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

e cost of health care makes me sick Don’t get me started on health care in this country because I only get 700 words and that would barely get us through the obscenities.

“I do not spew profanities. I take my time and enunciate them properly. After all, I’m a friggin’ lady.” – Rowdy Redhead Ever since I could vote I’ve had to choose between the lesser of two evils — except for that one time I got to vote Libertarian (I mean, did Dole even vote for himself?) A Libertarian president, ha! Talk about an oxymoron. Any good practicing Libertarian wouldn’t be caught dead within 200 yards of congress, not without a suitcase full of hand grenades anyway.

I’m sick and tired of pretending there’s a choice. It’s like living in an igloo and choosing between cubed or crushed ice.

Enough!

I want a president who lies to congress instead of the people, a president who doesn’t take big oil’s calls because we’re investing in renewables, a president who closes a prison where men have been held without charge for over 10 years.

Ten years.

A lot can happen in 10 years. If you had told me 10 years ago that I’d be watching sister wife and Obama declare each other liars on every other commercial I might have done a few things differently at the time (like ordered another round!) The older I get, the more I realize how out of touch with day-to-day reality our “supposed” leaders are. And now, instead of providing free health care to every citizen, we’re going to mandate that every citizen buy into a corpoBy Jeannie Perry rate-bully healthcare system.

As far as I can tell, that will just create another IRS except that instead of taxes, it’ll track insurance; a bureaucratic cesspool to keep track of each and every American’s physical health. Gross.

Why can’t we be more like our hat, Oh Canada? Taxes can cover things like roads, schools and hospitals and then those that want to pay extra for bionic knees can hire top gun surgeons (in that they’re the best of the best, not in that they’re soul-searching their own sexuality.)

Oh right, because then who would pay for the facelifts of the 1 percent?

Speaking of facelifts, I just recently learned that Valley View Hospital is a non-profit organization. Non-profits certainly seem to be the latest trend, especially at tax time, but the whole point of being a non-profit is that you give something back to the community (for instance, this newspaper you’re reading is free!)

So, why does Valley View Hospital charge a third more than Aspen Valley Hospital, more than double St. Mary’s in Grand Junction and almost two-thirds more than Vail Valley for some procedures, you ask?

Well, that’s a very good question, I respond. I suppose they have to pay for the chimney sweeps (yes, we are officially that cheesy in the Roaring Fork Valley — fireplaces-inhospital-rooms cheesy.)

Between the major renovations and the top salaries at Valley View* (sorry guys, but it’s right there on the Internet!), a nice double income system — charging patients more than any other nearby hospital and soliciting donations — is probably necessary.

The cost of health care in this country isn’t high because we all smoke and drink and eat bologna sandwiches all day. It’s high because bureaucrats are expensive pets. But maybe I should go easy on Valley View. Maybe all the land they now own in Carbondale is for the future site of their no-cost-to-the-community clinic.

Everyone’s health care should be taken care of, and by that I don’t mean playing the big insurance game where everyone pays another bill each month. They’ve already got us paying mortgages that are higher than the values of our homes, and now they want us all to pay insurance companies that are notorious for taking our money and then crying “deductible!” as soon as it’s time for them to pay out. Nice work if you can get it.

The only gig better might be a Libertarian senator, spending all day trying to figure out how to cut back your own hours.

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* According to Valley View Hospital Foundation information on the Colorado Secretary of State’s Web site, for the year 2010: Dr. David Miller (neurosurgeon) was paid $1,031,885 ($983,900 in base pay, $24,798 bonus, $20,501 retirement and deferred compensation, $2,686 non-taxable benefits); Gary Brewer (ex-officio hospital CEO) was paid $990,571 ($553,748 base pay, $413,636 bonus, $20,501 retirement and deferred compensation, $2,686 non-taxable benefits); and Dr. Frank Laws (cardiologist) was paid $826,927 ($745,436 base pay, $58,415 bonus, $20,501 retirement and deferred income, $2,575 non-taxable benefits). Other top three MD salaries ranged from $429,266 to $431,186; top salaries for non-MDs at Valley View were $439,714 and $316,126.

Jeannie Perry writes a monthly column for The Sopris Sun. Her views and opinions do not reflect those of The Sopris Sun, its board of directors or the Sun’s advertisers.

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Don’t Habitat us Dear Editor: While I have supported Habitat for Humanity, I just cannot support their current plan to build a cluster of 12 new low-income homes in the center of Keator Grove.

When their plans were announced in the paper, neighbors asked for more information. One Habitat board member refused to meet, stating that they had not made plans, yet their board president said that he had been working on this for two years and that they finally had the opportunity to obtain land from Alpine Bank through foreclosure.

As a Carbondale resident, I ask Habitat to open their doors to include local community input into their decisions and planning. If they had been working on this for two years, why hasn’t the town or any future neighbors been in on the conversation?

Why won’t they meet with us now?

The Roaring Fork Habitat for Humanity Web site states that it aims to change the living situations for the many families that “live in dangerous, unhealthy housing and struggle each day just to survive.” Is building a new and different high-density low-income neighborhood the answer? The practice of many Habitat groups is to go into communities and RESTORE current communities and homes and place new homes within already existing neighborhoods (i.e. creating diversity and opportunity).

I ask the community to contact the Roaring Fork Habitat for Humanity board members and the president of Alpine Bank to express opposition and concern re: plans for Keator Grove. Tell them that a new low-income cluster of homes is not good for a community the size of Carbondale — neither our quality of life nor our home values.

Tell them that we love Carbondale as a diverse community; that we don’t want to see an “opportunity-by-foreclosure” to build a new low-income neighborhood over-taking an already small development.

Finally, I ask Alpine Bank to reconsider the sale of this property in the heart of Keator Grove and the future of our community.

Maria Bagby Carbondale

Lou responds Dear Editor: This is in response to Ms. Caloia’s comments regarding the recent information sent out via the sheriff’s office system.

First, if you read the article by Heather McGregor (in the Post Independent), you will see that I did apologize and I did say we will be more diligent in our information releases. During my investigation of this matter, Ms. McGinnis, who provides a

valuable service to this community, apologized after realizing the error. As her employer and the person who makes the final decision on internal matters, I resolved it.

What is most disturbing to me is that as a lawyer you should know that the element of “intent” is almost always necessary to commit a crime. You can make all of the political allegations you want (and that’s exactly what this is), but I am confident that there was no “intent” to violate election laws. However, it was inappropriate.

Further, as an attorney I would think you would know that personnel matters are protected under Colorado law and not open to the public. I don’t know what you would have me do with Tanny, but any actions that I have taken regarding Ms. McGinnis will not be disclosed.

Equally disturbing to me is the fact that you are interested in becoming our district attorney. With the manner in which you wrote your letter, it is clear that you have no intention of establishing a positive working relationship with the law enforcement agency that you will work most closely with. I’ve known this for years and now you’ve publicized it. As the sheriff of Garfield County, that is not acceptable to me and I would assume your attitude is not LETTERS page 20

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Beer truck creates Mountain Fair brew ha

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Let your vehicle idle for more than 10 minutes and what might you get?

A ticket from the cops.

Run a diesel-powered refrigeration unit off and on for hours and what will you get?

Cold beer.

Carbondale town staffers, trustees and Mountain Fair officials are now grappling with the question of how to ensure frosty beer for the masses without undue noise and air pollution, after a Sopris Park neighbor complained about a New Belgium beer truck that dispensed brews from six built-in taps as part of the fair’s beer garden last weekend.

“For the fourth year in a row New Belgium is polluting with a diesel powered refrigeration unit,” said Sopris Park neighbor Dan Bullock in a July 27 e-mail to the Carbondale Google group, which includes town trustees.

