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Volume 7, Number 31 | September 10, 2015

Realizing a dream

By Tavia Teitler Sopris Sun Intern

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tudents, Roaring Fork Energy Club members, teachers and community members of all ages gathered to plant 13 trees near the entrance of Roaring Fork High School on Sept. 5. After four hours of digging, shoveling, watering and a fair share of laughs, the trees now stand tall and proud, ready to provide beauty and shade for generations of Roaring Fork High School students to come.

To set the stage for this story, picture this: eating your lunch at a table in a tree-lined courtyard with a stunning view of Mount Sopris. This is the vision of Roaring Fork High School senior Fiona Laird. She started Teens for Trees as a project to create an outdoor courtyard at RFHS with the objective of beautifying the school and providing students with a nice place to spend time outside. Last weekend the school and the community came together to help this project take a big step forward.

“It seemed to me that there was a need for a place where students could be outside,” Laird told The Sopris Sun. The natural beauty and spectacular views that surround RFHS are some of the school’s greatest assets, and Laird felt the lack of a good outdoor seating area limited the students’ ability to take advantage of this aspect.

Another objective of the project was to beautify the school and make the entrance of RFHS more welcoming. “Roaring Fork is a really amazing school,” Laird explained, “and I think it should be as welcoming on the outside as it is on the inside.”

The trees are scattered around the school’s entrance and are visible as you walk into the building. The trees will blossom each spring and eventually (once they grow a little more) provide great shade.

Last Saturday’s tree planting did not just happen overnight. Teens for Trees began in April 2013 when Laird applied for a 5Point Film Festival Dream Project grant. Every year the 5Point Dream Project gives out five grants to students who exemplify the five traits of the festival (respect, commitment, humility, purpose and balance). The grant is intended to help students make one of their dreams come true. Laird was awarded a grant, and then got to work on planning the project. Over the past 18 months, the project has evolved from a

Planting for the future

Liam Laird, a freshman at Roaring Fork High School, hauled a little sod at last Saturday’s Teens for Trees planting project at the school. The project is the upshot of a 5Point Film Festival grant, and the vision of one Roaring Fork High School student. For more, see the article on this page. Photo by Lynn Burton

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Modern watermelons and the lost art of seed spitting Growing up in the 1960’s, summertime seedlessness. First, a normal 22-chromoalways included watermelon seed spitting some watermelon seed is sprouted in the contests. Neighborhood honors were be- lab, then treated with a chemical that stowed upon the kid who could spit seeds causes the chromosomes to double. When the farthest or hit a semithat 44-chromosome plant distant target, usually a matures, it’s pollinated by a paper cup. normal 22-chromosome Kids of the future will plant. The result is a hybrid never know the pleasure of watermelon containing

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Wikipedia says the autumn crocus (the The online excerpt explains that this plant source of colchicine) was described modern miracle is achieved by genetic ma- for treatment of rheumatism and swelling nipulation, a process that differs from ge- in a 3,500-year-old Egyptian medical panetic modification (GMO) in that it pyrus. Use of colchicum plants to treat gout involves standard plant-breeding hy- probably dates to around 1,500 years ago. bridization, rather than the introduction of Under the article subheading Botanical alien chromosomes at the DNA level.

Use, I find: “colchicine is also used for inThere are several steps to achieving ducing polyploidy (the multiplying of

chromosomes) in plant cells.” This process “results in larger, hardier, faster-growing, and in general more desirable plants … for this reason, this type of genetic manipulation is frequently used in breeding plants commercially.”

Apparently, when early geneticists began breaking down the chemical compounds of common botanical medications like colchicine, the discovery of certain properties were seen as useful in other areas of science, such as horticulture. But who was the brilliant botanist that put two and two together and came up with zero … seeds?

Search: colchicine seedless watermelons Result: North Carolina State University Extension article, “Seedless Watermelon Breeding.” Here I learn that “Kihara began working on seedless watermelons in 1939.”

No mention of who Kihara was, so…

Search: Kihara After sifting through the various link titles, including a computer science lab at Purdue, a porcelain company, and a Japanese anime’ character, I come up empty. I need to be more specific.

Search: Kihara seedless watermelon Here we go: “Hitoshi Kihara, Japan’s Pioneer Geneticist,” a Genetics.org biography edited by James F. Crow and William F. Dove. Crow and Dove, ha ha!

Kihara was born in Tokyo in 1893 and died in 1986. His area of expertise was hy-

Down the Rabbit Hole

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Feel the Bern Dear Editor: Hello people of the Roaring Fork Valley. Are you tired of business as usual in Washington, D.C.? Are you ready to start a political revolution? If you are, go on YouTube and type in “Bernie Sanders.” Listen to what he has to say and if you agree with him do something about it.

In the state of Colorado you have to register with a political party to vote in the primaries so please register as a Democrat, otherwise that other candidate will be on the ballot instead of Bernie Sanders. Feel the Bern!

Joe Mulé New Castle

Vote for the kids Dear Editor: While serving as the Basalt Middle School principal from

2009 to 2015, I experienced first hand the difficulty of retaining key staff in the Roaring Fork Valley due to out-of-reach housing costs.

Over seven years, I replaced over half of the staff. The majority of the resignations occurred because teachers simply were no longer able to afford monthly rental payments, and owning a property was frankly not an option. Providing teachers with an affordable housing alternative would be a great step toward attracting and retaining talented teachers within our school system.

Please give your support by voting for RFSD’s bond initiative; it is clearly a vote for our kids.

Jeremy Voss Former principal Basalt Middle School LETTERS page 15

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Cat fight continues, so trustees name committee

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer Carbondale’s Board of Trustees narrowly avoided passing a new ordinance regulating the freedom of domestic cats on Tuesday night, opting instead to create a subcommittee to work on the proposed ordinance, an exercise that Mayor Stacey Bernot jokingly said might be like “herding cats.”

That subcommittee is to include two trustees — Frosty Merriott and Allyn Harvey — Police Chief Gene Schilling and a member of the town staff.

In addition, the subcommittee will include two local women who have come to symbolize the “pro” and “con” side of the debate over the control of cats, Mary Harris of the Roaring Fork chapter of the Audubon Society and Cindy Sadlowski, founder of the Street Cats Coalition, which has worked for 15 years to keep down the number of feral cats in the region by spaying or neutering the animals.

The town staff wrote up a proposed ordinance after Harris told the trustees in July that the predation of birds by free-roaming cats is essentially pushing some bird species toward extinction.

In one presentation, she maintained that as many as 4 billion birds are killed by cats each year across the U.S. Sadlowski, however, countered that there

is no proof that cats are responsible for an alarming decline in some bird populations in this country, and argued that it is pollution, loss of habitat and other human-caused influences that are the true reasons for the decline in bird numbers.

