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Roaring Fork High School athletes swung back into action Monday morning, with two-a-day practices for soccer, volleyball and football teams. Shown here are (left to right) Robert Ramirez, Maddison Handy and Landin Bailey. The football season kicks off at home against Hotchkiss on Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. Soccer and volleyball teams plan in Basalt on Sept. 2 (4 p.m. and 7 p.m., respectively). Golf started on Aug. 12 and continues to Sept. 16.
Birdbrain targets medical marijuana
Novel-Tea closes
Robin reflects
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Carbondale Commentary Medical marijuana legislation: It’s the government on steroids Now, my experience with the evil weed goes back to when I grew up here in Carbondale. It was readily available in middle school back in the 1970s. In Idaho they brought it down from Canada as “BC Bud” and in Montana, medical marijuana was approved in 2004. This year the Colorado legislature passed HB 1284 regulating the use of medical marijuana. The bill is 60 pages long. Montana’s law is two pages. Looking at the bill it appears that our Colorado legislators got their education on medical marijuana from a 1930s government film called “Reefer Madness.” It depicts people smoking it and going crazy with hallucinations and terrible torment. People that saw it and smoked MJ later refer to it as the BIg LIE. If they lied about this, what else are they lying about? From my twisted perspective, Colorado’s law is so full of contradictions and confusion the only winners are going to be the lawyers. In the year 2000, approximately 878,000 voters passed Constitutional Amendment 20 approving the use of it for medical reasons. The feds still considered it illegal and most people were confused about where the legal ground was. Then Barack said the feds got better things to do and let’s leave it alone. This opened up a new entrepreneurial spirit of a new By Birdbrain product on a new market. Capitalism to the rescue. Following California’s lead, dispensaries were popping up like Starbucks. Who knew we had so many sick people in Colorado? When the esteemed legislators started working on it in November 2009, there were about 30,000 registered patients, and the legislature calculated that they might have about $250,000 in the Marijuana Cash Fund that could fund the registry and make a little extra for the Colorado Department of Revenue. Last week the Registry reported that as of June they estimate that about 105,000 patients have applied. At $90 an application the state earned a quick $1 million and with renewals they get this every year! The bill now dictates how they are going to spend $10 million in expected revenues! Colorado is mainly after the money. They just announced that they received over $7.4 million just in Medical Marijuana Center applications. Is this money supposed to buy social acceptance? HB 1284 looks like a jobs bill, with most of that cash going to expand bureaucracy. The Department of Revenue is going to get 110 new fully certified peace officers. That’s the equivalent of a new state patrol office. They will have statewide authority to enforce medical marijuana laws and“other laws of the State of Colorado”in their spare time. Each of these officers will get a gun, and a car, and a computer and an office and lots of training. If Carbondale ends up with the 12 MMC’s that are currently in business we could get a new cop in town. With all the fixings. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation will get two and a half full-time employees and over $500,000 just to do background checks and criminal investigations. The application for a Medical Marijuana Center (MMC) runs 23 pages and with attachments and required documentation can get to over 90 pages! You’re required to disclose all business dealings, property transactions, financial transactions, shoe sizes and hunting buddies for the past 10 years. Applicants for cops or political office don’t have to submit this much stuff! We hold MMCs to a higher standard than we do the people that are writing the law. If you make one little mistake they can reject the application and send you to jail with fines up to $100,000. The Senate in SB 109 couldn’t find much to add to the House bill except that they decided that we better look at these doctors that are signing these patient applications. They MANDATED that CBI investigate five doctors a year. Not based on complaints or suspicion, just dig into doctors’ records for fun and profit. One of the approved uses of this drug is for pain control. What drug agent is gong to be able to tell how much pain a person is in? Talk about subjective judgment. All this to control a substance that has been both illegal and widely used for over 70 years. Does the legislature think that 100,000 people just took up this drug when it was declared a medical aid? What about the other 700,000 that voted for Amendment 20? All this heavyhanded approach is going to do is drive the market back underground and out of the hands of mom and pop operations and back into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. No one has figured out how to tax them yet. Carbondale Police Chief gene Schilling testified at the town council hearings that he has received no complaints and has had no problems with the existing dispensaries. One cop was overheard to say after Mountain Fair weekend “We’ll take the stoners over the drunks every day.”
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Following California’s lead, dispensaries were popping up like Starbucks. Who knew we had so many sick people in Colorado?
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Check out RFCC discussions Dear Editor: On Aug. 7, I attended the Roaring Fork Cultural Council’s discussion with Walter Isaacson regarding changes in the media business. It was moderated very well by Michael Conniff. Isaacson is one of the most well informed individuals in the country today, as exemplified by his current position as president and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He spoke to a full house and it was a thoroughly informative and enjoyable evening. From the high quality of the questions it was clear that the audience also found the event worthwhile. This is just one more example of how fortunate the downvalley community is to have the Roaring Fork Cultural Council bringing speakers of this quality to the Thunder River Theatre in Carbondale to have a dialogue with local residents at a ticket cost of only $10. I strongly recommend that those who have not taken advantage of this wonderful program do so at their earliest convenience. Future speakers include Steven Emerson discussing “Jihad in America” on Nov. 13 and Madeleine Albright early in 2011. go to the Roaring Fork Cultural Council Web site at rfculturalcouncil.org for more information. Our community is great because of the multitude of recreational, cultural and educational opportunities that are available. I urge everyone to take advantage of the Roaring Fork Cultural Council’s programs bringing some of the nation’s most eminent thought leaders to our valley. Tom Neel Carbondale
Thanks to everyone Dear Editor: Special thanks to everyone who attended our Missouri Heights Schoolhouse fundraiser on Aug. 7. We appreciate your support and especially Toni Wells from Ace hardware for helping us with the paint. Also, thanks to our good friends the Nojoes and Twirp Anderson for entertaining the crowd and making us so proud of our community. Thanks to everyone who brought food; you’re the best! The Missouri Heights Community League
The Halves and Half-Knots Dear Editor: The halves, missing half their eyes Could not see beyond their lies. They sang a song of woe, From sufferings of long ago. Cried they, “Never, never again!” So often, they became half men. The half-knots, roped and bound, And ever losing ground, Huddled behind their wall, Tied subjects held in thrall, Knotting up their hate, In a tangled apartheid state. The halves, acting in collusion, Offered a simple two-state solution: LETTERS page 15
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Finale page turns for Novel-Tea bookstore By Lynn Burton The Sopris Sun
The Novel-Tea bookstore is going out of business and everything must go, including the shelves. Store owner Lori Hutchens said the recession did her in, although she was also hurt by Amazon, electronic advances like the Kindle electronic reading device, and peoples’ Internet-based shopping habits. Photo by Lynn Burton
