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Brittany Bergin-Foff and Elouise

Katie Bannon and Isabelle

Nan Campbell and Nevee

Aimee Cullwick and Delilah

Andrea Stewart and Lukas

Amy Kaufmann and Emily

Vanessa Anthes and Rowynn

April Long and Adelaide

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Celebrating Moms photos by Mark Burrows

Rachel Menke and Kaleesi

Maile LaPenna with Ember and Lorelei

BEING A MOM ISN'T ALWAYS EASY.

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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.

Graduation Day for CMC

By Patrick Hunter You may have seen the news in the local papers the inaugural class of Colorado Mountain College’s Bachelors of Business and Bachelors of Sustainability Studies has graduated. Kudos to the new grads and to the people at the college that have worked so very hard to make this happen.

I studied with a number of these young people and I will tell you they have the got the smarts and the energy and the training to do some great things. Between some demanding instructors and high standards of work, a person has really got to be on their game. These classes have been tough for me, but at the same time lots of fun.

Being in the learning environment is exciting for me. But this is something we are all doing a lot more of in this modern world.Technology is changing ever more rapidly. Our economy is changing constantly. Community colleges like CMC are responding to the changes by expanding offerings in many fields. This opportunity is really important for adults that have families to stay with, and usually jobs to keep working.

In my livelihood (the construction industry) changes are taking place in materials, systems, codes, methods of communication and management. For example, Carbondale has just adopted a new “green” building code that overlays all the existing building codes such as commercial and residential construction, plumbing, electrical, mechanical and energy. At the same time, organizations such as the Building Science Corporation and the National Institute of Building Sciences work to solve the problems that result from the rapid changes in the construction industry. I might receive a specification for a foundation-wall waterproof coating on a product that I have not seen before. I will have to research it to learn how to properly use it, find subcontractors that are experienced with it, and know what effects it will have on the contiguous materials, the project cost, and the project schedule — just for starters. So, we learn all the time.

Job market Another huge change we face is today’s job market. This is especially important to the new college graduates. Jobs are not as easy to find. Full-time jobs with benefits, good pay and good working conditions are harder to find. Sally Koslow wrote a book called “Slouching Toward Adulthood” (published in 2012) that details a lot of this.

“Roughly two million … with at least a bachelor’s degree are unem-

ployed. Census data from 2010 show that twentyand thirty somethings in the U.S. (have the) highest unemployment rate since World War II,” Koslow states.

People who aren’t finding a job, or aren’t finding a job they think is a good fit, can sometimes start their own business. Some folks in Carbondale recently started an on-line business reviewing products for babies. Another created a business that forms on-line communities for mothers. One of these new owners agrees there is a great opportunity for on-line businesses, but also worries that this doesn’t create many jobs. In fact, the new tech and media companies like Apple, Facebook and Twitter have relatively few employees compared to auto makers or the steel industry.

The shift away from U.S. based manufacturing for many industries resulted in the“outsourcing”of many millions of jobs. Only recently have some jobs started to come back. GE for example is restarting appliance assembly near Louisville, Kentucky. But starting wages are only $13.50 per hour for jobs that used pay around $30 plus benefits. That is not much money to try to maintain a family.

Outsourcing has driven down wages. So have big box discount stores like Walmart, whose employees are some of the country’s biggest users of food stamps.

Our district’s Congressman in Washington, D.C., is Scott Tipton. I had reason to call his office and happened to ask what they are doing to create more jobs. Their answer was that they were waiting for a vote to happen in the U.S. Senate. In other words: nothing.

Let’s get together with some of these new graduates and make some good things happen.

Three weeks in the Costa Rica jungle on the Osa Peninsula with tiki monkeys, howlers, macaws, toucans, flowers, fruits, HUGE trees, great people and a little Carbondale Sun. Emmy Lerma reports she even lived in a tree house for a while. Courtesy photo

Patrick Hunter is a long-time Roaring Fork Valley resident and student in Colorado Mountain College’s sustainability program.

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Day compost competition trial and judging, this beautiful area, we recently traded our secIt’s a dandy day just after the 10 a.m. parade and just before ond vehicle for a fully electric Nissan Leaf.

Dear Editor: Saturday, May 11 will be the 15th annual the 1 p.m. music on stage begins. And be sure This vehicle costs less per month than we preCarbondale Dandelion Day in Sopris Park. to bring your own compost sample to the So- viously spent on gas, costs approximately $1 The Dandy Day will start at about 10 a.m. pris Park nationally ranked compost compe- a day to charge, has zero emissions and requires basically zero maintenance. with a parade from KDNK on Second Street, tition right here in Carbondale.

Thanks to RFTA and our bikes, we rarely Let us thank Carbondale Main Street Spirdown Main Street to Weant and the east side of organic Sopris Park, for the 10:30 a.m. its compost prize donors, Sopris Liquor and use our other, gas-powered vehicle.The expeWine, and our wonderful Main Street food rience of owning an electric car has far exstart of an all-day Dandelion Day. Carbondale’s Sopris Park is the first, oldest co-op for a great combination of prizes, in- ceeded our expectations, and those of our friends too. and only organic town park in all of North cluding organic foods, beers and wines.

If you would like more information about Doc “Dandelion” Philip America.The dandelion is the most nutritious our experience with an EV, please stop by and Carbondale vegetable on planet earth, as well as being one say hello this Saturday at Dandelion Days — of the few vegetables that is totally edible: we will be in the park near CLEER.We’ll also Let’s talk EV’s flowers, stems, leaves and roots. be taking your ideas for a vanity plate!

The Pilgrims came over to America from Dear Editor: Craig and Colleen Farnum As newer members to the Carbondale England on the Mayflower boat. England has Carbondale their flower in May as the dandelion for hun- community, our family is thoroughly enjoydreds of years. The Pilgrims came over here on their dandelion boat, thereby keeping themselves alive and most of the Carbondale ranchers and farmers alive and well on dandelions, just before the World War I potato growing change over.

So look for our 15th annual Dandelion

ing all that living in Carbondale and the Roaring Fork Valley offers. The values of embracing diversity, soaking in the outdoors and treating people and our environment with respect are important to us and Carbondale offers these in spades.

In the spirit of doing our part to celebrate

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Native corn a hot topic at this year’s Dandelion Day Corn consumers can help save Mexican seed Sopris Sun Staff Report Alejandra Rico will host a booth at Dandelion Day in Sopris Park on May 11 to help raise funds for an independent documentary film,“Sunnú,” about the struggle and determination of the indigenous northern Mexican communities to preserve their native corn seed and way of life.

The aim of “Sunnú” filmmakers and friends is to raise $40,000 to finish the film that brings awareness to a grain currently under assault in Mexico (the cradle of corn) and to provide a support tool and call to action for conscious farmers and corn producers all over the world, according to a press release.

For more information or to donate as little as $5 to the online Kickstarter campaign, visit Sunnú.org. The fundraising deadline is May 22.

Teresa Camou,“Sunnú” director and producer, noted the irony that we all eat corn every day in one form or another, but have no idea where it comes from.

“Maize is far more than a grain, a food, a derivative and a crop … it’s the heart of the civilization that gave rise to Mexico. It’s a way of being, a complete identity embodied by the indigenous peoples and by the farming communities of this country. If native maize disappears, there will be no turning back to recover something that took thousands of years DANDELION DAY page 13

The Dandelion Day Parade of the Species starts romping, stomping, strolling and rolling down Main Street at 10 a.m.