“Loss of habitat, climate change and toxic chemicals are the major causes of the bird population decline,” Sadlowski wrote in a letter to the town, dated July 30, in which she pleaded for the trustees to hold off on passing any new, restrictive laws concerning the movement of cats in town.

As written, the proposed ordinance would require that all domestic cats over the age of six months be spayed or neutered; that all adult domestic cats in town be licensed; that any cat found outside its owner’s residential property be considered as “running at large” and subject to impoundment; and that owners of cats that get loose be subject to fines that could run to $1,000 after multiple offenses, among other provisions.

The proposed ordinance is to be the starting point for discussions by the subcommittee about how the town should deal with the issue. The subcommittee is to report back to the board of trustees later this year.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the trustees, several local residents stood up to address the trustees, in support of either Harris’ or Sad-

lowski’s side of the issue. The testimony took up more than an hour of meeting time and featured everything from placing computer chips in cats for identification purposes (rather than typical metal license tags on collars, which could pose a hazard to the cat) to the beneficial role of cats in keeping mice and other rodents under control.

“Cats have their place in the ecology, too,” said local resident Charles Saiviano, arguing against passage of the ordinance, who reported that he once put up barriers around his home to keep feral cats from taking up house-keeping there, only to have his home quickly overrun by mice.

“The rodents need predators, and when they don’t have predators, they can just take over,” Saiviano said.

Delia Malone, urging the trustees to pass the ordinance as is, maintained that science has proven cats to be the primary predator of birds, and that cats are an “invasive species” not native to the U.S., meaning that the continent’s bird population evolved largely without cats as a predatory influence on their numbers.

Faced with an audience mostly made up of supporters of the ordinance, the trustees appeared at one point to be ready to pass it.

Trustee Merriott, noting that “we have four votes” on the board in favor of passage, lauded Sadlowski’s work as a regional cat expert, and

pleaded with her to work with the town to make the ordinance as good as it can be, rather than simply demand that it be shelved.

“That’s not going to happen,” Merriott said, saying at one point that given the amount of time and public resources that have gone into getting the proposed ordinance this far, it might as well become law.

But after continued discussion, the trustees opted to set up the subcommittee in an effort to rework the proposed ordinance to make it acceptable to both sides of the debate, if possible.

Sadlowski at one point declared that “this entire ordinance is extremely troubling” and told the board it should outlaw bird feeders as a way of preventing cats from preying on unwary, hungry birds.

She also suggested that the ordinance, which is silent on the subject of feral cats, is deficient because of that oversight.

She also said that, in her travels to trap, neuter and release feral cats, she had never seen a large number of domestic cats roaming the streets.

“You just don’t see many cats,” she emphasized, “and I think we’re just addressing a problem we don’t really have.”

But in the end, she told the proponents of the ordinance, “I think we can work together.

Let’s get something that will work for the ferals, that’ll work for the birds.”

Carbondale town budget looking good despite one bummer

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer As Carbondale officials took their first steps this week into deliberations about the 2016 municipal budget, one bit of bad news greeted them from the outset — revenues from the state’s mineral severance tax fund plummeted this year, meaning Carbondale will have far less next year than it has received from state energy impact funds in the past.

But the Board of Trustees, at its meeting Tuesday, also got some good news — sales tax proceeds have continued to rise, property tax revenues are expected to be up by about 26 percent, and the town’s general-fund reserve cash balance should be nearly $5 million at the end of this year.

The general fund, which accounts for most of the town’s operating revenues and expenses, is expected to have a year-end balance of just over $4.9 million, according to a presentation by Finance Director Renae Gustine.

In addition, the town’s other big funds — water and wastewater, dedicated to the town’s water and sewer service costs — have a combined total of about $6.5 million, according to a chart provided by Gustine.

“We’re in good shape, as far as the yearend balance,” Town Manager Jay Harrington told the trustees.

But, he said, because of the expected shortfall in the severance tax payment, the town should not plan to do any major capital projects next year.

With all funds combined, the town expects to have approximately $13.8 million on hand at the end of the year.

In 2015, according to Gustine’s chart, the town started with a balance of about $14.4 million in all funds, took in approximately $15.5 million in revenues for a total of just

over $30 million in available funds.

By the end of this year, she reported, the town will have spent roughly $16.2 million, leaving a healthy balance for the start of 2016.

Gustine told the trustees that sales tax revenue, which is the town’s main source of income, has been increasing at a rate of about 6 percent in 2015, over the amount collected in 2014.

As for the severance tax proceeds, they are energy impact funds paid to the state by energy companies drilling for oil and gas in Colorado, and are dispensed by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs.

In addition to severance taxes, which are assessed against oil and gas pumped and sold

by the industry, the state collects Mineral Lease Fees, which come from lease payments to the federal government for oil and gas producing fields.

Carbondale has since 1998 received severance tax and lease fees that, combined, have ranged from less than $40,000 in 1998 to more than $800,000 in 2009, the year that Garfield County’s energy industry was operating at its peak.

The 2015 payments came to a little more than $480,000, and mainly were used to pay for capital projects related to improvements to Highway 133 as it passes through Carbondale, and the reconstruction of parts of Barber Drive.

Harrington said the town has been warned by the state that its severance-tax payment for 2016 could be reduced by as much as 61 percent, which Gustine said could amount to as much as $130,000.

In general, Harrington said, the town’s revenue projections are favorable for the coming year’s budget.

Other trustee action from Tuesday night include: • Signing a contract for construction of a water line along Industry Way; • Finalizing the $500 purchase of a public artwork, “Grow To The Sky,” which currently adorns the sidewalk outside Marble Distillers on Main Street.

Ram quarterback Tyler Spence (#7) fights for yardage as wide receiver Alex Dominguez (#9) gives him a hand in Roaring Fork’s 16-14 season-opening win over Meeker on Sept. 4. Spence scored twice to bring the score to 14-13.

Colin O’Gorman kicked a 39-yard field goal to give Roaring Fork a twopoint lead. Meeker then drove to the one-yard line but the Rams forced a fumble and recovered it with 59 seconds left in the game. On the soccer front, the Rams downed the Aspen Skiers 2-1 in overtime on Sept. 8. Gus Oliva scored first then Aaron Palomera sealed the win on an assist from Joseph Floes. Goalie Colin O’Gorman had four saves, one of them a one-on-one at the end of regulation play. The girl’s volleyball team started its season in the Glenwood Springs tournament on Sept. 4; scores were not available at press time. Photo by Sue Rollyson

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North Face weed battle continues Sopris Sun Staff Report Staffers at Town Hall are soliciting bids from landscape companies for a project to hydro-seed the berms and hillsides surrounding the North Face Bike Park, as at least a partial solution to an infestation of weeds at the Bike Park that has become a growing problem, according to town manager Jay Harington’s weekly report (dated Aug. 31-Sept. 4).