You heard it all the time in Carbondale, back in the 1980s and 1990s. “Carbondale needs a bookstore,” they said. Coming out of the 1960s, after the town had withered for decades like a waterstarved potato plant, Carbondale had been on a cultural and economic roll with a community access radio station, an arts council and a homegrown newspaper that focused on the funk. Carbondale grew the Mountain Fair. The Crystal Theatre opened in what was a condemned part of the Dinkle Building. The Main Street gallery & Framer took root. The Pour House thrived after replacing the Dusty Rose in a 100year-old Main Street slot. Just about all that was missing for some folks, Birkenstocks or not, was a bookstore. In 1994, the late Barbara Anderson gave the town one. “She thought there was a need,” her daughter, Wendy, told The Sopris Sun this week. Feeling the stress brought on when Amazon started devouring the retail book market in the late 1990s, which Wendy said affected her mom’s health, Barbara passed the store to her daughter in 2000. In 2005, Wendy sold the store to Lori Hutchens, who once worked at Crystal River Elementary School, and before that for 15 years owned and operated a glass-blowing business with her then husband. “I bought the store when I sold my townhouse, but I’d wanted to buy it when I was at Crystal River Elementary,” Hutchens said while ringing up a steady stream of customers who were snatching up books at half-price on Monday. “My family and I love books.” Word of Novel-Tea’s closure spread word of mouth through town ever since the “going out of Business” and “50 per-
cent off” signs appeared in the big windows that face Main Street from the Dinkle Building. During this interview, one regular customer came in and said she’d just heard the news that not only was Novel-Tea closing, a yoga studio is taking its place. “I’m so sad,” she told Hutchens. “Some yoga dude is coming in?” With Amazon, chain stores and other retailers putting mom and pop operations out of business all over the United States, closures such as Novel-Tea common these days. Basalt lost its book store about a year ago, and that store was attached to some pretty deep pockets. Hutchens pockets are not so deep. “I haven’t had a paycheck in six months,” she said. “It’s all gone to paying the rent (and other expenses).” One of the last retail lessons Hutchens learned, which a friend told her, was to pay herself first. “But Carbondale needs a bookstore. … I was hoping the economy would change.” Hutchens said she’d been in arrears with her rent ever since the recession hit two years ago. The first three years in the store she’d done OK, and made some changes to expand her line, including cards, CDs and gift items, but those new items “didn’t pay the bills.” Since just after Christmas 2008, she’s had no employees, other than when her daughter, Jennifer Beuter, filled in. “People don’t have the money to shop,” she explained. Novel-Tea is located in the “newer” end of the Dinkle Building (the one-story section), one door east of the Floral Boutique and right next to green Miracles. The store is about 20 feet wide and 100 feet deep, with an airy 15-foot ceiling (which is the building’s original beaded board). Hutchens’ cash register is behind the store’s east window. Books and displays fill the CLOSING page 8
Missouri Heights Democrat seeks state House seat By David Frey Sopris Sun Correspondent Roger Wilson has one of the most challenging campaigns in what has become one of the strangest races of the state. A Democrat who lives on Missouri Heights, Wilson is running for Kathleen Curry’s seat in the state House of Representatives. He has the party’s backing after Curry renounced the Democrats to run as an independent. But he’s running in a large district against Republican challenger Luke Korkowski, a Crested Butte lawyer, and Curry, a gunnison rancher who is mounting an aggressive write-in campaign to return to her seat. Ordinarily, write-in candidates stand a slim chance of winning, but Curry is confident she can retake the seat and she has supporters across party lines, particularly Democrats, who back her. That has Wilson trying to beat a Republican whose views he opposes, and an independent whose views aren’t so different from his own, but who could split Democratic votes with him. “I couldn’t abandon the district, and that’s what I felt would be happening,” said
Wilson, chief technical officer for a children’s education Web site, starfall.com and Blue Mountain Arts. “By abandoning it, I felt the values that I care about would be sacrificed if someone competent didn’t step in.” Wilson said he supports efforts to move Colorado to the forefront of alternative energy, what gov. Bill Ritter has called the “new energy economy,” and said he supports incentives for new jobs in these industries in the state. Wilson said he also supports protections for the environment and is wary of state budget cuts to things like state parks that could turn away tourism. “If people come to Colorado and the parks are closed, which has happened in California, that’s not good for all the businesses that depend on tourist dollars,” Wilson said. “What I believe I offer is to focus in a creative way how cuts can be made without significantly affecting the things that provide an income to Colorado and Colorado’s capability to grow new jobs in the next decade.” He said he worried about Korkowski’s call for tax cuts at a time the state budget is in crisis.
Such cuts “would be disastrous in terms of human health and services,”Wilson said. Wilson said the education budget, the largest item in the state general fund, must be cut, but he said cuts should not threaten “core programs.” The cuts are a “tragedy,” Wilson said, but are probably inevitable. Wilson differs most sharply with Korkowski, but it’s Curry who presents the biggest challenge because of her name recognition and ability to take away Democratic votes. “I would hope that she would care enough about the issues to drop out, but her issue is all about the election process,” Wilson said. He added, clarifying: “I know that Kathleen cares about the issues of the district, but if she wanted to be certain the issues were the top priority she would drop out rather than risking the vote go to the Republican opponent.” Curry is launching a campaign specifically designed to encourage voters to write her in as a candidate. Voters must not only write in her first and last names; they must also mark the “write-in” box or the vote won’t count.
Roger Wilson. Courtesy photo Wilson came into the race late, and is trailing in fund-raising behind both opponents. He had brought in $2,641 at the beginning of August, compared to Korkowski’s $3,130 and Curry’s $28,136. Last week he launched a listening tour throughout the district, carrying him from glenwood Springs to gunnison, and Lake City to New Castle. WILSON page 12 THE SOPRIS SUN • AUgUST 19, 2010 • 3
News Briefs Re-1 schools start on Monday
Trustees cut brewpub some slack
School is back in session beginning Monday, Aug. 23 and with it comes the flutter of nervous excitement for local kids and the flashing of the yellow “School Zone” lights for local drivers. The first day of school for students in the Roaring Fork Re-1 School District (RFSD) includes Carbondale Community, Crystal River Elementary, Carbondale Middle, Roaring Fork High and Bridges High schools. Ross Montessori School is back in session on Tuesday, Aug. 24; the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork resumes Monday, Aug. 30; and Colorado Rocky Mountain School students begin their academic semester on Sept. 3. The Carbondale Police Department is reminding motorists to be especially careful and pay attention while driving through the school zones. The speed limit is 15 miles per hour on Snowmass Drive during school hours (7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.). On Highway 133, two intersections have special speed limits during peak times: at Sopris Avenue/Hendrick Drive and at Snowmass Drive, where the speed limit is 25 mph when the yellow flashing lights are on. The speed limit on Merrill Avenue, alongside Ross Montessori, is 15 mph when children are present.
The Carbondale Board of Trustees voted 6-0 Tuesday night to delay collecting water and sewer tap fees, and the water rights dedication fee, on Carbondale Beer Works brewpub until after the new establishment gets its certificate of occupancy. Owner Jeff Dahl told the trustees that he’s waiting for his Small Business Administration loan to come through and simply can’t afford the fees at this time. Dahl said the building, located on Main Street in front of the post office in the former Carbonale Council on Arts and Humanties/Artists Collective building, is still under construction and that having to pay all his fees up front “will stop everything.” The trustees said the town might loan Dahl the money for the fees, which total $30,180, through its revolving loan fund.
Town’s sales tax collections increase Carbondale’s sales tax collections for June were up 1.9 percent compared to June 2009, according to finance director Nancy Barnett. The increase was the first since October 2008. Year-to-date through June, however, sales collections are still down 8.7 percent compared to 2009.