Costumes are encouraged but motorized vehicles are not allowed. Sopris Sun file photo

CMS dedicates downtown mural to Ro Mead

By Debbie Bruell Sopris Sun Correspondent

Ro Mead was honored for her years of creating and running art programs in local schools at last week’s First Friday celebration. Photo by Jane Bachrach

Colorful birds, beavers and foxes, along with kayakers, snowboarders and other happy creatures now adorn the brick wall across from the Village Smithy restaurant.

Carbondale Middle Schoolers unveiled their new mural at May’s First Friday event. The mural — based on the four seasons, nature, wildlife and outdoor recreation in the Roaring Fork Valley — was created in honor of Ro Mead and her passion and dedication to the visual arts in Carbondale’s schools.

As executive director, and then as education and communication coordinator, Mead’s eight years at the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities (2004-2012) always included getting more kids involved in art.

“Ro put so much of her heart and time and energy into kids’ art and art in the schools,” CMS art teacher Ami Maes told

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Roaring Fork High School teacher Adam Carballeira, who worked closely with Mead on the event, told the Sun that Mead’s idea for the May First Friday kids’ show was: “Let’s get kids to make creative and authentic products that showcase their learning in school — and let’s have a huge party to celebrate what they have done.”

“It always felt right to ‘give’ a First Friday to the kids,” Carballeira said. While various challenges prevented CCAH from organizing the May First Friday kids’ show this year, CCAH Executive Director Amy Kimberly told The Sun the organization plans to re-initiate this event in 2014.

A total of about 120 CMS kids worked on the mural, with the bulk of the work and final touches completed by Maes’ current eighth-grade class. While working with so

many different students had its challenges, Maes said the eighth graders learned to be flexible and adapt.

“They learned the value of creating art through a collaborative process and the excitement of creating art for a public space,” Maes said.

The entire process of creating the mural — from brainstorming ideas, sketching a small draft and “gridding” onto the large pieces of wood, to drawing and painting the final images — took only three weeks.

Maes’s eighth-grade students are reaching out to local businesses and individuals, asking them to become a sponsor of the mural by making a tax-deductible donation (a minimum of $50) to “Paint to Create.”All sponsors will have their names painted on a board beside the mural for permanent display. Donations will be used to the support the CMS art program. (For more information contact amaes@rfsd.k12.co.us).

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

SUNDAY May 5 At 4:18 p.m. a citizen called police to report several people were skating at the North Face skate park without helmets. Police responded and talked to all the skaters about the town’s helmet ordinance.

SUNDAY May 5 At 10:11 a.m. the Carbondale Fire District reported a controlled burn, with a lot of smoke, near the Rio Grande Trail north of Wheel Circle. Carbondale police responded to the location and helped the homeowner put out the fire.

Amy Kimberly strides out of the Crystal Theatre with an armful of movie memorabilia last Friday afternoon. The theatre sold about 85 posters plus silent auction items from “The Big Lewbowski,” “Pulp Fiction” and other films. “Across the Universe” items were very popular, according to theatre owners Bob and Kathy Ezra. Including donations, the sale raised about $11,000. The Ezras are well into a month-long campaign to raise $70,000 to convert to a digital projection system. They are now about $29,000. Photo by Lynn Burton

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TECHNICIANS & INSTALLERS

SATURDAY May 4 At 12:55 a.m. in the vicinity of Fourth and Main, a citizen told a police officer that someone was throwing water balloons at police patrol cars. The officer checked the area and didn’t find anyone throwing such balloons, but did observe water on the patrol cars. In what might be a related incident, a belligerent customer in a downtown bar agreed to go elsewhere at 12:49 a.m.

Roaring Fork soccer squad heads to state playoffs ninth graders) and sophomore Ruby Lang.

Adams, Fisher and Alfaro lead the team in goals and assists.

They each produced 12 goals and 10 assists

By Lynn Burton during the year. A total of 14 of the team’s 17 players Sopris Sun Staff Writer scored goals this year.

High points of the season include wins over Basalt Roaring Fork High School takes a 12-2-1 record to the Colorado 3A girl’s soccer playoffs in Lafayette and Aspen. “One senior said Roaring Fork had not beaten Aspen for as long as she knew of, which was at starting this Friday.

“Our defense has only allowed seven goals this sea- least four years,”Fox said.“So beating them 2-0 (in the son, which is second in the state, along with Coal Ridge last game) was a high point.”

The top three seeded teams in the playoffs are Clasand Classical Academy,” head coach Heather Fox told sical Academy (1), Peak to Peak The Sopris Sun. (2) and Coal Ridge (3).The other Madison Handy, a senior, is the teams and their seeds are: Colgoalkeeper, while the primary deorado Academy (4), St. Mary’s fenders are Toni Gross, Maddie (5), Kent Denver (6), Frontier Nieslanik and Kayla Derby.

Academy (7), The Academy (8), The Rams are seeded 15th in the Holy Family (9), Manitou 32-team playoffs. They face 18Springs (10), Grand Valley (11), seeded Front Range Christian at Bayfield (12), Liberty Common Peak to Peak High School in Heather Fox (13),Telluride (14), Roaring Fork Lafayette at 4 p.m. on May 10.

Roaring Fork High School (15), Sterling (16), St. Mary’s “This is the second year we Girl’s Soccer Team Head Coach Academy (17), Front Range made the playoffs,” Fox said. “Last Christian (18), Faith Christian year the team made school history by making it to the playoffs for the first time. This year (19), Fountain Valley (20), Lutheran (21), Denver Scithey made history by earning a favorable (top 16) seed ence and Technology (22), Moffat County (23), Resurrection Christian (24), James Irwin (25), Estes Park (26), in the brackets.”

Roaring Fork made the playoffs by placing third in Alamosa (27), Buena Vista (28), Valley (29), Middle Park (30), Florence (31) and Sheridan (32). the Western Slope League.

It takes four wins in the single-elimination tournaThe Rams are paced by seniors Madison Handy, Mia Wedemeyer, Nayeli Alfaro, Georgia Ackerman, Taylor ment to reach the finals, which are slated for May 21.

If Roaring Fork defeats Front Range Christian on Adams, Shiloh Merriott and Esvedy Campos, plus juniors Natalie Olivas, Toni Gross and Maddie Nieslanik, May 10, they face the winner of the Peak to Peak High and sophomores Emily Fisher, Heidi Small, Kayla Derby School vs. Florence game on May 11. If the Rams win and Kristen Joiner. Swing players between the varsity that game, they play in the quarterfinals on May 15. and JV are Valerie Loetscher and Carly Rosenthal (both The semi-finals are schedule for May 18.

Second year in a row

“This year they made history by earning a favorable (top 16) seed in the brackets.”

Nayeli Alfaro (#7) takes a pass in a game earlier this season. Other Western Slope League teams heading to the state playoffs are Coal Ridge, Grand Valley and Moffat County. Photo by Sue Rollyson

Our Children, Our Schools

“Mom always says, ‘Listen to your teachers.’”

In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, thank you to our teachers for lighting up our children’s sense of wonder and desire to learn.

Thank you for all you do in the face of federal and state issued mandates that can suck the life out of your desire to teach. We want you to love teaching! So let’s dream big together and build a vision that brings out the best in our children and our teachers.

We want to hear from you... join the conversation about the future of education in our district.

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IMAGINING THE BEST FOR CARBONDALE’S STUDENTS P.S. Teachers, you can add to the conversation without showing your real name if that is a concern.

