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n the latest round of approvals for the controversial Piñon Ridge uranium mill, the state is seeking public input on the mill facility’s site plan as well as its decommission funding.

Members of the public can submit comments through Sept.

energy fuels was granted a radioactive materials license in april 13. The comments are part of an approval process with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Energy Fuels, the com-

pany that has been proposing to build the mill for several years, submitted the site plans and a decommission funding plan to the CDPHE. If the plans are ap-

proved, the company could begin construction on the mill in the next couple years.

The plans call for the mill to be constructed in southeastern Paradox Valley on a site that would cover an area of about 880 acres. The site would be roughly 12 miles west of Naturita near See URANIUM, Page 2

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Dr. Lonnie Smith, the 2013 Jazz Festival’s Guest of Honor, showcased his mastery of the Hammond B-3 organ and other exotic instruments during a main stage performance Saturday night in Town Park. The Telluride Jazz Celebration filled the box canyon with performances by everyone from Stanley Clarke to the Voodoo Orchestra for three days of music that wrapped up with Sunday’s Galactic performance. [Photo by Keith Hill]

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Jeanne Stewart is new director of UCSM By hEaThEr SaCKETT

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he University Centers of the San Miguel has a new executive director — one who wants to expand the nonprofit’s reach.

Jeanne Stewart took over at the helm of UCSM in April and has been working to connect with the community and develop new classes, particularly some that will serve the county’s West End. A class for West End entrepreneurs and a class that focuses on local farming and sustainability are two that are in the works.

Another class that has yet to be named would teach those in the tourism industry, especially those who interact with visitors,

about the region’s history and geography, which would make them more valuable employees.

“Even though one chooses to live in a rural, remote area and may not have the opportunity to have education in their backyard, I just feel that education is everywhere,” Stewart said.

“Learning is everything. It’s a really valuable resource to have in our watershed.”

Stewart is a lifelong educator who has lived in the region since 1985. She started her career with a degree in natural history from St. Mary’s University in Minnesota. She worked as a naturalist for several years in Texas before she made her way west. While working at a summer camp in

Gunnison she took a weekend off to visit a friend in Cortez, but on her way through felt the energy of the box canyon tugging at her.

“I came to Telluride in a funny way,” Stewart said. “I was at Society Turn going to visit a friend in Cortez and felt this thread pulling me into town.”

She moved here and has since set up home-schooling cooperatives, tutored students, worked with the Telluride Institute’s watershed program, was a substitute teacher and resource coordinator at the Telluride R-1 School District, earned her master’s in teaching from Colorado College and practiced homeopathy. After six years of home schooling her See UCSM, Page 11

he Mountain Village community is invited to meet local law enforcement officers, tour the police station and check out the fire trucks Tuesday during the town’s second annual National Night Out event.

The Mountain Village Police Department is hosting the event Tuesday from 5-8 p.m. at the Mountain Village Firehouse. The event features a free ice cream social and open house. Free gun safety locks will be available; in addition, the Telluride Fire District will offer free blood pressure readings.

The event is affiliated with a national movement designed to heighten community awareness of safety and fire prevention issues and to strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships. National Night Out, part of the National Association of Town Watch, involves 15,325 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide.

“National Night Out is a terrific outreach event that allows police officers and firefighters the opportunity to personally interact with the community,” said National Night Out organizer and Mountain Village Police Investigator Anthony Morabito.

“The turnout and response was great last year; we are looking forward to an even bigger gathering this year. This event is about celebrating our community and continuing to build the relationships necessary to shape involved See COMMUNITY, Page 11

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Highway 90. It includes the mill facility, administration building, ore stockpile pads, tailings cells, evaporation ponds and surface water control features.

If built, the mill could process up to 500 tons of uranium and vanadium every day for 24 hours a day, with up to 85 employees, according to Energy Fuels.

The site plan includes a construction schedule, site blueprints, building specifications and many other specifics. The documents state that the mill’s construction is currently planned to start in 2016 and conclude in 2017.

Over the construction period, other features such as the evaporation ponds, roads and smaller buildings would also be constructed, according to the plan.

The other major document is the decommission funding plan.

The funding plan is required by the license, and it outlines funding that will be used to reclaim the mill when it closes. According to the plan, Energy Fuels will fund a long-term care warranty on the mill in the form of a bond.

Other options are open to the company with warranty funding requirements and are detailed in the document, but most involve some sort of bond.

According to the plan, longterm care funding will likely change periodically as the bond estimate is updated. But the plan lists the total reclamation cost at around $15 million. The cost estimates cover the following and other reclamation efforts: de-

contamination of the mill facilities, dewatering of the tailings impoundment, placement of an interim impoundment cover, decommissioning and demolition of the mill facilities and ore pad, decommissioning and demolition of the evaporation ponds, construction of the impoundment radon barrier and other cover layers, site grading and re-contouring and site topsoil placement and re-vegetation.

This comment period is the latest chapter for the mill, which has been at the center of a contentious discussion about the future of energy development in this region for years, and has seen challenges in the form of lawsuits and protests. While many in West End communities are supportive of its promise for jobs, many in the Telluride region are opposed to its potential impacts on air, water and recreation.

The plans come on the heels of a radioactive materials license that the CDPHE issued to Energy Fuels in April. The license allows Energy Fuels to construct a Uranium Mill in the Paradox Valley.

The CDPHE had previously issued a license to Energy Fuels in early 2011 to build the mill. But soon after the license was issued, Telluride environmental organization Sheep Mountain Alliance sued to overturn the CDPHE’s decision, claiming that the regulatory body did not follow proper public procedure by denying the public a right to a formal, adjudicatory hearing, among other things.

The towns of Telluride and Ophir later joined the suit on SMA’s side, and in June of 2012, Denver District Court Judge John McMullen ruled that the CDPHE had failed to offer the opportunity to the public to request such a public hearing. The judge’s ruling invalidated the license and mandated the hearing. It took place in November of 2012 in Nucla.

The newest license was granted to Energy Fuels this spring after the state determined the company had met all of its regulatory requirements.

In May legal challenges continued for the mill as Sheep Mountain Alliance filed another complaint against the CDPHE in Denver District Court. SMA hopes that the lawsuit forces the CDPHE to invalidate the radioactive materials license; the suit is pending.

Comments on the documents can be submitted to Warren Smith, the community involvement manager at of the CDPHE, at 4300 Cherry Creek Drive S. Denver, CO 80246-1530 or to warren.smith@state.co.us.

The CDPHE also plans to hold a meeting to accept public comments on the documents at the Nucla Moose Lodge on Aug. 13 from 6 to 9 p.m. To view the documents, search www.colorado.gov for CDPHE and Energy Fuels.

Both plans have been available for public review since May. After the public comments are received they will be reviewed and CDPHE will address con-

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trUe stOries Man repays insuranCe Money with 4 tons of Coins A southern Illinois businessman has paid off part of a courtordered legal settlement with nearly four tons of quarters packed into dozens of bags.

Roger Herrin was ordered by an appellate court to repay $500,000 in insurance money related to a 2001 car accident in which his teenage son died.

The reimbursement followed years of legal disputes about how the insurance money was apportioned to the crash victims. In protest, Herrin repaid nearly a third of the money — $150,000 — with 50-pound bags of quarters he had trucked in by the Federal Reserve bank in St. Louis.

boy digging for worMs finds a handgun

A 9-year-old boy digging for worms in northern Arizona found a gun buried near his home. Police in Prescott say the stainless-steel .38-caliber revolver was in a plastic bag along with one bullet just under the ground’s surface. Police say it appears the gun was only covered up to hide it until someone came back to get it.

They say they don’t know who

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YOUNG LIFE FUNDRAISER

The importance of living

ANDY KONIGSMARK

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came across this master- live ?” he writes.

Yutang presents examples of piece under the best circumstances possible. First men (men only, alas!) who with of all, I had never heard of education, artistic temperament it. The best things always and sensitivity, became firstsneak up on you so that you are class loafers, scamps and ponot prepared. Preparation can ets. The tradition of the erudite ruin almost anything. Second, scamp, though not exclusively I was desperate. I was in Mon- Chinese, is particularly well estreux, Switzerland and suddenly tablished there. Often, these found myself without anything to were men who abandoned their read in English. The bookstores positions in society to cultivate downtown had English sections, simpler lives away from the bustle of commerce or the but prices were high pretensions of public and selections were office. few. Someone told me “I can see no other about a used bookstore reason for the exisup the hill that they tence of art and poetry thought might have and religion except some books in Engas they restore in us lish. Their guess was a freshness of vision right, and I soon found and more emotional myself with an old paglamour and more viperback with pages tal sense of life,” he falling out and even a DAVID BRANKLEY writes. “Art should be few missing that cost being there a satire and a warning me less than a dollar. against our paralyzed Never mind, it was a gem: “The Importance of Living,” emotions, our devitalized thinking and our denaturalized living.

by Lin Yutang.

The book was first published It teaches us unsophistication in in the 1930s. The worn copy I a sophisticated world.”

Art, philosophy and religion had found was from the ‘60s.The book has had many printings and are subjects best handled by is still in print today. Lin was specialists, some will claim. born in China. His father was a Lin Yutang would not be one of Christian missionary. His spiritu- them. Our traditional western al journey brought him from the approach is altogether too serireligion of his birth to Buddhism, ous, too high-minded for our own then to Taoism and Confucian good.

“Philosophy generally seems thought, then back, eventually, to Christianity. “The Importance of to be a science of making simple Living” was written while he was things difficult to understand, in New York at about the middle but I can conceive of a philosoof his life, and while he was still phy which is the science of making difficult things simple.” a self-described “pagan.”