Gravel pit approval recommended The garfield County Planning and Zoning Commission on Aug. 15 recommended
The Colorado Division of Wildlife discusses the future of fishing opportunities at Rifle gap and Harvey gap at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 31. The meeting takes place in the South Event Hall at the garfield County Fairgrounds. For details, call (970) 255-6162.
Several public meetings on major Carbondale land-use applications will be broadcast on Channel 12 in the weeks to come. • Aug. 31 at 6:30 p.m. – A continued public hearing for the downtown overlay district takes place to consider parking, building heights and standards for Historic Commercial Core buildings. • Sept. 14 at 6:30 p.m. – Town trustees consider the Village at Crystal River (formerly Crystal River Marketplace). The proposed development is located on the west side of Highway 133, bordering Colorado Rocky Mountain School. • Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m. – A continued public hearing takes place for Thompson Park, the 45-85 unit, 10-acre development proposed between Hendrick Ranch and River Valley Ranch.
Cop Shop The following events are drawn from incident reports of the Carbondale Police Dept. MONDAY Aug. 2 A man reported his $380 Trek mountain bike stolen from the RFTA bus stop near Subway. The bike had “Bud Light” decals on both sides. TUESDAY Aug. 3 Police assisted Carbondale ambulance on a bike crash call. According to reports, the bicyclist rode
off Highway 133, across the Wells Fargo lawn then crashed into a ditch embankment and was thrown over his handlebars. The bicyclist was transported to Valley View Hospital. No word on his condition. Police took the bike to the police station for the owner to claim.
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approval for expansion at Western Slope Aggregate’s blue pit. The expansion application now goes to the garfield County commissioners for a final decision. The pit is located on a bench north of Highway 82, across from the entrance to Ranch at Roaring Fork.The expansion would add 64 acres to the existing 82-acre pit. A group of Wooden Deer subdivision and others in the area, calling themselves the Crystal Springs Coalition, spoke out against the application at the Aug. 15 P&Z meeting.
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GarCo sheriff candidates spar over leadership style By David Frey Sopris Sun Correspondent gLENWOOD SPRINgS – The November elections bring a rematch between garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario and Carbondale resident Tom Dalessandri, the former sheriff Vallario defeated eight years earlier. The race brings two very different approaches to the office, and comes after building controversy in Vallario’s sheriff department. Disagreements over Vallario’s leadership became clear in this month’s Republican primary battle, when Vallario narrowly defeated a challenge from upstart Doug Winters, who ran against him. Winters, an Eagle County deputy who lives in Rifle, came within 78 votes of Vallario, who won with just 51 percent of the vote. Vallario downplayed the division in the party, arguing that only about a quarter of the county’s Republicans voted in the primary. He asked Winters’ supporters to put aside “isolated issues” and support him. “given the results of this election, it is clear that the alleged issues that have been brought up during this campaign regarding my leadership of the Sheriff’s Office were not divisive. Certainly not with Republican voters,” Vallario said in a statement. Vallario said the advances in the department in the eight years he has succeeded Dalessandri in office speak for themselves. “I think overall the sheriff’s office has
done a great job,” he said. “I’m not trying to pat myself on the back, but it’s under my leadership.” Dalessandri, a Democrat, said Vallario has become removed from what the community wants from its sheriff and has built the department into a metro-style force. “I want to bring common sense management and leadership back to the department,” Dalessandri said. “I want to get the department back in touch with the community and I want to be accountable to the community.” Divisions within the department got a public airing when staffers sent an anonymous email to garfield County commissioners alleging ethics violations and criminal wrongdoing. A district attorney’s investigation found no criminal violations, but the investigation report revealed deep divisions within the department and concerns about Vallario’s romantic relationship with a detention sergeant. Vallario recently has also been criticized for instituting a rigorous background check for search and rescue volunteers, a move that alienated some longtime volunteers. He was also criticized for the purchase of a $250,000 armored BearCat vehicle, which critics liken to a tank. Dalessandri, who has been running a private security firm, said both the background check and the BearCat would go if he’s sheriff. “His management style is very different
than mine,” he said. “Personally, I think the way we ran the department is more consistent with the way people want it in the county.” Dalessandri didn’t wear a gun on the job. Vallario does. Vallario has called himself a “cop’s cop.” Dalessandri calls himself a “people’s sheriff.” “The BearCat is out of place in garfield County,” he said. “It’s a tool for urban and metro warfare,” he said. “If you’re in lower East L.A. there might be a function for it.” Dalessandri also criticizes Vallario for his decision to build a new $3 million facility in western garfield County. “The sheriff’s budget doubled to $18 million this year since he was in office,” Dalessandri said, and added some 50 new staffers. “Those expenses were out of scale with the growth of the county.” “It just goes on and on and on,” he said. “It’s boys and toys. It’s empire building. He’s surrounded himself with people that he’s promoted. They’re highly dedicated to him because he’s given them huge promotions. They’re there to protect him and keep him insulated.” Vallario defended his spending. With growth heaviest in western garfield County, it made sense to build the new facility, he said, and thanks to grants and competitive bids, the county only paid about $2 million for it. “I think that’s good business sense,” he
said. “I think it’s the perfect time to build it and we’re building for future growth. We’ve outgrown this building [in glenwood Springs]. We have to look at spreading out our folks and providing services to the west end.” Vallario has long defended the BearCat purchase as needed to protect members of his SWAT-like All Hazards Response Team. “What’s next? We’re going to take away bullet-proof vests because we don’t really need those because we don’t get shot at very often?” Vallario said he has expanded his department due to increased needs. In the past five years, calls for service jumped from 96 calls a day to more than 230 calls a day. “There was a need to grow with the demands of the community,” he said. “I won’t apologize for growing the department and increasing staffing to meet those needs.” Vallario said his department has been dedicated to preparing for the future, and increasing community programs on issues like gangs and methamphetamine use. Dalessandri said Vallario has been out of touch with the public and wants to bring more accountability to the office. “It’s not about sour grapes,” he said. “It’s really about leadership. Common sense leadership in my opinion. I don’t like watching those hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars, being spent on toys and his need to build a metro sheriff department.”
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Send your scuttlebutt to Scuttlebutt@SoprisSun.com. Anyway, the red lined route the grays have traced on their Web map shows them biking west through Washington to the Pacific Ocean, then south through San Fran’ and L.A., through Baja California (Mexico) and eventually all the way to Panama. The Sun will keep you posted.
Dancing Light holds 30th Sue and Bruce Gray say “hi� from the road. They are in the early stage of a multi-month bike trip starting in Montana that could take them to Panama.
Lisa Dancing Light presents a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 27 to celebrate her 30th year as a local singer/songwriter/pianist/ educator/recording artist. The celebration takes place at the Church at Carbondale.
Hiking the Pike The Grays are off What do you do when you’re not that far from retirement age, the work in your chosen professions (engineering and architecture) has dried up, and unemployment checks won’t pay the bills? If you’re like Sue and Bruce gray, you take a bicycle trip. A really long bicycle trip. Sue and Bruce report that they put their belongings in storage in early August and launched their three, six, nine, 12 month “who knows� bike trip in White Fish, Montana. They plan to camp as much as possible during their trip and follow the comforting thought of Helen Keller: “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.� Keller should know. Born deaf and blind, she lived a long life and inspired millions.