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This program covers half the cost of a person or business sponsoring one or more trees to be planted in public places around Carbondale, including some place that is special to the person sponsoring.

The town takes care of all ordering, planting and maintenance.

Included is a plaque at the location that the sponsor can use to honor any appropriate dedication they may wish.

Planting a tree is a contribution to the community that will last and provide beauty, enjoyment, shade, and environmental benefits for not just decades, but generations to come.

This program is due to the generosity of local resident, Kay Brunnier, and is sponsored by the Town of Carbondale.

The total cost to the sponsor runs from $150-$300 per tree, much less than it would otherwise cost.

Established in 2010 the Kay Brunnier Fund and you and the listed contributors below, have afforded the Town of Carbondale 57 new trees in our parks and public properties.

Whether an honorary tree, memorial tree or just because, now is planting time and now is the time to be part of an awesome program that helps build Carbondale’s Urban Forest building a legacy for generations to come.

Thank you Kay Brunnier and all past and future participants for being part of this incredible program.

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Now that’s talent If you haven’t been there yet, check out members of the Roaring Fork High School staffing going“Gangnam Style”on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPywEXVcIuA).The local video had its debut at the school’s recent talent show and features at least a dozen staffers dancing in, on and around the halls, staircases, library stacks and tables, and in front of the school, on the roof and while sweeping the floor. If you’re not one of the hundreds of millions of people who have viewed “Gangnam Style” on YouTube in the past nine months, the original video features South Korean singer Psy, his bouncy tune and “ride ‘em cowboy” style choreography in numerous locations and sets around his native country. For the RFHS version, at least one dancer sports a black, Afro wig and RFHS disco jacket, while another guy gives a “come on” look and plays with a feather boa at one point, and yet another jumps around in a wrestling-style mask. A black dog even makes an appearance, but his moves are limited to getting up off the floor and wandering off. The video runs 3:09. Students Kyle Bruna and Cameron Doherty did the filming and editing respectively.

Expect 133 delays on May 9 The Colorado Department of Transportation advises motorists to expect delays of up to two hours on Highway 133 over McClure Pass on May 9. The delays are brought on by blasting and rock hauling after the recent rockslide. For updates, go to cotrip.org.

Heads up around Town.

The cow that once grazed in front of restaurant Six89 has sauntered down Main Street, where she’s found a new pasture in which to graze 24/7. Her new perch is just above Town., and now you too can graze in the lower pasture in Town., where there’s a much larger selection of edibles from which to choose.

Ridin’ high Congratulations to 19-year-old local athlete Jacqueline Larouche, who has qualified for the Junior Olympics in three-day-eventing (an equestrian competition) in the 19-21 age group; it takes place this July at Kentucky Horse Park.

Not only is the equestrienne the only one in our region to qualify, she was also a straight-A student graduating last year from CRMS, also completed an advanced physics class online in three days, is learning Chinese and is headed to Georgia Tech this fall to study bio medical engineering. For the last year, Larouche has been in Plains, Virginia, riding horses for Allison Springer who is rated sixth in the world in three-day-eventing.

All junior qualifiers have been asked to raise up to $2,000 to help to help pay for equine expenses during the Junior Olympics. If you would like to find out more about Larouche and her pursuits, or contribute to her fund, you can contact her at Kentucky.bound9@gmail.com.

Nieslanik named to Literacy board Literacy Outreach has named Maddie Nieslanik to its board as the student liaison from Roaring Fork High School. She and Steve Carter join current board members Ginny Schroeder, Janet Olson, Amelia Shelley, Maria Claire Jacobi, Ted Doll, Sandra Thwing, Mary Harutan, and Kim Doose. Literacy Outreach promotes literacy in Garfield County by offering free instruction to teach adults with reading skills below the fourth grade level.

Olson stepping down Earlier in the week, Crystal River Elementary School Principal Karen Olson announced to her staff she’s resigning at the end of the current school year. No other information was available at press time.

CORE members move on A recent newsletter says CORE members Amelia Potvin, Lindsay Gurley and Tyler Rugglers are moving on to other endeavors. Potvin was the Community Office for Resource Efficiency’s community sustainability coordinator and is launching a new initiative called The Plenty Project. Gurley (former energy programs assistant) is a yoga instructor who plans to continue teaching at Kula Yoga, True Nature Healing Arts and Le Cercle. Ruggles (former programs manager for CORE’s Energy Smart program in Pitkin County) is taking off to travel before pursuing a PhD in physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Good luck to all of ya.

CDOT shoots for Indy Pass opening The Colorado Department of Transportation is still planning on a May 23 opening date for Independence Pass, according to a press release. As of Monday, snowpack on Highway 82 west of the summit was 36 inches (83 percent of average). On the east side snowpack was 21 inches (100 percent of average).

In the greens Sustainable Settings on Highway 133 is now selling greens.

Did you see them?

Mark Grandbois reports finding a ring on the Marion Gulch trailhead in April or March.

If you lost a ring up that way, give him a call and describe it at 618-5172. Meanwhile, Anne Clapper reports losing a pink and blue scarf at First Friday on May 3. She can be reached at 927-3502.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating birthdays this week include: Kay Bell (May10); Camy Britt and Mark Chain (May 11); Megan Cook, Jimmy Byrne and Bill Jochems (May 13); Doc Philip (May 14) and Greg Masse (May 15).

Sen. Bennet drops in, chows down, chews fat

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Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet (D) was the guest of honor on May 2 at a barbecue arranged by the Thompson Divide Coalition and hosted by Crystal River Meats at their new location on Main Street.

The last-minute gathering was called to thank Bennet publicly for his leadership on the Thompson Divide Withdrawal and Protection Act. The bill, which would withdraw unleased minerals in the 221,000-acre area from future oil-and-gas development while also preserving existing rights for current leaseholders, was drafted last year and opened to public comment in August. It drew “overwhelmingâ€? support during a four-month period according to the senator’s ofďŹ ce. Almost 700 people ďŹ led comments, and 99 percent supported the measure. “This bill to manage the pristine Thompson Divide area reects the voices of stakeholders and Coloradans in the surrounding communities who live, work and recreate in the area and rely on it for their livelihoods,â€? said a prepared statement from the senator. He formally introduced the bill to congress on March 22, 2013.

Bennet arrived at the Thursday gathering a little after 6 p.m., addressed the group with a few comments and then stuck around for a beer and a burger, visiting one-on-one with attendees and posing for photos. He thanked local citizens and the Thompson Divide Coalition for their efforts and advocacy on behalf of the Thompson Divide, saying, “There are places too special to drill.â€? He also tipped his hat to the evening’s host. “My family consumes Crystal River meat [in Denver]. The ďŹ rst time I had it, I said it was the best burger I’d had since my grandmother used to send me down the street to pick up her order from the local butcher,â€?

Bennet quipped.

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In what was more of a picnic table speech than a stump speech, Sen. Michael Bennet addressed Thompson Divide Coalition members and others at Crystal River Meats on May 2. The coalition called the get together to thank Bennet for his leadership on the Thompson Divide Withdrawal Protection Act. Photo by Will Grandbois

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SHEEPDOGS • The Strang Ranch on Missouri Heights hosts sheepdog trials from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free for humans; dogs in any form or conveyance are not allowed under any circumstances. The ranch is located across County Road 102 from the Missouri Heights schoolhouse.

THURSDAY May 9 BOAT BLOOPERS • The Roaring Fork Conservancy presents “Boating Bloopers” from 6 to 9 p.m. at Carbondale Beer Works.