Did I find this book, or did it It is an idiosyncratic book, playful, sometimes contrary and find me? To me it seems more difficult to categorize. As a book like the latter. Traveling around of philosophy it shares more in Europe on a bicycle, stopping common with the Lao Tsu than now and then to paint or draw Nietzsche or Hegel. That makes portraits for cash, make a few sense, even though the author friends and drink in the atmohad studied at Harvard and ob- sphere of some of the most beautained his doctorate from the tiful places on Earth, these wellUniversity of Leipzig, he proudly worn pages carrying well-worn held to a Chinese perspective stories and thoughts from a disand sensibility throughout his tant place and time, sought me life. By translating some of the out. A book that praises smoking great works of Chinese litera- a pipe as a spiritual, and thought ture, and through his own writ- inducing exercise, that comings, he became that culture’s mends the life of the scamp and chief exponent to generations of loafer and simple poet, was unexpected and more suitable than Americans.

“Chinese philosophy may be anything I was prepared for. As briefly defined as a preoccupa- in Yutang’s definition of art, this tion with the knowledge of life was a book that restores a freshrather than the knowledge of ness in vision, and a more vital truth. ... the Chinese philoso- sense of life. phers clutch at life itself and ask themselves the one and only eternal question: How are we to

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Colorado turns away thousands from preschool

Melon harvest strong in S.E. Colorado

Many at-risk children not attending preschool

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ROCKY FORD

Hot, dry weather across the Lower Arkansas Valley this summer has paid off for melon growers, who are reporting an unusually sweet crop of cantaloupe and watermelon.

The Pueblo Chieftain reports that Rocky Ford cantaloupe growers are reporting heavy demand and the best crop in years.

The melon season usually stretches from the latter part of July through September.

FRISCO

Authorities assess damage after gasoline spill

Authorities are still trying to assess the damage after a tanker truck crashed on Loveland Pass, dumping at least 4,000 gallons of gasoline above Arapahoe Basin Ski Area.

Fire officials tell the Summit Daily the environmental damage could be severe.

The Solar Transportation vehicle was hauling diesel and unleaded fuel into Summit County when it tipped over and ruptured on Saturday. Officials say the pollution was 3 or 4 inches deep in places.

DENVER

Private labs swamped after Colo. suspends tests

Private laboratories are hiring additional workers to cope with increasing workloads after the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment shut down a state evidence testing lab over concerns from defense attorneys about potentially tainted lab results.

Other laboratories have rejected requests to process the diverted samples, saying they’re already too busy to add additional tests.

The health department, which oversees the lab, announced the suspension June 28, almost one month after the Attorney General’s Office released an internal report by the health department that revealed potential bias by a former supervisor and poor training for employees.

FORT COLLINS

Wolf sanctuary damaged by floods

A wolf sanctuary near Fort Collins was damaged by three July floods and is seeking public donations to repair the main road and enclosures for 28 animals.

The Loveland Reporter-Herald reports that no animals were harmed during the flooding at the W.O.L.F. Sanctuary.

A portrait of a young lady

Shauna Tewksbury holds up her portrait, “Eliza Springs,” which won first place in the Ah Haa School’s first photography prize last week. For the contest, Ah Haa called for portraits taken locally and within the last five years that would represent the spirit of Telluride. The school received 99 entries from 38 artists; 23 were selected for a show that is up now at the school. Second place went to Drew Ludwig for “Lucy,” and third place went to Merrick Chase for “Fireman Anton Viditz-Ward.” The People’s Choice Award was given to Ben Knight for “Kim.” [Photo by Ben Knight/benknight.com]

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Cool chemistry from your cabinets Punk Science looks at the science in our homes

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ids are invited to join Dr. Justine Roberts during this week’s Pinhead Punk Science program as she leads a journey through the chemistry lab that exists in every home: the kitchen Chemistry is everywhere, and so much of it is located just through your front door. Roberts will make colored smoke bombs and fire spray bottles with only simple household items such as baking soda, dye and sugar.

“Cool Chemistry from your Cabinets,” the fifth event of the Pinhead Institute’s Punk Science series, will be held Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. at the Telluride High

School cafeteria.

“Kids can do these experiments at home with items from their own cupboards,” Dr. Roberts said. All of her experiments are educational and accessible to kids.

Science surrounds us and chemicals are constantly encompassing us. At the program, kids will learn how to create invisible ink and why ivory soap is incredible when incinerated.

Baking soda creates a volcanic explosion, common household items ignite fires and glue forms a slimy new substance.

Roberts just finished her Ph.D. research in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder. At CU

she taught introductory chemistry courses and labs. She loves teaching science outreach about the amazing chemistry that surrounds us in our daily lives at the local middle schools and high schools. Science and engineering has allowed Roberts to research across the world in Copenhagen, Denmark and Davos.

Admission to Punk Science is $2 per punk.

Punk Science is supported by CCAASE, Just for Kids and the Telluride Foundation. For more information visit www.pinheadinstitute.org or call 970-7087441.

GRAND JUNCTION

Rare dinosaur found in western Colorado Remains of elasmosaurid found at the base of the Bookcliffs

By GARY HARMON

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(AP) — Giant land creatures are well known to have wandered the terrain we know now as western Colorado, but the shallow seas were similarly filled with predators as hungry as their land-lubber counterparts.

The remains of one of them, an elasmosaurid, was found at the base of the Bookcliffs earlier this year.

“It’s definitely the largest” of the three or four finds of similar creatures in the Grand Valley, said John Foster, curator of paleontology for Dinosaur Journey.

The discovery of the elasmosaurid expands the knowledge

of the creatures that populated the seas of the late Cretaceous period.

It appears to be a bit younger than the remains of a xicanthinus that lay for millions of years in the muds that became the Mancos Shale below the Bookcliffs until it was unearthed bit by bit by a family and then by Museum of Western Colorado researchers.

Elasmosaurids were marine reptiles with short tails, long necks and paddles that propelled them along.

The vertebrae found near the Bookcliffs suggest a creature stretching to about 40 feet from teeth to tail, Foster said. The bones now in the possession of the museum appear to be from

the back end of the creature, he said.

The museum holds the fossils under a permit from the Bureau of Land Management.

The vertebrae were weathered and much of the bone matrix had been eroded away, but Foster said he hopes to return to the site later this year to determine if more of the creature can be found.

Not only would that shed light on the sea creatures of the Cretaceous period, but also on the shadowy background of elasmosaurids themselves.

“Elasmosaurids are pretty rare,” Foster said.

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ENVER (AP) — Thousands of Colorado children who qualify for free preschool won’t be going when classes start this month because of state budget shortfalls.

Though precise data isn’t kept on the number of eligible 3- and 4-year-olds who are denied access, The Denver Post reported Sunday that preschool during the 2011-12 school year, the most recent year with state estimates, 17 percent of eligible 4-year-olds weren’t able to attend.

The Colorado Department of Education estimated that as many as 12,010 4-year-olds who were considered to be at-risk because of economic and social conditions had no preschool available to them.

State education officials said an increase of 3,200 slots this school year for children in preschool and kindergarten is expected to offer some relief but not enough.

“There’s unmet need out there in that there are kids who would benefit, that is kids who are needy and at-risk, who don’t currently have access to slots,” Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia said.

The preschool funding shortfall is a major plank of a campaign to ask voters this fall to hike income taxes nearly $1 billion a year to fund education upgrades. If voters agree, the income cap would be removed so that all eligible children can have access to pre-kindergarten.

The money would also be used to implement statewide full-day kindergarten, to enhance services for needy students and those learning English, among other changes.

At-risk children in Colorado who attend preschool perform better on the state’s standardized tests than children with similar backgrounds who do not attend preschool, according to a 2013 legislative report produced by the Colorado Department of Education. The report suggests that both groups fall below statewide averages, but the gap is greater for those who did not attend preschool.

“We have a lot of kids who show up for school for the very first time who are on dramatically unequal footing from their white or middle-class peers,” Garcia said. “It’s really unrealistic to expect that the K-12 system can fix all that by itself. We know that if we can do a better job of preparing these kids when they enter kindergarten, they’ll be more likely to be able to keep up with their more privileged peers.”

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ENVER (AP) — John Backowski said he feared for his son’s life when the young man went snowboarding, cringing every time he heard about an avalanche.

Backowski said he would talk with his son after every report of a snow slide to make sure 25-year-old Collin Backowski of Pine Junction was safe. “He would say, ‘I’m OK, Dad. It wasn’t me,’� John Backowski said. “I think he quit telling me, ‘Don’t worry about me.’ He knew his mother and I were never going to stop worrying.�

Collin Backowski and five of his companions were traveling on Mount Hood in Oregon when an ice tunnel collapsed Saturday, killing the young man. The friends were not hurt and tried to dig out the expert snowboarder, but the ice and snow were too thick.

Backowski was working this summer as a coach at High Cascade, a youth snowboarding camp on Mount Hood. Several of Backowski’s companions also worked at the camp, but they were off-duty when the ice collapsed, Hood River County Sheriff Matt English told The Associated Press on Monday.

The ice tunnel was on the

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In this photo provided by the Hood River County Sheriffs Office a hiker stands at the entrance to an ice tunnel that collapsed, trapping a snowboarder at Oregon’s Mt. Hood on Saturday. [AP Photo/Hood River County Sheriffs Office] White River Glacier, which begins about 6,000 feet up the south side of the mountain.

Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Tiffany Peterson said that after removing tons of debris by hand, searchers found the body of Collin Backowski, who had been buried by 8 to 10 feet of snow and ice. “The area they were going into, it’s extreme, extreme terrain,� John Backowski of Denver

told The Denver Post on Sunday.

John Backowski said authorities told him his son headed into the area to shoot photographs.

Companions took photos of the area just before the collapse, giving searchers a better idea of where to look. Warm temperatures made snow on the mountain slushier and more easily sloughed off the surface, adding to the challenge of finding him.