In other news from Harrington’s report: The fourth annual Ranch Roping competition is to be held this coming weekend, Sept. 12-13, at the Gus Darien Riding/Rodeo Arena, just east of town on Catherine Store Road (GarďŹ eld County Road 100). In other rodeo-related news, now that the Carbondale Wild West Rodeo itself has gone into hibernation for the winter, the town’s engineering consultant, SGM, expects to send out bids in early October to contractors interested in building a bleacher roof for the arena.

Keeping to the recreational side of things, the ofďŹ cials behind the Ross Montessori School project, currently underway adjacent to Highway 133 and the Thompson Park subdivision, are hoping to get state funding to pay for a “community play yard and outdoor learning environment,â€? according to Harrington. Harrington wrote in his memo that the school’s managers were scheduled to go before the town parks and recreation commission on Sept. 9 as part of a request for “consideration from the town to allow them to submit a 2016 GOCO “School Yard Play Initiative grant for professional design services.â€? Harrington wrote that GOCO (Great Outdoors Colorado, which distributes state lottery proceeds) expects to award up to $7,000 apiece to ďŹ ve schools around the state for such projects.

On yet another recreation front, Harrington reported that the parks and recreation commission was scheduled to discuss its 2016 budget goals and objectives at the same meeting (which is

too late to meet the Sopris Sun’s deadlines for this week’s edition).

One of those goals, Harrington wrote, is to determine citizen voter support for a recreation sales tax increase in 2016. The idea, according to Harrington, would be to hold a tax-increase election next April, if voter support is determined.

Recreation programming for this week is to include the start of a youth ag football program, and the start of a fall Climbing Club. Other fall programming includes bike lessons at the North Face Bike Park, skateboard lessons, climbing wall lessons, Early Release Wednesdays (for school-aged youngsters) open gym and youth only facilitated climbing, among other offerings. More information is available in the town’s recreation department fall/winter brochure, which can be viewed on the website carbondalerec.com or picked up at Town Hall and several other locations around town, including the Carbondale Recreation and Community Center, the Third Street Center, City Market and local schools.

The John M. Fleet Municipal Pool has closed for the season, Harrington reported, adding that 4,793 users were recorded for the season, which ran from May 24-Sept. 4.

Over the previous week, Harrington wrote, the town’s arborist weeded beds, cut thistle and willows in beds at the Carbondale Nature Park solar array, removed elm saplings at various locations, worked on storm-related clean-up, coordinated planting of 13 trees at Roaring Fork High School, and surveyed banners in the downtown area for replacement.

Over the same period, the streets crew emptied dog-poop stations, mowed 133 grassy areas, did some weed-whacking and pickup work at Cara Court and began preparing for fall leaf removal and for the winterization of the town’s irrigation systems.

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During that period, town police ofďŹ cers and GarďŹ eld County sheriff’s deputies investigated the following cases of note, according to summaries provided to The Sopris Sun:

FRIDAY, Aug. 28: At 8:43 a.m. police took a report of a burglary at a school, where three i-Pad devices were taken.

TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1-2: Police were called twice, once each day, to a store to arrest two individuals on charges of shoplifting, including a juvenile female who was ticketed and released to an adult.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2: At 7:45 p.m.

GarďŹ eld County deputies were called to a location in the Cedar Cove section near Elk Springs, outside of Carbondale, where they arrested a 63-year-old man on charges of harassment and domestic violence, and took him to the GarďŹ eld County Jail.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2: At 5:29 p.m. police were contacted by a man who thought he had been shot at by an unknown party with a pellet gun. The man said he had not heard the shot, but that he had heard a projectile pass close to him. Police were unable to locate a suspect.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 2: At 10:05 p.m. police were dispatched to check out a “suspicious male looking into vehicles in a parking lot at 920 Cowen Drive.â€? A 22-year old man was arrested and taken to the GarďŹ eld County Jail on charges of trespassing.

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CARE shelter turns 15; thousands of lives changed

By Lynn Burton Sopris Sun Staff Writer Thousands of lives (counting dogs and cats) have literally been changed for the better since Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE) opened its shelter doors 15 years ago.

“People come up here and fall in love with a dog or cat,” said CARE co-founder Jim Calaway. “I see it all the time.”

The CARE shelter is located on 11-acres at Colorado Mountain College’s Spring Valley campus between Carbondale and Glenwood Springs. Chances are that you, or someone you know, has adopted a CARE dog, cat or other pet. In fact, CARE has placed more than 12,500 homeless dogs and cats in homes in the past 15 years.

“It’s been great for the community,” Calaway told The Sopris Sun. CARE’s major fund-raiser, the Dressed to the K9s fashion show, returns to the Orchard in Carbondale on Sept. 26. With that in mind, did you know: • Parents can throw birthday parties for their kids at the CARE shelter; • Volunteers are welcome to come up and walk dogs or help out in other ways; • CARE micro-chips dogs and cats for $30; • The CARE Pet Food Bank was started in 2011 to assist pet owners in Garfield County and nearby communities who are having a difficult time feeding their pets due to their economic condition or other challenges; • CARE also offers dog training classes.

Although CARE mostly takes in dogs and cats, it is also equipped to take in birds

and “exotics.”

CARE responds to local disasters such as wildfires and takes in affected pets. It also took in pets from hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.

History Local veterinarians incorporated Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE) in 1992, according to CARE’s website. For nine years the rescue and placement of abandoned, stray and surrendered animals was done out of the homes of C.A.R.E. board members. But 16 years ago, Calaway, a well-known philantropist and retired oilman, met some CARE people who told him of their operation. A self-described “animal lover” his entire life, Calaway took his cat with him when he entered the University of Texas.

In short order, Calaway approached Colorado Mountain College, which donated 11acres to CARE, and now works closely with the college’s vet tech program. Then he donated half the $3 million to build the shelter, and helped to raise the remaining $1.5 million.

With the shelter up and running in 2000, Garfield County was able to close its pound and annually contribute $300,000 to CARE’s budget. Other funds come from the 160 “Annual Angels” who contribute $1,000 or more, plus the annual Dressed to the K9s event.

Through the years, CARE’s staff has grown, and now numbers 10 full-time employees.

“They do a wonderful job,” Calaway said.

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Clover, 14, is looking for a home. Colorado Animal Rescue, located on the CMC Spring Valley campus, is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Photo by Jane Bachrach

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CMS seeks mentors Carbondale Middle School is looking for volunteer mentors – especially those with skills in computer programming, engineering, solar, circuits and carpentry – to help in creating a maker’s space or learning lab for students. “These spaces typically allow students to build basic machines or robots, program computers, build with wood or other materials, or create new products,” said CMS Gifted Coordinator Megan Currier. This will be an in-school program for all CMS students, who are generally between the ages of 10-14 (fifth through eight grade). The maker’s space program will start during lunch/recess and after lunch. There is no minimum or maximum time commitment. “I am imagining that some kids might start working with circuits and then get to a place where they need guidance to get to the next level or to solve a particular problem,” Currier continued. “Ideally, we will build up a database of contacts in the community that students can reference when they need ‘professional’ help. This could be a onehour tutorial, a phone call or an on-going mentorship depending on the student, the community member and the project. The school is also gathering Lego, Erector sets, Lincoln Logs, blocks and other building toys.