Bullock, town staffers and trustees, and Mountain Fair director Amy Kimberly, communicated throughout the three-day event.

The upshot was that once again the beer truck would not operate its refrigeration unit from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m., and all concerned will spend the next 12 months crafting a solution that will allow for cold beer but also help the town live up to its enviro-conscious ethics.

Those ethics include the Mountain Fair Green Team composting or recycling nearly 100 percent of the trash generated at this year’s event.

Taps are built into the side of the New Belgium beer truck for easy access to the beer tent and a ready supply of cold brews. The main problem, according to critics, is the truck’s refrigeration unit is powered by diesel fuel that pollutes the air. Photo by Jane Bachrach Mountain Fair has brought in the Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing Company to park its truck on Euclid Avenue alongside the beer garden for the past nine years, Kimberly said. As it did last year, the truck powered its refrigeration unit for 10 minutes an hour throughout the fair.

“That was a happy concession to make,” Kimberly said.“Nobody has a desire to harm the environment or to make life unpleasant

(for neighbors).”

Kimberly said she has met with Bullock in years past to discuss his concerns about noise and air pollution. This year, New Belgium brought in a truck with an electrical system that can keep beer cold without diesel power. Only problem was, the system requires three-phase electric service that Sopris Park does not have.

It didn’t take long after Bullock’s initial e-

mail for the Google groupers to jump all over the beer truck. One person sent out the town’s ordinance that prohibits vehicles from idling for more than 10 minutes and asked how Mountain Fair could get away with it.

Town manager Jay Harrington replied that he’d talked with police chief Gene Schilling and they determined that such a unit is allowed in order to keep the products in the truck refrigerated.

Both the town and Mountain Fair have indicated they plan to discuss putting in threephrase electric service next year, which will mean the refrigeration unit would not require diesel power. The main question at this point is who is going to pay for the expensive set up? Bullock said in an e-mail that it’s not the town’s responsibility to pay for the service.

Kimberly told The Sopris Sun that Mountain Fair and its parent non-profit the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities do not expect the town to pick up the whole tab, but “we’ll sit down and make it happen …. I feel comfortable we can work it out.”

As for why Mountain Fair can’t just sell beer by the can, which could be kept cold on ice in the beer garden and brought in from off-site as needed, Kimberly said that’s what New Belgium first suggested.

But because the fair’s liquor license covers the entire park, “The problem is policing people who bring in cans from liquor stores,” Kimberly said.

Smuggling in cans could mean the fair would lose its liquor license.

Potato Day folks looking for new organizer

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Report After 19 years of keeping one of Colorado’s oldest community celebrations not only running but profitable, Potato Day organizers say this is their last year and are hoping to pass it on to someone else.

“Nobody wants to see it (Potato Day) go away,” said Ann Gianinetti, one of the event’s organizers. “It’s a long running tradition.”

The 103rd Carbondale Potato Day returns with a parade, barbecue, music and a park full of folks in mid-September. To help ensure that the celebration of Carbondale’s original claim-to-fame continues for another 103 years, Zeta Epsilon and Xi Gamma Tau

hold a meeting at town hall to talk to groups and potential organizers at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 15.

“It does make money,” Gianinetti told The Sopris Sun. For details, call 963-0313.

Gianinetti said the two service sororities (part of Beta Sigma Phi) accepted Potato Day’s organizational responsibilities 19 years ago after ranching families who staged the event for many years decided to step down.

Most of the money generated from Potato Days comes from the annual barbecue, which at $10 per head serves lunch to about 1,200 people at Sopris Park every year. Sponsors also donate money and are included on

the annual poster.

The two sororities then put that money back into the community for scholarships and other worthy causes. “We’re all volunteer,” Gianinetti said.

Potato Day itself is as close to a turn-key operation as a community event can be.“It’s not very complicated,” she said.

Organizers have kept good records on what needs to be done and when. About 610 committee members meet about three times a year, then 50 or so volunteers show up the day of the event. Many volunteers don’t even have to be asked.

Putting meat and potatoes into the barbecue pit is one job. Serving it up from be-

hind long tables under a tent is another job.

Ann said her husband, Mark, will keep working the barbecue pit “until he can’t do it anymore.”

Ideally, the next organizers will not only keep Potato Day going but take it to the next level, with more activities for kids and maybe the return to a Saturday night dance.

“We need more hands to make it bigger and like to see more events and target other groups,” Gianinetti said. “But we just don’t have the time or numbers to do it anymore.”

As for the theme for Zeta Epsilon and Xi Gamma Tau’s final go-round: it’s “Spud Games 2012” in honor of the Summer Olympics.

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Henry Louis Gates talks genealogy at TRTC Sopris Sun Staff Report The Roaring Fork Cultural Council presents Harvard professor Henry “Skip” Gates to discuss genealogy and complex ancestries.

The dialogue with local philanthropist Jim Calaway takes place at Thunder River Theatre in downtown Carbondale on Aug. 3 at 7:30 p.m., according to a press release. Gates will discuss the latest tools of genealogy and genetics used in exploring family histories and the importance of following these complex lineages.

Following the discussion, he will present his findings on a DNA sample of Calaway.

Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, and is director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research. He has hosted several broadcasts on PBS, including a four-part series in 2010 examining the genealogy of 12 prominent North Americans including Mike Nichols, Queen Noor, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Malcolm Gladwell and Meryl Streep.

A Cambridge, Mass. resident, Gates made the news in 2009 when he returned home from a trip and couldn’t get into his house.

When his driver helped him gain entrance, a passerby called police to report a possible break in. A Cambridge police officer was dispatched and after a confrontation Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct. President Barack Obama said the police “acted stupidly” in arresting Gates. Obama then invited Gates and the arresting officer to the White House to share a beer and have a talk.

Prosecutors later dropped the charges but that wasn’t the end of the story.

On March 9, 2010, Gates claimed on the Oprah Winfrey Show that he and Sgt. James Crowley, the arresting officer in the Cambridge incident, share a common ancestor — an ancient Irish king.

Gates joined the faculty of Harvard in 1991 and has also taught at Yale, Cornell and Duke universities. He has received 51 honorary degrees. In 1997, he was named one of Time magazine’s “25 Most Influential Americans.” He received a National Humanities Medal in 1998, and in 1999 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He explored the genealogy of prominent

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

Henry Louis Gates is an authority on genealogy and will discuss moderator Jim Calaway’s lineage at Thunder River Theatre on Aug. 3. The discussion is part of the on-going Roaring Fork Cultural Council’s speaker series. Courtesy photo African Americans as the host of the 2006 and 2008 PBS television miniseries “African American Lives.”

His writing includes pieces in The New York Times that defend rap music and an article in Sports Illustrated that criticizes black youth culture for glorifying basketball over education. In 1992, he received a George Polk Award for his social commentary in The New York Times.

An opinion piece in The New York Times earned Gates the wrath of some African-American critics. In “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game” (April 22, 2010), Gates explored the role that Africans played in the slave trade. He pointed out, “The historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those shipped to the New World were enslaved

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Last weekend’s Mountain Fair was about like the rest on the crime front, according to Carbondale Police Chief Gene Schilling, although Sunday turned out to be busier than Saturday.

“That’s very unusual, Schilling said.

In the DUI category, there were two on Friday, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, plus a DUI relating to the Latino rodeo that took place at the roping arena.

Probably the bloodiest incident did not result in an arrest or even an official victim. Schilling said that on Friday night a clerk from 7/Eleven called police to report a man with a lacerated face had been in the store but left. The victim called police on Saturday, said he couldn’t remember what happened and did not leave his name. “We don’t know who he is,” Schilling said. There were also several “small fights” on Friday night, according to memo sent to the local media.

