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KDNK DJs Rev Up for Drive KDNK’s volunteer DJs are rallying around the radio station and celebrating 32 years of community broadcasting.

“We are having fun!” was the astounding message reverberating at last week’s DJ meetings. At the meetings, held in KDNK’s Broadcast Learning Center, the volunteers ran through a list of things that they love about KDNK. “Freedom!” “Access.” “The news.” “The community.” “The music.” “The kids.”

“Creativity!” “The people.” “The personalities!” “It saved my life!”

The announcers, aged nine to ninety were getting pumped for KDNK’s membership drive, which is on until August 21. The theme for the drive is “Connecting Communities.”

KDNK has been broadcasting community access radio in downtown Carbondale since 1983. The mission of the station is to provide public access radio that connects community members to one another and the world.

“Not every community has its own radio station and none have a radio station quite like this one,” offered General Manager Steve Skinner, noting that KDNK has more than 80 volunteer programmers.

KDNK’s unique sound is a mix of local volunteer DJs, youth radio, local news, public affairs and national programming like National Public Radio and Democracy Now! The station can be found at 88.1, 88.3 and 88.5 FM and at KDNK.org.

Have you heard the news?

The Radio and Television Digital News Association recently announced that KDNK won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for feature reporting. KDNK’s Amy Hadden-Marsh’s piece on 15-year-old bull rider Tianna Davis took first place. This is the second KDNK’s Amy year in a row that KDNK Hadden-Marsh

has won a Murrow award.

KDNK has also won two Certificates of Merit from the Colorado Broadcasters Association (CBA) for medium market radio stations.

Volunteer Walter Gallacher’s Immigrant Stories took best “News Feature, Report of Series” for his profile of Alex Gonzalez entitled “Search for the Dream”. KDNK’s Valley Voices won a CBA Certificate of Merit for “Best Public Affairs Show.”

Again, Amy Hadden Marsh produced an awardwinning piece with author Kevin Fedarko about his book, The Emerald Mile.

These stories and a complete archive of KDNK news is at KDNK.org.

Mark Burrows photo KDNK DJ’s celebrate freedom and diversity at last week’s DJ meetings. The radio station serves listeners from Leadville to Rifle and beyond with community access programming, news and public affairs. DJ trainings are held each month. KDNK partners with the Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program to serve local youth.

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Carbondale Beer Works Enlists Local Chefs for KDNK Blues & BBQ

KDNK is taking this year’s Blues and Barbecue in a new, local direction. The music, food and brew celebration is Saturday, August 15 from 4-10 p.m. at the 4th Street Plaza in downtown Carbondale.

Carbondale Beer Works chef Mark Hardin II is pulling together local culinary talent and food. Hardin has organized six local chefs to create signature barbecue dishes using local meat and ingredients.

“Everything from the lamb, beef, goats and greens is coming from local sources.

This team of chefs knows how to make the most of these unique flavors,” said Hardin.

Hardin, a formidable talent in the kitchen himself, is taking the role of conductor for the event.

“I’ll help where I’m needed,” he said.

Local chefs include Flip Wise, from Meat and Cheese, Ryan Vinciguerra from Slow Groovin’ BBQ, Drew Scott of Downvalley Tavern, Andreas Fischbacher from Allegria, Will Nolan from Viceroy Snowmass and Dave Eisenson from Town. All are donating their time to benefit KDNK. Local food providers include Potter Farms, Sustainable Settings, Avalanche Cheese Company, Milagro Ranch, Mountain Primal and Roaring Gardens.

Frank Martin’s new blues band, “Preaching to the Choir,” will open the show at 5:00 p.m. Frank will be joined by locals Bob Levey, Karen Tafejian and Ken Wenciek.

Headlining the event is Markus James.

“Combining elements of the desert blues of Mali and the hill country blues of Mississippi, Markus James is an entirely original bluesman. With an elliptical style of lyrics and exquisite slide skills on the Fender, the cigar box guitar and the gourd banjo, Markus has the mojo, and it will work on you,” promises KDNK Program Director Luke Nestler.

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.

Editor’s note Sharp-eyed readers might notice this week’s front page looks a bit different. No, we didn’t bump up our type size, switch from serif to sanserif headlines, or change our motto to “You need us more than we need you.” Nope, what’s different this week is the source of the front-page stories and photos. The front page was created and designed by KDNK, because the community access radio station “bought” the page in the Rotary Club of Carbondale’s annual Happening auction in June. So there you go. The Sopris Sun thanks KDNK for its front-page purchase (which will be put to good use in the Rotary’s many grants and programs) and wishes the station the best in its current membership drive. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

Bright bulbs shining at AREDAY

By Patrick Hunter The brightest bulbs in the lamp are running on renewable energy. That observation could sum up the 12th annual AREDAY conference taking place in Snowmass Village through Aug. 13. The acronym AREDAY stands for “American Renewable Energy Day,” which is the work of Chip Comins and Sally Ranney.

The brightest bulbs include the likes of Huang Ming (who is perhaps the leading solar engineer, and producer, of solar energy in China); our own Amory Lovins (the co-founder and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute); Dr. Silvia Earle (who has spent her life exploring and explaining the ocean); Timothy Wirth (a former U.S. Senator from Colorado and solar ambassador; author Thomas Friedman (a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner); and many others.

The reason for this gathering lies in its subtitles: “Racing Climate Change” and “Green Bridge with China: Road to Paris.”

Of course, many Americans are certain that the words “climate change” are part of a devious plot to deprive good folks of their values, traditions and money. Instead, this conference promises to save us all money and give our lives added health and security.

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Most concerned Some of those most concerned with disastrous changes in the climate are members of the U.S. military.

A new film (to be shown at AREDAY), called “The Burden,” details the military’s problems in providing rescue and care in tragedies and disasters around the world.

The military spends a great deal of its budget on providing fuel for its activities in very remote locations. And military operations now take place during some of the highest temperatures ever recorded.

Others having deep concerns about the climate’s future are insurance companies that spending ever increasing amounts of money due to fires, storms, floods and mudslides. An even greater threat may be the ongoing rise in ocean levels.

If you are concerned about changing climate, however, you should take heart. The capable people who are attending this conference are doing everything they can to get climate change under control.

Underway and gathering momentum is the switch from using polluting fossil fuels to clean renewable energy. Solar power will be the most important source of electricity in the future. Wind power and biofuels will also play a big part.

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Letters

The Sopris Sun welcomes your letters, limited to no more than 400 words. Letters exceeding that length may be edited or returned for revisions. Include your name and residence (for publication) and a contact email and phone number. Submit letters via email to news@soprissun.com or via snail mail to P.O. Box 399, Carbondale, CO 81623. The deadline to submit letters to the editor is noon on Monday.

Claws and feathers Dear Editor: I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love birds. And I don’t know a cat owner who isn’t aware of the potential for his or her cat stalking and killing them.

I’ve traveled the world and thrilled at the myriad birdlife. My husband and I keep bird books at hand and monitor the nests in our trees; we create safe zones when the babies fall out.

We have cats. The indoor/outdoor variety. I’ve had them my entire life. I’ve tried leashes — a fiasco with multiple cats — and kept them indoors until they were old enough to stand a chance out there. I worry about them, but I can guarantee you an indoor cat is miserable.

Saying your cat is content staring out at the trees and birds and squirrels, the grass and flowers is, IMHO, baloney. It’s like saying our prisoners are well fed and happy, or the Sea World orcas or caged animals in the zoo are just pleased as punch to be there. They have a wonderful life. Really?

There are at least 10 cats on our short downtown street, just off Sopris Park. I don’t see cats stalking birds on the street or gravel drives or in the park or public flower beds. Does anyone? I rarely, if ever, see cats on the bike paths or open spaces. I do see them stalking birds from the sanctuary of private gardens and beneath shrubs, sometimes darting across the street and hopping fences to check out neighbors’ yards.

I urge the trustees to look around our town and realize the trees and shrubs where cats roam are primarily on private property. It can’t do a lick of good to protect birds by passing an ordinance restricting cats to yards. May as well have the fox guard the hen house.

I admire the Audubon Society and the good they do. I have their books. I love and protect our birds to the best of my ability, monitoring their nests and not using chemicals in my yard.

The bird population does seem to be dwindling. But I doubt cats are suddenly at the root of the problem. I don’t know where the 5 billion birds a year are killed by cats came from; no one polled me. But if that’s accurate, then we’d do better to look at Monsanto and not Felix.

