2020 Teller County Guide

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Teller County

Guide A supplement to the Pikes Peak Courier

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Teller County Guide—2020 GAMING

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How legal sports gambling came to Colorado and Teller County ... and what it will look like when it arrives May 1.

WELCOME

BY WARNER STRAUSBAUGH

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PHOTOS

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Snapshots of Teller

Teller County is full of amazing stories. Each year we feature some of these in the Teller Guide, a special section created to highlight the area’s lore — both past and present.

Teller County is the canvas for breathtaking vistas, interesting people and can’t-miss places. Here are some photographs that capture that.

BY MICHELLE KARAS

HAPPENING IN 2020

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Teller County Guide Calendar A comprehensive look at upcoming events in Teller County this year.

LITERATURE

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‘Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth’ Colorado historian’s new book sheds light on relative’s search for gold, turbulent times of the Cripple Creek gold rush.

BY SONJA OLIVER

ARTS

HISTORY

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Art, creativity and culture

Lowell Thomas: ‘The Voice of America’ and Victor’s favorite son

Green Box Arts Festival offers something for everyone.

Foremost a prodigious journalist, Thomas was also an author, world traveler, radio and television commentator, and movie producer.

BY WILLIAM J. DAGENDESH

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BY BREEANNA JENT

Writers: William J. Dagendesh, Susan Davies, Pat Hill, Breeanna Jent, Michelle Karas, Sonja Oliver, Warner Strausbaugh

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Designer: Warner Strausbaugh

Advertising Sales: Linda Famula, Tammy Phillips, Anita Riggle

Advertising Manager: Trent Lage

Director of Advertising Operations & Marketing: Karen Hogan

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Victor Celebrates the Arts celebrates 21 years in 2020

Cripple Creek donkeys are world-famous

An idea that blossomed into a nationally known event, Victor Celebrates the Arts attracts artists from around the nation.

The story begins in the late 1800s, when donkeys worked underground hauling materials, beasts of burden who often went blind.

BY PAT HILL

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MUSIC

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Music to the ears Symphony Above the Clouds draws people from around the region for fireworks and fanfare.

TELLER COUNTY DIRECTORY

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BY PAT HILL

OUTDOORS

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Ring the Peak Dreams of completing loop trail around America’s Mountain live on.

BY SUSAN DAVIES

Who are you going to call?

COMMUNITY

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Florissant Grange serves as a community center

A comprehensive directory of Teller County contacts — from local police and fire stations, to schools, libraries, town and city councils, and more.

A scene from the past is thriving in the present, yet the memories are vital to the caretakers of the former schoolhouse in Florissant.

On the cover 2020

Teller County

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Guide A supplement to the pikes peAk Courier

Cover photo by Seth Boster/ The Gazette.

A hiker overlooks the Pikes Peak Massif from the top of the Crags trail in Teller County.

LAW ENFORCEMENT

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A place of their own New Teller County Sheriff’s Office is planned to open by year’s end.

BY MICHELLE KARAS

Vice President of Advertising: Jim Broyles

Editor, 2020 Teller County Guide: Breeanna Jent

Editor, Pikes Peak Newspapers: Michelle Karas

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The 2020 Teller County Guide is a supplement to the Pikes Peak Courier, a publication of Pikes Peak Newspapers, Inc., which also publishes the Cheyenne Edition, Woodmen Edition and The Tribune, serving Teller and El Paso counties.

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eller County is full of amazing stories. Each year

Arts Festival, attracts world-class artists to the tiny hamlet. The festival triples the population of the we feature some of village during parts of June and these in the Teller July and furthers its artistic mission Guide, a special secwith workshops and events. tion created to highlight the area’s Summer has also been the lore — both past and present. backdrop for Woodland Park’s Take, for instance, the story of VicSymphony Above the Clouds for tor native Lowell Thomas, aka “the four decades. The signature event Golden Voice of Radio.” Thomas had of the season, held around Indean insatiable thirst for knowledge pendence Day each year, showcases which translated perfectly into a the musical talents of The Ute Pass journalism career. From his start as Symphony Guild. a newsboy to editor of the VictoIn the tiny, one-intersection town ry Daily Record in the early 20th of Florissant, the Grange brings farCripple Creek’s donkey herd was released from their winter pen last May. The current herd is believed to include several direct descendants century, he went on to work in print flung community members together of the donkeys used to work the mines in the Cripple Creek & Victor journalism in Chicago. From there he for a weekly potluck supper tradition mining district in the early years of the gold camp. branched into radio and then became of swapping stories and dishes. the first television news broadcaster, And in Divide, a building long in including to his namesake museum, Courtesy of the City of Cripple Creek the planning stages is taking shape the Victor Lowell Thomas Museum. this year to house the Teller County Thomas’ amazing life story is one of Sheriff ’s Department. the tales told in these pages.

Those are just a taste of the stories you’ll find in these pages. Sit In Cripple Creek, the resident donkey herd has long been beloved by back and enjoy some of the best that Teller County has to offer in the tourists and townies alike. Here we explore the Two Mile Club — the Teller Guide, a supplement to the Pikes Peak Courier. people who volunteer their time to make sure the town’s four-legged mascots are taken care of year-round.

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Celebrating 30 years!

Listed in Top 100 Markets in U.S.

Fridays: June 5 - September 25 • 8am-1pm Location: Memorial Park and Henrietta Avenue Featuring Over 100 Vendors Fresh Farm Vegetables, Eggs, and Local Garden Produce Fruit from Western Slope, High-Altitude Nursery Plants Bakery-Fresh Bread, Cheese, Salsa, Jams and Pasta Natural Meats, Mushrooms and Microgreens Food Trucks, Coffee, Lemonade, Live Music Miscellaneous Garden Supplies and Artisan Crafters Something Different Every Week!

The Farmers Market is within easy walking distance to dining and shopping in historic downtown Woodland Park

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Teller County Guide: 2020 Calendar MARCH MARCH 5 AND 19—WEST COAST SWING DANCE

6:15-7:45 p.m., Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation Center, 128 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek.

Call 689-3514 for details.

MARCH 6 AND 8—FEEDING TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MARCH 7—FULL MOON TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—FREE SCOUT DAY

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—YOUTH BASKETBALL SEASON STARTS

Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation Center, 128 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

—PEARL’S FOLLIES

The Old Homestead House, 353 E. Myers Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

MARCH 7-8—HUNTER SAFETY CLASS

8 a.m.-5 p.m., Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation Center, 128 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

MARCH 8—MOVIE HOUSE MUSIC

Gold Hill Theatres, 615 Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MARCH 10—NONPROFIT CO-OP TRAINING

3-4:30 p.m., Community Banks of Colorado, 651 S. Scott Ave., Woodland Park, call for cost: 233-9902.

MARCH 12-14—MEN’S ADVANCE 2020

Charis Bible College, 800 Gospel Truth Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MARCH 14—WOODLAND PARK SAINT PATRICK’S DAY PARADE AND PUB/FOOD CRAWL

Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—PET PANTRY TASTE OF THE IRISH FUNDRAISER

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MARCH 15—UTE PASS CHAMBER PLAYERS CONCERT

High View Baptist Church, 1151 Rampart Range Road, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MARCH 17—2019-20 SENIOR CLASSIC MOVIES

“The Virginian — Joel McCrea,” 10 a.m., Gold Hill Theaters, 615 W. Midland Ave., Woodland Park, $6.75 includes popcorn, drink and movie; 687-3555, goldhilltheatres.com.

MARCH 20—GREATER WOODLAND PARK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL DINNER Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MARCH 23-27—CHILD CARE SPRING BREAK DAY CAMP

7:15 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation Center, 128 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

MARCH 28—MULE DEER FOUNDATION DINNER

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MARCH 31—HAPPY HOUR WITH THE NONPROFIT COOPERATIVE 5-7 p.m., Historic Ute Inn, 204 W. Midland Ave., call for cost: 233-9902.

APRIL APRIL 1-30—“BEST OF TELLER COUNTY” VOTING

APRIL 18—BIG DEUCE ARCHERY TOURNAMENT

9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

—FEE FREE DAY

All National Parks; woodlandparkchamber.com.

APRIL 19—EARTH DAY

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

APRIL 21—2019-20 SENIOR CLASSIC MOVIES

“Splendor in the Grass,” 10 a.m., Gold Hill Theaters, 615 W. Midland Ave., Woodland Park, $6.75 includes popcorn, drink and movie; 687-3555, goldhilltheatres.com.

Vote online for your favorite in Teller County arts, recreation and entertainment; dining; everyday life; and shopping at bestofteller.com.

APRIL 25—CRUSHED BY AIR

APRIL 3-5—“GOD WITH US” MUSICAL

APRIL 25-26—WOODLAND PARK COMMUNITY SINGERS SPRING CONCERT/FUNDRAISER

Charis Bible College, 800 Gospel Truth Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

APRIL 4—TCRAS WILD WHISKERS FUNDRAISER

Shining Mountain Golf Course, 100 Shining Mountain Lane, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—SMITHSONIAN DAY

Free admission to some area museums, Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

APRIL 7—2019-20 SENIOR CLASSIC MOVIES

“Mister Roberts,” 10 a.m., Gold Hill Theaters, 615 W. Midland Ave., Woodland Park, $6.75 includes popcorn, drink and movie; 687-3555, goldhilltheatres.com.

APRIL 9—CHAMBER SPRING BUSINESS EXPO

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

APRIL 30—SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINING WITH KEVIN KNEBL

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MAY MAY 2—CONCEALED CARRY HANDGUN CLASS

8:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

—WOODLAND PARK WIND SYMPHONY SPRING THEME CONCERT: SUPERHEROES

Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MOVIE HOUSE MUSIC

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

Gold Hill Theatres, 615 Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

APRIL 11—EASTER EGG HUNT

MAY 5—2019-20 SENIOR CLASSIC MOVIES

12:30-2 p.m., Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation Center, 128 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek.

Call 689-3514 for details.