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Rodeo volunteers make it happen week aer week

By Kayla Henley Sopris Sun Correspondent Every Thursday at the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo, the last of the sun’s rays set on the dusty grounds of the Gus Darien riding arena. Riders straddle their bulls, five-yearolds cling to thick woolen coats of their mutton mounts and barrel racers kick up clumps of dirt as they fly through the arena, sending the crowd into a frenzy of applause.

People from all over the state and beyond travel to witness this “cowboy’s mountain fair” (as dubbed by arena volunteer Steve Turley). Yet what many spectators don’t know is that without its volunteers, this beloved rodeo would be impossible to put on.

These hard-working helpers start preparing for the rodeo season in January, and dedicate much of their time ensuring that each season is a successful one. Their labors are compensated with many highlights, the biggest one being the opportunity to give back to the community while simultaneously attending an event they love.

Larry Williams, basketball coach at Roaring Fork High School and rodeo photographer (known as “Shorty” among his co-workers), has had his basketball boys volunteer to direct parking at the rodeo for two years.

“It’s good for the young kids because they have to be more vocal and forceful,” said Williams, explaining that many spectators are reluctant to park their cars in the designated places. “It can be tough on these

Rodeo volunteers from left to right: back gate volunteer Julie Albrecht, parking volunteer Larry Williams and front gate volunteer Ana Vega Terrazas. Photos by Jane Bachrach kids, but for the most part, everybody’s really respectful to them.”

Lorey Esquibel, who usually staffs the back gate, quipped “I became a volunteer so I could get in for free,” then added seriously “but I donate my time. It’s my way of giving back to the community.”

Intermixed among the benefits of volunteering, however, are challenges. Melanie Cardiff, the rodeo’s volunteer coordinator,

has expressed concern about how often volunteers are forced to handle disgruntled spectators whose attitudes about paying are rather negative. Unbeknownst to many spectators, the Wild West Rodeo is a nonprofit entity that is run mostly by volunteers. The majority of its funds come from gate admissions, so when the attendance winnows, so do the funds that make it possible to host specialty acts such as bronc rid-

ing and buffalo appearances. Without the volunteers, Carbondale’s famous rodeo would cease to exist.

“People coming to watch the rodeo need to understand that,” stated Cardiff.

“They should be thanking these people for doing what they do. We can’t do this without them.”

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“Peace Through Service” Rotary International President for 2012-13 Sakuji Tanaka Yashio, Saitama, Japan A big welcome to our new Carbondale Rotary Club president for the year, Paula Fothergill, and thank you to outgoing president John Baker.

Meetings are Wednesdays 7 AM at the Carbondale Firehouse. Visitors are welcome to come enjoy the program and see why people are motivated to get up so early to do the wonderful work for the community and around the world that Rotary does.

AUGUST SPEAKERS: Aug. 8 - Kathryn Grosscup GSA Team visit to Turkey Aug. 15 - Dr Ron Axel Rotary International projects Aug. 22 - Chris Treese Colorado River Water Conservation District Aug. 29 - Carla Vauthrin Rotary District Governor For program suggestions, contact Ken Neubecker at eagleriver@sopris.net.

ROTARY DATES TO REMEMBER: August 16 - Rotary at Carbondale Wild West Rodeo night Sept. 28-30 - Rotary District Conference in Durango For membership and other Rotary club information, visit

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KDNK news department submits the following Mountain Fair item for your consideration: “The men’s wood splitting competition, always a Mountain Fair favorite was marked by notable events this year.

“First, Gov. John Hickenlooper, passing through the Roaring Fork Valley, made a surprise appearance. He stepped into the ring at the start of the contest and gave it his benediction.

“Next, the skies opened up and the fair’s only real downpour began. About half the crowd leapt to its feet and headed for shelter, but as event head Dru Handy noted, ‘Mountain Fair waits for no one’ and it was forge ahead or lose your place in the lineup.

The intrepid KDNK team also held their ground to continue the wide world of sports broadcast.

“Flanked by commentators Bill “Billy Bob Speaks” Laemmel and Jane “The Janerator” Bachrach, KDNK Mountain Fair host Marilyn Gleason looked dubiously at the radio in her lap and the microphone she held in her hand, connected by wire snaking through the grass to the Gazebo stage sound board some 30 feet away. Soaking wet live electronics just never seem like a good idea, but in a lightning storm? Gleason made a few cracks about the potential for fireballs popping out of the mic.

“As the deluge intensified, and mauls arced and woodchips flew, Gleason felt a jolt hit her hand and arm, as the microphone leapt out of her hand. At approximately the same instant, a bolt of lightning split the sky over Sopris Park and, predictably, thunder cracked and crashed. Gleason says she never even saw the flash of light coming out of the microphone, but Billy Bob did. Bravely, or stupidly (he is an electrician) Billy Bob retrieved the microphone from the grass. Marilyn seemed happy to let him hold it for a while.

“The rain continued and so did the competition, with Bob Toast reclaiming his title as champion. Experts, including Billy Bob, say that all that positive energy pooling at Mountain Fair (right?) found its channel back to the sky at least partially through the microphone in Marilyn’s hand. Somehow, no sound equipment was damaged and no one got burnt to a cinder!”

More fair notes Laurie Loeb reports a few percussion instruments went missing from this year’s drum circle, including: a 12-inch paddle drum (looks kinda like large ping pong paddle), one small headless red plastic tambourine, four black plastic drum mallets with a black fabric ball head. If you know the whereabouts of these missing items, 963-2798 so others can use them next year.

And the winners were The winners in the third annual 2012 Mountain Fair Singer/Songwriter competition in the youth category were: Izzi Mata, Karyme Meixueiro, Destinee Reed and Griffen Rowe-Gaddis. In the adult category, the winners were Olivia Pevec, Mike Waters and Gideon Shikler.

Jamming for a cure Once again, Olivia Savard, 15, has recruited her uncle (Johnny Ohnmacht) to headline a fund-raising concert to benefit Parkinson’s disease research. The show takes place at the Crystal Club Café in Redstone from 4 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 5. Tickets are $15.

For the past several years, Savard has organized Team Fox fund-raising concerts in memory of her step-grandfather, Bob Olander, who had Parkinson’s disease. Her efforts were recognized by actor Michael Fox’s Team Fox non-profit in 2011, which raises money for Parkinson’s research, and she attended a recognition dinner in New York City in April as the second to youngest person to be invited.

Parkinson’s is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that causes tremors, balance problems and irregular movements by those who suffer from it. Fox, who has Parkinson’s, has helped bring awareness of the disease in recent years.

The Redstone fund-raiser includes a silent auction and dunk tank. Johnny O was raised in the Roaring Fork Valley and now fronts a Boulder-based blues band.

For details call 963-9515 or go to facebook.com/oliviasavardforteamfox.

Swirbul competes Carbondale’s Hailey Swirbul was in Sun Valley, Idaho, in early July to compete for a stars-and-stripes jersey at the 2012 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Cross Country National Championships.

Hailey raced in the Junior Women (ages 13-14) division, which bystanders described as the closest race of the day. Hailey battled it out against Haley Batten of Park City, Utah, who ultimately emerged victorious by only seven seconds to win the national championship.

Way to go, Hailey.

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They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthday this week include: Jay Leavitt (Aug. 4), Rosie McSwain and Priscilla Dickinson (Aug. 5), Ed Engelki (Aug. 7) and Amber Sparkles (Aug. 8).

Pot shop public hearings slated

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Public hearings are slated in August and September respectively for two medical marijuana dispensaries who were grandfathered to operated but failed to submit proper applications for licenses before a July 1 deadline, according to records at Carbondale Town Hall.