For more information, call Carbondale Middle School at 384-5700.

L.I.T. Crawl returns The Carbondale Branch Library is seeking performers, poets, writers and musicians for its second annual L.I.T. Crawl. The L.I.T. (Literature in Town) Crawl will feature per-

ment is giving free coupons for one day of free parking at its Rio Grande garage for every win the Denver Broncos notch in September. People must come to the Aspen Parking Department (540 E. Main St.) the day after the wins to pick up their coupons.

The coupons expire on Oct. 31. For details, call 970-429-1766.

Barbin’ up the right creek Wilderness Workshop is finishing its multi-year project of removing barbed wire from fences up Castle Creek near Ashcroft on Sept. 12. The posts themselves will remain as reminders of the area’s ranching history.

For details, go to wildernessworkshop.org.

Candidate emerges for school board An anonymous Carbondale Library chalkboard artist treated passersby to some pretty interesting art in late August. This picture is a detail from a larger piece, which lasted only a couple of days before the rain washed it away. Photo by Lynn Burton formers at several of the new Art aRound Town sculptures and other locations starting at 4 p.m. at the next First Friday (Oct. 2). For details, call 963-2889.

Bonedalers do GlenX Carbondale residents Wade Newsome and Jim Calaway are among the presenters at the inaugural GlenX Success Summit at Glenwood Springs High School on Sept. 12.

The program also includes: Gretchen Bleiler

(Olympic snowboarder), Mark Brown (award winning speaker), Mike Kaplan (Aspen Skiing Co. president/CEO), Willy Tea Taylor (musician), and Carrie Besnette Hauser (CMC president/CEO). The Roaring Fork Young Professionals group is organizing the event.

For details, go to glenx.org.

Free parking in Aspen?

This is not a cruel hoax. According to a press release, the Aspen Parking Depart-

With four of five Roaring Fork School District seats up for grabs, only one current member faces an election race in November.

He’s Karl Hanlon, who will be challenged by Jennifer Rupert in District A (which covers parts of Carbondale and Basalt). Three other board members – Mary Elizabeth Geiger, Daniel Biggs and Matthew Hamilton – will each run unopposed.

They say it’s your birthday Folks celebrating their birthday this week include: John Colson, and Brian and Brent Perkins (Sept. 10); Debbie Crawford (Sept.

11); and Anita Witt, Dominique Jackson, Chrissie Leonard, Allyn Harvey, Adam Carballeira and Andy Bohmfalk (Sept. 13).

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CARE om page 5 group until she accepted a position in the Colorado Mountain College vet tech program earlier this year.

“We lost a wonderful executive director and friend but she went to a wonderful organization,” Calaway said. A nation-wide search is underway to find Rockey’s replacement.

CARE is well known and respected among those working in the animal shelter field. It’s also known, in a manner of speaking, to music fans. That’s because pop icon Neil Diamond employed 10 CARE puppies to appear in a video for his current CD “Melody Road.” Diamond adopted two of the puppies and the other eight were later adopted out. The video will be shown at the upcoming Dressed to the K9s fashion show and all 10

puppies are scheduled to appear in person (so to speak).

Reflecting on the lives that CARE has touched over the past 15 years, Calaway points to one woman who adopted a dog when the shelter first opened. Her dog recently passed away but she told Calaway, “If that dog came back as a man, I’d marry him.”

CARE is open for public tours, which take about an hour. To schedule an appointment or for more information, go to coloradoanimalrescue.org.

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What: CARE’s Dressed to the K9s fashion show.

When: Sept. 26 at 5:30 p.m.

Where: The Orchard on Snowmass Drive.

How much: $85 per ticket at coloradoanimalrescue.org.

Far left: Morrison takes advantage of CARE’s Soggy Doggy area, which includes a swimming pond and waterfall.

Center: Dr. Julie Martin tattoos a dog. Left: The shelter also takes in ducks, chickens and roosters, plus the occasional parrot, gerbil, snake, ferret and lizard.

Photos by Jane Bachrach

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Fire district cites Master Plan for tax hike

By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer The Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District is gearing up for its second tax-hike ballot question in two years, and will be asking voters on Nov. 3 to approve a mill levy override that would bring in nearly $600,000 in additional revenue to be used for a combination of daily operations and capital improvements.

Justification for the tax hike question is based largely on information contained in a master plan compiled by a team of consultants starting last March, and which is available for public review on the department’s website (carbondalefire.org).

There are a number of differences between the current tax-hike request and the last one, which was before voters in 2013.

For one thing, during the 2013 election season, the district conducted a relatively low-key campaign to fight for a request that would have essentially doubled the propertytax rate for district property owners, seemingly out of confidence that the taxpayers had always given the fire department what it wanted in years past and would do so again.

The question apparently asked for more than the constituents were willing to provide in 2013, however, and the tax hike was denied by the voters.

This time, the district is armed with its recently released Master Plan, and by the help of a citizens committee (Citizens4aSafeCommunity) that will advocate in favor of a “yes” vote on Nov. 3.

The district is asking for far less money this time around, seeking to increase the property tax rate by about 1.75 mills, on top of its current rate of 5.903 mills.

A “mill” equals $1 in taxation for every $1,000 in the assessed valuation of real property. A tax increase of 1.75 mills would add roughly $70 to the annual property tax bill of a residential property valued by the Garfield County Assessor at $500,000, according to a calculation offered by consultant Mark Chain, one of those who worked on the Master Plan.

In addition to seeking a smaller rate increase, this year’s question corrects what most observers have concluded was a fatal mistake in 2013 — the lack of a “sunset clause” requiring that the tax hike expire at a certain time.

This time the district has included a “sun-

set clause” of two years, meaning the tax rate will return to its current level after 2017 unless the voters agree to renew it or increase it where the 2013 ballot question contained no such clause, causing voters to worry that it would have enacted the tax rate permanently.

The CRFPD is a sprawling district that covers about 320 square miles in terrain stretching from Marble in the south to Spring Valley in the north, in which five stations provide service to some 12,000 people, some of then living in remote corners of the district.

Founded in 1953, the department has 18 paid personnel and 65 volunteers, according to information on its website, www.carbondalefire.org. The department’s equipment complement includes one ladder truck, five fire engines, six wildland fire vehicles, two general rescue vehicles and four ambulances.