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Russ Criswell will be hoofing it off to Colorado Springs to lend his feet to the Pikes Peak Challenge Hike on Sept. 11. The event is a fundraiser for the Brain Injury Association of Colorado. To make a donation, go to pikespeakchallenge.com.
Pedersen memorial is Aug. 21 A celebration of life for Henry Jessen Pedersen will be held at the Aspen Chapel on Saturday, Aug. 21 at 11 a.m. Henry was born in Thisted, Denmark in 1923 and died on June 28 at age 87. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that you plant a tree to spread his spirit or make a donation to the Aspen Chapel.
Diggin’ that DeVotchKa While some upvalley types are planning their JazzAspen Snowmass Labor Day festival soirees around such bands as Lynard Skynard, the Black Crowes and glenn Frey/Joe Walsh, the world-beatish crew down in Carbondale are in a can’t- wait-to-get-it-on
mode for DeVotchKa. The Denver-based quartet’s sound is generally described as “gypsy punk indie rock� with dashes of greek, Slavic, Romani, Bolero Mariachi and American folk and punk. They storm the stage Sept. 3 at 6 p.m., with valley-wide faves Wilco bringing everyone together at 8 p.m.
Potential Iron Man on the mend Triathlete David Clark was training for the International Iron Man event in Kona, Hawaii (to be held Oct. 2) when he broke his collarbone in a bicycle accident. Word from the Clark camp says the post-surgery healing time is estimated at 6-8 weeks but he is already back in training and hopes to compete. Stay tuned.
Diner steps up The Red Rock Diner raised $680 in the Susan g. Komen’s “Bike for the Cure� rally over the weekend.
Old pusher wanted The Third Street Center is looking for a donation of a non-motorized push mower or an electric mower for limited mowing at the Center. If you have one of these items and are willing or perhaps even eager to part with it, please call 963-3221.
The Board with Cancer team poses after last week’s American Cancer Society “Relay for Life� fundraiser at the Carbondale Middle School track. The event attracted 249 registered participants and 30 registered teams who raised $66,500 and counting. Photo by Julie Albrecht
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The Gospel Ambassadors returned to Mountain Fair on Sunday morning this year and warmed up the crowd for a hot afternoon of dance tunes. Organizers are already planning for next year – the fair’s 40th. Photo by Jane Bachrach
Electrically charged Mountain Fair on track financially By Trina Ortega Sopris Sun Correspondent Even with a power outage during the closing act Saturday night, the Carbondale Mountain Fair was filled with positive energy and fair Director Amy Kimberly says that will show in healthy financial returns for this year’s event. Although the final numbers have yet to be entered into the books, Kimberly said preliminary estimates show that proceeds from the 39th Carbondale Mountain Fair will be on par with previous years, netting between $40,000 to $50,000 for the fair’s beneficiary, the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities (CCAH). “We don’t have the exact numbers yet, but it’s going to come close to what it always does,” Kimberly said. “The response from the arts and crafts vendors is that it was good.” Kimberly said that some vendors acknowledged that Carbondale fair numbers are better because of timing: the economy is also starting to perk up and people are slowly starting to spend money again. Overall, she said, the recession did not hurt this year’s fair, which was held in Sopris Park on July 23-25. The 160 or so arts and crafts vendors are critical to the fair because each artisan pays a booth space fee of $250. “They basically pay for this celebration. That’s why it’s so important that people make purchases at the fair.” As far as straight profit goes, though, the cantina yields the majority of the fair’s income, according to Kimberly, and this year’s power outage appeared to boost sales on Saturday night. “We’re going to try to do that every year,” Kimberly said of what she said turned out to be her favorite part of the weekend. The outage zapped the electricity but everyone rolled with it: the closing act, Band of Heathens, projected their sound
through a megaphone, the dance crowd kept pace, the Carbondale police helped by providing power from their mobile emergency station alongside the park and Police Chief gene Schilling even ran home to get a generator. Kimberly said it costs about $150,000 (including staff pay) to produce the fair, but roughly 300 volunteers also step in to help organize the event and fill shifts through the weekend. “It’s a lot of work for the return you get back. It’s a year’s worth of work,” Kimberly explained, adding that she has been approached time and again by corporate sponsors to help fund the event in exchange for advertising in the way of banners, cups and more. “I don’t think that’s what Mountain Fair is really about. It’s about celebrating this community. As long as we stick to that, we’ll be all right. We always have to keep the integrity intact,” Kimberly said. Although the buzz about this year’s “high brow hippie fest” has died down, Kimberly is already getting charged for next year, which will mark the fair’s 40th. She is forming a special steering committee to help organize the landmark year. Also in the works, is a commemorative cookbook with local bakers’ pie and cake recipes, stories about Carbondale’s unique personalities, remembrances of fairs past, and historical photographs. “It’s a great thing to look forward to,” Kimberly said. “It’s amazing that a lot of the people who were here for year one will be here for year 40.” To help CCAH get in touch with community members who have moved away, email mountainfair@sopris.net. Community members also are invited to help fund the cookbook project and join the steering committee or contribute photos of the fair pre-1990. Call 963-1680 for more information. THE SOPRIS SUN • AUgUST 19, 2010 • 7
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Lori Hutchens has been looking out on Main Street for five years but those days are ending as she closes her store. She hopes to be out by Aug. 31. Photo by Lynn Burton
Closing the cover on a dream continued om page 3 west window. From her cash register perch through the window, Main Street Carbondale looks just like Main Street in Tipp City, Ohio, where Hutchens grew up. “Tipp City even has railroad tracks at the end of the street, just like Carbondale,” she said as a pair of elderly woman approached the cash register and asked whether Hutchens had any large-print books.“I’ve only got one left,” she said, directing the women to a section of book shelf that used to carry many more. “It’s Judy Picoult. She’s well known.” Through her years at the store, Hutchens enjoyed creating an eclectic inventory, based on reviews she read and also knowing the tastes of the town. “Carbondale is a progressive town.” Authors you wouldn’t find at Novel-Tea included Sarah Palin. “Although I’d special order it for you.” Hutchens said she doesn’t blame anyone for her store’s demise, but does blame the recession, Amazon and new electronic devices such as Kindle and iPads. Hutchens said there are many people who don’t understand that to shop on the Internet means they are taking business away from locals who are there on Main Street to serve them. For example, not that long ago two women came in and were looking at books. Then one pulled out her smart phone, compared prices to those at Novel-Tea, then said to the other as they walked out,“We can get it for $6.47 on Amazon.” “People shop a lot on computers now,” she said. Hutchens said she has until Sept. 10 to vacate the store, but would like to be out by Aug. 30. “It’s just too painful to come in here every day.” Hutchens said she learned her landlord was making her leave when a man came in one day and announced that he was moving in on Oct. 1. “That’s how I found out.” Still, Hutchens doesn’t blame her landlord for her store’s closure. “It’s just business. He gave me two years (to try to come into compliance with her lease).” Hutchens, who at 52 is a young-looking grandmother, with straight blonde hair and reading glasses that slip down on her nose, said she’s not worried about her future. She plans to get a master’s degree in Spanish and already has three job offers. “It’ll be nice to start getting a paycheck,” she joked. While customers are sad to see the Novel-Tea go, Hutchens is sad the town will lose a community asset. “Book stores are a landmark in a community.” Wendy Anderson said she is sad to see her mother’s dream pass away. Wendy enjoyed the store, especially placing special orders for people. “But now, people are ordering more online,” she said. Anderson mentions the same reasons as Hutchens for the closing of Novel-Tea: the recession, the Internet, Amazon, Kindle and iPads. She doesn’t blame the Novel-Tea’s demise completely on the Internet and electronics and doesn’t begrudge their success. The real issue is right here in Carbondale. “I’m disappointed in the town for not committing to local businesses,” Anderson said.