Molly Swanton Carbondale

Committee thanks Dear Editor: I just wanted to thank Joe Enzer, Hank Van Berlo, Tom Flynn, Ray Sauvey, Joann Teeple, Michael Hassig, H.P. Hansen, Laura Van Dyne and Davis Farrar, the steering committee

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members for all of us in the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District. Thank you for your study, devotion, commitments and constituents’ input gathering process that led to several qualified recommendations to the C&RFPD board.

A short steering committee history.

Nine citizens volunteered to help guide the two consulting groups so that the C&RFPD’s 10-year master plan draft and ideas they developed would be pertinent and relevant to the district and the needs of it citizens for fire, ambulance and rescue emergency services.

All nine members were selected and were moderated by fire board members Carl Smith and Mike Kennedy.

The steering committee had seven, 2 1/2 hour meetings since March 30. They attended five board meetings, three-plus public forum meetings, with over 90 emails reviewed and discussed, over 350 pages of consultants’ draft documents read, discussed and commented on.

They had numerous discussions “on the street” with curious and involved citizens. There is a unanimous consensus on the steering committee that at least a 1 to 1.5 mil-levy increase is warranted. There is also a unanimous consensus that at the earliest, a ballot issue be presented to the electorate in May 2016, and more preferably November 2016, allowing time for the fire district board to digest, discuss in open public board meetings and solidify the draft documents into a master plan document and strategic plan document. Dissemination, explanation and understanding of the 10-year master plan and an in-depth budget to the citizens of the fire district is paramount for a positive election out come.

Jeff Wadley Carbondale

Mountain Fair thanks (Editor’s note: This original letter was longer than The Sopris Sun’s 400 word limit, so due to space constraints we’re running it in two or three installments).

Dear Editor: The 44th annual Carbondale Mountain Fair was magical, wonderful, creative, danceable, inspiring and filled with love. There are so many people to thank, especially the 300 volunteers who show up to make it happen, but there are some that deserve a special shout-out: The Production Crew, under the direction of Mark Taylor, pulls the fair together and keeps it running all week-end long. They are Kevin Lundy, Pete Rich, James Gorman, Will Lennox, Blake McDonald, Josh Paigen, Aubrey Hood, Quinn Whitten, Miles Phillips, Jeptha, Brenden Peterson, Garret DelLETTERS page 17

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Library district pulls out of Garfield Clean Energy

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer The Garfield County Library District board of directors voted unanimously last week to withdraw its financial support from Garfield Clean Energy Collaborative (GCEC), a partnership of governmental and quasi-governmental organizations that work to increase energy efficiency in communities around the county.

The reason for severing its membership with the GCEC, according to library board president Nella Barker of Rifle, was financial.

The library district, like Garfield County and other local governments, is facing a couple of years of reduced revenues, a financial hangover from the recent Great Recession that drove down property values and the taxes paid by property owners.

Plus, she said, the library district has finished its multi-million-dollar building program of recent years, during which aging

and inadequate library buildings around the county were either rebuilt and expanded, or replaced by modern facilities.

“They were very helpful to the district when we were doing all that building,” Barker said.

But once the building campaign was finished, she said, “It just didn’t make sense to us any more” to keep up the membership.

According to the GCEC website, the partners currently include Garfield County, the municipalities of Carbondale, Glenwood Springs, New Castle, Silt, Rifle and Parachute, as well as Colorado Mountain College and the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority.

The library district is still on the list of partners, because the GCEC board has yet to formally discuss the district’s withdrawal.

That discussion, according to public information specialist Heather McGregor, was to take place at a GCEC board meeting on Aug. 12, after the Sopris Sun’s dead-

“Our mission statement is to support us, not outside organizations.”

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Barker said the library district board had decided in 2014 to give up its GCEC membership, due to the looming financial shortfall and the district’s shrinking budget, but that the GCEC managers had convinced the board to keep up its membership and slashed the district’s annual contribution to a fraction of what it had been.

“They talked us into staying in,” she said.

The library district this year paid a re-

duced fee of $10 a year to maintain its membership, down from the $5,000 annual membership fee of the prior three years, according to Barker.

But this year, the district’s elected board decided it needed to part company from GCEC, in order to concentrate its resources on the libraries and their personnel.

“Our mission statement is to support us, not outside organizations,” Barker remarked, explaining that district personnel had been going without raises for some time, and that rising health insurance and other insurance costs had to be met.

And while the last couple of years have called for significant belt-tightening for the library district, Barker said, “This year is even worse. It’s going to get grim.”

The district has yet to receive word from Garfield County as to how much revenue to expect, so the exact financial picture is not yet clear, she explained.

Local Bernie Sanders organizer says he can win in 2016 Two other Sanders groups in play

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Carbondale resident John Field had not expected to become the local organizer of a “Roaring Fork 4 Bernie Sanders” presidential campaign organization.

But, he admitted somewhat ruefully on Aug. 10, that’s essentially what he is, at least in terms of his role in the 2016 presidential election.

“I’ve never really done anything … as far as organizing is concerned,” said Field, who moved to the Roaring Fork Valley about three years ago and currently works as a bus driver for the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority.

A few weeks ago, however, he went to the presidential campaign website for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and learned that there was to be an online, live-stream campaign event for the candidate on July 29.

Impressed by what Sanders had been saying on the campaign trail, Field reserved the Calaway Room at the Third Street Center for the time of the event and started telling people to come and watch the man that Field believes will be the next President of the United States.

He did not advertise beyond word of mouth, although the candidate’s website (berniesanders.org) contained a listing for the Third Street Center as a place to go, and he was happily surprised by the turnout.

“There were 61 people in the room,” he said in an amazed tone, noting that when he reserved the Calaway Room, “There was a lot of people that (expressed) heartfelt (sentiments), knowing that we had to do something to take this country back from the oligarchy.”

Field has now put up a Facebook page for Sanders, has some co-organizers on a list generated during the July 29 event, and is planning to put together a donor campaign calling on supporters to pledge money to the candidate on Sanders’ upcoming 74th

can be successful, Field said enthusiastically, birthday on Sept. 18.

“I want people to give $74 on his 74th “It’s very clear he’s making a difference. I see polls where he’s pulling right alongside birthday,” Field said.

Hillary (Clinton, who has been Field noted that, aside from viewed as the likely Demohis Facebook page for Sanders, cratic nominee).” there are at least two others on Pointing to Sanders’ recent the Western Slope — one events, Field suggested the canstarted by a man in Glenwood didate may be drawing on a Springs, titled “Western Slope large but ill-defined mass of Colorado” for Bernie Sanders, voters who put President and another named “Aspen for Barack Obama in office in Bernie Sanders.”

2008, but were later disapAnd, he said confidently, pointed by Obama’s perceived “there must be others” in other inability to live up to his promparts of the state. ise for real political change in He also noted that Sanders, the country. speaking on the campaign trail Sen. Bernie Sanders “Bush was an unknown. in recent weeks, drew 15,000 supporters to an event in Seattle, Washington, Obama was an unknown” before either man and 28,000 in Portland, Oregon — turnouts won the presidency, Field maintained, but that have drawn national news coverage for Sanders has been around for decades and is better known than either Bush or Obama. the candidate and his ideas.

“I absolutely think he has a possibility of When asked whether Sanders’ candidacy

winning,” Field said.

“He’s the hope,” Field continued. “I think the hope that got Obama elected, it’s also going to get Bernie elected.”

As for Sanders’ age, which has been cited by critics as a drawback, Field said he sees the issue differently.

“He’s in good health,” Field maintained, adding, “I get 90-year-olds on my bus, going skiing, and they’re sharp as tacks. Societally, I think we need to shift, and accept that not everybody gets Alzheimer’s at 80.”

Doodle.com Among his growing tasks for the campaign, Field said he plans to put up a Doodle calendar (doodle.com), so interested locals can sign up and be involved in scheduling additional campaign events in the future, as a way of starting the Bernie Sanders ball rolling for the Roaring Fork Valley.

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Jay Phillips installs his work for the upcoming CCAH show “Square Footage: Art in Redux” at the Launchpad. For more on the show, please turn to page 15. Photo

by Laura Stover.