One of those dispensaries, Green Miracle Medicinals, appears before the trustees for a public hearing on Aug. 28.

The other dispensary, CMED, appears before the trustees for its license on Sept. 11, according to a legal notice in this week’s Sopris Sun. Two other dispensaries, Doctor’s Garden and Medical Marijuana Centers of Carbondale, have been operating for two to three years, submitted complete applications before July 1 and gained trustee approval earlier in the summer.

If Green Miracle and CMED are approved, Carbondale will likely be capped at four dispensaries. That’s because all four were grandfathered to operate while the town drafted its medical marijuana regulations. Any new dispensary cannot operate within 1,000 feet of a school under the town’s regulations, and such a location is rare given the town’s geographic size and location of schools.

Colorado voters approved the use of medical marijuana for those with certain physical conditions in 2000. Users must obtain what amounts to a prescription from a physician to obtain medical marijuana, which is sold over the counter in dispensaries, along with marijuanabased edibles, pipes and related paraphernalia.

Carbondale turned dark and wet at noon on Monday as a slow moving thunderstorm drenched the town, put on a spectacular lightning show and launched a mudslide that closed Highway 133 north of Redstone for a couple of hours.

Photo by Lynn Burton

One local physician used a downtown Carbondale coffee shop in which to meet with and examine her patients before writing their prescription.

Like other cities, towns and counties around Colorado and in other states, Carbondale trustees had to draft first-ever ordinances to regulate the growing industry.The task was further complicated by existing federal statutes.

After the first medical marijuana dispensary opened in an office building across from Gianinetti Park in Roaring Fork Village in July 2009, two or other three outlets quickly joined the lineup.

Carbondale trustees appointed a 14-member medical marijuana advisory group to make recommendations to draft ordinances in March 2010.

Medical marijuana dispensaries only needed to obtain a retail sales tax licenses in the early stages so the trustees imposed a moratorium on new outlets in 2010. Existing dispensaries were grandfathered in and were not subject to some subsequent regulations.

Meanwhile, other Colorado towns were either banning dispensaries completely or limiting the number allowed to operate.

Carbondale Town Manager Jay Harrington said the trustees can approve or deny the upcoming medical marijuana dispensary applications based on town ordinances. They will also accept public comments.

Only one trustee, Elizabeth Murphy, has suggested that the trustees put the issue of whether to prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries to a vote of the people.

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White House honors RFTA in D.C. ceremony Cop Shop Several RFTA board members and staffers traveled to Washington, D.C. for a ceremony on July 31 that marked the transportation authority being named as a White House Champion of Change, according to a press release.

The cost to travel to Washington is expected to be about $10,000, according to RFTA CEO Dan Blankenship.

Making the trip with Blankenship were Roaring Fork Transportation Authority board members Jackie Whitsitt (Basalt’s mayor), Steve Skadron (Aspen City Council member), John Wilkinson (Snowmass Village Town Council member) and Ted Edmonds (Glenwood Springs City Council member), plus RFTA staffer John Chase.

RFTA was one of 14 organizations chosen for the honor, which is given out in a different category every week, according to the White House Web site. The other 13 organizations honored on July 31 are also involved with transportation.

RFTA was chosen for its VelociRFTA bus rapid transit system, which is under construction and currently the only one of its kind serving a rural area.

At the ceremony, which was streamed on the Whitehouse.gov/live Web site, Whitsitt accepted the award on behalf of RFTA. “Jacque led the campaign which resulted in a local vote to increase sales taxes to assist RFTA,� said the White House

press release, which was distributed by RFTA to the local media. “These taxes combined with a Very Small Starts grant from the Federal Transit Administration are what enabled RFTA to build the VelociRFTA bus rapid transit system (BRT).�

On the Colorado Secretary of State Web site, Whitsitt is listed as the registered agent for the Affordable Transportation Solutions committee, which in 2008 raised money and lobbied for passage of the ballot question that increased sales taxes by 0.4 percent to help pay for the $46 million VelociRFTA system.

Major donations included $1,000 given by the IBI Group of Irvine, California, which was on the bus rapid transit project team, according to a November 2008 Aspen Times article by Scott Condon. The article noted that River Bend LLC, a subsidiary of Related WestPac, which at the time was developing Base Village in Snowmass Village, gave $2,500. The Aspen Lodging Association gave $500.

The impetus for the VelociRFTA system came in 2008, when gas prices and RFTA ridership reached all-time highs and the system became overwhelmed. “Bus Rapid Transit was the only logical and practical solution, even though it had never been done in a rural area,� the press release said.

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On Sunday, police arrested a man for felony menacing after he allegedly showed a knife to an intoxicated man in the vicinity of White House pizza.

It’s unclear whether the DUI of the weekend was related to Mountain Fair.

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There were 11 summonses/arrests and 12 citations (including parking).

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The White House press release said that while the citizens of the area “initially wanted light rail, the costs were very high, especially with the length of the service area, and ‌ the lack of urban density didn’t provide ‌ necessary funding opportunities.â€?

The White House press release noted that “RFTA has led the nation with various transit innovations: use of biofuels at high altitudes, the Bike Express bus and rural bike loading on buses to name a few.�

When U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited the Carbondale VelociRFTA site earlier this summer while attending the Aspen Ideas Festival, he said “You’re a model for cooperation. You’re a model for putting your friends and neighbors to work. You’re a model for implementing the ďŹ rst rural BRT project in the country. So I came here to say congratulations to all of you.â€?

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Please Note:

Castle Creek Road Paving begins this week. The project begins just beyond Aspen Valley Hospital and will continue the entire 12 miles of this county road. Traffic will be reduced to one lane during this project and five minute delays should be expected.

Take caution around heavy equipment.

Weather permitting completion is anticipated in approximately two weeks, however monsoon rains can present unanticipated challenges to paving crews.

Coal Creek Road will be closed beginning July 30th for approximately 10 days while a large culvert is replaced.

Very large equipment, including an excavator, is now on location and the public is advised to avoid the construction zone.

Construction schedules always change. Stay tuned.

We’ll do our best to keep you

Highway 82 between Gerbazdale and AABC will be paved in August.

informed. Listen to KSPN and watch CGTV Channel 11 for the latest road updates.

Jack Gredig Road (the road to the landfill) is being repaved in August.

Questions? 920-5390

Redstone Boulevard, Smith Hill Road and Willoughby Way are slated for repaving later this summer and fall.

roadwork ahead!

Sopris Sun Staff Report

Faces of the fair There was something for everyone at the 41st annual Carbondale Mountain Fair and as usual it was obvious that folks had a great time. The monsoons made an appearance this year, as they often do, but the rain didn’t seem to dampen the spirits of the swarms of folks that danced the weekend away, OD’d on fair food, slurped beer and mojitos, competed in or watched the contests and competitions, and enjoyed the awesome performances in the Oasis and on the Main Stage.

There was also a lot going on at Mountain Fair that wasn’t so obvious. On the following pages we’ll take you on a visual journey of some interesting things you might have missed. From some familiar and not so familiar faces of the fair to the main stage and from some song and dance acts you might have missed to some displays of curious behavior, we hope you enjoy your travels.

Photos by Jane Bachrach

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Rockin’ & rollin’ The Jam Tent, Oasis Tent and streets of Carbondale were filled with the sounds of music and rhythms of dance throughout the Mountain Fair weekend.Artilluma Dance Company (from Rifle) wore lampshades on their head and lit up the Oasis stage on Friday evening while Carbondale’s own Jen Catto set the beat in the Jam Tent on Sunday morning. After a short practice on Sopris Avenue on Sunday afternoon, the Carbondale Renegade Marching Band set off for Sopris Park to strut their stuff.

Here Janine Cuthburtson and Russ Criswell strut their own stuff. Matte Curry is always rockin’ (lower left).