“…not that long ago two women came in and were looking at books. Then one pulled out her smart phone, compared prices to those at Novel-Tea, then said to the other as they walked out, “We can get it for $6.47 on Amazon.”
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KDNK pirates Carbondale for Blues & BBQ, membership drive Sopris Sun Staff Report Community access radio station KDNK pirates Carbondale for its fall membership drive, offering all manner of hard-to-find booty, plus Captain Hook’s gong-A-Thon, blues music and maybe even a high-seas ditty or two. “We want to highlight KDNK’s rebellious spirit and have some high-seas fun while we celebrate the fact that KDNK is a community treasure,” said KDNK general Manager Steve Skinner. The membership drive theme is “KDNK, A Community Treasure” and runs from Aug. 21 through Sept. 3, with a goal of $60,000. “I think our membership drives are more of a celebration than a radio-thon. That’s why we are recording the entire drive, day and night for two weeks and putting the recording in a time capsule to be opened when KDNK celebrates its 100th birthday, ” Skinner said. “We want to get all the member’s names on the air to preserve for eternity,” he added. “KDNK is a community treasure and we all really dig it,” Skinner added. “We’re askin’ all ye, even landlubbers, to join the crew.” Folk singer and grand matriarch of the desert canyon rivers, Katie Lee will perform live on Sept. 2 at the Wheeler Opera House. “Her writing, music and images bring the loss of glen Canyon back into that tender area of your heart,” Skinner said. Folks who join or renew their KDNK memberships before 7 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 23, are eligible for a treasure chest drawing that includes prizes such as food and drink from Restaurant Six89, Juicy Lucy’s, Il Poggio, Takah Sushi and Zheng Asian Bistro. Membership premiums include KDNK “booty” boxer shorts with skull and crossbones on the waistband, KDNK pirate flag (from artist and author Tom Lichtenheld), and “Smokin’ grass” T-shirts. Throughout the membership drive during Morning Edition, Skinner and Steve Cole will interview local non-profits, mostly in the field of health and human services. In the afternoons, KDNK will feature more local interviews and guests during All Things Considered. A complete schedule of guests is at kdnk.org. Blues singer Eef is the middle act in Saturday’s Blues & As for Blues & BBQ, BBQ fundraiser for KDNK. The headliner is the valley’s george Kilby Jr. arrives in own Big Daddy Lee and the Kingbees. Courtesy photo town after summer gigs that include B.B. King’s in New York City, the Brooklyn Rocks the Catskills festival in Andes, New York, and the Beer, Bourbon and Scotch festival in Norway. Eef (“Miss 333”) hails from Holland, but has played the Denver blues scene for more than 20 years, and “occasionally” tours Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma and the Netherlands, according to her Web site. She has released two CDs and been featured on Sunshine Sonny Payne’s “King Biscuit” radio show. Big Daddy Lee and the Kingbees is based in the Roaring Fork Valley and are known for their Friday night gigs at Jimmy’s in Aspen. Fatbellys will be serving up the barbecue and burgers. Jammin’ Jim will juggle, and kids faces WILL be painted. Prizes will also be awarded for best pirate outfits and a piratethemed custom-painted bike will be raffled off. KDNK Blues & BBQ is sponsored by the town of Carbondale, the Valley View Hospital Foundation, Carnahan’s Tavern, Alpine Bank, Fatbelly Burgers, The Sopris Sun, Peppinos, Evergreen Events, Berthod Motors, and KPCO. For more information, go to kdnk.org.
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Community Calendar THURSDAY Aug. 19 RODEO • The Carbondale Wild West Rodeo happens Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. through Aug. 19 at the rodeo grounds on Catherine Store Road west of town. $8 per person, or $25 per carload of up to six people. More info: carbondalerodeo.com.
CARNAHAN’S ROCKS • Carnahan’s Tavern presents Denver band Fire in the Asylum. There’s a $5 cover and you must be over 21. SNOWMASS CONCERT • These United States play indie rock at 6:15 p.m. on Fanny Hill in Snowmass. More info: snowmasstourism.com, (800) 766-9627. MOTOWN PLAYS RIVERS • The Missing Link plays Motown rock ’n’ roll at Rivers restaurant in glenwood Springs from 9 p.m. to midnight. There’s no cover.
EXPLORE THE FORK • The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies offers “River Ecology Fishing: A guided Evening on the Roaring Fork.” More info: 925-5756.
MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “Winter’s Bone” (R) at 8 p.m. Aug. 20-26; “The Kids Are All Right” (R) at 5:45 p.m. on Aug. 22.
PITCO REPUBLICANS • Pitkin County Republicans hosts a discussion with Bob Smoldt of the Mayo Clinic about new health care legislation from 5 to 6:30 p.m. To RSVP, e-mail fkwallison@aol.com.
ART TALK • The Wyly Community Art Center in Basalt presents “Processing the Process” with Dorthea Bent from 6 to 7 p.m. Free. More info: wylyarts.org, 927-4123.
FRIDAY Aug. 20 OGYG PLAYS • OgYg gives a free community concert at the Church at Carbondale at 7 p.m. The band includes: Mr. Mark gray, Mr. Dan Taylor, Alan Ogrinz, Mary Anne Ogrinz and Lucas Pulver. Special guests will be Jacob Russo, Stacy Steine and Maria Stella. Proceeds will be donated to the Roaring Fork Family Resource Centers.
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.
SATURDAY Aug. 21 BLUES MUSIC PERFORMED • KDNK’s Blues & BBQ takes place from 3 to 9 p.m. at Fourth and Main Streets. More info: The article on page 9 in this week’s Sopris Sun.
SUNDAY Aug. 22 HARVEST FEST • Sustainable Settings at 6107 Highway 133 sets out its annual Farm to Fork annual fundraising dinner. The night’s festivities include three bands, organic spirits from Jack Rabbitt Hill winery, Peak Spirits and Aspen Brewing Co., regular beverages from Big B’s Juices and home-brews from locals. All the food comes from the farm and is prepared by Ryan Hardy, Mark Fischer, Cat Olsen, Johnny Alamill, Lee Liebmann and Jose Miranda. To reserve your spot, call 963-6107 or e-mail rose@sustainablesettings.org. GARRETT AND MARTIN PLAY • A Spiritual Center, located at 520 S. Third
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DANCING-LIGHT CELEBRATES • Singer/songwriter/pianist/educator Lisa Dancing-Light celebrates 30 years of performance and teaching with a special concert at the Church at Carbondale at 7:30 p.m. Special guests include Frank Martin, Amy Hawes and others. Tickets are $10 at the door. Info: 963-1680.