The tax-hike request is an effort to overcome a more than 40-percent drop in the district’s income as a result of the Great Recession of 2008-2009, when property values plummeted.

The district gets nearly all of its income from property taxes, supplemented somewhat by fees for ambulance services.

According to information in the Master Plan document, property values dropped by about 28 percent between 2011 and 2012, and another 20 percent or so by 2014, cutting general fund revenues from a high of nearly $2.9 million in 2009 and 2010 to a low of approximately $1.7 million in 2014.

In between, voter approval of a mill-levy override in 2011 boosted the district’s tax rate and kept revenues at about $2.8 million annually, despite the drop in property values, until 2013, when the override was scheduled to expire.

Voters that year rejected a request to increase taxes by about 6 mills, essentially doubling the tax rate, and district revenues dropped precipitously.

In response, the district let go of three people, began deferring capital improvements and started dipping into what once was well more than $2.8 million in cash reserves to supplement the anemic budget.

According to Chain, the reserves (representing pools of cash for both general and capital spending) stood at about $2.39 million in 2012, the year the district first began reaping additional revenues due to the 2011

mill levy override.

That grew to $2.88 million in 2013, which was the last year the district could count on the higher mill levy, and dropped to $2.3 million in 2014, the first year that the district began seriously dipping into reserves in order to maintain service levels.

The reserves at the end of this year, according to the Master Plan documents, will stand at roughly $1.69 million, and by 2020 will have fallen to about $480,000 if the district continues its policy of deficit spending to maintain service levels.

At that point, district officials have warned, the reserves would be insufficient to prop up the department’s operations, necessitating much more serious cuts in personnel and services.

It is that concern that led the district to ask for the tax-rate increase in 2013 and, having lost that bid, to go back to the voters this year with a more detailed plan for seeking a much smaller tax-rate increase.

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles about the upcoming CRVFP tax-hike election. Additional stories will appear in the next several editions of The Sopris Sun).

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Fire district pros/cons due Sept. 18

CMC nursing degree update

The deadline to submit pro or con statements for the Carbondale Fire District Tabor Notice is Friday, Sept. 18 at 4:30 p.m., according to fire chief Ron Leach. County clerks from Garfield, Pitkin and Gunnison will send out Tabor Notices before the Nov. 3 election, at which time fire district voters will be asked whether to hike property taxes by 1.75 mills. Leach said fire district residents who want to submit statements supporting or opposing the tax hike must submit them in writing and send them to the Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District, 301 Meadowood Dr., Carbondale, CO 81623. There is no word limit, although state statute allows the district to summarize the statements as needed. The statements must include the author’s name, address and signature. For details, call 963-2491.

Colorado Mountain College is holding information meetings about its bachelor’s and associate degrees in nursing, according to a press release. The BS meetings will be held at: • Sept. 15, 4 p.m., Colorado Mountain College in Dillon, Room 202; • Sept. 21, 4 p.m., Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs, Glenwood Center, 1402 Blake Ave., Room 307; • Sept. 23, 4 p.m., Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge, 107 Denison Placer Road, Eileen and Paul Finkel Auditorium; • Sept. 29, 4 p.m., Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs – Spring Valley, 3000 County Road 114, room to be determined.

Associate of Applied Science in nursing meetings will be held at: • Sept. 23, 3:30 p.m., Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs, Glenwood Center, 1402 Blake Ave., Room 307; • Oct. 1, noon to 1:30 p.m., Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs – Spring Valley, 3000 County Road 114, Calaway Building, Room 127; • Oct. 15, noon to 1:30 p.m., Colorado Mountain College in Dillon, 333 Fiedler Ave., Room 202; • Nov. 4, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge, 107 Denison Placer Road, Eileen and Paul Finkel Auditorium.

For details, call 800-621-8559.

RFSD pros/cons due Sept. 18 The deadline to submit pro or con statements for the Roaring Fork School District Tabor Notice is Sept. 18, according to school district spokeswoman Linda Fiske. The notices will be sent out before the Nov. 3 election, at which time the school district will ask voters whether to approve a $122 million bond issue. Statements must include the author’s name, address and signature. They must be sent to the Roaring Fork School District, attention Linda Fiske, 1405 Grand Ave., Glenwood Springs, CO 81601. For details, call 384-6000.

Lobsters delayed to 2016 Butch’s Lobster Shack is still coming to Carbondale, but not until the spring of 2016.

Butch Darden, owner of the transient lobster shack that has done business in other parts of the Roaring Fork Valley, confirmed this week that he will not be setting up his business this year because of trouble with state health department officials and concern that it may be too late in the year to do enough business to recoup his set-up investment.

He said the health department decreed that his lobster-cooking arrangement is not up to the state’s standards, so he will need to spend the winter figuring out how to satisfy the regulations. But Darden said he had spoken with the owner’s representative of the site where he plans to be dishing out sea food — the lot at 2nd and Main owned by Bren Simon — and that it is still a go.

Carbondale offering grants The town of Carbondale is taking applications for grants to non-profits for 2016.

The deadline is Sept. 18 at 5 p.m. The applications are available at carbondalegov.org.

For more information, e-mail cderby@carbondaleco.net or call 510-1206.

Basalt offering grants The town of Basalt is once again offering money from its Discretionary Grant Fund for non-profits. Applications are available at town hall, or a basalt.net. The application deadline is Sept. 30 at 5 p.m. For details, call 927-9851.

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Chamber accepting nominations The Carbondale Chamber of Commerce is taking nominations for its next board of director’s election, slated for an e-mail ballot on Oct. 9; the nomination deadline is Oct. 6. Nomination letters can be sent to andrea@carbondale.com or mailed to the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce, attention Andrea Stewart, Box 1645, Carbondale, CO 81623.

RSVP offers senior classes The High County Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) is partnering with Alpine Legal Services to offer a series of free classes relating to the issues that may concern older adults, according to a press release.

Classes are offered at the CMC Glenwood Center (1402 Blake Ave.) on Thursday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. The series runs Sept. 10 through Oct. 8. The Sept. 10 session pertains to wills; the Sept. 17 session pertains advance medical directives. Other classes will focus on grandparent rights, conservatorship/guardianship and probate. For details, call 947-8462 or eworrell@coloradomtn.edu.

Fire district 911 calls Here are the Carbondale Fire District 911 calls for the week of Aug. 3 through Sept. 5: • Medical emergencies (6); • Trauma emergencies (6); • Motor vehicle accidents (5); • Fire alarm responses (5); • Medical alarm responses (2); • Smoke checks (2); • Standby requests (2); • River rescue-false (1).

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Community Calendar THURS.-FRI. Sept. 10-11 DANCE • Rehearsals for the Molissa Fenley dance company workshops members are open to the public from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Launchpad. Info: danceinitiative.org.