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At the Main Stage

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Did you see this?

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Those of us who saw Frank Norwood, and others, picking there teeth in the pie judging tent thought it was a bit strange. Did his gold capped tooth fall off?

We are also wondering why Ananda Banc was pulling down Dan Giese’s pants (lower left) and why Katharine Rushton (lower right) was carrying around a large mug of whipped cream.

Did you see Gov. John Hickenlooper at wood splitting? We did.

Community Briefs Senior Matters offers classes Senior Matters in the Third Street Center is offering several classes. Computer Basics is Aug. 6 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. and it’s free. Call Bill at 379-6599 to reserve a spot. A free smart phone class is also offered from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 6. Call 379-6599.

A free tai chi demonstration class is offered from 9 to 10 a.m. on Aug. 13 and 15. Regular classes start the following week. John Norton is the instructor. For details, call 2741010. Norton says that tai chi is excellent for balance, strength, flexibility and peace of mind and is practiced by more people every day than any other form of exercise on earth.

Women’s golf tourney slated The 13th annual American Legion Women’s Auxiliary golf tournament takes place at the Ranch at Roaring Fork on Sept. 8. There are four players per team and the cost is $40 per player. Entry fees can be sent to the American Legion Hall, 97 Third St., Carbondale or drop them of after 3 pm. Hole sponsorships are also available. For details, call Julie at 309-5417 or 963-2381.

CVEPA meets The Crystal River Environmental Protection Association holds its annual meeting at the Redstone Inn on Aug. 26, with social hour at 5 p.m. and the dinner at 6 p.m. Forest Service biologist John Proctor will speak at 7 p.m. For details, call Chuck Downey at 963-1389.

Volunteer board members wanted The town of Carbondale is accepting applications to several volunteer boards and commissions. The deadline is Aug. 20. For details, go to carbondalegov.org or to town hall.

Get the Facts About the Airport Master Plan Pitkin County and Airport Director Jim Elwood Invite You To Take a “Behind the Scenes” Airport Tour Call 429-2852 to make arrangements

Some Facts to Consider about Airport Costs and Revenues The Airport is a County Enterprise Fund which means that all of its costs must be covered by its own revenues. The County General Fund does not subsidize the Aspen/Pitkin County Airport.

The primary sources of airport revenues are federal/state grants and loans, passenger facility charges (a $4.50 fee collected from each airline passenger) and tax-exempt debt.

The Airport also receives revenue from landing fees, rent, fuel fees, and concession fees. No County tax dollars are received by the Airport.

As a condition of accepting Federal grants, all Airport revenue can only be used for airport purposes. Funds may not be redistributed for other County purposes.

Over the past 10 years, the Airport has successfully sought and received over $63 million in federal and state airport improvement grants.

As part of the Master Plan process, a financial analysis of the proposed Airport improvements has been conducted to ensure the financial feasibility of the Plan.

If the Airport Master Plan is approved, any new improvements would be evaluated based on market conditions, sound business practices, financial viability, and response to need.

Aspen/Pitkin County Airport It’s your Airport.

Be a part of the plan.

To learn more about the Airport Master Plan go to www.aspenairportplanning.com.

Volunteer course marshal George Nettles gives racer Michele Zebrowitz a mandatory “drink” of beer before she topped out on the Porcupine Loop Bike Race, which took place Sunday during Mountain Fair. Aloha Mountain Cyclery organizes the fun bike race that starts on Prince Creek Road, climbs up the Crown trails and zooms back to the park — with a few obstacles along the way, including this “spray” station and a bacon and donut station just a half-mile prior. The race raised nearly $1,000 for CCAH. Nettles, who recently got out of the hospital after a bicycle crash, was simply having a little fun and said volunteering to support the racers was better than sitting around at home. Trina Ortega photo THE SOPRIS SUN • AUGUST 2, 2012 • 13

Community Calendar THURSDAY Aug. 2 GORDON COOPER • The Gordon Cooper Library and Aspen Art Museum present Story Art from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. the first Thursday of every month. Registration is recommended. Info: 963-2889.

CLASSICAL MUSIC • The Basalt Regional Library presents free concerts featuring Aspen Music Festival and School students Thursdays at 5:15 p.m. through Aug. 16. Info: www.basaltlibrary.org.

RODEO • The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo takes place at the Gus Darien arena east of Carbondale on County Road 100 every Thursday night through Aug. 23. Gates open at 5:30 p.m., slack is at 6 p.m. and the Grand Entrance is at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults (kids under 10 are free) or $30 per carload (six people or less. Info: carbondalerodeo.com.

FILM • The Redstone Castle and Colorado Preservation, Inc. present the film “The Centennial Statehouse: Colorado’s Greatest Treasure” at the castle at 6 p.m. Info: 9639656.

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

FRIDAY Aug. 3 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents Woody Allen’s current film “To Rome with Love” (R) at 8 p.m. through Aug. 9. “To Rome with Love” is a comedy told in four vignettes that explores the eternal quest for love. The cast includes: Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin, Judy Davis, Roberto Benigni, Greta

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To list your event, email information to news@soprissun.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Saturday. Events take place in Carbondale unless noted. For up-to-the-minute valley-wide event listings, check out the Community Calendar online at soprissun.com. View and submit events online at soprissun.com/calendar.

Gerwig, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page and Woody Allen himself. Showing at 5:45 p.m. on Aug. 4-5 is “Bernie” (PG-13). This comedy is based on a true story about an assistant funeral director who strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow and finds it has consequences he could never have imagined.

GATES SPEAKS • The Roaring Fork Cultural Council presents Harvard professor Henry “Skip” Gates at 7:30 p.m. Gates will be speaking on genealogy and complex ancestries. He and Jim Calaway have been mapping Calaway’s DNA and will release the results during the evening. Info: rfculturalcouncil.com or 379-0114.

FIRST FRIDAY • The Carbondale Clay Center hosts an opening reception for resident artist H.P. Bloomer IV from 6 to 8 p.m. The center is located at 135 Main St. and the show continues through Aug. 28. Info: 963-2529. The reception is part of Carbondale’s monthly First Friday, which includes extended hours and related programs at galleries, stores and other venues throughout Carbondale.

FIRST FRIDAY • Rainy Day Design presents a one-night pop-up show from 6 to 8 p.m. featuring artwork by jewelry designer Dawn Ogren, woodworker/printmaker Frank Smith, ceramic artist Anne Goldberg and fine art photographer/painter Steve Lewis. Rainy Day is located at 16 N. Fourth St. (just north of Main Street).

LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works on Main Street presents Clark’s Quark at 7:30 p.m. The semi-acoustic trio hails from Boulder.

LIVE MUSIC • Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs presents the River Jam Band (classic rock and blues) from 9 p.m. to midnight. Info: 928-8813.

LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the Dinkel Building presents music every Friday night.

YOUTH FOOTBALL • Carbondale Youth Football holds a clinic at Bill Hanks Field from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The clinic is for kids from grades 3-6 who are interested in playing tackle football this fall. Info: Scott Fitzwilliams at 945-1206.

SATURDAY Aug. 4 FILOHA TOUR • The Roaring Fork Conservancy hosts another family-oriented Filoha Meadows open space tour near Redstone from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Explore beaver ponds, learn about the local bat population, go on a scavenger hunt and learn about hooved animals that call Filoha home. The tour takes place rain or shine and it’s free. Registration is required at. www.roaringfork.org/events.

Info: 927-1290.

LIVE MUSIC • Carbondale Beer Works on Main Street presents Gideon and Friends (cool reggae-based tunes) from 8 p.m. till late.