The event ties in with the RFC River Stewards’ float on June 1. Info: 927-1290.

ROTARY • Mt. Sopris Rotary meets at Mi Casita on Main Street at noon every Thursday. Upcoming programs include: BIORGANIX compost tea owner David Bernhardt (May 9) and Rotary exchange student from Taiwan Annie Lin (May 16). Info: 963-6663.

LIVE MUSIC • PAC3 in the Third Street Center presents Jes Grew at 8 p.m. The band is comprised of : Cameron Williams (vocals/guitar), Randolph Turner (vocals/guitar), Rob “Monkey” Dasaro (keyboards/vocals), Stephen “Vidi” Vidamour (bass), Chris Harrison (sax/vocals), and Paul Valentine (drums/percussion). Tickets are $10. Info: pac3carbondale.com.

LIVE MUSIC • Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs presents Missing Link (rock, R&B, country and blues) from 9 p.m. to midnight. No cover.

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

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FRIDAY May 10 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “The Company You Keep” (R) at 7:30 p.m.

May 10-16; “On the Road” (R) at 5 p.m.

May 11 and “Silver Linings Playbook” (R) at 5 p.m. May 12.

BURLESQUE AUDITIONS • Auditions for the upcoming burlesque show take place at the Third Street Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 11, and 1 to 4 p.m. on May 12.

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SATURDAY May 11 DANDELION DAY • Carbondale’s 15th annual Dandelion Day takes place at Sopris Park. Vendor applications are being accepted. For details, see the article on page 3 or advertisement in this week’s paper.

BAKE SALE • Senior Matters holds its Bakers Dozen bake sale in Sopris Park during Dandelion Day. If you’d like to bake something up and contribute it, call Diane at 970-306-2587 or 963-2653.

POTS & PLANTS SALE • The Carbondale Clay Center holds its annual Mother’s Day Pots and Plants sale from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.The same features handmade planters, vases, cups, bowls and other pottery. Info: 963-2529.

SUNDAY May 12 CLASSICAL CONCERTS • Symphony in the Valley presents Mother’s Day Concerts in Glenwood Springs on May 12 and in Rifle on May 11. The concerts feature pianist Cong Cong Chai and violist Phoebe Stoye.The program includes pieces by Carl Stamitz, Franz Lehar and Jean Sibelius, and Edvard Grieg.

The May 12 Glenwood Springs concert takes place at Glenwood Springs High School at 4 p.m.; the May 11 concert takes place at Rifle High School at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults/$10 for seniors/$6 for teens and children 3-18, and $30 for families. Info: sitv.org.

LIVE MUSIC • Jammin’ Jim hosts an open mic at 5 p.m. at the Black Nugget. No cover.

SPIRITUAL MATTERS • Richard Lyon presents “Divine Feminine” at A Spiritual Center in the Third Street Center at 10 a.m.

Info: 963-5516.

MONDAY May 13

GYMKHANA • The season’s first gymkhana takes place at the Gus Darien roping arena east of Carbondale at 1 p.m. Registration is at noon. Events include barrels, poles, flag race and special event. Contestants compete in age groups, starting at 7 and under. The fee is $5 per event. Info: Mike Goscha at 274-3223 or goscha@sopris.net.

JAM SESSION • Carbondale Beer Works on Main Street hosts an old time jam session with Dana Wilson Mondays at 7:30 p.m.

Bring your banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, spoons or washboard; all skill levels are invited. Info: 704-1216.

COUNTRY DANCE • There’ll be a country dance at the historic Missouri Heights schoolhouse from 7 to 10 p.m. Lesly Adams give a class at 6 p.m. Instruction is $10; the dance is $10.RSPVs are required at jaegl1@comcast.net or meetup.com/RFVDance/.

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PLANT SALE • Colorado Rocky Mountain School holds its annual plant sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 11 and noon to 3 p.m. on May 12. This year’s organically grown selection will include an extensive variety of fruits and vegetables. All varieties have been selected for their suitability to the local climate.

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Community Calendar presentations at the Third Street Center Calaway Room from noon to 1 p.m. To reserve a time to perform, call Lisa at 963-3330.

ROTARY • The Rotary Club of Carbondale meets at 7 a.m.onWednesdays at the firehouse.

Info: Ken Neubecker at eagleriver@sopris.net

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LIVE MUSIC • PAC3 in the Third Street Center presents Junior Brown at 8 p.m.

Brown’s music combines the soul of country and the spirit of rock n’ roll. There’s usually a wide-eyed look accompanying one who witnesses Junior’s unique instrumental prowess for the first time ... or the second, or third, for that matter. Junior invented his own guitar, one that combines the standard 6-string guitar and the steel guitar. In Junior’s hands, the “guit-steel” is an amazing tool, a means to creating some of the hottest, most heartfelt playing heard in years Tickets are $23-$28.

Info: pac3carbondale.com.

FRIDAY May 17 LIVE MUSIC • Bill Payne, an original member of Little Feat, presents a solo act “Tracing Footsteps – A Journal of Music, Photography and Tales from the Road,” at PAC3 in the Third Street Center 8 p.m. Tickets are $20$25. Info: pac3carbondale.com.

SUNDAY May 19 LIVE MUSIC • PAC3 in the Third Street Center presents Band of Heathens at 8 p.m.

Since emerging as a favorite live band out of Austin a decade ago, Band of Heathens has toured relentlessly, building a devoted following and landing on some of the finest stages in music. In three studio albums and hundreds of shows, they’ve evolved as a group and broadened their sound. Tickets are $17 and

SATURDAY May 18 CASINO NIGHT • Thunder River Theatre Company holds its Casino Night fund-raiser at the Orchard on Snowmass Drive from 7 to 10 p.m. There’ll be blackjack, craps, Texas Hold ‘Em and roulette. Bravo catering will provide the food and the Smuggler Mountain Boys the music. Tickets are $80, which includes your first $50 in “funny money.” Live auction items include a James Surls sculpture, a Majid Kahak painting and more. Tickets are available at www.thunderrivertheatre.com, or from TRTC ticket representatives. Info: 9487060 or 202-365-8245.

MS WALK • The National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s annual walk features a marked 5.5 mile route that follows the bike path through Glenwood Canyon between the No Name and Grizzly Creek rest areas. Registration at 7 a.m., 5K run at 8 a.m., walk begins at 9:30 a.m. Music, pancake breakfast, prize drawings and more. Info: 970-263-4393 or walkMScolorado.org.

MON.-WEDS. May 20-22 RFHS ART SHOW • The Roaring Fork High School art show takes place at the main gym May 20-22, with a closing night party with live music, food and drink from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 22. The show hours are 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.

Ongoing MUSICAL STORYTIME • Gordon Cooper Library presents a musical story time every Monday at 4 p.m. It’s led by award-winning children’s musician Sue Schnitzer. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Info: 963-2889.

SCULPTURE SHOW CONTINUES • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities presents its annual sculpture show at the Third Street Center. Sculptors include: Thomas Barlow, Joe Burleigh, Doug Casebeer, John Doyle, Mark Harris, Connie Hendrix, Michael Lindsay, Nancy Lovendahl, Susan Olsen, Tai Pomara, Lisa Singer, Sherrill Stone and James Surls. The show continues through June 7.

Info: carbondalearts.com or 963-1680.

“HEALING” CONTINUES • “Healing” continues at the CMC ArtShare Gallery in downtown Glenwood Springs . Info: cmcartshare.com.