—FULL MOON TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—SPRING FARMERS MARKET

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

APRIL 12—MOVIE HOUSE MUSIC

Gold Hill Theatres, 615 Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—EASTER PARTY

Florissant Grange, 2009 S. County Road, Florissant; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR YOUTH T-BALL/BASEBALL

Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation Center, 128 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

APRIL 14—NONPROFIT CO-OP TRAINING

3-4:30 p.m., Community Banks of Colorado, 651 S. Scott Ave., Woodland Park, call for cost: 233-9902.

APRIL 15—CRABBY TAX NIGHT

Kiwanis Club, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

APRIL 15-17—CHARIS CAMPUS DAYS

Charis Bible College, 800 Gospel Truth Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

“The Fortune Cookie,” 10 a.m., Gold Hill Theaters, 615 W. Midland Ave., Woodland Park, $6.75 includes popcorn, drink and movie; 687-3555, goldhilltheatres.com.

MAY 7—NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER EVENT

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MAY 8—KARATE PLUS

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MAY 8 AND 10—FEEDING TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MAY 9—FULL MOON TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MAY 10—MOVIE HOUSE MUSIC

Gold Hill Theatres, 615 Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MOTHER’S DAY CELEBRATION

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MOTHER’S DAY BREAKFAST

Florissant Grange, 2009 S. County Road, Florissant; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MOTHER’S DAY SPECIAL

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

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Teller County Guide: 2020 calendar MAY 12—NONPROFIT CO-OP TRAINING

3-4:30 p.m., Community Banks of Colorado, 651 S. Scott Ave., Woodland Park, call for cost: 233-9902.

MAY 16—SPRING FARMERS MARKET

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—WOODLAND PARK WIND SYMPHONY SPRING CONCERT

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MAY 16-17—SPRING COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP DAYS

For Cripple Creek residents only, Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

MAY 19—2019-20 SENIOR CLASSIC MOVIES

“Gone with the Wind,” 10 a.m., Gold Hill Theaters, 615 W. Midland Ave., Woodland Park, $6.75 includes popcorn, drink and movie; 687-3555, goldhilltheatres.com.

—REGISTRATION DEADLINE ADULT TEAM CO-ED SOFTBALL

Cripple Creek Parks and Recreation Center, 128 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

MAY 20—ARCHERY TOURNAMENT

5-8 p.m., Woodland Park. Call 689-3514 for details.

MAY 23—OUTDOOR ARCHERY 3-D SHOOT

10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

—VICTOR SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY TOUR

Downtown Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MAY 23-25—MUELLER STATE PARK SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

MAY 23-SEPTEMBER—CRIPPLE CREEK & VICTOR GOLD MINING COMPANY TOURS

Victor Lowell Thomas Museum, 298 Victor Ave., Victor; visitcripplecreek.com.

MAY 24-SEPT. 5—GOLD CAMP HISTORICAL TROLLEY TOURS

510 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

MAY 30-SEPT. 26—MUSIC IN THE POCKET PARK SERIES

341 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

JUNE JUNE-SEPTEMBER—SUMMER FARMERS MARKET

8 a.m.-1 p.m. Fridays, Memorial Park, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 5 AND 7—FEEDING TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 6—GARAGE SALE

9 a.m.-3 p.m., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

—CITYWIDE GARAGE SALE

Woodland Park High School, 151 Panther Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—FULL MOON TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MESS FEST

Memorial Park, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—KEEP WOODLAND PARK BEAUTIFUL CITYWIDE CLEANUP Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—FLEA MARKET AND CRAFT SHOW

JUNE 24—“BEST OF TELLER COUNTY” MAGAZINE PUBLISHES

—UTE PASS CHAMBER PLAYERS CONCERT

JUNE 25-JULY 4—GREEN BOX ARTS FESTIVAL

Florissant Grange, 2009 S. County Road, Florissant; woodlandparkchamber.com.

High View Baptist Church, 1151 Rampart Range Road, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 9—NONPROFIT CO-OP TRAINING

3-4:30 p.m., Community Banks of Colorado, 651 S. Scott Ave., Woodland Park, call for cost: 233-9902.

JUNE 10-12—KINGDOM BUSINESS SUMMIT

Charis Bible College, 800 Gospel Truth Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 12—MOVIE ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 12-AUG. 15—“UNDER THE COLORADO MOON”

Butte Theater, 139 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; buttetheater.com.

JUNE 15-AUG. 15—“GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES”

Butte Theater, 139 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; buttetheater.com.

JUNE 13—BIG DEUCE ARCHERY TOURNAMENT

9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

—VICTOR SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY TOUR

Downtown Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 13-14—TOP OF THE WORLD RODEO

Teller County Fairgrounds, 433 Carr Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

JUNE 14—MOVIE HOUSE MUSIC

Gold Hill Theatres, 615 Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MOVIE ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 19-21—VICTOR GEM & MINERAL SHOW

Downtown Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 19-JULY 5—ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST ART SHOW 9 a.m.-5 p.m., with meet the artists 4-9 p.m.

June 26, Heritage Center, CO 67, Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

JUNE 20—THE MOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE CHALLANGE

Mountain Top Cycling Club, Guffey; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—OUTDOOR FAMILY FUN DAY

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 20-JULY 3—SUMMER FAMILY BIBLE CONFERENCE Charis Bible College, 800 Gospel Truth Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 21—FATHER’S DAY CELEBRATION

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 23—“BEST OF TELLER COUNTY” REVEAL PARTY

5-7 p.m., Shining Mountain Golf Course, 100 Shining Mountain Lane, Woodland Park.

Grab your copy inside the June 24, 2020 publication of the Pikes Peak Courier, and online at bestofteller.com.

Green Mountain Falls; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 27—OUTDOOR ARCHERY 3-D SHOOT

10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

—VICTOR SUNNDYSIDE CEMETERY TOUR

Downtown Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—OUTDOOR SKILLS DAY

Mueller State Park, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 27-28—DONKEY DERBY DAYS

Cripple Creek; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 28—PIKES PEAK INTERNATIONAL HILL CLIMB

Pikes Peak Highway; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JUNE 30—HAPPY HOUR WITH THE NONPROFIT COOPERATIVE

5-7 p.m., Historic Ute Inn, 204 W. Midland Ave., call for cost: 233-9902.

JULY JULY 3 AND 5—FEEDING TOURS

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JULY 4—FULL MOON TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MILITARY APPRECIATION DAY

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—PATRIOTIC MUSICAL — “IN GOD WE TRUST”

Charis Bible College, 800 Gospel Truth Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—OLD FASHIONED FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION

Memorial Park, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—CEMETERY CRAWL

Ute Pass Historical Society and Pikes Peak Museum, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS CELEBRATION

200 Myers Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

JULY 5—SYMPHONY ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Woodland Park Middle School, 600 E. Kelley’s Road, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JULY 10—GREATER WOODLAND PARK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GOLF TOURNAMENT

Shining Mountain Golf Course, 100 Shining Mountain Lane, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MOVIE ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JULY 10-11—KINGDOM YOUTH CONFERENCE

Charis Bible College, 800 Gospel Truth Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JULY 11—WOODLAND MUSIC SERIES CONCERT

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Mid-

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—OUTDOOR ARTS AND CRAFTS DAY

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—ELKS LODGE NO. 316 125TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

375 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

JULY 12—MOVIE HOUSE MUSIC

Gold Hill Theatres, 615 Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MOVIE ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JULY 14—NONPROFIT CO-OP TRAINING

3-4:30 p.m., Community Banks of Colorado, 651 S. Scott Ave., Woodland Park, call for cost: 233-9902.

JULY 15—OUTDOOR ARCHERY 3-D SHOOT

10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

JULY 17-19—VICTOR GOLD RUSH DAYS

Downtown Victor; visitcripplecreek.com.

JULY 25—VICTOR SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY TOUR

Downtown Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—FLORISSANT HERITAGE DAY

Florissant; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—BRONC DAY

7 a.m.-3 p.m., Green Mountain Falls; tinyurl.com/ sw9wtcx.

—ALL SCHOOL REUNION

Memorial Park Pavilion, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—PEARL DEVERE DAY CELEBRATION AND BED RACE

353 E. Myers Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

—BARKIN’ IN THE PARK

City Park, 210 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

JULY 25-AUG. 2—TELLER COUNTY FAIR

Cripple Creek; woodlandparkchamber.com.

JULY 31—FEEDING TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUGUST AUG. 1—FULL MOON TOUR

Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—VINOS & NOTES

Memorial Park, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 1-2—MOUNTAIN ARTS FESTIVAL

Memorial Park, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—CRITTER RESCUE ROUNDUP

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 2—FEEDING TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 4—NATIONAL NIGHT OUT

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 6-7—GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 8—WOODLAND MUSIC SERIES CONCERT

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—VICTOR SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY TOUR

Downtown Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—QUILTS IN THE ASPENS

9 a.m.-4 p.m., Woodland Park Middle School, 600 E. Kelley’s Road, Woodland Park, $5 admission; 687-9836, quiltersabovetheclouds.com.

AUG. 9—MOUNTAIN ARTS FESTIVAL

Memorial Park, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 10—MAYOR’S CUP 5K & 10K RUN

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—WOODLAND PARK WIND SYMPHONY, BIG BAND

AUG. 15-16—TRACTOR PULL

Lake George; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 21-23—SALUTE TO AMERICAN VETERANS RALLY

100-500 block of Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; theveteransrally.org.

AUG. 21-SEPT. 19—NEIL SIMON’S “I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES” Butte Theater, 139 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; buttetheater.com.

AUG. 22—VICTOR SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY TOUR

Downtown Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 25—FEE FREE DAY

All National Parks; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 25-26—WOODLAND PARK COMMUNITY THEATRE PRODUCTION

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 29—MOUNTAIN VIEW ADVENTURE PARK BMX RACES

207 CO Road 89, Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

SEPTEMBER SEPT. 1-30—ARTS MONTH IN CRIPPLE CREEK

Citywide, Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

SEPT. 4 AND 6—FEEDING TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

SEPT. 5—FULL MOON TOUR

AUG. 11—NONPROFIT CO-OP TRAINING

—CITYWIDE GARAGE SALE

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

3-4:30 p.m., Community Banks of Colorado, 651 S. Scott Ave., Woodland Park, call for cost: 233-9902.