Aug. 28 NATURAL DYE • Sustainable Settings offers a workshop in natural dyes. Learn to recognize and harvest local herbs traditionally used for dying fabrics. More info: 9636107 or rose@sustainablesettings.org.
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WEDNESDAY Aug. 25 RIGER AND BANKS PLAY • This week’s Market and Artist Bazaar at Fourth and Main features John Riger and Chris Banks. They take the stage from 5 to 8 p.m.
THURSDAY Aug. 26 “GASLAND” SHOWN • The Thompson Divide Coalition and Mountain Film Aspen presents “gasland” at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen at 5:15 p.m. There will be a discussion with director Josh Fox after the film. Info: savethompsondivide.org.
Volunteers holds a trail and conservation work day on Smuggler Mountain near Aspen. Registration: rfov.org, or 927-8241. NATURALIST WALK • Roaring Fork Conservancy hosts an interpretive walk among the hot springs, orchids, bighorn sheep and beaver ponds of the Filoha Meadows Open Space in the Crystal River Valley from 9 to 11:30 a.m., rain or shine. Free. Registration: roaringfork.org/events, 927-1290.
Aug. 29 FESTIVAL OF THE AMERICAS • The eighth annual Festival of the Americas takes place in Sopris Park from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., featuring live music (northern
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Further Out continued om page 10 Mexican, salsa, mariachi), a beer garden, food and childrens’ area. Proceeds benefit scholarships for local CMC students and the Rotary Club’s global fight against polio. For information on becoming a vendor or volunteer, go to festivalamericas.net. The festival is sponsored by Roaring Fork Rotary/Club Rotario #66015. Details: call Don or Diana Kaufman at 947-1776.
Ongoing
CLASSICAL HARP • Elise Helmke plays classical harp from 6 to 9 p.m. at Russets, 225 Main St. through September. MAYOR’S COFFEE HOUR • Chat with Carbondale Mayor Stacey Bernot on Tuesdays from 7 to 8 a.m. at The Village Smithy, 26 S. Third St. CASTLE TOURS • guided tours of the historic Redstone Castle run Friday thru Monday at 1:30 p.m. Tickets: Tiffany of Redstone, The Crystal Club Café and the Redstone general Store. Adults, $15; seniors, $10. More info: 963-9656 or redstonecastle.us. FARMERS MARKET • The Carbondale Farmers Market takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 29 at Fourth and Main streets. Fruits, veggies, meats, cheeses, bread, prepared food, live music and more. MAIN STREET BAZAAR • The Main Street Market and Artist Bazaar runs from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays on Main Street. Vintage retro-wares, books, music, veggies,
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DEALING WITH THE GYM • The Third Street Center holds a discussion on how its old gym should be utilized from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. For details, call Third Street Center Director Jody Ensign at 963-3221.
Sept. 2 KATIE LEE RETURNS • KDNK presents
preserves, clothing, live music and more. More info: 704-4190. ACOUSTIC CARNAHAN’S • Singer/ songwriter T Ray Becker hosts an acoustic music night with new musicians every week from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays at Carnahan’s Tavern (formerly the Black Nugget), 403 Main St. More info: 963-4496. GROUP RUN • Independence Run and Hike at 995 Cowen Drive leads group runs, Saturdays at 8:15 a.m. rain or shine. More info: 704-0909. FLY FISHING CLINICS • The Confluence Outdoor Center in Carbondale offers free fly-fishing clinics to local youth on Tuesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. and on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Equipment provided. More info: 963-4377. SUICIDE SURVIVORS’ SUPPORT • A support group for those who have lost a loved one to suicide meets the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in glenwood Springs, 824 Cooper St. More info: 945-
folk singer/river rat/environmental activist Katie Lee at the Wheeler Opera in Aspen at 7:30 p.m. Aspen writer Bruce Berger will start the evening with a reading from his book “There was a River.” Lee will share her river stories, slides and never-screened 22minute film she shot on her last river trip down glen Canyon. Tickets are $15 and are available at kdnk.org. Proceeds benefit KDNK.
Sept. 3-6 ART SHOW IN REDSTONE • The annual Redstone Labor Day Art Show takes place on the grounds of the historic Redstone Inn. There’ll be paintings, photography, sculpture, ceramics, wearable art, jewelry, quilts, glass and more, with some demonstrations. Details: 963-0665 or redstoneartfoundation.org.
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LEGAL SERVICES • Alpine Legal Service offers intake to eligible clients from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mondays and Fridays at the garfield County Courthouse in glenwood Springs and Tuesdays and Wednesday at the Pitkin County Courthouse in Aspen. More info: 945-8858, 920-2828.
VETERANS SUPPORT GROUP • The Roaring Fork Combat Veterans Support group, to help combat veterans of all conflicts find relief and camaraderie, meets at 8:30 p.m. Mondays at the Circle Club, 123 Main St. More info: (303) 613-6191, bigmac309@gmail.com.
ROTARY MEETING • The Mt. Sopris Rotary Club holds its weekly lunch meeting at noon Thursdays at the Aspen glen Club featuring a local speaker. More info: 948-0693. FARMERS MARKET • The glenwood Downtown Market runs from 4 p.m. to dusk in Centennial Park in glenwood on Tuesdays through Sept. 28. Canned goods, fresh fruits and veggies, baked goods, preserves and more. More info: 618-3650. PILATES • Coredination Pilates in the Third Street Center offers mat classes Monday evenings, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, and Wednesday mornings. More
REFORMERS UNANIMOUS • Reformers Unanimous, a faith-based program for those who are struggling with addiction, meets at 7 p.m. Fridays at Crystal River Baptist Church, 2632 Highway 133. More info: 963-3694 EMBROIDERY MEETING • The Embroiderer’s guild of America meets the second Monday of the month. Beginners welcome. Bring a new or unfinished project. More info: Becca, 945-7434. FREE MASSAGE • The Asteria School of Whole-istic Healing offers free massage from 9 a.m. to noon on the lawn at 333 Main St. on Sundays, weather permitting. More info: 963-4679.
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DON’T TEACH BEARS NEW TRICKS Bears have been seen in and around Carbondale Early Prevention
Community Briefs Dancing Light and friends present concert Lisa Dancing-Light presents a concert at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 to celebrate her 30th year as a singer/songwriter/pianist/educator/recording artist. The celebration takes place at the Church at Carbondale and will feature numerous guests.
Jan and JD come to the Spiritual Center The Spiritual Center presents singers Jan garrett and JD Martin at the Third Street Center on Aug. 22 at 10 a.m. Joining the duo will be Seraina McCarty. “There’ll be new tunes, big fun and inspiration,” garrett said. Sunday’s local appearance will be the last for garrett and Martin until November. The Third Street is located at 520 Third Street.
Roaring Fork Conservancy holds ditch tour The Roaring Fork Conservancy goes on a bicycle ditch tour in Carbondale on Aug. 25. For details, go to roaringfork.org/events.
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Early prevention keeps bears from making a habit of visiting neighborhoods. We CAN prevent repeat visits!