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Town Briefs

Cop Shop

Drunk driver runs over mooner Sopris Sun Staff Report According to a memo to the Carbondale Board of Trustees from Town Manager Jay Harrington’s office, last Friday night it turned out to be a good thing that cops have taken to riding along with the Moonlight Riders on the nights of the full moon. Lt. Chris Wurtsmith happened to be along for the ride that night when a 19-yearold rider was run over by a vehicle and totaled his bike. The driver was arrested on charges of drunk driving, leaving the scene of an accident and other charges.

Also in police news, according the memo (which this week was written by finance director Renae Gustine), the Mt. Sopris Rotary Club recently donated $1,800 for the purchase of a new automatic external defibrillator device, the fifth such device the club has donated to the police department.

In other news from the memo: A new electronic informational sign, stationed on Snowmass Drive, has malfunctioned, and is being sent to the manufacturer for repairs.

The town’s street crews reportedly finished up the last of the asphalt paving work on Barber Drive, completing a summer long project requested by residents of the area earlier this year.

The streets crew also did some maintenance work on a “wing wall” that diverts Crystal River water into the town ditch, the memo reported, and did some asphalt patching on the streets around town.

A project to chip-seal some of the streets around town was scheduled to start on Aug. 10, the memo stated, noting that informational flyers were distributed in the neighborhoods that were to be affected by the project. In addition, painting of pedestrian crosswalks around town got underway last week, “in preparation (for) the Aug. 25 start of school.”

Parks employees have been kept busy with a summertime rou-

tine of mowing, cleaning bathrooms and managing trash and dogwaste removal from town property, as well as performing maintenance on an irrigation valve and several sprinkler heads that have been “run over” by motorists along the Highway 133 corridor.

Work is continuing on the widening of Highway 133 at the intersection with Weant Boulevard and Lewie’s Lane, the site of ongoing construction projects for the new Ross Montessori School and the Thompson Park subdivision in that area. According to the memo, installation of a new water main was set to begin on Aug. 10, and asphalt paving is scheduled to begin on Aug. 17.

Further south on the highway corridor, work continues on the Colorado Department of Transportation project on Highway 133 between Carbondale and Redstone, with work on a new chip-seal surface scheduled to begin the week of Aug. 10-14.

Motorists traveling along the corridor are cautioned to obey the posted speed limits to avoid damage to windshields from the loose gravel on the road, and to watch out for flaggers.

A lightning strike has again disabled a modem at the Roaring Fork water treatment plant, and consultants were to come to town on Monday to assess the damage and address ways to protect the plant’s power grid from lightning in the future.

A crew of volunteers from the Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers organization are expected to begin to work on Aug. 14 to replace gravel on a section of the Crystal River Riparian Trail, between River Valley Ranch and Hendrick Ranch, that was partially washed out by high spring runoff earlier this year.

The summer’s fourth Youth Gymkhana Rodeo is set for Aug. 15, at the Gus Darien Riding Arena, and a team-roping jackpot event is to be held at the arena on Aug. 16.

The town’s recreation department’s fall brochure is scheduled for publication in the first week of September; the deadline for placing ads is Aug. 14.

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From July 30 to Aug. 6, Carbondale Officers handled 236 Calls for Service. During this period, officers investigated the following cases of note:

FRIDAY, July 31: At 6:48 p.m. police got a call from a 13-year-old girl about a case of alleged indecent exposure. She reported seeing a man she described as “perhaps in his 30s with dark skin” sitting in a cabin or shed in Orchard Park in the River Valley Ranch subdivision, with his pants pulled down. Police are investigating.

SATURDAY, Aug. 1: At 4:08 a.m. police responded to an alarm at an area business at 578 Highway 133, and found damage to the front door and signs that the building had been burglarized.

SATURDAY, Aug. 1: At 6:26 p.m. police took a report of a sexual offense involving two juveniles. The Garfield County Department of Human Services was contacted.

SATURDAY, Aug. 1: At 9:43 p.m. police started getting reports of hit-and-run accidents at the Cowen Center convenience store, and another along County Road 110 (the old dump road), as well as theft at a restaurant at the Sopris Shopping Center, where a customer reportedly walked out without paying for his meal. Coordinated investigations revealed the car involved in the two accidents, and allegedly seen at the restaurant at the time of the theft, all involved the same vehicle, driven by a Carbondale resident. The driver was arrested by the Colorado State Patrol for drunk driving, the two hit and runs, theft, and then taken to the Garfield County Jail.

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Scenes from the Shindig

The Mt. Sopris Historical Society’s annual Shindig shifted over to the River Valley Ranch barn on Aug. 9 because the nearby Thompson House is closed while Ross Montessori School puts up its new building not far away. This year’s Hattie Thompson award was presented to Mary Lilly (upper left), whose involvement with the community for the past 45 years included helping to organize the Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association. Other folks who turned out to enjoy good food, good music and good people included (clockwise from upper right): Peter and Frieda Wallison, Lew Ron Thompson and Nina Gabianelli (who portrayed Hattie Thompson); Ernie Gianinetti; Paul Holsinger (mandolin), Dr. Greg Feinsinger (clarinet) and Anakesta Ironwood (vocals), from Jimmy Byrne’s Swingdiggers; Michael and Stephanie Askew; and Lee Ann Eustis, Roz Turnbull and Kit Strang. Photos by Lynn Burton

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the car he made out “Porsche Spyder” across the back. By then he was committed to some kind of verbal exchange with the woman, who by now was sitting in the car with the door open and one leg out, putting her credit card into her leather wallet. “Wow,” he said, trying not to sound like a complete dork. “We don’t see many of these around here.” She looked up, smiled and in a friendlier voice than the guy expected replied, “You don’t see many of these anywhere … it’s a lot of car to drive.” He then said something fairly stupid but not completely stupid and headed to the store for his coffee. Back at The Sopris Sun office, he Googled “Porsche Spyder” and learned it’s a 918 with a MSRP of about $850,000 that goes 0-60 in 2.2 seconds with a top speed of 210 miles per hour.

Only 918 were produced from 2013 to June 2015, and 297 of them were sold in the U.S. The Sopris Sun’s resident carfreak’s final conclusion: Even by Aspen standards, that’s a lot of car to drive.

What do the following guys have in common: Matt Nieslanik, Tim Nieslanik, Jason Leach, Pat Dion, Jay Denton, Eric Chacos, Larry Williams and Bill Hanks. Give up? They all played or coached on Roaring Fork High School’s 1985 state championship football team, and have told first year coach Jeff Kelley they’ll attend the school’s inaugural Hall of Fame game against Meeker on Sept. 4 (7 p.m. kickoff). Kelley has also put out the word to players and coaches of the 1973 and 1979 state championship teams to attend as well. They’ll be recognized at half-time of the Sept. 4 game. Feel free to spread the word that ex-players and coaches can contact Kelley at 970-274-0361 or jeffkelley27@gmail.com. On a related note, the Rams have only four home games this year, so get on out and support the boys.

Rumor mongering This is just a rumor so don’t go spreading it around, but … word has it a helicopter landed at one of the ponds near Marble last weekend, some kids jumped out and they went swimming. No word on the name of the pond, kids or helicopter owner.

Advance fun alert If you’ve never been to the Snowmass Balloon Festival, it’s well worth getting up before the roosters to head up and check it out. The 40th annual such event, featuring 25 balloonists, takes to the air Sept. 18-20 in Snowmass Village.

Watch out for Spyders Driving into the parking lot last Thursday, he first noticed the good-looking blonde in jeans and long-sleeved shirt pumping her own gas at the El Jebel Conoco, and then he noticed her gunmetal grey car. He pulled himself out of his 12-year-old blue Subaru Outback, took a step toward the store for some coffee, and then looked back at the Holly-

Music news

Meet Adele Craft. Adele is one of The Sopris Sun’s summer interns. She is 16 years old, lives in Basalt and will be a junior at Bridges High School. Adele said she enjoys reading, writing, cooking, skiing, being outdoors and “learning new things!” She’s the daughter of Stacey and Lester Craft. “I love how The Sopris Sun connects the community and empowers people towards positive change.” Photo by Lynn Burton wood-looking scene. The back end of her ground-hugging car didn’t look like a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Porsche or any other sports car he’d ever seen between here and Aspen, or anywhere. He squinted but couldn’t make out the name, so figured “why not” and ambled over. A few feet from

Straight from Steve Standiford: there’ll one more Second Sunday concert in Sopris Park on Sept. 13 featuring the Wild Reeds. The band will be on its way to the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Standiford tells The Sopris Sun, “It’s a sweet, vintage venue that I loved as a kid. I saw Elton John there on his first tour and have had the live music bug for decades. Can’t shake it.” In related music notes from Steve’s Guitars, it’s Preaching to the Choir at 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 13, The Suitcase Junket (a Tuvin-throat singing blues man) on Aug. 14, Sundy Park on Aug. 16, a Friends of Steve’s fund-raiser with John Oates on Aug. 19, and a celebration for the 700th consecutive Friday night of music on Aug. 21.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthday this week include: John Ginn (Aug. 13); Jill Knaus (Aug. 16); and Jonathan Shamis and Rusty Burtard (Aug. 18).

