing and the ata bigger city for a long time, but I think tributes she brings to the community are a our heart has always been in communities true asset,â€? he said. “I’m looking forward to like Carbondale.â€? both of us working together.â€?

When current Roaring Public outcry Fork High School PrinciAs faculty, students and parpal Drew Adams anents began ďŹ nding out about nounced he was leaving Stein’s selection of Stringer at the position to work the end of March, many exabroad, Stringer seized pressed discontent with the the opportunity. While process. Some opted for a suphe’s not uent in Spanish, portive tone, including the stuhe’s not intimidated by dent organizers of a “wafe-inâ€?

Roaring Fork’s majority demonstration, but as the item Latino population. came before the Roaring Fork Brett Stringer “I’ve only worked in School District board as part of culturally and linguistiits routine personnel consent agenda, the cally diverse schools,� he said.

Indeed, his very ďŹ rst classroom was Eng- objections became more direct.

As the board and staff held an hourlish language development, with around a long executive session in the Bridges dozen languages spoken. “You can learn a lot about communi- High School building next door, the Calcation through interacting with people,� away Community Room at the Carbondale Branch Library filled with restless he observed.

The greater challenges may be outside community members. When the time the school. There’s the matter of ďŹ nding a came for public comment, speakers were place to live in a tight housing market and overwhelmingly in favor of Goodman Mandy will need to hunt down a new job. for principal. “We are on the cusp of greatness,â€? said “If we’re going to go for this, then we’re going to jump in,â€? Stringer said. “Both my longtime teacher Jill Knaus. “Ms. Goodkids are relatively nervous about leaving man has worked tirelessly to get us to this point. She is a rockstar.â€? friends, but they’re really excited.â€?

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was not able to attend the meeting, but asked Chad Knaus to read a comment for her. “I feel strongly that Roaring Fork School District should try to cultivate the leadership they seek,� she wrote. “Maybe Brett would be the choice regardless, but if your process has been called into question how can you be sure of its outcome?�

Two of the comments addressed to the board were entirely in Spanish, and while an attendee volunteered to translate the second, parent Juan Clemente addressed them without one. “Si que si Uds. hacen una entrevista a los padres de hijos latinos les aseguro que la mayorĂ­a va a estar de acuerdo en que se quede Kelsie al frente de la escuela,â€? he said. “Conoce el lugar, conoce a los estudiantes, conoce la comunidad.â€? (“If you interviewed the parents of Latino kids, I’m sure that the majority would agree that Kelsie should be in charge of the school‌ She knows the school, she knows the students, she knows the community.â€?)

The lack of an ofďŹ cial translator drew consternation from the assembly, and according to RFSD public information ofďŹ cer Kelsy Been, the board is working on ways to address the issue in the future.

In the end, while some board members expressed reservations, none found justiďŹ cation to overrule Stein’s choice and the item passed unanimously. “The ďŹ ve of us have spent a lot of time thinking about this issue and it’s not someRFHS PRINCIPAL page 12

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YOGA WITH CATS • Join cat-lover Faith Lipori and the felines of Colorado Animal Rescue for a special yoga class at C.A.R.E. (2801 County Rd. 114). Classes run from 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. and 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. with mats provided and a $20 minimum donation. Cat adoption fees will be lowered to $25 during the event. Space is limited, so please call 947-9173 to reserve your spot.

MARCH FOR SCIENCE • AlicetheMag hosts another satellite event in support of a national demonstration. This time, activists march to honor the environment and science that upholds the common good. Participants should meet at The Goat (995 Cowen Dr.) at 10 a.m. and plan to walk up to the roundabout and back — about three miles over the course of an hour.

FRIDAY April 21

RENEGADE BLUES • Next 2 the Tracks plays from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at The Black Nugget (403 Main St.).

MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “The Zookeeper’s Wife” (PG-13) at 7:30 p.m.

Apr. 21-27; “Akron” (PG-13) at 5:15 p.m.

Apr. 21 presented by Aspen Film/AspenOUT; “A United Kingdom” (PG-13) at 5 p.m.

Apr. 22 and “The Founder” (PG-13, captioned) at 5 p.m. on Apr. 16.

ACOUSTIC COVERS • The Marble Bar (150 Main St.) welcomes Tom Ressel at 8 p.m. for an evening of live acoustic music. Ressel plays a variety of classic covers – both old and new – with a few originals thrown in for fun.