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White House prospects mix at governor’s meeting Fields are wide open for 2016 nominations

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ILWAUKEE (AP) — Health care, budgets and education topped the official agenda for governors at their annual summer summit. But the 2016 presidential race was never far from view or conversation, given the clear White House interest from some in the crowd gathered near Lake Michigan.

With President Barack Obama in his second and final term, the fields for both parties are wide open for the 2016 nominations.

There are two years to go before primary campaigning begins in earnest, but prospective candidates are already putting out feelers to determine the support they might draw.

Some of the governors thought to have potential presidential ambitions were a study in contrasts at the Milwaukee meeting.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was perhaps the most conspicuous, playing the role of proud host and welcoming his counterparts from around the country to the area where he once served as county executive.

He schmoozed with governors and their families while taking batting practice at Miller Park,

home field for Milwaukee’s major league baseball team, the Brewers. He sat for private interviews with local and national media and was pressed by dozens of reporters on Friday, the conference’s opening day.

Most conspicuously, Walker sported a signature black and orange Harley-Davidson jacket and rumbled through downtown Milwaukee on his own 2003 motorcycle, leading a procession of 100 riders celebrating the 110th anniversary of Wisconsin’s iconic motorcycle. He stopped at times for pictures with veterans who joined the rolling thunder.

“It draws more attention to what I’m trying to do in Wisconsin,” Walker said in an interview.

“You’re in the news not for the sake of being in the news. It’s for a purpose.”

Walker has already developed a national reputation because of legislation he signed in 2011 stripping public employee unions of bargaining power and decisively winning the recall it prompted last year.

Like Walker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also has a national following. His outspoken style, background as a federal prosecutor and image as a Republican who has confronted powerful

forces in his Democratic-dominant state have made him a fan favorite.

But Christie could hardly have been less conspicuous in Milwaukee. He was accompanied by few staff, mainly security. Most noteworthy, Christie, who is usually accessible to news media, granted no interview requests.

Approached in a corridor, Christie breezed by, saying “He’s not taking questions.”

For Christie, the calculation is different than for others with possible presidential ambitions who attended the conference, including Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Democrats Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Martin O’Malley of Maryland. Unlike the others, Christie faces re-election this fall, and keeping his public profile focused on returning to office is a priority. Whatever prospects he may have for the presidential nomination would effectively vanish if he lost re-election.

Like Christie, Jindal kept a low profile. But he made strategic use of his time.

Jindal met with reporters Sunday morning shortly after pulling off the behind-the-scenes coup of the weekend.

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OS ANGELES (AP) — A man who spent time in jail for shoplifting in Colorado was in custody Monday for investigation of running down a dozen people along the Venice Beach boardwalk, including an Italian tourist who was living her dream of honeymooning in California.

Little information was released about 38-year-old Nathan Louis Campbell, who was arrested for investigation of murder after he walked into a police station several hours after the rampage and said he was involved.

He remained in custody on $1 million bail.

Court records showed Campbell was sentenced to five days in jail after pleading guilty to shoplifting at a Denver Pavilions in February 2009. Five months later, he was accused of trespassing at an outdoor mall in Denver and sentenced to 10 days in jail, the records show.

Campbell lived in Colorado at least as recently as last year. He was evicted from his apartment in Denver for not paying $655 in rent in March 2012, records show.

California authorities said no one with his name and birth date had a state driver’s license.

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Prince Charming.

“She was robbed of her life while living her dream visit to California with her husband and this was a tremendous injustice,” the family said in a statement.

The hit-and-run hurt 11 other people who moments earlier had been enjoying an afternoon of strolling and shopping along one of the top tourist attractions in Los Angeles.

Police have not yet presented their case to prosecutors, and they declined to discuss a possible motive. However, Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said there was no indication the attack was a terrorist act or that anyone else was involved.

Police said the driver of the car initially parked outside a hotel and surveyed the boardwalk, where hundreds of people were sitting at cafes, walking along the seashore or shopping for jewelry, art or other items at vending stands.

Surveillance video showed the driver getting into a Dodge sedan, steering around a vehicle barrier and careening through the crowd.

Two mannequins and an ATM were knocked down as the car started hitting people. It swerved from side to side, often running straight into victims. The car struck at least three vendors — a fortune teller, a couple selling jewelry and a woman tattoo artist.

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ASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee charged Monday that NBC and CNN are promoting a potential presidential candidacy by Hillary Rodham Clinton, threatening to blackball them from future GOP primary debates if they air upcoming programs on the former secretary of state.

RNC chairman Reince Priebus called a planned NBC miniseries on Clinton and a CNN documentary on the first lady an “extended commercial” for a future Clinton presidential campaign. In separate letters to the networks, he urged them to cancel “this political ad masquerading as an unbiased production.”

Clinton has not yet said whether she’ll run for president again in 2016 but her future remains the subject of wide speculation in political circles and beyond. The primary debates typically provide a ratings boost for the networks and are highlycoveted as the presidential campaign unfolds.

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Just eight weeks before the Oct. 1 launch of open enrollment under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law, administration officials announced Monday that the Affordable Care Act is a step closer to reality for millions of uninsured Americans.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said consumers can now go online to healthcare.gov and create personal accounts by establishing a username and password.

However, serious shopping will have to wait until sometime in September, when details on insurance plans and premiums offered in local areas will become available through the new online marketplace.

While Monday’s announcement may sound like partial progress only, Sebelius quickly moved to put the law’s doubters on notice. “Let me be clear,” she said. “We are on target and ready to flip the switch on Oct. 1.”

The congressional Government Accountability Office and Treasury’s inspector general for the Internal Revenue Service have been among the nonpartisan oversight organizations warning of possible delays with the rollout of the law.

The new personal account feature unveiled Monday will be available just in English for the time being. HHS said personal accounts are coming soon to the Spanish-language marketplace, at cuidadodesalud.gov.

The Spanish name for the health care website isn’t an exact match for the English version, either.

It roughly translates as “care of health.”

Adding to the logistical complexity facing the Obama administration is the refusal of congressional Republicans to provide additional implementation funds the president has requested. Some GOP lawmakers are advocating a government shutdown to try to block what they deride as “Obamacare” — a term the administration itself has started using.

The new online insurance marketplaces will be geared to people who don’t have coverage through their jobs, most of whom will be eligible for tax credits to help pay their premiums. Insurance benefits take effect Jan. 1.

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REETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leone court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for one of the most notorious arms dealers of its brutal 11-year civil war, but a justice official later said the ally of imprisoned former Liberian President Charles Taylor had already been kicked out — raising Western fears he will never be tried.

Adding to the confusion, his native Senegal denied it had received him.

Ibrahim Bah has been accused of arranging arms and diamond deals between Taylor and Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front rebel group, which has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, mutilation, amputation and forced abductions. Taylor received a 50-year sentence in May 2012 for supporting the rebels.

Judge Tonia Mbawa issued the warrant Monday after Bah didn’t appear in court for a case brought by a private citizen on charges including kidnapping and assault. But Attorney Gen-

eral Frank Kargbo said Bah was “expelled” to Senegal in late July, despite pressure from rights groups and the United States to explore options for trying him in Sierra Leone.

Kargbo declined to provide details or give a reason for the decision. Sierra Leone’s government has not pursued criminal charges against Bah and the claim that he was expelled raised suspicions that the government was determined to avoid prosecution.

“With Bah’s deportation, Sierra Leone has taken a real step backward on promoting justice for grave crimes committed the country’s brutal civil conflict that ended in 2002,” said Elise Keppler, associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch. “Sierra Leone has ignored the interests of victims who deserve to see those implicated in the worst abuses be investigated.”

In the court case against Bah, the complainant, from the diamond-rich eastern district of Kono, said Bah kidnapped him, injured him and held him for multiple days against his will, while threatening to kill him in 2000. During the hearing, a law-

yer for Bah said he was unreachable and that his cellphones had been switched off.

Judges set a new court date for Aug. 15 even as one of the lawyers pursuing the case against Bah, Ronald Gidwani, expressed concern that he was no longer in the country. Officials took hours to say he had already been deported.

Senegal government spokesman Abdou Latif Coulibaly said late Monday that officials had no information on Bah. “The government of Senegal has received no notification concerning Ibrahim Bah,” he said. “The interior minister has verified with all of the sections of the police, and they have not received any information about this person.”

Justice Minister Animata Toure said by text message that any reports about Bah having been sent to Senegal were “not true.”

Taylor received a 50-year sentence in May 2012 for supporting the rebels in Sierra Leone in exchange for “blood diamonds.”

Defense lawyers have disputed the allegations against Taylor, pointing out that Taylor did not physically travel to Sierra Leone.

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“I really wanted to get back into the community,” Stewart said. “It’s a great fit to be able to continue my love of education in an organization that works with adults.”

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Jeanne Stewart, the executive director of University Centers of the San Miguel, outside her office in Telluride Monday. [Photo by Heather Sackett] Stewart hopes to expand UCSM’s presence in the community, especially the economically depressed West End, and turn students into lifelong learners.

“It would be great if we could help the lower end of the watershed become more viable and sustainable,” she said. “That’s my goal. I want to provide for

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ast week House Paul Ryan, chairman of the Republicans voted House Budget Committee, has for the 40th time to always been a magic-asterisk repeal Obamacare. kind of guy — someone who Like the previous makes big claims about having a 39 votes, this action plan to slash deficits, but refuses will have no effect to spell out any of the all-imporwhatsoever. But it was a stand-in tant details. Back in 2011 the for what Republicans really want Congressional Budget Office, in to do: repeal reality, and the evaluating one of Ryan’s plans, laws of arithmetic in particular. described the extreme spending The sad truth is that the modern cuts Ryan was assuming, then GOP is lost in fantasy, unable to remarked, tersely, “No proposals were specified that would generparticipate in actual governing.

Just to be clear, I’m not talk- ate that path.”