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Former coal miner looks to reconnect with others

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Guys found their way into the Mid-Continent coal mines west of Redstone in lots of ways. Some took the good pay and headed underground straight out of local high schools. Some became coal miners after serving in Vietnam. For others, coal mining ran in the family for generations and they continued the tradition.

Rob Mulford came to the job in a different way. He and his wife were living in Philadelphia in the late 1970s, when he saw a “60 Minutes” segment on TV about coal mining in western Colorado. He had a desk job designing electric controls at the time but wanted to get out of the rat race.

“So I asked my wife if she wanted to move to Colorado, and she said ‘yea, yea, yea,’” Mulford told The Sopris Sun. “That was my dream … to live in the mountains and get out of the rat race.”

The wife’s go-head was good enough for him, so after contacting the Colorado Coal Mine Association for a list of mines, he settled on Mid-Continent. “They paid the best.”

Mulford, who now lives on a homestead 20 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska, worked several of the jobs in the Coal Basin mines, including stints on the bull gang (maintenance), and as a miner’s helper and shovel car operator.

Like all new coal miners at Mid-Continent, he started as a “green helmet” (beginner) in the Dutch Creek #1 mine and earned his “yellow helmet” in 1980, just before leaving the Roaring Fork Valley for a coal mine outside Meeker, then a job on the Occidental oil shale project outside DeBeque.

Mulford, 62, is returning to Carbondale Aug. 22-31, where he plans to meet with other ex-coal miners, their families and friends to record their thoughts and memories for a writing project and for a new non-profit radio station in Fairbanks.

“They have powerful stories … it’d be a shame to lose them.”

Rob Mulford is a retired instrument and control systems engineer at a coal-fired power plant outside Fairbanks, Alaska.

In the late 1970s he moved to Carbondale to become a Mid-Continent coal miner. He returns to Carbondale on Aug. 22-31 to meet with and interview other former Mid-Continent miners. Courtesy photo Specifically, Mulford’s project looks at the dynamics affecting worker safety in hazardous work places.

“My own experience is not enough. I need verification and correction of my own memories. Even more, I need stories, impressions and insights of other miners if my work is to be of any value.”

Mulford moved to Alaska in 1990 but returned to the Carbondale area last summer and hiked to the Dutch Creek #1 mine, where 15 coal miners died in an explosion on April 15, 1981. Their names are carved into the

marble monument in Miners Park: John Ayala, Kyle D. Cook, William E. Guthrie, Daniel Litwiller, Richard Lincoln, Loren H. Mead, Hugh W. Pierce Jr., Terry T. Lucero, Glen W. Sharp, Brett J. Tucker, Thomas N. Vetter, Kelly B. Greene, Ronald W. Patch, Robert H. Ragle and John A. Rhodes.

Mulford knew some of the miners who died. “Ron Patch was my boss at one time.”

Mulford can be contacted at 907-457-5578 and 907-687-6606.

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Cat crusader threatens to quit over feline ordinance

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer If Carbondale’s board of trustees passes a controversial new law restricting the movements of cats around town in order to prevent the slaughter of birds, a woman who has been working for 15 years to capture, spay or neuter and release wild cats in this area said on Tuesday that she will quit in protest over the action.

In the meantime, a scheduled review of the controversial proposed ordinance, originally set for Aug. 25, will be rescheduled to a date in September, to accommodate the wishes of Trustee Allyn Harvey, who will be out of town on Aug. 25.

The date of the rescheduled discussion was not decided at Tuesday’s meeting of the board of trustees, and was not available from Town Hall early Wednesday, in time for The Sopris Sun’s news deadline.

But before Harvey asked for the rescheduling, Cindy Sadlowski, a local real estate agent, appealed to the trustees early in the meeting to “just drop this stuff about the cats. It’s unenforceable, it’s not going to solve anything.�

Sadlowski was founder and lead spokeswoman of the Street Cat Coalition, which works with regional animal control ofďŹ cers and CARE (Colorado Animal Rescue), to cut the cat population by â€œďŹ xingâ€? feral cats living in the area.

The town has been asked by another local woman, Mary Harris, president of the Roaring Fork chapter of the National Audubon Society, to pass a law requiring that cats be on leashes when they are away from their home yards, and that they not be allowed to get out of their home yard to roam around freely.

Harris has argued that domestic cats kill some 4 billion birds around the U.S., and that certain bird populations are at risk of extinction because of cat predation.

The Carbondale ordinance, Harris suggested, should be modeled on one adopted by the city of Aurora, near Denver, in the 1990s, which mandates that all cats over six months old be spayed or neutered, licensed and vaccinated against rabies, and calls for all cats to be conďŹ ned to their owners’ property or on leashes when off that property.

But Sadlowski has countered that, while it is true that cats do kill some birds, the real culprits in the nation’s loss of birds are habitat destruction and climate change, which have wreaked havoc on areas where birds once lived or migrated in large numbers.

At Tuesday’s trustees meeting, Mayor Stacey Bernot told the others on the board that she would entertain a motion to reconsider the vote from a previous meeting, instructing town staff to put together a proposed ordinance and bring it back to the trustees for review.

But, the mayor added, as the town’s legal department already has done some work drawing up the proposed restrictions, it might be preferable for the trustees to let the matter move forward for a community hearing. “We may just have to talk this one out,�

Bernot remarked.

She added that she does not want the proposed cat ordinance “to go the way of the bear ordinance,� a reference to the town’s decision to abandon a proposal to require that chicken coops be fenced with electrical wire to discourage bears from attacking the birds.

That law had been proposed during a dis-

cussion with area wildlife ofďŹ cer John Groves in May. But the proposal was abandoned over concerns that it might be unnecessary since no such bear-chicken attacks had ever been reported, and out of concern that the electriďŹ ed fencing might pose a hazard to area children.

Bernot seemed to be cautioning the trustees that she was opposed to half-baking a law about cats and then backing off, but she added “having that community dialogue is probably a beneďŹ cial thing.â€?

Harvey agreed, saying, “I just don’t ďŹ nd this to be a conversation that needs to be interrupted at this pointâ€? and that ultimately the issue may come down to “some behavior modiďŹ cation on the part of the (cat) owners.â€?

The other trustees agreed, and than later agreed to delay further discussion of the cat issue until September after Harvey expressed his desire to be present for that discussion.

In other action the trustees: • Gave their approval and support for the upcoming “Our Town, One Tableâ€? potluck community dinner, scheduled for Aug. 22 on Fourth Street, in the block-long stretch between Main and GarďŹ eld. The event is being planned by Sondie Reiff and Linda Criswell, and is being arranged through a Facebook page (Our Town One Table) and e-mail signup address (ourtown1table@gmail.com). The phone number for ďŹ nding out more is 970306-1015. Reiff told the trustees that numerous tables already have been reserved, by such diverse groups as the Carbondale Police Department and the local Methodist Church, and that they’re expecting between 30 and 50 tables of celebrants for the event. “This is a wonderful thing, and I’m so

happy it’s been allowed to come about,� said Trustee Pam Zentmyer to Reiff on Tuesday. • Gave approval for a newly rewritten and reorganized Municipal Code book, which has been consuming the time of Town Clerk Cathy Derby and a consultant for months.

Among other things, the new code closes an old loophole that failed to make it unlawful to drive around town without a valid driver’s license. The revised and much consolidated code will be posted on the town’s website, www.carbondalegov.org. • Agreed to hold a hearing about whether the liquor license of the Gandhi Restaurant should be suspended or revoked, following a recommendation from Police Chief Gene Schilling regarding “violations of state lawâ€? barring service of alcohol to underage individuals, failure to eject intoxicated customers from the establishment, failure to report criminal activity to the police and other problems.