AAM PRESENTS FOLK ARTIST • The Aspen Art Museum presents folk-artist Rob Pruitt in his first North American solo exhibit.

PHOTO SHOW CONTINUES • The Nugget Gallery at 415 E. Hopkins in Aspen continues the photo show “Discovering Community.”

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

ZINGERS • Betsy Schenck leads the Senior Matters Zingers sing-along group at Heritage Park Care Center on Thursdays at 2 p.m. Info: 963-2167.

MUSIC TOGETHER • Classes for infants, toddlers and young children are coming up at Music Together in Carbondale and Aspen.

Info: allvalleymusic.com or 963-1482.

Hold the Presses KDNK BOARD MEETS • The KDNK Board of Directors will hold its next meeting at 5:30 p.m. on May 14 in the station’s offices at 76 S. Second in Carbondale. The meeting is open to the public. For details, call 963-0139.

CRYSTAL RIVER CAUCUS CANCELS MEETING • The Crystal River Caucus has cancelled its May 10 meeting, according to a press release. The next meeting is slated for July 11.

YOGA SOCIETY SUPPORTS THOMPSON DIVIDE • The Carbondale Yoga Society invites all Roaring Fork Valley community members to come together and show support for saving the Thompson Divide at the Third Street Center with registration at 5:30 p.m. on May 15. A onehour practice will be held, followed by a reception with tea and chocolate. Organizers invite everyone to bring photos, poems and ideas to express on the banner (art supplies will be provided).

For details, e-mail Lindsay at Lgurley@gmail.com.

HERON WATCH SLATED FOR NORTHSTAR • The Roaring Fork Conservancy and Aspen Parks Department host a heron watch at Northstar Open Space east of town from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on May 14. It’s free. For details, call 927-1290.

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Community Briefs Project Graduation donations being accepted Donations for Project Graduation 2013 are being through Jennifer Hunt at 963-5700 or 618-9492. Donation can consist of cash (make checks payable to RFHS Project Graduation), gift certificates or merchandise.

Project Graduation is a drug and alcohol free graduation party for Roaring Fork High School seniors on graduation night. The celebration takes place at Carbondale Town Hall and includes entertainment, games, music food, gifts and prizes. The evening ends with an after-breakfast at the Red Rock Diner at 3 a.m. Donation jars have also been set up around town.

CCS offers wilderness First Aid class The Carbondale Community School offers a course in wilderness First Aid on June 8-9. The course is designed to introduce outdoor enthusiasts and individuals working in remote settings to wilderness medicine principles and is taught through the NOLS Wilderness Medicine Institute. The fee is $220. For more information, call Tom Penzel at 963-9647.

Rotary’s Happening tickets on sale Tickets for the Rotary Foundation’s “Pirates of Carbondale” annual Happening are now on sale. The event is always a sell out and will take place at the Orchard, starting at 5 p.m. on June 8. “Pirate-themed” attire is encouraged. The bounty is $125 per wench or mate, and covers grub and grog, shanties

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and dancing to live music, plus booty to pillage (aka live and silent auctions). The popular Wall of Wine will return to give pirates the chance to blind pick a bottle of wine ranging in value from $10 to $100. For details, go to rotarycarbondale.org or e-mail thehappening@rotarycarbondale.org. Proceeds benefit the Rotary Club of Carbondale’s humanitarian efforts.

Farm to School discussed at TSC The Roaring Fork Food Policy Council presents “Why Farm to School Matters” for school teachers from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 10 at the Third Street Center and CMC Lappala Center.Topics and sessions include: farm to school values and benefits, an overview of farm to school programs in Colorado, stakeholder breakout sessions and more. For details, go to coftstfroaringfork.eventbrite.com.

HEARTBEAT meets in Glenwood The Glenwood Springs Chapter of HEARTBEAT – Support for Survivors After Suicide – will meet at the First United Methodist Church of Glenwood Springs on at 6:30 p.m. on May 14. HEARTBEAT is open to anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one through suicide – no matter how long ago. Use the Bethel Chapel entrance of the church located at 824 Cooper Street. For details, call Pam Szedelyi at 945-1398.

Junior tennis league forms up The Colorado Roaring Fork Junior Team Tennis League is forming for players 18 and

For all the Mothers in the Valley we have your Prosecco reserved at Allegria on us. May 11-12.

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by Lynn Burton under. Teams will be based at River Valley Ranch, Ironbridge, in Glenwood Springs and several locations in Aspen and Snowmass Village. Matches take place Thursdays from June 20 through Aug. 1 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For details, call Diana Elliott at 927-4693.

Buddy Program explains mentoring The Buddy Program explains mentoring at the new Basalt Bike & Ski location at Willits from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on May 16.

There’ll be wine, Fat Tire beer, cheese and salsa, plus a drawing for a bike tune up.

GarCo offers sex abuse classes Garfield County offers “Ten Things Every Parent Should Know” to prevent sexual abuse from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 16 at Basalt Elementary School, and from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on May 17 at the Family Resource Center (the Bridges High School building on Sopris Avenue). For details, call 945-5195.

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The 90-minute documentary will both reveal and explain the fate of this crucial seed at its source and the threat to the sustainability, heritage and overall lives of its ancient caretakers due to climate change, the introduction of GMO corn plantations in Mexico and NAFTA farming practices.

SunnĂş means â&#x20AC;&#x153;maizeâ&#x20AC;? in the RarĂĄmuri language of Native Americans of northern Mexico where there are currently more than 65 seed varieties of native maize â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thanks to the labor and knowledge of indigenous people and farming communities like the Tarahumara in Chihuahua who have cultivated this crop and way of life for centuries.

Today, the local farmers are facing real threats that will compromise their livelihoods and community heritage as well as inďŹ&#x201A;uence the quality of corn production throughout the planet, but they are ďŹ ghting to maintain their lifestyle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m from Chihuahua in northern Mexico,â&#x20AC;? said Rico, who works at the Gordon Cooper Library and also coaches Carbondale Middle School volleyball and is a volunteer DJ at KDNK.â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come join me and create awareness of the importance of native corn seed in the world and raise funds to ďŹ nish this important ďŹ lm. The fate of native corn will not only affect the stability and history of my home state and country, but it will also affect all of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consumers and producers, and the food we eat everyday, so please help us ďŹ nish â&#x20AC;&#x153;SunnĂşâ&#x20AC;? and make a donation today.â&#x20AC;?

In other Dandelion Day news: â&#x20AC;˘ CORE, CLEER and Solar Energy International will share a booth in Sopris Park. The three non-proďŹ t groups will have electric vehicles on display, give solar demonstrations and offer ways to sign up homes or business to become more energy efďŹ cient.

â&#x20AC;˘ The Sopris Sun hosts a ďŹ rst-ever scavenger hunt from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (ages 4 to 14). â&#x20AC;˘ The Learning Tent includes presentations on backyard chickens, biodynamic farming, raw milk, beekeeping, saving seeds for the future and garden theory. â&#x20AC;˘ Senior Matters holds a bake sale at the park and is accepting goods to sell. Items can include but are not limited to: cakes, cookies, pies, brownies, Rice Crispy treats, cupcakes,â&#x20AC;&#x153;nut-free cookiesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;gluten-free cakes.â&#x20AC;? For details, call Diane at 306-2587 or Dee at 963-2653. â&#x20AC;˘ Partnering with Dandelion Day for Arbor Day, the Carbondale Tree Board will offer advice, information, tree planting and pruning demonstrations, and a Tree Hunt game with prizes. â&#x20AC;˘ Smoky Bear will give a presentation at the Forest Service booth at 2:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;˘ The Slow Bike Race starts at the Sopris Park stage at noon. â&#x20AC;˘ Dandelion Day kicks off with a tour at Sustainable Settings (south of town on Highway 133) at 4 p.m. on May 10.