MOUNTAIN ART • Catch the opening reception of “The Mountains Are Calling” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at The Launchpad (76 S. Fourth St.) Carbondale Arts & The 5Point Film Festival co-host the exhibition featuring work by artists Kelsey Brasseur, Amy Martin, Kelly Peters, Sarah Uhl, Carl Zoch, and possibly Jeremy Collins – a “provocative love letter from the lands that have captured us as well as a celebration of what lies beyond the daily landscape of our lives and what we unavoidably can not live without.”

SUNDAY APRIL 23 THe BARD’S BIRTHDAY • Say, “Happy Birthday, Will” while supporting the future of the performing arts with a celebration of the 453rd anniversery of Shakespeare’s birth at 6 p.m. at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church (5546 Highland Park Dr., Glenwood). Featuring the Defiance Community Players with performances including “As You Like It” and “Twelfth Night” accompanied by authentic Renaissance music, audience participation and birthday cake, it’s a free event with a donation to the Ivy Adler Scholarship for the Performing Arts appreciated.

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• First Monday of every month catch a powerpoint presentation by Dr. Feinsinger about the science behind plant-based nutrition 7 to 8:30 p.m. board room Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.).

• Fourth Monday of every month, plantbased potluck 6:30 p.m. Calaway Room Third Street Center.

All events supported by Davi Nikent, Center for Human Flourishing. More information at www.davinikent.org.

DRUM DANCE • Carbondale Community School (1505 Satank Rd.) hosts an exhilarating dance class to live African drumming from 6 to 7:30 p.m. All ages and abilities welcome, $12 minimum per person to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union.

BEAT THE DEVIL • The Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork (16543 Highway 82) presents the Anthropos production “Beat the Devil! Faust, the Whole Story” performed by Glen Williamson from 6:30 to 8 p.m.; tickets $10-40 at the door. A short preview of this production (also known as The Tragedy of Mephistopheles) can be seen on YouTube.

WEIGHT LOSS • Learn about how medical intervention as well as diet and supplements can help you to find a healthier equilibrium and take home some tools to start using now to strengthen your personal plan for wellness that includes losing some weight. Hosted by Lynn Bowen of Sopris Medical Practice and Lynn Ruoff of

Rainbow of Health, the class takes place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) with a $20 suggested donation.

WEDNESDAY April 26 CAREER EXPO • GlenX showcases potential career paths for all high school students from around the area from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Roaring Fork High School (2270 Highway 133). Not just businesses hiring, but professionals able to devote a few hours to talk to students about their industry can sign up at www.glenxcareerexpo.com.

JAZZ SHOWCASE • Jazz Aspen Snowmass shows off talent student bands from Aspen, Basalt, Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, Rifle, and Coal Ridge from 6 to 8 p.m. at Roaring Fork High (2270 Highway 133).

FOREIGN FILM NIGHT • Beginning at 5:15 p.m., the Basalt Regional Library (14 Midland Ave.) shows “Il Postino” an Academy Award nominated Italian film about Cuban poet Pablo Neruda and the postman assigned to carry his mail after his exile.

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS • The High Country Retired Senior Volunteer Program presents a class on what you can do to be prepared and what services are available to hlep in the event of a disaster from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Colorado Mountain College’s Glenwood Springs Campus (1402 Blake Ave.). Register by calling 970-945-7486 or at www.coloradomtn.edu/register with the syn number 04075.

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THURSDAY April 27

FRIDAY April 28 SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT • S.A.W. (525 Buggy Cir.) hosts an art sale and auction from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. to support the Aaron Roberts-Gray Memorial Scholarship Fund.

DRUG DISPOSAL • Turn in your unused or expired household prescription or over-the-counter medication for safe disposal from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Carbondale Police Department (511 Colorado Ave.). Hazardous waste such as needles and other sharps, pressurized containers, radioactive substances or illicit drugs will not be accepted.

STUDENT POETRY • The Aspen Poets’ Society hosts its 4th Annual Spotlight on Student Poets at 6:30 p.m. at Victoria’s Café (510 E. Durant Ave., Aspen) with live music by Dan Sheridan and special open mic for students and adults. All poets and listeners welcome; no fee.

RIVER WORK • Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers partners with an array of other local organizations for a family-friendly volunteer day out on the Roaring Fork River. Help install raft tie-ups, trim vegetation to make the river more accessible, and create access trails for users from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Carbondale River Boat Ramp. Info at rfov.org.