The date for the hearing has yet to be set. • Gave approval for a lighting specialist to work on the lights illuminating the James Surls sculpture, perched in the Highway 133 roundabout at Main Street, which have been deemed to be doing a poor job of lighting up the piece. • Approved special-event liquor licenses for ďŹ ve events in August, September and October, including the Festival Las Americas at Sopris Park on Aug. 23; a chamber of commerce business conference at The Orchard on Sept. 18; a Buddy Program community celebration at the Third Street Center on Oct. 2; a Taste of the Valley event, sponsored by the Colorado PTA, on Sept. 19 at Fourth Street Plaza; and Oktoberfest on Oct. 9-10 at the Fourth Street Plaza.

Local teen steps up with Mercy and Sharing to help Haitians

By Adele Craft Sopris Sun Contributor Local teen Dylan Webster is taking action to help children in need in Haiti. He is collecting soccer gear donated by valley residents to take to Haiti when he goes in September. Dylan is a 13 year old who attends the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork.

At Waldorf, all students entering eighth grade work on a project involving something they are interested in. Dylan is passionate about soccer and wanted to contribute to a charity. He is working with

the local non-proďŹ t organization Mercy and Sharing.

Mercy and Sharing was started in 1994

by Aspen resident Susie Krabacher. According to the organization’s website, haitichildren.org, “We take abused, abandoned, and disabled children from a vulnerable state of being hurt and broken and provide comprehensive care until they become independent and thriving.� The organization focuses on healing the children in Haiti, rather than facilitating adoptions and taking children out of their home environment. It helps give the

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children the hope that they will have a better life. Mercy and Sharing helps over 5,000 Haitians by creating job opportunities for unemployed adults as well as feeding, housing and educating children.

Dylan has been working closely with his mentor, Carol Fabian, at Mercy and Sharing to prepare for his visit. During his week-long trip, Dylan will deliver the soccer gear he has collected to the children in the village that Mercy and Sharing has created. He will also get to play with the kids and visit their classrooms. His dad, who will be accompanying

him, is a soccer coach, and Dylan hopes he will be able to give the children a lesson.

If you would like to donate gear for Dylan’s project, there are two drop boxes located in Carbondale. One is in the front area of the library and the other is outside the door at City Market. Next year, Dylan would like to travel to Africa on his own and distribute soccer gear to children in need there.

Adele Craft is a Bridges High School student and a summer intern for The Sopris Sun.

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Bull riders hang on for eight seconds to make their ride. Greg Casteel has been hanging on for 41 years and his biggest ride might still be to come. He applied to Guinness World Records to be recognized as the world’s oldest professional bull rider and expects a company representative to visit the Carbondale area to check him out.

“It (the Guinness) is a goal to ride for,” Casteel told The Sopris Sun, few days after competing in the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo on Aug. 6. He plans to ride on Aug. 13 as well, and in Cody, Wyoming later in the summer.

Casteel, 54, grew up in Arkansas, “on the west bank of the Mississippi.” He met a bull rider when he was 12 and was fascinated with him. “He told me I should come and ride a bull.” When Casteel was 13, he talked his father, Arlen, into taking him to a rodeo to get on a bull. “He wasn’t involved with rodeo … He said ‘we’re going to get this over with real fast.’” That was in 1975 and Casteel is still riding.

“It’s my passion.”

A member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association since 1981, Casteel’s best year was in 1987 when he won between $12,000 and $14,000. “Back then, $600 was a big win but I saw a kid win $2,000 in Carbondale.”

Casteel lives in Carbondale and owns the Aspen Barber Shop, which he bought in 2003 after moving to the Roaring Fork Valley from Fairbanks, Alaska.

Bull riders are sometimes known for the injuries they suffer from getting thrown to the ground and kicked around by 2,000 pounds of unhappy beef.

There’s even a joke that goes something like this. To become a bull rider you take a handful of marbles and put them in your mouth. Every time you ride a bull you spit one out and when you’ve lost all your marbles, that’s when you know you’re a bull rider.

Casteel seems to have kept all his marbles. He said he heard some sound advice from Freckles Brown, who was still riding at the age of 48. “He said never ride when you’re hurt.” Also, to keep relatively injury free, “I work out every day.”

Guinness World Records is now in its 60th year of “collecting iconic records of human achievement and from the natural world,” according to its website. Besides actually riding bulls at 54 years old, Casteel has also been trying to maneuver through Guinness’ complex application and verification process. He’s confident his long ride through the Guinness system is almost over.

And what is he shooting for after achieving the record? “I’m going to ride until I’m 60.”

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Community Calendar THURS.-SUN. Aug. 13-16 THEATRE • SoL Theatre presents “Into the Woods” at the Third Street Center on Aug. 13 at 7 p.m.; Aug. 14 at 7 p.m.; Aug. 15, at 2 and 7 p.m.; and Aug. 16 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for kids 12 and under, and are available at the door and a soltheatre.com.

THURSDAY Aug. 13 DISCONNECT • Shari Billger presents “Disconnecting from the Collective Conscious/Unconscious Fear Matrix from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Third Street Center. Info: shari1551!aol.com.

RODEO CONTINUES • The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo continues at the Gus Darien arena (east of town on County Road 100) Thursdays rain or shine through Aug. 20.

Gates open at 5:30 p.m., slack at 6 p.m. and grand entry at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 per adult; $30 per car load (up to six people) with additional adults $5 each. Kids under 10 are free if accompanied by an adult. Advance and discount season tickets are available at the Roaring Fork Valley Coop. Info: carbondalerodeo.com.

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

BASALT LIBRARY • Aspen Music Festival students give free performances from 5:15 to 7 p.m. at the Basalt Regional Library.

ELECTRO MAGNETIC SAFETY • An informal group of Roaring Fork Valley activists meet at the Woody Creek Center at 7:30 p.m. to discuss wireless smart meters, wifi radiation reduction in the home, bee colony col-

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

lapse disorder, autism, sleep disorders and more. Info: gary@smartshelter.com.

FRIDAY Aug. 14 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “Irrational Man ” (R) at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 14-20; “Love & Mercy” (PG-13) at 5 p.m. on Aug. 15 and “Mr. Holmes” (PG) (captioned) at 5:15 p.m. on Aug. 16.

OPENING • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities opens “Square Footage: Art In Redux” from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Launchpad. Artists Jay Phillips, Reina Katzenberger, Penelope Ann Greenwell, Wallace Graham and John Emerson, and dancers of CoMotion will receive up to 16 square feet in which to install their work. Over the course of the six wek exhibition, the artists’ designated square footage will be reduced by 50 percent on two occasions, requiring the artists to respond. The public can view the artists’ modifications during Reduction #1 on First Friday, Sept. 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. and again during Reduction #2 on Sept. 17 from 5:30 to 7p.m. Reduction #2 will also include a dance performance and artist walk through with explanations of each process. Each gallery event will include a performance art piece by John Emerson (nudity will be involved) during the last 30 minutes. Info: carbondalearts.com.

OPENING • The Ann Korologos Gallery in downtown Basalt hosts an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. for Michael Kessler’s show titled “Organic Evolution.” The show continues through Sept. 4. Info: 927-9668.

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Admission is free for KDNK members and $5 for non-members. It’s all part of KDNK’s summer membership drive.

LIVE MUSIC • The Magic Moments free summer concert series at Redstone Park continues with Crystal River locals jam night (Doug Whitney, Brad Klein, Josh Rogan, John Riger, the Redstone Rubies, Wes Engstrom, Mario Villalobos, Calli Angel and Wade Waters. It goes from 4 to 9 p.m. The season concludes from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 with the Hell Roaring String Band. Info: redstonecolorado.com.

BEAT FILM • The Beat (968 Main St.) presents “Better off Dead” at 9 p.m. as part of its Saturday night film series.

CARBONDALE LIBRARY • The classical music series at the Carbondale Branch Library starts at 6 p.m. The series features students from the Aspen Music Festival.

Refreshments will be served. Info: 963-2889.

TRTC • Thunder River Theatre Company closes out its 20th season with its “Glitz & Glamour” fund-raiser at the Orchard. The theme is “The Roaring 20s” and there’ll be dinner, entertainment and a live auction. The auction includes works from James Surls, Mark Harris, Majid Kahhak, Wewer KeoCALENDAR page 11

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5 to 7 p.m. for Campbell Hutchinson and his show “This Land is Our Land.” Campbell is a lawyer turned fine art painter. His Wyly show will feature oil paintings that reflect the desolate and tranquil beauty of the landscape and the wild and domestic creatures that reside there.