THURSDAY Sept. 10 C’DALE LIBRARY • Kids and teens are invited to snack and play iPad and Wii games from 4 to 5 p.m. on Thursdays. The program is offered in partnership with Food Bank of the Rockies as part of the After School Snack Program. Info: 963-2889 and gcpld.org.

FILM • The medical marijuana sci-ďŹ thriller “Star Leafâ€? plays for one night only at 7:30 p.m. the Crystal Theatre. Tickets are $10 at the door. Actor/producer Robert Leeshock (“Earth: Final Conflictâ€?) is flying out for the screening. Info: “Star Leafâ€? on Facebook.

RSVP • High Country RSVP and Alpine Legal Services offer free classes in legal matters to senior citizens from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays through Oct. 8. The classses take place at the CMC Center in Glenwood Springs (1402 Blake Ave.). Advanced medical directives will be discussed on Sept. 17, followed by grandparent rights, conservatorship/ guardianship, and probate. Info: 947-8462 and eworrell@coloradomtn.edu.

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

FRIDAY Sept. 11 MOVIES • The Crystal Theatre presents “Meruâ€? (R) at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 11-17; “Trainwreck â€? (R) at 5 p.m. on Sept. 12 and

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.

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FILM • The 5Point Film Festival presents a ďŹ lm and related activities at Bonnie Fisher Park (south of the Third Street Center) from 7 to 10 p.m. Info: 5pointďŹ lm.org.

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

LIVE MUSIC • Rivers restaurant in Glenwood Springs presents Valle Musico from 9 p.m. to midnight. No cover. Here is the rest of September’s line up: Leonard Curry Trio (Sept. 17) and the Steve Skinner Band (Sept. 24). Info: 928-8813.

SAT.-SUN. Sept. 12-13 LIVE MUSIC • The Los Angeles-based Wild Reeds is heading for an appearance on the AMA awards in Nashville and in October they open for the Punch Brothers in the Greek Theatre’s Bluegrass Situation. Before those big-time gigs, however, they roll into Carbondale for shows on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, they settle into the cozy conďŹ nes of Steve’s Guitars at 8:30 p.m. On Sunday, the Wild Reeds close out the town’s Second Sunday free concert series from noon to 3 p.m. at Sopris Park.

The Wild Reeds is being described as a “full indie-folk-rock force� that has been sweeping the West Coast and beyond. Lately, they’ve shared the stage with the likes of Jackson Browne, Lucinda Williams and others.

ROPING • Roaring Fork Ranch Roping takes over the Gus Darien riding arena on County Road 100. Info: Tom Harrington at 970-275-1165 or tharrington@montorse.net.

PICKLEBALL • The inagural Carbondale Pickleball Tournament takes place at North Face Park from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. For details, call 510-1290 or go to carbondalerec.com.

Meet in Basalt at 7:30 a.m. Registration is required at www.wildernessworkshop.org.

Info: 510-0697.

SATURDAY Sept. 12

WRITERS’ GROUP • The Carbondale Writers Group meets at the library from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on the second Monday of the month. All are welcome, from beginners to experts. Info: 947-9593.

SACRED FEST • True Nature Healing Arts presents its second annual Sacred Fest: A Conscious Celebration of Life from noon to 10 p.m. Highlights include a drum circle, African dance performance, Mud Puppet show, a wellness village, labyrinth reexology walks, kids activities, kirtan bands playing call-and-response chant music and more. The musical headliners are C.C. White (aka the Queen of soul kirtan music and the Pushpams. Advance tickets are $40 (for the Sacred Fest and C.C. White), $25 for Sacred Fest only and $30 for C.C. White only at truenatureheals.com or 963-9900. Tickets cost $5 more at the door; kids under 12 are free.

DANCE PERFORMANCE • Dance Initiatiave presents Molissa Fenley & Company at 6:30 p.m. at the Launchpad. The performance is the culmination of Fenley and Company’s week-long residency in Carbondale; tickets are $15 and space is limited. Info: danceinitiative.org.

PICKELBALL • The Western Slope pickleball tournament takes place at the North Face and River Valley Ranch courts at 9 a.m. Info: 510-1277.

SUNDAY Sept. 13 RED TABLE HIKE • Wilderness Workshop leads a free hike on Red Table Mountain.

MONDAY Sept. 14

TUESDAY Sept. 15 OPEN HOUSE • The Carbondale Clay Center and CCAH hold an open house from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at Cedar Ridge Ranch on Missouri Heights (3059 CR 103). There’ll be wine, beer and harvest appetizers, plus a short survey for artists to determine their needs. Info: 963-1680.

WEDNESDAY Sept. 16 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 presents John Kinney (Aspen-Pitkin County Airport director) at the Carbondale ďŹ re station at 6:45 a.m. Coming up: Sept. 23, club meeting; Sept. 30, Jeanna Nicholson (state senator, will talk about the Colorado Health Care initiative); Robert Baker (Heritage Park Care Center). Info: rotarycarbondale.org.

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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CCAH • The Carbondale Council on Arts and Humanities holds its third and ďŹ nal reception for “Square Footageâ€? from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Launchpad. CoMotion will kick off the event, which will be followed by an artists’ walkthrough to explain each stage’s process. Info: carbondalearts.com.

BUSINESS CONFERENCE • The Carbondale Chamber of Commerce and Colorado Mountain College hold their annual business conference from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Orchard. Dave Buck, founder and CEO of Coachville, will be the keynote speaker. Tickets range from $40 to to $85 (before Sept. 4) and $50 to $125 (after Sept.

4). Info: 963-1890 or andrea@carbondale.com.

LIVE MUSIC • The Basalt Regional Library presents the Leonard Curry Trio from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

FRI.-SAT. Sept. 18-19 WRITING WORKSHOP • Aspen Words presents a reading by writer Gary Ferguson (“They Carry Homeâ€?) at the Third Street Center at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, and a writing workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. The workshop/reading is $150; reading only is $10. Info: 925-3211 or aspenwords.org.

C’DALE LIBRARY • At 10 a.m., Chase Engel (founder and head brewer for the Roaring Fork Beer Company) gives a free talk about the basics of brewing beer at home. The class will also harvest hops grown outside at the library. Info: 963-2889 and gcpld.org.

SENIOR MATTERS • Hour long tech classes for seniors are offered at the Carbondale Branch Library every month at 10:30 a.m. A follow up class is then offered the next Saturday

Ongoing HEALTHY HEART • Healthy Heart Meals meet-ups are held at the Third Street Center every Monday at 7 p.m. Dr. Greg Feinsinger speaks on the ďŹ rst Monday of the month; the last Monday of the month features a pot-luck gathering at 6:30 p.m.

at 10:30 a.m. One-on-one help is also offered.

Info: 963-2889 or gcpld.org.