Woodland Park High School, 151 Panther Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 11-14—HEALING IS HERE

SEPT. 5-7—VICTOR CELEBRATES THE ARTS ART SHOW

Charis Bible College, 800 Gospel Truth Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 12—TOUCH-A-TRUCK DAY

Meadow Wood Sports Complex, 2000 Evergreen Heights Drive, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 13-16—WOODLAND PARK ROCK, GEM AND JEWELRY SHOW

Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 14—MOVIE ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 14-16—LAKE GEORGE GEM AND MINERAL CLUB SHOWS Florissant and Lake George; woodlandparkchamber.com.

AUG. 15—OUTDOOR ARCHERY 3-D SHOOT

10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Cripple Creek. Call 689-3514 for details.

—WESTERN HERITAGE DAY

Mueller State Park, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—THE GOLDEN BRIDGE SENIOR EXPO

Mountain View United Methodist Church, 1101 Rampart Range Road, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

Victor; visitcripplecreek.com.

SEPT. 8—NONPROFIT CO-OP TRAINING

3-4:30 p.m., Community Banks of Colorado, 651 S. Scott Ave., Woodland Park, call for cost: 233-9902.

SEPT. 12—WOODLAND MUSIC SERIES CONCERT

Midland Pavilion, Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—VICTOR SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY TOUR

Downtown Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—VICTOR PACK BURRO RACE

Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

SEPT. 12-13—CRUISE ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Bennett and Myers avenues, Cripple Creek; .visitcripplecreek.com.

SEPT. 13—TELLER’S GOT TALENT

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—MOVIE HOUSE MUSIC

Gold Hill Theatres, 615 Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

SEPT. 18-20—ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAMBLER 500

190 E. Masonic Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

SEPT. 19-20—ROCKY MOUNTAIN OKTOBERFEST PLUS

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—MOUNT PISGAH SPEAKS CEMETERY TOURS

997 Teller CO 1, Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

SEPT. 26—VICTOR SUNNYSIDE CEMETERY TOUR

Downtown Victor; woodlandparkchamber.com.

SEPT. 26—FEE FREE DAY

All National Parks; woodlandparkchamber.com.

SEPT. 26-27—MUELLER STATE PARK PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW AND SALE Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

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Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

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NOV. 1-2—ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE

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NOV. 7—DAYSPRING CRAFT FAIR

200 and 300 block of Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

Dayspring Christian Fellowship, 1061 Rampart Range Road, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

SEPT. 26-27 AND OCT. 3-4—MILE HIGH CLUB ASPEN TOURS

—CHAMBER FALL BUSINESS EXPO

510 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

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NOV. 8—MOVIE HOUSE MUSIC

5-7 p.m., Historic Ute Inn, 204 W. Midland Ave., call for cost: 233-9902.

OCTOBER OCT. 1-31—OCTOBER ARTS MONTH

Cripple Creek; woodlandparkchamber.com.

OCT. 2 AND 4—FEEDING TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

OCT. 2-31—“HAUNTING AT THE OLD HOMESTEAD”

Butte Theater, 139 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; buttetheater.com.

OCT. 3—FULL MOON TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—A NIGHT AT THE LIBRARY FUN FUNDRAISER

Woodland Park Library, 218 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—STORIES AT THE STRONG MINE

Victor Lowell Thomas Museum, 298 Victor Ave., Victor; visitcripplecreek.com.

—GHOSTLY GATHERING

367 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

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OCT. 4—WOODLAND PARK WIND SYMPHONY

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

OCT. 11—MOVIE HOUSE MUSIC

Gold Hill Theatres, 615 Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

OCT. 13—NONPROFIT CO-OP TRAINING

3-4:30 p.m., Community Banks of Colorado, 651 S. Scott Ave., Woodland Park, call for cost: 2339902.

OCT. 30—BOOZAAR

128 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

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NOV. 10—NONPROFIT CO-OP TRAINING

—LIGHTER SIDE OF CHRISTMAS PARADE

Downtown Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—WOW SCIENCE

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

DEC. 5-6—TWEEDS HOLIDAY HOME TOUR

Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—VICTOR HOLIDAY CELEBRATION

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DEC. 6—WOODLAND PARK WIND SYMPHONY

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

DEC. 11-12—GOLD CAMP CHRISTMAS

166 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

DEC. 11-13—“HEART OF CHRISTMAS”

Charis Bible College, 800 Gospel Truth Way, Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

DEC. 12—WINTER FARMERS MARKET

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

3-4:30 p.m., Community Banks of Colorado, 651 S. Scott Ave., Woodland Park, call for cost: 233-9902.

—CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR

NOV. 11—VETERAN’S DAY SPECIAL

DEC. 12-13—WOODLAND PARK WIND SYMPHONY: SWING FACTORY

NOV. 14—WINTER FARMERS MARKET

DEC. 16—TOYS FOR TOTS

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

NOV. 20—FREE THANKSGIVING DINNER

Florissant Grange, 2009 S. County Road, Florissant; woodlandparkchamber.com.

NOV. 26—TURKEY TOSS

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

NOV. 26-JAN. 2—HOLIDAY HEADFRAME LIGHTING

Throughout Victor and Cripple Creek Mining District; visitcripplecreek.com.

NOV. 27 AND 29—FEEDING TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

NOV. 27-DEC. 28—“A CRIPPLE CREEK CHRISTMAS CAROL” Butte Theater, 139 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; buttetheater.com.

NOV. 28—FULL MOON TOUR

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY

Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

—SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY

Downtown Cripple Creek and Victor; visitcripplecreek.com.

DECEMBER DEC. 5—BREAKFAST WITH SANTA

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

128 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

410 N. B St., Cripple Creek; visitcripplecreek.com.

DEC. 20—WINTER WONDERLAND

Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center, 4729 Twin Rocks Road, Divide; woodlandparkchamber.com.

DEC. 27—KIDS FREE DAY

Dinosaur Resource Center, 201 S. Fairview St., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

DEC. 31—NYE CELEBRATION

Ute Pass Cultural Center, 210 E. Midland Ave., Woodland Park; woodlandparkchamber.com.

Special thanks to the Woodland Park Chamber of Commerce and the City of Cripple Creek for their help in compiling these events for publication in the 2020 Teller County Guide.

Students from the 2019 Green Box Arts Camp enjoy an outdoor art project inspired by Janet Echelman’s “1.8 Green Mountain Falls” installation hanging over Gazebo Lake.

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By William J. Dagendesh he tiny picturesque town of Green Mountain Falls is known

for hosting several year-round family oriented events amid nature’s lush environment and a personable, laid-back community.

One event, the acclaimed annual Green Box Arts Festival, showcases public art installations and activities designed to offer citizens the ultimate creative experience. Through this event, the GBAF provides artists and visitors with an opportunity to celebrate the best of today’s innovative creators, nurture creativity and explore new artistic frontiers in the region’s natural beauty.

Green Box Arts Festival offers a little something for everyone Additionally, the popular sights and sounds spectacle hosts activities, concerts, classes and performances at several locations throughout the town. Scheduled for Friday, June 26 to Saturday, July 4, this year’s event is expected to draw approximately 1,000 visitors, said GBAF Marketing Director Rachel Shortt.

“The festival is important for the local

community and the arts as it encourages artists, residents and visitors to participate in the creative arts in the natural beauty of Green Mountain Falls,” Shortt said.

Located 11 miles west of Colorado Springs on W. U.S. Highway 24 at 7,800 feet, Green Mountain Falls was established as a resort destination in the 1800s. The town became one of Colorado’s best-kept secrets, known chiefly to locals and families who for generations have visited this quiet hole-in-the-wall locale. Today, the town is home to about 800 residents.

Blake and Christian Keesee, along with Larry Keigwin, founded the GBAF in 2009. Their goal was to bring nationally acclaimed artists to the community, and Story continues on page 16 2020 TELLER COUNTY GUIDE

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Charis Bible College, founded in 1994, is reaching the world from right here in Woodland Park. The Charis property, The Sanctuary, rests on hundreds of acres, nestled in the southwest corner of “The City Above the Clouds.� The college enrolls over 700 on-campus students annually between its foundational, biblical studies program and several Third-Year schools, including Business, Creative Arts, Media, Ministry, and more!

Charis has 4,000 more students enrolled worldwide on other Charis campuses, as well as through distance education.

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Artist Jason Willaford’s abstract “Begin with an Ending” provided a backdrop for youngsters, from left, Taya and Shayla Nicholls, Nicholas Rago, and Austyn and Breanne LeDoux.

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Oklahoma City Ballet principal dancers DaYoung Jung and Jonathan Batista perform “Giselle – Act II Pas De Deux.”

Courtesy of Green Box Arts Festival provide workshops and studio for the lesser-knowns while encouraging visitors to explore all the town has to offer.

The festival has showcased the works of installation artists Janet Echelman, Spencer Finch and Tomás Saraceno, and sculptors Olafur Eliasson, Jason Hackenwerth and Ben Roth.

The Colorado Springs Youth Symphony has conducted numerous concerts, and Caleb Chapman’s Crescent Super Band and Story continues on page 18

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Art, creativit “I feel at home Haunted Wind Chimes also have installing my performed here. work outside of “We are delighted to embark the white box upon the 12th year of our festival, gallery and bringing exceptional installation museum art, dance, music and various classvernacular es to Green Mountain Falls. We are proud to offer unique opportunities commonly and immersive art experiences to associated with residents and visitors, creating a contemporary diverse cultural outlet in beautiful art installation Green Mountain Falls,” Christian and experience.

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It is my hope Pikes Peak region artist Pard that after exMorrison is this year’s featured periencing my installation artist. Described as a piece, people geometric abstractionist working in will leave with a aluminum, he will display a single sense of mystery decorative 10-foot-by-15-inch-byand joy.”

Artist Jason Willaford and his wife, Ree, discussed art with ArtDesk Editor Louisa 15-inch column.

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Morrison fabricates his work — Pikes Peak out of welded aluminum and fires region artist William J. Dagendesh colors onto the surface of his work.