REMOVE ITEMS THAT ATTRACT BEARS: • Garbage • Bird Feeders • Pet Food • Barbeque Grills • Fruit • Compost TOWN CODE: No Garbage Before 6AM on Collection Day The Town of Carbondale passed an ordinance prohibiting placement of trash for pickup before 6:00 AM on collection day, and empty containers must be brought in no later than 8:00 PM the same day. The smell of any food may attract bears. Keep garbage indoors until the morning of trash pick-up and keep outdoor barbeque grills clean and odorless. It is best to keep windows and doors securely locked, especially at night. If a bear enters your home, open doors and leave the bear an escape route.
GARBAGE KILLS BEARS Bears that make repeat visits to neighborhoods may need to be moved or euthanized. To keep your family and the bears safe, please remove any attractants, and follow these guidelines until the bears hibernate in winter. Bears are 90% vegetarian and rarely hunt or kill animals, however they are wild animals and can be unpredictable. Do not approach any bear, especially cubs. For additional information, call the Division of Wildlife: 947-2920. Call the Carbondale Police Department if you see a bear anywhere in town: 963-2662.
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Passing the bucks. Downtown Preservation Association Co-Chair Chris Chacos (left) presents a $65 check to Dawn Barton (right) for winning the Commercial category in this summer’s Flora Planting Contest. Barton owns West Elk Garden Design. You can see her award-winning work at the corner of Third and Main streets, in front of the Near New Store. Chacos said that with Potato Day coming early this year, some of the Main Street plantings might still be blooming then. Photo by Lynn Burton
Jaynes promoted at DHM Design DHM Design of Carbondale announces the promotion of Jason Jaynes to the position of senior associate. Jaynes has been a landscape architect with DHM since 2000 and has worked on a variety of projects, including the Aspen Valley Hospital master plan. DHM Design is an employee-owned planning and landscape architecture firm with offices in lower downtown Denver, Carbondale and Durango. It recently opened an office in Raleigh, N.C. For more information, call 963-6520.
Colorado Educational Consulting holds workshops Colorado Educational Consulting holds college admission workshops on choosing the right college, obtaining financial aid and learning how to avoid application pitfalls. The workshops, which cost $175 per family for the entire series, are scheduled for Sept. 13, Sept. 27, Oct. 11 and Oct. 25 in the Third Street Center board room. For details, call 274-6298.
Web site helps locals find jobs The new Web site HireMeAspen.com helps connect locals with employers. While the job-seekers pay a fee for the service, it’s free for employers, according to a press release. For details, call (888) 799-4473.
Roger Wilson continued om page 3 “There’s a lot on my to-do list,” Wilson said. A Roaring Fork Valley resident since 2000, Wilson received a degree in physics from the University of Colorado and attended the Colorado Outward Bound School in Marble and the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming. A Colorado resident since 1968, he has worked in retail, construction and the newspaper industry. He worked as a graphic artist and photographer and served as art director, public relations manager and director of strategic planning during the early years of the Boulder greeting card and book publisher Blue Mountain Arts. He was a system and software engineer with Lockheed Martin, working on projects that included the Hubble space telescope, Iridium satellite phone and national security systems.
Robin Sutherland reflects on his Carbondale years By Lynn Burton The Sopris Sun Robin Sutherland’s Aug. 20 concert is not only a rare treat for those of a classical bent, but for local newspaper editors who enjoy a good read. “Rare treat� doesn’t begin to describe the press release that Sutherland sent The Sopris Sun, in which he refers to the killer winter of 1971-72 in the late gary McNulty’s tiny cabin up Cattle Creek, his tenure as an early CCAH board member (when it’s “office� consisted of Laurie Loeb’s kitchen table) and his charter-member status on the legendary “A-Team� (whose members would reportedly take a bullet or just about anything else in their roles as Mountain Fair’s nocturnal security force). Sutherland said in his limited-edition press release that those years in the early 1970s in Carbondale were a “magical time� that he wouldn’t trade for anything, and“Friendships began then that are still, despite time and geography, wonderfully strong and cherished.� So how did Sutherland, pianist for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and noted “goldberg Variations� interpreter, come to land at Carbondale’s Colorado Rocky Mountain School in the first place, return to earn an AA degree at Colorado Mountain College, then return numerous other times during the next 35 years? Sutherland’s self-penned press release seems evasive by design in some places, and tongue in cheek in others, but he confirms he
was born in Denver, and “fell into the clutches� of the University of Northern Colorado’s Dr. Rita Hutcherson (head of the piano department) at the age of four. As for his time at CRMS, he would have been in the Class of ’69 “but nooooooo.� Ask him what high school he graduated from and he’ll say “Whatevs.� He might also point out that today he is one of only four people who has been awarded an honorary CRMS alumnus diploma. “I was the first,� he said. After attending Julliard, where he was a member of the celebrated studio of Rosina Lhevinne, Sutherland“lost no time�in returning to the valley, where he “wormed� his way into the lives of some important people (including george Stricker and the late Elbie gann) and inaugurated the artist-in-residence program at Colorado Mountain College. (For readers who are trying to establish a firm timeline, technically, Sutherland earned his two-year AA from CMC in 1972 after starting the artist-in-residence program.) Sutherland reports he is an alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival (“Julliard’s Welcome Mat�) and also the University of Hawaii. He recounts that years before his own arrival in Hawaii, another Colorado boy (named Sam) fell in love with the Hawaii islands. Sam jumped ship (“literally’) and stayed on to become Dr. Samuel H. Elbert, who Sutherland describes as “the greatest authority on Pacific languages and linguistics, head of that department at the University, and designated Living Treasure of Hawaii. They have those there.�
“Also, Dr. Elbert’s family in Colorado weren’t exactly nobodies – his namesake was a Colorado governor and, if you think of the highest peak in the Colorado Rockies, you’ll get the general idea.� Sutherland said he was “lucky enough� to be among the last of Dr. Elbert’s many students and that even though
“Friendships began then that are still, despite time and geography, wonderfully strong and cherished.� fluency in the Hawaii language plus one dollar and a candy store will get you one dollar’s worth of candy, he’s still proud of his command of the Hawaiian language, “considering how seemingly far afield� it is from what he does most of the time – playing the piano. Sutherland isn’t afraid to take a moral or political stand. He said he was “dismayed� when Colorado voters approved the now-infamous Amendment 2 in the 1990s, which he calls a “hate-filled piece of anti-gay legislation.� Had the Colorado Supreme Court not overturned the amendment, he would have had to “make good� on his vow never to perform in Colorado again and that would have all but killed him. He said he’s
still trying to figure out the logic of Amendment 2: “To hate me is fine, but I insist that you at least get to know me.� Sutherland’s press release states that in real life he holds the Jean and Bill Lane Principal Chair in Keyboards for the San Francisco Symphony, a position created for him by Seiji Ozawa in 1973. (google “Seiji Ozawa plays the blues� and you’ll get a sense of who he is, but this article is not about him). Based on some of the comments taken from Sutherland’s press release, you might picture him as some sort of Carbondale version of Victor Borge, cracking jokes during concerts and TV appearances without a lot of actual piano playing, but this would not be the case. Sutherland is respected worldwide, especially for his interpretations of Mozart, and Bach’s “goldberg Variations.� About his “goldberg Variations� recordings, Newhouse News Service observed,“Robin Sutherland has given us what may well be the most satisfying ‘goldberg Variations’ available.� Sutherland said he will make brief comments before each segment of the concert, which will include the works of Bach, Tenenbaum, Brahms and grieg. The concert will be dedicated to the late Ron Robertson and John Palmer. The Aug. 20 concert starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Third Street Center, located at 520 S. Third Street. Tickets are $60 and can be reserved at 963-1680. The concert is a benefit for the Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities. A reception follows.