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LIVE MUSIC • Redstone’s Magical Moments music series continues with Los Jefes from 6 to 8 p.m. at Redstone Park. The norteno Mexican style band has been together since 2008 and its influences include sierreno and classical bolero. It’s free.

LIVE MUSIC • Fin’s Grille & Raw Bar in Glenwood Springs presents Jimmy Byrne on electric piano from 7 to 10 p.m. No cover.

Info: 945-4771.

SATURDAY MARKET • Crystal River Meats and Osage Gardens hold a Saturday Market at 55 N. Fourth Street from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday. Info: 876-0668.

SUNDAY Aug. 5 LIVE MUSIC • The Crystal Club in Redstone presents the Johnny O. Band in a benefit for Team Fox from 4 to 7 p.m.There’ll also be a silent auction and dunk tank. Tickets are $15. Info: 963-2373.

GARDEN DEDICATION • The Orchard dedicates its community garden with a blessing at 10:30 a.m. The public is invited to attend the dedication and to tour the garden until 11:30 a.m. and also sign up for plots in 2013. The Orchard is located on Snowmass Drive. Info: garden@theorchardlife.com.

MON.-FRI. Aug. 6-10 MUSIC CAMP • The PAC3 Music Academy Camp takes place at the Third Street Center.

The camp culminates with a performance at 6 p.m. on Aug. 10. Info: Shanti Gruber at 970-366-2889 or pac3carbondale.com.

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Community Calendar MONDAY Aug. 6 JAM SESSION • Carbondale Beer Works on Main Street hosts an old-time jam session with Dana Wilson from 7 to 9 p.m. every Monday. All abilities are welcome.

TUESDAY Aug. 7 SHIFT HAPPENS • Davi Nikent at the Third Street Center presents Robert Holden, PhD, whose talk is titled “Taking the Next Step in Your Life” at 6:30 p.m. A $10 donation is requested. Info: davinikent.org.

INTERACTIVE MUSIC • The Garfield County Library District presents Sue Schnitzer at 10 a.m. at town hall. Schnitzer has recorded four CDs for kids. Info: 963-2889.

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town Market at Ninth and Grand takes place from 4 p.m. to dusk. There are vendors and live music. Info: glenwoodmarket.com.

COMEDY • Jack Green presents Cardiff Tuesday Night Comedy Night at the Cardiff schoolhouse every week from through the summer, fall and into the winter. Tickets are $7.17. Info: 618-0199.

AWF • The Aspen Writer’s Foundation presents a conversation with “The Art of Fielding” author Chad Harbach at the Doerr-Hosier Center on the Aspen Meadows campus at 6 p.m., followed by an AWF members reception at Isberian Rug Company. Harbach will discuss his emergence onto the literary scene, his life in the publishing industry and the success of his blockbuster novel. For details, go to aspenwriters.org.

THURSDAY Aug. 16 LIVE MUSIC • Steve’s Guitars in the old part of the Dinkel Building presents Kelly Hogan.

Her soon-to-be-released album is titled “I Like

BASALT STORY TIME • The Basalt Regional Library holds a story time for Book Babies Mondays from 10:15 to 11 a.m.; preschool story times Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m., and Toddler Rhyme Time on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY Aug. 8

MAYOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat with Carbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdays

FARMER’S MARKET • The Carbondale Farmer’s Market takes place at Fourth Street Plaza each Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Oct. 3. There are new vendors and old faves, plus free entertainment.

Save the date

ROTARY • The Rotary Club of Carbondale meets at the Carbondale Firehouse on Highway 133 Wednesdays at 7 a.m. Info: 927-0641.

Further Out

MONDAY Aug. 13

Ongoing from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Village Smithy, located at 26 S. Third St. THEATRE ASPEN • Theatre Aspen presents “How I Became a Pirate” and “The 9 Steps” through Aug. 18. Info: theatreaspen.org.

BONFIRE SHOW • Bonfire coffee shop in the Dinkel Building presents the work of Carbondale artist Staci Dickerson.

TUESDAY Aug. 28

ROBIN SUTHERLAND • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities presents classical pianist Robin Sutherland at 6:30 p.m. at the Colorado Rocky Mountain School barn. An appetizer and champagne reception follows the concert. Tickets are $65 for CCAH members and $75 for non-members. For details, call 963-1680 or go to carbondalearts.com. Sutherland is principal pianist for the San Francisco Symphony.

WEDNESDAY Aug. 29 to Keep Myself in Pain.”The recording includes songs penned for her by Vic Chesnutt, the Magnetic Fields, the Mekons’ Jon Langford, the Handsome Family, Freakwater’s Catherine Irwin, John Wesley Harding, Robbie Fulks, Gabriel Roth, Robyn Hitchcock, and M. Ward and Andrew Bird. Info: 963-3304.

BLUE JEANS BASH • Tickets now available for the Wyly Community Art Center’s Blue Jeans Bash, slated for Aug. from 5 to 7 p.m.

The event honors Deb Jones as the Wyly Art Educator award recipient. Auction items will be donated by Bayard Hollins, Dick Carter, Jody Guralnick and K and Marc Cesark. Info: 927-4123.

MANAUS CELEBRATION • The Manaus Fund presents a beer tasting and other festivities at the Woody Creek Community Center from 5 to 7 p.m. Manaus founder George Stranahan will host the evening.The organization’s new board president and executive director will also be introduced.

RSVP to Sheryl@manausfund.org by Aug. 12.

Hold the presses ART CLASSES AT CCAH • Gerry Michel holds art classes for school kids at the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities in the Third Street Center Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m. through the end of summer. Donations will be accepted.

TIERNAN WINS MT. SOPRIS RUN-OFF • Alex Tiernan won the 14-mile Mt. Sopris Run-off during the Carbondale Mountain Fair on Saturday. Enrique Mgjia was second, followed by Gibb Kentz, Lucius Juma and Adam Frisch. A total of 68 runners competed. In the four-mile version of the Mt. Sopris Run-off, Dustin Ross was the winner, followed by Jeffrey Coomes, John Coomes, Mike Premich and Ron Lund. A total of 44 runners took part.

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handling complaints, but occasionally an interesting story pops up. Ana Vega, a young volunteer who works the front gate, has personal experience with this.

“I don’t know if it’s their (spectators) moods or if they just don’t wanna pay, but it’s pretty scary because some of them drive in and don’t care if they run over us,” Vega told the Sopris Sun during a recent rodeo as her co-workers nodded in assent. At that moment, as if to prove the point, a large truck and trailer pulled into the entrance, slowing at first and then speeding through, running over three cones that were a mere two feet from the volunteers.

So why do volunteers have so much trouble with uncooperative spectators? Esquibel’s theory is that people are ignorant of the fact that the rodeo is a non-profit organization. But this doesn’t make the numerous excuses and complaining easier to handle. Julie Albrecht, a colorful character who aids Esquibel at the back gate (dubbed “storybook gate” for all the excuses people use to try to get in for free) hears the complaint “It’s $10 to get in?!” so frequently that she found a witty response: “Yes! And the reason it’s so inexpensive is because it’s a nonprofit. We just wanna keep the rodeo in Carbondale.”

Albrecht chuckled at this, reminiscing about the numerous occasions when she’s used this line. “It always stops them right in their tracks” she added with a grin.

Esquibel also enjoys spectators’ attempts to outwit the system. “Trying to get into the rodeo for free is a sport in itself, and it’s fun because we usually catch them,” she laughed.

In spite of all the occasional brouhaha, volunteers still love being a part of the rodeo and refuse to allow the uncooperative spectators to bring them down.A passerby volunteer during this interview stated matter-of-factly, “Excuses are like (you know what). They all stink and everyone’s got one.”

This comment generated a hearty laugh from his co-workers.

that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.”