SATURDAY Sept. 19 CHURCH SALE • Faith Lutheran church on Highway 133 holds it’s “truck unloading saleâ€? from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Items include: old church pews, kitchen ware, ofďŹ ce furniture and more.

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who will be honored with Sustainable Settings’ 2015 Organic Farmer of the Year award. Dinner starts at 4 p.m. Ticket info: sustainablesettings.org.

FRI.-SUN. Sept. 25-27 FILMFEST • Aspen Filmfest returns to the Crystal Theatre in Carbondale, and also Paepcke Auditorium and the Isis Theatre in Aspen. Info: aspenďŹ lm.org.

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HARVEST FEST • Sustainable Settings annual Harvest Festival returns with farm tours, public talks, workshops, dinner and dancing. Chefs from up and down the Roaring Fork Valley will prepare a menu that features local grown and raised meat and produce. “Your meal Sunday evening will come from within 1,200 feet from your plate,â€? said Brook LeVan of Sustainable Settings.

Speakers include author/farmer Eliot Coleman,

GRIEF RECOVERY • PathďŹ nders starts an eight-week Grief Recovery Program for moving beyond death, divorce and other losses. The program takes place at the Third Street Center (Suite 31) on Thursdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The cost is $165 for all eight sessions; a sliding scale and scholarships are available. Info: Jennifer Bouchet at 970-456-7026 or bouchetcounseling@gmail.com.

Save the Date will discuss health fair results, heart health or other medical concerns on Mondays for free at the Third Street Center. For an appointment, call 379-5718.

WRAPPING UP • The Wyly Art Center in downtown Basalt wraps up the Campbell Hutchinson show “This Land is Our landâ€? on Sept. 12.

PICKLEBALL • The Carbondale pickleball group meets for some back and forth at the Darien Tennis and Pickleball Courts (at North Face Park) at 8 a.m. on Monday, Friday and Saturday, and 6 p.m. on Wednesdays. All ages and skill levels are welcome.

MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS • Greg Feinsinger, M.D., a retired, board-certiďŹ ed family physician now working on a volunteer basis,

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

SATURDAY Sept. 26

K9 FASHION SHOW • Colorado Animal Rescue’s 15th annual Dressed to the K9s fashion show returns to the Orchard, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. The night includes the 10-piece Neil Diamond tribute band Forever in Blue Jeans, plus a showing of Diamond’s music video “Something Blue, which features 10 puppies from CARE. There’ll also be a silent auction, wine/beer/champagne bar, a special cocktail from Marble Distillery, dinner from Fusion Catering and lots of delectable desserts. Tickets are $85 a coloradoanimalrescue.org.

POTATO DAY • The theme of this year’s Potato Day is “Spuds are a Few of My Favorite Thingsâ€? in honor of the 50th anniversary of the ďŹ lm “The Sound of Music.â€? To enter your oat, e-mail Lisa Quint at quint@sopris.net, call her at 618-6887 or write Carbondale Potato Day, Box 1803, Carbondale, CO 81623. The day starts with a parade on Main Street at 10 a.m. and wraps up at Sopris Park at about 2 p.m. The Carbondale Wild West Bareback Bonanza follows at the Gus Darien riding arena at 3 p.m. For details on that one, call Mike Kennedy at 379-3907.

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Ever wonder how and why the Basalt police do what they do? Well, your chance to find out starts on Sept. 23 and wraps up on Oct. 31, with the Basalt Police Department’s weekly Community Police Academy.

“Our department is expanding,” said Sgt. Joe Gasper in an e-mail to The Sopris Sun. “Our chief, Greg Knott, town manager Mike Scanlon and Town Council are excited about our first citizen’s academy.”

The classes are free and open to the public.

The Sopris Sun put several questions to Gasper via e-mail. Here are his edited responses.

Question: Why is the police department offering this academy?

Answer: It’s a great opportunity for people to learn, through participation, the various day-to-day duties that our officers perform, as well as offering a fun way of meeting our officers to further develop our approach to community oriented policing.

Q: Who do you think the academy might appeal to or who is your target market?

A: It’s an open invitation (for those) who may have interest or questions about how police officers are trained, how they respond to adverse situations, and/or the opportunity to provide a platform for both the community and our officers to address topics they may not have had the opportunity to discuss.

Q: Is it based upon similar programs in other departments?

A: Yes, you’ll find most programs following a similar approach. However, we believe that each community has its own particular “personality” reflective of its community val-

Q: What all with participants learn?

A: Participants will learn, through active participation, about various methods ranging from crime scenes and evidence protocols, patrol functions on the street including traffic stops and communications, defensive tactics, crimes associated with children and how social services help families, the role of our community service officer, and the chance to shoot at the gun range.

Q: Will each session take on a different topic?

A: Most certainly. Each session will cover a particular topic.

Q: Why does the last session start at 9 a.m.?

A: Our last class is our time at the gun range when we bring … program groups together.

Wrapping up, Gasper told The Sopris Sun “This program was one of Chief Knott’s priorities for 2015 and he was adamant about the importance of creating this chance to bring our communities and officers closer together.”

The sessions start at Basalt Town Hall at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 23. They continue on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. from Sept. 30 through Oct. 14; and at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 21.

The last class will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31.

For details, call or e-mail Sgt. Joe Gasper at 927-4316 or e-mail joe.gasper@basaltpolice.com.

Information about the academy is also printed in Spanish in an advertisement on page 13.

DISCRETIONARY GRANT FUND Grant applications for the year 2016 from the Town Discretionary Fund are available at Basalt Town Hall, 101 Midland Avenue, Basalt, CO 81621.

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Grant deadline is 5:00 p.m., September 30, 2015.

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With the driving help of Ian Malcolm (left), Basalt Fire District board member Vonda Williams (right) brought down her 1955 Chevy and 1969 Mustang convertible from Blue Lake for Carbondale’s First Friday on Sept. 4. Williams reports she bought the Chevy from a friend in Creede, and it’s powered by a 350-horse-power Corvette engine.

Other vintage and notable vehicles also lined the street. She plans to bring both cars to the Burning Mountain Festival in New Castle on Sept. 12.

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Where: Town of Basalt 100 Midland Ave Basalt, CO 81621

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Tree planting om page 1 more traditional courtyard to a tree-lined area with seating.

Next steps include getting outdoor furniture to allow students to sit outside in the courtyard area.

Laird’s project has been a long time coming but all the pieces finally came together last Saturday for this phase with the help and support of many members of the Roaring Fork Valley. The RFHS Energy Club volunteered to help with the project and several members from the group showed up Saturday to help, as did RFHS Principal Drew Adams. The project was approved by the Roaring Fork School District with the help of Jeff Gatlin, Ken Melby and Mike Dumond. Nell Davis designed the project’s logo.