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“I feel at home installing my work outside of the white box gallery and museum vernacular commonly associated with contemporary art installation and experience. It is my hope that after experiencing my piece, people will leave with a sense of mystery and joy,” Morrison said.

A GBAF representative will be available to lead folks on an installation art walk.

Dancers from New York City’s prestigious Studio Company of American Ballet Theatre will offer two dance performances. Local musicians The ReMINDers will headline the music bill, and Jim Raughton will offer a historic look at art in the area.

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Attendees of the annual Art Walk take in the setting of Janet Echelman’s “1.8 Green Mountain Falls” installation over Gazebo Lake.

Courtesy of Green Box Arts Festival pairing and yoga. Also, folks can fish Gazebo Lake as feel-good FM radio classics fill the air.

This year’s gala will conclude with a Fourth of July block party and outdoor concert featuring Kyle Dillingham and Horseshoe Road. Festival donations go toward Green Mountain Falls and Ute Pass cultural events.

Program Manager Sean O’Connell hopes the festival teaches visitors how necessary the arts are for communities to thrive.

O’Connell also hopes visitors leave the festival with a renewed commitment to create, experience, and support the arts, he said.

“One thing I am most looking forward to is working with participants of the new Artist in Residence program. With the ad-

dition of this program, great art will be created and experienced year-round in Green Mountain Falls,” O’Connell said.

Shortt added, “We hope to provide something of interest for all ages to enjoy a variety of art forms in this inspiring atmosphere.”

Stones, Bones and Wood gallery owner Ken Nord praised the festival’s dance clinics and performances. “I never appreciated dance before, but do now.”

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How legal sports gambling came to Colorado and Teller County

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... and what it will look like when it arrives May 1

In this file photo from January 2015, Super Bowl proposition bets are displayed on a board at the Westgate Superbook race and sports book in Las Vegas.

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By Warner Strausbaugh ou pull that piece of paper out of your pocket.

It looks like trash at this point, a gum wrapper that has overextended its welcome inside the denim receptacle.

But the creases and folds of the parchment show its value, show how many times your eyes have gazed upon the words typed onto this piece of paper — Five-team parlay (Bet $20, To Win $486.09) | New York Yankees -170, Minnesota Twins -105, Cincinnati Reds +125, Oakland Athletics -130, Colorado Rockies +105.

Every individual bet within the parlay must be a winner for the parlay itself to pay out. The first four have hit, and now it’s down to the hometown Rockies to make you nearly $500 richer.

So goes the life of the sports gambler, from the casual folks looking to turn a day of easy sports-watching into an exciting event, to the sharps who make a living off the outcome of sporting events.

Now, instead of relying on the elusive and nebulous and illegal offshore companies to pay out the money, or having to be physically present in Nevada to do so, sports betting can be done from a smartphone app, a computer or at a local casino.

By a mere 44,033 votes out of more than 1.5 million cast, Proposition DD passed in the Nov. 5, 2019, election to legalize sports gambling in Colorado.

The passage of Prop DD authorized a 10% tax on sports-betting operators’ revenues, which will primarily be used to fund state water projects. The Colorado Legislature’s fiscal impact report estimates nearly $6.4 million for the Water Implementation Cash Fund in fiscal year 2020-21.

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How legal sports gambling came to Colorado and Teller County now allow for legal wagers on sports. Coloradans will be able to place wagers on sporting events beginning May 1.

This was all possible because of a U.S. Supreme Court decision on May 14, 2018. The case — Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association — came from the State of New Jersey, which has had a long history of attempts to repeal the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA).

PASPA — which outlawed sports betting nationwide, exempting Oregon, Delaware, MonSPORTS BETTING LEXICON tana and licensed sports pools in Nevada — was introduced Jan. 3, 1991, Moneyline: Who will win the game, with the support of U.S. straight up. A negative number (-115) Sen. Bill Bradley, who indicates the favorite, meaning a $115 played in the NBA for 10 bet will return $100 (plus the return of years. A year and a half later, the Senate voted in the initial $115 bet). A positive number favor of passing the act (+125) indicates an underdog, meaning with an overwhelming a $100 bet will return $125 (plus the 88-5 result. President return of the initial $100 bet).

George H.W. Bush signed it into law Oct. 28, 1992.

Like any prohibitive Point spread: The amount of points, legislation, the uninruns or goals a team is favored by. Like tended consequences the moneyline, and any bet, negative arguably created a worse numbers indicate favorites, and positives world than what existed before. The offshore, are underdogs. underground sports-betA Dallas Cowboys (-7) bet means the ting industry emerged Cowboys are seven-point favorites. They from the dark as fast as must win by eight or more to be a bootleggers did in 1920.

The National Gamwinner. Hitting the spread exactly is a bling Impact Study in push, which means the initial bet amount 1999, commissioned by is returned.

President Bill Clinton, An Oakland Raiders (+10.5) bet means revealed “estimates of the scope of illegal sports the Raiders can win, or lose by up to 10 betting in the United points, to be a winning bet.

States range anywhere Note: The point spread is actually decided from $80 billion to $380 upon to get exactly half of the money gobillion annually, making sports betting the most ing to each side, not an exact prediction widespread and popular of what the score will be. (This is how form of gambling in sportsbooks make their money.)

America.

“Many Americans are unaware of the risks Prop bet: Anything that happens within and impacts of sports the game or event. It could be anything wagering and about from the over/under on LeBron James’ the potential for legal points in a basketball game, to how consequences,” the report continues. “Even when long it will take Demi Lovato to sing the Americans understand National Anthem at the Super Bowl. the illegality of sports wagering, it is easy to Futures bet: These are season-long participate in, widely accepted, very popular, endeavors, often the most lucrative and, at present, not likely of bets, but they require the most to be prosecuted.” patience. The most common futures The pro-betting side in are for who will win the league chamthe 2018 Supreme Court case was built on states’ pionship, who will be MVP and over/ rights, arguing that PASunders for team win totals.

PA was unconstitutional under the words of the

10th Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The Supreme Court found it unconstitutional by a 6-3 vote.

“From the moment, or the kind of lead up to, PASPA being overturned, I suspect that folks here were already looking at it,” said Dan Hartman, Colorado Division of Gaming director, “and what it would look like if Colorado wanted to move in that direction. As a department, we wanted to make sure we had all the info we needed.”

Hartman said the Colorado Division of Gaming was prepared with rules and licensing prior to the election results, knowing they needed to be ready if Prop DD passed with a “yes” vote. In December 2019, they had live-streamed industry meetings with stakeholder groups, more than 70 people representing 50 companies.

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How legal sports gambling came to Colorado and Teller County The first one through the wall always gets bloody, and unlike Colorado’s foray into legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, the state had numerous examples to take notes from.

“That’s the good thing about where we were, not being first out of the gate,” Hartman said. “We could look at rules from Nevada (sportsbooks) that have had it for 50 years. We could look at newer rules in New Jersey and other states that have come in since then.”

There could be up to 33 master licenses allocated to Colorado’s casinos, Hartman said. One of those casinos, Wildwood in Cripple Creek, has been prepping its brickand-mortar sportsbook in its current sports bar area, as well as the online component.

“From Wildwood’s point of view, we thought right away that it was an opportunity for us,” said Matt Andrighetti, assistant general manager at Wildwood Casino. “Our customers would tell us that this was something they would be interested in.”

Cripple Creek, the Teller County mountain town with a population just north of 1,000, has a heavy casino presence with double-digit offerings. While the online element is a major part of this new operation, Andrighetti still sees Wildwood’s position as a locals’ market.

“Cripple Creek has always had its own identity,” Andrighetti said. “It’s recognizable by the local population, by the customers that come up here. Colorado has so many destinations to go to, and we feel Cripple Creek has many opportunities to come here and do more than gaming. But at the same time, there’s an opportunity for us to further that brand as a place to go.

Proposition DD passed in the Nov. 5, 2019 election, by 44,033 votes out of more than 1.5 million “We take pride in the people that will actually come in the cast, to legalize sports gambling in Colorado. The passage of Prop DD authorized a 10% tax on door and go to a sportsbook.” sports-betting operators’ revenues, which will primarily be used to fund state water projects.

So what will this actually look like for the consumer?

Coloradans will be able to place wagers on sporting events beginning May 1.

Outside operators with lengthier history and experience in the industry will be running the back-end of the Gazette file sportsbook for these casinos. For instance, according to The Gazette, PointsBet will helm Double Eagle Hotel and Casino’s 350 passing yards for Joe Burrow) to avoid individual actions of an operations, and Smarkets will run it for Bronco Billy’s. amateur to be profitable. College games will be wagerable, however.

“The sports betting operators, they are the ones that set their own “If it happens on the playing field, most of those things you’ll be lines,” Hartman said. “That’s what differentiates them from another able to bet on,” Hartman said, later adding, with a chuckle, “all the company. What their odds are, what their lines are … it all sets up as way down to, probably, darts in South Wales.” marketing for them. One may show a line for one number, one may Most of the public opposition to Prop DD was in relation to the have a different number. And you, as a customer, can look at those water projects element. “This ‘Gambling For Dams’ bill is a cliand see what you like best.” mate-denying, river-destroying scheme pure and simple,” said Gary So, if you liked the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, and Wockner, director of Save the Colorado and Coloradans for Climate one casino had them as two-point favorites and another had them as Justice, in an April 2019 press release. “To think that Colorado can one-point favorites, you’d go with the lower offering. dam its way out of climate change is a gamble of the highest stakes.”

The availability of sports will be robust. The only stipulation is State Sen. Jerry Sonneberg and The Boulder Weekly had similar that there will be no prop bets for college sports (e.g.: Over/under skeptical sentiments.

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There is, however, always a morality argument with this subject — and the very real issue of gambling addiction looms over this. Table games and slots at a casino are still tangible, and still require a physical presence for participation. An online apparatus for instantaneous betting is a different animal.

“It’s up to the casinos and the operators to establish how much a maximum is for what you can bet,” Andrighetti said. “And the public legitimately does get concerned about that. … With the higher limits, people are worried.

“We make a very concerted effort to have information available.

Colorado has self-exclusion lists that are distributed to all the operators.”