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ROTARY • The Carbondale Rotary Club meets at the Carbondale Fire Station (300 Meadowood Dr.) at 6:45 a.m.

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BLUEGRASS JAM • Bring the instrument of your choice or just your voice for a weekly jam session first and last Sundays at 6:30 at Steve’s Guitars (19 N 4th St.) and all other Sundays at the Glenwood Springs Brew Garden (115 Sixth St., Glenwood).

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LINX • The Linx Business Network meets Tuesdays at 7:15 a.m. at the Sotheby’s International real estate office (201 Midland Ave.) in Basalt. Linx is a networking organization whose members work together to grow and promote their businesses, according to a press release. All dues not used for administration are given to local non-profits each December. Info: Keith at 970-390-8401 or kedquist@usa.net.

RUN AROUND • Independence Run & Hike hosts a run around town Saturdays at 8 a.m. Meet at the store 596 Highway 133 (in La Fontana Plaza) and run various distances, with different routes each week. Info: 704-0909.

SENIOR MATTERS • The nonprofit Senior Matters, based in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.), offers numerous programs for senior citizens, including: tai chi with John Norman at 8:30 a.m. on Monday and Wednesday; tai chi with Marty Finklestein at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday; Alaprima Painters at 11 a.m. on Thursdays; the Senior Matters Book Club at 4 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of the month; and the Roaring Fork Brain Train.

Info: seniormatters.org; Diane Johnson at 970-306-2587; and Senior Matters, Box 991, Carbondale CO, 81623.

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MINDFULNESS • The Mindful Life Program in the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.) offers group sessions Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation and registration is not necessary. Info: mindfullifeprogram.org and 970-633-0163.

BRIDGE • The Carbondale Bridge Club hosts duplicate bridge (not sanctioned by ACBL) from 6:30 to 10 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at the Third Street Center (520 S. Third St.). $6/per pair

SUNDAY April 30

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

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

OPEN MIC • Dan Rosenthal hosts an open mic night at Rivers Restaurant (2525 S. Grand Ave., Glenwood Springs) every Wednesday from 8 to 10 p.m.

IMMUNIZATION CLINICS • Garfield County offers immunization clinics at the Carbondale Family Resource Center (in the Bridges Center at 400 Sopris Ave.) the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. To schedule an appointment, call 945-6614, ext. 2030.

SATURDAY April 29

7:30 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The public is invited.

LUNCH • Crystal Meadows senior housing (1250 Hendrick Dr.) hosts a lunch followed by Bingo every Wednesday.

C’DALE TRUSTEES • The Carbondale Board of Trustees holds regular meetings the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at Town Hall (511 Colorado Ave.) starting at 6 p.m. The trustees usually hold work session at 6 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays. Info: 963-2733 or carbondalegov.org.

ENERGY WORKSHOP • The 2017 Energy Smart Contractor Workshop, featuring the latest in energy efficient technologies and strategies, will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hotel Colorado (526 Pine St., Glenwood).

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Rams land Matthew Phelan as football coach

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Look for some changes at Roaring Fork High School after athletic director Marty Nieslanik hired Carbondale Middle School teacher/coach Matthew Phelan as its new football head coach last week.

For one thing, Phelan told The Sopris Sun he is going to recruit soccer players to also play on the football team.

“It’s a small school,” Phelan said. “We can cross develop players.”

Some parents and others were reportedly worried that RFHS might drop its varsity football program after less than 20 players turned out for the team last year, and the head coach resigned.

“He knows the game,” Nieslanik said.

Phelan knows a little bit more than just football. Yes, he played left guard for UCLA in the late 1990s, but also went on to earn his JD in law from Boston University after giving the National Football League a try.

At 41 years old, the California native worked as a venture capital/private equity attorney for firms in New York, Boston and San Francisco before deciding the corporate law gig was not for him. This despite the fact that he was voted a “Rising Star” by the Massachusetts Bar Association Corporate Law Division, according to the Carbondale Middle School website.

“I wasn’t one of them (corporate lawyers),” Phelan said. He and his family eventually settled in Southern California where he coached and taught school.

About two years ago, Phelan and his wife,

Matthew Phelan comes to the Roaring Fork High School football coach position after a stint as a corporate attorney, and school teacher / football coach. He was also a scholarship football player at UCLA in the late 1990s. Phelan currently teaches social studies at Carbondale Middle School, where he was the football coach and is the assistant track coach. Photo by Lynn Burton Shannon, decided California was not sustainable.