David Burden supported Teens for Trees and helped the project get on its feet. Trees for the project came from Mountain View Tree Farm in Rifle through Lynn Dwyer at Dwyer Green and Gardens, and from Eagle Crest Nursery.

Holes for the trees were dug by the town of Carbondale (David Coon, Bruce Wade and Casey O’Flannery). Jim Roman from Planted Earth donated compost for the trees and volunteered his tree-planting expertise. City Market and Peppino’s Pizza donated food for the volunteers. The project would also not have been possible without the help of all of the volunteers who came on Saturday.

“Ultimately [the project] succeeded because people donated their time and money, and joined together to make it happen,” Laird said. A combination of ideas, persistence and support made the project a success and Laird said she is very grateful to all of those that helped make the dream a reality.

So, as of this week the holes have been filled, the trees have been watered and the project is complete. Now, all that is left to do is to enjoy Laird’s dream.

Tavia Teitler is 15 and a junior at Roaring Fork High School student.

Approximately 30 students, faculty, kids and community members turned out on Saturday for the Teens for Trees planting project at Roaring Fork High School. Front row center (in the black T-shirt) is organizer Fiona Laird. Other planters, in no particular order other than from left to right starting in the front, include: Tavia Teitler, Solana Teitler, Beth Fawley, Emily Mata, Joselinne Medrano, Kimberly Guzman, Mykerson and Leander Hentschel, Callum Jenkins, Quinn Wells, Foster and Tess Fox, Liam Laird, Alice Laird, Jimmy Serano, Nick Penzel, Hadley Henschel, Colin Laird, Cathrine Rushton, Adam Carbaleira, Drew Adams, Matt Wells, Heather Fox, Wendy Boland, Cathy Derby, Kenny Teitler and Karla Stukey. If The Sopris Sun missed any names, please e-mail them to soprissun.com and we’ll get them in next week. Photo by Lynn Burton

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There are three gas stations in Carbondale.

Being a brilliant problem-solver, Kihara manipulated the color-producing genes of the breeder plant, so that its seed-ďŹ lled They have to stay in competition with each other. melons had solid grayish skin, while the seed-free variety had the usual green striped appearance. Voila! The seedless waterThis is just going to add a fourth dimension is melon was â&#x20AC;&#x153;born.â&#x20AC;? all. You can go to Basalt and you can go to GlenIt took 50 years for Kiharaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genetic invention to go from his University of Kyoto lab to dominating the summer melon secwood Springs and you can go to the Shell Station in American markets. Meanwhile Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier geneticist explored a number of other interests, including athletics. tion and pay less, or you can go to Bradleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in The Genetics.org article notes Kihara was â&#x20AC;&#x153;a skilled skier and led the Japanese ski team at the Winter Olympics in 1960 Glenwood and pay less. This country is built on and 1964.â&#x20AC;? That wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been the same time period that I was sitting on the curb with my friends on many a summer day, competition, so if you want a fuel station to get eating watermelon and spitting the seeds into the street. ided by the kind, caring and chiefs in the Public Works Department ate all of you. Thank you. the use of your fuel points from City Market melon and mourn the lost art of seed-spitting, it feels like some of the fun has gone out Now, as I munch to a slice of seedless cannot speak more highly of who gave permission to the project, and Chris Chacos right here at home, then, as the letter in The Soof summer.

I thrust my ďŹ st in the air and shout, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh Kihara, what have you done?â&#x20AC;? nt to their clientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; well being. Carlos Loya, the one who transformed that Project â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gunga Din!â&#x20AC;? pris Sun says, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have some more competition. lt to observe our loved ones old look to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;new look.â&#x20AC;?

Carbondale should some food Alyceplanting Wonders wants to start a â&#x20AC;&#x153;bring back the watermelon seedâ&#x20AC;? movement. To join, contact sgray@soprissun.com.

Also, thanks to our newest vold weWe strive to dobe allall wefor canthat. Just for thought. . I felt that every request that unteers:Â Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;uan Hajdu, O. D., Jeanie Hays with Boogieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thanks Jane Spaulding age on her behalf was hon- the law offices of Whitsitt & Gross, and Zane Dear Editor: Carbondale This past Friday, over 1,000 people kicked attempt was made to fulfill Kessler with the Thompson Divide Coalition.

Thanks to the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new arborist, Dave off their Fourth of July celebration with one was treated with the utmost ct and loving care. I am very Coon, who in addition to his many duties of Aspenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular traditions: the anwonderful folks at Heritage manages to water every flower pot in our nual Boogieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Buddy Race to benefit the Buddy Program! This 5K race and 1-mile times aVINOUS, week! AND SPIRITUOUS nate we are to have this fa- town three NOTICE OF BUDGET DATE OF APPLICATION: JULY 15, 2015 TO SELL MALT, meeting of the Garfield County Board of County ComNOTICE familyOF:and canine walk provides funding to STACEY BERNOT, MAYOR FOR CONSUMPTION LIQUORS missioners located at 108 8th Street, Glenwood Other volunteers involved with plantingBY ORDER munity. (Pursuant to 29-1-106, C.R.S.) ON THE PREMISE AT Springs, CO 81601 at their regularly scheduled time.

PURSUANT TO THE LIQUOR LAWS support nearly 1,000 local youthNOTICE and their their own in those large pots are: MaryAPPLICANT: tti 335 plants MAIN STREET OFStranahan COLORADO is hereby given that a proposed budget has families through many critical services and to the Garfield County Public Library Any interested elector of Garfield County may inspect FISCHBACHER CO 81623 CARBONDALE, been submitted Beth Bos (new owner of Main Street Spirits),ANDREAS arbondale ALLEGRIA PASTA, SALAD, VINO, LLC District Board of Trustees for the ensuing year of the proposed budget and file or register any objecprograms including individual mentoring, Aimee HEARING and Anthony Gullwick ON APPLICATION TO BE (Koru HELD AT: con- Information may be obtained from, and Petitions or 2016; a copy of such proposed budget will be filed on tions thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of 335 MAIN STREET may be filed with the Town Clerk, education, CARBONDALE TOWN HALL September 2, 2015 in the office of Garfield County the budget. Any communication should be directed to group mentoring, leadership eCARBONDALE, crew CO 81623 struction company), Amy Kimberly (CCAH),Remonstranceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Carbondale Town Hall, 511 Colorado Avenue, Public Library District, 207 East Avenue, Rifle, CO Wilma Paddock, Assistant Director of Administration 511 COLORADO AVENUE Lemonade Day, activities, scholarships, and Peter Gilbert of theCOLORADO Dance Initiative (soon-to-Carbondale, CO 81623 CARBONDALE, HAS REQUESTED THE LIQUOR LICENSING 81650 and on the website at www.gcpld.org, where 970-625-4270 or wpaddock@gcpld.org.

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