Dr. Ron Daniels, on the Black Agenda Report Web site, countered “It was the insatiable need/demand for free labor to make the colonies of the Americas profitable which triggered the trans-Atlantic slave trade.”

Ebony magazine called Gates one of the “100 Most Influential Black Americans” in 2005. In 2006, he was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution after tracing his lineage back to John Redman, a free negro who fought in the Revolutionary War. On a local note, Gates serves on the Aspen Institute board, as well as the boards of the New York Public Library, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Brookings Institution and others. In 1981 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.

As noted in an April 15, 2011 article by Boston Globe writer Bryan Marquard, Gates legally changed his name to Henry Jr. to honor his father, who died in 2011 at the age of 97. “He was one of the smartest human beings I’ve ever met,’’ Gates said. And funny, too.“He made Red Foxx look like an undertaker.”

The Roaring Fork Cultural Council was founded by Jim Calaway and Craig Rathbun to bring nationally and internationally known figures to the Roaring Fork Valley for discussions on cultural, political and ecological issues.

Previous speakers have included Henry Catto, Madeleine Albright, Gary Hart, Walter Isaacson, Elaine Pagels, Dr. Kirk Johnson and Dr. Sylvia Earle.

For ticket information, go to rfculturalcouncil.org or call 379-0114.

Gates was originally scheduled to speak last year but was first forced to cancel due to a medical emergency and later because of a scheduling conflict.

Arena volunteers Paul Grange (left) and Steve Turley (right). Photo by Jane Bachrach.

Saturday Market in Carbondale In Carbondale at Crystal River Meats Every Saturday from 10:00a.m. - 2:00p.m.

Crystal River Meats store at 55 N. 4th Street in Carbondale, just off of Main Street.

For more information, call us at 970-876-0668 or email www.osagegardens.com veggies@osagegardens.com

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Summer keeps rolling all over the Western Slope A friend of mine was bewww.olathesweetcornfest.com to moaning the end of sumfind out more. mer because, according to If you’ve never been to the him, fall is just around the mouth-watering Palisade Peach corner whenever Mountain Festival Aug. 16-19 you’re missFair is over. ing out on tasting the finest Actually there is plenty of peaches anywhere. Those of you time left to go out and enjoy who can’t seem to go anywhere what the Western Slope has without Fido need to leave him at to offer with our famous home for this festival. No dogs alsummer weather. There are lowed. For details see www.pala good many festivals and isadepeachfest.com or just show celebrations left to enjoy. up and have fun.

If you haven’t already Last year I bought three boxes been to the Aspen Music of organic peaches from Paonia

By Bill Kight Festival you’ve got a little and dried them for the winter. time left. It ends on Aug. 19. Locals know you Along with the Dominquez pears and local apdon’t have to pay to enjoy the music. Take a ples I also dried,they lasted until the end of June; picnic basket with you, spread your blanket on just in time for more tree ripened prize peaches. the grass outside the tent and enjoy yourself. I This year the USA Pro Cycling Challenge did that with some friends a few weeks ago and starts on the Western Slope in Durango on it didn’t rain on us.

Aug. 20 then on to Telluride, Montrose, Are you a person like me who would rather Crested Butte, Gunnison, Aspen and Beaver watch people dance than actually dance your- Creek before leaving Breckenridge for the finself? Then there’s the Vail International Dance ish in Colorado Springs on Aug. 24 .

Festival July 29-Aug. 11. It’s not free but then Aspen is the only place the race comes into again what in Vail is. Google “Vail Interna- town one day and leaves the next.There are lots tional Dance Festival”if you really want to go. of places along the route from Aspen to IndeFor some real down-to-earth fun in the sun pendence Pass to view the race. Just remember the Olathe Sweet Corn Festival Aug. 3-4 is just overnight camping is limited to only a few desigthe ticket. I promised myself that I’m going to nated Forest Service sites although you will be almake it this time since it seems to come and go lowed to park your car next to the road. every year without my attendance. Tickets are If you’re in good shape and want some exvery reasonable and can be purchased for dif- ercise, the best way to find a good spot to see ferent venues or different days. Go to the race is to bike up Highway 82 toward In-

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Youth Football Clinic and Registration SATURDAY, August 4, 2012 10am-1pm Bill Hanks Field in Carbondale 3-6 Graders interested in playing tackle football this fall should attend this fun camp and registration day. Coaches will be on hand to provide details and register players. We will run some drills and teach basic football skills.

For more information contact Scott Fitzwilliams at 970-945-1206

dependence Pass while the road is still open.

Try www.usaprocyclingchallenge.com for when the road will close and for more information about the race.

Paonia has the Mountain Harvest Festival (www.mountainharvestfestival.com/mhf/inde x.php) from Sept. 27-30 when summer has started to fade from memory though the weather should be just dandy in one of my favorite little towns in Colorado.

While you are there leave half of your day to visit the three wineries up on Garvin Mesa: Azura (www.azuracellars.com), Stone Cottage (www.stonecottagecellars.com) and Terror

Creek (www.terrorcreekwinery.com) . These folks have to know what they are doing to be able to make wine from grapes grown at such high elevation with such a short growing season. You won’t find any finer wine. Could it be because the soil is comparable to the Bordeaux region of France?

Get out and enjoy the rest of Western Colorado’s many festivals.

Bill Kight, of Carbondale, is public affairs officer for the White River National Forest. He shares his insights and stories with readers every month.

First Friday goes golfing on Aug. 3 Sopris Sun Staff Report The August First Friday theme will focus on golf in the Carbondale area. Sam Broome, PGA Golf In Schools Director, will host a program that teaches golf to children in a fun and engaging environment, including contests and games. Local golf courses will also have booths set up to demo new products and promote their courses, according to a press release.

In addition to the First Friday golf theme, Fourth Street Plaza will also be home to live music, an exhibit of children’s photography and the site of a new silent auction.

The Photography Summer Camp for Kids, taught by local photographers Summers Moore and Corie Spruill, will host an

opening to celebrate the work of nine Carbondale kids.

TheCarbondaleChamberofCommercedebutsitsregularsilentauctionfrom6to8:30p.m.

Other activities include the Crystal Theatre showing of Woody Allen’s “To Rome with Love” and “Bernie;” Majid Kahhak painting live at his studio/gallery in the Dinkel Building; a opening reception at the Carbondale Clay Center; a one-night pop-up show at Rainy Day Design on Fourth Street; and 40 new designs and vintage pieces at Harmony Scott at the east end of Main Street and more.

Visitors are encouraged to park in the temporary RFTA parking lot at the corner of Highway 133 and Colorado Avenue across the street from Sopris Liquor and Wine.

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A detailed description of the Commissions is available on the Town website, www.carbondalegov.org Applications will be accepted until August 20, 2012.

APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT CARBONDALE TOWN HALL Or on the Town Website www.carbondalegov.org Thank you for your interest in volunteering for Carbondale!

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Penny Hot Springs controversy fueled the fire 25 years ago Looking back

By Lynn Burton

Sponsored by the Mt. Sopris Historical Society The Penny Hot Springs, in the Crystal River on Highway 133 between Carbondale and Redstone, fueled controversy fires a quarter century ago. These days, folks laze about in the superheated water without fear of recriminations. It wasn’t like that in 1987, however. Here are three accounts from the Sept. 17, 1987 Valley Journal.

A guest comment on the paper’s editorial page prompted by a Valley Journal reporter’s earlier article states: “In response to your editorial, … and the letters printed in the September 10 Journal I think a little history lesson is in order.

“No doubt the springs have been used for more than 100 years. The Penny family settled the area and maintained the springs in the late 19th century. After the cinderblock bathhouse was built, people took turns using the hot waters for 15 minutes or half an hour.