What’s happening now is that ing about policy substance. I may believe that Republicans the GOP is trying to convert Ryhave their priorities wrong, but an’s big talk into actual legislathat’s not the issue here. In- tion — and is finding, unsurprisstead, I’m talking about their ingly, that it can’t be done. Yet apparent inability to accept very Republicans aren’t willing to basic reality constraints, like the face up to that reality. Instead, they’re just running fact that you can’t cut NEW YORK TIMES overall spending with- paul KrugMan away.

When it comes to out cutting spending on particular programs, or the fact fiscal policy, then, Republicans that voting to repeal legislation have fallen victim to their own doesn’t change the law when the con game. And I would argue other party controls the Senate that something similar explains how the party lost its way, not and the White House.

Consider what went down in just on fiscal policy, but on everything.

Congress last week.

Think of it this way: For a long First, House leaders had to cancel planned voting on a time the Republican establishtransportation bill, because not ment got its way by playing a enough representatives were con game with the party’s base. willing to vote for the bill’s steep Voters would be mobilized as solspending cuts. Now, just a few diers in an ideological crusade, months ago House Republicans fired up by warnings that liberapproved an extreme austerity als were going to turn the counbudget, mandating severe over- try over to gay married terrorists, all cuts in federal spending — not to mention taking your hardand each specific bill will have earned dollars and giving them to involve large cuts in order to to Those People. Then, once the meet that target. But it turned election was over, the establishout that a significant number of ment would get on with its real representatives, while willing to priorities — deregulation and vote for huge spending cuts as lower taxes on the wealthy.

At this point, however, the long as there weren’t any specifestablishment has lost control. ics, balked at the details.

Then House leaders an- Meanwhile, base voters actually nounced plans to hold a vote cut- believe the stories they were told ting spending on food stamps in — for example, that the governhalf — a demand that is likely ment is spending vast sums on to sink the already struggling ef- things that are a complete waste fort to agree with the Senate on or at any rate don’t do anything for people like them. And the a farm bill.

Then they held the point- party establishment can’t get the less vote on Obamacare, appar- base to accept fiscal or political ently just to make themselves reality without, in effect, admitfeel better. And then they went ting to those base voters that home for recess, even though the they were lied to.

The result is what we see now end of the fiscal year is looming and hardly any of the legislation in the House: a party that, as I needed to run the federal gov- said, seems unable to participate in even the most basic processes ernment has passed.

In other words, Republicans, of governing.

What makes this frightening confronted with the responsibilities of governing, essentially is that Republicans do, in fact, threw a tantrum, then ran off to have a majority in the House, so America can’t be governed sulk.

How did the GOP get to this at all unless a sufficient number point? On budget issues, the of those House Republicans are proximate source of the party’s willing to face reality. And that troubles lies in the decision to quorum of reasonable Republiturn the formulation of fiscal cans may not exist. policy over to a con man. Rep.

My name is Raina Johnson, I’m 16 years old, and I’m spending my junior year of high school abroad in Austria. The program I am going through is called AFS. Courage is what started me on the path to studying in another country for a year, but becoming veryone always says to an exchange student is no easy me, “Why do you want feat. At the start of the school to go abroad? I never year, I filled out a preliminary application and started on would have RAINA JOHNSON when I was loCal voiCes my journey to become an exchange student. your age.”

Honestly, it all started as a With a lot of work, I filled out the very faint hope. It seemed like next application, taking until afan impossible dream, like living ter Christmas to have it all comin space or time travel. Now that pleted. That wasn’t even the hard I’m going, no doubt about it, it part. The tuition to go abroad for still seems like some mad fan- one year to Austria through AFS is more than $13,000. I was able tasy in the distance.

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to get a job at the restaurant La Hacienda in Telluride and earn enough money by asking family and getting two scholarships.

Learning the language through Rosetta Stone has been a help, but the fact that I’ll have to speak only German when I’m abroad is slightly nerve-racking. All and all there are going to be many challenges while I’m abroad but I’m very excited. I know I’ve made a decision and my year abroad will be an absolutely amazing experience.

I will be writing an article while I’m abroad once a month, so you’ll find out how the girl in Austria is doing.

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A wonderful community DEAR EDITOR, Last weekend the Telluride Elks Lodge hosted four Wounded Warriors and their families. For most of them it was their first or second Wounded Warrior program trip.

We received a grant from the Elks National Veterans Service Commission & Elks National Foundation, but it would literally not have been possible without the additional support of a number of our local businesses.

We would like to thank Brown Dog Pizza, Smuggler’s Brewpub, Maggie’s Bakery, Cindy Bread and St. Patrick’s Church for feeding the troops; Telluride Flyfishers, Telluride Outside, Wilkinson Public Library, Telluride ATV Tours, Nugget Theatre and The Peaks Resort & Spa for assisting with activities; Eric Kent and Marty Wilcox for being great fishing guides; Timberline Ace Hardware and Telluride Truffle for visiting “essentials”; the Ice House for their warm hospitality and Ben Donofrio and Harley Brooke-Hitching for hosting great dinners.

Thank you to our wonderful community for being so eager to make a positive difference in the lives of our returning service men and women!

exceeded all our expectations, due to the generosity of this community. We’d like to thank all our SPARKy Act 1, 2 and 3 members and all our volunteers, interns and donors for their help and support. In particular we’d like to give a big thank you to Silver Star Lodging, Bottleworks, Steaming Bean, Telluride Coffee Roasters, Telluride Brewing, Gigi Spitzer, Sheridan Chop House, Sutcliffe Vineyards, The Village Table, The Golden Crumb, Nevasca Reality, Two Skirts, Over The Moon, KOTO, The Daily Planet, The Telluride Watch and The Telluride Ski and Golf Company. We’d also like to thank everyone who came to the shows, as without an audience, there is no show.

SPARKy Productions produces the Playwrights Festival in July but also brings exciting theatrical and film programs to the community. On Aug. 20, SPARKy will be presenting “Audience” with Helen Mirren at the Palm.

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President Obama’s recently appointed Commission on Election Administration has begun holding public hearings around the country. This 10-member body is tasked with presenting recommendations to the president about how to “improve all citizens’ voting experience.”

Independent/unaffiliated voters have a lot to say on this topic.

We are deeply concerned about the current state of America’s political process and agree that the election process deserves serious attention. However, many of us would like to expand the commission’s apparent focus upon reducing long lines on Election Day, believing such a narrow focus falls short of the reforms necessary to improve our voting experience.

There are specific defects that affect independent/unaffiliated voters that the commission has not yet decided to address. With 40 percent of Americans now identifying as Independent, we believe that addressing the concerns of Independents should be a commission priority. Accordingly, we intend to make sure that the commission is aware of the barriers that prevent Independents from fully participating in the election process.

Representatives of independent voter groups already have submitted testimony at commission hearings in Miami and in Washington, D.C. Now it’s our turn. Several Colorado independent/unaffiliated voters, under the aegis of IndependentVoting. org (a national association for Independent voters), will be attending the hearing at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday at the History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway, in Denver.

We invite Independents — and independent minded Colorado voters — throughout the state to join us.

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European authorities have cleared US Airways Group Inc.’s proposed merger with American Airlines’ parent company, AMR Corp. — on the condition that they give up one slot at London’s Heathrow airport and take steps to foster competition on the London-Philadelphia route.

The merger and restructuring plan, which would create the world’s biggest airline, must still be approved by a U.S. federal judge before AMR can emerge from bankruptcy, with a hearing expected Aug. 15.

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Monday’s taste test, coming after five years of research, is a key step toward making lab meat a culinary phenomenon. Post called it “a good start.”

Brin expressed high hopes for the technology.

“We’re trying to create the first cultured beef hamburger.

From there I’m optimistic we can really scale by leaps and bounds,” he said on the video.

Post said it’s crucial that the burger has the “look, feel and taste like the real thing.”

Despite the tasters concern about flavor, scientists say that can be tweaked.

“Taste is the least (important) problem since this could be controlled by letting some of the stem cells develop into fat cells,” said Stig Omholt, director of biotechnology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Adding fat to the burgers this way would probably be healthier than getting it from naturally chunky cows, Omholt said before Monday’s test. He was not involved in the project.

Post and colleagues made the meat from the muscle cells of two organic cows. The cells were put into a nutrient solution to help them develop into muscle tissue, growing into small strands of meat.

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ONDON (AP) — They bit, they chewed, but had hoped for more flavor.

Two volunteers who participated in the first public frying of hamburger grown in a lab said Monday that it had the texture of meat but was short of flavor because of the lack of fat.

Mark Post, whose team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger, hopes that making meat in labs could eventually help feed the world and fight climate change. That goal is many years distant, at best.

Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, appeared on a video shown at the event and announced that he funded the 250,000-euro ($330,000) project because of his concern for animal welfare.

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“The absence is the fat, it’s a leanness to it, but the bite feels like a conventional hamburger,” said U.S. journalist Josh Schonwald. He added that he had rarely tasted a hambuger, as he did on Monday, “without ketchup or

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ASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. service firms expanded in July at the fastest pace since February, fueled by a brisker month of sales and a jump in new orders. The increase suggests economic growth could be picking up after a weak first half of the year.

The Institute for Supply Management said Monday that its index of service-sector growth rose in July to 56.0, up from 52.2 in June. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.

The survey covers businesses that employ 90 percent of the workforce, such as retail, construction, health care and financial services.

A measure of business activity, which includes current sales, rose to 60.4. That’s the highest since December and was driven in part by faster home construction. And a gauge of new orders, which indicates sales over the next few months, increased to 57.7 — a five-month high.

Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, noted that 16 of the 18 industries surveyed reported growth in July, “encouraging news for the broader U.S. economy.”

Paul Dales, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said the July gains in the service sector, along with a solid month of manufacturing growth, suggest the economy is growing at an annual rate of 3 percent in the JulySeptember quarter. That’s nearly double the rate in the April-June quarter.