CRYSTAL VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ASSOCIATION The annual meeting of the Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association will be held in the Osgood room of the Redstone Inn on August 29, 2010. Members and guests are welcome to attend all or part of the agenda: 5:00 PM: Social hour and cocktails 6:00 PM: Dinner ($21.50/pp) followed by a short meeting 7:00 PM: Jon Waterman talk on the state of the Colorado River Jon Waterman’s talk at 7 PM is free and open to the public. Reservations for the dinner must be made by August 27 by e-mail to John Stickney at beckstik@sopris.net or 963-3584.
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Here is the low down on grass-fed beef The history of beef in America is colorful and fascinating, with some great stories as well as many aspects most people prefer not to think about. The saga begins in the early 1500s, when the Spanish conquistador Cortez brought Andalusian cattle to Mexico. Those cattle eventually turned feral and “immigrated” into the future Texas, where they developed into the iconic wild longhorns. Back east, English pilgrims brought over dairy cattle and oxen. Eventually, these and the Texas herds spread until they met, creating the first crossbreeds and forming the basis for the beef cattle industry. In the late 1860s, wealthy northeasterners developed an interest in eating “exotic” wild beef, shipped all the way from Texas, where the cows were tended by equally exotic cowboys. This growing demand led to the brief era of cattle drives, in which herds were driven to the nearest rail lines, where they grazed until fall, when they were processed and shipped. Heavily romanticized, there have probably been more cattle drives in movies than ever ocBy Chef George Bohmfalk curred over their 20-year history. All of these cows were entirely grass-fed, as no one knew a different way to raise cattle. By 1890, Chicago had become the national beef center. Herds were driven there, where inner-city grass was scarce but there was a surplus of corn. The scrawny cows rapidly gained more weight than ever before on this “finishing” grain diet, and diners quickly developed a taste for their fattier and more tender meat. As America grew more affluent, the demand for corn-fed beef grew. Nearly every steer in the U.S. followed the same path: a few months on mother’s milk, a few more in a pasture, then off to a crowded feedlot, to fatten up on high-calorie corn. Americans no longer knew what an American symbol naturally tasted like. Beef went from being a luxury meal to a relatively inexpensive fast-food commodity. Then we started hearing that red meat was clogging our arteries, and we became concerned about the widespread use of antibiotics and hormones. Many of us also questioned
the ethics of treating animals and our environment in this industrial way. A recent movement began with some ranchers committed to the original “pure” practices – all-grass diets, no antibiotics or hormones, no feedlots. Tradeoffs were required: corn-fed and hormone-treated cows reach ideal weight at 12-14 months; it takes up to three years to achieve that weight on grass. Ranchers must also determine which breeds most efficiently convert grass to meat, whereas just about any breed can be fattened on corn, soy and other grains. Here in the midvalley, the Jacober family (of Crystal River Meats) point out that some of the original pasture-raised cows in America were Herefords, so they raise purebreds and some crossed with Angus. Felix and Sarah Tornare, of Milagro Ranch on Missouri Heights, are happy with the favorable “meat-to-bone ratio” of their handsome and smaller Australian Lowlines. Consumers must make choices as well. grass-fed beef tastes a bit different from what we’ve been conditioned to. Whereas corn-fed beef tastes about the same, grass-fed meat will reflect the grasses of different regions. Because the market is weighted toward corn-fed beef, there are fewer options with grass-fed. Most grass-fed beef is available only frozen, from individual dealers. I had long held a prejudice against frozen beef as being less tender and juicy, so I did a side-by-side comparison with identical steaks, one of which I froze and thawed. Any difference was so subtle as to be ignored, so I now feel comfortable buying frozen grass-fed steaks. Because those steaks are leaner, grass-fed meat is generally not given USDA grades, although it is inspected. grass-fed enthusiasts happily trade a bit less tenderness for different flavors and the satisfaction of knowing how beef naturally tastes. A large percentage of all beef meat is ground, after which tenderness is pretty moot. Many Carbondale restaurants serve grass-fed hamburgers, sausages and other ground-beef preparations from locally-raised cows, so that’s a great way to sample and support this natural-style beef. In addition to buying your own cuts, from Crystal River Meats or Milagro Ranch, you can try a 50-day dry-aged Milagro Ranch rib eye at Montagna, the upscale restaurant in Aspen. If you like the idea and taste of grass-fed beef, ask your favorite restaurants and grocers about offering it. This is a consumer-driven movement; suppliers will be happy to respond. Enjoy the real beef of your ancestors.
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“The wine and water go to us And you can keep the dust.” The half-knots, in violent desperation, Unleashed a rocket emigration, Killing tens and tens of halves. Were they innocent slaughtered calves? The halves, with ironclad immunity, Murdered thousands with impunity. The rest of the world, minus one, Cried, “Foul! Foul! Foul!” But here we go again And what will happen now? Jose Alcantara Carbondale
Dear Editor: I support the Hidden gems wilderness proposal. Some previous negative letters regarding the proposal appear to be written by misinformed contributors. They were passionate, an admirable trait, but also contained inaccurate information. I urge those speaking, whether for or against, to become fully educated on the issue before making decisions on the matter. Regrettably, negative claims have come from mountain bikers. The mountain bikers I know have a deep respect and appreciation for nature and wilderness. It’s
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disappointing to find them speaking against what many of them feel is dear to their hearts and necessary to their lives. I believe if the bikers studied the proposal maps, the majority would be pleased with the areas selected for preservation as well as the areas left out of the proposal to allow for continued use of treasured trails. I mistakenly believed national forest areas were protected. Unfortunately only about a third of the White River National Forest – mostly at higher elevations – is federally designated wilderness. The rest has no permanent protection against drilling, logging or mining. Hidden gems would extend wilderness protection to
areas at biologically richer mid-elevations. People have a right to argue for their self-interests, but I’d like to suggest we also consider some higher principles in this debate. I speak for many who value the existence of these wild and undisturbed areas. I hope we can come together for the common good of respecting and appreciating these special places. The Hidden gems proposal will ensure these undisturbed natural areas will endure for our children and future generations. Hidden gems is a legacy I am proud to support. Kelly Wyly Woody Creek
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INVITATION TO BID Sealed bids will be received by the Town of Carbondale (owner) at Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Carbondale,Colorado until 2:00 p.m.,Tuesday,August 31, 2010 for the Town of Carbondale Main Street/Snowmass Intersection Improvements. At said time and place, and promptly thereafter, all bids that have been duly received will be publicly opened and read aloud. The bid package consists of: • Main Street/Snowmass Intersection-Installing streetscape and pedestrian improvements on Main Street and Snowmass Avenue, including demolishing and removal of sidewalk, curb and gutter and existing street sections,installation of new sidewalks,curb and gutter and pedestrian “bulb outs”, crosswalks, asphalt, valley pans, pedestrian trail,and landscaping. The Town would like the bidder to understand that the work is to be completed this fall.
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