For more information on Dandelion Day, please see the ad in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sopris Sun or visit dandelionday.org.

Dandelion Day/Arbor Day is organized by Carbondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental board and tree board.

John â&#x20AC;&#x153;Docâ&#x20AC;? Philip and a handful of other Carbondale Environmental Board members started Dandelion Day in 1998 to celebrate what would become the ofďŹ cial town ďŹ&#x201A;ower.

Philip told The Sopris Sun in 2010 that he and others lobbied the town to discontinuing using herbicides to kill dandelions in Sopris Park in the late 1990s, which the town agree to do. Out of that decision came the annual Dandelion Day, celebrated the same weekend in May as Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day.

Dandelion Day JAS Band Battle schedule

The Jazz Aspen Snowmass Band Battle features musicians from Carbondale, Basalt, Glenwood Springs and Aspen middle schools; Roaring Fork, Glenwood Springs, Rifle and Aspen high schools; Colorado Rocky Mountain School; the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork, and Aspen Country Day school. The schedule is as follows: 1:00 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; CMS Flex Band (Carbondale Middle School) 1:15 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Peteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Whistle (RFHS)

1:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Karyme Meixueiro (GSHS) 1:45 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Izzi Mata (RFHS)

2:00 pm. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Brink (AMS, Waldorf, BMS) 2:15 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Boom Town (AMS, ACD) 2:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Booyah Brothers (BMS)

2:45 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Flores Brothers (GSHS) 3:00 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Dudes (GSMS)

3:15 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Big Dog & the Midnite Badgers (RFHS, CRMS) 3:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cause of Death (GSHS)

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4:40 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Aspen Jazz Band (AMS, AHS).

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FIRST FRIDAY FUN Peace, love, facepaint, fashion, kids and kittens were all stars during last week’s First Friday celebration.

After the lulubelle models strutted their stuff down a runway that was set up in the middle of Main Street, the music continued and it became a kid magnet. An unprescendented spontaneous eruption of dancing kids filled the runway, which brought smiles to the faces of onlookers.

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Expect big crowd at trustees’ library meeting May 14 • How much is the applicant proposing to pay?

The three applicants, in the order the town received them, are: the James Surls Museum, the Carbondale Academy of Performing Arts, and the Family Enrichment Center.

A brief description follows; the applications are also available on the town’s website at carbondalegov.org.

The James Surls Museum “ … is devoted to collecting, exhibiting and interpreting the art of James Surls, and the perpetuation of public appreciation for the visual arts,”the application’s mission statement reads.

The James Surls Museum non-profit would pay the town $1 per year to use the building.

The Carbondale Academy of Performing Arts would “ … provide a home for several organizations which together will form the foundation for a Carbondale Academy of Performing Arts (CAPA), with classes in acting, dance, music, voice and more. The space will be renovated to pro-

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By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Future use of the Gordon Cooper Library building is the hottest town topic since the Village at Crystal River vote last year so you know what that means.

When the Carbondale Board of Trustees takes public comment on May 14, “the curtain” separating the two meeting rooms at town hall will be opened up, and dozens of opinions, pleas and observations will no doubt come raining down.

Town manager Jay Harrington said the rules will probably be the same as for public hearings, “ … and that means three minutes (per speaker).”

The May 14 trustees meeting starts with a joint session with the Garfield County Board of Commissioners at 6 p.m. Library discussion is slated for approximately 7:20 p.m. Harrington said the agenda calls for the library discussion to end at 9 p.m., and the trustees can continue the item to a later date.

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vide multiple studios. At least one will have a sprung floor for dance, a type of floor and size of space that does not currently exist in Carbondale.” CAPA would pay $700 per month for the building.

The Family Enrichment Center would utilize the building as “ … a home away from home in downtown Carbondale, a place that nurtures children, parents and community through loving, long-term connections in a nourishing, home-like environment.” The FEC would be for infants through grade five.

The FEC bid-sheet calls the operation a “childcare facility focused on relationshipbased care in a home-like setting.” The Family Enrichment Center is proposing an annual lease fee of $33,150.

As noted in the RFP, the town reserves the right to delay or discontinue the selection process at any time.

The Carbondale Board of Trustees is comprised of: Stacey Bernot (mayor), Frosty Merriott, John Hoffmann,Allyn Harvey, Elizabeth Murphy, John Foulkrod and Pam Zentmyer.

Carbondale joins in Thompson Divide legal appeal Sopris Sun Staff Report On May 6, the town of Carbondale formally joined Pitkin County and the city of Glenwood Springs in a joint appeal of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) recent decision to extend federal oil and gas leases in the Thompson Divide west of Carbondale. A Wilderness Workshop press release reads as follows: “Three local governments announced today an appeal of the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to extend the term of 25 federal oil and gas leases in Colorado’s Thompson Divide. The leases, which are held by SG Interests and Ursa Piceance LLC, cover some 31,700 acres of prime wildlife habitat, rangeland, and recreational resources— much within inventoried roadless areas. Local communities have expressed strong concerns that development of the leases will harm their

existing recreational, ranching and touristbased economies.

“Pitkin County, the City of Glenwood Springs, and the Town of Carbondale have joined together in asking BLM State Director Helen Hankins to take a second look at the decision to extend the leases. They say companies should be held to the 10-year lease term provided by federal law.‘There’s nothing unfair about asking the oil and gas industry to live by the terms of its contracts,’ said Glenwood Springs Mayor Leo McKinney. ‘The lessees had ten years to develop these leases, but didn’t. Now it’s time to return these lands to their rightful owners: taxpayers.

“Development of these leases will lead to heavy industrial traffic passing through communities like Glenwood Springs and Carbondale during the height of the summer tourist season, and would significantly impact current ranching, hunting and recre-

ational uses in the area. ‘Existing uses like ranching and recreation in the Thompson Divide support almost 300 jobs and $30 million in annual economic activity. We’ve lived through boom and bust cycles before, and don’t see the sense in putting so many existing livelihoods at risk,” said Carbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot.

“In its decision to extend, BLM acknowledged that the 25 leases were issued in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act. It decided to extend them, in part, to allow time for local citizens to negotiate with SG and Ursa over a possible buyout of the leases.‘We support seeing existing leaseholders made whole,’ said Pitkin County Commissioner George Newman. ‘But some seem to be using BLM’s extension to demand a king’s ransom for their leases. Local communities shouldn’t have to bail out companies that spent ten years sitting on their rights —

particularly when the federal government can and should just let these leases expire.”

Also on Monday, the Wilderness Workshop filed a similar but separate appeal to the state director of the BLM on the decision, which came out of the Colorado River Valley Field Office in Silt last month. A statement from Will Roush, Conservation Advocate at Wilderness Workshop, reads, “We contend that these leases were issued without the required environmental analysis, without complying with the Endangered Species Act, and without regard for roadless-area protections.

Under orders to expedite development, the BLM basically robo-signed the leases and called them good. Suspending the leases only compounds the error.”

Depending upon the response of state BLM officials, these appeals could lead to further legal action on the part of local governments and environmental organizations.