“There was no shock,” he said, saying in both Southern California and the Roaring Fork Valley, a 1,400-square-foot house can cost $750,000.

When Phelan and his wife started thinking about moving away from Southern California two years ago, they looked at Arizona, Texas and other states. But a friend who lived in Boulder said they should check out Colorado.

The Phelans drove to Colorado and expected to find a school in Denver where he could work.

Instead, he attended a job fair, met representatives from the Roaring Fork School District and decided to take a teaching job at Carbondale Middle School. Moving to the Roaring Fork

Valley wasn’t a hard decision. “This is a beautiful location, with great people,” he said.

Last October, Nieslanik talked to Phelan about becoming the RFHS football coach.

“The (RFHS) football program was in a ‘dire situation’”, Phelan said. “This was a chance to give back to a community that has been so welcoming.”

Phelan said he thinks he can build the RFHS football numbers, in part, through his work with the Carbondale Middle School team, which feeds players to the high school program.

As for football itself, Phelan said, “ … football is unique. Few (other) sports can teach like football … it’s unique for character building.

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RFHS principal om page 8 thing we come to lightly,” Board Member Matt Hamilton said before the vote. “I think it weighs heavily on us.”

Added Board President Mary Elizabeth Geiger, “We’re not experts in education. The board hires a superintendent as that expert… It is highly unusual that we are talking at all in public about any personnel.”

Indeed, the confidential process has prevented Stein from responding to some of the concerns.

“I’m not at liberty to go there, and that’s frustrating to people,” he said. “All of the vocal criticism is coming from people who weren’t privy to the entire process.”

Stein explained that while diversity, promoting from within and taking plenty of community input are all priorities for the district, they’re not always compatible. Each situation is different, he said, and participants in the process are made aware that the final call lies with him.

“There’s a difference between voice and vote,” he said. “I hope that we move forward and continue to show Keslie how much we love and support her while welcoming Brett into the community as well… I think people will get to know him and see the reason we hired him.”

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Germain, ompson burning up the track (and field)

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer With the Roaring Fork High School track and field season rounding the backstretch and steaming toward the finish line, there are several athletes to keep an eye on – including juniors Jasper Germain and Justin Thompson.

Germain was the 3A high-jump champ in 2016 and is undefeated in 2017, while Thompson finished sixth in the long jump in 2016 and has taken first place at several meets this year.

Germain and Thompson also compete head-to-head in the 110-meter hurdles. They usually finish first and second with Germain coming out on top, although Thompson nipped his teammate at last Saturday’s Demon Invitational in Glenwood with a time of 15.48.

The Sopris Sun caught up with the pair during a sundrenched practice earlier this week and started with this question: “How did you get into track and field?”

“I’d go to meets to watch my brother, I was about 8 or 9,” Thompson responded. “I’ve been doing the long jump my whole life.”

Added German, “I’m from Fort Collins and did all sports.

My dad was a cross-country runner and I started out as a distance runner. I started the high jump in seventh grade. In eighth grade I jumped 5'6" and thought ‘this will be fun.’ By the time I moved here after my freshman year I was hooked, and by my sophomore year completely hooked.”

After the first question, the interview went free form, starting with the 110 hurdles.

“We try to push each other,” Thompson said. “We’re both competitive kids,” Germain added, “ … but we’re definitely proud of each other.” There’s also some good natured trash talk, such as “I’ll see you at the finish line.”

Both athletes get more nervous before their 110 races than in the high jump or long jump. “In the hurdles, you only get

one chance,” Thompson said. “You get six in the long jump and three in the high jump.” Germain added that as he’s readying for his mark at the starting line, he stares down all the hurdles but “ …I just look at the finish line.”

Last year’s 3A state track and field meet results was a surprise for Germain. He came into the meet ranked 10th in the state. “I kinda pulled it out” with a jump of 6'5". The win also told Germain “I have some potential.” Meanwhile, Thompson’s long jump of 21'1 1/2" last year was his personal best.

This year, both Germain and Thompson are feeling good with their season, although “ …it feels like we’ve got a target on our back” Thompson said.

For Germain, part of the feel good comes from a 6'7" high jump earlier in the season, not only his own personal best but a school record as well. “I’m trying to get better,” he said. “My goal for state is 6'8" … but I’d like to get to 6'9" …. It’s a good goal.”