He lives in Snowmass Village and New Orleans.

The show continues through Sept. 12. On Aug. 20 at 5:30 p.m., the Wyly Annex on Midland Avenue hosts a panel discussion on art, nature and healing with Campbell, his wife/artist Allison Stewart, writer Paul Anderson and moderator Michael Kinsley. Info: wylyarts.org.

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

KDNK MEETS • The KDNK Board of Directors holds a meeting at the offices of Steadfast Communications (509 W. 12th St., Glenwood Springs) at 8 a.m. The meeting is open to the public. An agenda is posted at kdnk.org and the KDNK office on Second Street. Info: 963-0139.

TRE • Introductory practice sessions in Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) are offered in Suit 28 of the Third Street Center at 6 p.m. today and Aug. 21. Bring a mat and water bottle, and wear loose clothes. The suggested donation is $10. Info: 379-3486.

AEI RETURNS • American Enterprise Institute scholars return to the Aspen Institute for a half-day program on a variety of current topics. Speakers include: Michael Auslin (foreign policy), Robert Doar (poverty in the U.S.), Scott Gottlieb (health care); Peter Wallison (his new book on the 2008 financial crisis). Info: aspeninstitute.org.

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TAKE A HIKE • Wilderness Workshop Board President Karin Teague leads a free hike to Treasure Mountain near Marble at 6 a.m. The hike starts at the Crystal Mill, then climbs into Bear Basin past waterfalls and wildflowers, culminating with close-up views of the Treasure Mountain Chimneys. If time, weather and legs permit, the hike will continue to the Treasure Mountain saddle and its 13,500-foot summit. This is a strenuous hike that does not follow formal trails and is an eight-mile bushwack, gaining up to 4,500 feet. Dogs are not allowed. Bring appropriate day hike equipment including stream crossing shoes, water, snacks and lunch. Registration is required at wildernessworkshop.org.

Info: 510-0697.

SUNDAY Aug. 16 ASC • A Spiritual Center in the Third Street Center (#31) presents Tanai Starrs (“Importance of Presence in Life and Spiritual Practice”) at 10 a.m. The rest of August’s schedule is: Rev. David Ault’s CD (“Spiritual Conviction”) on Aug. 23; and Rick Davis (“Who is and What Does a Prayer Practioner Do”) on Aug. 30. Info: 963-5516.

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Library offers a free legal clinic via a computer link from 2 to 5 p.m. Also, the library holds an open mic for poets, musicians and others from 5:15 to 7 p.m.

TUESDAY Aug. 18 BIKE PARK • The Carbondale Recreation Department’s North Face Bike Park programming concludes today. Info: 510-1290 or carbondalerec.com.

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt Regional Library holds a volunteer recruitment session from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY Aug. 19 FARMER’S MARKET • The Carbondale Farmer’s Market at Fourth and Main Street takes place on Wednesdays through September. It starts at 10 a.m.

ROTARY • The Rotary Club of Carbondale meets at the Carbondale Fire Station at 6:50 a.m. Info: rotarycarbondale.org.

TOKLAT GALLERY • Robert Congdon will present a talk titled “Modern Day Prospecting.” Some of his local finds include the the “lost vapor cave mines” outside Redstone, a lost gold camp on Mount Sopris and the alabaster quarry at Avalanche Creek. The free talk starts at 5:30 p.m. Info: 927-1437.

BASALT LIBRARY • The Basalt Regional Library presents “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” at 5:15 p.m.

LIVE MUSIC • Dan Rosenthal hosts an open mic night at Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs from 8 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday.

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POSER CLOSES SEASON • Poser closes out the free concert season at Crown Mountain Park in El Jebel starting at 6 p.m. on Aug. 14. The band plays good time rock tunes from “the Boss,” the Beatles, Santana, Steely Dan and others. For more on Poser, visit poserband.com.

RF OLYMPICS • The Roaring Fork Olympic games in Basalt is organized by and for kids. The two-day extravaganza starts with a parade and torch entrance into Arbaney Park from Elk Run at 6 p.m. on Aug. 14. The Olympics themselves take place at Arbaney Park from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 15. Events include running, javelin, Hoola Hoops and non-motorized scooter race.

It’s for kids 2 -16 years and is free. To register, email Miles Craft at milesncraft@gmail.com.

SUNDAY Aug. 23 TAKE A HIKE • Registration is required for a Wilderness Workshop free hike into the East Willow drainage beyond Four Mile Park in the Thompson Divide. This is a moderate, six-mile hike. Four-wheel drive vehicles are necessary and dogs are not allowed. Meet in Carbondale.

Info: 510-0697.

LET’S GO BEAVERING • Alex Menard leads a Roaring Fork Conservancy “Busy Beavers of the Upper Crystal River” tour from 1 to 3 p.m. on Aug. 16. The tour sets out from the Marble mill-site park. Enjoy hiking beaver-produced wetlands and learning about “local beavers.” Registration is required at roaringfork.org/events. Info: 963-7300.

TAKE A SAVAGE HIKE • Sarah Johnson from Wilderness Workshop leads a hike to Savage Lakes on Aug. 22. Meet in Basalt at 7 a.m. Registration is required at wildernessworkshop.org. Info: 510-0697.

Save the Date SATURDAY Aug. 22

LAND DANCE • The Aspen Valley Land Trust’s 12th annual Save the Land Dance takes place at John Nieslanik’s ranch just south of Carbondale near St. Mary of the Crown Catholic church up White Hill.

There’ll be dinner, music by Sandy Wells and more. Tickets are $100 and $50 for those under 40, at avlt.org/events or 963963-8440. The night will honor outgoing

director Martha Cochran, who is retiring after 13 years.

NEW EVENT • The inaugural Our Town, One Table sets up on smack dab in the middle of Fourth Street starting at 5:30 p.m. with potlucks from diners at 6:30 p.m. Organizers will provide the tables to create one long table.

Diners will bring dishes to serve six to eight people, chairs and dinnerware. To reserve a table, e-mail ourtown1table@gmail.com.

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ROTARY CLUB OF CARBONDALE August with Carbondale Rotary 2015-16 Rotary International Theme

“Be a Gift to the World” “SERVICE ABOVE SELF”

A big thank you to our club president for the past year, Ken Neubecker, and welcome to our president for the coming year, Steve Skinner.

Check out Carbondale Rotary We would like to extend an open invitation to all who have been wondering what Rotary Club is all about. The Carbondale Rotary Club meets at 6:45 a.m. on Wednesdays at the Carbondale Fire District headquarters, 300 Meadowood Drive.

Visitors and prospective new members are always welcome to come enjoy our weekly program and

RI President K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran of Sri Lanka Carbondale Rotary Practicing Service Above Self, at home and around the world …

learn about the wonderful work Rotary does in the community and around the world. Our programs highlight that work and showcase the many interesting people and organizations right here in our own community. If you are interested in Rotary Youth Exchange, our immediate past outbound student Briana Boland will be giving a presentation on Aug. 19 about her year in Tawain, and our current inbounder Manuel Cortina will talk about his life and family in Argentina on Sept. 9.

Here is an expanded list of upcoming programs.

All are welcome.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS Aug. 12 – B.K. Barringer Chacala, Mexico: How Rotary International has Transformed a Village Aug. 19 – Briana Boland Outbound Rotary Exchange student, presentation on her year in Taiwan

Michael B. Grillot, MD Orthopaedic Hand and Microvascular Surgeon

Aug. 26 – Brooke LeVan Sustainable Settings farm Sept. 2 – Ken Krehbiel Capturing Roaring Fork Valley wildlife

Drr. Grillot, with more than n 20 years years experience, perience, specializess in i hand, h wrist and elbow injuries uries

Sept. 9 — Manuel Cortina Inbound Rotary Exchange student, presentation on his life in Argentina and his experience in the U.S.