Carbondale Rotary awards $20,000 in Community Grants Sopris Sun Staff Report The Rotary Club of Carbondale recently awarded its annual Community Grants for the year. The club funded 29 non-profit and community organizations with $20,000 worth of grants, according to a press release.

That number was out of 49 applications received, totaling more than $90,000 in requests.

“Awarding these grants is the highlight of our year,” said Club President Paula Fothergill.“Giving back to our community is what‘Service above Self’ is all about.”

This year’s grant recipients include: Access Roaring Fork, Advocate Safehouse, Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Project, Carbondale Clay Center, Colorado Animal Rescue, Court Appointed Special Advocates of the 9th Judicial District, English In Action, Family Visitor Program, Hospice of the Valley, Houses for Higher Education, Junior Achievement, KDNK Community Radio, LIFT-UP, Literacy Outreach, Raising a Reader, River Bridge Child Advocacy Center, Roaring Fork Conservancy, Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers, the Roaring Fork School District Pre-Collegiate program, Senior Matters, Mt. Sopris Historical Society, The Sopris Sun community newspaper,Third Street Center,Tom’s Door,Wilderness Workshop,Your Friends for Life, YouthEntity, YouthZone and the Carbondale Gordon Cooper Library.

Funding for Carbondale Rotary Community Grants program comes from the club’s annual Happening event, which takes place this year on June 8.

In addition to the community grants, the club will also soon be awarding $10,500 in student scholarships to graduating seniors in Carbondale and Basalt.

To purchase tickets for The Happening, visit www.rotarycarbondale.org or contact any Carbondale Rotarian.

Dakotah Grett (#6) steals second during Roaring Fork baseball action on May 4. The Rams took both ends of a doubleheader against Moffat County, earning them a trip to the 3A regional playoffs that start on May 11. The Rams (seeded 28) face No. 5 seed Holy Family in Broomfield at 10 a.m. If they win that game they play the winner of the St. Mary’s vs. University game at 3 p.m. The winner of that game heads to state. Photo by Sue Rollyson THE SOPRIS SUN, Carbondale’s community supported newspaper • MAY 9, 2013 • 15

Letters continued from page 2 ture and believe that is the best use for the Carbondale library facility.

I am very impressed with the work and serious thought that has gone into the proposal and recognize that the center will fill a real need that exists in this community.

Carbondale is a wonderful place to raise children. They are our strength and our future. The Family Enrichment Center will further our goal to be a nurturing, supportive community for our families by serving diverse age groups. It will provide jobs for teachers and aides and will be a resource for all of us. Its presence in the middle of Carbondale will add vitality to our core. The benefits will spill over to the downtown shops and restaurants, as the center will attract families to the area.

Having devoted over 50 years to teaching and practicing science, I am particularly excited about the plans to have children of all ages participate in growing and preparing some of their own food. We need to instill in our young people at an early age a love of science and curiosity and about how the world around them works so that we can raise up another generation of scientists and engineers.

Seeing how things grow and questioning, for example, why plants are green or why does yeast make bread rise, opens the door to an appreciation of our amazing world as well as our agricultural heritage.

I have had the privilege and great joy of watching my grandsons grow up in Carbondale and become fine young men. It is an old but true adage that “It takes a village to raise

a child.” Carbondale needs to be that village.

Please support the use of the library for the Family Enrichment Center.

Jan Johnson Carbondale

What’s best?

Dear Editor: We have three terrific proposals on the table for the use of the town-owned library building. I hope each one of them finds a home. However, as a 25-year real estate broker, I must look at this valuable site in light of an industry term, “highest and best use.”

This land adjacent to the commercial core is best used to enhance the town’s reputation and to generate business for Main Street, and thus taxes for the community. The Surls museum is the project to accomplish this. I happen to be an admirer of Mr. Surls’s work, but that is not why I am so enthusiastic about this project. It is because of what it can do to help Carbondale. The child-care center and performance practice space can be located anywhere in the community in order to achieve their goals, they will serve relatively few people, and they will not contribute significantly to Main Street economic activity.

The Surls museum will benefit us all educationally and, for some, spiritually, and, critically, it will bring in those tax dollars and Main Street activity that we’ve been struggling to find. I urge the trustees to choose this option.

Sue Edelstein Carbondale

Please support FEC Dear Editor: My name is Danika Davis. I am a mother of a 4 and 6 year old and have lived in Carbondale for four years.

I love this town and have worked for several business here to promote togetherness, community and early childhood services because this town needed social and active movement opportunities for parents with children five and under.

I fully support the proposed Family Enrichment Center (FEC) for the use of the library space on Fourth Street. I hope that the town council will too. Here’s why.

We moved here in 2009 from Australia and the first six months were REALLY tough.

With a 10-month old and a 2-year-old we had no friends, no family and were under serious financial stress. I felt extremely isolated in a town that promotes itself to be a community, family orientated town. If the Family Enrichment Center had been available during this time, my family would’ve had access to essential social and early childhood experiences, easing the transition into this community, making it much less stressful and more appealing.That said, I now promote Carbondale everywhere.

Carbondale is a growing, family-oriented town without accessible community facilities that support and encourage early childhood education and social experiences. FEC would solve this.

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ents is months long. FEC would solve this.

Living in this valley is expensive. Both parents need to work in some capacity. Afterschool care and summer care is very difficult to find full time or even two days a week so that a parent can work a part time position.

FEC would solve this.

The Fourth Street location is perfect for the FEC as it will encourage parents to frequent local business before and after accessing the FEC facility. Coffee, lunch meetings, chiropractic and massage work just to name a few. It is within walking distance to the swimming pool, recreation center and new library for after school excursions and summer usage, which would bring even more revenue into town facilities.

FEC will increase employment opportunities for locals who are educated and in need of employment, raising the standard of living for families in Carbondale.

Please carry these points with significant weight. The future mental, physical, social and financial health and wellbeing of our wonderful youthful Carbondale community depend on it.

Danika Davis Carbondale

It’s an opportunity Dear Editor: We have an opportunity here in Carbondale. Deciding what to do with the old library offers us the chance to acknowledge a major Carbondale strength — the arts.

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Letters continued from page 16 Carbondale is one of the strongest arts communities in Colorado. That has been recognized by the awards we have brought home. All of us in Thunder River Theatre Company know what having an arts facility downtown means to the good and welfare of our community. In considering the library use, we must avoid redundancy. We have facilities in our community that are available to satisfy other uses, including The Orchard, Third Street Center and PAC3, the recreation center, even the Carbondale Middle School and of course — TRTC. What we don’t have is an art museum.

What a glorious opportunity awaits us. More important, we have a world-renowned artist in James Surls, that we can proudly call a Carbondalian. Having a museum in Carbondale that honors his magnificent sculptures would be a huge, elegant addition to our community. It would put Carbondale on the world’s artistic map like nothing else we have.

Lon Winston TRTC Executive Director Carbondale

What a divide Dear Editor: Reading the letters in the May 2 edition, I was struck by the male/female divide. All those in favor of the museum option for the library were men; whereas all those favoring the Family Enrichment Center were women.

What does that tell us? In this case, I agree with Harry Belafonte. In his 1959 performance at Carnegie Hall, he sang a song he

co-wrote with Jack Segal titled “Man Smart (Woman Smarter.”) One refrain goes “Please listen when I say, she smarter than the man in ev’ry way.” From the liner notes: “The other side of the calypso coin, here are all the delicious digs, the loving barbs — as only the calypsonian can frame them — in the eternal war between the sexes.”