“There was no trouble recorded until the drug scene of the late 60’s and early 70’s. Nudes running across the highway caused safety problems. The bathhouse was left filthy. School officials and parents were concerned because of teenagers involved with drugs and nudity at the spring.

“Don’t blame the Granges. They were threatened not only by the nudes at their front door but the Pitkin County Health Department informed Mr. Grange that “he could be held to stiff penalties, including a possible $1,000 fine per day and jail sentence” unless he cleaned up the spring.

That’s why the bathhouse was destroyed.

“Does anyone learn from history? If the place had been used in decency and order, there would be no trouble now. The petition that was circulated by many protestors was not for the closing of the spring. The opposition was against the lack of sanitation and self-control, which has led to nudity and indecent exposure.

“I also oppose the harassment of the Granges. Their yard is probably the most beautiful in Pitkin County. And they are beautiful people.”

Dorothy Johnson ••• A letter to the editor from Mrs. Kelly Grange stated: “I request that my subscription to your unprincipled Valley Journal be immediately cancelled.

“We will no longer tolerate receiving a newspaper which rivals the National Enquirer for sensationalism and outright manipulation of the facts in order to gain personal objectives.

“You are an expert at omitting important details which might in some way benefit, even slightly, the party you oppose.

“I didn’t perceive until recently that

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you and your paper could be so opposed to common decency.

“It makes no sense to pay for a paper the contents of which cannot be presumed to be accurate. I therefore request a refund for the remainder of my subscription.

“You and your paper operate primarily for radicals who do not recognize the rights of private property owners and who totally disregard the rights and feelings of anyone but themselves while using God’s name in vain. Goodbye and good riddance!”

••• A news story on the following page, headlined “Spring stories ‘biased & inaccurate’ leads off “Irwin Grange, the central figure in the ongoing debate over public access to the Penny Hot Springs, feels the Valley Journal coverage of the issue has been heavily weighted against him and his family and has been inaccurate in its reportage of the facts.”

The article continues, “Specifically, the Journal reported the Grange family which owns land adjacent to, and across the river from, the spring was primarily responsible for the destruction of the old bathhouse there in the early 70’s. The Journal also reported the family had made numerous complaints to law enforcement officials over the years regarding nude bathers at the springs and trespassing from the springs venturing onto Grange family land.

“Not so, Grange said. “We were not primarily responsible (for the bathhouse and spring destruction). It was a joint decision at that time by the Pitkin County Health Department and the State Department of Highways. We also received a letter at that time from the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce (which originally built the bathhouse) supporting the move.

“We haven’t been complaining regularly at all. In fact, there was a 10-year period where we had absolutely no problems. The problems really date from about 1985. We have never even tried to file charges. We just want them (the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Department) to enforce the laws ah are on the books (i.e. trespassing and indecent exposure statutes) here or anywhere else. In fact, they re going out of their way not to enforce the laws.

“Grange also objected to the use of the word “spa” in defining the small collection pool, saying “it looks as if you’re trying to glorify the thing – it’s just a puddle in the water.

“Although Irwin Grange is attempting to lease the hot springs from the Highway Department, he denies that necessarily means he will close it off to the public as has been charged in Journal articles concerning the case.

“The Journal also incorrectly identified Grange’s father, Kelly, in the initial article on the spring. As a result, Grange said he will no longer talk to Journal reporters about the issue and the family has cancelled their subscription to the paper.

“As of this week, the Colorado Department of Highways has as yet made no de-

“Grange also objected to the use of the word ‘spa’ in defining the small collection pool, saying ‘it looks as if you’re trying to glorify the thing – it’s just a puddle in the water.’” cision on whether or not to turn control of the Penny Hot Spring over to the Grange family.”

••• As for other items in the Sept. 17, 1987 Valley Journal, a Life Cycles ad is headlined “We’re not just a bike store anymore … We’re also a backpacking store!” Located at 419 Main Street, the ad lists sleeping bags, backpacks, tents, stoves, pots and pans and USGS maps as part of its inventory.

The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities was soliciting entries for a Mt. Sopris art show at the Pour House.

Secretarial Services, at 289 Main St., Carbondale’s “Complete Secretarial Services” company was adverting word processing, typing, copying service with reduction and enlargements, blueprint

copies including black line mylars, telephone answering services, notary, complete bookkeeping on computer and mail services.

Ember Stove Co. in Glenwood Springs was offering the Alpine AFX woodstove model for $599.

Tami, Kim, Karen and Ted Nieslanik, and Stacey Patch, thanked the following for supporting them in their 4-H projects: Bob Gross, Jim Nieslanik, Dr. Gary Knaus, Jammaron Construction, Super 8 Motel, Central Bank, Bob Perry, Mike Strang, Roaring Fork Co-op and Tom Turnbull.

Showing at the Crystal Theatre were “The Big Easy” with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin, and “Spaceballs.”

Blue Lake developers in El Jebel were offering modular homes on large lots “or we will build to suit,” priced from $62,000.

Thank you

Jim and Connie Calaway for your generosity of spirit and giving to the Mt. Sopris Historical Society.

We greatly appreciate your support!

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KIDS SPORTS CAMP • Come try a variety of sports in 6 separate days. For boys and girls ages 5–8 years. Sports include: Soccer, Football, T-Ball, Tennis, Basketball and fundamentals; $54; 9-10 a.m. Crown Mtn Park.

WALKING INTERVALS GROUP • Are you ready to get your body back in shape after delivering that sweet bundle of joy?

Well, grab your stroller, your little one (everyone needs a workout buddy!) and dust off those workout shoes. We’ll start with a quick stretch and warm-up walk, continuing with a more intense walk to get our heart rates up, there will be intervals throughout the mile walk. You must be 6 weeks postpartum (8 weeks for CSection) and please let me know if you are pregnant. Check out our website for more info, www.befit-mama.weebly.com or email befitmamas@gmail.com with questions. 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.; cost $5 single class/$20 punch pass.

RIVERSIDE GRILL, BASALT • Salsa night has returned, every Thursday from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.. Be here early for free casual instruction by Tere and Ricardo Hernandez. (formerly Jimmy’s Salsa DJ’s and local Salsa Dance instructors.) They will begin every Salsa Night with free instruction from 8:30 to 9 p.m. All are welcome.

JAYNE GOTLIEB PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS “HAIRSPRAY” • Big Musical. Big Comedy. Big Hair. A young people’s production of the Broadway musical! Aug. 2-5 at various venues around town.

Tickets available at Le Cercle Studio in Basalt or at the door of the

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SUNDAY Aug. 5 BASALT SUNDAY MARKET • Locally grown produce, local artists, cooking demonstrations, etc. Meet and talk with local growers, ranchers, artisans, and healers. Take home some of the finest local foods available, as well as arts, clothing and more. 10 a.m .to 2 p.m.

YOGA IN THE PARK • Through Sept. 2, join the yoga experience at Lion’s Park. All levels welcome; from 11 a.m. to noon.

MONDAY Aug. 6 SPEED CAMP • Every athlete that attends this 6-session camp will learn cutting edge speed and strength training techniques that will bring their sports performance to the next level. Crown Mtn Park. 8 to 10 a.m. for kids 7-12.

SCREEN PRINTING CAMP • Chinese calligraphy, nature designs and more and the Wyly Art Center. Tuition assistance is available.

TUESDAY Aug. 7 FLY TYING CLASS • Offered by Frying Pan Anglers. Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost is $10. Call 927-3441.Sign up at Frying Pan Anglers in downtown Basalt or call 927-3441.

COOKING DEMO • “IT'S ALL ABOUT PEACHES” at the Kitchen Store of Basalt from 3 to 4 p.m. Cost is $10.

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