Services include: · Arteries, tendons and bone repair · Nerve damage or compression · Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Syndro · Workers’ Compensation on and Sports Injuries

Sept. 16 – John Kinney Aspen-Pitkin County Airport director Sept. 23 – Club meeting Sept. 30 – Jeanna Nicholson Colo. State Senator, Colorado Care Health Initiative

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For program suggestions, contact Rick Carlson, ccarlson@gmail.com

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Rockin’ the rodeo From spurs and flying chaps to fancy cowboy hats, the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo on Aug. 6 included, as usual, a taste of the old west such as some ropin’, ridin’ and vittles. There was also a bit of drama.

Left page: If you're wonderin' what the long lines were about out back and behind the scenes, Alpine Animal Hospital had a ring set up for kids who haven't had the opportunity to be close to a horse. It was the second time of the year for Alpine Animal Hospital’s attraction and it turned out to be mighty popular.

This page: As for the drama, bull rider Clayton McCollum had a hard time freeing his hand from under his rope after losing his seat. He did a scary dance with Fire Ant until bullfighter Jon Johnson was able to distract the bull long enough for McCollum to free his stretched out limb.

Photos and text by Jane Bachrach

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Git’er Done Girls going to work Sopris Sun Staff Report A couple of Carbondale natives have teamed up under the banner of the Git’er Done Girls, and they mean business.

Owners Jorie DeVilbiss and Heather Craven told The Sopris Sun their services include: • Organizing and downsizing; • Clearing out/hauling away/recycling/donating; • Selling online and on eBay; • Computer and technology help; • Internet and online help; • House sitting/pet sitting/caretaking; • Family memorabilia archiving and preservation; • Meal prep and in-home services; • Transportation and errands; • An extra set of hands/general help. “Don’t see what you’re looking for? Call us and we’ll

git’er done,� said DeVilbiss.

DeVilbiss and Craven were born and raised in Carbondale. “If you don’t know us personally, you probably know our families,� Craven joked. “We’re friendly, reliable, trustworthy and hardworking,� DeVilbiss added.

They understand the importance of conďŹ dentiality and privacy, and respect their clients’ homes, personal space and information. “Simply put, we are here to help,â€? Craven concluded.

Long term, the Git’er Done Girls hope to provide parttime work to other locals.

For more information, call 948-6989, e-mail giterdonegirls@icloud.com, or go to giterdonegirls.com.

Their hours are “always open and as needed by the client.�

Luxe Nest: Glenwood’s loss is Carbondale’s gain Sopris Sun Staff Report Dede and Marc Isgrig say they could not be happier with their decision to move their eclectic home furnishings store from Grand Avenue in Glenwood to Main Street in Carbondale. “After only ďŹ ve months in our new location (at 201 Main St.) we have nearly tripled our inventory (to over 4,000 items) and have had the sales to support and continue this growth,â€? Dede told The Sopris Sun. Marc said that for almost three years, they enjoyed the foot trafďŹ c in Glenwood and received consistently great reviews from local homeowners as well as tourists for their “funâ€? and “gorgeousâ€? selections.

The couple, however, had concerns regarding the impending Grand Avenue bridge project and worried about how the construction project might impact business. After much consideration, by Christmas of 2014 they decided to take the leap, then made their move to Carbondale in February of 2015.

Luxe Nest now brightens the corner of Second and Main streets with its bright blue peacock logo on the door, creative window displays and a collection of playful outdoor furniture spilling onto the sidewalk.

Dede said her background in interior design and art lends itself to arranging the varied inventory in an aesthetically welcoming

Jorie DeVilbiss (left) and Heather Craven (right) were born and raised in Carbondale. They have teamed up to help you out. Courtesy photo

and organized fashion. Customers have reported they are drawn to explore the “Wonderlandâ€? of themes, from dining rooms ďŹ lled with woodland creatures, Parisian-sophisticate bookshelves and glittering chandeliers, “shabby chicâ€? farmhouse kitchens and mermaid inhabited bedrooms.

Marc said Luxe Nest is becoming a “destination shopping experience� and is attracting new customers from as far away as Aspen and Grand Junction. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week.

Dede and Marc said they are thoroughly enjoying their new digs in Carbondale. “We want to make shopping easy for our cus-

tomers and have found that going that extra mile and driving a dining table over to Marble makes for a happy return customer who feels valued and appreciatedâ€? said Marc, who also handles weekly shipping requests for out of towners who can’t ďŹ t “must haveâ€? whimsy sofas in their suitcases. Marc also moonlights at his own full-service window treatment business. Catering to the same market of homeowners in the Roaring Fork Valley, his selection of Hunter Douglas blinds compliments the lighting and furnishings offered in Luxe’s showroom.

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CCAH presents new show in three phases Our Town, One Table: An exercise in reduction Sopris Sun Staff Report The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities opens “Square Footage: Art in Redux” at the Launchpad from 6 to 8 p.m. on Aug. 14.

Five artists, and dancers from CoMotion, are featured in this first-ever kind of show for CCAH. “The concept for this exhibition has been on our mind for the past two years,” said co-curator Deborah Colley.

The show will evolve in three phases over the next six weeks. In the first phase, the artists are given up to 16 square feet to present or perform their work. In phase two, that space is reduced by 50 percent and in phase three by another 50 percent, with the artists reconfiguring their work each time.

“The artists are approaching this exhibition as an opportunity to challenge themselves either through exploring new mediums or through tackling difficult content,” added Laura Stover, the show’s other curator.

“We’ll document each stage in order for viewers to witness the changes over the course of the exhibition.

The artists are Jay Phillips, Reina Katzenberger, Penelope Anne Greenwell, Wallace Graham and John Emerson.

Phillips is primarily a painter, and will be working with found objects to create a sculptural installation exploring social and politically constructed geographical boundaries.

Katzenberger, a graphic artist, said she will explore ways in which print media occupies space and our changing relationship to it as it spatially distills.

Greenwell, a ceramicist, will explore her use of space through a “point to line to plane” technique by

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extruding elements from the wall into sculpture using willow, wire, ceramic and drawing.

Graham is using the show’s spatial constraints to explore the limited dimensions of “confinement” through metal sculpture.

Emerson, a former resident artist at Anderson Ranch, usually works in large-scale metal and wood installations, and was inspired to take the premise of the exhibition to explore the concept of “cleaning up” using a medium completely new to him: performance.

He will be presenting his performance-art piece during the last 30 minutes of each gallery event (nudity will be involved).

The final event (“Reduction #2”) will include a dance performance by CoMotion, who will share their three dance installations in one sitting. CoMotion is a contemporary dance project that strives to develop multidimensional works and explore creative boundaries through collaboration. The four participating dancers will be taking an excerpt from a previous work and modify it. “They will focus on the relationship between the dancing bodies as their square footage becomes reduced,” said Colley.

A walk-through with the artists will follow the performance as they explain their responses to the square foot restrictions during the exhibition., visit www.carbondalearts.com.

Sopris Sun Staff Report You might need a bullhorn to ask fellow diners to “pass the potatoes” at Our Town, One Table on Aug. 22.

Why? Because that “one table” will actually be several tables put together end-to-end to form a long one that could very well stretch from Fourth and Main Street to Garfield Avenue.

Sondie Reiff and Linda Romero Criswell dreamed up and organized the event, which is included on the Carbondale Recreation Department’s annual event list.

“We’re bringing together Carbondale families, office workers, neighborhoods and sub-neighborhoods, businesses and nonprofits for a community gathering,” said Reiff. “We’ll come together to share a meal and enjoy music and one another.”

Our Town, One Table is a potluck dinner followed by music and possibly some dancing. Fourth Street from Main Street to Garfield Avenue will be closed, with the “one table” running north to south.

“We provide tables for six to eight people,” Reiff said. “Each group provides its own chairs and its own potluck dinner, including plates and silverware.”

Diners are also invited to decorate their tables based on the theme “Carbondale: Our Town, One Table” with judges circulating to determine the “best dressed table” of the evening.

Soft music will play during dinner. At about 7:45 p.m., everyone who owns an instrument is invited to join a community jam session at the Fourth Street park and the Launchpad amphitheatre. Jammers need not be diners to play.

Table settings and decorations begin at 5:30 p.m., with chow at 6:30 p.m.

To reserve a table, e-mail ourtown1table@gmail.com. For more information, call Reiff at 305-710-0826 or Criswell at 963-9371.

“Square Footage: Art in Redux”

The opening schedule for the entire show follows: • Aug. 14 from 6 to 8 p.m.; • Sept. 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. (“Redux #1); • Sept. 17 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. (“Redux #2).

For more on the show and CCAH, visit carbondalearts.com.