For all online sportsbooks, the customer will set his or her own spending limits upon account creation. Should the customer hit that self-set cap, the sportsbooks will enforce a 24- or 48-hour “timeout,” as Hartman describes it, which will prevent any new deposits until the timeout ends.

“If you’re pushing up to that line, most of the operators won’t let you push beyond that,” Hartman said. “You can’t be overextending yourself, and then you hit this wall you put in place.”

Scandal has taken up much of the spotlight for the sports-gambling world — from the 1919 Chicago White Sox throwing the World Series, to Pete Rose betting on games he was involved in, to NBA referee Tim Donaghy fixing games he officiated. It has a dark past, but those pioneering it into mainstream legality in 2020 hope to correct that perception.

“The industry is not there just to take all your money away,” Hartman said. “It’s really there to put a game out there, or another activity where people can have the entertainment of sports, of camaraderie with their friends to bet, and bet responsibly. It’s not the shady back rooms anymore. It’s up front; it’s big, responsible companies and state regulations that kind of level the playing field.”

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‘CRIPPLE CREEK, BOB WOMACK AND THE GREATEST GOLD CAMP ON EARTH’ Colorado historian’s new book sheds light on relative’s search for gold, turbulent times of the Cripple Creek gold rush

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By Sonja Oliver uthor Linda Wommack’s newest book, “Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth,” brings a fresh approach to the

beloved story of Bob Womack’s historic contribution to the Cripple Creek gold rush and the establishment of what became to be known as “The Greatest Gold

Camp on Earth.”

Although a well-known story to the communities of Cripple Creek and Teller County, Wommack’s deep research into family roots tells the tale of a man driven with the desire to show the world that his instincts and intuition told him that gold truly did exist on Pikes Peak.

The story of Bob Womack and his place and time in history is told through the prism of Wommack’s family heritage as they headed west to the Colorado Rocky Mountains, interwoven with historical events that occurred following the first gold rush to the area in 1859, which turned out to be a bust; hence the origin of the famous phrase, “Pikes Peak or Bust.”

The story then goes beyond Womack’s role, taking the reader to the establishment of the “Greatest Gold Camp on Earth” and the roles that the cities of Cripple Creek and Victor play today with the modern mining practices of Newmont Gold Corporation as well as Cripple Creek’s transition to a gaming town.

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“Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth,” by author and Colorado historian Linda Wommack, brings a fresh approach to the beloved story of Bob Womack’s historic contribution to the Cripple Creek gold rush and the establishment of what became to be known as “The Greatest Gold Camp on Earth.”

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Bob Womack (in the wheelbarrow) with miners at the Gold King Mine in Poverty Gulch, 1892.

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‘Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the greatest gold camp on earth’ “He spent 20 man who sold his claim years looking for for $500. gold. He knew Weaving facts drawn the geology. from her research into His keen eye newspaper articles, would catch the history books and family glimmer of the oral history, Wommack has written an interestfloat and he ing and highly readable would follow story that dispels myths it upstream and brings to light new in search of insights into her relative its source, and the historic and ultimately all the turbulent times during way up to which he lived.

Poverty Gulch.”

“The most recent books regarding the history of Cripple Creek and the gold rush were written 30 to 40 years ago. Everyone talks about the gold. I wanted to bring a fresh take on the old history,” Wommack said.

Just as her relative sat horseback on his white steed, Whistler, as he wandered along the slopes and draws while herding cattle on the lands surrounding his family homestead, Wommack has walked the Gold King mine site at Poverty Gulch and touched the cabin walls where Bob Womack lived and worked the Gold King Mine.

Wommack said that as she looked around at his amazing accomplishments over a century later, she “had a serene feeling that spoke to her, saying, ‘This is what you did, Bob.’ Story continues on page 32

Denver native, Colorado historian and author Linda Wommack’s newest nonfiction book, “Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth,” tells the story of her distant relative, Bob Womack, and his place and time in history through the prism of Wommack’s family heritage as they headed west to the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The story is interwoven with historical events that occurred following the first gold rush to the area in 1859, which turned out to be a bust.

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Snapshots Courier reader Cynthia Ivey submitted this photo she took of a buck in Florissant in September 2019.

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Lyla Drake, 10, gives Cheeto some attention before the competitors race the 6.62 mile course during the 6th Annual Victor Burro Racing Gold Rush Challenge in Victor on Sept. 7, 2019.

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In droves, the Florissant community and beyond rallied Independence Day at Costello’s Cafe in Florissant to honor the memory of Sgt. 1st Class Elliott J. Robbins, a 31-year-old Green Beret who was killed June 27, 2019 in Afghanistan. Robbins and his wife, Vickie, had purchased the coffee shop 1 1/2 years ago. Robbins is survived by his wife and infant son, Elliott Jr. Courtesy of Dave Simmons

Victor Matthews makes moonshine at the Black Bear Distillery in Green Mountain Falls.

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The Woodland Park Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) awarded a check to Kelly Steel for her patriotic art submission as part of the Young American Creative Patriotic Art Contest in 2019. Steel, then a senior at Woodland Park High School, earned first place in Woodland Park and first place in District 5, and fourth place statewide for her art submission.

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Steve Fallis sits on top of his horse, Black Jack, waiting for a Pikes Peak Cog rail car transported from Manitou Springs to be installed by a crane at the Woodland Station at Bergstrom Park in Woodland Park on Nov. 23, 2019. The retired rail car was donated to Woodland Park, as The Broadmoor reconstructed the railway and purchased new engines and cars as part of its $100 million rebuild.

Yosef Camire of Ahavah Farm shows off a cookbook and fresh, organic produce at the Woodland Park Summer Farmers Market. Ahavah Farm provides local, sustainable organic produce to buyers by suggested donations rather than a fixed price.

Linda Ashe and Judy Marsicano are dwarfed by the fossilized ancient trees at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in May 2014.

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Select 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division non-commissioned officers, part of the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club, render honors to the veterans who served before them during the Salute to American Veterans Rally in Cripple Creek in this file photo from Aug. 18, 2013.

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At the annual “Cruise Above the Clouds” car show, attendee Mason, at age 8, is already a “car guy.” Woodland Park resident Dave Berlin, who then went on to win the show’s “It’s Just Too Cool” award for his 1951 Willy’s Jeep in 2019, was more than happy to answer all of the questions posed by this young fan.

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‘Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the greatest gold camp on earth’ “He spent 20 years looking for gold. He knew the geology. His keen eye would catch the glimmer of the float and he would follow it upstream in search of its source, ultimately all the way up to Poverty Gulch.”

So much has been written about Bob Womack’s life, yet Linda Wommack brings new research to the reader in the essence of his drive and struggles through sweat and blood, staking his

Bob Womack discovered gold ore in Cripple Creek after years of prospecting, filing an official claim in 1890 that marked the beginning of the last gold rush in Colorado.

Eventually, he sold his claim for very little and died, poor and penniless. His grave is in Colorado Springs’ Evergreen Cemetery.

Photos courtesy of Linda Wommack

claim October 20, 1890 when he struck gold. The ore from the Gold King mine assayed for $250 a ton, a rich find. “(The book) is about the struggles of a man’s belief and believing in his goal to find gold. Once he found that gold, it wasn’t about getting rich. It was about knowing he was right.

Twenty years later, he was proven to be right all along. That’s the essence of Bob Womack,” Wommack said.

“Cripple Creek, Bob Womack and the Greatest Gold Camp on Earth” is complete with historic photos and numerous footnotes, and includes a forward by Dr. Thomas J. Noel, Colorado State Historian.

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Lowell Thomas: ‘The Voice of America’ and Victor’s favorite son

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Lowell Thomas was a famous American journalist, radio and television commentator, author, world traveler and movie producer.

At the age of 8, he moved to Victor with his parents in 1900, and two years later took up a job as a newsboy in the mining district.

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Famed broadcaster Lowell Thomas (left) and former Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr (right) behind the bar at the Imperial Hotel in Cripple Creek in 1949.

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n the annals of journalism, history shows Lowell Thomas

justly earned his seat among the greatest.

Foremost a prodigious journalist, Thomas was also an author, world traveler, radio and television commentator, and movie producer. He was a record-breaker, often at the forefront of news with exclusive scoops. Television brought combat into America’s living rooms during the Vietnam War, but long before that, Thomas — always the pioneer — was bringing the world to others in print, radio and TV. Born April 16, 1892 in Woodington, Ohio to Harry and Harriet Thomas, he traveled with his family to the mining town of Victor in 1900. There his father, a doctor, established a medical practice. Thomas worked as a gold miner and cook — and got his start in journalism.

“At the age of 10, dreams of becoming a newsboy began to circulate in his head and late that summer he joined the newsboy’s union — one of 35 members,” according to the Victor Lowell Thomas Museum website.

Victor Daily Record owner George Kyner hired Thomas to fold and deliver the morning paper to the businesses and red-light districts across Victor and Goldfield, and Thomas took up the added responsibility of delivering the Denver Post to saloons and gambling houses, according to the website.

“He … always laughed about how he delivered them to the red-light district,” said

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“As a boy, Lowell Victor Lowell Thomas Mupeddled newspapers seum Board President Ruth in the town saloon, Zalewski. went to Sunday school Life in the Victorian mining under the tutelage district was busy. Thomas of Texas Guinan and saw labor strikes and tensions read in his father’s mounting between union and non-union laborers, and he library. Dr. Thomas, lived through the gold boom, who had a desire to when Victor mines produced collect knowledge, millions of dollars of gold a impressed on his year. son the importance In 1912, Thomas took over of learning. He also editorship of Victor News demanded that the and throughout the early boy acquire an ability 1900s earned several degrees. to speak clearly and He earned bachelor’s degrees distinctly.” in education and science from Valparaiso University — The New York in 1911, and in 1912 earned Times (Aug. 30, bachelor’s and master’s 1981) degrees from the University of Denver. He then moved to Chicago, where he attended law school at night and reported for the Chicago Journal by day from 1913-1914.

Thomas also taught oratory from 1912-1914 at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, now part of Illinois Institute of Technology, before studying for another master’s at Princeton University, which he earned in 1916. After that, he again taught oratory at the university.