Germain jumps in the Fosbury Flop style, where he approaches the bar but clears it on his back to it, with his head facing the sky. The world record is 8'1/4".

For most people, the thought of anyone clearing a high-jump bar at 8', 7', 6'9", or even 5'9" seems almost superhuman.

As this interview came to a close, and Germain and Thompson climbed down from the middle school’s football stands, this reporter asked Germain about the seeming impossibility of high jumping in general, and how high he might be able to go. Thompson didn’t give him a chance to answer.

“I want to see you jump 22 feet,” he joked. Germain laughed and gave him a playful shove as they both headed back to the track and the remainder of their workout.

Also noted Other Roaring Fork High School tracksters to keep an eye on in the 3A Western Slope League meet in Grand Junc-

Justin Thompson (left) and Jasper Germain (right) are halfway through an outstanding track and field season, and looking ahead to the state championships on May 18-20.

Germain is the reigning 3A high jump champion. They’ve also been running one/two in the 110-meter hurdles. Photo

by Lynn Burton tion include: Ronald Clemente (1600 meters), Spencer Ochko (discus and shot put) and Cindy Salinas.

Other contenders include Jazmin Contreras in 100 meters (ranked 9th in 3A), and the girls’ 4X100 relay team of Alejandra Butcher, Cindy Salinas, Gaby Santana and Jazmin Contreras (ranked 10th in 3A).

Head coach Ryan Erickson told The Sopris Sun that athletes must be ranked in the top 18 of their events at the end of the year to make the state championships, which will be held May 18-20 in Lakewood.

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e Bunny Monster and Easter eggs, big baskets, small kids and roasted Peeps

Six thousand colored Easter eggs were laid in Sopris Park early Saturday morning where hundreds of kids ages 8 and under gathered at 10 a.m. eagerly awaiting the hunt.

When the official countdown from 10 reached one, the hunters took off and – this is no yolk – it took only 41 seconds before all the eggs were collected! They were then cracked open to see what treasures lay within.

Some kids were so excited to see what was inside, others took their time and gently opened their eggs, savoring the moment.

A few of them even tried roasting peeps. Almost everyone loved the Easter Bunny, but there were those who were scared of the big bad bunny monster probably ’cuz he had such big ears.

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Hemp

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which she said is difficult to comply with given that the state tests use only the top two feet of a plant, and that is where the THC and other “cannabinoids” tend to be at their highest concentration.

She and Mike Villa, the manager of the hemp coop, suggested that it would be more realistic to put the limit at one percent, while Chenoweth argued that an arbitrary maximum is not needed at all.

“It should be an end-use standard,” Chenoweth said, meaning regulators should check how the plants are being used as proof that producers are not stealthily growing pot.

According to MacKenzie, there are more than 150 producers of hemp in the state, farming more than 6,000 acres, which she said is “more than the rest of the United States combined.”

Most of the other companies on the CEA list of registrants, she said, are either processing operations or equipment suppliers.

And the processing that is going on, she said, is mostly involved in manufacturing hemp-seed oil or hemp-fiberbased products for construction and other industrial applications.

Nationwide, MacKenzie said, more than 25 states either have laws permitting hemp production and processing, or are getting close to it.

And that, she said, should convince federal authorities to leave the industry alone.

“That’s a lot of toothpaste you can’t put back in the tube,” MacKenzie said of the increasing interest in hemp.

Another hemp-oriented company on the Western Slope, Enviro Textiles of Glenwood Springs, has a years-long record of importing fabric made from hemp and other fibrous plants, from China and other nations where hemp is a legal and thriving business, and reselling the raw textiles to firms that turn it into finished products.

“I have an unprecedented demand for product,” said company founder Barbara Fillipone, who runs Enviro Textiles with her daughter, Summer, and who said she is constantly fielding requests for hempbased textiles, medicines and construction materials.

She spoke vehemently about the .3-percent rule, saying, “There has to be an amendment to the bill, that removes the .3 percent limit,” which would allow the industry to figure out its market and begin to fill the demand.

Despite all the uncertainty felt by hemp advocates in Colorado these days, advocates pointed to one clear indication that the U.S. business community is paying attention and getting involved.

The Canadian Broadcast System reported in 2015 that the Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods company, which in 2013 made more than $38 million in revenues (an increase of 24 percent over the prior year) was purchased by a U.S. firm — Compass Diversified Holdings, at a cost of $133 million.

Pot om page 3 ment entirely up to the states (a similar bill has been introduced to Congress each term for the past several years.)