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New store on Midland caters to women and men

By Steve Jundt Raised in the Caribbean, Petal Campbell has spent most of her life on the sovereign island country of St. Lucia. “I have lived in Curacao as a child and as an adult. I have also spent time in Barbados, England, Kauai and Chicago,â€? says Petal. This diversity and rich cultural experience has lent a unique avor to Petal’s business venture on Midland Avenue called Saphire Rain & Just Men. “I have been employed in tourism and I also owned a chain of hardware and power-tool retail outlets on the island of St. Lucia,â€? says Petal. “My husband and I also owned and operated a bar in St. Lucia. I came to the Roaring Fork Valley in May of 2013 with my husband and family, as my husband works in the hotel business and we decided to accept an offer for him to work in Snowmass Village.â€?

Continuing, Petal says, “After a year of watching retail locations on Midland remain empty, but understanding that there were individuals in our community who were committed to bring an economic vibrancy back to downtown, my husband and I discussed the idea that now might be a good time to take the leap and be a

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contributor to that revitalization and grow something that would evolve and develop as the community develops. So, I took the leap.�

Petal says it “energizes her� to make personal connections with her customers, and even develop friendships. “It is not my intention to develop a concept that is based on my concrete opinion of what I want to provide in the valley. It is my intention to develop a concept that

services needs in the valley and to be able to satisfy those needs affordably. I will listen to my customer, and the customers’ opinions, I feel, will eventually shape the outcome of the offerings of this business. I also intend to support local entrepreneurs and crafters by offering an outlet for them to showcase their products where those products align with our current offerings. I am committed to supporting the success of all who are making the effort to take the leap and attempt to develop business in our town.�

Based heavily on customer feedback, Petal’s primary focus over the next few months will be to develop an expanded line of men’s clothing and accessories and to do so in a way that men will ďŹ nd the ease and availability of products not currently available in the valley. “This line will service men’s dress and work apparel needs,â€? says Petal, “with a higher fashion standard and quality name brand offering than what currently exists but without the high priced offerings found in Aspen. I aim to bring big city availability to the Roaring Fork Valley that is tailored to the needs of the men who live and work here. So ladies out there who want to sharpen up their men, keep an eye on us!â€?

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Wyly serves up double-header for Art Walk Letters om page 2 Sopris Sun Staff Report The Wyly Art Center in downtown Basalt opens a show by Campbell Hutchinson on Aug. 14 and one for Allison Stewart at the nearby Wyly Annex both on the same day. The hours are 5 to 7 p.m.

Elsewhere around town, the Ann Korologos Gallery hosts an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. for Michael Kessler and his show “Organic Evolution.”

Hutchinson’s Wyly show, titled “This Land is Our Land,” features oil paintings that reflect the desolate and tranquil beauty of the landscape, and the wild and domestic creatures that reside there.

“The paintings … reflect my love of the incredibly beautiful, vast and varied landscape — from coast to coast — that we Americans share,” Hutchinson said. “In 2014 I self-published a book by the same title, featuring my landscape paintings accompanied by quotations from authors, poets and naturalists about the American wilderness and the growing concern about the fate of our wilderness areas.”

At the Wyly Annex, Stewart’s “Field Notes” includes mixedmedia paintings on canvas, panel and paper, using layers of color, light, form and texture to address issues of beauty and loss, time and transformation, according to a press release. “My paintings reside in the space between realistic landscape and organic abstraction,” Stewart said. “They become visual diaries

on which I record what is hidden in plain sight, absorbing moments of accidental beauty and wonder, while I try to make sense of the world.

On a related note, the Wyly Annex hosts a panel discussion titled “Art, Nature, Healing” with Stewart, Hutchinson and Paul Anderson at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 20. Michael Kinsley will moderate.

The Wyly Art Center will feature John Bozza, while the Wyly Annex will feature Sara Ransford and Bunny Burson, starting on Sept. 18.

Adult classes The Wyly offers “Painting in all Media” with Meridy Volz from Aug. 15-18. The cost is $175. Volz works individually with each student, exploring diverse media, including oil, acrylic, pastel, oil pastel and watercolor. All skill levels are welcome. For details, call 927-4123.

From Aug. 24-28, the Wyly offers “Week of Watercolor” with Sarah Peterson. The cost is $390.

Life is always good on the Art Farm, which is slated for Sept.

9 from 6 to 8 p.m. The Wyly provides inspiration, materials, wine and nibbles; previous art experience is not necessary. The instructors are Lisa Singer and Kathy Honea.

Discover your creative wings in “Visionary Collage” with Pam Porter on Sept. 12. The cost is $80.

Sanders om page 3 sive political activist. He was born and raised in California, and was a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons).

He said he moved to Seattle in 1981, and lived there until moving to Colorado three years ago. He said he had been an active Christian while living in Seattle adding that, “being a Christian, I was automatically a Republican.”

In fact, he said, he voted for George W. Bush in 2000, although he soured on Bush and the Republican Party after the 9-11 terror attacks, when he watched Bush “standing

on that pile of rubble with a megaphone” calling for a war on terrorists.

“When he started talking about going into Iraq, I said, ‘no way.’” Field recalled. “I was done with the Republican party.”

Since then, he has been an independent, although he plans to register as a Democrat for 2016 in order to vote in the Democratic primaries.

Field can be reached by e-mail at aweha88@gmail.com for more information about his work for the Sanders campaign.

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No one can handle a vacuum like the amazing Darin Binion (who also built the raffle’s Twenty2 Cycle bicycle) and my right hand helper, Emmet Garcelon Hood. Our stomachs were satiated by Kristen Levy and her fine crew of cooks, along with the many businesses that donated, like: Sustainable Settings, Mi Casita, Village Smithy, Dos Gringos, Peppino’s and Bonfire.

Umbrella Roofing came and did a great volunteer gutter job on the stage and Jeff Britt handled the stage dynamics like the pro that he is, along with building a bridge and being there every time we needed him!

Katrina Byars not only sits on our board of trustees but also kept the bands informed and on time, as well as gracing the stage with her beauty.

The Info Booth hummed along with the help of Kat Rich, Molly Irwin, Jean Marie Hegerty and Bob Schultz. Our Bike Valet and Porcupine Loop Bike Race belonged to Aloha Mountain Cyclery, especially Nic Degross. The Mt. Sopris Run-Off was a huge success yet again, thanks to Independence Run and Hike. Pie and Cake Baking contests delighted, thanks to the hard work of Alta Otto and Katharine Rushton (I hope everyone got a taste of those winning concoctions). Our raffle would not be possible without the donations of many businesses but Twenty2 Cycles really went the distance with the help of Solarflair Thermal Systems and John and Sarah Villafranco; Add Aspen Ski Co. and Blazing Adventures to create our Grand Prize adventure package for extra love; Sue Drinker worked hard organizing the raffle with the help of the lovely Rebecca Murray and Sarah Wood.

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First Friday goes green From the donuts in front of the soon-to-open Coloradough eatery, to the Confluence Kitchen food truck next to the Marble Distillery, and from the musicians on Main Street to the art exhibition at the “Sheridan Saloon,” there was plenty of eats and sweets, eye candy and ear candy to satisfy the palates of most anyone who was walking the streets of Carbondale during First Friday. “Go Green” was the official theme and there was a green presence among the many other vendors.

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 popular Tony Seba gave one of the most  talks at the conference so far. The Stanford University lecturer predicts that the falling price of electricity produced by solar, com bined with the dropping in price of electric vehicles and production of less expensive large batteries, will completely disrupt and re- Lovins and Ming Amory Lovins told an anecdote at the place the conventional energy and transportation markets. Seba said he believes this conference about asking a Dutchman where can take place by 2030. And, by the way, the he got his electricity. The man said there was an Internet app that helped him ďŹ nd a hog cars will drive themselves.

How  is this possible? Several factors will farmer. That farmer got his own electricity act synergistically with one another. For ex- from converting hog manure to methane, and ample, multi-billionaire investor Warren Buf- turning the methane into electricity. What the fet has just bought into a solar development farmer didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use he wanted to sell. The that will produce power at 3.87 cents per Dutchman and farmer made a deal. Amory kilowatt-hour. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a couple of times less said the Dutchman gets a Christmas card than any fossil fuel. Elon Musk, founder of from the farmer every year. What power comthe company that makes Tesla electric cars, pany does that?

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