Thomas had a penchant for learning, and always excelled.

“He was a smart kid who needed to find a way to excel early. He had energy and interest in life,” Zalewski said.

“As a boy, Lowell peddled newspapers in the town saloon, went to Sunday school under the tutelage of Texas Guinan and read in his father’s library. Dr. Thomas, who had a desire to collect knowledge, impressed on his son the importance of learning. He also demanded that the boy acquire an ability to speak clearly and distinctly,” states an Aug. 30, 1981 New York Times article, “Lowell Thomas, a world traveler and broadcaster for 45 years, dead.” “(Thomas) said that as a young boy he would ride his horse and look out across the mountains. … He always said there was a lot more out there. He lived here (in Victor) and worked in the mines but he wanted to learn about the outside world. Being in a small town, he set his sights on the horizon and went out to them,” Zalewski said.

“The challenges of the early day mining district fueled Thomas’s hunger for adventure,” his biography on the museum’s website states.

Thomas began traveling the world in earnest around 1914, persuading railroads to allow him free passage in exchange for articles highlighting rail travel. He bought a camera and headed to Alaska,

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Lowell Thomas: ‘The Voice of America’ and Victor’s favorite son that made Lawrence famous, and in 1919 broke another record with his world speaking tour on the war in Palestine.

At the Royal Opera House and Royal Albert Hall in London, more than one million people came to hear Thomas speak, including the Royal Family, the prime minister and both Houses of Parliament, as well as monarchs, military leaders and statesmen from around Europe. Following his appearance in London, Thomas and his wife, Fran, toured Europe, “telling the story of ‘The Last Crusade,’ how (British Gen. Edmund) Allenby drove the Turks from the Holy Land,” according to the Victor Heritage Society’s biography of Thomas on its website.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Thomas continued to break records, moving into radio to deliver talks about his travels. According to the heritage society’s website, Thomas became the first radio news commentator for both NBC and CBS, with his radio broadcasting career spanning 46 years.

“Over time, so many people listened that he was considered the voice of America. He had a worldwide audience that was larger than that of the combined viewership of the major television news network anchors today,” the heritage society’s website states.

In 1932, Thomas added voice of the Fox-Movietone newsreels to his résumé, and in 1940 broke yet another record as the first

Artifacts and photographs crowd a room dedicated to media personality Lowell Thomas at the Victor Lowell Thomas Museum.

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One of two rooms at the Victor Lowell Thomas museum dedicated to “Victor’s most famous resident,” Lowell Thomas. The museum hosts several artifacts, portraits and memorabilia owned by Thomas and his family.

Courtesy of the Victor Lowell Thomas Museum objective reporting,” Zalewski said. “He had a lot of sponsors for his news, but he always insisted that journalists report objectively.”

Thomas also produced several films and wrote more than 50 books throughout his lifetime, and on Jan. 6, 1976, was awarded the Medal of Freedom Award by President Gerald Ford.

Shortly thereafter, from Victor — he often came back to visit, Zalewski said — Thomas announced his last broadcast would be May 14, 1976.

His last visit to Victor was in August 1981.

The Victor Heritage Society’s website notes Thomas’ last call on the city, when, “On Aug. 17, 1981, while attending a dinner in his honor at the Victor Elks Hall, he remarked: ‘Everyone knows the name Cripple Creek.

History has given that town all the credit for the gold. But we all know Cripple Creek is just a suburb of Victor.’”

He died fewer than two weeks after his trip, on Aug. 29, 1981, at his New York estate. He was 89.

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Two rooms in the museum are dedicated to Thomas, Zalweski said, including items from his father’s medical office — furniture, medical equipment, Thomas’ fencing equipment, news articles, books, portraits and more — while another room hosts items from Thomas’ travels around the world.

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A key event for Victor Celebrates the Arts is the Quick Draw, where artists last year were given a vacant lot as a starting point. This painting by artist Ed McKay is a view from that lot.

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By Pat Hill n idea that blossomed into a nationally known event, Victor Celebrates the Arts attracts artists from around the nation who set up their easels at 9,078 feet above sea level.

“In 1999, some ladies in Victor, including the late artist Cheri Hunter, started the event because of the beauty and uniqueness of the area,” said Judy Sandlin, president of the seven-member board of the nonprofit organization.

From maybe one or two artists that first year, the board expects up to 60 in the week leading up to and including Labor Day weekend.

“They paint within a 10-mile radius from City Hall, as the crow flies,” Sandlin said. “We really want to celebrate the artists, treat them like kings and queens. And we get to share the beauty of Victor with them.”

Sun, wind, rain or snow, the artists take what they get from Mother Nature, no matter what.

While painting, the artists have their eyes on

Chris Alvarez of Colorado Springs paints in the Victor Cemetery in this file photo from August 2002, in preparation for the third annual Victor Celebrates the Arts.

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Victor Celebrates the Arts celebrates 21 years in 2020 the Patron Dinner, an invitation-only affair where guests have first choice of up to 200 works.

“Seventy percent of the sale price goes to the artist, while the organization keeps the remainder to help us pay for the show,” Sandlin said.

Trevor Thomas of Colorado Springs is a regular. “I love the fact that the event is so thoroughly endorsed by the city of Victor. A lot of the residents have offered to host some of the artists,” he said.

Victor residents are the key to the show’s success, with many of them issuing invitations to paint scenery from their properties, thus highlighting the majesty, history and charm of the place whose people are known for their independent spirit, all 415 of them.

“From an arts and culture standpoint, we will probably sell more art in Victor in three days than we would in Colorado Springs in three months,” Thomas said. “It’s because they have so thoroughly gotten their community members on board.”

An observer of what goes on during the event, Thomas notices people shopping and eating at the local restaurants or staying at the Victor Hotel, if they aren’t camping, guesting or adding to the lodging economy of nearby Cripple Creek.

A painting by Don Fujimoto that was available for purchase at a previous Victor Walking around Victor, the artist is bound to see what Thomas Celebrates the Arts show and sale. calls the “iconic” beat-up jalopy or buildings that hark back to the architectural majesty of the early 20th century.

Don Fujimoto/Pikes Peak Courier file “Painters go there to paint their vision of what Victor is, so there’s this nice historical record that’s occurring. I like painting images that speak to what mining was to Victor since the 1900s and what mining is now,” Thomas said.

Victor Celebrates the Arts is distinguished by the Brush Rush, where artists take their easels to a place pinpointed by the board.

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The Ring the Peak Trail was included in former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Connect Colorado 16 Trail initiative, formed to provide a better-connected network of trails statewide. While the RTP trail is still incomplete some 20 years after it was started, a plan for the completed trail, and committed partners, remain.

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By Susan Davies plete. Two decades after the project was first included in the Pikes Peak Multi-Use Plan, published in 1999, the trail is still incomplete. wenty-three years ago, a group began to meet regularly and ponder the possibilities for Pikes Peak. For the next two It would seem so simple: be discounted. Fifty miles of the Ring years they met, took field create a narrow exist. Members of Friends of the Peak trips and researched ways mountain trail that have constructed several new segments to balance recreation accommodates hikers, over the years, keeping the vision alive. and preservation. The horses and mountain Former Gov. John Hickenlooper inresult was the Pikes Peak Multi-Use Plan, bikes, and wrap it around cluded the Ring the Peak Trail (RTP) published in 1999, which included a “PeAmerica’s Mountain. in his Connect Colorado 16 Trail initiarimeter Loop” circling Pikes Peak using But while many in the tive, created to provide a better-conexisting roads and trails. region use and appreciate nected network of trails statewide.

Two decades later, the loop is still incomplete. trails, some do not. Some Connected trails expand recreational A 27-mile gap remains on the southwest own property where the opportunities and encourage economic side of the Peak near Cripple Creek and trail could take travelers development in adjacent communities.

Victor. Another gap on the northeast side through breathtaking Hickenlooper’s support paved the way of Pikes Peak is being addressed by El Paso scenery, but unless those for a Great Outdoors Colorado planning County Parks. The Ute Pass Regional Trail property owners have grant, allowing the Trails and Open is part of the loop and could finally be coma change of heart, it Space Coalition to lead an effort to pleted by 2023, depending on funding. never will. Complex address the southwest gap.

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Ring the Peak cisions early on that improved their chances for success. All stakeholder and public meetings were held in Cripple Creek and Victor. Not only did that improve participation, but it also made clear to Teller County participants that their input mattered. Early hopes for a shorter trail higher up the mountain were soon set aside. While a trail near the Victor and Cripple Creek reservoirs would offer users a unique experience, the risk to the resource was deemed too great and the idea was dropped.

So where are we today? There is a plan and there are committed partners. There is a trail alignment that community leaders in both Cripple Creek and Victor support. In addition to the RTP Trail, they wish to complete a 15-mile Community Connector Trail linking the two communities. Talks continue with agency partners and those involved believe there will be trail construction within the next year or two.

It would seem so simple: create a narrow mountain trail that accommodates hikers, horses and mountain bikes, and wrap it around America’s Mountain. But while many in the region use and appreciate trails, some do not. Some own property where the trail could take travelers through breathtaking scenery, but unless those property owners have a change of heart, it never

A map of what the completed Ring the Peak Trail will look like. If completed, the trail will encompass roughly 77 miles. Currently, 50 miles of the trail exist, with the Northeast Trail Corridor on the El Paso County side under construction. A 27-mile gap currently remains on the southwest side of the trail, near Cripple Creek and Victor.

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will. Complex challenges remain. The RTP trail travels through two counties, numerous cities, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management lands and inevitably private property.

Until trail easements are secured or property purchased, a 3-mile section of the trail is likely to travel along Gold Camp Road. Even with improved signage, it wouldn’t be favorable for trail users, but rather an interim solution.

What could a completed RTP trail mean for communities like Victor and Cripple Creek? Potentially hikers and mountain bikers from around the world would add the RTP Trail to their bucket lists and spend time and money in this region. The completed trail will be roughly 77 miles long, hardly a single day trip. Visitors will require lodging, meals, gasoline and provisions.