One concern is that a measure of employment at service companies fell in July. That echoed last week’s government employment report that showed hiring has slowed.

Employers added 162,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. That’s down from 188,000 in June. Nearly all of the hiring took place at service firms. And most new jobs were in low-paying industries — half were at retail business or restaurants and bars.

Growth in the service industry depends largely on consumers, whose spending drives roughly 70 percent of economic activity. On Friday, the government said consumers increased their spending in June at the fastest pace in four month.

The economy grew at a tepid 1.7 percent annual rate from April through June. That’s up only slightly from the 1.1 percent annual rate in the previous quarter and the third straight month of subpar economic growth.

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EW YORK (AP) — JetBlue, known for shuttling vacationers from Northeast cities to the warmth of Florida and the Caribbean, is making a play for the corporate road warrior.

Starting next year, the allcoach airline plans to offer 16 lie-flat seats on flights between New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco. It’s the first time the egalitarian carrier will have a second class of service.

The transcontinental routes are the most profitable and highly contested domestic markets for airlines. Business class tickets frequently sell for $4,000 roundtrip. American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are all in the process of putting lie-flat beds in their premium cabins on those routes. Virgin America, which also flies from coast to coast, has a traditional first class cabin with larger seats.

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have had high premium fares we believe we can beat,” CEO Dave Barger said in a statement.

The New York-based airline announced the new seats at the start of a business traveler conference Monday in San Diego.

JetBlue Airways Corp. said the seats will debut on its new Airbus A321 planes in the second quarter of 2014. The planes will have 16 seats in the front cabin and 143 in the back. Four of the 16 business class seats will have doors and are being marketed by JetBlue as “private suites” similar to what Dubai-based Emirates Airway and Singapore Airlines offer their top customers.

Other A321s not configured for the transcontinental service will have 190 seats. The airline did not say if the 34 inches of legroom that coach passengers currently have on their jets — one of the most generous spaces in the industry — would change with either configuration.

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it’ll lift up the whole economy.”

These one-day protests, which also took place in St. Louis, Milwaukee and Flint, Mich., come amid calls from the White House, some members of Congress and economists to raise the federal minimum wage, which was last increased in 2009. Most of the proposals, though, seek a more modest rise than those urged by fast-food workers. President Barack Obama wants to boost the hourly wage to $9. And in July, more than 100 economists signed a petition supporting a bill sponsored by a Florida congressman that would hike it to $10.50 an hour.

The restaurant industry argues that a $15 hourly wage could lead to businesses closing and fewer jobs. It also notes the cost of living varies greatly around the country and many states have higher minimum wages than the federal rate. (Eighteen states and the District of Columbia, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.)

The Employment Policies Institute, which receives some funding from the industry, ran a full-page ad last week in USA Today, warning of another potential consequence: It showed the uniform of a fast-food worker with an iPad face, saying the wage in-

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Wise was among a few thousand fast-food workers in seven cities, including New York, Chicago and Detroit, who took to the streets last week, carrying “Strike” and “Supersize Our Wages” signs in front of McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King and other restaurants. They demanded better pay, the right to unionize and a more than doubling of the federal minimum hourly wage from $7.25 to $15.

“We work hard for companies that are making millions,” the 34-year-old Wise says, adding that he lost his home last year, unable to make mortgage payments despite working about 50-hour weeks at Pizza Hut and Burger King. “We’re not asking for the world. We want to make enough to make a decent living.

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So at a time when the economy is growing steadily but slowly and about 11.5 million people are unemployed — nearly double the level before the Great Recession — how likely is it Congress will increase the minimum wage?

And have these protests done any good?

The answers depend on whom you ask.

“They’re very effective,” says U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat and co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “They’ve brought attention to appalling conditions with workers putting in very long hours ... and not making enough money to survive. This I think is scandal. .. We believe it’s essential to be paid livable wages. We know the companies can afford it. These are highly profitable businesses. It would be good not just for the family budget but for the national budget.”

Ellison’s caucus launched a national “Raise Up America” campaign this summer that has partnered with fast-food workers and others in low-wage industries to highlight the call for better salaries.

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Summer Employment Opportunities at the Peaks: Front Desk Agent Reservations Agent Housekeeping Supervisor Houseman/Public Areas Cleaner House Keepers / Room Attendants / Sous Chef / Line cooks / Bartenders / Servers Room Service Servers / Bussers / Massage Therapists / Nail Technicians / Spa Attendants / Please apply in person at 136 Country Club Drive Or email resume to rholschuh@thepeaksresort.com 970-728-2541 EOE

A/V Installation & Service Technicians: Paragon Technology Group seeks Audio/Video installation personnel. Must have experience with residential electronic systems integration including audio/video, lighting, shades, climate control, CCTV, and computer networks.

Email resumes to: jobs@paragon-usa.com The Butcher and the Baker is hiring for Prep Cook and Front of the House positions.

Weekends and Evenings.

Experience necessary. Drop off resume, or pick up application.

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Oh-Be-Joyful Gallery seeks a local teenager to post a weekly poster route. Please call 728-6868 for more info High end boutique seeks motivated sales associate, must have minimum 1-year retail selling floor experience in better apparel. Stop by Scarpe between 10-11am M-F. 970-728-1513

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Hiring for Summer/Winter Gondola Operators Valid driver’s license and pre-employment drug testing required. $13/hr + $1/hr end of season BONUS if you complete the season. Summer season ends Oct. 20th. Winter season is mid-November thru early April.

Apply online at townofmountainvillage.com/careers EOE/DFW

We Are Hiring!!

Immediate starts.

Concierge—4 Days Full time Housekeeping & Turndown Plus, we are always seeking dynamic hospitality professionals!

Please send me your CV and motivational letter.

Bas Afman bafman@lumieretelluride.com www.lumieretelluride.com

Business Opportunities Earn $40-$80k in Telluride. Complete picture framing business for sale or lease. 970-708-0679

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Did you know your Telluride Daily Planet classified ad is online 7 days a week, reaching 2,500 unique visitors per day?

221 South Oak Bistro is seeking an experienced, polished server for our fine dining restaurant. Looking to start the right person immediately. Stop in or email resume to: j.baade@gmail.com HOUSEKEEPERS!!!

Help us to expand our housekeeping department. If you are experienced and have your own car, we would like to meet you. Competitive pay. Looking for loyal, committed people who are seeking long-term employment and would like an end of season bonus.

Locals preferred.

(970)728-8160 ext. 2004 The Laundromat at Telluride Eco Cleaners is hiring! Multiple positions available.Call Meagan 970-729-2012.

Steinway Piano, “O” series. Been in family since purchased new in 1910.

Beautifully restored, original ivory keys & bench. $27000 970-729-0495 Midas Venice 32 channel mixing console $800 OBO Studded snow tires, used 1 season, 235/65R17 for 17 inch rims $100 (970)596-3364 Star-trac Elite Spin bike, $400 Assorted suitcases/duffels, $10+ Assorted large cacti, $10+ Adjustable bench press, $75 Dumbells, $25 / Wheel-barrow, $25 5’ heavy-duty cattle fencing, 2 bike car-racks, Apache K2 Skis, 167cm American Flyer Sled 729-2446

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MIXED SPLIT CORDS OF WOOD $100 Cash Self load at yard MM64 Hwy 145 $25 Load w/equipment $175 Delivered - 6 mile radius Call w/order 728-5555.

CABO SAN LUCAS 3BD/2.5BA ocean house. Conde Nast rated. Available last week in October.

Gated community/all the amenities.

530-895-0580

Pets

MV Longterm

Awesome Views from this 3 bdrm/2 bath home located at Hillside, in a 2 family house. Shared laundry. $1900/mo + utilities. 1st/last/security.

Pet considered.

970-728-3746

Dog training lessons on Wednesday evenings in Placerville begin on Aug 14. $85 for 6 weekly sessions.

Contact Carrie 327-0302.

Charming Guest House, Single Only, Private, Designer Furnishings, Hardwood Floors, Full-sized Kitchen, W/D, Stream/Pond Frontage.

No pets. $1500/Month 720-635-5600

Portuguese Water Dog Beautiful Male or Female Natural Reared, AKC Registered, Champion Parents, Non-Shedding Available Now, $ Negotiable 505-699-4199

Yard Sales Ongoing Studio/Yard Sale trout posters, paintings, lithographs, and collection of interesting memorabilia and antiques. Judy Haas Studio, 225 S Pine Street.

Automobiles 2005 Toyota 4 Runner 112,500 miles always garaged Excelent Cond 2 sets of tires $12,000 970-519-1626

Village Court Apartments Studio, 1, & 3 Bedroom Units, Some Pet Friendly Onsite Laundry Faculties Easy Gondola Access Leases start as low as $665.00 970-369-8232 2 Bedroom, 2 bath. Includes, 2 car garage, W/D, Gas Fireplace, Deck, Gas Oven, Hardwood Floors. Great location. NS $1695 303-521-1009 Newly remodeled Crystal 3B 3B office kids loft/ garage. Detached, great views, sun MV Core. call Barb 970729-0237. furnished. weekly/monthly/ yearly

Norwood Longterm

Commercial Rentals Prime Main Street 2nd Floor Offices call 970.708.7093 Commercial Space on S. Davis. Creekside with small deck, private bath. $795/mo.