In Colorado, the threats of federal enforcement has not prevented new businesses from being started, however.

Mark Smith, whose Tumbleweed Carbondale retail cannabis store recently won approval from the town, is one of those who is not particularly This jar of buds, on display at the Doctor’s Garden cannabis shop on Main Street in worried about federal interference.

With seven recreational cannabis Carbondale, is an example of the produce stores on the Western Slope, includ- that federal officials consider illegal and ing a drive-through dispensary in dangerous, but which Colorado voters Parachute, as well as two MIP out- twice have approved for public sale and lets in Las Vegas, Nevada, Smith and consumption. Photo by Jane Bachrach. his partners, Sherri Marzario and Dan Griffith, are planning to open a new shop in Carbondale, on Highway 133, as soon as they complete work on the premises.

As for concern about interference by the Trump administration, Smith said in a telephone interview that he believes Colorado’s constitutional amendments will stand up against any federal pressure or action.

“I think the business is actually too big to fail,” Smith said.

He said the industry employs the second largest number of people in the state, has hit the billion-dollar mark in sales, and clearly has the support of voters.

“It’s a very big enterprise,” he continued, including an unknown number of state employees overseeing the regulations and restrictions placed on the industry, as well as employees of companies producing the goods and services that support the industry.

“We all believe it’s going to be the largest industry in the state within a couple of years, employing more people than the government,” he predicted.

And, he said, the industry is closely regulated by the state, which should keep the feds at bay.

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It sounds like Seth Mason, a Carbondalian who happens to be a member of the U.S. Men’s Rafting Team. Most of the time, though, he’s a parent and owner of Lotic Hydrological. “My whole world’s water,� he told The Sopris Sun. He got into racing through his wife, who was on the Women’s Raft Team, but this speed record is different from what they’d experienced in competition. “The team has been talking about this Grand Canyon speed record for years now – basically since ‘The Emerald Mile’ came out,� Mason said. “We were interested in the idea of getting six or eight people together to do something against a distance or a clock.�

It was a bit of a longshot, though, particularly after two separate kayaking attempts broke and rebroke the old 1983 record — which the aforementioned book chronicles — in early 2016. Hard bottomed boats have some signiďŹ cant advantages, particularly in the long stretch of at water at the end of the canyon. “They (the permitting authorities) were a little confused when we said we were taking one boat with eight people and no motor for two days,â€? he recalled.

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less wind and heat than during summer runoff. The custom boat came together from an array of odd sources, including a pair of 48 foot pontoons that had been serving duty in a wakeboard park. “It was a compromise to build a raft that would go fast and stay safe,� Mason explained.

They also decided to add some extra muscle, which is where Ian Anderson, another Carbondalian, comes in. A partner at Backbone Media, he got into white water young despite growing up in Virginia, and it wasn’t hard to sell him on the idea. “There a certain competitive nature about a lot of people in mountain communities that’s just baked in. It’s about seeing how hard you can push yourself and how deep you can go,� Anderson noted. “This was a chance to do something with a team. They’ll be friends for life.�

That’s not to say it was easy on the athletes or those around them. “It took a lot of patience and understanding from our families,â€? Anderson told The Sun. But that’s precisely what makes the ďŹ lm interesting — it’s not just a bunch of young guys with no responsibilities and nothing to lose. Still, it’s hard to resist the lure of one of Leonard’s driving questions: “Have you ever been the best at anything?â€? “You get to your late 30s or 40s and you start thinking about what you’re doing with your life,â€? he said.

The quest to break the record wasn’t a

The ďŹ lm captures much more than just their time on the river, focusing instead on the planning and intention behind the endeavor. Photo courtesy of Forest Woodward one day affair. Even before the boat could be tested on other stretches of river, the crew was on a strict training schedule. “I spend a lot of time watching TV while sitting on a rower,â€? Anderson said. “I caught up on Game of Thrones.â€?

Go time When the time came to launch, they had a narrow window to get it done. “We all had to be back at work on Monday,� Anderson said. “The hardest part of the whole trip was sleep deprivation. We had grand plans to get a lot of rest the day we were launching and it just

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Helen Tibbetts, 77, a lifetime resident of the Roaring Fork Valley, noted church organist and celebrated teacher at various area schools, was honored as Carbondale’s Woman of the Year at a ceremony in the Carbondale Elementary School (now the Third Street Center) that was attended by more than 200 celebrants. Also that week, the town formally took over summertime recreational programming, which had been handled by an independent group, and created a Parks and Recreation Commission to handle the work.