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Ring the Peak Liam Price, 11, and Kristi Price snowshoe toward Raspberry Mountain and the Ring the Peak Trail on Feb. 3, 2019, while exploring the Crags on the back side of 14,115-foot Pikes Peak.

Tahoe Rim Trail or even the Appalachian Trail are used and revered by adventurers throughout the world?

America’s Mountain deserves respect and appreciation from all angles and sides, as does the wildlife it feeds and shelters. For that reason, the trail will not meander through bighorn sheep lambing regions and will stay well below their normal habitat.

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Up to 8,000 people attend the annual July 5 Symphony Above the Clouds concert.

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By Pat Hill ultural wizards, ambassadors of music: The Ute Pass Symphony Guild fine tunes the details to host the signature event of the season in Woodland Park. For the past 40 years, people from all around the Pikes Peak Region mark their calendars for the July 5 Symphony Above the Clouds event in that city.

“Every year we draw up to 8,000 people from Denver, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Buena Vista, Park, Teller and El Paso counties for this concert,” said Kellie Case, publicity chair for the guild. “They bring picnics, lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy the beauty of the setting and an evening outside in the mountains with amazing music.”

The guild provides a free concert to the public that features the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and conductor Thomas Wilson, along with a guest conductor from the community.

“The guild tries to enhance a deeper appreciation for symphonic music,” Case said.

The appreciation theme begins with the guild’s program for students in Teller County and Lake George Charter School in Park County.

“The philharmonic does a kids’ concert twice a year, in April and October,” Case said. “The guild raises funds to pay for all fourth-graders, including students who are home-schooled, in private or public schools, to attend the concert in April.”

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MUSIC TO THE EARS Symphony Above the Clouds draws people from around the region for fireworks and fanfare Center in Colorado Springs.

“And we provide docents in schools to help the students understand and prepare; what to expect and how to behave at a concert. Most of the concerts are interactive and children can take their recorders and play along with the symphony; it’s

just a really cool event,” Case said.

The scene on July 5 is pastoral at times, raucous at others, as people thrill to the grand finale, the dramatic rendition of the 1812 Overture, Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece that unites music fans of all types. The finale is accompanied by the sound of the cannons

Music to the ears from Fort Carson along with the fireworks.

Kathleen Burke and her husband Bud Hodge go to the symphony almost every year.

“We thoroughly enjoy the concert; it’s such a wonderful community event,” Burke said.

“You see people you might not see for another year.”

The concert is like “old home week,” Burke said.

“I love the combination of music and especially the salute to

each of the veterans’ services.”

For Burke, it’s the patriotic reminder that is the essential meaning of a concert the day after Independence Day. “We get wrapped up in the picnic and the social, so it’s important to salute those who serve,” she said.

With all the components of the event, Burke feels a sense of awe at the concert by the philharmonic. “You look around at the crowd and go, ‘wow.’”

But the outside performances

at the Woodland Park Middle School depend upon the weather, which is particularly concerning during the summer months. With two tumultuous rainstorms in 2018 and 2019, the philharmonic canceled the performances due to concern for the instruments.

In compensation, the philharmonic gave the guild 26 pairs of tickets for the symphony’s major sponsors to attend a concert at the Pikes Peak Center. In 2018, the guild hosted a concert

featuring Cari Dell performing in Memorial Park in September.

Despite the cancellations, the guild loses the money — $33,000 each year, Case said.

This year, leading up to July 5, the guild has its collective fingers crossed.

“There are certain events in the area that are signature that draw not only locals but people outside out community to enjoy the small-town feel that we have,” Case said.

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By Pat Hill

scene from the past is thriving in the present, yet the memories are vital to the caretakers of the former schoolhouse in Florissant, a tiny spot in the road near the junction of U.S. Highway 24 and Teller County Road 1.

The schoolhouse is one of four historic buildings on the property, each lovingly preserved by members of the Grange No. 420. Each building appears freshly painted in gleaming white and green.

Built in 1887, the schoolhouse opened for classes in September 1889 and closed in 1960. Remnants of the old school days remain, however, with large framed photos of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, each perhaps a reflection of the curriculum.

Along with the old schoolhouse, the series includes the teacherage, now a museum, the former library and two outhouses. The buildings are recognized as historic places by national, state and local historical societies.

Back then, the Grange held meetings at the building on Costello Avenue, across the street from the Iron Tree restaurant.

Today, the old school house is the scene of activity that includes Grange meetings.

“The Grange is a national fraternal organization started in the 1800s because the railroads were literally ‘railroading’ the farmers and ranchers out of money,” said Renee Caldwell, who serves as secretary of the state Grange organization and is the local’s lecturer who plans the events and manages the buildings.

In essence, the railroads were charging so much to ship grain, cattle and sheep that the Grange began as a secret society in order to have some say in Washington, Caldwell said.

“We are political and legislative,” she said, adding that her husband, Alan Caldwell, is the legislative director, as well as master/ president for the Grange No. 420.

“Alan follows bills and reports back to the Grange what bills he thinks are good for agriculture,” Caldwell said. “We as a whole in Colorado vote on a bill, send it to national and they’ll vote.”

And, by the way, she said, the National Grange building in Washington, D.C. has a birds-eye view of the Capitol and is the only privately-owned Grange building in the nation.

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The Grange No. 420 thrives with activity from social events, meetings of various kinds, classes for arts and crafts and a weekly Wednesday potluck with music provided by local bands — some by the Caldwells, who both play guitar.

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Photos of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln remain in the Grange building, a reminder of who was important to the teachers in the old schoolhouse, now the Grange.

In Florissant, the Grange organization owns the building and funds maintenance and repairs with donations.

“If an outsider wants to reserve the Grange, it’s also considered a donation; we don’t call it ‘rent.’ We’ve had weddings here,” she said.

Donations from the state organization fund the cost of Caldwell’s office in the former library, which helps maintain the site.

The Grange thrives with activity from social events, meetings of various kinds, classes for arts and crafts and a weekly Wednesday potluck with music provided by local bands, some by the Caldwells, who both play guitar.

As far as the actual potluck goes, it’s a well-known secret that Grange people can cook, despite the small kitchen quarters.

The events are by donation-only.

Coming up is dinner/concert April 10 with Rich Currier performing a tribute to the late singer/songwriter Chuck Pyle. “We will cook and serve dinner,” Caldwell said.

In honor of the area veterans, the Grange hosts Quilts of Valor which, in two years, donated quilts to Teller County veterans.

In a rural area where people are spread out, the Grange can be a refuge, a place to be among people.

“Anybody who comes in here, I get their email (address) because I don’t want to make this just a Grange-member thing,” she said. “I want this building for our community and so do my Grangers. We work hard to make this open for the community.”

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The renovated and expanded Teller County Sheriff’s Office will look like this when construction is finished. The building renovations are expected to be done by December 2020.

Rendering courtesy of Robert Seever, Keystone Associates Inc.

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By Michelle Karas he renovation and expansion of the Teller County Sheriff ’s Office has been a long time coming. In fact, the plans for remodeling and expansion of the former fire station have been in the works for more than 23 years.

Ground was broken in November 2019 and the first footings were poured Jan. 28 for the expanded 20,668-square-foot building, which is expected to open before year’s end.

It will encompass the existing 5,200foot Harris Building at 11400 U.S. Highway 24 in Divide, adding to its footprint and expanding upward.

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New Teller County Sheriff’s Office is planned to open by year’s end “It’s at the very grassroots level right now,” said Bob Campbell, vice chairman of the Teller County Board of County Commissioners, of the building’s construction progress as of mid-February.

“We’ve moved a lot of dirt and shoveled some piles around, but that’s about it.

We’re in ‘pre-mode.’

“Come spring it’ll start looking like a real building, a real development.”

Teller County Public Works Director Fred Clifford agreed there won’t be visible progress on building construction

until late spring.

“We’re mainly doing demolition of the old building and some foundation work right now,” he said in early February.

The building budget is just under $5.8 million, with the total project cost estimated at between $6.8 million and $7.2 million when all is said and done. It’s too soon to determine the final figure, as unexpected building costs tend to come up in the construction phase, according to Campbell.

The atypical thing about these par-

A place of their own ticular renovations is how the Divide-Florissant Fire they’re funded. The county District in 1985 and named has been saving since 2007 for fire chief Richard J. for this expense, Campbell Harris. said.

In 1996, a second floor, Also, El Paso-Teller County sheriff ’s substation and 911 has pledged half a holding cell were added million dollars toward the while a new Divide fire project. department building was “We’re not taking loans built on County Road 51, and borrowing money for Clifford said. this. We’ve got a long-term The full building was dedcapital plan,” Campbell said. icated to the Teller County “We didn’t want to waste Sheriff ’s Department, but taxpayer money by taking it didn’t take long for it to loans.” outgrow the space.

He added, “We’re pretty “With the staffing levels proud of the fact that we alat about 70-80, the buildready have a kitty going for ing was just outdated,” Excavation at the Harris Building, aka the Teller County Sheriff’s Office, began in Decemthe next project, whatever Clifford said. ber 2019, a bit earlier than expected due to favorable weather. During the renovations, that may be.”

What’s most exciting sheriff’s office personnel have been assigned to offices in other county buildings.

That’s what happens when about the building expanyou get a bunch of “non-govsion, according to CampNorma Engelberg ernment” guys planning for bell, is the room. the government, he said.

“We’ll actually have real “It’s unusual to save for it and not go building new buildings every day. Look space instead of being a converted fire into debt. Business folks are community at the 115-year-old Teller County Courtdepartment, where everything is jerfolks. We all came from private indushouse.” ry-rigged,” Campbell said. “Nobody had try,” Campbell said of the current threetheir own desk before.” man board of commissioners. “We’ve BUILDING HISTORY In the new building there will be officplanned and engineers and talked this The one-story building near the main es, control rooms, space for volunteers, through. Plus, it’s not like the county is crossroads in Divide was constructed by a communications and dispatch center,

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“None of that really existed before,” Campbell noted. “It’ll have all the things you’d typically see in a sheriff ’s office. And even a little bit of a lobby. It’ll be a legitimate office building with a few modern tweaks and a real parking lot, paved.”

The efficiency of the building, he said, “is going to be amazing.”