Sally Puff Courtney, 728-3086 Nice Main Street 2nd Floor Office Space For Lease. 1675sf for $4895/ mo includes NNN and parking. May be subdivided into two, smaller, separately leased spaces. Mike, 970.708.2157 Telluride Main Street 214sf Sidewalk CORNER GLASS 589sf Professional Suite parking level; other spaces great sun, ski mountain views 970-728-3313 Colorado Avenue Retail/Salon space available. $1250-$1500/mo NNN Private bath, windows, signage Great Value! Exposure! 970.708.0679 Placerville - 160 Front St. Excellent Hwy 145 exposure. 2500SF - Ample parking (970)708-0021 ILIUM INDUSTRIAL PARK OFFICE SPACE month to month leases available $525/mo Call Telecam @ (970) 728-4445 For Lease Industrial or Commercial 3000 sq.ft. with 3 phase power. additional 400 sq,ft. storage upstairs. Hwy frontage, Placerville 970 708-1410 PRIME MOUNTAIN VILLAGE CORE LOCATION CENTRUM BUILDING. Office and Retail space Available Immediately.

George Harvey 970-729-0111

Short Term Beautiful 3 bdrm home East end available last 2 weeks in a August. Great deal call 970-708-3757 for details.

House for rent in Nucla Newly remodeled, 2 bedroom 1 bath washer/dryer storage shed large yard w/ fruit trees 970-708-1577 Cute Norwood 2BD/ 1BA house Fenced yard, fruit trees, Available Sept 1st Walking distance to everything $750/Month 970-708-0060 1/Bedroom 2 Story Spacious Apartment on Grand Ave. $400/Month 970-327-4099 Duplex 3Bedroom / 2Bath $1000/Month+Utilities W/D, DW, Microwave, Patio, Garage, Clean, Views, Lawn, NS/NP Available 8/1 728-6779

Shandoka Apartments has a few apartments available to move in now through early August.

If you’re interested, please call (970) 728-3034 x1, email djohnson@telluride-co.gov or stop by the office at 820 Black Bear Road #G17.

Lulu City Condo Telluride. Furnished 2 bed plus large sleeping loft, 2 bath.

Parking garage. Pool. $2,000/month.

No smoking/pets. 970-708-5263.

Penthouse Condo 1BD/1BA, private yard, parking, partially furnished, vaulted ceilings, excellent views, No Dogs/NS 3 miles to town, $1250/Month 728-8222 Eider Creek fully furnished, avlb. now, wood stove, 2 queen beds, 2 bath, , 1year lease, no smoking or pets $1300+ deposit + utilities, 808-281-0374.

Telluride Town 2bed 2bath Condo, steam shower, jacuzzi tub, gas fireplace, parking, Victorian porch, furnished, no smoking, Very Nice, $2250/ month, 917-684-5967 In Town - Beautiful Sunny Side Home, Heart of Telluride 4 bdrm, 3 bath fully furnished home.

Double lot, big lawn, great views, vaulted ceilings, off street parking for 3+cars. Decks, gas fireplace, hot tub, W/D. Couple or family preferred. Pets negotiable. $4,000/month + utilities.

One Year Lease. Start date October 1, 2013. First, Last and $1,000 deposit.

Call Pancho 970-209-6515.

Clean, newly remodeled 3 and 4 bedroom units in Redvale. 10 mins from Norwood. 327-4281 / 729-1799 $625/mo+Utilities Norwood Spacious/ Cool Apartment, 2Bd/1Bath, near Telluride busstop, Walk to Bank/Market/ School/Hardware/Restaurants/Library/ PO, No Pets/Smoking, Call Jim/Cathy 970-327-4853.

Telluride Lodge 2bd/3bath w/extra sleeping areas Hot Tubs, Near lift 7 and river trail gas fireplace, high-efficiency furnace $2000/month+utilities 970-519-1331

Ridgway Long Term

Cim Lodge 2 bd 2 ba townhome. Furnished. W/D, View. Deck. Garage. Term Nego. $1900 mo.

No smoke/pets.

970 729-2889

Telluride Long Term 3 bedroom newer Telluride home.

Deck. Upscale appliances. Washer/ dryer. Fireplace. Unfurnished. Garage w/storage loft. $3300. No smoking. Pet negotiable.

970-708-5263 Like New! 2 Bedroom 2.5 Bath Double Diamond Absolutely no smoking/pets Peggy Nerlin, Broker Telluride Asset Property Management $1700 970-708-7944

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Ski-in/Ski-Out Condo in Town, 1 bedroom, new construction, heated parking, deed restricted, $1,234/mo includes utilities.

970-728-5280 2 BD / 1 BA Condo 1 block to Gondola, furnished, 1st & last, damage deposit, 1 year lease, 2 people max, parking, laundry, No Smoking $1500 / month 970-241-7328

Down Valley Long Term Partially furnished 4B/3B home on 35 acres, Carsten’s Ranch. No Pets. $2000/month 970-708-7724

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Sunny Side Guest House 1Bedroom/1Bath, new skylights, new floors, new appliances, partially furnished, w/d, garden. 1-block to courthouse. No dogs / No Smoking. $1,500/Month 970-728-8222

Ridgway 3BD/2BA New kitchen appliances, new heat & hot water, passive solar, wool carpets, radon vented, ZERO VOC PAINT. No pets/smoking. $1200/month (970) 708-0152

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SKY MOUNTAIN RANCH SUBDIVISION GREAT LOCALS OPPORTUNITY 3 Rico Town lots plus a 550 sq. ft.

Mobile Home. Needs some work, Has water tap and septic. $100,000 Seller Financing available.

Call or e-mail Dave Flatt, Broker Associate Telluride Real Estate Corp.

970-209-0681 Dave@daveflatt.com Condominiums For Sale: Telluride Lodge: 1 Bedroom. 2 Bathrooms. Furnished.

Hot Tub. Large light filled windows. 771 Sq. Ft. $365,000.

LuLu City: 2 Bedrooms. 2 Bathrooms. renovated- fresh kitchen. single floor living design. 782 Sq. Ft. pool.hot tub. garage. $365,000 Call: Rosie Cusack with questions or to tour these properties.

970.729.0567

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35.10 Acre Vacant Lot with Breathtaking Mountain and Valley Views! Enjoy the Panoramic Views and some of the greatest Elk and Wildlife in the West.

Zoned Single Family Residential, the 300 acre Sky Mountain Ranch Subdivision is snow plowed for year round access and is situated just 1/8 mile off the well maintained CO 62.

The property is close to a Golf Course, 30 minutes to Telluride, and 15 minutes to Ridgway, CO. SAVE $$$ 800-262-3050 www.auctionworldusa.com Auction World USA, LLC In cooperation with Ponderosa Real Estate

Commercial Properties

TLR Inc. a Real Estate Company

PLACERVILLE - 160 Front St. 6000sf building on 3 commercial lots. Excellent Hwy 145 exposure. Ample parking. $750,000 ($125/sf) (970)708-0021

1 bedroom, 1 bath and loft condominium. Great location, expansion potential, low HOAs. $419,000. Call Julie Hodson, Telluride Mountain Realty, LLC 970-729-1430

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Norwood 2 bd/1 bth with office & open live/dine/kit. Fenced yard, mature gardens, shed w/ electric. Call Now! 327-0381 $160,000

Land $18,000 - $28,000 Residential lots in Norwood All tap fees paid ($14,500) call 970-708-0102 Mountain Village Boulders lot For sale, deed restricted, not price-capped. Will consider trade for Telluride condo.

Call 970-708-3787 telluridewellnessretreats@gmail.com 3/4 Acre Single Family Lot — Fairway Pines Divide Ranch Club, Ridgway. $18,750 970-708-1139 Estate Lot 536 1.58 Acres 400 ft. Frontage on no outlet lower Russell Dr. close to Ski, Golf, Chondola, flat building site & driveway 2 Streams & Great Views $890,000 728-5555

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MARK CARLSON - General Contractor Building Locally Since 1979 ICC Certified New Construction & Renovations (970) 728-4947 telluridemountainbuilders.com

Education Heidi Janson Spanish Tutor/Teacher and Writer All Ages and Levels itsamisterie@netzero.com 310.339.0571

Moving & Storage SELF STORAGE TELLURIDE AREA 8x10s, 8x20s, & 8x40s Call Telecam @ (970) 728-4445

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Calendar The Telluride Daily Planet accepts local calendar items via e-mail at calendar@ telluridedailyplanet.com. Please, no phone calls. Events may take several days to appear in the published events calendar and may not run each day due to space considerations.

Movie: “Monsters University” (G) 5:30 and 8 p.m., Nugget Theatre

wednesday, aug. 7: MarKet on the plaza: 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Heritage Plaza

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CCaase: noon, Rebekah Hall

alCoholiCs anonyMous Meeting: 7 a.m., Christ Presbyterian, 434 W. Columbia

baabaa basiCs: 3-5 p.m., Needle Rock Fiberarts

running training: 7:23 and 9:23 a.m., Fuel Station, all levels, with Jill Burchmore, 708-5037 telluride town CounCil Meeting: 9 a.m., Rebekah Hall Quilting day: 10 a.m., Wilkinson Public Library KinderMusiK: 10-10:45 a.m., Ah Haa School for the Arts, ages 1-3 sMall plates, big tastes: 10:30 a.m.2:30 p.m., Ah Haa School for the Arts, with chef Bud Thomas introduCtion to apple CoMputers: Aug. 6, 8, 13 and 15, 6-8 p.m., University Centers of the San Miguel, 369-5255 pinhead punK sCienCe: 5:15-6 p.m., Telluride High School Cafeteria, “Cool Chemistry from Your Cabinets: Homemade Science,” with Ace of the Abode Dr. Justine Roberts, admission $2, for more information go to pinheadinstitute.org or call 708-7441 town talK: 6-7:15 p.m., Sheridan Opera House, “Prospects for Limitless Energy from Sunlight and Water,” presented by the Telluride Science Research Center, free

national night out: 5-8 p.m., Mountain Village eCology CoMMission: 5:30, Rebekah Hall alCoholiCs anonyMous Meeting: 5:30 p.m., Christ Presbyterian, 434 W. Columbia the steepwater band: 6-8 p.m., Sunset Plaza, Mountain Village Sunset Concert Series CaMera and editing Class: 6-8 p.m., Telluride High School, with Telluride TV, Ellie Canella and Ben Knight, $150 for three classes, or $250 includes a year membership to check out Telluride TV’s video cameras and equipment, 708-3839

upCoMing: wilKinson publiC library board of trustees Meeting: Aug. 8, 3 p.m., Program Room, library free piCniC and ConCert: Aug. 8, 5 p.m., Town Park, Telluride Chamber Music Festival Chris hughes: Aug. 8, 5-7 p.m., Trail Town Still, Ridgway