In the continuing saga of proposals to return passenger rail service to the valley, Carbondale declined to contribute to a $60,000 price tag to help pay for a train demonstration project in the summer. Town trustees felt the price was too high, and the prospect of learning anything useful too low, to justify spending taxpayers’ money on the train proposal, which downvalley residents felt was really an upvalley thing anyway.

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The community rallied to help with medical costs for four-year-old Stevie Inverso, who was badly injured when an out-of-control skier slammed into him at Aspen Highlands. The Crystal Car Wash on Buggy Lane agreed to donate a portion of its revenues from a Saturday of car washing, and the Village Smithy did the same, to assist parents Steve and Mary Inverso deal with an expected $25,000 bill for their son’s broken leg and head injuries.

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Some oating repairs were required after Crystal Rapid, but it was Lava Falls, still downriver as the sun began to set, that really had them worried. “From the minute you put in at Lee’s Ferry, you’re thinking about Lava,â€? Anderson said. “It just has this mythology. It’s a river wide horizon line. You can hear the rumbling from half a mile upstream.â€?

After rowing all night and day with just a few short, rotated rests, the crew discussed their options before decided to just keep rowing. “You’ve got about 20 miles of fairly at water before Lava, which gave us time to really think about what was ahead,â€? Mason said. “Rolling in there was the quietest park of the whole trip.â€?

What happened next depends on whether you ask Mason, who was facing downstream, or Anderson, who was facing backwards. The end result, though, was a four inch gash in one of the tubes and a two hour patch job in an eddie at Tequila Beach. “It was evident we weren’t getting the record,� Mason said. “We were on pace up to that point,� Anderson added. “Literally the last big hole in the last big rapid was the one that did us in.�

After that, it was 40 miles of dead water with the wind against them. “That was more demoralizing than the boat popping,â€? Anderson said. “We just weren’t in the space to put up much of a ďŹ ght.â€?

The ďŹ nal time: 39 hours 24 minutes. You won’t see much from the river itself in the ďŹ lm. Access and permits limited the ďŹ lmmakers to some limited GoPro shots, which are interspersed artfully with time lapse and the echo of voices from the rim. “It was a very collaborative effort,â€? Leonard explained. “It’s kind of trial and error.

It’s like four or ďŹ ve people collectively sculpting. We tried several iterations before the ďŹ nal product. I think if we hadn’t had the deadline to ďŹ nish it, we’d probably still be working on it.â€? “The Time Travelersâ€? ends with Mason expressing surprising satisfaction despite the disappointment. The ongoing conversation about doing it again, he notes, proves Team Captain John Mark Seelig’s observation that theirs is the sort of pain you endure for fun — not true pain. “For me it was just a great adventure. It was something I’ll be able to tell my kids about — an opportunity to teach the lesson of setting a goal, committing to it and putting your best effort forward,â€? Mason said. “It’s also about how you don’t always succeed.â€?

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Letters continued om page 2 me from the fact that I sat there and did nothing. But I hope Mr. Clemente and others will at least understand that I didn’t sit there silently because I didn’t care.

The board members had a tough vote ahead of them that night as they were asked to approve Brett Stringer as the next RFHS principal. A “yes� vote could have been construed as not supporting one of the most beloved employees of our district; a “no� vote could have been construed as undermining the authority of our superintendent. Some of the board members were clearly distraught about having to make this decision and had been struggling with it for a while.

Does that excuse them for not addressing the translation issue? Absolutely not. But I hope people will at least try to understand why the board members may not have been prepared to address this issue. I hope people don’t simply jump to the conclusion that they didn’t care.

Board members are community members who volunteer their time (a lot of their time) to support the schools because they care deeply about them. They’re in the same boat as many of us, even if they do hold more decision-making power. If we want qualiďŹ ed people to continue to step up for these difďŹ cult and thankless positions, then we need to do our best to keep open the lines of communication and understanding in our district, rather than assuming the worst about people.

The most important question for me right now is not who’s to blame for the lack of translating at last week’s meeting, but what can we all do to make sure we don’t ďŹ nd ourselves in that situation again. The school board has already made some changes in terms of the process for requesting a translator and ensuring that a translator is present when they anticipate public comments. We’ll arrive at the best solution for addressing this issue when we all share our thoughts about the best way to move forward.