“We built it for the future. There are a few spots that aren’t programmed into the plans so there’s room for grow.”

H.W. Houston Construction of Pueblo is the contractor for the building, which was designed by Keystone Associates Inc. architects of Colorado Springs.

In the fall of 2019, the administration of the sheriff ’s office moved into the adjacent Teller County Detentions Facility on Weaverville Road, so there would be public access not far from the original office. Other county facilities made room for other personnel, Clifford said.

“The weather’s been favorable to get some of the site work done, so we’re moving along nicely at this point,” Clifford said in February. “It is moving along. I think in the spring you’ll start seeing the steel and the structure come together.”

A SIGN While the building site was being prepped, the construction crew uncovered an old Gary Shoemaker sign buried in the dirt, Campbell said.

As harbingers go, this one was pretty cosmic.

“It’s this big old sign, maybe three-foot by four-foot,” he said. Shoemaker was a former Teller County sheriff, who, coincidentally, the new building is being named after.

At a mid-December 2019 Teller County Board of County Commissioners meeting, Sheriff Jason Mikesell unveiled plans to name the renovated sheriff ’s office after Shoemaker, who served for two decades as county sheriff. He died at the age of 77 on Aug. 1, 2019.

His son, David Shoemaker, said in his father’s obituary, “There is only one thing that can be said about my dad, Gary Shoemaker: He was tough on the outside, but had a soft spot in his heart for his family and friends, and the citizens of Teller County, and employees of the Teller County Sheriff ’s Department, (whom) he so faithfully served for his entire adult life and law enforcement career.”

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By Pat Hill rue or not, the legend of why donkeys roam around the streets of Cripple Creek is part of the charm of a place like no other. The story begins in the old days of gold mining in the late 19th century,

when donkeys worked underground hauling materials, beasts of burden who often went blind.

“They never saw the light of day,” said Curt Sorenson, president of the Two Mile High Club, a nonprofit organization that cares for the donkeys 24/7, 365 days a year.

But one day, President Teddy Roosevelt toured the site and asked how often the donkeys get fresh air.

Teri Locke bribes a donkey to move with a carrot from a holding area to a barn at the Teller County fairgrounds in Cripple Creek in this file photo from April 2003.

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Cripple Creek donkey Shocked at the “never” response, Roosevelt requested — maybe commanded — that the miners release the donkeys. And thus, “The the legend took root. saying “The saying goes that if you can see a goes that stout leg on a donkey it’s probably a descenif you can dant from the mine donkeys,” Sorenson see a stout said, adding that the donkeys of the mining leg on a days had stout legs. “We’ll call them ‘heridonkey it’s tage donkeys,’ but the donkeys of today are probably a primarily rescues.” descendant Eventually, donkeys running loose got the from the attention of business owners who, in 1931, mine founded the Two Mile High Club, originally donkeys. called the Mile High Club. Today, donkeys We’ll run free from May to October, when they call them are taken to a shelter on 20 acres adjacent ‘heritage to Mountain Adventure Park on County donkeys,’ Road 89. but the “The club built a barn and the fire dedonkeys of partment hauls water out there,” Sorenson today are said. “We feed those donkeys twice a day primarily (and) provide them with their medication as rescues.” needed.”

The club’s volunteer members provide — Curt shelter, feed, veterinary and farrier care.

Sorenson, “We have electricity out there so we can Two Mile heat the water. We spend about $2,000 a High Club year for electricity,” he said. president When the donkeys are in shelter, people follow the herd.

“We built a three-sided feeding platform this past year so the

donkeys can get all the way around,” Sorenson said. “People feed the donkeys treats, apples and carrots.”

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“That’s totally not acceptable,” said Peggy Sorenson, the club’s treasurer. “It’s a constant issue to make certain they get the right treats.”

During the warm months, the donkeys feed on grass in open fields and perhaps a few yards.

“We count them to make sure everybody is there,” Peggy Sorenson said.

Like the people who work for the U.S. Postal Service, the club members are tough, travel through rain, sleet, snow or hail to feed the donkeys in the shelter.

“We can’t take a break. Even if it’s snowing or freezing, we gotta do it,” said Ellen Moore, the club’s secretary.

The three credit the club’s vice president, Mark Green, for doing the bulk of the feeding these days.

In rescuing donkeys to join the herd, the members don’t expect a two-for-one deal, like the time the female carried a surprise — a baby, Deckers, born in June in a resident’s backyard.

“It was a big deal. The fire department was there,” Peggy Sorenson said with a laugh. “Normally, we don’t have baby donkeys.”

Along with hoof care by a farrier, the donkeys have regular treatments for their teeth, called “floating their teeth,” which is done with a rasp on a wheel to stunt the ongoing growth.

“You go in there and grind their teeth down le High Club flat,” Curt Sorenson said, as Moore added: “You’d have to see it to believe it.”

With the death of Shamus last year and the 40-year-old Jenny Jan. 3, the herd is down to 13.

“We’d been giving Jenny extra care,” Peggy Sorenson said.

The club’s main fundraisers are Donkey Derby Days — this year’s is June 27 and 28 — and the Aspen Tours, the last weekend of September and the first week of October.

“Depending on how those events go, that determines our ability to sustain the care,” Moore said.

New on the club’s list is offering the opportunity to sponsor a donkey, to fill gaps when the aspen tours fail to attract enough takers — especially last year when the leaves refused to cooperate, remaining green for that first weekend.

The club attracts interest from all over the world, with its Facebook and web pages.

For information about joining the club, email them at twomilehighclub@gmail.com or tour their website, cripplecreekdonkeys.com.

Cripple Creek’s iconic herd of donkeys shelter among a small grove of aspen trees in the yard of a private resident in this file photo from 2018.

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Teller County Directory 337 E. Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek 80813 cityofcripplecreek.com • Cripple Creek City Council, 689-2502 - Mayor Milford Ashworth

- Council Ward 2, Michelle Wirtz, mstevens@cityofvictor.com

Woodland Park

• City Hall, 687-9246 220 W. South Ave. Woodland Park 80863 city-woodlandpark.org • Woodland Park City Council, 687-9246 - Mayor Neil Levy, nlevy@city-woodlandpark.org

City Council:

- Tom Litherland - Meghan Rozell - Charles Solomone - Melissa Trenary

City Council:

Green Mountain Falls

• Town Hall, 684-9414 10615 Unit B Green Mountain Falls Road Green Mountain Falls 80819 colorado.gov/pacific/greenmountainfalls • Green Mountain Falls Board of Trustees - Mayor Jane Newberry, gmfnewberry@gmail.com

Board of Trustees:

- Mayor Pro Tem Tyler Stevens, gmf@tymosaco.net - Katharine Guthrie, gmfguthrie@gmail.com - Margaret Peterson, gmftrustee.peterson@gmail.com - Chris Quinn, gmfcquinn@gmail.com

• City Hall, 689-2284 500 Victor Ave. Victor 80860 cityofvictor.com • Victor City Council, 689-2284 - Mayor Bruce Davis, bdavis@cityofvictor.com

Victor

- Mayor Pro Tem Val Carr, vcarr@city-woodlandpark.org - Kellie Case, kcase@city-woodlandpark.org - Hilary LaBarre, hlabarre@city-woodlandpark.org - Darwin Naccarato, dnaccarato@city-woodlandpark.org - Noel Sawyer, nsawyer@city-woodlandpark.org - Paul Saunier, psaunier@city-woodlandpark.org LIBRARIES

Pikes Peak Library District

• Ute Pass Library, 531-6333, ext. 7011 8010 Severy Road Cascade 80809 ppld.org/ute-pass-library

Rampart Library District

• Florissant Public Library, 748-3939 334 Circle Dr. Florissant 80816 rampart.colibraries.org • Woodland Park Public Library, 687-9281 218 E. Midland Ave. Woodland Park 80863 rampart.colibraries.org

Southern Teller County School/Public Library District

City Council:

- Council Ward 1, Byron L. Hakes, bhakes@cityofvictor.com - Council Ward 1, Mark Gregory, mgregory@cityofvictor.com - Council Ward 2, Barbara Manning, bmanning@cityofvictor.com

Above the Clouds Siberian Service Dogs

Veteran Owned and Operated At Above the Clouds Siberian Service Dogs, we are dedicated to training and rehabilitating these misunderstood canines!

We provide calm, easily trained puppies with exceptional genetics and early cognitive stimulation. Our puppies are raised cage-free in the beautiful mountains of Woodland Park, CO.

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• Franklin Ferguson Memorial Library, 689-2800 410 B. St. Cripple Creek 80813 • Victor Public Library, 689-2011 124 S. Third St. Victor 80860 SCHOOLS • Cripple Creek-Victor District Office, 689-2685 410 N. B St. Cripple Creek 80813 ccvschools.com • Lake George Charter School, 748-3911 38874 U.S. Highway 24 Lake George 80827 lakegeorgecharterschool.org • Park County RE-2 District Office, 836-3111 640 Hathaway St. Fairplay 80440 parkcountyre2.org • Woodland Park District Office, 686-2000 155 Panther Way Woodland Park 80863 wpsdk12.org

By joining us, you have the opportunity to engage our youth in the great outdoors and to protect the Park for future generations.

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Teller County Directory SENIOR RESOURCES • Aspen Mine Center, 689-3584 166 E. Bennett Ave. Cripple Creek 80813 aspenminecenter.org • Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments – Area Agency on Aging, 471-2096 14 S. Chestnut St. Colorado Springs 80905 ppacg.org/aging • Teller Senior Coalition, 687-3330 750 E. U.S. Highway 24, Building 2, Suite 100 Woodland Park 80863 tellerseniorcoalition.org • Woodland Park Senior Organization, 687-3877 321 N. Pine St. Woodland Park 80863 woodlandparkseniors.com UTILITIES • Black Hills Energy, 888-890-5554 blackhillsenergy.com • Cripple Creek Water & Waste Department, 689-2502

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Now you have even more to keep you healthy close to home.

UCHealth Pikes Peak Regional Hospital serves Woodland Park, Teller County and the Pikes Peak region with a higher level of health care.

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