CaMera and editing Class: 6-8 p.m., Telluride High School, with Telluride TV, Ellie Canella and Ben Knight, $150 for three classes, or $250 includes a year membership to check out Telluride TV’s video cameras and equipment, 708-3839

Clay thursdays: Aug. 8, 5-7:30 p.m., Ah Haa School for the Arts

shaMatha instruCtion and praCtiCe: 7-7:30 p.m., Studio Telluride, 135 S. Spruce St., presented by Tara Mandala, free blaCKtop Movie night: 7-10:45 p.m., Telluride Mountain School, open air screening of Andy Krueger’s TMS Productions Short, TMS Donuts for Dads, Summit and Ski Palmyra Peak, “Ghostbusters” main attraction, weenie roast Knit nite: 7-9 p.m., Needle Rock Fiberarts alCoholiCs anonyMous Meeting: 8 p.m., Alpine Chapel, 122 S. Aspen

harC and planning/zoning CoMMissions: Aug. 8, 5 p.m., Rebekah Hall CoMposting worKshop: Aug. 8, 5:30-7 p.m., Wilkinson Public Library, with Brendan Sinclair, EcoAction Partners Summer Sustainability Program, $8 Canvas & CoCKtails: Aug. 8, 6-8 p.m., Ah Haa School for the Arts feasting on history: a dinner theater eXperienCe: Aug. 8, 6:30 p.m., Sheridan Opera House, Telluride Historical Museum alCoholiCs anonyMous Meeting: Aug. 9, 7 a.m., Christ Presbyterian, 434 W. Columbia Many hands fiber arts festival: Aug. 9-11, Telluride High School Gym, Needle Rock Fiberarts

CanCer (June 22 - July 23): You have to move in a new direction and you have to get serious about things you merely toyed with before. That is the message of the stars for you today – and that you’ll make a lot of money too.

By SaLLY BrOMPTON www.sallybrompton.com birthday tuesday: A new moon on your birthday makes all things possible. Whatever your dream may be you MUST pursue it with your body, your heart and your soul. The more effort you make the more the universe will respond and reward you.

taurus (april 21 - May 21): You cannot force people to do things your way if they don’t want to. Even if you could the results would not be what you expected.

If you want to get things done you need to persuade rather than coerce. geMini (May 22 - June 21): Be open and honest about what you are planning. Today’s new moon will make it easy for you to find the words to explain what you are up to in a way that even your rivals and critics will agree is sensible.

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pisCes (feb. 20 - Mar. 20): You must get organized. You must get your act together. Above all you must pay attention to what’s going on around you. Details are always important but rarely more so than now. Keep your eyes and ears open today.

libra (sept. 24 - oct. 23): If you respect other people’s views they will respect yours – well, that’s the theory anyway. Today’s new moon means there will be plenty of debate and discussion taking place. Keep it good-natured. It’s only words after all.

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aQuarius (Jan. 21 - feb. 19): There are times when it is sensible to let others take the lead and this is one of them. A new moon in your opposite sign means that the less you interfere the more you will benefit from other people’s actions.

sCorpio (oct. 24 - nov. 22): You can do your career prospects a lot of good today if you face up to some kind of challenge rather than run away from it.

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sagittarius (nov. 23 - dec. 21): You don’t have to play by the rules, not if you’re a Sagittarius. In fact, with today’s new moon falling in the most adventurous area of your solar chart the rules might as well not exist – for you anyway!

CapriCorn (dec. 22 - Jan. 20): No matter how much someone tries to intimidate you today you must not give in.

What can they do about it? What matters more than anything now is that you stand up for your rights – and other people’s too.

leo (July 24 - aug. 23): Today’s new moon in your sign challenges you to push beyond your usual limits and accomplish something truly spectacular.

Never doubt you have what it takes. Never doubt you are special. Success is in your celestial DNA.

aries (March 21 - april 20): Lady Luck is on your side today. Even the things that don’t work out the way you expected will, in the long-term, bring remarkable benefits. What others see as limits you see as opportunities – and the rewards will be spectacular.

Movie: “Monsters University” (G) 5:30 and 8 p.m., Nugget Theatre

telluride woMen’s networK happy hour: 6 p.m., Over the Moon

talKing gourds poetry Club: 6 p.m., Arroyo, wilderness poet Peter Waldor

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156 DEF Society Dr. - Lawson Hill - 970.728.5094 - telluridebrewingco.com

RIDE, BIKE, HIKE, FLOAT THE VALLEY FLOOR TO BEERVANA! NOON – 7pm DAILY dilbert: SCOTT ADAMS

Alpine Wellness Medical Marijuana

Summer Hours 10-6 Mon-Sun Blue Widow & Green Love Potion $200/oz No Shirt, No Shoes, No Worries!!

www.alpinewellness.co (970)728-1834 Located above Maggies in Elks Park Monty: JIM MEDDICK

HAPPY HOUR 5-6pm DAILY

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for better or for worse: LYNN JOHNSTON

outdoor, bar and lobby areas

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for reservations go to www.cosmotelluride.com 970.728.1292 Please visit our Durango location

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Close to hoMe: JOHN MCPHERSON

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Join us in the park for a casual evening of chamber music to kick off the 40th Anniversary season.

Bring your own picnic for a special evening of music

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climber, is also open to folding a climbing component into those destination trips.

Dunkak grew up in the Midwest, and became obsessed with the idea of scuba diving as a kid watching shows like “Flipper.” It wasn’t until college that he actually took his first diving course.

And even though those first diving experiences were in manmade quarries where the water was murky, he was hooked.

He went on to dive in places like the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and the California kelp forest, and loved the feeling of weightlessness and the entry into incredible underwater worlds that it afforded.

“It’s truly amazing,” he said.

But when he moved to Telluride in the late ‘80s, Dunkak started spending more time on rivers, where his need for water became satisfied by whitewater and raft trips. Diving faded into the background.

In the meantime, Dunkak’s

work as an EMT and search and rescue volunteer led to him teaching first aid courses in the ‘90s — first within the EMT association, then to the public, and he has built and grown a small business called CPR World that offers CPR, first aid and Wilderness First Aid courses.

Several years ago, however, Dunkak found himself on a trip to Mexico, where his passion for scuba was re-ignited with some incredible dives.

After that, he decided to wed his love for teaching with his love of scuba and become an instructor.

“It just seemed like a logical progression,” he said.

There wasn’t really anyone locally teaching scuba, and being a scuba instructor in Colorado is actually pretty practical, he said.

“It’s interesting but not surprising that Colorado has the highest number of divers of any state in the U.S.,” he said.

Dunkak completed both a res-

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That gave him the tools to teach a wide range of scuba skills to a wide range of people.

Dunkak says scuba diving isn’t just for adventurous individuals; it’s great for families and for people of all ages.

“Young and old can enjoy the same level of success underwater,” he said.

Dunkak hopes to run a trip to Mexico this fall, and another to Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles over the 2014 spring break, and is looking for divers or aspiring divers to join him.

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that were balls or they fouled off,” Nicasio said. “I had a hard time putting the hitters away.”

Nicasio escaped a first-andthird jam with one out in the second inning without allowing a run and limited the damage to one run in the third after the Pirates put runners on the corners with none out. He felt he could escape one more time in the fifth after Andrew McCutchen walked and Pedro Alvarez single with one out.

“I wanted to finish the inning,” Nicasio said. “I felt good.”

Weiss, though, didn’t let Nicasio talk him into staying.

“He did a good job of battling but he had to really grind through a lot of his innings,” Weiss said.

“I didn’t think he had much left in the tank.”

At 36, Burnett still has plenty

left. Burnett (5-7) struck out nine and walked one in his first complete game of the season and 23rd of his career. He threw 110 pitches, including 83 strikes.

“I just felt good for all nine innings,” Burnett said. “I knew my pitch count was low so I was confident I could finish.”

He impressed Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, who grounded into a double play to end the game.

“He gave me one pitch I could hit all day and that the first pitch I saw,” said Helton, who was 0-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout. “He threw the ball wherever he wanted.”

The Pirates, who have the best record in the major leagues at 67-44 following 20 consecutive losing seasons, maintained their 1½-game lead in the NL Central over St. Louis. Burnett

hasn’t gotten much backing this season, and owns a losing record despite a 2.73 ERA. The Pirates took a 2-0 lead on an RBI single by Andrew McCutchen in the first inning and Garrett Jones’ sacrifice fly in the third.

Jonathan Herrera had three hits for the Rockies, including a run-scoring single in the seventh inning that broke up Burnett’s shutout bid. Michael Cuddyer added two this.

“That’s a good offensive club,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “They can do some things and A.J. was able to work through the middle of the order pretty efficiently. Again, very aggressive, very focused. Ball’s down. He took it to ‘em.”

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With one last swim at the world championships, Franklin stamped her name in the record book and joined a club that is even more exclusive.

Before Sunday, the only swimmers to win six events at either a worlds or an Olympics were Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz, Ian United States Women’s 4x100m medley relay team members Missy Franklin, and Thorpe and Kristin Otto.

Megan Romano embrace after winning the gold medal at the FINA Swimming World Now, there’s Franklin, who Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday. [AP Photo/Manu Fernandez] earned her sixth by swimming the leadoff leg for the U.S. in the She’ll gain a new coach, work400-meter medley relay, the final those.”