Si quisiera leer una traducción de este artículo, por favor visita a www.soprissun.com Debbie Bruell Carbondale Editor’s note: Bruell is a current Sopris Sun board member. The views expressed here are solely those of the author. Para leer esta carta en espaùol, visite soprissun.com.

Voices should be valued Dear Editor: I am not surprised, but disillusioned and upset. I just came from the school board meeting where I learned, via Bob Johnson as he read from a document, that the school board’s job is to be “yes men� for the superintendent in regards to his decisions.

This is exactly why I hesitate to write or call to express my opinion. We have the right to speak, but then our voices are dismissed. And as a side note to the board, please don’t text when people have come to talk to you in a public forum.

Thank you Matt Hamilton for actually listening, considering the people of your community, and seeing your role on the board as someone who at least desires to address our concerns.

However, the point made comparing this to the way a corporation is run is mistaken.

You, the board, are elected ofďŹ cials and the superintendent is paid with taxpayer money.

We learned that there is a process in place, and it was followed. So the board’s reasoning is that if they approve of the process, then they need to automatically approve of the outcome of that process.

The problem is that the process has aws and is designed more for show than substance. I say this not only as someone who has watched this process many times, but has also participated in it. In the end the decision is completely up to the superintendent’s discretion and there is no accountability for his decision. It appears that the superintendent does not need to answer to anyone including the people who pay his salary or the people who entrust the education and well being of their children to him.

Jen Rupert sharing about how it is done in California is completely irrelevant. Just because something is done a certain way in one place, does not mean that’s how it should be done here. Or as my mother used say “If your friend jumps off a cliff, is that what you would do?�

Carbondale is a unique community even within the Roaring Fork Valley. I have lived here for 40 years, and the wonderful thing I have observed is that Carbondale citizens work hard to deďŹ ne and create the vision of who they want to be. That is also true of our high school.

This small community has worked hard to embrace its changing diversity throughout the years, whether it was with ranchers, miners, hippies, Latinos, or recreationists.

Out of this has come greatness.

That is true of RFHS as well. We do not want to be what everyone else is; we want to be the best we can be. No one knows the needs of RFHS better than the dedicated, amazing staff of the school and the parents who support it and participate in making it great. Their voice should be valued. Perhaps someday, someone will really listen to them.

Thank you to those who spoke out.

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Earth Day Dear Editor: So Trump has abolished Earth Day this coming Saturday, April 22. That is appropriate as Trump and his fellow environmental rapists, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt, have done everything they can to abolish the earth.

Trump says climate change is a Chinese hoax and plans to lift emissions and fuel economy restrictions on the automobile industry. If the automakers exceed those limits, they can kiss off their foreign markets, especially their biggest market in China, because most of the rest of the world has very strict emissions and fuel economy controls.

Zinke is a Montanan who calls himself a conservationist, but promotes the production of coal, the dirtiest source of energy there is. Pruitt, a longtime lackey for the oil and gas industry, has removed the restrictions on methane gas emissions from oil and gas rigs. NASA satellites have discovered a methane gas cloud over the Four Corners area, a region of heavy oil and gas drilling. Pruitt will not be happy until the entire planet is covered with a methane gas shroud.

Despite all this, Earth Day lives. The theme this year is a March for Science and will begin in Carbondale at 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the Goat restaurant and in Aspen at 1:00 p.m. at Paepeke Park.

Isn’t it interesting the climate change deniers have yet to produce one scientist who will say climate change does not exist or is not caused by the burning of fossil fuels? That’s because scientists have to prove their theories through the arduous task of the scientiďŹ c method before they become axioms, like climate change.

Politicians and businessmen can pop off about the ďŹ rst thing that comes into their head and expect people to believe it. Who are you going to believe?

Sixty-ďŹ ve percent of the American people believe that something should be done about climate change. Let’s get out there on Saturday and show the Trump administration they are working against the will of the people. Make this the biggest Earth Day ever and follow that up by supporting the March for the Environment the following Saturday, April 29.

I am very green. That doesn’t mean I am a frog, or rich, or envious, or inexperienced.

I support environmental and climate issues, but that’s not the only reason Saturday, April 22 will be special to me.

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April 22 is also Jack Nicholson’s birthday. The only thing that has to do with Earth Day or my birthday is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is my favorite movie ever and I plan to see Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley Campus Space Theatre’s production of it after I march for science and Nurse Ratchet would ďŹ t right in the Trump administration.

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