Life trumps money.

Steve Campbell Glenwood Springs

Care is critical Dear Editor: As a working mom of two young children, I’m writing in support of the Family Enrichment Center.

High quality after-school care is critical to a healthy and safe community. And while the FEC would serve my family in that capacity, I know I would have appreciated the type of environment and programming that is purposed when my children were infants and toddlers. The premise of the FEC, which will bring home-away-from-home options for children and adults spanning all socioeconomic backgrounds, is a boon for working parents. By offering a safe and nurturing environment, the FEC will help build and sustain community in a number of ways: By teaching practical skills like in gardening, cooking, canning, etc., children and adults alike will learn self-sufficiency and respect for our environment; by offering a full-day of child care, including after-school care, the FEC will contribute to Carbondale’s eco-

nomic well being by enabling parents to seek income and growth outside of their own homes while knowing that their children are being nurtured. And finally, the home-like environment of the FEC, with its family-centered philosophy, will surely foster deeper connections between members of the community, spanning a wide range of ages. I can’t think of a better way to invest in your vibrant community than to support families with this resource. All of our small towns should be so lucky!

Tricia Johnson Basalt

A new perspective Dear Editor: I’d like to offer a perspective I haven’t heard yet in considering the future of the old library site in downtown Carbondale.

I certainly join many others in loving dearly the art and culture that is already a strong part of Carbondale. But the urgency of this time requires us to be very clear about priorities – because if we don’t get it right the future we and our children face is grave.

How many superstorms, climate disasters and the economic struggles that follow these catastrophes do we need to experience before we put all hands on deck for our very future on the planet?

Just last month on Earth Day, Bill McKibben’s 350.org put out a film called “Do the Math.” In it is shared the now measurable reality that carbon in the atmosphere greater than 350 parts per million is not compatible

with life on earth. We are now at 395 parts per million. McKibben says “We are no longer at the point of trying to stop global warming, too late for that.We are now trying to stop it from becoming a complete and utter calamity.” And Lester Brown of Earth Policy Institute, who comes to Aspen each year for AREDAY, adds “What is at stake is civilization itself.”

So what does this mean to what we decide to do with the library site? We are being offered a carefully conceived proposal that involves teaching children and families how to grow food locally, that involves a teaching garden in the center of town, that provides a space for community members to come together around gardening, cooking, family, home and hearth. These are the very skills and values we need to prioritize as social and climate challenges increase, and they are also the skills and values that knit together our families and multi-cultural communities in ways that benefit us on a fundamental, everyday quality of life level.

Countless studies show that children who are exposed to the kind of preschool education that the seasoned educators who have crafted the Family Enrichment Center are offering do better in school, have greater lifelong levels of health, and are more active citizens in their communities. The FEC could easily join the many other organizations and institutions in Carbondale who are leading the way as part of the cutting-edge model for the community of the future. And THAT will LETTERS page 18

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draw people from far and wide to experience and to replicate — because our future depends on it.

Gwen Garcelon Roaring Fork Food Policy Council Carbondale

Dear Editor: The Family Enrichment Center is crucially needed in our community. Sixty-two percent of Carbondale’s population is family households in need of infant-toddler childcare, after school care, or information and support for

nurturing their children.

Having recently moved to Carbondale from Durango, and looking forward to becoming parents in the not-too-distant future, my husband and I chose this community in part because of the vitality here surrounding young professionals and parents of young

children. The proposed Family Enrichment Center would indeed be a selling point for working families who are interested in moving to Carbondale, as it speaks to the heart of what drew us here.

It is interesting that the proposal for the LETTERS page 19

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Letters continued from page 18 Family Enrichment Center comes when our president has addressed the importance of early childhood education. He has nationally recognized the magnitude of high-quality early childhood education in providing the foundation for academic and social success later in life. The town is being given an opportunity to be an innovator in this reform.

As a teacher I often wonder what parents who work till 5 p.m. do with their children after school? Are these children left to their own devices? Or do these mothers scramble for consistency of care? Do the families make do with less than full-time employment? The FEC after school program would not only give parents a peace of mind, but it would also give the children a safe and relaxing “home away from home”to be kindled and cared for until they could be picked up by their parents.

What stands out for me the most is how ideal the Gordon Cooper Library space would be for the Family Enrichment Center. Out of all the proposals the Family Enrichment Center best embodies the spirit of Carbondale in more ways then one. Not only would it continue to preserve a sacred space for children and adults to gather, but also it stands as a clear symbol of a dedicated community.

Carbondale shines as a unique gem in the Roaring Fork Valley, given that it has a community that cares so deeply about each other and the future of the families that live here.

This community establishes central founda-

tions such as libraries, recreational centers, theaters, parks, gardens, once a month community art evenings, seasonal festivals, and hopefully a family enrichment center for all their citizens to thrive.

Megan Gardner Carbondale

weave and share the threads that form the fabric of healthy family life. The Family Enrichment Center proposal for the former Carbondale Library would be an excellent use of that space.

Barbara Rose Balock Carbondale

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Dear Editor: Years ago I saw a bumper sticker that read “SAVE THE WHALES.” Now, I love whales so inside of me there was a welling up of good feeling, but, I always thought that the bumper sticker should say“SAVE THE CHILDREN.” Sometimes we turn outward not to have to look inward or to what is right in front of our faces. Our children, actually our families, are being harvested by consumerism and seduced by a mind and body numbing virtual world.

Both children and adults are losing social and emotional and physical health and vibrancy to these gobblers of our humanity.

We need safe, quality places where our children can be tended with care and interest.

We need safe, quality places where adults can interact and uplift each other. Raising healthy, whole in mind body and spirit children and families is “The Great Work of Our Time.” In truth we raise each other, as our children call us to mature into our better selves.

The act of raising healthy families is an art.

And it deserves a workshop/ gallery space to

Dear Editor: It was my pleasure to produce the video for the Crystal Theatre fund-raising campaign, and I was honored that they asked me to participate.

We need the Crystal to stay on Main Street. Why give money to a profitable business, you ask? I’ll tell you why. In a world of multiplex theaters, the small, one-screen independent theater survives on a very narrow profit margin. Hollywood is forcing this conversion to save the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to make a 35mm movie print in order to increase it’s own profits, and they are doing it on the backs of the theater owners.

Large multiplex chains often get a financial incentive in the form of rebates to help them make the digital conversion, whereas single-screen independent theaters like the Crystal get nothing.That is why thousands of small theaters across the country are closing their doors; they simply cannot afford the $70,000+ that it takes to convert to digital.

The ones that are surviving are doing it

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Without the Crystal, I would never have seen “The Intouchables” or “Searching for Sugarman,”or the many other art-based independent and foreign films that they screen.

Without the Crystal, we will likely have to subsist on the fast food formula type movies that sadly dominate the Hollywood menu.

Carbondale is a community that is proud of the arts and certainly film is one of the great international art forms, especially the types of movies that are often found only at the Crystal Theatre.

Theatergoers come to downtown, eat in restaurants, look in store windows and talk to their friends.I know I do.If we all give a little,we can save a lot for our town. I encourage everyone to go to www.crystaltheatrecarbondale.com and donate whatever you can. If you are a business, do something creative to help the cause.

And if you are fortunate enough to be a potential large donor, please recognize the value that having such a theater on Main Street brings to the community.

The Crystal is committed to staying on Main Street and continuing to give us the quality movies that we enjoy now, but they have to raise the money to convert to a digital projection system.

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