She was heading home to ing with Teri McKeever at Cal afevent of the championships in Colorado for a much-deserved ter a long relationship with Todd Barcelona.

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EW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece Monday when Major League Baseball disciplined 13 players in a drug case — the most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal nearly a century ago.

Ryan Braun’s 65-game suspension last month and previous punishments bring to 18 the total number of players disciplined for their relationship to Biogenesis of America, a closed antiaging clinic in Florida accused of distributing banned performingenhancing drugs.

The harshest penalty was reserved for Rodriguez, a threetime Most Valuable Player and baseball’s highest-paid star. His suspension covers 211 games.

Rodriguez has until Thursday to appeal, and if he does, he will remain eligible to play until a decision by the arbitrator.

The New York Yankees slugger admitted four years ago that he used performance-enhancing drugs while with Texas from 2001-03 but has repeatedly de-

nied using them since.

Rodriguez was suspended under both the drug agreement and labor contract.

MLB said the drug penalty was for “his use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance-enhancing substances, including testosterone and human growth hormone over the course of multiple years.”

His penalty under the labor contract was “for attempting to cover up his violations of the program by engaging in a course of conduct intended to obstruct and frustrate the office of the commissioner’s investigation.”

The other 12 players have already agreed to their 50-game penalties.

The suspensions are thought to be the most at once for offthe-field conduct since 1921, when Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned eight Chicago White Sox players for life for throwing the 1919 World Series against Cincinnati: Shoeless Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsh, Chick Gandil, Fred McMullen, Charles “Swede” Risberg, Buck Weaver and Claude “Lefty” Williams. They had been suspended by the team the previous year and were penalized by baseball even though they

had been acquitted of criminal charges.

As for the modern-day AllStars, Cruz, an outfielder, leads Texas in RBIs and Peralta has been a top hitter and slick-fielding shortstop for Detroit, a pair of teams in the midst of pennant races. They will be eligible to return for the postseason.

Others agreeing included Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli and outfielder Fernando Martinez; Philadelphia pitcher Antonio Bastardo; Seattle catcher Jesus Montero; New York Mets infielder Jordany Valdespin and outfielder Cesar Puello; Houston pitcher Sergio Escalona; and free agent pitchers Fautino De Los Santos and Jordan Norberto.

Rodriguez was the lone holdout. Baseball’s drug agreement says the appeal hearing shall start no later than 20 days after the filing of the grievance and the arbitrator is charged with making a decision 25 days after the hearing starts. However, the schedule can be altered by agreement of management and the union.

Players have often succeeded at persuading arbitrators to overturn or shorten drug suspensions.

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Woods grabbed a big lead with a second-round 61 and then closed out the field with safe and smart even-par 70 on Sunday to roll to a seven-shot victory at the Bridgestone Invitational.

Next up? The year’s final major championship at Oak Hill.

“Do I want it any more? No, it’s the same,” said Woods, winless in his past 17 major championships. “Each and every major, I always want them. I’ve been successful 14 times, and hopefully next week it’ll be 15.”

That confidence is a product of his eighth win at the Bridgestone — matching the PGA Tour record he already shared for victories in a single tournament.

He grabbed a seven-shot lead with a stunning, career best-tying 61 on Friday and maintained it through a 68 on Saturday to arrive at 15-under 265.

On Sunday, he avoided any major mistakes and waited for a challenge that never came from an elite field.

“As blustery as it was, it was

going to be really hard for someone to shoot 62 or 63,” Woods said.

“If I didn’t give any shots away and played my game and shot even par or better, I’d force these guys to go and shoot something super low on a golf course that wasn’t going to give it up under these conditions.”

The victory was Woods’ 79th on the PGA Tour, drawing him within three of Sam Snead’s record 82 triumphs.

“The total body of work is pretty good,” Woods said. “One of the things I’m proud of, obviously, is how many times I’ve won, plus won World Golf Championships and how many years I’ve won five or more tournaments in a season. What is it, like eight or nine times? Ten? That’s not bad, either.”

Lest anyone think he’ll have difficulty surpassing Snead’s total, consider that Woods is more than 10 years younger (he’s 37½) than Snead was when he won his 82nd and final event, the 1965 Greater Greensboro.

Defending champion Keegan Bradley, who tied for second with Henrik Stenson, was a huge fan of Woods when he was a kid.

He was asked if he liked seeing Woods dominate as he did a de-

cade or so ago.

“When I was younger, I did,” Bradley said. “You know, I hate to sit here and go on and on about how good he is, but he is. It’s difficult because I really want to get up there and contend with him.

But he’s just ... this week he’s playing really well.”

Woods’ mastery at Firestone Country Club allowed him to again match Snead’s PGA Tour record for wins in an event.

Snead won the Greater Greensboro Open eight times.

Earlier this year, Woods won at Bay Hill for the eighth time.

Woods has also won eight times at Torrey Pines, seven times in the Farmers Insurance and also in the 2008 U.S. Open.

As he walked to the scorer’s trailer to finalize his score, Woods scooped up 4-year-old son Charlie, who hugged him tightly as his father strode past the large gallery wildly cheering his landslide victory.

“This is the first win he’s ever been at,” Woods said. “That’s what makes it special for both of us.”

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See a short movie that chronicles the Telluride Mountain School student, faculty and parent ascent and descent of 13,200-foot Palmyra Peak that happened on March 29, 2013. The short will be followed by the main attraction, “Ghostbusters.”

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he Telluride Ski and Snowboard Club has hired Alex Paul, a Durango-based telemark skier, as the head coach of the newly formed Telemark Park Team.

With several kids expressing interest in park and big air disciplines last season, TSSC decided to add a formal program, and is excited to have Paul lead it.

Paul is a well-known telemark jibber who has been featured in ski films, has won numerous park and big air competitions and judged events all over the country.

He has already been busy on the team’s behalf, lining up RMU skis and Flylow as the team’s official sponsors.

“I am also working with some people I know at Rotafella and Scarpa to see if I can get a full NTN set up for my athletes,” he said.

He has also scheduled two pool training sessions in Durango (Aug. 17 and Sept. 14) and a trip to Woodward at Copper Mountain on Nov. 16. The team will also enjoy VIP seating at the TEVA Tele Big Air World Competition at Vail in January, where Paul will be judging.

“Alex, one of the best jibbers and big air tele skiers in the world, will be a great addition to the telemark program,” program director Theron Johnson said.

“His years of experience, knowledge of teaching technique for both park and aerials, experience in judging events and his ability to relate to kids make him a dream coach. His knowledge of the industry and connections are already benefiting the team.

We are thrilled that he is willing to share his knowledge with the kids in TSSC.” Justin Chandler, TSSC’s executive director, echoed Johnson’s sentiments.

“To have a world-class athlete, judge and outstanding mentor like Alex Paul join TSSC is truly awesome,” Chandler said.

The team is limited to five kids ages 11-13 and there are See TSSC, Page 23

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ivers, trails, rock and snow make for ample recreation opportunities in the San Juan Mountains — skiing, mountain biking, kayaking, climbing, trail running and hiking are all popular pastimes here.

But scuba diving?

It may not seem like the most natural fit for this rugged mountain region, but Telluride’s denizens like an adventure, and they like to travel to other beautiful destinations. And local diver and CPR instructor Kevin Dunkak, who is also a certified scuba teacher, hopes to capitalize on this and spread his love for diving with a new scuba company.

Dunkak recently launched Mountain Ocean Scuba, a business that offers a range of scuba training options, from introductory classes to open water dives and full certification. Dunkak,

who has been a diver since he was young, wants to get more people into the underwater activity through classes, and ultimately hopes to run two or three trips a year to dive destinations with students.

“It’s a cool thing to turn people onto,” he said. “Seeing them underwater for the first time, they are so excited.”

He said that even though Telluride is a mountain town, its residents are both adventurous and love the outdoors — perfect qualities for aspiring divers.

Dunkak is hosting two Discover Scuba Classes for the general public on Sunday at the Ouray Pool, and two more on Aug. 17.

The sessions will run from 12:302:30 p.m. and from 3:30-5:30 p.m., and will teach students how to breathe with a mask, clear and remove it, use signals underwater and other basics.

“It’s getting people comfortable and familiar with the equipment, and putting them through

certain drills of handling different situations,” he said.

He is also teaching a Discover Scuba Camp through the Telluride Academy on Saturday. The class is for students ages 12 and up, visit tellurideacademy.org for details.

On top of that, Dunkak will work with clients to schedule both pool sessions and open water dives to get them certified.

And a long-term goal is to run a few trips a year to take people to dive destinations where they can either get certified or just dive for fun. Dunkak, an avid rock See SCUBA, Page 23

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ITTSBURGH (AP) — It was just the fifth inning and Juan Nicasio had allowed only two runs but Colorado Rockies manager Walt Weiss knew it was time to take his starting pitcher out of the game.

Nicasio had thrown 103 pitches to get 13 outs. With the Rockies trailing by two runs, Weiss wanted a fresh arm to help prevent a big inning.

The move backfired on the rookie skipper as Russell Martin greeted reliever Manuel Corpas with a three-run homer and that was more than enough cushion for A.J. Burnett, who scattered eight hits to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-1 victory over the Rockies on Sunday.

“I thought Corpas gave us our best chance to get a double play there,” Weiss said. “He puts the ball on the ground consistently with his sinker but hung a breaking ball over the middle of the plate and all of a sudden it’s 5-0.”

The Rockies fell to 6-11 since the All-Star break as Nicasio (66) struggled for a second consecutive start, giving four runs and six hits in 4 1-3 innings with three walks and four strikeouts.

He allowed a career-high eight runs in his previous start Tuesday at Atlanta.

Nicasio had gone 2-0 with a 0.47 ERA in his first three starts after being recalled July 12 from Triple-A Colorado Springs, where he had spent two weeks.

“I threw too many fastballs See BASEBALL, Page 23